286: Tumble Lurenament Sweet Sixteen

Episode Transcript

[0:00:23 – 0:00:29] Erik: Welcome in by Peruselheim.
[0:00:30 – 0:00:32] Erik: I’m Jim Sofa.
[0:00:32 – 0:00:34] Adam: Ha ha ha, yeah, yeah.
[0:00:34 – 0:00:37] Erik: Join me, good friend.
[0:00:40 – 0:00:42] Adam: Terry Davenport.
[0:00:44 – 0:00:44] UNKNOWN: Ha ha ha.
[0:00:46 – 0:00:49] Erik: Das ist episode 206.
[0:00:50 – 0:00:54] Erik: And we’re covering the sweet 16 results of the tournament.
[0:00:54 – 0:00:54] Erik: Welcome.
[0:00:57 – 0:00:57] Adam: Hello.
[0:00:59 – 0:00:59] Adam: We’re back.
[0:01:00 – 0:01:01] Adam: Guten Nacht.
[0:01:01 – 0:01:06] Erik: It’s your favorite polyglot podcast talking about all things…
[0:01:09 – 0:01:09] Adam: Lurs.
[0:01:10 – 0:01:15] Adam: As they say in Dusseldorf, Jim, I’m geeked and I’m fired up.
[0:01:15 – 0:01:17] Adam: Geeked and fired.
[0:01:18 – 0:01:18] Erik: Yeah.
[0:01:19 – 0:01:20] Erik: That’s what they say in Dusseldorf.
[0:01:20 – 0:01:22] Erik: They’re still saying it to this day.
[0:01:25 – 0:01:26] Adam: Slathered in mustard.
[0:01:26 – 0:01:27] Adam: Slathered in mustard.
[0:01:27 – 0:01:29] Adam: Totally geeked.
[0:01:30 – 0:01:31] Erik: Full seeded mustard.
[0:01:31 – 0:01:32] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:01:32 – 0:01:33] Adam: It’s a chunky mustard.
[0:01:34 – 0:01:35] Erik: I’m not a big fan, but I’ll do it.
[0:01:35 – 0:01:37] Adam: Put it all over your labor case there, Jim.
[0:01:38 – 0:01:38] Erik: Hmm.
[0:01:39 – 0:01:41] Erik: No, yeah.
[0:01:41 – 0:01:42] Erik: We’re not going to get into the cave.
[0:01:42 – 0:01:43] Adam: I want a slab.
[0:01:45 – 0:01:46] Adam: I’m very hungry.
[0:01:46 – 0:01:46] Adam: I want a slab.
[0:01:46 – 0:01:47] Adam: What is going on right now?
[0:01:47 – 0:01:47] Adam: Yeah.
[0:01:47 – 0:01:48] Adam: It is episode 286.
[0:01:48 – 0:01:48] Adam: It is the sweet 16 tonight.
[0:01:48 – 0:01:49] Adam: I’m pretty geeked.
[0:01:49 – 0:01:50] Adam: Sunset was at 747.
[0:01:50 – 0:01:55] Adam: Occurred as I was taking the tram over here.
[0:02:11 – 0:02:13] Adam: And it is also the full moon, Jim.
[0:02:14 – 0:02:14] Erik: Is it?
[0:02:14 – 0:02:15] Adam: Yeah.
[0:02:15 – 0:02:16] Adam: I couldn’t locate it.
[0:02:16 – 0:02:20] Adam: It should be up now, but it’s obscured by fog.
[0:02:22 – 0:02:24] Adam: It’s been raining all afternoon here at the studio.
[0:02:26 – 0:02:37] Adam: We are at Studio V with The View, and The View is obscured, but we have the big bracket here right in front of us on the table, and I can see that thing very clearly.
[0:02:38 – 0:02:45] Adam: And we’re about to find out what the voters have reckoned for the Sweet 16.
[0:02:45 – 0:02:49] Adam: We’re going to be down to the final eight teams by the end of tonight’s episode.
[0:02:50 – 0:02:51] Adam: Increable.
[0:02:51 – 0:02:53] Erik: Dulces, dieces.
[0:02:55 – 0:02:56] Erik: We’re back to Spanish.
[0:02:57 – 0:02:57] Adam: All right.
[0:02:59 – 0:03:00] Erik: All right.
[0:03:02 – 0:03:03] Erik: All right.
[0:03:03 – 0:03:05] Erik: Yeah, it’s April 12th.
[0:03:06 – 0:03:11] Erik: We’re a little behind your March madness, but that’s fine.
[0:03:12 – 0:03:13] Erik: It’s totally fine.
[0:03:14 – 0:03:18] Erik: I’m going to throw something at you here before we get into the results.
[0:03:18 – 0:03:19] Erik: Oh, yes.
[0:03:20 – 0:03:23] Erik: Let’s see if you have any thoughts on it.
[0:03:23 – 0:03:26] Erik: We can leave it as is, or we can…
[0:03:27 – 0:03:51] Erik: talk about it as much or as little as we want i got all the time in the world okay yeah so do i uh september october august july may december march november june february april january right those are my northwoods mental sanity and hopefulness month rankers from top to bottom
[0:03:52 – 0:03:54] Erik: And worst to best?
[0:03:54 – 0:03:56] Erik: Best to worst.
[0:03:56 – 0:03:57] Adam: What was the first one?
[0:03:58 – 0:03:58] Erik: September.
[0:03:59 – 0:03:59] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:03:59 – 0:04:00] Adam: That should have been my first clue.
[0:04:01 – 0:04:01] Adam: Yeah.
[0:04:01 – 0:04:04] Adam: September is so prime.
[0:04:04 – 0:04:05] Erik: Yeah.
[0:04:05 – 0:04:11] Erik: It was on my walk today that I realized April is underratedly a really, really bad month.
[0:04:13 – 0:04:13] Adam: Yeah.
[0:04:14 – 0:04:14] Erik: Second worst.
[0:04:15 – 0:04:16] Erik: Worst month.
[0:04:16 – 0:04:20] Adam: There’s a reason most businesses are closed in April for a good reason.
[0:04:20 – 0:04:26] Erik: I mean, I think everybody is probably fully aware of this rankers.
[0:04:26 – 0:04:27] Adam: Yeah, it’s true.
[0:04:27 – 0:04:30] Adam: Truthfully, emotionally, it’s true.
[0:04:30 – 0:04:32] Adam: Poetically, it’s true.
[0:04:32 – 0:04:33] Adam: Also, commercially true.
[0:04:34 – 0:04:35] Adam: April is awful.
[0:04:35 – 0:04:40] Erik: I mean, with everything, it always just depends on where you’ve come from.
[0:04:43 – 0:04:48] Erik: Maybe more than any other month, it is fully dependent on what kind of a winter you have had.
[0:04:48 – 0:04:55] Erik: But there is something so disappointing about going out on a nice fresh morning where robins are chirping.
[0:04:55 – 0:04:57] Erik: It’s like, hey, this is pretty nice.
[0:04:58 – 0:05:03] Erik: It’s like above freezing when you get up in the morning and you just want to go for a walk.
[0:05:04 – 0:05:09] Erik: And then all of a sudden you’re in the woods and on the trails and you’re just punching.
[0:05:09 – 0:05:12] Adam: I was going to say, do you end up all wet or do you like slip and fall?
[0:05:12 – 0:05:18] Adam: It just turns into a slog where you’re like halfway through the walk and you just can’t wait for it to be over.
[0:05:19 – 0:05:19] Adam: Yeah.
[0:05:19 – 0:05:20] Adam: No, it’s not.
[0:05:21 – 0:05:22] Erik: There’s nothing to be done with the snow.
[0:05:22 – 0:05:25] Adam: Even if you just stick to the driveway, it’s usually not kind.
[0:05:26 – 0:05:26] Erik: No.
[0:05:26 – 0:05:27] Erik: It’s not promising.
[0:05:27 – 0:05:29] Erik: It’s not hopeful enough.
[0:05:29 – 0:05:30] Erik: It’s not like May.
[0:05:30 – 0:05:31] Erik: Yeah.
[0:05:32 – 0:05:35] Adam: May is truly springtime.
[0:05:36 – 0:05:38] Erik: May is number five on my list.
[0:05:38 – 0:05:39] Adam: May is good.
[0:05:39 – 0:05:39] Adam: Yeah.
[0:05:40 – 0:05:41] Adam: April is deceptive.
[0:05:41 – 0:05:42] Adam: Here’s one trick for you.
[0:05:43 – 0:05:45] Adam: I only walk about half speed in April.
[0:05:46 – 0:05:47] Erik: Anywhere.
[0:05:47 – 0:05:48] Erik: You get forced into it.
[0:05:48 – 0:05:53] Adam: Yeah, no, I just learned to go at about half speed at everything in April, and then everything’s fine.
[0:05:54 – 0:05:55] Adam: Plus, it makes April go by real quick.
[0:05:57 – 0:05:58] Adam: Does that make any sense?
[0:05:58 – 0:06:00] Adam: No, not really.
[0:06:00 – 0:06:00] Adam: This is my secret.
[0:06:01 – 0:06:04] Adam: I operate at half speed, and therefore April goes by twice as fast.
[0:06:05 – 0:06:05] Adam: Sure.
[0:06:06 – 0:06:08] Adam: It does make sense when you think about it.
[0:06:08 – 0:06:25] Erik: But I think on the list, on my list, which was fully thought out over the course of an hour of walking today, scientifically proven, it has been sent off to the appropriate authorities who will… We’re saying to our bookkeeper for an audit.
[0:06:25 – 0:06:26] Erik: It will be enshrined.
[0:06:26 – 0:06:28] Adam: The authentication as well.
[0:06:28 – 0:06:29] Erik: Tumble home lore.
[0:06:30 – 0:06:31] Adam: Yeah, you got the rankers there.
[0:06:32 – 0:06:34] Erik: I feel like the difference in…
[0:06:34 – 0:06:40] Erik: It’s the largest gap between two months that are next to each other is April and May.
[0:06:41 – 0:06:42] Erik: April, second worst.
[0:06:43 – 0:06:44] Erik: May, fifth best.
[0:06:44 – 0:06:46] Erik: There’s no other months that are that close to each other that are that far apart.
[0:06:47 – 0:06:49] Adam: It really flips the switch too, yeah.
[0:06:49 – 0:06:55] Erik: Because May is like, we’re getting all of the beautiful aspects of spring and summer.
[0:06:55 – 0:06:55] Erik: No bugs.
[0:06:56 – 0:06:56] Erik: Yes.
[0:06:56 – 0:06:58] Erik: Lakes are opening up.
[0:06:58 – 0:06:59] Erik: Potential is there.
[0:06:59 – 0:07:04] Adam: I did see the juncos were all congregated down the muddy driveway earlier this afternoon in the rain.
[0:07:04 – 0:07:06] Adam: I was like, there’s got to be some sort of bugs or something going on.
[0:07:07 – 0:07:09] Adam: And Natalie just goes, yeah, I saw some spiders.
[0:07:09 – 0:07:10] Erik: Oh, no.
[0:07:10 – 0:07:11] Adam: You got driveway spiders hatching?
[0:07:11 – 0:07:14] Adam: What’s going on out there?
[0:07:14 – 0:07:18] Erik: You mean to tell me you saw spiders and you didn’t tell me until now?
[0:07:18 – 0:07:20] Adam: What are you doing?
[0:07:20 – 0:07:22] Adam: I don’t want to step all over your toes with your sweet rankers.
[0:07:23 – 0:07:23] Erik: Jesus.
[0:07:23 – 0:07:26] Erik: You need to tell me as soon as you see multiple spiders.
[0:07:26 – 0:07:28] Adam: I got mud spiders everywhere.
[0:07:28 – 0:07:56] Erik: uh yeah i mean it’s one of those things where it’s like if you see a spider sure yeah log that maybe but spiders it’s going at the top of the list when my sweetheart comes home i’m like hey there’s spiders out there everywhere the spiders are out uh as you said though like the difference between like april’s ranking and may’s ranking is pretty wide and therefore you know we’re about we’re getting close to halfway through april so
[0:07:57 – 0:08:01] Adam: That second half of April maybe ranks a little higher than the first half, I would hope.
[0:08:01 – 0:08:01] Erik: Sure.
[0:08:01 – 0:08:05] Adam: Especially after getting a first real good steady rain like we got today.
[0:08:05 – 0:08:07] Adam: Really livens everything up.
[0:08:07 – 0:08:08] Adam: It brings out the spiders.
[0:08:08 – 0:08:10] Adam: We might get some blooms on the trees soon here.
[0:08:11 – 0:08:11] Adam: I saw geese.
[0:08:12 – 0:08:13] Erik: There are green monocots shooting.
[0:08:17 – 0:08:25] Erik: Out of some of these lake south-facing hillsides, there’s some light grasses coming out.
[0:08:26 – 0:08:29] Adam: Yeah, paulhuntnersbloommaps.com.
[0:08:30 – 0:08:32] Adam: And we’re not quite blooming, but…
[0:08:33 – 0:08:34] Adam: It was a really neat map to look at.
[0:08:35 – 0:08:37] Adam: Watching the waves of bloom.
[0:08:37 – 0:08:41] Erik: You were hitting on something earlier, and we can let this stand.
[0:08:41 – 0:08:42] Erik: This is just my rankers.
[0:08:42 – 0:08:46] Erik: It’s always in flux, and you may have your own opinions.
[0:08:46 – 0:08:50] Erik: But if we want to hone down and drill down deeper, we just do weak rankers.
[0:08:51 – 0:08:51] Erik: Wow.
[0:08:51 – 0:08:53] Erik: Because I think… 52?
[0:08:53 – 0:08:53] Adam: Top 52.
[0:08:53 – 0:08:54] Adam: Top 52.
[0:08:54 – 0:08:54] Adam: Yes.
[0:08:55 – 0:08:57] Erik: What is the best week of the year?
[0:08:57 – 0:08:58] Erik: What’s the worst week?
[0:08:59 – 0:09:09] Erik: I think if I really did have my druthers on a Rankers, it probably would actually be closer to a best month of the year is mid-September through mid-October.
[0:09:10 – 0:09:11] Erik: Those four weeks.
[0:09:12 – 0:09:15] Erik: I would venture to…
[0:09:15 – 0:09:18] Erik: I would argue with anybody in the world that in this place…
[0:09:19 – 0:09:23] Erik: Those four weeks are about as good as it gets anywhere up here.
[0:09:23 – 0:09:24] Erik: Anywhere.
[0:09:24 – 0:09:24] Erik: Anywhere.
[0:09:24 – 0:09:25] Adam: Not just up here.
[0:09:26 – 0:09:28] Adam: Anywhere, period.
[0:09:28 – 0:09:35] Erik: I’m not saying… Yeah, well, next year when we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel for tournaments that we need to do, it’s going to be…
[0:09:36 – 0:09:36] Erik: Weeks.
[0:09:37 – 0:09:40] Erik: The best month in the world…
[0:09:41 – 0:09:42] Adam: The best month in the world tournament?
[0:09:43 – 0:09:43] Erik: Yes.
[0:09:44 – 0:09:48] Erik: And I don’t think that… April in northern Minnesota is no good.
[0:09:48 – 0:09:50] Erik: Not even making the tournament.
[0:09:50 – 0:09:52] Adam: April in Turkey, though?
[0:09:53 – 0:09:54] Erik: Yeah.
[0:09:54 – 0:09:54] Erik: There we go.
[0:09:55 – 0:09:56] Adam: Turkish April.
[0:09:57 – 0:09:59] Adam: I feel like the… That might be a two seed.
[0:09:59 – 0:10:00] Erik: Turkish April, two seed.
[0:10:00 – 0:10:02] Erik: Yeah.
[0:10:02 – 0:10:04] Erik: Northwood, September, though.
[0:10:04 – 0:10:05] Adam: Yeah.
[0:10:05 – 0:10:06] Erik: Boreal, September.
[0:10:06 – 0:10:07] Erik: Slather me in honey.
[0:10:07 – 0:10:10] Erik: I’m thinking that’s like a two, three seed.
[0:10:10 – 0:10:11] Adam: Now I’m truly geeked.
[0:10:12 – 0:10:12] Erik: Yeah.
[0:10:13 – 0:10:13] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:10:13 – 0:10:14] Adam: All right.
[0:10:16 – 0:10:17] Adam: I’m definitely in on this idea.
[0:10:17 – 0:10:17] Adam: Yeah.
[0:10:18 – 0:10:18] Adam: Time rankers.
[0:10:20 – 0:10:22] Erik: June, Cuba.
[0:10:25 – 0:10:28] Adam: I just hear like a brass band just start up in the background.
[0:10:29 – 0:10:31] Erik: Is that Buena Vista Social Club I hear?
[0:10:31 – 0:10:33] Adam: Somebody just handed me a hot pork sandwich.
[0:10:35 – 0:10:35] Adam: June in Cuba.
[0:10:36 – 0:10:37] Erik: Yeah, June in Cuba.
[0:10:37 – 0:10:39] Erik: Potential one seed next year.
[0:10:39 – 0:10:40] Adam: They’re right up there, yeah.
[0:10:40 – 0:10:41] Adam: Pretty strong team.
[0:10:41 – 0:10:42] Adam: Good program.
[0:10:42 – 0:10:43] Adam: Deep bench.
[0:10:47 – 0:11:15] Adam: uh not quite hurricane season you know right it’s right before the that’s their september really exactly yeah you don’t want yeah i mean you you could do the opposite worst month than that yeah you get into hurricane season august in cuba yeah yeah that’s probably a one seat in the worst places to be i know another good april would be uh montucky that would be one of my best aprils would be in montucky and that just brings us into our art supply sponsor of the of the evening what a segue
[0:11:16 – 0:11:17] Adam: Montucky cold snacks.
[0:11:17 – 0:11:18] Adam: We got a whole 12-pack over here.
[0:11:19 – 0:11:19] Adam: These horse beer.
[0:11:21 – 0:11:23] Adam: What’s the labor case with the horse in it?
[0:11:24 – 0:11:24] Erik: Oh.
[0:11:25 – 0:11:26] Adam: We’re not going to talk about that.
[0:11:27 – 0:11:28] Adam: This one’s covered in horse over here.
[0:11:28 – 0:11:30] Adam: It’s a party portal.
[0:11:31 – 0:11:31] Adam: Reach in.
[0:11:32 – 0:11:33] Adam: Crack a snack.
[0:11:34 – 0:11:41] Adam: These were sent over from Cheap Dancer and Admiral Geary before their winter camping trip.
[0:11:42 – 0:11:43] Adam: They stopped by to grab their gravy.
[0:11:44 – 0:11:55] Adam: They hashtag grabbed the gravy this winter, and then they dragged some sleds out in the woods, and I believe they made miniature corndogs and dipped them in the gravy.
[0:11:55 – 0:11:56] Adam: That’s right.
[0:11:56 – 0:12:00] Adam: That was before we gave out miniature corndogs at Pronto this year, so they’re really…
[0:12:01 – 0:12:25] Adam: of course admiral gary and cheap dancer visionaries visionaries um but yeah they sent us over these and uh we’ve been kind of sitting on them because they specifically instructed us to wait for a nice warm day and don’t drink these into the middle of winter so april is the best we could do our patience has been tested and it rained today so it was above 40 yeah to get to 50
[0:12:26 – 0:12:27] Erik: I don’t think so.
[0:12:27 – 0:12:28] Erik: 48.
[0:12:28 – 0:12:29] Erik: Good enough, Jim.
[0:12:29 – 0:12:32] Erik: If the sun would have come out, I’m sure it would have felt like it.
[0:12:32 – 0:12:38] Adam: Surely, but it was humid and pretty calm out there today, so it was a delight until that rain came in.
[0:12:39 – 0:12:39] Adam: Dead calm.
[0:12:39 – 0:12:43] Adam: And interrupted my craftsmanship.
[0:12:43 – 0:12:44] Adam: I was working on some stuff.
[0:12:44 – 0:12:47] Adam: I was doing some woodworking in the yard, and then it started raining.
[0:12:47 – 0:12:47] Erik: Yeah.
[0:12:47 – 0:12:51] Adam: So I had to go in and think about some things.
[0:12:51 – 0:12:53] Erik: Stopped there pounding nails like Larry Hahn.
[0:12:53 – 0:12:53] Erik: Yeah.
[0:12:55 – 0:12:59] Adam: I was out there drilling holes in pallets.
[0:13:00 – 0:13:01] Erik: Fair to labor case?
[0:13:02 – 0:13:02] Erik: That’s the horse.
[0:13:03 – 0:13:04] Erik: Fair to labor case.
[0:13:04 – 0:13:05] Erik: That’s the horse loaf.
[0:13:05 – 0:13:07] Adam: You’re going to have to wear a fancy hat when you eat that one.
[0:13:08 – 0:13:09] Adam: Oh, you have to.
[0:13:09 – 0:13:09] Adam: Are you thirsty?
[0:13:10 – 0:13:11] Adam: Yes.
[0:13:11 – 0:13:12] Adam: I’m sending one your way.
[0:13:12 – 0:13:13] Adam: This is one of my favorite cans of all time.
[0:13:14 – 0:13:15] Adam: It’s got a big full moon on there, no?
[0:13:16 – 0:13:17] Adam: It could be the sun.
[0:13:17 – 0:13:17] Adam: It could be the moon.
[0:13:18 – 0:13:19] Adam: I’m going to say it’s a full moon.
[0:13:19 – 0:13:23] Erik: It depends on where you’re at.
[0:13:23 – 0:13:24] Adam: A nice light beer.
[0:13:24 – 0:13:26] Erik: Yeah, F where you’re going, F where you’ve been.
[0:13:27 – 0:13:28] Erik: It’s all about where you’re at, baby.
[0:13:29 – 0:13:31] Adam: Yeah, Buckaroo Binds Eye said that.
[0:13:33 – 0:13:57] Adam: is a good can almost feels like it should be like textured yeah with those hammered yes rippled like a hoof of a horse rippled like the fin of a pike chasing a torpedo with extra hoof but not in this tournament that’s a good tucky you know
[0:13:58 – 0:14:00] Adam: Woo-wee.
[0:14:00 – 0:14:02] Adam: I’m trying to think of some other, like, primo months.
[0:14:03 – 0:14:05] Adam: Primo months.
[0:14:06 – 0:14:06] Erik: So, yeah.
[0:14:06 – 0:14:07] Erik: September, October.
[0:14:07 – 0:14:08] Adam: Where was December for you?
[0:14:09 – 0:14:09] Erik: Six.
[0:14:09 – 0:14:10] Erik: Six.
[0:14:10 – 0:14:11] Adam: Yeah, I like December.
[0:14:12 – 0:14:13] Erik: It was my first winter month.
[0:14:13 – 0:14:18] Adam: Yeah, because December, especially if you get some nice snow before Christmas.
[0:14:18 – 0:14:21] Erik: I could see December and May switching five and six, depending.
[0:14:22 – 0:14:22] Erik: There’s a hopefulness.
[0:14:22 – 0:14:23] Erik: There’s an excitement.
[0:14:23 – 0:14:24] Erik: There’s also just like a weird.
[0:14:24 – 0:14:26] Adam: It’s also so dark.
[0:14:26 – 0:14:27] Erik: And I do like that.
[0:14:27 – 0:14:30] Adam: But it makes the Christmas lights twinkle even brighter, though.
[0:14:31 – 0:14:32] Adam: Yeah.
[0:14:32 – 0:14:34] Adam: There’s a lot to be said for December in the Northwoods.
[0:14:34 – 0:14:41] Erik: I think if it wasn’t for just how much I love being on open water in the Boundary Waters, it probably would be a little higher.
[0:14:42 – 0:14:48] Erik: December up here is more of a vibe than it is like a pragmatic, useful month.
[0:14:48 – 0:14:50] Adam: Yeah, you got first ice.
[0:14:51 – 0:14:59] Adam: We’ve done some fun winter camping in December on thin ice, relatively speaking, compared to the two and a half feet of ice that’s still out there today.
[0:15:00 – 0:15:02] Adam: Even that rain we got today did nothing to that ice.
[0:15:04 – 0:15:08] Adam: In December, you can be out with a wall tent set up on seven inches ice.
[0:15:09 – 0:15:11] Adam: The fishing’s usually pretty good.
[0:15:13 – 0:15:15] Adam: You get snow, but you’re not buried in it yet.
[0:15:16 – 0:15:18] Adam: Santa’s still on its way.
[0:15:18 – 0:15:19] Adam: You’re trying to be a good lad.
[0:15:20 – 0:15:25] Erik: There’s excitement about storms, potential snow.
[0:15:25 – 0:15:25] Erik: Yeah.
[0:15:25 – 0:15:33] Erik: Now it’s like when you see like, oh, well, the colored map, it’s turning orange.
[0:15:34 – 0:15:34] Erik: Why is it orange?
[0:15:36 – 0:15:37] Erik: It’s April.
[0:15:37 – 0:15:39] Erik: Why are there orange colors on the snowfall map?
[0:15:39 – 0:15:43] Erik: But in December, that is… Yeah, that’s juicy.
[0:15:43 – 0:15:45] Erik: That’s like, I don’t even care.
[0:15:45 – 0:15:46] Erik: Is it going to start snowing at 3 a.m.?
[0:15:46 – 0:15:49] Erik: I’m going to actually try and stay up until it starts snowing.
[0:15:49 – 0:15:50] Erik: I want to see that.
[0:15:50 – 0:15:51] Adam: I want to see those big flakes.
[0:15:53 – 0:16:01] Erik: When that happens in April, you wake up and you want to go and walk into the lake with a cinder block tied around your neck.
[0:16:01 – 0:16:02] Erik: Indeed.
[0:16:02 – 0:16:03] Erik: You’re ready for it to be over.
[0:16:03 – 0:16:13] Erik: And I think I may have to correct a previous statement that I made that May and April were the two months next to each other that had the farthest distance.
[0:16:13 – 0:16:16] Erik: But December and January, in my rankings, are just the same.
[0:16:16 – 0:16:17] Erik: Yeah.
[0:16:17 – 0:16:19] Erik: Because December, I think it’s a great month.
[0:16:20 – 0:16:20] Erik: It’s exciting.
[0:16:20 – 0:16:20] Erik: Yeah.
[0:16:21 – 0:16:22] Erik: But there’s something about January.
[0:16:23 – 0:16:25] Erik: All that magic kind of just falls away.
[0:16:25 – 0:16:27] Erik: And it’s so damn long.
[0:16:28 – 0:16:31] Erik: We had all those comments about if you can make it through February, you can make it through another year.
[0:16:31 – 0:16:32] Erik: But say what you will.
[0:16:32 – 0:16:34] Erik: February is only 28 days long.
[0:16:34 – 0:16:36] Erik: January is three days longer.
[0:16:36 – 0:16:40] Adam: Really, January and February are just one kind of really long one.
[0:16:40 – 0:16:41] Adam: It’s a 60-day month.
[0:16:42 – 0:16:50] Erik: But I think April is still worse than February because it is – you’re so close, but you’re still – it’s like – especially the first half.
[0:16:50 – 0:16:50] Adam: Yeah.
[0:16:51 – 0:16:53] Adam: It’s like a two-step forward, three-step back.
[0:16:53 – 0:16:53] Adam: Sure.
[0:16:54 – 0:16:55] Adam: Kind of a month, and I hate it.
[0:16:57 – 0:16:58] Adam: Fair enough.
[0:16:58 – 0:16:58] Adam: Fair enough.
[0:16:58 – 0:16:59] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:16:59 – 0:17:00] Adam: Enough said.
[0:17:01 – 0:17:05] Adam: But you’re also, yeah, middle of April right now, you’re starting to hear some running water.
[0:17:05 – 0:17:06] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:17:06 – 0:17:11] Adam: So that does give me the goosey bumps for sure.
[0:17:11 – 0:17:13] Adam: I get to hear the rushing water again.
[0:17:13 – 0:17:19] Erik: April is the first month that you can really start actually smelling again when you’re outside.
[0:17:19 – 0:17:21] Adam: Yeah, I got some good sniffs the other day.
[0:17:23 – 0:17:23] Erik: Yeah.
[0:17:23 – 0:17:34] Erik: It’s not even just like… During the day, you’ll occasionally get a random… Oh, like a clump of dirt heated up randomly in February at some point.
[0:17:34 – 0:17:35] Erik: I have no idea.
[0:17:35 – 0:17:44] Erik: But it’s April where you go out at night after the sun goes down and you just kind of stand outside and you still get that moisture.
[0:17:45 – 0:17:48] Erik: There’s still dirt and you can almost smell…
[0:17:50 – 0:17:58] Erik: things starting to come alive even after dark in april and i do i’ll i do have to give it to april for that there is the
[0:17:59 – 0:18:22] Adam: hell yeah and also there’s like a bunch of new birds arriving right now which is great oh yeah makes you feel like something’s happening even if it might not be like um i you know i saw a redwing blackbird last week i told my mom and she’s like that’s always to me the real beginning of spring is not a specific date or a week um it’s when you see your first redwing blackbird then it’s officially spring yeah
[0:18:22 – 0:18:23] Adam: That’s a good way to think about it.
[0:18:23 – 0:18:24] Adam: I like that.
[0:18:24 – 0:18:26] Adam: I did hear a robin.
[0:18:27 – 0:18:28] Adam: I heard a robin.
[0:18:28 – 0:18:29] Adam: I didn’t see it yet.
[0:18:30 – 0:18:32] Adam: I saw some grackles.
[0:18:32 – 0:18:33] Erik: The woodcocks are out there.
[0:18:34 – 0:19:00] Adam: yeah the woodpecks are out there chirping yeah you get all these new bird songs and then yeah i was out you know playing in the mud with the boy this afternoon and the rain and the geese flew over and i saw some some teensy ducks but you know me they’re too fast and i couldn’t positively id them other than they were definitely 100 teensy duck but i uh i don’t dare try and narrow it down any further on those three small duck
[0:19:02 – 0:19:06] Adam: I hope they found a good pond or moving water to land in.
[0:19:06 – 0:19:07] Adam: That’s the thing.
[0:19:07 – 0:19:15] Adam: I was down at the river before I came over here, and it’s like, yeah, it’s flowing into the big lake, but there’s still ice covering the river just a little bit upstream.
[0:19:15 – 0:19:17] Adam: Yeah.
[0:19:17 – 0:19:19] Adam: So not quite steelhead season, though.
[0:19:19 – 0:19:20] Adam: Yeah, it is.
[0:19:20 – 0:19:23] Adam: We’re not going to start reading the big Two-Hearted River by Hemingway yet.
[0:19:23 – 0:19:24] Adam: Not just yet.
[0:19:24 – 0:19:24] Adam: Maybe next week.
[0:19:24 – 0:19:25] Erik: Yeah.
[0:19:25 – 0:19:26] Erik: I mean, April is…
[0:19:28 – 0:19:44] Erik: Definitely one of those months that, and maybe it has spoken to all of you in terms of how I see it, but you can look at it as a half full or half empty month.
[0:19:45 – 0:19:55] Erik: You can take a look from six feet to the left and see a pile of snow and just want to end it all, or you can take a look to the right and see moving water.
[0:19:56 – 0:19:59] Adam: Yeah, you might say, like, this melting snow looks disgusting.
[0:20:00 – 0:20:05] Adam: But every once in a while, all of a sudden it melts a little bit and you find something that you had lost, you know, back in November.
[0:20:05 – 0:20:06] Adam: And that’s exciting.
[0:20:06 – 0:20:08] Adam: You know, springtime treasure.
[0:20:08 – 0:20:09] Erik: Yeah, springtime treasures.
[0:20:10 – 0:20:10] Erik: Pew, pew, pew, pew, pew.
[0:20:12 – 0:20:14] Adam: There’s my Uncle Josh’s pork frogs.
[0:20:14 – 0:20:15] Adam: Oh, no.
[0:20:15 – 0:20:16] Adam: They’re still supple.
[0:20:16 – 0:20:22] Adam: There’s my tin of Zin that I dropped last November.
[0:20:22 – 0:20:27] Adam: I like March for the end of ice fishing season and the end of trout season, which is pretty good.
[0:20:27 – 0:20:30] Adam: It’s the first time where you start to feel warmth again.
[0:20:30 – 0:20:33] Erik: Warmth out on the ice is what I picture March up here as.
[0:20:33 – 0:20:42] Adam: But then, you know, April strikes and you’re not allowed to ice fish, you know, unless you’re going for like crappie or whitefish, I guess, or the border lakes are open.
[0:20:42 – 0:20:46] Adam: You know, if you’re one of those guys that I’m going to hack my way into North Fowl.
[0:20:46 – 0:20:46] Erik: Yeah.
[0:20:46 – 0:20:48] Erik: March is the second best winter month.
[0:20:48 – 0:20:52] Adam: You know, but also April, I’ve been getting out and zinging some casts.
[0:20:52 – 0:21:04] Adam: I don’t know if that’s just because the learn event’s going on or if it’s because the water’s flowing again or, you know, I’m itching to just get ready for Steelhead because this is definitely the year.
[0:21:04 – 0:21:05] Adam: This is definitely the year.
[0:21:06 – 0:21:06] Adam: It is.
[0:21:07 – 0:21:16] Adam: So there’s that kind of hopefulness that even though April has been filled with almost nothing but failure for the last decade, this year might be different.
[0:21:16 – 0:21:18] Adam: Perhaps this time it could be different.
[0:21:19 – 0:21:19] Erik: Perhaps.
[0:21:21 – 0:21:22] Adam: I’m excited, though.
[0:21:22 – 0:21:26] Adam: I got something for you, unless you have any more thoughts on month ranking right now.
[0:21:26 – 0:21:28] Erik: No, I’m surprised we went as long as we did on it.
[0:21:28 – 0:21:29] Erik: I just, you know, it was.
[0:21:30 – 0:21:31] Adam: I love talking about time.
[0:21:32 – 0:21:34] Erik: I made the list in my head while walking.
[0:21:34 – 0:21:34] Adam: Good.
[0:21:35 – 0:21:35] Erik: Yeah.
[0:21:35 – 0:21:37] Erik: And I stand by it.
[0:21:38 – 0:21:44] Adam: I was doing some research on the lures, just trying to get a little bit more detail on these teams that are left.
[0:21:45 – 0:21:47] Adam: Because the first couple rounds, there’s so many teams.
[0:21:48 – 0:21:51] Adam: You’re just trying to sort them out to figure out who is the contenders, right?
[0:21:52 – 0:21:56] Adam: But now that we’re down to 16, it’s like, well, who are these teams, these final 16?
[0:21:56 – 0:21:59] Adam: Now we’ve maybe got a little bit more time to get to know them a little bit better.
[0:22:00 – 0:22:06] Adam: So I was trying to go online and check out the rosters a little bit, right?
[0:22:07 – 0:22:08] Adam: I’ll just say this.
[0:22:09 – 0:22:13] Adam: Online looter manufacturers, you’re all on damn blast.
[0:22:14 – 0:22:14] Adam: Okay.
[0:22:14 – 0:22:21] Adam: If I go to a website and you immediately hit me with a pop-up ad to sign up for your e-newsletter…
[0:22:21 – 0:22:27] Adam: Or like, hey, spin this wheel for an extra 5% off your next order over $100.
[0:22:28 – 0:22:32] Adam: I’m straight up never ordering anything from you, and I’m never coming back also.
[0:22:32 – 0:22:42] Adam: So just anybody out there listening that happens to work for an online lure retailer, that doesn’t work with anybody, I don’t think.
[0:22:42 – 0:22:44] Adam: So just knock it off.
[0:22:44 – 0:22:46] Erik: I mean, it must work to a certain extent, though.
[0:22:48 – 0:22:49] Adam: And they all do it, too.
[0:22:50 – 0:22:57] Adam: There’s not a good… Every single one of them I try to go to to just see some pictures of the teams.
[0:22:58 – 0:22:59] Adam: They all do this stuff.
[0:22:59 – 0:23:01] Adam: I don’t know what’s going on.
[0:23:02 – 0:23:03] Adam: It’s awful.
[0:23:03 – 0:23:04] Erik: It’s the world we live in.
[0:23:04 – 0:23:07] Adam: I’m telling you, though, this is why you support your local bait shops.
[0:23:07 – 0:23:07] Adam: Yes.
[0:23:08 – 0:23:08] Adam: Shop local.
[0:23:09 – 0:23:11] Adam: And it’s better to buy your lure in person anyways.
[0:23:12 – 0:23:15] Adam: You’re never going to find your final lure online.
[0:23:15 – 0:23:25] Adam: You’re going to find them at a local bait shop like Ugly Baby in Grand Marais, even though they’re not currently open.
[0:23:26 – 0:23:27] Erik: Or Scoob’s.
[0:23:28 – 0:23:28] Erik: Scoob’s?
[0:23:28 – 0:23:29] Erik: Scooby’s?
[0:23:29 – 0:23:30] Adam: They’re also maybe not open.
[0:23:31 – 0:23:38] Adam: But for sure you can find these lures at Voyager Bait and Tackle in Atacocan and probably at Northwood’s Bait and Tackle in Cook.
[0:23:38 – 0:23:38] Erik: I would think so.
[0:23:39 – 0:23:42] Adam: And a handful of other locations.
[0:23:42 – 0:23:47] Adam: I went to Buck’s in Grammar Race and I found…
[0:23:47 – 0:23:51] Adam: They only had the one I was looking for a specific kind of spoon.
[0:23:51 – 0:23:54] Adam: I don’t want to say because I don’t want to influence any of our voters.
[0:23:55 – 0:23:59] Adam: But I was looking for a specific kind of spoon and a very specific weight.
[0:24:00 – 0:24:01] Adam: And they only had one available.
[0:24:02 – 0:24:04] Adam: But it happened to be in a color I really liked.
[0:24:04 – 0:24:08] Adam: So I felt like it was the universe telling me this is the lure for you.
[0:24:09 – 0:24:10] Adam: Enough said there.
[0:24:10 – 0:24:12] Erik: The lure for years.
[0:24:12 – 0:24:17] Adam: So, yeah, I’ve been casting, and I did buy one lure, but it wasn’t from the internet.
[0:24:17 – 0:24:18] Adam: Good.
[0:24:18 – 0:24:22] Adam: Because the internet’s an awful place.
[0:24:22 – 0:24:27] Adam: So you can’t even go look at a picture of a lure right now without trying to get somebody to sign up for an e-newsletter.
[0:24:28 – 0:24:29] Adam: Tell you what, it’s never going to happen.
[0:24:30 – 0:24:31] Adam: Stop trying to make it happen.
[0:24:32 – 0:24:34] Adam: E-newsletters are dead.
[0:24:35 – 0:24:38] Adam: You heard it here first on Tumble Home Sports Network.
[0:24:38 – 0:24:42] Erik: You heard it here first on Cumberland Sports Network in 2025.
[0:24:42 – 0:24:45] Adam: We solved it.
[0:24:45 – 0:24:46] Erik: E-newsletters are dead.
[0:24:49 – 0:24:50] Adam: Wait, we don’t have an e-newsletter, do we?
[0:24:51 – 0:24:51] Adam: Trevor?
[0:24:52 – 0:24:52] Adam: No.
[0:24:52 – 0:24:53] Adam: He’s saying no, we don’t.
[0:24:54 – 0:24:54] Adam: Not anymore.
[0:24:54 – 0:24:57] Adam: He’s making that motion with his thumb across his neck.
[0:24:58 – 0:24:58] Adam: I don’t like that.
[0:24:59 – 0:25:01] Erik: This week’s episode brought to you by MailChimp.
[0:25:02 – 0:25:09] Erik: Get together all of the emails that you have hijacked somehow from customers that have given it to you.
[0:25:10 – 0:25:17] Adam: The only worse thing than that is when you’re actually buying something from a website and then they have the little button that says, you know, I click here.
[0:25:18 – 0:25:19] Adam: Like, I don’t, you know, unclick or click here.
[0:25:19 – 0:25:22] Adam: I don’t want to receive any emails from you ever.
[0:25:22 – 0:25:24] Adam: I just want to buy this pump.
[0:25:27 – 0:25:27] Adam: That’s it.
[0:25:27 – 0:25:30] Adam: I don’t want to ever have another interaction with you ever.
[0:25:31 – 0:25:31] Erik: I just want the thing.
[0:25:32 – 0:25:36] Adam: And then within without fail, you get your email saying, like, order confirmation.
[0:25:37 – 0:25:37] Adam: Good.
[0:25:37 – 0:25:39] Adam: Yeah, I want the order confirmation.
[0:25:39 – 0:25:40] Adam: I’ll track it.
[0:25:40 – 0:25:45] Adam: And then, like, 30 minutes later, you get another email like, check out these screaming deals on pumps.
[0:25:45 – 0:25:46] Adam: Pumps.
[0:25:46 – 0:25:46] Adam: Yeah.
[0:25:47 – 0:25:48] Adam: It’s like, damn it anyways.
[0:25:48 – 0:25:54] Erik: Well, it’s a lot better than when I used to work at Clearwater where I was looking at septic pumps and all this.
[0:25:54 – 0:25:55] Erik: It’s like, what?
[0:25:56 – 0:25:59] Adam: Hey, dirty man, we hear you’re into pumps.
[0:25:59 – 0:26:04] Adam: All of a sudden you’re getting emails from pumps.com.
[0:26:04 – 0:26:08] Adam: Can I interest you in this shit cutter 3000?
[0:26:08 – 0:26:09] Erik: Why?
[0:26:09 – 0:26:11] Erik: Why is this on the side of my…
[0:26:11 – 0:26:12] Erik: I’m just looking at…
[0:26:12 – 0:26:16] Erik: I’m reading about an album that’s coming out next week and all I can see on the side of my…
[0:26:18 – 0:26:21] Adam: The algorithm thinks that you could definitely use a Shitcutter 4000.
[0:26:22 – 0:26:22] Adam: No?
[0:26:23 – 0:26:23] Adam: No?
[0:26:24 – 0:26:26] Adam: All right, just click the little tiny X.
[0:26:26 – 0:26:27] Adam: It’s way better than that.
[0:26:27 – 0:26:29] Adam: You’re not going to be able to hit that X, though.
[0:26:29 – 0:26:29] Erik: Find the X?
[0:26:29 – 0:26:30] Erik: Find the X?
[0:26:30 – 0:26:30] Erik: Oh, no.
[0:26:30 – 0:26:31] Erik: Oh, we’re going.
[0:26:32 – 0:26:33] Erik: We’re redirecting.
[0:26:33 – 0:26:35] Adam: And we’re going to update your Adobe Flash while we’re at it.
[0:26:35 – 0:26:37] Erik: You’re on shitcutters.com now.
[0:26:37 – 0:26:39] Adam: The internet is a hellhole right now.
[0:26:39 – 0:26:40] Adam: The horrors persist.
[0:26:40 – 0:27:06] Adam: yeah they do what we’ve been doing here thankfully we have a beautiful learnament to distract us and entertain us from the uh the hideous nature of reality yeah we’re out here using the internet for good here in april it’s an okay month it’s an all right month we got some other stuff here from uh cheap dancer taxes though taxes also adds to the horrors of april here you go i got a package for i have a parcel for jim
[0:27:06 – 0:27:30] Adam: i have to open this yeah do you have a knife on you uh yeah no i should have warned him i have my i got my soft indoor pants on there’s nothing sharp anywhere close to me we got a free slaps uh wine satchel in two-tone ah two-tone orange and black free slaps tote he’s got a absolutely insane tape job on this
[0:27:31 – 0:27:32] Adam: No, it’s really thoroughly done.
[0:27:32 – 0:27:35] Adam: Thankfully, while you’re struggling with that, I have some stickers.
[0:27:35 – 0:27:38] Erik: Is this like a first press?
[0:27:38 – 0:27:43] Adam: Yeah, these are first run prints, apparently, is what I was told, but I have never opened them.
[0:27:44 – 0:27:47] Adam: Like original prints from Cheap Dancer.
[0:27:51 – 0:27:55] Adam: I got a set of stickers here, too, that came in the mail at the co-op this week.
[0:27:55 – 0:27:59] Adam: And it just said, caution, does not contain cash.
[0:27:59 – 0:28:00] Erik: Caution?
[0:28:00 – 0:28:02] Adam: Also from Cheap Dancer.
[0:28:02 – 0:28:05] Erik: Is that to warn the postal worker to keep their…
[0:28:05 – 0:28:09] Adam: I think so, but definitely there was a big pile of cash in there, plus these stickers.
[0:28:09 – 0:28:10] Adam: We got a B Tumble sticker.
[0:28:11 – 0:28:13] Adam: My other hat is a Min 2.
[0:28:14 – 0:28:15] Adam: Nice brown Volcano.
[0:28:15 – 0:28:17] Adam: I got a Dusty Vibe sticker here for you.
[0:28:18 – 0:28:18] Erik: Oh, wow.
[0:28:19 – 0:28:23] Adam: And the BWCA, where Bobby wrecks a brown Volcano.
[0:28:25 – 0:28:25] Adam: Pretty good.
[0:28:26 – 0:28:26] Erik: That’s pretty good.
[0:28:27 – 0:28:29] Erik: I think I love all of that.
[0:28:29 – 0:28:30] Adam: There’s a note in here, too.
[0:28:31 – 0:28:36] Adam: Eric and Adam, please let me know if you have too many stickers so I can stop sending Cheap Dancer out.
[0:28:36 – 0:28:39] Erik: I don’t think I’ve ever been like, I got too many stickers in my life.
[0:28:40 – 0:28:40] Erik: Never.
[0:28:42 – 0:28:44] Erik: Always more stickers.
[0:28:44 – 0:28:45] Erik: So many open spaces for stickers.
[0:28:45 – 0:28:50] Erik: Once you get into your mid-30s and you don’t have kids, what else is there to do except find places to put stickers?
[0:28:51 – 0:28:52] Adam: Hell, if you got kids, you can put stickers.
[0:28:52 – 0:28:54] Adam: I actually did put a sticker on the boy today.
[0:28:55 – 0:28:56] Erik: Perfect.
[0:28:56 – 0:28:56] Adam: I know.
[0:28:56 – 0:28:57] Adam: He loved it.
[0:28:57 – 0:28:59] Erik: It’s another added bonus to having a kid.
[0:29:00 – 0:29:01] Adam: Good place to put stickers.
[0:29:02 – 0:29:04] Adam: He’s getting into it, it looks like.
[0:29:04 – 0:29:08] Adam: You don’t want to damage the artwork too, so I appreciate that you’re being very careful with that.
[0:29:08 – 0:29:09] Erik: Am I being careful?
[0:29:09 – 0:29:10] Erik: I’m not 100% sure.
[0:29:10 – 0:29:13] Adam: It looks like you’re really being tender with that artwork over there.
[0:29:13 – 0:29:17] Erik: I do feel like maybe a knife would be useful at this point.
[0:29:18 – 0:29:20] Erik: It’s not just one-way tape, it’s two-way tape.
[0:29:21 – 0:29:22] Adam: Yeah, this is super secure.
[0:29:22 – 0:29:24] Adam: Did this get mailed?
[0:29:24 – 0:29:26] Erik: Why is this so insane?
[0:29:26 – 0:29:28] Adam: No, this was dropped off in person, too.
[0:29:28 – 0:29:30] Adam: They can’t even trust themselves to hand deliver this.
[0:29:31 – 0:29:33] Adam: Or are the arts just that good?
[0:29:33 – 0:29:37] Adam: I mean, we’re talking before we hit record about Antiques Roadshow, of course.
[0:29:37 – 0:29:44] Adam: And I’m guessing several of these prints are probably going to end up on Antiques Roadshow, like 2078 Thunder Bay.
[0:29:45 – 0:29:46] Adam: That kind of thing.
[0:29:46 – 0:29:46] Adam: Okay, I think I have access.
[0:29:46 – 0:29:47] Adam: I think he’s gotten in.
[0:29:48 – 0:29:49] Adam: We’re into the vault.
[0:29:51 – 0:29:52] Erik: Maybe.
[0:29:52 – 0:29:52] Adam: Yeah, I’ll tell you what.
[0:29:52 – 0:29:55] Adam: These Montucky Coltsnacks are going down pretty good right now.
[0:29:56 – 0:29:56] Erik: I tell you what.
[0:29:56 – 0:29:59] Adam: There must be a full moon because I am extra thirsty.
[0:30:11 – 0:30:11] Adam: He’s got it.
[0:30:12 – 0:30:14] Adam: I can tell it’s about to happen here.
[0:30:15 – 0:30:18] Adam: We might have to get two of us involved in this one.
[0:30:22 – 0:30:46] Adam: i don’t know man i think we might just need to pause and grab a knife this is crazy the amount of tape involved in this all right so i can’t tell what i’m trying to get out of it yeah what are you trying to get out of this it’d be funny if there’s actually nothing in there at all he’s gonna go get a knife it’s official
[0:30:51 – 0:30:52] Adam: A cheap dancer.
[0:30:52 – 0:30:54] Adam: All right.
[0:30:54 – 0:30:56] Adam: Original first edition print.
[0:30:56 – 0:30:56] Erik: We got a knife.
[0:30:57 – 0:30:57] Adam: All right.
[0:30:57 – 0:30:58] Adam: He’s back.
[0:31:00 – 0:31:02] Adam: Got himself a serrated knife over here.
[0:31:02 – 0:31:05] Adam: He’s carefully working it now because we don’t…
[0:31:05 – 0:31:10] Adam: These are probably limited edition slash first edition prints.
[0:31:10 – 0:31:11] Adam: This is a sheet of nice paper.
[0:31:13 – 0:31:15] Adam: The gift is that you can make art yourselves.
[0:31:15 – 0:31:16] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:31:16 – 0:31:18] Adam: That looks like some… Oh, dear.
[0:31:19 – 0:31:22] Adam: Is that a… Is that a cyber truck?
[0:31:22 – 0:31:27] Adam: Yeah, it looked like the loon was blasting an orb of cyber truck on that one.
[0:31:27 – 0:31:43] Erik: We’ve got the Tumble Home Friend of the Wet Bird logo, laser loon, and these are all different prints with somebody else in the eyes of the laser.
[0:31:45 – 0:31:45] Erik: Wow.
[0:31:45 – 0:31:47] Erik: That seems like a reverse.
[0:31:48 – 0:31:51] Erik: Is the loon being lasered by the eye of Sauron there?
[0:31:51 – 0:31:53] Adam: Yeah, you don’t want to look into that Palantir.
[0:31:53 – 0:31:54] Adam: I’ll tell you what, loon.
[0:31:54 – 0:31:57] Erik: We’ve got Bobby and another one here.
[0:31:58 – 0:31:58] Adam: Nice.
[0:31:58 – 0:31:59] Adam: Bobby.
[0:32:00 – 0:32:01] Erik: We’ve got a nice one here.
[0:32:01 – 0:32:02] Erik: Pig with a heart.
[0:32:03 – 0:32:04] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:32:04 – 0:32:05] Adam: This is great.
[0:32:06 – 0:32:07] Erik: That guy.
[0:32:08 – 0:32:09] Adam: Stink.
[0:32:09 – 0:32:13] Erik: And then we definitely do have the Cybertruck being lasered by the loon.
[0:32:13 – 0:32:15] Erik: That’s pretty good.
[0:32:16 – 0:32:16] Erik: Classic.
[0:32:16 – 0:32:18] Erik: You will never peek alone.
[0:32:19 – 0:32:20] Adam: Yeah, that one’s probably worth a lot.
[0:32:20 – 0:32:21] Adam: We’re going to hang on to those.
[0:32:22 – 0:32:24] Erik: I feel like there could have been a little bit.
[0:32:24 – 0:32:26] Adam: We should have had the artist sign these.
[0:32:26 – 0:32:27] Erik: Yeah, like sign one of one.
[0:32:28 – 0:32:28] Adam: Right.
[0:32:29 – 0:32:29] Adam: These are numbered.
[0:32:29 – 0:32:31] Adam: Yeah, these are first edition prints.
[0:32:32 – 0:32:34] Erik: That would have added…
[0:32:34 – 0:32:35] Erik: They’re steaming, too.
[0:32:35 – 0:32:36] Adam: They’re just steaming hot off the press.
[0:32:36 – 0:32:37] Adam: Look at that.
[0:32:37 – 0:32:38] Erik: So much value.
[0:32:38 – 0:32:39] Adam: It looks like really high-quality ink.
[0:32:40 – 0:32:41] Adam: What kind of ink are you using, Chief Dancer?
[0:32:41 – 0:32:42] Adam: It’s high-quality paper.
[0:32:42 – 0:32:43] Adam: High-quality ink.
[0:32:43 – 0:32:43] Adam: It is really nice paper.
[0:32:43 – 0:32:45] Adam: Everything about this is high-quality.
[0:32:45 – 0:32:47] Erik: I’m glad I didn’t just rip into it like a maniac.
[0:32:47 – 0:32:49] Erik: I went and I paused.
[0:32:49 – 0:32:49] Erik: I got a knife.
[0:32:50 – 0:32:51] Adam: Way to breathe deep.
[0:32:51 – 0:32:52] Adam: Yeah.
[0:32:52 – 0:32:54] Adam: Really, the April in you is showing at this point.
[0:32:54 – 0:32:57] Adam: Yeah, I did a little quick… You’re in the April of your life right now.
[0:32:58 – 0:32:58] Erik: I don’t even know.
[0:32:58 – 0:33:00] Erik: Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
[0:33:00 – 0:33:01] Adam: Yeah, it means you’ve got a lot ahead.
[0:33:03 – 0:33:05] Erik: The order of the seasons doesn’t matter.
[0:33:05 – 0:33:06] Erik: It just all depends on when you were born.
[0:33:07 – 0:33:08] Adam: That is true, yeah.
[0:33:08 – 0:33:10] Adam: Everybody’s January is different.
[0:33:10 – 0:33:10] Erik: Mm-hmm.
[0:33:13 – 0:33:18] Adam: Cripes, I’ve also gone through a whole Montucky just enjoying the pregame show here.
[0:33:18 – 0:33:19] Erik: Well, it’s good we have 12 of them.
[0:33:19 – 0:33:21] Adam: Yeah, we do have 12 of them.
[0:33:21 – 0:33:25] Adam: And also, I can stay up all the way until midnight tonight, Jim.
[0:33:26 – 0:33:28] Erik: Hell, I might stay up until 1.
[0:33:28 – 0:33:29] Adam: I might be a little bit naughty.
[0:33:30 – 0:33:32] Erik: Hell, I might stay up until 1.
[0:33:32 – 0:33:36] Erik: I might put on my big boots and go howl at the moon later.
[0:33:36 – 0:33:40] Erik: We do have, obviously, sub-month rolls on.
[0:33:41 – 0:33:41] Erik: Sub-lust.
[0:33:41 – 0:33:42] Erik: Yes.
[0:33:42 – 0:33:45] Erik: My sub-lust is unquenchable.
[0:33:45 – 0:33:47] Adam: You’re going above and beyond over here.
[0:33:47 – 0:33:49] Adam: I’m doing auxiliary research.
[0:33:49 – 0:33:50] Adam: Yeah, you’re putting me to shame right now.
[0:33:50 – 0:33:54] Erik: I’m at periscope depth just spying future films off in the distance.
[0:33:54 – 0:33:55] Erik: You’re always in the float.
[0:33:56 – 0:34:19] Erik: yeah yeah and your bow plane is not stuck seven degrees seven degrees down bubble correct positioning i know all the lingo you’re a certified dive master certified yeah i’m just waiting to get my third star at this point waiting for my own boat we’re going uh we’re going spoofy this week we’re going parody i don’t know what we’re going yeah i liked it a lot though
[0:34:19 – 0:34:38] Erik: every like that guy from the 90s we got uh rob schneider we got harlan williams we got rip torn rip torn we got uh the the love interest from dumb and dumber no way yeah that’s her as the lay
[0:34:40 – 0:34:41] Adam: Lady Navy.
[0:34:41 – 0:34:43] Erik: There’s no such thing as a lady submarine.
[0:34:43 – 0:34:45] Adam: It is the lady from Dumb and Dumber.
[0:34:45 – 0:34:45] Adam: Yeah.
[0:34:46 – 0:34:46] Adam: Swanson?
[0:34:47 – 0:34:47] Adam: Mm-hmm.
[0:34:48 – 0:34:49] Adam: Samsonite.
[0:34:52 – 0:34:53] Adam: Oh, man.
[0:34:53 – 0:34:53] Adam: Yeah.
[0:34:53 – 0:34:54] Adam: I guess it is.
[0:34:54 – 0:34:54] Adam: Mm-hmm.
[0:34:54 – 0:34:54] Adam: Wow.
[0:34:55 – 0:35:08] Erik: The guy from, if anybody out there is as much of a Seinfeld aficionado as I am, we also have the, I’m totally blanking on it now.
[0:35:08 – 0:35:09] Erik: I can picture him.
[0:35:09 – 0:35:09] Erik: The Wiz.
[0:35:11 – 0:35:11] Erik: The whiz.
[0:35:11 – 0:35:11] Adam: Yeah.
[0:35:12 – 0:35:12] Erik: I’m the whiz.
[0:35:13 – 0:35:18] Erik: He’s the guy that’s got Frank Sinatra eyes that Elaine falls in love with.
[0:35:18 – 0:35:24] Erik: But then it turns out he is just like a local cable like car salesman.
[0:35:25 – 0:35:30] Erik: And yeah, he does actually have like a freakish resemblance to young Frank Sinatra.
[0:35:31 – 0:35:34] Erik: He’s the guy like the crazy like electrical guy.
[0:35:34 – 0:35:34] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:35:34 – 0:35:36] Erik: Who’s always doing like the dumbest things.
[0:35:37 – 0:35:37] Adam: Yeah.
[0:35:37 – 0:35:38] Adam: Licking wires.
[0:35:39 – 0:35:40] Erik: Yeah, licking wires.
[0:35:40 – 0:35:41] Adam: It’s an old boat.
[0:35:41 – 0:35:43] Erik: Pressing his nose with pliers and stuff.
[0:35:43 – 0:35:46] Adam: Anybody that’s been in an old boat knows sometimes you’ve got to lick some wires.
[0:35:47 – 0:35:49] Adam: Make it all work.
[0:35:49 – 0:35:51] Erik: A youngish Bruce Dern is in this.
[0:35:51 – 0:35:52] Erik: Bruce Dern.
[0:35:53 – 0:35:53] Adam: Yeah.
[0:35:54 – 0:35:55] Adam: Everybody hates him.
[0:35:55 – 0:35:57] Erik: And obviously our main man.
[0:36:00 – 0:36:01] Erik: Kelsey.
[0:36:01 – 0:36:02] Erik: Tossed salad and scrambled eggs.
[0:36:03 – 0:36:04] Erik: Kelsey Grammer.
[0:36:04 – 0:36:05] Erik: Kelsey Grammer.
[0:36:05 – 0:36:06] Erik: Kelsey freaking Grammer.
[0:36:07 – 0:36:07] Erik: Oh, why?
[0:36:07 – 0:36:08] Erik: What were you thinking?
[0:36:08 – 0:36:09] Erik: Why are you in this movie?
[0:36:10 – 0:36:11] Adam: They were just making it easy.
[0:36:11 – 0:36:14] Adam: He just wanted to hit a golf ball off the top of a nuclear submarine.
[0:36:14 – 0:36:18] Erik: I’ve never honestly seen a movie peak so early.
[0:36:18 – 0:36:20] Erik: It was the greatest scene in the movie.
[0:36:20 – 0:36:33] Adam: It actually peaks at the very end when they actually have the village people in the credits scene are singing in the Navy and everybody’s dancing on top of the submarine.
[0:36:33 – 0:36:34] Adam: I think that’s actually the peak.
[0:36:35 – 0:36:59] Erik: yeah yeah you could be right between those everything in between it’s like uh it’s like the most incredible bread that you’ve ever tasted yeah and then everything in between is just like uh like horse loaf it’s like horse loaf yeah you’re like well not my not my thing but it’s flourishing though bread is amazing yeah i love either end yeah so every bite is good really
[0:37:00 – 0:37:04] Erik: Yeah, technically it is, but just don’t think about the middle.
[0:37:04 – 0:37:07] Adam: At least it comes in a tidy one hour and 31 minutes.
[0:37:07 – 0:37:10] Adam: They did have that very gracious of them.
[0:37:11 – 0:37:15] Erik: I probably wouldn’t be here right now if it would have been Das Boat Length.
[0:37:16 – 0:37:18] Adam: Yeah, I’m curious.
[0:37:19 – 0:37:22] Adam: We’ll probably leave the rest for the show, but did you watch it at high speed?
[0:37:22 – 0:37:23] Adam: No.
[0:37:23 – 0:37:25] Adam: You watched it at normal speed, so yeah, not bad.
[0:37:26 – 0:37:28] Adam: Yeah, big time.
[0:37:29 – 0:37:30] Adam: Week three of some month.
[0:37:30 – 0:37:31] Erik: Down Periscope.
[0:37:31 – 0:37:34] Erik: I don’t think we’ve actually said the title, but it is Down Periscope.
[0:37:34 – 0:37:38] Erik: We have to finish with something real after this, but we haven’t gotten there.
[0:37:38 – 0:37:41] Adam: Oh, I don’t think I’m ready to be done in four weeks.
[0:37:41 – 0:37:44] Adam: I have like three more titles that I definitely want to watch.
[0:37:45 – 0:37:46] Erik: I’m totally fine with continuing on.
[0:37:46 – 0:37:47] Erik: Sub-Spring.
[0:37:48 – 0:37:48] Adam: Sub-Spring.
[0:37:49 – 0:37:53] Adam: Yeah, what is April but a made-up month anyways?
[0:37:53 – 0:38:00] Adam: And sub-month must continue because there’s a couple more I for sure want to watch, and there’s like four more on top of that I would watch.
[0:38:00 – 0:38:02] Adam: So I’m curious to see what’s on your list.
[0:38:02 – 0:38:08] Adam: I think I already sent you my list, but we haven’t picked our next title, but I’m very excited to talk about Down Periscope.
[0:38:08 – 0:38:09] Adam: Yeah.
[0:38:09 – 0:38:15] Adam: Apparently there was a book or a movie like in the 50s called Up Periscope.
[0:38:16 – 0:38:19] Adam: And that’s what the title is referencing.
[0:38:19 – 0:38:20] Erik: And there’s also a sequel.
[0:38:21 – 0:38:22] Adam: I didn’t see the sequel.
[0:38:22 – 0:38:24] Adam: I did actually look around for it.
[0:38:24 – 0:38:28] Adam: And did it go direct to streaming or what?
[0:38:28 – 0:38:29] Adam: Is Kelsey Grammer in it?
[0:38:29 – 0:38:34] Erik: No, I don’t imagine that he is in that.
[0:38:34 – 0:38:38] Adam: I can’t imagine Kelsey Grammer doing this, but it worked.
[0:38:40 – 0:39:08] Erik: we’ll get into it he was paying paid enough money to be in the movie and that’s about the effort you got yeah being paid to be here kind of energy sure yeah from the captain so we’ve said too much our fine friends on patreon our five dollar a month patrons tumble home cinema classics can look forward to another installment into sub spring it’s maybe it’ll never end
[0:39:09 – 0:39:15] Adam: Yeah, no, we joked that we’re just going to… TCC’s just become a sub-movie podcast at this point.
[0:39:16 – 0:39:17] Adam: Could do the whole rest of the year.
[0:39:17 – 0:39:21] Adam: 250… You could do a sub-movie for five more years every week and we wouldn’t run out.
[0:39:22 – 0:39:27] Adam: There’s too many sub-movies, but it’s just a perfect vehicle to tell a story.
[0:39:27 – 0:39:28] Adam: It is good.
[0:39:28 – 0:39:29] Adam: The submarine.
[0:39:29 – 0:39:30] Erik: What is the…
[0:39:30 – 0:39:33] Erik: If you’re trapped on a place for a movie…
[0:39:34 – 0:39:36] Erik: Where else would you rather be?
[0:39:37 – 0:39:38] Erik: Sub’s got to be up there.
[0:39:38 – 0:39:39] Erik: Train’s got to be up there.
[0:39:40 – 0:39:41] Erik: Sub versus train.
[0:39:41 – 0:39:44] Erik: Plane also, you know, up there.
[0:39:44 – 0:39:51] Adam: Anything that requires you to be looking through a periscope or a pirate tube, it’s good stuff.
[0:39:51 – 0:39:53] Adam: There’s pirate stuff in this movie, too.
[0:39:53 – 0:39:54] Adam: There is.
[0:39:54 – 0:39:56] Erik: Anything that requires you to be stuck on the thing.
[0:39:56 – 0:40:00] Adam: I think maybe the peak of this movie is when the plank gets brought out, Eric.
[0:40:00 – 0:40:01] Adam: Yeah, well.
[0:40:01 – 0:40:02] Adam: We’ll talk about that, though, tonight.
[0:40:03 – 0:40:03] Adam: $5 a month.
[0:40:03 – 0:40:11] Adam: Thank you to our patrons for your continued loyalty and support and kindness.
[0:40:11 – 0:40:13] Adam: You know the thing is that we need the most of in April.
[0:40:14 – 0:40:14] Adam: It’s kindness.
[0:40:15 – 0:40:15] Adam: Yeah, it’s kindness.
[0:40:15 – 0:40:16] Adam: There’s not enough kindness in this world.
[0:40:16 – 0:40:18] Erik: Your favorite part was going to be when the fat guy farted.
[0:40:19 – 0:40:20] Adam: I hated the fat guy.
[0:40:20 – 0:40:22] Adam: You’re giving cooks a bad name.
[0:40:22 – 0:40:23] Adam: Why did they let that guy in the boat?
[0:40:23 – 0:40:24] Adam: It’s disgusting.
[0:40:24 – 0:40:28] Adam: He’s got at least 19 health code violations, and none of them involve the cans of lard.
[0:40:29 – 0:40:30] Erik: Cans of lard are the least of his concern.
[0:40:30 – 0:40:32] Adam: The least of our concerns.
[0:40:33 – 0:40:33] Erik: Yeah.
[0:40:34 – 0:40:39] Adam: I wouldn’t eat no horse loaves cooked by that fat son of a bitch.
[0:40:39 – 0:40:40] Adam: I’ll tell you that much.
[0:40:40 – 0:40:41] Adam: That’s disgusting.
[0:40:42 – 0:40:44] Adam: He’s not…
[0:40:46 – 0:40:52] Adam: I probably stuck my foot in my mouth in this one, but he’s disgusting on top of all.
[0:40:53 – 0:40:54] Adam: He’s a disgusting human being.
[0:40:55 – 0:40:56] Adam: He shouldn’t be on a submarine.
[0:40:56 – 0:41:01] Adam: My least favorite crew member of any sub-movie so far is the cook from Down Periscope.
[0:41:01 – 0:41:05] Erik: Very few of them should actually be on that submarine.
[0:41:05 – 0:41:07] Adam: Well, it’s a Motley Crue on purpose, too.
[0:41:07 – 0:41:09] Adam: That’s kind of the point.
[0:41:09 – 0:41:12] Adam: It’s a feature, not a bug of the USS Stingray.
[0:41:12 – 0:41:13] Adam: You know what I mean?
[0:41:13 – 0:41:13] Erik: Yeah.
[0:41:14 – 0:41:14] Adam: All right.
[0:41:15 – 0:41:18] Adam: I’ve cracked into my second Montucky cold snack.
[0:41:21 – 0:41:23] Adam: Horses are thundering in the distance.
[0:41:23 – 0:41:26] Erik: Cue the clip-clop sound effects.
[0:41:26 – 0:41:27] Adam: Clip-clop, me, baby.
[0:41:28 – 0:41:29] Adam: Hammered can.
[0:41:31 – 0:41:34] Adam: Rippling with cold refreshment.
[0:41:34 – 0:41:36] Adam: Rippling with coldness.
[0:41:36 – 0:41:37] Adam: We’ve got eight.
[0:41:37 – 0:41:38] Adam: Eight, right?
[0:41:38 – 0:41:39] Adam: Match-ups?
[0:41:39 – 0:41:43] Adam: Eight matchups, 16 teams remaining in the Learnament 2025.
[0:41:43 – 0:41:46] Adam: Coming to you live from Tumble Home Sports Network.
[0:41:46 – 0:41:47] Adam: My name is Terry Davenport.
[0:41:48 – 0:41:54] Adam: Joining me here at the Beaver House in Grand Marais is our first bracket.
[0:41:54 – 0:41:55] Adam: We got…
[0:41:55 – 0:42:01] Adam: Two matchups to see who goes to the championship here next week at the Beaver House.
[0:42:02 – 0:42:05] Adam: And, yeah, we’ve got 16 teams remaining.
[0:42:05 – 0:42:06] Adam: We’re going to get her down to eight.
[0:42:06 – 0:42:07] Adam: Do we know?
[0:42:07 – 0:42:08] Adam: Do you have it pulled up now?
[0:42:08 – 0:42:09] Adam: What is the schedule going forward?
[0:42:09 – 0:42:15] Adam: I think that’s the most important thing before we actually start getting to these exciting results.
[0:42:15 – 0:42:19] Erik: Yeah, so the semifinals and the finals, basically who’s going to go to the –
[0:42:22 – 0:42:30] Erik: Who’s going to make it to the Final Four and then who’s going to go to the finals will take place over the course of the next week.
[0:42:30 – 0:42:35] Adam: Okay, so we are doing the Elite Eight and the Final Four this week?
[0:42:35 – 0:42:36] Adam: Mm-hmm.
[0:42:36 – 0:42:37] Adam: Okay.
[0:42:37 – 0:42:40] Adam: And then… And then that’ll get us to the finals matchup.
[0:42:40 – 0:42:42] Erik: That’ll get us to the last matchup.
[0:42:42 – 0:42:45] Erik: So there’s still two more weeks before we find out who actually is crowned.
[0:42:45 – 0:42:49] Adam: So this is the double week, because there had to be one double week in here.
[0:42:50 – 0:42:55] Erik: But there’s just so few matchups to vote on, I figured we could cram them into a week.
[0:42:55 – 0:43:04] Erik: So yeah, the semifinals, whoever wins these games will be voted on, and the voting for that will end Wednesday of next week.
[0:43:04 – 0:43:05] Erik: Of this week.
[0:43:06 – 0:43:06] Erik: Of this week, yeah.
[0:43:07 – 0:43:08] Erik: Correct.
[0:43:08 – 0:43:11] Erik: And then the finals for those will end the Saturday, just like…
[0:43:11 – 0:43:12] Adam: So it’s a half week, basically.
[0:43:12 – 0:43:13] Adam: You’ve got to get it going.
[0:43:14 – 0:43:19] Adam: So I’m going to be all over your asses on the Discord and on the subreddit to make it happen.
[0:43:20 – 0:43:26] Adam: And you’re going to have to really be on your game to get to all those libraries and free Wi-Fi points.
[0:43:26 – 0:43:29] Adam: And or activate your VPNs.
[0:43:30 – 0:43:33] Erik: I’ve signed up for so many VPNs.
[0:43:33 – 0:43:38] Adam: Get your Adobe refreshed because you’re going to be clicking and voting.
[0:43:39 – 0:43:40] Adam: Don’t worry, Eric.
[0:43:40 – 0:43:42] Adam: He said you don’t have to prove you’re a human anymore.
[0:43:42 – 0:43:43] Adam: Anybody can vote.
[0:43:44 – 0:43:45] Adam: Any entity can vote.
[0:43:46 – 0:43:48] Adam: If you have a finger, you can vote.
[0:43:51 – 0:43:57] Adam: If you’re a squid at the bottom of the ocean at crush depth, you can vote however many arms you got.
[0:43:58 – 0:43:59] Adam: You can vote that many times.
[0:43:59 – 0:44:00] Erik: Crush depth.
[0:44:00 – 0:44:01] Erik: Depends on the sub.
[0:44:02 – 0:44:03] Erik: We’ve got back into the sub.
[0:44:03 – 0:44:04] Erik: We can’t.
[0:44:04 – 0:44:05] Adam: We can’t get away from these subs.
[0:44:06 – 0:44:10] Erik: We’re going back to the tumble lurnament.
[0:44:10 – 0:44:10] Adam: All right.
[0:44:10 – 0:44:13] Adam: We’re starting in the beaver house.
[0:44:13 – 0:44:13] Adam: The west.
[0:44:14 – 0:44:14] Adam: All right.
[0:44:14 – 0:44:18] Adam: Let me get my notes up here because I did attend quite a few of these games.
[0:44:19 – 0:44:19] Erik: I know.
[0:44:19 – 0:44:22] Erik: You were kind of out of communication this whole week.
[0:44:22 – 0:44:23] Erik: You were dived in deep.
[0:44:24 – 0:44:25] Adam: Oh, I had my blazer on all week.
[0:44:25 – 0:44:33] Adam: I was roaming around the northern Minnesota and southern Ontario, western Ontario regions.
[0:44:33 – 0:44:38] Adam: I’ve been casting myself, but I’ve been watching a lot of casting this week.
[0:44:38 – 0:44:38] Erik: Yeah.
[0:44:39 – 0:44:41] Adam: And I’ve seen a lot of fish caught.
[0:44:41 – 0:44:43] Erik: I’ve seen a lot of fish caught.
[0:44:43 – 0:44:44] Adam: That I can tell you.
[0:44:44 – 0:44:47] Adam: I got one of them little tiny microphones I’ve been carrying with me.
[0:44:47 – 0:44:47] Adam: Yeah.
[0:44:48 – 0:44:49] Adam: Little tiny lav mic.
[0:44:49 – 0:44:57] Adam: Been talking to a lot of teams, a lot of fans, a lot of coaches, a lot of teams trying to figure out who’s the most important players on these teams.
[0:44:57 – 0:44:58] Erik: This guy’s plugged in.
[0:44:58 – 0:45:05] Adam: Oh, you know, if people think that you and I are insiders at the Bear Grease, just wait until they find out how much I know about lure.
[0:45:06 – 0:45:06] Adam: Yeah.
[0:45:08 – 0:45:17] Adam: This first matchup, I’m on the edge of my seat because this might be one of the toughest Sweet 16 matchups in any of the tournaments we’ve ever done on Tumble Home Sports Network.
[0:45:18 – 0:45:29] Adam: This is brutal that these two teams somehow met in the Sweet 16, but we got X-Rap versus the Meps number five double blade in the Sweet 16 matchup.
[0:45:29 – 0:45:33] Adam: It’s a one versus five seed here at the Beaver House, and this was a hell of a game.
[0:45:36 – 0:45:37] Erik: Are we ready for the results?
[0:45:38 – 0:45:39] Adam: Yeah, hit me with it, Jim.
[0:45:40 – 0:45:40] Erik: Okay.
[0:45:42 – 0:45:42] Erik: One versus five.
[0:45:43 – 0:45:48] Erik: As you said, the one seed continues on 49 to 15.
[0:45:49 – 0:45:50] Erik: X-Rap into the Elite Eight.
[0:45:52 – 0:45:53] Adam: The X-Rap is through.
[0:45:53 – 0:45:56] Adam: That’s a big-time lure there.
[0:45:57 – 0:45:59] Adam: I saw the highlights on this one.
[0:45:59 – 0:46:10] Adam: I wasn’t in person at this matchup, but they had a speedy size 4 X-Rap in the brook trout color that was just zigging and zagging, and I saw it catch several fish.
[0:46:10 – 0:46:12] Adam: It was just doing all sorts of good stuff.
[0:46:14 – 0:46:17] Adam: Big-time players out there, Hot Steel, of course, and Glass Ghost.
[0:46:19 – 0:46:21] Adam: Those X-Raps are tough.
[0:46:21 – 0:46:22] Adam: They got a deep bench.
[0:46:22 – 0:46:33] Adam: As you know, any Rapala team out there, that whole Rapala conference, they just run deep with excellent options for any kind of light conditions or barometer conditions.
[0:46:33 – 0:46:33] Adam: Yeah.
[0:46:33 – 0:46:54] Erik: yeah our first uh rapala versus meps matchup of the week there may be more right and uh it seems like the two big conferences left in the tournament at this point and uh we’ll see if it continues uh in this fashion we had five rapalas in the sweet 16 and three mepses through and uh
[0:46:56 – 0:47:02] Adam: Of all the Meps, not a lot of people in the Boundary Waters are throwing the double blade, but it’s on the up and up.
[0:47:02 – 0:47:04] Adam: That’s a thing that’s coming around more and more.
[0:47:06 – 0:47:10] Adam: And, yeah, that Meps 5 double, that hot fire tiger on that team is really good.
[0:47:10 – 0:47:11] Adam: Their silver black is just classic.
[0:47:12 – 0:47:19] Adam: And, of course, the classic red, white, white, really good with the stickered blade, that Colorado blade.
[0:47:19 – 0:47:20] Adam: And you get two of them.
[0:47:21 – 0:47:25] Adam: The thing that makes the map so good, and then they thought, you know, what could make it better?
[0:47:26 – 0:47:27] Adam: Two blades.
[0:47:27 – 0:47:29] Erik: Throw another blade on there.
[0:47:29 – 0:47:35] Adam: Valiant effort for the X-Wrap, and they got through big time, actually.
[0:47:35 – 0:47:38] Adam: It wasn’t really that close.
[0:47:38 – 0:47:38] Adam: 49 votes.
[0:47:39 – 0:47:39] Adam: Way to go, X-Wrap.
[0:47:40 – 0:47:43] Adam: Moving on, the final matchup over there is Meps Cyclops.
[0:47:43 – 0:47:46] Adam: Another Meps, and it’s only got one eye.
[0:47:47 – 0:47:51] Adam: And then I did find my Rat L Trap in the box.
[0:47:51 – 0:47:52] Adam: It’s a low 10 seed right now.
[0:47:52 – 0:47:54] Adam: There ain’t a whole lot of double-digit seeds left.
[0:47:55 – 0:48:06] Adam: And I did say on the subreddit that if the Rattle Trap won, I would tie my Rattle Trap on and go out to the lighthouse in Grand Marais and just whip one as far as I can cast it.
[0:48:07 – 0:48:08] Erik: Let’s find out if you’re going to be doing that.
[0:48:10 – 0:48:11] Adam: I will not be…
[0:48:12 – 0:48:13] Adam: I will be doing it.
[0:48:13 – 0:48:14] Adam: Oh, no, you will be.
[0:48:14 – 0:48:15] Adam: Oh, my God, we’re doing it.
[0:48:15 – 0:48:18] Adam: It’s through by another one vote margin here.
[0:48:18 – 0:48:19] Adam: This is crazy.
[0:48:19 – 0:48:20] Adam: I guess I’m going out on the break wall.
[0:48:20 – 0:48:22] Erik: The rattle trap is on a miracle run.
[0:48:22 – 0:48:23] Adam: The rat L trap.
[0:48:24 – 0:48:34] Adam: I have a normal sized one, and then I found in my little trout box, my little trout tickle box, I found I have a little tiny rattle trap that I found…
[0:48:35 – 0:48:50] Adam: i believe i found in the kickapoo river at one point lodged in a bank and i’ve never thrown that but the bigger one i could definitely get a launch on it and it’s deep enough out by the lighthouse where because those run deep and they’re pissing people off with those big rattles
[0:48:51 – 0:48:52] Adam: Their aggressive nature.
[0:48:52 – 0:48:54] Adam: The rat L-trap is through.
[0:48:54 – 0:48:55] Adam: I can’t believe it.
[0:48:55 – 0:48:55] Adam: Back-to-back.
[0:48:56 – 0:48:59] Erik: Last week, we said the first time, I believe, in…
[0:48:59 – 0:49:01] Erik: Yes, it won again by one vote.
[0:49:01 – 0:49:12] Erik: Tumble, Lurnament, Tournament, any tournaments that we’ve ever done, we’ve never had a one-point victory or a one-vote victory by any team.
[0:49:12 – 0:49:15] Erik: And the rattle trap is on a miracle run right now.
[0:49:15 – 0:49:16] Erik: Back-to-back weeks.
[0:49:16 – 0:49:18] Adam: With one-point victories.
[0:49:18 – 0:49:19] Erik: Buzzer beater finishes…
[0:49:20 – 0:49:23] Adam: The rattle, when you need it most, it’s like you’re on your last cast.
[0:49:23 – 0:49:24] Adam: You throw it out.
[0:49:24 – 0:49:25] Erik: Bam.
[0:49:25 – 0:49:26] Adam: Big fish.
[0:49:26 – 0:49:28] Adam: I’m so excited.
[0:49:28 – 0:49:30] Adam: They just got it in the net.
[0:49:30 – 0:49:31] Adam: They got it.
[0:49:31 – 0:49:32] Adam: 32.
[0:49:32 – 0:49:35] Erik: To have this much excitement left still in the tournament.
[0:49:35 – 0:49:35] Erik: It’s great.
[0:49:36 – 0:49:38] Adam: Holy moly.
[0:49:38 – 0:49:44] Adam: The Cyclops were on a bit of a heater there getting into the Sweet 16.
[0:49:44 – 0:49:47] Adam: This is one of those teams with the brothers, Jim.
[0:49:47 – 0:49:51] Adam: They had three brothers, Brontes, Starapes, and Arges.
[0:49:51 – 0:49:54] Adam: And whenever the three of them are on the court, of course.
[0:49:55 – 0:49:57] Erik: What is it, 2.5 eyes?
[0:49:57 – 0:50:01] Adam: Yeah, and they form the Thunderbolt offense.
[0:50:01 – 0:50:01] Adam: Yeah.
[0:50:02 – 0:50:06] Adam: And are able to electrify both the fish and the crowd.
[0:50:07 – 0:50:08] Adam: And they did their best.
[0:50:09 – 0:50:10] Adam: Really did nice.
[0:50:11 – 0:50:12] Adam: Good season for them.
[0:50:13 – 0:50:17] Adam: The curved spoon, it’s a pretty versatile lure.
[0:50:17 – 0:50:19] Adam: And with those three on the court, they’re dangerous.
[0:50:20 – 0:50:28] Adam: But, yeah, I looked up the roster on the Rat L Traps, and they had some goofy recruits on there.
[0:50:28 – 0:50:32] Adam: This is kind of like an SS Stingray scenario right now.
[0:50:32 – 0:50:34] Adam: How does this team keep winning?
[0:50:34 – 0:50:40] Adam: They got Bosave Wooley, the Gambian Pouched, and, of course, the Sumatran Bamboo Rat.
[0:50:42 – 0:50:45] Adam: Point guard, that Sumatran Bamboo Rat is huge.
[0:50:46 – 0:50:48] Adam: It’s the biggest point guard in the whole tournament.
[0:50:48 – 0:50:49] Erik: Sounds disgusting.
[0:50:50 – 0:50:58] Adam: Yeah, and they’re scoring points with all four of their feet, hands, and their tails, and all their whiskers.
[0:50:59 – 0:51:00] Adam: Yeah.
[0:51:00 – 0:51:03] Adam: They have a former current.
[0:51:03 – 0:51:05] Adam: I’m not sure how to say this.
[0:51:05 – 0:51:09] Adam: It is a rat L-trap lure that has been retired and has no hooks.
[0:51:10 – 0:51:17] Adam: It’s Coach Chrome Blue sitting there on the sidelines also wearing a blazer, which is classy.
[0:51:17 – 0:51:18] Erik: Hookless.
[0:51:18 – 0:51:20] Adam: Yeah, hookless no more.
[0:51:20 – 0:51:25] Adam: I shall not catch again, but I will teach these kids how to catch and cast.
[0:51:25 – 0:51:26] Erik: We’ll show you the way.
[0:51:26 – 0:51:28] Adam: Wow, the rat L-traps are through.
[0:51:28 – 0:51:29] Adam: I cannot believe it.
[0:51:29 – 0:51:32] Adam: We get to keep talking about Sumatra and bamboo rat next week.
[0:51:32 – 0:51:33] Erik: Oh, it’s great.
[0:51:33 – 0:51:34] Adam: This is great.
[0:51:34 – 0:51:35] Adam: This is really good.
[0:51:36 – 0:51:40] Adam: And I just received a note on Blue Sky.
[0:51:40 – 0:51:41] Adam: It’s coming across the wire.
[0:51:41 – 0:51:42] Erik: Ding, ding.
[0:51:43 – 0:51:47] Adam: apparently the Cyclops team is now under investigation.
[0:51:47 – 0:51:52] Adam: This is according to pretty trustworthy sources.
[0:51:53 – 0:51:57] Adam: Video has surfaced of Dr. Juice leaving the team locker room at halftime of this matchup.
[0:51:58 – 0:52:23] Adam: oh no and they were up they were up big at halftime hasn’t been in the tournament for weeks dr juice was out in the first round i believe with his mystery milky uh juice still sniffing around and uh there is video now yes i’m seeing video now live on blue sky this is unfortunate dr juice walking out of the locker room at halftime with the with that tackle box of mystery juice so oh god
[0:52:24 – 0:52:27] Adam: Not a great end of the season for the MEP Cyclops.
[0:52:27 – 0:52:33] Adam: Humiliating one-point buzzer-beater loss to the Rattletraps, and now their entire program is under investigation.
[0:52:34 – 0:52:34] Erik: Now they’re embroiled.
[0:52:34 – 0:52:36] Adam: Don’t get mixed up with Dr. Juice.
[0:52:36 – 0:52:37] Adam: This is crazy.
[0:52:37 – 0:52:41] Adam: Dr. Juice went down to the Daredevils in the first round big time.
[0:52:41 – 0:52:48] Adam: They only got nine fish in that first round, and now they seem to be messing up the future of another team.
[0:52:51 – 0:52:54] Adam: another spoon, Dr. Juice and spoons, they don’t mix.
[0:52:56 – 0:52:59] Erik: I want you to just get out of here already, Dr. Juice.
[0:52:59 – 0:53:06] Adam: Dr. Juice, if anybody sees Dr. Juice anywhere near Grand Marais, give us a call.
[0:53:08 – 0:53:09] Adam: Hit us up on the subreddit.
[0:53:09 – 0:53:12] Adam: It’s tumblehomecast is the name of the subreddit on there.
[0:53:13 – 0:53:16] Adam: Get on there and let us know or tumblehomecast at gmail.com.
[0:53:17 – 0:53:19] Adam: Hit us up with any tips because we got to get this guy.
[0:53:20 – 0:53:24] Adam: He’s corrupting our sport and he’s probably not even a real doctor.
[0:53:25 – 0:53:25] Erik: Probably not.
[0:53:26 – 0:53:28] Erik: Moving on down to the… Where are we?
[0:53:29 – 0:53:32] Adam: Now we’re moving it into Scoobies and Ely.
[0:53:33 – 0:53:33] Erik: Scoobies.
[0:53:34 – 0:53:34] Erik: Scooby.
[0:53:34 – 0:53:35] Erik: Scooby.
[0:53:35 – 0:53:38] Erik: We got the number one seed.
[0:53:38 – 0:53:47] Erik: Little Cleo’s going up against… Has, by the way, been demolishing their way into the Sweet 16.
[0:53:47 – 0:53:48] Adam: That’s right.
[0:53:49 – 0:53:52] Erik: Amos’ handmade tin spoon, the beetle spin.
[0:53:53 – 0:53:54] Erik: No match for the Little Cleos.
[0:53:55 – 0:53:58] Erik: Going up against the jointed Shan Wrap.
[0:53:59 – 0:54:01] Erik: Another wrap in this week.
[0:54:01 – 0:54:02] Erik: And it’s a close one.
[0:54:02 – 0:54:04] Erik: Another very close one.
[0:54:04 – 0:54:08] Erik: But the one seed Little Cleos move on by two votes.
[0:54:08 – 0:54:09] Erik: By two!
[0:54:09 – 0:54:11] Erik: Jointed Shan Wraps go down.
[0:54:11 – 0:54:12] Erik: Woof.
[0:54:13 – 0:54:14] Adam: Yeah, that’s a serious matchup.
[0:54:14 – 0:54:23] Adam: I mean, if I thought XRAP versus the double MEPs was tough, this was the other one that I was very interested to see what the voters came down on.
[0:54:23 – 0:54:26] Adam: Because Little Cleo, it’s a classic.
[0:54:27 – 0:54:30] Adam: They got some, you know, chartreuse, green, and silver.
[0:54:30 – 0:54:31] Adam: Three-quarter ounce has been…
[0:54:31 – 0:54:34] Adam: They’ve been with the team for three years now, and they’re just…
[0:54:34 – 0:54:41] Adam: bombing cast, peppering cast all over the tank, and they’re getting strikes from multiple different kinds of species.
[0:54:43 – 0:54:46] Adam: Up-and-comers on that team, Glow Wonderbread and Dark Anchovy.
[0:54:46 – 0:54:47] Adam: I mean, that team’s deep.
[0:54:48 – 0:54:48] Adam: They’re another one.
[0:54:48 – 0:54:53] Adam: They’ve got a lot of great options on the bench, and a lot of people like that little Cleo.
[0:54:53 – 0:54:55] Adam: I know I do, Jim.
[0:54:56 – 0:55:02] Adam: But the Jointed Shadrap is a storied franchise and program here in the Learnament.
[0:55:03 – 0:55:03] Erik: They’ll be back.
[0:55:03 – 0:55:07] Adam: They’ll always be back, and it just wasn’t their day.
[0:55:07 – 0:55:08] Adam: Two votes is almost nothing.
[0:55:08 – 0:55:13] Adam: That’s just how it goes sometimes.
[0:55:13 – 0:55:14] Adam: Bad luck.
[0:55:14 – 0:55:15] Adam: One cast.
[0:55:15 – 0:55:24] Adam: Sometimes the hooks on those jointed chat wraps, the double hooks can hook each other, and then they come in foul like that, and that’s maybe what happened there.
[0:55:25 – 0:55:29] Adam: This year’s team featured Purple Descent and Voodoo Haze.
[0:55:30 – 0:55:33] Adam: And they really work well together.
[0:55:34 – 0:55:40] Adam: And maybe just with these cloudy conditions today, it just wasn’t the day for that Purple Haze look.
[0:55:41 – 0:55:45] Adam: They’ve got an art show going on in town, and it’s things in nature that fluoresce.
[0:55:46 – 0:55:58] Adam: And actually both of those lures are on the list of things in nature that fluoresce, along with some glow-in-the-dark mushrooms and various lichens and, of course, lightning bugs.
[0:55:59 – 0:56:03] Adam: Fruit Punch barely got in this game from Jordan Shadrach.
[0:56:03 – 0:56:06] Adam: And I got to think the coach there is going to be thinking about that one for a while.
[0:56:06 – 0:56:08] Adam: Fruit Punch is one of their better players.
[0:56:08 – 0:56:10] Adam: They only logged like 12 minutes in this game.
[0:56:10 – 0:56:11] Erik: Maybe should have started him.
[0:56:11 – 0:56:12] Adam: Yeah, no.
[0:56:12 – 0:56:17] Adam: You can make the argument that Fruit Punch should have been in the game right away because that kid is electric.
[0:56:19 – 0:56:19] Adam: Moving on.
[0:56:20 – 0:56:22] Adam: We’ve got the Blue Fox Vibrax.
[0:56:22 – 0:56:26] Adam: Dusty Vibrax is another spinner in the game.
[0:56:26 – 0:56:30] Adam: And we’re going up against the Husky Jerk, which is one of my favorite Rapalas.
[0:56:32 – 0:56:38] Adam: And this is going to be to see who goes on to face the little Cleo in the Elite Eight here in Ely.
[0:56:39 – 0:56:42] Adam: And we’re scrolling.
[0:56:43 – 0:56:44] Adam: We’re scrolling.
[0:56:45 – 0:56:46] Adam: And the Husky Jerk is through.
[0:56:48 – 0:56:51] Erik: Another relatively close matchup.
[0:56:51 – 0:56:54] Adam: 38-26 fish in this Sweet 16 matchup.
[0:56:54 – 0:56:57] Adam: Rapala, Husky Jerk, number two seed.
[0:56:58 – 0:57:04] Adam: They demolished the spotted porcupine liver and, of course, took out the Lazy Ike.
[0:57:06 – 0:57:16] Adam: And, yeah, the Blue Fox Vibrax Spinner destroyed the MODOK hand technique and easily took out the Berkeley Chapo in round two.
[0:57:17 – 0:57:18] Adam: A lot of great options.
[0:57:18 – 0:57:25] Adam: I got to say that they might have the deepest team.
[0:57:25 – 0:57:26] Adam: They’re right up there.
[0:57:26 – 0:57:33] Adam: There’s a couple teams that have crazy deep benches, but that Blue Fox Vibrax squad has got a lot of good talent on there.
[0:57:33 – 0:57:35] Adam: They’ll be back next year, too, as a three seed.
[0:57:37 – 0:57:44] Adam: I think Black Black led the team in points this week, and Chartreuse Candyback was also high up there.
[0:57:44 – 0:57:47] Adam: A lot of rebounds for Chartreuse Candyback out there today.
[0:57:47 – 0:57:56] Adam: They are coached, of course, Jim, by the fantastic Mr. Fox himself, the one voiced by George Clooney for clarification.
[0:57:57 – 0:58:04] Adam: Yeah, this really reminds me of when the fabulous Hudson Hornet comes out of retirement to coach Lightning McQueen in the first Cars film.
[0:58:04 – 0:58:06] Adam: It’s just like that, Jim.
[0:58:06 – 0:58:09] Erik: Just like that.
[0:58:09 – 0:58:16] Adam: For the Husky Jerks, Silver Blue is currently leading the league in scoring this season with 133 fish caught.
[0:58:19 – 0:58:25] Adam: And Pure Chrome and Helsinki Shed also both had 10 points in this game, 10 fish caught.
[0:58:26 – 0:58:30] Adam: And Juicy Lucy, I was there in person.
[0:58:30 – 0:58:39] Adam: Juicy Lucy proved irresistible, took five fish in the second half there, and that was just enough to put them over the top there against the spinnerbaits.
[0:58:39 – 0:58:41] Adam: Nicely done for the husky jerk.
[0:58:42 – 0:58:42] Erik: Nicely done.
[0:58:43 – 0:58:43] Erik: Done.
[0:58:44 – 0:58:45] Adam: We’re moving on to the east.
[0:58:46 – 0:58:51] Adam: We got ourselves halfway through here, and a lot of talent in the east here.
[0:58:51 – 0:58:55] Adam: We’re moving on to Voyager bait and tackle in Atticoke, and we’re going north of the border there, friend.
[0:58:55 – 0:58:57] Erik: North of the border.
[0:58:59 – 0:59:01] Adam: Another spinner coming up in this matchup.
[0:59:01 – 0:59:06] Adam: It’s the Meps Aglia 3 versus the Two-Tone Crappie Tubes.
[0:59:06 – 0:59:07] Adam: No, I’m sorry.
[0:59:07 – 0:59:07] Adam: I have that wrong.
[0:59:08 – 0:59:11] Adam: The Meps Aglia took out the Two-Tone Crappie Jigs.
[0:59:12 – 0:59:20] Adam: In the second round, they’re there, and they’re facing off against the OG floating Rapala here in a blockbuster matchup in Atikokan.
[0:59:20 – 0:59:21] Erik: Blockbuster matchup.
[0:59:21 – 0:59:26] Erik: It might be our first opportunity to witness our first number one seed going down.
[0:59:27 – 0:59:38] Erik: And yes, it is actually, in fact, the Meps Aglia 3 as the one seed losing to the OG Rap.
[0:59:39 – 0:59:40] Adam: The Meps are all out.
[0:59:41 – 0:59:42] Erik: The Meps are all out.
[0:59:42 – 0:59:49] Adam: The Meps had a lot of talent out there and a good season for all of them, but all the Meps are now out of this tournament.
[0:59:49 – 0:59:50] Erik: The OG Rapala moves on.
[0:59:50 – 0:59:53] Erik: They won by 835 to 27.
[0:59:54 – 0:59:55] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:59:55 – 1:00:05] Adam: Some of these lures and some of these companies come up with these real zany combos, but the number one players on this OG Floating Rapala team, once again, are just Silver and Perch.
[1:00:06 – 1:00:11] Adam: I also did see the quarter-ounce live pike with the extra treble hook played a pretty good game.
[1:00:12 – 1:00:16] Adam: That’s a pretty wild, flashy-looking lure for this team.
[1:00:16 – 1:00:21] Adam: They got the short shorts, and they got their socks pulled all the way up to their fins on this one.
[1:00:22 – 1:00:26] Adam: That Meps Aglia 3 mouse and Dirty Shad really played nice.
[1:00:26 – 1:00:27] Adam: I saw that.
[1:00:27 – 1:00:28] Adam: And the dressed pink platinum.
[1:00:29 – 1:00:52] Adam: uh had a lot of assists uh but green eared sunfish pattern uh did not pull their weight in this game it was a pretty sad affair they had multiple turnovers i saw from green eared sunfish their blade wasn’t spinning right it looked like yeah to me sometimes that number one seed that uh that uh you know what people expect of you can get in your head
[1:00:53 – 1:01:01] Adam: I flew in to see this game, and I did mention the two-tone crappie tubes that lost to Meps in the second round.
[1:01:01 – 1:01:07] Adam: I did notice that Dwayne Wiggins and Raphael Sandique were in the crowd cheering on both the teams.
[1:01:07 – 1:01:11] Adam: They just had a huge glittered sign, Jim, just said, feels good.
[1:01:12 – 1:01:13] Adam: whatever that means.
[1:01:13 – 1:01:15] Adam: It was a pretty classy move for them to stick around.
[1:01:15 – 1:01:19] Adam: They’re just fans of the game.
[1:01:19 – 1:01:22] Adam: They’re beyond ego, the two-tone crappie tube.
[1:01:22 – 1:01:25] Adam: They just want to see some good casting and some good fishing.
[1:01:25 – 1:01:26] Adam: They just love the sport.
[1:01:26 – 1:01:26] Adam: They’re there.
[1:01:28 – 1:01:29] Adam: That’s good sportsmanship.
[1:01:29 – 1:01:29] Adam: You like to see that.
[1:01:29 – 1:01:31] Adam: That’s really what the learning is all about.
[1:01:33 – 1:01:35] Adam: All right, we’re coming up on the next matchup here.
[1:01:35 – 1:01:41] Adam: The OG Flooding Rapala is through, and we have another Rapala in this other Sweet 16 matchup here in Atticoke.
[1:01:41 – 1:01:48] Adam: And it’s the standard Shad Rap from Rapala, and they’re going up against the Whopper Plopper.
[1:01:49 – 1:01:58] Adam: And, yeah, last week their big starting center, L, capital L, was out with a nasty case of the Blistered Swivels, but they were back this week.
[1:01:59 – 1:02:02] Adam: So let’s see who took this matchup down.
[1:02:02 – 1:02:03] Adam: I can’t wait to find out.
[1:02:03 – 1:02:06] Erik: But blister and swivels, that’s kind of like water on the knee, right?
[1:02:06 – 1:02:07] Adam: It’s not good, yeah.
[1:02:07 – 1:02:08] Erik: You don’t want it.
[1:02:08 – 1:02:09] Adam: You don’t want it.
[1:02:09 – 1:02:10] Adam: You don’t need it.
[1:02:10 – 1:02:12] Adam: Shadrap looks to be through here.
[1:02:13 – 1:02:15] Adam: My eyes aren’t what they used to be, Jim.
[1:02:15 – 1:02:19] Adam: It looks like 39 votes to 23 votes over the Whopper Ploppers there.
[1:02:19 – 1:02:20] Adam: The Shadrap is through.
[1:02:20 – 1:02:23] Adam: So we have an all Rapala final here in Atikokan.
[1:02:23 – 1:02:24] Erik: Very nice.
[1:02:24 – 1:02:26] Adam: Very poetic.
[1:02:28 – 1:02:34] Adam: I don’t know if you were watching this game, but Spendy Shades from the Shadraps was on fire.
[1:02:34 – 1:02:37] Adam: This team is nuts.
[1:02:38 – 1:02:39] Erik: Yeah, Spendy is electric.
[1:02:39 – 1:02:43] Adam: Spendy Shades might be the best player in this tournament, and I don’t know what.
[1:02:43 – 1:02:44] Adam: They were a three seed?
[1:02:47 – 1:02:49] Adam: They got a whole team of madness over there.
[1:02:49 – 1:02:51] Adam: Whiskey Sour, Demon.
[1:02:52 – 1:02:53] Adam: This is just their starting lineup.
[1:02:54 – 1:02:59] Adam: Spendy Shades, Whiskey Sour, Demon, Moldy Fruit, and Headspin.
[1:02:59 – 1:03:05] Adam: That’s their starting lineup, and that’s only because Jim Antifreeze was out of this matchup with a broken trouble.
[1:03:05 – 1:03:06] Erik: Oh, no.
[1:03:06 – 1:03:10] Adam: It was suffered in the second round, and I’m getting this just in.
[1:03:10 – 1:03:13] Adam: Anti-freeze has been ruled out for the remainder of this tournament.
[1:03:13 – 1:03:18] Adam: They weren’t there on the court, in the pond, or in the tank today, and they didn’t even need them.
[1:03:20 – 1:03:23] Adam: Yeah, Headspin just jumped right into the starting lineup.
[1:03:23 – 1:03:30] Adam: They played down low with Moldy Fruit, and they were just dominating in the deep water there down at the Thermocline with that Shadrap team.
[1:03:30 – 1:03:35] Adam: They’re plumbing the depths on a nice cloudy day like today with the low pressure moving through.
[1:03:35 – 1:03:37] Adam: My brother in Christ, that team is tough.
[1:03:38 – 1:03:39] Adam: Watch out.
[1:03:39 – 1:03:40] Adam: Whopper ploppers were good.
[1:03:40 – 1:03:43] Adam: They did have that big guy back.
[1:03:43 – 1:03:49] Adam: Monkey butt and phantom shed played pretty well, but the T1000 and that one-ounce weight was horrendous.
[1:03:50 – 1:03:52] Adam: Their plopper wasn’t whopping at all.
[1:03:52 – 1:03:52] Adam: Oh, no.
[1:03:52 – 1:03:56] Adam: It was like their fins were all messed up or something.
[1:03:56 – 1:04:02] Adam: I don’t know if they had to hook a skew or just didn’t sleep right, but whopper plopper didn’t look good.
[1:04:02 – 1:04:05] Adam: They were up on the surface, and it just wasn’t their day.
[1:04:05 – 1:04:05] Adam: Yeah.
[1:04:06 – 1:04:07] Erik: Yeah.
[1:04:07 – 1:04:09] Erik: The two lower seeds move on.
[1:04:09 – 1:04:12] Erik: We got a four versus a three matchup.
[1:04:12 – 1:04:15] Erik: OG rap versus the shad rap.
[1:04:15 – 1:04:16] Erik: Rap on rap.
[1:04:16 – 1:04:17] Erik: It’s a rap rap.
[1:04:17 – 1:04:20] Erik: Can we even abide by that much rap?
[1:04:22 – 1:04:23] Adam: Yes, we can.
[1:04:23 – 1:04:24] Adam: Yes, we can.
[1:04:24 – 1:04:25] Adam: Can’t wait.
[1:04:25 – 1:04:26] Adam: That one’s going to be…
[1:04:26 – 1:04:35] Adam: Whoever comes out of that one to go to the Final Four will probably be, if not the favorite, they’re going to be the top two favorite for sure.
[1:04:35 – 1:04:38] Erik: Whether or not they’re the favorites or not, they will be the most, I would say, tested.
[1:04:39 – 1:04:51] Adam: Yeah, and they got, like I said, they got the veteran presence plus the electric youth on both those teams to really just adversity to face any kind of matchup they might face in that Final Four.
[1:04:51 – 1:04:54] Adam: So it’s going to be exciting to see who gets out of there.
[1:04:54 – 1:04:55] Erik: Alright, we’re moving on down.
[1:04:55 – 1:05:04] Erik: We’ve only got two more matchups to discuss here before we have our final eight for a few days of voting before we whittle it down to four.
[1:05:06 – 1:05:06] Erik: Get the, uh,
[1:05:07 – 1:05:10] Adam: We’re moving her down to Northwood’s Bait and Tackle in Cook, Minnesota.
[1:05:10 – 1:05:12] Erik: The real meme upstarts.
[1:05:12 – 1:05:15] Erik: Stick of dynamite going up against the number one seed.
[1:05:16 – 1:05:17] Erik: The classic.
[1:05:17 – 1:05:18] Erik: Your dad’s favorite.
[1:05:18 – 1:05:21] Erik: Your dad’s dad’s favorite.
[1:05:21 – 1:05:22] Erik: Jig.
[1:05:22 – 1:05:24] Erik: Curly tail combo.
[1:05:24 – 1:05:25] Adam: It’s the favorite of all dads listening.
[1:05:26 – 1:05:27] Erik: The dad’s favorite.
[1:05:27 – 1:05:29] Erik: The dad’s classic.
[1:05:29 – 1:05:31] Adam: I’m not even kidding around, Jim.
[1:05:31 – 1:05:37] Adam: I was at the open house for the kid this week, and I asked a few of the rival dads there, what’s your favorite lure?
[1:05:37 – 1:05:43] Adam: They all said across the board, they’re all wearing their shorts and their tall socks, and they all said lure.
[1:05:44 – 1:05:46] Adam: Jig with the curly tail.
[1:05:46 – 1:05:47] Erik: Yeah.
[1:05:47 – 1:05:48] Adam: Dads love to jig.
[1:05:49 – 1:05:55] Erik: And I feel like it might even be the largest victory in this round we’ve seen.
[1:05:55 – 1:05:59] Erik: The jig curly tail combo moves on.
[1:05:59 – 1:06:00] Adam: Oh, it does.
[1:06:00 – 1:06:03] Adam: The soft plastic is still in this tournament.
[1:06:03 – 1:06:04] Erik: The meme is over.
[1:06:05 – 1:06:09] Adam: Well, it was raining all afternoon, and we did warn against the wet wicks.
[1:06:10 – 1:06:11] Erik: Stick a dynamite out.
[1:06:11 – 1:06:12] Adam: The moisture might fizzle that out.
[1:06:13 – 1:06:20] Adam: Yeah, that fuse status was going to be troubling, especially if it rained, and it was raining all day in Cook, Minnesota, as it was here.
[1:06:21 – 1:06:34] Adam: Nitroglycerin’s favorable explosive properties do reduce the risk of accidental detonation, but when it’s wet like this, you get no detonation whatsoever.
[1:06:34 – 1:06:38] Erik: Yeah, or maybe you do get a detonation, but it’s not when you want it.
[1:06:39 – 1:06:40] Erik: It’s in your hand.
[1:06:40 – 1:06:42] Adam: It’s not under the water next to a fish.
[1:06:42 – 1:06:43] Adam: You might take a fin off.
[1:06:43 – 1:06:46] Erik: Yeah, a human fin.
[1:06:47 – 1:06:54] Adam: I did see that the entire cast of the hit 1996 film Twisters was on the team pontoon boat for Jighead.
[1:06:54 – 1:06:58] Adam: I saw Bill Paxton jig up like several smallies himself, so that was pretty cool.
[1:06:59 – 1:07:06] Adam: I also saw Helen Hunt was just grilling up large steaks for breakfast before the game, so you knew this team was going to come out strong.
[1:07:06 – 1:07:06] Erik: Yeah.
[1:07:07 – 1:07:12] Erik: Frying up eggs wildly, wildly undercooked eggs.
[1:07:12 – 1:07:14] Adam: Yeah, Aunt May wants those eggs raw.
[1:07:15 – 1:07:15] Erik: Yeah.
[1:07:15 – 1:07:25] Adam: Coach Aunt May for the Twister Tales, her wind chimes are clacking in the breeze foretelling the rain, and they knew they were going to snuff out those wet wicks.
[1:07:26 – 1:07:26] Adam: Yeah.
[1:07:27 – 1:07:28] Adam: And the meme is dead.
[1:07:28 – 1:07:32] Adam: And, yeah, probably the most versatile lure in this tournament remaining.
[1:07:33 – 1:07:35] Adam: is through to the Elite Eight here in Minnesota.
[1:07:35 – 1:07:38] Erik: Confidence in the jig crew detail combo.
[1:07:39 – 1:07:41] Erik: They have no affiliation with a brand.
[1:07:41 – 1:07:42] Erik: Right.
[1:07:43 – 1:07:44] Erik: A color.
[1:07:44 – 1:07:47] Adam: Truly unlimited potential as far as, like, color combinations.
[1:07:47 – 1:07:48] Erik: Yeah, a confidence.
[1:07:49 – 1:07:51] Adam: Anything you can imagine, you can create.
[1:07:51 – 1:07:54] Erik: Just a level of, like, strut factor that comes with this team.
[1:07:54 – 1:07:56] Erik: They don’t seem to be bothered.
[1:07:56 – 1:08:01] Erik: Honestly, the most they’ve given up was in the first round to the cooked bratwurst.
[1:08:02 – 1:08:09] Erik: Since then, it’s been absolute domination and overpowering of the last three opponents that they’ve had.
[1:08:10 – 1:08:16] Erik: Say what you will about the fun of the meme team, the stick of dynamite, only putting up 19 fish.
[1:08:18 – 1:08:20] Erik: Yeah, it’s not even close.
[1:08:20 – 1:08:27] Erik: And at this point, my favorite going into the Final Four is the classic dad combo of the jig-curly-tail combo.
[1:08:27 – 1:08:32] Adam: You’re going to want to get a big old hat on you that says, it’s fishing time.
[1:08:32 – 1:08:41] Erik: Yeah, or until all of the cargo shorts have been burned on a pile of tires somewhere in the desert.
[1:08:41 – 1:08:49] Erik: I have no reluctance in saying that the jig curly tail combo is my favorite going forward in this tournament.
[1:08:49 – 1:08:52] Adam: This team has gotten their hands on an electric fillet knife for shore lunch.
[1:08:52 – 1:08:55] Adam: Let me tell you what, it’s going to be spectacular.
[1:08:55 – 1:08:56] Erik: You seen this thing, boys?
[1:08:56 – 1:08:57] Adam: You ever seen one of these?
[1:08:58 – 1:09:07] Adam: I ran into the conservation officer at the co-op this week, and immediately he just goes to me, he’s like, who’s winning in the learnament this week?
[1:09:08 – 1:09:08] Adam: This was yesterday.
[1:09:08 – 1:09:13] Adam: I said, well, we won’t find out until tomorrow night because voting is open until noon on Saturday.
[1:09:13 – 1:09:15] Adam: He just shook his head.
[1:09:15 – 1:09:16] Adam: I missed opportunity.
[1:09:16 – 1:09:18] Adam: He didn’t ask, what was your favorite lure?
[1:09:18 – 1:09:19] Adam: But it’s probably better.
[1:09:19 – 1:09:19] Adam: I don’t know.
[1:09:20 – 1:09:25] Adam: And actually, probably the nature of that job, you’re not allowed to share that kind of information with the public.
[1:09:25 – 1:09:25] Erik: No.
[1:09:25 – 1:09:27] Adam: We got public, and we’re not telling them.
[1:09:28 – 1:09:34] Adam: Last matchup going in here, last matchup in the Sweet 16, we got the Berkeley Flickershad, the three seed.
[1:09:34 – 1:09:41] Adam: They took out the Moss Boss and Uncle Josh’s Pork Frog in the first round.
[1:09:42 – 1:09:48] Adam: And they were going up against the Daredevil Spoon when I was at the sporting goods store this week, too.
[1:09:48 – 1:09:51] Adam: The Daredevil Spoon is coming in some ridiculously large sizes.
[1:09:51 – 1:09:51] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[1:09:52 – 1:09:57] Adam: All the way down to Teensy, the wild variation in sizes on that Daredevil Spoon.
[1:09:57 – 1:10:02] Erik: I used to swear by a three-quarter ounce copper dimpled, like the hammered.
[1:10:02 – 1:10:03] Erik: Yeah, hammered.
[1:10:04 – 1:10:08] Erik: That was my go-to lake trout lure.
[1:10:08 – 1:10:08] Erik: Yeah.
[1:10:09 – 1:10:10] Erik: That thing’s massive, though.
[1:10:10 – 1:10:11] Erik: Three quarters of an ounce.
[1:10:11 – 1:10:13] Adam: That’s what I got on my rig right now.
[1:10:13 – 1:10:16] Adam: Yeah, and that’s for casting the big lake.
[1:10:16 – 1:10:24] Erik: Yeah, it’s for casting out and landing in somebody’s dirty martini on the deck of the Octantis as they’re cruising by.
[1:10:24 – 1:10:30] Adam: You can cast that from the deck of a submarine out onto the golf course on shore if you want.
[1:10:30 – 1:10:32] Erik: Rip off the pants of some putter.
[1:10:34 – 1:10:38] Adam: Daredevil thoroughly beat down the Jitterbug in round two.
[1:10:39 – 1:10:46] Adam: And, of course, as we previously mentioned, embarrassed and discredited Dr. Juice in the first round, 71-9.
[1:10:46 – 1:10:50] Erik: I don’t see a world in which the Daredevil does not move on.
[1:10:50 – 1:11:01] Adam: Flickr Shad has so many options, and as we said, for a Boy Scout troop, they’re pretty affordable and could be a great value option for a whole troop of Boy Scouts.
[1:11:01 – 1:11:04] Adam: So it depends on how the voters are thinking about that.
[1:11:05 – 1:11:07] Adam: We’re going to read the results, and then I have some highlights for you.
[1:11:10 – 1:11:16] Adam: And the Berkeley Flickr Shad had 19 votes, and the Daredevils, of course, had 42.
[1:11:16 – 1:11:16] Adam: So…
[1:11:18 – 1:11:19] Adam: Got a couple spoons through here.
[1:11:20 – 1:11:21] Adam: No surprise.
[1:11:21 – 1:11:25] Adam: The Boundary Waters and spoon fishing goes together very well.
[1:11:25 – 1:11:26] Adam: It’s spoon country.
[1:11:26 – 1:11:27] Adam: Yeah.
[1:11:27 – 1:11:31] Adam: Fred Arbogast is not surprised at all by this result.
[1:11:32 – 1:11:33] Adam: The Daredevils.
[1:11:34 – 1:11:36] Adam: They got that five of diamonds out there too.
[1:11:36 – 1:11:41] Adam: You mentioned the hammered copper, and they got the red and white striped one too.
[1:11:42 – 1:11:50] Adam: Another one too I noticed, it really stood out to me watching this game, was their, it’s I think a freshman they got named Crackle Frog.
[1:11:51 – 1:11:52] Adam: That one’s pretty nuts.
[1:11:52 – 1:11:57] Adam: The three-ounce size, they were just bomb casting them in the Vermilion River out there in Cook, Minnesota.
[1:11:57 – 1:11:57] Adam: Yeah.
[1:11:58 – 1:12:03] Adam: And there’s nothing the Flickershads could do in that scenario because they just can’t cast like that.
[1:12:03 – 1:12:09] Adam: We mentioned last week team mentor and captain Dr. Wilbur Berkeley.
[1:12:10 – 1:12:15] Adam: He did give a moving speech doing the Burke walk on your opponent’s graves.
[1:12:15 – 1:12:16] Erik: Oh, no.
[1:12:16 – 1:12:17] Adam: On social media.
[1:12:18 – 1:12:19] Adam: And it backfired.
[1:12:19 – 1:12:21] Erik: I was going to say it took a little bit of heat.
[1:12:21 – 1:12:22] Adam: It backfired, yeah.
[1:12:23 – 1:12:28] Adam: You think maybe that’s going to put the juice in the shad, but they might have the deepest bench in the entire tournament.
[1:12:29 – 1:12:30] Adam: I went through their full roster.
[1:12:30 – 1:12:42] Adam: It’s 61 players listed in their tackle box, including Golden Grape Tiger, Flashy Ghost, Slick Smelt, and the veteran fifth-year senior Uncle Rico has his career come to an end.
[1:12:43 – 1:12:47] Adam: I got to say, I don’t see Uncle Rico even getting drafted into the pros after this one.
[1:12:47 – 1:12:52] Adam: You might be getting put in the bottom of the tackle box and devoured by rust.
[1:12:52 – 1:12:54] Adam: You’re not throwing anything over no mountains.
[1:12:54 – 1:12:56] Adam: You’re not casting nothing in the river, Uncle Rico.
[1:12:56 – 1:12:57] Adam: Your career’s over.
[1:12:57 – 1:13:01] Adam: The flicker shads go down, and it wasn’t really a great showing for them.
[1:13:01 – 1:13:07] Erik: The Daredevils, though, I mean, I say this, but it does seem like they’ve had a pretty easy win.
[1:13:10 – 1:13:33] Adam: walk up to this point in the tournament i agree jim the the cook minnesota bracket i think is by far the weakest of the brackets and you know the flicker shad was an interesting team that you know like i said with a very deep bench a lot of variety there that can handle any kind of conditions that might occur on game day but yeah the jig curly tail combo is um
[1:13:34 – 1:13:35] Adam: obviously very strong.
[1:13:35 – 1:13:41] Adam: And the daredevil is a great spoon option, which is very, very versatile in a canoe fishing environment.
[1:13:42 – 1:13:42] Adam: Um,
[1:13:43 – 1:13:50] Adam: But yeah, compared to some of the other lures we have in the other brackets, this one just didn’t seem to have that kind of thump to it.
[1:13:51 – 1:13:54] Adam: This was like third tray stuff.
[1:13:54 – 1:13:56] Adam: I don’t know what the committee was thinking.
[1:13:56 – 1:13:57] Adam: They didn’t really seem to stack this one.
[1:13:57 – 1:14:00] Adam: How did Radke Pikeman even get in this tournament?
[1:14:00 – 1:14:01] Erik: Third tray stuff.
[1:14:01 – 1:14:04] Adam: You know how I feel about the FZ Slims, no third tray.
[1:14:05 – 1:14:06] Adam: But the voters…
[1:14:07 – 1:14:14] Adam: can’t find them they just can’t find them on the shelf anywhere you gotta order them on the internet from Europe and you know how that’s gonna go at this point
[1:14:15 – 1:14:23] Erik: The explosive factor of the meme favorite, that’s always something that you have to contend with and think about.
[1:14:23 – 1:14:38] Erik: But I feel like out of all of the four Elite Eight matchups, the Jig and Daredevil matchup, I feel like is the most intriguing because they’re the two teams who have had the most… Again, like you said, it might have…
[1:14:38 – 1:14:41] Adam: They had an easy walk-in, but these two teams are going to go head-to-head.
[1:14:41 – 1:14:45] Erik: It might have a lot to do with what they’ve gone up against to this point.
[1:14:46 – 1:14:46] Erik: Yeah.
[1:14:46 – 1:14:52] Erik: But where they’re at in terms of, all right, fine.
[1:14:52 – 1:14:54] Erik: You have to beat who’s in front of you always.
[1:14:55 – 1:14:55] Erik: It doesn’t matter.
[1:14:55 – 1:14:56] Adam: It doesn’t matter.
[1:14:56 – 1:14:57] Adam: You had an easy way to this matchup.
[1:14:58 – 1:14:59] Adam: This ain’t going to be easy for either of these teams.
[1:15:00 – 1:15:00] Adam: Yeah.
[1:15:00 – 1:15:01] Adam: I can see it right now.
[1:15:02 – 1:15:10] Adam: It’s a pink jig head with a black twisty tail sitting there just putting its little dukes up, looking at that five of diamonds daredevil right now.
[1:15:11 – 1:15:12] Adam: I wouldn’t want to get in between those two.
[1:15:12 – 1:15:14] Adam: They look like they’re about to go.
[1:15:16 – 1:15:17] Adam: They’re going to go hard.
[1:15:17 – 1:15:23] Erik: We’re at the point in this tournament with the eight remaining teams, which we probably should just run down here quick.
[1:15:23 – 1:15:23] Adam: We will, yeah.
[1:15:25 – 1:15:31] Erik: That it is obviously the point of this tournament to crown a champion.
[1:15:32 – 1:15:33] Erik: But I think we’re at the point of the tournament now.
[1:15:35 – 1:15:36] Erik: All these teams are champions.
[1:15:36 – 1:15:37] Erik: You bring these eight out with you.
[1:15:38 – 1:15:42] Adam: The Boy Scouts are looking for like four to five good options, and we’re down to eight.
[1:15:43 – 1:15:46] Adam: And any of these would be good options to bring at this point.
[1:15:46 – 1:15:51] Adam: I think all the real serious contenders have now risen to the top.
[1:15:52 – 1:15:53] Adam: There’s some good teams that went out already.
[1:15:54 – 1:15:54] Adam: For sure.
[1:15:54 – 1:15:57] Adam: You could go through the bracket here and pick out a couple winners.
[1:15:57 – 1:15:59] Adam: Easily going to be catching fish on them.
[1:16:00 – 1:16:06] Adam: But these are just consistent in all different kinds of scenarios you might encounter while on a boundary waters trip.
[1:16:07 – 1:16:14] Adam: So, yeah, we got the jig and curly tail, twister tail combo going against the Daredevil here in Cook, Minnesota.
[1:16:15 – 1:16:17] Adam: Up there in Voyager, bait and tackle in Atacocan.
[1:16:17 – 1:16:19] Adam: It’s the Rapala versus Rapala.
[1:16:19 – 1:16:22] Adam: Shadrap versus the OG floating balsam Rapala.
[1:16:23 – 1:16:27] Adam: That one’s going to be six, so we got a guaranteed wrap in the final four right there.
[1:16:28 – 1:16:39] Adam: Going back over to the Beaver House in Grand Marais, we got the X-Wrap, the number one seed up there in Grand Marais, going against the wild card, Rat L-Trap.
[1:16:40 – 1:16:43] Adam: It’s a rat L-trap versus an X-rap.
[1:16:44 – 1:16:49] Erik: I’m on team rat L-trap just for the… We got a lot of Rapalas available.
[1:16:49 – 1:16:50] Adam: I love a Cinderella story.
[1:16:50 – 1:16:55] Adam: We don’t have any lures left with huge rattles and a crazy profile on them like that.
[1:16:55 – 1:16:56] Adam: You don’t know what they’re going to do.
[1:16:57 – 1:16:58] Adam: All caps, baby.
[1:16:58 – 1:16:58] Adam: They’re all caps.
[1:16:59 – 1:17:02] Adam: And as we said, they got that crazy point guard.
[1:17:02 – 1:17:05] Adam: That’s Jumbo Sumatran Alley Rat.
[1:17:05 – 1:17:05] Adam: Yeah.
[1:17:06 – 1:17:07] Adam: And they’re going to be…
[1:17:08 – 1:17:15] Adam: They distribute the lures around the pond, but they also can drive the lane and just hook one right in the goddamn mouth real quick.
[1:17:15 – 1:17:16] Erik: Yeah.
[1:17:16 – 1:17:19] Adam: Before you even know what happens, you’re getting hit with nunchucks.
[1:17:19 – 1:17:20] Adam: Distribute the disease.
[1:17:21 – 1:17:44] Adam: and uh going down here in uh ely at scoobies we got the little cleo number one seed one of my all-time favorites it’s the lure my grandfather uh really taught me how to cast with back in the day so i got a lot of nostalgia and love for that lure and they’re going up against that husky jerk this is the only one where we got the one two yeah we got the one versus the two here in ely
[1:17:44 – 1:17:49] Erik: No, the Jig and Daredevil combo is I’ll say one versus two.
[1:17:50 – 1:17:51] Adam: True enough, it is.
[1:17:51 – 1:17:53] Adam: Thank you for the fact check on the fly.
[1:17:54 – 1:17:57] Erik: It may be one of our chalkiest tournaments yet.
[1:17:57 – 1:18:01] Adam: Yeah, I don’t know how many times we’ve had a 10 seed get to the Elite Eight, though.
[1:18:01 – 1:18:02] Adam: That’s pretty amazing.
[1:18:02 – 1:18:07] Adam: And, yeah, the three versus the four up there in Atacocan.
[1:18:07 – 1:18:14] Adam: So that one, you know, you could be said those were just misranked, but there’s a lot of talent up there in Atacocan.
[1:18:15 – 1:18:17] Adam: Husky Jerk versus Little Cleo, though.
[1:18:17 – 1:18:23] Adam: My goodness, that one is, I think that one, if I were going to vote, and I’m not voting anymore, I’m staying out of it.
[1:18:24 – 1:18:26] Adam: I’m a neutral commentator here, Jim.
[1:18:27 – 1:18:30] Adam: If I had to, that one would be almost impossible for me to make a decision on.
[1:18:30 – 1:18:33] Erik: I’d wake up every morning for a week and I would have a different thought.
[1:18:33 – 1:18:34] Adam: Yeah, I would.
[1:18:34 – 1:18:40] Adam: It would depend on which way the wind was blowing that day for sure and just how much sunlight I was seeing.
[1:18:41 – 1:18:48] Erik: I think we’re at the point now where it is, yes, any of these lures, take all of them.
[1:18:48 – 1:18:49] Erik: Take all eight.
[1:18:50 – 1:18:50] Erik: There’s no reason.
[1:18:51 – 1:18:54] Erik: Nobody only has enough room for one, you know?
[1:18:54 – 1:18:54] Erik: Right.
[1:18:55 – 1:18:59] Erik: And so I feel like we’re comfortably in the realm of any of these.
[1:19:00 – 1:19:00] Erik: Bring them all.
[1:19:01 – 1:19:11] Adam: Yeah, I mean, as you can see, I’m wearing my Stolquist over my Blazer today, though, and I really do appreciate just being able to keep a very small tickle box right in my dilden.
[1:19:11 – 1:19:12] Erik: Yeah.
[1:19:12 – 1:19:18] Adam: And that’s definitely something I like to say every morning when I look at myself in the mirror, you know, self-reflection.
[1:19:18 – 1:19:19] Adam: Are you ready to lead today?
[1:19:20 – 1:19:24] Adam: And how many lures can you stick in your dilden before you leave the house?
[1:19:25 – 1:19:31] Adam: So that’s always what I’m thinking about, and you could definitely jam eight of these in there, though, and they wouldn’t even really be getting hooked on each other, so…
[1:19:31 – 1:19:35] Erik: Right, but the question now is if you could only bring one.
[1:19:36 – 1:19:37] Adam: Yeah, that’s the thing.
[1:19:37 – 1:19:38] Adam: We’re going to try and figure it out.
[1:19:39 – 1:19:40] Adam: And I don’t know.
[1:19:40 – 1:19:42] Adam: I don’t know what I would pick right now.
[1:19:42 – 1:19:46] Erik: I know what mine would be, but it’s not easy.
[1:19:46 – 1:19:50] Adam: I know what’s tied on to my fishing pole out in the truck right now.
[1:19:51 – 1:19:52] Adam: That’s for sure.
[1:19:52 – 1:19:55] Adam: But I’m also not going on a Boundary Waters trip tomorrow either.
[1:19:55 – 1:19:55] Erik: Yeah.
[1:19:56 – 1:19:58] Adam: I’m doing something else right now.
[1:19:58 – 1:20:02] Adam: But there are lures that are near and dear to your heart.
[1:20:03 – 1:20:09] Adam: And sometimes when you’re offered eight good options, it’s like, well…
[1:20:09 – 1:20:39] Adam: you know nostalgia or like past memory can can filter in and uh you know good memories of times on the water of the past yep can uh can be the little thing that nudges you in one direction or the other sometimes when you make a cast you know you’re aiming for a certain point but just a little bit of wind one way or the other it kind of moves that lure you know and that’s the difference between victory and defeat in this tournament at this point yep i feel like it is going to come down to nostalgia versus
[1:20:41 – 1:20:46] Erik: wherever else you find yourself at this point in time with lures.
[1:20:46 – 1:20:48] Adam: Here’s one thing I’m going to be watching for in my final thought.
[1:20:49 – 1:20:58] Adam: It would be also when you place the cast, your instinct right away is to start reeling.
[1:20:59 – 1:21:08] Adam: But a good team, a confident team, sometimes the thing that can trigger the strike the most is allowing it to sit for a couple counts.
[1:21:08 – 1:21:10] Adam: And then begin to reel.
[1:21:10 – 1:21:10] Erik: Yeah.
[1:21:10 – 1:21:14] Adam: So I want to look for that when we start watching these final matchups here in the Elite Eight.
[1:21:15 – 1:21:19] Erik: You have a good number of second-half teams in this tournament left.
[1:21:19 – 1:21:20] Adam: That’s right.
[1:21:20 – 1:21:21] Adam: Who’s going to be patient out there, too?
[1:21:21 – 1:21:25] Adam: Because you can think that you’ve got to try and get the most casts in.
[1:21:25 – 1:21:27] Adam: That’s going to be the thing that gets you through?
[1:21:27 – 1:21:31] Adam: No, but it’s the quality of the cast and of the retrieve.
[1:21:31 – 1:21:31] Erik: Mm-hmm.
[1:21:32 – 1:21:33] Adam: All right.
[1:21:34 – 1:21:35] Adam: Well, I think that’s a good spot to leave it.
[1:21:37 – 1:21:41] Adam: Thanks again to all the Patreons for your continued support of this proud independent podcast.
[1:21:42 – 1:21:44] Adam: Thank you to everybody who’s voted and taken the time.
[1:21:44 – 1:21:45] Adam: Check it out.
[1:21:45 – 1:21:47] Adam: The links, of course, for the Elite Eight.
[1:21:48 – 1:21:49] Adam: You got until Wednesday.
[1:21:50 – 1:21:54] Adam: I think we’ve said this a few times now, so no pretending like you didn’t hear this.
[1:21:54 – 1:22:00] Adam: It’s until Wednesday to vote on the Elite Eight and then Saturday to vote on those Final Four matchups.
[1:22:01 – 1:22:06] Adam: And by this time next week, you’ll be knowing the final championship matchup
[1:22:07 – 1:22:09] Adam: And we’ll have a full week to debate and think about that one.
[1:22:09 – 1:22:10] Adam: And I’m sure it’s going to be a tough one.
[1:22:10 – 1:22:12] Adam: So check the links.
[1:22:13 – 1:22:20] Adam: The link to both brackets will be available, of course, in the show notes, on the subreddit, and in the Discord.
[1:22:20 – 1:22:28] Adam: Thank you to those of you who have taken the time to vote or vote a few times, depending on the amount of tentacles you have.
[1:22:28 – 1:22:31] Erik: Or VPN monies that you have to spend.
[1:22:32 – 1:22:38] Adam: Yeah, by this time next week, we will both know the final floor and who got through the floor.
[1:22:38 – 1:22:44] Adam: So that’ll be two good lure in this year’s learning from Tumble Home Sports Network.
[1:22:44 – 1:22:46] Adam: As we always say, life is precious.
[1:22:47 – 1:22:48] Adam: Every cast.