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Best of Chuck & Buck 6-24 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Morning. Aren't anybody out there?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, great morning to you. Welcome in. It is the
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday edition of Chucking Buck in the Morning Sports ninety
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  Speaker 2: to have you with us here on this home. We've
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  Speaker 2: got four hours planned for you today and we are
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  Speaker 2: going to cover a great number of subjects before our
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  Speaker 2: show comes to a close and we add things off
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  Speaker 2: to Greg Bell. It is Chuck Bowlett, is Ashley Ryan
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  Speaker 2: with you? And good morning. One more day of heat.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds like that's coming our way, so just you know,
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  Speaker 2: for all of those that have been waiting for this
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  Speaker 2: soak it up because I guess it's gonna get pretty
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  Speaker 2: chilly on Thursday. Then it's gonna yeah, and I'm alright
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  Speaker 2: with it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: No, I don't like.
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  Speaker 1: It when it's sunny for like three weeks straight. I
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  Speaker 1: need rain in between.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, toss it in there. You know, nobody just wants
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  Speaker 2: let us in a salad. Do you want some other
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  Speaker 2: things tossed in?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Give me the bell peppers, uh huh, yeah yeah, throw
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  Speaker 1: some almonds in there.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, give me some corn, yeah, why not? Why not
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  Speaker 2: have salad oyster? So good morning to you. Before we
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  Speaker 2: get into some sort of a big sports topic here,
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  Speaker 2: since that's what we do for a living, I do
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  Speaker 2: want to say this. So lately, you know, when you
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  Speaker 2: get like junk mail or junk phone calls or whatever
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  Speaker 2: the case may be. I mean, I've just gotten to
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  Speaker 2: the point where I just let it all go and
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  Speaker 2: I don't ever answer my phone if I don't recognize it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't pick up my mail regularly or even open
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  Speaker 2: it because I feel like it's going to be some
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  Speaker 2: sort of scam that's trying to suck me in. And
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  Speaker 2: then you get a lot of spam emails. Well, lately,
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, I keep getting on my phone
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of these emails, and it's people that want
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  Speaker 2: to get my book and want to promote my book,
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  Speaker 2: and that maybe it's not reaching the right audience now
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  Speaker 2: for those that don't know, I have written and published
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  Speaker 2: a book before. Now the publisher went under, so it's
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  Speaker 2: not even active out there. And yeah, I have some
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  Speaker 2: other things that I've worked on in the past that
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  Speaker 2: are sitting there until I can figure out how to
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  Speaker 2: crack this how do you get published code? They're just
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  Speaker 2: sitting there, They're just way for them. So I've been
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  Speaker 2: looking for, like, you know, that lightning bolt to come
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  Speaker 2: from the sky, like somebody to say, hey, I read
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  Speaker 2: your book, what's going on with that? This should be
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  Speaker 2: more famous than it is. You know. I kind of
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  Speaker 2: am waiting for that email or that text or that
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  Speaker 2: phone call from some you know, guardian angel who's going
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  Speaker 2: to unlock that part of my life because I've worked
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  Speaker 2: really hard at it. So lately I've been getting all
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  Speaker 2: of these emails about like, we'd really like to get
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  Speaker 2: a hold of your book, and I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: seriously to take them. And now all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: they're getting like specific and it turns out that and
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, well, wait a minute, what is going on
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  Speaker 2: because that's not my book. You have my right name,
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  Speaker 2: but that's not my book. So finally, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: why it took three days, but I finally just now
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  Speaker 2: looked up like, who is this guy that wrote Abby's Quest?
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  Speaker 2: And I pulled this Abby's Quest up and it says
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  Speaker 2: a book by Chuck Powell, and I'm like, what is
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  Speaker 2: going on? Then I'm start thinking because my publisher went
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  Speaker 2: under that maybe somebody stole my book and just changed
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  Speaker 2: like the name of the main character, which is Contessa,
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  Speaker 2: and changed it to Abby. And now it's Abby's Quest
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  Speaker 2: and somebody stole my material. So I'm reading through it
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  Speaker 2: and it's not even a fiction book. It's a book
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  Speaker 2: about leadership, oh and things like that. And so now
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, well, who's this Chuck Powell? So there's a
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  Speaker 2: guy who's a CEO of some leadership company out there
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  Speaker 2: that apparently has written this book. And so now I'm
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  Speaker 2: getting his emails. People think it's me. I guess I'm
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  Speaker 2: somewhere on some sort of email chain for new authors
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  Speaker 2: or something like that, so they think it's me. I
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  Speaker 2: have not responded to any of it. So then I'm like, oh, man,
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  Speaker 2: so now what am I gonna have to change my
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  Speaker 2: name if I ever get published? Because there's another Chuck
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  Speaker 2: Pal that's suddenly become more, far more successful than I
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  Speaker 2: have at at selling books. So now I'm like, all right,
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  Speaker 2: let's find out more about him. So I started Google
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  Speaker 2: searching him this morning, and then I'm like, well, wait
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  Speaker 2: a minute, this guy's starting to get pretty popular. Let
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  Speaker 2: me just see. Let me just Google search and see
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  Speaker 2: which Chuck Palell comes up first. Victory me, victory suck
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  Speaker 2: at other.
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  Speaker 7: Chuck Pal.
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  Speaker 2: Take that, Bundy. Yeah, you and your leadership book? See
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  Speaker 2: where walk? See where that'll lead you.
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  Speaker 1: I think you should write back to the publishers and
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  Speaker 1: be like, you know what, I hate to break it
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  Speaker 1: to you. You got the wrong Chuck Powell, But I
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  Speaker 1: did actually write a book.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, here it is. Maybe I should. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: just how to respond to that. I don't even know
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  Speaker 2: if it's somebody just still trying to get my credit
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  Speaker 2: card information. I have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: If they ask for your credit card then they're definitely
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  Speaker 1: not looking to publish your book.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, why don't you Google search Chuck Pollince who comes
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  Speaker 2: up first? Other Chuck Powell. See where that leads you?
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  Speaker 2: Captain leadership?
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  Speaker 1: Guarantee you it'll lead you straight to me in sports talk.
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  Speaker 1: But I also got.
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  Speaker 2: A book, so yeah, mystery solved. It's not me. There's
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  Speaker 2: another Chuck Powell that's writing books more successfully than I
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  Speaker 2: ever did. But you are more popular, but I'm the
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  Speaker 2: more famous person, so eat it.
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  Speaker 6: That other guy should change his name.
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  Speaker 2: There's a realtor in Arizona when I lived in Phoenix,
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  Speaker 2: and his name was Chuck Powell too, and I was
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  Speaker 2: he might have been more popular, but only in Arizona. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: because he had billboards.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, but he had to pay for him. It's not
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  Speaker 6: like someone bottom for him.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. I had a couple of billboards and somebody
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  Speaker 2: paid for them.
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  Speaker 1: See, so we're pretty now who's better.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the point. When it comes to people named Chuck
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  Speaker 2: Powell in America, I'm at least top three.
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  Speaker 6: To degree unless you're in Arizona. Might slide down a
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  Speaker 6: little bit, right right right.
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  Speaker 2: There are certain places in Arizona where people will recognize
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  Speaker 2: my name, but most places they're gonna think of the realtor.
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  Speaker 2: Let's you know I've come to grips with it. That's
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  Speaker 2: all right? Yeah yeah and important. And I can't wait
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  Speaker 2: the first time I'm at the bar and I give
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  Speaker 2: somebody my name and they're like Abby's quest, It's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be awesome for you. I've got to say, oh no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: what but google meet b if you'd like to know
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  Speaker 2: the truth. Have you ever played the game where you
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  Speaker 2: just start entering your letters of your name and see
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  Speaker 2: the famous No, like like you just go letter A
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  Speaker 2: and you see the first person whose name pops up. Well,
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  Speaker 2: let's play that with you, okay, just real fast.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, a, hopefully it's not Abby.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that would be something. Well, Amazon comes up first.
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  Speaker 2: But the first name that comes up, and this is
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  Speaker 2: just a prisoner of the moment thing, AJ Debonsa.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah that makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: AJ Debonsa because and we're going to get to him
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  Speaker 2: in a second. As Ashley Furniture.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, that's a big one.
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  Speaker 2: Let's put an h on there still, Ashley Furniture. First
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  Speaker 2: famous person Ashton Kutcher.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's a good one too. That punk show
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  Speaker 1: really took off as h.
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  Speaker 2: L Ashley Padilla. I don't know who that.
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  Speaker 6: I think that's a famous person.
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  Speaker 2: American comedian and actress. Maybe she's with the younger people.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe the younger people love her. She's had an Ashley.
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  Speaker 1: Judd Wow, And I think she's paying for maybe her
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  Speaker 1: search engine, maybe prowess.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe she'd made like a sex tape recently, so she's
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  Speaker 2: really popular right now. Maybe she got drafted last night
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  Speaker 2: in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: Those are two ways to jump up to the top
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  Speaker 1: of the Google search, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: That's how Devonsa got there. Yeah, let's put one e
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  Speaker 2: on their same Ashley Padilla. I would imagine yep when
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  Speaker 2: you spelled out. So Ashley apparently is the most famous
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  Speaker 2: Ashley in the world right now.
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  Speaker 1: I am baffled by Yes, I don't know who that
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  Speaker 1: is ever heard of in my life.
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  Speaker 2: Ashley r Ashley Roth's child musical artist.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say she's probably from the roths child.
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  Speaker 2: Family, probably as.
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  Speaker 6: On Saturday Night Live.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, which one is she?
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  Speaker 1: She's got short hair and it's brownish red.
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  Speaker 5: Is she?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Wait a minute, was she on? Uh there's that
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  Speaker 2: new TV show that she might be on the Scrubs remake.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'll have to have a look at that. Let's see,
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  Speaker 1: it just says Saturday Night Live.
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  Speaker 2: Ashley R. Why, by the way, Ashley Ryan musical artist? No, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: I take that back. Ashley Ryan kJ R comes up first.
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  Speaker 2: It just doesn't have your picture. Now there is an
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  Speaker 2: Ashley Ryan musical artist and that's not you. You are
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  Speaker 2: more famous than her. So Ashley R. Why you are
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  Speaker 2: the most famous Ashley R y in America? Had to google?
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  Speaker 7: Yah?
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  Speaker 2: That lists here? You're like, eat that, Ashley Ryecroft for sure,
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  Speaker 2: Ashley Ryland, Ashley Ryder, who do you think you are
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  Speaker 2: not famous?
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  Speaker 1: That's for sure?
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  Speaker 2: Better do a Google search find out what the score is.
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  Speaker 6: That's right. Someone did give a suggestion on the.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, tell themore do text line, But
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  Speaker 1: it's not that to call a dodge text line. Use
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  Speaker 1: your middle initial with your name when you write your
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  Speaker 1: second on Oh, I'm gonna.
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  Speaker 2: I never intended to use my radio name ever, but
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  Speaker 2: then when I published my book in Phoenix, they wanted
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  Speaker 2: to use my radio name. Got it because it might
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  Speaker 2: sell four books?
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  Speaker 6: Well, hey, that's more than zero.
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  Speaker 2: Right, That's that was their theory. Four books is more
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  Speaker 2: than two.
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  Speaker 1: Also, Michael has seen you and Bucky's faces on the
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  Speaker 1: side and back of buses.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yeah, I caught my mom off guard one time.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, myself on a bus once.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, when she visited me in Phoenix and all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden we went by a bus and she saw
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  Speaker 2: my face on there. Yeah, because my mom for a
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  Speaker 2: long time was like, what do you do for a living?
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  Speaker 6: Again, that's fair.
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  Speaker 1: Someone would like to know where they could find your
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  Speaker 1: book if they are able to.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you can anymore. But we're gonna get
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  Speaker 2: it done. We're gonna get that fixed. We're gonna get
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  Speaker 2: it repackaged and republished and everything else. So so and
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  Speaker 2: I'll let you know, believe me, because obviously I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: need some pr help, right, Yeah, we gotcha. All right,
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  Speaker 2: Let's dive into our top story of the day. And
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  Speaker 2: I do believe that it is the NBA draft here
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  Speaker 2: this morning, very predictable, last night very chalky, which is
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  Speaker 2: always a little disappointing for draft fans such as myself
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  Speaker 2: and and so, you know, you want something to kind
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  Speaker 2: of shake it up. But there was a pretty definitive
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  Speaker 2: These are the top four guys. And believe me, every
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  Speaker 2: single mock draft that I looked at before last night
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  Speaker 2: had them in this order. They were drafted last night Demonsa, Peterson, Boozer,
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  Speaker 2: and Wilson. So nothing surprising about that, certainly. And then
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  Speaker 2: there was a group of guards that everybody was hyping up,
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  Speaker 2: and then they went with the next four selections, so
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  Speaker 2: there was really nothing surprising about that. I was a
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  Speaker 2: little surprised that Darius Acuff didn't go ahead of mckel
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  Speaker 2: brown Junior. I think the Kings are going to pay
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  Speaker 2: for that for or assume me the Nets are gonna
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  Speaker 2: pay for that for a long time. I think he
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  Speaker 2: should have taken Acuff. So there wasn't really a surprise there.
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  Speaker 2: The draft really didn't start going like in terms of surprises.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it were still for draft people. I mean
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  Speaker 2: I like seeing young people's dreams come true, and this
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  Speaker 2: is really the only area you can see it ever happened.
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  Speaker 2: So I was still enjoying it, but it really didn't.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't really get a surprise until like the ninth
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  Speaker 2: pick in the draft. And this was a special moment
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  Speaker 2: in the draft last night because Dallas Mavericks are drafting
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  Speaker 2: all the draft prospects, almost all of the first rounders,
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  Speaker 2: were invited in, were in the room, and almost all
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  Speaker 2: of their head coaches were either at their table or
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  Speaker 2: in close proximity. Well, for the Michigan three players that
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  Speaker 2: got drafted last night, all of them lottery picks. Their
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  Speaker 2: head coach is no longer their head coach. He was
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  Speaker 2: just hired forty eight hours ago by the Dallas Mavericks
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  Speaker 2: to be their head coach. So now he's in the room.
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  Speaker 2: He's in the room with them, but he's not at
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  Speaker 2: a table. I guess maybe conflict of interest. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: He's sitting against a back wall. So he's the then
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  Speaker 2: at least arms reach that he can go out and
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  Speaker 2: hug a dude. But he also doesn't want to be like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm still your coach. I'm the Mavericks head coach right now.
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  Speaker 2: So Dusty may standing over he's standing on the wall.
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  Speaker 2: Get your backup off the wall, dance come on. So
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  Speaker 2: he's a little wallfly over there, just sitting in a
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  Speaker 2: sitting in a straight back chair, not in the war
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  Speaker 2: room with the Mavericks. He's on those sidelines. He's like
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  Speaker 2: stuck between two worlds. Yes, and so it was great
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  Speaker 2: seeing his reaction and all of a sudden, the Mavericks
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  Speaker 2: are on the clock and people are wondering, was is
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  Speaker 2: he going to take a Michigan Wolverine. He no only
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  Speaker 2: takes a Michigan Wolverine, he takes the guy that no
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  Speaker 2: one thought would go first, and that is Mares Johnson Junior, who,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, if you watch Michigan play, they're all
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  Speaker 2: very good. Those three guys are all very good. But
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  Speaker 2: he was the guy, the unselfish guy that did all
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  Speaker 2: the little gritty things. And he's also incredibly long and
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  Speaker 2: incredibly athletic. So if that doesn't give you an indication,
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  Speaker 2: here's Dusty may Like. I don't know how much input
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  Speaker 2: he had on the draft pick, but I'm assuming considerable
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  Speaker 2: since they took one of his players.
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  Speaker 6: Assume so.
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  Speaker 2: But he ends up having to basically announced to the world, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this is the guy I think is gonna be the
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  Speaker 2: best out of you three. Love y'all. Yeah huh, but
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  Speaker 2: this is the guy that I want to keep playing,
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  Speaker 2: I want to keep coaching more so than you two.
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  Speaker 2: So good luck to you. But then he celebrated like
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  Speaker 2: mad the drafting of y exelection Lendenburgh to the Warriors
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  Speaker 2: at eleven and then right next to him at twelve
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  Speaker 2: was a Demara who went to the thunder Boo. So
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  Speaker 2: in four picks, three Michigan Wolverines all came off the
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  Speaker 2: clock while they're head coach who's no longer their head
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  Speaker 2: coach was standing on the sidelines rooting for them but
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  Speaker 2: now has a different role in life. So that was
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  Speaker 2: a fascinating aspect of last night.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and it is.
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  Speaker 1: You do have to think that he would have had
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  Speaker 1: quite a bit of a role in that. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that Dallas would have left him out
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  Speaker 1: of it and been like, oh, he's gonna be biased
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  Speaker 1: against Michigan guy or for Michigan guys, so let's leave
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  Speaker 1: him out of it and maybe we'll.
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  Speaker 6: Draft a non Michigan guy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I just yeah, And I think that's cool
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  Speaker 1: that he went with the one that people would at
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  Speaker 1: least expected.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, you're right, I think
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  Speaker 2: he would have had some input. But you do wonder
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  Speaker 2: in forty eight hours time if he just burst open
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  Speaker 2: the saloon doors and like there's a new sheriff in town.
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  Speaker 2: We're in new things my way. Whatever draft preparation you've
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  Speaker 2: done to this point, General manager, we're taking one of
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  Speaker 2: my guys. I don't know if it went that far either,
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  Speaker 2: So obviously, I think they were probably down the road
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  Speaker 2: with Mares Johnson Junior and their draft and they're scouting
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  Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden they get Dusty May
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  Speaker 2: and he's like.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's the guy.
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  Speaker 2: Hell, maybe that came up before they even hired him.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they called him to interview him about the Michigan
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  Speaker 2: players and who we should take, and they were so impressed,
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  Speaker 2: that's true that they're like, Wow, I like this guy.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a really good post.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Did we just go ahead and hire him?
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's just hey, you know, we were just calling
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: to ask you about the Michigan guys. But who actually
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: seem to know what you're talking about.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he might have said in the interviewing process, like
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: if they might have asked him, like, which of the
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Michigan players would you Yeah, if you had, if you
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: had to pick one, and you will if we hire you,
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: you will have, you will have. You might have to
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: pick one like Sophie's choice, And he was like Mares
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Johnson Junior. And maybe I don't know, so, Uh, anyway
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: that came off the board. I thought the Milwaukee Bucks
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: had a terrific night, and in reaction to the Yannis trade,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: I mean a trade. Trades always are difficult. When you
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: are giving away a franchise player and maybe the most
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: popular Buck in the history of your organization, that's a
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: tough transition. So I give them Milwaukee Bucks. I gave
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: I sort of criticized Milwaukee the trading deadline for not
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: moving Giannis, but then they would have had to wait
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: months with their fan base. I hating to not know
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: the new direction. Well, in this particular case, they trade
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: their most popular player and then the very next they
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: get to apply new faces for the franchise that their
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: fan base gets to kind of rally around. I thought
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: it actually really smart, and I thought they had a
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: really good night to be able to come away with
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Braden Burry's at ten and then Nate Aman from Tennessee
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: at thirteen. I thought was a terrific combo. And they
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: had to take them in that order, otherwise the last
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: really good guard was going to come off the board,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: so they had to take them in that order. I
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: don't know what Bobby Mars was talking about last night.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: They had to go guard first and then the big
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: men because there were still big men on the board.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: So I thought a really good night for them last night.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: And now Bucks fans now have faces to put with
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: the trade that they made of Jannis, and so it's
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: going to be good going forward. And then the last
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: thing that I would mention is Hans Steinbach. He did
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: go last night in the lottery, barely, but he did
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: go in the lottery at pick number fourteen, and he
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: is now a Charlotte Hornet. A lot of trades that
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: take place during the course of the night, but he
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: put on a Charlotte Hornet hat, he went to bed
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: thinking it was a Charlotte hornet, and he woke up
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: this morning being a Charlotte Hornet. So yeah, I think,
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: and I'm glad Scott Van Peltz said this again last
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: night because I'm with him. I think it is probably
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: the dumbest thing in sports is that the NBA still
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: has these guys in their moment where they're drafting, putting
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: on hats, posing for pictures and hats wearing hats that
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: we all know they're not on that team. Why would
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: you introduce them and have that picture for the rest
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: of their lives when they're not even in the hat
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: of the team that wanted them. I don't get it.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: I'll never understand it.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: So you think the Hines Haunts should have gone somewhere else.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, I'm saying when they put hats on
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: the players when they're drafted in the NFL, they will
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: announce the trade immediately. The NBA has so much red
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: tape they won't clear a trade until the beginning of
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: the year, And so all night long, guys are wearing
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: hats of teams they're not even on got it. So
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know why that's so difficult to do, But
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: I think it's a terrible look that you could. You know,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: this is the picture of you on draft night and
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: you're not even wearing the hat of the team that
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: drafted you. So at least hein Steinbatt didn't have to
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: go through that. He was drafted by the Hornets, he
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: was not traded, and he woke up this morning still
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: being a Charlotte Hornet. All right, let's find out what's
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: on tap for the rest of the show. What's on TEP?
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: What's on TEP?
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: All right, NBA Draft Round number two will be today.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: They split it up. Let's face it, it's not quite
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: the NFL Draft. I don't know how much of that
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna watch. Jalen Brown did not get traded last night.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, Brad Stevens spoke about the
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: uncomfortable nature of still having Jalen Brown on his roster,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: and he said, Jalen Brown is a huge part of
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: our future and so don't believe rumors. So he tried
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: to downplay it all he could and also tried to
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: sell it that Jalen Brown is still going to be
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: a part of the Celtics going forward. We shall see.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: The NHL Draft will be on Friday. Right now, the
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: crack can have the seventh overall pick, but Jason Botrel,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: the general manager, told us earlier this week that yeah,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: we'll move that for the right piece. That's something that
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: is on the table for us. Last night, the Chicago
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Blackhawks traded the fourth overall pick in the draft to
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: the Buffalo Sabers for a couple veteran pieces, and Blackhawk
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: fans lost their ever living minds over it. I don't
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: know if I've ever seen such vindictive, vicious criticism than
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: what I've seen after that trade. Last night, the World
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Cup England played to a troll with Ghana yesterday. That's
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: a big upset in the soccer world. Meanwhile, USA has
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: already clenched an advancement from group play, but they will
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: go for the sweep against Turkya tomorrow at seven o'clock.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Andrews Hurst is going to join us today at eight
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: thirty to discuss that. I can't imagine why Christian Polisk
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: is going to play in this game. You've already clinched everything.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: I would think he Yeah, if he's dealing with a
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: potent with an injury that could linger, Yeah, give him rest.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Katar Or Cutter will be taking on Bosnia Herzegovina right
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: here in Seattle at noon, as round number three of
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Group one play begins here today. National Football League. We'll
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: talk about this a little bit later on. Brendan Soorsby
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: will not be in the supplemental draft. The NFL has
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: shown everyone what true power really is. We'll talk about
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: that today at six forty five. Will also continue our
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Seahawks one series with the one the Only David Softy Maller.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Today at seven oh five. Tony castra Cone is left
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: to Seattle. He is going to become the voice of
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and speaking of Bucco's, the Pittsburgh
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Pirates hosted the Mariners last night. The Mariners won by
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: a final score of three to two. Randy A. Rose
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Arena back in the lineup, Dom Canzone not in the lineup,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: but actually good news on the Dom front. They don't
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: think they're going to have to put him on the IL,
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: which is shocking to me. Mariners win. They moved two
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: games over five hundred same two teams play at the
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: same time tonight three point forty. It'll breed Brian woo
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: versus Braxton Ashcraft. And the reason I didn't give you
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: more details about this game in our What's on Tap
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: segment brought to you by The Emerald Queen Casino is
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: because Mariners Morning After is coming your way next. On
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. There's home runs
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: and then their home runs and you believe what you
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: just did here tonight in your homecoming.
• 23:53
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's very special. Socially got you know, all my
• 23:56
  Speaker 9: family here, all my friends in the park. I grew up,
• 24:02
  Speaker 9: you know, watching them. It's that's really cool.
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: Most memorable moment with the Big League.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Career so far.
• 24:08
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's atually tough.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then of course you guys getting the win
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: just as important. I mean, just kind of wraps up
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: what a perfect night it was for you.
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 24:18
  Speaker 9: No, it was a great night. Don't think we got
• 24:20
  Speaker 9: the wind. And that's all matters.
• 24:25
  Speaker 8: Team, team, team, It's.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Like a hockey player kind of is.
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Did Brad Adam pinch his cheeks before the interview ended.
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I tussled his hair too.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Really, you're a good kid. Yeah, keep it up, Champ,
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: You're a good kid.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: There.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Uh it's Chuck, It's Ashley with you seven o'clock hour
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: here on this hump day. And yes we'll start there
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: with our headlines brought to you by Frost Brewed Cores,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Light Juice, Chill. The Mariners do win over the Pirates
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: last night, three to two. It was Cole Young's first
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: game to be played in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: a Major leaguer, and he had the biggest hit in
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: the game, a two run homer do to right field.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Andre Andre's Munoz closed it out looked outstanding last night,
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: and the Mariners win by a final score of three
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: to two. Put some two games over five hundred. Randy
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: of Rose Arena returned to the lineup last night. Dom
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Can Zone has not been placed on the IL and
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: there's some hope that maybe he won't have to be
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: placed on the IL, which is good news. Meanwhile, the
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: two teams that played last night meet again in Pittsburgh
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: at the exact same time. Three forty Brian Wu will
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: pitch for US. Very good right hander Braxton Ashcraft will
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: go for the Pittsburgh Pirates. The World Cup continues right
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: here in Seattle today at noon cutter, I'm being told
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: to pronounce it cutter.
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: Versus Yeah, it works either way.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Bosnia hertz a Gavina. That's going to be at noon
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: today and as the third round of group stage begins
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: today and Seattle will be hosting at noon. US will
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: play Turk i A tomorrow at seven o'clock. This would
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: be funny, right, So apparently Turkey did not like globally
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: having the pronunciation and the spelling of their country in
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: English spelled like the bird that we eat at Thanksgiving
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: in America and a lot of other places, so they
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: changed it. So they changed the spelling globally to turk
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: i A and the pronunciation to turk Ia. Wouldn't it
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: be hilarious and I mean hilarious if we just started
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: calling our bird turk ia just.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Then make them change it back to turkey right right,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: and then we start spelling it that way.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Hey, mom, dad, would someone please carve the turk I A.
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: I'm in let's do it.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: I don't need a lot of turk ia or turkey
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: a or however you pronounce it at Thanksgiving?
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: But would you like why or dark turk ia meet
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: your choice combo? Yeah, I think that would be the
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: ultimate joke to play. Yeahgiving we start changing our spelling
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: of turkey to turk ia and pronouncing it that way. Also,
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: NHL Draft is coming up on Friday. The Crack and
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: have the seventh overall pick. Meanwhile, the NBA Draft held
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: last night. Number one pick was j devansa out of
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: BYU to the Washington Wizards. Darren Peterson of Kansas went
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: to to the Utah Jazz. Hans Steinbach of Washington went
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: fourteenth overall to the Charlotte Hornets. Joining us now on
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: the radio program is the one the only David Softy
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Maler for the Seahawks one series.
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: I got two words for you.
• 27:49
  Speaker 10: Surprised you still have me on after that exchange? Hey,
• 27:52
  Speaker 10: how come nobody's talking about George Kirby yesterday? By the way,
• 27:55
  Speaker 10: best starting like a month and a half.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Well, we talked about him a little bit.
• 27:58
  Speaker 7: I don't think it did.
• 28:00
  Speaker 10: If I didn't hear it, it doesn't count. Oh okay, all right,
• 28:03
  Speaker 10: the show is all about me?
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right.
• 28:06
  Speaker 10: When I tune in, I need to hear about George
• 28:08
  Speaker 10: Kirby kicking ass last night against the pirates.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Okay, we're going to operate here. If you could just
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: do me a quick favor and just send me like
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: subjects you'd like to have me discuss, that would help.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Be phenomenal, that would help.
• 28:18
  Speaker 10: Yeah, Well, I haven't seen Mando and Grogu yet, so
• 28:20
  Speaker 10: don't ask me about that. Okay, we can talk about
• 28:23
  Speaker 10: cutter if you want, and the pronunciation of different countries
• 28:27
  Speaker 10: in the World Cup, because that stuff irritates the hell.
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: Out of me.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Don't you think it'll be funny though? If we just
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: changed the spelling of our.
• 28:32
  Speaker 10: Time, I think it'd be very funny. And I think
• 28:34
  Speaker 10: you know what, this is America. We'll do whatever the
• 28:36
  Speaker 10: hell we want.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: How's that soup.
• 28:38
  Speaker 10: We're hosting the tournament in Turkey. Whatever the hell you
• 28:42
  Speaker 10: people want to call it. We'll call it what you
• 28:44
  Speaker 10: want when we toast the tournament there. But as long
• 28:46
  Speaker 10: as the tournament is in America, we'll call it whatever
• 28:49
  Speaker 10: we freaking want. You ever seen Coming to America? The movie,
• 28:53
  Speaker 10: by the way, is America Jack. All right, we call
• 28:56
  Speaker 10: it whatever we want. Break my foot off in your
• 28:59
  Speaker 10: royal ass.
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: God, I love that movie.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: It's a great movie.
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Well, Softie's joining us for the Seahawks one series. It's
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: one local analyst breaking down one key Seahawk player for.
• 29:11
  Speaker 10: One analysts entire interview AKA nine people said no, and
• 29:15
  Speaker 10: you had to call me last night.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: I get it pretty much. Yeah, I know where I
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: stand accurate.
• 29:19
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we got to know where I stand on the
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: totem pole. I get it.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: It's the fourth week we've done this. It's getting pretty thin.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: The options are kind of run and out.
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: You know what.
• 29:26
  Speaker 10: This is why I'm I am your long reliever for blowouts.
• 29:29
  Speaker 10: All right, game's over, you bring me in to clean
• 29:32
  Speaker 10: up the mess for the final five innings.
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: David out ten to one in the fifth inning. I'm
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: coming in, David.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Hoppy Maler joining us here on the radio show. All right, well, uh,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: you already mentioned it. We're going to talk about Ernest Jones.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: And I'm glad somebody wants to talk about Ernest Jones.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, because this guy, obviously you you kind of
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: think back on it. Mike McDonald is what turned things around.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: I give him most of the credit for what's happened
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: in the last two years. But the one signature move
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: that sort of indicated that, oh no, there's the new
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: sheriff in town was when he said give me that
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Ernest Jones guy in the middle of last season and
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: since that time, completely different football team.
• 30:16
  Speaker 10: Well, here's the thing that I love about it. First
• 30:18
  Speaker 10: of all, it's three years in a row at the
• 30:21
  Speaker 10: deadline where they've made a major acquisition, right, Like, I
• 30:24
  Speaker 10: don't know if there's ever been a Seattle sports team.
• 30:28
  Speaker 10: I'm thinking about the Mariners, the Sonics at the deadline,
• 30:31
  Speaker 10: the cracking at the deadline, the Seahawks up until the
• 30:34
  Speaker 10: last couple of years at the deadline where they've gone
• 30:36
  Speaker 10: out three years in a row and just hit a
• 30:39
  Speaker 10: home run the way John Schneider has at the trade deadline.
• 30:42
  Speaker 10: First was Leonard Williams that it was Ernest Jones and
• 30:45
  Speaker 10: then it was Rashid Shiheed, right.
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: I mean that's three years in.
• 30:47
  Speaker 10: A row where they just hit freaking bombs at the deadline,
• 30:51
  Speaker 10: So good for them. And then number two, the difference
• 30:54
  Speaker 10: between this franchise and maybe other teams in town and
• 30:57
  Speaker 10: other franchises in the NFL. Does anybody remember the famous
• 31:01
  Speaker 10: linebacker duo of Dotson and Baker.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: From back in the day.
• 31:04
  Speaker 10: Remember those two knuckleheads and John Schneider and Mike McDonald
• 31:08
  Speaker 10: looked at those guys and just said, no, this ain't
• 31:10
  Speaker 10: gonna work. We ain't gonna get to go where we
• 31:12
  Speaker 10: want to go with those two guys running around at linebacker.
• 31:15
  Speaker 10: Let's go make a move for Ernest Jones. So the
• 31:17
  Speaker 10: fact that they gave up on both of them and
• 31:19
  Speaker 10: swallowed their pride more John Schneider, I would think, chuck
• 31:23
  Speaker 10: than McDonald. But the fact that they were able to just,
• 31:25
  Speaker 10: you know, admit a mistake and just not compound the
• 31:28
  Speaker 10: mistake and go out and get Ernest Jones at the deadline.
• 31:31
  Speaker 10: I just think it just shows you where this team
• 31:33
  Speaker 10: is at in regards to winning. I mean, it's the
• 31:35
  Speaker 10: number one thing It's all that matters. Nothing else matters
• 31:39
  Speaker 10: besides championships for this franchise, and they prove it with
• 31:42
  Speaker 10: moves like that.
• 31:43
  Speaker 7: So that's number two, and then number three.
• 31:46
  Speaker 10: I just remember watching Ernest Jones play when he first
• 31:48
  Speaker 10: showed up, and I'm asking myself, why the hell did
• 31:51
  Speaker 10: the Rams and Titans give this guy up?
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 31:53
  Speaker 10: Like what I mean, what was it about Ernest Jones
• 31:56
  Speaker 10: that wasn't working there? Because I think you're right over all,
• 32:00
  Speaker 10: and I've said the same thing that the best thing
• 32:02
  Speaker 10: this team does is the brain of Mike McDonald, right,
• 32:06
  Speaker 10: I mean, his schemes, his philosophy, his defense. He is
• 32:10
  Speaker 10: the absolute number one reason I believe why the team
• 32:14
  Speaker 10: is where they're at right now.
• 32:15
  Speaker 7: With John Schneider right behind him.
• 32:17
  Speaker 10: But man for him to identify Mike McDonald, excuse me,
• 32:21
  Speaker 10: for Mike to identify Ernest Jones, and tennessee even looking
• 32:25
  Speaker 10: back at maybe some of his RAM tape and say, hey,
• 32:27
  Speaker 10: this guy's a good player, but kind of nondescript. Right,
• 32:31
  Speaker 10: Not many people around the NFL are talking about Ernest Jones.
• 32:34
  Speaker 10: And then he comes here and he's basically the leader
• 32:37
  Speaker 10: of the best defense in the NFL. It's unbelievable.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: What about that mentality that he has. I mean, it
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: works so well here. I mean, this city loves that
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: guy that just does not care about anything else, right,
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: telling you exactly the way they feel.
• 32:54
  Speaker 7: That's right, not.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Care, Yeah, exactly. What about his mentality? Why is this
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: relationship between the Sea Hawk fan and the Ernest Jones type?
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Why does it work so well?
• 33:07
  Speaker 10: I think it's pretty easy if you had a guy
• 33:09
  Speaker 10: that talked like this, right, Okay, they went out and
• 33:14
  Speaker 10: just played like a clown, looked like an idiot, right,
• 33:16
  Speaker 10: it'd be easy to bury a guy. But they absolutely
• 33:19
  Speaker 10: back it up.
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: They back it up.
• 33:21
  Speaker 10: I mean, look, this is not the first time that
• 33:23
  Speaker 10: Ernest Jones has said something like that, and what I
• 33:26
  Speaker 10: thought was really cool one of my actually favorite Ernest
• 33:29
  Speaker 10: Jones moments as a Sea Hawk. Has nothing to do
• 33:32
  Speaker 10: with what happened on the field. You can talk about
• 33:34
  Speaker 10: the pick six against Minnesota, the interception against brock perty whatever,
• 33:38
  Speaker 10: blah blah blah. How about when he did the whole
• 33:41
  Speaker 10: fu thing the first time? Does anybody remember when it was,
• 33:44
  Speaker 10: by the way, Oh, he first said that. It was
• 33:47
  Speaker 10: after Sam Darnold threw four picks against the Rams.
• 33:50
  Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, And and he was.
• 33:52
  Speaker 10: The one that came out and just defended him, said, look,
• 33:55
  Speaker 10: that's my quarterback. He pulled at Terrell Owens, that's my quarterback,
• 33:58
  Speaker 10: and he said, you don't like him, you can f off.
• 34:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah, And I thought.
• 34:01
  Speaker 10: That was great, right for a guy like that to
• 34:04
  Speaker 10: come out and have the back of a dude and
• 34:05
  Speaker 10: Sam Darnald, who if you remember, at that point, Chuck
• 34:09
  Speaker 10: was struggling, right, he had the bad game against Arizona,
• 34:13
  Speaker 10: I believe the week before he had the bad game
• 34:15
  Speaker 10: against the Rams, and let's face it basically cost them
• 34:18
  Speaker 10: to win because he threw four interceptions. And here comes
• 34:21
  Speaker 10: Ernest Jones defending him in public. I thought that resonated
• 34:25
  Speaker 10: big time in that locker room. I thought it resonated
• 34:28
  Speaker 10: big time with Sam Darnold. And then Sam Donald goes
• 34:32
  Speaker 10: out and obviously just likes the world on fire the
• 34:35
  Speaker 10: rest of the way. Man, So good for him for
• 34:37
  Speaker 10: having us quarterbacks back like that.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Softie's with us. It's our Seahawks one Series one analyst
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: breaking down one key Seahawk player for one entire interview,
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: and we are breaking down Ernest Jones this morning with
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: the face of our franchise, David Softy Maler. So let's
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: talk about Let's talk about like the history. I mean,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: it's a really interesting middle linebacker history for the Seattle Seahawks,
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: from the colorful and Brian Bosworth to the dominant and
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Bobby Wagner. Ernest Jones is the latest chapter. Where does
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: he fit? Like, I mean, is this above Lofa to Tupu?
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: Is this a Lofa to Tupu type. We're not gonna
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: put him on Bobby Wagner's level, but are we talking
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: about one of the most impactful middle linebackers in the
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: history of this franchise.
• 35:21
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean it's hard to not put him on
• 35:23
  Speaker 10: that list because he's got a title.
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 35:25
  Speaker 10: It's like, I think we're at a point now as
• 35:27
  Speaker 10: Seahawks fans where and we can do these things. We
• 35:30
  Speaker 10: couldn't do these things when I was growing up in Seattle,
• 35:33
  Speaker 10: but now you can do it that. You got four
• 35:35
  Speaker 10: Super Bowls, you got two titles, and by the way,
• 35:37
  Speaker 10: you probably should have four titles, right, I mean, you
• 35:40
  Speaker 10: should have beaten Pittsburgh and let's face it, you should
• 35:42
  Speaker 10: have beaten New England the first time. So this franchise
• 35:45
  Speaker 10: probably should have four championships. I mean, I think I'd
• 35:47
  Speaker 10: put him in the top met you know. Look, I
• 35:49
  Speaker 10: mean without looking at a list or anything. Off the
• 35:51
  Speaker 10: top of my head. Lofa was a first team All
• 35:55
  Speaker 10: Pro in two thousand and seven. Ernest Jones hasn't accomplished that.
• 35:59
  Speaker 8: You know.
• 35:59
  Speaker 10: It was a three time pro bowler, you know, finished
• 36:01
  Speaker 10: second in the defensive Rookie of the Year voting in
• 36:04
  Speaker 10: two thousand and five when him and Leonard Hill you know,
• 36:06
  Speaker 10: came in together. Excuse me, Lee Roy Hill came in
• 36:09
  Speaker 10: together in two thousand and five.
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: So I've probably put.
• 36:11
  Speaker 10: Lofa as a player slightly above Ernest Jones.
• 36:15
  Speaker 7: But he never was able to really have the impact.
• 36:18
  Speaker 10: Obviously, he went to a Super Bowl as a rookie,
• 36:22
  Speaker 10: and then the Seahawks lost Steve Hutchinson and lost to
• 36:24
  Speaker 10: the Bears the following season. If they would have had
• 36:26
  Speaker 10: hutch they would have beaten him. And who knows, maybe
• 36:28
  Speaker 10: Lofa gets back to a Super Bowl and maybe they
• 36:30
  Speaker 10: beat the Colts unlike the Bears did that season. So
• 36:34
  Speaker 10: I probably put him top five.
• 36:35
  Speaker 9: You know.
• 36:36
  Speaker 10: Bobby Wagner's up is number one with a bullet by
• 36:39
  Speaker 10: far and away. I mean, you could argue Bobby Wagner
• 36:42
  Speaker 10: is the greatest seahawk of all time, right, I mean
• 36:44
  Speaker 10: i'd say Walter Jones. But if you had an argument
• 36:46
  Speaker 10: for Bobby, I would not, you know, say that's stupid.
• 36:49
  Speaker 10: Fred Young is on that list for me. Obviously, Loaf
• 36:53
  Speaker 10: of the Tupu's on that list for me, no question
• 36:56
  Speaker 10: about it. You know, I would put Lee roy Hill too,
• 36:59
  Speaker 10: along with Loaf of the Tupu on a list like that.
• 37:01
  Speaker 10: But yeah, I think I think Ernest Jones has a
• 37:04
  Speaker 10: shot to creep into the top five. But let's not
• 37:06
  Speaker 10: forget too man, the difference between Ernest Jones and those
• 37:09
  Speaker 10: other guys. And it's weird because you think of Ernest
• 37:11
  Speaker 10: Jones and you think of a guy that you really know.
• 37:14
  Speaker 10: He's only been here for two years. I mean, he
• 37:17
  Speaker 10: doesn't have that long career that guys like Lofa had.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll take it a step further. It feels like
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: he's been around forever. It feels like he was a
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: pain in our ass as a ram and then he
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: was with the Titans, right, and he's been here for
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: a couple of years. He's only twenty six years old.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: I think he actually even looks older than twenty six.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: But he's only twenty six years old. He should have
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: a lot of football ahead of him.
• 37:38
  Speaker 10: Yeah, it's hard to imagine this defense without him, right,
• 37:41
  Speaker 10: He's the vocal guy. He's almost like the public face
• 37:46
  Speaker 10: of this whole thing. I don't know, you know, behind
• 37:48
  Speaker 10: the scenes, you know who the actual true leader is
• 37:52
  Speaker 10: of the Seahawk defense. But I would assume that Ernest
• 37:54
  Speaker 10: Jones is on the list, right. I mean, guys like
• 37:57
  Speaker 10: Devin Witherspoon, Guys like Byron Murphy would be on that
• 38:00
  Speaker 10: list as well. And this is a dude that's got
• 38:02
  Speaker 10: one more year left on his contract next year, you know.
• 38:06
  Speaker 10: I mean, the Seahawks are trying to get deals done
• 38:08
  Speaker 10: before deals expire. Did it with Jackson Smith and Jigbo.
• 38:11
  Speaker 10: They're trying to do it with Devin Witherspoon. And we'll
• 38:13
  Speaker 10: see if they can do it this next offseason with
• 38:16
  Speaker 10: Ernest Jones.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: The edit thing about him is that he spent all
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: of last season telling Greg Bell and others, don't worry
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: about it. I'm going to be a Seahawk, I mean.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: And that's the other thing that resonates with this fan base.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: They like the in your face, confident, capable football player,
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: and they also love the guy that's like, I have
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: found my home. I'm not going to go anywhere. I mean,
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: he's just endeared himself to this community. And you're right,
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: I can't imagine him not being the linebacker for a
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: few years of the Seattle Seahawks. Oh did we just
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: lose him? Did he run out of patience?
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm gonna see if I can find him.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, all right, boy, that would have been
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: the ultimate life. I've already covered this, Chuck.
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he's just gone.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: What kind of operation are you running?
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: Trying to reconnect?
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: He said, he's back here.
• 39:19
  Speaker 10: He is, sorry about that. Apparently you got to pay
• 39:21
  Speaker 10: your internet bill these days. I thought it was all free.
• 39:23
  Speaker 7: I apologize, honey, pay the internet bill. Yeah, we're all
• 39:26
  Speaker 7: good to go. Sorry about that.
• 39:28
  Speaker 10: Yeah, No, being told that you made a phenomenal point,
• 39:30
  Speaker 10: by the way, when I was off, No.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was epic. No, but we already
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: talked about how he endeared himself because his directness and
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: backing it up with his abilities. But also he spent
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: the year telling Greg Bell and and other beat writers,
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: hey you don't have to worry about my contract. I'm here.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: I'm staying at Seahawk. And that's the other thing that
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: resonates with his fan base, that loyalty that I could go, Yeah,
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: I can go anywhere I want, but I want to
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: be here. It really scores with Seahawk fans.
• 39:56
  Speaker 7: Well, you know, look, I mean those comments, you're exactly right.
• 39:59
  Speaker 7: I mean, I.
• 40:01
  Speaker 10: Do the cynic in me, the skeptic in me takes
• 40:05
  Speaker 10: it with a little bit of a grain of salt,
• 40:07
  Speaker 10: because I think it's easy for a guy to say, hey,
• 40:09
  Speaker 10: don't worry about me when the team is winning and
• 40:11
  Speaker 10: he's got a you know, year and a half or
• 40:13
  Speaker 10: two years left on his contract. If the Seahawks don't
• 40:16
  Speaker 10: give him the deal he's looking for, then maybe we
• 40:18
  Speaker 10: do have to worry about him, right. I mean, we'll
• 40:20
  Speaker 10: see what happens when they throw an offer at him.
• 40:22
  Speaker 10: But yeah, I mean, I just think if you're John
• 40:24
  Speaker 10: Schneider and Mike McDonald, this is a guy that you
• 40:27
  Speaker 10: just can't imagine this defense not having, right. I mean
• 40:29
  Speaker 10: from a leadership perspective, obviously, like when was the last
• 40:33
  Speaker 10: time he can just close your eyes right and just
• 40:34
  Speaker 10: think in your mind, when was the last time Ernest
• 40:36
  Speaker 10: Jones really screwed up? When was the last time you
• 40:38
  Speaker 10: saw Ernest Jones do something really stupid, either on the
• 40:42
  Speaker 10: sideline or on the field. You know, when was the
• 40:44
  Speaker 10: last time he pulled a Greek woolen? When was the
• 40:47
  Speaker 10: last time he was out of position, for example, as
• 40:49
  Speaker 10: a linebacker. You just don't think of things like that
• 40:52
  Speaker 10: with Ernest Jones. You think of the maybe just the
• 40:56
  Speaker 10: word that comes to mind for me, guys, is reliability.
• 40:59
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 40:59
  Speaker 10: I mean, this defense shows up every single week, and
• 41:02
  Speaker 10: I expect and just assume that Ernest Jones is going
• 41:06
  Speaker 10: to show up and be great every single Sunday. He
• 41:09
  Speaker 10: may not be you know, Dick but Gis, for God's sakes,
• 41:12
  Speaker 10: or Mike Singletary, but he's gonna be a steady hand
• 41:15
  Speaker 10: every single week for this football team. I can't even
• 41:18
  Speaker 10: remember the last time I was pissed off and Ernest
• 41:21
  Speaker 10: Jones are irritated for him screwing up in a football game.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Well, what a great installment of the Seahawks one series.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: And if anybody disagrees, f.
• 41:29
  Speaker 7: You, Yeah, it was really good, man, that was really good.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 41:33
  Speaker 10: I mean, I think when they talk about the great
• 41:34
  Speaker 10: radio segments in this radio station's history.
• 41:38
  Speaker 7: This will be right at the top of the list.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: Uh huh, yeah, out. Usually you do gravitate toward the
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: segments where you lose the guests for a little while.
• 41:45
  Speaker 10: We should podcast this and make sure people understand how
• 41:48
  Speaker 10: great it is.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah right, well, thank you, appreciate you joining us. What
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: do you got going on later today?
• 41:53
  Speaker 10: Let's see what's today? Wednesday, Florio will join us. A
• 41:56
  Speaker 10: great day to have him on with the Soresby stuff.
• 41:58
  Speaker 10: We'll get his take on that Petros at four obviously,
• 42:03
  Speaker 10: and then we got Larry Stone coming up at five
• 42:05
  Speaker 10: o'clock tonight to talk some Mariners, his thoughts on Logan
• 42:09
  Speaker 10: Gilbert being a part of the Piggyback on Saturday with
• 42:12
  Speaker 10: Emerson Hancock.
• 42:13
  Speaker 7: So yeah, good stuff.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: It's all free, by the ways, Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: we won't charge you this time. You're the man. Thank you.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: All right, Budd, All right, there is David Softy Maller
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: joining us for the Seahawks one series. We'll have our
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: Seahawks one series recap later in the show today as well.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: At nine thirty. ABC's of the Ms is coming your
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: way next. Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. We
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: left off of the letter S yesterday, so that's where
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: we will pick it up. And S is four stubborn stubborn?
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Have the Mariners gotten to the point where they are
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: just stubborn about this piggyback situation that Logan Gilbert and
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: Bryce Miller could separate themselves here recently and yet you
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: are just so fully committed to the concept of it.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: Keep Luis Castillo stretched out that now, now you've just
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: crossed over. Okay, first I thought creative, innovative, But now
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: that two guys particularly have kind of separated themselves from
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: the rest of the pack, and you have George coming
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: off a good game, do you think maybe they're just
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: guilty of being stubborn? Like, we've committed to this, everybody
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: agreed to it, we want to see this out. We
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: are very curious as to whether or not this will work,
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: and now they're just being stubborn about it rather than
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: adjusting back to normalcy.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: I don't think they are being stubborn about it because
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: I think in this case, they did say they were
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: going to go through it three times, right, And I
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: think you can't have one blow up because out of
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: the four times they've done it. There's been only one
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: blow up. Yeah, and you can't then let.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: That dictate from only one of the guys.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: Right exactly, you can't now let that dictate. Oh gosh,
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: we got to stop this.
• 43:56
  Speaker 6: We can't do this. This is a disaster.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: It was one time out of four, it was one
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: half of one time. I think you've got to continue
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: with it. See what happens. I think after this they're
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: gonna have to make a decision. I don't know, I
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: don't I don't think they're going to continue the piggyback
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: all season long unless something happens in the next two outings.
• 44:16
  Speaker 6: I suppose are just the best thing that's ever happened.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Huh. Well, yeah, I think you're right. I think that
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: that's fair that it's not been as disastrous as some
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: people are making it out to be.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: The last one was yes, but yeah, well, I mean
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: it wasn't It was a yeah, because.
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: I don't think you should have taken because it's the
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: worst case scenario that that that's what unfolds. Yes, you
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: take out one guy that seems to be on a
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: roll and then blindly bring in another guy because you
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: made a plan beforehand and then that guy does not
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: get the job done. And yes, that's that's where it
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: looks gross, right, it looks like it went haywire. Uh.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: And and you've also committed to, you know, doing it
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: one time to the rotate. It's not the end of
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: the world that Logan Gilbert only goes five innings in
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: a game and Emerson Hancock works out of the bullpen
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: one time this season for four innings. It's not the
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: end of the world that Low and Kirby do it.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: If that keeps you from making the playoffs, we got
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: a much bigger problem, especially in a year like this.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: But I will say the whole idea behind it is
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: to figure out how best to go forward with your
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: starting rotation. And I think we're going to have to
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: go through an awful lot of this, awful lot of
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: hand ringing, an awful lot of fan base anger, even
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: though you and I have been pretty safely on the
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: other side of that anger. And at the end of
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: the day, I think what we're going to reveal is
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: that the guy that we thought should have been in
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: the bullpen is going to end up being in the bullpen.
• 45:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah, And I do think that's where it's going to go.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: But I think at some point there, I think they're
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: also buying themselves some time in case of any injuries
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: or any concerns. I think they're buying themselves some time
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: because they don't want to have to send someone to
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: the bullpen that shouldn't go to the bullpen, or if
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: they shouldn't go to the bullpen.
• 46:03
  Speaker 6: And they wanted to make.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: Sure that all the eyes are dotted and the teas
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: are crossed before they make that decision, because I don't
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: think they can come back from it once they send
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: someone to the bullpen.
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: Well, we went to the rules yesterday, my new rules,
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: my new piggyback rules yesterday. And I will add I
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: said yesterday Bryce Miller never does the piggyback again, and
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: I will say Logan Gilbert only does it once. Those
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: need to be steadfast rules here with it going forward.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: Tea is for tragic. I don't know what other word
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: to use to describe Victor Roblaz's base running Oh I
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: I mean he authored If you remember the worst base
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: running decision in Major League Baseball history a couple of
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: years ago, Remember that tried to steal home for some
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: unknown reason, just because he thought he could get there,
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: did not consider circumstances, where you were at the game,
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: where you were at in the season. Nothing. He just thought,
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: I think I can do it and win. And then
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Every time he's on the base, he's
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: either barely getting back to the bag and then hurting
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: his shoulder, and the trainer's got to come out every
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: single time. It's like, dude, just that hair, Your hair
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: is on fire. Put it out. Just put it out
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: the just extinguish it. You don't have to run bases
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: on the edge at all times. It's nothing heroic, it's
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: nothing sexy. It's nothing cool. Like I like an aggressive
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: base runner. You have speed, you should be an aggressive
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: base runner. But there is nothing cool about a baseball
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: player that is constantly almost getting thrown out or getting
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: thrown out. Nothing about it says strategy.
• 47:51
  Speaker 8: No.
• 47:51
  Speaker 6: And I get that.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think get on base, be smart on base,
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: be safe on base, because if you are running like
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: a maniac, that's when the last thing we want is
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: stupid outs.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: Well, he authors some stupid outs, so and then I mean,
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: he didn't get thrown out last night, but I mean
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: two times on the base paths for no reason you're
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: diving back in and hurting your shoulders.
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: That, and there's obviously something still wrong with your shoulder
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: if it hurts every time that you're trying to extend
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: your arm back to the bag. So I don't know
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: what it is. I mean, Randy Rosereene is bad enough.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: Roblaze takes it to a whole new level. Finally, you
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: as for unapologetic, Look, I realize I fight back a
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: little bit. I realized I defend myself a little bit
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: against some critics on occasion. I realize sometimes that I
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: point out, you know, things I was right about. I
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: think I can. I also point out when I was
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: wrong about stuff as well. So that's what I think
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: gives me a pass to be able to do this.
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: But I don't know how many times I had to
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: hear from people when I was defending Andre's I can't
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: take you defending him. It's very clear that he needs
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: to be taken out of the closer role.
• 49:06
  Speaker 6: His velocity's gone.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: I better not hear you defend him tomorrow like all
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: that stuff. Hey, Okay, I'm unapologize. I was unapologies. I'm
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: unapologetic about it. I never backed off of it, and
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: now you see he's back on track. And what is
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: it that I said was the problem, he's not pitching enough. Well,
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: he's gone four straight outings with four straight saves and
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: seven strikeouts, and every single timeout he's gotten more dominant.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: Last night he struck out the side to finish out
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: the ninth and lo and behold. Since that last time
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: he gave up runs, he's pitched two day on, two
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: days RESS, two days RESS, three days RESS, two.
• 49:50
  Speaker 6: Days rest, which we said two was the magic number.
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: Well, just no more than three, right, and it's actually
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: two days resp. It's actually one day rest day, one
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: day rest, two day rest. But he's obviously needs to
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: needed to pitch more, and he was saying it, we
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: were saying it, and the Mariners weren't throwing him enough.
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: And now he's in his rhythm and now he's back,
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: and you're right, actually, like what you were pointing out, Hey,
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: the velocity never dropped off, and now it's higher than ever.
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: Now he's in a rhythm. Now he's like now he's
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: like showing off. He's throwing one hundred and two for
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: goodness sake. The slider he'd lost, but I think he
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: lost it, because he wasn't throwing enough, and now he's
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: into that rhythm, So I am glad he wasn't taken out.
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: I'm glad I never backed off of Andre's munio. Should
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: be our closure because it looks like you want to
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: knock on wood or something you can knock on wood.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: I suppose I don't operate that way. But it looks
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: like we've got our closure back, our all star closer back.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: He looks like Mooney again, and I'm glad that we
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: didn't abandon the project. All right, Coming up next, we
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: get Wrecked list at breakfast on Sports Radio ninety three
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: point three KJRFM. All Right, World Cup action continues, a
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: couple of big surprises. Yesterday, we're getting ready for round
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: number three of the group one stage. The group stage,
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: I should say, and it starts today. We actually have
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: a match right down the street at noon, and it
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: will be Qatar Cutter versus Bosnia Herzegovina. That's the match
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: up at noon. Us won't play until tomorrow at seven o'clock.
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: And they've already kind of salted away everything they needed
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: to salt away, so joining us now on the radio program,
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: he has become a hub for our World Cup coverage,
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: that's for sure. It is our own anders Hers. Good morning, sir,
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: Good morning.
• 52:11
  Speaker 8: What a day to go world cupping, isn't it?
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: Chuck? Yeah, how do you go world cupping? The approach,
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: just to be, the dress, the attitude. How do you
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: go world cupping?
• 52:23
  Speaker 8: Yeah? I think you probably just you kind of lean
• 52:26
  Speaker 8: all the way into it and wear a soccer ball
• 52:29
  Speaker 8: on top of your head, maybe maybe some some extra
• 52:33
  Speaker 8: short shorts with the long socks, and then you just
• 52:38
  Speaker 8: you start chanting and uh vulgar insults towards whoever you
• 52:42
  Speaker 8: want to do it again. Wow.
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's an advice right there. I'll tell you what,
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: how is it gone for you? I mean, I will say,
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: as you know, I'm not a big soccer fan, but
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: I thought Friday was one wonderful But you're working pretty
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: much round the clock. Has this been the experience thus
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: far that you hoped it would be?
• 53:07
  Speaker 8: Uh? Yeah, I think for the neutral I will say
• 53:12
  Speaker 8: it's been one of the best World Cups. It just
• 53:15
  Speaker 8: the atmosphere. All the stadiums look fantastic, But more than
• 53:20
  Speaker 8: anything else, it's it's the players. Every single star has
• 53:24
  Speaker 8: now showed up in this tournament, it's all the big
• 53:28
  Speaker 8: names have done something fantastic, whether it's Laynel Messi obviously
• 53:32
  Speaker 8: with five goals through two games, Earling Holland has four
• 53:35
  Speaker 8: goals through two games in his first World Cup. Killian
• 53:38
  Speaker 8: Mbappe has four goals through two games. And now the
• 53:42
  Speaker 8: one you could say that hadn't shown up through the
• 53:46
  Speaker 8: first game was Christiano Ronaldo and he gets two goals yesterday,
• 53:49
  Speaker 8: so he's like joining the party, let's go. So yeah,
• 53:53
  Speaker 8: I think the expanded format had a lot of people
• 53:56
  Speaker 8: questioning whether it would kind of dilute the competition, but
• 54:00
  Speaker 8: you've had a good mix of like Cinderella stories. Looking
• 54:05
  Speaker 8: at Kate Verde, they have a chance to move on
• 54:07
  Speaker 8: maybe the Congo as well, but also kind of getting
• 54:11
  Speaker 8: everyone the opportunity, and I think we're set for an
• 54:14
  Speaker 8: outstanding knockout stage.
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: Harry Kane had a good first match and then yesterday
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: they draw with Ghana. How are they feeling in England
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: this morning? Yeah?
• 54:25
  Speaker 8: I talked to Danny Jackson yesterday, my England correspondent. I
• 54:29
  Speaker 8: like to call him because he's kind of in touch
• 54:31
  Speaker 8: with everything. He has an accent. If you guys didn't know.
• 54:34
  Speaker 7: That ye, but.
• 54:37
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it is very sexy. It's annoying when you're kind
• 54:39
  Speaker 8: of broadcasting with him and I just sound normal. And
• 54:41
  Speaker 8: then I got the Englishman next to me and it's like,
• 54:43
  Speaker 8: damn it, all right, you're kind of showing me up here.
• 54:46
  Speaker 8: But he kind of said it was. There were a
• 54:49
  Speaker 8: couple worrying signs. I from my point of view, I
• 54:53
  Speaker 8: still think Ghana's better than a lot of people think.
• 54:56
  Speaker 8: I kind of compare it to the Congo drawing versus
• 54:58
  Speaker 8: Portugal in their first game. The way they just defend
• 55:03
  Speaker 8: is always going to be frustrating, and they know how
• 55:07
  Speaker 8: to get results just by you know, frustrating the opponent
• 55:12
  Speaker 8: not allowing a lot of opportunities. And you know, there
• 55:15
  Speaker 8: was a chance at the very end of the game
• 55:17
  Speaker 8: that Harry Kane had to kind of steal it and
• 55:19
  Speaker 8: he put it over and you expect him to score that.
• 55:21
  Speaker 8: But I think if England anything else, needs to figure
• 55:25
  Speaker 8: out who their best eleven players are because I don't
• 55:28
  Speaker 8: think they really have found that, you know, winning combination
• 55:31
  Speaker 8: like other teams have. So once they do that, I
• 55:35
  Speaker 8: think they'll be in fine shape.
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: Andrews Hurst is with us. We've turned him into a
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: World Cup expert here or he's turned himself into one
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: right here at Sports Radio ninety three point three k
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: A R F M. As we lean heavily into he
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: and Jackson Felt's knowledge of the beautiful game and of
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: the world event that is the World Cup. He joins
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: us here on Chuck and Buck this morning. All right,
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: so us takes on tomorrow. I would ask you, how
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: do you even approach this match when you've already kind
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: of cemented everything you hoped to cement in the group stage.
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, I would imagine Polistics not playing right in
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: this match tomorrow, And how will they go about strategy wise?
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, do you care if you win? Do you
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: care who plays? When you've already locked up what you
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: were seeking to lock up?
• 56:31
  Speaker 8: Yeah? See for this one, I actually lean more towards
• 56:35
  Speaker 8: try to change as little as possible from what you
• 56:39
  Speaker 8: have done in the first couple of games. I think
• 56:42
  Speaker 8: they need to continue the momentum that they have built.
• 56:44
  Speaker 8: The more time in competitive matches that this group plays together,
• 56:50
  Speaker 8: the better they will be. So even if it is
• 56:53
  Speaker 8: I guess you wouldn't necessarily call this a competitive match
• 56:56
  Speaker 8: because both Turkey is eliminated and the US have already
• 57:00
  Speaker 8: clinched the first place in the group, so but playing
• 57:04
  Speaker 8: against another team not in training is kind of what
• 57:07
  Speaker 8: I'm going for there. It's so important to kind of
• 57:12
  Speaker 8: continue that. With international teams, you get so little time
• 57:17
  Speaker 8: together in training playing in games that so much of
• 57:22
  Speaker 8: the successful teams are just guys that know each other really,
• 57:25
  Speaker 8: really well. And one of the reasons that a lot
• 57:28
  Speaker 8: of people have questions about this US men's national team
• 57:30
  Speaker 8: coming into the tournament is because they played in so
• 57:32
  Speaker 8: many different places. There's not really like one club where
• 57:34
  Speaker 8: a lot of the the players are they really know
• 57:37
  Speaker 8: each other that you can just kind of throw that
• 57:39
  Speaker 8: onto the field and have it work out. They have
• 57:42
  Speaker 8: to kind of build that. And the more your time
• 57:44
  Speaker 8: you're able to get together, you know, playing in competitive matches,
• 57:49
  Speaker 8: that's gonna build that even more. And you want to
• 57:51
  Speaker 8: kind of build on what you've what you've become, what
• 57:54
  Speaker 8: you have kind of built here in the first couple
• 57:57
  Speaker 8: of games, I've said build a lot in that sentence.
• 58:01
  Speaker 8: It's the big thing, though, is you want to anyone
• 58:04
  Speaker 8: who has a yellow card, you want to kind of
• 58:06
  Speaker 8: keep on the wraps because you don't want them suspended.
• 58:12
  Speaker 8: For the knockout stages and then anyone with a nagging
• 58:15
  Speaker 8: injury like you mentioned Christian Polistic, I would expect he
• 58:19
  Speaker 8: if this match were meaningful, he would be playing, and
• 58:24
  Speaker 8: under that impression, I would still get him probably maybe
• 58:28
  Speaker 8: you know, fifteen to thirty minutes of time at the
• 58:30
  Speaker 8: end of the game, because you don't want him coming
• 58:34
  Speaker 8: into the knockout stage in a must win game completely
• 58:38
  Speaker 8: without playing a game in two and a half weeks.
• 58:40
  Speaker 8: So it's going to be important that he gets some time.
• 58:44
  Speaker 8: But you obviously don't want to, you know, overdo it
• 58:46
  Speaker 8: here as well. So that's kind of the balance that
• 58:48
  Speaker 8: I would play.
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: I like it, that makes sense. What do we already
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: know about the US tournament beyond tomorrow night?
• 58:59
  Speaker 8: You mean who they might be playing and stuff like that.
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like we already know that they're playing Wednesday, right
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: next Wednesday? Yes, all right? And who they would play?
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: Who are the candidates for them to play next Wednesday.
• 59:14
  Speaker 8: There's a lot of different ones. It all depends on
• 59:17
  Speaker 8: how other teams kind of fair. I think the most
• 59:23
  Speaker 8: likely would be either Bosnia or Quitar, depending on who
• 59:28
  Speaker 8: gets third place in that group. And then it's not
• 59:31
  Speaker 8: even just the third place team in one group. It
• 59:34
  Speaker 8: has to. It's all based on all of the third
• 59:37
  Speaker 8: place teams and which team has the most or least points,
• 59:40
  Speaker 8: and it all matches up. There's a ton of different
• 59:43
  Speaker 8: scenarios that will play out. The US are in a
• 59:45
  Speaker 8: spot where they already know the exact spot in the
• 59:48
  Speaker 8: bracket that they will be playing. It's important that they
• 59:52
  Speaker 8: kind of just don't worry about, you know, what specific
• 59:56
  Speaker 8: opponents they might be playing. But I believe it's a
• 59:59
  Speaker 8: tournament ended right now. The United States would actually be
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 8: playing Algeria.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 9: So there's a.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 8: Couple different ways that can go. There's a scenario I
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 8: think you can play Sweden, which would be an interesting match.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 8: There's a scenario in which they would play the Ivory Coast,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 8: which would be an interesting match. Ecuador is another possibility.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 8: It's all depending on how that third place wild card
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 8: little table plays out. This is all new for me,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 8: to be honest with you, jus, because this is the
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 8: first time we've had that. It's always just been first
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 8: place from this group, play second place from this group,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 8: and boom, there you go. But this is a little
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 8: different of a format, and I kind of like it
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 8: because it sets up a really interesting kind of NCAA
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 8: tournament vibe for the round of thirty two.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: All right, last thirty seconds minute, Can you give me
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: a breakdown of what brings to the table here.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 8: Yeah, they've had a disappointing tournament. They're already eliminated. Obviously,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 8: they haven't scored in two games, but they've been the
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 8: more dominant offensive side in the in their two games.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 8: So I would expect them to come and try and
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 8: least prove something to their fans, to the world that
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 8: you know, they they had a lot of expectations coming
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 8: into this tournament, so I would expect them to try
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 8: and get on the ball a little bit more than
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 8: the two teams that America or the United States has
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 8: played so far. And you know, just some pride. This
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 8: is what this tournament's all about. It's the country pride,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 8: and they're going to look to kind of prove something
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 8: here in this third game. They were supposed to be
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 8: the second best team in this group and they're going
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 8: to want to come out and show it.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: All right, great stuff, as always, thank you, sir, appreciate.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: Where are you going to be today?
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 8: Well, we got Mexico Chechia as our pre half post
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 8: game broadcasted today pre game five thirty kickoff six o'clock
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 8: with myself and Brad Evans. So listen to it on
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 8: the iHeartRadio app or I believe that game is on
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 8: nine point fifty KJR.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: Okay Man, great stuff, as always, we appreciate it.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 8: Have fun, all right, Thanks Jack Calculator.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: And where would we be without him joining us right
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: here on Chuck and Buck in the morning. All right?
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: Coming up next here on the radio program, more on
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: another one of the big stories that we're discussing today
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: in sports talk radio. It affects all markets, all communities,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: all sports fans, and that's the Brendan Soresby situation. And
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: how I think maybe Brendan should resolve this issue for himself.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: We'll discuss that next Sports Radio ninety three point three
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: kJ A R f M. Yeah, UFL's not trying enough.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: I'm not getting creative enough. Here's an idea. Hugh Millan
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: starting quarterback for the Houston Gamblers. There you go, see
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: what he's still got.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: To laugh Someone on the someone on the YouTube channel
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: was like, well, Cam Newton couldn't play at the end
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: of his career and he's even older now, But wouldn't
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: you want to tune in and see if he's still
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: got something left.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: That's the point. That's not the point. I mean, it's
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: a minor league. Cam Newton says he can still play.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: He is an analyst right now in the sport, and
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: he says, every time somebody is give it, any time
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: anybody gets hype, I can outplay that guy. Well, let's
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: go prove it. Let's you do. Only have to prove
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: it for two games before an NFL team. You're like, oh, gosh,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: he does have something left. Yeah, go prove it, Hugh Mellen,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: go prove it.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: See it telling stop telling us. You can throw that
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: ball over that mountain.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, and then Clay can be your backup with
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: the Houston Gamblers. Good enough for Jim.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: Kelly, Hugh, Yeah, what he got against Jim Kelly.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: You shouldn't have nothing against Jim Kelly. What did Jim
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: Kelly ever do to you? Good morning to you, nine
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: o'clock hour here on this one. Hugh never brags like that.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 6: It's just the opposite, But it'd be really funny to
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 6: see him do it.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: The reason it's funny is because I'm exaggerating that he
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: still thinks he can play the game. I want to
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: clear you could still play.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 6: It's like, yeah, we're just joking.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're just joking. I want to know I'm saying
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: that for huge purposes. Yes, you would be mortified if
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: he thought I was telling our audience that Hugh Stitt's
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: ran says he could still play. All right, So yeah,
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: I wanted to clear that up.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 6: Before we go. Don't write in and be like he's
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 6: such a jerky.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, total being funny. All right, nine o'clock hour. We're
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: gonna get to some cracking here in a little bit.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: But I do want to mention something I was out
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: in the sports pit a moment ago. There was a
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: time in my life and I was kind of getting
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: out of shape and yet had not yet committed myself
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: to getting back into shape. Probably around yeah, I don't
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: even know what the age was. But I did get
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: back into very good shape, like in my forties. But
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: there was a time where I was kind of getting
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: out and then hadn't yet committed to getting back in,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: and so it didn't really matter where I was, it
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: didn't matter what grew of friends I was with. I
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: would just challenge everyone there to a foot race. Oh yes,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: and not that I thought that I would win. That
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: wasn't the point. In many cases, I didn't think I
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: would win, But the message was, let's just figure out
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: where we rank. I'd like to know. Okay, So you know,
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: I've had a few runs on the beaches, had a
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: few runs out in parking lots, perfect with groups of
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: like aged friends of mine over the years. It was
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: a short period of time where we just determined. One
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: time I split my pants racing my friend JB and
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: a pair of cowboy boots. I was wearing cowboy boots.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: Oh wow, Yeah, he beat me and I ended up
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: with split pants out of it. So just as an example,
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: So anyway, I just went out to the sales pit
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: and I said, let's go out to the courtyard and
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: let's just have a race. And then it ended up
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: in a conversation about we should have a different contest
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: every week and then we just have numbers like one
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: to ten, and we don't tell anybody what we did,
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: but we wear around those numbers for the rest of
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: the day. How we finished like that, no matter what
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: the competition is. And then everybody else on the staff
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: is going to have to guess, like what competition we
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: were in that day.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 6: I think it's a brilliant idea.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: Isn't that a great idea?
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: I am always thinking or hoping that we can find
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: ways to wait make work more fun.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 6: That's it, let's do it.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: So yeah, every day we decide on a different competition.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: I don't care what it could be ro Schambeau, I
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: don't care. And then we wear like like we were
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: in a long distance race, like a marathon race. We
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: wear the number of our order of finish for the
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: rest of the day and yet can't tell anybody what
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: the competition was.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: I like it a great idea, Yeah, great team camaraderie. Yeah,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: I'm in it's better happened. Because it doesn't, I'm now
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: going to be angry. I'm going to feel very competitive
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: and have nowhere to get it out.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: Of course, the two young people are two youngest people
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: in the sports pit, are like, yeah, they were the
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: most fired up because they think they're going to finish
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: first and second everything. They're idiots, so they were the
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: most gung ho about the idea. But I don't know,
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: even if we don't do it, maybe you could do
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: it in your office place. If you're listening, right, great idea.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: And I just want to say, I want a picture
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: of you and everyone in your office with your numbers.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't care what foot race like, you
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: all line up a sack races? Yep, you know who's
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: got the longer wiener. I don't care what it is. No,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: one's probably not.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: A good one for work. I'm going to say, probably
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: not a good one.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: With the right group, you know, with the group that's
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: on the same page. You know what I'm saying. I
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: guess it depends on where you work. I mean, who
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: can drink the most. Some places those things might be appropriate.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: Drinking would probably be a here beer chug beer chug time.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: You know, who knows? Who knows what the competition is?
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: Fist fighting? Maybe it's just fist fight. Maybe just start
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: our own fight club out in the courtyard.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: Sure what, Well, we can't talk about it then then
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: know if that happens.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: And I love the fact that you'd have to win
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: ten rounds to get number one, just to wear it
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: around for a day. Yeah, well you could well nine.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because you could Yeah, every round. I love if
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: you are racing.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: Really, it's just just just once, just once. Well, I
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: guess we could just have a full out brawl and
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: you can do a crab walk, arrest, a royal fight,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: like a brawl, last one standing.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: Standing, it's whoever fell fell second to.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: Last, or throw them out of the ring, yep, that
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: sort of thing.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you get outside those ropes and you're out.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: Anyway, we get suits. I think it's a great idea
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: for your office place, or your community, or your neighborhood
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: or your church yep, whatever the case may be. Just
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: get the huddle before church and then wear it during
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: the sermon that.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: Because, let's be honest, you're sitting there stare it, everybody
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: wondering how much better at things you are than they are, yes,
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: or how we're just where? Yeah, I wonder if I
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: could take this guy. Well, now's the time to find out.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: I wonder if I'm faster than Jim from accounting.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 6: All right, lace him up, Jim. We're going.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: Let's let's just start proving this. Yeah, and we'll wear
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: the numbers all day long to show where we stand
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: amongst our peckers. Anyway, please run with it, take it
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: if you'd like the cracking Right now, they kind of
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: measured themselves around the National Hockey League and found themselves wanting,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: wanting more wins, wanting more success, wanting more trips to
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: the Stanley Cup playoffs, and so. In a rather dramatic
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: display at the end of this past regular season, toddal
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: i Wicki the most important person in the history of
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: Seattle sports. He declared, and showed himself vulnerable in doing so.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: It's not good enough. We're going to fix it. We're
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: going to turn over every stone in our organization trying
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: to figure out why we're not better than what we
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: are right now. They did a self audit on themselves
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: coming out of the regular season. Well they now have
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: the results of that. I don't know what we were
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: expecting to hear. I really don't. I don't know if
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: they Oh, I know what the problem is, Jared McCann,
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know if it was going to
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: ever be that cut and dry, and we were never
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: going to get all access to all the information that
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: their audit uncovered. But our own e Infurness got the
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: chance to sit down with the man Todd Laiwiki this
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: week and got to ask him about what it is
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: that they learned from their audit, and we're going to
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: play that entire five minute conversation for you right now.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: Here's Ian Furness with Todd Laiwiki.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 4: Well, I'm here with Kraken CEO, Todd Laiwiki and Todd
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 4: just a couple months ago you said, Hey, we're going
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 4: to go do effectively what would be considered a deep dive,
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 4: an audit, so to speak, in terms of the organization,
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 4: the hockey organization and not so much the players the
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 4: roster behind us. But basically what it is is through
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 4: the whole organization to find out how connected you guys
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 4: are and what maybe needs to happen.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: Can you walk us through what were you.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 4: Looking for with sportsology that came in and did it
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  Speaker 4: and what did they find?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was you know, it was another pledge we
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 3: made that we were going to turn over every stone
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: and we looked far and wide for the right group,
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 3: and I think we landed on. What we didn't want
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 3: was an echo chamber. We didn't want to round up
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 3: friends or associates.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: People the hockey business that you know for years.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 3: I have friends and I got calls. But we landed
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 3: on a group that had no bus and we directed
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 3: them to turn every stone to ask the hard questions.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 3: They have an incredible track record. I know about them.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 3: When I was at the NFL, we did reference checks.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 3: They came in and they did exactly what we wanted.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 3: Phase one is now done. We learned a lot. We
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 3: came away inspired because there are things we're doing about.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 3: They believe that Samantha Holloway and our ownership have done
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 3: an incredible job of giving us the resource.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: But there were gaps.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 3: And you know the old book Good to Great that
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 3: submits it's harder to go from good to great, that
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 3: it is from not good to good came true and
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 3: it really caused us to pause and say, well, this
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 3: is something that's part of our DNA. This is how
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 3: we were going to go build this. We're not the best.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 3: What are those gaps? What are the shortcomings of how
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 3: do we fix it? And I'm going to be careful
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 3: about not revealing too many trade secrets here because what
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 3: I'm saying can be disseminated to other teams. But I
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 3: will go into some of that and we can maybe
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 3: talk about development.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 4: Well, let's talk about that, because I mean, people want
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 4: to say, Okay, they found some things. It probably doesn't
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 4: matter what business we're in, right, you can always find
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 4: improvements and do things better. And I mean I think
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 4: every people have annual reviews or they bring consent Holton
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 4: sand and this feels like much more of a deep dive.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 4: So a fan sitting at home right now is asking,
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 4: that's great, you did a deep dive. You look through
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 4: all these things. You're not going to reveal everything, but
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 4: maybe some tangible things. Your GM's in place, your coach
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 4: is in place, you have made some additions. Maybe those
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 4: are some of the tangible things. We could talk about
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 4: player development, all those things, But what did you see?
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: What did you find?
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 4: What did the organization find that you need to work on,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 4: and what changes do you think that can you discuss
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 4: that have been made.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 3: One area I would say was development because we prided ourselves,
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 3: we believe that we have an excellent group of prospects.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 3: We have set it up in Coachella Valley to be
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 3: the ultimate American Hockey League team, and so that whole
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 3: development piece, we're pushing it. We're going to push it
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 3: from top to bottom. And it's prospects who might be
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 3: playing juniors, playing college. It's prospects that are at the
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 3: American Hockey League level, and it's actual players that are
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 3: on our current roster. We've already started. We've added staff.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 3: You know, we have an assistant coach who had incredible
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 3: success in developing players in the American Hockey League. Pascale
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 3: is going to be an amazing addition to that coaching staff.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 3: We have a formed player coming back, Coach Schultz. Now
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 3: a player becomes a coach and he's a development coach.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 3: We're investing in additional staff positions. Out of this will
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 3: be a whole number of additions we're going to make
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 3: to our development team, our player development team, fitness, conditioning, nutrition,
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 3: because we don't want to be good at it, we
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 3: want to be the best. And to be honest with you,
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 3: I think that if we had made the playoffs now
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 3: looking back, some of these challenges might have prohibited us
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 3: from going deep. And now we realize that the work
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 3: we've done there is a path for us to dream
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 3: about being better than we ever would have been had
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 3: we not done what we've done here.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 4: What's your message to fans now that you've gone through
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 4: this process as an organization committed to making changes in
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 4: additions and doing what you can what would you tell
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 4: fans as they get ready for what should be an
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 4: exciting off season here in the next few weeks, but
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 4: also the next season which starts later this fall.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 3: Well, we're not happy. We made promises, we made pledges
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 3: and we came up short. We all were fans better
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 3: and we're deeply committed to getting this right because all
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 3: the pieces are here to build one of the great
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 3: franchises in the National Hockey League. We believe in our fans,
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 3: we believe in this market, we believe in our arena,
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 3: and we actually believe in the people leading this. But
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 3: they've got to do better. We've got to empower them
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 3: with better direction, with more resource, with more people, and
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 3: you're seeing it happen in real time. It is happening,
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 3: and we have had a very very productive two months
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 3: since the end of the season.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 4: It should be an eventful few weeks coming up as
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 4: well as we headed to the drafts, free agency, and
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 4: so much more.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: Bet that's Ian forness with Todd laiwiki and so those
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: are the results straight from the horse's mouth there about
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: the audit, what's your reaction to that, Ashley.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 6: I mean, I wish we would have learned more.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: But I understand that, like what he's saying, you know,
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: we don't want other teams to know our play by
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: play of everything we're doing to improve this team. And
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: I do like that they're taking it seriously.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 6: I like that they are.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's like, I think, been the most publicized
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: secret right, Like they're saying, you know, well, here's what
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: we're doing. No, we're not going to reveal everything, but
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: we are taking this seriously. We are not happy with
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: what has been going on here, and I think they
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: recognize the urgency of improving this team and making sure
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: that this team doesn't fade into the background when a
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: basketball team comes.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: Well, my reaction is kind of three phases to that.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: Number One. If I were somebody that liked sports, kind
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: of would like it more. Oh I like going to
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: the game, but boy am I going to really commit
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: to a mean, that's a pretty expensive ticket, and I
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: heard that, I'd be like, oh wow, that's awesome. I
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: think that that would probably make me think, as somebody
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: that kind of watched sports, oh wow, that's that's an
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: impressive statement. Problem is that so many of us, if
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: you are listening to sports talk radio regularly, or you
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: are hosting sports talk radio, you tend to become jaded
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: and you're like, Okay, blah blah blah blah blah, that's
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: a lot of lip service. Um proof is in the pudding.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: We're gonna need to see the actions that you're going
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: to take. That just sounds like a pretty speech that
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: you're making, and I might side on that. I might
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: actually finish there if not for it being toddali Wiki,
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: the fact that it's coming from toddalai Wiki, who's kind
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: of an unimpeachable source, that when you hear it from
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 2: his mouth, when he says it that way, you're like, Okay,
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: there's a different mentality, uh with the Kraken. And I
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: don't think they've had a bad mentality. I think they've
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: just misfired on some things. Yeah, I would agree, And
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: it's not been They've not been terrible since they took
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: the ice. They just right now are kind of stuck
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: in mediocre at this point, maybe slightly below. And that
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: when I hear Toddy LIGHTWICKI say, that's not what we
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: are weird. We are out to be the best, absolute best,
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: or I believe that that's not just lip service. That's
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: somebody that I've come to trust and so when he
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: throws his weight like that around, he throws those words
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: around coming from his point of view. Yeah, I think
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: it is motivating. I think it is powerful. But there
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: are plenty of presidents, owners, general managers who if they
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: gave us that same speech, it'd be in one ear
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: out the yep, it'd.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 6: Be more used car salesman.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: At that point, I think, you know, like, I'm just
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: telling you this because I got to tell you this,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: whereas Todd law WICKI, yeah, I just have more belief
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: in him.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: Weah, I have total Yeah, I have total belief in him.
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: And that's that's some guy with a proven track record,
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 2: and now he's trying to give the crack and a
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: proven track record. But if it comes, I don't know,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: they're a lot. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. If
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: there are a lot of people say we no trust us,
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: we did a thorough we're gonna fix this, I'm not
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: I would have to see the results before I believed anything.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: But this guy, Yeah, you know, I believe him all right.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: Coming up next on the program Seahawks one series recap.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: If you didn't hear Greg Bell breaking down Devin Witherspoon yesterday,
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: a little bit from him, and then a little bit
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: from US Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ R
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  Speaker 2: f M. I'll tell you what it is be human.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: It's finishing seventh to your coworkers and leg wrestling.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 10: Ooh.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: And then how you respond to that. That's what being
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 2: human is, And there is no wrong answer, that's right.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: Sometimes the human response is to laugh it off, like, oh,
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: I guess I'm not very good at leg wrestling. Sometimes
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 2: the human response is to say, I am going to
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: become the best leg wrestler, not just in this office,
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: but of all time.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 6: That's what it means to be human.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: That's what it means to be human. Sometimes it's going
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: to hr and saying can you believe that Rich Strauss
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: from Sales just leg wrestled me and I pulled a hammy? Yeah?
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: Can you grab me inappropriately?
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 6: And then you say can you cover that? Does workers
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 6: comp cover this?
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah? That's what it's another way to be human. Yeah,
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: that's just the human condition right there. I don't need
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: a podcast to point it out. Uh, good morning to you.
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: It is Ashley and myself, Chuck Powell, and yes, we've
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: been doing the Seahawks one series throughout the course of
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: the month of June. That's one of our analysts in
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: town bray down one key Seahawk player for one entire interview,
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: and then we also do the Seahawks SOW one series recap,
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 2: especially when the person is particularly interesting. Greg Bell brought
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 2: it yesterday, our Seahawks insider. He's going to be back
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: on today at ten o'clock. He has his own show,
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 2: you know, but still regularly as our Seahawks insider on
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: the Chuck and Buck radio program, and we saved him
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: for our last week of the Seahawks one series, and
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: he was saved. Devin Witherspoon. He could not wait. He'd
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: been doing some research. That guy went deep yesterday on
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 2: telling us why Devin Witherspoon is in no way just
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: a statistic that you can find on a stat sheet somewhere. Yeah,
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 2: he had one interception a year ago, but it doesn't
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 2: even come close to telling the whole story about Spoon's
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 2: value to the Seattle Seahawks.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 5: Here's great consider this last year, Witherspoon played in just
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 5: twelve games. Well, in those twelve games, he had only
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 5: fifty nine pass targets. What's that mean, well, the NFL
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 5: average in a game is thirty two and a half
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 5: passes per team per game on average, and when the
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 5: Seahawks case, because they were up by often a score
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 5: or two or three, it was a lot more than
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  Speaker 5: thirty two passes game. They were facing that fewer than
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  Speaker 5: five past the game. For teams that were throwing thirty
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  Speaker 5: two plus times a game. On the Seahawks, one sixth
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  Speaker 5: of the time he was getting targeted on average, and
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  Speaker 5: it was usually at less than that. That means that
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  Speaker 5: five to sixth of the time I started to sound
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  Speaker 5: like Hugh Millin here with these numbers. But five to
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  Speaker 5: sixths of the time Devin Witherspoon was shutting down his
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  Speaker 5: part of the field he was covering now on early
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  Speaker 5: downs that was usually outside at left cornerback. That means
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  Speaker 5: five to sixth at the time. When he was outside
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  Speaker 5: at left corner, the Seahawks didn't have to worry about
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  Speaker 5: the left side of the field from the about the
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  Speaker 5: hash marks out or the numbers out. That's a huge
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  Speaker 5: advantage for Mike McDonald. Then when you put him inside,
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  Speaker 5: which they of course they do quite a bit as
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  Speaker 5: a nickel and dime when they bring an extra defensive backs.
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  Speaker 5: He was taken away the middle of the field or
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  Speaker 5: the slot receiver, which in the NFL, slot receivers are
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  Speaker 5: the ones quarterbacks usually go to, often go to on
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  Speaker 5: third downs or in red zones. I think Coopa and Naku.
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  Speaker 5: I think Cooper Cup at his prime with the Rams,
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  Speaker 5: and he's shutting those guys down five six at the time.
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  Speaker 5: So if you have a piece that teams don't even
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  Speaker 5: want to at a reputation and what they see on
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  Speaker 5: film go at it's Richard Sherman esque that teams don't
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  Speaker 5: want to throw at Devin Witherspoon. That is a huge
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  Speaker 5: advantage for how Mike McDonald or raised the rest of
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  Speaker 5: his defense. It allows him to blitz nick even worry
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  Speaker 5: as much as he did last year. It allows him
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  Speaker 5: to mix and match three corners and two spots and
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  Speaker 5: move Witherspoon around like he did with Josh jovinriquill in
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  Speaker 5: last year. It allows him perhaps to blitz up front
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  Speaker 5: more because they have one third of the field often
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  Speaker 5: deep left take it away. But when you only have
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  Speaker 5: to defend two thirds of the field schematically in how
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  Speaker 5: you do the rest of defense, you had an advantage
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  Speaker 5: over the offense, and that, to me, is a large
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  Speaker 5: reason why the Seahawks led the league in points allowed
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  Speaker 5: last year because of Devin Witherspoon.
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  Speaker 2: Ario, it's Greg Bell talking about Devin Witherspoon. He went
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  Speaker 2: on to add a few more really interesting nuggets. Number One,
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  Speaker 2: he believes in his covering of the team that Spoon
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  Speaker 2: is Mike McDonald's personal favorite. Now, Mike McDonald would never
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: answer that question, I'm sure, but that's just Greg's assessment
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  Speaker 2: as somebody that's been around this team pretty much every
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: day during the football season and parts of the offseason
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  Speaker 2: as well. That's his guy. That's his favorite guy. He's
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  Speaker 2: got a lot of favorites, but that's the number one dog,
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: Devin Witherspoon. We also talked about Devon Witherspoon in the durability.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he did miss some time this past year.
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  Speaker 2: Now three seasons, he's played forty seven games, you'll take that,
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  Speaker 2: but he's also missed a little bit of time. And
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  Speaker 2: of course that's what we questioned when he was drafted
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: so highly coming out of college, all the way back
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  Speaker 2: when Pete drafted him, and that was man for a
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  Speaker 2: guy that plays that aggressively. At one eighty five is
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  Speaker 2: what the program reads. Greg said, probably close to one
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  Speaker 2: to eighty one seventy five is what he actually weighs.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, how much longer can you do that? Especially
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 2: when you know seeing Puka Nakua a couple of times
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 2: per year and big physical receivers in this league, and
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: he just throws his body around. So that's a little
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 2: bit of concern, and it may be something that enters
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 2: the equation when you're thinking about making him the highest
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 2: paid defensive back in the entire National Football League, which
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 2: they very well might do before the season gets underway.
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  Speaker 2: And then, of course, the third thing that Greg brought
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  Speaker 2: up that I think is worth mentioning is people that
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  Speaker 2: have connections to Illinois tend to be better than anyone
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  Speaker 2: else in the Midwest. Yeah. You don't need a contest
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  Speaker 2: to prove. Yeah. Yeah. So I thought that was interesting
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  Speaker 2: that he brought that up, that he initiated that point. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I apologize that I took out where he actually said that. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Remember it was just time eff remember when he said that,
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  Speaker 2: and he put Illinois way ahead of Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, remember it like a far superior state and the
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  Speaker 1: people that come from there are I was touching downs
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  Speaker 1: ahead of Ohioians.
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  Speaker 2: I was touched by that. I really was, And I
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  Speaker 2: also find it to be one thousand percent true. Greg's smart.
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  Speaker 2: Uh So we appreciate Greg being a part of the
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks one series, and he really wanted to break down
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 2: Devin Witherspoon and really did want to illustrate just how
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 2: valuable he thinks that he is to this team. I
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: don't know if Devin Weather ever's going to be mentioned
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: in a defensive Player of the Year race. I don't
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: know about that. I have a feeling nickname and warr
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  Speaker 2: He's going to do some things statistically that probably are
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 2: going to end up standing out even more so than
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: what Devin Witherspoon does out on the football field, even
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 2: war He might be headed toward a career of accolades
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 2: even more so than what Spoon's going to be. But
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  Speaker 2: I think what we take away from that is, this
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 2: is the value of this guy cannot be read on
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 2: a stat sheet, and especially cornerbacks sometimes that doesn't even
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 2: show up when you're watching it on the it's because
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 2: of so how much he's taking away and how much
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 2: he's forcing defense or offenses into doing things they don't
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 2: want to do because of his presence. You know, sometimes
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 2: we don't even pick up on that, and then you
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 2: add the leadership aspect of it. He might be the
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 2: leader of the defense. I mean, I know they've got
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: a lot of Ernest Jones we just talked about with
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 2: Softy earlier. I know they got Leonard Williams. I know
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 2: DeMarcus Lawrence has turned into quite the leader in a
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 2: very short period of time for this team. But Greg
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 2: even went as far in our conversation yesterday to say
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 2: he might be the leader, might be the leader of
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 2: the defense, might be the leader of the team. He
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 2: might be the voice of the team. So I mean, again,
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 2: just kind of like a full service piece that they
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 2: have in Devin Witherspoon. And if any of that is
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 2: true that I'm kind of laying out that there for you,
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  Speaker 2: you might understand why Mike McDonald makes him his favorite player.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, no, it definitely makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: And I love to Greg talking about how he just
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: kind of chirps at everybody and trash talks everybody and
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: and gets the defense all riled up.
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  Speaker 6: I think it's all great.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this team, we keep talking about the personalities
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: and the people that want to be on this team
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: and the people that play for this team, and how
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: they all fit together, and they all have their role
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: they have to play, and I think Devin Wetherspoon plays
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: a pretty important role for it.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds like he's already taken Bud Clark under his wing.
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  Speaker 2: Good He's the first guy to all of these workouts
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 2: that they have in the off season. I mean, it's
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 2: it's just a really it's a really great piece that
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 2: they have found. Now the lot on that's a big investment,
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 2: top five pick in the NFL Draft. I mean, it's
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 2: a huge investment. But man, he has been worth every
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 2: bit of it. And he's going to get paid before
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 2: the season gets started this year. And I'll say this,
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 2: and this really does have ties to my Illinois background
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 2: and his Illinois background. If I walked into a to
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 2: buy a jersey, and I'm not a jersey guy, I'm
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 2: not Jackson Talts, But so I don't have a single
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 2: jersey of any player.
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  Speaker 6: You couldn't wear one for every day of the World Cup.
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  Speaker 2: Right right. I couldn't do that. God bless you Jackson.
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  Speaker 6: I know he's the best.
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  Speaker 2: But if I walked into a Seahawk shopping You're like, hey,
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 2: you have to get a jersey. Pick anyone you want.
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting twenty one, I'm getting Spoon.
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  Speaker 1: We had a raffle at Mill Creek a couple of
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: weeks ago for an event we did, and there was
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: a Witherspoon autograph jersey that was in the raffle, all
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: the tickets in there. There was several items up for grabs.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: That one was like the most coveted item of the night.
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  Speaker 2: If you love him there he gives you a lot
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  Speaker 2: of reasons for it. Gives you a lot of reasons
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  Speaker 2: for it. All Right, one last thing comes your way next.
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