1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Taking danage on the day. When you get opportunity in 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 1: this game, you make a play, Michael, don't do it. 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 1: Touchdown Chansas City. The Chiefs are right in the thick 4 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:16,800 Speaker 1: of a baby. Well, hello everyone, and welcome to this 5 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:21,119 Speaker 1: edition of Defending the Kingdom, and we're getting closer to 6 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:25,880 Speaker 1: real life training camp football here. Mitch holds us with 7 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 1: you the voice of the Chiefs, along with the Man, 8 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: ten year National Football League veteran community leader. He's been 9 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 1: great in our ambassador program. He is the shop, He's 10 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:37,880 Speaker 1: the barber shop, He's the spider Man. Sean Barber, Sean, 11 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,560 Speaker 1: You and I have done these podcasts now for over 12 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:44,879 Speaker 1: a year, but since March we've alluded to it of 13 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:48,480 Speaker 1: this unusual circumstance that we're in with a worldwide pandemic 14 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 1: and how it affects all of us, how it's affect 15 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 1: the entire world. But now we're getting close for the 16 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: Chiefs to try to start their run it Back campaign 17 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 1: to defend their world championship. And we have got a 18 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:04,720 Speaker 1: special Offend the Kingdom here because Rick Burkholter, vice President 19 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 1: for Sports Performance and Athletic Training. We're going to turn 20 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 1: it over to him and just a little bit, but 21 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:13,480 Speaker 1: he really gets into this in depth. And Sean, I'm 22 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:16,680 Speaker 1: telling you, if people haven't watched any of our podcasts, 23 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: and even if they're no football nerd, not a football nerd, 24 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 1: they need to watch this one. In this time space, 25 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 1: in this damn moment. The most important podcast is this one. 26 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 1: Rick Burkholder does a great job of walking you through 27 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 1: the spiritual, mental, physical aspects of this pandemic. He sees 28 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:36,959 Speaker 1: it from an employee standpoint, but he also walks you 29 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,479 Speaker 1: through how Coach Reid is seeing it, how the league 30 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: is seeing it, how his employees, how the family of 31 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:45,839 Speaker 1: the employees, and the friends and employees. So he's looking 32 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: at this thing from a three hundred and sixty degree 33 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 1: model and letting everybody know how they can play a 34 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: part in the solution. We all understand the problem. The 35 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: pandemic is what it is. He talks about that seventy 36 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: fifteen fifteen split. Later in the podcasts, when you hear 37 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 1: him talk about that, understand where you are on that split. 38 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 1: Understand if you are part of the solution or part 39 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 1: of the problem. And like you said a few months ago, 40 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 1: the pandemic hit and one of the things that some 41 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 1: people did in the community was they started something new. 42 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 1: They found a way to be a positive light in 43 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 1: a negative environment. So right now I'm wearing this wear 44 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: a Mask shirt. You see that that beautiful Casey wear 45 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 1: a mask Save the season, let's saying football. That was 46 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:29,079 Speaker 1: done by a company here in town, own Casey Apparel. 47 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:32,239 Speaker 1: It's a guy who to fight the pandemic, to fight 48 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 1: some of the things, to be able to raise money 49 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:38,640 Speaker 1: for nonprofit organizations that were at this point losing money 50 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 1: because everybody was being tight with their wallets because of 51 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 1: the pandemic. He found a way to give one hundred percent, 52 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 1: one hundred percent of the profits back to local charities. 53 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 1: And that's somebody a man. I take my hats off 54 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:53,639 Speaker 1: the guys to find a way in this culture and 55 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: this time when everybody's going crazy, they want to wash 56 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:58,800 Speaker 1: their hands and wearing. Everybody wants to do everything they 57 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 1: can to prevent themselves and families to be safe. But 58 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 1: sometimes what you have to do is do an active faith. 59 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: You've got to understand that the process is greater than 60 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 1: the product. And Rick Burkholtze and him and Andy Reid 61 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: together has set the Kansas City Chiefs again above the risk. 62 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 1: Mits Reynolds has mentioned in this discussion, he's been a 63 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 1: hero Kristen Krug, the chiefs hr VP on tyrants, who's 64 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: involved too, to provide a psychological, a mental approach, emotional 65 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: approach to this because this is we've seen this too. 66 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 1: Shop a very much a part of it, whether it's 67 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 1: involved in individual families, or in companies or in our culture. 68 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 1: And so the Chiefs have done a remarkable job to 69 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 1: this point. They have become the prototype of the league, 70 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 1: the IDR, the the infectious disease emergency response. Rick's going 71 00:03:58,280 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: to get into that in a second, but I'm gonna 72 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: ask two things here before we get into Rick's discussion. 73 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: One is the safety for players and players, families, coaches 74 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: and coaches, families. You've played this game, you've coached this game. 75 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 1: The concern that players have and we've already seen players 76 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 1: opt out right for a variety of reasons. Your thoughts 77 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 1: as a former player and one who's been a coach 78 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: a little bit on the players concerns for safety. I mean, 79 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 1: the concern is real, and it's not only a physical 80 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 1: concern about your own health. It's a psychological it's a 81 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 1: mental like like when you go play, Are you going 82 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 1: to be able to totally focus and to vote your 83 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 1: mindset to football? Are you still thinking about your aunt 84 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 1: uncle who somebody might have had it a visitor, somebody's 85 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 1: coming into town to celebrate that you're part of a 86 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:51,679 Speaker 1: championship team, and that person has a little call for cold. 87 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 1: What are you gonna do with that person? They're gonna 88 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 1: stay at your house where they're gonna stay at. So 89 00:04:55,520 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: it's a domino effect of the mental and the physical 90 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 1: strain that most of the players are gonna have to 91 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 1: deal with, just not just attending your team and saying, 92 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 1: you know what I'm all in. If I think about 93 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 1: myself as a player, I would have to have a 94 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 1: serious discussion with my wife and kids and let them 95 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:17,160 Speaker 1: know that once day they reports the camp, you might 96 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: only see me via zoom or via voice call, video 97 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,840 Speaker 1: calls pretty much for the duration of the season. And 98 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 1: that's how seriously I take my kids and my wife's health. 99 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:30,279 Speaker 1: That's saying that others don't, but that's the that's the 100 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:32,839 Speaker 1: call I would make. I would check myself into a 101 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 1: long term hotel, some kind of facility where I can, 102 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: you know, go to work, come back from work, be 103 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,240 Speaker 1: able to have some comforts, some meals and things like that, 104 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: but I wouldn't be out. I wouldn't be out in 105 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:46,719 Speaker 1: the community. I wouldn't be out doing things. It would 106 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:49,159 Speaker 1: be a total from the day one of training camp 107 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:51,920 Speaker 1: until we run it back to back down in Tampa Bay. 108 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 1: I would be committed to that season being a I mean, 109 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:57,599 Speaker 1: this is a unique environment and I would dedicate myself 110 00:05:57,640 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 1: to the team and do what has to be done 111 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 1: to keep my fan safe. Rick says a lot of 112 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:06,839 Speaker 1: fascinating things in this interview. One of the things he 113 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:11,040 Speaker 1: talks about is we don't have a bubble. They wanted 114 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 1: to have a bubble in Saint Joe that wasn't allowed, 115 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 1: so he says, we have a biosphere. The Chiefs have done, 116 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:19,840 Speaker 1: again an amazing job in their setup, either the practice 117 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: facility or an arrowhead in following the regulations, but then 118 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: taking it to another staff and now again they become 119 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 1: a prototype or an example for other pro teams in 120 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 1: the NFL teams to follow. That being said, Rick will 121 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:40,239 Speaker 1: mention in this interview, our players leave the biosphere. Here's 122 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 1: my next question to you, and let's do it in 123 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: light of what we've seen in Major League Baseball in 124 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 1: just the last seventy two to ninety six hours. The 125 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:54,080 Speaker 1: Miami Marlins, supposedly some guys, a guy, a few guys 126 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 1: whatever went out during their time in Atlanta when they 127 00:06:57,240 --> 00:06:59,720 Speaker 1: were playing an exhibition game before the start of the season. 128 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:03,600 Speaker 1: They come into their clubhouse. Now, all of a sudden, 129 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:07,160 Speaker 1: we were approaching nearly twenty people testing positive in the 130 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 1: Marlins organization alone. That now put a pause on them, 131 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: But it affected the Orioles, the Phillies, the Yankees who 132 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 1: were to play them, the Nationals this week, team close 133 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,000 Speaker 1: to you where you grew up, and it affected all 134 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 1: those teams. Now, the good thing is there's no positive 135 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: tests in those teams as we've do this podcast. But 136 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 1: in this Defending the Kingdom, the first foe we're calling it, 137 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 1: and that is the foe here of COVID nineteen. The 138 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 1: responsibility of individual players. Here, you're in the biosphere. You 139 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:42,120 Speaker 1: said personally, if you talk to your wife and kids, 140 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:44,239 Speaker 1: I'm going to go maybe to an extended stay hotel 141 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 1: and try to stay removed. We have now seen individuals 142 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 1: players who do the opposite. They want to be what 143 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 1: they want to be, and all of a sudden. Now 144 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 1: the whole Miami Marlin Steel has become an example for 145 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 1: everybody else. As a player, former coach, former player, I 146 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 1: got to ask either here about the responsibility individually and 147 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: collectively of these guys, our guys as they leave the biosphere. 148 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: Andy Dereed does a great job of making people realize 149 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 1: when you're part of this organization, it's more of a 150 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 1: family atmosphere. And so you come here day one as 151 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 1: a teammate, but the expectation is that you build something, 152 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: to build a responsibility of love, accountability for one another 153 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 1: where you see each other's family and what I know 154 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:33,440 Speaker 1: about when we share family stories. I might be a 155 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: player with no wife and no kids, and I might 156 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 1: feel like it's my right to be able to go 157 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,559 Speaker 1: hang out. But I gotta respect the fact that Tyrone, 158 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: pat or Kelsey, those guys might actually have aging family 159 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: members staying with them. They might have a wife that 160 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 1: has a previous condition. They might have just had a 161 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 1: newborn kid, and so they don't want to expose that kid. 162 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 1: And how terrible would I feel as a player if 163 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:58,679 Speaker 1: I exposed them to something because of my own negligence. 164 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:01,480 Speaker 1: Then therefore, let one of their family members. So if 165 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 1: you if you accept everybody is just an extension of 166 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,199 Speaker 1: your family, it's it's I'm not gonna say it's impossible, 167 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 1: but it's a lot easier to self self regulate your 168 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 1: activities and be as cautious as possible, making sure you're 169 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 1: going down all the checklists. You know, washing your hands 170 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 1: multiple times, watching what you touch, wearing your mask, keeping 171 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 1: social distance, the things that we are asking the nation 172 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:29,200 Speaker 1: to do as a whole. This team as a protocol 173 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 1: that Rickets put together to keep them as an entire 174 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:36,959 Speaker 1: UH Chiefs Football organization as safe as possible, and not 175 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 1: only our organization, but he's allowed them to share that 176 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: with other teams and other other teammates from other teams 177 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:50,680 Speaker 1: that really cares about. Hopefully the highest, the highest protocol, 178 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 1: the highest amount of responsibility is taking league wide in 179 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 1: our entire league sees themselves as family. On the on 180 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 1: the field, they're foes. They're gonna go battle when it's 181 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:04,680 Speaker 1: time to be Sunday, but from Saturday until until you know, 182 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 1: until game time until kickoff, you gotta take care of 183 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 1: each other by taking care of yourself and doing what's right. 184 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:15,960 Speaker 1: Wearing masks, wash your hands, keep social distance. I mean, 185 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: he lays it out here. It's really interesting. You and 186 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:21,679 Speaker 1: I are excited because we're getting closer to being a 187 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:26,199 Speaker 1: training camp. But the Miami Marlins thing was an alarming 188 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 1: situation of like something like that, just really negligence or 189 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 1: being dumb maybe can affect everything else. So for us 190 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 1: as a country, us as leaders in our own families, 191 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,960 Speaker 1: this interview becomes one to listen to and take to hearts. 192 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 1: So now, ladies and gentlemen, Sean and I present to 193 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:49,559 Speaker 1: you the Vice President for Sports Performance and Athletic Training, 194 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:54,560 Speaker 1: Rick Burkle. All right, Chief's Kingdom. We're in unusual times, 195 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: as everyone knows around the world. We have been for 196 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 1: five months. But this young man who's with me now 197 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 1: the world champion for the Kansas City Chiefs, And I 198 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 1: want to get who knew, Rick Brook Coulter that when 199 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:11,080 Speaker 1: you got the title and vice president for Sports Medicine 200 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 1: and Performance last year, what it would mean with the 201 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:19,800 Speaker 1: worldwide pandemic and relating to the National Football League. Just 202 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: kind of give us a thirty thousand foot view of 203 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:25,200 Speaker 1: what has happened with you in that role and the 204 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 1: fact that you have had that now consolidation to help 205 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:33,560 Speaker 1: you with communication over these past five months. Well, thanks, Mitch, 206 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:36,880 Speaker 1: And I'm not young, but i am a world champion, 207 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:42,360 Speaker 1: so I'll take that. My day starts every morning by 208 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:46,720 Speaker 1: opening up the CDC website to see how many positive cases, 209 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 1: how many deaths are and where we're at in Kansas, 210 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:51,800 Speaker 1: in Missouri. Every day, that's how my day starts. I 211 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 1: never opened a CDC website in the last ten years, 212 00:11:55,760 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 1: right probably so right from Jump Street it's changed. So 213 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 1: this was a huge undertaking. It was monumental for me 214 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 1: because it took this whole organization and when we won 215 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, we were down twenty four, we were 216 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:21,600 Speaker 1: down ten, and we were down ten. Well, this pandemic 217 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:24,200 Speaker 1: has put the world down twenty eight to three and 218 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 1: now we're trying to make a comeback. And it's taken everybody. 219 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 1: It's taken. It's taken my team that we've put together, 220 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:38,600 Speaker 1: this infectious response team. It's taken the coaches and the 221 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 1: players buy in and we're not even you know, the 222 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 1: players aren't here yet. But I'm getting positive feedback from 223 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:48,960 Speaker 1: him and so Coach Reid. I've been with him forever. 224 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 1: He taught me by He never said this, but I've 225 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:57,720 Speaker 1: watched them. He loves football, loves game planning, loves the pageantry, 226 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:00,200 Speaker 1: loves the strategy. You know, he told me once I 227 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 1: could be happy coach in high school FOOTBA because it's football, right. 228 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:07,880 Speaker 1: I've learned to love athletic training, and I do, but 229 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:09,959 Speaker 1: he taught me to love the players more. And my dad, 230 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:12,839 Speaker 1: who's been an athletic training for sixty years, has always 231 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 1: told me, treat the person, don't treat the injury. That's 232 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 1: how I treated this pandemic is We've got to treat people. 233 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:24,079 Speaker 1: We've got to we've got to make them safe. We've 234 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:26,760 Speaker 1: got to take their fears away. And I've interviewed a 235 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:29,720 Speaker 1: lot of players virtually to figure out what their fears were. 236 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:32,520 Speaker 1: I have a lot of African American young men who 237 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 1: have African American aunts, uncle's, father's grandparents that have gotten 238 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 1: very sick from this pandemic, something that I, honest to God, 239 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 1: I can't relate to. I'm you know, I'm just not 240 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:47,600 Speaker 1: in that realm. But I see the numbers, and so 241 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:51,319 Speaker 1: I reached out to them and I said, what's your concerns? 242 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: They said, our families, and then we'll feel guilty if 243 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:58,560 Speaker 1: we get it. And have to miss time and so 244 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:04,000 Speaker 1: but that's what makes us champions, right, So my team 245 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 1: put some things in place to ease that for them, 246 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:07,559 Speaker 1: and I think they're happy with it. We're going to 247 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: educate the families, We're gonna provide testing for families. We're 248 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 1: gonna be able to get players away from their families 249 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 1: if they're sick. And then you know, we're one of 250 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 1: the only teams in the league that has a full 251 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 1: time mental health clinician on staff full time. He's on 252 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:26,800 Speaker 1: my infectious response team because it's such a huge deal. 253 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 1: And you know, when we get positive tests, we're gonna 254 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 1: get positive tests. Mitch's it's gonna happen. You just you 255 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 1: hope it doesn't happen in big numbers. Sean will immediately 256 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 1: be contacted and he will contact those employees. And even 257 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:47,680 Speaker 1: before we started, you know, there's people that loved ones 258 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 1: of ours that have gotten COVID and people have reached 259 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 1: out to me and I put Sean on him. So 260 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 1: there's something to do with the with the protocol, right, 261 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 1: this ider that we put together, this infectious disease Emergency 262 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 1: Response document, and that motivates us and that guides us, right, 263 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 1: that's the science, and I always talk about Andy Reid, 264 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 1: the art and a science. He teaches us all about 265 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 1: art and science. The art of this is what's driven 266 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: me crazy because I've never had to do it. It's 267 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 1: not it's not in my DNA, it's not in my blood. 268 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 1: I have some art when I'm treating injuries, but I'm 269 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 1: chasing up. I'm chasing something invisible right now, and I've 270 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 1: got to account for it. It's like playing a video 271 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:28,680 Speaker 1: game and they're shoot me from behind. You don't know 272 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 1: where it's coming from. That's me right now, and that's 273 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 1: been my life at thirty thousand feet. Thank God for 274 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:36,720 Speaker 1: my wife, Christine Burkholder, because she has steered the ship 275 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: at home while I've been a mess, absolute mess, and 276 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 1: I don't want anybody to feel bad for me. This 277 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:44,160 Speaker 1: is my job. I make a lot of money. She 278 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 1: told me the other night. She woke me up in 279 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 1: the middle of the night. I don't even remember waking 280 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: me up, and she said, I was screaming at the 281 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:52,640 Speaker 1: top of my lungs. Help me, help me. I have 282 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:55,880 Speaker 1: no idea. I don't know. It's just a stress involved 283 00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 1: and here's a stress, and it's a beautiful stress. It's 284 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 1: a beautiful stress. They're stressing this country. There's stress in 285 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 1: this country. There's racial tension, there's political tension. People think 286 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 1: that's stress, right, and it is to some people. My 287 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 1: stress is this, Mitch. I love the people that walk 288 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 1: through the door of this place, and now in my title, 289 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 1: I'm taking personal responsibility for them. Now, everybody's telling me 290 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 1: it's not it's not only your responsibility. I get that 291 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 1: I have a whole team that's helping me. But if 292 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 1: one of these guys get sick, or one of these 293 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 1: coaches get sick, or you get sick, I'm gonna go 294 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 1: back and trace where I might have failed them. And 295 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 1: I feel like I'm through the NFL, through the NFLPA, 296 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 1: through all my great help here. I think I don't 297 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 1: really think we created a bubble because these guys can 298 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 1: go home at night, but we've kind of created a biosphere. 299 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: And I'm a little Papa Bear about this biosphere. Right now. 300 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 1: I'm the guy running around the building saying, put a 301 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 1: mask on, don't let that guy that go there use 302 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:58,400 Speaker 1: the hand sanitizer, you know. And it's not enjoyable, but 303 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 1: it is to keep my loved ones, which are these 304 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:04,479 Speaker 1: players these coaches and the staff safe and if we 305 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 1: make it through. I told Christine, this's the other night, 306 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 1: I said, Baby, the single greatest moment in my career 307 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 1: was winning the Super Bowl in Miami. And it was 308 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: so good to me to be on the field and 309 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:18,199 Speaker 1: I'm getting goosebumps right now and see my girls and 310 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 1: be able to hug Andy and all that. Because it 311 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:22,920 Speaker 1: took me so long to win it. I said, it's 312 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 1: like having a child. So you have the first one, 313 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 1: and now you're pregnant with the second one, and you say, 314 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:28,200 Speaker 1: am I going to be able to love that second 315 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:31,040 Speaker 1: kid as much as I love the first? I think, 316 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 1: if we win it this year, and I do believe 317 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:34,919 Speaker 1: we're gonna win it this year, this will be the 318 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:38,159 Speaker 1: sweetest moment of my life. Because there's been times in 319 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:39,920 Speaker 1: the last twelve weeks when I said, we ain't playing 320 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:43,240 Speaker 1: football in twenties one, and now to be here in 321 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:45,359 Speaker 1: campus right around the corner, and you know me, You 322 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 1: and I spent a lot of time in Saint Joe. 323 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:50,080 Speaker 1: I love training camp. It's where I get to do 324 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 1: my job. Somebody does my laundry, somebody feeds me, somebody 325 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:55,840 Speaker 1: makes my bed alls, I have to do is do 326 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:57,760 Speaker 1: the thing I loved. And the only thing I miss 327 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:02,560 Speaker 1: is my family. I love football, I love training camp, 328 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 1: and it's here, and I had my doubts the last 329 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:08,639 Speaker 1: twelve weeks. So I'm jacked up about this, but I 330 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 1: wanted to work and I'm super cautious. I feel like 331 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:15,359 Speaker 1: I'm a lifeguard at the wave pool. You know I'm 332 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:17,080 Speaker 1: counting on you. Let's jump back to a couple of 333 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:19,199 Speaker 1: things here and I'll let you get One is the 334 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:23,720 Speaker 1: ider the emergency response I'm sorry, the infectious disease Emergency 335 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:27,639 Speaker 1: Response Document. The Chiefs were the first team. We were 336 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 1: the first team to get it approved. Walk through the 337 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 1: steps you had to give to get it approved, because 338 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:35,880 Speaker 1: there was a lot of consternation. Players were coming out 339 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:37,920 Speaker 1: and giving a lot of opinions, and all of a 340 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,200 Speaker 1: sudden it comes out the Chiefs were approved. What did 341 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:43,879 Speaker 1: it take to get that approved? And how detailed was 342 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:48,679 Speaker 1: that process? So I'll answer in two parts. So the 343 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:51,200 Speaker 1: first part is you have to put together the document 344 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 1: based off of the NFL protocols. So the NFL protocols 345 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:57,040 Speaker 1: will say social distancing and meetings and if not, you 346 00:18:57,080 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 1: have to go virtually. So then you have to take 347 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:02,800 Speaker 1: you're in the visuals set up and describe to them 348 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 1: how you're going to socially distance in a meeting or 349 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:08,320 Speaker 1: how you're going to socially distance in your locker room. 350 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:10,680 Speaker 1: And you got to put it on paper to make 351 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 1: it work for you. You've got to list all the 352 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:16,439 Speaker 1: sanitizing chemicals that you're using and how often you're going 353 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 1: to do it, and putting a schedule together for it. 354 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 1: And you know how you're going to do your cafeteria 355 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 1: and how you're going to do what ppe you have 356 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:29,880 Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff, and so you put 357 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:32,120 Speaker 1: it all together, and you can't do it by yourself. 358 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 1: You gotta put your name on it. That's what you 359 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 1: get paid to do. But I had a whole team 360 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:39,240 Speaker 1: that did fabulous work send it to the NFL, fully 361 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:41,600 Speaker 1: expecting for them to kick it back to me and say, Okay, 362 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:43,640 Speaker 1: you're not in compliance here, you're not in compliance there. 363 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:46,120 Speaker 1: They kicked it back within twenty four hours and said 364 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:49,800 Speaker 1: we've approved you. It's going to die. They used to 365 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:51,679 Speaker 1: be called Dicon. I can't remember what they're called now. 366 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:54,159 Speaker 1: They change their name during the pandemic. Imagine that. But 367 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:58,200 Speaker 1: it's the Duke Confectious Control people, right, and they send 368 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 1: it back with one change. So I said, I said 369 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:02,920 Speaker 1: to my staff, I said, when we send this down 370 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:05,000 Speaker 1: to Duke or the NFL sends the Duke, they're gonna 371 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:06,880 Speaker 1: send us back with twenty changes. Right now, we're gonna 372 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:09,879 Speaker 1: have to make some changes. Be ready. Got one change. 373 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:12,240 Speaker 1: And the one change in our document was that we 374 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 1: didn't have microfiber cloths. We had it listed as rags 375 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: for cleaning. So I was thrilled, right, and I went 376 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:21,520 Speaker 1: around the building and I was almost in tears, like 377 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 1: it's like this is like winning a divisional game or 378 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:27,720 Speaker 1: you know, like I'm getting there. Now it's got to 379 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 1: go to union. I go, there's no way, like I 380 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:32,280 Speaker 1: just know what the climate is right now. And they 381 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 1: passed it through and so had a little mini celebration 382 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:38,240 Speaker 1: in the middle of this thing for about five minutes 383 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 1: and said, hey, we did it. Now we have a document. 384 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 1: Now we can go to work because you don't want to. 385 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 1: You want to order plexiglass and stuff for lockers, but 386 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 1: you don't want to put it up if they're going 387 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,879 Speaker 1: to come back and say that's not gonna work. Right, 388 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:53,240 Speaker 1: So it was our getting approved that we could really 389 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:57,040 Speaker 1: put our action plan in place. I love it. So 390 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:00,080 Speaker 1: the other side story too, which is the Kingdom of 391 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:03,199 Speaker 1: and you'll love, is you know Andy. Andy makes us 392 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:06,080 Speaker 1: very close to the players, and so I know that 393 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:10,679 Speaker 1: the Badger and and Pat are the leaders, right, that's obvious. 394 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:12,439 Speaker 1: I mean, allways got to do is show up in 395 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:14,320 Speaker 1: the first quarter of a game or pregame, you know that, 396 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 1: and being in the locker room with them. So I 397 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,159 Speaker 1: see that their buddy JJ Watts putting out on Twitter 398 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 1: that nobody has an idear or approved. So I called 399 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:25,639 Speaker 1: the Badger. I said, look, man, I love JJ, I 400 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 1: think he's great for the league, and I know what 401 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:28,680 Speaker 1: he's doing. But you call him right now and tell 402 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:30,800 Speaker 1: him the Chiefs have one. And he was like what, 403 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:33,200 Speaker 1: And I said, okay, listen, before you do that, I'm 404 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:36,000 Speaker 1: gonna send you mine. I'm gonna send you mine. Mine's 405 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:39,359 Speaker 1: been approved. You have it, and then read through it 406 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 1: and call me. And I said to Pat, I said, 407 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:42,440 Speaker 1: I'm gonna send you mine if you've got any of 408 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:44,040 Speaker 1: the boys that don't want it. So then the Badger 409 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:46,400 Speaker 1: called me and he said, Rick, do you mind if 410 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:49,680 Speaker 1: I send this to Pat Peterson And JJ. That made 411 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:51,560 Speaker 1: me feel good about the Chiefs and it put those 412 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:53,760 Speaker 1: guys they're leaders on the field, but I put him 413 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 1: in a leadership role in the NFL. They're they're like, 414 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 1: this is what my organizations doing. Listen, we don't have 415 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:01,120 Speaker 1: the newest facility, but we have one of the safest 416 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:04,239 Speaker 1: right now because of the people that work here, you know, 417 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:09,200 Speaker 1: and it is our home. Yeah, and it's clear, Well, 418 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:12,680 Speaker 1: congratulations of that. It just makes me more proud of 419 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:16,240 Speaker 1: this franchise and everybody has been involved with you. Now, 420 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 1: just a couple more questions. One, Hey, let's be honest here, 421 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:22,440 Speaker 1: we're dealing with twenty two to twenty eight to twenty 422 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 1: nine year olds in the bulk of this team. You've 423 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 1: got them in the biosphere, but they're not in the 424 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:31,399 Speaker 1: biosphere twenty four to seven they leave. What do you 425 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 1: tell these guys to say, because we've seen it throughout 426 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,119 Speaker 1: in colleges. We've seen it. You know, they've got to 427 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 1: go to a party and twelve guys get infect or 428 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 1: test positive. Whatever, What are you telling them? What's coach 429 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:43,159 Speaker 1: telling them? And how do you guys saying, Hey, you're 430 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:46,479 Speaker 1: leaving our biosphere now you're coming back in just a 431 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:50,440 Speaker 1: short while. We've got to have you, man, don't don't 432 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 1: get crazy. What do you tell them, well, previously pandemic. 433 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:57,760 Speaker 1: I believe that you control what you can control. Pandemic 434 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:00,720 Speaker 1: change the world. You've got to try to control the 435 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,400 Speaker 1: things you can't control. And the only way to do that, 436 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,000 Speaker 1: it's like grays and daughters, right, you can tell them, 437 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,880 Speaker 1: don't hang out with those. You got to educate them. 438 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:12,080 Speaker 1: Got to educate them, educate them, educate them. And education 439 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 1: is a big part of our iDeer, and I'm going 440 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 1: to rely on I rely on coaching as coordinators to 441 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:22,960 Speaker 1: make sure that the coaches are compliant. I make sure 442 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:27,760 Speaker 1: that like individual departments like Ted's and the cafe cheering workers, 443 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 1: and Mitch and his staff, and my staff and equipment staff. 444 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 1: We got young kids working for us, and we've got 445 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:38,920 Speaker 1: to tell them if you if you get anybody sick, 446 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:42,280 Speaker 1: you're gonna this is terrible. So you got to go 447 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:46,320 Speaker 1: home at night. And I'll continue to educate through the process. 448 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:50,480 Speaker 1: I'll probably start in staff meetings giving them a little 449 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:52,440 Speaker 1: nugget each day that they can kind of remind the 450 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:55,640 Speaker 1: players about. I will tell you this, Mitch. So I've 451 00:23:55,640 --> 00:24:00,680 Speaker 1: tested every player in the organization. Now, nobody was late 452 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:07,120 Speaker 1: and nobody missed. Wow, it says that says almost everything 453 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:10,119 Speaker 1: right there. Finally, some of your boys beat me to 454 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: testing this morning. I've been up there early because I've 455 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:14,120 Speaker 1: got to make sure it's up and running and all that. 456 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 1: But like Scherm and Schwartz and Winchester and me Coole, 457 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,760 Speaker 1: they're in the parking lot like getting ready for the parade, 458 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 1: and I'm like, and they add massed on and I said, 459 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 1: I said, what are you guys doing here so early? 460 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 1: And they go, we want to get this thing rolling. Yeah, 461 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 1: if you have that, you have a chance. Yeah. I 462 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,960 Speaker 1: love these guys as you do. And honestly, Rick, it's 463 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,119 Speaker 1: been separation anxiety because I'm not around him and I 464 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:41,400 Speaker 1: don't think I'm gonna be around him maybe all season long. 465 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:45,320 Speaker 1: But love those guys. And you've in this podcast, which 466 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,879 Speaker 1: is basically I'm going to call it. We're winning this 467 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:51,399 Speaker 1: first game, and the first game is this. But finally, 468 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:55,160 Speaker 1: what would you tell the kingdom now? And two things? One, 469 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 1: if you're talking to the kingdom as if you're talking 470 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,160 Speaker 1: to our players, what would you tell the I'm about 471 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 1: the protocols? How do we handle this the second what 472 00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:07,120 Speaker 1: would you tell them from a mental and emotional standpoint 473 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:09,720 Speaker 1: of how we're you know, how we're going to win 474 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:13,439 Speaker 1: this first game. Yeah, that's a great question, mitche And 475 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:19,480 Speaker 1: unfortunately for society, we don't have a head coach, we 476 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,480 Speaker 1: don't have athletic trainers for society, we don't have the 477 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 1: great doctors that we have from Ku, and we don't 478 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:28,800 Speaker 1: have the great doctors like Monaco to tell the world. 479 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:33,440 Speaker 1: But first of all, it's a real it's a real pandemic. 480 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 1: It's a real disease. It's viral, so viruses are hard 481 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,800 Speaker 1: for us to contain, whether it's influenza or back in 482 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:47,840 Speaker 1: the HIV pandemic or a pandemic. But it might have 483 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:52,160 Speaker 1: been an epidemic. There's very few pandemics. But this thing's 484 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:58,119 Speaker 1: real and you can't see it. So we have to 485 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:02,240 Speaker 1: treat everybody like their cut COVID positive. You have to. 486 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:04,720 Speaker 1: You have to go to the grocery store and assume 487 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,920 Speaker 1: the person that is checking you out is COVID positive. 488 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,439 Speaker 1: You can be safe. You can be safe. Keep a 489 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,680 Speaker 1: mask on, wash your hands twenty seconds at a time 490 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,840 Speaker 1: with water and soap. Use hand sanitizer, don't be with 491 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,680 Speaker 1: anybody more than ten minutes because ten minutes and six 492 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:24,360 Speaker 1: feet is to cut off. And we can do this 493 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:26,960 Speaker 1: as a society, and this thing will a lot of 494 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 1: viruses die out on their own because they viruses go 495 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:34,240 Speaker 1: because they can give it to each other and they 496 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:36,680 Speaker 1: mutat and all that kind of stuff. Can this can 497 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,440 Speaker 1: be contained if we do the right thing. The problem 498 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 1: is many people and many people in the Kingdom, and 499 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:44,680 Speaker 1: I'm a Twitter guy and I'm a Facebook guy. Don't 500 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,919 Speaker 1: get your news from there. Go to medical websites to 501 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 1: you don't even have to be medical background. Go to 502 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:54,480 Speaker 1: the CDC. Go to places like that and find out 503 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:58,400 Speaker 1: information and do the right thing, because you never know 504 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,080 Speaker 1: when you're gonna be in a grocery store and you 505 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 1: don't feel well but you feel like you need groceries 506 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:07,600 Speaker 1: and you go there and you run into Mitchell Schwartz, 507 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 1: or you run into Anthony Sherman, or you run into 508 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 1: me Cole Hardman, and then they can't play for two 509 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,719 Speaker 1: weeks and it'll probably never get traced back to you. 510 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,960 Speaker 1: But you've got to do that now. Mentally, it's okay 511 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,040 Speaker 1: to get the virus. Like I've told these guys it's 512 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 1: okay to get the virus. What I struggle with is 513 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,160 Speaker 1: when you spread the virus because you do doubt things. 514 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:31,639 Speaker 1: I took a webinar and somebody told me this on 515 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:35,040 Speaker 1: a webinar. Seventy percent of the people in society will 516 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:40,240 Speaker 1: do the right thing. Fifteen percent will get infected. Even 517 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 1: if they're doing the right thing. Fifteen percent of the the 518 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,960 Speaker 1: people don't give a damn and they're infecting all everybody else. 519 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:47,720 Speaker 1: And so the number is going to continue to grow 520 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 1: until that fifteen that doesn't really care about it and 521 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 1: doesn't care about society gets with the program and washes 522 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 1: their hands and puts a mask on and all the 523 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,440 Speaker 1: stuff that we're asking you to do. It's real. We're 524 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,080 Speaker 1: going to try to keep it safe here, but it 525 00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:04,880 Speaker 1: doesn't do us any good if you guys are sick 526 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 1: in the Kingdom. Yeah, we need you. We need you 527 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,160 Speaker 1: guys because that's been our that's been our bloodline through 528 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:14,480 Speaker 1: this organization. Well before I get out here, you guys 529 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:16,639 Speaker 1: showed up whether they were winning and losing. Now we're winning, 530 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:18,600 Speaker 1: we want you guys to be able to come and 531 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:20,760 Speaker 1: enjoy it. And it's going to break my heart on 532 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:24,399 Speaker 1: September the tenth. If there's not a full stadium and 533 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 1: we're raising that banner for the first time, that's going 534 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:29,400 Speaker 1: to kill me. But I know my group went a sideline. 535 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,040 Speaker 1: I hope they're going to be safe. I'm praying that 536 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:32,719 Speaker 1: they're gonna be saving. I'm gonna do everything I can 537 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 1: to keep them safe. I asked the Kingdom to do 538 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:38,160 Speaker 1: the same. Pray that you're safe, do everything you can 539 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 1: to be safe, and maybe by the end of the year, 540 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:42,240 Speaker 1: when we're really hitting our stride, you guys be able 541 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 1: to be back in the stadium full and we'll do 542 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 1: this thing. And Rick, when we dropped that banner, whether 543 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:53,160 Speaker 1: it's some fans, no fans, all fans, you're going to 544 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 1: feel that spirit and they're going to feel the spirit 545 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,240 Speaker 1: of this podcast coming back because it's something I say 546 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:01,240 Speaker 1: every day. Rick, This we're going to zation is at 547 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:05,440 Speaker 1: a whole completely different level U and leading for not 548 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:07,840 Speaker 1: just the NFL but the rest of the professional leagues. 549 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,480 Speaker 1: But you will feel that spirit because it's very real. 550 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,040 Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us, my friend, Let's run it 551 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:16,200 Speaker 1: back and God bless you and just hanging her buddy, 552 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:18,640 Speaker 1: keep keep rinding away for us. We're counting on you. 553 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:22,960 Speaker 1: Thanks Minchin. Know this, When Fauci makes us wear rubber gloves, 554 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,040 Speaker 1: I'm putting that big old ring right over the rubber gloves. Sir, 555 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:30,520 Speaker 1: I'll do the same. Thanks, brother, appreciate its love. You 556 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:37,120 Speaker 1: touch down down and the celebration begins in our head.