Welcome in final hour of the week 14 hours up one hour to go. Buck is soon to be on route to

Scotland with his lovely wife Carrie will be breaking down everything for you next week and then

Buck will be back the week after. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us news that is out there

according to the New York Times. Donald Trump has chosen not to engage in the debate on Wednesday

in Milwaukee that will be airing on Fox News instead again this is according to the Times.

Trump will do a live interview which I presume would air on Twitter and probably other places as

well with Tucker Carlson. We bring in now my friend Sage Steele who has recently left ESPN we

got a bunch to dive into with her but say let's start there with the with the idea that Trump

I'm sure you've probably seen that news that Trump might skip the debate and instead do an

interview with Tucker Carlson at the same time. How does that strike you? What do you think of that?

I mean it's just exactly what we should have expected the whole time right especially for it to air

at the exact same time. I mean listen I think for those of us who follow politics it would have

been fast and it would have been great TV for him to join but I mean strategically it's probably

really smart and oh by the way it's August of 23 he's got time for that I it just made me smile

when I heard you sharing the news just there because it's it's exactly what we should have expected.

All right let's I bet a lot of our audience will know who you are certainly we've been friends

for a long time but I want for people because this is obviously a different audience than just a

traditional sports audience. Yeah you have been with the ESPN for how long what is your background?

How would you describe yourself to let's be a little bit a little bit pregetosis here the biggest

audience in all of radio that might not all know you already sage who are you and and and what's

your background. My favorite thing about you is your your humility. Yes. Yes. I started at ESPN

in February of 2007. My kids were 11 months old at the time 11 months two and four and now they're

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