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Bothell Football Coaches Show Ep 26 · Bothell Football Coaches Show

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Speaker 1: Eight Eggs and welcome into the Bothel Football Coaches Show.
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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Ryland Spencer, along with me as always
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Speaker 1: the head coach of your Brothel Cougars, Tom Bainter coach.
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Speaker 1: How are we doing?
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Speaker 2: Doing great? How are you round?
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Speaker 1: I'm doing awesome. It feels good to be here, headsets
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Speaker 1: on recording talking about football. We're seven days in to
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Speaker 1: spring practices. You know, we got some other things to
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Speaker 1: talk about, but let's talk about some real football first.
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Speaker 1: And I guess I say real football, but it's just
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Speaker 1: practices but full pads for the last few days. I
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Speaker 1: think everybody gets juiced up when all of a sudden
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Speaker 1: we're up there watching boards and guys are you know,
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Speaker 1: knocking heads around and just really beating each other up.
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Speaker 1: It's a lot of fun to see the intensity coming out.
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Speaker 1: But we also get to see the freshman class for
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Speaker 1: the first time. So it's cool to see the freshman
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Speaker 1: and the senior years all on the same plate. And
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Speaker 1: I say freshmen incoming, freshmen guys that are still in
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Speaker 1: junior high right now. It's it's fun to watch.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a fun time of the year. It's it's
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Speaker 3: that that you know, kind of like the spring flowers
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Speaker 3: coming out right, you start to see a glimpse of
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Speaker 3: what might be better weather in summer. And you know,
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Speaker 3: the analogy for football is here.
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Speaker 2: It goes.
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Speaker 3: You know, we've we've been lifting since January. It's time
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Speaker 3: to get on the field and actually see the fruits
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Speaker 3: of their labors. And and you know we're seeing it.
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Speaker 3: This eighth grade class you're talking about that we call
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Speaker 3: nine creators there. They're they're a bigger group than they've
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Speaker 3: been in the last couple of years, little little more size.
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Speaker 3: We've got some linement bodies that really exciting. We've got
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Speaker 3: some good athleticism, and it's fun. The numbers are pretty good.
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Speaker 3: We're in the thirties and so that that's good, you know,
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Speaker 3: for for the rest of us. You know, our numbers
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Speaker 3: are you know, just above one hundred, which is you know,
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Speaker 3: par for the last few years. But it's fun to
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Speaker 3: see kids out there running around, communicate and having fun
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Speaker 3: getting to know each other.
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Speaker 2: That's the fun part of spring football.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, when you say thirties, you're talking about the freshman class,
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Speaker 1: the incoming the eighth graders coming up to be freshman.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: And then over one hundred overall for the for the
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Speaker 1: four years. So you know, in one hundred is kind
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Speaker 1: of that number you look at. You you want to
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Speaker 1: get to one hundred. You know, if you get over that,
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Speaker 1: it's obviously even better. The more numbers you get, obviously,
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Speaker 1: the the better you're gonna you're gonna be. And it
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Speaker 1: gives you that opportunity, like we've talked about in previous years,
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Speaker 1: to have that that sophomore team if you can, and
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Speaker 1: you know the most important thing at all of that
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Speaker 1: is do you have do you have enough alignment? And
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Speaker 1: you know, we've got some real big bodies out there.
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Speaker 1: It's fun to watch those guys working hard with coach
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Speaker 1: Fish and coach Monson over there. No Blue White game
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Speaker 1: this year. I don't know if we did one last year.
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Speaker 1: I don't think we did one last year. He didn't. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And it's getting harder because they moved back the start
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Speaker 1: of spring practices, So it's getting harder to do some
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Speaker 1: things like that and still be able to get to PLU,
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Speaker 1: which brings me to our next topic here is pel
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Speaker 1: we are actually we're recording this the morning of our
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Speaker 1: first day of finals, So finals today, Finals tomorrow, Wednesday, Thursday,
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Speaker 1: and then basically a week of h I even know
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Speaker 1: how you say it. There's graduation, there's the memories assembly,
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Speaker 1: there's it's all the moving up kind of stuff going
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Speaker 1: on for the next week. As soon as school gets out,
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Speaker 1: almost the next day, boom, we're off to PLU for camp.
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Speaker 1: So people probably wonder what goes on at the PLU camp,
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Speaker 1: And really it's four days of intense football. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's it's a lot of fun, but there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of other things that go on.
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Speaker 2: Coach.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we you know, we do eat, sleep and play football.
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Speaker 3: But then we also, you know, we team build. And
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Speaker 3: one of the greatest things I believe in camp serves
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Speaker 3: for our team is the camaraderie piece, the team building.
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Speaker 3: They get to know you a little more than just
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Speaker 3: your name or your face. And so that's that's the
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Speaker 3: fun part. When we leave camp, kids are closer, the
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Speaker 3: team is closer. We do a lot of fun things.
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Speaker 3: The root beer float, goals night, sometimes we we will
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Speaker 3: talk about our core covenants. We will uh sometimes we
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Speaker 3: have skits. Sometimes, you know, we we do a lot
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Speaker 3: of different things and vary them and and so it's
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Speaker 3: it's a fun time to for our team.
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Speaker 2: To build.
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Speaker 3: Really the most important part of that is the team building.
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Speaker 3: But then we get to play some football and and
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Speaker 3: really it's.
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Speaker 2: A continuation to spring football.
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Speaker 3: We will continue to add and install offense and defense
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Speaker 3: and uh, and then we get to practice and play
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Speaker 3: against other teams.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's it's you know, it's cool too because
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Speaker 1: you get you get some teams that are really top
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Speaker 1: level teams in the state that seriously challenge you. And
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Speaker 1: then you get some other teams where maybe you get
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Speaker 1: an opportunity to to work on a few things. But
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Speaker 1: the overall intensity of it, of these scrimmages, if you will,
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Speaker 1: it's it's really it's kind of ten plays on offense,
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Speaker 1: ten plays on defense type of a thing, maybe more,
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Speaker 1: but it's all the other stuff that goes on really
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Speaker 1: that is cool about it. You talked about you know,
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Speaker 1: the goals night and you know root beer floats and
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Speaker 1: all these things, and it's really one of those things
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Speaker 1: that and tell you experience as a player or coach,
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Speaker 1: you know, almost don't even understand why the other stuff
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Speaker 1: is so important. But yeah, so that's gonna be fun.
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Speaker 1: Next time we talk, next time we do a podcast,
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Speaker 1: we'll probably talk a little bit of a wrap up
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Speaker 1: of PLU Camp and maybe what the rest of the
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Speaker 1: summer looks like. But we got to go back just
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Speaker 1: a little bit. We got to talk about some of
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Speaker 1: the fundraising that's gone on, and we really got to
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Speaker 1: give a thank you to a few people. We'll start
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Speaker 1: with the Mattress Fundraiser, Custom Fundraising Solutions of Seattle. Eleventh
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Speaker 1: year of doing a mattress fundraiser. And you've told the
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Speaker 1: story before, one of those things where you thought you
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Speaker 1: were going to be wasting your time listening to this
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Speaker 1: pitch and before you know it, you're going this is
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Speaker 1: actually brilliant. And they've done just a tremendous job over
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Speaker 1: the last eleven years of helping fundraise for the football program.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Nancy and Derek, they're awesome and they do a
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Speaker 3: great job. And if you're a coach out there listening
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Speaker 3: and you want a fundraising you know, issue or problem
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Speaker 3: or solution no pun intended there, uh, the you can
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Speaker 3: you can reach out to me and I'll connect you
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Speaker 3: with with Nancy and you know they it's a it's
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Speaker 3: a great fundraiser. It's a need fundraiser, right, some people
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Speaker 3: need a mattress and and Uh, it's it's it's a
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Speaker 3: great job for our kids to to uh you know,
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Speaker 3: get down our community and and and give get out
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Speaker 3: the word. And you know, you just really give up
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Speaker 3: a piece of your your own school property, whether it's
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Speaker 3: the gym or the in our case, the the commons.
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Speaker 3: And and then it's a great event, but wonderful to
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Speaker 3: work with. They they super are into helping high school
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Speaker 3: students grow and and give back and and it's it's
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Speaker 3: a wonderful thing. And you know, we had a good fundraiser.
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Speaker 3: I'll tell you it wasn't great, but you know, maybe
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Speaker 3: those are the sign of the times right now, so
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Speaker 3: we'll continue to do this. It's it's wonderful and we
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Speaker 3: love working with Nancy and Derek for sure.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And it's one of those things too where like not
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Speaker 1: only do you get to come in and try out
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Speaker 1: the beds, you know, flop down and lay down and
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Speaker 1: take a nap if you want to, but they'll deliver
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Speaker 1: it to your house. We'll take your old one away.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they do everything. It's it's pretty remarkable what
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Speaker 1: they pull off. But one of the other things, and
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Speaker 1: I didn't actually put it on our show sheet here
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Speaker 1: hire a Koug. You know, Eric Painter has been kind
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Speaker 1: of running that show over there. But I've heard guys
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Speaker 1: Painton Fence is doing yard work, all kinds of crazy
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Speaker 1: stuff going on. But is that something that people can
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Speaker 1: still get in on Hire a Kug.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're nearing the end of the spring and we're
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Speaker 3: getting into summer now, and so it usually doesn't go
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Speaker 3: into summer. But you know, this is a travel year
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Speaker 3: for us, as you know, we're going and playing in Hawaii,
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Speaker 3: and you know, we we do all kinds of fundraisers
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Speaker 3: and we've got to provide opportunities for our players to
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Speaker 3: raise and earn the money themselves, and Hire a Koug
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Speaker 3: is a big part of that. And our community reaches
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Speaker 3: out and says, hey, I need some bark put down
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Speaker 3: in the beds. I need some you know, leaves, raked I,
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Speaker 3: whatever it is. And our kids sign up and are
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Speaker 3: are happy to help out. And it's a you know,
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Speaker 3: it's one of those life experiences where you you want something,
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Speaker 3: you gotta kind of work for it, and you know
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Speaker 3: it's physical labor, which is what our kids are good at.
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Speaker 2: And I think it's a win win.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's one of those things, you know, no handouts,
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Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta work for it. So the biggest
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Speaker 1: offseason event though, is the Booster Club Auction, and that
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Speaker 1: was this past weekend out at Nardoland. Twenty fourth year
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Speaker 1: coach of the Booster Club Auction. Crazy to say, but yeah, June.
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Speaker 1: It was June sixth, So on Sunday, Saturday, excuse me,
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Speaker 1: out at nardo Land. Really just a great time. But
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of people I think that we need
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Speaker 1: to thank, but I don't know that. Well's so I
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Speaker 1: watched you kind of write your notes for a little
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Speaker 1: bit there at nardal Land before you spoke, and it
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Speaker 1: looked really stressful because there was no way you were
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Speaker 1: going to be able to name everybody, and obviously you
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Speaker 1: won't be able to do that now. But there's a
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Speaker 1: couple of people specifically, I think we need to name
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Speaker 1: Kim Munson, our Booster Club president. What she does for
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Speaker 1: the auction is just it's unbelievable the amount of time
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Speaker 1: and effort she puts in, and really it's almost like
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Speaker 1: a showcase of the fruits of her labor on Saturday
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Speaker 1: out there at Nardalam.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, she's a rock star.
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Speaker 3: I mean she is it wouldn't happen without her, and
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Speaker 3: it wouldn't be the event like it like it is
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Speaker 3: without her. And she'll be the first to tell you
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Speaker 3: that there's a bunch of people and parents and community
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Speaker 3: members that help out.
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Speaker 2: And there are. But you know, we we travel, you know.
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Speaker 3: Three times now, and I will tell you each time
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Speaker 3: at the end of this the fundraising portion of it,
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Speaker 3: I always think, Okay, we're not traveling again. And I
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Speaker 3: know that kim Munson at the the day of the
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Speaker 3: auction says, this is going to be my last auction.
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Speaker 2: It is so much work.
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Speaker 3: It is so it takes a long time, and there's
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Speaker 3: a lot of thoughts and and you know, processes to
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Speaker 3: it and changes and you know, different different pieces that
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Speaker 3: if you're not involved in it, you have no idea
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Speaker 3: that these occur. And and and I know she gets
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Speaker 3: stressed at the end, and and you know sometimes we
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Speaker 3: get things in late. It always it always works out.
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Speaker 3: That's what I try to tell her, because that's what
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Speaker 3: I tell myself when we travel. It always works out.
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Speaker 3: So it sure is worth it. I mean, if you
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Speaker 3: if you go back and add up all the money
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Speaker 3: we've we've raised in auctions to help support our Bathel
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Speaker 3: Cougar football players and give them the experience that you know,
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Speaker 3: hopefully is different than in other schools. Uh, you'd be
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Speaker 3: amazed at the number we came up with and and
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Speaker 3: so uh kudos to Kim Munson and the job she
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Speaker 3: does and and all the people that have helped as well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean it's just a really cool event.
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Speaker 1: If you've never been to it, I mean, even if
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Speaker 1: you don't have a student athlete playing, it's it's fun
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Speaker 1: to just be there. Some of the things that are
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Speaker 1: going on is the dessert dash. I think it's hilarious.
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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, they start calling off numbers and
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Speaker 1: and table numbers after they've put in how much money
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Speaker 1: they want to pay for a dessert. And next you
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Speaker 1: know you've got a mom or a dad of a
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Speaker 1: player you're looking they're sprinting across the parking lot over
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Speaker 1: to pick up a dessert for their table. And you know,
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Speaker 1: there's so many good things, are awesome things going on there.
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Speaker 1: But we also need to give a thank you to
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Speaker 1: Ron and Sally, Joe Nardoni. The Narda Land, if you've
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Speaker 1: never been there, is just crazy. There's if you have
11:23
Speaker 1: got add this is not a place for you because
11:26
Speaker 1: there's so many different things to look at. You're like, oh,
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Speaker 1: here's a nineteen fifties gassed what what's going on over here?
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Speaker 1: And then it's all what's going on? There's so many
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Speaker 1: different things going on. And as you get in there,
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Speaker 1: Ron and Sally Joe are kind of at the front,
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Speaker 1: almost greeting everybody as they come in, and you can
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Speaker 1: tell that they just their love for Boffel is endless.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's a you know, I said at the auction,
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Speaker 3: I don't know that there's anybody in the world that
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Speaker 3: bleeds blue more than me, but there is. It's Ron
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Speaker 3: Nardonian and his wife, Sally Joe, and so they are.
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Speaker 2: They're just one.
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Speaker 3: Wonderful, gracious people that that again, in the bottom line
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Speaker 3: is man if it if it's going to benefit anything,
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Speaker 3: Bothel and and kids, we're all in. And that's what
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Speaker 3: they do, and it allows us to make the money
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Speaker 3: we do because the cost to rent out facilities is
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Speaker 3: outrageous and and so uh. But but you know, beyond that,
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Speaker 3: you you you step foot on that property and you're right,
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Speaker 3: it's an amusement park. If you will, you you could
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Speaker 3: you could charge admission and people would gladly pay and
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Speaker 3: spend hours just gazing around at all of the things
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Speaker 3: that are there and the vast property and and and
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Speaker 3: so uh so thankful to Ron and Sally, Joe, wonderful people.
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Speaker 3: Uh true bothelites it, you know, at heart and and
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Speaker 3: and so it's it's amazing and you know, thank God
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Speaker 3: bless them.
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's uh, I'm sure he's still adding to his collection,
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Speaker 1: but I swear every time I go there, there's fifteen
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Speaker 1: or twenty things I go. I don't know that I've
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Speaker 1: ever noticed that before here, I don't know that I
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Speaker 1: remember that. And one of my favorite things, and this
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Speaker 1: is just me being a complete nerd for high school sports.
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Speaker 1: I love going into the big building there and seeing
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Speaker 1: all the old letterman's jackets and seeing boffel ones from
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Speaker 1: you know, the forties, fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties, I like,
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Speaker 1: all the way up. And then I noticed a new
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Speaker 1: one this year, and I don't know how long it's
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Speaker 1: been there. I saw Owen Bainters in there. I mean,
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Speaker 1: talk about a way to lower the collection value, but
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Speaker 1: it was pretty cool to see all of these different
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Speaker 1: Letterman's jackets. See, the good thing is is I can
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Speaker 1: make that joke about Owen because I know he's not
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Speaker 1: going to listen to the podcast.
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Speaker 3: Well, the funny thing is, too is a lot of
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Speaker 3: the theme this year was was tropical or bothel and
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Speaker 3: and my wife Christina wore his lettermans jackets. So it
13:45
Speaker 3: was probably just off her back for a while because
13:48
Speaker 3: it got hot there for a minute and you probably
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Speaker 3: thought it was donated, but.
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Speaker 2: Well it was.
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Speaker 1: It was like it was, but it was on one
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Speaker 1: of the actual like like things right there. So Stina
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Speaker 1: puts it down.
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Speaker 2: Oh there you go.
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Speaker 1: Well, good for Ron, good good good for Ron Selli
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Speaker 1: Joe to not have have that burden.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: The auction though, just a real fun night and you know,
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Speaker 1: from the sounds of it, very successful. Uh So we
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Speaker 1: got a lot of off season stuff still to go though,
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Speaker 1: but you know, after after PLU, we've got the Fourth
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Speaker 1: of July Parade, which which you know, it's just so
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Speaker 1: much fun to be in and to see the I
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Speaker 1: don't even know what the word I look for, the
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Speaker 1: the the love that the people in the community have
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Speaker 1: for that Fourth of July Parade. I mean, it's crazy
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Speaker 1: we'll talk about it, uh, you know, once we get
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Speaker 1: around to it. But then we've got off season lifting,
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Speaker 1: uh and conditioning with coach Terry, and Coach Terry coaching
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Speaker 1: running backs this year, moving to a position that he's
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Speaker 1: a little more familiar with. But watching him out there
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Speaker 1: is is a lot of fun.
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Speaker 2: Man.
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Speaker 1: That guy just you can tell he loves the coach.
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Speaker 1: But uh, yeah, I mean I think that's all we
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Speaker 1: got for this show.
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Speaker 2: Coach.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that we have a whole lot more
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Speaker 1: one of the shorter ones, because there's just not nearly
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Speaker 1: as much to talk about.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll have more to talk about here in the
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Speaker 3: near future, and in the meantime, let's just finish school
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Speaker 3: and spring ball and enjoy camp and then get on
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Speaker 3: to summer.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I like the sound of that. He's coach Banner. I'm
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Speaker 1: Rylan Spencer. You've been listening to episode twenty six of
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Speaker 1: the BATHL Football Coaches Show. We'll talk to you in
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Speaker 1: a few weeks and as always, gokoos