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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the forty Niners Got Mail podcast sponsored

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Speaker 1: by Manscape. Excited this week to be joined by a

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports veteran sports broadcaster, Shannon Spake, who will be

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Speaker 1: on the sidelines for We'll kind of on the sidelines

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Speaker 1: for Sunday's matchup against the Seahawks. Shannon, first thing, we

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Speaker 1: made it. We made it to seventeen weeks of the

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Speaker 1: regular season. Are you surprised at all that we made

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Speaker 1: it this part? Yes, and and thankful and all of

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Speaker 1: the above. I I remember, I think it was like

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Speaker 1: week two or three that I just thought to myself,

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Speaker 1: I just don't know how long we're gonna do this,

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Speaker 1: like and and you know, I get tested every single

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Speaker 1: week for COVID, and every week I'm like, this is

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Speaker 1: the week, you know, this is the week that I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna be shut down. And yeah, thank goodness, and and

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Speaker 1: just it really goes to show just the NFL and

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Speaker 1: the players. You know, when we first started, obviously there

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Speaker 1: were zero okay, says I did the I covered the

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons game. I want to say it was maybe

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Speaker 1: week three or four, and we had the first player

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Speaker 1: that tested positive. And obviously we've had a lot of

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Speaker 1: positive tests and and a lot of contact tracing, but

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Speaker 1: they've continued to roll on, which I think is just

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Speaker 1: really uh, the adjustments that they've made in terms of

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Speaker 1: whether or not we play on Tuesday or wednesdayir Thursday

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Speaker 1: or whatever. It's just been great to continue and and

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Speaker 1: to get to the end of the season. Yeah, looking

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Speaker 1: at just everything you talk about going back and hearing

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Speaker 1: the first player that that tested positive for COVID, what

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Speaker 1: has been the biggest surprise for you looking at this

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Speaker 1: NFL season, the ups and downs players are going on

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Speaker 1: COVID list, some teams playing without quarterbacks. Is there's something

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Speaker 1: or someone that just has stood out over the course

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Speaker 1: of these last few months. Yeah, I honestly think for me,

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Speaker 1: the you know, obviously we know that fans and and

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Speaker 1: being a fan of of a team, they are what

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Speaker 1: make like the entire experience go. And I don't really

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Speaker 1: think that I realized until this season because I've done

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Speaker 1: games where there has been no fans. I've done games

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Speaker 1: where there's been five thousand fans, and then I was

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Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you, even when there's four to

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Speaker 1: You know that there is a difference. You can feel

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Speaker 1: how weird and strange and flat it feels when there's

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Speaker 1: no one in that in that stadium. And I don't

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Speaker 1: think that I really understood or appreciated that aspect of

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Speaker 1: it until it was taken away. Yeah, I think I

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Speaker 1: looking back at the fort season, I think they only

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Speaker 1: I think it was only three thousand, and then going

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Speaker 1: it was the closest thing to feeling like normal. I

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Speaker 1: know that word is not even a real word in

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Speaker 1: twenty but it was the closest thing I think that

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Speaker 1: these players have felt. And then seeing a lot of

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Speaker 1: as we look forward hopefully turning the page and that

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Speaker 1: comes down the line. But Shannon, you'll be joining play

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Speaker 1: by play Kenny Albert and color analysts Jonathan Bilmont as

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Speaker 1: the sideline reporter for Sunday's game. But I want to

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Speaker 1: know how has your role changed this season, covering games

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Speaker 1: and and having these broadcast meetings which have now gone virtual.

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Speaker 1: What's been the biggest adjustment for you guys. You know,

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Speaker 1: I don't really hate the Zoom meetings that much. I

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Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, in the past, we would

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Speaker 1: just do conference calls, and I do think that the

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Speaker 1: Zoom meetings have allowed us to have more more face

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Speaker 1: usually just do a conference call. Obviously, we used to

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Speaker 1: we can't do. And I do miss that. I missed

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Speaker 1: the hour before those teams come out for official warm

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Speaker 1: ups on Sunday, because that was the time that I

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Speaker 1: missed that tremendou sleep. It's very different up in the stands,

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Speaker 1: you know, if you have to do a halftime interview.

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Speaker 1: I was in Houston and I had one coach that

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Speaker 1: where I was going to interview the other coach, and

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Speaker 1: a lot of adjustments. It's been a lot of planning ahead,

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Speaker 1: to talk to that guy for a couple of minutes

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Speaker 1: Sunday morning. To get last minute info. You have got

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Speaker 1: to be so much more frontloaded in terms of your

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Speaker 1: research and your preparation. But listen, I have said that

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Speaker 1: I will I will report from the bathroom if I

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Speaker 1: have to just continue to keep you know, keep the

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Speaker 1: players on the field, keep people employed, uh, keep the

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Speaker 1: the game, because we still are very much a part

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Speaker 1: of the game and we're all moving through it together.

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Speaker 1: And it's been patients like patients has been the word,

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Speaker 1: But I want to go back to these broadcast meeting

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Speaker 1: You get to kind of talk to these players on

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Speaker 1: both sides of the field, and I want to start

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Speaker 1: with the forty Niners changes at quarterback. You lose Jimmy

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Speaker 1: twice this season to a high ankle sprain, and Nick

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Speaker 1: Mullins makes eight eight starts in his place, and then

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Speaker 1: you lose him to an elbow injury. Now input c J. Bethard,

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Speaker 1: who had such a heartbreaking story and on nearly the

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Speaker 1: year anniversary of his brother's pass and he leads the

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Speaker 1: forty Niners to that win over the Cardinals last week. Uh,

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Speaker 1: if you've had the chance to talk to c J.

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Speaker 1: Bethard at all, what if you learn from just talking

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Speaker 1: to him? And and what have you seen out of

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Speaker 1: him in his limited sample side? Yeah, I'll go one

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Speaker 1: step further. I covered c J at Iowa. You know,

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Speaker 1: I feel proud, you know, when I see some of

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Speaker 1: I means, certainly with what he has experienced off the

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Speaker 1: in terms of what's going to happen next. I think

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Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan, we talked to him earlier today, I think

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Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan brought up the juice that he brings even

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Speaker 1: a person, player, athlete who is you can just change

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Speaker 1: It's hard to find it, really really is. I mean

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