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00:00Bill Michael's our good friend in Wisconsin.
00:02In fact, he owns the state of Wisconsin.
00:04He's the best at his gig on the radio, everywhere.
00:08Everyone knows it.
00:09I got a couple of questions for you.
00:11First, we were just talking about the weather.
00:14Like, you know, you and I were from the same elk.
00:17I mean, you got freezing cold weather here.
00:20We got tons of snow.
00:21You get freezing cold weather, tons of snow.
00:24It doesn't matter if you don't have it right now.
00:26You know it's coming.
00:27But like the Packers play in Lambeau in sub-zero weather.
00:31When those games are there and you can't even,
00:33you know, you spit and it freezes on the way to the ground
00:36or you get the schnobber knuckle,
00:38that's an advantage for the Packers.
00:41People that live in Wisconsin are tougher.
00:44People that live in Minnesota are tougher.
00:46People that live in Buffalo and Pittsburgh are tougher.
00:50People that live in New York are, you know,
00:53narcissists and pigs, but they are tougher.
00:56I'll give you that.
00:58They're asshats, but they're tougher.
01:00Like, I'm not, like, I live in New York City.
01:02I'm not afraid of cold weather.
01:03Like, I'm used to it.
01:04Like, I've been in this forever.
01:06Like, how much of a pity do you have to be
01:08to cry about cold weather?
01:10You and I go to the store in shorts.
01:12I'm wearing shorts right now.
01:14Yeah, yeah.
01:15I was, it was 35 below the other day.
01:17I went to the gym and then I went to the grocery store
01:19afterwards wearing shorts.
01:20And, you know, a lot of people up here are kind of like that,
01:23but, you know, people look at you like
01:24you're a little bit crazy, but you got to embrace it, man.
01:26I go back to what you said about the Packers.
01:28Packers, I took video of it before the game
01:29when the Packers played the Dolphins here.
01:32Packers are coming out.
01:33Some guys with, you know, just shorts, no shirts on.
01:35And the Dolphins, they're all bundled up.
01:37Like, they're going to the Antarctic
01:39and they're going to live in an igloo for a couple of months.
01:41And it was a drast, it was like they got off the plane
01:44and went, okay, we got to get the hell out of here.
01:46We've got two and a half hours and we can start to fly back.
01:48So you could clearly tell they were already,
01:50already whooped before they even got the game going.
01:52Now you're, the last time you were on,
01:54your problem was the,
01:57finding an Airbnb in New Orleans
02:01that you could party in adequately for the Super Bowl.
02:05You were having issues and the prices were just outrageous.
02:10And the amount of availability was horrible.
02:13What has the story turned into as we're two weeks out?
02:18We, we got one, we're in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
02:21So we're right across the border, about 40 minutes away.
02:25And we got a house on the beach and we got it for a quarter
02:27of what everybody else was, you know, getting down there.
02:30And I don't mind driving, you know, 45 minutes,
02:31me in the car, I get to listen to stuff.
02:33So who cares?
02:34So we got that, but we're,
02:36we're still scrambling a little bit.
02:37There's been a big shift in the way the NFL does things
02:40in the media center.
02:41So we're kind of scrambling for some space right now,
02:43but we're ready to go.
02:45We're looking forward to it, man.
02:46It's always good to see you guys down there.
02:47So I can't wait.
02:48We leave a week from tomorrow.
02:50Yeah, well, I mean, so what's the problem
02:52at the, at the media center?
02:55What they, like where you're going to be located?
02:57Somebody read, somebody read two years ago
03:00that radio is dead and talk radio, sports talk radio is not,
03:05but they have allowed in all these podcasters.
03:07There was a guy that they allowed in that gave,
03:09they gave space to who has 2,100 followers for his podcast
03:13and knocked out a bunch of longtime 20 year vets,
03:16radio network people, because you've got people,
03:18you know this, it's not the same.
03:20We used to see all the people that worked
03:21in the NFL that were there.
03:23And now they're just kind of source it out to, you know,
03:25local people that really don't know.
03:28They don't, they don't know the heritage stations.
03:30They don't know the heritage because we are
03:31on seven different pod platforms and we do a TV show.
03:35And they're telling us, you know,
03:36we don't have enough of following.
03:37I'm like, I got almost 2 million that follow us
03:39on all the different platforms.
03:40And you've got a guy that's got 3,700 and he gets space.
03:43It's like, come on, man.
03:44So do you, like when you're there at some level,
03:49cause I've been to 30 in a row,
03:50don't you feel like you're surrounded by dorks?
03:54Yes.
03:54How many times have you been standing there
03:56and you'll hear somebody ask a question
03:58and you just want to mutter loud enough
04:00for them to hear it.
04:01You're an effing idiot.
04:02That's all I want to say.
04:03I just, you know, so I just kind of stare at him like,
04:06did you really just ask that?
04:07That's the dumbest ass thing I've ever seen anybody ask.
04:10It's true.
04:11So let's talk about the box.
04:14What is it?
04:14Five in a row.
04:15Five in a row.
04:16They look good.
04:17Giannis, Dame Time, everybody else.
04:20They've changed so much as a franchise since they won it.
04:25A lot of people think they're getting back
04:27to being potentially dangerous again.
04:31I think they are.
04:32I don't know.
04:33The one thing, the question here is whether or not
04:36they should make a trade.
04:37And right now the guys in the locker room are like, no,
04:39we're finally starting to really come together.
04:41The beginning of the season,
04:42Brooke Lopez was cold.
04:43Gary Trent Jr. was cold.
04:44Alan, Andre Jackson was cold.
04:46Tarion Prince was cold.
04:47The only guys that were scoring was Damian Lillard
04:50and Giannis, and you didn't have Chris Middleton back then.
04:52Since Middleton's come back,
04:54now he can't play full minutes
04:55and they've got him coming off of the bench,
04:56which is really not a bad thing
04:58because you've got a bonafide shooter coming off the bench.
05:00But guys started to heat up to what the back of their,
05:02you know, basketball card
05:03or what their normal stats should say.
05:05So they've heated back up.
05:06Giannis, knock on wood, he's healthy right now.
05:09And he's kind of saying, guys,
05:11we need to keep this rolling.
05:12We need to get better.
05:13Because you start to look at the five,
05:14the starting five that they have in Boston.
05:16And really, I still think that's the best team in the East.
05:19The starting five that they have in Boston,
05:20now that Christoph Sporzenegis is back,
05:22that's what you got to go up against.
05:23So they're just starting to gel,
05:25like you said, five in a row, but here's the test.
05:27They now have, I think it's seven out of their next eight
05:30or eight of the next nine on the road.
05:32So you got to win at least five out of these seven
05:36to be able to say, okay, we've really, really come together.
05:39If you do that, then I think a lot of people
05:40are going to jump back on the Bucs bandwagon.
05:42So Wisconsin has a big game on Sunday
05:47at the Cole up in Madtown against Nebraska.
05:51We talked to Jerry Palm today.
05:52Nebraska's fallen out of the tournament at this point
05:54that lost to USC, stung them.
05:57My Hoosiers suck.
05:58How are the Badgers holding up?
06:01They're doing well.
06:02The big thing, they picked up Tonje in the off season.
06:05He's a shooter.
06:05They've been looking for a bonafide shooter
06:07from the outside for some time now.
06:08They've had a lot of guys that could shoot,
06:10but nobody that was a pure shooter.
06:12So now they've got bigs on the inside.
06:14They got the ability to rebound.
06:15They've got all five of their starters
06:17are averaging 10 points or better,
06:18which you don't get that very often.
06:20So look, they finally got some shooters.
06:22They got some scores and they got some guys
06:24that can defend and play the board.
06:25So they've got a pretty good team.
06:28And we were excited about Wisconsin.
06:29We're excited about Marquette.
06:30Marquette's two in the top 10 as well,
06:32even though they lost to Xavier the other day.
06:34So got some good basketball here right now.
06:36I couldn't believe they lost to Xavier at the five serve.
06:39Are the Brewers doing nothing in the off season?
06:43You know what?
06:44It's like a lot of teams short of the Dodgers.
06:45I think they're just gonna wait
06:46till about the week of when camp opens
06:50and that's when they start making moves.
06:51All they want to do is drive down the price.
06:53That's all they're trying to do
06:54because they just keep saying,
06:55hey, we're small market.
06:56We can only afford so much.
06:57But they still look like they'd be a pretty good team
07:00in the Central.
07:01As a matter of fact, they're probably gonna be one and two
07:02with either the Cubs or the Reds
07:04I think took a step forward as well.
07:06But it's a heavy Paul up here right now
07:09after the loss of Bob Uecker too.
07:11Oh, that sucked.
07:12Bob Uecker passing.
07:13We'll see you in New Orleans, Phil.