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It's only been three games, but we're already getting antsy over here after the Sounders dropped two very winnable points at home against the Colorado Rapids. Jeremiah and Aaron break it down with a little help from our friend Susie Rantz.
Susie also sticks around for a second segment where we talk about the imminent sale of the Seattle Reign to a group that includes the Sounders.
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Introduction and Podcast Launch
00:00:00
Speaker
Hey, this is Christian Roldan. And Jordan Morris from the Seattle Sounders Football Club. And you're listening to NOS Arietes. This episode of NOS Arietes is sponsored by Full Pull Wines, a Seattle-based wine retailer and proud sponsor of NOS Arietes since 2011. Full Pull was founded in 2009, is based in Seattle, and is owned and operated by longtime Sounders supporters. They offer the best boutique wines of the world to members of their mailing list, with special focus on their home, the Pacific Northwest.
00:00:28
Speaker
A.O. Shen! Let's go! What a save by Fry! The Seattle Sounders have done it! MLS Cup win! Here come three years through the middle to crown it the vehicle! And now they truly can't stop the celebrations.
Sounders' MLS Cup Victory Recap
00:00:48
Speaker
It's the Sounders' MLS Cup! Niko Liddo leaves out!
00:01:12
Speaker
Is that what you young people call twerking?
00:01:28
Speaker
Welcome to another episode of Nos Arietes, sponsored by Full Pull Wines and our subscribers. We're recording on March 19th, 2024, and I am your host, Jeremiah O'Shan.
Challenges in Sounders' Recent Matches
00:01:38
Speaker
Joining me today is my co-host, Aaron Campo, friend of the show, Susie Rants, and our engineer, Lickett.
00:01:44
Speaker
For about 60 minutes, the Sounders seem to be well on their way to their first win of the season. It wasn't necessarily pretty, but they had a 1-0 lead and didn't seem to be in much danger of dropping it. But then Josh Atencio went and got himself red carded. And although the Sounders held on for another 25 minutes or so, they ultimately surrendered that lead. It was just the fourth time in 20 attempts that the Rapids had gotten any point in Seattle and were left wondering when the Sounders can actually score from open play.
00:02:10
Speaker
And it's not a lot of fun right now, is it? It is not on any level. The soccer is not very fun to watch. The Sounders are a team. They're built as a team, constructed as a team where the upside, when they're playing well, when they are scoring enough goals to win, where
00:02:29
Speaker
It can be kind of fun because you just don't feel... Yeah, they're not going to blow the doors off of anybody, but you don't feel like they ever don't have the game in control. When they're not scoring goals, it sucks really bad. And they're not scoring goals right now. They haven't scored a goal from both in play, as I think everyone knows. They haven't.
00:02:52
Speaker
created a lot of dangerous chances. This isn't a situation where we've seen a lot in the past where they're creating a lot of chances. The XG looks favorably at what they're doing, and they're just not getting it done in the final third. This is a team that looks completely bereft of ideas. And the few chances that they do manage to create, the finishing hasn't been there. And one of those problems is easier to fix than the other.
00:03:20
Speaker
if you get enough chances, generate enough chances, finishing percentages even out, right?
00:03:27
Speaker
generating chances, figuring out how to do that is much harder, especially when the obvious answer is, well, you just get everybody healthy and back on the field, but that's not going to happen anytime soon. So, um, it's not a lot of fun to watch. I, I'm still confident that this team at full strength is a, you know, a team that can compete for a lot of trophies, but they're not going to be at full strength for at least six weeks, probably longer, I think is realistic to, to believe. And, um,
Upcoming Tough Schedule for Sounders
00:03:54
Speaker
You know, they could be in a pretty deep hole by then and that's for a season that I think had a lot of high expectations and a lot of promise. This is definitely not the way you want to start it off.
00:04:07
Speaker
I think the most frustrating thing about this start is on paper, it's not a very difficult schedule. They just had two home games against teams that you would expect them to be. The road game against LAFC, that was always going to be tough.
00:04:26
Speaker
But then they have this game against San Jose, which is probably one of their more winnable road games on paper. And if they don't win this one, you know, it does start to get a little tougher, even if they start getting more of their roster back. I wanted to focus in a little bit about this idea that they're not creating chances and that's.
00:04:47
Speaker
That's really, really true. And I want to say that the struggles they're having right now are distinct from the struggles they had last year. They were top third in the league in terms of XG per shot last year.
00:05:02
Speaker
Right now, they're dead last, .06. Their average shot is basically a speculative shot that has very little chance of going in. Susie, what are you seeing in terms of their inability to create chances?
00:05:19
Speaker
I think just like observationally, it does seem like they're doing a fairly decent job of like getting into good positions in the final third. And it just seems like that final decision, whether it's cross cut back, find someone at the top of the box, whatever it is, it's just, they're not making the right choice. And I know, I think you talked about that a little bit in your story.
00:05:41
Speaker
Um, this week, Jeremiah from training, but, um, I'm not, I'm not sure why that is. Cause it's kind of like the same players who are making those decisions, um, that, um, we're making them last year. So just something is off and not clicking in terms of decision-making on the final third.
00:05:59
Speaker
Yeah, it's and it's, you know, it is fair, I think to observe and to point out that they are missing not one or two players, but you know, right now they're the, you know, this last week they had, they'd had five regular starters. There are five players you would assume would be starters who weren't available to start in that game.
00:06:18
Speaker
Uh, Albert Rusnak and Yeymar did come off the bench. So that's good news. It looks like Steph Fry is going to be back this week. That's more good news. Although Steph Fry's absence really has been probably the least of their problems. Uh, Andrew Thomas has actually been pretty good, but at the same time,
00:06:37
Speaker
I think beating the rapids at home, beating Austin FC at home, those should be the expectations even when they're missing starters, even when they're missing, yes, five starters. And so on some level, I'm willing to forgive the
00:06:54
Speaker
the aesthetics of these early games, because, okay, they're going to have to grind out results. That's sort of how it is, but they got to do the grinding part. And I think that's what was frustrating about the, the rapids game is that they just were making dumb mistakes. They were doing things that just didn't feel like sounders mistakes, like Josh attention's red card. You know, I'll argue that.
00:07:20
Speaker
there's a good chance that a experienced ref doesn't necessarily give him that card.
00:07:26
Speaker
But he shouldn't be putting himself in that position to allow himself to be kicked out of the game. The challenge that gets him kicked out is a totally unnecessary challenge where there's really not a lot of upside to him making that tackle. And when you're on a yellow card, you just can't afford to try to make that tackle. Even if, you know, I don't know, it's possible he won that ball, but he fouled the guy. There's no question at all that he fouled him.
00:07:52
Speaker
So it's just frustrating to see these mistakes getting made. Aaron, is there, I don't know, is your, how would you deem your hope for this getting better? You don't hear me? No. Yeah, no, let me hear you. I can't hear you. Uh-oh. He's so stumped.
00:08:19
Speaker
Yeah, it was such a hard-hitting question. Well, I'll ask you. We'll edit this, Susie. But Susie, I don't know. Do you see any hope for this getting better? I...
00:08:37
Speaker
don't I don't see hope like immediately on the horizon I think it's possible um I think it's it's like it is something that is quite fixable which is the good thing I don't I don't I personally don't think it's just getting your ideal starting lineup back I do think some of it is
00:08:55
Speaker
Like as a team, we have to come together and agree how, who do we want to be? How do we play? How do we make the right decisions? And I think they have the people who are capable of doing that. When I say like, I don't necessarily see hope, it's just like, I haven't seen enough of it on the field yet to be confident that they can do that.
00:09:13
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. What do you make of the decision to, you know, so I'm of two minds on this, but I'll, I'll let you go first. You know, they've been using a four four two for two of the three games that they played. They were prepared to use the four four two in the union, or they didn't use the four four two in the, in the union game. Does it feel like that's.
00:09:36
Speaker
the right call or is it not? Or once we're talking about formations, it's sort of. Missing the the forest through the trees. Yeah, I mean to me it seems a little bit like they're still playing the same formation. They're just asking Raul to play a little bit differently. Like to me it doesn't seem like he's necessarily playing as a second striker. He does seem to try to be sort of being both forward and play in that attacking midfield role.
00:10:07
Speaker
I personally would just like to see I like who I don't know if it's going to work. But
00:10:15
Speaker
I would like to see them try different options. I would like to see what some of the bench players who haven't gotten a chance to feature yet. I don't know whether it's Tevis or Rothrock or whoever, but there's clearly a reason the coaches aren't choosing them, but I would just like to see if there's a different set of players in different positions.
00:10:42
Speaker
that could do what they want.
00:10:47
Speaker
So, Aaron, is there a personnel or formation change that you feel like you'd like to see at this point? I would like to see a personnel or formation change. I don't know if it's any one change. I think it's obvious that what's happening now isn't working. I think that the left side has been a real problem and the right side hasn't been much better. But I think that
00:11:15
Speaker
Maybe three at the back. Um, you know, I don't want to discount new who's defensive abilities. He's a huge asset there. Um, but I think as a left back in this system, it's just not, it's just not happening. Um, he's getting a lot of the ball. This is a problem that, that has kind of been, I feel like a, uh, a recurring theme when the founders were having trouble creating chances where teams just give new who all the space in the world and the attacking third. And he ends up with the ball quite a bit and he just doesn't do a lot with it. Cause he's just not that.
00:11:44
Speaker
that much of an attacking threat. Leo Chu has done some good things, but he just feels so undependable to me. And it can be really frustrating to watch. I think moving Christian back to the center has to be on the table. I think moving Jordan out to the left has to be back on the table. I think moving Raul to the bench has to be on the table. I think all of these things have to be considered.
00:12:14
Speaker
The problems are so...
00:12:18
Speaker
uh, numerous and, and it feels like everything is so holistically wrong with the attack that I can't even point at one thing and say, this is the problem. There have been a lot of individual performances that have been encouraging. I think Jordan has looked good and he's made good runs and nobody's found him. I think Raul has looked a lot of the time like his old self, but he's in, he's, he's being played. I don't want to say out of position, but he's being played in a, in a position where he just hasn't really been able to affect the game that much. Um,
00:12:48
Speaker
And they've got to figure something out, right? And I think Rusnak being back is going to help. And obviously, whenever Shaul Paulo is back, that's going to help as well. I mean, those are two really important creative players. And that is the problem to me right now is the lack of creativity. So that's going to right there without any person, any formational changes or tactical changes. I think they get better in that regard.
00:13:12
Speaker
But I think that there's value in figuring out how do we fix this specific problem that's happening right now with the players we have, rather than saying, we just got to grind it out until these guys get back. Because like you said earlier, Jeremiah, they're not grinding it out. If they were getting results that they need to be getting, you could live with it, but
Seattle Rain Ownership Deal Announcement
00:13:31
Speaker
they're not. And you need to have a plan B that you feel like can at least get you those hard earned results. And right now it just doesn't feel like they do.
00:13:42
Speaker
Yeah, I would agree with all that. And I think one of the things that I'm finding frustrating is I look at this sort of the way that this early part is going. And I feel bad because on one hand, I think Rui Diaz has probably been their best offensive player. I think he's done everything the centers have asked him to do. But he also feels like maybe that's the player, that's one of the players who probably has to
00:14:06
Speaker
make way for this team to actually get better because as much as I appreciate the effort and as much as I appreciate him kind of flexing new skills and you know, he made something like
00:14:20
Speaker
40 passes in this last game, something he had never, I'm pretty sure he set a career high for passes, but he also had like 0.03 expected assists. So it's not like he's generating a lot of chances while playing in that role. And.
00:14:38
Speaker
Like I just don't know that he's the number nine to lead the line. And I understand, I'm frustrated that, that Jordan hasn't looked more goal dangerous, but like you said, he is making good runs. And I think you kind of got to see what he looks like when there's a functional, there's functional playmaking. And that's just to me, that's the biggest issue is there's just no playmaking right now.
00:15:03
Speaker
Yeah, Jordan is never, I don't think ever going to be a lights out finisher. You know, he's never going to be a clinical finisher or whatever it is that means, but he's a good enough finisher that if they're creating, if they are creating the number of chances from the runs that he's making that you would expect them to, I don't think it's a problem. I think he's probably got a couple of goals and the sounders probably have at least four more points.
00:15:27
Speaker
but they're just not. I mean, he's had one clear cut chance this year and it was probably not as clear cut as a lot of people would say that it was. And it was also a really good save and a really tough angle. Other than that, he just hasn't had a lot of opportunities. And from what I've seen, I don't think that that's a Jordan Morris problem. I think that's a nobody can find him problem. And when you look at the players that are on the field, I just don't know how shocking that is.
00:15:57
Speaker
Yep, yep, yep, yep. Uh, I will say one positive in this has been the emergence of Andrew Thomas as a perfectly capable and maybe even, you know, I don't know. I don't think we're at the point yet where we're wondering if he should be starting over Steph Fry, but he's, he's been really good. I've been really happy with, especially with his command of the, of the penalty box, his passing, especially against, uh, Colorado left a little bit to be desired, but.
00:16:28
Speaker
maybe some extenuating circumstances there, but I've really liked what I've seen him as a, as just his shot stopping. You know, obviously he saved the penalty, but he's just, he's looked confident. He's looked capable and frankly, I'm, I'm looking forward to seeing him a bit more this year.
00:16:47
Speaker
That save that he made on that free kick was pretty unreal and unfortunate that his team didn't help him out because that was a really good save. It was. Yeah, I think if that ball doesn't go in, if the follow up doesn't go in, he makes that save and the Sounders won that game. I think that whether or not it's a reasonable conversation to have, I think that the conversation of whether or not Andrew Commis' Wally piped stuff and fry is happening most likely.
00:17:15
Speaker
I mean, it would certainly be a topical conversation, I think, even if it's not ultimately what the coaches are going to do. It was interesting the way that Brian answered that question when he was asked today about whether or not it's a goalkeeping controversy. And he basically said, well, it's kind of Steph's job to hand over or something along those lines, which I thought was kind of a funny way of answering that.
00:17:39
Speaker
But all right. Well, that's that's probably I don't know. I don't have a whole bunch else to say about this game other than I sure hope they start getting some wins because talking about a team that's not scoring is about as as boring as it gets. But we're going to come back after the break. We're going to talk to Susie about some other big news in both the Sounders and rain world and. And yeah, we'll dig into that a little bit. You're listening to know how to get this.
00:18:19
Speaker
Welcome back to Nos Arietes. So some big news this, what was it? Monday morning, the news came out. Monday morning at the open of business in France, OL Group, which I guess that's still the name of the company, right? OL Group announced that they had entered into an agreement with a group that included the Sounders and the Carlyle firm, which is like a, I think a private equity group.
00:18:49
Speaker
to basically purchase the Seattle rain for $58 million, which all of a sudden seems like maybe that's a screaming deal based on the other prices that we're seeing. But Susie, this is very much in line with what we've been hearing rumors of, which has been reported by various places. What was your reaction to the news finally coming out like this?
00:19:16
Speaker
I think my reaction was like, thank goodness, we have some sort of official confirmation that this thing is close because it has felt close for four months now. Um, so my reaction was mostly relief. Like, Oh gosh, we're almost there.
00:19:34
Speaker
Yeah. And everything we've been, you know, it's funny. I just the other day, like maybe Monday. No, no, it must not have been Monday. It was over the weekend. I had reached out to the Sounders and just said, Hey, or no, it was must've been last week. I reached out and asked if there was any reason we should be getting worried. And they basically said, don't there's no.
00:19:57
Speaker
This is still happening is the indication that we got. But it is important to note this is not done. This still requires like MLS has to approve it. The NWSL still has to approve it. There's no real reason to think that it's not going to happen, but it is not literally done yet.
00:20:14
Speaker
Yeah, I don't and I don't know if you've gotten clarity. I haven't necessarily gotten clarity on maybe what is taking longer for this deal versus other deals, but I think there's just like multiple factors like the fact that MLS is involved and and NWSL is involved.
Impact of Ownership Change on Seattle Rain
00:20:31
Speaker
We're adding private equity and like what is that like structure look like in terms of private equity, maybe putting up the financing, but another entity maybe being operationally owners.
00:20:41
Speaker
So to me, it just seems like maybe they just need more time to figure out those details. But like you, we haven't heard anything but positive steps forward in this process. It's just been slower than expected.
00:20:57
Speaker
Right, yeah, I would I would I would echo that and we still don't have a really clear picture. Exact like there's speculation as to how this is going to be structured and and really, I've not been able to get really firm confirmation.
00:21:15
Speaker
on how it's going to be structured. But what it seems to me is that it's going to be pretty similar to the Seahawks-Sounders relationship back when that started, which is the Seahawks didn't actually put up very much money to be part owners of the Sounders, but they essentially assumed all the business operations of the Sounders. I don't know if it's going to be quite that stark, but at the time, the Sounders didn't really have much staff.
00:21:45
Speaker
The PR staff essentially was being paid by the Seahawks. All the ticketing staff was being paid by the Seahawks. All the office people essentially were being paid by the Seahawks. The rain have a much more robust operation than the Sounders had when they launched, but I would imagine the rain could do with some backup there. Is that a fair way of putting it?
00:22:14
Speaker
Yeah, I think so. I think they've been super scrappy, and they've grown their staff, like you mentioned. I feel like they're in a really solid place. But they could have probably more help with merch. They could have more help with ticketing. They could have more resources allocated to marketing. And if there's opportunities to do marketing where there's sounders and rain involved together, having that joint functionality, I think, will be really beneficial.
00:22:43
Speaker
and they get better access to data analytics, those sorts of things where you can like more easily share across two organizations. I think that's all going to be a big improvement. So from your perspective though, how has the move to Loom and Field gone? Because I know one of the big things that kept the sounders from getting more involved with the rain was this sort of belief that
00:23:08
Speaker
or an uncertainty around their stadium situation. Like that's always been sort of the big question mark around the rain is like, where are they going to play? And it seems like everyone has agreed that maybe Lumen Field does work. And the rain obviously at times
00:23:31
Speaker
34,000 people who came out for Megan Rapinoe's farewell game. And that was amazing. And when they didn't get 20,000 people in there, it's really an amazing facility. But from you, you're going there on a much more regular basis than I am. What's been your sense of how Loom & Field has been as a home for the rain?
00:23:59
Speaker
I think just in terms of like a step up for experience for the players, I know that. For fans, there's lots of different experiences, but you cannot discount just how much better it is for the players to play at Lumen Field than Cheney or Memorial. You know, just locker rooms like all of those things that just feel super professional. And you know a nice pitch. People could talk about turf, but it's you know.
00:24:28
Speaker
quality um new this year so we'll see how that goes but um i think it's been a really i actually like really love the atmosphere at lumen field even if it's just one side of the stadium um for a lot of the matches they do a really good job with i mean lumen has really good acoustics and i think they just do a really good job with acoustics
00:24:48
Speaker
Um, where it feels loud, it feels like more than that when there's big moments. Um, and I think that they've always seen this as like a steady growth opportunity. They didn't expect numbers to come overnight. And honestly, I think everyone can applaud and celebrate the fact that they aren't called a well rain anymore because
00:25:10
Speaker
hearing Seattle rain is just like, and it's just much more of an immediate connector for the community. And I think it'll be, I wouldn't discount actually like how much of a deal, big deal that can make. Well, the merch was a huge upgrade at the very least. I mean, I think they look spectacular. The new
00:25:31
Speaker
Kids the new crest all that all the stuff they're coming out with so far I think looks like a huge upgrade and then I would like to think that that will have some real impact in terms of the way that the team is perceived and the way that the team is is
00:25:48
Speaker
is accepted. I feel kind of like cheating a little bit because every time I've gone to a rain game, it's been for a reasonably well attended game. So I don't think I've been to a game there where there's been less than seven or 8000 people. And I agree with you, even if there's you know, it's not all by any stretch of the imagination, but it's
00:26:07
Speaker
that side of the stadium is usually pretty tightly packed and it feels like an event. And sure, it's, it doesn't, you know, I don't love looking across the stadium to see empty seats, but you turn your head either way and all the seats are filled. It's, I don't know. I think it works as a, as a, as a home venue. Um, and I, I got to imagine that was a big part of what ultimately convinced the Sounders to get involved with the team.
00:26:35
Speaker
I think so. I think they'd also be pretty frankly stupid to not see what's happening in women's soccer and the growth of it and believe that there is real potential here. I think back in 2019, which is, you know, the sale to a well group happened in December of 2019. We were coming off of a pretty historic World Cup that felt
00:26:59
Speaker
like it was the start of tilting the needle for women's soccer, but maybe didn't feel like enough to convince someone that you could go from Cheney to loom in really naturally. And then obviously the pandemic hit and halted a lot of things. But I think that you could have seen back in 2019 maybe that this is where it would have been, but it would have been much more of a risk than it is now.
00:27:29
Speaker
One of the things that I don't think is avoidable is you look at, you mentioned that the OL group bought the rain for what, $4 million or something? It was a value of like 3.8.
00:27:43
Speaker
in 2019 and 58 million is what the price is now.
Growth in Women's Soccer Valuation
00:27:48
Speaker
So it's like a thousand percent increase or is that right? It's something like that, right? It's some outrage. Yeah, I think it's a thousand fifty percent. I think is the number I saw is which over four years, which seems crazy. And what's even crazier is that
00:28:04
Speaker
That seems like it might be a good deal. You know, right now, San Diego wave are apparently going to sell for $110 million. Where do you, where is this valuation, this increase in valuation coming from?
00:28:18
Speaker
that that one's wild to me because that did really feel like it was out of the blue like the thorns just wrapped up a couple of months ago and sold for what was then an NWSL record of 63 million. Okay. And you know, the thorns right now before
00:28:36
Speaker
This new ownership they were training at Providence Park which now they're separate entities from the timbers so to be valued at 63 million with like some of the uncertainty around training facilities even is pretty massive for them.
00:28:53
Speaker
And Bay FC paid 50-something million as an expansion team, which is also pretty enormous. But to go from all of that to 113 million was, I don't know, it's pretty wild. The whole San Diego wave thing is a little shocking to everybody, I think, just because it did feel like it came out of nowhere.
00:29:15
Speaker
And then angel city apparently is also potentially up for, yeah, that's a little bit more of a complicated situation, right? They have like the highest valuation of any club right now. Um, just by like Sportico's valuation because of all the sponsorships that they have. And, um, so yeah, but they haven't put a number behind that one.
00:29:37
Speaker
What was the, and I guess the domino that started all of this was Michelle Kang coming in and saying the Washington, like offering to buy the Washington spirit for 25 million or something, right? I think it was 35 million and everyone thought it was, I think, I can't remember, but everyone at that time was like, geez, this is too much. And turns out it was actually right about pretty accurate. Right. Yeah.
00:30:04
Speaker
Yeah, it's been pretty amazing and I would imagine you're right. That's a huge part of why the sounders are probably dying to get involved in this organization at this point.
00:30:17
Speaker
It feels like it's a rocket ship, frankly. I mean, I feel like the TV deal was like a 400% increase in value from their previous TV deal. So like everything around women's soccer is growing at just such an enormous pace that the value of clubs is only bound to follow.
00:30:37
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, exciting time to be covering and to be watching women's professional soccer in this country. And on that note, one of the reasons we wanted to have you on was to talk about a podcast that you're getting ready to put out on our feed.
00:30:56
Speaker
Tell us about that. Yeah. Well, I'm inspired by you because I really like sound bites that you do. I think they're like, I'll be the first to admit, I'm not a day-to-day podcast listener. It's a little too much for me, but you give little bite-sized snacks for us.
00:31:14
Speaker
Um, and it's fun to listen to on the bus ride. Um, and, um, you know, there, despite the growth that we just talked about in women's soccer, there's not a lot of folks that are like day-to-day covering the rain. In fact, I would argue it's us. Right. Yeah. Um, and, uh, to give this as an another option for folks, cause I know a lot of people do consume
00:31:36
Speaker
So we're going to be launching something called Rainbow Reflections, which will be very similar, kind of following matches, big news, just little bite-sized nuggets of brain content for folks. And hopefully people like it, and I'd love to hear what people think when it does come out.
00:31:53
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, no, I think that's one of the things that I wanted to do was increase sort of our rain footprint on this podcast feed. So thanks for doing that, Susie. I'm excited to be giving it a platform and have Ride of the Valkyries continuing to do great work. So thank you for that, Susie. And thank you for joining us today. Yeah, thanks for having me.
00:32:20
Speaker
Uh, and with that, uh, I will sign off, uh, for our, thanks to our sponsor full pool wines, as well as all of our subscribers, which I will remind you, you can, you can still become a subscriber to sound her heart ride to the Valkyries. No sign of get this all that stuff for just 27 50. And that includes sales tax. Now it's such a funny number, but, uh, the things we have to do to satisfy, uh, Washington state, uh, sometimes is.
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is, you know, just, just wonderful. But, uh, with all that said, I am Jeremiah Shan, signing off for Aaron Campo and Susie Rants. This is Nosadiatis. And remember, you will never yet alone.
00:33:59
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We love you. Let's win another one!