We're flying coach, welcome back.

A little bit of a hiatus, Pete, but we're back after a few weeks.

Good to see you.

Yeah, it's good to be back.

We got the July 4th in the middle of all this, and so we're back at it.

We've kind of ready to close it out, and it's been really an extraordinary opportunity for myself personally to work with you, Steve, on this has been such a blast, and really grateful for the opportunity that we were given to do the work we want to do here.

Yeah, I agree. This has been so much fun, and it's been fantastic working with you. This will be our last one.

We wanted to take a few minutes here before we have our guest, Senator Cory Booker on who is just brilliant and such an amazing guest, but just wanted to take a couple of minutes to talk a little bit about the sports world.

What's going on today, where the NFL is, where the NBA is, and then share a little bit about these these last few months, and why we've done this podcast and where we're heading.

And we'll roll right in with Cory. Pete, you want to kind of share where you guys are, the Seahawks, the NFL, what's the schedule now going into training camp normally you'd be going into camp what end of July, right?

We're still on schedule with at this time, it has not been committed to by the League and the players association yet, but the 21st is when the young guys can show up in the 28th, the veterans will be ready to go to camp.

That's kind of been orchestrated by the CBA all along, but there's still agreements that need to be settled.

So we're unsettled at this time. We don't know exactly they've been talking almost on a daily basis to try to come to agreements on all the different issues, and we're still waiting for confirmation.

But in that, you know, I'm hoping that if we, whatever time it takes to do this right is important. There's so much at stake here. And of course, everybody wants to football season, I can't even imagine anything but that happening in timely fashion here.

But whatever it takes, you know, to get there properly so that we can take care of everyone like we need to.

It's not just there's no one single group, it's players, it's their families, it's the coaches, it's their families, it's our support group, their families, our fans, everyone that is connected here, we want to take every step to do this properly and thoughtfully, and so that once we get back, we can stay back and really put something together.

So there's still a lot of unanswered questions still. And as the 21st is the date that the rookies could officially be with us, that come in a couple days before that to test their way into through the quarantine of it.

And then the veteran players would come in on the 28th would be the first day that they would have their physicals in our first meetings.

We're going to be virtual. We're going to be, you know, we're going to do all kinds of things differently than we've done in the past.

But yet we have prepared for that, you know, with all of the virtual work we've done in the soft season. So the work we'll do will basically be on the field, walkthroughs and practice will be out on the field and out of the building for other than the absolute minimum that we, you know, we can put them through so a lot of considerations.

And, you know, as we're watching here, you know, watching basketball and baseball, they're getting started. It's taking them a while to get started. We need the information that they can bring to us so that we can make good choices.

And we're starting to gain some stuff. So maybe you can help us with what's going on with basketball.

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