Yo. Welcome into the house of L podcast. I'm Lauren Tombs. Thanks so much for hanging

out here with me. A little special edition of the podcast today. I told you I was gonna

jump in and do some of my acoustic work occasionally, but I wanted to let you know how all of

this stuff came about. Check it out. Lavelle E. Neal, the third is my guest. He's been

on the podcast before. You should actually go back. We talked what last winter, I want

to say he's he's really fascinating. He's Chicago, dude, but he's covered Minneapolis

sports for forever. And I said to Dan, I said, we should get Lavelle on the radio show.

And he's like, yeah, bet. So we were gonna have Lavelle on the radio show on Wednesday,

but he had scheduling conflicts because of the craziness with all of the flight stuff,

the twins, press conference got pushed back. And then he had to go cover the Vikings and

all this stuff. So we didn't get him on. So I hit him up and I said, hey, can I, when can

we get you on? And he's like, I'm free after two o'clock. Well, obviously our radio show

is off the air at two o'clock. So I was like, I'll just talk to him and we'll play a bite

of this on the radio show, but the long formal live here on House of Elf. I am I am fascinated,

fascinated with how Carlos Korea ended up a twin. If for those of you who are trying

to catch up on the story and you're like, wait, what? He initially was going to sign a big

money long term deal with the San Francisco Giants. They didn't like the medicals because

he had an ankle injury. So then it was like, poof, all right, fine. I'm going to sign

with the met and it looked like he was going to be a met for less money than what he was

getting with the Giants. They had some of the same issues with his injury. So then he

was back being a free agent and then poof, like that. Carlos Korea is back in a twins

uniform. I have to get the backstory on this. So I hit up Lavel. I was like, I gotta know,

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