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Speaker 1: Let's just SEEYOK Saturday night alongside the head coach, Pete Carroll.

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Speaker 1: I'm Aaron Levine coach. We start the show tonight with

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Speaker 1: a heavy heart with the passing of Paul Allen. What

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Speaker 1: did Paul Allen mean? Do you? Well? He was a

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Speaker 1: great inspiration. He changed my life, you know, by giving

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Speaker 1: me the opportunity to come here and represent this great

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Speaker 1: franchise and through his inspiration and his kind of vision,

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Speaker 1: you know, he was he was one that set this

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Speaker 1: thing in motion in a really special, fantastic way for

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Speaker 1: me to represent too. You know. He he supported us,

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Speaker 1: He wanted us to go forward, he wanted us to

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Speaker 1: always be competitive. He had a great spirit in connection

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Speaker 1: to the people that were that are here, that we represent.

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Speaker 1: They were made very clear and I love that connection,

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Speaker 1: you know. And as I got to learn the twelves

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Speaker 1: and what it was all about and that which he

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Speaker 1: kind of created, you know, um, I felt very fortunate.

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Speaker 1: So he he's mental locked in my life and my

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Speaker 1: family and will always be appreciative and grateful. You coached

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Speaker 1: for a number of different owners in the NFL. What

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Speaker 1: stood Paul I want apart from those the well he

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Speaker 1: was he had a whole other world he was living

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Speaker 1: in that He was you know, occupied his time. He

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Speaker 1: was not the hands on guy that was here a

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Speaker 1: day to day. He was never in the building, you know,

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Speaker 1: and while we're on our way to practice. He would

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Speaker 1: show up once in a while and visit with us.

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Speaker 1: He stayed in contact with us and John and I

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Speaker 1: and consistently. But he gave us the resources. He gave

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Speaker 1: us the trust and the support that you hope to

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Speaker 1: have so that you can go for it in an

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Speaker 1: uninhibited fashion, you know. And he did that, and that's

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Speaker 1: I'm so grateful for that, because without it, he really

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Speaker 1: can't find your best And he he created an environment

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Speaker 1: where we could do that. He embraced the uniqueness of people.

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Speaker 1: How did that allow you to coach this team and

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Speaker 1: employ your philosophy? Well, he and I was we saw

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Speaker 1: I'd eye about that, you know, and trying to find

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Speaker 1: the special qualities and uniqueness and uh, you know, what

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Speaker 1: made people tick so we could best understand him. He

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Speaker 1: was always trying to figure things out, you know, he

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Speaker 1: was he said, he's a solutions guy, and he always

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Speaker 1: wanted to try to figure out the problems, you know,

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Speaker 1: and all that. But he just kind of passed it

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Speaker 1: along that we both felt the same way. So he

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Speaker 1: appreciated the amazing players that we had over the years

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Speaker 1: and some of the coaches as well, and then just

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Speaker 1: how the people were unique in their own way, and

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Speaker 1: he was able to celebrate that, like like we you've

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Speaker 1: heard me talk so much before. We saw e'd eye

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Speaker 1: on that. We saw some of his tweets. During draft day,

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Speaker 1: he would be in the war room with you guys,

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Speaker 1: what are some of your favorite memories of him being

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Speaker 1: in the war with Roo. He hated to go down

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Speaker 1: and the draft, the draft order, you know, it just

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Speaker 1: killed him, you know, to not take somebody with that

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Speaker 1: pick that was coming up. And John would drive him crazy,

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Speaker 1: you know that we you know, we got we got

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Speaker 1: we gonna get another pick here, We're gonna do this

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Speaker 1: that and know he just wanted to get it over

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Speaker 1: with and get the pick made. So uh, he was

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Speaker 1: really funny about that, and he got to be a

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Speaker 1: real standing joke and he coming, oh, so we're going

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Speaker 1: down again for another offensive lineman, you know, and so

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Speaker 1: um he had a real good wit about him, and

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Speaker 1: he had understood the draft, You understood the process of it,

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Speaker 1: you know, through basketball and all of that, and he

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Speaker 1: enjoyed it. How much of a fan was he? I mean,

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Speaker 1: based on those reactions inside the war room and also

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Speaker 1: his reactions and questions that he would have with you

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Speaker 1: on the field during game day, how much that's kind

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Speaker 1: of what he was. He was a very normal fan

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Speaker 1: in that, you know, he was kind of the ebbs

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Speaker 1: he would kind of travel also, but uh, he was

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Speaker 1: a little sis serious. You know, he wanted to get

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Speaker 1: those those freaking wins, you know, and so uh he

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Speaker 1: was he was real competitive and all, but he was

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Speaker 1: always always gracious and always supportive and always you know,

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Speaker 1: a wonderful guy to deal with. So uh, but you know,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate competitiveness, and so I really look forward and

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Speaker 1: counted on him to be that way. In terms of

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Speaker 1: his legacy, you experience it every week at Century Length Field.

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Speaker 1: That stadium was really built in his vision based on

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Speaker 1: his experience as a Husky stadium back in the day,

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Speaker 1: and how loud it was there. I mean, how much

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Speaker 1: do you appreciate that? Yeah, the stadium, of course is amazing,

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Speaker 1: but I just think it's one of the many iconic

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Speaker 1: types of things that he created. You know that the

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Speaker 1: amazing life that he's led since you know, Microsoft to

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Speaker 1: try and uncover the mysteries of the world and amazing

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Speaker 1: things that nobody would ever think of, the discoveries and

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Speaker 1: wherever he would go and I said, you know, in

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Speaker 1: space and under the ocean, to the South Pole, you know,

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Speaker 1: to the corners of Africa, you know, to save people.

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Speaker 1: And the animal came too. I mean, all of the

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Speaker 1: amazing things that he did, he just he just stood

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Speaker 1: out so much. And uh, you know so the stadium

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Speaker 1: alone here is would be one thing. He's done. Thousands

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Speaker 1: of things like that, you know, so it's just the

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Speaker 1: list is endless. Finally, his pension fir embracing the history

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Speaker 1: of this franchise. How big was that? I mean, bringing

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Speaker 1: bringing back former owners like John Norstrow, having him be

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Speaker 1: part of this organization. What impression does that leave on you? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: again it was he was obvious connection and love for

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Speaker 1: this community. He would do anything to help our community,

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Speaker 1: which he has done in every way that he could.

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Speaker 1: And he had a sense for respecting the community. He

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Speaker 1: didn't try to go outside to get support. He wanted

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Speaker 1: it to come from here. So it was rich, and

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Speaker 1: because he had such high regards for everyone that was

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Speaker 1: here and what it meant to them, and he wanted

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Speaker 1: to connect that at all times, and he wanted to

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Speaker 1: symbolize that, and just like in our uniforms, he found

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Speaker 1: ways in our uniforms to symbolize the Native American connections

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Speaker 1: and the oceans and all of the wonderful things. He

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Speaker 1: always wanted things to be meaningful and connected and sewn

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Speaker 1: together and in a really beautiful fashion. He w