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Speaker 1: This is the OTP presented by a far Bureau Health plan.

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Speaker 1: Let's get the home field advantage with healthcare coverage from

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Speaker 1: far Bureau Health Plans. They've been protecting Tennessee and since

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Speaker 1: nineteen forty seven. The January eighth, twenty twenty one edition

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Speaker 1: of the OTP Amy Wells Mike Keith, we called this

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Speaker 1: Miracle Day. Did you know that? I did. I thought

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Speaker 1: it's Miracle Day and the Music City Miracle is legal.

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Speaker 1: The Music City Miracle is twenty one years old today.

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Speaker 1: Can you believe it? Mike Keith? Sure? Does it feel

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Speaker 1: like it's been twenty one year since that happened. I

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Speaker 1: I mean it feels that way. But last year obviously

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Speaker 1: And it's because to me today it's great to discuss

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Speaker 1: sweeter when the Titans are getting ready for another playoff

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Speaker 1: game at Nissan Stadium against the Ravens, which is such

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Speaker 1: I don't like that. Stat, I know, two road victories

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Speaker 1: the playoffs this year, like the twenty twenty season, when

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Speaker 1: said it on the post game, so I was doing

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Speaker 1: the you know, because we do the power plays, and

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Speaker 1: so I was doing the call of the last play,

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Speaker 1: and we played the cut and when he says great

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Speaker 1: job Sloman, I just reacted on Titans Radio and said,

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Speaker 1: it sounds like a line from an eighties you know,

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Speaker 1: like a John Hughes movie or a It was hilarious,

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Speaker 1: absolutely hilarious, because Slowman sounds like a character out of

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Speaker 1: a John Qusack movie or you know, just I mean

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00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 1: home alone, or I mean anything you said, Napoleon Dynamite.

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Speaker 1: You know it. But if you haven't heard it, go

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00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,120
Speaker 1: back and listen to the to the Titans radio call

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00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 1: of the doink, the madfield goal at the end that

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Speaker 1: Sam Sloman bank shot as it's become known, and Coach

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00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: mack yelling great job Slowman. Again one of my favorite

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Speaker 1: moments in Titans radio history. How many times did we

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Speaker 1: say great job Sloman? In like the twelve twenty four

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Speaker 1: hours after the game when we were traveling back. I

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Speaker 1: think anyone who did anything decent got a great job Sloman. Well,

447
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 1: we're trying to return the rental car at six am

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Speaker 1: on Monday. You get the seven people in the in

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Speaker 1: the passenger van and we can't figure out how to

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Speaker 1: return it because it was a little complicated. And that's it.

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Speaker 1: And so when we return we finally pulled into the

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Speaker 1: rental car place, the first thing that was said was,

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Speaker 1: great job, Sloman. It just fits every occasion while you're

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Speaker 1: in the office next week, wherever you are around the

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Speaker 1: world among the ot people, when someone does something, well,

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Speaker 1: give him a great job, Sloman. It's so fitting. But

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Speaker 1: it will be Stephen Gaskowski and you know it. Stephen

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Speaker 1: Gaskowski has, by the way, he's made twenty of twenty

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Speaker 1: one career field goals against the Ravens in the playoffs. Well,

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Speaker 1: I like that a lot. Those are great numbers. Them's

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Speaker 1: pretty good. Odd. Yeah, we'd like to see we'd like

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Speaker 1: to see some more of that out of Stephen Gaskowski.

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Speaker 1: Special teams a huge factor. The Ravens have the number

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Speaker 1: one kickoff return unit in the NFL, Sam Cook. They're

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Speaker 1: seventy two year old punter. I mean he has been

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Speaker 1: in the league since like nineteen forty six, first year

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Speaker 1: great potter. Not quite. He was old when I was

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Speaker 1: an intern in Baltimore and that was a while ago. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so he's really old now. He's seven seven passing for

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Speaker 1: eighty two yards in his career. Really, yes, well, good job, buddy.

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Speaker 1: Little factoid for you, Lamar Jackson factoid. He's the only

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Speaker 1: quarterback in NFL history to have back to back one

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Speaker 1: thousand yard rushing seasons. Really yeah, think about that. One

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Speaker 1: hundred and one years of the NFL and he's the

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Speaker 1: first quarterback to ever do that. That's how dangerous he is. Wow,

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Speaker 1: I mean, what an athlete. But he didn't gain two

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Speaker 1: thousand yards like the Titans first team All Pro. Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't think he wins MVP, but I think he's

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Speaker 1: I think he may be the Offensive Player of the Year,

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Speaker 1: right Yeah, I mean it would seem silly to not

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Speaker 1: give him that award. I can't think of anybody who

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Speaker 1: has had a bigger impact on an offense. Well, I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's had a massive impact on the offense, undoubtedly, Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 1: It looks like from what the voting was, is gonna

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Speaker 1: win MVP because that thing is a pretty good sign

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Speaker 1: of what is to come, yeah, and how it's going

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Speaker 1: to happen and how it's going to go down. But overall,

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Speaker 1: you would say that this would be a case where

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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry, and oftentimes this happens. You know, when Chris

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Speaker 1: Johnson had the great year in two thousand and nine,

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Speaker 1: he was not given MVP sort of plaudits, if you will,

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Speaker 1: but Offensive Player of the Year made a ton of sense.

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Speaker 1: And I think it does for Derrick Henry as well. Well.

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Speaker 1: He's been Offensive Player of the Week or months or

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Speaker 1: day for however many weeks in a row. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he keeps winning the individual week by week awards. He's

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Speaker 1: won a lot of accolades and had a lot of

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Speaker 1: accomplishments this season. It only seems natural to keep a

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Speaker 1: couple more on there. You know, you can make the

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Speaker 1: case for him as one of the great backs of

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Speaker 1: all time, not just because he's won back to back

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Speaker 1: rushing championships, but also because he is the only back

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Speaker 1: in football history to rush for two thousand yards in

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Speaker 1: high school, college, and the NFL. There has never been

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Speaker 1: a back who has done it at all three levels.

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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry has. The high school one is what's really

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Speaker 1: interesting to me. I mean, two thousand yards rushing in

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Speaker 1: high school high school. Yeah, but a lot of times

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Speaker 1: people wouldn't, you know, if you had a back of

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Speaker 1: a certain level, you wouldn't give him the ball that much,

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Speaker 1: right exactly, He would be taken out at the end

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Speaker 1: of the first half. Of course, Derek gained twelve thousand,

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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty four yards in you. Yeah. Oh,

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Speaker 1: he's the all time leading rusher in high school. We

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Speaker 1: have a special guest on the line with us right

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Speaker 1: now for the official Titans podcast, the OT people. This

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Speaker 1: is for you. It's a voice of Monday Night Football,

518
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Speaker 1: Steve Levy for ESPN. How are you my friend? Hey?

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Speaker 1: What's up Mike? Hey, guys doing we are super amy

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Speaker 1: Here here's one for you. Steve Levy has been at

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Speaker 1: ESPN for almost exactly half of his life. Wow, the math.

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Speaker 1: Yeah that's right. Yeah, how big time is that? Mister

523
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 1: feels pretty old? Actually, instead of instead a big time no,

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Speaker 1: let's say it's been a great run. I remained the

525
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Speaker 1: luckiest guy in the industry, and I'm just looking forward

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Speaker 1: to calling Sunday's NFL playoff game. Should be amazing. Before

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Speaker 1: we talk about that for a second, Yeah, go on

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Speaker 1: at ESPN at twenty eight years old. Yeah, how did

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Speaker 1: that happen? That's her. I didn't want to go to

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Speaker 1: ESPN quite frankly, I'm a New York City guy, and

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Speaker 1: I was working in the big city, and I was

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Speaker 1: doing television and radio, and I was living in a

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Speaker 1: high rise and my parents and all my friends and

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Speaker 1: family could listen to watch every day. And I really

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Speaker 1: did not want to go to Bristol, Connecticut, quite frankly

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Speaker 1: back then. And I tried to stay and it didn't

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Speaker 1: work out in ESPN, you know, made a second offer

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Speaker 1: and had an agent at the time. He said, look,

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Speaker 1: ESPN's not coming back a third time. So I went

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Speaker 1: one more time to the local CBS affiliate in New York.

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Speaker 1: As it please, I don't want to go, don't make

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Speaker 1: me go. And they were like, hey, you're too young

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00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: to be the league guy here or whatever. And I said,

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Speaker 1: all right, I'm going. And of course there's a great

545
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 1: lesson in that turned out to be the greatest move

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Speaker 1: of my career, and I'll never forget that moment. Yeah,

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00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 1: but you know, back in those days, we didn't have LA.

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00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,919
Speaker 1: There was no ESPN LA, there was no EST Radio

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Speaker 1: or ESPN two. I mean, it was just Sports Center

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00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:29,720
Speaker 1: and so we would do two thirty am Eastern live,

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Speaker 1: five nights a week. I've been think about that and

552
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Speaker 1: it was only a thirty minute show. And so it's

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Speaker 1: amazing how things have changed over the years. But like

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Speaker 1: I said, I've been I've been really fortunate and working

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Speaker 1: with some great people and great relationships. You've got to

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Speaker 1: have some pinnacle peak moment, some highlights of your career.

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Speaker 1: What are some of the big things that you've been

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Speaker 1: able to cover or be a part of that just

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Speaker 1: come to mind right away being here in Nashville, Amy,

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Speaker 1: and I'm really I'm really proud of the hockey coverage

561
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Speaker 1: we've done. My favorite two and a half to three

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Speaker 1: weeks of every year is the Stanley Cup Final with

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Speaker 1: my pal Barry Melrose. And I will say, you know,

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Speaker 1: prior to this past Cup, which no one was allowed

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Speaker 1: to attend in the bubble in our top five of

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Speaker 1: the twenty five, was that that Nashville Stanley Cup Final.

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Speaker 1: I think it really put Nashville on the map in

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Speaker 1: terms of being a hockey town, a hockey city. I

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Speaker 1: will say in the States, there is no more of

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Speaker 1: a fun or entertaining place to go watch a regular

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Speaker 1: season game that at Bridgestone and see the Predators the

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Speaker 1: way they do that. It was just such a blast

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Speaker 1: to cover the team. So those two and a half

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Speaker 1: weeks are among my highlights. I've had a chance, you know,

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Speaker 1: doing college football, you know, do the Orange Bowl, you know,

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Speaker 1: some big games there. I did the three longest or

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Speaker 1: three of the four longest televised hockey games ever, and

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Speaker 1: quite frankly, you know, just being on Sports Center at

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Speaker 1: eleven o'clock every night, I got to go through all

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Speaker 1: every Greek sporting of at that ends, and we come on.

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Speaker 1: It's been, you know, the best seat in the house,

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Speaker 1: so you know, and just when you think it can't

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Speaker 1: get any better, for some crazy reason, they handed me

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Speaker 1: the keys to Monday night football at least for this season.

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Speaker 1: And it's been a different season. But I've certainly enjoyed

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Speaker 1: the ride. And like I said, I've been really lucky

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Speaker 1: in the business. So let me ask you about getting

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Speaker 1: to football, because we really knew you as far as

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Speaker 1: played by play from hockey. Yea for those of us

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Speaker 1: who may not be the biggest hockey fans in the world,

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Speaker 1: because I didn't grow up with hockey. To be honest,

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Speaker 1: I've learned about hockey later in life. Watching you and

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Speaker 1: Barry is just entertaining broadcasting. It's fun to watch you

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Speaker 1: guys work together, and he must be just an absolute

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Speaker 1: hood all the time. But how did you sort of

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Speaker 1: work your way through all these talented people to make

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Speaker 1: it to be the voice of Monday Night Football. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know you pointed out the year, so it's it's

599
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 1: been a long ride. And you know, I did college

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Speaker 1: football really a long time ago, you know, it was

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Speaker 1: two thousand even, and did it for like five seasons

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Speaker 1: and had a blast with that. Doing the big ten

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00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,439
Speaker 1: games coming out of game day at News really cool

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Speaker 1: for me. And uh, and then sort of had to

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Speaker 1: make a decision. They said, you know, you gotta be

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00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: you can be studio or remote, and so I went

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Speaker 1: back to Sports Center and uh, you know, I had

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Speaker 1: the best seat in the house for all sporting events,

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Speaker 1: which is really cool. And then things started to change.

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Speaker 1: So it's it's really a revolving door. And you know

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Speaker 1: you hear that expression as one door closed, another opens

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00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: those kinds of things, And you know, Mike Tarico leaves

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Speaker 1: to go to NBC and Sean McDonough goes to Monday

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00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 1: Night Football and that opened up Seawan's college football spot,

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Speaker 1: and so that got me back into college football, and

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Speaker 1: I've been really lucky to be partnered with Brian Greasy

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Speaker 1: the last four years in college, and then with Lisa

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Speaker 1: Assalters and Lewis Riddick this season on Monday Night and

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Speaker 1: so and I'll be I'll be totally honest with you

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Speaker 1: all these sporting events, like I've become like close friends.

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Speaker 1: These are not just colleagues, like you know you mentioned

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Speaker 1: Baron Mellow is one of my favorite people on the planet. Like,

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Speaker 1: You've become really close friends with these people. And this

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00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 1: year has been challenging because like Lewis and Brian and

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Speaker 1: Lisa and we can't hang out. We haven't had one

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00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 1: meal together, not one meeting, not one drink after a game.

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Speaker 1: They won't even let us go to the stadium in

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Speaker 1: the same car. So it's been a rather unique challenge

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Speaker 1: this season trying to for our own camaraderie. No teams

630
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: are fighting that too, right, they can't go to the

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Speaker 1: facilitas on Monday or Tuesday, and you hear about players

632
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Speaker 1: all the time. The team camaraderie is lacking this season.

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00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 1: Just can't get together right. There's there's no nights together

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Speaker 1: the offensive line, but don't go to you know, somebody's

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Speaker 1: house on Thursday, and I'll eating on Monday night on

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Speaker 1: the traditional day off with Tuesday getting together. So you know,

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00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:47,879
Speaker 1: we're fighting some of those same battles. But again, it's

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Speaker 1: it's a year where everyone's gone through a lot of adversity,

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Speaker 1: and no one on myana is complaining about what do

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Speaker 1: you do to overcome that? I mean, you're kind of

641
00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: you're in a new position with some new people. How

642
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 1: do you establish that chemistry that you have to have

643
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,400
Speaker 1: for a broadcast? They mean, it's been it's been a

644
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:07,839
Speaker 1: work in progress, and I really think we've gotten better

645
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 1: every single week. And you can't you can't fake that chemistry,

646
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:14,399
Speaker 1: you know, and you like, like you're talking about burying myself,

647
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 1: like you just see it, like you can see you

648
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 1: would genuinely like each other. We get along on the

649
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 1: same thing with Greece after four years and doing college

650
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 1: and it's you know, people at home only see us

651
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,839
Speaker 1: for the three hours or the broadcast, right, but there's

652
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 1: so much more. You're flying together, you're in the car together,

653
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 1: you're a training camp together, you're a practice together, and

654
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 1: so on, and team meetings and those kinds of things.

655
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 1: So it's been a work in progress. We're trying to

656
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:40,440
Speaker 1: get better every single week. I feel like we have

657
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: made a lot of a lot of strides in that department.

658
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:46,240
Speaker 1: We're not faking it, but we're doing the best weekend.

659
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 1: And again it's not normally we're even standing next to

660
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:50,839
Speaker 1: each other and I can bang them on the arm

661
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 1: what I want to talk, you know. And so we're

662
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 1: so far Lewis is Lewis is so far away from me.

663
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 1: I couldn't hit them with a piece of crumpled up paper,

664
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:01,320
Speaker 1: you know. And my name's not that good to begin with,

665
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:03,839
Speaker 1: but you get where I'm going. So it's it's been

666
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 1: a challenge. It's been a challenge for for everybody, and

667
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 1: I'll be I'll be first in line to get us

668
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: back to the the old normal as soon as possible.

669
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: In terms of reviews, Monday Night Football gets more reviews

670
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:21,879
Speaker 1: than any other sporting team, if you will. In terms

671
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 1: of broadcasters, the reviews have been very good for this team.

672
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 1: Have you been pleasantly surprised? Surprised at all? What do you?

673
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: I mean? You're aware of that. You know what I'm

674
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:35,400
Speaker 1: talking about absolutely, Um listen, I'm not gonna say it,

675
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:38,440
Speaker 1: I'll read it. I checked Twitter from time to time. Uh,

676
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 1: you know, everybody that says I'm terrible, I eliminate with

677
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 1: all those people tell you you're great too. Right, it's

678
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 1: what's out and I'll take the comments in the middle.

679
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:50,920
Speaker 1: So you know, our big focus was, or me personally

680
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:55,280
Speaker 1: was before I even had the job. I can't believe

681
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 1: the amount of tension on the booth right on the

682
00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 1: people calling the game. The game is the thing, and

683
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:03,239
Speaker 1: so that was kind of my first in my head.

684
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 1: Let me try to as best I can do my

685
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:10,480
Speaker 1: part to redirect the attention to the field. Right, the

686
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:13,480
Speaker 1: game is a thing, the players, the coaches. It is

687
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: not about the broadcasters who's in the broadcast booth. So listen,

688
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 1: we try like all broadcasters to you know, enhance the

689
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 1: enjoyment for the viewer, right, but we are not the thing.

690
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:29,799
Speaker 1: And um, yes, So first off, I was very surprised by,

691
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:32,320
Speaker 1: you know, every critique about you know, the way I stand,

692
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 1: or my hand in my pocket or I'm smiling or

693
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 1: not smiling enough, Like people, can we talk about the

694
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 1: game please. I've got a million notes on you know,

695
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 1: every single player, and you know every the name of

696
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 1: every single kid in their kindergarten class that I could

697
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 1: give you too. So let's can we focus please on

698
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,800
Speaker 1: the players. The game is the thing, and that was

699
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 1: really goal number one, to get the attention off the

700
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:59,839
Speaker 1: booth and get it out of the field. Steve, aren't

701
00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 1: you glad you got this opportunity in your fifties so

702
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 1: you would know how to handle all of the extraneous

703
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 1: stuff that goes with being the voice of Monday night football.

704
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 1: That's fair, Mike. I listen, I would not have turned

705
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,719
Speaker 1: it down earlier, but I could have blown. I could

706
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 1: have blown the opportunity, quite frankly, like when we you know,

707
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: the first time there was a change, it's probably four

708
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:23,799
Speaker 1: or five years ago, and my name was at least,

709
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:27,240
Speaker 1: you know, thrown around as a potential person. And again

710
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,759
Speaker 1: I wouldn't I wouldn't have turned it down, but I

711
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 1: would not have been ready. I can tell you that

712
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 1: right now. I would not have been ready five years ago.

713
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 1: And you know, that might not have ended well for me,

714
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 1: and that might have been my only appearance, you know,

715
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 1: my only my only chance. And a few years ago

716
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 1: when there was another change, I thought I was ready

717
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 1: and I still didn't get it, you know, And and

718
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 1: so now the time was right. Look, I needed the

719
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 1: world to end pretty much, you know, a pandemic here

720
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 1: to get an opportunity to get this job. But you know,

721
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,480
Speaker 1: it's much It's much like a coach, right, Um, you

722
00:42:56,560 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 1: get these hot shot assistance, You're gonna get one opportunity,

723
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 1: and you don't want to say yes to the wrong

724
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:06,840
Speaker 1: program in college or organization in the NFL. Right you go,

725
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:09,239
Speaker 1: you have no success in your two years or whatever

726
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: it is, three years, you might not get a second chance.

727
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:14,319
Speaker 1: So it's you know, I equated to be in rush

728
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 1: to the majors, you know, a little too soon in baseball, right,

729
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 1: So listen, I'm you know, I'm not an old man,

730
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:22,439
Speaker 1: but I'm just you know, I'm not young in my career.

731
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 1: I've been around the broadcasting block and it's certainly worked

732
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:27,400
Speaker 1: out well for me, and I think I'm in a

733
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:29,279
Speaker 1: good position to try to, you know, hang on to

734
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 1: this seat for as long as possible. So Monday Night

735
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:34,759
Speaker 1: Football in twenty twenty starts with the Tennessee Titans, and

736
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:37,279
Speaker 1: Monday Night Football in twenty twenty is going to end

737
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 1: with the Tennessee Titans. Right from the beginning to the end.

738
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:43,280
Speaker 1: I guess they're playing other teams, but it's our podcast

739
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 1: that we don't talk about them from from the beginning

740
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 1: of the season too. Now, what have you seen in

741
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 1: the evolution of this Titans team. I think we're still

742
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 1: trying to figure out the kicking game, right, I mean,

743
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:58,920
Speaker 1: I remember, I remember the opener and so again. So

744
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm raised in New York, but I

745
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 1: lived in New England for a long time, right in

746
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 1: Boston and in Connecticut. So all the success to Stephen

747
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 1: Guskowski had all those great Patriots teams. You know, I

748
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:13,919
Speaker 1: called him on that broadcast, I called him a sure

749
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,799
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, and I still believe that. By the way,

750
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:19,360
Speaker 1: I think he has the credentials, and I mean I

751
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 1: took more heat for that comment. And then of course

752
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:24,879
Speaker 1: that's in the midst of him, you know, missing three

753
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 1: field goals and an extra point right as I'm putting

754
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 1: him in Canton. So and I do remember the call

755
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:35,319
Speaker 1: of the game winning field goal was along the lines up.

756
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 1: You know, he kicks it and he makes it as

757
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 1: if he has been doing it all night long, you know.

758
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 1: And he probably had the worst game of his career

759
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,520
Speaker 1: and then was still good enough and mentally tough enough

760
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 1: to win the game for the Titans in the end.

761
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:51,320
Speaker 1: So it was a wild start to the season. I

762
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 1: remember Vic Fangio, the head coach of the Broncos, really

763
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:58,320
Speaker 1: bailed out the Titans that night. He sort of boxed

764
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 1: his usage at the timehouse late the game and allowed

765
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:05,279
Speaker 1: that Goskowski opportunity. So, like I said that, you're still

766
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 1: figuring out the kicking game. It seems like, you know,

767
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 1: Sloman's a cool story and everything, but it was a

768
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 1: pressure pack kick last week and off the up right

769
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 1: and through and uh, you know, the playoffs are a

770
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 1: different kind of speed and a different kind of pressure,

771
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 1: So we'll see how that plays out. But a lot

772
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:23,239
Speaker 1: of it is has remained the same. You know, we

773
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 1: know about Derek Henry. I think he's he's the same

774
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 1: great running back Ryan Tannehill. We just talked to him

775
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:32,239
Speaker 1: earlier ourselves, and you know, he said his numbers might

776
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:34,759
Speaker 1: not be as good as maybe last year, but he

777
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 1: thinks this has been the best year of his career

778
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 1: in terms of the way he's played the game. And

779
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 1: I think still people are questioning the pass rush on

780
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 1: the defense with Titans, so a lot of those things

781
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 1: had not changed. Of all, the stories that you've covered

782
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 1: on Sports Center through a variety of sports. There aren't

783
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: a lot of comps towards Ryan Tannehill. I would compare,

784
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:56,840
Speaker 1: and you and I are of the same era, so

785
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 1: I would compare Jim Plunkett when he went to the

786
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 1: Raiders after failing with the Patriots and with the forty

787
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:05,440
Speaker 1: nine ers. But there haven't been a lot of guys

788
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:09,480
Speaker 1: who have restarted a career in a way that he has.

789
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 1: And it really is a fantastic story because he's a

790
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:16,279
Speaker 1: tremendous person and a great athlete and he's become the

791
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:22,320
Speaker 1: face of this franchise. How surprising do you think his

792
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:26,319
Speaker 1: sort of assent to this role has been. I mean,

793
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 1: somewhat has to be somewhat based on the work in Miami,

794
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 1: it has to be considered somewhat surprising. And I'll tell you,

795
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 1: and I don't want to speak out of school here,

796
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:38,839
Speaker 1: but when we talk with Ryan on our Zoom, both

797
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 1: Lewis Riddick and Brian Greasy either started or finished with

798
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 1: telling Ryan how proud of him and his story that

799
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: they were, you know, guys who played in the league

800
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 1: and worked in the league a long time, and so

801
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:51,920
Speaker 1: you know we recognize, Greasy said, you know he was

802
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 1: in that spot. Right, you're the starter. Things don't go well,

803
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 1: you start getting booed, you start questioning your confidence. They're

804
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:00,759
Speaker 1: gonna move you out of town. Now goes someplace else.

805
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 1: You're a backup, and then you wait for your opportunity

806
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 1: to have it again. And so you know, I know

807
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:08,239
Speaker 1: the Titans were in a tough spot last year, like

808
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 1: you know, so he has a great finish, they obviously

809
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 1: have the great playoff run here, and then they have

810
00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 1: to make a financial decision, Right, we're gonna we're gonna

811
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:17,359
Speaker 1: pay him like a number one or not. I mean

812
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:19,759
Speaker 1: this is this is a league of have and have

813
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,799
Speaker 1: not at quarterback, and if you think you have the guy,

814
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:25,360
Speaker 1: then you got to pay them. And in some places,

815
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:27,560
Speaker 1: like you see what's going on in Philadelphia, you know,

816
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:30,319
Speaker 1: that can really handicap a team for a long time.

817
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 1: That Carson Wentz contract, for example, you know, can really

818
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:36,040
Speaker 1: hold up that franchise. So the Titans had a decision

819
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 1: to make it obviously looks like the right one now.

820
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 1: But you know, tannehill story is amazing. Yeah, very hard

821
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:47,320
Speaker 1: to find a comparable story to his going back to

822
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:50,399
Speaker 1: being a wide receiver in college for a couple of years,

823
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 1: so you know later to the position you're a high

824
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:55,759
Speaker 1: draft pick. He went through you know, he ran through

825
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 1: coaches and offensive coordinators in Miami like they were going

826
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:01,719
Speaker 1: out of style. It's not always on the quarterback. And

827
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:05,279
Speaker 1: then waits his turned behind Marcus Mariota here, and as

828
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:07,440
Speaker 1: you said, he's seems to be like a Hall of

829
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:09,880
Speaker 1: Fame kind of nice guy. I know, he's got an

830
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 1: edge to him, and he's a competitor and all that,

831
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:13,520
Speaker 1: and he's just an easy guy to root for. And

832
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:17,239
Speaker 1: there's no question for Mike vrabel putting together a team

833
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 1: like the one that he has right now, a team

834
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:24,920
Speaker 1: that has made it to the playoffs multiple years. What

835
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:26,840
Speaker 1: does that say about him as a head coach and

836
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 1: how he's coming into his own I feel like he's

837
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:32,800
Speaker 1: been here longer than he actually has. Does that seem

838
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:35,800
Speaker 1: like that way to you guys? Like, yes, absolutely, seems

839
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 1: like he's a ten year head coach and not what

840
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:41,840
Speaker 1: is his third season, right, So, I mean that's amazing.

841
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:43,919
Speaker 1: And look, some of that is a product of where

842
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:46,920
Speaker 1: he's coming from, and that's and that's Bill Belichick and

843
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 1: learning from the best I think, but I think he's

844
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:53,920
Speaker 1: a really bright guy. He'll be honest. He is one

845
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:55,840
Speaker 1: of my favorite coaches. I knew him a little bit

846
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 1: back in New England, so we have some relationship there.

847
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:01,400
Speaker 1: He's got a rough, rough way about him, which is

848
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:04,840
Speaker 1: kind of nice. But he's he's a little more endearing

849
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:08,040
Speaker 1: and charming, I would say, than Bill is. But I mean,

850
00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:09,880
Speaker 1: I'll just give an example. I asked him, which I

851
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:12,560
Speaker 1: thought was an easy question with an easy answer, and

852
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 1: he threw me a total curveball. I said to him

853
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 1: last year's playoff run, what are the benefits of that

854
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:25,960
Speaker 1: heading into this postseason? And he just said one word,

855
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 1: He said, none, like very Belichick yet experience. Nope, absolutely not.

856
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 1: Every year is different. The players change, right, the rosters

857
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: turn over, all these things. Everything's different every yame. And

858
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:42,560
Speaker 1: that sounded right out of the Belichick book too, you know,

859
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 1: the one word he was making his point. But I

860
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:48,840
Speaker 1: enjoy him very much in these kind of zoom meetings.

861
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 1: I wish we could meet with the team obviously in

862
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: person and face to face. But he's a terrific young coach,

863
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:58,319
Speaker 1: and you know his moves have benefited you know Arthur

864
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: Smith for example, right, uh, you know, elevating Arthur and

865
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:03,480
Speaker 1: putting him in the offense quarter spot. I mean that

866
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 1: looks like a genius move. I know he's taken some

867
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:09,360
Speaker 1: heat for, you know, not replacing DMPs on the defensive side,

868
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:11,680
Speaker 1: but you know, you roll the dice and and that's

869
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:13,960
Speaker 1: how that works. So you're not gonna win all of

870
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:16,800
Speaker 1: these moves. But I like what he's done here. The

871
00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:19,880
Speaker 1: culture seems to be the right kind of culture, and

872
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:22,200
Speaker 1: I think I think the Titans are set up to,

873
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 1: you know, to win, not just this year, but to

874
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:27,879
Speaker 1: be very competitive for years to come. Okay, so we've

875
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:29,760
Speaker 1: got to let you go because I know you're very busy,

876
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:33,719
Speaker 1: but give the people who tune in the OTP sort

877
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:36,520
Speaker 1: of your overview of Sunday's matchup. How do you break

878
00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 1: it down? I see a lot of points, and I

879
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:41,320
Speaker 1: see I see a fast game too, you know, with

880
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:45,279
Speaker 1: these two teams that love to run the football, and um,

881
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:48,440
Speaker 1: I think while it might not be a great defensive game,

882
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:51,400
Speaker 1: I think there'll be a lot of hard hitting. This

883
00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:53,920
Speaker 1: feels like in Week eleven was really physical when they

884
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:59,040
Speaker 1: got together. This feels nasty, This feels petty, this feels chippy.

885
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:02,080
Speaker 1: I think they'll stay away from the penalty flags because

886
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 1: the stakes are so high. But you know, when these games,

887
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:08,480
Speaker 1: always hear about all the team with the football last

888
00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:10,880
Speaker 1: could win. To me, it's the team that gets, you know,

889
00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 1: a two touchdown lead first. I think both of these

890
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:16,359
Speaker 1: teams are built to play from ahead and not built

891
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 1: to play from behind. And I don't mean a field

892
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 1: goal or a touchdown, but you know, a two score

893
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:22,279
Speaker 1: kind of game. That could be tough for both of

894
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 1: these teams to come from behind. And I think that's

895
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:26,880
Speaker 1: why the start of the game is is so important

896
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 1: that we were joking about the kicking game. Would anybody

897
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:31,719
Speaker 1: be surprised if this came down to a field goal

898
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:34,920
Speaker 1: at the end by Tennessee or Baltimore? And you know,

899
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:38,400
Speaker 1: Baltimore's got Tucker and he's the most accurate field goal

900
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:41,480
Speaker 1: kicker in the history of the NFL. So that would

901
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:44,000
Speaker 1: be my overview and something to watch for in the game.

902
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:48,879
Speaker 1: Fast start, very important, Okay, important question to end? Where

903
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:51,960
Speaker 1: are you ordering Denner while you're in Nashville because you

904
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:56,080
Speaker 1: can't go out right. Yeah, we're trying to stay away

905
00:51:56,280 --> 00:52:00,200
Speaker 1: or at least socially distant, you know, Greasey's never had

906
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:03,120
Speaker 1: hot chicken? Can you guys believe that? Sure? I can believe.

907
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 1: I can't believe that, although he did stand at practice

908
00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:09,360
Speaker 1: with us today and we were pretty with that. I

909
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:12,440
Speaker 1: was a pretty good effort by Greasy standing out in

910
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:16,719
Speaker 1: the cold on Lake Amuelet there. That was nice work

911
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:18,480
Speaker 1: on his part. But yeah, I can believe he's never

912
00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:21,239
Speaker 1: had hot chicken from Miami kids standing out in the cold. Yet,

913
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:23,880
Speaker 1: I'll hear about that forever leaving Where were you at practice?

914
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:29,400
Speaker 1: That can? Um? So I'm not sure about that, but

915
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:32,759
Speaker 1: you know, I'll take your suggestions and you tell me

916
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 1: whose name I should drop certificate? No, No, the name

917
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:45,840
Speaker 1: you drop is Dave McGinnis. Hang on, d Dave McGinnis,

918
00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 1: the former head coach of the Arizona Cardinals, who is

919
00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:51,839
Speaker 1: my partner on Titans Radio. Got it. Anywhere you drop

920
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:55,719
Speaker 1: Coach Max's name, get something free and something good. He's

921
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:59,360
Speaker 1: got a friend somewhere. Life in the NFL is is.

922
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 1: It's not the six degrees of Kevin Bacon. It's the

923
00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:06,279
Speaker 1: six degrees of Coach mac in Naville. Especially if you're

924
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:10,359
Speaker 1: gonna if you're gonna get Rippy's ribs uh, if you're

925
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:13,920
Speaker 1: you're gonna get something from the Southern, which is fantastic.

926
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:16,960
Speaker 1: Lots of great places downtown and of course the hot

927
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:20,839
Speaker 1: chicken places are phenomenal. Amy, where would you suggest, Well,

928
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:23,680
Speaker 1: I'm not a connoisseur, but I do like good food. Um,

929
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:26,360
Speaker 1: Party Foul is the place for hot chicken. Yeah, you

930
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:29,000
Speaker 1: can't go wrong with the Southern. You can't go wrong.

931
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:31,920
Speaker 1: These are not the tourist These are not the tourist places.

932
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:35,680
Speaker 1: These are the No, these are the good food places. Yeah. No,

933
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:38,239
Speaker 1: we wouldn't send you someplace that was a trap. We're

934
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:40,880
Speaker 1: better than that here on the OTP. God, I was

935
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:45,719
Speaker 1: gonna take Greasy to Tutchies. No, I don't know if

936
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:49,239
Speaker 1: you by the game on Sunday, as long as you're

937
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:52,160
Speaker 1: there at twelve or five Central time. But we're not

938
00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:54,400
Speaker 1: going out till after the game. We gotta protect. We

939
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:57,759
Speaker 1: gotta make sure it's okay until the game's over. Yeah,

940
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:00,759
Speaker 1: that Party Foul is awfully good. There are lots of

941
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:04,400
Speaker 1: good hot chicken places. That's a great name. Party fell too.

942
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:09,200
Speaker 1: It's pretty fantastic. It's it's very punny. It's it's like

943
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:13,440
Speaker 1: a dad joke. But the food is got it. I

944
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:16,919
Speaker 1: just listen. If you called the Southern just drop Coach

945
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 1: Max's name and you will. They will take great care

946
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 1: of you. He is he is basically the mayor of Nashville.

947
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:25,880
Speaker 1: Everything he says. It's like that we were talking before

948
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:29,439
Speaker 1: you came on. His comment during the game winning call

949
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 1: where he yelled, great job, slowman has now become how

950
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:37,719
Speaker 1: people sort of greet or compliment one another in town

951
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:42,719
Speaker 1: right now, So just great, Just give somebody a great

952
00:54:42,840 --> 00:54:45,880
Speaker 1: job slowman at the airport or whatever, or in the

953
00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 1: uber or the lyft, and they'll ha some T shirt

954
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:55,080
Speaker 1: right exactly. Well, let me remind you that this edition

955
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 1: of the OTP and all the editions of the OTP

956
00:54:57,719 --> 00:54:59,800
Speaker 1: brought to you by Farm Bureau Health Plans. When you

957
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:03,520
Speaker 1: someone who understands the exos andose of healthcare coverage, they've

958
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:06,680
Speaker 1: been protecting Tennessee and since nineteen forty seven, Steve Lee,

959
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:08,919
Speaker 1: you've been very kind to give us time. We hope

960
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:12,680
Speaker 1: this has been enjoyable for you as well, and from

961
00:55:12,719 --> 00:55:14,960
Speaker 1: somebody who's been in the business a long time watched

962
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:18,920
Speaker 1: you from afar, congratulations on all the success and what

963
00:55:19,160 --> 00:55:22,919
Speaker 1: you have done this year as a broadcaster has really

964
00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:25,400
Speaker 1: been a build up of what you've done for the

965
00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:28,719
Speaker 1: previous thirty. You don't get to do what you do

966
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 1: by just showing up and hitting it one time. You

967
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:33,720
Speaker 1: put in a lot of work to make this work

968
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, and I congratulate you on taking this

969
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:41,719
Speaker 1: opportunity and making it something fantastic for you and your

970
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:44,920
Speaker 1: entire team. I'll say this too, I think Lisa Salters

971
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:49,360
Speaker 1: is one of the most underrated broadcasters anywhere. Absolutely, she

972
00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:52,960
Speaker 1: is phenomenal. But your group has just been great. It

973
00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:55,680
Speaker 1: has been a joy to watch you guys work this

974
00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:59,440
Speaker 1: year and to listen to all that you've had to say. Congratulations, well,

975
00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:02,279
Speaker 1: Mike Amy, I appreciate you guys having me on and

976
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 1: thank you for all the kind words. And you know,

977
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:06,160
Speaker 1: I wish I could see you guys at the stadium.

978
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:08,480
Speaker 1: They won't let anybody in our booth. They won't let

979
00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:10,239
Speaker 1: us out of our booth. I mean, there's so many

980
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:13,640
Speaker 1: rules and regulations, and you know, hopefully next season we

981
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:15,520
Speaker 1: can all get together. I'd love to do a real

982
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:18,720
Speaker 1: regular season game, go to Nissan and see the plays

983
00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:21,359
Speaker 1: rocking out and be amazing. So hopefully we can get

984
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:24,160
Speaker 1: together next year and We'll take you to Yeehat Brewery

985
00:56:24,719 --> 00:56:27,759
Speaker 1: sounds good or Steve Lavy and Amy Wells. Mike Key,

986
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:32,120
Speaker 1: thanks you for listening. Once again the odes where the

987
00:56:32,239 --> 00:56:38,680
Speaker 1: legends calling. Everybody knows it's our house, Tennessee. Making to

988
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:45,040
Speaker 1: cleanness is meant to be. We got sighting Burter running

989
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:45,759
Speaker 1: through a vag