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10-2 H4: Jim Gaffigan Joins, Seahawks vs. Chargers Chat & Raise A Pint · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: It's Chuck in the morning, Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM,
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  Speaker 1: and I am so excited to introduce our next guest.
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  Speaker 1: He is one of my favorite comedians out there, and
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  Speaker 1: also a football background here for the Sports Talk radio audience.
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  Speaker 1: So even though we're not doing X's and O's with
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  Speaker 1: Hugh Millen here today, we're going to be talking about
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  Speaker 1: the This might be the one comedian in America that
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  Speaker 1: could fill this segment. So joining us now is Jim Gaffigan.
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  Speaker 1: He's coming to town for three shows. I'll fill you
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  Speaker 1: in on that in a little bit. Jim, thanks for
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  Speaker 1: being with us. We appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me, Chuck. I, you know, I should qualify.
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  Speaker 2: I know nothing. I know nothing. You know, nothing about
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  Speaker 2: anyone else knows anything.
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  Speaker 1: You know, nothing about anything or nothing about football. Like
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  Speaker 1: I previously mentioned.
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  Speaker 2: I love football, but I also have five kids. And
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  Speaker 2: there comes a point where you're like, well, I could
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  Speaker 2: either be really updated on what's going on in the
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  Speaker 2: NFL and college football, or I could have my wife
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  Speaker 2: not completely despise me. And so I've I've effectively accomplished
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  Speaker 2: both of them, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, can I talk a little bit, though, about
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  Speaker 1: the football experience? Like, I think I saw you as
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  Speaker 1: a comedian for a number of years and you're a
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  Speaker 1: bigger guy. I mean, you can you can see how
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  Speaker 1: you might have played football, but I just didn't get
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  Speaker 1: the impression that the guy hot pocketing. up on the
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  Speaker 1: stage at one point was playing what linebacker for the
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  Speaker 1: Purdue Boilermakers. So exactly what kind of, how would you
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  Speaker 1: describe yourself as a football player when you played?
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  Speaker 2: I was slow and small for alignment. I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 2: six foot, but like I walked on at Purdue and, um,
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  Speaker 2: You know, it was really not. And then I played
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  Speaker 2: Division three at Georgetown just for a year. But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: some of it is I think my perception, I'm perceived
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  Speaker 2: as kind of almost a nebbishy guy. But the reality
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  Speaker 2: is I am six foot and I come from a
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  Speaker 2: small town in Indiana. So I definitely played football my
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  Speaker 2: entire life. But. Um, yeah, no, I was not great.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I mean, I was the captain of the
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  Speaker 2: high school team, but I think we had a losing record.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? It was, I mean, I,
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  Speaker 2: I learned so much from, uh, playing, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: football and I was on the wrestling team and stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that. But I also, it also made it so
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't smoking pot. You know what I mean? So
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  Speaker 2: it was like, you know, but I was never like recruited,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean? It wasn't like I was
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  Speaker 2: a sophomore in high school going when I play in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL, you know what I mean? It wasn't that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, were you, did you already have comedian in mind
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  Speaker 1: when you were in college or is that something that
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  Speaker 1: you stumbled into? I'm just wondering if like, Man, I
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  Speaker 1: am really cracking the huddle up. There might be a
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  Speaker 1: future in comedy, not in football.
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  Speaker 2: It's something I always dreamed of. I mean, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: so when I quit football, it was during those two-a-day
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  Speaker 2: August practices, and I was at Georgetown. My brother was
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  Speaker 2: the captain of the team, and I went in, and
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  Speaker 2: I had like a nightmare. You know, when you have
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  Speaker 2: these two-a-day practices, you have these nightmares. You know, you're like,
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe I'm going out, and this is in...
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  Speaker 2: you know, Washington DC heat. And, um, I went in
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  Speaker 2: and I quit and I didn't tell my brother. And
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  Speaker 2: then I walked out of the coach's room and my
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  Speaker 2: brother was like, what the hell is going on? And
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  Speaker 2: cause I was, I was starting center at that point.
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  Speaker 2: And he was like, I think a guard, but it
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  Speaker 2: was just, you know, I love football, but it was just,
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  Speaker 2: It can consume you. You know, it's like it's really
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  Speaker 2: depressing doing those two-a-day practices, walking to practice at 10 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: and seeing people come home from a party. You know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean? It was just kind of brutal.
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  Speaker 1: What did I just miss out on may have crossed
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  Speaker 1: your mind at some point. Uh, uh, did you, do
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  Speaker 1: you still follow football? I mean, I know maybe not
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  Speaker 1: religiously anymore, but, uh, do you have a favorite like
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  Speaker 1: NFL team?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I grew up a huge Redskins fan and
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  Speaker 2: now commanders and, you know, I grew up around Chicago
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  Speaker 2: with the Superbowl shuffle and stuff like that. But I really,
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  Speaker 2: you know, being from Indiana, I mean, the Colts came
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  Speaker 2: to Indiana after I like went to college. So it's like,
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  Speaker 2: I was, But I adopted them because, you know, being
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  Speaker 2: from Indiana, like, Indiana is such an underdog state. And
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  Speaker 2: it was during Peyton's time. But I love the Colts.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I live in New York, so I kind
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  Speaker 2: of root for the Jets. But, of course, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the Seahawks that season last year was so amazing. And
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  Speaker 2: so I love that story so much. And the fact that,
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  Speaker 2: of course— Darnold was this, I mean, that's one of
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  Speaker 2: the best stories in football, I think, in the past
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  Speaker 2: couple of years is that, you know, this guy that
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  Speaker 2: was kind of considered a bust ended up being the hero.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Right, right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. Oh, I know what you mean. We
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  Speaker 1: know what you mean up here. Jim Gaffigan is with us,
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  Speaker 1: a comedian coming to town and joining us here on
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  Speaker 1: Chuck in the Morning Sports Radio Network. 93.3 KJR FM.
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  Speaker 1: So if I could circle back, like, when did you,
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  Speaker 1: did you have like one of those biopic moments when
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  Speaker 1: you were in an NFL locker room and you made
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  Speaker 1: everybody laugh or, you know, the hot pocket joke came
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  Speaker 1: up and you're, and you know, and then you're like, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: the next thing you know, you're writing it down. Like
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  Speaker 1: Johnny Cash did with walk the line. Did you have
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  Speaker 1: something like that? Or, uh, or did something else occur
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  Speaker 1: that the light bulb went off? I could be a
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  Speaker 1: funny man and make money off of it.
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  Speaker 2: I think when I was a little kid, I was
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  Speaker 2: probably seven or eight, and I had seen a movie.
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  Speaker 2: My mom brought me and my brother to a movie.
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  Speaker 2: And afterwards, she asked what we wanted to be when
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  Speaker 2: we grow up. My brother said he wanted to be
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  Speaker 2: a helicopter pilot. And I said, I wanted to be
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  Speaker 2: an actress. So she started laughing. So I knew that
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  Speaker 2: there was Something. And, you know, growing up, I kind
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  Speaker 2: of in I grew up in a big family. And
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  Speaker 2: so making my siblings laugh was pretty important currency being
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  Speaker 2: the youngest. And then I was always kind of a
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  Speaker 2: class con, but I grew up in a small town.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't think it was really an option. It was
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  Speaker 2: it was really I wasn't kind of. you know, I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know anyone. I, you know, like we didn't even
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  Speaker 2: know the weathermen in our, you know, geographic area. So
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  Speaker 2: it was like the closest thing to the entertainment industry
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  Speaker 2: was the marching band. So it just really, I was
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  Speaker 2: in New York working in advertising and, I had this
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  Speaker 2: kind of fear of public speaking, so I did some
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  Speaker 2: improv classes. I always wanted to do it, and then
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  Speaker 2: I was kind of dared to do a stand-up class,
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  Speaker 2: so I did it, and then I just fell in
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  Speaker 2: love with it there.
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  Speaker 1: And you're so observational. I mean, the key to that
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  Speaker 1: observational comedy is that you could look at something so
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  Speaker 1: mundane and find the comedy in it, and you are—
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  Speaker 1: One of the absolute best at it. Seinfeld's that way. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and so, uh, you know, who are your influences to
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  Speaker 1: get where you are now? Um, where you kind of
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  Speaker 1: picked apart what they did on stage and, and blended
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  Speaker 1: it into your own style. Cause your style is different
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  Speaker 1: than others.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, some of it is just doing standup, you know, you,
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  Speaker 2: you know, some of that 10,000 hours, you kind of
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  Speaker 2: find out who you're what your point of view is.
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  Speaker 2: And it's kind of eventually getting comfortable on stage and
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  Speaker 2: making what makes your friends laugh appealing to a broader audience.
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  Speaker 2: So it is just trial and error. I like to
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  Speaker 2: think I just work harder than anyone, honestly. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's one of those things where I just kind of,
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  Speaker 2: I love the process, whereas like a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: would find writing or listening to sets as annoying, but
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  Speaker 2: I just, I kind of love it, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: I have five kids. So when I, you know, come
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  Speaker 2: to a city like Seattle, other people are probably out
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  Speaker 2: exploring the city, and I'm just kind of writing so
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  Speaker 2: that I can take advantage of these opportunities. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Seattle does have one of the best comedy audiences in
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  Speaker 2: the country. I mean, I think any comedian would say that.
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  Speaker 1: How much material did having children give you?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. Well, everything that provides kind of stress
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  Speaker 2: or where it doesn't make sense really kind of can
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  Speaker 2: lead to a joke. And I have teenagers now, and
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  Speaker 2: anyone who's listening who has teenagers understands when you have
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  Speaker 2: young kids, you're parenting them. But when you have a teenager,
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  Speaker 2: you really kind of shift in more to a parole
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  Speaker 2: officer role, right? Because... They're kind of, they're not drug addicts,
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  Speaker 2: but like they have, you know, you're kind of like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: did you go to school today? Did you take a
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  Speaker 2: shower this week? You know what I mean? They're your child.
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  Speaker 2: You love them, but they're idiots. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: And so there is something, but like that anxiety and
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  Speaker 2: fear has a universal appeal. You know, even the, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I've got five kids and they're five different kinds of kids.
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  Speaker 2: But like, there's a panic with even the kid that
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  Speaker 2: has their stuff most together just because it's their first
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  Speaker 2: time kind of like doing everything. And they're just going to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, try things that are stupid.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have experiences where your wife was like, no,
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  Speaker 1: that was, you crossed the line and you hurt your
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  Speaker 1: son's feelings. Did you have episodes of that as time
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  Speaker 1: has come on?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. I suck at this. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: And it's like, I think that's some of why, I
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  Speaker 2: think that parents, particularly pandemic parents, kids, parents that had kids,
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  Speaker 2: you know, going through like middle school or high school
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  Speaker 2: during the pandemic, they were blindsided, you know, with screens
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  Speaker 2: and social media and just kind of the gaming. It's like, it's,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and there's no kind of easy, logical path
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  Speaker 2: to handling some of this stuff. So you're going to
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  Speaker 2: just fail. And I think that's where You know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: complaining about my life, but I think it's so universal. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I think there's a built in forgetter. I think people,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's a forgetter, but also, you know, people
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  Speaker 2: are very private. You know, they don't want to be like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: my God, I suck at parenting. But like when there's
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  Speaker 2: a comedian that kind of highlights the insanity of it,
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  Speaker 2: how your kids are just stealing stuff from you, you know,
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  Speaker 2: people get a kick out of it.
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  Speaker 1: What do you like, dislike about Seattle as you get
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  Speaker 1: ready to take a stage here for three nights in
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  Speaker 1: a row? I'm sure that you've been here a few times.
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  Speaker 1: What's your analysis of our fair city?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think Seattle is, in a lot of ways,
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  Speaker 2: one of the more perfect cities because it is— It
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  Speaker 2: is beautiful. You know, obviously it's got the Northwest vibe,
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  Speaker 2: but it also has enough of a West Coast feel,
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  Speaker 2: but there's a pragmatism that is absent in kind of
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  Speaker 2: like the West Coast San Francisco thing. So it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of this, from my perspective, it's this perfect storm of
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  Speaker 2: you know, the best parts of Canada, the best parts
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  Speaker 2: of the Midwest, the best parts of the West coast.
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  Speaker 2: So it's, people are pleasantly happy. They're enjoying their lives. They're,
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  Speaker 2: they're not furious like people are in the Northeast and
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  Speaker 2: they're not delusional, you know, like people in LA, but
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  Speaker 2: they're also, there's, you know, so I don't know. It's, it's,
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  Speaker 2: it's a hard thing to describe, but it is, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's why people love it here, right? But
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  Speaker 2: I also love just how defensive Seattle is about rain.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't rain that much. I'm like, you don't have
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  Speaker 2: to convince me. I'm just visiting. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: And yet, if you comment that it's beautiful, because I
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  Speaker 1: moved here 11 years ago, if you comment about how
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  Speaker 1: great the weather is, they're like, shut up. Don't tell anybody.
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  Speaker 1: We want everybody to think it's miserable. So they won't move.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So very provincial Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes. But in a kind way, not in kind
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  Speaker 2: of a condescending way. Yes. Which is nice. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, for sure. Have you ever dropped an F bomb
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  Speaker 1: on stage?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, definitely. Oh, definitely. I mean, some of it
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  Speaker 2: is I'm, you know, I'm this Midwestern guy, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like I will curse when I stub my toe, but
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  Speaker 2: you know, if I'm, you know, you know, preparing, uh,
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  Speaker 2: working on a joke that I've worked on, it's, it's
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  Speaker 2: not that I don't curse. It's just, uh, I kind
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  Speaker 2: of view, uh, cursing as, uh, it has to be
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  Speaker 2: appropriate to the situation. Like if, you know, when I
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  Speaker 2: was doing a lot of food jokes, if I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: about mini muffin, mini muffins, is it really necessary to curse?
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Or, uh, if I'm recounting
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  Speaker 2: a story that happened 20 years ago, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if I'm as angry as I was 20 years ago. So,
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  Speaker 2: so that is, but that's, that's all about authenticity or
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  Speaker 2: like personal kind of point of view. I mean, I,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I have friends that curse a lot and
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  Speaker 2: it works for them because if you hang out with
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  Speaker 2: them off stage, they're that angry. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Or it makes sense for them to have that attitude. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You're not the Joe Pesci of comedy though. So, You
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  Speaker 1: don't have mini effing muffins. That's what you don't eat those.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, three shows, October 2nd, 3rd and 4th, you added
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  Speaker 1: a third show. Cause you're just that damn popular, uh,
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  Speaker 1: at the Paramount theater. Have you played the Paramount before?
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  Speaker 2: I have, it's a great theater. I always have a
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  Speaker 2: good time there. So I'm looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have one thing that you make sure you
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  Speaker 1: do when you come to Seattle every time?
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  Speaker 2: Gosh, you know, like, there's different meats, right? You know, like,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I've been coming here for 25 years, so, like,
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  Speaker 2: there's been the food me that would definitely, you know,
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  Speaker 2: sample— I' m not a huge seafood or fish eater, but would
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  Speaker 2: definitely sample— whatever the best cuisine is, but now I'm
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  Speaker 2: kind of a bourbon guy. So I'm definitely going to hit, uh, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, hit up cannon and, and a Ballard cut
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  Speaker 2: and stuff like that. So that's, that's, you know, my
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  Speaker 2: thing is, uh, get on my little obsessions.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I live in Woodinville, Washington, and we have Woodinville
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  Speaker 1: bourbon out there might be worth it. Might be worth it.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great bourbon.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great bourbon.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great bourbon. Yeah. Yeah, very perfect.
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  Speaker 1: Tickets to see Jim, you can go straight to the source, jimgaffigan.com.
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  Speaker 1: But of course, you could go to the Paramount website
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  Speaker 1: as well. But this is going to fill up fast.
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  Speaker 1: It's Jim Gaffigan, for goodness sake, and his Everything is
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  Speaker 1: Wonderful tour. Well, I'm glad I finally got to chat
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  Speaker 1: with you a little bit. I've been wanting to do
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  Speaker 1: that for a very long period of time. So big
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  Speaker 1: fan of your comedy. Always enjoy it. And hopefully we
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  Speaker 1: can chat again another time.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Chuck. Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Jim Gaffigan joining us right here on the radio program. So, yes,
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  Speaker 1: a show tonight. I kept saying the second, but tonight
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  Speaker 1: and then tomorrow and then also on Sunday at Paramount.
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  Speaker 1: So get your tickets now. You know, it's going to
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  Speaker 1: fill up fast. It's Jim Gaffigan, for goodness. And of course,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that was your, you know, perfect
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  Speaker 1: X's and O's segment. I didn't do a lot of
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  Speaker 1: breaking down football. But we gave Hugh a little time
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  Speaker 1: off here today, and it's because we're going to work
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  Speaker 1: Hugh Millen Chalk Talk next Thursday, 5 o'clock at Tulalip
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  Speaker 1: Resort Casino. And then Anders and I will be doing
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: our show there Friday morning at Tulalip with Hugh as well.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Coming up next, Seahawks Chargers. A little bit more on
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Sunday's matchup. Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: He's gone fishing. Leasey had a home run in his
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: last game.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: He had seven total bases out of him.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: We'll take it.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: And you, because you drafted all guys who were playing
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: in the wild card round.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Big lead already.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Let's go. You have 20 total bases.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Come on. I have nine.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Kidd has three, and Kidd has lost two players to fishing.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Jordan Alvarez and Trey Turner.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Yikes.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Gone fishing, Kidd.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Yikes.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: It's been nice playing this game, guys. I've already conceded defeat.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Not a good start.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: You still have Stephen Kwan and Freddie Freeman.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Thanks, guys. While you're with 21 and Chuck's doing just fine.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I'm not doing fine. I got two guys gone, and
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: I'm already 11 down. What about our listener? He only
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: has one guy gone. Well, our listener, David, didn't draft
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: anyone who played in the wild card round. So he
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: has zero right now.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: He hasn't lost anyone.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: But he has all four guys remaining and has the
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: best players. Because he has Shohei Jr. and PCA.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Well, no, PCA's gone. Oh, you're right. PCA is gone.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: My bad.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't even look up his total. All right,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: I'll do that later.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, BCA is gone.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: So he has three guys left.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah. All right.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: He has Will Smith, Junior Caminero, and Shoya Ohtani.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: So there you go.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: That's a little update. Also another baseball update.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Don Mattingly fired by the Philadelphia Phillies. That was like
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: the worst kept secret. I think he could have won
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: the World Series and not been brought back. Apparently that
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: was going to happen one way or the other. And
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Alex Cora, I have heard, is going to be the
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: next manager of the Phillies.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: I would have definitely had him as maybe one of
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: my top favorites for the Mariners position.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Cora, not Madden. Cora, correct.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: But without kind of the thought process that, you know,
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: he's probably going to Philadelphia. So I've kind of already
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: nixed that from my mind.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And then there are already some people trying to
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: jump on this Don Mattingly train.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: I don't want Don Mattingly. I don't either. I know.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I don't think that he's a cutting edge manager that
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: gets us there. Um, but, um, I mean, I wouldn't
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: hate it, I suppose, but it's, it's not going to
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: be my choice anyway.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: We'll see. All right.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Let's talk some football. Seahawks taking on the chargers on Sunday.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Um, I mean, after a week of hearing our best
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: analysts saying that this team would have won Sunday, just
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: by the simple fact that Julian love would have been
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: on the field. It feels pretty important to get him
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: back on the field, I would say. Greg Bell updated
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: us on the starting safety earlier in the show.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: Looks like it, sounds like it. Hearing from him, he
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: says he's good. He's just got to make sure he
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: stays good these next two days. He's practiced the last
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: two days. He has a press conference during the week.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: Usually they don't trot up players in weekly press conferences
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: that aren't going to play or that have injuries concerned.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: So all signs are that he is going to play.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: That can only help them, for sure.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: All right, so looks like he's going to play.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: That's music to Hugh Millen's ears, Dick Fane's ears, based
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: on what we heard earlier this week and our ears.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, he was just so good the first two
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: weeks of this season. I mean, I realize that you
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: played without him for a lot of last year and
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: played well without him for a lot of that stretch.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: But how good he was in weeks one and two
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: and then how sorely he was missed that's a big
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: deal to get him back on the field.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: Absolutely, especially when you're already missing Ty Akata. And last year,
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: one of the reasons they were able to cover that
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: is because they had Kobe Bryant, too. Not to mention
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: a full Nicky Minwari, fully healthy Nicky Minwari. So with
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: none of those guys really in that position, obviously you
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: had Nicky Minwari, but still kind of working his way
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: back against Washington.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: It's a tough spot for Julian Love. But yeah, I agree.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: I think he's playing an all-pro level to start this season.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: So getting him back is a huge step for this defense.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, makes you wonder why didn't you play last week, Bud?
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Could have really used you.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: We would have won.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: I hope you feel guilty about that.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: The safety room's just been blindsided this year.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: I was really excited for Bud Clark. I'm sad that
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: he's not a part of this team this year.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Never got out of the gates. And even more, as
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Hugh's documented over and over again, doesn't really plague safety.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: He says safety next to his name everywhere you look.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: He's a Sino, according to Hugh Millen. Safety in name only.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: A Sino.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: I didn't know that was a thing, but.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Oh, these football people, they have... They have abbreviations for everything.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: Literally.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Tony Softly has a language all his own.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: And I loved it.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: I loved it. But I would have to pause and like,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: what's that one?
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: What's that one? What's the acronym here? He's got an acronym.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Carry the N over there.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Sino, synchronized interior nose tackle on the outside. It's good.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: All right, so Seahawks charges on Sunday. Looks like Julian
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Love's going to play, and that's going to help. I mean,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald from also what Greg told us, he spent
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: the week with red ass.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Good.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. That was not Seahawks football. That's not Mike
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: McDonald football. That's not the. And we haven't played a
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: game like that since the Tampa Bay Buccaneers the previous year.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's not that they played poorly. I pointed
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: out the statistic that there's a statistic out there that
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: they got over 85% rating on both offensive and defensive
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: side of the ball Sunday. And teams that get that
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: through this formula don't lose. They just don't lose. I
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: guess it's been since 2022 that a team played that
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: well on both sides of the ball and still ended
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: up losing the game. So think about that. That's once
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: every five years. That's a once out of every five
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: year kind of performance in the National Football League. And
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: they had a game like that a year ago against
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Actually, they just got lit up
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: by the Buccaneers offensively. So they didn't play poorly on
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: either side of the ball, but all those things that
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: we've just come to expect, yeah, you're third and eight.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Get ready to punt. We know you're not going to
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: throw it, get your, so it's third and eight. There's
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: no chance you're going to run for a first down
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: and they do it twice on the same drive. That's
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: just stuff that we just don't, uh, we just expect
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: it to get stopped.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: And so it wasn't Seahawks football to me.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: That is a positive that I don't think they're going
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: to play that way again, ever for the rest of
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: the year. Certainly don't think they're going to play that
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: way against the chargers, but it also can be looked
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: at as a little bit of, huh? Cause they haven't
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: lit the world on fire. They played poorly in the
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: first half against the Cardinals. They barely beat a Patriots
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: team that looks terrible since that opener. And then got
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: beat by a winless Commanders team. So, I mean, there's
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: something to be aware of. There's something to be a
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: little nervous about. And I guess we just got to
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: trust when Mike McDonald says, I hate early games because
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: I don't have enough film on my opponent.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and there is like.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: Every game in the NFL is like this, right? You've
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: got to get as many wins as you possibly can.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: It was the whole Darnold versus Drew Locke conversation going
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: into the Washington Commanders game. It's like you've got to
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: just get every single win you possibly can, regardless of
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: who the opponent is. But that being said, after this week,
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: you have four weeks of four of the six best
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: teams in football that you're playing against. And you need
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: to have every win you possibly can leading into that
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: to give yourself at least some sort of room for error.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: Because I don't expect, like, the newsflash. I don't expect
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: Seahawks to go 4-0 during that stretch. I think they
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: will lose at least one of those games. So I
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: think going into that 2-2 would be a little bit
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: of concerning signs for the Seahawks team.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: If you lose back-to-back games against winless teams, that's concerning.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: I just don't expect that it's going to happen.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: No, I don't either.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, you've already picked them to cover, much less win. So,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, if I was shocked by the Commander's result,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'd just be floored if they lost again
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: this week to the Chargers. I just, you know, I
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: think they're going to tighten things up. Let's treat it
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: as that was the Buccaneers game of 2026. And a
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: little bit of a wake-up call. Don't think that was necessary.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Don't think that they played lackadaisically. Yeah.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: But a wake-up call.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: And Mike McDonald seems fierce in that. Not allowing that
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: to happen again. And I like him in that mode.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: We'll come back on the other side. We will close
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: out the week by raising a pint. Sports Radio 93.3
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: KJR FM.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: When young guys have success early. And last night, I
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: have been sinking my teeth into the opening of the
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: NHL season. You have. I was watching the Florida Panthers
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: take on the San Jose Sharks and making his NHL
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: debut for a team that's expected to take a big
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: jump this year in San Jose. Luca Cagnoni, their new defenseman,
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: who is supposed to be like a big prospect for them,
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: kind of help them take them over the top, scores
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: the overtime winner in his NHL debut.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: How cool is that? would that moment have been if
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: that was you?
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: But it was a cool moment to watch, I'll tell
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: you that, as they win against another Stanley Cup hopeful
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: in the Florida Panthers as well.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: So it was cool.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: I like watching that. I like seeing young guys have
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: success early on, especially in the NHL, because I feel
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: like the game's getting younger and younger and younger, and
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: young guys are having more success earlier than ever before,
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: and it's good to see that continue to happen.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: All right, well, we'll raise a pint then. And again,
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: what's his name? Luca Cagnoni. Luca Cagnoni.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Look at Anders. He's showing off like three different dialects
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: in the raise a pint segment.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: Raise a pint.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: I like it.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: All right, kid, do you have somebody in mind that
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: you'd like to raise a pint to here on this Friday?
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Does it have to be a somebody? Can it be
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: a something?
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: It can be a something, sure.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Does it have to be sports-related? No, it does not.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: All right, here we go. Mother Nature, because right now.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: We're getting some really... Oh, that's a good call.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: We're getting some decent weather here in the late September
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: going into October. It's supposed to be 70 degrees today.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: I'll take that, okay? Because I know what's coming. We
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: all know what's coming.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Cold, wet darkness. So give it to me. Raise a pint.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: We're going to.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Raise a pint. Raise the pint. To Mother Nature.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Ms.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Nature. Thank you so much. Thank you for all you
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: do for us, Ms.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Nature.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: You're making me want to put my arm around you.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: Go back and forth. That's the idea. That's the idea.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: To Mama Nature.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Love it.
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: Love it.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: I like that.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: By the way. All right.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: I have one objection. September is a greater month than October.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: No chance.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: No way on earth. How could you say that?
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: October is probably my second favorite, but September is superior
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: in my opinion.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: In what way?
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: What does September possibly bring to the table?
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: That October doesn't? Slightly warmer.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: Um it's you get both hold on hold on you
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: get this you get the kind of both aspects of
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: it you get the late summer which is awesome in
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: the seattle area by the way and then you get
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: the early fall and i get it fall is my
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: favorite season don't get me wrong but the fact that
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: you kind of get both of those in september is my.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: You are just talking about the weather october as a
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: sports fan Hockey season's underway. You just talked about it.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Football season, we're in the throes. We're nearly past. We're
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: not going to until... I guess it's going to be
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: 100 in L.A. today, tomorrow. But we're nearly past those sticky, gross,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: summery-type football games, and now we're into autumnal football. That's
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: what it's all about. Halloween's right around the corner. Baseball
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: playoffs are going on right now. NBA's going to start
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: later on this month. That's true.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: I mean, this is it. I came at a crop, baby.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: This is the king.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: I had a crown on the head of October. I
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: will revise my statement that weather.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: In fact, I might change my raise a pint to October.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: I raise a pint to October.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: All right, all right.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: I'm on board. And all her beauty. I'm on board.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: And all her glory. I bend a knee to you, October.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: Will you marry me? For this segment, I would like
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: you to wear an eye patch. I just feel like
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: it would fit you. Do I sound like a pirate? No.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to go for Irishman.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: I'm coming off as a pirate.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: But I like that.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: But I do think the pirate in you is coming out, too.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Arr! Now it does.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: Chuck Conde Barge.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Well, that's actually not a bad idea.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: Just saying. We could alternate.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Raise a pint. One week, and then walk a plank.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: We'll make somebody walk a plank.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, I like that. I don't know.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Next Friday, maybe we close out the show by telling
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: somebody to go.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Walk a plank. Walk the plank. Who would it be?
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: Who would it be today? I'm trying to think. September. Hey, September!
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, walk a plank, September. Oh, my God.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: If the Seahawks lose, Mike McDonald.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: No. No, never.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no. Don't get too crazy. Say that again.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Say that again. You'll be on the plank.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: We'll put your own producer on the plank. Blindfolding a cigarette.
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: Say that again.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Shove you off into the sea.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: Can I give one thing a walk a plank as
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: we mentioned this?
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: Celebrating every single series win like you won the World
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: Series in baseball.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: Can we get rid of this, please? I don't like
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: it either.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: I heard Ashley and Ian, they both like it.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: I don't like it either.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: I hate it.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: Winning the division, yes. That absolutely deserves it. Making the playoffs,
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: that's a no for me. It's something you actually win, right?
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: We were the AL West champions in 2025. That should
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: warrant celebrating.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: I'll disagree a little. I think making the playoffs... First celebration.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: And the only other one is winning the World Series.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: I can get on board with that. But not every
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: single round. I'm with you.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: You're just going crazy.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: I don't need to see Munataka Murakami drunk twice.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: In a week.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: That's exactly what happened.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Well, maybe we will do walk a plank in the future.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: But for now, we raise a pint. To all of
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: our listeners, thank you very much for listening all week long.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: We do appreciate you. We'll be back on the air
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Monday morning at 6 o'clock. And so we'll hand things
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: off to Greg Bell and Jessamyn McIntyre
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: Right here at Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.