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A highlight from SBF TRIAL: Inside Sam Bankman-Fried's Trial Defense Episode 2
"The most important thing is, you know, just because a lawyer tells you something is okay, that's not a defense. Geez, he said it. He seemed to think everything was okay. Yeah. That's not an advice of counsel defense that negates criminal intent, that's an excuse. In part two of our series digging into SPF's defense, we dissect Sam Bankman -freed's claims that his lawyers played a larger role in FTX's collapse than he did. It might sound like a stretch, but there is legal precedent behind it. SPF also says he was pressured by counsel into turning FTX over to their hand -picked successor. In this episode, we sit down with Mark Litt, the prosecutor who took down Bernie Madoff, Travis Kling, a fund manager who still has millions of dollars tied up in FTX, and Mr. Purple, a pseudonymous crypto investor and fellow FTX victim, to see if there's any legitimacy to SPF's claims that lawyers who were there for FTX's rise are now primed to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars in legal fees. Money that SPF says should be used to pay back depositors. I'm Zach Ousman, you're listening to the SPF Defense Podcast, a coinage investigation. SPF's position is that FTX would have made it through the crisis if not for his lawyers, which conspired to steal the company out from under him, cover up their role in its operation, and siphon hundreds of millions of dollars in legal fees from the bankrupt estate. SPF even names one lawyer in particular, Ryan Miller, who joined FTX US from the law firm's Sullivan and Cromwell, and planned on returning there after his time at the exchange, according to an affidavit from FTX's top lawyer. SPF says Miller conspired to hand the company over to Solcrom and their chosen agent, John J. Ray III, who also handled Enron's bankruptcy. And whether you come to believe Sam's claims or not, Solcrom and Ray clearly won. If FTX's bankruptcy process takes the two years like Enron's did, it's on track to cost over $800 million. And Solcrom's relationship has already been called out by more than just Sam. It's even been raised as an issue by senators and 18 state regulators. But could SPF be right about Ryan Miller and Solcrom's nefarious motives? And even if they did do some evil lawyer shit, will it be enough to get SPF off the hook? To fully understand this defense strategy, it helps to start with SPF's story behind his attempt to plug the now notorious multi -billion dollar hole at FTX back in November's collapse. As the story goes, he was preparing to handle the liquidity crisis by courting Nomura, Japan's largest investment group, and the crypto company Tron, who had pledged billions of dollars in liquidity to FTX, while other investors were still deliberating. SPF had said he planned on giving away most of his equity in the company, and therefore most of his wealth, in an attempt to make customers of FTX International whole. SPF has always maintained that FTX US remained completely solvent right up to the end. But SPF says his rescue plan failed because Ryan Miller and Solcrom agents at his company, including Tim Wilson, another FTX lawyer with a past at Solcrom, pressed him repeatedly to sign the company's over to John Ray in bankruptcy, and even implied that if he refused, they could have him arrested and quote, change control in order to authorize a proper insolvency process. SPF said he changed his mind within 10 minutes of signing, but it was already too late. And he says his lawyers reneged on their promises to let him select a board share, blocking him out of his accounts and refusing to communicate further. As soon as John Ray was installed, he chose Sullivan and Cromwell as FTX's primary counsel. To be fair, SPF actually has a point when it comes to the sketchiness of that process. Even outside legal observers have taken issue with Solcrom being tapped as the firm to manage FTX's bankruptcy. In fact, a bipartisan group of two Republican and two Democratic senators, including Elizabeth Warren, sent a letter to the judge overseeing the case, urging him to appoint an independent examiner rather than Solcrom, which worked with FTX and Alameda before the collapse, bringing in $8 .5 million in legal fees. The senators argued, quote, given their longstanding legal work for FTX, they may well bear a measure of responsibility for the damage wrecked on the company's victims. Regulators from 18 states echoed that issue, saying appointing an independent examiner wasn't just right, it was also legally required. But back in February, the judge in the case threw out those requests, saying it would cost too much money, though we should note FTX's lawyers also charged the bankruptcy estate $21 ,000 over 20 days just for meals, which apparently isn't too much to spend. And if you ask the victims in FTX's collapse, this is all pretty important, considering it's their deposits and claims at stake. And if their money is being drained in broad daylight by a law firm who also helped FTX pre -collapse, that might not sit any better than Sam spending it. We talked to Travis Kling, who lost his crypto investment fund in FTX's collapse, and asked him to weigh in. If you ask me at the very beginning, do you think this is going to be one of the most expensive bankruptcies in U .S. history, I would say yes. Yes. You know, it's enormous. There's a ton of fraud, and it's magic internet money. Trying to kind of Monday morning quarterback this and say, oh, Sam would have been better off not filing for bankruptcy. That's not something that I feel very strongly about. And Solkrom's outrageous fees aren't the only reason for concern. SPF also claims Solkrom gave a clean bill of health to Alameda's trading accounts on FTX in a report with the CFTC just months before the collapse. Furthermore, in his affidavit, Dan Friedberg, who was both FTX's chief compliance officer and Alameda's general counsel until he stepped down following the crisis, says Miller only included FTX U .S. in the bankruptcy proceedings precisely because Miller knew it had the funds to pay Solkrom for its work, which backs up what SPF said about how FTX U .S. was never insolvent. So this may be a case of the fox guarding the henhouse. Solkrom denies any of this, of course. The firm's top bankruptcy lawyer, Andrew Dietrich, who told other lawyers FTX was rock solid in an email just days before the bankruptcy, said he only spoke with SPF twice. The FTX debtors also countersued Friedberg to seek damages, alleging he breached his fiduciary duties. We can't say much more beyond that because Solkrom never got back to us when we asked for a comment. But one thing is clear, what guidance Sam's lawyers gave him, and particularly what they knew about the business, will become integral to SPF's defense at trial. Even if you asked Ryan Miller before the collapse, the laws are pretty simple for any business, crypto or otherwise. Here he is explaining that concept at an MIT Bitcoin meetup in July 2022. Don't do fraud, don't lie, don't release materially incomplete statements. That then creates a basis for liability, liability from a criminal authority, be it a Department of Justice or liability in a civil context. Yet according to Caroline Allison's guilty plea, they had trouble following even those rules. In her sworn testimony, she said, quote, I agreed with Mr. Bankman, Fried and others to provide materially misleading financial statements to Alameda's lenders. Could Miller or any of SPF's lawyers, for that matter, be one of those others? Sam's other allegation that Miller contacted the DOJ to turn over documents that led to his indictment days before SPF linked, which controlled the company, makes Miller start to look even sketchier. But even if Solkrom really does have a true conflict of interest, could SPF really use their role in everything that happened to get an acquittal? Given that I'm not a lawyer, we pose that defense to Mark Litt, the prosecutor who took down Bernie Madoff. Can a lawyer be a criminal? Sure. Yeah. Can a lawyer be part of a criminal enterprise? Yes. Do they often go down? I don't know a lot of reputable lawyers who are going to bless lying to investors, lying to banks, intermingling funds, lying to auditors. If he happened to find one who knew all that was going on and blessed it, then maybe as a defense. But I tend to doubt it. You can't think of it as, well, oh, well, you know, Sullivan and Cromwell was involved or a former Sullivan and Cromwell lawyer was involved and, geez, he said he seemed to think everything was okay. That's not an advice of counsel defense that negates criminal intent. That's an excuse masquerading as an advice of counsel defense. Advice of counsel defense is very specific and narrow. You need competent counsel and they'll stipulate that any lawyer at Sullivan and Cromwell is competent in the subject area that they're being asked about. Second, every material fact has to be disclosed to them. Third, you have to seek their legal opinion on a subject. And fourth, you have to follow the advice. So if the defense can make out those elements, I would think they'd be able to present the defense and it might have a shot of winning. So Sol Cromwell might not be saints, but as we covered last time in episode one, SPF isn't exactly facing a trial over FTX's collapse. He's charged with a lot of things that led up to FTX's collapse. Arguably, what's alleged to have happened post -collapse matters more for FTX's victims. And if you ask them, the reviews are mixed on exactly what's played out thus far. If I'm going to judge Sullivan and Cromwell and John J. Wray from my purview of being someone who's seen these things in bankruptcy, I would give them a very low grade because you can say, oh, this is crypto, it's difficult, but it's not that difficult. And sometimes the devil you know is better than the one you don't. I will say that these debtors are extremely bad in my professional experience. That was Mr. Purple, a pseudonymous crypto investor who has experience following bankruptcy proceedings. For former FTX customers like him, Sam's spat with Sol Cromwell matters very little, as long as the firm can help achieve a meaningful recovery of their funds. And despite the fact that legal fees are stacking up, the bidding market for FTX customer claims is showing a growing hope they might not be stuck with pennies on the dollar. Another way to frame it is, you know, there's a claims market for FTX claims, trade claims, trade actively. There's a little niche of traditional finance that all they do is go around to different bankruptcies in all industries and they buy claims. This is this is a, you know, a subsector of of investing. And this is a huge bankruptcy. So this has been a very big liquid market. Right. And the first, you know, we're a very big creditor in this. So, you know, I'm in active conversations in this claims market. First, first bid we saw was in Thanksgiving and it was like six cents. That was the first bid. Six cents on the dollar, six cents on the dollar. And now now it's like 40 cents. And so it's gone from six to 40 cents. So then I'm like, OK, well, that feels quite good. Yeah. And OK, these guys are charging a load of money for that, but they have taken us from six cents to 40 cents. With both FTX's bankruptcy case and SPF's criminal case unfolding in real time, one may very well impact the other. We filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the CFTC to share the report. Sam says Solkrom filed to support that FTX's structure was above board. The agency denied our request, saying it's unable to share documents that, quote, could interfere with the conduct of federal agency law enforcement activities. And of course, as long as Solkrom selected John Ray is running the show at FTX, it's unexpected anything comes out to support SPF's case. FTX, too, didn't get back for comment. So unless SPF has direct evidence of lawyers being aware of FTX's shaky financials and helping for years to cover it up, it's hard to judge SPF's advice of counsel defense or the idea that he thought he was in the clear leading up to the collapse just because his lawyers said it was fine. As Litt said, that sounds more like an excuse than a defense. As a community owned Web3 media outlet, Coinage will be breaking down everything we've learned together through this series and curating still unanswered questions at Coinage .Media. I'm Zach Guzman. This was the second part of Coinage's investigative series covering SPF's defense. Stay tuned for episode three, where we'll explore another pillar. Of SPF's defense. You've been listening to the SPF Defense on the Coindesk Podcast Network. Follow the Coindesk Podcast Network to get all the Coindesk shows in one place and head over to Coindesk .com for all the Sam Bankman freed coverage. Thanks for listening.
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A highlight from A Flurry of Amicus Briefs in Coinbase vs. SEC
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me and LW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Monday, August 14th, and today we are talking about a wild set of amicus briefs filed in the Coinbase against SEC case. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review. Or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. All right, friends. Well, today, as I said, the main focus of the show is a slew of amicus briefs filed in the Coinbase case at the very end of last week. But first, a quick update in the SPF saga. Now, I'm sure all of you guys are at least a little bit familiar with what happened at this point, but let's present it for completeness. TLDR, after months of playing fast and loose with bail conditions, Sam has been sent to jail to await his trial. Now, the big catalyst for this was, of course, last month's leaking parts of former Alameda CEO Carolyn Ellison's journal to The New York Times. Carolyn was the CEO of Alameda during the final months of operations, was at times Sam's girlfriend, and will also be a key witness in Sam's trial. Now, SPF had said through lawyers that he was merely trying to, quote, give his side of the story. This is something that he has done a lot of, apparently. Indeed, he has notched up over 100 phone calls with one New York Times journalist in particular, and that's just one of the many reporters that he has been in touch with. The prosecutor argued effectively that this was indirect witness tampering. They said that even though there hadn't been an overt communication with Ellison, the intention was clear, stating, I think the fact the defendant was more subtle in his methods than a mobster doesn't mean it was benign. Now, the judge ultimately sided with the DOJ, finding that Sam's conduct was closer to witness intimidation than constitutionally protected public defense. During the hearing on Friday, the judge said Sam had been willing to, quote, risk crossing the line in an effort to get right up to the line wherever it is. Of Ellison's writings, which Sam shared, the judge said, The documents are in part personal and intimate. They are personally oriented, not business oriented. They are something that someone who had been in a relationship would be unlikely to share with anyone except to hurt and frighten the subject. Ultimately, the judge said, My conclusion is there is probable cause to believe the defendant has attempted to tamper with witnesses at least twice. There is a reputable presumption that there is no set of conditions that will ensure Bankman -Fried will not be a danger. So the other witness tampering attempt that the judge was referring to came shortly after Sam's arrest and release on bail when he had reached out to former FTX U .S. General Counsel Ryan Miller, suggesting that they stay in touch, coordinate communications, etc. Sam had also previously broken bail conditions when he had used the VPN to access the Internet, something that he claimed was just to watch the NFL playoffs, which very few people bought as totally true. Part of Sam's argument for remaining out of jail had been that incarceration would make it more difficult for him to prepare his defense. Prior to locking Sam up, the judge ensured that he would have access to a laptop to continue his trial preparation, which it seems like is just about the only good thing about the facility that he is on his way to. The judge said, I am focused on the possibility that he will be detained at the MDC, not on anyone's list of five -star facilities. That said, I understand he could have a dedicated laptop at the MDC 9, 10, 11 hours a day. Sam's trial is set to begin on October 2nd. His legal team has, of course, appealed the decision to revoke his bail and requested that he remain on house arrest pending appeal, but were denied on that motion. Former journalist Dan Nguyen really captured, I think, the sensibilities of the entire Twitter sphere when he wrote, SPF got one of the sweetest bail deals in history, and all he had to do was chill at his parents' Stanford home, play with the new dog his parents bought for him, and not use a VPN to secretly commit more crimes on the Internet, and yet, clown face emoji. Anyways, guys, just another gross chapter in a bad story. But with that, let's move on to something much more positive. On Friday, Blockchain Association Chief Policy Officer J. Chivinsky wrote, Today is a fun day. The deadline for amicus briefs on Coinbase's motion for judgment on the pleadings of the SEC's enforcement action. I expect to see many excellent briefs on many different issues. They should start hitting the docket soon. And indeed, hit they did. On Friday, a slew of briefs were filed in support of Coinbase's motion to dismiss the SEC's lawsuit. Now, most crypto lawsuits from the SEC have seen numerous amicus or friend -of -the -court briefs filed, but the Coinbase lawsuit attracted more attention from the legal community than usual. The Coinbase motion for judgment on the pleadings was supported by venture firms Paradigm and A16Z, who filed a joint brief, crypto lobbyists including the Blockchain Association, the Chamber for Digital Commerce and the DeFi Education Fund, and perhaps most notable were briefs from Senator Cynthia Lummis, as well as a group of six legal scholars. Coinbase is, of course, being sued for offering the sale of unregistered securities. The SEC's lawsuit hinges on the claim that 13 tokens offered on Coinbase's centralized exchange are securities. In addition to alleging that the main trading venue requires registration as a securities exchange, the SEC also alleges that Coinbase's self -hosted wallet is an unregistered securities brokerage and clearing agency. Finally, the lawsuit also alleged that Coinbase's staking product is a securities offering. As usual, all of these claims rely on the Howey Test, which is a Supreme Court test to determine when a transaction is deemed to be the sale of an investment contract. Coinbase's argument is that none of the tokens they offer fully satisfy the test, and as such, the lawsuit should be thrown out without the court hearing any further facts of the case. In addition, Coinbase is arguing that the SEC has attempted to expand its jurisdiction beyond the authority it was granted by Congress. This argument, as we have discussed, is brought under the Major Questions Doctrine, which is a relatively recent legal doctrine put forward by the Supreme Court. The Major Questions Doctrine holds that administrative agencies must have explicit authority from Congress to oversee an industry which forms a major part of the U .S. economy. So now let's go through the set of different briefs kind of organized in the context that they came in. We'll start with the VC and lobbyist briefs. The joint brief from Paradigm and A16Z focused extensively on the damage that could be done to the industry if the SEC's view of the law was held to be correct. They wrote, The brief noted that the SEC claimed crypto tokens themselves embody the terms of an investment contract, so continued to carry a classification as securities into the secondary markets long after their initial sale. This approach was rejected in the recent Ripple case, but remains contentious among federal court judges. The brief warned that allowing the SEC to take this approach could extend their reach into an endless array of commonly sold assets including fine art, classic cars, and vintage wines. Now, a group of crypto lobbyists led by the Blockchain Association said in their brief that the SEC seeks to cast aside the nearly century -old understanding of an investment contract and usurp Congress's authority to decide how to regulate a burgeoning industry. They claimed that the statutory text, history, precedent, and common sense all foreclosed the SEC's attempt to rewrite the definition of investment contract to reach digital asset sales unaccompanied by any ongoing contractual obligations. In a Twitter thread discussing the joint brief, G. Kim, the General Counsel at the Crypto Council for Innovation, wrote, The SEC is trying to short -circuit the legislative process and seize the power to resolve questions of massive economic and political importance by presenting its flawed interpretation in enforcement actions. The Chamber of Digital Commerce echoed their fellow lobbyists in making the point that the SEC is exceeding their authority and using inappropriate methods to bring the crypto industry to heel. They wrote that the SEC is choosing to use the blunt and unpredictable tool of enforcement proceedings to the exclusion of all other methods. They characterized the lawsuit as Coinbase's turn on the SEC's roulette wheel. Now, the DeFi Education Fund took a different approach, focusing their brief on the technical side of the case and linking the underlying functionality of crypto products to the legal arguments. The DeFi lobbyist explained that both Coinbase's staking service and wallet are software products rather than regulated financial service products. They argued that a decision in favor of the SEC's overly expansive theories related to this software application would have a chilling effect on the developers and service providers that innovate in DeFi and consequently the users of this technology. With regard to the wallet, they pointed out that Coinbase does not route orders nor take control of customer assets, so it's difficult to see how they could be viewed as a broker in that context. In discussing staking, they noted that while Coinbase administers the validators which deliver staking rewards to customers, their, quote, function is squarely ministerial as an IT service provider. Put another way, Coinbase provides an IT product that leads to a financial reward, but that reward stems from the crypto protocols themselves rather than from Coinbase's efforts. Now, maybe the most striking brief in support of Coinbase was co -signed by not one but six law professors with expertise in securities law. This includes experts from UCLA, Boston University, Fordham Law School, Widener University, the University of Chicago Law School, and Yale Law School. And importantly, this isn't a group of outspokenly crypto -friendly professors. Between them, this group has written multiple textbooks and authored countless academic papers. Some of them quite literally wrote the book on securities law. Their brief focuses on the definition of the term investment contract and argues that it has a much more limited scope than the SEC seems to think. A key part of the SEC's crypto lawsuits has been the idea that a crypto token is one part of an overall investment scheme which does not require a formal contract between the parties. This would mean that a token could be considered a security even when the issuer doesn't make any promises to holders and doesn't take any direct investment from purchasers. The professors rejected this as ignorant of the history of securities law. Their opinion is that the Securities Act of 1933 used the very well -established language of investment contract to refer specifically to situations where, quote, the investor receives, in exchange for an investment, a contractual undertaking or right to an enterprise's income, profits, or assets. They argued that this definition of an investment contract had been present in state legislation and cases leading up to the passing of federal regulation in 1933. They added that this definition has been consistently used by the courts to decide lawsuits following Howey to this day. This historical argument flies in the face of SEC briefs, which have often discarded state legislation and cases prior to 1933 as irrelevant. The legal scholars wrote that nowhere in the Howey decision does the Supreme Court, quote, suggest that it was doing away with the court textual and historical anchor of the statutory term investment contract, i .e. contractual undertakings. Rather, Howey's reference to a scheme or transaction simply reflected the instruction that courts should consider the economic reality of a business venture to determine whether an investment contract exists. The law professors suggested that by agreeing with the SEC's definition of an investment contract, the court would be going against almost a century of case law. They urged that, quote, The court should adhere to the settled meaning of the term, consistently applied by the state courts interpreting state blue sky laws, as well as by the federal appellate courts before and since Howey. Under that settled meaning, an investment contract requires contractual undertakings to deliver future value, reflecting the income, profits, or assets of a business. Paradigm policy director Justin Slaughter writes, It takes real skill to so mismanage the situation that you have serious institutionalists like Professors Macy and Hammermesh filing amici briefs against the SEC in an enforcement case. This case is on track to blow up the SEC's powers and maybe weaken agency powers across the board. That people invested in the current securities regime are still siding against the current SEC position speaks volumes. Finally, Senator Cynthia Lummis has also filed an amicus brief addressing the question of whether the SEC has overreached its authority. Lummis began her brief by drawing the court's attention to the numerous bipartisan efforts currently underway in Congress to craft regulations for the crypto industry. She wrote that she, Has a special interest in upholding the Constitution's separation of powers by ensuring that federal administrative agencies do not exceed the authority conferred upon them or encroach upon Congress's ongoing legislative efforts. Amicus believes that the SEC's approach to enforcement in this case, and in the crypto asset industry more broadly, contravenes that separation of powers. Now given that the cornerstone of any major questions doctrine argument is that an administrative agency is exceeding the powers granted to it by Congress, it seems extremely relevant to be told by a sitting US Senator that they believe this to be the case. Lummis continued, When Congress created the SEC to regulate securities markets, it did not grant the SEC power to reimagine the definition of securities to expand the agency's sphere of influence into other asset classes or to encroach on other agencies and regulatory schemes. The SEC's attempt to shoehorn an entire new class of assets into the existing definition of a security and thereby add to the definition enumerated by Congress exceeds the SEC's authority, encroaches on Congress's lawmaking, and contravenes the separation of powers. Put simply, she said, Basically, the brief is an attempt to provide evidence to the court that Congress is not content with the status quo when it comes to crypto regulation. Much of the brief describes the various ongoing legislative efforts. And after outlining these bills, Lummis writes, The multitude of interests at stake require a holistic approach beyond the scope of a single agency. Ultimately, she says, Lummis urged the court to, Now, I think where most of the analysis lands, holding aside deep legal minutiae, which obviously will become very important in terms of how the case actually resolves, is from a sentiment shift it feels to people, of course, outside observers, that this is going to be a hard one for the SEC. Algorithmic trading firm CEO Xi Zhen writes, Now, I would never go that far given that Let's hope that these friends of the court are correct. Appreciate you guys listening as always. Until next time, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
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"Be so quick to judge. Maybe they're not really into trying every thing on that menu. They had heard what was good or they knew it was good. They know what they like. Man, small WTO P news. Now to the top stories we are working on at WTO P, severe weather sweeps several states and it continue in parts of the country, meanwhile, other areas are recovering from storms that slammed them last week and locally one person is dead after a tanker truck hauling flammable liquid overturns explodes and touches off a neighborhood fire, the truck driver was killed. Keep it here for full details on these stories in the minutes ahead. It's 7 48. Traffic and weather on the 8 to marry in the traffic center. All right, Liz, we're gonna start in the district, not a lot happening. You're two 95 trek and all of the anacostia crossings are available, but we have police action in southeast Alabama avenue naylor road watch for a new direction happening there. Again, nothing currently reported on the freeway, the mall were all celebrating a nice run. But if it crossed the Potomac, all of your bridges across the Potomac also available, but you will find on the Virginia side, George Washington Parkway, a closure for today, and it already started. It's supposed to go through this afternoon, but what is happening northbound will divert at the spout run Parkway, the closure is from spout run all the way to one 23. They're retrieving a vehicle that went off the road a year ago in a snowstorm. You can see details at WTO P dot com. We're checking on the beltway R one incident. It's going to be on the inner loop. And as you pass the toll road before Georgetown pike, left lame blocked, we do have a wrecker with that disabled vehicle In the heart of rest in the rest in ten mile or around south Lake's high school starting south Lake's twin branches soapstone a lot of closures will be happening for this morning's race. And just imagine new teeth in 24 hours, it's possible with G four by galba and the gulper precision dentistry technologies schedule your consultation today at G four by gulpa dot com. Married to pump a WTO P traffic. Hey, storm team four is Ryan Miller. We have pretty quiet weather. We are not going to be dealing with any precipitation across the region for the next several days, lots of sunshine for your Sunday air temperatures will get close to 60°. This afternoon,
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"Longfin save 20% on all Dex papers and fences, financing available for qualified buyers, scheduler free estimate in home at long fence dot com. I'm Joe Conway WTO traffic. Thanks, Joe storm team four meteorologist Ryan Miller Ryan, for those who play golf today. There might be a par three. They have to pull the driver out of the bag instead of the 8 iron. Yeah, it's going to be especially if that hole is facing the northwest. Direct headwind really gusty wind, Dan, that's going to be continuing. At times between 30 and even 50 mph, gusting here through the afternoon hours. Things will settle down tonight. We've got sunshine in the forecast for today. And a mild day with highs in the upper 50s close to 60. Tomorrow, we're going to lose the wind. We're going to keep the sunshine and also the mild weather with highs tomorrow right around 60°, a good-looking weather day tomorrow. For the day on Monday, we will continue with a rather tranquil weather pattern here for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, looking dry each day, partly sunny with temperatures in the lower 60s each day. It is currently 51 in Washington 48° right now in Rockville, and Dan currently in Stafford, Virginia. We're sitting at 55. Ryan liked that phrase losing the win, the weather brought to you by purpose diamonds. Think diamonds think nervous. Nobody pays retail anymore. Why should you go to nervous diamonds dot com? Coming up on WTO. Another long running popular daytime talk show will end this year. We'll get to tails. It's ten 51. Ever since we got Xfinity mobile, the whole family now has the fastest mobile service. My little brother has no idea how lucky he is. Back in my day, we didn't have it nearly as good. Oh yeah, back in my day, you couldn't even stream outside the house. I don't like to think about
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"That patient first just walk in 8 to 8, 365 days a year, patient first for over 40 years, learn more patient first dot com, married to pump at WTP traffic. Thanks, Merritt, let's go live to storm team four meteorologist Ryan Miller Ryan going to be a very windy afternoon, isn't it? Yeah, across the region, Dan, we're going to see gusts anywhere between 40, 50 mph at times, and the winds are going to be sustained out of the north and west anywhere between 20 and 30. So temperature wise, it's going to be a nice day and I'll tell you what, we're also going to see plenty of sunshine, highs close to 60 this afternoon, and the winds will start to settle down here into the evening hours. Tomorrow looking fantastic, sunshine, and temperature is near 60 with no wind concerns for your Sunday, good-looking stuff. Monday, Tuesday, and even Wednesday and Thursday looking A-okay as well. We're going to be pretty quiet. Weather wise, temperatures start the week into the 60s for highs and then falling into the 50s towards the end of the week. 50°, that's where we're at right now at Reagan national airport, 43° currently in fairfax, and Dan right now in Waldorf, Maryland, where 42. Thank you, Ryan, the weather brought to you by new look home design right now, save 50% on all your roofing labor and materials. Coming up on WTO P, the family of a man shot and killed recently by U.S. Marshals is seeking answers. WTO pay to use time 8 21. Book your New Jersey summer vacation. Get ready for sunshine vibes and waves of beach and boardwalk fun. Go for exciting destinations, entertaining nightlife and endless outdoor adventures. Whether relaxing along 130 miles of Jersey
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"Suffering a brain aneurysm. Keep it here for full details on these stories in the minutes ahead. It's now 7 48. Traffic and weather on the 8s back to marry to papa in the WTO traffic center. All right, Colin, we'll go right back to the beltway. It's been running well all morning, but now we have a new crash listener does check in with more perspective if you're on the inner loop. You will hit the brakes after you pass the two 70 spur. Going around the curve passing fernwood right at the exit for old Georgetown road single file left getting by one off the roadway into the Woods on its side. So maybe here a little bit, but as it stands now, delays are just as you make the turn on the inner loop after the spur will watch it. That's it for the beltway. Not in for Maryland though we'll keep checking if you were I 70 heading through helicopter city passing the 40 and the marriottsville road exit a tree had come down. Watch out along the right side in case we have any flashing lights. Earlier crash there was one 97. It's Snowden road. That should officially be cleared. In Rockville, no such luck on montrose road. That is remaining closed after an early morning crash, and both sides of montrose wrote a diverting between tower oaks, boulevard, and tilden would drive follow police direction. Nothing is affecting I two 70. Into Virginia we go, big roads we're doing okay. George Washington Parkway south after one 23 currently without delay, the work zone set up, you would stay to the left to get by, crashing annandale, little river turnpike, two 36, west at Hummer road listener says you're actually diverting through the gas station. Westbound lanes were closed. In Dale City, Dale boulevard east at birch between birch, they'll avenue and Gideon right at Asheville circled the crash you would be following police direction. But 66 from front ryland to Rosalind riding well in the district, Pennsylvania avenue northwest closed from the capitol from the 14th 14th street to the capitol, both directions and into federal center for a race married to pump a WTO prize. Right now to Ryan Miller at storm team four Ryan, a lot of sunshine outside the studio this morning. Yeah, and we've got temperatures right now, Kyle that are
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"Up for only $69. Traffic and weather on the 8s here's Mary de pompa and the traffic center. Alrighty, thanks, Liz, and a happy Sunday. We're going to start out traveling on the capitol beltway where it is very happy right now. Nothing currently reported that is both in Maryland and in Virginia. On the Virginia side, big roads are still doing well. Three 95 from the 14th street bridge through the Springfield interchange 95 and all the way to spotsylvania, moving well, the easy pass express lanes do point north on an early Sunday morning. Now southbound after seminary road disabled vehicle has been towed away. Police are still there, so that means if your south after the exit four seminary, move over from the right side with flashing lights. But again, you aren't speed, no troubles doing so. 66 same from Rosalind through front royal currently nothing reported a crash in Ashburn should have officials on scene on Ashburn farm Parkway west at Ashburn road you would follow police direction. Into Maryland, we go, the big story this morning is a closure on route 32 the westbound side and between Dorsey run road exit 11 and route one all westbound traffic diverts follow police direction, joining 32 west from route one puts you beyond the closure, obviously, and it is an easy, fairly easy workaround on an early Sunday. We're keeping an eye on it. We still have not discontinued the work at the bay bridge with an eastbound span close two way travel on the westbound span, but watch your signals and this traffic report is brought to you by Greenberg and betterment for over 35 years in the DMV, Greenberg and betterment has helped tens of thousands of clients who've been heard in auto accidents or victims of medical malpractice, visit GB lawyers dot com and feel better married to pomp at WTF E traffic. At a storm team fours Ryan Miller. Liz right now, we are seeing temperatures begin to pop up close to 40° in many spots, and that trend will continue the temperatures will rise
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"ryan miller" Discussed on WTOP
"Traffic and weather on the 8s, let's go to Mary in the WTO traffic center. All righty, Dan. It's a little chilly out there. It was overnight as well. So we'll say to you if you're out and about and it looks wet, be cautious, it could be icy conditions, a listener checked in, falls road had icy conditions, any of those low lying areas. So on the defensive for the most part, Sunday morning, driving pretty well. We're working at the bay bridge still. They will hold traffic eventually. It hasn't happened yet, but on 50th the bay bridge, the eastbound span remaining closed, there's two way travel on the westbound span. They're going to discontinue this and hold the traffic. There's currently only a single lane getting by each way, but virtually no delays from Queenstown across the bay to the beltway inside of the beltway and working into northeast Washington. If we continue on the Maryland side to 70 rides well, 95 beltway to beltway currently nothing reported. Same Baltimore Washington Parkway, both outside and inside of the beltway, D.C. two 95 I two 95 all check out. A thing to note in Maryland, we have a crash investigation closing the westbound side route 32 in jessup. 32 between Dorsey run road X to the 11 root one, all lanes are blocked, follow police direction, crash investigation. If you're heading west and get diverted, you can rejoin from route one, so a lot of workarounds on an early Sunday morning. In Virginia, saying railways running pretty well three 95 from the 14th street bridge all the way to Fredericksburg, you have the express lanes pointing north, but Sal three 95 near the seminary road exit four. They just went for a disabled vehicle. Again, you could find anything at speed. Are you hiring, then click and check out indeed. Schedule virtual interviews and talk to candidates right from your employer dashboard, visit indeed dot com slash credit married to pump a WTO P traffic. Thanks, Berra, let's go live to storm team four meteorologist Ryan Miller, a little bit cloudier than yesterday, but not too bad. No, we've got a little bit of brightening sky in the eastern horizon
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"ryan miller" Discussed on WTOP
"Miss out. Enter the win today at WTO dot com search free lunch. Traffic your mother on the apes marries in the WTO traffic center. Andy Dan and taking a look at the beltway right now. We've got nothing reported. The earlier disabled George avenue exit 31 that was before should be clear and you're riding well on the beltway all the way around Marilyn and in Virginia. On the Virginia side, same big roads are doing well on 95 between Fredericksburg Springfield three 95 through the 14th street bridge currently nothing reported now easy pass express do go northbound on an early Sunday morning. 66 is at speed between Rosalind and front royal if you're westbound and you're near the Prince William Parkway exit 44 they find the disabled vehicle should be off to the right. You may see flashing lights, but nothing in the roadway, but you know the drill if there are flashing lights, be sure to move over for safety. On the Maryland side, same, we do have route 32 remaining closed in the westbound direction, so on 32 between Dorsey run road X at 11 and U.S. one, your follow police direction there, a crash investigation in the eastbound side is unaffected, and on a Sunday morning, it's a pretty easy workaround so far keep an eye on it. On 50 of the Chesapeake Bay bridge, the maintenance was continuing. You've got a single lane going across the bay in both directions to each bounce band closed to a travel on the westbound, watch for stops, they should discontinue this shortly if they hold you at either end, it would only be momentarily. So follow direction and your overhead signals there, there's a buffer on the westbound span in the middle. So do not use the center lane. Married to pampa WTO traffic. Thanks, Mary. Let's check in with storm team four meteorologist Ryan Miller. Clouds around this morning, sunshine, this afternoon, and a breeze will start to pick up out of the south and west. We're going to be mild. High temperatures
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"You need every time you listen. It's 5 28. In traffic and weather on the 8th, Joe Fox and the traffic center. Is the biggest issue in the region continues to be the inner loop of the capitol beltway right under two O two. This is over by FedEx field. It's one lane out of 5, the center lane getting you through major crash involving one overturned on the left and one of the Woods on the right, so lots of attention there and folks are doing a good job taking it slow, heading through that single center lane on the interloop of the beltway southbound pass two O two northbound, you're on effect, and although you get quite a show as you're driving by, don't see any delays or rubbernecking there in the camera. Elsewhere, BW Parkway, southbound, I think the issue of the disabled vehicle at one 75 is gone. However, what's not gone is the closure of route 32 westbound at Dorsey run road, you can get back on it route one, use guildford road as your alternate, you will be routed off of 32 at Dorsey run eastbound is unaffected. That crash happened back in the 2 o'clock hour, so it appears to be fairly serious. Elsewhere in Maryland, the capitol belt, the rest of the bellway Montgomery county looking good, no problems on two 70, the ICC and Montgomery county, 50 out to the bay bridge. We still haven't wrapped up the overnight road work, so it's going to be a single link getting you across each side of the westbound span, eastbound span is still closed. Over in Virginia, no problems really to report 95 southbound you're in good shape all the way down towards Fredericksburg and Richmond, 66, no problems out to front royal. The Virginia beltway three 95 are looking good. We're still working the crashes in the district at 12th and constitution and Georgia and park. Those are both pretty minor, though, just follow police direction to get around. Joe Fox WTO traffic. Storm team four is Ryan Miller. Clouds around this morning, sunshine, this afternoon, and a breeze will start to pick up out of the south and west. We're going to be mild. High temperatures
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"The left side, but now blocked once again in a loop in the main lanes, all lanes blocked headed past 50 Arlington boulevard, the express lanes are open, and the service road from 50 to join the antelope is open with a single file to the right getting by there. Northbound I 95 in sponsor Vania after 6 O 6 thornburg, we had a single right lane getting it past the crash scene there. Otherwise, eastbound 66 between nightly street and the beltway at crash is clear to the right shoulder, all your travel angels are open, but delays remain. If you're on the beltway in Maryland through Montgomery county out of the near river road may have one stopped in the roadway, delays on the outer loop, leaving old Georgetown road coming off the southbound two 70 spur as you head toward river road, otherwise, no problems going to 70 you guys are pretty cool there. I 95s indecent shape. PW Parkway northbound sluggish in the usual spot between greenbelt road and powder mill road, travel route 50 across the bay breeze two way operations running on the westbound span with two lanes east and three lanes in the westbound direction, new problems in millersville, northbound I 97, the ramp to westbound 32 of the report of a vehicle fire to watch out for that also keep in mind in Silver Spring. Still close, Georgia avenue between spring street and Cameron street as a result of the early morning fire activity there. So watch out for that if you're traveling in that location. Time to save is now at Marlow furniture's president's day mattress sale, save up to $800 off select mattresses plus up to 60 months, no inches financing only at Marlow furniture. Rob stallworth WTO traffic. Now to storm team four meteorologist Ryan Miller, sunshine, your 50 this afternoon, overnight, we're gonna start to claw it up with lows in the 30s. Tomorrow, clouds in the morning and sunshine in the afternoon, milder
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"It's 1208. Michael and sons peting tune up for only $69. Traffic and weather on the 8s, and when it breaks, let's go over to rob stalwart in the traffic center. Serious situation Ralph in Virginia on the analytic between and in Dale and falls church. That's where we have the crash and vehicle fire blocking all lanes of the main lanes on the in loop beyond 50 Arlington boulevard as you head toward I 66. The express lanes are open and available and running pretty decently right now, but it's gonna cost you because of the inner loop crash and vehicle fire beyond 50 headed toward I 66, otherwise on 66 you're in good shape. They'll issues on I 95 south and accepted delays leaving lorton toward one 23 then again approaching garrisonville all the way down toward the rappahannock river as folks merge in from the express into the main lanes north on I 95 off and on the brakes in separate stretches between Quantico and the Springfield interchange, nor have been I three 95 just to volume as you pass boundary channel drive headed up to and across the 14th street bridge. The traveling in Maryland tops out of the beltway outer loop delays, leaving New Hampshire avenue off and on toward Connecticut avenue traveling to open but the adult loop avenue university boulevard has worked on the right shoulder drawing some attention there. The traveling eastbound route 50 on the bay bridge, the left lane block for the crash, we have a tow truck on scene right now, stay to the right in order to get by, traveling on Georgia avenue still closed between spring and Cameron streets as a result of the three alarm fire, the cleanup and investigation continues right now, also in all the only laytonsville road near Zion rode your fallen police director for the crash scene there. Back in Virginia in woodbridge, mini ville road, eastbound air Dell boulevard. That's where we had the report of a crash uncertain. If that is still the case, if you're traveling in the district southbound D.C. two 95 heavy on the brakes, approaching burrows avenue headed down toward east capital street. Looking for a safe used car, withdrawal AutoML has hundreds of good constructs and SUVs next to a new car if it's used cars best visit fit small dot com today. Rob stallworth WTO traffic. Well, it's been sunny so far. Let's see what's happening, weather wise for the rest of the weekend. Your storm team four meteorologist Ryan Miller hold conditions here this morning, air temperatures by your afternoon are gonna get close to 50° and lots of sunshine in your Saturday
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"Need every time you listen. Traffic and weather on the age, let's go to marry, she's in the WTO traffic center. All right, thanks, Dan. And we'll take a look at the beltway. First on the Virginia side, if you're riding the inner loop and you're heading north over top of 50 Arlington boulevard, which is exit 50, the left main lane is blocked now. We have V dot helping the disabled vehicle. I presume waiting for a tow truck. Minimal delay. So I'm warning you as you pass gallows road, stay out of the left lane. Nothing on the outer loop if we continue on the Virginia side. This is it for big roads and earlier crash on 66 heading west after Marshall, clear from travel, any delays have dissipated, nothing current and reported along 95 actually three 95 95 between the 14th street bridge and Fredericksburg. In Springfield backlit road north of the beltway near hechinger drive, there is a crash working there, watch for police direction. Into Maryland, we have a crash that was clearing on the inner loop. You'll hit the brakes near the greenbelt metro heading south toward kenilworth avenue exit 23 crash was at the beginning of that ramp along the right side. Be sure to scoot over for safety, you were still able to make the exit. In the heart of Silver Spring, Georgia avenue is remaining closed a cruise there, clean up from the earlier three alarm fire, but the railway physically blocked on George avenue between spring street and Cameron street follow crew direction. If you're trying to work around through the heart of Silver Spring, stick with colesville road or 16th street, even Dale drive, and this traffic report is being brought to you by window nation, take advantage of the deep discounts from window nation, get two free Windows with every T buy and pay nothing for two full years. Save thousands, call 8 6 6 9 nation or visit window nation dot com, Mary to pump the WTO P traffic. Thanks, Mary, here storm team four, meteorologist Ryan Miller. Where to cold start and it looks like clear conditions will continue through the morning hours, sunshine this afternoon for your Saturday
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"Dakota avenue near the national arboretum as the first responders go looking for that watch for sudden slowing and watch your mirrors for those lights, Ian Crawford WTO traffic. Thank you, Ian, and let's go to storm team four meteorologist a Ryan Miller this morning when I came into work before I came in. I took the dog for a walk and noticed boy it was windy out. Yeah, we still got the wind here that came with a cold front yesterday, and the breezes are going to continue out of the north and west anywhere between 15 and 25 mph through the morning, and then we'll start to settle down here into the afternoon. We've got plenty of sunshine in your Saturday forecast and highs today. Well, it's going to be milder than what we saw here early this morning. We're going to get close to 50° here later on today. Tomorrow, we're going to get close to 60 once again. And clouds will start to increase, and we'll turn breezy in the afternoon, but a dry day for your Sunday, Monday, looks like we're going to see partly sunny sky, temperatures in the lower 60s, a couple of rain showers are possible late Monday night, early Tuesday morning, and staying in the 60s here on Tuesday, we'll get back close to 70 here Wednesday and well into the 70s on Thursday. 29 in Washington right now, 28, 28°, Leesburg, and currently in Rockville where 25. Thank you, Ryan, have a good morning. We'll talk in with you soon. The weather on WTO brought to you by Len the plumber trusted same day service 7 days a week. Coming up on WTO for the WTO media mystery newsmaker contest will have that coming up right away. It's now 5 21. Save big during court furniture outlets presidents day sale event. Are you looking to brighten up your home or make your workplace more comfortable? Maybe furnish a vacation home. Don't pay high retail prices, court prices are always super low
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"Like that's sort of the issue is like doing stuff like that is cool in the moment and like assert your toughness, but the penguins won. And you're without Martian for the next 5, 6 games, probably 7. I mean, I don't even know. And it was in a garbage time stretch and a regular season game in February, right? It's not like there's like the luchi struck in over Ryan Miller or Martian using one of the sedans is like a punching bag in those things where it's just funny in that situation. It's an employee officer who's not going to like suspend him for that. But you look at just reading reading the room or just the situation of this team and the state of where they're at where you don't know if bergeron is going to be back. And again, yeah, they can kind of cruise through this stretch if you want to say that because they've got a pretty big gap between them and teams like Detroit and the islanders. But you also want this team to start feeling good about its game. And now you've got a situation where you're handing the keys over to swimming and Mark, you'd like to be for them to play better and at the very least if they're rolling through some of the ups and downs, at least getting wins along the way. It's one thing of like swimming is playing well and turns a corner, but it was still losing like two one game because your top lines, two thirds of it's out of commission. So I'm hoping that much, right? Like you still want to start feeling better about your game and now not just the fact that you're without your top two forwards on that top line, but now the whole rest of the domino effect is you've got guys a lot of order. We don't know whether it's Jack sneaker going to get called up is it Curtis our move to.
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"The optimism is nearly as there. But i mean i see sort of another preseason where can nation is optimistic and pretty much every other. Nhl market doesn't think much of their team fair. It's it's the. It's the big splash thing right. You know they went out. They obviously made a big trade Picked up obviously the high profile named alva rex. and let's not sleep on connor garland. But it's still a bet on ecm larson being better than he's been in recent years i don't think they're trading for norris trophy defenseman but they're they're they're trading for player they believe can be better. It's a big bet right but it's splashy it's a name has been talked about for awhile. overhauling i mean overhauling. If you will the defense if you wanna call it that but at the same time you know tucker pullman travis hammock are going to be asked to do a lot more than i think is really what they're capable of that to me in. The end is going to be where the bulk of the story. The season lies. I mean along with ken thatcher. Damn co keep it keep going. I mean you had you had a pretty good rookie season. Not an amazing rookie. Season had a really good stretch but some really bad stretches this past season came. He put it all together. Be that consistent guy. You know fifty five sixty nights this year Does your whole still have what they need from your to be that solid backup goaltender. I mean that's been a story here for for so long with the exception really. I suppose the cory schneider years and and you know briefly. I guess you know various points. When eddie lack had a good run vine ryan miller when jacob from i showed up i suppose but really the you know the the struggles of the backup. Goalie was such a story for so long here You know you wonder if that'll be back and they should be able to to score in bunches but at the same time. There's a lot of pressure on that defense and you know. I think the outside view is that you know to go back to your point. This defense isn't good. Nothing even with Hughes returning to some of the form he had they're going to have some challenges Which we saw plenty of last year. This was not a good defense team last year. Obviously the mix is a bit different But let's not forget that even in nineteen twenty when they were sort of lauded for improving playing up tempo hockey. They weren't great in their own end. Either i'm really not looking forward to the analysis of all ackman larson all season long because the minute us criticize him once this year be like guys never gave him a chance. I am not looking for the case. guarantee you. it'll be. I mean if you're talking about pointing out a mistake on opening night in a win yeah sure but you know i i think you know if it becomes clear that he's not the guy he used to be. I mean i think he's a very intelligent fan base..
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"ryan miller" Discussed on WGR 550 Sports Radio
"What? I what I said. This season was a bonus, right? And I think that's a really good way to look at it, because when that Ryan Miller played his last game here in both Florida keeping center He waved to the fans and did as little spin around and it was almost and we know it was a good bye and I always wondered if there wasn't a pandemic last year. If, at the end of the season, Ryan Miller would have said the same thing, he said right now, like maybe a week or two weeks before the end of the season at the end of this season, I am retiring but depend Emmick hit They They kind of delayed everything. And then all of a sudden he goes into the off season and he has plenty of time to recover. And he has time to be home. And then he has time to work out. And he has time to beep already. And it was like, you know what? I'm gonna come back for one more year, and I'm gonna really I use this as a bonus and enjoy it. And enjoy going to the rink. And as you pointed out, PD enjoyed bringing my family to the arena and lived through it all. And I think that was Very much a fairytale in that sense to be able to enjoy that. For Ryan Miller and his family. It was crazy for him when he was here. I mean everywhere. Every who everywhere he went. I mean, he was he was hounded. Pounded by people. Oh, if you're just tuning in. We're talking about Ryan Miller announcing his retirement at the end of the season and made the announcement yesterday There was a press conference. There are pieces of the press conference out there. I'm sure you can find it on social media, but very emotional. Um And understandably so do you. Do you think Do you think he's satisfied? With what? With his career. Well, I think he's I think he's satisfied. I think when he has time to sit down and think about what he's accomplished, he's gonna be very pleased. We all know If you don't win the ultimate prize, there's always going to be a numpty feeling someplace in your in your in your soul in your gut. To this day. Can't be happier with what I did. There's always going to be something there that I feel like I did not fulfill. Think Ryan Miller had an absolutely incredible, incredible career. There's always going to be something. That he feels that he did not accomplish and not every player that plays in the National Hockey League have a chance to You have that feeling? And, you know, I think you know when he looks through everything he's going to be very fulfilled with what he accomplished in his time playing. It's funny how his first two years his first two full seasons with the Buffalo sabers, will 506 Oh six or seven. He gets to the conference finals. He gets within. You know it one period of the Stanley Cup final and five or six and Within beating our wine or six or seven, the president's trophy year. But then after Dad, unfortunately and that's how fast and how you have to appreciate the moment early in the career or late. You never got past the first round after that. And that's that's That's the part where I look back at Mills his career and I'm like Man. I'm I'm I'm I'm disappointed, not not that he is, but I'm disappointed that he never got the opportunity again after two years off conference finals Conference finals and never getting a chance to go back, and that's That's unfortunately the story around. The NHL with some fantastic players. You know Michael Farmer and I bring him up a lot because he's a smart hockey man, and he tweeted yesterday. Brian Miller was one goal away from being an American hero because in 2010 he was D. M v P and the best goaltender in the world at the time, in my opinion, and in the Olympics it to Canada to this to the overtime in the finals and Crosby scores, but if the U. S score If the U. S gets a goal Ryan Miller with his accomplishment. Would have been on a scamp would have been on a dollar coin. You would've been It would've been like like, not as big as the 80 Olympic team. But I mean, he would have been he It would have been massive massive. It would have been damn near close PT. It would have been really close like it. It Yeah, especially with social media and the publicized event and it was in Vancouver. So the Vancouver beats Canada in Vancouver like it would have been glorious and he was Dutch. That And I'm I'm strong. You guys on TV Right now on radio. You can see it, but literally like two millimeters away from being a hero to a nation. I mean, I was really tourney and that doing really talk to him. And a dog East. For your body, too, You know. Absolutely. So and he was playing in Vancouver at the time to write, so he was going to be candid and Vancouver playing for Vancouver. That was Really special. Oh, I don't know if you guys were having the difficulty, Okay? I'm sorry where we all sparkly there for a second. Yeah, we had a little freeze. Yeah. Too much, Mills. He talk. Maybe people want us to change the record. I don't know what we don't know what we're talking about there. I think we all kind of glitch, but we're talking about Ryan Miller's retirement Yesterday. I was asking you guys to be satisfied. And Marty, you were talking about how close he was to winning the gold medal for for Yusa. So I guess just deep down A zebra higher, satisfied being that close. To the gold and that close to maybe a cup. I think you retire. Satisfied? Yes. I think he's satisfied. I think he accomplished so much, but I I don't know that e don't think that you can ever be satisfied. I think you always have your moments. But I think we lost Ray of speedy. I think we probably should take a break here and catch up because our screen is all all over the place right now. Yeah, we're having some. I think we're having some difficulty will be right back. 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