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Speaker 1: Welcome to the OTP. I Mike Keith with ain me. Well, hello, Mike,

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Speaker 1: how are you great? How are you? I'm fine? Thank you.

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Speaker 1: On the eve of training camp, we are graced by

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Speaker 1: the presence of Titans General manager John Robinson, who doesn't

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Speaker 1: just walk in on us today. He sits down, takes

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Speaker 1: a chair, and is a scheduled guest on what he

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Speaker 1: refers to as the Beat. Welcome to the Beat. By

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Speaker 1: your presence is a little strong, but it's good to

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Speaker 1: be here with you. Guys. Let me ask you about

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Speaker 1: the dawn of training camp because I wonder if you

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Speaker 1: had the same thing that I had growing up. So

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Speaker 1: you're a few hours away from going to camp in

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Speaker 1: Union City, you get the last haircut, you go see

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Speaker 1: the girlfriend for the last time before you're gonna you know,

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Speaker 1: while you're gonna be away for a while, you spend

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Speaker 1: some time with the folks, maybe you hit the pool

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Speaker 1: one more time. But there's this feeling in your stomach

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Speaker 1: that it's coming and you're preparing for it. Do you

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Speaker 1: still get that today as an NFL general manager like

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Speaker 1: you got it when you played football at Union City? Yeah? Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Like once we break for the summer, um you know,

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Speaker 1: it's like the last day of school and everybody, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you're you're cram the first two weeks um with

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Speaker 1: family activities. Um. We we took a trip to summer

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Speaker 1: last probably four or five days leading into um, you

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Speaker 1: know when we reported back here staff wise on Sunday. Um,

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Speaker 1: smell the grass cut and there's you know, there's a

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Speaker 1: heavy do out there. It's like, yeah, it's it's football,

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Speaker 1: and you start to get that itch a little bit.

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Speaker 1: And um, you know, for us as a family, we

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Speaker 1: right before getting back. But it's good to be back.

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Speaker 1: You know, everybody's excited to get this twenty nineteen season

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Speaker 1: off and rolling. But but but that feeling and that churning

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Speaker 1: of football is here. I still get it. So here's

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Speaker 1: what I wondered about, John Robinson. You go on these trips,

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Speaker 1: you're away for five weeks, and you do you make

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Speaker 1: all this. How hard is it for you to totally

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Speaker 1: get your mind off of it, being that you are

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Speaker 1: the person who is the first man or woman in

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Speaker 1: this facility. Every single day it's you. There's never a

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Speaker 1: day that you don't think about something. You know, you

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Speaker 1: can unplug from it for a couple hours or something,

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Speaker 1: but you're you're always thinking about you know, what about

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Speaker 1: this or what about that? And you're thinking about the schedule,

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Speaker 1: and I'm thinking about the you know, the next year's draft,

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Speaker 1: and I need to try to get to see this

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Speaker 1: player because we're playing you know, this team in this city.

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Speaker 1: Well this game might work. Um, you know in the emails,

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Speaker 1: I mean they can always track you down now with

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Speaker 1: So as we get back to the football on the field,

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Speaker 1: how does your role shift a little bit? Well, it's

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Speaker 1: my busy time a Year's a running joke with Mike

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Speaker 1: Keith and I, um it does you know it's there's

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Speaker 1: there's different stages and I've said it for a lot

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Speaker 1: but the focus now is certainly being mindful of draft preparation,

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Speaker 1: which you know John Saugie and Ryan Cownten, they do

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Speaker 1: ready for the twenty twenty draft. And you you balance

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Speaker 1: that with you know, Brian Brian Gardner, Kevin Turk's Brandon

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Speaker 1: roster preseason evaluation and we'll create a board where, um,

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Speaker 1: what's funny is during the summer, I like to cook.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not saying I cook every meal at home,

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm not baking a cake or you know

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, it's kind of like I can

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Speaker 1: those are great? Can we make those every day? And yeah,

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Speaker 1: That's amazing. Mike is blown away. I am blown away.

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Speaker 1: I did not know that about you. I mean, most

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Speaker 1: most men when they say they cook, they grill, right,

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Speaker 1: that's the and you probably grill too. Yeah, and sometimes

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Speaker 1: I mean barbecue shrimp. One afternoon, just we had some

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Speaker 1: you really? Wow? That's a skill right there, making your

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Speaker 1: own barbecue sauce. That's a gift. I don't know that

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Speaker 1: when you can cook like that. Uh huh, Absolutely you do.

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Speaker 1: And it's an auto type one diabetes as an autoimmune disease,

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Speaker 1: we said, well, let's table that for a day or so,

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Speaker 1: let's think about that and make sure that's something you

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Speaker 1: cutting your own hair not that hard. I offered to

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Speaker 1: So um, thanks to Tay for stirring it away from that.

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Speaker 1: I probably would involved. She's in all of this, and

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Speaker 1: a multi position backup, Like if you're a defensive lineman

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Speaker 1: and you can't play defensive end or defensive tackle and

427
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:35,160
Speaker 1: nose tackle, if you're the third nose tackle, it's gonna

428
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:37,240
Speaker 1: be tough to make the team, you know. But if

429
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:41,000
Speaker 1: you're the backup nose and you can also play defensive

430
00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:44,440
Speaker 1: end or defensive tackle, well then you might have a

431
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:46,920
Speaker 1: little bit better chance of sticking around because you can

432
00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:49,919
Speaker 1: play a couple different spots. Um. So if you're the starter,

433
00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:52,200
Speaker 1: or if you're not a you know, if you're the

434
00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:55,400
Speaker 1: fifth receiver or you're the fifth safety, if you can't

435
00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:59,560
Speaker 1: can't play on special teams, it's just it's just tough,

436
00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:02,520
Speaker 1: you know, because you've only got once you get the

437
00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 1: game day. You've got you know, you've got forty six guys.

438
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,879
Speaker 1: Three of those are specialists, so you've really got forty three.

439
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:13,240
Speaker 1: One's a backup quarterback, so you've got forty two. You

440
00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 1: got to have guys to play in the kicking game.

441
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,000
Speaker 1: So how have you handled, like when you were doing

442
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,919
Speaker 1: the Union City rotary, how have you handled all the

443
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:25,080
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota questions in the offseason? Well, it's I mean,

444
00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:27,359
Speaker 1: I've I've said it. I feel like I'm a million

445
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:31,240
Speaker 1: times like, Um, Marcus has had a great offseason. He

446
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:36,200
Speaker 1: looked great, he's excited about the season. Um, he's done

447
00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:39,400
Speaker 1: everything that that we've asked him to do. Um, the

448
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,720
Speaker 1: most important thing is is he is our starting quarterback

449
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,720
Speaker 1: and and and we do we want him around here

450
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 1: for for a long time. But we've got we've got

451
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:50,159
Speaker 1: to stay health him. We got you know, there's a

452
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:52,640
Speaker 1: lot of things we got to do here, and UM,

453
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:54,680
Speaker 1: you know he knows that and he understands that. I mean,

454
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:57,000
Speaker 1: he loves his city and loves his team. And UM,

455
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,800
Speaker 1: he's been great. You know, he's really been good. This

456
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,719
Speaker 1: is not your first rodeo anymore. As a general manager.

457
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:05,919
Speaker 1: You've been through training camp a couple of times, and

458
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 1: you seem very calm, very collected. What keeps you up

459
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:16,440
Speaker 1: at night during training camp? Um, great question. Besides the dogs.

460
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,760
Speaker 1: Good job baby. Um. Yeah that was the old the

461
00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:23,119
Speaker 1: old curveball right out of the left field, Um, the

462
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:27,440
Speaker 1: twelve six. Yeah, it's it's it's just making sure and

463
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 1: and it's um, it's really guys, And you can't you

464
00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 1: can't certainly can't predict the future, but you just don't

465
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:40,240
Speaker 1: want guys to get hurt. Um. You know, it's it's

466
00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 1: frustrating when when you have somebody go down, um in

467
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:48,000
Speaker 1: training camp, because then you have to you have to

468
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:51,399
Speaker 1: scramble to try to find somebody to come in and

469
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:57,000
Speaker 1: take their place. And UM, it's just and they've worked

470
00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,960
Speaker 1: so hard to have the opportunity to get to the NFL.

471
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,439
Speaker 1: And you know, guys that have been in the NFL

472
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:07,960
Speaker 1: or that's whoever it may be, they're looking forward to

473
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 1: the season and and and winning a lot of football

474
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 1: games around here. And UM, i'd say that's the that's

475
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:17,680
Speaker 1: the main thing. It's just trying to pray against injuries.

476
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:22,600
Speaker 1: Has the Delaney Walker training camp plan been fully formed?

477
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:26,919
Speaker 1: We talked a little bit about him as well as

478
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,399
Speaker 1: several of our players. Um, you know, that's the big thing,

479
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 1: is just monitoring, especially when you know when you have

480
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:36,920
Speaker 1: some veteran guys, you've you've got to pitch count them,

481
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 1: you know, you've got to You've got to be mindful

482
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 1: of the amount of work that they get so that

483
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 1: they're ready to roll come September. But but also you

484
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 1: don't want to do too much with them so that

485
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 1: they're not you know, they're not ready to go. So um,

486
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 1: that's something that Mike and I and Todd Torselli our trainer,

487
00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,159
Speaker 1: and Frank Parano, our drink coach, we talk about, you know,

488
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,119
Speaker 1: the reps and who do we need to give a

489
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 1: day to hear? Who do we need to give a

490
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:06,159
Speaker 1: day off there? Um, just to make sure that that

491
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,200
Speaker 1: their bodies are I say it all the time. Let's

492
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,160
Speaker 1: make sure we get them to September, Like we got

493
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 1: to get them to September. Like I'm all set on

494
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:15,719
Speaker 1: some of these guys doing. They need to work, but

495
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 1: I don't need to see a lot of one on

496
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 1: ones just from an evaluation standpoint. I want to see them,

497
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 1: you know, on Sundays when we te this thing up

498
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,400
Speaker 1: with Luke Stock or not with you anymore, and with

499
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 1: the injuries that you had to end the season at

500
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 1: tight end, are you somewhat concerned about that position in August? No? So,

501
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 1: I mean I feel I feel good about it. Um uh.

502
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 1: Now you know, we got some the guys that are

503
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,639
Speaker 1: working back and um, and we had some guys that

504
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 1: were a little bit limited in the spring, but they're

505
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: good to go now. And um you know that we've

506
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: got some of the guys that that were limited in

507
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:52,560
Speaker 1: the spring, they've been here for the last couple of

508
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,359
Speaker 1: days and seeing those guys move around on the field

509
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: a little bit. Feel good about those guys. We added

510
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:02,120
Speaker 1: Ryan Hewitt um kind of at the end of camp there.

511
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 1: You know, he'll provide some death for us. He's played

512
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 1: in this league before, so um, yeah, I think I

513
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 1: think with that position group specifically, I feel you know,

514
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 1: it looked a little lean in the spring because we

515
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 1: had some guys that were well, let's be careful here.

516
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 1: But but but now you know, with another five six

517
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 1: weeks of rehabbing healing, I feel good. Along the same lines.

518
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:26,400
Speaker 1: Jack Conklin back and cleared to start training camp, which

519
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 1: it you know when you saw the list of pup

520
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 1: in the NFI with Jeffrey Simmons, the guys who were

521
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,880
Speaker 1: not ready to start camp because of offseason stuff. Sing

522
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 1: Conklin back was very exciting, or at least seeing him

523
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: not on that list. Sure, yeah, he's I mean he really,

524
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 1: I mean he had he had a good offseason and

525
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 1: a good summer break where he looks great too. He does. Yeah,

526
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 1: he's really mean, he's really put a lot of time

527
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 1: in this, you know, as you would expect a pro

528
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 1: to do. And um, you know I know that that

529
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 1: Jack wants to go out and have a great season. Um,

530
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 1: and and he's really really worked hard to hone his

531
00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 1: craft this offseason and um, over the summer breaks, and

532
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 1: he looked he looks good. He looks great running the

533
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 1: conditioning test the other day and looks good getting back

534
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: in kind of to the group out there, what are

535
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 1: you most excited about for the twenty nineteen Tennessee Titans season? Well,

536
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 1: I mean, hopefully we've you know, hopefully we can we

537
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: can win a lot of games, you know, I know

538
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 1: it's been well documented that we're one of six teams

539
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 1: that have had three consecutive winning seasons. There's only five

540
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 1: other teams in the National Football League that can say that,

541
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 1: I'm excited to get into Nissan Stadium, where our home

542
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 1: win percentage is sixth in the league. So there's only

543
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,239
Speaker 1: five other teams in the National Football League with a

544
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: better home record than than we have. And I know

545
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: our fans are excited and we need them to come

546
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 1: out like they they help us, Like they have just

547
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 1: as much to do with with with that sixth win

548
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 1: percentage as our team does, because the impact that they have,

549
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 1: you know, whether it's a third down or a red

550
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 1: zone and we're trying to hold them out on defense

551
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 1: or know we're it matters, you know, when when they're

552
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 1: rocking and rolling, it puts pressure on our opponents. And um,

553
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 1: we we've beaten a lot of good football teams in

554
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: that stadium, and um, you know, hopefully when we tee

555
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 1: it up, we beat you know, we we beat a

556
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 1: lot more this year. Some would say when Rabel's mantra

557
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 1: of good to great came out that, oh, why would

558
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 1: you say that publicly? Why would you put that pressure

559
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 1: on yourself? What would you say to that? Um when

560
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 1: he talked to me about it, I thought it was

561
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 1: a great idea. Like how you did that? Um, now,

562
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 1: it's uh, because we have we've we've we've been we've

563
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 1: been good. We've been good the last three years and

564
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 1: and and and that that is good. I mean, you

565
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 1: want to win more than you lose. But if you

566
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 1: really want to make a mark in this league, if

567
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: you wouldn't really want to make a mark in in

568
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 1: professional sports, why not aim to be great? Why not

569
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 1: why not start to build um a legacy here that

570
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: that can live on for for a long time. And

571
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 1: and it starts with it starts with bleeding. And that

572
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: was his messages. We've got to believe that we that

573
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: we can do that, you know, every single one of

574
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 1: us in this room, and then we can we can

575
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 1: start to hold each other accountable so that we're all

576
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 1: holding up our into the bargain to be great. And

577
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 1: we don't let, you know, the guy next to us,

578
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 1: in whatever role it may be, you know, slip back

579
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 1: to good or not good. Like, no, we're trying to

580
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 1: be great. And um, you know the players have certainly

581
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: embraced it. Um, I haven't any I haven't heard anybody

582
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 1: say great morning. Yet it's still good morning, you know,

583
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,479
Speaker 1: when walking through the building but when you ask somebody

584
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 1: how they're doing, it's always great. Better not be good.

585
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 1: I've been stopped on multiple occasions when I say good

586
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 1: and I'll use outstanding, I think that's great. It's kind

587
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 1: of a sin. That is fantastic. That's a centamym, cinnonym. Okay,

588
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 1: sent any will tricky words. It is hard. It's hard

589
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: for a broadcaster to say you can slip on that

590
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 1: one and it can get it can get a little

591
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 1: dice like a Ron Burgundy warm up. That's right. Hey, now, hey, now,

592
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 1: all right, So let's play fan here. So you know

593
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 1: I'm not playing fantasy football. You're not playing fantasy football.

594
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 1: Let's play fan here for just a second. I mean

595
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 1: you're We've got you for like three more minutes. So

596
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get in all that I can't. I

597
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: do real football, not fantasy. I know you do. I

598
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 1: know you do. But we do broadcast and we're going

599
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 1: to talk about ninety guys. We're not going to talk

600
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 1: about just the starters. So some people would say, why

601
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 1: are you interested in all these backstories? It's like, you

602
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 1: don't broadcast the preseason. No, nobody's being red shirted here.

603
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: These guys are going to play. So when these undrafteds

604
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: play and these and we love these stories, like Parker

605
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 1: Hessey from Iowa. Love this story, Love the Parker Hesse story.

606
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 1: Love that he's from walk on, Iowa, which and he

607
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 1: was actually not a walk on at Iowa, That he

608
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 1: played four sports, that he was a quarterback in high school,

609
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: that he ran four seven at the combine, That Iowa

610
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 1: played him at defensive end because they just had to

611
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 1: get him on the field because he's a good football player,

612
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 1: even though he's really not built like a defensive end.

613
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: He's not that long play And what does he do.

614
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 1: He turns out to be a really good player at Iowa,

615
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 1: and then you sign him and you're trying to make

616
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 1: him into a tight end and he looks like that

617
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 1: guy who could be that h back, that Luke Stocker type.

618
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 1: I mean he physically looks like it. How do we

619
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 1: watch these players knowing these stories that excite us and

620
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 1: not get too excited that we keep in perspective what

621
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 1: they have to do to really have a chance. That's

622
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 1: the fan question. Well, I mean, I think any time

623
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 1: with a story like like Parkers, like that's that's that's

624
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 1: an intriguing story to where where he's kind of his

625
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: backstory and now he's, you know, a professional football player.

626
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 1: So you mean you watch him with excitement, but he's

627
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 1: got a you know again, it's just like you know

628
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 1: when we're talking about Nate Davis. It's consistency on a day,

629
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: day in and day out basis. He's got to improved now. Yesterday,

630
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: besides the one drop, he looked like Tony Gonzalez. We

631
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: couldn't cover him. I'm not saying, Um, Robertson says, tight

632
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: end looks like headline. Um, from the standpoint, we couldn't

633
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,479
Speaker 1: cover him. He looked like Tony maybe another headline. Um,

634
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 1: but he was uh. And and there's a lot of

635
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 1: guys you know that that that are in that kind

636
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 1: of that boat. You know this. Um, he's done a

637
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 1: good job, Kenneth third and had a great I mean

638
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:50,840
Speaker 1: he was on our team last year. He had a

639
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 1: great off season. Um. DeAndre Payne from Iowa State like that,

640
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:58,320
Speaker 1: that's an interesting story, Like he had a really good um,

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00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 1: really good spring for us. Well, I mean, like the

642
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 1: Vanderbilt fans all know Ladarius Wiley. Sure, the poor guy

643
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: loses his dad in November out of nowhere and comes

644
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: back and plays against Missouri and finishes the season and says,

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00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 1: I'm with this team, and I mean his story is

646
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:18,359
Speaker 1: really That's the thing is we fall in love with

647
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:22,759
Speaker 1: these stories because you pull for these people, so we

648
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 1: get sentimental and emotional. Amy gets John Robinson does not

649
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 1: get attached the way that I get. She gets attached,

650
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 1: and it's sad. She will come in and be upset

651
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 1: when you cut somebody. But I have to get attached,

652
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 1: well I and I learned that a long time ago

653
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 1: and when when I, if I was ever afforded the

654
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:45,839
Speaker 1: opportunity and blessed to run a football team. You have

655
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:50,719
Speaker 1: to be void of sentimentality, so you can't get attached.

656
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 1: And because um, I have to manage fifty three guys,

657
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 1: and I have to look out for all the position

658
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 1: groups and for some of these some of these guys

659
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 1: they're on the outside looking in at a couple of

660
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 1: spots because we've got some pretty good players ahead of them.

661
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 1: But can they impress upon us enough the coaching staff,

662
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 1: the scouting staff and come in every single day and

663
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 1: treat people that around the building that the way they

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00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:21,399
Speaker 1: want to be treated, and so that I respect them

665
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 1: people in the building respect them. In turn, they get

666
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: respect to earn a chance to maybe be on the

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00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:28,359
Speaker 1: practice squad so that they can continue to hone their

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00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 1: craft and then maybe they're on the team next year.

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Speaker 1: You know, let's you never know. You know, Josh Khalue

670
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 1: last year, he was a rookie free agent. He came in,

671
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 1: we let him go. He ended up back on the

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00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 1: practice squad. He end up giving us some really meaningful

673
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 1: reps in the kicking game. He played five games in

674
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 1: the NFL at the end of the season. So there's

675
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 1: a guy who you know, it didn't kind of work

676
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:53,360
Speaker 1: out early, but he showed enough to come back and

677
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 1: work with and then he kept working during practice during

678
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: the season on the look team, and we needed somebody.

679
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: Well let's don't go sign this guy who's you know,

680
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 1: hasn't had a job, and let's bring up Josh and

681
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 1: give him a chance. You know, he's earned the opportunity.

682
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 1: So it's about like I said earlier, it's about earning.

683
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 1: It's about earning your spot. But that creates culture in

684
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 1: your building too. Because Josh Calu says to Parker Hessey, hey,

685
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 1: you keep working. This happened for me. It can happen

686
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,919
Speaker 1: for you. Correct, it's been done before, right, Like, it's

687
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 1: it's not an impossible task. Um, this is how I

688
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 1: did it. You might have another way of doing it

689
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 1: to kind of get there and get your foot in

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00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 1: the door and not leave here. Um, but you just

691
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:39,839
Speaker 1: gotta kind of figure that out. You got anything else,

692
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 1: because he's got to go, He's got actual things fast

693
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 1: forty minutes. Yeah, well, but it's time. I mean, it's

694
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:53,400
Speaker 1: time for this now. We've been sitting around baying for

695
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 1: of us seven months. It's time for ball now. I

696
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 1: mean I feel I smelled the grass this morning at

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00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: five thirty when I walked outside, and it was like,

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00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:05,320
Speaker 1: oh gosh, it's time. I mean, it's been a long

699
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 1: time since I put on pads and went through two days.

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00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: But you still that was like my opening question. You

701
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 1: still feel it. It still hits you and you're like,

702
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, this is this is here. Yeah, I'm excited.

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00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 1: I'm excited to get the vats back in here and

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00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:24,319
Speaker 1: and get get it kicked off this weekend with some

705
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: practices here at Saint Thomas, and then really excited about

706
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:33,399
Speaker 1: next weekend in the stadium that August third, scrimmage with

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00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 1: you know, JAKEO and the con. It's gonna be it's

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00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 1: gonna be a really really fun evening and um, you know,

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00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 1: I hope our fans come out and fill that stadium

710
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 1: up and watch our boys h work and then uh

711
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:49,800
Speaker 1: listen to Jake do a little picking in a grinning

712
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 1: as I used to say on he Hall. All right,

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00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 1: So six to eight Nissan Stadium on August third, Free

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00:38:56,719 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 1: Free ninety nine. Get out there, Jaco, and I think

715
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 1: there's fireworks afterwards. Heck, yes there are. It's gonna be

716
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,840
Speaker 1: like it'll end up lasting like until ten o'clock. Ja

717
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:09,720
Speaker 1: Cohen's good, really good. I mean that's that's a great show.

718
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 1: He's not good. He great, He's great. He is great,

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Speaker 1: He's great. I'm gonna bring some jumping Jacks. Don't remember

720
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 1: him jumping Jackson used to Jay some bottle rockets. I do.

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00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 1: Can I shoot those? Sure? I think you can. You're

722
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 1: the general manager. You can do whatever you want. Thanks

723
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 1: for sharing insight with us on some of the thought processes,

724
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 1: because I know people are I mean, we're fans first.

725
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 1: I mean that's really what why we do what we do.

726
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 1: And so the stories and watching the process and watching

727
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 1: the organization come together over the last three plus years

728
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:42,400
Speaker 1: into year four and looking at this team, people are excited.

729
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 1: And a guys stopped me at the doctor's office and

730
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 1: he said, Hey, I just I'm pumped, and it's like,

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00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: I'm too. I want to see this ball club. I'm

732
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:53,800
Speaker 1: I'm really excited about what you've got going here, and

733
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,239
Speaker 1: we're just glad to be along to watch it and

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Speaker 1: be a very small part. So thank you, thank you

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00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:01,479
Speaker 1: guys for we're not changing the name of the show

736
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:03,839
Speaker 1: to the Beat. Oh yeah, we got too many great

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00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 1: I mean, there's too many good graphics that'll just kind

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Speaker 1: of be our um, you know, kind of our behind

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Speaker 1: the scenes. It's really my behind the scenes. I'm the

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00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 1: only one that calls it that, so just to torment

741
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Speaker 1: us my inside, that's okay, it's terrible for John Robinson

742
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Speaker 1: and Amy Wells, I Mike Keith, thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: the show not known as The Beat, instead the Official

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Speaker 1: Titans Podcast. We call it the O t