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ESPN/NFL Network Deal, more sex toys on the court, Steven M. Sipple talks Huskers football & Mitch Holthus on the Chiefs · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  All right, good afternoon. Welcome Miller and Condon on a
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  Wednesday, the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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  It's Trent Condon and Ken Miller for the next couple of hours to
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  talk sports with you. And thank you for starting your
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  afternoon with us wherever you are listening in the great state
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  of Iowa. Here's what's coming up on our
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  program. We're going to leave the state
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  1225. We're going to head W just to
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  Lincoln. Catch up with our friend Steven
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  M Simple on three Media huskerillustrated.com Huskers
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  had their annual open practice open to fans and media this past
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  Saturday evening. So we'll get the Intel from SIP
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  on some of the things that he saw, positive and negative, the
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  concerns, et cetera, for the Huskers and of course, Iowa and
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  Nebraska, as they always do, and the regular season on Black
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  Fridays, who will talk football with SIP pursuant to the Big 10
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  at 12:25. And then Mitch Holtis, his
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  regular spot, the daily Chiefs training camp reports brought to
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  us by Papa John's throughout the state of Iowa.
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  Mitch Holtis will be here at the 12:45, one o'clock.
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  And this should be good. It usually is.
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  But Kappy, I'm guessing, will be a little bit hot under the
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  collar as we'll head to Chicago. Catch up with David Kaplan, the
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  cap man, The Cubs, if you've listened over the years, well,
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  they're his team and he is not pleased the way this team is
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  performing right now. So we'll talk that and Bears
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  with Kappy coming up at 1:00. And then the sports director
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  over at KCCI, friend Scott Reister involved and he's been
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  involved in this for a while and hats off to him.
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  A Shot in the dark. It's the 38th annual Prevent
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  Blindness event coming up at at Terrace Hill out in Altoona.
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  And that's this weekend. Is it Friday or is it when is it
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  I? Believe it's Friday, Yeah, the
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  15th coming up a week from Friday.
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  I've done it a couple of different times.
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  It's an incredible event. It's so much fun.
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  Just Yeah, a group of. KX you know, right?
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  Yeah, we've gone a couple of times, went out there with Sean
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  and Emery, was out there one year, played with a few others
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  and it's just it's such a fun different.
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  So do you look? Forward to the sun going down.
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  Oh, absolutely you must. Right.
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  Well, because you're hitting as it's starting to get darker and
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  dusk, you're hitting these glow balls that aren't true golf
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  balls. Do they go?
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  How far do they go? I mean if you normally hit one,
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  say 250. Yeah, probably like 215, OK,
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  yeah, I mean, it's like maybe 80% of your shot, OK, or
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  something like that. But that's what you're waiting
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  for. And then when you finally hit
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  one and you you hit that wedge and just see that glowing ball
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  sailing through the air, it's a really fun event.
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  So if you. Get on the green you putt and
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  everything like a real golf game.
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  Absolutely, yeah. It's it's really fun, really
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  enjoyable, different way of doing it.
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  And of course, great 'cause with a great 'cause.
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  With a great 'cause. So Scott Reister will be here to
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  talk about that. Good for you, Scott Reister for
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  being involved in that and using your name and your place in the
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  market here to to promote such a a worthwhile cause.
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  Trent, we'll make some plays of the day that's coming up at
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  about 1:50. Look forward to doing that or
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  hearing what you're going to play here today.
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  Kind of mixed day yesterday, right?
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  Two and three, yeah. Hit the WNBA, hit one of your
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  baseball games. That's right, we lost .8 units
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  yesterday. Hit on the money line with the
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  Sparks last night against the Fever and hit Tampa with Pipo My
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  boy plus 1/12. There you go.
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  You know what? I guess it's let's start.
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  I, I don't look at I'm in my 30th year.
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  I didn't think we would come to a time where we'd be talking
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  about a, a sex toy being not once, not twice, but three times
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  thrown onto the court of a basketball game.
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  Just stop it. Just stop.
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  It's not funny. It's not funny.
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  I mean, what kind of person goes out of their way to a purchase
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  one, sneak it into the building and wait for that right moment
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  to throw it onto the floor? A.
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  You're a copycat because it's been done.
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  Wasn't this something with the bills like 3 or 4 years ago?
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  Was it? I?
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  I believe so, yes. And then maybe it didn't
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  resonate with me because that's obviously men.
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  Yeah. That this is, this is just
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  ridiculous that somebody's going to this extent to prove how just
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  worthless of a person that they are.
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  And I don't know what you can do to whoever this perpetrator is.
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  You know, once you do catch them, obviously you're going to
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  bar them from any event in that building.
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  I don't know if you can go further than that.
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  I don't know what if there are any charges that would stick.
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  But my good God, the message that you're sending, it's not
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  being received well. It's just, it just goes to show
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  you, you know, just where some of society is still at when it
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  comes to a woman's sport. And admittedly, I was there, not
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  the dildo stage, right? But just, I'm slow to adapt, but
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  it just makes me sick. It truly does.
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  And you have people like Sophie Cunningham last night that plays
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  the social media game as well as he can.
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  She does great, yeah. But it's embarrassing.
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  It is. It's embarrassing for our
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  demographic. The leak's got enough to deal
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  with, right? Absolutely.
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  And the infighting and the ugliness and the referee and the
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  referee and both game play and off the court and there's so
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  much other and this just adds another layer to it.
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  It's not funny. It's not, it's not.
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  Come on, the bro culture. Look, we're Bros, right?
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  But the bro culture part of it, it's gross.
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  It is. It's just.
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  It's. Gross.
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  I think in a way all males have some type of misogyny.
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  It's all, it's all there at some .1 one way or the other.
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  I think all of us have had those thoughts, had those feelings,
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  had those ideas. Whatever it may be, it's with
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  everybody and it probably goes both ways.
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  I'm sure there's plenty of almost every female thought at a
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  time a lot smarter than that guy and a lot smarter than those
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  guys. You're right, I think women
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  should run the world personally. Yes, that's you have that part
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  of it, but then to act to it for what?
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  What? What's the end game?
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  What is outside of a couple of chuckles you're hoping to get,
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  What is it? There is a video that's
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  circulating this morning of one that didn't make the floor last
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  night in LA. There were two of them in the
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  building. That didn't make the floor.
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  Landed like 5 rows short and it apparently hit a kid.
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  Come on, screw up. Yeah.
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  Screw up, which is ridiculous and and here's another thing,
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  Trent. We both love betting on sports.
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  Yes, but this is too far with this offshore place.
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  What is it? Bet online?
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  Yes. Yeah.
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  I don't even know if I want to tell the story because this will
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  bring this will get draw a laugh and that's not what it's meant
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  to do. It disgusts me, it truly does.
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  And Trent and I both like a good laugh.
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  Yes, absolutely. This isn't a laugh.
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  This isn't a funny matter. You actually bet on the colour,
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  right? You get some.
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  Come on. I mean, obviously it's going to
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  be a licensed sports book in the in the on the mainland, but it's
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  just too far. Anyways, I had to say my piece
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  because it bothers the hell out of me.
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  Enough is enough. What can be done?
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  What can be done to these people?
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  You have to be swift, decisive and when they find a
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  perpetrator, did I mean you have to do everything.
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  Is this this? Assault.
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  Yeah, I mean. You're throwing a projectile.
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  At somebody, what's the list you get on the sex or the?
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  Oh, his sexual registry list. Yeah, the registry.
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  Yeah. I mean, is that too far?
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  I I don't see why not. I had an acquaintance in college
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  that was peeing in an alley. He got put on that list.
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  Really. Yes.
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  Yeah. For a year he was on that list
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  because he was peeing in an alley, got caught by the cops,
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  and because of that, well, it was out in public.
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  Oh God. So same thing here.
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  I I don't know the legality. Of it, well, what's worse?
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  Throw the book oh absolutely right taking a leak at a college
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  town Oh my God right at 2:00 AM or this or this and yes damage
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  can be done like if this really would strike somebody if if that
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  kid I, I just. It's got to stop.
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  Yeah. It's got to stop.
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  It's got to stop. All right?
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  I don't know how we stop. This is not a transition off
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  board. Have you 30 years?
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  Have you ever had to make this transition?
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  Never. And you know what, I would have
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  been fine if I would have got to the end without having to do so.
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  Anyways, let's let's get into the into sports.
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  Let's go to ESPN and their deal with with the NFL Network and
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  the NFL in particular. Does this pass the smell test to
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  you? No, not at all.
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  It was interesting. I was taught respects so many of
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  them, right? So I, I was actually talking to
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  my wife about this last night and I said, you know, I've had
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  it on my notes the last two days and something and we haven't got
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  to it, but it was something I want to talk about.
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  But then when I think about it, my mind tends to turns to mush.
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  You have an entity that's been for sale for years, NFL Network.
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  The NFL owners have wanted to get rid of it and you finally
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  sell it, but you sell it for a stake of Disney, ESPN.
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  This you going to believe anything that comes out of Adam
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  Schefter's mouth. Are we going to get to that
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  point? Are they going to are they going
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  to be planting stories or you know, he can't, he can't report
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  on that. That doesn't look good for the
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  shield. Yes, here's another angle.
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  Seth Wicker, Sam Sham. Is he done?
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  What does he do? He's the ESPN guy that broke the
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  Deflategate. He's been.
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  Oh, he's. Helped.
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  Yeah, right. Yeah.
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  Brush up on your resume. Yeah, exactly right.
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  A great writer. Yeah.
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  Great writer, but the investigative word.
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  No, not not when it comes to reporting on the NFL.
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  What do they own? They own the ESPN Bet the NFL
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  now a a A league owns a part of a betting company.
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  There are no more Monday night doubleheaders.
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  I liked them. I wish they would have been
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  staggered a little bit. Not this year because I think
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  there's a couple on the schedule this year, but going forward
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  there won't be. I don't watch the red zone but I
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  know a lot of people are happy. I love the red zone.
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  I know you do, and you're not alone.
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  In fact, there's a millions of people like you.
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  What's the host's name? Scott Hanson, he's good.
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  He's not as not as good as the old DIRECTV guy.
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  Ceciliano with the big ears, she was really good.
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  But Scott Hanson is safe. And that made a lot of people
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  happy because they've moved on from Siciliano to to to Scott
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  Hanson. So he's safe.
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  But I just found it really, and it's been the rumors have been
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  out there for a while. The league owns part of a a
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  television network. How are you supposed to report?
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  Right right now, NFL Network, they haven't gone heavy-handed,
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  but they also haven't shield away for the most.
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  Part No, but they're never the Breakers.
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  And that's and that's, I mean, I understand because we're not
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  supposed to break stuff either, you know, we're I was told this
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  a long time ago when I think we broke one.
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  Well, I didn't, but it was nowhere near being accurate.
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  What? You believe it or not, shocker
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  and got called the corner. Now we don't want you breaking
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  stories you guys just talk about yes anyways.
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  That is not our job. Right, but it's just it doesn't
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  pass the IT doesn't pass the smell test to me.
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  We'll see if you know, if it's not as bad as we think it's
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  going to be. But I don't like them being
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  involved in the ESPN bet. I think that has should be sold
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  personally. And and that part of it, I guess
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  it hasn't even jumped in. It's just seeing the way that it
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  is seeing reading through front office sports and over a puck
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  with John O Randy. And I just can't, I can't wrap
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  my mind around it, how you sell these entities, how you want to
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  get rid of these things. You've been trying for years to
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  get rid of them. You finally do.
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  And ESPN's been for sale too, too, at two companies looking on
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  the on the market. And now you're giving a part of
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  your equity. This isn't that.
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  That's the part that just it's so difficult to.
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  Wrap my mind around We're talking about huge money.
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  This is huge, not millions of dollars.
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  I mean, we're talking about a huge financial stake.
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  And then you couple it with what's happening with the new
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  ESPN app and now available. You don't have to have a cable
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  subscription. You can get everything, Monday
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  Night Football, every single single thing starting here this
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  month for 30 bucks a month. And then I see the press release
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  that also comes out today that the pay-per-view events for
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  wrestling pro Wrestling is also going to be a part of this.
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  And so I haven't watched a Russell Media in, I don't know,
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  30 years, however. You probably did so when it was
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  free. Well, and it was a bunch of
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  buddies getting together when we were middle school and that's
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  when we did it and somebody got at their house and that's how we
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  get it now today. So is that the 1st pay-per-view
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  you ever bought? Yes.
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  I mine was boxing in the 70s. OK.
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  Ali got killed. Yeah.
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  Who beat him that day? Was it Foreman?
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  It might have been. And it was or Holmes.
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  It was Larry Holmes. OK.
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  And it was sad. Yeah, it was sad.
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  But it was at your house. No, we went to the closed
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  circuit arena. OK, yeah, 'cause.
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  I remember hearing the stories at the closed circuit days.
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  And that would be closed circuit, right?
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  Yeah, that's. The closed circuit days where
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  you went into an auditorium or or a theater or whatever it is
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  and that's the way that they did it and they set it up that
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  direction. This was call up, make the phone
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  call, talk to the person on the other end of the phone.
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  And that's how we used to do things, kids.
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  And did you dial the numbers? And dial the numbers you.
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  Have to stand in your kitchen because he.
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  Absolutely didn't have a wireless and you make that phone
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  call. Oh my God.
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  And then this changed. You have to and you got and you
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  got notified about this in your newspaper.
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  Newspaper talked about it, probably had the the ad there,
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  the number to actually call to make it happen and then voila it
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  was on the television. Wild 27 inch colour TV what is
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  it? A single def.
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  Single def Yeah, there was. There was no.
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  There's a bell and it's the last thing that came in your mind is
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  I really not see this, but. Hulk Hogan against Ultimate
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  Warrior. It was worth it.
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  Boy Ultimate. Warrior he was something, wasn't
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  he, with that face paint I saw I saw a there was a is it The
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  History Channel came out with some of the like a hour show on
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  some. Of the big names, yeah, I've
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  wanted there's a. Few that I saw.
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  Ultimate Warriors yeah, I think he was from like rural Kentucky
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  or Indiana some I mean anyways, let's talk about baseball.
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  Let's. Let's do that.
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  Yeah, 'cause we have to and you know, but I don't know.
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  But maybe 5 weeks ago I asked you, if the I asked you if this
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  number is good enough, would you be interested in this Yankees to
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  make the play offs? No, was plus +800 or something
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  like that. And no, you couldn't get there.
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  I don't know what the Cubs are. If you're a Cubs fan right now,
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  you're worried if this team is even going to because the
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  Brewers aren't losing. It's unbelievable.
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  I bet, I guess it last night. What an idiot.
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  I saw it was 4 nothing right off the bat.
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  Yeah, now they're they're still in pretty good shape, the Cubs,
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  right? But still, it's the way that
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  they're playing right now and it's the lack of production.
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  If Kyle Tucker is as hurt as we're being led on, led to
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  believe, sit his ass down for 15 days or for 10 days or whatever
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  it may be because he's hurting his team.
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  It's and he's not alone. He's not and and maybe that's
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  the issue is they all stink right now and we can't give
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  anybody because we need to have at least one of these guys start
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  to ignite and get going. You know, mentioned it
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  yesterday, watching again last night.
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  It's not that we're not getting hits happens right?
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  They are flailing they're. Clueless.
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  Just. Awful, awful at bats.
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  And it's like they don't have a game plan.
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  Just, well, maybe I'll get lucky.
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  Put my bath through the zone. If I make contacts, here we go.
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  It the confidence, the mannerisms, just the the lack of
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  it's just that what you expect a major leaguer to look like.
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  I talk about this all the time when I go to a night Cubs game.
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  You can tell, oh, that dude and that dude don't even look at a
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  number of roster. You can just see the way that
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  they carry themselves and that roster one through 9, that
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  lineup one through 9 right now, none of those guys are carrying
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  them. Maybe Matt Shaw?
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  He might be the guy. How about this Kyle Tucker PCA
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  in Suzuki since the All Star break 4 Combined home runs Matt
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  Shaw 5. Do you have that on your bingo?
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  No, no, I had him coming back here.
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  Right, a more likely scenario. Great in the field, but boy just
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  can't figure it out at at the plate.
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  It's a minago. Was terrific last night.
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  Goes 6 1/3 and got pulled. To answer your question, this is
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  available currently on DraftKings.
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  Yes, No to make the. Playoffs for the Cubs.
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  For the Chicago Cubs. I'm more interested in the no.
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  The no is plus 950. That's a big price that's.
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  A big price. What would have been, I mean, a
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  couple of weeks ago would have been doubled 20 to 10.
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  Absolutely, yes, by the way -1400 so obviously big juice
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  there. So the Reds are the first team
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  out of the playoffs right now. They're 4 1/2 back and you go
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  the other way and you look at if you want the Reds to make the
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  playoffs plus 250. I'd rather bet the Cubs know I
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  would too, 'cause I think the Cub, the Padres are going to be
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  fine. I think the Mets are.
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  Going to be fine. I do too.
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  I'm with you on the Mets. I.
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  I think now the Mets have their own set of issues and that
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  rotation, it's finally starting to show it's where.
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  It is, I agree. Coming back to I agree, but do
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  you think that the Cardinals or the Giants or the Marlins or the
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  Diamondbacks, any of those teams are getting into it?
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  No. So there's one team that can get
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  in. It's the rest and this is a
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  complete about face in the last 48 hours because when we had
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  Matt Snyder on on Monday, we both thought that the six teams
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  in the National League were set in stone.
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  And now here we are, right with the Reds taking the 1st 2 of
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  this series. Kate Horton, you better have
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  yourself a day-to-day young man because this team is counting on
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  you in a big way. Because once you get past that,
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  I mean, all of a sudden Colin Ray, I mean, is Ben Brown going
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  to be inserted into the lineup? Is he going to have to start?
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  And are you going to start him knowing that, you know, in four
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  days you're starting or you just kind of surprise him?
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  Because I think that works out better for him.
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  It is not going well. And they're going up against the
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  Andrew Abbott today. Are they, that's who's pitching
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  for the for the Reds and then they everybody's got to death.
• 17:52
  There's like 4 games tomorrow and then they go to Saint Louis
• 17:55
  for the weekend in a huge series.
• 17:57
  We'll take a time out. We're going to come back, we're
• 17:59
  going to head to Lincoln, catch up with our buddy Stephen M
• 18:02
  Sipple on the Huskers. We'll get the latest on his
• 18:05
  thoughts on on that team, kind of how he sees the Big 10.
• 18:08
  Looking forward to catching up with Sip and doing that.
• 18:12
  We missed him in Vegas, didn't we?
• 18:14
  Yeah, he stiffed us. I saw him.
• 18:16
  You saw him, right? I came home.
• 18:18
  Oh, and boy, was I giving him a hard time.
• 18:19
  Were you Good? Now it's your turn to give.
• 18:21
  Him Oh, I'm going to because he couldn't wait to wrap your arm,
• 18:24
  give you a great big and hug Kenny.
• 18:26
  Come and get it step. Then he stiffed us.
• 18:30
  We'll take a time out. We'll come back with Simple.
• 18:32
  Then Mitch Holtis, Cappy kicks off our number 2.
• 18:35
  We'll head to Chicago. Scott Reister and Trent's Plays
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• 18:40
  It's 1220 on a Wednesday. You're listening to Miller in
• 18:43
  Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 18:48
  It's time for SIP. Steven M Simple talks with
• 18:53
  myself and Ken on Nebraska football.
• 18:55
  I mean, I have a radio show, we have callers.
• 18:58
  I pay attention to my Twitter notifications and all that.
• 19:01
  There's definitely some frustration.
• 19:03
  We talk Hornhuskers, and you never know what else is going to
• 19:07
  come up with 30 years on the Nebraska beat.
• 19:12
  Here's Steven M Simple. As long as they're paying me to
• 19:15
  talk, I'm just going to keep doing it.
• 19:17
  Hi, I'm Hillary Condon. Welcome back.
• 19:19
  Coming up on 12:30 on a Wednesday, Iowa Sport Radio
• 19:22
  Network. Stand by your man, yeah?
• 19:26
  It's funny Steven M simple covers the Huskers for Husker
• 19:30
  illustrated part of on three media sip my subscriptions
• 19:34
  coming up and you know as soon as you jumped over there I
• 19:37
  supporting my buddy. I jumped right away got up my
• 19:40
  debit card signed up. It's about to renew.
• 19:42
  And then my buddy stood me up in Las Vegas, Man, I mean, I don't
• 19:49
  know what to do. It's a bad look for me.
• 19:57
  Now you understood. Yes, I do.
• 20:00
  You had a company outing. I get it.
• 20:02
  Yeah, it was kind of like. A company outing and that was
• 20:05
  we're just there 2 for one. We were there two nights, but we
• 20:10
  weren't, we weren't. We left, you know, after
• 20:13
  Nebraska was done. That was part of the reason I
• 20:16
  but yeah. Did you ever make it over to the
• 20:17
  Mandalay Bay? No, no, I never left.
• 20:21
  I never left circa. Well, I just should say I went
• 20:24
  back down the street. I went to cab a block to a pizza
• 20:26
  joint, but that's another story. I met up, but no.
• 20:30
  I wish you would have. I wish you would have seen you.
• 20:31
  I love catching up with Evan over It's briefly and we'll do
• 20:35
  it again some point, I'm guessing.
• 20:36
  But so how you been? I'm not good.
• 20:39
  Good. How are you been?
• 20:40
  Hey, congratulations on your retirement.
• 20:42
  Thank you pal. I mean it.
• 20:44
  I mean that God, I don't I I suppose it means we're not going
• 20:49
  to be talking on the. Radio, well, I'm still going to.
• 20:51
  I'm still going to do a Sunday show starting for football.
• 20:53
  So yes, you and I will. Maybe not every week because I
• 20:57
  only get a couple hours a week, but I'm certainly going to
• 21:00
  during football season. I'll find a way to get my good
• 21:02
  friends in there and I've talked to you on the radio longer and
• 21:04
  I've spoken with anybody else Sip.
• 21:06
  So yes. That is nice to hear and it's
• 21:11
  even nice specific of you to say.
• 21:13
  I appreciate. That no, absolutely well, let's
• 21:16
  get into what the real reason we had you on not to give you you
• 21:19
  know what, but I do. I wouldn't like to see you, but
• 21:22
  we'll do it another time. Let's your Saturday night was
• 21:25
  busy or watching open practice you and, and a bunch of fans
• 21:29
  were there. I guess from some of the reports
• 21:32
  that I've read and we keep hearing about Matt rule year #3
• 21:36
  and certainly there is a history there and how the success keeps
• 21:39
  building and year #3 it takes off and it seems sip on the
• 21:43
  surface that this might be a year that you know that that
• 21:47
  take off continues. There's a lot of positives that
• 21:50
  I'm reading about. Obviously the receivers and we
• 21:53
  know the quarterback, but let's start with the receivers.
• 21:55
  It seems like he's got a much better core of receivers to
• 21:59
  throw the ball to this year. Yeah, it's yeah.
• 22:03
  I would almost say I just want to be careful not to go too far,
• 22:07
  but almost like night and day compared to two years ago with
• 22:12
  what Frost kind of left him. Scott Frost, what He left it now
• 22:17
  and now it looks like like an SEC receiver room would look to
• 22:23
  me. Oh, it's yeah.
• 22:25
  It's impressive. They got a It's not.
• 22:28
  Now listen, it's not Ohio State. I don't want.
• 22:31
  To mislead it if you are. Yeah, yeah, it's not Ohio State,
• 22:35
  but I bet it's better than Penn State.
• 22:38
  I bet it is. Seriously, It's it's good they
• 22:41
  they have in this world. You can flip scripts so fast on
• 22:48
  a football team. You know, this was the double
• 22:51
  check this I think it was the 95th ranked offense in the
• 22:54
  country last year. And now the narrative here is
• 22:58
  that's the strength, you know, and that's partly the result of
• 23:03
  the receivers. It's partly the result of an
• 23:06
  offensive line that got two big time transfers.
• 23:10
  And it's probably a nod to Dylan Rayola being in the second year.
• 23:16
  The schedule sets up incredibly well, Sip.
• 23:18
  But we've we've played this game a lot.
• 23:21
  We have played this game a ton over the last.
• 23:24
  Couple of decades over the last couple of years too.
• 23:26
  And I've been warning you many times I I don't have that same
• 23:30
  kind of warning signal going. I think this team is going to be
• 23:32
  better and keep building as I thought they were going to be a
• 23:34
  bowl team a year ago and they were.
• 23:37
  But what happens if Lucy pulls the football away again this
• 23:41
  year and this team loses those 5050 games?
• 23:44
  They lose to Michigan and they lose at Minnesota and they they
• 23:47
  struggle in November and maybe lose four straight to end the
• 23:51
  season and go 5 if it goes that poorly again.
• 23:54
  What happens with this football program that finally for the
• 23:58
  first time in a long time, it's building and you can actually
• 24:01
  see it? What happens if that doesn't
• 24:03
  happen this year? How much angst is going to be
• 24:05
  out there amongst this fan base? Baton, I mean, just like it
• 24:09
  would be anywhere. But yeah, you know, it's I I
• 24:14
  don't listen. I know what you're getting at.
• 24:16
  And when I say I don't, I almost sound dismissive When I say like
• 24:20
  it would be anywhere. It's not anywhere here.
• 24:23
  It's different. It's a different feel here.
• 24:27
  So that would be a disaster. I and it's a disaster for it
• 24:34
  would be. I don't want to go too far down
• 24:35
  the road because it's a, it's a hypothetical, but it's a
• 24:39
  disaster in part because of the, I don't know, It's just you just
• 24:45
  keep hitting people over the head here, you know, like, like,
• 24:51
  and then it's like people are tired of like guys like me,
• 24:55
  media in Nebraska going on shows and writing, you know, and being
• 25:02
  optimistic. They only want to hear optimism
• 25:04
  really. I.
• 25:05
  Could understand that as a fan sip.
• 25:07
  You got to understand that, right?
• 25:09
  100% And then the other part of it is the bigger picture, and
• 25:13
  that is a lot of people are turned off by a lot of what's
• 25:16
  happened in college sports. So you got this sort of it's,
• 25:21
  you're getting it at both ends, like there's 2, it's a 2 pronged
• 25:25
  problem. You know, it's the, it's the,
• 25:30
  you know, the vortex of the storm is an issue.
• 25:32
  But then there's this other issue, this bigger issue
• 25:35
  outside. So now, and it's possible too,
• 25:39
  there's no guarantee this team isn't so good.
• 25:42
  Then I'm going to come on and say, oh God Dang, I win 8 no
• 25:45
  matter what. I don't know.
• 25:46
  I have a feeling no win 8 or 9. I, I, I have that feeling.
• 25:52
  There's still some concerns, though.
• 25:53
  I mean, there's definitely some concerns.
• 25:55
  I'll get to those concerns in a second.
• 25:57
  In fact, I'll ask you if this is one of them because over the
• 25:59
  years since Nebraska's moved to the Big 10, way back in the day
• 26:02
  now seemingly you've said many times that they don't look like
• 26:07
  a Big 10 team, they don't look like Iowa.
• 26:09
  You've used that line a couple of times, SIP and that pursuant
• 26:12
  to the offensive and defensive line in the trenches, are they
• 26:16
  at that point now with this group?
• 26:19
  Oh, that's a great question. I do remember when Frost was
• 26:21
  here. How well Frost, do you remember
• 26:24
  when Frost came to Iowa and I think it's his first year and
• 26:26
  said they we don't look like that.
• 26:28
  And it was very, very pronounced at that point.
• 26:30
  No, it's not like that anymore. It's still there's still a
• 26:34
  little. I'll start with the offensive
• 26:37
  line. I bet you the offensive line is
• 26:39
  better than Iowa. I don't even know what Iowa's
• 26:42
  thought but but I but I bet it's better they're good up front on
• 26:46
  offense. I always got 2 pre season all
• 26:48
  American sip. Yeah, I'd still take Nebraska
• 26:51
  thing, OK, they're really good up front, but.
• 26:54
  Here we go again. No, no, they are.
• 26:57
  I think they got five NFL guys up front and I'm just parroting
• 27:03
  what a few NFL types have told me, but not first rounders, not
• 27:09
  all Americans, but I think they got like guys they'll be drafted
• 27:13
  4th, 7th round types. Now, as far as the D line goes,
• 27:18
  no, they're not. They're not where they need to
• 27:20
  be. I, I, that's the biggest concern
• 27:24
  and that is, you know, that's not where you want to be
• 27:28
  vulnerable. Now, they, it's a great
• 27:30
  conversation around here because it is a very pervasive
• 27:35
  narrative. And then the push back is pretty
• 27:38
  strong too. They don't want to hear it.
• 27:40
  Of course they don't want to hear it because it affects the
• 27:42
  kids. But the kids have heard it.
• 27:44
  They have a chip on their shoulder.
• 27:46
  It's sort of an unfair conversation.
• 27:48
  And you guys will understand this because you understand
• 27:51
  college football so well. They're just young.
• 27:53
  I mean, they're, you know, a lot of the guys they're asking to
• 27:57
  step into key roles are just they're not, you know, they're
• 28:00
  sophomores. They're they're a junior who
• 28:03
  didn't play much last year, Cam Lenhart.
• 28:07
  But a lot of them are just register freshman sophomores.
• 28:11
  And think about it. I mean, a lot of those guys that
• 28:14
  get good at Iowa, Nebraska, like Ty Robinson wasn't really very
• 28:18
  good. I was fifth year and then forged
• 28:21
  in his sixth. I mean, in two years they got a
• 28:25
  kid named Fiona Davis who's really good.
• 28:26
  You'll you'll, you'll understand what you're seeing.
• 28:29
  But he's a sophomore. He's good now.
• 28:32
  He's going to be really, really good.
• 28:34
  That's two years or a year away. Like Sue, you know, Sue Sue
• 28:40
  wasn't great as a sophomore. You know, then he started
• 28:44
  getting really good kind of late in the sophomore season and then
• 28:49
  and then took off. But they just need time and they
• 28:53
  don't have it. They don't have time.
• 28:55
  They got to be good now. All right, SIP.
• 28:58
  Well, we know come Black Friday, it'll probably come down to a
• 29:01
  field goal and signal. He always does.
• 29:03
  I was had a pretty major advantage there and I'm looking
• 29:06
  at the depth chart and I see a couple of names that I know and
• 29:09
  they don't exactly paint a great picture.
• 29:11
  There's a transfer also in the mix.
• 29:13
  So the kicking game, special teams, overall, it's been a
• 29:16
  differentiator in the Black Friday game.
• 29:18
  Are they confident what they have and it's going to be
• 29:20
  different this year? Lincoln in special teams.
• 29:22
  Long snapper holder issues last year.
• 29:24
  Remember those? Oh, yeah.
• 29:26
  Oh, they cleaned house. I mean, they, they, they change
• 29:30
  the long snap. It'll be a new holder, probably
• 29:32
  a new kicker. It could be John Hole, who was
• 29:34
  kicking in Iowa last year for Nebraska.
• 29:36
  But they brought in a kid, a transfer from Cal via Charlotte.
• 29:42
  And he, they, they, I think his name is Cal Tumannon.
• 29:46
  He, I think he'll be the kicker. Now the key is they got a new
• 29:50
  special teams coach and he's dynamic.
• 29:52
  Mike Eckler, who was at Tennessee.
• 29:55
  Now go back, go look at Tennessee's numbers.
• 29:57
  He was he, he's, he wants to be the best special teams coach in
• 30:02
  the world. And what he did at Tennessee
• 30:05
  start to sort of look like he's moving in that direction and
• 30:09
  he's confident as hell. He loves what he has here.
• 30:12
  I want you know, that practice they went, they did of course a
• 30:15
  field goal kicking live session didn't miss any.
• 30:20
  I think they're probably, I didn't count it probably 9 for
• 30:22
  9. You know, they're pushing it to
• 30:25
  40 plus yards and it I mean 2. Nanan and Hole, the two guys are
• 30:30
  competing. Just looks fabulous.
• 30:33
  And a lot of it, just a lot of it will be Mike Eckler, the new
• 30:36
  special teams coach. He's here to, I mean, he, he's
• 30:42
  obviously this, he's extremely confident.
• 30:45
  And I think Nebraska, the way I size it up, I think they're
• 30:49
  going to be pretty good on offense and I think special
• 30:51
  teams is going to be legitimately good.
• 30:53
  They got a new punter who's a rugby style guy.
• 30:57
  They so they changed their scheme.
• 30:59
  They've never, they've never had a rug scheme in Nebraska.
• 31:03
  Or maybe one time with a kid named Daniel Turney who then got
• 31:06
  hurt. So this is all new, but it looks
• 31:09
  really good. So I don't, I don't know.
• 31:12
  I mean, I, I'm, I am, you can tell I'm pretty optimistic.
• 31:16
  There's there's some halting optimism because of the past and
• 31:19
  because that D line. Sip 3 weeks from tomorrow at off
• 31:23
  to Kansas City Arrowhead Stadium, Cincinnati from the Big
• 31:27
  12, Nebraska and the Big 10 going to be a fun week.
• 31:29
  We will talk to you that week. Sip appreciate if not before
• 31:33
  thanks for what you do for us. You join us every week during
• 31:35
  the season and we look forward to carrying this on this year
• 31:39
  and have a great rest of your day pal. 100%.
• 31:43
  Thanks guys. Good to talk to Stephen Siple on
• 31:45
  three media huskerillustrated.com and I
• 31:47
  showed, yes, I will renew with it.
• 31:49
  Of course I will. SIP he is selling it.
• 31:53
  You know what? He doesn't usually go that hard.
• 31:55
  He doesn't. So is he right or is he just
• 31:58
  joined the pack? He's joined the pack.
• 32:01
  I mean, are they going to be fine?
• 32:03
  Sure. What is that 758 and four?
• 32:06
  Fine. Better offensive line than Iowa,
• 32:08
  OK. I was left, tackles, the concern
• 32:11
  right. The other four spots, though,
• 32:13
  you feel. Good.
• 32:13
  Yeah, you're absolutely, you know.
• 32:16
  That special teams are fixed. I mean, we haven't seen in two
• 32:19
  decades, but they're fixed now. This.
• 32:20
  Is. The year, this is the year that
• 32:22
  they're fixed a wide receiver room that looks like an SCC wide
• 32:25
  receiver room. You know, I love SIP, but the
• 32:28
  hyperbole. But he did stop sure to staying
• 32:30
  there as good as Ohio State. So you got to give them full
• 32:33
  money. So they're only #2 in the
• 32:34
  country. Husker fans, Your media does you
• 32:39
  no favors. I.
• 32:40
  Guess. You you can agree with that.
• 32:42
  That that's true, but but I what I will agree with having spent
• 32:45
  the fall of what was it 94 over there and getting ensconced,
• 32:50
  it's different. And that's in the heyday.
• 32:52
  That's in the heyday. That's all they have.
• 32:55
  Well, they got volleyball. Yeah, they sell up for
• 32:58
  basketball. They do now.
• 33:00
  They do now, but it's, it's, it's Husker football and it is,
• 33:06
  it's something we'll take a time out.
• 33:07
  Holtis, Mitch. Next Daily Chiefs training camp,
• 33:10
  reports Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 33:38
  Hi, Miller Condon, welcome back. Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 33:41
  Trent Condon, Ken Miller, we are with you until 2:00.
• 33:46
  By the sounds of things, we will not be with Mitch Holtis.
• 33:49
  Perhaps we're having some phone issues of all things.
• 33:53
  The show, that radio's calling show can't get any calls.
• 33:57
  So we're trying to obviously repair that on the fly.
• 34:02
  Leo Chanel was supposed to be on the spotlight today when it
• 34:04
  comes to the Chiefs. So hopefully that will work out
• 34:07
  and we'll be able to make this work at some point and get Mitch
• 34:11
  in here as we're navigating our way through this now as we talk
• 34:16
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• 34:19
  Sponsored by our friends at Papa John's here in the state of Iowa
• 34:23
  as well as around the entire state of Iowa.
• 34:27
  Looks like we are getting Mitch and Mitch Holtis.
• 34:31
  We patched that up just in time. Mitch saved by the bell.
• 34:35
  We only have about 6 minutes left.
• 34:36
  So let's get right into it with the Leo Chanel who's in the
• 34:40
  spotlight today. You know, I keep coming back to
• 34:43
  that play he made against the against the Broncos.
• 34:45
  I hate to my Broncos keep coming up in this, but that was an
• 34:49
  unbelievable play. I'd give Dave Taub, I guess it
• 34:51
  had to be his mastermind behind spotting that weakness and
• 34:54
  Chanel splits them and gets a pop in there and the Chiefs win.
• 34:58
  The Chiefs win. He's made more big plays that
• 35:02
  the Chiefs Kingdom in the NFL has forgotten about, but he's
• 35:07
  also he's on the verge of stardom, pass rusher coverage.
• 35:13
  He just got to get on the field and got to get him more snaps.
• 35:16
  But I know this, I talked to him.
• 35:18
  The loss in Super Bowl 59 does not deter him.
• 35:22
  It only motivates him even more. New level, new time, new chance,
• 35:26
  not only for the team but for you personally.
• 35:28
  As you go into this season, how do you view it and your role and
• 35:32
  have an even more of an expanded role?
• 35:35
  You know, I just view it as an opportunity.
• 35:37
  The greatest thing you can learn from is a loss.
• 35:39
  And you know, nothing hurts more than than losing where we did
• 35:42
  and how we did. So we, we all took a good
• 35:45
  reflection in the mirror and you know, we let the pain like sit
• 35:49
  with us for a while. And but now we're past that.
• 35:51
  We're past that, all that moping around and I feel like all,
• 35:54
  every single one of us just has that fire.
• 35:56
  You know, we're not, nobody's sitting here down hanging their
• 35:58
  heads anymore. We're all ready to go.
• 36:00
  You know, personally, I just look back at everything, all the
• 36:03
  wrongs, all the good that I did last year and try to improve on
• 36:06
  that and make not necessarily, you know, going to get a whole
• 36:11
  ton of more opportunities this year.
• 36:12
  But I just have to make the most of the opportunities that I'm
• 36:15
  given, whether I'm on the line, off the ball, dropping into
• 36:18
  coverage. I think I have a lot, a lot more
• 36:21
  big plays in the tank and I just got to prove it.
• 36:25
  Big plays, big plays. Blocked PAT in Super Bowl 58 can
• 36:29
  totally forgotten. Changed the game, kept it one
• 36:32
  possession, Allowed the Chiefs to get to overtime, Forced
• 36:35
  fumble. Christian McCaffrey early in
• 36:37
  that game. People forget about these plays.
• 36:39
  If Chanel gets on the field, he will make more of those big
• 36:41
  plays that people won't forget, but they'll remember.
• 36:44
  When we're talking about that linebacker group and kind of the
• 36:47
  positioning there, I know on the depth chart, at least at
• 36:49
  chiefs.com, it just has them all listed as line Packers.
• 36:52
  What are the responsibilities? We know that Bolton's in the
• 36:54
  middle, but when you look at Tranquil, when you look at
• 36:57
  Chanel, when we're talking about it, just kind of generally those
• 37:00
  two outside guys, what are their responsibilities?
• 37:03
  Yeah, great question. Loaded question.
• 37:05
  It would be ELB, which is everything.
• 37:07
  Linebacker Leo Chanel did something in this camp I don't
• 37:10
  think I've ever seen. He wrapped as an off defensive
• 37:14
  lineman in the OLDL. one-on-one. It's like watching Iowa, Iowa
• 37:18
  State wrestling or you and I, they it's hand, blah, blah,
• 37:21
  blah. one-on-one, one-on-one, it's toughest.
• 37:23
  And then he's done. He runs over across the field to
• 37:26
  go over to the other field to do 7 on 70.
• 37:29
  Makes the most athletic interception that anybody's made
• 37:32
  this year. Among the linebacking core.
• 37:34
  It's everything other than Bolts being the green dot middle guy.
• 37:38
  Everybody else can do everything and they're asked to do
• 37:41
  everything. So yeah, it's.
• 37:43
  Just put an LB by the name, but honestly there's way more to it
• 37:46
  than that. I want to save obviously a
• 37:48
  minute for the Donaldsons and Papa John's and and maybe we
• 37:51
  won't have time to answer this, but and everybody's different.
• 37:53
  I get it. But he were he referenced, you
• 37:55
  know, how he got over the Super Bowl.
• 37:57
  Everybody's different, Mitch, and obviously when you come back
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  for another year, you want to be past it, but you just, there's
• 38:03
  no handbook, right as to how to get past a a disappointment such
• 38:07
  as losing a Super Bowl. Yeah, and getting wiped out.
• 38:10
  But this goes back to my very first podcast I did with Matt
• 38:13
  McMullen after the game. Why is there going to be a
• 38:16
  hangover? We've seen that in the NFL.
• 38:19
  Not with this infrastructure, Ken.
• 38:21
  There's just just a strong current we talked about.
• 38:24
  It's cliche to talk about culture, but it's really here.
• 38:28
  And you have all your coordinators back, you've got
• 38:30
  all your head, got the head coach back, you got all your
• 38:32
  stars back, and the division is better, but the Chiefs are
• 38:35
  better. It's going to be an awesome AFC
• 38:37
  West, but there's no hangover at these guys.
• 38:39
  It's just the opposite. It's like they never won
• 38:41
  anything. But that's part of the culture
• 38:43
  that has been made by Andy Reid. Let's talk about Papa John's,
• 38:47
  the Donaldsons, or what they do in the special that they've got
• 38:50
  offered. 1299, man, this medium cheeseburger pizza is going to
• 38:55
  get you ready for the Iowa State Fair and the football season.
• 38:58
  So just go with 1299 Gretzky with the 9912 Pick a 12.
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  I don't know, don't pick Tom Brady, don't do that one.
• 39:06
  But anyway, 1299 for Papa John's.
• 39:08
  Love those guys and they're awesome for Iowa.
• 39:11
  Indeed they are. Mitch.
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  Appreciate it. And we will speak with you
• 39:13
  tomorrow. Thank you, Mitch Holtis.
• 39:15
  Thanks brother. Yeah, good to talk to you.
• 39:17
  Mitch Holtis, the Daily Chiefs training camp report, The
• 39:20
  doncers, they do a lot philanthropically for the for
• 39:24
  central Iowa, all throughout the state of Iowa.
• 39:26
  Papa John's, you heard it, the 1299 special coming up in our
• 39:31
  number 2. So obviously, did you fix
• 39:32
  something? I did absolutely nothing.
• 39:35
  I just hit the buttons again and it finally popped.
• 39:37
  Up good for. You.
• 39:39
  It was a scary 2 minutes though. Well, keep writing.
• 39:41
  I hope you remember what you did, because we got to.
• 39:43
  Get nothing. Nothing.
• 39:45
  Well, you should have taken some credit and fibbed a little bit.
• 39:48
  I did it all, Mr. Engineer, over here.
• 39:51
  Good stuff, Cappy, off to Chicago, we will go.
• 39:54
  Cubs 20 minutes away from trying to salvage one of these three
• 39:58
  from the Reds. And then we'll talk to Scott
• 40:01
  Reister. He'll be in studio, I believe,
• 40:02
  to talk about the event coming up.
• 40:05
  It is the shot in the dark golf. 38th Annual Hour 2 is next Iowa
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  Sports Radio Network.