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11-06-26 Hour 1 - Avs fall to Preds AGAIN/Carolina MiC (If You Had $150,000) joins us/Broncos can't lose focus in Carolina · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is Mosher Lombardi and Kane On Demand. Listen live
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  Speaker 2: Ideally, when you have a team that's now like that
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  Speaker 2: gets committed to something like tonight. Okay. And I think
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  Speaker 2: our intentions were in the right place. It looked like
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  Speaker 2: we were a little uptight and nervous with the pocket weed.
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  Speaker 2: Part of the turnovers is them doing a good job,
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  Speaker 2: and part of it, I think, is on us, right?
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  Speaker 2: So ideally, you'd like to get... you'd like to go
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  Speaker 2: play hard and get the result, right? Then it's an
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  Speaker 2: easy sell. But I think there's enough that we can
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  Speaker 2: show and some things that we can continue to improve on.
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  Speaker 2: I think they should feel good about their effort, you know,
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  Speaker 2: our effort. And that's where it starts for me. Now
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  Speaker 2: go repeat that same effort, clean some things up. This
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  Speaker 2: is a process where a game, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 3: 17... Spenard after the game as the Avalanche dropped one
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  Speaker 3: at home to Nashville. Their second loss to Nashville on
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  Speaker 3: the year. Did get a point out of it as
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  Speaker 3: that game was sent into overtime. But a different tone
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  Speaker 3: taken by the head coach. We talked to him on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 3: Very upset about the effort of his hockey team in
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  Speaker 3: their previous game. The effort was better. Did not result
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  Speaker 3: in a win. But, Moj, what did you think?
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was a better effort, too. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: thought it was a much better effort. So this is
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  Speaker 4: a game, Brett, where you out-shoot a team. You out-do this.
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  Speaker 4: You out-do that. You out-attempt them. You played much better
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  Speaker 4: in your own zone. That goal by the Pinchuk kid, wow.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, good for him. But that kid could do that, again,
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  Speaker 4: 100 times in a row and never hit the net.
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  Speaker 4: So you thought he was lucky? I mean, well, no. Well... Vic,
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  Speaker 4: at the National Hockey League level, all of these guys
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  Speaker 4: have skill. They all have creativity. They all have this
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  Speaker 4: kind of thing. But the odds of that puck going
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  Speaker 4: top shelf next to Blackwood's ear and hitting top shelf
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  Speaker 4: are pretty small. But give the kid credit. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: he did a good job there. And when you blindly
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  Speaker 4: wheel with a backhand top shelf, that's just– It doesn't
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  Speaker 4: happen that often, but this is the kind of game
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  Speaker 4: in the regular season, like let's say it's January 6th.
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  Speaker 4: You play hard, you out-chance a team, you out-do everything
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  Speaker 4: to a team, but you end up losing because a
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  Speaker 4: kid hits a thing, they take it to overtime, so
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  Speaker 4: on and so forth. You take a penalty if you're Devontaeves.
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  Speaker 4: It was unfortunate in that regard, but a much better effort, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Blackwood was phenomenal.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I thought he was great.
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  Speaker 5: He made some great saves. Here's the thing.
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  Speaker 4: I agree.
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  Speaker 5: They played harder. They played with more effort. But one
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  Speaker 5: thing that's happening that I'm not used to seeing is this.
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  Speaker 5: I'm used to seeing the Avs goalie in a lot
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  Speaker 5: of these games just sort of chill. Yeah, just chill
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  Speaker 5: and sit back there while the offense just goes to work.
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  Speaker 5: Avs goalies are having to do a lot of work
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  Speaker 5: this year.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a great point, Vic.
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  Speaker 5: They're having to do a lot. I mean, if Blackie
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  Speaker 5: doesn't make a few of those ridiculous saves, you don't
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  Speaker 5: know where that game goes. So I see there that's
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  Speaker 5: the difference for me. It's in that a lot of
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  Speaker 5: these games in years past, we've seen, oh, man, are
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  Speaker 5: they even going to get a shot on goal against
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  Speaker 5: the Avs? They're just living in the offensive zone. And
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  Speaker 5: last night, it's more equal. You know, the teams are
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  Speaker 5: getting those shots and great shots.
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  Speaker 4: Correct.
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  Speaker 5: That's where the breakdown exists.
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  Speaker 4: Well, let me try to clarify this for you now, too.
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  Speaker 4: Last year, the Colorado Avalanche led the league in goals
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  Speaker 4: for and goals against. Correct. Mm-hmm. Number one team in
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  Speaker 4: both categories. Brett, that would mean you're pretty good. Right
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  Speaker 4: now in goals against, they're 18th.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 4: So what does that tell you?
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  Speaker 5: That means there's a hell of a lot of pressure
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  Speaker 5: in that zone.
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  Speaker 4: That's exactly right. That is exactly right. I would also
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  Speaker 4: tell you this. Right now, they're still number two in
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  Speaker 4: the league in goals per game. They're right behind the
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  Speaker 4: Edmonton Oilers in goals per game. In fact, there are
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  Speaker 4: only two teams that average over four goals per game.
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  Speaker 4: It's the Avalanche and the Oilers, who, by the way,
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  Speaker 4: their power play is also, you know, ultra dynamic, clipping
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  Speaker 4: along at 34% a month into the season. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: that's crazy, right? That's a really high percentage. That's got
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  Speaker 4: to come down at some point. But that's how they eat.
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  Speaker 4: They eat five on five, but they also eat on
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  Speaker 4: the power play. The abs just eat five on five,
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  Speaker 4: which is a good thing, but they need to start
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  Speaker 4: taking care of their own zone even better than they
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  Speaker 4: did last night.
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  Speaker 6: See, that's the deal though for me is.
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  Speaker 3: It just feels like if you got marginally better on
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  Speaker 3: your special teams, then it would be an insane equalizer.
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  Speaker 3: You know, everybody talks about the power play. The power
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  Speaker 3: play is, It's not great, but it was terrible last year.
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  Speaker 6: They aren't terrible.
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  Speaker 4: They're middle of the road.
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  Speaker 3: I think they're at exactly 20% now on the year.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the last few years, previous to last season,
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  Speaker 3: they were, what, 24% somewhere in that ballpark?
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  Speaker 4: Which would be, listen, in the 20s, I can live
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  Speaker 4: with it. If you're in the mid-20s, I can live
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  Speaker 4: with that. That's because you have a ton of talent. Well,
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  Speaker 4: that's what I'm saying. So, like, it's not great, but
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  Speaker 4: it's not terrible. It's sort of middle of the pack.
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  Speaker 3: The big thing to me this year is they were
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  Speaker 3: the number one team in the league on the penalty
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  Speaker 3: kill last year. They're sitting at, like, 17th this season.
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  Speaker 3: And you look at a game like last night, well,
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  Speaker 3: if it's 2-2, you have three power plays, you score none,
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  Speaker 3: but you give up a power play goal.
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  Speaker 4: Correct.
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  Speaker 6: There's your margin.
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  Speaker 4: That's exactly right, Brett. We don't need to overthink this.
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  Speaker 4: We don't need to try and overturn stones that don't
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  Speaker 4: need to be overturned. It's right there in front of
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  Speaker 4: your face. You're not defending as well. You're just not.
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  Speaker 4: You're leaving your... And by the way, I guess, could
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  Speaker 4: your goalies be better? I don't even know that they
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  Speaker 4: need to be, to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 6: They're playing good.
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  Speaker 4: I think Wedgie and Blackwood both had sort of a
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  Speaker 4: difficult night in Columbus. I mean, the whole team had
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  Speaker 4: a difficult night. But I think that if you give
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  Speaker 4: them just a little bit more help, that's going to
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  Speaker 4: help everybody. And that starts in your own zone. You
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  Speaker 4: need to defend better. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: And.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the record is not something that's like overly
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  Speaker 3: concerning or anything like that. They're what a game above
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  Speaker 3: 500 in total. It just feels like there's a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more that's been left on the table in a
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  Speaker 3: lot of these games that you could go get. if
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  Speaker 3: you ignore the terrible games, your Columbuses, the first game
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  Speaker 3: against Nashville, if you ignore that, the games that you've lost,
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  Speaker 3: it just feels like you're a couple of things away
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  Speaker 3: from being right back to where you should be.
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  Speaker 4: That's correct.
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  Speaker 6: And you just aren't making those.
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  Speaker 4: I hope, I mean, this is me, I'm hoping that
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  Speaker 4: what they're going through right now to start the season
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  Speaker 4: is sort of like a mid-season skid, not skid, but
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  Speaker 4: mid-season blues, so to speak. I got the midseason blues.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I'm hoping. I hope it's not something deeper.
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  Speaker 4: I hope it's not something more serious.
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  Speaker 6: Like what?
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  Speaker 4: Like a fundamental problem with the roster? Well, like maybe
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  Speaker 4: one year makes a big difference. Like maybe they've aged out.
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  Speaker 4: Like maybe, you know, whatever the case may be. And
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  Speaker 4: I don't think, listen, I don't think that's the case
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  Speaker 4: because I've seen times where This team, I mean, already
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  Speaker 4: this season, they're quick. They're fast. They're right to the puck.
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  Speaker 4: They're tape to tape. Their heads are all into it.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they're jazzed. When the Avalanches play, quote, jazzed hockey,
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  Speaker 4: that's what I call it. Snap your fingers.
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  Speaker 5: I can't do my left.
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  Speaker 6: Figure it out, Vic.
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  Speaker 4: Does anybody snap their fingers?
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  Speaker 7: My left is muted.
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  Speaker 4: Does anybody snap fingers anymore?
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  Speaker 5: At all?
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  Speaker 2: Ever?
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  Speaker 6: This is going to sound really stupid.
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  Speaker 3: I heard someone explain what the sound from snapping comes from.
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  Speaker 5: My genetically malformed thumbs aren't allowing me.
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  Speaker 4: To do it.
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  Speaker 3: Brett, it's your middle finger hitting the bottom of your palm.
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  Speaker 3: It's not the actual snap. It's when your middle finger
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  Speaker 3: hits the palm.
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  Speaker 4: I think you break the speed of sound.
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  Speaker 5: I want to be a 60s boy band.
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  Speaker 4: No, that's a doo-wop.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean a 60s boy band?
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  Speaker 4: It's doo-wop. That's 50s. Anyway. That's pretty good. When the
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  Speaker 4: abs are playing. No, no. All right, go ahead.
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  Speaker 6: Sorry, Mosher, go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: When they're playing that jazzed-up hockey, dude, they can roll teams.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, absolutely roll over them. And when they're just
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  Speaker 4: sort of, eh, you take him. Nah, you take him.
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  Speaker 4: Then it ain't nearly as good.
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  Speaker 5: A couple things that I've noticed, right, the first one
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  Speaker 5: was the shots given up and the amount of time
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  Speaker 5: you're spending just getting the puck out of your own zone.
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  Speaker 4: That's different.
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  Speaker 5: The PK has been a... I mean, I'm afraid to
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  Speaker 5: go on the power play anymore because the other team's
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  Speaker 5: going to get a great shot on goal at some point.
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  Speaker 4: Late last night, did you see that?
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  Speaker 5: That opportunity?
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  Speaker 6: Is that like shorthanded goals?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I was like, what is, there's some breakdowns there. The
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  Speaker 5: last thing that sort of worried me watching last night,
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  Speaker 5: the power's still there. Man, sometimes it's just, I'm going
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  Speaker 5: to use the word, puck luck. Taves had that goal scored.
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  Speaker 7: It was over.
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  Speaker 5: The game was over. The game was over. And this
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  Speaker 5: is the way the season has gone. I mean, the
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  Speaker 5: sound of that, it wasn't a ping.
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  Speaker 4: It was a whomp.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, to hit center square on that. Okay, so
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  Speaker 3: a few things kind of on that. When you talk about,
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  Speaker 3: you know, shorthanded opportunities, this is what... I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if we've talked about this before, Moj, but it feels
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  Speaker 3: like the Avs just get frustrated and they try and
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  Speaker 3: make a pass through traffic, but on the power play, everybody's...
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  Speaker 3: All your momentum is leaning forward. Everybody's trying to go
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  Speaker 3: to the net because everybody has the capability of scoring.
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  Speaker 3: And if you try and throw it in between traffic
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  Speaker 3: and it gets booted out, well, now everybody's being sent
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  Speaker 3: the opposite direction and your weight is shifted away from
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  Speaker 3: your goalie.
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  Speaker 6: And this happens all the time. All the time.
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  Speaker 4: That is also correct, Brett. That's a thing where you're
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  Speaker 4: going this way. This is why puck management and control...
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  Speaker 4: is so valuable in these types of situations. You try
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  Speaker 4: to force something that, well, it might be there for
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  Speaker 4: a split second, but maybe either you're forcing it through
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  Speaker 4: something that isn't there, and you hope that it's there,
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  Speaker 4: it's a hope play, or it is there, yet your indecisiveness,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, this game happens, guys, At. 2 seconds, everywhere
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  Speaker 4: on the ice. I mean, nanoseconds, this game, either things
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  Speaker 4: work or they don't work in nanoseconds. That's how good
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  Speaker 4: this league is nowadays. And that's how fast these guys
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  Speaker 4: are nowadays. That's where the sticks, it's either, how many
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  Speaker 4: times have you seen the puck just like skate right
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  Speaker 4: by a stick or right by a skate blade and
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  Speaker 4: then onto somebody's stick and then it's rammed home? It
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  Speaker 4: happens in inches. And so it's either, not there and
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  Speaker 4: you hope that it is, or it is there and
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  Speaker 4: you're just indecisive and it doesn't get through. And then
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  Speaker 4: you're right. You're you're everybody's going downhill yet, but the
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  Speaker 4: puck is now going uphill and the people who recognize
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  Speaker 4: it are the other guys because they just made the play.
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  Speaker 4: And now it's a two on one or it's a
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  Speaker 4: breakaway or whatever it may be. You're right. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: to me, all that's happening and that's, it's also a
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  Speaker 4: sign of a team that's being aggressive and going and
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  Speaker 4: attacking and yet you made a bad decision. Everything is
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  Speaker 4: going right, 99% right, but a bad decision or a
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  Speaker 4: great play or whatever, and now it's a terrible decision
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  Speaker 4: and it's going the other way.
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  Speaker 3: Two things that need to stop for the Avs, two things.
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  Speaker 3: Number one, you've been down 1-0 in five of your
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  Speaker 3: last six games. The only game in which you didn't
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  Speaker 3: give up the first goal was Calgary.
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  Speaker 6: That's got to stop. You've got to stop playing from
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  Speaker 6: behind early.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: And I know that they answered pretty quick last night
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  Speaker 3: with the Jaden Schwartz goal, but still, you're down 1-0.
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  Speaker 3: Get on the board first, number one. Number two, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if this is some sort of curse or
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  Speaker 3: penance that you need to pay to the hockey gods.
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  Speaker 3: How come every former Avs scores a goal against the
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  Speaker 3: Avs this year?
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  Speaker 6: What's going on?
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  Speaker 4: Or it's twice now that you've been beaten by Onanen.
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  Speaker 5: Why is it that every opponent has a former Avs goalie?
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  Speaker 7: They're all over the place.
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  Speaker 4: Double-Dip-A-Roo.
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  Speaker 3: We've cycled through quite a bit here over the last
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  Speaker 3: few years, but.
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  Speaker 6: Ross Colton gets on the board.
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  Speaker 3: Onanen, 30 saves on 32 shots.
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  Speaker 4: I don't like this penance. Val scored the other night.
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  Speaker 4: Charlie Coyle scored twice. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: They're all scoring.
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  Speaker 5: Tell me, though, when you saw Onanen in net... And,
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  Speaker 5: by the way, how was... How was Bucci pronouncing his name?
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  Speaker 5: He said, like, Onanen?
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  Speaker 4: Onion?
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  Speaker 6: I didn't like.
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  Speaker 3: Bucciaross' Dos Equis look that he had going on last night.
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  Speaker 3: Most interesting man in the world thing.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't see that.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, he was.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, he is very white. Like, his hair
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  Speaker 3: and beard, incredibly white.
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  Speaker 5: You, the translucent man.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 6: His beard color.
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  Speaker 3: Not the skin tone. His beard color is really white,
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  Speaker 3: number one. But, Moe, as you saw, right, he had
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  Speaker 3: like this... Why don't you describe the maroon getup he had?
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  Speaker 6: What is that called?
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  Speaker 3: He looked like the most, the Dos Equis guy, the
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  Speaker 3: most interesting man in the world.
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  Speaker 5: That's not the point. The point is every time I
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  Speaker 5: saw Anan in net, I kept thinking about that double dipperoo,
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  Speaker 5: which is the finest double dipperoo we've ever gotten on
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  Speaker 5: this show.
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  Speaker 6: Double dipperoo. It's very good. Hey, coming up. Vic, you
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  Speaker 6: asked for it. You got it. Our guy. Carolina MIC.
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  Speaker 6: I don't even know what his real name is. We'll
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  Speaker 6: figure it out in a few minutes.
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  Speaker 3: But if you guys don't know what we're talking about,
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  Speaker 3: this man is going to join us in about five minutes.
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  Speaker 6: Give him a taste, Nellie.
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  Speaker 7: I'm going to be honest with you. I have no
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  Speaker 7: idea what we're going to talk to this guy about.
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  Speaker 7: Me neither.
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know who he is. I don't know what
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  Speaker 7: he does. I just know he's got a bedroom set
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  Speaker 7: up with.
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  Speaker 4: A disco ball, some sweet lasers. And there he is.
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  Speaker 4: In a badass mix.
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  Speaker 6: So we're going to talk to him in just a
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  Speaker 6: couple of minutes. Stick around.
• 15:32
  Speaker 7: Had $ 150, 000. Spent $ 150, 000 on a football team. The minute
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  Speaker 7: that's not enough to buy a team. Spent $ 150, 000 on
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  Speaker 7: a tricked out Porsche.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, what?
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  Speaker 7: Minnesota, it snows too much. Build me a tennis court
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  Speaker 7: outside my house. But the HOA is going to make
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  Speaker 7: me tear it down. Might give me some Panthers season ticks.
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  Speaker 6: It is our Taylor Swift.
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  Speaker 4: Play the frigging hit. Play the hit. You had $ 150, 000.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: So that man right there, his name is Carolina M.I.C.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: First of all, thank you for joining the show.
• 16:36
  Speaker 7: What is your name?
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: What should we call you?
• 16:40
  Speaker 7: Mike is fine.
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: Mike?
• 16:41
  Speaker 7: The M.I.C. comes from my name, Michael. Mike double entendre.
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: That's good stuff. Um, first off, before we get into
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: the lyrics, which are superb, but it snows too much
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: in Minneapolis. It's just great stuff. Um, how did you
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: come up with the actual tune itself? How long in
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: the lab? Because, you know, we've spent a lot of
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: time in our own lab here.
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: Oh, we got to, we got to play Carolina. Yeah.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: Some of our lab. Yeah.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: We'll do that later. How'd you come up? Like how
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: long did it take to come up with that?
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: Um, Wow. Countless hours, days. No, actually, okay, here's the
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: real deal. I was on a quest to create 30
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: songs in 30 days. Like, one of my mentors said,
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: you know, try that. And this was back 2023 or so.
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: And I got to, like, song six, seven-ish. And this
• 17:34
  Speaker 7: beat was, like, beat number two. Song two of 30. And,
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: I mean, it took, you know, a couple of days
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: to come up with the beat.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: And then another couple of days to come up with
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: the first verse. And then that first verse blew up.
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: And then people wanted more. And so then I added
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: the second verse. And then it just kept taking off.
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: Well, I can't wait for the other 29 tracks to
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: come out, to.
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: Be honest with you.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, man.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: Me too.
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: You got your first customers right here. I'll tell you
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: that much.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: Mike, I don't know how we found you. I mean,
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: I guess it was social media. But it was like
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: when you first dropped it is kind of when we
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: picked it up. And then I don't know how often
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: we've played it, but we play it a lot all
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: the time.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: A genius finds genius.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: I recognize the kids.
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: Is that Steven right there? Or Nelly, as we call it?
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: Nelly's in the background. He's hiding in the shadows.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: There he is right there. Oh, what up?
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: There you go.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been your correspondence over the last, I don't
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: know how long, month, month and a half, whatever it is.
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah. I appreciate it. Thank you for the spends.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: Carolina, Mike, you know, they got off to a pretty
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: good start. They looked good last year. We speak of
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: the Carolina Panthers here. what kind of a fan are you?
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: Are you like one of these? I'm at every game.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: I'm watching every game where you just sort of like,
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: tell us about your fandom of the Carolina Panthers.
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: I mean, have you seen my weekly video? Like my,
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: the weekly videos turned into daily videos for leading up
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: to the Broncos game. Um, my, my setup back here,
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: you've seen my setup. I got a giant Panthers flag
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: hanging in my, uh, in my living room next to
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: a Hornets flag. Um, and if I could go to
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: every game, I would be at every game. Like, you know,
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: if I were independently wealthy, I.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: Mean, yeah, if you had a hundred thousand, there you go.
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: I might need, I might need more than 150 K
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: to be independently wealthy.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: So, well, well, Nelly told me as you guys were
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: going back and forth that Broncos fans have been chirping
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: you heading into this game.
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: Hey, I told, I told you to ignore that.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: No, it's all good.
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: It's just, it's just fans being fans. It's, And it
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: comes with the territory, right? And it happens with every
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: week I do a video, there's always opposing teams that
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: get in there or teams that aren't even the opposing
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: team get on there. So, yeah, it's all love.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: What are you saying? You got like Jets fans just
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: jumping on your bacon for no reason? Is that it?
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: Well, no, not really Jets. It's usually like maybe a
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: team that has already beat us.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: Okay?
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: Or sometimes it's an unrelated team or a team that's
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: coming up. Haven't had any Jets fans hop in yet, though.
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: See, that's not what.
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: We do, Carolina Mike. We're here about embracing, engaging. We're
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: talking about the beauty of the game. Having said that,
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: where did you watch Super Bowl 50?
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: At my buddy's house. I call him Best Man John.
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: Shout out to Best Man John and Samantha and their fam. They're...
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: They're like my second fam. So how difficult to watch
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: was that for you? Next question.
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: So Mike, he.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Just played the fifth.
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: He did. That was, that was rough. It was rough.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: So while we got you, I think Nelly said that
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: we are capable of, could we get a live performance
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: of the song?
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: Is that something that is capable of happening?
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: We're going to try it. If the technology gods are
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: with us, we're going to fire up and hit that
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: second verse here.
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: Oh, dude, I want to hear this so bad.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: Let's go behind the music a little bit, though. How
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: do you produce this music? What engineering tactics.
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: Do you use here? Where did you do all this?
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: Bubble gum and duct tape. No, so it's all right
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: here where I'm sitting right now. This is where I
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: do it. This whole setup is new at my desk,
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: this little microphone setup. But this microphone that you see
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: and this pop filter, I had just been running it
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: into my closet across the way for the recording, and
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: I just do it all on my computer with Studio One.
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: I love it.
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: It's pretty straightforward.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: And I have a keyboard. Sure.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: All right, so listen.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: I know we're going to get into the music, and
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: we're going to show off ours, yours. We're going to
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: show off each other's. But before we get into that,
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: Tell us about this game. Should Bronco fans be worried?
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: Is this a trap game for Denver?
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: Hey, all I know is there's a reason why we
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: play the game. If it could be based off of
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: just chirping, that's one thing. But it's all played out
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: on the field. So we'll just see what happens.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: There's one thing these teams have in common, Carolina Mike.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: The Broncos and the Panthers both lead their respective divisions
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: right now. Carolina's three and four, and they lead the
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: NFC South. And I know that Carolina's got some talent there.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: So I'm just curious, injury-wise, where do they stand? What
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: should the Broncos be worried about offensively out of the Panthers?
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: Well, I'll be the first to tell you I am
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: not an X's and O's guy, so I'm not even
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: going to try and do that. I'm hyping up the fans,
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: and all I can tell you is this. The fans,
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: the Panthers fans, are going to have the bank rocking.
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: The TV announcers aren't even going to be able to
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: hear themselves, the in-game announcers, because every third down, it's
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: going to be off the chain.
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: I love it.
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: Be ready for that.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: Carolina, Mike, to be honest with you, In the last
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: four games, the Broncos are 9 for 48 on third down,
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: so it could be frigging dead quiet in that stadium.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: And I don't think it would make a difference because
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: they can't convert on third downs, but they continue to win,
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: and they continue to win, and they continue to win.
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: Before we give you a taste of– or before we
• 23:33
  Speaker 9: sing along– What we need is we need a professional
• 23:35
  Speaker 9: musician to sort of grade our lab, right?
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Yes, so– Should we just do a little bit of it? Yeah,
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: let's just give you a little bit. This is a
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: song that we made. This was back in 2021. The
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Nuggets were going into the playoffs. We made a song
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: about Michael Porter Jr. and the Nuggets as they headed
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: into the playoffs.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: And I wrote most of it on my computer. It
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: was just sort of up top of my head. And
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: then I had these guys come along for the ride.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: That's a bunch of crap.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: Just so you know where it came from.
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: So let's get the expert musical opinion from you on
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: our song. Go ahead, Nelly.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: It's 2021. Playoffs are coming. Nuggets on the man, but
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: they're still running. Got a mad child ready to go
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: and break out. Elevate his game, making fools want to
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: tap out. He'll drive the floor, he'll dunk on your head.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: He'll back you in the lane and lane up instead.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: And just when you slide and give him some room. Hipper, sucker,
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: step back, Jacob Bloom.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: You're on.
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you're on.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: He drops threes like I drop rhymes.
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: Joker smiling, handing dimes.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: Swatting fools in the nick of time.
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: My daughter says, ooh, he be fine.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: Stripped out of his hands in a block by Jokic.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Loose ball dozer.
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: All right, so that's just a taste.
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: Just in your.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Musical opinion, what do you think of our song?
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: Save me a seat at the Grammys.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: Oh, my man. He's blowing away.
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Listen, listen.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: Genius knows genius.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: I get it.
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: I understand that. I totally, I know he was vibing
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: with that.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: So, all right.
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: Nice work.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Carolina MIC, if we can, if you will indulge us
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: in a live performance of one of our favorite songs,
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: if we can make this happen, I'd love to hear it.
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: Let's see what we can do.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: What up, party people? I got a question. You ever
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: had $ 150, 000 in your hand?
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah, me neither.
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: Imagine if I did. That's exactly what I would do, y'all.
• 26:03
  Speaker 7: Check it out. Spend $ 150, 000 on a football team. Wait
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: a minute, that's not enough to buy a team. Spend $ 150, 000
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: on a tricked-out Porsche.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: Wait, what?
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: Minnesota, it snows too much. Build me a tennis court.
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: But the HOA's gonna make me tear it down. Might
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: get me some Panthers, C's, and D's. Just might get
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: a tiny home interstick. I get some Reese's, peanut butter cups. Hey, no,
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: I ain't sharing. I'm gonna eat them all up. Might
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: get me a plane and fly to Spain. Except I
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: don't even know how to fly a plane. Scratch that,
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna get me a big old bus. One big
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: enough for all of us, a double dutch. Get chased
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: by turkeys as we cruise around. Windows down, not up,
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: you can hear the sound.
• 26:39
  Speaker 9: If you.
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: Alright, y'all.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: So good! My man! So good!
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Give it up!
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: Give it up for Mike Carolina, M-I-C!
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: I cannot describe.
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: What that has done for me emotionally heading into this weekend.
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: I love it.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: That's what I'm here for. Carolina, Mike, here's a good part, too.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: I mean, look, Panthers are in the NFC, Broncos, AFC.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: They hardly see each other. There's no bad blood except
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: for Super Bowl 50. But other than that, there's no
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: bad blood. It's okay. We can all be friends, you know,
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: almost all the time. Cut out three and a half hours. Otherwise,
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: we're friends, right?
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean.
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: Can't we all just get along? I mean, it's football.
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: It's football, fun, family, friends, live, laugh, love.
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: Okay, so one.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: Last thing, and we appreciate the time and we appreciate
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: the performance. I'm going to step way out of bounds here.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: So I apologize before I even ask the question.
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: Oh, no.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: But you said you wanted to do 30 songs. I
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: don't know how long you're into the 30 songs.
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: One of them, if you could, if you want to,
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: if not, no big deal.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: I've been looking for this show to have a theme song,
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Motion Lombardi and Kane. If you wanted to do a
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: theme song for our show that we could play, you know,
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: heading into a segment or something, it's just an idea.
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: If not, no big deal.
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: Or just take the lyrics you already have for 150,000
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: and change them up for our show.
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Motion Lombardi and Kane, somewhere like that. Only if
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: you want to. Only if you want it.
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: Okay, I think it's going to cost you $ 150, 000.
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: Exactly.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: Hey, Brett, the lab doesn't work for free, okay? You
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: see what I'm saying?
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: I totally understand. Mike, thank you so much, man.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: It was a joy and a pleasure to talk to you,
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: and I hope we get a good game this weekend.
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: Fair enough. And you know what? I'll give some thought
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: to the— to the song lead-in that you talked about.
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: I think that could be interesting.
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: Oh, that would be really fun.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: And Nelly's got $ 150K for you, so don't worry about it.
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: Awesome.
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: Hey, thank you so much, man.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: Mike, good to see you, buddy.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Carolina MIC, that is Mike. The fact that we had
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: a live performance in the song.
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: We've had some tremendous guests on the show. I mean,
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: you can name names on some of the guests. We
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: had Jim Natz, Charles Barkley. But Carolina Mike doing a
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: live performance, I think you guys will agree, has eclipsed
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: anything we've ever had on this program.
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: There's no doubt.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: Nelly, round of applause.
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: Good job. I know you've been in correspondence with that
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: man for a while.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: It's truly incredible, by the way, that what you actually...
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: asked him, Vic, is something that's been weighing on my
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: mind about the actual game. I don't think the Broncos
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: are going to lose.
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: I think they win this game. This game has all
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: of the earmarks of your classic trap game.
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: It's a trap!
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: Truly.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: And we can get to that in just a couple
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: of minutes because there is, I think, a lot of
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: things to consider.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: You know what's so weird, Brett?
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: What's that?
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: Is I do feel more nervous about... I mean, I
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: was so confident last week against the Chiefs. I felt
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: so good. And I don't feel as good this week.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I just....
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: I'm kind of taking a wait-and-see attitude.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: I don't think the game– listen, this is the type
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: of game where if the Broncos don't do what you
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: want them to do, which is win comfortably, you're going
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: to be nervous again and you're going to say things
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: you regret again. But what else do you think is.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: Going to happen?
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: You're going into Carolina possibly without your two starting safeties.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Hufanga did return to practice on a limited basis.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: I don't know if that means he's going to play.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: And one thing the Panthers can do, one thing they
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: can do, their defense is terrible. So if you can't
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: get off offensively this week, I don't know what to
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: tell you. But they throw that ball around the yard
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: pretty well. They've got some guys who can run the ball.
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: I mean, what I'm trying to say is their offense
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: is pretty damn good. Their defense, basically their lion's light
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: is what they are. Their lion's 2.0. The funny thing
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: is their pass defense, now look, these numbers get really skewed.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: In the same way that Atlanta Falcons, their defensive numbers
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: are going to be very skewed by what happened last
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: week when the Bucs... threw for zero yards, and ran
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: for 300.
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: But that happened to Carolina the week before. The Bucs,
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: they won 43-13.
• 31:33
  Speaker 7: Same thing.
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: 50 passing yards and like 280 rushing yards. So the
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: numbers get skewed when that happens.
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: Let me fast forward to the end for you and
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: make it really easy, Bronco fans. Guess what? It's going
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: to be a tight game, and you're going to be nervous.
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: It's going to be like any Broncos game.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: Did you see what I just sent you? Did you
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: guys watch that yet? Oh, yeah.
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: That was funny. That was funny. Some of the text
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: coming in, by the way, Chris Crack. That's your name?
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: Chris Crack. Wait, wait.
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: He writes in.
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: Chris Smokes Crack. What did you say?
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: This is gold. Best guest ever. I had my kids
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: singing along to 150,000 on the drive to school. So
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: thank you.
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: I like this one, though, Vic. Wife in the middle
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: of the performance wants to know if the dogs have water.
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: Bleep them dogs.
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  Speaker 5: Some people didn't like the guest. You guys were laughing
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: way too hard at his jokes.
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: Because he's a kind man. You show him kindness in return.
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: Save me a seat at the Grammy.
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  Speaker 4: That guy said, not.
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: Going to lie. I had to mute the segment. It
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: was entirely too cringe to endure.
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: Oh, how dare you? Cringe is what I live for.
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: Are you kidding me? This is what we do on
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: the show.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: We are cringe.
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: I made a 15-minute bit out of a cracking sound
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: and screaming. I mean, this is what I do.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: It's Bud Light Football Friday. Bud Light, the official beer
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• 33:04
  Speaker 3: this weekend a trap game?
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  Speaker 6: We'll get to it next.
• 33:06
  Speaker 7: Save me a seat at the Grammys.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Bud Light Football Friday.
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  Speaker 4: It just.
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: There's two thoughts I have on this. Number one.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: When you talk about the word trap game, I feel
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: like that gets used a lot in football. But if
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: you were to list out reasons for why this would
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: be a trap game, there's plenty of examples. And I'll
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: give you just a couple. You have this super emotional
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: win last week against the Chiefs that put you back
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: on top of the AFC West, that put you back
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: in the tops of the AFC conference discussion.
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: You have just emerged.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: through the toughest opening schedule for any team in a
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: long time.
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: And you have come out with a 6-2 record on
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: top of that.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: And I would compare this to, you know, when we
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: get into, like, late December, early January, mid-January, there's some
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: mornings where I'm taking 470 on the way to work
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: before the snowplows come out, where I'm on snow-packed roads,
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: and I am white-knuckling my way all the way down
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: to this radio station. That's what the beginning of this
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: schedule was for the Broncos, and you finally made it.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: And it feels like you can breathe. But you're going
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: East Coast early morning game against a team that is
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: capable of putting up some points on people with a
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: defense that has played the most snaps in the league.
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: All these different things would tell you, be careful. And
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: you know how I know that?
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: Other people are looking at this game that way too.
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: You know what the spread is?
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: Two and a half. Two and a half. Yeah.
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: To continue your fine analogy, it would be like getting
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: through the most disturbing area. Now you just cannot, you
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: can't fall asleep at the wheel.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: You can't relax. Because, you know, and that's what it
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: feels like this week. Be honest. Broncos fans.
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: And you're looking ahead. You got a bye coming up.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I got a little bit of a break. You know,
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: but with the Broncos, Sean Payton has been remarkably good
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: at going east to the, you know, two different time
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: zones away. He's been pretty good about that.
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: He's been good at everything because they win all the time.
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: Exactly. Exactly. But it's not how it looks. It's whether
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: or not you get the dub. And he's been good. Listen,
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: I'm telling you, it doesn't matter if you've got an
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: unbeaten team going east or whatever the case may be.
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: Really good teams, really bad teams, they tend to lose.
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: They tend to drop them. He's been above the curve
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: in that regard. So that's something that's encouraging to me. But, yeah.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: You're going to have to have your head on a
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: swivel here. You're going to have to pay attention. If
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: there's one thing I've learned all these years, Brett, you
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: cannot manufacture emotion. When you play Carolina, you're like, I'm
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: playing the Panthers. I mean, it doesn't elicit any emotion
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: out of Denver Broncos players. So, yeah, you got to
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: pay attention here.
• 36:01
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• 36:34
  Speaker 3: Do you know what Sean Payton has done since he's
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: become the head coach of the Denver Broncos? won games
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: in which he's favored?
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: You don't get upset by teams that are not as
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: good as you. They lose to what? San Francisco and
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: San Francisco?
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: Guess what? You were an underdog. They lost the opening
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: week to Kansas City. Guess what?
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: You're an underdog. You're an underdog.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: Last year, you were a three-and-a-half point favorite against Jacksonville.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: It's one of the only games over the last couple
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: of years that you're looking at saying, as a favorite,
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: you lost the game straight up. It's one of the
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: best assets and qualities that Sean Payton has. When his
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: team is supposed to win, they don't overlook an opponent.
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: That is correct. They don't. I mean, they go out
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: and they take care of business. It's just, again, I
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: cannot get over the juxtaposition of the offense versus the
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: defense and how you're actually winning these games. You know
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: what I mean? When you look at Carolina's defense right now,
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: It is not good, guys. It just is not good.
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: If you cannot put together– I mean, they've been run
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: on and run on and run on. In fact, their
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: head coach just goes, what's the number one thing you
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: want to do this week? Stop the run. I mean,
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: if you can't run on this team– then you can't
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: run the football, period. I mean, if you're talking about
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: Jonah Coleman having a coming-out party or J.K. Dobbins getting right,
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: this is when you should do that. This is the
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: week you should go in there and just pound the
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: ball against their faces. Should be.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: And there's a larger discussion of that with Jonah Coleman
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: that we'll get to.
• 38:12
  Speaker 6: A little bit later in the show.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: Yards per game in the passing game. They give up.
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: They're not super bad.
• 38:20
  Speaker 6: No, but Moshe, this is what I'm telling you.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: That's skewed by the Bucs game in which they had
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: 50 yards passing and a 43-13 win. Any team that
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: plays Tampa Bay over the last three weeks, forget their
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: stats and numbers because none of them will make sense
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: on defense.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: Agreed, but they're the third, and it may be skewed,
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: but it doesn't matter because it was already this way.
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: They're the third worst rushing defense in the entire National
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: Football League. Dallas is number one, Vegas is number two,
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: and Carolina is number three. Yeah.
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: That's it.
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: I mean, you should be able to run the ball
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: against this team.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: Well, and, excuse me, the thing is about this weekend,
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: whenever we get into discussions about how good slash bad
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: slash whatever the opposing defense is, my response is kind
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: of the same all year. What does that matter with
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: the Broncos offense? The Broncos offense looks pretty similar against
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: the best defense in the league and against the worst
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: defense in the league.
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: They have their battles are internal on Sundays.
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: It's their 9 of 48 on third downs during a
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: four-game winning streak. The reason why, if you remember Jeff
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: Legwald yesterday pointing these stats out.
• 39:34
  Speaker 8: Moser doesn't just too many. They've played the most snaps
• 39:37
  Speaker 8: of any defense in the league. 556 this season.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: That's 20 more.
• 39:44
  Speaker 8: Than any other team.
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: Broncos defense, 556 snaps with one guy in particular.
• 39:49
  Speaker 8: It is one of the most amazing stats of the year.
• 39:52
  Speaker 8: The Broncos defensive played 556 snaps. Alex Singleton leads the
• 39:58
  Speaker 8: NFL defensive players.
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  Speaker 4: He's played 555 of those.
• 40:02
  Speaker 8: He's played every snap, but one on defense.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: He said he's told that to Alex Singleton earlier this week.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: He looked at him like he saw a ghost.
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: He was like, what?
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: That's remarkable for a linebacker who's having to cover dudes
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: out of the backfield, go sideline to sideline.
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: It's a lot of running, man.
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: Vic, he is on pace for over 200 tackles this
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: year because of that stat. He's 20 tackles away from
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: the next leading tackler in the league because they're on
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: the field all the time. And I think that's why...
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: When you look at both sides of the football, which
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: side is wearing down with some injuries this year?
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the defensive side. Chad Brown said the same thing,
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: you know, and that's what I warned even during that
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: Kansas City game. In the third quarter, when you produce
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: three straight, three and outs with nine yards, it's not
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: just the lack of production offensively. It's what you're doing
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: to the other side of the ball. The dudes have
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: no chance to collect themselves, to catch their breath.
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: I mean, but they are doing it. They are collecting themselves.
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: They are catching, I mean, they're catching enough breath right now.
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: But if you get to week 14 and it's the
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: same story, that's where it could rear its ugly head. Okay,
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: so you've got to get right offensively. You have to.
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: You've got to get right.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: So again, Broncos headed into this weekend against the Panthers
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: are two and a half point favorites. If I just
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: were to guess what the line was, and look, I'm
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: no Vegas odds expert, I would I would think that
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: the Broncos would feel more like a five to five
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: and a half.
• 41:34
  Speaker 6: Point favorite in this game.
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: Maybe six. I agree with that.
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: A lot of it's the opponent, too. That's why we're
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: underplaying this. It's not sexy. If the Broncos were playing
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: a sexy team this week on the road, it'd be
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: a different tune. It's Carolina.
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: I just don't know what to feel about them, though.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: Carolina either looks really bad or really good, and it
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: all kind of goes with Bryce Young. Bryce Young's had
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: a bad last couple of weeks, but we've seen he's
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: had multiple 300-yard games this year. He lit up some defenses.
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: Earlier in the season.
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: If he's on, and this is part of the concern
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: when you talk about trap game, You know what the
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: Broncos' defense in those 556 snaps this year really haven't done?
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: Had a missed assignment that gives up a big play.
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, if you ignore week one against Kansas City,
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: ever since then, where's the wide-open guy downfield that the
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: Broncos just... Somebody got confused in coverage. It hasn't happened
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: at all this season. And Carolina's the kind of team,
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: if you do that, Bryce Young has now... become a quarterback,
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: he'll make you pay for it. And if you start
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: giving up, you know, 50 yards here, 40 yards there,
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: and then you're looking at your offense like, hey, you've
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: got to respond, can they?
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: I'm just cracking up because at the back of my mind,
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: I'm thinking to myself, are there Bronco fans who actually
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: think you're going to cruise to an easy Sunday victory here? Yes,
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: there are. What have you been watching? Big time win.
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: I guess my reaction to those fans are, who do
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: you think you are?
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: Well, Vic, I talked about this.
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: Heading into the Arizona game.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: Now, it did end up being a comfortable victory, but
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: I said, why would you ever assume that the Broncos
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: are going to win a game comfortably?
• 43:16
  Speaker 6: It just doesn't happen.
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: It's not who they are. It's not what they are.
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: So a lot more to get to with this as
• 43:23
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  Speaker 4: Who doesn't love a good bucket of beer? Right? You're
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: sitting there with your boys, right? You say, yeah, we'll
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: take the bucket. Right? Who doesn't love that?
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: When you get the bucket with the ice and all
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: of them sticking out, you get done with the bottle,
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: you tip it upside down.
• 43:56
  Speaker 6: It's a great feeling.
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's– Vic, you wouldn't know about that because
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: the bubbles hurt your tummy.
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: I like a good nutrition bar in the morning.
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it. Yeah, eat your– What did you have, Vic? Vic,
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: you had two beers? Do you have two beers yesterday?
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: One and a half. I didn't finish the second one.
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: Oh, you didn't?
• 44:10
  Speaker 6: One and a half, though.
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: Good for you, buddy. Proud of you. Doing what?
• 44:13
  Speaker 5: None of your business.
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: Wait, wait, wait. Were you there, too?
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: Hey– None of your business.
• 44:20
  Speaker 6: I thought you were calling a game that day. I
• 44:22
  Speaker 6: didn't know it was national TV, and then it was full.
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: Did you guys go to Meridian?
• 44:26
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: You know what?
• 44:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we did.
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: What are you complaining about?
• 44:33
  Speaker 5: You don't have a car.
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I would have walked in the snow both
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: ways uphill to go play. So Brett took you guys out?
• 44:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: You're holding out on me?
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: That's why he texted me early in the morning. Yeah.
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: You know what?
• 44:50
  Speaker 6: What a bunch of crap.
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah. All right.
• 44:53
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• 44:54
  Speaker 6: the abs in a second.
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: Stick around. That's just, that's horse.