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Speaker 1: an emergency episode of the Pack twelve Apostles. Two things up.

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Speaker 1: Number one, the Pack twelve is in deep New too

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Speaker 1: with the l A Times. The second thing is the

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Speaker 1: PAC twelve twenty college football schedule is out and we

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Speaker 1: must discuss it. He's Ralph Amston, I'm George Rice Stir

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Speaker 1: and this is the PAC twelve Apostles. We'll save all

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Speaker 1: the rest of the pageant trees. If you want to

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Speaker 1: hear everything else about the Amazon and giveaway all of that,

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Speaker 1: listen to either the previous or the next episode. But

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Speaker 1: right now we have some stuff to discuss. We thought

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Speaker 1: it was only gonna be one thing route with the

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Speaker 1: Pack finding out by John Kenzano, who does who's the

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Speaker 1: kind of the PAC twelves bulldog? Uh? John Wilner does

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Speaker 1: a great job covering the conference as well, But if

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Speaker 1: And they did in an investigation for what what was it,

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Speaker 1: this was making references to yeah, so so what so?

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Speaker 1: What happened is is the PAX twelve, we find out,

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Speaker 1: has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on crisis management

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Speaker 1: and PR. Okay, does that sound terrible? The only problem

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Speaker 1: because you have inherent problems. No other conference has to

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Speaker 1: They were going to pay the l A times a

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Speaker 1: The reporters live and die on access, as you know, Ralph,

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Speaker 1: If you give them access, they're right. So the fact

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Speaker 1: know the way. The way that I read this whole

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Speaker 1: they have an image issue. They at least understand that much.

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Speaker 1: they understand that their image issue is twofold. One is

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Speaker 1: I feel like I've I've been prepared my my whole

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Speaker 1: not out of the realm of what should be done

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Speaker 1: to consult others in order to figure out what you

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Speaker 1: need to do to improve things. But if you have

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Speaker 1: taken off the table the option of making any changes

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Speaker 1: and and anything that a crisis management uh corporation organization

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Speaker 1: these companies come in. I always think crisis management companies

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Speaker 1: tell you what, Hey, first, let's spend three days going

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Speaker 1: but it doesn't solve the actual problem what you're what

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Speaker 1: it is a miracle. Oregon is thriving, Washington is doing

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Speaker 1: very well. It is a freaking miracle. Did you must

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