What up and welcome in to another edition of the Locked-on Bengles podcast. I'm your host James

Erpene on Twitter at James Erpene and at Lockdown Bengles. Subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify,

Stitcher, the IHeart Radio app, and wherever you get your podcast. Final week of me on the show,

Joe Goodberry will be here tomorrow from The Athletic. I think that's going to be

a pretty good pod. And the reason I say so is because Joe and I have argued a lot this week

via text. So if we're arguing by text and no one's paying attention, I imagine when we're talking

into microphones that it could be quite entertaining.

But I want to start with this. Growing up or even right now, you have friends, right?

Were you clearly or do you know, is it obvious you're better than them at sports maybe they're clearly

better than you at madden or maybe you guys work in the same office you have co-workers right

is it clear that you're better at Microsoft Excel but they're better at public speaking. So you put together the numbers and then

they tell them at the meeting. You have strengths and weaknesses, right? And it's easy to tell.

What would you do if, I don't know, your boss or your boss's boss or your boss's boss's boss comes in

from New York and says,

yeah, you and Joe are friends, right?

So how much different could you two be?

How much different could you two be?

We're not going to promote either of you because you guys are friends.

And this hypothetical was thrown out there.

And I know Lance McAllister had it.

I'm not sure who else.

But I had thought about Mike Zimmer and his future in Minnesota, obviously a little shaky at this point.

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