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10/09/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: On the air at 5 a.m. 503.
• 0:04
  Speaker 2: You want to be persnickety about it. For the last time, well,
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: for now. Welcome in to the Friday edition, final edition
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: of The Huddle as a morning show. Doug Russell just
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: said it during the update. We're moving to the afternoons
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: from 2 to 5 p.m. And that is going to
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: be a life change. Drew Olsen, Bill Schmidt, Armin Sarian, boys.
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's the magnitude of this being
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: our last wake-up. This was one of the more difficult
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: ones in 10 months.
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  Speaker 3: Well, listen, I understand. You get a little misty-eyed. It
• 0:38
  Speaker 3: hurts when you know that you're not going to be
• 0:40
  Speaker 3: able to see that 4.30 drive on in anymore. I
• 0:44
  Speaker 3: also think the funny part of it is, Drew, you're right.
• 0:48
  Speaker 3: It is for now. Because Lord only knows when else
• 0:51
  Speaker 3: some other iteration of a radio empire could fire us
• 0:56
  Speaker 3: up all different hours of the day. and night, but
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: luckily the two to five is going to be the
• 1:02
  Speaker 3: new landing place. And it starts out there. I say channel,
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  Speaker 3: our friend, Matt LaPay with a bang coming up on
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  Speaker 3: Monday at two o'clock to get us ready for game
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  Speaker 3: two of the NLCS.
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  Speaker 1: Goodness gracious. How ceremonious it will be. Yeah. You know
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  Speaker 1: how interesting that is. How ironic, but yeah. Um, maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's the totality of the experience that overwhelmed you, George,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that this was the end of our line.
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it just said a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: We were at Pato. Yeah, we had so much fun
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  Speaker 1: last night.
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  Speaker 2: You're a little wired from doing a show at Pato
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  Speaker 2: because you had a good time.
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  Speaker 1: Right. At the Sportsbook Annex. Can't not have a good
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: time there.
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  Speaker 2: Made our picks. Got people ready to watch some horrific...
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: college Dallas Cowboys football.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. That was the thing. Maybe it was the excitement
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  Speaker 1: of staying up to watch the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was the cumulative effect of the night
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  Speaker 2: before staying up and watching.
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Those, those two West coast games were, we're going to
• 1:53
  Speaker 3: start wearing on you. And at some point it did.
• 1:56
  Speaker 3: And now it is, it is nice that this is
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  Speaker 3: the final one. Good that we get to have one
• 2:01
  Speaker 3: last call though. And one last celebration with the five,
• 2:05
  Speaker 3: a five o'clock clubbers, because that would have been unfair if,
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  Speaker 3: for us to establish this kind of a role with
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  Speaker 3: the five o'clock club. And then all of a sudden
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  Speaker 3: just jump in to two to five and leave them
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  Speaker 3: for happy hour. That would have been all of a sudden, boom,
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  Speaker 3: leaving for a hot new girlfriend in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: That's the thing that would have been. And maybe, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you do level up in life. And now maybe this
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  Speaker 1: hurts more. No, like just the little linger.
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  Speaker 3: You have to let it linger but i do think
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  Speaker 3: most five o'clock clubbers are appreciating one.
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  Speaker 4: Last maybe like that goodbye after prom and that that
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  Speaker 4: high school like you know it's not going to be
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  Speaker 4: the same after this summer we're going our separate ways
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  Speaker 4: but we'll always appreciate that experience you know we'll always
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  Speaker 4: have that moment.
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  Speaker 2: Just described his favorite his entire life outlook is that
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  Speaker 2: encapsulated in that vignette.
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  Speaker 3: Right that remembrance and that memory we might not be
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  Speaker 3: we might not be meant to last forever but we'll
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  Speaker 3: always uh We'll always have this summer.
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: We'll always have this summer. That's right.
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  Speaker 4: Things might be different after it, but we'll maybe look
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  Speaker 4: back fondly, wistfully on and say, oh, well, those were
• 3:06
  Speaker 4: some formative years. Now, Wisconsin Sports Fanatic agrees. Yeah, you
• 3:10
  Speaker 4: guys have sure moved around.
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  Speaker 1: That's true.
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  Speaker 4: The thing is changing the constant radio. And, Drew, you
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  Speaker 4: kind of made that little joke reference there, and it's true.
• 3:17
  Speaker 4: Who knows until the next time.
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  Speaker 1: For now. But that's just kind of the reality of it.
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  Speaker 4: I know sometimes as an audience all the changes over
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  Speaker 4: the years, and there have been a lot of them,
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  Speaker 4: as we know, It.
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  Speaker 1: Can be sort of disorienting. But, hey, just, you know what?
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  Speaker 4: It can be a winding road. It can be a
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  Speaker 4: road less traveled. But, you know, as long as you're
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  Speaker 4: in the car with us, as long as you're jumping
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  Speaker 4: in the truck with us along for this ride, that's
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  Speaker 4: all we can really ask for. And we are thankful
• 3:41
  Speaker 4: for everybody who always, I'd say, boosted and lifted our
• 3:45
  Speaker 4: spirits every morning here at 5 a.m.
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: We met our guy last night. I feel so bad
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  Speaker 1: I'm blanking his name. He told me. He meant a
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  Speaker 1: lot to you. Well, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: He said he drove the garbage truck. All the time
• 3:57
  Speaker 4: and listen to every morning. I feel so bad about
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  Speaker 4: what is... I'm blanking out there.
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: I think it's Ken. You're talking about Nick? Nick. Nick.
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  Speaker 4: So thank you for saving me there. But guys like that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we've been out close to us.
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  Speaker 1: That we appreciate... That you appreciate what we're doing. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's easy to... Okay, I forgot his name.
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  Speaker 3: Nick.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Nick. But I do appreciate you, even though
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  Speaker 1: I did forget your name this morning at 5.07.
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  Speaker 2: It was Billy who dropped the hammer. You were being sincere,
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  Speaker 2: trying to rack your brain.
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  Speaker 1: You know what? But I.
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  Speaker 3: Well, when he threw Ken out there, I had to
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  Speaker 3: save ourselves with the other side of the alphabet.
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  Speaker 1: Because I thought he looked like Kansas Ken. I thought
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  Speaker 1: him and Kansas Ken looked like brothers to me.
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  Speaker 4: I remembered that one so much. I can see it. Hey,
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  Speaker 4: it's going to be a change, but welcome to come
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  Speaker 4: along with us, and we'll have our new group in
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  Speaker 4: the back.
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  Speaker 1: Of the truck. That's right, 2 o'clock clubbers. That could
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  Speaker 1: be our new club, 2 o'clock club. That's going to
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: be some fun.
• 4:48
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, firing up on Monday with, you know, afternoon program.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll have, we'll be able to stay up late
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  Speaker 2: and watch games. We'll be able to, you know, guilt free.
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  Speaker 1: Guilt-free. Yeah, exactly. And we'll be sharper.
• 5:02
  Speaker 3: And like our 414 texter right out of the gate said,
• 5:05
  Speaker 3: we'll miss having you guys live at 5, but we'll
• 5:07
  Speaker 3: catch your podcast at 4 a.m.
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: The following day. And that's the thing.
• 5:12
  Speaker 3: There's many people that even are up before we started up.
• 5:15
  Speaker 3: So you then are getting an extra hour of the
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  Speaker 3: blue-collar Arman Sarian and the blue-collar huddle, which is even better.
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: And I've lamented this. I said it multiple times. I
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: said it again to Billy last night. It's true.
• 5:26
  Speaker 4: I am going to miss the fake hustle. of being
• 5:29
  Speaker 4: able to get up so early for work.
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  Speaker 2: Because that's the first question you get. Like, how do
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  Speaker 2: you do that?
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  Speaker 4: How do you get up like that? You're instantly a hero.
• 5:36
  Speaker 4: They look at you like you're so tough. And that
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  Speaker 4: hero complex that I think over the years, I don't
• 5:42
  Speaker 4: like to think I have too many terrible flaws, but
• 5:46
  Speaker 4: one of them is I have the hero complex. And
• 5:49
  Speaker 4: by just me saying I don't have that many flaws,
• 5:51
  Speaker 4: I guess that feeds into it. But this doesn't help
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  Speaker 4: my hero complex saying I don't get up early.
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: Let me help you.
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  Speaker 3: Red Hot Tim Knott, as guest one of the 5
• 5:59
  Speaker 3: o'clock club, do I get first dibs on the neons
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  Speaker 3: when the doors.
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  Speaker 1: Close at 8 a.m. today? Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I do like that this is the bar that ends
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  Speaker 3: up closing down and everybody wants to grab a little
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  Speaker 3: taste of it.
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: Everyone can sell, yeah, buy stuff, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I remember when they tore down Marquette Heroes on campus,
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  Speaker 4: they were like selling stuff. But they weren't selling anything
• 6:15
  Speaker 4: interesting like the signs. They were like, who wants a
• 6:17
  Speaker 4: table and chairs? I'm like, I don't need your chairs.
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  Speaker 4: I want the sign that says Market Heroes. But yes,
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  Speaker 4: you can have the neon sign. You can have all
• 6:24
  Speaker 4: the mementos. But we'll ask for them back if we
• 6:27
  Speaker 4: end up in this spot again. Tommy and Stylist, good morning, fellas.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to miss you in the morning. But congrats,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm happy for you. I'll be tuning in in
• 6:33
  Speaker 4: the afternoons.
• 6:34
  Speaker 3: I excitedly await the news of Pipe Bomb in the mornings.
• 6:39
  Speaker 3: That'll wake you up. Whole new different kind of wake
• 6:41
  Speaker 3: and bake. Now, I don't know that that's the plan.
• 6:43
  Speaker 3: That would be.
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  Speaker 1: Tommy?
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  Speaker 3: Might have just tripped something. That might be an electrifying move.
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  Speaker 3: But if you want some pipe bomb tomorrow night, Milwaukee
• 6:52
  Speaker 3: Admirals hockey on Fox Sports 920, you'll get pipe bomb
• 6:56
  Speaker 3: doing the intermission reports as we get those super special
• 6:59
  Speaker 3: big home opener.
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: Super cool. Starting up at 6 o'clock tomorrow night. Having
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  Speaker 1: pipe bomb back just makes you feel right, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 4: It makes you feel like you're home again. Makes you
• 7:07
  Speaker 4: feel like there's some sense of things are getting right
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  Speaker 4: in this world again. Yeah, so definitely catch that game
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  Speaker 4: and catch pipe bomb. Can you imagine waking up with
• 7:15
  Speaker 4: pipe bomb? That'd be fantastic.
• 7:17
  Speaker 2: If you would like to share some thoughts on this
• 7:20
  Speaker 2: final morning edition of The Huddle, 877-794-1973.
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: Get to the NicoletLaw.com talk and text line. And they're
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: rolling in, baby. We got a lot of them here today.
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  Speaker 3: Rick, Chris, and Lodi, Drew, last hurrah for us 5
• 7:34
  Speaker 3: o'clock clubbers.
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  Speaker 1: But good luck on the move. See you at 2.
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: All right, P. Chang, happy Friday, fellas. He's chiming in,
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: by the way, on YouTube.
• 7:40
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of ways to get to us right
• 7:41
  Speaker 4: here on the video stream, which is already popping this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Happy Friday, fellas. Bittersweet. We'll miss listening to you.
• 7:47
  Speaker 4: But I will be turning it into LFG crew slash pack.
• 7:51
  Speaker 4: I love to hear that. I love to hear that.
• 7:53
  Speaker 4: I think things are looking up. You know, we talk
• 7:55
  Speaker 4: about that. Talk about, obviously, the Brewers, what they've been doing.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't know, guys. For me, watching some of
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  Speaker 4: these common opponents... I don't know if that's the right term,
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  Speaker 4: but watching some of these opponents, the brewers of the
• 8:04
  Speaker 4: Packers have played makes me feel a little less bad
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  Speaker 4: about what they've done. I mean, it's obviously been an
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  Speaker 4: uneven performance and there's been a lot of problems this
• 8:12
  Speaker 4: year with the Packers, but they are two and two
• 8:14
  Speaker 4: and the Buccaneers look good last night. They dominated the
• 8:18
  Speaker 4: Cowboys and you know, the Vikings have been all right. Um, the,
• 8:22
  Speaker 4: not only the jets, but, um, and obviously we know
• 8:25
  Speaker 4: what the Falcons have done. So I'm trying to stay
• 8:27
  Speaker 4: encouraged and positive all the way through. And that's, That's
• 8:30
  Speaker 4: kind of been a little bit more positive watching these
• 8:32
  Speaker 4: teams the Packers have played that we thought they should
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  Speaker 4: dominate against when they haven't still be somewhat decent against
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  Speaker 4: other teams.
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  Speaker 1: That's the other side of that coin. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of it.
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  Speaker 2: The other side of that coin is, well, I'm happy
• 8:48
  Speaker 2: when the team that beat me wins the title, which
• 8:50
  Speaker 2: is another Arminism.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that I don't understand.
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  Speaker 3: This one, though, for the common opponents, was the correct term,
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  Speaker 3: by the way.
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  Speaker 1: You're spot on there. Good, good, good.
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  Speaker 3: Little scout going forward, Drew, for the Cowboys coming in
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  Speaker 3: here next week.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. All right.
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  Speaker 3: A little bit more feasible if that's what you can do.
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  Speaker 3: That's a disaster.
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  Speaker 1: Like what Jalen Daniels and company did.
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  Speaker 3: But I do understand, Armin, the point of like Tampa
• 9:14
  Speaker 3: Bay didn't look like warm cheeks last night.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're listening to the five o'clock huddle, I
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  Speaker 1: think none of us expected that. Most people that.
• 9:20
  Speaker 3: Watched the game last week. Now, this is the part.
• 9:23
  Speaker 3: Chris Meyer's experience with Jonathan Vilma last week on what?
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: The D or something?
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  Speaker 3: Team of Packers and Bucks. Probably not much of the
• 9:30
  Speaker 3: country got to see Jalen Daniels.
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know, Drew.
• 9:33
  Speaker 3: I thought it looked like a functional NFL quarterback last
• 9:35
  Speaker 3: week at the bare minimum. And last night, he grew
• 9:39
  Speaker 3: confidence-wise big time early on. And you could see Zach Robinson,
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  Speaker 3: their OC, made it very simple for him on that
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  Speaker 3: first drive. I think he started like 7 of 7
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  Speaker 3: on the first couple of drives. Got a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: confidence rolling. And they didn't shy away from it. But
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  Speaker 3: they ran it behind Tristan worse twice to start out
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  Speaker 3: the second half. It's pretty damn good when you can
• 10:01
  Speaker 3: do that off.
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: To the left side. Yeah, that's pretty good. Um, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: but again, the Cowboys, man, when that's your get right
• 10:09
  Speaker 2: game and you take a dump like that, that's, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're, they're, they're, uh, maybe not rock bottom,
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: But at some point, that little.
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  Speaker 3: Rock is going to splash into the pot. It's going
• 10:23
  Speaker 3: to make a little drop. Jerry, last night, they flashed
• 10:28
  Speaker 3: over the camera to him. Perfect time with a beautiful
• 10:31
  Speaker 3: table slap right there. He and the Cowboys drew... I mean,
• 10:36
  Speaker 3: I don't know. They're going to have to make decisions
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: at some point. Going into the year, they were as
• 10:41
  Speaker 3: hyped up as I can remember them, though, in quite
• 10:43
  Speaker 3: some time. It seems like everybody has loved all of
• 10:46
  Speaker 3: the moves that they've done in the offseason. However, it
• 10:49
  Speaker 3: hasn't responded in terms of wins on the field. I
• 10:53
  Speaker 3: still think Shottie's okay, but I don't think he's going
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  Speaker 3: to get much of another chance. Al Michaels said something
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  Speaker 3: last night, and I know it's more fun and in
• 11:02
  Speaker 3: vogue to dump on Al.
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  Speaker 1: But he had said week five. Come on.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Must win guys. I can't say a must win.
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  Speaker 3: Not must win, but it sure feels like I can't
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  Speaker 3: lose for the Cowboys. And sure as heck, it turned
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  Speaker 3: into one that that's a tough way to sell to
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  Speaker 3: your fan base. Hey man, we still have a chance.
• 11:23
  Speaker 3: We can't beat the Owen for Buccaneers coming into our
• 11:26
  Speaker 3: place on Thursday night football, but we still have a chance.
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
• 11:30
  Speaker 4: And listen, I don't know. You guys saw the Dak
• 11:32
  Speaker 4: Prescott thing. Obviously, that was part of the story last night.
• 11:37
  Speaker 4: Somebody in the tunnel last night yelling at him.
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: Hey, embarrassing.
• 11:40
  Speaker 4: So that's always fun when you catch a moment like
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  Speaker 4: that on camera.
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  Speaker 2: He had a pretty eloquent statement after that.
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  Speaker 1: I thought so.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he handled it, you know. So apparently it
• 11:48
  Speaker 4: was a third-party contractor. Everyone's like, well, who was this guy?
• 11:50
  Speaker 4: Who was this guy? So, yeah, that was another storyline
• 11:54
  Speaker 4: from last night that's getting some run.
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  Speaker 1: Um, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I've been down in, you know, you guys have been
• 11:59
  Speaker 4: down in bowels of stadiums and tunnels and things like that.
• 12:03
  Speaker 4: I don't remember anything ever had one time when I
• 12:05
  Speaker 4: was working, uh, at the, uh, T at the team store,
• 12:08
  Speaker 4: they used to call it the fan zone.
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  Speaker 1: This is like 20 years ago.
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  Speaker 4: David Wright asked me where the bus was and I
• 12:13
  Speaker 4: pointed to him where the Mets bus was. So that
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  Speaker 4: was my one interaction. So there you go. I guess
• 12:17
  Speaker 4: I didn't, I didn't, I didn't go viral.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing viral. I love it. David Wright. That's a good reference.
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  Speaker 1: He was young, too. He wasn't a big star yet.
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: He wasn't a vitamin water investor yet. Last evening, when
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: we left the sports book annex over at Pottawatomie, we
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: were just looking into games. The NFL games. There was
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: just that hype, that pregame hype. And the Guardians and
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: White Sox, well, maybe the Guardians, rose to the occasion
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: last night. And, Billy, that means that we've got a
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: Saturday night win or go home game, and whoever's left
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: has to take on rested Tampa Bay. Does that sound
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: familiar to you, like last year?
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: Damn near the exact same situation, right? Brewers are in
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: the Guardians spot.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and for the White Sox now, too, they're going
• 13:10
  Speaker 3: to be sitting there kicking themselves for weeks and months
• 13:14
  Speaker 3: on end, knowing that you had not one but two
• 13:16
  Speaker 3: chances for the first home closeout in, what, 100-some years?
• 13:19
  Speaker 3: It's been for them to be able to close it out.
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: And that was a, that's a tough one to chew on.
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: If you're a white Sox fan into the off season,
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: because I do believe that that might be the office.
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: But who knows? I guess.
• 13:31
  Speaker 3: There have been series where the road team wins every game.
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: The one, the most recent one that I can think
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: of was Astros and Dodgers a couple of years ago.
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: I think it was a game, a five game series
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: and the road team may have won every game in
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: that series, but it's, it's not a, not a common feat.
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: Sure would be fun, but damn. Steven Vogt, Pat Murphy,
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: both back-to-back managers of the year.
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: How about that?
• 13:56
  Speaker 3: Both could find themselves in the LCS coming up in
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: year number three. Really impressive runs. It is crazy that
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: no home teams won a game in the series, but
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: that White Sox streak is going to persist. Man, it
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: does feel like maybe they had their chance, but we'll see.
• 14:11
  Speaker 3: Game five, anything can happen. Give us something fun to watch.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: For sure. Game five.
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: And the White Sox fans who have been long waiting
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: for those home playoff games got those two losses.
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: But I'm sure they'd be okay if they won.
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: The thing with the White Sox is there is a
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: house money element to what they're doing.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: Definitely. Definitely. But when you're up 2-0, does that change
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: a little bit?
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: A little, but marginally just because it's, you know, you've
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: exceeded expectations by when you won your 82nd game.
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's the adjusting and the moving of the
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: goalposts and the expectations.
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: That's... Fans always will do it.
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: But it takes like an off season to do it,
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: but you got to give yourself some time.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Three weeks instead of three years. You're just right now.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: They're just giddy.
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: And it's like, okay, so if they get, let's, let's
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: say they survive and they went on the road and
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: then they go to Tampa and get smoked like the
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: Dodgers brewers ask for four Oh, It was still a
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: great season. They're still happy. They're not going to be
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: crushed when the rug gets pulled.
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: It's almost better because they can process and rationalize that better.
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: But it was nice for all the friends of mine
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: going to college that it wasn't, I'm not coaching, I'm
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: more a Sox fan.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: Not really a big baseball fan, I'm a big Sox fan.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: Nice to be able to check in on those Sox
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: fans and make sure that they were actual Sox fans.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: I got a call last week, though, from a buddy
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: of mine, Zach, one of my old roommates, Drew. He
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: was calling a shot. He said Brewers and White Sox
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: in the World Series.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: We got to go. Okay, bud. Okay.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: You guys get out of the first three game round
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: in the wild card series and feeling ourselves all the
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: way for seven more wins.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: In this playoff baseball world to learn.
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: Very tough, very tough. I was kind of waiting for
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: Len Casper to have his moment, but I don't know.
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: I think it is interesting. All the things the White
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: Sox have been through, if you had told them, yeah,
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: you're going to win a playoff series, you're going to
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: get back to the playoffs this year, I'm like, wow,
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: are you kidding me? That's the ticket I can cash
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: on opening day this year? And then you go up
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: 2-0 and you start dreaming, and you start having those cookies.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: In the oven. But it's not over, like, maybe they're
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: more comfortable on the road. I mean, who knows? We'll see.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: They had their chances last night. That was an interesting game.
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: They had a couple chances when they did take the
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: lead to really blow it open. And it was the,
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: you know, they scored in the sack, flies, hit batsmen,
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: the walk. They got runs early. They got the lead
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: early a couple times. But they really had chances to
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: blow it open, and they had some hard contact, but
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: couldn't get that, you know.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: That kind of jackpot hit to put them over the top.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Jackpot hit. You know, like a big double or a big.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Big Homer or something like that. You can tell Armand
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: was just in the casino.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: I was going to say, it's on the hand chase
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: or on the mind.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: I like it. Oh, my goodness.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: All right, hit us up, 877-794-1973. Our final voyage here
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: in the pre-dawn hours. It's been, what, January 20th to,
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: it checks, October 9th. What a run we've had. Five
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: o'clock clubbers have helped sustain us, and we appreciate it.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: Try to repay the... We'll try to repay our debts today.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: We'll settle up.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Before we move to 2 p.m.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Beginning on Monday. You are in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Drew Billion-Armond, the last dance, if you will, today. If
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: we could appropriate that little title. The last dance here.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Five o'clock club in the morning. What will you miss
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: most about this shift?
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: Ooh, I will definitely miss the getting home with the
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: fresh coat of powder for about 9 a.m., 9.30 when
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: it does snow. Everybody has already run through a bunch.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: I got the one run of tracks just to try
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: to get out, and then knowing that you can rip
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: roar through with the snowblower and then go in and
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: take a nap. That is the one part of the
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: winter morning that I will miss. That is the only one.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: And the only one in the morning on the winter
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: part that I'll miss. I will miss Dolph. I mean,
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: that's the number one.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, that's the number one thing I'll miss
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: about this is definitely Dolph. He's not dying. Well, I know.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: You can go and talk. You can talk to him.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: It's not the same as you don't see him every day.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just not the same. Chop it up
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: for 20 minutes.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: I know that I could see him every day and
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: I probably will try to see him as much as possible.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: I'm also going to miss this.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: And none of our listeners are kind of, you know,
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: this is not something that anyone's been able to experience
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: except us. I'm going to miss that half hour after
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: the show where you guys chop it up. And I just,
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: we all just kind of sit here and kind of
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: chop it up about the world and stop.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: That's a little, that's a little bit just too special
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: for me to just say goodbye to.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: Cause that little comp, that conversation, that little half hour
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: debrief and our like, uh, we've had kind of after,
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: and you guys in the studio and I come sit
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: in the couch, that has been one of my favorite
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: things ever. It's hard to really describe if you're there,
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: but That's a nice little chop-up debrief session where some
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: of the best minds getting together, some of the best jokes,
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: some of the best stuff. And yes, it's off the air,
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: so I know a lot of people haven't experienced it.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: But take my word for it when I say it.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: We can still do that.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: No, we're going to be leaving at 5, right?
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Am I wrong?
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, like the entire tenor of the day changes.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: You may be right because when the show's over from
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: 2 to 5, it's.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: The dinner hour.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: We'll probably be looking to get home to the families.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Maybe Billy will throw something on the grill.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Or maybe I'll fire off the blackstone.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I think so. But Armin, here's your thing. Now that...
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: That little sliver of your day that you love so much.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: And you're not wrong. It is fun to chop it
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: up after the show. I enjoy that little time. Because
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: it's like the mics go off at 8 o'clock and
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: we're like, oh, okay, relax. And then you're completely out.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: And then we start to unwind.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: That sliver of your day that you love so much
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: can now just slide in front of the show.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: Correct.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: And we'll be hanging out before the show. Yeah, I
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: get it.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: But it's, yes, but it's still not the same as
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: after because it's like the full deep.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: You just don't want to say goodbye to yesterday is
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: what I'm hearing.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of boys and men in here. What's
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: the soundtrack to Arm is Life? Wake me up when
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: September ends. Oh, man, that's a good one. Or a
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: time of your life. There's a Green Bay song in
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: here somewhere. Good riddance is absolutely in there. I'm going
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: to bump all these here.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: There is probably a song. There's got to be an R.E.M.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: song in here.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Armand's entire outlook on life is the third act of
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: a John Hughes or of a 90s teen comedy where everybody,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: the jocks and geeks and everybody comes together and it's
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: everybody kumbaya and all these years.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: That is Armand's entire outlook on life. You understand me.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: It feels so seen now, finally.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like when Jim and Oz and Finch and
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Stifler had dog years at the end of American Pie.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: To the next step. No, you know what it is? Also,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: it's just the funniest stuff. You guys, it's the right mood.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: It's the right mix of.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: It's the funniest jokes and the funniest kind of observations.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I do believe we can still make all those jokes.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I hope so.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Otherwise, it sounds like we're not going to have our
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: fastball going to the afternoon. I believe people are expecting
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: potentially even better things coming in the afternoon, which is
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: an exciting one to have. Justin and Jacksville, sucks you
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: guys are moving to the afternoons, but I'll be listening
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: in the afternoon.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no question that the air product will be
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: even better because we're getting ready with those things, like
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: all those pithy comments and all those funny things.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: We're getting ready going into the show with them. So
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I do agree about that. And thank you, Justin. I
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: appreciate that. Yeah, that's true.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: I guess it just reminds me of like what I
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: always dreamed of, like when all the 75-year-old guys get
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: together for coffee at the coffee shop together, like the
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: old guy meetup.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: That's like the best. That's like, you know, that's a life.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Did you start dreaming of being able to have the
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: senior group of cup of coffee with the senior discount
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: at McDonald's? Like before you graduated high school?
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. I looked forward to my high school
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: reunion while I was a sophomore. Like, you know, it's
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: one of those. Well, Tommy and Stalish just hit it up.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: He goes, Armin getting nostalgic before it even happens as well.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Just classic Armin. That is.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: We're going to be back on during 420, but that's
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: a 420-type concept.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: At least you guys understand me.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: He's nostalgic for something that didn't happen, and then when
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: it happens, he's nostalgic for it that it happened.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: You guys don't get it. I'm just going to miss
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: this one right here, because this is gone.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: It's the same, but it's different, because it's not going
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: to be this.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: It's almost there, but it's not.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Kevin from American Pie, that's what it is. At least
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: you know what they always say. You've got to be yourself.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Hey, guess what? That Craig and Northern.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: We've all been on that couch for that conversation.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Just like, think about it, guys. We've all seen this.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: This could be us.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: There was us at one time, but now it's not.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: Now it's almost us. Well, we always will have the
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: next thing. And that's something I've been trying. I always
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: try to embrace in life. Now, the last couple of
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: decades is like, no, be excited about the next circle.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Drew, you're right. We've all, we've all been there.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: So at the risk of, you know, at the risk
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: of traumatizing armor with more like melancholy thoughts, what will
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: I miss?
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Sunrises. Yes. Gorgeous.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: You know, our buddy Statman Steve, or MKE Photo Steve,
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: one of the OGs in our posse here.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Definitely an OG.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Statman Steve is like a photographer. He's up at the
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: crack of dawn every day trying to capture these beautiful images. Well,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: he does capture these beautiful images. And it's like when
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: we would go out and see the sun come up,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: that kind of really warm summer day when you get
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: out and it's like, you know, pre-dawn like that, it's
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: pretty cool.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: That's a pretty... Cool time of day. It really is.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: And I had first started the sunrises and it became
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: a nice little joke for the no BS six to 10,
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: just for kicks where it was, you had to grab
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: some sliver of excitement, right?
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Like you did.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: That was the first time that I'd done it where
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: you did have to grab this, the some bits of,
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: of happiness. And then I watched Mac Collins do the
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: walking barefoot. I tried the grounding thing outside.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Drew, I was a whole new person
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: out there. I'm with you, though.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: The sunrises are a beautiful one that if you don't
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: grind to get, you don't appreciate how nice.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Well, I used to see them from the other end
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: of the day. Correct.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: A lot more.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: That's the ending of my day with the sun. But
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: the sunrise is beautiful. I'll miss that.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Being done and being able to go right from here
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: to run all your errands and be done by 10 a.m.,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: that was pretty sweet. Like all the grocery store, Costco,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Target runs. You said it right there. Without a lot
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: of crowds. There was something to be said for that.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: When you were in and done earlier than the Costco
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: executive hours, that's when you knew it was nice.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: That was a decent spot, yes.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: People weren't at the grocery store as much at 8.30
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: on a Tuesday.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: That's very, very true. We beat the rush there, so
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: that was something that I would miss, too. I miss
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: the times when I'd actually go to bed at a
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: decent hour and feel like I woke up. You start
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: to get into that rhythm. There were a couple nights
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: where you didn't even need.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: The You know, the alarm? Oh, no doubt. No doubt.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: I woke up five minutes before it was going to
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: go off, so I started flipping through my phone and
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: then get up.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: This week wasn't one of them, but you're right. There
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: were times when you could catch that kind of rhythm. Yeah,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: you could get that rhythm. Yeah. And, you know, mostly
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: at the 5 o'clock club.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: The people who we just, like, you know, we wanted
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: to build something and, like, you know, recognize people who
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: are with us that first hour.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Well, and that's the thing.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: I feel bad because I'm going to rip off a
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: number of different names here just that we can see.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: And I know that I'm going to forget a number
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: of them that we have on the sheet. But like Jeff,
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Jeffrey in Milwaukee and good morning, fellas. It's been an
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: honor to wake up with you boys at 5 a.m. No,
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: it's been an honor to wake up with you, Jeff.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: We appreciate you every single day being in here. Our
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: friend Red Hot Tim Knott, Nick, has been phenomenal. He
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: always is. Always brings the heat. Chris and Lodi. This
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: is Steve, friend Craig in Idaho, North Idaho. He said,
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: I'm up here at 3 a.m. on Idaho, but now
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: I get to listen to you boys when I'm done
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: at work at noon.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Yes, I love that.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: And looking over, guys, the Doc, Justin, Tommy, Sam, Jamie, Austin, Aaron,
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: Red Hot, Steve, Buddy Pal, Dobler, Mason, Megan, Nick, Matt, Aaron, Chris, Jason,
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: and more and more and more.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I can't say it. I say all of them. You
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: guys were all on the 5 o'clock club list.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: And there were times, and it happened a lot, and
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: it happened so much even to this day, this morning,
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: where there was the first time we'd hear from somebody
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: that either had been listening or found us in this
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: slot that we didn't know was listening, that we didn't
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: know was still with us, that found us.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: And that really lifted up.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: Every time, that would lift up our spirits to know
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: there were still you guys out there with us that
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: had been listening to us that either found us or
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: look for us again. And because you liked what we did,
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: came out here and listened to us and got up
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: and found us wherever you could, whether it be over
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: the air and the stream and the app, obviously over
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: our video stream now, which has become very popular, YouTube, Facebook,
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: and Twitter. Every time somebody that we didn't know reached
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: out again and say, hey, I'm listening, by the way,
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: I'm out here.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Boy, that lifted us up. And it's been happening a lot.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: It's happened a lot this last year.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: So I'll miss that moment, too, those individual moments that
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: always would build up.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Thank you, guys. Well said, Armand. Well said. Continue.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Keep them coming, 877-794-1973. I won't miss going to bed
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: when it's still light. Those days in June and July
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: when you go to bed and it's still like the
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: sun's still blazing.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: The one that I won't miss is when one of
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: the youngsters wakes up upstairs is having to grab my
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: phone to bring up there because if I don't, Then
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: I'm just going to be stressed out that I'm going
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: to not wake up to when I have to because
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: I'm inevitably going to fall asleep.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Like I'm going to fall asleep on the chair. Just
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: have to know that my alarm is there with me.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: That one I won't miss. So there's no excuse if
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: we're tired at two o'clock.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Right. Just like, you know. Oh, we'll make some. We'll
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: make some. Yeah, come on. Are you kidding me? Yeah, 100%. Guaranteed,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: I'll make some. Yeah, definitely.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: How long do you think it'll take to get your
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: body back in rhythm for the normal?
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Well, that's what's interesting because one of the things you
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: would think, oh, you know, I got out of work
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: at 8.05. I'm done with work. Clean some stuff up.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Leave the building at 8.30. Oh, you could go to
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: the gym.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I could. Yeah, that happened. It didn't much.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: It probably halved my workouts because it's like, oh, I'm
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: just too tired.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Like, I joked, it's like, well, what's it like when
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: you get up that way? Yeah, exactly.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: It's like, what's it like when you get up that early?
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: It's like, well, I spend a lot of the day,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: once you get going in the morning, you're okay, and
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: then I spend the rest of the day in a
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: fog wondering when I'm going to bed.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: When I'm going to sleep. That's it. It's like, have
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: you ever been ready for lunch at 9 a.m.? Like,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: if you haven't been, that's what it's like. Well, we are,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: but that's what it's like, you know? Yeah, you're ready
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: for lunch at 9 a.m.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: I'm ready for a steak and a baked potato at
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: 9 a.m.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: That's why they're always so surprised when I get in
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: there for the Costco executive club, and they're like, hey, really?
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: You want a full pizza right now? Yes. Yes. You
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: guys eat a pizza at 8.30? Like, yeah, Lar, when
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: do you eat lunch? Like five hours after you get up, right? Exactly.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's what happens. That's how it goes. But
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: you always had an excuse for it, which was nice. Yeah.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: So, again, we won't be tired, but we'll have, you know.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: And sometimes stuff breaks right when we get off the air.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: We're like, oh, could have talked about that.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: That's true. That is the one I am going to be.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: And like, you know, when Matt LaFleur steps up to
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: the podium on Bear Week, we're going to be able
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: to react in real time.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: I'm very excited for those ones. Oh, those will be
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: good ones. Yeah, those will definitely be good ones. Did
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: anything happen last night in Dallas?
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Did anything?
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Other than like, oh, they stink, and that game a
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: week from now might be a get-right game for the Packers.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: If you had Bucky Irving, he went nuts. Yeah, that's true.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: That was nice.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Cowboys, when your get-right game, you get blown
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: out and lay an egg, that means you are now the.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Get-right team that people need to face.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you are now the team that people are excited
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: is on the schedule.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, well, they just had 10 days, right, to
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: get ready for that?
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: We're just a tick away. Their offense sucks like that, but... Yeah.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: Well, and that's I mean, they're still going to feel
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: that hangover for a while of the toughest loss that
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: maybe anybody suffers all year long. That loss against the
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Ravens is going to linger, you would think. But then
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: they get a huge win last second against the Texans.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: And you think all's forgotten.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: Their defense had not look had not been great. Didn't
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: paint itself in glory against Jalen Daniels last night. With
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: that Buccaneers defense, if that was as advertised, man, I
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: feel a lot better about how the Packers moved the ball,
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: I guess.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: We'll see. Yeah, we'll definitely see. 877-794-1973.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Scheduled to appear on our last morning edition of The Huddle,
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Wayne Larrabee.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Good one to have. 25-ish. We'll talk to Wayne about it.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: 214th meeting between the Bears and Packers. How about that?
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: And it totally needed new uniforms for it.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Totally needed new uniforms. Yeah, they're wearing those.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Oh, speaking of uniforms, oh, there's something juicy there. Good reminder, Billy.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: We'll talk about that as we move forward. You're in
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Hey, you know what the coolest thing is, guys? It's this.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: You know, right now. It's true.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: I mean, after this, everything's going to be different after
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: getting laid.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: After high school. Here's to the next step. To the
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: next step. To the next step. To the next step. Drew, Billy,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: and Armand bringing it to you. Final edition of The
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Huddle as a morning show.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: We will be back at it on Monday, 2 o'clock p.m.,
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: 2 to 5 in the afternoon. So farewell to the
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: 5 o'clock club. Folks who have been with us since
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: the very beginning, not just of the show in the morning,
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: very beginning of the show when we started. On the
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Tuesday after Martin Luther King Day. On a chilly, you know,
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: those days were cold, man. Another thing you don't miss,
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: somehow cold hits different before the sun comes up.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: A thousand percent. And for it to be, the timing
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: could not be better. Not only because some late night
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: games coming up and a significant game with the Dallas
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: Cowboys on Sunday night football. Nice to get it, the
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: move ahead of those games, but true. Definitely that chill
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: in the air. The little 45, 50-degree bite and the
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: little nip of October, that hardens you a little bit.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: That November and December one cripples you a little bit.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: That makes it tough. That's right.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: So you mentioned the uniform matchup that we're looking at
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: on Sunday, Packers-Bears.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Awesome. Can't wait for it. And that reminded me, one
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: of the things I saw, it's a clickbaitiest headline of
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: all time. I like that. Which is saying something these days.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Titans fire a person in charge of the uniforms. And
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: they fired three executives, including the vice president of marketing
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: who oversaw their uniform revision. And folks are saying, yeah,
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: nobody likes these uniforms, so therefore she must go.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Wow, really?
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: That's interesting, because when they unveiled them, I remembered a
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: lot of Titans fans enjoying them.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: So that's a different tune than I heard. People are saying,
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: somebody didn't like the owner, didn't like it.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Sure, Amy.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: Well, hey, Miss Adams didn't like anything there in Tennessee.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: You go ask Mike Vrabel how that works out for
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: you when Miss Adams doesn't like something happening.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Everyone thought that was a good idea at the time.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: They thought you was cool then, right? You're right. The
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: owners didn't like it. That's the thing. Maybe they don't
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: like how they're playing in them.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: They're getting crushed because they're winless, and they're firing people
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: who weren't involved with the football product.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: Now, if they thought they were going to win a
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: lot of games, I got to give a bad news
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: for them.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: I got bad news for you.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: The game, that team was not destined for any kind
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: of greatness or glory here in 20, in, in 2026.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: I cam ward is one of the more under-discussed and.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: just fly completely under the radar number one overall picks
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: in a long time.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Until now.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: And now he'll start to get a lot more hate
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: run there. So three random executives and the merchandising one
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: was there.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the VP of marketing.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: Well, they got to get somebody new in there because
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: then they'll get somebody new in there, sell a bunch
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: of new merch, pay for that super beautiful stadium that
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: they're building. Then all their problems will be solved.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Absolutely right. Then all their problems will be solved. Well,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: this is their last season. They're saying farewell to the
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: stadium in the worst possible fashion. Yeah, no doubt about it.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: But is there, I mean, the Bills thought they were
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: doing it in a good fashion last year until they
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: lost in the playoffs and spit it up that way.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: There's no great way to be able to. Also, is
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Nissan Stadium painting a lot of glory? Yeah, that's true.
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: They just run the highlights of the Music City Miracle
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: like every game. That's all they have, really. That's the
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: only moment. So they're moving to their new place, and
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: they've already been awarded the Super Bowl in 2030. That
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: new place looks sweet, by the way. It's going to
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: be epic. It looks gorgeous. That draft party was pretty legendary.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: What's a Super Bowl in Nashville going to be like?
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: That's going to be crazy. We'll always party in Nashville.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: Well, it'll also be interesting with how many people are
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: now of the rich and famous are now living there.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: You want to talk about what will be the interesting
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: one to watch. That radio row would be the one
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: to be at. Oh, yeah.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: You're right.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: The amount of people that are already in Franklin, Tennessee
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: and would just have to drive instead of fly out
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: for the interviews.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: They're all living there now. Absolutely, Billy. They're all Hollywood East,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: you know? It's funny.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be incredible because they all own bars.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: All the bigger stars have to come in and promote their.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Five level rooftop bars.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, and I mean, however many former NFL players
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: and a ton of current NFL players live out in
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: that area. There's so many of them that do. But
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: it is it's a fascinating spot. It's the hotbed of talent.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: It's a great spot to live. Great spot to be
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: clearly just not a great spot to have football teams.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: They had the number one overall seed the same night
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: that the Packers did in 2021.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Packers and yeah.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: The Packers and Titans each had the number one overall
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: seed on that Saturday night in 2021.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: Both lose.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: One, the team that beat them goes to the Super
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: Bowl in the Bengals, become everyone's flavor of the year
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: with Joe Burrow and company. And the other one, San Francisco,
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: still trying to get back. But Tennessee and Green Bay,
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: both still trying to get back there. Now, one has
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: completely fallen off the cliff because they haven't gotten the
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: quarterback answer at all. since Tannehill in that 2021. But
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: the other one's still kind of just toiling around there
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: in the middle. Shows it is hard to get back.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: Very much so.
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: And when you're back down in the hole, so to speak,
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: it's hard to kind of dig your way out of it.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Boy, I forgot they had the number one seed. You're right.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: I remember a lot of people were kind of like, oh, well, see,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: they're making moves. This is what all teams should do.
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: They should demand that their owners should make the tough
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: moves right away. And then now it's like, be careful
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: what you wish for, because now you see what happened.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: And you're right.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: Ever since then, they've been kind of searching in the forest,
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: in the wilderness, trying to get back out of it. So, man,
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: that's a good point. You know, it's funny how fast
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: five years goes, and that's hard to believe that was
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: five years ago, too.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Incredible stuff. Hit us up, please. Share your thoughts. We're
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: getting a flood of comments, and I appreciate them all.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: 877-794-1973.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: It's a three-hour Midwest goodbye is what we got going
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: on today. That's the perfect way of saying it.
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: On Facebook, Brian, what am I going to do now
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: living in Fort Myers? I wake up early morning to
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: my hometown crew at 6 and 5.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: I have to do my job now without you guys.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: I'm done. Time to retire. See you in the afternoon. Well,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: we were sending you into retirement, Brian. That's amazing. You
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: are in Florida, so you could still enjoy it. I
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: was going to say, what am I going to do? Well,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: a lot of options.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: I was going to say, a lot of good things
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: to be able to do down there.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: It's not like the time you save not shoveling snow
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: will help you a lot and have to account for
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: all of that.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: Well, and the amount of time that you save driving.
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: Because people in Florida, especially South Florida.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Cruising, dude. That's true.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: Cruising down there. That's very true. You are driving for
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: keeps in that area.
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Saving a lot of time. Yeah, you feel like you're
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: in the bullring at Bristol, Tennessee.
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Well, everyone's got those fancy cars. They want to drive
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: those fancy cars.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but even folks with Saturns are driving nuts. It's
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: an impressive, impressive spot. Everybody under 70 has got their
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: right foot down.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: 100%.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: And then the bad thing is then you have too
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: many snowbirds that get there from February to March and
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: all this.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Then it really gets dicey. Yeah.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: Alec and Margie and the blinkers been on since they
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: left the Olive Garden.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Wait, what's that noise? You hear that? I don't know
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: what that is. A 9-2-0 going to miss this routine.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: I'm a very nostalgic person as well, Armin.
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: Going through a huge change in my life and moving
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: my family to Mexico in February as I grow and learn.
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: I just know you can only control what you can.
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: Don't stress about those things. The most constant thing in
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: life has changed.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Cheers, boys.
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: I can adjust to your new time. I had a
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: new routine and now that will change. I like hearing that.
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: That's the right attitude.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Let's go. New routine, new everything. And congrats on the move.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: That's incredible. Congrats on the move. And thanks for listening
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: to us from all corners of this earth, guys.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: Talking about somebody that made that move, our friend Jason,
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: the electrician. I'm always with you guys. Always enjoy it.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: Him and his family moved down to Florida, and they
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: love living it up down there in the heat. So
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: wherever you are, we can be the great relationship to
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: bring you back.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: For some Wisconsin sports.
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of folks that try to find something
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: to be able to bring it in, like Justin in Jacksonville.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: It's a great way to be able to tie in.
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: We're glad that we can be there for you at
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: 2 to 5. And the other thing is, the best
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: part about the advent of YouTube in our space is
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: that the show lives whenever and is live whenever you
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: want it to be.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Whenever you want it to, you back it right all
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: the way up, and boom, you're in. Yes, absolutely. We're portable.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: I like that. It's even better.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: We're that portable television that you always thought about asking
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: for for Christmas.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: They never actually ended up getting it. That's right. All right.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Continue the farewell. The 5 o'clock club, you mean a
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: lot to us, though, the people that were with us.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: Because that's like, you know, sometimes it's just us three
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: jabronis in a room. You think you're talking to yourself.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: Knowing that there were people out there to, you know.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: knock the ball back. It's like better than hitting it
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: against the wall. It's way more fun to send it back.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Yes. Way more fun for a volley. Right. I mean,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Armin can, well, you know, Armin would know he's. Oh,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: my great volleyball days. Absolutely. Love that sport. Yes.
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: Did you ever hit it well enough for somebody to
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: be able to hit it back though? I mean, I
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: was always in the back row.
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: It was too small, too non-athletic, too, you know, I
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: had a couple of moments.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: I was a soft spot, not an important games or anything.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: No, but the best part was after the game, Billy,
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: when they all just sat in the locker room.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Hang on. We'd sit down, chop it up. I
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: missed that part, Drew. That's the part that I'm going
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: to miss.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: That's what they all say. Farewell, 5 o'clock clubbers. We're
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: 6 o'clock clubbing next. The Huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.