Transcript

5/8/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Buckle up a bumpy right ahead on a Friday edition
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Speaker 1: of the Huddle On Billy Schmid alongside my main man
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Speaker 1: armand Sorry in One More Day Dave Gasper in the
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Speaker 1: chair as well as we continue to drive the car,
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Speaker 1: drive the bus for our friend Drew Olsen, who will
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Speaker 1: return to us a couple of days after his birthday,
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Speaker 1: as he'll celebrate that coming up on Saturday, enjoying the
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Speaker 1: final day of his vacation, and then rejoining us and
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Speaker 1: huddling up with all of you for more of our
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Speaker 1: normal shenanigans coming up next week. L all the insomniacs
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Speaker 1: and early risers, and more importantly those folks outside of
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Speaker 1: the health club. We've been thinking about you this week,
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Speaker 1: even if we haven't given you your normal shout out,
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Speaker 1: Armand there's a light night last night in the sports
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Speaker 1: world for us here locally, more time to be able
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Speaker 1: to consume a lot of conversation that a lot of
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Speaker 1: people had about the conversation that was had with the
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Speaker 1: Milwaukee Bucks and Taylor Jenkins and Jimmy Haslam. We'll get
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Speaker 1: into more of that coming up later on here today,
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Speaker 1: but then a couple of be a playoff games. One
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Speaker 1: NHL game on the docket, a light night, low tide,
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Speaker 1: and just another sadly win for those North Siders for
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Speaker 1: us to have to deal with.
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Speaker 2: Yesterday is just one of those days.
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Speaker 1: It kind of goes in the sports calendar here in
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Speaker 1: one of your favorite months, the month of May, where
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Speaker 1: sometimes it can be a little bit of a sports desert.
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Speaker 2: Every once in a while, Yeah, it can be.
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Speaker 3: And usually I've defended May, as you know, Billy vociferously,
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Speaker 3: And I have to take Ama Kalpa right here, Friday,
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Speaker 3: May eighth, at five oh four in the morning, and
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Speaker 3: I have to be honest and say May sucks.
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Speaker 2: So far.
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Speaker 3: It's been a terrible May so far. Weather wise, it's
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Speaker 3: not been good Bill Drew to pick the right week
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Speaker 3: to go on vacation.
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Speaker 2: I'll be honest.
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Speaker 3: When he first told me he was going on vacation
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Speaker 3: and May, I said, you should have picked a better
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Speaker 3: month when there's gonna be worse weather, because a lot
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Speaker 3: of times the weather is pretty decent and May and
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Speaker 3: I've talked about that in the past, but I think
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Speaker 3: it's underrated.
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Speaker 2: But I'll take the L right here. I'll take the L.
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Speaker 2: Is this correct?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, L, I'm gonna just reverse it. Yeah, L, I'll
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Speaker 3: take the L right there, because it's not been a
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Speaker 3: great month so far of May. For weather's not been great.
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Speaker 3: The Cubs haven't lost yet in this month, which is
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Speaker 3: not something I really enjoy, and the Bucks still aren't
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Speaker 3: playing in the playoffs. So I would say, so far,
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Speaker 3: it's been an l month around here, and I gotta
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Speaker 3: say it's not it's not been great? Is David and
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Speaker 3: I were talking about you don't really get a sense
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Speaker 3: of the weather when you wake up this early yet
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Speaker 3: because you don't know what it's gonna be.
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Speaker 2: And you love to get a sense of the weather
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Speaker 2: every ding.
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Speaker 3: I like to talk. I like to try and I'm trying.
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Speaker 3: I like to try and look at it, prepare my
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Speaker 3: day base in the weather. I like to follow the weather.
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Speaker 3: You're a big weather fan, big weather fan.
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Speaker 2: I love. I love to you know, know what's going on.
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Speaker 2: I like to prepare it.
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Speaker 3: I like to have the ten day forecast kind of
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Speaker 3: in my head at all times, kind of like surrounding
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Speaker 3: my my thoughts.
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Speaker 2: But uh, pack of a way to live. Let me
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Speaker 2: tell you, it's wild. But it's been.
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Speaker 3: It's been a crappy weather month. So I'm here to
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Speaker 3: say I'm wrong about May, at least for this month.
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Speaker 3: I'm I'm my You know, the credit I usually give
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Speaker 3: May has not been requited, and therefore I have to
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Speaker 3: take the l on this. But as I put on
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Speaker 3: X and Dave lat to me this morning, for I
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Speaker 3: think I should get credit for that. How many people
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Speaker 3: admit they're wrong all the time, So I think there's
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Speaker 3: some credit.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're right.
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Speaker 1: Definitely deserve definitely deserve more credit. You deserve more credit
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Speaker 1: than the Guardians fan that dropped the file ball yesterday
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Speaker 1: and spilled the beer all over his loving significant other
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Speaker 1: who is sitting right next to him and doesn't complete
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Speaker 1: the process of the catch. There's a lot of times
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Speaker 1: where uh, that's important, and it's stressed. It's going to
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Speaker 1: be stressed whenever they end up giving us these scheduled
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Speaker 1: NFL games that are potentially going to come out at
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Speaker 1: some particular point in one day one day. Completing the
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Speaker 1: process of the catch is a lot of times the
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Speaker 1: most important part fundamentally. So when you are going to
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Speaker 1: leave your feet, you gotta know you're going to come
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Speaker 1: back down with two feet inbounds and full possession of
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Speaker 1: the ball. My man lost both the beer, actually all
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Speaker 1: three maybe the beer, the ball, and the day because
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Speaker 1: that young lady was very very much not enjoying it
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Speaker 1: and laughing as much as he seemingly was.
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Speaker 2: But it was It's a different difficult night.
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Speaker 1: I mean, in all reality, the most exciting thing to
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Speaker 1: talk about yesterday was my man Ronald McDonald singing a
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Speaker 1: national anthem because it's just so casual greatness with this
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Speaker 1: Oklahoma City team, and they just I mean, granted, they
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Speaker 1: were down what five in the late stages of the
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter, but only one team with the MVP not
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Speaker 1: on the floor goes on a twenty two to four
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Speaker 1: run and just goes night night to the LA Lakers
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Speaker 1: in Game two.
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Speaker 3: They are the most chill NBA dominant team approaching dynasty
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Speaker 3: since this furse. I mean, in some ways, I think
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Speaker 3: a lot of that was because of Tim Duncan, the
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Speaker 3: way he was. We just thought of their greatness as
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Speaker 3: so chill. I don't know how else to describe it,
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Speaker 3: and it seems like they're very understated. This Oklahoma City
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Speaker 3: team seems similar. I remember even last year when they
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Speaker 3: finally won the championship, and I said finally, because it
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Speaker 3: took more games than I thought it should, but they
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Speaker 3: won and seven that how.
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Speaker 2: Like understated their celebration was. I don't mean the parade
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Speaker 2: and all that.
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Speaker 3: I'm not making fun of Oklahoma City today, well not yet,
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Speaker 3: I mean, but that's not what this is about. But
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Speaker 3: even on the court, they just seem like, all right,
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Speaker 3: it's done now, like the season's done, we did our mission.
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Speaker 2: Let's just dap up and go home.
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Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't know, I guess it's different because
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Speaker 3: for me, like you know, you grow up dreaming of titles,
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Speaker 3: dreaming of championships and what it's finally happening.
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Speaker 2: And it happened for the Bucks obviously in twenty one.
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Speaker 3: It was such an exuberant kind of push to the top,
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Speaker 3: push to the finish with a you know, a huge
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Speaker 3: performance and individual star performance and all these things that
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Speaker 3: it felt like this burst of energy and excitement. But listen,
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Speaker 3: I mean, the thunder are just chilling out here, putting
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Speaker 3: up their one twenty five one in their games, even
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Speaker 3: with SGA having another ho home game. He was in
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Speaker 3: foul Troublebilly as you know, but Chet and their depth
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Speaker 3: just got it done again. They are the most kind
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Speaker 3: of like workmanlike potential dynasty.
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Speaker 2: That you remember in n behastory.
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Speaker 3: And the thing is, maybe that's personified them because it
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Speaker 3: is Oklahoma City, and it's like whatever, that's this is
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Speaker 3: our town, this is our state, and we're just here
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Speaker 3: and we're just doing it and we're just gonna dominate
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Speaker 3: you in the most ordinary way. But I guess they
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Speaker 3: are extraordinary in their ordinary. They have great depth. They
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Speaker 3: do their thing. Chet had a great game and they
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Speaker 3: didn't need SGA to be great again last night, and
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Speaker 3: they got it done.
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Speaker 2: And take the toole leader.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and he had four files when he checks out,
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Speaker 1: and they sparked that run with SGA on the bench.
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Speaker 1: They outscore the Lakers by eighteen in the run, one
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Speaker 1: of the reasons why JJ Redick was ripping the officials
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Speaker 1: after the game. But like you have a group that
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Speaker 1: and you mentioned the Spurs, teams and groups take on
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Speaker 1: the personality a lot of times of the best player.
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Speaker 1: Not all the time does the best player have to
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Speaker 1: be the best leader or the most vocal leader. Not
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Speaker 1: necessarily always is that guy, but the team will definitely
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Speaker 1: take on the personality of that player. And SGA is
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Speaker 1: about as calm, cool and collected and understated as possible.
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Speaker 1: He's not the flashy superstar that the NBA has seen
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Speaker 1: for so long, but he's also another one in the
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Speaker 1: long line that we've seen consistently now of the international
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Speaker 1: superstars that are just different than the than a lot
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Speaker 1: of American superstars that we've seen and grown so.
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Speaker 2: Accustomed to do that.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it means a ton to win titles, no
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Speaker 1: doubt about it, but it doesn't appear like that would
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Speaker 1: be the end all be all. A lot in life, however,
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Speaker 1: it's it's a lot about the journey. It's a lot
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Speaker 1: about the togetherness, the goofiness on the interviews. And they
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Speaker 1: are not, because of like streaming services, hard to watch.
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Speaker 1: But you kind of have to make a point to
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Speaker 1: watch Oklahoma City Thunder basketball during the regular season because
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Speaker 1: after they they started out twenty four and one this year,
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Speaker 1: just incredible, right, and what incredible? And at that point
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Speaker 1: people are watching like, holy cow, are they gonna they
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Speaker 1: win seventy games?
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Speaker 2: And then when that was kind of out of the equation.
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Speaker 1: You'm like, all right, well, let's push that off to
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Speaker 1: the side and watch everything else, because again, it's not
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Speaker 1: like it's all that enjoyable for a casual outside viewer
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Speaker 1: to just watch one team systematically dominate and win by
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Speaker 1: twelve or thirteen every night, and seemingly they might just
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Speaker 1: do that through the through the playoffs, like I anticipate
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Speaker 1: they'll get tested.
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Speaker 2: You always do. Last year they won the title.
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Speaker 1: It was about as a dominant of a team last
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Speaker 1: year as this year. However, they went to two seven
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Speaker 1: game series last year. I don't see them really getting
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Speaker 1: pushed necessarily that same way with what's in front of them,
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Speaker 1: and in an era that is ever changing in the NBA.
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Speaker 1: They'd be the first repeat since the seventeen eighteen Katie Warriors,
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Speaker 1: and it definitely just doesn't feel like they've gotten nearly
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Speaker 1: the same conversation somewhat because of how they want to
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Speaker 1: play and how they want to go about their own bits.
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Speaker 3: Definitely Billy that they haven't gotten that same sort of attention,
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Speaker 3: And I think it's because I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I think we.
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Speaker 3: Looked at those Warriors teams even before KD as representing
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Speaker 3: a new era of basketball, like you know, like this
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Speaker 3: the Supernova Great, like.
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Speaker 2: Super Splash Brothers.
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Speaker 3: Splash Brothers were totally different, was different than Steph was
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Speaker 3: different than anything we've ever seen. The way they played,
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Speaker 3: it was fast, it was exciting. People were calling it,
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Speaker 3: you know, basketball porn, like you know, all that stuff,
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Speaker 3: and then they add KD and they're like, this is
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Speaker 3: just the craziest super team that we're ever gonna see.
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Speaker 3: It was kind of in a big you know, it's
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Speaker 3: a big market obviously. I mean San Francisco area, Golden
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Speaker 3: State Bay area is a big market, and Curry had
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Speaker 3: a lot of support amongst the youth. I mean, he
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Speaker 3: was the star of a generation because they could relate
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Speaker 3: to him.
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Speaker 2: Everyone loved the way he played. He changed the way
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Speaker 2: kids play.
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Speaker 3: It was this super nova of excitement even though they
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Speaker 3: were so dominant. And then the EDKD and then then
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Speaker 3: but but it just doesn't feel like you had that
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Speaker 3: obviously with Oklahoma City.
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Speaker 2: Is the market sized part of it. I think so.
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Speaker 3: I think SGA's you know, it's the type of star
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Speaker 3: he is understated. A lot of people are like, he's good,
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Speaker 3: really great, MVP can score great, but you know he
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Speaker 3: falls all the time, does he flop?
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Speaker 2: Like there's questions about that.
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Speaker 3: He doesn't necessarily always wow you on the court, but
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Speaker 3: he but the final results always wow, you he's.
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Speaker 1: The most dunkin like superstar you'd ever see again. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and and there wouldn't be as much mid range and
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Speaker 1: bank shots in today's NBA because I don't know the
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Speaker 1: kids are gonna grow up learning how to play that
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Speaker 1: same way of that fifteen feet away from the basket,
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Speaker 1: like you just mentioned, but like the way the way
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Speaker 1: he would casually do the fundamentals, SGA does fundamentally take
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Speaker 1: advantage of the basketball game. And like JJ Redick said
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Speaker 1: last night, I sarcastically the other day called him the
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Speaker 1: most disruptive team without following. I mean, they have a
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Speaker 1: few guys that follow every possession, all right. They're hard
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Speaker 1: enough to play. They're hard enough to play. You got
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Speaker 1: to just be able to call them when they file,
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Speaker 1: and they do fil He definitely initiates enough of the contact.
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Speaker 1: And we always want some kind of controversy. We always
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Speaker 1: want something to go wrong, and that's why the fun
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Speaker 1: my favorite part of watching Oklahoma City is laughing at
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Speaker 1: the thought of how many different Yiannis like moves people
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Speaker 1: had tried to concoct Oklahoma City to have to make,
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Speaker 1: and instead they're sitting back like, yeah, we're good, We're good.
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Speaker 2: We're good.
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Speaker 1: We grabbed Isaiah Hartenstein in free agency and all this
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Speaker 1: maybe the biggest player that anybody was able to grab
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Speaker 1: in the last two years. Alex Caruso was our three
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Speaker 1: year vet that we ended up grabbing around a three
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Speaker 1: year contract, veteran deal that you bring in and and
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Speaker 1: he'll he'll suffice because there was something very mundane about
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Speaker 1: the way the Spurs went about it, and Dungan didn't
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Speaker 1: want any of the attention, and I don't think Sgaight
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Speaker 1: necessarily wants the attention outside of some of the wild
11:23
Speaker 1: outfits that my man will Rick like. It's just it's
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Speaker 1: a different level of casual. However, ridiculously dominant in an
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Speaker 1: era that we just haven't seen many dominant NBA teams.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like that's the thing. I mean, it's very hard
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Speaker 3: to repeat in this era. So they're on the brink
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Speaker 3: of doing it. Not only sorry, but ahead the first
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Speaker 3: repeat team. Again, this is the league that had a
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Speaker 3: team wins six of eight. How many of the Larry
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Speaker 3: Bird Celtics won four and seven years and four three
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Speaker 3: and six, although the Lakers won I think five and
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Speaker 3: nine beers basically, so that would have been yeah.
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Speaker 1: Right into there and then I mean the Pistons win
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Speaker 1: the back to backs. But then so like this has
12:07
Speaker 1: been always littered with teams that win multiple titles in groups,
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Speaker 1: right Kobe, it's all dynasties, right shacking Kobe with the
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Speaker 1: three peats obviously the Warriors that we just mentioned, the
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Speaker 1: heat before that, going to the finals four straight years,
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Speaker 1: winning it twice. It's always been there's a team that
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Speaker 1: is a bowser up top, and everybody going and hunting
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Speaker 1: for that. Not only could they be the first team
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Speaker 1: to repeat since seventeen eighteen, they're right now two games
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Speaker 1: away from me in the first team since the freaking
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Speaker 1: pandemic to not only win the title one year go
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Speaker 1: back to the conference finals the next year. That's that's
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Speaker 1: the crazy part to me, Like, that's just how different
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Speaker 1: the league's been over the last half a century or
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Speaker 1: half a decade, pardon me, and.
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Speaker 2: The way that they've done it.
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Speaker 1: I don't necessarily know that people are stunned that it's them,
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Speaker 1: for how they stockpiled assets, how much people UH speak
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Speaker 1: highly and how highly they speak of Sam Presty. But
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Speaker 1: I don't necessarily know people love that it's happening this way.
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Speaker 1: Does that make sense. We like today, we're getting today,
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Speaker 1: we're getting the revival. Today is a return day. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if you're I don't know if this is
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Speaker 1: it on your calendar. I don't know if I had
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Speaker 1: this on Mikey. I don't know if that what this
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Speaker 1: is on my calendar? But what am I missing here?
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Speaker 1: Stephen A Smith and Skip Ayles's going me back together again?
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Speaker 1: On first take?
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Speaker 2: That's today? Yeah, okay, Yeah, there's not that's a big deal.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's not first takiness with with gold Shar whereas
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Speaker 1: in Oklahoma City there's there's not any real good drama
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Speaker 1: with them storylines. There's no great big time storyline other
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Speaker 1: than we got to say that they get fouled too much.
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Speaker 2: Like it's difficult. It's a difficult one to talk about.
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Speaker 1: And I can't think they're the four Letter Network's favorite
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Speaker 1: team right now. I definitely know they're not, because they
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Speaker 1: don't nearly get the same amount of oxygen as the Knicks. However,
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Speaker 1: they're just right now and seemingly a different stratus here
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Speaker 1: than everybody else.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm starting to wonder and when I started to
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Speaker 3: see it, like a lot of people and a lot
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Speaker 3: of social media say these team, you know, they they're
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Speaker 3: they're they make it hard to watch because they're constantly
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Speaker 3: flopping or they get files. When people start going to
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Speaker 3: those angles, I start wondering, like, all right, is it
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Speaker 3: just you don't want Oklahoma to be relevant? Like yeah,
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Speaker 3: And I wonder like, if you know, I make my
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Speaker 3: little I make my little jabs at Oklahoma City and
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Speaker 3: stuff like that, but should I be more like should
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Speaker 3: I more having a more of affinity to them as
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Speaker 3: a small market, because that's what the Bucks I felt
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Speaker 3: dealt with at certain times.
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Speaker 1: I think that's what you and I have been trying
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Speaker 1: to advocate a year and a half.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's exactly the point that Dave and
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Speaker 1: I've been making since.
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Speaker 2: Well, there's some of that bs on nobs, there's some
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Speaker 2: of that. Of course. My issues are more with Oklahoma
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Speaker 2: City is that it might just be I'mwaukee in the South.
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Speaker 3: Don't don't insult my city by saying that about not
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Speaker 3: Inlwaukee in the South. No, we're much more interesting of
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Speaker 3: a place to be than Oklahoma City. But as a
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Speaker 3: team yes, and a market yes. Because the league isn't
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Speaker 3: interested in them being really good. It seems like a
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Speaker 3: lot of times and the machine or the media machine
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Speaker 3: around the league isn't interested in them. But that's the
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Speaker 3: other funny thing Billy is like, even during the season,
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Speaker 3: it wasn't like they coasted, like there was no regular
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Speaker 3: season storyline up, can they get to seventy wins? Like
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Speaker 3: I don't remember people talking about it, but they won
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Speaker 3: sixty four games? Like they were definitely on that track
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Speaker 3: for a while, and it was like, you know, that
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Speaker 3: could be the excitement of the storyline we followed with
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Speaker 3: Oklahoma City, but it really wasn't like people weren't talking.
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Speaker 3: Even with the you know, even with the great Warriors
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Speaker 3: teams and getting seventy three wins but then losing to Lebron,
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Speaker 3: it was like, wow, can they break the you know,
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Speaker 3: the Bulls record and have all those wins? But with
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Speaker 3: Oklahoma City, there was none of that, and it was like, Okay,
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Speaker 3: yeah they coasted because they just constantly won, and yeah,
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Speaker 3: you're right. It's like do they need to load up
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Speaker 3: to try and repeat and maintain their greatness?
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Speaker 2: Like no, we're fine, We'll just.
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Speaker 3: We'll get Jared McCain and I guess we'll get eighteen
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Speaker 3: from him, and we're fine, and you know, we have
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Speaker 3: all these guys, and you know, we don't need Sga
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Speaker 3: to be supernova every game because he can get and
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Speaker 3: foul in trouble. And we've got you know, we've got
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Speaker 3: Mitchell and Hartenstein and they mentioned ched Holmgren. It's like
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Speaker 3: they're just they're just deep and they're just good right now.
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Speaker 3: And and we're waiting for the challenge to be And
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Speaker 3: I don't think a lot of people thought the Lakers
16:06
Speaker 3: would be that challenge and O Vegas didn't.
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Speaker 2: No, definitely not.
16:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, I still think it's San Antonio based on what
16:10
Speaker 3: happened to the regular season. But they have to still get
16:12
Speaker 3: through now they dominate a game too, they have to
16:14
Speaker 3: still get through Minnesota.
16:15
Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens.
16:17
Speaker 3: But it sure seems like they're just they're the they're
16:19
Speaker 3: the part in the part of the pun thunder.
16:22
Speaker 2: They're the storm rolling through to stop.
16:25
Speaker 1: And and we're gonna hear that Luke Combs uh Ain't
16:29
Speaker 1: No Love in Oklahoma song a nineteen billion times during
16:32
Speaker 1: the finals again, because it does feel like they're just
16:34
Speaker 1: gonna be wrong. There's not a whole lot of teams
16:37
Speaker 1: that go on the run like they did yesterday where
16:38
Speaker 1: it's just like twenty two to four, best player on
16:40
Speaker 1: the bench and they just like barely let you get
16:42
Speaker 1: the ball pass half court. Yeah, it's a different Kai
16:45
Speaker 1: style of defense and your your you're spot on. It's
16:47
Speaker 1: like I think the thunder have to trade for yea, honest,
16:51
Speaker 1: they don't. How many picks can they?
16:52
Speaker 2: Right? Should they send chat? What would the what would
16:55
Speaker 2: the deal be in there?
16:56
Speaker 1: Like, actually, we got this kid from Santa Barbara, second
17:00
Speaker 1: round pick who spells his name weird aj.
17:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's just gonna drop twenty and last We're good,
17:06
Speaker 2: will be good.
17:07
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons is here, dude, Like it is all the
17:11
Speaker 1: different great memes of yes, we I think will be okay?
17:16
Speaker 1: You can you can just leave that one at the
17:18
Speaker 1: door and we'll we'll find our way through eight seven
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Speaker 1: seven seven nine four one seven three. That's where you
17:23
Speaker 1: can always join the conversation with our friend Dana west
17:25
Speaker 1: Ben fired up early here today. Maybe a few thoughts
17:27
Speaker 1: and suggestions for Arman's tailgate party.
17:29
Speaker 2: We'll get through all this this weekend. Yeah, we'll get
17:31
Speaker 2: through all this because Dan and west Ben like this,
17:33
Speaker 2: You're throwing a party. I love this.
17:35
Speaker 3: I wasn't planning on it, but maybe he's inspired me
17:37
Speaker 3: to with the the amount of detail and and effort
17:40
Speaker 3: he put into this text. I mean, I don't know, Dan,
17:42
Speaker 3: if you can't sleep, I'm sorry. We're here for you.
17:44
Speaker 3: You know, if you're up early thinking about these things,
17:47
Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
17:47
Speaker 1: I just think he was right waiting to rope drop
17:50
Speaker 1: the huddle. Yeah, mate, that's what most people. That's what
17:52
Speaker 1: most people do, like you, especially like you go to
17:55
Speaker 1: a theme park, you get there before it opens, so
17:58
Speaker 1: once they drop them ropes, you're the first one through
18:00
Speaker 1: the gates. Dan's are always every day, every one, lot
18:03
Speaker 1: of people are ready to do because the YouTube stream
18:05
Speaker 1: is already going up this morning, I'm talking about let's go.
18:08
Speaker 1: I see Tommy and Stallas is in there, so we
18:11
Speaker 1: get a lot of people in there and we have
18:13
Speaker 1: maybe my favorite text to get to on the other
18:16
Speaker 1: side about you know, talk about calling us out and
18:18
Speaker 1: we'd say we speak. We preach that this talking text
18:22
Speaker 1: line never closes, and it truly never does. We always
18:25
Speaker 1: see it and we always are able to bring it
18:27
Speaker 1: right back as a seven to one to five is
18:29
Speaker 1: giving us a great one and a callback from yesterday,
18:31
Speaker 1: and you want to talk about a windmill dunk right
18:33
Speaker 1: through the legs. Yeah, yeah, they're still playing.
18:37
Speaker 2: We'll get into it.
18:37
Speaker 1: On the other side, our friend armand sorry and is
18:39
Speaker 1: right there, Dave Gasper doing a phenomenal job in armand
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Speaker 1: seat as he takes over the big chair.
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Speaker 2: I'm Billy Schmid.
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Speaker 1: We're glad you're holding on with us, not holding on
18:48
Speaker 1: huddling up, because we're just getting started, as the friend
18:50
Speaker 1: Drew would say, just getting our shooting shirts off and
18:53
Speaker 1: just getting warmed up. It's the huddle on Fox Sports
18:55
Speaker 1: Radio Wisconsin one, Dave, we got some new here from
19:01
Speaker 1: the NFL. Not not like breaking news again the low
19:04
Speaker 1: tide season.
19:05
Speaker 2: The news in the NFL is the Vikings signed Juwan Jennings.
19:08
Speaker 1: That's a big I mean, come on, there's a couple
19:10
Speaker 1: of one year deal that might be worth thirteen million dollars.
19:13
Speaker 3: Okay, So we talked about the Packers and wide receiver
19:15
Speaker 3: depth a little bit. We talked about positions yesterday. This
19:18
Speaker 3: was one we you know, we said, hey, Stefan Diggs,
19:20
Speaker 3: Juwan Jennings. The Vikings pop for Juwan Jennings.
19:23
Speaker 2: So there you go.
19:24
Speaker 3: Division rival. Billy I mean, do they have to spend
19:27
Speaker 3: their money on Juwan Jennings. It's a one year deal,
19:30
Speaker 3: so it's not a huge risk.
19:31
Speaker 2: But one year.
19:31
Speaker 1: They lost Jalen Naylor, who caught a touchdown in the
19:36
Speaker 1: game against the Packers. A couple of years ago, he
19:38
Speaker 1: signed a three year deal with the Vegas Raiders in
19:41
Speaker 1: free agency.
19:42
Speaker 2: So this is a third third receiver replacement.
19:44
Speaker 3: Not a bad option for the Vikings at this time
19:46
Speaker 3: of the offseason to get this guy.
19:48
Speaker 2: Hat at all.
19:48
Speaker 1: And these are the kind of moves that you can make,
19:51
Speaker 1: albeit while they are strapped for cash, and that's why
19:55
Speaker 1: they had to get rid of guys like Javon Hargrave
19:57
Speaker 1: and Jonathan Allen, and maybe those guys weren't as productive
20:00
Speaker 1: as they thought they were going to be a year ago.
20:03
Speaker 1: When you got a quarterback on a rookie contract who's sitting,
20:06
Speaker 1: and a quarterback on a minimum contract for you because
20:10
Speaker 1: he's being paid thirty plus million from his former team,
20:13
Speaker 1: these are the kind of moves that I guess luxury
20:16
Speaker 1: pieces you can add or add in, but I think
20:19
Speaker 1: like the value is in is interesting because Jennings albeit
20:23
Speaker 1: came off an injured year a year ago and had
20:27
Speaker 1: the you know, before the season situation where he was
20:30
Speaker 1: holding out because he's like, listen, I cashed it off,
20:32
Speaker 1: a trying to cash it off, a contract year, great year,
20:34
Speaker 1: and everyone's like, well, brother, you're Jwan Jennings.
20:39
Speaker 2: Yes, right, Like it felt like there.
20:41
Speaker 1: Was that conversation in San Francisco of all of the
20:44
Speaker 1: mounds were feeding and Juwan Jennings is the one that's
20:47
Speaker 1: griping and holding out, Like we got Trent Williams over
20:50
Speaker 1: your first ballot Hall of Famer, you got Chris McCaffrey
20:52
Speaker 1: that we're trying to get back off of whatever the
20:54
Speaker 1: Achilles situation was.
20:56
Speaker 2: His attempts at a big money extension never really came through.
20:58
Speaker 1: Format realize at all a year ago an Armen Yeah,
21:05
Speaker 1: never hurts to ask, never hurts to ask.
21:07
Speaker 2: And he was like, you know, the worst they can
21:09
Speaker 2: say is no. I think he probably felt like, Hey,
21:12
Speaker 2: I mean I've done a lot for you guys. I've
21:13
Speaker 2: had big.
21:14
Speaker 3: Moments catching the ball, good season and a physical blocker.
21:18
Speaker 2: Things like the physical blocker. Yeah, I'm valuable to you guys.
21:21
Speaker 2: Let's get the extension.
21:22
Speaker 1: Rolling right does the dirty work as the As the
21:26
Speaker 1: ESPN story wraps, up with known as a physical blocker
21:29
Speaker 1: who has a tendency to agitate opponents. Well that's for sure, right, Like,
21:33
Speaker 1: I mean he is one thousand percent an agitator and
21:36
Speaker 1: has gotten into a number of different scuffles. I think
21:39
Speaker 1: it was Deron Pain last year that just waited for
21:42
Speaker 1: him to walk by and popped him right in the mouth.
21:44
Speaker 1: So like he can be that guy. Adds some definite
21:47
Speaker 1: spice to the two Packers Vikings matchups, but.
21:50
Speaker 2: Just interesting value.
21:52
Speaker 1: I mean, he comes off a year again injured, dinged
21:54
Speaker 1: up fifty five catches, six just under six hundred and
21:58
Speaker 1: fifty yards and nine touchdowns for one year deal worth
22:02
Speaker 1: around fifty thirteen million dolls at most thirteen million. I
22:06
Speaker 1: mean those numbers fifty five catches, fifty five catches, nine
22:11
Speaker 1: touchdowns compared to six touchdowns, seven hundred and twenty four
22:15
Speaker 1: yards compared to six hundred and forty yards. Yeah, those
22:18
Speaker 1: are Romeo Dobbs numbers compared to Juwan Jennings a year ago,
22:22
Speaker 1: and like even Jennings' biggest year in twenty four where
22:25
Speaker 1: he's a quarter shy of a thousand yard season on
22:31
Speaker 1: over one hundred targets in fifteen games, played Dead Dwarfs
22:35
Speaker 1: any of the year that Romeo Dobbs had biggest production wise.
22:39
Speaker 1: Now there's a difference in age, right, I think Jawan's
22:41
Speaker 1: going into gonna be twenty nine when the season starts.
22:45
Speaker 1: Dobbs will be twenty six when the season starts. Gonna
22:48
Speaker 1: through twenty six here coming up here pretty soon. But
22:50
Speaker 1: like the different productions, Dobs signed a four year deal
22:54
Speaker 1: worth up to seventy million dollars a couple of days
22:56
Speaker 1: into free agency. Jennings didn't exactly get what he wanted. Waited, waited, waited,
23:02
Speaker 1: And now the Vikings you got to shop in the
23:04
Speaker 1: Kirkland brand. This this feels like the discount table right
23:08
Speaker 1: before you get into the liquor department.
23:10
Speaker 2: And this is it.
23:11
Speaker 1: Right, weird You wait long enough, right, he'll put that
23:15
Speaker 1: reduced label right on you.
23:16
Speaker 2: And the Vikings were the first ones there to shop at.
23:18
Speaker 2: And that's what it is. And I gotta be honest,
23:20
Speaker 2: I think they got good value. Now I think it's
23:22
Speaker 2: skewed a little.
23:23
Speaker 3: Bit because as a Packers fan, I remember what he
23:25
Speaker 3: did against us in the playoffs two years ago. Like
23:27
Speaker 3: he I don't know what he had and probably like
23:29
Speaker 3: five catches, but it felt like a million and it
23:31
Speaker 3: felt like every big catch he had, it felt like
23:33
Speaker 3: he was killing us.
23:34
Speaker 2: So you're a little bit skewed on that.
23:35
Speaker 3: It's like the whole soupon thing, like when he would
23:37
Speaker 3: dominate the brewers constantly.
23:39
Speaker 2: So we had a more inflated opinion of him.
23:41
Speaker 3: And I keep thinking about that playoff game in twenty four.
23:44
Speaker 3: But to get this deal for Juwan Jennings, I don't
23:47
Speaker 3: think it's bad. I think the Romeo Dobbs comparison is
23:49
Speaker 3: interesting because yeah, he's been a little more banged up
23:51
Speaker 3: and a little bit older, but Billy, the production's been there,
23:55
Speaker 3: and just the question remains now for the Vikings is
23:57
Speaker 3: you know what type of quarterback will be throwing to him?
24:00
Speaker 3: And that's gonna be the constant question for them. But
24:02
Speaker 3: number three receiver, I know they had the young guy
24:05
Speaker 3: as well. That the draft pick. I'm blanking on his
24:08
Speaker 3: name right now. That seemed pretty good or sorry, Madison
24:10
Speaker 3: tie Felton tie Felton, Yeah, a couple of years ago. Yes, right,
24:13
Speaker 3: and Jordan, So I mean they've got they've got some
24:16
Speaker 3: options there. I don't think it's a bad pick to make,
24:19
Speaker 3: and if you get a motivated version of him too,
24:22
Speaker 3: because he felt like you should get paid.
24:23
Speaker 2: Sure, that could be that could be a point.
24:25
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily know that it's all that hot of
24:27
Speaker 1: a take. They have the best wide receiver room in
24:30
Speaker 1: the division before this.
24:33
Speaker 2: Because they have the medicine.
24:34
Speaker 1: Because any wide receiver room that the headlines with Justin
24:36
Speaker 1: Jefferson is gonna be a hard one to beat. Uh
24:39
Speaker 1: and and Jordan Addison is is the best number two
24:42
Speaker 1: right Like, if you look around what he has done
24:45
Speaker 1: already in the league.
24:46
Speaker 2: And who he was coming into the league.
24:48
Speaker 1: Now, as long as he's staying awake, he's he's one
24:51
Speaker 1: of the most dynamic guys that you can have in
24:53
Speaker 1: that spot. So like it adds to a strength of
24:56
Speaker 1: their team, albeit maybe one of the most fast teams
25:00
Speaker 1: in the league this year at the vikings because two
25:03
Speaker 1: years ago they're four quarters away from hosting and having
25:08
Speaker 1: home field advantage throughout the playoffs with an eventual Super
25:12
Speaker 1: Bowl winning quarterback.
25:14
Speaker 2: And then miss.
25:16
Speaker 1: The playoffs whole firestorm blow out the GM bring in
25:20
Speaker 1: a guy who formed a number one overall, pick a
25:23
Speaker 1: quarterback and feel like you're resetting. But John Horse said
25:29
Speaker 1: for the Milwaukee Bucks the other day. This is not
25:31
Speaker 1: about rebuilding, This is about building. I don't know where
25:33
Speaker 1: the Vikings would say in this situation. Yeah, because I
25:36
Speaker 1: think that there's they got so many veterans on that team,
25:39
Speaker 1: and in all reality, as much as I love Kevin O'Connell,
25:42
Speaker 1: he's not won a playoff game. I wonder what the
25:46
Speaker 1: what the level of pressure and urgency feels like there
25:50
Speaker 1: is for Minnesota to say, hey, this is actually the
25:54
Speaker 1: team that we are. It's not a great peaking in
25:57
Speaker 1: Week seventeen a couple of years ago.
25:59
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great question, because I think we all
26:00
Speaker 3: feel like they're well coached.
26:02
Speaker 2: The Kevin O'Connell's very good. We've given him our props.
26:04
Speaker 3: But in terms of actual playoff production, yeah, he hasn't
26:08
Speaker 3: had that yet. And there's gonna be a point where
26:10
Speaker 3: it's like, okay, eventually you have to perform for us.
26:13
Speaker 3: But then, how much does the situation at quarterback either
26:16
Speaker 3: absolve him, say, look, what's he supposed to do? He's
26:18
Speaker 3: got the situation at quarterback and you can't win without
26:20
Speaker 3: a good quarterback, or also, we don't really know this,
26:24
Speaker 3: how much does it fall on him as blame because
26:27
Speaker 3: he's been part of that situation. Now, what we don't
26:29
Speaker 3: know is how much influence he's had over the decision
26:31
Speaker 3: making there, because that was definitely somebody fumbled that in
26:35
Speaker 3: Minnesota and some you know, guys have lost their jobs obviously,
26:38
Speaker 3: so somebody messed that thing up. And if it's like
26:40
Speaker 3: if Minnesota's going with the coach over the GM here,
26:43
Speaker 3: then he has to start performing as well. But that
26:45
Speaker 3: could be the one thing that always absolves Kevin O'Connell's like,
26:48
Speaker 3: you know what, look what he did without anything good
26:50
Speaker 3: at quarterback. Look and he's got this talented team and
26:52
Speaker 3: you know they found a way to win this many games,
26:54
Speaker 3: but you know, you can't really win without a qui
26:56
Speaker 3: because you can't really blame him. So that's gonna be
26:58
Speaker 3: an interesting thing to follow ability as well, because they
27:01
Speaker 3: are such an enigma. They are a team that's super talented,
27:04
Speaker 3: accepted the most important position, which obviously holds them back.
27:07
Speaker 3: So I know ESPN had their list for every team
27:10
Speaker 3: of what their biggest need was remaining need depth, need,
27:14
Speaker 3: what position, what hole they have following the draft, and
27:17
Speaker 3: for the Vikings it was receiver. So in theory, I
27:19
Speaker 3: guess they've sort of figured that out as much as
27:22
Speaker 3: they can because their biggest, biggest hole is the signal caller.
27:27
Speaker 3: But they can't really just fix that here in May
27:29
Speaker 3: and listen, Taylor Honeck's retired now, so that ain't gonna happen.
27:33
Speaker 2: Yeah.
27:33
Speaker 1: I also think the part of the signal caller thing
27:36
Speaker 1: is like it's difficult to think that they haven't at
27:38
Speaker 1: least somewhat, but they definitely changed it.
27:40
Speaker 2: I don't know that they've fixed it.
27:43
Speaker 3: I think Kyler's better than the warm cheeks tag has
27:48
Speaker 3: been put into at least better than than like the
27:52
Speaker 3: guys would have played for the one year contract, the
27:55
Speaker 3: skeletal remains of Russell Wilson.
27:57
Speaker 2: I think Kyler Murray's better than.
27:58
Speaker 1: Right I start you started to kind of just piece
28:01
Speaker 1: it through of the guys that have gotten this moment.
28:05
Speaker 3: I think he's better than Is he better than Aaron
28:07
Speaker 3: right now? Because then will probably that's the other one.
28:11
Speaker 3: We'll see him probably in Pittsburgh.
28:12
Speaker 2: Which I think is I think he's definitely more athletic, younger,
28:15
Speaker 2: all those things definitely can move more definitely in that sense.
28:19
Speaker 1: And while I don't think Aaron's lost much on the throw.
28:23
Speaker 1: Kyler can make every throw like there is the dude
28:25
Speaker 1: that's thrown for twenty thousand yards in the league and
28:28
Speaker 1: over one hundred touchdowns right like.
28:29
Speaker 2: In a dome.
28:30
Speaker 3: If he can find that, then all of a sudden,
28:31
Speaker 3: they become a totally dangerous team that you didn't think
28:33
Speaker 3: about it.
28:34
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna be They're gonna be an explosive team.
28:36
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be one of the more fun
28:38
Speaker 1: teams to watch, albeit not that fun for Packers fans
28:41
Speaker 1: to watch see.
28:42
Speaker 2: Is that fair?
28:43
Speaker 3: That sucks because I was excited for them to start
28:45
Speaker 3: this like long slide into Meetia.
28:47
Speaker 1: Well, you picked them to lose the most games in
28:49
Speaker 1: the league a couple of years ago.
28:50
Speaker 3: Two years ago, I was I was one year off
28:53
Speaker 3: from them being bad. They were really I didn't expect.
28:55
Speaker 2: Darnold to do what he did.
28:56
Speaker 1: Is they also weren't that bad last year they were
28:58
Speaker 1: eight and nine.
28:59
Speaker 3: I know they weren't terrible. They got better as the
29:01
Speaker 3: year one on too big time.
29:03
Speaker 2: And they closed out.
29:03
Speaker 1: They closed out as maybe one of the hottest teams
29:06
Speaker 1: in football, albeit with Max Brosmer starting at quarterback. Because
29:11
Speaker 1: their defense was just that good on the on the
29:13
Speaker 1: back end, Juwan Jennings two passing touchdowns in his playoff
29:18
Speaker 1: career won in the Super Bowl. He was about to
29:21
Speaker 1: win Super Bowl MVP of Cop of years ago if
29:23
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs hold, don't come back and win
29:26
Speaker 1: that one in Las Vegas. You're talking about a guy
29:28
Speaker 1: that had a receiving touchdown, yeah, and a passing touchdown
29:31
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. That was gonna be a hard
29:33
Speaker 1: one to beat. That was gonna be a hard candidacy
29:35
Speaker 1: to top, and ends up that Patrick Mahomes had something
29:39
Speaker 1: to say about it. They lose twenty five to twenty
29:41
Speaker 1: two in overtime. He has been to a Super Bowl
29:44
Speaker 1: in his career. Does Juwan Jennings has one loss on
29:46
Speaker 1: his ledger? You mentioned the playoff game a couple of
29:48
Speaker 1: years ago in San Francisco after the Packers went in
29:51
Speaker 1: and beat the breaks off of the Dallas Cowboys right
29:55
Speaker 1: in the game. Had every opportunity to win that game
29:57
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. Juwan Jennings five catches sixty one yards
30:00
Speaker 1: and it felt like that every one of them for
30:02
Speaker 1: those were first down. Yeah, they felt like back breakers.
30:05
Speaker 1: And this might be my memory, but they felt like
30:07
Speaker 1: back breakers every time. So I'll say this, I mean,
30:09
Speaker 1: it sure looks like once again the North is gonna
30:12
Speaker 1: be a juggernaut of a division. Like there's no there's
30:14
Speaker 1: gonna be something to it. It's just you talk about
30:16
Speaker 1: with the Vikings, and it's true.
30:17
Speaker 3: Obviously the Bears, you know, don't feel poised to to
30:21
Speaker 3: take their next step, and the Lines are still very talented.
30:23
Speaker 3: So and we hope we think that we are too.
30:26
Speaker 3: And I think that that that's remains me seen. So
30:28
Speaker 3: it's gonna be another top in the division.
30:30
Speaker 1: Uh scares you the most going into twenty twenty sex
30:33
Speaker 1: oh oh, I think the answer that the answer to
30:36
Speaker 1: that question actually is us, the Green Bay Packers in
30:40
Speaker 1: the sense of a.
30:40
Speaker 2: Great way of harmonizing it, because I still wonder how talent,
30:44
Speaker 2: how talented we are.
30:45
Speaker 3: We lost some players last year right now, I still
30:47
Speaker 3: wonder if we're talented enough to make that next step
30:49
Speaker 3: at certain positions, I like even Ed Rusher, I'm like,
30:52
Speaker 3: do we have enough if Mike is not healthy? So
30:55
Speaker 3: in a lot of ways, I look I look at
30:58
Speaker 3: us as the team that scares the most. Not a
31:00
Speaker 3: cop out answer, but but but one.
31:03
Speaker 2: That I like Chicago Chicago. Okay, even though I picked them,
31:07
Speaker 2: and most of it is personal, it's ego because I picked,
31:10
Speaker 2: there's more scared and then you have to go through Yeah.
31:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I'm so boldly and loudly predicted that they're
31:19
Speaker 3: going to take a big, you know, slide back as
31:21
Speaker 3: a paper tiger that like, you know, I've said they're
31:23
Speaker 3: not going to go five hundred all that, So.
31:25
Speaker 2: Listen, I want to be I'm not gonna lie. I
31:27
Speaker 2: want to be right.
31:27
Speaker 1: So you already think you might be wrong, is what
31:30
Speaker 1: It kind of seems like.
31:31
Speaker 2: That's the one that wants to take them.
31:32
Speaker 3: It scares me the most because it has the most
31:35
Speaker 3: personal This is a this is an ego driven answer. Okay,
31:38
Speaker 3: it is the most personal issue for me so well,
31:42
Speaker 3: because they have they have a very dynamic player quarterback
31:45
Speaker 3: who can be at times, you know, really really good
31:49
Speaker 3: and at times he's inconsistent.
31:51
Speaker 2: But when he's when he's got the top end right.
31:53
Speaker 3: So like, if he has that top end, that means
31:55
Speaker 3: he has potential and the potential is fulfilled, then we
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Speaker 3: could be talking about a whole different threat.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And going into year three and year two with
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Speaker 1: year two with the play caller is generally the year
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Speaker 1: you see the different level of a leap.
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Speaker 2: That would be a tough leap to have to watch.
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Speaker 1: However, I love your answer of what scares you the
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Speaker 1: most in the NFC North It's the Green Bay package,
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Speaker 1: It's us. Is that the same for you? At eight
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Speaker 1: seven seven seven nine four one nine seven three. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna dig into more of that. On the other side,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna needle at that a little bit because it
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Speaker 1: also feels like you may have not given me the
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Speaker 1: right answer than yesterday. My feels like you might not
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Speaker 1: have given me your your truthful answer on where the
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Speaker 1: roster is yesterday, and we got more of that to
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Speaker 1: dig into it. Eight seven seven seven nine four one
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Speaker 1: nine seven three. He's armand sorry, and I'm Billy Schmid.
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Speaker 2: It's the huddle. We're huddle up with all of you
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Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
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Speaker 1: Department of Corrections is eight seven seven seven nine four
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Speaker 2: Thanks.
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Speaker 1: This one was also sent to us yesterday afternoon. So
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Speaker 1: get in that first hour seven to one, five set
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Speaker 1: Armen and Billy. There is an American Legion All Star
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Speaker 1: Game in Wisconsin on Sunday, August ninth at American Family Field.
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Speaker 2: I've heard of that stadium.
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Speaker 1: The Holy fifty fourth annual North All Stars versus the
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Speaker 1: South All Stars. Around sixty kids from the whole state
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Speaker 1: of Wisconsin. Our friend here says he's coached in it before,
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Speaker 1: had three nephews that played in it. All went on
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Speaker 1: to play Division one baseball. There's a motel check in
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Speaker 1: at the Renaissance Hotel Saturday, four o'clock and a night
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Speaker 1: banquet at the Revel Hall semi formal with a professional speaker.
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Speaker 2: I'm excited to hear who the professional speaker is. M Tie.
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Speaker 2: That's what I like to hear. You can wear the
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Speaker 2: jacket with the All Stars. Want that today?
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Speaker 1: Want none of the All Stars want don't put them
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Speaker 1: in a clip on top. But they're cool wearing a
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Speaker 1: blazer like it'll look cool like I don't know, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: for sure.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: It's a huge honor with awards and a recognition of
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Speaker 1: accomplishments for players, coaches and cities in their programs. There's
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Speaker 1: then documentation of the annual event for all previous players herefore, okay.
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Speaker 2: Let's hear it.
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Speaker 1: How about our seventy going full DX. I got two
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Speaker 1: words for you, arman, sorry and yeah, fuck it right there,
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Speaker 1: and to make sure that you knew exactly in Yeah, Hey,
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Speaker 1: they're American Legion baseball. Yeah, they're playing American Legion baseball,
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Speaker 1: American field. It's pretty important because it's being played at
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Speaker 1: American Family Field.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's still happening. I'm happy to hear this. I
34:45
Speaker 2: wasn't like disrespecting it. I was just saying that they
34:47
Speaker 2: still play it, and apparently they do it now. I'm great.
34:50
Speaker 3: I'm happy to know that they're doing that, that it's productive,
34:53
Speaker 3: that it's flourishing, that it's thriving.
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Speaker 2: It's an American family field. I'm sure it's gonna be
34:56
Speaker 2: a great ball game.
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Speaker 3: He's got nephews there I'm happy to talk about I'm
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Speaker 3: happy he's talking about the check in at the hotel,
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Speaker 3: the dress code, you got all.
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Speaker 1: The info there, A lot different from the guy that said, no,
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Speaker 1: it's Legion Ball.
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Speaker 2: What is this? Why? I just didn't know that. I
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Speaker 2: think I said like fifty to fifty four. I didn't
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Speaker 2: know you said fifty four. This has been going on
35:16
Speaker 2: for fifty four years. I'm just great. Sounds like a
35:18
Speaker 2: great banquet, though, Eden, send us the menu for the banquet.
35:21
Speaker 2: I mean, we had so much he's not going this year.
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Speaker 2: He had three fews that played in it before, not
35:24
Speaker 2: this year. Well, he had so much detailed information about
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Speaker 2: this event that I figured at the full menu of
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Speaker 2: the night bank.
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Speaker 1: Well, like you said, there's there's a documentation of it.
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Speaker 1: Why don't you big radio guy, big computer guy over
35:36
Speaker 1: there with your Milwaukee PC.
35:38
Speaker 2: Big computer.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, big computer guy with your Milwaukee PC
35:41
Speaker 1: and your Milwaukee PC look it up on.
35:44
Speaker 2: That handy dandy laugh.
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Speaker 3: I just want to know if we're gonna have salad, soup, dessert,
35:47
Speaker 3: you know, along with the I got the dress code
35:50
Speaker 3: and everything here. No congratulations to all that are participating playing.
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Speaker 2: I'm just gonna be a great event. I'm sure. I'm
35:57
Speaker 2: don't think I'm going to the game.
35:59
Speaker 3: Well, maybe I can say, you know what, actually the
36:02
Speaker 3: Packers playing preseason.
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Speaker 1: Dave can I can I say this and let me
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Speaker 1: know if you think so. I don't think Rmon's invited. No, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't know that you're in the way that you
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Speaker 1: talked about. American Legion Baseball, I don't know they want
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Speaker 1: you there.
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Speaker 2: They can't keep me out.
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Speaker 4: So generally, like how they've had it, like the Brewers,
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Speaker 4: like they'll do like a full like lineup announcement, like
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Speaker 4: before that game, they'll have all the American Legion All Stars.
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Speaker 4: They'll show them during the endings all wave on the
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Speaker 4: big screen, and then they play the game afterwards. So
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Speaker 4: maybe if you're at the game that day, you can
36:32
Speaker 4: like try and stick around and hope the ushers don't
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Speaker 4: kick you out, you know, because the.
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Speaker 3: All Star game is right after the Do you tell me,
36:41
Speaker 3: I'm sure it's open to the public if they want
36:43
Speaker 3: to go what.
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Speaker 4: I mean, probably not, like if they could just tell
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Speaker 4: them that, you know, hey, like I gotta that's playing.
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Speaker 2: For well, I mean, I'm media, they'll let me cover it.
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Speaker 2: Are you going to cover it, Dave.
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Speaker 4: You American Legion game, and I'll probably head home.
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Speaker 1: I think Dave, Dave will probably be covering, like I
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Speaker 1: don't know, the press conferences and in the conversation in
37:05
Speaker 1: the brewers.
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Speaker 3: All right, but after that he could go back on
37:08
Speaker 3: the press box and catch catch that.
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Speaker 1: Then he's writing, Then he's writing his reports, then he's
37:12
Speaker 1: doing his story. I'm not probably working. I'm the one
37:17
Speaker 1: that's trying to walk in here. Use this media tag.
37:19
Speaker 1: Get a free day to the ball game and a
37:21
Speaker 1: free twine night double ladder.
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Speaker 3: If the soda machine's on there too, hopefully, and then
37:25
Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on, but I've just figured
37:27
Speaker 3: he could cover It's a big deal.
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Speaker 2: I mean, i'd love Hey, maybe I could. Right.
37:31
Speaker 3: Packers aren't playing preseason that day, we don't know, but
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Speaker 3: they usually play Saturday or Friday.
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Speaker 1: Right here with the American Legion Wisconsin All Stars. You
37:40
Speaker 1: look up the American Legion twenty twenty six All Star Game.
37:43
Speaker 1: There's a ticket offer they can get. That's what I'm
37:45
Speaker 1: talking about. Let's go hear the excitement of the fifty
37:47
Speaker 1: four annual Wisconsin American Legion All Star Game.
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Speaker 2: Prior to Brewers and Twins, So prior.
37:54
Speaker 1: To Brewers and Twins after after the game, prior to
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Speaker 1: the Brewers and Twins game, our twenty twenty six Legion
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Speaker 1: Baseball and softball players will be announced on the field.
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Speaker 2: Then stay following. That's parton.
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Speaker 1: I should probably have read the whole thing and then
38:07
Speaker 1: been going through Stay then following the game to be
38:10
Speaker 1: able to get this. So thirty three bucks, you can
38:13
Speaker 1: take it to the game and then we'll get the
38:15
Speaker 1: super special.
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Speaker 2: Pass that will keep you there.
38:17
Speaker 1: Okay, So I believe you got to buy this one
38:20
Speaker 1: to then be able to stay for that.
38:21
Speaker 2: That's fair. That's a fair price. So there you go.
38:23
Speaker 2: I finally got my double header. Can I finally got
38:28
Speaker 2: my double ladder again? Yeah? I think that's a fair
38:30
Speaker 2: price for two games.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and for the second game, I mean you'll probably
38:34
Speaker 4: be on the field level. I mean that's a pretty
38:36
Speaker 4: good view that. Oh yeah, I mean they got.
38:38
Speaker 3: Good seats, is what I'm saying. You're not gonna be
38:40
Speaker 3: up in like Bernie's Terrace or something like that.
38:41
Speaker 2: You're not gonna be up there. This still call it
38:43
Speaker 2: that candy if you want to. I guess, Well, in all.
38:46
Speaker 1: Of these, All of these are hanging out in section
38:48
Speaker 1: two oh seven. I think that's where they're putting all
38:51
Speaker 1: the American Legion All stars in this group as they'll
38:54
Speaker 1: send and sell it out with this this squadron.
38:58
Speaker 2: So I think this is something that you might have
38:59
Speaker 2: to be.
38:59
Speaker 1: At August ninth. We probably shouldn't have though out of
39:04
Speaker 1: my early hunter bombguard esque producing of the schedule, that's
39:10
Speaker 1: predicting where the Packers preseason schedule would be.
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Speaker 2: That's the tough part the time. I'll do it for
39:15
Speaker 2: you right here.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna play some kind of game on the twenty
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Speaker 1: eighth or twenty ninth, last week of August, because that'll
39:20
Speaker 1: be the week before Labor Day, they will not play,
39:24
Speaker 1: so that I believe that August eighth will be Family Night.
39:28
Speaker 1: From my early prognostications, I would guess August eighth will
39:32
Speaker 1: be Family Night. The fourteenth, fifteenth will be week one,
39:35
Speaker 1: twenty second, twenty first or twenty first, twenty second will
39:37
Speaker 1: be Week two, twenty eight, twenty ninth would be the
39:39
Speaker 1: week three of the preseason, so you could easily go
39:41
Speaker 1: to this game.
39:41
Speaker 2: You'll have nothing going on the night before.
39:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, in my memory, there's not that many Sunday pre
39:46
Speaker 3: Sunday preseason games.
39:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, but guess possible.
39:48
Speaker 3: But that's what I'm saying. I'm telling you you think
39:50
Speaker 3: it should be. I did listen. I'm agreeing with him.
39:53
Speaker 3: I'm affirming what he's saying. I'm saying, yes, it's possible
39:56
Speaker 3: that I can go to that game.
39:58
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I mean I'm gonna I'll be trying to
40:00
Speaker 2: make the game so I can see two games at once.
40:02
Speaker 1: All right, So we are going to have to bookmark
40:05
Speaker 1: our text from the seven to one to five and
40:07
Speaker 1: actually call it back and see if Farman goes. Because
40:11
Speaker 1: I'm still rather skeptical that you're actually going to make
40:13
Speaker 1: it to this game.
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Speaker 3: Well that's fair. I mean you should be skeptical because
40:17
Speaker 3: I have to actually do it in three months, you know.
40:19
Speaker 3: But the ticket off for now. I was going to
40:21
Speaker 3: say you could buy it right now. Man, you can't ticket.
40:23
Speaker 3: You can't do that. What if? What if I can't go,
40:26
Speaker 3: I'm not going to commit the I'm sure the tickets
40:29
Speaker 3: will be available still.
40:31
Speaker 2: Well, no, this deadline ends July seventh. That's fine. For
40:36
Speaker 2: the package, that's fine. I'll be able to make a
40:37
Speaker 2: decision by then.
40:38
Speaker 1: Also, you asked about the menu here at the celebration
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Speaker 1: Full of Fat service.
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Speaker 2: We're here on the huddle. Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin,