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07/08/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Let's dominate a Wednesday. It's hot. Take hump day in
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Speaker 3: I just had a thought, we all need to play
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Speaker 3: nicely together in this is it is We're all playing nicely.
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Speaker 2: Oh, for sure, there's room for everybody on this bandwagon
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Speaker 2: of ours. And uh, I did have a thought though
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Speaker 2: as I rolled through again this morning and I passed
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Speaker 2: the Southwest Why and I saw those sociopaths waiting, and
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Speaker 2: there was a handful of people like sitting in the
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Speaker 2: cars probably you know, I don't know, gathering their thoughts,
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Speaker 2: getting ready to go work out first of all.
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Speaker 3: Finishing the last bit of cree before I call them. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: they're pre working, and you know they're raw dog in it.
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Speaker 3: Maybe they could be out of the bucket. That raw
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Speaker 3: dog is the easiest one because if you're playing naked
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Speaker 3: and you're going in there with no caffeine at five
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Speaker 3: in the morning drew that that is even more props
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Speaker 3: dangerous to eat a spoonful of powder and just like
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Speaker 3: a choking hazard or something I'd be afraid to but
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Speaker 3: I think.
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Speaker 1: I could do it. Choke.
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Speaker 4: I never had ness quick right from the Yeah, I
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Speaker 4: never never done that yet.
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Speaker 1: Is a weird kid, man?
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Speaker 4: That was a weird it was, But I was thinking
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Speaker 4: about that to think I'm not a kid.
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Speaker 3: We call them sociopaths. But the people who are dedicated
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Speaker 3: to have to work out.
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Speaker 2: But my thing is I roll by there and it's
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Speaker 2: like fifteen twenty minutes before they open the doors at
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Speaker 2: five am, and there are people sitting in their cars,
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Speaker 2: there are people in the airlock foyer waiting to get in. Now,
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Speaker 2: if you're that dedicated and you're gonna work out, and
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Speaker 2: maybe this is just me because you're obviously you're a
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Speaker 2: savage for getting up early and doing that, But Lombardi time,
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Speaker 2: I like, I like our boy Elbaldo.
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Speaker 1: You's just call it ruthless efficiency.
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Speaker 2: And like the fifteen minutes that you're waiting are ten
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Speaker 2: minutes that you're standing in a foyer waiting for them
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Speaker 2: to open the door. It's seventy degrees outside, it's beautiful, Like,
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Speaker 2: why don't.
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Speaker 3: You just walk around it? Why not just get you
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Speaker 3: get to work out started before? That's what I would do. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: you're right, it's were walking around the building perhaps and
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Speaker 3: just strolling and then I'm loose and ready.
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Speaker 1: But maybe there I have to go.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go swimming and I'm gonna strip off my
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Speaker 2: little shirt. But you never hurt yourself with just getting
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Speaker 2: steps rather than standing and waiting to I would be like, Okay,
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna maximize this.
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Speaker 1: That's a real good point, Drew.
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Speaker 3: So you are kind of calling the folks a little
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Speaker 3: bit slackers at that point, Like, I mean, I get
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Speaker 3: that you're there, definitely slackers that they're there, But I'm like,
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Speaker 3: that's ten minutes that you could be that you could
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Speaker 3: be working.
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Speaker 1: Then we could be getting better.
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Speaker 3: And listen, if you're not getting better, I'm telling you, coach,
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Speaker 3: you say you're getting worse. Well, it does feel like
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Speaker 3: a good time that you could be getting some stretching
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Speaker 3: going and at least, you know, activating some muscles.
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Speaker 4: The stretching for sure, but what if they need to
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Speaker 4: do with some sort of workout where they're on the ground,
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Speaker 4: and then I want to be on the concrete in
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Speaker 4: the parking lot.
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Speaker 1: Well, then do something else. Maybe they're meditating. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: take that.
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna take I'm gonna take Drew Olsen's approach to
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Speaker 3: the NFL draft. If I don't want to misquote you,
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Speaker 3: if I'm not wrong, if all of a sudden, your
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Speaker 3: guys not there, how about you take somebody else, Take
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Speaker 3: somebody in the fifth round and they're just as good
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Speaker 3: as the guy in the first round. That's fine, you
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Speaker 3: still did it. If indeed you're generally doing your push
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Speaker 3: ups at that time on or you're playing right, I
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Speaker 3: don't want to do that on the you know, let's
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Speaker 3: hit some jumping jacks. Yeah, let's let's get let's get
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Speaker 3: the steps going in here. I do like that thought
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Speaker 3: of I'd be just first class. Let's I'm moving around.
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Speaker 1: A little bit. I don't know. Yeah, I suppose you could.
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Speaker 1: You could start doing some hard lunch. But who am
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Speaker 1: I again?
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Speaker 2: I can't criticize somebody who's that much of a savage
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Speaker 2: that they're getting up at five am and waiting for.
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Speaker 1: The joint to open so they can get into.
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Speaker 3: This when I haven't touched I haven't touched a weight
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Speaker 3: since I stopped, since I started changing diapers. But like
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Speaker 3: I do wonder if there's also a moment in time
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Speaker 3: where you're like, this is my twelve minutes before I
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Speaker 3: go absolutely hard, and I got to get.
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Speaker 1: Myself into the mode.
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Speaker 3: So the so the folks in the car drew are
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Speaker 3: the ones that I would think of. The locker room
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Speaker 3: pregame has to be a wild place. There's the certain
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Speaker 3: guys that are walking around screaming. There's certain guys that
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Speaker 3: are joking around, dapping each other up. Then there's the
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Speaker 3: certain psychos that are just sitting there kind.
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Speaker 1: Of like rocking back and forth, just rocking back and forth.
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Speaker 1: You know that some wild thoughts are going on in
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Speaker 1: their head.
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Speaker 3: Maybe that's what the folks in the car they're about
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Speaker 3: to just be awes and some iron around.
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Speaker 4: Everyone's got different ways to warm up. I mean, Jerry
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Speaker 4: Glanville used to say, you know, the locker room before
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Speaker 4: an NFL game, we have to build into an emotional crescendo.
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Speaker 4: Maybe that's what they're doing by themselves in the car. Well,
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Speaker 4: it sounds kind of weird, but you never know, they
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Speaker 4: could be Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Personal crescendo, not something I would do in a public
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Speaker 3: public parking lot.
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Speaker 4: Well you just yeah, yeah, you don't want to do it.
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Speaker 4: They can't be doing that in a public parking lote.
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Speaker 4: You get locked up for stuff like that. But it's
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Speaker 4: a slippery slope, I mean in that and then you
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Speaker 4: could just get up an hour earlier in some walk list,
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Speaker 4: you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: You don't be on that list, no, that's for sure,
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Speaker 1: But yeah, you could do it. You could do it.
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Speaker 1: I could see that.
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Speaker 4: I know a lot of guys are into the mental exercises,
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Speaker 4: the meditation, the things like that. They're doing that for
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Speaker 4: a while, maybe before they lock in or you know,
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Speaker 4: you could just yeah, be if it's like the people
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Speaker 4: that sit in their car before work and they don't
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Speaker 4: come in until the exact minute that they're on the clock.
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Speaker 4: You ever see the I always eat not around here
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Speaker 4: guys like different. I always see.
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Speaker 1: People doing that.
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Speaker 4: So it's like, you know, it's like I could wash
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Speaker 4: the dishes while I'm while I'm cooking too, But it's
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Speaker 4: like that's too much, it's right much.
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Speaker 1: Let's do one day at a time.
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Speaker 2: Let's fire up hote comp day eight seven seven, seven
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Speaker 2: nine three the number for the Nicola a lot dot
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Speaker 2: com talk and text line and we want your hot
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Speaker 2: takes today.
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Speaker 1: That's right. They can be on sports, the Brewers.
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Speaker 2: Nobody's hotter than the Brewers since April twentieth or whatever
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Speaker 2: that that date was.
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Speaker 3: I was gonna say, I think that was the day
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Speaker 3: that it sparked up. Then uh, you know, hit us.
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Speaker 3: It can be about food, it can be about the culture.
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Speaker 3: It can be about music.
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Speaker 2: It can be about best deal days versus Festa Italiana
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Speaker 2: that are going on in Milwaukee, or anything any like that.
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Speaker 2: Wonderful gatherings going on as we maximize the Milwaukee summer.
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Speaker 2: Yesterday was a near perfect weather day. Today is going
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Speaker 2: to be nice. I was going to storm tomorrow. Man,
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Speaker 2: it's been hard to beat the last couple of days.
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Speaker 2: It has been hard.
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Speaker 1: Once we got past.
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Speaker 2: The suffocating heat and went to the normal, this is
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Speaker 2: what summer feels like in Wisconsin, and it's like, oh,
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Speaker 2: this is amazing.
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Speaker 3: It felt like starting to grill up. You started up
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Speaker 3: on high all right, Now we've warmed this bad boy.
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Speaker 3: Now let's back it down a little bit, get a little.
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Speaker 1: Bit of cool.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 1: I realized that it's better to start it low low. Oh,
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Speaker 1: you hat. You got to start if that thing gets
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Speaker 1: so hot.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's like to turn amount and then and
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Speaker 2: then bring it up to temp and then it's easier.
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Speaker 2: It's harder to cut it back. It's got to pour
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Speaker 2: water on it to cool it off.
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Speaker 3: That one you have to write, like when you got
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Speaker 3: that one sheet surface that is a totally different beast
6:27
Speaker 3: the other one. On hot take on hot take, I
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Speaker 3: want to know Drew some hot takes on why your
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Speaker 3: church festival is the best church festival, because I know
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Speaker 3: it is.
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Speaker 1: It is festival season. You mentioned best Italiana.
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Speaker 3: You start seeing all of the different spots, Their parking
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Speaker 3: lots are loaded up in, tents are starting to get
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Speaker 3: built up today and and people get a little aggressive
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Speaker 3: that my stay fair is a great state fair. We
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Speaker 3: already know the Wisconsin State Fair is coming up, but
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Speaker 3: people are These are the appetizers of where you can
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Speaker 3: get some pole tabs and a two dollars used to
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Speaker 3: get a two dollars fifty cent per it's probably five
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Speaker 3: to fifty probab.
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Speaker 1: But still it's for the kids. It'll work. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well who's got the best? I mean there used
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Speaker 2: to be the Saint Gregory.
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Speaker 1: The great. I was gonna say Saint Greg's Fest is
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Speaker 1: always up there, but then kind of cut that back.
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Speaker 1: I know, Woaj's got some got some stuff going on.
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Speaker 1: He's always cooking it up there.
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Speaker 4: What about the monster that was Saint Rita's Fest? When
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Speaker 4: I would drive by that thing on sixty, that was
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Speaker 4: always an that one would be.
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Speaker 3: I think that pairs closed. I mean Saint Mary's Fest,
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Speaker 3: I believe is this weekend. Our friend Dave Michael's uh
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Speaker 3: would would be a part of it. And there are
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Speaker 3: a lot of lot of days that your boys spent
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Speaker 3: over there in Hales Corners.
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Speaker 1: A lot of things on that tilta wheel.
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Speaker 4: Later on this month, I know right on Layton Avenue
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Speaker 4: by Cops, Armenian Fest that are St. John's Army in
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Speaker 4: church is happening. It's always a fun time. I thought
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Speaker 4: you had to go to Racine for well, that was
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Speaker 4: a different one. That's my That's that's the favorite one.
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Speaker 1: Oh is that the Kram dealer kramat the Armenian first.
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Speaker 4: We'll get you're getting the original man. We're serving on
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Speaker 4: the open fire, on the open pits. Man, you're getting
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Speaker 4: the original army and experience right there. That's a good one,
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Speaker 4: but they're all good. We support all the tribes.
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Speaker 3: They all have a hot take about church festival. How
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Speaker 3: to take about the future of soccer.
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Speaker 1: In the United States?
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Speaker 2: Can we ever be able to compete on the World
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Speaker 2: Cup stage? Will we ever be able to break through
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Speaker 2: and consider ourselves a contender to win a World Cup?
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Speaker 1: It was at that convoy yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Hot take about the Brewers and what they might do
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Speaker 2: at the deadline, whatever it might be. I'll open the bidding.
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Speaker 2: I like to do this hot take?
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Speaker 1: Is I love that?
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Speaker 2: You know, the Brewers have kind of turned the tables
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Speaker 2: against the Cardinals because from ninety eight when the Brewers
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Speaker 2: started the National League till about we can say about
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Speaker 2: twenty sixteen or so. Yep, that's about right, Cardinals pretty
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Speaker 2: much kicked sand in the Brewers' faces. They won about
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Speaker 2: sixty percent of their games against the Brewers, and they
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Speaker 2: weren't always competitive, and it was Larusa and Pooholes and
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Speaker 2: they were the evil Empire. Well, the tightest turned and
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Speaker 2: we mentioned earlier if you five o'clock clevers heard that
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Speaker 2: the Brewers have won seven of eight against the Cardinals
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Speaker 2: this year, and the Burus have outscored them in those
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Speaker 2: games thirty seven to twelve for a struggling offense, right, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: No kidding.
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Speaker 2: But the Cardinals and the thing that struck me about
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Speaker 2: watching the doubleheader yesterday is that's baseball town. I've told
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Speaker 2: you guys for years that from the time I covered
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Speaker 2: when I was covering the Brewers and I spent a
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Speaker 2: lot of time in Saint Louis, the vibe was similar
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Speaker 2: to Green Bay. They're the Packers of Major League Baseball,
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Speaker 2: but they've been down for a while. They're trying to
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Speaker 2: get back and see in all those empty seats, even
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Speaker 2: for a slap together double ladder.
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Speaker 1: Full sections of empty, it was bizarre.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's like it's like jarring still that they've
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Speaker 2: they've been so bad and they've turned off their fan
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Speaker 2: base at this point and they and it's like, well,
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Speaker 2: why is that they're still kind of in the playoff run.
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Speaker 1: They're they're talking about things that they can do.
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Speaker 2: They're they're rebuilding, but they're they've got some good players
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Speaker 2: and they're having a pretty good season. I guess it
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Speaker 2: hasn't caught yet. But here's the thing. Thanks to my
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Speaker 2: buddy Bernie MICHLSS for pointing this out come on. Cardinals
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Speaker 2: this year have a losing record at home twenty three
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Speaker 2: and twenty four and in twenty eight of their forty
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Speaker 2: seven home games right now, they have scored three runs.
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Speaker 1: Are less?
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Speaker 3: Whoa exactly a juggernaut of must see TV putting on.
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Speaker 1: A show for that foss has turned off.
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Speaker 4: That's wild And I know it's kind of been toxically
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Speaker 4: in the last few years because they've been frustrated about
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Speaker 4: the teams, the way they've operated and maybe not didn't
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Speaker 4: look like they were trying to win as much and
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Speaker 4: not making aggressive moves or not spending money.
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Speaker 1: And Cardinals fans have been upset about that.
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Speaker 4: We taught the story last year was the other attendants
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Speaker 4: was dropping and it seems like even though they've had
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Speaker 4: improvements this year in the field, that hasn't really taken shape.
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Speaker 1: That seems like the brand has gone the opposite direction
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Speaker 1: from what it used to be, at least for Cardinals fan.
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Speaker 3: The tough thing is too like they were aggressive this
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Speaker 3: offseason in one thing, shedding payroll, like I mean, they
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Speaker 3: got they got rid of Contreras, they got rid of Aaronato.
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Speaker 3: There's one other one in there that I'm that I'm
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Speaker 3: gonna forget and and moved off three key vets. And
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Speaker 3: they've actually they've really worked. I mean, Walker's had the
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Speaker 3: best year of his career. He's going on nine hundred ops. Guy,
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Speaker 3: he's phenomenal. And weather Holle might win the Rookie of
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Speaker 3: the Year. But to your point, and the damage might
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Speaker 3: have been done earlier by shedding some of those high
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Speaker 3: priced guys that people knew who they were.
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Speaker 2: So since the new Bush Stadium opened from two thousand
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Speaker 2: and six to twenty twenty five, the Cardinals were averaging
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Speaker 2: four point four or five runs per game at home
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Speaker 2: and four point six on the road. That's pretty consistent production.
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Speaker 2: This year, the Cardinals are averaging three point seventy five
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Speaker 2: runs per game at home and five point six on
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Speaker 2: the road.
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Speaker 1: Geez Louiz. So it's like, it's funny because there was
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Speaker 1: a kid. Just be a coincidence, right.
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Speaker 2: There was a time when the Brewers were on the ascension,
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Speaker 2: and I argued with Needles about this too, and they
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Speaker 2: were they were playing better, and they had a better
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Speaker 2: winning percentage at home, and they had young players, and
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Speaker 2: my boy Dan would say, they need to learn how
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Speaker 2: to win on the road.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, well, how do you do that? You're gonna
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Speaker 1: make them stay in a hotel at home?
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Speaker 2: Like what's It's this one of those quirky things, right, Well,
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Speaker 2: the Cardinals need to warrant they need to learn to
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Speaker 2: play at home.
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Speaker 1: So maybe they do need to stay at a hotel.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there you go, but they yeah, they need
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Speaker 2: to do it at home. Like that's the opposite of
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Speaker 2: most things, and it's just it's one of those weird quirks.
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Speaker 2: But that is funky that that that they're not they're
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Speaker 2: not feeling the warm embraced and they're not comfortable.
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Speaker 1: That's so producing at home. It's one of those weird.
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Speaker 3: Baseball things because it's also not like it's a cavernous
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Speaker 3: park that it's too hard to hit in. I think
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Speaker 3: that place is a fine ballpark to hit it, and
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Speaker 3: I think fine ballpark's bitch it.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 3: I think it's one of my favorite ballparks in the
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Speaker 3: in the game because of how aesthetically it looks on
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Speaker 3: it and.
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Speaker 2: Maybe maybe it's in some cases the home field advantage
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Speaker 2: like we've seen it with Green Bay, Like where's the
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Speaker 2: Lambeau mystique that Carolina can come in and win a game.
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Speaker 1: Sure it's much different now than it ever has been. Yes,
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Speaker 1: that's for sure.
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Speaker 2: It's been equalized a little bit. And maybe that's maybe
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Speaker 2: the function of analytics. It's still an advantage to be
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Speaker 2: at play at home in the playoffs or anywhere, totally.
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Speaker 2: If there's a Game seven, you'd rather have it at
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Speaker 2: home than on the road. Absolutely, But maybe it has
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Speaker 2: been diminished somewhat, but it still exists, right because it's
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Speaker 2: I won't say that home field advantage isn't a thing anymore,
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Speaker 2: but clearly for the Cardinals, they're producing at a better
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Speaker 2: clip on the road. And when you have a young team,
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Speaker 2: that's curious it is it's very conventional wisdom that says
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Speaker 2: younger players would be more comfortable at home struggle on
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Speaker 2: the road.
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Speaker 3: Could it have anything to do with and and Breen
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Speaker 3: talked about this a lot in the playoffs for the Knicks,
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Speaker 3: which I thought was a really fair point when he said,
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Speaker 3: like there had been times where Madison Square Garden was
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Speaker 3: a competitive disadvantage, like teams were gonna come in and
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Speaker 3: play their best. I don't know that people are salivating
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Speaker 3: knowing that they're they're going to play at the historic.
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Speaker 1: Bush stadium too.
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Speaker 3: I don't know that that's exactly the mystique of how
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Speaker 3: the teams are playing, but there is something too, like,
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Speaker 3: hey man, we you said the warm embrace. We always
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Speaker 3: remember what this place was like. It felt like it
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Speaker 3: was a lot more weal, warm and inviting. And the
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Speaker 3: fact that they got young hitters that can't pop it
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Speaker 3: out of that ballpark is very very strange.
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Speaker 1: But I one for I am one that is very
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Speaker 1: much here for it.
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Speaker 3: And any time that Saint Louis Cardinal fans have, you know,
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Speaker 3: puffed their chest out a little bit, as some of the.
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Speaker 1: Best baseball fans have had, the best baseball fans of
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Speaker 1: all time, we kind of back to the sport. But
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Speaker 1: you know, f IV, they wore that that moniker.
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Speaker 3: They they have definitely taken a little bit of a
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Speaker 3: step back though, but they did give Louis Laura a
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Speaker 3: nice little clap last night.
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Speaker 1: They're into the game, the ones that are there.
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Speaker 3: But I also wonder how much the whole area around
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Speaker 3: the ballpark has kind of taken a step back over
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Speaker 3: the last couple of years.
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Speaker 4: Well, they thought that was going to increase everything, right,
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Speaker 4: that was going to be like their magnum Opus having
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Speaker 4: the ballpark village, which in a lot of ways it has,
14:25
Speaker 4: but you can have a misstep. And ma'am, didn't they
14:27
Speaker 4: say something They threatened the fans. There was some sort
14:29
Speaker 4: of statement from ownership, like if you stopped.
14:32
Speaker 3: That was the I think that's the Reds guy that
14:34
Speaker 3: you're talking about, the one that said, what are you
14:36
Speaker 3: guys gonna do?
14:36
Speaker 1: Stop coming?
14:37
Speaker 4: Yeah?
14:37
Speaker 1: All right, well that was I think that was the Yeah,
14:41
Speaker 1: I know exactly the one you're talking about.
14:42
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it wasn't the dutscause we know how certain
14:47
Speaker 4: things and ownership statements can rub fans along way sometimes.
14:50
Speaker 2: All right, well here's another hot take, and it's jarring
14:52
Speaker 2: because we mentioned like there was a time when Saint
14:56
Speaker 2: Louis just dominated the Berson and when the Brewers started
14:58
Speaker 2: to get good, and when Fielder and Weak arrived and stuff.
15:00
Speaker 2: I remember talking to my pals, like the guys that
15:03
Speaker 2: cover the Reds. The late Joe strauss Pour went out.
15:06
Speaker 2: It was a great beat guy. Uh a friend of
15:09
Speaker 2: mine who passed away from cancer, Bernie Michlis and now
15:12
Speaker 2: Derek Gould is their beat guy right now. The late
15:14
Speaker 2: Rick Hummel was the commission We called them the commission
15:16
Speaker 2: with the dean of a baseball rider is one of
15:18
Speaker 2: the great human beings I've ever met in my career.
15:20
Speaker 2: Those guys would be like, yeah, the Brewers are good.
15:23
Speaker 2: You know, the Brewis are They're on the rise, and
15:24
Speaker 2: they would tell me what we'd be at this point
15:26
Speaker 2: of the season. The Brewers be neck and neck and like,
15:28
Speaker 2: you guys, don't you don't have the horses, They're not
15:30
Speaker 2: going to be there. And that's the way I feel
15:32
Speaker 2: like watching the Reds. I said it about the Pirates
15:34
Speaker 2: this year that they're gonna dip, and it's weird being
15:36
Speaker 2: in the position the Brewers are in. And we watched
15:38
Speaker 2: the Brewers and everything's through the Brewers prism. The tables
15:40
Speaker 2: have turned though, and now I look at the Cardinals like, yeah,
15:43
Speaker 2: it makes them win.
15:44
Speaker 1: Nice player, you got some good guys.
15:47
Speaker 2: The kid who hit the homer yesterday, Jordan Walker, hearn Walker, Yeah,
15:51
Speaker 2: you had some guys. But I look at the Cardinals
15:52
Speaker 2: now and like they're at least two years, if not
15:54
Speaker 2: three years behind the Brewers to catch up to where
15:58
Speaker 2: the Brewers are right now. That's just like it's jarring
16:01
Speaker 2: to say, but as an organization, they are they're looking
16:05
Speaker 2: up at the Burs, gone, we got to be like them,
16:06
Speaker 2: the way the Brewers would look at the Cardinals said,
16:09
Speaker 2: we got to be like them. Why can't I said
16:10
Speaker 2: it for years, and I've been saying it for twenty
16:12
Speaker 2: years on the radio, that the Cardinals were the model
16:14
Speaker 2: because in their worst years, they were eighty one and
16:17
Speaker 2: eighty one, and they never had bottomed out. They never
16:21
Speaker 2: then they kind of did, they kind of did those. Yeah,
16:23
Speaker 2: last couple of years they were kind of like less
16:25
Speaker 2: than that, and now the tables have completely turned where
16:29
Speaker 2: they're looking up at the Burs, gone, we got to
16:30
Speaker 2: be like them.
16:30
Speaker 3: One of the most beautiful things I've ever heard somebody
16:32
Speaker 3: say on the radio. I just all of what you
16:35
Speaker 3: just said was Gorgon. It is the organizational strength they've
16:39
Speaker 3: completely flipped.
16:40
Speaker 2: When the when the Cardinals visit, what you still see
16:43
Speaker 2: Cardinals fans, not as many, not as many, but they
16:46
Speaker 2: still travel, but they're not going to their own parks.
16:49
Speaker 2: So when the Cardinals play the Brewers and they look
16:51
Speaker 2: it's like the stadiums packed in, the atmosphere feels like
16:53
Speaker 2: most like a Tuesday night in July now for at
16:57
Speaker 2: American Family Field, for in a lot of more.
17:00
Speaker 1: That's a playoff atmosphere.
17:01
Speaker 3: Yeah, much bigger, and there's just juice and we can't
17:04
Speaker 3: let that go by unnoticed without saying appreciate it.
17:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, like okay, well yeah.
17:10
Speaker 2: The Bruers might not win the World Series, but damn
17:12
Speaker 2: enjoy right now because they're a model franchise they're playing
17:16
Speaker 2: and their team that the historic the Cardinals and Cubs
17:19
Speaker 2: who spend way more than the Brewers and have way
17:21
Speaker 2: more history, and like.
17:22
Speaker 1: They're looking up and goingky, we got to be like them.
17:24
Speaker 3: You had, you had some incredible numbers on how just
17:26
Speaker 3: how much those teams outspend the Brewers. True, Oh, but
17:29
Speaker 3: like the uh what what you what you put together
17:32
Speaker 3: there as well of like the the juice in the
17:35
Speaker 3: ballpark every single night. I know he got lamb basted
17:38
Speaker 3: for it because it was clumsy and it printed even
17:41
Speaker 3: worse than it printed worse.
17:43
Speaker 1: Than it sounded.
17:44
Speaker 3: Right, and they have full context of Antanasio's statement last
17:47
Speaker 3: year at spring training doesn't fully encapsulate it, but there
17:50
Speaker 3: is something too. Every single night knowing not only your
17:53
Speaker 3: team is competitive, but they're expected to win. Every single night,
17:57
Speaker 3: you'll watch the team you expect them to win. Arman
17:59
Speaker 3: mentioned it earlier there at this point, whether they come
18:01
Speaker 3: back and won their last four games, that even when
18:04
Speaker 3: they're down in the seventh inning, you expect them to win.
18:06
Speaker 1: That's something that's hard to let go by. The only
18:10
Speaker 1: thing they got to do is breakthrough.
18:11
Speaker 3: And it's a lot easier to say than do, but damn,
18:16
Speaker 3: they've got so many opportunities and they're going to at
18:19
Speaker 3: one of these points. I was I shared these numbers
18:21
Speaker 3: with Billy during the break and his jaw dropped, So
18:24
Speaker 3: it might as well just share a everybody here, because
18:26
Speaker 3: my boy, Bernie is he's a numbers nerd.
18:28
Speaker 2: He comes up with stuff that is just absurd, the
18:30
Speaker 2: research he does. He's like he's a geek in the
18:33
Speaker 2: best way.
18:34
Speaker 1: In the best possible way.
18:35
Speaker 2: After reading Joe, when he hosted a show and in
18:39
Speaker 2: Saint Louis, he had a morning show for years and
18:41
Speaker 2: he was it.
18:41
Speaker 3: Was he's a gold standard in Saint Louis. He's a
18:43
Speaker 3: gold standard almost everywhere.
18:45
Speaker 2: But going into this series just for kicks, he decided
18:48
Speaker 2: to look at like the way the landscape has shifted,
18:50
Speaker 2: what we're talking about since twenty eighteen, so he took
18:54
Speaker 2: he crunched the numbers and put together the standings going
18:56
Speaker 2: into this series. Like before, the Birds have went now
18:58
Speaker 2: three in a row against him, but the NL Central
19:00
Speaker 2: standards going into this series from twenty eighteen to today,
19:05
Speaker 2: the Brewers have a five to seventy winning percentage and
19:07
Speaker 2: would be the division leader. The Cardinals are winning at
19:12
Speaker 2: a five to twenty five clip, which would be sixty
19:14
Speaker 2: one games behind the Brewers if you're doing standings. If
19:18
Speaker 2: it was a Pennant race from twenty eighteen to today,
19:21
Speaker 2: the Brewers would have a sixty one game lead on
19:23
Speaker 2: the Cardinals and a seventy two game lead on the Cubs.
19:25
Speaker 1: Oh my god, almost a half a season lead. So
19:30
Speaker 1: obviously you don't play, you know, one thousand game you
19:34
Speaker 1: don't play a thousand game seasons, but that is stunning. Ended.
19:37
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, the Reds would be one hundred and thirty one
19:40
Speaker 2: games behind the Brewers and the Pirates one hundred and
19:41
Speaker 2: seventy games mind the Brewers going into this week, right,
19:45
Speaker 2: and so, but the thing is now, now, let's look
19:48
Speaker 2: at the payroll, and this is.
19:50
Speaker 1: Where this is the this is the number that really
19:53
Speaker 1: gets good.
19:53
Speaker 2: The payroll between twenty eighteen through twenty twenty five. Going
19:57
Speaker 2: into the season, the Cubs have spent nearly one and
20:00
Speaker 2: a half billion dollars, the Cardinals one point twenty five
20:04
Speaker 2: billion dollars, the Reds eight hundred and eighty five million.
20:07
Speaker 2: Oh what, and the Brewers eight hundred and seventy seven million.
20:11
Speaker 1: So the Brewers for that, you know, So eight seasons.
20:14
Speaker 2: Over eight seasons, the Cubs outspent the Brewers by five
20:17
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty three.
20:18
Speaker 1: Million dollars half a billion dollars.
20:20
Speaker 2: The Cardinals outspent the Bars since twenty eighteen by three
20:24
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty three million, and yet they're seventy games
20:27
Speaker 2: worse than the Brewers are.
20:28
Speaker 1: That's funny. The mbia fan bases and ownership groups that
20:32
Speaker 1: want to win, and the ownership gups want to win.
20:34
Speaker 1: Brewers got to be Tom Dundan's favorite basement.
20:36
Speaker 4: Gotta be.
20:37
Speaker 1: They gotta be that.
20:38
Speaker 4: This is what and I think, I think we have
20:40
Speaker 4: to realize that a lot of fan bases and teams
20:42
Speaker 4: look at us and saying, why can't we do what
20:43
Speaker 4: they're doing well?
20:44
Speaker 2: And then he expands it to go beyond the division.
20:47
Speaker 2: The Brewers made the playoffs seven of the last eight seasons.
20:50
Speaker 2: The Mets have been to the playoffs twice over the
20:53
Speaker 2: last eight seasons, despite outspending the Brewers by more than
20:55
Speaker 2: a billion dollars.
20:57
Speaker 1: The Giants have been to the playoffs.
20:59
Speaker 2: Uh, they've missed the playoffs seven of last year, so
21:02
Speaker 2: they've been once over the last eight years, outspending the
21:04
Speaker 2: Brewers by almost a half a billion dollars four hundred
21:06
Speaker 2: and eighty three million. Boston has made the postseason three
21:09
Speaker 2: times in eight years. The Red Sox have a spending
21:13
Speaker 2: advantage over the Brewers of eight hundred million dollars. Ain't
21:18
Speaker 2: gotten fleeced how many times by the crew?
21:21
Speaker 1: Insane? Yeah, it's insane, okay, just to put, help me put.
21:26
Speaker 1: The Jays made it to the World.
21:28
Speaker 2: Series last year, so oh, they're better than Milwaukee. Between
21:30
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen and twenty five, the Jay's outspent the Brewers
21:32
Speaker 2: by four hundred million dollars. The Rangers outspent the Bruers
21:36
Speaker 2: by three hundred and forty three million dollars.
21:40
Speaker 3: And what only like the Rangers are one of the
21:42
Speaker 3: only ones that have a title. Yeah, exactly, the ones
21:46
Speaker 3: that have a title out of it, mm hmm, that's incredible.
21:48
Speaker 2: So the Brewers are the most efficient spend to win
21:51
Speaker 2: franchise in Baseball by a lot, by a lot. Essentially,
21:57
Speaker 2: the Birds are paying a million dollars less per win
22:00
Speaker 2: compared to other Major League front off.
22:02
Speaker 3: Oh and it's not my money, so maybe I shouldn't
22:07
Speaker 3: enjoy listening to those numbers as much. But they are
22:10
Speaker 3: pretty fun. It's insane. That's just incredible testament to what
22:13
Speaker 3: they've done. And they've taken away to what they thought
22:15
Speaker 3: were the most important key parts of that drew the
22:18
Speaker 3: manager and the general manager, and one of them they
22:21
Speaker 3: couldn't run out of New York fast enough. They are
22:24
Speaker 3: begging to be able to get rid of the get
22:26
Speaker 3: rid of Stearns out there. It's incredible, just wild with
22:28
Speaker 3: the Brewers have done. And so yeah, these are the
22:33
Speaker 3: good old days.
22:33
Speaker 1: Let's enjoy it.
22:34
Speaker 4: It is.
22:34
Speaker 2: It's just when you look at the numbers there and
22:36
Speaker 2: you look at win perspective, yeah, it'd be great to
22:39
Speaker 2: break through.
22:39
Speaker 3: But again, like just revel in the fact that everybody
22:42
Speaker 3: else is looking at the Burs. We got to be
22:43
Speaker 3: more like them. The Cardinals are on like a three
22:45
Speaker 3: year building program to be like the Brewers, be like them,
22:48
Speaker 3: to be like them, but we got to get one
22:50
Speaker 3: setting the standard. Trying to capitalize that one, and it'd
22:52
Speaker 3: be great. But man, pound for pound, inch for inch,
22:58
Speaker 3: the Brewers are doing it right.
22:59
Speaker 1: That's true.
23:00
Speaker 3: They are the best pound for pound fighter. And one point,
23:02
Speaker 3: that used to be the championship. It wasn't always just
23:05
Speaker 3: a flyway in the heavyweight.
23:06
Speaker 1: It was who's the best pound for pound.
23:07
Speaker 3: They've built the better machine. Yeah, that's fair. Love to
23:11
Speaker 3: just have with a much less Uh. They've spent their
23:14
Speaker 3: money in different ways in that pitching lab. Right there
23:16
Speaker 3: at the top of that list is exhibit a as
23:19
Speaker 3: to how you spend can work out even better, not
23:22
Speaker 3: only on just players.
23:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then yeah, work.
23:26
Speaker 3: In the margins. And they do it without hitting homers No.
23:31
Speaker 3: Twenty seventh in baseball and home runs hit this year.
23:33
Speaker 3: As Bernie points out, they don't have a slugging offense.
23:36
Speaker 3: They have an engineered offense. I love that phrase. I
23:40
Speaker 3: was gonna say, that's a great phrase.
23:41
Speaker 4: Diversified some money shot, speed, base running, platoon advantages, and
23:46
Speaker 4: then focus on going against the green here heading into
23:51
Speaker 4: the series, Like right now, the Brewers lead the majors
23:53
Speaker 4: in opposite field hits.
23:55
Speaker 3: They lead the majors in base hits up the middle
23:58
Speaker 3: of the field, and they're last in the Major leagues.
24:01
Speaker 1: And pulling the ball pull rate is lower than this
24:03
Speaker 1: is lower than anybody.
24:05
Speaker 3: And day zig to everyone else's zag as everything is
24:08
Speaker 3: launch angle, pull the ball, get it up in the air.
24:10
Speaker 3: So no, the slap to the other way and run
24:13
Speaker 3: around for a couple of paces will work out just
24:15
Speaker 3: as well. And what has been vexing us? And what
24:17
Speaker 3: have we been talking about? What has been the Brewers
24:19
Speaker 3: the last two three weeks? What have we been talking
24:21
Speaker 3: about more than anything else?
24:22
Speaker 1: With their offense?
24:23
Speaker 2: Their base No, no, all runners in scoring positioners and
24:26
Speaker 2: scoring position, right, and we're like, they got to get
24:29
Speaker 2: better at this. Entering the series against the Cardinals, Uh,
24:34
Speaker 2: they were fourth in the Major Leagues and performing with
24:36
Speaker 2: runners in scoring position and sixth with men on base
24:40
Speaker 2: and fourth in two out RBI.
24:43
Speaker 3: I like these Champagne problems. Fourth and two out RBI. Yeah,
24:47
Speaker 3: it seems bleak, and it can get a lot better.
24:49
Speaker 1: But it's not that bad. No, No, this is a
24:51
Speaker 1: good spot to be living and that's for sure. It
24:54
Speaker 1: seems great.
24:55
Speaker 4: Yeah.
24:56
Speaker 1: And then okay, so we talked.
24:57
Speaker 2: We spent a lot of time talking about culture and
24:59
Speaker 2: the just the ju ju that they have, and we
25:01
Speaker 2: talk about we talked about for you five o'clock clubbers.
25:03
Speaker 2: We were talking about Yelich getting to the ballpark at
25:05
Speaker 2: seven thirty yesterday and I always say he is like
25:09
Speaker 2: your highest paid guy's a grinder. Well, Yelich is a grinder.
25:12
Speaker 2: He's grinding. And but that the culture that they have
25:16
Speaker 2: is they do sit around trangulose guys. They do sit
25:18
Speaker 2: around trying to figure out ways to scratch out wins
25:20
Speaker 2: and what can we do at the end of games.
25:22
Speaker 3: They're they're doing that kind of stuff and not only
25:25
Speaker 3: just the offense, true, when the defense. And when I'm
25:27
Speaker 3: hearing Kyle Harrison do an interview, he's like, oh wait,
25:30
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go watch sports bullpen because I gotta go
25:32
Speaker 3: pick and choose.
25:32
Speaker 1: Yes, that kind of stuff doesn't happen everywhere.
25:34
Speaker 2: It translates, all right, get us your hot takes eight seven, seven, seven,
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Speaker 2: nine four seven three. Dolph is up next. You're in
25:39
Speaker 2: the huddle. Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin to you on a
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Speaker 2: hot take comp Day and the good Land halftime of
25:47
Speaker 2: the program, Halftime of the week, halftime. HiT's different on Wednesday,
25:50
Speaker 2: Scott Dolphin is here with us because he's our halftime
25:52
Speaker 2: correspondent from the country station down the hall FM one
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Speaker 2: oh six one.
25:56
Speaker 1: Hello Dolph, Hello fellas.
25:57
Speaker 2: All right, we were just talking about the Cardinals and
25:59
Speaker 2: the Brewers kicking sand in their faces. Complete turnaround from
26:02
Speaker 2: before pre twenty eighteen, when the Cardinals were the gold
26:05
Speaker 2: standard and they had pools and they were the evil
26:07
Speaker 2: Empire and you hated pools and Molina and Larusa. Oh yes,
26:12
Speaker 2: like those heated the tables have turned. I'm wondering as
26:15
Speaker 2: a kid growing up in Iowa, where the Cardinals the team.
26:17
Speaker 2: Where the Cubs the team? Because the Cardinals, as it
26:20
Speaker 2: goes to the southern Illinois, Yeah, their area. Because I
26:23
Speaker 2: just saw like Beelima and the line I are going
26:26
Speaker 2: to have a there's going to be a line I
26:27
Speaker 2: night at Bush Stadium.
26:28
Speaker 1: Oh wow, because that made one of their big market
26:31
Speaker 1: real close for the right across the river.
26:33
Speaker 4: Right.
26:33
Speaker 1: Yeah.
26:34
Speaker 5: Well, I grew up in northeastern Iowa, so it was Cubs,
26:37
Speaker 5: socks and twins predominantly. Not a lot of Brewer fans,
26:41
Speaker 5: although as a kid growing up in the seventies, the
26:44
Speaker 5: Brewers are still fairly New there was a lot of
26:46
Speaker 5: Packers fans and a few Bucks fans, but I don't
26:48
Speaker 5: remember ever having a Brewers fan in my hometown, but
26:52
Speaker 5: now there probably is since Colin Ray pitched here and
26:55
Speaker 5: Collin's out of my high school, Cascade, Iowa.
26:57
Speaker 2: But other other than that, the Cardinals weren't a team
26:59
Speaker 2: because I was saw a m ox was such a
27:00
Speaker 2: blow towards they they were that they dominated like the
27:04
Speaker 2: whole Midwest to me, and there's a few Cardinals fans,
27:06
Speaker 2: my nephews a Cardinals fans, but you go to southeast Iowa,
27:09
Speaker 2: that's all Saint Louis fans for the most part down there,
27:12
Speaker 2: along with the Cubs.
27:13
Speaker 1: Southwestern Iowa. You're an hour from Kansas City, so well
27:16
Speaker 1: that was weird. They're considered to have like six home markets.
27:18
Speaker 2: And that's true. Yeah, it all depends. You know, you're
27:21
Speaker 2: twins four hours from everywhere. Yeah there, yeah, Twins Cardinals.
27:25
Speaker 4: My buddy said, Cubs moines that they were constantly blacked out.
27:29
Speaker 4: Every every favorite, every favorite fan base is blacked out.
27:32
Speaker 1: Why were they blacked out?
27:34
Speaker 4: Because yeah, exactly, Yeah, they just couldn't watch games and
27:37
Speaker 4: so it is frustrating the way MLB has done it,
27:40
Speaker 4: but maybe those things will change.
27:41
Speaker 1: I would say Cubs were probably number one.
27:43
Speaker 5: There's always a bus trip from the Knights of Columbus
27:45
Speaker 5: Hall or going to Wrigley Field on a Sunday morning.
27:48
Speaker 4: And if you're watching the Iowa Cubs, obviously usually you
27:51
Speaker 4: cheer for the yeah and they've been they've been the
27:53
Speaker 4: Cubs Triple A team forever. Before that was the White Sox,
27:56
Speaker 4: they were the Iowa Oaks aka back Oh.
27:59
Speaker 1: I like that, I won't. I'm liking that.
28:02
Speaker 3: The bus trips are one of my favorite things that
28:05
Speaker 3: happen still at American Family Field, right, And like that's
28:07
Speaker 3: that's one deal where you start, you know, chalking up
28:10
Speaker 3: and almost writing in that they're gonna get the three
28:12
Speaker 3: million fans. And I know it's been to be labored
28:16
Speaker 3: down a number of different times, but you just can't
28:18
Speaker 3: continue to grow that full state feel if it wouldn't
28:22
Speaker 3: be for the roof, the guarantee of like you know,
28:24
Speaker 3: for lacrosse days that you're going to come in here
28:27
Speaker 3: and you're going to move three and a half hours
28:28
Speaker 3: to be able to enjoy the game, and it allows you.
28:32
Speaker 3: Now this year, I think they're starting to fully get
28:34
Speaker 3: it as the state's team, the Wisco one, whether or
28:37
Speaker 3: not some people love it, like it or not, the
28:40
Speaker 3: calling card to the entire state is definitely a true thing.
28:43
Speaker 3: I mean, they do the interview after the game Dolf
28:46
Speaker 3: on the road from that big banner. It's got like
28:48
Speaker 3: every city in the state listed on it, and they
28:51
Speaker 3: definitely have tried to buy into that more met the border,
28:54
Speaker 3: all around the entire state, not.
28:55
Speaker 1: To the city.
28:56
Speaker 5: I've always thought, you know, maybe to a slightly lesser
28:59
Speaker 5: extent than the the Brewers have always been Wisconsin's team, right.
29:02
Speaker 5: You could go, we travel a lot, we hike a
29:04
Speaker 5: lot up north, and you still you see Brewers flags
29:06
Speaker 5: in places like what was the tavern of the night
29:09
Speaker 5: last night, Gliddon, Wisconsin, or maybe it was the night before.
29:12
Speaker 1: I have no idea where that is, but I know
29:13
Speaker 1: it's not anywhere around here.
29:15
Speaker 3: Well, and I know that I got the folks on
29:17
Speaker 3: the high school football folks still letting everybody know and
29:19
Speaker 3: trying to correct Jeff levering that apparently that high school
29:21
Speaker 3: has been consolidated and shut on and moved around. Oh,
29:25
Speaker 3: there are some high school folks that were just letting
29:27
Speaker 3: Jeff leaving know. Oh, if you're gonna talk about it
29:29
Speaker 3: on Brewers TV, let's make sure that we know it.
29:31
Speaker 1: But fun is you go around.
29:36
Speaker 3: It's be tough in the middle of October to walk
29:38
Speaker 3: into a tavern and Hayward and say you what the
29:41
Speaker 3: bucks came on?
29:42
Speaker 1: No, you don't you go into that.
29:44
Speaker 3: You go into any spot in Hilton in the middle
29:47
Speaker 3: of July and ask turned the Brewer game on, It's
29:49
Speaker 3: probably already been on.
29:50
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
29:51
Speaker 5: If you go to Chilton and say, which you think
29:53
Speaker 5: that Torrian Prince deal yesterday? Huh, You're probably not gonna
29:55
Speaker 5: get a huge reaction.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we haven't even spoken about it. Should have given
29:58
Speaker 1: away Carrie Harris my dad. I mean that cat was
30:02
Speaker 1: money off the bench with his three points a game.
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Speaker 1: It is weird though that I've liked Karris Lavert for
30:06
Speaker 1: a while. He's on the all I know his name team.
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Speaker 1: He've been Spencer.
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Speaker 4: Dinwiddie were the two guys that always hear and remember,
30:13
Speaker 4: like Michigan Wolverine, right, kros.
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Speaker 1: Decent. I mean, hey, he put up what eighteen a
30:18
Speaker 1: game a couple of years ago.
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Speaker 5: He did in a career average is over thirteen now
30:23
Speaker 5: he's obviously on the back end of his career right now.
30:25
Speaker 1: But it's an expiring contract. Just like the two guys
30:27
Speaker 1: the Bucks gave up.
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Speaker 3: They're getting the number of expiring deals that obviously, Tyler,
30:32
Speaker 3: I'm the biggest of the expiring deals. And you'll see
30:34
Speaker 3: if they We'll see if they end up moving him
30:35
Speaker 3: at the end of the year. They put out all
30:37
Speaker 3: the new jerseys yesterday. But yeah, what he tough thing is,
30:40
Speaker 3: cap space isn't necessarily a good thing to have in
30:42
Speaker 3: the NBA. No, like you would get the players that
30:45
Speaker 3: have hit free agency. You can miss me with a
30:48
Speaker 3: number of these contracts for the guys that are actually
30:50
Speaker 3: hitting the market.
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Speaker 1: Tyler Hero, what number did he chose?
30:53
Speaker 3: Chose forty two because his dad wore it apparently, and
30:56
Speaker 3: also his favorite This is so random.
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Speaker 1: His favorite Buck growing up was Charlie Great charge my Bell.
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Speaker 2: I were talking about that, like my daughter her first
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Speaker 2: like birds game that you remember is going to Bill
31:06
Speaker 2: Hall made a diving catch and she just so she
31:08
Speaker 2: was he got a favorite guy, So she wore number
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Speaker 2: two all through athletic career for Bill Hall.
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Speaker 1: She loved her some Bill Hall. But Charlie Bell having
31:15
Speaker 1: that is your favorite players, just what.
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Speaker 4: It was probably as surprising as when I heard uh
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Speaker 4: Jhanna say Jabari was his favorite all time teammate.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be like Chris or somebody.
31:24
Speaker 4: Like probably just saying really okay, right, probably just as
31:28
Speaker 4: a dude, right, I mean he said he said the
31:30
Speaker 4: reason was because of his talent early on, how he
31:32
Speaker 4: pushed him every day to be better, because he compared himself.
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Speaker 1: So I get that. And Jabari was a big time
31:37
Speaker 1: score early and his buck the prolific of duke, and
31:41
Speaker 1: he was a great guy.
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Speaker 5: I remember he showed up at different parks like at
31:44
Speaker 5: uh Bula Britain Park and baby played pick up basketball local.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was his thing. That was his thing.
31:51
Speaker 4: The athletic piece about that, right, Yeah, that's right, Yeah,
31:54
Speaker 4: that's the great What if what if he hadn't gotten
31:56
Speaker 4: hurt and if he had, you know, been The funny
31:58
Speaker 4: thing is that the Bucks reached the ultimate goal anyway,
32:01
Speaker 4: So I understand what you're saying, and drew because he
32:03
Speaker 4: was supposed to be the centerpiece and then never really was.
32:06
Speaker 3: But yeah, the thing, but think about how much better
32:08
Speaker 3: they could have been, how much longer they could have been.
32:12
Speaker 3: I mean, because they obviously win it and you're not
32:13
Speaker 3: taking anything away from but they also win it once
32:16
Speaker 3: and make one other conference finals like that that thirteen
32:20
Speaker 3: years that Yannis had. That's the exact same amount of
32:22
Speaker 3: at least team success that Lebron had in LA in
32:25
Speaker 3: his eight years. Like you look at it, it's the
32:27
Speaker 3: same that Joki had in Denver in his run one title,
32:30
Speaker 3: one other conference finals, and they could have been right
32:33
Speaker 3: there on the cusp of going to a number of
32:34
Speaker 3: them if twelve stays healthy.
32:36
Speaker 1: He did add some crazy numbers early offensive numbers.
32:39
Speaker 4: I mean, there were some nights to him and Gianness
32:40
Speaker 4: are putting up some crazy points and things like that.
32:43
Speaker 4: I think he had an average of fun to watch. Yeah,
32:46
Speaker 4: twenty point average in sixteen seventeen.
32:48
Speaker 5: So getting back to the jerseys dream, you mentioned your
32:49
Speaker 5: daughter she chose that, And did you guys get to
32:52
Speaker 5: choose your jersey number in high school?
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Speaker 1: I never did. It was like here's your jersey, here
32:56
Speaker 1: it is, wear it. Yeah, it barely made the team.
32:59
Speaker 5: If I was a jersey number hell football and eleven
33:03
Speaker 5: in baseball, and I dealt with that.
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Speaker 3: Arm and take the small or whatever, the small ist
33:09
Speaker 3: youth baseball, they would just let me know because they
33:13
Speaker 3: would file it like the you know, the miners if
33:16
Speaker 3: you're in third and fourth grade teachers, if you're fifty
33:18
Speaker 3: and sixth grade. So each one was tiered with the
33:20
Speaker 3: jersey numbers, right, So say like one through twenty five
33:23
Speaker 3: for the light blue team at Witney Youth Baseball was
33:26
Speaker 3: the miners, and then go like twenty six through forty.
33:29
Speaker 3: So to answer your question, whatever the highest number was
33:33
Speaker 3: and if you were because that was the biggest jersey.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 1: So like when I was when I was in third grade,
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Speaker 1: I was twenty five. I was word twenty five in
33:41
Speaker 1: the excel that they gave the third grade to make
33:43
Speaker 1: sure you can see it.
33:44
Speaker 4: Same of basketball you had you probably be fifty, fifty
33:46
Speaker 4: two or fifty four because those were all the.
33:48
Speaker 1: Big guy jersey.
33:48
Speaker 4: Yeah.
33:49
Speaker 5: So when I was in high school basketball, you had
33:53
Speaker 5: different numbers home and away. We had love that we
33:56
Speaker 5: had even numbers, and seriously, I don't know why, but
34:00
Speaker 5: maybe it's an Iowa thing. We had even numbers at
34:02
Speaker 5: home and then it went up one number for your
34:04
Speaker 5: road jersey. So if you were fifty four at home,
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Speaker 5: you were fifty.
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Speaker 1: Five on the road. I never heard of that. Maybe
34:09
Speaker 1: that was for officiating purposes. I don't know. That's my
34:13
Speaker 1: favorite thing I've ever heard. Try to be an Iowa thing.
34:16
Speaker 4: I know in high school you couldn't have a number
34:18
Speaker 4: above five in basketball because the ref had to make
34:21
Speaker 4: the motion with one hand. Yeah, so five to five
34:24
Speaker 4: on the file and stuff like.
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Speaker 5: That, that's what they would never Yeah, I don't know
34:26
Speaker 5: why that was, but we had alternate numbers home and away.
34:30
Speaker 1: That's pretty wild.
34:31
Speaker 5: So you just got the highest number, Billity, that was
34:33
Speaker 5: it twenty five? That means you were fifty when you
34:35
Speaker 5: went up in fifteen.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I think when I we did the travel
34:39
Speaker 3: team of the tournament team, I think the biggest jersey
34:42
Speaker 3: there was sixty eighth.
34:43
Speaker 1: So I got that right away. I got that one.
34:46
Speaker 1: I marked that territory very very possibly. And when you
34:48
Speaker 1: got to Carrol, did you get to choose your number there?
34:51
Speaker 1: Actually I'm trying to think. No, I didn't. I got
34:55
Speaker 1: seventy eight there.
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Speaker 3: I chose seventy four in high school, right, Yeah, yeah,
35:01
Speaker 3: I got seventy eight given me, which actually I was
35:04
Speaker 3: not happy about. Does look a little better. It's a
35:06
Speaker 3: decently symmetrical number. It's definitely not one of the better
35:09
Speaker 3: looking offensive lineman numbers. That's definitely the double sevens Oh sure,
35:13
Speaker 3: seventy seven is about his stealth and the best, especially
35:15
Speaker 3: when you stretch it.
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Speaker 1: That medium where the tightest jersey of all.
35:20
Speaker 4: By the way, Gliddon, Wisconsin is in Adams County, only
35:24
Speaker 4: thirteen minutes from Butternuts, so they're there way up north
35:27
Speaker 4: by they should quality.
35:28
Speaker 5: I believe it was the dead squirrel in or something
35:30
Speaker 5: like that. Last night was the tavern of the game.
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Speaker 3: Let me see if I can find it. Was one
35:34
Speaker 3: of our first games, Dolphin RiPP in Wisconsin. It's about
35:37
Speaker 3: one hundred degrees, and somehow the seventy eight was a
35:41
Speaker 3: exit or an excel on the road and a double
35:43
Speaker 3: X at home. So to go on your number theory,
35:48
Speaker 3: it's in the middle or in the middle of like
35:50
Speaker 3: the jogging up and warming up, and I'm sitting there
35:52
Speaker 3: pulling the same like, good lord, can I get a
35:54
Speaker 3: little bit of air over here?
35:55
Speaker 1: It's one hundred degrees. I think about to pass out.
35:57
Speaker 5: I always enjoyed look at you in those NFL guards man,
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Speaker 5: where you could just see they just it took them
36:02
Speaker 5: fifteen minutes to get into that jersey.
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Speaker 1: Nobody's holding onto this thing today.
36:07
Speaker 3: There's a reason why Drew we don't see a whole
36:09
Speaker 3: lot of offensive defensive lineman jersey swapping after the game.
36:15
Speaker 1: The Cranes to get that thing off at midfield. I
36:18
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Speaker 5: They might have trouble finding forty people to ride the
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Speaker 5: bus down. Don't you get forty tickets?
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Speaker 1: That's true, forty tickets as long as you call by
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Speaker 1: midnight tonight. That's right. Oh man, that's too funny.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for popping by helping us out here at halftime.
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36:42
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36:51
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Speaker 3: Let's start it out with a name that some people
37:17
Speaker 3: might not necessarily know, Drew. But he made himself a
37:21
Speaker 3: name last night, and it's a part of an MLB record.
37:25
Speaker 3: Tyler Tolbert tied a major league record with hits in
37:29
Speaker 3: not one, not two, not three, but twelve consecutive plate appearances,
37:34
Speaker 3: a streak that was snapped last night, finishing five for
37:38
Speaker 3: six Tuesday night in the royals sixteen to twelve comeback
37:44
Speaker 3: win over the New York Mets.
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Speaker 1: The Royals that was a very much a bright spot.
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Speaker 3: There was Tyler Tolbert and the win, because otherwise they
37:51
Speaker 3: were going to find themselves in the not category. Drew
37:54
Speaker 3: their defense highlighted by one of the worst throws I've
37:57
Speaker 3: ever seen by Jack Caglioni. One of the worst throws
38:02
Speaker 3: I've ever seen a Major League baseball player have from
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Speaker 3: first base. I think he was trying to throw it
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Speaker 3: to third, but he split the difference right between all
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Speaker 3: play third base and lofted it over a part of
38:14
Speaker 3: a little league home run that had three throwing errors
38:16
Speaker 3: on the same play. But they ended up winning the game,
38:19
Speaker 3: So the Royals get the last laugh, and the Mets
38:22
Speaker 3: once again remained in the not category because well, they're
38:25
Speaker 3: thirty eight and fifty four. They're thirty eight and fifty four.
38:29
Speaker 3: Just let that one soak in for a little bit more.
38:31
Speaker 3: Ryan O'Hearn definitely in the hot category. The Pirates won
38:35
Speaker 3: the first Paul Skien start in the last ten times
38:38
Speaker 3: he's taken the bump, largely because Ryan O'Hearn hit three
38:42
Speaker 3: bombs and drove in ten runs yesterday up ten runs
38:47
Speaker 3: for the Pirates yesterdays. They beat the Braves twelve to four,
38:50
Speaker 3: who also talk about it Atlanta. They're kind of sliding
38:53
Speaker 3: down the back of the dinosaur. It felt like they
38:54
Speaker 3: were kind of the class of that division.
38:57
Speaker 4: Drew.
38:57
Speaker 3: They're now two games up on the Phillies and only
39:00
Speaker 3: three games up on the Miami Marlins, who since June first,
39:05
Speaker 3: have the sixth best record in baseball.
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Speaker 1: Did the Miami Marlinsory as well.
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Speaker 2: Bur was catching a little break because Connor Griffin, the
39:12
Speaker 2: Pirates shortstop, gonna be out for ten to twelve weeks.
39:15
Speaker 3: Right, And he had himself a phenomenal defensive performance a
39:18
Speaker 3: couple of days ago as well. And he's been he's
39:21
Speaker 3: been as advertised. And in the world of soccer, there's
39:23
Speaker 3: one in the not category. Did you guys watch that
39:27
Speaker 3: Egypt game?
39:28
Speaker 4: Wow? Wow, thost incredible matches ever you'll ever see a
39:31
Speaker 4: World Cup And why did they fumble the bag?
39:33
Speaker 1: They had a chance for history.
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Speaker 3: There have been there have been some pretty impressive comebacks
39:37
Speaker 3: in the world of sports. But one man that was
39:39
Speaker 3: at the beginning in the center of maybe the greatest,
39:43
Speaker 3: Tom Brady, said yesterday, Wow, twenty eight to three doesn't
39:46
Speaker 3: look that bad.
39:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty eight to three doesn't seem that bad.
39:50
Speaker 3: They were up to nothing in the seventieth minute against
39:55
Speaker 3: Argentina and then three goals in sixteen minutes later.
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Speaker 1: They are ounce out of the World company Atlanta collapse.
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Speaker 2: And the uh yeah, the common denominator there with twenty
40:05
Speaker 2: eighty three was Atlanta had a was a factor at
40:08
Speaker 2: right there.
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Speaker 1: In Atlanta. I just can't believe they fumbled the bag.
40:14
Speaker 4: Now they called it an injustice, some questionable calls, but
40:17
Speaker 4: you know, I mean, you can't do that.
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Speaker 3: Man.
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Speaker 4: They had a chance for history and uh, worst catastrope
40:22
Speaker 4: for Egypt since Cleopatra died. And what was that thirty
40:24
Speaker 4: thirty BC when she got caught by Octavian dang dang crazy.
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Speaker 1: Armand dropping some history.
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Speaker 3: I thought you were about to say the worst thing
40:33
Speaker 3: since Cleopatra since I most down at that stupid Cleopatra
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Speaker 3: machine thinking that that thing was going to pay because
40:38
Speaker 3: there were some pyramids right there, another.
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Speaker 1: L, another big L. That machine sucks. Ah, never play
40:45
Speaker 1: that stupid stuff asolute classic. All right, we are rolling.
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Speaker 2: We've got we got to get to more hot takes.
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