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10/09/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: It's the farewell voyage of the huddle Fox Sports Radio
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  Speaker 1: Facebook X and YouTube for the streaming folks welcome in
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  Speaker 1: to the final six o'clock club the memo went out
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  Speaker 1: Monday we are moving this show to afternoons we'll be
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  Speaker 1: sleeping in and fire it up from two o'clock to
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  Speaker 1: five o'clock p.m.
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  Speaker 2: Beginning on Monday.
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  Speaker 3: It is going to be a change that Drew is, frankly,
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  Speaker 3: a long time in the process in coming. But it's
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  Speaker 3: cool to be able to make. Also, it just happens.
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  Speaker 3: that's such a perfect time. I mean, now the four
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  Speaker 3: o'clock club on Friday, on Monday will also be the
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  Speaker 3: first pitch crew.
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  Speaker 2: When that's right.
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  Speaker 3: Brewers and Dodgers fire up in the NLCS. We do
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  Speaker 3: this for an opportunity to get out in front of
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  Speaker 3: the people, get to you and have some conversation and
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  Speaker 3: be around humans during times that you like to go
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  Speaker 3: frequent places and patronize our favorite places.
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  Speaker 2: And I think we get to do that coming up
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  Speaker 2: on Monday. Indeed. It's going to be pretty sweet.
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  Speaker 1: So eight, seven, seven, seven, nine, four, 197.3 NicoletLaw.com.
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  Speaker 2: Talking text line. Farewell.
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  Speaker 1: A farewell performance. A lot of melancholy. 5 o'clock clubbers. Again,
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  Speaker 1: special shout out for the folks who are with us
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  Speaker 1: at 5.
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  Speaker 2: But hey. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We welcome everybody because we know people get up. Your
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  Speaker 1: alarm might go off at 6. You turn us on
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  Speaker 1: and you're going about your day. If you're a 7
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  Speaker 1: o'clock riser, that's going to be great. I don't know yet.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know what the early odds are at
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  Speaker 1: the Bill Schmidt Sportsbook of what time will my normal
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  Speaker 1: wakening time be once we settle into doing the show
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  Speaker 1: at 2 o'clock.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going to guess you're going to be right
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  Speaker 3: around the 7.30 mark. I'm guessing, yeah, that's probably about it.
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  Speaker 3: I think you're going to be right around the 7.30 mark.
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  Speaker 3: I would say, yeah, between 7 and 7.30. But it'll
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  Speaker 3: take a couple weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I just think the body's not going to– I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: We'll know this Saturday. We'll know this Saturday by how
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  Speaker 4: we get up because I don't know about you guys,
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  Speaker 4: but I get up early on the weekends and I
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  Speaker 4: have a headache.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be getting up, yeah, while we're heading to Lambeau
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  Speaker 1: for a noon game, Billy, on Sunday. So that's– Getting
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  Speaker 1: up at 7, your body's asking, where's my coffee? I'm
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  Speaker 1: expecting it.
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  Speaker 2: Four hours ago. Well, Armand's already been frying up potatoes.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to say, early riser in a grinder
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  Speaker 3: like him. He's already got breakfast made. Lars, a lucky lady.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, say that again. No question.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so I wanted to ask, because I go
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  Speaker 1: to the socials to see what's up, the pulse of things.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the things that popped up, and I thought, oh,
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  Speaker 1: maybe it's A.I., It's footage of Nick Saban benching Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Hurts in the 2017 National Championship game.
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  Speaker 4: And they were sitting on this for nine years?
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  Speaker 1: This popped on the first installment of the Saban documentary,
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  Speaker 1: the six-parter.
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  Speaker 3: The first episode released last night. And I freaking fell
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  Speaker 3: asleep and I did not get it. I did not
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  Speaker 3: wire it up last night, but this one has been rumored.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad they fired it in right away. They've been
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  Speaker 3: talking about it and he's been doing a lot of
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  Speaker 3: good press for it. First off, Nick Saban is a
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  Speaker 3: G on television. He's phenomenal on television. And you've been
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  Speaker 3: waiting for this documentary, Billy, like looking at a buffet.
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  Speaker 3: Like this is like for you.
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  Speaker 2: How excited were you for the, for the last dance?
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  Speaker 2: Very similar. Yup.
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  Speaker 4: It's very similar. That the, just a bit outside. It's
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  Speaker 4: a very similar thing. Where it's like, you see that
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  Speaker 4: and you're like, this is up my alley.
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  Speaker 3: I would put it much different than the Just a
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  Speaker 3: Bit Outside. That was also, what, the 20th version of
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  Speaker 3: the 1982 documentary? Yeah, that's fair. We knew the story already.
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  Speaker 3: And it's also a one-parter, right?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 3: The last dance that MJ won was the volume of footage,
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  Speaker 3: the years that they were going to encapsulize it with.
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  Speaker 2: And at that time.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that we're ever going to watch sports
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  Speaker 3: television that way ever again because there were no games on.
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  Speaker 3: But for this to then get dropped in the meat
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  Speaker 3: of college football season right ahead of Georgia-Alabama coming up
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  Speaker 3: this weekend, Kirby on the other sideline there, Kirby being
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  Speaker 3: one of his guys, and that being one of the
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  Speaker 3: five greatest games that we've seen over the last three
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  Speaker 3: or four decades, it's pretty insane. And for them to now,
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  Speaker 3: at this point in their NFL careers, Drew... Whose career
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  Speaker 3: would you rather take? If anybody said to a tongue
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  Speaker 3: of Iowa, I would laugh at you at that moment.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody thought Jalen hurts was going to be winning a championship.
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  Speaker 3: No doubt at the NFL level. That'll be its own documentary.
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  Speaker 3: The paths that these two guys took and what it
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  Speaker 3: was like in that moment.
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  Speaker 2: And then going forward.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, a thousand percent. And, and that night when he
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  Speaker 3: pulls them. The move, how well Tua plays, and then
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  Speaker 3: the story to the next year come full circle and
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  Speaker 3: Tua go down in the SEC title game and Hurts
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  Speaker 3: come in after staying for the whole year. Again, different
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  Speaker 3: time in college football right now. Jalen Hurts is going
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  Speaker 3: playing somewhere else. He's on the first thing smoking out
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  Speaker 3: of town. And I know Saban had mentioned it in
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  Speaker 3: the doc. He talks to Jalen the next day. He's like,
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  Speaker 3: this is where you can't run from it. He's like,
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  Speaker 3: There's things we need to work on in your game
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  Speaker 3: that will make you better. He stays, helps them win
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  Speaker 3: the SEC title, and then goes to Oklahoma the year after,
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  Speaker 3: and damn near wins the Heisman. That story arc, you're right,
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  Speaker 3: is a documentary in and of itself, but you could
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  Speaker 3: do five different Saban docs, but I'm glad they actually
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  Speaker 3: are doing one.
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  Speaker 2: There's not a whole.
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  Speaker 3: Lot of folks that you get to do this while
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  Speaker 3: they like being on television, and they're good at it.
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  Speaker 4: And nothing writes art like real life. And I always
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  Speaker 4: say that about sports and about these documentaries they show up,
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  Speaker 4: but real life gives us the script that art could
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  Speaker 4: never come up with. And that's so true about when
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  Speaker 4: you look at Jalen Hurts and Tua and how their
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  Speaker 4: careers have intersected and cross-cutting fortunes and their years in
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  Speaker 4: the NFL. It's just such an amazing, amazing real-life script.
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  Speaker 2: I watch.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when you see Saban and you see him
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  Speaker 1: now on doing panels and stuff and dropping knowledge on people,
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  Speaker 1: I always had this thing, like, people have a vibe, right?
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  Speaker 1: They helm at a certain frequency. And you approach them
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  Speaker 1: as like, oh, this is a good guy. Like, Armand's
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  Speaker 1: this ball of energy, gregarious, outgoing, like, you know.
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  Speaker 2: You can pick that up quick. Organizing games and stuff. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And other people, like, with Saban, I always got the
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  Speaker 1: feeling that his vibe is that he's been steeped in for, what,
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  Speaker 1: the 40, 50 years being a small, let's say 35
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  Speaker 1: year run as being a successful damn football coach in
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  Speaker 1: the deep South.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And he has that kind of like regal, he radiates
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  Speaker 1: like this. I'm the King and you are all my subjects.
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  Speaker 1: And like he radiates that vibe. It's got this glow
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  Speaker 1: about him like that. And then you see him and
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  Speaker 1: you see what he, obviously the record speaks for itself,
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  Speaker 1: brilliant executive and a motivator and all this stuff. And
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  Speaker 1: you start to learn, about the stuff behind what made
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  Speaker 1: him that way. And then he's on, I think it
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  Speaker 1: was Theo Vaughn. Yes, on the Theo Vaughn podcast. When
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  Speaker 1: he talked about how when he retired, he finally slowed down.
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  Speaker 1: He said, when I retired, I don't know if I
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  Speaker 1: share this with anybody, in 50 years of my life
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  Speaker 1: being in a hurry, I spent 50 years of my
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  Speaker 1: life being in a hurry and I didn't know it.
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  Speaker 1: So he said, I retired and the cars are backed
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  Speaker 1: up on the bridge and it goes down to one lane.
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  Speaker 1: In the old days, I'd be the guy that passed
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  Speaker 1: all the cars and cut it at the last minute
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  Speaker 1: right in front of somebody. He said, I sat there
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  Speaker 1: with Miss Terry in the car and she said, you
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  Speaker 1: mean you're not going to pass everybody illegal and illegally
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  Speaker 1: and cut it?
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  Speaker 2: And I said, we're not in a hurry. We're not
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  Speaker 2: in a hurry.
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  Speaker 1: But it's the first time when I retired, I realized
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't in a hurry and I was in a
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  Speaker 1: hurry for 50 years.
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  Speaker 2: It's so good, dude.
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  Speaker 1: He said, you're always hurrying to the next thing, solve
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  Speaker 1: the next problem, go to the next thing. You talk
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  Speaker 1: about relieving stress. That relieves stress better than anything. I
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  Speaker 1: just noticed in that circumstance, not cutting into traffic and
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  Speaker 1: waiting my turn.
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  Speaker 2: Just waiting my turn. Your whole life comes to you
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  Speaker 2: in that one moment. It's like, oh. Oh, sorry, Nick
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  Speaker 2: Saban cut me off. Dude, Nick Saban cut me off today.
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  Speaker 2: It was amazing.
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  Speaker 4: It's so poignant, and it's so interesting to hear someone.
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  Speaker 4: that is smart enough and sort of intelligent enough to
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  Speaker 4: talk about life like that. And there have been certain
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  Speaker 4: figures we love because of their observations, their way to
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  Speaker 4: understand humanity and life. And that is one thing, just
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  Speaker 4: something small that he realized about himself. It's just so fascinating. Well,
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  Speaker 4: most of us don't speak to a documentary crew. Right.
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  Speaker 3: We've been doing it on the joking TikToks where you
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  Speaker 3: sit down to tell one, but most of them don't
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  Speaker 3: get that deep into it. His daughter posted a picture
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  Speaker 3: maybe three weeks after he retired of him on the
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  Speaker 3: beach just walking super slowly and casually and taking in
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  Speaker 3: all the breaths.
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  Speaker 2: People are like, oh, my God. This guy's living life.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: This guy's living life for the first time in a
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  Speaker 3: long time. It's amazing to see.
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  Speaker 1: And all those people at that level, across sports, the
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  Speaker 1: most successful people all have a level of insanity in them.
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  Speaker 2: To be driven to get to that point. Yes. Tom
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  Speaker 2: Izzo is now your grandpa.
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  Speaker 1: He's a personable guy, but he's got it.
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  Speaker 2: They all really do.
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  Speaker 1: I just was listening to a podcast on the way in.
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  Speaker 1: about Giannis is not this cuddly guy.
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  Speaker 2: He's a killer. And with his teammates and stuff, he's demanding.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're not playing hard, he's going to get
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  Speaker 2: in your grill.
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  Speaker 4: And I was thinking about this recently, actually, is how
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  Speaker 4: we've celebrated those figures in American sports for that reason.
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  Speaker 4: We almost recognize that the ones that don't have a
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  Speaker 4: good work-life balance, I mean, the Belichicks of the world
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  Speaker 4: early in their days, Jordan is famous for people always
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  Speaker 4: talk about his obsession with And, you know, maybe.
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  Speaker 2: Tom Brady's another good example.
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  Speaker 4: We celebrate that as a virtue almost in so much
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  Speaker 4: in sports that even if it has negative effects in
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  Speaker 4: their personal life, which a lot of times it has,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, like at Brady's, you know, like personally, sometimes
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  Speaker 4: the divorces and things like that. And, but we sell,
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  Speaker 4: we celebrate that sort of obsession with, the perfection of
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  Speaker 4: the job, you know, the perfection of the motivation of competition,
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  Speaker 4: those things, uh, so much, it makes you stop and wonder,
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  Speaker 4: do they, do those guys in their own mind ever
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  Speaker 4: wonder if they regret it?
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  Speaker 2: Or is that just part of who they have to be?
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  Speaker 4: Ray Adams talked about that.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, really quick.
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  Speaker 4: The lonely pursuit of greatness, it's a lonely obsession you
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  Speaker 4: have to deal with.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I get this.
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  Speaker 3: I agree that it gets celebrated partially, but now I
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  Speaker 3: almost think that it gets looked at in different realms.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we might be evolving on that, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of people that look at that and
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  Speaker 3: judge it rather harshly without necessarily being in that spot. Like,
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  Speaker 3: it's hard to fathom that kind of pressure without living it, right? Like,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, as much as you can be, you can
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  Speaker 3: think about it, these guys are, and it gets discussed
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  Speaker 3: and it is factual, Nick Saban for 25, 30 years
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  Speaker 3: was the highest paid state employee in whatever state he
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  Speaker 3: was working in.
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  Speaker 2: Louisiana, Alabama.
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  Speaker 3: And those are, that is an immense amount of pressure
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  Speaker 3: as much as we look at it with the buyouts
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  Speaker 3: and being like, well, that must be a nice way
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  Speaker 3: of life when you're doing it right. And you are
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  Speaker 3: dominating at it. You live in that pressure cooker and
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  Speaker 3: it's a lot different beast.
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  Speaker 2: Totally different.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think any of us can really understand what
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  Speaker 4: it's like to live that life, to be in that
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  Speaker 4: crucible with those expectations, with that pressure and to try
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  Speaker 4: and achieve some sort of balance with, When, I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: for me at least, I've seen people so many times
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  Speaker 4: rip on that. Whenever you see if someone's taking a
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  Speaker 4: vacation or on social, maybe because they see it now,
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  Speaker 4: and there'll be a lot of, and maybe I'm just
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  Speaker 4: responding to the loudest noises, but it's, well, why is it,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you shouldn't be doing this. You know, so-and-so
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't have done this. He would have been in the
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  Speaker 4: gym practicing. So-and-so wouldn't have taken any time off. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I remember people would, like, just rip on anyone for anything.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you're right, Billy. I think that may be evolving.
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  Speaker 1: The false hustle of coaches like, yeah, we work 22
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: hours a day and we sleep in the facility. Well,
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  Speaker 1: get your work done in 8 to 10 hours and
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  Speaker 1: go home.
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  Speaker 2: Be more efficient and be better at it.
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  Speaker 4: Which Cignetti has said, for instance. These guys that have
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  Speaker 4: done this, it's kind of like, but the guys that
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  Speaker 4: wear that as a badge. I mean, how many times
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  Speaker 4: have people ripped on, Jokic wants to be great, but
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  Speaker 4: all he wants to do is go home and play
• 12:00
  Speaker 4: with his horses. He doesn't really have a passion for
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  Speaker 4: being the greatest they're ever... well, maybe that's what you
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  Speaker 4: want for him. You know, maybe he's just perfectly fine
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  Speaker 4: winning championship and multiple MVPs.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's interesting, but I can't wait to watch
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  Speaker 4: this as well. Billy, the Saban doc, I think he's
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  Speaker 4: one of the more fascinating sports figures of our generation
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  Speaker 4: and to be able to, you know, to get in
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  Speaker 4: touch with him.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think this story is a work? It's a
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  Speaker 2: banquet story is a, is a yarn.
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  Speaker 1: Or do you think this really happened when Saban said
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  Speaker 1: his first season in Tuscaloosa, he didn't have any gas.
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: He stopped at the service station. And he was wearing
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  Speaker 1: his LSU national championship ring that he used to wear.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 1: And the guy said, well, what's that? He said, it's
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  Speaker 1: a national championship ring. We're going to do the same
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  Speaker 1: thing here. And the guy looked up and he said,
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  Speaker 1: not as long as Nick Saban's the coach.
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  Speaker 2: That's hilarious. God, I hope that's true.
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  Speaker 1: If it's true, it's amazing. If it's a work, it's
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  Speaker 1: still a great story. You could see a Roll Tide fan.
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  Speaker 1: A thousand percent.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, of course. This clown's the coach. You see it.
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  Speaker 3: He lost to Louisiana Monroe in his first year. That
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  Speaker 3: guy's an awful coach.
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  Speaker 4: We love those stories.
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  Speaker 2: And whether or not they're true. It's a great banquet story.
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  Speaker 3: That's like the home grin walking down the grocery aisle
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  Speaker 3: and the little old lady pushes the car.
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  Speaker 2: She's wearing up with me. And I move mine a
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  Speaker 2: little bit to the right. She moves in front. A
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  Speaker 2: little to the left. She moves it.
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  Speaker 3: A great one if you're able to put it together.
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to know how it's evolved over time.
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  Speaker 2: That's the thing, though.
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  Speaker 3: Because even if it's true or not, Drew, you know
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  Speaker 3: that fish story has grown significantly since.
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  Speaker 2: And we're only getting those more with the podcast.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, every time I hear a former athlete in
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  Speaker 4: a podcast now, there's so many of these old heads
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  Speaker 4: that are telling stories that you know can't be true.
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  Speaker 2: And people always go back and look up box. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know why you're talking about Maxwell. No, no. Mad Max.
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  Speaker 4: I actually believe because you might be crazy enough for
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: all these stories to be true. But there are there
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  Speaker 4: are exaggerations and fish stories. But I guess that's sort
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  Speaker 4: of the fun of oral history and storytelling. However, that
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  Speaker 4: would be amazing if that's true. But like you said,
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  Speaker 4: I can believe Alabama fans would say that. That's the
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  Speaker 4: fan base you definitely can believe.
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  Speaker 2: Not if Saban's our coach. That's hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing. 877-794-1973. All coaches need one of those self-deprecating moments.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to have one. You need a story on
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  Speaker 2: the banquet circuit. You've got to have it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you said banquet, and immediately you've put yourself into
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: the Lions Club conversation. You definitely need something to be
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: able to tell that group. Marcus in Iowa, hey, we
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: solved it. Why old people drive slow? They've got no
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: place to be. It might just be it.
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: Not in a hurry. I know I sit that way.
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: Now, tomorrow night, if I'm potentially getting down to the
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: Milwaukee Admirals game and your boy doesn't time it up
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: very well, I'll have to debate. Am I going to
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: be Nick Saban pre-retirement or post-retirement? Am I going to
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: take that thing all the way down to the V
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: on the construction on 894? Or do you sit there
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: and just wait your turn? Just wait your turn.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: I like that. I'm not just going to illegally cut
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: everybody off. Well, yeah, I might not have the same squeeze, Mr. Terry.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: He is a psycho, though. Eating the same honey bun
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: every single day, 6.30 a.m. You like what you like.
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: 6.30 a.m.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: I guess. I love it.
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: Go for my mile and a half walk, have my
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: honey bun, come back, one cup of coffee, and then
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: we go in and start up the day.
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: Do a good one. He is something else.
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: Your Nick Saban's not in power with your Mike McGivern.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: I do love the fact that he has been now,
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: every time a great school relieves a coach, and there
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: are going to be a number here coming up, Drew,
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: probably in the next week and a half, two weeks,
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: because this is going to be coach gets fired season
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: in college football now.
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: It's, well, what if we just called Saban? Give him
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: a call.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: Just call Saban and see. Yeah, you can call. That
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: one's going to go to voicemail. He is way too
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: good on television and looks like he is way too
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: happy to ever be stepping back in there.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Because he doesn't have to worry about losing games, but
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: he's still treated like royalty.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: Everywhere he goes now.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: So he is even more, and now fan bases that
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: used to hate him are tolerating him and like, oh yeah, okay,
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: well I guess he's okay. He's winning over people at
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: levels so I mean, if ever anybody's ego was going
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: to run amok or he was going to leave a
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: five-cent tip on a bill or something, he's.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: Got that path available to him. Don't know if he'll
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: take it. Yeah, you're right. That path to be a
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: real D-bag is there.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: He also then did find a chance to be like,
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: you know what? I know I'm going to be loved everywhere.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: I might as well be hated somewhere. When they went
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: to Tennessee a couple of weeks ago, My man took
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: every opportunity to dig into the orange fans.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: It was beautiful.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: It was like he was walking down the ramp and
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: he had Vince McMahon next to him on the amount
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: of times that he just twisted the knife on these
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: Vols fans.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: He goes, wait a second. You know why I really
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: like cigars? Cause we smoked 16 to 17 when we
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: came down here and beat your ass every year. It
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: was ruthless. The kind of stuff he was saying. It
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: was awesome. That was hilarious. I love it.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: And miss Terry's just sitting over there being like, Nick,
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: we got to get out of here. We still got
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: to get on the plane. I, that's going to be fine.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: Don't worry about it.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: It's going to be fine. Oh my goodness.
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: Now this would have been the right song, right?
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Alabama.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: I'm in a hurry and I don't know why that
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: would have been the right song for that scene. I
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: wasn't the art director on this documentary.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: That is some very, very strong next-level directing.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: That's why you are the executive producer. That's right. Green
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Bay Packers Radio Network. That's what I'm talking about. Hell yeah.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Hey, keep the applause rolling because Scott Dolphin's rolling in
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: for his final appearance with us in the morning.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: We're going to miss Dolph as part.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: Of our show.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: I'm not clapping for that Bears fan this week.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Our halftime correspondent heading into the Bears-Packers rematch of the
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Famous in storied rivalry.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Perfect day to talk to Dolph.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is the nicest I've been to a Bears
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: fan this close to a Packers-Bears game in a long,
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: long time.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Good point. That is a really good point. I like that.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Dolph is next. You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Drew, Billy, and Armand bringing it to you on this,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: our final Voyage Friday edition of the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: This is our final edition as a morning show. We
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: move to the afternoons coming up on Monday. You'll hear
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: us between 2 and 5 on these here same airwaves, interwebs.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Anywhere you are, you'll hear us from 2 to 5.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: And we welcome for the final time as our halftime
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: correspondent of the huddle, our buddy Scott Dolphin from the
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: country station down the hall, FM 106.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: Dolphin, we got tears in our eyes. Fellas, if it's okay,
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: I'm still going to come in here Monday morning and
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: just hang out, just sit here.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: There might be a laser left. Take that, Bears fan.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Take that, Bears fan.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Billy was just saying he's been more cordial to you
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: than he has to any other Bears fan this close
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: to the kickoff of a Packers-Bears game.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that, Billy.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: But I did stop it, Drew, just after that statement
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: to you because I tried to, I don't know, maybe
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: a little bit of a power move. I just boxed
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: Dolph out. Dolph's the coffee guy in the building.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Nobody makes better coffee than Scott Dolphin.
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: Well, I feel bad this morning because I was late
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: getting out of my studio, so I didn't make a
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: pot like I normally do before I come in here.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: But as I got over there, grabbed the filter, put
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: it over there. Dolph walked over. Very nicely kind of
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: like leaned in. Like Dolph was definitely going to rip
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: the bag open and make the special Dolph concoction. I
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: was hip in just like a good box out. Not
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: like Ben McCollum teaches there for the Hawkeyes. I step
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: in there, get a nice little box out. He's going
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: to have to drink Green Bay Packer coffee coming up
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: here in about five or 10 minutes.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I want that. We'll see. I'm
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: going to go back there.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: And as long as you didn't interrupt the disrupt the flow,
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: sometimes I'll do that where if you're in a hurry
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: and you kind of, The pot's still brewing, and you
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: take some of the strong stuff from the bottom.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: That's one of my favorite things, and it is one
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: of the things that drives this man crazy. So I
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: do it every opportunity, only if he's in there.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: Well, you might drip it on the burner, and then
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: we have our problems. Then we have our problems. I'm
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: pretty good at it. All right, now the Bears. Let's
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: see what they do now with expectations. That's what I
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: want to know. That's what I'm curious about. Now they
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: have expectations. Are you supposed to beat the Packers? I'm
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: just trying to gas myself up thinking there's a way.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: They had expectations before the season, right? A lot of
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: people picked them to win the division again.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: Bears always, fans always put expectations on themselves. I mean,
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: how many off seasons have I heard about? This is
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: the Bears' time to overtake the Packers now.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: This is it. And it hasn't come to fruition. Now
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: they are playing well. Except for last year. Well, right, but.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Yes, and it ended up being that way in the
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: late games, yes. But I just feel like so many
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: years I've heard the hype, like Trubisky's, this is Trubisky's
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: division now.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: This is Justin Fields' division now. Hey, don't crack on Mitch.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: You know, Mitch was there three years and the Bears
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: went to the playoffs two of those three years with
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: Mitchell at quarterback.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: The problem was he wasn't like, he was a reach.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Obviously they, they, they gave up a lot to get me.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Well, they had good defenses, but my point is, I
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: think that now people are looking at the bears and
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: they're looking at their situation with Ben Johnson saying, okay,
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: now this is their time.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: I think it is. All right, well, let's see.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: And I'm a, I'm as much of a pessimist bear
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: Spanish you'll find, but I think it is their time
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: with Ben Johnson.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: I think it is.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: Well, he's definitely showing himself to have a good offense
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: with whatever quarterbacks in there.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah. We were talking about that. Yeah. Yeah. He's got
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: that running game going right now.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: They got so much tougher up front. They grabbed two
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: great guards.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Joe Tooney has been a phenomenal pickup. Jonah Jackson's been
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: just as good. Now, both are on the injury report.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: I think both will end up going this week. And,
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, they do a lot of what they did
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: in Detroit.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: And if you.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: I had thought that Dan Campbell was going to leave
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: or that Ben Johnson was going to leave and Dan
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Campbell was going to show amazing. Might not just be
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: some big dummy. He might know some offense. I know
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: something worked for Sean Payton. Didn't get play calling duties
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: from Sean Payton. And apparently that only, that's only a
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: four week job as, as we just learned. Um, but
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: when he left, I thought that there was going to
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: be some, some loss of the Moxie that you had instead.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: It was Dan Campbell that got a space jammed and
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: all his powers have gone away.
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, Ben Johnson obviously has a great offensive mind.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: And you mentioned Jonah Jackson. Man, he was a great
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: player with the Lions. He has been all pro this
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: year for the Bears. I think they knew what they're
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: getting with Joe Tooney. I mean, that guy's been a
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: winner wherever he's been. Packers hoping to tap some of
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: that with the local kid.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I mean, they paid him. Jonah Jackson was
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: making a bunch of money because I think they traded
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: for him to the Rams maybe. And he was making
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: a significant amount of cash. Hadn't stayed healthy there. Stays
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: healthy here. That is a lot of it comes up
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: to luck of the draw and how lucky you can
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: stay there.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: I mean, you look at teams that have been decimated
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: by injuries this year and how they're doing. That's right
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: towards the top of whether or not you're going to
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: be successful or not, especially with the skill position. Although
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: the Bears have found a way to buck that trend
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: without their QB, without QB1.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought their defense would be much shakier after
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: week one, but they've settled in.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they still haven't been great, right, Dolph? I mean,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: their defense has been okay. And there's still struggles? Been,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: but don't break. There's still some there. They're going to
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: bring a lot of heat, though, I would assume.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Because that was the only way they flipped the fortunes
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: in that playoff game.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: Devin Bush was kind of an under-the-radar signing. He has
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: played great the last couple weeks. I mean, we all
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: knew what kind of talent he had when he got drafted.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: He's been nice. He's been a nice player. Because the
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: pass rush has been the number one thing that's been lacking.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Other than Montez Sweat.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: And there's not a whole lot of teams that have
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: the success they did and then completely remake their linebacker room.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: And Tremaine Edmonds was a really, really good player for
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: them for a while, and they lost a lot of
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: interceptions when you look at the back end of their secondary.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Kevin Byard.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: They've been able to hold up for now. This will
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: be a case. I read the stat from NextGenStats last night, Dolph.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: I want you to be able to chew on this one.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Jordan Love has a 113.2 passer rating against the Bears,
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: including playoffs in his career.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: That's pretty good.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: Highest in NFL history against Chicago ahead of Aaron Rodgers,
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Tom Brady, and Russell Wilson.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: So let's get.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: That going here, and that's how we can manifest some
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: positivity as an underdog at home for the first time
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: in 20 years.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: He's got the hopium. I'm trying.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: The AP, their headline, Bears have the opportunity to show
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: again they've gained the upper hand in their rivalry with
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: the Packers.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: That's the storyline. It's the point where I'd be happy
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: if they keep it in with two scores. Could you
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: be the 9 or 10 in the fourth quarter?
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: It's got a pretty low line, right? Was it 2.5?
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: It's 2. So it went down some heavy money on
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Green Bay. I'm not going to be happy if we
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: keep it within two scores. I'm sorry, Drew. This is
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: what I'm expecting. It'll be a change from what I expect.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: I'm not necessarily... Listen, the way the Packers have played
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: and the mistakes they've made and the issues they've had,
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: I agree that I'm not really... My expectations have diminished,
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: but I still have hope that they'll be a little
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: bit better than that.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: I think it's that... Is 31-21... Like that's, you know,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: in my mind, it's all possible. I'm saying, but is that,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: is that a success? That's not success. So you have
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: hope that that's what I'm hoping is like something like
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: that is, you know, as opposed to a blowout or a,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: you know, well.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: It depends on that.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, it is bears Packers though. Yeah. That won't
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: be right.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: I mean like that, that's the other part of whenever
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: this game does look like it, it will be a
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: much more lopsided affair.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Generally they're entertaining games. Yeah. I think it'll be close.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: I think it'd be close. I mean, You look at
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: the last four or five games, they've all come down
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: to the wire, right?
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: Now, Drew, if it is to that point where it's
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: 31-21 or 34-27 and the Bears have the ball with
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: four and a half minutes to go, Do I think
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: they're going to throw a play-action deep shot?
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Yes. Right, like if there's a chance to make that
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: a one-score game, a two-score game later, I 1,000% believe
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: that the Bears would twist the knife. I don't know
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: that the Packers would do the same. I don't know
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: which is necessarily the better one.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: I do know that there's many people that want some
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: more twisting of the knife nowadays.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I mean, I think the pressure's on Matt
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: LeFleur to twist the knife a little bit because what's
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: been one of the biggest criticisms of him over the
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: last couple games in this series is play-calling.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Conservative play calling.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Well, and some of it too is just backing down
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: right now. So what is clearly the challenge across the
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: way of the head coach? Like one has made it
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: abundantly clear, does not like it and does not have
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: a problem letting everybody know about it. There's two ways
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: of operating. And I don't know that one gives you
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: a massive leg up, but I do know that the
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: team does hear it. And at some point, they got
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: to answer for it, too. So whether or not it
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: inspires and brings better play from the guys, it might
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: enhance some focus throughout the week of knowing our asses
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: are in the jackpot here coming up this week because
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: we put it there squarely.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: I enjoy the back and forth, you know, started by
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: Ben Johnson. Now you see a lot of Packers players
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: talking back.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, he definitely likes to stoke those fires. Maybe he
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: would like a little more.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Maybe he would like a little bit more from our side.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: As a Bears fan, you've got to be loving it.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: They're 1,000% up on the absolute top of the Ferris wheel.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: We've just got to get that thing spinning right back.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: I love the fact that the Bears are relevant in
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: this rivalry again. Yeah, that's exciting for me. Yeah, it's frustrating.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: I'm old enough to remember when the Bears dominated, what,
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: eight or nine games in a row back.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: In the 80s? None of them were close. And so,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: And then things turned with Brett Favre, obviously, and since
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: then it's been a ridiculously lopsided affair.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: If the Packers are to win and have the same
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: record as the Bears after five games, I'd be like, whoa.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Well, that's the other part of what last week, it
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: didn't look like much, but you win and all you
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: do is give yourself a chance to have another chance
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: because you're one, not to steal Todd Bowles' line, Well,
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: we might be on four, but we're one game out
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: of first place. You win this week, you're going to
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: be right there in the midst of it, right there
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: in the driver's seat.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: This is the NFL. You always have a chance to
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: make your way back.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: And to believe. How stunned would you be if the
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: game of Packers-Vikings is for first place when they roll
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: around to it? Because, you know, it'd be like, whoa.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: At the moment, surprised, but I can't say that it's impossible.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: No, especially after how Dallas looked last night.
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: Well, just look at the Packers' last two opponents, the
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: Buccaneers and Falcons. Both looked pretty good this past weekend.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: I think that gives you a little hope, although looking
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: at common opponents is always a dangerous thing in the NFL.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: It is.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: Of how different every week is and all we know
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: all the, you know, specifics of things, but Hey, I mean,
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: you have to hold on to something. And the way
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: that the Packers have looked at times, these first two weeks,
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: if they're two and two, and at least a heads
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: above water a little bit in that sense, you had
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: to hold onto that hope that things will change.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Billy, what's the secondary market. You're going up to Lambeau, right? Dolph. No,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: I'm going to, I'm going to Amfam. Okay. You're going to, well,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: you could do both. I wonder how many people are
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: actually considering that.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: That's the thing. I think there's going to be a
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: decent amount. It's a Milwaukee game for the gold package game, right?
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: You're going to have to.
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: Haul ass right out of there and hope to be
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: in the parking lots by six or so.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Get in price for the Murphy boxes that I'm seeing
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: up here would be about $ 440.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: In the bowl, about $ 500 or $ 600. The psychology of
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: the Chicago fan, if you're.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: If you want the Bears to lose, we love Dolph,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: but if you want the Bears to lose and their
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: fans to be miserable, the fans who are fans of
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: both the Bears and the Cubs will be an extra
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: level of misery.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Right? Sure. Because they're watching the Brewers succeed. Big time.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Whereas White Sox fans, their White Sox Bears fans, their
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: mood will be dictated by what happens Saturday night in
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Cleveland now.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: I'm so curious about that. Tough one last night for
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: the Sox, man.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: They can't win at home. That's the funny thing about it.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Can't win at home. Pope Leo's hometown. I mean, come on, man. Well,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: did he even show up?
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: No, see now, maybe if we wanted to channel something,
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: he would have been able to help him move on.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: No, but the nun, was there.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay. So he sent his assistants.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: No, there's like a famous nun that likes the socks
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: who did like the arm up with the ball, the ball.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Trick with her arm. Sister Jean's sister? I was going
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: to say, what are we talking about here? She threw
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: out her first pitch once.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: She rolled up a ball on her arm.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Come on, dude. The holy person that we're talking about here.
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: Come on, dude.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: It's 630.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: Come on.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Come on, dude. Sister Jean's no longer with us, right? No,
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: sadly not. And actually passed one year ago today. Oh, wow.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: One year ago today. Otherwise, she definitely would have been
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: thrown on the first pitch. Right.
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: Although Loyola Marymount Northside, maybe she was a Cubs fan.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Well, that's my thing.
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: You have to be careful when you start talking about
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: Chicago because there's some people that are like, you don't
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: dare to call me a Sox fan or a Cubs fan.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: It was Sister Mary Jo Soblek. All right. And she
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: threw the first pitch out in 18 and she threw
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: a dime. I mean, she's a ball player. You can tell.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: So she was there last night. It definitely wasn't enough.
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: I can tell you going through Catholic grade school until
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: sixth grade when we'd play kickball. So it didn't matter.
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: Sister Lene was the best athlete on the field. She
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: ran circles around us.
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: I'm telling you, you know, when you have the power
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: of the spirit, you know.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe it was the power of the Holy Spirit.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: You throw that Trinity slider and you don't know what
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: is happening.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: And we'll be caught around the field before the game here.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Here we go. Holy Spirit sinker. We know you're watching.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: Give it up.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: Do your best. Let God do the rest. Let's bring
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: it home. All right. All right. I'm going to start
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: using that in a hype speech there. Do the best,
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: let God do the rest. Let God do the rest.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Let go, let God.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: Unfortunately, the power.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Wasn't in the bullpen last night for the Sox. The
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: bullpen looks tired.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: That's been their strength in a lot of ways.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: Well, they got a little itchy early, right? They yanked
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: their starter in the first inning.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Which I get. You're trying to clinch things. You're trying
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: to do things. And that ended up working at the time.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: They shut down the first three. They got the lead.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: This has been a fascinating series. We were blessed to
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: get one game five at least.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: But then whatever's left of the winner of this series,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: they dry the champagne and fire up the ALCS.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: It's a rested Rays team in a cauldron of a
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: tough place to play. Yeah, go see what happens.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Well, Rays are just so good, too.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: So, Dolph, you get to kick off this Bears-Packers weekend
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: with the Hawkeye night game, right?
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Oh, God, I forgot all about that, Drew. Yeah, tonight. Huskies.
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah, short turnaround for the Hawks without their starting quarterback,
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: by the way.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: They head out west to Seattle. No Hank?
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: No Hank.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: No Hank. Well, he was listed as doubtful yesterday. I
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: don't know what it is now. I don't like that.
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: He got dinged up against the Buckeyes. So this would
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: be a tough one for the Hawks. I think their
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: record is horrendous going to the Western time zone over
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: the last several years. I know they lost to USC.
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: and UCLA in the last couple years, so we'll see
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: what happens against them.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: That is one of the most underrated, difficult places to play.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: In Seattle? Husker Stadium in Seattle.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I love the fact they said a third of
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: the fans that come there take a boat.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: The sailgating is real. Sailgating is a real deal. Really?
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: I didn't know about that. Oh, it's gorgeous. The stadium's unbelievable.
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: Puget Sound, and they roll right up in their boats,
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: and they go right through the turnstiles.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: That's why that Minnesota dub was big there. Oh, yeah.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: It was impressive.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: The Minnesota dub there was probably more impressive than the
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Badgers dub at Penn State.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it could be. It's close. Yeah, one wasn't down 17-0.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm just saying that in terms of winning.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's hard to say.
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: I mean, Penn State ran into a buzzsaw last week
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: against a very scary Northwestern team.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: Hey, you want to talk about what seems like a
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: tough place to play? That Ryan Field looks... when you run.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: The ball like they did. Oh my God, that wall
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: looked insane.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: I'm trying to get there for a game, but I
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: got a ticket hookup.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Trust me, I can't think it's hard to get tickets.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Does Wisconsin go there? Iowa goes there in a couple weeks.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: I don't think they're there this year.
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: So I was looking at that, trying to get one.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: So it does look like a really nice team.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: No, they don't get David Braun's squad this year, and
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: David Braun's got a good team.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: David Braun, a grad of? Kettle Moraine. Kettle Moraine High School. Oh,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: here we go. I love a local connection. Love that, yeah.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: I love that. Pretty wild.
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he got brought in as Fitz's, was it defensive coordinator?
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: Defensive coordinator, and I don't believe coordinated a game until
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: he became the head coach.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: Very quickly, all of a sudden, they're like, hey. Hey,
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: you're here.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: You're going to be our new interim head coach.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: That turned out okay. Okay, sounds good. It did turn
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: out okay for him. That's amazing. Well, Dolph, we'll miss you.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: We'll still be around. You'll still see us. It has
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: been an honor. A lot of fun.
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: Who was on the text line?
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: I want you to call in.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: If you're awake and can call in on Monday after
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: the Bears game, that'd be fun. But we'll be on.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: The door's always open. Well, I will be tailgating, I
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: would assume, at that time. I was going to say.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: We're on two to five. We'll be at the ballpark.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: We're going to that one, too. Going to game two.
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: Game two is 4 p.m. first pitch, so we'll probably
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: be in the lots by 1, I would think.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Perfect.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: So we will get boots on the ground at American
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: Family Field calling Dolph on Monday.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm talking about. The party never stops, right? Oh,
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: that would be awesome. Perfect.
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: It was Maggie and Georgia. And I'm going to leave
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: this one Marcus in Iowa.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: This is too good. Hankless in Seattle. Hankless in Seattle.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: I love it. That's going to be tough, dude. I
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: don't like that they're going to be Hankless in Seattle.
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: So they're going to their gunslinger, Jeremy Heklinski, who's the backup,
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: who's never started the college game.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: Is he from Iowa?
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: He came in from Wake Forest. I believe he's a
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Georgia boy. Okay.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: Listen, all I know is after what we did last night,
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: we need 42 points. Somehow we need 42 points. I
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: was really liking Hank Brown rolling out to the West Coast.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: Now I don't like that as much. So Hawkeyes, Kirk,
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: let's roll that football. Let's not punt as.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: Much here tonight. Hank was in Seattle. That's pretty good.
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: Thanks, boys.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: As always, we'll take a quick break. You're in the huddle.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Huddled up on our final morning broadcast on this Friday
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: in the good land.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Drew, Billy, and Armin.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Starting next week, we will be going from 2 to
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: 5 p.m. Same channels, same stream, same everything. Same dudes,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: different time of the day.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Same dudes. We're going from 2 to 5 p.m. rather
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: than 5 to 8.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: So, again, our farewell journey here.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: In the morning hours.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Everybody, if you shopped on Prime Day, did you guys
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: buy anything on Prime Day?
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: I didn't. I know the house did. That's exactly what.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: I was going to say.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: I missed it.
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: I'm not locked in on Prime Day, but I know, Laura.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: I know there's going to be a decent amount of
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: Amazon packages being delivered here coming up.
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: Especially with it being Halloween season coming up, some Halloween
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: stuff has been popping up around the house. Lena's got
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: a new little pumpkin bag.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: The Prime Day deals are good or bad, depending on
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: your outlook, but there are deals to be had in.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: The bid on Milwaukee.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Auction let's go that is happening next week starts wednesday
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: go to bid on milwaukee.com you can't find they have
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: these categories there and you pop up and you see
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: these deals these companies offer great deals and you you
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: they call it an auction but you're just purchasing that
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: right you're just kind of like i'll take that at
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: that price perfect lock it in so it's not complicated
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: at all it's easy transactions and it's great stuff you
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: can't find a category that you're not interested in or
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: have just recently purchased and you want to, Oh, I
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: could have got this for a better deal. Like you
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: go look at the bid on milwaukee.com auction. They have
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: their stuff on there already, you know, vacations like golf excursions,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: like health club membership, hot tubs, spas, home improvements, auto,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: like it's all there, different categories, surf around and check
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: out the bid on Milwaukee auction and then get ready
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: to do some deals coming up Wednesday and Thursday.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: It goes live on Wednesday. So check it out. You
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: can get, like, lawyer services. Some of us need that.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: I'm looking at that Mississippi River two-day cruise, to.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: Be honest with you right now.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Basically, everything you got on there starts at, like, half
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: off the normal price. So it's all very good.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: If not more than half off, yeah. Car detailing packages, like,
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: you don't know. That's a pampering. I tell you. All
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: guys should get a pedicure, and once a year, you
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: should get your car detailed.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Because you will feel like that is so true, Drew.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: You feel like an absolute legend going into that new
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: car smell.
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: They also have something I've been thinking about, not really
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: for now, but maybe one day, because I saw someone
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: else have something similar.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: It's these Lawn Bots, the robotic lawnmowers.
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: What do you think about these things? I mean, is
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: that fake hustle?
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: You got a Roomba in your house. You can have
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: a lawn bot. Yeah.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: See, and we just got a Roomba dropped off. I
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: used Roomba from the, from the in-laws.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's nice. I don't know how I feel about
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: the Roomba. I'm just like, if you've got a dog
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: or a cat, I could see being heaven. We got
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: a little, we got a blind dog. All right.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: First off, I, and he can't see me. There's no
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: way he's seeing the room.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: That's fair.
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: I not 2020 vision. When I had my contacts in,
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: they tell me it is. I can't see the dog
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: half the time. I can't see the Roomba. Your boy
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: almost trips and goes down yesterday. It was almost a
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: cataclysmic event in the back room. So the one on
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: the lawn, though, be better because then you can watch
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: it just cutting your grass.
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: Watch somebody else do the work for you.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: And you could be drinking the beer while it's doing that.
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: And then, like, you know, let's be honest. You want
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: your neighbor to see it, too. Like, hey, you guys
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: are wasting your time cutting the grass.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: I got a lawn robot. What are you guys doing?
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: I'm hanging out.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: Armin's calling his neighbors to make sure that they're outside
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: and seeing the lawn bot rolling through.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: They congregate in the middle of the cul-de-sac.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: All the dads.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: I'm still telling you, you said the vacations, which is
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: an absolute hitter. That walleye excursion, if you've been thinking
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: about with the boys and you've been talking about trying
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: to get a group of guys to go out for
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: a trip, that is a six-person event that is one...
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: that you are getting a ridiculous screaming deal. And again,
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: you look at getting it over, you know, half off
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: for most of this stuff. It's pretty impressive. I am
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: trying to figure out where I'm going to put this
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: sauna though.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: It's like walking through the exhibit hall at State Ferris. Like, okay,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: here's estate planning, and here's a sauna and.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: A hot tub. Oh, and a 30-foot underground pool. Sweet.
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: Home improvement, stuff like that.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: Carpet cleaning.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: Put it in the garage, Billy.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: You can finally have a hot box in the garage.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: That happens all the time. I'm trying to figure out
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: where the better one would be. I think I got
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: enough clearance in the basement.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, probably. I actually don't know. I mean, maybe you do.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: I'm just telling you, that's the new thing. And I
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: hated the cold plunge. I hated the ice bath. I
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: love the sauna.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: And to know that there's not going to be somebody
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: that is 10 years post-retirement age laying brain in the
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: sauna while I'm trying to enjoy might be a little
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: bit better. Might be better. Having your own deal. That'd
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: be pretty sweet. All right. Hit us up.
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: 877-794-1973.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Again, it's our last foray into the mornings. We're shutting
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: down the 5 o'clock club coming up next week, Monday,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: when we move from 2 to 5. You're enjoying The Huddle,
• 40:31
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