287: Tumble Lurenament Final Four

Episode Transcript

[0:00:00 – 0:00:00] UNKNOWN: Thank you.
[0:00:32 – 0:00:37] Adam: Welcome to this presentation of Tumble Home Sports Network.
[0:00:37 – 0:00:38] Adam: My name is Terry Davenport.
[0:00:38 – 0:00:43] Adam: I’m joined here in the booth with my dear friend Jim Sofa.
[0:00:43 – 0:00:44] Adam: Good evening, Jim.
[0:00:44 – 0:00:45] Adam: Good evening, Terry.
[0:00:46 – 0:00:51] Adam: This is episode 287 of Tumble Home, a proud independent podcast.
[0:00:51 – 0:00:55] Adam: And yes, the learnament is upon us.
[0:00:56 – 0:00:57] Adam: The learnament is upon us.
[0:00:59 – 0:01:00] Adam: It dives on.
[0:01:00 – 0:01:05] Adam: We’re going into the Elite Eight matchups tonight and the Final Four matchups.
[0:01:06 – 0:01:12] Adam: By the end of this episode, we will know who’s in the championship of this prestigious event.
[0:01:13 – 0:01:14] Adam: Prestigious event.
[0:01:15 – 0:01:20] Adam: The casting has been going on for weeks now, and you have the tank and the pool.
[0:01:22 – 0:01:26] Adam: All the bass have been pulled right out of there, so I don’t know how they’re going to continue this.
[0:01:26 – 0:01:31] Adam: They’re going to have to take it to the big lake, I think, for the final four is what I was told.
[0:01:31 – 0:01:40] Erik: The semi-truck pool that they pull up to the state fair or county fair where they test all these lures.
[0:01:41 – 0:01:44] Erik: The water’s getting low, but there is still some water in there.
[0:01:44 – 0:01:57] Erik: Not too many more bass to be picked off before they load it back up on the train freight car and chug on down to wherever the next event is at.
[0:01:57 – 0:01:59] Erik: Probably Joliet, Illinois, if I were to guess.
[0:02:01 – 0:02:03] Erik: Good old Joliet.
[0:02:04 – 0:02:05] Adam: Yeah.
[0:02:05 – 0:02:08] Adam: I had something in my mailbox at the co-op this week.
[0:02:08 – 0:02:10] Adam: I think we better open it right away.
[0:02:10 – 0:02:11] Adam: Wow, it is a…
[0:02:12 – 0:02:14] Adam: It’s a tiny Ziploc bag.
[0:02:14 – 0:02:16] Adam: Snack Ziploc bag.
[0:02:16 – 0:02:18] Adam: And some sort of… That’s looking banjo minnow-y.
[0:02:18 – 0:02:21] Adam: Is that a banjo minnow?
[0:02:21 – 0:02:28] Adam: Some sort of wiggly jiggly conference member trapped in a bag with a…
[0:02:29 – 0:02:32] Erik: I think the banjo minnow has more of like a scooped tail.
[0:02:32 – 0:02:34] Erik: This is just a little like wiggly tail.
[0:02:34 – 0:02:35] Adam: I just want to make sure I got…
[0:02:35 – 0:02:36] Adam: There is a note.
[0:02:37 – 0:02:40] Adam: It’s a bunch of little letters glued onto a piece of paper.
[0:02:42 – 0:02:47] Adam: To the learnament commissioners and the tumble sports commentators, how dare you?
[0:02:47 – 0:02:47] Erik: Oh, no.
[0:02:47 – 0:02:52] Adam: I have sat back and quietly tolerated your abuse of the Zulu rig for long enough.
[0:02:53 – 0:03:06] Adam: Enclosed is one pre-rigged Z-Man Shad Z jerkbait on a 1-0 offset worm hook pre-tied to 8-10 inches of monoliter and a high-quality ball-bearing swivel.
[0:03:07 – 0:03:10] Adam: Twitch retrieve around moving water for best results.
[0:03:11 – 0:03:18] Adam: Once you have caught 20 fish on this one lure, I expect a full apology to Bill Zulu and all of the tumble honeys you led astray.
[0:03:20 – 0:03:21] Adam: Love anglers.
[0:03:22 – 0:03:22] Adam: Wow.
[0:03:24 – 0:03:25] Adam: I thought the Zulu rig was like a…
[0:03:25 – 0:03:30] Adam: I don’t think the picture we got of the Zulu rig looked nothing like this, Jim.
[0:03:30 – 0:03:30] Erik: This isn’t a…
[0:03:31 – 0:03:31] Erik: I mean, what?
[0:03:31 – 0:03:32] Erik: This is just a…
[0:03:32 – 0:03:33] Erik: This looks like a banjo minnow.
[0:03:33 – 0:03:35] Erik: This is just a banjo minnow with a…
[0:03:35 – 0:03:36] Adam: I don’t think we’re making things any better.
[0:03:36 – 0:03:37] Adam: No, we’re not.
[0:03:37 – 0:03:39] Adam: Like, insisting it looks like a banjo minnow.
[0:03:39 – 0:03:41] Erik: It’s clearly… Should we just bend the knee right now?
[0:03:42 – 0:03:42] Adam: Yeah, we’re sorry.
[0:03:42 – 0:03:44] Adam: We are sorry.
[0:03:44 – 0:03:45] Adam: This is no banjo minnow.
[0:03:45 – 0:03:49] Adam: This is a Z-Man Shad Z jerkbait on a one-aught.
[0:03:49 – 0:04:05] Adam: offset worm hook with an 8 to 10 inch leader and a high quality ball bearing swivel it is a high quality swivel I will say that get a load of this swivel here it’s one of those super nice ones it’s high quality it’s like titanium
[0:04:06 – 0:04:26] Adam: uh it’s a nice color it’s got sparkles in it and uh yeah you could run this or anything it looks pretty weedless yeah it looks pretty weedless um maybe i’ll take that down to the cadenz river this evening and howl at the moon just in the dark i don’t think that’s legal fishing in the dark or fishing the river oh either of them
[0:04:27 – 0:04:28] Erik: Is fishing in the dark?
[0:04:29 – 0:04:31] Adam: You’re not supposed to fish like an hour after sunset.
[0:04:32 – 0:04:33] Erik: Oh, really?
[0:04:34 – 0:04:35] Adam: For coasters.
[0:04:35 – 0:04:36] Erik: Oh, okay.
[0:04:36 – 0:04:36] Erik: Well.
[0:04:36 – 0:04:38] Adam: And therefore, you know, nothing.
[0:04:39 – 0:04:39] Adam: P.S.
[0:04:40 – 0:04:44] Adam: Thank you for making a home for this ridiculous meme group community to thrive on.
[0:04:44 – 0:04:44] Adam: What?
[0:04:45 – 0:04:45] Adam: No.
[0:04:46 – 0:04:47] Adam: It’s a meme group community now?
[0:04:47 – 0:04:48] Adam: Yeah, we’re just…
[0:04:49 – 0:04:50] Adam: It’s not a meme group.
[0:04:50 – 0:04:51] Adam: We’re just on the committee.
[0:04:52 – 0:04:52] Adam: It’s a big group.
[0:04:53 – 0:04:54] Adam: This is organic.
[0:04:54 – 0:04:59] Erik: Jim and Terry, we’re not really 100% sure what you’re talking about there.
[0:05:00 – 0:05:09] Adam: We appreciate the enthusiasm for the Zulu, and we’re sorry that the voters didn’t get enough information to make an informed decision on that one.
[0:05:09 – 0:05:11] Erik: We’re just bringing you all the information.
[0:05:11 – 0:05:12] Adam: We’re doing our best here.
[0:05:14 – 0:05:31] Adam: I don’t think either of us even knew what a Zulu rig was, but I think the beauty of this was it was recommended by members of the committee on the subreddit, and it was recommended enough where the committee felt compelled to include them in the bracket as, do we have their ranking here?
[0:05:31 – 0:05:34] Adam: Let’s try and find them.
[0:05:34 – 0:05:42] Adam: Even though we clearly personally, me, Terry, and Jim here, we didn’t know what even a Zulu was, but
[0:05:43 – 0:05:45] Adam: We’re willing to trust the committee and put it in there.
[0:05:46 – 0:05:50] Adam: But, yeah, I guess not knowing what it was, we probably didn’t do our best to sell it.
[0:05:50 – 0:05:51] Adam: It was a 14 seed.
[0:05:51 – 0:05:56] Adam: It got paired up against the MEP Cyclops there in the first round up in Grand Marais.
[0:05:57 – 0:06:00] Adam: And it did lose 49 to 24.
[0:06:00 – 0:06:03] Adam: I mean, 24 votes in the first round is pretty good, actually.
[0:06:04 – 0:06:05] Adam: I mean, you can hang your head on that.
[0:06:05 – 0:06:06] Adam: It’s not a blowout.
[0:06:06 – 0:06:08] Adam: And a lot of teams did much worse than that.
[0:06:08 – 0:06:09] Adam: Sure.
[0:06:09 – 0:06:15] Erik: I mean, it’d be comparable to if, like, after, I don’t know,
[0:06:17 – 0:06:19] Erik: Your favorite hockey team loses.
[0:06:20 – 0:06:26] Erik: You mail a threatening ransom note to the announcers of the game.
[0:06:28 – 0:06:28] Erik: We’re like, why?
[0:06:29 – 0:06:36] Erik: Why are Terry and Jim being accosted for the results of the tournament?
[0:06:37 – 0:06:39] Adam: Yeah, and it’s got like… You’ve done nothing.
[0:06:39 – 0:06:42] Adam: It’s got like a little figurine of Nazeem Qadri in there, too.
[0:06:43 – 0:06:47] Erik: Yes, I’m glad that he… You guys didn’t give enough respect to Nazeem.
[0:06:47 – 0:06:52] Erik: I’m glad that he is the first player who came up in the whole tournament.
[0:06:52 – 0:06:53] Erik: That’s the Zulu…
[0:06:53 – 0:06:54] Adam: He’s the comparable?
[0:06:55 – 0:06:56] Adam: He’s the Zulu rig of…
[0:06:57 – 0:07:00] Erik: Nazem Qadri is the Zulu rig of hockey centers.
[0:07:00 – 0:07:02] Erik: Yes.
[0:07:02 – 0:07:04] Adam: Yes, he is.
[0:07:04 – 0:07:09] Adam: Something about, I don’t know why, I just picture the Calgary Flames wanting to have a lot of Zulu rigs.
[0:07:09 – 0:07:13] Erik: Just bound to be suspended in the playoffs at some point.
[0:07:13 – 0:07:14] Adam: Should have made it in.
[0:07:14 – 0:07:15] Erik: Too many hooks.
[0:07:15 – 0:07:16] Adam: That ain’t legal.
[0:07:16 – 0:07:17] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:07:17 – 0:07:22] Adam: So we did Google it, and it just showed up as this crazy rig with a bunch of different hooks.
[0:07:22 – 0:07:24] Erik: Yeah, that’s what I thought the rig was.
[0:07:24 – 0:07:29] Erik: It was like an H-line crazy spinning apparatus that’s just going to get snagged horribly.
[0:07:29 – 0:07:31] Erik: I think I’m more confused than ever.
[0:07:31 – 0:07:32] Erik: I also am.
[0:07:35 – 0:07:36] Adam: We are so sorry, though.
[0:07:36 – 0:07:39] Adam: Yeah, sure.
[0:07:40 – 0:07:44] Adam: We will also take full responsibility and apologize.
[0:07:44 – 0:07:49] Adam: Sorry.
[0:07:49 – 0:07:58] Adam: I am currently drinking a Dr. Pepper Zero, which is delicious and zero calories, as it says in the title, which is amazing.
[0:07:58 – 0:08:00] Adam: I don’t know how they make it taste so good.
[0:08:00 – 0:08:01] Adam: Yeah.
[0:08:02 – 0:08:22] Adam: i got into it on the discord with some homies about dr pepper zero and i i mainly threw out there’s a joke although i have been drinking i’ve been guzzling dr pepper zero lately dpz boy it turns out a lot of people like dr pepper but not the zero and the zero yeah no there’s a lot of fans out there which i didn’t realize it was so popular
[0:08:23 – 0:08:23] Erik: How many spices?
[0:08:24 – 0:08:25] Erik: 13 at least.
[0:08:25 – 0:08:26] Erik: I thought it was 23.
[0:08:26 – 0:08:27] Erik: 23.
[0:08:27 – 0:08:28] Erik: Secret recipes.
[0:08:28 – 0:08:29] Erik: Top spices.
[0:08:30 – 0:08:31] Adam: Yeah.
[0:08:31 – 0:08:35] Adam: So anyways, I’m starting the show with one, but we do have a real show sponsor.
[0:08:36 – 0:08:46] Adam: We’re down the Twin Ports this week, their gym, and stopped on the way back at the Two Harbors Liquor Store, the brand new municipal liquor store.
[0:08:46 – 0:08:52] Erik: This whole shore is festooned with new, sterile, severance-esque liquor stores.
[0:08:52 – 0:08:56] Adam: I think they tried to give it a cute name like the Breakwater or something insane.
[0:08:56 – 0:08:57] Adam: It’s just the Two Harbors Muni.
[0:08:57 – 0:08:59] Adam: It’s next to the Culver’s.
[0:08:59 – 0:09:02] Adam: Don’t get ahead of yourselves, but it is huge.
[0:09:02 – 0:09:03] Erik: It is quite large.
[0:09:03 – 0:09:04] Erik: Easy on, easy off.
[0:09:04 – 0:09:05] Adam: Or vice versa.
[0:09:05 – 0:09:07] Adam: A lot of stuff in there I haven’t seen.
[0:09:07 – 0:09:08] Adam: And I found these.
[0:09:09 – 0:09:14] Adam: And these are brought to you by Terry Davenport.
[0:09:15 – 0:09:17] Adam: And delivered by a Timu helicopter here.
[0:09:18 – 0:09:19] Adam: Ice cold.
[0:09:19 – 0:09:21] Adam: These are three Floyds from Indiana.
[0:09:22 – 0:09:24] Adam: And these are Turbo Reaper IPAs.
[0:09:24 – 0:09:26] Adam: And they are scary looking, Jim.
[0:09:29 – 0:09:31] Adam: I think it’s got a Zulu rig on the cover.
[0:09:32 – 0:09:35] Erik: It’s definitely got a Zulu of some sort.
[0:09:36 – 0:09:39] Erik: Is there a knight riding the back of the Reaper?
[0:09:40 – 0:09:41] Adam: Throwing?
[0:09:41 – 0:09:45] Erik: Or is it the sword is cutting through the R of the Reaper?
[0:09:45 – 0:09:45] Adam: I see.
[0:09:46 – 0:09:47] Adam: I think that’s what’s going on.
[0:09:47 – 0:09:49] Adam: Yeah, he’s piercing the Reaper.
[0:09:49 – 0:09:55] Erik: Without warning, something’s dawning as our latest West Coast style in the Pale Ale awaits your defenseless thirst.
[0:09:56 – 0:09:57] Erik: That’s colossal.
[0:09:57 – 0:09:58] Erik: Thirst?
[0:09:59 – 0:10:06] Erik: As colossal hop aromas ride in harmony with tropical and citrus notes, you better run for cover.
[0:10:06 – 0:10:08] Adam: You better run for cover, brother.
[0:10:08 – 0:10:10] Erik: There is no other, brother.
[0:10:10 – 0:10:17] Erik: That’s how you do it in Munster, Indiana.
[0:10:17 – 0:10:18] Adam: Cheers.
[0:10:19 – 0:10:19] Adam: Cheers.
[0:10:23 – 0:10:28] Erik: You want to switch spots so you can keep an eye on this Stars-Avs game here?
[0:10:28 – 0:10:29] Adam: I can see it in the window.
[0:10:29 – 0:10:34] Erik: Now that we’re all jacked up on that sweet first game of the playoffs, Jets victory.
[0:10:34 – 0:10:36] Erik: Woo!
[0:10:36 – 0:10:40] Adam: Connor Hellebuck, shut him down for pretty much the whole second half.
[0:10:40 – 0:10:41] Adam: Eric was a little worried when I got here.
[0:10:41 – 0:10:43] Adam: It’s like, no, he’s in the groove now.
[0:10:43 – 0:10:47] Erik: I want a dominating Hellebuck performance this year.
[0:10:47 – 0:10:48] Adam: We’re going to get a shutout in game two.
[0:10:48 – 0:10:49] Adam: That would be nice.
[0:10:49 – 0:10:50] Adam: St. Louis is a joke.
[0:10:50 – 0:10:52] Adam: That was their best effort right there.
[0:10:52 – 0:10:53] Adam: Yeah, I could see that.
[0:10:54 – 0:10:54] Adam: Joe Boo.
[0:10:54 – 0:10:57] Adam: I don’t need no help from Joe Boo to hit the curveball, buddy.
[0:10:58 – 0:11:10] Erik: Is that your, we mentioned before we started recording, it sounded like you were maybe having conversations with some folks on the Discord about hopes and dreams for this Stanley Cup playoffs.
[0:11:10 – 0:11:21] Erik: My favorite time of year when it comes to sports, at least favorite time of year when it comes to moving around and feeling excited about being outside.
[0:11:22 – 0:11:23] Erik: I hate April snow.
[0:11:24 – 0:11:31] Adam: Yeah, but the end of April in the top 52 week rankers is definitely going up the charts due to playoff hockey.
[0:11:31 – 0:11:32] Adam: Yes.
[0:11:32 – 0:11:34] Adam: Usually the end of the Tumble tournament going on.
[0:11:34 – 0:11:35] Adam: Yes.
[0:11:35 – 0:11:36] Adam: It’s a good time of year for sport.
[0:11:36 – 0:11:37] Adam: It is.
[0:11:37 – 0:11:37] Adam: That’s for sure.
[0:11:37 – 0:11:40] Adam: It’s pretty much one of the best times of year for Tumble Home Sports Network.
[0:11:40 – 0:11:40] UNKNOWN: Yeah.
[0:11:41 – 0:11:47] Erik: Yeah, it’s a great time of year for, I mean, just nonstop action.
[0:11:47 – 0:11:58] Erik: Three to four hockey games a day slash night for like two weeks straight with teams actually playing the sport to its highest.
[0:11:59 – 0:12:01] Erik: It’s not like, ah, he’s just taking a shift off.
[0:12:02 – 0:12:04] Adam: Shifley to Kyle Conner for the winner.
[0:12:05 – 0:12:05] Erik: Yeah.
[0:12:05 – 0:12:08] Erik: That’s what it’s all about, baby.
[0:12:08 – 0:12:09] Adam: Barrington had no chance.
[0:12:10 – 0:12:10] Adam: No.
[0:12:10 – 0:12:11] Adam: No chance at all.
[0:12:11 – 0:12:18] Erik: Getting back to the Discord comments, I heard you said something along the lines of a Jets Leafs.
[0:12:19 – 0:12:20] Adam: That was my prediction.
[0:12:20 – 0:12:21] Erik: That’s your prediction?
[0:12:21 – 0:12:23] Erik: Is that your just hopeful prediction?
[0:12:23 – 0:12:25] Adam: No, it’s a very reasonable prediction.
[0:12:26 – 0:12:30] Adam: And also it is a hopeful prediction because I really want to see a Canadian team win.
[0:12:31 – 0:12:34] Adam: And it’s been way too long, and that would just take all the stress off.
[0:12:34 – 0:12:39] Adam: If we just got Jets-Leafs finals, then we could all just really enjoy it and have a lot of fun.
[0:12:40 – 0:12:46] Adam: And you already know that we already have won before they even dropped the puck in the finals.
[0:12:46 – 0:12:46] Adam: Let’s do it.
[0:12:47 – 0:12:49] Erik: There’s nothing in sports that I want more.
[0:12:49 – 0:12:50] Erik: I don’t even care.
[0:12:50 – 0:12:54] Erik: I’m from Minnesota about Minnesota sports teams anymore.
[0:12:54 – 0:12:55] Erik: They’re all dead to me.
[0:12:55 – 0:12:56] Erik: They forever will be.
[0:12:58 – 0:13:01] Erik: Men’s specifically, sure.
[0:13:02 – 0:13:06] Erik: The WNBA and the Lynx are pretty much a dynasty at this point.
[0:13:07 – 0:13:09] Erik: They’ve only been around for like 10 years.
[0:13:09 – 0:13:10] Erik: I don’t really have much of an affiliation to them.
[0:13:11 – 0:13:18] Erik: All of my sports teams of my youth growing up in the late 80s, early 90s, they’re all going to be forever failures.
[0:13:19 – 0:13:22] Erik: And I have no hope for them in any regard at this point.
[0:13:22 – 0:13:28] Erik: My only hope is for a Canadian team to finally bring the Stanley Cup back over the border.
[0:13:28 – 0:13:29] Erik: It needs to happen.
[0:13:29 – 0:13:31] Adam: And this would be a perfect year for it to happen.
[0:13:31 – 0:13:32] Adam: This is the year.
[0:13:32 – 0:13:32] Adam: Canada needs a win.
[0:13:35 – 0:13:37] Adam: We all need Canada to need a win.
[0:13:38 – 0:13:39] Erik: Let’s go.
[0:13:39 – 0:13:41] Erik: That stupid cup can’t go any farther south.
[0:13:41 – 0:13:46] Erik: It’s already made it to the tip of Florida three times in the last five years.
[0:13:46 – 0:13:47] Erik: It doesn’t need to go any farther south.
[0:13:48 – 0:13:50] Erik: And, yeah, that’s what I’m cheering for.
[0:13:50 – 0:13:56] Erik: And I think in the past I would have been like, yeah, sure, Jets, Leafs would be amazing.
[0:13:57 – 0:13:59] Erik: But what I really think is going to happen is this.
[0:13:59 – 0:14:06] Erik: And this is the one year where my heart of hearts and what I want to see actually happen are pretty similar.
[0:14:07 – 0:14:11] Erik: And I’m on board with that until otherwise noted.
[0:14:12 – 0:14:23] Adam: Yeah, and Eric sent me the link to it, but right before we hit record here, Jim showed me the hype video that Eric had sent the link out to both of us.
[0:14:24 – 0:14:34] Adam: And in that, like a tearful Paul Maurice on the ice after winning the cup last year said that he hopes that Winnipeg wins the next cup.
[0:14:35 – 0:14:36] Erik: There’s one more thing that I could see.
[0:14:36 – 0:14:39] Adam: That’s the thing that he said when they interviewed him right after winning the cup finally?
[0:14:39 – 0:14:39] Adam: Yeah.
[0:14:40 – 0:14:44] Adam: With Florida down there in Mar-a-Lago or whatever they play in.
[0:14:45 – 0:14:46] Adam: That’s what he said?
[0:14:46 – 0:14:47] Erik: Yeah, he still has the Jets.
[0:14:47 – 0:14:48] Adam: It’s a beautiful thing.
[0:14:48 – 0:14:48] Erik: Top of mind.
[0:14:49 – 0:14:49] Adam: Yeah.
[0:14:49 – 0:14:51] Adam: Palmo, he’s a real one.
[0:14:51 – 0:14:52] Adam: Palmo.
[0:14:52 – 0:14:53] Adam: Paul.
[0:14:53 – 0:14:53] Adam: Jim.
[0:14:54 – 0:14:55] Adam: Yeah.
[0:14:55 – 0:14:56] Adam: That was really nice of him to say it.
[0:14:56 – 0:14:57] Adam: I am hyped also.
[0:14:58 – 0:15:00] Adam: Neither of us are waited out tonight.
[0:15:01 – 0:15:01] Adam: No, we’re not.
[0:15:01 – 0:15:02] Adam: But we’re not in Winnipeg.
[0:15:02 – 0:15:05] Erik: You are wearing your Jets hoodie, though.
[0:15:05 – 0:15:05] Erik: I did.
[0:15:05 – 0:15:05] Adam: You should have put mine on.
[0:15:06 – 0:15:09] Adam: I got my Jets hoodie on, and I got my Jets thong on.
[0:15:09 – 0:15:10] Adam: Like crevasse.
[0:15:10 – 0:15:10] Adam: Yeah.
[0:15:11 – 0:15:13] Erik: You’ve been wearing that since day one.
[0:15:13 – 0:15:18] Adam: Me and Gandhi are in solidarity with our Lake Crevasse Winnipeg Jets thongs.
[0:15:18 – 0:15:23] Erik: They probably got to crate that statue up if they get close to winning a series.
[0:15:23 – 0:15:26] Adam: You don’t want them marching down Front Street and knocking over the Gandhi statue.
[0:15:27 – 0:15:28] Adam: Take it easy, boys.
[0:15:28 – 0:15:28] Adam: Yeah.
[0:15:29 – 0:15:30] Adam: Take it easy.
[0:15:30 – 0:15:33] Erik: There will be riots in the streets in whatever Canadian city.
[0:15:34 – 0:15:38] Erik: If there is a Stanley Cup that goes back to Canada, it will be madness.
[0:15:39 – 0:15:41] Erik: They’ll probably have to call in the National Guard if Canada even has one.
[0:15:42 – 0:15:42] Erik: I’m not sure.
[0:15:43 – 0:15:45] Adam: Yeah, they self-police.
[0:15:47 – 0:15:47] Adam: Forest police.
[0:15:48 – 0:15:56] Adam: Yeah, looking out at this big lake here, you know, considering our future move to Ontario.
[0:15:57 – 0:15:59] Adam: There was a pink sky tonight, so…
[0:16:00 – 0:16:01] Adam: Sailor delight, baby.
[0:16:02 – 0:16:04] Adam: Supposed to be fisherman’s delight.
[0:16:05 – 0:16:06] Erik: Nice and sunny tomorrow, I guess.
[0:16:06 – 0:16:06] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:16:06 – 0:16:08] Adam: Good casting out there.
[0:16:08 – 0:16:09] Adam: Really good casting.
[0:16:09 – 0:16:11] Adam: A lot of fish caught this week is what I’ve heard.
[0:16:12 – 0:16:12] Erik: That’s what you’ve heard?
[0:16:12 – 0:16:13] Erik: You haven’t experienced that?
[0:16:14 – 0:16:17] Adam: I’ve been trying to avoid the spoilers on the tournament.
[0:16:18 – 0:16:24] Adam: It’s hard being on the Discord and on the subreddit, and people are excited, and memes are flying around.
[0:16:24 – 0:16:32] Adam: So I try and avert the eye any time it comes up, because as a commentator, I’m not voting at this point in the tournament.
[0:16:33 – 0:16:37] Adam: I don’t want to know what’s going on until we sit down here in the studio and hit record.
[0:16:38 – 0:16:42] Erik: Yeah, I’ve been that same way in this week with having a short week for the Elite Eight.
[0:16:42 – 0:16:43] Erik: Yeah, doubled up.
[0:16:44 – 0:16:56] Erik: I feel like that was, you know, rife for getting mildly spoiled because, you know, people are going to make their memes and their predictions and all of a sudden you see, oh, that’s what the final four is, huh?
[0:16:57 – 0:17:10] Erik: And I kind of like glanced over some of it, but I see if I were to try and remember, I would probably still just be going off of what I would assume were the results and not actually having been spoiled.
[0:17:10 – 0:17:12] Erik: I don’t think I’ve been too spoiled, so I’m not too worried.
[0:17:16 – 0:17:20] Erik: Before we get into those results, though, these three Floyds are delicious.
[0:17:21 – 0:17:21] Adam: I’m feeling pretty good.
[0:17:22 – 0:17:26] Adam: We are… That three Floyds, Dr. Pepper combo is electric.
[0:17:27 – 0:17:28] Adam: Yeah.
[0:17:28 – 0:17:29] Erik: We’re still in our sub era.
[0:17:30 – 0:17:30] Erik: Oh, yes.
[0:17:30 – 0:17:31] Erik: On the TCC.
[0:17:32 – 0:17:42] Erik: And we’re taking… We started with two heavy hitters, some hardcore classics in Dust Boat and Crimson Tide.
[0:17:43 – 0:17:58] Erik: Took a little break from that and loosened the collar and chipped from the top of a submarine sailing by a golf course and landed it right on the green with down periscope.
[0:17:58 – 0:18:04] Erik: And we are still keeping with sub month, but it’s a different kind of sub this week.
[0:18:04 – 0:18:06] Erik: And we are talking about James Cameron’s.
[0:18:07 – 0:18:09] Erik: Is this where the love came from?
[0:18:09 – 0:18:13] Erik: The original 1989 The Abyss?
[0:18:14 – 0:18:15] Erik: He’s still obsessed with the deep.
[0:18:15 – 0:18:17] Erik: James Cameron’s 1989 The Abyss.
[0:18:18 – 0:18:22] Erik: He just makes movies so he can be submerged in water.
[0:18:22 – 0:18:24] Erik: I just want to go deeper.
[0:18:24 – 0:18:31] Erik: His dream in life is to be the Ed Harris character from this movie and just sink to the bottom of a trench.
[0:18:31 – 0:18:31] Erik: Yeah, he totally did.
[0:18:32 – 0:18:32] Erik: He did this.
[0:18:32 – 0:18:35] Erik: But he wants to go even deeper.
[0:18:35 – 0:18:40] Erik: We won’t spoil the end of this, but that’s what he really wants to happen.
[0:18:40 – 0:18:41] Adam: That’s what he wants?
[0:18:41 – 0:18:41] UNKNOWN: Yeah.
[0:18:41 – 0:18:49] Erik: He wants to end up on a cliff face at 17,000 feet at the bottom of the ocean and then meet a new species of…
[0:18:51 – 0:18:52] Erik: Not really sure what.
[0:18:52 – 0:18:54] Adam: Make love to an aquatic entity.
[0:18:55 – 0:18:55] Erik: Yeah.
[0:18:56 – 0:18:56] Adam: Yes.
[0:18:56 – 0:18:57] Adam: Mentally.
[0:18:57 – 0:18:58] Erik: He wants to breathe liquid oxygen.
[0:18:59 – 0:19:00] Adam: That’s what he really wants.
[0:19:01 – 0:19:02] Adam: He wants to be like that rat.
[0:19:02 – 0:19:02] Erik: Yeah.
[0:19:02 – 0:19:08] Erik: Brownish, red, hard to see through, liquefied oxygen.
[0:19:08 – 0:19:11] Adam: It’s just your lung parts mixing into the brine.
[0:19:11 – 0:19:12] Erik: Yeah.
[0:19:13 – 0:19:14] Erik: We should drown another rat.
[0:19:14 – 0:19:16] Erik: We got to make sure this is really working.
[0:19:16 – 0:19:18] Erik: Let’s drown another rat, boys.
[0:19:18 – 0:19:23] Adam: Yeah, you can’t even watch this film in most countries due to that rat sequence.
[0:19:23 – 0:19:23] Adam: Yeah.
[0:19:23 – 0:19:25] Erik: Because I don’t think liquefied oxygen is real.
[0:19:26 – 0:19:28] Adam: In theory, it is.
[0:19:28 – 0:19:29] Erik: Just in theory.
[0:19:29 – 0:19:32] Erik: So that rat was really going through it in that scene.
[0:19:33 – 0:19:35] Adam: In 1989, it was theorized to work.
[0:19:35 – 0:19:35] Adam: Yeah.
[0:19:36 – 0:19:40] Adam: And yeah, this is an interesting sub-movie.
[0:19:40 – 0:19:43] Adam: It’s got a whole spectrum of sub-movies.
[0:19:44 – 0:20:09] Adam: it does we got the big nuke we got the big nuclear subs we got um alien so we got yeah dimensional subs and little miniature subs and like individual subs like steve zizou class uh subs and then also like battle um and like and like a submarine laboratory that’s the one where it’s just like this is just like a space station but it’s underwater
[0:20:11 – 0:20:16] Adam: I hope somebody remembered to steal the espresso machine out of there before they had to abandon it.
[0:20:17 – 0:20:17] Erik: Yeah.
[0:20:18 – 0:20:20] Adam: Because that’s a really nice machine.
[0:20:20 – 0:20:21] Erik: Maybe Bill Ubell made off of it.
[0:20:21 – 0:20:22] Adam: He did, yeah.
[0:20:22 – 0:20:24] Adam: Get one of the interns to grab it on the way out.
[0:20:25 – 0:20:29] Adam: Not enough interns in there, but it was a really fun crew to be around.
[0:20:29 – 0:20:30] Adam: Yeah, can’t wait.
[0:20:30 – 0:20:34] Adam: Somehow I’ve never seen the Abyss, and wow, what a ride.
[0:20:34 – 0:20:35] Erik: It was quite a ride.
[0:20:35 – 0:20:39] Erik: I don’t think I had actually ever sat down and fully viewed it from beginning to end either.
[0:20:39 – 0:20:44] Erik: I thought maybe I had seen it, but after I got into it, I was like, I don’t think I’ve actually really fully ever seen this.
[0:20:44 – 0:20:46] Erik: I was, I think, mistaking it for The Sphere.
[0:20:46 – 0:20:51] Adam: Yeah, I’ve definitely seen The Sphere and I’ve, of course, read the Michael Crichton novel.
[0:20:51 – 0:20:54] Erik: That’s an underwater, but there’s no subs in that, right?
[0:20:54 – 0:20:54] Erik: Maybe.
[0:20:54 – 0:21:00] Erik: They have an underwater base in that one, too, though, so it’s a very similar story.
[0:21:00 – 0:21:02] Erik: But it’s way more like sci-fi.
[0:21:02 – 0:21:12] Adam: It’s almost like Stargate-y, where you step through the wall of the sphere, and you’re back in medieval times with Heath Ledger or whatever.
[0:21:12 – 0:21:12] Erik: Right, right.
[0:21:13 – 0:21:13] Erik: Yeah.
[0:21:13 – 0:21:14] Erik: That’s the plot of that movie.
[0:21:15 – 0:21:15] Erik: I think you nailed it.
[0:21:15 – 0:21:16] Erik: Yeah.
[0:21:17 – 0:21:18] Erik: It’s a crossover.
[0:21:18 – 0:21:19] Erik: Yeah.
[0:21:20 – 0:21:24] Erik: It’s A Knight’s Tale Part 2, actually, is the sphere.
[0:21:27 – 0:21:29] Adam: Yeah, I don’t know.
[0:21:29 – 0:21:31] Adam: I had a weird run on movies this week.
[0:21:31 – 0:21:39] Adam: I watched Moana 2 and the animated movie Atlantis from 2001, and I watched The Abyss.
[0:21:40 – 0:21:47] Adam: And then I watched a couple extra videos on the making of The Abyss just for fun.
[0:21:47 – 0:21:47] Adam: Sure.
[0:21:49 – 0:21:52] Adam: All three of those movies are intertwined in some way, for sure.
[0:21:52 – 0:22:01] Erik: wow yeah off the top of my head I obviously watched The Abyss and then I think complete opposites to Moana 2 and what was the other one
[0:22:02 – 0:22:30] Erik: atlantis atlantis yeah i watched that movie’s freaky i’ve never seen that one either and i’ve obviously never seen moana too we had uh some friends over we watched uh lay samurai which is a french uh kind of a spy i don’t know what you want to call it that’s good subtitles highly recommend and then uh primal fear oh my ed norton’s first movie baby face ed norton you seen that one yeah well no spoilers
[0:22:30 – 0:22:31] Erik: No spoilers, though.
[0:22:32 – 0:22:36] Erik: Get some Richard Gere, who I’m not a huge fan of, but he’s pretty good in this.
[0:22:36 – 0:22:40] Erik: I don’t know why I’m talking about it, but those are our three movies we watched this week.
[0:22:40 – 0:22:42] Adam: Underwater Intelligence and Primal Fear?
[0:22:42 – 0:22:43] Adam: No, I don’t think there is at all.
[0:22:43 – 0:22:44] Adam: Damn.
[0:22:44 – 0:22:44] Adam: No.
[0:22:45 – 0:22:46] Adam: Anyways, yeah, sub month rolls on.
[0:22:46 – 0:22:49] Adam: Thank you to everybody who’s supporting that on the Patreon.
[0:22:50 – 0:22:54] Adam: And you also support the main show, obviously, keeping those servers humming.
[0:22:55 – 0:23:00] Adam: And the poll tab results live for voting, obviously.
[0:23:00 – 0:23:01] Erik: Thank you, Poll Tab.
[0:23:02 – 0:23:09] Adam: Thank you to the voters, the committee, and anybody who’s just vibing on this learnament this week.
[0:23:09 – 0:23:13] Adam: We will, of course, by the time you listen to this, the voting will be live for the finals.
[0:23:14 – 0:23:19] Adam: So let’s make sure that we get at least 100 votes in that matchup because I want to see a lot of fish caught, baby.
[0:23:20 – 0:23:23] Adam: But yeah, four good sub-movies in.
[0:23:23 – 0:23:24] Adam: I don’t see us slowing down.
[0:23:24 – 0:23:27] Adam: I still have several on my list that I really want to watch.
[0:23:28 – 0:23:35] Adam: But I feel like The Abyss was my pick, so I can’t wait to find out what Eric’s going to go for next.
[0:23:35 – 0:23:45] Erik: Yeah, I don’t have anything queued up for teasing for next week, but I’m sure by the time we get done talking about The Abyss… We’re going to figure it out by the time we finish that Tumble Home Cinema Classics episode.
[0:23:45 – 0:23:50] Adam: So make sure, you know, if you’re a patron, of course, go check out that conversation.
[0:23:51 – 0:23:52] Adam: And yeah, I don’t know.
[0:23:52 – 0:23:57] Adam: From what I heard, people liked the Down Periscope episode, which was an hour and 45 minutes.
[0:23:57 – 0:24:03] Adam: It was longer than the… About 10 minutes of that was about the tattoo on the penis and the golf shot.
[0:24:04 – 0:24:09] Adam: And the rest of it was just about human zoos and other anomalous phenomenon.
[0:24:09 – 0:24:16] Erik: Yeah, we took every opportunity to not talk about Down Periscope as much as possible.
[0:24:16 – 0:24:17] Erik: What did it say?
[0:24:17 – 0:24:17] Erik: Welcome aboard?
[0:24:18 – 0:24:19] Adam: Welcome aboard!
[0:24:19 – 0:24:22] Adam: We still ended up covering Down Periscope pretty thoroughly.
[0:24:22 – 0:24:25] Erik: I think so, about as well as you can cover a movie like that.
[0:24:25 – 0:24:26] Erik: What is there to say, you know?
[0:24:26 – 0:24:31] Adam: We had a lot of fun, and yeah, we had a whole 12-pack of Montucky cold snacks on the table.
[0:24:31 – 0:24:33] Adam: Yeah, we filled the recycling bin.
[0:24:34 – 0:24:40] Adam: Nowhere to be, and all the time in the world to just sit and talk with my buddy.
[0:24:41 – 0:24:44] Adam: And man, that was one of the more fun episodes I can remember.
[0:24:44 – 0:24:46] Adam: So I’m glad that other people thought so, because…
[0:24:46 – 0:24:52] Adam: Sometimes you walk away from the recording table and you’re like, the mic is smoking hot.
[0:24:52 – 0:24:53] Adam: Like, damn, that was a good episode.
[0:24:53 – 0:24:56] Adam: And then you re-listen to it later and you’re like, I don’t know about that one.
[0:24:57 – 0:24:58] Adam: What was I thinking?
[0:24:58 – 0:25:01] Adam: But sometimes you walk away like, that was a pretty fun one.
[0:25:01 – 0:25:04] Adam: And then everybody else is also feeling the vibe.
[0:25:04 – 0:25:05] Adam: We left it all out on the ice.
[0:25:05 – 0:25:07] Adam: Seems like we nailed that one.
[0:25:07 – 0:25:10] Adam: Slapper right into the top corner, into the twine.
[0:25:11 – 0:25:13] Adam: Right past Jordan Bennington, that bum.
[0:25:14 – 0:25:23] Erik: So by the end of this episode, probably just in a few minutes here, honestly, it’s not too many matchups to cover, but we will get to a point where we know.
[0:25:24 – 0:25:28] Erik: Head to head, one more week of voting, and next week we’ll finish it up.
[0:25:30 – 0:25:31] Erik: We’ll know.
[0:25:31 – 0:25:34] Erik: We’ll crown our first Lurnament champ.
[0:25:34 – 0:25:37] Adam: The lure to rule all others.
[0:25:37 – 0:25:43] Adam: And then the Boy Scout troop will know what to fish with on their trip coming up.
[0:25:43 – 0:25:46] Adam: They’re going to do great no matter what they choose out of these final teams.
[0:25:47 – 0:25:50] Adam: Did you see any of the Northern Lights this week?
[0:25:50 – 0:25:51] Adam: No.
[0:25:51 – 0:25:51] Adam: Such as they were?
[0:25:51 – 0:25:52] Adam: I didn’t.
[0:25:52 – 0:25:57] Adam: There were pretty weird Northern Lights this week because we had some pretty high KP indexes in there.
[0:25:57 – 0:26:04] Adam: Speaking of a former TumbleTurney hero, a dear friend of the show, KP Index was…
[0:26:05 – 0:26:10] Adam: Out and about this week, but the ionosphere wasn’t having it.
[0:26:10 – 0:26:12] Adam: The BZ was tipped north and not south.
[0:26:13 – 0:26:20] Adam: So it was a weird set of them, but I did get a couple interesting pictures of that one night where it was just like a real deep red glow.
[0:26:20 – 0:26:28] Adam: Normally when you get the glow phenomenon, it’s just like that green color glow, but this was like a dark, unsettling red glow.
[0:26:29 – 0:26:35] Adam: And then I was on Space Weather today, and I saw this little post about that evening.
[0:26:35 – 0:26:39] Adam: That was April 16th.
[0:26:39 – 0:26:44] Adam: Severe geomagnetic storm caused electricity to flow through the rocks and soil of North America.
[0:26:45 – 0:26:48] Adam: And they had a map up here where voltages were greatest.
[0:26:48 – 0:26:51] Adam: I’m showing Jim the map right now.
[0:26:51 – 0:26:53] Adam: Notice anything about this map?
[0:26:53 – 0:26:56] Erik: Seems bright red in northern Minnesota.
[0:26:56 – 0:26:57] Erik: And Appalachia.
[0:26:57 – 0:26:57] Adam: Is that a good thing?
[0:26:58 – 0:27:06] Adam: Geoelectric voltages were more than 70 times normal in the Appalachian mountain range, northern Minnesota, and northwestern Canada.
[0:27:07 – 0:27:15] Adam: Researchers track ground currents because in extreme cases they can cause power outages like the Great Quebec Blackout of 1989.
[0:27:15 – 0:27:15] Adam: Ooh.
[0:27:15 – 0:27:15] Adam: 89.
[0:27:15 – 0:27:15] Adam: 89.
[0:27:18 – 0:27:20] Adam: The abyss was open.
[0:27:20 – 0:27:21] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:27:21 – 0:27:21] Erik: There you go.
[0:27:21 – 0:27:23] Erik: It’s all coming together.
[0:27:23 – 0:27:24] Erik: Like I should know.
[0:27:24 – 0:27:24] Erik: 89.
[0:27:26 – 0:27:28] Adam: I got a quote for you, and I’ll leave this be.
[0:27:29 – 0:27:34] Adam: But yeah, it was definitely like red-hot voltages here in northern Minnesota.
[0:27:35 – 0:27:47] Adam: Quote, generally, geoelectric amplitudes are high over metamorphic rock, such as the Appalachians in northern Minnesota, explains Jeffrey Love of the U.S. Geological Survey.
[0:27:48 – 0:27:49] Adam: There you go.
[0:27:49 – 0:27:52] Adam: So it’s that bedrock close to the surface.
[0:27:52 – 0:27:52] Adam: It…
[0:27:54 – 0:27:54] Adam: So I don’t know.
[0:27:54 – 0:28:01] Adam: You never think about… We’ve talked a lot about the Vindleys and the Northern Lights on this show over the last 287 episodes.
[0:28:02 – 0:28:12] Adam: Never really considered that the show you’re seeing in the sky is also reverberating through the rocks below your feet, especially here in northern Minnesota where the bedrock…
[0:28:12 – 0:28:34] Adam: so so close to the surface and uh we’ve also talked about like the extra gravity you end up giving because of that um gravitational anomalies are a real thing and measurable as is geoelectric current through the the very ground we’re standing on so sure it is i don’t know if anybody else out there felt that i don’t know if i necessarily felt it no but
[0:28:34 – 0:28:40] Adam: But I definitely felt that when I was watching that hype video and hearing Paul Maurice say nice things about Winnipeg.
[0:28:41 – 0:28:44] Adam: And I’m feeling it right now looking at these final eight teams we’re about to hop into here.
[0:28:44 – 0:28:47] Erik: Yeah, well, we should get into it.
[0:28:49 – 0:28:57] Adam: Basketball, give me, give me, give me the ball because I’m going to dunk it.
[0:28:57 – 0:28:58] Adam: Dunk it.
[0:29:00 – 0:29:00] Adam: There we go.
[0:29:02 – 0:29:09] Adam: All right, I think we get to start up here in Grand Marais at the Beaver House for the finale in that regional.
[0:29:09 – 0:29:10] Adam: In the West?
[0:29:10 – 0:29:12] Adam: In the West, you know, the Beaver House.
[0:29:12 – 0:29:13] Adam: It’s in the West now.
[0:29:14 – 0:29:15] Adam: Don’t scroll too high.
[0:29:15 – 0:29:16] Adam: It’s in the West now.
[0:29:20 – 0:29:24] Erik: The yard is fecund with woodcock right now.
[0:29:24 – 0:29:26] Erik: You got woodcock up in your neighborhood?
[0:29:26 – 0:29:27] Erik: Yeah, I saw one.
[0:29:27 – 0:29:28] Erik: Oh, my God.
[0:29:28 – 0:29:30] Erik: There must be like five or six of them out there.
[0:29:30 – 0:29:30] Erik: Oh, no.
[0:29:30 – 0:29:31] Adam: That’s too many.
[0:29:31 – 0:29:33] Adam: That’s too many woodcock.
[0:29:33 – 0:29:33] Adam: Too many woodcock?
[0:29:34 – 0:29:35] Erik: Is there such a thing?
[0:29:36 – 0:29:37] Adam: Not in April.
[0:29:37 – 0:29:38] Adam: No.
[0:29:40 – 0:29:41] Adam: More the merrier.
[0:29:41 – 0:29:43] Adam: All right.
[0:29:43 – 0:29:48] Adam: We have the number one seed X-Rap going up against the Rat L-Trap.
[0:29:49 – 0:29:50] Adam: That 10 seed.
[0:29:50 – 0:29:51] Adam: The first matchup.
[0:29:51 – 0:29:51] Adam: Ferocious.
[0:29:52 – 0:29:53] Adam: It’s our last hope.
[0:29:53 – 0:29:54] Erik: It’s our last hope.
[0:29:56 – 0:29:58] Erik: for a real Cinderella story to continue on.
[0:29:59 – 0:30:06] Erik: We don’t have all four number ones left, but we do still have a ten seed in the tournament in the Rat L Traps.
[0:30:06 – 0:30:08] Erik: It’s been a magical run for them.
[0:30:08 – 0:30:14] Erik: I’d love them to see it continue, but hard time believing that they’re going to go down against X-Rap.
[0:30:14 – 0:30:15] Erik: Heavy favorites.
[0:30:15 – 0:30:22] Erik: We’ve been talking about this team for years, even before the idea of the tournament was even a concept.
[0:30:22 – 0:30:23] Erik: That’s true.
[0:30:23 – 0:30:25] Erik: This team has been on our radar.
[0:30:26 – 0:30:31] Erik: And it looks like X-Rap is going to move past Rattletrap.
[0:30:31 – 0:30:36] Erik: Unfortunately, the magical ride, the miracle run ends 28-16.
[0:30:36 – 0:30:37] Erik: 28-16.
[0:30:37 – 0:30:38] Erik: Yeah.
[0:30:38 – 0:30:44] Adam: Yeah, we got the dedicated crew of voters here still with us going into the Final Four.
[0:30:45 – 0:30:46] Adam: Yeah.
[0:30:47 – 0:30:50] Adam: That’s not as many fish as I would have thought would be caught in this matchup.
[0:30:51 – 0:30:53] Adam: I don’t think it qualifies as a slobber knocker.
[0:30:54 – 0:30:56] Adam: What qualifies as a slobber knocker?
[0:30:56 – 0:30:57] Adam: Anything more than 50 fish caught.
[0:30:58 – 0:30:58] Erik: Okay.
[0:30:58 – 0:30:59] Erik: By either team.
[0:30:59 – 0:31:00] Adam: Oh, by either.
[0:31:00 – 0:31:00] Adam: Yeah.
[0:31:01 – 0:31:04] Adam: Or more than 70 fish caught by both teams combined.
[0:31:04 – 0:31:06] Adam: Then you’re into a slobber knocker.
[0:31:06 – 0:31:08] Erik: Well, they did their first round.
[0:31:08 – 0:31:11] Erik: The Raddell Traps did defeat the Skerritt’s Nymph 55 to 15.
[0:31:12 – 0:31:14] Erik: Barely squeaked out a one.
[0:31:16 – 0:31:20] Erik: Fish victory over the Senko, 33-32.
[0:31:20 – 0:31:25] Erik: And then same story in the Sweet 16, beating the Mets Cyclops by one vote.
[0:31:25 – 0:31:28] Erik: Back-to-back one fish slash vote victories.
[0:31:28 – 0:31:32] Adam: We’ve never seen anything like that before in a Tumble tournament, and we probably never will again in June.
[0:31:32 – 0:31:34] Erik: Yeah, no, we had not.
[0:31:34 – 0:31:39] Erik: And they will go down in history as buzzer beater darlings.
[0:31:39 – 0:31:41] Adam: Those rats were squeaking.
[0:31:42 – 0:31:46] Erik: They won’t go down in history as a Final Four team.
[0:31:48 – 0:31:55] Adam: I’ll tell you what, we all thought maybe we were going to see magic with that Sumatran bamboo rat shaking that big rattles over there by the lighthouse.
[0:31:56 – 0:32:04] Adam: I saw a meme in which Rat L. Trapp was being cast off the lighthouse in Grand Marais.
[0:32:04 – 0:32:06] Adam: A very impressive animated meme.
[0:32:08 – 0:32:09] Adam: I’m being told that those are called a gif.
[0:32:10 – 0:32:17] Adam: And I thought maybe that indicated that I’d been spoiled and that somehow the rat L trap had actually caught more fish than the X rap.
[0:32:17 – 0:32:27] Adam: But, uh, it looks like they, they had a really good first half and then, uh, that the X rap just overwhelmed them in the second half with that Twitch approach.
[0:32:27 – 0:32:33] Erik: Yeah, it’s sad to see when the magic kind of dies in the whole run of a tournament like this.
[0:32:34 – 0:32:38] Erik: And it always inevitably does happen, but… Yeah.
[0:32:38 – 0:32:42] Adam: Coach Chrome Blue there for the Raddell Traps should be very proud of that team.
[0:32:43 – 0:32:48] Adam: And I’m sure everybody who voted for the Raddell Traps in this tournament is also proud, but…
[0:32:48 – 0:32:57] Adam: Yeah, Hot Blue Frost and Glass Ghost were just way too much on the X-Wraps in that second half, just pouring it on with fish after fish.
[0:32:58 – 0:33:00] Adam: And, yeah, Fire Tiger UV got in there.
[0:33:00 – 0:33:04] Adam: It was kind of some clouds moved in in the second half, and Fire Tiger UV just was…
[0:33:06 – 0:33:07] Adam: throwing them down from range.
[0:33:08 – 0:33:11] Adam: You can cast those X-Rap a country mile and a half.
[0:33:11 – 0:33:12] Erik: You wouldn’t think so, but you can.
[0:33:12 – 0:33:15] Adam: Yeah, they’re just the right shape and just the right amount of density.
[0:33:15 – 0:33:18] Erik: They got those little internal beads.
[0:33:20 – 0:33:21] Adam: Yeah, this is an all-beaded final.
[0:33:23 – 0:33:27] Adam: Some clacking, some rattling, but the Raps take out the Rats.
[0:33:28 – 0:33:30] Adam: And that’s the end of that story, Jim.
[0:33:30 – 0:33:31] Adam: Raps over the Rats.
[0:33:32 – 0:33:33] Erik: We’ve got one of four…
[0:33:34 – 0:33:36] Erik: Final four teams, the X-Raps.
[0:33:37 – 0:33:39] Erik: No real surprise here.
[0:33:40 – 0:33:40] Erik: Not for me.
[0:33:40 – 0:33:43] Erik: We’d be shocked if they wouldn’t have made it in.
[0:33:43 – 0:33:51] Adam: The tail of the walleye is still missing here at the Beaver House, and some say they should look in the basement, but nobody’s been brave enough to go down there.
[0:33:52 – 0:33:55] Erik: Where are the finals when we get there?
[0:33:55 – 0:33:56] Adam: Where is that being played?
[0:33:56 – 0:33:57] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:33:57 – 0:34:01] Adam: We’re going to have to take a break and go down to the porch and consult with the committee.
[0:34:02 – 0:34:04] Erik: Cabela’s World Headquarters in Ogallala, Nebraska?
[0:34:04 – 0:34:05] Erik: Once we get her down.
[0:34:07 – 0:34:11] Adam: Roley and Helen’s Muskie Shop in Monaco, Wisconsin had put in a very strong bid.
[0:34:11 – 0:34:12] Adam: I know that for a fact.
[0:34:12 – 0:34:13] Erik: Yeah.
[0:34:13 – 0:34:17] Adam: And they probably got the largest selection of lures north of Wausau.
[0:34:17 – 0:34:18] Erik: Maybe we should have another.
[0:34:19 – 0:34:21] Erik: That’s pretty special.
[0:34:21 – 0:34:27] Erik: Maybe we should have another full tournament of locations to determine who gets to host the finals.
[0:34:27 – 0:34:28] Adam: Wow, there we go.
[0:34:28 – 0:34:28] Adam: 64 bait chops.
[0:34:31 – 0:34:35] Adam: Then we’ll also throw in all 52 weeks of the year into this tournament.
[0:34:35 – 0:34:38] Adam: It’s a tournament of both time and space.
[0:34:38 – 0:34:39] Adam: Yes, exactly.
[0:34:40 – 0:34:51] Adam: But for now, we’re just going to make sure we at least get to the Final Four before we add in any location sub-tournaments here or time sub-categories.
[0:34:51 – 0:34:55] Adam: We don’t want to upset Matthew McConaughey or…
[0:34:56 – 0:35:00] Erik: Or any entities that might be in the bottom of a trench.
[0:35:01 – 0:35:01] Adam: Please.
[0:35:02 – 0:35:06] Adam: Next up, we’re moving on.
[0:35:06 – 0:35:15] Adam: We have one team into the final floor, and we’re about to find out in this one versus two matchups coming at you from Scoobies in Ely, Minnesota.
[0:35:15 – 0:35:19] Adam: It’s a fine place with very fine people, I’m told.
[0:35:21 – 0:35:25] Adam: We have the number one seed, Little Cleo, versus another Rapala entry here.
[0:35:25 – 0:35:29] Adam: It’s the number two seed, Husky Jerk.
[0:35:30 – 0:35:30] Adam: What a matchup.
[0:35:31 – 0:35:37] Adam: This is one where I’m glad I’m not voting anymore because I don’t know if I can handle this.
[0:35:37 – 0:35:38] Adam: Am I just scrolling down here, Jim?
[0:35:39 – 0:35:39] Erik: Yes, you are.
[0:35:41 – 0:36:00] Adam: uh we want to go through some of the ways they got here maybe before we give them the results little cleo’s i’m going off the the big board here little cleo’s demolished amos’s hand made tin spoon in the first round and then took out the beetle spin in round two and in the sweet 16
[0:36:02 – 0:36:08] Adam: Just barely got by the jointed shad wrap, 32-30, to secure their place here in the finals at Scooby’s.
[0:36:08 – 0:36:09] Erik: I forgot how close that one was.
[0:36:09 – 0:36:10] Adam: I did, too.
[0:36:10 – 0:36:15] Adam: I thought they had more going there, but that was just a good back-and-forth matchup.
[0:36:15 – 0:36:21] Adam: The husky jerk down there, the two-seed, had originally taken out, of course, the spotted porcupine liver.
[0:36:21 – 0:36:22] Adam: Gross.
[0:36:22 – 0:36:25] Adam: Which they boiled it and boiled it and eventually beat it 62-10.
[0:36:25 – 0:36:25] Adam: Yeah.
[0:36:28 – 0:36:31] Adam: chewed it up, spit it back in the drink.
[0:36:31 – 0:36:32] Erik: Boiling it.
[0:36:32 – 0:36:34] Adam: Husky Jerk took down the Lazy Ikes.
[0:36:35 – 0:36:38] Adam: The 10 seed didn’t even get 10 points in that matchup.
[0:36:38 – 0:36:39] Adam: There’s a slobber knocker.
[0:36:39 – 0:36:41] Adam: 53-9 over the Lazy Ike.
[0:36:42 – 0:36:44] Adam: And collector’s item, sure.
[0:36:46 – 0:36:50] Adam: Team that had any chance in this tournament, absolutely not.
[0:36:51 – 0:36:52] Adam: And then finally…
[0:36:52 – 0:37:04] Adam: This is a really intriguing matchup that should have been closer probably, but they took out the Blue Fox Vibrex 38-26 in the Sweet 16 to make it here in this finals here at Scoobies in Ely.
[0:37:05 – 0:37:06] Adam: Yeah, that…
[0:37:08 – 0:37:12] Adam: Kirsa, I work with at the co-op on my side job.
[0:37:12 – 0:37:16] Adam: You know, I’m a sports commentator and broadcaster first.
[0:37:16 – 0:37:17] Adam: Of course.
[0:37:17 – 0:37:18] Adam: Grocer on the side.
[0:37:18 – 0:37:19] Adam: Yes.
[0:37:19 – 0:37:25] Adam: And Kirsa brought in a whole tackle box from Grandpa Ron that she’d gotten her hands on.
[0:37:25 – 0:37:28] Adam: And she’s like, you want to check these looters out?
[0:37:28 – 0:37:29] Adam: I was like, hell yeah.
[0:37:29 – 0:37:34] Adam: There was like a whole box of just Rapalas, which I think I was just like, Jesus Christ.
[0:37:34 – 0:37:35] Adam: Yeah.
[0:37:35 – 0:37:43] Adam: Just constantly, every time I open a new box, there’s just hundreds and hundreds of dollars of just mint-conditioned lures.
[0:37:43 – 0:37:45] Erik: Original, like actual wood Rapalas.
[0:37:46 – 0:37:49] Adam: Yeah, but then I opened one up, and there was one Lazy Ike in there.
[0:37:49 – 0:37:50] Adam: Oh, nice.
[0:37:50 – 0:37:52] Adam: And I said, wow, a Lazy Ike.
[0:37:52 – 0:37:54] Adam: And everybody in the office was just like, huh?
[0:37:54 – 0:37:58] Adam: It’s like, it’s an incredible collector’s item and also a 10 seed in the learnament.
[0:37:58 – 0:37:59] Adam: None of you paying attention?
[0:37:59 – 0:38:00] Adam: They got shellacked.
[0:38:00 – 0:38:01] Adam: I stormed out of there.
[0:38:02 – 0:38:02] Adam: Yeah.
[0:38:03 – 0:38:03] Erik: Good.
[0:38:03 – 0:38:07] Adam: I took my big foam finger, and I stormed out of the office to go back to serious grocery.
[0:38:08 – 0:38:09] Adam: Yeah.
[0:38:09 – 0:38:10] Erik: Ripped the finger off.
[0:38:10 – 0:38:12] Adam: I also did.
[0:38:12 – 0:38:13] Adam: It was a fist?
[0:38:13 – 0:38:13] Adam: Yeah.
[0:38:14 – 0:38:20] Adam: Yeah, she was gracious enough to let me stuff a few lures into the foam finger before I left.
[0:38:20 – 0:38:21] Adam: So I grabbed…
[0:38:22 – 0:38:23] Adam: I definitely…
[0:38:23 – 0:38:26] Adam: I said, you keep the Lazy Ike.
[0:38:26 – 0:38:31] Adam: You can probably auction that off for upwards of $100 on eBay or Timu.
[0:38:31 – 0:38:35] Adam: And then I did score a couple Rat L Traps, though.
[0:38:35 – 0:38:36] Adam: Pretty nice-looking ones.
[0:38:36 – 0:38:38] Adam: And a couple Mep Spinners, although…
[0:38:39 – 0:38:46] Adam: Although the MEP spinners are not going to be on tonight’s show, I still feel like it’s a high-quality option for anybody going on a Bonderos trip.
[0:38:46 – 0:38:55] Adam: And I was watching a video on steelheads, and I think there’s some options if I go with a single hook on some of these bigger MEP spinners.
[0:38:55 – 0:39:01] Adam: I think this could be an option during high-water phase to cover a lot of ground and maybe just put one right in front of a big steelhead mouth.
[0:39:02 – 0:39:05] Erik: Look at this Zulu rig over here if you’re thinking you want to.
[0:39:05 – 0:39:06] Adam: I don’t think it’s got enough weight, though, Jim.
[0:39:07 – 0:39:08] Adam: Oh.
[0:39:08 – 0:39:09] Adam: No.
[0:39:09 – 0:39:10] Adam: We’re sorry.
[0:39:10 – 0:39:14] Adam: Zulu rigs are great for all situations and flow types.
[0:39:14 – 0:39:15] Adam: All right.
[0:39:15 – 0:39:16] Adam: Moving on to the finals here.
[0:39:16 – 0:39:18] Adam: We’ve got the Little Cleo going up against the Husky Jerk.
[0:39:18 – 0:39:19] Adam: What do you think?
[0:39:20 – 0:39:25] Erik: I mean, if it turns out to be X-Rap versus Little Cleo, it’s going to be.
[0:39:25 – 0:39:27] Adam: And the Little Cleo is through.
[0:39:28 – 0:39:32] Erik: Ooh, number one seed is going on through versus the one seed.
[0:39:34 – 0:39:38] Adam: We got 27 votes for the little Cleo, and it looks like 16 votes there for the Husky Jerk.
[0:39:39 – 0:39:39] Adam: Is that the exact same?
[0:39:41 – 0:39:43] Adam: Split is the top one?
[0:39:43 – 0:39:45] Adam: 16 to 28.
[0:39:46 – 0:39:48] Erik: 28 to 16, 27 to 16.
[0:39:48 – 0:39:49] Adam: Neither of these are slobberknockers.
[0:39:49 – 0:39:51] Adam: This is what you get in the Elite Eight.
[0:39:51 – 0:39:53] Erik: One of the votes is not the exact same.
[0:39:53 – 0:39:56] Adam: Not in terms of actual scores, but totals.
[0:39:56 – 0:39:58] Adam: Somebody decided to… Ah, just the one.
[0:39:58 – 0:40:03] Adam: I only care about the X-Rap.
[0:40:03 – 0:40:06] Adam: They’re not splitting their ballot or whatever.
[0:40:06 – 0:40:06] Adam: There’s…
[0:40:07 – 0:40:07] Adam: Yep.
[0:40:07 – 0:40:08] Adam: I’m just voting for my boys.
[0:40:08 – 0:40:08] Adam: Yeah, that’s right.
[0:40:09 – 0:40:09] Adam: That’s what I care about.
[0:40:09 – 0:40:10] Adam: I’m out of here.
[0:40:10 – 0:40:11] Adam: I’m going to get in and get out.
[0:40:12 – 0:40:12] Adam: Yeah.
[0:40:13 – 0:40:14] Adam: So, yeah, pretty good, though.
[0:40:14 – 0:40:14] Adam: Neither side.
[0:40:14 – 0:40:16] Adam: These are both high-quality teams.
[0:40:17 – 0:40:21] Adam: They’re good two-way players and lures on these teams that can cover a lot of ground.
[0:40:22 – 0:40:28] Adam: So, going into the Final Four from the West, we have the X-Rap versus the Little Cleo.
[0:40:29 – 0:40:30] Adam: Holy moly hot dog.
[0:40:31 – 0:40:36] Erik: Do we want to move over to the East or continue and see who’s in the finals first?
[0:40:36 – 0:40:38] Erik: It seems like it would make sense to get our final four.
[0:40:38 – 0:40:41] Adam: Yeah, let’s go back over to the East now and find out what the final four is going to be.
[0:40:41 – 0:40:42] Adam: Yeah, let’s do that.
[0:40:44 – 0:41:06] Adam: holy moly uh yeah that husky jerk team that juicy lucy uh had a really good second half in the sweet 16 and they just kept going uh for the husky jerks scoring big time in this game helsinki shad was really good this uh this matchup too and yeah little cleo’s uh you know
[0:41:08 – 0:41:33] Adam: they’re just always bombing their cast you know yeah cast so far with that little cleo just glow wonder bread and dark anchovy are just uh pretty much unstoppable right now so we got a really really that’s a guaranteed i guess when you get a matchup like little cleo versus x-rap it’s a guaranteed slobber knocker no matter what the score or fish caught is at that point because yeah it’s gonna be close i i have a feeling that one’s gonna be real tight
[0:41:34 – 0:41:34] Erik: It’s going to have to be.
[0:41:34 – 0:41:36] Adam: All right, we’re moving up to the east.
[0:41:36 – 0:41:39] Adam: We’re going to Voyager, Bait and Tackle, and Atakokan.
[0:41:40 – 0:41:40] Adam: Of course we are.
[0:41:40 – 0:41:41] Adam: Is that correct?
[0:41:41 – 0:41:42] Adam: Yes, it’s correct.
[0:41:42 – 0:41:43] Erik: Yeah, we got the OG.
[0:41:43 – 0:41:48] Erik: The OG, Grandpa’s Original, made of balsa.
[0:41:49 – 0:41:51] Erik: Going up against the Shad Wrap.
[0:41:52 – 0:41:53] Erik: It’s the old versus the new.
[0:41:53 – 0:41:54] Erik: A three versus a four.
[0:41:55 – 0:41:56] Erik: Rappala, inter…
[0:41:57 – 0:41:59] Erik: Conference battle here.
[0:41:59 – 0:42:00] Erik: Inter or intra?
[0:42:00 – 0:42:01] Erik: I’m not sure.
[0:42:01 – 0:42:04] Erik: It’s intra.
[0:42:04 – 0:42:04] Erik: Intra.
[0:42:04 – 0:42:06] Erik: Intrable.
[0:42:06 – 0:42:07] UNKNOWN: Intrable.
[0:42:08 – 0:42:08] Erik: All right.
[0:42:09 – 0:42:14] Erik: The OG wrap taking out the number one seed in last week’s matchup.
[0:42:15 – 0:42:21] Erik: Taking out the big dogs and they will be moving on past the three seed shad wraps.
[0:42:21 – 0:42:23] Erik: A little bit of a squeaker though.
[0:42:23 – 0:42:23] Erik: 23 to 20.
[0:42:23 – 0:42:23] Erik: 23 to 20.
[0:42:23 – 0:42:24] Erik: Hee hee hee.
[0:42:29 – 0:42:52] Adam: silver and black is so steady uh just perfect action on every cast and eventually that kind of consistency just you know wear your opponent down yeah shad wraps have a really impressive lineup though i’m i’m pretty surprised to see him go i believe i made him my lock of the week three weeks in a row now and three weeks in a row your lock of the week has failed
[0:42:53 – 0:42:54] Adam: No, they won last week.
[0:42:54 – 0:42:57] Adam: So I’ve been riding the Team Shadrap every week.
[0:42:57 – 0:42:57] Adam: Until now.
[0:42:57 – 0:42:59] Adam: And I locked them in this week again.
[0:43:00 – 0:43:05] Adam: And just goes to show you that any given week, anything can happen.
[0:43:05 – 0:43:06] Adam: That was a real close one, though.
[0:43:06 – 0:43:08] Erik: Eventually, you’ve got to get off the ride.
[0:43:09 – 0:43:09] Adam: Exactly, though.
[0:43:09 – 0:43:14] Adam: But damn, they got some really, really talented lures on that team.
[0:43:14 – 0:43:15] Erik: They’re not going anywhere.
[0:43:15 – 0:43:16] Adam: They’re not going anywhere.
[0:43:16 – 0:43:16] Adam: We’ll be back.
[0:43:16 – 0:43:21] Adam: Antifreeze is out again for this matchup with that broken trouble.
[0:43:21 – 0:43:22] Adam: Ben Took.
[0:43:22 – 0:43:23] Adam: Suffered in the second round.
[0:43:23 – 0:43:25] Adam: They never got Antifreeze back, but still.
[0:43:26 – 0:43:35] Adam: Spendy Shades is one of my all-time favorite lures out there in the tournament, and it’s going to be really sad to not see Spendy and the rest of the team there in the final Fleur.
[0:43:36 – 0:43:36] Adam: Fleur?
[0:43:36 – 0:43:41] Erik: Yeah, I mean, lost to a hell of an opponent, though.
[0:43:41 – 0:43:43] Adam: Yeah, you know, the OG.
[0:43:45 – 0:43:52] Adam: They’re just going to show up and play their game every week, and they do what they do extremely well.
[0:43:52 – 0:43:54] Adam: Hard to play against somebody who’s that expert level.
[0:43:56 – 0:44:03] Adam: All right, coming up on the final matchup, we’re going to have one more ticket to the final floor in the yet-to-be-determined location.
[0:44:03 – 0:44:05] Adam: We’re going to start printing merch.
[0:44:06 – 0:44:13] Adam: Then we’re going to start plastering posters all over downtown and all over the tank itself.
[0:44:13 – 0:44:15] Adam: We’re going to start putting posters up on the water.
[0:44:18 – 0:44:19] Adam: Liquid posters.
[0:44:20 – 0:44:23] Adam: We’re going to Northwood’s Bait and Tackle in Cook, Minnesota.
[0:44:25 – 0:44:28] Adam: Cook, Minnesota, you can trust us again.
[0:44:28 – 0:44:29] Adam: For the first time.
[0:44:30 – 0:44:31] Adam: You can trust us now.
[0:44:31 – 0:44:32] Adam: Now.
[0:44:32 – 0:44:34] Adam: Cook, Minnesota, please stop.
[0:44:35 – 0:44:36] Adam: Please.
[0:44:37 – 0:44:41] Adam: We have the jig and curly twisty tail combo, soft plastic.
[0:44:41 – 0:44:51] Adam: They’re carrying the banner of all the Zulu regs out there and the aggrieved soft plastic fans, and the versatility is unmatched, obviously.
[0:44:52 – 0:44:52] Adam: Agreed.
[0:44:52 – 0:44:55] Adam: We joke, but there’s more combinations available to that team.
[0:44:55 – 0:44:59] Adam: Their bench is as deep as it goes.
[0:44:59 – 0:45:01] Erik: The combinations are endless.
[0:45:01 – 0:45:04] Adam: Endless combinations, and they are the one seed for a reason.
[0:45:06 – 0:45:15] Adam: They stormed their way to this point, taking out the cooked bratwurst in round one, the Wally Diver in round two, and…
[0:45:17 – 0:45:19] Adam: Knocking out the stick of dynamite.
[0:45:20 – 0:45:27] Adam: They just wiggled and twisted all over that wick until it was dampened and extinguished.
[0:45:28 – 0:45:29] Adam: 43-19, Jim.
[0:45:31 – 0:45:33] Adam: And they are, of course, going up against the Daredevil.
[0:45:33 – 0:45:35] Adam: It’s another big spoon entry.
[0:45:37 – 0:45:42] Adam: Daredevil made some pretty quick work of that Dr. Juice’s helicopter lure in round one.
[0:45:44 – 0:45:46] Adam: Took out the Jitterbug in a real slobber knocker in round two.
[0:45:47 – 0:46:03] Adam: And then had really no problem with Dr. Berkley’s flicker shed and the Sweet 16 winning 42-19 to arrive here at the Elite Eight in Cook, Minnesota, where dreams are being considered.
[0:46:03 – 0:46:05] Adam: Dreams are being formed.
[0:46:06 – 0:46:07] Adam: Think about it.
[0:46:07 – 0:46:10] Adam: Cook, Minnesota, future home of another quick trip.
[0:46:11 – 0:46:11] Erik: Yeah.
[0:46:12 – 0:46:13] Erik: Goodbye.
[0:46:13 – 0:46:15] Erik: Goodbye, Northwood’s bait and tackle.
[0:46:15 – 0:46:17] Erik: Holiday station store.
[0:46:17 – 0:46:18] Adam: This is your swan song.
[0:46:19 – 0:46:20] Adam: Wait, what?
[0:46:21 – 0:46:23] Adam: Nobody told us.
[0:46:23 – 0:46:24] Adam: News to me.
[0:46:24 – 0:46:25] Adam: We just bought a whole new shipment.
[0:46:26 – 0:46:29] Erik: Well, you’re going to have to offload that on eBay or something.
[0:46:31 – 0:46:31] Adam: All right.
[0:46:31 – 0:46:34] Adam: We’re going on to find it out right now.
[0:46:34 – 0:46:35] Adam: Oh, my gosh.
[0:46:35 – 0:46:36] Adam: Oh, my gosh.
[0:46:36 – 0:46:41] Erik: It’s the jig and the curly tails are through.
[0:46:42 – 0:46:44] Adam: 22 to 20?
[0:46:46 – 0:46:46] Erik: Wow.
[0:46:46 – 0:46:47] Erik: Wow.
[0:46:47 – 0:46:48] Adam: 22 to 20.
[0:46:48 – 0:46:53] Adam: That is a guaranteed slobber knocker of the week.
[0:46:57 – 0:46:58] Erik: What a final four we’ve got.
[0:46:58 – 0:47:02] Erik: I feel like it’s a pretty varied and nice spectrum.
[0:47:02 – 0:47:05] Adam: We got three number one seeds into the final floor here.
[0:47:06 – 0:47:10] Adam: And, of course, the OG wraps, which how the hell were they a four seed anyways?
[0:47:10 – 0:47:11] Adam: That’s insane.
[0:47:11 – 0:47:11] Erik: Well…
[0:47:12 – 0:47:13] Adam: They’re just too steady.
[0:47:14 – 0:47:15] Adam: They’re just too steady.
[0:47:15 – 0:47:16] Adam: They’re not flashy.
[0:47:16 – 0:47:16] Adam: That’s the thing.
[0:47:16 – 0:47:18] Adam: They’re not flashy.
[0:47:18 – 0:47:23] Adam: It’s easy in a very, very talented Rapala conference.
[0:47:24 – 0:47:28] Adam: They just had a couple hiccups in the middle of the season, and that’s all it takes.
[0:47:28 – 0:47:33] Adam: one or two unfortunate losses, and all of a sudden you’re fourth in your conference?
[0:47:34 – 0:47:36] Adam: And that’s how seeds work, folks.
[0:47:36 – 0:47:39] Adam: But, of course, they’re steady for a reason.
[0:47:40 – 0:47:41] Adam: They showed up when it mattered.
[0:47:41 – 0:47:43] Adam: Hand-carved in France.
[0:47:44 – 0:47:47] Adam: They came over here and they took care of business as a four-seed.
[0:47:48 – 0:47:49] Adam: Hand-carved in France.
[0:47:49 – 0:47:50] Adam: Hand-carved in France.
[0:47:53 – 0:47:54] Adam: Hand-carved probably on a submarine.
[0:47:54 – 0:47:54] Adam: Yeah.
[0:47:55 – 0:48:22] Adam: old submarine parts yeah hand carved out of submarine steering wheels does the submarine even have a hand carved i’ve made this lure out of the handle off of a periscope from an old spinnaker yeah this is an incredible final four i think we do need to step away from the microphones and uh buy we got to go over there to the ticket window and buy our tickets to the final floor right now and we’ll be back in just a moment
[0:48:27 – 0:48:48] Adam: we’re back we got the final four it’s all laid out before us we just went and bought ourselves some tickets and we’re heading to winnipeg that’s where the final four and finals are at big timer here we’re going to the fishing hall out there in the transconia transcona district
[0:48:50 – 0:48:51] Adam: Eastside of Winnipeg there.
[0:48:51 – 0:48:52] Erik: Eastside.
[0:48:52 – 0:48:54] Adam: Out in the French district there.
[0:48:54 – 0:48:54] Adam: Westside.
[0:48:55 – 0:48:57] Erik: That’s where you find the finest of poutines.
[0:48:57 – 0:49:01] Adam: That’s the finest poutines in Winnipeg and the finest lures.
[0:49:02 – 0:49:08] Adam: And they’ll be hosting our Final Four and Championship matchups.
[0:49:08 – 0:49:12] Adam: Fun fact, Dustin Bufflin, all-time great defender for the Jets.
[0:49:13 – 0:49:18] Adam: Is the assistant manager here at the fishing hall and also their head lure buyer.
[0:49:19 – 0:49:19] Erik: Yeah.
[0:49:19 – 0:49:21] Adam: Which is a pretty prestigious title here at the fishing hall.
[0:49:21 – 0:49:23] Adam: They do a lot of transactions.
[0:49:23 – 0:49:24] Adam: A lot of business here.
[0:49:24 – 0:49:27] Erik: Top secret fishing hole knowledge haver.
[0:49:27 – 0:49:27] Erik: Yeah.
[0:49:27 – 0:49:27] Erik: Yeah.
[0:49:28 – 0:49:30] Erik: He’s out there on Lake Winnipeg.
[0:49:30 – 0:49:31] Erik: Every opportunity he gets.
[0:49:32 – 0:49:33] Erik: Blue walleye.
[0:49:34 – 0:49:35] Erik: Blue walleye.
[0:49:35 – 0:49:35] Erik: It’s his goal.
[0:49:37 – 0:49:37] Erik: They taste the best.
[0:49:38 – 0:49:39] Adam: They taste the best.
[0:49:40 – 0:49:44] Adam: And yeah, he also roughs them up a little bit.
[0:49:44 – 0:49:45] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:49:45 – 0:49:46] Erik: You always got to rough them up a little bit.
[0:49:46 – 0:49:47] Adam: Just to show them who’s boss.
[0:49:49 – 0:49:50] Adam: Dustin, he’s the boss.
[0:49:50 – 0:49:53] Adam: So thanks for hosting Dustin Bufflin.
[0:49:53 – 0:49:55] Adam: Unbelievable where this show has taken us, Jim.
[0:49:56 – 0:49:57] Adam: Unbelievable indeed.
[0:49:57 – 0:49:58] Adam: To hanging out.
[0:49:59 – 0:50:02] Adam: Started out, you know, humble podcast.
[0:50:03 – 0:50:08] Adam: Now it’s a whole sports network, and we’re hanging out with Dustin Bufflin in his garage in Winnipeg.
[0:50:08 – 0:50:09] Adam: This is absolutely insane.
[0:50:09 – 0:50:10] Erik: Yeah.
[0:50:10 – 0:50:11] Adam: So thank you, Dustin.
[0:50:12 – 0:50:13] Erik: Thank you.
[0:50:14 – 0:50:19] Erik: We only have two more matchups to cover this week, and then it’ll all be down in the finals.
[0:50:19 – 0:50:22] Adam: They’re open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day.
[0:50:22 – 0:50:22] Adam: That’s insane.
[0:50:22 – 0:50:23] Adam: Except for Sunday.
[0:50:23 – 0:50:25] Adam: Close.
[0:50:25 – 0:50:26] Adam: No, they’re only open 10 to 4.
[0:50:26 – 0:50:26] Adam: Oh.
[0:50:27 – 0:50:29] Adam: Call ahead there on Region Avenue.
[0:50:29 – 0:50:31] Adam: You’re going to want to call ahead.
[0:50:32 – 0:50:34] Adam: I’m not giving out their phone number, but you can go look it up.
[0:50:34 – 0:50:35] Erik: That’s fine.
[0:50:35 – 0:50:36] Erik: Nobody call.
[0:50:37 – 0:50:38] Erik: Is Dustin there?
[0:50:39 – 0:50:40] Adam: Can I talk to Buff?
[0:50:40 – 0:50:42] Adam: I want to talk to Big Buff.
[0:50:44 – 0:50:45] Adam: Oh, man.
[0:50:47 – 0:50:48] Adam: What are we going to start with here, Jim?
[0:50:48 – 0:50:50] Erik: Back over to the west.
[0:50:50 – 0:50:52] Adam: Going to the west side right away.
[0:50:52 – 0:50:54] Erik: Start where we left off.
[0:50:55 – 0:50:56] Adam: I’m pretty nervous about this one.
[0:50:59 – 0:51:03] Erik: We got the number one versus the number one.
[0:51:03 – 0:51:04] Erik: The showdown.
[0:51:04 – 0:51:06] Adam: There can only be one, though.
[0:51:06 – 0:51:07] Erik: Wow.
[0:51:07 – 0:51:08] Erik: There can only be one.
[0:51:09 – 0:51:10] Erik: Another.
[0:51:11 – 0:51:13] Erik: This has been a tournament of close matchups.
[0:51:13 – 0:51:14] Erik: Yeah.
[0:51:14 – 0:51:15] Erik: 23 to 21. Who?
[0:51:18 – 0:51:20] Erik: X-Rap in the finals.
[0:51:20 – 0:51:22] Erik: X-Rap puts down the spoons.
[0:51:22 – 0:51:23] Erik: Wow.
[0:51:24 – 0:51:24] Erik: Little Cleo.
[0:51:25 – 0:51:25] Erik: What a run.
[0:51:26 – 0:51:26] Erik: What a run.
[0:51:26 – 0:51:28] Adam: We’re all proud of you.
[0:51:28 – 0:51:29] Erik: Very proud.
[0:51:29 – 0:51:31] Erik: Only going down by two.
[0:51:31 – 0:51:32] Erik: I feel like that could have gotten either way.
[0:51:33 – 0:51:34] Erik: Wow, that was so close.
[0:51:34 – 0:51:36] Erik: Just think, if we would have gotten involved, throwing a vote down.
[0:51:36 – 0:51:37] Adam: I know.
[0:51:37 – 0:51:40] Adam: I was going through some old lures this morning.
[0:51:40 – 0:51:47] Adam: uh, Jim and I found one of my old grandpa’s original little Cleo’s, which I’d long since taken the hooks off of.
[0:51:47 – 0:51:52] Adam: And I just had it in the tackle box and, uh, I pulled it out of there and I’m, I don’t know.
[0:51:52 – 0:51:57] Adam: I, I put it in, it’s going to go into a more of a place of honor than just in the back of a tackle box at this point.
[0:51:57 – 0:52:06] Adam: It’s certainly not being thrown in the lake and, uh, holding that lure, um, in my hand this morning brought back a lot of fond memories, uh,
[0:52:06 – 0:52:12] Adam: But it also brings fond memories of catching 23 fish instead of 20 fish.
[0:52:13 – 0:52:14] Adam: Yeah.
[0:52:14 – 0:52:16] Adam: And caught a lot of fish on the X-Rap.
[0:52:18 – 0:52:19] Erik: Newer memories.
[0:52:20 – 0:52:24] Adam: New memories are being formed every day on the water with every cast you make.
[0:52:24 – 0:52:25] Adam: Yeah.
[0:52:25 – 0:52:27] Adam: And so we got to keep that in mind.
[0:52:29 – 0:52:31] Adam: Much like staring into the abyss, the memories are…
[0:52:33 – 0:52:37] Adam: would make the character of an individual in the bottom of a trench.
[0:52:37 – 0:52:39] Adam: Moving on to the east.
[0:52:39 – 0:52:42] Erik: We’re going to find out who takes on X-Rap in the finals.
[0:52:42 – 0:52:43] Erik: It’s all happening.
[0:52:43 – 0:52:43] Erik: We’re here.
[0:52:44 – 0:52:45] Adam: I am ready.
[0:52:45 – 0:52:46] Adam: Dustin, we’re going to wait on that.
[0:52:48 – 0:52:49] Adam: The poutine will wait on five minutes.
[0:52:49 – 0:52:50] Adam: Hold on.
[0:52:50 – 0:52:50] Adam: five minutes.
[0:52:51 – 0:52:52] Adam: Thank you for your prompt service.
[0:52:53 – 0:52:56] Erik: Uh, you could probably crash, uh, crack me a bush light.
[0:52:56 – 0:52:57] Erik: We’ll take it.
[0:52:57 – 0:52:59] Adam: We’ll each take a couple, uh, Molson’s.
[0:53:00 – 0:53:00] Adam: Yeah.
[0:53:00 – 0:53:03] Adam: Please bring the, yeah, we need the Alexander Keith’s please.
[0:53:03 – 0:53:04] Erik: No, no Alexander Keith’s.
[0:53:05 – 0:53:05] Adam: Oh my God.
[0:53:05 – 0:53:05] Adam: No.
[0:53:06 – 0:53:06] Adam: All right.
[0:53:07 – 0:53:17] Adam: Uh, on the, on the East, we got the OG floating Rapala with a hand carved balsam wood and paint job versus the jig and curly twisty tail combo.
[0:53:18 – 0:53:19] Adam: And, uh,
[0:53:20 – 0:53:21] Adam: Oh, boy.
[0:53:23 – 0:53:24] Adam: What am I looking at?
[0:53:25 – 0:53:29] Adam: I think it looks to me like, yes, it’s close.
[0:53:29 – 0:53:30] Adam: It’s coming down to the buzzer.
[0:53:32 – 0:53:37] Adam: The jig and curly tail combo has won it on a last-second smallmouth bass.
[0:53:37 – 0:53:39] Adam: No, it’s in the net.
[0:53:39 – 0:53:40] Adam: It’s a blue walleye.
[0:53:40 – 0:53:41] Adam: It’s a blue walleye.
[0:53:42 – 0:53:43] Adam: Jim.
[0:53:43 – 0:53:45] Adam: This is incredible.
[0:53:45 – 0:53:45] Erik: Take a look at this thing.
[0:53:46 – 0:53:47] Erik: Dreams do come true.
[0:53:48 – 0:53:50] Adam: Buff is on the net, actually.
[0:53:50 – 0:53:50] Adam: Thank you.
[0:53:50 – 0:53:54] Adam: He put the poutine down, and Big Buff got the net on that hog.
[0:53:54 – 0:53:55] Adam: It’s in the net.
[0:53:56 – 0:53:56] Adam: Wow.
[0:53:56 – 0:53:58] Adam: Soft plastics have been redeemed.
[0:53:58 – 0:54:02] Adam: The Sankos in the crowd are going wild.
[0:54:02 – 0:54:04] Adam: I see the Zulu ring over there.
[0:54:04 – 0:54:05] Adam: It’s covered in gravy.
[0:54:05 – 0:54:12] Erik: I’m very happy with this result because I think X-Rap going up against the OG Rapala would have been an odd final.
[0:54:12 – 0:54:13] Adam: That would have been odd.
[0:54:13 – 0:54:20] Adam: We had 18 votes for the Rapala here, and it looked like 25 votes for that jig.
[0:54:20 – 0:54:29] Adam: We still actually can have a public referendum on two very different kinds of lures.
[0:54:29 – 0:54:30] Adam: Yeah, are you going to jig?
[0:54:31 – 0:54:33] Adam: Are you going to twitch the plug?
[0:54:33 – 0:54:35] Erik: Yeah, are you going to cast and retrieve?
[0:54:35 – 0:54:36] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:54:36 – 0:54:43] Erik: The versatility of the X-Wrap, I feel like, is just not to get too far down the road in terms of predictions or anything.
[0:54:44 – 0:54:45] Erik: Versatility of the X-Wrap.
[0:54:46 – 0:54:55] Erik: I feel like that’s why it’s gotten in here, and I feel like that is why it is going to take itself to the top and be the eventual champion of this tournament.
[0:54:55 – 0:54:58] Adam: You’re going to put that as your lock of the week right away?
[0:54:59 – 0:55:00] Erik: If it were me, yeah.
[0:55:01 – 0:55:02] Erik: If it were me choosing between the two.
[0:55:02 – 0:55:06] Adam: If it’s me choosing between the two, I’m also going on the X-Rap.
[0:55:06 – 0:55:11] Erik: But I get why the jig, curly tail.
[0:55:11 – 0:55:14] Erik: I mean, for a name that does not roll off the tongue, it’s hard to say.
[0:55:15 – 0:55:17] Erik: There’s nothing exciting about it, really.
[0:55:17 – 0:55:25] Erik: For them to make it to the finals with all of that going against them really says a lot about how they actually perform well on the court.
[0:55:26 – 0:55:26] Adam: That’s true.
[0:55:26 – 0:55:32] Adam: And for as much as my grandpa liked throwing a little Cleo every once in a while, his main approach was jigging.
[0:55:33 – 0:55:33] Erik: Yeah.
[0:55:34 – 0:55:37] Adam: And not necessarily with a twisty tail.
[0:55:37 – 0:55:42] Adam: You know, we had another team earlier in the tournament, the two-tone crappie tube jig.
[0:55:42 – 0:55:53] Adam: That was more Grandpa Walter’s style, but still, that was his primary approach in fishing, was to drift and jig.
[0:55:53 – 0:55:59] Adam: Now, this, of course, isn’t canoe country down there in Shawano Lake, but…
[0:55:59 – 0:56:01] Erik: Not as snaggy, but still.
[0:56:01 – 0:56:04] Adam: But still, the point stands that that was the primary.
[0:56:04 – 0:56:08] Adam: And then every once in a while when the jigging was slow, it’s like, why don’t we whip around some little Cleos?
[0:56:08 – 0:56:09] Adam: Sure.
[0:56:09 – 0:56:15] Adam: I can’t say that Grandpa ever really threw an X-Rap, but I don’t know if X-Rap was really even a thing back then.
[0:56:15 – 0:56:18] Erik: Probably the closest comparable would just be the OG Rappler.
[0:56:18 – 0:56:18] Erik: There you go.
[0:56:18 – 0:56:21] Adam: So, yeah, I mean, totally two different approaches.
[0:56:21 – 0:56:26] Adam: But when you’re in a canoe, fishing’s a little bit different than when you’re in, like, a big, stable 16-foot one.
[0:56:27 – 0:56:27] Adam: Yep.
[0:56:27 – 0:56:42] Erik: I guess in this lure-nament, if it were in any other lure versus lure situation, I think it would probably be a little bit more of a toss-up.
[0:56:43 – 0:56:54] Erik: But in canoe country, there’s something about the jig that creates more of a snag scenario.
[0:56:54 – 0:56:55] Erik: Yeah.
[0:56:55 – 0:56:59] Erik: And snags in a canoe are about as frustrating as it gets.
[0:56:59 – 0:57:00] Erik: Yeah, no doubt.
[0:57:01 – 0:57:04] Erik: Where you’re putting around on a motorboat, eh, snag, just kick it into reverse.
[0:57:04 – 0:57:05] Erik: We’ll go grab it.
[0:57:05 – 0:57:05] Erik: Yeah.
[0:57:05 – 0:57:08] Erik: You get snagged in a canoe with a little light tailwind.
[0:57:08 – 0:57:10] Erik: Things can go sideways real quick.
[0:57:11 – 0:57:11] Adam: Real quick, yeah.
[0:57:11 – 0:57:12] Adam: It’s a pain in the ass.
[0:57:12 – 0:57:17] Erik: You’re trying to, like, I think it’s over here, and you’re trying to turn, and things are swinging, and the one guy’s got the rod.
[0:57:17 – 0:57:19] Erik: He can’t really help all that much.
[0:57:19 – 0:57:22] Erik: He’s one-armed paddling, trying to get back to the jig.
[0:57:22 – 0:57:24] Adam: Well, that’s the thing, though.
[0:57:24 – 0:57:25] Adam: You know, jig, curly tail.
[0:57:26 – 0:57:27] Adam: You got 50 of them in the box.
[0:57:27 – 0:57:28] Adam: Just put another one on.
[0:57:28 – 0:57:29] Adam: Just snip it.
[0:57:29 – 0:57:29] Adam: Live to fight a gay.
[0:57:29 – 0:57:30] Adam: There you go.
[0:57:31 – 0:57:31] Adam: Live to fight another one.
[0:57:32 – 0:57:35] Erik: And then on the flip side of that, you snag an X-Wrap, though.
[0:57:35 – 0:57:36] Erik: Boy, that’s a heartbreaker.
[0:57:36 – 0:57:37] Erik: I’m here all night until we get that thing out.
[0:57:37 – 0:57:39] Adam: I’m going scuba.
[0:57:39 – 0:57:44] Adam: I’m going to start breathing liquid water to go down to the deeps and get that one back.
[0:57:44 – 0:57:46] Erik: Give me the liquid oxygen tank.
[0:57:46 – 0:57:53] Adam: Call me James Cameron because I’m going down in there and I ain’t coming back until I see that lure looking right back at my face.
[0:57:54 – 0:57:55] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:57:56 – 0:57:57] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:57:57 – 0:57:58] Adam: I love the matchup.
[0:57:59 – 0:58:06] Adam: I can now say that I was personally cheering for Team Little Cleo, and I have been casting.
[0:58:08 – 0:58:14] Adam: I’ve been casting a lot lately, and I’ve been mostly casting a very large Little Cleo, a three-quarter ounce.
[0:58:15 – 0:58:15] Adam: Yeah.
[0:58:15 – 0:58:27] Adam: But the competition isn’t what’s the best lure to throw in the East Bay in April or off Artist Point or in front of the Cadence River mouth.
[0:58:28 – 0:58:36] Adam: The contest is what is the best lure to be fishing out of a canoe in September if you’re on a Boundary Waters trip with a bunch of the youth.
[0:58:36 – 0:58:38] Adam: So let’s keep that in mind.
[0:58:38 – 0:58:44] Adam: What is personally endearing and seared into my own heart matters not.
[0:58:46 – 0:58:58] Adam: While the little Cleo is a great lure and they had a great tournament, sad to see him out, I’m also very excited to see what the voters do with this big matchup here in the championship coming for you from the Fission Hall in Winnipeg.
[0:58:58 – 0:58:59] Adam: It’s a big matchup.
[0:58:59 – 0:59:01] Adam: We’re putting on an extra vat of gravy, of course.
[0:59:02 – 0:59:07] Adam: We’re going to be here all week getting hyped up for this matchup, and we’ll be back with you.
[0:59:07 – 0:59:12] Adam: Next Saturday night, publishing on Sunday, of course, the championship.
[0:59:12 – 0:59:22] Adam: If you don’t want to find out who’s going to win until the actual show broadcasts on Sunday, definitely avoid the subreddit and the Discord because the memes are going to be too hot to avoid.
[0:59:22 – 0:59:29] Erik: I’m leaving it up all week, and voting is going to close right before we record Saturday night.
[0:59:30 – 0:59:31] Adam: There you go, Elyse.
[0:59:31 – 0:59:32] Adam: It’s going to be hard to…
[0:59:32 – 0:59:35] Adam: But even then, people are going to know by Sunday morning.
[0:59:35 – 0:59:36] Adam: Sure.
[0:59:36 – 0:59:37] Adam: So just take it easy.
[0:59:38 – 0:59:39] Adam: Spoilers may be out there.
[0:59:39 – 0:59:42] Adam: People are going to be very excited, as they should be.
[0:59:42 – 0:59:47] Adam: Bufflin’s putting on a great show here, and it’s going to be a wild week here in Winnipeg.
[0:59:47 – 0:59:47] Adam: Yeah.
[0:59:48 – 0:59:49] Adam: Here at the Learnament Championship.
[0:59:49 – 0:59:51] Erik: Can’t wait to spend a week up here.
[0:59:51 – 0:59:51] Adam: Me too.
[0:59:52 – 0:59:56] Adam: I hope we get to go out and do some big fishing, maybe walk around.
[0:59:57 – 0:59:58] Adam: The river is breaking up.
[0:59:58 – 0:59:59] Adam: Yeah, watch the ice go out.
[0:59:59 – 1:00:01] Adam: This is going to be pretty thrilling.
[1:00:02 – 1:00:02] Adam: All right.
[1:00:03 – 1:00:05] Adam: Well, thank you again to everybody who’s participated so far.
[1:00:05 – 1:00:11] Adam: I think we’re going to have to get out of here and kick it over to the boys at the TCC desk.
[1:00:11 – 1:00:18] Adam: I can see them over there, and they look like they’re putting on some sort of diving suit over there, so we’re going to have to get it over to them.
[1:00:19 – 1:00:20] Adam: before they get the bends.
[1:00:21 – 1:00:25] Erik: They’re menacingly nodding at us like Jack Nicholson from Anger Management right now.
[1:00:25 – 1:00:27] Erik: Why are you looking at us like that?
[1:00:27 – 1:00:28] Erik: Jesus!
[1:00:28 – 1:00:31] Erik: These guys look like they’re primed and ready to go.
[1:00:32 – 1:00:33] Adam: All right.
[1:00:33 – 1:00:39] Adam: Thank you, Jim, for Tummelholm Sports Network and Tummelholm, a proud independent podcast.
[1:00:40 – 1:00:43] Adam: This has been episode 287?
[1:00:43 – 1:00:45] Adam: Holy moly, hot dog.
[1:00:46 – 1:00:52] Adam: As we always say, every cast is precious and life is a miracle.
[1:00:53 – 1:00:54] Adam: Good evening.