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Speaker 1: Defending the Kingdom is back. And yes, we're in Saint Joseph, Missouri,

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Speaker 1: And here we are just my thirtieth training camp, twelfth

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Speaker 1: and you're talking about pads. The first day of pads

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Speaker 2: We've got Gary. He's in Costa Rica near San Ramon.

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Speaker 2: He'll be in Kansas City with his son for Banner

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Speaker 2: Night for their first ever game at Geha Field that Arrowhead.

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Speaker 3: That's going to be a magical night.

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Speaker 1: talking about camp and the daily ritual rigors of camp.

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Speaker 1: There's on the feel and then there's off the field,

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Speaker 1: so basically just a gloss over it. You get up,

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Speaker 1: you eat right, and they're monitoring you're eating. It's not

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Speaker 1: like eat if I feel like you know they're monitoring

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Speaker 1: who's eating when and what are you eating. Then you

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Speaker 1: get ready for practice. You practice right, sometimes in the heat,

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Speaker 1: the pads are coming on soon. Then you have treatment

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Speaker 1: or you go jump in the like this. You can

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Speaker 1: jump in the cold tub for as long as you can.

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Speaker 1: Then you eat, then you me get a nap. You

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Speaker 1: may get a nap right like a thirty twenty minute

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Speaker 1: don't wake the bear, right, don't poke the bear, hibernation

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Speaker 1: for twenty minutes, because you're going from that to a

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Speaker 1: walkthrough and you're going to basically do what in the

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Speaker 1: old days were the second day of a two a day,

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Speaker 1: and you go through the walkthrough and then you eat

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Speaker 1: and then you meet and you meet and you meet

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Speaker 1: and then you sleep and then you eat. Then you

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Speaker 1: go through the whole routine routine again. But that's very

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Speaker 1: important for these players to get into that routine because

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Speaker 1: that's how you thrive in training camp. And Andy Reid

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Speaker 1: stays on this, but it's the vets will say it.

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Speaker 1: Get in that rhythm.

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Speaker 2: And the Chiefs are unique in that they still go

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Speaker 2: away for camp. I think two thirds of the league

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Speaker 2: just does their camp at the team facility now, which

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Speaker 2: is fine and I'm sure the players enjoy that, but

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Speaker 2: this is really good for team building. It truly is

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Speaker 2: when the whole team comes an hour north. You're not

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Speaker 2: too far away. You can go home if you need to,

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Speaker 2: but you come an hour north and it is all football.

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Speaker 2: It is all about preparation for next season, and you're together,

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Speaker 2: you're going through it all together.

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Speaker 3: There's really an.

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Speaker 2: Element to that right where you're building that cohesion and

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Speaker 2: that bond because you're going through this together.

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Speaker 3: It is not easy.

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Speaker 2: And if you ask any single player about an Andy

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Speaker 2: Reid training camp, it has a reputation around the league

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Speaker 2: for being one of the most difficult camps there is.

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Speaker 2: But there's meaning behind it. He's not putting him through

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Speaker 2: all of this just to do it. There's a real

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Speaker 2: reasoning behind it because it makes this team better. And

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Speaker 2: earlier in the episode, we talked about how the Chiefs

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Speaker 2: are always so good in September. It's because they're ready

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Speaker 2: for this season. If you just treat training camp like

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Speaker 2: it's just another football practice, or I know I'll be

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Speaker 2: ready once Week one rolls around. I don't need to

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Speaker 2: go out there in pads for a third straight day

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Speaker 2: when it's one hundred degrees outside. You might not be

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Speaker 2: ready on Banner Night when the Detroit Lions come to town.

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Speaker 2: I know that the Chiefs will be prepared for that

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Speaker 2: night because of everything they do in this camp. The

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Speaker 2: only issue with training camp is you and I are

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Speaker 2: like adjacent to that schedule, but we're not going out

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Speaker 2: and burning like five thousand calories. So we kind of

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Speaker 2: just eat all the food that's here and play some Xbox,

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Speaker 2: you know, and just in my dorm room.

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Speaker 3: Just go back to college.

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Speaker 1: There'll be some touch football or some basketball games.

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Speaker 2: Right, I played two nights ago. Get some of our

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Speaker 2: interns and I'm sore today.

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Speaker 1: Who doesn't. They'll want to sleep in a cinder block

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Speaker 1: dorm room. That makes you feel like you're in your

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Speaker 1: first semester freshman year again.

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Speaker 3: It brings you back.

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Speaker 1: Come on, man, it's awesome. It's this whole recycling right,

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Speaker 1: It's what you feel like. But it's Missouri. Western State

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Speaker 1: University is awesome here, and so is the city of

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Speaker 1: Saint Joseph have a special thanks to Mosaic and a

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Speaker 1: ticketmaster for making this possible. But now we get ready

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Speaker 1: for it, and I'm not putting them on, but my stomach.

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Speaker 1: I always tweet this out. It'll come out. Check my

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Speaker 1: Twitter feed. It'll be tomorrow dot dot dot pads pads

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Speaker 1: and when pads come on, it's the first time the

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Speaker 1: guys will be in pads since Super Bowl fifty seven. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and some guys elevate and some guys retract, let's be honest.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, and if before we go a few names,

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Speaker 2: I'm excited to watch when they do come on. Richie James,

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Speaker 2: remember the name. Richie James has been really impressive in

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Speaker 2: this camp at wide receiver. Had a breakout year with

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Speaker 2: the Giants last year at over five hundred receiving yards,

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Speaker 2: four touchdowns, almost sixty receptions. He's looked really good through

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Speaker 2: the first few days of camp. Very shifty receiver who

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Speaker 2: can do a lot. Excited to see what he can

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Speaker 2: do with the pads on and Genarrik Prince at running

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Speaker 2: back has been really impressive as well as a pass

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Speaker 2: catcher out of the backfield. Really flashed in a lot

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Speaker 2: of different settings. So excited to see him with the

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Speaker 2: pads on as well.

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Speaker 1: And you know you need everything to win in the

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Speaker 1: National Football League, particularly in the AFC. Richie James might be,

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Speaker 1: might be, might be the answer at punt returner. They've

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Speaker 1: got to figure that out. They don't have that figured

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Speaker 1: out now, nor kick returner. And that'll be over the

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Speaker 1: next month, something that's very big. But remember Richie James.

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Speaker 1: We tackle him in Super Bowl fifty four twice on

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Speaker 1: kickoff returns. But I like him. He's tough. He feels

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Speaker 1: like an Ady Reed Jason Levant kind of guy, ye right,

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Speaker 1: kind of gritty and feisty. But it will be fun

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Speaker 1: because I think he'll get better as the pads go on.

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Speaker 1: So here we are. It's the on ramp. I hope

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Speaker 1: your stomach's turning, because that's the way it ought to

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Speaker 1: be at this time of year. The pads are coming

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Speaker 1: on and this team's getting ready to run it back

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Speaker 1: and try to be the first team in twenty seasons

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Speaker 1: to do so. He's Matt McMullen, senior team reporter. I'm

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Speaker 1: Mitchelta's voice of the Chiefs. We're headed back to the

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Speaker 1: cinder block dorm room. Maybe play some Xbox or run

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Speaker 1: some gassers who knows. Thanks for joining us and join

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Speaker 1: us once again. And hey, we're gonna be streaming live

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Speaker 1: here from camp. We're going a Saturday, Saturday, I believe Saturday, okay,

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Speaker 1: so make sure you latch on for that where we'll

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Speaker 1: be live out here and then we'll have more DT

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Speaker 1: case coming your way. But let's do this, everybody. It's

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Speaker 1: the on ramp to the twenty twenty three season. Touch down,

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Speaker 1: wash it down, and the celebration begin to the ahead