WEBVTT - The OTP | Exclusive Interview with Brett Kern 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:21.040 This is the OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:24.880 Farm Bureau Health Plans has been serving members and protecting 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:28.639 their health for seventy six years. Learn about our Tennessee 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:33.120 roots at FBHP dot com with Amy wells On, Mike Keith, 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:36.000 and the retired one Brett Kern. 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:38.320 Welcome to the bet MGM studio. 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:39.200 It's beautiful. 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:43.519 Congratulations on what was a good day overall. Are you 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:45.120 pleased with how the speech went? 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:49.000 I am. I wasn't really sure how I was going 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:52.400 to go. I practiced it multiple times. It took my 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.400 time writing it out to try to get fifteen years 0:00:55.600 --> 0:01:01.560 of memories, thoughts, emotions, you know on a you know, 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:06.200 a condensed speech was pretty tough. But yeah, I thought 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:08.360 it went pretty well. I know there's probably plenty of 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:11.759 people that I wasn't able to thank, and so. 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:13.000 That kind of bothers me a little bit. 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:16.960 But yeah, I'm just just bussed for the opportunity. I think, 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:19.680 you know, you would have asked me fifteen sixteen years 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:22.800 ago about this day and I would have probably laughed 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:23.039 at you. 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:24.520 And you know, I think at that time I was 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:25.000 hoping to. 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.240 Maybe play over an NFL Europe right until they disband 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.320 the league, so I kind of changed my plans a 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:31.720 little bit. 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:35.760 But yeah, I'm just it's been a really good day, 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:36.560 really good day. 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.400 The fact that you were even thinking that playing in 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.800 NFL Europe was a possibility shows how long your career 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:46.240 has been. Yeah, you've really been around for a long time. 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:48.440 When you started writing that speech, it had to have 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:51.160 been like ten to fifteen pages, right, It's like. 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:53.920 Yeah, I mean it was. 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.559 I kind of kind of did like a side list 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:00.440 of I just wanted to make sure that I was 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:04.000 right now people that came to mind, you know, kind 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.280 of over the weeks and really months where I've kind 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:07.680 of felt like, you know, I was just leading up 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:12.000 to this day and so had a list and it 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:13.880 just kind of took a little bit of time to develop. 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:16.440 And and I never i mean, I never got like 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:18.840 above A being English. So my writing skills and all 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:20.680 that stuff's not the best. But thankfully my wife is 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.560 very good with like proof reading, and she can just 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:26.919 help articulate a lot better than I can. So there's teamwork. 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.920 But you know, over time just kind of weeded it 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:34.120 down to where I felt like it was, you know, 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:35.560 a good speech, being. 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.880 Able to just have the opportunity to process all those memories. 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.720 I know, when you're going through the flows of football 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.520 season and kind of the cadence that seems like al 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:46.680 was like a wheel that never really ends, you know, 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:49.480 because the off season just leads into training camp, which 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:50.520 leads into the season. 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:52.680 Being able to take. 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:55.000 That time to really reflect, is that the first time 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.520 that you've done that in your career, to really stop 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:01.560 and think about every thing that you have experienced in 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:02.400 its totality. 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:07.280 Yeah, I'd probably say the last month or two has 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:11.720 probably been that for me. You know, the moment you 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.239 you kind of sit back and you kind of enjoy 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.520 what you think you've done, like you know, making a 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:19.320 Pro Bowl, right, and you kind of sit back on 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:22.600 it and enjoy it. You can't you can't really do 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.760 that because you know that there's always gonna be somebody 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.040 else that they want to bring in. You might think 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:30.560 it's competition, it might not be, but it's still somebody else, right, 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.880 And so the moment you kind of sit back, relax 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:36.520 and enjoy what you've quote unquote done, right, is the 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:39.400 moment that that's when the league, you know, snake bite two. Right. 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:42.360 So for the longest time, I just kind of kept 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:46.440 my head down, grinding, grinding, regardless of what happened. If 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:48.600 it was a great season, you know, so associated it 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:49.280 didn't really. 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:49.520 Matter to me. 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:52.000 I just needed to keep moving on and pressing forward. 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:54.920 And so when I knew, you know, that I was 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:58.760 done and I wanted to do this, you know, just 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:01.320 kind of thinking about what what memories, what stories I 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.200 really want to put in there, because there's so many, uh, 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:05.760 and there's some that would take me, you know, three 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.240 four pages just to share a story, right, and so 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:11.320 what are the ones that are quick, you know, one sentence, 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.040 two sentences that you could share that are funny and 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:18.360 things that I remember, and so, uh yeah, there's there's 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.600 plenty I could easily put in there, but there's there's 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.039 just so many you accumulate over the over the years. 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:25.960 But I think the last month or two has been 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:28.800 really good time of just reflection and actually being able 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:31.760 to kind of just sit back and breathe, uh and 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:35.400 not have the stress of even off season stuff, you know, 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.120 OTA's and all that kind of stuff, and so just 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:41.200 sit back, relax and just kind of enjoy everything. It's been. 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:42.000 It's been really fun. 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:44.200 How many Rob baronas stories could you. 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:48.400 Have told plenty plenty? Yeah, there was stuff. 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:50.200 Was just saying, do you remember when you came in 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.640 here in two thousand and nine, Yeah, what your reaction 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:55.760 was to meeting him for the first time. 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:58.440 Yeah, because I know he was not far off of 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:01.720 that record that game where it was like eight for 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:02.160 eight ors. 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:03.160 There's something crazy like. 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.120 That, right, And uh so I know, like, man, this, 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:07.880 I know this guy he's a stud. 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:11.320 But he I mean, he got right to it. 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:13.520 I mean it was I remember that first practice where 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:16.960 Kenny and Model threw his snap back and I had 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.160 the ball down and he was already telling me before 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:21.840 he even kicked it, there's too much lean laces aren't right, 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:23.479 and so he was he was telling me what I 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:25.960 was doing wrong before he even kicked it right, And 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.560 I remember thinking just I mean, Matt Prater when I 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:30.440 was in Denver was particular and how he wanted it 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:32.839 and all that stuff, and most are right, but Rob 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:33.320 took it. 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.239 To a new level. 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:37.280 And because of that, I mean, I owe a lot 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.880 to him, because with that it really helped me understand 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.920 holding in so much more detail. And so I kind of, 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.640 you know, laugh about it now and there's plenty of 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.440 There's plenty of rock stories that I have, and so 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.040 it's it's just crazy to think, yeah, you're going on 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:58.159 nine years this fall, and and now to see his 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:01.920 son London over at b A Academy, and I think 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:03.839 he's one of the top kickers in the whole country. 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.160 And so to see him. 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:07.960 Uh, you know, following in his in his dad's footsteps, 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:09.920 and I always you know, I tell him like, you're 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.159 not your dad, You're your London, right, you have the 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:16.280 abilities of your dad, if not better potentially, but you know, be, 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:19.360 be yourself, make a name for yourself. So uh yeah, 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:21.640 there's there's plenty of rob stories for sure. 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:25.360 You've held for so many different kickers over the years. 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:29.000 Who was the most particular was really. 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:31.120 Oh yeah yeah, And I think that's what got me 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:34.680 so detailed in on on holding right, And so it's 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:38.920 it's kind of crazy when you know, when Ryan came, 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.400 you know, I kind of told him about stuff and he, 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.480 I mean, he was pretty particular, So there wasn't really 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:47.560 you know, I felt like we just picked up pretty 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.640 quickly and we're able to get right off to a 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.400 really good start, and obviously the career that he had here. 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:54.000 But then a lot of times when you got the 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:57.839 younger guys coming in, you know, and I'm explaining the 0:06:57.839 --> 0:06:59.479 holding and all that stuff, in their eyes are just like, 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.440 I'm like, you're you're the kicker, right, But I'm here 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:05.240 to help you as best that I can. 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:06.120 And this is what I've. 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:09.279 Learned, and hopefully this will help you just to be 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:12.280 that much better with the little details and doing your job. 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:18.320 So Rob was definitely he was really particular. 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:22.040 Well, I mean, you're a very detail oriented guy anyway, 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:26.840 just almost extremely detail oriented. I know that you would 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:29.480 chart all of your punts you had, I mean, you 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:33.520 had your speech down to the second today timed out. 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:38.080 You just are very detailed and specific and into that 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.480 sort of thing. How are you going to channel that 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:44.680 now when you don't have punts to chart and stats 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:45.360 to maintain? 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:49.119 And yeah, I'm a spreadsheet Yeah, I'm kind of well, 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.520 I mean I can make spreadsheets on anything if I 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.960 decide to. So, you know, I mean, my daughter's in 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.160 cross country, right, and so I made a spreadsheet on 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:00.840 her meats and her time and to see if she 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.200 was making improvements over the years. And then when she 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.200 went the following year, just kind of comparing her times 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.240 to I mean, you can make one about anything you want. 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:13.440 But I will be relieved, you know, not doing the 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.360 football stuff as much, because sometimes you know you'd have 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.320 great days and you're absolutely loving charting those right and 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:21.160 watching the film and think it's a great day. And 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.880 then there's other days where I wasn't my best right 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.040 and you have to watch the film and you. 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:27.280 Have to see what you can do to get better. 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:29.800 And typing in because I'm a perfectionist is probably my 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.640 worst it's my best quality, but probably my worst quality 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:35.360 being my worst own worst critic. And so you know, 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:37.880 to have to type in those numbers, right, I mean 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.440 it it was tough, you know, just having to do that. 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:44.240 And but yeah, there's always there's always time for a 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:48.240 spreadsheet and I'll find stuff. I mean, you know, I'll 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.000 find something to spreadsheet on. 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:54.280 Was there a moment in your career where you became 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:58.160 Brett Kerr? And what I mean by that is you 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.600 had to battle to get in the league? Yeah, to battle, 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:02.680 you had to keep fighting, and then you got here 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:05.360 and you're not having to fight to keep your job anymore. 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:07.920 Suddenly you're one of the best guys in the league, 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:12.280 So I'll repeat the question. Was there a moment football wise, 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:16.120 personally otherwise where you became Brett kerr. 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:19.160 Uh. 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:21.400 I mean I could go back and look at games 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:25.080 where I felt like I felt like all the work 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.640 that I had put in to be really consistent directionally 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.079 it just paid off, and it was like, Okay, I 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.120 don't know if there's necessarily a moment or just like clicked, 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:37.080 but I know he talked about, you know, getting cut 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:41.360 coming here in my first game against Jacksonville, and I 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:43.760 remember putting i think two out of the four or 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:45.360 something like that, like out of bounds, and they were 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:49.280 good punts, and I remember thinking, Okay, yep, I can 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:51.719 I can do this here, right, And so just kind 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:53.720 of building off that, and there were there were moments, 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:57.600 you know, I was just kind of battling to be 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:00.520 as consistent as I could possibly be. And then I think, 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:04.199 you know, in twenty fourteen when Nate Catcer took over 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:06.320 and we did that box drill, and it was just 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.400 every day I'm setting up these cones, setting them up, 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.040 and I'm trying to put it in this box, in 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:15.480 this box, and it just became muscle memory and I 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.560 remember that year having a pretty good year directional punting, 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:21.640 and same thing with fifteen. I had a lot of 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.800 cracks at it. Those were those are some rough years. Yes, 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:27.079 I think there's eighty eight punts back to back years. 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.640 But then from that point on, I just felt like, 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.480 you know, this is what I am If I want 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:36.080 to stay in this league and if I want to 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:37.800 be the best, like I have to be really good 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.640 at this particular type of punt and just kept grinding, 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:43.880 just kept working at it, working at it, and finally 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:47.320 to kind of have it payoff in seventeen with the 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:48.120 Pro Bowl season. 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.520 Then it was just okay, yep, got it. 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:53.839 Just keep rolling, you know, and see how many we 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.280 can stack and see what this becomes. 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.880 It would be crazy to ask the majority of punters 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:05.240 or players about how many times from the first time 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:07.640 they ever punted a football until the last time you 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:11.240 punted a football. You think, in terms of numbers, there 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.640 were punts in between. But you're a charter, you're you're 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:18.760 a guy who makes grafts. What would you guess how 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:22.600 many times that you have actually punted a football in 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:23.120 your life? 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:27.599 Easily fifty thousand? 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:32.120 Wow, WHOA, that's a much higher number than I was. 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:34.480 If you're talking from high school all the way through 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:34.920 high school. 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:36.440 High school, I way over did it. 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:37.360 College. 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:39.120 I did the same thing because you're young, right right, 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:42.880 you don't get sore, you know, Yeah, I mean I 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:45.400 did the rough math, you know, And I talked about 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:48.160 that in the speech, like it's probably about thirty five 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:52.280 thousand here and then you're talking, you know, probably another 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:53.160 fifteen to twenty. 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.480 But you had developed your routine to the point where 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:59.800 you knew for certain months of the year in terms of. 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:01.920 You shouldn't punt, that's right. 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:02.200 Yeah. 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:04.880 Was it hard to let go when you've been this 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:07.480 fanatical I'm gonna kick it. I'm gonna kick it to 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:09.520 say no, I've got to back off. 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:12.360 As far as during the off season, yes or no, 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:15.320 because the season, training camp, the season. 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.040 You know, that just it takes a lot out of you. 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:17.480 Yea. 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.400 And at some point your leg you know, it's like 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.079 a pitcher, right, you know, just doing the same motion 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.199 over and over and over and over again, and at 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:26.640 some point your body is just like, give me a 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.000 break for a second, you know, let me breathe, and 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:30.480 then you just pick it right back up and do 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:30.880 it again. 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:31.880 And you do it so many. 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:35.040 Times that there's you know, there's the muscle memory, and 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:38.680 so over time you feel like, you know what we're 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.600 done in whenever it is in the season, make a 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:43.760 playoff run. And then if I don't even There's been 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.559 times where I've shown up here, you know, in April 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:50.240 and I'd yet to even touch football, and then you 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.679 kind of you work into it, right, and I was 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:53.360 okay doing that. 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:57.720 So that routine, that cadence, is that something that you're 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:01.480 going to have to maybe switch off a little bit 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:03.360 or find something else too. 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:06.280 Maybe I feel like I could find other things to 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:08.720 kind of do it, But in that sense, it's, uh, 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.000 you know, you get to a point where your body's 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:14.520 just kind of like, I'm good, you know, I'm content 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:18.880 not kicking the football again, and so but there, yeah, 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:21.559 there's other things I'll find, you know, kind of a 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:25.000 rhythm to do and consistency to do, because I mean 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.640 that's just you know, I was never like a big 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:30.160 technique guy or anything like that. It was just if 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:31.840 this felt good and it looked good, you know, how 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:33.559 can I duplicate that over and over again? 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:37.760 And it's funny you listen to some guys like Tom Brady, 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:43.000 who says he's retired, came out with a statement today says. 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:44.040 He's still retired. 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:48.120 He's still retired, but there's this little opening and everything. 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.440 He says, I don't know that there's gonna be a 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:52.040 Brett Kern controversy. 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:54.200 It doesn't feel like it. 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:55.120 No. 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:58.200 No, I think just because you know my time in Philly, 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:01.760 you know, I appreciate it. I appreciate that they called 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:04.240 gaming opportunity to finish out the season there and experience, 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.080 you know, that playoff run and you know, to win 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.160 the NFC Championship game and you know, to go to 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.559 the Super Bowl, and but to be apart from my 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:15.520 family for those three months, right, and they came, I 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:17.360 mean they came, they came to games, all that stuff, 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:19.880 but just the day in, the day out, the things 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.360 that you're used to and accustomed to with my family, 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.560 you know, to be apart from that, I just I 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:27.400 just don't want to do that. 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.400 Well, and you had worked so hard to get ready 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.400 for twenty twenty two. 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:36.320 Diet did everything. Yeah, I did every Yeah, I mean 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:40.680 I you know, seeing people outside of the building a 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:42.760 little bit more just to get my body ready, and 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:44.600 I felt great. I felt like, uh, it was a 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:48.480 good offseason, had a good training camp, good preseason, and 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:51.160 you know, the business is the business, right, I mean, 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:52.600 you know you've seen a lot of it. You know 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:54.880 how it works. Uh, and that's just the way it is. 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.320 And so I felt like I put forth so much 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:00.680 of that effort that I wasn't just gonna just be 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:04.600 done right. Let me at least give this season to 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:05.600 kind of see what happens. 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:06.680 And so I kind of had. 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:08.440 One foot in the door, one foot out the door. 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:13.600 But now both feet are out the door. So no controversy, 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.160 no controversy. So uh, yeah, it's it's a great place 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:16.480 to be in. 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:19.880 Must feel really nice to have that peace of mind 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.520 and that confidence in the decision that you've made. 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:26.800 Absolutely, yeah, I feel very at peace. I've had plenty 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:29.640 of conversations with my wife and even with the kids 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.200 a little bit, and yeah, very at peace. 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.800 Have you thought about trying broadcast? Are you? Are you 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:35.880 thinking about nobody? 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.480 Nobody can take the great Mike Keith job? 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:39.120 No, No, I'm not. 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:40.800 There are other job, other job. 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:44.560 That's true, So I haven't. I'm just kind of taken 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:46.000 the time to just decompress. 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.880 So you haven't given much thought to it. No, No, 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:51.920 you want to read a commercial to see how you 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:52.320 can do. 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:54.320 I mean, as long as I can read it. 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:56.480 Okay, there you go. Just read that one right here? 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:58.880 All right, yep, see how you just no? 0:15:59.000 --> 0:15:59.480 Hold on this. 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:01.480 This feels like a trick. 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:01.760 Trick. 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:02.400 It's not a trick. 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:06.040 This is the Foolish Foolish Club NAPA Valley Father's Day 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:07.720 twenty twenty three podcast script. 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:09.880 That's for real. Yeah, it's not a joke. 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:10.320 All right. 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:12.960 I would read it, but you're gonna read it, and 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.240 the people who run the Foolish Club will be more 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:18.720 happy that Brett Kern reads it, and Miss Amy will 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.480 be more happy that you read it. So let's sell 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:23.120 Father's Day right now. 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Seat 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:28.840 Geek is now the official Titans partner of the Tennessee Titans. 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:30.760 Oh, ticketing partner. See that's where I get tripped up. 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:34.000 Do you want to start over? No, that's right, The 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:37.280 deal's finalized. In Seat Geek is the newest member of 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:39.640 the Titans family. If you hadn't heard the name yet, 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.040 get used to it, because you'll be hearing a lot 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:44.920 more this season, whether you're buying or selling tickets to 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.600 Titans games or to any other live event in Nashville. 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.639 Seat Geek is the place to do it. Seat Geek 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.600 the new official ticketing partner of the Tennessee Titans. So 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:58.119 Titans fans can fan great. Geek is tough, that's a tone. 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:02.640 Geek is tricky, that's well done. I'm surprised somebody hasn't 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:04.200 reached out to you yet. Somebody will. 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:05.720 Well, I know I'm retired. 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:08.400 So one more cool thing I want to talk about 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:10.600 today that I don't want to leave out. You go 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:12.600