December 3, 2025 • 36 mins
MJ officially has his Seattle Card, but where are some other spots that he should check out, we know Leavenworth is an all time favorite from the listeners, but where else should MJ venture off to. Kraken radio host, Mike Benton is back for his weekly visit to talk all things Kraken from struggling to score, to the long break they have, plus much more. Giants QB Jaxson Dart got popped on the sideline, but New England Patriots Head Coach Mike Vrabel sends a strong message to his QBs and others around the NFL as MJ Hits to All Fields.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on out to muckle Shoot for the Seattle away
game watch party against the Falcons. Not Michael Pennix. He
is out for the rest of the season. But I
will be there at Galaxy Muckleshoot. I'll be there early.
The selection show starts at nine, so I'll be on
pins and needles, even though I think it's not going
(00:23):
to go my way, but we'll see, we will see.
All I know is this, I'm the biggest Texas Tech
Red Raiders and Georgia Bulldogs fan on Saturday. So go
Red Raiders whatever their thing is with the guns up
and go Dogs. That's all I'm saying on Sunday because
(00:43):
I don't have faith in the committee. But we will
find out. We will find out. One of the things
it hit me having been here now just under just
about ten months, things that I've done and I have
not done here in the PNW. So I did go
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up to Mount Rainier a couple weeks ago on a
Saturday night, but I didn't get a chance to truly
see it because that night, but it was right there,
and kid, I was just thinking about a lot of
things that I want to really go to. Have you
and your wife been elevenworth yet not yet.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That is on our bucket list, so hopefully we do
that before we're ninety, right.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, and I heard you got to like reserve it
a year in advance.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I would imagine this time of the year very popular
for the winter season. It might be pop ular for
the summer too. I'm not sure. I've never been, but
I can guarantee you if you want to go for
twenty twenty six, you should probably book now, or if
you haven't, you're probably screwed.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I've never tried it, so maybe I'll have to book
a few years in advance. But nonetheless, I've heard the
same thing you're talking about where it gets busy, so
book ahead of time.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, I got to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
And I want to throw this out there, text line,
social media as well, whatever you whatever you like to
get into.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I'm sort of.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
You know, kid, I've realized, and I talked to someone
the other day. They're just saying that X Twitter, whatever
you want to call it, it's not what it was
ten fifteen years. I'll call it Twitter. I don't care
who owns it, right right, I know it'll always be Twitter.
I mean X, I mean whatever, It's just not what
(02:31):
it was anymore. So with that being said, you know,
I'm like sort of over it too. I think certain
parts of social media is a cesspool.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
A lot of it is. It's rare.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Like for me, the good part of social media is,
oh oh Penn, State's going after Kalanie Sataki, Oh no, BYU,
He's gonna stay there.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
That's the good part about social media.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Or Adam Schefter breaking news, or Ian Rappaport. I would
say Jay Glazer, but we'd have to actually go back
ten fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
You know, it's funny.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Kid Thanksgiving and I literally wanted to to just punch
my television Thanksgiving. Okay, Thanksgiving Fox getting ready for the
Lions and Packers, so they they go to the midget.
(03:27):
Jay Glazer, Jay, you got anything, got any breaking news?
It had already broken two days ago. Frank Ragnow was coming,
had been signed by the Lions. Of course, since then
he failed a physical and he was unable to come
back to the Lions. But it's amazing to me and
(03:48):
God bless him if you can do it and somebody's
willing to pay you to what for what you used
to do and not what you do anymore, God bless you.
But if my nickname for Jay Glazer is stamps because
number one he's about as big as a stamp, and
number and one A he's just mailing it in, just
(04:10):
mailing it in. I mean it's painful.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Jay.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I know you're making probably seven figures, bro, but like,
there are people out here who actually have to work
for a living.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Can you fake it? Can you fake that you're working? Please?
For me?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
It bothers me like that kid fifteen years ago Mortensen Glazier,
Schefter and then the great Chris Mortensen, why knew very well,
May his soul rest in peace, passed away due to cancer.
His son Alex now was the interim coach at UAB
hopefully he'll get that job full time.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
And it was that's what it was.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
And now it's Schefter, Rapaport, Pellisero.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
That's who it is. It's those guys. Those are those
are it?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
But I mean, man, it is like, wow, somebody up
there and that Ivory Tower at Fox Sports in La
he must it's It's imagine getting paid to not do
your job while you're actually still technically doing your job,
(05:26):
but you're not doing your job anymore.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
But your employers still paying you. That's it's it's amazing
to me.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Imagine if I came in every day in purple sheet like, yeah,
you know what, I don't I don't feel I.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Don't feel like working today. I don't feel like talking
about sports. Nah. Nah, I'm just doing you know what
to do.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I'm gonna come in every day and I'm gonna play, uh,
what we just heard on Chuck and Buck. I'm gonna
play what we just heard yesterday on Softy and Dick
and Ian. Now, I'm just gonna do that. But you're
still gonna pay me the contract that we agree to.
How do you think that would fly with iHeart corporate? Yeah,
not so much, not so much. And by the way,
(06:04):
I wouldn't want to do that. I wouldn't want to
do that because I want to earn my check. I
come from a blue collar family, believe it or not,
despite the fact that you're you know, I'm the first
person in my family who graduated from college. Not the
first person who went to college, but the first person
who graduated from college in my family. And you know, so,
I come from a blue collar family. And my dad
(06:27):
be rolling in, my grandfather be rolling over their grave
right now. If I came in every day and just
you know, yeah, let's play, let's play the second hour of.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Chuck and Buck today, it's just amazing to me.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I'm sorry to get off on a tangent because I
don't want to waste any more time on this.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
But like, he is stealing a freaking check from Fox,
and it's bad. It's just so bad.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I like, and for those of us and people a kid,
you're on your way up, you're working hard every day
and when you see and listen, he put himself in
that position. But like, even if ESPN said that to Chef,
I can guarantee you she have to be like, Noah, man,
I'm breaking ish, I'm breaking news. This is what I do.
I've made a career out of it. Same thing with Rappaport,
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who came up through Boston and New England. He came
up in that market. Same thing with Pelisaro. These guys
they take pride. It's called pride in your work. They're
not stealing a check, all right, Enough about enough about stamps, Jayglazer,
he's mailing it. It's just it's so painful to watch it,
so painful. Uh, here we go, It's a couple of texts.
(07:32):
Post Hotel from Rowan.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Rowan.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
The Post Hotel in Levenworth is great, but worth it
got to book well in advance. A really nice place
to take the wife for a short getaway. All right,
Why would anyone ever want to go to Mount Rainier
at night? Yeah, well I'm not gonna tell you why,
but I got an invite to go to something at night.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Strippers at the rain out there doing it. No, not
that snowflakes, and we ain't talk about the snow.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
What's going on? No?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
No, no, something else, something else. So that's why I
went up there at night. We'll leave it at that.
Levenworth is great and easy to get there. Go after Christmas.
They keep up all the lights and decorations, is way
less busy. Levenworth is popular year round unless you enjoy
hordes of tourists being busted constantly and like people that
can't drive in the snow. Mark and Chris wait until
(08:29):
after Christmas for Leavenworth. The lights stay up all winter.
You don't want to be anywhere near Levenworth during Christmas,
but that tells me that you do want to be there.
The Post Hotel is booked out two years. No way
you're getting in there. Holy crap.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Wow, it looks like I'll be booking for twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yes, maybe a kid, Maybe we can. By the way,
I'll tell you this right now, I'll listen to this.
You will get a red at the Post Hotel in Levenworth.
I will not only go on a date with Susie Cortez,
I will marry Susie Cortez before Jay Glazer breaks the story. Okay,
(09:11):
which will be before twenty twenty eight. Okay, the Sonics
will be back in Seattle before Jay Glazer breaks the story.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
It's just unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Like Eddie, It's just like people, do you know what
when you work in this business for as long as
I have, not as long as Softy in Ian, but
twenty one years I've been working this business, and you know,
you just see things, and you can just see when
people are you know, it bothers me. It just bothers me.
When people legally steal a check, it just bothers me.
(09:44):
The Post is probably the only place you need to
reserve way in advance. I'm staying there in June for
my wedding, probably the only time I'll ever stay there.
I proposed to the wife twenty five years ago on
that platform overlooking I'm gonna I'm gonna kill this kid.
You want to help me out there? The Manachi River
nailed it, all right. You're not gonna find Bigfoot at night. No, No,
(10:08):
but I got something else going on at night, if
you know what I mean. All right, So there's that.
So I want to go to Levenworth big time? Where else?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Kid?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I know you told me when I first got here,
which I was shocked. It's the very touristy thing to do.
You're like, yeah, you should go to the Space Needle.
Absolutely no, I know, but that's when my friends come
in town, like, oh, let's gotta go experience.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I do.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
I do.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
You're right, you could go out there and black Chris.
That was the worst thing ever, or Chris. I went
to MoPOP the Museum of Pop Culture.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
That was cool.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
There you go, buddy, that was cool.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I really like that. Now I would go there again
just to see all the things. And you know, I
really Oh man, that.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Do anything for seafair, No, that's a big one. That's
that's one that you gotta get on. Get on a
boat and be out there and enjoy that. Yeah, it's
you know one thing I didn't do this year. And
and you know, Dick Fate invited me to do it,
and and I invited me when I first got here,
and I mentioned to him over the last month, like, hey,
(11:13):
does that invitation still stand?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Is that a tale?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
There? No?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
No, no, no, no he.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
No, he he said like he you know, he's like, hey, man,
like he won to come on salegate before Husky's game.
And I didn't get a chance to do that. But
I went to the Huskies games, so you know I did.
But what other things do I need to do because
I'm still trying to earn that sea card here? What
other things? Roach Harbor, San Juan Islands. There are plenty
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of hotels around Leavenworth. I used to live there.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Go during the ferry to Bainbridge.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I did well. I didn't take the faerry. I went
through Tacoma. Oh my gosh, well I'm not too far
from there.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Bainbridge is like that's a I don't even that's a lot.
Where'd you go?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
What did you You went to Bainbridge Thursday Thanksgiving? That's where
I spent that Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Huh yeah, yeah, you went through, Okay.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
So you yeah, you just I'm not that far from Tacoma.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
And so I gots why I go to Frisco Freeze
a lot and you just take the bridge to Tacoma
bridge over and it's actually, it wasn't bad. The only
problem that sucked on Thanksgiving and if anybody was out
there going out to Bainbridge at that time, the traffic
was bad and it was raining bad back and forth
that day and night. So that sucked. But now it
(12:27):
wasn't bad. It wasn't It wasn't bad at all. Wasn't
a bad ride. I went by.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I think the only way you get to Bamberge though
through the ferry though.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
No, nope, nope, go Tacoma. You go through Tacoma. Man, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I learned something new too. Hey man Ian Ritchie was
born and raised in this area. He told me, he's like, listen, man,
don't deal with the ferry. You could miss it. It's
it's by the time you get on it, you know,
it's it's a hassle. He's like, just go to and
I'm like, yeah, I'll do that. It wasn't that bad, yeah,
(12:57):
not far from Tacoma. So I just went that way
and yeah, no, it'sn't bad like I said, the you know,
but Levenworth. But what other places out there?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
So I need to go?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
It says, we'll just drive to Levenworth for lunch, brought
in a beer, go to Munching House for the best brats.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
All right, stay will say you got to make the
drive to Pullman at least once.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
It's beautiful, so I will go out there on campus.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
And do that.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah, driving down there during the autumn's summer is it's
a treat.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
I will just leave it at that.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
It is lovely, right, okay, lovely all right. I know
people are like, oh it's nerdy chritz. I know I'm
a koob too, but I would highly recommend.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Maybe I want to I want to check everything out.
I want to check like a.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
You know, a long week and you're like, you know what,
let me just drove off the.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Pullman Yeah, yeah, no, I also you know what else?
Want to check out too?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Because I'm I'm fascinated by like goats, and I mean,
like whether it's Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Wayne Gretzky, I'm
also fascinated by goats.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
In terms of goats. Greatest of all killers.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
So like Ted Bundy, who spent some time up here
in Seattle, I'd like to see some places that he frequented.
You know, I literally I'm facinted. Hey, last time I
was an LA kid, I wasn't the only one. I
went over to where OJ killed the Nicole and Ronald Goldman.
I went over there. I went over I went over there.
(14:21):
I went as a Bundy drive I think it was.
And then I'm over there and I'm taking pictures and
then some guy who's again with a very you know,
curious nature, he's like uh, He's like, yeah, he started
doing it as well. I'm like, listen, man, this place
is the world changed. The world changed after June whatever,
(14:44):
nineteen ninety four. You know Oj Simpson, that whole thing.
You weren't even you were still crapping in your diapers.
Then that interrupted my NBA Finals of the Knicks in
the Rockets. It was so big, kid, I kid you not,
you would never kid you not.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Kid.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
NBC got out of that coverage of the NBA Finals
Live to go to the Bronco Chase.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Can you imagine that, Bob.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Costaly, Hey, we've got to go right now, Like NBC
somebody high up there, even maybe above. Dick Ebersol said, Oh, no,
we're going to this right now, and and it was
like the OJ Chase. So I'm fascinated by certain things.
And you know, like Ted Bundy, he's one of the
(15:35):
he's one of the goaks. He's one of the greatest
of all times. And I've got to just sort of
see that. You can drive to Bainbridge. It's up by
Kingston Vashon or is it Vashon is fairy only?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Go hiking in the whole rainforest in the Olympic Peninsula.
Not to be confused with Laying Kiffin. You need to
experience Puget Sound boating. The drive to Paul is epically beautiful.
According to Michael, you need to go to the Thorpe
Fruit Island and Antique mall three levels of awesomeness.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Oh, I would like that's cool.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Olympic Peninsula National Forest or the coast near Westport definitely,
Moonshine House, say hi to Elizabeth pouring the beers Port
Townsend and the hoe h o h. Mcmeneman's in Tacoma,
secret bar, good food. All right, all right, some people, Hey,
(16:34):
by the way, let me just tell you this right now.
Don't say Tacoma's the armpit of Washington State. I went
to Stanley and Sefferts a few weeks ago and their
prime wib, their prime rib was excellent. So Tacoma's all right.
Don't be ragging on Tacoma. Tacoma's not bad at all.
Mark head out to sun Katie Resort, not too far
(16:56):
away from Seattle. Lots of divorce cougars, fair enough, fair enough.
White salmon is cool. You can see a replica of
Stonehenge and the Merry Hill Museum. Ted Bundy grew up
in Tacoma. His childhood house is currently up for sale.
Really from the two that guy who just texted that
(17:20):
in I know you're listening. I would like to take
a look at that childhood house. I'm fascinated by all
that stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
I just am. You could call it. Hey.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I drove up. I drove up to where uh An
la kid. Not only did I go see where OJ
allegedly or you know, I mean he's no longer with us.
I think it's pretty safe to say oft his former
his ex wife and Ronald Goleman.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I went up Laurel Canyon.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I think it is to where the Manson family slaughtered everybody.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I went up there, kids looking.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Like okay, by the way, they have since that house
has been demolished. Now it's been demolished.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
I think that's fair.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
The last time it was available to rent was to
Trent Reznor, the lead singer of nine Inch Nails, and
he got it for a really low price. And he said, Wow,
we're in a really nice area. Why is it so?
Why is it not as much to rent this house?
To go? Oh, this is where the Manson family killed
Sharon Tate and the heiress to the Folgers coffee Empire
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at the Gail Folger.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
He said, oh cool, and he recorded songs there. So
I'm fascinating.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Text me the Ted Bundy childhood house that's currently up
for sale. I would like to check it out. I
would definitely like to check it out. Mark, born and
raised in Tacoma for forty six years. Come through Hosmer
and you will see why I call it the Armpit
of Washington.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Oh all right, h.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
You know, I'm not gonna tell you why it went
to Mount Rainier at night. I'm not gonna tell you why.
I'm not gonna tell you why Mikey Betten talk about
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And to talk about first and foremost, I asked Ian
this yesterday, what is it with the Kraken? Their last
game was Saturday, and and then all of a sudden
they get this like all Star break off until Thursday.
What what what is this a little nice little all
Star break they get in the like kind of the
(20:29):
second month of the year.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Yeah, it just kind of feels like it's a many
Olympic break here at this point. I know, I mean
know their way to really kind of I guess, you know,
explain it. But every team just kind of gets these
roles here in the schedule. And I mean, the thing
is it's going to pick up here very very soon,
because we're roughly a few days going to be getting
right back home to face Detroit. And then a huge
(20:52):
string of games against teams were kind of you know
in the mixed playoff wise, and that you know ten
Ton Wagon named the Colorado Avalanche all was waiting for
you as well too. And then it's why you're playing
every other day right now. So there's kind of an
ebb and flow here to this where it's nice to
you know, get some I think some rest for this team,
which they need. Brandon Montor didn't escape for about a
(21:14):
couple of days, but you should play tomorrow against Edmonton.
And then the fact that you know you got shut
out to the last three games. This at least give
you some time to kind of get recalibrated with practice,
which they've done last couple of days here. So it's
it's all all in all, I think a pretty good
balance and the fair balance.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Also, you know, Mike, we do this thing every Monday
called Hot Take Monday, and we give away for somebody's
best take rant, we give away a platter of boor
said sandwiches, freshly made.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
However they like it.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
And the first phone call that we got on Monday
wasn't actually about the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
And their O line, their NO line wasn't about Sam Darnold.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
It was about Maddy Beniers and and the gentleman's like, listen,
I don't call in.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I don't you know, it's not something I do.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
But he's like, this guy got a nice contract and
you know he's not good on you know, shootouts, find whatever.
But then you do some more digging and it's like
three goals in twenty four games. This is a guy
who's a front line guy. He got paid good money.
(22:24):
Is he going to produce like a frontline guy like
a poster knock or McKinnon or is he I mean,
and I know there's more to goal scoring. But you know,
when you're tied for two hundred and sixty fourth in
the NHL and goals right now, you know it's it's
it's something I wasn't really paying attention too much, but
now has come across my radar.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Well, I think in it's fair to maybe say, you know,
you're looking for maybe a little more than three goals
at this point out of Matty Vanierz, and it's definitely
behind the pace I think of what you know, you
maybe expect him to produce for a team that has
to get production up and down the line up, and
there's no hiding here from the fact that they have
been struggling to score goals virtually all season long. The
(23:05):
one thing I think that we need to be reminded
of them, Jay, is that Matty Baniers as a player
who's going to develop into a star player for a
team that is not in the tier of Connor McDavid,
not of Nathan McKinnon, not of Sidney crossby Austin Matthews.
Where you're going to be, you know, pumping forty fifty, sixty,
even seventy goals a season and getting about one hundred
(23:27):
and twenty points. I mean, I get it where you know,
you have the second overall pick going in the draft
and you're you're thinking of just you know, stars all
across the board and recognition and that you know, he's
your mantle piece, and he could very well be. But
Matty Beaniers has always tried to pattern his game and
fit his mold after a guy like Price Bergeron. Oh
(23:51):
I know very well, yeah, you very much. I mean
you follow the Bruins over and over and over and you,
I mean you certainly know how important Bergionon was to
those teams when they were at their peak and won
the Stanley Cup fourteen years ago over Vancouver. I mean,
guys who play that kind of game can lead that
kind of way, and you know, can get you a
reliable save in the fifties sixty maybe pushing seventy points
(24:15):
at their peak while you're playing elite defense. Those guys
are awfully hard to come by. And I have to
go back and think of just again, hal Maddi has
tried to not just grow in his game, but also
fifth the way that Layne Lambert has wanted to have
his team play here for the season. They're not going
to be goun out and taking risks up and down
(24:37):
the eyes like Colorado Wood Edmonton, where they're not built
that way. And Maddie has tried to find a way
to you know, elevate his game, not just in the
scoring front, which he's still working on right now and
it's a work of progress, it'll get me wrong, but
also on the defensive front. And I can't help but
think of the Chicago game the crack had won a
couple of weeks ago on the road trip, where he
(24:59):
lost his for about forty seconds. It's stick broken too.
He can't go back to the bench and get a
new stick because otherwise he's leaving his team shorthanded. So
he has left to do nothing but defend on the ice,
move back and forth all around, and try to block
shots to the point where the pod is free and
the guys can get it out of the stone. I asked,
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he said, he's kind of paraphrasing it. You know, he
told me in the room day one of the most
hair on fire moments he's had in his entire career.
But that's what leaders do, and he's very serious about
being a leader here for this team. So while I think,
you know, we're still all kind of looking for answers
to where his game is going to be and can
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he get back to the Calder troph before where he
was three years ago? Man, Man, I mean, at some
point I think we had to kind of fill out
a little bit as far as where the expectations are
right now with points and accept the fact that some
guys take it that longer here to grow and develop.
And for the way that he plays the defense as well,
it's it's it's certainly very very refreshing and it's a
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big help for this team. And he's the kind of
guy when he grows into his game where you're looking
at consistently fifty sixty maybe pushing seventy points plus. Also,
a good two way game playing center in the NHL
is hard, and guys who can play that kind of
game at an elite level are very hard to come by.
But that's what Maddy wants to be.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
It's interesting, you know, and one of the things in
this team has certainly taken major strides Underline Lambert, and
he's he can only you know, as great as a
coach is, or it could be you're only as good
as the Jimmy's and Joe's no matter how great the
x's and o's, I mean, that's just everybody knows that.
But when you look at the points leaders in the NHL,
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you have to go all the way down to one
hundred and forty three, and that's the first player in
the NHL representing the Seattle Kracken and that's Jayden Schwartz
with fifteen points on the season, one hundred and forty three.
So again we you know, you gotta get firepower. And
and I know, and by the way, I like the
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comp to Burcheron. I mean, that's a great comp And
if he's anything like Patrice Burscheron, like everybody here in
Seattle can only be so lucky. I think we need
him to be maybe a little bit more like his
former teammate Morgan Geeky, who is having a really good
renaissance season with the Bees.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
And you're just gonna need more goal scoring, you know.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
And I think that's something that's you know, whether acquiring somebody,
whether generating it. I mean, I I feel for Lane
Lambert because Lane Lambert can only.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Do so much.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
But when your top points guy is one hundred and
forty third right now in the NHL.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
That's a problem. That's a problem, and I think we have.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
To get back to MJ as the fact that this
organization is still five years out of the box. Sure, yeah,
and they're playing with really a different set of cards
than what's say, the Vegas Golden Knights had when they
built their team here from a scratch. It's not that
easy to go out and just acquire superstar talent now
if he's here by trade, and whether you want to
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get into the fact that you know, some players have
come and gone different conversation here, but ultimately we're seeing
more and more of a trend now in the NHL.
A majority of the superstars in this league had been homegrown,
and homegrown talent takes time to accumulate and then mature
as well. And it's not just him additionally, but Berkeley Catton,
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I think is coming and nineteen years of age, he's
still very very young for this. And I look at
even Jack O'Brien and what he's doing back in the OHL,
some of compared to his game to David Cracy who
played for Boston for a long long time and was
great on those teams, and he's right now tearing up
the league, and I thought with great training camp on
top of that. So when you have a team that,
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again you're looking at from this past summer where it
was a dry off season far as free agent superstar talent,
and a majority of them ran it back with their
own teams, and then we'll look at the same thing
here for this and then some are potentially where a
lot of the potential talent that was in the market
has already been basically scooped of and extended. There's other
ways that you can build a team while trying to
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let your stars grow like Veneers like right that you're
projecting like Catton, like Jack O'Brien, And the way that
you find a way to win here is that you
try to spread this thing out and assemble your team
that can be successful under more defensive circumstances. In this case,
I mean, I kind of went back to how they
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you know, how the crack and are approaching the season
m J kind of like a PG to a golfer.
And the fact that we're seeing injuries across the board,
like it is wiping out the Dallas Stars right now,
it is it has taking a toll on the Florida
Panthers you know, and I think of where we're going
to be heading, not just here with the condemned schedule,
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but also with the Olympic break coming up in February,
and when you have teams that are sending five, six,
seven guys out of the Olympics and in Vegas, I
think is a prime case of this again, maybe seven
guys that could be going out there. You're tacking on
an extra amount of games. Plus the eighty two games
are playing in the regular season, whereas some players might
be getting about a good two and a half break
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in February. Players are going to the Olympics and coming
back where they're jumping right back into the mix, and
they got to go out one hundred and eighty miles
an hour. So we're already seeing injuries take a toll.
So when you can have a team like the KRACK
and play the system that they can play no matter
who is in and who is out, they are still
right now maintaining a spot right now in this playoff mix,
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and it's probably going to only get worse as far
as the entries MJ. So yeah, I go back here
to the I go back here to the analogy of
the PGA tour golfer, you know, shooting for the middle
of the middle of the agreed getting even par I mean,
boring hockey, okay, fine whatever, boring play for golf, fine whatever,
Who cares. You're still maintaining yourself in the mix. While
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the wins are haling, the rains counting and got players
that have flash of your games on the tour are
going for pins, they're missing the bunker, dunking it in
the water. Well, they're taking boguey double bogie, and they're
coming right back down to the field. And of the
teams who are playing within their means, so the golfers
playing within their means is going to be in the
mix for the championship, and likewise you're on the cracking side.
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That structure is able to let this team play with
them their means, and eventually, I think you're going to
be seeing a level playing field here as this calendar
moves on and on and on. So there's certainly a
method here to this, and it's a big reason why
that they've been bumping the road as far as offense.
The defensive part of this has been able to help
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this team sustain the record that they've had and stay
in this mix and by this point of the year,
mju rgu you are and the krack and are a
team that plays in its means and are able to
win games because of goaltend and keeping shofts for the outside.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
And I do love the job that Lane Lambert's done
so far. All right, Mike Benton brought to you by
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Speaker 3 (32:26):
We'll talk to you next week. Mike, Thanks, I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
Him, Jay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
You got it. You got it. We got to see
more from Beneer's mane. He's not even he's two hundred
and sixty fourth in scoring. I mean, you got to
see production. We got to see it. I mean, that's it.
I mean, I'm looking at this list right now of
points leaders in the AHL and I'm scrolling and I'm like,
and I went back up and down and up and down,
and I'm like, where's Where's Where's a Kraken and I'm
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going all the way down here, one hundred and forty third,
one hundred and forty third like that. I mean, you know,
I don't need to be Scotty Bowman and figure that
one out. Steve Eiserman. I mean, we need some production here,
like you guys gotta start scoring. Let's go. I mean,
that's a big, big problem right now. And I feel
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for Lane Lambert. He didn't get Mitch Marner. Bruce Cassidy
did in Vegas. So there's that coming up next. You're
gonna run in the NFL. You're gonna pay for it.
And by the way, there's no remorse. We'll get to
that coming up next. Mike Dugar at eleven, Rhys Davis
at noon. All right, by the way, according to the
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Tacoma Public Library, Ted Bundy's childhood home is sixteen twenty
South Sheridan Avenue in Tacoma. Sixteen twenty South Sheridan Avenue.
That's according to the Tacoma Public Library Online Digital Collections.
And then you look at it and and yeah, that's
apparently that's apparently it.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Yeah, that's that's it right then and there.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
And then he lived it with his uncle Jack's house
on a different one, and then there's a second Bundy home,
but if you want, there's a third and final Bundy
Bundy home. This is another Bundy blog dot com. I'm
looking at all this stuff, so there's a lot of
things to uncover there. Did you see the Monday night game?
Did you see Ellis? Christian Ellis absolutely nail Jackson Dart
(34:33):
Because Jackson Dart, you think you want to run, you go, oh,
it's been doing my whole life. When you run, you
become a running back. And he got absolutely leveled by
Christian Ellis and it was a clean hit and I
loved it.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Here's Patriots coach Mike Vrabel on that hit.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
And again that's you know, it's a weekly reminder to
the quarterback, our quarterback, you know, I mean we show
him every week like I wouldn't get too cute over
there by the sidelines. It happened every week. And so
Christian's playing, you know, through the through the whistle, and
as long as the players in bounds, he's going to
try to hit him legally.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
How about that apples? Yeah? Yeah, kid, that was nasty.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
And Mike Rabel is one thousand percent correct because I'm
not a fan of even the quarterbacks like Patrick Mahomes
that do that late slide where they're like, oh, I'm
going to go for four yards. I think the refs
are doing the best that they can and those bang
bang situations, but it's so unfair when you have a
quarterback that's like teasing you, yeah, knowing that right, you
really can't get hit, and then when they do get hit,
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they want to raise hale as a quarterback and be like, oh,
that's I'm not a fan of that. In Jackson Dart,
John Gouden talked to him. We played a hitting to
all fields when John Gouden was like, hey, Bud, yes.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Yes, right, but but go ahead.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
But but go ahead, by the way, keep doing it
though you Let me tell you something. One of the
biggest most physical specimen ever in the history of the
quarterback position, Cam Newton, I covered the first four years
of career in Carolina. Eventually the hits took their toll
and you ain't Cam Newton, bro you ain't anywhere near
(36:09):
his stature. They take their toll over time. You might think,
oh no, no, no, you better be watched out, man.
Those guys in NFL is not as violent as.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
He used to be.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
But it's still violent as hell, all right. Mike Dugar
coming up next, Factor Fiction eleven thirty five, and Oh boy,
the one of the best sports broadcasters in the world.
My main man, Rhees Davis from ESPN College Game Day
will join us coming up at noon with Christopher Kidd
Mjay in the midday
Come on out to muckle Shoot for the Seattle away
game watch party against the Falcons. Not Michael Pennix. He
is out for the rest of the season. But I
will be there at Galaxy Muckleshoot. I'll be there early.
The selection show starts at nine, so I'll be on
pins and needles, even though I think it's not going
(00:23):
to go my way, but we'll see, we will see.
All I know is this, I'm the biggest Texas Tech
Red Raiders and Georgia Bulldogs fan on Saturday. So go
Red Raiders whatever their thing is with the guns up
and go Dogs. That's all I'm saying on Sunday because
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I don't have faith in the committee. But we will
find out. We will find out. One of the things
it hit me having been here now just under just
about ten months, things that I've done and I have
not done here in the PNW. So I did go
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up to Mount Rainier a couple weeks ago on a
Saturday night, but I didn't get a chance to truly
see it because that night, but it was right there,
and kid, I was just thinking about a lot of
things that I want to really go to. Have you
and your wife been elevenworth yet not yet.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That is on our bucket list, so hopefully we do
that before we're ninety, right.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, and I heard you got to like reserve it
a year in advance.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I would imagine this time of the year very popular
for the winter season. It might be pop ular for
the summer too. I'm not sure. I've never been, but
I can guarantee you if you want to go for
twenty twenty six, you should probably book now, or if
you haven't, you're probably screwed.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I've never tried it, so maybe I'll have to book
a few years in advance. But nonetheless, I've heard the
same thing you're talking about where it gets busy, so
book ahead of time.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, I got to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
And I want to throw this out there, text line,
social media as well, whatever you whatever you like to
get into.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I'm sort of.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
You know, kid, I've realized, and I talked to someone
the other day. They're just saying that X Twitter, whatever
you want to call it, it's not what it was
ten fifteen years. I'll call it Twitter. I don't care
who owns it, right right, I know it'll always be Twitter.
I mean X, I mean whatever, It's just not what
(02:31):
it was anymore. So with that being said, you know,
I'm like sort of over it too. I think certain
parts of social media is a cesspool.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
A lot of it is. It's rare.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Like for me, the good part of social media is,
oh oh Penn, State's going after Kalanie Sataki, Oh no, BYU,
He's gonna stay there.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
That's the good part about social media.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Or Adam Schefter breaking news, or Ian Rappaport. I would
say Jay Glazer, but we'd have to actually go back
ten fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
You know, it's funny.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Kid Thanksgiving and I literally wanted to to just punch
my television Thanksgiving. Okay, Thanksgiving Fox getting ready for the
Lions and Packers, so they they go to the midget.
(03:27):
Jay Glazer, Jay, you got anything, got any breaking news?
It had already broken two days ago. Frank Ragnow was coming,
had been signed by the Lions. Of course, since then
he failed a physical and he was unable to come
back to the Lions. But it's amazing to me and
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God bless him if you can do it and somebody's
willing to pay you to what for what you used
to do and not what you do anymore, God bless you.
But if my nickname for Jay Glazer is stamps because
number one he's about as big as a stamp, and
number and one A he's just mailing it in, just
(04:10):
mailing it in. I mean it's painful.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Jay.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I know you're making probably seven figures, bro, but like,
there are people out here who actually have to work
for a living.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Can you fake it? Can you fake that you're working? Please?
For me?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
It bothers me like that kid fifteen years ago Mortensen Glazier,
Schefter and then the great Chris Mortensen, why knew very well,
May his soul rest in peace, passed away due to cancer.
His son Alex now was the interim coach at UAB
hopefully he'll get that job full time.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
And it was that's what it was.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
And now it's Schefter, Rapaport, Pellisero.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
That's who it is. It's those guys. Those are those
are it?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
But I mean, man, it is like, wow, somebody up
there and that Ivory Tower at Fox Sports in La
he must it's It's imagine getting paid to not do
your job while you're actually still technically doing your job,
(05:26):
but you're not doing your job anymore.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
But your employers still paying you. That's it's it's amazing
to me.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Imagine if I came in every day in purple sheet like, yeah,
you know what, I don't I don't feel I.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Don't feel like working today. I don't feel like talking
about sports. Nah. Nah, I'm just doing you know what
to do.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I'm gonna come in every day and I'm gonna play, uh,
what we just heard on Chuck and Buck. I'm gonna
play what we just heard yesterday on Softy and Dick
and Ian. Now, I'm just gonna do that. But you're
still gonna pay me the contract that we agree to.
How do you think that would fly with iHeart corporate? Yeah,
not so much, not so much. And by the way,
(06:04):
I wouldn't want to do that. I wouldn't want to
do that because I want to earn my check. I
come from a blue collar family, believe it or not,
despite the fact that you're you know, I'm the first
person in my family who graduated from college. Not the
first person who went to college, but the first person
who graduated from college in my family. And you know, so,
I come from a blue collar family. And my dad
(06:27):
be rolling in, my grandfather be rolling over their grave
right now. If I came in every day and just
you know, yeah, let's play, let's play the second hour of.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Chuck and Buck today, it's just amazing to me.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I'm sorry to get off on a tangent because I
don't want to waste any more time on this.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
But like, he is stealing a freaking check from Fox,
and it's bad. It's just so bad.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I like, and for those of us and people a kid,
you're on your way up, you're working hard every day
and when you see and listen, he put himself in
that position. But like, even if ESPN said that to Chef,
I can guarantee you she have to be like, Noah, man,
I'm breaking ish, I'm breaking news. This is what I do.
I've made a career out of it. Same thing with Rappaport,
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who came up through Boston and New England. He came
up in that market. Same thing with Pelisaro. These guys
they take pride. It's called pride in your work. They're
not stealing a check, all right, Enough about enough about stamps, Jayglazer,
he's mailing it. It's just it's so painful to watch it,
so painful. Uh, here we go, It's a couple of texts.
(07:32):
Post Hotel from Rowan.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Rowan.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
The Post Hotel in Levenworth is great, but worth it
got to book well in advance. A really nice place
to take the wife for a short getaway. All right,
Why would anyone ever want to go to Mount Rainier
at night? Yeah, well I'm not gonna tell you why,
but I got an invite to go to something at night.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Strippers at the rain out there doing it. No, not
that snowflakes, and we ain't talk about the snow.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
What's going on? No?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
No, no, something else, something else. So that's why I
went up there at night. We'll leave it at that.
Levenworth is great and easy to get there. Go after Christmas.
They keep up all the lights and decorations, is way
less busy. Levenworth is popular year round unless you enjoy
hordes of tourists being busted constantly and like people that
can't drive in the snow. Mark and Chris wait until
(08:29):
after Christmas for Leavenworth. The lights stay up all winter.
You don't want to be anywhere near Levenworth during Christmas,
but that tells me that you do want to be there.
The Post Hotel is booked out two years. No way
you're getting in there. Holy crap.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Wow, it looks like I'll be booking for twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yes, maybe a kid, Maybe we can. By the way,
I'll tell you this right now, I'll listen to this.
You will get a red at the Post Hotel in Levenworth.
I will not only go on a date with Susie Cortez,
I will marry Susie Cortez before Jay Glazer breaks the story. Okay,
(09:11):
which will be before twenty twenty eight. Okay, the Sonics
will be back in Seattle before Jay Glazer breaks the story.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
It's just unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Like Eddie, It's just like people, do you know what
when you work in this business for as long as
I have, not as long as Softy in Ian, but
twenty one years I've been working this business, and you know,
you just see things, and you can just see when
people are you know, it bothers me. It just bothers me.
When people legally steal a check, it just bothers me.
(09:44):
The Post is probably the only place you need to
reserve way in advance. I'm staying there in June for
my wedding, probably the only time I'll ever stay there.
I proposed to the wife twenty five years ago on
that platform overlooking I'm gonna I'm gonna kill this kid.
You want to help me out there? The Manachi River
nailed it, all right. You're not gonna find Bigfoot at night. No, No,
(10:08):
but I got something else going on at night, if
you know what I mean. All right, So there's that.
So I want to go to Levenworth big time? Where else?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Kid?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I know you told me when I first got here,
which I was shocked. It's the very touristy thing to do.
You're like, yeah, you should go to the Space Needle.
Absolutely no, I know, but that's when my friends come
in town, like, oh, let's gotta go experience.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I do.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
I do.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
You're right, you could go out there and black Chris.
That was the worst thing ever, or Chris. I went
to MoPOP the Museum of Pop Culture.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
That was cool.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
There you go, buddy, that was cool.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I really like that. Now I would go there again
just to see all the things. And you know, I
really Oh man, that.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Do anything for seafair, No, that's a big one. That's
that's one that you gotta get on. Get on a
boat and be out there and enjoy that. Yeah, it's
you know one thing I didn't do this year. And
and you know, Dick Fate invited me to do it,
and and I invited me when I first got here,
and I mentioned to him over the last month, like, hey,
(11:13):
does that invitation still stand?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Is that a tale?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
There? No?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
No, no, no, no he.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
No, he he said like he you know, he's like, hey, man,
like he won to come on salegate before Husky's game.
And I didn't get a chance to do that. But
I went to the Huskies games, so you know I did.
But what other things do I need to do because
I'm still trying to earn that sea card here? What
other things? Roach Harbor, San Juan Islands. There are plenty
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of hotels around Leavenworth. I used to live there.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Go during the ferry to Bainbridge.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I did well. I didn't take the faerry. I went
through Tacoma. Oh my gosh, well I'm not too far
from there.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Bainbridge is like that's a I don't even that's a lot.
Where'd you go?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
What did you You went to Bainbridge Thursday Thanksgiving? That's where
I spent that Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Huh yeah, yeah, you went through, Okay.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
So you yeah, you just I'm not that far from Tacoma.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
And so I gots why I go to Frisco Freeze
a lot and you just take the bridge to Tacoma
bridge over and it's actually, it wasn't bad. The only
problem that sucked on Thanksgiving and if anybody was out
there going out to Bainbridge at that time, the traffic
was bad and it was raining bad back and forth
that day and night. So that sucked. But now it
(12:27):
wasn't bad. It wasn't It wasn't bad at all. Wasn't
a bad ride. I went by.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I think the only way you get to Bamberge though
through the ferry though.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
No, nope, nope, go Tacoma. You go through Tacoma. Man, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I learned something new too. Hey man Ian Ritchie was
born and raised in this area. He told me, he's like, listen, man,
don't deal with the ferry. You could miss it. It's
it's by the time you get on it, you know,
it's it's a hassle. He's like, just go to and
I'm like, yeah, I'll do that. It wasn't that bad, yeah,
(12:57):
not far from Tacoma. So I just went that way
and yeah, no, it'sn't bad like I said, the you know,
but Levenworth. But what other places out there?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
So I need to go?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
It says, we'll just drive to Levenworth for lunch, brought
in a beer, go to Munching House for the best brats.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
All right, stay will say you got to make the
drive to Pullman at least once.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
It's beautiful, so I will go out there on campus.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
And do that.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah, driving down there during the autumn's summer is it's
a treat.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
I will just leave it at that.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
It is lovely, right, okay, lovely all right. I know
people are like, oh it's nerdy chritz. I know I'm
a koob too, but I would highly recommend.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Maybe I want to I want to check everything out.
I want to check like a.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
You know, a long week and you're like, you know what,
let me just drove off the.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Pullman Yeah, yeah, no, I also you know what else?
Want to check out too?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Because I'm I'm fascinated by like goats, and I mean,
like whether it's Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Wayne Gretzky, I'm
also fascinated by goats.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
In terms of goats. Greatest of all killers.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
So like Ted Bundy, who spent some time up here
in Seattle, I'd like to see some places that he frequented.
You know, I literally I'm facinted. Hey, last time I
was an LA kid, I wasn't the only one. I
went over to where OJ killed the Nicole and Ronald Goldman.
I went over there. I went over I went over there.
(14:21):
I went as a Bundy drive I think it was.
And then I'm over there and I'm taking pictures and
then some guy who's again with a very you know,
curious nature, he's like uh, He's like, yeah, he started
doing it as well. I'm like, listen, man, this place
is the world changed. The world changed after June whatever,
(14:44):
nineteen ninety four. You know Oj Simpson, that whole thing.
You weren't even you were still crapping in your diapers.
Then that interrupted my NBA Finals of the Knicks in
the Rockets. It was so big, kid, I kid you not,
you would never kid you not.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Kid.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
NBC got out of that coverage of the NBA Finals
Live to go to the Bronco Chase.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Can you imagine that, Bob.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Costaly, Hey, we've got to go right now, Like NBC
somebody high up there, even maybe above. Dick Ebersol said, Oh, no,
we're going to this right now, and and it was
like the OJ Chase. So I'm fascinated by certain things.
And you know, like Ted Bundy, he's one of the
(15:35):
he's one of the goaks. He's one of the greatest
of all times. And I've got to just sort of
see that. You can drive to Bainbridge. It's up by
Kingston Vashon or is it Vashon is fairy only?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Go hiking in the whole rainforest in the Olympic Peninsula.
Not to be confused with Laying Kiffin. You need to
experience Puget Sound boating. The drive to Paul is epically beautiful.
According to Michael, you need to go to the Thorpe
Fruit Island and Antique mall three levels of awesomeness.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Oh, I would like that's cool.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Olympic Peninsula National Forest or the coast near Westport definitely,
Moonshine House, say hi to Elizabeth pouring the beers Port
Townsend and the hoe h o h. Mcmeneman's in Tacoma,
secret bar, good food. All right, all right, some people, Hey,
(16:34):
by the way, let me just tell you this right now.
Don't say Tacoma's the armpit of Washington State. I went
to Stanley and Sefferts a few weeks ago and their
prime wib, their prime rib was excellent. So Tacoma's all right.
Don't be ragging on Tacoma. Tacoma's not bad at all.
Mark head out to sun Katie Resort, not too far
(16:56):
away from Seattle. Lots of divorce cougars, fair enough, fair enough.
White salmon is cool. You can see a replica of
Stonehenge and the Merry Hill Museum. Ted Bundy grew up
in Tacoma. His childhood house is currently up for sale.
Really from the two that guy who just texted that
(17:20):
in I know you're listening. I would like to take
a look at that childhood house. I'm fascinated by all
that stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
I just am. You could call it. Hey.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I drove up. I drove up to where uh An
la kid. Not only did I go see where OJ
allegedly or you know, I mean he's no longer with us.
I think it's pretty safe to say oft his former
his ex wife and Ronald Goleman.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I went up Laurel Canyon.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I think it is to where the Manson family slaughtered everybody.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I went up there, kids looking.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Like okay, by the way, they have since that house
has been demolished. Now it's been demolished.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
I think that's fair.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
The last time it was available to rent was to
Trent Reznor, the lead singer of nine Inch Nails, and
he got it for a really low price. And he said, Wow,
we're in a really nice area. Why is it so?
Why is it not as much to rent this house?
To go? Oh, this is where the Manson family killed
Sharon Tate and the heiress to the Folgers coffee Empire
(18:32):
at the Gail Folger.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
He said, oh cool, and he recorded songs there. So
I'm fascinating.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Text me the Ted Bundy childhood house that's currently up
for sale. I would like to check it out. I
would definitely like to check it out. Mark, born and
raised in Tacoma for forty six years. Come through Hosmer
and you will see why I call it the Armpit
of Washington.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Oh all right, h.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
You know, I'm not gonna tell you why it went
to Mount Rainier at night. I'm not gonna tell you why.
I'm not gonna tell you why Mikey Betten talk about
the Kraken. We'll talk to Mike Dugar at eleven and
the host of ESPN Game Dayrhese Davis. We will break
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(20:08):
And to talk about first and foremost, I asked Ian
this yesterday, what is it with the Kraken? Their last
game was Saturday, and and then all of a sudden
they get this like all Star break off until Thursday.
What what what is this a little nice little all
Star break they get in the like kind of the
(20:29):
second month of the year.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Yeah, it just kind of feels like it's a many
Olympic break here at this point. I know, I mean
know their way to really kind of I guess, you know,
explain it. But every team just kind of gets these
roles here in the schedule. And I mean, the thing
is it's going to pick up here very very soon,
because we're roughly a few days going to be getting
right back home to face Detroit. And then a huge
(20:52):
string of games against teams were kind of you know
in the mixed playoff wise, and that you know ten
Ton Wagon named the Colorado Avalanche all was waiting for
you as well too. And then it's why you're playing
every other day right now. So there's kind of an
ebb and flow here to this where it's nice to
you know, get some I think some rest for this team,
which they need. Brandon Montor didn't escape for about a
(21:14):
couple of days, but you should play tomorrow against Edmonton.
And then the fact that you know you got shut
out to the last three games. This at least give
you some time to kind of get recalibrated with practice,
which they've done last couple of days here. So it's
it's all all in all, I think a pretty good
balance and the fair balance.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Also, you know, Mike, we do this thing every Monday
called Hot Take Monday, and we give away for somebody's
best take rant, we give away a platter of boor
said sandwiches, freshly made.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
However they like it.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
And the first phone call that we got on Monday
wasn't actually about the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
And their O line, their NO line wasn't about Sam Darnold.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
It was about Maddy Beniers and and the gentleman's like, listen,
I don't call in.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I don't you know, it's not something I do.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
But he's like, this guy got a nice contract and
you know he's not good on you know, shootouts, find whatever.
But then you do some more digging and it's like
three goals in twenty four games. This is a guy
who's a front line guy. He got paid good money.
(22:24):
Is he going to produce like a frontline guy like
a poster knock or McKinnon or is he I mean,
and I know there's more to goal scoring. But you know,
when you're tied for two hundred and sixty fourth in
the NHL and goals right now, you know it's it's
it's something I wasn't really paying attention too much, but
now has come across my radar.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Well, I think in it's fair to maybe say, you know,
you're looking for maybe a little more than three goals
at this point out of Matty Vanierz, and it's definitely
behind the pace I think of what you know, you
maybe expect him to produce for a team that has
to get production up and down the line up, and
there's no hiding here from the fact that they have
been struggling to score goals virtually all season long. The
(23:05):
one thing I think that we need to be reminded
of them, Jay, is that Matty Baniers as a player
who's going to develop into a star player for a
team that is not in the tier of Connor McDavid,
not of Nathan McKinnon, not of Sidney crossby Austin Matthews.
Where you're going to be, you know, pumping forty fifty, sixty,
even seventy goals a season and getting about one hundred
(23:27):
and twenty points. I mean, I get it where you know,
you have the second overall pick going in the draft
and you're you're thinking of just you know, stars all
across the board and recognition and that you know, he's
your mantle piece, and he could very well be. But
Matty Beaniers has always tried to pattern his game and
fit his mold after a guy like Price Bergeron. Oh
(23:51):
I know very well, yeah, you very much. I mean
you follow the Bruins over and over and over and you,
I mean you certainly know how important Bergionon was to
those teams when they were at their peak and won
the Stanley Cup fourteen years ago over Vancouver. I mean,
guys who play that kind of game can lead that
kind of way, and you know, can get you a
reliable save in the fifties sixty maybe pushing seventy points
(24:15):
at their peak while you're playing elite defense. Those guys
are awfully hard to come by. And I have to
go back and think of just again, hal Maddi has
tried to not just grow in his game, but also
fifth the way that Layne Lambert has wanted to have
his team play here for the season. They're not going
to be goun out and taking risks up and down
(24:37):
the eyes like Colorado Wood Edmonton, where they're not built
that way. And Maddie has tried to find a way
to you know, elevate his game, not just in the
scoring front, which he's still working on right now and
it's a work of progress, it'll get me wrong, but
also on the defensive front. And I can't help but
think of the Chicago game the crack had won a
couple of weeks ago on the road trip, where he
(24:59):
lost his for about forty seconds. It's stick broken too.
He can't go back to the bench and get a
new stick because otherwise he's leaving his team shorthanded. So
he has left to do nothing but defend on the ice,
move back and forth all around, and try to block
shots to the point where the pod is free and
the guys can get it out of the stone. I asked,
(25:20):
he said, he's kind of paraphrasing it. You know, he
told me in the room day one of the most
hair on fire moments he's had in his entire career.
But that's what leaders do, and he's very serious about
being a leader here for this team. So while I think,
you know, we're still all kind of looking for answers
to where his game is going to be and can
(25:42):
he get back to the Calder troph before where he
was three years ago? Man, Man, I mean, at some
point I think we had to kind of fill out
a little bit as far as where the expectations are
right now with points and accept the fact that some
guys take it that longer here to grow and develop.
And for the way that he plays the defense as well,
it's it's it's certainly very very refreshing and it's a
(26:04):
big help for this team. And he's the kind of
guy when he grows into his game where you're looking
at consistently fifty sixty maybe pushing seventy points plus. Also,
a good two way game playing center in the NHL
is hard, and guys who can play that kind of
game at an elite level are very hard to come by.
But that's what Maddy wants to be.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
It's interesting, you know, and one of the things in
this team has certainly taken major strides Underline Lambert, and
he's he can only you know, as great as a
coach is, or it could be you're only as good
as the Jimmy's and Joe's no matter how great the
x's and o's, I mean, that's just everybody knows that.
But when you look at the points leaders in the NHL,
(26:48):
you have to go all the way down to one
hundred and forty three, and that's the first player in
the NHL representing the Seattle Kracken and that's Jayden Schwartz
with fifteen points on the season, one hundred and forty three.
So again we you know, you gotta get firepower. And
and I know, and by the way, I like the
(27:09):
comp to Burcheron. I mean, that's a great comp And
if he's anything like Patrice Burscheron, like everybody here in
Seattle can only be so lucky. I think we need
him to be maybe a little bit more like his
former teammate Morgan Geeky, who is having a really good
renaissance season with the Bees.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
And you're just gonna need more goal scoring, you know.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
And I think that's something that's you know, whether acquiring somebody,
whether generating it. I mean, I I feel for Lane
Lambert because Lane Lambert can only.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Do so much.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
But when your top points guy is one hundred and
forty third right now in the NHL.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
That's a problem. That's a problem, and I think we have.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
To get back to MJ as the fact that this
organization is still five years out of the box. Sure, yeah,
and they're playing with really a different set of cards
than what's say, the Vegas Golden Knights had when they
built their team here from a scratch. It's not that
easy to go out and just acquire superstar talent now
if he's here by trade, and whether you want to
(28:12):
get into the fact that you know, some players have
come and gone different conversation here, but ultimately we're seeing
more and more of a trend now in the NHL.
A majority of the superstars in this league had been homegrown,
and homegrown talent takes time to accumulate and then mature
as well. And it's not just him additionally, but Berkeley Catton,
(28:33):
I think is coming and nineteen years of age, he's
still very very young for this. And I look at
even Jack O'Brien and what he's doing back in the OHL,
some of compared to his game to David Cracy who
played for Boston for a long long time and was
great on those teams, and he's right now tearing up
the league, and I thought with great training camp on
top of that. So when you have a team that,
(28:55):
again you're looking at from this past summer where it
was a dry off season far as free agent superstar talent,
and a majority of them ran it back with their
own teams, and then we'll look at the same thing
here for this and then some are potentially where a
lot of the potential talent that was in the market
has already been basically scooped of and extended. There's other
ways that you can build a team while trying to
(29:18):
let your stars grow like Veneers like right that you're
projecting like Catton, like Jack O'Brien, And the way that
you find a way to win here is that you
try to spread this thing out and assemble your team
that can be successful under more defensive circumstances. In this case,
I mean, I kind of went back to how they
(29:39):
you know, how the crack and are approaching the season
m J kind of like a PG to a golfer.
And the fact that we're seeing injuries across the board,
like it is wiping out the Dallas Stars right now,
it is it has taking a toll on the Florida
Panthers you know, and I think of where we're going
to be heading, not just here with the condemned schedule,
(30:00):
but also with the Olympic break coming up in February,
and when you have teams that are sending five, six,
seven guys out of the Olympics and in Vegas, I
think is a prime case of this again, maybe seven
guys that could be going out there. You're tacking on
an extra amount of games. Plus the eighty two games
are playing in the regular season, whereas some players might
be getting about a good two and a half break
(30:21):
in February. Players are going to the Olympics and coming
back where they're jumping right back into the mix, and
they got to go out one hundred and eighty miles
an hour. So we're already seeing injuries take a toll.
So when you can have a team like the KRACK
and play the system that they can play no matter
who is in and who is out, they are still
right now maintaining a spot right now in this playoff mix,
(30:43):
and it's probably going to only get worse as far
as the entries MJ. So yeah, I go back here
to the I go back here to the analogy of
the PGA tour golfer, you know, shooting for the middle
of the middle of the agreed getting even par I mean,
boring hockey, okay, fine whatever, boring play for golf, fine whatever,
Who cares. You're still maintaining yourself in the mix. While
(31:04):
the wins are haling, the rains counting and got players
that have flash of your games on the tour are
going for pins, they're missing the bunker, dunking it in
the water. Well, they're taking boguey double bogie, and they're
coming right back down to the field. And of the
teams who are playing within their means, so the golfers
playing within their means is going to be in the
mix for the championship, and likewise you're on the cracking side.
(31:27):
That structure is able to let this team play with
them their means, and eventually, I think you're going to
be seeing a level playing field here as this calendar
moves on and on and on. So there's certainly a
method here to this, and it's a big reason why
that they've been bumping the road as far as offense.
The defensive part of this has been able to help
(31:47):
this team sustain the record that they've had and stay
in this mix and by this point of the year,
mju rgu you are and the krack and are a
team that plays in its means and are able to
win games because of goaltend and keeping shofts for the outside.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
And I do love the job that Lane Lambert's done
so far. All right, Mike Benton brought to you by
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Speaker 3 (32:26):
We'll talk to you next week. Mike, Thanks, I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
Him, Jay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
You got it. You got it. We got to see
more from Beneer's mane. He's not even he's two hundred
and sixty fourth in scoring. I mean, you got to
see production. We got to see it. I mean, that's it.
I mean, I'm looking at this list right now of
points leaders in the AHL and I'm scrolling and I'm like,
and I went back up and down and up and down,
and I'm like, where's Where's Where's a Kraken and I'm
(32:52):
going all the way down here, one hundred and forty third,
one hundred and forty third like that. I mean, you know,
I don't need to be Scotty Bowman and figure that
one out. Steve Eiserman. I mean, we need some production here,
like you guys gotta start scoring. Let's go. I mean,
that's a big, big problem right now. And I feel
(33:13):
for Lane Lambert. He didn't get Mitch Marner. Bruce Cassidy
did in Vegas. So there's that coming up next. You're
gonna run in the NFL. You're gonna pay for it.
And by the way, there's no remorse. We'll get to
that coming up next. Mike Dugar at eleven, Rhys Davis
at noon. All right, by the way, according to the
(33:41):
Tacoma Public Library, Ted Bundy's childhood home is sixteen twenty
South Sheridan Avenue in Tacoma. Sixteen twenty South Sheridan Avenue.
That's according to the Tacoma Public Library Online Digital Collections.
And then you look at it and and yeah, that's
apparently that's apparently it.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Yeah, that's that's it right then and there.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
And then he lived it with his uncle Jack's house
on a different one, and then there's a second Bundy home,
but if you want, there's a third and final Bundy
Bundy home. This is another Bundy blog dot com. I'm
looking at all this stuff, so there's a lot of
things to uncover there. Did you see the Monday night game?
Did you see Ellis? Christian Ellis absolutely nail Jackson Dart
(34:33):
Because Jackson Dart, you think you want to run, you go, oh,
it's been doing my whole life. When you run, you
become a running back. And he got absolutely leveled by
Christian Ellis and it was a clean hit and I
loved it.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Here's Patriots coach Mike Vrabel on that hit.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
And again that's you know, it's a weekly reminder to
the quarterback, our quarterback, you know, I mean we show
him every week like I wouldn't get too cute over
there by the sidelines. It happened every week. And so
Christian's playing, you know, through the through the whistle, and
as long as the players in bounds, he's going to
try to hit him legally.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
How about that apples? Yeah? Yeah, kid, that was nasty.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
And Mike Rabel is one thousand percent correct because I'm
not a fan of even the quarterbacks like Patrick Mahomes
that do that late slide where they're like, oh, I'm
going to go for four yards. I think the refs
are doing the best that they can and those bang
bang situations, but it's so unfair when you have a
quarterback that's like teasing you, yeah, knowing that right, you
really can't get hit, and then when they do get hit,
(35:35):
they want to raise hale as a quarterback and be like, oh,
that's I'm not a fan of that. In Jackson Dart,
John Gouden talked to him. We played a hitting to
all fields when John Gouden was like, hey, Bud, yes.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Yes, right, but but go ahead.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
But but go ahead, by the way, keep doing it
though you Let me tell you something. One of the
biggest most physical specimen ever in the history of the
quarterback position, Cam Newton, I covered the first four years
of career in Carolina. Eventually the hits took their toll
and you ain't Cam Newton, bro you ain't anywhere near
(36:09):
his stature. They take their toll over time. You might think,
oh no, no, no, you better be watched out, man.
Those guys in NFL is not as violent as.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
He used to be.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
But it's still violent as hell, all right. Mike Dugar
coming up next, Factor Fiction eleven thirty five, and Oh boy,
the one of the best sports broadcasters in the world.
My main man, Rhees Davis from ESPN College Game Day
will join us coming up at noon with Christopher Kidd
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