April 10, 2025 • 30 mins
In the first hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Hugh Millen chat with Dawgs football defensive back Ephesians Prysock at Husky Stadium about Spring ball, talk to The Gasman, Mike Gastineau, about UW football, his book, and the NBA in Seattle, before Fun with Audio.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Where we go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We got a guy sitting right here by the way
who was a star in the utup secondary, our guy Ephesians,
Price Sock is with us on the radio, who was
commenting to me by the way off the air, this
weather's just like Tucson.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
This reminds me of Arizona. Man, let me ask you
a question.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
What does that move like for a guy like you
coming from a place like that to a place like
this in the Pacific Northwest where I assumed that you
probably didn't have a lot of history at all with
a place like this when you came up here.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:26):
Man, it's just been very different. But I love it.
It's just a big thing, big change for me. But
it's been a great opportunity, great things here.
Speaker 6 (00:39):
Price Sock Man. I gotta tell you, when I first
was checking you out at Arizona, I said, that is
first Team All American, All Named Team. So my first
question to you is, what's your favorite book in the
New Testament.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
There's a lot of great books out there, man, all right.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
What's your favorite? What's your favorite Ephesians verse? There's got
to be an Ephesians verse that that's close to your heart.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
I got one this. I prayed that out of his
glorious riches, he may strengthen me with what I prayed
that out of his glorious riches, he may strengthen me
with power in your inner being.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
God, you are really putting this guy in the spot.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
He told him we told him he was gonna come
over Herewie, No, he said we We we told him
off the air man, You're gonna come over here. It's
gonna be fun, You're gonna be relaxed, it's gonna be
a great time.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
And you're killing them right out of the gate here.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
For I'm sorry, I tell you there was gonna be
a test when you're with us.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
No, that that's not good. So just let's switch to football,
because that's what you're here for. Just give us a
broad perspective of kind of where you are right now
this spring and where you think the team are. What
what's really top of mind for you for this football.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Team to just being on the same page with everybody,
just being closer to each other as brothers in the
locker room, on and off the field. But everything is
coming in place right now, is going the right direction.
We improve in every day and different things like that
is just getting better every day.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, let's talk about kind of the way last year ended.
I mean the sun Ball game. Obviously would have liked
to have won that game, but the guy that's playing
quarterback for you provided a lot of enthusiasm for the offseason.
So tell me about kind of that game and the
way Demon Williams performed and what that did to kind
of energize this entire program with the last few months.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Man, Man, it just bought a lot of energy to
our team and a lot of great things to come
with him even after this year and things like that.
He's gonna be a great guy on and off the field,
bring a lot of fans here to produce some great games.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
When I think at some point I said to Dave
last year, I said, the number one player on this team,
at least in the eyes of the NFL, I'll bet
you is the Phesian's Price sock and and and so
I know that that's a goal for you, But what
are you doing in terms of saying okay, and and
and that doesn't take away your focus on the University
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of Washington. We can we can be in two places.
But but is there something that you're doing you say, Okay,
it's my goal to be in the NFL. Do you
want to play more press coverage? Do you want to
have less safety help? Like how does your coaches talk
to you and how do you kind of set those
goals to be in the NFL within what you're trying
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to do with the Huskies.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Well, as of right now, I'm trying to work on
all around game. My press coverage is elite, but I'm
trying to work on a lot of different things, like
my off coverage. Just get better all around off coverage,
zone coverage. H knowing my help is just growing in
terms of my IQ level and different things like that.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Well, you got a new running mate back there with you.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I mean, Thaddeus Dixon had a great year obviously, and
he took off to co play football at North Carolina
with maybe the greatest coach in the history of football
and Bill Belichick. But ta Cario Davis. So you had
with you right at Arizona. Tell me about Takario and
did you have anything to do any influence with him
at all in getting him to come up and play
for you and with you?
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Man, that's my guy, man, it's like my twin man.
I love playing with that guy. I love playing with
all these guys, but that guy is something special. He's
gonna be a great, great guy in the league. He's
a great dude on and off the field, takes care
of business, a lot of things like that. But he's
a great football player. And yeah, I kind of had
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to get him over here.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
I want to take you back to Tucson in twenty
twenty two, your first year. That was Jedfish's second year
with the Wildcats. Now you're here in Seattle in Jedfish's
second year with the Huskies. Tell us something something where
you say okay that really reminds me exactly of what
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we went through with the Wildcats of Arizona, and then
give us something Ephesians where you say okay. Coaches has
altered that a little bit in his game plan. We're
in year two here. I don't remember us doing that
back with Arizona. Jedfish has kind of changed his program
a little bit going into year two with Washington. What
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are some things that are similar and maybe something that's different.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Well, I feel like just the standard he's raised the
bar for all of us here from Arizona. It was
just like we were the first or at least I
was the first recruiting class. He got there at Arizona
going into my first year, and it was kind of
like it was kind of like their first year with us,
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and so it was kind of like different. And then
now here he's had us for a while. He knows
what to do in all different areas of the game,
in the film room, the way room, on the field,
off the field. He knows what to do to take
care of business.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, look, dude, I gotta ask you Efesions price lock
with us. They do want to ask about Ryan Walters
in a second. But what more on Demon Williams. What's
it like facing him in practice?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Right?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Tell me about what you see from your perspective when
he's out there and you're going against the ones.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Man.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
That dude's competitive. Man, He's real competitive guy. He loves
to get at you. He just man, he brings it
all to all around. The enthusiasm, he brings the competitiveness.
He talks a lot of smack, or he talks a
little smack when he makes it play on you.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
You know what I'm saying. He's a he's a competitive dude. Ye.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
And then we mentioned, uh, Steve Belichick is gone obviously. Uh,
he's got his dad, he's coaching with his dad. He
got a new defensive coordinator, and Ryan Walters. Tell me
about what Ryan Walters is brought to the film room
so far? How different this defense be schematically from the
one that we saw last year.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Well, I feel like he brings a lot to the
defensive side of the ball. He brings a lot of enthusiasm,
He brings a lot of different things that we can
do as a defense to get better than if we
were last year.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I feel like we've already.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Improved since he's been here in the film room in
terms of learning a lot of different things to grow
our football knowledge and different things like that. But I
feel like our defense all around, our team all around
is going to be better than the previous years.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Hey, real quick before we let you go, Ephesians. So
two weeks from today's the NFL Draft, and there's a
lot of people talking here locally that Seahawks may have
a need and a desire to really look long and
hard at Ted McMillan. You've gone against him in practice,
you know him. Well, give us a little scouting report
on him. What makes him really difficult to cover or
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as a player, just kind of give see fans a
quick overview of Ted McMillan.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Uh, he's a great guy off the field. On a field,
he's got very good catch radius. I'm sorry, he got
really good speed. He could run down the field, good routes.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Uh. Yeah, he's he's like an all round player. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Well, he said the same thing about you, by the way,
but if it's just on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
So it's like you guys are twins.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Man.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Hey, listen, it's great to see you. Best of luck
getting back on the field, dude, and we'll talk down
the roadman.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Thanks, okay, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
You bet price sock with us on the radio show
here from uh the touchdown Swedes here at Husky Stadium
for UB spring Ball. We're gonna go from one guy
who's a superstar in Seattle. Uh, Mike, come on over
here and grab those headphones, by the way, to a
guy who, let's face it, a lot of us aren't
even here without this guy. But I do wonder if
Mike Gastono has any favorite Bible verses he wants to
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share with us or old Testament.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Dude, testimony.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Hugh, you could have asked the guy for his favorite sandwich,
for God's sake.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
For maybe his favorite TV?
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Are you? I know you are on the other team,
but you are aware that Ephesians is a book in
the New Testament.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I am very aware of that. But it's but again,
just because I'm guessing, immediately.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Got a second hue age. Hang on a minute. I'm
named after a Jewish king.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
You want to ask me about some of my favorite
David stories for God's saints? Manly see what happens when
you show up?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Goes to hell?
Speaker 7 (09:23):
When did hey? Can? Can can my volume be down
just a little in my head? Yes?
Speaker 4 (09:27):
I can do that?
Speaker 7 (09:28):
And b when did we when did we become religious?
Talk here in the afternoon. We had a lot going
on on our show. It's he it's a fair question
by Hugh. I think it's a fair question. But I
would I would in the in the hollow tradition of
of of another person who's in the spotlight, I would
say if I was asked to name my favorite Bible
Bible verse, it's just two persons.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah, exactly. I can't heads up next time. For just
so you know, kid, we're gonna ask you for your
favorite Bible verse.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Well, hey, I need corners to be able to be
on the on the island, you know, and just be
ab I as yea.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
O God, how are you man, I'm good.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Good to see you. I have never been in the
end zone suits. Yeah, you tell me, I'm gonna be here.
Come on buy and I said, come bine and I
assumed they were suites at the other end where like
where coaches offices are. Uh, this is really nice down here.
I was told that the real selling point to these things.
I mean, you're on the field level. You're so close
to the field it's unbelievable. But the best part is
(10:24):
when you're in here. This is you have to have
a ticket in here, yes, to have access to everything
that's another's like eighty eight seats and then that's it.
That's you got your own everything else that's here. It's
a beautiful place to see.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Well, the only reason why they let us in here
today is because there's nobody else in here, right right, yea,
if there was something going on and we'd have no shot.
But uh, we're gonna talk about a lot of things,
and you're gonna stick around for one more segment.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
By the way, you got nothing to do.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
I gotta do.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
I just gotta swim back to Woldby Island and the
rain has just turned traffic into already a quagmire.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
So I'm right there with you, man, But why do
you just give us the thought of what's going on here?
I mean, my god, I mean if you were here,
you know, a year and a half ago, right, Uh,
totally different playing for the national championship. Calin de boris
everybody's favorite coach, and now Husky fans can't stand the
guy and Jed Fish is running the show.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Totally different operation.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
I think you know, you think about spring football, They've
got you know, like four of their five guys in
the front of the front of the defense are transfers. Right,
how's their defensive line gonna be? I don't you know
who knows? Right? It may be great, I mean, it's
it's such a different game now. I think when you
talk about the Huskies in twenty twenty five, and I
think you would agree with this. You start with the
(11:33):
fact that you've got the beast of the Big ten,
Indiana off your schedule, right, So that's that's one loss
that you won't have to worry about for this year,
and JA build on that one good year and the
guy's getting why not? Why not? I think, Hugh, don't
you think? I mean, you look at this and you
know we've all it's always been speculative. When you're sitting
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at spring for any team, you're like, well, you guys
have gotta stay healthy, they gotta stay eligible, they gotta
stay this. I said, it's even more so now because
of all the changes. And I don't lament the changes
as much as just you've got to I think, be
you know, open to the idea that you know, who knows,
who knows what this team is gonna do. And you
think back to the Sunball and the roster's changed dramatically
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since the roster will change again in another couple of
weeks when another portal opens. So it's it's hard to
know what's gonna happen. But I'll go say this much.
You don't you think Fish is in a million percent
better place than a year ago when he was scrambling
to replace twenty two guys, scrambling to build a staff,
scrambling to get to know his way around and get
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to you have a year under his belt. Should make
I'm not gonna say the job easier, but should make
the job better for him.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Oh, no doubt. I mean he came after the initial portal.
I mean they couldn't even conduct spring practice because they
didn't have enough offensive lineman. There's no doubt about that.
And and and look, uh he andherited remember that that
one win wildcat team. And within two years, you know,
by his third year, they won ten games. And so
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he's he's proven he can do it. There's there's two
things that we know about the guy. He is very bright.
I think he has a high IQ relative to other coaches.
And in a in a profession that demands a high
work ethic, this guy is even the lead in that regard.
You are knocking to out wek Jeed Fish.
Speaker 7 (13:25):
It seems like too. He is a guy who has
accepted what has happened in college football. And I think
that's that's hard for coaches. Because of his NFL background,
maybe like, look, this is how we do it now.
I saw him speak once and he said, he goes,
we tell our guys, you're the welcome to the thirty
third franchise of the NFL. Because that's kind of how
college football is now. You can be replaced pretty quick,
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and you've got to you've got to bring it every day.
It's just it's amazing to me to think of the
dramatic changes over the few years. I think Fish seems
again he's been here a year, so who knows, But
I felt bad from a year ago. I'm thinking, how
is he gonna put anything together? And they actually put
together a team that was okay, yeah, and now he
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can look at that and go, now we can build
on that. We can you know, we're developing culture and
developing attitude and maybe build on.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
The way well. And who knows.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
This guy doesn't come off a sideline and celebrate during
a block field goal against Rutgers, and you don't call
a wacky play on fourth down against Wazoo.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
You're right, hear the goal line.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
You may have been an eight nine win football team
last year, so they were even closer to being more
competitive than people think. But Mike Gastino's here. We're gonna
get a quick break, a master's update from Westwood One.
He'll rejoin us next life from you dub right here
with Hwin for Dick on ninety three to three KJRFM.
Speaker 8 (14:39):
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Speaker 3 (14:57):
All right, boys and girls, we're back here at Hosky Stadium.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Big thanks to Ephesian's price sock and his favorite Bible
verses for joining us on the radio show at three o'clock.
U Millin's in for Dick Vane. A master's update. Justin
Rose again. You're leader after round one seven under par Uh.
Bryson's making a move and Rory's going the wrong way,
so we'll keep an eye on that all day long.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Right here on ninety three three kJ r f M.
The gas man is here.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Hey, where's Hugh? I see Hugh like in a stately
office with all kinds of trou and stuff, but not there. Yeah,
he's not here.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
You're here in a ear in a good place. By
the way. For the record, David, yes, sir, And if
if his name was John, I would not have asked him.
I know that's his favorite verse.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I know this is why people always ask me off
the air, are you guys married? For God's sakes, I
get that question all the time.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
Well, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Maybe one day we will be. But my gast too
is here with us.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Before we start talking to yak and sports stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Uh, you wrote a Husky football book and you came
and you talked to the team a couple of years
ago for like an hour, four years ago, four years
ago with Jimmy when he was the guys.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
So for folks that don't even know about the booker,
how to get it?
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Tom about it?
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Well?
Speaker 7 (16:07):
The only reason and I kind of reached out to you.
The book publishing business is weird. You hear from your
publisher once a year. Here's your sales. So the rest
of you you're like, I wonder how it's doing. Well,
we'll let you know what.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
So can you not call them and find out you
can call it?
Speaker 7 (16:22):
Well, we'll let you know in March. That's the deal.
So March came and went, and I got a nice
note from him. We actually had a good year last year,
and I just thought, you know, it might be a
it would be fun to come on your show where
all the Husky fans are and thank people for continuing
to support the book. I didn't know Hugh was gonna
be with us today. And it's important because Hugh is
a character in this book because the ninety one championship,
(16:43):
I maintain was seven years in the making. That you know,
Don thought for sure, Don James, at the end of
the eighty four Orange Bowl, we're gonna win the net
you that one of the two polls will give us
the championship. And Carol James, God rest her soul. So
she was so important this book. She told me, says Don,
he would never let on, but he was crushed. Yeah
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in eighty four that he just thought that the coaches
would get so and then they go through a dip.
There's so many stories to this. So it's about the
ninety one team, but it's about the seven year journey
that got to that, and it starts kind of in
the Orange Bowl with Hugh Millen coming off the bench
to lead him to this great comeback victory against against Oklahoma.
But the main thing I wanted to is thank the fans.
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We had a good year last year. Yeah, is my
ultimate point. He like, I looked at the thing and said,
look at that. We're still selling books to this thing.
And I thought, well, we're still selling. Must have a
good year this year. You obviously most Husky fans know
it's out there, but if you don't, it's called fear
No Man. It's available wherever you buy books. It's now
available on paperbacks. So if you'd like my retirement to
be a little less comfortable and you could save some money,
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buy the paperback. But it's also available in hardcovering and
you can get it wherever you buy books. And I
a million thanks to the Husky fans who have stepped
up and supported this.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Well, you can't bring up that orange ball without getting
his reaction, you know that, right, you realize what you've done.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Oh yeah, we only have three hours left in the show.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
I know, I know. It's that whole season. You know again,
that's kind of where it started. Don James thought, for sure,
you you guys at the end of that game, and
I know you think that too, and all the guys
who played on that team think that too, and we
can be labor that point forever and fairly, I think.
But it didn't work out.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Yeah, Well, it was the closest vote in the history
of the ap at that eleven sixty to eleven forty.
And you know, BYU is the only team in the
history of all champions that never played and obviously never
beat a top twenty team. So yeah, and you kind
of put it in the the context of today's format.
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You know, we've gone through formats where by you wouldn't
have even been in the you know, the BCS and
the four team playoff perhaps or but at any event,
you know, and I would say, to be fair, BYU,
they they deserve the right to play us and not
have people, you know, kind of scoff at them for
the for the rest of their lives as well. It's
just it was a terrible, terrible structure because you can't
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name one other sport gas if you're a fan, not
professionally or even in college. You can't name any other
sport that doesn't pick their champion objectively, including Division two
football at the time, Anaia football at the time. Division
one football was the only one that at the end
of the year they just said, well and let instead
of having another good game to determine the champion on
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the field, let's just vote who we think would win.
If they did play.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
Yeah, yeah, you know the other thing about Hughes eighty
four team that was I thought germane to ninety one
as I researched it. And when you write a book,
you make some suppositions on your own and you put
your own editorial thought into it. But Hugh, I think
what happened in ninety one where Billy Joe had to
step in after Mark Brunel gets hurt, and then Mark
Brunell comes back and things are rolling. I think Don
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looked back at two years. He looked back at eighty
four when he had messed a little bit with the
quarterback rotation, and he looked back at eighty two when
he had done it with with with Tim Callen and
and I think that's one of the reasons in ninety one.
You Don always said you don't lose your position to
an injury. But when Brunell came back, I think he
looked at his past, and I think he looked at
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Billy Jones said you know what, we're gonna We're gonna
stay with him. We're gonna stay with this guy because
he and so I I you know what I mean.
I think there was some I think he learned some
things in what he went. Don was a smart guy
and he learned things.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Twenty four hours and nineteen cents on Amazon, not twenty
four to twenty twenty four, nineteen twenty four, nineteen right
at a private be here by Saturday at twelve.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
O'clock, or in any bookstore you want to go through
the long foot.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
What's a bookstore? They still have those?
Speaker 7 (20:52):
They do, they do. I'll tell you what. It's fun
to support hi because they're good local businesses and and
uh and they've My book is often merch next to
Larry Stone's Edgar. I love it, and I always I
always put mine a little in front of When I
see it, I'm like.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Why not, let's let's put this just. We should have
a whole legion of friends that do that for you.
You just got to put your book right in front.
But you know who did as Renee did it. My
wife for a long time.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
Whenever I do a book, she'd go into bookstores and
kind of look around and and and merchandise and get
my book out to.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
I love it, well see it.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Fear No Man is the book that Mike wrote. It's
all over the internet. A bookstore near you so jump
online and find a copy.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
But dude, I got to ask you.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Before you go, because I still have these vivid memories
of being in the old building three fifty one Elliott. Right,
the Sonics made the announcement that Clay Bennett was taken over, Right,
and you walked into Rich Moore's office and you looked
at him and you said, they're gone. Remember that, Yeah?
And I was standing right next to Yeah. And that
was seventeen years ago. He could say Pacific as many
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times as he wanted to.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
He did not buy a team in Seattle out he's
in for a local home. He's gonna move it where
his money was.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Well, I thought, honestly that by the end of last
year we'd have some kind of announcement. Maybe that got
pushed back because of the Celtics deal that's now been
taken care of.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
What are we looking at here? Well, now they're talking
about starting a new league in Europe. And remember every
dollar that comes into the NBA right now is divided
by thirty Right, And so if they're well, if we're
gonna start and I don't know this, I'm supposing this,
but if they're thinking we're gonna start a league in
Europe that's gonna make money. Do we want to divide
that by thirty or by thirty two? Let's get the
framework for I don't know if this is the game,
(22:29):
but I think they keep finding things that they can
split thirty ways right in and I'll tell you they've
as much as I've beaten the drum and I'm like everybody,
I'd love to see the team come back. I've lost
my steam, Hugh, They've they've They've cared and sticked me
right out of the race. I'm like, okay, wait a minute,
time out.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Let me just make sure I know you're lost your like,
what your enthusiasm for the return of the story, for
for for.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
The Hey, you're gonna come back for going Okay. I
bet the announcement's coming in June. I bet it's coming
at the draft. I mean, I don't care anymore. I
hope that announce it soon. When they do, all be excited.
But I can't. I mean, at some point, you go, geez,
you know, Bill Narina, Okay, we did it. Gotta get
a player's deal done, Okay, you did. Gotta get a
FEV deal done, Okay, you did. I gotta get the
(23:12):
Celtics soul. Okay you did. I've got to this European expansion.
Maybe it's ease, Okay, yeah, yeah, okay, you just it's
warned me out.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
It's been.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
Look, it's been since two thousand and eight. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Yeah, no, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I mean just thinking about that day in Rich's office
and here we are seventeen years later. Came close when
Chris had that agreement with the maloofs to buy Sacramento.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Oh but you can't do that. No, no, Oklahola could
come take this team Seattle. You can't take the It's
just the NBA has uh uh. I've just lost my steam.
I get it for them, and this story. I'm not
saying I don't be checked up when they return exactly exactly.
But until that day, I'm almost like I don't want
to hear any more. No one else needs to tell me. Well,
(23:54):
we're not going to get ahead of the commissioner, knock
it off.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
How about how about thirty two thousand depositors?
Speaker 7 (24:02):
How about just bring the ball club?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I love it all right, Hey, how fun with your
nine hour commute back home? Buddy?
Speaker 7 (24:06):
Oh, it's gonna be funny.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
You.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
I owe you a phone call. I haven't forgotten.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
I'm all good, all right, you know I can I
can wait.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
You know your playing.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
Here, all right?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
You know where you're staying with?
Speaker 4 (24:16):
This is big time.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
He came to see me, by the way, and not you.
I st.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
I spent all of last October twenty sixth wander around
Bloomington looking for you, tob I never could find.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Whether if we made the right call.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
Not going to that one by the way. All right, Mike, Uh,
it's great to be here, and thanks great Hugh, great tu.
We're planning on seeing you. Great surprise man for the best.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Good to see him.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
See you guys here an old man is the book
jump on the web bookstore near you.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Maybe mom's a big Husky fan.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
This a little Mother's Day gift for next month, by
the way, Father's days coming up, and guess what Christmas
will be here eventually.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
Why not go ahead of the curve.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
And do it now. We're gonna break. We're at Husky
Stadium for spring practice. Brett Boone's gonna join us by
the way at four o'clock today, Hugh talks in baseball.
With the day off today for the MS I'll do
a little fun with audio coming next on ninety three
three KJRFM.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
It's now time for Softy in Dick's fun with audio.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Jimmy g pawn Star, Jimmy mister garoppolo.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
Now let's have some fun with audio.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
All right, boys and girls, we are back at Husky
Stadium here on a rainy, soggy, windy, cold Thursday afternoon,
right here on ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Brett Boom by the.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
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Speaker 3 (25:29):
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Speaker 2 (25:30):
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how about a little fun with audio slash. Hey, did
you hear that Dick is out? Youwin for Dick Jackson
Back in the studio. My name is Dave Softy mall.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
What's that Dick?
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Hugh?
Speaker 3 (25:45):
We start in the National Football League.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Former Falcons and Broncos safety Justin Simmons joined k Adams
Up at Adams Podcast this week and called Michael Pennix
Junior the real deal. Then he talked more about what
he saw from Pennix while he was in Atlante.
Speaker 9 (26:00):
You mentioned Penix real deal. I was hot at the
end of the season. When did you know and what
is it? The one thing about him quickly that you
know he's the.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Guy for that team training camp. That was my third
day of practice, literally third day being there. He was
running the second team reps and going up against the
second team defense and he had this no look throw
down the sideline right into it was the craziest throat
I think I've ever seen in person. And I was like, Oh,
(26:28):
he has whatever it is, he has it, so I'm
excited to see what he does.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (26:34):
Absolutely, I mean more than the homes. You saw a
lot in your eight years in Bronco. That's saying a lot.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
The game where I remember thinking, all right, I remember
thinking earlier in the year that maybe Michael Pennix is
just a system guy and it is going to.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Have a hard time at the NFL.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
The game that I really thought, you know what, he
might be able to survive was the Texas game because
I remember him, excuse me, the Orgon game in Vegas.
I remember him for two games in a row, both
those games sitting in the pocket until the last possible second.
Remember that that that that sideline pattern to McMillan that
set him up to go up.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
I think they were up thirteen to three, down about
the four yard line.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Dylan Johnson got pushed back right into his face on
a block and he hung in there and just let
that sucker go with a guy right and his freaking
grill did the same thing against Texas Man. I thought
that those two games really showed how great he can
be in the NFL.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
Well, it's funny. The thirty third team asked me to
present him for obvious reasons, and that was one of
the plays I featured. And what I really noted was
he was back on his left foot, you know, as
a left hander, and and you go slow motion and
you say, there is no body behind this throw. This
(27:46):
is just him throwing it. It was I think it
was right at about fifty to fifty one yards and
he's throwing that thing flat footed, without the benefit of
the body. And we hear this term arm talent. When
I was playing, I'd never heard the term on talent.
I mean, I heard the term strong arm, but I
didn't hear the term arm talent yep. And for me,
(28:08):
how I use that now? I mean, there's no like
dictionary that says, hey, this is how you use the
term arm talent. For me, it's the ability to generate
velocity without the body behind it at you know, off platform,
you know, angles and what have you. And he certainly
has that.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Jackson, I want to go make sure we get number
four in please we can. Okay, Hey, hu, did you
happen to.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
Hear that that's that Dick?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Was it yesterday? Was it two days ago? We brought
this up?
Speaker 6 (28:36):
He was Tuesday. We brought this stuff Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Tuesday we brought up Stephen A.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Smith saying that he is going to investigate a run
for the office of the President of the United States
of America in twenty twenty eight. Well, last night on
the NBA on TNT's postgame show, after his phone went
off mid segment, Shaquille O'Neill was spurred to share his
political plans with the crew.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
Score fifty four games.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
For any politician.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Sorry about that.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
This should be a lay up for any polic not
like politics. We love them doing the break. Wait are
you running for office? Yes? I you versus Stephen I
or you with stephen A.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Oh no, Steve and I will be working for me. Ah, gotcha.
I'm el presidente. He could be vice presidente.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Let's check out the Golden State highlights.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
So good, dude, so good. If you had to choose
one Shack or stephen A.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
Smith for president, Oh god, would I rather drink kerosene
or oil?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Come on, man, both good dude talking about it? Were
blooded Americans?
Speaker 6 (29:45):
Come on, man, this whole thing is just unraveling. Yeah,
this is how you become a not superpower.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Oh god, we had time for one more Jackson. No, alright, alright,
we're gonna break Brett.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Boone's gonna join us, by the way, and Booney has
got an idea of what the Mariner should do with
all these guys blisses out for maybe the year, with
the with the torn laborum.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
For God's sakes, Roe blesses out for half the year.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Are they really gonna sit on their ass and not
do anything to fill those gaps in the lineup? Booney's
got an idea. He'll share it with you next on
ninety three three KJRFM.
Where we go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We got a guy sitting right here by the way
who was a star in the utup secondary, our guy Ephesians,
Price Sock is with us on the radio, who was
commenting to me by the way off the air, this
weather's just like Tucson.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
This reminds me of Arizona. Man, let me ask you
a question.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
What does that move like for a guy like you
coming from a place like that to a place like
this in the Pacific Northwest where I assumed that you
probably didn't have a lot of history at all with
a place like this when you came up here.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:26):
Man, it's just been very different. But I love it.
It's just a big thing, big change for me. But
it's been a great opportunity, great things here.
Speaker 6 (00:39):
Price Sock Man. I gotta tell you, when I first
was checking you out at Arizona, I said, that is
first Team All American, All Named Team. So my first
question to you is, what's your favorite book in the
New Testament.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
There's a lot of great books out there, man, all right.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
What's your favorite? What's your favorite Ephesians verse? There's got
to be an Ephesians verse that that's close to your heart.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
I got one this. I prayed that out of his
glorious riches, he may strengthen me with what I prayed
that out of his glorious riches, he may strengthen me
with power in your inner being.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
God, you are really putting this guy in the spot.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
He told him we told him he was gonna come
over Herewie, No, he said we We we told him
off the air man, You're gonna come over here. It's
gonna be fun, You're gonna be relaxed, it's gonna be
a great time.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
And you're killing them right out of the gate here.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
For I'm sorry, I tell you there was gonna be
a test when you're with us.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
No, that that's not good. So just let's switch to football,
because that's what you're here for. Just give us a
broad perspective of kind of where you are right now
this spring and where you think the team are. What
what's really top of mind for you for this football.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Team to just being on the same page with everybody,
just being closer to each other as brothers in the
locker room, on and off the field. But everything is
coming in place right now, is going the right direction.
We improve in every day and different things like that
is just getting better every day.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, let's talk about kind of the way last year ended.
I mean the sun Ball game. Obviously would have liked
to have won that game, but the guy that's playing
quarterback for you provided a lot of enthusiasm for the offseason.
So tell me about kind of that game and the
way Demon Williams performed and what that did to kind
of energize this entire program with the last few months.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Man, Man, it just bought a lot of energy to
our team and a lot of great things to come
with him even after this year and things like that.
He's gonna be a great guy on and off the field,
bring a lot of fans here to produce some great games.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
When I think at some point I said to Dave
last year, I said, the number one player on this team,
at least in the eyes of the NFL, I'll bet
you is the Phesian's Price sock and and and so
I know that that's a goal for you, But what
are you doing in terms of saying okay, and and
and that doesn't take away your focus on the University
(03:20):
of Washington. We can we can be in two places.
But but is there something that you're doing you say, Okay,
it's my goal to be in the NFL. Do you
want to play more press coverage? Do you want to
have less safety help? Like how does your coaches talk
to you and how do you kind of set those
goals to be in the NFL within what you're trying
(03:40):
to do with the Huskies.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Well, as of right now, I'm trying to work on
all around game. My press coverage is elite, but I'm
trying to work on a lot of different things, like
my off coverage. Just get better all around off coverage,
zone coverage. H knowing my help is just growing in
terms of my IQ level and different things like that.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Well, you got a new running mate back there with you.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I mean, Thaddeus Dixon had a great year obviously, and
he took off to co play football at North Carolina
with maybe the greatest coach in the history of football
and Bill Belichick. But ta Cario Davis. So you had
with you right at Arizona. Tell me about Takario and
did you have anything to do any influence with him
at all in getting him to come up and play
for you and with you?
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Man, that's my guy, man, it's like my twin man.
I love playing with that guy. I love playing with
all these guys, but that guy is something special. He's
gonna be a great, great guy in the league. He's
a great dude on and off the field, takes care
of business, a lot of things like that. But he's
a great football player. And yeah, I kind of had
(04:46):
to get him over here.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
I want to take you back to Tucson in twenty
twenty two, your first year. That was Jedfish's second year
with the Wildcats. Now you're here in Seattle in Jedfish's
second year with the Huskies. Tell us something something where
you say okay that really reminds me exactly of what
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we went through with the Wildcats of Arizona, and then
give us something Ephesians where you say okay. Coaches has
altered that a little bit in his game plan. We're
in year two here. I don't remember us doing that
back with Arizona. Jedfish has kind of changed his program
a little bit going into year two with Washington. What
(05:29):
are some things that are similar and maybe something that's different.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Well, I feel like just the standard he's raised the
bar for all of us here from Arizona. It was
just like we were the first or at least I
was the first recruiting class. He got there at Arizona
going into my first year, and it was kind of
like it was kind of like their first year with us,
(05:56):
and so it was kind of like different. And then
now here he's had us for a while. He knows
what to do in all different areas of the game,
in the film room, the way room, on the field,
off the field. He knows what to do to take
care of business.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, look, dude, I gotta ask you Efesions price lock
with us. They do want to ask about Ryan Walters
in a second. But what more on Demon Williams. What's
it like facing him in practice?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Right?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Tell me about what you see from your perspective when
he's out there and you're going against the ones.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Man.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
That dude's competitive. Man, He's real competitive guy. He loves
to get at you. He just man, he brings it
all to all around. The enthusiasm, he brings the competitiveness.
He talks a lot of smack, or he talks a
little smack when he makes it play on you.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
You know what I'm saying. He's a he's a competitive dude. Ye.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
And then we mentioned, uh, Steve Belichick is gone obviously. Uh,
he's got his dad, he's coaching with his dad. He
got a new defensive coordinator, and Ryan Walters. Tell me
about what Ryan Walters is brought to the film room
so far? How different this defense be schematically from the
one that we saw last year.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Well, I feel like he brings a lot to the
defensive side of the ball. He brings a lot of enthusiasm,
He brings a lot of different things that we can
do as a defense to get better than if we
were last year.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I feel like we've already.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Improved since he's been here in the film room in
terms of learning a lot of different things to grow
our football knowledge and different things like that. But I
feel like our defense all around, our team all around
is going to be better than the previous years.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Hey, real quick before we let you go, Ephesians. So
two weeks from today's the NFL Draft, and there's a
lot of people talking here locally that Seahawks may have
a need and a desire to really look long and
hard at Ted McMillan. You've gone against him in practice,
you know him. Well, give us a little scouting report
on him. What makes him really difficult to cover or
(07:57):
as a player, just kind of give see fans a
quick overview of Ted McMillan.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Uh, he's a great guy off the field. On a field,
he's got very good catch radius. I'm sorry, he got
really good speed. He could run down the field, good routes.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Uh. Yeah, he's he's like an all round player. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Well, he said the same thing about you, by the way,
but if it's just on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
So it's like you guys are twins.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Man.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Hey, listen, it's great to see you. Best of luck
getting back on the field, dude, and we'll talk down
the roadman.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Thanks, okay, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
You bet price sock with us on the radio show
here from uh the touchdown Swedes here at Husky Stadium
for UB spring Ball. We're gonna go from one guy
who's a superstar in Seattle. Uh, Mike, come on over
here and grab those headphones, by the way, to a
guy who, let's face it, a lot of us aren't
even here without this guy. But I do wonder if
Mike Gastono has any favorite Bible verses he wants to
(08:51):
share with us or old Testament.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Dude, testimony.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Hugh, you could have asked the guy for his favorite sandwich,
for God's sake.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
For maybe his favorite TV?
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Are you? I know you are on the other team,
but you are aware that Ephesians is a book in
the New Testament.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I am very aware of that. But it's but again,
just because I'm guessing, immediately.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Got a second hue age. Hang on a minute. I'm
named after a Jewish king.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
You want to ask me about some of my favorite
David stories for God's saints? Manly see what happens when
you show up?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Goes to hell?
Speaker 7 (09:23):
When did hey? Can? Can can my volume be down
just a little in my head? Yes?
Speaker 4 (09:27):
I can do that?
Speaker 7 (09:28):
And b when did we when did we become religious?
Talk here in the afternoon. We had a lot going
on on our show. It's he it's a fair question
by Hugh. I think it's a fair question. But I
would I would in the in the hollow tradition of
of of another person who's in the spotlight, I would
say if I was asked to name my favorite Bible
Bible verse, it's just two persons.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah, exactly. I can't heads up next time. For just
so you know, kid, we're gonna ask you for your
favorite Bible verse.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Well, hey, I need corners to be able to be
on the on the island, you know, and just be
ab I as yea.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
O God, how are you man, I'm good.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Good to see you. I have never been in the
end zone suits. Yeah, you tell me, I'm gonna be here.
Come on buy and I said, come bine and I
assumed they were suites at the other end where like
where coaches offices are. Uh, this is really nice down here.
I was told that the real selling point to these things.
I mean, you're on the field level. You're so close
to the field it's unbelievable. But the best part is
(10:24):
when you're in here. This is you have to have
a ticket in here, yes, to have access to everything
that's another's like eighty eight seats and then that's it.
That's you got your own everything else that's here. It's
a beautiful place to see.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Well, the only reason why they let us in here
today is because there's nobody else in here, right right, yea,
if there was something going on and we'd have no shot.
But uh, we're gonna talk about a lot of things,
and you're gonna stick around for one more segment.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
By the way, you got nothing to do.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
I gotta do.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
I just gotta swim back to Woldby Island and the
rain has just turned traffic into already a quagmire.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
So I'm right there with you, man, But why do
you just give us the thought of what's going on here?
I mean, my god, I mean if you were here,
you know, a year and a half ago, right, Uh,
totally different playing for the national championship. Calin de boris
everybody's favorite coach, and now Husky fans can't stand the
guy and Jed Fish is running the show.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Totally different operation.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
I think you know, you think about spring football, They've
got you know, like four of their five guys in
the front of the front of the defense are transfers. Right,
how's their defensive line gonna be? I don't you know
who knows? Right? It may be great, I mean, it's
it's such a different game now. I think when you
talk about the Huskies in twenty twenty five, and I
think you would agree with this. You start with the
(11:33):
fact that you've got the beast of the Big ten,
Indiana off your schedule, right, So that's that's one loss
that you won't have to worry about for this year,
and JA build on that one good year and the
guy's getting why not? Why not? I think, Hugh, don't
you think? I mean, you look at this and you
know we've all it's always been speculative. When you're sitting
(11:55):
at spring for any team, you're like, well, you guys
have gotta stay healthy, they gotta stay eligible, they gotta
stay this. I said, it's even more so now because
of all the changes. And I don't lament the changes
as much as just you've got to I think, be
you know, open to the idea that you know, who knows,
who knows what this team is gonna do. And you
think back to the Sunball and the roster's changed dramatically
(12:15):
since the roster will change again in another couple of
weeks when another portal opens. So it's it's hard to
know what's gonna happen. But I'll go say this much.
You don't you think Fish is in a million percent
better place than a year ago when he was scrambling
to replace twenty two guys, scrambling to build a staff,
scrambling to get to know his way around and get
(12:36):
to you have a year under his belt. Should make
I'm not gonna say the job easier, but should make
the job better for him.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Oh, no doubt. I mean he came after the initial portal.
I mean they couldn't even conduct spring practice because they
didn't have enough offensive lineman. There's no doubt about that.
And and and look, uh he andherited remember that that
one win wildcat team. And within two years, you know,
by his third year, they won ten games. And so
(13:06):
he's he's proven he can do it. There's there's two
things that we know about the guy. He is very bright.
I think he has a high IQ relative to other coaches.
And in a in a profession that demands a high
work ethic, this guy is even the lead in that regard.
You are knocking to out wek Jeed Fish.
Speaker 7 (13:25):
It seems like too. He is a guy who has
accepted what has happened in college football. And I think
that's that's hard for coaches. Because of his NFL background,
maybe like, look, this is how we do it now.
I saw him speak once and he said, he goes,
we tell our guys, you're the welcome to the thirty
third franchise of the NFL. Because that's kind of how
college football is now. You can be replaced pretty quick,
(13:45):
and you've got to you've got to bring it every day.
It's just it's amazing to me to think of the
dramatic changes over the few years. I think Fish seems
again he's been here a year, so who knows, But
I felt bad from a year ago. I'm thinking, how
is he gonna put anything together? And they actually put
together a team that was okay, yeah, and now he
(14:08):
can look at that and go, now we can build
on that. We can you know, we're developing culture and
developing attitude and maybe build on.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
The way well. And who knows.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
This guy doesn't come off a sideline and celebrate during
a block field goal against Rutgers, and you don't call
a wacky play on fourth down against Wazoo.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
You're right, hear the goal line.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
You may have been an eight nine win football team
last year, so they were even closer to being more
competitive than people think. But Mike Gastino's here. We're gonna
get a quick break, a master's update from Westwood One.
He'll rejoin us next life from you dub right here
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Speaker 8 (14:39):
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Speaker 3 (14:57):
All right, boys and girls, we're back here at Hosky Stadium.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Big thanks to Ephesian's price sock and his favorite Bible
verses for joining us on the radio show at three o'clock.
U Millin's in for Dick Vane. A master's update. Justin
Rose again. You're leader after round one seven under par Uh.
Bryson's making a move and Rory's going the wrong way,
so we'll keep an eye on that all day long.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Right here on ninety three three kJ r f M.
The gas man is here.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Hey, where's Hugh? I see Hugh like in a stately
office with all kinds of trou and stuff, but not there. Yeah,
he's not here.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
You're here in a ear in a good place. By
the way. For the record, David, yes, sir, And if
if his name was John, I would not have asked him.
I know that's his favorite verse.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I know this is why people always ask me off
the air, are you guys married? For God's sakes, I
get that question all the time.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
Well, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Maybe one day we will be. But my gast too
is here with us.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Before we start talking to yak and sports stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Uh, you wrote a Husky football book and you came
and you talked to the team a couple of years
ago for like an hour, four years ago, four years
ago with Jimmy when he was the guys.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
So for folks that don't even know about the booker,
how to get it?
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Tom about it?
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Well?
Speaker 7 (16:07):
The only reason and I kind of reached out to you.
The book publishing business is weird. You hear from your
publisher once a year. Here's your sales. So the rest
of you you're like, I wonder how it's doing. Well,
we'll let you know what.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
So can you not call them and find out you
can call it?
Speaker 7 (16:22):
Well, we'll let you know in March. That's the deal.
So March came and went, and I got a nice
note from him. We actually had a good year last year,
and I just thought, you know, it might be a
it would be fun to come on your show where
all the Husky fans are and thank people for continuing
to support the book. I didn't know Hugh was gonna
be with us today. And it's important because Hugh is
a character in this book because the ninety one championship,
(16:43):
I maintain was seven years in the making. That you know,
Don thought for sure, Don James, at the end of
the eighty four Orange Bowl, we're gonna win the net
you that one of the two polls will give us
the championship. And Carol James, God rest her soul. So
she was so important this book. She told me, says Don,
he would never let on, but he was crushed. Yeah
(17:05):
in eighty four that he just thought that the coaches
would get so and then they go through a dip.
There's so many stories to this. So it's about the
ninety one team, but it's about the seven year journey
that got to that, and it starts kind of in
the Orange Bowl with Hugh Millen coming off the bench
to lead him to this great comeback victory against against Oklahoma.
But the main thing I wanted to is thank the fans.
(17:26):
We had a good year last year. Yeah, is my
ultimate point. He like, I looked at the thing and said,
look at that. We're still selling books to this thing.
And I thought, well, we're still selling. Must have a
good year this year. You obviously most Husky fans know
it's out there, but if you don't, it's called fear
No Man. It's available wherever you buy books. It's now
available on paperbacks. So if you'd like my retirement to
be a little less comfortable and you could save some money,
(17:47):
buy the paperback. But it's also available in hardcovering and
you can get it wherever you buy books. And I
a million thanks to the Husky fans who have stepped
up and supported this.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Well, you can't bring up that orange ball without getting
his reaction, you know that, right, you realize what you've done.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Oh yeah, we only have three hours left in the show.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
I know, I know. It's that whole season. You know again,
that's kind of where it started. Don James thought, for sure,
you you guys at the end of that game, and
I know you think that too, and all the guys
who played on that team think that too, and we
can be labor that point forever and fairly, I think.
But it didn't work out.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Yeah, Well, it was the closest vote in the history
of the ap at that eleven sixty to eleven forty.
And you know, BYU is the only team in the
history of all champions that never played and obviously never
beat a top twenty team. So yeah, and you kind
of put it in the the context of today's format.
(18:50):
You know, we've gone through formats where by you wouldn't
have even been in the you know, the BCS and
the four team playoff perhaps or but at any event,
you know, and I would say, to be fair, BYU,
they they deserve the right to play us and not
have people, you know, kind of scoff at them for
the for the rest of their lives as well. It's
just it was a terrible, terrible structure because you can't
(19:14):
name one other sport gas if you're a fan, not
professionally or even in college. You can't name any other
sport that doesn't pick their champion objectively, including Division two
football at the time, Anaia football at the time. Division
one football was the only one that at the end
of the year they just said, well and let instead
of having another good game to determine the champion on
(19:36):
the field, let's just vote who we think would win.
If they did play.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
Yeah, yeah, you know the other thing about Hughes eighty
four team that was I thought germane to ninety one
as I researched it. And when you write a book,
you make some suppositions on your own and you put
your own editorial thought into it. But Hugh, I think
what happened in ninety one where Billy Joe had to
step in after Mark Brunel gets hurt, and then Mark
Brunell comes back and things are rolling. I think Don
(20:04):
looked back at two years. He looked back at eighty
four when he had messed a little bit with the
quarterback rotation, and he looked back at eighty two when
he had done it with with with Tim Callen and
and I think that's one of the reasons in ninety one.
You Don always said you don't lose your position to
an injury. But when Brunell came back, I think he
looked at his past, and I think he looked at
(20:26):
Billy Jones said you know what, we're gonna We're gonna
stay with him. We're gonna stay with this guy because
he and so I I you know what I mean.
I think there was some I think he learned some
things in what he went. Don was a smart guy
and he learned things.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Twenty four hours and nineteen cents on Amazon, not twenty
four to twenty twenty four, nineteen twenty four, nineteen right
at a private be here by Saturday at twelve.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
O'clock, or in any bookstore you want to go through
the long foot.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
What's a bookstore? They still have those?
Speaker 7 (20:52):
They do, they do. I'll tell you what. It's fun
to support hi because they're good local businesses and and
uh and they've My book is often merch next to
Larry Stone's Edgar. I love it, and I always I
always put mine a little in front of When I
see it, I'm like.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Why not, let's let's put this just. We should have
a whole legion of friends that do that for you.
You just got to put your book right in front.
But you know who did as Renee did it. My
wife for a long time.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
Whenever I do a book, she'd go into bookstores and
kind of look around and and and merchandise and get
my book out to.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
I love it, well see it.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Fear No Man is the book that Mike wrote. It's
all over the internet. A bookstore near you so jump
online and find a copy.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
But dude, I got to ask you.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Before you go, because I still have these vivid memories
of being in the old building three fifty one Elliott. Right,
the Sonics made the announcement that Clay Bennett was taken over, Right,
and you walked into Rich Moore's office and you looked
at him and you said, they're gone. Remember that, Yeah?
And I was standing right next to Yeah. And that
was seventeen years ago. He could say Pacific as many
(21:52):
times as he wanted to.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
He did not buy a team in Seattle out he's
in for a local home. He's gonna move it where
his money was.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Well, I thought, honestly that by the end of last
year we'd have some kind of announcement. Maybe that got
pushed back because of the Celtics deal that's now been
taken care of.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
What are we looking at here? Well, now they're talking
about starting a new league in Europe. And remember every
dollar that comes into the NBA right now is divided
by thirty Right, And so if they're well, if we're
gonna start and I don't know this, I'm supposing this,
but if they're thinking we're gonna start a league in
Europe that's gonna make money. Do we want to divide
that by thirty or by thirty two? Let's get the
framework for I don't know if this is the game,
(22:29):
but I think they keep finding things that they can
split thirty ways right in and I'll tell you they've
as much as I've beaten the drum and I'm like everybody,
I'd love to see the team come back. I've lost
my steam, Hugh, They've they've They've cared and sticked me
right out of the race. I'm like, okay, wait a minute,
time out.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Let me just make sure I know you're lost your like,
what your enthusiasm for the return of the story, for
for for.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
The Hey, you're gonna come back for going Okay. I
bet the announcement's coming in June. I bet it's coming
at the draft. I mean, I don't care anymore. I
hope that announce it soon. When they do, all be excited.
But I can't. I mean, at some point, you go, geez,
you know, Bill Narina, Okay, we did it. Gotta get
a player's deal done, Okay, you did. Gotta get a
FEV deal done, Okay, you did. I gotta get the
(23:12):
Celtics soul. Okay you did. I've got to this European expansion.
Maybe it's ease, Okay, yeah, yeah, okay, you just it's
warned me out.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
It's been.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
Look, it's been since two thousand and eight. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Yeah, no, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I mean just thinking about that day in Rich's office
and here we are seventeen years later. Came close when
Chris had that agreement with the maloofs to buy Sacramento.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Oh but you can't do that. No, no, Oklahola could
come take this team Seattle. You can't take the It's
just the NBA has uh uh. I've just lost my steam.
I get it for them, and this story. I'm not
saying I don't be checked up when they return exactly exactly.
But until that day, I'm almost like I don't want
to hear any more. No one else needs to tell me. Well,
(23:54):
we're not going to get ahead of the commissioner, knock
it off.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
How about how about thirty two thousand depositors?
Speaker 7 (24:02):
How about just bring the ball club?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I love it all right, Hey, how fun with your
nine hour commute back home? Buddy?
Speaker 7 (24:06):
Oh, it's gonna be funny.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
You.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
I owe you a phone call. I haven't forgotten.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
I'm all good, all right, you know I can I
can wait.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
You know your playing.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
Here, all right?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
You know where you're staying with?
Speaker 4 (24:16):
This is big time.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
He came to see me, by the way, and not you.
I st.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
I spent all of last October twenty sixth wander around
Bloomington looking for you, tob I never could find.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Whether if we made the right call.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
Not going to that one by the way. All right, Mike, Uh,
it's great to be here, and thanks great Hugh, great tu.
We're planning on seeing you. Great surprise man for the best.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Good to see him.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
See you guys here an old man is the book
jump on the web bookstore near you.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Maybe mom's a big Husky fan.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
This a little Mother's Day gift for next month, by
the way, Father's days coming up, and guess what Christmas
will be here eventually.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
Why not go ahead of the curve.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
And do it now. We're gonna break. We're at Husky
Stadium for spring practice. Brett Boone's gonna join us by
the way at four o'clock today, Hugh talks in baseball.
With the day off today for the MS I'll do
a little fun with audio coming next on ninety three
three KJRFM.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
It's now time for Softy in Dick's fun with audio.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Jimmy g pawn Star, Jimmy mister garoppolo.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
Now let's have some fun with audio.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
All right, boys and girls, we are back at Husky
Stadium here on a rainy, soggy, windy, cold Thursday afternoon,
right here on ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Brett Boom by the.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
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how about a little fun with audio slash. Hey, did
you hear that Dick is out? Youwin for Dick Jackson
Back in the studio. My name is Dave Softy mall.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
What's that Dick?
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Hugh?
Speaker 3 (25:45):
We start in the National Football League.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Former Falcons and Broncos safety Justin Simmons joined k Adams
Up at Adams Podcast this week and called Michael Pennix
Junior the real deal. Then he talked more about what
he saw from Pennix while he was in Atlante.
Speaker 9 (26:00):
You mentioned Penix real deal. I was hot at the
end of the season. When did you know and what
is it? The one thing about him quickly that you
know he's the.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Guy for that team training camp. That was my third
day of practice, literally third day being there. He was
running the second team reps and going up against the
second team defense and he had this no look throw
down the sideline right into it was the craziest throat
I think I've ever seen in person. And I was like, Oh,
(26:28):
he has whatever it is, he has it, so I'm
excited to see what he does.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (26:34):
Absolutely, I mean more than the homes. You saw a
lot in your eight years in Bronco. That's saying a lot.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
The game where I remember thinking, all right, I remember
thinking earlier in the year that maybe Michael Pennix is
just a system guy and it is going to.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Have a hard time at the NFL.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
The game that I really thought, you know what, he
might be able to survive was the Texas game because
I remember him, excuse me, the Orgon game in Vegas.
I remember him for two games in a row, both
those games sitting in the pocket until the last possible second.
Remember that that that that sideline pattern to McMillan that
set him up to go up.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
I think they were up thirteen to three, down about
the four yard line.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Dylan Johnson got pushed back right into his face on
a block and he hung in there and just let
that sucker go with a guy right and his freaking
grill did the same thing against Texas Man. I thought
that those two games really showed how great he can
be in the NFL.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
Well, it's funny. The thirty third team asked me to
present him for obvious reasons, and that was one of
the plays I featured. And what I really noted was
he was back on his left foot, you know, as
a left hander, and and you go slow motion and
you say, there is no body behind this throw. This
(27:46):
is just him throwing it. It was I think it
was right at about fifty to fifty one yards and
he's throwing that thing flat footed, without the benefit of
the body. And we hear this term arm talent. When
I was playing, I'd never heard the term on talent.
I mean, I heard the term strong arm, but I
didn't hear the term arm talent yep. And for me,
(28:08):
how I use that now? I mean, there's no like
dictionary that says, hey, this is how you use the
term arm talent. For me, it's the ability to generate
velocity without the body behind it at you know, off platform,
you know, angles and what have you. And he certainly
has that.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Jackson, I want to go make sure we get number
four in please we can. Okay, Hey, hu, did you
happen to.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
Hear that that's that Dick?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Was it yesterday? Was it two days ago? We brought
this up?
Speaker 6 (28:36):
He was Tuesday. We brought this stuff Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Tuesday we brought up Stephen A.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Smith saying that he is going to investigate a run
for the office of the President of the United States
of America in twenty twenty eight. Well, last night on
the NBA on TNT's postgame show, after his phone went
off mid segment, Shaquille O'Neill was spurred to share his
political plans with the crew.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
Score fifty four games.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
For any politician.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Sorry about that.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
This should be a lay up for any polic not
like politics. We love them doing the break. Wait are
you running for office? Yes? I you versus Stephen I
or you with stephen A.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Oh no, Steve and I will be working for me. Ah, gotcha.
I'm el presidente. He could be vice presidente.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Let's check out the Golden State highlights.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
So good, dude, so good. If you had to choose
one Shack or stephen A.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
Smith for president, Oh god, would I rather drink kerosene
or oil?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Come on, man, both good dude talking about it? Were
blooded Americans?
Speaker 6 (29:45):
Come on, man, this whole thing is just unraveling. Yeah,
this is how you become a not superpower.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Oh god, we had time for one more Jackson. No, alright, alright,
we're gonna break Brett.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Boone's gonna join us, by the way, and Booney has
got an idea of what the Mariner should do with
all these guys blisses out for maybe the year, with
the with the torn laborum.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
For God's sakes, Roe blesses out for half the year.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Are they really gonna sit on their ass and not
do anything to fill those gaps in the lineup? Booney's
got an idea. He'll share it with you next on
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