Speaker 1: Alrighty, oh, so it's cold.
Speaker 2: Oh Travis and his chick writing.
Speaker 1: Dude, I like his writing. It actually was a lot better.
Speaker 1: Not thought it was going to be.
Speaker 3: As long as you can read it.
Speaker 1: I mean, well, I mean if anybody trying to I'm
Speaker 1: not what you want to call a good writer. I
Speaker 1: have I.
Speaker 3: Okay, I can't even read my own hand or oh I.
Speaker 1: Have struggles so much. That's why I just text everything
Speaker 1: else so much easier. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I don't want to say this to Matt because
Speaker 2: he'll get an even bigger head. But they say sloppy
Speaker 2: handwriting is a sign of intelligence in the sloppy or
Speaker 2: it is the more intelligent you are.
Speaker 3: Wow, I am super smart that I wish you would
Speaker 3: have told my college professors that did my grade.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just yeah, well I was on that bell curve.
Speaker 1: Thanks to President Bush for that one.
Speaker 2: Don't are you actually recording right now?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh, I thought you were going to do this disclaimer first.
Speaker 1: I was going to Oh that's right, I was just
Speaker 1: hit that.
Speaker 4: One in there, folks before we dive in, Just a
Speaker 4: friendly reminder that Beer Belly Sports is a podcast, not
Speaker 4: a mensa meeting. They're not CNN ESPN, not your mom's
Speaker 4: book club, and they're definitely not to be trusted with
Speaker 4: an intelligent thought. They're here for laughs, beer and a
Speaker 4: good time, not pulid surprises or perfect stats. The opinions,
Speaker 4: hot takes, and wild predictions you're about to hear are
Speaker 4: strictly their own and possibly influenced by whatever was on
Speaker 4: tap earlier in the day. If you should take anything
Speaker 4: that they say too seriously, that's on you, Bubba. So
Speaker 4: crack a cold one, sit on back, and remember. It's
Speaker 4: all good fun, just a bunch of Minnesotans talkin' sports,
Speaker 4: sippin' beer, sometimes making sense, and demonstrating the thoughts that
Speaker 4: kept them out of the really good schools. Everybody, please
Speaker 4: just take a breath and we'll begin.
Speaker 5: This is double fisting TVs. Mat Is scroll into his spaons,
Speaker 5: Scott's down on his business degrees, Dustin keeps the shore
Speaker 5: rolling on with the ditching their episode of talking spots
Speaker 5: and having fun. We take beer into shot bad with
Speaker 5: being on each other. Yeah, beer belly sports is what
Speaker 5: we're called.
Speaker 6: The Sammie Brothers a sports.
Speaker 1: Minnesota sports is what we know.
Speaker 3: From the highest down to the loose.
Speaker 5: Leting high and keeping score. This is what we're living falls.
Speaker 5: We're in the Betching, Minnesota talking sports and happens by.
Speaker 2: We drink beer and.
Speaker 3: Two shot beats, ripping all each other.
Speaker 5: Yet Brebilly sports is or what we're called the semi process.
Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. It doesn't matter where
Speaker 1: you are. This is beer like sports coming you from
Speaker 1: Nary the run The Nary Runway just south of ba
Speaker 1: Midge is two hours away from the Canadian border. Just
Speaker 1: a live up north.
Speaker 2: We're Winnipeg then in Minneapolis.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're not wrong. I mean you're not wrong. Anyways.
Speaker 1: My name is Matt Jeffrey too. My immediate media left.
Speaker 1: He's been outside all day. He's been cold, is what
Speaker 1: he told me. He's been cold all day. It is
Speaker 1: Scott Wilson. Hi, Hi buddy, how you doing good?
Speaker 2: That that new intro I love the uh reminds me
Speaker 2: of like a stadium rock song.
Speaker 1: That's what I was trying to go with in that one,
Speaker 1: and it felt good. A little long, but it's it
Speaker 1: was actually shorter than the original.
Speaker 2: Wow, you could have about halved it because intro.
Speaker 1: Intro should should be a minute minute thirty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know it was good.
Speaker 1: I know, yeah, it's it captured the moment.
Speaker 2: It didn't mention my name like sixty times like the
Speaker 2: old one and Bruce three times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks Ai. And then to the very far end
Speaker 1: of the bar. It is not Bruce, it is not Dustin.
Speaker 1: It is the man that we love. He's super smart.
Speaker 1: You hear his voice all the time literally on the
Speaker 1: radio and on TV as well from Paul Buyne Communications.
Speaker 1: It is not other than Brian Bisson At sir, how
Speaker 1: are you doing some good boy?
Speaker 3: You guys have uped your game.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: The last time I was here, there wasn't a theme song.
Speaker 3: There wasn't a like a disclaimer at the beginning.
Speaker 2: Matt loves chat GPT.
Speaker 3: It's our friend in some ways, no doubt.
Speaker 2: It's Matt's friend of me.
Speaker 3: Who who is singing?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I hey, really.
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 1: Thanks Bruce Dynamite.
Speaker 3: Well see you kind of killed it for me. Then
Speaker 3: I thought you had somebody.
Speaker 7: For you.
Speaker 3: That was sweet.
Speaker 2: We're not that special.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can do a lot with that stuff nowadays.
Speaker 2: We had to add to the disclaimer because one of
Speaker 2: Matt's friends took exception to us joking one night about
Speaker 2: an event that happened between them.
Speaker 1: Oh that's weird.
Speaker 3: Were you air and dirty laundry or something?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, No names were mentioned, no kings
Speaker 1: were mentioned, nothing. It just happened. The person knows something
Speaker 1: some other stuff.
Speaker 2: They knew the inside joke we were making.
Speaker 3: Well, I think that I feel safeer saying anything now
Speaker 3: because there's been a disclaimer. So thank you for doing that.
Speaker 1: You're welcome. We're here.
Speaker 3: I think we're covered legally to say anything we want.
Speaker 1: Thanks Brooks, Thanks Persy looking out for us. All right,
Speaker 1: So anyways, Yeah, we have a great show for you
Speaker 1: guys today. We're not gonna there's it's a dead time
Speaker 1: of year where not a lot of happening. I mean
Speaker 1: there is, but there isn't.
Speaker 2: I mean the high highlight of the sports world I
Speaker 2: saw yesterday with Shadur Sanders being named of the Pro
Speaker 2: Bowl and he didn't do anything to deserve it.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Really Yeah, he's an injury replacement.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're all like sixteen of the other quarterbacks unavailable
Speaker 3: in the AFC or what I mean.
Speaker 2: I kind of like that, kind of like Tyler Hunley
Speaker 2: making it a couple of years ago and had played
Speaker 2: three or four games backup quarterback for the Ravens.
Speaker 4: So J J.
Speaker 3: McCarthy was like honorable mention. Then for the Pro Bowl,
Speaker 3: I mean Sanders does it?
Speaker 2: I heard the PERSONA nine got qualified?
Speaker 1: Really interesting?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Sarcasm Aiden by the way says we we we.
Speaker 1: You can tell that's my son who can't type.
Speaker 2: You know, he said we it was supposed to be.
Speaker 2: When did you stop the video?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I'm still trying to work it out where
Speaker 1: I can do this live stream and do video.
Speaker 2: You're asking a lot of your people don't have to
Speaker 2: see us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, even better, you're fine. I got a face for
Speaker 3: a radio man when they made the Beaver Radio Network
Speaker 3: go on streaming and people had to see me. I
Speaker 3: actually had to dress up boo.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I always say like I'm two pretty for radio,
Speaker 1: but not pretty enough for TV. I'm in that weird
Speaker 1: gray area.
Speaker 2: You're weird there in the streaming.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, streaming. That's even better.
Speaker 3: Perfect for the streaming world.
Speaker 1: Even better.
Speaker 2: You know what makes that better is anybody can have
Speaker 2: a podcast, so it's not that special.
Speaker 3: And apparently they can all have a theme song with
Speaker 3: yad GPT Yeah boom.
Speaker 2: There's so many times where Matt says something and dust
Speaker 2: dustin and I are like, that sounds way too smart
Speaker 2: to be Matt.
Speaker 1: Really, that's what Google's for too, that's it does really
Speaker 1: well for me. So I mean, I'm gonna pull back
Speaker 1: the curtain here, like doing wrestling, they pull back the
Speaker 1: curtain and real facts. If you're seeing thing on social
Speaker 1: media looks like no way, like really typed out, really
Speaker 1: like good example is uh ma.
Speaker 2: Better SPC a commercial last week that was pretty good.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah that was Yeah, that was wrote that one.
Speaker 1: But like we do better edge when they tried to
Speaker 1: do our picks and stuff, that's all he I do.
Speaker 1: It does all f dont time. I just feel like
Speaker 1: what what we all did ours?
Speaker 3: Yeah, certainly streamlining some things, yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 2: But so you can tell when Matt just has chat
Speaker 2: GPT created graphic though too, because the graphic itself has
Speaker 2: some errors and stuff. Little like the one time he
Speaker 2: had the timberwolves on there and it said like no
Speaker 2: timber wolf wolves or something.
Speaker 3: There was some Yeah, you go you gotta you can't
Speaker 3: just use it.
Speaker 1: And edit it.
Speaker 2: Read proof reading and Matt don't.
Speaker 1: Go to no. Yeah, we all learned this.
Speaker 3: Chat GPT does not get right.
Speaker 2: So it's scary, Like we were talking about it at work.
Speaker 2: I work for the county in the assessor's office, and
Speaker 2: just how how it's trickling into the day to day
Speaker 2: business interactions, which I'm sure you're going to be running
Speaker 2: into to what you do. Just you know, like, how
Speaker 2: do you tell what's real and what's like, especially like
Speaker 2: AI videos and stuff now and defects and stuff. And
Speaker 2: it's just it's getting scary to the point where you
Speaker 2: watch videos, you know, like we talk about it. You know,
Speaker 2: you see something on Facebook or TikTok or whatever, it's like,
Speaker 2: is it real or is it AI?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's hard to tell the difference.
Speaker 2: Some of them are so realistic looking, but as opposed
Speaker 2: to I.
Speaker 3: Mean, you look at how graphics and you know, all
Speaker 3: the technology has progressed through the times. I mean, it
Speaker 3: was so fake looking when they first started doing these
Speaker 3: special effects, and now you can't tell the difference.
Speaker 2: Well, even just a video game. I remember, granted this
Speaker 2: was ten years ago at that point, so the graphics
Speaker 2: have gotten even better now. But my grandpa came over
Speaker 2: to my parents' house and I was playing Madden's Oh
Speaker 2: I didn't realize there was a football game on today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty pretty cool. I mean, I mean I'm
Speaker 3: old enough that I remember Pong where it all starts
Speaker 3: in television, and.
Speaker 2: I did all of those eight bit graphics.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know whatever, Atari, Sega, Genesis, you go
Speaker 3: down the list. But man, I mean we were happy
Speaker 3: with that. I mean, Pong was an exciting thing because
Speaker 3: you know, you don't have anything else, And now it's
Speaker 3: just like, wow, I'm almost glad this stuff wasn't around
Speaker 3: when I was a kid, because I probably went to
Speaker 3: have left the basement.
Speaker 2: I saw something interesting last week or so that was
Speaker 2: talking about the difference of video games from when we
Speaker 2: were kids versus the games now that our kids play,
Speaker 2: and just how it's crafted and fed into like people's
Speaker 2: addictive tendencies and stuff like when we were playing Mario
Speaker 2: growing up, you got three lives and if you died,
Speaker 2: it was game over, right, And now it's just open
Speaker 2: world yeah and never ending. Yeah, there's not the you
Speaker 2: have to step one, step two and progress through the
Speaker 2: level and complete goals and steps and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Now it's paid pay to get different perks, and just
Speaker 2: how that's morphed and whatnot now.
Speaker 3: Too, well of those lego games my kids. I would
Speaker 3: play them because they were awesome because when you died,
Speaker 3: you didn't have to go all the way back to
Speaker 3: the beginning, to the check. Yeah, but again, it just
Speaker 3: seemed to go on from like does this ever end?
Speaker 3: I mean there has to be an end point, right,
Speaker 3: Like I played Skyrim and I never did get to
Speaker 3: the end. I mean, I don't know if there is
Speaker 3: an end, because it felt like I was nowhere near
Speaker 3: remotely close to the end and I played for like
Speaker 3: seven months.
Speaker 2: Oh there's we've so back. When Ashley was still living
Speaker 2: here and she found out that I played Red Dead,
Speaker 2: She's like, did you beat it yet? And I was like, no,
Speaker 2: I get sidetracked. Played Oh I.
Speaker 3: Did finish that one.
Speaker 1: I did too, and she told me the the end
Speaker 1: of it. I'm like, don't tell it.
Speaker 3: Why are you telling me, Daylert, What are you doing?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I just played all this time, and
Speaker 3: you're gonna just ruin it for me.
Speaker 2: What even like Assassin's Creed or Grand Theft Auto, you
Speaker 2: can spend hours just looking around and yeah, anyways, why
Speaker 2: don't we get into it?
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Speaker 3: I get asked to say service availability depends upon location.
Speaker 3: Some re tricktions apply a lot, sure do. We don't
Speaker 3: use that as much anymore because we're you know, we're
Speaker 3: you have to be in obviously connected to our fiber
Speaker 3: network to get our services. So yeah, no, we're you know,
Speaker 3: we're rocking and rolling with the gigazone, our al fiber
Speaker 3: optic network. Internet speeds up to ten gig pretty much.
Speaker 3: You know, Internet for the way you live, right, I mean,
Speaker 3: anybody can do anything with this stuff now. Perfect for
Speaker 3: streaming video, great for working from home, all those things.
Speaker 3: You can do them all at once when you've got
Speaker 3: the bigazone. So we're going to be expanding again this year.
Speaker 3: We actually just turned down the city of Bov. We
Speaker 3: expanded there last summer and that network is now operational
Speaker 3: as of last week.
Speaker 2: You guys extended it all the way into Buel, didn't you.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, yeah, we're in Buell.
Speaker 1: It's not it's because of the Wine Range over here.
Speaker 1: We are.
Speaker 3: We were way up the Iron Range, but it's because
Speaker 3: of how funding works. We don't necessarily just build exactly
Speaker 3: right down the road. But yeah, Cole Rain and Ov,
Speaker 3: who we actually had kind of surrounded with where we
Speaker 3: had expanded previously, those two towns were included. And then
Speaker 3: up the Iron Range show we did a bunch of
Speaker 3: townships by Britt and Cook and yeah, we serve the
Speaker 3: city of Buell. And so next year, I'm not quite
Speaker 3: sure where we're are This year, I should say, right,
Speaker 3: I'm not quite sure where we're headed. But we'll know
Speaker 3: probably within the next couple of months. And from what
Speaker 3: I understand, it's gonna be another three thousand and four
Speaker 3: thousand homes that are we're going to pass.
Speaker 2: Is it seeming like more towards Strowhead.
Speaker 3: Well, it's definitely going towards the east. So we also
Speaker 3: serve parts of Akin County now, so I think some
Speaker 3: of central Acin County is going to be a part
Speaker 3: of it. And then up again up in the rural
Speaker 3: Cook area. There's a lot of people who don't have anything,
Speaker 3: you know, to rely on where. Yeah, so that area,
Speaker 3: which is crazy to me because when I started the
Speaker 3: furthest east we served was Deer River. So when I
Speaker 3: was going to our eastern most point, it was what
Speaker 3: a half hour forty five minutes, and now it's like
Speaker 3: two and half hours. So we we've expanded dramatically in
Speaker 3: the last thirty years.
Speaker 2: So shameless, selfless plug here if you ever find yourself
Speaker 2: up and Cook.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they have no McDonald's anymore, but no, damn it.
Speaker 2: There's a restaurant on the lake called the land Now.
Speaker 3: Oh that's good to know.
Speaker 2: Delicious landing.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, and you know, we we've spent more time
Speaker 3: in some of these areas now, so that that's I
Speaker 3: appreciate the tip because yeah, well we had actually planned
Speaker 3: on I don't go to McDonald's much, but we had
Speaker 3: a meeting there and we had we had a half
Speaker 3: hour and I'm like, well, let's just go to McDonald's
Speaker 3: and eat something and come back. And we went there
Speaker 3: and it was it was closed them the beginning of
Speaker 3: the end really because it hadn't officially been shut down yet.
Speaker 3: It was just closed because they couldn't find people to work.
Speaker 3: I mean that happened so anyway, other things probably combined
Speaker 3: for that. But anyway, so well good because I'm like, well, boy,
Speaker 3: that's a big loss for the people in that area, right,
Speaker 3: I mean there's limited options as is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we used to go up Snowobiling, aur Oun,
Speaker 2: Crane Leak and Vermillion stuff all the time growing up.
Speaker 2: And yeah, it's right on Crean and yeah it's the Landing,
Speaker 2: very good food.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's a cool area. So yeah, we're going further
Speaker 3: up the range. We serve Nashwalk, Key Wotten, Marble, Calumet.
Speaker 2: And is that all just internet or is it phone TV? Internet?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: All tho it just depends we've really stopped offering television
Speaker 3: service and expansion areas a couple of years ago, mainly
Speaker 3: because it's a lot more expensive for us to be
Speaker 3: able to provide that service and it doesn't make us
Speaker 3: any profit. It's a break even service, so basically a
Speaker 3: service to our members at this point. And so like
Speaker 3: Bolvy and Coleraine don't get the option of Paul Butan
Speaker 3: and television, so they get the option of everything else,
Speaker 3: including our voice services. But more importantly, the gigazone, which
Speaker 3: will help you stream or even like our direct TV,
Speaker 3: doesn't require satellite dish anymore. It's all Internet based. So
Speaker 3: if you've got the gigazone, that's going to give you
Speaker 3: everything you need to do whatever you want, streaming, gaming,
Speaker 3: and all at once. So yeah, we're kind of getting
Speaker 3: away from offering TV and expansion aaries for a few reasons,
Speaker 3: but one in cook it's hard to get there in
Speaker 3: two hours to solve their problems, and TV has a
Speaker 3: lot more potential for issues set top boxes and all
Speaker 3: of that, where internet and phone and voice services rarely
Speaker 3: have issues, and a lot of the time we can
Speaker 3: resolve those issues without having to travel out and go
Speaker 3: to a customer's location. So yeah, so TV is available
Speaker 3: in some areas, but not all of our cooperative membership territory.
Speaker 3: So that's kind of the only service we don't offer
Speaker 3: throughout our network to everyone.
Speaker 1: How far south you guys go, We go to.
Speaker 3: Almost Blueberry Pines down by Park Rapids. We don't serve
Speaker 3: the city of Park Rapids because they have three providers already,
Speaker 3: and again we're trying to get to people who don't
Speaker 3: have a reliable option at all, and so we serve
Speaker 3: a lot of the rural areas around Park Rapids. We
Speaker 3: go down to just outside the city limits of Walker,
Speaker 3: so we serve Benedict and Laporte and have perfect actually
Speaker 3: fun fact, Laporte was one of our two original exchanges
Speaker 3: that started the cooperative back in nineteen fifty two. Laporte
Speaker 3: was one of them. The other was Kellyer, which has
Speaker 3: always confused me because those two places are nowhere near
Speaker 3: each other, and if they didn't have phone service, how
Speaker 3: did they coordinate this all, you know, telegrams back and forth.
Speaker 2: I remember you talked about that a year or so
Speaker 2: ago when you were on here, and it just like
Speaker 2: Bomigie kind of made since is the midpoint.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why we that's why our office is in Bamigi.
Speaker 3: We did not serve the city of Bamidge with our
Speaker 3: network until nineteen ninety nine, so people forget that, but
Speaker 3: we always have been in Bamigi from an office perspective.
Speaker 3: So yeah, Well, in nineteen ninety eight, when I first started,
Speaker 3: they it was a monopoly and they deregulated the so
Speaker 3: anybody could expand, and so Paul Bunyan was one of
Speaker 3: the first to expand. And when I started, I was
Speaker 3: the thirty sixth employee and we had about three thousand members.
Speaker 3: Today we have one hundred and sixty five employees and
Speaker 3: serve over thirty seven thousand and members. Yeah, pretty crazy
Speaker 3: ride I've been on with all my cohorts that the cooperative,
Speaker 3: that have all contributed through the years. But I think
Speaker 3: that's a testament to the forward thinking leadership that we've
Speaker 3: had all these years to put in a fiber network
Speaker 3: long before anybody else did.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you're tired of talking about this at this point,
Speaker 2: but how did June affect the network?
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I'm not tired about talking about it's actually
Speaker 3: we got breaking rights because everything we have is underground,
Speaker 3: and the only thing that impacted us was power. So
Speaker 3: if our equipment out in the field, you know, we've
Speaker 3: got buildings that serve a region out in the field,
Speaker 3: if that lost power, our services would go down. So
Speaker 3: we spent a lot of that time not repairing anything
Speaker 3: because we didn't have any damage to our network, but
Speaker 3: keeping generators filled with gasoline so that the services could
Speaker 3: be continued. And of course people's homes if they don't
Speaker 3: have power, our stuff's not going to work. So the
Speaker 3: network really never did go down, only if there was
Speaker 3: power issues, whether our power issues or the customers.
Speaker 2: Because now like voice, that's all voiceover Internet correct, there's
Speaker 2: not too many copper wires left in.
Speaker 3: Arts is all fiber. But it depends, you know, if
Speaker 3: you're not without power. Remember your traditional phone would still
Speaker 3: work if you plugged it into the wall, but if
Speaker 3: it's power based, it won't. There was a little electrical
Speaker 3: current back in the old days that was common, you know,
Speaker 3: you plugged it into the wall. And now you got
Speaker 3: you know, cordless phones and things, but those are power based,
Speaker 3: so they aren't going to work. I have a landline
Speaker 3: telephone in my house for that very purpose. I can
Speaker 3: plug it into the jack if the power's out, and
Speaker 3: use it as a landline.
Speaker 2: So because that was what I was getting at, because
Speaker 2: I had a lot of people that were like, well,
Speaker 2: with voiceover internet, if there's no power, I don't.
Speaker 3: Have correct if you have that type of technology. But
Speaker 3: of course we were first a telephone company, and so
Speaker 3: even though it's delivered over fiber, those phones I think
Speaker 3: will still work. There's a power element inside your house
Speaker 3: that we already provide you. So I guess I can't
Speaker 3: speak to that because I did not plug my phone
Speaker 3: in June twenty first, but yeah, that would impact whether
Speaker 3: your phone service have plugged it into the wall and work.
Speaker 3: That used to be you know, claim to fame in
Speaker 3: the fifties, sixties and seventies, when your powers out, your
Speaker 3: phone still works. But then you know, cordless phones deal
Speaker 3: with power, and so they will work.
Speaker 2: I actually added a home phone back to my house.
Speaker 2: It did just because I got my kids are getting
Speaker 2: old enough now where they can be home alone.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Just yeah, that way they have a way to you know,
Speaker 2: call me or their mom, or their grandma and grandpa,
Speaker 2: or emergency services if needed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and.
Speaker 2: You're hearing more and more people that are bringing landlines back.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's been an interesting ride in that
Speaker 3: regard because when I first started, that was our main business.
Speaker 3: It was landline phone service, cell service. Bag phones were
Speaker 3: just coming around, but right those work, Wow, those are
Speaker 3: the best cell phones. But then you know, the coverage
Speaker 3: wasn't good. You know, it took a long time for
Speaker 3: them to build out the network. So landline phone service
Speaker 3: certainly hung on, but we saw the writing on the
Speaker 3: wall once that portability and all the other things you
Speaker 3: can do now with you're basically computer in your hand,
Speaker 3: that we were not going to be able to you know,
Speaker 3: make that what we're all about. And that's where kind
Speaker 3: of we could see the Internet coming, the shift to that,
Speaker 3: how can we deliver it faster? How can we be
Speaker 3: prepared for whatever may come along, And that's where you know,
Speaker 3: all this fiber optics stuff came in, because fiber optics
Speaker 3: was a part of our network back I think starting
Speaker 3: in the late sixties early seventies, but it was only
Speaker 3: used to transport major traffic back and forth. It wasn't
Speaker 3: up to your home. And so when they finally got
Speaker 3: it up to people's homes, then you have to have
Speaker 3: all the technology to be able to deliver these services,
Speaker 3: and that took a few years. So we were one
Speaker 3: of the first to implement it, and but it was
Speaker 3: pretty well vetted because we didn't run into too many
Speaker 3: issues with any surprises. The biggest surprise I think was
Speaker 3: when we first tested it in the winter time, you know,
Speaker 3: underground in Minnesota winter, and we had some issues and
Speaker 3: it actually turned out to just be bad fiber optics.
Speaker 3: Nothing wrong with the network. It just the glass was
Speaker 3: not properly put together or whatever. So some learning pains,
Speaker 3: but not a lot, not as many as I thought
Speaker 3: we would given we were out front of this. We
Speaker 3: had no one to call to say, hey, how do
Speaker 3: you do this? Does this work for you? Or why
Speaker 3: is this not working for us?
Speaker 2: Especially in a rural set.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good love, that's it. And you know, for a
Speaker 3: rural setting, it's been a huge bonus because before with
Speaker 3: even still today with the copper, they've extended the ability
Speaker 3: of it, but it wasn't made for this stuff, and
Speaker 3: so you can only push it so far before you
Speaker 3: have to have equipment out in the field, which for
Speaker 3: TV was a mile. We had to have equipment every
Speaker 3: mile from somebody's home if you wanted to provide them
Speaker 3: TV service over copper cable and you put in fiber
Speaker 3: and that becomes ten miles. So well, fiber is more
Speaker 3: expensive to put in.
Speaker 1: The ground, and the amount expensive to fix to.
Speaker 3: The equipment that we would have had to pay for
Speaker 3: to stay on copper, we would have spent just as
Speaker 3: much money had had a certainly a more outdated network now.
Speaker 1: Granted, most companies nowadays they get rid of the copper
Speaker 1: when I locate. When we get someone was like, I'm
Speaker 1: want to throw them out of the buck, so don't
Speaker 1: give a shit about them. But Frontier up north they
Speaker 1: are I'm sorry, garbage, absolutely trash. You have like the
Speaker 1: very small six bit copper line. Yeah, and nobody cared.
Speaker 1: And then and I talked to some of the homeowners,
Speaker 1: they said like, yeah, we don't see anybody for like weeks.
Speaker 1: Like that's horrible right. Well, and by the way, that's
Speaker 1: up in Viking, that's up north the northwest. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is what throwt out there week.
Speaker 3: Well, we compete against them. We do serve almost up
Speaker 3: to international falls and so we do compete against them,
Speaker 3: which isn't much of a competition.
Speaker 1: Their fault.
Speaker 3: Well, it's just unfortunate because it really turns out to
Speaker 3: be where you live and who your provider is, and
Speaker 3: how lucky you are whether you whether you have internet
Speaker 3: still today, what kind of internet? When did you get access?
Speaker 3: We take it for granted. I've had internet at my
Speaker 3: house since nineteen ninety nine, and that is unbelievably rare
Speaker 3: in a rural area.
Speaker 2: And you know we've last week the kids had a
Speaker 2: snow day. Yeah, school, and we we were even talking
Speaker 2: about that. Well, they didn't have a snow day, they
Speaker 2: had an e learning day.
Speaker 1: Yeah boo.
Speaker 2: Even now today, twenty twenty six, you still have families
Speaker 2: that don't have internet or computers.
Speaker 3: At home, right, Yeah, Oh for sure. In COVID certainly
Speaker 3: brought that home when all of a sudden everybody got
Speaker 3: sent home and they all need internet. You know, we
Speaker 3: were one of the companies that was overwhelmed from a
Speaker 3: demand perspective. Yeah, and we could only do so much
Speaker 3: every day. But I laugh because that you know, everybody
Speaker 3: thinks everybody uses the internet, you know, and that's not true,
Speaker 3: you know, and for a lot of different reasons, whether
Speaker 3: it's their own choice, you know, they're off the grid.
Speaker 3: A little bit, or it's finances, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 3: And COVID really brought that home and how important reliable
Speaker 3: quality internet. We put up a lot of Wi Fi
Speaker 3: stuff outside of our network so people who are nearby
Speaker 3: had access to the Internet, and I know a lot
Speaker 3: of other providers did similar things. Because we can't solve
Speaker 3: that problem immediately, we have to build it and it
Speaker 3: takes nine months and millions of dollars so and that's
Speaker 3: just to get to three thousand locations at a time. Right,
Speaker 3: So we've done what we've done over time, but we're
Speaker 3: still trying to Sadly, it's still a big issue. And
Speaker 3: a lot of particularly rural and rural areas low densely area,
Speaker 3: so like in areas of outside of Cook there's not
Speaker 3: a lot of you know, people per mile.
Speaker 2: Well and even then to just the terrain you get
Speaker 2: up into Cook and it's very rocky.
Speaker 3: Oh that's the worst. Yeah, yeah, we we we're so
Speaker 3: used to stand over here, and boy, our construction certainly
Speaker 3: took a lot longer over there and still does than
Speaker 3: it does here because I mean it literally breaking drill
Speaker 3: bits and nulla rock and it's called the iron range
Speaker 3: for a reason right, not wrong, all right, but so
Speaker 3: we we talk about this is the longest Paul, by
Speaker 3: the way, so I'll end it here.
Speaker 2: Every time you come on the show, and after you leave,
Speaker 2: we're like he you can just tell you're very passionate
Speaker 2: about what you do and how you portray it, and
Speaker 2: Paul Bunyon is very lucky to have you as a
Speaker 2: representative so well.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that. It's easy though. I've always tell people
Speaker 3: it's easy to to work for something you believe in, right,
Speaker 3: And we're a member on cooperative, so there's not some
Speaker 3: one rich guy on a lake that I got to
Speaker 3: kiss up to to try to get a raise or
Speaker 3: anything like that. It's we're all in it together too,
Speaker 3: and we've got a great team. I mean, I just feel,
Speaker 3: you know, pretty proud to be able to be the
Speaker 3: kind of the face and the voice sometimes. But I
Speaker 3: always remind our staff I can say and do whatever
Speaker 3: I want, but if you don't back it up, that
Speaker 3: means nothing.
Speaker 4: And you know, and they do.
Speaker 3: Our staff is amazing, and that's one of the biggest
Speaker 3: things that I enjoyed the most is that we offer
Speaker 3: local customer service. Still to this day, it's a dying breed.
Speaker 3: I don't know who many who do, but I think
Speaker 3: our members you certainly appreciate it and note it as
Speaker 3: a difference between us and everybody else.
Speaker 2: It's very nice that you can walk into a physical
Speaker 2: location and speak to somebody that their native language is
Speaker 2: the same language you're speaking.
Speaker 3: They can they can pronounce your hometown if you say Mary.
Speaker 3: I'm guessing a lot of our staff Mary is even
Speaker 3: what say that to a frontier employee? See if they
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Speaker 1: It's so nice, Han't Brooks. They do all of our stuff.
Speaker 2: Well, the first beer, the Twinkies they did. They've had
Speaker 2: a little action last couple of years on the trade front.
Speaker 1: Well, We'll start with Joe Ryan is still staying with
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Twins. We'll start off with their four now
Speaker 1: four and now is what I put dot dot dot four. Now, uh, Brian,
Speaker 1: we have a we have a shot that I say
Speaker 1: that Joe Ryan will be traded this off season by May.
Speaker 1: By May, sorry not by April.
Speaker 2: By spring training opening.
Speaker 1: Wow, Well it's coming quick.
Speaker 3: Will it matter? I mean, I don't know. You know, Baseball,
Speaker 3: in my opinion, is the one sport that's all screwed up.
Speaker 3: I mean, no matter how bad the Twins are or
Speaker 3: how good the Twins are, they're not going to win
Speaker 3: the World Series. They can't afford it.
Speaker 2: That's I very much feel that there needs to be
Speaker 2: not just a salary cap in baseball, but more so
Speaker 2: a salary floor, just because what was it two or
Speaker 2: three years ago you had the Tigers in the playoffs. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and their playoff roster was eighteen million.
Speaker 3: Dollars, which is like half of the contract of one
Speaker 3: player on the Dodgers, right even absolutely, well, you know
Speaker 3: that's the you know, again, that's Minnesota's up against it
Speaker 3: because of that. So are all the small market teams,
Speaker 3: so as almost all of Major League baseball, the Brewers
Speaker 3: played pretty well, right and they got founded.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they they did. They were I thought they were.
Speaker 1: They were in front of the NL NL North and
Speaker 1: Central sorry football and the head still Bruce of that too. Uh, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're still in the North or the Central and they
Speaker 1: were leading from Also. I think Cubs were given a
Speaker 1: good run as well too.
Speaker 3: But they have no chance at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: I don't know, they don't know.
Speaker 2: And when you've got and I Bruce and I are
Speaker 2: very much in agreeance on this, there needs to be
Speaker 2: something done about these deferred contracts too. When you've got
Speaker 2: the Dodgers paying show hey, three quarters of a billion
Speaker 2: with a b dollars and he's only getting paid like
Speaker 2: two million a year here and there. That's not really
Speaker 2: represented representative of what he's actually being paid.
Speaker 3: Isn't that like Barry Who is it?
Speaker 2: Bobby Bill?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Bobby BENI a day right every year? Pay him
Speaker 3: a million dollars or whatever.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: So Bruce's big argument is from all the league does
Speaker 2: a league wide revenue sharing right off the top, every
Speaker 2: team gets one hundred million dollars, you should at least
Speaker 2: have to spend up to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a minimum. Yeah, you can't. You don't get or
Speaker 3: you're relegated to the minor leagues if you don't. Because
Speaker 3: I mean the small market teams, you know, obviously they
Speaker 3: have to hit the lottery of how they put their
Speaker 3: roster together to be even competitive, let alone advance and
Speaker 3: maybe win the World Series. But I think, you know,
Speaker 3: just from the you've seen it in the other leagues,
Speaker 3: they knew they had a problem and they solved it.
Speaker 3: Because I don't know about you, I have a lot
Speaker 3: less interest in baseball now because great it showed, you know,
Speaker 3: they're you know, Otani's great, and what he did was amazing.
Speaker 3: But when one team can dominate and then make a
Speaker 3: mockery of free agency, they just go buy everybody else too.
Speaker 2: It's like, wait a minute, they shelled out like one
Speaker 2: point two billion dollars in contract free agency contracts last year.
Speaker 3: Well, then this year they already signed a couple of
Speaker 3: big contracts.
Speaker 2: Because they got Yamamoto last year, Otani and then a
Speaker 2: couple other guys well, and they got.
Speaker 3: At least two this year because yeah sign Yeah, So anyway,
Speaker 3: they got to fix that. From a Twins perspective, I
Speaker 3: don't know, you know, Obviously people probably disappointed that the
Speaker 3: Pole led family didn't sell. Yeah, you were all hoping
Speaker 3: for a like an Alex Rodriguez Lori situation, come in
Speaker 3: and invest in some you know.
Speaker 2: But what I've read so one of the minority owners
Speaker 2: they brought on was Craig Leopold, who happens to be
Speaker 2: the majority owner for the Wild who has gone all
Speaker 2: in and yeah, apparently there's some rumors going around that
Speaker 2: with his minority share, there's the window for him to
Speaker 2: eventually work his way into majority ownership of the Twins.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, he's certainly shown that he's willing to
Speaker 3: spend some money, and obviously this year more than any other,
Speaker 3: they've got obviously the biggest free agent pickup in hockey,
Speaker 3: and so you know, but unfortunately for them, the best
Speaker 3: two of the best teams in the league are in
Speaker 3: their division and conference, so they're up against it a
Speaker 3: little bit that way. But you know, with the Twins, Uh,
Speaker 3: it was the fire sale in August is what probably
Speaker 3: was the most disappointing thing to me. Why don't you
Speaker 3: just trade the whole team? Yeah, and not only that,
Speaker 3: I'm and they were the reason that we won any
Speaker 3: of those games a lot of the time. That was
Speaker 3: our best part of our team was our bullpen.
Speaker 2: Not wrong, by the way, it was d Edward O Julian,
Speaker 2: he got that shipped out.
Speaker 1: Kyle Tarko was the recent signing the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: So yeah, the Twins made a couple moves the last
Speaker 2: couple of days. Edward Old Julian and all the picture
Speaker 2: pacher from the bullpen got shipped off to the Rockies
Speaker 2: today and then yesterday they traded a catcher catcher Parada
Speaker 2: to the Mariners for cash.
Speaker 3: So because we all know how good cash is, right,
Speaker 3: it probably has still a higher batting percentage than Nick Punto,
Speaker 3: but cash still doesn't really do the trick.
Speaker 2: We always joked growing up and Nick punto home run
Speaker 2: was then he hit it out of the infield.
Speaker 3: And he made more money than the three of us
Speaker 3: combined in two years.
Speaker 2: And he has and he has a ring, He's got
Speaker 2: a couple. I think St.
Speaker 1: Louis Saint Louis, and I thought Boston for the last run.
Speaker 2: And he was actually a candidate for a brief moment
Speaker 2: for the Twins managerial.
Speaker 1: Job this year.
Speaker 2: I remember that, No he's coaching. He was coaching in
Speaker 2: the Padres system.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean that would just pick up where they
Speaker 3: left off last season? Did most of them bat like
Speaker 3: he did? Like two hundred? I mean did seemed like
Speaker 3: we were not a very good batting team.
Speaker 1: There's a mother Nick Punta out there. No, sorry, there is.
Speaker 1: He's twenty five years old.
Speaker 3: That's not the nick punto. We're talking.
Speaker 2: No, no, So the guests we had last week, his
Speaker 2: names Travis plays small ball or tumball for the Blue
Speaker 2: Ox before he got hurt, and now he does silver
Speaker 2: Bullet sessions with Matt It's crazy how even fifteen twenty
Speaker 2: years ago, just the different mindset that baseball's gone through
Speaker 2: as far as if ten, fifteen twenty years ago, if
Speaker 2: you hit under two fifty, you were bad, right, and
Speaker 2: now half their team beare hit two hundred. Well it
Speaker 2: was its normal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, pit bat two thirty and will give you two
Speaker 3: million more a year. You know, Oh you had twenty
Speaker 3: two home runs. Ooh, there's another three million for you.
Speaker 2: To add about sixty straight oats.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, and you're I think the batting average overall
Speaker 3: is definitely dropped for a lot.
Speaker 2: It absolutely every three.
Speaker 3: Hundred is outstanding.
Speaker 2: Now, well, I remember growing up. They used to talk
Speaker 2: about batting average, obviously, home runs and RBI's. You don't
Speaker 2: really hear a whole lot, you know. You used to
Speaker 2: see you, guys, if they broke a hundred rb eyes,
Speaker 2: that's a great season. You don't hear them really talk
Speaker 2: about that much.
Speaker 3: No, they have all these war right is one of them.
Speaker 3: All these other I hate saber metrics mean nothing to me.
Speaker 3: I don't know what that means. How many runs have
Speaker 3: they driven in? And then you see their one ninety
Speaker 3: one batting average? Oh great, this is gonna go great
Speaker 3: for us.
Speaker 1: Yeah great, Hey you up there, Well it's don't pop out.
Speaker 2: Man Kavich brought it up. Doug former Twins first base
Speaker 2: on Doug man Cava.
Speaker 3: He's a World Series champion, and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Boston, he was talking Boston or La, but he
Speaker 2: was talking. He's a manager now and he was one
Speaker 2: of the Twins affiliate managers. But even just with the
Speaker 2: situational play, you see guys, now, well he's batting three
Speaker 2: hundred against lefties but one fifty against right you know,
Speaker 2: so they do a lot more situational spots, subs and stuff.
Speaker 2: He's like, it's hard for a guy to actually get
Speaker 2: consistent and get in a rhythm where he can actually
Speaker 2: work to gett in his batting average.
Speaker 3: And you suck bushes left handers so you don't get
Speaker 3: a chance.
Speaker 1: Yepu. By the way, I only won one World Series
Speaker 1: now was with the Cardinals.
Speaker 3: That makes me feel a little bit better.
Speaker 2: Really, next Speer, next beer, all right, the Golphers, Matthew so.
Speaker 1: The Minnesota the Golden Gophers. Dustin I posted it. Dustin commented,
Speaker 1: this is football. You're football, not basketball.
Speaker 2: Well, just as.
Speaker 3: Golphers psych for Akron, that's gonna be a great match.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to get tickets for that one. Barn Burner. Uh,
Speaker 1: the Gulf is gonna play Eastern Illinois Mississippi State accurate.
Speaker 3: A challenge Mississippi States, not a pushover like they normally schedule.
Speaker 2: That's where dak came from. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then at Washington home against Michigan, at Purdue home
Speaker 1: against Iowa at Indiana. Look on Halloween by the way,
Speaker 1: uh U s l A at Penn State great uh
Speaker 1: Northwestern and then at Wisconsin so ay wins.
Speaker 2: Maybe Dustin said he was lucky to see five in there.
Speaker 2: I was thinking three.
Speaker 1: Try hope I'm hoping for the best. I'm a PJ
Speaker 1: kind of guy.
Speaker 3: There is no hope give up.
Speaker 2: So here's the reality of it. PJ is gonna win
Speaker 2: just enough games to get more national attention, get himself
Speaker 2: another two year extension, soak the school of a few
Speaker 2: million more right off into mediocrity. Win another worthless bowl game.
Speaker 1: Here, here's him, get another bag.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: I went to the Purdue go for a game this year,
Speaker 3: and that's the first time I've attended. And in the
Speaker 3: outside that first time I was in that stage.
Speaker 1: You're the one who took it.
Speaker 3: They Wow, they were not good, and neither was Purdue.
Speaker 3: The Purdue coach should have been fired. They killing us,
Speaker 3: and they stopped running the ball. They had like two
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty yards rushing and then they were up
Speaker 3: by ten and stopped running the ball. I mean, I
Speaker 3: was a sorrow world.
Speaker 1: I was there that night. It was cold, yes, and.
Speaker 3: The only Reasoner Persich made an interception for a return
Speaker 3: for a touchdown is the only reason thought it. I mean,
Speaker 3: horrible coaching from Purdue, and I mean we were bad
Speaker 3: the whole time anyway, So I've.
Speaker 2: How do you feel about Koy perrits going to Oregon sad.
Speaker 1: I wish it wasn't a Big ten school. I was
Speaker 1: kind of kind of wish it was like, you know,
Speaker 1: like an Alabama like he wanted to or Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I'll be fine with them all.
Speaker 3: You can't blame him. I mean, he's not getting to
Speaker 3: the national championship with the Minnesota Golden Gophers, not this
Speaker 3: year next, but hey, you know, he's got a lot
Speaker 3: better chance with Oregon.
Speaker 2: Dustin and Bruce did make some good points for him
Speaker 2: to stay though, because the U has become very well
Speaker 2: known for being a good spot at developing defensive.
Speaker 3: Backs Antonio Winfield right and junior. He was, yeah, I
Speaker 3: was mad we didn't get him because he was such
Speaker 3: a senior was a great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was supposed to be the replacement for Harrison
Speaker 1: Smith allegedly, well.
Speaker 2: He got drafted like one or two spots before the Vikings.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's true. I mean, we we have had,
Speaker 3: i mean decent defenses. But yeah, you know, it's tough
Speaker 3: in the world of college athletics now, I mean, I'm yeah,
Speaker 3: it's got to be tough to try. I mean, you can,
Speaker 3: like look at what happened to Northern Michigan Hockey. That's
Speaker 3: who the Beavers play this weekend. They still haven't recovered
Speaker 3: their coach left in April. The whole team bolted.
Speaker 1: It's so weird, how so long?
Speaker 2: I hate the transfer portal. There needs to be a
Speaker 2: lot more clearly defined rules, you know, especially football and
Speaker 2: basketball will be the prime example.
Speaker 3: Has to change.
Speaker 2: Exactly, you know, like football, for example, you've got guys
Speaker 2: that are opting out of games during bowl season, which
Speaker 2: when they've got nil deals, their nil sponsors are proud,
Speaker 2: piss because those are the most visible games, right, But
Speaker 2: you've got guys that are entering the transfer portal in
Speaker 2: the season it's not even over.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and who came up with the rules? I'm like,
Speaker 3: have you followed football? Do you know how this works?
Speaker 3: Is like some accountant in the corner office of the
Speaker 3: NCAA coming up with these time frames.
Speaker 1: But it's stupid.
Speaker 3: It's not rocket science. You should we talked about wait
Speaker 3: to open it until the national Championship is over.
Speaker 2: Right, So we talked about this with Charlie from Lakeland
Speaker 2: when he was on a few weeks ago. There needs
Speaker 2: to be a clearly defined free agent period, like it
Speaker 2: doesn't start until the end of the January fifteenth, for example, right,
Speaker 2: and then it closes before spring practices start in March
Speaker 2: or April. You know, there's a defined this is when
Speaker 2: you ken or can't do it. Yes, And the same
Speaker 2: thing with coaches and nil. There needs to be like
Speaker 2: a salary cap system with nil in.
Speaker 3: Well it's a wild west right now. They'll hopefully be
Speaker 3: able to rent it in, but obviously there's some changes
Speaker 3: that need to be made.
Speaker 2: What else you got on that topic that that's really
Speaker 2: about it?
Speaker 1: I know, I know we're going to go a bit
Speaker 1: long on some paublay and communication stuff, which I'm really
Speaker 1: really happy because there's some things like I'm always curious
Speaker 1: about and like I know some more of some of
Speaker 1: the technical stuff like underground type things.
Speaker 3: Like I know, like you know, because you do it right,
Speaker 3: most consumers have no idea it's magic. It's magic.
Speaker 1: It's not really if it gets cut and then hey,
Speaker 1: what are you doing?
Speaker 2: Like I thought he was just on a bowl against it,
Speaker 2: but he's actually chewing on the bar.
Speaker 1: What are you doing anyways?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So like like I know, like fiber is not cheap,
Speaker 1: so if you're going to dig, please for the love
Speaker 1: of God called Gopher State. Please call forget that you
Speaker 1: have no matter what, you have to call it legally,
Speaker 1: you have to do yes.
Speaker 3: Well, and hopefully most people realize that there's a lot
Speaker 3: of stuff on the ground now right. They might not
Speaker 3: think it's in their yard, but it's again people, it's magic.
Speaker 3: Now there's a way that's delivered. Yeah, don't dig without
Speaker 3: calling Gopher State. There's a great system in place for that.
Speaker 2: And free.
Speaker 1: Free, it's free.
Speaker 2: And if you if you call on Wednesday, they're usually
Speaker 2: there before Saturday. And you're going to do your project.
Speaker 3: And if you don't call and you cut a fiber
Speaker 3: optic cable, that's on you and.
Speaker 1: That is not free. It is not cheap. That it
Speaker 1: has bankrupt remy what are you doing? You don't bite
Speaker 1: on it too? What are we doing?
Speaker 3: Hey, they want to be part of the show.
Speaker 1: I don't need to bite on chewing up.
Speaker 2: Crack the next one?
Speaker 1: All right, well, crack that.
Speaker 2: The wild and timberwolves and FanDuel. It's becoming it's becoming
Speaker 2: a very very logical question to ask when does FanDuel
Speaker 2: go dark? Not if, but when?
Speaker 1: And I've made it we in our text, I've told
Speaker 1: you this, Like, I'm do you think it was smart
Speaker 1: that they had local coverages pick up the Wild in
Speaker 1: the past those last few games. I think it's like.
Speaker 2: There's four of them that they're going to do between
Speaker 2: now and the next like two months. FanDuel has already
Speaker 2: I know that the Timberwolves missed a payment, missed a
Speaker 2: received payment from FanDuel. I haven't heard of the Wild,
Speaker 2: have or not, but it's becoming more and more likely
Speaker 2: that FanDuel is gonna fold.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, we carry FanDuel Network. I've not heard anything
Speaker 3: from them obviously, only what you guys read in the
Speaker 3: in the trades and everything. It's very similar to what
Speaker 3: happened with Twins TV, right and the Twins. They obviously
Speaker 3: went off of fan duel, not necessarily to their financial gain.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's hard to say how it would all
Speaker 3: shake out. Personally, we're just all hoping that they can
Speaker 3: make it through the end of the regular season for
Speaker 3: both those teams, because their contract is up at the
Speaker 3: end of this year, I believe, or even before the
Speaker 3: next season. Maybe certainly it would all get figured out
Speaker 3: between then and the beginning of the next season. How
Speaker 3: that will shake out, what that means for Wild and
Speaker 3: Timberwolves fans will have to wait and see. It's not
Speaker 3: necessarily good or bad. You know, they could be put
Speaker 3: on you know, a network that you got to pay
Speaker 3: a lot for, could be Twins TV, which.
Speaker 4: You know what was that?
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously we included it, but month all right,
Speaker 3: nid time he got Yeah, we got it just before
Speaker 3: opening day, the first in Minnesota to have it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got shot out on a K fan as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, they thought it was awesome. The Twins too.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: I talked to some of the Twins people and of
Speaker 3: course they're like, we thought it was so cool that
Speaker 3: Paul Bunyan was the first company that we signed because
Speaker 3: of the Minnesota connotation.
Speaker 1: You know, so how did that work? Like did you
Speaker 1: like probably you didn't go in the gociate that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff, but how did that work with the Minnesota Twins?
Speaker 1: Like not having that because they don't have FICN or
Speaker 1: a ballet or any other or fandue like that, Right,
Speaker 1: how did that work for you guys? You just like,
Speaker 1: do you just make a phone call like, hey, we
Speaker 1: would like to pick up the Twins?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: Actually, MLB Baseball took it over yep. So we carried
Speaker 3: the MLB network, so I know those people and have
Speaker 3: worked with them for years, and so it was the
Speaker 3: same people that we worked with from MLB Network and
Speaker 3: NHL Network. Those two networks are run by are handled
Speaker 3: by the same group of people, and so it was
Speaker 3: really actually pretty easy. I mean, we have a good
Speaker 3: personal relationship with them. Our deal, of course was negotiating
Speaker 3: the contract and certainly wanting to make sure that they
Speaker 3: understood it. There's less value the longer this goes on
Speaker 3: past opening day, so we want to get this on.
Speaker 3: But they were also in a lot of flux, so
Speaker 3: they were trying to figure things out. Now, they did
Speaker 3: it for San Diego and I think the Diamondbacks in Arizona,
Speaker 3: so they had done it for a couple of other
Speaker 3: teams prior. We weren't the first, but it did take
Speaker 3: them a little while to get to to get what
Speaker 3: they wanted to do, and then of course they had
Speaker 3: to come back to reality when they're you know, as
Speaker 3: far as how much you know, pie in the sky
Speaker 3: money they're asking for. And so it actually worked out
Speaker 3: for us where the cost of FanDuel Network plus Twins
Speaker 3: TV was about the same Okay, so you know the
Speaker 3: loss from FanDuel because we don't get charged as much
Speaker 3: if they don't have the twins. Yeah, it was almost equal,
Speaker 3: so that really wasn't a big, you know, rate problem
Speaker 3: for us. It worked out actually pretty well. But again,
Speaker 3: we wanted to get it for our customers right away.
Speaker 3: They had it on for a while of preseason, but
Speaker 3: nobody carried it. Then you could stream it, and they
Speaker 3: did offer that's the first year they offered the direct
Speaker 3: to streaming thing. For twenty bucks a month you could
Speaker 3: get the games. So there were other options finally at
Speaker 3: least and with the Wild and the Timberwolves. You just
Speaker 3: don't know. Now there's rumors that ESPN might be trying
Speaker 3: to take over the MLB stuff, so that changes the
Speaker 3: game completely.
Speaker 2: Ah, it's from a consumer stand point, you know, you
Speaker 2: see a lot of people cutting cords just by nature
Speaker 2: of things, you know, like licensing fees and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: It's expensive nowadays, it's.
Speaker 3: Just going to be the most expensive thing, you know,
Speaker 3: and by the.
Speaker 2: Time you sit and like we've talked about it. Okay,
Speaker 2: so if I have an MLB subscription, if I have
Speaker 2: a fan duel subscription, if I have all these different subscriptions.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be paying sixty seventy eighty bucks a month,
Speaker 2: then I might as well just get cable.
Speaker 3: Back, right, correct, That's exactly well, and that's what's going
Speaker 3: to happen. The prices are going to go up. I mean,
Speaker 3: what what Netflix when they started, what's six bucks a
Speaker 3: month and they're twenty now. I mean they start long
Speaker 3: and get going, but they also consolidate so there's less people.
Speaker 3: So Disney and Hulu are teaming up. Now it's going
Speaker 3: to get down to just a few providers that control
Speaker 3: all the content, and your cost is going to be
Speaker 3: up to them and for them. Their problem is that
Speaker 3: their bread and butter all along has been cable television
Speaker 3: and people like Paul Bunny you deliver it where you know,
Speaker 3: we pay per subscriber per month for these things. When
Speaker 3: you let people choose on their own and go I
Speaker 3: want this and I want that, but not this and that,
Speaker 3: then you aren't going to make nearly as much money.
Speaker 3: Where we're forced to carry you know, ESPN. If we
Speaker 3: want ESPN, guess what, they're owned by ESPN. Disney, we
Speaker 3: have to carry all those channels. You don't get one
Speaker 3: or none. You know, you don't get to pick in
Speaker 3: our world, but you do in the streaming world, and
Speaker 3: that's going to cost them money. So there's a couple
Speaker 3: of things happening. One, they try to try to get
Speaker 3: as much revenue as they can now before it all
Speaker 3: goes away, and that's pushing people to go to streaming.
Speaker 3: And so they're really in kind of a quandary right
Speaker 3: now financially is how are we going to be able
Speaker 3: to make what we may in the old way with
Speaker 3: the new way? And they're probably not going to be
Speaker 3: able to do that.
Speaker 2: Part of the issue though, especially with Netflix and Hulu
Speaker 2: and Paramount, they're pushing their own productions now too. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so now you've got that overhead to cover well.
Speaker 3: And then if you want, you know, it's going to
Speaker 3: come up down to every consumer what's important to you
Speaker 3: and how much are you willing to pay? So if
Speaker 3: you like that show on Amazon Prime, guess what you're
Speaker 3: gonna have to pay for Amazon Prime. And then oh wait,
Speaker 3: I like this show on Peacock, and then I like
Speaker 3: the show on Paramount Plus. I mean it's going to
Speaker 3: be divvied up a little bit that way. But there's
Speaker 3: a lot of different streaming options, like if you want
Speaker 3: something more like Paul Bunion Television, Direct TV, YouTube TV,
Speaker 3: they have a guide and they have a channel thing,
Speaker 3: and it's live TV versus like Amazon Prime, which has
Speaker 3: a kind of it's more on your time and your choice.
Speaker 3: But they do have some live programming and all of
Speaker 3: them are getting into that. But it's not like it's
Speaker 3: live like where we know traditional cable television. But there
Speaker 3: are streaming options that are so I mean, at least
Speaker 3: there's something for everyone in that regard. But yeah, it's
Speaker 3: a big challenge for these folks. And sports is the
Speaker 3: biggest factor. Somebody's paying for all these contracts. And you know,
Speaker 3: the Dodgers aren't the only ones. It's the fans that
Speaker 3: are paying for all this stuff.
Speaker 2: Well, and that's why it costs you four hundred dollars
Speaker 2: for a family two or three to go to a
Speaker 2: hockey game exactly.
Speaker 3: Well there, and then that's why your TV bill's so
Speaker 3: high too. I mean, sports is a big thing and
Speaker 3: it's costs a lot of money, and that's it trickles down.
Speaker 3: Don't don't make many mistake about that. We're all paying
Speaker 3: those salaries.
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely so, as Matt mentioned though too. The Wild
Speaker 2: will have four games on basic cable TV. Really, they've
Speaker 2: got three games on my forty five and then so
Speaker 2: on January twenty tomorrow they've got Interesting Calgary. Friday, February
Speaker 2: twenty seventh there will be on WCCO against Utah, Saturday
Speaker 2: April eleventh on forty five TV again against Nashville, and
Speaker 2: then Tuesday, April fourteenth on forty five TV against Anna.
Speaker 3: Interesting. I mean normally you do that with one company.
Speaker 3: I mean, WCCO is not affiliated with the channel forty five.
Speaker 3: That's a Hubberd stake. That's so like I'm won like
Speaker 3: that's like that's not a good sign though, I mean,
Speaker 3: if they're doing that, like when I'm in my fah
Speaker 3: pulled the games off fan duel though, right, I mean
Speaker 3: they're still on fan duel, right, Well they have that
Speaker 3: might be a scheduling conflict, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and say even right now, you've got the occasional
Speaker 2: game where it's national broadcast on ESPN or what you know, NBC.
Speaker 2: So but even on like when I'm out in my
Speaker 2: fish house and I just over the air antenna, Channel
Speaker 2: twelve is WCCO, and then like twelve Dash three I
Speaker 2: think is my forty five.
Speaker 3: Oh well, my forty five is definitely a affiliated with
Speaker 3: KSTP Channel five ABC out of Minneapolis, or.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 1: It's I think it's an AB.
Speaker 2: I think my twenty eight to three is forty five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I mean it'll be I guess, wait and see,
Speaker 3: who knows. Again, we're just hoping, fingers crossed any changes
Speaker 3: come after this season, and then you know, by the
Speaker 3: next start of the next season, it will all be
Speaker 3: known what's going on.
Speaker 2: So there's some rumors, as long as we're talking about
Speaker 2: the Wild Matt and you don't have it on here,
Speaker 2: there's some rumors that a certain young stud goaltender maybe
Speaker 2: on the movie The Old Wall of Saint Paul oh No,
Speaker 2: is rumored to be a potential trade ship for the
Speaker 2: While to actually land a top six forward.
Speaker 1: Oh shit, don't like that.
Speaker 2: Oh, they've traded all their other assets away.
Speaker 1: You get it.
Speaker 2: But when you gave, you gave up what is the
Speaker 2: equivalent of four first rounders to get Quinn Hughes here.
Speaker 1: And again, we talked with Jesse Pierce from the Minnesota
Speaker 1: Well I did I take Yeah? Oh h get that.
Speaker 1: That's a shot. When I text her, I said, is
Speaker 1: Billy g going all in or what is doing? What
Speaker 1: was he doing? She's like, he wants a cup now, brilliant?
Speaker 3: All right, good dad, Well let's start with a playoff series.
Speaker 3: How about that?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I can at least get the Wild to become the Twins.
Speaker 3: Oh no, I attended the last home the last time
Speaker 3: they won a playoff series. It was Zach Preezy beating
Speaker 3: the Saint Louis Blues.
Speaker 1: I was at the game.
Speaker 3: My daughter, who is now twenty eight, had just got
Speaker 3: done with her senior prom in high school. That's how
Speaker 3: long it's been since we won.
Speaker 2: It was sixteen.
Speaker 3: Yes, I mean, come on, and this almost every year
Speaker 3: of that they've been in the playoffs. It's not like
Speaker 3: they missed the playoffs and didn't have a chance to
Speaker 3: win one. So yeah, maybe this is the year. Well
Speaker 3: you know, they're like you said, they're gonna play Dallas or.
Speaker 2: The unfortunate thing is is we're in We're ranked thirty
Speaker 2: in the entire league, behind Colorado and Dallas, who just
Speaker 2: happened to be in our division. So we're in third
Speaker 2: place in our division.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean they're kind of host well, that's
Speaker 3: like the Vikings last year. Right, you kind of get
Speaker 3: hosed because the other you know, everybody good is in
Speaker 3: your division. But hey, you got to go through them anyway, right,
Speaker 3: I mean, you might as well get it out of
Speaker 3: the way. And a Dallas series in the playoffs would
Speaker 3: be fun. I don't know if they could beat the
Speaker 3: Abs to you know, the Abs are just so good,
Speaker 3: but you never know. That's why you play the game.
Speaker 3: But it is going to be an uphill battle for
Speaker 3: the Wild to even win another playoff series of all years,
Speaker 3: you know, why couldn't they be good a couple of
Speaker 3: years ago and there was a weaker talent in the.
Speaker 2: And so you've got Quinn Hughes for sure under contract
Speaker 2: for this year and next year. Rumor has it that
Speaker 2: they're going to make a play to go after his brothers,
Speaker 2: oh in New York or New Jersey, you know, because
Speaker 2: they really he wanted to be with his brothers, as
Speaker 2: the rumor, yeah, and want him to be in a
Speaker 2: hockey town. We can't get any more hockey than Minnesota.
Speaker 2: And they're from Michigan. Well, unless you're in Detroit, you're
Speaker 2: not going to get closer to Michigan.
Speaker 3: Than and you're in Minnesota, But is that who they're
Speaker 3: thinking about trading the goalie for.
Speaker 2: No, they're talking about Vincent Trochek, but he's late thirties
Speaker 2: on the tail end of his career, you know, so
Speaker 2: you're not you don't want to give up yeah much.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: It's so there's been a rental basically, is what you're saying.
Speaker 3: Kind of like Don Baylor in nineteen eighty seven was
Speaker 3: a rental.
Speaker 1: Oh hold on, I gotta go back up there.
Speaker 3: Who came up huge, by the way in that rental
Speaker 3: role for us? So, I mean he was he was
Speaker 3: pretty key to us winning that World series. He was
Speaker 3: a twin for like two months. But good enough.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean good enough. It's all you need.
Speaker 5: I was.
Speaker 3: You know, we're all Minnesota fans, so I'm just a
Speaker 3: little jaded, so we used to what happened. I'm just
Speaker 3: I'll wait and see. I don't get my homes up.
Speaker 2: And you're waiting for the shoe to fall, well or
Speaker 2: the hammer to fall.
Speaker 3: We'll watch the series when they played the first playoff
Speaker 3: round and keep our fingers crossed.
Speaker 1: I think it's funny. I mean I should have laughed,
Speaker 1: but at this appointment.
Speaker 3: You're just so done all we've been through a long drought.
Speaker 1: Fure of. It's okay, it's fine, Everything is fine.
Speaker 3: Other than the Timberwolves. So finally one playoff series.
Speaker 2: Easily, of all the cities that have at least three
Speaker 2: major sports franchises, we're in the longest drought.
Speaker 1: Oh, no doubt.
Speaker 2: Championship drought, that's what.
Speaker 3: That's only because the Cavaliers won one NBA title. Other
Speaker 3: Cleveland be just as miserable as us.
Speaker 1: Right, I found it. It took me forever. I can't
Speaker 1: believe I forgot some blades.
Speaker 3: Cleveland the home of Pro Bowl quarterback s Shanders.
Speaker 2: All right, next, speer man me find it.
Speaker 1: I gotta go back up here, get rid of this
Speaker 1: sound too. All right, go ahead.
Speaker 2: We we know who's playing in the Super Bowl. It's
Speaker 2: so we got the uh New England Patriots.
Speaker 1: Welcome back and well grown back.
Speaker 2: The Saint Louis Seattle Seahawks, who happened to be led by.
Speaker 1: Who they're led by. Four Minnesota Ens player was signed
Speaker 1: with the Seattle Sea Chickens last this past year off
Speaker 1: season for US. I think it was a seven year deal,
Speaker 1: A lot a lot of money but good for him.
Speaker 2: It was one of those damned if you do, damned
Speaker 2: if you don't scenarios, you're gonna see people tearing of
Speaker 2: vikings left and right now that they should have re
Speaker 2: signed Donald.
Speaker 1: I'm literally laughing hard about it.
Speaker 3: I don't mind the fact that they didn't resign him,
Speaker 3: because you know, those two last games of course that
Speaker 3: he played were horrific and really his fault that we
Speaker 3: did not win those games. But you got to have
Speaker 3: a better backup plan. I mean putting your trust in
Speaker 3: an unproven quarterback and then bringing in a has been
Speaker 3: as your backup and then you know, it just did
Speaker 3: not It was they didn't prepare well enough for what
Speaker 3: happens if he's not good or if he gets hurt,
Speaker 3: because you got to have two quarterbacks, right, and that's
Speaker 3: where we really fell down. But good for Sam Donald.
Speaker 3: We weren't gonna pay him that money anyway, you know that.
Speaker 2: So he did get the thirty to thirty five per
Speaker 2: Jack did range that. They said it would have taken
Speaker 2: Minnesota to sign him from Seattle. However, there the flip
Speaker 2: side to that argument is they wouldn't have been able
Speaker 2: to sign some of these other pieces that they tried
Speaker 2: site that they signed in order to try and fix,
Speaker 2: like the offensive line. Who one guy wound of missing
Speaker 2: half the year concussion.
Speaker 3: Told you money, well spent there.
Speaker 1: My inside source who's a Giants he's a Giant Colts
Speaker 1: fan told me like, that's a bad idea.
Speaker 2: Well, he was fifty percent right. I mean it's his
Speaker 2: best friend. It's not an inside source.
Speaker 3: And they still have issues at offensive line, right, So,
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, it's just I thought it was poor
Speaker 3: planning more you know, anything else.
Speaker 2: At this I was always like, Okay, it's basically McCarthy's
Speaker 2: rookie season. He's gonna have bumps in the road, there's
Speaker 2: gonna be growing pains. He's it's how does he learn
Speaker 2: from it? How does he grow from it? And it
Speaker 2: evolved into the point over the course of the season
Speaker 2: is that it's not a matter of if he's gonna
Speaker 2: get hurt again, it's when.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, injuries are one part of it. But there
Speaker 3: was time Zhonene he looked horrible. Oh yeah, I mean,
Speaker 3: I mean worse than Christian Ponder.
Speaker 1: Let the bow.
Speaker 3: I mean you couldn't. I mean you watched and went,
Speaker 3: oh my, oh my god, that's the guy, We're gonna
Speaker 3: put everything in he I mean, the throw was so
Speaker 3: far off, but.
Speaker 2: Then he'd make a throw and you're like, holy crap.
Speaker 3: Well I did ran. He ran, so we don't get
Speaker 3: haven't seen that in fifteen twenty years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Brett, you don't see Brad Johnson on there.
Speaker 2: But he was running for his life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he wasn't running purposefully. So well, no, at
Speaker 3: least I think they've acknowledged one that they didn't plan
Speaker 3: well enough, and two they aren't gonna let that happen again,
Speaker 3: where we might have a quality second quarterback other than
Speaker 3: the guy who we hope turns out.
Speaker 1: To be good.
Speaker 2: There there's a floated rumor.
Speaker 3: Berett Farv's coming back.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, great, I would love that.
Speaker 2: Eden Geffrey's favorite quarterback has there's it's just hearsay right now,
Speaker 2: there's not any weight. But there's been some trade ideas pitched,
Speaker 2: by the way for who is Joe Burrow?
Speaker 3: That's right, Yeah, he's been linked to us, you know,
Speaker 3: So would.
Speaker 2: You trade JJ McCarthy and a first drum pick for
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Probably why not.
Speaker 2: He's at least proven, he's been to a Super Bowl Dustin?
Speaker 2: Was it Dustin or Brewster, but he's been hurt the
Speaker 2: last couple of years.
Speaker 1: I think it was Dustin, and I agree too. He
Speaker 1: has been hurt a lot. And I mean, great, your
Speaker 1: this is great fantasy wise for if you're playing Madden,
Speaker 1: but the real word they're working. You look at the
Speaker 1: cap of this. He has a lot of money tied
Speaker 1: in it. And then you'll look at the other cap
Speaker 1: from JJ if you're sending him, Look at that signing
Speaker 1: the other side of it. How much money you're going
Speaker 1: to be giving him if.
Speaker 3: He leaves well, and when we you know, when you
Speaker 3: think about the salary cap, that just will limit us
Speaker 3: because we clearly need other people. I mean, we can't
Speaker 3: just rely on who we come coming back with.
Speaker 2: So the pitch was JJ McCarthy Jonathan Grenard, who may
Speaker 2: be a cap casualty anyways.
Speaker 3: Oh, because I was gonna say, we don't want to
Speaker 3: lose him.
Speaker 2: He's good and a first round pick for Joe Burrow Brow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but then we wouldn't have any money to do
Speaker 3: anything else, just like Cousins Contra screwed us.
Speaker 2: But so what they're saying is that Grenard may be
Speaker 2: a cap casualty as well as Hawkinson and Turner showed
Speaker 2: enough flashes this year that he may be able to
Speaker 2: slide in and replace Grenard, but Hackinson hasn't been the
Speaker 2: same since his knee injury. Thanks Detroit, Well that just happened.
Speaker 3: All your honey on the Bengals next year because that
Speaker 3: means whoever we has as a quarterback and give up,
Speaker 3: they're going to win the Super Bowl. So McCarthy is
Speaker 3: going to turn into a stud and win it with Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: That would be classic Minnesota.
Speaker 3: It'd be a miracle because Cincinnati is worse than we are,
Speaker 3: but they do have good receivers.
Speaker 1: This is what I sent the gift to the guys,
Speaker 1: all these Viking fans. Uh, it's a Lloyd Christmas on
Speaker 1: a scooter. Just laughing when as soon as Sam Donald
Speaker 1: made it, Oh yeah, I just giggled.
Speaker 3: Well, my oldest daughter texted me, I'm so sorry to
Speaker 3: add about how you know? Sam Donald? I'm like, what't
Speaker 3: you sorry? It's good for him, It's our fault.
Speaker 2: Well, he's just really good.
Speaker 1: Thing.
Speaker 2: He showed that he could overcome.
Speaker 1: Right. He's been through a lot too, a lot of
Speaker 1: different teams.
Speaker 3: I think everybody can pull from.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't feel bad for him, and it was a
Speaker 3: decision we made. I don't necessarily disagree it was the
Speaker 3: right decision based on the circumstance, but obviously, yeah, he's
Speaker 3: made it through, and good for him because there was
Speaker 3: you know, I don't think any of us doubted he
Speaker 3: could play. He got us to fourteen and three, right,
Speaker 3: I mean, that's pretty good, and he was definitely not
Speaker 3: a case Keenum where that was just like a one
Speaker 3: in a dark miracle.
Speaker 1: And by the way, he's still playing. He's a third
Speaker 1: three quarterback for the for the Texans, is he really yep?
Speaker 2: Was the backup quarterback for the Bears this year.
Speaker 1: Okay, I thought he was with the Texas, but he's
Speaker 1: still in the league.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, well why not.
Speaker 2: He was Caleb Williams backup this year.
Speaker 3: Jesus Chris Keenum still around, Christian Ponder is not playing, right,
Speaker 3: he's not a backup anywhere.
Speaker 1: His wife is around though. It's all got to know.
Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, But from a Super Bowl perspective,
Speaker 3: I could care less. I really don't. The Patriots have
Speaker 3: won enough, but I do like how they've re resurrected themselves.
Speaker 2: Yeah. It feels different though, because they actually did have
Speaker 2: a couple down years.
Speaker 3: Yes, and they have different people.
Speaker 2: And so yeah, it's not Bill Check and they're still
Speaker 2: and all these other people. But I I really wanted
Speaker 2: to see Josh Allen finally everybody.
Speaker 3: Oh they got hosed.
Speaker 1: Speak of that.
Speaker 2: What's the catch, Brian?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And the interference calls come on. I mean it was
Speaker 3: pretty brutal for them. I feel bad for Buffalo fans.
Speaker 3: They're like Minnesota, man, there's nobody that can feel our
Speaker 3: pain anymore so than the Bill fans and Bill's mafia
Speaker 3: because they've been through it.
Speaker 2: Sean McDermott was this era's version of Andy Reid in Philadelphia?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 2: How many?
Speaker 3: How many chances are you gonna get?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And was it the coach's fault?
Speaker 4: Though?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I felt bad for, uh, for the Ravens because Tomlin,
Speaker 1: like Tom allegedly stepped down, but I think he was
Speaker 1: gonna get ship canned anyways.
Speaker 3: But uh, the Steelers, Yeah, yeah, the Ravens.
Speaker 1: The Ravens, Yeah, well, they just kind of weird. But
Speaker 1: it's crazy.
Speaker 2: What's crazy is.
Speaker 1: Harbaugh?
Speaker 2: Tomlin and who else was the third one Dustin mentioned.
Speaker 1: All had.
Speaker 2: Great regular season records, but the seasons that they had
Speaker 2: bad years, their starting quarterback missed at least four games
Speaker 2: and they happened to miss the playoffs those years.
Speaker 3: But you got to win the big one eventually, right.
Speaker 2: Well, Tomlin won one back and for.
Speaker 3: His first year, I think, yeah, a long time ago.
Speaker 3: Same with Harbaugh. Hading won one in a while, which
Speaker 3: is what's frustrating.
Speaker 2: Twelve or thirteen, they had their opportunities, right well, and
Speaker 2: you're wasting l Lamar's prime.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and look at us. O'Connell hasn't won a playoff game.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I like O'Connell, But at the same time, Mike got.
Speaker 3: To win a game in the postseason. I mean, same
Speaker 3: with the wild I mean, you just can't keep going
Speaker 3: in perpetual motion, just getting there. That's Minnesota in a nutshell, right,
Speaker 3: just good enough to be okay, good enough okay, and
Speaker 3: get a mediocre draft pick.
Speaker 2: That's yeah, we're always kind of rebuilt. We're always drafting
Speaker 2: in the load of mid twenties because we're just good
Speaker 2: enough but not quite good enough to get over the hill.
Speaker 3: So personally, I don't know if I'll even care you
Speaker 3: know who wins, but go for Sam Darnold. I guess
Speaker 3: just to rub it into us even.
Speaker 1: More, I've I know if you want to talk about it,
Speaker 1: We're gonna do a Super Bowl party at your place.
Speaker 1: I do have Silver Bullet. Guys are gonna be over,
Speaker 1: so Sam and uh Travis Trafts will be over, so
Speaker 1: it'll be nice. Kenny's a hit, miss you may or
Speaker 1: may not. Kind of got beat out on that one,
Speaker 1: but I plan on making wings like I have been doing.
Speaker 1: Wanton's take a little bit of time. I found out
Speaker 1: I did buy a.
Speaker 2: Pork roast, so smoke some pulled pork.
Speaker 3: They still the two weeks off though, Right's yeah, this Sunday, it's.
Speaker 1: The next Sunday.
Speaker 2: This Sunday is the joke of a Pro Bowl football
Speaker 2: and now it's just a skills competition.
Speaker 1: And then I missed the old Do you remember the
Speaker 1: Quarterback Club? There was a video game, the Super Nintendo
Speaker 1: had a game called Quarterback Club, and it was the
Speaker 1: best to me football game out there. And I love
Speaker 1: that damn thing you would like game? Sorry, sorry, coach,
Speaker 1: I did I have it? Actually second first and second
Speaker 1: one up actually upstairs a loft on the PlayStation two.
Speaker 2: Why don't you wheel?
Speaker 1: Oh shit, okay, spin Okay, it's that one then Heed.
Speaker 4: Time, Now just spin the wheel. That time I went
Speaker 4: to the bed smoked meats. You messed up a ron
Speaker 4: dots on soccer, balls on women. It's top lights video games.
Speaker 1: So we're all video gamers. Might as ll us do this.
Speaker 1: What's some of the best video games you played? H Brian,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I mean you talked about you talked
Speaker 1: about pac Man and Pong and stuff. Already.
Speaker 3: What time frame, what ever? Through the beginnings to now.
Speaker 2: The eras have all their defining games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean for me personally, I just remember we
Speaker 3: really loved in television football. That was kind of the
Speaker 3: first football game. I remember the play with it. We
Speaker 3: did that. I always scored, like the end around, but
Speaker 3: of course, you know, it was kind of hokey graphics
Speaker 3: and things like that. Then first Nintendo game Man. That
Speaker 3: was when I was in college, so we played all
Speaker 3: and we kept, you know, track of the games and
Speaker 3: all of that. Hockey of course, was part of that.
Speaker 3: Zelda was a big game back then too.
Speaker 1: I mean that I still play that too. Yeah, the original, they've.
Speaker 3: Got new versions now too original updated, But yeah, Zelda
Speaker 3: was one of the original Obviously you got Super Mario Brothers,
Speaker 3: and then Sega Genesis came along, so Sonic the Hedgehog
Speaker 3: and all of that. That was the eighties and that's
Speaker 3: kind of what that kind of the heyday of video
Speaker 3: games from a beginnings perspective. And now, man, I you know,
Speaker 3: I've got what you know, I'm trying to think of
Speaker 3: what games I've been playing. I haven't played many recently,
Speaker 3: and most of them now don't even require a disc
Speaker 3: you can use.
Speaker 1: That's my five.
Speaker 2: I don't like that, no, no, because and so there's
Speaker 2: actually some debate going around now too about if you
Speaker 2: spend sixty dollars for the license, do you own the
Speaker 2: game or not, because now you've got they're taking the
Speaker 2: server down after so long, even though you paid for.
Speaker 3: Oh sure, yeah, when it's kind of out of date
Speaker 3: now and they're ending it's run per se. Yeah, good point.
Speaker 3: I mean otherwise, I I like it because then that
Speaker 3: stupid disc can't get scratched and the game is ruined
Speaker 3: and you know, halfway through or whatever. But I did
Speaker 3: the far Cry games. I like the Red Damp four,
Speaker 3: Red Dead, Redemption right too. And I Fallout fall I've.
Speaker 1: Not played all the Fallouts. I played like the beginning ones.
Speaker 2: I did a lot of Call of Duty.
Speaker 1: I did play a lot of car like in the
Speaker 1: heydays were like black Opps Black Ops two with the
Speaker 1: lobbies were electric.
Speaker 2: It got it got a little re gurgitated and recycled.
Speaker 3: And I like the things with missions and accomplished. And
Speaker 3: that's when it's open like that, and you're playing against
Speaker 3: other people that just didn't appeal the.
Speaker 2: Open like Fortnite, yeah, you know, and where Call of
Speaker 2: Duty moved like I love the storyline. Yeah, yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: like the World War two one that was awesome.
Speaker 3: Just like oh you had said it earlier, I forget
Speaker 3: the Assassin's Creed. Yeah, there's a storytelling, right, I mean
Speaker 3: it's not open and then it's both. It's both, right yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: just like Red Dead all right, you.
Speaker 1: Were soft guys who make Assassin Creed whatever, they're sitting
Speaker 1: closed the door that closes like for their studios and
Speaker 1: cut a lot of people.
Speaker 3: Bummer.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So they've already hashed or kind of put away some.
Speaker 3: Of the they've done a million of those things.
Speaker 2: So I'm a big history nerd me too, and I
Speaker 2: would I've always told a couple of my buddies that
Speaker 2: are big into Assassin's Creed, I would have loved to
Speaker 2: see a World War two era like Assassin's screen where
Speaker 2: they're trying to like battle the Nazis.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, in the Japanese and all that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I always thought that would be cool.
Speaker 3: I think it would be cool if they just did
Speaker 3: a whole revolutionary war game like Call of Duty, except
Speaker 3: with a revolutionary war everything weapons, strategy, geography, try to
Speaker 3: win America's independence.
Speaker 2: There's a board game called Risk.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that game takes forever and it never never,
Speaker 1: like never finished, just like Monopoly. Nobody ever finished the
Speaker 1: game Monopoly. Someone always flips that god damn bored over
Speaker 1: out of here.
Speaker 3: Funny.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's some of the video games. Like what
Speaker 1: I play right now. It's like a SIM Cities game,
Speaker 1: but it's called ship It's some city. That's not the name,
Speaker 1: but it's some that is a word for some city.
Speaker 1: Uh but no, it's it's it's like a it's like
Speaker 1: a SIMS game CIT game and it's it's so it's
Speaker 1: been out for like least five years, and you I.
Speaker 2: Can never go wrong either with maddenhl NBA.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, those that's and I've just met you know.
Speaker 3: Tiger Woods was such a fun Oh.
Speaker 2: I loved Target. Do you remember when it first came
Speaker 2: out on the PS one? And if you would play multiplayer,
Speaker 2: you could while your opponent was playing, you could push
Speaker 2: buttons and it'd be like like he was playing with
Speaker 2: his glove and stuff.
Speaker 1: Nice. We had Halo as ours and we had guys
Speaker 1: in the other room go to four against four. It
Speaker 1: was the greatest time.
Speaker 4: You hear.
Speaker 2: They used to do that when I was going to
Speaker 2: school at bs U up in Oak Hall. On the
Speaker 2: very top floor is basically just giant open areas and
Speaker 2: there was some kitchen nets in there and whatnot, and
Speaker 2: we would do some events and stuff in there. But
Speaker 2: there was guys that Yeah, they would have land parties
Speaker 2: in there.
Speaker 1: I don't think we ever did that at the You.
Speaker 1: I mean I did other things.
Speaker 2: I didn't do it, but I mean I did.
Speaker 1: I did other things at the you that were.
Speaker 2: You never went to class in your one semester there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but also I went ahead of pin Tech. I
Speaker 1: was there for a year. Yeah, but I was there.
Speaker 1: You know how hard is getting too the you you
Speaker 1: gotta be kind of smart, and you pissed it away. Yeah,
Speaker 1: at a three point six and calls because I actually cared,
Speaker 1: unlike my high school where I had a two point two. Anyways,
Speaker 1: damn kids, damn kids. All right, Uh, anything else for
Speaker 1: about the games you have? No, it's okay. Cool, So
Speaker 1: we'll just let me get to the fun stuff.
Speaker 2: Are we gonna take a quick little.
Speaker 1: We are gonna take a little break. While they were
Speaker 1: gonna play our ads, I was trying to get to
Speaker 1: the music. So kids keep trying to find the music
Speaker 1: for it.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: So when we come back, we're gonna do misconnections. We're
Speaker 1: gonna do whiskey Pedia, and we'll find some other things
Speaker 1: to talk about. Uh.
Speaker 3: And if you talk about our fantasy football.
Speaker 2: League would be a source up.
Speaker 1: Yeah for you or not? Sorry, you got your teeth
Speaker 1: kicked in.
Speaker 3: But I finished, like then, I finished kind of middle
Speaker 3: of the road.
Speaker 2: We were talking about it. At one point, I got.
Speaker 3: To five hundred.
Speaker 2: You at one point you had like top ten or
Speaker 2: top five in points scored, but you also had the
Speaker 2: most points.
Speaker 3: Scored against me. Yeah, that's usually how it works for me.
Speaker 3: But I thought I got back to five hundred because
Speaker 3: it was brutal at the beginning. I'm like, oh, I embarrassed.
Speaker 1: I've never seen it, and I think I became last.
Speaker 1: I was like, this sucks. I lost Hearst, I lost
Speaker 1: like three other really good players, Like this is not
Speaker 1: gonna go.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, yeah, I think I won. I was one
Speaker 3: of the longer ones in the Survivor League though.
Speaker 2: I lasted up until week fourteen or fifteen.
Speaker 3: Wow, this guy was week six or something. I'm like,
Speaker 3: I'm doing good in this all.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come back. We got all this fun stuff
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Speaker 2: Welcome back. It's time for Matt's favorite portion of the show.
Speaker 2: It's the Hooray the game portion.
Speaker 1: Hooray.
Speaker 2: We get to listen to Matt poorly read misconnection not wrong,
Speaker 2: stumble through, and show off his seventh grade reading ability.
Speaker 1: Six established last time. Sixth grade.
Speaker 2: Sixth grade in South Dakota is like graduating everywhere else.
Speaker 1: That's a good one. Sixth grade reading right now. Show titles,
Speaker 1: People don't know what I do, but the second half
Speaker 1: of a lot more show title than the first one.
Speaker 2: So we were gonna come back and we got some misconnections.
Speaker 2: We're gonna test Matt's memory on some recycled Wiskipedia.
Speaker 1: I'm very very nervous on this, so it's it's not
Speaker 1: Bruce always say Bruce, and I always say, like, if
Speaker 1: we get one, that's good.
Speaker 2: They're not that hard.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, do you like trivia, Brian.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't mind. It depends on what kind of
Speaker 3: trivia and good at sports and music?
Speaker 2: Well a lot of it's just general, allegedly wide encompassing.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, Remember this guy has two business degrees. He's
Speaker 1: kind of smart, so he when Bruce and I Bruce, Okay,
Speaker 1: Bruce knows this, and I don't like you saying it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say anyways, he didn't graduate from high school.
Speaker 1: I barely passed. I have a lot of friends. I'm
Speaker 1: a salesman too.
Speaker 3: But anyway, so this is more general knowledge pursuit.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, bar trivia.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's tough though, but we'll do when do misconnection first?
Speaker 1: You want to do Wiskipedia, Oh, don't break that.
Speaker 2: You can do yours. Okay, I'll figure out which one.
Speaker 4: I'm we'd rather just read something that other people wrote
Speaker 4: and poorly at that. It's time for misconnections with Matt Jeffrin.
Speaker 1: All Right, this first one is in Evanstone. Has anyone
Speaker 1: ever had a misconnection here? I feel this is a
Speaker 1: little crazy to post, but I figured it's worth a shot,
Speaker 1: if only to finally make peace with that what feels
Speaker 1: like a misconnection typically a shy person, which is why
Speaker 1: I did not approach him in the moment, and hopefully
Speaker 1: people would not be too unkind for me to be
Speaker 1: sharing my experience. Last spring or summer, headed out shopping
Speaker 1: with a family member near Saint Luke's Church in Evanstone.
Speaker 1: Standing nearby a man with black, dark hair and dark features,
Speaker 1: partly next to his parked car, possibly a hon this
Speaker 1: cr or something similar. We locked eyes and there was
Speaker 1: a There was something that about that moment stayed with me.
Speaker 1: Even as I walked away, I turned my head and
Speaker 1: saw him watch me, watch with a with with what
Speaker 1: felt like a calm and warm presence. I didn't truly intrust. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I didn't feel intrusive, distasteful, or uncomfortable. I felt simply different.
Speaker 1: I brushed it off at first, thinking it was overthinking
Speaker 1: a passing moment, but the family member with me commented
Speaker 1: on the peaceful look in his eyes and how gently
Speaker 1: he watched me as I walked away. I have no
Speaker 1: expectations and understand that life doesn't always bring people back together.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to share this. Has anyone Has anyone
Speaker 1: ever experienced a misconnection in Evanstone? Hmmm? Have you experience
Speaker 1: a misconnection? Name where Scott?
Speaker 2: Not that I felt need to put you onto the internet.
Speaker 1: And it's always the best, So Brian, if you don't,
Speaker 1: if you, if you forgot what misconnections? I basically read
Speaker 1: what people trying to throw their love out there home
Speaker 1: for the best. This used to right it is these
Speaker 1: are I don't worry. I'll get there later. I do
Speaker 1: a set from Minnesota that's on Craig Sweet and there's
Speaker 1: a couple that are pretty close. Uh. Next one misconnection London,
Speaker 1: I mail thirty two made a very cute blonde met
Speaker 1: a very cute blonde girl on my way back from
Speaker 1: the Club comedy club in Camden, London on Saturday night,
Speaker 1: and we hit it off immediately. I got her first
Speaker 1: name in neighborhood before she left, but foolishly didn't ask
Speaker 1: for a contact detail as nerves got the better of me.
Speaker 1: She's not my usual type, but I felt a little kicking.
Speaker 1: I felt, I felt I've been kicking myself just a
Speaker 1: little bit for not seizing a glaring opportunity. Do I
Speaker 1: just let her go use it for a learning curve
Speaker 1: or somehow trying to find her in the city of
Speaker 1: roughly nine million people.
Speaker 3: Oh, I definitely think you should try to find her.
Speaker 3: Oh you what, get on your get on your high
Speaker 3: horse and start walking around to London.
Speaker 1: To start Facebook stocking her. Uh.
Speaker 3: Also a good excuse to go to every pub until
Speaker 3: you find her.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not that's that's not wrong with that
Speaker 1: pup crawl. You don't call it pup crawl.
Speaker 3: There you go do the pub crawl and maybe you'll
Speaker 3: see her again.
Speaker 1: I love that perfect Okay, next one, This is in
Speaker 1: New York City Misconnection seven point thirty at Pulse jan
Speaker 1: Jan twenty seven. If the girl who said bless you
Speaker 1: after I sneezed halfway through the Pulse is here or
Speaker 1: someone knows who this is, please reach out. She was
Speaker 1: wearing a mask with a with bells on it and
Speaker 1: couldn't stop smiling the entire entire of the show. How
Speaker 1: do you know she's smiling you if she's wearing a
Speaker 1: mask that I don't and you're obviously the club. You
Speaker 1: can't see it. It blew my mind when I read that.
Speaker 1: I was like, I gotta save that one.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't think the odds are good that you'll
Speaker 3: find that person.
Speaker 1: Bruce would Bruce would always say just.
Speaker 3: Go back because she said bless you. Yeah, that never
Speaker 3: works for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, noted.
Speaker 2: Way too far.
Speaker 1: I would never do that.
Speaker 3: Allegedly, it seems like a pretty easy.
Speaker 2: Put line Dustin what was the over under on? Allegedly
Speaker 2: this week someone else said that too.
Speaker 1: They stamped me and said, like, I want to put
Speaker 1: an over under on your show for for Allegedly.
Speaker 2: It's like Matt well, Travis, there is no video.
Speaker 1: I think he's just playing off what Aiden said. But
Speaker 1: that's fine.
Speaker 3: It's for the better. They don't need to see us.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no no. Plus, that's a lot of
Speaker 1: work to do anyways. Um, woman from Bundle in Aken, Minnesota,
Speaker 1: this is close, this is really close.
Speaker 3: Maybe she saw one of us.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm looking for a woman name.
Speaker 3: Well, that's a no then, you know, I mean, who knows.
Speaker 2: I guess Matt's known to dress different.
Speaker 1: Time out, time out, time out, there's anything on your
Speaker 1: mic off time out, technical technical errors, over here, timeouts.
Speaker 2: Technical foul, technical foul.
Speaker 1: Oh no, were fourteen fourteen with the body there, we
Speaker 1: go to your number. Uh so woman from Bundle.
Speaker 3: Women from Bundle ache in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Yep, I'm looking for a woman named Kathleen who was
Speaker 1: talking to me on Bumble, who lives in Achin. I
Speaker 1: thought we had a great rapport last night. But when
Speaker 1: I messaged you, I saw your profile was deleted. If
Speaker 1: you see this, please email me. I love to keep
Speaker 1: chatting with you. You didn't win, you did? Yeah, you suck?
Speaker 2: She picked somebody else.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that happens, or it wasn't real to begin with.
Speaker 1: Around what happened?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't imagine. There's a plethora of women from
Speaker 2: ah huh.
Speaker 3: Now, isn't that more of a friend thing than a
Speaker 3: romantic thing? There's Bumble has both, Okay, so it's hard
Speaker 3: to say whether so when he's looking for romance or
Speaker 3: a friend.
Speaker 2: So it depends when you when you sign up. Yes, details,
Speaker 2: Well I was on it last year before I met
Speaker 2: my girlfriend, Okay, before I met my now girlfriend, who
Speaker 2: I didn't meet on No, you didn't you You're welcome.
Speaker 2: But when you sign up for Bumble, it says are
Speaker 2: you looking for? Friendship? Are you looking for and so
Speaker 2: it puts you in a different bucket depending on what
Speaker 2: what you're looking for?
Speaker 3: All right, and it's what bumble?
Speaker 2: Yeah, like.
Speaker 3: Is there a senior bumble?
Speaker 1: Senior? Write that one down to things for another one
Speaker 1: your Oh that's a senior but whatever, not.
Speaker 2: That you're there yet. But isn't that called the nursing home?
Speaker 1: Damn, that's cold, that's our guess.
Speaker 2: That's why I said he's not there yet.
Speaker 1: Quite there still.
Speaker 3: Anyway, it's a lot closer than you.
Speaker 2: Guys will be forty this year will go well.
Speaker 1: Bruce and Dustin are like I think Bruce is thirty
Speaker 1: forty three and this is Dustin like forty two forty three,
Speaker 1: No similar.
Speaker 3: Forty best years of your lives.
Speaker 1: Enjoy it, yeah, since we all love a l To
Speaker 1: the anxious this is in Hudson, by the way, but
Speaker 1: it shows me Richfield. But anyways, to the anxious now
Speaker 1: in the air is so reminists of twenty twenty and
Speaker 1: I think about that time. Oh sorry, I want to
Speaker 1: read this in different boys. I've realized what this was.
Speaker 1: The anxiety now is in the air, and it is
Speaker 1: so eminent. Are remnants of twenty twenty and I think
Speaker 1: about that time and you, you and me as and
Speaker 1: now I should just furious about it, and I start over, Wow, Matthews, furious,
Speaker 1: This is furious, and I should just be furious all
Speaker 1: about it, and I am. But also I miss you.
Speaker 1: I miss feeling like you were. You knew what to do,
Speaker 1: and you believed in and I believed in you believed
Speaker 1: in cupboards cheese, And I'm I'm Mari's done of the
Speaker 1: fucking maris are. But in all of all and all
Speaker 1: of it, yes, much was you and much was not.
Speaker 1: But I miss it. That was a lot of words
Speaker 1: meaning a lot of nothing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, she They didn't even indicate who they were
Speaker 3: looking for.
Speaker 2: They just missed it, just missed it.
Speaker 1: This was in Fargo, last one, by the way, looking
Speaker 1: for you in Fargo. This is a good About thirteen
Speaker 1: years ago, I posted on here looking for a third
Speaker 1: You said a reply, and I stopped over and had
Speaker 1: some fun. You were a short, blonde gal, and I
Speaker 1: will and it would be cool to see you again.
Speaker 1: I would love to will, I would love to please
Speaker 1: you again. Get back to me if you see.
Speaker 3: This thirteen years later.
Speaker 2: What that's a lot of life experience in that timeframe.
Speaker 3: Wow, he really must be desperate though, if you're thinking
Speaker 3: about something and that was not like a relationship at
Speaker 3: that point even yeah, just a hookup?
Speaker 1: Right? He hit it? He had a colt snag? Should
Speaker 1: I leave?
Speaker 2: How's that been for you?
Speaker 1: Let? Well? Do you do you want?
Speaker 2: Or should we just jump into it?
Speaker 1: We want to jump into it? All right, I'll find
Speaker 1: music for you.
Speaker 2: Then I'll go with five questions. Okay, so this is
Speaker 2: one that we've done before. All right, back on November
Speaker 2: twentieth of twenty four, So Brenda Wahar.
Speaker 1: Question number one, all right, give me yes or note
Speaker 1: for for the play button? Right?
Speaker 2: Okay? How long before you can pick a pineapple?
Speaker 1: Is there a timeframe to have like a yes? Okay,
Speaker 1: what's my time frame?
Speaker 3: In?
Speaker 1: Like ten years? Five years, a couple of months?
Speaker 2: You got it?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Damn it?
Speaker 2: If I say one of those two, that make it
Speaker 2: a lot easier.
Speaker 1: All right, that's what I want. I want to say.
Speaker 2: Two and a half two and a half?
Speaker 1: What years? That is?
Speaker 2: Correct?
Speaker 1: Got it?
Speaker 2: Alrighty? Question number two, we got one verse? What is
Speaker 2: the river that flows through the Grand Canyon?
Speaker 3: Come on, th real, No, Colorado.
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 2: That is correct? Damn now already? Question number three, which
Speaker 2: band same saying the famous theme song I'll be there
Speaker 2: for You for friends?
Speaker 1: Oh come on, I love friends too. For one reason,
Speaker 1: we should have a queue up.
Speaker 3: To Monica now, yeah, when the Rain.
Speaker 1: I know the song, I just don't know who it is,
Speaker 1: the Bushwhackers.
Speaker 2: That is incorrect.
Speaker 3: It is the brands Rembrands their only hit.
Speaker 2: Yes it was, they were one hit wonder all right,
Speaker 2: mister beer salesman, Oh damn it, okay. Miller Light is
Speaker 2: considered the first nationally available light beer. What year was
Speaker 2: it introduced?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Sweet?
Speaker 1: Uh, nineteen seventy three?
Speaker 2: That was close. It was nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 1: Can I still get it? I should get it right.
Speaker 3: Taste great? Let's feeling taste great? Like I grew up
Speaker 3: with those commercials. Oh, the Miller like commercials. Harry Car
Speaker 3: not Harry Carry, John Aden, And.
Speaker 1: That's what it is.
Speaker 2: Do you remember the bud Light frogs? Yeah, I do,
Speaker 2: early or the Budweiser frogs and the bud Light penguin.
Speaker 1: I don't remember the penguin.
Speaker 3: I don't remember the penguin.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Question number five Matthew let's speak Grant grand rabbits thing,
Speaker 2: how many vice presidents have assumed the presidency.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say six.
Speaker 2: It is nine.
Speaker 1: Ooh damn, a lot more than thought.
Speaker 2: And a bonus question for you, okay, And this one's
Speaker 2: so stupid it's funny. Which was invented first, the goalie
Speaker 2: helmet or the nutcup? The nutcup, that is correct. The
Speaker 2: nutcup was actually invented in eighteen seventy four, meaning it
Speaker 2: took almost seventy five years later before we decided it
Speaker 2: was important to protect our head. When the goalie helmet
Speaker 2: was invented in nineteen fifty nine.
Speaker 1: Why didn't you start waiting until like seventies, right.
Speaker 2: So it didn't become a league rule until the seventies
Speaker 2: that players had to wear helmets, and then.
Speaker 3: The grandfathered people in. Yep, So there was Willie Pllett
Speaker 3: never wore a helmet.
Speaker 2: Marty McSorley was the last one in the night late
Speaker 2: ninety eight. I remember watching the All Star Game and
Speaker 2: he was the last guy. Yep. And now it's even
Speaker 2: become visors that there's only a handful of guys in
Speaker 2: the league now that are grandfathered in for not having
Speaker 2: to wear a visor.
Speaker 3: Even I think they're insane. I mean, I took my
Speaker 3: mask off in the City Hockey League and got hit
Speaker 3: by a puck that was pil checked in front of
Speaker 3: me and had two black eyes. And I'm like, I
Speaker 3: don't know that anymore. Ye why not wear the face mask.
Speaker 3: I get the there's things that get near a line
Speaker 3: of sight, and maybe at that level of play that's
Speaker 3: a thing, But otherwise, I mean, I rather have my
Speaker 3: teeth in my nose, in my eyes.
Speaker 1: It makes sense.
Speaker 2: Well, it was just like so I used to do
Speaker 2: when they still had city rink Nielsen Reese was open.
Speaker 2: Was it Wednesday or Thursday nights? You could just do
Speaker 2: the drop in, yep, And so I would do that one.
Speaker 2: And even softball. It amazes me how many guys are
Speaker 2: just treating it like it's Game seven of the Final.
Speaker 2: I gotta go to work tomorrow. Yeah, this is just
Speaker 2: for fun and shits and games.
Speaker 1: Okay, hold up, hold up, hold up? How many times
Speaker 1: have you bitched at like, Let's say.
Speaker 2: Okay, I wasn't competitive to the point though, where I
Speaker 2: was like.
Speaker 3: Treating hurting people right here me, Well, your.
Speaker 2: Feelings deserved to be mo unhitched the trailer, Matt runs
Speaker 2: into second and looking at.
Speaker 3: The older you get, the more you calm down. Because
Speaker 3: I was a Spas in my twenties, I'd be the
Speaker 3: guy yelling at the softball umpire.
Speaker 2: That was me two years ago.
Speaker 1: He yelled, were you okay?
Speaker 2: I was playing first base?
Speaker 1: Was that pitching? Because TJ? It was?
Speaker 2: Yeah. TJ was deployed and it was playoffs and we
Speaker 2: were It was one of those down to the wire games.
Speaker 2: And there was a ball that was hit by the
Speaker 2: way I know you listened to and it landed on
Speaker 2: this side of the line follow and he called it fair,
Speaker 2: and I was like.
Speaker 1: It was loud.
Speaker 3: It was major opinion known.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was It was my retirement tour anyway, so
Speaker 2: I didn't care if I got thrown out.
Speaker 1: There. Good times, Like have you ever got home run
Speaker 1: in that field?
Speaker 2: No, I'll remember I cranked that one and it went
Speaker 2: like three feet folll.
Speaker 1: Yeah, huh. Get some home run bombers or some foul
Speaker 1: pole bombers warning power.
Speaker 3: I have never hit a home run in baseball or softball.
Speaker 3: I got one inside the park.
Speaker 1: So you're saying you're fast, huh, well.
Speaker 3: Fast, but no power. You look at me. I'm not
Speaker 3: exactly like the incredible Hulk here. I had no skill
Speaker 3: at getting the ball over the fence, but I could
Speaker 3: aim the ball.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: That's the beauty of baseball. You don't have to hit
Speaker 3: it over the fence to be good.
Speaker 2: I always loved it. So I was a left hand batter,
Speaker 2: and I always loved it. Especially in softball. They'd always
Speaker 2: shift over and I.
Speaker 3: Can bullsh it down the right kind of were like, well,
Speaker 3: and you know, the right fielder is usually the worst player, right.
Speaker 3: That seems to be the tradition. So I just hit
Speaker 3: it to the right fielder every time.
Speaker 1: Makes sense depending what league are in, but yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Or look for the week the weakest Lincoln for him.
Speaker 3: In toptball, you got plenty of time. I had never
Speaker 3: understood why people couldn't name it better baseball is. It's
Speaker 3: a little bit different.
Speaker 1: But there's been a few times where like, guys shift
Speaker 1: on me and I'm like Scott knows, like I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go this way, like because your hips, all you do
Speaker 1: is a just a little bit and this slap the
Speaker 1: other way.
Speaker 3: The people would go. Then they'd see me hitting it
Speaker 3: to right field and then they'd all shift over there
Speaker 3: and then I'd hit it down the left field line. Okay,
Speaker 3: just tell me where you're not gonna be.
Speaker 1: And you talk about like being old and being wise,
Speaker 1: like it's always the old guys, Like I tell them,
Speaker 1: we go straight up where it gets old people because
Speaker 1: they can go either or.
Speaker 2: You can put it where they want.
Speaker 3: Yeah, usually, and.
Speaker 2: It usually finds that gap between you know, like short
Speaker 2: outfield where they can just jog their way to first
Speaker 2: and yeah, just on base and then they get their
Speaker 2: runner over. Yeah.
Speaker 1: There's many times we just play like a guy short
Speaker 1: or a guy come in more to play that like
Speaker 1: Darren and Peyton area.
Speaker 3: But then if they move him into the right field
Speaker 3: rover and I'd drop into the left center field and
Speaker 3: then get a double instead of a single.
Speaker 1: Happens a lot.
Speaker 3: But really I wish I could have hit a home run.
Speaker 3: That would have been fun.
Speaker 1: It would have been a lot of fun. Get one.
Speaker 2: I hit two in one game when I was playing
Speaker 2: in Grand Rapids. I had in the game, I had
Speaker 2: a good I had a good tail wind though, so
Speaker 2: it worked.
Speaker 3: Whatever I had that it's because your power, yeow.
Speaker 2: I hit I hit a couple that bounced straight off
Speaker 2: the top of the wall here. But I never hit one.
Speaker 2: I follow I hit one over.
Speaker 3: But the older you get, the more you're worried about
Speaker 3: the ball hitting you. I would be backing up further
Speaker 3: and farther, you know, That's what I would be in
Speaker 3: the grass sometimes with so I was, I.
Speaker 2: Was Matt and I were the first basement on our
Speaker 2: team left to do. I was the only guy on
Speaker 2: our team that would play in field and wear a cup.
Speaker 2: It was like I am not playing in field and
Speaker 2: not wearing a cup.
Speaker 3: Well, you never know how the ball is going to bounce.
Speaker 2: Well, especially on these fields. There's some days it's do
Speaker 2: you own a rake? Yeah, you know, leave a rake
Speaker 2: in the dugout so we can rake and bet or something.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: I haven't played in a long time since they put
Speaker 3: that skate park in over there, but I'm guessing they
Speaker 3: got some damage.
Speaker 2: They lost field one. They shut that down for the year.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It actually they had those poles that were like this
Speaker 2: big round they got bent.
Speaker 1: That happens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but did you guys, would you guys play what?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 1: What league? We played? D Well? I started d one
Speaker 1: for a little bit and then went to D two
Speaker 1: for most of my time for stoptball. Then we played
Speaker 1: D three like last.
Speaker 2: Year, Wednesday. Wednesday night was the predominant night. In the
Speaker 2: last two years we played Monday night just because schedules
Speaker 2: with kids and stuff. It just got to be.
Speaker 1: Of course t J. Melcher wants to play. He was like,
Speaker 1: he's getting olders, like I couldn't play D three five. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, we played D three for a long
Speaker 3: time and we ended up winning the championship, and then
Speaker 3: the following year we wanted to again. Had they told
Speaker 3: us that if you win it two years in a row,
Speaker 3: you're mandated to go up in the next division, we
Speaker 3: would have on purposely lost because the only reason we're
Speaker 3: not playing to win a championship, we're playing because mondays
Speaker 3: work best for all of us.
Speaker 2: Yep. So it got to the point though, where so
Speaker 2: they had D one and D two both on Wednesday nights. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and they lost enough teams that they just but it
Speaker 2: was the same and so you had like two or
Speaker 2: three teams that were just amazing, and they were the
Speaker 2: guys that rolled up with matching wheelbags and and everything.
Speaker 3: Every other it is a home run.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and they can just crank the ball out.
Speaker 3: Twenty eight to six was the final score.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: That and they get mad if a guy hits a
Speaker 2: solo home run and.
Speaker 1: I'm just having get damn ball out of damn outfield.
Speaker 3: Just don't strike out.
Speaker 1: Oh that's the worst. I think. I struck out once
Speaker 1: by looking.
Speaker 2: If you strike out looking, that one thing. If you
Speaker 2: follow out.
Speaker 1: We had rules too, if you fall out, it's like
Speaker 1: a six pack.
Speaker 2: We struck out looking.
Speaker 1: It was a case. Yeah, it's automatic. I had one,
Speaker 1: and I can't believe I did that. And ironic story,
Speaker 1: kind of ironic story. The last time I struck out
Speaker 1: looking was in baseball for town ball, for the Blue Ox.
Speaker 1: That was you know who? My LP was yep, shock Yeah,
Speaker 1: But I was playing in like first, I think the
Speaker 1: first one I never like. I'd never like to see
Speaker 1: the first swing of the first one. I kind of
Speaker 1: want to see how it comes out of his hand.
Speaker 1: But then first the second one, I was a strike,
Speaker 1: and then the second one I filed it. Third one
Speaker 1: was a ball, and then the fourth one I checked,
Speaker 1: but Shultzi had on the I guess on the outside,
Speaker 1: and I was like, no, I won't tell the restory.
Speaker 1: I'll tell the restory off here, but I remember I
Speaker 1: was not pleased with the call. Let's say that. I
Speaker 1: said a few words, a few choice words, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it was I missed playing ball, and I'm starting to
Speaker 1: get that itch again to like playball game. But my
Speaker 1: shoulder says no, my elbow says no.
Speaker 2: And so I retired two years ago. Last year, you
Speaker 2: guys didn't have a team just because nobody would commit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because eight is a girl play. And then I
Speaker 1: had like ten people. I can't do. I need like
Speaker 1: twelve people, and it was kind of tough.
Speaker 3: I hung it up at forty. That was enough.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And so my son is twelve and he does travel ball.
Speaker 2: So two nights a week, I'm at the ball fields
Speaker 2: for night league and then two nights a week we're
Speaker 2: going to be at the field for travel ball practice.
Speaker 3: Absolutely the northern heat.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: Sweet, So that's fun. You got to do that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you have no time to.
Speaker 2: My daughter's getting into softball now too, So she's got
Speaker 2: two nights a week and run, run, run, let the
Speaker 2: fun begin. I know what my parents went through.
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Speaker 1: I like it. So, all right, what have we learned today? Quickly?
Speaker 2: Good question. I didn't learn anything.
Speaker 1: I learned that you hit two home runs in Grand Rapids.
Speaker 3: I did, yes, and you hit one and you struck
Speaker 3: out the last time you struck out. Looking with Brian
Speaker 3: Schultz of Beaver Radio Network fame, I wish I could
Speaker 3: have played in a sport that when Brian was reughing,
Speaker 3: because then he would have seen me. He thinks. I
Speaker 3: yell at the refs a lot on the broadcast. You
Speaker 3: should have seen me in real life.
Speaker 2: Man, it's deserving. I've better ref two for hockey, so
Speaker 2: I know what it's like.
Speaker 1: I don't like it. Brian, would you learn? You said
Speaker 1: you learned too much?
Speaker 3: He just said it, Yeah, I just said, Brian caught
Speaker 3: you out on strikes?
Speaker 1: All right. I was thinking, all right, Well, what a
Speaker 1: great show.
Speaker 2: Speaking of the Beavers, they got another homestand coming up soon.
Speaker 3: And not this week. Next they're in the Marquette for
Speaker 3: Northern Michigan, who's won one game all season, so hopefully
Speaker 3: they can. The Beavers can end their eight game losing
Speaker 3: streak in two weeks.
Speaker 2: I know they're down in man Cato.
Speaker 1: Correct.
Speaker 3: So next week they're home against Farris State, who is
Speaker 3: in second to the last place. So hopefully they can
Speaker 3: make some hay here in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: They need it, and the Teddy Bear Toss game is
Speaker 3: on the sixth. They got Friday night.
Speaker 2: They got some grown to makeup after getting swept by
Speaker 2: Bowling Green.
Speaker 3: Being swept by Michigan. Yeah, they got a lot of
Speaker 3: room to make up. But the good news is is
Speaker 3: they can do it still. There's still some time and
Speaker 3: they're facing the right opponents.
Speaker 1: We need it because back in the day we used
Speaker 1: to not be like this. Michigan Tech was always good,
Speaker 1: Ferris was always good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was never fun play and then Northern Michigan
Speaker 3: was good until Patoni left and then everyone went to hell.
Speaker 1: Yeah that happens, all right. Well, thank everybody listening. Think
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