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Speaker 1: The Season with Peter Schrager is a production of the

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Speaker 1: NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. What's up, everybody, Thanks for

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Speaker 1: listening to another episode of the Season with Peter Schrager.

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Speaker 1: I'm Peter Schrager. June has begun, Minatory camps have begun.

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Speaker 1: Certain players are in camp getting deals. Certain players are

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Speaker 1: not in camp and waiting for those deals that would

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Speaker 1: be like cde Lamb. We're gonna get to the football

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Speaker 1: in a little bit. Aaron wan Kaufman is with me. Aaron,

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Speaker 1: what's up? My friend? Not too much?

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Speaker 2: I want to hear. Maybe I'm jumping the gun here,

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Speaker 2: but do you do anything fun this weekend?

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Speaker 1: Peter, Yeah, let's let's get right into it. So this

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Speaker 1: is one of my favorite episodes annually, and we did

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Speaker 1: it last year the Big Slick Weekend in Kansas City.

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Speaker 1: Three years ago, Paul Rudd invited me to be a

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Speaker 1: quote unquote soelebrity guests at the Big Slick Weekend. I

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Speaker 1: had no idea what it was, but he's like, come

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Speaker 1: for a weekend in Kansas City. We're gonna, you know,

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Speaker 1: raise money for a children's hospital and we're also going

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Speaker 1: to have a softball game on Kaufman Field. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: play on the field where the Royals played before the game,

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Speaker 1: and there's a big event at night. Just come have

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Speaker 1: fun and hang I'm like all right. Since then, in

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Speaker 1: three years, this has become one of the most anticipated

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Speaker 1: events I'm my ear, but also one of the most rewarding.

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Speaker 1: And this year was insane. Where do I want to start? Cut?

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Speaker 1: Should we go through just a little, like, you know,

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Speaker 1: some of the highlights and is that what you think?

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Speaker 1: Just run it down because I'll tell you there are

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Speaker 1: some really cool moments that I wanted to spotlight and

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Speaker 1: also some really cool people. So yeah, get it, Like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: your travel day to day, let's go.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I fly in on Friday from Lakewardia easy flight. Last

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Speaker 1: was diverted to Detroit. It was a whole mess. This

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Speaker 1: year cleaning easy. Get into Kansas City and I get

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Speaker 1: Evans from Hot Ones, the host who I have become

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Speaker 1: two of us are chopping it up and He's like,

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Speaker 1: I've got an amazing guest on this week, and I'm

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Speaker 1: stealing good coming off my recent podcast with Justin Reid

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Speaker 1: of the Kansas City Chiefs two type super Bowl champion

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, who you got this week? And he's

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Speaker 1: of the Denver Broncos. I'm like, pretty good, that's pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Sean was going through his schedule of the Hot Ones

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Speaker 1: guests that they have. It's pretty impressive, it really is.

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Speaker 1: But the two of us are laughing right away. And

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Speaker 1: as we're laughing and having a good time, we get

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Speaker 1: are talking like this is what big Slick Weekend has become.

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Speaker 1: Just like you don't know who's going to walk through

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Speaker 1: it's Tidy Gardner, who's amazing from SNL and brought literally

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Speaker 1: man is Adam Scott, who I think is one of

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Speaker 1: the great actors of our generation. Party Down one of

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Speaker 1: He's there, Al Roker, George Went, Jeffrey Ross, the Roastmaster,

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Speaker 1: At seven am, I agree to run a five K,

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Speaker 1: You can't help as a parent or as anyone. Just

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Speaker 1: Also great, also great.

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Speaker 2: I spent the first six years out of college working

418
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Speaker 2: at a Schulden's hospital, and I know how yep, and

419
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Speaker 2: I know how important that is, especially working with I

420
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Speaker 2: was at Children's cancer center actually, and oh my god,

421
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Speaker 2: a lot of time I did a bunch of like

422
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Speaker 2: going to patient rooms playing music and like how important

423
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Speaker 2: that is to them, and like also shout out to

424
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Speaker 2: all the child life specialists and then nurses and doctors

425
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Speaker 2: everyone who works with.

426
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Speaker 1: Us, talking about just a noble work. Yeah, and it's

427
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Speaker 1: so heavy, and like I was talking to one of

428
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Speaker 1: the nurses and I'm like in my head, I'm like,

429
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Speaker 1: she puts her head down at night and goes to

430
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Speaker 1: sleep knowing she made a difference every single day. Like

431
00:23:01,066 --> 00:23:02,386
Speaker 1: that's the ultimate gift, you know.

432
00:23:02,706 --> 00:23:07,746
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, but yeah, I mean some awesome work that

433
00:23:07,786 --> 00:23:11,346
Speaker 2: they've done and amazing raising so much money for those kids.

434
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Speaker 1: And it's been a pipeline for this podcast. We've had

435
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Speaker 1: stone Street, We've had Rudd, We've had Sean Evans, we've

436
00:23:16,946 --> 00:23:19,626
Speaker 1: had Plenny and maybe we'll get Kelsey in my home.

437
00:23:19,866 --> 00:23:22,026
Speaker 2: Seems like this season we're going to need to do

438
00:23:22,066 --> 00:23:24,226
Speaker 2: a musical episode where like we just have a bunch

439
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Speaker 2: of guests.

440
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Speaker 1: Kevin Murby, does that name anything to you, Kevin, I've

441
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Speaker 1: heard the name. I don't know any of his music,

442
00:23:29,786 --> 00:23:34,146
Speaker 1: but my god, so he's an awesome dude, great musician.

443
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Speaker 1: And then I started going into a wormhole of his

444
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Speaker 1: music since I've been back, and it's like incredible. So

445
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Speaker 1: that's it. Picked that up, all right. So going from

446
00:23:43,786 --> 00:23:46,626
Speaker 1: tight end Travis Kelsey to another great tight end and

447
00:23:46,786 --> 00:23:49,106
Speaker 1: a friend of mine. Our guest this week is the

448
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Speaker 1: great Greg Olsen. Let's bring him on our guests this week.

449
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Speaker 1: Is one of my favorite people, not only in sports

450
00:24:01,706 --> 00:24:04,026
Speaker 1: media but just in general. We have the best time

451
00:24:04,186 --> 00:24:06,146
Speaker 1: when we talk, and we haven't in a while. We

452
00:24:06,146 --> 00:24:08,946
Speaker 1: had him on during the season, and since then he

453
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Speaker 1: has won Best Analyst at the Sports Ed means we're

454
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Speaker 1: not going to harp on that too much. He's too

455
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Speaker 1: humble for that. But let's bring in Greg Olsen, former

456
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Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers Legend, Chicago Bear Legend, and now TV Superstar.

457
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Speaker 1: W what's up Greg?

458
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Speaker 3: Somebody? How are you?

459
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Speaker 1: I'm doing awesome? I real quick on the Emmy. Just congratulations, man.

460
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Speaker 3: Like it's I appreciate it.

461
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Speaker 1: It's one of those deals where you don't you tell

462
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Speaker 1: yourself you don't need validation, and then I'm sure you

463
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Speaker 1: hear your name called and you look at your peers

464
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Speaker 1: and you say, for a second, I can appreciate us.

465
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Speaker 1: How cool it is it was.

466
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Speaker 4: I mean, anytime you're nominated, right, Chris collins Worth, Troy

467
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Speaker 4: aik Man, I mean John Smoltz, I mean Bill Raftury.

468
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Speaker 4: I mean, these guys are legends. They've been doing this

469
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Speaker 4: for a long time, and especially obviously in the NFL

470
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Speaker 4: circles with Troy and Chris. I mean they they called

471
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Speaker 4: my games when I was a rookie, you know, twenty

472
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Speaker 4: years ago.

473
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Speaker 3: So it's it's pretty cool, and listen it.

474
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Speaker 4: I had a guy to a teammate tell me this

475
00:25:01,066 --> 00:25:02,786
Speaker 4: a long time ago. He says, no matter how old

476
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Speaker 4: you get, you're never too cool for a pat, you know,

477
00:25:05,346 --> 00:25:07,386
Speaker 4: for an atta boy, you know, a pat on the back.

478
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Speaker 3: Or everyone likes to be told good job.

479
00:25:09,306 --> 00:25:11,986
Speaker 4: Everyone likes to have, you know, confirmation that the hard

480
00:25:12,026 --> 00:25:14,226
Speaker 4: work is paying off, whether you're a high school kid

481
00:25:14,306 --> 00:25:16,826
Speaker 4: or a forty year old adult. I think everyone likes it,

482
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Speaker 4: so listen. It was cool, it was fun, It was

483
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Speaker 4: a great experience. I had never been to the Emmys before.

484
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Speaker 4: I didn't go last year and told myself, you know,

485
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Speaker 4: the next time I was nominated, I would go. Me

486
00:25:25,946 --> 00:25:27,946
Speaker 4: and my wife had a great couple of days in

487
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Speaker 4: the city enjoying that, and.

488
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Speaker 3: It was awesome.

489
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Speaker 1: Who is the coolest person you met that you'd never

490
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Speaker 1: met before at the sportsmes?

491
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Speaker 4: Oh, that's a great question, you know, I met, you know,

492
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Speaker 4: it's it's super cool because you walk into the room obviously,

493
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Speaker 4: I'm sure you know, like you walk into the room.

494
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Speaker 1: The cocktail hour before.

495
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Speaker 4: Cocktail hour was great. My big regret is that we

496
00:25:46,906 --> 00:25:49,066
Speaker 4: didn't get to the cocktail hour early enough. We went,

497
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Speaker 4: we went for dinner at the hotel, and it always

498
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Speaker 4: takes longer to get everywhere in New York than you plan,

499
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Speaker 4: and I wish I would have had like another thirty

500
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Speaker 4: forty minutes of the cocktailer because you're just getting going,

501
00:25:58,866 --> 00:26:01,866
Speaker 4: you have a cocktail, you're shaking hands, you're seeing people

502
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Speaker 4: that you've either you've met before but you haven't seen

503
00:26:05,386 --> 00:26:08,306
Speaker 4: him in a while, or just people you've watched on TV. Right,

504
00:26:08,426 --> 00:26:11,666
Speaker 4: Ernie Johnson, Right, I've seen him a thousand times doing

505
00:26:11,986 --> 00:26:14,866
Speaker 4: NBA games, obviously college basketball and everything they do, and

506
00:26:14,866 --> 00:26:18,226
Speaker 4: that show's awesome, and yeah, you have a chance to

507
00:26:18,266 --> 00:26:20,066
Speaker 4: shake his hand and ask him how he was doing

508
00:26:20,146 --> 00:26:22,546
Speaker 4: and learn. So, you know, just people that you see

509
00:26:22,546 --> 00:26:24,786
Speaker 4: on TV all the time, you feel like you know them,

510
00:26:25,346 --> 00:26:27,226
Speaker 4: but you never have actually been in the same room

511
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Speaker 4: as them. So it was a lot of really cool,

512
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Speaker 4: interesting people there. Some I had met a bunch and others,

513
00:26:33,826 --> 00:26:35,546
Speaker 4: you know, like Ernie for the first time, so it

514
00:26:35,626 --> 00:26:36,706
Speaker 4: was it was super cool.

515
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Speaker 1: I'll never forget. We got nominated for Good Morning Football

516
00:26:39,146 --> 00:26:40,226
Speaker 1: couple of years in a row, so I got to

517
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Speaker 1: go to a few and we're in the cocktailer and

518
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Speaker 1: it's actually the year we ended up winning, and we're

519
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Speaker 1: staying there and I get a tap on the shoulder

520
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Speaker 1: from this really tall guy and at first it's jarring

521
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Speaker 1: because I did not know how tall he was in person.

522
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Speaker 1: And he's like, hey, I know, we're competition and we're nominated,

523
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Speaker 1: and you guys are nominated, but I am just such

524
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Speaker 1: a huge fan of your work. And I looked up

525
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Speaker 1: and it was Scott Van Pelt. So for all the

526
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Speaker 1: years that we've been doing this, I'd never seen him

527
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Speaker 1: in person, and I'd never worked with him, and I'd

528
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Speaker 1: never actually been in the room with him. So I

529
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Speaker 1: was I mean, even me who's been in this for

530
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Speaker 1: a while, like to see one of these guys in

531
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Speaker 1: persons like, Oh, you're like a real life person, You're

532
00:27:11,986 --> 00:27:12,666
Speaker 1: not just on my TV.

533
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well it's funny along those lines. I'm in the

534
00:27:15,986 --> 00:27:18,346
Speaker 4: bathroom like they're they're whisking all of us like out

535
00:27:18,386 --> 00:27:20,626
Speaker 4: of the cocktail hour and trying to get us into

536
00:27:20,666 --> 00:27:23,026
Speaker 4: the auditorium the you know, the theater or whatever. And

537
00:27:23,786 --> 00:27:25,386
Speaker 4: I'm coming out of the bathroom. There's like a line

538
00:27:25,386 --> 00:27:27,506
Speaker 4: of a handful of guys and I thankfully wash my

539
00:27:27,586 --> 00:27:29,906
Speaker 4: hands or everybody's watching you, so you wash your hands.

540
00:27:30,146 --> 00:27:33,426
Speaker 4: And as I'm walking out, I see Jay Wright. And

541
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Speaker 4: I had never met Jay Wright before, but he was there.

542
00:27:36,386 --> 00:27:37,146
Speaker 3: But now you're like.

543
00:27:37,106 --> 00:27:41,426
Speaker 4: In the bathroom, so like the most like it is

544
00:27:41,466 --> 00:27:44,266
Speaker 4: it weird for anyone who has ever met someone or

545
00:27:44,306 --> 00:27:46,506
Speaker 4: like had someone say hello to them in the bathroom,

546
00:27:46,986 --> 00:27:48,386
Speaker 4: like you just got done taking a leak.

547
00:27:48,746 --> 00:27:50,586
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know you're meeting Jay.

548
00:27:50,346 --> 00:27:53,786
Speaker 4: Wright in like an auditorium bathroom as a bunch of

549
00:27:53,826 --> 00:27:55,946
Speaker 4: guys who are taking a leak before the show starts.

550
00:27:55,946 --> 00:28:00,026
Speaker 3: So it's it's you know, all that stuff is very unpredictable.

551
00:28:00,266 --> 00:28:03,426
Speaker 1: Did you have any say in what they submitted? Like

552
00:28:03,866 --> 00:28:06,786
Speaker 1: Good Morning Football gets a submission, but I didn't see

553
00:28:06,826 --> 00:28:09,306
Speaker 1: what like the final cut was, Like I am a

554
00:28:09,346 --> 00:28:11,546
Speaker 1: control freak with my own stuff. This is your nay,

555
00:28:11,626 --> 00:28:13,706
Speaker 1: like I was as an individual. I had nothing to

556
00:28:13,746 --> 00:28:15,866
Speaker 1: do with it, but like, do you have final cut

557
00:28:15,906 --> 00:28:17,666
Speaker 1: of like what they submit to the Emmys?

558
00:28:18,066 --> 00:28:19,906
Speaker 4: They did, So it's it's funny you asked that because

559
00:28:19,946 --> 00:28:22,546
Speaker 4: my first year I did not, right. So you know

560
00:28:22,586 --> 00:28:24,306
Speaker 4: when Jacob Olman, who kind of heads up a lot

561
00:28:24,306 --> 00:28:26,786
Speaker 4: of the production teams or whatnot, he called me two

562
00:28:26,906 --> 00:28:29,826
Speaker 4: years ago, you know I, well, I guess my first

563
00:28:29,906 --> 00:28:33,666
Speaker 4: year was like emerging break out Star, emerging whatever it's called.

564
00:28:33,746 --> 00:28:34,266
Speaker 3: I didn't win.

565
00:28:35,106 --> 00:28:39,026
Speaker 4: Then my year two, same category, emerging break you know

566
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Speaker 4: whatever did win. This never had seen my reels for

567
00:28:42,866 --> 00:28:45,786
Speaker 4: those I had no idea what they what they submitted

568
00:28:45,866 --> 00:28:48,626
Speaker 4: or anything. But then this year it was a new category.

569
00:28:48,746 --> 00:28:50,666
Speaker 4: You know, this is like no more like emerging, like

570
00:28:50,666 --> 00:28:52,106
Speaker 4: you have to be in with all the big boys.

571
00:28:52,146 --> 00:28:53,506
Speaker 1: Now this is the emerged.

572
00:28:53,906 --> 00:28:58,746
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you've already have the merged. And and I

573
00:28:58,826 --> 00:29:01,586
Speaker 4: did actually see it. So Jacob was cool enough. He shared,

574
00:29:01,586 --> 00:29:03,186
Speaker 4: they have a whole team at Fox. They do an

575
00:29:03,266 --> 00:29:07,226
Speaker 4: unbelievable days. They are incredible, and I I watched it

576
00:29:07,306 --> 00:29:10,386
Speaker 4: and I was like, if I was watching that, that guy's pretty, you.

577
00:29:10,346 --> 00:29:13,466
Speaker 1: Know, like that guy's good.

578
00:29:13,546 --> 00:29:15,786
Speaker 4: You know, he does a great job putting that together.

579
00:29:15,866 --> 00:29:19,066
Speaker 4: So it was cool, and so I did see it.

580
00:29:19,146 --> 00:29:21,586
Speaker 4: I don't think I gave them any feedback. I don't

581
00:29:21,626 --> 00:29:23,746
Speaker 4: think I said do this that I don't Sometimes I

582
00:29:23,746 --> 00:29:24,626
Speaker 4: don't remember.

583
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Speaker 3: What I said.

584
00:29:24,906 --> 00:29:26,986
Speaker 4: If you told me what was the best thing you

585
00:29:27,026 --> 00:29:28,826
Speaker 4: said in the NFC Championship game, I'd be like, I

586
00:29:28,826 --> 00:29:30,466
Speaker 4: don't remember who played, you know what?

587
00:29:30,506 --> 00:29:31,346
Speaker 3: I like, I don't know.

588
00:29:31,386 --> 00:29:34,066
Speaker 4: I just make it up as they go. But they

589
00:29:34,066 --> 00:29:37,186
Speaker 4: obviously did a good job and very fortunate to uh

590
00:29:37,266 --> 00:29:38,666
Speaker 4: let me hear your name called.

591
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Speaker 1: Does the last year's Super Bowl? Did that qualify for

592
00:29:42,346 --> 00:29:43,226
Speaker 1: this year's tape?

593
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Speaker 4: That's a really good question. My assumption is it ends

594
00:29:49,266 --> 00:29:52,626
Speaker 4: this season, So my guests would be the playoffs of

595
00:29:52,866 --> 00:29:57,106
Speaker 4: this past season, probably the Packers versus I think.

596
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Speaker 3: My Super Bowl.

597
00:29:58,146 --> 00:30:01,506
Speaker 4: Yeah, my super Bowl I called went into like when

598
00:30:01,546 --> 00:30:04,146
Speaker 4: I was like emerging, like the two years ago.

599
00:30:04,386 --> 00:30:08,426
Speaker 1: Yeah ago, you were awesome in that Niners Lions game.

600
00:30:08,466 --> 00:30:13,306
Speaker 1: But I remember the Packers Niners game, right, you were

601
00:30:13,346 --> 00:30:14,066
Speaker 1: on that call, alls.

602
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we had Packers Niners in the divisional round.

603
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Speaker 1: And Party made all those big clutch plays and you

604
00:30:19,266 --> 00:30:21,706
Speaker 1: were you were fantastic in that final drive. And I'm

605
00:30:21,746 --> 00:30:23,946
Speaker 1: assuming that's probably what Jacob was baking of.

606
00:30:24,626 --> 00:30:26,186
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think it was a lot of playoff stuff.

607
00:30:26,226 --> 00:30:29,186
Speaker 4: And you know, those are the moments, right, those are

608
00:30:29,226 --> 00:30:30,386
Speaker 4: the moments everybody wants you.

609
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Speaker 1: Well, you guys didn't have a good game the first

610
00:30:32,266 --> 00:30:34,226
Speaker 1: ten weeks of the season. You guys had blowout each

611
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Speaker 1: every week.

612
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Speaker 4: We have this funny like group like group text thread

613
00:30:38,226 --> 00:30:40,746
Speaker 4: of you know, production guys and Aaron and Tom and

614
00:30:40,866 --> 00:30:43,746
Speaker 4: Kevin and myself and the guys in the truck and

615
00:30:43,826 --> 00:30:46,666
Speaker 4: researchers and is like this big group chain. And every

616
00:30:46,746 --> 00:30:50,386
Speaker 4: week Jarrett, the research guy at Fox who's unbelievable what

617
00:30:50,426 --> 00:30:55,026
Speaker 4: he does. Jarrett would send hey, just updating America's game

618
00:30:55,066 --> 00:30:57,906
Speaker 4: of the week. Average margin of victories twenty two point

619
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Speaker 4: three points. We have not We've had one game within

620
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Speaker 4: fourteen points in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 3: We're like, thanks, Jarrett, We're well you know, we're well aware.

622
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Speaker 2: You know.

623
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Speaker 4: It was just blowout after blowout after blowout, and then

624
00:31:10,706 --> 00:31:13,666
Speaker 4: playoffs came and it caught fire and we just had

625
00:31:13,786 --> 00:31:16,866
Speaker 4: game after game after game. The NFC Championship was awesome.

626
00:31:17,186 --> 00:31:20,346
Speaker 4: So the playoffs made up for what was a very

627
00:31:20,386 --> 00:31:22,866
Speaker 4: weird regular season because we didn't have a ton of

628
00:31:22,946 --> 00:31:23,946
Speaker 4: like thrillers.

629
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Speaker 3: We had won early.

630
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Speaker 4: We had Detroit lost to Seattle in Week two in

631
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Speaker 4: an overtime game that was awesome, and we had a

632
00:31:31,586 --> 00:31:33,426
Speaker 4: couple here and there. We just didn't have a lot

633
00:31:33,466 --> 00:31:35,586
Speaker 4: of drama at the end. So the playoffs definitely made

634
00:31:35,666 --> 00:31:35,946
Speaker 4: up for it.

635
00:31:36,506 --> 00:31:39,466
Speaker 1: McCaffrey got this new deal. I saw you liked his

636
00:31:40,106 --> 00:31:42,466
Speaker 1: video on Instagram. Now I'm a new Instagram user. I

637
00:31:42,506 --> 00:31:44,986
Speaker 1: can see who likes what. You were his teammate. What

638
00:31:45,026 --> 00:31:47,186
Speaker 1: was your best McCaffrey story when he first walked through

639
00:31:47,226 --> 00:31:47,786
Speaker 1: those doors.

640
00:31:48,666 --> 00:31:50,506
Speaker 3: McCaffrey's the best. I'm going to his wedding here in

641
00:31:50,546 --> 00:31:52,186
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks, I texted him last night.

642
00:31:52,346 --> 00:31:54,226
Speaker 4: I texted him last night after I saw the deal

643
00:31:54,266 --> 00:31:56,346
Speaker 4: come through, and I was like, dude, I don't know

644
00:31:56,386 --> 00:31:58,786
Speaker 4: if you know what you're in store for, but your

645
00:31:58,946 --> 00:32:02,826
Speaker 4: bar bill totally just don't even look at it because

646
00:32:02,866 --> 00:32:05,666
Speaker 4: we're about to blow your wedding. This tab we're going

647
00:32:05,746 --> 00:32:07,346
Speaker 4: to run up on you. All the guys are coming

648
00:32:07,386 --> 00:32:09,226
Speaker 4: to town for It is gonna be.

649
00:32:09,226 --> 00:32:10,666
Speaker 1: An a f So it's not gonna be one of

650
00:32:10,666 --> 00:32:12,546
Speaker 1: those weddings where they give you out a coupon and

651
00:32:12,586 --> 00:32:13,386
Speaker 1: you get one free drink.

652
00:32:14,586 --> 00:32:15,026
Speaker 3: I don't know.

653
00:32:15,226 --> 00:32:17,426
Speaker 4: I'm just assuming it's not gonna be I think everything

654
00:32:17,466 --> 00:32:18,586
Speaker 4: him and Olivia are gonna do.

655
00:32:18,586 --> 00:32:20,106
Speaker 3: Is pretty high, high high brow.

656
00:32:20,186 --> 00:32:23,066
Speaker 4: But even if it's not, we're opening up the bar

657
00:32:23,186 --> 00:32:26,906
Speaker 4: like this is non negotiable, and McCaffrey's getting the bill.

658
00:32:27,026 --> 00:32:29,066
Speaker 4: So we got like all of our old teammates, a

659
00:32:29,066 --> 00:32:30,946
Speaker 4: bunch of our buddies. We're all going out there, both

660
00:32:31,226 --> 00:32:34,226
Speaker 4: the Niners guys and Panther guys. So we're gonna get together.

661
00:32:34,266 --> 00:32:37,146
Speaker 4: We haven't been together in you know, probably a couple

662
00:32:37,186 --> 00:32:38,906
Speaker 4: of years, you know, since we've all kind of gone

663
00:32:38,906 --> 00:32:39,746
Speaker 4: our separate ways.

664
00:32:39,786 --> 00:32:40,466
Speaker 3: We're in a million you.

665
00:32:40,466 --> 00:32:42,746
Speaker 1: Know, who's the crew, like, I love this, So it's

666
00:32:42,786 --> 00:32:43,786
Speaker 1: it's obviously yes.

667
00:32:44,666 --> 00:32:49,226
Speaker 4: Yeah, Keithley's flying up, Ryan Khalil, Jonathan Stewart, I'm talking

668
00:32:49,226 --> 00:32:50,706
Speaker 4: like Panther guys, Jonathan Sue.

669
00:32:52,466 --> 00:32:53,426
Speaker 3: Who else is in our group?

670
00:32:53,586 --> 00:32:53,826
Speaker 4: J J.

671
00:32:54,026 --> 00:32:56,306
Speaker 3: Janssen who's still playing, and you're.

672
00:32:56,226 --> 00:32:57,506
Speaker 1: Like a long snapper.

673
00:32:58,106 --> 00:32:58,746
Speaker 3: Yeah.

674
00:32:58,826 --> 00:33:00,746
Speaker 4: Greg Van Roten we call him g VR is a

675
00:33:00,786 --> 00:33:02,666
Speaker 4: really good buddy of oys offensive line and played for

676
00:33:02,666 --> 00:33:03,666
Speaker 4: the Raiders last year.

677
00:33:05,706 --> 00:33:05,866
Speaker 3: Yeah.

678
00:33:05,906 --> 00:33:08,546
Speaker 4: So and then I think like Kittle and Uscheck and

679
00:33:08,626 --> 00:33:10,186
Speaker 4: you know, all the forty nine er guys. So it's

680
00:33:10,266 --> 00:33:13,546
Speaker 4: kind of a cross between the old Panther guys when

681
00:33:13,626 --> 00:33:16,306
Speaker 4: Christian was young and now just guys throughout the league,

682
00:33:16,346 --> 00:33:20,106
Speaker 4: and it's we are we are much looking. It's it's

683
00:33:20,146 --> 00:33:21,466
Speaker 4: here in like three weeks, so it's the end of

684
00:33:21,506 --> 00:33:23,386
Speaker 4: the month, so we're we're pretty excited about it.

685
00:33:23,466 --> 00:33:25,866
Speaker 1: What's your memory of when it collected that? Like, oh,

686
00:33:26,106 --> 00:33:27,266
Speaker 1: this guy's for real.

687
00:33:28,386 --> 00:33:31,346
Speaker 3: So my first ever interaction with McCaffrey. You're gonna love this.

688
00:33:31,426 --> 00:33:34,466
Speaker 4: So he was not allowed to come to our off

689
00:33:34,506 --> 00:33:38,946
Speaker 4: season training because certain colleges that aren't on semesters, they're

690
00:33:38,986 --> 00:33:44,306
Speaker 4: on like yes, Northwest, it's like super super smart schools

691
00:33:44,746 --> 00:33:47,626
Speaker 4: trimester or quarters or system or whatever they call it.

692
00:33:48,186 --> 00:33:49,946
Speaker 4: And I don't know if the rule is still the same.

693
00:33:50,186 --> 00:33:50,986
Speaker 3: I haven't followed it.

694
00:33:51,026 --> 00:33:54,226
Speaker 4: But when I was playing schools that were on the

695
00:33:54,306 --> 00:33:58,706
Speaker 4: quarters or the trimester system, because school at those universities

696
00:33:58,786 --> 00:34:01,106
Speaker 4: was still in session in the summer, even if those

697
00:34:01,186 --> 00:34:04,586
Speaker 4: kids were done with school, graduate, whatever it was, you

698
00:34:04,666 --> 00:34:08,306
Speaker 4: were not allowed to be at the NFL practices. It

699
00:34:08,426 --> 00:34:12,386
Speaker 4: was like a super obscure situation. So McCaffrey was losing

700
00:34:12,466 --> 00:34:15,226
Speaker 4: his mind. He couldn't come to like a mini camp.

701
00:34:15,266 --> 00:34:18,226
Speaker 4: He couldn't come to the first maybe couple weeks of OTAs.

702
00:34:18,666 --> 00:34:20,346
Speaker 4: But I met him for the first time at Ron

703
00:34:20,426 --> 00:34:23,466
Speaker 4: Rivera's charity event he ran, like a bowling event that

704
00:34:23,546 --> 00:34:26,226
Speaker 4: Christian was in town for. And I'll never forget, Like

705
00:34:26,266 --> 00:34:28,426
Speaker 4: I'm just over there and we're just shooting the catching

706
00:34:28,506 --> 00:34:30,786
Speaker 4: up And obviously I'd watched him play in college and

707
00:34:31,186 --> 00:34:34,786
Speaker 4: knew what a study was. He He did not throw

708
00:34:35,146 --> 00:34:38,266
Speaker 4: one ball, he did not hit a pin. He sat

709
00:34:38,346 --> 00:34:40,666
Speaker 4: next to me and was like, how do you guys

710
00:34:40,666 --> 00:34:43,746
Speaker 4: do pass protection? How do you guys do the and

711
00:34:43,826 --> 00:34:46,306
Speaker 4: like he was Me and him had like an hour

712
00:34:46,386 --> 00:34:50,706
Speaker 4: long conversation on past protection, our formation, our route tree.

713
00:34:50,986 --> 00:34:55,026
Speaker 4: He's like, it's killing me that I'm not at you know, spring.

714
00:34:54,786 --> 00:34:56,986
Speaker 1: Ot everything is a veteran you want to hear right,

715
00:34:57,066 --> 00:34:57,906
Speaker 1: Like that's I'm like.

716
00:34:58,586 --> 00:35:00,026
Speaker 3: I'm like this guy. I knew he was a stud.

717
00:35:00,066 --> 00:35:03,426
Speaker 4: I watched him obviously at eleven o'clock Eastern every weekend

718
00:35:03,506 --> 00:35:06,106
Speaker 4: when Stanford was when he was running all over everybody,

719
00:35:06,146 --> 00:35:08,426
Speaker 4: and he wanted nothing to do with the event.

720
00:35:08,546 --> 00:35:11,066
Speaker 3: He wanted nothing to do with bowling, he wanted nothing.

721
00:35:10,906 --> 00:35:12,866
Speaker 4: To do with walking around shaking hands as our top

722
00:35:12,906 --> 00:35:18,506
Speaker 4: ten first round pick. Like he was killing me about

723
00:35:18,706 --> 00:35:21,026
Speaker 4: just what is he missing? Installs? What should I know?

724
00:35:21,386 --> 00:35:23,426
Speaker 4: How do we do protections? How do we set the mics?

725
00:35:23,426 --> 00:35:26,706
Speaker 4: Where do I scan a lot formation alignments? And I

726
00:35:26,746 --> 00:35:29,746
Speaker 4: was like, this dude's just different. Like there's a lot

727
00:35:29,786 --> 00:35:31,706
Speaker 4: of guys like, hey, he's a ballplayer. Like this guy

728
00:35:31,786 --> 00:35:35,026
Speaker 4: just truly loves ball. He's like in the dictionary, you

729
00:35:35,066 --> 00:35:39,506
Speaker 4: look that up is McCaffrey, Like he is wired, very different,

730
00:35:39,746 --> 00:35:40,746
Speaker 4: he is all in.

731
00:35:42,066 --> 00:35:44,866
Speaker 3: He's just a very he acted as a rookie.

732
00:35:45,266 --> 00:35:49,266
Speaker 4: How most guys don't figure out taking care of their body, training, nutrition, diet,

733
00:35:49,946 --> 00:35:52,306
Speaker 4: all that he was doing that as an incoming rookie.

734
00:35:52,466 --> 00:35:54,466
Speaker 4: You know, takes some guys eight ten years to really

735
00:35:54,506 --> 00:35:56,826
Speaker 4: figure out what that means to be a pro. So

736
00:35:57,226 --> 00:36:00,826
Speaker 4: he was wise beyond his years. Obviously physically talented, but

737
00:36:00,946 --> 00:36:04,586
Speaker 4: just his approach and mindset and everything he does is

738
00:36:04,626 --> 00:36:07,786
Speaker 4: what makes him him. And then he happens to also

739
00:36:07,866 --> 00:36:10,146
Speaker 4: be fast and strong and all that, but that's all

740
00:36:10,186 --> 00:36:11,586
Speaker 4: secondary for him.

741
00:36:12,586 --> 00:36:14,906
Speaker 1: You know. It's it's amazing this forty nine ers team

742
00:36:14,946 --> 00:36:16,586
Speaker 1: in that era, and you've called so many big games

743
00:36:16,626 --> 00:36:19,506
Speaker 1: over the last few years, including an NFC Championship game

744
00:36:19,546 --> 00:36:22,706
Speaker 1: that was cut short, including a NFC Championship game where

745
00:36:22,706 --> 00:36:24,386
Speaker 1: they did get over the hump and get back to

746
00:36:24,426 --> 00:36:27,186
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. It's one of these deals where like,

747
00:36:27,266 --> 00:36:29,586
Speaker 1: I have to think those guys to go through another offseason,

748
00:36:29,586 --> 00:36:31,546
Speaker 1: and you know Kittle so well from tight End University,

749
00:36:31,586 --> 00:36:33,346
Speaker 1: and obviously yust Check has been the legal is sounding

750
00:36:33,386 --> 00:36:35,666
Speaker 1: like it has to just kill these guys that they

751
00:36:35,706 --> 00:36:36,786
Speaker 1: haven't gotten a chip yet.

752
00:36:37,426 --> 00:36:41,026
Speaker 4: Oh, I mean I lost one, so I kind of

753
00:36:41,186 --> 00:36:43,466
Speaker 4: know what it's like walking out as the confetti falls

754
00:36:43,506 --> 00:36:45,386
Speaker 4: and the other team's colors and you go back into

755
00:36:45,386 --> 00:36:48,666
Speaker 4: the reality of the locker room that it's over. Right,

756
00:36:48,706 --> 00:36:50,906
Speaker 4: there's no best of three, best of five, will go

757
00:36:50,946 --> 00:36:54,066
Speaker 4: get him next time like it is over the finality

758
00:36:54,146 --> 00:36:56,426
Speaker 4: of the end of a postseason in the NFL is

759
00:36:56,506 --> 00:36:57,266
Speaker 4: unlike any.

760
00:36:57,066 --> 00:37:00,466
Speaker 3: Other sport because you get one shot. Right.

761
00:37:00,506 --> 00:37:03,346
Speaker 4: So, I've lost an NFC championship game, won an NFC

762
00:37:03,426 --> 00:37:06,666
Speaker 4: championship game, lost to Super Bowl, never got back to

763
00:37:06,706 --> 00:37:09,426
Speaker 4: win another Super Bowl like it just so for these

764
00:37:09,466 --> 00:37:12,946
Speaker 4: guys in this core, well, Christian making it for the

765
00:37:12,946 --> 00:37:14,946
Speaker 4: first time, but you know Kittle and those guys made it,

766
00:37:15,266 --> 00:37:17,826
Speaker 4: you know, just a few years ago. And to get

767
00:37:17,826 --> 00:37:20,666
Speaker 4: there twice and come up short twice, especially this year,

768
00:37:20,746 --> 00:37:24,346
Speaker 4: obviously it was a tough ending. Like it's hard, man.

769
00:37:24,426 --> 00:37:27,106
Speaker 4: I think it just shows how many things have to

770
00:37:27,146 --> 00:37:29,266
Speaker 4: go your way to not only make a Super Bowl,

771
00:37:29,626 --> 00:37:31,786
Speaker 4: but the chips to fall your way and the breaks

772
00:37:31,786 --> 00:37:34,186
Speaker 4: to go your way to win a game, especially in

773
00:37:34,226 --> 00:37:37,226
Speaker 4: an era where Mahomes and Kelsey and Andy Reid. You know,

774
00:37:37,266 --> 00:37:39,506
Speaker 4: that's a that's a history. You know, that's like winning

775
00:37:39,546 --> 00:37:42,426
Speaker 4: when Brady and the Patriots like to steal one out

776
00:37:42,466 --> 00:37:44,826
Speaker 4: of that era. You got to have a lot of

777
00:37:44,826 --> 00:37:46,946
Speaker 4: things go your way. Yeah, maybe Brady got knocked out

778
00:37:46,946 --> 00:37:49,066
Speaker 4: in the AFC championship. That's what happened our year, and

779
00:37:49,106 --> 00:37:51,186
Speaker 4: we couldn't take advantage of it against Denver. But like

780
00:37:51,746 --> 00:37:54,106
Speaker 4: that's kind of what Kansas City is now. And you know,

781
00:37:54,586 --> 00:37:57,346
Speaker 4: San Francisco, Kyle Shanahan might have two Super Bowls if

782
00:37:57,346 --> 00:37:59,946
Speaker 4: it wasn't for Andy Reid, hadn't Patrick Mahomes and vice versas.

783
00:37:59,946 --> 00:38:03,426
Speaker 4: So sometimes you're the You're the product of your era

784
00:38:03,506 --> 00:38:05,826
Speaker 4: and your time. But I think those guys still have

785
00:38:05,866 --> 00:38:07,746
Speaker 4: a long run way. They got a cheap quarterback.

786
00:38:08,266 --> 00:38:09,426
Speaker 3: Yeah no, I mean like.

787
00:38:09,466 --> 00:38:12,506
Speaker 4: Payment wise obviously, but I'm saying they got a ride.

788
00:38:12,546 --> 00:38:15,666
Speaker 4: They got another year. Maybe they can continue to pay

789
00:38:15,666 --> 00:38:18,066
Speaker 4: All these guys on defense take advantage of party, playing

790
00:38:18,106 --> 00:38:20,786
Speaker 4: for free in essence, and take advantage of this window.

791
00:38:28,466 --> 00:38:29,786
Speaker 1: One of the things I love about you. We'll get

792
00:38:29,786 --> 00:38:32,666
Speaker 1: together at like a Fox event, and we'll talk NFL

793
00:38:32,786 --> 00:38:34,546
Speaker 1: for about three seconds, like we just did, and then

794
00:38:34,546 --> 00:38:36,426
Speaker 1: we'll get right into youth sports. I've got a seven

795
00:38:36,506 --> 00:38:40,786
Speaker 1: year old son we're just starting. He's hardcore basketball. This

796
00:38:40,906 --> 00:38:44,026
Speaker 1: thing is called the Brooklyn Basketball Academy, and it is

797
00:38:44,146 --> 00:38:46,746
Speaker 1: like there's eight teams in the league. We have practices

798
00:38:46,906 --> 00:38:48,986
Speaker 1: like I don't coach because they have they don't have

799
00:38:49,306 --> 00:38:52,066
Speaker 1: bother coaches. They have like actual guys who are like

800
00:38:52,146 --> 00:38:54,906
Speaker 1: recent you know, college basketball players and when they coach,

801
00:38:54,946 --> 00:38:58,706
Speaker 1: and JJ Reddick overseas a lot of the league. And

802
00:38:58,746 --> 00:39:01,906
Speaker 1: then there's like random, yeah, random Brooklyn dads you'd love,

803
00:39:01,986 --> 00:39:04,466
Speaker 1: like Brian Westbrook's kids in the league. Like I see

804
00:39:04,546 --> 00:39:06,826
Speaker 1: him at the games. Like it's just it's random. It's good,

805
00:39:06,826 --> 00:39:10,586
Speaker 1: it's awesome, And my son loves it. And I could

806
00:39:10,626 --> 00:39:14,026
Speaker 1: see myself jumping in head first and diving in. And

807
00:39:14,466 --> 00:39:16,626
Speaker 1: I know how passionate you are and you've taken it

808
00:39:16,626 --> 00:39:19,026
Speaker 1: to the next level talk about youth sports and like

809
00:39:19,186 --> 00:39:20,466
Speaker 1: where you see this thing going?

810
00:39:21,626 --> 00:39:24,186
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, and it's easy, right, especially when you

811
00:39:24,226 --> 00:39:26,706
Speaker 4: see your kids. It's easy as a parent when you

812
00:39:26,786 --> 00:39:31,666
Speaker 4: see your kid, your son or daughter really fall into something.

813
00:39:31,706 --> 00:39:35,586
Speaker 4: In your case, it's basketball or baseball. And my daughter's recently,

814
00:39:35,666 --> 00:39:38,546
Speaker 4: just within the last six to ten months, gotten into

815
00:39:38,666 --> 00:39:42,346
Speaker 4: you girls basketball, and she's like really embracing it and

816
00:39:42,386 --> 00:39:46,226
Speaker 4: wanting to improve and practicing. Like as a parent, it's

817
00:39:46,346 --> 00:39:48,466
Speaker 4: very easy to see once the light goes on for

818
00:39:48,546 --> 00:39:53,186
Speaker 4: them and it clicks, it's easy to find yourself saying okay,

819
00:39:53,706 --> 00:39:55,946
Speaker 4: there's never enough we need more practices, we need more games,

820
00:39:55,986 --> 00:39:57,906
Speaker 4: we need more scrimmages, we need more training. Who's the

821
00:39:57,946 --> 00:40:01,026
Speaker 4: best trainer, who's your kid working with? Like it's easy

822
00:40:01,106 --> 00:40:03,826
Speaker 4: once you see it for them to just like I

823
00:40:03,826 --> 00:40:06,346
Speaker 4: will give you every resource, every possible going on.

824
00:40:06,706 --> 00:40:08,506
Speaker 1: I want you to be your bestball whenever you want

825
00:40:08,546 --> 00:40:08,706
Speaker 1: to be.

826
00:40:08,826 --> 00:40:11,826
Speaker 4: Yeah, of course, And again I think it's in we

827
00:40:11,826 --> 00:40:15,146
Speaker 4: We're all doing it out of good intentions. So your

828
00:40:15,226 --> 00:40:17,786
Speaker 4: child tells you they really want to pursue something, you

829
00:40:17,866 --> 00:40:22,786
Speaker 4: can see them actively enjoying it, pursuing it, like improving,

830
00:40:22,866 --> 00:40:25,066
Speaker 4: like they're not just saying it. Like you can tell

831
00:40:25,106 --> 00:40:27,186
Speaker 4: a kid who's in there or who just got dropped

832
00:40:27,226 --> 00:40:29,426
Speaker 4: off by his parents from practice, Like you can tell

833
00:40:29,426 --> 00:40:33,026
Speaker 4: the difference. And then as a parent, your first instinct is,

834
00:40:33,186 --> 00:40:35,986
Speaker 4: I will get you every bit of support, training, lessons,

835
00:40:36,386 --> 00:40:39,706
Speaker 4: team whatever to say what you want to do. And

836
00:40:39,746 --> 00:40:42,146
Speaker 4: it's a very fine line. And some of that I've

837
00:40:42,186 --> 00:40:44,546
Speaker 4: learned the hard way, right I've I was the dad

838
00:40:44,706 --> 00:40:47,066
Speaker 4: was eight year old baseball and I'm like, this is

839
00:40:47,306 --> 00:40:49,666
Speaker 4: this is our life. We're not going on family vacations.

840
00:40:49,666 --> 00:40:52,426
Speaker 4: We got to get ready for the North Carolina cal

841
00:40:52,546 --> 00:40:57,826
Speaker 4: Ripkens State championship. And by the way, they're eight, Yeah,

842
00:40:58,066 --> 00:41:03,266
Speaker 4: they're rising third graders whatever its second grade. So like

843
00:41:03,426 --> 00:41:05,506
Speaker 4: when you go through it, it's just so easy to

844
00:41:05,506 --> 00:41:08,346
Speaker 4: get caught up in it. And I've again learned some

845
00:41:08,466 --> 00:41:11,786
Speaker 4: lessons the hard way. Something's good, something's bad, and really

846
00:41:11,786 --> 00:41:14,106
Speaker 4: look at it. Now that we approach youth sports as

847
00:41:14,226 --> 00:41:17,026
Speaker 4: one simple goal in our house, I should say two

848
00:41:17,026 --> 00:41:20,186
Speaker 4: separate goals in our house. A. In my opinion, there

849
00:41:20,266 --> 00:41:23,306
Speaker 4: is no greater vehicle for young children to learn real

850
00:41:23,346 --> 00:41:28,226
Speaker 4: life experiences than youth sports. Playing with kids you might

851
00:41:28,266 --> 00:41:30,666
Speaker 4: not come from the same backgrounds coaches you may or

852
00:41:30,666 --> 00:41:33,706
Speaker 4: may not just agree with a coach is really hard

853
00:41:33,746 --> 00:41:36,226
Speaker 4: on you. You don't play a lot, you lost playing time,

854
00:41:36,266 --> 00:41:38,066
Speaker 4: you're on the depth chart, you're coming off the bench,

855
00:41:38,106 --> 00:41:40,626
Speaker 4: you're the sixth man whatever.

856
00:41:40,786 --> 00:41:42,586
Speaker 3: That is that same that's.

857
00:41:42,506 --> 00:41:46,386
Speaker 1: Not just your friends from class, kids from other schools.

858
00:41:46,466 --> 00:41:49,146
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, maybe you're a little uncomfortable in the beginning.

859
00:41:49,146 --> 00:41:50,986
Speaker 4: You got to come out of your shell. Like there's

860
00:41:51,026 --> 00:41:53,506
Speaker 4: so many great life lessons that you can create through

861
00:41:53,546 --> 00:41:55,666
Speaker 4: youth sports, and to me, that's number one.

862
00:41:55,546 --> 00:41:56,226
Speaker 3: Across the board.

863
00:41:56,706 --> 00:41:59,466
Speaker 4: And then the second part of that approach is can

864
00:41:59,506 --> 00:42:02,106
Speaker 4: you go one day play for your middle school, and

865
00:42:02,146 --> 00:42:05,066
Speaker 4: then one day your high school and have a really

866
00:42:05,306 --> 00:42:09,746
Speaker 4: fun school experience on at least one, if not multiple teams.

867
00:42:10,106 --> 00:42:14,066
Speaker 4: If you check those boxes, your sports journey is.

868
00:42:14,026 --> 00:42:16,466
Speaker 3: A success in my book, Like, that's how.

869
00:42:16,306 --> 00:42:18,786
Speaker 4: We approach it. That's what we harp on our kids.

870
00:42:19,186 --> 00:42:22,146
Speaker 4: Anything beyond that is gravy.

871
00:42:22,946 --> 00:42:26,866
Speaker 1: I love this, love this. And how did you I mean,

872
00:42:27,026 --> 00:42:29,666
Speaker 1: because you said you originally were traveling the East coast

873
00:42:29,706 --> 00:42:31,786
Speaker 1: and did you have a moment or did you have

874
00:42:31,826 --> 00:42:34,546
Speaker 1: a governor in your Like wait a second, we're let's

875
00:42:34,706 --> 00:42:36,986
Speaker 1: let's take it take a step back. Is that because

876
00:42:37,026 --> 00:42:40,226
Speaker 1: to me, I don't know where the gay I know myself.

877
00:42:40,466 --> 00:42:41,866
Speaker 1: If my son wants to do it, all go to

878
00:42:41,906 --> 00:42:43,586
Speaker 1: all ends to be like, do you want to go

879
00:42:43,626 --> 00:42:45,746
Speaker 1: to New Jersey and play in a tournament for an

880
00:42:45,786 --> 00:42:48,146
Speaker 1: half hour? We'll drive four hours. I could see that happening.

881
00:42:48,706 --> 00:42:50,626
Speaker 4: Oh, and don't get me wrong, we still do it

882
00:42:50,706 --> 00:42:53,586
Speaker 4: right So my older son, We're for both my sons,

883
00:42:53,626 --> 00:42:56,466
Speaker 4: my twelve year old and my eleven year old, both

884
00:42:56,506 --> 00:42:58,826
Speaker 4: of their teams. I coach my eleven year old. My

885
00:42:58,826 --> 00:43:01,826
Speaker 4: my other son plays for a different organization. Both their teams.

886
00:43:01,866 --> 00:43:05,026
Speaker 4: We're going to spend a week in Myrtle Beach from

887
00:43:05,066 --> 00:43:08,586
Speaker 4: Tuesday to Sunday next week, and we'll play between the

888
00:43:08,626 --> 00:43:13,106
Speaker 4: two of them. They'll play sixteen seventeen baseball games between

889
00:43:13,106 --> 00:43:16,066
Speaker 4: two separate teams, I mean two boys, two separate teams,

890
00:43:16,066 --> 00:43:18,866
Speaker 4: Like we're in. Then a week after that, we're going

891
00:43:18,906 --> 00:43:21,626
Speaker 4: down to East Cobb, which is down outside of Atlanta.

892
00:43:21,626 --> 00:43:23,706
Speaker 4: We're going to play in a five day National Perfect

893
00:43:23,706 --> 00:43:26,186
Speaker 4: Game Baseball tournament with my older son, and we're going

894
00:43:26,226 --> 00:43:30,226
Speaker 4: to Mississippi. My daughter's basketball team went to Greensboro. My son,

895
00:43:30,386 --> 00:43:32,586
Speaker 4: my younger son's baseball team is going to play a

896
00:43:32,626 --> 00:43:35,626
Speaker 4: tournament in Charleston in July. Like, it's all I sitting

897
00:43:35,666 --> 00:43:37,666
Speaker 4: here saying, like, oh, we just take it easy. I mean,

898
00:43:38,026 --> 00:43:42,946
Speaker 4: we try to match the enthusiasm of the kid. We

899
00:43:43,026 --> 00:43:45,826
Speaker 4: try to match it. If the kids really in and

900
00:43:45,866 --> 00:43:48,706
Speaker 4: the parents are dragging them back, that's probably not fair.

901
00:43:49,266 --> 00:43:49,546
Speaker 1: Yeah.

902
00:43:49,586 --> 00:43:52,106
Speaker 4: If the kid's half ass in it and the parents

903
00:43:52,146 --> 00:43:54,746
Speaker 4: are all in, that's also a bad scenario.

904
00:43:54,866 --> 00:43:55,186
Speaker 1: Totally.

905
00:43:55,186 --> 00:43:59,826
Speaker 4: It's like, we try our best to match our enthusiasm.

906
00:44:00,106 --> 00:44:02,386
Speaker 4: Are we will drive to the ends of the earth.

907
00:44:02,746 --> 00:44:04,186
Speaker 4: We tell our kids all the time, we will do

908
00:44:04,266 --> 00:44:06,946
Speaker 4: whatever you want. To do, but you to do it,

909
00:44:07,066 --> 00:44:09,146
Speaker 4: and you've got to do it with everything in your power.

910
00:44:09,386 --> 00:44:11,266
Speaker 4: You've got to be willing to go to every practice,

911
00:44:11,346 --> 00:44:14,026
Speaker 4: every game. I don't want the second this looks like

912
00:44:14,026 --> 00:44:15,346
Speaker 4: we're doing it against your will.

913
00:44:15,506 --> 00:44:16,066
Speaker 3: We're done.

914
00:44:16,546 --> 00:44:18,866
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it, And.

915
00:44:18,826 --> 00:44:21,066
Speaker 3: It's easier said than done. It's east said than done.

916
00:44:22,306 --> 00:44:24,866
Speaker 1: I watched some of your stuff. You were at the

917
00:44:24,946 --> 00:44:28,666
Speaker 1: Johns Hopkins University last month at the Project Play summit,

918
00:44:28,746 --> 00:44:30,666
Speaker 1: and you were discussing this. And that's why I'm ring

919
00:44:30,826 --> 00:44:35,466
Speaker 1: because you had you know, parents, coaches, olympians, medical and

920
00:44:35,506 --> 00:44:39,346
Speaker 1: health experts, and you're doing this and now you've taken

921
00:44:39,386 --> 00:44:41,386
Speaker 1: it to like the media thing, talk about your youth

922
00:44:41,506 --> 00:44:43,786
Speaker 1: inc podcasts and what you're working on, because I think

923
00:44:43,786 --> 00:44:46,586
Speaker 1: there's an untapped market for parents like me who are

924
00:44:46,586 --> 00:44:49,346
Speaker 1: going into this thing blind, and then also parents like

925
00:44:49,426 --> 00:44:52,866
Speaker 1: you who you're looking for maybe peers and others that

926
00:44:52,866 --> 00:44:54,706
Speaker 1: you can kind of bounce ideas off of. In a

927
00:44:54,906 --> 00:44:57,386
Speaker 1: sea of all of these private coaches and all of

928
00:44:57,426 --> 00:44:59,666
Speaker 1: these travel teams and all of the money that is

929
00:44:59,666 --> 00:45:02,146
Speaker 1: out there of people trying to suck you dry for

930
00:45:02,226 --> 00:45:03,586
Speaker 1: these youth sports.

931
00:45:03,946 --> 00:45:05,786
Speaker 3: Yeah, no question, So exactly right.

932
00:45:05,826 --> 00:45:09,426
Speaker 4: So to years ago, I was out dinner with a

933
00:45:09,426 --> 00:45:13,706
Speaker 4: couple of my buddies, Ryan Khalil, Vince Vaughn, Humblebragg, both

934
00:45:13,746 --> 00:45:15,986
Speaker 4: those guys are really good buddies of mine, and I

935
00:45:16,026 --> 00:45:17,026
Speaker 4: was pitching them this idea.

936
00:45:17,026 --> 00:45:17,946
Speaker 3: I was like, Hey, we've been.

937
00:45:17,826 --> 00:45:20,946
Speaker 4: Approached by a couple of different podcast platforms and they're like,

938
00:45:20,986 --> 00:45:22,626
Speaker 4: what ideas does Greg want to talk about?

939
00:45:22,626 --> 00:45:23,706
Speaker 3: And I was like, I don't know. I don't know

940
00:45:23,746 --> 00:45:24,306
Speaker 3: if I want.

941
00:45:24,146 --> 00:45:27,586
Speaker 4: To just like break down Sunday's game or totally how

942
00:45:27,586 --> 00:45:30,306
Speaker 4: to run routes is a tight end, Like there's more

943
00:45:30,386 --> 00:45:32,266
Speaker 4: to it, right, I want to do something I'm really into,

944
00:45:32,306 --> 00:45:34,746
Speaker 4: And I'm like, well, the thing I do the most

945
00:45:35,506 --> 00:45:38,306
Speaker 4: is coach and be a youth sports parent, Like I

946
00:45:38,386 --> 00:45:41,186
Speaker 4: do it before I came into this. I'm in my

947
00:45:41,706 --> 00:45:44,266
Speaker 4: Charlotte Christian which is where my kids go to school

948
00:45:44,386 --> 00:45:47,666
Speaker 4: T shirt because we have eight to eleven am middle

949
00:45:47,666 --> 00:45:52,186
Speaker 4: school football workouts Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday all summer, all summer long.

950
00:45:52,266 --> 00:45:55,266
Speaker 4: Like we're living this youth sports world. So anyway, so

951
00:45:55,306 --> 00:45:57,506
Speaker 4: I'm like, the thing I do the most is youth sports.

952
00:45:57,546 --> 00:45:59,386
Speaker 4: The thing that my wife and I stress the most

953
00:45:59,426 --> 00:46:02,426
Speaker 4: about is are we doing it correctly. Every dinner we

954
00:46:02,466 --> 00:46:07,026
Speaker 4: go to with friends, after five seconds, it's the kid play.

955
00:46:07,066 --> 00:46:09,826
Speaker 4: Everyone has the same conversation across the whole country. So

956
00:46:09,866 --> 00:46:12,186
Speaker 4: I'm like, if I'm a guy who's lived in his

957
00:46:12,226 --> 00:46:13,706
Speaker 4: whole life, I grew up the son of a high

958
00:46:13,706 --> 00:46:16,026
Speaker 4: school football coach, I played and made a career out

959
00:46:16,066 --> 00:46:18,026
Speaker 4: of it, and now it's come full circle that I'm

960
00:46:18,066 --> 00:46:20,866
Speaker 4: the dad slash youth coach. And there's a lot of

961
00:46:20,866 --> 00:46:22,786
Speaker 4: times that I'm doing it wrong. There's a lot of

962
00:46:22,786 --> 00:46:24,266
Speaker 4: times that I look back on a game or a

963
00:46:24,306 --> 00:46:26,826
Speaker 4: practice and saying I needed to be better. I needed

964
00:46:26,826 --> 00:46:29,626
Speaker 4: to handle that situation better. My kid, your kid, whatever.

965
00:46:30,386 --> 00:46:32,946
Speaker 4: There's a pod here, there's an idea. So that is

966
00:46:32,986 --> 00:46:34,986
Speaker 4: the birth of you Think. So it was originally a

967
00:46:35,026 --> 00:46:39,146
Speaker 4: standalone podcast and we had forty five episodes of conversations

968
00:46:39,186 --> 00:46:44,786
Speaker 4: with Olympians, coaches, mental health experts, sports performance name it

969
00:46:44,826 --> 00:46:48,106
Speaker 4: across the spectrum, current former professional athletes and everybody, and

970
00:46:48,186 --> 00:46:51,266
Speaker 4: really about the best practices of what their lessons were

971
00:46:51,266 --> 00:46:54,186
Speaker 4: growing up in sport, how they apply it now going forward,

972
00:46:54,226 --> 00:46:56,026
Speaker 4: and really some cool conversations.

973
00:46:56,506 --> 00:46:56,986
Speaker 3: From there.

974
00:46:57,106 --> 00:46:59,186
Speaker 4: We said, okay, hold on, this is bigger than just

975
00:46:59,346 --> 00:47:02,946
Speaker 4: me hosting a singular podcast. So we have now launched

976
00:47:03,026 --> 00:47:07,666
Speaker 4: you Think Reimagined, which is a two prong to two

977
00:47:07,706 --> 00:47:10,426
Speaker 4: different sides of the company. One is a content platform

978
00:47:10,746 --> 00:47:13,506
Speaker 4: we are in We have talks and contracts with all

979
00:47:13,506 --> 00:47:16,066
Speaker 4: different types of like they're going to head up their

980
00:47:16,146 --> 00:47:20,666
Speaker 4: vertical football, basketball, girl soccer, volleyball, softball, and they're going

981
00:47:20,706 --> 00:47:24,026
Speaker 4: to be like their ambassadors for their vertical their sport

982
00:47:24,106 --> 00:47:26,186
Speaker 4: and they're going to produce content from how to make

983
00:47:26,626 --> 00:47:29,266
Speaker 4: practice plans to how to teach a girl how to

984
00:47:29,306 --> 00:47:31,346
Speaker 4: feel the ground ball to shoot a basket, and.

985
00:47:31,306 --> 00:47:34,666
Speaker 1: Not just like House of Highlights videos of these kids like.

986
00:47:35,146 --> 00:47:39,106
Speaker 4: Grass roots foundational. I got to take over my kids

987
00:47:39,186 --> 00:47:42,026
Speaker 4: eight year old basketball practice? How do I get started?

988
00:47:42,106 --> 00:47:43,866
Speaker 4: I want to teach my seven year old kid how

989
00:47:43,866 --> 00:47:45,906
Speaker 4: to make a lefty layup. But I also want to

990
00:47:45,906 --> 00:47:47,346
Speaker 4: be able to drive home in the car with my

991
00:47:47,426 --> 00:47:49,706
Speaker 4: kid after he goes over three with three strikeouts and

992
00:47:49,706 --> 00:47:52,786
Speaker 4: not really blow this as a dad, which we've all

993
00:47:52,786 --> 00:47:55,066
Speaker 4: had our moments that we're probably not our most proud of,

994
00:47:55,146 --> 00:47:58,066
Speaker 4: right and all of those conversations are going to live.

995
00:47:58,106 --> 00:48:01,266
Speaker 4: All of this information that the education, the coaching, the

996
00:48:01,306 --> 00:48:04,986
Speaker 4: mental health, the sports performance, everything around the atmosphere of

997
00:48:05,026 --> 00:48:07,866
Speaker 4: youth sports is going to live on a singular platform

998
00:48:08,026 --> 00:48:10,906
Speaker 4: called youth Youth dot Inc. Is going to be the site,

999
00:48:11,266 --> 00:48:13,986
Speaker 4: and then on the other side of that, there's going

1000
00:48:14,066 --> 00:48:17,186
Speaker 4: to be a commercial e commerce platform. We have a

1001
00:48:17,186 --> 00:48:19,586
Speaker 4: really cool partner, Ryan Bass, who's a partner of ours

1002
00:48:19,666 --> 00:48:22,826
Speaker 4: founding this, who came from fanatics, who really understands the

1003
00:48:22,866 --> 00:48:26,786
Speaker 4: e commerce retail idea, and he understands how bad that

1004
00:48:26,906 --> 00:48:29,666
Speaker 4: landscape looks right now. To get this T shirt made

1005
00:48:29,666 --> 00:48:32,986
Speaker 4: by your kids team takes six months. So there's going

1006
00:48:33,066 --> 00:48:35,106
Speaker 4: to be e commerce play that's only going to serve

1007
00:48:35,146 --> 00:48:37,946
Speaker 4: the youth sports performance, the youth sports environment, and then

1008
00:48:37,986 --> 00:48:43,146
Speaker 4: also the media content company which will serve boys, girls

1009
00:48:43,146 --> 00:48:46,626
Speaker 4: across the landscape of all things youth sports, and just

1010
00:48:46,666 --> 00:48:50,386
Speaker 4: continue to further conversations we're having right now, which are

1011
00:48:50,426 --> 00:48:52,226
Speaker 4: going on all around the country.

1012
00:48:51,946 --> 00:48:54,866
Speaker 1: All the time. It's every conversation. Like my buddy Adam,

1013
00:48:55,706 --> 00:48:58,266
Speaker 1: he played lacrosse in high school and then didn't play

1014
00:48:58,306 --> 00:49:01,906
Speaker 1: in college. His son is I think third grade and

1015
00:49:02,066 --> 00:49:04,226
Speaker 1: is like one of the best lacrosse players in all

1016
00:49:04,266 --> 00:49:09,506
Speaker 1: of Long Island, and that sounds like a pipeline to Harvard.

1017
00:49:09,826 --> 00:49:12,066
Speaker 1: John's topkin but like, how do you keep the love

1018
00:49:12,106 --> 00:49:14,026
Speaker 1: for the like there's all these different hurdles, Like, Okay,

1019
00:49:14,026 --> 00:49:16,546
Speaker 1: so he's an outstanding player in third grade, what do

1020
00:49:16,546 --> 00:49:18,906
Speaker 1: you do from here to that college scholarship offer? That's

1021
00:49:18,946 --> 00:49:20,626
Speaker 1: the question. That's the bridge, right.

1022
00:49:21,146 --> 00:49:23,706
Speaker 4: Well, that's and that's and I think that the cart

1023
00:49:23,746 --> 00:49:26,386
Speaker 4: before the horse is what's happening in a lot of

1024
00:49:26,426 --> 00:49:29,546
Speaker 4: different families and households. And I don't blame people, right,

1025
00:49:29,586 --> 00:49:32,026
Speaker 4: It's easy to get caught up in the excitement of

1026
00:49:32,066 --> 00:49:34,706
Speaker 4: having the best fourth grader, the best fifth grader, the

1027
00:49:34,746 --> 00:49:38,546
Speaker 4: best eighth grader, whatever that timeline is. But the thing

1028
00:49:38,626 --> 00:49:42,386
Speaker 4: everyone has to remember, if the only goal of your

1029
00:49:42,466 --> 00:49:45,306
Speaker 4: kid waking up at seven am on Saturday mornings and

1030
00:49:45,386 --> 00:49:47,706
Speaker 4: driving an hour for a soccer tournament or a cross

1031
00:49:47,746 --> 00:49:49,946
Speaker 4: tournament or a football game or whatever it is. If

1032
00:49:49,986 --> 00:49:52,906
Speaker 4: the only reason we're taking our kids and doing all

1033
00:49:52,946 --> 00:49:55,506
Speaker 4: of this rat race every single week is so that

1034
00:49:55,586 --> 00:49:59,546
Speaker 4: they play beyond the high school level, every family should

1035
00:49:59,666 --> 00:50:00,306
Speaker 4: quit doing.

1036
00:50:00,226 --> 00:50:02,746
Speaker 3: It right now. It's not worth it good, it's.

1037
00:50:02,586 --> 00:50:06,346
Speaker 1: Not worth it the seventy variables.

1038
00:50:07,106 --> 00:50:11,346
Speaker 4: If that's the only objective, you should just save your time,

1039
00:50:11,426 --> 00:50:14,666
Speaker 4: save your energy, and go on summer vacation because the

1040
00:50:14,946 --> 00:50:19,426
Speaker 4: odds of it happening there's one school on average. Now,

1041
00:50:19,666 --> 00:50:22,066
Speaker 4: back to what we said earlier, if the idea is

1042
00:50:22,106 --> 00:50:25,186
Speaker 4: to get the journey, yeahs.

1043
00:50:25,306 --> 00:50:27,706
Speaker 1: And that's where my friend's coming from, Like he's like,

1044
00:50:27,946 --> 00:50:29,626
Speaker 1: I'll do anything. I'll drive it at Philadelphia for a

1045
00:50:29,626 --> 00:50:31,826
Speaker 1: tournament because the kid loves it and he's making great

1046
00:50:31,826 --> 00:50:33,546
Speaker 1: monks like it's awesome. Yeah.

1047
00:50:33,586 --> 00:50:38,266
Speaker 4: And if that kid never plays a minute of college lacrosse,

1048
00:50:38,506 --> 00:50:40,386
Speaker 4: but he has a great high school and junior high

1049
00:50:40,386 --> 00:50:41,426
Speaker 4: and high school career.

1050
00:50:42,146 --> 00:50:43,106
Speaker 3: That's not a failure.

1051
00:50:43,186 --> 00:50:43,786
Speaker 1: That's amazing.

1052
00:50:43,786 --> 00:50:47,106
Speaker 3: That's the dream. The dream is the journey.

1053
00:50:47,986 --> 00:50:50,706
Speaker 4: And if you maximize that journey and you put in

1054
00:50:50,786 --> 00:50:52,506
Speaker 4: the work and you don't miss a practice, and you

1055
00:50:52,586 --> 00:50:55,546
Speaker 4: grind and you deal with failure, adversity, make the team

1056
00:50:55,786 --> 00:50:58,986
Speaker 4: get cut, whatever that ups and downs roller coaster of

1057
00:50:59,026 --> 00:51:01,586
Speaker 4: your childhood is to begin with. If it's the same

1058
00:51:01,626 --> 00:51:03,946
Speaker 4: in sports, and you come out as a high school senior,

1059
00:51:04,306 --> 00:51:06,986
Speaker 4: confident and strong, and you know, hey, I've been through

1060
00:51:06,986 --> 00:51:08,626
Speaker 4: a lot in these last five years.

1061
00:51:08,346 --> 00:51:09,466
Speaker 3: Through sports through school.

1062
00:51:09,746 --> 00:51:11,786
Speaker 4: I'm prepared now to go to college and just be

1063
00:51:11,866 --> 00:51:15,506
Speaker 4: a normal citizen and a normal contributor to society.

1064
00:51:16,546 --> 00:51:18,346
Speaker 3: Mission accomplished and those.

1065
00:51:18,266 --> 00:51:20,266
Speaker 1: Lessons will carry with you throughout your life.

1066
00:51:20,866 --> 00:51:24,266
Speaker 4: The problem is that is not how most I don't

1067
00:51:24,266 --> 00:51:26,826
Speaker 4: want to say most. That is not how all families

1068
00:51:27,666 --> 00:51:29,346
Speaker 4: view the youth sports path.

1069
00:51:29,426 --> 00:51:31,946
Speaker 3: And that's why it's getting very scary interesting.

1070
00:51:31,946 --> 00:51:34,026
Speaker 1: We could do we could do a whole podcast platform

1071
00:51:34,026 --> 00:51:36,546
Speaker 1: based on this, and you are all right, I want

1072
00:51:36,546 --> 00:51:39,506
Speaker 1: to hit before we go to really cool things. The

1073
00:51:39,546 --> 00:51:41,586
Speaker 1: first thing is tight End University. You guys have been

1074
00:51:41,586 --> 00:51:44,306
Speaker 1: doing this for years. You've got sponsors attached to it,

1075
00:51:44,346 --> 00:51:46,746
Speaker 1: and I truly think it's one of the coolest things

1076
00:51:46,786 --> 00:51:48,706
Speaker 1: that we have in our off season schedule. It's become

1077
00:51:48,706 --> 00:51:53,106
Speaker 1: one of those milestones. It's like Combine Pro Days, free Agency,

1078
00:51:53,666 --> 00:51:57,546
Speaker 1: Draft schedule, release, tight End University. When is it this week?

1079
00:51:57,586 --> 00:51:57,786
Speaker 4: Year?

1080
00:51:57,946 --> 00:51:59,826
Speaker 1: It is in Nashville again. Are we going back to

1081
00:51:59,906 --> 00:52:02,146
Speaker 1: Nashville and tearing up Broadway like we do every year?

1082
00:52:02,666 --> 00:52:03,026
Speaker 3: We are?

1083
00:52:03,106 --> 00:52:05,786
Speaker 4: We're going back to Nashville again. That's where that's where

1084
00:52:05,826 --> 00:52:08,866
Speaker 4: it started. That's we're Kittle, who really was like the

1085
00:52:08,906 --> 00:52:12,546
Speaker 4: brain behind the whole thing. It really started very casually.

1086
00:52:12,586 --> 00:52:16,106
Speaker 4: I had just retired that spring. Kittle sent me a text.

1087
00:52:16,226 --> 00:52:17,626
Speaker 4: We had gotten to know each other. We have the

1088
00:52:17,626 --> 00:52:19,586
Speaker 4: same marketing group, you know, the guys at Rubicon that

1089
00:52:19,626 --> 00:52:21,186
Speaker 4: you know Raskin and those guys.

1090
00:52:21,506 --> 00:52:22,626
Speaker 3: So I'd gotten to you.

1091
00:52:22,586 --> 00:52:24,666
Speaker 4: Know, George, just my last couple of years in the league,

1092
00:52:24,746 --> 00:52:28,506
Speaker 4: and he texted me, hey, man, congrats, great career. Enjoy retirement.

1093
00:52:28,826 --> 00:52:31,066
Speaker 4: If by any chance you ever come down to Nashville,

1094
00:52:31,346 --> 00:52:34,386
Speaker 4: there's like five or six tight Ends. You know, Hockinson's

1095
00:52:34,426 --> 00:52:36,906
Speaker 4: down there and you know a bunch of guys if

1096
00:52:36,946 --> 00:52:39,786
Speaker 4: you ever come down, we'd love to pick your brain,

1097
00:52:39,906 --> 00:52:41,866
Speaker 4: come work out with us and just have like a day.

1098
00:52:41,906 --> 00:52:44,306
Speaker 3: And I was like, yeah, it sounds great. And then

1099
00:52:44,386 --> 00:52:45,706
Speaker 3: like we're like, let's build this.

1100
00:52:45,866 --> 00:52:49,386
Speaker 4: And it got to like ten guys twenty and we're like, okay,

1101
00:52:49,626 --> 00:52:51,226
Speaker 4: this is now bigger than just like a bunch of

1102
00:52:51,266 --> 00:52:53,426
Speaker 4: guys come in, work out in the morning, and then

1103
00:52:53,506 --> 00:52:55,626
Speaker 4: go drink beers on Broadway and have a great time.

1104
00:52:55,666 --> 00:52:56,906
Speaker 3: Like there's more to this, right.

1105
00:52:56,946 --> 00:53:02,106
Speaker 4: So we're now in year four and last year we

1106
00:53:02,146 --> 00:53:03,706
Speaker 4: had like eighty eighty five.

1107
00:53:03,546 --> 00:53:08,066
Speaker 1: Guys and that oh yeah, grow a great tight Ends

1108
00:53:08,146 --> 00:53:09,546
Speaker 1: or what or college.

1109
00:53:09,386 --> 00:53:12,946
Speaker 3: Only only professional only professional guys?

1110
00:53:12,946 --> 00:53:15,546
Speaker 4: Oh my god, yeah, we had yeah, so we had

1111
00:53:15,986 --> 00:53:19,426
Speaker 4: you know, so so Kelsey Travis Kelcey, Kittle and myself.

1112
00:53:19,466 --> 00:53:21,706
Speaker 4: The three of us kind of own and operate the

1113
00:53:21,746 --> 00:53:24,666
Speaker 4: whole kind of entity of TU. But yeah, we had

1114
00:53:24,666 --> 00:53:26,786
Speaker 4: we had over eighty guys last year, and we do

1115
00:53:26,826 --> 00:53:29,226
Speaker 4: it at Vanderbilt. They give us great access to their

1116
00:53:29,266 --> 00:53:32,386
Speaker 4: team meeting rooms, their facilities, their turf, their indoor outdoor

1117
00:53:32,426 --> 00:53:36,546
Speaker 4: grass turf, whatever we need. And yeah, it's you know,

1118
00:53:36,586 --> 00:53:38,946
Speaker 4: it's it's a fun mixture. The guys are just off

1119
00:53:38,946 --> 00:53:42,066
Speaker 4: of Ota, so there's just enough work. Right, there's classroom,

1120
00:53:42,106 --> 00:53:44,826
Speaker 4: there's work, there's field. You know, we're getting real work.

1121
00:53:45,346 --> 00:53:47,946
Speaker 4: And then there's also a lot of like fellowship and camaraderie.

1122
00:53:47,946 --> 00:53:50,386
Speaker 4: On Monday night when we get there, there's a welcome party.

1123
00:53:50,466 --> 00:53:52,226
Speaker 4: We're having beers, we hang out.

1124
00:53:52,346 --> 00:53:54,466
Speaker 3: Welcome everybody, Welcome the new guys.

1125
00:53:54,506 --> 00:53:56,706
Speaker 4: Right, So I'm a young undrafted or maybe I was

1126
00:53:56,746 --> 00:53:59,546
Speaker 4: a young first round pick, fifth round pick, whoever I am,

1127
00:53:59,986 --> 00:54:02,586
Speaker 4: I'm Brock Bowers or I'm an undrafted free agent that

1128
00:54:02,666 --> 00:54:05,146
Speaker 4: I'm hoping to make the roster in two months.

1129
00:54:05,786 --> 00:54:07,026
Speaker 3: I walk into this hotel.

1130
00:54:07,066 --> 00:54:11,146
Speaker 4: I walk in and I got Kittle, Kelsey, Darren Waller,

1131
00:54:12,106 --> 00:54:13,066
Speaker 4: Mark Andrews.

1132
00:54:14,026 --> 00:54:15,586
Speaker 3: I got the best.

1133
00:54:15,346 --> 00:54:17,746
Speaker 4: Guys you've watched in the last couple of years with

1134
00:54:19,266 --> 00:54:22,306
Speaker 4: open arms. We're taking you know, and and the camaraderie

1135
00:54:22,506 --> 00:54:23,986
Speaker 4: of the position and the ability.

1136
00:54:24,586 --> 00:54:25,186
Speaker 1: I love this.

1137
00:54:25,866 --> 00:54:26,826
Speaker 3: It's super cool. Right.

1138
00:54:26,866 --> 00:54:29,546
Speaker 4: So that's Monday night. Then Tuesday is our workday. Tuesday

1139
00:54:29,586 --> 00:54:31,226
Speaker 4: we're at the We're at the facility. We do a

1140
00:54:31,306 --> 00:54:35,346
Speaker 4: couple hours of indoor classroom. There's presentations. Kelsey's given presentations

1141
00:54:35,626 --> 00:54:39,666
Speaker 4: with film clips on route running, and we had undressed coverages,

1142
00:54:39,706 --> 00:54:42,346
Speaker 4: and Kittle's talking run game, and we've had Dallas Clark

1143
00:54:42,386 --> 00:54:45,466
Speaker 4: coming years past. Gronkowski did a you know, run after

1144
00:54:45,546 --> 00:54:47,826
Speaker 4: catch tape about mentality. I mean, over the years, we've

1145
00:54:47,826 --> 00:54:50,306
Speaker 4: had some really cool presenters and then we go out

1146
00:54:50,306 --> 00:54:53,746
Speaker 4: on the field and we do like actual routes. Last

1147
00:54:53,786 --> 00:54:58,906
Speaker 4: year Zach Wilson came as a quarterback, Josh Allen, Trey Lance.

1148
00:54:58,946 --> 00:55:00,506
Speaker 3: I mean, we got some we got some quarterbacks that

1149
00:55:00,586 --> 00:55:01,466
Speaker 3: come and throw it around.

1150
00:55:01,466 --> 00:55:04,546
Speaker 4: So and then that night this year we have like

1151
00:55:04,546 --> 00:55:06,346
Speaker 4: a big concert a bit, you know, obviously we're in

1152
00:55:06,946 --> 00:55:09,386
Speaker 4: we got some live music and a concert. So it's

1153
00:55:09,426 --> 00:55:11,906
Speaker 4: a it's a perfect balance of fun and fellowship. But

1154
00:55:11,946 --> 00:55:13,946
Speaker 4: also when it's time to work, we work, like we

1155
00:55:13,986 --> 00:55:15,586
Speaker 4: always tell the guys, you're not coming in for a

1156
00:55:15,666 --> 00:55:18,426
Speaker 4: three day trip to Nashville. We're coming into work and

1157
00:55:18,506 --> 00:55:21,026
Speaker 4: get better and then we're also going to have a

1158
00:55:21,066 --> 00:55:22,546
Speaker 4: lot of fun when the work is over. But it's

1159
00:55:22,586 --> 00:55:24,826
Speaker 4: got to be in that order to make the event work,

1160
00:55:24,906 --> 00:55:26,986
Speaker 4: and so far it's been very successful.

1161
00:55:27,106 --> 00:55:27,346
Speaker 2: Ah.

1162
00:55:27,386 --> 00:55:29,026
Speaker 1: I love that. Is there a text chain with all

1163
00:55:29,026 --> 00:55:30,706
Speaker 1: that tight ends in the league that just is like

1164
00:55:30,986 --> 00:55:33,106
Speaker 1: an ongoing inside jokes and like all.

1165
00:55:33,066 --> 00:55:35,146
Speaker 3: You know that there's not Well, if there is, I'm

1166
00:55:35,146 --> 00:55:36,866
Speaker 3: not on it. If there is, I'm not on it.

1167
00:55:36,906 --> 00:55:38,266
Speaker 3: They call me Dad.

1168
00:55:38,346 --> 00:55:40,626
Speaker 4: They call me Dad because I'm the one that's like

1169
00:55:41,266 --> 00:55:42,946
Speaker 4: pulling everyone like okay.

1170
00:55:42,626 --> 00:55:45,146
Speaker 1: Like come on, get this guy, this guy, Yeah.

1171
00:55:45,066 --> 00:55:49,186
Speaker 4: Come over here, like stay on track, thank our sponsors.

1172
00:55:49,346 --> 00:55:51,066
Speaker 4: Kelsey's on top of the bar. We're like you got

1173
00:55:51,106 --> 00:55:54,866
Speaker 4: to thank but like, you know, come on. But it's

1174
00:55:54,906 --> 00:55:57,906
Speaker 4: awesome man. But you know what, I think the coolest

1175
00:55:57,906 --> 00:56:02,106
Speaker 4: part of all of it is, it doesn't matter what

1176
00:56:02,186 --> 00:56:04,506
Speaker 4: the next step of your career is. Right, you've got

1177
00:56:04,586 --> 00:56:07,106
Speaker 4: undrafted rookies that are just hoping to make a practice

1178
00:56:07,106 --> 00:56:10,026
Speaker 4: squad or an active roster. You've got practice squad guys

1179
00:56:10,026 --> 00:56:11,826
Speaker 4: coming back for year two or three who are hoping

1180
00:56:11,826 --> 00:56:14,786
Speaker 4: to make the opening day fifty three. You got backups

1181
00:56:14,826 --> 00:56:16,666
Speaker 4: that want to be starters, starters that want to be

1182
00:56:16,666 --> 00:56:19,426
Speaker 4: Pro bowlers, guys that want whatever that next tier is.

1183
00:56:20,426 --> 00:56:22,386
Speaker 4: But when these young guys come in and they line

1184
00:56:22,466 --> 00:56:25,386
Speaker 4: up the run routes on Tuesday day one of field work,

1185
00:56:25,906 --> 00:56:27,546
Speaker 4: the guy at the front of the line is Travis

1186
00:56:27,626 --> 00:56:30,666
Speaker 4: Kelcey and George Kittle and last year Darren Waller and

1187
00:56:30,946 --> 00:56:34,066
Speaker 4: Mark Andrews and down the line, and they are full

1188
00:56:34,146 --> 00:56:38,186
Speaker 4: speed running routes. They could big time everyone and be like,

1189
00:56:38,426 --> 00:56:40,506
Speaker 4: I'm Travis Kelcey, I don't need to run routes, you're

1190
00:56:40,706 --> 00:56:44,786
Speaker 4: seventeen fat. But they're the front of the line demonstrating

1191
00:56:45,266 --> 00:56:49,026
Speaker 4: full sweat, full sweat lather, working like they're not just

1192
00:56:49,106 --> 00:56:52,146
Speaker 4: there to check the box. They're there setting the standard.

1193
00:56:52,226 --> 00:56:55,626
Speaker 4: And if those guys can do it, nobody else in

1194
00:56:55,626 --> 00:56:57,786
Speaker 4: the place has an excuse that they're not full speed,

1195
00:56:57,826 --> 00:56:59,706
Speaker 4: that they're not taking this as a real practice.

1196
00:56:59,706 --> 00:57:01,546
Speaker 3: So when those guys set.

1197
00:57:01,266 --> 00:57:03,866
Speaker 4: The tone the way they do, it's just easy to

1198
00:57:03,906 --> 00:57:06,066
Speaker 4: control everybody else. Because you say you want to be

1199
00:57:06,106 --> 00:57:09,626
Speaker 4: then you're getting a front row seat. Just do do

1200
00:57:09,786 --> 00:57:13,586
Speaker 4: that and go that hard, that fast, anything less than that,

1201
00:57:13,866 --> 00:57:16,066
Speaker 4: you've got no shot. You're getting a look at what

1202
00:57:16,106 --> 00:57:21,546
Speaker 4: the best practice, like firsthand.

1203
00:57:19,026 --> 00:57:21,346
Speaker 1: I would I would like to your thoughts on this.

1204
00:57:21,466 --> 00:57:24,266
Speaker 1: So I've known Kelsey for years in a media way

1205
00:57:24,346 --> 00:57:27,066
Speaker 1: and then more personally through this big slick event that

1206
00:57:27,106 --> 00:57:29,066
Speaker 1: I do in Kansas City that I just got done with. Now,

1207
00:57:29,426 --> 00:57:31,906
Speaker 1: I had known Kelsey for years. We've always had great interactions.

1208
00:57:31,906 --> 00:57:34,106
Speaker 1: He I've done multiple interviews on Fox for him for

1209
00:57:34,186 --> 00:57:37,226
Speaker 1: you know, the pregame show. All this stuff starts dating

1210
00:57:37,586 --> 00:57:40,146
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift. And obviously I haven't seen him since I

1211
00:57:40,226 --> 00:57:42,106
Speaker 1: did a couple of their games. At their games, he says,

1212
00:57:42,106 --> 00:57:43,666
Speaker 1: what's up? Like I said the AFC Championship game, we

1213
00:57:43,666 --> 00:57:45,746
Speaker 1: talked at midfield, but like I didn't know. I was

1214
00:57:45,746 --> 00:57:48,666
Speaker 1: with him this past weekend in Kansas City. He's the

1215
00:57:48,746 --> 00:57:52,706
Speaker 1: same Travis Kelcey as he was before dating Taylor Swift.

1216
00:57:52,706 --> 00:57:57,306
Speaker 1: And I mean, so cool, so good to everybody looks

1217
00:57:57,346 --> 00:57:59,706
Speaker 1: you in the eye, asks how your family's doing. Like

1218
00:57:59,786 --> 00:58:02,226
Speaker 1: I was so happy to see that all of this

1219
00:58:02,306 --> 00:58:04,986
Speaker 1: super stardom for the past twelve months has not changed

1220
00:58:05,026 --> 00:58:05,506
Speaker 1: him one bit.

1221
00:58:06,466 --> 00:58:08,066
Speaker 4: Well you want you want to hear It's so funny

1222
00:58:08,066 --> 00:58:10,466
Speaker 4: that you say that because you're spot on, and Travis

1223
00:58:10,506 --> 00:58:13,026
Speaker 4: is one of my favorite dudes and one.

1224
00:58:13,426 --> 00:58:15,386
Speaker 1: I would think that maybe this is the year. He says,

1225
00:58:15,386 --> 00:58:17,946
Speaker 1: you know what, I love tight End University. But like

1226
00:58:18,226 --> 00:58:20,546
Speaker 1: I've got to be or I got to.

1227
00:58:20,466 --> 00:58:24,426
Speaker 4: Be in I'm in Tokyo wherever. No, he he made

1228
00:58:24,466 --> 00:58:27,466
Speaker 4: it a point. Hey, I'm committed to this. I mean,

1229
00:58:27,466 --> 00:58:30,466
Speaker 4: he's obviously a key draw, key role. He's one of

1230
00:58:30,466 --> 00:58:32,026
Speaker 4: the you know, the three of us kind of control

1231
00:58:32,106 --> 00:58:34,386
Speaker 4: it and run it, and you know, obviously his involvement

1232
00:58:34,426 --> 00:58:36,466
Speaker 4: goes a long way, and the credibility and whatnot. But

1233
00:58:37,066 --> 00:58:38,946
Speaker 4: just more back to you just talking about him as

1234
00:58:38,946 --> 00:58:41,066
Speaker 4: like a person and just staying kind of He's always

1235
00:58:41,106 --> 00:58:43,546
Speaker 4: been who he is. He's the most fun guy to

1236
00:58:43,626 --> 00:58:47,066
Speaker 4: be around when it's time to have fun. He's the

1237
00:58:47,106 --> 00:58:51,586
Speaker 4: hardest running routes, the fastest, sweating cleed dirt when it's

1238
00:58:51,626 --> 00:58:54,666
Speaker 4: time to work. But the coolest thing about him is

1239
00:58:54,706 --> 00:58:56,906
Speaker 4: And it's so funny you say that, because yesterday I

1240
00:58:56,986 --> 00:59:00,146
Speaker 4: posted an Instagram pick my my. My younger son celebrated

1241
00:59:00,186 --> 00:59:03,186
Speaker 4: his three years of his heart transplant. They called him Heartniversaries,

1242
00:59:03,226 --> 00:59:07,266
Speaker 4: so like kids that have transplants, in his case heart transplant.

1243
00:59:07,586 --> 00:59:10,546
Speaker 4: They celebrate those kind of like a second birthday kind

1244
00:59:10,546 --> 00:59:12,746
Speaker 4: of thing. It's like a tradition in the transplant world.

1245
00:59:12,786 --> 00:59:15,706
Speaker 4: So we celebrated that. So June fourth was his three

1246
00:59:15,786 --> 00:59:20,666
Speaker 4: year anniversary of his transplant. First comment on I showed

1247
00:59:20,746 --> 00:59:23,826
Speaker 4: my kid, I screenshoted it. First comment on my Instagram

1248
00:59:23,866 --> 00:59:28,746
Speaker 4: post Travis Kelcey, way to go TJ. You're the man

1249
00:59:28,906 --> 00:59:31,546
Speaker 4: or you know whatever he said. I mean he could

1250
00:59:31,546 --> 00:59:33,626
Speaker 4: have double clicked it and just kept swipe in. But

1251
00:59:33,746 --> 00:59:36,946
Speaker 4: like three years ago, we had TEU right the day

1252
00:59:36,986 --> 00:59:38,906
Speaker 4: when TJ got out of the hospital, so he had

1253
00:59:38,946 --> 00:59:41,346
Speaker 4: his June fourth, he had his heart transplant, and then

1254
00:59:41,346 --> 00:59:43,426
Speaker 4: like two weeks later was the inaugural TEU.

1255
00:59:44,986 --> 00:59:45,666
Speaker 3: Kelsey's there.

1256
00:59:45,706 --> 00:59:47,626
Speaker 4: All the tight ends are there are little saying that

1257
00:59:47,666 --> 00:59:50,066
Speaker 4: summer that everybody in town wore was play for TJ.

1258
00:59:50,306 --> 00:59:52,826
Speaker 4: And that was like the saying and the kids that bracelets.

1259
00:59:53,346 --> 00:59:56,106
Speaker 4: I got pictures of Travis kelce running around at TEU,

1260
00:59:56,266 --> 00:59:59,466
Speaker 4: George Kittle, all these guys play for TJ t shirts

1261
00:59:59,466 --> 01:00:02,946
Speaker 4: on and now three years later he's the first one.

1262
01:00:03,266 --> 01:00:05,466
Speaker 3: Way to go TJ. My man. Hope to see it.

1263
01:00:05,506 --> 01:00:08,186
Speaker 4: You know, he didn't have to do that and when

1264
01:00:08,186 --> 01:00:10,106
Speaker 4: I show your when you show your eleven year old

1265
01:00:10,226 --> 01:00:10,666
Speaker 4: kid that.

1266
01:00:12,186 --> 01:00:15,426
Speaker 3: It's been, it's highlighted, highlighted life.

1267
01:00:15,946 --> 01:00:18,346
Speaker 1: Hey, speaking of TJ, I know you've got a really

1268
01:00:18,386 --> 01:00:21,066
Speaker 1: special weekend up ahead. What do you got going on

1269
01:00:21,146 --> 01:00:21,866
Speaker 1: in the Carolina?

1270
01:00:22,146 --> 01:00:24,146
Speaker 4: Yeah, so yeah, it's super cool. I can't wait to

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Speaker 4: get you down dude, Trays you got to come to this.

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Speaker 4: So we have a place outside of Charleston called in

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Speaker 4: called Key Island. They've played the PGA Championship there a

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Speaker 4: couple of times at the Ocean Course, like a real

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Speaker 4: prominent course down there. So we spend a lot of

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Speaker 4: our summer, a lot of our holidays. It's about four

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Speaker 4: hours from Charlotte, and so we are our foundation called

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Speaker 4: the Hardest Jar. We'd always served the Charlotte Community Levine

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Speaker 4: Children's Hospital, where TJ got all of his care. We

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Speaker 4: fortunately have been able to grow and really build our

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Speaker 4: program here in Charlotte. And for a second location, we

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Speaker 4: now have partnered and brought our program to MUSC Children's Hospital,

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Speaker 4: which is the largest children's hospital in South Carolina. So

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Speaker 4: Levine Children's in North Carolina, MUSC Children's in South Carolina.

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Speaker 4: They're the two bigs like cardiac trauma centers that unfortunately,

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Speaker 4: if your kid ever needed like serious serious medical care,

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Speaker 4: those are the centers that you would go to in

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Speaker 4: this Carolina region. So we were having our third annual

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Speaker 4: Pewa Island Hardest Yard Golf event. Guys flying from all

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Speaker 4: over the country. It's it's this upcoming Sunday and Monday,

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Speaker 4: so June ninth and tenth, and we play golf, we

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Speaker 4: have dinners, we have a welcome concert. You know a

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Speaker 4: couple of last year, you love this shrakes last year.

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Speaker 4: After golf on Monday, we go back to my house.

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Speaker 4: A bunch of the musicians and the players and guests

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Speaker 4: who come. They kind of come back to our house

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Speaker 4: just to hang after golf. And Jamie Johnson, the country

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Speaker 4: singer you know, sings in color and he whips out

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Speaker 4: his guitar and he's sitting on my back patio and

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Speaker 4: he's playing acoustic of you know, in color and sitting

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Speaker 4: around drinking beers. It's just it's a really cool event.

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Speaker 4: I got I'm going to get you the date you're

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Speaker 4: in next year. All the money goes to again MEOC

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Speaker 4: Children's Hospital and our Hardest Yard program there in Charleston,

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Speaker 4: and we just look for more centers that we can

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Speaker 4: kind of bring what.

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Speaker 3: We do too.

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Speaker 4: And it's just a it's a fun weekend and you

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Speaker 4: get a lot of our family and friends from around

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Speaker 4: the country together for it.

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Speaker 3: So it's super cool.

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Speaker 1: You're the best. I'll come next year. I feel like

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Speaker 1: I need to zoom in or something. It sounds amazing

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Speaker 1: and there's no one better on a patio to do

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Speaker 1: a sing along with country music than Peter Schreger from

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Speaker 1: New York City. So just just put that in the books. Olsen,

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Speaker 1: You're the best. Greg Olsen, awesome as always.

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Speaker 3: Thanks dude, You're the best.

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Speaker 4: That's it.

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Speaker 1: Another great episode. You never know where it's gonna go.

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Speaker 1: It goes from Will Forte in a fountain of Filth

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Speaker 1: singing James Ingram's just Once, and it ends with incredible

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Speaker 1: details on the Christian McCaffrey bowling non bowling event at

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Speaker 1: the first time he met Greg Olsen. I love that stuff.

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Speaker 1: It's the season with Peter Schreger. Thanks for listening. We'll

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Speaker 1: have plenty more episodes in the coming weeks. Aaron, always

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Speaker 1: great talking with you, and many thanks to Jason English

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Speaker 1: and Jason Clemen. Over there in LA and all the

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Speaker 1: folks who help put this thing together. Let's keep on rocking.

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Speaker 1: See you next week, everybody. The Season with Peter Schrager

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Speaker 1: is a production of the NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

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