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02/25/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 4: Chris, you'll look at this play. What we're trying to
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Speaker 6: That's all.
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Speaker 4: Let's go on.
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Speaker 4: Is that long enough for I want you to be
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Speaker 4: part of a professional It's a great professional.
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Speaker 5: Out Damn playing this ball game like I know you
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Speaker 5: can play it.
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Speaker 1: Drew Olson, mythical legendary figure Schmid.
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Speaker 4: Oh my god, this man's been out all night.
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Speaker 1: Armand sorryt shit, don't get skins were ready. Fox Sports
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Speaker 1: Radio Wisconsin is on the air.
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Speaker 5: God yourself forgive greetings and salutation, smart, good looking insomniacs
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Speaker 5: throughout Wisconsin and beyond. Welcome in t the huddle. Best
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Speaker 5: way to start your day, we think. And that's science Drew,
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Speaker 5: Billy and armand bringing it to you from headquarters. Not
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Speaker 5: playing naked today. Boys there we know drink. I can
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Speaker 5: eat drink with impunity.
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Speaker 4: I did bring in.
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Speaker 3: I did bring in breakfast, and I left it at
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Speaker 3: the desk because I did not want I didn't want
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Speaker 3: to I didn't want to allow it. I brought brought
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Speaker 3: in a little breakfast for I was myself. I was like,
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Speaker 3: the last thing I want to do is be eating
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Speaker 3: in front of Drew.
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Speaker 6: So I have.
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Speaker 3: When I came in here and I saw the beef
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Speaker 3: sticks holstered up right next to the Celias.
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Speaker 4: I knew we were double periled, ready for action.
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Speaker 3: You know, you know what kind of you know, what
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Speaker 3: kind of thoughtfulness this guy, Bill Schmid has. True he
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Speaker 3: was to make a screaming Sicilian yesterday. He was gonna
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Speaker 3: fire one up.
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Speaker 6: I really, you know, Billy, And I went, uh, you
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Speaker 6: have a billion I have a meeting every day. You're
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Speaker 6: not in there for it. It's not not to any reason.
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Speaker 6: Five it's our five forty five urinal meeting. And we're
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Speaker 6: both in there, you know, uh taking the pit stop
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Speaker 6: and he goes, I just can't do it? Can I
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Speaker 6: give it a shake? I just can't do it. I
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Speaker 6: was like, oh, you know what you're you're you're a
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Speaker 6: good man for not doing that.
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Speaker 4: I've thought about it. I've thought about it.
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Speaker 3: I was like it would have been some good content,
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Speaker 3: but it would have just been crueler.
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Speaker 6: And that's what we talk about when we hear like
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Speaker 6: your brotherhood, you know, look up for your brother umbuntu.
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Speaker 4: You know, we can't be that. That was the old
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Speaker 4: Doc Rivers.
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Speaker 6: Phrase that he used with the old uh what the
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Speaker 6: only Celtics or the yeah, I think it was where
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Speaker 6: it's like, you know you can't be as good unless
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Speaker 6: your brother's as good as he is.
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Speaker 4: That's what that's about, right there.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that was an amazing right, come on now,
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Speaker 3: and that's the kind of pressure footing.
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Speaker 4: That's the one, right.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yesterday I had to have some lab work after
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Speaker 5: the show, had to be on a fast and it's
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Speaker 5: tough to do when yeah, you know, usually you have
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Speaker 5: those things at nine in the morning, from nine pm
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Speaker 5: to nine am.
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Speaker 4: That's not a heavy lift. That's an easy one. That's
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Speaker 4: an easier one. I mean I've already done that fast.
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Speaker 4: That's not a heavy lift at all.
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Speaker 5: But then you know, yesterday, because of our hours, I
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Speaker 5: had to cut it off and I had my last
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Speaker 5: meal probably what six o'clock, seven o'clock in your two clock,
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Speaker 5: and then I wheeled around and then it got to
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Speaker 5: be nine thirty. So it was a bit longer than
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Speaker 5: the usual. And the tough thing is no caffeine, you know.
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Speaker 4: Especially the third hour, especially the third hour.
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Speaker 3: I think, you know what the good thing is, we're
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Speaker 3: bringing enough intensity I think in the first to be
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Speaker 3: able to throw a couple of fastballs, maybe not one
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Speaker 3: oh four hitting an apple, but we're bringing some early
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Speaker 3: But late, I think is when it.
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Speaker 5: Starts kind of dying out. But we're back at it.
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Speaker 5: So that made me think though, and I felt okay.
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Speaker 5: After he hit fourteen hours with no drinking, no no food,
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Speaker 5: I'm like, and we had talked yesterday about doing this
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Speaker 5: seventy two hour water fast to see what happens in
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Speaker 5: science to do as a brotherhood.
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Speaker 4: Well, what do you guys think.
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Speaker 5: I mean, the first of the month is always a
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Speaker 5: good time to start stuff.
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Speaker 4: But that's a Sunday. Yeah, it's a Sunday. During a Sunday, I.
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Speaker 3: Can't do it, especially especially that's gonna be our armored
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Speaker 3: last weekend at college basketball.
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Speaker 4: That's a tough thing to be able to do. It's
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Speaker 4: hard for me. It's a regular season college basketball, right,
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Speaker 4: I gotta get yeah, get a chip.
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Speaker 5: Summer's coming up quickly, and you know, kind of been
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Speaker 5: slacking and sloffing off. I was just on the beach
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Speaker 5: for a week and I'm like, all right, I gotta
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Speaker 5: get in better shape as we get closer. So I thought,
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Speaker 5: I told Johnny Vegas, we have another trip scheduled in May,
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Speaker 5: and I'm like, okay, So March first gives us like
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Speaker 5: a two month a two month day window. The intensity
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Speaker 5: starts Sunday.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: The thing is I always would try and you know,
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Speaker 3: manage some of that those winter you know weight you
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Speaker 3: put on, you know afterwards, and then say, okay if
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Speaker 3: some is coming up and you know it's not walking
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Speaker 3: season for me yet.
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Speaker 4: But I did do a mall walk yesterday.
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Speaker 6: Get that started, because you know it's still cold out,
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Speaker 6: so I can't really do.
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Speaker 4: My walk in the stroller. Did you have the stroller? No,
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Speaker 4: I didn't. I didn't.
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Speaker 6: I went right after I left here, and you know,
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Speaker 6: so then that way I could manage that and time
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Speaker 6: it out and uh.
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Speaker 3: You know, do you bring different new balance to put
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Speaker 3: on once you get to the mall?
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Speaker 4: No, I don't. I don't. I don't. That would be
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Speaker 4: change your shoes like you do reloaded just the mall
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Speaker 4: walking brooks to walk.
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Speaker 3: Listen these ones. I don't want to get dirty because
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Speaker 3: these are my coins.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 6: I probably a good idea because I'm pretty sure they
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Speaker 6: haven't like cleaned that floor in years. It's all three. No,
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Speaker 6: it's no fault of their own. There's not much foot
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Speaker 6: traffic there anymore. But it's basically me and the walkers
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Speaker 6: now I did have a question in myself yesterday as
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Speaker 6: I was kind of walking by the empty storefronts. You know,
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Speaker 6: it's like, could I actually start jogging because I think
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Speaker 6: jogging at the mall is a little bit too far.
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Speaker 4: The mall walking is one thing. It's just I don't
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Speaker 4: feel right.
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Speaker 5: About it when there's no crowds anymore. Yeah, I know,
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Speaker 5: but they should embrace it.
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Speaker 4: They should.
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Speaker 3: They should bring the upper level into a track charge people.
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Speaker 3: It's basically a walking track right now.
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Speaker 5: And then Armor's like, that's where Chess King was, Yeah, exactly,
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Speaker 5: that's where Spencer Gifts used to be.
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Speaker 4: Well, they do have that. I was the first star
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Speaker 4: studded belt. The guy at Lid's put the gate down.
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Speaker 6: It was like eleven thirty and it says back at
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Speaker 6: eleven forty five, and I'm like, you know what's that about?
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Speaker 4: But I'm like, you know what he's got in the
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Speaker 4: bathroom and they only have one person. Used to have four, Yeah, more,
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Speaker 4: it's one person.
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Speaker 3: The interesting thing is, uh, wow, that's that's two people
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Speaker 3: in this show in a week. Went to Southardge Mall
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Speaker 3: because we were there this weekend. I like Southroge this weekend,
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Speaker 3: food court was buzzing. The one place that's absolutely buzzing.
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Speaker 3: Now you throw a Rocky ro Cocos just about anywhere,
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Speaker 3: you gonna be hard to not get action there. As
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Speaker 3: I watched somebody walk out with about six pizzas, that
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Speaker 3: was tough to walk by and not indulge on.
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Speaker 4: Let me tell you very much that the gates the
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Speaker 4: walking right right. Yeah, you got it. You're walking a
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Speaker 4: little slice.
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Speaker 5: That's super slice. The rock rococo is so strong. Oh dude,
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Speaker 5: it really hits perfect.
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Speaker 4: It does. It's like in terms of like you know,
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Speaker 4: pizza snobbery and stuff.
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Speaker 5: No, it's not good pizza, but for us, and if
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Speaker 5: you grew up eating it, it's you.
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Speaker 4: Know, it's gonna hit really close to home food.
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Speaker 3: I brought it up yesterday my wife because you've you've
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Speaker 3: now said three times since we saw that guy walking
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Speaker 3: out with six Rocky we.
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Speaker 4: Should get Rocky out. These times. They always did the
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Speaker 4: heart shaped pizza. They did better.
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Speaker 6: Believe it got that once about four or five years ago.
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Speaker 6: We haven't done it every year, but one year for
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Speaker 6: Valentine's I went and got it and it was pretty good.
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Speaker 6: But listen, I was excited.
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Speaker 3: I was excited to see some action in there outside
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Speaker 3: of Arman just walking. But you start running in the mall,
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Speaker 3: I do believe you're gonna get somebody to whip out
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Speaker 3: a four K camera that they've brought, because you know
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Speaker 3: there's people that are there to TikTok, right, you know
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Speaker 3: there's people there to film some content. And if you
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Speaker 3: start running through the mall, I think you will then
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Speaker 3: quickly become guy that comes up on the random video
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Speaker 3: that I find scrolling through fifteen hundred different ones while
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Speaker 3: I'm doing the three Essence.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's totally true.
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Speaker 6: I absolutely would, and maybe you'll actually seat on the
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Speaker 6: internet asking yourself is this AI?
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Speaker 4: Is this real? Because one of the world.
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Speaker 6: I could not wrap their heads around still believing everything
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Speaker 6: in the internet's real, which I love.
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Speaker 5: You know, I can't wrap my head around the food
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Speaker 5: court being bumping because at Brookfield Square there's like I
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Speaker 5: think maybe even one vendor left. Oh god, yeah, and
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Speaker 5: everything's changing the dates. Yeah, there's nothing, well nothing now.
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Speaker 5: Southward still does a good job with that. I gotta say.
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Speaker 5: People are picking up door dashes and stuff like that.
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Speaker 5: You can see the.
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Speaker 3: Workers are down there eating and you know what, it's man,
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Speaker 3: it's an interesting situation.
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Speaker 4: The tough thing is, like you.
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Speaker 3: Go in, you could only go in through the food
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Speaker 3: court because like all the other like anchor stores where
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Speaker 3: you used to walk in and park in your clubs.
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Speaker 4: Patty holding on. Man, Isn't that sad though? Because the.
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Speaker 5: High school kid, that's the first place you got to
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Speaker 5: go and your parents would just drop you off and
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Speaker 5: you got to hang out running the people from other schools.
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Speaker 4: And I was over every time I'm in there. Special.
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Speaker 6: Absolutely, I was overwhelmed by I always overwhelmed by the
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Speaker 6: idea that this used to be the place to be
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Speaker 6: and that we were in these very halls with like
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Speaker 6: you know, your friends were there, you meet up with people,
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Speaker 6: like a lot of stores, obviously a lot of activity.
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Speaker 4: The hub of activity. We would hang out at the mall,
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Speaker 4: you know, I mean I was.
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Speaker 3: I was in high school when Mayfair was the first
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Speaker 3: to I guess one of the times that they put
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Speaker 3: in the curfew limits, yes, and and and.
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Speaker 4: That was that was a little bit of a stunner.
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Speaker 3: We're like, wait a second, what are we gonna do
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Speaker 3: then if all of a sudden they start telling us
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Speaker 3: we can't go to the mall at seven o'clock.
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Speaker 4: Where we hung up, our parents dropped us off. There
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Speaker 4: were things to.
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Speaker 3: Do, and then quickly we realized that we were just
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Speaker 3: going to listen to bad mixed seeds and just cruise
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Speaker 3: up and down HIGHA one hundred, Like you know, south
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Speaker 3: side there.
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Speaker 4: You can go.
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Speaker 6: Hi Mayfair is still popping pretty good, but damn right
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Speaker 6: southward just it's not much the same, but it's a
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Speaker 6: it's still a nice facility if you want to go
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Speaker 6: and do a few. I've also figured out it's a
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Speaker 6: quarter mile from end to end, and you gotta go
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Speaker 6: all the way around, so you know, it's not that
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Speaker 6: bad actually to do a mall walk in and I
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Speaker 6: do it.
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Speaker 3: I think you should start filming some of these, Like
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Speaker 3: I think you're sitting on an absolute gold mine here.
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Speaker 3: If somebody filming Arman interviewing somebody on his mall, little
10:01
Speaker 3: tiny mics, you gotta have a small mic, you gotta
10:03
Speaker 3: have a mini mic.
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Speaker 5: Actually, I think Arman should dedicate himself to being to
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Speaker 5: starting the trend of mal jogging, not malwaking'll jogging. But
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Speaker 5: you're gonna need you're gonna need a certain outfit. There's
10:14
Speaker 5: gonna have to be You're gonna have to wear You're
10:16
Speaker 5: probably gonna have to jog.
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Speaker 4: In the old man New balance.
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Speaker 5: Are the Air monarchs, the Nike Ara monarchs, the old
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Speaker 5: man shoes, the dad shoes. And then and then yeah,
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Speaker 5: and then I think it's imperative that you gotta go
10:31
Speaker 5: black socks.
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Speaker 3: I was gonna say black socks, Drew Press socks, probably
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Speaker 3: a little bit like cuffed up pants that go a
10:38
Speaker 3: little bit over the socks. And and this feels like
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Speaker 3: an absolutely risk. The only branded logo Champion crew neck
10:47
Speaker 3: sweatshirt jock like that feels like you gotta be out
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Speaker 3: there with no logos, just putting in some absolute effort.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm with you on that.
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Speaker 6: I mean, there are definite angles there, and the content angles,
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Speaker 6: Billy or something I really should start thinking about more.
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Speaker 6: I mean, this is the content drive in society we
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Speaker 6: live in now in twenties twenty six, So that's true.
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Speaker 4: There's got to be something out there to do. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: I mean, there might be an anti ens dealer.
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Speaker 5: All right, So what are we going to talk about
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Speaker 5: today besides Armin's mall walking and my finally being able
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Speaker 5: to eat in the morning and beef stick chicken stick Celsius.
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Speaker 4: All the food groups covered today.
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Speaker 5: a respite from the real world. We're are your little oasis.
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Speaker 5: We're a little sandbox for you to play and to
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Speaker 5: start your own. But last evening was the State of
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Speaker 5: the Union address. We don't do politics on our show,
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Speaker 5: but this is usually the day after the State of
11:39
Speaker 5: the Union when we could do the State of the
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Speaker 5: Union in Wisconsin sports, let's address. Let's take a look
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Speaker 5: at the entire landscape. Where are we compared to last year?
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Speaker 5: Where are we? Is it a bright future? Is it
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Speaker 5: a bleak future? Is everything you know seashells balloons? Is
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Speaker 5: it you know, parades and puppies? Or should it? Should
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Speaker 5: we be hunkering down and getting ready for some dark times?
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Speaker 4: We have?
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Speaker 5: You know, the Bucks winning last night? Still what seven
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Speaker 5: out of ten? Now out of ten?
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Speaker 3: And guys, I don't know, like they were down seven
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Speaker 3: later into the fourth quarter.
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Speaker 4: I think it hit one oh.
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Speaker 3: Two or one oh one ninety two and that felt
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Speaker 3: like a moment where a lot we're gonna start feeling
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Speaker 3: like they could pack it in because it just felt
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Speaker 3: like they weren't gonna be able to get stops portus.
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Speaker 3: It's a quick three to like either tie it or
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Speaker 3: trim it within two and then instantly down the floor
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Speaker 3: transition bucket they throw the inbound pass away. It's a
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Speaker 3: quick four point run and you desperately needed a time out,
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Speaker 3: and they didn't cave, and they came out and Ken
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Speaker 3: Porter Junior amongst the other three in the backcourt, the
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Speaker 3: young explosive backcourt drew listen the seven out of ten.
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Speaker 3: You don't want to overreact, you don't want to put
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Speaker 3: too much into it, but dang if the state of
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Speaker 3: the Union was January twenty fifth compared to February twenty fifth,
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Speaker 3: a much different state that we're talking about for Milwaukee
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Speaker 3: Bucks right now.
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Speaker 6: And frankly, they did what no one else was trying
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Speaker 6: to do, is win games late, come back and win.
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Speaker 6: That's the thing that no one else in the league
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Speaker 6: is trying to do. That To keep bringing it up,
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Speaker 6: but that's that's the one thing about it. Yeah, right,
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Speaker 6: how about Kevin.
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Speaker 5: Porter Man, so Man yeah, Porter and rollins Man, and
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Speaker 5: now it's like, okay, so when Giannis comes back, they're
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Speaker 5: going to break up this chemistry of the team that's
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Speaker 5: won seven out of ten games, Like, I don't know,
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Speaker 5: you have the big fellow back, how are we going
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Speaker 5: to mix him in?
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Speaker 6: Well? And Jang, I mean how you know something, I'm
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Speaker 6: pronouncing his name right, Dang Jang Yang?
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Speaker 4: Yeahang.
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Speaker 6: It's like, how how do you manage those minutes in
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Speaker 6: that sense? Or if you get somebody, I mean people
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Speaker 6: talking about Midleton, but you're right, Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Bucks won a game and then now we had goody
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Speaker 5: we have We'll spin through his comments later in the
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Speaker 5: program from the combine. Maybe they were blindsided by the
13:34
Speaker 5: Basacia departure a little bit more like it, Yeah, wow,
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Speaker 5: kind of stunning, but the fact that they were going
13:40
Speaker 5: to roll with him and then they their hand was forced,
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Speaker 5: which might have been a good thing. But yeah, the
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Speaker 5: over landscape, the Brewers starting again in their usual position,
13:49
Speaker 5: coming off a division title, the best record in baseball,
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Speaker 5: and no one believes that they're going to do it again,
13:53
Speaker 5: smoking mirrors.
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Speaker 3: And the only thing people are talking about is the
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Speaker 3: social content department that has fired out too.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely yes, two days.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, they Freelich, Grand Theft Auto and the MISERASKI William
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Speaker 5: Tell with the.
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Speaker 4: Apple on the head, Oh my goodness, it's hilarious.
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Speaker 3: But then you also have one of the younger ball
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Speaker 3: clubs with an emerging star who might end up becoming
14:13
Speaker 3: Captain America. If you're talking about the WBC with Bryce Terrag,
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Speaker 3: he's got a chance to be one of the breakout
14:19
Speaker 3: national stars I think of the tournament right if he
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Speaker 3: performs the way he did at the back end of
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Speaker 3: last year, he's got a chance for people to really
14:27
Speaker 3: understand how good he can be, and not because he's
14:29
Speaker 3: taken headlines like PCA just you know, trying to take
14:32
Speaker 3: a cheap shot at Dodger fans.
14:33
Speaker 4: Listen, brother, your guys do it too.
14:35
Speaker 3: Let's not throw stones out of glasshouses over there on
14:38
Speaker 3: the North side of Chicago. However, Brewer State definitely the cleanest,
14:44
Speaker 3: the one that's felt the best, the one that most
14:46
Speaker 3: people wouldn't feel like they have to discuss too much.
14:49
Speaker 3: But it's also almost like, you know, if we did
14:52
Speaker 3: get political with it, it would almost feel like the housing market,
14:54
Speaker 3: where everybody wants to talk about it, but everyone only
14:56
Speaker 3: talks about it in a potential bad side, right, like
14:59
Speaker 3: everybody knows, Hey, man, I got my house, I'm paying
15:01
Speaker 3: my bills. Like it seems like okay for me at
15:04
Speaker 3: this point, but it's gonna get really really bad on
15:06
Speaker 3: this end. Kind of like Brewers fans listen, it's really
15:08
Speaker 3: really fun. I went to the game last week. They
15:10
Speaker 3: won eight three.
15:11
Speaker 4: We went last night.
15:12
Speaker 3: It was awesome, got a bobblehead. They won four to two.
15:16
Speaker 3: They're in first place. But just wait, talksober, right, it's
15:18
Speaker 3: always just like the just wait till you yet around
15:20
Speaker 3: the corner, just around the river bend is the trouble
15:23
Speaker 3: coming for Brewers fans.
15:25
Speaker 4: That's a good point.
15:26
Speaker 6: But when you do think about, you know, state of
15:28
Speaker 6: the sports Union and where all of our teams are,
15:30
Speaker 6: you do kind of think of it as like, you know,
15:33
Speaker 6: expectations relative to their performance and equity, like a home
15:37
Speaker 6: equity behind who's paying their mortgage. The Brewers are paying
15:40
Speaker 6: their mortgage. Well, they might not be in the biggest
15:42
Speaker 6: mansion in the.
15:43
Speaker 3: World, but they're always ahead, they're always succeeding, they're always
15:46
Speaker 3: you know, they're never in debt. I'd say them in
15:48
Speaker 3: Wisconsin basketball are the two teams that are constantly able
15:52
Speaker 3: to perform at their level and deliver good performances.
15:56
Speaker 5: I agree, But then Wisconsin football, right the storm, the
16:01
Speaker 5: fact that fickle and the regime is still there when
16:04
Speaker 5: thee Yeah, the cry was there, like the pitchforks and
16:09
Speaker 5: the torches were out, and now it's like, oh, maybe
16:12
Speaker 5: they'll be okay. Schedules are way easier and like maybe
16:14
Speaker 5: they'll be okay. Well, we'll see when they take the
16:17
Speaker 5: field against Notre Dame what we're looking at and we
16:18
Speaker 5: don't know what Colton Joseph's gonna do.
16:20
Speaker 4: So look for a nice pass into one fourteen at
16:23
Speaker 4: the Bucks game, I did like that.
16:24
Speaker 5: I like that. Oh nice, that was pretty sweet. It
16:27
Speaker 5: was courtzized. We got a nice pop from the crowd
16:30
Speaker 5: because there was nothing else to cheer about that day.
16:33
Speaker 4: Yes, pass is getting the garbage time basket.
16:35
Speaker 5: So yeah, just any thoughts. So Taylor, your hot takes
16:38
Speaker 5: hot take hump days a wide open thing. You can
16:40
Speaker 5: do whatever you want. You can say. You know, cool
16:42
Speaker 5: ranch to writos are overrated. You know, it's one of
16:45
Speaker 5: those things like change my mind. You're sitting at your stand,
16:47
Speaker 5: plant your flag, making a just make an assertion bolder
16:52
Speaker 5: the better. We used to be sticklers and say no predictions,
16:56
Speaker 5: But if you want it, your hot take to be
16:57
Speaker 5: the Brewers are gonna win ninety two games, all right,
16:59
Speaker 5: we'll take Yeah, listen, where are we to say, no,
17:02
Speaker 5: we're not We're not gonna judge.
17:03
Speaker 4: We're gonna be excited and and listen. It's it's not
17:05
Speaker 4: a hot take.
17:06
Speaker 3: This would be a prediction, maybe a spoiler, maybe just
17:09
Speaker 3: a hopeful one. I mean the hottest take is if
17:11
Speaker 3: the NFL really wants to explode internationally and they really
17:15
Speaker 3: want Germany to like football, make this Lions and Packers
17:18
Speaker 3: that they announced yesterday.
17:19
Speaker 4: The Lions are gonna play over in Germany. I know
17:22
Speaker 4: a lot of Seguels said, wait, don't want to.
17:24
Speaker 3: They can't put a division game overseas well. They got
17:27
Speaker 3: one in the Southern Hemisphere to start out the year.
17:31
Speaker 4: I think they'll figure it out.
17:33
Speaker 3: The NFL doesn't care put the best game over there.
17:36
Speaker 3: Germany's earned it. I think I think they have put
17:38
Speaker 3: they've suffered through. I think you started out their first
17:41
Speaker 3: game was Panthers and Giants. Now let's give them a
17:44
Speaker 3: game that's worth watching. And we know one thing about
17:46
Speaker 3: the NFL. They'll eventually do it. They'll eventually do everything.
17:48
Speaker 3: They'll eventually plan Wednesday on Christmas.
17:51
Speaker 4: We're playing on Wednesday this year. Yeah, they're planning. It
17:53
Speaker 4: doesn't matter, They're gonna do it. Ye off, at some.
17:55
Speaker 3: Point if you want to push back on it, resistant
17:57
Speaker 3: the NFL traditional is like me that don't games on.
18:00
Speaker 6: It doesn't matter. It's gonna happen, So just let it
18:03
Speaker 6: happen at some point.
18:04
Speaker 4: Too bad the way the schedule alliance. I just have this.
18:07
Speaker 4: You know, the Lions. I thought Germany.
18:10
Speaker 5: You know who spent a lot of time over in Germany,
18:12
Speaker 5: lay in the foundation for the NFL last year and stuff.
18:14
Speaker 4: Joe Thomas h.
18:17
Speaker 5: Who I interviewed at the Wisconsin Athletic Beautiful, Yes fame
18:21
Speaker 5: Hall of Fame Beef Joe, Yeah, Hall of Fame Beef.
18:24
Speaker 5: I thought, well, maybe they would send the Browns over there.
18:26
Speaker 5: But when I heard the Lions are going like, well,
18:28
Speaker 5: the Browns don't play the Lions this year, So I thought,
18:31
Speaker 5: but I bet Joe will have a hand in, you know,
18:32
Speaker 5: promoting that game, because you just spent like a year
18:34
Speaker 5: in Germany one hundred percent. So I thought, well that
18:37
Speaker 5: would be natural. But maybe the Packers he's from Wisconsin.
18:40
Speaker 5: Maybe that's the hook you a.
18:41
Speaker 4: Good connection, might be somebody to help you out. I
18:43
Speaker 4: just like it. And if you really want to.
18:47
Speaker 3: Give the American fans and experiences, they roll over there. Listen,
18:52
Speaker 3: Detroit fans. I do believe they're gonna have themselves a
18:55
Speaker 3: good time, even though Michigan feels a little bit different.
18:58
Speaker 3: They're Midwest. They love it, They're hearty, they're hunkered down.
19:01
Speaker 3: You know what, We're going to drink that place on
19:02
Speaker 3: Earth after October Fest. Wake everybody back up, because this
19:06
Speaker 3: game probably ends up in November. That could be a good,
19:09
Speaker 3: good experience for the NFL to be able to see.
19:12
Speaker 5: I might have to plan some international travel because I
19:14
Speaker 5: would love if the Packers were sent to Germany. I'd
19:16
Speaker 5: love to go and then go see the Badgers in
19:18
Speaker 5: the year after in Dublin. In Dublin, Pittsburgh, yes, oh,
19:22
Speaker 5: in August game like end of August, early Sptember in Dublin.
19:27
Speaker 4: Both of those would be incredible. Yeah.
19:28
Speaker 3: In the Dublin trip again, it feels as bucketless as
19:32
Speaker 3: you can get because it's it's the perfect time from
19:35
Speaker 3: what I've been able to see to hit Ireland like
19:38
Speaker 3: that is the time of the year, the best time.
19:41
Speaker 4: There's no bad time to hit Ireland. But I mean
19:43
Speaker 4: it might rain.
19:43
Speaker 5: I actually, when I was there for like a week
19:45
Speaker 5: or ten days or somebody, I had this stretch. It
19:47
Speaker 5: was I think it was in April, and it was
19:49
Speaker 5: an incredible stretch. It was sixty degrees and sunny every day,
19:51
Speaker 5: hardly saw any rain. Everybody's like telling me, oh, yeah,
19:53
Speaker 5: this is unbelievable, like you're seeing an incredible stretch.
19:56
Speaker 4: I'm like, well, you're welcome there.
19:57
Speaker 5: Well, I brought this prodcast over, brought it over from
19:59
Speaker 5: the States, one of our few exports, no tariffs or anything,
20:02
Speaker 5: just to brought it over.
20:03
Speaker 4: Something is true.
20:04
Speaker 3: Then then if it's sunny outside you almost feel bad
20:06
Speaker 3: spend most of your time.
20:07
Speaker 4: In the pub. Well that's true. You go drink some
20:10
Speaker 4: of it outside. Yeah, that would be epic.
20:14
Speaker 5: So all right, hit us with your hot takes, and
20:16
Speaker 5: again the theme of today is the state of the
20:17
Speaker 5: Sports Union, because I think despite the disappointments and the
20:21
Speaker 5: nad kicks and stuff, I still think it's strong. This
20:24
Speaker 5: is a pretty good time to be a Wisconsin sports fan.
20:27
Speaker 5: All things considered, we may be at the end of
20:29
Speaker 5: the Yannis era. Badger football is in a little bit
20:32
Speaker 5: of an inflection point perhaps where they either got to
20:35
Speaker 5: bounce bounce up.
20:36
Speaker 4: Badgers look good.
20:37
Speaker 5: Marquette down year right, Admirals Calder Cup hopes, We hope
20:42
Speaker 5: you know.
20:42
Speaker 4: We're gonna talk to Greeney today. But it's all on
20:45
Speaker 4: the plate.
20:45
Speaker 5: The state of Wisconsin sports is our theme today, So
20:49
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21:04
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21:09
Speaker 5: good Land. The Huddle underway on this Wednesday. The week's
21:13
Speaker 5: flying by Boys back from vacation and we're already at
21:17
Speaker 5: halftime of the week.
21:17
Speaker 4: It's incredible.
21:18
Speaker 5: Halftime of the show comes up in about an hour
21:20
Speaker 5: when Dolph drops in, and.
21:22
Speaker 4: As quick as the show's move.
21:24
Speaker 3: Last week, we were just flying through and Hunter just
21:27
Speaker 3: every single day. Right around the last break, Hunter would
21:30
Speaker 3: just take it deeper. I think, go I can't figure
21:32
Speaker 3: out how fast this show's going here?
21:33
Speaker 4: How fast is going? Man?
21:34
Speaker 5: Time fly three hours of your day between five and eight,
21:37
Speaker 5: when the sun is coming up and the roosters are cockadoodle.
21:40
Speaker 3: Doing and people are jones in for some conversation and
21:43
Speaker 3: some excitement, and a lot of people I think living
21:45
Speaker 3: in some excitement.
21:46
Speaker 4: Drew, I don't know as many people.
21:48
Speaker 3: It's not as crazy for a lot of people to
21:50
Speaker 3: stay up at you know, past nine thirty.
21:52
Speaker 4: We see the result of a basketball and used to.
21:54
Speaker 3: Be but man, your boy fought it last night, and
21:57
Speaker 3: I'll be honest with you, felt like I was gonna
22:00
Speaker 3: pack it in when the Bucks went down seven into
22:02
Speaker 3: that fourth quarter, and I'm sure glad I didn't once
22:05
Speaker 3: I checked the notes and then realized that it was
22:07
Speaker 3: one eleven, one ten right away.
22:09
Speaker 4: Man.
22:09
Speaker 3: That was compelling and a run away late. So that
22:12
Speaker 3: was exciting. And talk about some wind in the sales
22:14
Speaker 3: earlier this morning. I'm throwing the Bucks shirt on as
22:18
Speaker 3: they get ready to take on the Beard tonight.
22:20
Speaker 4: That was some good win in the sales early on
22:22
Speaker 4: this morning. It was a deer fan.
22:23
Speaker 6: It was cool to see him play so well. Cool
22:25
Speaker 6: to see him. The young Bucks had that and that
22:27
Speaker 6: run late put up one of those you know, forty
22:29
Speaker 6: points super quarters. You know, the thing is, it's just
22:33
Speaker 6: it is this gonna be sound, this is gonna sound weird,
22:36
Speaker 6: but it is one thing to appreciate right now if
22:38
Speaker 6: you're a Bucks fan, or you're a basketball fan or
22:40
Speaker 6: a casual in this state because knowing a lot of
22:44
Speaker 6: teams in the Bucks position, I'm just reemphasize or not
22:46
Speaker 6: trying to win. And the Bucks sort of seemed to
22:48
Speaker 6: be like they are right now, and that's at least
22:50
Speaker 6: a better entertainment value right now as a fan.
22:53
Speaker 3: That and uh, in guys, I think this is one
22:55
Speaker 3: that you knew. They had to find Drew. They had
22:58
Speaker 3: to find some young guys that could play and some
23:00
Speaker 3: explosive dudes. And you you asked the question that is
23:03
Speaker 3: the big one. The first question is when is ghanis
23:06
Speaker 3: coming back? Hey?
23:07
Speaker 4: And and when do they plan to have him? Planned?
23:10
Speaker 7: Right?
23:10
Speaker 5: And they went three on three and four on four,
23:12
Speaker 5: So it can't be. It can't be that far away.
23:14
Speaker 4: It can't be.
23:15
Speaker 3: I would have it's got to be somewhere in this
23:17
Speaker 3: nine of ten games at home. You would assume, I know,
23:20
Speaker 3: the team would like him probably to be back earlier
23:22
Speaker 3: so they could get more ticket sales because the state
23:24
Speaker 3: of the Bucks union last night state of the union
23:26
Speaker 3: was it looked a little barren in there for certain
23:28
Speaker 3: amount of times.
23:29
Speaker 5: I saw the establishing shot at the beginning of the
23:31
Speaker 5: broadcast and as fan Dual Sports begins its farewell tour
23:36
Speaker 5: ye of the dying days of the regular season here
23:39
Speaker 5: and into the first round.
23:40
Speaker 4: But yeah, it was like there was nobody walking in.
23:42
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh yeah, there looked like some a lot
23:44
Speaker 3: of empty seats, dresses fans or fans dresses, empty seats. However, listen,
23:48
Speaker 3: that's gonna happen when you are, you know, seven games
23:51
Speaker 3: under five hundred arm and when teams are actively trying
23:54
Speaker 3: to lose and your best players not there. But it
23:56
Speaker 3: comes at the right time where they have a month
23:59
Speaker 3: the six weeks ish to turn these young players drew
24:03
Speaker 3: and see if they can win a little bit within
24:06
Speaker 3: Are they gonna win the NBA Championship?
24:07
Speaker 4: Absolutely not. Could they win around in the playoffs, I
24:10
Speaker 4: don't know.
24:11
Speaker 3: Could they win two of the play in games and
24:13
Speaker 3: get you excited and get Giannis a little bit excited
24:15
Speaker 3: about the pieces.
24:16
Speaker 4: Absolutely, and that's the biggest win. That's the biggest one
24:19
Speaker 4: right there.
24:20
Speaker 5: At the cost of you know, the draft pick and
24:22
Speaker 5: the assets and stuff. Can they well, it's like they
24:25
Speaker 5: beat the Heat last night. Heat is currently in the
24:27
Speaker 5: eighth seed. They'd be one of the teams in their
24:29
Speaker 5: playing games. Yeah, and they beat the Heat and the
24:33
Speaker 5: Heat's like what thirty one to twenty eight something like that.
24:35
Speaker 5: They not a good road record for them, or haven't
24:37
Speaker 5: been playing great lately lately, the big one. Neither have
24:41
Speaker 5: the magic The Hawks, like none of those teams ahead
24:44
Speaker 5: of them are that scary, right, Like they can clips
24:46
Speaker 5: off and get Gianni's back, and it's hard to imagine
24:49
Speaker 5: them going on a much more of a heater than
24:51
Speaker 5: winning a seven out of ten, Like they didn't do
24:53
Speaker 5: that with mat With Giannis, they were you know, fifteen
24:55
Speaker 5: and fifteen and you're.
24:56
Speaker 6: Gaming, you're basically a game and a half out of
24:59
Speaker 6: the tens, which would be you know, playing obviously, but
25:02
Speaker 6: you're even the loss calm with the Hornets because they
25:05
Speaker 6: played three more games and they're all win So in
25:06
Speaker 6: that sense, you'd have your own destiny.
25:08
Speaker 3: But on a tough side, they are in there in
25:10
Speaker 3: this one weird conundrum where the year was mostly going
25:15
Speaker 3: to be a gap year. You knew that you could
25:18
Speaker 3: identify it that it had to be a gap year.
25:19
Speaker 3: Pressure's definitely on the big swing during free agency. Appears
25:24
Speaker 3: to be one of your biggest anchors right now. I mean,
25:26
Speaker 3: like nineteen minutes for Miles Turner last night and he
25:28
Speaker 3: just doesn't look comfortable at all now, doesn't look comfortable
25:31
Speaker 3: at all, and Jericho Simms is playing him off the floor.
25:33
Speaker 3: That's a bad thing overall because you signed him to
25:36
Speaker 3: one hundred million dollar contract. But in a year that's
25:39
Speaker 3: a gap year that you're trying to identify some pieces
25:42
Speaker 3: that you might be able to play with and find
25:44
Speaker 3: some guys that you can run with. It has given
25:47
Speaker 3: more leash where instead of a twenty five million dollar player,
25:51
Speaker 3: we know he's okay, he's taken a load of the shots,
25:54
Speaker 3: you're not able to give him the majority of the
25:57
Speaker 3: load of the shots. And you're having to force some
25:59
Speaker 3: of these young guys. Ryan Rollins, I saw the Ringer
26:01
Speaker 3: posted him as a top one hundred player earlier this
26:03
Speaker 3: year or earlier this week. Kevin Porter Junior, we just
26:06
Speaker 3: mentioned him explosive and Cam Thomas, you knew he could
26:09
Speaker 3: score shit bucket getter, but can he score on the
26:12
Speaker 3: team that's starting to win some games? And this is
26:14
Speaker 3: probably the most winning he's done in a week since
26:16
Speaker 3: he's been in Milwaukee.
26:17
Speaker 4: There's no doubt, no doubt.
26:18
Speaker 5: Eight seven seven seven nine Hot Take Comp Day once again.
26:22
Speaker 5: The theme is the State of the Union, because we
26:24
Speaker 5: had the speech last night and we're doing the State
26:26
Speaker 5: of the Wisconsin Sports Union. Where are we in the general,
26:28
Speaker 5: in the overall landscape in the six o'clock hour, we're
26:31
Speaker 5: gonna hear Brian good comments from Combine, some interesting stuff there,
26:36
Speaker 5: starting to get it.
26:37
Speaker 4: It's so funny how they're they're always so guarded.
26:40
Speaker 5: Packers have traditionally been, and all gms are right this
26:43
Speaker 5: time of year, like, well, we expect everybody back, really
26:46
Speaker 5: like Rashaun Gary's coming back.
26:49
Speaker 4: Expect him to have a really really big year. No
26:53
Speaker 4: guaranteed money on that, sure.
26:55
Speaker 5: Like the cap guys and stuff like now, I'm gonna
26:58
Speaker 5: see he's not gonna roll up and say here are
26:59
Speaker 5: cut Like I get it, I get that, but like,
27:02
Speaker 5: you know, or maybe he could just give us a
27:04
Speaker 5: thing like I know, uh, people get triggered when we
27:07
Speaker 5: bring him up.
27:08
Speaker 4: But Counts was always good about that in his post.
27:10
Speaker 5: Game like a yeah that armand sorry and sucked today
27:12
Speaker 5: gave up seven runs and ending and a third? Like
27:16
Speaker 5: what is he headed for Nashville? Is he gonna be
27:18
Speaker 5: moved out of the rotation? Well, we're gonna have a conversation.
27:21
Speaker 5: We're gonna have a conversation about that, which was conversation yes,
27:23
Speaker 5: but we haven't. We're not ready to tell you yet.
27:25
Speaker 5: Can tell him, Yeah, we need to tell we need
27:27
Speaker 5: to talk about it. We're gonna have a conversation. Goody
27:29
Speaker 5: needs a code like that. Yeah, he's like a code phrase.
27:32
Speaker 4: Like with Counts.
27:33
Speaker 5: It's like, oh, we're gonna have a conversation about that.
27:34
Speaker 5: Oh all right, Well that means tomorrow he'll be on
27:36
Speaker 5: the bus to Nashville.
27:38
Speaker 3: I was gonna say when he when he says, uh, yeah,
27:41
Speaker 3: that's what we're we're planning on, that could be the
27:43
Speaker 3: queue for that guy's gone, because that was kind of
27:46
Speaker 3: the Aaron Jones wording U when it was uh, yeah,
27:49
Speaker 3: we're that's what we're expecting right for ra Shaun Gary.
27:51
Speaker 4: We're expecting that he is really good perform.
27:53
Speaker 5: He did some really good things at the back end
27:55
Speaker 5: of the year without getting any sacks before pressure.
27:58
Speaker 6: The fact that he mentioned back in by like actually
28:01
Speaker 6: literally said back he was saying, like the back end
28:04
Speaker 6: of the year, but he didn't have a sack.
28:05
Speaker 4: And that's what I mean. Now November. I know it's
28:08
Speaker 4: not all about sacks.
28:09
Speaker 6: I get it, you know, Yeah, I've been judging the grade,
28:11
Speaker 6: but it's sure didn't seem like the back end was
28:13
Speaker 6: his time.
28:14
Speaker 5: That would yeah, hit that nail on the hat was
28:17
Speaker 5: is Rashaan Gary? Like as we do the State of
28:19
Speaker 5: the Union, in the State of the Wisconsin Sports Union,
28:22
Speaker 5: where's Rashaan Gary in the in the rankings of most
28:25
Speaker 5: disappointing athletes in the year twenty twenty five into this
28:30
Speaker 5: year because when they got Michael Parson's oh he's gonna feast.
28:33
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he did.
28:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, after a couple of weeks, two months, he's seven
28:38
Speaker 3: and a half sacks and he's one of the top
28:39
Speaker 3: three sack getters in the NFL.
28:42
Speaker 4: And then he got on a milk cart and then
28:43
Speaker 4: doesn't get one.
28:44
Speaker 3: For the next two months, didn't get a tackle for
28:46
Speaker 3: loss in the next two months. There was there were
28:48
Speaker 3: stats where there were like three to four hundred different
28:50
Speaker 3: players that had a tackle for loss in that time
28:52
Speaker 3: from Rashaun Gary wasn't what I was doing.
28:55
Speaker 5: So you can have your not a mount rushmore, but
28:58
Speaker 5: a list of guys who disappointed right, well, honest.
29:00
Speaker 4: His health has been a disappointment. Yeah, you mentioned.
29:03
Speaker 3: The probably at the top of that list, right, I
29:07
Speaker 3: think so depends how local you want to get it.
29:10
Speaker 3: I have to say my guy, Chase Ross hasn't really
29:12
Speaker 3: done what market fans thought he'd do as a senior,
29:15
Speaker 3: you know, leading a team.
29:16
Speaker 6: That team has not been good. He's he's been okay,
29:19
Speaker 6: but not gave a shoulder last night.
29:20
Speaker 4: He did, he did. But the top of that list,
29:24
Speaker 4: I would say Brandon McManus.
29:26
Speaker 3: Brandon McManus was even though there was a great run there,
29:30
Speaker 3: it was just far too inconsistent late and then just
29:32
Speaker 3: absolutely sends it down.
29:33
Speaker 4: The leg would be in the conversation.
29:37
Speaker 3: I think there's some people and this is one that
29:39
Speaker 3: you know on a hot take hump day got kind
29:42
Speaker 3: of flared up because of a Florio Combine conversation. Maybe
29:45
Speaker 3: just a little bit disappointed in Matt Laflour not taking
29:48
Speaker 3: more shots at Ben Johnson, maybe just like a little
29:50
Speaker 3: bit disappointed that we're taking the high road I figured
29:53
Speaker 3: we would, but I would appreciate us taking a little
29:57
Speaker 3: bit of a pot shot at the other side on
29:59
Speaker 3: wanting to time speed on the clip that I find on.
30:01
Speaker 5: We have a friend who's pretty plugged in to the
30:04
Speaker 5: Packers and he told us, like la Flour needs to
30:06
Speaker 5: take that personal and he needs to he needs to
30:11
Speaker 5: relay that to the locker room that he wants to
30:13
Speaker 5: kick Ben Johnson's ass. He needs to make it about
30:16
Speaker 5: and then get the players invested in that that it's
30:19
Speaker 5: nice you can lean on. Well, it's Packers bears, it's
30:22
Speaker 5: the history and like we in Laflours own him, he's
30:25
Speaker 5: had He's been their daddy for a long time. But
30:27
Speaker 5: he needs to lean into that Ben Johnson thing and
30:29
Speaker 5: get his players behind him on it. That's one of
30:31
Speaker 5: the things that stood out to me as we sift
30:34
Speaker 5: through the rubble of the season stuff. And the other
30:36
Speaker 5: thing I wanted to ask you about, Billy is the stuff.
30:38
Speaker 5: Then Nags posted it the other day too about Packers
30:41
Speaker 5: players and not caping up for Jordan Love when he
30:43
Speaker 5: got cheap shot at a couple of times, and that's.
30:46
Speaker 4: Generally on the old line. So where do you come
30:49
Speaker 4: down on that?
30:50
Speaker 5: That is something like they need more nasty or they
30:53
Speaker 5: just need like it was stunning and the headshots he
30:55
Speaker 5: took against the Bears and the Broncos, and it just
30:59
Speaker 5: kind of didn't Regis.
31:00
Speaker 4: And no one kind of was in the neighborhood.
31:02
Speaker 3: Very much true and true as an offensive lineman and
31:05
Speaker 3: our guru, I go to guy, where do you come
31:07
Speaker 3: down on that?
31:07
Speaker 5: What would you say if you're the offensive line coach?
31:10
Speaker 3: I thought the Hufungo one in Denver was one of
31:14
Speaker 3: the more egregious things I've seen without any bit of
31:16
Speaker 3: a repercussion. When love is over onto the sideline, I'm
31:20
Speaker 3: the Packers sideline. I believe like I'm ninety nine percent
31:23
Speaker 3: sure it is on the Packers sideline. And it gets up,
31:27
Speaker 3: shoves his head down to the ground, and there is
31:29
Speaker 3: not not narry one of the eleven guys on the field,
31:33
Speaker 3: let alone the entire sideline blowing a gasket and having
31:37
Speaker 3: some kind having your duds back. I get the Austin
31:40
Speaker 3: Booker one again. I didn't even think it was really
31:42
Speaker 3: that dirty of a hit. I understood you know, I
31:44
Speaker 3: understood the fifteen yard penalty. I didn't really think it
31:47
Speaker 3: was all that militiaus the guy plays aggressive that it's
31:49
Speaker 3: gonna happen. But when it is your player, like the
31:51
Speaker 3: clip of Bradley Boseman who ends up hanging it up
31:53
Speaker 3: yesterday the center for the Chargers, you know, guys like
31:56
Speaker 3: trying to roll and twist justin Herbert's ankle. He goes
31:59
Speaker 3: in here and Fledge lays into his head and takes
32:03
Speaker 3: an absolute shot. I would appreciate one of those. I
32:09
Speaker 3: you want to play above that, right, you'll do it
32:11
Speaker 3: during the whistle and we'll get him back for the
32:13
Speaker 3: next thirty forty plays. There's a moment when you have
32:15
Speaker 3: to make a statement that one would have been one
32:18
Speaker 3: U Funga one was the top of the board for
32:21
Speaker 3: me in the worst and most egregious situations of it.
32:24
Speaker 3: But drew the part that is really frustrating because you
32:27
Speaker 3: mentioned it. As you start respinning through some of the
32:29
Speaker 3: games and start seeing more of it. And NFL Network
32:32
Speaker 3: has played the Wildcard Game fifteen hundred times and my
32:34
Speaker 3: kid loves watching it for some ridiculous reason for a
32:37
Speaker 3: team that won not that game, that game's not very good.
32:41
Speaker 3: The wildcard game is not all that great. But like
32:46
Speaker 3: for a team that likes to bark, and for a
32:49
Speaker 3: group that had a lot of talking after the whistle,
32:53
Speaker 3: I would have thought that would be the moment that
32:55
Speaker 3: it's warranted. And one that had a group have somebody
32:58
Speaker 3: jump onto a pile after the whistle and didn't touch
33:01
Speaker 3: anybody like that would have been the situation for somebody
33:05
Speaker 3: to earn a fifteen yard penalty and maybe we wipe
33:07
Speaker 3: your fine off once we get into the kangaroo court
33:10
Speaker 3: inside of the locker room later on.
33:12
Speaker 5: Is it too simplistic to say, like maybe if Elton
33:15
Speaker 5: had been playing, or like Zach Tom or like you know,
33:19
Speaker 5: can you expect a Belton or a Morgan to go
33:23
Speaker 5: in there and be that guy and cape up and
33:24
Speaker 5: do that or does it take more of a veteran
33:26
Speaker 5: presence does it? Some guys are just predisposed to it, right.
33:29
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think some guys just about it.
33:30
Speaker 5: People are bringing up like sitting in lang would not
33:32
Speaker 5: have let that would.
33:35
Speaker 4: Else equity as starters were they weren't gonna be.
33:37
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was, I could all they were a little
33:39
Speaker 5: bit more their own positions.
33:41
Speaker 4: I can't. I can't be costing my team fifteen right now. Yeah,
33:44
Speaker 4: I get it. I mean, you don't want to hurt
33:45
Speaker 4: your team by a penalty.
33:47
Speaker 3: But if you're protecting the franchise, And if Anthony Belton
33:50
Speaker 3: would have would have grabbed Austin Booker by the neck
33:53
Speaker 3: and walked him back into the end zone and started something,
33:56
Speaker 3: I don't believe that would have been the one that said, hey,
33:58
Speaker 3: you're gonna have taken that one.
34:00
Speaker 4: Yes, I think that's the one. We would have been okay.
34:02
Speaker 5: With the false start like out of a timeout or
34:04
Speaker 5: something like that, you're gonna gonna blow a gasket, but
34:08
Speaker 5: caping up for your quarterback. I don't think they're ever
34:10
Speaker 5: gonna get mad about that. No, And but the rookies
34:13
Speaker 5: do they know that to the first second year guys
34:15
Speaker 5: know that.
34:16
Speaker 6: I'm just saying, it's it's a fine line in your
34:18
Speaker 6: head in the moment to thinking should I react this
34:20
Speaker 6: way or not? Because on the flip side, the Bears
34:22
Speaker 6: are a team that we're reacting emotionally, getting a lot
34:24
Speaker 6: of personal files and it almost cost him.
34:26
Speaker 4: And I can't remember the game was in the second game.
34:28
Speaker 4: It was the second game, Yeah, you know, it should
34:30
Speaker 4: have cost him. It didn't.
34:31
Speaker 6: But I but I also get the function in protecting
34:33
Speaker 6: your guy and then the symbolism of saying, hey, we're here,
34:36
Speaker 6: we're we're here to protect you, and we're letting everybody
34:38
Speaker 6: else know you can't mess with our guys.
34:39
Speaker 4: There's some of it that this just this isn't going
34:41
Speaker 4: to fly DNA other team.
34:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I wonder if and and now we can
34:46
Speaker 3: you know, really go thirty thousand foot view or we
34:48
Speaker 3: can you know, paint with a really really broad brush
34:50
Speaker 3: about you know, twenty twenty six athletes coming through. I
34:53
Speaker 3: think there's some of that that's going to be a
34:55
Speaker 3: question rolling forward of how much of those unwritten rules
34:59
Speaker 3: of teams do you see and how much of those
35:02
Speaker 3: are somewhat lost with the amount of transactional play that
35:05
Speaker 3: there is, in the amount of movement that there is.
35:08
Speaker 3: Like one of the reasons why sitting in langouldn't have
35:10
Speaker 3: let that happen is because they knew Aaron for ten years,
35:13
Speaker 3: right like, And there's there's some of that where these
35:16
Speaker 3: guys know each other for about seven months, and that
35:19
Speaker 3: can be tough. That's where I wouldn't put it too
35:21
Speaker 3: much on one of the rookies. I would wonder where
35:23
Speaker 3: Zach tom was because that the Denver game. He was
35:26
Speaker 3: on the field at that point, but like there's you
35:29
Speaker 3: spin through it. He took far too many shots for
35:32
Speaker 3: nobody to earn themselves.
35:33
Speaker 5: Fifteen Sean Ryan is supposed to be kind of a brawler,
35:36
Speaker 5: right yeah, yeah's you.
35:38
Speaker 4: Know, a lot of people pinpointed you know, that's the game.
35:41
Speaker 4: That's an easy one.
35:42
Speaker 6: That's easy one say, like things turned around during that game.
35:45
Speaker 6: That's the game you've been pointed to say things.
35:48
Speaker 5: We're gonna hear from Goody in a little bit once again,
35:51
Speaker 5: Hot Take hump Day and the theme of Hot Take
35:52
Speaker 5: Humpday today. We don't usually do themes, but since it
35:54
Speaker 5: was the State of the Union last night, we were
35:56
Speaker 5: avoiding politics. State of the Wisconsin Sports Union, any hot
35:59
Speaker 5: takes you have about where we are in the landscape,
36:01
Speaker 5: where the teams are, where they're headed, and just in general,
36:04
Speaker 5: I think generally the state of the Wisconsin Sports Union
36:07
Speaker 5: is pretty strong.
36:08
Speaker 4: Might not be the good old days, Drew, but it
36:12
Speaker 4: ain't bad. It's not horrible.
36:14
Speaker 5: Right now, that's as bleak as you know as people's
36:16
Speaker 5: pre uh, your preset, your your preconditioned to be pissed
36:20
Speaker 5: off and pessimistic. But we're gonna try to try to
36:23
Speaker 5: be even handed about this as we move forward. Today,
36:26
Speaker 5: We're glad you're hanging out with us. It's the huddle,
36:28
Speaker 5: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
36:31
Speaker 7: Why do you ask, well, because I'm gonna use it.
36:32
Speaker 7: I'm gonna ask you a question the way Jerry Seinfeldt went,
36:35
Speaker 7: what is the deal with the Packers?
36:38
Speaker 4: Who likes the pack How much of that.
36:43
Speaker 7: Is leaning fully into your job as Bears coach? But
36:47
Speaker 7: and how much of it is how you truly feel?
36:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the Bears and the Packers they should
36:54
Speaker 2: not like each other. I think it's as simple as that.
36:56
Speaker 2: And uh, I think that's that's gonna make this rivalry,
36:59
Speaker 2: this aim something that that people are gonna watch here
37:03
Speaker 2: going forward.
37:04
Speaker 4: Have you talked to matla Flora at all?
37:05
Speaker 7: Because I feel like he gets confused, like what did
37:08
Speaker 7: I do? Do you have any relationship with him? Have
37:10
Speaker 7: you heard from him he called out and said, what's
37:12
Speaker 7: the deal like anything like that.
37:13
Speaker 4: No, we don't talk. Okay, do you want it that way?
37:15
Speaker 4: I'm good with it. Has he tried to reach out
37:17
Speaker 4: to you? No, I gotta let you go give me.
37:22
Speaker 3: Mike Florio and Ben Johnson the nerd call his ass either?
37:27
Speaker 4: What's that? Why would he call him as? What we've
37:30
Speaker 4: been through the.
37:31
Speaker 5: Hot Old Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin drew Billy and arm
37:33
Speaker 5: and bringing it to you the state of the Sports
37:36
Speaker 5: Union in Wisconsin today hot Te comp Day eight seven
37:38
Speaker 5: seven seven nine seven three. We were talking about our
37:41
Speaker 5: list of the disappointing athletes of the past year. Myles Turner,
37:45
Speaker 5: Brandon McManus, rush On, Gary, Aaron Banks.
37:48
Speaker 4: There are others.
37:51
Speaker 5: Most hated outside figures in Wisconsin sports. Because Ben Johnson's
37:56
Speaker 5: vaulted at the top of that list, he may have
37:58
Speaker 5: passed Craig Counsel. We had that conversation during the season,
38:01
Speaker 5: and like, is Ben Johnson now more hated in Wisconsin
38:03
Speaker 5: than Craig Counsel.
38:04
Speaker 4: I think he is. I think he is the Brewer.
38:07
Speaker 5: The Brewers took care of counts in the Cubs and
38:09
Speaker 5: sent them home.
38:09
Speaker 4: Yeah, they sent them home. They won.
38:11
Speaker 3: Now we'll Craig Counsel be more hated if indeed the
38:15
Speaker 3: Brewers and Cubs play again in October.
38:17
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe for the week.
38:18
Speaker 3: But I do also believe there's the we like our
38:21
Speaker 3: guy more now like that, there's the there's the we're
38:24
Speaker 3: happier here, and we're gonna tell ourselves that we're more
38:26
Speaker 3: happy as well. Because it's also somebody that is kind
38:29
Speaker 3: of is obviously tied to you. It's almost like you're
38:32
Speaker 3: you ended up feeling like you upgraded with their best friend.
38:35
Speaker 4: That is what it is. But the Ben.
38:37
Speaker 3: Johnson one, as bullishly and frankly, as much as I
38:41
Speaker 3: love it from the pettiness standpoint, I want more pettiness
38:45
Speaker 3: in sports.
38:45
Speaker 4: It's my favorite part of sports is.
38:47
Speaker 3: The get back is always one of the sweetest gets
38:50
Speaker 3: in the game. Knowing that you're able to have some
38:54
Speaker 3: retribution on somebody given a little troll, especially in the
38:57
Speaker 3: era of trolling. Drew, I appreciate it. I like that
39:01
Speaker 3: he adds the spice to it. I also appreciate that
39:03
Speaker 3: he's a little bit of a showman and said, hey,
39:05
Speaker 3: it's gonna make the game something that people want to watch,
39:07
Speaker 3: because I bet the mccaskey's when hiring said, this game
39:11
Speaker 3: has been freaking unwatchable for the last five years. Make
39:15
Speaker 3: it spicy, make it mean, and make it hurt for
39:19
Speaker 3: him because we hate that team more than anything.
39:20
Speaker 5: I'm old enough to remember old scrap iron Phil Garner.
39:23
Speaker 5: When I started covering the Brewers, he was the skipper
39:26
Speaker 5: and he he was a brilliant guy on many levels,
39:29
Speaker 5: a savant in some ways in business and in sports,
39:32
Speaker 5: and he at some point he gave me a hardcore.
39:36
Speaker 5: He had this manifesto of how to redo the draft
39:38
Speaker 5: in baseball. And his thing was, let's not give these
39:41
Speaker 5: guys a million bucks for being a first round pick
39:43
Speaker 5: and then they never make it to the big leagues.
39:44
Speaker 5: Let's have a structure where we put it into a trust,
39:47
Speaker 5: and then as they reach each level.
39:48
Speaker 4: They get certainly more. They get the cash.
39:51
Speaker 5: When you get the cash, when you get the double,
39:52
Speaker 5: you get the cash striple, you get the big payment
39:54
Speaker 5: when you hit the big leagues. He's like, he was
39:56
Speaker 5: like incentivized the guys. Don't just give him three million.
39:59
Speaker 5: And then this was in the wake of they had
40:01
Speaker 5: a first round pick, Anton Williamson that didn't work from uh.
40:06
Speaker 4: Arizona State and he run college football. Yeah, but gar
40:09
Speaker 4: he should have sounds like the commissioner of college football
40:12
Speaker 4: that I'm dreaming. One of the things that.
40:13
Speaker 5: Gar got was the Milwaukee Chicago thing, and he leaned
40:18
Speaker 5: into that. He was they was going to fight Ken Harrelson,
40:21
Speaker 5: the White Sox announcer, and they had so many dust ups,
40:25
Speaker 5: but Brewers and White Sox in.
40:26
Speaker 1: Those days, Yeah.
40:30
Speaker 4: By of bad blood between these two bunk clubs.
40:32
Speaker 1: Here they're coming in, the managers are.
40:34
Speaker 4: Going at it.
40:42
Speaker 5: They still leaned into that. He leaned and he knew
40:45
Speaker 5: it was good for business, like, you know, screw those
40:48
Speaker 5: and this wasn't even the Cubs. Bet it was the
40:49
Speaker 5: White Soxeirs didn't play the Cubs, but it was always
40:51
Speaker 5: the White Sox. And he's like he leaned into that
40:53
Speaker 5: because he knew. He just had a sense that that
40:55
Speaker 5: was good for business and it was going to resonate.
40:57
Speaker 5: Now we were the little brother in that situation because
41:00
Speaker 5: the White Sox had all the money and like we
41:02
Speaker 5: were always it was kind of like he was playing
41:05
Speaker 5: into that. Are the complex of this whole region where
41:08
Speaker 5: screw Chicago, Like they come through here and they go
41:10
Speaker 5: up north and they go to Lake Geneva and they
41:12
Speaker 5: take over the you know, dor County and all that,
41:16
Speaker 5: and we go down there and they got to pay
41:18
Speaker 5: tolls and what are they you.
41:19
Speaker 3: Know, eating over priced lasagna that you're trying to sell
41:22
Speaker 3: lean into that.
41:23
Speaker 4: But we've seen it with Bear's cooch.
41:24
Speaker 5: The Packers has been so dominant for thirty years. Every
41:26
Speaker 5: Bears coach comes in, Job one is to beat Green
41:28
Speaker 5: Bay and it plays, and it's Don Johnson's playing the hits. Yes,
41:33
Speaker 5: and I so in some ways, like, ah, he's a prong.
41:35
Speaker 5: Everybody before him did the same thing or a variation
41:38
Speaker 5: of the same riff, right, and it plays. It's good
41:41
Speaker 5: for business. You gotta throw that red meat to the
41:43
Speaker 5: fan base, like, and I think Lafleur could do more
41:47
Speaker 5: of that, Yeah, And we were talking about that and
41:50
Speaker 5: externally as well, to a point obviously, you don't want
41:53
Speaker 5: to inflate the importance of like one game, and one
41:55
Speaker 5: game is not going to define the season and they
41:57
Speaker 5: could lose both games to Chicago and still win the
41:59
Speaker 5: Super Bowl whatever. But he needs to lean into that
42:02
Speaker 5: with his own players and get them fired up. You
42:05
Speaker 5: and I talked to I canmera who it was, I
42:07
Speaker 5: can't remember who it was after the Packers beat the
42:09
Speaker 5: Bears at Lambeau and we mentioned it, Uh, maybe de
42:13
Speaker 5: Monte Whytt And we mentioned, like, how good did it
42:16
Speaker 5: feel to be able to get that one for the
42:17
Speaker 5: head coach, and it was kind of muted. It was
42:19
Speaker 5: kind of a but I also wonder Drew if that
42:21
Speaker 5: was just frankly, it wasn't talked about. And I'm not
42:23
Speaker 5: saying you got to walk in and make it about you,
42:25
Speaker 5: but I've heard many a great legendary tale of Forrest
42:29
Speaker 5: Gregg walking into the locker room again when you were
42:31
Speaker 5: the little brother of that rivalry and saying.
42:33
Speaker 4: You guys start the fight, but you leave Dicka's ass
42:35
Speaker 4: for me.
42:36
Speaker 3: Yes, right, like there should be there could be a
42:38
Speaker 3: little bit of that, and I would really appreciate it
42:42
Speaker 3: from the Packers head man.
42:43
Speaker 4: Gonna need it, gonna need it.
42:44
Speaker 3: This isn't going to be just another game going forward.
42:46
Speaker 3: This is gonna be This is going to be what.
42:49
Speaker 5: It should be now that they've met in the playoffs. Absolutely,
42:52
Speaker 5: it's it's gonna be fun. We're having a blast with
42:55
Speaker 5: you as we move forward, We're gonna get to halftimes,
42:58
Speaker 5: halftime of the week.
42:59
Speaker 4: For us, it's Wednesday, Hempday. That's crazy.
43:01
Speaker 5: Theme of Hot Take comp Day is the State of
43:02
Speaker 5: the Union, State of the Wisconsin Sports Union. So if
43:04
Speaker 5: you have hot takes about where we are, where we're
43:06
Speaker 5: headed what's good, what's bad, what needs improving. Hit us
43:09
Speaker 5: with those and we'll talk to John Greenberg at seven thirty.
43:12
Speaker 5: Big weekend for the admirals coming up, Hawaiian Night and
43:15
Speaker 5: charity game. Big stuff happening on that front. Glad you're
43:18
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