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Speaker 1: forty seven. I am Amy Wells. This is the OTP.

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Speaker 1: Mike Keith is not here, as you've probably noticed, because

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Speaker 1: I'm doing the open, but we have assembled a very

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Speaker 1: fun group for today's show. I figured that it was

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Speaker 1: time to tell the Titans Radio story beyond just Mike

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Speaker 1: Keith and myself taking all the credit for everything that

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Speaker 1: goes on. We wanted to get the whole group together,

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Speaker 1: really take everyone behind the scenes of what we went

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Speaker 1: through and all of the different things that we were

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Speaker 1: working with in the twenty twenty season. So I am

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Speaker 1: joined by Dave McGinnis, of course Titans Radio's color commentator

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Speaker 1: and also just fun guy to have around. Coach mack Hi.

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Speaker 1: Coach mac Ret Brian is also here, the executive producer

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Speaker 1: of Titan's Radio, another fun human being who keeps us

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Speaker 1: laughing at all times. And Brad Willis is here, our

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Speaker 1: to talk about that twenty twenty season. I'm so excited

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Speaker 1: to have you guys here, and I want to kind

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Speaker 1: of take it back a little bit, all the way

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Speaker 1: back to the twenty twenty draft, where you guys were

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Speaker 1: calling all of your draft coverage from Jonathan Hutton's garage.

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Speaker 1: Looking back on it, it seems kind of like an

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Speaker 1: to do. Right, Brad Willis, why don't you start us

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Speaker 1: But when the pandemic hit and everything started to shut down,

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Speaker 1: a game where Brad was not able to go and

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00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:21,000
Speaker 1: I would never got a sense of where this booth was,

436
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,320
Speaker 1: only that I got a diagram of it's two doors

437
00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:26,200
Speaker 1: down from where we normally were. They'd taken over stats

438
00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:27,879
Speaker 1: and the booth where we used to be, which was

439
00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:30,800
Speaker 1: much more spacious. But I never got a picture from

440
00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,919
Speaker 1: anybody about this. So Philip Noel and Jonathan Hutton and

441
00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:35,720
Speaker 1: I get there to set up equipment to night before

442
00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:39,680
Speaker 1: the game, and it's a problem because there's this concrete

443
00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:43,800
Speaker 1: platform with three steps that goes up to another level. Well,

444
00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,200
Speaker 1: we have this giant road case where the soundboard, a

445
00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:49,080
Speaker 1: lot of the mics and processors and all those things are.

446
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,359
Speaker 1: And so Philip Noel had he had to engineer this

447
00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:54,720
Speaker 1: thing from out in the hallway. It would not fit

448
00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:58,439
Speaker 1: in there with the rest of our broadcast crew. And

449
00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:00,639
Speaker 1: luckily we didn't run into two many of those on

450
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,159
Speaker 1: the road. That was one that bothered me because I

451
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:04,920
Speaker 1: was like, man, I wanted to make sure I got

452
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:08,680
Speaker 1: clarity on what the space was and all the other

453
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:10,360
Speaker 1: times it worked out, it was either in the same

454
00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,480
Speaker 1: space we were normal to or it was bigger than

455
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,959
Speaker 1: what we had worked in before. Mac. What about for

456
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:20,080
Speaker 1: you calling without having rent there to be a spotter. Yeah,

457
00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:22,520
Speaker 1: it was different. And as and both of these guys

458
00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:25,280
Speaker 1: have said it, and you know I said it earlier

459
00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:27,399
Speaker 1: and I'll say it again. This is a great team.

460
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 1: It's a great team because first of all, everybody really

461
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:33,880
Speaker 1: is good at what they do, and the other part

462
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,359
Speaker 1: is everybody wants everybody else to be really good at

463
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 1: what they do. I mean, it is really a great

464
00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,240
Speaker 1: team effort. And plus we enjoy being around each other,

465
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,119
Speaker 1: and we had to this year because we basically lived

466
00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:46,520
Speaker 1: with each other, you know, for eight weeks on the

467
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,080
Speaker 1: road and sometimes would have to spend the night. But

468
00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 1: for me, for me, you know, I prepare for a

469
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 1: broadcast just like I prepared a game plan when I

470
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,120
Speaker 1: was coaching. I mean, I will watch, I will watch

471
00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 1: endless amount of tape, I will get I will get

472
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:01,480
Speaker 1: to know ski teams and because that's what I bring

473
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:03,680
Speaker 1: to the broadcast, and so I you know, I spend

474
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:07,760
Speaker 1: so that part of it, you know, was was not different.

475
00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:10,160
Speaker 1: But but you know, then Jonathan and I and read

476
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,080
Speaker 1: we put together the pregame programming and you know, the

477
00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,480
Speaker 1: questions that will be pertinent, and we want to be

478
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:17,600
Speaker 1: you know, not just the general questions, but the really

479
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:19,639
Speaker 1: under the two layers of what's going to go on

480
00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,280
Speaker 1: in the ball game. Those types of things were important.

481
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:26,800
Speaker 1: But being able being able to go to practice and

482
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:30,679
Speaker 1: still being able to watch opponent's films before I was

483
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,440
Speaker 1: going in amy, I mean that that's what I do.

484
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:35,399
Speaker 1: That's what I do, and that in my in my

485
00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:38,680
Speaker 1: preparation of it. And the other part is is just

486
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 1: being flexible enough. When we first started this, you know,

487
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 1: Jill Beverley, he called me and said, look, we're I

488
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:46,320
Speaker 1: don't think we're not going to be able to be

489
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 1: on the team charter And uh, I know you've been

490
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:51,439
Speaker 1: on team charters for thirty four years. Do you have

491
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 1: an issue traveling? Uh, you know, if we have to

492
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,760
Speaker 1: travel commercial And I said, absolutely not. I said I

493
00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 1: would love to do that. And that to me, I mean,

494
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,880
Speaker 1: we were all willing to do whatever we all had

495
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:07,119
Speaker 1: to do to make the product the best, and not

496
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 1: only make it, not make it the best it could be,

497
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 1: make it like it's always been an excellent, excellent product,

498
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: and that's what I was really proud of. But as

499
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:17,560
Speaker 1: far as preparation, we all prepared and everybody put things

500
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,240
Speaker 1: together just the same. Now you know it had it

501
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,879
Speaker 1: entailed a lot of different things when we got there

502
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,680
Speaker 1: because there were different challenges. We went to Denver, there's

503
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,119
Speaker 1: a different there's a challenge getting into stadium. I mean,

504
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 1: let's just talk about that right from the joint. I mean,

505
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,040
Speaker 1: that was that was, that was, That was the first

506
00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:36,560
Speaker 1: their first shot. It was a second Monday night game.

507
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 1: If you'll remember, we had to stay the night afterwards.

508
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:42,040
Speaker 1: We stayed the night afterwards. I was Mike Vrabel for

509
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 1: the Mike Vrabel TV show We Take We recorded that

510
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 1: they're in the stadium, and then we went to the

511
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:51,040
Speaker 1: Denver airport at three in the morning and slept there

512
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:54,320
Speaker 1: until seven thirty until our flight left. So that was

513
00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 1: how we started it started it off. But when we

514
00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:59,560
Speaker 1: got to the stadium, that was their first time at it.

515
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 1: They had no clue how things are going to work.

516
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 1: Remember they had that Hogwarts hologram that you had to

517
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,639
Speaker 1: try to get on your phone to be able to

518
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 1: get in. You couldn't do it. And plus there's no

519
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 1: Wi Fi set up outside, And I mean it was

520
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 1: Mike Keith's the only one that finally worked, got his

521
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 1: to work. Nobody else could. They had to bring somebody

522
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 1: down from the top with Milwaukee talkies and all of that.

523
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,159
Speaker 1: And then and then they were taking We had the

524
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 1: NFL officials were there trying to get in. They couldn't

525
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 1: get in. They had the hand health thermometer and the

526
00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 1: first thing they did stick that tormometer on Mike Key's

527
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,560
Speaker 1: head and go on all three point three. Well, we

528
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:38,880
Speaker 1: knew rough days from the end, okay, So I mean

529
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 1: we were just going with the flow and making it work. Man.

530
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 1: We were definitely making it working. You know who else

531
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 1: makes it work. The people at Farm Bureau Health Plans

532
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:51,320
Speaker 1: looked the folks at Farm Bureau Health Plans. When you

533
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 1: need someone who understands the ex's nose of healthcare coverage.

534
00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:59,480
Speaker 1: They've been protecting Tennessee and since nineteen forty seven. We

535
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,400
Speaker 1: have to talk about the travel experience a little bit,

536
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:08,640
Speaker 1: because I have never laughed so hard while traveling. Just

537
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:12,679
Speaker 1: every single week there was something hilarious that happened planes, trains,

538
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 1: and automobiles. It took us to get to some of

539
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 1: these places, and it was always pure comedy, just all

540
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,439
Speaker 1: of us piling into some sort of weird van that

541
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:25,640
Speaker 1: Mike Keith was driving trying to get to a strange destination.

542
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:28,439
Speaker 1: We had to find food. We had to feed ourselves,

543
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 1: which when you're on the team plane you don't really

544
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 1: think about food because it's just around. Now. We had

545
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 1: to find a way to feed ourselves like adults, and

546
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,879
Speaker 1: that was strange. What are some of the stories that

547
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 1: come to your guys's mind when you're thinking about our

548
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:45,680
Speaker 1: travel experience. Let me go first already did Denver was

549
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 1: the best. Denver was the best because they had no

550
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,399
Speaker 1: idea what they were doing. You know. The lady just

551
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,600
Speaker 1: said go on, go on, and we got in there

552
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 1: and then the lady that was doing the temperature started

553
00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 1: screaming out everybody's temperature, and the lady with Milwaukee talk,

554
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 1: He told her, no, you can't say that. She thought

555
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 1: she said said it louder, so she screamed it louder.

556
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 1: It was one of the best I have ever And

557
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 1: then Amy, you and I we got on that freight

558
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 1: elevator because we had no idea where we were going.

559
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 1: There was a worker there at the stadium, the gun

560
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:20,400
Speaker 1: on with us. He said, where are you going? Three?

561
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 1: And he said, good, shut that huge door. He went

562
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 1: up first stop he got off. We said is this three?

563
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 1: He said no and just left. So we had where

564
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,680
Speaker 1: we were, where we were going, anything that was going on.

565
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 1: My next favorite was when we went to Green Bay

566
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 1: and Mike Keith displayed his Arctic driving skills, which was

567
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 1: absolutely outstanding. It was snowing, it was slick, and I

568
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 1: mean he was he was masterful, turned into the spin,

569
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 1: did everything right. And then I looked over down there

570
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 1: and you know you're in a cold place. When the

571
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 1: rent car has a gear that says snow on it,

572
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 1: I said, how about we try this. Let's put this

573
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 1: on him in it. We had so much, I mean,

574
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 1: there were so many things things that went on that

575
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 1: we did, but you are right about one thing. Amy

576
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 1: everybody in this group enjoys being around each other so much.

577
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 1: We made it work because some of those nights we'd

578
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 1: had to spend the night, those were four o'clock wake

579
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 1: ups the next morning, you know, to go catch a

580
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 1: flight because everybody had to get back and because everybody

581
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 1: has jobs at our time sensitive you know, on a

582
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: Monday to get back. But it was all worth it.

583
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 1: But some of the stories that we went through, I mean,

584
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: it was absolutely great. I wanted to go first, go

585
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 1: somebody else. All right, I'll pick up because in Houston,

586
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 1: we we fly into Hobby on Southwest and we go

587
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 1: to pick up We go to pick up our rental

588
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 1: car that Mike Keith has booked. But when Mike Keith,

589
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 1: when Mike Keith goes in to pick up the rental car,

590
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 1: they had booked him at at Bush Airport instead of

591
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 1: Abby and so there was a problem getting the rental

592
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 1: car right off the bat. So you know, a forty

593
00:29:57,560 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: minute delay ensues while they try to figure out if

594
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: they can of him a van. We finally pile into

595
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 1: this van and we're heading to downtown to go check

596
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 1: into our hotel and Mike Keith gets a phone call

597
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: that one of the workers that the enterprise there had

598
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 1: had left his cell phone in and wanted us to

599
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 1: bring it back to him. And so, you know, there

600
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:20,239
Speaker 1: were those kinds of stories, and then you know, as

601
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 1: Coach mc mentioned, they are the kinds of stories where

602
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:25,560
Speaker 1: you kind of entertain yourself. And so we go into

603
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: Denver and one of the security guards that we met

604
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 1: was really really nice, and she points us toward the

605
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 1: locker room. We go get our equipment, and on the

606
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: way back to take the equipment upstairs, security guard says, oh,

607
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:44,480
Speaker 1: I forgot to take your temperature, and so oh yeah, yeah,

608
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 1: and so we take her temperature and we look around him.

609
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 1: We realized that Philip Noel is still on the locker room.

610
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 1: We don't really know why, but he's going to come

611
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 1: by in a few seconds, and so I saved the

612
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:55,760
Speaker 1: security guard. I said, hey, when our guy comes by,

613
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,720
Speaker 1: tell him he's got like one hundred and two fever

614
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 1: and just see what happens. And so we walk on

615
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 1: and here comes Phil. But we didn't know at the

616
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: time was that Phil had had had nicely asked the

617
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 1: equipment staff for some for some cool um a new

618
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 1: era face masks, and had gotten him for the entire crew.

619
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 1: But when he comes by, the security guards takes his

620
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 1: temperature and we see him from about fifty feet away

621
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: and she says, I'm sorry, sir, you have a fever.

622
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 1: And Phil's first response is to take off his hat

623
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 1: and rub his forehead like that's going to change anything.

624
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 1: So so we goofed on him for a pretty good

625
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 1: bit of the rest of the trip. But uh, you know,

626
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 1: sometimes you just have to have fun and uh, you know,

627
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 1: make make the make light of a kind of a

628
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 1: an awkward situation. You know, there are so there's a

629
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 1: great examples of how fun it was in an awkward time.

630
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 1: And I think what I enjoyed as much as anything

631
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 1: was just the places that we found to eat and

632
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 1: the meals that we shared together. And in Houston, h

633
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 1: what was the name of the place, Coach Mack name fus, Yeah,

634
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 1: Mama name futs and at some of the best tex

635
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 1: meximent food I've ever had period. The seafood that we

636
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 1: had in our hotel after the game. In the Baltimore game,

637
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 1: I guess it was mos u we had. We had

638
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 1: some really good food in some spots, and then there

639
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 1: was some places where we didn't have fine dining. And

640
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,479
Speaker 1: you know, that was the games. We chose to drive

641
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 1: if it's in short proximity. We did that on the

642
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 1: Indianapolis trip and on the Cincinnati trip, and so that

643
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 1: resulted didn't hop it off the interstate and going to McDonald's,

644
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: well McDonald's, I can't remember which trip it was, but indeed, Yeah,

645
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: it was indy. Mike Keith had ordered a four or

646
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:49,479
Speaker 1: six piece chicken McNugget and he wanted that, and uh

647
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: and I think he maybe have gotten a shake or

648
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 1: something and weight in his hand. It felt like there was, However,

649
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: many appropriate nuggets were supposed to be in there. When

650
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 1: he opens the lid when we get into rental car,

651
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 1: it's full of pickles. Nothing but pickles. No, no chicken

652
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 1: McNuggets of any kind. He was puzzled, as we all were,

653
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: is that somebody had ordered extra pickles, I guess in

654
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 1: a similar order close to the number of his, and

655
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 1: he got that instead of his chicken nuggets. So he

656
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 1: just sipped on his milkshake mcflurry whatever it was for

657
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 1: the rest of the way. We had a big laugh

658
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 1: about that one in a misplaced order. The best part

659
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 1: about that story is Mike Keith made the mistake of

660
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: telling John Robinson that tale, and to this day he

661
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 1: still asks him about pickles, calls him pickles. There's always

662
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 1: some sort of a Dill pickle reference anytime they speak,

663
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: which oh, just makes me so so happy. It really

664
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 1: really is just so good. And another thing that I

665
00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: don't think people realize is that it sounds like we

666
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: were all over the world during a pandemic, which sounds

667
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:09,440
Speaker 1: a little, you know, questionable. The amount of thought that

668
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 1: we put into doing different things and remaining safe and

669
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 1: keeping ourselves safe and keeping each other safe, whether it's

670
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 1: wearing our masks all the time, even when we were

671
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: in the van driving places, making sure that we kind

672
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:24,879
Speaker 1: of stuck around the hotel. We would eat a lot

673
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 1: of our meals either outside at a restaurant, or we

674
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,239
Speaker 1: would get take out and we'd all sit in the

675
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: lobby of a hotel so we could eat together. It's

676
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: kind of incredible that we were able to travel as

677
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: much as we did, be in so many different places

678
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: and still stay healthy. Amy, let me let me just

679
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 1: say this, and I'm so happy you bring that up,

680
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 1: because that's important to know. When we all knew that

681
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 1: we were this this was going to be our life,

682
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 1: we were going to have to, you know, travel, we

683
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 1: all took it upon ourselves to personally quarantine, you know,

684
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 1: in our in our in our private lives, you know,

685
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: so that so that we would not you know, everybody

686
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 1: was trying it was being safe anyways, a self quarantine

687
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 1: for the pandemic. We were not even different than anybody

688
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,239
Speaker 1: else in the world, but we knew that we had

689
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,719
Speaker 1: to be extra careful. So I mean all of us,

690
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 1: and and we talked about it. I mean all of

691
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 1: us and they and we still have, you know, jobs

692
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 1: to do, but we all understood there's going to take

693
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 1: an extra measure on our part to be able to

694
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 1: stay healthy, not only so that we could be able

695
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: to be present and perform, but that so our other

696
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: people would stay healthy too. And you're one hundred percent right,

697
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,799
Speaker 1: we took a lot of precautions and rightfully so we

698
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: really did. And you know, and and thankfully, by the

699
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 1: grace of God, we all got through this season very

700
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 1: very you know, very very well. And I think it,

701
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 1: I think it we all felt the responsibility to do

702
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:49,719
Speaker 1: it because when the Titans said, we, you know, we

703
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 1: want our radio to be live on the road, and

704
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: then we knew that responsibility to be able to not

705
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 1: only put together a show, but to be present, you know,

706
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 1: personally so it would be a good show. We took

707
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: that upon ourselves and I mean, you know, you know me,

708
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 1: I mean, Coach Mick. In a normal world, I'm downtown

709
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:12,439
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm among the people constantly all the time,

710
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 1: you know, I you know, I'm just so happy to

711
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 1: see all of these Hollywood squares right now. Yeah, so

712
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,800
Speaker 1: to me, to me, that's a big part of it too.

713
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 1: I want to circle back on something you mentioned at

714
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: Coach Titans Radio was one of two teams in the NFL,

715
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 1: the New Orleans Saints me the other that we're able

716
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 1: to do all road games on the road in person

717
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 1: to call the game, not virtually. And I'll say this,

718
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 1: there was another thing that needs to be considered in

719
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:44,280
Speaker 1: terms of if the stars ever aligned in a pandemic.

720
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 1: This was it. The schedule allowed that to happen. And

721
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 1: I'll give you a couple of examples. We didn't have

722
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:52,879
Speaker 1: to play either of the Los Angeles teams. We would

723
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:54,800
Speaker 1: not have been able to do that. We would have

724
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:58,479
Speaker 1: had to have a self quarantine upon arrival and would

725
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:00,840
Speaker 1: not have even tried to do that game on site.

726
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 1: Same thing with either of the New York teams. But

727
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 1: I'll give you an example. Had had somebody that was

728
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 1: on our schedule, had we played Baltimore a month earlier,

729
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 1: we wouldn't have been able to do that because they

730
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: still had restrictions on travel and I think a fourteen

731
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 1: day quarantine if you were coming from out of state.

732
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:20,359
Speaker 1: So those things played in that favor heavily. We were

733
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 1: very fortunate with the way the schedule worked out and

734
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 1: that we could drive to two of them. We knew

735
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 1: we could do Indy, but having Cincinnati on there, there

736
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 1: was another road game where we didn't have to fly

737
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: and go through the other things, we could actually drive

738
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 1: to the location. Yeah, and if the Denver thing taught

739
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 1: us anything it was that, you know, you could get

740
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 1: to the door of a stadium and not make it in.

741
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 1: And frankly, that kept me awake at night thinking about

742
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:50,279
Speaker 1: what if our broadcast team gets to the entrance and

743
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,400
Speaker 1: we get you know, our temperature taken, and somebody's popped

744
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 1: a fever overnight and we can't get Mike Keith in

745
00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,359
Speaker 1: the building to call the ball game, or we can't

746
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 1: get you know whatever part of our broadcast, and then

747
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 1: you're really having to adjust because none of us, none

748
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,280
Speaker 1: of us wanted to be patient zero for Titans Radio.

749
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:10,759
Speaker 1: You know, like none of us wanted to be the

750
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 1: one to walk in the booth and you know, get

751
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,319
Speaker 1: Mike Keith or coach mac or somebody sick and all

752
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:17,839
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you know, you're talking about going from

753
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 1: a situation where you know, the listener listening to our

754
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:22,920
Speaker 1: broadcast really can't tell much of a difference, even though

755
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 1: we've really had to change a lot of things to

756
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 1: now there's a noticeable difference because there's a really noticeable

757
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 1: missing piece. So none of us wanted to be that

758
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:35,840
Speaker 1: so we very much took it seriously both at home

759
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,400
Speaker 1: and on the road. I mean, we we had glass

760
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:41,960
Speaker 1: dividers at Nissan Stadium that we would put up between

761
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 1: us and you know, when we would have guests come

762
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 1: in the room, we basically had like a like a

763
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,919
Speaker 1: glass box for them to stand in so that they

764
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 1: and again it wasn't so much that, you know, for

765
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 1: us to feel comfortable, but if we had someone come

766
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 1: in the booth that we've been standing in for four hours,

767
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 1: we want them to feel comfortable because we're still trying

768
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 1: to put on a good broadcast and tell as many

769
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 1: stories as we can. And so when you when you

770
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 1: put that invite out to somebody, you want to make

771
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,239
Speaker 1: sure that when they come into your world that you're

772
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: being respectful and you know, and caring of their health

773
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 1: and will be yep, down to the way that we

774
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,359
Speaker 1: sat on planes. All of it was intentional and it

775
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 1: was all to try and keep everybody safe so that

776
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 1: we could continue on and finish out the season. There

777
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 1: is a story that I feel like we need to

778
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: address before we wrapped this whole thing up, and that

779
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 1: is the genesis of the Mary Tyler Moore video. That

780
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 1: thing that it really just blew my mind how much

781
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 1: of a response it got on social media. And I

782
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 1: don't even feel like I should be the person to

783
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 1: tell this story because mainly I was a prop in

784
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: the whole thing. This was not my idea. So tell

785
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:55,399
Speaker 1: the story, guys, of how this video came to be. Well,

786
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 1: let me just let me start with it. You know

787
00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 1: how much I like to tell stories. Let me just

788
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:01,879
Speaker 1: let me just start with it and say this. It

789
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:05,399
Speaker 1: was brilliant. It was It was clearly Mary Tyler Moore.

790
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:06,920
Speaker 1: For all of our listeners that are a little young

791
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 1: and don't know Mary Tyler Moore show, you know, she

792
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:11,800
Speaker 1: was a she was a she was a woman, a

793
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:15,320
Speaker 1: professional woman in Minnesota. So after we beat the Vikings,

794
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:17,319
Speaker 1: we're all feeling pretty good and we're having to walk

795
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 1: back to our car, which we have to walk about

796
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 1: seven city blocks to get to our parking space. And

797
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 1: so it starts with Mike Keith and I said, of course,

798
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:31,839
Speaker 1: I'm always trying to get Amy to do stuff. And

799
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 1: I said, Amy, you need to beat the Mary Tyler

800
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 1: Moore you need to Mary. Amy went what and full disclosure,

801
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 1: Amy's Amy's always up. Amy's always up for a gig,

802
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 1: and I said, She said well, and then Brad Willis

803
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 1: took it and ran with it. All right, take it off,

804
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 1: take it over, Brad. It'd been a while since I

805
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:52,759
Speaker 1: had seen Mary Tyler Moore show, but when Mike mentioned it,

806
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:55,239
Speaker 1: I thought, yeah, I remember, I remember her kind of

807
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:57,240
Speaker 1: being in the city and kind of throwing the beret

808
00:40:57,360 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 1: up in the air. So I pull out my phone,

809
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 1: I go to YouTube and I look at the Mary

810
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 1: Tyler Moore open and after watching it, I'm like, yeah,

811
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 1: we could shoot that. I wouldn't take you know, ten seconds.

812
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 1: So we so we have Amy kind of walk the

813
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:15,359
Speaker 1: sidewalk from US Bank Stadium where you can see the bank,

814
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 1: you know, the stadium in the background. She looks both

815
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 1: ways before crossing the street. She's very responsible and as

816
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: she comes over under the sidewalk on our side of

817
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: the street, has a twirl, takes off her titan's hat

818
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:27,720
Speaker 1: and throws it up in the air, just like Mary

819
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: Tyler Moore. And so we shoot the video and then

820
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:31,879
Speaker 1: we get in the van and we start back towards

821
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 1: the airport because that was one of the few games

822
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 1: where we were able to like go directly to the

823
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:38,799
Speaker 1: airport after the game and catch a flight that night.

824
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:43,680
Speaker 1: And so we're driving along and putting it together and

825
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 1: somebody mentioned, like the Mary Tyler Moore logo at the

826
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 1: end that has like a cat, and it's you know,

827
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:52,759
Speaker 1: to me, it's like where the great ideas come from.

828
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 1: Is just this fun collaborative process. And somebody's like, wouldn't

829
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 1: it be great if the cat like yelled sack. And

830
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 1: I'm like, we could make the cat that, you know,

831
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 1: and so and the next thing, you know, I'm just

832
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:05,280
Speaker 1: in the back of the van by myself, just editing

833
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 1: on my phone and putting together a little video. And

834
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 1: you know, it was one of those things that made

835
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 1: me laugh. And we passed, you know, the phone around

836
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 1: the car and say what you think, and everybody got

837
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,319
Speaker 1: to get kick out of it. And so we shared

838
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:18,919
Speaker 1: it on social media, and to Amy's point, it really

839
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: took off, you know, even more so than I thought

840
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:24,440
Speaker 1: it would. And for the people who you know, stuck

841
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 1: around to the end and got the little cat yelling

842
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:29,320
Speaker 1: sack and the voice of Mike Keith, it was a

843
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: nice little Easter egg for him. And it was cool

844
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:33,920
Speaker 1: because at that point the Titans were three and oz

845
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 1: and it was a start of what would end up

846
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,880
Speaker 1: being a really, really fun season. And that was the

847
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 1: last game before the Titans having the first COVID outbreak

848
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 1: in the National Football League, which was incredible and trying,

849
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:52,399
Speaker 1: and we might share a story on that, but that video,

850
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 1: and that was one of the games I had to

851
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 1: be back here at home base. But Amy, you saw

852
00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: what Mary Tyler Moore did. You nailed it one hund

853
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 1: you that one tape one okay, perfect, and then and

854
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,520
Speaker 1: then I knew when Brad had it in his hands,

855
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is going to be fantastic. And then

856
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:13,320
Speaker 1: you're right, there's at the end. For everybody listening to

857
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 1: OGP that is not of the age that knows this,

858
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 1: but if you've ever seen in the movies, it's the

859
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 1: equivalent of the Metro Goldwyn mayor lyon that roars before

860
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 1: and after the credits of a movie, which, by the way,

861
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 1: that lion was Leo, the lion from the Memphis Zoo

862
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 1: for many years Hollywood famous. Anyway, So they made Merry

863
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 1: Time the morning it's this little kitten and then so

864
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 1: I waited for it, and then I heard sah. I'm like,

865
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 1: this is fantastic. I don't know what the linked was

866
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:41,400
Speaker 1: on that video, but it's some of the best. However,

867
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 1: many seconds says that uh was that you'll ever see

868
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 1: on Titan's radio Twitter feed. It was fantastic. I was

869
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:51,719
Speaker 1: thoroughly impressed. Disappointed that I wasn't a part of it

870
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:54,400
Speaker 1: because I wasn't there, but man, that I enjoy it

871
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 1: when I saw it. You were, you were there in spirit.

872
00:43:57,239 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right, And Brad's right. When he started

873
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 1: doing that and he was editing it and doing it

874
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:05,840
Speaker 1: and he would give the different versions, we all laughed

875
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 1: harder every version that it was. It was beautiful, it

876
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 1: was and it really was kind of our last little

877
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: nugget before we got to what the Titans coaches and

878
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 1: players referred to as Hell Week. When the Titans were

879
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:26,000
Speaker 1: going through that COVID outbreak and everything that happened. Seeing

880
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 1: what was happening to the Titans in that time, did

881
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:31,319
Speaker 1: you think that there was a chance that we would

882
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:34,040
Speaker 1: end up going back on the road, let alone finishing

883
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:38,479
Speaker 1: out the season. I'll go first on this. I think

884
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 1: we everybody shares the same opinion of an unprecedented year

885
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:45,400
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty where anything is possible Murphy's Law style.

886
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, this, this has been fun. We've

887
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,879
Speaker 1: made it through a month of the season, but this

888
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:53,800
Speaker 1: is where the rubber meets throwed and I'm like, I

889
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:55,839
Speaker 1: don't know how they do this. I don't know what

890
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,880
Speaker 1: they do. And just to go behind the curtain with

891
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 1: what we were doing here, we are just like everybody else,

892
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:05,399
Speaker 1: waiting to see when do they have the successive days

893
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:08,760
Speaker 1: of negative tests? Oh, another player has come up, another

894
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:13,319
Speaker 1: coach or another personnel person. And I think it ended

895
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 1: up being sixteen days till they played again against the

896
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,799
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, and that was well, it's going to be

897
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 1: a Saturday, next Saturday proposition, or it's going to be

898
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:24,239
Speaker 1: a Sunday night. Now it's a Monday night. No, it's

899
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:28,239
Speaker 1: a Tuesday afternoon with a five o'clock kickoff, which was

900
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 1: just unbel you know, we've Titans Radio is broadcasted on

901
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 1: every day of the week except for a Wednesday game,

902
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: as Mac always brings up. That was a nightmare for

903
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:41,839
Speaker 1: all of us because we were trying to figure out,

904
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 1: you know, as you mentioned earlier in this OTP, trying

905
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 1: to I'm trying to put together pre game. I'm trying

906
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 1: to make sure everything's there, the new commercials or there whatever,

907
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:52,760
Speaker 1: and we're like, when do we play? When do we play?

908
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 1: And I was just so relieved that, you know, they

909
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 1: finally got that game in they beat them off of

910
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills and one of the better teams in

911
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:05,960
Speaker 1: the league on short notice, and then one another game

912
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 1: five days later in this thing to start five and zero.

913
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 1: And I think the other part of it is just

914
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 1: knowing the firestorm of criticism that other players and other

915
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:19,520
Speaker 1: folks and just people around the league. We'll look at

916
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:21,920
Speaker 1: how stupid the Titans were. They've been careless, this, that

917
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:26,760
Speaker 1: and the other. And knowing the whole time from talking

918
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 1: to coach Rabel and John Robinson during production meetings, this

919
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 1: was just something that happened. It happened because it happened.

920
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:36,120
Speaker 1: It's a pandemic. It wasn't because people were stupid and

921
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:39,800
Speaker 1: careless and doing whatever. And finally when that came out

922
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:42,719
Speaker 1: and other teams had their own issues with it, that

923
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 1: kind of went away. And I was glad to see

924
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:49,200
Speaker 1: the Titans organization kind of restore themselves in that part

925
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:51,480
Speaker 1: of it, because it's like, look, don't be throwing stones

926
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 1: at the class house you live in one two And

927
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 1: that's kind of what happened. Well, let me just say this,

928
00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 1: the coaching me which it will never leave, but they

929
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 1: were able to do those coaches and players and pull

930
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 1: through that and sixteen days with two walkthroughs and to

931
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:07,759
Speaker 1: beat Buffalo and then five days later went another one.

932
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,400
Speaker 1: That was a massive turning point in that season to me,

933
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:13,600
Speaker 1: because then they knew they could do anything. And that

934
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 1: was and that's one hundred percent right. The Titans absolutely

935
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 1: did nothing wrong with that. The only thing that happened

936
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 1: was it was a pandemic. But the way the organization

937
00:47:22,719 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 1: came through it, for them, for us, for all. It

938
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:28,600
Speaker 1: couldn't have been prouder to being a part of that. Yeah,

939
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:31,440
Speaker 1: And I remember thinking at the time, and it might

940
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 1: seem dramatic or even silly now that you know, the

941
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:36,040
Speaker 1: entire season has been played and it was played on

942
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 1: time and the Super Bowl was played on time. But

943
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 1: I remember thinking in that moment, if this starts to

944
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 1: happen all over the league, are we going to be

945
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:45,440
Speaker 1: able to finish this season? And that was, you know,

946
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: a moment where you know, when you're talking about the

947
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:51,319
Speaker 1: layoff that the Titans had to endure just to you know,

948
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:54,440
Speaker 1: wait for no positive tests and then start to you

949
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:56,560
Speaker 1: really started to wonder, like, if this starts to happen

950
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:58,879
Speaker 1: all over the league at the same time, then how

951
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,640
Speaker 1: do they do it? And seen so many you know,

952
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:05,320
Speaker 1: other sports just pack it up and have to abandon

953
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:07,799
Speaker 1: their entire plan, and you really kind of wondered in

954
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 1: that moment, you know where we headed down that path.

955
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 1: And they did such a great job of just being

956
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:18,800
Speaker 1: flexible and being able to rework the schedule just enough

957
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 1: to where you know, you're able to push back the

958
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh game, go ahead and take your bye week a

959
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:26,239
Speaker 1: week early, you know, push the Buffalo game back to

960
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 1: a Tuesday, and and and continue on. So impressive what

961
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 1: the Titans were able to do because, as coach Mack said,

962
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:37,640
Speaker 1: that very easily could have derailed their entire season. You know,

963
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:39,399
Speaker 1: you come out with a couple of games there where

964
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:42,759
Speaker 1: you falter because you're just not able to operate the

965
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 1: way that you would like to, and your season could

966
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 1: end in a totally different fashion. For them to come

967
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:51,800
Speaker 1: out and just beat the brakes off of Buffalo and

968
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 1: really kind of established themselves as as a player for

969
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: the rest of the season, really set the stage for

970
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 1: what was to come, because you know, when we when

971
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:04,520
Speaker 1: we initially got the schedule, you know, we had no preseason,

972
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:06,279
Speaker 1: so when you talk about a broadcast, we had no

973
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:08,960
Speaker 1: world warm up to our regular season. And then you're

974
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:10,719
Speaker 1: looking at the bye week, which was kind of in

975
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:13,439
Speaker 1: the middle after a long stretch of home games. Well,

976
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 1: now the bye week is in week four, and you

977
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 1: just really kind of wonder, like, you know, where does

978
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 1: the football team need that bye week just to stay healthy?

979
00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:25,360
Speaker 1: And coach Mac can probably speak to that better than anybody.

980
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 1: I mean, you've got to use that bye week, and

981
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:29,359
Speaker 1: if it's late in the year sometimes it's a really

982
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:32,400
Speaker 1: good opportunity to get healed up and get a banged

983
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 1: up football team geared up for the you know, the

984
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:37,560
Speaker 1: playoff run to have that bye week in week four,

985
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:41,280
Speaker 1: you know, it really challenges you. And I really thought

986
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:43,799
Speaker 1: that the Titans as an organization did a great job

987
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 1: of not just coming back off of the layoff, but really,

988
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:50,080
Speaker 1: you know, riding that all the way through the end

989
00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:53,040
Speaker 1: of the season, because there's no doubt that by the

990
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 1: you know, bye week seventeen, they were a beat up

991
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:59,280
Speaker 1: football team, and you know to a large degree because

992
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 1: they're there were no breaks from Week three all the

993
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 1: way on till the end. Yeah, which is crazy to

994
00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:08,360
Speaker 1: ask of players and coaches and also staff and everybody

995
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:12,120
Speaker 1: who's involved. It was quite the stretch. Guys. We could

996
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:14,880
Speaker 1: do this forever. We could really just sit and chat

997
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:19,080
Speaker 1: and remember the year that was. It was such a

998
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:21,719
Speaker 1: wild ride. I'm gonna let you go, but before I do,

999
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 1: for every single person, I want to know, what are

1000
00:50:24,719 --> 00:50:28,280
Speaker 1: you the most proud of in the twenty twenty season

1001
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: and what Titans Radio was able to accomplish. Yeah. For me,

1002
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:36,760
Speaker 1: it was the fact that the quality and the expectations

1003
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 1: were met at the highest level regardless of what happened.

1004
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:42,920
Speaker 1: That I was so very proud of about it. And

1005
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:45,759
Speaker 1: the other thing, I mean, you really find out, you

1006
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:48,319
Speaker 1: know about the type of people you are surrounded with

1007
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:52,400
Speaker 1: when you go through adversity. And I knew that I

1008
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:55,320
Speaker 1: was with a great group of people before, but after

1009
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:58,439
Speaker 1: everything that we went through and watching how every one

1010
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:02,879
Speaker 1: of you responded to the adversity, and not one time

1011
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:05,799
Speaker 1: did anybody ever bitch and said I just can't do

1012
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:08,799
Speaker 1: this and this is too much. That to me, I

1013
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 1: was so I was so proud of that. That's that's

1014
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:13,160
Speaker 1: why I love being part of Titans Radio and that's

1015
00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:15,400
Speaker 1: why it was so it was emotional for all of

1016
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 1: us talking about that party suite in Houston when they

1017
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:22,560
Speaker 1: won that game and they were the AFC South champions

1018
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:24,680
Speaker 1: and we were going to host a home playoff game.

1019
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:27,319
Speaker 1: To think of everything that we had all gone through

1020
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:30,200
Speaker 1: to get at that point, it was a great feel. Yeah,

1021
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:32,840
Speaker 1: I would agree with that. And I'll add to that

1022
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:36,720
Speaker 1: that you know, we didn't compromise, you know, our level

1023
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:40,560
Speaker 1: that we expected out of ourselves, uh and and I

1024
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 1: felt like we met that challenge. But also, you know,

1025
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:46,840
Speaker 1: to be one of only two teams, two broadcast teams

1026
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:49,759
Speaker 1: in the league that was on site for every game

1027
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:53,040
Speaker 1: and and and really doing that from from a perspective

1028
00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:56,799
Speaker 1: of telling the best story that we can for the

1029
00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:59,799
Speaker 1: Titans radio listeners. I was really really proud that when

1030
00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:02,759
Speaker 1: the season was over and we started asking around and

1031
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:04,640
Speaker 1: you know how many other teams did this. I really

1032
00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:07,279
Speaker 1: thought that we'd end up with somewhere in the neighborhood

1033
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 1: of you know, eight to ten or whatever. And to

1034
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:10,959
Speaker 1: find out that it was just one out of each

1035
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:13,920
Speaker 1: conference and we were the only group out of the AFC,

1036
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 1: I was really proud of that. I was equally as

1037
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 1: proud of that. As stressful as it was at points

1038
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:24,680
Speaker 1: and just trying to get through logistics, I wouldn't have

1039
00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:26,480
Speaker 1: it any other way. I don't know that I want

1040
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:27,880
Speaker 1: to go through it again, but if we have to,

1041
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:31,319
Speaker 1: that's what we have to do, and it's with I

1042
00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:34,600
Speaker 1: echo what both Brad and Coach Max say about our

1043
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:38,400
Speaker 1: group being together as long as we have and able

1044
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:40,839
Speaker 1: to pick up and take slack and help. You know,

1045
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:44,800
Speaker 1: they're fellow broadcast partner out. My whole thing is I

1046
00:52:44,840 --> 00:52:47,960
Speaker 1: didn't want to have any dip in the quality of

1047
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:50,279
Speaker 1: what we do, and I didn't want to let the

1048
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:53,520
Speaker 1: rest of the crew down. I'd hoped I'd done everything

1049
00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:56,799
Speaker 1: I could possibly prep wise to make sure that we

1050
00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:59,640
Speaker 1: could do this, and I think I pulled that part off.

1051
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:03,319
Speaker 1: All the while, as coach Mack said, we saw the

1052
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:06,440
Speaker 1: Titans win their first division in a dozen years. I

1053
00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 1: got to see a second two thousand yard rusher and

1054
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:12,759
Speaker 1: franchise history. And I'm currently peeling through the numbers of

1055
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:15,400
Speaker 1: Dereck Henry in his first five seasons, stacked up against

1056
00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:18,720
Speaker 1: Hall of famers and even the franchise great and Earl Campbell,

1057
00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:22,320
Speaker 1: that George and Chris Johnson. It's an amazing what Dereck

1058
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:25,520
Speaker 1: Henry did in twenty twenty with that offensive line at

1059
00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 1: Arthur Smith's tutelage in that offense, and to be a

1060
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:31,839
Speaker 1: part of that, to watch that very special, well, this

1061
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 1: was this was a wild season and I'm so thankful

1062
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:38,040
Speaker 1: that we were able to do what we were able

1063
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 1: to do and cover all of these games and tell

1064
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:43,080
Speaker 1: all of these stories. Thank you guys so much for

1065
00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:46,799
Speaker 1: being here with me and reliving the magic, whether it

1066
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:52,239
Speaker 1: be sometimes stressful and sometimes hard, but always hilarious and

1067
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. So thank you guys for being here.

1068
00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:58,320
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. And thank you to the OT people

1069
00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:02,200
Speaker 1: who are listening to this episode. We appreciate you as well.

1070
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:06,359
Speaker 1: Please stick around for a lot more OTP coming up

1071
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:08,840
Speaker 1: this offseason. We've got more stories to tell and we

1072
00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 1: want you to be a part of them. So for

1073
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:14,160
Speaker 1: Ret Brian brad Willis coach Mack, I'm Amy Wells and

1074
00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:19,879
Speaker 1: this has been bott where the legends. Everybody knows. It's

1075
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:24,719
Speaker 1: our house fighting thought Tennessee. Making us to re greatness

1076
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:29,080
Speaker 1: is meant to be. As now we got tight and

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Speaker 1: butter running through a vas