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Speaker 1: The Smashing Pumpkins on October thirteen. Tickets are on sale now. Get to complete details on all the upcoming shows on the concert page at kfan dot com keyword calendar. I think we're gonna have to.
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Speaker 2: Put out a bat signal, maybe as soon as tomorrow for our old friend Michael Hurley, because certainly appears things are ramping up again.
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Speaker 1: In Iran our attacks on them.
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Speaker 2: They're attacking all over the Middle East at this point, I'm looking at a cbsnews dot com story indicating, via Jennifer Jacobs, nearly one hundred US service members have been injured in Iranian attacks on multiple basis in the Middle East this month. US officials told me some suffered brain injuries. Most have already turned to duty, two of the officials, said. A Chief on spokesman Sean Parnell confirmed the numbers in a statement to CBS. While one hundred service members were deemed to have some degree of injury, since this is just since July seven, ninety six percent return to duty. They are determined to get back in the fight. Vast majority of injuries experienced were minor concussions. Further updates we posted on the Defense casualty analysis system, so it may be time to see where we are, where we're headed, and.
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Speaker 1: Is there an end game?
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's obviously always the question. And we we've we've had so many stops and starts, I feel like since this thing started, so we'll probably do. So let me get to some texts I mentioned, A bunch of them are in and then we've got a number of subjects to explore today beyond Johnny joining us at five thirty. Mike Wrights, just curious if you're going to talk about the latest WNBA convers are regarding the quote protected species comment. I think it's ridiculous, but love to hear your opinion. I don't know about this one. Do you know anything about the protected species?
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Speaker 1: Yes? I think it's the Toronto coach who used to be the New York Liberty coach when they beat us for the title. She went on a rant about Angel Reese and in the rant said she's one of like the protected species. Basically, she was suspended for a game. She apologizes what does she do the coach for the species part of it, and she went full Pelt immediately on social media and otherwise, And I don't know this part verbatim, but basically saying that's common in like Australian vernacular to just kind of to talk like that. Well is she so?
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Speaker 2: Is The point she was allegedly attempting to make was name players are protected. I think here in the thin So yeah, okay, so she was suspended for a game, and so that's the coach was yes for the comment.
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Speaker 1: Interesting, that's the backstory.
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Speaker 2: Was who made the decision on that suspension. Was it WNBA commission or the NBA commission. I think Adam Silver got involved. No, I don't know, not sure. Uh. Dan Dave checking in from Des Moines, recent soccer fan who thoroughly enjoyed the tournament, A little sad it's over, especially, want to thank the fan and yourself for helping us enjoy it. Your guests well informed, provided interesting analysis, made the games fun to watch, if not mesmerizing. In honor of Spain's win, I'm currently making a traditional Spanish is poio ah ahiel I'll a heel chicken with garlic while listening to a bumper to bumper and sipping a Spanish yoha.
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Speaker 1: That sounds very good to me. That sounds excellent.
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Speaker 2: Dan on the Vikings. The only position we feel good about is wide receiver. We should be asking if we have an active competition at every other position, as none of them should be viewed as a lock.
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Speaker 1: Well.
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Speaker 2: Another example of where we need to get have a covenant catch up.
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Speaker 1: Is who's the big, huge.
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Speaker 2: Defensive lineman that we drafted in round one who everybody says, if he stays healthy, the foot guy killed Banks might be the best player in history.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna have to make room in the ring of honor exactly.
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Speaker 2: He's got, you know, issues in his feet problematic. That was always the question about whether it's worth the gamble tight round one. What I want to know is do we know what kind of schedule he's on? In other words, as when training camp starts. Is he full as far as we know for right now? Is he a guy that's we're gonna have to baby a little bit. That's one of the things that we need to come and catch up on, don't you think, because that's pretty important.
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Speaker 1: He's a key guy.
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Speaker 2: If I mean, if you want to think Polydanna you go.
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Speaker 1: They figured this guy's health out. His feet are fine.
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Speaker 2: He's never gonna look back again and have any issues that he's healthy and he's going to come in and be a monster, because the people who evaluate players basically say that, they say, if you can get health from this guy, he will be the heart of your defense for ten years. So we certainly talked about the need for greater strength, big ness in where the interior.
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Speaker 1: Line at the line of scrimmage.
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Speaker 2: Defensively, that's the kind of physicality we tend to associate with, let's say the Philadelphia Eagles, Right, this is what's always seemed to be the strength of the Eagles and that we've tended to be more finessey. It felt like right, and this guy's power if he can pull it off. So hopefully we'll probably bring Guestling back. I'm guessing this Friday we could go with all the footbuddy.
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Speaker 1: Maybe we want.
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Speaker 2: Maybe we even try to now that Sefferts try to insinuate himself into everything, maybe we get him back on tomorrow's program because Tuesday's usual his day.
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Speaker 1: O'Connell said, and Mini camp koc here's the quote. We're already to a point where we want to have our eyes on the end of July. That's the hope, which is when training camp starts so there. Back then, they were projecting and hopeful that he was the hope he would be ready. That's so open ended when you.
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Speaker 2: Say hope as opposed to he's on track, Will he will start? You know, because I don't even remember I need I needed to bone up on his even his surgery history, you know about when when's the last because he's had that's part of the issue. That was the red flag for some teams. They knew he was good, but they just didn't know if they could trust his body. And his most recent foot injury was like combine relater. Remember it was the bad cleats. That's right, he broke his forth metatarsal in his left foot. It's not that far off. And he's he's what three fifty three sixty.
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Speaker 1: He's a big boy. He's a big kid. Yeah, huge is what he is. Dan JG. This is from Kyle, I Santi.
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Speaker 2: How can they have us at the bottom of the division and Love hasn't proved himself or can stay healthy? And were there wide receiver corps, arguably none of them will be higher than a three or four on our depth chart. Yeah, I mean I don't necessarily think the Packers are bulletproof by any means. They have some of their own issues. That doesn't change the fact that we have ours, right, I still believe. Don't you think though that it is like last year to this year. Last year, I don't think there was a great Obviously the Vikings bottom dout until they didn't, so you know, record wise, you look between first and fourth, there was like a two three game difference, you know what I mean, there was it seemed like there was a lot of parody within the division. Like, yes, I kind of feel like that this year too, Like I don't think there's a a slam Dunk rock bottom team, and I don't think there's a fourteen and three team necessarily. Well, you know, so all the predictions could have wiggle room, I guess, is my point, because there I think a lot of these the four teams could be interchangeable as we go. Sure the fanomigdck dot com want to help with that four o'clock keyword is check. Go to kfan dot com and enter the keyword check.
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Speaker 2: I mentioned on sermons yesterday a brief uh departure into the real world, only because I'd seen somewhere via X reporting it appeared on a mass shooting at uptown. That term is you know, is used loosely, but there's it's defined with a given number. And I'm thinking, oh, that's concerning. And so I went to my former newspaper, startumwing dot com.
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Speaker 1: And there was literally not a word reported on it.
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Speaker 2: So then I went to the Google and I noticed that Box nine had a story on it, five had a story on it. CCOTV had a story on it. I mean almost I think pretty much every TV station. And again it was basic stuff, but they at least reported it.
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Speaker 1: Then.
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Speaker 2: And eventually, by the way there there was a very pedestrian, not at all fleshed out news story if you want to even call it. That might have been seven paragraphs. And then I come to find out there was another mass shooting.
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Speaker 1: The next afternoon.
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Speaker 2: Go back to Starthimbute dot com. Nothing on it until maybe I might have seen something at nine o'clock this morning. Finally, again long after the TV stations had reported it. It's it's it's it's it's puzzling to me. I don't know if it's manpower. I have no idea, But it's a newspaper, man, you have to And I said on Sunday, you know a newspaper that just want a pulitzer for outstanding reporting and coverage on the ice search, But day to day you can't have TV stations beat you. When I say it's beat them, I don't mean on TV, I mean in print. They all have at their website stories before you do. We have so much discussion about violence and gun violence and how important.
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Speaker 1: It is to.
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Speaker 2: Report on this stuff ordinarily and even to opine on it.
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Speaker 1: And I, man, I just kind of shake my head.
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Speaker 2: That that's supposed to be still even in twenty twenty six. As far as I'm concerned. The lifeblood of what any newspaper is reporting the news. And I mentioned this to someone who'll go remain nameless, that the sad truth of the slowness of the acknowledgment of these stories.
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Speaker 1: You know what it does.
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Speaker 2: It plays into the hands of the conspiracy theorists who think, oh, that's because.
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Speaker 1: They want to bury it.
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Speaker 2: They want to, they don't even want they want to act like there is no such thing as any violence in Minneapolis. They're burying that on purpose, which I don't believe, honestly don't. I think it's lack of emphasis or man whatever. But that's what you contribute to cover the news man. And it is interesting because let me, I guess, get a little background. I mean, the last I have is the second shooting. The first shooting in Uptown involved nine I believe the second one left one. I believe one person dead and four others injured. This was Sunday night. The first mass shooting happened outside rain Events Center about little after midnight Sunday. The second apparently occurred in the eighteen hundred block of Nickel At Avenue at about eight twenty pm Sunday. I'm actually here now, quoting from Bring Me the News story. I think this might have even been written by tiny Joe Nelson. Minneapolis Police Department says officers responded to the scene to find four victims, including two men ages twenty eight and twenty four, respectively, who are suffering from a actually life threatening issues or injuries, and two other men forty three and thirty seven who sustained non life threatening injuries. And then they lay out that a twenty eight year old victim died after being taken a head up in healthcare. Preliminary information MPD in a Monday morning press release indicates that the gunfire erupted outside of business in the eighteen hundred block of Nicolett Avenue, injuring the five men and the last I saw no rest of it made, although I haven't been on any of the sites now to see if there's anything new about that. Here's what's also interesting to me, and this is via finally a starterimune dot com story that has some.
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Speaker 1: Reporting in it. Let me see if I can find the This is from the mayor statement released.
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Speaker 2: The shooting in Uptown last night is intolerable and we will be working to hold the perpetrator's accountable for the sensils act of violence. This is a stark reminder of keeping our streets safe requires every tool available. He goes on in the statement to say, we need partnerships where the perpetrators of these acts are arrested and prosecuted. We need to continue hiring more police officers to both investigate and prevent gun crimes, and we must embrace proven technologies from drones to shot spotter that allow our police to do their jobs with greater efficiency. That's where it gets back into the politics.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know.
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Speaker 2: How consciously the mayor went down that road to make a point he wanted to make regarding the technologies. But you'll recall, as is noted at the starting in Peace, just last week, the city council deadlocked and failed to approve a seventy five day pilot program using two more drones to help police in North Minneapolis. Now they point out in this story that Minneapolis police have been using drones since twenty twenty two. City council member Here'shavita proposed to expand the drone program to her north side ward, saying the drones could respond much quicker than the understaffed police force and give officers valuable information about what's happening on the ground, reduce response times, and a free police for other calls. But the proposed free trial with skideo by pronouncing that right Skydo prompted a wave of opposition because the company supplies drones to the US Department of Defense and twenty nine allied nations, including Israel. Opponents warned that if the city partnered with the company Skidio.
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Speaker 1: It would be complicit. It would be complicit.
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Speaker 2: In the Israeli military's operations in Gossam.
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Speaker 1: We're back to performing.
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Speaker 2: You got a choice, and a lot of times the choices being made to me on the basis of performance. Because if you do not have enough police officers, and we still don't, even though progress has been made in that regard, then you have to use, you have to attempt, I think, to use technology. Now, presumably the technology used here would not be quite the same as what was used in Israel, and that's a discussion for another time. But in the end, who suffers when this technology is not used?
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Speaker 1: Citizens? Sometimes citizens in harms way.
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Speaker 2: And as long as that's the game, as long as you want to get yourself involved in foreign policy issues or what companies are involved with whatever technology, or i should say, with this company different technology, then you're probably going to find yourself continually frustrated.
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Speaker 1: In that sense. You're allowed, I think.
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Speaker 2: To decry certain policies and still believe that for the purposes of what you need to get accomplished here locally, we need to do it.
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Speaker 1: We can need what we need to do. Now, is this the only company that has this technology.
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Speaker 2: I don't have any idea, but again, the irony is, according to this story, drones are being used already.
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Speaker 1: It's not like there's no use of them.
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Speaker 2: It's a matter of attempting to expand them, and we're I think.
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Speaker 1: Learning again that.
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Speaker 2: Imagery and getting involved in foreign policy issues dictates for some people the direction they want to go more than what's going on on the ground here. What do we have available to us to better deal with these issues? But that goes back to having I think strong leaders who can deal with the kind of criticism that you might get, or having the ability to articulate the difference between what this technology would do here and where it might be used elsewhere. So in any case, it didn't sound like a very good weekend.
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Speaker 1: It sounds like rain that location.
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Speaker 2: The Serge Mune analysis of about two hundred and seventy Minneapolis nine one one calls the clubs addressed in twenty twenty one shows incidents tripled from about thirty in twenty twenty four to more than one hundred in.
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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 2: Those calls most commonly involved drug used, suspicious persons, fights, medical needs, and various other disturbances too. So there you have it. There's the latest and I don't know. Do you see anything about arrests in either of these cases?
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Speaker 1: I do not, no, but I haven't been tracking it quite as closely. But I just scanning those stories that you were talking about, I haven't seen those either. Quick pause, bott of the hour break. We will get to some texts.
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Speaker 2: As promised, Top five at five yet to come Johnny athletic. Will he break anything new on Lebron? Does he feel humiliated by the possibility that Anthony Edwards beat him to the story at least as it pertains to Lebron James coming here?
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Speaker 1: Or will Johnny say.
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Speaker 2: Not so sure that Anthony's got their full story on that.
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Speaker 1: We'll find out in about an hour. This is bumper to bumper with Dan Barrero Alo fan Leant to correct myself.
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Speaker 2: I actually do think the start to Mute had excellent ID the Metro Surge coverage. I think it's been throughout tenacious, aggressive and they've done a really over period of time. When it was at its zenith here, I thought the reporting was very, very good on that story, but the Pulitzer obviously goes further back.
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Speaker 1: You don't when Pultzer's that quick.
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Speaker 2: That goes back to the coverage of the Annunciation shootings last August. That's the the Polster one or by the Star Tribune.
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Speaker 1: So we correct the record.
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Speaker 2: There lots of texts coming into the branch around Brian k fa n text line g Dan the Red started in reporting the weekend shootings. Where are we East Germany. Well, there's a lot of those, and like I said, that's what contributes to I've just again I I've quoted from a piece today.
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Speaker 1: It has good reporting it.
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Speaker 2: But the idea that when you google that sort of story there is literally not even there was not even a headline on it as long as that took is alarming to me. If I'm if I'm still involved with.
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Speaker 1: The UH with the newspaper, it's it's.
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Speaker 2: Like, man, I that I would think, no matter what else you're cutting back or whatever else you're doing, I just think that's supposed to be something covering hard news, breaking news, spot news like that that I thought was supposed to be kind of.
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Speaker 1: Non negotiable. Well, they're all listening to the same scanners, right, Well, yeah, you would imagine.
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Speaker 2: Are they.
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Speaker 1: But that's the question they're still listening to the scanner there. I don't even know. I would imagine so. And when I say scamming, they're all. They've all got the same methods essentially to find out what's happening in terms of safety and following what the police are up to to know where they're going. Yeah, I don't I don't disagree with that.
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Speaker 2: Let me get to a couple of others here, red star, a lot of red stars. This goes back to the Angel Reese, the comment by the former Liberty coach. It wasn't directed or Reese. It was directed towards the officials, meaning they were making poor calls. A protective species is common in Australian slang. Is always meant to call it the referees, as any did with race, gender, sexual preference. The coach getting suspended as a joke, just like this league. So was the I guess I should go and try to find the news stories on it did in in deciding that she had to be that she was suspended he he.
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Speaker 1: Or she former coach?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, were the reasons given.
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Speaker 1: An inappropriate comment? Okay? It just left at that, Yes, is was the main reason or what it said in the statement.
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Speaker 2: Dan, you touched on this yesterday during sermon's thoughts on the shootings, coverage on them over the week outreak and Okay, this was sent in earlier before I did talk about that mass stampede scramble event at North Loop Green yesterday during World Cup watch party. I don't know anything about that or if indeed it's been covered, but we have tried to cover a little bit on.
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Speaker 1: The downtown.
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Speaker 2: Well, the two shootings, one was up to I think the first of the two was indeed uptown. Former hibbing guy now living in Phoenix. I've been in Stepont Stpauona, Spain for the entire World Cup. Never see anything as crazy. It's a victory celebration after last night Spain win. Stepauonna is a tourist town in the Mediterranean, but I found a place frequented mainly by locals which brought an entirely new Uh.
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Speaker 1: Well, you must have dictated this.
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Speaker 2: I'm not filing not only the adult celebrating my entire families to see their joy of something I'll remember the rest of my life.
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Speaker 1: Well, the crowds.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there were a couple shots of Madrid, a couple of town squares, in Madrid where it.
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Speaker 1: It was endless.
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Speaker 2: I mean there were people pretty much in every direction. Nine to five two guy who's a better defender Messy or late season Julius Randall.
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Speaker 1: Wow, he's in Brooklyn. Now, come on, we've moved on. Man. That's that's on Pie down hard though I need Kevin Harlan for that one.
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Speaker 2: Well, it was an education for me, even by MESSI standards to see him a couple of times literally where there's stuff.
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Speaker 1: Going on around him and he's literally just standing.
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Speaker 2: It's like he could have gotten that ball, he could have gone a little closer. He just I'm not I'm they allow me to not play defense. Yeah, he's Messy, But Jamie made a good point there. If you're already down a player, then you are down too defensively to that extent.
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Speaker 1: Or don't you can't you say to him because taking him out is impossible, that would be sacrilegious, can't you say to him Messi, mister Messi, we got like thirty minutes left, Yeah, this is it.
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Speaker 2: You might be done after this, and we don't want you to have to cry after the match.
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Speaker 1: We needed to leave it all out there this time. There wasn't not every time, maybe, but if you think you could do it, like maybe just a little bit more. No, it did look it's almost done. It looked exhibition y. It really did. Jamie Randall did it the first couple of possessions of decisive Game six where he just stood there and let the Spurs dunk and get an ad one. You kind of knew which way the night was going to go.
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Speaker 2: So in the fact we were playing, uh, four defensive guys against five, Yeah, felt worse somehow. Jamie is absolutely brilliant. The Minnesota Twins are resilient. Lavelle needs to get no Lamello needs to get his tattoo fulfillment Wolves and fought. What confused me was he wrote Lovello. So I'm thinking, well, is this do you mean Lavelli?
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Speaker 1: You Neil the Third him when he gets his tattoos? So he did mean like it maybe did mean yea. We established that in another controversial Lavelli Neil the Third appearance on Friday that when he gets his tattoos, I'm going to call him.
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Speaker 2: You met Lavello and I just misread it twice. Now he remembers the show better than us. Yeah, that's nothing new there. That happens all the time. Lavello Neil the third.
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Speaker 1: Well, so I'm still getting texts about the Angel thing.
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Speaker 2: So is in the popular culture is the notion that this coach, what this coach said was racist as it pertains to special treatment for the black player Angel Reese. Is that is that the allegation? Yes, and that's what she apologized for. Yeah, basically saying because she's from Australia and basically saying it's common phrase where I'm from. And then in her statement or whatever, basically I know that, ye, and I'm this.
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Speaker 1: Is my interitorial comment. Okay. Unfortunately for me, I live in a racist country now, and so when you say something like that in Australia, that's commonplace. We say that all the time here. I understand it might have a little bit different meaning or connotation or be taken a different way.
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Speaker 2: Again, silly me, But couldn't the connotation be what it often is in sports, the coach saying certain players, as in because they're well known, not because they're black or white, get preferential treatment.
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Speaker 1: I know that's a radical concept.
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Speaker 2: I know that's beyond that's beyond us. Because nuance is completely out the window. But in this case, it didn't sound like it took the WNBA quite as long as it took to suspend a player for chief shot in Kaitlyn Clark.
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Speaker 1: Huh No, they got they got to real Quickick. Maybe they learned from the last time that they've got to take action. I'm sure that's what it is. Can we go all the way to the top? We can do?
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Speaker 2: We need to bring I'm just trying to remember, did I? I thought I broke at the bottom, didn't I? Yes, you did? Okay, that's good enough. All right, here's one this is might be up your alley. I think we've talked about this before. I'm saving a really juicy one for tomorrow when we need when we have a little bit more time. But this, this did interest me a little bit. Another attempt. It appears to energize the world's first indoor shopping mall. Did you see the story that started to viewing had the other day on this?
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Speaker 1: I did. I had not read it yet, but I'm I'm familiar with this.
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Speaker 2: Rachel Hutton and Carson Hartsog wrote it, an old idea is new and extra fancy at south Dale Center, the shopping mall that started at all. This spring's opening of Tiffany and Company marks the completion of Southdale's gleaming new luxury wing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: On a recent weekday, there was a little foot traffic to scuff up the white marble floors, unlike the Adyna Centers opening day seventy years ago. That fall, seventy five thousand people came to see the country's first fully enclosed, climate controlled shopping mall. So apparently since twenty twelve, the Southdale owner that's the Simon Property Group, the country's largest mall owner is that in Indiana and Indianapolis. Guy Indiana Guy, I thought they were Indiana guys. The Simons where dorn they involved in team ownership? Anyway, I'll look it up. Has spent about four hundred million dollars to reboot the center that in the past decade or so has underperformed. Out went casual chain eateries Buffalo Wild Wings and PF.
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Speaker 1: Chang's.
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Speaker 2: In came upscale merchandise of a tear in abundance not previously seen in Minnesota, between Rolex watches, Blueberry should say Berbery lad Bikinis, Max Mara or Mara camel hair coats and Gucci purses. So it's a big swing and the strategy fascinates me because basically, I think Southdale stole all many of those luxury stores from the GALLERYA.
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Speaker 1: I was going to say they moved a few blocks north exactly yea, And I, for the life of me.
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Speaker 2: Question whether this is going to be the home run that they projected to be. Now, I don't know what the early indications are. Will continue to take a look at what's offered in this story.
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Speaker 1: But is that enough? I mean, lots of malls are.
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Speaker 2: All over the country, I don't think are as healthy as they used to be. Mall of America I think seems to be one of the exceptions. It is, But that's the kind of thing that's gonna There's you know, there's a Kowalskis in the new South Dale as well. There's a life tremendous Kowalski's. It's massive, one of the biggest qualities I've ever seen. There's an incredible lifetime.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so is this does this have a chance to go? I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Six four six eighty six is the Bradshawn Bryant kfan text line, because again I haven't done any research on it, but my gut, I see you know, yeah, I am a Galleria guy.
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Speaker 1: I do like the.
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Speaker 2: Galleria, although those stores I really don't spend a lot of time at there. At one they were at one end, and I didn't really go to that end very often. There were some other stores that I liked, including I'm a big Barnes and Noble guys. You know, but I saw that, you know, my I saw it was it was happening while it was happening, and I'm sure they must have given financial incentive. In fact, I know at least one of those stores is much bigger because it's a bigger space than they had a for sure, So maybe that gives them a chance to succeed. But the larger question is all of that enough to start a revolution and bring back the glory days for Southdale? That's my question. I'm skeptical.
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Speaker 1: No, But because that stuff is so big ticket, you don't need the glory days. You just need enough of the beautiful people. You need enough of the beautiful people to go there. And they've got a couple of new restaurants in there. I have not been there. The only time I go to Lifetime is or I should say to Southdale is for the lifetime at this point in my life, and it's a phenomenal lifetime. They've got a pool deck up top. Yeah, I have seen it. I know it's unbelievable. And now they're making now what's new in malls too, which I love and you take advantage of this, the fact that because fewer people go to the malls, that means they need fewer parking spots. What do they do? They just throw it down a shake shack in a corner where there used to be parking and then that's another way to use the spot. They're doing that in a couple of different corners at a hotel now ye where a parking lot used to be. So they're trying a bunch of different things.
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Speaker 2: To remain relevant in a disrupted sector that has sent many Minnesota malls, including Burnsville and Maybewood into bankruptcy and foreclosure. Southdales are turning to its pass. The mall two point zero brings back the mixed use, community oriented elements.
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Speaker 1: It's the words are unfortunately a lot of romance shopping center too.
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Speaker 2: Simon's betting big that the rebooted south They will entice people of all ages and all walks of life for a wide variety of reasons. Foot traffic data gathered this spring shows the investment seems to be paying off of the nearly thirty percent increase compared to two thousand and nineteen. Shopping centers have to be a fabric of the community, said Tom Hanschaar, Simon's VP of Leasing. Doesn't that seem a little high falutin a fabric of the community.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, that's what I said. It's a little flowery.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Sometimes shopping will be part of it, sometimes not.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I'd be curious to get any opinions of the bratch on Brian Caffey and text line six four six, eight six. They kind of lay out the history of Southdale over the decades in the mall rats here of the nineties. Southdale was where teenagers got their ears pierced inhaled, cinnabons, and.
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Speaker 1: Flirted and I did all three of those on them all.
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Speaker 2: While the dynam Mall didn't have the international draw Bloomington's behemoth, the Mall of America, it brimmed with cultural significance. As the subject of SAT questions in the place where a steam musicians launched careers, and.
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Speaker 1: So now you to spend more time there.
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Speaker 2: Set of the galleria, Apple Sephora, overall space fields, a bit schizophrenic, luxury wing sales, savage joke about whose shot pours the best bubbly. Meanwhile, the small dark lower level with a chess club, dance studio, and escape room could be the setting of an indie horror flick. Southdale's million square feet contained pickleball courts, a movie theater. Does anybody go to the movies even there or any place anymore?
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Speaker 1: People are coming back. I just read a story over the weekend that the younger kids because it's different to them. It's different now, so it's a unique experience to actually go to a theater more than ma.
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Speaker 2: Southdale competes with its next door neighbor galleria, the upscale boutique mall that spawned from Gabbert's Furniture in the nineteen seventies.
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Speaker 1: I think, is gabert still in there.
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Speaker 2: I've maintained here when Gabbert's was in its old place.
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Speaker 1: I think it's either gone or moved, or maybe it remodeled.
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Speaker 2: I submit to you that it was the one furniture store. Here's what I would equate going to that Gabbert's. For me, it was like talking to David Kahn. There was so much inventory and so many levels and so much space.
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Speaker 1: It was overwhelming. You don't even know where to look.
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Speaker 2: Where to turn, because there's just there was too much inventory, and it's like it says, like time to David kh you reach a point where you're just exhausted by the entire experience.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if.
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Speaker 2: It's still there or not. Southdales twenty plus year old cheesecake factory is preparing for an update a steak and seafood concept called Smithson from the owners of six s Smith sixth Mithsmith. I'm sorry is coming this fall into that place?
00:36:23
Speaker 1: Is with it?
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Speaker 2: And while that's boogie very much so, So.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I guess maybe the early analytics are good. About a decade ago, Barram Akarate, CEO and founder of Lifetime, was tipped off to an opportunity in struggling malls. To your point, with so many department stores closing, a banker friend suggested Lifetime could snap up a large plot of prime real estate. He balked Southdale had some of the highest vacancy rates among the Twin Cities regional malls. I didn't have the stature of ambiance to match Lifetime's positioning as an athletic country club, but a karate liked he dined in his demographics. Today's median annual household income is more than one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. Uh. So apparently he did contact David Simon, who is then the Simon's chief executive who.
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Speaker 1: Died this spring. And they are the Pacers owners.
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Speaker 2: Oh, they are the Okay, so I thought, I with a proposal to take over one of Southdale's empty anchor spaces, which you say, now they've now done.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and they've done that around the country at different malls. They're killing it.
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Speaker 2: I guess what is interesting and maybe maybe this is the future, because when I looked at it originally, it's like, God, well, wait a minute, I'm all confused. You got okay, you got you got these high end stores, you've got some other stores, you've got a Lifetime, you've got a Kowalski's.
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Speaker 1: Well what is it? But maybe that's the point.
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Speaker 2: Maybe looking at malls, that old way of malls are where stores are and where some restaurants are. Maybe that's maybe they'll start a revolution with this thing. I have no idea. Yes, I'm not like that anymore because part of it I look at it is like when you go to a grocery store, do you want to mess with parking.
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Speaker 1: At a mall?
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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying is you feel like, I mean, any place you go any big market, I mean big grocery store, you're gonna have to you know, there might be some parking issues, but the usually there's a parking lot for that. It's like, well, now I got to mess with going through mall traffic to get to But it's not the normal mall traffic.
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Speaker 1: No, it's not like you say, it's not Mall of America traffic where everybody's going there for the shopping, the eating, the rides, the movies, the entertainment, whatever it is. They're going there to work out that parking lot's always full. But the rest of it, there's not the sheer number of stores that there used to be. Yeah, and there's just few, Like you're going there for a very specific reason usually, so I bet the grocery store thing is not a big impediment. I even think about Arbor Lakes. You know where Portillo's is, and every other restaurant you could possibly want, Like they have two or three grocery stores out there, and if they do, it's sometimes difficult to get around, but people are doing it.
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Speaker 2: I've never yet, I will admit, I've never understood Arbor Lakes. I I think it's too much and I'm still not sure there's much there there, but there is a lot of stuff, and like you said, there's a Trader Joe's. I know it's always busy, which is always busy, which I you know, which is fine. But in terms of the actual like clothing stores, whatever the case may be, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: It just has I don't think you can get to every seat. But I think part of that that reason is you don't know what's in Arbor Lakes because you only go to get in Contact Lens. That's true or Portillo's. Yeah, and I don't think it's the most walkable place of all time. Like that's how you discover stores. Yeah, that's why you discover what else is there. You park and then you can get around and go, Hey, I didn't know they had one of these here everything seems so separated and sigregated, out spread out right.
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Speaker 2: It's the nature of the kind of you know it is. That's part of the deal too. Seven six three, Guy, I agree with the fabric. This is Steve Andover. I agree with the fabric comment. Northtown Mall and Blaine. Now they're coming in fast and furious.
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Speaker 1: Uh, oh my god. Here it is.
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Speaker 2: Northtown Mall and Blaine just opened their Asian section of the mall with groceries and restaurants, and it is serving our area quite well. Uh.
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Speaker 1: The common folk need not worry.
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Speaker 2: Southdale is saying a strong with their DMB location, the upscale entertainment slash eatery venue Dave and Busters.
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Speaker 1: That's pricey too. I avoid that as much as I can.
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Speaker 2: Parking is a breeze at Kowalski's in Southdale. Well, actually I have park there to go to Kowalskis from time to time.
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Speaker 1: It is, I guess it is. Uh. Part of my issue there is they've got they've got a very odd.
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Speaker 2: Series of arrows about which direction you go, and you suddenly find yourself and that you're heading the wrong way.
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Speaker 1: Yep. I've never gotten out of the Southdale parking Lot quickly, even though I was again, that's Dan.
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Speaker 2: One of the locker room guys at that Lifetime of Southdale told me it's the busiest one now in the I believe Twin Cities.
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Speaker 1: I believe it.
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Speaker 2: There's another Northtown mall uh pat in the back had become almost a ghost town. They put in what they call Asian Village, large Asian food court and Asian grocery store. Lots of people in the No go to movies at Old School Theater in South Minneapolis, Okay, no, shout out to Luigi's Restaurant by Southdale.
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Speaker 1: Well that I wasn't like ignoring him. I mean, that's not that's not quite that close's that's way down France. That's It's okay, but it's it's a great restaurant. Yeah, that's really not related. I did like PF. Chang's though. There.
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Speaker 2: My father in law was the person responsible for building the last rebuid of Southdale and Rosedale. He's retired now. The mall has to focus on the top ten percent of the American population. Is they are the ones with the purchasing power. That's why they attached to Lifetime.
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Speaker 1: That all makes sense. Like I said, they need they need fewer people, but they need people that have a lot of money that can spend Dan.
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Speaker 2: Do you think Aunt may have been talking tongue in cheek about the world's chance of landing Lebron. That's what we're going to ask Johnny at the bottom of the hour, because you could make the argument that he was playing. But then Anthony tends to have no filter. So it's a part of me that believes that he saw the list or I mean, does that mean Lebron has a written list like here, hey, An, you want to see my updated list?
00:42:25
Speaker 1: Not it's Lebron. I mean his agent had the white board. He showed us the white board. You can't rule that out. I don't know if Lebron has his own travel pack with it. Just took my daughter to Rosedale for a fourteenth birthday. Love how clean the mall is and they have a lot of shopping options and eating options. I actually enjoy it more than Mall of America. Rosedale's nice. Solid blame.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't been there in a while, but they they have a solid mall, very solid. I think the idea for is out there has to be centered around Lifetime. I heard Lifetime wanted to build condos they at the gym and Lifetime work already live, work and play yep, all in one spot. So but here's my question, what is it those luxury literally high the highest end stores that got stolen from Galleria. Is that at the top of the list of what's bringing people over or is it actually all the other stuff?
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: I have a hard time believing that even the upper crust shop enough at those really expensive stores, yeah, to sustain enough foot traffic if the idea is we're going to get more people in the mall.
00:43:29
Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Maybe maybe I'm naive about how much money is spent at.
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Speaker 1: The I think they're there. I think they're there enough, and you see it like you go to Vegas or you go to any like Ritzy mall spot even at MOA. The stores, the high high end stores are not typically full, right. It's not like you go into Old Navy where we go, and it's packed and you're running around trying to find your kids because the deals are so good and you can buy whatever you want for fifty bucks. Then you walk by those stores, the nice ones that have, you know, the really nice persus jewelry or whatever. There's nobody there. You never see anybody there, very rarely, right, But the stores are still there. So that tells you that they're getting enough people. They're getting enough people to pay the rent and make the money. Otherwise they wouldn't be there. You might be right so that you just don't need that many price.
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Speaker 2: But maybe it's the old it's the synergy of it's that and and you know Kowalski's and lifetime time and then there's the putt shack you'll base the doors, Yeah, if you want those two, all right, top of the r break top five line. I love the good mall, by the way, I think you and I are in alignment on it. That's true, I love them, but true, although I've lost my touch with that mall forever. When I live closer to it, I was at that that was the mall, the only one I really went to quit, frankly, and and then.
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Speaker 1: I thought then there a few times I was like, see me anything left here? What's going on? I didn't think there was enough there to bring me.
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Speaker 2: Uh. And now obviously that maybe they know that that perception was out there and they're trying to do something about it.
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Speaker 1: I missed Bolt the Gallery in Southdale from thirty years ago, back when I was living the dream. Top five you want that. Yes, we're gonna do kind of a weekend wrap. We might give you a little Lebron. We'll give you a little links and Byron Buxton is back. I think you're listening.
Speaker 1: The Smashing Pumpkins on October thirteen. Tickets are on sale now. Get to complete details on all the upcoming shows on the concert page at kfan dot com keyword calendar. I think we're gonna have to.
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Speaker 2: Put out a bat signal, maybe as soon as tomorrow for our old friend Michael Hurley, because certainly appears things are ramping up again.
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Speaker 1: In Iran our attacks on them.
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Speaker 2: They're attacking all over the Middle East at this point, I'm looking at a cbsnews dot com story indicating, via Jennifer Jacobs, nearly one hundred US service members have been injured in Iranian attacks on multiple basis in the Middle East this month. US officials told me some suffered brain injuries. Most have already turned to duty, two of the officials, said. A Chief on spokesman Sean Parnell confirmed the numbers in a statement to CBS. While one hundred service members were deemed to have some degree of injury, since this is just since July seven, ninety six percent return to duty. They are determined to get back in the fight. Vast majority of injuries experienced were minor concussions. Further updates we posted on the Defense casualty analysis system, so it may be time to see where we are, where we're headed, and.
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Speaker 1: Is there an end game?
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's obviously always the question. And we we've we've had so many stops and starts, I feel like since this thing started, so we'll probably do. So let me get to some texts I mentioned, A bunch of them are in and then we've got a number of subjects to explore today beyond Johnny joining us at five thirty. Mike Wrights, just curious if you're going to talk about the latest WNBA convers are regarding the quote protected species comment. I think it's ridiculous, but love to hear your opinion. I don't know about this one. Do you know anything about the protected species?
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Speaker 1: Yes? I think it's the Toronto coach who used to be the New York Liberty coach when they beat us for the title. She went on a rant about Angel Reese and in the rant said she's one of like the protected species. Basically, she was suspended for a game. She apologizes what does she do the coach for the species part of it, and she went full Pelt immediately on social media and otherwise, And I don't know this part verbatim, but basically saying that's common in like Australian vernacular to just kind of to talk like that. Well is she so?
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Speaker 2: Is The point she was allegedly attempting to make was name players are protected. I think here in the thin So yeah, okay, so she was suspended for a game, and so that's the coach was yes for the comment.
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Speaker 1: Interesting, that's the backstory.
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Speaker 2: Was who made the decision on that suspension. Was it WNBA commission or the NBA commission. I think Adam Silver got involved. No, I don't know, not sure. Uh. Dan Dave checking in from Des Moines, recent soccer fan who thoroughly enjoyed the tournament, A little sad it's over, especially, want to thank the fan and yourself for helping us enjoy it. Your guests well informed, provided interesting analysis, made the games fun to watch, if not mesmerizing. In honor of Spain's win, I'm currently making a traditional Spanish is poio ah ahiel I'll a heel chicken with garlic while listening to a bumper to bumper and sipping a Spanish yoha.
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Speaker 1: That sounds very good to me. That sounds excellent.
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Speaker 2: Dan on the Vikings. The only position we feel good about is wide receiver. We should be asking if we have an active competition at every other position, as none of them should be viewed as a lock.
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Speaker 1: Well.
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Speaker 2: Another example of where we need to get have a covenant catch up.
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Speaker 1: Is who's the big, huge.
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Speaker 2: Defensive lineman that we drafted in round one who everybody says, if he stays healthy, the foot guy killed Banks might be the best player in history.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna have to make room in the ring of honor exactly.
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Speaker 2: He's got, you know, issues in his feet problematic. That was always the question about whether it's worth the gamble tight round one. What I want to know is do we know what kind of schedule he's on? In other words, as when training camp starts. Is he full as far as we know for right now? Is he a guy that's we're gonna have to baby a little bit. That's one of the things that we need to come and catch up on, don't you think, because that's pretty important.
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Speaker 1: He's a key guy.
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Speaker 2: If I mean, if you want to think Polydanna you go.
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Speaker 1: They figured this guy's health out. His feet are fine.
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Speaker 2: He's never gonna look back again and have any issues that he's healthy and he's going to come in and be a monster, because the people who evaluate players basically say that, they say, if you can get health from this guy, he will be the heart of your defense for ten years. So we certainly talked about the need for greater strength, big ness in where the interior.
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Speaker 1: Line at the line of scrimmage.
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Speaker 2: Defensively, that's the kind of physicality we tend to associate with, let's say the Philadelphia Eagles, Right, this is what's always seemed to be the strength of the Eagles and that we've tended to be more finessey. It felt like right, and this guy's power if he can pull it off. So hopefully we'll probably bring Guestling back. I'm guessing this Friday we could go with all the footbuddy.
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Speaker 1: Maybe we want.
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Speaker 2: Maybe we even try to now that Sefferts try to insinuate himself into everything, maybe we get him back on tomorrow's program because Tuesday's usual his day.
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Speaker 1: O'Connell said, and Mini camp koc here's the quote. We're already to a point where we want to have our eyes on the end of July. That's the hope, which is when training camp starts so there. Back then, they were projecting and hopeful that he was the hope he would be ready. That's so open ended when you.
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Speaker 2: Say hope as opposed to he's on track, Will he will start? You know, because I don't even remember I need I needed to bone up on his even his surgery history, you know about when when's the last because he's had that's part of the issue. That was the red flag for some teams. They knew he was good, but they just didn't know if they could trust his body. And his most recent foot injury was like combine relater. Remember it was the bad cleats. That's right, he broke his forth metatarsal in his left foot. It's not that far off. And he's he's what three fifty three sixty.
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Speaker 1: He's a big boy. He's a big kid. Yeah, huge is what he is. Dan JG. This is from Kyle, I Santi.
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Speaker 2: How can they have us at the bottom of the division and Love hasn't proved himself or can stay healthy? And were there wide receiver corps, arguably none of them will be higher than a three or four on our depth chart. Yeah, I mean I don't necessarily think the Packers are bulletproof by any means. They have some of their own issues. That doesn't change the fact that we have ours, right, I still believe. Don't you think though that it is like last year to this year. Last year, I don't think there was a great Obviously the Vikings bottom dout until they didn't, so you know, record wise, you look between first and fourth, there was like a two three game difference, you know what I mean, there was it seemed like there was a lot of parody within the division. Like, yes, I kind of feel like that this year too, Like I don't think there's a a slam Dunk rock bottom team, and I don't think there's a fourteen and three team necessarily. Well, you know, so all the predictions could have wiggle room, I guess, is my point, because there I think a lot of these the four teams could be interchangeable as we go. Sure the fanomigdck dot com want to help with that four o'clock keyword is check. Go to kfan dot com and enter the keyword check.
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Speaker 2: I mentioned on sermons yesterday a brief uh departure into the real world, only because I'd seen somewhere via X reporting it appeared on a mass shooting at uptown. That term is you know, is used loosely, but there's it's defined with a given number. And I'm thinking, oh, that's concerning. And so I went to my former newspaper, startumwing dot com.
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Speaker 1: And there was literally not a word reported on it.
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Speaker 2: So then I went to the Google and I noticed that Box nine had a story on it, five had a story on it. CCOTV had a story on it. I mean almost I think pretty much every TV station. And again it was basic stuff, but they at least reported it.
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Speaker 1: Then.
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Speaker 2: And eventually, by the way there there was a very pedestrian, not at all fleshed out news story if you want to even call it. That might have been seven paragraphs. And then I come to find out there was another mass shooting.
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Speaker 1: The next afternoon.
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Speaker 2: Go back to Starthimbute dot com. Nothing on it until maybe I might have seen something at nine o'clock this morning. Finally, again long after the TV stations had reported it. It's it's it's it's it's puzzling to me. I don't know if it's manpower. I have no idea, But it's a newspaper, man, you have to And I said on Sunday, you know a newspaper that just want a pulitzer for outstanding reporting and coverage on the ice search, But day to day you can't have TV stations beat you. When I say it's beat them, I don't mean on TV, I mean in print. They all have at their website stories before you do. We have so much discussion about violence and gun violence and how important.
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Speaker 1: It is to.
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Speaker 2: Report on this stuff ordinarily and even to opine on it.
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Speaker 1: And I, man, I just kind of shake my head.
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Speaker 2: That that's supposed to be still even in twenty twenty six. As far as I'm concerned. The lifeblood of what any newspaper is reporting the news. And I mentioned this to someone who'll go remain nameless, that the sad truth of the slowness of the acknowledgment of these stories.
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Speaker 1: You know what it does.
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Speaker 2: It plays into the hands of the conspiracy theorists who think, oh, that's because.
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Speaker 1: They want to bury it.
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Speaker 2: They want to, they don't even want they want to act like there is no such thing as any violence in Minneapolis. They're burying that on purpose, which I don't believe, honestly don't. I think it's lack of emphasis or man whatever. But that's what you contribute to cover the news man. And it is interesting because let me, I guess, get a little background. I mean, the last I have is the second shooting. The first shooting in Uptown involved nine I believe the second one left one. I believe one person dead and four others injured. This was Sunday night. The first mass shooting happened outside rain Events Center about little after midnight Sunday. The second apparently occurred in the eighteen hundred block of Nickel At Avenue at about eight twenty pm Sunday. I'm actually here now, quoting from Bring Me the News story. I think this might have even been written by tiny Joe Nelson. Minneapolis Police Department says officers responded to the scene to find four victims, including two men ages twenty eight and twenty four, respectively, who are suffering from a actually life threatening issues or injuries, and two other men forty three and thirty seven who sustained non life threatening injuries. And then they lay out that a twenty eight year old victim died after being taken a head up in healthcare. Preliminary information MPD in a Monday morning press release indicates that the gunfire erupted outside of business in the eighteen hundred block of Nicolett Avenue, injuring the five men and the last I saw no rest of it made, although I haven't been on any of the sites now to see if there's anything new about that. Here's what's also interesting to me, and this is via finally a starterimune dot com story that has some.
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Speaker 1: Reporting in it. Let me see if I can find the This is from the mayor statement released.
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Speaker 2: The shooting in Uptown last night is intolerable and we will be working to hold the perpetrator's accountable for the sensils act of violence. This is a stark reminder of keeping our streets safe requires every tool available. He goes on in the statement to say, we need partnerships where the perpetrators of these acts are arrested and prosecuted. We need to continue hiring more police officers to both investigate and prevent gun crimes, and we must embrace proven technologies from drones to shot spotter that allow our police to do their jobs with greater efficiency. That's where it gets back into the politics.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know.
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Speaker 2: How consciously the mayor went down that road to make a point he wanted to make regarding the technologies. But you'll recall, as is noted at the starting in Peace, just last week, the city council deadlocked and failed to approve a seventy five day pilot program using two more drones to help police in North Minneapolis. Now they point out in this story that Minneapolis police have been using drones since twenty twenty two. City council member Here'shavita proposed to expand the drone program to her north side ward, saying the drones could respond much quicker than the understaffed police force and give officers valuable information about what's happening on the ground, reduce response times, and a free police for other calls. But the proposed free trial with skideo by pronouncing that right Skydo prompted a wave of opposition because the company supplies drones to the US Department of Defense and twenty nine allied nations, including Israel. Opponents warned that if the city partnered with the company Skidio.
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Speaker 1: It would be complicit. It would be complicit.
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Speaker 2: In the Israeli military's operations in Gossam.
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Speaker 1: We're back to performing.
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Speaker 2: You got a choice, and a lot of times the choices being made to me on the basis of performance. Because if you do not have enough police officers, and we still don't, even though progress has been made in that regard, then you have to use, you have to attempt, I think, to use technology. Now, presumably the technology used here would not be quite the same as what was used in Israel, and that's a discussion for another time. But in the end, who suffers when this technology is not used?
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Speaker 1: Citizens? Sometimes citizens in harms way.
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Speaker 2: And as long as that's the game, as long as you want to get yourself involved in foreign policy issues or what companies are involved with whatever technology, or i should say, with this company different technology, then you're probably going to find yourself continually frustrated.
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Speaker 1: In that sense. You're allowed, I think.
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Speaker 2: To decry certain policies and still believe that for the purposes of what you need to get accomplished here locally, we need to do it.
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Speaker 1: We can need what we need to do. Now, is this the only company that has this technology.
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Speaker 2: I don't have any idea, but again, the irony is, according to this story, drones are being used already.
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Speaker 1: It's not like there's no use of them.
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Speaker 2: It's a matter of attempting to expand them, and we're I think.
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Speaker 1: Learning again that.
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Speaker 2: Imagery and getting involved in foreign policy issues dictates for some people the direction they want to go more than what's going on on the ground here. What do we have available to us to better deal with these issues? But that goes back to having I think strong leaders who can deal with the kind of criticism that you might get, or having the ability to articulate the difference between what this technology would do here and where it might be used elsewhere. So in any case, it didn't sound like a very good weekend.
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Speaker 1: It sounds like rain that location.
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Speaker 2: The Serge Mune analysis of about two hundred and seventy Minneapolis nine one one calls the clubs addressed in twenty twenty one shows incidents tripled from about thirty in twenty twenty four to more than one hundred in.
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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 2: Those calls most commonly involved drug used, suspicious persons, fights, medical needs, and various other disturbances too. So there you have it. There's the latest and I don't know. Do you see anything about arrests in either of these cases?
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Speaker 1: I do not, no, but I haven't been tracking it quite as closely. But I just scanning those stories that you were talking about, I haven't seen those either. Quick pause, bott of the hour break. We will get to some texts.
00:19:09
Speaker 2: As promised, Top five at five yet to come Johnny athletic. Will he break anything new on Lebron? Does he feel humiliated by the possibility that Anthony Edwards beat him to the story at least as it pertains to Lebron James coming here?
00:19:24
Speaker 1: Or will Johnny say.
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Speaker 2: Not so sure that Anthony's got their full story on that.
00:19:31
Speaker 1: We'll find out in about an hour. This is bumper to bumper with Dan Barrero Alo fan Leant to correct myself.
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Speaker 2: I actually do think the start to Mute had excellent ID the Metro Surge coverage. I think it's been throughout tenacious, aggressive and they've done a really over period of time. When it was at its zenith here, I thought the reporting was very, very good on that story, but the Pulitzer obviously goes further back.
00:20:12
Speaker 1: You don't when Pultzer's that quick.
00:20:13
Speaker 2: That goes back to the coverage of the Annunciation shootings last August. That's the the Polster one or by the Star Tribune.
00:20:28
Speaker 1: So we correct the record.
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Speaker 2: There lots of texts coming into the branch around Brian k fa n text line g Dan the Red started in reporting the weekend shootings. Where are we East Germany. Well, there's a lot of those, and like I said, that's what contributes to I've just again I I've quoted from a piece today.
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Speaker 1: It has good reporting it.
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Speaker 2: But the idea that when you google that sort of story there is literally not even there was not even a headline on it as long as that took is alarming to me. If I'm if I'm still involved with.
00:21:11
Speaker 1: The UH with the newspaper, it's it's.
00:21:13
Speaker 2: Like, man, I that I would think, no matter what else you're cutting back or whatever else you're doing, I just think that's supposed to be something covering hard news, breaking news, spot news like that that I thought was supposed to be kind of.
00:21:33
Speaker 1: Non negotiable. Well, they're all listening to the same scanners, right, Well, yeah, you would imagine.
00:21:38
Speaker 2: Are they.
00:21:38
Speaker 1: But that's the question they're still listening to the scanner there. I don't even know. I would imagine so. And when I say scamming, they're all. They've all got the same methods essentially to find out what's happening in terms of safety and following what the police are up to to know where they're going. Yeah, I don't I don't disagree with that.
00:22:04
Speaker 2: Let me get to a couple of others here, red star, a lot of red stars. This goes back to the Angel Reese, the comment by the former Liberty coach. It wasn't directed or Reese. It was directed towards the officials, meaning they were making poor calls. A protective species is common in Australian slang. Is always meant to call it the referees, as any did with race, gender, sexual preference. The coach getting suspended as a joke, just like this league. So was the I guess I should go and try to find the news stories on it did in in deciding that she had to be that she was suspended he he.
00:22:44
Speaker 1: Or she former coach?
00:22:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, were the reasons given.
00:22:53
Speaker 1: An inappropriate comment? Okay? It just left at that, Yes, is was the main reason or what it said in the statement.
00:23:03
Speaker 2: Dan, you touched on this yesterday during sermon's thoughts on the shootings, coverage on them over the week outreak and Okay, this was sent in earlier before I did talk about that mass stampede scramble event at North Loop Green yesterday during World Cup watch party. I don't know anything about that or if indeed it's been covered, but we have tried to cover a little bit on.
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Speaker 1: The downtown.
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Speaker 2: Well, the two shootings, one was up to I think the first of the two was indeed uptown. Former hibbing guy now living in Phoenix. I've been in Stepont Stpauona, Spain for the entire World Cup. Never see anything as crazy. It's a victory celebration after last night Spain win. Stepauonna is a tourist town in the Mediterranean, but I found a place frequented mainly by locals which brought an entirely new Uh.
00:23:59
Speaker 1: Well, you must have dictated this.
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Speaker 2: I'm not filing not only the adult celebrating my entire families to see their joy of something I'll remember the rest of my life.
00:24:06
Speaker 1: Well, the crowds.
00:24:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, there were a couple shots of Madrid, a couple of town squares, in Madrid where it.
00:24:12
Speaker 1: It was endless.
00:24:13
Speaker 2: I mean there were people pretty much in every direction. Nine to five two guy who's a better defender Messy or late season Julius Randall.
00:24:24
Speaker 1: Wow, he's in Brooklyn. Now, come on, we've moved on. Man. That's that's on Pie down hard though I need Kevin Harlan for that one.
00:24:32
Speaker 2: Well, it was an education for me, even by MESSI standards to see him a couple of times literally where there's stuff.
00:24:40
Speaker 1: Going on around him and he's literally just standing.
00:24:42
Speaker 2: It's like he could have gotten that ball, he could have gone a little closer. He just I'm not I'm they allow me to not play defense. Yeah, he's Messy, But Jamie made a good point there. If you're already down a player, then you are down too defensively to that extent.
00:25:00
Speaker 1: Or don't you can't you say to him because taking him out is impossible, that would be sacrilegious, can't you say to him Messi, mister Messi, we got like thirty minutes left, Yeah, this is it.
00:25:12
Speaker 2: You might be done after this, and we don't want you to have to cry after the match.
00:25:16
Speaker 1: We needed to leave it all out there this time. There wasn't not every time, maybe, but if you think you could do it, like maybe just a little bit more. No, it did look it's almost done. It looked exhibition y. It really did. Jamie Randall did it the first couple of possessions of decisive Game six where he just stood there and let the Spurs dunk and get an ad one. You kind of knew which way the night was going to go.
00:25:38
Speaker 2: So in the fact we were playing, uh, four defensive guys against five, Yeah, felt worse somehow. Jamie is absolutely brilliant. The Minnesota Twins are resilient. Lavelle needs to get no Lamello needs to get his tattoo fulfillment Wolves and fought. What confused me was he wrote Lovello. So I'm thinking, well, is this do you mean Lavelli?
00:26:04
Speaker 1: You Neil the Third him when he gets his tattoos? So he did mean like it maybe did mean yea. We established that in another controversial Lavelli Neil the Third appearance on Friday that when he gets his tattoos, I'm going to call him.
00:26:16
Speaker 2: You met Lavello and I just misread it twice. Now he remembers the show better than us. Yeah, that's nothing new there. That happens all the time. Lavello Neil the third.
00:26:27
Speaker 1: Well, so I'm still getting texts about the Angel thing.
00:26:30
Speaker 2: So is in the popular culture is the notion that this coach, what this coach said was racist as it pertains to special treatment for the black player Angel Reese. Is that is that the allegation? Yes, and that's what she apologized for. Yeah, basically saying because she's from Australia and basically saying it's common phrase where I'm from. And then in her statement or whatever, basically I know that, ye, and I'm this.
00:27:01
Speaker 1: Is my interitorial comment. Okay. Unfortunately for me, I live in a racist country now, and so when you say something like that in Australia, that's commonplace. We say that all the time here. I understand it might have a little bit different meaning or connotation or be taken a different way.
00:27:17
Speaker 2: Again, silly me, But couldn't the connotation be what it often is in sports, the coach saying certain players, as in because they're well known, not because they're black or white, get preferential treatment.
00:27:31
Speaker 1: I know that's a radical concept.
00:27:33
Speaker 2: I know that's beyond that's beyond us. Because nuance is completely out the window. But in this case, it didn't sound like it took the WNBA quite as long as it took to suspend a player for chief shot in Kaitlyn Clark.
00:27:48
Speaker 1: Huh No, they got they got to real Quickick. Maybe they learned from the last time that they've got to take action. I'm sure that's what it is. Can we go all the way to the top? We can do?
00:28:00
Speaker 2: We need to bring I'm just trying to remember, did I? I thought I broke at the bottom, didn't I? Yes, you did? Okay, that's good enough. All right, here's one this is might be up your alley. I think we've talked about this before. I'm saving a really juicy one for tomorrow when we need when we have a little bit more time. But this, this did interest me a little bit. Another attempt. It appears to energize the world's first indoor shopping mall. Did you see the story that started to viewing had the other day on this?
00:28:41
Speaker 1: I did. I had not read it yet, but I'm I'm familiar with this.
00:28:44
Speaker 2: Rachel Hutton and Carson Hartsog wrote it, an old idea is new and extra fancy at south Dale Center, the shopping mall that started at all. This spring's opening of Tiffany and Company marks the completion of Southdale's gleaming new luxury wing.
00:29:03
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:29:05
Speaker 2: On a recent weekday, there was a little foot traffic to scuff up the white marble floors, unlike the Adyna Centers opening day seventy years ago. That fall, seventy five thousand people came to see the country's first fully enclosed, climate controlled shopping mall. So apparently since twenty twelve, the Southdale owner that's the Simon Property Group, the country's largest mall owner is that in Indiana and Indianapolis. Guy Indiana Guy, I thought they were Indiana guys. The Simons where dorn they involved in team ownership? Anyway, I'll look it up. Has spent about four hundred million dollars to reboot the center that in the past decade or so has underperformed. Out went casual chain eateries Buffalo Wild Wings and PF.
00:29:50
Speaker 1: Chang's.
00:29:52
Speaker 2: In came upscale merchandise of a tear in abundance not previously seen in Minnesota, between Rolex watches, Blueberry should say Berbery lad Bikinis, Max Mara or Mara camel hair coats and Gucci purses. So it's a big swing and the strategy fascinates me because basically, I think Southdale stole all many of those luxury stores from the GALLERYA.
00:30:21
Speaker 1: I was going to say they moved a few blocks north exactly yea, And I, for the life of me.
00:30:31
Speaker 2: Question whether this is going to be the home run that they projected to be. Now, I don't know what the early indications are. Will continue to take a look at what's offered in this story.
00:30:43
Speaker 1: But is that enough? I mean, lots of malls are.
00:30:50
Speaker 2: All over the country, I don't think are as healthy as they used to be. Mall of America I think seems to be one of the exceptions. It is, But that's the kind of thing that's gonna There's you know, there's a Kowalskis in the new South Dale as well. There's a life tremendous Kowalski's. It's massive, one of the biggest qualities I've ever seen. There's an incredible lifetime.
00:31:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, so is this does this have a chance to go? I don't know.
00:31:19
Speaker 2: Six four six eighty six is the Bradshawn Bryant kfan text line, because again I haven't done any research on it, but my gut, I see you know, yeah, I am a Galleria guy.
00:31:32
Speaker 1: I do like the.
00:31:33
Speaker 2: Galleria, although those stores I really don't spend a lot of time at there. At one they were at one end, and I didn't really go to that end very often. There were some other stores that I liked, including I'm a big Barnes and Noble guys. You know, but I saw that, you know, my I saw it was it was happening while it was happening, and I'm sure they must have given financial incentive. In fact, I know at least one of those stores is much bigger because it's a bigger space than they had a for sure, So maybe that gives them a chance to succeed. But the larger question is all of that enough to start a revolution and bring back the glory days for Southdale? That's my question. I'm skeptical.
00:32:15
Speaker 1: No, But because that stuff is so big ticket, you don't need the glory days. You just need enough of the beautiful people. You need enough of the beautiful people to go there. And they've got a couple of new restaurants in there. I have not been there. The only time I go to Lifetime is or I should say to Southdale is for the lifetime at this point in my life, and it's a phenomenal lifetime. They've got a pool deck up top. Yeah, I have seen it. I know it's unbelievable. And now they're making now what's new in malls too, which I love and you take advantage of this, the fact that because fewer people go to the malls, that means they need fewer parking spots. What do they do? They just throw it down a shake shack in a corner where there used to be parking and then that's another way to use the spot. They're doing that in a couple of different corners at a hotel now ye where a parking lot used to be. So they're trying a bunch of different things.
00:33:02
Speaker 2: To remain relevant in a disrupted sector that has sent many Minnesota malls, including Burnsville and Maybewood into bankruptcy and foreclosure. Southdales are turning to its pass. The mall two point zero brings back the mixed use, community oriented elements.
00:33:17
Speaker 1: It's the words are unfortunately a lot of romance shopping center too.
00:33:23
Speaker 2: Simon's betting big that the rebooted south They will entice people of all ages and all walks of life for a wide variety of reasons. Foot traffic data gathered this spring shows the investment seems to be paying off of the nearly thirty percent increase compared to two thousand and nineteen. Shopping centers have to be a fabric of the community, said Tom Hanschaar, Simon's VP of Leasing. Doesn't that seem a little high falutin a fabric of the community.
00:33:51
Speaker 1: I don't know, that's what I said. It's a little flowery.
00:33:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Sometimes shopping will be part of it, sometimes not.
00:33:57
Speaker 1: I don't know.
00:33:57
Speaker 2: I'd be curious to get any opinions of the bratch on Brian Caffey and text line six four six, eight six. They kind of lay out the history of Southdale over the decades in the mall rats here of the nineties. Southdale was where teenagers got their ears pierced inhaled, cinnabons, and.
00:34:15
Speaker 1: Flirted and I did all three of those on them all.
00:34:18
Speaker 2: While the dynam Mall didn't have the international draw Bloomington's behemoth, the Mall of America, it brimmed with cultural significance. As the subject of SAT questions in the place where a steam musicians launched careers, and.
00:34:33
Speaker 1: So now you to spend more time there.
00:34:34
Speaker 2: Set of the galleria, Apple Sephora, overall space fields, a bit schizophrenic, luxury wing sales, savage joke about whose shot pours the best bubbly. Meanwhile, the small dark lower level with a chess club, dance studio, and escape room could be the setting of an indie horror flick. Southdale's million square feet contained pickleball courts, a movie theater. Does anybody go to the movies even there or any place anymore?
00:35:00
Speaker 1: People are coming back. I just read a story over the weekend that the younger kids because it's different to them. It's different now, so it's a unique experience to actually go to a theater more than ma.
00:35:11
Speaker 2: Southdale competes with its next door neighbor galleria, the upscale boutique mall that spawned from Gabbert's Furniture in the nineteen seventies.
00:35:19
Speaker 1: I think, is gabert still in there.
00:35:21
Speaker 2: I've maintained here when Gabbert's was in its old place.
00:35:26
Speaker 1: I think it's either gone or moved, or maybe it remodeled.
00:35:29
Speaker 2: I submit to you that it was the one furniture store. Here's what I would equate going to that Gabbert's. For me, it was like talking to David Kahn. There was so much inventory and so many levels and so much space.
00:35:49
Speaker 1: It was overwhelming. You don't even know where to look.
00:35:52
Speaker 2: Where to turn, because there's just there was too much inventory, and it's like it says, like time to David kh you reach a point where you're just exhausted by the entire experience.
00:36:04
Speaker 1: I don't know if.
00:36:05
Speaker 2: It's still there or not. Southdales twenty plus year old cheesecake factory is preparing for an update a steak and seafood concept called Smithson from the owners of six s Smith sixth Mithsmith. I'm sorry is coming this fall into that place?
00:36:23
Speaker 1: Is with it?
00:36:24
Speaker 2: And while that's boogie very much so, So.
00:36:27
Speaker 1: I don't know.
00:36:28
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess maybe the early analytics are good. About a decade ago, Barram Akarate, CEO and founder of Lifetime, was tipped off to an opportunity in struggling malls. To your point, with so many department stores closing, a banker friend suggested Lifetime could snap up a large plot of prime real estate. He balked Southdale had some of the highest vacancy rates among the Twin Cities regional malls. I didn't have the stature of ambiance to match Lifetime's positioning as an athletic country club, but a karate liked he dined in his demographics. Today's median annual household income is more than one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. Uh. So apparently he did contact David Simon, who is then the Simon's chief executive who.
00:37:16
Speaker 1: Died this spring. And they are the Pacers owners.
00:37:18
Speaker 2: Oh, they are the Okay, so I thought, I with a proposal to take over one of Southdale's empty anchor spaces, which you say, now they've now done.
00:37:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they've done that around the country at different malls. They're killing it.
00:37:28
Speaker 2: I guess what is interesting and maybe maybe this is the future, because when I looked at it originally, it's like, God, well, wait a minute, I'm all confused. You got okay, you got you got these high end stores, you've got some other stores, you've got a Lifetime, you've got a Kowalski's.
00:37:45
Speaker 1: Well what is it? But maybe that's the point.
00:37:48
Speaker 2: Maybe looking at malls, that old way of malls are where stores are and where some restaurants are. Maybe that's maybe they'll start a revolution with this thing. I have no idea. Yes, I'm not like that anymore because part of it I look at it is like when you go to a grocery store, do you want to mess with parking.
00:38:07
Speaker 1: At a mall?
00:38:08
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying is you feel like, I mean, any place you go any big market, I mean big grocery store, you're gonna have to you know, there might be some parking issues, but the usually there's a parking lot for that. It's like, well, now I got to mess with going through mall traffic to get to But it's not the normal mall traffic.
00:38:22
Speaker 1: No, it's not like you say, it's not Mall of America traffic where everybody's going there for the shopping, the eating, the rides, the movies, the entertainment, whatever it is. They're going there to work out that parking lot's always full. But the rest of it, there's not the sheer number of stores that there used to be. Yeah, and there's just few, Like you're going there for a very specific reason usually, so I bet the grocery store thing is not a big impediment. I even think about Arbor Lakes. You know where Portillo's is, and every other restaurant you could possibly want, Like they have two or three grocery stores out there, and if they do, it's sometimes difficult to get around, but people are doing it.
00:38:56
Speaker 2: I've never yet, I will admit, I've never understood Arbor Lakes. I I think it's too much and I'm still not sure there's much there there, but there is a lot of stuff, and like you said, there's a Trader Joe's. I know it's always busy, which is always busy, which I you know, which is fine. But in terms of the actual like clothing stores, whatever the case may be, I don't know.
00:39:17
Speaker 1: It just has I don't think you can get to every seat. But I think part of that that reason is you don't know what's in Arbor Lakes because you only go to get in Contact Lens. That's true or Portillo's. Yeah, and I don't think it's the most walkable place of all time. Like that's how you discover stores. Yeah, that's why you discover what else is there. You park and then you can get around and go, Hey, I didn't know they had one of these here everything seems so separated and sigregated, out spread out right.
00:39:44
Speaker 2: It's the nature of the kind of you know it is. That's part of the deal too. Seven six three, Guy, I agree with the fabric. This is Steve Andover. I agree with the fabric comment. Northtown Mall and Blaine. Now they're coming in fast and furious.
00:40:00
Speaker 1: Uh, oh my god. Here it is.
00:40:06
Speaker 2: Northtown Mall and Blaine just opened their Asian section of the mall with groceries and restaurants, and it is serving our area quite well. Uh.
00:40:12
Speaker 1: The common folk need not worry.
00:40:14
Speaker 2: Southdale is saying a strong with their DMB location, the upscale entertainment slash eatery venue Dave and Busters.
00:40:25
Speaker 1: That's pricey too. I avoid that as much as I can.
00:40:28
Speaker 2: Parking is a breeze at Kowalski's in Southdale. Well, actually I have park there to go to Kowalskis from time to time.
00:40:34
Speaker 1: It is, I guess it is. Uh. Part of my issue there is they've got they've got a very odd.
00:40:40
Speaker 2: Series of arrows about which direction you go, and you suddenly find yourself and that you're heading the wrong way.
00:40:45
Speaker 1: Yep. I've never gotten out of the Southdale parking Lot quickly, even though I was again, that's Dan.
00:40:51
Speaker 2: One of the locker room guys at that Lifetime of Southdale told me it's the busiest one now in the I believe Twin Cities.
00:40:57
Speaker 1: I believe it.
00:40:57
Speaker 2: There's another Northtown mall uh pat in the back had become almost a ghost town. They put in what they call Asian Village, large Asian food court and Asian grocery store. Lots of people in the No go to movies at Old School Theater in South Minneapolis, Okay, no, shout out to Luigi's Restaurant by Southdale.
00:41:24
Speaker 1: Well that I wasn't like ignoring him. I mean, that's not that's not quite that close's that's way down France. That's It's okay, but it's it's a great restaurant. Yeah, that's really not related. I did like PF. Chang's though. There.
00:41:38
Speaker 2: My father in law was the person responsible for building the last rebuid of Southdale and Rosedale. He's retired now. The mall has to focus on the top ten percent of the American population. Is they are the ones with the purchasing power. That's why they attached to Lifetime.
00:41:55
Speaker 1: That all makes sense. Like I said, they need they need fewer people, but they need people that have a lot of money that can spend Dan.
00:42:02
Speaker 2: Do you think Aunt may have been talking tongue in cheek about the world's chance of landing Lebron. That's what we're going to ask Johnny at the bottom of the hour, because you could make the argument that he was playing. But then Anthony tends to have no filter. So it's a part of me that believes that he saw the list or I mean, does that mean Lebron has a written list like here, hey, An, you want to see my updated list?
00:42:25
Speaker 1: Not it's Lebron. I mean his agent had the white board. He showed us the white board. You can't rule that out. I don't know if Lebron has his own travel pack with it. Just took my daughter to Rosedale for a fourteenth birthday. Love how clean the mall is and they have a lot of shopping options and eating options. I actually enjoy it more than Mall of America. Rosedale's nice. Solid blame.
00:42:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't been there in a while, but they they have a solid mall, very solid. I think the idea for is out there has to be centered around Lifetime. I heard Lifetime wanted to build condos they at the gym and Lifetime work already live, work and play yep, all in one spot. So but here's my question, what is it those luxury literally high the highest end stores that got stolen from Galleria. Is that at the top of the list of what's bringing people over or is it actually all the other stuff?
00:43:15
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
00:43:15
Speaker 2: I have a hard time believing that even the upper crust shop enough at those really expensive stores, yeah, to sustain enough foot traffic if the idea is we're going to get more people in the mall.
00:43:29
Speaker 1: I don't know.
00:43:29
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe I'm naive about how much money is spent at.
00:43:32
Speaker 1: The I think they're there. I think they're there enough, and you see it like you go to Vegas or you go to any like Ritzy mall spot even at MOA. The stores, the high high end stores are not typically full, right. It's not like you go into Old Navy where we go, and it's packed and you're running around trying to find your kids because the deals are so good and you can buy whatever you want for fifty bucks. Then you walk by those stores, the nice ones that have, you know, the really nice persus jewelry or whatever. There's nobody there. You never see anybody there, very rarely, right, But the stores are still there. So that tells you that they're getting enough people. They're getting enough people to pay the rent and make the money. Otherwise they wouldn't be there. You might be right so that you just don't need that many price.
00:44:18
Speaker 2: But maybe it's the old it's the synergy of it's that and and you know Kowalski's and lifetime time and then there's the putt shack you'll base the doors, Yeah, if you want those two, all right, top of the r break top five line. I love the good mall, by the way, I think you and I are in alignment on it. That's true, I love them, but true, although I've lost my touch with that mall forever. When I live closer to it, I was at that that was the mall, the only one I really went to quit, frankly, and and then.
00:44:46
Speaker 1: I thought then there a few times I was like, see me anything left here? What's going on? I didn't think there was enough there to bring me.
00:44:55
Speaker 2: Uh. And now obviously that maybe they know that that perception was out there and they're trying to do something about it.
00:45:01
Speaker 1: I missed Bolt the Gallery in Southdale from thirty years ago, back when I was living the dream. Top five you want that. Yes, we're gonna do kind of a weekend wrap. We might give you a little Lebron. We'll give you a little links and Byron Buxton is back. I think you're listening.
