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Speaker 1: Mike Keith, and we are glad to have you with us.

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Speaker 1: Another week winding down later in this edition of the OTP,

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Speaker 1: a conversation with Titan's President and CEO Burke Nihill about

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Speaker 1: what's happened over the last three and a half weeks

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Speaker 1: since the stadium deal got approved. It's as if the

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Speaker 1: last three and a half weeks have happened Metro Council

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Speaker 1: till wee hours of the morning on April twenty sixth

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Speaker 1: vote comes through. Stadiums approved, and it's gone a little

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Speaker 1: bit silent. And somebody asked me the other day, they go,

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Speaker 1: the stadium approved? And I was like, it's a good question. No,

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Speaker 1: well no, the stadium's proved. Yeah, it's done. Yeah, why

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Speaker 1: I heard anything? I said, Well, it hasn't been that long.

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Speaker 1: I thought I would hear something. And then somebody else

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Speaker 1: asked me, what when does the stadium finally get approved.

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Speaker 1: It's like, no, No, the stadium's approved. The stadium is

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Speaker 1: going to happen. So we're going to talk to Burke

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Speaker 1: Nyhill about that very thing. And there there was some

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Speaker 1: news today. There's more news coming out. There are more

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Speaker 1: things happening, and I think it's going to ramp up.

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Speaker 1: We'll visit with Burke Nyhill later in this edition of

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Speaker 1: the OTP about the new stadium, which is due in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven.

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Speaker 2: That's very exciting. It is because I think there are

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Speaker 2: a lot of questions, so it's good. We want to

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Speaker 2: help out the OT people.

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Speaker 1: The OT people, we certainly want to help in any

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Speaker 1: way we can. Here's another way we can help. There

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Speaker 1: were a lot of questions about last weekend's rookie mini camp,

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Speaker 1: the tryout players, and some people have asked what happened

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Speaker 1: with Latrelle Bumpus. Latrell Bumpus played defensive line at the

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Speaker 1: University of Tennessee and he was one of the tryout

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Speaker 1: got sick and so unfortunately for Terrell. The only time

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Speaker 1: camp like that, and so that opportunity didn't come about.

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Speaker 1: So many were wondering, how did he look, what did

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Speaker 1: he do?

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Speaker 3: What?

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Speaker 1: He didn't even get to take part because of just

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Speaker 1: wondered how he might have fared.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's again a service we provide here at the

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Speaker 2: otp's clarification. It's unfortunate, but yeah, that sucks for someone who,

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Speaker 2: like you, don't get a shot because of something that's

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Speaker 2: completely out of air too.

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Speaker 1: Apparently a really nice kid to he's from Savannah, Tennessee. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: great part of the world.

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Speaker 4: Well, hope he's feeling better.

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Speaker 1: I hope he's feeling better too. A preseason game at Chicago.

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Speaker 1: It's a noon or on Saturday, August twelfth at Minnesota

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Speaker 1: seven o'clock Central time on August nineteenth against the New

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Speaker 1: England Patriots at Nissan Stadium Friday night, August twenty fifth

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Speaker 1: at seven fifteen. So we have the game times and

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Speaker 1: the dates for the preseason.

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Speaker 2: Are there better parts of the country to be going

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Speaker 2: to in the summertime than Chicago and Minneapolis.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how. Maybe Green Bay.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just beautiful.

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Speaker 1: It's beautiful, and the weather will be probably delightful.

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Speaker 4: Yes, just delightful. And then in Minnesota you're inside anyway,

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Speaker 4: So what you get a rainy evening? Who cares?

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Speaker 1: And so we get to walk to the stadium, which

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Speaker 1: is like two tenths of a mile from where we

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Speaker 4: The Minnesota trip is an underrated trip even if it's cold.

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Speaker 1: But Titans fans, if you get a chance to go

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Speaker 1: to Minnesota, which go in the preseason, well we will

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Speaker 1: have this chance. We play them in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: Now we don't know if it's home or away. In

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. Our set opponents are the AFC East

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Speaker 1: teams Buffalo, Miami, New England, and the New York Jets,

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Speaker 1: and the NFC North teams Chicago, Detroit, Green Bay, and Minnesota. Again,

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Speaker 1: those are the eight games that are set. The seventeenth

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Speaker 1: game will be the NFC East team that has the

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Speaker 1: same division finish as the Titans. So if the Titans

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Speaker 1: win the AFC South this year at Philadelphia, wins the

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Speaker 1: NFC East, then we would go to Philadelphia, Mike.

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Speaker 4: That is a tremendous amount of cold weather games in

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Speaker 1: Tremendous amount of cold weather games in one year.

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Speaker 4: If you see coats on sale, Titans fans, buy them

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Speaker 4: now in preparation for twenty twenty four because we're all

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Speaker 1: All right, something else too. The Titans currently have eighty

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Speaker 1: eight players on the roster. Yes, they can add two

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Speaker 4: Do you have anyone in mind?

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Speaker 1: Well, but let me tell you. It's a little confusing. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so just remember this. I'm going to tell the ot

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Speaker 4: Yes, all right, we've got smart people.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So right now, if you look at a Titans roster,

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Speaker 1: there's eighty nine players on here. One of those players

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Speaker 1: is Tierre Tart, who has not yet signed his tender,

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Speaker 1: Another player currently on the roster is Thomas Odicoya. He

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Speaker 1: ninety Yes, so the Titans will actually be able to

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Speaker 1: carry ninety one into camp. If Odakuoya made the fifty three,

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Speaker 1: So the number that's being listed right now is eighty eight,

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Speaker 1: and it can go to ninety two spots. In reality,

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Speaker 1: it's eighty nine and can go to ninety one, however

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Speaker 1: you look at it. The Titans have two open roster

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Speaker 1: no negative, because Tart doesn't count right now until he

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Speaker 1: signs his tender. Interesting, so the Titans have two spots.

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Speaker 4: That's a good clarification, Mike, I can't try. Yeah, that

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Speaker 1: Working on a couple other things too. First of all,

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Speaker 1: the perfect Father's Day gift for the ultimate Titans fan.

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Speaker 4: Mike Keith, would you like that for Father's Day?

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Speaker 1: That'd be good, that'd be good.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'll pass along.

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Speaker 1: Thanks.

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Speaker 4: Yep, I'm not getting your Father's Day.

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Speaker 1: I didn't say you were.

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Speaker 2: I've got too many Father's Day gifts to be responsible for.

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Speaker 2: But I will pass it along to people who might

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Speaker 2: be looking to get you a Father's Day gift. Thank you, Yep,

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Speaker 2: you're welcome, happy to help.

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Speaker 1: So I was playing with the rosters it as it is, yes,

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Speaker 1: at this point, and was doing the numbers at every position.

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Speaker 1: I've given you a copy of this.

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Speaker 4: I've got it in my hot little hand.

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Speaker 1: I've got it right there.

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Speaker 4: I keep the things you print for me.

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Speaker 1: Mike, Well, and so I did.

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Speaker 3: So.

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Speaker 1: I did the roster, you know, the basic roster, just

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Speaker 2: Mike Keith lays every piece of information that you could

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Speaker 2: ever need throughout the course of a football season out

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Speaker 2: in a way that is incredibly organized and easy to access.

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Speaker 2: And he updates it every fifteen minutes.

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't know about every fifteen minutes, but I

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Speaker 1: try to update it. Jim Wyatt likes it that way

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Speaker 1: I try to do it in a large font too.

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Speaker 4: For Jim Wyatt, well, not just for Jim.

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Speaker 1: Whitatt well, but sometimes if you're like doing a radio

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we always have pages in front of us.

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Speaker 1: Jim's wall looks like it's a It's like a teenage

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Speaker 2: It looks like a monument to you, is what it

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Speaker 2: looks like, because it's all your note wall.

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Speaker 1: You know. I love him.

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Speaker 2: They're very helpful. I'm not making fun of The notes

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Speaker 2: are incredible.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Being on the same team with Jim White

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Speaker 1: the Titans have an equal number of players on offense

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Speaker 1: who didn't sign their tender, the Titans have forty two

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Speaker 1: And some of them can play both corner and safety.

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Speaker 1: And then they have seven outside linebackers, seven inside linebackers

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Speaker 1: and currently nine defensive linemen mm hmm. Offensively sixteen offensive linemen,

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Speaker 1: and again four specialists. Because Caleb Shodack is going to battle.

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Speaker 1: It looks like right now, Trey Wolf the tall kicker.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be the five to seven one hundred

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Speaker 1: and seventy seven pound kicker Shodack against the six four

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Speaker 4: Look kind of funny next to each other.

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Speaker 1: Yes, they will.

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Speaker 1: And then Ryan Stonehouse, who has no competition at punter

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Speaker 1: and Morgan Cox is the long snapper.

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Speaker 4: Ryan Stonehouse has no competition in the league at punter, kids. Good.

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Speaker 1: So there's all this talk about wide receivers. I can't

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Speaker 1: and we know people will just turn this off.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we want to be aware.

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Speaker 1: Aware both times. I mean, we could go through everything

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Speaker 4: That's a different show.

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Speaker 1: wide receivers. On offense, you normally keep twenty five players. Defense,

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Speaker 1: you keep twenty five players, and then you keep three specialists.

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Speaker 1: That's the way you get to your fifty three. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: Get in Get in there and get your seats. A

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Speaker 1: lot of exciting things going on with ticketing for twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three. The fast passes are still out there, the

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Speaker 1: Fireball fast passes, the group seating, which I think is

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Speaker 1: a great thing. Obviously, you can buy a PSL. Jim Rice,

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Speaker 1: the vice president of Ticketing, making us aware. If you

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Speaker 1: buy a PSL now you're going to be able to

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Speaker 1: have that money go towards your PSL in the new

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Speaker 1: stadium which is going to be built. Yeah, twenty twenty seven,

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Speaker 1: it's coming online. Had the pleasure of sitting down with

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Speaker 1: Burke Nyhill, who's the Titans president and CEO, to talk

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Speaker 1: about just that. What sort of led to this point,

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Speaker 1: what has taken us here, and where are we going

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Speaker 1: as we start to really get excited about the new

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Speaker 1: stadium which will be ready for the twenty twenty seven season.

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Speaker 1: Here's my conversation with Titans President and CEO Burke Nyhill

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Speaker 1: on the OTP. Let's talk new stadium with Titans President

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Speaker 1: and CEO Burke Nyhill. I guess we ought to bring

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Speaker 1: everybody up to speed just to start with. So the

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Speaker 1: Titans are going to have a new stadium and enclosed

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Speaker 1: stadium in twenty twenty seven. We know that because Metro

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Speaker 1: als Will approved it about three and a half weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: And so I guess the real question I have that

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Speaker 1: probably a lot of people would be interested to know,

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Speaker 1: is how did we get here?

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Speaker 5: Well, it's been a long journey, Mike. I went back

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Speaker 5: and looked at emails, and the earliest email that I

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Speaker 5: could find that was talking about needing to find a

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Speaker 5: better way forward was sometime in twenty eighteen. So we're

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Speaker 5: coming up on about five years worth of work trying

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Speaker 5: to find that better way forward. The issue started with

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Speaker 5: the fact that Nissan Stadium, as great as it's been

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Speaker 5: as a home for the Titans and other events in Nashville,

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Speaker 5: it's getting a little long in the tooth and there's

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Speaker 5: just there's issues that are very costly to be keeping

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Speaker 5: up in terms of maintaining the building and making sure

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Speaker 5: that it maintains it being a first class facility for

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Speaker 5: the Titans and for other events in Nashville, and the

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Speaker 5: least that governs this current stadium puts all well a

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Speaker 5: good chunk at least of the burden on the Taxpayersville

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Speaker 5: to maintain the building. And so for five years we've

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Speaker 5: been trying to find a better way forward. You know,

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Speaker 5: how can we ultimately remove the taxpayers from that burden

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Speaker 5: while also making sure that the stadium gets the updates

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Speaker 5: that it needs. And we for a long time believe

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Speaker 5: that a renovation was was that right path uh And

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Speaker 5: at some point, after lots of work and consultation, recognized

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Speaker 5: that that probably wasn't the right solution needed, and so

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Speaker 5: about a year and a half ago we transitioned to

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Speaker 5: the possibility of a new stadium and you know, we're

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Speaker 5: grateful that that year and a half is unfolded in

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Speaker 5: a way where we found that better path forward. This

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Speaker 5: is a solution that actually takes the taxpayers out of

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Speaker 5: this risk position that they've been in under this this

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Speaker 5: current lease, and is something that's going to deliver just

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Speaker 5: a beautiful, world class facility for Titans fans and for

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Speaker 5: everyone who comes to that stadium for concerts and soccer

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Speaker 5: games and other just the world's biggest events. Are are

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Speaker 5: very reasonable to be believing we'll be coming to Nashville

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Speaker 5: starting in twenty twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: And let's just say it again, this is happening.

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Speaker 3: It's happening. It's happening.

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Speaker 5: The Sports Authority and Metro City Council both needed to

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Speaker 5: approve the terms of the transaction. Sports Authority approved in

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Speaker 5: early April and the City Council approved in.

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Speaker 3: Late April, So it is a live wire. It is happening.

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Speaker 3: We've got a lot of work.

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Speaker 5: To do, of course, to make sure that we're building

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Speaker 5: the right building and that it's constructed properly and is

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Speaker 5: a building that's going to be durable and flexible to

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Speaker 5: last decades and decades and decades beyond. Twenty twenty seven,

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Speaker 5: but it is happening in twenty twenty seven. Those doors

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Speaker 5: will open for Titans football and other events.

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Speaker 1: So when we saw the renderings that got us all

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Speaker 1: very excited, Manica put those together and gave us some

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Speaker 1: unbelievable concepts. What's next.

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Speaker 5: Let me give you a little frame up of the

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Speaker 5: characters involved here, because this is all relatively new to me,

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Speaker 5: so I'm sure it's new to some of our reviewers

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Speaker 5: here too. So Manica is what's referred to as a

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Speaker 5: design architect. So Manica literally helps design the building. They

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Speaker 5: kind of help vision it, They decide, help us side

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Speaker 5: what are the right spaces and the right proportions of

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Speaker 5: things and the rest of it. And they're doing an

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Speaker 5: incredible job and we're very excited to have them. Next,

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Speaker 5: we actually need to identify an architective record, which we

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Speaker 5: have actually recently done. TVs is going to be the

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Speaker 5: architect of record. The difference between the design architect and

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Speaker 5: an architective record. If the design architect is helping to

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Speaker 5: design and dream the building and kind of initial initially

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Speaker 5: cast it, the architective record is really getting into the

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Speaker 5: nuts and bolts. They're helping actually write the specific plans

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Speaker 5: that are are are what a construction manager will ultimately

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Speaker 5: work off of to build the building. TVs A is

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Speaker 5: a terrific architect. They actually work locally on the Music

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Speaker 5: City Center. They've got incredible re differences from some recent

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Speaker 5: buildings they built in the NFL Mercedes Benz Stadium. Raved

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Speaker 5: about their work, and so we're excited to have TVs

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Speaker 5: on board.

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Speaker 3: And then from there, once.

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Speaker 5: We start working with TVs, they'll put us in a

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Speaker 5: position to actually go and look for a construction manager,

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Speaker 5: a contractor if you will, and we will identify that

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Speaker 5: contractor probably later this summer, and all along the way,

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Speaker 5: whether design architect, architective record, construction manager, they'll be working

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Speaker 5: to find subcontractors to work on the various parts of

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Speaker 5: the project. One part we're really excited about is thinking

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Speaker 5: about how to get local diverse businesses opportunities.

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Speaker 3: To work on this project.

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Speaker 5: We appreciate the projects like this are legacy projects to

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Speaker 5: work on, and so we're trying to find really creative

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Speaker 5: ways to make sure we're maximizing those opportunities across the

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Speaker 5: board for local diverse businesses to work on the stadium

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Speaker 5: project as a whole are.

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Speaker 1: Those decisions the ones that properly take you through the

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Speaker 1: end of the year, or are there other things that

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Speaker 1: need to be done before the end of twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 5: That's that's primarily that will be the focus for now.

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Speaker 5: But to give you a sense, I think by the

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Speaker 5: end of the year, we should be far enough along

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Speaker 5: in the architect process, in the construction manager process such

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Speaker 5: that we would expect that not long after this next

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Speaker 5: football season closes in January February of next year, that

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Speaker 5: we could actually start to put some shovels in the

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Speaker 5: ground and start to actually, you know, be building into

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Speaker 5: those that parking lot to make the new stadium, you know,

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Speaker 5: construction process get underway.

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you about the PSL holder survey, Yes,

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Speaker 1: being talked about. What is the PSL holder survey and

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Speaker 1: what do you hope to accomplish through that?

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Speaker 5: Well, the PSL holder survey, it really is a matter

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Speaker 5: of getting us information. It's it's a series of hypotheticals

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Speaker 5: people who are a lot smarter than than me. Really,

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Speaker 5: it's people who do this for a living, even outside

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Speaker 5: of our building. We've brought in to ask the right

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Speaker 5: series of questions to ultimately get us information about what

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Speaker 5: does the market want to see in a new stadium

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Speaker 5: in terms of seating products. You know, how many, how many,

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Speaker 5: how many seats in a certain area, how many seats

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Speaker 5: of a certain character? You know, frankly, what is what

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Speaker 5: is the appropriate pricing for some of these both from

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Speaker 5: a PSL perspective and an annual season ticket price perspective.

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Speaker 5: This is information that we don't have unless we ask

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Speaker 5: these questions, and we have a general sense on some

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Speaker 5: of it. But we also just needed to make sure

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Speaker 5: that this was really going to happen post city council

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Speaker 5: vote before we went out and really asked this level

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Speaker 5: of questions, so.

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Speaker 3: That there's no confusion.

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Speaker 5: If anyone took this survey, there's really no telling the

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Speaker 5: questions that they would be getting in terms of, you know,

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Speaker 5: the types of offerings that that may be attractive to them,

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Speaker 5: or the pricing on different things. It literally is a

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Speaker 5: scientifically designed survey to create these hypotheticals that will ultimately

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Speaker 5: deliver information for us that we'll be able to take

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Speaker 5: back and look at and start to make some of

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Speaker 5: these decisions about what is the right seating products.

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Speaker 3: You know, how does pricing work? You know, that sort

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Speaker 3: of thing.

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Speaker 5: So we're very interested to get that information back and

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Speaker 5: so we can continue to work towards finalizing the design

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Speaker 5: of the building and thinking about next steps.

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Speaker 1: What's been the most common question that you have gotten

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Speaker 1: from anybody in the last three and a half weeks.

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Speaker 5: I mean, one of them is do I have this right?

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Speaker 5: Is this building actually going to happen now? And so

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Speaker 5: it's a real thrill to say, yes, it is, it's

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Speaker 5: going to happen. We do get a lot of questions

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Speaker 5: from PSL holders about what's next. When would I have

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Speaker 5: an opportunity to purchase a PSL and the new building,

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Speaker 5: what would that process look like? And unfortunately it's still

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Speaker 5: a little bit of an unsatisfying answer, because the answer

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Speaker 5: is we're hard at work figuring that out, and it'll

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Speaker 5: probably be till later this year that we really have

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Speaker 5: a defined process and we know more and can answer

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Speaker 5: those questions.

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Speaker 3: With a level of specificity.

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Speaker 5: Like everything in this process, we've tried to take this

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Speaker 5: mantra of measure twice cut once. We could probably get

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Speaker 5: some answers really quickly, but I'm not sure that the

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Speaker 5: right answers. I'm not sure it's the right plan and

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Speaker 5: so we are taking our time to make sure that

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Speaker 5: we're making the right decisions, we're coming up with the

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Speaker 5: right plans and the right processes. So in response to

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Speaker 5: that question about future building PSLs and what the process

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Speaker 5: looks like, unfortunately need to ask for just some more

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Speaker 5: patients while we continue to make sure that we're doing

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Speaker 5: all the right work to make sure that we get

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Speaker 5: this right.

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Speaker 1: But the enthusiasm is overwhelming. People are so fired up.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, it's I think, you know, we've put out design

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Speaker 5: pictures whatever, probably six or seven months ago, and to

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Speaker 5: start to think about that building being a reality in

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Speaker 5: our city, and for those who understand what this neighborhood

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Speaker 5: around this building will look like potentially, this is just

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Speaker 5: a total paradigm shift. And for whether somebody's lived here

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Speaker 5: for eighty years or has only been here for the

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Speaker 5: last you know, five or six years, just the idea

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Speaker 5: that that little section of town right now that is

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Speaker 5: currently just a sea of asphalt would be transformed into

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Speaker 5: something just so special for this city, for everyone in

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Speaker 5: this city, and that, oh, by the way, there's this

639
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:10,919
Speaker 5: game changing stadium that will be there as well, whether

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Speaker 5: for Titans fans, whether people who don't frankly care about football,

641
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 5: but the things that will come through that building in

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Speaker 5: terms of cultural experiences. I mean, it's clearly not at

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Speaker 5: all too big to be dreaming about Super Bowls and

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Speaker 5: Final Fours, and the idea of those things coming to

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Speaker 5: Nashville is really just exciting. It's I get a lot

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Speaker 5: of smiles and handshakes just looking forward to what's next here.

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Speaker 1: So game changing indeed, all the things that have been

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Speaker 1: going on with the stadium since final passage was reached

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Speaker 1: in the early morning hours of April twenty sixth. Also

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Speaker 1: going on news with the Titans Impact program, One Community,

651
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Speaker 1: if you would explain to people who maybe don't know

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Speaker 1: what one community is and what's been going on lately.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so one Community is something that at the same

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Speaker 5: time time as we were working through, you know, what's

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Speaker 5: the future of the Titans from a stadium facility perspective,

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Speaker 5: we're also you know you've been here, Mike, We've been

657
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:12,280
Speaker 5: changing quite a bit as an organization. Amy Adams drunk

658
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 5: just changed everything about how we think about every aspect

659
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Speaker 5: of our business. And so as we've been getting more

660
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 5: sophisticated on a lot of the things we do, one

661
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 5: of the questions that came up is how do we

662
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Speaker 5: serve our community and how do we make sure that

663
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Speaker 5: we're doing it really, really well. As I think a

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Speaker 5: lot of our fans know, somewhere in this process, we

665
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 5: recast our mission statement to win, serve, entertain, and serve

666
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,840
Speaker 5: drives that that mission statement as much as anything. And

667
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 5: so if we're going to lean into that mission statement,

668
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 5: we should be serving our community with a sophistication and

669
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 5: equality that we are putting to everything that we do,

670
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 5: whether it's you know, on the football team, broadcasting everything

671
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 5: we put this level of thought and sophistication into and

672
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 5: we should be doing the same thing from a community perspective.

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Speaker 5: And so, over the course of months, years, even we

674
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 5: brought in community leaders. Last TALIASA was there were seven

675
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 5: hundred people that were from one part of this community

676
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 5: or another and had usually some sort of leadership position

677
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 5: throughout this community, and we ask them, effectively three questions,

678
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 5: what are the opportunities in this community, what are the

679
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:20,360
Speaker 5: challenges in this community? And where do you see an

680
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 5: organization like ours best able to intersect with those opportunities

681
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 5: and challenges. And through that process we've come up with

682
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:33,320
Speaker 5: an initial effort of sixteen different programs that are all

683
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:37,240
Speaker 5: designed to work with existing programs for the most part,

684
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 5: around around this city or existing organizations around the city,

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Speaker 5: from Metro Schools in Tennessee State to Citizens Bank and

686
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Speaker 5: Nashville Business Incubation Center, rallying around this concept of one community,

687
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:57,359
Speaker 5: one standing for opportunities, networks and education. And we are

688
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Speaker 5: putting the same amount of effort and emphasis into that

689
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 5: program that we put into anything that we do, and

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Speaker 5: we are excited to watch over the next years and

691
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Speaker 5: decades as as that program really does provide tangible differences

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00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 5: throughout our community in opportunities, neighborhoods, and education. We believe

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Speaker 5: that kind of house by house, block by block, neighborhood

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Speaker 5: by neighborhood, the Tennessee Titans have an opportunity, with this

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00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 5: level of strategy and effort and input to really make

696
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Speaker 5: meaningful differences in the lives of people who live in the.

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Speaker 1: City, making it apparent to everyone that the Titans are

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Speaker 1: in it for the long haul in Nashville, part of

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Speaker 1: this community and committed to giving back absolutely.

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Speaker 5: And look, it's it's a really, it's a it's a

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00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:44,879
Speaker 5: it's a it's a range of programs a few of us.

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Speaker 3: Just a couple of days ago.

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Speaker 5: We're at fall Hamilton Elementary School serving Metro Nashville Public schools,

704
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:52,799
Speaker 5: which we've done forever, but we've got a little bit

705
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 5: more of a system behind it now, and fall Hamilton

706
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 5: needed some work around there, around around their outdoors area.

707
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 5: They needed some gardens improved, they wanted some new benches built.

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00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 5: Their education style actually has some stations outside that the

709
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:12,359
Speaker 5: teachers use for very specific reasons, and they were becoming dilapidated,

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Speaker 5: and so you had I don't know, it's probably thirty

711
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 5: or forty Titan staffers that went and spent the morning,

712
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 5: you know, literally getting dirty, helping out Metro public schools.

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Speaker 5: On the other end of the spectrum. One of the

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Speaker 5: quest when we ask those questions of Citizens Bank, you know, opportunities,

715
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 5: challenges we might intersect. They mentioned the fact that they

716
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 5: have small businesses in the community, local businesses, often diverse

717
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 5: businesses who they believe in the leader, they believe in

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00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 5: the business plan, and they're lacking the collateral for Citizens

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Speaker 5: Bank to give a loan to that business without running

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Speaker 5: into some regulatory issues as a bank. And so we're

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Speaker 5: moving two million dollars over to Citizens Bank and partnering

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Speaker 5: with National Business Incubation Center Corner to Corner, a great

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Speaker 5: local business organization, to ultimately put Citizens Bank in a

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Speaker 5: position to give loans to some of those businesses, whether

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Speaker 5: they're just getting off the ground, or whether they're trying

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00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,839
Speaker 5: to go from point B to point C in their

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00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 5: business to get articles in corporation, or to get an

728
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Speaker 5: architect to do work on some building that they.

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Speaker 3: Need to build. With the idea that with the.

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Speaker 5: Titans being involved, with our being able to bring these

731
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Speaker 5: partners together, how can we actually maybe support some of

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Speaker 5: these neighborhoods and and provide opportunities by investing in businesses

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Speaker 5: that are just on the cusp of doing great maybe

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Speaker 5: creating more jobs here locally, and they just need that

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Speaker 5: additional effort, that additional kind of connecting of dots. The

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Speaker 5: Titans are trying to step into that void so that

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Speaker 5: when we look back in ten years, we can actually

738
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Speaker 5: look at these businesses that have thrived and the jobs

739
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Speaker 5: that have been created because we've come together and we've

740
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 5: provided this capital to Citizens Bank, and we've ultimately brought

741
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Speaker 5: this program together to make a meaningful and tangible difference

742
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Speaker 5: in our community.

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Speaker 1: Bert Nowhill. It feels like you're a man with the

744
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:05,400
Speaker 1: wind that you're back you and and a lot of

745
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Speaker 1: people who worked with you push to get this through,

746
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Speaker 1: got it through. This stadium is going to be built,

747
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Speaker 1: and now you have the opportunity to back up what

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Speaker 1: you said during that whole process. It feels like to me,

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Speaker 1: you're almost more excited about the chance to prove that. Oh.

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Speaker 5: I mean, it is personal for me certainly, but I

751
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 5: think it's I think it's contagious throughout our organization.

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00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 3: I when when we came up with.

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Speaker 5: The wind Serve Entertained Mission statement, it was not any

754
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 5: one person. It was it was asking our our staff

755
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:39,720
Speaker 5: and our players and our coaches, what makes it different

756
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 5: to work here? What what gives you a sense of

757
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 5: purpose working here? And as awesome as it is to

758
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Speaker 5: get a business card that says the Titans on it, uh,

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00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:49,400
Speaker 5: it's it's a really it's a really cool opportunity to

760
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,879
Speaker 5: get the opportunity. But at some point the magic can

761
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:55,320
Speaker 5: wear off. It it can get a little bit routine.

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Speaker 5: And one of the things that people said over and

763
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 5: over again, that thing that keeps them invigorated is that

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00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 5: we have this interesting, unique, disproportionate opportunity to make this

765
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 5: community a better place to live. People pay attention to

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00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:10,759
Speaker 5: what we do. We have a very unique platform, and

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00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 5: if we see ourselves as community leaders and in this

768
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 5: city that is built on generosity and optimism, if we

769
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Speaker 5: lead in that way, we feel like we can really

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Speaker 5: move the needle.

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Speaker 3: And it is absolutely a privilege to.

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Speaker 5: Know that we're going to be able to be in

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Speaker 5: this community for thirty years and we can just unleash

774
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 5: one community on our surrounding neighborhoods, in the community at large,

775
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 5: and really start to make a difference in ways that

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00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 5: I think are unique to to really any organization that's

777
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:46,440
Speaker 5: quite like ours. There is this heart for doing this work,

778
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 5: and I am just so I'm excited to watch this

779
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 5: building come out of the ground, no question about it.

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00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 5: I think this is going to be an incredible thing

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00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 5: for this community and for Titans fans. But to your point,

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Speaker 5: I am just as excited to look back, you know,

783
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 5: about the time this building gets done, maybe a few

784
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:05,800
Speaker 5: years after, and say, look with the difference in that house,

785
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 5: look at the difference on that block, look at the

786
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:10,440
Speaker 5: difference in the community's whole.

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Speaker 3: Because the Titans had this level.

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00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 5: Of strategy and effort and initiative to really investing in

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Speaker 5: one community and mean what we.

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Speaker 1: Say, yeah, because what's really exciting is when we tell

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Speaker 1: people that Nissan Stadium would change the arc of Nashville.

792
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 1: To see that come true has meant so much. And

793
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 1: now the opportunity to take it even further with this

794
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:35,760
Speaker 1: new and closed stadium for twenty twenty seven, that's almost

795
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 1: more exciting.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's I mean it really there's a there's kind

797
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:43,279
Speaker 5: of a parallel if you think about where where Nashville

798
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 5: was back in the mid nineties and when the stadium

799
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 5: came online, there was this hope and promise about what

800
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 5: this might means that the community, and clearly Nashville has

801
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 5: has had a really impressive few decades and there is

802
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:01,319
Speaker 5: this natural step up opportunity at this point. And the

803
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 5: way that Nashville is going about bringing this building online,

804
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:07,160
Speaker 5: I mean, it took the collaboration of the state and

805
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 5: the city and private industry to come together to find

806
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:11,880
Speaker 5: a better way forward. That's something I think those of

807
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:14,000
Speaker 5: us who worked on will always be proud of that

808
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:17,879
Speaker 5: there was this sense of optimism and collaboration to find

809
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:20,440
Speaker 5: a better way where everyone is in a better position.

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Speaker 5: But the building that's being designed and the neighborhood that's

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Speaker 5: going to be built around it, This isn't building a

812
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Speaker 5: building that's capable of super Bowls out in the suburbs

813
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 5: somewhere off of a highway. This is something that's going

814
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 5: to be transformational for this community, building a new town

815
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 5: center around this really high character impressive building. Not only

816
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 5: are super Bowls going to be hosted there, but this

817
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:45,440
Speaker 5: is something that this real estate is going to be

818
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:50,400
Speaker 5: enjoyed by generations of Nashvillians for decades. The building itself,

819
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Speaker 5: as you know, we're designing it so that if a

820
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Speaker 5: super Bowls hosted on a Sunday, you know, you can

821
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Speaker 5: have a community event that's a field trip that's being

822
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:01,400
Speaker 5: hosted there in the community center space that we're designing

823
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:02,799
Speaker 5: in this building later that week.

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Speaker 3: So it's yes, it's a big.

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Speaker 5: Step from the nineties when the building was first built

826
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Speaker 5: and the hope has been realized about what it would

827
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Speaker 5: mean to build a stadium in Nashville and have an

828
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Speaker 5: NFL team come to Nashville. But we believe both from

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Speaker 5: a building perspective, this neighborhood around the building, and from

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Speaker 5: a one community program perspective.

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Speaker 3: We're just getting started.

832
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 5: This next step up is going to just be that

833
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 5: much more impactful to this community.

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Speaker 1: It feels like this building is more about Nashville than

835
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:39,799
Speaker 1: what Nissan Stadium was when that building was really about

836
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 1: putting Nashville on the national map, right.

837
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Speaker 5: I mean I wasn't here at the time, but as

838
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:49,240
Speaker 5: I've heard it told, I mean, Nissan Stadium was built

839
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Speaker 5: to get a football team to move from Houston to Nashville,

840
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 5: and it was built to be a football stadium. I

841
00:45:56,600 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 5: don't think Nashville quite understood the opportunities that would come

842
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:03,440
Speaker 5: along with building a football stadium. And I mean, just

843
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:06,360
Speaker 5: a few weekends ago, you know, we had Taylor Swift

844
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 5: and two hundred and fifteen thousand people came through that

845
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:11,960
Speaker 5: football stadium, right, and it worked fine for Taylor Swift.

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Speaker 3: We are looking at, you.

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00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 5: Know, what have we learned over the past twenty some years,

848
00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 5: and what if we put a lot of creativity and

849
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 5: ingenuity into building a new building, Understanding what Nashville has

850
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 5: become and the opportunities for Nashville, what might that building

851
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,320
Speaker 5: look like? And we've rallied around this concept of it

852
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 5: being the people's house. I mean, first of all, this

853
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 5: building is going to be located in a very unique

854
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 5: spot compared to other NFL facilities.

855
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 3: It is literally probably.

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Speaker 5: Going to be the center of the action for a

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00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 5: lot of locals around Nashville. We're thinking that it is

858
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 5: almost like a new town center with this neighborhood that's

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00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:52,800
Speaker 5: going to develop around it, with green space and transportation

860
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 5: and great housing and retail. And so if that's true,

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00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 5: then this building that we're designing should be something that

862
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 5: is as active as the neighborhood around it. And we've

863
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 5: held twelve thousand square feet of space by the front door,

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00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 5: for example, to be used as community center space. So

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Speaker 5: while Titans are playing on Sundays, you know what field

866
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 5: trips can be working through and what can they be

867
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:18,560
Speaker 5: learning in that twelve thousand square square feet. Can we

868
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 5: be teaching financial literacy to adults? Can we be holding

869
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:25,480
Speaker 5: job fares you know in that twelve thousand square feet

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Speaker 5: in a way that is just was unimageable back in

871
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Speaker 5: the nineteen nineties. We're designing the inside of this building

872
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:37,960
Speaker 5: where it will be designed to be a football first facility.

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00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:40,880
Speaker 5: This will be a facility that will inspire home field advantage.

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00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 5: It will be a great place to play football. If

875
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 5: you're a player, it'll be a great place to watch football.

876
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:48,360
Speaker 5: If you're a fan, it's going to be an incredible

877
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:51,839
Speaker 5: place for football. We are also recognizing that there is

878
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:56,040
Speaker 5: this incredible opportunity to deliver other events for Nashville. And

879
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 5: so how would you design a building perhaps a little

880
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:01,839
Speaker 5: bit differently if that were uh, And we've got some

881
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:04,440
Speaker 5: really interesting concepts, not quite ready to break them yet,

882
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:08,280
Speaker 5: but that will make this building a really unique space

883
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 5: to watch a concert, will be just built perfectly for

884
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:14,879
Speaker 5: Final fours and Super Bowls and that sort of thing.

885
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:17,319
Speaker 3: It's a it's a really really uh.

886
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:21,440
Speaker 5: We've learned from from what Nissan Stadium was and and

887
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 5: we're going to really amplify what it can be for

888
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:25,120
Speaker 5: the city. And the last thing that I would say

889
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:28,719
Speaker 5: about it being uniquely Nashville, there has been a bit

890
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:32,440
Speaker 5: of an arms race in terms of what what buildings

891
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:35,400
Speaker 5: can be around different markets. As as new buildings have

892
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:38,360
Speaker 5: come online, there's a there's kind of a winning on opulence,

893
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 5: there's a winning on new technology and that sort of thing.

894
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 5: And they're great experiences. I've been to a lot of

895
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:47,239
Speaker 5: those buildings and they're they're neat. We don't see Nashville

896
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:51,239
Speaker 5: as an opulent city. We don't see Nashville as as

897
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 5: a city that that needs to kind of get into

898
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 5: to that level of competition. We see Nashville as.

899
00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 3: A high character, high soul city.

900
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 5: One of the buildings that really inspired us throughout this

901
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 5: process and thinking about what.

902
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:05,800
Speaker 3: A building could be is the Ryman.

903
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:08,880
Speaker 5: No one walks into the Rhymend and says, gosh, that

904
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 5: was really an opulent experience.

905
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:11,480
Speaker 3: Right.

906
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 5: The features of this building at the Ryemon are just

907
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 5: off the charts, right. It's about the character and the soul.

908
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:20,920
Speaker 5: There's not anything that goes through the Rymen that if

909
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:22,880
Speaker 5: I was given a ticket, I wouldn't go to just

910
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:26,280
Speaker 5: to be in the Rymen. It's just a really special experience.

911
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 5: So if in twenty twenty three you're designing a building

912
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 5: that's going to be used as much as this building

913
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:34,839
Speaker 5: will be used as we anticipate, that should be kind

914
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 5: of a marker for this city, for this state, something

915
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:41,279
Speaker 5: that is something that people around the world start to

916
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:44,239
Speaker 5: think about Nashville and Tennessee based on the design of

917
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:44,760
Speaker 5: this building.

918
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 3: What does that look like, what character, what.

919
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 5: Soul can be built into a stadium facility, and Manica

920
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 5: has been really helpful in helping us dream and think differently.

921
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 5: And I think Nashville and Tennessee are just going to

922
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 5: be incredibly proud of the final product.

923
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:01,719
Speaker 1: Mark ChIL, congratulations all of us.

924
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:02,920
Speaker 3: I thank you, Thank you.

925
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:12,160
Speaker 1: Mich Burke Nihill, Titan's president and CEO with us on

926
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:17,480
Speaker 1: the OTP. A reminder to Titans fans, it's hard to

927
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 1: decide what's the best part of a dunk and run?

928
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:22,000
Speaker 1: Is it the coffee? Is it the one dollar classic

929
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:24,399
Speaker 1: donut or the two dollars bagel Mini's or the three

930
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:27,239
Speaker 1: dollars sausage, egg and cheese that you can add to

931
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:29,279
Speaker 1: that coffee, or is it the fact that you get

932
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:31,959
Speaker 1: to leave the office. The answer is, of course, yes,

933
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:35,719
Speaker 1: it's time for a dunk and run. Great deals on

934
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 1: food for one, two or three dollars with a medium

935
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 1: or larger coffee. America runs on Duncan I, hey, go.

936
00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 4: For a breakfast sandwich right now?

937
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 1: Is that right? Yeah?

938
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 4: I'm kind of starting to feel that that hungry feeling.

939
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:48,560
Speaker 4: I don't know what time it is, but.

940
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:49,880
Speaker 1: It's that time on a Thursday.

941
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:50,800
Speaker 4: It's eating time.

942
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:51,799
Speaker 1: Is that right?

943
00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 4: Yeah?

944
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:52,840
Speaker 1: On a Thursday.

945
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:54,320
Speaker 4: Yep, that's how I feel.

946
00:50:54,520 --> 00:51:01,400
Speaker 1: So OTA's next week. Yeah, excited about that getting started Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.

947
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:03,920
Speaker 4: I can't believe it's OTA time already.

948
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:12,400
Speaker 1: And then OTAs the following week because of Memorial Day Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, correct,

949
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:16,239
Speaker 1: and then the following week is the mandatory mini.

950
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:18,280
Speaker 4: Camp in the middle of it all, it's.

951
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 1: Really interesting June six, seven, and eight, and then the

952
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:25,359
Speaker 1: final OTAs are June twelfth through the fifteenth, and then

953
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: the offseason program is over and the team will be

954
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:32,240
Speaker 1: back I think in five weeks after that to start

955
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 1: training camp. So we're headed into the most interesting part

956
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:38,839
Speaker 1: of the offseason. You think it's free agency, you think

957
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:43,719
Speaker 1: it's the draft, but it is the spring practice for

958
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:47,480
Speaker 1: the NFL. They've been on the field since April the seventeenth,

959
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:50,800
Speaker 1: and you've seen some of the tapes about the conditioning,

960
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:54,480
Speaker 1: the running, the pushing sleds, things like that. In Phase two,

961
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:57,600
Speaker 1: the offense has been working with the offense and the

962
00:51:57,640 --> 00:52:00,439
Speaker 1: defense has been working with the defense. As we move

963
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:04,359
Speaker 1: forward into the organized team activities, they can now work

964
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 1: against each other. They can have full unit practice and

965
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:11,840
Speaker 1: you start to get a gauge on who's in shape,

966
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:17,520
Speaker 1: who's improved physically, and who grasps the concepts and can

967
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:22,840
Speaker 1: take the next step. It truly is spring practice for

968
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:25,680
Speaker 1: the NFL. Yes, and this is where you learn a

969
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:28,400
Speaker 1: lot and where so many moves are going to be

970
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:33,840
Speaker 1: dictated because guys have been training and training and training,

971
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 1: and then they come back and they start to do

972
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:39,239
Speaker 1: things with the team and they go into meetings and

973
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:43,720
Speaker 1: they're taking on this new offense that we've been talking

974
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:45,960
Speaker 1: about that we're going to be interested to even see

975
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:48,799
Speaker 1: some of the concepts in We probably won't see a

976
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:52,280
Speaker 1: lot of the play concepts, but we'll get ideas about personnel,

977
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 1: grouping and speed and what they're trying to do. This

978
00:52:56,360 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 1: is where the decisions will be made about what comes next.

979
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:00,760
Speaker 4: Yep.

980
00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 1: This is where the literal post June one moves will

981
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:09,680
Speaker 1: come based on this because they will know this guy

982
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:14,520
Speaker 1: has really improved, this guy maybe has slipped backwards, this

983
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:17,880
Speaker 1: guy is as good as he'll ever get, this guy,

984
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:21,680
Speaker 1: this rookie is as good as this veteran. And so

985
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 1: we'll get off that bus here, hand the job to

986
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:28,880
Speaker 1: somebody else and switch. Or they'll say sometimes with veterans.

987
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:32,799
Speaker 1: He still got it. He has still really got it.

988
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 1: He has not lost anything. If anything, he's healthier, he's better,

989
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:38,000
Speaker 1: he's ready to go.

990
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:38,480
Speaker 4: Yep.

991
00:53:39,239 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 2: So I mean OTAs are the time that informed the

992
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:45,600
Speaker 2: decisions that will be made through those next six weeks

993
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:48,439
Speaker 2: and then beyond into training camps. So this is really

994
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:50,919
Speaker 2: kind of the start of it all. Also for those

995
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:55,239
Speaker 2: of us who just enjoy taking in football activities, it's

996
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:58,720
Speaker 2: a real tease. I mean, you get a couple weeks

997
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:01,680
Speaker 2: of going out to practice pretty consistently, you start to

998
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 2: get into a groove. We're hearing from guys pretty regularly.

999
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:06,920
Speaker 2: We'll talk to Mike vrabel a bunch.

1000
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 4: You know.

1001
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 2: You start to get that vibe of like a training

1002
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:14,719
Speaker 2: camp in season, and then it ends. Mike Keith, you

1003
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:17,400
Speaker 2: go all the way through, you're starting to get in

1004
00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 2: the football feeling.

1005
00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:20,839
Speaker 4: It's all coming back to you, and then it.

1006
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:25,560
Speaker 2: Stops and everybody leaves. They leave, I mean leave like

1007
00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:26,840
Speaker 2: the buildings on fire.

1008
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:27,080
Speaker 3: Lie.

1009
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:30,200
Speaker 1: Well, this is the only time. This is the from

1010
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:36,359
Speaker 1: the June fifteenth period, and generally everybody is around from

1011
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:39,160
Speaker 1: the staff side for at least another week. Yeah, you know,

1012
00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:42,799
Speaker 1: because what they're doing is they're like teachers who are

1013
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:47,040
Speaker 1: working on their lesson plans. They're gonna get things ready

1014
00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:51,759
Speaker 1: so they're in position when they come back. Because for

1015
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:55,400
Speaker 1: the coaching staff, for the training staff, or the equipment staff,

1016
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:59,560
Speaker 1: for for everybody, the three week period sort of the

1017
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:02,400
Speaker 1: final week of June, the first two weeks of July,

1018
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:05,640
Speaker 1: that's the only time you're safe to get away.

1019
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:06,080
Speaker 4: Yep.

1020
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:09,960
Speaker 2: That is when if you ever wanted to meet a

1021
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:15,160
Speaker 2: Titan staff member, let me send you to the Nashville

1022
00:55:15,200 --> 00:55:18,880
Speaker 2: Airport because they'll all be there. Everybody's trying to go

1023
00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:23,520
Speaker 2: somewhere just because that is their vacation, that's their break.

1024
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:27,479
Speaker 2: So it's an exciting time. And then you come back

1025
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:30,160
Speaker 2: and once you're in training camp, you're in season. Training

1026
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:32,440
Speaker 2: camp is not the lead up to the regular season

1027
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:34,799
Speaker 2: that I think it once was. Training camp is it?

1028
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:36,000
Speaker 2: Because you're in it now.

1029
00:55:36,080 --> 00:55:39,560
Speaker 1: People will say in July, the end of July, early August,

1030
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:42,120
Speaker 1: they'll say, you're about to get busy.

1031
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:45,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, we are busy.

1032
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:49,359
Speaker 1: It's busier in July and August than it even is

1033
00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 1: in September, because in September you're in the routine and

1034
00:55:55,840 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 1: you're trying to do as much as you can to

1035
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:02,040
Speaker 1: get ready for the route, tam. Yeah, you know that's

1036
00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:03,520
Speaker 1: the that's the challenge of it all.

1037
00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:07,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a great times. I can't wait to be

1038
00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:12,520
Speaker 4: back at practice. Oht A one, I know it's coming.

1039
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:15,279
Speaker 4: One o ta one. Let's hit it.

1040
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:18,160
Speaker 1: Let's hit it. Anything else you'd like to discuss or

1041
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:18,840
Speaker 1: are you done?

1042
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:22,600
Speaker 4: Oh? I'm never done, Mike. You know I always have thoughts.

1043
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:27,160
Speaker 2: This is a very dangerous time, okay, just free flowing thinking.

1044
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:32,920
Speaker 2: I was shocked, shocked by the amount of people that

1045
00:56:33,120 --> 00:56:38,319
Speaker 2: responded to the spider issue in the last episode.

1046
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:39,040
Speaker 4: Mike Keith.

1047
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:43,560
Speaker 2: The people are so impressed by your spontaneous play by

1048
00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:44,840
Speaker 2: play skills.

1049
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:46,080
Speaker 1: Of the spider, of you killing.

1050
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:48,560
Speaker 4: The spiders, the spider attack where I think.

1051
00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:50,680
Speaker 1: I think we posted that on Instagram.

1052
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:56,160
Speaker 4: Yep. It made an Instagram appearance at t N Voice. Yeah,

1053
00:56:56,320 --> 00:56:57,960
Speaker 4: that's you follow him.

1054
00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:00,560
Speaker 1: And also on Instagram. This week they saw us out

1055
00:57:01,719 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 1: out in the state of Tennessee doing something fun at

1056
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:05,600
Speaker 1: a restaurant.

1057
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:08,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, eating some pie. More to come.

1058
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:10,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, We're gonna do some cool things this fall. We've

1059
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:13,320
Speaker 1: got a lot of a lot of fun ideas and

1060
00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you some of that behind the scenes

1061
00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:18,800
Speaker 1: on Instagram at ten voice that's two ends t E

1062
00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:19,760
Speaker 1: and en voice.

1063
00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:21,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, like the state, not the number.

1064
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:24,280
Speaker 1: Yes, like the state, not the number.

1065
00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:26,480
Speaker 4: Hey, Mike Keith for Amy Wells.

1066
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:28,960
Speaker 1: I'm Mike Keith. Thank you for joining us for this

1067
00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:30,640
Speaker 1: is issue of the Oath Team.

1068
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:34,680
Speaker 3: Welcome to the Big Show where the Munson's going.

1069
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:36,320
Speaker 1: Ever bought a nose?

1070
00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:37,320
Speaker 3: It's our house.

1071
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:42,240
Speaker 1: Fine thoughts, Tennessee, make any story cream the suspensive bea