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Speaker 1: This is the OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans.

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Speaker 1: forty seven. Welcome to the OTP. Everyone. I'm Mike Keith

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Speaker 1: amy Wells is with me on the program, but not

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Speaker 1: with me in person, actually Nope. What's interesting is I'm

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Speaker 1: at Nissan Stadium in the press box. We were doing

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Speaker 1: an interview for Titans All Access today and so I

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Speaker 1: came up to the press box and just noticed they've

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Speaker 1: resided the field. Wow, kind of needed it after three

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Speaker 1: football games in very close contact and then a bunch

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Speaker 1: of soccer games too, so it looks good. You know

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Speaker 1: what else is still here too is all the cutouts

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Speaker 1: of the optable dogs. They're in the stands, and that

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Speaker 1: has been one of the more successful promotions that I

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Speaker 1: can remember the Titans doing. They put cutouts of adoptable

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Speaker 1: dogs in the stands, and they partnered with Mars Pet

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Speaker 1: Care to get dogs adopted in it not only Nashville

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Speaker 1: but also in Houston. Mars pet Care. Obviously, it's all

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Speaker 1: over the country. Although there are a business that we

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Speaker 1: know very well locally, and they do a fantastic job

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Speaker 1: of partnering with the team and helping the community. They're

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Speaker 1: all over the country, and so they put these dogs

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Speaker 1: out here, and Greg Gumbel talked about it on the

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Speaker 1: CBS broadcast during the Houston game and Amy it was

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Speaker 1: a wild success. Mike Keith, I can't even tell you

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Speaker 1: how successful it was, but I was able to go

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Speaker 1: out to the Nashville Humane Society, talk to them, talk

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Speaker 1: to some people with Mars, and kind of just figure

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Speaker 1: out what the genesis behind this whole idea was, and

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Speaker 1: then how successful it really was in the week after

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Speaker 1: the promotion happens. So in the week after the cutouts

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Speaker 1: were in Nissan Stadium, three hundred and twenty five pets

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Speaker 1: were adopted in either Nashville or Houston. Like, that's crazy.

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Speaker 1: Three twenty five is a lot of pets, And it's

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Speaker 1: just so cool to see the amount of success that

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Speaker 1: it got. I mean, first, seeing dogs and cats in

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Speaker 1: the stadium is a little jarring, even though I mean,

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Speaker 1: of course they're a flat cutouts, but in stadiums across

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Speaker 1: all sports, you're seeing human cutouts and people have kind

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Speaker 1: of gotten used to that. It's bizarre to look and

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Speaker 1: be like, are those are those one hundred dogs? Like,

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Speaker 1: it's just it catches your eye. And of course having

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Speaker 1: it being talked on the broadcast was super successful, and

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Speaker 1: they were so excited about the success that this whole

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Speaker 1: thing has kind of started. And I mean, these cities

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Speaker 1: and they're lonely and these animals need places to go.

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Speaker 1: So it was the perfect timing. Everything just kind of

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Speaker 1: mushed together and it's been wildly successful. And of course

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Speaker 1: my dog Molly was the literal poster dog for the

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Speaker 1: whole thing. Really well, yeah she was because we adopted

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Speaker 1: You remember seeing Molly's came out. She was just like

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Speaker 1: that's an amateur move. Well, Mike, I disagree because the

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Speaker 1: whole point of animal shelters is to get the dogs

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Speaker 1: with a dog. Would that be right now? Yeah, you're

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, the real success story of this

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Speaker 1: and he's delightful and I love him so dearly. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: Name Henry for now, Henry for now? Names here, Well,

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Speaker 1: Will you be posting pictures for the otpeers to see

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Speaker 1: with a excuse me, let's say this one time. Adopting

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Speaker 1: we don't talk about on kind of a football show,

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Speaker 1: but it just kind of a cool story where you

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Speaker 1: love to see an NFL team use its sort of

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Speaker 1: We see it in many areas and it makes you

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Speaker 1: you know, I know, with my dog, I can't imagine

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Speaker 1: There are so many different, very worthy causes that get

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Speaker 1: not so much. Animals aren't really one that get a

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Speaker 1: So the fact that this is something that's so important

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Speaker 1: a good thing. It's a good thing, a good thing.

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Speaker 1: This weekend too, another game to overcome what happened last weekend.

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Speaker 1: Very disappointing, very deppointing to feed here at Nissan Stadium

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Speaker 1: It just didn't play very well for the first five

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Speaker 1: second half was very exciting football. The second half showed

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Speaker 1: a lot of good things happening. Did it go the

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Speaker 1: way that anyone wanted it to? No, of course not.

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Speaker 1: But did the Titans do a lot right to put

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Speaker 1: challenges that they created for themselves in the first half. Yes,

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Speaker 1: And I think that that makes me feel good as

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Speaker 1: a Titans fan, I get that. Still a lot of

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Speaker 1: things to fix. Yeah, of course. Of course the third

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Speaker 1: you're talking about it when they're five and zero, everybody's like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: being in single digit in sacks is not good enough

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Speaker 1: right now. The exciting part of it is this team

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Speaker 1: Is this is not a stock that has hit its peak.

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Speaker 1: This is a ball club that can continue to progress.

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Speaker 1: And that's exciting. On the other hand, if they don't

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Speaker 1: what it comes down to, is you want a chance

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Speaker 1: the end of December, I know, but you want to

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Speaker 1: show the capabilities of being elite. At sixty one percent

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Speaker 1: third down conversions for the opposition. That's that's not that

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Speaker 1: a trend. I still contend the defense does not have

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Speaker 1: partially off dimmed light. No. I mean, if if they're

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Speaker 1: Adam Humphreys. Get him the ball. I think that's what

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Speaker 1: what you want. That's good defense. So you know they're capable. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're absolutely right. But Mike, I guess my question to

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Speaker 1: them to start gaining some of that momentum, some of

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Speaker 1: that traction. Yes and no, Okay, Yes, from the standpoint

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Speaker 1: due to injury. No, from the standpoint that they are

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Speaker 1: throwing it all over the yard. I'd be to watch

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Speaker 1: five and one, But they don't stink that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they really don't. They've had six one score games, should

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Speaker 1: over the hump yet. But listen, they're going to This

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Speaker 1: team is gonna get over the hump, they're gonna beat

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Speaker 1: some people down the stretch. If you're the Titans, you're saying,

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Speaker 1: an AFC game. You gotta find a way to win it. Now.

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Speaker 1: and do football things. This week. It feels more like

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00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:25,600
Speaker 1: a regular kind of mid season routine, just like you said, Mike, like,

429
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:30,040
Speaker 1: it feels like nobody's panic. There's nothing really rushed. We're

430
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:33,280
Speaker 1: just walking through the routine the way that we do

431
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:35,879
Speaker 1: it to prepare for a game. You're right, it feels

432
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:40,639
Speaker 1: very average, but in a comforting way, in a good way. Yeah,

433
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,920
Speaker 1: average in the best way. Average and normal for this

434
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:48,360
Speaker 1: team is you know, for what they've been through, it's

435
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 1: a good thing. You know, it's for anyone in America.

436
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 1: Is a good thing. Well, that's right, that's right. But

437
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:56,600
Speaker 1: you know, for them to just get back to work

438
00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:01,560
Speaker 1: and get ready for Cincinnati and then a November stretch

439
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 1: that has the Bears in here at Nissan Stadium on

440
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:08,119
Speaker 1: November eight, followed immediately on Thursday night by the Colts,

441
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:10,680
Speaker 1: and then a trip to Baltimore and then a trip

442
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:15,560
Speaker 1: to Indie. Five games in November. A lot of work

443
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:17,679
Speaker 1: to do. I mean, the two Indie games are the

444
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:21,720
Speaker 1: ones that are flashing most urgently because their division games.

445
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:26,680
Speaker 1: You're in control of the division right now, but control

446
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 1: of the division can be lost in a week's time. Exactly.

447
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:35,760
Speaker 1: The Titans have got to continue to keep their foot

448
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: on the gas and get back on track this week.

449
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:40,439
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's what they want to do, and

450
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,439
Speaker 1: I think that's been the message. But you know that

451
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,439
Speaker 1: they I think they have a full understanding and watching

452
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:50,639
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow that this is no gimme and by no

453
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:52,919
Speaker 1: means is this a team that has given up on

454
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 1: their season, because you know, Amy with the extra playoff spot,

455
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:03,360
Speaker 1: you don't give up to you know, you're out of everything. Absolutely,

456
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,959
Speaker 1: there's a lot more mathematical probabilities now in ways that

457
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 1: people can get into the big dance. You know, there's

458
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 1: a lot of way that people can kind of work

459
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,680
Speaker 1: those numbers and get themselves in a spot to at

460
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:22,679
Speaker 1: least be a possibility. Sure, so I think that the

461
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 1: last part in November and into December is going to

462
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 1: be really interesting because everyone kind of starts to do

463
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,119
Speaker 1: that playoff math. You know, well, if this happens, and

464
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 1: this happens, and these three teams tie, we get into

465
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 1: the playoffs, you start kind of running through those scenarios

466
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 1: and things that have to happen. There's going to be

467
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:44,360
Speaker 1: even more this year, and I think that's really exciting

468
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 1: for some of these teams that as their season is started,

469
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 1: they're right there on the cusp. They're right on the

470
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 1: line of everything starting to fire on all cylinders. And

471
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 1: that could be the Bengals. So the Titans definitely have

472
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 1: a big game ahead of them. I mean, when you're

473
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:00,639
Speaker 1: five and one, they're all big and that's the great

474
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: news is you're you're in a situation where they all count.

475
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,640
Speaker 1: If it's an AFC game, it's extremely important. The biggest

476
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 1: problem of losing to the Steelers as you lost an

477
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 1: AFC game, now, I mean, the world's not over, you know.

478
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 1: And it was. So I was doing the three HL

479
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 1: on one oh four five on Friday and Don Davenport

480
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 1: asked me a great question about a Dory Jackson. We

481
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,679
Speaker 1: literally did not know Friday afternoon if A Dory was

482
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 1: going to be active or not. And she said, do

483
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 1: you want to take that chance right now? And my

484
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: answer is absolutely not if you don't know, because you're

485
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 1: in a situation at this moment that a Dory's had

486
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 1: an injury, he's been out. You know, he would have

487
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 1: helped against the Steelers. Okay, I mean, there's no question

488
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 1: having one of the better corners in the conference available

489
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 1: would have helped in that game. But can he give

490
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 1: you thirty to thirty five to forty naps? Well, if

491
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: he can't, then you're better off keeping somebody else up,

492
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 1: because let's say he gets into it, he plays ten

493
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:11,280
Speaker 1: snaps and he says I'm sore, I can't do it,

494
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 1: or even worse, he reinjures himself. Well, then you've got

495
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 1: a double whammy. Then you're short on corners for the

496
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 1: rest of the game, and then he's down for a

497
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: longer period of time. If I remember this correctly, there

498
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 1: was no trophy presented at the end of the Steelers game.

499
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 1: The President didn't land and declare someone the national champion.

500
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,479
Speaker 1: I mean, it's one game. One game would have been

501
00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 1: great to win it, but it's one game. And now

502
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: you've held him for another week. And if they aren't

503
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:48,240
Speaker 1: confident that he's ready to take over and be a dory,

504
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:50,959
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna put him back out there

505
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: this week. Now with another week, you probably feel more confident, right, probably, Yeah.

506
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 1: I mean coach Mass says all the time, you wait

507
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 1: until they're one hundred percent or they think they're one

508
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 1: hundred percent, and then you give him another week. But

509
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 1: you want someone to be at their one hundred percent

510
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 1: best on the field, because anything less than that, for

511
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 1: the most part, is your tempting faith. In my mind, Well,

512
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 1: if this team's gonna be elite, Dorry Jackson does not

513
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 1: solve all the problems on defense, but he sure does help. Yeah, yes, agreed,

514
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 1: and we'll see, we'll see what goes on with him.

515
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 1: But that was a really good point she made about

516
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 1: do you risk it? Dawn said this, do you risk

517
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 1: it in the ball game? And the answer is absolutely not.

518
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 1: And I think there were some people who were expecting

519
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 1: me to say, oh, yeah, it's it's a huge game,

520
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 1: because everybody was building it up because it was five

521
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 1: and oh against five and oh, and it was and

522
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 1: it was fun. That was a great NFL football game,

523
00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,959
Speaker 1: But it was one game. This one this week, in

524
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 1: terms of the overall push forward means just as much

525
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 1: because if Baltimore beats Pittsburgh and Tennessee beats Cincinnati, then

526
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 1: the Steelers and the Titans have the same record after

527
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 1: seven games. Now the Steelers hold the tiebreaker, but then

528
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you have the same record, right

529
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 1: And that point right there is what coaches are saying,

530
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: or players are saying when they say we want to

531
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 1: be one and oh this week, like it sounds like

532
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 1: coach speak, it sounds like the thing that people say

533
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 1: all the time when they don't want to answer a question.

534
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 1: But what they're saying is that the flashing lights and

535
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 1: the excitement, the build up of this matchup, whether it's

536
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 1: one that seems kind of like a less appealing matchup

537
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: or the big high sex appeal really exciting matchups, they're

538
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 1: all the same, like they are waited, especially at this

539
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 1: point in the season, the same. It's one game, just one,

540
00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 1: and then we keep going. So that's kind of the

541
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 1: idea behind that. It's not just I'm trying to not

542
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 1: answer your question, which sometimes it is, but that's what

543
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 1: they're focusing in on this challenge ahead of us, and

544
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 1: let's not sell the farm for one win when we're

545
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: actually going to need more than one win in the

546
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 1: futures plural. Let's move to another segment, a new segment

547
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: in the OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. I

548
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 1: don't know what we're calling this exactly, but what it

549
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 1: is really is who loves the Titans? Well, Mike, let's

550
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 1: just call it that I'm listening. Okay, we could. You're

551
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 1: listening to the OTP right now wherever you are. You're saying, well,

552
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 1: I love the Titans. But you know, there are many

553
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 1: people who are somewhat famous, who are totally famous, who

554
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 1: are completely famous, who love the Titans. And a lot

555
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 1: of our country music songwriters and singers and musicians in

556
00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:00,040
Speaker 1: this town are massive fans you and I had a

557
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: chance to have Charlie daniels on the late great Charlie

558
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 1: daniels Man. He loved football, Joe Bonsol, our friend from

559
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: the oak Ridge Boys, What a fan he is. That

560
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 1: was one of the greatest shows we ever did. I've

561
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 1: had a chance to interview Tim McGraw and just talk

562
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 1: ball with Tim McGraw. I knew Kenny Chesney way back when,

563
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 1: and Kenny Chesney likes to talk ball like nobody's business.

564
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 1: So we said, let's find some Titans fans who are

565
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 1: in various entertainment fields, and certainly we're going to start

566
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 1: with music, and let's say who loves the Titans. You

567
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 1: got to do the first one, who did you get?

568
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: I was able to talk with singer songwriter Ryan Heard,

569
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 1: so he has a new EP, out and he had

570
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: just shot a new music video at the time, and

571
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 1: so we were able to talk a little bit about that.

572
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: He is a colossal Titans fan. I'm really Nashville fan.

573
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 1: So we were able to talk about the Titans, the

574
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 1: impact they've had on the city and whow. We had

575
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 1: so much fun, all right. So if you don't know

576
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 1: Ryan Hurd's entire story, it's the guy you ought to know.

577
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 1: Went to Belmont Great School, got a degree in sociology,

578
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 1: started off as a songwriter, helped Blake Shelton, Right Lonely Tonight,

579
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 1: sun Rise Sunset Repeat by Luke Brian, what If I

580
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 1: Never Got Over You? And You Look Good by Lady A.

581
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 1: So songs that you know, and then he has released

582
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: some good ones on his own, Every Other Memory dubbed

583
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 1: one of the best songs of April twenty twenty. His

584
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 1: wife's famous. Yes, she's Marion Morris. Marion Morris. He's been

585
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,399
Speaker 1: married to Marion Morris for over two years. This guy

586
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 1: is really a special talent. They have a son, Hayes

587
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:54,439
Speaker 1: Andrew Hurd, who was born on March the twenty third,

588
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 1: so he's what seven months old at this point. So

589
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,320
Speaker 1: Amy take us into it you and Ryan Hurd talking

590
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: about who looks the Titan? Ryan heard. You are a singer,

591
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:12,439
Speaker 1: you are a songwriter, you are a new dad. There's

592
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 1: so many things going on in your life, but most importantly,

593
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 1: you are a Titans fan. I'm so excited to have

594
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,439
Speaker 1: you on the OTP right now. Thank you so much

595
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,439
Speaker 1: for taking some time to be with us. Yeah, thank

596
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,439
Speaker 1: you very much. It's it's cool. I've been a fan

597
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 1: ever since I moved here. My family's from Chicago and

598
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 1: I grew up in Michigan, so we were always kind

599
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 1: of split between Chicago teams and Michigan teams. So when

600
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: I got to Nashville, I was like, you know what,

601
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:39,320
Speaker 1: this is fun. I'm gonna go all out for Nashville

602
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 1: and the Titans. So I've really loved, you know, having

603
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 1: the team like this close to where we live. And yeah,

604
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,399
Speaker 1: it's awesome. I love being a Titans fan. We love

605
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 1: having you be a Titans fan. But Nashville really has become,

606
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 1: especially in the last couple of years, a real sports city.

607
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 1: How fun has it been for you to be a

608
00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 1: fan of the Titans already and then watch everybody slowly

609
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:03,839
Speaker 1: but surely hop on the Bandwagon. I think that it's

610
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 1: cool that. I mean, there's not really a sports town

611
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: like this in the world. I think Vegas might get

612
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,440
Speaker 1: kind of close just as like a destination for visitors,

613
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 1: you know, like visiting fans. But I mean we have,

614
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 1: you know, a world class hockey organization and an NFL

615
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: franchise that's really really playing well and as exciting, and

616
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: our you know, stadiums in the perfect place in our city.

617
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:30,000
Speaker 1: You nobody has to really like go out of the

618
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 1: city center to go watch a game. So there's something

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00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 1: really special about sports in this town. And the more

620
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:36,840
Speaker 1: that it grows, the more opportunities that we get. And

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00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: it's I don't know, I really am proud of, you know,

622
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 1: just everything that that this city's accomplished, and also like

623
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: making it such an awesome place to come watch a

624
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 1: game for people from out of town. It's you know,

625
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:49,800
Speaker 1: that's something that annoys a lot of fans, you know

626
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,239
Speaker 1: what I mean, just having visiting fans in the in

627
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:55,279
Speaker 1: the crowd. But it's it's a really cool thing if

628
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: you look at it from that perspective, to have those

629
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 1: people coming into to you know, see our city and

630
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 1: check out a game. Now, have you always been a

631
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 1: football fan specifically. Yeah, I mean I've always been a

632
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 1: huge sports fan. I think that's people who do music.

633
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: A lot of guys wish they did played sports, and

634
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 1: a lot of guys play sports whish they played music.

635
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 1: So I mean, it's funny how many guys I know

636
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 1: that are professional athletes that are like asking me how

637
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 1: to play guitar or how to write a song. And

638
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,279
Speaker 1: it's it's fun to, I guess kind of share that,

639
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:27,719
Speaker 1: and then I'm always asking, I'm like, what's what's ray

640
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 1: Lewis like? So that's it's just interesting to have that

641
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,280
Speaker 1: with those guys, and you know, I've had the opportunity

642
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 1: to meet so many of them just because of what

643
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:37,360
Speaker 1: I do. If it's been fun to kind of have

644
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 1: some of that crossover. Well, let's talk about what you

645
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 1: do a little bit. You have had such a wild

646
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 1: I guess past year. You're a new dad, as we

647
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 1: mentioned before, You've got a new song out, You've got

648
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 1: so many things are going on, new music video. Tell

649
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: me a little bit about twenty twenty for you and

650
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 1: what this experience has been might well for anybody who

651
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 1: doesn't know much about me. My wife is a country

652
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:06,320
Speaker 1: singer Marion Morris, and so we both are in music.

653
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 1: We met each other writing songs together, and we had

654
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:13,360
Speaker 1: a baby earlier this year, so it's our both of

655
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:17,839
Speaker 1: our first kid, and yeah, it's that changes your whole world.

656
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 1: We love actually just love being parents. And the one

657
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:24,280
Speaker 1: good thing from this year having all of our touring

658
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 1: get canceled is that we've been home every single night

659
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 1: with our kid, and that's not normal for anybody. So yeah,

660
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,360
Speaker 1: and then obviously, like I'm a songwriter. That's kind of

661
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 1: how I started in Nashville as in music is writing

662
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 1: songs for other people, and I still get to do

663
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:43,759
Speaker 1: that and also have my artist project where I have

664
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:46,400
Speaker 1: a single at country radio right now called every Other Memory,

665
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:50,280
Speaker 1: and am finishing up my first album for our CA Records.

666
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 1: So yeah, I kind of I'm like I've gotten to

667
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,319
Speaker 1: do everything in music so far. I mean, I've been

668
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:58,879
Speaker 1: to the Grammys with Marion, I've you know, I've had

669
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 1: songs go to the top the chart as a writer,

670
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 1: I've had a gold record as an artist, and now

671
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 1: having a kid and doing it in Nashville, Like it's

672
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 1: really important that you know, he's a first kid, you know,

673
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 1: for she's from Texas. I'm from Michigan. He's going to

674
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: be from Nashville, and that's a really cool thing to us.

675
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,319
Speaker 1: And you know, just getting an opportunity to have like

676
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 1: such a rich music business experience that I've had and had,

677
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,360
Speaker 1: Like honestly, I've gotten to do so many cool things

678
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:27,840
Speaker 1: with the sports teams in town. Like, I just love Nashville,

679
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 1: and I you know, there's a reason that everybody wants

680
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 1: to move here. It's such a special town and there's

681
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 1: so much opportunity and so many things, just so many fun,

682
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 1: exciting things going on from music and sports and like culturally,

683
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:42,400
Speaker 1: it's just such a great I should I know, I

684
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 1: should get paid by the Visitors Bureau should, But I

685
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 1: just love living here and it's so fun to have

686
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 1: our kid be from here and you know, hopefully he

687
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,360
Speaker 1: grows up. And you know, as a Titans fan too,

688
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 1: it feels like you're having the quintessential Nashville experience. Like

689
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 1: you come to Nashville to be a songwriter, have some success,

690
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 1: then you get to do more of the performing things.

691
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:07,840
Speaker 1: You meet your wife, you have this country music family,

692
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 1: and now you're growing your family here in this city.

693
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 1: Is that kind of what the dream has always been

694
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 1: for you. I'm really good at doing like the thing

695
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 1: right in front of me, and I'm really good at

696
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 1: like today, I write a song and then you just

697
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 1: kind of move on. So I don't know, I don't

698
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:26,359
Speaker 1: think this is anybody's playing, you know what I mean?

699
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:28,880
Speaker 1: For especially me or Marion we I know that like

700
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:32,439
Speaker 1: with her, like she moved here to be a songwriter also,

701
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:35,839
Speaker 1: and when she was writing songs, nobody, nobody could sing them,

702
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,359
Speaker 1: so she had to kind of she went and ended

703
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 1: up creating an artist project that took off real quickly.

704
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:46,239
Speaker 1: And I don't know, I feel like everybody's journey is

705
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 1: a little bit different in music, and it's probably similar

706
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:51,239
Speaker 1: with sports. It's never exactly how you expect it to be.

707
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 1: But I went to Belmont and I got a sociology degree.

708
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: I didn't ever imagine being, you know, a songwriter. I

709
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 1: kind of knew about the music business and I loved

710
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: to do music, but I would never really focused on

711
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 1: it until after I got out of school, and I

712
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 1: just kind of really loved my friends who were doing it,

713
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:11,920
Speaker 1: and I just kind of went I said, I'm going

714
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 1: to figure out how to be a songwriter in Nashville.

715
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 1: The thing about this city that's so cool, and it's

716
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: the same with the Titans and the press, like it's

717
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:21,440
Speaker 1: it is home now like for all of us. And

718
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 1: I think that's the coolest part for me, is like

719
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 1: having a community and just calling this place home. I

720
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 1: don't get to interview singers and songwriters very often, you know,

721
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:33,880
Speaker 1: it's more returners. And be surprised how many would probably

722
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:35,399
Speaker 1: love to do this. We get asked all the time

723
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 1: to go on like country music blog USA dot com podcast,

724
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 1: and I don't mean to speak poorly of that, but

725
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:43,280
Speaker 1: it is fun to do something a little bit different,

726
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:46,319
Speaker 1: you know. All Right, Well, Ryan, I am deputizing you. Now,

727
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 1: tell all of your friends whoever you talk to Tom

728
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:51,359
Speaker 1: to come on the OTP. We're really fun. I mean

729
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: we're nice people. Yeah, we'll talk later about who you

730
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 1: need to have on. But there's so many huge Titans

731
00:41:56,120 --> 00:42:00,120
Speaker 1: fans in town to do music that makes me so happy.

732
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:02,839
Speaker 1: I want to ask you about songwriting a little bit,

733
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: because I guess everyone kind of has in their mind,

734
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 1: or at least I do that. It's almost formulaic, like

735
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 1: you sit down, you say, I'm going to write a song.

736
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:12,799
Speaker 1: I need this part, this part, this part, and then

737
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 1: I'm done and then I write another song. Is that

738
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 1: the case or is it a little more fluid than that.

739
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:23,400
Speaker 1: I think that it's somewhere in the middle. We definitely

740
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:26,239
Speaker 1: have a rhythm to the way we do things in Nashville,

741
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:28,799
Speaker 1: Like it's very much different than the way people do

742
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:30,839
Speaker 1: it in Los Angeles or New York. Like we're very

743
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 1: much like a I want to call it like a

744
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 1: lunch pale town as far as writing music, Like we

745
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 1: show up at eleven o'clock and we stay till about

746
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 1: three thirty, and most people can finish a song in

747
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:42,400
Speaker 1: that amount of time, right, And then you wake up

748
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:43,799
Speaker 1: the next day and you do it again. And if

749
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 1: you can get three or four of those to work,

750
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,319
Speaker 1: you're doing pretty well. The one thing that you can't

751
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 1: ever discount is like when that great idea hits. And

752
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 1: that's one thing that is universal to all songwriting is

753
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:58,240
Speaker 1: it has to like you have to have an idea

754
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 1: and an angle, right, it has to there has to

755
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 1: be some sort of inspiration in it if it's special.

756
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:06,359
Speaker 1: And so like I think every what we do every

757
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: day is show up and hope that it hits at

758
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:11,439
Speaker 1: some point, right, So you just hope that sometime when

759
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:13,840
Speaker 1: you show up to work and you open yourself up

760
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 1: to that whatever that collective unconscious is, that something in

761
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 1: there brings like something that something special happens. It's like

762
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 1: trying to catch lightning in a bottle. Happens twice a

763
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 1: year sometimes, if having a hit country song is sort

764
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 1: of like returning up hunt for a touchdown. If you

765
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 1: do it once or twice a year, you're like, you

766
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:37,920
Speaker 1: go to the Pro Bowl, right, But for us it

767
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 1: hurts a little bit less. I think it's just really

768
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:43,839
Speaker 1: difficult to have those hits. And then like I think

769
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 1: it's just such a hard working songwriting community here that

770
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:50,799
Speaker 1: like that's sort of the formula for for being successful.

771
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:53,359
Speaker 1: Every other memory, tell me about that song and where

772
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 1: that kind of came from. Oh, I wrote it a

773
00:43:56,960 --> 00:44:00,959
Speaker 1: little over a year ago. And you know, I think

774
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 1: that one thing that country music does better than any

775
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 1: other format is nostalgia. And I just, for whatever reason,

776
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 1: like a lot of those lines got tied together, and

777
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 1: you know, I love thinking of it as one whole

778
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:17,880
Speaker 1: contiguous story or it's a bunch of little pictures that

779
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 1: could be anybody's story, you know, and I love like

780
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:25,359
Speaker 1: visuals in songwriting and any lyrics, and I think the

781
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:27,839
Speaker 1: track is really cool, and like the track really does

782
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 1: add to what we're doing with the lyrics and the melodies,

783
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:35,279
Speaker 1: and it's written a really special song. It's been so

784
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 1: fun to like see people react to it and like

785
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:40,320
Speaker 1: watch it like hang out on all these streaming charts

786
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 1: and do really well. So it's really weird to not

787
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:45,640
Speaker 1: be able to tour or promote it, but I think

788
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:49,080
Speaker 1: it's been really cool to just see it do really well. Anyway,

789
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 1: all right, let's talk a little sports. That's what the

790
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 1: people are here for. You're wearing a Titans jersey right now,

791
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:56,920
Speaker 1: We've got to talk some sports. You said that your

792
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 1: job has afforded you a lot of really cool opportunities.

793
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 1: What's one the coolest sports moments that you've had. I

794
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: have gotten a lot of opportunities just to be around

795
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 1: the Predators and the Titans. I remember being at like

796
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 1: Game six of the Stanley Cup Finals and getting to

797
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 1: watch that from one of our like agency boxes, and

798
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 1: Pred's lost, but I'll never forget like seeing the Stanley

799
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 1: Cup and oh man, I met Charles Barkley and Wayne

800
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 1: Gretzky at one of those games, we sat in one

801
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 1: of the NHL boxes at bridge Stone and you know,

802
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 1: Maren sung the national anthem and the playoffs over there.

803
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:33,520
Speaker 1: And as far as the Titans, like just getting to

804
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:36,400
Speaker 1: meet like Will Compton and Taylor Lauan and some of

805
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 1: those guys, Like that's really cool, Brett Kern having some

806
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:42,160
Speaker 1: sort of rapport with pro athletes is really fun. And

807
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 1: but I've got a lot of like Titans memories just

808
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:47,280
Speaker 1: from being like a fan, like not even being music.

809
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 1: Like I remember when we beat the Colts on Monday

810
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:53,440
Speaker 1: night Peyton Manning and it was Chris Johnson ran for

811
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: tons of yards and it was nobody expected us to win.

812
00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: And now like watching this team, it's just can't wait

813
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: to get back to, you know, inside the stadium and

814
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 1: get an opportunity to see him in person, because this

815
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:06,319
Speaker 1: is a really special team. This year, I feel like

816
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans are starting to really embody up within

817
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 1: the team the kind of underdog mentality and really embracing

818
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:17,799
Speaker 1: the no one expects us to win in whatever capacity

819
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:20,319
Speaker 1: it is. Do you think that's almost kind of the

820
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 1: vibe of Nashville as a whole. That's a really good point.

821
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:25,399
Speaker 1: I've never thought of it like that, but I think

822
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 1: a lot of people move here with a dream, you

823
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 1: know what I mean, and the odds are always stacked

824
00:46:29,719 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 1: against it. This is not an easy town to being

825
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 1: a songwriter or a country music guardian. There's a lot

826
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:36,759
Speaker 1: of there's a lot of heartbreak involved in that, and

827
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 1: I think you have to I said it earlier, it's

828
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 1: like a lunch pale mentality. You just show up every

829
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:44,760
Speaker 1: day and I don't know, I listened to like Rabel

830
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 1: talk on the radio and John Robinson talk on the radio,

831
00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:50,239
Speaker 1: and they're it just really is. It seems like they're

832
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:52,879
Speaker 1: such a perfect fit for not just like the team

833
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,719
Speaker 1: that's here, but the city, and they just get it.

834
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:57,760
Speaker 1: They get what it's like to be in a smaller market,

835
00:46:57,800 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 1: and they get that they're not going to get a

836
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 1: whole lot of love outside of it. I love just

837
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 1: this team feels like it's it's like it's just a

838
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 1: really special thing. I love Tannehill and Henry obviously like

839
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 1: those guys. It doesn't seem like anything rattles them, even

840
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:15,439
Speaker 1: if it's not like quite going their way. I just

841
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:17,920
Speaker 1: for who would have known that, Like Ryan, Tannehill was

842
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 1: the answer to like the ten year quarterback question in Nashville,

843
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 1: and who would like People thought Henry would be good,

844
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 1: but they didn't know we'd be like this good. And

845
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 1: so it's been really cool to see all that happen

846
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 1: and just watch it. You know, as a fan, I

847
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:36,560
Speaker 1: just love watching the Titans. How fun has it been

848
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:38,960
Speaker 1: for you being a fan of this team for so

849
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:42,239
Speaker 1: long to see them having the success that they've been

850
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 1: having in the last couple of years. I think anybody

851
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: who wants to accomplish something great, there's only one way

852
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Speaker 1: to do it is you make a plan and you

853
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Speaker 1: try to execute it. And I've just seen from the

854
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 1: outside looking in, it seems like that's what John and

855
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Speaker 1: Mike do, is they make a plan and they execute it.

856
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:00,799
Speaker 1: And it's like, you know, not every single draft pick

857
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:02,960
Speaker 1: works out, not every single game as a win, but

858
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Speaker 1: you know, they have a mentality and it's really fun

859
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Speaker 1: to watch. I feel like we haven't had that since

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Speaker 1: I've lived here. Really. I mean, I think we've tried

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00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:12,479
Speaker 1: to have it, or the Titans. We I'm on a team,

862
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Speaker 1: but I think they've tried to have the mentality, and

863
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Speaker 1: this is the first time they've been able to actually

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Speaker 1: execute it, and it's really I mean, it's really fun

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Speaker 1: to watch them succeed. Ryan, What's next for you? What

866
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Speaker 1: do you have kind of coming down the pipe right now?

867
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Speaker 1: I've been writing with some really incredible artists in Nashville

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Speaker 1: over this break. A lot of it's kind of like

869
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:34,279
Speaker 1: this over to the computer, and a lot like here

870
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 1: and there you get to like go into a room

871
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:38,880
Speaker 1: and write, you know, like a tiny little group. You know.

872
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:42,000
Speaker 1: I'm finishing out my first album for our CEA Records,

873
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Speaker 1: and I'm just enjoying being a dad and being home.

874
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:49,360
Speaker 1: And I'm learning how to play golf. I've been playing

875
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:53,560
Speaker 1: golf for like nine months now and I'm not great

876
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:55,480
Speaker 1: at it, but I'm learning. That's kind of what I've

877
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 1: been up to. And then obviously watching the Titans and

878
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully the Preds get back quick and that's it.

879
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:05,799
Speaker 1: There's a lot of TV to watch right now. Thank

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00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:07,799
Speaker 1: you so much for taking your time to be with

881
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 1: us today on the OTP. This has been so much fun.

882
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 1: And you're probably going to get a check in the

883
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:15,239
Speaker 1: mail from the Nashville Visitors Bureau because you did a

884
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:20,759
Speaker 1: great job promoting the city. I am available. Come on,

885
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 1: everybody should come to Nashville when it's safe. So thank

886
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 1: you for having me. I love go Titans and uh

887
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 1: cannot wait to see how they do the rest of

888
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:35,839
Speaker 1: the year. Well that was fun. See there are people

889
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:40,280
Speaker 1: who really love the Titans. Ryan Hurd really loves the Titans.

890
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 1: So if you're a Titans fan, you need to follow

891
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:45,680
Speaker 1: this guy because he is one of you. I think

892
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:47,799
Speaker 1: we're gonna keep doing that a little bit. I think

893
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:50,799
Speaker 1: that's fun for people to hear. It's it's a good

894
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:52,759
Speaker 1: time and it's fun for us to get to meet

895
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 1: some of those people. So we're headed to Cincinnati, which

896
00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:00,560
Speaker 1: is one of my favorite towns. Love Cincinnati, love thee

897
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 1: I do, I do. I like Skyline Chili. A lot

898
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:08,279
Speaker 1: of people are really divided on it. My son. I

899
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Speaker 1: took my son there to see a Reds game at

900
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Speaker 1: Great American Park, one of the best baseball stadiums I've

901
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:18,279
Speaker 1: ever been to, and took him to Skyline Chili to

902
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 1: share my passion for five way seven way however you

903
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:26,000
Speaker 1: want to have it, and he hated it, absolutely hated.

904
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Speaker 1: He did like the Ribs at Montgomery Inn though, Yeah,

905
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:36,319
Speaker 1: you're a rib girl, You're not scared as we as

906
00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 1: we were coming out of Montgomery in that day. The

907
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:42,920
Speaker 1: Reds manager at the time was Dusty Baker, who's now

908
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 1: the manager of the Houston Astros, and I hollered at him.

909
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:48,400
Speaker 1: He was he was picking up ribs to go and

910
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:51,640
Speaker 1: I hollida him Johnny Baker, which is his real name,

911
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 1: not Dusty, And he turned around he goes, how do

912
00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 1: you know my name? I said, I remember you when

913
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:59,280
Speaker 1: you played for the Atlanta Braves, not just the the Dodgers.

914
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:01,240
Speaker 1: But it was so nice. He was so kind to Matthew.

915
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:03,240
Speaker 1: We have great picture of Matthew. I caught a foul

916
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:07,839
Speaker 1: ball for him at that game. Wow. Yeah, I know,

917
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 1: I know. I was Dad of the Year for about

918
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 1: five to ten minutes. Yeah, pretty good though. Take that.

919
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 1: It's a good town, good stadium. Gonna be a very

920
00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:20,400
Speaker 1: interesting game. Will be on the air at eleven am Central,

921
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Speaker 1: Amy Wells, Rhet Bryan, Jonathan Hutton, Brad Willis, Philip Noel,

922
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Speaker 1: Dave McGinnis and me with Titans countdown twelve or two

923
00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 1: Central time kickoff and looking forward to saying if the

924
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 1: Titans can bounce back and make some progress, if they

925
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 1: win this football game, it's a step forward because they

926
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:43,360
Speaker 1: will have had to make some progress in some areas

927
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:46,320
Speaker 1: where they have needed to make progress. It is certainly

928
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:49,879
Speaker 1: no GIMMEI And that's not just coach speak either. That's

929
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:53,440
Speaker 1: watching Joe Burrow and what he's doing right now. Absolutely,

930
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:54,759
Speaker 1: But that's what you want to see out of this

931
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:59,360
Speaker 1: Titans team. You want to see continual progress, one step

932
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:02,239
Speaker 1: in front of the other towards the finish. All right

933
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:07,320
Speaker 1: and important to at Titans Amy on Twitter at Titans

934
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:11,640
Speaker 1: Amy a m ie. Will there be pictures on Twitter

935
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 1: of Henry who could be named something else soon hashtags

936
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Speaker 1: do Titans dog? Yes, yes, there will be. I'm waiting

937
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:23,840
Speaker 1: until we finally nailed down a name and then Titans

938
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Speaker 1: Dog will be revealed to the world Titans Dog. I

939
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 1: like Henry. We have a back name Henry, you know,

940
00:52:30,239 --> 00:52:32,959
Speaker 1: I know we do. That's who he was named after.

941
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 1: He was named after Derrick Henry. It was part of

942
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Speaker 1: why I fell in love with him. But I don't

943
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:42,320
Speaker 1: know if he He's a little more outspoken than our

944
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:45,320
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry, so it doesn't seem to fit. My first

945
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:49,839
Speaker 1: Golden Retriever was Mac and he was named after Steve

946
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:55,560
Speaker 1: McNair really great dog. Yeah. So now I have Major,

947
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 1: who's four, and my adopted dog, you know, got her

948
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:03,120
Speaker 1: from a opt to Golden Nashville, and that's Molly. So

949
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 1: I'm glad you adopted a dog. I think that's very exciting.

950
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:08,319
Speaker 1: Do all off your dogs have M names? Because your

951
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 1: name is Mike Well and everybody in my family's an

952
00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:15,799
Speaker 1: M name. Not intentional, but that's not how it ended up.

953
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:18,759
Speaker 1: And the people are like, please end this one. To

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Speaker 1: everyone listening, thanks so much for putting up with us

955
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Speaker 1: and for listening to us Babylon about a variety of subjects.

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Speaker 1: Farm Bureau Health Plans. And remember you could send us

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Speaker 1: questions that we will ask Coachmack Jim Wyatt that will

959
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 1: try to answer. Send those to Tennessee Titans dot com

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00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:45,400
Speaker 1: slash otp Q. So go to the website Tennessee Titans

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00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:49,600
Speaker 1: dot com slash otp Q submit your questions. We need

962
00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:52,440
Speaker 1: to get some questions on the podcast next week, and

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00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 1: I'm sure probably a lot of dog questions. I think

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Speaker 1: that sounds great. We will answer any and all questions,

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Speaker 1: dog or otherwise. Amy Tighten Up, Tighten Up. For Amy Wells.

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Speaker 1: I'm Mike Keith, and we thank you for listening to

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Speaker 1: this edition of The O Teens. So where the legends go,

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Speaker 1: everybody knows it's our house, fighting for Tennessee, making us

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Speaker 1: to read greatness is meant to be. As now here

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Speaker 1: we got tighting booter running through a VSE