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09/02/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 2: For those of you who are joining the 6 o'clock club,
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  Speaker 1: Plenty of room for you. 5 o'clock clubbers have been
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  Speaker 1: ready and getting after it. It's Hot Take Hump Day.
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  Speaker 1: Let's fire that up. Give us your hottest of hot
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  Speaker 1: takes on any topic. It can be snack foods. We've
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  Speaker 1: had some of our best discussions about snack foods.
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  Speaker 2: That's for sure. About whether to parboil brats. Don't do it.
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  Speaker 2: The experts have told me, don't do it.
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  Speaker 3: I agree.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to mess around with boiling them first.
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  Speaker 2: Why do people do that?
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  Speaker 1: Put them in a beer bath and let them simmer
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  Speaker 1: before you serve them with the onions and stuff, but
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  Speaker 1: don't boil them first.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and get that thing right on the grill. Get
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  Speaker 2: that nice char in there. Yeah, get that char in there.
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  Speaker 2: Snap of the casing. Or you smoke them on that Traeger.
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  Speaker 2: That's how you really, really get that crack. If you're
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  Speaker 2: worried about the meat, just get them good meat thermometer.
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  Speaker 2: That's all you need.
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  Speaker 1: Any topic is fair game for Hot Take Hump Day, 877-794-1973.
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  Speaker 2: I'll open the bidding.
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  Speaker 1: My hot take is that there was some really interesting
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  Speaker 1: reading between the lines yesterday at Lambeau Field.
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  Speaker 2: With Gutekunst and LeFleur having their pressers.
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  Speaker 1: Guti went first. And as for Josh Jacobs, he was
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  Speaker 1: kind of like, well, we're going to let the process
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  Speaker 1: play out. We're going to let the process play out.
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  Speaker 1: He was kind of like pumping the brakes.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be prepared either way, I think, was one of
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  Speaker 2: the tags on it.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why they went and got a running back
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  Speaker 1: from Pittsburgh. And they're moving on without Josh Jacobs because
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  Speaker 1: he's kind of persona non grata on the commissioner's exempt list,
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  Speaker 1: which is double secret probation. It's the pre-suspension. Because it's
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  Speaker 1: like any games that he misses on this exemplist count
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  Speaker 1: towards a suspension. So he's on training wheels for a suspension.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's also the weird spot where he's going
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  Speaker 2: to get paid, but then if he does get suspended,
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  Speaker 2: then has to pay that money back that you get
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  Speaker 2: paid from while being on the exemplist. That's a weird deal.
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  Speaker 1: But the difference in messages, Matt LaFleur was like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: believes him and talked to him and part of this team,
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  Speaker 1: whereas Goody was more noncommittal. To me, that was very interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and it was, uh, understandably so the, the questions
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  Speaker 2: continued to come through of, have you seen the video?
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  Speaker 2: What will you do when you see the video? He's
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  Speaker 2: like in the appropriate times, uh, the quote from Goody, uh,
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  Speaker 2: if those things become available, meaning the video, uh, that allegedly, uh,
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  Speaker 2: is a part of the two misdemeanor charges against Jacobs.
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  Speaker 2: We'll figure that stuff out when it come, when that
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  Speaker 2: time comes. was Goody's tag. And Drew, I heard the
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  Speaker 2: same thing, especially from LeFleur, extremely committal to he knows
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  Speaker 2: the guy. He talks to him regularly, said that he's
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  Speaker 2: been in meetings and will be somewhat around. But it's
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  Speaker 2: a difficult spot where he is and has been over
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  Speaker 2: the last two years not only one of the big
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  Speaker 2: parts of the personality of your football team, but he's
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  Speaker 2: worn a C on his chest the last two years, right?
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  Speaker 2: So for Matt LaFleur to have that be somebody that
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  Speaker 2: you trusted with that on your team to then have
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  Speaker 2: to answer these questions and then know on the back
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  Speaker 2: end of it could make you look really bad, right?
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  Speaker 2: At the end of this... just saying, I am going to,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to let the process play out, but I
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  Speaker 2: believe in the guy and I believe in my guys
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to stand by him. Uh, he does
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  Speaker 2: put himself into a difficult spot. If indeed this video
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  Speaker 2: comes out and it is extremely damning and, and vicious,
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  Speaker 2: like there, there's a part of here, drew that I,
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  Speaker 2: I very much understand the exempt list. And I wonder
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  Speaker 2: how much this is going to be a power struggle
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  Speaker 2: because we've now seen the Brown County, uh, DA's department, uh,
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  Speaker 2: They really don't have much of a timeline here. They're
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  Speaker 2: going to do their thing. This is going to happen
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  Speaker 2: on their own terms. And right now, if we're going
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  Speaker 2: hot take on the situation, I don't believe Josh Jacobs
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  Speaker 2: plays a down of football until Roger Goodell, with his
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  Speaker 2: two eyes, sees that video. There's only one person that
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  Speaker 2: can take you off of the commissioner's exempt list. The commissioner.
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  Speaker 2: And Roger Goodell has been pretty firm handed in all
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  Speaker 2: of his punishments since taking over, especially after the Ray
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  Speaker 2: Rice situation, understandably so. And that's when this commissioner's exempt
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  Speaker 2: list came into effect where we're not going to get
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  Speaker 2: caught with our pants down, where we got this guy
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  Speaker 2: coming out after a two game suspension playing on Sunday
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  Speaker 2: night football. And then all of a sudden TMZ has
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  Speaker 2: this video of him knocking a young lady on cold.
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  Speaker 2: So that's just not going to happen under Goodell's watch.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know. I think it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: the first one to blink. And I don't know anybody's
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  Speaker 2: blinking until that court date. I don't know that until
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  Speaker 2: they have to release the video that anybody will get
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  Speaker 2: their eyes on the video. And I don't believe he
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  Speaker 2: plays it down until Roger Goodell with his eyes gets
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  Speaker 2: to see it and sees the contents in it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And the point is also that that's it, Billy. He's
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  Speaker 3: the judge during execution in this league. He put himself
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  Speaker 3: in that position. And that's why all the owners like
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  Speaker 3: him because he protects the shield in that regard. But
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  Speaker 3: It's always about the video. It's always about how bad
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  Speaker 3: the video is to the public opinion and how much
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  Speaker 3: it turns emotion and how much it creates an uproar.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it's not supposed to be this way. Maybe it
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  Speaker 3: shouldn't be this way, but that's the reality of it.
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  Speaker 1: The standard seems like six games, and that feels like
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  Speaker 1: a number, especially since it's misdemeanor charges and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And now, again, we don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Could... If November 17th to me is like the arraignment
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  Speaker 1: and then you have like discovery and they have to give,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where it would have to come in.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where the Jacobs' lawyers, they're not obligated to
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  Speaker 1: show Jacobs' lawyers. Like, well, I guess maybe they saw
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  Speaker 1: the video initially or something because it had to be forensically.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's also in his home, right? Yeah, it took
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  Speaker 2: a while. So like you would think if anybody would
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  Speaker 2: have it, they would be able to see it. You
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  Speaker 2: would think they would be able to access it and
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  Speaker 2: they would have the password and stuff. So maybe they
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  Speaker 2: have it. maybe they could show it to get out.
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  Speaker 1: Like, and if there's a, maybe there'll be a plea
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  Speaker 1: deal where that doesn't have to go like, okay, he's
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  Speaker 1: agreed to plead no contest to this, throw that charge
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  Speaker 1: out or, you know, throw the battery down to disorderly
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  Speaker 1: and we'll plead no contest and we won't do a trial.
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  Speaker 1: And like, he'll pay restitution of whatever that is and fines.
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  Speaker 1: And cause it's, that's kind of what you're. So if
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  Speaker 1: they do that and it doesn't go to trial, then
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  Speaker 1: the league can say, all right, well, he's getting six. However,
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  Speaker 1: that might take a while to legislate, but that would
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  Speaker 1: get you in that window. Because the Packers don't want
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  Speaker 1: it to go beyond six games, do they? I don't
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  Speaker 1: think so at all, no. To me, six seems like
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  Speaker 1: the standard, unless there's something... Again, what does the video show?
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  Speaker 1: That's what it comes down to, guys.
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  Speaker 2: Is she coming at him? Does he put his arm
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  Speaker 2: up and she falls? There's a thousand different ways that
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  Speaker 2: it can go. We don't know. 100%. But it's not
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  Speaker 2: a good look. No. Totally. It's not a good look,
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  Speaker 2: and it's... It's put them in limbo. And I guess...
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  Speaker 2: Goody's stance to me was right. LeFleur was a little bit...
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  Speaker 2: And I get... You know, he's like, I believe him. Like, oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I remember when everybody believed Ryan Braun. Right. Are the
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  Speaker 2: Packers risking you? Believe at your own peril. You know?
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  Speaker 2: Is the PR gap being risked here by the things
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  Speaker 2: they're saying?
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  Speaker 1: No, but I think it's like... And I think Goody
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  Speaker 1: took the right stance. And then LeFleur has to, like,
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  Speaker 1: the locker room and... His players in the locker room
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  Speaker 1: might be a little bit different.
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  Speaker 2: That's fair. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's the message that Matt's always got our back.
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  Speaker 1: And he stayed with Josh. And the players... Here's another thing.
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  Speaker 1: And anybody who says like, this is going to be
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  Speaker 1: a distraction for the Packers. I've been around athletes, man.
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  Speaker 1: They're hyper-focused on their own. When a guy gets hurt,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, okay, well, let's just keep it.
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  Speaker 2: They're like tunnel vision.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think that, you know, maybe Marshawn Lloyd
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  Speaker 1: is nervous about getting more totes and stuff and having
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  Speaker 1: his rolling case, but he's also excited about the opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't think anybody's sitting around going, oh my God,
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  Speaker 2: we don't have Josh. What are we going to do?
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  Speaker 2: They're just going to work.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think like it's, is that any more of
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  Speaker 1: a distraction than Micah Parsons not being able to play
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  Speaker 1: the first half?
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  Speaker 2: Or Tucker Craft's contract? No, 100%. None of that affects
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  Speaker 2: anybody else, right? I don't think it does.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't, having been around athletes my entire adult life,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they process it the way we do.
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  Speaker 2: And you assume like, oh, the hole, it's hanging over
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  Speaker 2: the locker. I'm like, nah, I don't think so. No,
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  Speaker 2: it's their whole lives that they've worked for this opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: The last thing they're going to do is let a
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  Speaker 2: distraction of somebody else's life interrupt the biggest moment of
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  Speaker 2: their life. And the thing that you pointed out with Lloyd,
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  Speaker 2: I think, is really, really fair, Drew. He has gone
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  Speaker 2: through his own personal struggles and turmoil. He's not necessarily
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  Speaker 2: going to be worried about what else is going on.
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  Speaker 2: He'll be excited for the opportunity. And mentioned yesterday that
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  Speaker 2: he's talked to Josh a number of different times, and
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  Speaker 2: he's been very supportive and helpful with him in that
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  Speaker 2: realm as well. For LeFleur, it is a difficult balancing
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  Speaker 2: act because you do have to know that you can
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  Speaker 2: be caught in a very difficult position if indeed the
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  Speaker 2: contents of the video are much more damning. And that's
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  Speaker 2: where him talking and having some real conversation here with
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  Speaker 2: Jacobs and this playing out over the course of the
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  Speaker 2: last three months, I wonder how many different times there
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  Speaker 2: have been the conversation of, all right, Josh, you got
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  Speaker 2: to be really honest with me here. What's the situation, right?
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  Speaker 2: And you know one story, you know one side of it.
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  Speaker 2: They do put themselves in a very, very tough spot.
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  Speaker 2: That being said, compared to a lot of other situations
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  Speaker 2: that are going around different sports, The Green Bay Packers
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  Speaker 2: don't need to necessarily give Jacobs the second chance. Whether
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  Speaker 2: or not it's a six-game suspension, because I do agree.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's where this is all headed towards. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: it's four. Maybe it's four. Maybe it's six. But I
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  Speaker 2: think he's going to be suspended for at least a month.
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  Speaker 2: They could then cut him after that suspension. Then he'll
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  Speaker 2: serve it, and then somebody will pick him up. That's
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  Speaker 2: the part of this league that somebody, one of the 32,
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  Speaker 2: will give him an opportunity to but that doesn't mean
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  Speaker 2: the Packers have to be that team. And I wonder
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  Speaker 2: how much pressure depending on what, again, the contents of
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  Speaker 2: that video. And if it becomes public before he, or
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  Speaker 2: when he plays in a Packers uniform again, drew there,
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  Speaker 2: there's going to be a lot of fans that feel
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  Speaker 2: a certain way about it. The Superbowl champs picked up
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  Speaker 2: Terry and Arnold, right?
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  Speaker 4: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: With six pending felonies. Yeah. Pending felonies. And this is
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  Speaker 2: something that has happened for a long time. And again,
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  Speaker 2: the NFL is a world of second chances. It is
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  Speaker 2: littered with second chances in the NFL because it's that competitive.
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  Speaker 2: And more and more teams are going to do it.
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  Speaker 2: And then more and more teams are going to do
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  Speaker 2: like the Lane Kiffin if people get mad at them
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  Speaker 2: for ultimately picking him up if the Packers would release Jacobs. Well,
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  Speaker 2: they were going to do it. Yeah, they were going
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  Speaker 2: to pick them up. They were going to pick them up.
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  Speaker 2: They were going to pick them up. What, you want
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  Speaker 2: me not to try to win? The stuff is way
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  Speaker 2: too competitive for that to not be a part of.
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  Speaker 2: That's the truth.
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  Speaker 3: Like it or not, I mean, in this league, you know,
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  Speaker 3: people are looking for talent. And if they have a
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  Speaker 3: chance to get some, whether or not it's a risk
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  Speaker 3: in that regard, if they can find a player that
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  Speaker 3: will help their team win, they're counting on the fact
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  Speaker 3: that most fans will care about that more. In the end,
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  Speaker 3: and that's usually what happens. It's not great, but it's
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  Speaker 3: an entertainment business.
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  Speaker 1: My gut tells me Jacobs will play for the Packers
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  Speaker 1: after a 4-6 game sit-out. But I also can see
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  Speaker 1: it's not a reach for me to think that he'll
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  Speaker 1: never touch the field again for the Packers.
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  Speaker 2: What would you put the percentage split at? Because I'd
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  Speaker 2: be at like 75-25.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm more in the 60s, mid-60s that he plays again.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like.
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  Speaker 1: Knocking on 35 and knocking on 40% that he does.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like 35. I'm like 65, 35. Higher than
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  Speaker 1: the Rams' chance of going undefeated. What was the 60%?
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  Speaker 2: Apparently, yeah, 68%. Apparently, 68% chance they go undefeated. I can't.
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  Speaker 1: The more I thought about that yesterday, when I saw
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  Speaker 1: the first panel or the first month of their schedule
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  Speaker 1: with a trip to Australia- I would say if I
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  Speaker 1: had to bet, what's more likely? The Rams go 17-0
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  Speaker 1: or they go 1-2 to start? I'm taking the 1-2.
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  Speaker 1: They go to Australia to take on the Niners.
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  Speaker 2: They go host. Which could be an L. Which very
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  Speaker 2: much could be an L. Week one could be an L.
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  Speaker 2: Very much could be an L. The 49ers are leaving
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  Speaker 2: today and the Rams are leaving in a week. Day of, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And the Rams are making jokes like the 49ers are
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  Speaker 2: going to have Australian accents by the time we get there.
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  Speaker 1: I want to know what the possibility is going to be.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see which one is the better strategy. But in
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  Speaker 1: any event, that's it. Close divisional game anyway against this
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  Speaker 1: sharp coach.
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  Speaker 2: That ends up being a toss-up. First game of the year,
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  Speaker 2: a foreign soil, who knows. They might lose it. Sorry, Armin.
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  Speaker 2: They play Monday Night Football against the Giants. That's an L.
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  Speaker 2: But then they go to Denver and to Philadelphia before
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  Speaker 2: hosting Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Does that scream unbeaten to you? Does that scream pristine start? Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be 5-0 and look out?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 3: I see 2 and 3 before I see undefeated. They're
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  Speaker 3: traveling 4,000 air miles this year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's the other thing is for them to
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  Speaker 1: go to Philadelphia is a brutal trip.
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  Speaker 2: For big dudes to fly back and forth across the country.
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  Speaker 2: We're taking an Airbus.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they handle the altitude better than Boeing, but
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  Speaker 3: not that you guys care about.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so let me guess. Thank you. I was
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  Speaker 2: wondering about how they handled that. All right, you guys
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: want a Badgers hot take here? Do they have those
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  Speaker 2: Airbuses in trailer parks, or is that what Jed York
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  Speaker 2: was going to look at? A new Airbus? I want
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  Speaker 2: any hot take you got, Armin, so lay it on me.
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  Speaker 3: It's actually from Mike Witt. You know what Mike Witt
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  Speaker 3: chants on YouTube. It's a good day.
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  Speaker 2: I honestly think we're going to shock the world and
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  Speaker 2: beat Notre Dame Sunday. What say you all? Howdy, boys.
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  Speaker 2: Also wanted to ask Billy, are you still doing postgame
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  Speaker 2: for Badgers this year? Yes, I will be doing Badger postgame.
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  Speaker 2: Myself and Lance Allen. Thank you, Mike, for asking. Very,
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  Speaker 2: very excited to fire up at Lambeau Field on Sunday night.
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  Speaker 2: I am very excited that Mike is confident. Picking the upset.
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  Speaker 2: I want some of what he's drinking or smoking. I'm
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  Speaker 2: glad people are picking the upset. I, for one, will
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  Speaker 2: not be picking the upset. However, and this would be
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  Speaker 2: the hot take out of it. Very much good can
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: come from the Badgers losing to Notre Dame this weekend. Now,
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  Speaker 2: that is a hard thing to say that ultimately you
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  Speaker 2: take a bunch of positives out of it. You're going
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  Speaker 2: up against a team that is unquestioned. Whatever publication you
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  Speaker 2: listen to right now, the lowest I've heard Notre Dame
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  Speaker 2: get placed in, Drew, is the semifinal or national championship.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to say, ain't nobody got them out
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  Speaker 2: of the top eight. Nobody's doing one of these preseason
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  Speaker 2: shows saying, you know who I really am kind of
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  Speaker 2: selling this year is Notre Dame. They have the most
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  Speaker 2: experienced defense coming back. They're going to have the number
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: one defense in the league. Their preseason watch list and
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  Speaker 2: probably odds-on favorite to win the Offensive Lineman of the Year,
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  Speaker 2: the Joe Moore Award. And they got a quarterback who's
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  Speaker 2: the odds-on favorite to win the Heisman. They're bringing back guys.
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  Speaker 2: They got the quarterback, and they got a chip on
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: their shoulder after the way last year ended. It's a
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: tough first draw. Tough draw.
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: And I don't know whether the Badgers will be better
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: playing this game after facing Western Illinois and Eastern Michigan.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: But I do know that whatever happens at Lambeau Field,
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: those games that follow, if they struggle against Western Illinois
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: and Eastern Michigan, that will be more damaging than... What
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: happened Sunday at Lambeau field?
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: A hundred percent. The two home games to then get
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: ready for the first two games that really kickstart the season.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: And the two most important games, I believe on the schedule,
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: you know, once you get into the Iowa's and things
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: like that, at Penn state home against Michigan state, Michigan
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: state's over under is three and a half. You got
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: to win that game. Pat Fitzgerald has not been an
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: easy dub for Wisconsin Badgers teams in the past. And
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Matt Campbell's Penn state Nittany lions. My goodness. You want
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: to talk about a team that people are loving up on.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: They are. I watched a lot of Iowa State football.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: It was good. Wasn't that good? So that, to me,
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: is a winnable game going on the road in a
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: spot where you will be a larger favorite or underdog
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: than you probably should be. We don't know if that's
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: a night game yet or not. Probably won't be, will it?
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: You know what, Drew? I think they might have indicated
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: it is before 4 o'clock. Let me get that.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: For you for sure. In college football, your guess is—
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: No later than 4 p.m. Okay, so it will be
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: a day game. So it will be a day game.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: But that's a tough place to play, especially at night.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: But I'm just saying that the season's not going to
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: be made or broken with Notre Dame.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: It'd be great to see them be competitive and play
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: a game into the fourth quarter. Competitive into the fourth.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: That would almost be a dub for me. That was it.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: To play that team.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: And again, week one, there's always screw-ups, penalties, special teams mishaps.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Stuff happens in week one that you don't see later on.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah. There are a couple of tip balls and a
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: couple of overthrows and a couple of very much sure-handed
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: interceptions away from being right into the game. But they've
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: got to keep it close.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: If you're getting booed off the field at Camp Randall
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: against either Western Illinois or Eastern Michigan going into the
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: tunnel at halftime, and it's.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Seven to three or something. It's like, if it's one
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: of the games that they've played the last couple of years, right?
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Like I think they were in a seven, three game
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: or a 10, 17, 10 game was South Dakota was
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: somewhat close a couple of years ago. Buffalo wasn't the
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: dog walk that it was probably supposed to be. So yeah,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: I'm with you, Drew. Those two are, and also those
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: two are going to be in front of your home crowd.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: This one is a Notre Dame home game. up in Lambeau.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: It's going to be a different, unique atmosphere.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: I told our buddy Wayne Larrabee that there's a Venn diagram.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of folks, Notre Dame fans, that are
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: also fans of the Bears that live in the Chicago
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: area that are very familiar with the Titletown area and
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: getting in and out of Lambeau Field and they know
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: their way around and they're, you know, It's a hot
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: ticket on the secondary market, too.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: It is a big time. It is a ticket that
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: Notre Dame fans are definitely excited to get into. A
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: lot of alum everywhere, as you know, for both sides. But,
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: you know, Notre Dame has a little history of gaffes
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: as well.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, they had a Northern Illinois loss. What was that?
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Two years ago. Two years ago, yeah. So you never know.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Maybe that's just, you know, that moment. Yeah, that's just it.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: You never know. But to me, it's like be competitive
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: into the second half. Like maybe if you can be
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: competitive into the fourth quarter, that's great. But then just
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: don't slip up against the directionals.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Take care of business and look the part against those
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: schools because Colton Joseph is going to be one of
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: those guys. Get some big-time offensive output against Eastern Michigan,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Western Illinois, dog-walk them, and get ready to go in
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: and shock the world against Penn State. You shocked the
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: world this weekend. I'm going to be fired up about
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: it on postgame. But that's the one that I'm looking
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: for at State College. Here's a good one for you
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: to chew on while we go to break. Ooh, let
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: me hear it. Welcome, Dolph. When's the next?
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: It will be Colton Joseph, but who's the next Badger
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: quarterback that will have a game that even approaches the
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: excellence and the standard that was apparently set when Graham
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Mertz played Illinois.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Remember that game?
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: When will the Badgers have another quarterback performance that even
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: approaches Graham Mertz against the Illini?
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Damn, because what was he, like 15 and 15 at
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: one point? It was crazy. There was so much excitement.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Insanely great for that one game.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: And I'm just saying it would be nice to have that,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: someone even approach that and maybe come back and play
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: it even somewhere close to the next week after that.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Maybe when my boy Ryan Hopkins gets in here. Maybe.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: When this boy Ryan Hopkins gets the nod. Modern day product.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: When we come back, Scott Dolphin's going to join the party.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: We'll talk to him more about last night's Brewers festivities.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, baby.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Bill Schroeder joins us about an hour from right now
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: to talk about yesterday. It was a very uplifting day
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: with the Miz on the mound tonight. Things are looking
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: good for the Brewers. You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: We've reached halftime of both the week and the program today.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Let's celebrate. Drew, Billy, and Armand bringing you to you
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: on the huddle. And Scott Dolphin joins the huddle from
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: the country station down the hall, FM 106.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Hello, Dolph. Hey, Drew.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: I just love the conversation we're having off air about
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: our favorite old arcades when we were growing up.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Aladdin's Castle. Aladdin's Castle. That was so fun. Those were
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: big in the 90s.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: You had to go and play the latest Street Fighter
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: game or Mortal Kombat.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: There was a certain feel to those places. It had
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: a certain smell. The lights were always dim. You had
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: the glow of the machines. You got excited about it
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: as a kid.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: I'd get a hot Sam pretzel or an Annie Ann's,
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: and then I'd go over and get an Orange Julius
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: and then head down to the arcades.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: See, now the... The smell. The Auntie Anne's pretzel, though,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: is just a different beast. When that thing gets handed
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: over to you over the counter, you know the kind
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: of fun you're about to have.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: Sorry, Auntie Anne's and Maul's have a symbiotic relationship. I mean,
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: they keep each other going.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Right, they're right there with Sbarro. Yes, that's a fair point.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: That's a fair, fair point.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: I saw the episode of The Office where they had
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: pretzel day, and the whole complex was lined up. There
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: was like 100 people because... You could get whatever you wanted.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: You'd get the works on that pretzel if you wanted to.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Now, I do struggle, though. The salt pretzel is just A1.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Dip that thing in some cheese. It's phenomenal. Yeah. But
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: I do struggle to pass up the opportunity at the
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: cinnamon sugar one. I'm with you. When that is sitting
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: right there, I know everybody's going to say, you're just
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: going for the old classic. My wife wants the classic.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: She's planning on that. When I come back with the
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: cinnamon sugar one, I'm like, yes, sorry, honey, this one's
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: for me. It depends on where you are.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: You know, if you're going to the beer garden, then
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: you want the giant pretzel with the Dijon or whatever,
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: the dipping sauce.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Yes, a little mustard, no doubt. You don't want to
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: go sweet there. I fire that thing up at the ballpark, though,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: and I love when they do that. Oh, yeah. It's
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: really good. Wrestle that thing around with the cinnamon sugar.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Dip that thing one more time. A meal. I'm still
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: trying to wrap my brain around the smell that Dolph's
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: talking about. Yeah, I can't describe. You know, there's certain places.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: Patchouli weed.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Are we talking about the haze that's coming there?
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: People that smell like they just came out of Spicoli's van.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was just a magical combination of several things.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: I don't remember that. It smells like loser. No, losers
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: are more accurate. People weren't doing that. I don't think
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: they were doing that when I went to arcades. No,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: nobody was doing that. Nobody was getting stoned and going
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: to the arcade with your kid arm in.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: No one.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Maybe I just didn't know what that smelled like. I
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: don't know what it was. No, they did all hit
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: skunks on the way there. That was what happened. When
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: you go into a bowling alley, there's a certain smell. Yeah,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: that's true. The wax and the disinfectant from the shoe spray.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: I was going to say the shoes that are going
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: on and off everybody's feet. School's just starting.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: Remember when you first went into a school and you
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: got that combination of the floor polish and the.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Chemical cleaners.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Oh, that I can get down with. Unless
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: you're at MPS today. You don't have to go.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't have to go. It's too hot. Too hot.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: Kids are out today at MPS. My wife and daughter,
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: who are both MPS employees, are happy about that.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: The wimpification of America continues. Yeah, that's right. I like
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: the preparedness of them. That, to me, is the better part,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: that we do it at 3 o'clock the day before
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: because that was the worst part when you were a
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: kid for a snow day or a heat day or
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: the cold day. You're like, I know it's going to
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: be brutally cold, but I do have to get up
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: early on in the morning, run downstairs, go have three
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: bowls of cereal, and then watch there on the ticker
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: to see if we're going to be close. I like
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: the fact that they just let you know now that
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: I could have stayed up and played Halo all night.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Or go to the arcade and hang out in the
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: dusty smells of it.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Do they have air conditioning? I don't know. Are you
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: being safe? Listen, I think it's pretty cool, though. Think
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: about it.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: You're a kid. Summer vacation's ending. You want to push
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: that sun back and get one more day of summer.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: And here it is. Now all those kids can go
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: ride their bikes to the Sandlot and play ball. Got
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Monday off too. Yeah, you're right. I like that. They'll
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: be doing that, won't they, Armin?
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: Sure. They're going riding their bikes around, playing outside, probably
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: climbing trees in the woods and stuff.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Hopefully the splash pads are still open.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Two short weeks in a row, Drew. So they're off
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: today and then they're off again on Monday.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: They were all going to go actually golf to the
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: sports cars place and get some for their bikes to
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: make sure that they could put it in between the spokes.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I can see that.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: To really get the rattle. That's what they were planning.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Or maybe go find a dead body in the woods
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: like the old... What was it? Lean on... Stand by me.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Lean on me. What was it? Stand by me. Stand
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: by me. You remember that story? Yeah. No. I thought
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: we were just talking about the Paul brothers. Wow. Stand
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: by me. Will Wheaton and River Phoenix. River Phoenix, Will Wheaton,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Jerry O'Connell. He for Sutherland. He for Sutherland. I don't
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: remember that movie. I don't know what... Rob Reiner directed.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Rob Reiner directed it.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: So it was a Stephen King novel where these four
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: kids heard there was a dead body somewhere out in
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: the woods, and so they make this big, long, all-day
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: trek to.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Go out there, but their arrival... kids also trying to
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: find it first and uh.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Just imagine we used to entertain a rival kids trying
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: to find the first to get to the dead body
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: yes wow yeah and.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: There's an iconic scene where the the bad kids you
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: know led by keifer sutherland they get there and uh
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: they're gonna rough up these younger kids and the younger
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: kid will wheaton who went on to be on big bang.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Theory and uh one of the star trek.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: Star trek franchise thank you he He pulls out a
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: gun and Kiefer Sutherland says, you can't shoot us all.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: He goes, no, Ace, I'm just going to shoot you.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Just you. What movie is this? Stand By Me, man.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: It's a seminal movie. You never saw it, Armand? You've
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: got to be kidding me. You would enjoy it, Armand.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: It sounds kind of weird. It takes place in the 50s.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: It's well made, yeah.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like Sandlot without baseball.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, jeez. Coming of age movie. River's whipping out
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: guns in the woods and stuff like that.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: A lot of people don't remember River Phoenix. Phenomenal actor.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, Joaquin Phoenix is his younger brother, but.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: River died at 21.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, in the Hollywood thing. Yeah, was it at Johnny Depp's?
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: At the club, yeah. Viper Room. Viper Room, yeah, indeed. Oh,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: my goodness. I did see a documentary on that one once. Yeah,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: I think, Armin, you need to see that. You'll really
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: enjoy it. Yeah, it was a great movie. I'm stunned
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: that you haven't seen it, but okay. Yeah, the arcade talk. Oh,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: my God.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: There was a place growing up where all the burnouts went,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: the foos house, the foosball place and stuff. Now there's
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: this place in Menominee Falls called the Garcade that has
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: 200 pinball machines and vintage video game stuff.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: That's a family-friendly place. It was always a smoky, weird...
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: The high school kids who smoked would go there. Now
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: they're like, no, we totally don't have burn holes in
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: the carpet. It's now nice. Now it's nice.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: When I was a kid, I had a list. When
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: I got to Kennedy Mall in Dubuque, I would go to...
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: Spencer's gifts and just check out the Blacklight posters.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Gotta go to Spencer's first to look at the dirty stuff.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: I'd run by Music Land. Oh yeah, there you go.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Get a CD. Yeah, get some vinyl. Some sweet vinyl.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Get the latest Paul Simon CD or something. Yeah, before
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: I'd hit the cinema or the arcade.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: Nice.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: What a day. I mean, what a banger of a
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: day that must have been. Now I take my kids
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: in the mall. I took my kids to the mall
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: the other day. Dick's Sporting Goods is cool. Dick's is
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: still there. Sweet. The train is still there. Get some
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: golf balls. The train is still there. Is it?
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: Is it?
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: No, it's not running a whole lot. See, it is
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: depressing now, Billy. Walk in. You're like, oh, sweet. I'll
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: take my little guy. He loves ball. Loves baseball. Really
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: big Bo Nix fan right now. Okay. Take him into fanfare.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: We'll go look at. No, you won't. There's no fanfare. No,
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: that's been gone. We'll go to Kohl's. No, you won't. No.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: It's a sad deal. You walk in and out, and
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: the only place that's really hustling, which did bring at
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: least a little bit of a tear to my eye,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: The guy shining shoes and trying to sell you the
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: shoe cleaner. He's still there. In between the walk. Right now, generally,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: he would have been maybe in Champ Sports. They would
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: have been selling their own one. My man's saying right here, this,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: you want to make sure these white stay clean all
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: year long. This three times a day. I got three
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: boxes for you to make sure it's only $ 59. 99. You
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: do this three times a week, your shoes will never
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: be dirty. That's awesome. You're referring to Southridge Mall, right? Yes.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: The kiosk game is still pretty strong at Southridge, especially
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: during the holidays.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: It is. You know, the calendar store and all that stuff. Well,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: and my man was still trying to sell different kind
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: of watches. They weren't full balance bands. He wasn't trying
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: to slap them on my wrist right away walking by
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: and say, hey, right here. You see this? You feel this?
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Now you're all on center. Now you're totally locked in.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: You can get that. You can get a massage, you know,
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: in the middle of the mall usually. Armand knows this
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: because he's a mall walker.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and Southridge is my home mall. And Billy and I,
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: we grew up in the same place. But the thing
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: about it, I do love Southridge, but it is sad
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: to see those things go. And you say to yourself,
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: come on, can we bring malls back? We've lamented this
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: a lot. It's just not.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: What it used to be.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: At least they know their future and they've been able
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: to pivot a little bit and.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: To try to stay.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: You go to some... I mean, Brookfield... Brookfield Square has
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: really been rough. Brookfield Square is kind of bleak. They
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: still got Barnes & Noble.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: But that's totally been... I was going to say, most
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: of their stores are outside the mall, right? Yes. All
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: around the outside kind of area of it. It's cooked.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: The rest of the restaurants, it's a lot of restaurants. Yeah.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? That's true. I do go
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: in there to pick up Rocky Rococos, which is always
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: going to be a winner. That's always going to hit.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: But you know what?
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: We've got to find a way to get the... We
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: always lament the downfall of malls, and I don't know
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: what to.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Do about it. There's really nothing you can do about it.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: You've got to go in there and shop more. Just
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: walk around in your cool new balance.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Speaking of new balance, what I've noticed is the one
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: style of store that seems to be still successful is
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: shoe stores.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: You mentioned Dick's.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: There's a few other shoe stores there because people like
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: to try on shoes, I think, instead of buy them online.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: You still have Champs. You still have Foot Locker. You
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: still have Dick's. And there's another one, kind of a
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: Payless-type store. They have shoes, like a shoe station or something.
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: Do they still have people that will come around with
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: that device that puts your foot in it to see
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: exactly what your size is?
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Do they still do that at places like Dick's?
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: You can find them on the floor, but no one's coming.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Around to do stuff.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: But there are guys at those stores sometimes that they
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: have to go find your size in the back and stuff.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: They have the display models. I want to look at
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: this shoe. Get the other 11 here. What's your size, Billy? 15. Oh,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: that's not terribly large. Yeah, I haven't bought shoes, sadly,
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: in there in a long time. Big mess.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: But of all the stores that are gone, Gloria Jeans
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: isn't even there. But there's a different coffee shop there,
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: I think. Gloria Jeans.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: All right, so Dolph, did you make it through the
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Brewers game last night?
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: I did not. Much different proceeding than the previous evening.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: I went to bed when Joey O hit the dinger. Ah,
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: there you go. I knew it was over. It felt
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: like it was good with the Brewers bullpen. Yeah.
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: With the first week of school, my wife was working late,
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: so by the time I turned it on, they're down 3-1.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: And I thought, damn.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: But then it was quickly after that. I saw the
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: big inning. I turned it on at a good time.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: It was looking daunting, but another comeback W for the Brewers.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: And this one was quite satisfying because they didn't play
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: a very clean game.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: No. No doubt.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: But they ended up winning. The Cubs didn't play clean either.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: It wasn't great for either team. When Jackson Trujillo ran
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: them out of the inning and got caught trying to
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: steal third.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: My goodness. First and second. All right.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: That's an error of aggression, and it was not great.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: And then Terang wasn't running behind him. And then you
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: had the three. The ball falling into no man's land.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: But when that happened, when that inning happened, I'm like, oh,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: maybe it's not their night again.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Right. It's like, that was a. That was derailing that inning.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: It almost looked like their best rally drew of the
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: weekend of the series so far. Yeah, first and second,
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: nobody out. He's still in third. Wasn't a lefty at
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: the plate. I was going to say lefty at the plate.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Carson Kelly can throw. It was like, oh, man. If
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: he was going to do it, I thought he was
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: going to go when Contreras was up. And Contreras works
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: a hell of an at-bat. I think it was an
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: almost 10-pitch at-bat. But he swings a ball forward twice
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: and looks back at the... He fouled both of them off,
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: and you could tell how mad he was.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but thank you, Cubs, to get us back in
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: the game with a balk. And then I don't know
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: what Suzuki's doing. I mean, it's a padded wall down there,
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: and he stops and just kind of went, no, he
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: alligator arms that fly ball.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: That is a weird corner, too. It is.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: Especially with lights, and it gets dark there. But he's
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: had trouble in right... I mean, he's been a really
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: good player, but he's had trouble. The weird thing is...
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: his defensive war has been better than it had been
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: any other year this year. So he had improved his
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: defense to this point. He had a really, really bad
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: defensive analytics score last year.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: That was just a bad play by him.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: So the Churio play where he was going back, he's
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: booking back to the Ivy. Suzuki just kind of was there,
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: and he went, no, the wall's a little too close.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: I'm going to let this one drop. And there's no
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: foul line there.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: No, you're right. That's your foul line. It was an alligator.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: I'm almost like me when the check comes in. You're like, oh,
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: I'm close. Like, oh, I had my wallet. Son of a.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Come on, man. Yeah. It wasn't clean. But now, okay,
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: so now it's like normalcy has returned.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: And now you've got Miz pitching tonight. Okay. You feel
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: pretty good about that. And Henderson tomorrow. Yeah. 23 to play.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: You're up eight. It's over. Ladies and gentlemen. Division is.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: It's over.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty much it. I mean, I know the.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: Magic number is still, what is it? 12 to clinch
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: a playoff spot? Something like that.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Now, they won't do any celebration for the playoffs, right?
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: They'll wait for the division, but they won't wait for
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: the one seat or the bye, right? They'll win the division,
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: then they'll pop the champagne and celebrate. I don't know.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: When you clinch the division, you put the shirt and
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: the hat on. I think you do. Maybe a beer shower.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: I think you let it ride mostly because you want
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: to make sure that you let Cooper Pratt and Luis
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Lara know what they missed. Showcase, hey, This is why
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: we need to keep winning playoff series, because then we
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: get to have more fun. I like that. And we
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: get to see this guy try to chug more beers.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Who's going to be the biggest beer chugger, you think,
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: in their group right now? Ooh, that's a good question.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Voguey's back in the mix. He's back. He's the coach.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: If he's in the mix, he's it. Vaughn? Is Vaughn
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: a guy that would do that? I don't know. I
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: don't know. Bowers? My money's on Tim Dillard. That's a
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: good one. It's going to have to be IPA. You've
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: got to look for the guys from the South. Their
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: SEC guy. I mean, Woody's.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Magic number 10 for the postseason, 20 to clinch a bye,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: 16 for the Central, and 21 for the number one seed.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Okay. So it's getting down there. It's getting there. Oh,
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: they're all right in the sights. Just like that one
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: seed in the division might be in the sights for
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: the Milwaukee Bucks after the little players minicamp that they
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: had down by Miles Turner. We got to talk about
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: this coming up. These boys were having themselves a weekend.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: We got big old tomahawk steaks. Oh, I like this.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: We got 12 guys on a Malibu boat. It looks
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: like a good time. I saw that. I like Miles
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Turner taking the leadership role all of a sudden here.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: And everybody was on time for the flight, it sounds like. Beautiful.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: That sounds right.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: It's the kind of thing that it's nice when you're
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: rebuilding that they're doing that. I don't know if I
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: think like Miles Turner leadership, but hey, maybe.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: I don't know. He was never late. You know, according
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: to him. He was at plane on time? According to him, yeah. Wild.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: According to him.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Dolph, thank you for popping by, as always. We made
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: it through halftime of both the show and the week.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Hot take, hump take continues. We'll have a who's hot
• 34:42
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• 34:44
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  Speaker 2: Billy, who's hot? Well, who's hot? Apparently, Peter Schrager, according
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  Speaker 2: to The Athletic and Andrew Marchand. Peter Schrager, formerly of
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: NFL Network, now of ESPN fame, is apparently going to
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: get a new daily afternoon show. Formerly the morning show host,
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: one of the four, core four of Good Morning Football
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: when that started, when it was Kay Adams, Nate Burleson,
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: now doing CBS Mornings. and Kyle Brandt, who's now back
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: into the ESPN interwebs. It is going to be called, now,
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: hot Peter Schrager, who's not whatever producer or boss okayed
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: this name. The show is going to be called Big
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Day with Peter Schrager. Runs from 2 p.m. Eastern. Big day.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: You got big day out there, Petey. Petey, come on now.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: You got big day ahead of you, kid. Go get it.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: Go get it now at one in the afternoon. That's
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  Speaker 2: a heck of a time.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, shouldn't it be called like, I don't know, because
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: big day implies morning or midday.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: It feels like it would be a morning one, but
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: you would think. Also, you know what? Who's hot? Tony
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon, even on the Pat McAfee Sports
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: Talk Network that ESPN is becoming over this football season.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: PTI is still running. PTI is still running and still
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: one of the only ones that they're not going to
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: change because it is the thing that sparked the debate show.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: You can go from radio, Mike and the Mad Dog,
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: PTI completely changed sports television in that realm. They're still rolling.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: ESPN announcing kind of rolling out slowly all of their
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: different stuff that they're having. Also going to be excited
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: that Scott Van Pelt was back, which is always a
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: good thing for sports fans to have. Who's not hot
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: last night? Luckily for the Milwaukee Brewers, it was not
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: a hot day for the L.A. Dodgers as they get
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: run through by the Cardinals 13 to 8. Yeah. Large
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: part of that Jordan Walker going three for five with
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: a bomb. Two RBIs. And Drew, you read one of
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: the craziest stats of all time.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: Yes, indeed.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: According to, about Jordan Walker. Jordan Walker. The slugger for
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: the Cardinals.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Home run derby champ this year. Has 28 homers this year.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: He has 55 homers in his major league career, and
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: he's hit them off of 55 different pitchers.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: My goodness. Equal opportunist.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: And there's only one man who stands ahead of him
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: in this quirky statistic. A guy who had 58. His
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: first 58 homers came off 58 different pitchers. And I asked,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: and Armand's like, you know, Mickey Mantle. One of the
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: all-time greats.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: Babe Ruth? No. Did it fire up a Bruce? No.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: It was Willie Adamas. How about that?
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Willie Adamas' first 58 homers as a big leaguer. Came
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: up 58 different pitchers. That's the record in Jordan Walker's
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: approaching it. And that stat was actually confirmed to be correct.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: That's a quirky stat. Yeah, yours came from AI.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: I fixed it a little. I figured it out what
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: the issue was. Okay.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: The Tigers had a nine-game lead last year when the
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: calendar flipped.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: So I guess when I put in, did any team
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: blow an eight-game lead? Well, you have to. Eight plus. Well,
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that was obviously. So this is going
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: to totally happen by like five or six different teams. Yeah,
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: your prompt was not. I'm pretty sure that was the
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: only team.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it was like. It was something ridiculous.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: They were 11 games up with 28 to play or
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: something like that. I don't know if that was in
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: September or not.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: No, you're right.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: What it was was the Tigers had a nine-game lead
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: in the division on September 1st, but it was over
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: the Royals. They were up 10.5 on the Indians. The Guardians,
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: excuse me. Yeah, 10.5. Yeah, that was what's crazy about it.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like 11 games with a month left,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: and it was a colossal collapse.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: Okay, so you were close. So you were close. Well,
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: not really. Definitely not 99%. I need to talk to
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: your and whoever the guy on ESPN math guy was
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: that said the Rams had 68% chance.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: The key here is like, and again, I bitched about
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: this the other day, like the Google search now that
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: when they lead with the AI result, it's often if
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: your prompt is not specific enough, you're going to get
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: a flawed answer.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: That's what happened to me. Especially in our business. Eight games.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: People can go to the air. and like spout stuff
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: or you can actually end up tweeting stuff. That is
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: completely wrong.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: Well, I got an alibi. Cleveland was as many as
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: 15 and a half games back of Detroit as recently
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: as July 9th of last year in that crackdown. That
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: is absolutely crazy.
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