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National Champion Ohio State Buckeyes Honored At White House · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Tuesday, April fifteenth.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Tom Or the Texas game in one
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  Speaker 1: in exactly our normal setting, not at Ohio Stadium, not
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  Speaker 1: at forty Hayes, not in our homes.
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  Speaker 2: We're at the White House. A little a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a different day, a little.
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  Speaker 1: Bit of a different show for you. Buckeyes were honored
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  Speaker 1: for winning the twenty twenty four national championship. You may
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  Speaker 1: have heard a little bit about that. It was it
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  Speaker 1: was quite a day at the UH at the White House.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I know that this is one of these
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  Speaker 1: things where it's you know, it's a very everyone's divided
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  Speaker 1: about everything, and everyone everyone wants to tell, you know,
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  Speaker 1: fight about everything. This was one of those things where
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  Speaker 1: it was regardless of what the president is or what
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  Speaker 1: you think of the president. That was just that was
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  Speaker 1: an incredible honor for the team, and it was just
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  Speaker 1: it was a very cool day for them to get
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  Speaker 1: to do all the stuff they got to do.
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  Speaker 3: We started off earlier and the Lincoln Memorial and had
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  Speaker 3: the opportunity to see the team go through all of that.
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  Speaker 3: Really good presentation by one of the US rangers who
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  Speaker 3: was able to talk about everything that, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: history of the memorial. Players were really you know, excited,
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  Speaker 3: big smiles on their faces. You know, the trophy went
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  Speaker 3: everywhere with them. You know, we fast forward, we you know,
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  Speaker 3: we diverted our path from the team. We ended up
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  Speaker 3: converging again a little bit after three o'clock, a little late.
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  Speaker 3: It was on what they say around here, White House time,
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  Speaker 3: so a little a little late with that, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: whatever you want to say about the whole political process.
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  Speaker 3: It was a tremendous speech and I think everybody was
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  Speaker 3: extremely happy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was just it was a very cool moment and
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  Speaker 1: just you walk around this place. This is my first
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  Speaker 1: time being here, and I'm sure it was for the
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  Speaker 1: vast majority of the day players and coaches. But you
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  Speaker 1: walk around here and everywhere you look at oh look
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  Speaker 1: it's that thing I've seen on TV for or in
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  Speaker 1: movies or in you know whatever for a million years.
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  Speaker 1: Every every direction go oh look there's the Rose Guard. No,
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  Speaker 1: look there's the West Wing. Oh look, there's the south
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  Speaker 1: side of the White House. We're kind of on the
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  Speaker 1: western side of the White House right now, the West Wing,
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  Speaker 1: you know of the West Wing TV show fame. And also,
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  Speaker 1: you know, center of executive power in the United States
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  Speaker 1: is like one hundred feet that way, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's pretty cool to just be here and sort
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  Speaker 1: of see see, you know, see all that there is
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  Speaker 1: to see. You could tell the players are really excited,
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  Speaker 1: and it was just, you know, as the speech that
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  Speaker 1: the President gave, he was just sort of going through,
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  Speaker 1: you know, some of the highlights of the playoff run
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  Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff, and it was so
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  Speaker 1: interesting as he's like singling out individual players like oh,
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  Speaker 1: Will Howard. I remember watching Will Howard against Tennessee in
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  Speaker 1: that game, which you know, this is this is why
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  Speaker 1: college football playoffs is on that Saturday night. Yeah, everyone's
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  Speaker 1: everyone's watching, even those at sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue. But
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  Speaker 1: as he's talking to these guys, all of these guys,
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  Speaker 1: like you could just see on their faces like, yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: that's the President of the United States.
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  Speaker 2: He's talking to me and about me. That's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, remember the timeframe, the election had already happened
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  Speaker 3: three of the games, the inauguration hadn't happened, So you know,
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump working with this transition team and everything else.
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  Speaker 4: Oh whoa, whoa, whoa. I need to watch Ohio State Tennessee.
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  Speaker 3: So, I mean, you know, that is pretty cool and
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  Speaker 3: just the opportunity to go through and and kind of
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  Speaker 3: relive some of these moments now and get all.
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  Speaker 4: The pronunciations right. But you know, it's still it still
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  Speaker 4: is a good moment.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was kind of like leading up the
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  Speaker 3: Jack Sawyer in the tennis game and talking about the
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  Speaker 3: stupid score and you could see Jacket It's like.
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  Speaker 4: It's coming, it's coming. I mean, I'm gonna have my
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna have my moment.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: For a man who's had a lot of moments here lately.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jack Sawyer has had a pretty good couple of months.
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  Speaker 1: I would guess, is it probably a good time to
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  Speaker 1: be Jack Sawyer and to be a DBND Jack Sawyer business.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, he talked about Ben Henderson, he talked about
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  Speaker 1: a beca Abuka, I talked about Cody Simon, talked about
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  Speaker 1: Jag Sawyer, talked about Jeremiah Smith and the third down
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  Speaker 1: catchy against Notre Dame. He just just a very very
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  Speaker 1: cool ceremony. Jd Vance Vice President of the United States.
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  Speaker 1: He uh, you know, is a in Ohio state grad
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  Speaker 1: so obviously was extra excited to have the uh the
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  Speaker 1: Buckeyes here to uh to uh be to be honored,
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  Speaker 1: and jd Vance ended up sort of the inadvertent star
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  Speaker 1: of the show for uh. For what looked like about
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  Speaker 1: two terrifying seconds.
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  Speaker 3: I heard the audible gasp. I didn't exactly see what
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  Speaker 3: was happening. We'd been out in the sun for a while.
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  Speaker 3: I was starting to get a little under, feeling a
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  Speaker 3: little under, and all of a sudden, I hear the gasp,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm like, and I kind of see people scrambling, because,
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  Speaker 3: as you know, the trophy is two parts. There's a
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  Speaker 3: base and then there's the golden leg lamp. It's a
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  Speaker 3: major reward, and I guess nobody let them. President know
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  Speaker 3: that it is in two pieces, and it kind of
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  Speaker 3: came apart in his hands, but he took it in stride.
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  Speaker 4: He's already gone to social to kind of comment on it.
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  Speaker 3: So again, you know, he's not this typical stuffed shirt
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  Speaker 3: type of guy.
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  Speaker 4: He you know, young guy. He was able to really
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  Speaker 4: have a moment with it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then Ryan Day get up, gave a speech
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  Speaker 1: one thing that the President did, you know, talk about
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  Speaker 1: We talked about some of the adversity they had faced
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  Speaker 1: during the course of the year, and they lost to Oregon,
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  Speaker 1: and they lost to and he's a you know, basically
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  Speaker 1: they do it says you're the team up North, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm not supposed to talk about that, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, really that this was a big thing for them,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, kind of made a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a joke of it. And I saw a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people laughing Brian Day. Did you see Ryan Day's face
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  Speaker 1: when he said that Ryan Day was not Ryan Day.
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  Speaker 2: Was not laughing at that. So that was, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I thought that was a little bit of an interesting moment.
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  Speaker 1: And then Ryan Day got up and gave you know,
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  Speaker 1: a very very nice speech and It's just it's crazy
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  Speaker 1: to see Ryan Day, who at the end of November
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  Speaker 1: and in December you swore five months ago was not
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  Speaker 1: in a tremendous place professionally or personally probably at that
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  Speaker 1: point standing up there smiling behind a podium with the
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  Speaker 1: seal of the President of the United States on it,
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  Speaker 1: it is like, boy, it has been a pretty good hitt.
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  Speaker 1: Talking about being a few months to be in a
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  Speaker 1: real good time to be in the Jacksawyer business.
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  Speaker 2: This is pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Been a pretty good time to be in the Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Day business as well.
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  Speaker 4: My life comes that's pretty fast. Yeah, and uh yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I mean we did.
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  Speaker 3: We had an opportunity to speak with the Washington DC
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  Speaker 3: Alumni chapter and we kind of talked about, you know,
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  Speaker 3: there are only a couple of coaches right now active
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  Speaker 3: that have a national championship too, you know, on their record,
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  Speaker 3: So you know, it was a really good opportunity. Our
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  Speaker 3: j Day was here, Nina was here, the daughters were here.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean, this is gonna this is the kind
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  Speaker 3: of stuff that you're not going to forget. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying you're gonna forget anything that happened during
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  Speaker 3: that four game run, certainly, but you know, these are
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  Speaker 3: the types of things that you're able to do as
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  Speaker 3: a family, you know, whether it's the the smaller set
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  Speaker 3: of the Day family or the larger set of the
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State football family. I mean this, you know, this
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  Speaker 3: is gonna be one of those things you just felt,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you're never going to put out of your mind.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, walking Ryan Day walking into the event. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the team came down the two kind of twin staircases
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  Speaker 1: on the south side of the White House. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you've seen it, the front door of the White Houses
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  Speaker 1: on the north side. The south side has kind of
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  Speaker 1: got that big grounded balcony and there's staircases on both sides.
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  Speaker 1: The team kind of came down those staircases and then
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  Speaker 1: there was kind of a little bit of a pause
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  Speaker 1: as they were sort of getting everything set and then
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  Speaker 1: everyone turns towards the west wing and there is the president,
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  Speaker 1: the vice president, and Ryan Day. It's like that's pretty good,
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  Speaker 1: you know, pretty good company be becoming it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to be entering with, you know, power wise in terms
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  Speaker 1: of Ryan Day. So yes, that was certainly a certainly
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure a very memorable moment for him. And then afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: the team got a chance to do something. We were
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  Speaker 1: not invited for some reason. Our invitations probably got lost
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  Speaker 1: in the mail. But the team got a chance to
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  Speaker 1: do something very cool after the ceremony as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, they were invited to the oval. President Trump kind
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  Speaker 3: of choked that he wasn't sure if the floor would
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  Speaker 3: be able to hold everybody. They probably had to bring
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  Speaker 3: him in groups. Oval is not you know, is not huge.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I read a lot of Tom Plancy books
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  Speaker 3: and watch those types of movies, so.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen all of that pretty much an expert.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it really. I mean I probably am like eighth
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  Speaker 3: in line for the presidency if we're being honest. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: bring them in groups or whatever. And then you know,
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  Speaker 3: and there's still going to be an opportunity for some
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  Speaker 3: of the team to be able to go to.
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  Speaker 4: A reception with Vice President j. D. Vance.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: Just a great day to do this.
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  Speaker 3: And this this is it for the twenty fourteen Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and we were talking about this off camera.
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  Speaker 4: This is the last event.
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  Speaker 3: And even when you have the reunions at Ohio Stadium
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  Speaker 3: five ten, twenty, however many years that you do it.
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  Speaker 4: The guys that are still going to be in the league.
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  Speaker 4: Who aren't gonna be able to come out to whatever?
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  Speaker 3: I mean this this is the last time, so, you know,
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  Speaker 3: very high note to end it on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and one thing that I thought was really interesting,
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  Speaker 1: guys who are no longer with the team but are
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  Speaker 1: still playing college football. Guys transferred out. The ones who
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  Speaker 1: were around for the College Football Playoff rount. Guys like
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  Speaker 1: Devin Brown, George Fitzpatrick, Patrick gird I mean guys like that.
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  Speaker 2: Who are you know.
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  Speaker 1: Devin Brown is now a quarterback at cal Patrick Gourd's
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  Speaker 1: a tight end at Cincinnati, George Fitzpatrick's an offensive tackle
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  Speaker 1: at Kansas State. Those guys were here. Those guys were
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  Speaker 1: still here, those guys, because yeah they were They're gone,
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  Speaker 1: but they were still part of the team. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the guys coaches, you know, the true freshman on this
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  Speaker 1: year's team, they were not here.
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  Speaker 2: The new coaches, guys like mad Patricia was not here.
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  Speaker 1: But everyone, you know, guys from the twenty twenty four team,
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  Speaker 1: they were here.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I saw a Jim Knowles or not.
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  Speaker 4: I did not see. I did not see Jim Knowles.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he's he's at Penn State. He's obviously a
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  Speaker 4: rival now.
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  Speaker 2: And also they're in the middle of spring practice.
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  Speaker 1: They still have another couple of weeks of spring practice,
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  Speaker 1: so that that may have been. You know, I would
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  Speaker 1: assume the invitation was extended and he wasn't able to.
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  Speaker 2: Do it, but yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 4: It was.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, nice to see some of the guys who
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  Speaker 2: were no with the program but who were a part.
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  Speaker 1: Of that team still get to get to be honored
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  Speaker 1: and to be a part of that day because they
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  Speaker 1: were a part of the team. So now this is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, party's over. Everyone's you know, it turned out
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  Speaker 1: the lights.
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  Speaker 3: The party's over doesn't mean it's time to stop paying
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  Speaker 3: attention to you know, Bluckus tomorrow morning or Buck Guy.
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  Speaker 4: Huddle or anything else. We got so much coming up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well and this is this is the show for
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  Speaker 1: April fifteenth. If you have not set your stuff into
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  Speaker 1: our friends down the street at the IRS, I would
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  Speaker 1: remind you, Hey, you may want to get.
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  Speaker 2: Around, I may want to get on.
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  Speaker 4: That final extension.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, one or the other. But you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: also April. For April fifteenth, guess what happens April sixteenth,
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  Speaker 1: Transfer portal opens so probably going to be an eventful
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  Speaker 1: few weeks in the college football world.
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  Speaker 2: Alretty shaping up.
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  Speaker 1: To be an eventful a few weeks in the college
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  Speaker 1: football world, as you may have heard about some drama
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  Speaker 1: down in Knoxville, Tennessee, Ohio Stadium South Is I believe
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  Speaker 1: what they call the facilities there, but yes it is.
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  Speaker 1: It is shaping up to be an eventful a few
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  Speaker 1: weeks as the buck Eye try to sort of round
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  Speaker 1: out their twenty twenty five roster. We'll see if any
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  Speaker 1: current numbers of the team end up going in the portal.
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  Speaker 1: Always some interesting stuff going in going out, Lots of
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  Speaker 1: stuff to follow. We'll be talking about it all at
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  Speaker 1: bucke huddle dot com. We also have plenty more from
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  Speaker 1: this White House visit, including some behind the scenes coverage.
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  Speaker 2: Get a chance. We're here.
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  Speaker 1: We're we are just as hey, this is really cool,
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  Speaker 1: as you probably would be if you were here.
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  Speaker 2: So what we're gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: We're giving you a chance to see behind the scenes
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  Speaker 1: of you know, what does it look like to cover
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  Speaker 1: an event like this. We've got the video of the ceremony,
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  Speaker 1: but we also have some of it behind the scenes
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  Speaker 1: stuff to try and run out and shoot something walking
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  Speaker 1: around just a little bit around the north side of
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  Speaker 1: the White House, and then let's you see inside the
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  Speaker 1: pressroom all that kind of stuff. It is really really
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  Speaker 1: interesting to be here and.
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  Speaker 2: Guessing you guys will probably enjoy that.
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  Speaker 1: You can find all of that stuff at YouTube dot com,
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  Speaker 1: slash bunky Huddle, and of course make sure you join
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  Speaker 1: us at buckey huddle dot com because that's where Tony,
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  Speaker 1: Kevin and I cover the team, Mark covers recruiting, We
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  Speaker 1: get our whole team of ex's, those gurus there as
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  Speaker 1: well all the makey with smarter football fan that is
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  Speaker 1: all at bucke huddle dot com. Let't a new it
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  Speaker 1: for t toad today. Thank you guys all for joining us.
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  Speaker 2: Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow and
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  Speaker 2: Marginie