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Speaker 1: This edition of the OTP will introduce follow Me Through Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: a series that we will run monthly through the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three season. The idea was hatched by an Amy

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Speaker 1: Amy made a comment last spring on the OTP about

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Speaker 1: my penant for finding special places in every county in Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: She makes fun of me about it, but it is true.

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Speaker 1: One of the best things about the job has always

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Speaker 1: been traveling to every corner of this state, meeting some

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Speaker 1: of the best people, talking Titans football, and discovering some

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Speaker 1: of the best places to eat that you can imagine.

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Speaker 1: This season will introduce you to five outstanding establishments the

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Speaker 1: great Titans fans will learn about atmosphere friendliness and wonderful food,

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Speaker 1: and a Titan's helmet will let you know that the

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Speaker 1: two tone Blue nation is always welcome. Follow Me Through

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Speaker 1: Tennessee will not only introduce you to those five restaurants,

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Speaker 1: but also to five talented people that accompanied me in

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Speaker 1: my twenty sixteen Nissan Frontier. On these trips, you can

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Speaker 1: catch the Follow Me through Tennessee features on Titans All Access,

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Speaker 1: on our social digital channels, and right here on the OTP.

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Speaker 1: On the OTP you'll actually hear our conversation from within

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Speaker 1: the truck. So for the first it's only fitting that

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Speaker 1: Amy Wells was my travel partner. If you've ever wondered

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Speaker 1: what our conversations are like off the air, you'll find

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Speaker 1: out here on this Labor Day weekend edition of the OTP.

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Speaker 1: We talk a lot of food, which we always do,

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Speaker 1: not just when Amy's pregnant, but all the time. But

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Speaker 1: with the Titans ten years ago. We hope it doesn't

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Speaker 1: bore you. We hope that it is a pulling back

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Speaker 1: of the curtain, a sharing, if you will. Whatever it is,

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Speaker 1: it is real. So stay tuned to Follow Me through Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: But on this edition of the OTP you get the

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Speaker 1: first reveal Amy Wells in my conversation from the ride

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Speaker 1: to Putnam County follow me through Tennessee on the OTP

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Speaker 1: presented by Farm Bureau Health Player. So are you interested

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Speaker 1: to know where we're going?

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Speaker 2: I am interested to know where we're going.

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Speaker 1: We are going east to silver Point, Tennessee. Okay, you

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Speaker 1: ever heard of silver Point, Tennessee?

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Speaker 2: I sure haven't been. Sounds like a place you've been to.

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Speaker 1: I actually have it. It's near Baxter, Tennessee. Bawns absolutely not. Okay.

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Speaker 1: So we're in Putnam County. Have you heard of Cookville, Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I've been to Cookville, Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: You've worked games in Cookeville, Tennessee? Have exactly right? All right,

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Speaker 1: So that's where we're going to that county, to silver Point.

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Speaker 1: And we're going to the Rose Garden Restaurant.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: The Rose Garden Restaurant in silver Point, Tennessee has breakfast, yes, lunch, yes,

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Speaker 1: all kinds of great things to eat. Part of the

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Speaker 1: biscuits are outstanding, love biscuits. But what they're really known

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Speaker 1: for it's a pie. Pie pie.

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Speaker 2: We're going for pie.

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Speaker 1: Yes, not three point one four. I'm talking about real

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Speaker 1: live pie. Ten different kinds of pie. People come from

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Speaker 1: all over the state, actually all over the South to

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Speaker 1: eat the pie at the Rose.

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Speaker 2: Garden Restaurant of the people. I want to try the pie.

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Speaker 1: He too, I've never been, really Coach Mack has been.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, okay, Coach Doug Matthews took Coach Mack when

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Speaker 1: they were over here recording a show, and Coach Mack

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Speaker 1: swears by the pie at the Rose Garden Restaurant. So

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Speaker 2: I have never had a bad dessert when I'm with

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Speaker 1: Silver Point, Tennessee, in Putnam County and the Rose Garden Restaurant,

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Speaker 2: All right, let's go.

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Speaker 1: Let's go.

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Speaker 2: How is there a place you haven't been in Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, there are a lot of places I

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Speaker 1: I would say i've heard of, like the Rose Garden Restaurant.

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Speaker 1: It's just my travels have never taken me to have

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Speaker 2: You were waiting for me to come. Move.

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Speaker 1: Well, yes, let's go with that.

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Speaker 2: That's what you should have just that was your answer.

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Speaker 1: That was my correct answer. But you are going, I am,

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Speaker 1: and you know you have been incredibly healthy through both

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, I try and eat off fruit or vegetable,

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Speaker 2: Normal diet, but I do. I try and be aware of,

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Speaker 2: not the only person that is being impacted. But my

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Speaker 2: So being able to go and have pie.

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Speaker 2: Uh? Yes, In my first pregnancy, I wanted sour things.

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Speaker 2: I want salty, and I wanted sour. This time around,

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Speaker 2: I want sweet. I want sweet and spicy.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. It's more that whatever I'm eating, I

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Speaker 1: Don't that's not usually your game. No.

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Speaker 2: I like a good spice, but I don't like things

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Speaker 2: I don't like to cross that line. You know. I

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Speaker 1: I don't know, why does it sound healthy?

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Speaker 2: Oh no, it probably isn't, but it's just what I need,

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Speaker 2: Like a spicy pad tie. Oh man, Okay, yeah, Like

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Speaker 1: I don't think the pie is gonna be, but I mean, hey,

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Speaker 1: Well, we're gonna get you in the middle of it,

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Speaker 1: that's for sure.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, I just all the pie. Would you say?

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Speaker 1: There's ten ten different kinds of pies sit there. They're

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Speaker 2: Oh, a coconut pie. There's not much better.

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Speaker 1: But here's the problem. Really, the kind of pie like

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Speaker 1: cherry pie. But the problem, that's right, warrant cherry pie.

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Speaker 1: She's my cherry pie. But my whole thing now is

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Speaker 1: as an adult, I don't eat a lot of sweets.

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Speaker 1: So when I'm gonna do sweets, I want chocolate, okay,

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Speaker 1: because I don't want to waste the calories'es like, I'm

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Speaker 1: not wasting calories on pumpkin pie generally, and I like

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Speaker 1: pumpkin pie. But the thing is, I'm just not gonna

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Speaker 1: for something chocolate. That's why I like the dairy Queens.

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Speaker 2: See, I prefer on the whole a fruit based dessert.

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Speaker 2: I like fruit pies. I like fruit mixed into my

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Speaker 2: cheesecake or something like that. I like treat. However, there

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Speaker 2: is nothing like a good cream based pie like likedge pie,

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Speaker 2: fudge pie, a good coconut cream pie, a lemon pie.

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Speaker 1: Like lemon It's not my favorite.

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Speaker 2: The only pie I've ever encountered is in Indiana. They

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Speaker 2: love the butter pies. Oh the butter pie. It's crow.

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Speaker 2: Don't even don't even go down the road. You live

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Speaker 2: to eat the butter pie.

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Speaker 1: It's not who told you that?

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Speaker 2: Okay, they have it in the press box for every

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Speaker 1: Butter pie.

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Speaker 2: Butter pie. It's like you know chest pie. How there's

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Speaker 2: of the layers to it. There's like the lower layer

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Speaker 2: and then there's the chocolate top layer. Right, it's only the.

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Speaker 1: Lower layer it's just why not just go eat a crust.

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Speaker 2: It's it's kind of what it is. It's like crust

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Speaker 2: of a like a pecan pie, but no pecan.

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Speaker 1: I've never heard of this.

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Speaker 2: It's gross. I mean unless you're from Indiana, and then

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Speaker 2: it's everything you've ever wanted in your whole life. But

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I have nothing against people from Indiana,

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Speaker 2: From she probably knows about butter pie.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think so. But pie, I've gotten a

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Speaker 2: Oh see, you're a better man than I am. I

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Speaker 1: If you bring a play off.

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Speaker 2: But here's the thing, though, there has to be solidarity

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Speaker 2: I don't, that's a bad look for me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's your problem.

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Speaker 2: So you're just gonna hang me out to drive?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, it's going to happen.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad we've established as earlier.

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Speaker 1: I've established the rule every man for himself. It's exactly

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Speaker 1: we brought him some stuff from Hershey, Pennsylvania one time

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Speaker 1: and he ticket he hit it somewhere. He's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much, and then he just left for

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Speaker 1: just not sharing you hit it. Yeah, and Michelle does

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Speaker 2: That's smart. That's a great play.

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Speaker 1: It's not very uh, it's.

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Speaker 2: Not very friendly. But if it was a gift for you,

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Speaker 2: protect what's yours? Because I don't do that. I'll just

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Speaker 2: I tell every person that I know that moves to Tennessee,

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Speaker 2: Be kidding, Well, I mean no, because nobody's like bringing

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Speaker 1: Well, and I've.

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Speaker 2: Never brought a throw away dish to church. No, you

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Speaker 1: But I don't eat like this anymore. I don't have

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Speaker 2: Least three nights a week because things get a little

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Speaker 1: And the thing is, even if, like you know, I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I know that I don't mess with it.

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Speaker 1: I know, oh I know. But the thing about what

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Speaker 1: I think it's better for me. Yeah, I don't think

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Speaker 2: I think it's for me. It's better for my mind.

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Speaker 2: I call intern food, which is internod It's what I

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Speaker 2: you know of pretzels and peanut butter, peanut butter on everything,

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Speaker 1: By the way, just to stuck here. I think they've

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Speaker 2: I'll eat that.

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Speaker 1: I think there's a peanut butter pie, So go ahead.

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Speaker 2: With your story. Yeah I'll eat that. But anyway, so

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Speaker 2: I keep these things in the house because they're easy

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Speaker 1: You know something else that we're going by, the Lebanon eggsit.

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Speaker 1: This is where cracker barrels start. This is where the

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Speaker 2: Wait, Cracker Barrel started in Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: Lebanon, Tennessee, not Lebanon. You know. That always lets me,

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Speaker 1: Lebanon is where cracker Barrel started. Now you think about

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Speaker 2: How did I not know this? They are biscuits and Gravyes, phenomenal,

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Speaker 2: it's really good. And little plug for cracker Barrel. Okay,

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Speaker 2: they're catering phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: Where did you have Cracker Barrel cater.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you for asking. My Keith, Cracker Barrel played

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Speaker 2: a big part in catering my Thanksgiving this year because

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Speaker 2: I was like, I do not have the mental capacity

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Speaker 2: what I did do is I got a turkey and

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Speaker 2: but phenomenal, I sure did. Thank you. Yeah, hash brown casserole,

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Speaker 1: I like their green beans a lot too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and baked apples.

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Speaker 1: Tapples are good.

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Speaker 2: Yep, if you're seven, No, all the time, because you

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Speaker 2: eat them, Okay, ate them for Thanksgiving dinner and then

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I can't do bake tables. I'll just have it.

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Speaker 1: I'll just have an apple.

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Speaker 2: If I'm having an apple, you're so healthy?

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Speaker 1: No, but I just I know, not lame.

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Speaker 2: Those baked apples are good.

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Speaker 1: I can get after some cracker barrel that.

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Speaker 2: Is apples in butter social.

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Speaker 1: You just found out the cracker barrels in Lebanon. Great

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Speaker 1: job by you there, that's amazing. You've only been here

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Speaker 1: ten years and you failed that. You've never heard Where

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Speaker 1: are you actually from?

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Speaker 2: I get emails from them.

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Speaker 1: For cracker barrel.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, more of my conversation with Amy Wells. But first,

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Speaker 1: Hay Titans fans, it's always game on with Duncan, so

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Speaker 1: grab a coffee and kick off the action. Whether that's

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Speaker 1: at home, Duncan is always there to help you get

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Speaker 1: your game on. Just like the pros, we need to

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Speaker 1: Duncan is the most important part of your game day

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Speaker 1: ritual because it's always the best call for football. Remember,

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Speaker 1: America runs on Duncan.

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Speaker 2: Where am I actually from?

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Speaker 1: Where are you actually from?

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Speaker 2: I am actually from Columbia, Missouri.

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Speaker 1: That's not where you were born.

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Speaker 2: That's not where I was born, but that is the

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Speaker 2: are you actually I was born in Bloomington, Illinois.

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Speaker 1: Bloomington, Illinois.

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Speaker 2: Bloomington, Illinois. Yes, so I've lived there for exactly six weeks. Okay,

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Speaker 2: so not really from there. I mean they've been there

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Speaker 2: maybe one other time. Moved to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, home of

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Speaker 2: until I've seven. Spent a brief ten months in Tays Valley,

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Speaker 2: West Virginia.

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Speaker 1: Where is that in West Virginia?

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Speaker 2: It is directly in between Huntington and Charlestown, so live

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Speaker 1: So you're from Columbia, Missouri.

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Speaker 2: So I'm from Columbia.

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Speaker 1: Because we moved to Franklin when I was in fifth grade.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. I moved somewhere in grade school.

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Speaker 1: And that's where you grow up. I agree. That's not

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Speaker 1: I would say.

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Speaker 2: Frank it's where you became a person.

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Speaker 1: I don't know about that.

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Speaker 2: I became a person in Columbia, Missouri. I also went

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Speaker 1: Theoretically, Yeah, I think so. Well, that's interesting. But I

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Speaker 2: I've I bounced around early.

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Speaker 1: But then you were in Baltimore.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing that a lot of Titans fans can't.

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Speaker 2: Get over about you, that I worked for the raven.

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Speaker 1: Yeah you were ravens Amy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well I wasn't even I was.

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Speaker 1: What did you do there?

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Speaker 2: Intern number two?

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Speaker 1: Intern number two essentially?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was a public relations intern. For the Baltimore

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Speaker 2: Ravens for my first year in twenty eleven, and it

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Speaker 2: was right after the lockout.

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00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:29,760
Speaker 1: Yep, Which when did you get there?

441
00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:34,440
Speaker 2: Oh? So I got there about six weeks before the lockout.

442
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,000
Speaker 1: Okay, so you got there in June. The lockout, I remember.

443
00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:41,719
Speaker 1: The lockout actually ended on July twenty seven. Yeah, and

444
00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:44,640
Speaker 1: I remember that because I was coming back. We did

445
00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:48,280
Speaker 1: a whole family cruise and I had essentially gotten no

446
00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:51,320
Speaker 1: news about anything. And the first thing that when I

447
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,919
Speaker 1: turned my phone on, it came up that we were

448
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,440
Speaker 1: going to go back to work because mister Adams was

449
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:58,720
Speaker 1: kind enough that he still paid us. Yeah, a lot

450
00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:02,399
Speaker 1: of teams did not continue to pay their employees. And

451
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:06,560
Speaker 1: I got two kids, and you know, and it's like, man,

452
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,280
Speaker 1: I need to keep getting paid, right, And so that

453
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:10,800
Speaker 1: was a big gets. So go ahead with your story.

454
00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:15,399
Speaker 2: So the Baltimore Ravens offered me the internship in June

455
00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:20,160
Speaker 2: on a Tuesday. I moved to Baltimore on a Thursday.

456
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:23,040
Speaker 2: I had never been there. I knew nothing about anything,

457
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:25,000
Speaker 2: just packed up my stuff and moved.

458
00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,960
Speaker 1: Why did you why did you even do that? Did

459
00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:29,840
Speaker 1: you always want to be in the NFL? Well?

460
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:33,800
Speaker 2: I wanted to work in football. It didn't occur to

461
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:39,479
Speaker 2: me that I had the option of going to the NFL.

462
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:43,479
Speaker 2: Like the idea that I could get any sort of position,

463
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:47,240
Speaker 2: internship or otherwise in the National Football League didn't occur

464
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:49,639
Speaker 2: to me. I thought that I was going to have

465
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,640
Speaker 2: to work in a college for a while and then

466
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:58,159
Speaker 2: you graduate to the pros, you know. But a friend

467
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:03,480
Speaker 2: of mine from my family's church back home, his cousin

468
00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:07,960
Speaker 2: worked for the Baltimore Ravens in their communications department. He's

469
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:13,359
Speaker 2: still there now, and so he set me up with

470
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:15,879
Speaker 2: Kevin informal interview just to get an idea of what

471
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,639
Speaker 2: his job is and everything. We ended up talking for

472
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 2: a really long time on the phone, and a couple

473
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,399
Speaker 2: weeks after that, he called an ast if I wanted

474
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:31,440
Speaker 2: to interview for their season long internship position. I said absolutely.

475
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:35,399
Speaker 2: Did the interview during a storm, so my phone kept

476
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 2: dropping the call because it was storming so badly in

477
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:44,440
Speaker 2: Colombia at the times. I had to keep calling them back. Yeah,

478
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 2: which is a great way to make a first impression. Yeah, yeah,

479
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:53,879
Speaker 2: I definitely was. And they ended up offering me the gig,

480
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 2: but the lockout was going on, so They basically said, Hey,

481
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:00,240
Speaker 2: we don't know when this is going to end or

482
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 2: if it's going to end, but when it does, we

483
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,480
Speaker 2: lead you here. So we don't know how soon you

484
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 2: can get out here, but we need you to be

485
00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:12,200
Speaker 2: here and just kind of on standby. So I said,

486
00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 2: how about it two days and they said great, and

487
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 2: I just packed up, but you all moved out there,

488
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 2: found an apartment. My dad had taken vacation time at

489
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 2: the same time, just kind of coincidentally, and so he

490
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:31,160
Speaker 2: moved out there with me and or helped me move

491
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,240
Speaker 2: out there, i should say, and hung out there for

492
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:37,320
Speaker 2: about six weeks, and then the lockout ended and I

493
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 2: started that day. I'm like, great, come on in training

494
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 2: camp starts tomorrow.

495
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:45,200
Speaker 1: So how did you transition for Baltimore to Indianapolis.

496
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 2: So my internship ended. I moved back to Columbia, Missouri,

497
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,440
Speaker 2: just back into my parents' basement, was there for a

498
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 2: couple of weeks and was just kind of reaching out

499
00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,520
Speaker 2: to people around the league. And Chuck Pegano had been

500
00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:02,200
Speaker 2: the defensive coordinator at the Ravens when I was there.

501
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:06,400
Speaker 2: He got the head coaching job with Poles, so I

502
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 2: Chuck Pagano was always so kind to me. He took

503
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 2: care of me. He always made sure that, like I

504
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 2: was alone on major holidays, and you know, I made

505
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 2: it to work on time, and he just kind of

506
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 2: looked out for me. Yeah, very Coach mac like very

507
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 2: very much so. And so when he got the job

508
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,879
Speaker 2: at Indianapolis, it kind of put the Colts on my radar,

509
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:34,480
Speaker 2: and so I just started ambushing them with calls and emails.

510
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 2: And there were a couple other coaches that ended up

511
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:43,640
Speaker 2: going with Coach Pegana over to indian So I had

512
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:48,680
Speaker 2: some character references and they they put in a good

513
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 2: word for me, and they ended up offering me the internship. Initially,

514
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 2: they just offered me a training camp position, so to

515
00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:01,440
Speaker 2: only be there during training camp. And then they had

516
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 2: a couple people, a couple of staffers who ended up

517
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 2: leaving and they needed the extra help. So they just

518
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:09,199
Speaker 2: asked me if I would stay. The day before I

519
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,639
Speaker 2: left to go to Anderson, Indiana, which is where the

520
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 2: Colts hold training camp, they asked me if I would

521
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 2: end up staying for the entire season. So I threw

522
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 2: like a couple extra T shirts and a lamp in

523
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 2: my car, and I was like, I guess I'll figure

524
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 2: it out when I get there, and I committed to

525
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,360
Speaker 2: the whole season again sight unseen. I'd never been to Indiana,

526
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:32,200
Speaker 2: I had never done anything. I just kind of rolled

527
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 2: into town and figured it out when I got there.

528
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 2: I'm not eating the butterfly, which I learned when I

529
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 2: got there.

530
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: But you had experience there, right.

531
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 2: I had a great experience there. Everyone I mean, I

532
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 2: know down with the Colts, but also everybody there was

533
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 2: very kind. I've kept in touch with a bunch of

534
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 2: people up there. You make a lot of fun of

535
00:28:54,080 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 2: me for being the Queen of Indianapolis. No, but I

536
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 2: think the city is really well designed for hosting events.

537
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:06,719
Speaker 2: I always enjoy when we go back there. We always

538
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 2: eat really well when we're there, so I enjoy. I'm

539
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 2: glad that India is so close, and I'm glad that

540
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 2: they're in our division because I enjoy having the opportunity.

541
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, we work with I mean, we want

542
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: to beat the Colts, bud every time we play them

543
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:22,720
Speaker 1: have six touchdowns, and they want to do the same

544
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: to us. That's that's how it is. But we work

545
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 1: with people. It's like, you know how I feel about

546
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: Bob Blaby who was there play by play announce series

547
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 1: are perceptionally nice man and a professional, and the guy

548
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 1: who's doing it now, Matt Taylor, is one of my

549
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 1: favorite guys. They have some really really nice folks that

550
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 1: you get to know over a period of time. I'm

551
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 1: not going to sit and say I love their organization

552
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 1: or anything, because there are competitors want to beat them. Yeah, bad, Yeah,

553
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 1: but are there certain people that we think are good folks? Sure? Well.

554
00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 2: That's the thing about working in the National Football League

555
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 2: as a whole. There's so few people that get to

556
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 2: do this, and you get to know the people who

557
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 2: are in your other position, so who have your role

558
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 2: for a different team, And you get to know the

559
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 2: pr staffs, and you get to know these people and

560
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 2: you form real relationships with them. Like the person who

561
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:26,719
Speaker 2: interned with me in Baltimore is now my daughter's godfather.

562
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 2: Like that's crazy, but that's the person that I made

563
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 2: strong relationships with. He's worked for other NFL teams. I've

564
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 2: of course worked for other NFL teams, but the friendship.

565
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 1: Remains at you year about our ja.

566
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 2: At a Super Bowl. Actually, I was at the Oh

567
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 2: my gosh, twenty I guess it would have been the

568
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 2: twenty twelve Super Bowl, so it was the Ravens and

569
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 2: the forty nine ers, and I was volunteering to work there,

570
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 2: as NFLPR people do or you to do. I don't

571
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 2: know if they still do that, but at the time,

572
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 2: if you needed a job in the NFL, you volunteered

573
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 2: your time for about ten days to go do PR

574
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 2: for the Super Bowl. Because there's such a huge influx

575
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,600
Speaker 2: of media that a team PR staff with three or

576
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 2: four people just can't handle that load. So the league

577
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 2: brings in a bunch of people to service support staff,

578
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 2: and that way the PR guys are able for the

579
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 2: teams that are playing are able to enjoy the experience

580
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 2: more so, I volunteered to go the Ravens, the team

581
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 2: that I had just left, were in the Super Bowl,

582
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 2: which was a real kick in the face, but it

583
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 2: made me very useful because I had relationships with a

584
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 2: lot of the players a lot of the staff, so

585
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 2: I was able to kind of be in certain places

586
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 2: and no one really noticed I was there because I'm

587
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 2: a familiar face, and so I was able to help

588
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 2: out a lot. But anyway, I'm telling people that I'm

589
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 2: looking for a job and kind of talking around. And

590
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 2: there was someone from the Tennessee Titans, Craig Peters, who

591
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 2: used to do a lot of Vikings, Yes with the Vikings,

592
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 2: did a lot of writing for the Tennessee Titans and

593
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 2: the website and all that before Jim Wyatt, and he said, well,

594
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 2: we have a position that's opening up. I know you're

595
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 2: doing PR and there's a lot of PR elements to it,

596
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 2: but it's also going to be kind of an an

597
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 2: on camera roll. Not sure if you'd be interested in

598
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 2: something like that. He could have told me that you

599
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 2: were washing the floors and I'd be like, oh, yeah,

600
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 2: I can do that. Like sure. I just wanted a

601
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 2: job in the NFL. I wanted to keep this thing going,

602
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 2: and so I sent in my information. I guess apply.

603
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 2: I guess he forwarded it along. I don't remember actually

604
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 2: applying for the job, but ended up having a couple

605
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 2: of phone interviews and then they brought me in for

606
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 2: a real interview. And never did I realize how on

607
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 2: camera heavy it actually was. I thought that it was

608
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 2: mostly a PR job, and so I came in.

609
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 1: You if you only knew the backstory.

610
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 2: I'm terrified to know the backstory because.

611
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 1: I don't I've never told you the backstory because I

612
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: don't really want you to know.

613
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 2: No, No, it's probably bad.

614
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: It's not bad, but it's it's fascinating.

615
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,880
Speaker 2: Well, I thought this was a PR job. It was

616
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 2: primarily and I did a like an on camera test

617
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 2: with you, and I thought, this is a weird thing

618
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 2: to do for a PR job, And I don't really

619
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 2: know how to do this, but I'll try, and I did.

620
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 2: And I don't know if that tape exists. If it does,

621
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 2: it needs to be destroyed.

622
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 1: No, I think it exists. Actually I don't know where

623
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: it is, but Jeff would know where. Jeff Harding would

624
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 1: know where.

625
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 2: But I don't want to say we talked about the Yep,

626
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 2: we did talk about the cult because.

627
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 1: I wanted to give you something to talk about that

628
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 1: I knew you would know.

629
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 2: Well, it's good you didn't ask about the Titans, because

630
00:33:58,120 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 2: I could, but that would have been fair. I couldn't

631
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 2: said five tips, but.

632
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: That wouldn't have been fair.

633
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 2: Yeah.

634
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: The whole idea was you've just been there, and I

635
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 1: was interested to see how much attention you had been paying.

636
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:13,839
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean that I had been paying a lot,

637
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:14,759
Speaker 2: but I got the job.

638
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:17,760
Speaker 1: Well, you talked about, you know, what their off season

639
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 1: moves had been, and what their strengths and weakness.

640
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:23,320
Speaker 2: We were talking a lot about their offensive line. Thinking

641
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 2: this is a weirdly specific thing to be talking about,

642
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 2: but that's what's top of mind right now.

643
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,479
Speaker 1: No, but that was what separated you in the whole thing,

644
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 1: because I told Gary Glenn right after we did it,

645
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 1: he said, he asked me. He said she didn't have

646
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: a lot on camera experience, and I said, oh no,

647
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 1: we can work with her because you you had the knowledge,

648
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 1: you understood what was important. That's what you were talking

649
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:51,800
Speaker 1: about in that bit with me is you were laying

650
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 1: out what was important for the Colts offseason, which told

651
00:34:56,160 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 1: me that you were plugged in to how they is

652
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:03,279
Speaker 1: work and what people are interested in, because you know,

653
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 1: that's the most important part of the job. Is you

654
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 1: can talk great. Yeah, you can look great, you can

655
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 1: package things great, you can write great. But if what

656
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: you're covering is something that people aren't interested in because

657
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Speaker 1: you don't get it, you have no chance. Yeah, and

658
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:23,239
Speaker 1: you got that.

659
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:30,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was a terrifying portion of the interviewed.

660
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Speaker 1: And I can make sorry that I don't. I mean,

661
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Speaker 1: I didn't seem terrified.

662
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Speaker 2: Oh no, fake it to you wake it?

663
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Speaker 1: Well, I get it.

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Speaker 2: But I didn't realize what the job was until a

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Speaker 2: couple of weeks later when I showed up for my

666
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 2: first day, which, oh, by the way, was going on

667
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Speaker 2: the Titans caravan.

668
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Speaker 1: In Cookville, in Cookville County.

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Speaker 2: Isn't that crazy? You signed autographs the serendipity of it, Yeah,

670
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:01,320
Speaker 2: which I was like, I shouldn't.

671
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 1: Be doing this, and you were all you were so

672
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Speaker 1: excited to sign on it as well.

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Speaker 2: No one had ever asked you for an autograph.

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Speaker 1: You were, you were, You're a little excited. We might

675
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Speaker 1: have chuckled a little bit about how excited you are

676
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Speaker 1: to sign autographs.

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Speaker 2: Oh I'm sure, sure you're talking.

678
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Speaker 1: Because you kept talking about how excited you were to

679
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Speaker 1: sign on it.

680
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,520
Speaker 2: Well, it blew my mind. Never had I ever and

681
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:27,320
Speaker 2: I thought I was a pr person until this exact moment.

682
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 2: And that's that's when everything kind of changed and I

683
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 2: realized what this job was going to be. And I

684
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 2: mean it's been it's been about that crazy of a

685
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 2: ride ever since. Yeah, like this ride, it's been great.

686
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Speaker 1: Seat Geek is now the official ticketing partner of the

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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. That's right, the deal is finalized in Seat

688
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:00,080
Speaker 1: Geek is the newest member of the Titans family. If

689
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 1: you haven't heard, we'll get used to it because you'll

690
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 1: be hearing it a lot more this season. Whether you're

691
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 1: buying or selling tickets to Titans games or any other

692
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 1: live event in Nashville. Seat Geek is the place to

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Speaker 1: do it. Seat Geek the new official ticketing partner of

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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. So, Titans fans, Kim fans, we just passed. Gordonsville.

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Speaker 2: Tell me about Gordon's.

696
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:28,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, great vill.

697
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 2: So this has heard you talk about that.

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Speaker 1: This is uh, this is one of those places you'll

699
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:35,759
Speaker 1: love because you love high school football. They are one

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Speaker 1: of the great single eight programs in the state of Tennessee. Gordonsville.

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00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:46,359
Speaker 1: I remember they had they had a they had a

702
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,319
Speaker 1: great all time team.

703
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 2: Yeah.

704
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty four won the Clinic Bowl, which was

705
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Speaker 1: the state championship against ECS out of Memphis. And then

706
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 1: they won another state championship eleven years ago when they

707
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 1: were able to beat I mean they'd bet they bee Huntington.

708
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 1: Tyler Cohen was the Tennessee Titans mister football that year.

709
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:17,440
Speaker 1: I think he was the lineman of the year when

710
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 1: we when there were less classifications, and we used to

711
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 1: do back in linement. Once they went to nineteen classifications,

712
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 1: we had to kind of cut it back because we

713
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: knew that show. Yeh'd be like the Academy Awards if

714
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,240
Speaker 1: they did all of the uh, if they did all

715
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 1: of the awards on TV, you'd be there for like

716
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 1: seven outs.

717
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:41,800
Speaker 2: You'd have to do lunch and dinner.

718
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 1: But so they have been to the state playoffs over

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00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 1: thirty times. I think it's like thirty five or thirty

720
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 1: six times, which is really amazing because until nineteen eighty five,

721
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 1: only the district winner went to the playoffs. Now it's

722
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: it's tiered. I think four teams each region go to

723
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Speaker 1: the playoffs, and you know, it gives people a chance.

724
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Speaker 1: In eighty five they went to two teams from each district.

725
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:13,799
Speaker 1: But yeah, they've won state championships and I remember Mark

726
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Speaker 1: Medley was their coach in eighty three and eighty four.

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Speaker 1: I think there were runners up in eighty three that

728
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:25,280
Speaker 1: won the state. In eighty four and then twenty twelve

729
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 1: they won it. And so it's one of those really

730
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Speaker 1: cool places where football is such a big deal. The

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Speaker 1: last I checked, I think the overall population of Gordonsville

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Speaker 1: was less than fifteen.

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Speaker 2: Hundred people, and yet they had.

734
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Speaker 1: And yet they have strong football, which is a community bond, Yeah,

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00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,879
Speaker 1: which is something phenomenal. That's why I love high school sports.

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Speaker 2: Well. And if there's anybody who knows where there's good

737
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:56,880
Speaker 2: high school football in this state, it's you.

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Speaker 1: Well, they were good when I was in high I

739
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:00,880
Speaker 1: mean they were a big story when I was playing,

740
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 1: and so I would read the newspaper, you know, because

741
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:05,760
Speaker 1: you were hoping you got your name in the paper. Yeah,

742
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: and you wanted to read about everybody else. And you know,

743
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:14,960
Speaker 1: Brad Cowen was their big star, and you knew all

744
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 1: these names, and they they were such a big deal.

745
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 1: And I still like to read all that stuff now, yeah,

746
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 1: because I think it's fun, you know, to think about

747
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,759
Speaker 1: you know those what a big deal it is to

748
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Speaker 1: those people. And your husband does an amazing job with

749
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:35,839
Speaker 1: our high school football stuff. And I mean, if if

750
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Speaker 1: I had been around and the Titans invited me to

751
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:40,400
Speaker 1: be player of the week or coach of the week

752
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: or to a campers, I mean I would have just

753
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Speaker 1: I would have gone crazy.

754
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Speaker 2: Well, it's it's such a cool thing to be able

755
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 2: to listen. There's so much more that they want to

756
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 2: be able to do when it comes to outreach, And

757
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 2: if the Titans had a staff of thirty eight people

758
00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 2: who could just be doing high schoo football things, it

759
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 2: still wouldn't be enough because there's so much that you

760
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 2: could do in so many areas, because the crossovers so

761
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 2: natural and so easy. But being able to just put

762
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 2: the Titans logo that means so much, just so many

763
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,920
Speaker 2: people around here on different things and let guys be

764
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 2: associated with that brand for a game, for part of

765
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 2: the Friday night football series that the Titans do when

766
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 2: they come out and they bring cheerleaders and they get excited,

767
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 2: or being a coach of the week or being the

768
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 2: game of the league, or just being associated with an

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Speaker 2: NFL brand and being able to wear that sticker, wear

770
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 2: that stamp. You know, it makes the entire game, the

771
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 2: entire school, and a lot of times the entire community

772
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:50,760
Speaker 2: the school is in feel like they're part of something

773
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:54,279
Speaker 2: so much bigger. To be associated with the CAFL it

774
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 2: makes everything that much.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Mike Rabel's.

776
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Speaker 2: Biggest champion of it.

777
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, he gets it. He gets it well because I

778
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:07,440
Speaker 1: mean he's still got pictures of him being the runner

779
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 1: up for state Player of the Year in Ohio when

780
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 1: Mark Edwards, the running back who went on to Notre Dame,

781
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:14,520
Speaker 1: was the player of the year and he was the

782
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:20,720
Speaker 1: runner up. And I mean, and we talk to guys

783
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:24,360
Speaker 1: all the time, and their college memories are special. Obviously,

784
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 1: their Titans memories are special. But none of that eclipses

785
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 1: high school stuff. No ever, no ever, And that's not fair.

786
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,479
Speaker 1: They can make all this money and buy all these

787
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:39,799
Speaker 1: cars and build houses and you know, all kinds of

788
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:43,279
Speaker 1: stuff and be famous and whatever. But man, if you

789
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 1: talk to Derrick Henry about Hughley, yep, I mean, he's

790
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 1: going to talk to you about that.

791
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 2: He'll talk to you about it. And there's always that game,

792
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:55,239
Speaker 2: you know, either that game where they balled out and

793
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 2: it was incredible and they just smile a grint fourth

794
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 2: of one that got.

795
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 1: Away when they got away, and that.

796
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:07,840
Speaker 2: One that will always bug them forever. And the fact

797
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:12,239
Speaker 2: that the high school sports can have that lasting and

798
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 2: impact on a person is I mean, that's the best

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Speaker 2: part of it.

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Speaker 1: It's crazy. Rose garden home style cooking.

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Speaker 2: There it's a real place.

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00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:23,880
Speaker 1: It's a real place. We're almost there. Here's Old Baxter

803
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:26,919
Speaker 1: Road and you're an ends. We're here, We're here.

804
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:29,240
Speaker 2: This really just sneaks right up on you, doesn't.

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Speaker 1: It says destination. This is it that does it for

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Speaker 1: this edition of the OTP. We hope that you have

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Speaker 1: a great holiday weekend. Brandy Wells and Mike Keith thanking

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Speaker 1: you for listening to the Oh Team. Welcome to the

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Speaker 1: big Weathers. Ever got a nose?

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Speaker 2: It's our house, Fine thoughts, making story clean. Miss big

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Speaker 2: As