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Speaker 1: This is the OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Lands.

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Speaker 1: Farm Bureau Health Plans is celebrating seventy six years of

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Speaker 1: With Amy Wells, I'm Mike Keith. We are at the

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Speaker 1: Titans Facility, which is known as Ascension St. Thomas Sports Park,

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Speaker 1: back for the first OTP since the Brett Kern retirement announcement.

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Speaker 2: YEP, which was great.

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Speaker 1: It was a really nice event.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what a good retirement kind of ceremony

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Speaker 2: just gets me every time. I mean, it's such a

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Speaker 2: full circle thing. It's such a special thing for not

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Speaker 2: only the player but their family, someone like Brett Kern,

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Speaker 2: who we've literally seen his family grow up before all

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Speaker 2: of our eyes out on these practice fields. It was

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Speaker 2: just an awesome thing. So so thankful to him for

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Speaker 2: taking the time to talk to us and do an

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Speaker 2: OTP with us and just kind of spend some time reminiscing.

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Speaker 2: It was great and I cried a lot.

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Speaker 1: It was very happy.

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Speaker 2: It was really happy.

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Speaker 1: Because it was as if you really sense from him

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Speaker 1: that he knew the time had come in every way possible.

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Speaker 1: His son Bryce is thirteen, middle school, not far from

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Speaker 1: high school. The girls are starting to get older. He

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Speaker 1: didn't have the pop in his leg he once did.

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Speaker 1: He could keep doing this, but he'd probably be going

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Speaker 1: from tryout to try out to getting with somebody for

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Speaker 1: his family because you're now to the age with your

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Speaker 1: if they go to daycare or preschool in one place

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Speaker 1: in the fall and in another place in the spring, right,

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Speaker 1: But when you get to be thirteen, like your son, man,

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Speaker 1: it's it means you're moving. The families not moving in most.

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Speaker 2: Cases, right, And and that's a hard thing. And that's

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Speaker 2: one of the one of the decision makers for more

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Speaker 2: people than I even realized in the NFL early in

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Speaker 2: my career before family was something that really occurred to

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Speaker 2: me my own family. You know, didn't realize how much

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Speaker 2: of a role that plays in guys' decisions just with

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Speaker 2: what they're going to do in their career, because it

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Speaker 2: really does. The older your kids get, the more disruptive

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Speaker 1: Well for any career, but the football thing is such

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Speaker 1: a big deal because of the fact that you say, Okay,

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Speaker 1: where do we want to raise our family. Obviously, Middle

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Speaker 1: Tennessee is a great place to raise a family, but

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Speaker 1: that doesn't work for everybody because let's say your in

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Speaker 1: laws live in Orlando and your parents live close to Orlando. Well,

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Speaker 1: you're looking for you want to be around other family,

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Speaker 1: you want help with the kids, you want all these things,

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Speaker 1: all of these things that the OT people listening right

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Speaker 1: now know about in terms of having a family, having

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Speaker 1: a job, and putting everything together. Players face the same thing,

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Speaker 1: particularly when they get towards thirty and beyond in age,

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Speaker 1: because you have all these decisions you.

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Speaker 2: Have to make, right, you have a little less control.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's only thirty two cities in the world

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Speaker 2: And so if your family isn't living in one of

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Speaker 2: if you want to work in this industry, You've got

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Speaker 2: to take the jobs where they're available. That's kind of

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Speaker 2: what Brett Kerrn was coming up against, is that he

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Speaker 2: didn't know where the jobs were going to be available.

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Speaker 2: And his family is rooted in Middle Tennessee and.

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Speaker 1: He has a chance to walk away still being a

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Speaker 1: quality player, with his health, which is a great thing.

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Speaker 1: And I mean he's made some dough. Yeah, good, all right,

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Speaker 1: good for him. This is a good place to live

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Speaker 1: Yep. It's one of those places that there's a lot

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Speaker 3: Up back here.

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Speaker 2: I mean players who play for other teams in the

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: I was like, none of you people have played for

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Speaker 1: The latest player who wants to live in this community's

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Speaker 1: name is Jaleel Johnson.

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Speaker 2: That was really good, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Jalil Johnson, wearing number ninety four six three three sixteen,

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Speaker 1: seventh year defensive lineman out of Iowa. And this is

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Speaker 1: a guy who was signed to the Titans last week.

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Speaker 1: The kind of guy that they have found in the

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Speaker 1: guy who's always played well against us. We've called Jilliel

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Speaker 2: I appreciate that there is a concerted effort being made

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Speaker 2: And I think it's like the perfect strategy. You make

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Speaker 2: a lot of moves against the Tennessee Titans, phenomenal, come

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Speaker 2: play for us now. Absolutely, just eliminate the problem.

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Speaker 1: Eliminate the middle man, and just bring him here. We

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Speaker 1: arden Key is oneed. Arden Key got a ton of

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Speaker 2: Did an initial press conference at free agency. But you

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Speaker 1: So you're saying he was on his best behavior as

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Speaker 1: them the ardent Key.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. He initially came in and it was all business right,

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Speaker 1: A lot of what we've seen though in this offseason

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Speaker 3: Guy in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Nope, he's gonna get his chance. He's gonna get a

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Speaker 1: And there are several guys on this roster that they

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Speaker 1: Amy that you're bringing in guys who are hungry.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a it's an earn it situation. And

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Speaker 2: that's what Mike Vrabel does so well is he gets

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Speaker 2: You've got to earn it. Here's your opportunity. And that's

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Speaker 2: one of his motivators for a lot of different positions.

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Speaker 2: This isn't one specific entity, I guess one specific moment.

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Speaker 2: He does this a lot, and it gives guys the

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Speaker 1: Know, like Chris Moore, Yes, exactly. And you had a

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Speaker 1: that the Titans signed as a free agent who has

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Speaker 1: played the last couple of years for the Houston Texans

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Speaker 1: and has had his most success. Before the OT people

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Speaker 2: Well, you're you're going to be hearing in Chris Moore,

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Speaker 2: a guy who is so excited to be here with

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Speaker 1: Ot people here. It is Amy Wells and new Titans

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Speaker 2: Chris Moore, we are so excited to have you here

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Speaker 2: with the Tennessee Titans, and so I've got to ask

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Speaker 2: you right off the top, what drew you to this organization.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure you had a lot of options. Why was

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Speaker 4: When I first came on my visit, it was just

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Speaker 3: So I was drew to it for that.

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Speaker 2: Tim Kelly is the Titans offensive coordinator. You have a

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Speaker 2: What do you like about his offense and what he's running.

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Speaker 4: It's very player oriented, so if the players out there

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Speaker 2: Now, every coach has tendencies, their preferences, you know, things

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Speaker 4: I mean that's the hard one to say. I feel

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Speaker 4: He's gonna go out there and run his plays, but

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Speaker 2: Now, your career has spanned multiple organizations with Baltimore Ravens,

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Speaker 3: Definitely.

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Speaker 4: I hardly mess up to be honest, to have amazed.

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Speaker 2: Myself safe to say you're a better player now than

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Speaker 4: Definitely, I feel like I want to say I'm a

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Speaker 4: But I'm definitely this is the best Chris Moore playing

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Speaker 2: Now, I want to talk to you about something non

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Speaker 3: Guy, right, I am I do like soccer.

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Speaker 4: Honestly, if America was in a different shape and we

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Speaker 3: But one, they run a lot, and I love to run.

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Speaker 4: But it's just I think there's a high skill set

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Speaker 2: It's an exhausting game, like as a player, I mean

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Speaker 4: I love to run, Like I can run all day.

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Speaker 4: Just go run really yeah. In college I used to

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Speaker 4: When I run like long distance, I that is just

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Speaker 3: I'm just just running for fun.

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Speaker 4: I've talked to people about that, and it depends on

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Speaker 2: Now, you still are working through a couple weeks of

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Speaker 4: I just continue to build trust with my teammates, because

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Speaker 2: How hard has it been to come in and learn

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Speaker 4: For me at this point in my career, I'm used

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Speaker 4: honestly like it. It's always nice fresh start every time.

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Speaker 3: It's fun.

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Speaker 2: How hard was it to create that routine?

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Speaker 3: It was hard.

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Speaker 4: I feel like that's one of the things I struggled

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Speaker 2: Who helped you kind of formulate that and figure out

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Speaker 3: What's wrong with me exactly? I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I think I was just lucky throughout my career just

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Speaker 4: I just took something from them, whether it'd be how

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Speaker 4: I just try to take from people, and what works

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Speaker 2: What have you been implementing the most here now that

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Speaker 4: As far as for what works for me, my big

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Speaker 4: thing is right now, especially as I'm getting later in

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Speaker 4: I'm very big on nutrition in what I eat. And

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Speaker 4: then as far as just learning a new playbook. Always

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Speaker 4: I have how I study. I'm a big flash car guy,

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Speaker 4: Like I'm always flashing through flash cars side That's how

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Speaker 4: I learned the offense and so that's a big thing

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Speaker 2: No, like fifteen mile runs in the morning.

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Speaker 3: No, not right now.

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Speaker 4: Now, when I go back for workouts, I'll go back

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Speaker 2: Well, Chris Moore, We're so happy to have you here,

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Speaker 2: even if.

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Speaker 3: You're just a running machine.

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Speaker 1: Excellent interview with.

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Speaker 2: Chris Mike Keith. He uses flash cards, he uses That

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Speaker 2: is my kind of guy.

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Speaker 1: Chris Moore uses flash car crash cards. All right, so

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Speaker 1: you brought Chris Moore to the table, I'm gonna bring

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Speaker 1: Sean Murphy Bunting to the OTP tape. Ooo, Sean Murphy

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Speaker 1: Bunning and I'm gonna set this up with his quote

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Speaker 1: on draft day. He was drafted number thirty nine overall

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Speaker 1: by Tampa Bay in twenty nineteen, which was, of course,

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Speaker 1: the Nashville Draft. His quote on draft day, zero star recruit,

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Speaker 1: to play anywhere on signing day, gray shirt offer in March.

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Speaker 1: Enrolled at Central Michigan in January of twenty sixteen. Three

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Speaker 1: years later, twenty nineteen NFL Draft prospect never stop believing

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Speaker 1: and chasing your dream. You controlled your own destiny. So

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Speaker 1: that quote will set up a lot or give a

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Speaker 1: discussing in this interview. You're gonna like him. He can play,

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Speaker 1: but he's got the sort of attitude that the Titans

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Speaker 1: so and it ain't exactly like he's an old dude,

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Speaker 1: but he's a guy who has spent good time in

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Speaker 1: this league. Fifty nine games, forty one starts, one hundred

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Here's my talk with New Titan defensive

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Speaker 3: You have to explain something to me.

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Speaker 1: I've heard a lot of stuff over the years, but

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Speaker 1: I have never heard of a zero star recruit. You

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Speaker 6: I think it's just a zero star recruit. Like I

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Speaker 6: I've always been what they say, you know, undervalued or underrated. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: And I feel like that's just kind of what it

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Speaker 1: Okay Macomb, Michigan. Yes, okay, So were you not a

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Speaker 3: I was elite? Well, okay, but then how are you

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Speaker 3: offer you? I don't get it.

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Speaker 6: You know, I don't get it either, But I really

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Speaker 6: I don't know, you know, I think that just being

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Speaker 6: circuit was pretty big when I was in high school,

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Speaker 3: Now, explain what air is.

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Speaker 6: It pretty much is when you sit a semester, and

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Speaker 1: What did you do during that time where you weren't

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Speaker 6: I haven't had to answer these questions in a long time.

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Speaker 6: I used to here, Yeah, you're right, I forget that.

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Speaker 6: I worked a few jobs. I worked at twist on

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Speaker 3: Quit after how long two weeks? Didn't like the happiest

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Speaker 6: I did not like that. I worked that party city

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Speaker 6: There was a place where I where I was from

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Speaker 6: let people get on and get off.

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00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:46,600
Speaker 3: And didn't you stay longer than two weeks? Yeah? I did, okay,

443
00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:47,440
Speaker 3: but I went back.

444
00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:49,439
Speaker 6: But I went back there because I started off in

445
00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:52,040
Speaker 6: high school when I was sixteen. That was my first job.

446
00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:55,800
Speaker 6: I worked there, and then I stopped working there, and

447
00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:57,199
Speaker 6: then I had to go back because I had a

448
00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:59,560
Speaker 6: semester off, so I did, so he gave me a job.

449
00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:03,359
Speaker 1: So, so what you're saying about the zero star recruit

450
00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,480
Speaker 1: thing is you didn't lack confidence.

451
00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:09,520
Speaker 3: It's just schools didn't know you well enough, right, okay, right,

452
00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:10,200
Speaker 3: And that's okay.

453
00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:12,919
Speaker 1: So five years later, you win the Super Bowl and

454
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,360
Speaker 1: you have an interception in every one of the NFC

455
00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:19,160
Speaker 1: playoff games and everybody's like this guy, ool second round pick.

456
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:23,879
Speaker 1: It's not like you were under noticed there. And I

457
00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:27,159
Speaker 1: mean this, five years to go from no recruitment to

458
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:29,760
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion and one of the stars of the

459
00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:34,440
Speaker 1: playoff run for the Bucks, and so that didn't surprise you.

460
00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,000
Speaker 6: No, not at all. I Mean, I feel like I've

461
00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:38,840
Speaker 6: always been a confident guy. I always felt, you know,

462
00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:41,520
Speaker 6: that I had ability to kind of do whatever I

463
00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,480
Speaker 6: really wanted. And you know, that's just come from where

464
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Speaker 6: I'm from. You know, my mom raised me to be

465
00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,600
Speaker 6: a man of character. I'm a man of God, a

466
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Speaker 6: man of of everything that I believe in and just

467
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Speaker 6: doing the things that has necessary to become successful. And

468
00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:55,840
Speaker 6: saying with my dad as well, he was a guy

469
00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:59,719
Speaker 6: that raised me to be a strong man, an independent man,

470
00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,560
Speaker 6: a man and that you know, believed in his confidence

471
00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:04,320
Speaker 6: and his abilities, but he put the work in to

472
00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:07,080
Speaker 6: to get everything that he wanted. So I've always been

473
00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:09,120
Speaker 6: that way and I always continue to be that way.

474
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,359
Speaker 6: But that's just the things that kind of made me

475
00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:11,880
Speaker 6: who I am.

476
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 3: Like to play with Tom Brady, it was it was elite.

477
00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:17,360
Speaker 6: It was amazing, you know, just being able to see

478
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,399
Speaker 6: the way he operates and the way he kind of

479
00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 6: takes his day to day things. Obviously being one of

480
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,919
Speaker 6: the greatest, if not the greatest, of all time. You

481
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,080
Speaker 6: can see why he is. You know who he is,

482
00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:28,600
Speaker 6: and he put the work in every day, and it

483
00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:31,040
Speaker 6: just it showed a lot for us younger guys in

484
00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:32,920
Speaker 6: the building that you know, if we do want to

485
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,879
Speaker 6: get to that level, it's it's it's levels to getting

486
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,800
Speaker 6: to that to that level. So it was it was good.

487
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Speaker 6: I picked his brain a lot, and I just got

488
00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:41,600
Speaker 6: to talk to him and talk to the people that

489
00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,560
Speaker 6: he was around, and a good opportunity for me early.

490
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:48,159
Speaker 1: On, especially good for a defensive practicing against him.

491
00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,960
Speaker 6: I think, right absolutely, So yeah, I mean you got

492
00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:52,439
Speaker 6: a chance to pick his brain and talk to him

493
00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 6: about ball and what he sees out there and some

494
00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:56,200
Speaker 6: of the guys that he's played with and what made

495
00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:58,960
Speaker 6: them great and things like that. So I have multiple

496
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,400
Speaker 6: opportunities to talk to him throughout our time together, and

497
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 6: I'm very very fortunate for him and all the things

498
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:05,119
Speaker 6: and the knowledge that he has told me.

499
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:07,120
Speaker 3: Why did you want to play for Tennessee?

500
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,840
Speaker 6: Oh, Man, opportunity you know, not only the opportunity, but

501
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:12,880
Speaker 6: the coaching staff and the culture.

502
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:13,080
Speaker 3: They have here.

503
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,399
Speaker 6: You know. Rable, I mean, I rave about him all

504
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 6: the time. But he's a guy that just he speaks

505
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:20,359
Speaker 6: volume and he speaks character. Everything that he does is

506
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,200
Speaker 6: from his heart, and that goes a long way with

507
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:23,639
Speaker 6: a player.

508
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:25,479
Speaker 3: Feels like they recruited you.

509
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, didn't you got the five star recruitment to come here?

510
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:29,760
Speaker 3: Is that fair?

511
00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,520
Speaker 6: I mean, it's it's fair to say, right, any team

512
00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:34,919
Speaker 6: that was trying to get a player on free agency

513
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:37,959
Speaker 6: is recruiting you. But they were definitely consistent and they

514
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:39,800
Speaker 6: were involved from the beginning to the end, and so

515
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:42,920
Speaker 6: it made the decision a lot easier for me when

516
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 6: the time, when the time was right.

517
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Speaker 1: I'm teasing you, obviously, but the recruitment thing, but it

518
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,760
Speaker 1: does feel like, Sean, they targeted you, that they felt

519
00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:54,919
Speaker 1: like you were what they wanted personally, professionally, scheme wise,

520
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,760
Speaker 1: and what they want to do in the defense. Explain

521
00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:00,400
Speaker 1: in sort of your words, why you think you were

522
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,000
Speaker 1: such a fit for them and they're such a fit

523
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:03,320
Speaker 1: for you.

524
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Speaker 6: I think, you know, I just from being in the

525
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:11,080
Speaker 6: meetings and being around what they what they preach, you know,

526
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:14,479
Speaker 6: they preach speed, they preach violence, they peached versatility, all

527
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:16,440
Speaker 6: the things that I feel like I can do. I'm

528
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:18,879
Speaker 6: a versatile in many different ways. I can play different positions,

529
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 6: i can play different techniques, and I think that that's

530
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:23,679
Speaker 6: just an attest to the way I feel like I

531
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 6: was coached throughout my my career and I'm very fortunate,

532
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 6: you know, for Tampa because they put me in different

533
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:32,680
Speaker 6: positions to where I had to be very versatile in

534
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,240
Speaker 6: in in ways that I could play. And so I

535
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 6: think that it's just it was a perfect fit because

536
00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 6: they asked for everything that I do, and I everything

537
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,480
Speaker 6: that I needed they had, and so it's just I

538
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 6: wanted an opportunity to be able to play, you know,

539
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 6: a corner on the outside. I wanted an opportunity to

540
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 6: just have a fresh start and be around you know,

541
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:52,119
Speaker 6: people and coaches that believed in me and believed in

542
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 6: my abilities, and they gave me all of those opportunities here.

543
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Speaker 3: What are you enjoying most about being here so far?

544
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Speaker 6: What I'm enjoying most probably being a guys man, being

545
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 6: a VET. You know, it's different when you're a VET,

546
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 6: and then it's different when you're a younger guy and

547
00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 6: you have vets in your room. This is the first

548
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:08,959
Speaker 6: time where I feel I'm the oldest guy in the

549
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:11,200
Speaker 6: corner room and it's different for me. But it's fun,

550
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 6: you know, just learning the personalities of all the guys

551
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 6: of Trey Avery, Caleb Farley, Roger McCreary, the younger rookies

552
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:19,639
Speaker 6: that we have now. But you see a lot of

553
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 6: like similarities, you know, from when I was a younger

554
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 6: or younger guy, And even like with frustrations, like certain

555
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,439
Speaker 6: techniques guys get frustrated with. But it's so early on

556
00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 6: that it's like I'm trying to tell them, like, it's

557
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 6: no reason to get frustrated in may. You know, you

558
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,639
Speaker 6: have time to work on certain things. And as a

559
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,119
Speaker 6: younger player, it's gonna be people that say, oh, you

560
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:40,560
Speaker 6: can't do this, you need to do this, you need

561
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:42,680
Speaker 6: to do this. But I've always just told them you

562
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:44,400
Speaker 6: just got to stay true to yourself and everything else

563
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:45,200
Speaker 6: will fall into place.

564
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Speaker 1: Our organization has a lot of history over sixty years.

565
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:52,359
Speaker 1: We have a double zero in our history. Ken Burrow,

566
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Speaker 1: who was one of the great wide receivers in the

567
00:26:54,400 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 1: franchise is history overall, great player. You picked zero to

568
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 1: become the first person in this organization's history to not

569
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 1: we're double zero but one zero.

570
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 6: Why Like I said, I mean, I think it's just

571
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,199
Speaker 6: a fresh start man, just a new opportunity, a new

572
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 6: journey to kind of just come into my own really

573
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 6: just to show Nashville and show Tennessee who I am

574
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:18,399
Speaker 6: as a player and who I am as a person.

575
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 6: And that was my quickest way to make history. So

576
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:22,639
Speaker 6: why not why not do it and give give myself

577
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:26,120
Speaker 6: that opportunity. So and now it's just really just playing ball.

578
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 6: You know. The jersey number is a jersey number, but

579
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 6: at the end of the day, you have to make

580
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 6: it yours. You have to make it, you know, a

581
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:34,960
Speaker 6: representation of who you are, who your family is a

582
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 6: name on the back as well as the name on

583
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 6: the front. So I'm just taking every day as a

584
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 6: new opportunity to just get better and develop, you know,

585
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:42,119
Speaker 6: just get one percent better.

586
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,400
Speaker 3: Each not the whole zero star recruit thing.

587
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:46,919
Speaker 6: There's no tie to actually was no ties to it,

588
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 6: but now that you've mentioned it, it can be and

589
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 6: I'll probably moving forward, I'll probably.

590
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 1: Say that you own that in a way that you

591
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 1: have fascinated me. We're so glad you're here.

592
00:27:58,680 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 6: I'm glad I'm here as well.

593
00:27:59,600 --> 00:27:59,919
Speaker 3: Thank you.

594
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 1: Right, Titans fans, We've got some breaking news that you're

595
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:11,800
Speaker 1: going to want to hear. It's official. Seat Geek is

596
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 1: now the official ticketing partner of the Tennessee Titans. That's right,

597
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:17,679
Speaker 1: the deal is finalized, and Seat Geek is the newest

598
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 1: member of the Titans family. If you haven't heard the

599
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 1: name yet, get used to it, because you'll be hearing

600
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,399
Speaker 1: it a lot more this season. Whether you're buying or

601
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,439
Speaker 1: selling tickets to Titans games or any other live event

602
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,199
Speaker 1: in Nashville, Seat Geek is the place to do it.

603
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 1: Seat Geek the new official ticketing partner of the Tennessee Titans.

604
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 1: So Titans fans can fan woo woo. Sean Murphy Bunting.

605
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 2: Great interview. Thank you very excited.

606
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 1: By the way, if you wonder upon entering the league,

607
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: he went from Sean Bunting to Sean Murphy Bunting as

608
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 1: a tribute to his mother and grandparents. For him, it

609
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 1: represents all the sacrifices they made and the help they

610
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 1: gave him along the way. So that's why he is

611
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Speaker 1: Sean Murphy Bunty.

612
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Speaker 2: Can I ask a question, Yes, that might sound stupid. Okay,

613
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 2: that's not a legal name change, right, that's just a

614
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 2: jersey name change.

615
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 1: Now you are saying that because.

616
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 2: Because changing your name legally sucks, it's really just an

617
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 2: awful experience and I recommend that anyone who has the

618
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 2: opportunity just say no, don't do it.

619
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Speaker 1: Don't do it.

620
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really a pain in the neck. But yeah,

621
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 2: anytime someone announces that they are, you know, adding a

622
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 2: name or doing something, because we see guys do that

623
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 2: every now and then.

624
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 1: And the married thing, yeah.

625
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 2: The married thing really just complicated.

626
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 1: But you're saying, in many of these cases, this is

627
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 1: just the this is.

628
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 2: In Jersey, not necessarily in legal.

629
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 1: In legal doc. Yeah, I don't have any idea.

630
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, I always wonder about that. I don't think of.

631
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 1: Course, professional football players have people to do that sort

632
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 1: of thing for them.

633
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 2: Dude, I would have paid big money to have people

634
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 2: do that for me. There's still all kinds of random

635
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 2: things that I walk into places all the time, and

636
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 2: I'm like, it sounds like I don't know my own name,

637
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 2: but I have no idea what last name is.

638
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 1: Well, just recently I heard you refer to yourself by

639
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 1: your married name for the first time I know, and

640
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 1: it took me aback.

641
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, because I don't use it around here, I

642
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 2: use it in the world. But it's very confusing. Okay,

643
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 2: who knows reservations could be under like nine different names,

644
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 2: all my aliases.

645
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 3: Interesting point.

646
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, that's just what I was thinking.

647
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Speaker 1: I want to wrap up this edition of the OTP

648
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Speaker 1: with a tribute to a friend, somebody that you need

649
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:46,719
Speaker 1: to know. If if as one of the ot people,

650
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 1: if you want to know your oiler's history, you have

651
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: to know the name Bob Hyde. And we lost Bob

652
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 1: this past weekend to cancer. Bob was someone who's originally

653
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: from tell went to Mt Issue. I don't know how

654
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: well it went at Mtssue for Bob. He used to

655
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 1: tell stories and so he ends up transferring to the

656
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: University of Houston. He's a Sigma COI. He goes to

657
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 1: mister adams house for a Sigma Chay party because mister

658
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 1: Adams was obviously a big Sigma Kai, and he meets Bob.

659
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 1: Bob becomes an intern with the Oilers, later works himself

660
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: all the way up to Director of Media Relations with

661
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Speaker 1: the Oilers. Well, then there was palace intrigue, as there

662
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 1: often can be between general managers, coaches and whoever, and

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Speaker 1: Bob is no longer with the Oilers. He goes away

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Speaker 1: and take He worked for a PR firm, He worked

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Speaker 1: for the PGA Tour. He was involved in a lot

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Speaker 1: of things. I came to know him when he was

667
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Speaker 1: working for the PGA Tour. Team moves to Tennessee, the

668
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 1: Houston Oilers moved to Tennessee. They're all these PR snaffoos

669
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Speaker 1: PR I mean, like big time PR snaff food and

670
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 1: a lot of it is because the Oilers folks don't

671
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: know enough about the state of Tennessee, and they're really

672
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Speaker 1: simple mistakes, but they keep stepping in it. It's like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you don't do that, don't do you know? Watching from

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Speaker 1: the outside was painful. Bob sits down, writes mister Adams

675
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 1: a letter. He says, here are the things that you

676
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 1: need to be doing. I don't know how they got

677
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Speaker 1: back together to have a conversation. Mister Adams hires him back,

678
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Speaker 1: and so Bob Hyde becomes the vice president of Community Relations.

679
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: Here's why Bob Hyde is important o t people. From

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Speaker 1: your standpoint, if you love that the Titans are so

681
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 1: involved at Fort Campbell with one hundred and first, that's

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Speaker 1: Bob Hyde. If you love Titan's Caravan and what it

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Speaker 1: meant for the sixteen or seventeen years that it was

684
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 1: the biggest off season outreach program that the team had,

685
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Speaker 1: and like no others in the NFL, that was Bob Hyde.

686
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Speaker 1: If you like the Coach of the Week program and

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00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: the Team of the Week program, and if you like

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00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: the fact that the Tennessee Titans put their name on

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Speaker 1: the Mister Football Awards, that was Bob Hyde. All of

690
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: these things. I'm just throwing a few at you. It's

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Speaker 1: important to know that he stepped in in that breach

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Speaker 1: and would go to mister Adams to ask mister Adams

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Speaker 1: for things that nobody else would. And part of it

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Speaker 1: was that mister Adams trusted him so much, but also

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00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 1: part of it is he'd been out once before. There

696
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 1: was a part of Bob that there was a fearlessness

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Speaker 1: to what he did in stepping forward and at times

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Speaker 1: saying to mister Adams, these are the things that we

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00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 1: need to do. He was known as Johnny Eiler in

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00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 1: the building because he fought to keep the oil Derek alive.

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Speaker 1: But he also understood, because he was from Tennessee, that

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00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: we had to be the Titans and not the Oilers.

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00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: And that was an important point that you'll probably hear

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00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: more about this fall as the Titans bring back the

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00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 1: Oiler jerseys for the first time. In twenty five years.

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00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 1: But there was a time that had you done that

707
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 1: around here, it would have been the most massive pr mistake.

708
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:25,879
Speaker 1: Bob Hyde still loved the Oilers with all his heart,

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00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:29,839
Speaker 1: but he knew for the good of the franchise that

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00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:33,279
Speaker 1: we had to write our own history here so then

711
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 1: we could successfully revisit the history as he has been

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00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 1: doing now. Bob left the team and was doing a

713
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 1: lot of fantastic things with football, was working with the

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00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: American Mobility Project, had become friends with Gary Sinise, working

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Speaker 1: with veterans, and like I said this weekend, we lost him.

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00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 1: I'm so sad that he won't get to see the Oilers'

717
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: uniforms this fall. But he knew because guess who had

718
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,920
Speaker 1: brought him back into the fold even after he had retired, Adamstrung,

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00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: Amy Adams Strung. Bob Hyde was back in for the

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Speaker 1: third time, and had he not gotten sick, he would

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Speaker 1: have done a lot more. He was a good friend

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00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 1: to me. He helped me balance a lot of things

723
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 1: because he understood the NFL part of it. He understood

724
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,239
Speaker 1: the mister Adams part of it. He understood all the

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00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:31,839
Speaker 1: things that would go on with that. But he also

726
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 1: understood that a lot of things we were talking about

727
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,839
Speaker 1: here and me being a Tennessee and and he being

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00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: a Tennessee, and we connected on that part. He's one

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00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 1: of the few people in the history of the franchise

730
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:47,840
Speaker 1: who really got both sides of it properly. When we

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Speaker 1: would plan caravan, we were always going to do a

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Speaker 1: big stop in Knoxville. We're always going to do a

733
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 1: big stop in Memphis. And we were always going to

734
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,840
Speaker 1: do a big stop in Jackson, Tennessee, because they hosted

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00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 1: it set the Sportsplex there and we drew more people

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Speaker 1: to sports Plex than anywhere else, and it helped us

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00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: because we could do schools around West Tennessee and then

738
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Speaker 1: we could have the big public stop in Jackson because

739
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Speaker 1: people from all over would come. The other place that

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00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 1: was always getting a stop was Tullahoma, Tennessee. Right Tullahoma was.

741
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Speaker 3: Getting a stop.

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Speaker 1: It didn't matter if we had to helicopter in from

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Speaker 1: Johnson City, whatever our plans were, there was no doubt

744
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:34,279
Speaker 1: Tullahoma was going to get a stop. And guess what,

745
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 1: Tullahoma was also going to get a good player. You

746
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,919
Speaker 1: were not going to get the fourth team kicker off

747
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 1: the practice squad you're getting Oh no, no, no no,

748
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 1: and we're autograph football is going to be handed out

749
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Speaker 1: in Tullahoma instead of just posters. Oh yeah, yes, oh

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00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 1: yeah yes. So I mean this was Bob Hyde was

751
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 1: taking care of Tullahoma. But the amazing thing was when

752
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:02,840
Speaker 1: we would get to Tullahoma, no matter what player we

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00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 1: had with us, Bob was always the biggest star because

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00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 1: they were so happy to welcome him home. There was

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00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 1: always a cake or a pie, or a key to

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00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:18,360
Speaker 1: the city or something that was there just for him.

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00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 1: He was, as we used to call him, the President

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00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 1: of the Titans Caravan. Yes, that was his official nickname,

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00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:29,280
Speaker 1: not unofficial, It was official.

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00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 3: When we would do our books.

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Speaker 1: He was listed as the President of the Caravan, Bob Hyde.

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Speaker 1: And he understood that going to those places near and

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Speaker 1: far and letting people have those experiences meant so much

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Speaker 1: because growing up in Tullahoma, he never imagined he would

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Speaker 1: have a chance to work for an NFL franchise. So

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Speaker 1: as you read and heart people more about Bob Hyde's

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00:37:56,520 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 1: passing this week and whatever service is going to be done,

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Speaker 1: and we're recording this on Monday, so we don't know

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Speaker 1: that yet, just understand he was vital to this franchise's

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00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 1: success and its conversion from the Oilers to the Titans,

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Speaker 1: and keeping the oiler's name alive, and how much Amy

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00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 1: Adams Strunk realized that and had him very much back

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Speaker 1: in the fold. Bob Hyde is an important name to know.

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Speaker 1: He certainly was for me. Had a lot of lunches

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00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 1: at the showonees, had a lot of meals in different places.

776
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 1: Bought fried pies for him from the company, from the

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00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 1: company payroll in Mississippi when we run caravans and gars.

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00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 1: I need money because I handled the money. Bob. Wherever

779
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 1: you are right now, and I know where you are.

780
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: You're in heaven. But you you couldn't handle money, pal,

781
00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:00,759
Speaker 1: They would not trust you with the money. But I gave.

782
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:03,319
Speaker 1: I would pull out of the till and make sure

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00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 1: Bob got his fried pies.

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00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 2: Do you ever, Oh yeah, sure, good.

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00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 1: Oh they're fantastic.

786
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 2: It's worth the money.

787
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:17,320
Speaker 1: But the whole thing was so many good memories watching

788
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:21,760
Speaker 1: Kevin Dyson take money from him and card games, great

789
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:26,799
Speaker 1: great memories overall that, you know. I just want to

790
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:28,879
Speaker 1: make sure that people who take the time to listen

791
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: to the OTP understand the full importance of certain names.

792
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 1: Bob Hyde is important name. We are recording this on Monday.

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00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: We will have a recap of the mini camp coming

794
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 1: out Thursday night Friday morning with another OTP. So that's

795
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 1: why we haven't discussed that now. But a lot more

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00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 1: to do. And also to remind you that it's hard

797
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:54,839
Speaker 1: to decide what's the best part of a dunk and run.

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00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,440
Speaker 1: Is it the coffee or the one dollar classic donut,

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00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:00,959
Speaker 1: or the two dollars stuffed bagel minis or the three

800
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 1: dollars sausage, egg and cheese that you can add to

801
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 1: that coffee, or is it the fact that you get

802
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,359
Speaker 1: to leave the office. The answer, of course is yes,

803
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 1: time for a dunkin run. As we are running out

804
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:15,720
Speaker 1: of time on this OTP, remember great deals on food

805
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 1: for one, two, or three dollars with a medium or

806
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:23,440
Speaker 1: larger coffee at duncan America run Dunk Dunk. We're done,

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Speaker 1: We're done. We're done shows over all right? Frame you wells.

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

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Speaker 1: o t P.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the.

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Speaker 6: Big show where the Legant's going ever bought a nose?

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00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:41,400
Speaker 3: It's our house? Five loog Tennessee, making stry cream, misspens

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Speaker 3: of bead