C (2:02)

Thursday. Thursday afternoon. Yeah.

A (2:04)

Did you get to go home Thursday?

C (2:06)

No, Friday. They have a deal. I think a lot of these orthopedics places have a deal where you send you over a hotel nearby at night, and then they have nurses and people checking on you so the wife doesn't have to put up with riding.

A (2:25)

Al, the game of flaws could be really, really rough right now.

C (2:29)

Oh, God. Yes, it has been. And you know, an incredible number of favors are being asked of the undefeated game of flaws champions.

A (2:41)

Were there. Were there any. No, there's no side effects or anything. I mean, you just have a bad, painful knee.

C (2:49)

Yeah. And you have to. You got to. You got. You know, it's all mechanic. You got to bend the damn thing. And she showed me what I had to do this morning. I'm trying to get down there and start doing it now. So the one thing you probably feel is, you know, you're always nervous about. Until you get going, as if, you know, fall could not. Would not be good. No.

A (3:12)

Anyway, well, there's hinges in there and the whole thing, you know.

C (3:16)

Oh, God, yes. Yeah, it's. It's. But it's. You know, I'm. I'm a great species for antiologist, you know, I can't pronounce any words anymore. I'm still drugged, but I had to be gone in, like, two seconds. You know, all of a sudden, we're gonna. We're gonna stick the needle in you now, and the next thing I know, I got a new knee two hours later.

B (3:46)

For those of you in the audience, the word you were looking for is anesthesiologist. Yes.

A (3:51)

Right.

B (3:52)

It'. You asked Mike Zimmer about the ophthalmologist.

A (3:59)

Well, Pat, I bet that. I bet the doc told you it was not a wasted effort. I'm sure it needed to be done.

C (4:07)

He said It's. Yeah, well, yeah, it was. You know, as I said, after I went to that Bethel football game, two days later, I was walking around like Rose Kennedy for 3:40 days, you know, 2ft high, you know.

A (4:23)

Well, based on just talking to you, I will never have it done.

C (4:27)

Oh, I. You know, not unless it's absolutely necessary.

A (4:30)

Well, it was in your case, apparently.

C (4:33)

Well, I hope. I hope so. It's, you know, I think it's. Unless you're an optimist by nature. Right, right, right. Not. Not me. You know, if you're an optimist by nature, you see all the great things about him. It's amazing. The number of people come up to me and contacted me and said, oh, it's great. Best thing ever happened. I have a guy over at. Some guy who works at the U was standing. Standing on one leg for me to show how great. Show how great it was. He had it. And I don't need to see this. I don't need to have somebody standing on one leg. Right. Show it to me. But anyway, so let's get on to important matters. How excited are you about Quinn Hughes?

A (5:24)

Pretty good. And I'll tell you why. He's a Norris Trophy winner, and they just don't hand those babies out. That's. That's a big deal.

C (5:33)

I believe he was 24 when he won. 25, maybe. He's only. He's only 27.

A (5:39)

And last night I saw him do some things that only the elite players can do. He can do stuff. He can do stuff, and he can make a pass and that. And he knows. He also knows when the puck's gonna come back to him from having initiated that pass. He got a goal. I don't think there's any flaws in the guy's game. I thought Garen went out. I think Garen made the right move. He gave up three people, but it's the right move. I think they have a power play problem and he might solve that.

C (6:11)

Yeah. And you know, he's on the Olympic team and Garren's running the Olympic team and I think he was one of the. I think they basically told six guys and soft sp on the team, and I thought he was one of them, but. And what? One brother that's. Are there two brothers playing in the NHL or what?

A (6:30)

Yeah, you know what? All those. All those. Hughes is. They're from Florida.

C (6:35)

Yeah, right. That's. That tells you what you know. You know, everybody loved a bad mouth Gary Bettman about certain things. And like that. No league has expanded its footprint like these guys. It's incredible. And they, you know, Tampa youth, youth sports down in Tampa, they've got thousands of hockey players. It's unbelievable.

A (6:59)

Say, speaking of the Olympics, I was told today by a guy following such things that the Olympic hockey arena is not near completion in Italy.

C (7:10)

Story about a couple weeks ago. And when they do complete it, it will be much shorter and wider and.

A (7:18)

They didn't get the dimensions right. It's going to be smaller than an Olympic rink.

C (7:24)

They might end up playing in the old cortito link at rinky at where Marouche played. Where Marouche and Mesich played. Yeah. Yes. Willard Eichler, those guys all were on that team. And you know, Maya Sitch was in two Olympics and he won a silver and a gold. That's pretty good.

B (7:43)

I got news for those people. The Olympics start in a month and a half, six weeks.

A (7:49)

They got a lot of problems apparently finishing that.

C (7:54)

You know what? They need some damn good immigrants to get up there instead of some lazy Italians. Get some immigrants up there. Let's go.

B (8:04)

Let's get ice on it.

C (8:05)

Pat down the tree and have that place down in 20 minutes.

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B (9:21)

You need a roof.

A (9:22)

Aren't you glad that you're not covering the Olympics this year?

C (9:28)

Yeah, I think. I don't think I have. I haven't covered one since. I don't know. I loved them when I covered them.

A (9:36)

Oh, they're fun.

C (9:37)

And then you're over in this country, Joe. Now you covered Lake Placid. Obviously everybody was focused on that and covered them. But what you do discover when you're not there is, you know, you think nobody in the world is paying attention to anything else. And then, you know, all of a sudden it's like the men's downhill is, you know, everybody in Minnesota isn't, you know, unless you had a contender or something, they aren't exactly focused on it.

A (10:04)

How about that Lindsey Vaughn? That monster just won an alpine race.

C (10:09)

Unbelievable. Lindsay Vaughn, of course. Can I ask you about it? Can I ask you a question about Tiger Lindsay?

A (10:18)

I think I tried that, didn't I?

B (10:20)

Yeah, you sure did, Joe.

A (10:21)

It didn't really work out.

C (10:23)

We had a pause and she said, come on.

A (10:27)

Okay, okay, what's. Well, she knows on the top of.

C (10:32)

People'S minds, you know, and every time I hear about Lindsay doing something great, I have to go find that video of her doing pull ups, you know, and you can't really tell the whole deal, but she was body painted when she was doing those.

A (10:48)

Oh, I see. I see.

C (10:49)

Yeah. Remember?

A (10:50)

I do. Are you happy with the performance of number nine last night?

C (10:57)

Yeah. He was okay.

A (10:58)

He was. He was okay.

C (10:59)

Dallas. Dallas. He made a few. Once in a while he gets his gets all screwed up and he makes these, you know, he's a rare guy who's more accurate throwing long and short, you know, he's. He misses a lot of short receivers, but then he dropped some in the bucket for him on a long time. And yeah, they, they've been eliminated now, so I don't know, do we really want them winning games here every time? That one. They're probably going to win a couple more, though.

B (11:29)

Yeah. Because they played the Giants Sunday. They should win that. And they come home to play Christmas Day against the Lions.

A (11:37)

I don't think they'll win.

B (11:38)

And then they play the packers without Micah Parsons.

C (11:41)

I don't care.

A (11:42)

They won't win that one either.

C (11:45)

You know, it is. But. But with the new quarterback and to restore everyone's confidence in him, you're better off with performances like this.

B (11:54)

Yes.

C (11:55)

Some draft choice.

B (11:56)

I agree.

C (11:57)

You want him to. You want to go into next year with some. You know, it raises some confidence. The guy who needs confidence is him. Yes, he was playing.

B (12:09)

So how about the fact, Patrick, that they practiced the ball fake play in which he scored a touchdown last night in practice. He did the gritty in practice. Kevin o' Connell said, don't do that in the game. And he did it anyway. He said, yeah, I know coach is going to be mad at me for that one.

A (12:29)

No, I think. I think he's got to show that to the players. I think that was important for him to act like that.

C (12:36)

Yep. But then we got a gritty yesterday from Jefferson. But then they took. It was about halfway done and he found out there's a penalty.

D (12:43)

Yep.

B (12:44)

Yep. Didn't count.

C (12:46)

Yeah.

A (12:47)

Are you able to sleep all right with this wound?

C (12:52)

For the most part. Part. But one. Once a day I went. I came home from the rehab meet, laid down and slept like a rock for two hours. Yeah, but it's. There's an ice machine that you got that doesn't actually have ice in it, Joe. It's called the nice machine, but it's cold. And they. You know, everybody who's been through this keeps saying the ice machine is your friend. That's really. Well, anyway.

B (13:20)

And the ice machine at your home, Patrick, is different than the one instituted by the government.

C (13:28)

Yes, it has. Yes. We don't. We're not looking for any 14 year old to beat that crap out of. Hey, Hop. With the Trumper figuring out why Rob Reiners.

A (13:41)

I said it, Pat. This is a new. This is a new one to me. The guy actually is taking credit for Reiner's death. That's what it amounts to. He's taking credit for the death of Rob Reiner and his Wife, which is a tragedy. It was horrible. And he figured out a way to take credit for it. It's unbelievable.

B (14:05)

It's unbelievable.

C (14:07)

I saw that today. You know what? You know what happened one of the rare times the trumper my mouth was a gate. What?

A (14:17)

Yeah, I did too. I couldn't believe it.

C (14:20)

Okay. If it's a, you know, if it's a maga guy who storms in the house but his sod forgotten. Yeah.

A (14:27)

And I. I don't think Rob Reiner necessarily has reached the point of being a. Has been either. He's got quite the track record.

C (14:36)

I will say. You go ahead. I'm done. What was the name of the. What's the name of his Goofy. The Goofy Band. He did the movie Spinal Tip. Yeah. Did you see the. I was watching the remake of about three days ago. It stinks, by the way. But you know, I thought maybe it was, you know, I mean it was not any good, but it was. They brought all those old guys back. There were some decent lines in it, but it wasn't very good. But by coincidence, Rob made loses like nobody but Trump wanted him to.

B (15:14)

I guess the original though is fantastic.

C (15:17)

It is wonderful.

A (15:18)

Hello, Cleveland. And I can't get out of this thing. I'm in.

C (15:24)

You know he made some great goofy. You know, like a few good men did.

A (15:28)

Misery, for God's sakes.

C (15:30)

Yeah, he did Mysterious.

A (15:32)

Very easy.

C (15:33)

Ever was there ever a great greater bad guy than Kathy Bates. Wonderfully. And. And I heard her quote saying he changed my life. I said, well, yeah, he probably did. Everybody saw you walking down the street got.

B (15:57)

As she's smashing his ankle saying don't you know I'm doing this for you.

A (16:01)

Oh my God.

C (16:06)

Did she win an Academy Award?

A (16:07)

I believe she did, yeah. Back to this Hughes kid. Do you think he gave up too much? I personally don't. Although it's. It's debatable.

C (16:17)

I don't. I mean no, Judy, there's not only one you carry about care about the defense.

A (16:24)

Well, this boom got a goal and assist for Vancouver in his first shot.

C (16:30)

You know. First. Yeah. I mean that Ogren or he can get replaced and Rossi is, you know, okay. And a draft choice. You know, if you're going to be good, you're going to. They're going to be good. They're going to have the 22nd draft choice. Who cares?

A (16:45)

You know, you always say because you like to belittle the game. You always say, well, it's hockey. Anything can happen. I think when you get to a Stanley Cup Deep into the run and then ultimately become one of the finalists. I don't think it's anything that can happen. I think the level of expertise when you get to that point is beyond the normal league play.

C (17:10)

It's just great players if they make it through there. And one piece can obviously make a hell of a difference.

A (17:16)

It really can.

C (17:17)

He has got, I mean, he's got perhaps the best, you know, guy up front and one of the best guys in the back. And he's got Boldy, who I think is fantastic.

A (17:31)

Me too. Boldy Faber the Commie Eck.

C (17:35)

And Wally. Wally the Wall, for God's sakes. Wallstead.

A (17:39)

You know, Hughes, you got two goalies that are in the Wall. They can, you know, be silly to say, oh, here comes the cup. But boy, they sure as hell should make a nice run, don't you think?

C (17:52)

Yeah. And you got the. You and Bill Garrett are of one mind here, Joe, because that's the reason he did it. We need a touch more greatness to be a real contender. I'd like to see him win more games. Five to two than two to one. No. But I guess, is Boston good?

B (18:13)

Are they a good club?

C (18:15)

Yeah.

B (18:15)

So this was a signature win last night.

A (18:18)

Well, it was. No, no, it was more impressive than beating, you know, Seattle.

B (18:24)

They beat Dallas too, the other night.

A (18:25)

Yeah, Boston. I didn't even know where Boston is in the standings. Let me look.

C (18:30)

Yeah, they're not as good as they were. They. They had ever since they had the year where they had like 20 more points than everybody and then didn't win it. They. They've kind of gone backwards.

A (18:41)

They're a 38 point club. The Wild are now elevated to 43 points.

C (18:48)

Oh, okay. Well, it's funny how far down they were because they played good for six weeks now. They're still, what, third or something in the division?

A (18:58)

Well, there's only two teams in hockey that have more points. There's three teams in hockey that have more points in the Wild.

C (19:07)

How many games have we played so far?

A (19:10)

They're 19 and 14. What's that?

C (19:13)

Okay, they played more because I'll never forget the year when our coach Mikey O's first year, when after 30 games they were number one in the league and we all saying, how is this happening? And then reality came in and they won seven regulation games in the last 52. But this isn't that. That. I'm not suggesting there's any chance of that right now with this outfit.

A (19:39)

Right now only Colorado at 53. Dallas with 47 Vegas. Vegas does not have more points than them. Tampa Bay does not have more points than them and Carolina with 44. Those three teams have more points in the wild. At 43 points, they'd be first place in any other division.

B (19:59)

I was going to say because Dallas, Colorado and the Wilds are all in the same division.

A (20:03)

Tampa Bay's in first place in the Atlantic with 39 points. Wow.

C (20:08)

Wasn't Colorado like 21 and 2 or something?

A (20:12)

Colorado is 23, 2 and 7.

C (20:17)

You know what have you and I got comfortable with the tie.

A (20:22)

No, I'm not. That's why I said the wild were 19 and 14.

C (20:26)

Yes.

A (20:28)

No, I'm not comfortable.

C (20:30)

My boy. What a great marketing thing that is because you can end up you can win 32 out of 82 games and they'll tell you we were over.500.

A (20:42)

Wallstead has the second best goals against average in the league.

D (20:46)

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A (22:03)

Following quick of the Rangers at 1.86. How long?

C (22:08)

What? How many started? 12 or 13 14. Okay. Yeah.

A (22:14)

Oh, I'm sure that's balls against never mind games played 1212.

C (22:19)

Okay. That's a 1.4 average. That ain't too bad.

B (22:25)

I I did find a piece of audio for you gentlemen. Are you ready?

C (22:28)

Yeah.

B (22:29)

Let's go back to June 2nd of 2016, shall we?

C (22:36)

Things about me and, you know, you just have to stay true to yourself and believe in what you're doing and not let. Not that leg get you down.

A (22:44)

It's tomorrow, 4:30 to 6pm Free, at the Orpheum Theater. Tomorrow. May I ask you a Tiger woods question?

C (22:52)

Oh, boy. No, no, no. Not.

A (22:54)

Not a personal one, just one. If you had to guess, is he playing again this year?

C (23:00)

If I had to guess, I would hope so. I'm sure he's doing everything he can to come back. He's such a hard worker, and I really hope to see him back. I can't say whether he will be, but if anyone can do it, it's him.

A (23:15)

All right. Thank you. What is your injury situation?

C (23:19)

I'm doing great. Thank you so much for asking. I just. I had some fractures in my left knee and I took some time off and they're all healed up, so I'm training full steam ahead, getting ready for next winter.

A (23:31)

What was the.

B (23:34)

Joe doesn't give two S's.

A (23:37)

I don't give him bleed about your knee. How Tiger doing?

C (23:40)

Tiger good at golf. He asked that question very politely, though.

B (23:45)

Yes, he did. Yes.

C (23:47)

It was high class. By the way, her coming back and winning a downhill race at 41 with all the things, all the hot shots there is pretty phenomenal.

A (23:58)

You know what. What we used to say. What? 60s. The new 50. What the hell is 40? The new 25.

C (24:04)

40 with a 40 with about three knee surgeries.

A (24:07)

You got 40, 41 year old, played for Indianapolis yesterday. Phillip Rivers.

B (24:12)

I mean, the second grandfather to ever play in the NFL.

A (24:17)

He's got 11 kids. 10 kids.

B (24:19)

Yes, he does.

A (24:20)

He lost, unfortunately. Yeah.

C (24:22)

He was ahead most of the day. It was great if we would have pulled it out. Well, when they signed him, I thought he was there to, you know, mentor people, but how hard up could they be for a quarterback today?

B (24:33)

Get out of there.

C (24:35)

He's out in the backyard having a picnic with his 25 grandkids.

B (24:39)

I didn't know this. There was an ESPN deal yesterday morning on him. His kid, who he was the high school coach of, is apparently the. One of the number one high school quarterbacks in the country. I don't remember what his kid's first name is.

A (24:54)

Who's the other grandfather? George Bland.

B (24:56)

Nope. Come on. He played here. Brett Favre.

A (25:00)

Red Favre.

B (25:00)

Yep.

C (25:01)

Oh, that's right. Yeah. That one might have been.

B (25:06)

Yeah, it was last year. Here.

A (25:08)

Yeah, well, he had a kid.

C (25:10)

Didn't he have one before he and Deanna and Deanna got together?

E (25:16)

I'm not sure.

B (25:17)

I guess I'm not sure.

C (25:18)

I'm not making an accusation. I just think that it's not much.

A (25:22)

Of a game for grandfathers. That's a tough game for a grandfather.

C (25:29)

Yeah, it's a little bit. They were dragging them off the field yesterday like crazy.

B (25:34)

Especially if you have a new knee.

C (25:35)

I think so, yeah. Well, if you want to play football, don't let them put a new knee in there. No, that's not. You know, don't do that.

B (25:45)

I gotta give you credit, Joe, because I'm looking at the totality of this interview with Lindsay Vaughn. You did make it six whole minutes before you decided to ask a golf question.

A (25:56)

Well, I tried to be polite.

C (26:01)

You know, I think the legend of that question is greater than what actually was said.

A (26:08)

It was very calm, politely.

C (26:13)

He didn't say how you tiger get along. You got a 17 year old's climbing through the window.

A (26:20)

I didn't go that way, did I? I didn't go that way.

C (26:23)

You could have gone that way. You haven't chased him down the driveway and let him run into him.

A (26:27)

He didn't hit him with a wedge.

B (26:28)

Did you take out a windshield or anything like that?

A (26:32)

Oh, I'm not that bad.

C (26:34)

Oh, you were very kind.

A (26:36)

Thank you.

C (26:36)

I appreciate that. The h. Sports talk, right.

A (26:43)

You know, it's lucky it was me instead of somebody else. That's what they would have been.

B (26:47)

See?

C (26:47)

Oh yeah. A lot of classless speeds. That's right.

A (26:50)

That's right. Pittsburgh in Miami today not worth anything unless it's snow when it does.

C (27:00)

Has Miami hasn't fired that goofy.

B (27:03)

No. Do you guys realize that if Miami wins tonight, they still have a shot to make the postseason?

A (27:12)

They won four.

B (27:13)

They're six and seven. They're going to save this guy's job.

C (27:19)

The AFL doesn't have the top level with the NFL because the bikes are already out right now.

A (27:24)

Are they officially eliminated?

B (27:26)

Yes. Dallas has a. I think it's a 1%. Yeah. Less than 1. Yeah. Something around that.

C (27:32)

They still have a shot, but otherwise we know who's in the play. Everybody's already in the playoffs.

B (27:38)

Yeah, because Kansas City was eliminated yesterday. Went. Boy, that Mahomes injury is really bad. By the way, I think the AFC there's one spot left because Buffalo beat New England and Buffalo still has a chance to win that division.

A (27:53)

Detroit in God today.

C (27:54)

Josh Allen.

A (27:56)

What A game.

C (27:58)

It was so good the second half. Yeah, right.

A (28:01)

He's down 21 nothing.

B (28:03)

He might win the MVP again this year.

A (28:05)

Weren't they down 21?

B (28:06)

Yes, they were down 21 rep. God, he's good.

C (28:09)

He's unbelievable.

B (28:10)

Wyo mania.

C (28:12)

Yeah.

A (28:13)

Did you see him playing college?

C (28:15)

Yeah, Wyoming.

A (28:17)

Really?

C (28:18)

Yeah.

A (28:19)

Did you have any inkling right then that you were looking at greatness? No.

C (28:22)

I saw he's a big strong kid. But if, you know, your first thought is why the hell is he at Wyoming if he's any good?

B (28:28)

You know, that's what he told Everybody. To give 20 bucks to the bus driver.

A (28:33)

Well, he had issues earlier in his life that have been fixed. No, I'm talking about Josh.

B (28:38)

Right.

C (28:39)

He was at Wyoming because they were.

A (28:40)

Going to have to take him.

B (28:42)

Right? The only ones who would take him as a quarterback.

A (28:45)

Yeah.

C (28:47)

I would say that I was more frightened going down that hill out Wyoming than I was going into knee surgeries. My poor guy. Tracy, he's having memory issues and talk to him much anymore? So how old is he? That's true.

A (29:15)

Well, we're gonna let you go. We promise you a short time here because you gotta rest up.

C (29:20)

Yes, yes. Okay.

B (29:21)

Improve your 40 time.

C (29:24)

Yeah.

A (29:25)

I'll go for a walk in your honor.

C (29:27)

Okay. Sorry. All right.

B (29:29)

Let's talk about Jim Paul's Valley group of GM dealers. Joe, in Patrick's absence, you know what? I made a stop. You know what I test drove the other day?

E (29:38)

I don't.

B (29:39)

A Chevy Trax. You familiar with this?

A (29:42)

I am.

B (29:43)

The smaller version. I really liked it. It's sporty.

A (29:46)

I'm a small car person myself and.

B (29:49)

See, I might be in the market for one of these because it's got. The fuel efficiency is off the charts, but I think I might pull the trigger on the steel. So I'm going to stop by and you know what? I've made a purchase with the Valley car dealers before and they're a fantastic operation. Jim Paul's been at this for a number of years and he's a great person and it's a great family run operation right there on Cedar Avenue in Apple Valley. You can check them out online today@valleycardealers.com and see their entire selection, their entire inventory. Valleycardealers.com Jim Paul, Brett Paul, the Valley Group of GM dealers. Tell them that Royce sent you today.