Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Legends Podcast, an NFL podcast for
Speaker 1: the players, by the players. Here is your host, four
Speaker 1: teen year NFL veteran and Hall of Famer Aenius Williams. Hello,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Legends Podcast. I am a Nius Williams.
Speaker 1: We're hosting our podcast series remotely during this COVID nineteen crisis,
Speaker 1: which has touched us all in some way. Today we're
Speaker 1: going to talk with a legend who is doing his
Speaker 1: part to make an impact on his community during this
Speaker 1: challenging time with us today. Is one of the people
Speaker 1: who actually helped inspire this podcast series, so I'm most
Speaker 1: grateful to him, the Great Receiver Brandon Marshall. Brandon and
Speaker 1: his wife Mishi recently created a program called Few the
Speaker 1: front Lines, which provides much needed recovery, space, tools, and
Speaker 1: nutrition to healthcare workers doing this COVID nineteen pandemic. Welcome Brandon.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, and you're so nice. You're talking
Speaker 1: about a legend. Oh my goodness. I mean you're the
Speaker 1: ultimate legend, not only on the field but off the field.
Speaker 1: Love what you're doing in the community and and with
Speaker 1: people around the world. So thanks for having us and
Speaker 1: and thank you for paving a way for men like myself,
Speaker 1: like Shawn, what we're supposed to be like. This is
Speaker 1: like you know, you you set the example. This is
Speaker 1: what the NFL player looks like. This is what the
Speaker 1: NFL family looks like. You know. So coming in and
Speaker 1: just catching balls and and taking all the good from
Speaker 1: the NFL not giving back. Uh, it's not the way
Speaker 1: to do it. And uh, I really appreciate you. So
Speaker 1: what we're doing with few of the front lines, um,
Speaker 1: really is an extension of not only you, but all
Speaker 1: of our greats in the NFL. Don't the work that
Speaker 1: you guys have done. So you're trying to give me
Speaker 1: the cry before we even get to talk you here, right,
Speaker 1: because legs right, especially you, you know you're known to
Speaker 1: get emotional. But thank you for those kind words. But
Speaker 1: really we're living, probably doing one of the most challenging
Speaker 1: times of the central let alone our generation. So before
Speaker 1: we start, this is the first time we've had you
Speaker 1: on and it was your idea to Tracy Pearlman about
Speaker 1: recreating the experience of guys talking openly about all topics
Speaker 1: in the hot tub cold tub that helped lead us
Speaker 1: to create this podcast. So thank you for doing that.
Speaker 1: And Brandon, real quick speak, Why the I have a
Speaker 1: program I do with men I call the locker room
Speaker 1: and now the hot tub. Why don't you initially tell
Speaker 1: whoever's listening, why the that hot tub locker room experience
Speaker 1: is so important? Well, let's go back a couple of years.
Speaker 1: I was in York plan for the Jets and um
Speaker 1: calling calling Kaepernick hit right, and this was a big deal.
Speaker 1: And you know, we go through media training, we have
Speaker 1: people coming out, come out every single year to talk
Speaker 1: to teach us how to present in front of the world,
Speaker 1: in front of our beat reporters and writers, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, this calling Kaepernick hick thing hits And we're
Speaker 1: all in the locker room as players, like, Okay, what
Speaker 1: is our message? What how do we feel about it?
Speaker 1: You know? And in the New York Jets locker room,
Speaker 1: we were trying to collectively come together and be on
Speaker 1: the same page because we didn't want a distraction. But
Speaker 1: we understood how big the topic was and how important
Speaker 1: the moment was. So I look up, you know, after
Speaker 1: a day or two of us, you know, trying to
Speaker 1: figure out like how we need to keep our team
Speaker 1: together and respect people's you know, point of view. I
Speaker 1: got myself, I got Nick main Goal, had Eric Decker. Uh,
Speaker 1: we had Ryan Fitzpatrick, we had Matt Forte. We may
Speaker 1: have had you. No, we didn't have British the brickishaw
Speaker 1: Ferguson here retired. We had these legends sitting in a
Speaker 1: hot tub before practice talking about this major moment in
Speaker 1: sports and in history. Uh. And I'm like, Wow, you
Speaker 1: have Nick Mango from somewhere in the country. You have
Speaker 1: Eric Decker from Minnesota, myself from the city, inner City,
Speaker 1: who I've seen some of the things that Kaepernick was
Speaker 1: standing up for. You have Running Fitzpatrick, this kid from Harvard.
Speaker 1: So we all have these different point of views. But
Speaker 1: we were able to have a respectful conversation where we
Speaker 1: heard each other out. And I remember back then that
Speaker 1: was the biggest thing was we weren't listening to each other.
Speaker 1: We were just yelling, screaming at each other, or we
Speaker 1: were trying to be right. And we felt like to
Speaker 1: get the get the men sitch out there and to
Speaker 1: actually be proactive and in this whole moment be beneficial
Speaker 1: for a country, for a world. We had to have
Speaker 1: the right conversations and people had to listen. So that's
Speaker 1: the whole That was the whole thing about the hot tub.
Speaker 1: We're having a real conversation. You've got you know, guys
Speaker 1: from different parts of the country coming together and we
Speaker 1: were listening. So to me, that's the hot tub and
Speaker 1: that's the locker room. That's the amazing thing about the
Speaker 1: locker room. I whatever, wherever I come from in my
Speaker 1: belief like, that's one thing. But when we come in
Speaker 1: that locker room, we respect each other and we have
Speaker 1: one mission. We have one mission that's to go win.
Speaker 1: We have one mission that's to be you know, that
Speaker 1: the the ultimate jet, that ultimate ram, that ultimate stiller.
Speaker 1: Uh So we put those things to the side and
Speaker 1: we collectively come together. And what happens, it's so magical
Speaker 1: in the locker room is when we actually come together,
Speaker 1: you know, we start understanding the other side, things that
Speaker 1: we've never seen before, things that we never even thought of,
Speaker 1: because we respect the man or the woman alongside of
Speaker 1: us through sport. You know, Brandon, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you got me thinking. Man. Last week I was on
Speaker 1: the call with the White House where it was a
Speaker 1: conversation about the disproportional Oh, Yeah, just just just just
Speaker 1: throw that out there. Last week I was on with
Speaker 1: the White House, like, let me tell you what I'm
Speaker 1: saying that it was really about the disproportional impact that's
Speaker 1: happening in many of our African American munity that's relates
Speaker 1: to the virus. But my point in making that so sling,
Speaker 1: like you're telling me all we gotta do is get
Speaker 1: the Democrats and the Republicans in the HOTA. That's that's right.
Speaker 1: Just get him on your podcasts and you're straight come out.
Speaker 1: I promise you. You You know. Yes, it's amazing. One of
Speaker 1: the things that sports, particularly football, it brings back the
Speaker 1: bigger crowds as relates to attendance and the diversity of
Speaker 1: social economically ethnicities all come together and then as a
Speaker 1: team just as you said, from all these different backgrounds.
Speaker 1: But to be able to learn how to listen is
Speaker 1: extremely important, particularly needed now and what we're facing in
Speaker 1: our country. But let's talk about few the front lines.
Speaker 1: Give me a description of what do you do what
Speaker 1: few the front lines? Two things, and these are things
Speaker 1: that you have done your entire Careerities are things that
Speaker 1: you coach other athletes. All these are things that Um,
Speaker 1: we do before and after practice, we recover on one
Speaker 1: end of the spectrum. Um, we're literally putting recovery rooms
Speaker 1: in hospitals. Were in over eighty hospitals, majority in the
Speaker 1: United States, but globally, we're in the UK, we're deployed
Speaker 1: in Germany, we're deployed in Canada, and we're literally putting
Speaker 1: recovery rooms in hospitals. What does that look like? Massage
Speaker 1: guns with their a gun, super simple, but making sure
Speaker 1: that the muscles and the bodies, all those eggs from
Speaker 1: standing on their feet for sixteen sometimes eighteen hours in
Speaker 1: a day, that they're able to treat themselves or treat
Speaker 1: each other. So we have these that's a mate. We
Speaker 1: have amazing content and and and and in pictures of
Speaker 1: doctors actually massaging each other with these massage guns. Still
Speaker 1: practicing social distance is amazing. Uh. And the other thing
Speaker 1: is the recovery pumps. So you guys didn't have this
Speaker 1: back in the day, but they came out with all
Speaker 1: these type of technology that helped us recover faster. And
Speaker 1: think about this, how many practices? Well you you did
Speaker 1: you have a toe injury? Yes, yeah, you had a
Speaker 1: toe injury. So you understand the importance of making sure
Speaker 1: your feet are healthy and they feel good because that
Speaker 1: literally has hurt a lot of our athletes are retired,
Speaker 1: a lot of our athletes, so you understand it. So
Speaker 1: these recovery boots, it literally pumps out all of the
Speaker 1: lack acid, all of the fluid from the feet, all
Speaker 1: the way up through the legs through the length. Note
Speaker 1: So now if you come into an NFL locker room
Speaker 1: or NBA locker room before practice, after practice, before games,
Speaker 1: after games, you'll see the entire team with these recovery
Speaker 1: boots on. It literally feels like you have new legs.
Speaker 1: Right when you do this, it literally pumps all of
Speaker 1: that gunk, all that junk out of your body through
Speaker 1: the lemp through the lymph nodes. Right. So that's the
Speaker 1: recovery rooms on the second. On the other end of
Speaker 1: the spectrum, we have to fuel them, uh, from a
Speaker 1: nutritional standpoint, the right way. So how we supplement. We
Speaker 1: talk about protein, we talk about glutamine, we talk about
Speaker 1: vitamins all the time as athletes, but now more than ever,
Speaker 1: we need our nurses, we need our doctors fueling correctly.
Speaker 1: We need them fueling like us because we still have
Speaker 1: two three months minimum to fight this thing that they're
Speaker 1: calling a beast. So if they're not, if they're not
Speaker 1: if they're not fit for the next patient, for the
Speaker 1: next month, for the next two months, what good is
Speaker 1: it to have all of these ventilators and all these
Speaker 1: resources and all these supplies when we don't have the
Speaker 1: staff to be able to use them. And that's my
Speaker 1: biggest concern, and that's where where this whole fuel of
Speaker 1: the front lines thing came from is because you know,
Speaker 1: having all the supplies and all that stuff is great,
Speaker 1: but we were already understaffed from a medical standpoint going
Speaker 1: into COVID nineteen. So think about that we have we're
Speaker 1: losing We're losing nurses and doctors daily. Uh. We have
Speaker 1: nurses and doctors rightfully, so a lot of validity, but
Speaker 1: are afraid to death because they may have, you know,
Speaker 1: an elder at home or a baby at home, so
Speaker 1: they're stopped. They're not even going to work anymore. So
Speaker 1: now we have the small population of caregivers that to
Speaker 1: in all of this pressure on their backs to to
Speaker 1: to to be the the solution to this major problem.
Speaker 1: So we need to do everything we can, not only
Speaker 1: from a supply standpoint, but also from a nutritional standpoint
Speaker 1: and a coverage standpoint, because they're literally saving our lives
Speaker 1: right now. Do you have some corporate partners that have
Speaker 1: joined in? Um? No, So it's been my wife and I. UM,
Speaker 1: it's been out my wife and I. But the NFL
Speaker 1: is doing a phenomenal job. Um. We're you know, the
Speaker 1: NFL is backing us, and they're actually giving us fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes during the NFL Draft to kind of talk about this,
Speaker 1: you know. So we're excited about the NFL getting behind us.
Speaker 1: So I would say, yes, we have one partner. Of course,
Speaker 1: it would be the NFL stepping up taking care of
Speaker 1: uh their family and and and and seeing what we're doing. Um.
Speaker 1: But what we're doing now is we're actually putting together
Speaker 1: that initiative. UM. I'm actually starting to talk about it.
Speaker 1: Before we weren't talking about it the last couple of weeks. UM.
Speaker 1: So we're going to we're setting out to raise two
Speaker 1: point five million dollars and we're just going to go
Speaker 1: to a hundred UM athletes. You know, it could be
Speaker 1: made up of a couple of athletes, a couple entertainers,
Speaker 1: a couple you know, prominent businessmen and women or families
Speaker 1: or companies, and we want a hundred hospitals that we
Speaker 1: serve daily, all right. Uh and it's it costs us
Speaker 1: around twenty two thousand per hospital. So that's what we're
Speaker 1: setting out to do. Now we're starting with, you know,
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft and bringing in others to tell this story.
Speaker 1: Do you have any players and a legends that are
Speaker 1: already connecting? Yes? So. Uh, we just made a hospital
Speaker 1: run yesterday. So we're at Memorial yesterday. Uh so Stefon
Speaker 1: Diggs came out. Uh, Jerry Judy, which is amazing. You
Speaker 1: got a kid that's probably gonna go top ten in
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft, the biggest one of the biggest moments,
Speaker 1: biggest days of his life, and the only thing on
Speaker 1: his mind right now is football is not everything right
Speaker 1: now and this kid is on the front line actually
Speaker 1: serving taking Ossai bowls and salads and ginger shots and
Speaker 1: um and different juices to our our our our nurses
Speaker 1: and doctors. You had JPP out there yesterday, so Jason
Speaker 1: Pierre Paul from Tampa Bay. Um, you have Bobby hard Man.
Speaker 1: There's so many guys. Those are just some of the guys.
Speaker 1: That came out recently, But there's so many guys down
Speaker 1: here in South Florida that is actually on the front
Speaker 1: line and helping us with this initiative. But again, you know,
Speaker 1: that's just once part of it. We're actually, you know,
Speaker 1: setting out to make an impact globally and we're in
Speaker 1: eight hospitals right now and we're excited about growing that
Speaker 1: and doing more. We don't want to just we don't
Speaker 1: want to be one of those initiatives where it's just
Speaker 1: you know, hey, we're here, just want to say thank
Speaker 1: you and just keep it moving. We're going to serve
Speaker 1: them every single day until this fight is one. Is
Speaker 1: there anywhere now Brandon where NFL players are legends or
Speaker 1: any potential corporate sponsors can connect what what you're doing? Yes? Um,
Speaker 1: all the information right now is on our our page,
Speaker 1: you know, if you scroll down, so it's the House
Speaker 1: of Athlete dot com. House of Athletes dot com And
Speaker 1: if you go down just a little bit on the website,
Speaker 1: you'll see a button where you can get involved. Also
Speaker 1: our nonprofit Project three seventy so Project three seven five
Speaker 1: dot org. You can go and you can donate. Now
Speaker 1: you can uh figure out ways where you can support
Speaker 1: and so all of the informations there, So thank you
Speaker 1: so much for that my pleasure. I can see so
Speaker 1: many guys want to get involved because just as you said,
Speaker 1: this is now those from we're we or us being
Speaker 1: stars on the field to now our truth stars and
Speaker 1: taking care of them because they're shining the most doing
Speaker 1: this challenge. Let me dovetail now and ask you how
Speaker 1: all does this initiative? How does that dove tell what
Speaker 1: your efforts regard a mental health awareness because you're a
Speaker 1: big proponent of mental mental health, so how does that
Speaker 1: connect with it? Yeah, that's a that's a great question. Um.
Speaker 1: So one of the things we actually last year we
Speaker 1: went through a bit of a transition, uh, because we
Speaker 1: we found that it's it feels and we know, through
Speaker 1: God nothing's impossible, but it feels at time it's almost
Speaker 1: impossible to make the impact or start the conversation that
Speaker 1: we need in the mental health community, uh, to actually
Speaker 1: move the needle when you're dealing with the clinical side
Speaker 1: of it, when you're dealing with the stigma side of it.
Speaker 1: So we made a shift last year before all of
Speaker 1: this where we said, you know what, we're not gonna
Speaker 1: come on this end of the spectrum and talk about
Speaker 1: you know, bipolar or depression or exact anxiety and lead
Speaker 1: with that we're actually gonna come on the end of
Speaker 1: this side of performance. Let's just unlock our full potential
Speaker 1: no matter where you're at in life. So we started
Speaker 1: this whole deal that if people if we can get
Speaker 1: people to come in and say, you know what, I
Speaker 1: want to lose weight, I want to get my cholester
Speaker 1: all down, I want to cut my body fat or
Speaker 1: my b and I in half. If we can get
Speaker 1: people in there and then start the conversation about wellness
Speaker 1: and then get them into our our yoga class, will
Speaker 1: put you know, quotation marks around that, and we started
Speaker 1: the conversation about hey, guys, um, sometimes you can be
Speaker 1: on either end of the spectrum. There's a thin line
Speaker 1: between performance and and and and impairment. You know, there
Speaker 1: may be some people dealing with anxiety, mean, some people
Speaker 1: may want to learn more about meditation or how do
Speaker 1: I get in that zone as that professional athlete zone.
Speaker 1: And through that we've made a bigger impact faster than
Speaker 1: it the ten years we spent on the nonprofit side.
Speaker 1: So we feel that the wellness conversation shi um. It
Speaker 1: needs to be a three sixty conversation. We can't just
Speaker 1: talk about mental health, Like if we want to unlock
Speaker 1: our full potential, we have to talk about five things,
Speaker 1: and these five things are the pillars, and these pillars
Speaker 1: should make up our lifes down. If you do this,
Speaker 1: you'll luck your five your your full potential. Number One,
Speaker 1: we all have to train. We were designed to move.
Speaker 1: We're not designed to be couch potatoes, were not designed
Speaker 1: to put their w own things in our body, So
Speaker 1: we preach training. The second pillar for us is fuel.
Speaker 1: We all need to fuel correctly. What are we putting
Speaker 1: in our bodies from a macro nutrient standpoint, and if
Speaker 1: you can't get all of those macronutrients through food, you
Speaker 1: have to be able to supplement. The third thing is
Speaker 1: being mentally fit. So there's that mental health component starting
Speaker 1: that conversation about no matter what in the the spectrum
Speaker 1: you are, if you surround yourself with the right people,
Speaker 1: get the right help, you can be your best self. Okay.
Speaker 1: The fourth thing is recovered. Recover is key whether you
Speaker 1: have a bad back, you have a bumpny, or if
Speaker 1: you just need to go on vacation. Recover is key,
Speaker 1: and the last thing is tried, like having a team
Speaker 1: of people you can do life with. We gotta do.
Speaker 1: We have to be in the community. We were we were,
Speaker 1: we were built to do things and do life with
Speaker 1: other people. So that mental health deal it lives in
Speaker 1: all of that. You can't do one without the other. Brandon,
Speaker 1: I've always heard about your I guess your vision when
Speaker 1: it came down to mental health. Let's let's now go
Speaker 1: back to you. Where did you grow up? Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Yeah, we're poor, the poorest, the poorest county
Speaker 1: in all of Pennsylvania. Pitch Bird, you mean the home
Speaker 1: of the Steelers. That's right, still city. So when did
Speaker 1: you realize you needed to get help from a mental
Speaker 1: wellness standpoint? Two thousand and eleven. Uh, just came off
Speaker 1: of signing a big deal in two thousand and ten.
Speaker 1: Four years in Denver, played there. There's some amazing things
Speaker 1: ship to my the Miami Dolphins. The first year, um
Speaker 1: was the first year. That was the first year where
Speaker 1: you know football, there was things on the field that
Speaker 1: I couldn't control. Like football. The football field was always
Speaker 1: my sanctuary. I could all no matter what was happening
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood. No matter what was happening at home,
Speaker 1: I would be able to go to the football field
Speaker 1: and just absolutely be a beast and crush it. And
Speaker 1: then there was a couple of practices where you know,
Speaker 1: I had so much going on off the field. My
Speaker 1: story is not unique at all. Probably our girls and
Speaker 1: guys deal with the same thing, but all of us,
Speaker 1: not all of us have the same coping mechanisms or
Speaker 1: have the tools and skills to be able to self regulate.
Speaker 1: I didn't have that. So two thousand and ten football
Speaker 1: something was going on there. Let's fast forward to two
Speaker 1: thousand and eleven. I go to Ricky Williams. I say, Ricky,
Speaker 1: do you think I'm bi polar? You know, because like
Speaker 1: I literally come into practice and or in the work
Speaker 1: sometimes and like I'm gonna keep my mouth so I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say anything. And Ricky looked at me. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys may have heard Ricky Williams before
Speaker 1: and it's like Michael Jackson voice, He's like brand. Then
Speaker 1: he said, no, I don't think you're bi polar. I
Speaker 1: just think you say the things that we all want
Speaker 1: to say but won't say, right so I'm like, okay.
Speaker 1: And the reason why it was it was important for
Speaker 1: me to go to Ricky because remember Ricky was living
Speaker 1: in a tent in Australia. He walked away from twenty
Speaker 1: something million dollars when left football, remember and that, and
Speaker 1: when he had this documentary came out and then part
Speaker 1: of the documentary he showed there was a part of
Speaker 1: it where he was on he was in Waltham, Massachusetts
Speaker 1: at this hospital working with Dr Dunderson. So I was
Speaker 1: asking about it cause I'm like, how's how does this
Speaker 1: guy go from that to now being this for nomen
Speaker 1: ain football player, phenomenal teammate, this phenomenal man. He'd be
Speaker 1: sitting in the hot tub reading a book, which was
Speaker 1: kind of like like this isn't this this the locker room?
Speaker 1: What is this? So through that I said, Ricky, well
Speaker 1: I need to connect with that doctor that worked with you.
Speaker 1: So anyways, I end up going to uh McLean Hospital.
Speaker 1: Spent three months there in the outpatient program, diagnosed with
Speaker 1: the borderline personality disorder UM and I was in dialectical
Speaker 1: behavior therapy, mentalization therapy, self assessment. I did neurological tests,
Speaker 1: I did a cognitive uh, test just to see if
Speaker 1: I was capable of change, and um, you know, I
Speaker 1: put in the work. I would literally be on campus
Speaker 1: from eight am to five pm every day. After that
Speaker 1: I'll go to re Box headquarters and work out and
Speaker 1: train because it's the year of the lockout, and um,
Speaker 1: it was. It was. It was the most phenomenal experience
Speaker 1: for me. You know, I gave my life to Christ
Speaker 1: the year before, and I thought everything was gonna be great,
Speaker 1: and I thought, Man, all my problems gonna go away.
Speaker 1: Things got harder, things got order for me. And then
Speaker 1: I found myself praying, like, Man, help me break this cycle,
Speaker 1: and you know, answer this prayer, give me clarity. And
Speaker 1: it wasn't until I was halfway through that program at
Speaker 1: McClean Hospital. I'm all my knees praying, and I well,
Speaker 1: I started my morning's pray praying and I get on
Speaker 1: my knees halfway through. Um that my time there, and
Speaker 1: I go to pray to start my day and I
Speaker 1: couldn't pray. It was just like like I was laughing.
Speaker 1: I literally was laughing. That was the first time I
Speaker 1: was able to really feel and see a prayer answer.
Speaker 1: And I was like, Wow, he's helping me. This is
Speaker 1: he's he's actually breaking the cycle right now. You know,
Speaker 1: this is this is the most clear vision I've ever had.
Speaker 1: So two thousand and eleven is when I knew, and
Speaker 1: it happened on the football field. I dropped four passes
Speaker 1: and I said, wow, that's never happened before. What is
Speaker 1: going on in my mind? What's happening to my brain?
Speaker 1: And that's when I called Dr Gunderson at McClean hospital.
Speaker 1: So as we was out branding, here's the question, because
Speaker 1: we do a check in early morning eight thirty every
Speaker 1: morning with the whole family. We check in and part
Speaker 1: of my question this morning was how do you feel
Speaker 1: no work? What are you guys feeling? What do you
Speaker 1: recommend two people who are obviously staying home and dealing
Speaker 1: with may not even know what they're dealing with in
Speaker 1: terms of emotions. What in I guess, uh succinct way
Speaker 1: would you share what legends or anyone that's listening how
Speaker 1: to manage this pandemic and to stay at home? Are
Speaker 1: there any tips that comes to mind? I would say this,
Speaker 1: you know you you said pandemic right, um. A lot
Speaker 1: of us are experiencing anxiety, depression of isolation for the
Speaker 1: first time. And then there's some of us that are
Speaker 1: just actolutely used to this, right uh, like the probably
Speaker 1: the the patients like myself that's gone through this battle.
Speaker 1: It's like we're prepared for this. So I would say
Speaker 1: if you're either someone who's dealt with this before or
Speaker 1: if you've never dealt with this before, it's normal, right
Speaker 1: and you know, don't panic, seek help. Talk. Therapy is
Speaker 1: the number one thing we can do right now. And
Speaker 1: as men and and some of our legends out there
Speaker 1: just tuning in, you know, we're too maucho at times.
Speaker 1: We don't talk. We need This is not the time
Speaker 1: to do that. We need to talk. We need to
Speaker 1: open up. That's all I got for you. Hopefully they'll
Speaker 1: have somebody out there. You're you. You will help more
Speaker 1: than some people out there. And a great thing is
Speaker 1: this podcast is not consumed just by legends, and just
Speaker 1: as you spoke to the general public. Thank you so much, Brandon.
Speaker 1: This has been terrific. Thanks for joining us and thanks
Speaker 1: for listening in. The best is yet to come, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: thank you, m M. This has been the NFL Legends podcast.
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