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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 213 - Semifinal Round State Tournament Preview · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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This is Nuksack Valley senior Dalton Hickey and you're listening to the walcom Preps broadcast
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with Tyler and Ryan Rally the Valley. Greetings, and welcome into the watcom
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Preps podcast. This is episode two hundred and thirteen, a preview of the
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semi final round of the state tournament. I'm Ryland Spencer along with me as
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always Tyler Anderson. Oh wacum, perhaps, Tyler, how we doing?
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Doing great? That's some pretty good microphone work you got going there with away
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and come back into that sounded pretty good. Little yeah, no buzz for
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the speaker. Yeah, yeah, doing awesome. You know, it's kind
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of that layload time right now this winter sports haven't started officially yet as far
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as games it matches, and there's only one football team left, so it's
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a lot of busy work and prep work that we're working on at this point,
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and so staying busy. It's been great. Yeah, lots of stuff
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going on, and I mean it's fun to look around the state and just
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see the teams that are left. Some teams like they don't spend a lot
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of time this late into the season playing football, you know what I mean.
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And so it's pretty cool to see and we'll probably mention it a little
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bit obviously, But Seaton Catholic on the other side of the bracket, I
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mean, I don't know that they've ever been to the state tournament, you
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know, and here they are, you know, in the semi finals now
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playing Royal on Saturdays. So it's cool. I love this time of the
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year when you start to see some of these teams that you know, maybe
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people weren't paying attention to that. You know, sometimes we're going, hey,
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guys, you know these guys are pretty good over here. He's got
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pretty good Oh yeah, nobody wanted to pay attention until now. But yeah,
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before we go too far, we need to give a thank you to
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Dalton Hickey for the intro. Tyler. You told me you wanted to find
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a Kooksack guy. Yeah, and we've pretty much had every other person from
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Nooksack do it, and you were like, hey, you know what,
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Dalton Hickey, heck of a player. This guy needs to get it.
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Yeah, I mean, he's he's a he's a throwback guy. Man.
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You look at a guy six three, two hundred and thirty five pounds right
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tackle and then a weekside defensive end can come up. You know, he
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could blitz the quarterback. He is. He's an awesome player and an unsung
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kind of guy. And he was named All League First Team as an offensive
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lineman, which is really cool because he deserves it. But there's so many
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good offensive linemen around the county this year, and he's one of those guys
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that you're like, that's like a that's a country strong guy right there.
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Like he just you know right away, and so yeah, he's playing.
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He's playing awesome. The whole team's playing awesome, and I was glad he
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was able to do it. We also need to give a thanks to Kurt
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Tyler, you said to me we have a new sponsor, and I
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said, unbelievable turn of events. Who is the new sponsor? Tyler?
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Yeah, Staffer Insurance, which is really cool. Uh, Marty Staffer who
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runs it. Him and I go way back. Oh bar, We've known
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each other about thirty years now, you know, used to go to birthday
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parties together, used to play football against each other in high school. We've
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played softball against each other growing up. So I run into him all the
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time here and there, and and now he's a local business owner and and
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he's he's, uh, he's willing to reach out. He's gonna sponsor boys
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swimming and diving. He's gonna sponsor track and field in the spring, He's
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going to sponsor across country in the fall. So he's he's going to be
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all over it for all three different seasons. And uh, man, I
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just couldn't I couldn't be happier because uh definitely want to give him some business.
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He is. He is just a great guy, like one of those
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guys kind of like Randy Small, like one of those guys that's always in
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a good mood, always happy, smiling, joking, smart guy, a
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lot of fun. So and they do these really fun commercials that they put
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U, F F, E Rinsurance dot com. Tyler, there's still
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a lot of different things that people could sponsor if they want to get on
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board. What's the easiest way to get ahold of you? Absolutely? Through
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social media is by far the best way. You could do that. Through
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Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, just search for walcome preps. Send a direct
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message, makes it really really easy, Uh, you know, or you
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can send me an email mister mohawk at hotmail dot com. That's mister spelled
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out m I, S T, E R underscore mohawk at hotmail dot com.
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Those are the two easiest ways. Yeah, be sure to Tyler,
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give me an example, like what's coming up that somebody could sponsor. I
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mean Top one hunt. Yeah, the top one hunter for football is a
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big one. Yeah. That's gonna get a lot of eyes and we're gonna
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we're gonna do what is it five? No, we do more than that,
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because we do we do the top five. Yeah, I think it's
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a I think it's like ten. Yeah, I think around ten because I
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think it's five leading up to the top five. Yeah, and then we
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do a dedicated podcast for each of the top five people that made the list.
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Yeah. Uh so yeah, so there's you know, Tyler. At
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the same time, I guess if somebody sponsored in the top one hundred,
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maybe they should just get in on the awards podcast too. Huh what do
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you think? Yeah, I mean there's there's all sorts of things, you
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know, upcoming with with the winter sports. There will be these roundups,
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you know, and there'll be you know, every single day, there will
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be a boys basketball round up, a girls basketball round up of all of
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what happened the night before. Wrestling. Uh, there's gonna be you know,
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round ups for wrestling. Yeah. Stop for Insurance has already got boys
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swimming and diving round up taken care of. So yeah, there's there's there's
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lots of options out there, and you know, we'll just talk and we'll
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come up with something that's reasonable. You know. I just want to keep
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keep doing this and and Uh, just thankful for all the you know,
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local business people out there that want that are helping me to keep doing this.
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So it's a lot of fun and and going to keep the passion alive.
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Yeah, and it's one of those things too, like you know,
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if if you're passionate about wrestling, get on board with the wrestling side of
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things. Yeah, you know, make sure that there's that wrestling is getting
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good coverage in the county. You know, if you're big into basketball,
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well there's plenty of basketball stuff that we can do. Uh, there's players
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of the week, right because the players of the Week that we do right
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now for football, those aren't going to carry over for basketball and these other
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sports. So those need sponsors too, right, That's right. Yeah,
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you can. You know, if if if if you're listening and you already
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do sponsor things, and you want to sponsor stuff in the winter, then
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say, hey, I want to keep going with this, but now I'll
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sponsor this player of the week. You know we're gonna have uh yeah,
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there's gonna be all sorts of things. It's it's uh, it's gonna be.
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It's there's a lot of options. Let's just say and whether you're wanting
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to, you know, do there's a max that you can do or a
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minimum you can do, or whatever it is. We'll figure all that out
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later. It's pretty easy, you know. I just I just want to
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keep going. That's the that's the low bottom line. And and if I
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can highlight some local businesses along the way, then it's even better. Yeah.
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Well, we are going to keep going, that's the thing. I
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mean, it's gonna come to a point, Tyler, where we're gonna end
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up having to do like Walcome preps winter podcasts, and we're still gonna be
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talking football too. Yeah, I mean there's gonna be because we're you know,
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the football stuff goes for a little while. I mean, by the
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we're done with football, Heck, the basketball is might might be the postseason,
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hey, yeah, I think it usually by the time we hand out
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the trophies and stuff like that for the football awards, by that time it's
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close to like districts for basketball, and and you know, maybe regionals or
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even state for wrestling. I mean I remember handing out Coach LEPs Coach of
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the Year trophy last year, and I went over to his house on a
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Sunday to give him the trophy, and he just got back from state wrestling.
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I think they got third in state, second state something like that,
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and so and he just got back from it. Like we just sat there
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and just talked about the tournament, how it went, and so it's you
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know, I mean, wrestling was already over by the time he got his
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football trophy. So, because there's so many things that we do, we
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count down the top one hundred, like you said, there's the voting for
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the awards. We're gonna have some newer awards this year. There's all sorts
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of cool things. Yeah, the Senior Podcast say goodbye to every single senior
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in the county. It's a it's it's it's it is weird how it's kind
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of that lull right now. But for you and I, it's so much
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prep work to get all these lined up and uh and start just shooting them
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out boom boom boom, rapid fire. Yeah. You know, with with
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the insurance company coming on now, maybe if somebody buys a policy, they
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could get some ice cream from Edeline Dairy and maybe that some raspberries from Kurt
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Mayberry Farm that are in the ice cream. Huh oh man, everything you
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can talk trifecta. Uh anyway, Yeah, if you would like to find
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out about sponsorship possibilities, reach out to Tyler walk them preps on all social
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medias. You can find them there. Just send them a direct message.
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He'll get you taken care of. Tyler. We've got just one game to
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talk about this week, and hopefully it's not the last time that we do
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one of these preview podcasts. Hopefully in a week. We're doing the same
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thing, right, we're not posting senior podcasts, you know, exactly exactly.
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By the way, will start very quickly after the season is done with
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the senior podcast and then we go right into the top one hundred from there,
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so a lot of action. These podcasts are not gonna slow down.
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And by the time we hit the first of the year, Tyler and I
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are gonna be zombies. Yes, that's we will be. Yeah, we'll
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be in a lot of trouble. We also have the Randy small Weather forecast,
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and we do have our pickums this week. Well, I guess it's
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a pick them. There's there's not there's only one, uh, just to
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pick them this week, and we do have a guest picker and I'm not
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gonna give any names yet. But and then uh, yeah, no fantasy
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because we are done with We're done with the fantasy, because we only got
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one team left. Would be me picking all Lakeside and Nine Mile Falls guys
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and you picking all Nuckzack Valley guys. So yeah, that doesn't make a
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whole lot of sense because basically, whoever's gonna win is probably gonna win win
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the fantasy. Basically, what I'm saying is I don't want to root against
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Knuckzack Valley. That being said, Tyler, let's talk about out the game.
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It is Saturday, one pm at Union Stadium, just north of Spokane.
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It's basically like on the Spokane city limits. It's like right there.
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It's on the north side of it though, north side of Spokane. So
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you got to get off at like division and go way north, and I
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guess not way north. It's probably I don't know, fifteen minutes, maybe
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ten minutes off the freeway. But yeah, Nooksack Valley number six in the
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state, nine to two, headed to take on Lakeside Nine Mile Falls.
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The Eagles are ranked number two. They are eleven and oh again one pm,
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Union Stadium. Technically I guess it's in Mead is where it is?
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Yeah, it's the home stadium of Mead and Mount Spokane High School's beautiful stadium.
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This is where last year Lakeside lost to Mount Baker in Was it the
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Semis that would have the quarter? That's right, because they Because that's right,
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Mount Baker played at played Nooksack in the Semis at right Civic Stadium.
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So so yeah, Nooksack Valley headed over. They're heading over Friday at like,
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what is it eight am? I think they're leaving at eight am,
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leaving Knooksack at eight am. Get there, you know, get there.
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You know, I don't know if they're going straight there or not. But
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if so, they you know, they would arrive, you know, kind
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of late afternoon time maybe. So yeah, it's got to be what six
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hours? Oh, it's gonna be more than that. With a bus,
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I would say, I would say between seven. That's on who the driver.
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Well, you know, if you if you've got a lead foot driver,
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you can get there in about five and a half. If you had
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Jay Keeps, you'd be there in about three and a half. Let me
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tell you that guy unbelievable. But from my house to well, my house
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to just Spokane is about four and a quarter four and a half. It's
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another hour and a half to you guys, or to k Nooksack. So
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yeah, four or five, Yeah, about six maybe six thirty. And
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that doesn't include I guess I did stop on the way. I would stop
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and I would always go to the stops and just walk around for a little
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bit, get the legs going, you know. So yeah, I mean
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it's a decent little drive for them. But yeah, Tyler Lakes tell me
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this, outside of the game that they played this year and that game from
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last year, does the Lakeside nine Mile Falls? Is there much history with
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Walkom County teams? Yeah, not really. I mean I remember Lyndy Christian
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would play Lakeside Seattle here and there. But I but the Lakeside nine Mile
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Falls is a relatively new thing. You know. They played Mount Baker last
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year, Elsie in Week one this year, So I don't know that much
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about them. I've seen some film kind of similar to Nuksack Valley as far
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as shotgun, single back, but heavy run. You know, they'll throw
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it on occasion, but nothing flashy. They shouldn't beat you with the past
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is kind of what you're saying, like, right, yeah, I don't
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think they want to do that, right, and a very athletic quarterback,
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So you kind of start seeing all those things and you go, okay,
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nuksac Valley shotguns, single back, but heavy run. They can throw it
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on occasion, but there probably won't beat you that way with an athletic quarterback.
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I mean, it's it's very much the similar thing. So, I
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mean, I don't know the all the x's and o's and mechanics of you
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know, when you really dig into it how similar they are. But when
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you just watch them, you know, the average fan is gonna go,
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oh okay, they look about the same. So yeah, it's it's it's
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gonna be. You know, it's gonna be. It's always gonna get tougher,
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obviously is the further along you go. I think that Nook Sac Valley's
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win last week has given them quite a bit of confidence, as it should.
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They've looked really, really good in that game. They haven't I mean,
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they've looked pretty I don't want to say unstoppable, but they've they've looked
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the best they they look They have looked the best that they have been over
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the last four or five weeks. You know, there hasn't been a dip.
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They haven't had like a you know, like a game or a quarter
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or whatever where you're just kind of like, oh, that that didn't really
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go well. That It's been a while since they've had kind of, you
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know, a rough moment where they haven't looked, you know, less than
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dominant almost, and it's it's, uh, you know, the train is
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just chugging right now. And you got all your guys up front that are
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healthy, and you got your you know, your main backs there, your
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receivers are doing great. You know this. I think the secondary has gotten
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better and better as the season's gone along, and which is tough. With
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the loss of Wayne Silvis, I mean that's such a huge blow, not
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just in the secondary, but in just the overall tackling ability. He's one
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of the best tackling corners, but that was that was a while ago.
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Uh. Cole Coppinger's come in and has played really well, just a sophomore,
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very very athletic. Evan Bravo on the other side as a corner,
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I think he leads the team in interceptions. I think he's got five on
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the year. Uh Corey only is a free safety has been great. Uh,
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Colton Lentz can can do a lot of different things as the strong safety.
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Can you know, kind of cover up over a guy if you have
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a superstar on the outside, you know, so there's there's lots of they
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just there's no weaknesses. And that's what you know, we all talked about
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in the over the summer, you know, if you if we, if
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we if you look back to like August when you and I were talking,
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or maybe even people around the around the county we're talking. He said,
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Okay, if there was one team left in the semi final round from Walking
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County, which team would you think it would be? And I think most
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people would say Nuxack Valley. Now you might get some Lindens thrown in there,
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but you know, it's it was a lot of new varsity guys this
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year. So even though Nuksak had some hiccups during the season, it's all
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starting to kind of come out in the end where you go, Okay,
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this is the team that we thought it was going to be, and now
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they're they're playing right at the right time, and and uh, and this
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is you know, they've never been to this state championship games. So second
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year in a row in the semi finals and uh, this it's crazy too
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because you think about Knoksac Valley over the you know, last ten years or
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so, and you and every time they get to the playoffs, you go,
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wow, they just don't have a lot of playoff experience. This is
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a team with a lot of playoff experience. So many of these starters were
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on the team last year. So you know, it's everything is just kind
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of falling into place, but you still have to put in the hard work
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and and the Pioneers are ready to do that. Yeah, and this is
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a Lakeside team that also has a lot of experience. Now they've lost quite
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a few guys off the last year's team, and you know, some some
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very good players. But they've got a They've got two guys that that most
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people are going to want to pay attention to. That is Calvin Micholson,
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their quarterback, who is just a tremendous all around athlete. Like Calvin Micholson
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is the guy that, oh, what's the word I'm looking for here?
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Like he's like the he's like the oh what am I trying to saying?
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Like if you had a movie and you had that star quarterback from a small
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town. That's the guy, you know what I mean, Like six foot
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two, blonde hair, blue, you know what I mean? Like that
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guy, Like that's kind of who Calvin Mickelson is. That being said,
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Well, he's a good kid too, so it's like maybe a little bit
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different obviously, like he like when you think of that guy, you don't
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exactly think of a great human being, if you know what I mean.
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But Calvin is definitely not that guy. But he's got lots of naia offers.
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Just a tremendous all around athlete. I believe I could be wrong,
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he is. He a good wrestler too. I can't remember if it's him
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or there was another Michelson that was out there about that about or recently that
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was a really good wrestler too. That might have been a Callville kid.
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But either way, he's just a he just is. He's just a tremendous
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all around athlete. And you know, it's one of those guys you got
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to pay attention to, you know, you just do. You have to
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keep your eyes on him at all times because he can do some crazy things.
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Last week, he now last week they're like they don't want to beat
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you through the air like that, they don't like to have to throw.
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Last week he only completed four passes one hundred and twenty one yards, though
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on the day finished with two hundred and thirty eight yards three tds. So,
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I mean, he's he's a guy, right, Like he's a guy
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you got to pay attention to, and you know, he does a lot
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of different things. But that being said, the other guy is a young
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man by the name of Hero Patterson, Hiro Patterson, and he is a
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he's a little guy, but he's a dude, you know what I mean.
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Like he's a guy that can do some some things. I want to
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say. He's like five eight, you know, like not not the biggest
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guy in the world. But earlier this year, Tyler in a game,
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in a game against Freeman, the first time that they played Freeman, he
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had one hundred and thirty six yards and two touchdowns on the ground and one
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hundred and eleven through the air and a touchdown. I mean, that's just
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doesn't happen that much, you know what I mean, Like one hundred on
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the ground and one hundred receiving, Like, yeah, when does that ever
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happen Like, I mean, Tyler, how many times did that happen this
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year in Wakam County? You know what I mean? Like, yeah,
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I want to say Elmer may have done it once. Yeah. And they're
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about the same size. Yeah yeah. And I remember I want to say,
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Coach Horseman last year said that's the best kid we've played all year.
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Yea, and he is. I mean, I mean he's had some high
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praise, you know, considering they played Nukxack Valley and Living Christian right and
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yeah, and it's you know that was before the Royal game. But but
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still, I mean, and you when you as soon as you said that
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name, I was like, that's the kid that Tom was talking about.
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So I I you know, yeah, that's a you know, they have
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some big time guys and it's just uh, you know, trying to contain
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him. And they've been winning at home. You know, they've been playing
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at home. They're undefeated all year. And that Michelson kid four point zero
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student two. So I mean, like you said, he's that, he's
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the he's the you know, cut and paste perfect kind of guy, right,
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you know, straight out of Central Casting. Yeah, he's And so
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Tyler thinking about this. Okay. Yeah, if I said to you,
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what was the average height and weight of a Mount Baker offensive lineman this year?
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This year, yeah, I would say five ten, one hundred and
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ninety five pounds. Calvin Micholson sixty three two fifteen. Yeah, plays quarterback
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and linebacker, you know what I mean? Yep, like six three two
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fifteen. A lot of times if you're that big, you're playing on the
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line at one a. Right. But this is a guy that's so athletic
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that he just does so many different things. He reminds me a lot of
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Avery Ellis. I don't know if you remember him from Royal a couple of
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years ago. You know, he's just nasty, you know. And yeah,
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I mean it's it's it's a tough task. It is. That being
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said, they don't have a ton of weapons. I mean they got weapons,
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don't get me wrong. They have another young man, Melzer, really
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good player. They got guys. But that being said, the two main
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guys are Patterson and Michelson. And if if Knuksac can do what they've been
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able to do for a good chunk of the year and be able to just
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kind of focus on those two guys, specifically. Yeah. Yeah, you
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know they let's face it, when it comes to team speed and and I
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mean there how many teams in this state Tyler at the one A level can
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really match up physically like physical strength dominance with Nuksack Valley. Yeah, that's
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that's the first thing I always yeah, because then they've got the speed behind
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it, you know, Yeah, they've got the speed behind it to run
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with guys. So that's what you know. And I mean obviously they've got
22:56
two losses, right and and they're both the one A team t But that
23:00
being said, both those teams have been eliminated, now you know what I
23:03
mean. So, I mean it's yeah, it's one of those interesting things.
23:07
But when you look at it, you know, on paper, these
23:10
two teams, I when you just look at the records, you know,
23:12
and these two teams are you know, very good. I mean, look,
23:17
Lakeside they're undefeated. You know, they're undefeated. They're wins Lynnen,
23:21
Christian, East Valley of Spokane, Deer Park, Freeman, Newport, which
23:25
is way up north of Spokane. Newport is like ten feet away from being
23:30
in Idaho. Medical Lake, Colville, Riverside, Shelan Life, Christian Freeman
23:37
again and now here we are at Nuksack. So outside of Lynn and Christian
23:41
and the two wins against Freeman are are you know, okay, not spectacular.
23:47
Outside of Lynnen Christian, it's really not super tough. You know,
23:52
they really haven't had kind of like like who is their signature win, Lynnen
23:56
Christian Week one where they won fourteen to eight. You know, Lynn and
24:00
Christian just played, you know, arguably that maybe their worst game of the
24:03
year, right exactly, you know, yeah, and Week one is just
24:07
so hard. It was so long ago, yes, exactly. Teams are
24:11
totally different now, you know, a lot of them are. But then
24:14
you go and you look at you look at Nook Sac Valley. I mean
24:18
they beat a Mountain View team a three a Mountain View team thirty five twenty
24:22
one, and their state they went to state and three A Yeah, Connell
24:26
went to state, King went to state. You know, yeah, I
24:30
mean Lynn Christian went to state. You know, like they they've beaten some
24:33
teams, you know, yeah, and then obviously they have two state wins.
24:37
So technically, if you look at it, they had one to their
24:41
first three games of the year where against teams that made the state tournament one,
24:45
two, three, four, five, six games against state you know,
24:48
teams that were in the state tournament. Yeah. I mean, I
24:52
don't know. There's there's so much that we consider and talk about, but
24:56
none of it really matters because it doesn't have anything to do with game day,
24:59
you know what I mean. We can hear talk all we want about
25:00
different numbers and different metrics and different anything, and none of it really matters.
25:06
I mean, it just doesn't. So you know, but what does
25:08
matter is, you know, Nuksack Valley on the road headed over to uh
25:14
Union Stadium in Spokane, h Spokane area. I guess we'll call it.
25:18
Yeah, I mean that's one pm Saturday, Tyler, I mean, wait,
25:22
hold on, Tyler's got some nuggets? Man, you got anything?
25:25
I mean, I don't know if we got nuggets because you're you kind of
25:30
already said that Knuksack Valley has never been to the state championship. So we
25:33
know what the record is in the semis. Yeah. I mean, one
25:36
thing that really stands out, I guess with Nooksack has been you know,
25:44
they've scored on offense. They've scored seventy two touchdowns this year. Geez in
25:51
eleven games. Yeah, in eleven games, and I'm looking at all the
25:56
like in Walkin County history the teams that have scored more more touchdowns than that.
26:00
So did Jake Locker Ferndale team in five no state champions right, they
26:07
scored ninety eight touchdowns on offense. That you're good Lord. Meridian ninety nine
26:11
team, which is the best Meridian team of all time. They were the
26:15
first Walkom County undefeated champions. They were the first state championships from state champions
26:19
from walk County to go completely undefeated for the whole year. Had ninety four.
26:23
The twenty twelve Linden team that was when Kraft and Vis and all those
26:27
guys were seniors. That was one of my favorite teams. Yeah. Two
26:30
thousand and three Meridian, which also is undefeated offense. This is just offensive
26:34
offense. Twenty seventeen Meridian Simon Burkette losing to Royal at the very end.
26:42
Yeah, twenty one two, twenty ten Meridian that had I believe that that
26:48
was Zach Slesket quarterback and Mitchell Tripp was the main receiver on that. And
26:55
at twenty sixteen Mount Baker that was when Jed Schlimer and TJ Bass were seniors,
27:00
and two thousand and four Ferndale, which was the junior led Jake Locker
27:03
team. So those are the only teams that have scored more touchdowns in the
27:08
offensive touchdowns in a season than this Knucksack Valley team. And I'll tell you
27:15
this, that Knucksack Valley team has ran at least one hundred plays less than
27:21
any of those teams. Wow. So yeah, because it's so I mean,
27:26
I feel like I feel like they they had a lot of drives that
27:29
were really short because they would break off a seventy yard run or something exactly.
27:33
And they also had a bye week. Oh and the season's not done.
27:37
You know, they've only played eleven games. A lot of these other
27:40
teams played, you know, for all thirteen even fourteen games. Yeah.
27:44
So so when you look, when you look at like the whole, you
27:48
know, vast in the vastness of it, they're putting up some monumental numbers.
27:53
They're averaging nine point five to five yards per offensive play. What's that?
27:57
Yeah, so they're below ten Now, oh my lord, though,
28:03
I mean you're basically averaging a first down every time you snap the ball.
28:06
I mean, that's just if you want to round it up. Yeah,
28:07
that's just unbelievable though, you know, the whole season. Yeah, I
28:11
mean, it's so crazy. And and to be able to do that and
28:17
have two losses is even more crazy. Mean, you lost two games and
28:21
still kept your average per play, I mean, and and every incompletion is
28:26
a zero, right, you know, and every year except how many times
28:30
they put in the Sea team at the end. Yeah, oh my,
28:33
you know, think about that. They're not they're not putting up huge numbers.
28:37
You know, they're trying some things with some kids. You know,
28:40
I saw Trace Palumbo complete a pass to Dane Ackerman. That's what happens on
28:44
Sea team games. This is not what happens on varsity games. So this
28:48
is you know, the only other team Mount Baker or Mount Baker history.
28:51
Uh, it wasn't even Mount Baker walkin county history to average over ten yards
28:56
of play. Was the Jake Locker team to average ten point zero nine.
29:00
And so I mean it's it's it's up there and the defense. So yeah,
29:06
so then you got to look at well, first of all, let's
29:07
give some love of the offensive line. That's what that's the whole reason.
29:11
Give me the name number exists. You know you can't. You can't say
29:14
something like that and not give me names. Tyler, give me names.
29:17
Well, I'm gonna give you Brady Ackerman at left tackle, Do Calliopioppius left
29:22
guard, Kean Coppinger at center, John Stremler right guard, Dalton Hickey right
29:29
tackle. Now I'm gonna throw in three more to say what happens when Strembler's
29:33
getting carries? Yeah, so you got Then you bring in Brock Lankar,
29:37
who's a senior. He's the long snapper, but he'll come, he'll,
29:40
he'll he'll add in there. Uh, Lance Van Berkham, who's about six
29:45
three two twenty is a junior. And Adalie Whitworth who's a junior as well,
29:49
who's really great on defense and special teams, but he's he's kind of
29:53
that sixth offensive lineman. So now you get those eight guys going. Man,
29:57
let's say a hold on second here though. So, so what you're
30:00
telling me is next year they're gonna lose five guys and return three. No,
30:03
No, they're not losing five. Ackerman's returning. Yeah, so oh
30:08
I'm sorry, Yes, yeah, they're losing five but returning three. Right.
30:15
I mean right, they're still gonna be able to run the ball.
30:18
Oh yeah, and they'll still have Colton Lentz. And you'll still have Brown
30:22
handing it off, just not Joey Brown, a different Brown. So yeah,
30:25
so you'll still have Corey Oni on the outside. You still have Evan
30:27
Bravo, you still have Tristan camp House, you still have Cole Bauman.
30:32
Who is Cole Bauman who really has you know, he has really stepped up
30:38
this year. We talk about, you know, Wayne Silver's going out on
30:41
defense, Well, he was the starting why as well, kind of the
30:45
off kind of off tight end there, and Cole Bauman has come in and
30:48
has played great in that spot, catches everything that goes his way. And
30:52
he's an underclassman as well. So there is a good group of these underclassmen.
30:56
They are getting some great experience and boy, it's so well coached and
31:03
and some good Yeah, it's just it's all good stuff. That it's it's
31:07
we're finally here, and it's we're getting close and we're gonna see it happen,
31:11
and uh, it's the magic carpet rite is still flowing right now for
31:15
the Knicksack Valley Pioneers. Yeah, and it has been fun to watch and
31:18
we're hoping we get to see another week of it. Uh yeah, Tyler
31:22
Noksack Valley Lakeside, nine Mile Falls, one pm, Union Stadium on the
31:26
other side of the state. So yeah, and that'll be what is I
31:32
assume that's NFHS network at this point, right, Yeah, I think so
31:37
k nook SAK does uh broadcast a lot of games, a lot of their
31:41
games. Yeah, but I would imagine it's gonna definitely be on NFH.
31:45
I believe once you hit the state tournament you have to get approval, and
31:48
I don't know how they could get approval either way. Yeah. Yeah,
31:52
one pm out there over the Spokane area, mead at Union Stadium, Tyler,
31:59
So, uh, that is a little far away for us as far
32:01
as forecast goes, But you know who it's not far away for. He
32:06
was that Randy Small. Randy Small Weather Forecast Walkam County WX dot com is
32:09
the website Facebook dot com backslash watcom County Weather. By the way, we
32:15
talk about his photography. Yeah, the last couple of days, this guy's
32:19
been on fire. Yes I was. I'm glad you brought that up because
32:23
I noticed that this morning too. He had a really good one this morning.
32:27
Was that the one that I think he said something like this is the
32:29
greatest one of all time or like something. He was like fire even he
32:31
was blown away. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there was one the other
32:35
day where I just went wow, and then like the next day it was
32:37
like oh my lord, and then yesterday it was like even I'm just like
32:40
dude, this guy is just one up in himself. That being said Tyler,
32:45
we now had to Randy Small to get the weather forecast for over there
32:49
in Spokane at Union Stadium where Niksack Valley and Lakeside and Nine Mile Falls will
32:53
be playing. Randy, take it away, well, Greendians, Wakam County
32:57
football fans, this is Randy Waukin County weather and second to last week and
33:04
one team has made it to the semifinals. Congratulations to the Knucksack Valley Pioneers
33:09
who will be playing a Saturday game across the mountains in Spokane, and the
33:15
weather is going to be unbelievably good. It looks like I checked the NWS
33:21
Spokane just to see make sure, checked a couple other things weather models,
33:25
and it looks to be mostly sunny. Saturday. I suppose the one negative
33:30
will be on the cristic side. A high of thirty eight in Spokane,
33:34
so probably in the thirties, and by the time the game is done,
33:37
it'll be probably starting to cool off already. But it looks to be a
33:42
beautiful day. I don't think wind will be an issue, rain will not
33:44
be an issue. Sunshine is going to be on the table. Hopefully Nicksack
33:49
Valley can get the win and play at Husky Stadium the following week for a
33:52
state championship. Okay, it's been a great ride this year and hopefully one
33:57
more week. And thank you for all the support. Great rest of your
34:00
week and weekend, and happy Thanksgiving Day. You know, Tyler, I
34:05
didn't even think about it. We didn't even say anything about Thanksgiving yet,
34:08
that's true. I mean this far in it's actually being released on Thanksgiving Day.
34:15
Yeah, so people can listen as they're driving to you know, wherever,
34:17
Grandma's house, uncle's house. Maybe they're just sitting at home and they
34:21
want to play it for the family. Yeah, yeah, I love it.
34:23
This podcast should be being played during all Nooksack Valley family Thanksgiving dinners.
34:30
Nobody talking, just listening. To these two schmucks talk about football again.
34:36
Thank you to Randy Small Walcome County Weather, Walcome County WX dot com.
34:39
Yeah, he's unbelievable. Next week, Tyler, if it's at Husky Stadium,
34:44
should I try to get Steve Poole or should we stick with Randy Small.
34:47
I don't know Steve Pool, so we should probably stick with Randy.
34:50
I love it. I love it Steve Pool, who he looks the exact
34:52
same as he has for the last thirty five forty years. Yeah, little
34:55
do people know he's actually one hundred and ninety years old. Yeah. Not
34:59
a great here, and you are on him? Oh yeah, Tyler,
35:05
Yeah, I mean what else we got to talk about here? The pick
35:07
them? The yeah, the pick them one pick them? Uh. And
35:13
oddly enough, we've managed to somehow make one game, no fantasy, No,
35:19
we're over thirty five minutes, it says, yeah, we did all
35:22
right. Yeah. I don't know how we managed to pull that off,
35:24
but I know that our next guy here is very happy about it. Got
35:32
a little toga mixed in there. Yeah, you guys, you guys up
35:36
for hold on, you guys up for well we are some wah wah wah
35:44
wah, guys up for a little women party. Yeah, you guys up
35:46
for a witmen party? Ru oh man? Uh, you know the thing
35:51
I love about this? We're only picking one game. What do we do
35:54
bringing whitmen? I mean even he can get it right. I mean,
35:59
it's just one. He's only one here. By the way, I just
36:00
want to mention something. Uh, you know, Tyler. Uh, Christopher
36:07
Ames does his his fantasy football or not fantasy football, but it's a pickham
36:10
with a pick college, right. Yeah. Have we talked about this.
36:15
We've brought it up a few times. Okay. Well Jeff Bearden, yeah,
36:20
is about a mile behind everybody. I mean now, he hasn't filled
36:23
it out in a couple of weeks. I think he just gave up.
36:27
But I mean basically, he is so far out of it and he was
36:32
until like even when he's when he I mean, Tyler, there's people that
36:37
haven't filled it out like all season, that are right on his heels.
36:39
Yea. I mean he's basically you know what it is though. He's kind
36:43
of like you as far as the pickam goes for us, Yeah, pretty
36:45
close like you are. You are a long ways away there, Bud Yeah.
36:51
That being said, Tyler, let's talk about the standings here really quickly.
36:54
H You are fifty four and twenty nine, Nate sixty and twenty three,
37:00
Connor fifty eight and twenty five, Me fifty nine and twenty four.
37:05
Guess this week, Blake Whitman fifty eight and twenty five, and Joe consensus
37:09
comes in at fifty seven and twenty six. Tyler, have you looked at
37:13
this week's pick them? Have you looked at the graphic yet? No?
37:15
I have not. It's in dropbox if you want to go pull it up
37:19
really quickly, because you know, I've been using some funny pictures lately.
37:22
Oh oh boy, It's not as bad as it could have been. I
37:27
could have done a lot worse, but I think I did good on this
37:30
one. But yeah, we are all picking nuksack value this week, so
37:34
nothing's gonna change. Nobody's moving up, nobody's moving down. I'm one game
37:39
back, so kind of what I have to hope happens here. I kind
37:43
of need noksack value to win, and then I might need I might need
37:46
to go with Royal. I was just gonna say, yeah, yeah,
37:52
I could see that happening. So you can at least get the tie going.
37:54
Yeah, that's that's if some homerisms, you know, if Nate goes
37:59
through with the homer yeah, pick and you never know, you know,
38:02
so he might be looking at like, you know, I'm still one game
38:07
up. I have to I have to pick with my head and not my
38:10
heart and try to win this thing in his first year, just first year.
38:15
And and how crazy it is that that Joe is so far back.
38:19
I know that just never happens. When I was making the graphic the other
38:22
day, I actually thought that to myself, like, how the heck is
38:24
Joe so far away in fifth place? Well, but you know what part
38:30
of it is is like you, me and the guests multiple weeks we were
38:34
like picking the same thing and we were screwing up, and then that was
38:37
screwing up Joe. Yeah, you know, can't blame Joe. No,
38:40
but I'll put it all on Jeff. I don't, yeah, just because
38:45
it's easy. But yeah, we're all picking Noksack Valley, which, for
38:50
the sake of the pick, I have to hope comes true. Well,
38:52
then I can find a way to sneak it in next week, which means
38:55
Tyler, if it does happen. If Kooksack does win this week, we
39:00
might need to come up with a with a tiebreaker. Yeah, so if
39:07
anybody's listening, they got a good idea for a tiebreaker, let me know,
39:09
because I mean the easy one right is to is to go, oh,
39:14
well, we'll go. However many points away you are from the final
39:16
score that you know, whoever gets closest, right, Yeah, that's not
39:20
that much fun, especially because what I would do is I would just pick
39:22
one on either side of Nate. Yeah. No, I don't know.
39:27
We got to figure something out. We got to come up with with,
39:29
you know, one for next week if if we have that ability, so,
39:31
oh, I think I might have it for you and Nate if it
39:35
comes down to this. Yeah, what do you got anything good? Hot
39:37
dog eating contest? Well that's not fair. I mean, you guys want
39:43
to give me the trophy? Now? A beard off? Now does that
39:47
mean I got a shave? Yeah? Beard off? Beard off? Yeah?
39:52
You guys get sounds like a spray that would just take it off for
39:55
me, you know what I mean? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, walking
39:59
Hey, you know I'm not a fan of razors. You guys got any
40:01
beard off? Oh? Man Tyler that's it. We're done. We don't
40:07
have anything else, crazy, nothing else to talk about. What I know,
40:12
Jim, I can't believe it? Can you believe it? I mean,
40:16
yeah, Tyler, we need to give it. Thanks again to Stoff
40:19
for Insurance for coming on as a sponsor. What all are they sponsoring again?
40:23
They're gonna sponsor for winter season coming up boys swimming and diving, okay,
40:29
and then for a spring season boys and girls track and field, and
40:34
then swinging around into the fall boys and girls cross country. So it's so
40:37
cool that they're taking on all these sports. Anytime there's a round up about
40:40
these sports, boom, there's stuff for insurance and they signed on long term,
40:45
so that's that's awesome, huge for me. Yeah, And it's it's
40:50
a it and it gives me the confidence that they believe in me, you
40:52
know. And and he's just he's so excited. He loves everything about it,
40:57
loves walking preps. He's just you know, he loves seeing stuff,
41:01
even if it's sports that he's not following, you know. And he's what
41:05
he's excited to be kind of a part of the team. And and you
41:08
know, it's it's a really cool guy. I mean, he's a local
41:10
guy. He played football at Meridian right in their height in the mid nineties
41:14
when they were going deep in the state playoffs and stuff like that. So
41:17
uh so he gets it. He knows kind of how big high school sports
41:22
are in Walkin County. He's he was a part of it at one point.
41:24
So really really cool deal. So big thank you to Marty Stafford for
41:29
that. Yeah, I'm just looking at it here too, home auto flood,
41:31
earthquake, motorcycle, boat, RV, and small business insurance. I
41:36
mean that's it's quite the range. Yeah, it's quite the range as far
41:39
as insurance goes. Although I will admit I don't know a whole lot about
41:43
the insurance business, which is why I need go to soft for insurance.
41:46
Right. I do love it too, because he's kind of taken on like
41:50
the vern Fonk of the above Seattle. You know, everyone in the Seattle
41:54
area knows those vern Funk commercials, and yeah, very so funny. The
41:59
guy's name is actually I believe Rob uh huh rob Falk, I think it
42:02
is, and uh he was he went to one of Eat high school.
42:06
Yeah, yeah, one Eat A legend if you will, Yeah, I
42:08
mean I don't know the guy personally, I don't know why you're even graduated,
42:12
but but yeah, I mean, uh yeah, so it's cool.
42:15
It's good to have them on board. And uh I'm sure people will be
42:19
seeing their logo in more than a couple of places, so uh yeah,
42:23
thanks again to them, and thanks again to Kurt Mayberry Farm and Kurtmaberry farm
42:27
dot com. So we'll be sure to visit that website. That's Kurt with
42:30
the C M A b E r r y farm dot com. And uh
42:32
hey, you know what, Tyler, if he need some milk, they
42:36
can hit up Edeling Dairry, right, Yes, that's right, Edling dairy
42:39
Man. They got man, they got some good stuff there, and they
42:43
got lots of I mean you can get you can get sandwiches there. I
42:45
mean you can get all sorts of things. That's expanding and it's awesome.
42:49
Did I see the other day you made one of your eggnogggnogs? Yes?
42:52
Would that be an eggnog squared? Well, it was a yeah, it
42:57
was an eggnog float. Yeah, but it's an agnog squared let's just call
43:00
it that. Yeah, And you know where I got the egg and the
43:02
eggnog ice cream from was obviously edline Derrek Yeah yeah, smart move, Yeah
43:10
Yeah, I guess that's it, Tyler. We Yeah. I mean,
43:14
it's crazy to think that we're at episode two thirteen. By the way,
43:16
I just yeah, every time I see the number, the fact that we're
43:20
over two hundred, when honestly, I wasn't sure that we were even gonna
43:22
get past fifty. You know what I mean? Was fifty or the one
43:24
that we did with Locker Yes, God, that doesn't seem like it was
43:28
that long ago. I know. It was during that COVID season, you
43:31
know, when we were interviewing coaches every Friday night because we were wanting to
43:35
give them something, some normality to life, you know, and do something
43:39
football related on Friday night. And we were getting close to number fifty,
43:44
and and you said, well, aim for the stars, see I who
43:47
can get for this for this monumental episode? And it's like okay, And
43:52
it worked, yeah, worked out really well. Yeah, Tyler, I've
43:57
got one thing we're going to do really quickly. Okay, are you a
44:00
big I got I got I got something for you too. I got a
44:04
little question for you that you might like. Are you a big Thanksgiving guy.
44:08
I I tend this is gonna be weird because it's my first year in
44:13
This is my first year in fourteen years that I'm not at the chocolate factory
44:16
during Thanksgiving. So it used to be that was my one day off and
44:20
like a I don't know, like a fifty eight day span or something like
44:22
that. So I used to just I used to just lay in bed and
44:25
watch football. That was about it. So I'd spent a long time since
44:30
I've had like a normal Thanksgiving where you know, I go somewhere and have
44:35
the food and all those kinds of things. So but from what I recall,
44:38
yeah, I like it. Okay, we're gonna do a thing here.
44:43
One through five, Tyler, Oh, the same one through five things,
44:45
same one through five idea where I give you something and you got to
44:49
pick a rank a one through five, one being the best, five being
44:51
the worst, and you don't know what the next one is, right,
44:54
Okay, Thanksgiving Edition. Okay, all right, number one, stuffing stupphing.
45:00
I'm gonna go five. Wow wow that you know the kids like to
45:06
say, hot take, Yeah, hot take mashed potatoes one really yep.
45:15
I mean, I can't blame you there. Yeah, I'm trying to remember
45:19
how to spell potatoes, uh, turkey. See, this is where it
45:27
gets tricky because I don't know what the next two are gonna be. Yeah,
45:30
so I'm gonna go three on that turkey, three cranberry sauce. I'm
45:40
gonna go four. Oh really mm hmm. And the last one pumpkin pie
45:46
two boom. You feel good about this one? I feel pretty good about
45:51
it. I think if I would switch anything, yeah, it would be
45:54
one and two. But I'm I'm good either way. So mashed potatoes,
45:59
pumpkin pie, turkey, cranberry stuffing. Yeah, yeah, all right,
46:04
I feel pretty good. Yeah. I mean, and I can't hate you
46:07
for that one. That's a good one. Okay, here's the problem.
46:10
I'm one of those guys that with this you can put them in any order
46:15
you want. It's going in my mouth. Yeah, you're like one,
46:17
yeah, one, yeah, one, make them all five for all I
46:21
care. I don't care, it doesn't matter. It's all the same.
46:23
The only thing I'm not like super high, Well, every year my family
46:29
puts out a big bowl of a big bowl of salad, and I don't
46:31
think anybody touches it. I mean, it's just wasted lettuce is all they're
46:34
doing. But like my sister loves fruit salad, so she makes an awesome
46:38
fruit salad deviled eggs. I could eat about fifty of those. I wonder
46:43
how many I could eat. Dinner rolls, Hawaiian sweet rolls or whatever.
46:46
They are unbelievable. Yeah, and then yeah, those things are so good.
46:52
Now the one thing that people probably wouldn't think that I love, but
46:57
I absolutely love it now. That being said, I pretty much only eat
47:00
it two days of the year. That's Christmas and Thanksgiving. Green bean casserole.
47:05
Yeah, I would eat the crap out of some green bean casserole.
47:07
Let me tell you. Yeah, yeah, I uh yeah, I'm I'm
47:12
I don't know. I'm very particular and we've discussed this recently, but I
47:17
can't have my food touching on the plate. Yeah that's a weird one,
47:22
Tyler. Yeah, I don't know that. There's a lot of things about
47:24
me that are weird. And oh, no, you're weird. I mean
47:28
I'm weird too, but you're weird when it comes to some things that one
47:30
I just don't get it. I don't Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
47:34
Here's suff made sense to me. I something came to my mind and
47:37
I wanted to run it by you live on the air where you work,
47:40
because you've done this to me now the reaction right here on the spot.
47:45
Yeah. And I came up with something and I thought this would be a
47:47
good question for Ryland. So now, what is something you have to know
47:54
almost exactly what the price of it is already? Yeah, But what is
47:58
something that you you love so much that you would not question buying for twice
48:04
the amount that it normally is? Like anything anything? Wow? And I
48:12
hate that. I don't want to. I don't want to. I don't
48:13
want like some like you know, somebody listening and going, oh great,
48:16
we can charge them this now, you know, I don't want that.
48:19
I just think of something because I because I had one the other day and
48:22
it just made me. And the first thing I thought it was like,
48:24
man, I'd pay double for this, Well, what did you have?
48:28
It was Costco pumpkin pie. Really Costco pumpkin Costco A Costco pumpkin pie is
48:34
huge and it's five ninety nine. I am gladly I would gladly pay.
48:40
Yes, I was just the other day and and and their pies, which
48:45
you know, they're not big. They're not small though, but those things
48:47
were like eight ninety nine. Yeah, I would. I would easily play
48:51
eleven ninety eight for that pie. Like it's I wouldn't even think about twice
48:54
about it. I mean so and that, and that's what made me think.
48:58
Oh man, okay, Tyler, you want to know what it is?
49:00
What's it costco? Hot dog? I'd pay three bucks for that thing
49:06
with a drink. Yeah, I get two drinks out of it. Yeah,
49:08
or no, I'd only get one because I'm paying double the price not
49:10
getting double the product. But Tyler, you know what I saw the other
49:15
day. You ever had the chicken bake from Costca? Oh yeah, I'd
49:17
buy the boxes of them. Sometimes it comes with six of them and you
49:21
bring them home. I saw a guy the other day on TikTok. He
49:22
took a chicken bake, he cut the top off of it and slid the
49:25
hot dog inside of it. Oh my goodness. Yeah yeah. And then
49:30
there was another guy that bought a piece of pizza and he took the cheese
49:31
and stuffed it in there too. Wow. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie
49:37
like I mean, I'm a fat guy, not just you know, like
49:39
people are like, oh, I'm a fat guy at heart. Yeah,
49:40
no, I'm a fat guy. And yeah I could get down on that.
49:45
I could absolutely get and you know what, I might even buy the
49:47
pepperoni pizza, you know, pizza and stuff the pepperoni in there too.
49:52
Yeah. I mean, first off, their chicken bakes are so good,
49:54
yes, and their hot dogs are unbelievable. But you stuff one of those
49:59
hot dogs inside of chicken bake. See. Now here's the thing, though,
50:01
Tyler. I'm also the type of guy that I look at a burger
50:06
and people are like, oh, put mac and cheese on it. I'm
50:07
like, no, no, no, no, no, no, Hold
50:09
on a second here. I love mac and cheese and I love a burger.
50:14
I don't eat them together. I'll eat I'll eat those separate. You
50:15
know. The other day one of my buddies posted a a my buddy's a
50:21
ah, he what's what I'm looking for? Critic? He's like a critic
50:25
and he does he does like local craft beers is what he does, Okay.
50:30
And he had one that was like an I p A and it was
50:32
fruit punch and I'm like, I'll drink an I p a. I love
50:37
fruit punch. I don't want those together. Like, what if you know,
50:40
now that being said, put a hot dog inside a chicken bake,
50:44
I'm in why, I have no idea. I thought you're gonna say,
50:45
put a hot dog in there, and I'm good talking about the idea inside
50:51
of the inside of fruit punch beer. Yeah, put a hot dog in
50:52
there? What the heck does do that? I use the hot dog as
50:54
a straw. I mean, that's what a chicken bake with a hot dog
51:01
in it. When the guy took a bite, I was like, I
51:04
don't even need his reaction. I want in, Like, I just do.
51:07
I want in on that, Like, especially because the chicken bakes aren't
51:09
all that expensive either, right, No, no, no, there I
51:13
think that. I think they're like three fifty. Yeah, so you're talking
51:15
about a five dollars meal. Yeah. I did you get a soda out
51:19
of it? Yes? Although what do you do with the extra bun?
51:22
Throw it outside for the birds? You know what? That's what you do?
51:23
Yeah? Yeah, you know. I I since I got my Costco
51:27
card spend almost a year now, I've I've gone there just to eat because
51:32
it's so cheap. And and I tell you I was there over the summer.
51:38
I want to say it was in July, maybe early August, and
51:44
I did some shopping. But I was sitting there eating at the kind of
51:45
you know, the tables are and stuff like that, and incomes uh Javensky,
51:51
slim Baker and Kendra his mom. Oh really, Oh yeah, does
51:53
she work there? Or no? No, no she may have, but
51:58
they just walking in and they wreck andized being waved and sat down and talked
52:00
for a little bit. And and I was like I and Javinski's like,
52:07
yeah, just he goes, I'm becoming an adult now. I had got
52:09
my own Costco card now. And I said, oh, there is there
52:12
one close to Pullman. He goes, yeah, it's pretty close. I
52:15
was like, all right, So that was that was pretty cool. And
52:16
congratulations to him scoring his first touchdown a few weeks ago. Yes, yes,
52:21
that was great. We did not bring that up. That was an
52:22
awesome moment. He got some serious playing time the last little bit. Yeah,
52:28
so that's good for him. And Lighton Smithson with a kickoff return for
52:31
a touchdown. I was driving when that happened. Oh yeah, I almost
52:35
put it in the wall. Could you imagine returning a kick for a touchdown
52:38
with Dean Sanders on the other sideline. Yeah, well I would have ran
52:43
by him and maybe you know, mooned him on the way started doing the
52:45
high step. Yeah, like yeah, right, his move. Oh my
52:49
goodness. By the way, I'm looking here, Kendra does work at the
52:52
Costco. Actually yeah, yeah, yeah, And that's that's yeah, it's
52:58
it's either it's one of those things. It's just isn't it fun doing what
53:01
we do and then seeing kids scoring touchdowns and you know what I mean,
53:07
like all of that stuff, like it's I don't want to say rewarding,
53:10
you know what I mean, because we have nothing to do with it,
53:13
But it's just so cool to see because we you know, we follow these
53:16
guys. Yeah, it's awesome because you're seeing it in this way, in
53:22
this platform that you've seen thousands of touchdowns, yes, but now it's like
53:28
this intimate, like you know this kid and you it's a whole different level
53:32
because you've been close to and coached so many kids that have gone way on.
53:38
You know, I mean, you know, you know Brett Rippon pretty
53:40
well now he's on the Seahawks, you know, I mean, that's that's
53:44
a really cool deal. And and even like Cooper Cup, you know,
53:49
guys like that that you've known for a long time, way before a lot
53:52
of colleges did. And and you know, I didn't get to I didn't
53:57
really personally know Taylor Rap very well. But it's been awesome to see him
54:00
win a Super Bowl. So cool to see t J Bass out there,
54:05
uh, you know, and just all these you know, there's just so
54:08
many things like that that's a lot of fun and and uh and even just
54:13
seeing like Michael Cainan on the sidelines and just just talking shop with him,
54:17
talking cameras, talking about you know, high school football. It's a it's
54:22
just a really cool deal. You know, these these guys that That's what's
54:27
fun about Walking County is that a lot of these guys come back. You
54:30
know, Luke Ridden hours back opening his own gym. Jake Locker's back opening
54:34
you know the Locker. Yeah. He yeah, he's got like he does
54:37
like a has like a basketball gym out in Lyndon, live lives out there.
54:42
They've got I think five boys. Has he lived out there for a
54:45
while. It's been probably, oh boy, maybe four or five years or
54:50
something like that. So it goes to a lot of Lennon Christian games.
54:53
His kids go to go to l C. No, none of them in
54:57
high school yet, but uh but yeah, just it's a lot of really
55:01
good, humble kids. Well they're not kids anymore, they're you know,
55:05
Lucas in his forties. But uh, it's just it's just a cool deal
55:08
to see, you know, the area expand with that. And you know,
55:15
we were talking last week about you know how Western Washington football brought in
55:19
you know, these players, then they decided to stay and then their kids,
55:22
the Hatchets, the Walkers, the Gatterman's, you know, what have
55:25
you are, you know, making big names for themselves here and you know,
55:30
and it's cool because you see these guys. You know, I would
55:34
imagine TJ. Bass when his NFL days are over, he might he might
55:37
move back. I mean he yeah, he probably had some fun in Eugene
55:40
and had some fun at uh down in California, but I could ultimately see
55:45
him coming back here and starting a family and then boom, yeah, you
55:46
got some more basses coming up. I mean, who knows. It's a
55:51
it's a really cool deal. And you're right, it's a lot of fun
55:52
doing what we do and and and uh, you know it's rewarding. And
55:58
I found out who the guy is that played with Christian Nakoye. Oh yeah,
56:04
we talked about this. So Kevin Hester, who's the mayor of Knooksack,
56:08
who his he has a grandson, I believe that as a sophomore on
56:14
the team, Jackson Hester, who's going to be a player. By the
56:16
way, a very very fast. So that's a that's a that's a really
56:21
cool deal. You know. I just got a message the other day saying,
56:25
oh, the guy that you talked to is Kevin Hester, he's the
56:28
mayor. And I was like, wow, awesome. So yeah, small
56:32
world, which, by the way, Tyler news to me, Like you
56:36
know how they say like, oh I was today years old and I learned
56:37
this right. I didn't know Nuksack was the city. Didn't know. Yeah,
56:43
well that's Nuksak, Everson and Seue Mass. I call it kind of
56:45
the Bermuda Triangle. I mean I would say that where Knuksack Valley High School
56:51
is is Nuksak, gotcha? And then he was right next to Sue Mass.
56:57
Yeah, it's right on the line east of there is Sue Mas.
57:00
That's where the border is. Everson is actually like a city, like,
57:04
Yeah, it's a little further south and it's probably the most populated out of
57:07
the three. Yeah, it's the one that has an actual like well,
57:09
I guess sum As kind of does. Knooksack doesn't really have like a a
57:14
drive through like downtown or you know what I mean, like a right I
57:17
even know what you would call it. But Tyler, I'm looking at the
57:20
City of Knuxack right now. Yeah, looking at their website. This one
57:22
guy here, he's got a NAPA Auto Part shirt on, which I love.
57:28
But then the other guy's got a Knoxack Valley hat. Randy Rellaford,
57:32
Releford Relaford. Yeah, well there was Jordan Reliford who was a fast pitch
57:37
pitcher. She pitched every inning of every game or senior year and they won
57:42
the state championship. That was just a few years ago. So I don't
57:45
know if that's a daughter or anything. But he's got a Knucksack Valley hat.
57:47
You can see it behind he's got he's got his head. It's kind
57:51
of hidden behind classes. The thing I love about this though, is Kevin
57:53
Hester is in your typical city council. You know, sitting in front of
57:59
a flag with a night background. Right. Yeah. All the other ones
58:01
are just like randomly placed, like I mean, this one here, Marshall
58:05
Judy. He looks like he maybe just got out of church, and he's
58:07
like stand in front of a farm. Steve Nayans Nions Nions. Yeah,
58:13
he's the one with the NAPA shirt and then he's got a Seattle Mariners I
58:15
guess it's a NAPA zip up hoodie and then a Seattle Mariner shirt underneath.
58:21
He looks like a fun guy. And then Randy Stewart, he's like in
58:23
a actually I guess he and Steve look like they're in the same place,
58:28
but there's like a small American flag in it. But it's not a normal
58:30
city council type picture, you know what I mean. And then the only
58:34
other one is Colin Hester, who I would assume is related to Steve,
58:38
but there's no photo for him. Yeah, and Steve Nions is another guy
58:43
played sports against, played football and baseball against him, but he was an
58:46
amazing basketball player, average almost twenty three points a game you played against him.
58:52
Yeah, Steve, Steve Nions, this guy looks like he's much older
58:53
than that. Oh, well, maybe it's a different Steve Nions. I'm
58:57
not sure. N E y E n s. Yeah. Wow. Yeah.
59:00
He was a year older than me. And then his I'm forty four.
59:06
Yeah, this guy don't look forty five. Yeah, but anyways,
59:09
he was great. And his son Xavier Nine's he's the kid I told you
59:13
about the baseball player that's highly ranked. Next. Oh yeah, yeah,
59:16
yeah, well maybe this is maybe this is Grandpa, this could be could
59:21
be Steve Junior, Steve Senior. I'm not quite sure. I just sent
59:22
it to you, just sent you the link. There does not look like
59:25
a guy that's forty five. Maybe I'm wrong. Let's see here. Yeah.
59:32
Well I was a little surprised though that Knuoksack was like an actual like
59:37
it says city of Knoksack, you know what I mean. Like that blew
59:38
me away when I when I saw that. Yeah, this must be a
59:42
Steve Senior. I don't know. Well, you know what, somebody will
59:45
and they'll probably text you about it. Oh yeah, I'm sure because I
59:49
know Steve and that's not Steve. Yeah all right, Tyler, Well we
59:52
are almost going to hit an hour, so let's get out of here before
59:55
Blake Whitman gets a full out hour out of it. All right, sounds
59:59
good, all right. He's Other Anderson of wacom Preps walcompreps dot com.
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I'm Yland Spencer. You've been listening to episode two hundred and thirteen, a
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