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Speaker 1: special Defending the Kingdom podcast coming your way. The Chief

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Speaker 1: Kingdom now has a navy. Yes, we have our own

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Speaker 1: brought to you by Ticketmaster and it does come to

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Speaker 1: you from here on the second deck of the champion

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a super cool idea because the river

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Speaker 1: And examples of that. We were doing some piece for

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a Miami offensive line that doesn't allow

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Speaker 1: including the people that we work with every day, right

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Speaker 1: our sixty five TPT crew has been amazing. But the

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Speaker 1: experience will be made best if the Chiefs beat the

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Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins in this game. So here we go, Matt,

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Speaker 1: here we get this done.

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Speaker 2: What a cool opportunity, right, and the cherry on top

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Speaker 2: of all of it, the reason that we're here.

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Speaker 3: Let's get a win on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: And get ready NFL. We're gonna be playing an international

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Speaker 1: game every year in this league. It's sooner than later.

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Speaker 1: And I think we'll be in Germany again sometime maybe soon. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: He's met well and senior team reporter. I'm Mitchelta's voice

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Speaker 1: of the chiefs and yes, let's go get a win.

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Speaker 1: So Bishpata and huss