Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh, here we go.
Speaker 2: All right, let's let's get going, because look, charge on
Speaker 2: a tight schedule. He's got to get to the Minnesota
Speaker 2: State Fair, which I'm sure he.
Speaker 1: Loves, Sure that he dies.
Speaker 3: I love the fair. That sounded sincere.
Speaker 4: Yes, we do love all the people to come out.
Speaker 4: It was such a show and interactions with the crowd.
Speaker 4: That's the best part for sure.
Speaker 2: I love the fair. Yeah, can't wait, but you got
Speaker 2: to get there. So let's get started. Time for the
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four Initials Invitational, presented by Saint Paul Better ready.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so all right.
Speaker 2: The idea was to have three to six wild cards,
Speaker 2: but then what happened is Parish scored four and nine
Speaker 2: billion people scored three. So we thought of about fifteen
Speaker 2: different ways to do it. Some seemed unfair, some seemed
Speaker 2: kind of fair. This felt like the most fair way
Speaker 2: to do it. We just have a couple of playing games.
Speaker 2: We randomized the groups. You three were randomized into this group,
Speaker 2: Paul Charchi and Mike Graham and Chris Hockey. Let's go
Speaker 2: around the room and find out what happens if you
Speaker 2: guys win and advance and by the way, because there
Speaker 2: are three of you and we're doing a full game
Speaker 2: of twelve.
Speaker 3: This does count for stats accounts to wins.
Speaker 2: Sorry, So even if somebody locks it up after eight,
Speaker 2: we're gonna play this thing out.
Speaker 3: So just run up the score just for fun. Now,
Speaker 3: that's gonna be me running up the score. Well times.
Speaker 5: Bring it on, brother one in one hundred three and
Speaker 5: two zero five three two six. By the way, get
Speaker 5: yourself ready for your phone.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, court, what happens if Mike Grim wins today
Speaker 2: and advances to this semi finals.
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Speaker 1: So there you go, Graham, A.
Speaker 3: Lot of pressure, all right, yeah, very much.
Speaker 1: Fine, You're like a NASCAR driver.
Speaker 3: Very you got to thank all the sponsor that's right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And don't forget By the way, all these shutout
Speaker 2: rules and things, you guys are already in the next
Speaker 2: year's tournament. So if you get zero, oh that's that
Speaker 2: stress is gone. It's irrelevant for this game. What happens
Speaker 2: if Paul Chargion wins in advances.
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Speaker 1: It's fun you.
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Speaker 2: All right, this thing goes up five hundred dollars every week,
Speaker 2: but since we already had a game on Monday, it's
Speaker 2: still the same number as it was on Monday, which.
Speaker 3: Is seventy two thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: If you get one letter in the right spot, Saint
Speaker 2: Paul Federal Credit Union gives you two hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 2: If you get them both right, you win the Progressive Jackpot,
Speaker 2: which is now at an all time high. It's an
Speaker 2: insane number. It's a life changing amount of money. It's
Speaker 2: seventy two thousand dollars. Charge and grimmer. You just watched
Speaker 2: me walk over to the actual thing that is a
Speaker 2: Saint Paul Federal Credit Union vault. They gave it to
Speaker 2: us a couple of years ago. That vault's just been
Speaker 2: sitting there in the corner. I sit there during commercial
Speaker 2: breaks sometimes when Sauce is going com That's where I sit.
Speaker 4: I've seen you get crawl into it, which is pretty impressive,
Speaker 4: just to get away from Sauce.
Speaker 3: I'm flexible.
Speaker 5: You know what you need to break into that, some bitch,
Speaker 5: that's what you need to do. Let's see if you've
Speaker 5: got skills from now.
Speaker 2: Well, I know the code, Yeah, who else knows the code?
Speaker 2: I think just Barb and Zach, I know you.
Speaker 3: Did you have to do these two this week then?
Speaker 3: Or did you have some in the of the hopper? Hopper?
Speaker 2: So there are two packets, I believe, I think Grummer,
Speaker 2: I think you're the lower seed, right if somebody can
Speaker 2: I think chart? Okay, so Mummer, you're the lower seed
Speaker 2: out of you in chart. So I'm gonna let you
Speaker 2: decide my packet one or packet too. The other one
Speaker 2: goes to the eight twenty group. Which do you want?
Speaker 2: I will go with packet one.
Speaker 3: You're going number one? Number two. You're going to regret that.
Speaker 3: I think I regret either. All right, all right, let's
Speaker 3: get old car now.
Speaker 5: Harner Color is working and there's a fan blowing so
Speaker 5: we can hear him, but he is there.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, all right, good morning. What is your name?
Speaker 3: Where are you from?
Speaker 2: Matt? Hi? Matt?
Speaker 3: What's up? Man? Where are you from? How you doing?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Go ahead, that's good, fine, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's got
Speaker 5: a family, he's working, so yeah, that is from somewhere.
Speaker 3: Matt. You have a chance.
Speaker 2: All right, it's fine, seventy two thousand dollars if you
Speaker 2: simply just tell me the initials I'm about to use.
Speaker 3: What do you want to guess? I'm gonna go with
Speaker 3: m N, m N as in Minnesota, MN.
Speaker 1: You got it?
Speaker 6: Got it?
Speaker 3: Okay, he's going MN. The Minnesota State Fair starting guessing.
Speaker 2: Matt might be guessing his own initials, who knows, but
Speaker 2: he's going with MN for a shot.
Speaker 3: At seventy two thousand dollars. Is he still alive? Does
Speaker 3: he have at least one?
Speaker 6: Right? No?
Speaker 3: Sorry, Matt, No, And man, we've been cold for a while.
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's been a I don't know, maybe
Speaker 2: a month or two since we've given away even two
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 5: Take the rest of the day off anyway, Matt, Yeah,
Speaker 5: all right, here we go.
Speaker 2: All right, Playing game number one, Charge Grimmer and Chris Hockey,
Speaker 2: yell out your name? Your name is your buzzer best
Speaker 2: out of twelve regardless. Again, these are first stats. This
Speaker 2: counts no matter what the initials for Playing game number one.
Speaker 5: Come on, h L, interesting, h.
Speaker 6: L. Here we go.
Speaker 2: Item one of HL. Clue number one cause discomfort. Clue
Speaker 2: number two about the size of a sesame seed. Clue
Speaker 2: number three most commonly connected to children.
Speaker 3: Huh yep, headlce. That's right.
Speaker 2: Wow, head lice gets Chris on the board, and yes,
Speaker 2: sure Chris Lee is one nothing over Grimmer in charge.
Speaker 2: Here's number two of HL. Clue number one, often a
Speaker 2: focal point of conflict. Clue number two is often discussed
Speaker 2: in a book. Clue number three often connected to tourism.
Speaker 2: Clue number four this is an area or region. Clue
Speaker 2: number five often connected to pilgrimages church holy Land.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no pun intended.
Speaker 2: Could I have strung out the word pilgrim any longer?
Speaker 2: But that is correct? Holy Land Again. It's charge on
Speaker 2: the board and it's one to one.
Speaker 3: I'm off to a great story. You really are?
Speaker 2: Here is number three of h L Clue number one.
Speaker 2: This is often considered smooth. Clue number two is often rubbed.
Speaker 2: Clue number three, one of the words is a body part.
Speaker 2: Clue number four can be scented or unscented. Grim yep,
Speaker 2: hand lotion.
Speaker 5: That's right, and we have a three way tie.
Speaker 3: Everybody's on the board.
Speaker 1: First thing threw me off?
Speaker 2: Great charge, grim, all have one, We're three three all
Speaker 2: nootted up.
Speaker 3: Here's number four of HL.
Speaker 2: Clue number one can create a sense of balance or tranquility.
Speaker 6: Clue number two found in mathematics. Clue number three.
Speaker 3: Go left to right or right to left.
Speaker 6: Clue number four.
Speaker 3: The slope is zero.
Speaker 6: Clue number five.
Speaker 2: Some of these can be found in the logos for
Speaker 2: Van Halen and Weezer.
Speaker 6: Fin clue clue number six.
Speaker 2: These are straight and flat five four, three, two one?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 2: What is what is straight and flat? Something level? Horizontal lines?
Speaker 2: Those are horizontal lines. I thought, when the again this is?
Speaker 2: You know, I don't I didn't know which a packet
Speaker 2: this was. When I said the slope is zero, my
Speaker 2: charge is going to jump all over. That didn't get
Speaker 2: it with slope is zero, I know, all right. Nobody
Speaker 2: gets horizontal line and we have a three way tie
Speaker 2: through four.
Speaker 3: Here's number five of h L.
Speaker 2: Clue number one can be for practicality, functionality, or simply aesthetics.
Speaker 6: Clue number two.
Speaker 3: Is often extremely organized.
Speaker 6: Clue number three.
Speaker 2: This can feature ambient lighting. Clue number four This involves
Speaker 2: a collection. Clue number five. This can be a small
Speaker 2: area or space or nook, or an entire dedicated room.
Speaker 2: Final clue clue number six storing and reading books in
Speaker 2: your own house.
Speaker 4: Huh yeah, home library, Yes, that's a home library.
Speaker 3: That's a home library. Didn't seem super confident.
Speaker 5: No, Yeah, I just I guess I didn't know that
Speaker 5: was a thing. Yeah, library nicely, Okay, all right, I'll
Speaker 5: take it.
Speaker 2: Chris has two grim in charge each with one seven
Speaker 2: to go. Here's number six of HL. Clue number one
Speaker 2: can very in severity. Clue number two takes time. Clue
Speaker 2: number three forms patterns grim yep, habitual, liar, oh, good,
Speaker 2: cast dude out. For the rest of number six, my
Speaker 2: grim were down to charch and hawk. Clue number four
Speaker 2: forms spots. Clue number five not exclusively, but is most
Speaker 2: commonly connected to heads.
Speaker 6: Clue Clue number six.
Speaker 2: Causes baldness, charge charge hair loss, hair loss, I'm familiar.
Speaker 3: Simply hair loss.
Speaker 2: Charge with two, hawk with two, grim with one. I'm
Speaker 2: feeling the nerves starting to kick in ers halfway through
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 3: Here's number seven of HL.
Speaker 6: Clue number one.
Speaker 2: Changing this prevents long term wear and tear. Clue number
Speaker 2: two is a specific position. Clue number three Moving this
Speaker 2: can increase or decrease the difficulty.
Speaker 6: Clue number four.
Speaker 3: This is directly connected to the color green.
Speaker 6: Clue number five.
Speaker 2: It's most commonly moves Thursday through Sunday.
Speaker 6: Final clue Clue number six.
Speaker 3: A pin is placed here on a golf course.
Speaker 2: Five or three two charge, charge five or three two?
Speaker 3: Grim one? Did you ring in next?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 3: Grimmer? Whole location? That's a whole location.
Speaker 2: You change the whole location Thursday through Sunday to change
Speaker 2: the difficulty. All right, uh man, maybe maybe this's a
Speaker 2: tough list, but this one's fun. Everybody single clue.
Speaker 1: I know these seemed like like yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Like all right, everybody has the p is we're morons.
Speaker 1: That could be it.
Speaker 2: Or maybe you're just overthinking it. Maybe you're overthinking it.
Speaker 2: Who knows five to go?
Speaker 5: And you guys are all nine overthinking it because these
Speaker 5: all seem very generic and I'm thinking too hard.
Speaker 3: Sure you know, uh, five to go? Two to two
Speaker 3: to two. Here's number eight.
Speaker 1: There's much between the cheeks.
Speaker 3: That's rights number eight of h L.
Speaker 6: Clue number one.
Speaker 2: In a sense, is a series of goals. Clue number
Speaker 2: two you could be on one of these.
Speaker 6: Clue number three.
Speaker 2: Features names hawk yep hot list out For the rest
Speaker 2: of number eight, we're down to grimmer and charge. Clue
Speaker 2: number four involves eliminations.
Speaker 6: Clue number five are targets. No clue Clue number six.
Speaker 2: These are compiled for contract killers. Charge Yep, hitless. That's
Speaker 2: a hit list. Hawk was super close. Hit list is
Speaker 2: the right answer.
Speaker 3: I had lists. I just couldn't figure out the first
Speaker 3: word and go, that's a hit list. Everybody had list probably,
Speaker 3: but I.
Speaker 2: Uh Danny McGrath went to nib High and he had
Speaker 2: a hit list, and uh Billy Madison was on that list.
Speaker 3: He couldn't boy, am I glad? I called that.
Speaker 2: Charge with three Grim and Hawk with two apiece four
Speaker 2: to go. Everybody's still in this one, but Charge has
Speaker 2: the one point lead with four to go.
Speaker 3: Here's number nine of HL.
Speaker 6: Clue number one.
Speaker 3: In a sense, these date back centuries. Clue number two
Speaker 3: can require a course. Clue number three often requires a fee.
Speaker 3: Clue number four involved in regulation. Him yep, team license.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: You know it's crazy, Chris yesterday, Clue six.
Speaker 3: I name big game pheasants, deer, quail and bear.
Speaker 2: Remember at the end of yesterday's show, we randomly talked
Speaker 2: about how many people were applying.
Speaker 3: For bear hunting licenses.
Speaker 2: What are the chances that's going to be in tomorrow's game?
Speaker 2: I thought it was so weird anyway, Hunting license is
Speaker 2: the right answer, and Grimmer is tied for the lead.
Speaker 2: Grim you have three charts, you have three hawks won
Speaker 2: back three to go.
Speaker 3: Everybody stole in this. Here's number ten of HL.
Speaker 6: Clue number one.
Speaker 2: This is often a part of a program. Clue number
Speaker 2: two is prepared. Clue number three is often received in
Speaker 2: a line. Charge was first hot lunch?
Speaker 3: That's right, hot lunch gives charge the lead man. Do
Speaker 3: you were right behind him?
Speaker 2: That's that's Grimmer's history of this game is being right
Speaker 2: behind everybody lay in a day late and a dollar
Speaker 2: hot lunch charge. With two to go, you have a
Speaker 2: one point lead. If you get either of the remaining
Speaker 2: two charts, you're moving on to the semism.
Speaker 3: You need to stay with this.
Speaker 2: Chris needs the last two to force a tiebreaker, but
Speaker 2: everybody is mathematically so alive with two to go, charge
Speaker 2: going for the win.
Speaker 3: Here's number eleven.
Speaker 6: Of h L.
Speaker 2: Clue number one is demanding. Clue number two requires effort.
Speaker 2: Clue number three ken feature excuse me numerous responsibilities.
Speaker 6: Clue number four.
Speaker 2: Does the vast majority or more most critical aspects of
Speaker 2: a given project.
Speaker 6: Clue number five is.
Speaker 2: A burden charge for the win heavy load Grim heavy lifting.
Speaker 7: That's the heavy lifting. If you're doing the heavy lifting. Oh,
Speaker 7: we had a couple of that's doing the heavy lifting
Speaker 7: on the right, on the right path.
Speaker 2: All right, charge, all right, Chris, that mathematically eliminate two.
Speaker 2: But you get to keep playing because you could force
Speaker 2: a tiebreaker. But if either of you charge or Grim
Speaker 2: gets the final one, you're moving on to the semis.
Speaker 2: The loser scores four and just gets to put those
Speaker 2: in the stats, and that's it.
Speaker 3: Ready charge Ready Grimmer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here's number twelve for the win chart and grim hl.
Speaker 6: Clue number one.
Speaker 2: Can come in many shapes, including parabolic or flat. Clue
Speaker 2: number two this can be found in the food service industry.
Speaker 2: Clue number three sometimes appear in a bathroom. Clue number
Speaker 2: four this is connected to chicks. Clue number five at
Speaker 2: the industrial level can be involved in drying Grim for
Speaker 2: the wind heat lamp. That's that's a heat lamp, and
Speaker 2: Mike Grim walks it off. Chick says in the animal
Speaker 2: that is like, you know, a bunch of.
Speaker 3: Chicks job comparison lamp. That was great.
Speaker 1: Job, dude.
Speaker 3: You had two sponsors. You got two sponsors.
Speaker 1: That's right, good points.
Speaker 5: So here we go, sponsored by our friends of Great
Speaker 5: Clips and ABC American Building Contractors. So tweet ad Martie Gellner,
Speaker 5: and tag at Great Clips as well as.
Speaker 3: At Mark D.
Speaker 5: Parrish and at ABC will help today through the end
Speaker 5: of Sunday, one lucky winter is gonna win one free
Speaker 5: year of haircuts at Great Clips and another lucky winner
Speaker 5: is gonna win one hundred dollars Visa gift card.
Speaker 1: So two people getting paid because of.
Speaker 2: Your Grammarsde continued that that's the difference.
Speaker 3: That's the difference. Charts. Your time wasn't until you said
Speaker 3: it then heavy that it was easy.
Speaker 1: Well, careful church, be careful, brother.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to get to the fair.
Speaker 6: Fair.
Speaker 3: I've no it's it's going to it's going to be great.
Speaker 3: We're gonna relax.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my FFW call host Scott Fish is going to
Speaker 4: help me out on the show a little bit as well.
Speaker 3: Awesome. Yeah, nice, all right, we'll see you guys a
Speaker 3: little bit later. You got it.
Speaker 2: Thanks, Charge charge today at the Minnesota State Fair, Grimmer,
Speaker 2: can you be back here in about an hour for
Speaker 2: the for the semi final draw, because I'm here forever.
Speaker 2: You perish and the other winner have to pick the
Speaker 2: semi final that you get to play into based.
Speaker 3: On a random wheel that we're going to spin.
Speaker 2: So there's a draft essentially in an hour, with you
Speaker 2: in Parish and somebody else.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, excellent.
Speaker 2: More of the Power to Your Money show after this,
Speaker 2: and then the second playing game at eight twenty right
Speaker 2: here on the fan