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Best of Chuck & Buck 6-19 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: We'll live line. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Chaos.
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  Speaker 1: You of Now we've got a home guy where the
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  Speaker 1: action never stopped? Are you writing this down? Something from?
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  Speaker 1: This is Chuck and Buck in the morning? Why you
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  Speaker 1: people are beyond Let's go, let's.
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  Speaker 2: Get the game off.
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  Speaker 1: Great morning to you all.
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  Speaker 2: It is a Friday, and it is a special special
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  Speaker 2: day here at Seattle, wah. And so we are on
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  Speaker 2: location broadcasting live from our favorite little watering hole, Jimmy's
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  Speaker 2: on First right across the street from t Mobile, right
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  Speaker 2: across the street from Lumenfield, which can't be called Lumenfield today.
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  Speaker 2: And here we sit getting ready for our beginning of
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  Speaker 2: our broadcast day of one of the biggest days in
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  Speaker 2: Seattle sports history.
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  Speaker 1: The World Cup is here.
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  Speaker 2: And the US will be taking on Australia today at noon.
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  Speaker 2: And then Mariners Baseball on the other side of the
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  Speaker 2: street a little bit later on tonight, and I'm here
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  Speaker 2: for the whole shebang, so we welcome you into the
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  Speaker 2: radio program. Ashley Ryan back at our studios. My name
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  Speaker 2: is Chuck pal sitting in the corner at Jimmy's on
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  Speaker 2: first And this is such a hollowed occasion that we
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  Speaker 2: had to bring in reinforcements, and I don't think we
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  Speaker 2: could have found a better guest. I mean, he's an
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  Speaker 2: alum of KJR. He is the former voice of the Sounders.
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  Speaker 2: I hear his mythology is so rich with the World Cup.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe this isn't even true that he was conceived
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  Speaker 2: in extra time at a World Cup match and then
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  Speaker 2: birthed in extra time at a World Cup match. I
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  Speaker 2: feel only nine months later, and it's four years apart,
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  Speaker 2: and yet nine months later he was both conceived and
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  Speaker 2: birthed at a World Cup match, and he's seen every
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  Speaker 2: match since live and in person. He joins us at
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  Speaker 2: our set. The great, the lovable, the affable Stretch is
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  Speaker 2: here match Johns, good Morrow are you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so good that you just started the broadcast and
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  Speaker 1: I got goosebumps. Historic match here in Seattle, my hometown. Y.
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  Speaker 1: You just take a light rail down instead of to
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  Speaker 1: have it to travel to Korea or France. And it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be special, that's the bottom line. The buzz around
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  Speaker 1: at six am. There's already a ton of people workers,
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  Speaker 1: obviously people with FIFA, and there's a buzz down here already,
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  Speaker 1: and you just gave me goosebump.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm hyped up to be here. Thanks so much
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  Speaker 3: for having me.
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  Speaker 4: Great to have you here.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of thought Ozzie's would just like, we're just
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  Speaker 2: gonna stay here.
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  Speaker 1: Tonoight, Yeah, we see a few more. Yeah, they're a
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  Speaker 1: fun group. I met a bunch up in Vancouver on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: I was up there for their match versus Turkey yesterday
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  Speaker 1: at T Mobile. They I mean, it was a worldly
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  Speaker 1: event across the street and there were a plenty of
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  Speaker 1: Australians and then they poured into Pioneer Square and they
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  Speaker 1: spent some money.
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  Speaker 3: We'll just leave it at that. I mean, they're a
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  Speaker 3: fun group and they're just.
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  Speaker 2: Stay all money for Falsters. So I'm just gonna pitch
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  Speaker 2: a wigwam. That's kind of what I expected to see
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  Speaker 2: here this morning. But let's really paint the picture for
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  Speaker 2: just how steeped you are in world Cup tradition. Why
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  Speaker 2: you are the perfect person for me to have here
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  Speaker 2: this morning for the next four hours.
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  Speaker 4: How many of these have you attended?
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  Speaker 1: You know today is going to be my seventieth World
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  Speaker 1: Cup match. Wow, the Smarter brother we were down in
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  Speaker 1: ninety four. We were lucky enough to get tickets to
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  Speaker 1: the final Brazil Italy. Everyone knows it was pretty boring.
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  Speaker 1: Most people know soccer people know it was pretty boring.
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  Speaker 1: They went to PK's. Anyways, we were at.
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  Speaker 4: The final, knew.
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  Speaker 1: I have it well documented.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly, of course.
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  Speaker 1: And on the way home, I'm sound asleep on the
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  Speaker 1: plane and he elbows me and just says, why don't
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  Speaker 1: we do this every four years?
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  Speaker 3: And I went okay.
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  Speaker 1: And so we just planned on going to France, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in ninety eight, and we've been going ever since. So
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  Speaker 1: it's just an unbelievable way to travel the world, unbelievable
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  Speaker 1: way to hang out with your brother who I'm very
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  Speaker 1: very close with. So, you know, France, Korea, Germany, South Africa, Brazil, Russia, Qatar, USA.
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  Speaker 1: So this is my ninth and it's just something that
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  Speaker 1: and I mean the sincere, like, I'm so happy that
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  Speaker 1: others get to experience it. I was with like ten
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  Speaker 1: friends on Monday for Belgium, Belgium Egypt, and it was
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  Speaker 1: our first one and there were just you could just see.
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  Speaker 4: It like, oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we weren't cheering for either Belgium or Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: but there were sixty six thousand people in there and
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  Speaker 1: there was a buzz and you just wanted to see
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  Speaker 1: a good product and there was. There were great goals
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  Speaker 1: and great chances and it's just it's something. It's something
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  Speaker 1: to behold, right, you got to experience it. I've told
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  Speaker 1: so many people if you don't have a ticket, which
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  Speaker 1: were kind of expensive today, if you don't have a ticket,
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  Speaker 1: come downtown check it out. Yeah, walk down the waterfront,
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  Speaker 1: just just see what it's all about. And I'm very
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  Speaker 1: lucky we started this little tradition. I was just writing
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  Speaker 1: up my experiences of US matches I've seen all over
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  Speaker 1: the place, and this is right up there. This might
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  Speaker 1: be the second. I mean, US versus Korea in Korea
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  Speaker 1: at the time was unmatched. Landon Donovan said it was
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  Speaker 1: the most the atmosphere was mind blowing. It was for him,
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  Speaker 1: it was number one, and it was it was crazy.
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  Speaker 1: But this has got to kind of overtake it, right, I.
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  Speaker 4: Mean, you've already got goosebumps. I mean we're yeah, six
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  Speaker 4: hours away.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I did go to sleep. Yeah, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to thank the hotel for open up the door.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that's a different story for a different time. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't mean to wake up the security guy. But well,
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  Speaker 1: we'll just leave it at that. But yeah, today's historic.
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  Speaker 1: Today is a thing with now non football, you know,
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  Speaker 1: non soccer fans might argue, but we haven't hosted a
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  Speaker 1: super Bowl, we haven't hosted you know, Olympics, we haven't
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  Speaker 1: hosted something. This is a major event. It's buzzing already
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  Speaker 1: and it's just six hours away.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just so psyched and checked up for it.
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  Speaker 2: I got to give you so much credit on this
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  Speaker 2: because I'll tell you, I mean, I have an older
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  Speaker 2: brother and we have always planned to start some tradition
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  Speaker 2: like this, and here we are. I'm fifty five now,
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  Speaker 2: he's sixty two, and we haven't even started yet, like well,
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  Speaker 2: and so for you to have gotten it started so
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  Speaker 2: long ago and to kept with it. And then I
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  Speaker 2: did have high school buddies and we started a tradition
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  Speaker 2: as soon as we graduated from high school, because.
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  Speaker 1: Of course we got we're going to stay best friends.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're cutting each other's hands and blood brothers,
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  Speaker 2: like we're a pack.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, of course we're in high School's the end, all
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  Speaker 3: be all.
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  Speaker 2: Right, And so we make a trip to Kansas City.
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  Speaker 2: We get in the car. We're like, we're gonna go
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  Speaker 2: see a ballpark every year so that we remain best friends.
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  Speaker 1: Three years, last three years, and lasted one year. That
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  Speaker 1: was the only year.
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  Speaker 2: Our only memory is blasting two live crew out to
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  Speaker 2: Kansas City from Saint Louis to watch the Roys. I
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  Speaker 2: don't remember anything about the game. I don't even sure
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  Speaker 2: if I remember anything about the trip.
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  Speaker 1: Did you go to the game? We didn't go to
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  Speaker 1: the game.
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  Speaker 2: We did go to the game, and I wasn't even
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  Speaker 2: a drinker back then, so I didn't even have that
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  Speaker 2: as an excuse.
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  Speaker 4: So, man, good for you to keep it going. What
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  Speaker 4: a great tradition, because you're right, you got to see
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  Speaker 4: the world.
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  Speaker 2: Not only do you get to watch a sporting event
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  Speaker 2: that you love and the biggest sporting event in the world,
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  Speaker 2: but you got set.
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  Speaker 4: You got international travel out of it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm jealous exactly, yeah, and we got addicted immediately.
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  Speaker 4: That was it was.
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  Speaker 1: We simplified it. We we didn't we still don't go
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  Speaker 1: anywhere with tickets, which kind of freaks out friends and
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  Speaker 1: that kind of condenses who can handle that in their brain.
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  Speaker 3: We went to France.
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  Speaker 1: We booked the first night at a hotel in Paris
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  Speaker 1: and the last night and we didn't book anything else
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  Speaker 1: that we had no tickets to any matches and so
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  Speaker 1: that that isn't for everybody, I get it. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: we went to eleven matches in twelve days and we
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  Speaker 1: saw the top teams in the world and and that
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  Speaker 1: was it. That was the the addiction was solved and
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  Speaker 1: we were going to do it. And it's worked out
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  Speaker 1: ever since. You do have tickets today, right, We do
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  Speaker 1: have tickets, but I fell into them on Monday. We
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  Speaker 1: weren't going to go. The price doubled after Australia beat Turkey,
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  Speaker 1: and then someone got a hold of me and said, uh, do.
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  Speaker 4: You have tickets network?
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  Speaker 1: You know, the soccer network, And I said I don't,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm not paying, you know, I got well, I
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  Speaker 1: got a fence to build in the backyard, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I want to build a deck you know, prices get
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  Speaker 1: to the point where it's like I could put that
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  Speaker 1: into these you know, that's my price is. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you I got in for fifteen hundred bucks
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  Speaker 1: today and those are category ones. If you're familiar, there's
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  Speaker 1: category one, twos and threes and fifteen hundred on Monday was.
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  Speaker 4: I hate to.
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  Speaker 1: Say a reasonable price, but we all justify what we love, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, so fifteen hundred and my brother memory, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and my brother's doing very well, and I'm like, come on,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have to pay for airfare, we don't have
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  Speaker 1: to pay for hotel, we don't have to pay for meals.
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  Speaker 1: It's three and a half bucks on the light rel
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  Speaker 1: come off. And he's like, oh, okay, he's a smarter brother.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, So yeah, we started this and it's
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  Speaker 1: just but we also go like in France, we go
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  Speaker 1: to the Louver, we go to the Eiffel Tower. In Germany,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna we're seeing the old government buildings. In Korea,
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  Speaker 1: we're in Inshawn at MacArthur's Park. And it's not just
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  Speaker 1: it's going to see history all over the world. And
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  Speaker 1: so it's incredible, it's awesome and some friends that know
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  Speaker 1: me are like, no, you weren't. No, you didn't. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't do any of that. You didn't, dude, you didn't
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  Speaker 1: do any of that. You sat and watch soccer and
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  Speaker 1: drank beer every day.
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  Speaker 3: There was that.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a great way to discover the world and
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  Speaker 1: get addicted to world travel.
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  Speaker 4: That's remarkable.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm you know, I'm kind of proud of you,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm also kind of jealous of you.
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  Speaker 4: Proud of me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And so that's really funny.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to tap into all of that history and
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  Speaker 2: knowledge here. There are four hours together. I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to get into the game. I mean, heck, I mean
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  Speaker 2: I heard Ryan Roland Smith doesn't even have tickets and
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  Speaker 2: I think he's kind of a hero from Australia and
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't even have tickets to it.
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  Speaker 1: But he might have been lying on the air handsome liar,
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  Speaker 1: but because they were camped, he got a pair of
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  Speaker 1: free he probably did want to see.
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  Speaker 2: Probably, you're probably right, But I am going to try
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  Speaker 2: to soak up the experience here today. I am going
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  Speaker 2: to stay down here all day. I'm blowing off the
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  Speaker 2: Friday n app which I chair oh awesome, and so
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna watch it probably from here.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, you're not.
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  Speaker 1: I mean no, You're going into Pioneer Square at their
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  Speaker 1: viewing area. You're going down there. You're not staying in here.
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  Speaker 1: You're going into Pieer Square. You'll be blown away, or
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  Speaker 1: you're going down to the pier. You're getting out of here.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, please, I beg you. I'd be very proud of you.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, if you got out of here and watched it
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  Speaker 1: right in Pioneer Square, it's unbelievable. Yeah, it's it's it's
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  Speaker 1: the setup downtown and the whole area is like, you're
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  Speaker 1: kind of proud, it's It sounds very cheesy, but it
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  Speaker 1: was like, yeah, that's right, Yeah, that that's right.
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  Speaker 4: That's us, that's us exactly.
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  Speaker 3: It's awesome. So no, you're not watching it, okay.
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  Speaker 1: All right, all right, good point me in the right direction.
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  Speaker 2: And then I'm gonna go to the Mariners game tonight,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm gonna do the double header. So I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: stay all day and all night down here and.
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  Speaker 4: Really have a day.
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  Speaker 3: That's amazing to have a day Boston tonight. Correct.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, the Red Sox are in town and.
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  Speaker 3: It's packed there there's I.
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  Speaker 2: Would imagine there's gonna be a lot of Aussies.
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  Speaker 3: Uh there again, be packed in there. That's gonna be fun.
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  Speaker 1: Well take this the right way. How are you gonna
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  Speaker 1: stay awake? I mean, like, I'm not on fumes right now?
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  Speaker 1: But how without your now? And and I'm not teasing
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  Speaker 1: because I know all about naps.
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  Speaker 4: I can't afford the tickets.
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  Speaker 1: But I can afford meth.
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  Speaker 3: We're not supposed to that.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't sign anything with Ashley that I would be
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  Speaker 1: joking about meth. But yes, good for you two, each
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  Speaker 1: his own brilliant with a head this morning. Uh no,
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  Speaker 1: you were kind of quiet on the way down. So anyways,
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  Speaker 1: Uh no, well good for you. That's a heck of
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  Speaker 1: a day. Now do you think you'll get your car back?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: You want to talk about that, like I do you
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  Speaker 2: want to talk about this right now? And I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to specifically say where my car is right now.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to try to leave that out of the conversation.
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  Speaker 2: And I hope said person is not like I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: go turn on the radio.
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  Speaker 3: Uh say no, okay, I'll say no, they don't own
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  Speaker 3: a radio.
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  Speaker 2: But I had the single strangest conversation I think I've
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  Speaker 2: ever had in my entire life before I got in
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  Speaker 2: here today.
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  Speaker 4: And as soon as as.
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  Speaker 2: Said person and that took my vehicle, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: where he took it. Uh, found out that I am
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  Speaker 2: with kJ R and I'm a sports guy. He then
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  Speaker 2: tried to sell me that, you know, I was going
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  Speaker 2: to be a Seattle Supersonic. And then because I'm a
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  Speaker 2: big basketball player, I played at Mount Sigh and then.
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  Speaker 4: The team moved to Oklahoma City and it ruined my.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, we had the same we had similar experiences with
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  Speaker 1: two different people in this area.
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  Speaker 3: Let's just say in this area.
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  Speaker 1: But after you drop me off and Chuck says, I
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  Speaker 1: can't wait to tell you this, And I said, I
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  Speaker 1: can't wait to tell you my experience.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, and I looked down and he starts showing me documentation.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, got a resume for when the Sonics come back.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a resume filled out to apply for a job.
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  Speaker 4: To be a Sonic.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: And he had like a diploma like a certain get
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  Speaker 2: like I graduated from here and that proves I'm worthy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, to get him in the door for the tryout, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and uh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't really strike me as you know, somebody
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  Speaker 2: that could guard.
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  Speaker 3: What came out of your mouth.
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  Speaker 1: In all seriousness, You're staring at this person what came
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  Speaker 1: out of your mouth like super.
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  Speaker 2: I was just I was just nodding and like I
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  Speaker 2: need to get inside.
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  Speaker 4: And you were taking my car, and then all of a.
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  Speaker 2: Sudden, I'm like, wait a minute, I just left my
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  Speaker 2: car y there, So.
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  Speaker 1: In your house keys? Are your house keys on that keyd.
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  Speaker 4: No, house keys are right here in my pocket? Good? Yeah, good?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And but there's a lot of yeah. So anyway,
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  Speaker 2: I had a brush with greatness there. It was gonna
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  Speaker 2: be a sonic. So what so your you were somebody else?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I I just simply said, hey, I'm with them. I'm
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  Speaker 1: working with the radio station here. That door is locked, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't uh can you unlock it for me please?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I have that key fob. And
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  Speaker 1: this person's just staring at his phone while he's talking
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  Speaker 1: to me, and I'm no problem, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: That's the graveyard.
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  Speaker 1: And years ago I worked the graveyard, and now I'm
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  Speaker 1: in a mellower state of mind in my life right now.
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  Speaker 1: And I said oh, yeah, who maybe I talked to
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  Speaker 1: you know, I throw out the just like I'm kissing
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  Speaker 1: this guy's ass that is absolutely blowing me off. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: uh the person at the front desk. So the gall
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  Speaker 1: at the front desk comes over and I said, can
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  Speaker 1: I come in? I'm with the radio station. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: got to talk to security. And I said, you know what,
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: I think I just did. I'm not sure, but I'm
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: pretty sure he said security three times anywhere. Yeah, I
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: didn't click because he's at the end of his shift.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: And so she comes over and kind of, you know,
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: with the hammer, said can you unlock the door? And
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: I was like, uh, okay, it wasn't me. I didn't
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: get you in trouble because I was thinking. He finally
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: kind of looked up at me, like did you What
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: do you say to her? And I was thinking, Ah,
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: you throw me under the bus so that he has
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: to get on his hands and knees and unlock the store.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: We are in case. We are very safe right now.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this. We are safe,
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: but we're very safe. My car is probably halfway. No,
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: your your car's gone. Your car's on one of these
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: cargo ships out here already.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: Like Ferris Bueller, Yeah, exactly, Sorry I didn't give you
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: a Ferrari.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sopranos is being chopped up right now. But anyways,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: he got on his hands and knees and gave me
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: a glare and said there you go, and then locked
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: it up behind me, and uh it, Wow. It was bizarre,
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: bizarre because again I'm two different people. I was doing
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: the Eddie Haskell. I'm really good with the Eddie Haskell
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: for the first ten minutes of a lot of relationships,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: and so anyways, but here we are, we got Wi
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Fi going, and we got a World Cup match here.
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: Right, Who cares? I got a one?
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah exactly, I'll give you right.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: You came in and said I just had the most
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: bizarre and I said, oh my god, which guy? And
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: they were two separate people people, which is really funny
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: at six am. Yeah, like, how does that happened?
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: No?
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: Five forty yeah, anyways.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then I'm like, hey, well then we make
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: the exchange of the key and the ticket and everything else,
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: and I'm walking away. He goes no, seriously, like I'm
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: really glad that they're gonna be and it starts the
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Sonics conversation.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: And then throws in when you can get your car
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: back and you're trying to tell him a pitch start
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: to a game and you're like, no, I'm talking like
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: nine ten pm. And that didn't work on his number line,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: which was hysterical. But again, everybody's end of graveyard shift
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: treats him different. Everybody's different that way.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: All right, well, we're just getting underwear. We're gonna have
• 17:35
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  Speaker 5: What's until?
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: What's on tep?
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: All right, headlines for you USA Australia at noon today.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Christian hoolistic status is in doubt now, don't misread that.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: I don't think they're saying it's doubtful because that would
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: be dire. Usually on an NFL report back in the
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: day when they did doubtful odds are they weren't playing?
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: The statement is that his status is in doubt. We
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: will talk about that with Stretch later this hour and
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: probably several times before our four hours are up. Yesterday,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Mexico won over Korea, so they have advanced in their
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: pool play. One to nothing was the final score. Seemed
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: to be the highlight of yesterday's World Cup Action US
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Open Day number two Windom Clark. Everybody was struggling with
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: the conditions yesterday except for Windom Clark. The hotel went
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: six under on the day and finished the day four
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: strokes ahead of anyone else in the field. Right now
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: he has a three stroke lead over Matt Fitzpatrick. And
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: is that Dustin Johnson back on the leader board?
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: Wow?
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: How about that? So three strokes up on them. Wyndham
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Clark has not teed off for today Day number two
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: at Shinnacock. We will have updates for you at eight
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: twenty and also nine to twenty live from New York.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Knick's parade wrapped up yesterday. Quite the event. It sounds
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: like as New York celebrated its basketball team. I mean,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: it is the one team that they all root for
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: in New York City, so quite the spectacle yesterday. The
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: NBA Draft is in four days. They don't monkey around
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: in the National Basketball Association with their calendar.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Season's over.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Let's have the draft and let's have a vacation. College
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: World Series. North Carolina taking on Oklahoma for the title.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Best two out of three this weekend will claim college.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: Baseball's biggest prize.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: The Mariners took two out of three from Baltimore. Brian
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: wu dominated Shane Boss the old wu bos matchup.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: Remember your first pair of.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Wu Bas that you had?
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: No, I do not.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: You know he had to have some Seahawks wu Bas
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: you know, did you not?
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: No, I'm a little older than you, but I hear you.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Thanks for letting me play there. I don't even know
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: what you're speaking out to be honest with you.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: Oh that might have been Zubas.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: That's my bad.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that is completely different. Three nothing the final score.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: We'll talk about that with Mariners morning after here at
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: six thirty, and we will continue our Seahawks one series.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: I know we're really focusing on football today, but that
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: doesn't mean we don't talk football every single show. Rob
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: rang will be joining us today at nine o'clock. He
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: is our analyst who will break down one key Seahawk
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: player for one entire interview. So that comes your way
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: today at nine. And then we are expecting, since we're
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: down here at Jimmy's on First, all sorts of celebrities
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: to pass by that we'll grab and we'll throw on
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: the show. We don't know what to expect over the
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: course of the next four hours, so expect the unexpected.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Matt Stretch Johnson is here. My name is Chuck. I'll
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: special event here at Jimmy's on First today as we
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: get your set for noon US versus Australia. But coming
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: up next we'll talk about our baseball team, Mariners Morning
• 21:10
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• 21:20
  Speaker 1: And finally, I got some of my friends in the crowd.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: We've got a lot of Aussi's here. We're gonna Stralia
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: versus USA and the feet for World Cup.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Who are we going for tomorrow?
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Come on?
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Now?
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: I love that little experience. I love that he asked it,
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Ryan asked it, and then I love that Wove was like.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Shut up, come on now, what a great what a
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: great response.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Don't get me involved?
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: Come on Hey, great Friday morning to you.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Welcome into our second hour here of Chucking Buck in
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: the Morning Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ R FM.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: No Bucky Jacobson, he's on medical leave. But look what
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: we've got is our special co host here on this
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: special day. Matt's Retch Johnson is with us here, very
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: excited to have him for our four hours, and we
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: will get to our special guest here in a moment
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: as well. Let me just mention our headlines here to
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: get the hours started, as we do every single day.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: They're brought to you by Frost Brewed Corps Light. Of course,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: we're gathered here. We have gathered here today to get
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: through this thing called the World Cup US Australia playing
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: today at noon right down the street from US and
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: it is filling up Christian polistic status in doubt, that's
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: how they phrased it. As we do not know as
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: of this moment whether or not the team's best player
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: will suit up for today's match. It is day number
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: two of the US Open. We're gonna get you updates
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: at twenty after the hour. At eight o'clock, nine o'clock hours,
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Wyndham Clark's still leading at six under par he is
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: through six holes today in day number two and the
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Mariners took two out of three from the Baltimore Orioles.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Brian wo dominates three to nothing the final score. As
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: the Mariners win, they will start a brand new series
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: with the Boston Red Sox tonight. Right across the street
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: at Team Mobile, joining us now on the program to
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: discuss this big day, this big event from Fox thirteen.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Aaron would beIN is with us. How are you? Great
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: morning to you?
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: How could you not be good on this great morning?
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: You already feel the buzz in the Sodo area. Were
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: five hours before the start of this match between the
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: US and Australia and they're already fans out from Australia
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: and the United States. I can only imagine what it's
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: gonna look like in an hour or two hours time.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: What a difference an hour makes. I mean, it is
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: a little sleepy.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: There were just you know, service folks around and people
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: leaving and coming and going from the hotel.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: And now, I mean, I.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Know scene setters are scenes, but across the street they're
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: lining up and I mean significant amount of people are
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: down here at seven o'clock just kind of proves what
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: this event really is.
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: And I think it's a big deal that the venue
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: itself opens three hours before the match starts. A lot
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: of the sporting events in Seattle, they'll open their doors
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: an hour and a half, two hours at a time,
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: three hours. We were inside the stadium before Belgium and
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: Egypt and you saw all these fans rushing in because
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: they wanted to see what it was like. This is
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: an entire event this morning that goes all the way
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: down the waterfront from Pier fifty eight to Occidental Squear.
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: Whether you're taking part in a march to the match
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: from one of the piers, or whether you're already down here.
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: It's just gonna be a flood of red, white and blue,
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: is what I hope, and then a spattering of yellow
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: and green for the Aussie fans.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: Well, that will be the way it's going to be here.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Stretch Yeah seven.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: No, they'll they'll stand out.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I mean Australia, they show up, they traveled, They bought
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: after Again, I mentioned in the first segment that after
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: their win up in Vancouver versus Turkey, they bought all
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: the rest of the tickets.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: I mean they bought everything. The price doubled.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: They will be there and you will hear them, and
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: they're the friendliest people on earth. I swear to God,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: they are the friendliest folks. I'm not cheering for him today,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: but between US fans and Australian fans, it's going to
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: be a.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Perfect mix of absolute noise.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Aaron I wanted to ask you, You've been in the
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: city for so many years now, how do you think
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Seattle has done with this setup? They've obviously had four
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: years to plant. The committee is led by some really
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: smart people. How do you think it's happened for them?
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: I think they've blown everything in every expectation away. And
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: there was a lot of skepticism from a whole lot
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: of people all the way up to that very first
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: match here in Seattle on Monday between Belgium and Egypt.
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: I personally didn't expect the stadium to be full, close
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: to full, with sixty six seven hundred fans, and then
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: you look around and it is just a sea of
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: red because Belgium and Egypt both wear red, and I mean,
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: thank goodness, none of the fans were forty nine ers fans,
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: because you kind of get PTSD when you see so much.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Red inside that stadium exactly.
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: But it was great. And it's not just that. It's
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: you look at all across the country. These stadiums are full.
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: Everybody made so much about tickets being so expensive. Well
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: apparently whatever FIFA did is paying off because people are
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: still paying those prices because these stadiums are full. The
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: get in price apparently today is around eighteen hundred dollars
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: just to get inside Seattle Stadium. So listen, I'm excited.
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: You mentioned the AUSSI fans. They showed up well at
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: te Mobile Park yesterday for the Mariners game. The one
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: thing I do worry about is I know they're going
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: to have a strong showing, but I really hope that
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: the American fans are able to drown out the Asse
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: fans in terms of excitement, energy, and Team USA gives
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: them something to root for. I go back to the
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: HBO documentary. If you haven't seen it, I highly encourage
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: everybody to do so. After the Gold Cup loss in
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: Houston last year to Mexico, you saw Mauricio Pochettino starting
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: to cry in his postgame locker room speech, and the
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: reason was he wanted a pro USA crowd so badly
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: for his guys, and he felt that they deserved it
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: so badly that he was drawn to tears. And that's
• 26:59
  Speaker 7: one one of the reasons why that Monday or that
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: last Friday game in Los Angeles was so special. It
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: was not only that the United States beat Paraguay, but
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: they were lifted by the incredible crowd that showed up
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: that was pro USA at Sofi Stadium or Los Angeles
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: Stadium in southern California. And I'm really hoping that Seattle
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: as a soccer city and the history that we have
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: here shows up in a similar way, if not more.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Today, I think you've got your new co host. I'm
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: gonna sit and I'm gonna go. I'm gonna walk down
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: the street. I think you just found your new co host.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: My question to you er, were you here for the
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: US Panama that qualifier? It's funny because I think I
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: watched it on TV. I don't even remember it.
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: In fact, my recollection of the US men's soccer team
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: playing inside Lumen Field is very, very small. And apparently
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: they played against Panama and twenty thirteen in a World
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: Cup qualifier, and then they were back here in twenty
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: sixteen facing what Costa Rica and that was a spur
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: of the moment thing. Since Costa Rica upset Columbia in
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: that champions or whatever league, that's the thing. I'm a
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: soccer fan, but I'm not a soccer fan that necessarily
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: can distinguish between Nations Cup and Confederation confusing.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Its seriously, can it gets confused?
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: I finally got the acronyms right between UEFA and conquer
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: CAF and everything else.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: It's step by step. But that match against Panama was
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: it was very loud. And I mean, you know, we're
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: talking to seattleites tho that have been in there with
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: NFC Championship game and I mean ear bursting the whole
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: deal and beast quakes and things. But that match versus
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Panama was very loud. Today will be. And the first
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: goal is everything, right, the first goal is everything because
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Australia will sit back and not getting into tactics, but
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: they'll just sit back. If they get the goal, it's
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: gonna be. You'll you'll be you'll be pretty surprised how
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: loud it is.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Matt stretch Johnson with us CO hosting Our Gas Aaron
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Levine from Fox thirteen, as we get you ready for
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: high noon today US VERSUS Australia. I mean, I think
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: there's some obvious answers to this, but I just want
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: to get your perspective on. You've covered so many big
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: sporting events in your life. Describe for our audience why
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: this last couple of weeks has been such a different
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: experience for you as a sports journalist.
• 29:14
  Speaker 7: Well, I would say that the way it was advertised
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: to us starting four years ago, whenever Seattle was awarded
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: six games here was that it's not just one super Bowl,
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: it's six different Super Bowls, and it's going to span
• 29:28
  Speaker 7: the course of a couple of weeks here in Seattle.
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: It really has lived up to that hype to this point.
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: Between it's only been one game. We have six games here.
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: But remember that they also host a Round of thirty
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: two game, a Round of sixteen game, and that's one
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: of the reasons why today specifically is so important. Should
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: Team USAY finish first in Group D, they have a
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: chance to play back here in Seattle for that Round
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: of sixteen match, potentially against the winner of Group G.
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: I mean, they would play the Round of thirty two
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: match in San Francisco. If they win that that would
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: be against a third place team and then they have
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: a good chance of winning that they come back here
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: and then we have a second team USA match inside
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: that stadium. But just in general, you talk about the
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: number of big events that have happened inside Blumenfield, it's
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: not just the NFC Championship games. In fact, I would
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: put in my top six experiences inside that venue at
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: least three soccer matches. It would have been MLS Cup
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: when they won and they filled that stadium last year,
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: winning League's Cup against Lionel Messi and Inter Miami.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: I had the.
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: Very same, if not bigger, emotional reaction to the atmosphere
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: inside that stadium as I would in an NFC Championship game.
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: So those are at least two. And winning CONCACAFFT Champions
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: League against Puma's. That was really cool because three days
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: before that match, nobody in Seattle had any idea what
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: CONCACAFT Champions League was, and all of a sudden, the
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: pr from the Sounders all of a sudden took over
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: the city and they were able to fill that ve
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: you in two or three days time, and for them
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: to come out of that one as the very first
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: team from MLS to win Champions League in its current
• 31:07
  Speaker 7: format was such a historic event and it was such
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: a fun night to be part of.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: The the two you just nailed it. The twenty nineteen
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: MLS Cup was a highlight of my life. Let alone
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: that I was lucky enough to be on the call
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: for that match, but everything how it. Atlanta had upset
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: uh NYCFC, so that made Seattle host it and that
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: that was there was not an empty seat, no, And
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: it was loud, and it was special, and it was
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: a three to one resounding win against the good Toronto club.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: And and you're exactly right.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: I love that you brought those those that that up
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: that tied us back into soccer. And and I would
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: love to be speaking to Brian Schmetzer today and see
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: what this match here.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: In his homet called. We did, we called.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: He will be in the stands today.
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: We know that with his family will that's great and.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: Course he will and he'll be there. And it's Goosebump Friday.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: And so what that means to locals with in the
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: in the upper echelon of soccer circles being from Nathan Hale,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: but it's kind of also reward. It's a reward for
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: all the Sounder fans, soccer fans enthusiasts that they can
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: hopefully get into the stadium and see their country, because
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: nothing's bigger than the country. There's club that's unbelievable. You
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: just named off three great matches and then here's your
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: USA to boot.
• 32:26
  Speaker 7: And that's no disrespect at all to the Seattle Seahawks.
• 32:29
  Speaker 7: I mean, the game day environment inside there is second
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: to nine. Oh of course, and yet that League's Cup
• 32:34
  Speaker 7: final against Lionel Messi and Inter Miami last year set
• 32:37
  Speaker 7: a stadium record for attendance. There has never been another
• 32:41
  Speaker 7: sporting event inside the stadium that has had more fans
• 32:45
  Speaker 7: inside the venue than the League's Cup final last August.
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: And again it lived up to the hype, that lived
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: up the expectations. The Sounders win that match three to one,
• 32:53
  Speaker 7: they hoist the trophy and everybody goes crazy. So yeah,
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: MLS Cup champions League Final and certainly League Cup last year.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: And that's why you don't get on social media when
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: people question if Seattle's going to show up for a
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: match like this.
• 33:04
  Speaker 7: Honestly, I'll be the first person to admit. When they
• 33:07
  Speaker 7: announced that the Sounders were going to get an MLS
• 33:10
  Speaker 7: team back in two thousand and eight or so eight.
• 33:13
  Speaker 7: I was one of the most skeptical people ever. First,
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: I was not happy about the Sonics leaving town. And
• 33:18
  Speaker 7: they're like, oh, well this is going to sort of
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: replace No, nothing's going to replace the Sonics.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: And they're not going to fill this venue. Blah blah blah.
• 33:25
  Speaker 7: They had one of the highest attendance averages and they
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: continue to do so on a regular basis. This is
• 33:31
  Speaker 7: a soccer city and that's why I'm hoping beyond hope
• 33:34
  Speaker 7: that the soccer fans show up today, and I believe
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: they will.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: Well, I've already made the mistake, the mistake I was
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: going to try to avoid. Today, I made eye contact
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: with some Aussies.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: So yeah, now they're in my head.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: I got it.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: They probably smiled at you.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: I guarantee you. I'm gonna get a swirly before the
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: end of the day.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: Somebody's gonna hold my head into a toiletlet Yeah, we're
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: gonna trade places for my high school.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, No, they're too busy. They're too busy on
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: their next beer. And honestly, they're just a fun, fun group,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: fun group.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: It does it seem to you, Aaron, as you trapes
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: away around town and run into all of these different fans,
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: I mean on social media, which is usually a platform
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: for the most negative people, and yet I've been I
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: don't know if we've got people that have been positioned
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: by Team USA to send out positive stuff, but it
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: feels like the international visitors.
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: Are having a ball here. Are you getting that impression?
• 34:36
  Speaker 7: Oh, there's no question about it. There are so many
• 34:38
  Speaker 7: fans all across America, international fans, and I don't think
• 34:43
  Speaker 7: they're really plans. These are legitimate fans that are coming
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: to the country and they are seeing the beauty of
• 34:50
  Speaker 7: all of the different cities where there are World Cup
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: venues and Seattle included. And again, we could not have
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: put a better environment together, and we can't control the weather,
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: but it has been beautiful. He did have the hottest
• 35:03
  Speaker 7: day of the year on Monday, but today, I mean,
• 35:06
  Speaker 7: there's a couple clouds in the sky, the sun is out,
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: it's a perfect seventy five seventy six degrees. This is
• 35:11
  Speaker 7: Seattle at its best, and I think that's really a
• 35:14
  Speaker 7: really cool way to showcase the city of the world.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: What it opened up to me was that we take
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: things for granted, right, and we're really quick to criticize
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: either the politics or maybe we see some filth, or
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: maybe we see some issues on Aurora Avenue. And the
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: people that I've talked to is like, you live here,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's gorgeous. You get on a ferry boat,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: we don't go to We don't go to Pike Place
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: on a Sunday anymore and pick up your freshet of
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: romain and go talk to the local farmers. We don't
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: as locals get on as spontaneous. You walk on the
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Bremerton ferry, go have lunch across the other side and
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: come back. You don't go sit or walk on what
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: we call so called beaches with the big rocks and
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: things like that. We live in a beautiful area and
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: ninety nine point nine percent of the people are friendly.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: We live in a friendly, beautiful, gorgeous city. And I
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: think when you live here, things get under the microscope
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: and you forget about these things, and you need outsiders
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: to say, oh my god, this is unbelievable. And yeah,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: and the city's shown out and downtown's is as I'm
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: as proud as downtown because Monday I was a little nervous,
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: to be honest with you, of like, how are they
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: going to how are they going to compare to Soul,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: South Korea who just had it blown up, and it
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: was yeah, this is perfect and utilizing the beauty of
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: the water and utilizing Pioneer Square.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: It's just so it's so fun to be.
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: Here, and it also motivates many of us locals to say, hey,
• 36:44
  Speaker 7: why don't we take the ferry to Bainbridge Island and
• 36:46
  Speaker 7: enjoy a day or go down to Pier sixty two. Listen,
• 36:49
  Speaker 7: I'm taking my son Peer sixty two to the barge.
• 36:52
  Speaker 7: The Sounders are having a viewing party on Sunday. They've
• 36:55
  Speaker 7: been doing so throughout the entire World Cup, and that's
• 36:58
  Speaker 7: something that I normally wouldn't do, is just enjoy the
• 37:01
  Speaker 7: waterfront on a beautiful summer.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, not to get too deep, but take a breath. Yeah, no,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: take a big deep breath and look where you live.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: And we don't we're too busy. But this this couple
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: of weeks and hearing it from the again from the
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: outside of from people who've never seen there or again
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: on social media, the positivity that people are posting.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: Like my gosh, what what were people complaining about a
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: month ago?
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: Right, you know?
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: And so it is another little wake up call for
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: locals of like, no, we do actually live in a
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: gorgeous We're very fortunate here.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: All right, Where are you gonna be today? What do
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: you want to promote today?
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: What do we need?
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: What do we need to know about?
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: What's on your guys? And I'm going straight inside the stadium.
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: I'm joining Aaron Maofski on the field for Good Day
• 37:40
  Speaker 7: Seattle coverage on Fox thirteen. But starting at nine eight
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: soccer fan Aaron soccer player player. Ye, absolutely, she's been
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: excited about this event for years now.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: As well.
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: Starting at nine am, we'll have a special one hour
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: pregame show locally, going wall to wall coverage. We've got
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: reporters all the way down the wall our front of
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: Peer fifty eight to Occidental, even with the Aussies over
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: Victory Hall where they're starting their march to the match.
• 38:06
  Speaker 7: We're also inside and outside the stadium, and also have
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: reporters at viewing parties in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
• 38:12
  Speaker 7: Will lead you up to network pregame coverage starting at
• 38:15
  Speaker 7: ten in the morning. Two hours of that leading up
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: to game time on Fox Today, right.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I don't want to tell you how to
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: do your job, but there might be a little special
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: story that you have overlooked. The salt out there that
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: was going to play for the Sonics.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: That's a whole nother story. But if they hadn't moved
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: to Oklahoma City, he and he.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Was sure he was going to play your investigation believe yes,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: I'll check that out.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: I don't want to go talk to him. Sounds like
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: a real juicy one. Great to see you have a lot,
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: all right, yep. Aaron Levine joining us here Fox thirteen,
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: of course, so you know who's coverage to follow television wise,
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: and you know who's coverage to follow radio wise? Right
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: here was Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ r
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: FM stretches here. I mean we don't we brought in
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: a celebrity for this, so yes, well, really big event.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: Stand for educated. Now I'm feeling even dumb.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: I mean ripping off stats that I was like, oh yeah,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: I was there, Oh yeah, I was at that one.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: And he studied all the flags. He knows all the
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: flags because he was afraid that was gonna come up
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: on Jeopardy so he knows. Yes, Ken Jennings, you're not
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: gonna catch me on that. Jennings, I know all the flags.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: It's Belgium.
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, and any dunce would know that.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Coming up next, the ABC said the MS. Yes,
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: we're here mostly to get you ready for the big
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: event down the street here at noon. I think I
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: might have said earlier that it's two hours away. It is, yes,
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: four and a half now at this stage, four and
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: a half hours away.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: It's like my golf game. It's just closer, yes, getting closer.
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: But coming up next, we're gonna squeeze in some Mariners talk.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: ABC said, the MS comes your way on Sports Radio
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: ninety three point three kJ R f M.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: I think they're gonna get it.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: This isn't rugby, no, No.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: This isn't just a drink fest. Who can drink the most,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: who can be the nicest, who can smile more, who
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: can hug the most?
• 40:11
  Speaker 8: No?
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: I think this is a soccer match. I think the
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: US when we're.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Gonna we're gonna make Kylie Minogue cry today and then
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: we're gonna taste her tears.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: I love your references. I'm sorry. I don't even know
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: who any of these things, these people these uh yeah,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: we'll need that. We'll need that as we do some
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: on site producing.
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: Kylie Mine. Oh I love it that Kylie sure Is. Yeah,
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: that's a cover. Yeah, she's got some hits.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's well known.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: One of my favorite songs in high school.
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: Yes, there you go, liar.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Thank you, actually, thank you. Ashley knows me.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Good morning to you, great morning, thanking to you. It
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: is a Friday.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: We are broadcasting here on your favorite radio station in
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: the Galaxy at Jimmy's on First as we get ready
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: for the Team USA match against Australia. The hype is
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: building around here. The breakfast portion of Jimmy's on First
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: is filled up, people waiting, the bars getting ready to open.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: And that's when the Aussies get the scent in the air.
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: A bar just opened. You smell that.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: First call?
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: And so they'll be here soon, descending upon us with
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: their yellow shirts and their beady eyes as we get
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: ready to face them on the pitch settle this thing once.
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: And for all at high noon.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: But we called in some reinforcements today. Matt Stretch Johnson
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: is with us KJR, a lum former voice of the
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: Seattle Sounders, and he has been to seventy World Cup matches.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Today will mark his seventieth of his life. He and
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: his brother have done this every four years since they
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: were how old four years?
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know, ninety four the math, Yes, since nineteen
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: ninety four.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: Okay, they've done plenty of traveling. Let's put it that way.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: Travel is your keyword. By the way, for the USA giveaway,
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: if you want to shot at twenty five hundred dollars
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: in cash of a two hundred and fifty thousand dollars jackpot,
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: will enter travel at ninety three three kjr dot com
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: right now for your shot at that. So, I've got
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: a soccer expert here with us, and you're.
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: Getting great feedback. By the way, apparently the text line.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: Everybody's very happy to hear you fun and so they're
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: saying you sound good.
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: Ashley and I were talking about it during the break.
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: We're not so sure.
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, A couple of people like, can I get the money?
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: He owes me. I thought that's what I heard Ashley
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: say a little bit of that.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: So apparently you've given a lot of bad scratch tickets
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: over the years.
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: A couple a couple.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: I thought it was a fun gift and it just
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: blew up right in my face because there was no
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: reward and all of a sudden, the gift part.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: It was a great idea. Thank you for the gesture.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: But I'm gonna I'm gonna return the favor here. I'm
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: gonna do something for you because here in this country
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: and you know them, you have you're friends with these
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: people that don't like soccer.
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: We are American sports fansy.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: We like football, basketball, baseball, some of us like hockey.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: But you know what, that soccer just does not work
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: for us. And here are the reasons, ABCD. So I
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: could I kind of.
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: Belong in that category.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: Quite frankly, if I'm being honest, I want our friendship
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: to grow and I don't want to start on a
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: bed of lies.
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: Okay, so I kind.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: Of belong in that group. But today we are celebrating soccer.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: We are celebrating football, we are celebrating America, we are
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: celebrating the World Cup, we are celebrating Matt Stretch Johnson.
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: So I'm going to do you a favor.
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: I'm going to ask all of our questions that an
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: American soccer.
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: Fan deems stupid.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: And I am going to let you answer it, and
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to even fight back. You just tell
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: me your perspective on all of these questions that we've
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: had about a sport.
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: You gotcha?
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: And is this from not necessarily you, but is this
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: more on a bent of a soccer hater, from someone
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: who either deems it completely boring and I'll never be
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: a fan?
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: Yes, okay, yeah, shoot, let's go.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now I've got to do the umbrella. Is I
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: don't defend soccer? I?
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: Oh, I don't, well.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: I don't defend soccer. No, no, no, we'll do that.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: We'll do the we'll do the skin, we'll do the skit.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: I'm happy to do this skit. Not a skit, it's
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: a favor. I gave tickets to a buddy. Yeah, when
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: I was with the Sounders, and this score was nil
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: nil zero zero. The shots on the shots attempted by
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: each team were twenty six to eighteen. It was an unbelievable,
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: entertaining match. And I said, how did you like it?
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: I did the game?
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: I remember it was versus How did you like it?
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: So dumb? So boring? So and I was like, all right,
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: that person will never get into soccer.
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: That's fine.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: The game was as entertaining of a match as you
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: can have. But no goals, right, And I get it.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: Do you need goals American? These goals and no draws?
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: So I don't mean to get ahead of whatever your
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: questions are. I don't fight it, right, I don't fight that.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: I don't fight that person who will not ever get
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: into it.
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: That's the point of this exercise.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: I don't want to fight with it. I don't want
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: to argue about it. I don't even want to have discourse.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: I want you to give your perspective on the questions
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: that people that don't like soccer in this country, and
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: then we cut it off. Yeah, I'm just gonna move
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: on to the next one.
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Cool.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: So what does Matt stretch Johnson think when guys like
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: me would say a sport should never feel good with
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: so many ties?
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: Why are ties okay to a soccer fan?
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: Because every tie is different, every draw is different, every
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: match is different. I just explained. I didn't know you
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: were gonna ask that. There are draws that are thrilling.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: There are draws that are thrilling, thrilling. In the World Cup,
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: it goes up another ten levels draws. When it is
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: a draw, there is so much tension. You're sitting next
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: to someone from Belgium and they need that point, they
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: need the three points for a win. They can't let
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: Egypt score and you can feel it, you can feel
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: their vibe sitting next to you at these World Cup matches.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: A regular season match, yes, it's a massive drop down
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: in that feeling.
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: But the ebb and flow of a soccer game.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: Ziggy Schmid, the late great Ziggi Schmid, used to tell
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: me that goals change games. Yes, that's obvious, but you
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: get that first goal and all of a sudden, the
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: pitch is tilted and you are looking at a completely
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: different perspective, and that other team is dying all of
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: a sudden. Neil nol was one thing. You're down and goal.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: They're dying to have it tied. They're dying to get
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: a point on the road, They're dying to get a
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: point in the first first match of a World Cup.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: So you can't convince MLB fans, you can't convince an
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: NFL fan that a draw is thrilling. They can be
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: completely entertaining because it's the game within the game, and
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: if you're not already into the game, I can't sell
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: you on a draw. But when you're there today, if
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: it's one one in the eightieth minute, I mean, it's
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: a massive deal for both teams. Australia might love a
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: point in Seattle Washington and they've got four points after
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: two matches, and the USA is dying for that next goal.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: And that tension you can feel, you can just taste it,
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: and there's something there. So the draw is a big
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: part of it. And at the end of draws, you
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: watch the players. They're exhausted. They've been fighting, they've been defending,
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: they've been attacking, and draws can be thrilling. But I
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: can't talk everybody into that.
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: Okay, we're not going to do that. Yeah, I want
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: your perspective on this.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: Here's the next one who can live with nil nil.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Ever in a sport, it's tough, no goals scored, it's tough.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: But exactly what I just said, I remember doing the game.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: I remember exactly who we played. It was Sounders hosting
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: Houston Dynamo at three pm on a Saturday, and the
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: Sounders had twenty six shots, not all of them on goal.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: Of course, they had twenty six shots. And it's that
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: old adage. They could play for three days and they
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: weren't gonna score. Same as turkey up there in Vancouver
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: on Saturday. And there are some matches that you are
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: just snake bit. You can that you're either hitting the post,
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: hitting the crossbar, the goalie is just on his head
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: and you're not gonna score. And is hyper hyper disappointing
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: for soccer fans when you don't score again.
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: I can't sell that.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: I can't sell that to somebody that's not into soccer
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: because that's their point.
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: That is the point.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: Not only is it nil nil, not only is it
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: a draw, but nobody scored in this sport we're watching nobody.
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: I can't I can't sell it.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: I love it right because of the tension, because of
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: that want, because that will because you're just aching for
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: your team. My team in in in England is west
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: Ham horrible. We got relegated. We're down to the next division.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: Damn couldn't couldn't score goals. Yeah, that's who will be
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: playing home and home. Couldn't score goals And you're just
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: aching and at the end of the game. Your heartbroken,
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: because that's what it is, because you have ninety minutes
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: and then it's the next week.
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: But nil, nil, I get it, I get it.
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: I understand. Sugar used to tell me he's the famous
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: boxing writer.
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: I used to talk to him. I used to produce
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: a Softy show and I would call him every Wednesday
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: afternoon and you're good for tomorrow. Birch Sugar was amazing.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: Really yeah, what an amazing man, I mean, what a
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: good person.
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: Too used to do. He used to tell me a
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: true boxing fan like he was. Once a draw. They
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: wanted such a good match that you can't.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: That makes sense. And I can hear Bert Sugar saying that,
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: Oh god, Softie's got great Burt Sugar stories.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: All right, next one, Oh right, soccer fan, that's what
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: you are.
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: Well, the.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: I can't stand the flopping. Can't they stop or curb? Stretched?
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, and they're on their way, on their way
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: in this World Cup, it's called mistaken identity. Al Maron,
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: Miguel al Maron in the match versus the USA from Paraguay,
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: Miguel al Moron flopped down like someone shot him. And
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. That's a horrible, but that's the deal. He
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: went down and tim Reim didn't touch him. Tim Reim
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: gets a yellow card, free kick Paraguay. Now in this
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: World Cup, they go to video assistance and tim Reim
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: didn't touch him.
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: Al Maron went down on his own.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: He wanted to induce a free kick late and I
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: don't remember what it was to get a set piece
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: deep in USA's territory and have an advantage. Video assistant
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: said no, no, didn't touch him. So they take the
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: yellow card away from tim Reim and they get a
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: yellow card to Miguel al Morone and he will never
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: If he gets another yellow card, I think he is
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: gonna be he would be suspended for the third game.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: That's how you get it. You have to penalize the player,
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: so there's no more flopping. Nobody wants it. England is
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: almost done with it because late in a match a
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: guy will still go down like someone just absolutely crushed
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: him nothing.
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: The referee will give.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: Him a yellow card immediately and so and a free
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: kick going the other way. So that is being worked on.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: It's been I want to say, it's been in that
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: that way in England for five years. This now with
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: the video assistants. I want to say, this is the
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: very first World Cup that they're using this and it's helpful.
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, can't argue with that. It's it's it's horrible. It's faking.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: You're faking, right, Yeah, it's stupid, but there it's big
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: steps are are have taken place that that's gonna be
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: taken out of the game. All right, next one footballer.
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: You're old boy.
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: I don't like this part. I don't like I don't
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: like this part when you do this go ahead?
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: Next one, uh, penalty. Let's talk about the penalty kick.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: Why in a sport where it's so hard to score.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: Is a penalty kick so easy? And why in a
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: sport do you end a game on pks because that's
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: always that's always a.
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: Discussion too, Like thanks for that.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Champions League Arsenal versus psgus ended in pks
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: and the best center back in the world bluest PK.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: It's still moving. It's it's in a river in Hungary
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: right now. That is also deemed that after ninety minutes
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: and then two fifteen minute halves and there's no goals,
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: this game is not gonna There's not gonna be a
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: goal unless there's a major mistake, a slip something like that.
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: So they go to PK's. That's heartbreaking. You lose your team.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of our fans listening right now that
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: know exactly what I'm talking about. That they lost the
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: Champions League final in PKS. It's not as easy. These
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: guys make it look incredibly easy when you're taking them.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: I took them for my team for about two years
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: until I've missed like three in a row and my
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: confidence went down. There is not a word where my
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: confidence went.
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: It went. I couldn't.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: I couldn't kick a penalty kick. So they make it
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: look easy. Harry Kane made it look easy on Wednesday
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: versus Croatia.
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: You know the box is eighteen.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: You're inside that box if there's a if there's a
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: foul committed, that's that's the rules.
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: That's why if.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: You're on the attack all the time you do have
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: it is a positive because you're putting the defenders on
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: their back heel. They don't want to value in the
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: box because that will happen. So that's the penalty. I mean,
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: you can't, you know, it's a sacred area. You're really
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: close to the goal. The defender just can't start hacking
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: players hacking players. My thought is that ending games on
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: pks is brutal, but there is no right now, that's
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: the way they end them, and there's no I mean,
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: it's it's rough, it's it's terrible.
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I just don't like the comment. Oh I'm not
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: supposed to comment.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: Oh no, no, you're the you're the soccer hater. You're
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: the guy that doesn't like soccer.
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: So go ahead.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: I'm good theatrical susmination.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: Of the flop and and the penalty K. Yeah for sure,
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: I'm out on that.
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't the good referees and I just I
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: reference your I reference England. I watch most games, so
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: I'll watch four or five games a weekend, and those
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: referees are four yards to seven yards away, and they
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: know that the guy went down without it nothing happening, right,
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: if they call it PK, it does go to video
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: assistant refereeing and they clean that up and they get
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: that right. But yeah, the flopping, the floppings horrible. I mean,
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: flopping's horrible, and it's getting out of the.
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: Game all right.
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: Last one, Let's see if he can spin this one
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: see if he can spin it like Beckham, Uh.
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: Posh, spice keep going.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: Is there anything that can be changed with extra time
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: because not knowing exactly when the game is ending is weird.
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: Yes, they have worked on that for you.
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: Okay, mister sophomore.
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: Now you'll see you'll see not only on TV, but
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: now in the stadiums they'll show the extra time up
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: on the big screen.
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: That's new. You never saw. Okay, four minutes.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: I would always go to my phone, Jackson Felts would
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: always go to his phone, hit his stop watching what
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: is four minutes? I did it when I was a
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: Sounders broadcaster, like what is four minutes? Because it's nowhere
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: in the stadium now and I can't answer for MLS
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: and I don't go see English games live, but in
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: the screens on the big screen at Seattle Stadium today
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: will have the extra time, the clock moving, and you
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: will see it will not only be on the TV screen,
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: It'll be on that big screen. Yeah, it's frustrating. I
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: went to a lot of high school soccer two weeks ago.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: I think I saw you down there in I was
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: surprised you were there. But they they at with two
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: minutes the announcer comes on and says, I mean with
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: two minutes left.
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: There's an announcement that says.
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: The final minutes of the match will be held on
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: the field, And you're like what, And there's no board
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: that says four minutes or five minutes. You have no
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: idea when it's gonna end. Now you see the referee
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: talking to both coaches and he's telling the players, yeah,
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: there's four minutes or you could see him because I
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: was intent on how much times left. But now at
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: the World Cup, you see in Seattle Stadium up on
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: the big.
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: Screen, so that is cleared up. All right, you're doing.
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: This is good, This is much better. I feel much
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: better than I thought I would get it off your chest. Well, no,
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: I'm not getting anything off my chest because I still
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: can't stand flopping. I still can't defend nil nil, I
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: can't defend peek's. There's a lot of stuff I can't defend.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: But again, in Seattle, at five years old, we grew
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: up here in Seattle going playing soccer.
• 57:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, everyone did.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: A lot of people petered out, a lot of people like, no,
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: it's not for me. I'm gonna go play baseball. I'm
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: better football. I'm better, but a lot of us I
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: have two fake hips. A lot of us are stuck
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: with it.
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: You can't tell thank.
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: You while I run to the bathroom. Yeah, a lot
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: of us just stuck with it. My brother's forty five,
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: fifty years into his soccer career, and and so we
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: just it's just ingrain. This is just what you've been
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: born with. This is just what you've grown up with.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: And and some of it you can't defend because it
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: is kooky or hackey or get up, why are you?
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: That is the biggest one is flopping.
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: I noticed you mentioned Jackson Felts. Have you met him?
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: Do you know?
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: I've been I was lucky enough to call him a
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: coworker during the broadcast, So yes, he was a co worker.
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: I was coworkers of his. I think he was the
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: pregame and postgame so actually he was my boss. Is
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: that right? Yes, how you viewed it, that's right, that's
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: how I Maybe that's why I'm out of a job,
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: you know, Maybe that's why I got kicked out. I
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: don't know, but yes, talk about a guy with passionate
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: about soccer. I got a great story if it comes up. Uh,
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: when we when we have him on.
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: All right, well he's gonna come on next. All right,
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: we got Stretch here. That was a good exercise. I'm
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: glad we did that. I'm closer to you.
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yeah, it's it's been coming.
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: It's been coming, it's been yeah, it's been.
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: All right, Jackson's gonna join us next Sports Radio ninety
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: three point three kJ A r f M Soccer use
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: and they are now descending into Jimmy's on first to
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: drink all of our beer.
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: Here they are. Look at the look at the look
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: look at that, look at that the fierce determination on
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: their face.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: Just good looking people and looking smiling and like, hey,
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: how's like you can't like you can't dislike them? Oh?
• 58:44
  Speaker 4: I can't dislike them?
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: I know. Uh, Matt Stretch Johnson our special co hosts
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: today And lookie, lookie who stopped by our set.
• 58:53
  Speaker 4: It's our own soccer superstar, Jackson Felts is with us.
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: How are you, sir? How you fail?
• 59:00
  Speaker 8: Let's let's go here we go less than four hours
• 59:03
  Speaker 8: from kick Yeah, do you know Jackson?
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's exactly the Jackson I know actually, because
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: that's all when I worked with him that's that was
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: the version I got, And I was like, oh, your
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: poor hearts, your poor circular. Oh die in sixty it's okay, yeah,
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: don't say that, but yes, uh yeah, I just go
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: into my what I was saying, like, I want, yes,
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: my version, my version of Jackson now we had. I
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: was lucky enough in the five years that I was
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: broadcasting when I was a play by play radio man
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: for the Sounders, we were looking enough to go to
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: four Cups. My first year we won in Toronto. It
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: was unbelievable. P K's you know, I mean crazy. Next
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: year we go up there, they were the better team.
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: They win two to one. I think it was still
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: a great season, a great venture, but it was very disappointing.
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: A year goes by and two years go by, and
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: I was in nineteen was magical. Just we were a
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: really good team and the team that went down to
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: l a f C. That was my highlight of a
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: sports career was that match down in l a f C.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: They were dominant all year, record breaking all year. We
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: go down and win three to one and literally kick
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: their ass. Yeah, our best players played their best matches.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: I'm here comes to coosbu all day, all day, best
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: performance in Sounder history. Laru Diaz, Morris, Nico Ldero, our
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: back four, our goal, the whole thing. So that sets
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: us up for MLS Cup. Everybody assumes we're going to Atlanta.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: Everybody it's it was. They were the best team in
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: the East. They had a better record than the Sounders.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: We're going to Atlanta, and all of a sudden, Toronto
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: upsets Atlanta on a Tuesday night, I believe. And that
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: Tuesday night, get your tickets.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 4: Here we go.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: It wasn't even a pr machine as you said earlier,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: Needed or Aaron Levine said, needed place was sold out.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: Not an empty seat, how the goosebumps, not an empty seat, right,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: And so they're crescendo. We have great access. We talked
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: to the players. Bright Schmetzer's right next to us. We're
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: just the whole week was it was special. It was special.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: We're right involved. Well, we end up winning, and I
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: mean we're we're up. No, we're up three to zero
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: into the ninetieth they get a consolation goal, even though
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: it was a superb consolation goal by outa door. And
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: so it's it's done and dusted, as they say, right,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: it's the game is in hand in the eightieth It's done.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: It's done. I'm having trouble breathing in the last couple
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: of minutes as I'm a Seattle light. There are sixty
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: six thousand people record for an MLS Cup.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 4: All my friends are there.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: We're on the field afterwards, and Jackson tries to take
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: the microphone to start the postgame show, and I'm standing
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: there grabbing my stuff and I'm all, whatever, I'm gonna
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: go down on the field. I'm a baller with a badge,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: you know, And I'm gonna go down and take pictures
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: and maybe get an interview. And Jackson Felt starts up
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: postgame show and there's a pause and he says, I
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: don't even know what to say. I don't I can't
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: even breathe.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 4: I can't.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: I can't believe this happened.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: And I'm looking at him, like, really, I mean, this
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: game was done in the eightieth so he's had fifteen minutes.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: But he was so jacked up. It was so I
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: don't mean anything. It was so precious. That's that's the
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: word my mother would use. It was so precious. And
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: I was thinking, I remember the words I said. I
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: can't say him on the air, and I'm like, man,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: damn him, that's awesome. It was so genuine and I
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: was like, that's a freak right there, that's that's an
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: interesting person who fifteen minutes later can't absorb that we
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: won and put words in And it was awesome because
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: then Pete Fewing joins him in Wade Weber, I believe
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: Danny Jackson and Danny Jackson and it was a great
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: postgame show. I got your players from down on the
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: three album field three hours on. They would still be
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: going on if it was up to Jackson. But his
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: his passion, it's what soccer fans are, right, it's what
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: he would say, Yeah, Neil Nil is still great.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 3: That's soccer and it was entertaining.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: But his passion after that game was something I vividly remember. Yeah,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: six years later, seven years later, and it's so cool
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: that he's so involved still and it's his deal.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 8: So the chill chill is just like here because that
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 8: was I remember. I remember crying on the air. I
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 8: remember saying, it's the greatest day. It's the greatest day
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 8: in Seattle soccer. His softy, he's the softy soccer.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: So today what does today mean for you as the
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  Speaker 1: USA comes to Seattle?
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  Speaker 4: Jeez?
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  Speaker 8: I mean it's it's right there at the twenty nineteen
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  Speaker 8: level of that MLS Cup. I mean we got to
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  Speaker 8: set the stakes here. I mean the United States and
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  Speaker 8: men's national team has played here what about a dozen times, right,
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  Speaker 8: but World Cup steaks and not only the luckily look
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  Speaker 8: at the actual individual game.
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  Speaker 4: United States gonna win today.
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  Speaker 8: If everything falls right, we could win the group today,
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  Speaker 8: we could secure ourselves a spot in the knockout round.
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  Speaker 8: And then additionally, so if you win the group, you're
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  Speaker 8: facing a third place team in the round of thirty two. Well,
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  Speaker 8: you win that game, you're back here at this stadium
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  Speaker 8: for the round of sixteen against potentially in Egypt or
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  Speaker 8: of Belgium.
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  Speaker 1: I mean the stakes for today a winnable match, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, very much.
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  Speaker 8: I mean like we're talking about a situation right now
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  Speaker 8: where United States wins today and.
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  Speaker 4: Look at all the stars and stripes.
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  Speaker 1: This is incredible.
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  Speaker 8: If they play behind this crowd and they win, then
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  Speaker 8: we could be talking about a magical run that gets
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  Speaker 8: remembered for the next one hundred years of US soccer.
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Felts, I mean that's all you wanted right there, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's all you wanted.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna take a break here and then we'll come
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  Speaker 2: back and get Jackson's thoughts on the actual match itself.
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  Speaker 1: But we got passion. We got passion spilling out from
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  Speaker 1: every poor.
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  Speaker 3: You're surrounded by. Good luck, good luck.
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  Speaker 4: Brother.
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  Speaker 2: I got painted in the corner by a couple of
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: soccer nut bags. It's Sports Radio ninety three point three
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: kJ RFM. Jackson Felts, our soccer expert. It's Sports Radio
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: ninety three point three AHRFM here with Scretch and I
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: all right, so Christian poolisic. We don't know if he's
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  Speaker 2: going to play. Have you gotten an update? And how
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: concerned are you if he doesn't play?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: So he's been limited all week and I think that
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  Speaker 8: concerns me because I don't like the fact that he
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  Speaker 8: hasn't played in turner of the team, not that he
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 8: has to. I think they could, you know, seamlessly integrate
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 8: him back in. But the question is, obviously, if he's
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 8: not good to start, and you say, if you're Mauricio
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 8: Pochattino and you want to say, all right, let's just
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 8: play conservatively, we know we need him for the third
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  Speaker 8: game against Turkey. We know we need him for a
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  Speaker 8: round to thirty two, round of sixteen, then let's just
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  Speaker 8: play conservatively.
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  Speaker 4: The question is, then, what do you do? Uh?
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  Speaker 8: Geo Reina had that great goal at the end of
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 8: the Paraguay game, and I think he's the obvious choice
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 8: to go in there. You switch around the midfield a
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 8: little bit, not doesn't need to change too much, But overall,
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  Speaker 8: I would say my concern level Chuck is probably at
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 8: about a four, just because I think there's so much
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 8: talent other than Christian Polisic that even if we don't
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 8: have the superstar, I think we're gonna.
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  Speaker 4: Be okay for the United States. Are you a fan
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 4: of Brendan Aronson? No, not really. I mean I love it,
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  Speaker 4: not for the starting lineup.
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  Speaker 8: Like listen, you know a role player to come off
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  Speaker 8: the bench, but I'm not starting Aaronson in a game
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  Speaker 8: like this. Giororina is I think the one obvious choice
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  Speaker 8: if we're missing Christian.
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  Speaker 4: I keep hearing that we're weak on our back line.
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  Speaker 4: Is that true? And how much would that matter?
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  Speaker 8: I think we were without Chris Richards. Now that Chris,
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  Speaker 8: he's kind of our big main center back. He's he's
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  Speaker 8: been so against Paraguay, his passing was eighty three out
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  Speaker 8: of eighty three. That is the most passes with a
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  Speaker 8: one hundred percent completion rate in the World Cup since
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  Speaker 8: nineteen sixty six. Having Chris Richards back in that back
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  Speaker 8: line now that he's healthy, just changes the entire dynamic
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  Speaker 8: of this team. So now we went from my think
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  Speaker 8: very concerning back when in those friendlies leading up to
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  Speaker 8: the World Cup. It was very concerning, especially go all
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 8: the way back to the Belgium game where they dropped
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  Speaker 8: five on us. But now I don't I don't have
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  Speaker 8: very much. I mean, Australia is an athletic team, They're
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  Speaker 8: a good team. They can certainly get up. They got
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  Speaker 8: a couple of big center backs. But I'm not as
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  Speaker 8: concerned now on the defensive end, now that Chris.
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  Speaker 3: Is back, I got nothing that's fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that that that he just literally broke down
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  Speaker 1: the collective with him inserted and being healthy in the back,
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  Speaker 1: with Reeing Desk and and and uh.
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  Speaker 4: And Robinson. Yeah right, I mean it.
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  Speaker 1: Is a collective that can shut this Australian team down.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not as concerned with Polisic as as maybe most are,
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  Speaker 1: because you need him healthy a hundred percent, not even
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  Speaker 1: for the Turkey match. Let's get a point there, we
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  Speaker 1: win the group. You need him healthy in the round
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  Speaker 1: of thirty two. Absolutely positively. This is a tournament that's
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  Speaker 1: three matches long. Everyone's got to have patience. Even the
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  Speaker 1: teams like Bain Paraguay, Turkey that didn't get the amount
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: of points they wanted zero or one, they still have chances.
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  Speaker 3: Teams have chances. I just think the team is USA
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  Speaker 3: is better.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: If you I'm a fan of Brandon Arenson, I think
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: he's got a motor. Yes, he might not be as creative,
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: but he will get the loose ball. He will he
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: will not make a pass that you're shaking your head at.
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  Speaker 1: Your point with Raina is spot on, I mean absolutely
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: spot on. So all of a sudden, we're talking about
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: a US team that has options, which is bizarro for
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: USA fans, right, I mean this is we didn't go
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: to the World Cup in Russia. You know this this team,
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  Speaker 1: this isn't a team since two thousand and two made
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: the quarterfinals, lost to Germany, and that was the run
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: he made. Jackson made a perfect point this is on
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  Speaker 1: paper and or in our thoughts and in our hearts.
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  Speaker 1: We're on our way to possibly get into the round
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  Speaker 1: of sixteen against a beatable team. The way this is
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: set up, Egypt doesn't scare me, No Belgium, but get
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: past that round to thirty two down in Santa Clara,
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: because good third place teams can show up. It'll be
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: some scrappy ones. But his point right there is what
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: I took aways. We have little depth on the outside
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: in the midfield that we've never had.
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  Speaker 2: What should what is the appropriate reaction to a win,
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: to a draw, to a loss today.
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  Speaker 8: I think part of that changes with the Turkey Paraguay
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  Speaker 8: result later tonight, because that could effectively, if you win,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 8: clinch the group for the United States. There's results in
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 8: those gold differentials, and then there's all that that play
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 8: in a role here. But a win and beer going
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 8: everywhere post game and from from two to six pm
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 8: a lot occidental with beer and tequila flying, celebrations around
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  Speaker 8: because at that point we're at six points. Only Australia
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  Speaker 8: could catch us, and we're really just in more than
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 8: the driver's seat to win this group a draw. You know,
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  Speaker 8: I think there's still some confidence going in, but at
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 8: that point your level with Australia for the group and
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 8: they face Paraguay, who I think is very beatable. For Australia,
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 8: we face Turkey, who I think is better. So I
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  Speaker 8: think that that comes with some nerves and a loss.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think.
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  Speaker 8: I think a loss would be just immensely disappointing because
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  Speaker 8: you're on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, immensely disappointing making Turkey next week. I must win
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: and then you win that match against Turkey. Who's Who's
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: you know again? Is to Jackson's point tonight at eight o'clock.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: I believe it is eight o'clock. Paraguay. Turkey will settle
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: the table after two. It's a big deal. But then
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  Speaker 1: you go down and you should beat Turkey in a
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  Speaker 1: must win match. It'll be very tight, it'll be very even.
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  Speaker 1: The odds will say that. But you win that game
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  Speaker 1: and then you move forward. That's the World Cup a win.
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  Speaker 3: Today.
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  Speaker 1: Pioneer Square is busy until midnight, I mean literally, because
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: the Australians don't care their party and they still have
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  Speaker 1: three points.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah right, they can.
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  Speaker 1: They can play their last game against Paraway. Paraguay get one.
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  Speaker 1: If tonight's a draw that's what we're hoping for tonight
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: is a draw. We win this it's it's a party,
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: but great, I mean he analyzed it perfectly. Still a loss,
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  Speaker 1: it's in your hands because you have those three points
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  Speaker 1: in your pocket and you go down to La next
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: week and beat her.
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  Speaker 4: So very disappointing, but not devastating.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: Yes, very disappointing, especially I mean yes, especially with this atmosphere.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: I don't see it happening now. I do not see
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: it happening. I think the worst is a draw and
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: they'll be like rats, that's a damn it. I agree,
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: damn it. But I don't see that happening. A loss
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: I don't see happening. And so it could be a
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: special special day here starting in two a couple hours.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 8: I think it's a win and I and I think
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  Speaker 8: I think it could be a big win because Australia
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 8: is so athletic stretch. I mean, they're gonna want to
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 8: run like Metcalf's gonna get up on that wing and
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 8: they're gonna want to run and gun a little bit.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 8: And if they commit too many numbers forward and if
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  Speaker 8: they do that early, I don't see that happening.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: I don't see that happening. They I don't see that happening.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: I don't think we're gonna they want to dream.
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  Speaker 4: I want a dream.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, I love the debate because I don't see
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: them opening up themselves. I don't see them leaving space
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: behind their midfield.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 3: I don't see it. They're gonna be disciplined.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: They've got they've got three points in an upset, and
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: that first goal, this first goal is one of the
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: biggest deals in you and I's history of watching this
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: sport with the USA. The first goal will determine everything.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 4: All Right, what's your day like then? Today?
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 8: Okay, So from here, I think I go move my
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 8: car because I'm in a two hour spot. I come
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 8: back here at Jimmy's. I put on something other than
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 8: the United States Jersey, go into the stadium and just
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 8: settle in the atmosphere for an hour. Head to the station,
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 8: pregame at eleven thirty, kick off at noon on with
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 8: Dick Fane for postgame at two thirty. We'll we do
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 8: our post game show for Lightheart at two o'clock. Dick
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 8: Fane starts at two thirty here from Jimmy's, and it's
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 8: just an absolute party. Until Andrews has a game later tonight.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 4: So here we go. Have a great day.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Jackson straight Jackson Speltz with this right here
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: on Chuck and Buck in the morning. All Right, we
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: got more with stretch coming up at nine thirty. But
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: hey man, uh, when I say we're gonna do a
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: Seahawks one series and that's a daily breakdown of the Seahawks,
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: nothing stops.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 4: Oh, nothing stops me. Just try to get in my way.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: Not four SOCCA rows could stop me from doing the
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: Seahawks one series. Next with Rob rang Sports Radio ninety
• 1:13:16
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  Speaker 2: we packed the joints. It's a stretch and eye. I
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• 1:13:26
  Speaker 4: Wow, yeah, packed up.
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  Speaker 1: It started at about eight ap seven thirty, and I
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: mean there's a buzz.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is fun. Three hours before kick.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: You feel it. I mean I'm not being a smart
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: as I mean you feel this.
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  Speaker 4: So this isn't for They didn't just come up to
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 4: hear our show. No, most of them.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: I paid the front row here. Okay, yeah, okay, I
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: mean this is awesome. This is the Streaks are packed.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, our packed.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: That's nine am, nine am on a Friday. They're European.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: We've got an Old Day event.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: Here, so we are excited to bring it to you
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: from Jimmy's on first and of course so we'll have
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: other shows. Greig Bell will be broadcasting here as well.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: Dick Fane'll be broadcasting here with Jackson Feltz. We've got
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: some other things that we want to take care. We
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: got a US Open update coming for your way at
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: twenty after. But before I get off soccer, just quickly
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: if I haven't reminded you over and over, we are
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: broadcasting the match today at noon right here on KJR.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: So we're going to bring that to you at noon
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• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: But also we have done throughout the entire month of
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: June for a number of years now our Seahawks One
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  Speaker 2: series where we invite one of our top analysts in town,
• 1:14:45
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• 1:14:49
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  Speaker 4: You know him as our draft expert here in town.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: But He also does the Lockdown Seahawks podcast with Corbyn
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: Smith as well, and believe me, he follows the Seahawks
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: just as closely as all of you do listening. Rob
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: rang now joins us here on Chuck and Buck in
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  Speaker 2: the morning.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, Rob, Good morning gentlemen. Thanks so much for
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 5: having me.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, it's great to have you. Thanks for being with us.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 4: You got any World Cup fever at all?
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 5: Be honest, I absolutely do, and I'm not.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 9: I wouldn't call myself a big soccer fan, but you know,
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 9: I think it's impossible not to get excited about just
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 9: all all the buzz in the air, the fact that
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 9: America looked as good as it did and it's opening round.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 9: Australians heck of a team, and so I think that
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 9: it's gonna be a magical environment for you guys to enjoy.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 9: And I can't wait to listen to the broadcast of
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 9: the game itself on KJEN.
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  Speaker 4: What can't Rob do?
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: He just?
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 4: What can't Rob you?
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: That was ninety seconds of what we didn't think of
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: a soccer and you know of a soccer breakdown?
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  Speaker 2: By the way, Rob, when does the MLS draft breakdown
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: come from?
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: You?
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  Speaker 2: What are your when's that podcast come out? When you
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: break down the MLS draft?
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  Speaker 9: So I'm working on that as we speak, gentlemen, you know,
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 9: I mean that's that's a whole different, whole different off
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 9: season there for me.
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  Speaker 2: So well, let's let's show off your Seahawks knowledge. I
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: love having Rob on for our Seahawks one series.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: And who has Rob rang chosen to break down for
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: us today?
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 9: Well, I just have wanted to go with h you know,
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 9: the low hanging fruit so to speak, and that being
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 9: Derek Hall. And I say low hanging fruit because of
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 9: course that he just extended, uh you or he was
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 9: extended at the.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 5: Contract, the three year, forty two million dollar deal.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 9: So there's some people out there who are, you know,
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 9: kind of excited about what the Seahawks might be doing
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 9: with the cornerback Devin Witherspoon.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 5: He was a consideration as well.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 9: But with Derek Call, I just think that his story
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 9: is so fascinating that that he almost demanded it to
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 9: be have a have a stronger spotlight placed on him.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 9: So I'm kind of excited to talk about him and
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 9: how the impact I think he's gonna have for the Seahawks.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about that what makes you so fascinated?
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: You called it fast him fascinating. What what about Derek
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: Call do you find fascinating?
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 9: Rob Well, and certainly just the beginning, you know, and
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 9: a lot of Seahawks fans have heard this story. But
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 9: it's such an inspirational story. And today is such a
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 9: day of celebrations we're talking about just with America hosting
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 9: Australia in the.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 5: World Cup with Derek Call.
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  Speaker 9: Of course, you know, he was born four months premature,
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 9: and again a lot of people know this story, but
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 9: four months premature, he was literally given a one percent
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 9: chance of survival by the doctors, and he spent five
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 9: months in a NICQ unit. And then when it was
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 9: obvious that he was going to survive, he still was
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 9: a very sickly young boy, as his mother opted to
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 9: put him in in flag football and elementary school literally
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 9: to try to expand his lung capacity. And for him
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 9: to become, you know, a college level athlete, an NFL athlete,
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 9: is just a remarkable story of perseverance and grit in itself.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 9: For him to become a young superstar for the Seattle
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 9: Seahawks obviously just makes the story that much more inspirational.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 9: He's six foot three, he's two hundred and fifty four pounds.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 9: I mean, he has absolutely chiseled and one of the
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 9: numbers that I always yeah, exactly one of the numbers
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 9: I always look at when evaluating edge rushers is a
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 9: lot of people focus on the forty yard dash time
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 9: and that's important, and he had four point five to
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 9: five seconds at two hundred and fifty four pounds. I mean,
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 9: that's absolutely flying. But it's a thirty four and a
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 9: half inch arms and so he is he has the
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 9: arm length to really be able to set a firm
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 9: edge and then also be able to knock away off
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 9: of the tackles trying to you know, keep him corraled.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 9: As a pass rusher, he doesn't have a gaudy sacked numbers.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 9: You only had two sacks during the regular season a
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 9: year ago, but he had two sacks in the Super
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 9: Bowl as well.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 5: And so when he has.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 9: Advantageous opportunities in front of him that I really do
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 9: think that he is a better player than his statistics
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 9: to suggest. And with Tender Nwosu and DeMarcus Lawrence, as
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 9: great a players as they are, they are aging players.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 5: I think that it was very wise of the Seahawks
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 5: to look at just extending this young man's contract because
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 5: of who he is on and off the field.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 9: And again, I just believe that he is just going
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 9: to be a better player a couple of years from
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 9: now than what the Seahawks have already seen.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: Rob Rangus with us for our Seahawks One series, one
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: of our local analysts breaking down one key Seahawk player
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: for one entire interview.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 4: He has chosen Derek Hall, the edge rusher.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: Why is Derek Hall worth the money?
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 4: One?
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: And then two?
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: A lot of people believe if he would hit the
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: free agent market, he would have been worth a lot more.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 4: So, why do you think Derek Hale signed for that
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 4: amount of money?
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 9: Well, and Derek Call himself has kind of answered the
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 9: latter part of your question, Chuck, and that he just
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 9: really appreciates the environment, the the desire to compete for
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 9: a Super Bowl championship year and a year out. Of
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 9: course every team says that, but how many teams are
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 9: are you actually see the one hundred percent participation of
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 9: the veterans and and just the you know, twelve is
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 9: one type of mentality that the Seahawks have have adopted
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 9: throughout his time here in Seattle. So I think that
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 9: that's a huge part of it. It's it's difficult to
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 9: leave a super Bowl champion. And I think that the
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 9: the perspective that he gained with his early life struggles,
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 9: I think that might be why he's a little bit
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 9: more willing to uh to to sign perhaps for a
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 9: little bit less money, for a real home that.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 5: He feels comfortable with.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 9: And and certainly the Seahawks have embraced him and his family,
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 9: uh and his hobby of the you know, building the
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 9: massive trucks and things like that that again make him
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 9: as a fasting.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 5: Person off the field as well as on it.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 9: And then to your point, Chuck about the possibility that
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 9: he might be able to get paid more. You know what,
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 9: we just saw boy Mafe, who also didn't have great
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 9: sack production, you know, sign that deal three years, sixty
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 9: million dollars. Again, Derek Call, three years forty two million dollars.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 9: I mean eighteen million dollars is a lot more money, obviously,
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 9: and I do believe that Derek Call, if he builds
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 9: upon his sack numbers this year, which I expect him
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 9: to do, I think that he could have commanded more
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 9: money on the open market.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 5: But I just think that it was a wonderful.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 9: A wonderful move by the Seahawks to extend a young player.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 9: Who's who's violence, who's deep, who's the way the violent,
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 9: the way in which he plays the game, the consistency
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 9: with how he approaches the game.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 5: I think that that is just sends a message to
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 5: the to the.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 9: Rest of the locker room as well as to the
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 9: fan base that the Seahawks are not going to be
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 9: one and done compete for Super Bowls.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 5: This is this could be a you know, quite the
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 5: dynasty run here that they're setting up.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: Point blank, would you rather have had Mafe going forward
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 2: or Haul going forward?
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 5: Derek Haugh hands down. You know, boy Mafe's pass rush ability.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 5: I guess I would.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 9: I would use a you know, mix my analogies here,
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 9: and I don't. Unfortunately, I don't know soccer well enough
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 9: to use a soccer annalycesis I'm gonna swing to baseball here,
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 9: and to me, boy Mafe is that one dimensional player. Well,
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 9: maybe he's a base stealer, maybe he's a home run hitter,
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 9: but he is not a well rounded player.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 5: Whereas Derek calm.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 9: To me, that is the best aspect about him is
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 9: I don't know that there's a better player on Seattle's defense.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 9: And when it comes to just stopping the run, those
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 9: thirty four and a half inch arms.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 5: We talked about, he's very, very strong at.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 9: The point of attack, not just with his again bench
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 9: press members, but his his core strength.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 5: He just plants his feet into the ground and he's
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 5: like a tree stump. I mean, he is just difficult
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 5: to move.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 9: And so that is the basis of why Sele's linebackers
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 9: and safeties are able to make as many plays as
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 9: they are, just because they don't have to worry about
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 9: blockers giving to him. Because big number fifty eight is
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 9: among the big defensive linemen up there at the point
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 9: of attack who are kind of holding down the four.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 9: And so I think that that unselfish style of play
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 9: again just carries over. And I do believe that you're
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 9: going to see it uptick in sacks. I don't believe
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 9: you're ever going to see him be a ten sack
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 9: kind of a player. I want to have realistic expectations.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 9: He had eight sacks two years ago, and when I
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 9: watched all eight of those sacks. In preparation for this video,
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 9: I saw a lot of frankly coverage sacks where he
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 9: just his motor and a relentless effort kind of got
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 9: him those sacks. He's not a quick win type of
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 9: a guy, but what he does do is he's very
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 9: rarely out of position, and that was something that boy
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 9: Mafe sometimes would take a really wide loop to get
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 9: to the quarterback and then leave easy running opportunities for
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 9: alert scrambling quarterbacks to take advantage of off here again,
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 9: that one dimensional. Very good in that one dimension. I
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 9: think he's gonna be a heck of a player for
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 9: the Cincinnati Bengals. But for my money, I would absolutely
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 9: take Derek calls all around game rather than the one uh,
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 9: the single edge approach that that boy mafy off him
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 9: and rob in.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: This whole breakdown, you haven't said the name Mike McDonald.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: Is this a perfect chess piece for Mike McDonald and
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: his defense.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 5: I believe that he is stretched and it's good to
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 5: hear your voice there. It's been a long time. It's
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 5: I think, yeah, I love me too about it.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 9: I mean, it's you know, it's it's funny because Mike McDonald.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 9: I mean he he is kind of a stoic person.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 9: He's all about, uh, just kind of doing your job.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 9: And you know, and I think that he appreciates the
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 9: physicality and the violence and the consistency which Derek Hall, uh,
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 9: you know that Derek Call just epitomizes all of those things.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 9: And so I just think that that that Derek Hall
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 9: almost could be like, you know, we're again, We're at
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 9: the World Cup. There's so many different mascots and images
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 9: and chants and things that people use.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 5: I think, in a way, you could almost make.
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 9: A Derek Hall bobblehead, so to speak, that would almost
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 9: epitomize the toughness and grit that the Seahawks like to
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 9: believe of themselves.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 4: Rob rang is with us for our Seahawks one series.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 2: So one of our top analysts in town breaking out
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 2: one key Shawk player for one entire interview. His subject
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 2: matter is Derek Hall here on the radio program. And
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: of course you know a special violent hitter. You've mentioned
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 2: that a couple of times. Is he the most violent?
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 2: Is he the most physical player on this roster?
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 9: I think it's gonna be either he DeMarcus Lawrence definitely
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 9: is an the one that comes to mind. And then
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 9: for pound for pound and think you got to include
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 9: Nicky Manwarr and Devil Witherspoon.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 5: But again, I think we're talking about four of Seawle's
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 5: absolute best players.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 9: You know, I think of a big man like a
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 9: Leonard Williams, and he can win with violence, but he's
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 9: just so incredibly athletic at his size that you also
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 9: have to acknowledge that. To me, with Derek Hall, if
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 9: he wasn't a you know, I think a maybe not
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 9: a Pro Bowl caliber edge rusher, I think that he
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 9: is maybe that to take below that and certainly a
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 9: quality starter for a championship caliber team. To me, the
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 9: thing I again, I think to see how fans are
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 9: going to appreciate about him, it is just the consistency
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 9: with which he plays the game, and I do think
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 9: that that is something that again is it is why
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 9: that he was extended in the first place, and why
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 9: that he should be a fan favor for off a
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 9: long time to come.
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 2: I think back to our draft coverage and before the
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 2: draft talking about the need for an edge rusher, and
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 2: then during the draft we were waiting and waiting for
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: an edge rusher. They never did draft one. Now, they
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: did sign a veteran in Dante Fowlers Junior. But as
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 2: we sit here on June nineteenth, still five weeks away
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 2: from training camp, in Rob Rang's expert opinion, are the
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 2: Seahawks one edge rusher short right now?
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: I don't believe.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 8: So.
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 9: I do think that Dante follow is going to be
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 9: able to play that speed rusher role that that boy
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 9: Mafe did a year ago. And I also think that
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 9: if the recently concluded OTA's and Mini camps are any indication,
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 9: then the Seahawks are going to be using Nicky Manwori
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 9: a little bit more as an edge rusher. And I
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 9: just think that that is going to create more of
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 9: those quick wins, so to speak, that the Seahawks are
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 9: looking for him. And again, I think that those quick
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 9: wins are going to be helpful, and you get guys
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 9: like Matthew Stafford to get the ball on their hands
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 9: just so quickly, but you have to earn your opportunity
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 9: to rush the passer. And I think that what's more
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 9: important is being able to continue being as dominant ainst
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 9: the run as a Seahawks word as pass he's away
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 9: in the Super Bowl.
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 2: If you when you watch a soccer match, does it
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 2: cross your mind, like, what would one of these guys
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 2: do if, like Nick em and Worri just kind of
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 2: ran across the field and just took.
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 4: One of them.
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: Well, I was going another way when you said that,
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: give give Rob rang three months and I'd love to
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: have him break down a soccer match. I thought that's
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: where you were headed. But yeah, there there.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 3: Would be some punishment.
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, Nick, Nick, mun Worry, we're watching that, Derek,
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: We're watching these guys and lost them and it's so
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: exciting and and Rob. You know, I'm gonna say the obvious,
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: but these are just John Schnyder guys that are good people,
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: have come from adversity and they're getting given opportunities and
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: it's so fun human nature. It's so fun to have
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: some of these guys take advantage of that opportunity.
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 5: And that's again when you're talking about the defending.
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 6: Super Bowl champions, then you know they're kind of bully
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 6: on the block, and I think that that is is
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 6: true in some ways, but they're also in so many
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 6: of the players came from such.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 9: You know, underprivileged, you know kind of a situation. I mean,
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 9: Derek Call is the perfect example of that, of course
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 9: as the premium baby. As we discussed, but there's just
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 9: so many of these underdogs on this team. I mean,
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 9: whether it be Sam Darnold, whether it be you know,
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 9: the reigning offensive Player of the Year, Japsu Smith and
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 9: Zigba I mean he you know, drafted twentieth overall. You know,
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 9: it's that kind of stuff I think is Jenerahim Price.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 9: You know, it never started a single game at the
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 9: college level and that's your first round pick. There's just
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 9: that is something that John Schneider I think has very
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 9: much prioritized, especially in this this second super Bowl winning run.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 9: Is just the personality of the players and if they
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 9: don't have the underdog role the frankly, they're not going
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 9: to be a fit. And Derek Call, I think personifies
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 9: that as well as any player.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 5: On the team.
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 4: Awesome stuff.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Rob, We appreciate it and we'll bug you
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: again soon.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 5: All right, looking forward to being budd Thanks guys.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 2: All right, Rob Rang pro talent evaluator. You can follow
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 2: Matt rob Rang there on the Twitter of course, our
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 2: draft expert that we use during draft season and draft
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 2: miss as well. But he follows the Seahawks just as
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 2: closely as any of us. Breaking down Derek Hall for
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 2: US here this morning as part of our Seahawks one series,
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 2: more with Stretch on the World Cup, which is oh boy,
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 2: it is building to a frenzy down here as the
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 2: Jimmy's on first and so coming up next we're going
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 2: to do.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: The ABC's of the USA.
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 2: But right now we're going to get an update from Shinnacock,
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 2: the latest from the US Open Sports Radio ninety three
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 2: point three KJRFM.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, right now, Stretch, you tell me, it's like
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: fifty to fifty right.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 2: Now here in Jimmy's between SOCCERUS and Americans plenty pretty
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 2: close fifty to fifty and you can't walk. I mean
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 2: there's no space, and there were done and they're all
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 2: getting everybody's getting along perfectly well. I mean it's just
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 2: such a field, good environment, and yet I want to
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 2: put a new variable in it.
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 4: Should I do it?
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 3: Whatever you're thinking. I think it's a great idea.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 4: Think it's a good idea. Let's see what happened. Yeah,
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 4: let's see what spills for.
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: You say you say, you say, I say, you say,
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: you say, you.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 3: Say Yeah, wa oh, here come the booze.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: Now here, now go the booze?
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 4: Now go yeah, here go ahead, go ahead do it?
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 2: There we go?
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Oh wow, that's what I wanted to say.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 4: What would happen? That was perfect? What's that good?
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: That was not only brilliant, but the guy next to
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: you was like, yeah, I'd rather just drink my beer.
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: You looked at him and he was like, I'll pass.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know what you're doing, but uh, I'm getting
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: another pacifico. His face was awesome.
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 4: That was great.
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 2: I'm glad something I was trying to see if it
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 2: would go back and forth, if it would bounce back
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 2: by then, No, everybody just did it once they took
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 2: care of it. I think there was an element of
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 2: the Americans like should we do this? Yeah, we want
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 2: to be good hosts, but still we don't want to
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 2: think that we're rude. Just a friendly, friendly group between
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 2: the two of them. And I think what will help
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 2: post game is if the US win. If the US lose,
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 2: it might be a little diceier compared to it. If
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 2: the US win, everybody will get along Australia. If they
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 2: win today, in all seriousness, they are going to downtown.
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: Will be ripped up. It'll be such a party. They
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be one to know. And if they become two
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: and oh with the hands firmly on the steering wheel
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: of this group, it.
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 4: Could be a mess.
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: But it could be a mess in Pioneer Square seriously,
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: with them up on top of the group with six points.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: All right, well you've already experienced this.
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  Speaker 4: We do ABC's of the MS every day.
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  Speaker 2: I want to do it, just a quick version of
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  Speaker 2: ABC's of the USA with you right now getting ready.
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  Speaker 5: For the match.
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  Speaker 4: Are you ready? I'm ready a ready.
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  Speaker 1: As for America. Is America going to win today?
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  Speaker 4: They are? They are?
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  Speaker 3: It'll be two nil to one. I don't see.
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  Speaker 4: I don't see if.
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  Speaker 1: If the US played collectively as they did last week
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  Speaker 1: versus Paraguay, I don't see Australia scoring more than one goal.
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  Speaker 1: I think they'll be burst. I think they came across
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  Speaker 1: a Turkey team that was sleepwalking up in Vancouver for
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  Speaker 1: the first twenty thirty minutes. They didn't realize they were
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  Speaker 1: in a match until they were down one nil. I
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  Speaker 1: think the US get gets the first goal. Then what
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  Speaker 1: Jackson was talking about last hour, they will get opened
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  Speaker 1: up a bit and that'll fall right into the hands
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  Speaker 1: of the US. All right, b is for barbie.
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  Speaker 2: Are they going to put us as a shrimp on
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  Speaker 2: their barbie?
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  Speaker 4: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: How would that happen if they did, if they get
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  Speaker 1: a first goal, if they're two. Their two strikers are
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  Speaker 1: very talented. They chewed up Turkey's back line. They made
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  Speaker 1: they made dangerous movements. They collectively, six of them moving forward,
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  Speaker 1: five of them moving forward, were dangerous in the attack.
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  Speaker 1: I just think again, with Tyler Adams anchoring that back four,
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  Speaker 1: back five, back six, I think the US are gonna
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  Speaker 1: be in better shape. And they saw the tape, right,
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  Speaker 1: you got to you gotta a game under your belt.
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  Speaker 1: You can do a little scouting. They saw that Australia
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  Speaker 1: one versus Turkey, who is very favored in that match,
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  Speaker 1: and they're not gonna take them lightly.
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  Speaker 3: They're gonna have.
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  Speaker 1: Sixty six thousand fans here, sixty thousand, as you see,
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  Speaker 1: there's gonna be plenty of but it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: very very loud in the stadium, and that'll feed right
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  Speaker 1: into the momentum for the US. So no, I think
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  Speaker 1: a point is the worst thing we're gonna do. But
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  Speaker 1: soccer's nuts. Soccer is crazy. But I think a point
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be the worst that the US get today.
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  Speaker 2: All right, See is for Christian How big of a
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  Speaker 2: deal is this announcement that we're still haven't gotten whether
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  Speaker 2: he plays or not.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I hope if there's a question, they save him.
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  Speaker 1: So it is a big deal. He's the best. He
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  Speaker 1: is the face of soccer US soccer right now.
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  Speaker 8: He is.
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  Speaker 1: He's Landon Donovan was twenty years ago, twenty two years ago.
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  Speaker 1: So he is the guy. If it isn't, then they're
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  Speaker 1: being overly cautious. What's I'm fine with? Even without him?
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  Speaker 1: I say we get three points? Uh, Jackson didn't like
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  Speaker 1: my Brendan Aronson. He does have other options in in Reinia,
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  Speaker 1: there are talent options for Mauricio to throw out there.
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  Speaker 1: It'd be a bummer, but that would mean he's probably
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent healthy for next week. In La versus Turkey,
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  Speaker 1: D is for drunk.
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  Speaker 2: They're three best drinkers that they brought to America versus
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  Speaker 2: the three best drinkers from Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: I'll take Australia. Yeah, I mean that's not even close.
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  Speaker 4: And I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 1: It's if you know what three to five means in Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: I would take Australia and I would put my house
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  Speaker 1: on it, and they are still stand. It's like I
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  Speaker 1: can't remember crocodile, dundee, Oh you want a drinking standing
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  Speaker 1: and the other guy can't even spell his name. I'll
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  Speaker 1: take Australia and I'll give you a seven pint lead. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean not even close. But fun fun drunks. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: not one aggressive drunk I've met. I met a couple
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  Speaker 1: Saturday and and some yesterday, not only at T Mobile
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  Speaker 1: but down in Piner Square. It is a fun group
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  Speaker 1: and if you're sitting by one, you'll you'll love it.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's hard to get frustrated with them so
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  Speaker 1: much fun.
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you, I couldn't even get everybody to chant
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  Speaker 2: USA in here, because well what if we think?
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  Speaker 1: Finally is for if you scream C and everyone you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's a whole other thing. They'll start fighting, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks and I don't know who Australia's favorite rugby team is.
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  Speaker 4: True, but go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Finally, E is for energy. You've got a great energy
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  Speaker 2: about today. Have you ever been more fired up for
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  Speaker 2: a sporting event.
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  Speaker 1: Jackson mentioned a couple I went to my first Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl as a fan in February down in Santa Clara,
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  Speaker 1: and the Seahawks are my team. The twenty nineteen MLS
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  Speaker 1: Cup when I did the Cup here. Yeah, there are
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  Speaker 1: times where you literally have to take a deep breath,
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  Speaker 1: and this is one of them, like literally to catch
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  Speaker 1: your wind. I'm a soccer fan. That's why I was
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  Speaker 1: explaining to my brother, like, we're we live in a
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  Speaker 1: host city. The US are playing in our city.
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  Speaker 4: We have to go.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, sell another house, do whatever you have to do.
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  Speaker 4: We have to go.
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  Speaker 1: And so it is kind of like, you know, here
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  Speaker 1: it is and it's just two and a half hours away,
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  Speaker 1: and it's like I've got some serious nervous energy.
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  Speaker 4: I think I hid it a.
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  Speaker 1: Little better than Jackson, but it's a big moment for
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  Speaker 1: I waved to a couple of friends that I played
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  Speaker 1: soccer with for thirty years, like, all my soccer group
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  Speaker 1: is here, right and we will spill out and see
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  Speaker 1: each other after the match.
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  Speaker 3: What could only make it better is if we win
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  Speaker 3: and then it's like we were here for it.
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  Speaker 4: This, this is it.
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  Speaker 1: This is it for US soccer nerds. Your country comes
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  Speaker 1: to your city, you have tickets for it, and it's uh,
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  Speaker 1: there they go there goose bumps. Yeah, yeah, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: it's it is significant, and you know, if you want
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  Speaker 1: to get to the full cheese, you know, the full
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  Speaker 1: cheesy like it's a moment of a lifetime. It's a
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  Speaker 1: moment of a lifetime. And and chock them up right.
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl was awesome. MLS Cup was awesome. Conker Cap
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  Speaker 1: Champions League was awesome. Seattle is a soccer a soccer town,
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  Speaker 1: and now we get to show the world again and
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  Speaker 1: it'll be fun to be a part of.
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  Speaker 2: It's fine. I'm here for the full cheese. So f's
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  Speaker 2: for full cheese, and gus for goosebumps. There you go,
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  Speaker 2: all right, one last thing to close out our show,
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  Speaker 2: and Greg Bell is here.
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  Speaker 4: He was shocked up to cover it. Soccer so professional
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  Speaker 4: he is he is.
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  Speaker 1: He lent he lent Jackson a dress shirt. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you notice that, but Jackson was in a jersey.
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  Speaker 1: Can't wear a jersey to the pitch, so so Greg
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  Speaker 1: Bell lent him a button down shirt.
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  Speaker 3: That's the pro Greg Bell is, kid yourself.
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  Speaker 4: He's got he's got army underwear on right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And he's got he's probably got Team USA pasties
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  Speaker 2: on underneath that shirt.
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  Speaker 4: That professional exterior, all right.
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  Speaker 1: One last thing.
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