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Welcome to Buckeye Talk. It's a little bit of a special edition.

I'm Nathan Baird from Cleveland.com along here with Doug Lamarice. Our guest today is

Gonzo, as he was known then, and has still tried to call him today. I think he wanted to

call him Congressman Gonzo, but it's Congressman Anthony Gonzalez, the representative

for Ohio's 16th District, who has a bill now going before Congress. He'd be an interesting

guy to talk all the time. But he has a bill going through Congress right now about

name, image, and likeness. It's a bill along with a he's Republican. It's a bill that

is co-sponsored by a Democrat from Missouri named Emmanuel Cleaver. And they are trying to

come up with a solution to the name, image, and likeness issue that has been kind of hanging

around out there. So we wanted to bring him on to kind of talk through why it's happening

right now, and what needs to happen in order for us to not kind of encounter what could

be sort of a Wild West situation as it's developing here, because there are several states,

handful of states, and it's a kind of a growing list, that have name, image, and likeness

legislation for their own state that goes into effect on July 1st.

Gene Smith and other entities, the NCAA, I think itself, a lot of people have put forward

that the federal government needs to have a solution here so that it isn't a state-by-state

system, a lot of discrepancies. But Doug, you've been following this issue for a long time.

It feels like there is an urgency building here, partially because it's got, I mean, we

do this all the time, right? Like how often do we put off writing something until we

absolutely have to? Feels like Congress sometimes needs these deadlines out there to force

them to act.

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