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Chuck & Buck 2-27 Hour 4: Eddie Olczyk, Jackson Felts and Booze News! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Here we go, final hour of this busy week here
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  Speaker 1: on Chuck and Buck in the Morning Sports Radio ninety
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  Speaker 1: three point three k A R F M.
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  Speaker 2: Bucky. You'll be back on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: It's been Ashley and I throughout the course of the week,
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  Speaker 1: and we just got an hour to go. We've reached
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  Speaker 1: the anchor leg and so we sprint toward the finish
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  Speaker 1: line that will include booze after the tape.
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  Speaker 2: Hits our chests.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Booze news coming your way at nine forty five today.
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  Speaker 1: But we are also going to talk some hockey. We've
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  Speaker 1: got a couple of things to talk about the good
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  Speaker 1: of Sunday's gold medal and then the bad of the
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  Speaker 1: Krakens start since they've resumed the season on Wednesday, and
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  Speaker 1: we've got the perfect and I mean the perfect guy
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  Speaker 1: to discuss it joining us now, the man his friends
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  Speaker 1: affectually referred to as ed Zo.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we're quite in the friend zone.
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  Speaker 1: Yet, Ashley, so I'll call him mister olcik Eddie. Oldcick
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  Speaker 1: now joins us right here on Chuck and Buck.
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  Speaker 3: Goome morning, sir, Hello Chuck, Hello Ashley, Hello Buck Weber,
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  Speaker 3: and the hell you are you know what with that,
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  Speaker 3: with that intro, you can call me Edze.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes, oh man, I kind that easy?
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  Speaker 2: Is that easy? I don't even have to do anything.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to like run a lap around the
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  Speaker 1: building or prove that I can ice skate anything like that.
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  Speaker 4: No, not at all at all. I hope everybody's well.
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  Speaker 4: Congratulations to the Hawks. By the way, that was I
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  Speaker 4: was over in Italy. You can imagine the time change
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  Speaker 4: was a little challenging watching uh the whole game, but
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  Speaker 4: was lucky enough to tune in obviously, love the outcome
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  Speaker 4: and appreciated the uh not a lot of scoring in
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  Speaker 4: that game, if you know what I mean. So it
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  Speaker 4: was a win win for years, truly, and congratulations to
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  Speaker 4: the Super Bowl champions. It was pretty awesome to watch
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  Speaker 4: from over in Italy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we've been pretty busy around here in the sports
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  Speaker 1: talk world here and see, I had no question about it.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to start by congratulating you. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you'll tell me I didn't have anything to
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  Speaker 1: do with it, but you were on the call for
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  Speaker 1: the game winning gold medal game on NBC, which proves
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  Speaker 1: that you're quite accomplished in this broadcasting field. As well
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  Speaker 1: as in your hockey profession as well.
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  Speaker 5: So what was it like.
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  Speaker 1: What was it like to be on the call for
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  Speaker 1: that game and as great a game as it was,
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  Speaker 1: and for the US to come out on top.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I appreciate that, Chuck. It's my fifth Olympics that
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  Speaker 4: I've been able to be a part of. One on
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  Speaker 4: Radio three with the Best on Best twenty ten, twenty fourteen,
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  Speaker 4: and of course this year twenty twenty six of Milan,
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  Speaker 4: and then I was able to work for NBC back
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  Speaker 4: in the twenty eighteen or twenty two eve I can't remember,
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  Speaker 4: but it is an honor to be there. I'm a
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  Speaker 4: full disclosure. I'm an aluma of USA hockey. I played
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  Speaker 4: in the Olympics in nineteen eighty four fourteen USA over
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  Speaker 4: in Syria of Yugoslavia, and I was inspired because of
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  Speaker 4: the American I said nineteen eighty I was twelve turning
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  Speaker 4: thirteen at that particular time, and I didn't know how
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  Speaker 4: you got to the Olympics. I didn't know how you
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  Speaker 4: got to make team USA. But all I wanted to
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  Speaker 4: do was to make it, and I thought realistically that
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  Speaker 4: I would be able to do it. When I was
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  Speaker 4: an old guy.
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  Speaker 2: I thought maybe when I.
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  Speaker 4: Was twenty twenty one, twenty four, twenty five, I didn't know,
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  Speaker 4: And sure enough, four years later I got an invitation
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  Speaker 4: as a sixteen year old in made Team USA and
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  Speaker 4: played in the Olympics as a seventeen year old. And
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  Speaker 4: obviously at that time there were amateurs only where everybody
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  Speaker 4: else was professionals. We were playing against the very best.
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  Speaker 4: But to know what that team did for me inspired
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  Speaker 4: the next generation of hockey players and just take people
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  Speaker 4: inside a little bit. That eighty team opened up the
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  Speaker 4: door on National Hockey League for American born players like
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  Speaker 4: myself that came in shortly after that. I came into
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  Speaker 4: the NHL in eighty four after I played in the Olympics,
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  Speaker 4: but at that time the numbers were very, very small
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  Speaker 4: of American born players playing in the NHL on a
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  Speaker 4: consistent basis that when got the attention of the NHL
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  Speaker 4: and NHL executives and said, wow, these kids from the
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  Speaker 4: US aren't bad. And now here we are today where
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  Speaker 4: we can put the top fifty American born hockey players
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  Speaker 4: in the NHL against the top fifty of Canada. Who
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  Speaker 4: are who are our our tribal and I can say
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  Speaker 4: that because I lived it as a as a member
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  Speaker 4: of Team USA for a long long time. That's come
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  Speaker 4: a long way. And you look now the NHL still
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  Speaker 4: dominated by Canadians, but that number with the Euros his
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  Speaker 4: his jumped dramatically. And I know that winning the gold
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  Speaker 4: medal on Sunday will inspire the next generation or the
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  Speaker 4: current generation of hockey players saying I would love to
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  Speaker 4: do that. And I think sitting in that chair as
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  Speaker 4: I did remembering watching as a kid and as a
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  Speaker 4: fan of Team USA, I know what it did for me.
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  Speaker 4: I know what it did for hockey, and I think
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  Speaker 4: that to be able to bring it to people back home,
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  Speaker 4: I know it was early in the morning for everybody
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  Speaker 4: back in the sea, but it was a thrill of
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  Speaker 4: a lifetime and it was just great to be a
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  Speaker 4: part of it on the broadcast and something that I'll
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  Speaker 4: be very very product to see Team USA when their
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  Speaker 4: first gold medal in forty six years.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll just say this as well ed Zoe uh
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  Speaker 1: and that is that there was something to the broadcast.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we all think you're just excellent at what
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  Speaker 1: you do in calling a game, but there was a
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  Speaker 1: little bit here in Seattle, like that's our guy, that's
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  Speaker 1: nailing it here tonight. So you know, you you had,
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  Speaker 1: you had your fans here in Seattle that we were
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  Speaker 1: happy you were on a call and uh, and it
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  Speaker 1: was an excellent broadcast and uh. And then of course
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  Speaker 1: you were part of the intermissions as well, where you're
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  Speaker 1: given the key to the overtime and you gave the
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  Speaker 1: actual key and that is in three on three hockey,
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  Speaker 1: you got to create a two on one and that's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what the US ended up with and executed it brilliantly.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that that goal, that Chip too, smile of
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  Speaker 1: Hughes will be something we'll remember forever.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it really was, Chuck, It was you know, I
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  Speaker 4: felt like it would end early. And when I was
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  Speaker 4: on with Mike Turrico during the in between the second
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  Speaker 4: and third period and then obviously needed to jump on
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  Speaker 4: there and the intermission, it just the game just felt bigger.
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  Speaker 4: And I mean we all know, I mean, when Mike
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  Speaker 4: Turico is in a building, regardless of what venue it is,
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  Speaker 4: it'll be you know NBA shortly for NBC and then
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  Speaker 4: doing the Super Bowl, you know, the win by the Hawks,
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  Speaker 4: and then you know being there at the gold medal game.
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  Speaker 4: It's just it's it's it's a bigger game, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: to be up there and you know to kind of
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  Speaker 4: give that, you know, the sense of how this thing
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  Speaker 4: could play out because of the dynamics of both teams
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  Speaker 4: in a skill level. But you're right, Zach Wrensky made
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  Speaker 4: the pass over to Jack Hughes, who was very much
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  Speaker 4: instrumental in what was going on. Both pro for taking
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  Speaker 4: a stick in the in the in the mouth and
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  Speaker 4: losing a couple of chicklists and then he took a
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  Speaker 4: penalty right after that and then he gets the you know,
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  Speaker 4: the ot Golden GWG and something that will be with
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  Speaker 4: him the rest of his life. And just the reaction
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  Speaker 4: and it was just so let me think about the
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  Speaker 4: right word, Chuck and Ashley, I just it was just
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  Speaker 4: it was organic. There was no there was nothing staged
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  Speaker 4: like you just saw the reaction. It was raw. It
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  Speaker 4: was proud to be from the United States of America.
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  Speaker 4: It was we took down our arch rivals. It was
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  Speaker 4: just it was it was beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it really was.
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  Speaker 4: Because when you're playing in that in that setting and
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  Speaker 4: the expectations are through the roof you're supposed to get
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  Speaker 4: to the gold medal game, you get out played quite
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  Speaker 4: from and we said that on our broadcast a couple
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  Speaker 4: of times. They were lucky to get it to overtime.
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  Speaker 4: I think we said. I said, I, you know, the
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  Speaker 4: US is chanced after chance for the Canadians. I said,
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  Speaker 4: with about eight or nine minutes left to go in
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  Speaker 4: the third period, I just felt like the US has
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  Speaker 4: got to get to overtime. I mean, that would be
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  Speaker 4: the goal because if Canada scores, it doesn't look like
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  Speaker 4: the US are going to be able to score, at
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  Speaker 4: least in that five on five situation. So it was
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  Speaker 4: it was awesome to see and both the Hughes brothers
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  Speaker 4: came up large. Quinn scored in the quarterfinals in overtime
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  Speaker 4: and then Jack wins the golden goal and gives Temo,
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  Speaker 4: say their first gold medal in forty six years. So
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  Speaker 4: I just it was hard. I said that after the
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  Speaker 4: puck win and the net, I don't remember what I did.
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  Speaker 4: I don't never remember how I reacted. I felt like
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  Speaker 4: I blacked out. It was just like, am I actually
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  Speaker 4: seeing this and having an opportunity to be one of
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  Speaker 4: the first voices to be able to comment on it
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  Speaker 4: in our country and send it back home to everybody watching.
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  Speaker 4: It was it was just, it was. It was an
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  Speaker 4: awesome feeling for a lot of different reasons. And full disclosure,
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  Speaker 4: I tried to play it right down the middle, you know,
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  Speaker 4: even though I was bleeding red, white and blue. All right,
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  Speaker 4: let me just say I was sweating red, white and
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  Speaker 4: blue in the third pid. Let me just say that
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  Speaker 4: it was uh, it wasn't looking good. But Connor Hellibuck
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  Speaker 4: adjust that he made a couple of uh says that
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  Speaker 4: we're going to remember the rest of our life and
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  Speaker 4: we'll go on for a lot longer than when after
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  Speaker 4: we're all gone, And that that save on Devonte's with
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  Speaker 4: the paddle of his stick was just it was just unbelievable.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, you need a little luck every once in
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  Speaker 4: a while too, But that's a lot of great things happened.
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  Speaker 4: But that the toothless Jack Hughes picture will, I think
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  Speaker 4: will last in everybody's mind for a long long time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I asked the cord, like, which is the poster
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  Speaker 1: that will be on walls, will be toothless Jack Hughes
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  Speaker 1: smiling after the goal, or will it be that stick
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  Speaker 1: saved hell.
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  Speaker 2: He chose hell about yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But he's biased, you know, the goaltender biased.
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  Speaker 2: That old chick.
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  Speaker 4: He's got to check he's got hey, Chuck, Chuck, he's
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  Speaker 4: got to check his h his membership card at the
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  Speaker 4: door there when he's answered that question the.
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  Speaker 1: Next time, you know, that'll chick with us right here
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  Speaker 1: on the Chuck and Buck in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: And I do want to get to the kracking.
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  Speaker 1: Here in a moment, Sure, I do want to ask
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  Speaker 1: about Hella Buck because man, I'm looking at that overtime
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  Speaker 1: and I'm a mccarr, McKinnon and McDavid skating after you.
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  Speaker 1: That might be the three best players in the world.
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  Speaker 1: They're skating after you, and he's and he pushed them
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  Speaker 1: aside to I mean, people were saying it might be
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  Speaker 1: the greatest goaltending performance in the history of hockey. Are
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  Speaker 1: we prisoners of the moment suggesting that or was it
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  Speaker 1: just that good?
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  Speaker 4: Well, when it's on the biggest stage like that, it'd
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  Speaker 4: be hard to it'd be hard to argue that it
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  Speaker 4: that it wouldn't be in the team picture now whether
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  Speaker 4: or not it's you know, number one. When you think
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  Speaker 4: about some of the history of the National Hockey League
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  Speaker 4: or even some of the you know, some of the
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  Speaker 4: you know inside the uh you know inside hockey tournaments
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  Speaker 4: that have been one you know, by certain players or
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  Speaker 4: by certain teams and in different climates in the world,
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  Speaker 4: both on and off the ice. It's great debate and
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  Speaker 4: it's great argument, but I would have to say, when
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  Speaker 4: you do look at it from start to finish, the
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  Speaker 4: Canadians definitely deserve better. But you have the great equalizer
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  Speaker 4: in goal and we've seen that with is the great
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  Speaker 4: John Forsln loves to say the you know, the you know,
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  Speaker 4: the the general German and the German gentleman, and Philip
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  Speaker 4: Grubauer a couple of years ago when the Kraken were
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  Speaker 4: making their run in the playoffs and a couple of
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  Speaker 4: the games that he won against the Colorado Avalanche and
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  Speaker 4: that big upset like you need, you need great goaltending
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  Speaker 4: and sometimes you need it to win a game or two.
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  Speaker 4: And for Team USA, they just right.
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  Speaker 2: It was one game.
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  Speaker 4: It's a one game showdown. Now, if you play that
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  Speaker 4: in the Best of seventh series, you know it's going
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  Speaker 4: seven games because the teams are so close. But in
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  Speaker 4: a one gamer it's somebody's just got it for that
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  Speaker 4: sixty minutes and then a minute and forty eight seconds
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  Speaker 4: or whatever it was in overtime. That's all you need,
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  Speaker 4: and that can end up being the difference. So I
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  Speaker 4: would not argue that point at all that when it
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  Speaker 4: comes to being on top of the mountain in the
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  Speaker 4: biggest game that we've seen in many, many years, there's
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  Speaker 4: no doubt that that performance by counter Hullibuck would be
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  Speaker 4: right there.
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  Speaker 1: Ed Olchik is with us here on Chuck and Buck
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  Speaker 1: in the morning of course, on the call for the
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  Speaker 1: US gold on Sunday, and then Ashley and I could
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  Speaker 1: not wait for Cracking hockey after that game to get
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  Speaker 1: ready to watch them to see if they can pick
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  Speaker 1: up where they left off. Going into the Olympic break
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  Speaker 1: three weeks without Cracking Hockey, we were just sure they
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  Speaker 1: were just going to come out of the gates firing,
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  Speaker 1: and instead they've played two of their worst games of
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  Speaker 1: the year.
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  Speaker 4: How do you make sense of it? You don't know
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  Speaker 4: what you got coming out, Chuck. You some teams are
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  Speaker 4: going to come out and they're going to take advantage
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  Speaker 4: of this break. The break will be unbelievable for some
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  Speaker 4: teams and it will be not good for others. And
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  Speaker 4: you know, we talked a little bit about that on
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  Speaker 4: our on our crack and broadcast last night with Johnny,
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  Speaker 4: JT and Piper Is. You know you're gonna have games
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  Speaker 4: like you did in Dallas and then last night just
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  Speaker 4: I mean, look at it. There's no other way to say it.
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  Speaker 4: An awful start and when you're chasing the game and
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  Speaker 4: you just it's it's tough to win. It's tough to
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  Speaker 4: to be there. You know, the power play let them
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  Speaker 4: down in Dallas. The power play let them down early
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  Speaker 4: last night. They did get better at the game on
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  Speaker 4: on because the power play has been a that has
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  Speaker 4: saved them a lot this year. The goaltending has been
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  Speaker 4: very good all year. Let me say that both both
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  Speaker 4: Joey and and Grewby have been very very good for
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  Speaker 4: coach Lane Lambert, who I think has been a hell
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  Speaker 4: of a hire and a very has done a very
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  Speaker 4: very good job. Now the team is offensively challenged. Uh
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  Speaker 4: they don't have a game breaker, which you need in
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  Speaker 4: order to win in the National Hockey League. But you can't.
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  Speaker 4: You can't have a two game losing streak become four
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  Speaker 4: and five and six. Now with only twenty four, twenty
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  Speaker 4: five games ago, right, So that's that's where they are.
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  Speaker 4: It's disappointing at times, third period in ballast. You know,
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  Speaker 4: last night there were some stretches there where they did
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  Speaker 4: get to their game. The Cocko goal was an outstanding
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  Speaker 4: team goal, but they needed more in that and last
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  Speaker 4: night was a missed opportunity. Without a doubt like that
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  Speaker 4: would probably be the game I would imagine for for
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  Speaker 4: the Lane and his staff and the players too, that
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  Speaker 4: that game probably is more the one that probably really
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  Speaker 4: bangs you up than anything else because Saint Louis has
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: been in a tough spot. Points are there to be
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  Speaker 4: had and you're chasing the game and you don't get
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  Speaker 4: any there. So you got to you got in the
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  Speaker 4: streak tomorrow and you got to you gotta turn this
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  Speaker 4: thing around because they put themselves in a really good
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  Speaker 4: spot here. But you got to start winning games because
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  Speaker 4: if you don't, you could easily fall out the because
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  Speaker 4: it's been that close.
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  Speaker 1: It's an important more so. I mean, when you think
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  Speaker 1: of the environment. We started this by you congratulating the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks on a super Bowl. We've got a baseball team
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  Speaker 1: that has a plan on getting the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: I just I just want to get them to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: I want them to get back and getting familiar with
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  Speaker 1: qualifying for the Stanley Cup playoffs every year, and if
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  Speaker 1: they can ramp up from there, great. Do you got
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  Speaker 1: to get a good feel that this team is going
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  Speaker 1: to get there?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well they they've shown that with the year that
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  Speaker 4: it's been. It's it's there, really is. There's a couple
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  Speaker 4: of teams and they're both and there all three of
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  Speaker 4: them in are Central and I think Vegas those are
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  Speaker 4: the four top teams. You got Colorado, you got Many,
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  Speaker 4: you got Dallas, and you got Vegas. And I think
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  Speaker 4: you put Edmonton in that spot. But then you know,
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  Speaker 4: you got that's five teams. You got three spots left.
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  Speaker 4: I think you could put seven or eight teams. And
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  Speaker 4: that's how close it is.
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  Speaker 2: And you're right.
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  Speaker 4: You make a perfect point, Chuck. There's success within the city.
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  Speaker 4: I mean it is you. I could feel it when
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  Speaker 4: I'm in town. You know, the Mariners, the run they
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  Speaker 4: went on last year, the big dumper of the year
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  Speaker 4: that he had the Hawks do and what they did
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  Speaker 4: and getting home field and you know, the buy and
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  Speaker 4: getting home field and you know, eventually win in the
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  Speaker 4: Super Bowl. I've lived that, not only as a broadcaster
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  Speaker 4: in in Chicago and I when I did Blackhawk games
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  Speaker 4: here for sixteen years, but you know, I coached in Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, there is you. You feel it as
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  Speaker 4: an organization. You feel and it's and it's great, and
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: you say the right things and but you want to
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: keep your end of the bargain up. And I don't
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: think there's any doubt. And I haven't had much talking
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: in full disclosure. I mean for people that may or
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: may not know. My brother is an AGM there with
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: with the Kraken and and Ronnie Francis is one of
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: my one of my best friends. So you know, they
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: haven't talked about it, but they get the sense, you know,
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: like from within the organization now, players wise, coach wise.
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: I've had no conversation, not no, but I've lived it.
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: I've lived it as a player. I remember when I
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: was a rookie in the NHL in nineteen eighty four
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: eighty five, I was playing for the Blackhawks. If you
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: go back to that year, while the Chicago Bears were
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: on their way to the Super Bowl, shuffle and take
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: out the Patriots by about one hundred and fifty points,
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: and it puts It does put pressure because you don't
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: want to let the city down and it's on such
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: a high, and then when you magnify it in Seattle
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: right now with the baseball and the football there, I'm
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: sure that there is that pressure to get into the playoffs.
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: But they want to be playing really good hockey and
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: if they do like they've done for a lot of
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: this year under coach Lane Lambert, I think that they
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: give themselves the hell of a spot, but right now
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: they put themselves in a tough spot because of losing
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: the two games coming off the Olympic break.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for joining us. We do
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: appreciate it here this morning. Hopefully the Kraken Get Going
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: will be listening. But again, it was a blast hearing
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: you on the coverage for the Olympic gold and so
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: great job, job, well done, and hopefully we can have
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: another conversation because I really enjoyed this.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: Look forward to it. Thanks lot, and say how to
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: buck for me?
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: All right, we'll do that.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Ed Old check joining us right here on Chuck and
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Buck in the mornings on Chuck and Buck Sports Radio
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  Speaker 4: R F.
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  Speaker 2: M Eddie. Oh z Yeah, I can't believe we're friends.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Can't believe that happened that quickly. It was.
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  Speaker 5: It was a surprise to me. Honestly, I thought he
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: was gonna keep you more on an arms length arms distance.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: But well, we'll see when I run into them.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: Well what happens. You'll have to walk up with your
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: arms out like you're gonna go in for heybody, Hey,
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: ed Zoe, bring it in. See what he does. Then
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: you'll know if you're really friends.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't think he's gonna call me tonight. Yeah.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: Probably.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: I think we'll start with ed Zoe and we'll work.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: From there and it'll probably stay there.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Well jealous Ian kind of does does it flippantly on
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: the broadcast.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, like they've been friends their whole lives a lot. Yeah,
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: I know, and it feels like he's rubbing it in
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: honestly a little bit.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, we appreciate that's great stuff from him
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: and about the Kraken and his experience with the US team,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: and he did.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: An excellent job that day.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: All right, coming up next on our radio program. We
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: do this every single year with this individual person and
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: we didn't get to do it in a timely fashion.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: So when we come back on the other side, we
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: preview the Sounder season with Jackson Feldts Sports Radio ninety
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: three point three KJRFM.
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: He's in.
• 19:34
  Speaker 7: It's a disappointment, but that's just the reality of a
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: team that you know, averages almost a trophy every year
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: over the last twelve years in some sort of form,
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: whether it's a conference title, whether it's an MLS Cup,
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: whether it's a League's Cup title like last year. So yeah,
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: missing the playoffs, as Albert rusnak, our star midfielders said
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: at the season opening press conference last week, it left
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: a bad taste in all of their OUs and Brian Schmitzer,
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: the head coach, echoed that in a comment that just
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: followed where everybody kind of looked at that Minnesota series,
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: which was a first round series last year where they
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: lost in a just dramatic as hell, twelve round penalty
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: kick shootout in Minnesota where it was twenty degrees got
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: it was cold there, I tell you what, And yeah,
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: we all we all look at that situation and just
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: say you gotta do better. You can't can't get eliminated
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: in the first round, got to go deeper, got to
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: make a West Final, got to make an MLS Cup,
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: got it win in more than just a league' Cup trophy.
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: Brian Schmitzer cares about MLS Cup more than any other trophy,
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: and that is the goal, all right.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: So in order to get there, in order to adjust
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: it back on the right course, what are what is
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: the is the key? Is that the signings that they
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: made this offseason to improve theoretically the roster. Is it
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: getting back to a brand of Sounders soccer that just
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: wasn't there a year ago? Or does Brian Schmetzer need
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: to get creative? I mean he is, you know, he
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: is the wacky you know professor down there in the laboratory.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Is he going to come up with something new, a
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: couple of tricks up his sleeve to kind of readjust
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: it that way?
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: What are your thoughts?
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah, Chuck, I think it's a couple things. First, you
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: kind of touched on it there. It's getting back to
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: the brand of Sounder soccer where we really won all
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: of our trophies, and that's being a defensive juggernaut.
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: Defense wins championships.
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: We all know that, and you know as the Sounders
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: won title after title after title.
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: Over the years, they really did.
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: You know, use it by a phenomenal defense, and last
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: year the team scored a record number of goals in
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: club history. Over the twenty twenty five campaign, offense was
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: just on fire in a lot of different ways.
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: Defensively fell off a little bit.
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: They were still okay, they were still probably solid as
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: a good word for it, but they weren't great defensively
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: like they were in twenty twenty four and earlier. So
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: getting back to that brand of defensive soccer while maintaining
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: the offensive success you saw. But honestly, Chuck, the biggest
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: thing is just getting healthy and staying healthy. The final
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: day of the regular season last year, our star winger
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: Pedro de la Vega broke his kneecap and unfortunately a
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: game that he didn't need to be playing in but
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: he was, and massive injury and he's going to be
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: out for pretty much the first half. Came into this
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: season and we all thought, all right, is he going
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: to be Ford? Is he going to be a winger?
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: We need Jordan Morris to be a star, and Jordan
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: Morris five.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: So without Morris, without day La Vega. I mean, those
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: are a couple of your star players. Is it by
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: committee that you just got to make it up a
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: little bit with those guys missing from the lineup, or
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: is there a player or too that has some star
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: potential that could really rise up this year and take
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: advantage of this opportunity.
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: There is a star player or two. The first name
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: is Paul Rothrock. He's a kid from Capitol Hill who
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: grew up in the shadow of lumen Field and grew
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: up a part of the academy. He just grew up
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: a Sounder fan and he's been pretty darn good the
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: last few years. And over the offseason, Chuck he had
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: the opportunity to leave and go elsewhere for more money,
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: Paul Rothrock decided, I'm going to take a far less
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: contract to stay in Seattle and play for the Sounders.
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: And it kind of came as a bit of a
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: surprise to us in the media, but he stayed. So
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: when Jordan Morris got injured with that strained quad five
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: minutes into the game last Sunday, Paul Rothrock came in
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: and Paul Rothrock scored a goal and got an assist
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: and put together just more than just the goal and
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: the assist.
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: He was fantastic off the bench for Morris.
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: So he's the guy that instantly slides in into Morris's spot.
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: And then the other guy up top it Forward is
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: a kid named Osase de Rosario. I had the chance
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: to catch up with him after the game on my
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: Sounders Weekly show earlier this week, and this dude, I
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: tell you what I was told by somebody who would know.
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: He had one of the best preseasons that a certain
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: person with the team has ever seen, which is quite
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: a comment. Osase de Rosario is this kid who's a
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: big bodied forward.
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: He's really good.
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: In the air, he kind of moves well, very physical player,
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: and he put together this preseason. I believe he had
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: a stretch of three, sorry, five goals.
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: In three games.
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: He is a really superhuman type looking guy, a massively confident.
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: He's the son of a former MLS legend, Dwayne d Rosario,
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: and he has come out just gangbusters to start twenty
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: twenty six. So he got the start at forward in
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: the first game. He looks pretty darn good. And the
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: question now is can he keep building on this and
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: be kind of a superstar in the making it Forward.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Speaking of legends, Jackson, I mean, fry and roll Down
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: can be described.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: As nothing but legends. If you you could, I'm gonna
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: play a game that you play on your show.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: You can only have one. Only one gets a statue someday.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Which one is it?
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: Oh my god, what a question that is.
• 25:13
  Speaker 7: Geez, that's damn near impossible. I'll go Brian Schmetzer's statue
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: before both of them. But that's you know, and they're
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: both such legends. The weird thing about this season is
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: they're going in such opposite directions with their lives and careers.
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: Where Stephan Frye is no longer your starting goalkeeper, he's
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: now your backup, and Andrew Thomas is now the starter
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: who has taken Steph's spot. Some of that's Andrew is
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: just that good. Some of that Steph is on kind
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: of the back end in the last couple of years
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: of his career. Meanwhile, Christian role Don is probably a
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: easy bet to make the United States men's national team
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: for the World Cup. And I've said a number of
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: times that if it was available to bet on in Vegas,
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: I would play a lot of money down that. Come
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: June nineteenth at Lumen field, Christian rolled On is starting
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: for the United States against Australia in the World Cup
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: in his own house. He's going to make the team,
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: I think, and he's going to I think, challenge for
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: a starting spot and in that second World Cup game
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: in the group stage in Seattle, having Christian rolled On
• 26:22
  Speaker 7: starting on his home field. I know that the head coach,
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: Mauricio Pochettino for the United States, he's the type of
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: guy who would allow Christian to be in that massive position.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: I honestly don't know this well. The World Cup like spark,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: you know, attendance for the Sounders, or will it perhaps
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: take away considering how much attention it's going to get.
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: It's a good question what the World Cup is going
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: to do.
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: One of the things that happened earlier this week is
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: FIFA and some not only Seattle, but some other host
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: cities dialed back their you know, big, you know party
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: plans for a certain activation and change it to kind
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: of some smaller, multiple city events across the entire city.
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: They did this with a few different sites, including Seattle,
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: and I think it's sort of a sign and then
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: you can just overlook overall, look at the ticket sales.
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: I don't think the.
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: World Cup is so far doing what FIFA hoped it
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: would in the United States, and that's why I don't
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: think it's going to take anything away from the Sounders.
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: If anything, you'll you will see I think a slight
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: bump in the soccer enthusiasm and appetite across the nation,
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: certainly more so in certain markets I hope here. But yeah,
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: what the World Cup does for soccer in this country
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: I think is it's I'm a little concerned because because
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: the appetite at least at least tickets right now just
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: doesn't seem to be there for the event yet. So
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: that's something to monitor for sure as we get closer
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: to June.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: All Right, prediction A short prediction. Brief prediction for tomorrow.
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: Salt Lake Sounders haven't beaten Salt Lake in Salt Lake
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: in a very very long time. A draw is a
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: win for the Sounders, and I do think they get it.
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: I think that this team is very, very deep. A
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: Saani Dotson is out of concussion protocol. He's good for
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: the midfield. So give me a one to one game
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: tomorrow between Seattle and Salt Lake.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: And big picture, your prediction for the season.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: You're typically optimistic when we start the season. What are
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: your thoughts on what the Sounders can do this year.
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: I do think they get healthy.
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: I do think they're able to stay healthy, come together
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: defensively like they weren't last year, get enough offense to
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: make a West Final. The problem is is that there
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: are some amazing teams in MLS this year, including LAFC,
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: who is just stacked. They're probably the best team on
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: paper in the entire league. I think we get to
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: a West Final against LAFC. It's very hard to right
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: now to see Seattle beating LAFC in that game.
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: But crazier things have happened.
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: There's a long summer where the Sounders are going to
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: have some money to spend on players. So can we
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: bring in a guy that could challenge an LFC years?
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: Oh god, we yeah, we started well, my first Sounder
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: show Radio Cascadio Live in twenty seventeen, and then Sounders
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: Weekly was in twenty eighteen.
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: So I don't know how many years that in years?
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, wed ninth year.
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we've been doing We've been doing Sounder broadcast that long.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Wow, look at you boy, you grows up and you
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: grows up.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: You know, hey, Softie hasn't done one of these crazy
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: things in a while. I think you need to get
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: him out on the pitch at some point and we'll
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: see how many times he can run up and down
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: the field before collapsing.
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: Well. See, yeah, that's the thing.
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: I would want to see that, just to watch Softie
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: trip over himself five times.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Did he participate in that oh when you guys did
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: the Oh?
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't think Softie think it was either. Yeah,
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: it was the kicking cancer event at Looming. I think
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: I think he stayed away from that event because he
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: knew he would injure himself. Like with the funny story
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: from that event, of course, is that the current play
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: by play voice of our sounders here on KJR.
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: Danny Jackson. He was playing and he fell down and.
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: He tried to head the ball after he fell down,
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: and as he was trying to head the ball, I
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: tried to kick the ball ended up giving Danny Jackson
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: a black eye. So that was that was a great
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: story of how I gave a sounder legend and the
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: current play by play voice a black eye.
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: But enough enough beer forgave him about that.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: And you were so young at the time and knew yea, yeah,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: you wanted to make such a good impression on all
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: of these people and.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: You end up kicking a guy in the eye that
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: you We can laugh about it now, I don't think
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: you about it back then.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: All right, man, Well, have a great year and we'll
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: check in with you real soon. Anything about tonight shoe
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: that we need to discuss, uh.
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: Well, we have to. We have Greg Bell coming on.
• 30:53
  Speaker 7: We got Humillin and Dick Fane from three to seven.
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: I think we're working on probably touching down what's going
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: on in Peoria as well, and we'll see if we
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: get the Sounders coach on.
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: We're hoping for it, but yeah, we'll see.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: All right, Thank you, sir, appreciate it.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: You chuck.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: All right. Jackson Felts joining us right.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Here on Chucking Buck Sounders Weekly also pre and postgame hosts,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: and if you want to follow him, do so.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Jackson on radio there on X. All right.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: We close out the week with Mooze News Next Sports
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. All right, the final
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: segment of the week here on Chucking Buck. And of
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: course it's always a consideration when you get done with
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: the work week.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: What am I going to do this weekend?
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: It's tough.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Call are a lot of the code of the movies.
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: That's fun.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Go to dinner.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Food is food, or you could go to dinner while
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: at the casino.
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: Yes, that's a thing you can do.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: It's a thing you can do. People do it all
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: all the time.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: What Talala Presort Casino. We'll see the Creek Casino. Go on,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: check it out, go play some games tonight. You can
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: stay the night at the hotel. You can buy tickets
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: for the upcoming Soul Asylum concert on March fourteenth. Just
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: make a weekend of it. Talala Bresort Casino. It's your
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: best friend. Yeah, you have to know them a little bit.
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: Snuggle up.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: We are at the end of another work week, and
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: there is only one way that we do this.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Sucker.
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  Speaker 5: Oh that's actually really delicious. I was a little nervous. Yeah,
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: just for our listening audience. We're drinking mimosas today, provided
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: by the sales staff because it's Arden's birthday. Arden, so
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: they offered mimosas they said, he got booze news. You
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: want to Mimosa, I said, oh, I brought some seltzers,
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: But all right, you made them. They're out there. We'll
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  Speaker 5: try it with Snoop Dogg Champagne or prosecco.
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  Speaker 1: Snoop Dogey shamehampaigne cham.
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  Speaker 5: I mean you just sold it right there. Everyone's gonna
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: go out and buy a bottle of it. Now. You're
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  Speaker 5: just like a one man musical delight. So, speaking of delights,
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: I guess we could start with a Kraken who were
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: off to a rough start coming out of the Olympic break.
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  Speaker 5: The last two games. I mean, I'm just gonna say it.
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  Speaker 5: They were playing ugly and suddenly I have to keep
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  Speaker 5: reminding myself there's twenty four games left. We still have time.
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  Speaker 5: It was only two games. The sky isn't falling, but
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  Speaker 5: it kind of felt like the sky was falling last
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  Speaker 5: night in Saint Louis because that was a team you
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  Speaker 5: should have beat. Yeah, so it was a little rough.
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  Speaker 5: They're back home tomorrow night against the Canucks. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 5: we can only yeah the Canucks, so we can only
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  Speaker 5: hope that the rust will have fallen off by then,
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  Speaker 5: since this is the most important matchup between Canada and
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: the US, and I mean a really, really large that's
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: what I was gonna say. I can't remember a more
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: highly anticipated matchup between the US and Canada since no
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: way a minute.
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  Speaker 2: What I think there was a game all the way
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  Speaker 2: back to Sunday. Oh yeah, I mean you got to
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: go way back.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, so yeah, I do think there was something that. Yeah,
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: it was like gold medal for the gold right right.
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  Speaker 5: I did hear people talking about that.
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  Speaker 2: It was almost like a week ago.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so this one, yeah, definitely the second most highly
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: anticipated matchup in a week, right, Okay, So that means
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: it's still a big deal, the.
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  Speaker 2: Biggest Anadian US.
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  Speaker 5: Matchup this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Our Seattle is concerned.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, since Sunday Sunday. Okay, so in the last okay right,
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: all right, well it's pretty big. Yeah, so please win.
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: It is spring training time, of course, and I came
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: across something from Tiger spring training. I'm curious if you
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: saw this, and it's a bummer Bucky's not here too,
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: because this is right up the alley of things you
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: guys would think are dumb. I do think it should
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: be pointed out, Yeah, young people do dumb stuff. I
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: get that. We all remember when we were twenty one,
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: we made some bad choices. And Max Clark is a
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: twenty one year old prospect who probably won't earn a
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: spot on the Tiger's roster this season, but after yesterday,
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: his chances might even be worse. He walked out to
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: the outfield wearing six, not one, not two, not three,
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  Speaker 5: not four and five I believe it was six, if
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: not more, platinum and diamond chains around his neck. And then,
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: as if he didn't look foolish enough with the sun
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: gleaming off the chains, he missed two pretty routine balls
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  Speaker 5: to the outfield.
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  Speaker 1: Was the sun in his eye because of the reflection
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  Speaker 1: off his chains, don't know?
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: And if so, then that's uh yeah, it was not great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And he's like a top top prospect, I.
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: Think second or third. You're saying he won't be on
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: with the team, they don't think this year. But I
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: mean he's still wanting to prove himself and show them like, hey,
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: take me seriously. But it's hard to take anyone seriously
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: with six chains around their neck. Six chains, yeah, six. Yeah,
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: it's a good, good rap name.
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: So moral of the story to all the young kids
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: out there. Probably never need to wear six platinum and
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: diamond chains when you're playing sports, but you definitely don't
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: need to wear them when you're trying to prove yourself
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  Speaker 5: to a team.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe accomplish one thing.
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think start with one chain for every
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: major thing you accomplished, and then see where you are
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  Speaker 5: at the end of your career.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: But maybe he's already felt that way. I got a
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: walk in a double agg game. I'm buying myself a chain.
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: I'm getting a chain. I am in this new Tigers uniform.
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: Chain time.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know what I did today?
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: I ate two pieces of pie and I didn't even
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: get full chain.
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  Speaker 5: Buy the chain, wear wearing it.
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  Speaker 2: Run by and see my chain guy.
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he does have a guy for that.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: I'm sure he got a chain gang.
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: He probably does chain chain chain. Okay. I know we're
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: a sports station, but we're also a station of the people,
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: and I feel like like it's time we do our
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: listeners as service. This morning, a lot of our listeners
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: are married, some are in long term relationships, some are
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: looking for that kind of love, and I wanted to
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: share some relationship advice. Some tips for a successful relationship,
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: no matter what stage you're in. Yeah, get a pen,
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: write this down.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna need I'm gonna need this.
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: For example, if your significant other pours a glass of
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: wine on a Wednesday, don't look at them with a
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: judgy face and say, oh, is it wine Wednesday? First off,
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: you already know the answer. And when I I mean
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: when your significant other pours a glass of wine on Thursday.
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: Spoiler alert, it's wine Thursday too. Here's another one. If
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: your significant other talks in their sleep, always keep the
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: conversation going. I promise you will not regret it. Yes,
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: five Iron talks in his sleep, and it's some of
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: my favorite conversations with that.
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: You.
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: So who will listen to hold on like, have it
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: and talk. I'll ask him questions, he'll continue his answers
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: about whatever it is.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, last night it was about the change of scenery.
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: He couldn't figure out why it was blurry. I suggested
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: it might be because his eyes were closed. Then he
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: went back to sleep. Here's something every couple should know.
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: By one of you will be able to load the
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: dishwasher correctly, and the other will undoubtedly suck at it.
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: Do not fight that. That's how you know you found
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: your person, right, I mean, no household needs two people
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: who can load the dishwasher correctly. What a waste?
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: What?
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Which one are you?
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: I can't load it?
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: Okay, so I try and the other. Yeah that's just it.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Though, Since you get so angry with us because we
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: don't do it the way you think it needs to be.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: Done, then just do it.
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: I don't want to be.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: In an argument with you over stupid dishes. Yeah, let
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: me do it and let me screw it up.
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: And I'm not some Tetris.
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: Expert, that's the thing. And and just or just go
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: in and quietly rearrange it before you run the dishwasher.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: I'm guessing Ashley does some things better than you do.
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: Five I probably not true. One more thing, By the way,
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: this has nothing to do with relationships. When did we
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: as a society lose our privilege to dispense our own
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: hand soap? What in the bathrooms? Oh, it's like automated
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: hand soap dispensers. I spend more time trying to get
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: soap out of the dispensers than I do actually go
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: into the bathroom.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: It's because we get here early and they're so low
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: that because of overnight, they will settle down so they're
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: not in the system, so it takes forever for us.
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: I just do that, milk them like seven times. It
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: does feel like I'm milking a goat for their soap.
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: It's very frustrating. I would like it the other day.
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: Oh did you Yeah, you're never supposed to stand behind
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: the goat.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I squeezed the teet too long.
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: Ah, they get real pissed. At least they didn't spit
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: on you. That's it, all right.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Cheers, have a great weekend out there, Mark James, Chris
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  Speaker 1: Kid coming your way next on Sports Radio ninety three
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