HR. 2 - Tommy's Glory Days

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I'm Nancy Glass, host of the Burden of Guilt Season 2 podcast. This is a story about a horrendous lie that destroyed two families. Late one night, Bobby Gumpright became the victim of a random crime. The perpetrator was sentenced to 99 years until a confession changed everything. I was a monster. Listen to Burden of Guilt Season 2 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. NLP was used on me to access my subconscious. Mind Games, a new podcast exploring NLP, a.k.a. neurolinguistic programming. Is it a self-help miracle, a shady hypnosis scam, or both? Listen to Mind Games on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back. Power to the Morning Show. Here we are. Fargo Flesh and Tommy Olsen in there. Hogsdaddy! Yeah, man. You're going up to Duluth this weekend? Montreal? No, I'm going to Montreal this weekend. That's exciting, dude. Yeah, it should be fun. Have you been, Fargo? I've never been. I haven't either. I'm looking forward to it. That'll be good. And I'm hoping I'm feeling better by the time I get on the plane tomorrow. And then Buffalo, New York the week after this, which is good, too. I like that place, too. Yeah. Have you been to the place that invented the Buffalo Wings? What's that? An anchor bar or whatever? No. You got to go when you're there. I'm not a big Buffalo Wing fan. Oh, yeah. You don't like bones. I don't like the bones. Yeah, you don't like bones. Do not. I forgot about that. Do not. You and I differ in that category. You sure like the bone. Don't eat meat, but I sure like the bone. That's correct. Oh, of course. All right. Hobbs Daddy, that's fantastic. That'd be good, man. Is there a direct flight from here to Montreal? Yeah, there is. Oh, wow. There's not to Buffalo, believe it or not, but there is to. Really? Yeah. Yeah. A quick update for Chris and for the listeners. We did review Tommy's story during the commercial break. It's not going to make it there. It is not airable. But it's so tame. It's way tamer than any of us thought. We're like, oh, okay. Is it way? Okay. Yes. Compared to his normal stories? Yeah. I'm not saying it's like, you know, run of the mill. I'm just saying for Tommy, that's a two on the Tommy scale. I can't even imagine what it is then. I'll come in there next. Go tell them right now. Turn your mic off. It's a 10-second story. It's kind of boring. For a Tommy story? If one of us told that story, you'd be like, gee, that's a little aggressive, but that's a 2 on the Tommy scale. Right, Sauce? That's pretty tame. And this story started? What was the hint that brought the story to today? We were talking about baby birding. That's what I thought. So we were like, how bad can this be? And, you know, again, it's all relative. Totally. Right? I hope John Boyd doesn't get a hold of this. While they're doing that story, you and I were just talking about this during the break. This 10K cross-country skiing, right? Jessie Diggins got third. It looks like she's hurt, but she crossed in third. So it looks like the gold medal winner is in the 22-minute range, right? Think about busting your ass. You finish in 25 minutes. you're one of the best cross country skiers in the world and you finish 70th right you're still an absolute truck freak but you're 70 these people are unbelievable these guys are just hauling ass and she's 4 or 5 minutes behind and it looks like an absolute failure finishing 70th which just shows you how good Jesse Diggins is so some Swede it looks like she won in 22 minutes, 49 seconds. Diggins was, I think, like a minute after that, something like that. 30 seconds or a minute. Either way. See, right? Pretty tame on the Tommy scale, right? Kind of boring. I feel a little sicker than I did before he came over here. But no, on the scale, I'm with you. I expected much, much worse than that. In fact, I'm a little turned on by what he told me. Yeah. I didn't expect that to be the case. You were shocked by the participants. I think he. Sounds like he was too. It didn't do much for me. And that was a while. The story is that was the greeting, right? That's how you were greeted? That was the greeting. Do you still know these people? Yeah, sure. Are they around? Are they on your Christmas card list? They're not on the Christmas card. One went dark for a while. But they're back. You know Tommy's story is tame when we all pause. And he goes, and that's it. Right, because we were all for one else. And you're like, no, that's it. Oh, that's not that bad. That's it? What do you mean that's it? It makes me happy. I'm like, okay, maybe I'm okay. Well, welcome aboard, Tommy. Could you still taste the cardboard? Come on, man. Just... Come on, man. Zach, when are you going to go to Colorado to buy more drugs? Maybe get some amoxicillin from Tommy. Yep. Maybe a new toothbrush. I know Chris is about to do the news, but somebody tweeted yesterday Man, where did I see this? That Minnesota has some weird STD? Did you guys see that headline? I don't know. Like a unique that's just special for us. Let me Google this. I think Captain Billy Hilderan was talking about that. Okay, calm down. Did I tell you? I've told you guys about one of Cess's friends about the captain. Oh, no. No? Do you want to clear that off the air? No, no, no. She has like a secret crusher on the captain. Oh. Oh, hang on. Before you do that, because I want to hear about that for sure. I have a lot of questions. Yeah, CBS News. Minnesota is the epicenter of the nation's largest known outbreak of sexually transmitted ringworm. Son of a bitch. Minnesota is in the midst of what a state health official calls the nation's largest known outbreak of TMVII. Fungal skin infection that can cause severe ringworm. But sexually transmitted ringworm. When I was at the U, and probably for you as well, in the summer they had these wrestling camps by Jay Robinson. Oh, the worst. It was the worst. Those guys were crazy. Petri dish inside the football complex. And it was for four weeks. And every single year, there was a ginormous ringworm outbreak. Every year. Tommy, are you sitting down? You sitting down? Yes. The first reported case was July of 2025, when a patient sought treatment for a genital rash. Since then, more than 30 confirmed or suspected cases in the Twin Cities. It is most prevalent among men with other men. In my to me die. Oh, poor my to me die. Symptoms include ringworm on the arms, buttocks, genitals, legs, which appear like round coin-like rashes that are red and irritated. So, yep, STD ringworm. Minnesota's the epicenter. Who reported it? That's CBS News. Yeah, I mean, that means it's legit. Like, that's an epidemic. They're finding enough cases, and it's a big deal. Be careful out there, Tom. What? Way to go, Minnesota. That's the worst. We won something. You don't want to add ringworm to your resume. Just when you're starting to have fun. You know what? Good time of year to have it, though, with the Olympics on. Look down at your buttocks and see the old Olympic logo of ringworm. Plus, you don't have to be alone. Do you know when I was so big Back in the day When I was like 300 Oh no I'm talking like middle school Like elementary school I used to like want ringworm to lose weight That's how You're trying to get ringworm Tapeworm Tapeworm Tapeworm Yeah That guy That little 4th grader had tough times That guy had some dark times. Was fourth grade Tommy like big, big? Oh, yeah. Just. First grade Tommy was not a 99, 100 percentile height and weight. That's a huge bitch. When you played youth football, were you black striped? Double black striped. Couldn't pick up a fumble. Couldn't pick up a fumble? What? A fumble. They would pull you off the hook. Get away! Immediately whistle-blown, can't touch that. What? Well, you guys don't know this. I didn't know the double black bit Even I didn't have that Double black stripe There was a Tommy Olsen rule Because I played up two grades So Eddie's two grades older than me Heaviest guy on that team Two years older than me Double black stripe to the point where This is not an exaggeration My dad would call in right now A fumble And I picked it up Play would stop The refs blow it dead Two years up blow it dead Jeez But on extra points So you could recover it but then the play was immediately over. I'd have to dive on it. Even if I picked it up, I couldn't. See, because I would think that they wouldn't want you even diving on the ball then, because what if you crushed some other kid going for the ball? Yeah, it was crazy. So the reason I went up to, so in eighth grade, when you're in sixth grade. Yep, on extra points I could run the ball, so I could be like fullback or something. But that was it. But so short. So I played three years of eighth grade football. Yeah, but you guys, back in the day, those were my days. Good for you, though. It was the best. How cool were you When you were a 6th grader Playing with 8th graders The coolest part Eddie and I transferred We went to St. Jude's And we went to the public school And I was in 6th and Eddie was in 8th And so we all had to wear jersey days When you'd play in the games And I'd be the only 6th grader Wearing a jersey on a random day King of the castle man You'd think But I was so thick it was tight And I hated it Freak I was dating a girl in seventh grade and her brother was on the varsity football team. Right. And she's like, Tom, I could I could you could wear his jersey. I was like, oh, yeah. Awesome. And it was so like, do you know how they give jerseys away? And they were home that week. So the away jersey was white. And I put it on and it looked like I was like my belly button looked like like a donut, you know, and it was Tom. I'm not kidding. I cried so hard. Good night. But I had to wear it because it was my girlfriend. The whole time, I'm just like, don't look at me. Yeah, you guys, growing up big, it's diabolically. Yeah, not fun. It's tough. It's not fun. It's tough. You've got to kill them with kindness. Oh, hell yeah. But, like, yeah, not picking up a fumble, those were the real days. In eighth grade, that was not the case. But, like, leading up to that, that's why I moved up two years. In eighth grade, though, were you still double black striped when you were in eighth grade? Yes. You still were. Eighth grade, my third year of eighth grade football, I was 255 pounds in eighth grade. Wow. Did you play youth football early, too? Did you get in early? Yeah. Like first grade playing with third graders? Second grade, I played with third grade. Yeah. And then third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade. And then sixth grade played three years, eighth grade. So hang on. I don't know if we've ever asked you a question like this, but when you were bigger, when did you actually have like the skill set too when you weren't just the biggest kid pushing kids around when you actually like oh this kid's actually good too is it about eighth grade you guys know i don't like ever sounding like cocky or anything like in first grade seven years old that's when i my mom took me to the university of minnesota and she's like oh honey we're just gonna go down there like look at the campus because i love the ghosts and i had two days of full physicals like because i was because you're so big yeah because eddie who's a monster i was bigger and taller than him when I was seven. And then I also won all the track and field days, too. So I was the fastest in class. Biggest and fastest from day one. Yeah, it just didn't make sense. And so naturally I just gained 10 to 20 pounds my whole life until I was 23 years old Like it just was meant to be Yeah was usually yeah it was always there good for you how tall are you i six four now yeah so that was no like yeah to go down glory four star yeah yeah so were you four star yeah so like do you know like tom lemming yeah yeah top 100 or whatever you went to the u it's a boyhood dream let the kids know We could have gone to Ohio State. Glory Day Road, right? Plus they had all the physicals on fire. You guys are firing me up now. This is my favorite thing called. We're talking Tom. I love it. The top 100 Tom Lemmings in 2011, Jadavion Clowney was number one. And then you go through that list, like really good players. Number 94, Teddy Bridgewater. Number 95, Tommy Olsen. No kidding. Dude, we're bringing that out next time. What year is that again? 2011. So I was number 95. 95. Right by Bridgewater. I was the second guard center in the country that year. Your senior year? 2011. Jadavion Clowney was number one. Do you know the other guard? Christian Westerman. Where was he from? Phoenix, Arizona. He played for the Bengals for a while. Good guy. There it is, man. 97. Tommy Olsen. Right behind Ted. Oh, hell yeah. Isn't that cool? Michael Bennett, 93. Yeah. Let me see it. Dusty Maugham was 88. Is it on there? Yeah, I'm looking at it right now. Yeah, there it is. Isn't that cool? The only Minnesotan on that list. Oh, we never have people on that list. Yeah, so that was cool. So top 100, I took a lot of pride in that. And then Brad. Brad. And then you were offered by Brewster, correct? And came and played with Jerry Kill. Yeah. So Tommy's issue, guys, is Tommy had to go through, which I had to go through a little bit as well, but when you have a major coaching change, you know, Ben had Bill Snyder for 50 years. I can't say. Tommy was amazing. I remember calling Tommy's game when he was a high school freshman, and the buildup of the game for the prep bowl was like, you guys got to talk about this Tommy Olsen kid. So I did all my research, and, like, Tommy was trending for, like, a parade All-American. Yeah. Right? So Tommy was elite and was a gopher. It was in your bloodlines. and then it looked like this Tim Brewster was going to make us go to the Rose Bowl, right? And then so you come with Tim Brewster and you commit. Whoa. But then Jerry Kill comes. And any time you go through a coaching staff change, you know there's a couple years you've got to go backwards. Yeah, exactly. And that's where you kind of fell victim of that. Yeah. One of the coolest glory days, right? You guys got me rolling. I love this. But, like, so Brewster and then the O-line coach and the D-line coach come over to get Eddie to sign, right, in January of his senior year. And they're like, all right, you're good. And then so I'm sitting there with, like, three sweatshirts on my leather jacket to make me look bigger. And Brewster looks over. I'll never forget it. Brewster looks over and goes, all right, Tom, now it's on you. I was like, yeah? He goes, you want to be a – we're going to offer you a full ride. This is January of my sophomore year. He's offering you a full ride as they're signing your brother. Yeah, so they're like, all right, we got Eddie's good. And then he looked at me, and I go, I'll commit on the spot. And I committed right away. And so to this day, I'm the earliest commit and go for football history, and I take the most pride. Dang. That's awesome, man. Isn't that cool? That is good for you, dude. Yeah. Sounds like you would have committed at age seven when you were getting your physical. No, no joke. I don't believe this. I would have said it might have should have been committed at age seven. Oh, God, you guys, I've always wanted to talk about glory days. This is fantastic. You know it's bad when the Big Ten double black striping. Exactly. Like, you're going to hurt some of these kids. Well, I think it's funny. Tommy's the only person I've known that's played like nine years of youth football. I mean, your dad snuck in in first grade. We actually, my dad started a new league. Right. For you. A new youth league. Yeah. No, just so I could play with my brother. Because you couldn't play two years up. Yeah. And he's just like, let's start a football league. Man. The best. Yeah. Freak. Freak. Freak. Freak. God, that's great. All right, T.O., you got to go, buddy, or what? I do. No, I love you guys. Sorry I was a little loopy today. I had a rough start to the morning. Oh, good, man. Yeah, no, it was great. No, I love you guys. Yeah, I'll be back next week. All right. There goes T.O. See you, guys. Ben Lieber is here. See you, Flash. Oh, Cora, can I say something? Of course. Says happy Valentine's Day. I love you. Yeah, I'll take care of it. 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Wasn't he like a Joe Maurer-ish, like two-sport athlete? I think that's correct. I'm pretty sure you're right. Yeah. And then he had a little time in the NFL. Did he not? Yeah, he did. Was it the Panthers? I feel like the Panthers. I think it's the Panthers. Were you on the Lemmings thing, do you think? I don't know what the Lemmings thing is. We were just talking to Tommy about this top 100 recruits each year from college to high school. I don't think so. I think because I was so under the radar that I don't think that I was on any of those lists. What year did you graduate high school? 97. Yes, Chris Winkie was 97 to 2000 at Florida State. and then played for the Panthers. So he and I are the same age. Oh, okay, got it. Did he play baseball too? Played minor league baseball for the Toronto Blue Jays. I remember that name. Did he not go to Creighton too? I think he did, yeah. He did, yep, he did. In the year 1989, an All-American out of Bethlehem Freedom High School in Pennsylvania. Dwayne Johnson. The Rock. The Rock. Look at him. Okay, so by the way, back to Winky. I love this. By the way, here's what we're missing on Winky. Yeah, what's the deal, Heide? So, prep quarterback, 1989, Creighton Durham Hall. I just mentioned he played at Florida State, 97 through 2000. Yeah, so what is all the years? So, he played baseball. Oh, wow. And then, at age 28, became the oldest player to ever win the Heisman Trophy. he was selected by the Panthers in the 01 NFL Draft where he served mostly as a backup. How about this? It says only had two career victories as a starting quarterback in his NFL career. Won his first ever NFL game, the first game of the 01 season and then they lost the next 15. So they finished 1-15 that year but he won the first game. So that's how you can be the top recruit in 89 but not play until Florida State in 1997. He chased baseball for 8 years. Did Fargo leave too? Yeah, Fargo left too. Yeah, Fargo's gone. I wanted to see if he was on air. He gone. Wow, man. I forgot there was a giant gap with baseball. Yeah. How about Tommy being just below Teddy Bridgewater? Yeah, how about that? Wait, I didn't hear that. I must have just been parking my car. In 2011, Lemming released the top 100 high school football players in the nation going into college. And Teddy Bridgewater's 96 and Tommy Olsen's 97. Wow. Pretty cool. Number two was Jadavian Clowney. Dang. I know. Yeah, that's cool. I still have, my parents still have it in my bedroom back in South Dakota, which I don't think they've touched. I mean, they've probably vacuumed and dusted, but it's like still the same. It's too gross in there. It's too gross. Yeah, you can't go in. I still have framed the Senior Bowl poster that I have from the Senior Bowl that I was at. So it's kind of fun every once in a while when I go home, just look at the names again and be like, oh, yeah, that guy was great. That guy's great. This guy's in the Hall of Fame. This whole string of guys never even made it. And it's amazing how many guys actually don't have very long careers. So who were the biggest names that played in the Senior Bowl the year you were at the Senior Bowl? You're going to put me on the spot. You said Hall of Fame. Is there somebody that jumps out, though? Who's the biggest name in that group? Peppers, maybe? Oh, man. Holy crap. Yeah. Julius Peppers. Julius Peppers. Wasn't he the second pick in 0-2 with that 1-15 record? Oh, maybe. With Carolina? Yeah. Well, I don't know. Maybe. I don't know. I just remember the first time meeting him, like, this guy's different. Who was the point guard at Carolina? Was it Curry? Not Steph Curry. Ronald Curry? Yeah, I think it might have been Ronald Curry. I think you're correct, yeah. And just watching him lob it up to Peppers, man. And you're like, that guy plays football, too. And he looked like a football player. He just could slam the hell out of a basketball. Peppers was the second pick in 2002. David Carr was the first pick in 2002. Julius Peppers was different. What a freak. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. Oh, yeah. Harrington was in that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Crazy. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Brian McKinney. Holy moly. Yeah, he was seven. Albert Hainsworth was the 15th pick in that draft Freeney And we almost all of the names you saying seniors Were those guys all in the senior bowl or just that draft class That I don know I'm just looking at the draft class. But still, good names. Yeah. Who was the 24th pick in the 2002 draft? There's a reason we should know? Yes. Yeah. 24th pick, O2. Why would we know that? Is it a Viking? No. It's not a Viking. 24th pick in 0-2. Chad Abbott. No. Barrero. No. Guardsy. What position? That'll give it away. One of your favorite players of all time, Cor. Ed Reed? Yeah, Ed Reed is arguably my favorite defender of all time. No offense, Ben. That's okay. Remember TJ Duckett, man? Daniel. Oh, yeah. Yeah, Michigan State. Oh, this reminds me. Now I'm looking up the senior bowl roster. So Ron Johnson and I were on the same team, I think. Were you really? Yeah, because we were in the same class, yeah. Yeah, we were part of the, what, the North? That's so weird. In my head, he's like a couple years ahead of you, but you guys were the same class, huh? Interesting. You played football. He's never brought that up. Yeah, he mentioned it on Twitter. Sauce, you ready? Oh, yeah. Time for sports. It's time for Fan 5 on the Power Trip, presented by All Around, your TimberTech deck building contractor. Zekko, today at 210, the men's U.S. hockey team battles Latvia today in their first matchup of the Olympics. Here we go. You know, here we go. It's one of those things, You just got to show up and play hard and hopefully learn something and get better. And you'll be ready for, obviously, more stiffer competition. But it'll be fun to finally see these after 12 years of waiting. The National Hockey League is back in the Olympics. And I don't think any of us can be more excited. And then on Saturday, they played Denmark at 210. So that'll be great. What is the sport we're about to watch right now? It's like snowboard something cross. Yeah, basically it's racing with snowboards. When they were talking about hockey, I was watching this as well. The thing that's crazy about these snowboard races is, you know, the drones have really gotten a chance to show us how fast some of these sports like luge or alpine skiing really go. I feel like this looks really slow, but there's no way it's slow. You know what I'm saying? I think this is deceptively slow. That guy fell. Oh, yeah. He didn't make it over the jump. Doesn't it look like they're kind of going slow? You know what I'm saying? But they're flying. I don't know. I've ever seen this before. This is kind of neat. It's not unlike Snowcross, right? Yeah, or BMX, just on snowboards instead of. What's the guy in the lead hawk? What's his name? Carroll Shelby. Oh. Good for the car guy. This is Eddie Vedder's kid, Jake Vedder. You know the sport that I know is they are cooking, right? But because their body mechanics and movements aren't super twitchy, it's the speed skaters. Because they're so smooth in the way that they glide, it doesn't look like they're putting in a ton of effort. But then when the drone's right there, the camera's trying to race up next to them, they are hauling. How long is this course? Two hours. they're snowboarding down Everest photo finish I think these are just qualifiers I think it's the top couple from each race I think advanced so I think those two were cruising because I believe they just were like alright I made it I can just cruise the rest of the world it would have been a nice moment yeah that would have been a nice moment I gotta finish third then so I don't know if that I don't know if they take the top times or just the top couple per race not sure how this works The Timberwolves smoked the Blazers 133-109 Julius Randle had 41 in the win. Your Wolves are 34-22. They're off until a week from Friday when they are back from the All-Star break. And host Dallas. Is Cooper Flagg hurt or is he back up and running? No, he's hurt. He's not partaking in anything this weekend. But I mean, will he be back a week from Friday at Target Center or not? Yeah. For those of you buying tickets. Hawk, are you watching the dunk contest on Saturday? I probably will, but I'll have to put it on VCR tape. I haven't even seen who's in it this year. Hawk, who's in the dunk contest? Larry Reynolds. Yep. High Meat Johnson. Yep. And James Finch. McGee. Oh, McGee. Do you remember back in the day, there was like, what, 8, 10 maybe competitors in the dunk contest? That's really tough. Jackson Hayes, Carter Bryant, Keyshaud Johnson, and Jace Richardson. Jace? I knew Carter Bryant played for the Spurs because he's very young. Was he a first-rounder this year or last year? He's very young. No idea. I would not have known the other three teams. Who was the first guy? Jackson Hayes. Who's the guy you knew? Carter Bryant. and Jace? Jace Richardson. There's a Jace in the NBA? Carter Bryant averages three and a half points a game, two rebounds. That guy? Yes, yes, off the top of your head. But was he not like a first-round pick this year? No. I think he was. Off the top of your head, I'm asking. You know, you're familiar with him. Yeah, he was a first-round pick, the 14th overall pick in the 2025 draft. He went to Fountain Valley High School, Sage. He was off the top of your head. Unbelievable. and he went to Arizona. That's the college. Unbelievable. Did you see who else was playing tight end? No. Yannick Bertrand. No, the Frenchman. The Gopher men's basketball team has seven regular season games left. They will battle Washington on Saturday at 8 o'clock. Frenchman. Tenna sent us that yesterday. It just shows that he doesn't listen to us anymore. He thought that was breaking news for us. Right? I can't blame him I sent it to a buddy last night and heard his reaction for the first time that's what I wish man I wish I could go back to hearing that that hit the balls hit? well oh the gate to the groin for Yannick Bertrand and you could hear it that guy's so into it best announcer of all time he's so into it we played again Yep Oh the gate to the groin For Yannick Bertrand And you could hear it It's so much better It's so much better that it's not like Oh to Frank Smith his crotch There's something about how he kind of Wants a little bit rolled Yannick Bertrand He wants to say it Like he's in a play Oh, man. And you could hear it. He makes it sound like taking a gait to the groin is kind of common. Yeah, I bet it is. It's like the old classic gait to the groin. Yeah, the gait caused a couple of crashes this morning when we were watching the women's alpine skiing. I don't know if it was Super G. I don't know what the hell they call all these things. These guys are flying. Literally. Looks cool, man. That's a fun looking sport. I've not seen this before. I don't know. I've missed this, but this is like... Did the X Games start this? I think so. That sounds right. That's a good guess. Did you see the guy in the yellow swoop in there? Gotta ride the draft. Yeah, gotta try to draft and all that garbage. Robin Grayson. Oh, those two are real. He was pushing a bit. The Frenchmen. That does look super fun. Yeah. That Italy looks freaking beautiful. And you could hear it. Hey, maybe you said this, Cor. And I apologize. Oh, close. Photo finish. Do you know who the Panthers beat in that first game? I'm going to guess the Vikings. Yes. They won here 24-13, their only win of the season. Classic Vikings. That was right after the 41-donut. What a season. What else you got? Do you know who their left tackle was? In 2001? The Panthers. You know what's ironic? Todd Stoocy. Yannick, fair throw. Is it really? Yeah. Hmm. I'm glad you didn't give me time to guess because I would not have guessed Todd Stoocy, so that's fine. Twins pitchers report today their first full squad workout is Monday, and they signed former All-Star closer Liam Hendricks to a minor league deal. He was here 12 years ago. I want to mention this before we go to break because we're talking about the slam dunk contest. There is, actually, I should say, a documentary soon to be released about Spud Webb. Oh, sweet. That'll be fun. That'll be cool. Man, he was so fun to watch. Five foot seven. A feature interviews, archival footage of his career. Set to be released later this year. Five foot seven. Was that a legit five seven? Or was that like a basketball fudged five seven? It looked like it was legit. But, I mean, again, it's a good question. Because a lot of people like Barkley have admitted over the years they just changed their height to be more intimidating. Right? Yeah. didn't Chuck add like two inches? Wasn't he like 6'4", but he listed himself at 6'6", or something like that? I think you're correct. I don't think that happens anymore. I don't think players are allowed to do that. But I think back in the day, that actually happened. Yeah, that was his comment when we were growing up. I think I was 6'4", and I'm like, I'm only 6'2". Sounds more intimidating, though. Like, ah, this kid from the other high school is 6'4". A monster. And he's double black striped on his helmet. Poor Tommy. Poor Tommy. You know when he was talking about that? I thought he was so fat that he couldn't bend over to pick up the fumble. When he was like, I couldn't. That made me laugh. Froze. Vikings News with Ben Lieber after this Power Tour Morning Show on the van. What if mind control is real? If you could control the behavior of anybody around you, what kind of life would you have? Can you hypnotically persuade someone to buy a car? 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But what if we didn get the whole story The moment you look at the whole picture the case collapses I Amanda Knox and in the new podcast Doubt the case of Lucy Letby we follow the evidence and hear from the people that lived it to ask what really happened when the world decided who Lucy Letby was. No voicing of any skepticism or doubt. It'll cause so much harm at every single level of the British establishment of this is wrong. Listen to Doubt, the case of Lucy Letby on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Damn. So you must have to only get third to make it to the next round of whatever we're watching here. Welcome back. It's the Power Trip Morning Show. Yeah. Do you have to get third to transfer the next round? Is that why he's happy right now? That guy's 44 years old just like you guys. Still tearing it up. Hell of a mustache, too. I think he got third. I think he gets to transfer to the next round. Oh, so the top three? It must be because he was celebrating like he did, and I saw the last ones that went to, they were celebrating like that. Look at the mountains in the background. I wasn't even watching what they were doing. I was just looking at the background. You guys could still do this, you know. I know, but we say the same thing about curling. And we all now understand how difficult that is when you're older. I can't even get down in the pose to push the stone. Oh, you could still snowboard. I think it's the dust. Yeah, you could do this. Maybe not this. No, there's no way I could get to this. I couldn't even go. I couldn't take one of those jumps without killing myself. No, but if the jumps were eliminated from this course, you could do this course. You're athletic. I think they said that this is his fourth Olympics. That dude in the yellow there? Whoa, man. He got some serious air time. Looked like it actually helped him almost catch that guy. Did he not catch him? No. This is the photo finish. That we saw earlier. I don't think he caught him. I think... He's looking for the replay. I think maybe he was celebrating because he thought he got him. Oh, okay. Short. Oh, too bad. Nick Bumgardner. Oh, man. Sorry, Dusty. Yeah. He's like, dang it. That is some serious facial hair. It really is. Like, let's make it a statement. He looks like Paul Rudd. Yeah. He's good to see Olympians with salt and pepper beards, though, right? The guy's got salt and pepper beard, and he's still at the Olympics in 2026. He might be snot. He might be snot. He's really enthusiastic for missing out. Right? Yeah, you're right. So he did. Did not qualify. So he thought he did. By three one-hundredths of a second behind second place. I should have been faster. Damn. All right. Oh, man, look at that. He tried. See, those are the competitions that it's going to haunt him. He's going to think about how could I have shaved a few hundredths of a second off that run to make it versus just like the guy that finished fourth. He was like, yeah, I had no chance. Is there a chance that he should have injected himself with that penis acid from last week for ski jumpers? Yeah, maybe. Zach? I, man, I don't know. It's not the worst idea. Oh, my God, that guy peed blood. He's got kidney stones. Time for Vikings news on the Power Trip, presented by Radco, your truck accessories, bro. Thank you, Radco. Vikings. Anything? Anybody? Yeah, do we have any Vikings news? I don't know if we do or not. Well, can we ask you, I think we've maybe asked you a couple times, but again, now people are throwing out Kyler Murray's name a ton. They're saying it a lot. Kirk Cousins is still a name that's popping up a ton. Yeah. And I think I heard Tenneby go through the list of free agent quarterbacks the other day. It's pretty dicey. It's hideous. There's not a lot of good options. Oh, no, there's not a lot. Yeah. ESPN did a whole article about how this is the wrong year to need a quarterback or, you know, quarterback competition. So what do we do? I don't know. What do we do, Ben? And was it you on Monday that said that Kyler doesn't fit this offense? I don't think so. You don't think so? I mean, that's, I mean, IMO, I don't know. I just, I look at what he has done. I mean, you know, I don't know if there's political reasons why he couldn't crack the starting lineup back again when he was healthy, but Brissette was playing well, but why did they hold him out? I mean, was it just a contract thing, a political thing, an injury thing that they didn't want to have to, like, pay for something? I don't know, but I'm like, you couldn't beat out your backup when you got healthy. we've all seen Kyler play for the last couple years. I mean, does it look like a big strong-arm pocket quarterback that it seems like KOC wants? No. So all these strong rumors about Kyler talking about how one of his favorite teams growing up was the Vikings and he really wants to play for KOC and all this other stuff. And I'm like, I get that. I mean, there's a lot of quarterbacks that want to play for Kevin, but I just think that you have to have the right fit. And I don't think that he has the accuracy either that we're looking for in this offense. So I don't know. I've probably seen it wrong, but I just don't see the allure on the Vikings side to bring a guy like that in where he's under-statured, not a super accurate quarterback, doesn't have, I don't think, the big-time arm that they're looking for. So I don't know. Maybe they like other aspects of him. Where do we draft? 18th? Yeah, 18th. So that five-game winning streak to end the season. I don't even know if this is accurate, but let's say we had finished with the 6th or 7th pick, if that had gone really south. But instead we went 5 and now we're back to 18. Are you on the best player available option at 18? And would that have been different if we had a higher pick where maybe you were truly getting the best player at a specific position of need? Where are you at in terms of, we've got two months to talk about this, but where are you at? You know, that's a really good hypothetical. I mean, there's not really a quarterback. I mean, you wouldn't go quarterback again. It's like Mendoza, and then there's a bunch of second and third rounders. I don't think that they're going to be. So you wouldn't look at quarterback. I think if you're looking at best available in Sosch, you can back me up. I mean, you're probably looking at some edge rushers and maybe one cornerback if you're going to be that high. So it wouldn't necessarily be the worst thing in the world if you had to go best available, and you're like, okay, well, kind of always need edge rushers. And, you know, some of these guys, as I'm kind of doing a cursory look at the draft already, you know, some of these guys I think can be sort of tweeners where they might have lined up on the edge and in college. But you look at their height, weight, they're like, you know, some of these guys are 265. I'm like, well, you get a little bit of man maturity in that person, that body, and all of a sudden now you're 275 and you can play with your hand on the ground maybe as an inside technique in this sort of defense. So I think there would be some good options there. But at 18, I think that we really have to kind of zero in on a specific need. Field Yates put out his mock draft yesterday. he has us taking something called Brandon CISSE I don't know, from a cornerback from South Carolina I know the name that a couple of you had thrown out that watched this kid a lot more than I did, I think I saw him play like twice the running back from Notre Dame, Jeremiah Love Yeah, he's slated to go 9th to the Chiefs so they think top 10 running back potentially? Yeah, he's a lot of people's best prospect in this draft, but when you get above, like, the, you know, obviously pick one is going to be Fernando Mendoza, the quarterback from Indiana. This is one of those drafts, too, where, like, with the Vikings the last couple of years have kind of tried to fit and just taken the position they need. They should take the best player available. If they had the sixth overall pick, they would just sit and pray and wait and hope that Caleb Downs, the safety from Ohio State gets to them at six. But in the situation they're in, a name that I think that they would probably really like is Caleb Banks, the defensive tackle from Florida. And the reason I say that is there is a very good chance that both of the defensive tackles that they signed last offseason are flat out cut this offseason. So there might be a need of a defensive tackle. Yeah, so going back to the cornerbacks, there are going to be several that I think the Vikings could take. The one thing that I don't love about this class is they're not very big. So if you look at the top 10 cornerbacks right now, not one guy's over six foot. They're six foot or below. And there's quite a few of them that are ranked pretty high, but they're true slot corners. They're true just nickel guys, which is not what we need. So you really have to make sure that you're looking at, is he a true outside corner? Because to me, that's what we're truly looking at. Because I think we need to make sure that we have Murphy play more on the inside. Because that's his more natural position. So we're looking for a true outside corner that played a lot of outside corner snaps in college. And I think that you want to look for somebody that has some speed. So, by the way, quick check-in back on the Olympics. Are guys back racing? So did they take the top four times that didn't qualify? They have the big final and the small final. So what does that mean? The two that didn't qualify for the big final in the first semifinal and two that didn't qualify in the second semifinal. I'll go at it. But what can these people win? You know what I'm saying? Is there a path back to the podium or not? I don't. It didn't look like it according to the bracket. Is he still in yellow? Yeah, yellow. So he's in third. Boy, he's got to pick it up, man. Yeah, man. Speed it up. I think the kid that's leading is 17 So he's 44 in the Olympics French kid's 17 Hey Ben I always forget talking about Kyler Murray again I forgot he was the first overall pick First overall pick Was he ever Were you ever a fan of his game Or are you just not a fan of his game for this team I'm certainly not a fan of his game For this team But could he Is he a talented quarterback? Sure. I just think that there's so many limitations with his size. And I think that so many of his plays are not within the quote-unquote system on each play. It is a lot of just run around, buy time, wait for guys to break off a secondary route and find the guy open down the field. And I don't think that that's a recipe for consistency in the passing game. First overall pick 5'10", he was the first overall pick Do you think he's really 5'10 as well? Is that one of those things? Well, that's the thing, is he really 5'10 or is he like 5'9? I was going to just throw this out there Another guy to look at as far as the draft Again, as we're going to have a lot of time to talk about Is Peter Woods, the guy from Clemson He seems to be a little bit more He's more in that 3'10 range So he's not quite like a run-stopping anchor He's like got a little bit more of a little more juice than some of these other guys that are kind of slotted to us. One more segment, Ben. We got to do the bet. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, my normal like 840 calls. All right. Gambling after this power to morning show on the fan. I'm Amanda Knox. And in the new podcast, Doubt, the case of Lucy Letby, we unpack the story of an unimaginable tragedy that gripped the UK in 2023. But what if we didn't get the whole story? I've just been made to fit. The moment you look at the whole picture, the case collapsed. What if the truth was disguised by a story we chose to believe? Oh my God, I think she might be innocent. 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