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05/15/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Friday edition of The Huddle. Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin
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Speaker 1: nine to twenty, Milwaukee ten seventy, Medison worldwide, the iHeartRadio app,
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Speaker 1: streaming live, Facebook x and YouTube. Drew Billy Arman bringing
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Speaker 1: it to you on this Friday. Very excited for a weekend.
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Speaker 1: First hours in the book, shout out to Kappacate. I
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Speaker 1: feel more energized from being She's got such good energy.
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Speaker 1: She's living life.
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Speaker 2: Man.
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Speaker 1: That semester abroad thing I never did that. My semester
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Speaker 1: abroad is like I went to Whitewater for the weekend.
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Speaker 1: I met with some friends there. Oh, I saw my
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Speaker 1: buddies up in Oshkosh. Yeah that's a different broad Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but the that was right there.
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Speaker 3: Sorry, but I do I don't feel I do think
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Speaker 3: the culture shock is gonna be tough. Like when you're
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Speaker 3: living that type of life and then you come back
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Speaker 3: home and it's like, all right, gotta go to the
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Speaker 3: grocery store.
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Speaker 4: I mean you, that happens to me if I'm on
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Speaker 4: vacation for a week, right, Like, if I'm somewhere in
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Speaker 4: the South, I'll definitely start saying the sum right, I'll
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Speaker 4: start I'll start getting a little bit of a little draw.
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Speaker 4: I'll try, I'll try a little Brian Kelly talking about
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Speaker 4: my family. Yeah, but you're there for four months and
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Speaker 4: then all of a sudden come back.
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Speaker 1: That's a different life. I spend a week in Costa
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Speaker 1: Rica and my wife's pissed me because I'm trying to
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Speaker 1: speak Spanish a lot, right, Like I'm not. There are
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Speaker 1: certain trips you don't get over it a couple of days,
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Speaker 1: you know, they linger it was hilarius because I've been
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Speaker 1: working on my Spanish for several years, ever since we
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Speaker 1: went to like Sunburn Bowl, my boy Johnny Vegas and
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Speaker 1: I spend time in Mexico and go to try to
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Speaker 1: try to visit Latin American stuff. So I'm trying to
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Speaker 1: work on it right, and I speak total gringo. I
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Speaker 1: speak like I have enough to get by almost anything.
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Speaker 1: I can understand more than I could speak, definitely, And
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Speaker 1: that that got me in some some heat. That's it's
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Speaker 1: just fun. But the people, and it's funny how people
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Speaker 1: appreciate it when you try. Yes, And it was because
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Speaker 1: I just said I speak gringo, and I was, you know,
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Speaker 1: you know, just enough to be dangerous exactly, Uh you know,
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Speaker 1: I said, uh, so I Drew is stupid OD and
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Speaker 1: do City almost I'm dumb in two languages, and they
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Speaker 1: would just laugh like, no, your Spanish is okay, You're okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm like and then like, yeah, you're you're gringo. Try
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Speaker 1: but they love the effort. I ringo, you know you
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Speaker 1: know what gringo, because that's what I got.
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Speaker 4: Barkley said that he was trying to learn Spanish on
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Speaker 4: on inside, and Ernie's like, buddy, you're not good at one.
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Speaker 4: Why would you try as out there? Like let's figure
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Speaker 4: out one your master the one. Let's go and have
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Speaker 4: some fun.
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Speaker 1: It is one of my deeper professional regrets is that
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Speaker 1: the time I spent like twelve years in baseball clubhouses,
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Speaker 1: I didn't learn Spanish to speak to those guys and
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Speaker 1: be able to get to and their native because it
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Speaker 1: would have been you know, they were good and like
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Speaker 1: now they have the teams that are mandated to have translators,
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Speaker 1: but like to be able to talk to those guys
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Speaker 1: like they were all good, but they were you know,
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Speaker 1: they were working hard and had I very sure to
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Speaker 1: speak to them more comfortably, it would help me out.
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Speaker 4: There's also a little bit of like you just mentioned,
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Speaker 4: there's an appreciation that they would greatly have for you trying,
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Speaker 4: and it's one of the coolest things here in Sofia.
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Speaker 4: Do it of then say this is what I asked.
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Speaker 4: Now I'm going to get another answer in here, and
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Speaker 4: the back and forth.
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Speaker 1: It is uh.
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Speaker 4: It has become one of my favorite parts of the game.
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Speaker 4: But it is uh. It is a talent that is
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Speaker 4: not an easy thing to be able to master where
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Speaker 4: you can just all of a sudden pick it up.
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Speaker 1: I had buddies early, and I should have done this,
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Speaker 1: but I had buddies who spent part a month in
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Speaker 1: the off season. They went to Guatemala and did this
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Speaker 1: immersion program and they came back pretty fluent, And it's like,
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Speaker 1: why didn't I do that with those guys?
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Speaker 4: But fun to hang in Guatemala. I was gonna say,
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Speaker 4: It's like you would have had no fun there either offseason.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, I appreciate hearing though different guys in different
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Speaker 4: baseball clubhouses, Like I wonder if there's any guys that
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Speaker 4: are trying to learn anything in the Dodgers clubhouse to
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Speaker 4: be able to speak with Yoshi and show Hey, but
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Speaker 4: shoe Hey speaks a lot better English. Than people would
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Speaker 4: even well or fathom.
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Speaker 1: That cracked me up because my boy Sorilla played with
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Speaker 1: Ichiro and he got to know him. And uh, when
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Speaker 1: Hdeo Nomo came for sure Milwaukee, and that was like
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Speaker 1: a big deal. And Hedeo was like one of the trailblazers, right,
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Speaker 1: and he was at the end of the line. But
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Speaker 1: I walked into the late Phil Garner's office and You're
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Speaker 1: sitting there with Adeo and I thought, Oh, they're having
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Speaker 1: a meeting or something. I'm like, oh, sorry, gar I'll
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Speaker 1: come back later. He goes, no, no, come on in.
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Speaker 1: Like you know, Dale was teaching me Japanese and was late.
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Speaker 1: They were. He was trying to teach him some Japanese phrases.
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Speaker 1: And I looked and had we had to interview him
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Speaker 1: through his translator and stuff. But I suspect that he
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Speaker 1: knew English very well. He just didn't want to him out.
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Speaker 3: Daily.
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Speaker 1: He did the daily thing with the Japanese media following.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he just didn't want to waste time with us.
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Speaker 1: Hacks me in and I just looked and I said, what.
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Speaker 3: Are you doing that for?
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Speaker 1: Hideo speaks English perfectly better than I do. And Hydeo
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Speaker 1: looked at me. He goes, no, no, he shakes his
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Speaker 1: head like no, I don't understand. I'm like, dude, come on,
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Speaker 1: the jig is up. I know you man, it's okay,
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Speaker 1: but I'm on to you.
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Speaker 3: I remember the video where everyone saw Showy talking to
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Speaker 3: Cameron break when they and then it's like, oh, I
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Speaker 3: guess he knows English now.
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Speaker 1: By the way, one of the highlights was when Hideo
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Speaker 1: ran the sausage race. He ran it in Brewers shorts
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Speaker 1: and you could sell you could just tell by his
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Speaker 1: thighs that he was a pro athlete and stuff. But
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Speaker 1: he ran that. He loved the sausages. He loved it. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and he ran it and he was he took it seriously.
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Speaker 1: It was the day he wasn't pitching, so they let
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Speaker 1: him run the sausage rates. He had a flask. He's like,
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Speaker 1: He's like, man, this is crazy out here.
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Speaker 4: Probably we gotta throw mizzing that thing. Could you imagine
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Speaker 4: the chariso?
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Speaker 1: How high that happened would be gravity, because he's so tall,
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Speaker 1: that'd be like twelve feet high.
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Speaker 4: It would be unreal. There's no pick, you'd have to
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Speaker 4: duck and walk through. Oh my god. So while I
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Speaker 4: was going.
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Speaker 1: Working on my bad broken Spanish. Uh, you guys did
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Speaker 1: an interview last week that we're going to spin through
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Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, we had a great conversation.
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Speaker 4: Drew a chance to talk to Kevin Flooric, who's the
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Speaker 4: CEO of Tulurian, which is a behavioral health hospital and
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Speaker 4: a team that is driven to be able to help
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Speaker 4: people change a little bit of the stigma around mental
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Speaker 4: health as well as addiction therapy and their big time
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Speaker 4: in being able to help a lot of people in
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Speaker 4: the Wisconsin area. They're local and they locally have an
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Speaker 4: amazing thing going on, a Trapper's Turn coming up next
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Speaker 4: weekend that you can be a part of. And Kevin
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Speaker 4: had a chance to talk to us, and we had
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Speaker 4: a chance to talk to him about the group that
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Speaker 4: is going to be at the Tellurian Swing four a
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Speaker 4: cure and number four might be the main cause of that.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. This is it's huddle.
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Speaker 4: Billy schmid Armansarian with you and now please to be
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Speaker 4: joined from Tulurian Behavioral Health. Kevin Florik, the CEO, chief
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Speaker 4: executive officer, hanging out with us here as they get
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Speaker 4: ready for the Swing for Recovery Celebrity Golf Tournament, twenty
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Speaker 4: ninth annual Toilurian Celebrity Golf Tournament and Kevin appreciate the
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Speaker 4: time here today to be able to discuss this now
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Speaker 4: as we have seen for the better part of three
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Speaker 4: decades now the Telurian Celebrity Golf Tournament bringing so many
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Speaker 4: people together and this year no different. Man, you got
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Speaker 4: to be working year like for years in advance to
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Speaker 4: be getting a lineup that features Brett Farb and Frank
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Speaker 4: Hellendo at the top of the marquis. Congratulations on that
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Speaker 4: and thanks for joining us.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you. It's hard to believe we've been doing
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Speaker 5: this for twenty nine years. And when we started it
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Speaker 5: twenty nine years ago, it was it was more of
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Speaker 5: a way to way to raise awareness. And then over
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Speaker 5: the years is the need for mental health and addiction
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Speaker 5: and homeless places for people to live. The need kept
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Speaker 5: getting greater, So this event became more than just about
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Speaker 5: reducing stigma. It became a lifeline for people who so
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Speaker 5: desperately need mental health and addiction care. So we're excited
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Speaker 5: and it's going to be an awesome day.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a great one.
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Speaker 4: We'll talk a lot more about the event in general
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Speaker 4: in just one second. But Kevin, you mentioned it. The
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Speaker 4: demands have evolved for needs and mental health, and obviously
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Speaker 4: when Telurian started way back when with folks coming out
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Speaker 4: of Vietnam and needing, you mentioned a lifeline. I think
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Speaker 4: that's the perfect way of explaining it is. There feels
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Speaker 4: like there's ebbs and flows. It's always changing, the stigma around. However,
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Speaker 4: as years go by, the needs for folks mental health changes,
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Speaker 4: it evolves, the world evolves, and it feels like the
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Speaker 4: trials and tribulations that people are going through personally and
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Speaker 4: a lot of times behind closed doors, tend to evolve.
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Speaker 1: How much has that been to.
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Speaker 4: Lurian's goal of being able to stay at the forefront
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Speaker 4: because demands in this space continually or changing.
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Speaker 5: Yes, the demands have changed, whether it's the opioid epidemic,
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Speaker 5: the what kids are facing nowadays with you know, cyber bullying,
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Speaker 5: it's depression, anxiety, suicide, drug addiction. It continues to get
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Speaker 5: worse and worse and worse. The need gets greater, and
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Speaker 5: unfortunately government funding and insurance funding does not keep up
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Speaker 5: with the expenses. So you can do one of two
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Speaker 5: things as a provider like Tailarian. You can cut services
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Speaker 5: or you can raise funds from the community, and that's
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Speaker 5: what we do because we don't want to not stop
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Speaker 5: helping people. We want to continue to help those in need.
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Speaker 5: And truthfully, we need the help of folks in our community,
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Speaker 5: and so we're always fighting for those in need.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think it's interesting because I think we're more
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Speaker 3: aware of our mental health as a society than we've
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Speaker 3: ever been in human history, which I think is a
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Speaker 3: good thing, Yes, sir, but that also creates more need.
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Speaker 5: Right yep, big time need and it just and I
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Speaker 5: can't tell you how many people. Telarian serves over six
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Speaker 5: thousand people a year from in Wisconsin alone and people
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Speaker 5: from the United States.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 5: We offer inpatient, outpatient day treatment. We have psych services,
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Speaker 5: we have psychiatrists, we have addictionologists, we have providers who
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Speaker 5: prescribe meds, so we treat a person both with mental
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Speaker 5: health and addiction simultaneously, which really helps our outcomes and
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Speaker 5: something we're really proud of.
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Speaker 4: Well and Kevin, as you mentioned it, being proud of it,
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Speaker 4: obviously very proud of the work you do because it's
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Speaker 4: tremendous stuff to be able to help people when they
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Speaker 4: might not necessarily know the easiest way to help themselves. Right.
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Speaker 4: I feel like that when you talk about changing the stigma,
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Speaker 4: it's feeling comfortable and confident and open, being honest and
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Speaker 4: being okay with letting people know that might not be ok.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's okay to not be okay. And really,
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Speaker 5: you know, with events like this that we're going to
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Speaker 5: be talking about here in a little bit, it's reducing
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Speaker 5: the stigma because people are ashamed. People think addiction and
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Speaker 5: mental illness is a choice.
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Speaker 1: It's not.
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Speaker 5: It's a medical condition like diabetes, cancer, you name it.
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Speaker 5: It's something that is not a choice. It's something that
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Speaker 5: is a medical condition. And fortunately, when you have a
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Speaker 5: good provider and good counseling, there's hope and help and
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Speaker 5: healing at places like Tillarian that can make a difference.
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Speaker 5: But you got to rise above the fear and the stigma.
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Speaker 4: To Hilarian CEO Kevin Floric joining us here before the
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Speaker 4: Swing for Recovery Golf outing featuring Brett far from Frank kellyon.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, what a star stud A list of celebrities you
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Speaker 3: have and then a great thing about having Frank Collendo's
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Speaker 3: you have multiple celebrities because he can.
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Speaker 1: Imperson any of them, right. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: He did an event for us over The Winner, and
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Speaker 5: he reminded me of what I would have thought Robin
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Speaker 5: Williams would have been, Like he just goes and he
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Speaker 5: just ran with it and he was awesome. And we've
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Speaker 5: talked about this is the twenty ninth year and having
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Speaker 5: this is Brett Fire's fourth year coming back, and it's
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Speaker 5: a real gift because he's the iron Man of football
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Speaker 5: and most of us grew up idolizing him and what
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Speaker 5: he did on the field, but he made choices and
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Speaker 5: he had conditions off the field, and he talks about
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Speaker 5: them openly and he says, hey, I'm he dealt with depression,
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Speaker 5: a major opioid addiction that he talked about and he
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Speaker 5: shares it and it really helps folks when you see
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Speaker 5: someone like him saying, hey, I have a addiction issue.
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Speaker 5: Don Makowski comes and talks about he's been addicted to
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Speaker 5: opioids and pain meds. And here's a guy that you know,
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Speaker 5: some of us older folks watch play football and he
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Speaker 5: has issues and his mental health issues and that helps
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Speaker 5: reduce the stigma. And this year we've one of the
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Speaker 5: offensive lineman. Earl Dotson is a very huge person and
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Speaker 5: a very large African American man, and he lost his
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Speaker 5: son to suicide, and he's going to talk this year
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Speaker 5: and share his story about losing a loved one to suicide,
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Speaker 5: but also talk about stigma for the African American community
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Speaker 5: and males, how it's hard for men to be a
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Speaker 5: quote unquote man, especially in the African American community. So
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Speaker 5: we're really excited about that and having all these really
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Speaker 5: famous people help us raise funds and help us reduce stigma.
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Speaker 4: Well.
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Speaker 3: And it's amazing to hear these stories, right because as
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Speaker 3: we know, you know, we treat sometimes professional football players, packers,
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Speaker 3: NFL stars is larger than life figures, and you forget
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Speaker 3: that these these iron men, these gladiators are also.
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Speaker 1: People, right that have their own issues.
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Speaker 3: So it's so powerful to hear the stories from these
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Speaker 3: guys where a lot of times, you know, you said,
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Speaker 3: the ethos of the football and the ethos of the
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Speaker 3: NFL sometimes is bottling or suppressing some of that. And
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Speaker 3: to hear these guys do the opposite, which is share
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Speaker 3: that be vulnerable their stories, it's pretty incredible.
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Speaker 1: It has a huge impact.
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Speaker 5: Mental health and addiction does not discriminate whether you're an
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Speaker 5: NFL player, whether you're religious, whether you're white, you're purple, whatever.
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Speaker 5: It affects every family and every person, and it doesn't
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Speaker 5: matter who you are, how much or how little you make.
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Speaker 5: And that's what again, it's really cool when you see
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Speaker 5: these kind of iron men being vulnerable and saying, hey,
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Speaker 5: I have struggled to and it makes a difference. And
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Speaker 5: on top of it, we have a really good time.
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Speaker 5: It's not all about just mental illness and addiction and homelessness,
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Speaker 5: and we share some stories and reduce some stigma, but
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Speaker 5: then we have a lot of fun. So why not
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Speaker 5: have fund raising money and for a good cause. And again,
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Speaker 5: having Frank Kelly under there is going to be worth
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Speaker 5: the price of a mission. If you don't know who
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Speaker 5: he is, go YouTube or google him, because he's going
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Speaker 5: he's going to be interviewing Brett favre As, John Madden,
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Speaker 5: John Gruden, Stephen A. Smith, Morgan Freeman, you know who knows.
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Speaker 5: God knows where he's going to take this. And then
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Speaker 5: he's going to interview Leroy Butler in the Grave, you,
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Speaker 5: Gilbert Brown and the Magic Man, and it's going to
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Speaker 5: be a really cool event after the event, So I
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Speaker 5: really encourage folks to sign up, and because it'll be
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Speaker 5: it'll be epic.
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Speaker 4: Arm And that sounds like it's almost going to be
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Speaker 4: Coach Madden, Coach Gruden taking us through the ninety six
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Speaker 4: Super Bowl documentary. Again, I'm excited the stories that you're
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Speaker 4: gonna hear that.
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Speaker 1: VP. It doesn't get any better for that from Packers
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Speaker 1: fans for Packers fans.
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Speaker 3: And you know, when you're interviewing guys like Leroy and Gilbert,
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Speaker 3: that's a showing to itself.
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Speaker 5: As you know the Grave he is very funny, funny,
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Speaker 5: he's funny himself. Yeah, he's a really good person by
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Speaker 5: the way.
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Speaker 4: Well and you get you get him and le Roy
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Speaker 4: going don't end up talking about the old Michael Jordan
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Speaker 4: cologne because that'll get that'll get Leroy Verry upset. Where
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Speaker 4: all of a sudden it started, uh going to over
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Speaker 4: in Gilbert's locker, Kevin, as you mentioned, it's worth the
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Speaker 4: price of admission. This is like the weird part of
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Speaker 4: the conversation where I have to make sure that an
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Speaker 4: event with all of these celebrities. Brett Favre Frank Hellando
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Speaker 4: interviewed by the host of folks that you just mentioned
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Speaker 4: to us. There's still spots available. People can still be
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Speaker 4: doing this and get a part be a part of
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Speaker 4: this coming up at Trappers Turn on May twentieth. All
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Speaker 4: they got to do is go to trrreion dot org
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Speaker 4: slash golf. There are still opportunities for people to be
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Speaker 4: there on the twentieth.
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Speaker 5: Yes, I'm surprised to say that because I wasn't expecting
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Speaker 5: to say it. With the lineup we have this year
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Speaker 5: that we have not sold out yet, we still have
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Speaker 5: a couple spots. I would encourage folks to come eighteen
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Speaker 5: Holes at Trappers Turn breakfast, lunch, dinner, and then the
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Speaker 5: show afterwards. Like I said, it'll be a private event,
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Speaker 5: so it's not open to the public, and I think
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Speaker 5: you'll really have a great day and raise money for
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Speaker 5: a great cause for people who desperately need Torrian services.
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Speaker 4: There's a number of different types of sponsorships as well.
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Speaker 4: The Hole Whole in one sponsorship includes an autograph, gift
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Speaker 4: and photo opportunity with Brett Favre after golf, and obviously
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Speaker 4: all of the moments that Kevin just mentioned there, the
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Speaker 4: stories and the camaraderie and the hope and the excite
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Speaker 4: around being able to provide help for people in a
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Speaker 4: time where they need it the most. You mentioned it
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Speaker 4: in there that we'll have a lot of fun, Kevin,
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Speaker 4: I say this as well when whenever talking about fundraising,
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Speaker 4: it feels good to get back, Like I always feel
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Speaker 4: like that's a tough thing for people to know when
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Speaker 4: you're going to an event like this, It's okay to
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Speaker 4: feel good because you're going to be helping enough people
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Speaker 4: on the back end.
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Speaker 5: Let's have some fun, right. Doesn't have to be depressing
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Speaker 5: or a long boring day. This is a this is
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Speaker 5: a great event. And if you are a Hole in
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Speaker 5: one sponsor, you get to spend some time alone with
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Speaker 5: Brett Fire and get a picture with your foursome. And
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Speaker 5: what's really cool this year is everybody who golfs in
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Speaker 5: this tournament is going to get an authentic game jersey
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Speaker 5: of Brett Fire. So it's one hundred and fifty dollars
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Speaker 5: game jersey. And if you are a Hole in one sponsor,
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Speaker 5: you can meet Brett and he'll will sign your jersey
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Speaker 5: for you. So you know that alone is worth the
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Speaker 5: price of admission. It's like what a day that's an experience,
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Speaker 1: What a day one?
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Speaker 3: An experience, an opportunity, and you get to play golf
17:01
Speaker 3: with you and your buddies. So it sounds like it's
17:02
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17:04
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17:06
Speaker 3: be a great day on May twentieth.
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Speaker 5: I just saw this morning they said the extended forecast
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Speaker 5: is dry for me. So let's hopefully let's root for
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Speaker 1: Those are the three let's have the three most important
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Speaker 1: thank you so much for some time.
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17:24
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Speaker 1: Happy to be joined by our halftime correspondent Scott Dolphin,
17:46
Speaker 1: who was watching like the rest of us were, to
17:50
Speaker 1: find out when the Packers and Bears are going to
17:51
Speaker 1: meet up. And as it turns out, it's just in
17:54
Speaker 1: time that game at Lambeau, just in time for Micah
17:57
Speaker 1: Parsons and Tucker Craft and all the interview. Yeah back
17:59
Speaker 1: at strength sure week five, right, they should be back
18:02
Speaker 1: by this fole. Yes, right off the pup list, and
18:04
Speaker 1: your first game back could be that three twenty five
18:07
Speaker 1: start at Lambeau.
18:08
Speaker 4: Yeah, and with a full ramp up and opportunity to
18:12
Speaker 4: just have the Iceman and his and his augitians and
18:14
Speaker 4: their crosshairs.
18:15
Speaker 1: I'm excited. Did you see, Like Micah Parsons tweeted and
18:17
Speaker 1: his brother tweeted, Iceman was everything we was asking for.
18:22
Speaker 1: So they've basically circled that. That kind of tells you
18:24
Speaker 1: that he's going to be on the puff. I was
18:25
Speaker 1: gonna say, yeah, yeah, that would die it up. That's
18:27
Speaker 1: a game you don't want to lose again. I mean
18:29
Speaker 1: you've lost the three of the last four. Yeah, he
18:31
Speaker 1: believe it. He was good against the Bears last year.
18:34
Speaker 6: I don't think he had a sack, but he chased
18:36
Speaker 6: Caleb a lot at that game at Lambo quite Oh yeah.
18:38
Speaker 4: There was the first the first series. I remember he
18:41
Speaker 4: ran him like all the way to the sideline. And
18:44
Speaker 4: there was a good little bit moment of them laughing
18:46
Speaker 4: back and forth at each other. That's exactly what your
18:49
Speaker 4: so many times.
18:50
Speaker 1: If Parsons misses the first four, if he opens on
18:52
Speaker 1: the pup, which is seems plausible, if not likely, I
18:54
Speaker 1: would say likely, his first two games would be against
18:56
Speaker 1: the Bears and the Cowboys at Lambeau. Good welcome back, Yeah, exactly.
19:02
Speaker 4: You want to talk about having an uncaged and that
19:06
Speaker 4: is a perfect thing to circle, because that's got to
19:08
Speaker 4: be a tough thing to identify.
19:09
Speaker 1: Hey, what game in the middle of the season.
19:11
Speaker 4: Am I hoping to be able to And obviously you
19:14
Speaker 4: want to be ready for week one, but for those
19:15
Speaker 4: two to be the uh, that might be a nice one.
19:18
Speaker 1: Bee if you're not ready for week one, either one.
19:20
Speaker 6: Of those games for him to be back and would
19:22
Speaker 6: be super bonus for the Packer fans. And Goody said
19:24
Speaker 6: that he expects both of those guys back first what
19:28
Speaker 6: twenty five percent of the season something like that, they'll.
19:30
Speaker 1: Be they'll be ready and somewhat close. I think.
19:31
Speaker 4: The other the interesting part is also you know you're
19:34
Speaker 4: you're always trying to hold everybody back as much as possible.
19:37
Speaker 4: You just don't want to hear anything about like Molike
19:39
Speaker 4: Neighbors with the giants where they had to go back
19:41
Speaker 4: in and clean it up. It's so wild how good
19:43
Speaker 4: these surgeries have become on acl reconstruction, where you're you
19:47
Speaker 4: identify and can remember the individuals that don't get back
19:51
Speaker 4: instead of the ones that do.
19:52
Speaker 6: Remember the day when if you got hurt late in
19:54
Speaker 6: any season, they'd always say, well, he's likely done for
19:57
Speaker 6: all of next year as well.
19:58
Speaker 1: That was just how it was. Not an more guys
20:00
Speaker 1: are coming back from Achilles. Now, that's crazy. Achilles one
20:04
Speaker 1: is one of the craziest things ever.
20:05
Speaker 3: And in baseball, Tommy John is basically maintenance for pitchers now,
20:08
Speaker 3: I mean, that's what it is.
20:09
Speaker 1: In a lot of ways, they're fixed. Yeah, that's right.
20:12
Speaker 1: So Packers three of four on the road to open
20:15
Speaker 1: with a Thursday night home opener in week three, so
20:18
Speaker 1: that's week two and a half.
20:19
Speaker 4: I guess you could say, and I think this is
20:21
Speaker 4: I can't, I can't be for sure on it. I
20:23
Speaker 4: think it's the first time that I can remember at
20:25
Speaker 4: least them have two Thursday night games. They've played Thursday
20:28
Speaker 4: and then Thursday Thanksgiving and then then the Thursday, right after.
20:31
Speaker 6: Six primetime games, five of them at home, and Milwaukee
20:34
Speaker 6: season ticket holders are happy because they're getting two day
20:37
Speaker 6: games against the Vikings and Bears.
20:38
Speaker 4: You're dang right, rare moment for a rare goal package thriving.
20:43
Speaker 4: You don't want to be driving back at no. That's
20:45
Speaker 4: the biggest block at night.
20:46
Speaker 3: The biggest Thinker Gold package is that they want, and
20:49
Speaker 3: I'd say most Packer fans coming across the state more
20:52
Speaker 3: and more lately we've heard, well, we want the noon
20:53
Speaker 3: games on Sunday because it's just easier, but hey, we're
20:56
Speaker 3: getting a lot of night games.
20:57
Speaker 1: Now, so billion Billy and I want empty three for us. Yeah, yea,
21:02
Speaker 1: but media starts with cruise. That thing like nobody's business.
21:05
Speaker 4: And the interesting one, uh for the for the gold
21:08
Speaker 4: package is like when I was growing up, that would
21:11
Speaker 4: have been the least I look at five primetime games,
21:13
Speaker 4: we don't have one of them because that was a
21:15
Speaker 4: baked in day off of school that you were potentially
21:18
Speaker 4: having the one after that was going to be an excuse.
21:21
Speaker 4: And then my mom was gonna have to hear about
21:22
Speaker 4: it in the in the receptionist office because everybody would
21:25
Speaker 4: yell at the secretary for keeping her kid. I've been
21:27
Speaker 4: from the school after the after the Packers game, inside job.
21:31
Speaker 1: So what school is more? School is as important vacation
21:35
Speaker 1: workers here? What's set an example?
21:37
Speaker 4: Right?
21:37
Speaker 1: That's sorry, we have standards. We need to go get
21:39
Speaker 1: a win.
21:40
Speaker 4: But it is it is loaded up with the idea
21:43
Speaker 4: of the NFL wanting lambeau Field at night and the streamers,
21:46
Speaker 4: I think also wanting it for the content, which is
21:49
Speaker 4: maybe the more important one here.
21:50
Speaker 1: All right, So Dolph, we we were talking about the
21:52
Speaker 1: home game, the October eleventh game Packers Bears, likely to
21:56
Speaker 1: be I love that three twenty five window for that game,
21:58
Speaker 1: likely to be the return of Mike Parsons. But where
22:01
Speaker 1: do you stand on the Christmas Day noon kickoff? Not
22:04
Speaker 1: a fan? I don't know my team playing on Christmas period.
22:08
Speaker 6: I'll never forget the year the Bears played the Packers
22:11
Speaker 6: at night, nice snowfall Christmas night lambeau Field.
22:14
Speaker 1: But I was away from my family the whole.
22:17
Speaker 6: In those days, FM six we hosted bus trips to
22:19
Speaker 6: every Packer a game. Somebody had to go along. Well,
22:22
Speaker 6: I signed up before the seas schedule come out. Yeah,
22:24
Speaker 6: I'll take the Bear game well, it was Christmas, so
22:26
Speaker 6: you know, the kids open their presence and I was
22:28
Speaker 6: gone the rest of the day.
22:29
Speaker 1: That did not go over well. And that's rough, man,
22:32
Speaker 1: that's it is. It is. So I'm just not a
22:34
Speaker 1: fan of my team playing on Christmas, period, And are
22:37
Speaker 1: you a fan of other teams playing on Christmas?
22:40
Speaker 7: That's what I like.
22:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I love. We're thinking about kids are worldview, Billy.
22:46
Speaker 1: It can be a day where I don't have to
22:47
Speaker 1: watch football. The NFL doesn't have to intrude on every
22:50
Speaker 1: fact that I feel. I mean, they had us glued
22:54
Speaker 1: to the set in mid May because they did a
22:57
Speaker 1: better job. I actually I like it better when guys
22:59
Speaker 1: are tweeting the draft picks, three picks before the commissioner
23:02
Speaker 1: reads them. I like it better when we know the
23:04
Speaker 1: whole schedule. I don't even have to watch the seven
23:05
Speaker 1: o'clock show, but last night they had the clamps.
23:07
Speaker 6: On somehow, Yeah they did, you know, as far as
23:10
Speaker 6: holidays go, now I'm intrigued. I like the fact the
23:12
Speaker 6: Packers are playing Thanksgiving Eve. That'll be a great night
23:15
Speaker 6: for football. And that whole five five was it five
23:20
Speaker 6: games in three days? Something like that that's going to
23:23
Speaker 6: be entertaining Christmas Day, though I rarely even if the
23:26
Speaker 6: Bucks were playing, rarely ever turned We don't turn the
23:28
Speaker 6: TV on on Christmas Day.
23:29
Speaker 1: Well that's the thing. Family's over and you're visiting, and
23:32
Speaker 1: oh yeah, see, that's what you gotta do. You gotta
23:34
Speaker 1: enjoy it with the family.
23:35
Speaker 4: That's even better, families coming together watching ball, watching football,
23:39
Speaker 4: watching the Packers beat the Brakes off of the Bears.
23:42
Speaker 1: That's a beautiful it's the Christmas tradition.
23:44
Speaker 3: Now maybe I get your point. It's like, Okay, we've
23:46
Speaker 3: had the NBA on Christmas. People will just accept that
23:49
Speaker 3: as tradition.
23:50
Speaker 1: You know we have.
23:51
Speaker 3: We had the Andy Williams Christmas Show, right, Drew, I
23:53
Speaker 3: mean those are our Christmas traditions.
23:55
Speaker 1: Well, maybe this is also a Christmas story. Is bad?
23:58
Speaker 4: Like the movie is the entire so you move. I
24:04
Speaker 4: don need to see him walk down in the in
24:06
Speaker 4: the bunny outfit again.
24:07
Speaker 1: So there's better Christmas movies. I'm not saying, oh there is.
24:10
Speaker 4: Yeah, you watch him for the whole month leading up
24:12
Speaker 4: then Christmas is here. It is a business trip, it's
24:15
Speaker 4: getting ready. It's a Newton game. So you can still
24:17
Speaker 4: do festive.
24:18
Speaker 3: You can still roast chestnuts on the open fire after
24:20
Speaker 3: the game right at night, and you can still go
24:23
Speaker 3: caroling around the block.
24:24
Speaker 4: But who's doing that on Christmas Day night? You know,
24:28
Speaker 4: by one o'clock mostly everything's kind of done. You're just
24:30
Speaker 4: waiting for the ham to have to finish up and
24:33
Speaker 4: listening to as many of Antsu's stories as there are.
24:35
Speaker 1: You could have dinner and still I get it. You
24:38
Speaker 1: can have dinner. I mean the people like not us
24:40
Speaker 1: that aren't working are still gonna be fine.
24:42
Speaker 3: You know, you open Christmas Presence in the morning, you
24:45
Speaker 3: get to wear your brand new Packers sweatshirt for the game.
24:47
Speaker 1: Packers get a big win, and you know you have
24:50
Speaker 1: your you know, you have your yams at night.
24:51
Speaker 4: Over think of all the jerseys that are gonna get
24:53
Speaker 4: opened and thrown on for that game throughout the day.
24:56
Speaker 1: Oh man. Yeah, don't get me wrong. I'll watch the game.
24:58
Speaker 6: I'll be watching, but I probably won't be watching the
25:01
Speaker 6: other game or the other two game.
25:02
Speaker 1: How many games are on Christmas Day? I don't even
25:04
Speaker 1: three of them.
25:05
Speaker 4: Yeah, the night game is going to be awesome Ran
25:07
Speaker 4: Seahawks first time that they match up.
25:09
Speaker 1: I do, but I don't know something philosophically, if you're
25:11
Speaker 1: going to play Christmas Day, the first game should be
25:14
Speaker 1: a three. Like the noon is too early Christmas.
25:18
Speaker 3: I'm just sitting there waiting for It's like, hey, everyon'll
25:20
Speaker 3: get off your phone and stop updating your fantasy teams.
25:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, I gotta figure out, got to get these parlays.
25:24
Speaker 3: We're here to sit around and sing jingle bells. We're
25:26
Speaker 3: not here for you guys to you know, yeah, yeah,
25:28
Speaker 3: put your kid your parlays. You know that's going to
25:31
Speaker 3: be an issue in some households in Wisconsins. Absolutely, But
25:34
Speaker 3: then again, kids being on their phones is an issue
25:36
Speaker 3: every day in every household.
25:37
Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna Chris Christmas Day brunch is
25:40
Speaker 1: you know that hits you know?
25:43
Speaker 6: I forget Is that a streaming game? I forget Netflix? Netflix,
25:45
Speaker 6: which is fine because everyone has Netflix. That's the one
25:47
Speaker 6: thing people won't complain about. That's my that was my
25:49
Speaker 6: take earlier. So they're on Netflix? Are they on Netflix?
25:52
Speaker 6: On things believe too?
25:54
Speaker 1: Yes? Twice on Netflix. Twice on Netflix in like five weeks.
25:58
Speaker 4: And I struggle with it because usin in Jacksonville, I
26:00
Speaker 4: totally get it right as a fan of Christmas football,
26:02
Speaker 4: but now as a data two boys, I feel for
26:04
Speaker 4: the players and media people that'd be away from their
26:06
Speaker 4: families on Christmas morning, especially the ones that are.
26:09
Speaker 1: I totally get it. That's also what you sign up for,
26:12
Speaker 1: it might like.
26:12
Speaker 4: And it's a difficult part in the NFL because even
26:16
Speaker 4: if you don't play a game, I got bad news
26:18
Speaker 4: for you. It's a Friday in the NFL. You're working
26:21
Speaker 4: that day, right like so, I mean, like it is.
26:23
Speaker 4: The business is going to all on and that's going
26:24
Speaker 4: to continue to put I get it.
26:25
Speaker 6: For twelve straight years before we had these fancy computers
26:28
Speaker 6: in these buildings, I worked every single Christmas morning from
26:30
Speaker 6: the time I got into radio until maybe I don't know,
26:33
Speaker 6: fifteen years ago.
26:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, I mean we weren't holadays in this
26:36
Speaker 1: business A lot like it though.
26:38
Speaker 4: No, oh no, But I mean, but it's a tough
26:40
Speaker 4: one of like the better, and this is the one
26:42
Speaker 4: that I mean I put a lot of people have.
26:44
Speaker 4: If you like it and you want to the best,
26:46
Speaker 4: the better you get, the more nights and the more
26:48
Speaker 4: holidays that you're gonna end up working, because that's when
26:50
Speaker 4: people are gonna be around televison.
26:51
Speaker 1: It's not just like okay, players, coaches, they're compensated. They
26:55
Speaker 1: put they yeah, they signed up for it. You're a
26:57
Speaker 1: concessionaire or something, and you can get your ass out there,
27:01
Speaker 1: or if you're parking a lot of tendant elevator operators
27:04
Speaker 1: not ideal. And what about locally, what about for a
27:08
Speaker 1: Packers Bears game for some establishments would be a windfall
27:11
Speaker 1: for bars? Are they going to open at noon? Like
27:14
Speaker 1: a lot of bars will open five on Christmas? Christmas Day? Sure,
27:17
Speaker 1: I think you have to now now now they probably
27:20
Speaker 1: have to and that so it's it does affect. There
27:22
Speaker 1: is a trickle down to the general populace. Right, It's
27:25
Speaker 1: not just while I'm home, I'm gonna be in my
27:27
Speaker 1: Jammi's watching the game.
27:28
Speaker 6: Not just you fat cats up in the press roll
27:32
Speaker 6: catered food.
27:33
Speaker 1: We'll be right here eating cousins, subs. Yeah, in Chicago,
27:38
Speaker 1: in Chicago, we'll be sitting here at head quarters it
27:40
Speaker 1: we'll be right in this room. That is a good
27:42
Speaker 1: stretch now for the Packers.
27:43
Speaker 3: I mean they have four out of five home games
27:45
Speaker 3: and the only road game is Chicago with limited travel,
27:48
Speaker 3: but there is still travel. But that is a good stretch.
27:50
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean you want to talk about advantageous.
27:52
Speaker 3: You know, you get that stretch at the end of
27:54
Speaker 3: the year.
27:54
Speaker 6: Maybe they can avoid the wild card with that schedule
27:56
Speaker 6: at the end of the year. Finally for once, right for.
27:58
Speaker 1: The control its let's golayoffs. He's the seventh seed this yearman,
28:10
Speaker 1: so Scott with a big old elbow album. That's what
28:14
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. The Bears, man, they weren't expected to
28:19
Speaker 1: be there though. Now they are have to do the
28:22
Speaker 1: deep dive because the Packers have had the early buyes
28:24
Speaker 1: seeming like the last four or five years by and
28:27
Speaker 1: now they kind of have that later by. Plus they
28:28
Speaker 1: got the mini byes with the Thursday game and a
28:30
Speaker 1: Friday game. But from November the ninth until December fifth,
28:36
Speaker 1: a span of twenty six days, the Packers played two games.
28:40
Speaker 1: That's a get right time, man. That is like rest,
28:42
Speaker 1: and so there is no excuse for them the back
28:45
Speaker 1: half for the last five games at home, the back half.
28:48
Speaker 1: But that stretch sets you up to be as healthy
28:52
Speaker 1: as you're going to be. So this, if you could
28:55
Speaker 1: pick the schedule, I don't know that you could pick
28:57
Speaker 1: much of a better. If you could hand craft and
28:59
Speaker 1: hands on that. I don't think you could pick it
29:01
Speaker 1: much better. No, it would be tough. It would be
29:03
Speaker 1: tough to do.
29:04
Speaker 4: And also you get a decent amount of your most
29:06
Speaker 4: important games later they're all mixed through, right like I thought.
29:09
Speaker 4: The other oddity that you pointed out was there's no
29:12
Speaker 4: back to back division games.
29:14
Speaker 1: You played three of four anomb happened in the divisional
29:17
Speaker 1: era since they went to the NFC North. This no
29:21
Speaker 1: back to back division games. And you got the soft
29:24
Speaker 1: open Vikings, Jets, Falcons, Buccaneers for the games without Parsons.
29:30
Speaker 1: I'll take that.
29:30
Speaker 3: Yeah.
29:31
Speaker 1: Again, if you had to hand pick opponents, those are
29:33
Speaker 1: pretty good ones.
29:33
Speaker 4: The Vikings one is is beautiful with the uh, the
29:37
Speaker 4: amount of unscouted look conversation that we're gonna get because
29:40
Speaker 4: you don't know who's it's gonna be. You think it's
29:42
Speaker 4: gonna be Kyler, you know what you've seen him play,
29:45
Speaker 4: but them on that fast track and and all the
29:48
Speaker 4: designed of deep balls to Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison.
29:51
Speaker 4: I'll test that Packers secondary right out of the gates,
29:54
Speaker 4: and that's always a most years, that's a good game, right.
29:57
Speaker 1: The Tampa game, their third road game. Their fourth game
30:02
Speaker 1: will come after the mini by because it's after the Thursday, right,
30:04
Speaker 1: so you get an extra time for that hydrate and
30:06
Speaker 1: get ready for the heat down in Tampa. This I
30:09
Speaker 1: don't know that you could have asked it for a
30:11
Speaker 1: much much of a better schedule. Now, obviously things vary
30:14
Speaker 1: and there's ebb and flow, and it's not, as Wayne
30:16
Speaker 1: always tells us, not who you play, it's when you
30:18
Speaker 1: play them. Okay, you mentioned the Tampa one.
30:21
Speaker 4: This is big and with the heat is almost like
30:24
Speaker 4: the October time the best time to be dealing with it, right, Like,
30:27
Speaker 4: it's not like it's been cool cooled off in September
30:30
Speaker 4: in Milwaukee and in Wisconsin and Green Bay because you
30:33
Speaker 4: go there in December, you're used to thirties and forties.
30:35
Speaker 4: That's seventy five is going to slap a lot different
30:38
Speaker 4: the fight.
30:38
Speaker 1: In half Leys visit Green Bay on December twentieth, and
30:43
Speaker 1: we all know what Miami winsley. They have never won
30:45
Speaker 1: a game below freezing crazy as that hasn't happened. I
30:49
Speaker 1: can't believe that. I mean, when you think of the
30:51
Speaker 1: division they're in with Buffalo and the Jets, you stumble
30:54
Speaker 1: into one or two. I'm old enough to remember when
30:56
Speaker 1: the Falcons were a dome team from the South and
30:59
Speaker 1: came up and won a playoff game with mister vic
31:01
Speaker 1: in the snow, right, that changed a lot of the
31:03
Speaker 1: way people thought. That was like a turning point degrees
31:07
Speaker 1: everything maybe right. Yeah, I also remember the Jags going
31:12
Speaker 1: to Denver in the playoffs.
31:14
Speaker 3: Seen Jim Smith. That was a great group, man.
31:19
Speaker 4: And I mean even more, if indeed there is any
31:21
Speaker 4: home field you mentioned Miami, then you also have two
31:23
Speaker 4: dome teams in Detroit and Houston that be playing there now.
31:26
Speaker 4: Detroit is a hard one to call a dome team
31:28
Speaker 4: because of how physical they play and how their their
31:31
Speaker 4: running style will transmit outdoors.
31:33
Speaker 6: I saw them on a really cold day at Soldier
31:35
Speaker 6: Field right right after Christmas and the last week of
31:38
Speaker 6: the season, and they didn't look like a dome team
31:40
Speaker 6: that day.
31:40
Speaker 1: Detroit is one of the more fascinating teams to me.
31:43
Speaker 1: I think.
31:43
Speaker 4: I think they have as much boomer bust potential as
31:45
Speaker 4: anybody in this In this they got one of the
31:48
Speaker 4: easiest schedules.
31:49
Speaker 1: Are the slated easiest schedule that everyone put together.
31:52
Speaker 4: They have. They're good, they can still be very fair,
31:54
Speaker 4: they have the best quarterback and hold on, hold on,
31:58
Speaker 4: don't hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Well,
32:00
Speaker 4: the most accomplished. He's the only one that's been to
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Speaker 4: a super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: He's the most accomplished. I think he's very good. Do
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Speaker 1: you do you think he's the best one? I do,
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Speaker 1: I really do. But I think he's not more Is
32:09
Speaker 1: that more natural talent than Caleb?
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Speaker 6: Probably not not natural talent. I'm just talking about experience
32:14
Speaker 6: and just say he's the guy. If I had to
32:16
Speaker 6: pick between the four of them, I'd probably pick him
32:18
Speaker 6: one game.
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Speaker 1: For all the tostitos you probably would put to cast
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Speaker 1: your your er, I would take would I would take love.
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Speaker 1: But I are you contractually obligated to say that?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 4: Because I don't know if the game's outdoors right, and
32:29
Speaker 4: I don't know if I'm gonna have to be forced
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Speaker 4: to move because that's the only thing that golf doesn't have,
32:34
Speaker 4: which he might get tested a little bit more of
32:37
Speaker 4: this year. He's good. I mean when he's in really
32:39
Speaker 4: he can go fifteen for fifteen. I'll tell you when
32:41
Speaker 4: they're they're at their all, at their best. Though, I'd
32:44
Speaker 4: be taking Kyler Murray because I've actually seen that guy
32:47
Speaker 4: at his best dominate the league for a stretch of time.
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Speaker 6: He's another guy that is he going to be able
32:51
Speaker 6: to stay healthy sixteen games? Jared Goff to me, I
32:54
Speaker 6: just love the dude's story. Man, he was just the
32:56
Speaker 6: Rams just said, we don't want you to even out
32:58
Speaker 6: of here. Probably not gonna last in Detroit either, get
33:00
Speaker 6: the hell out of here. We're taking We're taking a
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Speaker 6: guy that's better than you.
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Speaker 1: And then what does he do? He goes there and
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Speaker 1: he thrives.
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Speaker 4: I don't know that I've ever seen a more difficult
33:10
Speaker 4: life switch. When I watched my man on Hard Knocks
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Speaker 4: hitting the golf ball off of the bluff basically in
33:17
Speaker 4: southern California with his swimsuit model girlfriend, He's like, this
33:20
Speaker 4: is amazing.
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Speaker 1: Quarterback of the Rams, go to the super Bowl. This
33:24
Speaker 1: is awesome. Like, enjoy Flint, Michigan.
33:27
Speaker 7: Here you go.
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Speaker 4: Now you're in New Richmond, Michigan, twenty miles outside of Detroit.
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Speaker 1: Welcome in Bud. There's a little bit different life. How
33:33
Speaker 1: about that A little bit of a shock. So the
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Speaker 1: tenderloin of the Packer season this season will be made
33:39
Speaker 1: or broken with that. With that stretch that begins with
33:42
Speaker 1: that Tampa Bay game because they're coming off that Thursday
33:46
Speaker 1: kind of the mini mini bi. Yeah, they go to
33:48
Speaker 1: Tampa home against the Bears, home against the Cowboys, at
33:51
Speaker 1: Detroit home against Carolina on a Thursday night, and then
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Speaker 1: at New England and then Minnesota then the bye. That
33:57
Speaker 1: that stretch is that will make or break this Right there.
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Speaker 4: That's fair and I mean everything everyone will point to
34:03
Speaker 4: the back half of it, but going into the byger,
34:06
Speaker 4: you have to be putting yourself in a position to
34:09
Speaker 4: then make a run. If you walk out of that
34:10
Speaker 4: thing like five and five, then you're in a big
34:13
Speaker 4: uphill climb in that back half of the schedule. The
34:17
Speaker 4: I mean you're running through a number of teams that
34:19
Speaker 4: you think are going to be playoff teams. I think
34:21
Speaker 4: Dallas is going to be contending once it should be
34:23
Speaker 4: for the playoffs. I think their defense should be better,
34:26
Speaker 4: and I mean we found it out Carolina is no
34:28
Speaker 4: slouch a year ago. I think they're gonna get better
34:30
Speaker 4: and I think that's gonna be a really fun game
34:31
Speaker 4: with the Bears and Santhers opening Week one with two
34:34
Speaker 4: former first number one overall backs.
34:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were a playoff team.
34:37
Speaker 4: Right, they won their division, and I mean Gavin Rams
34:39
Speaker 4: all they could handle in that playoff game.
34:40
Speaker 1: I remember correctly, so that those are really really fun outfits. Bears.
34:45
Speaker 1: Is it the toughest schedule in the.
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Speaker 3: You know?
34:49
Speaker 6: But I look at it and I'm like, Okay, you
34:50
Speaker 6: got to go to Seattle, you got to go to
34:52
Speaker 6: uh Buffalo. Those are two tough road trips, but everything
34:56
Speaker 6: else look manageable. I don't think there's any Georgia or
34:58
Speaker 6: Alabama's in the NFL. Every team is given Sunday, so yeah,
35:02
Speaker 6: I'll give him a fighting chance.
35:03
Speaker 1: Yeah.
35:04
Speaker 4: And also there's no produce in the NFL, right like that,
35:07
Speaker 4: at some point you're gonna you're gonna run in thee.
35:10
Speaker 1: What is the most dangerous? What's the rake the Packers
35:13
Speaker 1: can step on? A La Cleveland last year? I don't
35:16
Speaker 1: see them losing at the Jets, but you never I see.
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Speaker 3: That's the problem Falcons. I think Billy said it right.
35:21
Speaker 3: They've shown they could do it, and the NFL is
35:23
Speaker 3: shown they could do it. I agree, I don't I
35:25
Speaker 3: wouldn't predict the laws to the Jets, but well, Carolina
35:28
Speaker 3: again won't be easy.
35:30
Speaker 1: I don't think flcons is a home opener at night,
35:32
Speaker 1: you wouldn't think that they not be fired up? What
35:34
Speaker 1: about at New Orleans hardcore on hardcore rakes?
35:37
Speaker 4: New Orleans also might be better than people expect, but
35:40
Speaker 4: that that's a really, really tough place to play. I'd
35:42
Speaker 4: i'd circle with New Orleans and I will throw the
35:44
Speaker 4: Jets in there, like I mean, you you want to
35:46
Speaker 4: talk about if they've been building everything their home opener
35:49
Speaker 4: sleepy thought on a Sunday afternoon in the meadowlands and
35:53
Speaker 4: you get nipped.
35:54
Speaker 1: That could definitely happen one of these years. That they
35:56
Speaker 1: have to be decent, right you would say.
35:59
Speaker 4: They are in American football every single year. You've got
36:02
Speaker 4: to be getting better at some point. Well, we said
36:03
Speaker 4: that about the Bears and it came through after twenty years.
36:05
Speaker 4: But what what does decent mean?
36:07
Speaker 1: Is the question? Well, well, I mean, maybe have a
36:09
Speaker 1: winning record one of these years.
36:11
Speaker 6: I mean they've they've got the longest drought in professional sports, right.
36:14
Speaker 1: Well, Jets, the Packers a few years ago.
36:16
Speaker 3: I mean, I yes, I don't think any game of
36:18
Speaker 3: the NFL is just it's just not I mean, especially
36:22
Speaker 3: the Packers are shown they can get dragged down and
36:24
Speaker 3: getting it by those teams.
36:26
Speaker 6: So Jess need to go back to the name uniforms
36:28
Speaker 6: and stick with them. Stop going back to those.
36:31
Speaker 4: Has there been a team that has uh messed up
36:33
Speaker 4: the retro uniforms more than the Jets?
36:36
Speaker 1: Probably not. They always are trying to do some kind
36:39
Speaker 1: of tweak of what it used to live. You know,
36:41
Speaker 1: you put your name on your helmet, Jets. Oh that's original.
36:44
Speaker 6: Did did you spend millions of dollars in your marketing
36:46
Speaker 6: department to come up with j et s across the
36:48
Speaker 6: side of your helmet?
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Speaker 4: Jets Jets. That's the consulting job I'm dreaming of. There
36:54
Speaker 4: you go, that's the consulting job. I think you should
36:57
Speaker 4: spell the name. Yeah, pay my money. The Bengals did
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Speaker 4: it for like forty years. Let's just put Bengals on
37:03
Speaker 4: our helmet.
37:04
Speaker 3: Why wouldn't you want to reawaken the echoes of rich
37:06
Speaker 3: co Tpe Yeah, one of the worst coaches in NFL history.
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Speaker 1: Great, great reference, Army Dolph, thanks for hanging out with us.
37:12
Speaker 1: Appreciate it. As always, Let's have a let's have it,
37:15
Speaker 1: let's finish up, but halftime is over. Let's have an
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Speaker 1: uncresciable and an orange slice. We'll get back after it.
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Speaker 1: It's the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin four thirty.
37:25
Speaker 7: I being so serious, bro, it was crazy. Guys are
37:28
Speaker 7: an hour late to the plane. It got to a
37:30
Speaker 7: point where I just I knew not to show up
37:32
Speaker 7: until like an hour after they said the plane was
37:35
Speaker 7: taken off.
37:35
Speaker 1: It was crazy.
37:36
Speaker 2: So who's the teammates that's most likely to be late?
37:39
Speaker 2: Well all of yours, obviously, because nobody gets fined.
37:41
Speaker 7: Yeah, honest, Joanna is going to show up whenever he wants. Really,
37:44
Speaker 7: you know, I think that that's kind of just came
37:46
Speaker 7: with the territory that And once I kind of saw
37:48
Speaker 7: it was going down, I was like, am man, more
37:49
Speaker 7: power to you. They ain't gonna find you. Do what
37:51
Speaker 7: you do a right exeven when we're going to Dallas.
37:53
Speaker 7: That's when I was like, all.
37:54
Speaker 2: Right, come on, right now, we're getting fined for miss
37:58
Speaker 2: free throw box outs.
37:59
Speaker 1: Honestly, that's a new one. Miles Turner on podcast Making
38:03
Speaker 1: Some News, describing the dysfunction of the Bucks under Doc Rivers,
38:09
Speaker 1: nobody fine. Guys were late. Guys were late for film,
38:12
Speaker 1: for meetings, for flights. He said, he was too so
38:16
Speaker 1: not great. Bob well, he definitely joined in. He had
38:19
Speaker 1: a little herd mentality and he said, let's let's have
38:21
Speaker 1: some fun game. Recognize game was Stewie and Miles.
38:25
Speaker 4: Brianna Stewart is the other one that you hear there
38:27
Speaker 4: and uh recognizing the game of like, hey man, I
38:30
Speaker 4: show up whenever they want if they're not gonna find you.
38:33
Speaker 4: Clearly there was a mail it in, cash it in
38:35
Speaker 4: thought on the back end, And maybe that's why Doc's
38:39
Speaker 4: meeting fell on some deaf years when he said, I
38:41
Speaker 4: don't really told.
38:42
Speaker 1: You guys were going to be that team that would
38:43
Speaker 1: take to the finals. Nobody was expecting us to be
38:46
Speaker 1: able to do anything, and then nobody ended up caring.
38:49
Speaker 1: Nobody cared enough to be able to make their own rules.
38:53
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe maybe there was a little bit more Miles
38:56
Speaker 4: Turner this day and then just us we having to
38:58
Speaker 4: watch what it transpires like on the basketball floor.
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Speaker 3: Clearly, Bobby Portous today obviously he's asking is this AI
39:04
Speaker 3: so taking you honest? Aside Giannis posting a video playing basketball,
39:08
Speaker 3: this son saying we're just mining our business or I
39:11
Speaker 3: think something like that. So I don't know that that
39:14
Speaker 3: is interesting. Obviously, you know Miles Turner wanted to say this.
39:17
Speaker 3: It wasn't like he was caught in this discussion, you know,
39:20
Speaker 3: off guard. It was on his podcast. It was clearly pointed.
39:23
Speaker 1: I don't know.
39:24
Speaker 3: Everyone wants to make this Gianna's issue, which you asked
39:26
Speaker 3: you're responsible for yourself, but it sounds more like.
39:28
Speaker 1: A doc issue to me.
39:30
Speaker 3: But hey, listen, I mean a lot of people, it's
39:33
Speaker 3: building up Jianness to be the villain now. So it
39:36
Speaker 3: seems like to me, so interesting times here in Milwaukee,
39:39
Speaker 3: only five years removed from a World championship.
39:43
Speaker 1: Jim's Arski The Journal Center had an interview with him
39:45
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, early May, and some more
39:48
Speaker 1: of it came out where Jannis is talking about how
39:50
Speaker 1: he's healthy and he's never had this where he's had
39:53
Speaker 1: this stretch of health and go He's gonna go in
39:55
Speaker 1: the lab and try to add stuff to his game,
39:57
Speaker 1: and with no media and nobody watching, he can experiment
39:59
Speaker 1: make sure. Yeah, no doubt. I feel good. I feel
40:03
Speaker 1: really good, he said. And I love when people doubt me.
40:05
Speaker 1: I love it. I want more doubt. Everybody on your
40:07
Speaker 1: social media follow me on that stuff and talk bleep
40:10
Speaker 1: to me all year long, all summer, all off season.
40:13
Speaker 1: That's all I want to see. I want to see doubt,
40:15
Speaker 1: no complistions, Gonna have a huge year next year. Tell
40:17
Speaker 1: me how much I suck and didn't make the playoffs
40:19
Speaker 1: and I'm not good and all that, or I'm not
40:21
Speaker 1: good at this. Just keep on putting gasoline in the
40:24
Speaker 1: fire and just keep adding to that. That's what I love.
40:26
Speaker 1: I love when people don't believe in me, and when
40:28
Speaker 1: I come back, I'll do what I'm supposed to do.
40:30
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I don't I don't know. I have not
40:33
Speaker 1: seen one shred of video that hasn't been saying he's
40:36
Speaker 1: a top five player in the league. Like, I don't
40:38
Speaker 1: that's true?
40:39
Speaker 4: What what?
40:39
Speaker 6: What?
40:40
Speaker 1: Where is the doubt coming from? That's a lot. I
40:42
Speaker 1: like that manufacturing in there. It is a little bit
40:45
Speaker 1: and Rogers fed on that too. But there are folks
40:48
Speaker 1: who say, you know, like, oh, look he's is he
40:51
Speaker 1: he's old and might be declined always heard. Yeah, it's
40:55
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