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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You grew up a big Seahawks fan.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
We'll get to that, and your career trajectory paralleling with
the legion of Boom and them and what they were
doing at that time. But I asked you something during
the commercial break, and I think the audience would love
to know this.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Were you a Sonics fan, huge Sonics fan, really huge
Sonics fan. Who was your fair players? Gary Payton? Okay, yeah,
Gary Payton was my guy?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yeah right, like all of my friends loved Sean Kemp
and I do love Sean Camp.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Love the most Island dunker and basketball history. Yes, yeah,
I love Sean Camp, but I just loved Gary Payton. Yeah.
Do you remember the ninety six finals against the Bulls?
So I remember them losing and being sad about it? Yeah, yeah,
I know. But like, did you get to go to games? No?
I mean never did. Yeah, we didn't have very much money.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Like we we we actually got some free tickets once.
I think it might have been like a it might
have been a radio call in or something like that,
And so I got to go to a Sonics game.
So yeah, So during the Peyton Chmp era, yes, yeah, yeah,
when they were really good, right, So like when they
would play run like Hell by Pink Floyd.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Oh, I mean I was. I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
So you have to understand my parents did not listen
to anything other than like the Beach Boys.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
So, and when I was in junior high.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Yeah, when I was in junior high and they asked
me who my favorite eighties band was, I said the
Beach Boys and they were like, dude, that's not an
eighties band.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
And I was like, oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I
completely misunderstood the question. Wow, that's great.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
And and the Sonics, man, and were you devastate like
everybody here when they were ripped away from Seattle in
June two thousand and eight.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah, I guess I just didn't understand. I didn't understand
the economics of basketball. How could a team so loved
be taken away like that? And then and then yeah,
it's just yeah, doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Are you rooting for now?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
And maybe you don't, but like a lot of people
here have this understandable vendetta against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
So are you rooting for the Pacers? Come on, be right,
be honest, Brian, No, I see them as an extension
of the SuperSonics. Oh, okay, some people do too. Some
people do too, all right.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yeah, I see them as an extension of the SuperSonics,
so I actively root for them.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
You too, Yes, so you went the other way.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
You just but when a son has come back, you're
gonna be like, no more thunder if they do they
do come back, like yeah, or when let's just say
hopefully when they do.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Come back, when they come back, and I don't understand,
I would think now, and especially with the new arena
and everything, I would think now, there's absolutely no reason
for there not to be an NBA team here these
Seattle is the best city for sports in the entire
country as far as like fan base.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Right, And they're loyal, and they're die hard loyal, die hard.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, I mean they're listen, they've been supporting the first
seventeen years. I was at Arnold's Appliance in Bellevue last
Saturday for a nice public appearance, and someone said, and
I knew this, but I guess I didn't, you know,
really register And he said it in a light bulb
went off.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
The first seventeen years of the Mariners, they had a
losing record.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Seventeen years, and then they make the Playoffs with Edgar
and obviously you know Randy Johnson in ninety five and
Seattle's on fire at the Kingdome and they beat the
Yankees there and the Alds and and they lost to
the Cleveland Indians at the time, and it's like, and
I just see it. Listen, Brian, I don't know if
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you've got a chance. You might probably not yet because
they're new. The Kraken just completed their fourth season, and
Climate Pledge Arena is an unbelievable state of the art arena.
And I will tell you that the three games that
I've got a chance to go to sold out.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
You can't move. It is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
And the fans here and obviously the product they you know,
hasn't been successful to the point where they wanted to be.
But they're making the changes and they're doing what they
have to do. And the fans show up every single
game no matter what. And that to me, everybody can
show up right when they're getting is good, you know
what I mean. The Legion of Boom Days and all that,
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you know, all that try you know, show up, you
know during the gym Zorn days, right, yeah, you know
what I mean, show up during the you know, the
pre Sean camp Gary Payton Sonics, right, Tom Chambers and yeah, yeah,
But that's the thing about I've learned about Seattle sports fans, man,
they are die freaking hard.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
So my dad he was I think the Seahawks started
in seventy five, seventy six, I believe, yeah, yeah, right, yeah,
around that time before I was born. Yeah, and my
dad was a Seahawks fan from the time they started.
And every year he was so excited for a football season,
just hoping, hoping, hoping, hoping that the Seahawks would be good.
(05:00):
Who were his favorite players he loved No, he yeah,
he loved Largent and he loved Jim Zorn Zorn.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
He loved Jim Zorn. He loved Jim Dave Craig.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
So when Dave Craig was the was the quarterback, he
was like, he was so so, but he really longed.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
For Jim Zorn. He thought Jim Zorn was just the best.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
So you told the story, and I lost my father
two and a half years ago, coming up three years.
I don't like to call it in the anniversary because
the anniversary is something we celebrated. It was just the
day he passed, but you told a story. I almost
got emotional. How big of a Seahawks fan was And
what did your dad get to see a couple months
before he passed?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
So he was a huge Seahawks fan and loved he
He got excited at the beginning of every football season,
only for most years his excitement to gradually wane, right right.
But he passed away in twenty fourteen, and a couple
months before he passed away, he actually got to see
the Seahawks win the Super Bowl. And I called him
because I was in I was in the midwayt somewhere.
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We had done a live event for WWE and earlier
that day, and then Brion I went to our hotel
room to watch the Super Bowl because I was super
excited about the Seahawks being in the Super Bowl. And
I called him afterwards and he was crying. I mean
he was, I mean he he had been with them
for the long while. You know, by the way, doesn't
that make you feel great?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Doesn't that make you? When I grew up in New England,
I do not like the Patriots. I do not like
the Red Sox. I hate the Red Sox. And I
grew up a Bruins fan, and I don't like the
Celtics either. But I watched when the Patriots won their
first Super Bowl with my dad in January two, and
he had a moment because the year prior to that,
I had lost my grandfather on my father's side, my
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grandfather my mother's side. He's going through major health problems
right now, but my grandfather my father's side, died the
year before the Patriots won the Super Bowl. He never
saw the Patriots won a Super Bowl, and then two
and a half years later, the Red Sox snapped their
eighty six year person. He never got to see the
Red Sox world, so and it was it's unbelittle so
your dad to get to see that, and then got
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to see you in WrestleMania thirty and you win it
all in New Orleans there, I mean, and that had
to be such an amazing moment.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
And then on top of that, you know, right after
WrestleMania thirty, I got married, you know, So it was like.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
By the way, can I just say this on behalf
of America? You outkicked your coverage. Yeah yeah, yeah, yah, yeah,
Like you're not a bad looking guy, Brian.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I'm not gonna lie, but I'm not a bad looking guy,
but like you know, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
A handsome guy. You outkicked your coverage. You, by the way,
and at kudos to you. You have two great, young,
healthy kids. Yeah right, yeah, and your and your dad.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Did you get to meet them before?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yeah, so my dad passed away in twenty fourteen. Our daughter,
which is our oldest child, wasn't born until twenty seventeen. Okay,
so yeah, but then our son is named after my dad.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah yeah, and so they bud Buddy yep. But that's Oh,
that's a great story, man, that that's just amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
And how's your mom doing?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Oh, she's doing good. Yep, she's still up here. She
actually lives in Port Townson, Washington.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Now there you go.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yeah, so she had actually I talked to her yesterday
and she said.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, you will you know, you won't even Nita sweatshirt.
It's eighty degrees. It's yeautiful, it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
And they get ninety three three Sports Radio ninety three
three KJR FM in Port townshend, so, I hope, uh,
missus Danielson is listening right now, so you speak that
would be great. H So you mentioned Gary Payton. I'm
surprised you had said your dad's favorite player was not
Brian Bosworth.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Nobody's nobody's Nobody's favorite player was Brian Bosworth except except
one person who that was me I had.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I had a giant.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Poster in the land of bo Yes, and and because
you know, I didn't know football right right, but his
name was Brian and my name was Brian, and I
was like, Brian Bosworth, He's the greatest football player ever.
And then he turned out to not be the greatest.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
No, no, and then Bo Jackson ended that, yes he did.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
You know what's funny as bo Jackson went on to
become my favorite, my favorite football player.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yeah he was mine too, Yeah he was mine too.
He was everybody.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I got to see him play against the Patriots in
New England and my dad took me and I was
just like, oh my lord.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Him and Marcus Allen were.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
In the backfield at the same time, and I'm like,
holy like and back then the Patriots sucked.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
They was pre wait, pre Brady and pre Belichick. They
were cool.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
So like the Raiders, like Marcus Allen, Bo Jackson, Howie Long,
Lester Hayes, Mike Haynes.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
It was like the Silver and Black. How cool? How
cool was how he long back in the day, I
mean like unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, bo Jackson literally ended Brian Bosworth in that unfortunately
fatal Monday Night and the Kingdom when he literally brought
uh Brian Bosworth into the.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
End zone with him, that was great.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I got to ask you, I idolize this guy. So
I'm torn Brian Danielson now besides him, besides him, No,
I idolized this guy.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Who is your former boss.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Okay, Vince McMahon, you talk about being complicated, how Aberdeen
and maybe to a certain extent, Brian Danielson, maybe how
Seattle of us Kurt Cobaine, because obviously you don't like
how it went down, but I'm going to try to
remember the great part. Kind of liked that with me
and Vince McMahon where I'd met him multiple times, he
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couldn't have been nicer.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
The things he's been accused of is certainly not something
that I want anybody that.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I idolized, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
And it's like, you know, and they say you never
want to meet your Well, I've met Vince and Vince
has been great to me and I got my picture
taken with him and everything, and you know, you know
when I snuck backstage after WrestleMania, I think it was
fifteen in Philadelphia, he couldn't have been nicer. But what
was it like to work for Vince Kennedy McMahon. It
had its ups and downs?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yeah, I'm not you know, like, I'm not gonna answer
too much of that. There's too much uh honestly, like
click baity headlines that could come out of that.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
But then also too many family things.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
That are sensitive to my family specifically because that part
of everything that's gone down, you know, involves my.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Mother in law.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Right, Yeah, it's like so you know so uh so
I also have a very complicated thought process when.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
But let me ask you, if you put that aside,
was he a good boss? Take that? I know it's
tough to compartmentalize that, but was he or what?
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Like?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
But but Jim Ross has gone on record saying it
was like working for Jerry Jones of the Cowboys, that
you walk in one day and you're Michael Irvin. The
next day you're the janitor clean toilets, right, you know.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
So you know, like I I think, you know, he
as a boss, he had his good parts and his
bad parts, right, you know what I mean, And so
like I think, but that's you know.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
That's everybody.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Yeah, yeah, it's uh yeah, it's it's a it's a
really tough thing for me right too. Like I have
a hard time internally, and I'm not even talking about
talking about it in public. Internally, I have a hard
time with the whole concept of Vince McMahon.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I got it. I got Hey, listen, man, I you know,
like you got to understand. Listen to me. My late father.
You talked about your father. We have that in common.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Unfortunately, I wish we didn't have that in common, that
our father's no longer with us.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
But like.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
My lea father got tickets to see wrestle Mania one
and Close Circuit TV at the Hartford Civic Center on
March thirty first, nineteen five. And I'll never forget Brian.
During intermission, we went, we went, you know, my dad,
we got to go to the bathroom. My dad want
to get some beer. Me and and I'm one of
my buddies. Sean Fitzgerald still up there, Fitzy and uh,
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I just remember, like now I'm clost you fob.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Back then I wasn't.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
But I just remember being in the concourse of the
Hartford Civic Center.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
And not being able to move.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
It was packed for closed circuit TV, and I just said,
if it's like this everywhere, this rocket ship's going to
take off and lo and behold it did Vince put
everything on the table with his wife Linda, everything. If
that goes, if that was a bust, they're done. The
WWF probably gets sold to Jim Crockett, not even to
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Jim Crockett. And so for that, I'm like, I love Vince.
You know, there's a part of me that will always
but yeah, I mean, you know, it's just it sucks
when you heard, you know, the things that are out there,
and I hate the fact that it's you know, it's
directed sort of your family. And now Vince's former assistant,
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John Larniitis has now turned and he's now a witness
against Vince McMahon in this court case. So it's complicated,
but I'll tell you this, man, Evince didn't believe in
Brian Danielson, you wouldn't have got and and not only that,
but like here's the thing about it, And that's where
I go to the saying Brian that he always said,
we don't dictate to the fans what we want them
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to see.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
We let them dictate to us.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
And the fans told Vince Kennedy McMahon, we want Brian
Danielson to be the face of the WWE, and you were,
and so like he listened to him, and so like
for that part, you gotta be somewhat grateful for that, right, Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Absolutely, okay, you know, and you know there's also say,
you know, so there's there's the idea of career, right
and what he did for my career, and I consider
that kind of like the separate thing.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
It's this obtuse thing.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
But when I'm looking at Vince like man, the human being,
how he was to me when I was backstage, We're
also talking about a guy who, when my dad passed away,
gave me the best a hug I'd ever gotten. Right,
So I mean it's like, you know, I'm somebody who's
not necessarily concerned with career advancement, you know what I mean,
Like it being a world champion was never my like
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this whole this thing that I aspired to or anything
like that. I loved the fact that I could do
this thing that I loved and make a living doing
it and all that kind of stuff. But so his
there's his treatment of me as an employee. But then
there's his there was his treatment of me as a
human being. And that's the part that's hard to rectify
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with the things, you know, with the things that they're
accusing him of, and I you know, you don't want
to say, you know, and so it's like, but the
way he treated me as a human was he treated me.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
He treated me very well and in a way, you know,
in a.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
In a way that's hard to kind of describe to
people if they're if they're coming at you from a
negative perspective about vincement Mann, but you know, there's also
there's also negative aspects about Vinsvan.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Listen, I want to thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
We have a US open update.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
That's a hard out in forty five seconds, but I
want to know this was an honor and a privilege
for me and the listening audience and the and the
responses we're getting on the text line, and the highest
form of compliment they can pay is a mens you
are a mens, Brian Danielson, and you are an asset
to society and Seattle claims you Aberdeen, Washington State.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Thank you very much for making time. This was amazing.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
You're it's it's great to meet you, man, and I
just want you to know how much I appreciate you
coming in.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah, thank you very much. Yeah, you're You're awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
AW and Kent Washington coming up show Ave Center two
shows Saturday, June twenty first and Wednesday, June twenty fifth.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Tickets on sale.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
You gotta go out there support AW and your new boss,
Tony Kahn. Hey, Tony, don't k fave my text? Bro
return my text. I'm just kidding, Brian Danielson. We'll be
back on the other side. MJ The Midday Sports Radio
ninety three to three KGr at them. Here's a US
open update. Yeah, I got a roof for their extension
of SAW Like oh, I was like no, no, no,
but hey, everybody views something differently, Chris Christopher kid. We
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can all look at a painting. You could see a Picasso.
I could see a piece of crap. It's all perception
by the individual, and I think he just wants to
he did say that he you know, when Sonics come back, he's.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
But some people out there are looking at you know, like.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
They don't have issues with SGA or chet Holme, Grin
and Jalon Williams. It's just yeah, you'll always hate Clay Bennett. No,
nobody knows that, but I knew that was coming. And
there's no swords. Oh they're not an extension. So uh yeah.
What did you think of Brian Danielson?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Really cool dude, fun interview that you did. He just
seems like a stand up guy. Was cool seeing him
in person because you've seen him on TV before, but
see people in person, it's just it's really it was cool.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
It was fun. Yeah, Yeah, he's pretty cool. He's he's
kind of like semi retired right now. He's kind of
easing in and we didn't get because there were so
many things I wanted to ask him, and he's kind
of His role is going to be more of the
front office and assisting with Tony Kahan, who is the
heir apparent who owned this team you might have heard
of him, called the Jacksonville Jaguars, and he also owns Fulham,
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the premiere soccer team in the Premier Soccer League over
in the UK. So there's the con family have a
lot going on in Tony's big baby well, I mean
his biggest priority is aw So they're coming in. You
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It's coming up on June twenty first. In June twenty fifth,
somebody texted and said, mark Port townsend a P and
W must experience the town's been you have.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
What is it like?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
It's beautiful, it's calm, it's it's a small, little it's
really cool. It's when you I'm used to like quote
unquote city life. Going out there is like you ever
watch a TV show that's based.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
In like a small town and a community.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Everyone knows every wow and there's only like four or
five restaurants. That's what it's like out there, and it's
really cool. Had a good breakfast, a good dinner. It
was just a great. We got away for the weekend,
just went out there and just chilled and it was
really when did you do this? This was the last February,
oh last year. Oh both loved it. I want to
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go back. Kid had a nice little view of I
forget what it is. I fit the ocean or late
whatever it is. It's just beautiful views out there, good times.
So you want to just get away for the weekend
and you just want to go somewhere. I would highly
recommend going out there. And would you stay the hotel? Yeah,
that was the hotel team decently priced. Oh yeah, it
wasn't like oh this is it was perfect. It was beautiful, perfect,
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good good restaurants, good restaurants.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
So I would I would highly recommend it if you're
looking for a quote unquote staycation in Washington.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Oh, by the way, you could go staycation Washington and
a bunch of places.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Yeah, we really enjoyed Port Townsend. Like I said, I
want to go back eventually, maybe this summer. Towards the
end of the summer, we'll go back. But we'll see.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
How many hours is from here?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Uh about two and a half, all right, if I'm
not mistaken. I'm trying to remember the drive. It was
a nice little drive, but a nice drive night, beautiful scenery.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
It was fun. Yeah, I highly recommend it.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
And how about the guy text in he goes a
PNW by the town itself an experience and history of
Fort Werden and the town's motto of we're here because
we're not all there.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
That's great. We're here because we're not all there.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
That is like, oh, kid, a lot of people, awesome
food in Port Townsend.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Oh that's great. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
I mean we're only there for two nights, but I
was like, can we come back?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
It was just so cool just to get away.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
And I know it wasn't like out of the state
or any but it was a really fun trip.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Well yeah, I mean that's the that's the part that
you know. I mean, because there are people coming from
all over the country to Mike, to not only go
to Seattle, but to go to poor towns then and
go to other places around here that you know, you
might just kinda take for you know, we take for
granted because they're right here.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
When when something listen.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Oh, by you're getting a ton of people texting in
One of the hotels is an old haunted castle. Okay,
now I'm in now by the way, kid, already sold it.
When you say great food, cozy, you know, little town
like a TV show, you already sold it.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Yeah, it's it's one of a kind. Because I don't
know too many places, but my wife looked it up,
did her research, and she was like, hey, we're leaving
on Friday, we'd come back Sunday.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I was like, well, let's do it. And it was great,
oh man, matter of fact. So it was a spontaneous
kind of trip.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Yes, And I want to say it was actually in
the winter because we were watching college football because Colorado
is on, so I want to say it was maybe
must have been decemberish, So it was a cool.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Yeah. But nonetheless, MJ, you gotta go check it out.
Oh I will. I mean, you guys, you sold it.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
And then then saying another guy from the four two
five old Victorian town bar there called Sirens is really good.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
So you guys have really sold it. I don't need
any more.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Uh, you know, people to to try to convince me
I'm in. I'm in, and I want to stay at
the hotel that used to be a haunted castle.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Tell me find out the name.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Uh out there in the audience, what hotel in Port Townsend?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
What used to be an old haunted castle? That?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
And uh someone said the best sandy beach in Washington
is at Fort Warden, So wow, kid, you look look
at what uh that's somebody said, Uh, Olympic Peninsula, Port Townsend,
God's country. Hmm, oh, the men Ressa that men Reesa Castle.
If you go to poor towns and you'll have to
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stay at the men Reesa Castle or men Resa forgive me,
I don't know, but which one.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
But from three to six? Oh so kid, it's good
to know.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Someone said there's not good Mexican food in poor towns
and though, hey, that's fine, but there's other good food.
We can eat other good food as well. Someone recommended
a pizza place, Waterfront Pizza. So did you and your
wife stay at the swan In Palace Hotel?
Speaker 4 (23:29):
I'm actually a text for now tell me where we stayed,
but I don't think it was that from the two
ih six marks stay at the Palace Hotel.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
It's originally a brothel. I'll probably pass on that. I
have a thing about, uh, you know, certain bodily fluids. Uh,
you know, being at you know places that you know
it's that was a brothel.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I don't know if you ever get you truly ever
kind of get there. Uh wow, that's what it is.
Men Resa Castle officer and a gentleman was filmed there
with Richard Year. Did not know that kids. Someone else
told me you can also take the Edmunds Kingston Ferry
and the drive is a lot shorter. We wanted the senior.
(24:14):
I wanted to, man, are you big on putting driving
your car and getting on a fairy I don't mind
me getting on a faerry car.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
I always tell my wife if we can, let's just
get a rental.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Yes, but sometimes he wanted to drive a car and
I'm like, okay, fine, but usually when we do a
trip like that, but if it's Portland, because you usually
go to Portland once a year for NBA games.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Yeah, we get a rental. And by the way, I
hope that will stop not you and your wife going abaa,
but I hope that you will have to just go
to climate pleasuring.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Can I get tickets for this game right exactly? Oh?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
My lord, man, that is awesome. I hope all the listen.
He's a professional wrestler. But there was a connection here
with Seattle Aberdeen, and I find it all fascinating. And
we could have gone on and on on and on,
and he was more than generous with his time. And
(25:07):
I could see kid, and you could probably tell and
you weren't here I mean like there wasn't a video
on it. We hopefully to get that up sometime soon
where you can see while we're having, you know, certain things,
we have guests in studio, how conflicted he was about
Vince McMahon, and that he loved the way Vince treated
him as a human being. And yet there's the other
(25:29):
side of has to do with his mother in law,
who used to be married to a man named John Leronitis,
who is now turn state witness against Vince McMahon. It's hey,
you know what, like they always say, sometimes your idols,
you know, they're as imperfect and flawed as you know,
(25:52):
somebody that you would just see down the street. And
Vince mickmahon is more than flawed. He's got some major,
major issues. And it's it's, uh, yeah, but thank you
from the four two five. Who in the f cares
that there's not good Mexican food in poor Townsend? Exactly?
There's other great food there in Port Townsend. From what
(26:14):
I hear. Uh, Chris ian Burien says, go during the
Orca Festival at Olympic Uh. I think he meant to
say Olympic Music Festival. Just trust me. Orca Festival or
the Olympic Music Festival. Trust me, I said, Chris, I
think I see where you're coming from. We stayed at
the Tides in suits.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
All right. It was great? Oh nice, great?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
All right, Well I'll have to check out the man
ressa castle. Uh, we'll have to check that out. We
will close it out on a Thursday with the Mayor
of Maple Valley Ian Fernes tomorrow. Another big name star,
Jeremy Piven, who is coming to Seattle for a show
at the Neptune Theater on July twelfth. Jeremy Piven not
(26:59):
in studio, we will have him here. Ari from Entourage
will join us here tomorrow on MJ in the midday
on Seattle Sports Leader ninety three to three kJ r
f M. All right, thanks again too, Brian Danielson from
ae W, Sharen Williams from NBC Sports. Jeremy Piven, Ari
(27:21):
from Entourage will be coming on tomorrow at eleven so
fun show. Learned some things about Port townshend and the
hotel that you and your wife stayed at is where
apparently they filmed Officer and a Gentleman. That's what someone said.
If the text line says it it's got to be true.
If the text line says it, it must be true.
(27:41):
They're never wrong about anything, so I'm gonna believe them.
They said it's film there, it's film there. I believe it.
So that's all. That's all I care about. But yeah,
that was fun, and you know, we don't I'm trying
to think. We haven't gotten many in studio guests so
far since I've been here, so that was might have
been our first. Who was I don't think there was
(28:02):
anybody else really, So it's good. The mayor of Maple Valley.
We got Game four tonight in well, before we get
to that, I'm watching highlights of the better game last
night for sure.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Oh yeah, how about that. Did you enjoy that?
Speaker 6 (28:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I only got to watch the last five minutes, but
I enjoyed it immensely.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
So yeah, they got a shot, man, they got a shot.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Well, it's good to go least six, right, So, I
mean there's there's a little stress in Oka see, which
is good. Yeah, put a little stress on them and stuff.
I didn't see the rest of the game. What was
the story of the game. The story of the game
was that Okac came out and punched him in the
mouth early. Indiana answered in the second quarter. Good let
at halftime by sixty four to sixty. Okc comes out
(28:45):
strong on an eight to oh run the beginning of
the third quarter, and then Carlisle calls a time out,
makes adjustments and that was it.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
They were not run.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
They never and yeah, okay, see hung in there. But
I felt like, did you feel mostly in the second half, kid,
that Indiana pretty much controlled most of that second half?
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Oh yeah, especially with the guy going off the band
of Brandon Matherin, Benedict Ben Brandon Brendant.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Yeah, what's the amazing is the Carlisle factor coming kicking
in a little bit. Now, That's what happened. Ian he
he out coached Dagnall. Yeah, no doubt, That's what see
I kind of wanted in this series. It's like, you've
got a guy that's in Carlisle. They has been there,
done that. Something speaks to experience in those in that regard,
(29:28):
and so I was just kind of wondering if that
would kick in and come into play at some point,
and obviously it has, which is great.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Dude, they got it.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I thought after Game one, I'm like, okay, golf clad
very cute and in Game two Oklahoma City, it was Okay,
that was what we all expected.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Now, I'm like, they could win this thing. They could
win this.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
They didn't try in Game two and I say that,
I say that they just sucked. It's one of those things,
and we see it all the time right in the NBA,
especially in the NBA playoffs. Start in the first couple
of rounds, like team goes and steals one and then
the next game they Okay, we did what we gonna
dot split, We're good, and you take off. There's like
(30:08):
they kind of lose the sense of urgency. They obviously
had a sense of urgency last night they did. They
have to keep that up in the next game. When's
the next game that They're like, Friday? It is Friday mornight. Okay, yeah,
so hockey tonight. We got hockey tonight. I know.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Man.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
By the way, are you going to miss the Mariners
not being play today?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
No, I'll be watching. I would be watching the hockey
as it is. It's one of one sixty two, it's
six for them. We'll get into that in the first
segment today. We'll get into that the first sea today.
I mean they played during our show yesterday, so I
didn't watch that, which was nice. We we did other
(30:43):
things instead. Yeah, oh, by the way, stuff, he's good.
The end. I waited for this song. You gott you
wait till the end. We got the sonics, and you know,
I think I gotta. We'll probably get to it a
little bit more tomorrow on the show tomorrow. That there's
when you really listen, listen to what he says. When
you really listen, he said, be paying attention the next month, right, yeah, yeah,
(31:07):
So I think it's yeah, and I always I point
this out, and you know this isn't well maybe it
is anti Bruce Herald, but I'm just gonna say, don't
don't listen to the politicians. No, don't listen even to
the commissioner.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
No.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Understand that this thing is so far down the road
that it's just I think we've talked about it a
number of times. It's hard because since two thousand and eight,
we've been waiting for it to come back. We all believe,
I mean the first couple of years, especially oh nine,
ten eleven, especially after the news conference on July second,
(31:40):
two thousand and eight, when they said, hey, this will
help Expedia getting it back quicker and all those things
and all the little things they were going through and thought, well,
that might just be a year or two and we'll
get a team back to.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
What you thought. And how was your son when they
left fourh eight? He was six? He was six, twenty four,
he's twenty three, just turned twenty three to my math
my seventeen. Yeah. Yeah, they left eight and he was
six years old. He's a grown man now.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Well, and he's a huge basketball guy. Like was a
good high school basketball, like a really good high school basketball.
It's only college football, but basketball kind of like Chris
has his first love, like you understand, like and the
NBA is his first love. Wow. And so growing up
now he grew up when luckily for a few years,
you know, he's born in Salt Lake, the Jazz were good,
(32:28):
and so he was a kind of a Jazz fan
for a bunch of years because they were that's where
he was born.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
And but does he no, no, But that's just like
he's like, find a team.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
I was born there, and you know, Donovan Mitchell and
Rudy and those guys, and they were good, and so
he was.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Kind of into that.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Yeah, and then you know, they went they went down,
and so now he's just kind of a league fan.
But it's it's hard because it's I feel sorry for
kids like that and who didn't get to see well.
And I do too because just growing up the memories
that I have of sports in this town. The Mariners
always struggled. The Seahawks weren't very good for a lot
of years, right, and but we had the Sonics, and
(33:04):
the Sonics they had their ups and down.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Twenty nine years ago. What was heane for?
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Not only where was Eane Furness? What was it like
when they made the run in the finals twenty nine
years ago? I was I was actually moving to Tries
To not Tries to Utah, So I experienced a different
finals with the Jazz for two years, I was watching
from Afar and I was exciting. That was great, But
we were moving to Salt Lake then, so so then
you got to see in the next two years of Jordan. Yeah,
cover those games. Yeah that was wild.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
And didn't know who to root for because they hated
both teams, all right.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Yeah, I liked the Jazz like they grew on me.
I worked for him and stuff, So I liked it.
But it was like, yeah, it was hard. Like I'm
sitting there because I grew up hating hating the Jazz
because they were Seattle's rival.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Yeah, yeah, you had to go through Seattle or vice versa.
That's right.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Sometimes you sprinkle the Blazers with Kersey and drex were
and those guys in right, and then Houston obviously had
their little pop. But don't ever forget Kevin Duckworth again.
Oh big Doc, mayhe rest in peace. We lost a
lot of those guys.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Duck is gone.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
See. I Jorn Chris, who was a great, great, great guy.
I loved him to death. I'm working with him in
TV for a while. And then yeah, yeah, we lost
too many of those guys we lost, all right. Ian
Fernest coming up with Ian Sarah's Talking Baseball one twenty
today and we'll check in with Corbin Smith to put
a bow on Mini Caamp at two o'clock. Excellent, all right,
stay tuned next for Ian Fernes. We will see tomorrow
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Theater coming up on July twelfth. We will have that tomorrow,
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