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10-7 H1: What's On Tap, ABC's & Mess's Final Match w/ Argentina · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Hey, great morning to you. Welcome into the radio program.
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  Speaker 1: It is a hump day. And we welcome you into
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  Speaker 1: the show. It is Chuck in the morning. Sports Radio
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  Speaker 1: 93.3 KJR FM. My name is Chuck Powell. Anders Hurst
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  Speaker 1: is here. So is Christopher Kidd. Oh, he's got the
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  Speaker 1: light on in there. He needed some light to write by. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that looks a little bit different. Kidd's just like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know what he's doing back there.
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  Speaker 1: What are you, growing up? Growing weed back there? What
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  Speaker 1: are you doing back there? What do you need that
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  Speaker 1: much light for? Great to have you with us here
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  Speaker 1: on a Wednesday. And yes, we have a lot planned
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  Speaker 1: for you during the course of today's program, which we
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  Speaker 1: will get to in a moment with what is on tap.
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  Speaker 1: Anders makes fun of me rather consistently that I am
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  Speaker 1: still a pen and paper guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't really understand that. I mean, I guess
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  Speaker 1: that's just the generational gap.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 1: Because it is just so much better to write with
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  Speaker 1: pen and paper. And by the way, this is somebody
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  Speaker 1: that's written four books you're talking to on a laptop. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So like 3,500 pages. I mean, that's where you have
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  Speaker 1: to write. But in terms of like jotting stuff down,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to remember it, jot it down. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's fair.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So that's what I do. So anyway, I went
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  Speaker 1: last night pen shopping.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh.
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  Speaker 1: Which I enjoy doing. Office supplies, I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what it is about office supplies, but I love
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  Speaker 1: when it's time to get office supplies.
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  Speaker 2: It tickles your pickle?
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  Speaker 1: It really does. I got my pickle tickled last night. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get my pickle tickled last night. I went
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  Speaker 1: to get my pickle tickled. Yes, you did it yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I was on my way to do that. I scheduled that,
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  Speaker 1: and then I got there, and sure enough, the one
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  Speaker 1: pen that I always use And it can be bought
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  Speaker 1: at stores, but there is no better pen. Everything in
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  Speaker 1: the row is stocked.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then the one pen that I use is completely empty.
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  Speaker 1: Like everything is stocked. The one row is completely empty.
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  Speaker 1: And then right down the row from me, there is
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  Speaker 1: a woman who is actually stocking the other shelves with
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  Speaker 1: office supplies. Okay. And I'm like, okay, well. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: going to ask her to see if there are any
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  Speaker 1: of these in the back because I prefer to buy
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  Speaker 1: my pen since I've come here to get my pickle tickled. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And so I walked down and I'm just like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: there are no. And I took a, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: took the picture of it. I need this pen. Do
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  Speaker 1: you have those in the back? I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: buy an inferior pen if I don't have to. And
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  Speaker 1: then it took like five minutes, maybe seven. for her
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  Speaker 1: to determine if whether or not they are in the back.
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  Speaker 1: And I was stuck in that as a shopper. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: can recognize this as like, you know what? I can
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  Speaker 1: get this another time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's okay. Don't worry about it.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I can get another pen just to get me through.
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  Speaker 1: Cause I ran out of my pens, two of them
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  Speaker 1: on the same day. I have a home pen and
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  Speaker 1: a work pen. Gotcha. And they both ran out of
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  Speaker 1: ink on the same day. How is that even statistically possible?
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  Speaker 1: That you use the same amount of ink over the
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  Speaker 1: same amount of time in two different locations. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Remarkable.
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  Speaker 2: He writes a lot, guys.
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  Speaker 1: He writes a lot. Anyway, so I tell her, I said,
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  Speaker 1: you know what? I don't want to put you in
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  Speaker 1: any trouble. No, no, it's no trouble at all. So
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  Speaker 1: she had to talk me into there being no.
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  Speaker 2: Trouble at all. She's in customer service mode. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And she tells me, you got five minutes? I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: of course. Who doesn't have five minutes to get their
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  Speaker 1: pickle tickled? And so I just kind of hang out.
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  Speaker 1: Five minutes go by. Ten minutes go by. I walk
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  Speaker 1: to go try to find her just to tell her, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know what? I'm fine. I'll get something else or
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  Speaker 1: I'll get it another time. And I go back, and
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  Speaker 1: there is a mountain of unopened boxes. I mean a
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  Speaker 1: mountain that she is going through one at a time
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  Speaker 1: to try to find which box has the pens that
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking for because her phone says that they are
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  Speaker 1: in stock.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So at that point, I'm like, I can't do
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  Speaker 1: this to you anymore. Don't worry. She goes, it's no trouble.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, clearly it's trouble.
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  Speaker 2: I can see that it's trouble.
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  Speaker 1: It is trouble. And I'm like, you know what? But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm putting you out. Like, no, no, sir. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: just give me a couple more minutes. This is what
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  Speaker 1: I live for. And I'm going to find it for you.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm now thinking, like, whatever you have to do,
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This is actually more enjoyable than what you want to
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  Speaker 1: be doing right now. Yes. It's going through this mountain
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  Speaker 1: of boxes trying to find the specific pen that I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking for that you swear to me you have.
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  Speaker 2: They're thanking you for putting you through this.
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  Speaker 1: Anders, I'm not even kidding you. Fifteen minutes later, I'm
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  Speaker 1: still sitting there. And now I'm, like, stuck in this
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  Speaker 1: mode of, like... Well, you've gone through nearly every box.
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  Speaker 1: How am I going to abandon this project now?
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  Speaker 2: I can't, like, let you stop now.
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  Speaker 1: Right. And I swear she went through every box.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But she just did the, like, cut it open and
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  Speaker 1: look inside. Check out it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So she didn't, like, dig around in all of them.
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  Speaker 1: That would have taken, I don't know, how long?
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  Speaker 3: An hour.
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  Speaker 1: But, I mean, that mountain, it looked like, you know—
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  Speaker 1: the Grinch when he packed all the toys on top
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  Speaker 1: of the sled. That's, that's how big that mountain of
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  Speaker 1: boxes looked. Yes. And she's going through every one of
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  Speaker 1: them and like just peeking inside and then not, not
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  Speaker 1: that one. And then she'd throw it aside and I'm
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  Speaker 1: just so caught between, I don't want to be here. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This is not that big a deal, but you have
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  Speaker 1: gone to such great lengths to try to find this
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  Speaker 1: for me. I don't want to abandon the project that
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  Speaker 1: we're working on here together, but man, something's got to give.
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  Speaker 1: So I finally just said, You know what? I think
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go. And she goes, if you want to.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Almost like put off by the fact that you don't
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  Speaker 2: want to wait around for 30 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: No, she was sweet about it. But it was like...
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  Speaker 1: She finally revealed, like, I didn't ever want to do this.
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  Speaker 1: It was like, well, if you want to. She was, like,
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  Speaker 1: encouraging me now to go.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So she finally, after me just, like, pleading with her to, no,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to put you. No, sir. No trouble
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  Speaker 1: at all. It's fine. And then finally, after had to
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  Speaker 1: have been 20 minutes of this, waiting in an aisle,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody thinks I'm a creeper because I'm just standing
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  Speaker 1: in the pen aisle. By myself, not shopping for anything.
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  Speaker 1: And then once I finally said, like, it's not... No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go. I'm going to go. She's like, well, sir,
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  Speaker 1: if you need to go, it's fine.
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  Speaker 3: Nice.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good experience. So I have inferior pens. It's
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  Speaker 1: not bad, though. I'm using it for the first time.
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  Speaker 1: I did buy another pen.
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  Speaker 2: If your pen is a 10... What is this one?
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  Speaker 2: It's a nine.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, it's a nine. It's actually really good. It's not
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  Speaker 1: much of a drop-off at all, but I am pretty,
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  Speaker 1: pretty uptight.
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  Speaker 2: You know how Dave Portnoy does his pizza reviews? We
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  Speaker 2: need to get pen reviews from Chuck Powell.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the problem is that he goes to a different
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  Speaker 1: pizza shop everywhere. I only want the same pen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not going to be that much of a
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  Speaker 1: review when I'm just going to different Targets or Walgreens
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  Speaker 1: to find the exact same pen. Anyway- All right. Well,
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  Speaker 1: welcome into the program. It is a hump day. And
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  Speaker 1: so this is the day we start getting ready for
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  Speaker 1: the opponent. And we've already started it because this isn't
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  Speaker 1: just your average opponent. The Seahawks getting ready to take
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  Speaker 1: on the San Francisco 49ers who are going to enter
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  Speaker 1: this game with an undefeated record. They are 4-0. Some
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  Speaker 1: people believe, maybe even Anders, think Anders has suggested this,
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  Speaker 1: that they're playing better than anyone in the National Football League.
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  Speaker 1: And so here they roll into town. on a Sunday
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  Speaker 1: for this big NFC West clash very early in the season,
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  Speaker 1: and they are playing better. They're playing better football than
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks, despite a solid 3-1 record. They're playing better
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  Speaker 1: football than the Seahawks, so I at least have to
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  Speaker 1: give them that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, there is a difference between playing better football
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  Speaker 2: right now than being the better football team, because I
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  Speaker 2: still believe the Seahawks are the better football team at
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  Speaker 2: this point in time. They just haven't played as well
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  Speaker 2: as the Niners have in the first four games of
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  Speaker 2: the season. So it could be this week where that shifts, right?
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  Speaker 2: And the Seahawks finally find their way to get back
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  Speaker 2: to that Super Bowl winning form that we expected them
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  Speaker 2: to be in this early portion of the season. But
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  Speaker 2: the Niners, even with a bunch of injuries, have still
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  Speaker 2: looked fantastic on both sides of the ball. And the
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  Speaker 2: thing that surprised me about them is their defense. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think this is... Obviously, in my opinion, I'm biased,
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  Speaker 2: but it's the marquee matchup of the weekend in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: For sure.
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  Speaker 2: But I think this is a big test for Seattle,
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  Speaker 2: who hasn't really played anyone yet. I guess you could
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  Speaker 2: say the Patriots in week one.
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  Speaker 1: I think you definitely can. Defending champs, they've beaten the Bills. Sure, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's true. That's true. But the other three
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  Speaker 2: games were very much.
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  Speaker 2: NFL equivalents of the cupcakes on the schedule that UW
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  Speaker 2: played in the first three games of the season. So
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  Speaker 2: this is definitely going to be a step up, especially
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  Speaker 2: considering it's a division opponent as well.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe they're waiting for the challenge. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, everybody says that coming off of a championship
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  Speaker 1: that you don't have the same hunger. It's just impossible
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  Speaker 1: to repeat that same hunger. And we thought maybe this
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  Speaker 1: team was going to be different. We watched the hard knocks.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we already knew the team. Then you watch
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  Speaker 1: the hard knocks and you feel like everybody's just as hungry.
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  Speaker 1: just as fired up. But maybe it is impossible to
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  Speaker 1: rise to that level. Maybe it is going to take
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  Speaker 1: a matchup against a division rival where both sides have
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  Speaker 1: admitted this week in various press conferences, we hate that
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  Speaker 1: other team. And Trent Williams did an awful lot of
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  Speaker 1: talking at the end of the season when the 49ers
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  Speaker 1: were eliminated by the Seahawks about, well, when we were
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  Speaker 1: full strength, we beat them. Um, well that was in
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  Speaker 1: game number one of the season and nobody is playing
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  Speaker 1: their best football in game number one of the season.
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  Speaker 1: So I'd pump the brakes on that a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing that I would say to that is, um, okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's fine. You weren't that healthy at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the year or in the middle of the year, but
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  Speaker 1: you're really not all that healthy now healthier, uh, than
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  Speaker 1: what you were. Um, but you got dominated like. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't get beat. You got dominated. You won game one
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  Speaker 1: 17-13 on a flukish, reek-wollen, mistimed jump in the end zone.
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  Speaker 2: And Sam Darnold still had a chance to go win it.
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  Speaker 1: In week one. Yeah. Week one. You faced this same
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  Speaker 1: team two times at the end of the year, and
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  Speaker 1: you're going to go through the same injuries again this
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  Speaker 1: year that you didn't through last year. So by the
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  Speaker 1: end of the year, you're going to have another six,
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  Speaker 1: seven guys out. Probably the same guys. Yeah. But you
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  Speaker 1: got dominated by the Seattle Seahawks. You couldn't run the football.
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  Speaker 1: Brock Purdy's stats were pretty much the exact same statistics
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  Speaker 1: in two really meaningful games. A 13-3 loss and then
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  Speaker 1: a 41-6 loss in the playoffs in the span of, what,
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  Speaker 1: three weeks? He went 19 for 27 for 127 yards
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  Speaker 1: in the first game and 15 for 27 for 140
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  Speaker 1: yards in the second game. Four yards per pass attempt,
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  Speaker 1: which is atrocious.
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  Speaker 2: That's really low.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you got dominated. Brock Purdy, there were times
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  Speaker 1: in a playoff advancing game where I felt sorry for
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  Speaker 1: a rival's quarterback because he was getting beaten up so much.
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  Speaker 1: That is the truth.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like, oh, gosh, I can't really watch much more of this.
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  Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, yeah, he had 69 rushing yards back in
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  Speaker 1: game one. You know that game you dominated with all
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  Speaker 1: of your best players available and healthy? In September. 17
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  Speaker 1: to 13? Yeah. He had 3.1 yards per carry, and
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  Speaker 1: that was his best game against the Seahawks last year.
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  Speaker 1: He had 23 yards rushing in that regular season matchup.
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  Speaker 1: 35 in the playoff matchup. He had 24 catches over
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  Speaker 1: those three spans because they were desperate at the end
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  Speaker 1: and trying to get back in a couple of those games.
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  Speaker 1: And he's an excellent receiver out of the backfield, but
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  Speaker 1: he's not off to a very good start. The guy
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  Speaker 1: that's off to a really good start is Brock Purdy.
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  Speaker 1: Brock Purdy is the one that's playing great football right now,
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  Speaker 1: offensively for the San Francisco 49ers. But boy, he did
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  Speaker 1: not have the answers against the Seahawks at the tail
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  Speaker 1: end of last season. And so, I mean, I just, look,
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  Speaker 1: We can acknowledge Sean McVay figured something out about Mike
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  Speaker 1: McDonald last year. Right. And when we face the Rams,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to spend a lot of time that week
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  Speaker 1: talking about, hell, when we face the Cardinals, we spent
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  Speaker 1: time wondering if former Rams offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur was
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  Speaker 1: going to have some cheat code because of how well
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  Speaker 1: the Rams offense handled Mike McDonald's defense in their last
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  Speaker 1: two matchups. But if anyone in San Francisco, any 49er
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  Speaker 1: fan out there, isn't worried to their core that Mike
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  Speaker 1: McDonald owns Kyle Shanahan, then you've not been paying attention.
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  Speaker 1: Because he was practically in the huddle in those last
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  Speaker 1: two games of last year. He has gotten to the
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  Speaker 1: point where he is finishing Kyle Shanahan's sentences when they
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: meet up. That's how well he's reading the offensive genius
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: that is Kyle Shanahan. If he took him out to dinner,
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  Speaker 1: McDonald wouldn't even wait around for him to order. He
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  Speaker 1: would just order for Shanahan. I got you. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to have the chicken. How did you know I was
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: going to have the chicken, Mike? I got you red, man.
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  Speaker 1: I just got you red. That was just pure ownership.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, I acknowledge, every Seahawks fan is going to acknowledge,
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  Speaker 1: 49er fan, that you were beat up at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the season. Absolutely. And you will be again this year.
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  Speaker 1: But you were beat up at the end of the season.
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  Speaker 1: But there is just no excuse for not having a
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  Speaker 1: single answer. in two games spread over the course of what, three,
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  Speaker 1: four weeks at the end of the season. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how any 49er fan, healthy or not, comes
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  Speaker 1: into this with a large dose of confidence because I
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  Speaker 1: would have spent the entire offseason wondering, will Kyle Shanahan
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  Speaker 1: ever beat Mike McDonald again?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not just when Mike McDonald's with the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 2: Remember their game against the Ravens on Christmas Day in 2023,
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  Speaker 2: I believe it was the year the Niners went to
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  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. They were like a really good team
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  Speaker 2: that year. They were a lot of people's favorites to
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  Speaker 2: win it all. he got absolutely dominated by that Ravens team.
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  Speaker 2: And Mike McDonald has the number of Kyle Shanahan. Now
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of a cycle because Kyle Shanahan has the
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  Speaker 2: number of Sean McVay for some reason. And then Sean
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  Speaker 2: McVay is the number of Mike McDonald.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess that's what keeps the NFC West interest. Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So it is kind of a cool, you know, I
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: got you, you got me sort of situation, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I do think the coaching aspect really plays up in
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  Speaker 2: this situation because However, the Seahawks are not the same team.
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  Speaker 2: So you could talk about the Niners not being the
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  Speaker 2: same team they were. But the Seahawks are also not
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  Speaker 2: the same team they were at the end of last year.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot there. I mean, you have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the same players, obviously, but they're in a different
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  Speaker 2: spot right now. And, you know, beginning of the season,
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  Speaker 2: you don't want to be playing your best football. I
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  Speaker 2: get all that right now. But at this point in time,
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  Speaker 2: I do think going into this game, the Niners are
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  Speaker 2: playing better football. They feel I think they feel like
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  Speaker 2: they have the edge coming into this game, even though
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  Speaker 2: it's in Seattle.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: Well, I think everybody has to acknowledge that. I mean,
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: I think that's how we started the conversation, that the
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: 49ers might be playing the best football in the National
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Football League right now. But what level of confidence you
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: can have as a 49er fan after those two games
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: at the tail end of the season, I wouldn't have much.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah. I wouldn't have much. I mean, you're
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: going to be healthier. Purdy's playing well. But it's been
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: a while since you've played as well. against the Seahawks
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: as you have in the first four games this season.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: And they haven't exactly played some giant opponent. I mean,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: they faced the Rams where the Rams decided to fly
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: to Australia 15 minutes before the game. And then they
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: played the Broncos this week, but the Broncos are having
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: a really hard time. They are the worst offensive team
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: in the first half of the National Football League. So
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: they're not exact. I mean, if the Patriots aren't a
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: good opponent, If we can't count the Patriots as a
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: good opponent, then the Broncos aren't a good opponent. So, hey, look,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, up here in Seattle, we're taking it seriously. Yes,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: we are. You need to be taking it seriously. And yes,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: you do need to acknowledge division opponent. We're not playing
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: that good of football so far this season. I think
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald would acknowledge that publicly with a bullhorn. so
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: here come the 49ers the mighty 49ers 4-0 record and
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: yeah they're playing better but you know you want to
• 17:57
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• 18:01
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• 18:27
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• 18:30
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• 18:33
  Speaker 1: why the Seahawks got cold feet about Joe Mixon. Well,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: it didn't pass his physical. He has a bad foot.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: And so Joe Mixon is not going to be part
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: of the Seahawks going forward. He is a free agent again,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: and so the Hawks will have one new member of
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: their running back room going forward, but certainly not two.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Week five starts tomorrow in Dallas. The Cowboys will be
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: hosting the winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers. By the way, speaking
• 19:02
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• 19:05
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• 20:14
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• 20:17
  Speaker 1: about that at 9 o'clock this morning. College football week
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: six is highlighted by Alabama versus Georgia, but could it
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: be postponed? Some terrible weather in the southeast region of
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: the country, and it's already been thrown out there that
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Bama's starting to think about And Georgia's starting to think about, okay,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: when could we play this if we're not able to
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: play on Saturday? I have a feeling they won't just
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: blow it off. Really? I think they will figure out
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: how to play this game this year.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: It's a gut feeling right there.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: It's a gut feeling. Kraken still haven't proven they can
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: beat someone this year that's not the Calgary Flames. 6-2
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: the final score. They lost to the Las Vegas Golden
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Knights last night. They will next play in Detroit on Friday.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Everett Fitzhugh going home, single-tier. Seattle at Detroit on Friday.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: We'll talk some Kraken hockey a little later on in
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: the show as well. Sounders will play on Saturday. I'm
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: going to give Anders plenty of time to cry himself.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I think he's going to tear up on the show
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: today as Lionel Messi played his final match as a
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: member of the Argentinian team. Or Argentine team? Argentinian?
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Argentina national team. Oh, Argentina national team.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: And Mike. Goodness, did a lot of people show up
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: for it.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh. Oh, yes. So we'll get into that
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: later this hour. And the Major League Baseball playoffs, they
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: did it again. The Padres and Brewers.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Insane.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: What a series. Oh, my gosh, is this good baseball.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: And the Padres won to stay alive four to three,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: the final score, as they had to go to game
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: two starter Michael King to close the game out because
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Mason Miller missed the game on paternity leave. And I
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: would imagine Dick Fane lost his mind over that. And
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers, 3-1 winners over the Atlanta Braves. So the
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Dodgers are up 2-1 on a Braves team that's really
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: not very good. All right. ABC's of the M's come
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: your way next because we haven't updated you in a
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: while on the thoughts regarding the Mariners' managerial vacancy. So
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: we'll do that next. Good morning to you all. Sports
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Radio 93.3 KJRFM. People thought they'd already had their man circled,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: and yet Alex Cora announced yesterday, I'm not going to
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: manage next year, so you can stop asking. So that
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: might take another person off of the list. And so
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: I thought it was a good time to update it.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: And frankly, as we start with the ABCs, R is
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: for Rocco, because Rocco Baldelli is one of just a
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: few names. I'm telling you, Anders, I spent a lot
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: of time thinking about this, researching it last night. going
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: through the last 7, 10 years of Major League Baseball
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: and trying to find guys who had success as Major
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: League Baseball managers. Not like runaway success. Alex Cora was
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: the only guy that had championship success. And obviously that
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: was one of the things that we all agree on.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: We would love to have a manager that's already proven it.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Good luck trying to find somebody with experience, success, championship
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: pedigree and availability. There isn't a person out there that
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: satisfies all four of those things under the age of 70.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: It's true. So you're looking at, if you do want
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: that experienced manager and Jerry said that it's not, it
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: doesn't have to be experienced, but I have said, man,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: I don't know how you don't hire someone with experience.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: If you just go with a third person, Hunch, I
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: think he's got managerial chops. And it fails. If you
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: don't have a great year this year, you're done. You
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: have to be fired at that point. So the list
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: is Anders Rocco Baldelli, Brandon Hyde, who led the Orioles
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: to a breakout season a couple of years ago, but
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: then again, they've collapsed under his watch too.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: 0-5 in the playoffs.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Mike Schilt. who nobody really likes, but he's had success
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: in two different places. Rob Thompson, who was fired by
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: the Phillies a year ago, and he had some success
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: with the Philadelphia Phillies before. It just wasn't coming together anymore.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: That's kind of the list. That's kind of the list of,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: experience some success, not championship success, but some success and availability.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: What about someone like Dave Martinez? I have him.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Written down, but he didn't have a lot of success.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: No, he won a World Series with the Nationals, but
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: then nothing really much else other than that. Like I'd
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: say that tongue in cheek, but it's like he had
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: one good year and he obviously got to the mountaintop
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: on that one good year. And then everything else after
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: that was really like they haven't done anything since. So, yeah,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: It's been a long time since he's been. I mean,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Dan Wilson's been had a had successful teams much more
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: recently than what Dave Martinez has had.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: It's true.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: I even thought of Gabe Kapler last night, but. In
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: my research, I find out he's the general manager of
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: the Marlins. When did that happen? Yeah, seriously. Yeah, I
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: didn't know that happened. Joe Maddon's another one, but he's
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: a few years removed, and I don't think he and
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Jerry are the best of friends. Probably not. I'm watching
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: the Braves, and Brian Snitker is an old man who
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: seems pretty content with retirement and having really been just
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: a Brave his entire professional career, but he has recent success.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: And he's not that far removed from managing in the
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: modern game. So that list, I mean, Jerry might have
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: to go hunch on this because, I mean... If you
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: hired a couple of those guys on the list, I'm like, okay,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: all right. I think that's an improvement. I think that's
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: an upgrade. But I'm not doing back handsprings thinking that,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: here we go. We've got the manager. That's the final ingredient.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: That's the one.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Joe Espada is another name. Current Houston Astros. Yes, Houston
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Astros manager. But there's a lot of rumors that they
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: won't retain him. They already fired their GM, of course.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: I don't know how much of an upgrade that really is.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: He doesn't have any success at this level. Yes, he
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: got to the playoffs this year, but that's about all
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: you could say in terms of his track record. I
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: You're right.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: There's nothing really that jumps off the page at this point.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: There are trade-a-player candidates. Obviously, there are guys that, boy,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I'd really like to have him. If it was a
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: world of just hand-picking, Kevin Cash in Tampa. If this
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: is college football, you could just go grab them. Right,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: because he's pretty much having success at... you know, San
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Diego State right now.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: And if you wanted to come in and say, hey,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, we're not the Mets with our spending, but
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: we got a pretty good roster right now. Could we
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: bring you over? Yeah, I think you could talk him
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: into being interested, but then you have to negotiate something
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: with Tampa. Stephen Vogt apparently wants to be here. It's
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: the reason why he became a coach here. But his
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: path just skyrocketed toward a managerial status. I don't think
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: that the Mariners had any clue that he was going
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: to be a manager here. One year after being an
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: assistant coach with another franchise. I mean, give them credit
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: for like seeing in Steven Vogt. That's managerial material, but
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: they should have gone with him rather than go with Dan. Correct.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: They should have gone with Steven Vogt. Right now you'd
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: have to trade in order to get him. How about
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: the manager to booth to manager? A lot of success
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: doing that in the past. Managers who've had some success
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: went to the booth. saw the game from a different perspective,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: came back to managing, and were much better than they
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: were before, including the great Buck Showalter. He became better
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: after he got upstairs and saw the game from a
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: different perspective. Joe Torre got off to a terrific managerial start,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: spent a bunch of time in the booth, came down
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: with the Yankees, new perspective, and look what he did
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: with the New York Yankees. So a Joe Girardi? Yeah.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, he got ran out of Philadelphia.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: He did.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: But then again, he got ran out of there because
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: none of the players liked him because he had a
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: red ass. If he has time away, saw the game
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: from a different perspective, very smart guy, Northwestern guy, you know,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: he's still trying to keep himself viable. He's calling games
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: right now and continuously reminding you that he was the
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: manager of the Yankees when they won a championship one year.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: But he, He's doing a really good job of weaving
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Jeter into all of his commentary.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: By the way, that's the last time the Yankees won
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: the World Series.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: David Ross is a name that has come up. I mean,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: he didn't have success all that much, but he was
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: over 500. Yeah. And apparently very likable guy. And I
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: don't think he's soft by any stretch.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: No.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: So I think maybe that's. But it might just come
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: down to another hunch pick. And that would be a
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: real roll of the dice for Jerry and Justin because
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: their hunches have not worked out. So Albert Pujols, Raul Abanez,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Ryan Flaherty, who's Craig Council's right-hand man right now with
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: the Cubs. Those are some names that have come to mind.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: So I don't know where you're at with it.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, to me, it's... I struggle between kind of the known,
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: the Joe Girardis, the Rob Thompsons, the guys that you know, okay,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: this is what they are as a manager, but I
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: don't really feel like they're the answers, as you said.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: They're not this, oh my God, yes, we got the guy.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: There is the unknown of... everyone that hasn't got that
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: managerial experience but they could be really dang good managers.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Well sure and and kevin cash and steven vote had
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: to have somebody say i gotta hunch you have everything
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: it takes exactly but then again jerry thought that of dan.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Wilson yeah so then there's the the downside of that
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: too so it how risky are you willing to be
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: here do you want just a guy to kind of
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: come in and stabilize and be like hey we we
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: don't need you to be like come in with this
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: amazing different formula that just revolutionizes the game or anything
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: like that. Come and just get the most out of
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: our players. That's kind of where I'm leaning. Well, that's
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: the job.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Get the most out of the players.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: But I just mean in a kind of relatively known fashion, right?
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: The younger guys kind of come in and do something
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: a little bit different, the unknown aspect of it, of course. But, yeah,
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: I think Girardi and Thompson, of the names that you
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: threw out there, kind of– Get me a little bit
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: curious about what's going to happen.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Mattingly's another one. I should have mentioned Mattingly.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good one as well. So, yeah, I just,
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know. There's nothing that really feel like that's
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: my guy. Because that was really Alex Cora. Now that
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: you mentioned that he's not managing in 2027, I feel
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: like it's just a big question mark with all these guys.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So, I don't know. I mean, obviously, whenever they
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: name it, everybody's going to think Jerry's an idiot for
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: doing it.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: And he's going to think he's a genius.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And we'll meet somewhere in the middle.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Coming up next on the radio program, Anders Hurst. I
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: wasn't around him yesterday. He needed a moment. I did.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. We should have done with
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Don't Cry For Me Argentina, kid.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: I should have told you.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: We could have done some Evita here. Because get ready, kid.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: We might need your emotional support here in the studio.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Anders Hirsch has to relive something that was very hard
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: for him last night.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Did you tear up a little bit? I did, yeah.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: That's good. That's fine.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: During the speech. His speech.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't even hear the speech. I just saw the...
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: unbelievable number of people that showed up and you, I mean,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: they didn't all go to the match, right? They just
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: showed up to be around the stadium where Leo Messi
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: played his final game as part of the Argentine national team.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: That was unreal. Holy crap.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: They, it's hard to overstate how he is looked at
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: in that country. It's, Quite literally godlike. I'm not even joking.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Well, I believe it. Because I know that Manny Pacquiao
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: is treated the same way in the Philippines.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: It's a great comparison. And I've mentioned this a few
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: times before during World Cup, but a lot of the
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: reason is not because of his greatness on the field,
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: which he is the greatest on the field. A lot
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: of the reason is because he's always been.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: My wife would always say, gosh, he's so Argentinian. That's
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: what she would say consistently, even though he moved to
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Spain when he was 12 years old and lived there
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: until the later parts of his career. Now, obviously, he
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: lives in Miami playing for Inter Miami in the MLS.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: And he's not done with that yet, by the way.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: So this is just his international team retirement. Imagine when
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: he retires from soccer altogether what the response is going
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: to be like it's going to be absolutely nuts but
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: this is obviously like this is the team that he
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: loved the most more than anything else was playing for
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: the national team and uh yeah it was it was
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: a quite a spectacle last night they like you said
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: there was just everyone wanted to be a part of
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: that moment in one way or another whether you were
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: in the stadium whether you were around the stadium whether
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: you were watching it on tv.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: How many people they said it had to been over
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: like a million people there.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: I'm sure like it's in buenos aires it's one of
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: the Most dense cities in the world.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Because there's the stadium and then there's the surrounding stadium.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: And then the people were like lined up on the
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: exit ramps to get to the stadium, like masses of them,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: and then flooded through the streets underneath the exit ramps.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Like everywhere you look, there were people. And obviously they're
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: not all getting into the game. They just wanted to
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: be around the game.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: So that they could say I was there, I suppose,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: or to catch a glimpse of him. I don't know. Yeah,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: I think it's just one. That was unreal.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just one giant celebration really is what
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: it was of, you know, someone who brought them as
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: much joy as anyone could in any sport.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: But it's not like he's the first great. It's not
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: like he put that.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Argentina soccer on a map no they had maradona before
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: yeah which was very like and that's a good comparison
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: because that's kind of what he was like when he
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: was alive that they they have that much um reveration
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: they revere him as much as they did uh with
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: with that guy but even sometimes even more so because
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: he's such a grounded human being as well but like
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: i said that I had the subtitles on for the speech,
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: and it was tear-jerking how humbled he was.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: How did your wife handle it? Oh, she was at work, unfortunately.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: So I had to replay the whole speech for her
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: when we got back home, and she... held little Austin
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: in front of the TV and was like, this is
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: your God right here, just so you know.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Do we ever learn the middle name of your son?
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Is it Lionel?
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: He does not have a middle name. He does not
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: have a middle name. And that is by choice from
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: my wife. She's like, I don't want him to have
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: a middle name, just first and last name.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Austin Hurst.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: That's his middle name.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Well, then you could add one.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: I could.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: You could always add one.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: I could absolutely do that. Austin Little Leo Hurst.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Little Leo Hurst.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: I like that. Yeah, but it was an emotional day.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Emotional day yesterday, for sure. Well, I was thinking of you.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Thank you. I don't really like the sport. Understandable.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Obviously, Messi's not exactly been on my radar of favorite athletes,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: but I know that he's maybe your favorite athlete.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: One of them, at least, for sure.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: All the time. And I'm just sitting there, and I'm
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: watching that, and I'm like, oh my gosh. For one person.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Because that was not for the team.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: No, it was not. They were not there for the team.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: It was not. Well, I mean, it was literally like...
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: For those who don't know, it's an international break. That's
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: why you see a lot of players that aren't playing
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: with the Sounders right now. They play these friendlies to
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: kind of keep you know, practicing and get games with
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: the international team, which you don't spend all the time with.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: But Messi wasn't even with the whole group for the
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: whole international break. He just came for this game because
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: this was his farewell match. So literally the only objective
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: last night was to say goodbye to Lionel Messi.
• 36:44
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