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Paul Immig On the Dan Shaney YouTube, I still always point the wrong So I do have to. Correct that. Also, on the Dan Shaney YouTube, I'm decked out in my Packers game day swag. I got my long sleeve yellow Packers tee. And did anyone comment on my latest hat yet?
A super. Match up. Latest is a new hat that you've acquired. It's a new hat. Packers and Patriots Super Bowl matchup.
The hellans are both on.
So it's not the old classic one that you don't see at Goodwills because everyone's like, I am not giving that away. Where'd you get a brand new 1996 lid? Um At the Packers Pro shop two weeks ago. I bought this hat. Why were you there?
Oh, I was there to tour Lambeau with my son and wife. Nice. I don't think I need that.
Well, we went to Appleton for the weekend. Hmm in the weekend. And we had uh This is one of the several Fridays I took off this summer. You fucking lazy ass. And we had passes for the Hall of Fame.
And for a tour.
So we enjoyed that. Let me say this. The uh Hall of Fame. Not kid-friendly. Obviously.
I thought there'd be more like, well, I didn't expect it to be a. Fucking um It's a history. You think there was to be a history tour? Was there supposed to be a ball pit next to the far bus that you expect?
Well, there is, you know, the combine, there's the vertical you jump. Sure. And you hit the combine? Yeah, at the combine. I don't know regular people.
I didn't know you could do that like as a paid attendee. They have that here in the Hall of Fame. It's like, hey. And so my kid. Spent the entire 45 minutes we were there doing that.
Testing is vertical? One thing he did like though is there's a room that shows the ice bowl over and over. Mm-hmm. And then you can sit and then there's like fake Cold air coming out of these people's mouths. He got a trip out of that after a two-minute convincing that these people were not real.
There's little statues that sit there and blow. Smoke.
So it is Packers week. It is Lions week. We've got the Brewers, as we talk, five games, which feels shorter than that. Five games. We've got five games.
I'm like, I've been doing that. I've been doing this with my voice. Five games? I'm noticing, I don't like it.
Some people call it four because of the tiebreaker. I call it five. Oh no, that was one too many.
Sorry, I ruined the bit, didn't I? All right. No, no, I ruined. Time to Tim. How far to go.
You've got the Packers with their game, you got the Brewers. And yet, the first thing I'd like to bring up on this week's mm-hmm is Investigative journalism. Hell yeah. From Pablo Torre, who last night I saw, he had a tweet that said. Got something coming.
Been working on it for seven months.
So in these seven months that Pablo Torre has Because this is a guy who was on Lebatard's show for a while, right? And he'd do Around the Horn, and you know, he popped up on like, Morning Joel or whatever. Um and you're like, oh, okay, this guy is an interesting guy. And then all of a sudden, he's like, now I am going to be the premier journalist. Yeah.
And um One, he's putting in the work, and then two. Who is he taking that mantle from? Really? There's nobody. That's a great question.
Is there an answer to that? No, Pablo Torre, there's nobody, nobody's space is eliminated. That's why. The thing when you start your own thing or start your own business. Is find a niche, find something people want, find something, find a way to give it to them easier.
There's no investigative journalism like this with Pablo Tor right now.
So, this guy has the Belichick stuff. And there was a gambling story. And while this is happening, and the collusion, the NFL owners collusion thing. Yes, the NFL owners collusion. While this is happening, He's got this Kawhi Leonard, and we'll get into it, this Kawhi Leonard thing in his back pocket.
He's elevating up. More people want a part of him. He's with the athletic now, he's got these sponsorships. He goes on Bill Simmons, who calls him not a journalist. Which that may have just been a flipping comment from Simmons, but that will be a pre, like, that's a dominating.
Bill Sit, that's sticking with him. Unfortunately. The more Pablo Torre does, The worst Bill's gonna look. Yes. Poor one out for Russella at the ringer.
And wait, what? Yeah. And you've got um This story now, where basically There is a Company. That's not real. That Uh is like a Hey, what is it?
Plant your trees or some green carbon emission. It's one of these stupid.
Okay, one of these things, but like... Just the business model of it is like. Pay a bunch of celebrities to talk about you. A lot of the Where's the money to actually You know, make a better environment. You're giving Leo money, you're giving Cindy Crawford money, you're giving Kawhi Leonard $28 million.
Okay, and the company, from what I understand. In the six-minute clip I watched. Is Heavily invested in by Steve Ballmer. owner of the Clippers.
So, the big picture part of this story is. They're circumventing the salary cap. And I think A lot of us are going to focus on the Kawai and Clippers part of it. And there's going to be ramifications to that. Like All the little infractions the Bucks have gotten.
Oh, second round pick for, you know, Flurry with Bangdanovich. This should be something more than that. in terms of penalty. Yeah. Uh Just like with any gambling thing that comes out, or how we all were like.
Oh. Yeah, Shohei's innocent. Which I'm not saying he's not. But I'm also not convinced. I don't think this is an isolation thing.
I think there is more. Yeah. I think we would behoove ourselves. to go back and look at every single cap friendly deal that any team has taken with a player and look at that owner and his investments and try to connect other dots. Because if they were doing this in college forever.
You think they just get to the pros and stop? Have you seen blue chips? Yeah. So, I mean, this is where, and I'm rambling. I'm not rambling.
But that's something that I say as a host to Acknowledge my guest haven't spoken in a while. Um It is. Skip yeah. I'm sucking up the oxygen. Um There's no way that there's not more of this.
And we as sports fans, like. Is it their fault? Is it our fault? But we've put ourselves into a. We just we we come into sports as fans.
So innocent. Like, oh, everything's on the up and up with the officials. Oh, that was just a bad call. Oh, that player's hurt. He's really hurt.
Oh, there's no, you know, he's taking a team-friendly deal. Oh, Tom Brady wants to play for $17 million. Wow. And we're just we're always so innocent. And I think that These franchises and players and leagues They've taken advantage of us.
And I think we should. I think we should create a lawsuit for damages. Yeah, the micro the Kawhi thing is Utterly fascinating. You could spend. A lot of your national show on the micro.
on the Kauai part of it, especially when you look back and you see these articles From that time period, which were like Genie, I think I sent those to you, right? What Genie Bus refuses to do. The extra things. And remember, Kawhi, wasn't he being repped by his. Uncle, and that was kind of a isn't there reporting now that Toronto they had things.
They wanted from Toronto that he liked what they weren't willing to do. Like, this is coming out now. Yeah, the beat writer for the Raptors said posted something about. There was supposed to be $15 million in additional endorsements.
Well, if you're a beat writer for the Raptors. And you haven't had shit to talk about in years. Since cool. This is like a hey, remember me, just like when that making a murder documentary came out on Netflix. And everybody that covered the Stephen Avery trial nine years ago.
was like, hey, I'm a reporter. I was there in the background of that shot. Make that my personality. I was just jealous I wasn't there. Yeah.
Yeah, and then the macros, of course, how many other times? If there could be a documentary on the 2007 Rushford Minnesota floods, I'd be all over that shit. There was one. You were in it. Oh, yeah, fuck.
That's as big as it's ever going to get. Also available on my YouTube channel. The macro, not just when has it happened in the past, but how many times is it presently, currently happening? And how many teams have now Like Oh shit. We better not if anybody calls you Um Pablo Torre finds out.
Let me know what do you think? Like, there's got to be. Even more macro. That's a nickname they call me because I do like to take things as a bigger picture. And I'm from Wisconsin.
So they started calling me macro cheese. Where? When? Yeah, people, just people. Yeah.
Tim, that one bombed. Um, they call me Bart the Bomber. Oh, like mac and cheese. Mac and cheese. Mac and cheese.
Oh. I mean, I have had a rough day. The power went out. I had to take my kid to school. Hmm.
That's usually Mrs. Winkler's job. I think we will refer to her from now on. Hmm. Even though she didn't take my name.
Actually, she did, but I didn't make her. I just said, please don't hyphen it. Wow. Tim, you got a lot of work to do. I mean, honestly, this is one of those things you listen to and you're like, oh, that's interesting.
But what do you add to said In fact, Tim, welcome to the Winklerverse. Grant Bill, Paul Emmy, Pablo Torre, man, he found out.
So here's the thing with like the NFL and the NFL PA already like. Man, fuck this guy. Like, fuck this guy. You're saying poppy. And now the NBA.
The NBA's got a thing that they have to deal with. that they'd rather not deal with. They're busy coming up with concepts for the all-star game, and then this comes across their desk, and they're like, fuck, now we got to do this instead. Yeah, we're trying to implement at what point in the second quarter Will you allow the four-point play? We're trying to implement things like that.
And Is there going to be a height? like requirement on the guys that cannot wear stilts. On road games.
So we're trying to figure out all these kinds of things in the NBA. And meanwhile, you got this. If I'm Pablo Torre. I am hiring the most robust security. I just don't understand how you can continue to go after these leagues.
and then just be like a mosquito to them where they brush it away. I mean, whoa, at some point, it's like. I just, I don't. The more he goes, the more I'm like, Pablo, man, maybe you found out enough. Maybe you effed around and found out, or maybe he's pointing out.
Pablo Flori Pabitori finds out Enough. Pablo Tori finds out that he's never going higher than a third floor window ever again. Yeah, right. Pablatory finds out his credentials have been revoked. Oh, I'm going to use these tonight.
Public science. Is this just your layup line for your actual show? Is that what this is for you? Just work out some material. I will say, no, no, no, no.
I explained it in Marvel terms. Where Good. The Bart Winkler show is the MCU the movies. And into the Winklerverse are the Disney Plus shows. Yeah.
So you don't You don't have to watch either to in well no you don't Whatever. Who gives a shit? Grant, I've noticed that on the on the days that we do this and then he d what goes and does the national show. I've already taken part in 80% of what the national show then No, it's great. I mean, it's what it should be.
It's what it should be. Look, you're busy. You don't use any of this room. We got a show in an hour and a half. Recycle all this material you want, Bart.
It's fine. You're a busy, you're a dad. It's a good idea. You don't be like, oh, this great point that. Bartner Paul said, I'm going to go back to the Wikipedia sports show.
I do. I do drop some stuff. I'm actually leading tonight with how the consumer is getting. Hounded up the rear end because I don't subscribe to Red Zone or Sunday Ticket, but I must defend those who do because the prices are. I'm going to bring it up too.
I'm going to bring it up too. We need a congressional hearing on this shit. I paid $8 for a half gallon of milk. I couldn't tell you how much milk is, but I don't buy milk. That's why.
I paid $225 for this bottle of effing diet coke. It's a can. Goddamn. I know because I wanted you to be as angry as I was. You told me can.
Listen, I'm going to spit out what I'm going to say. It's a bottle of Diet Coke, Ram. What could it cost? $10? $10?
Go see a Star War Bart. 225 is still ridiculous. Any other comments on Pablo Torre? Any other Pablo Torre finds out puns up here? Can he find out how to get Stream East up and running?
The government shut that shit down too. Can that be his next project? Can he find out how to make my gas a nickel? Can he tell me where my dad went when I was six? Can he find that out?
He said he was going to buy a gallon of milk, interestingly enough. It cost a lot less back then. Didn't he find out why the two girls I hung out in college? Had intercourse with all my friends and not me. There's a viral tweet here to be.
I'm going to see. You know that one day these two women. Started humming the Olympics theme song. And said, We're going to do the BART Olympics. And see how many of your friends we can sleep with.
What was the and I was in love with them both. Who won? I didn't. Not guard. That's for sure.
Who came in last? Me. Tim! No, actually this is good this has gotta be good content. I don't care.
All right. That's all I have to say on Palmer. What was the other thing we also almost started talking about? And then we said, you know what? We should probably hit record.
Was it Pablo and then there was something else? I don't remember what it was. I'll have one more thing on Pablo. I can't decide whether this is going to shake the NBA to its core or whether no one will give a shit about this in 48 hours, because to me, both things seem equally likely. No, it's the second one.
No, I disagree. No, we're so dopamined out. That it's just like another thing. No. And we're going to be on to the next.
Oh, Adam Silver's going to swing the hammer, Paul. Is that what you think is going to happen? No, no, no. What I'm saying is, if this was, if this happened during the NBA season, if this happened in July during NBA free agency, if this happened during a time period which there was other NBA movies.
Well, you could have. It could have happened anytime. Pablo chose today to release it. Which, again, if he. Finished his reporting recently and then chose whatever the case might be.
The reason I think this has shelf life. Is because yes, NFL starts and that's going to take up a lot, but nothing is going to happen in the NBA. It's like the biggest news that's going to happen in the NBA in the next month. is this and PJ Washington's contract extension. Cominga Maybe.
The point is that nothing is made. Nothing in the NBA world is going to overtake this. Not even Shams. saying that it took the NASA signing for Giannis to end his summer-long deliberation of returning to the Buxernot. Uh, with a shout out to Frank Madden, who uh was like, This is all gonna end with an assist signing on the Friday of Labor Day.
And I don't care what day he got it. I mean, you don't get that Frank Madden.
Well, and did you guys see what Ty Wendish tweeted earlier today? He quote-tweeted the Pablo Torre story and was basically like, Why didn't they just sign his brother? The fucking idiots? Like, Kawhi's gotta have a brother or a cousin or somebody. Like, it'd be way easier.
Sir? No, but that's part of it. How is that not how is that that? That is something. That is manipulation of the salary cap.
With but within the rules. Did you guys see the MLBPA Twitter account? Quote tweeted Pablo's story with a popcorn in the eyes emoji? Did you guys see that? Are you serious?
The the MLBPA. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. League on League violence. We're not because they don't want a salary cap. Which, by the way, every time you say circumvent, I'm just reminded of that scene from Arrested Development where Job keeps trying to say it and then eventually gets circumvented.
Grant, you may have been taken for a ride on that one. Really? I don't see it. Did you get centiled? Did you follow MLBP8?
Oh god, my friend sent it to me. Hold on. No, I'm looking right at it. It has 220,000 followers. Tweeted, oh, they deleted it.
I'm looking right at it. They deleted it. I clicked it and it's not there. They deleted it? It was a thing.
I swear to God, I'm looking at the official one, but yeah, they deleted it. Were you screenshot me that? I'd like to refer to it. On the national show. Honey, do not make plans Saturday, September 13th, okay?
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I'm I'm trying to drink less alcohol.
So I've been I've been partaking in a different way. More. And uh These, these, you know what was funny? Is we were playing, I was playing Mana with my brother. And there must be a thing in the new Madden where if you're in a.
Loud environment. 'Cause it was Someone versus Seattle. He was Seattle, or I was whoever. And they're in a loud environment.
So I tried to, oh no, no, I was I was playing, not against him. This is important for the story because when you try to look at your routes, you don't see, they don't show you for the other.
So I tried to look at my routes. I was playing in Seattle. My Saints franchise, where I traded for Shadur Sanders and signed his brother Shiloh. And the, you know, there's like a post, and there's like an up, and there's like a swing. And they I was in a lot of environments, so they were all wobbling.
And I was like two Seltzers down. And I'm like. Uh Do you see that? You couldn't tell the difference between a post and a go or a slant and a well, because the noise is loud. it's affecting like you get to see it and then they mess with you is like The game's telling you, no, no, it's loud.
You don't get proper performance here.
So I thought I was hoping you're also moon faced off a couple of seltzers. Yeah. Well, so I thought I was seeing things. Hmm. Hmm.
It's not the that wouldn't be the end of the world if you were. Then I had not had one the other night. I was coming home, and my five-day weekend was going to start.
So I had not had one yet. And I was really going to open it as soon as I got home. But I drove home and I just saw two deer walking around. And I'm like. Am I did I get a contact seltzer?
Yeah. Two deer in the middle of the city just walking around.
So I followed them for like 20 minutes in my car. And They were just walking down the street. Like casually. Like on the sidewalk though. A deer street takeover in Milwaukee.
I haven't seen one of those yet. Yeah. God, you live a hell of a life, man. That's fascinating. Shut up.
What I what it is, it's interesting. Look at them just walking down the street. I think that thing's got some ailers on her. Yeah, so imagine I thought it was I thought I was in a Hallmark movie. It was fucking Christmas in July.
Look at that shit. They're just strolling down the street. Look at these beauties. Wow. I should have took my shotgun and blown off its face.
Co-mm. Got one. Got one. I go around to the neighborhood. Hey, I got some venison.
So I thought I was high when I saw that, is why I'm telling the story, but I wasn't. But Then I followed them a little bit. And they started to walk in somebody's yard.
So then they were no longer on the sidewalk. They started walking in a yard, and then these two deer were looking inside of a front window. And I thought What if they like charge into this home? Because I've been following them for 15 minutes. Did I lead them there?
Maybe.
So they ended up retreating, I think, back to the woods. There's a little woods. By UWM. Mm. There's a little woods there.
And it's just like one family? I don't know. I see a lot of deer at the office. But I can't say I've seen deer walking around. The mean streets in a while.
There's always deer and turkeys in the parking lot. And I won't say where the studio is, but I have been people can't look it up. There's always sand.
Well, okay, fine. It's in Hills Corners. There he goes. Is that better now? People don't know.
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We covered him last week extensively. Extensively. With we don't think, or I didn't think it was gonna happen. Um you must have been on the air. I was on the air.
I was five minutes into the show. And I check Twitter at like 402 when I start. And then I don't look at it for the opening segment.
So I was doing, I thought I had like a good eight minutes on something Jordan Love said in his presser. And he's like, I don't know, it'll probably take some. He made a comment: you guys have all been hurt in training camp. Are you going to be. You know, ready to go week one.
And he's like, well, it'll be a process.
So I was going to shit all over him for, you know, potentially not being ready to rock and roll against the Lions week one. And everyone on my live stream, which I wasn't looking at. It's like Parsons is a Packer. And I saw, like, my phone lit up, and it's like, according to Adam Schefter, but it was the fan account, which I have notifications turned on.
So I figured that Sparky was just. Cooking a segment. I didn't think it was real.
So I did like six minutes on a Jordan Love comment, and then we did the rest of the show on Micah Parsons. Yeah. Yeah, I was driving back from the Brewer game. They play in the afternoon. And we snuck out after the eighth.
That game sucked ass, didn't it? There was a bunch of runs early and then no runs like the rest of the time. And they lost. I was with my kid and he had two of his buddies and their dads.
So you know, we that ended up being an expensive day. Mm-hmm. And then uh We're in the car, and I'm driving one of the guys home. And I get a text that said, it happened.
Now, I thought many different things at that point. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yes, continue.
Like, did we make contact with aliens? Uh, w that wouldn't be textworthy. Not in 2025. Did you see some light show? I think I retweeted it, or maybe I didn't.
There's some light show that They can make it look like aliens are going through a timehole and we're fucked. Yeah, in so many different ways. Yeah. An alien, they missed their window. That's on my greatest hit CD.
$9.99. Dude, okay, I got another tangent for you.
Okay. But let me finish. Let me finish this one. Your Parsons reaction? Yes.
So then You know. I was like, oh my God, I have to do a podcast. And I just saw Diana Rossini say this. Because she's like, I'm out of Starbucks. And I needed quiet and we had to do our podcast for Scoob City.
So I was like, can you turn down the music and turn off the Frappuccino machines? And they looked at me and I was like, Micah Parsons got traded. And then, how do you do anything in this world? I gave him a 50 and I was able to record. And I'm like, Diana, people don't care enough.
That Scoob City needs to fucking go live. For the Micah Parsons trade. And meanwhile, Here I'm rethinking about what I did, where I'm speeding down Lake Drive to make sure I can get home, rush to my basement as we have other people coming over because we're going to the school because it's meet your teacher night, and I have to be late to that because I'm downstairs getting into the Winklerverse.
So You know, I shouldn't throw stones at Glass houses. Probably not. I'm trying to. But yeah, it was, it was, and I turned on the radio. I turned on Sparky who was off.
Sparky was off. And then I did not want to turn on. Anything else? I can't get you in Milwaukee. No, you cannot.
Cause you were my next choice. I just took calls for two hours. We just had a Micah Parsons show. The first guy who called me didn't know my name. He gave his take and he's like, It's Grant, right?
I'm like, Yeah, you called me. Of all the things that you didn't know, like you found a phone number. I'm gonna have Swords radio number. I don't know. Maybe you do.
If you're so compelled to call sports radio, we're not on the other side of that. What do you do?
So then I turned on Gelb. And Gelp's doing this whole segment about Where Micah Parsons should go. And we're five minutes into the news happening. And I'm like, are you guys gonna?
So I start to dial the column. And then finally, one of the guys jumped in and said, Hey, this is, and then we have to do this now. Let me give you a little Bart theater, ready? Bar Theater Bar Theater for uh For breaking news in sports radio. Yeah, well, I think the thing about this five-game win streak is that uh Uh what's that?
Oh, let me check. Hey right. And and is this verified? Is this the blue check mark? I'm looking.
It says Adam Schefter, it's spelled correctly. He's got the 1.5 million followers. Yeah, do we can you look up rap does rap sheet have it? Wow, I guess Micah Parsons has been traded. This is real, you're tell you're saying it's real And scene.
It's pretty good. Saw a lot of those videos. Reaction videos, live reaction videos are the ticket now. Oh yeah, especially when you're watching a uh Baseball game and acting like it's game seven of the World Series. That's the key to do it.
Internally, that's how I react to baseball games. Physically, I don't present that. No. No, not at all. The other thing I wanted to say, and we could talk more, Micah, the other thing I wanted to say is.
There was an era where radio DJs Could then take their best bits. and sell them. As a greatest hits. Yeah, I remember. We had those CDs growing up.
We had a couple in our house: the Tom Bernard Morning Show, KQRS, The Chucker. We got all that stuff.
So you know how some of these new like We're the reverse. You have these new players. That In all of sports, you have these new players. that are making so much money. on the backs of everyone that's come before them.
You know, you got all these guys from the 70s and 80s in the NFL with concussions and they can't walk. And now you got guys now making more in a game than some of these guys made in a year. and retiring early. Because they got the funds.
So you got the old heads. Mad at the new generation in radio, I think it can be vice versa. Because There's a million of us now. I mean, we're both. Radio host.
Right now doing a podcast. Correct. But then back in like the 70s, these guys were celebrities. They were bigger than the music they were playing. Mm-hmm.
And you could go to a mom and pop grocery store and have two, three other people there. The CU and you could sell merch, you could sell C D's like We missed that window. I completely I miss so many I miss all of my windows. I missed every single one. I missed the radio window.
I was just watching a Jimmy Buffett concert earlier today. I missed my window to be in the Coral Reaver band, which would be like, if I could do anything other than this, because this is naturally a dream job, I'd never leave this. I'd be like, You know. Being in Jimmy Buffett's band, they'd be fucking badass. Miss that.
Born too late. That's fine.
Well, you gotta make your own window, Grant. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Something like that. Ken, I would like to afford a window of my own in a home one day. Two bedrooms and a bath, half a million dollars. I'm working at it, though. I mean, my generation, we're just a bunch of wine.
complainers it's fine it's whatever um Yeah, hey, hey, even even though nobody can graduate college with You know. the top degrees of the land. You just gotta pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Look, I don't like to play the victim. I just, but then again, I'm glad I'm not 50 right now.
Instead of, like, I'm glad I'm not, I don't know.
Well, you're even older than some of the people that are really fucked. Yeah. But you're also fucked. I think we're all fucked. One way or another.
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in the live that I rush for. To compete with Scoob City. And you, I suppose, was. That there is no Like there is nothing wrong with this trade. You can't complain about the money.
You can't complain about the picks. You can't complain about the fit. You can't complain about any of it. The Packers made a move. That they thought would benefit them.
This is the odds on favor to be the offensive player of the year. He's the best defensive player in the league. If you want to say Miles Garrett or TJ Watt, you are a Browns or Steelers fan. Or maybe more, because people have bought into the TJ Watt propaganda that oozes off of. JJ, and I will still remind people: I am not yet completed.
I've kind of got a Pablo Torrey thing going on in myself. Where I'm doing a report on how TJ Watt is quietly the dirtiest player in football. I don't have the proof to share with you now. Just a lot of anecdotal evidence. But I am getting there.
And But they're so you can say, okay, best young defensive player in football. There are 29 guys. Whatever you think of the Pro Bowl, there's 29 guys that have been. Pro Bowlers, each of the first four seasons they've played. Micah is the first now to play with a new team in his fifth year.
These kind of players do not Change teams, and that's what Goody was up there saying, like. These opportunities don't come along. Yeah. So the Cowboys are framing this in a wild way where it's like, well, we're trying to stop the run, so we get Kenny Clark. And they didn't get Nothing back, but I'll tell you when I tried to make the trade in Madden.
I threw every first-round pick I had, Kenny Clark and second-round picks, and the Cowboys in Madden. would not do the deal. That's telling. Also, our three best players on Madden. Our three best players.
Are Micah Parsons? Josh Jacobs is And Xavier McKinney.
So Goodekinstein. These first round picks, I mean. He's building the roster. He's building the roster. It may not be sexy draft picks like you love.
And he's got a bunch of first-round picks on this defense, so these guys better step the fuck up. They got I mean look Goody's drafted a lot of nice players. He's got some misses, but all general managers have misses. He just doesn't have a home run. Probably since Jair.
And I think we overlooked that one because Jair just got hurt so much. Like, I don't know if we give Goody the credit for. trading down Eschewing, circumventing Derwin James to take a guy from Louisville, who most of us were like, who the F is this guy? And getting a future first in the process from the Saints. He just, he doesn't have a lot of home runs.
A lot of nice, solid doubles. Like Evan Williams is a double. Edrin Cooper could turn out to be a home run. Right. But I don't think they were going to sit around and hope for that and wait for that and have their be, you know, have that be their only plan this year.
It's kind of a big year. Like, this isn't a year. I mean, they drafted a wide receiver in the first round, for God's sake. Like, this is the offseason the Packers showed you. Like, we like all our young guys.
But we're not going to sit around with our thumb up our butt just waiting for them to pop. We don't we don't have the that luxury anymore like maybe we had last offseason. I have a fun hypothetical for you or a fun topic that maybe you could have. On your show, if you haven't Touched it already. Sure.
God forbid we use this as a testing ground for our actual jobs. Do you think The Packers make this move. For Micah Parsons. In spite of Jordan Love? Or because of Jordan Love.
Mm-hmm mm mm. The Packers made this move in spite of Jordan Love. See, I can do it. I will answer that. Indirectly, I apologize.
I heard Nick Wright talk about this last week, and he was like, man, this is kind of a big bet on Jordan Love. Right. Like that was his, man, that's kind of a big bet on Jordan Love. And I'm listening in my car and I'm thinking.
Well, if not now, then when? Like, you can't believe that.
Well, Jordan Love in year three is not ready, but in year five, he'll be ready for a Micah Parsons trade. You know what I mean? Like, If it's gonna happen. It's going to happen now.
So if you don't think Jordan Love is very good... And he's not worthy of a roster in an edition like this, that's fine. But don't act like, well, he needs another year or two. Like, no, no, no, he's been in the league how many years? And he started now two full years.
He dealt with an injury like. This is the window. This is the time right now. Yeah, and I think that a lot of people have looked at it and said, you know, Rogers didn't get a first-round wide receiver in the draft. Although that's.
Yeah, that's true, but they, I mean, if you look at the receivers, Jennings and Driver and Nelson, they didn't have nothing. They had, I mean, we had a Sports Illustrated cover that we always refer to. Mm-hmm. Um they didn't they didn't have nothing. Back then.
So the first round thing. Yeah, I kind of like. I kind of give the Packers the benefit of the doubt there because they did find guys. They just didn't take it in the first round. But when it builds up over time and you're constantly taking defense, You know, what are you?
But that's where they needed help. They needed help on defense because. The defense was always so bad. Um are not good enough. With this, it's like This potentially And I don't want to say Hall of Fame, but I want to say this is your third hit on a quarterback in a row.
Like this is your third hit on a guy. And so Learn the lessons from the last couple of times. Learn the lessons from when the Packers were at the podium in 2010. And Rogers said it himself, I think, the other day. I thought I was going back.
And I don't think there's a single Packer fan. In 96, Remembering that what I do. I was happy in the moment that that occurred. In 2010, I was happy that it was going to happen more. I was looking forward to the next one already, that a dynasty was being built.
in Green Bay and then they didn't even get back. To a Super Bowl. They didn't even get back there.
So I think that, yeah, you strike, you've learned. I think Goody talked about how he learned stuff in the Khalil Mack trade that you got to get in on this stuff early. What I've not like it's predictable. But I haven't liked it as now. It's like, oh, the Cowboys never wanted him.
He was a disturbance. He was no good against the run. I mean, we're coping here. Bears, Lions, and Vikings fans. They're even stretching it a different way, saying, Oh well.
You have the worst quarterback in the division, so nothing's really changed. The Bears, meanwhile, who are celebrating this. This win they got against the Packers in week 18, like it's like it's an actual thing that mattered, which is hilarious. But It's just been like unprecedented levels of cope. Unprecedented levels of cope from these fan bases when the Packers got the best defensive player in the league.
For two first-round picks and Kenny Clark. I mean, this is. Oh, well, he's got an L5, L4. Nobody knows what the fuck that means. Yeah, I don't care about the back injury details.
And you know what? I really don't care about is when Jerry Jones thought what and when David Mulligetta thought what. Like Michael Parsons agents on the first day. I didn't play any of that. I didn't play any of that yesterday.
I woke up and I'm like, oh, there's a Jeremy Fowler story with Don Van Not about how this all came together. And I read the whole thing in bed before getting up and I'm like, I don't give a f I don't give a shit about any of that. And then Mulligeta's on, like, no, back in February, I don't care about. Any of this. Like, the trade is done.
What you guys were squabbling about back in March is not like Cowboys fans should maybe be interested in it because it's a look inside how the Cowboys do business, but I don't care. No, I don't know. With all due. Do you have an issue? With Curly Lambeau wearing the number one.
I mean Micah Parsons. Yeah. I don't care what number Matthew Golden wears. I don't care what number Micah Parsons wears.
Well, I do. I'm a retired number guy. Apparently, Curly Lamba only wore number one, though, twice. Or two years, and he wore two other numbers, but they haven't given it out for 100 years because of him. Is it retired around the the bowl?
No, they didn't retire. I don't care. Then I don't care. And they haven't retired. It's five either.
They don't give out five for Horning. They haven't retired that. Like the Brewers haven't retired 17. But they haven't given out Jim Gantner's number. Because I think we're going to be a Hall of Famer.
They should never give out number eight ever again. But the Packers have Hudson, Canada, a star, Nitschke, Farvin, White, and then Rodgers will get retired too.
So that's it. No, if it's not retired, I don't care. But it has been retired, just unofficially. No, it hasn't. No, it hasn't been retired.
No one has worn it. That's the difference. And also, like, up until now.
So, then if you're going to do that, just retire it. But up until this is another thing though Like up until now, what positions were eligible to wear number one? We used to have rules. Like, there used to be guidelines on who could wear what.
So, what were we talking about? Kickers? Like, no kicker wanted number one? Like, that probably. Like if the uniform numbers would have changed 20, 30 years ago, probably would have been worn probably by multiple people.
Yeah, I don't like Malik Neighbors wearing number one because that was retired in New York, but it's not like Graham Ganneau is asking for it or Jay Feely. Yeah, and then their, who's their new pass rusher now? Not Kayvon Thibodeau, the guy they just Abdul Carter wants one. It's like, could you accomplish anything as a project? He wanted to unretire Sims and Lawrence Taylor.
Yeah. How do you just feel it? I'll take Lawrence Taylor's number. They always got to ask the families, and the families don't want to be the bad people, so they don't want to say no. The organization should step in and say, The fuck you are, like, no.
And then you're not asking. Ray Flaherty's family. You're asking Ray Flaherty's family. If someone was like, What did my great-grandpa ran a farm?
Okay, my great-grandma ran a farm, and if someone is like How much do you interact with your great-grandpa? And then he's dead. And my great grandpa runs a farm and if they're like, hey, Your farm was actually, we retired it for him. We're going to unretire because someone else wants this farm. I'd be like.
I don't give a shit. Do I get some money or something? Do I get free tickets to the farm? Oh, you're gonna put me up? You mean this great grandpa that There's a picture of him somewhere in a drawer.
Because at the end of the day, we all just become pictures. Mm-hmm. I wish I only became pictures, by the way. I wish that were true. Yeah.
There's hours of me on the internet. Oh yeah, shit. Weeks, literal weeks of me on the internet. Yeah. I always wonder I do wonder that sometimes if like I Have an untimely If my son, like binges my history and grows up that way.
Jesus. No, I don't care that he's wearing number one. And Matthew Golden's changed numbers three times, and I've forgotten all of the changes. Luther Burden changed his number yesterday after changing it already. Like, These people are buying jerseys.
These f kids. Just pick a number. Um But if you're not going to issue it, though, retire it if you're not going to issue it. If you're not going to issue it, you should retire it. That is my angle there.
Then the other thing I wanted to ask you was Have you done your Predictions yet. Yeah. We'll predict these for what? Oh, the NFL wildcard division.
So divisions MVPs, those types of things. Yeah, you know, the bullshit, kill two segments.
Well, first of all, we don't kill segments on this network. We... I don't know. I'll think of something. We don't we don't kill segments.
We enrich our listeners' minds and hearts with our Thoughtful. You don't get to the finish line? Yeah. Hmm. No, I charge through the finish line and wish there was more runway, in fact.
Uh wha why? Is there a specific division or something you want to talk about? Just like a Super Bowl, I took the Packers to win. Over the Bills, and I've seen a lot of people take the Packers to make the Super Bowl. But lose to either Buffalo.
Kansas City. Or Baltimore. I don't know who I'd pick to win the Super Bowl right now. I tell you, it wouldn't be Baltimore. They're off my list.
They're off my board. They should be off everybody's board. But they added this I don't care. I took the Bengals to win the north.
Now that would be spicy. That would be fun. It feels like Josh Allen and the Bills are the new Aaron Rodgers Packers, just minus the Super Bowl at the beginning. Like they kind of missed out on that and. Like they had their 2014 and like the Packers 2010 or 2009.
The Packers, they're back on the practice field today and back in the locker room. I saw some interviewing clips. You can catch that on the show tonight, but. Um Man, Rams Rams might m be my pick in the NFC. Honestly, if Matthew Stafford can stand up.
Oh yeah. I'm a big Rams guy. Yeah, oh yeah. I took the Cardinals to win that division. What?
Okay. That's a thing that now that's killing a segment. I'd pick the Buccaneers to win the Super Bowl before picking the Cardinals to win a division. And I like Kyler. Kyler's one of my favorite players.
I will stand Kyler Murray.
Well, Carlos still has the Chiefs missing the playoffs. Which I think he said flippantly once and now he's just kind of got to be stuck in it. Yeah, been there. But I like the Lions missing the playoffs, and I like them to start 0-3. Hmm.
Ben Johnson's coming in week two with a bunch of poison pills.
So I thought that the Packers would be at an advantage given the Lions have two new coordinators, but then I forgot. Bart. Unscouted looks. We don't know what to expect from these new coordinators.
So now I've tied myself into a pretzel. I actually don't know. I keep going back and forth on the Lions game on Sunday. Mm. Well, do you want to have a prediction?
Not particularly. I think the Packers. Me neither. We're not in that business. I'm not in the production business.
I'm in the re Thank you. I'm not as smart as you people. I don't know who's going to win. That's always what I fall back on. I don't know.
You guys saw it coming. I didn't. I'm not as smart as you. I'm just here. I'm just here to gather us together.
To share your thoughts. I'm just the intermediary. I have it real smarter better than anybody. May I read something to you that I've written in my notes tonight from my opening segment? Yeah.
I'll read you three lines. I read in lines. I said, you know. I this is word for word what I've written down. You know, I listen to other Wisconsin shows.
And there's too much condescension towards the fan. Way too dismissive towards both fan concern or excitement. Not enough caller interaction. As a host here, I am but a simple steward. I turn the lights on and open the place up, you know?
Question mark. I'm going to stand up for the consumer to begin my show tonight because it's horseshit how much we're paying for this stuff. And the brews didn't play last night.
So I. I don't have a game to react to. That's also good. Are you gonna like read that verbatim? Are you gonna read it where you can tell you're reading it?
No, you won't be able to tell that I'm well now somebody watches this. No, you won't be able to tell. That's the that's the that's the job. Yeah, if you cram this in and then get the start of Grand Show, if you're an absolute completist. They say they say ex extemporaneous speaking.
You would have learned about that at your communication studies at the University of Wisconsin-LaCroft, maybe. You know the radio teacher that I had? didn't teach us anything about radio except how to cut real to real tape. Tea?
Now Dr. TV is TV, this is Dr. David Peel. Oh. And he was trapped in the 70s, dude.
Yeah. He was trapped. No automation in that class. All right. Well, Paul is uh He's been taken to another planet.
Like Poochie, and we wish him well. We'll catch up with him next week. And Grant, I didn't get the Say it to him, but I gotta say it to you. And that is just a simple thank you. For stopping.
Unless you have anything else to say. I don't. Go ahead. Into the Winklerverse. Honey, do not make plans Saturday, September 13th, okay?
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