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purple insider at soda stick.com. Oh, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider. It's a Friday roundtable because we're recording it on Friday. Usually we

recorded on Thursday and release it early Friday, but different schedule this week because we had all sorts of

insane news. Matthew Collar, Sam Ekstrom, Brian Murphy is back on the show.

What is up Brian? How are you? Special guest appearance cameo, yes. Good to be here.

Can I just quickly rant and then you guys can react to the rant.

Jim Harbaw gave his first comments to Mitch Album and we assume that these comments are actually true. Sorry, that's a Mitch Album joke.

If you went to journalism school, you get it.

Otherwise, that goes right over your head.

Anyway. Hey, Tuesdays with Mori was legit guys.

So yesterday I was doing the Friday mailbag and half of the

questions were conspiracy theories about why Jim Harbahl was not the coach because on the internet a lot of people have made it their

brand to throw things out there that must be the case if it didn't go their way or if they want to spin it toward the

team being a calamity or if they want to spin it toward the team doing everything

right. I'll give you an example when Stefan Diggs was traded.

We had a bunch of, oh, the guy is a cancer,

he's a bad teammate, all these things on the internet.

It wasn't true.

It was a conflict between Zimmer and Diggs over throwing the ball. That was the reality. With this, it's the Wilfs must have undermined Jim Harbaw. That's what it is. It's, oh, how dare they not hire him? What a mistake that they've made to hire Kevin O'Connell instead. He's a winner. He's the guy that could have taken you to a championship. They must have done something wrong. It's got to be this grand conspiracy against Jim Harbaw. It isn't. They talked to Jim Harbaw and they decided on another guy.

That's what happened. And Jim Harbaw talking to Mitch Albam said they weren't as

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