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You need Indeed. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome into the Winkler-verse, an unadvertised impromptu podcast. I don't know that we'll go super long today, but I do want to talk to some bucks and the wife and kid are gone, so I thought I'd go down to the basement and talk to some of my bucks friends and maybe do it in a way that's a little less aggressive than I normally do.

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So I got to get a reason to get down here a little bit more. Bucks win over the Sixers and the Bucks win over the Timberwolves on Friday night. I think as we get out of the break here, they look pretty good. I know against the Timberwolves, they had a big lead and then maybe it went away after a while. Against the Sixers, they had a big lead and they did a good job to keep that one at bay.

With no Joel Embiid, the Sixers team is not the same team, obviously. There was some panic that you had a big win on Friday and then would follow it up with a stinker on Sunday, but that obviously was not the case. Bootsy, congratulations to Bootsy. He watched the game of children's after the birth of his son Bootsy. Is that number two?

If you had another one in there, I completely missed it. I'm sorry. But congratulations to you and Mrs. Bootsy. Omar, hola hermano.

That means brother. Omar shouts us out here this afternoon. Ken says, go Bucks, go. I'm still seeing a lot of people complaining.

They're 2-0 out of the gate. What more do people want? That is my struggle. That is my struggle.

The Bucks and the people. And I got to just tune it out. It does mean no favors to complain about people. It does mean no favors to continue to be very upset about things that have been said and written during the year. It does mean no favors to continue to harp on that. I think it doesn't do anyone favors. We all like the Bucks.

This is the problem. We all like the Bucks. Why do some of us have to pretend like we're smarter than the others? Now, I will say that in the playoffs, because I'm an elite warriors fan, I know how the playoffs work better than most people. So that's why I was so confident during the finals run that they were going to be just fine. So I'm elite in that aspect.

But it doesn't matter if you know the defensive OGRP. I'm just tired of seeing tweets like all that shit. I'm tired of people reacting every game, every play. And now what? This is the team.

This is the team. OK? Jake says our defense has been night and day. What was Griff thinking? Fine.

He was bad. OK, fine. They went fine. This is closer to the team and we still don't have Middleton yet. But in the two performances that we've seen since the All-Star break, the Bucks beat the Timberwolves 112 to 107 in that game. Again, big lead, big third quarter. Wolves came charging back, but then Dame took over. So Dame really in his last six quarters because kind of took over there in that second half against Minnesota. Dame has been great. Dame has been great. I'm looking at his Minnesota stat line. It wasn't like off tremendous, but it was it was better in the second half.

We know that he was eight of twenty three, two for eight. What was he today in the win over the Sixers one nineteen to ninety eight, eight of fifteen, four of eight from three with twenty four points. But he's been more focused. He's been more aggressive.

He's been more maybe like himself, maybe more like the dame that you would anticipated. And I just don't know that there was any scenario, unfortunately, where like these are the first two games out of the All-Star break. These weren't going to be the first two games in the regular season. It just wasn't going to look that way. That wasn't going to be the case. That wasn't going to be how it looked.

For whatever reason, personal stuff, getting used to a new team, getting used to a new city, now getting used to another new coach. It was just not going to be that way. And I think that's fine.

I don't think that that is a big deal. But what this team needs to continually work towards is the playoffs. The playoffs are going to be a completely different animal.

I can't stress this enough. The playoffs are going to be a completely different beast. I don't understand why they need to win January or win October or even win March. They just got to they got to be in a spot by the playoffs where they look good.

And even like, I think what people want is they want it to ramp up, right? They want it to ramp up where by the time we get to the playoffs, you're looking really good. And that can happen the two days before the playoffs.

Like if they sucked and then you had these two games before the playoffs, would you have been fine? I think so. Do we need like three weeks?

Do we need a month? What do we need of consistently good play until we're all comfortable? Tony says the Bucks are starting to look like a championship team. Jake says hopefully we see more of this game.

He's the straw that stirs the drink. KJ says best Portis and Conaton game in a long time. Conaton with a couple of blocks. He always does a flyby. I think it was Buddy healed that didn't realize that that's what he does.

So got to go back and look at the tape there. Buddy healed. Yeah, Portis was good. 17 points. Pat was good. Seven points, five rebounds, a couple of blocks and assist real glue guy type performance. Beasley was good. Six of seven for three with 20 points. And so you look at that starting lineup. Brooke didn't need to do as much, but Damon, 24 Beasley at 20 Lopez at 11, Giannis at 30 with 12 boards, nine assists. He's got some real nice passes last two nights. And then I think he kind of forced one late and Jay Crowder, the other guy starting, you may totally have forgotten. He played, um, but he was over for no points, but that's going to be Middleton. So you take him out, you put Middleton in, they scored 119 tonight. What are, I mean, we're going to get back to the one 30, one 35 type scores.

And if they can play defense just a little bit better than they had been this team as constructed is still going to be fine. Uh, how did the new guys do Beverly? All right, four points and a gallon Ari, uh, no, that was four points the other night, Beverly, three points and gallon. Ari's basically just making cameos.

He's probably, um, those minutes could go to someone else eventually. All right. I think Jake is here. My buddy. Yeah. He's back home. Yeah.

Look at you. I had to go with the old school background, man. I missed the show. How's my piano doing? Uh, it's a little out of tune.

I got to touch up a little bit. Um, I've been trying to get into Rami show, um, just cause kind of fill the void. But all I'll say is, uh, I want Rami to go the Winkler route and kind of have that same path, but he's a very generous guy. And that's all I'm going to say about generous guy. Yeah.

That's all I'm going to say about his show, but, uh, let's talk box. This was cool to me. This was the first game in a long time, maybe more so than any other game this season where the bucks looked like they were just playing basketball and not trying to play basketball like, Oh, wow. That's a good take.

That's better than anything I've said in nine minutes. Yeah. Like it just, it, they looked like a team.

They look cohesive. Nobody looked like they were forcing anything. We were finding the open man and yes, they made a lot of threes. So I'm sure a lot of like Sixers or Celtics fans could be like, Oh, they had a, you know, the crazy three point, you know, anomaly game, but it's not like they were just jacking up threes that were contested. They were just creating open looks and hitting those open looks. So that was nice to see, um, Dame still a work in progress. I think obviously first half phenomenal second half, just got a little bit of early season Dame.

Uh, so, you know, hopefully he's peaking by, you know, mid April going into the playoffs. That would be a nice thing to see, uh, that Yanis pass. I mean, just utter ridiculousness that if that was a weird bounce one, the full court pass where he just before halftime, just dead on accurate. If that's Jokic making that pass you, my Twitter X feed, sorry, Matt would have been flooded with that play just over and over again.

But since it was Yanis, it's crickets, nothing new. We know that, uh, he's not going to get the love from the media, but, uh, yeah, I don't know. Um, I'm a little bit more optimistic. I know Philly obviously didn't have him beat and you know, they're not fielding a full squad, but it's not just the fact that they won.

It's that they looked comfortable out there and, uh, yeah, it was a overall enjoyable game to watch. We're brought to you as always by happy place hemp promo code is Bart, 25% off each and every order. Um, you can get the gummies, you can get the CBD ones, the THC ones. I've talked to you about the seltzer that I had. Um, I got a couple of those left in the fridge. Maybe tonight's a good seltzer night.

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March 2nd. Well, yeah, I want to sample the, uh, cell series, but I wanted a little bit more of a review other than you shouldn't have drank it before you went to the game. But that's good. Yeah. Oh, you can order them. Happyplace.com again, 25% off at the promo code Bart.

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I think the sons are playing right now at home. Tony says, if former coach Griffin is coaching this game, we somehow lose in double overtime. That's quite a prediction. Um, but to each their own, uh, yeah.

Yeah. I think that, um, the big takeaway, the only thing I tweeted during this game was keep us off Bally sports because they were on national TV on Friday and CVS 58 and WMLW, which means Milwaukee. And then today's game on ABC.

So no Bally sports is good. There'll be nine more of those. There'll be nine more of those, uh, non Bally with the Bally crew. I mean, it's still Lisa, Marcus, Craig, Steve, end of an era.

Uh, it's still all them. Um, but there's gonna be nine more of those on WMLW, including March, I believe the fifth. No, when did the March, March 4th, that game will be on Telemundo.

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Need to hire you need indeed. I did want to bring up, um, since I have to bring some hate, uh, I love a game where a guy that everybody wanted traded, like destroyed Philly and Bobby Portis, and then a guy that everybody's wanted to trade for forever and buddy healed absolutely sucked ass. So that was fun. Well, Frank Madden even mentioned that there was a time two years ago where we all wanted to get rid of Brook Lopez for Mo Bamba.

Uh, and that didn't look like it would have worked out. Uh, were you in that camp? Were you in that camp? I was a big Mo Bamba believer early. I don't know if I ever said that.

Yeah. I, you know, Bombas tweeted about Bomba. He just never got the motor going. If he would have, he could have been something probably special, but I don't know. Maybe he just doesn't like basketball. He just kind of exists when he's on the court. The only time that I have tweeted about, or have any interaction with Bomba, I tweeted me, I searched, somebody said Bomba is in no matter what, but they misspelled Bama.

When I was talking about the college football playoffs back in 2018, please don't search mine. Can I know? Oh, by the way, uh, last night I was at a wedding and this was probably the fourth time I've been recognized out in public where somebody just comes up and says hot take. So I met a nice young man. He knows somebody who worked at the station with you. And the first thing he said was obviously fuck bill and, uh, Bart's the best. So yeah, the opinions of people that come on my show do not necessarily reflect.

I want to, yeah, I will, I will say that that's not Bart's opinion. That was someone else, but yeah, that was the first thing he said to me, but yeah, I, a nice young man in target to help me find peanut butter. Uh, he recognized me and I met someone at the Fiserv that also, so, you know, the Winklerverse lives, my friend, you are everywhere.

Well, if I'm like a, if I'm like a Z-list celebrity in this town, what does that make you then? That's kind of sad if you think about it. I was at the Fox Hill last night in Shorewood. And as soon as I walked in the door, a guy named Joel said Bart. And I was like, Whoa, you're the voice list. My friend was there to meet him.

It was like so quick. Did you big time him? Of course not. Come on. You're a national radio guy now. No, you need to start.

You got to get that routine down path. We took a picture. Oh yeah. It's a large man. He's tall guy. Yeah. Yeah. He's tall guy. Um, Taylor says the pieces are starting to fall in the place.

Patience is a virtue. Bucks fans. Let doc cook. Alex is asking if we can get a March madness pool. You know, Matt asked me the same thing the other day and I said, women's. And then he, then he said like something that I don't know. He didn't. I'll be honest with you.

I would have as much of a shot in the women's as the men's like I've watched more women's hoops than I have men's is here. Yeah. No thank you.

All right. I do want to quickly mention something about the brewers. So I believe that Craig council, while he's happy about the money, I believe he's, he wishes it didn't come to this point and he would like to still be managing in Milwaukee because what happens then is people that do that, they then double down on like, Oh, there's a lot of people here today. They doubled down on, on comments that they shouldn't be saying just to make like, to make them more confident in themselves that they did the right thing. So Craig's going to shit on Milwaukee inadvertently or subconsciously or really passive aggressively.

And it's not going to be anything anti Milwaukee. It's going to be really so that he can make himself feel better for the decision he made. That is what I believe as a communications major that thinks he has a good pulse on how people act and feel and think. So that is what I believe.

Now, when I put that out into the universe, I wish there was a filter. I'm putting that out into the brewers fans universe. I'm putting that out to fellow brewers fans to be like, Hey, yeah, I saw this thing. Craig did.

Here's why I think he did it. But the problem is Cubs fans see it. And then I get the same, you know, shit from Cody Bellinger Stan accounts, like cry more, cry more that phrase block clown emoji block. It's like, it's fine if you do it, but everyone does it. That's why everyone does it. So it's like, stop. You're going for that JJ Reddick engagement is what it is. Yeah. When I try to break down a spring training game and the different ways that Joey wiemer is playing long angle. Yeah.

And no one, no one clicks. But when I start bitching about Craig counsel, then every then I get a 500,000 views sad world, but honestly it goes without saying, but fuck council. I think he's going to learn. There's some things that are more important than money with Milwaukee. He, if he wanted it had a lifetime job and now he's in the, he went from the little fish bowl to the big tank and in a place like Chicago, when shit starts to go wrong a little bit, rightly or wrongly, they're going to look at the manager and the heat's going to be on. Whereas I don't know if he'll ever or ever would have had that in Milwaukee.

Cause he's just little old Craig from white fish bay and we just love him and he's just scrappy. And yeah, I think he, at some point he's going to know he made a mistake, but then, you know, people are like, oh, he's the richest manager. Like I understand that he is satisfied with more money, but I also want to say that money is not the end all be all.

Okay. Like, yes, he took more money. So he's going to do it for more money, but you can't, if I just say, oh, this guy seems like he might deep down be unhappy. You can't say more money, you know, money is great, but it doesn't like erase everything else. You know, then cause it'd be like, oh wow, I, I got an awful accident and my legs don't work anymore.

Well, here's $3 million settlement. Well, yeah, I would rather have the ability to walk, you know, was that too extreme? I think I see where you're going there. I was going to say somebody be dead, but then I was like, that's too extreme.

So then I just went with paralysis. Zach did a look of your hot take. Jake, a Mo Bamba takes. Oh boy.

He says quick summary of his takes. Today's another day of no Mo Bamba to the bucks trade. This is not fair.

This is, this is what this show is going to become. I don't know. Never mind. Go, go back to your regular time slot bar.

We don't need this show. All right. Hey, you're getting recognized left and right. Jake.

This was his, this was his recent as last January. I like Mo Bamba. All right.

I liked his potential Bobby out back to the Mo Bamba agenda, man. Y'all are ruthless. There's like eight tweets. Oh my God. There's like 10, 20. Can someone else come out of the show?

Frank? I didn't realize you were that big of a mobile. I had no idea. Did anybody else have a take? Does anybody else want to jump on right now and say something about the game? You know, some analysis, at least 20 tweets about Mo Bamba. Well, the good thing is I don't think you, I don't know if you'll be able to find my old Twitter account.

Cause that's probably loaded up. You were like Bamba season or something. I probably, that was a motivating factor to starting a new Twitter account was like, Oh, I don't want people to see all this way easier than going back and deleting. Yeah, that's good. Um, all right. So again, regarding today's game and you brought up something that I wanted to bring up too with Yanis in that past before the end of the half, that was a tremendous play. It was a great pass. It was great accuracy. Me and this other guy, we had the, our kids have this open gym.

And so the other half of the gym cleared. So we were doing full court shots and like whipping them exactly like Yanis tried to, but we were so off the precision on that from Yanis. It's like, how can you, do they, do they ever practice that? He was so accurate. I didn't Lopez got it up obviously, but that kind of play, like we're not, I think we're pretty good with, okay.

The box, you know, small market, whatever. I think we understand, but with Yanis, they legit don't show shit that he does. And when other people do it, they do show it all the time. Like, yes, is great. And beat is great. Luke is great.

All these guys are great. And we see that they're great because every time they do something great, we get shown it. When Yanis does it, it's like they hide it. It's like, this is a secret.

We don't want people to see that it is, that is weird. And now there's all the, you know, the MVP discussion starting again, and there's people that are keeping Yanis out and we're saying like, well, what about Yanis? And they go, Oh, look at you box fans.

No, like what about like, what about Yanis? And then the, I dunno, it's just so stupid. It took a bizarre turn this week. To me, this is the weirdest thing, or the most blatant example was like, we're now to the point where we're just completely ignoring factual shit that happened when Chandler Parsons and whatever, I think it was arenas, whatever scrub he had with him. And they were like, yeah, that's why he's never won anything. And he's not going to. And it's like, he had one of the greatest finals performances ever with one fucking leg and nobody checked him to like, be like, what are you, what are you talking about?

And it's just okay that they were able to put this out on a platform. But I don't understand the hate Yanis gets. I said it before, he's a man without a country. His parents emigrated from Africa to Nigeria. So like, there's a lot of, or to Greece from Nigeria. So like, Nigerians didn't really claim him. And then his family put up with so much shit in Greece because they were from Nigeria and all the racist shit that goes on there. So the Greeks didn't claim him until he actually made it. And like, this stupid broey little fraternity of NBA beta boys that all want to team up together and be friends, Yanis ain't that way.

So they didn't embrace him. So I'm just glad he has Milwaukee that like, he can live in this city and be a real person. And we really are his home. So I forget what it was an interview or maybe one of the movies where he said, like, when people ask him where he's from, he says Milwaukee. And that warms my heart because I feel like we actually have embraced him and we are his home.

That's my soapbox. I say I'm from lacrosse. Yeah, that was kind of weird the other day when you guys were like fawning over wherever it was. I'm like, you really miss that lifestyle. I love lacrosse. Oh, I feel like we're like, man, I would give this life up in a second to just, you know, go party in lacrosse for the weekend, just to just to be a top of granddad's bluff and look down below that now is that those the school where they have the bridge where the serial killer is that keeps pushing people off. That that was 15 years ago that's still happening. No, I feel like that's a Netflix special waiting to happen.

They call them the Mississippi madman. Yeah, because what at first they're just trying to claim that people were falling off because they were drunk. I do believe there was a killer. I do believe. Yeah, there's no way right. That there is a special on it somewhere.

I don't know if it's a dateliner. Yeah, because who just is like walking down a bridge even if they're drugging and be like, Ah, shit, I'm going I'm going over like Daniels right they put in they put in people to patrol the the the river Operation River Watch. Oh, so he got away with it. They should have done a sting operation. That's what they should have done.

All right, I want to talk about that. Tony says will the national narrative be about how the Bucks beat the wolves but they were flat and the Sixers are without Embiid and there was no signature Bucks win. No, that's not what will happen. We saw the blueprint for this. So who do the Bucks play next? We've got the Hornets on Tuesday.

Probably probably win that game. Yeah. Oh, we got the Hornets twice.

Shit. Bart, you were at that last Hornets game, right? Yeah, that was one of the weirdest games I ever been to. My buddy was in town. We went to the game.

And it was bizarre. At one point, like late in the third quarter looked like I was I was zooted off. So you're kind of there.

Yeah, you're half there. But it was it was weird because we looked up late in the third quarter and whatever they had like was it 68 points and it was like, how has Charlotte scored 68 points? It seemed like they had not scored a bucket like there. There was just the most unremarkable team I've ever seen.

And just not fun basketball. Yeah, one of my buddies was at potter before and he put he took bridges that go over 30 points, but he thought it was the other bridges. And then the guy had like 12. Oh, he thought it was Mikel.

Yeah, not miles, not miles. Let's have the Hornets twice this week and then the balls on Friday. What will happen is if they lose one of those games, then that's when more coverage will happen. Also, that's what happened when they beat the Nuggets. They beat the Nuggets, and then they lost to the Heat the next night.

Nobody cared about the Nuggets. But I did notice if we're going to talk national coverage, it changed a little bit already today, because Stephen A. Smith was at that Minnesota game. He was there. So he saw it and was forced to watch it. So he already talked about it today on the pregame. And on first take tomorrow, I bet you the Bucks come up in a positive way. And Stephen A. Smith says really positive things. Because he finally was there to see it. And then a lot of the agenda will flow. This is how few real voices there are in the NBA media.

It's so top heavy. There's a lot of people in the NBA media. There's a lot of people that talk about these games. But Stephen A. Smith, him being at a game, he didn't go to that game. They just say, oh, you know, whatever. That was probably the first time he watched Milwaukee this season. And conversely, then Minnesota might get shit on when they shouldn't.

Because they're a really good team. Yeah, now that you're in the national media, Bart, I'm tasking you with like cleaning this shit up because I've tried as I've ever seen. I've really tried.

I say plenty of times that I'm just a Midwest yokel flyover country. Yeah. This is why we can't beat ourselves down.

The pundits do it for enough. Yeah, to go back to what I was saying at the very beginning, we all root for this team. But we're fractured within like, I was tweeting at our con 14 the other and I got rid of that. But I just like I hate these guys. But I shouldn't. I shouldn't have any feelings.

I should have only have good feelings towards these guys. But they it's it's like it's like a mission to prove you're the smartest Bucks fan. I don't like it. And then that's the vibe.

I don't know. I give a vibe you might not like. I mean, I whatever that's the vibe. I guess but I know my role. I'm fan police man. That's right. I can I can I can self identify my role.

I know what I am. Well, I wanted to say quickly to you're talking about how well the Denver game Well, it's whatever involves Sixers didn't have him beat and there's always like a thing to just kind of poo poo it. They always can play the ultimate trump card, which is it's the regular season. Nothing matters. It's a regular season right?

So literally none of these games matter what what what analysis should there be had if none of this matters, right? That's that's one thing that bothers me. Yeah, I would just say like this the team we know that this team at its like most capable and at highest potential, they can win a championship this year. So I think we get mad when we watch them lose to the heat by 20 because we're like we know we're better than that. But I don't know that that man I just it's not gonna none of that shit's gonna I'm kind of being what you don't like, I guess.

Well, it's not gonna matter. For me, it's mostly disappointing that like, it's not early anymore. We're past the All Star break. And I assumed they would get it together before this. Now, maybe this is the beginning of that.

And I just need to be a little bit more patient. But I think anybody that's like, claims that well, no, I knew it would kind of go this way. I think you're kind of lying.

It's not a little disingenuous. Like we all thought by this point, they'd be rolling number one seed type. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought that. I mean, I'm like, I take game a little bit, but I didn't think we'd still be at the All Star break. Drew of Rami and Drew says the wind felt really good after all the drama farming this week. And he's right about that.

There was a lot of that. But also, it feels good because now you can at least see it. But now that we've seen it, if they lose one of these games, you know, I don't know. If the regular season doesn't matter, then why do the games exist?

It doesn't matter. But there's too many. There's too many games. There's too many games with the way that they're trying to determine a champion. Because the playoffs, the playoffs are like half as long as the regular season.

It's insane. And 10 teams get a chance now. So really, it's about it's about it's an 82 game race for seeding and to find out which five teams are shitty. But do you remember the COVID baseball season was the greatest baseball season ever? Like yeah, imagine if we had that season with fans packing the stadiums like that would be a strike your lockout here in the NBA 99 50 game season. Yeah. People loved it.

The NFL is only the only league that has the appropriate like schedule. I feel like and now they're they're trying to ruin it by adding more but yeah, well, we'll see. Go ahead. What?

What do you think about Wiener gate? All those jerseys are terrible. Well, yeah. And now like, there's gonna be guys in baseball, you know, it's gonna be a hot, sweaty day. They're gonna be zooming in on these white pants and they're gonna be literally hanging dog on television. Padres the Padres started wearing last year's fans. Did they just screw it?

Good for them. And then someone was like, Look, in old pictures, you can see like the outline of the shirt tucked in. But you could never see like you could never see you could never see me. Yeah, like I didn't. I would never get actual visualization of shaft size like it. You'd have to imagine still. Yeah, now you can. Now you can see winners and balls. Yeah.

Yeah. So yeah, what a joke those jerseys and when I first heard about this, I'm like, how bad could it be? Then I saw the side by side and I was like, Oh my god, that's terrible. Well, they look they look gross too.

Yeah, they're awful looking. I don't you know, how could they fumble this badly on something like that scene at all times? It's very weird that it got to like, I would assume they have quality control and there's like steps and a process to all this.

How could they get all the way to the point where now we're mass producing these things and this is what we're rolling with. Well, I don't know but if you like looking at naked baseball players, this is the perfect season for you. That was one of my old jobs. I used to work in the clubhouse. Yeah, I mean, you've you've you've seen your share of probably.

Yeah, too much. Well now you don't even need a job to do it. Yeah, I'm gonna have like, I wanted to I wanted to see baseball private parts so bad.

I had to get a job in the media, get credential for the games. You did the long play on my TV. Yeah, I respect that. You just have to work to see x rated baseball content. All right, well, I'm gonna go upstairs.

Good to see you again, buddy. Yeah, mania predictions. Mania. Yeah. Well, they're doing so when Cody says he wants to fight the rock, are they going to do that night one?

I don't know. I heard they're gonna do a tag team match with I don't really care about that. Like I'd like to see Cody in the rock, but I don't care about Seth Rollins.

And that doesn't do it for me. I just wish CM Punk didn't get hurt that that rock and Cody should be saved for SummerSlam. Yeah. I mean, I think either you do that mania or you do it at SummerSlam. I don't I don't need to Seth Rollins to be involved in any of that.

Well, there's no stakes to it. You can't do a tag team match and then the next night do Cody versus Roman. Yeah.

Roman rocks turning on Roman, right? I would assume. I don't know. He likes being a heel. So you never know.

I enjoy when he does this shtick. Oh, Ryan likes Drew over Seth. Yeah, I think that's the way to go.

Yeah, I think. Yeah, probably Drew over Seth. Punk will come back and beat Drew and then next year's mania. You got Punk and Cody.

That'll be a good show. All right, buddy. Miss you.

To you and yours. I'll pop on live on Tuesday as we've been doing. And we'll do. Yeah, there's still there's still a little there's still a little battery left in this engine.

There's enough to keep me you know, going each day just enough just enough hope but I love you Winkler versus anybody. All right, bucks in two good wins over the weekend. Friday night and then sorry, back at it against the Hornets a couple of times. And the bulls on Friday. I'll talk to you next time.

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