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Chuck & Buck 6-4 Hour 4: Nick Saban and the future of college sports, Question of the Day plus texts and One Last Thing · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, yesterday social media was a buzz with
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Speaker 1: videos of Nick Saban and quotes from Nick Saban. He
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Speaker 1: was in front of Senate to talk about the state
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Speaker 1: of college sports. Basically, it is the what is it
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Speaker 1: called Protect College Sports Act? He spoke for about eleven
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Speaker 1: minutes in front of the Senate on why he believes
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Speaker 1: in this, why he is supporting this, and what he
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Speaker 1: thinks really is wrong with the state of college football.
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Speaker 1: So similar to what we did with Russells announcement, We're
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Speaker 1: going to listen to a couple of minutes from Nick
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Speaker 1: Saban and then we're going to chat about that.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 3: I really want everybody here to know that I'm not
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Speaker 3: here to represent a conference or a team, but to
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Speaker 3: preserve college athletics as a whole. You know, I think
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Speaker 3: we all have to ask ourselves a question, what is
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Speaker 3: our guiding principles for the future of college athletics, including
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Speaker 3: Olympic women and non revenue sports. You know, I've spent
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Speaker 3: my adult life and college athletics. I believe in it.
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Speaker 3: I've seen people come young people come in the program,
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Speaker 3: need structure, need discipline, need coaching, need academic support, need accountability,
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Speaker 3: and I've seen them leave with a degree, a career,
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Speaker 3: a family, and a better chance to be successful in life.
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Speaker 3: I think the current system that we have in college
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Speaker 3: athletics right now makes it more and more difficult to
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Speaker 3: do these things. We've moved away from development to focusing
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Speaker 3: on money and not like skills. So to put this
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Speaker 3: in perspective, if you had the biggest, baddest Ferrari that
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Speaker 3: you could ever have, and it was going one hundred
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Speaker 3: and fifty miles an hour toward the Grand Canyon, somebody
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Speaker 3: needs to tap the brakes. And I think that's what
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Speaker 3: we all need to do here. And I'm going to
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Speaker 3: veer a little way from my testimony and just give
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Speaker 3: you some examples of things that I think people may
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Speaker 3: not know that are happening in college football that are
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Speaker 3: huge problems. First of all, I think student athletes should
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Speaker 3: profit from name, image, and likeness as long as those
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Speaker 3: things are authentic endorsements, they create branding for themselves, they
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Speaker 3: sign with the company, they do promotions. I think these
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Speaker 3: things are education as love as their quality of life.
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Speaker 3: I think name, image, and likeness has become pay for play.
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Speaker 3: You know, I said five or six years ago when
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Speaker 3: a school that I'm not going to mention, who didn't
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Speaker 3: do anything wrong, had what's called a collective. A collective
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Speaker 3: is an organization that raises money basically from alumni to
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Speaker 3: be able to pay players and disguise it as marketing opportunities.
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Speaker 3: When a school did that, the first school that did it,
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Speaker 3: I said, do exist what we want college football to become?
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Speaker 3: And I got really criticized for that. But it has
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Speaker 3: become that, and it's become pay for play. And we've
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Speaker 3: also extended the opportunityies now to funnel money from operations
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Speaker 3: which come to the universities as marketing opportunities from the
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Speaker 3: university standpoint, to funnel that money out of operations into
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Speaker 3: paying players. So now if you take that twenty million
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Speaker 3: dollars or whatever it is, you could fund five or
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Speaker 3: six Olympic and women's sports. So these are things that
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Speaker 3: I think need to be addressed, and I think this
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Speaker 3: bill takes a big step forward in doing that. So
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Speaker 3: I think this bill also creates a competitive balance. You know,
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Speaker 3: the NFL, the NBA, Major League baseball, they all have
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Speaker 3: some kind of rules that govern how they compete. It
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Speaker 3: creates parody, it creates, you know, something that gives you
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Speaker 3: the opportunity to have a framework to build a fair
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Speaker 3: place system, in which I think is really really important,
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Speaker 3: and I think this bill does that. Right now. In
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Speaker 3: college football, we have no rules, we have state laws,
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Speaker 3: we have different in every state. We have litigation. The
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Speaker 3: NCAA cannot enforce their own rules because every time they
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Speaker 3: try to enforce the rule, there's a lawsuit. I mean
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Speaker 3: an example would be old missus quarterback. They say he
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Speaker 3: can't play next year. He's playing next year because of litigation.
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Speaker 3: But this is just the way it is. It's become
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Speaker 3: an arm race. Who spends the most has got the
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Speaker 3: best chance to win. But I think it's a race
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Speaker 3: to the bottom because if you don't spend to win,
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Speaker 3: you lose your fan base and you don't have any revenue.
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Speaker 3: So how do you manage the other sports? So the
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Speaker 3: one thing that I think this bill does, you know,
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Speaker 3: sort of enhance the enforcement of the House Settlement, which
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Speaker 3: to me is a start which sort of creates a
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Speaker 3: revenue share kind of a cap and also controls some
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Speaker 3: of the name, image of likeness, things that this bill
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Speaker 3: tries to control. So transferring, you know, I think transferring
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Speaker 3: is a good thing. I don't think a player should
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Speaker 3: be trapped in a bad situation. But I also think
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Speaker 3: multiple transfers have a negative effect. I think there can
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Speaker 3: be little legitimate circumstances where you can transfer more than once.
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Speaker 3: I think if you graduate, you should be able to
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Speaker 3: transfer again because you might have a fifty year where
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Speaker 3: you can have more success someplace else. But unlimited transfers
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Speaker 3: creates free agency, free agency with a collective. Now you're
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Speaker 3: talking about bidding more for players, and then you've got
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Speaker 3: agents out there that are not certified, that are enhancing
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Speaker 3: players or encouraging players to get in the portal I
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Speaker 3: can get you more money. So now we have this
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Speaker 3: unbelievable number of players that get in a portal every year,
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Speaker 3: and we have nothing to control agents, We have nothing
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Speaker 3: to control tampering. So these kinds of things going on
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Speaker 3: college football or absolutely not what anybody of any of
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Speaker 3: us signed up for relative to the educational institutions that
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Speaker 3: you know, we've all tried to represent.
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Speaker 1: He also says along the lines of you know, you've
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Speaker 1: got players playing for nine years in college football, or
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Speaker 1: it seems like I don't know the exact number he used.
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Speaker 1: And you've got players who are entering the NFL who
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Speaker 1: are older than some you know, players who have been
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Speaker 1: in the NFL for two years already because they've been
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Speaker 1: able to play college football for so long. And I mean,
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Speaker 1: I think I will say I think all of the
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Speaker 1: points that Nick Saban brought up were right on. I mean,
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Speaker 1: these are all the problems with college football. I think
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Speaker 1: my problem comes from the fact that you're just speaking
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Speaker 1: up about it now. College football has been getting out
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Speaker 1: of control for four years and I feel like Nick
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Speaker 1: Saban has had an opportunity to change things or speak
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Speaker 1: up or say something for a long time. And it's
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Speaker 1: I think, you know, the fact that he didn't and
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Speaker 1: their coaches didn't, and they let it get to this
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Speaker 1: is why it's this way because nobody spoke up.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know if he had the power to
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Speaker 4: do that until now. I mean, he's been on college
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Speaker 4: game day the last couple of years basically given the
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Speaker 4: same stump speech. Yeah you know so, but I don't know.
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Speaker 4: This is this is now where it goes to the government.
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Speaker 4: For me, it's It's kind of there's two separate issues.
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Speaker 4: There's how do you fix college football, which is what
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Speaker 4: this is all about.
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Speaker 2: And this bill is all about. And then how do you.
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Speaker 4: How do you maximize the revenue for the teams that
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Speaker 4: are actually generating the revenue. And and that's why I think,
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Speaker 4: I mean, Babakua was part of this, was part of
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Speaker 4: this meeting the Notre Dame ad and I thought it
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Speaker 4: was it was very funny how he put this. He said,
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Speaker 4: if you truly want to maximize the media value around
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Speaker 4: the largest sport in terms of eyeballs, which is college football,
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Speaker 4: I think the best way to do it as a
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Speaker 4: super league.
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Speaker 2: And I certainly don't want a super league.
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Speaker 4: I'm not sure anybody necessarily wants a super league. But
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Speaker 4: if you want to maximize media value around college football,
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Speaker 4: I think you take twenty four to thirty teams, create
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Speaker 4: unbelievably competitive scheduling where a team like Notre Dame would
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Speaker 4: play Alabama, Georgia, Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan, and start
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Speaker 4: to get to a number that's more closely resembles the
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Speaker 4: NFL number. I mean, I think he doesn't want it,
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Speaker 4: and yet he's absolutely right and So what I think
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Speaker 4: we're going to end up with is we're going to
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Speaker 4: end up with litigation. Like what's being proposed. It's not
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Speaker 4: going to be exactly what's being proposed, but it's going
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Speaker 4: to be in place for teams thirty three through one
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Speaker 4: hundred and teams one through thirty two are going to
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Speaker 4: be in NFL Junior. Yeah, and they're gonna say there's
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Speaker 4: gonna be collective bargaining. They're going to be full time employees.
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Speaker 4: There's gonna be like. That's the way I see it going,
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Speaker 4: is that this will fix college football minus the top
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Speaker 4: thirty two or whatever teams and those are the ones
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Speaker 4: that have the collective bargaining and they become employees.
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Speaker 1: Okay, do those I was going to say, do those
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Speaker 1: players go to school?
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Speaker 2: I don't think they will necessarily have to go to school.
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Speaker 1: So this is Chuck has brought this up for a
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Speaker 1: couple of years now on Reckless at Breakfast, and it
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Speaker 1: used to sound like such a crazy idea, and now
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Speaker 1: it's like, oh h you're not far off. You're not
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Speaker 1: far off. And I just I find it funny though,
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Speaker 1: that we have gotten so past what college football used
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Speaker 1: to be all about our college athletics really used to
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Speaker 1: be all about. And now the NC two a kind
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Speaker 1: of let it go out of control, much like it
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Speaker 1: seems like Major League Baseball is doing with the Dodgers, right,
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Speaker 1: let it go out of control and then we can
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Speaker 1: try to reel it back in. But in college football,
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Speaker 1: I feel like it's almost done damage to the sport. Yes,
10:38
Speaker 1: it's still popular, people still watch, but the people who
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Speaker 1: are you know, losing in this are the fans, the
10:45
Speaker 1: people who have been loyal to college football teams for
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Speaker 1: decades and things like that, and they're watching this product
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Speaker 1: that they don't really recognize because they don't have the
10:53
Speaker 1: players that they you know, get to know and they
10:55
Speaker 1: feel like are part of their team and all of
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Speaker 1: these things and that loyalty of college sports, which was
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Speaker 1: always to me like the most important part of college sports,
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Speaker 1: the fact that you had that bond kind of with
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Speaker 1: someone who chose to go to your school and you know,
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Speaker 1: something like that, or chose to go to the team
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Speaker 1: that your dad went to and you rooted for growing up.
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Speaker 1: It was that thing that you you know, it just
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Speaker 1: felt special. And now you've got it where it's just
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Speaker 1: out of control and you've got players that are transferring
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Speaker 1: left and right, and I do agree there should be
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Speaker 1: some limit on that. There should be some I don't
11:27
Speaker 1: think that they should have to sit out for a year,
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Speaker 1: and that was unfair when you had coaches who could
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Speaker 1: leave and do whatever they wanted. But I think coaches
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Speaker 1: shouldn't be able to just leave and go from program
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Speaker 1: to program and hop around all the time either because
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Speaker 1: you've got these these kids that are just looking for
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Speaker 1: the next best thing and the next best thing, and
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Speaker 1: what are we really teaching them about life, because it's
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Speaker 1: not going to work that way. It's not even going
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Speaker 1: to work that way. In the NFL. You can't you
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Speaker 1: sign a contract. You owe it to a team to
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Speaker 1: play there for however long that contract is. And yes,
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Speaker 1: there are times where that contract can be broken or
11:57
Speaker 1: you could be traded. Things can happen, But the point
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Speaker 1: is there's at least some sort of outline that says,
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Speaker 1: this is how you have to conduct yourself, this is
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Speaker 1: how your time here is going.
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Speaker 2: To actually go.
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Speaker 1: And at this point, it's like you're just teaching them
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Speaker 1: that you can chase the next best thing and chase
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Speaker 1: the next beck's best thing. And you know, we saw
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Speaker 1: it right here with demand Williams Junior who signed with
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Speaker 1: U dub and then days later was somehow going to
12:24
Speaker 1: LSU and then the enforcement that you had to do
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Speaker 1: to kind of say no, you can't do that.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I just I am worried about college football for the
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Speaker 1: sport that I grew up loving, not for the profitability
12:39
Speaker 1: of what college football will continue to have, if that
12:41
Speaker 1: makes sense.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think when we do separate, I do
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Speaker 4: believe there will be separation between two football leagues. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: I just don't know when it's going to be. Is
12:50
Speaker 4: it going to be short term or are we gonna
12:51
Speaker 4: have to wait ten years for it? But I and
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Speaker 4: I think there will be some schools that are left
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Speaker 4: out that are going to want to be in the
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Speaker 4: Super League. I think there's also gonna be some teams
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Speaker 4: that are in the Super League that turn out to
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Speaker 4: be consistently the twenty fourth to thirty second best teams
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Speaker 4: in the Super League. They'll be like I kind of
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Speaker 4: wish I was back in the regular college football and
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Speaker 4: maybe we see that promotion relegation option there. But I
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Speaker 4: think what's gonna end up happening is that the whatever
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Speaker 4: the Old League thirty three through one hundred. It'll be
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Speaker 4: more like Major League Baseball. Right, we watch our team
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Speaker 4: in maat League. I don't some people watch Chuck watches
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Speaker 4: Major League Baseball. Most of us watch the Mariners. We
13:41
Speaker 4: don't watch Major League Baseball games on a Wednesday night, right,
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Speaker 4: So I think that's gonna be Cougar fans will watch
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Speaker 4: Cougar games and still have the pride and all that
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Speaker 4: sort of stuff. And I think this the Super League
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Speaker 4: will be more like the NFL, where everybody in the
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Speaker 4: country watches those games, whereas you watch your team and
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Speaker 4: then you watch the Super League.
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Speaker 2: That's kind of how I feel it's gonna break down.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I could see that.
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Speaker 2: You know there's a problem.
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Speaker 5: When Congress comes together in a bipartisan yeah fashion to
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Speaker 5: do something about it, that's when you know there's something
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Speaker 5: wrong because that never happened.
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Speaker 2: You mean, when Maria can't well and.
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Speaker 1: There on the same side, I know it was. It
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Speaker 1: is crazy. And even Nick Saban pointed out, He's like
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Speaker 1: it shouldn't even be bipartisan, it should be non partisan,
14:26
Speaker 1: like there's zero like parties just don't freaking matter, and
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Speaker 1: they don't because something does have to be fixed. I
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Speaker 1: did find there were a couple of moments where I
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Speaker 1: laughed to myself, like, he's doesn't want to call out
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Speaker 1: one team, but then he wants to call out Ole Miss,
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Speaker 1: And he called out somebody else in the SEC.
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Speaker 2: I don't want to name this team, but the quarterbacks
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Speaker 2: coming back. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Then he called out somebody else too, and then and
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Speaker 1: and then he talked about parody, which I thought was
14:52
Speaker 1: funny because I was like, well, you want parody now.
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Speaker 1: You didn't care about parody when Alabama was winning championship
14:57
Speaker 1: after championship after championship, and you didn't care about how
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Speaker 1: much money Alabama might have been getting over other people.
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Speaker 1: But now that things have evened out in that way,
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Speaker 1: it's a problem, that's right. So I don't know it
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Speaker 1: just I listened to all eleven minutes. It was interesting.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad they're finally doing something about it. But as
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Speaker 1: I said, I just wish this would have been on
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Speaker 1: the I wish we wouldn't have had to go out
15:18
Speaker 1: of control to try to figure it out. I mean,
15:21
Speaker 1: other interesting things which I think we've all probably thought
15:24
Speaker 1: was going to happen. And you guys obviously speak for yourselves.
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Speaker 1: But they're talking about going back to regional conferences. It's like, well, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you should have done, because apparently travels real hard when
15:34
Speaker 1: USC has to go to Rutgers. Oh no, bleep. You
15:37
Speaker 1: think is that hard for teams to have to do,
15:39
Speaker 1: especially for Olympic teams and things like that, who are
15:42
Speaker 1: traveling across the country for you know, multiple games and
15:46
Speaker 1: things like that. I just it's funny that it seems
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Speaker 1: like with college football, with their system especially, it's got
15:52
Speaker 1: to be like, let's break it all, yes, and then
15:55
Speaker 1: we'll try to fix it.
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Speaker 4: Well, I do believe they're going back to in every
15:58
Speaker 4: sport other than football, leave they're going back to regional conferences.
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Speaker 2: There's no question in my mind.
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Speaker 4: And when we end up with the Super League, I
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Speaker 4: think that'll be the only national conference that there is.
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Speaker 2: And even then it'll be.
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Speaker 4: Broken down then the old Pack eight will be the
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Speaker 4: Western Division of the Super Cool.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna say, you're still gonna have divisions within the
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Speaker 1: whole big thing like the NFL. You've still got the
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Speaker 1: NFC West and you know, like, I just it's again,
16:23
Speaker 1: why why did we have to go break it all
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Speaker 1: to fix this? Why couldn't we have said, Okay, let's
16:27
Speaker 1: just wait. We've got all these ideas, let's see how
16:30
Speaker 1: we can make them all work, and then we'll slowly
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Speaker 1: implement them, versus just let it go run wild and
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Speaker 1: then try to yeah, and then try to rein it
16:37
Speaker 1: back in. I'm like, only in college sports would they
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Speaker 1: go full backwards?
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Speaker 4: Well, I guess the Pack eight included the Cougars and
16:43
Speaker 4: the Beavers, so they wouldn't they, But it'd be it
16:47
Speaker 4: would be Washington and again in USC and UCLAM. And
16:50
Speaker 4: they're going to be part of cal Stanford maybe.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they're going to Arizona, Arizona state of.
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Speaker 2: A Western division, just like they have in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: And and I hope that we can get some sort
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Speaker 1: of yeah, just hold on this, grasp on this. I
17:06
Speaker 1: hope that there can be some way to get people, fans,
17:11
Speaker 1: especially to go back to feeling that loyalty and feeling
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Speaker 1: that reward of cheering on your team.
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Speaker 2: I mean in the NFL, wet though I think a
17:19
Speaker 2: lot of people have.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I notice I noticed zero difference of Husky
17:24
Speaker 4: games now than I did ten years ago.
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Speaker 1: I just got rid of my Husky season tickets and
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Speaker 1: I'm not. I know, and so did our good friends
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Speaker 1: who we went to all the games with, and and.
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Speaker 2: But I don't notice a difference in the stadium. I
17:34
Speaker 2: don't know that.
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Speaker 4: I mean, it's just as full, it's just as rabid.
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Speaker 4: The television numbers are higher.
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Speaker 1: That well, that's what I think. But I'm saying like
17:42
Speaker 1: as far as people watching, I know people are watching,
17:45
Speaker 1: but I feel like as far as your fan experience
17:47
Speaker 1: and what you're getting and what you're hoping for from
17:49
Speaker 1: your team, I think that that is lost. I think
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Speaker 1: a lot of that has been lost with these last
17:53
Speaker 1: five years. And it's not a Washington problem at all.
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Speaker 1: It is a college football problem. You've got, you know,
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Speaker 1: like for But to use the Huskies as an example,
18:02
Speaker 1: you have Kaylin de boorr here coaching this team. You know,
18:05
Speaker 1: you're you've got these players that you're you're attached to,
18:07
Speaker 1: You're you're enjoying watching. They go to a national championship,
18:11
Speaker 1: and then he leaves for the next big thing.
18:13
Speaker 2: And everything falls apart.
18:15
Speaker 1: So at some point there, yeah, it felt even extra
18:17
Speaker 1: elevated because of that particular situation. But I mean, I
18:22
Speaker 1: remember growing up and you were attached to the players
18:27
Speaker 1: that you were seeing at least multiple years and you
18:29
Speaker 1: knew they were going to be there multiple years.
18:31
Speaker 4: You know, I think we're going to get that again,
18:33
Speaker 4: because I think we're going to get multi year contracts.
18:35
Speaker 1: Right, And that's what I just want that to go back,
18:37
Speaker 1: because that's the thing that I think gets lost because
18:40
Speaker 1: you don't, as I said, you don't even have that
18:41
Speaker 1: in the NFL. That people are just up and leaving
18:44
Speaker 1: whenever they want, correct And so I think it's a
18:47
Speaker 1: sad state when we're saying that professional sports are more
18:49
Speaker 1: loyal than college sports. I don't know, I just because
18:52
Speaker 1: they're forced to be right, But that's fine, But.
18:55
Speaker 4: I don't care what the reason there were only one
18:56
Speaker 4: year contracts in the NFL would be just like college
18:59
Speaker 4: I'm sure it would.
18:59
Speaker 1: But the NFL knows that wouldn't be a good way
19:02
Speaker 1: to conduct business. And they're all about money and business
19:05
Speaker 1: and you want fans to buy those jerseys and love
19:07
Speaker 1: those players and all of these things that the NFL
19:10
Speaker 1: takes advantage of, and college football is losing some of that. Granted,
19:14
Speaker 1: I know their product monetarily isn't hurting, but you can't
19:18
Speaker 1: stay in a place where you continue to ask fans
19:20
Speaker 1: for money so that you can pay players who are
19:22
Speaker 1: there for one year and then leaving, and all of
19:24
Speaker 1: the things that have been going on.
19:26
Speaker 2: So the product in the field I think is better though.
19:28
Speaker 4: Yeah, college football players now I think are way better
19:32
Speaker 4: than college field.
19:33
Speaker 2: Yes, I would ten years ago.
19:34
Speaker 1: I would agree that the skill and everything, yes.
19:37
Speaker 4: Which would improve attendance improve eyeballs, I mean it should yeah, yeah,
19:43
Speaker 4: I mean I'm looking here. It says college football attendants
19:46
Speaker 4: has generally been trending upward in recent seasons, that the
19:50
Speaker 4: older overall growth is highly uneven across different conferences and events.
19:53
Speaker 4: There was a consecutive seasons of attendants decline and now
19:57
Speaker 4: in the last couple of years, which is interesting and
20:00
Speaker 4: siding with an il.
20:02
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, but it was the start of when the
20:03
Speaker 1: transfer you have, probably when the start of when the
20:06
Speaker 1: transfer portal went to anyone can transfer was when it
20:08
Speaker 1: went down.
20:10
Speaker 4: Maybe, but it's coming back up again, and that's good
20:12
Speaker 4: for them. People are getting used to it.
20:14
Speaker 1: Maybe and and complacent about it.
20:17
Speaker 4: Like I just certainly get like I've I've always told myself, Okay,
20:20
Speaker 4: I can bitch about this and fight it. What good
20:24
Speaker 4: or I can just be like, I'm just gonna be
20:26
Speaker 4: a Husky fan, Like I've been a Husky fan for
20:28
Speaker 4: fifty years and I've just decided to go on that side.
20:30
Speaker 2: And for me, it's no different right than it was before.
20:33
Speaker 1: And that's good. And I think, you know, for me,
20:36
Speaker 1: I used to prioritize all those things, but like going
20:38
Speaker 1: to the games and all of that stuff. But then
20:40
Speaker 1: once schedules changed and it was like now six days out,
20:43
Speaker 1: we don't know what time games are at and and it's.
20:46
Speaker 2: Been like that on the page, it was like unpacked
20:48
Speaker 2: twelve too.
20:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't as bad. It was as many games well,
20:52
Speaker 1: and I mean but night games and things. But you knew,
20:54
Speaker 1: you knew before six days out when the when the
20:57
Speaker 1: games were for the most part, and now you have
20:59
Speaker 1: multiple times where you know that, and for families with
21:01
Speaker 1: kids and things like that, where you're trying to plan
21:03
Speaker 1: and trying to schedule. I mean, that's again, it wasn't
21:06
Speaker 1: anti Husky why we got rid of our tickets. It
21:08
Speaker 1: was because, well, we can't play in any of this stuff,
21:10
Speaker 1: and my passion for it kind of dwindled a bit,
21:17
Speaker 1: and so it was like, well, is this worth us?
21:19
Speaker 1: Trying to figure things out last minute all the time,
21:22
Speaker 1: and then pay for even if we're only able to
21:24
Speaker 1: go to two or three games a year, just to
21:26
Speaker 1: keep doing it at this point, No, but I might
21:29
Speaker 1: come back and I'll still watch on TV.
21:32
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
21:33
Speaker 1: I'm just glad they're starting to do something about it.
21:35
Speaker 1: I wish it would have been done before it all
21:37
Speaker 1: went to hell in a hand basket, I hear that,
21:40
Speaker 1: or handbag, as Softy would say. Yeah, all right, Well,
21:42
Speaker 1: we are going to be back with our question of
21:44
Speaker 1: the day, which, oh, by the way, I should remind
21:45
Speaker 1: you before we leave to go. Question of the day
21:48
Speaker 1: does the Rams adding Miles Garrett change your outlook on
21:51
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22:33
Speaker 1: today and said you got Ashley, Ryan, Dick Fan and
22:35
Speaker 1: Travis Moger and it is time for our question of
22:38
Speaker 1: the day. We asked a question earlier in the show.
22:41
Speaker 1: We have been taking texts and we also have to
22:44
Speaker 1: get Travis's thoughts on this as well. The question of
22:46
Speaker 1: the day. Does the Rams adding Miles Garrett change your
22:50
Speaker 1: outlook on the twenty twenty six Seahawks season, Travis, what
22:54
Speaker 1: do you think?
22:55
Speaker 5: No?
22:56
Speaker 1: No, all right, good, that's good.
22:57
Speaker 2: Thank you concise?
22:58
Speaker 1: All right, well, well done, Travis. Thanks for coming today.
23:01
Speaker 2: We appreciate color man in America or other than Volks.
23:06
Speaker 1: Are you still feeling as confident or were you not
23:08
Speaker 1: confident in the first place?
23:09
Speaker 5: I think it puts a lot more pressure on the
23:11
Speaker 5: O line. But our offensive line is bringing back all
23:16
Speaker 5: eleven players that played a snap last season, and John
23:20
Speaker 5: Benton is back because there were you know, there were
23:24
Speaker 5: there was talk that he might go to a Vegas withoopies, right,
23:29
Speaker 5: and our O line was the best it's been in
23:32
Speaker 5: as long as I can remember. And that was always
23:34
Speaker 5: an issue with the team as many fans.
23:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, unfortunately, yeah, unfortunately.
23:40
Speaker 5: Remember and then we drafted Bo Stevens and that was
23:43
Speaker 5: a steal in the fifth round. So I think that,
23:47
Speaker 5: if anything, it's putting a little more pressure on the
23:49
Speaker 5: old line to have to shut him down when when
23:52
Speaker 5: we play the Rams. But in the end, I think
23:55
Speaker 5: the goal is the same. I think the outcome is
23:57
Speaker 5: the same.
23:58
Speaker 1: All right. I like that. So, yeah, you're still and
24:01
Speaker 1: I like that you're basing it on the confidence that
24:03
Speaker 1: you have in the O line, because when was the
24:04
Speaker 1: last time we could say that. It has been a
24:07
Speaker 1: long time? All right, So we're gonna go to our
24:09
Speaker 1: Tacoma Dodge text line four nine, four or five one
24:11
Speaker 1: will still take your answers right now. I just got
24:13
Speaker 1: to scroll through here, all right, from the two five
24:15
Speaker 1: to three. The no the Rams editions do not bother me.
24:19
Speaker 1: Garrett and Stafford are old. The odds of them making
24:22
Speaker 1: it through the season unscathed are small. We will still
24:24
Speaker 1: make some moves and be better than we were last year.
24:27
Speaker 1: We are still the team to beat.
24:29
Speaker 2: I like that.
24:30
Speaker 1: That's just I mean, I think we'd be lying if
24:33
Speaker 1: we said we didn't think the same thing, right, Stafford
24:35
Speaker 1: last year. I mean, you didn't even know if he
24:37
Speaker 1: was going to start the season because of his back issues,
24:39
Speaker 1: and it was kind of a miracle he made it
24:41
Speaker 1: through the season, and an extra miracle that he was
24:43
Speaker 1: the MVP and played as well as he did, given
24:45
Speaker 1: that you didn't know if how many back injections.
24:48
Speaker 2: That's right, that's right.
24:50
Speaker 4: I mean, I just think there's a handful of teams
24:53
Speaker 4: that can win it every year, right, And last year
24:56
Speaker 4: was a total anomaly, Yeah, because you had two teams
24:58
Speaker 4: that one was sixty to one, one was eighty to
25:00
Speaker 4: one at the beginning of the season. So that was
25:01
Speaker 4: let's throw that out for a second. Most years you
25:05
Speaker 4: got to be about twelve to one. I think it
25:07
Speaker 4: was like ten years in a row that the Super
25:09
Speaker 4: Bowl champion came from a group of teams that were
25:11
Speaker 4: like twelve to one at the beginning.
25:13
Speaker 2: The year or less twelve, right, exactly.
25:16
Speaker 4: How Having said that, only three times since ninety nine
25:21
Speaker 4: has the preseason favorite actually won the Super Bowl three times? Okay,
25:25
Speaker 4: and the quarterbacks were Tom Brady. Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes.
25:28
Speaker 4: I've heard of them, So I mean to just the
25:32
Speaker 4: there are a lot of people to steal a term
25:35
Speaker 4: crowning their ass right now, which I think is just
25:38
Speaker 4: hysterical because the odds say that the Rams won't.
25:43
Speaker 2: Win the Super Bowl.
25:44
Speaker 4: Three teams in the last twenty seven years have won
25:47
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl being the preseason favorite. Now the group
25:50
Speaker 4: of teams which includes the Rams and the Seahawks and
25:54
Speaker 4: five or six other teams, one of those teams is
25:57
Speaker 4: likely going to win the Super Bowl. But I don't
25:59
Speaker 4: necessarily think the odds. I would way more put my
26:03
Speaker 4: money on those teams that are ten, eleven, twelve to
26:06
Speaker 4: one than the Rams at five to one, because it's
26:09
Speaker 4: all a mess. It's it's a blade of a knife.
26:12
Speaker 4: It's a fumbled punt here, it's a two point two
26:15
Speaker 4: point conversion that you just decide to pick up for
26:18
Speaker 4: no particular reason.
26:19
Speaker 2: There.
26:20
Speaker 4: That's what determines who gets home field. That's what's determined
26:24
Speaker 4: who plays in the Super Bowl. Not because you're your
26:28
Speaker 4: roster is three percent more talented and you add Miles Garrett,
26:32
Speaker 4: so now it's six percent more talented. That's not what's
26:36
Speaker 4: going not what's gonna win the Super Bowl for them,
26:37
Speaker 4: I don't.
26:38
Speaker 1: Right, And it does rely on coaching and things like that.
26:40
Speaker 1: Game plans, all of that kind of stuff, and then
26:42
Speaker 1: the actual Yeah, play on the field. You never know
26:44
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen from the four two five we've got
26:46
Speaker 1: playing and simple, we do not care.
26:49
Speaker 2: I love quote the great We do not care.
26:51
Speaker 1: We do not care. Oh gosh, let's see oh three six,
26:56
Speaker 1: Ol says, Remember Miles Garrett got more than half of
26:59
Speaker 1: his three sacks in three games. Okay, So I mean
27:03
Speaker 1: Miles Garrett's though still really good, like he's still rex
27:06
Speaker 1: crapped quote Curtis S.
27:07
Speaker 2: Crabtree. So what's our over under for sacks? Eight twenty three?
27:11
Speaker 1: I'll tell you I don't think so, especially because I
27:14
Speaker 1: mean I think, yeah, they even kept him in games
27:17
Speaker 1: in like blowouts just to pump up his numbers. So
27:20
Speaker 1: I'd go sixteen. I think that's a good one, good
27:26
Speaker 1: place to set it out.
27:27
Speaker 2: Eighteen sure, yeah, I think that's fair.
27:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think he could go seventeen or eighteen,
27:33
Speaker 1: so I'd say the slight over.
27:35
Speaker 4: Yeah. He had five against New England, he had four
27:38
Speaker 4: against Baltimore, he had three against Vegas. There's twelve sacks
27:43
Speaker 4: right there in three games.
27:44
Speaker 1: All right, Well, thank you, three to six l for
27:46
Speaker 1: pointing that out. We appreciate it. Let's see, James says,
27:49
Speaker 1: the Rams are one Matthew Stafford back ache away from
27:52
Speaker 1: starting Jimmy g Stetson, Bennett or Simpson. I'm not worried
27:56
Speaker 1: about them.
27:57
Speaker 4: Well see, And that's another thing I was talking about
27:59
Speaker 4: is you got to be from those groups of teams
28:00
Speaker 4: not necessarily the favorite, because what happens if you do
28:03
Speaker 4: lose your quarterback for three or four weeks.
28:05
Speaker 2: If you lose your quarterback for three, don't lose ours.
28:07
Speaker 4: That's right, you lose your quarterback for three or four weeks,
28:09
Speaker 4: you probably go two and two or one and three,
28:11
Speaker 4: and guess what, you're not the number one seed and
28:13
Speaker 4: you're not going to get home field advantage. And for
28:15
Speaker 4: the Seahawks that would be a bad thing. Yeah, because, yeah,
28:17
Speaker 4: its a big deal. As far as I can remember,
28:19
Speaker 4: we are over when we don't have the number one seed.
28:21
Speaker 1: Yeah well yeah, yeah, okay. Four two five says adding
28:26
Speaker 1: Miles does make the Rams better, but it's still going
28:28
Speaker 1: to be close between them and the Hawks. Can you
28:29
Speaker 1: imagine the small possibility of two fourteen and no teams
28:32
Speaker 1: meeting on Christmas Day? I reference that text just a
28:35
Speaker 1: little earlier because I was like, ooh, that would be
28:38
Speaker 1: That would be the kind of Christmas the kind of
28:41
Speaker 1: things Christmas dreams are made of, wouldn't it.
28:43
Speaker 2: That's right?
28:43
Speaker 1: Two fourteen, and no teams playing at Luminfield because it
28:46
Speaker 1: will be back to Luminfield by then, not Seattle.
28:48
Speaker 4: Stad, Seattle Stadium, or just Field, which is what it
28:50
Speaker 4: says right now that it says field just Field.
28:55
Speaker 1: Palmer was like, well, Mom, how are they going to
28:56
Speaker 1: change it? I just putting a blanket on it. I
28:59
Speaker 1: was like, wow.
29:00
Speaker 5: Yeah.
29:00
Speaker 1: Basically, basically two six says it wasn't the defense that
29:05
Speaker 1: doomed the Rams last year. It was their special teams play,
29:08
Speaker 1: and that hasn't improved at all. True valid point two six.
29:12
Speaker 1: And what has ours done improved because they are actually
29:15
Speaker 1: making moves to add to our special teams because Mike
29:18
Speaker 1: McDonald values it.
29:19
Speaker 2: We traded a seventh round pick for just for a gunner.
29:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, for literally someone who just plays special team.
29:24
Speaker 4: That's how important special teams is. We're going to trade
29:27
Speaker 4: a draft pick for a dude that all he does
29:29
Speaker 4: is run down the field and tackle somebody three times
29:32
Speaker 4: a game.
29:32
Speaker 1: Well, and that's what we're basically what we were talking
29:34
Speaker 1: about with when we finished up with Joseph Hoyt earlier.
29:37
Speaker 1: And you know, the ability that the Seahawks have now
29:40
Speaker 1: with their additions to just pick these small little pieces
29:44
Speaker 1: that are going to play that specific role in a
29:47
Speaker 1: game as a pretty special place to be. And I
29:49
Speaker 1: can't wait to see how Mike McDonald orchestrates it all.
29:52
Speaker 2: You know you're in a good spot when you're trading
29:53
Speaker 2: draft picks for gunners. Yeah, I think so. I think so.
29:58
Speaker 1: Oh last one here from the two five to three.
29:59
Speaker 1: I love the spotlight and pressure have been squarely placed
30:02
Speaker 1: on the Rams and the Hawks now have a chip
30:04
Speaker 1: on their shoulder to carry this season as they are
30:06
Speaker 1: the defending Super Bowl champs. I wouldn't say the Hawks
30:09
Speaker 1: have a chip on their shoulder, but I do think
30:11
Speaker 1: it's always great when we're kind of we're not being overlooked.
30:15
Speaker 1: Let's be honest, the Seahawks are still very high up
30:18
Speaker 1: there in terms of Super Bowl favorites. But when you're
30:21
Speaker 1: not the favorite, and it's like, yeah, there you go,
30:23
Speaker 1: just give.
30:24
Speaker 2: Us a little doubt, a little disrespect.
30:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, and in our own division, Okay, we're good with that.
30:29
Speaker 4: I love it because you can. Actually, how often does
30:32
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl champs? Can they legitimately say that nobody
30:36
Speaker 4: get played, that nobody believes in US card.
30:38
Speaker 1: I mean they can't. You if you talk to the
30:40
Speaker 1: Georgia Bulldogs, they'll play it. Nobody believed in US. Actually
30:45
Speaker 1: everybody did Georgia, every single person did. But yeah, you're right,
30:49
Speaker 1: not many people can say that, so it would be great.
30:51
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm excited. I wish the football season
30:53
Speaker 1: could start today. It's things like this that get me
30:55
Speaker 1: so pumped up.
30:56
Speaker 2: I'm ready.
30:57
Speaker 4: This has been as good a June though, as we've had.
30:59
Speaker 4: I can't remember early June where you had this many
31:04
Speaker 4: sports topics. Yeah, you know, between the Mariners being maddening
31:07
Speaker 4: and good at the same time.
31:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, they gave us just topic after topic after topic
31:11
Speaker 1: topic for two straight weeks.
31:13
Speaker 4: World Cups coming here, Sonics news, an NBA finals that
31:16
Speaker 4: everybody actually cares about, you know, and in Western Conference finals.
31:20
Speaker 2: That they have actually care about. Like this has been
31:22
Speaker 2: an awesome May in June.
31:23
Speaker 1: It's pretty fun. Yeah, and then you add in the
31:25
Speaker 1: Melinda Gates stuff and what that would mean. I mean, yes, yeah,
31:28
Speaker 1: it's been fun. It's been fun all right, well, we
31:30
Speaker 1: are almost done with the show. Not quite done. We've
31:32
Speaker 1: still got time for one last thing that is coming
31:35
Speaker 1: up next. It's Sports Radio ninety three three kJ RFM.
31:51
Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three to three kJ RFM. It is
31:55
Speaker 1: Chuck and Buck in the Morning without Chuck or Buck,
31:58
Speaker 1: and you've got Ashley Ryan, Dick Fane, and Travis Moger
32:01
Speaker 1: in today. Just one more time, one update. Chuck just
32:03
Speaker 1: taking a couple days off to relax and hang her
32:06
Speaker 1: out around town. It is his birthday today, so if
32:08
Speaker 1: you see him around town, tell him Happy birthday, Chuck. Yeah,
32:11
Speaker 1: buy him a glass of wine or something. And Bucky's
32:14
Speaker 1: still on medical leave.
32:15
Speaker 2: But he is doing well. There we go.
32:16
Speaker 1: All right, it is time for one last thing. So Dick,
32:19
Speaker 1: what do you got.
32:20
Speaker 2: I've got kind of a rant and a rave. It's
32:22
Speaker 2: kind of like a one a in a one way.
32:24
Speaker 1: I like this.
32:24
Speaker 2: All right, I'm ready.
32:25
Speaker 4: The departments are are departments in the state of Washington.
32:28
Speaker 4: We'll start with the rant, Washington State Department Transportation. Okay,
32:32
Speaker 4: can we please update the sign going into the ninety
32:38
Speaker 4: nine tunnel as you're heading from the south that says
32:42
Speaker 4: every single day there's a game at four six forty tonight.
32:47
Speaker 4: Expect delays. It doesn't matter if the mariagers are in town,
32:51
Speaker 4: out of town, doesn't matter when you get one ten.
32:54
Speaker 2: Six, I drove by.
32:56
Speaker 4: I mean it's been on my mind for like a
32:57
Speaker 4: couple of weeks, and I kind of snapped it yesterday
33:00
Speaker 4: when I was literally driving past the stadium.
33:03
Speaker 1: Full of people, people in it.
33:05
Speaker 4: At one o'clock and it said game at six forty
33:07
Speaker 4: ton I'd expect delays.
33:09
Speaker 1: Because there are a lot of people that don't follow
33:10
Speaker 1: Americas exactly actually know when they're playing.
33:14
Speaker 4: There's it's literally I drive by every day. It's literally
33:17
Speaker 4: not changed for like a month in a row. So
33:21
Speaker 4: wsdot let's get on that.
33:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you can't go change it every day, just
33:25
Speaker 1: make it something generic like Mariners game today, or check
33:29
Speaker 1: the Mariner's schedule exactly. Make it generic.
33:32
Speaker 4: So that's so that's the the I will say the
33:35
Speaker 4: rave though, and this department does not get many raves.
33:39
Speaker 2: The Department of Motor Vehicles.
33:40
Speaker 4: Oh wow, Like there is no there is no department
33:43
Speaker 4: that gets more crap than the Department of Motor Vehicles. Right,
33:47
Speaker 4: So I needed to get a new driver's license before
33:51
Speaker 4: my birthday, okay, And I'm looking on the department and
33:55
Speaker 4: I have to go in because every once in a
33:57
Speaker 4: while you have to actually go in physically and get
33:59
Speaker 4: a new one.
33:59
Speaker 2: This is yeah, this is one of the years that
34:02
Speaker 2: I that I had to do. I had to do that.
34:04
Speaker 2: And so I'm looking online and I'm like, crap.
34:08
Speaker 4: They're like a month out, like every single like and
34:13
Speaker 4: my birthday's next week. And I'm like, okay, I'm gonna
34:17
Speaker 4: have an expired license for like three weeks, right, I'm
34:19
Speaker 4: just gonna be driving with the expired license for three weeks.
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Speaker 2: And so I called them up. I was like, all right.
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Speaker 4: First of all, I call him up and a human
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Speaker 4: answer is in like thirty seconds, which I was stunning,
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Speaker 4: and I'm talking to guy, you super nice. He's like, hey,
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Speaker 4: here's what you need to do. Every single morning. We
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Speaker 4: put up individual times for that day, so just go
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Speaker 4: on in the morning and sign up for that particular day.
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Speaker 4: And I did that a couple of days that I
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Speaker 4: didn't give up early enough, and then one day I
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Speaker 4: was up early. I was like, oh, I'm gonna do it.
34:51
Speaker 4: And I get up and the Kent's the Kent station
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Speaker 4: by my house, was there was a one o'clock. I
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Speaker 4: was like, perfect, done, sign up at one o'clock. I
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Speaker 4: walked into that place at twelve fifty nine, got my
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Speaker 4: little ticket. You're a twelve, Go ahead and sit down.
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Speaker 4: Grab my ticket. Walk to the front row, about ready
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Speaker 4: to sit on the chair. Yeah, and a twelve pops
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Speaker 4: up on the screen. I literally did not sit on
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Speaker 4: the chair.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 4: And I walked up. She said, blah blah blah blah blah.
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Speaker 4: Take your picture, put your head here, do your eyes.
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Speaker 4: I was out the door at one oh four. So
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Speaker 4: well done, depart the motor vehicles. I will not say
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Speaker 4: a bad thing about you until I guess until the
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Speaker 4: next time when it doesn't go. If you need an appointment,
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Speaker 4: get up early in the morning, get your appointment for
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Speaker 4: that day.
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Speaker 1: A great tip. That's good to know.
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Speaker 2: I like that.
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Speaker 1: I need to get one of those enhanced things too, So,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't have to do it right now,
35:52
Speaker 1: but I should so I yeah, that's good to know.
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Speaker 2: That's yeah.
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Speaker 5: I had a similar experience. I just had my birthday.
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Speaker 5: My license expired. I walked in to the Shoreline Branch.
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Speaker 2: Oh, just a walk in even appointment. I was out
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Speaker 2: of there in ten minutes.
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Speaker 5: What it was the middle of a week, the middle
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Speaker 5: of the day on a weekday.
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Speaker 2: That's a good one. That's a good time to go. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I didn't even I said, screw the appointments.
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Speaker 5: I didn't see any available, right, So I was like,
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Speaker 5: I'm just gonna go walk in perfect. It was great.
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Speaker 1: When was your when's your birthday?
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Speaker 2: May eighteenth?
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Speaker 1: And when's your birthday?
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Speaker 2: Dick eleven?
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Speaker 1: Okay, well there you go.
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Speaker 2: App eighteenth, you're Mount Saint Helen's day.
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Speaker 1: Huh yeah, Oh that's good for you for knowing that
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Speaker 1: off the top of your head.
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Speaker 2: I forget.
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Speaker 1: I think it was an a well I was alive,
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Speaker 1: but I don't remember it. It was barely alive, barely alive.
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Speaker 2: I do remember it. I remember I remember the sound.
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Speaker 1: Oh god, yeah, Travis, you got one last thing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: So recently I was with my family, uh two kids,
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Speaker 5: five and eight, looking for a movie to watch for
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Speaker 5: all of us, and we went on Disney Plus and
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Speaker 5: there was The Sad Lot, oh classic movie, and I.
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Speaker 2: Was like, does it it? Will it hold up?
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Speaker 5: Though I probably haven't seen it maybe like twenty years,
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Speaker 5: but obviously loved it as a child.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that movie holds up to this day. It
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Speaker 2: is still amazing. My wife loved it.
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Speaker 5: My five year old daughter, who's not like a big
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Speaker 5: sports fan yet loved it. So many quotable lines, so
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Speaker 5: many great scenes. It was amazing. And then I was
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Speaker 5: thinking about all the great baseball movies that I had
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Speaker 5: when I was a kid, like Rookie of the Year,
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Speaker 5: Little Big League where the Mariners are the.
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Speaker 2: Angels in the outfield.
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Speaker 5: There was just a whole host of baseball movies when
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Speaker 5: I was as a kid in the nineties. Yeah, I
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Speaker 5: always look, you know, remember fondly.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's funny. I was actually I heard somebody talk
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Speaker 1: about Sandlott the other day and I even had that thought,
37:44
Speaker 1: I think I need to watch that movie again. I
37:45
Speaker 1: wonder if Palmer would like it. So now I like
37:47
Speaker 1: that I bought your endorsements.
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Speaker 5: Going on the watch, my daughter was dropping the S
37:52
Speaker 5: bomb a little bit because they do swear. It's like
37:54
Speaker 5: a nineties PG where they can swear a couple of times,
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Speaker 5: you know. So she was she it saying, shoot around
38:01
Speaker 5: the house a bit, but.
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Speaker 1: See, and then she felt cool. All right, Well, before
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Speaker 1: we go, my quick one last thing. We have the
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Speaker 1: TV on and the news is on and earlier I
38:09
Speaker 1: saw a story, so I went on to Como's website
38:11
Speaker 1: just to check it out, and I thought it was
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Speaker 1: very cool. They have this running group that helps visually
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Speaker 1: impaired runners. So you get these volunteers who are runners
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Speaker 1: and then they pair up with a visually impaired runner
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Speaker 1: and they guide them on a run. They do it
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Speaker 1: around Green Lake, I think, is where they do it.
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Speaker 1: It's called Free to Fly or Born to Fly, and
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Speaker 1: I just thought that was a oh yeah, free to
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Speaker 1: Fly run club and I just thought, oh, that's a
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Speaker 1: really neat idea. And I saw the story a couple
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Speaker 1: of times. So shout out to Free to Fly Run Club.
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Speaker 1: Keep up the good work. All right, Well that'll do
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Speaker 1: it for us. Thank you guys both for being here.
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Speaker 1: We've got Greg Bell and Christopher Kidd coming up next
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