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Motor City Mad Mouth Show with Bo Crouch · Motor City Mad Mouth

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  Happy Wednesday, everybody, and welcome to our second episode of the Motor City
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  Mad Mouse Show, promptly named after my hat, among other things. We
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  did what we did the first MotorCity Mad Mouse Show with George Iiicorn, and
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  we're doing another one with my tranquilizer on the air aka vau Crouch, who
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  is known for his work with Football Talk with Bow and more importantly he's my
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  right hand man on Inside the Pigskin. Welcome to the show, Bow,
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  how's going. Thanks for having me on. Oh, you're welcome. It's
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  always pleasure having you on. So why don't we let our audience find out
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  about getting to know you? Give us some background information on yourself. Yeah,
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  so, I mean as far as sports are concerned, you know that's
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  been football in specific has been a love of mine since I was a kid.
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  You know, I went on to play semi pro and pro Arena,
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  won a national title, so you know, in and around football for a
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  long time. Retired when I was thirty, and you know, got to
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  a spot where I wanted to return to the sport and you know that's how
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  I got into the podcasting world. Very good, All right, Well,
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  a very nice job helping us share some of the content. Candy A Blank
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  is producing the show. I have a book out there called Lessons from the
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  Microphone, Tuning into the Enduring Wisdom of Visionary Leaders. Pretty much solja old
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  school Media Versus New School Media, which is available on Kindle and Amazon.
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  All Right, with that said, bo, let's talk about your favorite sport
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  as a child. Yeah, I mean definitely football. Definitely football. You
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  know, I grew up in the eighties, so I got to watch the
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  Seahawks, you know, I was here in the Seattle area, so I
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  got to watch Steve Largent and Dave Craig and Kenny Easley and all those guys,
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  you know, some of the very few that actually have their numbers in
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  the afters. It's not something Seattle does a lot of. And so you
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  know, I've got to weather a lot of good and bad in Seattle sports,
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  especially when it comes to football. I watched our ninety two year where
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  we went to and fourteen obviously was still around for you know, our our
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  Super Bowl appearances. But you know, as a Seattle sports fan, not
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  just not just Seahawks. Obviously the Mariners. We've seen them go up and
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  down, more down than up though. Yeah. So you said you saw
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  Steve Largin. Who are so many of the other players that you took note
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  of? Yeah, so you know Steve Largent, you know, I got
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  to see Dave Craig, Kenny Easley, Brian Blades, you know, I
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  mean, Chris Warren, so many guys from back in that era. And
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  then as you kind of progress through the years. You know, guys like
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  Ken Hamlin, you know, Hassleback, all those guys through the home grewnd
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  era. But yeah, yeah, and of course you know all the current
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  ones that you know. If you're you know, older than ten, you
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  probably also know Ryan Glades does not remember is any related to Benny Blades,
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  right, former Detroit Lion. You know that I don't remember offhand. You
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  might be right, though, Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure. And
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  you said Kenny easily right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember him
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  real well. He was a pretty good player for them, that's for sure.
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  So you know. So, yeah, I can tell that you're Seattle
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  born and or you know, Seattle's in your blood for sure. So let's
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  talk about your passion for football. What is it that you like so much
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  about football? Because we certainly know that you know a lot about it.
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  Yeah, I mean, it's one of those sports where it truly is a
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  team sport. You know, it doesn't matter how good any one player is.
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  If you don't have the other ten guys on the field with that person,
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  you're not gonna You're not gonna do much even if you have the best
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  quarterback in the world. If your line isn't good, nothing's gonna happen.
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  Or you know, if you say you have an average quarterback and uh,
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  you know, but your receivers can't catch. I mean, you know,
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  everybody has to play together. For me, I was a defensive player,
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  right, so as a corner, I rely heavily on my defensive line,
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  right. So that's what that's one of those those guys have to be able
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  to apply pressure because as a corner a safety, you can only guard for
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  so long. Right. You could be exceptionally good at what you do,
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  but if nobody can get home, eventually, they're gonna get you. So
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  it's it's truly that team sport. So you know, it's uh, that's
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  probably one of the things I enjoyed the most about it. So who's your
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  favorite Seahawk of all time? I mean probably Largent, right, I mean,
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  you know it's the one that I remember as a kid. It's it's
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  why I wanted to be a receiver originally, and you know that that changed
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  at the at the high school level. But but yeah, I mean Steve
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  Largent. Yeah, so you say you played the Florida football for a while,
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  tell us a little bit about that. Yeah, so, you know,
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  played in school. Obviously, I went to UH. I went to
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  Lake Washington High School in Kirkland, Washington. We had a horrendously bad team.
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  We changed coaching staffs every year, and so there's not a not a
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  real way to build continuity there. And then uh you know, went on
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  to play Semi Pro Bowl, you know, played, uh played for the
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  King County Jaguars and then the rent and Ravens. Won a national title with
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  the Ravens, and then went on to play arena ball in the A I
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  F A and uh so that was arena league. So my position changed a
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  little bit. I was no longer a corner. I ended up being a
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  j back, which is kind of like a linebacker. But rules are wildly
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  different in arena sports, so that took a little getting used to. But
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  yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean so I played for a long time,
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  so anybody can talk about it. When you've played, it's certainly a
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  lot easier to talk about. So tell me about the Arena Football League.
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  Okay, I be arena football league period. How do you like playing a
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  sport where you have on a field for about fifty yards? And that's why
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  we all know it's an entirely different game anyways, and you know, when
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  it comes to breeding talent, what are you mainly looking for? Wide receivers
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  and a certain skill position. But because you know, defense isn't really emphasize
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  in the arena football league, yeah, you're you are set up for failure
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  as a defender in arena because not only are they moving first, but you
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  can't. So as a jayback, we were, the rules for us were
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  very strange, so on the offensive side of the ball, at least in
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  our version of arena. You know, there's different leagues of arena ball,
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  so I mean some of the rules are a little different league to league,
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  but in ours, a couple of the receivers got to move before the ball
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  was snapped. As a j back linebacker, essentially you had to be no
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  deeper than five yards behind the defensive line and you couldn't be outside the tackles
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  outside the ends right so, and you couldn't move until the ball was snapped.
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  So you have receivers that are already at a full run and you can't
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  move until the ball is snapped. So you have to be able to cover
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  the width of the field as fast as possible. Because they still have a
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  running back as well, so it's definitely set up four points. But you
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  know, for me as a defensive player, I like to hit people,
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  So it was it was fun to hit people in arena sports because it's an
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  ice arena that has the old school AstroTurf put down. Right, it's basically
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  like a plywood platform with the old like just standard carpet style astro turf,
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  but the ice an the walls are there, but none of the glasses there,
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  right, So if if somebody goes to the outside or say they're going
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  to the back of the end zone or something like that, if you hit
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  them up up top, you can blow them out into the stands like you
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  can. You can knock them into the crowd or out into the concourse.
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  So I mean, you know, they were really hoping, they're uh hoping
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  their quarterbacks didn't hurt them, because you know, if you if you knock
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  them out of the stadium, they're they're landing on concrete. Tell me about
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  AstroTurf. I had to deal with that at the Pontac's Silvered Home, And
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  I want to tell you what. I here's the thing. When you cover
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  the NFL back in the day, you had a lot of astro turf fields
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  in Minneapolis was bad. Actually had to have my knee terrained after being at
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  the Metrodome. But I would always be on the field where Barry Sanders made.
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  The Silver Dome is home. And let me tell you, put artificial
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  surface on concrete. The Pontac Silver Dome was that dangerous for play. I
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  used to play. Now did you recknees with? You've gotten a lot of
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  concussion, so I can appreciate where you're coming from. Well, in the
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  Kingdome, the Kingdom had that as well, right, you know, almost
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  an old AstroTurf stadium. Yeah, pretty cool building really. I was actually
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  in there one time. I actually kind of liked the place, and I
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  think when I really enjoyed about the Kingdom, there's a noise level that the
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  Seahawks really didn't have a home field advantage because of the place. Was Wow,
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  that's sure. There is no doubt. We actually used to get penalties
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  for being too loud back in back in the eighties. You'd get a unsports
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  sports unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. And it was funny because what do you think that
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  does? Do? A crap? Picks you louder? Yeah, beats felt
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  bad about it, but that's why you call them the old twelve man.
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  Right. So, so let's talk about building your brand. I know I
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  met you on Twitter and you know you gravitated, you helped me out,
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  you shared a lot of our content. Then well, all of a sudden
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  we became friends. I brought you on the show and you've been a fixture
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  anyways. But your brand is Football Talk with Bo. How many shows do
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  you do a week? Oh? Man? So let's see, like fourteen
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  fifteen shows? Yeah, fourteen fifteen shows something like that. Really, how
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  do you do it it? Yeah? I mean, like today today is
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  typically my longest day I will be on camera. I'll be I'll be in
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  front of the camera about seven hours today. Wow. I mean, are
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  you fortunate? Have you been able to find a sponsor that is allowing you
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  to go ahead and beyond there enough where it's hard to monetize the business?
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  Here? Are you finding a way since you're able to be on that many
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  times, to be able to do that, to be able to stay in
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  that's incredible or beyond that many times? Yeah, I mean I'm working towards
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  it, right. So it's a it's been a slow growth. So I've
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  been I've been on this path for a little over a year now, and
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  you know, I've taken it from being really horrible on camera to say the
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  least. Fortunately, you get to do that in front of nobody. Nobody's
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  watching your show when you start, and that's probably better because you know,
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  if you scroll back in the catalog, you're going to see some you know,
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  some choppy, some choppy attempts at doing what we do. But as
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  far as monetizing, you know, you're just you're constantly growing, right,
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  Like every platform has its own rules, you know, like YouTube for example,
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  which you know some of the people in the in the comments here are
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  obviously watching on YouTube, which is helpful. Be sure to like and subscribe,
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  but you know, one of the biggest things is you got to get
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  to that thousand subscribers and then there's a certain amount of watch hours that you
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  need and those are those are kind of true stats, whether you're watching on
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  YouTube or Facebook, Instagram, whatever, right, they all kind of have
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  those things. You can't even go live on TikTok and tell you you have
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  a thousand people following you, you know, So, I mean there's so
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  many rules that you got to play along with. And then I've gotten to
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  the point where you know I was able, you know, I was asked
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  to be on a Roku TV channel. So I mean, it's all trending
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  the way that I'm trying to make it go in conversations now of potentially taking
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  over the pay per view broadcast for a local MMA circuit. So I mean,
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  they're all things that are are trending the way that you want them to
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  go. But no, as it sits right now, I'm not making I'm
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  not making good money doing what I'm doing, but I do enjoy it a
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  lot more than the career paths that I used to have. Well, as
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  long as you have a path and you know what you're doing, that's unbelieable.
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  We'll go to George Iichorn in the comment session. I find both it'll
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  be a great football mind, so well schooled on NFL in college especially.
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  Yeah, obviously now George has moved over to the Baseball Show, but we
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  did a lot of stuff with them. Well, vocals are aspiring broadcaster,
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  good evening everyone. Well't you know he's learning the ropes. He's young,
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  has a tremendous amount of potential. And then back to George Eichorn that's amazing
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  that you have fourteen shows a week. Yeah, it is. It's a
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  lot. It's a lot. It's really a lot. When you think of
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  the prep that goes into them, all, I can imagine. Yeah.
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  Well, I mean the thing is, like you say, you got prep,
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  you got social media. You have so many different things that you work
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  at that most people nowadays don't understand. When I got into business forty four
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  years ago, I worked with you know now what they call now terrestrial radio.
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  All you had to do is make sure the content was good, you
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  complied with FCC regulations. Now it's just a much different animal, which leads
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  to why I wrote my book Lessons from the Microphone, Tuning into the enduring
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  wisdom of Vision Area Leaders that you can see at the top right of your
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  screen, you know. And like I said, it's old school media versus
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  new school media. And it is available on kind on Amazon. So I
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  admire you your tremendous help on Inside the Pixel, and I think everybody I
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  know that everybody likes you. We have a good group there with mel Farr,
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  coach Bono, and the list goes on. You know, Travis Holmes
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  does well, George Iiicorn was doing well, you know, so you know
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  what, we just try to keep things for real. We try that purpose
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  of that show is make sure we have a player, a coach, or
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  maybe two players that have played the game. Not looking for nothing against regular
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  podcasters per se, but I want people that have been there, so it
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  enhances the credibility of what we do and was your knowledge and everything, it
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  only bolsters it that much more. So let's talk about what's in store for
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  bow. We're gonna break it down into three incomements. Where do you want
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  to be a year from now? Yeah, I mean obviously you know,
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  a year from today, what will be heading into uh what it would be
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  my second Super Bowl doing this. It would be it would be cool to
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  have this in a position where financially it's comfortable doing this full time, right,
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  And I feel like that's probably the ultimate goal for you know, anybody
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  that is doing a podcast or is on any of these is you know,
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  ultimately you want to get to a spot where you're being paid for your paid
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  for your time. Right. Uh. It is one thing that is very
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  different than any other business that I've owned. You know, I had a
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  auto repair business, I had an HVAC company. And when you start those
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  any any business you start doesn't generally generate money right away, right, you
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  don't three to five years. Is that that window for a company to be
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  successful, right, And so generally you are operating at even or a loss
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  for the first couple of years. I mean that's just basic dynamics of owning
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  a business, being a small you know, business owner. This particular path
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  is very different than your traditional business because in a traditional business, even when
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  you aren't necessarily successful, you can kind of you can kind of survive on
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  cash flow, right, because you have a product or a service that that
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  you're offering. You know, people whether like hvac, I was installing furnaces
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  and ac and stuff like that. Right, So you're you're surviving on the
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  cash flow of they have a you have a product they need and you know,
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  you may not be making a huge profit, but it keeps the thing
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  rolling. When you get into podcasting, it's very interesting because you have to
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  achieve a certain level of success before any money can even become available, right,
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  because they're not going to pay you because you talk about sports or you
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  know sports or any of that. Right, They're they're buying your your sphere
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  of influence, right, They're they're buying your subscribers, that your viewers,
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  whatever you want to call them. And when you start out in this,
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  you don't have any of those. So you have to do all of the
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  work right. You have to create your shows, make sure the content's good,
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  be as smooth on camera as you can be, try not to say
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  uh A five thousand times, which you know when you start out, your
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  probably gonna do all of those things. You have to kind of start to
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  master before you end up with the following to then finally get monetized by these
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  different you know, different platforms. Yeah, it's a very involved process for
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  sure. Sorry, let's talk about where you want to be in five years.
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  Bo I mean in five years, it'd be cool to have this in
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  a way where I could be traveling to some of these things. So one
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  of the shows that I do during the season it's over now, but I
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  do a sports bar series for Thursday night football and the reason for that is
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  Thursday night football is kind of been the worst game of the week, and
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  as an analyst, I got to watch them all anyway, right, So
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  I kind of tailored this to I can highlight local businesses. It makes it
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  a little more fun to watch the game, and I'd basically end up at
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  a different sports bar each week. In this case, we were going through
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  Western Washington, so if you're familiar with Western Washington, we basically went from
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  Tacoma to Bellingham. Was the was the width of the path we took.
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  And we were selecting a different sports bar each week and interviewing the owner,
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  packing all the stuff in and then come back for the game. Or if
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  it was a long ways away, we you know, we would just pack
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  it all up and you know, kind of hang out in the city and
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  then you know, go wherever we were. But ultimately we would go back
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  and we'd watch the game there. And it also made it a lot of
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  fun in the way that if you watched my show and we were gonna be
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  in your town, you could come out and have a beer with us,
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  watch the game with us, and we could talk about football during the game.
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  So it gave me a way to watch the game in a fun way.
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  I got to highlight local businesses and I got to meet people that viewed
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  the show, which is great. It was it was a fun way to
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  meet people. Well. That shows your business intelligence. Anyways, because,
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  like you said, you've been in business for a while, so you know
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  what it's like to be an entrepreneur. I'm going to ask you. You
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  know, it's hard, but you have to have three types of goals of
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  one to five and a ten year plan. So let's just go out there
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  and hit the ten year plan and tell me where you want to be at
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  that point. Yeah, I mean the ten year plan. I this would
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  kind of probably fall in the five year plan. Also, is you know,
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  making sure that I have the you know, have achieved all the media
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  credentials, because that's that's its own uphill battle as well. And but I
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  want to be able to go to these other venues and you know, do
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  interviews and stuff like that, and so it would be it would be fun
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  to have this as a traveling thing, especially say when the NFL visits Europe.
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  You know, it'd be fun to go to some of those games,
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  you know, go and be part of the media that is interviewing the players
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  in and out. You know. Also, it'd be really fun to interview
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  some of the fans over there because you know, they're having to watch some
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  of these games, especially when they're state side. They're watching these games,
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  you know, one, two, three o'clock in the morning. You know,
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  that's a primetime game for us, and that's the middle of you know,
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  that's the middle of the night for them. So that's dedication to the
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  sport. And you know, it's very it would be very cool to go
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  over and chat with some of those people. Well, being on the West
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  Coast. I'm got to ask you, if he's bringing up a really good
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  point, how do you like being on the West coast being a football guy?
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  Because I was in Arizona for a while, and I have to say
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  I enjoyed the games earlier so that I had the rest of the day to
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  myself. Do you feel the same sentiment. I moved to Florida because I
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  wanted to be near my parents and I wasn't Arizona, but I really enjoyed
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  it there. But what about you a West Coast guy? Oh, it's
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  fantastic. It's fantastic. Yeah no, because I mean, say it's a
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  say it's you know, one of the europe Games, right, It is
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  one of those games of six am for me, which is awesome because I
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  wake up before i am every day anyway, so that one I can get
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  up, have breakfast whatever your standard one of East Coast times ten am here,
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  right, a ten am game is awesome. Say the Hawks have the
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  morning game. You can meet up with friends, have some momosas and breakfast.
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  It's awesome. And then your latest game starts at what five thirty,
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  so your your day is you know, your football day is over at eight
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  thirty nine o'clock, right, so it is definitely nice. I always feel
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  bad for like the East Coast on a primetime game, They're going to bed
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  at you know, midnight after watching football. So I do like the West
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  Coast time zone for watching sports. It's a little different about visiting other people's
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  shows because if they have a morning show, then all of a sudden,
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  I am trying to get on camera at you know, five, five o'clock,
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  six o'clock in the morning, because that is a eight or nine o'clock
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  East Coast time, and so you know, it's it's a little bit different
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  if you're hitting the morning show. All right, let's go back to the
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  chat room. The Votkans show is chiming in. Who's going to be the
• 23:00
  Commander's new coach? I want to opening left man. Yeah, that your
• 23:04
  guess. Is as good as mine. I don't believe it's going to be
• 23:07
  Quinn though, so it's yeah, I don't know. I'm with you there,
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  nick it. I don't have a good answer for that day. I'm
• 23:17
  not sure they know what they're doing yet. I'm not so sure either.
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  We'll go back to the box and show again. As a UFC fan,
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  I wish I lived on the West coast. There's no doubt. There is
• 23:29
  no doubt because it's even late here by the time they wrap up half the
• 23:32
  time, so uh, you know a lot of times the UFC is wrapping
• 23:34
  up at what ten ten thirty, especially if some of those rounds go the
• 23:37
  full length. They if you if you get a lot of fights to go
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  the full distance, you're ten ten thirty here. And yeah, so if
• 23:45
  you're on the East coast, what it's one in the morning, that is
• 23:51
  that's tough on a work night if you're trying to go to if you're trying
• 23:52
  to go to a job the next morning. I have some good participation in
• 23:56
  the chat room. So all right, both, sole me ask you,
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  you know, what do you want everybody out there to know about bou Crouch
• 24:03
  that we haven't talked about Uh. I know it's funny. I'm I'm not
• 24:11
  real. Uh, I'm not real guarded. So if you ever, if
• 24:14
  you ever have a question you see me live on Twitter or any other platform,
• 24:18
  uh, just ask. Uh. You know, I'm pretty much an
• 24:22
  open book. I'm not you know, I don't really I don't really hide
• 24:25
  anything. So I guess there's nothing that I can really think of that I
• 24:27
  feel like people should know that. Maybe they don't, you know, it's
• 24:33
  just know that I am. I am learning this as much as anybody else.
• 24:37
  So even when you see me and I get a great compliment sometimes that
• 24:42
  I look very professional, you know, with my platform, and I can
• 24:48
  tell you it's it's still learning every day. So if if you're just starting
• 24:52
  out and you don't feel like you're there, just keep working at it,
• 24:56
  because you know, we we were all terrible starting out. Yeah, well,
• 25:00
  there's no doubt you have to have patience. Rome wasn't built in a
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  day. But you have to dedicate yourself and work your tail off and don't
• 25:07
  take anything for granted. You're building every second is what you're really doing.
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  So all right, Candy Ebling says, what do you think of the new
• 25:15
  head coach in Seattle, Mike McDonald. Yeah, so that was one of
• 25:18
  the only two coaching candidates that I actually thought was good. So obviously Ben
• 25:25
  Johnson, I liked what they were able to do with that offense. You
• 25:30
  know, they were top five in just about every category with that offense,
• 25:33
  so that that would have been a nice fit. It sounded like he wanted
• 25:37
  way too much money. He said he wanted every report I've read so far,
• 25:41
  he wanted more money than what Harbaugh is getting with the Chargers. And
• 25:45
  Harbaugh, you know, he's been to a super Bowl, he won a
• 25:48
  national title in college. Obviously he's tried and true between the you know,
• 25:52
  the two divisions. So if you're telling me an unproven coach, right,
• 25:59
  we've seen what he's done with the offense, but we don't know what he
• 26:03
  is as a leader of men, as building a roster, things like that.
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  So not to say that he can't do it, we just don't know.
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  So the numbers that I heard were somewhere between fifteen and eighteen million a
• 26:12
  year. If you got a guy that's tried and true in Harbaugh getting twelve
• 26:18
  and a half, I couldn't justify that. And it's why the you know
• 26:22
  the rumors that came out where the teams got spooked, and rightfully so when
• 26:26
  it comes to McDonald, they had a top you know, top five defense
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  in almost every category, and that is something that Seattle has had a real
• 26:37
  problem with over the last five years. They have been a bottom five defense.
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  And you know, last year when you look at the offense, they
• 26:42
  were a top ten scoring offense and this year it dropped, but mostly because
• 26:48
  they had an immense amount of offensive line issues. You know, both tackles
• 26:52
  get hurt in the first game, one of their guards get hurt in their
• 26:56
  first game. Both tackles were on ir until like week fourteen, I think
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  it was. So you're not gonna win a lot of games like that,
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  especially when you're using tight ends to fill in gaps for you know, blocking
• 27:06
  schemes. So but all of the pieces are still on this team. On
• 27:11
  the offense, that was a top ten scoring offense. So if you can
• 27:15
  get all those guys healthy, and of course it's the NFL, you never
• 27:18
  know if they're gonna stay healthy. But if you can at least enter this
• 27:22
  enter the season healthy, you have the potential to have a top ten offense.
• 27:26
  If you can get that defense from you know, the bottom the bottom
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  five. If you can get them to like a top thirteen, right like,
• 27:37
  if you can get them just above the middle of the road, the
• 27:41
  Seahawks will be a tough out for people. The one thing with McDonald is
• 27:44
  he has a lot of pressure to be great right away because when you think
• 27:48
  of the last coaches for the Seahawks, you have Mike Hongrin, they get
• 27:53
  to a super Bowl, they got to numerous playoff you know, appearances go
• 28:00
  directly from that. I just kind of bypassed the one year with Moro that
• 28:03
  doesn't really doesn't really count, and then they didn't give him enough time to
• 28:07
  even find out if he was good. But so then you go into the
• 28:11
  Pete Carroll era and I think he missed the playoffs what twice, and then
• 28:17
  you know, gets to a couple of super Bowls. So you're gonna have
• 28:21
  a ton of pressure to be great right away because the roster that you have
• 28:25
  currently has been in the playoffs. They made it their last year, So
• 28:29
  it's not like you're trying. It's not like it's Washington where you have to
• 28:32
  build the entire program. You have enough players on this roster that you can
• 28:37
  be good immediately, and because of the success, especially recent success, there
• 28:41
  will be a ton of pressure to be good right away. Yeah, amazingly
• 28:47
  enough. Jim Harball obviously, and as a Kaitlin the boor right, yeh,
• 28:53
  both nour have new jobs. And you know, amazingly enough, Michigan
• 28:59
  and Washing will be in the Big Ten next year, but they're going to
• 29:02
  do it with entirely different coaches. So you know, and I know,
• 29:04
  and you and I talked about this, not inside depiction, but what you
• 29:08
  know, the Michigan Washington game, you know to me, you know,
• 29:12
  I guess depends on what side. I have no problem with the way it
• 29:15
  worked out. Michigan snapped a drought along drought both on the left. So
• 29:21
  there was some final thoughts about that Michigan Washington games that sort of Seattle and
• 29:25
  Michigan the mean sense, so that that game, Michigan was the better team
• 29:33
  right hands down. Even if Washington would have played a perfect game, they
• 29:37
  would have, it would have been a tall order. That that Michigan team,
• 29:42
  especially the starting lineup, had a lot of NFL caliber guys. You're
• 29:47
  in this year's draft, You're going to see a lot of guys from that
• 29:48
  Michigan team end up in the league. At the same time, the Michigan
• 29:55
  running game was so good that you saw the Huskies change some of their game
• 30:02
  strategy and they became so overly aggressive on defense. It's why some of those
• 30:10
  big plays happened in that first quarter, right because they they were no longer
• 30:14
  in the position. They weren't playing smart football. They were trying to be
• 30:17
  hyper aggressive to shut things down. It opened gaps behind them, and you
• 30:21
  saw both of those first two scores happened right away, right like it was
• 30:26
  almost immediate, because all of a sudden, your secondary was just out of
• 30:30
  position the whole time. So they started to settle down. Second and third
• 30:34
  quarters were you know, a battle back and forth, right. They traded
• 30:38
  points back and forth. You started to think, Okay, they can kind
• 30:41
  of climb back into this thing. And then the fourth quarter came and they
• 30:45
  were trying to do a little bit too much and which rifle is so right,
• 30:49
  you're running out of time. You do have to try and stretch the
• 30:52
  field a little bit, and they they made some mistakes. So if you
• 30:56
  were gonna beat Michigan this year, you had to be absolutely perfect, you
• 31:02
  know, when you saw Alabama get close, you know, that was that
• 31:07
  was a game where they were playing close to a perfect game, like they
• 31:11
  were playing as good as Alabama could have played. And so I mean it's
• 31:15
  you know, sometimes it's just not your day. And we watched that in
• 31:18
  the NFL this last weekend. Well, you have another person out here who
• 31:22
  says, Dave Bradley, good to see you again. He's one of my
• 31:26
  colleagues over at NNGPN TV, and we talked about the Roku in that platform,
• 31:33
  which obviously will consist of Apple TV, Amazon Fire mobile devices and it's
• 31:37
  going to reach eighty five percent of the homes of the United States and Canada
• 31:41
  of four point one billion devices. And Dave's a really good guy. He's
• 31:45
  a really he's really big on soccer, and I'm glad that he was able
• 31:48
  to chime into night. Well, well, I can't tell you how much
• 31:51
  fun it's been to have you on the Motor City Mad Mouse Show. I
• 31:53
  certainly enjoy having you alongside of me on inside the Pics, and now this
• 31:59
  is an opportunity for our audience to get to know you on a much different
• 32:02
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• 33:38
  thank you very much for joining us, and now everybody I'll know my
• 33:43
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• 33:46
  You've been a pleasure to work with from the beginning and now people will
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• 33:53
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  See you Tuesday. Both you know it