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01/23/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 2: I'm all for someone huddling if you have something.
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Speaker 3: To say right into.
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Speaker 1: It's time to wake up and talk about the teams
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Speaker 1: you love, everybody nobody with the guys you love.
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Speaker 4: Got yourself dominating a Friday morning the good Land, even
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Speaker 4: when it's fifteen below outside the megaplex, it's the huddle.
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Speaker 4: Drew Wilson, Bill Schmid, armand sorry. I'm bringing it to
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Speaker 4: you from headquarters. We're toasting in here, and you know
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Speaker 4: somebody had to do it, so here we are.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, listen, somebody to warm it up and fire up
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Speaker 6: the coffee for the individuals that will make their way
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Speaker 6: in today, albeit I don't know will be many because
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Speaker 6: the company wide email came out yesterday. If you can
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Speaker 6: work from home, you might as well do it. Oh
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Speaker 6: all right, well, sweet, sounds like a three day weekend.
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Speaker 4: dot com talk and text line? What are we talking about? Today. Well,
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Speaker 4: it's championship weekend. We've got, you know, pretty good football.
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Speaker 6: I got a little winning edge coming up right where
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Speaker 6: I got some uh, I got some potential victories that
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Speaker 6: we can find at the Potawatami Sportsbook if we want to.
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Speaker 4: We want a little bit of that coming up later on. Amazing,
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Speaker 4: that's amazing. Yeah, And the Jared Stidham experience.
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Speaker 6: I'm excited for it, like not only because it, uh,
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Speaker 6: it allows one coach that I kind of vehemently despise
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Speaker 6: to have a free role in a shot. I mean,
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Speaker 6: Sean Payton walks into the Hall of Fame if he
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Speaker 6: goes to a Super Bowl with a backup quarterback, right yeah.
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Speaker 4: Right, like I mean, right now, I think he's in that.
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Speaker 4: He's in that limbo where he'd be on the ballot
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Speaker 4: for a while. He's locked up. If he is the
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Speaker 4: Broncos defense good enough to win the game itself. We
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Speaker 4: shall see what. We'll talk more about that later. We
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Speaker 4: were just talking movies with our buddy Matt Miller, a
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Speaker 4: man about film, our movie expert in the Oscar nominations.
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Speaker 4: Well we're still talking movies. There's a movie coming out,
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Speaker 4: documentary directed by John Roach a road at night. It's
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Speaker 4: premiering February twelfth in Madison. It's going to have a
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Speaker 4: run at the Marcus Theaters of the Point Cinema in Madison,
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Speaker 4: and it's about Howard Moore. This is awesome Badgress this
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Speaker 4: coach and we have special guest. I'm the nicolay lot
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Speaker 4: dot com talking text one. Former Badgers player and teammate
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Speaker 4: of Howard Moore, Andy kilbrid is with us. Andy, thanks
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Speaker 4: for getting up early with us. We appreciate it.
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Speaker 5: How you doing today, Tom doing great? Thanks guys for
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Speaker 5: having me and thanks for you know, putting the message
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Speaker 5: out there about the documentary.
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Speaker 4: It's fantastic because when you watch Badgers basketball, Howard Moore
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Speaker 4: was such a big part of the culture since you
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Speaker 4: guys played together in the early to mid nineties with
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Speaker 4: that in that era when it's actually the awakening of
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Speaker 4: the program to me in our eyes, and you know,
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Speaker 4: the the tragedy and the accident, it's in some ways
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Speaker 4: you don't want to forget it, but you also don't
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Speaker 4: want to think about it too much because of how
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Speaker 4: horrific it is and what kind of tone can we
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Speaker 4: expect from for folks who go see this, Uh, this doc.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I think you you captured it there.
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Speaker 5: It's it's a it's a heavy film, right, it's a
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Speaker 5: it's a heavy topic, but I think you know, first
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Speaker 5: of all, it does talk about Howard and his teammates
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Speaker 5: myself included. Uh, my roommate freshman year was Michael Finley,
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Speaker 5: and the first person that walked into our room after
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Speaker 5: our parents left was Howard. So he was a he
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Speaker 5: was a born leader. To this day, he's still keeping
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Speaker 5: us all together. So yeah, it is a a heavy topic,
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Speaker 5: and it's it's awful and tragic what happened to Jennifer
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Speaker 5: and Jaden. But I think, uh, if you're a Badger
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Speaker 5: fan or not, uh, you'll appreciate, uh the perseverance and
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Speaker 5: uh and it's togetherness and the family of the film U.
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Speaker 5: And also you may walk away with a couple of messages.
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Speaker 6: Well, the togetherness is so inspiring as somebody that's a
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Speaker 6: fan of the Badgers obviously, but a fan of teams
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Speaker 6: and a fan of brotherhoods. This one emphasizes it to
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Speaker 6: a different level. You mentioned it the family atmosphere and
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Speaker 6: how he's still being able to keep you guys together
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Speaker 6: to this day. It's obviously in a circumstance that nobody
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Speaker 6: could have ever dreamed in their worst nightmare scenario. However,
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Speaker 6: being able to be this united with your teammates this
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Speaker 6: far along, you guys think about how that has brought
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Speaker 6: you guys closer together. And it's unique because a lot
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Speaker 6: of teams if you don't ultimately put a ring a
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Speaker 6: lot of times on the fingers and then there.
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Speaker 4: Was a lot of success.
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Speaker 6: But being able to be together like this at this
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Speaker 6: stage in your guys' lives is rather unique.
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Speaker 5: It's really unique in it. And you all mentioned at
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Speaker 5: the top of the segment here that you know, back
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Speaker 5: in the days when we were freshman and sophomores, we
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Speaker 5: were trying to get them to the NCAA tournament for
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Speaker 5: the first time in forty seven years, and UH, it
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Speaker 5: took a lot of work and a lot of effort
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Speaker 5: and a lot of change, and so that's when this
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Speaker 5: bond was really formed. You know, going through that with UH,
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Speaker 5: with your teammates, UH is different and it's really special.
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Speaker 5: And so you know when this happened, you know, we
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Speaker 5: we've all kept in touch over the years, but it
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Speaker 5: really did highlight how close we were back then and
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Speaker 5: how close we are now and uh and the true
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Speaker 5: leadership of Howard came came out and was highlighted, and
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Speaker 5: Michael Finley, Tracy Webster, Chris Conger, Rashard Griffith, you know,
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Speaker 5: people that led our team back then are still leading
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Speaker 5: us today in this effort to make sure that Howard
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Speaker 5: and his family have everything they need, you know, guys
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Speaker 5: like stan Van Gundhi as well. So it's it's really special.
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Speaker 5: I'm honored to be a part of it. And you know,
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Speaker 5: it's it's something that is unique about Wisconsin, our athletic
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Speaker 5: department and especially the back program even today. So I'm
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Speaker 5: happy to help perpetuate it. And Howard has perpetuated it
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Speaker 5: since he's stepped on campus.
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Speaker 4: The movie is A Road at Night. February twelfth is
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Speaker 4: the premiere, and you guys are going all out with
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Speaker 4: a special kind of VIP screening and events and that's
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Speaker 4: going to be pretty cool. Andy, what's the website where
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Speaker 4: people can go if they want to donate to the
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Speaker 4: family or just kind of learn more about all of this.
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Speaker 5: I believe the website is be More, Far More, and
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Speaker 5: look up A Road at Night and you can find
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Speaker 5: a ways to donate. We're still trying to raise money
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Speaker 5: for Howard and his family so that he can get
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Speaker 5: the care that he needs for really the rest of
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Speaker 5: his life. And I think if you are just a
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Speaker 5: movie buff in general, you'll appreciate John and his team
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Speaker 5: and the way that they put this together. It's absolutely
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Speaker 5: incredible and it supports the Badger family and the More family.
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Speaker 5: And we thank you in advance for coming out and
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Speaker 5: supporting this film, and thank you guys for doing this
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Speaker 5: this morning.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely, you know you can celebrate. We love our round
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Speaker 4: number anniversaries and things. You know, the Final four run
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Speaker 4: with Kaminsky and Decker and Gosser and all those guys,
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Speaker 4: and then before that the Mike Kelly era of the
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Speaker 4: Final four run. But none of that happens without you
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Speaker 4: guys playing the trail at the Fieldhouse back in the
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Speaker 4: day and putting the program on the map. So but
8:23
Speaker 4: what was it like you guys knew that you were
8:25
Speaker 4: you know, did the n I T was a reason
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Speaker 4: to have a party and shut down State Street back then?
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Speaker 5: Yeah? Well, as I say to all my friends now,
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Speaker 5: the two thousand team and then that fourteen and fifteen team,
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Speaker 5: they make me look better every year, because when I
8:40
Speaker 5: tell someone that I played basketball at Wisconsin, they think
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Speaker 5: of those Final four teams. But yeah, we were happy.
8:46
Speaker 5: I wouldn't say happy to get to the n I
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Speaker 5: t but we were happy to be moving forward and
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Speaker 5: moving the program in the right direction. And it's been
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Speaker 5: just a fun ride over the years to see, you know,
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Speaker 5: Coach Bennett's teams, Coach Ryan's teams, and I would say,
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Speaker 5: you know, Greg guard for Big Ten Coach.
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Speaker 4: Of the Year this year.
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Speaker 5: With all the changes that have happened in college athletics,
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Speaker 5: you know, that culture and that system that he has
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Speaker 5: perpetuated at Wisconsin, it's really fun to watch this team
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Speaker 5: and be a part of the program. So yeah, it was.
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Speaker 5: It was an amazing time. You know. Ninety four was
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Speaker 5: the first time he went to the NCAA Tournament forty
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Speaker 5: seven years the same year the Badgers football team went
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Speaker 5: to the Rose Bowl, and so that was a really
9:29
Speaker 5: fun year on campus.
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Speaker 3: Well, Andy really quick arming here that that was an
9:34
Speaker 3: amazing year for Wisconsin athletics. And I was nine at
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Speaker 3: the time, right, so I remember all of it. But
9:39
Speaker 3: do you is there something that sticks out the most
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Speaker 3: in your mind? Because I think there's a whole generation
9:43
Speaker 3: of fans that have only known success, especially in basketball
9:46
Speaker 3: for Wisconsin Badgers, and don't remember kind of the forest
9:50
Speaker 3: of the wilderness they had to go through for such
9:51
Speaker 3: a long time and being the sing singular unit you
9:56
Speaker 3: guys to actually bring the Badgers back to the tournament
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Speaker 3: and win a tournament game.
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Speaker 4: I think people forget that one as well.
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Speaker 3: It had to be in a men's source of pride
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Speaker 3: when you guys were together and when you get together
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Speaker 3: still to talk about those stories.
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Speaker 4: Was there one moment, one kind.
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Speaker 3: Of time in that season when you guys realized you
10:13
Speaker 3: were breaking through, like the win that you clinch your
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Speaker 3: tournament bid, and said, we did it, guys, we did it.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, I mean, you're making me feel old and
10:21
Speaker 5: young all at the same time. You're you're you're you're
10:26
Speaker 5: nine years old, but you but you remember that's awesome.
10:29
Speaker 5: So I think, uh, you know, during that season, you
10:32
Speaker 5: know the Big Ten was loaded. You know, Indiana was loaded,
10:36
Speaker 5: Michigan was loaded. Uh, Purdue, Yeah, Michigan State, Michigan State.
10:41
Speaker 5: You know, Purdue had uh, you know, Glenn Robinson and
10:45
Speaker 5: and so you know we had a road win. Jason
10:47
Speaker 5: Johnson hit a three pointer at the buzzer to beat
10:49
Speaker 5: Michigan State on the road, and I think that was
10:53
Speaker 5: that was a really pivotal moment in that season. But
10:56
Speaker 5: I think overall, you know, it started when Tracy Webster
10:59
Speaker 5: decided to come to Wisconsin the year before Michael Finley, uh,
11:03
Speaker 5: and my and myself and and Brian Kelly came on campus,
11:06
Speaker 5: and then when when Rishard came those those moments were
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Speaker 5: really I think pivotal, and you kind of forget, you know,
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Speaker 5: Michael Finley had a fifteen year World championship career in
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Speaker 5: the NBA, and one of the things that he did
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Speaker 5: when he got on campus was he just set the
11:24
Speaker 5: tone that we were going to a different level. And
11:27
Speaker 5: I think that, you know, I'm so happy that they
11:30
Speaker 5: retired his jersey. I think that along with bringing in
11:33
Speaker 5: Stu Jackson, you know, coach Jackson, that I think that's
11:37
Speaker 5: also kind of forgotten in all of this that Pat
11:40
Speaker 5: Richter brought him in and and he also uh set
11:44
Speaker 5: a new standard here. He just wouldn't accept mediocrity, He
11:47
Speaker 5: wouldn't accept average. You know. He he was a I
11:50
Speaker 5: think the head coach of the New York Knicks when
11:52
Speaker 5: he was thirty six years old. And so I think
11:55
Speaker 5: that those you know, Michael and Finley and and Stu Jackson,
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Speaker 5: I think all of usud okay, we can get there.
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Speaker 5: And those two guys really lifted us up. And uh,
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Speaker 5: I remember sitting at Stu Jackson's house and we were
12:08
Speaker 5: watching the selection show and we were five hundred in
12:11
Speaker 5: the Big Ten. So it wasn't a lock that we
12:14
Speaker 5: were getting in. And there was no Big Ten tournament
12:16
Speaker 5: back then where you could you know, win a couple
12:18
Speaker 5: of games in the tournament and solidify your resume. So
12:22
Speaker 5: you know, they announced that we got in, and there
12:25
Speaker 5: were a lot of plates in the air, a lot
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Speaker 5: of cups in the air, and uh, it was a
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Speaker 5: really euphoric time after two long years of hard work
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Speaker 5: and really you know, building on uh, Mike's work and
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Speaker 5: Tracy and Rashard. So it was it was really special.
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Speaker 5: And we talk about that now. You know, the it's
12:44
Speaker 5: hard to find positives in in Howard and his family's tragedy,
12:50
Speaker 5: but like I said, one of the things is he's
12:52
Speaker 5: brought us all together, uh, time and time again, and
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Speaker 5: it continues to the day to this day. And but
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Speaker 5: that time was was really special. We did beat Cincinnati
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Speaker 5: in the first round. Yeah, and then unfortunately we lost
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Speaker 5: to Missouri. I don't think about it every day or anything,
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Speaker 5: but I had to guard Melvin Booker, Devin Booker's dad,
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Speaker 5: who was Big Twelve Player of the Year that year.
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Speaker 5: Missouri was undefeated in the Big Twelve that year. But
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Speaker 5: it was a special run and I was happy to
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Speaker 5: be a part of, you know, the program then and now,
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Speaker 5: and really just super proud to be a Badger.
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Speaker 4: Andy Kilbrid joining us here and again. The movie is
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Speaker 4: coming out in just a couple of weeks and the
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Speaker 4: premiere is set for February twelfth at Marcus the Point
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Speaker 4: Cinema in Madison. Marcus Theater, great place, A road at
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Speaker 4: night about Howard Moore. It's seventy three minutes long, and Andy,
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Speaker 4: I got to ask, I'm want to take it back
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Speaker 4: in the Delrea and go back to that dorm room
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Speaker 4: and you're sitting there with Michael Finley. Now, if we
13:52
Speaker 4: take it back to that era and we told you
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Speaker 4: that Michael Finley was gonna be a fifteen year NBA player,
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Speaker 4: a champion, an All Star, and then an execscutive, you
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Speaker 4: might have said that's a reach, maybe, right, Stan Van
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Speaker 4: Gundy's gonna be one of the most revered analysts in
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Speaker 4: the television side, Like, Oh, you got to be kidding me.
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Speaker 4: Come on, But if we told you Howard Moore was
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Speaker 4: going to be a coach at UIC and be an
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Speaker 4: assistant and be part of the lifeblood and the culture
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Speaker 4: of UW just said, Oh, I can buy that for sure.
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Speaker 4: That's the most plausible of those three.
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Speaker 5: Isn't it totally? Totally? I totally agree. Uh, you know
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Speaker 5: I and you just took me back. I'm just smiling
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Speaker 5: right now, and I got a little bit of chills
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Speaker 5: because I'm when I walked in. You know, Mike and
14:31
Speaker 5: I had played against each other in the summertime in
14:33
Speaker 5: high school, but he was a kind of an unknown
14:37
Speaker 5: legend back then. He had two other McDonald's All Americans
14:40
Speaker 5: on his high school team, which everyone thought those guys
14:43
Speaker 5: were going to be the the NBA All Stars. Turns
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Speaker 5: out Mike was. And as you mentioned, I didn't even
14:49
Speaker 5: know who Stan Van Gundy was back then. I knew
14:51
Speaker 5: Jeff Van Gundy was the coach for the Knicks. But yes,
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Speaker 5: if you would have said Howard Moore will be a
14:57
Speaker 5: coach at UC and then a long time coach at
15:00
Speaker 5: at UW I would have I would have taken that
15:03
Speaker 5: bet all day. And you know, I'm happy that all
15:08
Speaker 5: three of those things turned out to be true. And again,
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Speaker 5: I just feel really lucky. I was with Mike and
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Speaker 5: Tracy about a month ago and uh, and sitting in
15:19
Speaker 5: Mike's living room watching the watching a Mavericks game and
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Speaker 5: having him break down you know, not only every player
15:24
Speaker 5: on the Mavericks team, but every player on the other team. Uh.
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Speaker 5: And he and Tracy worked together with the Mavericks now
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Speaker 5: and yeah, that was that was kind of a surreal moment.
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Speaker 5: And yes, listening to stand on TV, UH, you know,
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Speaker 5: he he always had a photographic memory and it's one
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Speaker 5: of the smartest people I've ever met in my life,
15:42
Speaker 5: let alone in basketball. And so I love the fact
15:45
Speaker 5: that I get to hear his analysis on NBA games.
15:48
Speaker 5: I'm a huge NBA fan.
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Speaker 3: And uh.
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Speaker 5: And lastly, you know, with with Howard, we called him
15:54
Speaker 5: Ducks back then. I don't know if anyone remembers that
15:56
Speaker 5: movie Howard the Duck. Yes, but that's that was Howard's nickname.
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Speaker 5: And Uh, I remember when he got the job at U,
16:05
Speaker 5: I c and I went to visit him in Chicago,
16:08
Speaker 5: and he was just beaming. He had he had worked
16:11
Speaker 5: so hard to get to that level. He was so
16:14
Speaker 5: happy to take over that program and in his hometown.
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Speaker 5: He's done so much work in Chicago, given all the
16:21
Speaker 5: tragedies that have happened on the West and South side
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Speaker 5: of Chicago. And Uh, I'm proud to be his friend.
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Speaker 5: I'm proud to call him a friend. And I hope
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Speaker 5: that everyone you know, like I said, will come out.
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Speaker 5: Uh support this film, Uh support the Badgers, and even
16:38
Speaker 5: if you're not a Badger fan, I think you'll enjoy it.
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Speaker 5: It's he's an incredible human being and you don't find
16:46
Speaker 5: many guys like that these days. They're very rare. So yeah,
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Speaker 5: I would have taken that bet all day long back
16:52
Speaker 5: in that darm.
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Speaker 4: Us of course. And here's a here's a tidbit for you,
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Speaker 4: Michael Finley. You guys played against each other in the summer,
16:58
Speaker 4: and didn't he go to the same high school like
17:00
Speaker 4: Glenn Rivers did. Arman is our Marquette historian because he's
17:03
Speaker 4: a Marquettevisoviso East.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, they won three three straight state championships and Donnie
17:12
Speaker 5: Boyce and Schrell board were both now's all Americans, and uh,
17:16
Speaker 5: when we they had a thing it's kind of like
17:19
Speaker 5: the Badger State Games. It's called the Prairie State Games.
17:21
Speaker 5: I don't even know if they still have it, but
17:23
Speaker 5: I believe we had seven NBA players that played in
17:28
Speaker 5: the Prairie Amazing back in uh, you know, nineteen eighty
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Speaker 5: nine and nineties. So yeah, and Michael's you know, also
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Speaker 5: an incredible uh person, you know, take away all his
17:42
Speaker 5: incredible achievements on the basketball court. He is humble, he
17:48
Speaker 5: is hard working, he is an incredible family man, you know.
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Speaker 5: So it's nice to be around, you know, powered Mike,
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Speaker 5: two guys that are just incredible people. Uh. And it
18:01
Speaker 5: seems like over the years that's a common theme with Wiscon,
18:04
Speaker 5: Wisconsin Basketball, and Wisconsin Athletics.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
18:07
Speaker 5: But yeah, that those provides the East teams. Doc Rivers
18:09
Speaker 5: went to provide the East. Yeah, and and uh, you
18:14
Speaker 5: know there there's been some incredible players there over the years.
18:17
Speaker 5: And obviously I think all of us know incredible players
18:19
Speaker 5: coming out of the city of Chicago. So we were
18:21
Speaker 5: lucky to get four great ones. Howard More, Tracy Webster,
18:25
Speaker 5: Rashard Griffiths and Michael Finley, you know, and and Richard
18:30
Speaker 5: I think you know. I don't know if if people
18:33
Speaker 5: know this, but Richard has worked from the time of
18:36
Speaker 5: this tragedy till today. Uh, He's with Howard every single day.
18:42
Speaker 5: He's with him and his family every single day. He's
18:45
Speaker 5: helping to care for Howard. Anything that you know, Howard
18:49
Speaker 5: needs or his family needs, Richard has been there.
18:53
Speaker 4: Again.
18:53
Speaker 5: Just an incredible human being, an incredible person and the
18:58
Speaker 5: type of person that you would want in your basketball program,
19:01
Speaker 5: but also the type of person you want your family.
19:03
Speaker 5: So again, just incredible people. I'm lucky to be among them.
19:07
Speaker 4: The movie premieres in Madison at the Points Cinema February twelfth.
19:11
Speaker 4: Is the kind of like the star studded and our
19:14
Speaker 4: buddy Matt Lapey, who's going to join us in a
19:16
Speaker 4: couple of minutes, is going to be.
19:18
Speaker 5: The biggest star of all. Matt, You're You're Okay.
19:24
Speaker 4: The movie John Roach seventy three minute documentary has already
19:27
Speaker 4: played at some film festivals and one many fans, and
19:30
Speaker 4: we're looking forward to it. It is a heavy topic,
19:32
Speaker 4: but we got to keep thinking about Howard and the
19:33
Speaker 4: impact that he still has on people, and Andy, we
19:36
Speaker 4: appreciate you joining us early here and sharing your thoughts.
19:39
Speaker 4: Thanks very much.
19:40
Speaker 5: Oh, thank you so much. And you know I'm sorry
19:42
Speaker 5: for that. I'm leading into the legend. The man, the
19:45
Speaker 5: legend that will pay. He's got legendary boys, legendary hair.
19:49
Speaker 5: The guy's incredible. Thank you guys for having me and
19:51
Speaker 5: come out and support the film.
19:52
Speaker 4: You bet we will. Thanks Andy, and you come back
19:54
Speaker 4: and join us anytime. We'll talk hoops.
19:57
Speaker 5: Awesome.
19:58
Speaker 4: I love it.
19:59
Speaker 5: Happy to be here, guys, Thanks for having me.
20:00
Speaker 4: Thanks you bet. Andy Kilby, a former Badger teammate of
20:03
Speaker 4: Howard More, Michael Finley, Trace Webster, those guys who kind
20:05
Speaker 4: of laid the foundation did what they were on the
20:08
Speaker 4: front end of Now we're spoiled by the Badger's success.
20:11
Speaker 6: And anything less than going to the If you don't
20:13
Speaker 6: get a sweet Year, it's a failure, dude.
20:15
Speaker 4: They were. I remember the party when they made it
20:17
Speaker 4: to the n I T nine one, right. I still
20:19
Speaker 4: think my favorite part of this is, like you think
20:22
Speaker 4: of all the legends that are part of it. You
20:24
Speaker 4: talked about the guys that we are on those teams
20:26
Speaker 4: with Howard, but the ones then that he coached of
20:28
Speaker 4: you know, Nigel Hayes Davis, who's back in the NBA now,
20:32
Speaker 4: Frank Kaminski player of the Year, like Jordan Taylor obviously,
20:35
Speaker 4: Butchy like the years that he was across the Badger's
20:40
Speaker 4: basketball and the years of success that he helped Stewart
20:44
Speaker 4: and was a part of, whether he was here or
20:47
Speaker 4: not is uh, it's an incredible testament to the man
20:50
Speaker 4: he is.
20:50
Speaker 3: And you know, people talk a lot about brotherhood and
20:53
Speaker 3: friendship and lifelong friends, but not everyone lives it like
20:56
Speaker 3: Rishard Griffin.
20:57
Speaker 4: Yes, I mean that's one of the most I mean,
20:58
Speaker 4: that's genuine.
20:59
Speaker 3: Love, brotherhood and lifelong friendship and dedication to your brother.
21:04
Speaker 4: That's pretty amazing stuff. Well you need to do it
21:06
Speaker 4: like now.
21:06
Speaker 6: But you think, like, are these stories in college sports?
21:11
Speaker 6: Are you gonna have those moments of those those friendships,
21:13
Speaker 6: those loves point Billy, and I mean that still is
21:15
Speaker 6: what this stuff is about, is about the lifelong bonds
21:18
Speaker 6: that you form with your teammates. And this team is
21:21
Speaker 6: closer than I'll set probably any team that ever want
21:24
Speaker 6: an NBA title or an NCAA title, And it comes
21:27
Speaker 6: with some of the worst of circumstances. But that ability
21:30
Speaker 6: to be together this late into their lives is pretty special.
21:34
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21:37
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21:41
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21:44
Speaker 6: And there's the premiere on February twelfth with the big
21:46
Speaker 6: event and Matt Lapay is going to be a part
21:48
Speaker 6: of that one as well. But then the different screenings
21:50
Speaker 6: for the next week and a half that you can
21:51
Speaker 6: get to as well. Gonna be awesome there in February.
21:54
Speaker 4: Speaking of Matt Lapey, the voice of the Badgers and
21:56
Speaker 4: our friend is going to join us next it's the
21:59
Speaker 4: Huddle on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
22:02
Speaker 5: Lady, you can be the best you can be.
22:05
Speaker 4: They can't call man on your chest.
22:07
Speaker 3: You can beat the world.
22:13
Speaker 2: And there is a good start to your big league career.
22:17
Speaker 2: And how about that for your first inning in the
22:20
Speaker 2: big leagues, you get a couple of strikeouts and the
22:22
Speaker 2: one two and he strikes out the side and there
22:26
Speaker 2: strikeout number ten two away. In the fifth he Hugh
22:30
Speaker 2: is on deck and another strikeout.
22:32
Speaker 1: That's eleven of them.
22:34
Speaker 2: Now for Freddy Peralta holding up with the two to
22:38
Speaker 2: two and that strikeout number twelve to two pitch here
22:43
Speaker 2: it is number thirteen for Freddy Peralta. Feel free to
22:47
Speaker 2: stand in applaud lot a debut for the twenty one
22:51
Speaker 2: year old from the Dominican Republican. His family here thought
22:55
Speaker 2: he would be pitching in Colorado Springs. He's pitching in
22:59
Speaker 2: the big leagues on a day he will never forget.
23:04
Speaker 4: None of us will welcome back to the huddle. Fox
23:07
Speaker 4: Sports Radio Wisconsin nine twenty, Milwaukee ten seventy Madison, Drew,
23:10
Speaker 4: Billy and Arman Matt Lapey on the call for fred
23:13
Speaker 4: Freddie Parata's first start in the major leagues, and Matt Leapey,
23:17
Speaker 4: fresh as a daisy coming back from state college, joins us. Now,
23:20
Speaker 4: how was that tripped down memory lane for you? Matt?
23:23
Speaker 2: That was that was pretty fun. I remember seeing him
23:26
Speaker 2: in the lobby, big smile on his face. You know,
23:28
Speaker 2: you know, Drew, you don't talk to starting pitchers on
23:30
Speaker 2: their day, but he was. You know, life comes at
23:33
Speaker 2: you fast, you know, as everybody knows. Now, the family
23:36
Speaker 2: was there. They were going to watch it pitch in
23:38
Speaker 2: Colorado Springs and then lo and behold you no, You're
23:42
Speaker 2: going up to the show and man was he good.
23:46
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously the Rockies probably didn't know anything about
23:49
Speaker 2: him or much of anything about him, but he was.
23:51
Speaker 2: He was so good and what a Brewer.
23:53
Speaker 4: Absolutely, you know, this is one of.
23:55
Speaker 2: Those I'm sure you guys have talked at linked about this.
23:57
Speaker 2: This is one of those things that you don't like
24:00
Speaker 2: but you get mm hmm with what has happened here.
24:03
Speaker 2: But Brewer fans are never going to forget this guy.
24:06
Speaker 2: The way he carried himself. And man, what when you
24:10
Speaker 2: start that high, you might just want to retire, right,
24:13
Speaker 2: you just go ahead and drop the mic, say I'm good,
24:15
Speaker 2: I got my thirteen punch outs. I'm good, I'm gonna
24:19
Speaker 2: walk away.
24:19
Speaker 5: Thank good.
24:20
Speaker 2: As he didn't do that.
24:20
Speaker 6: I equated it to back in the the you know,
24:23
Speaker 6: old days of college sports where you like graduated and
24:26
Speaker 6: not just you know, went to the G league and
24:27
Speaker 6: then came back or whatever.
24:29
Speaker 4: Like this would be.
24:30
Speaker 6: When he declares for the NFL or the NBA a
24:33
Speaker 6: year early. Right, We're we hate to see you go,
24:36
Speaker 6: but we're excited to see the amount of cash that
24:38
Speaker 6: he ends up breaking away from some organizations.
24:41
Speaker 4: In the American League. Matt after this one year hiatus
24:43
Speaker 4: in New York.
24:44
Speaker 6: But I'm going to be very excited for all the
24:46
Speaker 6: beachfront property he's able to afford after this one.
24:49
Speaker 2: You mentioned the college you know comparison there that that
24:53
Speaker 2: game kind of reminded me of that. And that's the
24:55
Speaker 2: fun one of the many fun things about baseball. You
24:58
Speaker 2: could be, you know, the salty veteran, you know, ten
25:01
Speaker 2: or fifteen years, but when you see someone making his debut,
25:05
Speaker 2: it's so cool. Someone gets his first hit, someone gets
25:08
Speaker 2: his first home run, he gets the silent treatment in
25:10
Speaker 2: the dugout. But that game and just there was a
25:13
Speaker 2: bit of a collegiate atmosphere around the ball club that day,
25:17
Speaker 2: and they have, They've had a lot of days like that,
25:19
Speaker 2: you know, the last several years. But it doesn't matter
25:23
Speaker 2: how how salty you might be after so many years
25:27
Speaker 2: in the big leagues. Everybody was a kid watching him
25:30
Speaker 2: do his thing that day out of here.
25:31
Speaker 4: Yeah, and when you see a guy doing that, we're embraces.
25:33
Speaker 2: You know.
25:34
Speaker 4: It's that's a little different.
25:37
Speaker 2: Yet about that, Let's say in college, maybe high school,
25:39
Speaker 2: there's a really good high school feeling.
25:41
Speaker 4: You're there, my goodness, I you know, it's not a reach.
25:44
Speaker 4: You start thinking about it. Top five pitcher in Brewer's
25:46
Speaker 4: history in terms of his record in the mix. Yeah,
25:49
Speaker 4: total accomplishments. Yeah, up there, he's up there for sure.
25:52
Speaker 4: All Right, So Matt, we start off talking baseball. We
25:54
Speaker 4: just said Andy Kilbright on the program talking about the
25:56
Speaker 4: Howard Moore doc. Uh that's coming out a road at
25:59
Speaker 4: night and you'll be involved in the premiere in Andy
26:02
Speaker 4: kilbrid wonderful to catch up with him and talk about
26:04
Speaker 4: the ground floor, the reason we're spoiled now watching the
26:07
Speaker 4: Badgers and like, if it's not the Sweet sixteen, come
26:10
Speaker 4: on those guys blaze the trail with that group with
26:13
Speaker 4: Howard and Andy and Richard and Finley and Tracey. It's
26:16
Speaker 4: that group is where it all started.
26:18
Speaker 2: Kind of no, it did with it without a doubt.
26:21
Speaker 2: It was starting to build a little bit with Steve Yoder.
26:24
Speaker 2: They had some good teams. There were good teams in
26:26
Speaker 2: the NIT just missed the tournament. Stuve Jackson gets there,
26:30
Speaker 2: you get a Rishard Griffith, the development of a Michael Finley,
26:33
Speaker 2: Tracy Webster, and it is caught a little bit of
26:37
Speaker 2: your chat with Andy, who's just he's a great dude.
26:40
Speaker 2: And he was actually in Ann Arbor a couple of
26:42
Speaker 2: weeks ago celebrating a badger basketball win there against Michigan
26:46
Speaker 2: that the big win there. Excuse me earlier this month,
26:51
Speaker 2: but that team had a lot of talent and just
26:53
Speaker 2: to be able to break through and get into the
26:57
Speaker 2: tournament after forty seven years of not and Andy was good.
27:01
Speaker 2: He was a good player. We always we kind of
27:04
Speaker 2: laughed because he could be the team knucklehead in some ways,
27:06
Speaker 2: but he was a really good player, tough defender, could
27:09
Speaker 2: shoot it. And you know the bond that that group
27:13
Speaker 2: has always had and under the worst of circumstances, I
27:17
Speaker 2: think that bond has gotten even even tighter through the years.
27:21
Speaker 2: We did a private showing. Man, it's probably the year
27:25
Speaker 2: ago or over a year ago or so, but you
27:28
Speaker 2: know John Roach, who who put this documentary together, it
27:31
Speaker 2: is it's powerful.
27:33
Speaker 5: Man.
27:34
Speaker 2: I've seen it probably ten times and tiers all ten.
27:38
Speaker 2: It's just that powerful of a documentary.
27:40
Speaker 6: Well, and the trailers that that have leaked out have
27:43
Speaker 6: been extremely powerful. And I'm excited to be able to
27:46
Speaker 6: see it. And you mentioned it, Matt, that under the
27:48
Speaker 6: worst of circumstances, and you hate to say it, that
27:51
Speaker 6: somehow you know positives come from a moment like that.
27:55
Speaker 6: But the ability to be together and have that brother
27:59
Speaker 6: this long into it when I was talking, when we
28:00
Speaker 6: were talking about it with aim like that is so unique.
28:03
Speaker 6: Obviously they're on court success and being able to break
28:06
Speaker 6: that drought would be something that gets celebrated enough, but
28:09
Speaker 6: to be brought together like this with the kind of
28:13
Speaker 6: love that the tragedy has brought to it, it's so unique.
28:18
Speaker 4: And it's one that in a time when.
28:21
Speaker 6: College sports always gets glorified for what used to be,
28:24
Speaker 6: it is a testament of like I sure hope that
28:26
Speaker 6: there's young men that are in young women who are
28:29
Speaker 6: in programs right now that are able to have bonds
28:32
Speaker 6: and friendships and lifelong ones like these guys have from
28:35
Speaker 6: that team.
28:36
Speaker 2: Well, the thing with Howard is he you know, he
28:40
Speaker 2: always had the feeling that he could be whatever he
28:42
Speaker 2: wanted to. He wanted to coach, he did that. He
28:45
Speaker 2: got into broadcasting if he if that would have been
28:47
Speaker 2: something he would have really wanted to pursue, he would
28:50
Speaker 2: have been great at that. He could have worked on
28:52
Speaker 2: Bascom Hill, you know, and in the Chancellor's office, that
28:55
Speaker 2: that type of thing, and he was instrumental in in
28:58
Speaker 2: you know, helping bring the the other guys onto campus
29:02
Speaker 2: and kind of keeping every keeping the ship steady. You know,
29:05
Speaker 2: he didn't play a lot. It wasn't a major minutes guy.
29:08
Speaker 2: His statistics were light, let's you know, to say the least.
29:12
Speaker 2: But you hear the term brotherhood or this guy is
29:15
Speaker 2: my brother, and that does exist in sports, it does,
29:19
Speaker 2: but it really does here. Rashard Griffith is a perfect
29:23
Speaker 2: example of that because he was playing overseas. His basketball
29:26
Speaker 2: creer is winding down and Howard insisted he come back
29:29
Speaker 2: here finish his degree. And those guys they are like brothers,
29:34
Speaker 2: you know. Rashard's always there for Howard to this day.
29:39
Speaker 2: Michael Finley would tell you the same thing. Kilbride. You know,
29:43
Speaker 2: it really gets pointed out some specific instances in the
29:47
Speaker 2: documentary and it is I mean, we're in a different
29:50
Speaker 2: world now with the transfer portal and guys day a
29:52
Speaker 2: year maybe two, but those guys, you know, back then
29:55
Speaker 2: it was and they went through tough times. Stu Jackson
29:58
Speaker 2: was not a warm and fuzzy guy as a head coach,
30:01
Speaker 2: to put it mildly, but he helped get him into
30:03
Speaker 2: the tournament and those guys were they were fun to
30:07
Speaker 2: watch then, and it's really it's very heartwarming now to
30:11
Speaker 2: see how they have pulled together, heartwarming now to see
30:14
Speaker 2: it over a very heartbreaking situation.
30:17
Speaker 4: Speaking of fun to watch, how's that for a transition?
30:20
Speaker 4: That was Matt well gone, how you were going to?
30:24
Speaker 4: And I got a little choked up, So I'm glad. Yesterday,
30:26
Speaker 4: at four minutes to seven last evening, I got a
30:29
Speaker 4: text from my pal Johnny Vegas, who is a big
30:32
Speaker 4: basketball fan, and he likes much like Billy, he likes
30:34
Speaker 4: to go to the window once in a while, he said,
30:36
Speaker 4: And he said, simply, I'm thinking the Badgers covered the
30:39
Speaker 4: first half spread tonight when they put up a fifty
30:44
Speaker 4: and they're thirty eight to nine, run to close out
30:46
Speaker 4: the half. He's I'm like, I think you're right. I
30:49
Speaker 4: think I don't even know what it was, but I
30:51
Speaker 4: think they covered it. That game was back and forth
30:54
Speaker 4: a little early, and then the Badgers stepped on the
30:56
Speaker 4: gas and said see you later. Yeah. And I'm so
30:58
Speaker 4: conditioned now. Even in the NF felt early leads disappear
31:01
Speaker 4: right that you kind of still think, okay, well, no,
31:04
Speaker 4: that wasn't the case. Last evening, it was nice to
31:06
Speaker 4: see it.
31:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was I'm involved in a in a small
31:10
Speaker 2: group text you know, if it's watching the Packers or whatever.
31:13
Speaker 2: And and last night one of my buddies said, you know,
31:16
Speaker 2: warm up the bus and this was still the first half.
31:19
Speaker 2: I text back, too early, don't do this, yes, leads,
31:25
Speaker 2: don't last. Well it turns out he was right at
31:29
Speaker 2: the under eight or under four. I text back, go, yeah,
31:32
Speaker 2: this is this is a this is a belt to
31:35
Speaker 2: backside kind of day kind of night. And then the
31:38
Speaker 2: smart guys go, well, we we determined that in the
31:42
Speaker 2: first half. But yeah, you do see. And I think
31:44
Speaker 2: that was the part that you know, Butcher pointed it
31:47
Speaker 2: out last night, and I think Greg and I was
31:49
Speaker 2: talking with the Joe Pratdlehoff a little bit after the game.
31:52
Speaker 2: The Michigan game is the most impressive win so far,
31:55
Speaker 2: that's not debatable. But last night wired to wire the
31:58
Speaker 2: way they played, and you get a twenty eight point
32:00
Speaker 2: lead at the half, but they still played well in
32:03
Speaker 2: the second half, and you get a standoff in a
32:06
Speaker 2: scoring column or close to like forty nine to forty
32:10
Speaker 2: eight something like that. But they never gave Penn State
32:12
Speaker 2: a reason to think it could rally. You know, they
32:15
Speaker 2: were moving the ball, sharing the ball, you know, everybody's
32:19
Speaker 2: getting involved in scoring. And when they needed to play
32:21
Speaker 2: good d they did that. So that is a start
32:25
Speaker 2: to finish, with the exception of those first handful of minutes,
32:28
Speaker 2: but once they got through that, that was as close
32:31
Speaker 2: to a complete game maybe as we've seen out of
32:34
Speaker 2: the tent.
32:35
Speaker 3: And we've talked about it, right man, when this team's
32:37
Speaker 3: on it some we've talked about the extreme sometime with
32:39
Speaker 3: this team. But another game when they really look great
32:42
Speaker 3: taking care of business against the teams they have to
32:45
Speaker 3: now shooting up the bracket matrix.
32:46
Speaker 4: They're like eight to nine on a lot of these.
32:48
Speaker 4: So this is where they can really you.
32:50
Speaker 6: Know, a crisis a couple of weeks Ino they're talking
32:52
Speaker 6: about the're starting to rebuild the profile, and you know what,
32:55
Speaker 6: this is the time they can do it right, avoid
32:57
Speaker 6: those tough losses, get the wins, and then really go
33:00
Speaker 6: big game hunting in February.
33:01
Speaker 4: So I think that's the spot they're in right now.
33:03
Speaker 2: Yes, they've got three straight at homely at USC Sunday
33:06
Speaker 2: afternoon at Minnesota and Ohio State, and then they played
33:09
Speaker 2: two home games in February. So this is this is
33:13
Speaker 2: coaches always say one at a time. I'm not a coach. Coaches,
33:18
Speaker 2: we can look ahead a little bit and say, man,
33:20
Speaker 2: it's a massive opportunity here to continue to get, you know,
33:23
Speaker 2: to pick off games and then you know, let it
33:27
Speaker 2: rip in February, see what you could do. But this
33:29
Speaker 2: is a team that you could tell it's growing and
33:31
Speaker 2: its confidence, it's showing signs of gelling. You know, there
33:36
Speaker 2: are times defensively there's a step back. There could be
33:38
Speaker 2: times where the three point shot isn't there. But you're
33:42
Speaker 2: seeing some guys grow here and even even a Nick Boyd.
33:46
Speaker 2: You know, he's getting more assists. Now. Last night was
33:50
Speaker 2: he had what it was a lighter night in that
33:52
Speaker 2: regard for him. But the Rutgers game he had nine
33:56
Speaker 2: assistant one turnover And we're talking to to Gardo about that.
33:59
Speaker 2: He says, yeah, we've been trying to emphasize that with him.
34:01
Speaker 2: We know how good he is, we know how quick
34:03
Speaker 2: he is. He can get to the bucket, he can
34:05
Speaker 2: do that type of thing, but he could also be
34:07
Speaker 2: a distributor. And even though his assist ola was like,
34:10
Speaker 2: they still had twenty five assists on thirty six on
34:13
Speaker 2: thirty six buckets. That's that's a pretty good assist rate.
34:15
Speaker 2: That'll win you a lot of games.
34:17
Speaker 6: You hate to just oversimplified defense as attitude and effort,
34:20
Speaker 6: but a lot of times it can come down to
34:22
Speaker 6: that sense, the kind of public declaration from Greg Listen,
34:28
Speaker 6: this is just not going to be good enough defensively.
34:30
Speaker 4: We know that we're going to have to spice some
34:32
Speaker 4: things up.
34:32
Speaker 6: Have you noted you said it the confidence in themselves,
34:35
Speaker 6: but also I feel like that comes to setting your
34:38
Speaker 6: own standard and last night being able to play the
34:41
Speaker 6: year standard in the second half when the game might
34:42
Speaker 6: not be as much in doubt. How much have you
34:46
Speaker 6: noticed on the day to day that part growing because
34:49
Speaker 6: the confidence in the game, but every single day the
34:51
Speaker 6: group feel like that attitude is something that kind of
34:54
Speaker 6: becomes reflective.
34:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they all understand if they want to
34:58
Speaker 2: have the year that they believe their came wile of having,
35:00
Speaker 2: they've got to be better defensively. And there are stretches
35:04
Speaker 2: where you think it's two steps forward, one step back,
35:07
Speaker 2: but you're getting these gritty plays. I mean, the obvious
35:09
Speaker 2: one last night was Andrew Roady deflecting a pass diving
35:12
Speaker 2: for the ball, you know, busting up his chin a
35:15
Speaker 2: little bit. Jack Janicki is really good with stuff like
35:18
Speaker 2: that too, because he does have some length to him.
35:20
Speaker 2: He can deflect passes, he can block a shot. He
35:24
Speaker 2: had a terrific play in the interior defense in a
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Speaker 2: sequence in the first half last night, and it helped
35:30
Speaker 2: lead to a transition bucket at the other end. Those
35:33
Speaker 2: are the kind of the kind of plays and then
35:36
Speaker 2: the obvious of understanding the concepts, and they sprinkled in
35:40
Speaker 2: a little one three one. They've been taking a look
35:42
Speaker 2: at it here in recent days in practice. We've seen
35:46
Speaker 2: Greg use this before, not a ton, but a little
35:49
Speaker 2: and you know, the lead was was a sizable one
35:52
Speaker 2: last night, but they still broke it out and they
35:55
Speaker 2: were able to have at time some success with that.
35:58
Speaker 2: So it's a little again, it's a little different style
36:02
Speaker 2: with Wisconsin basketball. It's not new now, but for people
36:05
Speaker 2: maybe just starting to pay attention, you know, they've been
36:08
Speaker 2: doing this for the last couple of years, and that
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Speaker 2: that makes him a whole lot of fun to watch too.
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to reach out to Johnny Vegas and
36:15
Speaker 4: see if the line is going to reflect that USC
36:17
Speaker 4: has to walk into the arena in fifteen below weather
36:20
Speaker 4: weekend goodness. And they lost to Northwestern at home last night.
36:23
Speaker 4: And it was Elijah Arenas's first game after the injury,
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Speaker 4: and he's now going to be back. That is Gilbert
36:29
Speaker 4: Arenas's kid, right, So he's like top recruit and he's
36:33
Speaker 4: you know, they lost his debut, but Arenas will let
36:35
Speaker 4: you know on the arena watching that podcast.
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Speaker 3: You know me, I mean, I can't wait to get
36:40
Speaker 3: him back, described no question, but he's got one.
36:43
Speaker 4: It still seems strange when you look at the Badger's schedule,
36:45
Speaker 4: you see Minnesota, Purdue, House State, us USC.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then in February Oregon Washington when I saw
36:53
Speaker 2: the name Arenas. Though Badger fans of a certain age
36:56
Speaker 2: will know this, the Badger is actually faced off against
36:59
Speaker 2: Gilbert Arenas in the second round of the two thousand
37:02
Speaker 2: NCAA tournament. He played well with the Badgers played better
37:06
Speaker 2: Mike Kelly, John Bryant the boys. That was a pretty
37:08
Speaker 2: good That was a pretty good Arizona team.
37:10
Speaker 4: Luke wol was on that was the ones, right, that
37:13
Speaker 4: was the one yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they had their big man was was injured and
37:17
Speaker 2: out for the year Lauren Woods, but they Richard Jefferson
37:21
Speaker 2: was on that team. But yeah, that was a big time.
37:24
Speaker 2: So yeah, when I saw the name Arenas going, yeah,
37:26
Speaker 2: uh his son had a highlight reel play early in
37:31
Speaker 2: the game. But then if you look at the box score,
37:33
Speaker 2: it was his first game and there were a lot
37:35
Speaker 2: of mishots. But the dude is I think he's pretty talented.
37:40
Speaker 2: USC is a bit of an enigma. They do have
37:43
Speaker 2: talented players, but they It's been a kind of an
37:46
Speaker 2: up and down year for those guys here so far.
37:48
Speaker 2: But we'll see what happens on Sunday. Classes are off,
37:51
Speaker 2: the games are on, baby.
37:55
Speaker 4: The important stuff. Incredible. Absolutely, Hey, Matt, thanks for getting
37:59
Speaker 4: up early with us. And it was the man quite
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Speaker 4: the travel night for you. We appreciate it absolutely.
38:03
Speaker 2: All right, boys, check care, good weekend.
38:04
Speaker 4: All right, you have to pay the voice and the
38:06
Speaker 4: Badgers Andy Kilbride called him the legend. He is the legends. Absolutely.
38:10
Speaker 3: Imagine that level of a butchery story time in a
38:12
Speaker 3: game like that, Oh my goodness, absolutely absolutely, which is.
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Speaker 4: Fun for a while. Hey, It's just yeah for a while.
38:19
Speaker 6: All of a sudden, at the twelve minute mark, Matt's
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Speaker 6: like we get at ten oor. Run to give this
38:23
Speaker 6: thing a little bit spiced up so I don't have
38:25
Speaker 6: to listen to this one again.
38:26
Speaker 4: Yes, Oh, I'm man, I'm good, good, I'm good. I'm excited.
38:29
Speaker 4: We got basketball deliver. Getting ready to close up shop
38:33
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Speaker 4: difference closing ceremonies coming up. The show just flies by
39:12
Speaker 4: in the morning, even when it's fifteen degrees outside minus
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Speaker 4: fifteen fifteen. We'll take it back one last break. It's
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Speaker 4: the Huddle off Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. This is how
39:44
Speaker 4: we do the frigid Friday edition of the Huddle. We're
39:51
Speaker 4: just huddling up to warm up today. Somebody had to
39:55
Speaker 4: bring a couple of fire Starter logs my official pocket
40:00
Speaker 4: doppler to coin a ukerphrase that says minus sixteen. Now, yeah,
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Speaker 4: that's what I'm registering here as well, minus sixteen outside
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Speaker 4: the megaplex. Lots of stuff closed today. Glad we got
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Speaker 4: out and got the show done, and now you'll bunker
40:14
Speaker 4: in until Billy and I have to be at Metro
40:15
Speaker 4: Market for a broadcast at eleven o'clock tomorrow morning. It'll
40:18
Speaker 4: be warmer though, Capitol Drive in shore Wood, Yeah, it'll
40:21
Speaker 4: be warmer. And they've got oh, they got a Greeby's
40:23
Speaker 4: Bakery right in the store.
40:24
Speaker 6: That's the best part and be posentially the most dangerous
40:27
Speaker 6: us too, was the was the pocket doppler right next
40:30
Speaker 6: to the usinger sausage that he would always have for
40:32
Speaker 6: the ride home pretty much pretty.
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Speaker 4: Much now, how quickly would it have been for young Billy?
40:37
Speaker 3: I know, for me to see that and see that
40:40
Speaker 3: school scroll up on the school closing list. How many
40:43
Speaker 3: total seconds would have take to hear this sound next?
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Speaker 3: Absolutely instantly?
40:52
Speaker 4: Oh that's it, man, that's it. We were running to
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Speaker 4: the N sixty four.
40:55
Speaker 6: Because the problem is the snow day allowed you to
40:59
Speaker 6: set up. You were gonna have yourself a banger of
41:01
Speaker 6: a Dan's right now. With online gaming, you're not seeing
41:06
Speaker 6: your twelve year old today like they're gonna be there,
41:09
Speaker 6: bumker and they don't even need a space eater because
41:11
Speaker 6: that PS five is gonna be flying like a jet engine.
41:15
Speaker 4: The only thing better than being a kid and getting
41:17
Speaker 4: those unexpected snow days is having them when you're in
41:19
Speaker 4: college living on campus and it's just like let's day drink,
41:22
Speaker 4: let's go, or off campus in the house. Yeah, that's
41:26
Speaker 4: the only thing better than that is being done with
41:27
Speaker 4: work at eight am. Good point, let's go, let's go,
41:31
Speaker 4: come on, now, let's go. So uh well, then we'd
41:35
Speaker 4: be talking about on Monday, obviously, Championship Sunday. Almost can't
41:40
Speaker 4: wait for five am to roll around because banger on
41:45
Speaker 4: Sunday night. I can't wait for the NFC one gonna
41:47
Speaker 4: be absolutely awesome, all right, we'll see at Metro Market
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Speaker 4: in short wed eleven to one will be there tomorrow.
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Speaker 4: Thanks for listening to the huddle. I'm Fox Sports Radios
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