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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 330 - Top 100 #1 Colton Lentz · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Nooks like Valley Senior Colton Lens and you're
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  Speaker 1: listening to the Top one hundred Countdown on the Walking
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  Speaker 1: Preps podcast with Tyler Roland like the.
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  Speaker 2: Valley Readings and welcome in to the Walk On Preps podcast.
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  Speaker 2: This is episode at three hundred and thirty, the last
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  Speaker 2: of ten podcasts in the twenty twenty four Top one
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  Speaker 2: hundred Football Countdown. I'm Ryland Spencer along with me as
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  Speaker 2: always Tyler Anderson of What Come Preps? Tyler, how are
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  Speaker 2: we doing?
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  Speaker 1: He's doing? Okay? Oh, this is this is crazy. This
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  Speaker 1: is it number one and it's hut time. And I know,
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  Speaker 1: I know, I can't believe there's been eight of these lists,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just going back and singing and all the
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  Speaker 1: craziness and and you know it used to be so easy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I did it. I did My first list
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  Speaker 1: was before Walking Press was even a thing. Really, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I did it, and I was I had a site
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  Speaker 1: called Walkomcounty Football dot Com.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah I remember that.
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  Speaker 1: Which is still up but and I get little notifications
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  Speaker 1: every once in a while, and I think because that's
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  Speaker 1: where the Top five hundred is and people still look
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  Speaker 1: at that.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, probably, but uh, but yeah, and.
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  Speaker 1: Then you know from there and it's gone over. Actually
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  Speaker 1: I did, Yeah, I did. Yeah, I did one list
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  Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen in that and then ever since then
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  Speaker 1: they've all been on Walkome Preps and and yeah, it's crazy,
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  Speaker 1: we're down to number one, and what a number one
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  Speaker 1: that it is.
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  Speaker 2: So I was curious. I wanted to know last year's
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  Speaker 2: number one Caden Stite. Yeah, what episode was that podcast?
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  Speaker 2: Because I'm curious to know how many?
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  Speaker 1: So like a for all year? How many podcasts have
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  Speaker 1: you done?
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  Speaker 2: So that one came out on January fourteenth, which I
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  Speaker 2: believe is about thirty minutes away right now or an
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  Speaker 2: hour thirty away or no, that's.
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  Speaker 1: Today, today's the fourteenth.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we were recording this on the fourteenth. Okay, so
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  Speaker 2: exactly one year ago today, Tyler, what's your guess as
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  Speaker 2: to where we were?
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  Speaker 3: What number?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, I'm pretty surprised, honestly. Is it under
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  Speaker 1: two hundred?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Who was number two hundred?
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  Speaker 1: That would have kind of freaked me out.
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  Speaker 2: What was number two hundred? I guess is what I
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  Speaker 2: meant to say? Number two hundred was the Week six recap?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So it's probably like Hue or like to twenty
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  Speaker 1: four or somewhere to thirty four to thirty four.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so ninety we would that be Oh.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, we're on three thirty now, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Or ninety six, they're.
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  Speaker 1: Ninety six, would do ninety six podcasts a year, that's.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's basically what what I mean. We're basically one hundred,
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  Speaker 2: you know, from a year ago, like we are one
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  Speaker 2: hundred like that. That's basically what it is, A hundred
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  Speaker 2: of them, Tyler. Yeah, Holy god, imagine how much further
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  Speaker 2: we would be if everybody in the top.
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  Speaker 1: One hundred got their own Oh Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: We would have been at almost two hundred, Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Now that's never happening, so no, nobody has to worry
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  Speaker 3: about that. Settle down.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're gonna discuss number eighty seven.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about it. We talk about them for twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know who the number eighties. When you say
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  Speaker 2: eighty seven, I don't know who it was. I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: he's a great kid. Not happening, dude, Like, sorry, not happening.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, anyway, Tyler, we are talking top one hundred countdown,
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  Speaker 2: which means Anytime Fitness Linden, Linden North and Ferndale. They
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  Speaker 2: are the official sponsors. They've been so good to us
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  Speaker 2: here at Watcom. Perhaps, Tyler, if somebody is there, there's
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  Speaker 2: got to be people listening that have businesses or know
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  Speaker 2: somebody with the business, and what they should be doing
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  Speaker 2: is going wait a minute, Anytime Fitness sponsors all these
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  Speaker 2: different things they've sponsored, what like Linement of the Week
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  Speaker 2: they've sponsored, was it was it recaps or I can't
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  Speaker 2: remember what it was, scoreboards.
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  Speaker 1: Scoreboards for foot ball, the top one hundred list, the
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  Speaker 1: players of the week for boys and girls basketball, the
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  Speaker 1: football alignment of the week.
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  Speaker 3: It's it.
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  Speaker 1: They're all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: They should people should be looking at that going okay,
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  Speaker 2: these people are clearly on board. What's the what's the
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  Speaker 2: trick here? You know what I mean? And then they
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  Speaker 2: should be reaching out to you, Tyler, and to do
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  Speaker 2: that they can just do what.
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  Speaker 1: Well, just by reaching out and on social media is
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  Speaker 1: the best way. Search for Walker preps, send a message
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  Speaker 1: and you know, just say hey, I noticed you say
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  Speaker 1: Anytime Fitness a lot about you say this company a
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  Speaker 1: lot and I'll say, okay, it sounds good. Let's talk
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  Speaker 1: and and that's how we get the ball rolling from there.
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  Speaker 1: And and that's you know, I really really believe in
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  Speaker 1: this community, or else I wouldn't be doing this. You know,
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  Speaker 1: people a lot of people have asked me, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and it's funny because I was just asked that. I
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  Speaker 1: was just talking about this yesterday with somebody about how
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  Speaker 1: cool just this area is because it's you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: no a pro sports team nearby. You're kind of in
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  Speaker 1: between Seattle and Vancouver, and you're just it's and so
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  Speaker 1: it's just so many generations and and they were like,
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  Speaker 1: if you lived, you know, in the Seattle area, would
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  Speaker 1: you do like King you know, King Preps, King County
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  Speaker 1: Preps or whatever. I was like, no, because I think
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  Speaker 1: I think even though and you know this more than
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  Speaker 1: anybody is there's a lot of amazing athletes that have
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  Speaker 1: come out of King County and stuff like that, but
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  Speaker 1: the main focal point is Seahawks and Mariners and krakeing
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  Speaker 1: and you dub and yeah, I mean, it's just that's
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  Speaker 1: the thing. And up here. It was so funny because
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  Speaker 1: I went to a double hitter basketball game the other
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  Speaker 1: night and I'm in between the boys and girls game.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sitting there talking and I'm talking. I'm sitting there
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  Speaker 1: talking with tj Ackerman, and then Dominic Alexander is right there,
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  Speaker 1: and then Steve Bernardi walks by to shake hands, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm just like, these are legends, Like in my world,
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  Speaker 1: these are legends.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, those are your Steve Largins.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, And it's like and they're all, no, we hey,
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  Speaker 1: how's it going. And it's just you know, and they
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  Speaker 1: all have kids that are playing right now and during
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  Speaker 1: the game, the boys and girls and.
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  Speaker 2: Little league teams with them or junior football or yeah,
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  Speaker 2: all these different things, and that's that's the beauty of
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  Speaker 2: Wakham County and Tyler, you and I have talked about
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  Speaker 2: it a bunch where I'm like, I just love how
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  Speaker 2: like everybody is related somehow, whether it's blood related or hey,
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  Speaker 2: we are sports related because our kids grew up playing
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  Speaker 2: on the same you know, little league team and the
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  Speaker 2: same basketball team and the same all this stuff and
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  Speaker 2: now you know, maybe they go to a different school now,
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  Speaker 2: you know, or you know. One of the things I
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  Speaker 2: love too. And it's always funny when you when you
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  Speaker 2: bring this stuff up, you're like, yeah, you know, we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about like a kid from Mount Baker. Well, actually
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  Speaker 2: seems like all the kids from Mount Baker their parents
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  Speaker 2: all went to Mount Baker too, But like some of
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  Speaker 2: the other schools, it's like, oh, yeah, you know this
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  Speaker 2: guy went to uh Meridian, you know, or this Meridian
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  Speaker 2: kid you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, Oh yeah, he's a great player. Blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, his dad was a stud at Blaine,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: It's like I love the ones when it's when it's
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  Speaker 2: the connect, but it's not the same school, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean, because it's always funny. It's like, what
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  Speaker 2: do you think that dad feels like when he when
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  Speaker 2: he goes back, or how about like uh uh what's
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  Speaker 2: his name?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Well, this guy we're gonna talk about tonight, but like
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  Speaker 2: he's going to he's going to potentially the biggest rival,
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  Speaker 2: right or one of them maybe Portland State kind of
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  Speaker 2: always was, but you know what I mean, like he's
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  Speaker 2: gonna go to a completely different school. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and like I love that stuff. It's so it's so fun.
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  Speaker 2: And anytime who is the guy you said the other day,
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  Speaker 2: the Greg or whatever something like that, Yeah, Greg Dexter, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the Greg like that that cracks me up, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean. Like, but that's Wakam County and and Tyler,
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  Speaker 2: I've told you so many times before you do things
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  Speaker 2: that are not normal for what goes on now in media,
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  Speaker 2: and yet somehow it works, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: And that's about it. Yeah, it's walkin County. Man, It's
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  Speaker 3: so cool.
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  Speaker 2: And that's I think the thing I love about these
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  Speaker 2: lists too, like so many of these kids. And one
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna talk about to Night's another one. He's a
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  Speaker 2: legacy guy, you know, like dad was a great player.
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  Speaker 2: Like if you would have done a top one hundred
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  Speaker 2: back in the day, his dad probably would have been
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  Speaker 2: number one, you know what I mean. And it's like,
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  Speaker 2: I love it. That's what I love about it. It's
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  Speaker 2: so cool and I'll never forget Tyler. You started doing
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  Speaker 2: Walkcome preps or I guess you'd kind of been doing it,
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  Speaker 2: but you really started going heavier into it. And then
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  Speaker 2: I remember you like freaked out and called me one
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  Speaker 2: day and you're like, hey, I'm like, what's up, man,
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  Speaker 2: I got laid off. I'm like, oh wow, and you
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  Speaker 2: go looks like I'm all in all walk on preps. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I just remember being like, oh, like this this is
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  Speaker 2: gonna be great, Like this is gonna be really cool,
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  Speaker 2: because I felt like you needed to take that next step.
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  Speaker 3: Now what it is, it's like yeah, And it was
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  Speaker 3: like I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Think it was I don't want to say it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: gonna happen, but like now it was forced to happen,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And so now it's like
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  Speaker 2: with the sponsors and this stuff, it's all great, but
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  Speaker 2: now we need to be able to take a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more or of a step and like really solidify
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  Speaker 2: the sponsorship stuff. I'm not saying like, hey, we're two
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  Speaker 2: days away from going away. You know, I watched enough
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  Speaker 2: Kitchen Nightmares with Gordon Ramsay to know that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes it happens, right, like sometimes the stuff gets shut down.
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  Speaker 2: But to be able to keep this going, it's got
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  Speaker 2: to get funded. And you know, fact of the matter is, Tyler,
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  Speaker 2: you don't just have like a backer. I mean, if
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  Speaker 2: anybody ever wants to win the Lotto in that area.
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  Speaker 1: Like it's funny because I mentioned to Land and Hatchet
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  Speaker 1: a year like a year ago because we were talking
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  Speaker 1: about like, you know, with the nil now being a thing,
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  Speaker 1: I was like I was like, man, if you like
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  Speaker 1: you talk to all those guys, Kate Eldridge and you know,
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  Speaker 1: and you know Carlson and all these different guys that
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  Speaker 1: are playing all over, Like if you guys all put
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  Speaker 1: together like a small thing, just like a monthly thing
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  Speaker 1: for walking preps and every time there's a you know,
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  Speaker 1: a d one athlete, you know, just to just contact
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  Speaker 1: them say hey, this is what we do is just
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  Speaker 1: get giving back and just kind of add that to
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  Speaker 1: it and just like this monthly thing. Man, after a while,
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  Speaker 1: that would be all that it took. Could you imagine
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  Speaker 1: how cool that would be? And you know those guys
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  Speaker 1: you know, want to give back and he was all
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  Speaker 1: about it, you know. And that's what's so cool is
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  Speaker 1: so many of these athletes. And it's not like it's
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  Speaker 1: not that we're the ones that are getting them the
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  Speaker 1: scholarships or anything like that, but we're doing a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things to get them noticed and get them help
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. But they're the ones doing all
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  Speaker 1: the work obviously. But I love that we're able to
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  Speaker 1: put a spotlight on some of these kids. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I went out to lunch today with old Joe Consensus
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  Speaker 1: there and this lady came up and she just goes,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much for what you do for Walkham County.
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  Speaker 3: And in that sensus was like you're welcome, right.
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  Speaker 1: He just sitting there looking at me. He's like shaking
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  Speaker 1: his head, like I can't go anywhere with you, and
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  Speaker 1: and you know, and she was just a mom of
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  Speaker 1: a volleyball player that just loved that there was a
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  Speaker 1: spotlight on those kids. And that's part of it that
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  Speaker 1: I just love. I love it all the time. And
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, I get freaked out if a stranger comes
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  Speaker 1: up to me and starts talking to me. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: learning how to get better at that. So it's a
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  Speaker 1: it's a great, great thing. And I think that the
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  Speaker 1: sponsorships are going to keep rolling in and once I
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  Speaker 1: get a set number of however many that is that
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  Speaker 1: are going to continue to go and do it every
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  Speaker 1: single year, then that's that's that's what it is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, it's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things I love too is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you talk about volleyball and some of these other sports
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  Speaker 2: that even when newspapers and you know, other people were
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  Speaker 2: doing a lot of high school coverage, they weren't doing
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  Speaker 2: volleyball coverage, like what you're doing, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 2: It's not like it's the players of the week and
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  Speaker 2: yeah and I mean let me well, yeah, like that's
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  Speaker 2: part of it. But also, Tyler, you couldn't just on
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  Speaker 2: Monday open up the newspaper and find the free throw
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  Speaker 2: percentage of you know, the leader in the county. Like
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  Speaker 2: at least I don't know about you, but like we had,
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  Speaker 2: we had great coverage when I was growing up with
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  Speaker 2: the Seattle Times always did a good job.
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  Speaker 3: But we used to have what was.
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  Speaker 2: Called The Journal American and their coverage was phenomenal. But
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  Speaker 2: stats were always just box scores of a game. Yeah
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  Speaker 2: you know, I mean that's what you got. And now
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  Speaker 2: I'm not complaining about it.
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  Speaker 3: I loved it.
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  Speaker 2: I used to read it. I used to geek out
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  Speaker 2: over it. You used to like put together spreadsheets from it,
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  Speaker 2: which is a little psychotic, but you used to do that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, because that's what you do. You know, your
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  Speaker 2: numbers guy. And I was a numbers guy, but not
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  Speaker 2: like you.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, it's always one of those things where
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  Speaker 2: I look at it, it's like the coverage that you're
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  Speaker 2: actually providing is better than what we had in the past,
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  Speaker 2: which is crazy to.
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  Speaker 3: Say, but you know, you just love it. It's fun.
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  Speaker 2: But Tyler, we are doing way too much Babylon and
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  Speaker 2: we're not talking about number one.
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  Speaker 1: I know. The Lens family was like, okay, we get it.
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  Speaker 3: Get whoa whoa, whoa whoa. Don't give it away.
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  Speaker 1: It's the intro.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, good call. All the people that are like,
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute, wait a minute. Uh Montana Grizzly fans,
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  Speaker 2: They're like, wait, what are these morons talking about, Like
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  Speaker 2: right exactly on here, would you shut up and just
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  Speaker 2: get onto the talking about our guy? Which, okay, fine,
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  Speaker 2: I will at number one in the top one hundred countdown.
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  Speaker 2: Tyler six foot two, two hundred and twenty pounds. He's
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  Speaker 2: a running back and an inside linebacker. He's a senior
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  Speaker 2: from nook Sack Valley the Pioneers. Number nine, Colton Lentz.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah what I mean, my goodness, I just put my
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  Speaker 4: hands up and just go I there's you can't go
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  Speaker 4: anything negative.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, everything is fantastic. You know, kind of saw
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  Speaker 1: it coming as a freshman and and and just every
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  Speaker 1: year bigger, stronger, faster, and I mean I remember like
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  Speaker 1: when you a sophomore, i'd you know, I talk to
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  Speaker 1: you every once in a while. I was like, every
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  Speaker 1: time I see him, he's just bigger. It's like every
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  Speaker 1: single time I get a basketball game or whatever, he
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  Speaker 1: just he just looks. He just keeps growing, getting getting bigger.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, you're talking about someone that won you know,
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  Speaker 1: CO Freshman of the Year, and then his sophomore year
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  Speaker 1: he won CO Sophomore of the Year, and then last
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  Speaker 1: year he was the Offensive Player of the Year and
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  Speaker 1: the for Walking Preps and and uh, you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: probably sick of me giving him trophies and plaques and
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  Speaker 1: and uh. But my the other thing too, is that
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  Speaker 1: just an awesome again a lot like all these guys
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  Speaker 1: just awesome kid, you know, very very courteous with me,
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  Speaker 1: Like just come up and come up and just say
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  Speaker 1: hi all the time. Even at the basketball game the
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  Speaker 1: other night, you know, just he's like, hey, ta and
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  Speaker 1: gave me a fist bump, you know, and like out
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  Speaker 1: of nowhere, he just shows up. Hey, you know, he
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  Speaker 1: just made time to come over and say hi to me.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't have to do that, you know, but he's
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  Speaker 1: that that's the kind of person that he is and
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I know I've mentioned the youth football
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  Speaker 1: camp a lot, but it was his idea and he
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  Speaker 1: was the one who you know, put it together with
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  Speaker 1: along with Brady Ackerman and and decided they wanted to
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  Speaker 1: do this and and and all the proceeds were going
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  Speaker 1: to go to walk In Preps. And I just was floored.
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  Speaker 1: And that that day when I got the check, I
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  Speaker 1: mean I was sitting there next to I mean, I
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: was sitting there at the picnic table out of district
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: brewing outside on that August day. I just got over
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: COVID and and when they told me, you know how
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: much it was and stuff like that, I was I
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: was so I was so overwhelmed that tears were just
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: overcoming me. And I'm sitting next right next to TJ
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: and and I just kind of I almost just kind
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: of fell into him, and he just kind of wrapped
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: his arm around me, like, you know, You're it's okay,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: you know, I just I you know, I And because
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: of that, it gave me the Because of that amount,
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: it gave me kind of the push to do more
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: stuff with Walkom Preps because I could afford to do it.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean I could afford to go
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: to more games and buy gas and things like that
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: that you know, I could afford to get regular oil
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: changes like you know, it was that breathing room and
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: it's just an amazing kid. And then on the football field,
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: I mean every single team had to account for him.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: And you know that was just the way that it was.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Growing up as a quarterback, which oddly enough but you know,
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: transferred to be a running back and and and was
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: pretty darn amazing. I mean all year. I mean, his numbers,
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: he was he was one yard away from being like
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: this this crazy anomaly statistically because he had two hundred
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: carries exactly and he had one three hundred and ninety
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: nine yards. Oh so it's so close to two hundred
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: and fourteen hundred and then and then having twenty eight
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns and that was that was one of the
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: biggest things about his game was once he got you know,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: once you got inside the ten, you knew who was
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: getting the ball, and he was going to score every
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: single time. He just had that nose for the end zone.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think I think third all time and
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: scoring Wakam County history, you know, behind Mario Gobado and
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: and Jed Schleimer passing Ben Ben Peterson who also kicked.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: That's why he had scored so many points. So, I
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: mean that's really really impressive. You know, defensively moving to linebacker,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: the more natural position. He was a strong safety three
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: years prior, and and the numbers you know, showed out
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: and those in those games you know, defensively to really yeah,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: I mean he was every single time he had a
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: great game defensively was when he had his best games offensively.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: And you and I both started noticing that and started
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: taking them all the time, and fantasy both both ways.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: And and there were some days where some weeks where
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: like I'd take them on offense, you'd take them on defense,
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: or I think probably at least once we had to,
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: somebody took him on both sides of the ball. Yeah,
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: probably me, But yeah, that's kind of your go to. Yeah,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty good at picking one guy to do both.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Eighty seven and a half tackles, ten and a half
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: tackles for lost, two and a half sacks, three forced fumbles,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: three passes broken up, two fumble recoveries. He just did everything.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: He would take over games on both sides of the ball,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: was named the Offensive Player of the Year for the
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Northwest Conference. For the one a's was an All Conference
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: first team linebacker. And then for the All State team
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: who's named All State and he was named the All
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: He was named the States Offensive Player of the Year,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: which really shows a lot as well when you look
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: at the one A talent and the yards that are
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: put up and stuff like that. It's a darn shame
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: what happened when he had to miss a little bit
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: of time there, because I could tell you right now,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: that's not him. They got it wrong. And yeah, it's
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: just because the numbers could have been been even more.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: But he's not about the numbers. He wanted to be
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: out there for his team. And what I loved about
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: him is that when he couldn't play, he's coaching his guys.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: He's not playing basketball this year, but you know what,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: he's sitting on the bench and he's motivating those guys.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: He doesn't have to do this stuff. He's doing it
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: because that's the kind of teammate he is. That's the
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: kind of person he is. You know this, The numbers,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: like I said, are crazy. And then at the end
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: of that game, his final game, they put him at
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: quarterback and he threw. He only attempted five passes, completed
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: three of them, two of them went for touchdowns, and
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: he threw for over one hundred yards.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I mean it's there was just nothing that he couldn't do.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: And uh, I'm really really excited to see what happens
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: at the next level. And like you were talking earlier
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: about you know about the rivalry, you know, Eastern and
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Montana and yeah, and it's just a unique thing. I
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: mean seeing pictures, I was so bummed that I couldn't
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: make it to signing day, especially with those two kids
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: signing together with him and Brady. But I had stuff
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: I had to go to, I had games I had
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: to be at, and I saw pictures and it's just
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: funny seeing you know, seeing Britt with a Montana gear on. Yeah,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: it's just it's just it is what it is, right,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: you just got to say, yep. But Montana it's just
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: a what a great atmosphere for football, and I can
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: understand why you go there and you look at you go, yes,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: you know, it's just such a unique place and you
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: really can fit a lot of people and when it
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: gets going in the rivalry games, and so I'm really
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: excited for that. I think he could probably you know much.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's just like his dad. His dad was
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: about the same size in high school and his and
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: his dad got up to about two forty five while
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: in college and you know, leading Eastern and tackles his
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: senior year, I believe. So I could see that happening.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: I could see him putting on twenty more pounds and
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: and being just as fast and physical, and and I
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: could tell you right now, I think he's a natural coach.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I think he will become a coach someday. Seeing him
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: with those kids during that camp, he he loved it,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: he enjoyed it, and he just kind of led that
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: whole thing. I mean, he he it was all his.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: There was no coaches out there, it was all athletes.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: But he was the one with the whistle. He's the one,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: you know, going to the next drill, setting things up. Okay,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: we have too many kids over here, not off of Okay,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: let's let's do this. Let's make it fun for the kids.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Let's do this.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was so cool to witness and I
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: was just in awe of his maturity. And I'm just
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: so blessed that you know, I'm I'm there, you know,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I'm close to the situation. I get to see him,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: you know, do some things. I mean, when he had
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: that touchdown run his sophomore year in Week one against
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Mountain View, I watched that play like fifteen times. I
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: just kept watching it because I'd see something different in
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: every single time, and I was like, screw it, I'm
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: just going to reach out to him. And I just
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: sent him a message and I didn't know him that
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: well at that time, and I just said, that's one
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: of the best high score runs I've ever seen because
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: it started this way and then this happened, and then
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: there was this. I mean, there was the balance, there
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: was speed, there was power, there was vision, there was
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: every single thing, and doing it against a three A
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: team when we all picked Mountain View in that game.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: It was a Week one game their sophomore year.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: I remember that, and it was I think it was
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: the early game, right of a doubleheader at that stadium.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: No, No, it was at Nooksack.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Oh, oh yeah, that's right. The next year they went
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: down there.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Yes, and it was early yeah. And then and then
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: they had to go for two to win it, and
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: they got it. But that run was just I don't know,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: it's it was just crazy. I mean there there have
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: been these little runs. There was a run he had
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: against Kings that was just crazy. And you know this
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: this past year, you know he there's I mean, he
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: ran for two hundred twenty six yards and five touchdowns
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: against Kings this year, ran for two hundred and fifty
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: four yards and three touchdown downs against Baker. He only
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: carried the ball six times against Blaine, and he ran
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: four of them in for touchdowns and average almost twenty
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: five yards of carry.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, rub it in, Tyler. Come on.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: He ran for two hundred and sixteen against l C
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: and five touchdowns, scored all five touchdowns of the game.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: And he ran for one hundred and seventy two yards
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: and three touchdowns against Meridian. Now I bring those games
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: up because the LC, Meridian, Blaine, and Baker those are
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: the one A League games. Those are the ones that
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: you really really have to perform. I've seen guys over
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: the years that had really good numbers, I mean really
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: good numbers. I'm not going to call him out by name,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: but you know a guy that could that ran for
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: a thousand yards in a season, and I would see
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: what he did against team A team B, Yeah, really good.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Then how did he do.
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: Against the league games? Always averaging forty yards a game
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: where the league knows him and they know the offense.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: They know like, let's just say it was a Baker guy,
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: Like you know what Lepp is going to try to do?
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean, it's a matter of who's
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: going to execute it better. I know exactly what you're saying.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: I see that stuff all the time. I've seen it
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: so much over the years. You're one hundred percent right.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: A guy in non league is rushing for one hundred
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: and eighty a game or something. Then he gets in
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: and plays the you know, the biggest rival. And it's
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: not about being hyped, it's not about anything. It's like, oh,
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: we're just going to execute and yeah, all of a
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: sudden it slows down. But yet a lot of these
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: guys still find a way to somehow get there.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: You know it just yeah, yeah, And that's and that's
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: the thing is that I remember, you know, guys, you
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: know how come he wasn't all league? He ran for
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: a thousand yards? Well in the league, play Yeah, he
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: didn't even run for two hundred, you know, and that
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: that would be the big difference. And when you see
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: a guy like Colton Lentz where it's flips, yeah, you know,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: it's when when when they need him, you know, he
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: goes off. He ran the ball for thirty one yards
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: against Renton, you know, because only you know he could
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: have done more. But that's but you know, he doesn't
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: need to. He doesn't need to. He can have other
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: guys do some stuff and then when they really need him, boom,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: he can go off.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: And that's that's what he did.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Nuxac Valley's all time leading leader
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: in rushing and scoring and you know, one of the
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: best defenders of all time. And we've talked about it
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: in the past about how they haven't had you know,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: they've never been to a state title game and there's
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: and that's you know, it's it's a shame. I mean,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: they've had some really really good teams and but but
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: there is a rich history as far as individual talent.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: When you talk about you know, you know, Tom Ackerman
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: playing ten years in the NFL, and you talk about
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: uh T j Ackerman and Britt Lentz and Dave Longoria
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: and and Corbett Hanson and going even going back to
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: the seventies and there's a lot of Mitchell's and and
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Lance Massey, and there there's and and uh, Brandon Newell,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: and there's so many Mike Perez and there's just so
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: many great individuals. And you can even go you know
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: to the Myers and you know with both you know,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: with Rob Meyer and then Trevin Meyer and Tanner Meyer,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: and there's so many big numbers that have been put
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: up over the years and by certain athletes, and almost.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: Crazy they a state championship game, you know what I mean,
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: right right, Yeah, but.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: I always just put my hands up. I'd say he
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: could be the he could be the greatest pioneer of
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: all of them, and that that really says a lot
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: with all that talent, and yeah, he's uh, he's the
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: total package and and uh he's It's funny too, because
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: you know, I was even talking to Laura, my girlfriend,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: about the top one hundred list.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: And she was like, yeah, he was snubbed. No, no, no,
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: she was She was like you did you This was.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: You know, like a month or so ago, and she's like,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: do you have it all figured? Out. I said, yeah,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: this is starting to be named now. And she goes,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: who's number one? And and I don't tell anybody, you know,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: And I said it's Colton and she's like good and
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: she you know, and she but she she knows, you know.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: She she's she's a fan.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: And it's and.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: That's that's just the you know, he's just special. He's
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: just really special.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: And and.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: It's going to be really really tough to replace him
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: next year. And I you know, the Pioneers are are
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: they're gonna be They're gonna be good. It's just how
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: special are they going to be? Because number nine back
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: there was a total difference maker.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, And it's.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: It's it's weird in a way because it's not it's
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: not often that you could make an argument for a
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: guy to be the best player, even sometimes in a conference,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: on both sides of the ball, not just like overall. No,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: like he's the best defender and he's the best offensive guy. Now,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: when you're talking Walkam County, like obviously you know the
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: number two guy here, Andre Watson got a little bit
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: of a case. I mean, he had unbelievab numbers this year.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: But I'm even just talking about being in the argument,
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: you know, like Colton Lenz, you could say he is,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: like he could win Best Defensive Player of the Year
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: and Best Offensive Player of the Year, and I don't
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: know that people would really have much of an argument
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: against it, you know, like it's pretty crazy. I watched
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: the I watched the film. The thing that cracks me
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: up the most is on defense. There are so many
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: times when you see I think it's the first two
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: plays of his film from this year, they're both runs.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: One's Jagger Fife and the other one I believe is
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: a kid from Monisano.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: Is what it looks like to me? Did they play
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Montisano on the road? Yes, yes they did. Yeah.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: So it just cracks me up because both times, whoever
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: it is it's got the ball takes off running and
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: then is like, ah crap, and you can see them
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: like brace for the hit and like stop moving their
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: legs because they know they're about to get blasted, you
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: know what I mean. Now, I don't blame anybody for
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: doing that, especially when you got two hundred and twenty
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: pounds coming downhill at you. But as I go through
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: the film, the other thing that I love, I've God
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: blessed the kid number twenty two, the safety from on Alaska,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: who's number one from Knooksack, Cole Coppinger. Okay, so cold
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Coppinger here takes a little jet sweep and cold Lenz
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: takes off running to be the lead blocker. Oh yes, yeah, absolutely,
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: I mean twenty two. I don't know if he's just
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: implanted in the ground like he got undertakered or something,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Like that poor kid went
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: absolutely flying. I mean you know what it remise.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Well, Jask Baker used to do that with the yes yes,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: and you.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: Know what it makes me think of?
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: What's that?
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: It's some high quality age too. Oh, it's like Bobby
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Bouchet lead blocking for somebody, you know what I mean,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: he is I don't even think about that. It's like,
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: you know the you know, the one play I think
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: it's is the quarterback that runs or like whatever it
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: is where he like hits a guy, hits another guy
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: and then like continues down feeling it's like yeah and
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: then boom, just blast another guy. That's what it looks.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: It looks like the third one, you know what I mean,
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Like that poor number twenty two. It's funny because I
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: have a pause right now, and here's Colton, like twenty
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: two is like on his head, you know what I mean,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Like is that a twenty two or is that s s?
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Like?
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: What's going on here? You know what I mean?
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Like I mean, it's just this film is so much fun,
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: you know, great kid, great family. Like there's so many
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: we could say it all day. We could say, you know,
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: one thing after another. But the one guy that doesn't
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: even want to hear it is Colton Leentz, you know
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: what I mean, He's just like the By the way,
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: this is great too, because I'm looking here and here's
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Brady Ackerman like fifteen yards downfield. I don't know, I
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: don't know who's so he's in like a lean forward
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: run here. I don't know who's just outside the picture.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: But they are in a world of trouble. I can
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: tell you that much. And actually there's a guy laying
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: on the ground just to the left of Brady who
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: very well could have just gotten it, you know what
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: I mean. Like from Brady, I don't even know what's
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: going on here, but I can tell you this much.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: There's more fans in theknooksack stands and at on Alaska
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: that I would have anticipated, Like, that's actually pretty impressive
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: because that's.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: A long ways And who's number fifty three, by the way,
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: is a big dude too?
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Fifty three? See, I think you're gearing and get me here.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: I think it was their center Cohen Hoefort.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: I don't know who he is, but man, he's a
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: pretty good sized dude here. Yeah.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, there's just it's it's just so much
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: fun to watch, and it's it's been fun. It's it's
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: funny because it feels like just yesterday we were like,
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: can you believe we got to watch this guy for
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: three more years? And now here where are going? It
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: feels like we were talking about this guy for a decade.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I know, you go on the other end of it
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: and it's totally different, but it's just it's it's crazy.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: It's crazy to think that this kid we're done, you
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like, it's it's crazy to think
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: because you know, we we talked about how oh yeah,
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: you know knook Sack in a couple of years, man,
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: they're gonna be pretty stinking good. And then we said
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: it before oh you know what, they kind of hit
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: that that extra.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: Speed a year early, yes they did, and then yeah, yeah,
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: and then this year it was like.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Are they gonna be able to pull it off again?
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: They lost so much and then after about I don't
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: know what three or four games, we were like, why
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: were we questioning that at all?
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: Like they are clearly going to be fine, and they were.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: They were more than fine.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, that was a These last really three years
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: of them getting to the state tournament, you know, has
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: just been a whirlwind, you know what I mean, Like
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: it's just been so much fun to watch because we
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: knew what was going to happen. We were waiting for
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: it to happen, and not only did it happen, but
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: they gave us really an extra year of it. And
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'll never forget. Obviously they took the loss
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: in the game, but that semi final game at Civic
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Stadium against Baker was, Yeah, that's about as much fun
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: as I've had at a high school football game, you
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: know what I mean, The the atmosphere, the just everything.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: There's one other game Baffel Woodenville in twenty nineteen. They
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: played in the semi finals and the game was at
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: POPKINI that's the same thing. You know what I mean,
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: it's the county was there. We had like I mean
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: I say we because I'm at Boffel now at the time,
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: I wasn't obviously I was on the sidelines because you
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: know where I was going to be that day. But
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: there was like, I don't know, like eighty five hundred
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: people there, you know what I mean. It was just
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: packed in obviously, you know, Civic a much bigger facility.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: But it felt like everybody was there. I mean it
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: felt like not just Nook, Sack and Baker, not just
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: Everson and Deming. It felt like Ferndale was there, and
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: you know, Blaine, everybody was there. I mean, I've said
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: it before, Tyler, if you wanted to rob a house
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: in the county, that was the time to do it
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: because there was nobody home.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, and there was tons of tailgating before
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: the game.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: And it was just so cool. It was so much fun.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: And you know, I think back on that and it's
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: like you just think about how much and how fortunate
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: we are to have been able to watch that with
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: not only him, but Brady Ackerman and and our guy Duke,
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: and you know what I mean, just everything that went
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: along with it the last couple of years and it's
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: just been so much fun. And you know, end of
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: the day, obviously, without Colton Lentz, they would still be
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: a hell of a football team and a program. But man,
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: it's a different thing watching that guy play.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: It just is.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: And it's been so much fun. And you know, his
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: dad's a pretty funny guy. He's not TJ funny, but
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: he's he's pretty funny. Don't let that go to your head, DJ,
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: But yeah, you know, it's it's been a lot of fun.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: And I'm excited because I love watching I love watching
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: the Big Sky. Like you and I've talked about it before,
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: the Big Sky is the best, man. It's so much fun.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: And Montana, Montana State, you know, Idaho Eastern watching the
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Weaber State even you know, like, yeah, it's just the best, man.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: And you know, the good thing is there's plenty of
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: games that we're gonna be able to stream or Mike
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: k stream illegally. You didn't hear that, FBI, but you know,
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: like we'll be able to watch games.
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: And yeah, yeah, I have ESPN Plus and when you have, yeah,
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: so many there's so much access to all these things
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: and and yeah, I mean, that's what I love.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: But I could just put on like Hulu and all of.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: A sudden, I'll put on sports and say, okay, here's
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: seventy games. I'm like, oh, okay, I just I keep
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: looking through and I'm like I was like earlier, I
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: was like, there was I watched UCLA against Hawaii or
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: I just had it on the background, just because you
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: never know if I might see Jeremiah Wright or Isaiah Carlson,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: you know. I was like, yeah, no, who knows, I
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: might and even if they're just standing on the sideline,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So I look at Walking
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: County guys and that's what was That's what's cool and
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: so but.
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I tuned into a lot more Montana
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: than I'd ever had in the past because Jake Mason,
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: you know, and I got to see him.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: I even saw him have a sack, you know, he
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: was lying up at nose tackle. Out of all places.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: I remember the first time I looked at a score
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: sheet and and you know, obviously with offensive linemen, you
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: can't like there's no stats, but you go down to
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: the participation numbers down below, and I see Gavin Ortega.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: I was like hell, yeah, I was, like I was
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: fired up for Gavin Artaga. I don't even know I've
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: ever met the kid, you know what I mean. Like
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: I feel like I probably took a picture of him
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: at some point, you know what I mean. But actually
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: I don't even know that I did. I don't know
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: if I saw Seahome during the years.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: That he was there.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: I feel like I probably should have, but I don't
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: know if I did or not, you know what I mean.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: I saw so many stinking games, I mean, six hundred
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: games in a decade. But you know, it's yeah, and
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: it's weird because obviously I'm not from the county. I've
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: spent you know, you've spent more time at me Mexico
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: than I have in Wackham County, and that's true. But
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: I'm I'm invested because of how much time you and
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: I spend doing this and how much fun we have
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: doing this. And you know, I know way too much
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: about Wokcam County sports, Like it's ridiculous that you know,
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: I can name off some girls golfers and stuff like,
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: I don't know why I need to do that, but
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: you know, guys like Colton Lentz are guys that just
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: make it that much more enjoyable. And it's enjoyable for
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: a lot of reasons on the football field. It's enjoyable
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: for more reasons off the football field than it is
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: on it, you know what I mean. And that's that's
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: what I love about it. And that's what I love
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: about Wakham County Nuksack Valley Tyler. There's no team that
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: treats you as good as Nuoxack Valley, does, you know
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: what I mean? And and and that should come as
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: no surprise because the people there are just great, they
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: really are, you know. So it's it's a lot of fun.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: And uh, yeah, I I'm very happy that he is
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: number one.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: It sounds maybe kind of weird to say this, Like
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: when he was like a sophomore. It's like, this guy's
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: probably gonna be number one by the time he's a senior.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: And and it's gonna take it's gonna take something remarkable
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: to knock him off. And I'll tell you what, something
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: remarkable almost happened this year.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: Something. Yeah, it was real.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Co Like I said, it was the toughest decision. And
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: and it's fine because you had him. Well, I should
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: say Cascadia Preps named him Underclassman of the Year when
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: he was a sophomore.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, my last year doing media. Yeah.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: So when I used to say Ryland Spencer from Cascadia
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: Preps on the on the the intro, on the outro,
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: right back in the day, Yeah, I remember the first time,
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Tyler when I when I said, uh, I said, I
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: was like, dude, Tyler Anders from Walkham Reps walkompreps dot com.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: I'm Rotheran Spencer from well nothing anymore.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: So hard yeah, yeah, nothing from my couch.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, from King County, King County at that. But yeah, anyway,
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: call the lens number one. Uh man, It's been a
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: lot of fun watching that guy, and uh yeah, I'm
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: just I'm excited because there's a definite future there, you
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like whether it's we're watching him
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: becoming All American at Montana and playing in the FCS playoffs,
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: or if you know, five years down the line, you're going, hey,
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: you know who's back coaching linebackers in Nuksack Valley, you
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: know what I mean? And I'm going, oh boy, here
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: we go, you know, and next you know, we're doing
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: the uh the All twenty twenty Decade team, you know,
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: and he'll give us the intro for that.
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Probably.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, if not him, it could be Andre Watson,
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: it could be Brady Akerman, it could be yeah. I mean,
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: my choice would be anybody that's the center. And obviously
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: I don't know if Brady could play that position because
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: he's so tall. Colton, he might grow into a center.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: We'll just see here, never know, we'll see about that.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: I still have hope. I still have hope. Anyway, Tyler,
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: any last words before we get out of here.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Now, just thank you to everybody for playing so hard
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: and earning spots on the list, and I hope I
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: didn't ruffle too many feathers and uh yeah. Just it's
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: so weird because as the list goes on, I'm excited
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: about it, and then once it gets to like in
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: the twenties, I start feeling like, you know what, I
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: don't I can't do this list anymore.
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: This just takes too much.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: And then by the end of it, I'm like, well,
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: that was awesome, you know. So I do have these
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: ebbs and flows when the list is coming out, and
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: I can guarantee there'll be another one next.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: Year, so be on the lookout, Tyler. You know, I
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: like to stir the pot. And oh really, I'm like,
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, if there was a Hall of Fame for it,
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: I'd probably be a first ballot guy. But yeah, the
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: other night, maybe I'm getting old. The other night I
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: had to like stop myself from stirr the pot a
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: little you posted on you know, Instagram or Facebook. I
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: don't remember where I saw what it was exactly, but
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: it took everything in my power to not comment snubbed,
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: oh geez. And I wanted to do it, and I
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: talked myself out of it only because I know that
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: in the back of your head you'd have been, wait,
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: does he really think he was snubbed? You know, like
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: I know you would have thought that way. Then you'd
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: have been like, no, he's just an idiot trying trying
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: to stir the pot.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know, I.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: Justn't I know the anxiety or you know what I mean,
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: I know what it would cause outy, and I told
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: myself not to do it.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm pretty proud of it, you know.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I'm proud.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: That's good.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because I even with you sometimes I just go,
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: you know what, I'm gonna do it anyway, you know,
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: and you know I decided not to do it. But
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: it's been fun. It's been cool to see how many
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: people comment on this stuff. And uh, you know, I
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: would say this year just feeling I don't know actual numbers, obviously,
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: I would say that like this year, I felt as
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: though had the least negativity, whether it's oh, that guy
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: was snubb, Oh he should be better, he should be
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: this da da da da da, or some people just
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: talking bad anyway, you know what I mean. And so
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: I think it's been a great list. It is eleven
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: eleven PM right now, Tyler, So I feel like we
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: need to get awful four it becomes eleven twelve yep,
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: I agree, all right, He's Tyler Anderson, Walt Come Preps.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: We'll walkompreps dot com. Oh hey, anytime. Fitness Linden, Linden,
• 42:33
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• 42:35
  Speaker 3: Thank you to them.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: This is the last time we'll talk about him here
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: on the Top one hundred because this is it for
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: the Top one hundred. So Tyler Anderson, walcom Preps, wacompreps
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: dot com. I'm Ryland Spencer. You've been listening to episode
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: three hundred and thirty, the last of ten podcasts in
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: the twenty twenty four Top one hundred football countdown. Here
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: on the walkcom Preps podcast, we won't talk to you
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: again until Sunday or I guess Monday. We'll record on
• 42:57
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• 42:59
  Speaker 2: to subscribe to the Pop podcast. Uh yeah, we will
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: talk to you then.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: M