Transcript

03/27/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Day after in the good Land.
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Speaker 2: Day after Brewers beat the White Sox fourteen to two
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Speaker 2: on opening day at American Family Field. We are rocking
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Speaker 2: and rolling through a Friday Drew and Billy along with
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Speaker 2: Hunter Bombguart in for Arman today. Armen will be back
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Speaker 2: from Vegas with stories to tell on Monday. In fact,
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Speaker 2: we might try calling him.
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Speaker 1: Let's just say, we might have to call him, see
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Speaker 1: what's going on.
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Speaker 2: We're also going to hear from our buddy Matt Leapey,
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Speaker 2: voice of the Badgers. We'll get his thoughts about what
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Speaker 2: went down at American Family Field yesterday as well as
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Speaker 2: in the NCAA Tournament which continues.
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Speaker 1: A pace tonight, and some ball games to watch.
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Speaker 3: Excited to hear what his thought will be on the
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Speaker 3: on the little Fred Hoiberg Nebraska snaffoo Drew and how
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Speaker 3: quickly he might have been able to spot, Oh.
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Speaker 1: They only have four on the floor.
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Speaker 3: That feels like it's going to be an advantage to
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Speaker 3: the Hawkeyes. And listen, the worst worst time to make
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Speaker 3: your grave mistake, Holy Rich Basacia Packers' special teams on
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Speaker 3: them like that.
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Speaker 2: So amidst all the cavetching about where the Brewer is
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Speaker 2: going to be on TV.
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Speaker 1: With Chattel Little. I have to watch. I don't know
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Speaker 1: what channel is.
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Speaker 2: We survived, right, everybody found the game and it was
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Speaker 2: on over the air in many markets. It was you're
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Speaker 2: now settled in you know where you're going to be
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Speaker 2: watching Brewers games for the most part. Got a text
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Speaker 2: from a friend of show Andy and West Bend who's
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Speaker 2: rant last night about the nc Double A games is
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Speaker 2: why the hell can't they stagger these games more start
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Speaker 2: one at five and one at six. It's ridiculous that
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Speaker 2: they're simultaneous. Now, this reminds me of an annual argument
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Speaker 2: I would have with our pal Mike Heller. Yes, you
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Speaker 2: would always talk about baseball playfk ands, like why are
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Speaker 2: they during the day when people have to work, and
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Speaker 2: why are they and if God forbid they had more
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Speaker 2: than one at a time or like.
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Speaker 1: But he was always like, why are they?
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Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh, you must not like the NCAA
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Speaker 2: tournament then, Mike, well, that's different.
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Speaker 1: It's the big event.
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Speaker 2: It's their big thing, and they stack those games in
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Speaker 2: the first of the multiple games going at the same time,
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Speaker 2: and then it's during the day on Friday, on Thursday,
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Speaker 2: and Friday.
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Speaker 1: At least last weekend it was. Now we switched it
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Speaker 1: to the mode.
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Speaker 2: But Thursday and Friday you have a lot of games
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Speaker 2: when people are at work, and I guess maybe his
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Speaker 2: thing as well have more advanced notice to take time
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Speaker 2: off and watch that or whatever. But it is something,
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Speaker 2: and those late starts on the East Coast.
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Speaker 3: The late starts are the ones that are just ridiculous.
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Speaker 3: But I was joking about it with Brian Butch. I
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Speaker 3: was lucky enough to be welcomed into Butch. He's den
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Speaker 3: last night in between the games, and he's like, well, Billy,
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Speaker 3: what do you think of these? I'm like, it's the
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Speaker 3: most on brand thing you can have, because if any
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Speaker 3: sport or any body of governing sports don't give a
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Speaker 3: rats about mostly the people that are watching it, it's
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Speaker 3: college sports. Now. The games are incredible, and frankly, the
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Speaker 3: games I don't know have ever been better, Like I
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Speaker 3: don't know that there's been better collective talent in college
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Speaker 3: basketball as well as college football. The games have been sublime.
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Speaker 3: But I mean, we'll talk about it with little pay
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Speaker 3: in a half hour. And now maybe it's more just
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Speaker 3: a gripe because we do it on a weekly basis.
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Speaker 3: But like the folks the go to games don't know
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Speaker 3: when the game kicks off during football season until the
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Speaker 3: Sunday before.
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Speaker 1: It's a little bit hard to plan out that way.
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Speaker 3: So they don't care if you're gonna have to make
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Speaker 3: the concession if I'm gonna watch the end of the
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Speaker 3: Houston Illinois game, uh, because they don't listen.
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Speaker 1: The game's on and we're gonna get a big number.
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Speaker 3: I struggle with even more though, drew the Saturday Sunday
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Speaker 3: of last week, right, like, how on earth is there
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Speaker 3: one game at eleven, one game at one thirty, and
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Speaker 3: then six games in the after dinner window, Like that's
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Speaker 3: the one where you double it up last night, I
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Speaker 3: do believe they tried to stagger them. They they didn't
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Speaker 3: anticipate that Purdue Texas game ending up going as long
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Speaker 3: as it did. They also had like fifteen reviews in
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Speaker 3: the final ten minute.
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Speaker 1: That's a killer. That was the killer of last night.
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Speaker 3: I think it was the way that they transpired that
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Speaker 3: really ruined it ended up ultimately last night.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they do six fifteen, six forty five, then like
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Speaker 4: eight forty five, nine to fifteen. But the thing about
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Speaker 4: it is is if yeah, if one goes long, then
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Speaker 4: you're that's a tight window. The great thing is I
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Speaker 4: and I really noticed it this year. I probably have
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Speaker 4: noticed it in the past, but really last Thursday and Friday,
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Speaker 4: when those first round games were going, I was like, Wow,
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Speaker 4: they really do a good job because it felt like
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Speaker 4: almost every like when one game would end, there'd be
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Speaker 4: five minutes left in another, and it really worked out.
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Speaker 4: But if you only have two games and one goes long,
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Speaker 4: you run the risk of both literally ending at almost
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Speaker 4: the exact same time last night those early games. So yeah,
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Speaker 4: why not start when at five thirty, and start when
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Speaker 4: at six thirty, and start when at seven thirty, and
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Speaker 4: start when at eighth. Just do it every hour and
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Speaker 4: then you can catch the second half of each game
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Speaker 4: and boom there you're done, and you don't have games
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Speaker 4: starting at ten, ten to fifteen.
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Speaker 3: That would go That would be advantageous. But I do
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Speaker 3: think that there's u and this is going to surprise
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Speaker 3: some people. It was kind of good for me. It
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Speaker 3: was good in my household loft, okay, because in a hunter,
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Speaker 3: you're you're close to this age, You're you're close to
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Speaker 3: figuring this out. And Drew Drew's dealt with this for
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Speaker 3: a long time. Your wife gets something interhead and it's happening. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's it's happening, right. So there was a there was
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Speaker 3: a shelf that was delivered yesterday that came in one, two, three,
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Speaker 3: like seventy nine different pieces. Now, luckily in the house.
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Speaker 3: We all know what people are good at. Me reading
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Speaker 3: instructions and doing manual labor not good at I get
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Speaker 3: way too frustrated and then potentially break something that comes in.
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Speaker 5: Here.
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Speaker 3: So I was told multiple times to stay away. However,
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Speaker 3: you know you can't. You know you have to get
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Speaker 3: over there and like offer a little bit of assistance.
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Speaker 3: Those two games ending simultaneously, Drew was a great excuse
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Speaker 3: for me to be in the back room watching it
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Speaker 3: on two. I'm sorry, show prep, I can't. I gotta
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Speaker 3: be ready for tomorrow. I gotta be ready to do
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Speaker 3: I gotta be ready to huddle.
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Speaker 1: Listeners demand it.
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Speaker 3: So I had to stand in front of the two
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Speaker 3: TVs while you know, the bookshelf was being built in
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Speaker 3: the back.
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Speaker 1: So I did appreciate them. Yet my wife is the
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Speaker 1: same way.
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Speaker 2: She likes that, she likes the the instructions and following
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Speaker 2: it get the instructions that most of us is like,
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Speaker 2: I just slap it together.
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Speaker 1: The instructions are for a loser. This probably goes here.
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Speaker 1: This probably for directions. I don't need to do that.
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Speaker 1: I'll be fine. It's that thing I'm going east.
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Speaker 2: Folks in the era of ways, you don't know what
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Speaker 2: that was like when you didn't know where you're going.
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Speaker 2: Maybe you didn't have a map.
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Speaker 1: Somebody, No, we don't need to. It's just around this corner.
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Speaker 5: I know.
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Speaker 3: Trust me, I know where I'm going. I know where
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Speaker 3: I'm going. I'm going to run into Lincoln Avenue at
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Speaker 3: one point.
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Speaker 2: Unbelievable. Hey, we need you to reach out to us.
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Speaker 2: Eight seven seven seven nine four seven three. Folks might
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Speaker 2: be moving a little slow given the Brewers opener yesterday,
6:31
Speaker 2: always a big party followed by a late night of
6:33
Speaker 2: watching college hoops. But one of the things that happened
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Speaker 2: after the Brewers game the Brewers UH invited fans to
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Speaker 2: stay and watch a twenty minute or fifteen minute trailer
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Speaker 2: of the film The Yuke documentary that's going to be
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Speaker 2: coming out that can't wait.
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Speaker 1: For it so good.
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Speaker 2: If you if you loved just a bit outside the
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Speaker 2: eighty two Brewers doc which Hunter still.
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Speaker 1: Hasn't seen yet. I've seen half of it. Oh, okay,
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Speaker 1: I saw half.
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Speaker 4: I watched like a half of it before, I believe
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Speaker 4: Game one of the NLCS last year.
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Speaker 1: But then never watch you never watched the end. We
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Speaker 1: won't tell you how.
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Speaker 4: It ends, then ye don't run it for I have
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Speaker 4: no idea how the eighty two season ends.
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Speaker 1: No, I don't want to spoil it for you.
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Speaker 2: But they did show the Yuke documentary, and Hunter had
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Speaker 2: acasion yesterday to run into the folks who produce and
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Speaker 2: directed it.
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Speaker 4: M I'm here with Steve Farr and Michael Vohman, both
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Speaker 4: directors at the Yuke Documentary. First of all, thank you
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Speaker 4: guys for coming out and for putting in this effort
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Speaker 4: and this project, because I think a lot of people
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Speaker 4: are going to appreciate it. I think it's going to be,
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Speaker 4: you know, beloved. Obviously, Uker is a beloved legend in
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Speaker 4: these parts, as you know. So Michael, I'll start with you,
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Speaker 4: how did this begin? How did this story or this
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Speaker 4: you know, this idea come about? And and kind of
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Speaker 4: how did things get started?
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Speaker 6: Well, we have a production company in Milwaukee called September
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Speaker 6: Club and we specialize in documentary films and uh back
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Speaker 6: we were trying to think of, like what would be
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Speaker 6: a good project to tell and obviously this is a
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Speaker 6: story in our own backyard. And I grew up in
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Speaker 6: Milwaukee listening to Bob you Ker, and it was like
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Speaker 6: a no brainer. You know, It's like, who wouldn't want
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Speaker 6: to make a documentary about Bob Youker?
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Speaker 1: And I think.
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Speaker 6: We've seen some pieces on him that are really nice,
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Speaker 6: and you hear a lot of stories, but I don't think.
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Speaker 6: I guess we thought there's a documentary that we haven't
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Speaker 6: seen yet that could tell his story more fully and
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Speaker 6: connect all the dots.
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Speaker 1: And that's what our goal was.
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Speaker 4: And coming from a place of Milwaukee based, right, you
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Speaker 4: know what it's like here, you know what that help
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Speaker 4: beloved he is and was so steve coming into that. Okay,
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Speaker 4: so you come up with the idea, then how does
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Speaker 4: it kind of get off the ground.
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Speaker 7: Well, we were talking today. Today is the fourth opening
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Speaker 7: day we've been here working on you, but this is
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Speaker 7: the first time we're not filming, so that's kind of nice.
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Speaker 7: So we've covered a number of years, you know, particularly
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Speaker 7: twenty twenty three, and twenty twenty four. The film. Kind
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Speaker 7: of the structure of the film is that it's the
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Speaker 7: twenty twenty four baseball season and we you know, we
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Speaker 7: see Yuke and the booth and with his broadcast partners,
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Speaker 7: we see the success of the team on the field,
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Speaker 7: and then we go away from that, you know, we
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Speaker 7: pivot to his childhood or his minor league career, his
9:22
Speaker 7: major league career, and then moving on into being a
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Speaker 7: broadcaster and an entertainer. So but but the season is
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Speaker 7: always kind of what's hoping holding it all together? But
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Speaker 7: then you see the rest of his life also.
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Speaker 4: And Michael, I'm guessing that at some point there was
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Speaker 4: probably a conversation with him, right of, hey, do you
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Speaker 4: want to do this? What what you know? What do
9:41
Speaker 4: you want to be involved? How do you want to
9:42
Speaker 4: be involved? Obviously broached that topic with him. How did
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Speaker 4: that go?
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Speaker 6: Well, I'm assuming it was the right time for him
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Speaker 6: to tell that story, you know, in a in a way.
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Speaker 1: We thought it was like the way way.
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Speaker 6: It would be hard to get it, you know, because
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Speaker 6: it was such a dream project and we've got to
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Speaker 6: contact with him, shared a treatment and sort of an
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Speaker 6: our idea of what we could do and flew down
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Speaker 6: to Arizona, and he was willing to meet with us,
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Speaker 6: and we thought we'd have to do a lot of
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Speaker 6: convincing and you know, try to talk him into our
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Speaker 6: vision of the of this of this film, and honestly,
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Speaker 6: he was pretty on board very quickly, and the rest
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Speaker 6: of the lunch we pretty much just spent him telling
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Speaker 6: us stories and you know, stories you have heard, stories
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Speaker 6: you haven't heard, and it was it was probably one
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Speaker 6: of the most memorable experiences when we first met him,
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Speaker 6: just so to spend that time with him and hear
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Speaker 6: all of his stories.
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Speaker 7: We weren't filming, to be honest with you, but it
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Speaker 7: was honestly, it was probably three and a half four hours.
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Speaker 7: If eventually we had to just tell him, hey, we
10:40
Speaker 7: got to catch.
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Speaker 5: Our flight or.
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Speaker 7: We were in danger of missing it. But what a
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Speaker 7: great way to start.
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Speaker 4: Totally, It's a conversation you never want to end, obviously,
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Speaker 4: so you get to, like you said, the stories about
10:52
Speaker 4: the twenty twenty four season, Wolven his life around it
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Speaker 4: sounds like you guys also talked to Steve some colleagues
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Speaker 4: of his and people he knew throughout the end of
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Speaker 4: Street and life.
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Speaker 7: Sure yeah. Everybody we asked if they take part in
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Speaker 7: the in the film said yes. So we we spoke
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Speaker 7: to you know, all its broadcast partners that are here
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Speaker 7: today and then and and past partners as well as
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Speaker 7: Bob Castis and Joe Tory, and like I said, almost
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Speaker 7: anybody we needed said yes. It's been great.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, and it kind of feels like, you know,
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Speaker 4: a great time to bring this out. How did the
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Speaker 4: timing of the release come about? Was it just obviously
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Speaker 4: that the project is obviously done and everything like that,
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Speaker 4: but also it's obviously last year was there was a
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Speaker 4: lot of celebration of him here at the ballpark, and
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Speaker 4: this is a way to continue that legacy, continue that memory.
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Speaker 6: When we started this project, I'm not sure we you know,
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Speaker 6: knew exactly when it would end. We're kind of waiting
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Speaker 6: for the story to evolve. As far as the timing
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Speaker 6: this spring, and just makes sense to show a little
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Speaker 6: sneak preview to you know today after this game and
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Speaker 6: in advance of me at your theatrical release later this summer,
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Speaker 6: probably around July, and you know, hopefully everybody who wants
12:06
Speaker 6: to get a chance to see it will have a
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Speaker 6: chance later this summer.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I was going to ask, was you know,
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Speaker 4: we're sounding about probably this summer sometime for the masses
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Speaker 4: to come out. I hear there's a premiere at the
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Speaker 4: Moonkey Film Festival as well in April.
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Speaker 7: Right, we were selected as an opening night film, which
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Speaker 7: is quite an honor, especially for a local film. I
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Speaker 7: think it's the first time a local production is going
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Speaker 7: to open the festival. So you know, we're excited about
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Speaker 7: that absolutely.
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Speaker 4: Well, Michael Steve really appreciate the time, and I know
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Speaker 4: a lot of people are going to appreciate the time
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Speaker 4: you put into this and the story you guys are
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Speaker 4: going to tell, and we're looking forward to seeing it.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Hunter Bombguart with the hustle getting us the
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Speaker 2: directors of the Yuke documentary and uh Hunter, I love
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Speaker 2: Hunters like Butler Cabin, Jim Nance, Yes, friends, hello, friends
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Speaker 2: obviously conducting that interview in a public area, right, like
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Speaker 2: you know, so you just want to be a you know,
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Speaker 2: you don't want to be obtrusive or anything.
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Speaker 1: That's exactly how hilarious.
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Speaker 3: Now you knew you keep better than it than most
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Speaker 3: and being able to when you hear them say that
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Speaker 3: of we thought it was gonna take a lot of convincing,
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Speaker 3: didn't know that he was gonna want to do it.
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Speaker 1: Were you surprised that he was receptive to it? Like,
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Speaker 1: because I don't know that.
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Speaker 3: He was always super exciting, exciting to talk about himself.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean he's he knows that he lived
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Speaker 3: a great baseball life. And that's the thing.
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Speaker 2: Yes, And like his Hall of Fame thing, you know,
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Speaker 2: it's just you can he sailed through it. But I
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Speaker 2: knew that meant something to him. And I think he
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Speaker 2: knew like these last couple of years, and he knew
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Speaker 2: he was nearing the end, especially a given us. I
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Speaker 2: think that's what's gonna be the overarching thing about this
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Speaker 2: movie is at his health. And I told people all
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Speaker 2: the time, and Hardcourt and I would joke about it.
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Speaker 2: The guy lived through things that would have killed one
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Speaker 2: hundred people.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all the different surgeries and like the brown recluse
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Speaker 2: spider bite that almost you know, lost a limb. It's
13:56
Speaker 2: just it's it's crazy how tough that son of a
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Speaker 2: gun was. Just and he was in there every day
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Speaker 2: swimming when he was eighty years old, eighty five years old,
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Speaker 2: swimming in the in the clubhouse and before games and
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Speaker 2: stuff and using the swim X.
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Speaker 1: It's it was a animal. It was like a cat.
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Speaker 5: He was.
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Speaker 1: It was. It was just insane.
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Speaker 2: And those last few games when he was like he'd
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Speaker 2: be at some games and not and then people are like,
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Speaker 2: what happened?
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Speaker 1: You wears are you could like he was battling cancer.
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Speaker 2: He was pumped up, like full of morphine and drugs
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Speaker 2: just to get to the ballpark against medical advice. The
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Speaker 2: doctors didn't want to me. I'm going to the game.
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Speaker 2: I'm doing And I was lucky enough. I was still
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Speaker 2: when I was still traveling stuff. He was on the
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Speaker 2: road every every time. Right backed off of that and
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Speaker 2: you'd see him and then he started to select and
14:38
Speaker 2: we're taking some days off and maybe not doing a
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Speaker 2: day game after a night game and stuff like that.
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Speaker 2: But what a physical specimen. The dude was, like the
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Speaker 2: reason he was a major league player back when, yes,
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Speaker 2: there weren't that many. It's always it's a great achievement.
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Speaker 1: It's incredibly hard.
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Speaker 2: It's the odds are astronomical against anybody playing in the
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Speaker 2: major leagues. But back then, when there were fewer teams
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Speaker 2: and fewer jobs, you had to be really good. Like
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Speaker 2: there were in the minor leagues, went all the way
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Speaker 2: down to like d ball.
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Speaker 3: I was gonna say, there were how many different countless
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Speaker 3: minor league jobs.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, and so for him, and he always made
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Speaker 2: fun of his career, but tak his career, you know,
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Speaker 2: getting there and playing that long well and getting paid
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Speaker 2: and just the life that the guy lived.
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Speaker 1: I can't wait for this doctor.
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Speaker 2: But I think that's what people will appreciate the most,
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Speaker 2: is like his medical history and the all the he
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Speaker 2: always thanked his doctors, like his counterdoctors, his heart doctors.
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Speaker 2: Is when he had that aortic aneurysm that would have
15:30
Speaker 2: killed many people. He had like infections, he had COVID bad,
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Speaker 2: he had like pneumonia a bunch of times. We had
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Speaker 2: both knees replaced, like at the same time. No one
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Speaker 2: does that, like doctors don't even let you do that.
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Speaker 2: But he had both knees replaced at the same time.
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Speaker 2: And the only thing that the only thing that stopped
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Speaker 2: him that he couldn't play golf for a while, and
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Speaker 2: he had to give up riding his motorcycle because he
15:51
Speaker 2: didn't feel uh, super stable, unstable because of the niece,
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Speaker 2: but nobody does that who has both knees replaced at
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Speaker 2: the same time and rehabs both needs. The guy I
16:00
Speaker 2: was a horse, he was a medical physically. He's a marvel,
16:03
Speaker 2: absolute marvel.
16:04
Speaker 3: And you are so spot on Drew about making it
16:07
Speaker 3: to the major leagues when he did from where he
16:10
Speaker 3: did right, Like I mean, we talk about it with
16:12
Speaker 3: the with the explosion of talent, whether it's football, basketball,
16:16
Speaker 3: baseball in the state is I mean, Vinnie Ratino will
16:19
Speaker 3: tell you about every one hundred and fifty high school
16:21
Speaker 3: players that are gonna end up playing college baseball. That
16:24
Speaker 3: wasn't happening for a long time because you couldn't hit everywhere.
16:27
Speaker 3: Like for him to be able to do that and
16:29
Speaker 3: still make it to the big leagues out of boys
16:32
Speaker 3: tallet's remarkable stuff.
16:33
Speaker 1: I am.
16:34
Speaker 3: I'm super excited to see that because it just shows
16:38
Speaker 3: the and again this makes it a little main character syndrome,
16:41
Speaker 3: how much he felt and he knew he meant to
16:44
Speaker 3: Brewers fans to be there like him, to show up
16:47
Speaker 3: and battle through all of that stuff. It's because he
16:49
Speaker 3: cared about all of the people that listened, and he
16:52
Speaker 3: was always one of us. This will I think even
16:54
Speaker 3: just further cement him as the marvel of sports in
16:59
Speaker 3: Wisconsin like he is. There have been a lot of
17:01
Speaker 3: guys that have done a lot of great things, and
17:03
Speaker 3: obviously Commissioner Sea League and just celebrated Sadley Bob Harlan's life.
17:07
Speaker 3: But it's hard to measure up anybody's life lived. And
17:11
Speaker 3: somebody that meant more to a state and a bunch
17:13
Speaker 3: of people that he probably never met, it was Ben
17:15
Speaker 3: Bob Buker.
17:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, for all the highlights of last season, the Uker
17:18
Speaker 2: tribute game was one of the top, totally top, absolutely, Well,
17:21
Speaker 2: this movie thing is going to be spectacular and people,
17:24
Speaker 2: I mean, and it's gonna be great for your boys
17:26
Speaker 2: to see what he meant. To watch this doc and
17:29
Speaker 2: for your boys to see the eighty two doc to
17:30
Speaker 2: see why the Brewers, that eighty two team was so
17:32
Speaker 2: bonded with the city. Maybe someday Hunter will watch the
17:34
Speaker 2: rest of it. Yeah, maybe maybe we should watch that.
17:38
Speaker 2: Maybe you should watch that.
17:39
Speaker 4: I probably should. But this Uker that is especially because
17:43
Speaker 4: you know, as they said, it's going to follow his
17:45
Speaker 4: last season in the booth and that's you know, that's
17:47
Speaker 4: they said four opening days that they've been taping. Yeah,
17:51
Speaker 4: And I remember back in twenty three when they started this.
17:54
Speaker 4: I remember film crews following him and kind of murmurs
17:57
Speaker 4: of like they might be working on something here.
17:59
Speaker 2: At the end of the twenty four season, when Costas
18:03
Speaker 2: came in and did that play with players?
18:04
Speaker 1: Was that twenty five twenty four right?
18:05
Speaker 4: I want to say it was the last because that
18:07
Speaker 4: was all part of that last season in the Mets
18:09
Speaker 4: game and everything. If they're taping through all that, boy,
18:12
Speaker 4: that's gonna be Yeah, that's.
18:14
Speaker 1: Gonna be tough.
18:15
Speaker 4: It's gonna be tough, but it's gonna be yeah.
18:17
Speaker 2: And people didn't realize how sick he was, and I'm
18:20
Speaker 2: just yeah, I'm looking if.
18:22
Speaker 1: You thought he was on the Triday oh my god. Yeah. Yeah.
18:26
Speaker 1: And George Brett making appearance in this one, I don't know.
18:30
Speaker 1: People were excited about that. People that George Brett was.
18:32
Speaker 2: I'm sure he probably will. And again, like anybody you asked,
18:35
Speaker 2: it's like yes, yes, yes, everybody wanted to talk about
18:39
Speaker 2: came in for that and it's like, well, what's Bob
18:40
Speaker 2: doing in town?
18:41
Speaker 1: Like, oh, he's filming a documentary with you. Oh, they're
18:43
Speaker 1: doing a doc on you okay, cool?
18:44
Speaker 3: And then yeah, I don't think there's anything better than
18:47
Speaker 3: Snoop walking into BA and Rocks booth and right away
18:50
Speaker 3: he says, where the hell is Bob?
18:51
Speaker 1: Youker, what where is Bober? Then he facetimed him, and
18:56
Speaker 1: then FaceTime right away. Yeah, yeah, I swooped a loop.
19:00
Speaker 1: It's crazy. It's crazy, all right. When we come back,
19:03
Speaker 1: another icon is going to joinus. Matt Lapey, the Voice
19:05
Speaker 1: of the Badgers, will get.
19:06
Speaker 2: His thoughts about opening Day and about the NCAA tournament,
19:10
Speaker 2: which is now everybody thought it was the Arizona Invitational.
19:13
Speaker 1: Now it's a little the Big ten.
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Speaker 2: I was gonna say, the Big ten tournament is what
19:17
Speaker 2: ten tournament has flared up as well. We'll talk to
19:20
Speaker 2: Matt Lapey coming up next. But first, Billy, who's our
19:23
Speaker 2: current electric superhero the Day? I haven't seen the truck
19:26
Speaker 2: in the neighborhood because they did such a good job
19:28
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19:30
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19:33
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19:34
Speaker 3: Eleven strikeouts makes it sets the Brewers all time record
19:37
Speaker 3: for strikeouts on opening Day. Now, I did see a
19:40
Speaker 3: super special graphic that they started putting up on Brewers
19:43
Speaker 3: TV that was the most strikeouts recorded by a pitcher
19:48
Speaker 3: under the age of twenty four on an opening day.
19:51
Speaker 3: That was played in the back half of the whatever
19:53
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Speaker 4: With the sun shining and the wind blowing in fifteen
19:55
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Speaker 3: He was the first guy since the sixties and his
20:00
Speaker 3: each range to strike out eleven plus on an opening day.
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20:05
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Speaker 2: Matt Lapay, the voice of the Badgers, joins us now
21:51
Speaker 2: and Matt. We just heard Ba's call at the end
21:53
Speaker 2: of the Texas Purdue game and as the Brewers were
21:57
Speaker 2: starting their season yesterday. I shot Ba at text in
22:00
Speaker 2: thinking about we're missing you. He said, and it was
22:02
Speaker 2: just after the White Sox had hit the home run
22:04
Speaker 2: off of Miserowski, and he said, I'm watching here and
22:07
Speaker 2: I have total fomo.
22:09
Speaker 1: And then I thought about it.
22:10
Speaker 2: I thought, oh, we might have a chance to talk
22:11
Speaker 2: to Matt Lepey and he got to watch Opening Day
22:13
Speaker 2: and the NC double deternament.
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Speaker 1: You might have double fomo.
22:16
Speaker 2: If Ba's missing and he can only be in one place,
22:19
Speaker 2: you'd probably like to be in two places.
22:20
Speaker 5: Yesterday, I would have loved to have been in San
22:23
Speaker 5: Jose breaking bread with BA, which is obviously where he
22:27
Speaker 5: is this week. A couple other folks I know out
22:30
Speaker 5: there as well. So yeah, it was yet I tuned in,
22:33
Speaker 5: tuned in eleve a little bit, and then when they
22:34
Speaker 5: got up a couple of touchdowns, like okay, I'm.
22:38
Speaker 1: Time to tap out. Yeah.
22:40
Speaker 5: I actually had sports overload last night, and unlike you guys,
22:43
Speaker 5: I don't have to get up in the middle of
22:45
Speaker 5: the night to do a show. But when it got
22:47
Speaker 5: to halftime of the second game, like, ah, like Billy,
22:51
Speaker 5: I heard you on with Butchy in Butchie's Den, and
22:54
Speaker 5: I could not agree more. It's not a new thing
22:57
Speaker 5: with held CB Turner, how they slot the times for
23:02
Speaker 5: this thing. But that's pretty late. That's pretty off. You're
23:04
Speaker 5: an Illinois fan, you don't care, I guess right now,
23:06
Speaker 5: but it's uh. But yes, it was fun yesterday. Opening
23:10
Speaker 5: Days is always a holiday, and then you've got really
23:13
Speaker 5: entertaining Sweet sixteen games like we had last night, especially
23:16
Speaker 5: that first window that that was pretty good. And my
23:19
Speaker 5: guy Jason Bennetti, well on NBC, you know, the Dodgers Diamondbacks.
23:24
Speaker 5: That was a pretty good day slash night of Sports.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that was a good broadcast like that.
23:29
Speaker 3: I was excited to be able to see that first
23:31
Speaker 3: happen with the NBC Baseball broadcast with Bennetti and being
23:34
Speaker 3: able to have that rundown of broadcasters as well as
23:37
Speaker 3: we had Dolphin and Scott in here earlier. I tapped
23:40
Speaker 3: in with Gary on their final three minutes on the
23:41
Speaker 3: Varsity App. It's h for a fan of the craft.
23:44
Speaker 3: It was a pretty dang good night with the guys
23:47
Speaker 3: doing play by play.
23:48
Speaker 5: Oh my goodness. Yeah, I posted something last night because
23:51
Speaker 5: as the as the basketball games are going on in
23:53
Speaker 5: the baseball game was starting, you know, you had Benetti,
23:56
Speaker 5: you had Kevin Harlan, and you had Brian Anderson. That's
24:00
Speaker 5: that's a pretty good clinic that was being conducted. Choose
24:03
Speaker 5: your classroom. And then I got Brian Poseik, you know,
24:07
Speaker 5: a couple hours earlier, had just wrapped up his call
24:09
Speaker 5: of the Badger hockey team winning in the NCAA tournament.
24:13
Speaker 5: So you had you had clinics in the afternoon with
24:15
Speaker 5: Left and Pozik and then last night on you know,
24:19
Speaker 5: the national stages with those guys, and I did the
24:22
Speaker 5: same thing Billy the Varsity App it's pretty close to
24:25
Speaker 5: sync SYNCD up, so you too.
24:29
Speaker 3: It's not just okay, it was actually above my YouTube TV.
24:32
Speaker 1: It was amazing. I was like, this is next line.
24:34
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I'm a spectrum guy. But it's it's not
24:39
Speaker 5: like you're going to hear the call twenty thirty seconds
24:42
Speaker 5: after you're watching it. So yeah, I listened listen to
24:46
Speaker 5: Dolph a little bit and then Rob Blackman at Purdue
24:49
Speaker 5: you know that frantic finish with the tip in, and
24:53
Speaker 5: it was they were both really really good. So yeah,
24:56
Speaker 5: that that Varsity app is, that's a pretty good app
24:58
Speaker 5: to have. And it's the best kind of cost for
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Speaker 5: US boys. It's free.
25:02
Speaker 1: It is Matt Lapage joining us here.
25:05
Speaker 2: I did ask Ba, because you know, BA grew up
25:08
Speaker 2: in the shadow of University of Texas and he has
25:11
Speaker 2: a lot of friends in the Austin area with that,
25:14
Speaker 2: and I'm like, so are there more fans there of Purdue,
25:16
Speaker 2: Pete or Bevo And he said, perdue by far.
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Speaker 1: He's like, they're at my hotel, They're everywhere.
25:22
Speaker 5: There are certain fan bases. And I mentioned this last week.
25:26
Speaker 5: You know, Sam Sam Decker likes to have fun on
25:28
Speaker 5: on social media and and and I was telling them
25:31
Speaker 5: how how good the Nebraska fans are, and I equate
25:34
Speaker 5: them in a lot of ways to Packers fans, and
25:36
Speaker 5: that there's unconditional love, like they were going to games
25:40
Speaker 5: before going to games was cool with Nebraska obviously, this
25:43
Speaker 5: year was very cool. And it's a similar story with
25:46
Speaker 5: Purdue basketball now Perdue basketball more often than not is
25:50
Speaker 5: really good and great in certain years, but they're that
25:55
Speaker 5: that arena, Macki Arena is my favorite venue to go
25:59
Speaker 5: to because you just know how much basketball means to
26:02
Speaker 5: people there. You could say that about the state of Indiana.
26:05
Speaker 5: You know, I guess you go to Indiana University games
26:08
Speaker 5: and it's usually pretty loud as well, But Purdue it's
26:12
Speaker 5: a different kind of vibe. So I guess I'm not
26:15
Speaker 5: that surprised that, you know, I know, Texas big school,
26:18
Speaker 5: it's in, you know, the whole deal and the way
26:21
Speaker 5: the Horns have had this rally, you know, from first
26:25
Speaker 5: four to the edge of going to the Elite eight.
26:28
Speaker 5: But the fact that you had a bunch of Purdue
26:30
Speaker 5: fans there not not a surprise to me at all.
26:32
Speaker 3: Is that hard to not start pulling for a boiler up?
26:36
Speaker 1: Chew choo?
26:36
Speaker 3: I was teaching my son the chew Choo James like
26:39
Speaker 3: he was digging that part of it. Oh, he was
26:41
Speaker 3: also digging the fact that we have Purdue to go
26:43
Speaker 3: to the Final four. But when when you're feeling the
26:46
Speaker 3: momentum rolling and then you're knowing that the three headed
26:50
Speaker 3: monster for Purdue is like one of.
26:53
Speaker 1: The oldest school.
26:55
Speaker 3: Stories that you could have in college basketball, right Craig Coffin,
26:58
Speaker 3: Reren's the one that knocks it in off Braden Smith,
27:00
Speaker 3: if Fletcher Lawyer starts them off with three threes, and
27:02
Speaker 3: those guys have lived more of a college basketball life
27:05
Speaker 3: in twenty in the twenty twenties than anybody is going
27:08
Speaker 3: to be able to together because I don't know that
27:10
Speaker 3: you're ever going to see that those a three trio
27:14
Speaker 3: of freshmen to seniors go through all of the different
27:18
Speaker 3: adversity that they have.
27:19
Speaker 5: Yeah, Michigan State probably close to that, but yeah, it's
27:22
Speaker 5: become more the exception to the rule now with you know,
27:25
Speaker 5: with Brayden Smith the all time assist leader, Fletcher Lawyer
27:28
Speaker 5: the most threes in Purdue history, Trey Kaufman w Ren
27:32
Speaker 5: who wasn't having statistically the kind of year or isn't
27:35
Speaker 5: statistically having the kind of year that he had last year.
27:39
Speaker 5: It just there is one transfer there in Oscar Cluff,
27:42
Speaker 5: and it just seemed like the dynamic changed a little bit.
27:45
Speaker 5: But it also goes to show you because in the moment,
27:47
Speaker 5: everything is the most important thing in the world. Purdue
27:50
Speaker 5: was kind of stumbling a little bit down the stretch
27:53
Speaker 5: of the regular season. You know, maybe they do. They
27:56
Speaker 5: weren't going to win the regular season titles, so they
27:59
Speaker 5: weren't quite the intensity wasn't quite there. But in the
28:03
Speaker 5: Big Ten Tournament they decided they were going to go
28:05
Speaker 5: chase it and then they went and won it. And
28:08
Speaker 5: you know, Iowa wasn't exactly lighting it up down the
28:11
Speaker 5: stretch of the regular season and didn't last all that
28:15
Speaker 5: long in the Big Ten tournament. So when you think
28:18
Speaker 5: teams are like, boy, can they get this straightened out,
28:22
Speaker 5: and you have doubts, things changed Illinois, you know they
28:25
Speaker 5: were Brad Underwood was getting popped in the media, Chicago media,
28:29
Speaker 5: throughout the state after Wisconsin beat them in overtime in
28:33
Speaker 5: the Big Ten Tournament. Well you just can't can't win
28:36
Speaker 5: enough games. Well he's in the ELITEA. It's just how
28:41
Speaker 5: quickly things can change. Iowa was ten and ten in
28:44
Speaker 5: the regular season in the Big Ten. It's won three
28:47
Speaker 5: games in a row, and the whole set of optics
28:50
Speaker 5: has changed. Saw that twenty six years ago with Wisconsin
28:53
Speaker 5: basketball eight and eight in the Big Ten, march to
28:57
Speaker 5: the Final four, and the entire way we look at
29:00
Speaker 5: at that season has changed. So a ton of credit
29:03
Speaker 5: to those Big Ten programs, man, who you may not
29:07
Speaker 5: have been coming in with a big head of steam
29:09
Speaker 5: at the end of the regular season, but they're hot
29:11
Speaker 5: now and it sets up a pretty interesting final regional
29:14
Speaker 5: final with Illinois and Ilean.
29:16
Speaker 2: How hard is it going to be to overcome the
29:18
Speaker 2: four men on the court because.
29:21
Speaker 5: Well, the power play worked. I get that power play
29:26
Speaker 5: at a very very good time, and that it is
29:31
Speaker 5: so tough because they have been so good and Fred
29:34
Speaker 5: Hoiberg has done such a great job and you're talking
29:37
Speaker 5: about optics changing on a dime. I mean, that is
29:41
Speaker 5: what a lot of people now are going to think about.
29:44
Speaker 5: With Nebraska basketball, we could you know, fair or unfair?
29:47
Speaker 5: They say many times fair is irrelevant. This is what
29:51
Speaker 5: a lot of people are going to remember them for,
29:53
Speaker 5: at least in the moment. But I think if you're
29:55
Speaker 5: really a Huskers fan, you want two tournament games, which
29:58
Speaker 5: is two more than you've ever senior team win before,
30:02
Speaker 5: an exciting team to watch, a fun team to watch.
30:04
Speaker 5: But you know, it's one thing to miss a shot
30:07
Speaker 5: at the buzzer where somebody hits a tough three over you.
30:11
Speaker 5: It's another when you're a man short. Yeah, I don't
30:13
Speaker 5: think I've seen that before.
30:14
Speaker 3: Fred Bisaci is gonna be that's gonna be a tough
30:19
Speaker 3: one to forget. That's gonna be a tough one to
30:20
Speaker 3: get over. But but it's also tough because some mask
30:24
Speaker 3: I think is the guy that obviously is on the bench,
30:26
Speaker 3: They're not there if it's not for him, right, Like,
30:29
Speaker 3: it's one of the toughest balancing acts of like a
30:31
Speaker 3: lot of times it ends up being your best best players.
30:33
Speaker 3: But to the McCollum point, when I was talking about
30:36
Speaker 3: with butchery last time, like I just he loved the
30:38
Speaker 3: energy and I like that he's got spit on his
30:40
Speaker 3: lip as he's yelling the guys to wake up. But
30:42
Speaker 3: they like that he's won three games, and we already
30:45
Speaker 3: have textures that say, well, this is actually making me
30:48
Speaker 3: even more upset about what happened against High Point because
30:51
Speaker 3: I'm watching this guy gets celebrated right away. It is
30:54
Speaker 3: it's the madness of March that we love. However, it
30:57
Speaker 3: is a maddening thing and it has to be so
30:59
Speaker 3: different cult for those that work in it and are
31:02
Speaker 3: around it every day for this final exam to just
31:05
Speaker 3: be waited so differently.
31:07
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a butcher and I have talked about it,
31:09
Speaker 5: and he lived it as a player. Now now that
31:11
Speaker 5: he's on this side of it, he's developed a love
31:14
Speaker 5: hate relationship with March. I mean, right, you don't love
31:17
Speaker 5: it a whole lot right now if you're a Badger
31:19
Speaker 5: fan or you know Marquette fans a couple of years ago,
31:22
Speaker 5: what over the Sweet sixteen. But there's been a fair
31:24
Speaker 5: amount of heartache there for the past decade or so
31:28
Speaker 5: with Marquette basketball. But if you break through that one
31:31
Speaker 5: year and you make a big push, then all of
31:34
Speaker 5: a sudden you love it again. In fourteen and fifteen,
31:37
Speaker 5: two thousand and in twenty fourteen and fifteen, that was
31:40
Speaker 5: all about it. March madness was the best thing ever
31:44
Speaker 5: or in that run of six years out of seven
31:47
Speaker 5: that Wisconsin made the Sweet sixteen from I think eleven
31:51
Speaker 5: through through fift through seventeen they were all but one
31:54
Speaker 5: year they got to at least the Sweet sixteen, and
31:58
Speaker 5: of course twice going to the Final Four. But yeah,
32:00
Speaker 5: it does because I think a lot of fans who
32:02
Speaker 5: are watching this wire to wire understand it, and a
32:05
Speaker 5: fair amount of fans do. But what happens now is
32:08
Speaker 5: that you get you get more casual fans who are
32:11
Speaker 5: tuning in, probably for the first time. It's like, wake
32:14
Speaker 5: me up in March. So what they see in March,
32:17
Speaker 5: that's their opinion of the team as for a season.
32:21
Speaker 5: And sometimes that's the case, but often it is not.
32:25
Speaker 5: And that's just everybody signs up for it. It's how it works, man.
32:28
Speaker 5: It's it's it's tough because the optics of your of
32:31
Speaker 5: your entire season can change very quickly one way or
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Speaker 5: the other.
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Speaker 2: Everybody should take a page from Butcher's book when it
32:38
Speaker 2: comes to scamming free food and enjoining college basketball in
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Speaker 2: December and January as much as he does in March.
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Speaker 1: Yes, because he's.
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Speaker 5: World he is, but he's truly world class at trying
32:48
Speaker 5: to get free food. I appreciate your Responseagery. I mean,
32:52
Speaker 5: there's just you know he has levering on thinking, oh, okay,
32:55
Speaker 5: they'll talk about baseball. No, No, it's about how can
32:58
Speaker 5: I get more free food.
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Speaker 3: Exactly, And I do appreciate that, being like, hey, I've
33:02
Speaker 3: always slide some of them pizzas my way, Buchie. I mean, like,
33:04
Speaker 3: let's make shit because you know what, Coogler's always on
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Speaker 3: it online. You're in on most of those tweets. But
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Speaker 3: you if we're gonna keep firing out these screaming Sicilians,
33:11
Speaker 3: let's let's send it somewhere else out once in a while.
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Speaker 5: Well, and maybe give us some coupons that aren't expired
33:16
Speaker 5: would be good too, Just a suggestion.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, he'll love that's classic. Hey, Matt, you talk
33:23
Speaker 2: about broadcasting it. Bennetti is a marvel. What he did
33:26
Speaker 2: filling in for BA was unbelievable. Not many people in
33:29
Speaker 2: the world could have slid in and do what he did.
33:31
Speaker 2: But I was talking to Len Casper yesterday Voice of
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Speaker 2: the White Sox, Ready Voice the White Sox, Mark k Grad,
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Speaker 2: friend of the program, and we were talking.
33:37
Speaker 1: About that Bennetti.
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Speaker 2: He's like, Benetti will be in the you know how
33:40
Speaker 2: it is like in the ten minutes you got a
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Speaker 2: little silence before game starts.
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Speaker 1: You got your your notes already and stuff.
33:45
Speaker 2: He's booking his flight to go to the next game,
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Speaker 2: like he like, there is no downtime. He is booking
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Speaker 2: his next flight and just his life is insane and
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Speaker 2: what he does. And then I was thinking about Len
33:58
Speaker 2: and he's in there with Darren Jackson, his part who
34:00
Speaker 2: used play for the Brewers.
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Speaker 1: Great dudes, rough booth.
34:04
Speaker 2: They struck out twenty times, they lose fourteen to two,
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Speaker 2: and they had to start their twenty twenty six championship
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Speaker 2: season with your guy Dave McCann engineering their broadcast in
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Speaker 2: the booth.
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Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yeah, Dave told me he was doing that.
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Speaker 5: He was doing that. But yeah, Lenny is Lenny is one,
34:19
Speaker 5: as you know, it's not breaking news. Another one of
34:22
Speaker 5: the really great people you meet in this industry. And
34:25
Speaker 5: I always admire him. We'll always admire him. We messaged
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Speaker 5: each other after he made the move. Very few people
34:32
Speaker 5: go from television to radio, but he wanted to do that.
34:36
Speaker 5: He had Cubs TV. That's a hell of a gig.
34:40
Speaker 5: I mean, that is like, well the top rock stars
34:43
Speaker 5: a small handful of gigs that you can have in
34:46
Speaker 5: baseball without a doubt. He loved radio and he wanted
34:50
Speaker 5: to so that meant going across town to do it.
34:53
Speaker 5: And I always like, man, you know, there's not a
34:56
Speaker 5: right or wrong answer, because you're going to make more
34:59
Speaker 5: in most cases, the overwhelming majority of cases is going
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Speaker 5: to make more, even if it's a team broadcaster working
35:04
Speaker 5: on the TV side. But he he just loves the
35:07
Speaker 5: platform of radio, so for him, man, and he's just,
35:13
Speaker 5: you know, such a good dude, starting with the Marlins
35:15
Speaker 5: and then the Cubs and obviously the past several years
35:17
Speaker 5: with the White Sox. So yeah, when when Big Dave
35:20
Speaker 5: told me he was going to be engineering the White Sox,
35:23
Speaker 5: they're good for you, man, get best of Lenny. I
35:26
Speaker 5: don't know if his team is going to be a
35:28
Speaker 5: whole lot to talk about again this year, but Murphy judge,
35:32
Speaker 5: I won't judge on one day, Murph sat, let's.
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Speaker 3: Go baseball team better than people, not just not just
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Speaker 3: the White Side.
35:38
Speaker 2: It might not be this year, but at some point
35:40
Speaker 2: in the next two years they might have a parade
35:41
Speaker 2: when they get to victory number eighty two.
35:44
Speaker 3: Are they going to be like their slogan going to
35:46
Speaker 3: be like the Brewers? You know, make September relevant ors, Yeah,
35:50
Speaker 3: very well, could be.
35:51
Speaker 1: It's not bear season yet.
35:52
Speaker 2: Well they went from like forty to sixty wins, right,
35:54
Speaker 2: so it's slow progress.
35:56
Speaker 1: It's all about the climb. It's the journey. It's the journey.
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Speaker 1: I'm eyeballing this.
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Speaker 3: Uh November now, I would I would prefer the weather
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Speaker 3: the higher so that we can really you know, freeze outside.
36:06
Speaker 3: But I'm getting out here to some spring football practices.
36:10
Speaker 3: The recruiting trail is hot. We're we're real close to
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Speaker 3: getting some football in here, Matt. It's this close.
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Speaker 5: I was over there yesterday for the first time. I
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Speaker 5: gave myself a couple of days off after getting back
36:21
Speaker 5: to the Portland you know, wasn't really keeping tabs and
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Speaker 5: all the practice reports and that everybody's putting U like, okay,
36:28
Speaker 5: you do you that's fine. It's it's spring practice for
36:33
Speaker 5: me right now. It's just number eleven is who it
36:37
Speaker 5: used to be, to be a handful of guys who
36:39
Speaker 5: would change jersey numbers find But it's all the newcomers,
36:42
Speaker 5: all the all the new faces, you know, for the
36:45
Speaker 5: quarterbacks to pretty much every position group, a whole ton
36:49
Speaker 5: of whole ton of new faces. Good little scrap yesterday though,
36:52
Speaker 5: Mason posa, my guy, he's mixing it up. That's good.
36:55
Speaker 5: Helmet off. He didn't care, so he was he was cool.
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Speaker 3: The coaches despised it, but I like but they all
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Speaker 3: smiled secretly and watched it a few dozen times, probably
37:06
Speaker 3: the coach's office.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you figured, fickle, what haven' go long? And they
37:10
Speaker 5: did because spring break is upon us now over here
37:14
Speaker 5: on them at the University of Wisconsin. So yesterday was long.
37:18
Speaker 5: I'm sure the first practice back will be very long.
37:21
Speaker 5: But yeah, I think right now, you're just you're trying
37:23
Speaker 5: to figure out who you who you are? You know.
37:26
Speaker 5: I asked Luke that a couple of weeks ago when
37:28
Speaker 5: I sat down with him, like, what what are you
37:29
Speaker 5: looking to get out of the spring? And as boring
37:32
Speaker 5: a question is that you know it is, but you
37:35
Speaker 5: know you brought these guys in for a reason. You
37:37
Speaker 5: think there's a certain skill set, but you're also doing
37:40
Speaker 5: You're trying to find out, Okay, what can this guy
37:42
Speaker 5: really do? It was the same thing with basketball with
37:44
Speaker 5: all the newcomers in the summer workouts. Okay, what what
37:47
Speaker 5: are we comfortable asking this player to do? So that
37:51
Speaker 5: I mean, you do that anyway in the spring a lot,
37:53
Speaker 5: but more so now with this program and probably any
37:57
Speaker 5: number of programs across the country with all the new
37:59
Speaker 5: face is. Let's see how well they meshed together. I
38:03
Speaker 5: would tell you this. One of the guys that was
38:05
Speaker 5: good to see back on the field was somebody who
38:07
Speaker 5: tore up his knee last spring, Kevin Heywood. Yes, time
38:10
Speaker 5: he was out there. And to the recruiting thing, Billy,
38:14
Speaker 5: those who cover this will tell you last year's recruiting
38:18
Speaker 5: class in terms of volume was not great. This one
38:23
Speaker 5: now is considerably better, and it sounds like it's certainly,
38:27
Speaker 5: but it's a lot better as far as Wisconsin is
38:30
Speaker 5: concerned with getting verbal commitments, so that you know, I
38:33
Speaker 5: know a lot of people have really wanted that. So
38:36
Speaker 5: pretty big step in the right direction yesterday and certainly
38:40
Speaker 5: recently with the number of verbal commits that they have.
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Speaker 1: I can't wait.
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Speaker 2: Stuff, can't good stuff. Matt Lapay, Thanks for joy yus.
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Speaker 2: Have a great weekend watching more hoops.
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Speaker 5: Sounds good. Boys, to take care of a good one, all.
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