00:00Oh, that a baby. We got Thursday night football and we have our special guest, Mr. Thomas John Lang joining
00:07us today.
00:08It's a blessed occasion and you're furious about what you've been listening to.
00:15Oh, that I've been trying to listen to. I know. So here's what we're going to do.
00:19We're going to get to Lions football at three o'clock and I promise you we're not going to do
00:23what Cookies did this morning.
00:24He went full Ron Jaworski film study. Brother, it's week two. Jill. Oh, I want to see Drew Scruggs protections.
00:33Okay, Jim. It's week two. We have to talk about what the hell's going on at LCA because the chaos
00:41doesn't stop.
00:42We talked briefly yesterday about Sean Horkoff sitting up there alone. It looked like a hostage video.
00:47But then today from the clouds, you have Dylan Larkin on stage with his GM as a chaperone.
00:58And by the way, never heard injured player talk before. Yeah. Wild.
01:03We have audio, but you've listened to some of it. Do you want David to lay the audio out there
01:07for you uninterrupted?
01:08Yeah, I think that would be better. And then we can kind of break down what we saw, which is
01:13a lot of awkwardness.
01:14Awkward. And by the way, guys, Chris Illich disease has infected Larkin, i.e. I ask you a question and
01:24you provide me gobbledygook.
01:26So here's the symptoms may include gobbledygook, double talk, inane blabbering.
01:33All right, David, just layer these how you want and just give us a short intro for each one.
01:39Appreciative of the editing. You did it before the show. I know it's a pain in the ass.
01:42So Dylan Larkin was asked to start the presser. What triggered the trade request?
02:21Number two, please.
02:23Then he continued. And the question was on if the request still stands.
02:37So I'm going to get this straight. You're asked a very yes or no question.
02:42Do you still want to be traded? Yes or no? We're going to keep that in-house.
02:48Why are you here? Okay, go ahead. Number three.
02:52Okay, number three. So because of everything that has gone on and what's been in the news, he was asked
02:57how his summer went.
02:58We're going to be.
02:59We're going to be.
03:27We're going to be.
03:38then give us answers
03:43man the whole uh do we have more all right finally continue i can't you can't possibly
03:50get any worse right finally we received the news from interim gm sean horkoff yesterday
03:56that he was hurt larkin is so we got an answer on how he got hurt
04:20dj the floor the writing's got to be on the wall right like you could have put a lot and
04:25i
04:26my biggest issue was that was such if you watch the video that was such a awkward press conference
04:34where you've got your former captain disgruntled captain however you want to put it sitting next
04:39to your interim gm who was kind of like butting into every once in a while oh no we talked
04:45about
04:46it it was the whole thing was weird everything's been weird that they've done for the last but
04:50four months now um but for dylan and you can't sit up there and say i'm going to give you
04:57answers
04:57and you guys deserve the truth and i'm going to be transparent and then not plead the fifth on
05:02everything right like basically that's what he well we're gonna you know i'm not ready to talk about
05:07that and i i don't know man it's have you ever heard it's so frustrating injure players don't talk
05:15it's not common it's not common and i never been around an nhl locker room but at least in football
05:22if you're hurt if you're not practicing if you're not participating you don't talk you don't have
05:26media obligations um but for there not to be even like a simple statement of that those are simple
05:34questions and i think dylan could have helped himself if he said that one of the questions was
05:39is there a chance you know that you that you stay here if he would have just said sure there's
05:44a chance
05:44we're having discussions right i want to see what the leadership's going to look like sean and i
05:49you know are kind of working through maybe some of the issues that led up to him having that trade
05:53request we we need some time but sure there's a chance but i can't make any promises but instead
05:59just going down the hole we're going to keep that private everything's private private private but i'm
06:04here to be transparent give you answers but no we're going to keep that private private private that
06:08to me is just it was a waste of time it was a complete waste of time and i think
06:11the opinion i got
06:12out of it is the writings on the wall it's only a matter of time before he's gone i just
06:16i i can't
06:17i can't am i crazy for thinking that i don't think let me say this i don't think you or
06:24anyone else who
06:25calls in with any theory is crazy you could call and tell me they're gonna kissy kissy make nice
06:32you could call and tell me the guy's gonna be traded this afternoon there have been hostages
06:37with a gun pointed to their head reading a ransom note that were more comfortable than dylan larkin
06:43and sean horkoff today i am fine they are treating me well it's just the video was and i can't
06:51show you
06:52the video we're doing radio guys it's worth a watch what do you make of it i think the part
06:58that upsets
06:59me most in all of this is the trade request still valid brother it's a yes or no question
07:06and if the answer is yes you say it if the answer is no you say here's the deal i
07:13made a mistake i
07:14was emotional i i want to be here right and i i need to win the fans of my teammates
07:19but he could
07:20have been a hero but he didn't say that so at that point it's kind of like you know dylan
07:28yourself because i like what are you doing up there that's where i draw my conclusion from
07:32is that there wasn't even an inkling and apparently there's another you know interview that we haven't
07:37gotten to yet uh on on script we're just going off the press conference we saw uh that the red
07:44wings
07:44had put out with horkoff but it could have been very simple just to say guys like okay i'm a
07:50little
07:50banged up right now but i want to get back out here is there a chance i i'm still going
07:53to be
07:53here yes there is a chance we've got things to work on you know everybody obviously knows that
07:59i just that's that felt like a waste of time that felt like a complete waste of time what do
08:04you make
08:04of it guys and i want to keep it open-ended because i again teach i don't think you're crazy
08:08i don't
08:09think if someone calls up and says the opposite everything the red wings have been doing it's like
08:12the new orleans pelicans none of this makes sense at all so now sean horkoff is charged as an
08:18intern look this all goes back to i will go to the grave refusing to believe chris illich's answer
08:24to wojo well you know i uh i wanted to be thorough and the work was already done and you
08:31know we let
08:31steve do the draft and free agency before i informed him i was going to put a bullet in him
08:36okay so you
08:37want me to believe no no i believe somehow in my my fantasy there was a summer slam event
08:44and and something had to happen i'm not going to give specific examples though i have several
08:51brewing in my mind now and i know wojo took he's been taking a beating last couple days but that
08:56they put they put and and listen we all we all read everything and kind of heard everything they put
09:04wojo in a really bad spot they did i mean doing a one-on-one exclusive where i'm sure it
09:09wasn't a
09:10one-on-one because all these guys have pr people and then you're you know you're it's not just him
09:15and and and chris talking there's probably five other people in the room that are you know giving
09:20you that eye if you ask that question but they they put that i thought it was bs that they
09:24put wojo in
09:25that position to be the only person to uh be allowed to ask questions to well they also did a
09:31bad job
09:31because they didn't spot they didn't print his follow-ups right look here's my thing if the
09:37questions weren't predetermined or pre-vetted i can tell you his answers were he his answers
09:44bob could have asked him points yeah filet or ribeye well you know i've always loved the red
09:50wings and i pushed a chair around my backyard rink sir this is wendy's but that was so like i
09:58want to
09:58be fair in that regard i think we're all qualified to be owners of a team if we've all been
10:03to a
10:04when he went to the rink when he went to the beer league hockey line to show you he's passionate
10:09about the red wings i go oh my god i should get in this gm search like yeah i man
10:13i think i might
10:14have a shot i go to the rink every week with my kids tj reminded me of like meet the
10:18parents tj runs
10:19the music for ice time hey it reminded me of meet the parents where it's like i have nipples can
10:25you
10:25milk me oh you've been to a hockey rink cool on your five days a week on your resume does
10:35it say
10:35you you dj your kids games while watching the lions game no we had a mistake we had a mistake
10:43as the kids are playing it's a system of a down blaring yeah my bad it was a big third
10:50down
10:50was watching on the phone sorry rumble rumble but i guess i'm qualified i have a lot of the
10:55same qualifications i never played travel hockey i played beer league but i sure did love it as a kid
11:01that was that was hey chris i had a ziggy palfy jersey at 12 years old can i be a
11:07gm too
11:08two four eight five three nine 97 97 what do you make of the larkin appearance today put on your
11:16tinfoil hat i'm good with it i don't know that any of us will come up with the right answer
11:21we'll get to the lions at three i do have week one overreactions for tj to grade from around the
11:28nfl
11:29should be a lot of them yeah no and again some of them are going to be a little tongue
11:33-in-cheek
11:34but i i i think all of them have the ability for it to say overreaction or not i tried
11:40to really
11:40center these so we'll get to it next 97 one
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