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Speaker 1: the Voice of the Chiefs, along with the ten year

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Speaker 1: National Football League veteran Sean Barber aka Barbershop aka the

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Speaker 1: Shop aka the Spider. All right, I'm gonna take you

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Speaker 1: back to your early days in the National Football League.

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Speaker 1: We've got a ton of people, thousands of people that

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Speaker 1: listen to this podcast. There is one dedicated listener. He

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Speaker 1: high school in nineteen ninety nine. So he loved boy bands.

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Speaker 1: But coming into this week twelve bye week for the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: and this has been a interesting eleven weeks of the

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Speaker 1: I'll take it back to training camp because this team

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Speaker 1: At this point, let's talk about the expectations. I was

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Speaker 1: to our goal as an organization. Uh, it's for everybody

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Speaker 1: on this team just to play at their best. And

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Speaker 1: the answer it's a lot of things, and I've seen it.

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Speaker 1: The best things I've seen though, from players or coaches

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Speaker 1: or the two of us. I mean, we've been in

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Speaker 1: this league a long time, is to somehow, what just

436
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Speaker 1: reboot the computer? What reboots your soul, your mind, and

437
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Speaker 1: your heart. Is that a place to go? Is that solitude?

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Speaker 1: Is that an exotic location? Whatever reboots the computer? Do that,

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Speaker 1: and that leads us into the fourth quarter. This Defending

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Speaker 1: the Kingdom podcast are bye bye bye editions that do

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Speaker 1: have their bye week, and that is propulsion now into

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Speaker 1: the future. It's going to be right here as soon

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Speaker 1: as the bye Here are the Raiders. They are the

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Speaker 1: flavor of the month. We'll also be cheering for the Jets, Jets, Jets,

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Speaker 1: Jets this week. We have the Chiefs Kingdom show earlier

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Speaker 1: this week and Weird Wolf was there. I made him

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Speaker 1: be fireman ed, you know, the dude. He's got the

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Speaker 1: fire hat and he's Jets Jets, Jets, Jets. So we'll

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Speaker 1: all cheer for the Jets during this bye week. But

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Speaker 1: now we talk into propulsion to use the bye week,

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Speaker 1: and I've seen teams misuse him. Okay, I've seen teams

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Speaker 1: coaches trying to try to stay locked in and then

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Speaker 1: you start blowing fuses a couple of weeks after the

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Speaker 1: bye particular them, it's this late. Andy Reid is a

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Speaker 1: master at it. Seventeen and three and twenty years as

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Speaker 1: a head coach Barbershop. He is seventeen and three after

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Speaker 1: bye weeks, coaches call him going, dude, what do you do?

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Speaker 1: Because seventeen and three is not an anomaly. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: got to get the kids. And I say kids, you

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Speaker 1: gotta get the young men used to being able to

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Speaker 1: turn on and turn off the switch. And I think

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Speaker 1: that Andy does a great job even during training camp

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Speaker 1: when there are some circumstances that you can't control, whether

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Speaker 1: it's whether or whether it's field conditions, where you need

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Speaker 1: to just tell the team, hey, we're gonna shut it down.

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Speaker 1: It's unplanned, but we're gonna shut it down. Maybe you

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Speaker 1: can give you an extra day off and then guess what,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna cut it back on in two days. And

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Speaker 1: he expects the guys to handle like men because he

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Speaker 1: needs them to understand and be able to do what

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Speaker 1: you just said, be able to cut the engine off

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Speaker 1: and then in forty eight hours seventy two hours reboot

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Speaker 1: that engine started back up and be ready to go

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Speaker 1: full speed and not miss a beat. You gotta do

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Speaker 1: that during the practice. You gotta do that weekend and

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Speaker 1: week out. We did it one time after the Thursday

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Speaker 1: night game. Some teams come after Thursday night game and

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Speaker 1: they practice over the weekend. But but now that Andy

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Speaker 1: gave him the days off and say I'll see y'all

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Speaker 1: on Tuesday like a normal off off week, and he

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Speaker 1: was able to kind of get that that bye week

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Speaker 1: feel and in a condensed version before we actually got

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Speaker 1: to the bye week. So guys, able to do exactly

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Speaker 1: what their coach, Hey, get away and football. Don't think

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Speaker 1: about it. Hey, you know if you'd be having to

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Speaker 1: get up cut on that Raiders Jets game, get a

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Speaker 1: little intail if you want to like get you know,

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Speaker 1: get a little preview of whom we about to see,

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Speaker 1: um before we actually put our game plan, and definitely

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Speaker 1: do that. But besides that, man, like you said, Man,

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Speaker 1: this just come in renewed rejoice. UM, this coming very

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Speaker 1: appreciative and um and so blessed the fact that you're

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Speaker 1: able to play this game and be a part of

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Speaker 1: such a great organization. I think that's that's the one

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Speaker 1: of the keys Andy. He makes guys really appreciate, um,

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Speaker 1: their their opportunity to be a part of this organization.

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Speaker 1: So it's not hard to get those guys to buy

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Speaker 1: in and buy in and ready to turn that engine

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Speaker 1: back on. And when he tells them, hey, it's time

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Speaker 1: to put the pedal to the metal, they all respond Yeah.

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Speaker 1: A couple of points. You triggered some thoughts with me too.

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Speaker 1: I've noticed because you're you're on such deadline pressure, uh,

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Speaker 1: whether you're a player or coach or trainer or equipment person,

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Speaker 1: and the and the stuff that we do Monday night

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Speaker 1: means you're gonna get something done for Tuesday. And you

506
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Speaker 1: can get short with UH with counterparts, you can get

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Speaker 1: mad at people, but then when you back off of it,

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Speaker 1: you realize the blessing that it is. Andy always talks

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Speaker 1: about you're only one of thirty two people to do

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Speaker 1: what you do in the world, and that's you lose

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Speaker 1: track of that. I'm sorry because you're just on it.

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Speaker 1: This has to get done winsday to get done, Thursday,

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Speaker 1: to get done Friday. And when you back off, take

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Speaker 1: a long drive or go someplace you're going you know what,

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Speaker 1: I'm blessed. Yeah, And that's a big part of it.

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Speaker 1: The second thing is you know your phone's not working

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Speaker 1: or it's jacked up. I got a man, my problems

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Speaker 1: with my computer. Man, my laptop's jacked up, or my

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Speaker 1: big screen it's out of sink. What's going on? What

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Speaker 1: do they tell you? What's the first thing they tell you?

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Speaker 1: Unplug it, put it back right, that's right, reset it,

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Speaker 1: reset it, just turn it off, plug it back in,

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Speaker 1: turn it back on. Then you're hoping, is it gonna

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Speaker 1: work when you get it back on. Finally, to close

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Speaker 1: at this edition or bye bye bye in sync edition

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Speaker 1: of this Defending the Kingdom podcast brought to you by

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Speaker 1: three sixty five. Did you have a hard time clicking

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Speaker 1: it back on? I mean, we're all sitting there going

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Speaker 1: we all need to shut down. Did you have a

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Speaker 1: heart time going? Let's fly? Because there is here comes

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Speaker 1: Oakland or Arrowhead National game been flashed to the late

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Speaker 1: game on Sunday, to the three o'clock three twenty game,

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Speaker 1: whatever that's gonna be. But you gotta three ready to go.

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Speaker 1: They shouldn't jog him. When you come back, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to sprint. And I'm gonna tell you this. I

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Speaker 1: had a old school mentality, you know, as I was

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Speaker 1: going through college. In high school football, the guy looked

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Speaker 1: to and guy who I tried to emulate myself as

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Speaker 1: far as conditioning and being in shape was Jerry Rice.

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Speaker 1: Jerry Rice told me that ever since he got to

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Speaker 1: the league, he never took more than two weeks off.

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Speaker 1: Even once the season was over and he was batted

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Speaker 1: up and bruised up, he took exactly two weeks off

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Speaker 1: and then he got right back into his protocol of

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Speaker 1: working out. He never wanted to get out of shape.

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Speaker 1: He always felt like he was building on something and

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Speaker 1: he didn't want to lose his foundation, and so I

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Speaker 1: kind of took that as my mantras. So I mean,

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Speaker 1: throughout my career, even though we had days off, weeks off,

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Speaker 1: by weeks time to let yourself, I always still got

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Speaker 1: myself back to the organization to get some extra treatment,

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Speaker 1: a little bit extra film, just finding ways nuances to

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Speaker 1: make sure I was keeping my edge mentally because I didn't.

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to run the risk of shutting down

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Speaker 1: that engine and it never be and it never shuts

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Speaker 1: back on the same way. So I would tune it

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Speaker 1: down a little bit, uh, conserve a little gas, fill

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Speaker 1: up the gas tank, maybe put a little high premium

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Speaker 1: in this time. But I was always ready to punch

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Speaker 1: that gas tank at a moment's notice. So you could

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Speaker 1: you could tell me we got ten days off, two

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Speaker 1: weeks off, and then you can come back the next

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Speaker 1: morning and say, man, let's go practice, and I'd be

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Speaker 1: just as excited about it, like I just never let

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Speaker 1: that mental edge go. Um. And that's probably why it

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Speaker 1: allows a guy from a one one double a school

567
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Speaker 1: at University Richmond to survive. And I call a survival

568
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Speaker 1: because I had to survive ten years in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: through all the bumps and bruises, the injuries, the two

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Speaker 1: knee ACL surgeries, the neck injections. Uh, all of those

571
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Speaker 1: things were just uh, you know, part of the journey.

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Speaker 1: And I was so blessed and so thankful for every

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Speaker 1: opportunity I had to get out there on the field

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Speaker 1: and compete. Well, they ain't have it. Everybody gets to

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Speaker 1: shut down for a while, but we're ready to. When

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Speaker 1: you're rebooted, it's gonna be up and running. This is

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Speaker 1: our Defending the Kingdom edition. Bye bye bye. Thanks to

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Speaker 1: in Sync for coming out with that in two thousand. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know that as a boy bands, you either love

580
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 1: him or you hate him. You ever notice that people

581
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 1: are like, oh, yeah, I remember that music because it

582
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:14,879
Speaker 1: sticks in your head. You can't can't lose track of it.

583
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 1: And then there's others go, man, I can't listen to that,

584
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 1: but uh it is bye bye bye, and so Barbershop

585
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 1: here we go. Because once we get back and rolling,

586
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 1: here come the Raiders. Yeah, we gotta be ready to roll. Man,

587
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 1: We're gonna turn this thing on heavy and early and often.

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00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,119
Speaker 1: Um but yeah, We're gonna we're gonna ask that the

589
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 1: Chiefs Nation, the Chiefs Kingdom and see if Red just

590
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 1: for one day on Sunday, we can we can let

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00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 1: out maybe at noon a nice j E T s

592
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 1: ches jest Jess here, just let them know, Hey, the

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00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:48,119
Speaker 1: Kingdom loves you from the Midwest. Uh just for just

594
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,159
Speaker 1: for one game. Yeah, we won't like you next year

595
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: because we play here next year. But uh yes, shout

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Speaker 1: out not only the in Sync but the Fireman Edge

597
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 1: swing baby. All right, he's barbershop Sean Barbara, I'm a

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00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 1: Chulter's voice, the Chiefs, Chiefs Kingdom. Take an eggshil, take

599
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 1: a breath. It's the bye week. We'll be with you

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Speaker 1: when we all come back. Thanks for listening to the

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Speaker 1: Chief's official podcast network to touch Down, Loch it down,

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Speaker 1: and the celebration begins to their head