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Speaker 1: Welcome to the OTP at Mike Keith joined by Amy

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Speaker 1: Wells once again. Hello Mike, non football Amy Wells. Right

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Speaker 1: now we're in the throes of the dead period. If

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Speaker 1: you will. I don't even know how to be non football,

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Speaker 1: Amy Wells, but you are with a football player. Later

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Speaker 1: in this show, you will talk with Jarell Casey. Give

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Speaker 1: us a hint. What was good about Jarell Casey that

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Speaker 1: we're going to hear? Why will people want to stay

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Speaker 1: and listen to the OTP with Amy Wells and Jarell Casey.

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Speaker 1: I didn't realize how big of a world traveler Jarrell

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Speaker 1: Casey is. The man has seen some places, He travels

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Speaker 1: a lot. We talked a lot about what he does

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Speaker 1: during the offseason, a little bit about mini camp, what

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Speaker 1: that was like, and we got into his vegan diet

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Speaker 1: and what he actually eats as a vegan. So there's

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Speaker 1: some good stuff in there. Is he a true vegan Pscytian?

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Speaker 1: He eats fish? Yeah, well, that's coming up later in

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Speaker 1: this edition of the OTP. To begin with, I want

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Speaker 1: to take just a moment to talk about John Warden.

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Speaker 1: And I know he's not part of the Titans family,

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Speaker 1: but in essence, Even though most of you probably don't

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Speaker 1: know what he is, he was a tremendous amount of

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Speaker 1: the motivation for how we built Titans Radio at the start,

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Speaker 1: and we being a lot of different people, Larry Stone

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Speaker 1: a name that you know well, Brad Willis now Rhet Brian, myself,

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Speaker 1: a few other people involved. We tried to emulate what

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Speaker 1: he had done with the Vall Radio network, and he

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Speaker 1: was always kind enough to give a lot of advice

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Speaker 1: and talk to me about, you know, a lot of

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Speaker 1: things that we needed to do to be successful. And

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Speaker 1: if you don't know John, if you're new to the area,

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Speaker 1: if you're under thirty five and realistic, I mean I

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Speaker 1: get it. If you're under thirty five, you may not know.

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Speaker 1: But John is a legendary tennesseean. He is a legendary

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Speaker 1: figure based on the fact that not only was he

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Speaker 1: a great football and basketball announcer at the University of Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: but he was also just a fantastic announcer period and

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Speaker 1: was my greatest influence. I had the opportunity to work

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Speaker 1: with him for eleven years. I've often said how it

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Speaker 1: worked in broadcasting for me is whatever John Ward didn't

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Speaker 1: of course, is the current voice of the Balls, But

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Speaker 1: I mean we really lost something with John Ward, somebody

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Speaker 1: who really brought football home in this state and showed

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Speaker 1: me on the front end and encouraged me that the

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Speaker 1: NFL could be a big deal. Because when I'm working

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Speaker 1: number one radio station in town by boss's Bobby Denton,

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Speaker 1: who is just the best, and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: this opportunity comes up to move, but nobody's quite sure

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Speaker 1: how it's going to go. And John said, oh, this

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Speaker 1: how big college football is. Pro football will be big,

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Speaker 1: And once again he was right. I would wager that

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Speaker 1: people who were fans of the Balls and of John

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Speaker 1: Ward and his style of broadcasting get some of that

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Speaker 1: through Mike Keith, and you're broadcasting with the Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 1: I hope they hear some of it. I hope they

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Speaker 1: I've told the story in ninety nine, when we went

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Speaker 1: much I was using his phrases. It was just his

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Speaker 1: Twenty five bucks a game. Wow. But he was a

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Speaker 1: will I will miss him. I had a chance to

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Speaker 1: He always called I think he knew it, yes, but

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Speaker 1: he always called me Keith. That's fair, that's half their well,

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Speaker 1: that's right, but I mean, never Keith. What is Keith doing?

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Speaker 1: And then the famous thing he always did too, And

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Speaker 1: Jeff Harding may remember this. Being on my wall, there

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Speaker 1: was a sign that said ask Keith, he'll know, and

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Speaker 1: How are you doing today? I'm good, I'm good. Thank

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Speaker 1: going to be in the six weeks before training camp. Um,

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Speaker 1: So that's coming up this weekend. That's gonna be pretty big.

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Speaker 1: day long, so I eat that. But my my wife

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Speaker 1: she uh makes these dishes. She make Um, I want

428
00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:22,760
Speaker 1: to make sure I get this right. Um, it's like

429
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Speaker 1: broccoly She like make these bowls, like protein type bowls.

430
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Speaker 1: So it's like broccoli rice. Um, like a chicken or

431
00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,560
Speaker 1: a satan or something some type of protein, or we

432
00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:37,800
Speaker 1: go like beans, a keen water type deal bowls. Um.

433
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Speaker 1: If we're not doing like a bowl, we're doing like

434
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Speaker 1: a taco. Who do still do tacco Tuesdays? Because you

435
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Speaker 1: get the little ground beat saying you get the ground ground,

436
00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:48,480
Speaker 1: the little ground chicken. Um, soy, so that's pretty that's

437
00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:53,200
Speaker 1: pretty neat. Um make them good um soy terriso, um

438
00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:57,440
Speaker 1: breakfast burritos, so you still get everything pretty much the same.

439
00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:00,359
Speaker 1: But um, we try to taco Tuesday days. It is

440
00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,520
Speaker 1: normally Mondays. Okay, they'll go through the week. So Monday

441
00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,359
Speaker 1: is normally like a normal Monday is normally like a

442
00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:08,199
Speaker 1: pasta day, so we do some type of pasta, some

443
00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:11,520
Speaker 1: type of form of that. Tuesday's talk on Tuesday. Wednesday

444
00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:14,240
Speaker 1: is eat out Wednesday, so we normally go to this

445
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Speaker 1: sushi spot called Peters. Was more of an agent spot,

446
00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:21,680
Speaker 1: but I always get sushi. Yeah, oh yeah, real amazing,

447
00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:25,480
Speaker 1: So ben Peters on Wednesdays and then Thursday's normally day night.

448
00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:28,000
Speaker 1: So we hit somewhere on day night Thursday, and then

449
00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:33,000
Speaker 1: Friday just whatever we feel. Wow. So your eating schedule

450
00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:36,080
Speaker 1: is just as regimented as your football schedule. Yeah, pretty much.

451
00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:40,120
Speaker 1: You are consistent to the core. Try try, try, try

452
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:41,479
Speaker 1: to do our best until we get a little bit

453
00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,840
Speaker 1: lazy and then every night become eating out night. So

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Speaker 1: what foods do you miss the most? I think the

455
00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:50,800
Speaker 1: biggest thing I missed the most is actually a good cheeseburger.

456
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Speaker 1: Like it's pretty simple but good, just juicy cheeseburger and

457
00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:57,680
Speaker 1: that cheese, that burger juice just melt in your mouth.

458
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:03,320
Speaker 1: Burger Burger far is amazing. They got a vegan burger

459
00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:05,600
Speaker 1: over there beyond burger tastes just like a burger burger.

460
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,720
Speaker 1: So amazing. But when you walk in there he smelled

461
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:10,560
Speaker 1: a burger. You just want to go grab one. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've had Beyond burgers. They're actually really good. They're beats right,

463
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:22,080
Speaker 1: beat it. Yeah, it doesn't matter. It tastes like meat. Yes,

464
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Speaker 1: I am not vegan. I love all things barbecue and

465
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,800
Speaker 1: meats and delicious things. But I'll eat Beyond burgers like

466
00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:33,960
Speaker 1: it's no big deal. They're delicious nice. So there you go.

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Speaker 1: There you go about to began, I doubt it. I

468
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Speaker 1: want to talk to you a little bit about the

469
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Speaker 1: Casey Fund because I know that that's a huge thing

470
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Speaker 1: in your life, kind of outside of football, and I

471
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:48,679
Speaker 1: know that you guys have gotten involved in just a

472
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Speaker 1: ton of different initiatives that are really really great. So

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Speaker 1: for anyone who doesn't know, tell me about the Casey

474
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Speaker 1: Fund and its purpose. The Casey Fund Me and my

475
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,359
Speaker 1: wife we found it, I wouldn't say a year and

476
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:07,640
Speaker 1: a half ago. We focus on people that's incarcerated, families,

477
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Speaker 1: that's incarcerated, youth, I'm in the community, and just different

478
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Speaker 1: programs that basically helps these these different you know, issues,

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00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:18,960
Speaker 1: And what we basically do is we try to find

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Speaker 1: ways we can gather funds or you know, just knowledge

481
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Speaker 1: and try to go to these different programs and basically

482
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,879
Speaker 1: share where we have with them. And if that's finances,

483
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,320
Speaker 1: that's me going and talking to the kids, that's me

484
00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:32,919
Speaker 1: just going and spending time with them. Whatever it is,

485
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,040
Speaker 1: you're trying to find that time to do it. And

486
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 1: that's what basically with the case of funding, it's simple short,

487
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:41,480
Speaker 1: nothing really too too much about it. You can go

488
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,080
Speaker 1: on our website you can see a little bit of

489
00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 1: what we do. Not website, our Instagram, you can go

490
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,040
Speaker 1: on our Facebook, you can see everything that we do.

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Speaker 1: We just try to find different programs in the inner

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Speaker 1: cities that works with families that's incarcerated and use that's

493
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Speaker 1: basically you know, not necessarily that's struggling or anything like that,

494
00:24:58,119 --> 00:24:59,959
Speaker 1: but that just need a little bit more guidance than

495
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 1: the role model to talk to, that needs somebody to

496
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:04,159
Speaker 1: you know, to come and give them a little uplift.

497
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,400
Speaker 1: And that's what the Casey Phone basically does. Is there

498
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Speaker 1: an organization that you've partnered with that really stood out

499
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:13,400
Speaker 1: to is one that's doing some pretty remarkable work. Um,

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00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,400
Speaker 1: the number one program that we work with the most

501
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 1: has been Project Return that's been the biggest one that

502
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 1: we worked with. And they they've been doing great numbers

503
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:24,400
Speaker 1: all year long. UM. They actually started doing new programs

504
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 1: where they're doing housing. They just bought new new UM projects, UM,

505
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Speaker 1: I believe, right right in UM not East Nashville, UM

506
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:38,120
Speaker 1: Midtown area and they've about they found housing and all

507
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:41,240
Speaker 1: that for amas that's returning home, that's that's looking for

508
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 1: housing that can't you know, go back into the areas.

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Speaker 1: So they've been doing great things. UH work with Project

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Speaker 1: UM not Project Purpose PREP it's UM. My wife's on

511
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Speaker 1: the board of the board of that and we worked

512
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Speaker 1: with them. It's a prep UM academy school down here

513
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Speaker 1: in UH Midtown. Also, UM is this no Metro center

514
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:02,080
Speaker 1: right here down in Metro UM. They've been doing great things.

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00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 1: They've been I believe number if I'm not mistaken, like

516
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:10,679
Speaker 1: top five in the country for academics for for award school.

517
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:12,919
Speaker 1: So they do they're doing great things over there. So

518
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 1: we do a lot of work with them. UM. So

519
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:18,160
Speaker 1: we're just trying to you know, spread it everywhere. Why

520
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 1: why such a wide range of people. I just believe

521
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,639
Speaker 1: everybody needs to help it, no matter what level. It is.

522
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 1: A lot of people like to focus on just really youth. Um, yes,

523
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,120
Speaker 1: you know, the youth is our future and you always

524
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 1: want to guide them no matter what. But at the

525
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 1: end of the day, the the future is it's nothing

526
00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:35,120
Speaker 1: went out the people to guide them. And so that's

527
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:37,679
Speaker 1: why we focus a lot on adults, because when you

528
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 1: start to take these people from the household, you start

529
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:43,359
Speaker 1: taking them from their families, that that gives the kids,

530
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 1: the children les less hope of what the future is

531
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 1: gonna really be. They start to see, Okay, this is

532
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 1: what my parents do, this is this is what they're doing.

533
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 1: Why why don't all follow that footstep? Why is that

534
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 1: not right? And you don't want to you know, you

535
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,200
Speaker 1: want kids to think like it's okay for the kids

536
00:26:58,240 --> 00:26:59,960
Speaker 1: their parents go to jail and nobody gonna care for

537
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:02,400
Speaker 1: You want to know that, Okay, they made a mistake,

538
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 1: but when they come home or whatever, they can still

539
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to guide us and lead our family.

540
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 1: And you want kids to be able to see that

541
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:10,919
Speaker 1: in their parents. Then you want want their parents come

542
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:12,720
Speaker 1: home and when they get home they're still a bad

543
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 1: role model for their kids. You want them to be

544
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,440
Speaker 1: able to come home and set a good example down

545
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 1: like Okay, son, you see me or daughter, you see

546
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 1: me do a bad example, and you see what I

547
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,439
Speaker 1: had to do to pay for my mistake. Now you

548
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,159
Speaker 1: can see me come home and made and see what

549
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:26,440
Speaker 1: I do good and you want to be able to

550
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,160
Speaker 1: getting an opportunity to do that. It's awesome that you're

551
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:33,400
Speaker 1: investing in that way in the Nashville community. While this

552
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 1: is your home for right now, it's not where you're

553
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 1: from originally. Why was it so important for you to

554
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,679
Speaker 1: get involved in the community here in Nashville. The biggest

555
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 1: thing was just really just like you said, being here

556
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,119
Speaker 1: growing up. You know, when you're a kid. Yeah, I

557
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:49,439
Speaker 1: grew up in California, but I didn't really get to

558
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 1: be out there and see it, and I can't really

559
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 1: do much in that aspect. Being here in Nashville growing

560
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:57,360
Speaker 1: up and actually walking through the community, you're seeing it

561
00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 1: actually living here, like you say, and years now, it's

562
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 1: only right for me to be somewhere where I'm actually

563
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:06,720
Speaker 1: involved in where I'm at year around. I don't go

564
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,679
Speaker 1: back and forth to California like I'm here in Nashville.

565
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:10,679
Speaker 1: That's why I'm at. So I'm here. I want to

566
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 1: make sure this community is safe. I want to make

567
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 1: sure at the end of the day, these kids here

568
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,640
Speaker 1: that I see struggling, they have somebody that that's gonna

569
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:18,160
Speaker 1: lead them, that's gonna give them a good role model,

570
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:19,920
Speaker 1: that's gonna show them that there's a better way, and

571
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:21,919
Speaker 1: there's and it's not just about football. You have a

572
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,640
Speaker 1: better way and being anything you want in life. And

573
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 1: that's just you know, that's why I'm mad in this

574
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 1: place and easy and just like anywhere else, when I

575
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 1: get an opportunity to start doing things in California and

576
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 1: finding no programs out there, I'll go back and start

577
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 1: doing that. But here in Nashville, it's a little easier,

578
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 1: you know, to reach out to these communities. And that's

579
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 1: why I'm at So that's why that's why I do

580
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,400
Speaker 1: more here in Nashville. It's Nashville feel like you're permanent home.

581
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 1: For me, Yes, I would love to be here when

582
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: I'm done now that's safe. For the wife, I don't know,

583
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 1: But for me personally, I said, I don't want to leave.

584
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 1: I'll be here. I'll retire Titan hopefully, and I'll be

585
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: here for the rest of my life. If it's a

586
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 1: God's willing. But you know, we see you at the

587
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 1: at the cres. Well, let's not talk about you retiring

588
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 1: just yet. We've got a waste to go. We need

589
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 1: you season, come on, millions of more seasons, millions more season. Yes,

590
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 1: you think you can go for a million more years?

591
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 1: Of course not. I'm going by at least six seven more. Really.

592
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's true. You are still young still. Yeah,

593
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: I like it. Well, Gerald, thank you so much for

594
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 1: taking the time to spend with us. Appreciate you'all having

595
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 1: me today. It was being great. It was fun. Enjoy

596
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 1: all of your travels. And the next time we see

597
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: you will be at training camp. Training camp here will

598
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 1: we come, baby, you're ready for it? Yes? Well that

599
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 1: was good stuff, isn't it. He's an interesting fellow. What

600
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 1: does he weigh? Now? Did he say? He didn't say?

601
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 1: I didn't think he didn't. I'm a lady. I don't

602
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 1: ask those things. We can ask a football player, though,

603
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 1: Oh no, never, Spikey weighs like two seventy five. I

604
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 1: think he weighs more than that. But he he looks great.

605
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 1: He's very slim now, yes, he's very spelt, very spelt

606
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 1: all right? Next week on the TP special guest. Do

607
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 1: you want to tell everybody who it is? It's head

608
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 1: coach Mike Brabel. Mike Vrabel on the OTP. So exciting,

609
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 1: so exciting, It's gonna be fun, Absolutely it will. Can't

610
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: wait to talk to all the fans about him. Great

611
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 1: job on this, hey, thank you. Great job with your

612
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 1: rail Casey thanks to him, thanks to Amy Wells, thanks

613
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 1: to Jeff Harding. I'm Mike Keith coach Mike Rabel on

614
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 1: the OTP next week. Until then, take care, see you later,