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10/09/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: On the air at 5 a.m. 503.
• 0:04
  Speaker 2: You want to be persnickety about it. For the last time, well,
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: for now. Welcome in to the Friday edition, final edition
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: of The Huddle as a morning show.
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: Doug Russell just said it during the update.
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: We're moving to the afternoons from 2 to 5 p.m.
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: And that is going to be a life change. Drew Olsen,
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: Bill Schmidt, Armin Sarian, boys. I don't know if it's
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: the magnitude of this being our last wake-up. This was
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: one of the more difficult ones in 10 months. Well, listen,
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  Speaker 2: I understand you get a little misty-eyed. It hurts when
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: you know that you're not.
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  Speaker 1: Going to be able to see that 4.30 drive on
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  Speaker 1: in anymore. I also think the funny part of it is, Drew,
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: you're right. It is for now because Lord only knows
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: when else some other iteration of a radio empire could
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: fire us up all different hours of the day and night.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: But luckily, the two to five is going to be
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  Speaker 1: the new landing place. And it starts out there. I
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  Speaker 1: say channel our friend Matt LaPay with a bang coming
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  Speaker 1: up on Monday at two o'clock. To get us ready
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  Speaker 1: for game two of the NLCS. Goodness gracious. How ceremonious
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  Speaker 1: it will be. Yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, indeed.
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  Speaker 1: How interesting that is, how ironic. But, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it's the totality of the experience that overwhelmed you, Drew,
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  Speaker 3: to know that this.
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  Speaker 1: Was the end of our line. I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: think it just said, I don't know. We were at Pato. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we had so much fun last night.
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  Speaker 2: You're a little wired from doing the show at Pato
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  Speaker 2: because you had a good time.
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  Speaker 1: Right. At the Sportsbook Annex. We had. Can't not have
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: a good time there. Made our picks.
• 1:37
  Speaker 2: Got people ready to watch some horrific games. college Dallas
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: Cowboys football.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That was the thing. Maybe it was the excitement of
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: staying up to watch the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was the cumulative effect of the night
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  Speaker 2: before staying up and watching.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Those, those two West coast games were, we're going
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: to start wearing on you. And at some point it did.
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  Speaker 1: And now it is, it is nice that this is
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  Speaker 1: the final one. Good that we get to have one
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: last call though. And one last celebration with the five,
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  Speaker 1: a five o'clock clubbers. Cause that would have been unfair if,
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  Speaker 1: for us to establish this kind of a role with
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  Speaker 1: the five o'clock club. And then all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: just jump in to two to five and leave them
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  Speaker 1: for happy hour. That would have been all of a sudden, boom,
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  Speaker 1: leaving for a hot new girlfriend in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: That's the thing that would have been. And maybe, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you do level up in life. And now maybe this
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  Speaker 3: hurts more. No, like just the little linger.
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  Speaker 1: You have to let it linger, but I do think
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  Speaker 1: most five o'clock lovers are appreciating one last go.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe like that goodbye after prom and that, that high school, like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's not going to be the same after
• 2:39
  Speaker 3: the summer. We're going our separate ways, but we'll always
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  Speaker 3: appreciate that experience.
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: You know, we'll always have that moment.
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  Speaker 2: Just described his favorite, his entire life outlook is that encapsulated.
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: In that vignette, right? That remembrance and that memory.
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  Speaker 3: We might not be, we might not be meant to
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  Speaker 3: last forever, but we'll always, uh, We'll always have this summer.
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: We'll always have this summer. That's right. Things might be
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: different after it, but.
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  Speaker 3: We'll maybe look back fondly, wistfully on and say, oh, well,
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  Speaker 3: those were some formative years. Now, Wisconsin sports fanatic agrees. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you guys have sure moved around.
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  Speaker 1: That's true.
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  Speaker 3: The thing is changing the constant radio. And, Drew, you
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  Speaker 3: kind of made that little joke reference there.
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  Speaker 1: And it's true.
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  Speaker 3: Who knows until the next time. But that's just kind
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  Speaker 3: of the reality of it. I know sometimes as an audience,
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  Speaker 3: all the changes over the years, and there have been
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  Speaker 3: a lot of them, as we.
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  Speaker 1: Know, It can be sort of disorienting. But, hey, just,
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  Speaker 1: you know what? It can be a winding road.
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  Speaker 3: It can be a road less traveled. But, you know,
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  Speaker 3: as long as you're in the car with us, as
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  Speaker 3: long as you're jumping in the truck with us along
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  Speaker 3: for this ride, that's all we can really ask for.
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  Speaker 3: And we are thankful for everybody who always, I'd say,
• 3:44
  Speaker 3: boosted and lifted our spirits every morning here at 5 a.m.
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: We met our guy last night. I feel so bad
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  Speaker 1: I'm blanking his name. He told me. He meant a
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  Speaker 1: lot to you. Well, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: He said he drove the garbage truck. All the time
• 3:57
  Speaker 3: and listen to every morning. I feel so bad about
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  Speaker 3: what is.
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  Speaker 1: I'm blanking out there. I think it's Ken. You're talking
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: about Nick?
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  Speaker 3: Nick. Nick. So thank you for saving me there. But
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  Speaker 3: guys like that, you know, we've been held close to us.
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  Speaker 3: That we appreciate... That you appreciate what we're doing. And yes,
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  Speaker 3: it's easy to... Okay, I forgot his name. Nick.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Nick. But I do appreciate you, even though
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: I did forget your name this morning at 5.07. It
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: was Billy who dropped the hammer. You were being sincere,
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  Speaker 1: trying to rack your brain. You know what, bud? Well,
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: when he threw Ken out there, I had to save
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: ourselves with the other side of the alphabet. Because I
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: thought he looked like Kansas Ken. I thought him and
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: Kansas Ken looked like brothers to me. I remember that
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  Speaker 1: one so much. I can see it.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, it's going to be a change, but welcome to
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  Speaker 3: come along with us, and we'll have our new group
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  Speaker 3: in the back.
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: Of the truck. That's right, 2 o'clock clubbers. That could
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: be our new club, 2 o'clock club. That's going to
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: be some fun.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, firing up on Monday with, you know, afternoon
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  Speaker 2: program so we'll have we'll be able to stay up
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  Speaker 2: late and watch games we'll be able to you know
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  Speaker 2: guilt-free Guilt-free.
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. And we'll be sharper. And like our 414
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: texter right out of the gate said, we'll miss having
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: you guys live at 5, but we'll catch your podcast
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: at 4 a.m. the following day. And that's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: There's many people that even are up before we started up.
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: So you then are getting an extra hour of the
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: blue-collar Arman Sarian and the blue-collar huddle, which is even better.
• 5:22
  Speaker 3: And I've lamented this. I said it multiple times. I
• 5:24
  Speaker 3: said it again to Billy last night.
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  Speaker 1: It's true.
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  Speaker 3: I am going to miss the fake hustle.
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: Of being able to get up so early for it.
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: Because that was the first question you get. Like, how
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: do you do that?
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  Speaker 3: How do you get up like that? You're instantly a hero.
• 5:36
  Speaker 3: They look at you like you're so tough. And that
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  Speaker 3: hero complex that I think over the years, I don't
• 5:42
  Speaker 3: like to think I have too many terrible flaws, but
• 5:46
  Speaker 3: one of them is I have the hero complex. And
• 5:49
  Speaker 3: by just me saying I don't have that many flaws,
• 5:51
  Speaker 3: I guess that feeds into it. But this doesn't help
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  Speaker 3: my hero complex saying I don't get up early.
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: Let me help you. Red Hot Tim Knott, as guest
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  Speaker 1: one of the 5 o'clock club, do I get first
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: dibs on the neons when the doors close at 8 a.m. today?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I do like that this is the bar that ends
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  Speaker 1: up closing down and everybody wants to grab a little
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  Speaker 1: taste of it.
• 6:08
  Speaker 3: Everyone can sell, yeah, buy stuff, yeah. Remember when they
• 6:11
  Speaker 3: tore down Marquette Heroes on campus, they were, like, selling stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But they weren't selling anything interesting like the Signs. They
• 6:16
  Speaker 3: were like, who wants a table and chairs? I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: I don't need your chairs. I want the sign that
• 6:20
  Speaker 3: says Market Heroes. But yes, you can have the neon sign.
• 6:23
  Speaker 3: You can have all the mementos. But we'll ask for
• 6:26
  Speaker 3: them back if we end up in this spot again.
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  Speaker 3: Tommy and Stylist, good morning, fellas. I'm going to miss
• 6:31
  Speaker 3: you in the morning. But congrats, and I'm happy for you.
• 6:33
  Speaker 3: I'll be tuning in in the afternoons.
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: I excitedly await the news of Pipe Bomb in the mornings.
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: That'll wake you up. Whole new different kind of wake
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  Speaker 1: and bake. Now, I don't know that that's the plan.
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: That would be, Tommy, Might have just tripped something. That
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: might be an electrifying move. But if you want some
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: pipe bomb tomorrow night, Milwaukee Admirals hockey on Fox Sports 920,
• 6:55
  Speaker 1: you'll get pipe bomb doing the intermission reports as we
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: get those super special big home opener. Super cool. Starting
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  Speaker 1: up at 6 o'clock tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 3: Having pipe bomb back just makes you feel right, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 3: It makes you feel like you're home again. Makes you
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  Speaker 3: feel like there's some sense of things are getting right
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  Speaker 3: in this world again. Yeah, so definitely catch that game
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  Speaker 3: and catch pipe bomb. Can you imagine waking up with
• 7:15
  Speaker 3: pipe bomb? That'd be fantastic.
• 7:17
  Speaker 2: If you would like to share some thoughts on this
• 7:20
  Speaker 2: final morning edition of The Huddle, 877-794-1973. Get to the
• 7:25
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• 7:28
  Speaker 1: And they're rolling in, baby. We got a lot of
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: them here today. Rick, Chris, and Lodi, Drew, last hurrah
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  Speaker 1: for us 5 o'clock clubbers, but good luck on the move.
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  Speaker 1: See you at 2. All right, B. Chang, happy Friday, fellas.
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: He's chiming in, by the way, on YouTube.
• 7:40
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of ways to get to us right
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  Speaker 3: here on the video stream, which is already popping this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Happy Friday, fellas. Bittersweet.
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  Speaker 3: We'll miss listening to you. But I will be turning
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  Speaker 3: it into LFG crew slash pack. I love to hear that.
• 7:52
  Speaker 3: I love to hear that. I think things are looking up.
• 7:55
  Speaker 3: You know, we talk about that. Talk about, obviously, the Brewers,
• 7:57
  Speaker 3: what they've been doing. And I don't know, guys. For me,
• 8:00
  Speaker 3: watching some of these common opponents... I don't know if
• 8:02
  Speaker 3: that's the right term, but watching some of these opponents,
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  Speaker 3: the brewers of the Packers have played makes me feel
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  Speaker 3: a little less bad about what they've done. I mean,
• 8:08
  Speaker 3: it's obviously been an uneven performance and there's been a
• 8:12
  Speaker 3: lot of problems this year with the Packers, but they
• 8:13
  Speaker 3: are two and two and the Buccaneers look good last night.
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  Speaker 3: They dominated the Cowboys and you know, the Vikings have
• 8:20
  Speaker 3: been all right. Um, the, I don't know about the jets, but, um,
• 8:24
  Speaker 3: and obviously we know what the Falcons have done. So
• 8:26
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to stay encouraged and positive all the way through.
• 8:29
  Speaker 3: And that's, That's kind of been a little bit more
• 8:31
  Speaker 3: positive watching these teams the Packers have played that we
• 8:34
  Speaker 3: thought they should dominate against when they haven't still be
• 8:37
  Speaker 3: somewhat decent against other teams.
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  Speaker 1: That's the other side of that. There's a lot of it.
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  Speaker 2: The other side of that coin is, well, I'm happy
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  Speaker 2: when the team that beat me wins the title, which
• 8:50
  Speaker 2: is another Arminism.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. That, that, that I don't understand this one though,
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  Speaker 1: for the common opponents was the correct term, by the way, you're, you're,
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: you're spot on there. Good, good, good. Little scout going forward,
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: drew for the Cowboys coming in here next week. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: All right. A little bit more feasible if that's what
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  Speaker 1: you can do. That's a disaster. Like what Jalen Daniels
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: and company did. But I do understand, Armin, the point
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  Speaker 1: of like Tampa Bay didn't look like warm cheeks last night.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're listening to the five o'clock huddle, I
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: think none of us expected that. Most people that watched
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: the game last week. Now, this is the part. Chris
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: Myers experience with Jonathan Vilma. Yes. Last week on what
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: the deer's. team of Packers and Bucks. Probably not much
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: of the country got to see Jalen Daniels. I don't know, Drew.
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: I thought it looked like a functional NFL quarterback last
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: week at the bare minimum. And last night, he grew
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: confidence-wise big time early on. And you could see, you know,
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: Zach Robinson, their OC, made it very simple for him
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: on that first drive. I think he started like 7
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  Speaker 1: of 7 on the first couple of drives. Got a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of confidence rolling. And they didn't shy away from it.
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  Speaker 1: But they ran it behind Tristan worse twice to start
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: out the second half. It's pretty damn good when you
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: can do that off to the left side. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Um, yeah, I mean, but again, the Cowboys, man, when
• 10:08
  Speaker 2: that's your get right game and you take a dump
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  Speaker 2: like that, that's, uh, I mean, they're, they're, they're, uh,
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  Speaker 2: maybe not rock bottom, But at some point, that little
• 10:21
  Speaker 2: rock is going to splash into the pot.
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to make a little drop. Jerry, last night,
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: they flashed over the camera to him. Perfect time with
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: a beautiful table slap right there. He and the Cowboys drew...
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. They're going to have to
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: make decisions at some point. Going into the year, they
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: were as hyped up as I can remember them, though,
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: in quite some time. It seems like everybody has loved
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: all of the moves that they've done in the offseason. However,
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: it hasn't responded in terms of wins on the field.
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: I still think Shottie's okay, but I don't think he's
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: going to get much of another chance. Al Michaels said
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: something last night, and I know it's more fun and
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: invoked to dump on Al. But he had said week five.
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: Come on.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: Must win guys. I can't say it must win. Not
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: must win, but it sure feels like I can't lose
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  Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. And sure as heck, it turned into
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: one that that's a tough way to sell to your
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: fan base. Hey man, we still have a chance. We
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: can't beat the Owen for Buccaneers coming into our place
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: on Thursday night football, but we still have a chance. Yeah. Yeah.
• 11:30
  Speaker 3: And listen, I don't know. You guys saw the Dak
• 11:32
  Speaker 3: Prescott thing. You know, obviously that was part of the
• 11:35
  Speaker 3: story last night. Somebody in the tunnel last night yelling
• 11:38
  Speaker 3: at him.
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: Hey, embarrassing.
• 11:40
  Speaker 3: So that's always fun when you when you catch a
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: moment like that. I got a pretty eloquent statement after that.
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: I thought so.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, so apparently it was a third
• 11:48
  Speaker 3: party contractor. Everyone's like, who was this guy? Who was
• 11:51
  Speaker 3: this guy? So, yes, that was another storyline from last night.
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  Speaker 3: That's getting some run.
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I've been down in, you know, you guys have been
• 11:59
  Speaker 3: down in bowels of stadiums and tunnels and things like that.
• 12:03
  Speaker 3: I don't remember anything ever. One time when I was
• 12:05
  Speaker 3: working at the team store, they used to call it
• 12:08
  Speaker 3: the fan zone.
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: It was like 20 years ago.
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  Speaker 3: David Wright asked me where the bus was, and I
• 12:13
  Speaker 3: pointed to him where the Mets bus was.
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  Speaker 1: So that was my one interaction. So there you go.
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: I guess I didn't go viral. I'm sorry. Brushes with greatness.
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: Nothing viral. I love it. David Wright. That's a good reference.
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  Speaker 1: He was young, too. He wasn't a big star yet.
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: He wasn't a vitamin water investor yet. Last evening, when
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: we left the sports book annex over at Pottawatomie, we
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: were just looking into games.
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: The NFL games.
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: There was just that hype, that pregame hype. And the
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: Guardians and White Sox, well, maybe the Guardians, rose to
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: the occasion last night. And, Billy, that means that We
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: got a Saturday night win or go home game. Whoever's
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: left has to take on rested Tampa Bay. Does that
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: sound familiar to you? Like last year, you're the exact
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: same situation, right? I mean, Brewers are in the Guardians spot.
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: Well, and for the White Sox now, too, they're going
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: to be sitting there kicking themselves for weeks and months
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: on end, knowing that you had not one but two
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: chances for the first home closeout in what, 100 some years?
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: that it's been for them to be able to close
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  Speaker 1: it out. And that was a, that's a tough one
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: to chew on. If you're a white Sox fan into
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: the off season, because I do believe that that might
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: be the office, but who knows, I guess there have
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: been series where the road team wins every game. The one,
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: the most recent one that I can think of was
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: Astros and Dodgers a couple of years ago. I think
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: it was a game five game series and the road
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: team may have won every game in that series, but it's,
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: it's not a, not a common feat. Sure would be fun.
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  Speaker 1: But damn, Steven Vogt, Pat Murphy, both back-to-back managers of
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: the year. How about that? Both could find themselves in
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: the LCS coming up in year number three. Really impressive runs.
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: It is crazy that no home teams won a game
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: in the series.
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: But that White Sox streak is going to persist. Yeah.
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: So, man, it does feel like maybe they had their chance.
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: But we'll see. I mean, game five, anything can happen.
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  Speaker 1: But Vogt is going to run back. For sure. For sure.
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: That game five.
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  Speaker 3: And the White Sox fans who have been long waiting
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: for those home playoff games got those two losses.
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: But I'm sure they'd be okay if they won.
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: The thing with the White Sox is there is a
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: house money element to what they're doing.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: Definitely. Definitely. But when you're up 2-0, does that change
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: a little bit?
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: A little, but marginally just because it's, you know, you've
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: exceeded expectations by when you won your 82nd game.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's the adjusting and the moving of the
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: goalposts and the expectations. That's... Fans always will do it.
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: But it takes like an off season to do it.
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: But you got to give yourself some time.
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: Three weeks instead of three years. You're just right now.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: They're just giddy.
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: It's like, OK, so if they get let's let's say
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: they survive and they went on the road and then
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: they go to Tampa and get smoked like the Dodgers
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: Brewers for four. Oh, It was still a great season.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: They're still happy. They're not going to be crushed when
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: the rug gets pulled.
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: It's almost better because they can process and rationalize that better.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: But it was nice for all the friends of mine
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: going to college that it wasn't, I'm not coaching, I'm
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: more a Sox fan. Not really a big baseball fan,
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: I'm a big Sox fan. Nice to be able to
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: check in on those Sox fans and make sure that
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: they were actual Sox fans. I got a call last week, though,
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: from a buddy of mine, Zach, one of my old roommates, Drew.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: He was calling a shot. He said Brewers and White
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Sox in the World Series. We got to go. Okay, bud. Okay.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: You guys get out of the first three game round
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: in the wild card series and feeling ourselves all the
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: way for seven more wins. Tough in this playoff baseball
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: world to learn. Very tough. Very tough.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: I was kind of waiting for Len Casper to have
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: his moment, but I don't know. I think it's, I
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: think it is interesting. Like, you know, all the things
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: the White Sox have been through. If you had told them, yeah,
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: you're going to win a playoff series. You're going to
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: get back to the playoffs this year. Like, wow, are
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: you kidding me? That's the ticket I can cash on
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: opening day this year. But, and then you go up to, oh,
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: and you start dreaming, you know, and you start having those,
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: those cookies.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: In the oven. But it's not over, like, maybe they're
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: more comfortable on the road. I mean, who knows? We'll see.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: They had their chances last night. That was an interesting game.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: They had a couple chances when they did take the
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: lead to really.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Blow it open.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: And it was the, you know, they scored in the sack, flies,
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: hit batsmen, the walk. They got runs early. They got
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: the lead early a couple times. But they really had
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: chances to blow it open, and they had some hard contact,
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: but couldn't get that, you know, that kind.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Of jackpot hit to put them over the top.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: Jackpot hit. You know, like a big double or a big.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: Big Homer or something like that.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: You can tell Armand was just in the casino. I
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: was going to say, it's on the hand chase or
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: on the mind. I like it. Oh, my goodness.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: All right, hit us up, 877-794-1973. Our final voyage here
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: in the pre-dawn hours. It's been, what, January 20th to,
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: it checks, October 9th. What a run we've had. Five
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: o'clock clubbers have helped sustain us, and we appreciate it.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: Try to repay the... We're trying to repay our debts today.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: We'll settle up before we move to 2 p.m. beginning
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: on Monday. You are in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Drew Billion-Armond, the last dance, if you will, today. If
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: we could appropriate that title. The last dance here. Five
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: o'clock club in the morning. What will you miss most
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: about this shift?
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Ooh, I will definitely miss the getting home with the
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: fresh coat of powder for about 9 a.m., 9.30, when
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: it does snow. Everybody has already run through a bunch.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: I got the one run of tracks just to try
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: to get out, and then knowing that you can rip
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: roar through with the snowblower and then go in and
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: take a nap. That is the one part of the
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: winter morning that I will miss. That is the only one.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: And the only one in the morning on the winter
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: part that I'll miss. I will miss Dolph. I mean,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: that's the number one. Yeah. I mean, that's the number
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: one thing I'll miss about this is definitely Dolph. He's
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: not dying. Well, I know. You can go and talk.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: You can talk to him. It's not the same as
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: you don't see him every day. I mean, it's just
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: not the same. Chop it up for 20 minutes.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: I know that I could see him every day and
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: I probably will try to see him as much as possible.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: I'm also going to miss this.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: And none of our listeners are kind of, you know,
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: this is not something that anyone's been able to experience
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: except us. I'm going to miss that half hour after
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: the show where you guys chop it up. And I just,
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: we all just kind of sit here and kind of chop.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: It up about the world and stop. Yeah.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: That's a little, that's a little bit just too special
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: for me to just say goodbye to.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Cause that little comp, that conversation, that little half hour
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: debrief and our, like, uh, we've had kind of after,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: and you guys in the studio and I come sit
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: in the couch, that has been one of my favorite
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: things ever.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: It's hard to really describe if you're there, but.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: That's a nice little chop-up debrief session where some of
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: the best minds getting together, some of the best jokes,
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: some of the best stuff. And, yes, it's off the air,
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: so I know a lot of people haven't experienced it.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: But take my word for.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: It when I say it. We can still do that.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm just going to say it. No, we're
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: going to be leaving at 5, right? Well, am I wrong?
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, like the entire.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: You may be right, because when when the show's over
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: from two to five, it's the dinner hour. Probably will
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: probably be looking to get home to the families. Maybe
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Billy will throw something.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: On the grill. I think so. But but but but Armin,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: here's the thing. All right. Now that. That little sliver
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: of your day that you love so much. And you're
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: not wrong. It is fun to chop it up after
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: the show. I enjoy that little time.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Because it's like the mics go off at 8 o'clock
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: and we're like, oh, okay, relax. And then you're completely out.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: And then we start to unwind. That sliver of your
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: day that you love so much can now just slide
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: in front of the show.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Correct.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: And we'll be hanging out before the show. Yeah, I
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: get it.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: But it's, yes, but it's still not the same as
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: after because it's like the full deep.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: You just don't want to say goodbye to yesterday is
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: what I'm hearing. I'm sorry. There's a lot of boys
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: and men in here.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: What's the soundtrack to Armored Life? Wake me up when
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: September ends. Oh, man, that's a good one. Or a
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: time of your life. There's a Green Bay song.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: In here somewhere. Good riddance is absolutely in there. I'm
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: going to bump all these here. There is probably a song.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: There's got to be an R.E.M. song in here.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Armand's entire outlook on life is the third act of
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: a John Hughes or of a 90s teen comedy where everybody,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: the jocks and geeks and everybody comes together and it's
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: everybody kumbaya and all these years.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: That is Armand's entire outlook on life. You understand me.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: It feels so seen now, finally.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like when Jim and Oz and Finch and
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: Stifler had dog years at the end of American Pie.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: To the next step.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: No, you know what it is? Also, it's just the
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: funniest stuff. You guys, it's the right mood. It's the
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: right mix of. It's the funniest jokes and the funniest
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: kind of observations.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I do believe we can still make all those jokes.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I hope so. Otherwise, it sounds like we're not going
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: to have our fastball going to the afternoon. I believe
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: people are expecting potentially even better things coming in the afternoon,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: which is an exciting one to have. Justin and Jacksville,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: sucks you guys are moving to the afternoons, but I'll
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: be listening in the afternoon.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no question that the air product will be
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: even better because we're getting ready with those things.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Like all those pithy comments and all those funny things.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: We're getting ready going into the show with them. So
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I do agree about that. And thank you, Justin. I
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: appreciate that. Yeah, that's true. I guess it just reminds
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: me of like what I always dreamed of.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Like when all the 75 year old guys get together
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: for coffee at the coffee shop together.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Like the old guy meet up. That's like the best.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: That's like, you know, that's a life. Did you start
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: dreaming of being able to have the senior group of
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: cup of coffee with the senior discount at McDonald's? Like
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: before you graduated high school? Yeah, I know.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: I looked forward to my high school reunion while I
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: was a sophomore. Like, you know, it's one of those.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Well, Tommy and Stalish just hit it up. He goes,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Armin getting nostalgic before it even happens as well. Just
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: classic Armin.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: That is. Man.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: We're going to be back on during 420, but that's
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: a 420-type concept.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: At least you guys understand me.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: He's nostalgic for something that didn't happen, and then when
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: it happens, he's nostalgic for.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: It that it happened. You guys don't get it. I'm
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: just going to miss this one right here because this
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: is gone. It's the same, but it's different because it's
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: not going to be this. It's almost there, but it's not.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I'm Kevin from American Pie. That's what it is. At
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: least you know what they always say. You got to
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: be yourself. Hey, I guess what? That's what they mean.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: That's so true.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Craig and Northern, we've all been on that couch for
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: that conversation to play.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Dude, but just think about it, guys. We could be
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: seeing this. This could be us.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: There was us at one time, but now it's not.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Now it's almost us. Well, we always will have the
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: next thing. And that's something I've been trying. I always
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: try to embrace in life. Now, the last couple of
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: decades is like, no, be excited about.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: The next circle. Drew, you're right. We've all we've all
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: been there.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: So at the risk of, you know, at the risk
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: of traumatizing armor with more like melancholy thoughts.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: What will I miss? Sunrises. Yes. Gorgeous.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: You know, our buddy Statman Steve or MKE Photo Steve,
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: one of the OGs in our posse here.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Definitely an OG. Statman Steve is like a photographer.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: He's up at the crack of dawn every day trying
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: to capture these beautiful images. Well, he does capture these
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: beautiful images. And it's like when we would go out
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: and see the sun come up, that kind of really
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: warm summer day when you get out and it's like,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: you know, pre-dawn like that.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: It's pretty cool. That's a pretty cool time of day.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: It really is. And I had first started the sunrises
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: and it became a nice little joke for the no
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: BS six to ten just for kicks where it was
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: you had to grab some sliver of excitement.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Like you did. That was the first time that I'd
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: done it where you did have to grab the some
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: bits of of happiness. And then I watched Mac Collins
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: do the walking barefoot. I tried the grounding thing outside. Oh,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: my goodness. I was a whole new person out there.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I'm with you, though. The sunrises are a beautiful one
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: that if you don't grind to get, you don't appreciate
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: how nice. Well, I used to see them from the
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: other end of the day. Correct.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: A lot more.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: That's the ending of my day with the sun. But
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: the sunrise is beautiful. I'll miss that.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Being done and being able to go right from here
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: to run all your errands and be done by 10 a.m.,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: that was pretty sweet. Like all the grocery store, Costco,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Target runs. You said it right there. Without a lot
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: of crowds. There was something to be said for that.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: When you were in and done earlier than the Costco
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: executive hours, that's when you knew it was nice. That
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: was a decent spot.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: People weren't at the grocery store as much at 8.30
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: on Tuesday.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: That's very, very true. We beat the rush there, so
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: that was something that I would miss, too. And I
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: miss the times when, man, I'd actually go to bed
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: at a decent hour and feel like I woke up.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: And you start to get into that rhythm. There were
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: a couple nights where you didn't even need the You know,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: the alarm. Oh, no doubt. No doubt.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: I woke up five minutes before it was going to
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: go out. So I started flipping through my phone and
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: then get up. But this week wasn't one of them.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: But you're right.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: There were times you could catch that. That kind of
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: you could get that rhythm. Yeah.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: But yeah.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: And, you know, mostly the five o'clock club, the people
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: who we just like, you know, we wanted to build
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: something and like, you know, recognize people who are with
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: us that first hour.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Well, and that's the thing. I feel bad because I'm
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: going to rip off a number of different names here
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: just that we can see. And I know that I'm
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: going to forget a number of them that we have
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: on the sheet. But like Jeff, Jeffrey in Milwaukee and
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: good morning, fellas. It's been an honor to wake up
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: with you boys at 5 a.m. No, it's been an
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: honor to wake up with you, Jeff. We appreciate you
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: every single day being in here. Our friend Red Hot
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Tim not Nick is has been phenomenal. He always is
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: always brings the heat. Chris and Lodi. This is Steve,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: friend Craig in Idaho, North Idaho. He said, I'm up
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: here at 3 a.m. out in Idaho. But now I
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: get to listen to you boys when I'm done at
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: work at noon. Yes, I love that. And looking over, guys, the.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Doc, Justin, Tommy, Sam, Jamie, Austin, Aaron, Red Hot, Steve,
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Buddy Pal, Dobler, Mason, Megan, Nick, Matt.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Aaron, Chris, Jason, and more and more and more. I
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: can't say. I say all of them.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: You guys were all on the 5 o'clock club list.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: And there were times, and it happened a lot, and
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: it happened so much even to this day, this morning,
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: where there was the first time we'd hear from somebody
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: that either had been listening or found us in this
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: slot that we didn't know was listening, that we didn't
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: know was still with us, that found us.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: And that really lifted up.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Every time, that would lift up our spirits to know
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: there were still you guys out there with us that
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: had been listening to us that either found us or
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: look for us again. And because you liked what we did,
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: came out here and listened to us and got up
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: and found us wherever you could, whether it be over
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: the air and the stream and the app, obviously over
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: our video stream now, which has become very popular, YouTube, Facebook,
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: and Twitter. Every time somebody that we didn't know reached
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: out again and say, hey, I'm listening, by the way,
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: I'm out here.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Boy, that lifted us up.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: And it's been happening a lot. It's happened a lot
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: this last year. And so I'll miss.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: That moment, too, those individual moments that always would build up.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Thank you, guys. Well said, Armand. Well said. Continue.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Keep them coming, 877-794-1973. I won't miss going to bed
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: when it's still light. Those days in June and July
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: when you go to bed and it's still like the
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: sun's still blazing.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: The one that I won't miss is when one of
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: the youngsters wakes up upstairs is having to grab my
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: phone to bring up there because if I don't, Then
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: I'm just going to be stressed out that I'm going
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: to not wake up to when I have to because
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I'm inevitably going to fall asleep.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Like I'm going to fall asleep on the chair. Just
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: have to know that my alarm is there with me.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: That one I won't miss. So there's no excuse if
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: we're tired at two o'clock.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Just like, you know. Well, we'll make some. We'll make some. Yeah,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: come on. Are you kidding me? Yeah, 100%. Guaranteed, I'll
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: make some. Yeah, definitely.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: How long do you think it'll take to get your
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: body back in rhythm for the normal?
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Well, that's what's interesting because one of the things you
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: would think, oh, you know, I got out of work
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: at 8.05. I'm done with work. Clean some stuff up.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Leave the building at 8.30. Oh, you could go to
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: the gym.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I could. Yeah, that happened. I didn't much.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: I probably halved my workouts because it's like, oh, I'm
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: just too tired.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Like, I joked, it's like, well, what's it like when
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: you get up that way? Yeah, exactly.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: It's like, what's it like when you get up that early?
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: It's like, well, I spend a lot of the day.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Once you get going in the morning, you're okay, and
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: then I spend the rest of the day in a
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: fog wondering when I'm going to bed.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: When I'm going to sleep. That's it.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: It's like, have you ever been ready for lunch at
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: 9 a.m.? If you haven't been, that's what it's like.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Well, we are, but that's what it's like. Yeah, you're
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: ready for lunch at 9 a.m.? I'm ready for a
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: steak and a baked potato at 9 a.m.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: That's why they're always so surprised when I get in
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: there for the Costco executive club. And they're like, hey, really?
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: You want a full pizza right now?
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Yes. You guys eat a pizza at 830?
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: Like, yeah, Laura, when do you eat lunch? Like five
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: hours after you get up, right? I mean, that's what happens.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: That's where it goes. Yeah.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: But you always had an excuse for it, which was nice. Yeah.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: So, again, we won't be tired, but we'll have, you know.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: And sometimes stuff breaks right when we get off the air.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: We're like, oh, could have talked about that.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: That's true. That is the one I am going to be.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: And like, you know, when Matt LaFleur steps up to
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: the podium on Bear Week, we're going to be able
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: to react in real time.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: I'm very excited for those ones. Oh, those will be
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: good ones. Yeah, those will definitely be good ones. Did
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: anything happen last night in Dallas?
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Did anything?
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Other than like, well, they stink in that game a
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: week from now might be a get right game for
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: the Packers. If you had Bucky Irving, he went nuts.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Cause yeah, that's true.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Well, the, yeah, the Cowboys, when you, when your get
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: right game, you get blown out and lay an egg.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: That means you are now the get right team that
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: people need to face. Yeah. You are now the team
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: that people are excited is on the schedule. Yeah.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, didn't, well, they just had, they had 10 days, right.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: To get ready for that. We're, we're just a tick away.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: Their offense sucks like that, but yeah.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and that's I mean, they're still going to
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: feel that hangover for a while of the toughest loss
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: that maybe anybody suffers all year long. That loss against
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: the Ravens is going to linger, you would think. But
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: then they get a huge win last second against the Texans.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: And you think all's forgotten. I don't know. Their defense
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: had not look had not been great. Didn't paint itself
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: in glory against Jalen Daniels last night. With that Buccaneers defense,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: if that was as advertised, man, I feel a lot
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: better about how the Packers moved the ball, I guess.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: We'll see. Yeah. We'll definitely see. 877-794-1973.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Scheduled to appear on our last morning edition of The Huddle,
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Wayne Larrabee.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Good one to have. 25-ish. We'll talk to Wayne about it.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: 214th meeting between the Bears and Packers. How about that?
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: And it totally needed new uniforms for it. Wow.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Totally needed new uniforms. Totally needed those. Oh, speaking of uniforms, oh,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: there's something juicy there.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Good reminder, Billy. We'll talk about that as we move forward.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Hey, you know what the coolest thing is, guys? It's this.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: You know, right now. It's true. I mean, after this,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: everything's going to be different after getting laid. After high school.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Here's to the next step.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: To the next step.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: To the next step. To the next step.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Drew, Billy, and Armand bringing it to you. Final edition
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: of The Huddle as a morning show. We will be
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: back at it on Monday, 2 o'clock p.m., 2 to
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: 5 in the afternoon. So farewell to the 5 o'clock club.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Folks who have been with us since the very beginning,
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: not just of the show in the morning, very beginning
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: of the show when we started.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: On the Tuesday after Martin Luther King Day. On a chilly.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: You know, those days were cold, man. Another thing you
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: don't miss. Somehow cold hits different before the sun comes up.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: A thousand percent. And for it to be the timing
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: could not be better.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Not only because some late night games coming up in
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: a significant game with the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday night football.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Nice to get it in the move ahead of those games.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: But true. Definitely that chill in the air. The little 45,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: 50-degree bite and the little nip of October, that hardens
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: you a little bit. That November and December one cripples
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: you a little bit. That makes it tough. That's right.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: So you mentioned the uniform matchup that we're looking at
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: on Sunday, Packers-Bears.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Awesome. Can't wait for it.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: And that reminded me, one of the things I saw,
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: it's the clickbaitiest headline of all time.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. I like that. We're just saying something these days.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: It's like Titans fire a person in charge of the uniforms.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Like, you know, they fire their... And they fired three executives,
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: including the vice president of marketing who oversaw their uniform revision.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: And folks are saying, yeah, nobody likes these uniforms, so
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: therefore she must go.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Wow, really? That's interesting because when they unveiled them, I
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: remembered a lot of Titans fans enjoying them.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: So that's a different tune than I heard. People are
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: saying it's like somebody didn't like the owner, didn't like it.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Sure, Amy. Well, hey, Miss Adams didn't like anything there
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: in Tennessee. You go ask Mike Vrabel how that works
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: out for you when Miss Adams doesn't like something happening.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: I thought that was a good idea at the time.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: They thought you was cool then, right? The owners didn't
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: like it. Maybe they don't like how they're playing in them.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: They're getting crushed because they're winless, and they're firing people
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: who weren't involved with the football product.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, if they thought they were going to win
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: a lot of games, I got to give a bad
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: news for them. I got bad news for you. That
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: team was not destined for any kind of greatness or
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: glory here in 20, in, in 2026. I cam ward
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: is one of the more under discussed and just fly
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: completely under the radar. Number one, overall picks in a
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: long time. Absolutely. Until now. And now he'll start to
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: get a lot more, a little more hate run there.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: So three random executives and the merchandising one was there. Yeah.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: The VP of marketing. Well, they got to get somebody
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: new in there for, Because then they'll get somebody new
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: in there, sell a bunch of new merch, pay for
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: that super beautiful stadium that they're building. Then all their
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: problems will be solved. Absolutely right. Then all their problems
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: will be solved. Well, this is their last season. They're
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: saying farewell to the stadium in the worst possible fashion. Yeah,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: no doubt about it. But is there, I mean, the
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Bills thought they were doing it in a good fashion
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: last year until they lost in the playoffs and spit
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: it up that way. There's no great way to be
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: able to. Also, is Nissan Stadium painting a lot of glory? Yeah,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: that's true. They just run the highlights of the Music
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: City Miracle like every game. That's all they have, really.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: That's the only moment.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: So they're moving to their new place, and they've already
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: been awarded the Super Bowl in 2030. That new place
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: looks sweet, by the way. It's going to be epic.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: It looks gorgeous. That draft party was pretty legendary. What's
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: a Super Bowl in Nashville going to be? That's going
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: to be crazy. They'll always party in Nashville.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Well, it'll also be interesting with how many people are
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: now of the rich and famous are now living there.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: You want to talk about what will be the interesting
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: one to watch, that radio row would be the one
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: to be at.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: You're right. The amount of people that are already in Franklin,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Tennessee and would just have to drive instead of fly
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: out for the interviews. They're all living there now. Absolutely, Billy.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: They're all Hollywood East, you know? It's funny. Yeah, that
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: would be... That'd be incredible because they all own bars.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: All the bigger stars have to come in and promote
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: their five-level rooftop bars.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and I mean, however many former NFL players,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: and a ton of current NFL players live out in
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: that area. There's so many of them that do. But
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: it's a fascinating spot because it's a hotbed of talent.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: It's a great spot to live, great spot to be.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Clearly just not a great spot to have football teams.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: They had the number one overall seed the same night.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: the Packers did in 2021 Packers and the Packers and
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Titans each had the number one overall seed on that
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Saturday night in 2021 both lose one the team that
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: beat them goes to the Super Bowl in the Bengals
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: become everyone's flavor of the year with Joe Burrow and
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: company and the other one San Francisco still trying to
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: get back but Tennessee and Green Bay, both still trying
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: to get back there. Now, one has completely fallen off
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: the cliff because they haven't gotten the quarterback answer at
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: all since Tannehill in that 2021. But the other one's
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: still kind of just coiling around there in the middle.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Shows it is hard to get back. Very much so.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: And when you're back down in the hole, so to speak,
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: it's hard to kind of dig your way out of it.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Boy, I forgot to add that. I'm going to see
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: you're right. Yeah.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: I remember a lot of people were kind of like, oh, well, see,
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: they're making moves. This is what all teams should do.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: You know, they should demand that their owners should make
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: the tough moves right away. And then it's like, be
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: careful what you wish for, because now you see what happened.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: And you're right.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: Ever since then, they've been kind of searching in the forest,
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: in the wilderness, trying to get back out of it.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: So, man, that's a good point.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: You know, it's funny how fast five years goes, and
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: that's hard to believe that was five years ago, too.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Incredible stuff. Yeah. Hit us up, please. Share your thoughts.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: We're getting a flood of comments, and I appreciate them all.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: 877-794-1973.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: It's a three-hour Midwest goodbye is what we got going
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: on today.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: That's the perfect way of saying it.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: On Facebook, Brian, what am I going to do now
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: living in Fort Myers? I wake up early morning to
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: my hometown crew at 6 and 5. I have to
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: do my job now without you guys.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: I'm done. Time to retire. See you in the afternoon. Well,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: we were sending you into retirement, Brian. That's amazing. You
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: are in Florida, so you could still enjoy it. I
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: was going to say, what am I going to do? Well,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: a lot of options.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, a lot of good things
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: to be able to do down there. It's not like
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: the time you save not shoveling snow will help you
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: a lot and have to account for all of that.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Well, and the amount of time that you save driving.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Because people in Florida, especially South Florida, ruse and do.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: That's true. Cruising down. That's very true. You are driving
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: for keeps in that area.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Saving a lot of time. Yeah, you feel like you're
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: in the bullring at Bristol, Tennessee.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Well, everyone's got those fancy cars. They want to drive
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: those fancy cars. Yeah, but even folks with Saturns are
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: driving nuts. It's an impressive, impressive spot. Everybody under 70
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: has got their right foot down. 100%. And then the
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: bad thing is then you have too many snowbirds that
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: get there from February to March and all this. Then
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: it really gets dicey. Yeah.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: Alec and Margie and the blinkers been on since they
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: left the Olive Garden.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Wait, what's that noise? You hear that? I don't know
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: what that is.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: A 9-2-0 going to miss this routine. I'm a very
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: nostalgic person as well, Armin. Going through a huge change
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: in my life and moving my family to Mexico in
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: February as I grow and learn. I just know you
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: can only control what you can. Don't stress about those things.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: The most constant thing in life has changed.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Cheers, boys. I can adjust to your new time. I
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: had a new routine and now that will change. I
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: like hearing that. That's the right attitude. Let's go. New routine,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: new everything. And congrats on the move. That's incredible. Congrats
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: on the move.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: And thanks for listening to us from all corners of
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: this earth, guys.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Talking about somebody that made that move, our friend Jason,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: the electrician. I'm always with you guys. Always enjoy it.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Him and his family moved down to Florida, and they
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: love living it up down there in the heat. So
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: wherever you are, we can be the great relationship to
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: bring you back. for some Wisconsin sports. There's a lot
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: of folks that try to find something to be able
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: to bring it in like Justin and Jacksonville. It's a
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: great way to be able to tie in. We're glad
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: that we can be there for you at two to five.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: And the other thing is nice. The best part about
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: the YouTube, the advent of YouTube in our space is
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: that the show lives whenever and is live whenever you
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: want it to be. Whenever you wanted to, you back
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: it right all the way up, and boom, you're in. Yes, absolutely.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: We're portable. I like that. It's even better. We're that
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: portable television that you always thought about asking for for Christmas.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: They never actually ended up getting it. That's right. All right.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Continue the farewell. The 5 o'clock club, you mean a
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: lot to us, though, the people that were with us.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: Because that's like, you know, sometimes it's just us three
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: jabronis in a room. You think you're talking to yourself.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: Knowing that there were people out there to, you know.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: knock the ball back. It's like better than hitting it
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: against the wall. It's way more fun to send it back.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Yes. Way more fun for a volley. Right. I mean,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Armin can, well, you know, Armin would know he's. Oh,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: my great volleyball days. Absolutely. Love that sport.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Did you ever hit it well enough for somebody to
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: be able to hit it back though? I mean, I
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: was always in the back row.
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: It was too small, too non-athletic to, you know, I
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: had a couple of moments.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: I was a soft spot, not an important part games
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: or anything.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: No, but the best part was after the game, Billy,
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: when they all just sat in the locker room.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Hang on. We'd sit down, chop it up. I
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: missed that part, Drew. That's the part that I'm going
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: to miss.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: That's what they all say. Farewell, 5 o'clock clubbers. We're
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: 6 o'clock clubbing next. The Huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.