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Speaker 1: Welcome to the OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans.

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Speaker 1: I'm Mike Keith. As the Titans head back to Miami

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Speaker 1: for the first time since playing the longest game in

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Speaker 1: for you to get to know Brent Akers. Brent is

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Speaker 1: the vice President of Team Operations for the Titans, but

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Speaker 1: he's been with the organization since we were the Tennessee Oilers.

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Speaker 1: Brent is a native Middle Tennessean who started with our

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Speaker 1: most fascinating jobs with the Tennessee Titans, coordinating all elements

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Speaker 1: of team travel, training, camp, day to day operations of Ascension,

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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans, so now you'll get a chance to

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Speaker 1: hear some of his stories. This OTP was taped as

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Speaker 1: we drove to East Tennessee to go eat fantastic pizza

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Speaker 1: at Big Ed's in oak Ridge. In one of our

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Speaker 1: follow Me Through Tennessee episodes, we hit the twenty eighteen

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Speaker 1: Miami game, the longest game in NFL history. We also

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Speaker 1: talk about how the Titans got all of their gear

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Speaker 1: to London, working with coaches, and so much more.

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Speaker 2: So here is Brent Acres on the OTP.

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Speaker 1: We are headed to Oakridge, Tennessee. You are the pizza expert.

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Speaker 1: You are one of the world's foremost pizza experts. We

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Speaker 1: are stop telling me what to do. Seriously, I know

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Speaker 1: what to.

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Speaker 3: Experts now.

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Speaker 4: I do like to travel around the world and eat pizza.

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Speaker 1: You do like to travel around the world and eat pizza.

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Speaker 1: It's funny because you said the thing with the top

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Speaker 1: fifteen pizza places in America from USA today, and you

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Speaker 2: To twelve of them. Yes, that's crazy, and.

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Speaker 1: You and you didn't agree with the list because you

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Speaker 4: There's a few more I would add to that list.

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Speaker 2: What why is pizza your thing?

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Speaker 3: You know? I grew up eating pizza. That was my

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Speaker 3: mom said, I was She sounds picky, and I told

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Speaker 1: Right, I've eat much with you. A lot of times

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Speaker 1: I would say, you're peaking.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah.

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Speaker 4: I forty eight minutes tex In three fifty six, Tennessee

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Speaker 2: I loved Shaky's Pizza.

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Speaker 1: I had my eighth birthday party in Shaky's pizza, player

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Speaker 1: piano and all the games and everything.

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Speaker 3: Did you have the window that you can go see?

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Speaker 2: I did, yep.

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Speaker 3: So I guess that's where I really started watching.

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Speaker 2: Us, because you did restaurants before you actually came to work.

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Speaker 3: For the titles, didn't I bartended in the way the

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Speaker 1: So Big Heads Pizza. Yeah, it's famous. It's been open

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Speaker 1: over fifty years, which is crazy. It's still in Big

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Speaker 1: is gonna meet us today, awesome, and I have told

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Speaker 1: him that you're coming because you are the pizza expert,

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Speaker 1: and that you have requested ahead, you have requested cheese

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Speaker 1: at this place. What's so amazing about it is all

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Speaker 3: I don't hate that. I know, I don't know, but

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Speaker 1: I believe that there's really something to that based on

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Speaker 1: the fact that they they've never said, hey, we're a

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Speaker 1: it's not terribly complicated for the customer, or I would

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Speaker 3: The people who worked in excited.

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Speaker 2: Keep it simple, right, keep it simple, and do what

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Speaker 2: you do well, and what you do well, that's exactly right.

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Speaker 1: But I I'd remember going out there for the first

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Speaker 3: How far is your home from that?

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Speaker 1: Well, we lived at that time in Chattanooga, but we

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Speaker 2: Was gonna bed. And the best part was you got

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Speaker 2: Big Ed standing at the bar. And Big Ed was

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Speaker 1: I think he's probably six feet six y one, but

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Speaker 1: I mean he was imposed and had that look on

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Speaker 1: to see them make the pizza. They cut the pizza.

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Speaker 1: Its scissory. So it's not Chicago style Chicago. Do you

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Speaker 3: I don't think so. I think it has its it's plus.

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Speaker 3: To me, it's more like a cast role. It's like

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: I do love some of the den styles Coago stockings.

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Speaker 2: It's underrated. I think you guys they talk about and

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Speaker 2: I love the Chicago style.

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Speaker 1: When we go to my wife's hometown, we've been to

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Speaker 1: a place called Broncos, which is just I mean, it

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Speaker 1: or not, but I mean, they make their own deep

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Speaker 1: the Gino's and all those people in Chicago, but the

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Speaker 2: And I love.

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Speaker 1: But I'm I'm a person. I'm less discerning than you.

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Speaker 1: I claim I've never had bad pizza.

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Speaker 3: Well, and that's one of the reasons that I started pizza.

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Speaker 3: When I would travel, you know, i'd be gone five

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Speaker 3: And bad pizza is gonna be all right, you know,

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Speaker 3: even the worst pizza is gonna be all right.

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Speaker 1: And that's the whole thing. Happened that you get it

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Speaker 1: out of the box at Kroger. You know out of

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Speaker 1: the freezer case, it's still good to me. Now, some's

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Speaker 1: better than others, clearly, but it's kind of like a hamburger.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to go.

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Speaker 2: Wrong with a Hamberger. The By the way, So I

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Speaker 2: was going through the U.

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Speaker 1: The Tennessee Titans dot com website, and it was because

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Speaker 1: I was looking for your formal title team operations or

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Speaker 2: Which that's it.

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Speaker 3: What's the deal with your picture? The picture?

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Speaker 2: Yes, from last year for black that is that is

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Speaker 3: You are still using the picture of you from when

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Speaker 3: you've got hired that was in ninety nine.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so you I mean they have never forced you

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Speaker 3: And it's funny you say that because you know this

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Speaker 3: year the league is talking about requiring pictures on all

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Speaker 3: credentials throughout this right, Kansas City's one that's done it.

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Speaker 3: So Chris and Nick and Luke are trying to get

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Speaker 1: It's kind of fun now, So now it's a game game,

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Speaker 1: there's no chance it changes.

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Speaker 3: I still look the same alike.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you do. But you don't.

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Speaker 3: I don't.

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Speaker 3: I I think the other thing in that picture is

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Speaker 3: I'm wearing a tie.

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Speaker 1: Yes, but but well we all did. We were a

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Speaker 1: every day.

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Speaker 2: Yes, in the office.

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Speaker 1: More with Titans Vice President of Operations Brent Acres coming

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Speaker 1: up on the OTP, but first a word from seat Geek,

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Speaker 1: with Brent Acres on the OTP. So, how many people

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Speaker 3: So Christmas Tusick was a long snapper, a tissue and

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Speaker 2: Luke Mora.

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Speaker 2: He's been explained a lot that does it really does.

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Speaker 3: He's been with us since seventeen. And then Nick Harterstein

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Speaker 1: of the programs. So it's only natural that Nick Harnesty

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Speaker 3: They are both Chris doesn't very jung to.

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Speaker 2: So you they're full four you guys cover Aline.

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Speaker 3: Nobody knows. It's crazy what old. One of my big

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Speaker 3: things is the food. I starting in fourteen did everything.

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Speaker 1: It was so different starting in the nineties, how players

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Speaker 3: True story?

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Speaker 3: Freezing in the locker room, and then they ended up

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Speaker 2: The club and doing what you do. The job is whatever.

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Speaker 3: It takes, whatever it takes to help the players do

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Speaker 1: I mean, no matter what your title is, or no

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Speaker 3: It's pretty much a little bit of everything. I mean,

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Speaker 2: Why does that not make sense?

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Speaker 3: Doesn't make sense.

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Speaker 2: How big are the planes.

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Speaker 3: Generally seven six is for the most part seven sixty

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Speaker 2: And the players are not even half of them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I think we had nineteen medical people last year,

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Speaker 3: Oh well, times have changed and going to London we

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's crazy.

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Speaker 1: How how hard is the London trip to coordinate? From

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Speaker 4: You know, it's the hard part is it's just another game,

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Speaker 2: Yeah it's one of seventeen, but it's really not.

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Speaker 3: It's really not. The one of the harder parts is

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Speaker 3: have a big container coming in the loading up that

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Speaker 3: when we went in eighteen we filled it full of

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Speaker 3: everything that you can think of that.

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Speaker 5: You can't get an inkle, what can't you get an ankle,

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Speaker 5: You can't get barbecue sauce. You really don't get hot sauces. Different,

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Speaker 5: some of the different things aren't they're just different.

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Speaker 3: Even the ketchup's different. We had ketchup. We had cases

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Speaker 3: of ketchup. So you have to have a cut of

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Speaker 3: think about all of that.

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Speaker 1: So what will be the weight or what was the

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Speaker 1: weight in eighteen of the container that went across the ocean?

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Speaker 2: I have no idea.

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Speaker 1: So when do you have to have When would that

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Speaker 1: have to be ready to go?

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Speaker 2: How much before the game? Because you're going to it's

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Speaker 2: a ship.

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Speaker 3: It's not fast, right, so it'll right during the middle

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Speaker 3: of training. Keep probably August first.

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Speaker 1: And where will it be for the whole period of

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Speaker 1: time before the game.

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Speaker 3: It'll they'll take it to Rocket Cargo as the company

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Speaker 3: that doesn't it will get on a ship and it

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Speaker 3: will sail across and then they'll hold it in their

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Speaker 3: facility and then it has to go through customs and

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Speaker 3: then it has to go through all that and then

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Speaker 3: they'll take it and bring it to our hotel and

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Speaker 3: then our advance in our advanced guys Chris and Nick

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Speaker 3: and Luke will go through it and set it all up.

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Speaker 2: When did they have to get there?

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Speaker 3: That's the hard part because you lose a whole day

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Speaker 3: just for the travel. So they'll leave Monday night land

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Speaker 3: Tuesday morning.

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Speaker 2: Because we will have just had just had a game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a road Yeah, so that's a tough term cool.

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Speaker 1: What about the food, because the food in England is

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Speaker 1: not the same, It's different.

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Speaker 3: Everything is different. So we went a couple of weeks

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Speaker 3: ago and actually did okay, Luke and Chris and I

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Speaker 3: spent four days there at the hotel and looking at

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Speaker 3: the hotels and going to the stadium trying to get

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Speaker 3: a plant, which is a beautiful stuf you bought.

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Speaker 2: It's a real life football stay.

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Speaker 3: It is a real life football steam.

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Speaker 2: But it's just a it's just one of seventeen. You've

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Speaker 2: got to be just as good in Indianapolis right the

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Speaker 2: week before as you do in London. And yet you've

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Speaker 2: been to Indianapolis once a year for twenty seven years.

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Speaker 3: But it's still a game too that you gotta wait

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Speaker 3: a division gat's a big Yeah, what I.

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Speaker 1: Mean, can you guys almost do Indianapolis and Jacksonville and

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Speaker 1: Houston with your eyes closed out?

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Speaker 3: I don't think eyes closed, but that you know, people change,

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Speaker 3: hotels change contacts, and stadiums change. From an operational standpoint,

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Speaker 3: it is a very good city because you know, it's

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Speaker 3: what three miles from them. Yeah, that's great. Our hotel

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Speaker 3: is typically within a five minute bus ride. It's almost

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Speaker 3: takes longer to ride the bus and it does to walk.

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Speaker 2: Is that where you had someone coming near a bus

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Speaker 2: one time? That is a true story. You had a

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Speaker 2: staff member just decide he would take his own bus.

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Speaker 3: Yes, he did.

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Speaker 4: Then he threw a little tantrum and he had almost

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Speaker 4: got into a buck.

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Speaker 3: Because that that threw off your schedule.

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Speaker 2: In a bus.

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Speaker 3: We only had five of them.

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Speaker 2: So he just decided he missed the bus. He missed

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Speaker 2: the bush.

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Speaker 3: And then he threw a fit because he missed the

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Speaker 3: bus and threw a smoothie on the sidewalk. And then

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Speaker 3: he and I came to blows and locker. He was

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Speaker 3: shorter than me, which is not which is hard to

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Speaker 3: do right, And he got in my face in the

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Speaker 3: locker room, and I remember Rocky Boyman was like, you'll fight.

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Speaker 2: He just said that that's the maddest you've ever met.

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Speaker 3: I was furious. And then Jeff Fisher found him later

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Speaker 3: and I was like, oh great, you guys, you got

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Speaker 3: a second you know, I said, shirt coach, he guys,

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Speaker 3: tell me about what happened. Well, this staff member decided

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Speaker 3: to take his own bus because he missed the bus.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 4: He gues not tell me about the altercation, and you should.

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Speaker 3: We didn't throw I mean I would have won. I

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Speaker 3: was hot.

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Speaker 2: I don't mess with you.

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Speaker 3: I was wearing an actual suit that day and I

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Speaker 3: threw my jacket down and I'll never forget it. That's

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Speaker 3: so great. But Jeff, he is great. He just would

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Speaker 3: tell me this. He gues, was it ever a fight?

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Speaker 3: I said, no, certain, no, certain, nothing, everything's great. He

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Speaker 3: was great. Good, we're gonna move on. We're gonna win

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Speaker 3: this game. And about thirty minutes later he stops me again.

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Speaker 3: I said, a coach. He said, all right, just tell

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Speaker 3: me one time, if you're in the eighth grade in

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Speaker 3: the playground, would you have kicked his pass? And I said, coach,

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Speaker 3: there's no doubt that I would help.

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Speaker 1: That's Brett Akers, the Tennessee Titans vice president of team Operations.

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Speaker 1: A special thanks now to our friends at Duncan, who

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Speaker 1: reminds you that's always game on with Duncan, So grab

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

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Speaker 1: a cup on your way to the game or grabbing

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Speaker 1: one to go before listening to the game at home.

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Speaker 1: DUNCTT is always there to help you get your game

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Speaker 1: on Just like the pros, we need to be at

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Speaker 1: our best come game time, which is why Duncan is

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Speaker 1: the most important part of your game day ritual. It's

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Speaker 1: always the best call for football America runs on Duncan.

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Speaker 1: I'm Mike Keith, thanking you for joining me for the

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