Uh, what do you like, what do you love about that linebacker unit, Coach? And there are a lot of names that I didn't mention there.

Yep No, I love first their impact on special teams.

A kid like Casey Larson's been, uh, what could really be like a special teams player that week every week in our conference.

He's doing a great job.

Matt Geering's making an impact on special teams.

Joe Ullmann, Bryce Johnson, uh, Kaiden Fyfe, uh, even some of the young guys.

When Bowden Schiller gets back, he'll make an impact.

What do you take away from them as an opponent coming in on Saturday?

So

my approach to the bass is more melodic instead of rhythmic, which is fantastic.

just a different school of thought.

There are several bass players who play melodically.

It's not a, a reinvention of a wheel of any kind.

It's just something that I thought was going to be a hindrance, but has actually worked to our advantage because we're a trio.

When I first started out on the bass, we had another keyboard player.

So anything you think our listeners should check out.

You made the point on stage the other day that Newcastle United 2.0 actually isn't a new thing because in the Edwardian era, well, why don't you just tell us a little bit, actually, rather than me put words in your mouth, what were Newcastle United in the Edwardian era and what kind of, Road, did that play in you writing the book and kind of trying to chart the direction of the club in the decades that followed?

Yeah, I think if I was to describe the big idea behind the book is that idea that you've described there, Alex, of the fortunes of the club are often a useful barometer about how the city and the wider region are feeling about itself and how well the region is performing.

And if I was to pinpoint a few moments in the club's history, obviously there's the foundation in 1881, not 1892 when the club changed its name.

But in 1881, it's one of a number of clubs, institutions, associations that are springing up across a very prosperous and bustling Tyneside.

And that's sometimes overlooked, the fact that it's Newcastle United Football Club.

It's a club, it's an association.

And there used to be hundreds of them across the North East.

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And, and again, the offenses are not always the same year over year over year, but how important is the tight end in your offense coach and how difficult of a position is that to master at this level for the Jacks?

Tight end is just a critical part of our offense and how we operate.

And, As you mentioned, you have different types of tight ends.

Tight ends are going to be lined up more like receivers or more guys that are in line and doing a lot of the blocking, and sometimes they line up like fullbacks.

So we really like to just recruit really big athletic people and then find their skill sets.

And this year's group is different, and we're excited about them, but I think there's a lot of depth.

And we've got Graydon Gannon, who's returning as an all-conference player.

What does this do and what do these games do for the program and the Jackrabbit football team?

Uh, you know, Junior Ramone, um, you know, he's got the dynamic home run ability, so we gotta make sure we get him the ball in the right situations and

andUh, I mean, I've seen James Basinger and, and Begeman.

Um, Brendan Begeman really takes that forward.

So we've got depth in there, and I think we've got a one-two punch of power, speed, uh, different ways to be able to get those guys the football.

I've re- been really impressed with our true freshman, Javion Scott as well, uh, has come in and done a nice job.

So that room's in good hands.

They're light years ahead of where they were a year ago, and we're gonna lean heavily on running the football.

Take us through that and how thankful you are to have the JFPA as a part of the program and the bedrock of the program up there in Brookings.

We're grateful for really everybody that supports our program, whether it's the university or, or our donors and contributors and supporters that didn't play here, even our season ticket holders and, and fans.

I mean, to me, that's what makes South Coast State so special is the family feel, and it's like, kinda like everybody in the state.

If you're a Jackrabbit, you're part of the family.

And then the, the former players take it to another level.

Those guys put in the blood, sweat, and tears to build our program into what it is today, and it's really cool to see once their careers ended, they... their effort and belief in the program didn't change.

It just shifted into instead of them playing snaps, they're, they're finding other ways to make a difference, and it was really cool.

What's the latest and greatest on Chase you can tell us about as we, uh, get ready for what should be a pretty darn big season for him this fall?

Dan, what do we as electricians need to know about fire integrity of buildings?

So a building is usually, not always, broken up into parts, areas if you like.

And I just want to talk about the difference between compartmentation, fire compartmentation and fire separation.

so a building might a single building might be broken up into compartments because it might have multiple different occupants that share the same building and also compartments have you know under guidance maximum sizes depending if they're sprinklers and stuff like that that's compartments Now, if you are protecting the means of escape or stairwells or things like that, that's usually fire separation.

It's different to compartmentation.

But essentially, we're breaking a building up to stop fire, smoke spreading from one part to another to stop going from one building to another, but also to protect the means of escape.

All right, Dan, where do you see standards for fire going? A couple

of places.

this is why the competent person schemes all the badge sellers they are propagating a message of comply and you'll be fine but just make sure you pass the membership fees and have your cards

but just think about this electricians taking about talking about electricians their job is to install inspect maintain it's not really their job to understand how electricity works and all this new technology to the point where they need to know the ins and outs because they'll never make any money their money's made by installation and they're very good at that they're very good at running cables and containment through buildings so in some models of electrical contracting they don't need to know dc ac and how the ins and outs of a duck backside they need to know the safety principles that they work to So deviating from that can be quite difficult in some situations.

Go on then.

Right, and it's called the Building Safety Regulator and the Building Safety Act.

If anybody listening works on anything that falls within scope of the Building Safety Regulator, HRBs, you'll know how, I wouldn't say increased, but there's a lot more I keep using this word, but mechanisms to check what is being done.

So it does that cost because there's no way to hide.

And you have those contractors who are doing things not quite correctly.

And there are plenty out there, but equally, there's some very good contractors out there.

Mm.

You know, substandard hotel accommodation, that wasn't happening at all.

Um, so he really set the standard both in the early '80s as a player, a double Ballon d'Or winner coming to Newcastle, who were really in the doldrums, as Mick and, and Mark have both said, and then in the, in the '90s as a manager, which I'm sure we'll get onto.

But what I've always been fascinated by, um, Keegan's roots in the Northeast.

Although he was a Yorkshireman, his old man, Joe, was a Geordie, a Geordie miner who'd migrated south to the Yorkshire, South Yorkshire coalfield for work.

And he was literally an Edwardian bloke, his father.

He was born in 1905, so he was 46 when Keegan was born in 1951.

Mm-hmm.

If you can, tell everybody out there, you know, who I'm talking to, where you're from, a little about you.

Yeah, basically, originally born and raised in Westchester County, New York, in the White Plains in Armonk.

Came out to California for my last two years of school up in Northern California, then graduated up in Antioch, California.

I went to work for the family company, which is the little wire ties you get around and tie your bread bag up with.

That's us.

I designed and built those machines and make billions and billions of them.

And it was fun.

from?

Obviously, it's been a while since we talked to you on the air here, but, uh, spring ball into summer, how you feeling about the team and movers and shakers, new faces, guys coming back? How's everything coming together for you?

We're confident.

We're a well-oiled machine now.

Uh, there was at times last year we were getting caught up on learning schematics and learning each other and learning our systems and how things were organized.

Uh, feel a ton more confident in that and the system that had been put in place.

I think the coaching staff is really tight and close and cohesive.

Uh, and they have an understanding.

Quarterbacks at any school are gonna be a big deal, but what do you get out of him as a, as a leader? Athleticism speaks for itself, but what kind of leap are you expecting, and what do you get out of him as a leader there on the football field?

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... put on you by, by others.

And so, uh, at South Dakota State, I understand that if we lose a game here, it's a really big deal.

And, uh, and if we win a big game here, it's a really big deal.

That's what's awesome about college football, and what I'd never wanna lose is, you know, these kids and, and our staff are going through the highest and hi- of highs and the lowest of lows together, and, and that's what creates me- memories that last you for your entire lifetime.

I mean, to be somewhere where a loss isn't that big of a deal and a win, you know, isn't that big of a deal, that w- that would be challenging for me to get motivated every, every morning.

Uh, I love that, uh...

Mm-hmm.

Dan, when it comes to your remit at the historic royal palaces, of course, we would love to know about how do you find not only the craftspeople, but the number of craftspeople you might need to, you know, finish a work? How difficult is that?

It's very challenging and I think it comes down to restoration on the left and conservation on the right.

We still do have a sort of continuity of support in terms of the people who are doing this.

So there's a lady who worked for 64 years, spent her entire career in Hampton Court Palace in the William Morris tapestry restoration studio that was opened from 1912 to 1979, just working on the tapestries that you still see on the walls at the Palace today.

And the right is what that currently looks like today.

So after that restoration studio closed, almost immediately the conservation studio then opened.

And it's taking a slightly different approach to those tapestries, but it's still people who are spending their entire careers with us, working on the tapestries all day, every day.

And this brings me to my next question, that what is authenticity in the context of the great house today? And Dan, I'd like to start with you, because I think people expect a great deal of authenticity when they go to see Henry VIII's house.

What was that balance like, and what is it like now with a year underneath your belt?

Yeah, I think from being here eight years as an assistant, we had opportunities to leave probably every year of those, but we chose to stay because the mission was to win a national championship.

It wasn't to advance to a new school.

So being here that long, I understood the culture.

I knew what I was walking into.

I knew what the kids knew and understood and how they were going to operate.

But the best thing for me was leaving from 2019 to 24 because when I look back at it, the growth that happened during that time is really what helped me be able to have some success in this position, and he'll put our team in a spot right now to be able to go compete for a national title.

Like, how do you even start that process of, you know, do you start it from a football side or do you start it from a financial side? Like, where do you go?