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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 326 - Top 100 #5 Brant Heppner · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Lyndon Senior Brent Hebner, and you're listening to
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  Speaker 1: the Top one hundred Countdown on walkom Preps podcast with
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  Speaker 1: Tyler and Ryland.
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  Speaker 2: Go lines.
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  Speaker 1: Reading X and Welcome into the watcom Preps podcast. This
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  Speaker 1: is episode at three hundred and twenty six, the sixth
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  Speaker 1: of ten podcasts in the twenty twenty four Top one
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  Speaker 1: hundred football Countdown. I'm Ryland Spencer along with me. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: as always as Tyler Anderson the watcom Preps. Tyler, how
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  Speaker 1: are we doing?
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  Speaker 3: Doing great? Doing great?
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  Speaker 4: This This countdowns wrapping up pretty fast and these top
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  Speaker 4: five are going to be great to talk about and
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  Speaker 4: this will be another one of those five.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: One thing that we really should have ready to go
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  Speaker 1: and we don't is let people know about the information
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  Speaker 1: of when the fan voting and stuff is going to
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  Speaker 1: happen for the end of the season awards.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it hasn't really been I mean, I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if we've said anything, but it's going to be really
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  Speaker 4: close to the after you know this. Yeah, Top one
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  Speaker 4: hundred is all done and and you know we've talked
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  Speaker 4: about maybe a few wrinkles to it. You know, you
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  Speaker 4: and I have talked about it, so we'll we'll get
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  Speaker 4: it all figured out. There might be more people to
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  Speaker 4: vote for, there might be multiple voting periods to narrow
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  Speaker 4: it down. So yeah, so it's it'll be exciting. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we gotta get that figured out. So get the information
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  Speaker 4: have been tremendous supporters of watkom Preps for some time now, Tyler.
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  Speaker 4: The best ways through social media on any of the platforms.
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  Speaker 4: Just search for walking preps and the message. The big
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  Speaker 4: opening right now is the daily recaps for girls basketball
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  Speaker 4: still available. It is basically, you know, my goodness, it's
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  Speaker 4: six days a week that there's you know a about it.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, your logo gets on there.
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  Speaker 4: And I was going to try to crunch the numbers
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  Speaker 4: a little bit, but it you know, it basically comes
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  Speaker 4: out to like, would you spend five dollars to have
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  Speaker 4: your your link looked at, you know, five hundred times
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  Speaker 4: a day? Yeah, you know I mean that's I mean,
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  Speaker 4: that's basically what it comes down to. You know, it's
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  Speaker 4: it's it's a pretty good deal, I think so and
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  Speaker 4: you and you'd be helping me out and keeping this going.
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  Speaker 4: And and it's one of those things that once those
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  Speaker 4: recaps go up, everyone's so excited about it. And one
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  Speaker 4: thing I've done differently this year that I didn't do
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  Speaker 4: last year with the basketball recaps is I'm putting in
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  Speaker 4: box scores.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't do box scores last year.
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  Speaker 4: I would just kind of write a little recap, but
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  Speaker 4: now I'm doing complete box scores with each one, just
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  Speaker 4: kind of bringing.
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  Speaker 3: It back to how it used to be.
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  Speaker 4: And and yeah, it's been a lot of fun and
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  Speaker 4: gotten a lot of positive feedback from it.
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  Speaker 3: So if you want to be a part of it,
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  Speaker 3: just reach out.
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  Speaker 4: And there's still a you know, good chunk of the
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  Speaker 4: season left, you know, a little under two months to go,
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  Speaker 4: so you know, we're about eight weeks away from the
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  Speaker 4: state tournament, so there's still some time and we can
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  Speaker 4: go buy a weekly thing or however you want to
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  Speaker 4: do it, So we'll figure.
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  Speaker 3: It out and we can get the ball rolling.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's never too early to start thinking about spring.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there is still plenty to do here. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we got a lot of stuff going on for winter,
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  Speaker 1: let alone, you know, start thinking about spring. I know
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  Speaker 1: some things in the spring are already taken up, but man,
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  Speaker 1: it's never too early to get on that stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: never too late really. I mean, if you wanted to
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  Speaker 1: just sponsor the state tournament run or something, I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: we could come up with some deal on that, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, yeah, there's always something.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, reach out to Tyler on social media by just
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  Speaker 1: searching the watch come preps and who'll get you taken
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  Speaker 1: care of?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: This is the football Top one hundred countdown.
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  Speaker 2: Today.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be talking about number five on the list. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if you're clicking on it, you probably already know who
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  Speaker 1: it is because the name's like right there. But the
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  Speaker 1: next Top one hundred podcasts will be released tomorrow at
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  Speaker 1: two pm when number four is released, and then pretty
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  Speaker 1: much the next three will be right in line right
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  Speaker 1: behind it at two pm every single day. So kind
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  Speaker 1: of a big week here, actually, would that be? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that'd be Monday through Friday, right or is that? Or
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  Speaker 1: is it Sunday through Thursday? I can't even think right now.
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  Speaker 1: It's Monday Friday. Yeah, yeah, it's basically in Take out
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  Speaker 1: the weeks. Yeah, Monday through Friday, right there, two pm.
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  Speaker 1: Set your clocks. But yeah, if you'd like to hear
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  Speaker 1: any of the previous five installments of the Top one
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  Speaker 1: hundred Countdown, go back and listen to episode three seventeen three,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen three, twenty one, three twenty three or three twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we have talked about a lot of dudes here,
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you, so, hop on, take a look
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  Speaker 1: at that, find them all, listen to them all. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, kickback, relax, have a drink, spend a night
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  Speaker 1: listening to me and Tyler count.
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  Speaker 2: Of all the way down or don't and.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing better.
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  Speaker 1: He has to say something better with your life. But yeah, Tyler,
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  Speaker 1: tonight we've got just number five to talk about. So
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  Speaker 1: what do you say we get into it here? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's do it alrighty and uh yeah, I mean it
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  Speaker 1: should come as no surprise the next five nights are
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  Speaker 1: we're talking heavy hitters. I mean, these are these are
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  Speaker 1: big time names in Wauckham County. But at number five
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  Speaker 1: on the Top one hundred Countdown, six foot six, oddly enough,
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  Speaker 1: the tallest guy left here, which is kind of strange
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  Speaker 1: considering well in two hundred and twenty pounds, but it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of strange considering he's a quarterback and he's the
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  Speaker 1: tallest one left on the list here. But he is
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  Speaker 1: a senior from the Linden Lions. It is number two
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  Speaker 1: and multiple time state champion. It's Bran Hepner.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a pretty incredible season that he had.
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  Speaker 3: Incredible career as well, but this is based.
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  Speaker 4: On just the season, you know, right out right out
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  Speaker 4: the bat, you know, against Ferndale he had that huge,
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  Speaker 4: huge game and that comeback win through for three and
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  Speaker 4: sixty five yards and three touchdowns.
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  Speaker 3: And just kind of kepting, Yeah, it's that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, all but one game did he throw
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  Speaker 4: a touchdown pass, and the one game that he didn't
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  Speaker 4: throw a touchdown pass, he ran one in. So he
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  Speaker 4: was involved in a touchdown in every single game this
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  Speaker 4: year even in his career, thirty wins and five losses
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  Speaker 4: in the in the thirty five games that he that
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  Speaker 4: he played quarterback in, which is pretty incredible. But again
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  Speaker 4: it's mostly about the season. He was an All Conference
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  Speaker 4: first team pick a quarterback. He was the conference's Offensive
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  Speaker 4: Player of the Year and then he was also named
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  Speaker 4: the States two Way Offensive Player of the Year. So
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  Speaker 4: that's that's a lot of love from coaches, understand, and
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  Speaker 4: his talents. Usually a team that gets to the quarterfinals
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  Speaker 4: and you know, doesn't get you know, their quarterback. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it's pretty amazing that he was named the offensive player
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  Speaker 4: of the Year for the State, which is really cool
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  Speaker 4: because they really saw what he could do and man,
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  Speaker 4: he was just his passing, just his overall passing this
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  Speaker 4: year improved so much is I think the biggest thing
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  Speaker 4: that improved was just the constant accuracy.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it was always right on.
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  Speaker 4: I mean there were some moments, as you know, earlier
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  Speaker 4: on in his career where he'd have a few that
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  Speaker 4: he'd overthrow, or they'd be off the side, or he'd
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  Speaker 4: put a little bit too much on it.
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  Speaker 3: It was totally different.
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  Speaker 2: This year.
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  Speaker 4: It was on the money all the time. He had
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  Speaker 4: a passer rating of over one hundred and seven. Just
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  Speaker 4: a great overall season. Ran the ball extremely well. Once again,
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  Speaker 4: it's crazy when you look at his numbers just in
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  Speaker 4: his career, every single year he's he ran for between
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  Speaker 4: three hundred and sixty and three hundred ninety.
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  Speaker 3: Yards each season. Wow, Like he was right there in
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  Speaker 3: that little spot. You know.
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  Speaker 4: He would pick his moments and there be games where
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  Speaker 4: he didn't have to run at all. There'd be games
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  Speaker 4: where it was needed. There'd be games where it was
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  Speaker 4: like third and two at the thirty five and you
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  Speaker 4: everybody knew what was happening, and he would still pick
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  Speaker 4: up the first down. Such an unbelievable leader. And like
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  Speaker 4: the stuff that you the people don't see, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the stuff over.
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  Speaker 3: The summer, going to the weight room, the throwing.
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  Speaker 4: The extra routes to the receivers, you know, doing putting
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  Speaker 4: all the work in, just the tremendous person that he is,
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  Speaker 4: the competitor that he is, all those things combined, it's
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  Speaker 4: you know, we've been really lucky to see a quarterback
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  Speaker 4: like him that just kind of has all the little things,
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  Speaker 4: all the tools.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: You know, just the other day I went back and
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  Speaker 4: watched I think it was a King five thing on
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  Speaker 4: YouTube after they won the state title his sophomore year,
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  Speaker 4: and he was just so thankful and he was in
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  Speaker 4: tears and he was he just couldn't believe it. You know,
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  Speaker 4: and he was so appreciative of all the players and
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  Speaker 4: coaches in the community and the fans and the his
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  Speaker 4: offensive line and everything. And it's for a kid to
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  Speaker 4: have that much composure as a sophomore and and you know,
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  Speaker 4: with the big lights and everything and and and give.
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  Speaker 3: It up to everybody else. Uh, that that tells me
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  Speaker 3: a lot.
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  Speaker 4: And he just was always this tremendous person and and
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  Speaker 4: uh watches a ton of film and I mean every
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  Speaker 4: single thing that that that you would want, you know,
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  Speaker 4: he was.
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  Speaker 3: He he was and we'll be remembered for a long
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  Speaker 3: time in the community.
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  Speaker 4: And and you know, he's doing something right now in
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  Speaker 4: the basketball court that you know is pretty much unheard of,
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  Speaker 4: going for a a fourth state championship in four years,
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  Speaker 4: and he's he's playing phenomenal right now. And it's you know,
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  Speaker 4: they're still undefeated to this point. And yeah, just an
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  Speaker 4: overall great, great kid. I don't know how much how
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  Speaker 4: much interaction have you had with him over the years.
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  Speaker 3: Has there been much?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I mean I remember when I was up at this
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  Speaker 1: was the last year I was covering high school football,
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  Speaker 1: so he would have been a sophomore. Yeah, I remember
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  Speaker 1: going down on the field and talking to he and
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah Audman, I believe after a playoff game up there
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  Speaker 1: at Civic, and I remember sitting in the stands and
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  Speaker 1: I don't I'm trying to remember who I was sitting with.
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  Speaker 1: I think it might have been our guy Farhan. I
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  Speaker 1: can't remember exactly who it was, but I remember sitting
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  Speaker 1: in the stands and just being wowed, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: when you think of prototypical quarterback, it's a guy that's
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  Speaker 1: six four six five six six and you know, two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen and twenty pounds, and it's a guy that,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: You look at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 1: The flashy guys that can run like those are nice,
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  Speaker 1: but the end of the day, you gotta be able
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  Speaker 1: to throw the ball right. And you could see that
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  Speaker 1: he absolutely had the tools. But you can also see that, like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this guy can this guy can use his legs. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Peyton Manning wasn't using his legs, you know, other than
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  Speaker 1: that one time against the Cowboys where he ran that
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  Speaker 1: naked bootleg in and made everybody look funny. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I just remember thinking to myself right away it was like,
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  Speaker 1: this guy is really stinking good and has no idea
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  Speaker 1: what he's doing, you know, he's At the time, it
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  Speaker 1: was like, and that's not a bad thing, right, Like,
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  Speaker 1: how many sophomores truly know what they are doing? You know,
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  Speaker 1: for the most part, they're still learning the game and
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  Speaker 1: they're still you know, figuring it for most of them,
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  Speaker 1: as the game is still yet to come to them,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And there were times where he would do
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  Speaker 1: some things and you'd go, holy cow, Like, once he
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  Speaker 1: truly figures some things out, it's gonna be awful for
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  Speaker 1: opposing defensive coordinators. You know, it's not gonna be it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be sleepless nights. And I went down the field
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  Speaker 1: and I talked to him after the game and I
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  Speaker 1: just said, hey, I know basketball is kind of your thing,
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  Speaker 1: but if you have interest in football, I think you
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  Speaker 1: could do some serious damage, Like you could do some
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  Speaker 1: things here. And I just asked him, I said, do
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  Speaker 1: you have you know, is there a chance that you
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  Speaker 1: want to play football long term? And he was like, yeah, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, well, that's really good to hear.
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  Speaker 1: That's really good to hear. Now that being said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I have some access to the NFHS network here and
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  Speaker 1: I've watched him play some basketball, I've watched him, you know,
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  Speaker 1: do some other things, and I just think to myself, Tyler,
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  Speaker 1: this is a guy that you and I grew up idolizing,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like he was the best
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  Speaker 1: football player, he was the best basketball player, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean. Like he's that guy that would have
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  Speaker 1: been in the newspaper every single day back when we
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  Speaker 1: were kids. And you know, the guy that has the
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  Speaker 1: letterman's jacket with nine hundred different patches on it, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's just it's one of those things that
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  Speaker 1: back in the day would have been that big legendary figure.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't know how much of that goes
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  Speaker 1: on today. You know, where I live, it definitely doesn't
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  Speaker 1: go like that. I know up there it still probably does,
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  Speaker 1: because I think I see some of those kids that
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  Speaker 1: run around at Linden games, and they all probably I
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  Speaker 1: think some of them at least go home and when
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  Speaker 1: they're playing football in their backyard, some of the quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: will probably think they're Brant Hepner, you know what I mean. Like, Yeah, sure, Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: When I played wiffle ball as a kid, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I thought I was Terry Pendleton at times. But the
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  Speaker 1: guy I really thought I was was Tom Evans. Tom
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  Speaker 1: Evans was a phenomenal baseball player from Wuanita and he
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  Speaker 1: was drafted by the Blue Jays. I have some of
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  Speaker 1: his baseball cards. Like that's how much I thought of
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  Speaker 1: this guy, you know, like I still have him, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and he played for the Blue Jays a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, and I think maybe the Texas Rangers. I
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  Speaker 1: can't remember, but that's what I think of when I
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  Speaker 1: think of a guy like Brent Hepner. Is I see
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  Speaker 1: that guy and it's like, you know, the next guys
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  Speaker 1: that are gonna come up on our list here, they're
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  Speaker 1: all tremendous football players, and sure they're good at other sports,
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  Speaker 1: but are they Brant Hepner at other sports?
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: It's like it's just so different and it's so much
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  Speaker 1: fun to watch him, And you know, I just I
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  Speaker 1: see a guy that I mean, honestly, like I said
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  Speaker 1: it earlier, like Peyton Manning. Like I see a guy
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  Speaker 1: that's like Peyton Manning. He's got all the metal bles,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and then you watch him throw a football,
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  Speaker 1: you just go wow, wow, Like that ball spins really
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  Speaker 1: nice off his hand, you know. And I know that.
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  Speaker 1: I know that when you start a sophomore at quarterback
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  Speaker 1: at a place like Lindon where everybody wants to be
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback growing up, you know what I mean, because
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  Speaker 1: they all want to be that guy. And it's the
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  Speaker 1: same thing at like Royal City right now, They every
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  Speaker 1: year have you know, a plethora of quarterbacks at their disposal.
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  Speaker 1: But then eventually it works it down to, well, this
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  Speaker 1: is the guy we're going with, and it's usually a junior,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and then he plays for two years and
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  Speaker 1: they move on to.
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  Speaker 2: The next guy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So when I see a guy at a place like
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  Speaker 1: Linden start as a sophomore but tells me a lot.
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  Speaker 1: It tells me what the coaching staff thinks of him,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And having spoken with you know BBD or
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  Speaker 1: even you know, our guy, they they speak so highly
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  Speaker 1: of him, you know, and just the things that he does,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, I mean, it's it's one of those ones
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  Speaker 1: that it's I'm excited for the future at Linden because
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  Speaker 1: I know that there's guys in the pipeline, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean, But also it's like disappointed because for
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  Speaker 1: this specific player, it's over, you know, and we don't
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  Speaker 1: get to watch him anymore and on grass or on
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  Speaker 1: turf up up in Wakam County, you know. And it's
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  Speaker 1: been a lot of fun watching him for the past
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  Speaker 1: couple of years. And he's one of those guys that
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  Speaker 1: I have no reason to watch Linden basketball, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean. But I'll guarantee you come State tournament time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna be watching some games just because
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  Speaker 1: I want to watch Linden and what they do up there.
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  Speaker 1: But he's a big part of it because to me,
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  Speaker 1: other sports are are great. I love high school athletics
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  Speaker 1: in general, but I watch because of how much I
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed watching guys play football, you know. And it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be fun watching him for you know, well, does does
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  Speaker 1: he Does he have a spring Sport in mind?
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  Speaker 2: Tyler? Do we know?
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  Speaker 3: I've not seen him play at Springsport before.
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to see him try first base. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if he's ever played baseball. For I
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  Speaker 3: I have no clue.
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  Speaker 1: You could teach him to stretch, you know, for that
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: to see him throw a javelin, to be honest.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what, he could probably do that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's a little different throwing motion obviously, but yeah.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: But you can.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but you know what step ahead of somebody of
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: other people?
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  Speaker 1: Well, and you usually look at the guys that at
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: least from what I've seen, like you know, at at
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: at Boffel and the guys I went to high school
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  Speaker 1: with it were really good in the javelin. They're usually
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: pretty tall. I mean I don't know that they're six
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: six tall, but they're usually pretty tall, you know. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what about the high jump maybe.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was thinking the high jump as well. And
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: are you know it's too bad not a spring sport.
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  Speaker 5: But could you imagine him as a swimmer. Yeah, he
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: might be pretty dang good. He's like Michael Phelps.
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  Speaker 2: I was about to say, I don't think, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that he's got the gigantic chest that
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Michael Phelps had, but uh, he's definitely got the frame.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's got the arms.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that would actually be interesting to see.
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  Speaker 1: Like I wonder if he I wonder if he can't,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: like you think there's like some random thing that he's
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: like incredibly good at that we don't even know about.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I thought there's a lot of random things
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  Speaker 4: he's probably i'd be interesting to see what he can't do,
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  Speaker 4: like like if he just for some reason.
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  Speaker 3: Can't hit a golf ball or yeah, you know, I.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Bet he can't play hockey. I know that.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Like I'd like to see him try. I mean, Zadane
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: o'chara was six foot nine, you know what I mean
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: exactly what the heck? Get him on some skates. We'll
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: see what happens. Yeah, get him over there playing for
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: the what are they the Blazers, the Bellingham Blazers, I
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: think it is.
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  Speaker 3: Oh man, are they still around? I don't even know.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: I think they are. Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
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  Speaker 1: They're in the same league as the Seattle Junior Totems.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: And there's a team over in Bremerton if I remember, right,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: who if I last of my look, they were awful.
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  Speaker 1: They were like two and twenty seven or something.
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  Speaker 3: But oh my goodness.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, not to go down to a hockey rabbit hole.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, well, you and I are recording. It's Saturday night,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: so that is hockey night in Canada.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's right, that's right, But.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's it's been and I'll say it probably
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  Speaker 1: multiple times over the next five podcast. But a guy
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: like Brent Hepner, those are the ones that those are
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  Speaker 1: the ones that I like talking about because these are
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: guys that do everything the right way and do it quietly,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like he just goes out
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: and balls. That's just what he is and it's it's
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: been a lot of fun to watch him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I know that.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: You know, there was a lot of talk about, oh,
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: you know, the two point conversion the quarterfinals, and they.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Should have kicked it and tied it up. No, I
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: love the call when you have Brent Heppner at quarterback.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: I love that call. Yeah, and they and they did
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: that throughout the year.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: They had to do that multiple times, they had to
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: go for two and every time it seemed like they
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: had to do that, they got it.
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  Speaker 3: And so I love the call. I love the confidence
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: in your quarterback. And man, could you imagine calling plays
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: with him as your quarterback this?
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean I'd like I'd like to run
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: the ball a lot, but if I had a guy
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: like and then, yeah, we'd be thrown a little bit
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: here too.
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  Speaker 4: On The season completed one hundred and fifty seven passes
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  Speaker 4: for a fifty seven percent completion percentage, two six hundred
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  Speaker 4: and forty five yards, twenty two touchdowns to just six interceptions. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: just a tremendous, trenmendous player. Over two hundred and twenty
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: yards per game average, sixteen point eight yards per completion,
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: almost ten yards per attempt, which I love that. Also
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: ran the ball for three hundred and sixty three yards
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  Speaker 4: and five more touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just a.
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  Speaker 3: Great, great season.
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  Speaker 4: And there's a long line of these all state quarterbacks
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  Speaker 4: that Lindon has.
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  Speaker 2: Had and.
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  Speaker 4: He's just I love that he's in that with those guys,
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: and you know, you can start, you can even start
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: counting state quarterbacks that have won state titles and were
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: named All State at London and you know, going back
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: to Jordan Hastings and Josh Kraft obviously really.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Cool that and Brent Hepner is a part of that, and.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I just swished him all the best and whatever
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: he decides to do at the next level.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Tyler, that is number five in the top one
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  Speaker 1: hundred countdown. It is Brent Hepner of Linden. Any last
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: words before we head out and move on to number four.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're good, all righty well as usual. He
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: is Tyler Anderson of Watcompreps wacompreps dot com. I'm Ryland Spencer.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: We need to give a thank you to any type
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: fitness again. I guess is before we get out of here, Linden.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I mean we're talking about a Linden guy. You can't
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: forget about that. I guess Lyndon, Linden, North and Ferndell
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: a team that he beat multiple times. I guess, or
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: at least I know he beat him once. But yeah,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: you've been listening to episode of three hundred and twenty six,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: the sixth of ten podcasts on the top one hundred
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  Speaker 1: countdown here on the watcom Preps podcast.
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  Speaker 2: We will talk to you tomorrow.