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

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Speaker 1: Amy Wells. I am Mike Keith, and we are so

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Speaker 1: glad to have you with us for this edition of

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Speaker 1: the OTP. That is really well, it's Amy Wells show.

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Speaker 1: If it's not my show, No, it is because this

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Speaker 1: interview that you have done with Jeffrey Simmons that people

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Speaker 1: have seen snippets of video wise, but are going to

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Speaker 1: hear in its entirety today. It's absolutely fantastic. Congratulations. Oh well,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much. I did very little. Jeff did

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Speaker 1: all of the heavy lifting in terms of being willing

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Speaker 1: to share and also signing a very nice contract with

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Speaker 1: us any Titans, So he was in a good mood.

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Speaker 1: It was great to have a chance to talk to him.

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Speaker 1: And how can you not be happy for a guy

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Speaker 1: like big Jeff like really well, I think the interview

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Speaker 1: dovetails so perfectly with what the press conference feel was,

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Speaker 1: and that is so much appreciation from him, a very

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Speaker 1: genuine human reaction to what is obviously a nice gesture

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Speaker 1: on the part of the team, you know, and certainly

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Speaker 1: he has a lot of nice gestures that he takes

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Speaker 1: care of every Sunday playing well for the team. It's

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Speaker 1: totally deserved. My point is he's appreciative. It's as if

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Speaker 1: you give somebody something and you always like it when

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Speaker 1: they say thank you. And he totally says thank you

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Speaker 1: for not only how he conducts himself and how he plays,

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Speaker 1: but just how he expresses himself. I don't know that

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Speaker 1: we have ever ever had a player with more heartfelt

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Speaker 1: it is it's really hardwarming. I mean, it's really uplifting

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Speaker 1: to see the whole thing. The thing about Jeffrey Simmons

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Speaker 1: is that you know, beyond a shadow of a doubt

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Speaker 1: that his response, his reaction is genuine, because it's exactly

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Speaker 1: the same April twenty nineteen, when he was drafted to

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Speaker 1: after a big win or a big loss, or a

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Speaker 1: hard moment for the Tennessee Titans, he has the same

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Speaker 1: response every single time. The emotions are the same, his

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Speaker 1: then we saw it again here in April twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 1: the same response, the same reaction, the same emotion. He

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Speaker 1: is consistent no matter what. And I talked to him

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Speaker 1: before we did that interview. I said, I don't think

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Speaker 1: I've ever been to a press conference of yours without

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Speaker 1: just weeping, like I can't, I can't weep. Yeah, me,

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Speaker 1: I said, I can't control myself. Like you've set the

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Speaker 1: do too much. Every time I understand that. I was like, no,

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Speaker 1: it's great, it's you, Like, that's what we want. One

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Speaker 1: of my most favorite Titans moments ever, and it will

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Speaker 1: rank at the top with some of the great wins,

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Speaker 1: with some of the great trips that we've taken, and

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Speaker 1: our caravans over the years, all of this. The day

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Speaker 1: after he was drafted, and we did because the draft

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Speaker 1: He was so appreciative of the opportunity in the crowd.

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Speaker 1: That will always be a top ten things she did

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Speaker 1: There was no way that that player wasn't re signing

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Speaker 1: becoming a Titan from the very beginning, and that meant

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Speaker 1: so much to him, knowing what some of the off

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Speaker 1: this is our guy, this is my person, I trust

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Speaker 1: That was something that he didn't take for granted that

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Speaker 1: he really felt touched. It still doesn't to the point

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Speaker 1: It's not that, it's just you move into a different strata.

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Speaker 1: to get better, you know, all of those the football

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Speaker 1: related things. But then he also found ways to segue

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Speaker 1: He was someone you could physically see it on the sidelines,

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Speaker 1: He went Him and Ben Jones well, he played fifteen

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Speaker 1: Just couldn't do it. Ye, totally understandable. And yet this guy, um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess it really isn't your show. It's

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Speaker 1: October twenty, twenty nineteen. It's your first game, You're twenty

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Speaker 1: gone for the regular season. The Titans are given zero

430
00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:46,719
Speaker 1: chance that night, but it seems like someone forgot to

431
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:50,240
Speaker 1: tell you that because you had a monster game six tackles,

432
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:53,880
Speaker 1: three sacks, and three tackles for loss against Aaron Donald

433
00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:57,560
Speaker 1: and the eventual Super Bowl champions. Can you describe what

434
00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,520
Speaker 1: it feels like to be having a game where everything

435
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:04,639
Speaker 1: is just firing for you and you're basically unstoppable. Yeah,

436
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:06,879
Speaker 1: I mean, I think when you think about it, like

437
00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:10,640
Speaker 1: what's going on? Like I'm thinking, like, you know, just

438
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,920
Speaker 1: stay in a moment, and I think when you that's

439
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 1: one of my biggest goals, like come into these last

440
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:19,160
Speaker 1: two seasons, enjoy the moment, you know when you think

441
00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 1: start thinking about like, um, like of course when you

442
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:24,359
Speaker 1: first get into the league, like I want to be

443
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 1: in double digit secs, I want to get this, I

444
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,879
Speaker 1: want to come just be in a moment, like enjoy

445
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,320
Speaker 1: the moment, you know, especially with your teammate, the guys

446
00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,680
Speaker 1: you're going to war with. And um, I think that night,

447
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:38,479
Speaker 1: the mindset was how can Jeffer Simmons play better than

448
00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 1: Aaron donnad because I knew, like I know and everyone

449
00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:44,720
Speaker 1: knows who to face up the NFL kind of is

450
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:49,040
Speaker 1: on the defensive side, and that's what's my mindset. Can

451
00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:51,480
Speaker 1: Jeffer Simmons play better than Aaron Donald or can Jeffer

452
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,440
Speaker 1: Simmons or in the Tennessee Titans played against Aaron Donna

453
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:57,760
Speaker 1: in the RAM and going into that game, I was

454
00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 1: like determined, I don't care, Like I all the talk

455
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,680
Speaker 1: was like, yay's lost Dairy here, and I'm like, no,

456
00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:06,399
Speaker 1: we're gonna miss him. But at the same time, we

457
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 1: still have a job to do and that's the wind game,

458
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:10,920
Speaker 1: and um, just going out there on that field, it's

459
00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 1: like not just for me, but for the whole team,

460
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 1: everything was clicking and clicking and clicking not and like

461
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 1: you said, that's the one that I never forget as well.

462
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 1: And UM, like I said, my goal was to play

463
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,720
Speaker 1: better in Aarondonna, Well you did that night definitely. Throughout

464
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two season, you played most of it injured.

465
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:31,240
Speaker 1: That's just the reality of what it was. But you

466
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,200
Speaker 1: still were able to start in fifteen games, you had

467
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,440
Speaker 1: seven and a half sacks, You went to another Pro Bowl.

468
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:43,040
Speaker 1: What are you most proud of about that season? UM?

469
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 1: I just want to UM, I don't even know the

470
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:50,359
Speaker 1: word for it, but just I guess myself. You know,

471
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 1: when you when you're just thinking about that adversity that

472
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 1: get thrown your weight through a whole season, you know

473
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:57,919
Speaker 1: you're dealing with this, You're dealing with that. You know,

474
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,760
Speaker 1: we we're losing guy as we everyone dropping like it.

475
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:05,640
Speaker 1: But it's also about what's inside of here, you know. UM.

476
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,120
Speaker 1: You know my inkle was pretty banged up that whole

477
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 1: season this past season, and you know it was times

478
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:14,879
Speaker 1: where I'm like I can't, I can't do this, Like

479
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 1: like I wake up, you know, um, two days after

480
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 1: the game and battle can walk um, and I think

481
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 1: that right there like put a lot of perspective on

482
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,200
Speaker 1: things for me, Like, you know, um, I really loved

483
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 1: this organization. I really loved the guys I'm going to

484
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:34,480
Speaker 1: ward with because anybody else I don't. I hate to

485
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 1: speak to anyone else, but I just don't feel like

486
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:39,760
Speaker 1: not playing on this team. I don't know how I

487
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,640
Speaker 1: would it have been, because I haven't been on another team,

488
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:46,119
Speaker 1: but just thinking about just being a player, especially you know,

489
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:48,920
Speaker 1: you have all the talk outside of the season, you

490
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:50,960
Speaker 1: know what you got a country you might be getting.

491
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 1: I didn't think about that at the time. I was

492
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:56,000
Speaker 1: thinking about winning, and I think that's the biggest thing

493
00:26:56,160 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 1: I took out of you know, I cared about bigger

494
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 1: things than myself, and that was my teammates and trying

495
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:06,159
Speaker 1: to get wins. And you know, we got through it,

496
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 1: and you hate the end of high end it. And

497
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:10,919
Speaker 1: that's why I always say, you know, we have so

498
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:12,639
Speaker 1: much work to do, and the work just really get

499
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,280
Speaker 1: started now. To wrap this up, I could do a

500
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,440
Speaker 1: couple different things. One of the things that I could

501
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,679
Speaker 1: do is just read your stats, because they are incredible.

502
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 1: One hundred ninety six tackles twenty one sacks, one hundred

503
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 1: and thirty five quarterback pressures, twenty six tackles for loss.

504
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 1: Are you tired, I'm tired. Nineteen passes defense. I could

505
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 1: go on and on, but I want to give you

506
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,120
Speaker 1: the opportunity to do what you did all the way

507
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:38,719
Speaker 1: back in twenty nineteen. I want to give you a

508
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 1: chance to address the fans and tell them your goals

509
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty three season and beyond. I want

510
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 1: to give you the opportunity to create the moment that

511
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 1: you created April twenty nineteen. So here's your camera right

512
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 1: here if you just want to look right in there

513
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:57,719
Speaker 1: and tell people what Jeffrey Simmons plans are for twenty

514
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 1: twenty three and beyond. My plans twenty twenty three and

515
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 1: beyond is to win more games here and to eventually

516
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:09,440
Speaker 1: which with my goal back in two nineteen, right, yeah,

517
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:11,399
Speaker 1: twenty and nineteen was to bring a Super Bowl here

518
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:15,639
Speaker 1: to Tennessee. And the work is started now, you know,

519
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 1: from the guys that we're bringing in, um, I think

520
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:20,360
Speaker 1: the biggest thing is trying to get them to buy

521
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,680
Speaker 1: into our culture, which I think would be a great

522
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,399
Speaker 1: be pretty easy, because of course I know, I'll have

523
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,439
Speaker 1: a lot of faith in coach Rabe and Ran to

524
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,159
Speaker 1: go get guys like that fit all culture. And I

525
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:33,159
Speaker 1: think that's the biggest next step right now is just

526
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,679
Speaker 1: to get a random type of guys and all my

527
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:39,719
Speaker 1: teammates to build and help build that culture. And um,

528
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 1: you know I looked forward, I looked past just to football.

529
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 1: Jeffer Simmons, you know, I want to be big in

530
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 1: our committee to here in Tennessee. I want to bring

531
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 1: more events. I want to bring a more opportunity, especially

532
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,479
Speaker 1: especially to our youth. I started my foundation called give

533
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:57,560
Speaker 1: Them a Recent Foundation, and um, it's around inspiring the

534
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 1: youth and creating, trying to create and help create opportunities

535
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 1: for our youth. And I think that's my biggest next step.

536
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 1: How can I be more in the community to here

537
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 1: in Tennessee. Um, I know the football stuff would come,

538
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: would come, But my biggest goal is you know, been

539
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 1: in my community. Because I'm be here a long time

540
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 1: here in Tennessee. I'm looking forward to it. Um. Like

541
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 1: I said, my biggest goal right now is just you know, um,

542
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: getting that Super Bowl here in Tennessee. It's gonna take

543
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: a lot of work, but you know, I really deep

544
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 1: down feel like it's happened here in Tennessee because we

545
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: have the team to do it, we have to coach

546
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 1: and to have to do it. And then, um, of

547
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:37,480
Speaker 1: course been in my community a little bit more than

548
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 1: what I have been. UM. So yeah, that's my next

549
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 1: step here in Tennessee. You know. UM, I'm a man

550
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 1: of my word. I'm gonna stick to that. You know,

551
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 1: whatever I say, I mean it, I mean it from

552
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: the bottom of my heart. So pretty much what I

553
00:29:52,120 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 1: have for Simmons, congratulations, thank you. Wow, he's great. I

554
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 1: wish I could talk to Jeffrey Simmons every single day,

555
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 1: just have like a like coffee every day, you know.

556
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 1: But he's a guy like Bayard, And there are a

557
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:18,959
Speaker 1: few others that like really know us, guys that you know,

558
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 1: they know we're like work colleagues. We see them in

559
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 1: the hall, say hey, how are you doing? They know

560
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:28,560
Speaker 1: our names, and you know, that kind of investment from

561
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 1: those players towards us. I mean, you always appreciate the

562
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 1: courtesy because we're doing a job and we try to

563
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 1: stay out of their way and we try to do

564
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 1: it to the best of our ability. But there are

565
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 1: times like that where we want to sort of bring

566
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 1: you inside with those folks a little bit, and for

567
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 1: him to give you that interview in that way, great job,

568
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:55,240
Speaker 1: thank you, but also great for the OT people and

569
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 1: other Titans fans to have a chance to hear Jeffrey

570
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 1: Simmons talk in that way and for him to make

571
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 1: that kind of effort in the interview. To your point

572
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: about Jeffrey kind of extending the professional courtesy and really

573
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 1: acknowledging the fact that we are co workers to an extent,

574
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: we work for the same company. We work for the

575
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 1: same company. I ran into him at the airport a

576
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:20,720
Speaker 1: year ago. I was going someplace. He was going something.

577
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 1: I'm with my family, I've got my baby trying to

578
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: get her through an airport or just an Olympic sport,

579
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 1: and oh it really should be. But he stopped and

580
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 1: talked to us for about ten minutes, right, just hey,

581
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 1: how are you doing? Where are you guys going? What

582
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: you got going on? We're kind of talking about what

583
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: he's doing. He was going to train somewhere. But after that.

584
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of players over the years in

585
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: the airport. We're all going different places. BNA is a

586
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 1: crazy place. I can't think of too many people who

587
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 1: had stopped and like addressed my child and really like

588
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: talk to us and was interested in where I was

589
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 1: going and what I was doing. A lot of guys

590
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 1: will acknowledge it, Hey, how are you doing? The recognize

591
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 1: you should be a little wave as they pass by. Like,

592
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 1: we work with some pretty incredible humans in terms of

593
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 1: having a good locker room, So I don't want to

594
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 1: disparage anybody. We have a great locker room of people.

595
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 1: But the extra effort to stop and talk to me

596
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 1: and my family and to really be interested and like

597
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 1: do the introduction thing, like all of it was just wow.

598
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: You know, he's that kind of guy. We've had several

599
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 1: guys like that. One of my favorites of that same way.

600
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: And I mentioned Kevin Byrd, who truly is the mayor. Yes,

601
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 1: I mean he knows everybody in the building and that's

602
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 1: why people feel so so close to him here is

603
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 1: because he treats everybody so well. Corey Davis was another guy,

604
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 1: Corey sty you know interesting. I had one of my

605
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: best conversations with him in BNA. Yeah, and he always

606
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 1: knew my name, always said hello, and it's one of

607
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: the reasons when people would say, well, Corey Davis, this

608
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 1: Corey Davis, that I would I would say, listen, you're

609
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 1: not gonna get a bad word to me from Corey Davis.

610
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,760
Speaker 1: You know what his numbers are, how much money he makes,

611
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: that's another thing. But don't talk bad about that guy, yeah,

612
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 1: because that's another guy who played through injuries and who

613
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 1: did it the right way. Good guy. And you've just

614
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 1: always I think professional courtesy is the best way to

615
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 1: say it. You're always appreciative of guys who make that

616
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,120
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617
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:29,560
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618
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,160
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619
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:35,640
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620
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:39,640
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642
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Speaker 1: those three players played in the Senior Bowl last year.

643
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:17,760
Speaker 1: The inductees into the Hall of Fame, Chris Johnson, current

644
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles offensive tackle Lane Johnson, former Green Bay Packers

645
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 1: outside linebacker Clay Matthews, former Philadelphia Eagles running back Brian Westbrook,

646
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 1: and former Baltimore Ravens offensive guard Marshall Yonda. Marshall Yonda

647
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 1: is a bad man. Yeah, he is finally out of

648
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 1: the league. So congratulations to Chris Johnson, who the Titans

649
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 1: selected twenty fourth in two thousand and eight. One of

650
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 1: the most interesting draft picks that I've ever been a

651
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 1: part of, because most people did not have him with

652
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 1: the Titans and most people didn't know what he was.

653
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: The people on TV respectulating that we would use him

654
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 1: as a third down back in summit wide receiver because

655
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 1: at one point in East Carolina they did look at

656
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 1: him as a wide receiver. There was fear that he

657
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 1: could not hold up enough because he was not the

658
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 1: biggest guy. Turns out he was. Yeah, he was plenty,

659
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 1: plenty available at only six straight thousand yards seasons for

660
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 1: the Titans. That's fine. Yeah, that was it and the

661
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:29,360
Speaker 1: four two four speed. But I'll never forget. So my

662
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 1: kinder Dinger, the late offensive coordinator, was one of the

663
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 1: greatest conversationalists ever and Dinger. Dinger had come back from

664
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:46,839
Speaker 1: the Jets, and you know, I'll just never forget, you know.

665
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 1: So I asked him about Chris Johnson. And to this day,

666
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was the best thing that

667
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 1: happened or a total mistake. But as I got I

668
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:04,400
Speaker 1: must have said it in a way like I was

669
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 1: suspicious about the pick, which I was not, because I

670
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 1: knew that he was on our board and that it

671
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: was pot and that we liked him. Was anticipating backlash though, well, yeah,

672
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 1: the dander up a little bit, yeah, you know, yeah,

673
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 1: and um, so I asked him, you know, about Chris,

674
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: and he went into a very long diatribe that was

675
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:37,839
Speaker 1: obscenity laden. And anyone who knows danger knows that was

676
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:41,400
Speaker 1: that was part of good conversations and bad conversation Dinger

677
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:44,760
Speaker 1: was he had the sharp tongue. Yes, let me preface

678
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,800
Speaker 1: all of this by saying, I loved my Kier Dinger.

679
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: I just thought the world of him and I loved

680
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 1: talking to him. By the time he got to the

681
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 1: end of what he was saying, I think he realized

682
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 1: very clearly that I was not being suspicious, that I

683
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 1: was wanting some information, and the gist of it that

684
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: I can share with THEOT people is that he thought

685
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 1: Chris Johnson was at every down back, that people who

686
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 1: didn't were not smart, and that he would transform our

687
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 1: offense because at the end of two thousand and seven,

688
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:24,840
Speaker 1: due to injuries, we had no speed and he was

689
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 1: the biggest change in our offense in two thousand and

690
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: eight that allowed the team to start ten and oo

691
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 1: and then go thirteen and three. And I still content

692
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 1: and will until my dying day, that if the Baltimore

693
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 1: Ravens don't twist his ankle in the playoff game, he

694
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:41,839
Speaker 1: was running wild in that game and somebody twisted his

695
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 1: ankle in a way that probably wasn't real cool and

696
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:49,240
Speaker 1: he had to leave the game. Had that not happened,

697
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 1: not only did the Titans win that game handily, I

698
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 1: don't think it's that close, but I think the Titans

699
00:38:54,600 --> 00:39:00,040
Speaker 1: win the whole thing. Yeah. For those who think the

700
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: two thousand season, the two thousand team is the one

701
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:09,880
Speaker 1: that missed a Super Bowl win, I would agree. I

702
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:12,319
Speaker 1: would say even more so. In two thousand and eight,

703
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: the Titans were the best team. The Titans were healthy,

704
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:23,319
Speaker 1: the Titans were at home. It was the stars were

705
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 1: aligning and when he got hurt it, I mean that

706
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 1: game was totally different at that point and they didn't

707
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 1: have an answer for him. And you know, he gets

708
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:41,400
Speaker 1: hurt on what was an odd play. Yeah, hate that, Yeah,

709
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 1: I still hate it. But I do like Chris Johnson.

710
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,839
Speaker 1: You know, he's working towards being a broadcaster. He is,

711
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 1: and I think you know, he went back and he

712
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:53,760
Speaker 1: finished his communications degreed East Carolina. I've been so proud

713
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 1: at how he even though he played four years after

714
00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: he left here, he re came right back to the

715
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 1: family pretty quickly. I mentioned that first round pick lunch

716
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:09,360
Speaker 1: and the Jeffrey thing was obviously the highlight, you know,

717
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 1: that was the lead, but the Chris Johnson returning thing

718
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 1: was also a massive deal. That's why it's one of

719
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 1: the It's one of the best events we've ever put on.

720
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll do it again when the draft comes back. Well,

721
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 1: and you know that a big catalyst for the return

722
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 1: of Chris Johnson and him being so involved in the

723
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 1: Titans family's Amy Adams Strunk. Yes, they have formed a

724
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 1: very strong relationship, like a friendship, right, That's just one

725
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 1: of my favorite things. In the world kind of like

726
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:44,319
Speaker 1: Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg. Or is what it is

727
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:47,719
Speaker 1: for Marshawn Lunch and Rita Moreno. Yes, And when they

728
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 1: were making eighty for Brady, they have now become like

729
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 1: texting Paler. Yeah. It's like there are these friendships in

730
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:57,320
Speaker 1: the world that are just the best ones make no sense.

731
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:00,319
Speaker 1: And Amy Adam Strunk and Chris Johnson is one of

732
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:03,240
Speaker 1: those relationships. And I love it. You know, I shouldn't

733
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:07,360
Speaker 1: say make no sense because she can bond with really anybody.

734
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:10,479
Speaker 1: She can. She just has a way, man, And it's

735
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 1: it's not even a skill, it is just who she is.

736
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:18,279
Speaker 1: She can talk to anybody about anything and make you

737
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:23,759
Speaker 1: feel completely comfortable. It is the most incredible thing that

738
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:29,400
Speaker 1: I am so envious of because it's just a remarkable

739
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:34,800
Speaker 1: human trait to be able to talk to anybody, anybody, anybody.

740
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 1: And she started the wine club and feel completely comfortable. Yeah,

741
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:40,400
Speaker 1: And I mean maybe wine's a part of it. I

742
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: don't know, Maybe that's it, Maybe that's this. I mean,

743
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 1: it's been used throughout history for a lot of good things,

744
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 1: it really has. And I mean, and we have wine

745
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 1: available through the team, would you like something, I would

746
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:52,719
Speaker 1: tell me how to get it. Please, Amy Wells, it's

747
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 1: your it's your show. I would like, it's not my show,

748
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 1: but I would like to tell you how to get

749
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:59,799
Speaker 1: in with the Titans Wine Club because it's a great thing.

750
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 1: It's called the Foolish Club. Yes. You are based on

751
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 1: the original owners of the AFL. Yes, who were told

752
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 1: that they were foolish for starting a league to compete

753
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 1: with the NFL. Yeah, so we named our wine club

754
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:14,399
Speaker 1: after it because it made a lot of sense. It's

755
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:17,360
Speaker 1: the official wine club of the Tennessee Titans, their Napa

756
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 1: Valley wines, and you can also get exclusive access to

757
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,839
Speaker 1: private events when you become a part of the Foolish Club.

758
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: There's also complimentary wine tastings, which you gotta do the

759
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: wine tasting man. Oh, we do those before the broadcast. Yeah,

760
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:35,239
Speaker 1: every week. It's every week. Foolish Club dot com is

761
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:38,000
Speaker 1: where you go to sign up. You can get three

762
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 1: bottle packages or six bottle packages. You get them twice

763
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 1: a year. You get tons of other benefits. The wine

764
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:49,759
Speaker 1: is delicious. Foolish Club dot com is where you want

765
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:51,520
Speaker 1: to go from. It's so nice that they bring it

766
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:57,719
Speaker 1: to the Titans Radio SeatGeek broadcast booth right before every broadcast.

767
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:00,960
Speaker 1: And by they you mean me in my backpack. No,

768
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 1: they just come by and they drop off six bottles

769
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 1: and by the end of the broadcast. It's very entertaining,

770
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:11,400
Speaker 1: isn't it. That's not true. I think people know that.

771
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 1: I think I probably get that. That's I'd spend more

772
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:16,440
Speaker 1: time in the booth. I know we couldn't have it

773
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: on the sidelines. Hey, by the way, I want to

774
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:25,440
Speaker 1: thank our friends at Academy Sports and Outdoors, Magellan Outdoors

775
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 1: and What a Burger for the gear that they sent us. Dude,

776
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 1: it's the best stuff. It is so great. So so

777
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:35,839
Speaker 1: we got gears. Of course I'll talk about them. Uh.

778
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:38,920
Speaker 1: Magellan Outdoors and What a Burger are teaming up again

779
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:42,360
Speaker 1: for a limited time collection available only at Academy Sports

780
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 1: at Outdoors. It's so cool. Get ready for summer fun.

781
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Speaker 1: Exclusive clothing, drink wear, hats, outdoor gear, and more. Shop

782
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Speaker 1: at academy dot com or in store only Academy Sports

783
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:58,280
Speaker 1: and Outdoors. So I got one of those great long

784
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:01,919
Speaker 1: sleeve sp have fifty T shirts, one with the dog

785
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 1: on it. One Mike, We're going to match. I got

786
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: one too, and I'm gonna have to ask for something different.

787
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 1: Great I did. Also, there was a coffee mug that

788
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 1: I scooped so you wouldn't get it because I wanted it. Sorry,

789
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 1: I got I was offered first at the Big Jeff

790
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:20,399
Speaker 1: Interview and the Magellan Outdoors what a Burger coffee mug.

791
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,240
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, they had great stuff. And I knew

792
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 1: that if there's anyone in here that's I'm gonna have

793
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,239
Speaker 1: to compete with for the mug, it's Mike Keith. So

794
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:31,439
Speaker 1: I gotta scoop it now. But but thank you, yeah,

795
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 1: thank you to Academy and if you're if you're one

796
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:36,759
Speaker 1: of those people, because what a Burger stuff is a thing.

797
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 1: It's a thing. I have learned this. I've learned this.

798
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:44,000
Speaker 1: It's a thing. And so they do the Magellan Outdoors

799
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,840
Speaker 1: and what a Burger do the gear for the summer

800
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 1: and Academy's got it and you want it, but definitely

801
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 1: because it makes you look really cool. You can match

802
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 1: me and Mike. You could. This is gonna be great. Could. Okay,

803
00:44:57,080 --> 00:45:00,800
Speaker 1: So speaking of dogs, I think we may see Smokey

804
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 1: this coming Monday night. That's the plan. No, that's what

805
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:06,759
Speaker 1: I'm gunning for. I'm trying to get smokey. There is

806
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:10,319
Speaker 1: that real We are, well, we'll see we're we are

807
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:15,359
Speaker 1: doing the OTP live in Knoxville, Tennessee. Yes, we are.

808
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:20,399
Speaker 1: You have to say it right, knox Knoxville, Tennessee. I'm practicing. Yes. Um,

809
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 1: if you're from Knoxville, you don't say you're from Knoxville.

810
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 1: You say you're from Knoxville, Tennessee. Oh, you say the

811
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 1: whole thing. You say the whole thing. I have no

812
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 1: idea why. It's like Mike Keith. It's like names. In

813
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 1: this part of the country. You're not called by your

814
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:36,839
Speaker 1: first name. You're called by your whole name. Mikey from Ville,

815
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:41,239
Speaker 1: tenn Great. Jim why yeah. But but in East Tennessee

816
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:45,239
Speaker 1: with my relatives, I'm Mike Mikey because we got the

817
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 1: I thing. Yeah, Mike Keith Knoxville, Tennessee. Yes, No, it's Knoxville, Tennessee.

818
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:53,759
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's a thing. We're going to be

819
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:58,919
Speaker 1: there from a spell spelled the name of your team wrong.

820
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 1: We just spell each other all the time. Yes, you

821
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:07,719
Speaker 1: just misspell No. No, it's an abbreviation, which people clearly don't.

822
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 1: We don't understand. We don't get that, okay, so ot

823
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:19,520
Speaker 1: people in East Tennessee, particularly UT students, particularly UT broadcasting

824
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 1: students or UT communication students, or UT students who are

825
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 1: from Middle Tennessee, or UT students who just love the

826
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. Amy Wells, Ret, Brian and I will be

827
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 1: doing the OTP live at field House Social Monday five

828
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 1: to seven Eastern Time. That's this Monday, April seventeenth, field

829
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 1: House Social. I was just there at the end of March.

830
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 1: It is a great place. Yeah, and we're going to

831
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:50,120
Speaker 1: have a huge time. Obviously, tracks going to be there

832
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:52,919
Speaker 1: and we're doing the whole thing. But again this coming

833
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 1: Monday five to seven, come with your questions. We will

834
00:46:57,480 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 1: slap a headset on you and you can ask your questions. Yeah,

835
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:02,160
Speaker 1: we'll talk to you. We'll talk to you. We'd love

836
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:05,920
Speaker 1: to have you on the OTP. We have couzies and

837
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: other giveaways couzies from our friends at Farm Bureau Health Plans.

838
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 1: Of course, Farm Bureau Health Plans the official sponsor of

839
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:15,800
Speaker 1: the Official Titans Podcast, the OTP. Love Acouzie, I love Acouzi,

840
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 1: and we hope you'll join us because we're gonna talk

841
00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:21,720
Speaker 1: ball and talk Titans, and you can ask Amy questions

842
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 1: or Rent questions or me questions. It's going to be

843
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 1: a great time this coming Monday, Fieldhouse Social five to

844
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:33,760
Speaker 1: seven Eastern the OTP and Knoxville, Tennessee. And I'm excited

845
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:37,960
Speaker 1: to learn a little bit about Vall Vall culture. I

846
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:40,360
Speaker 1: feel like I'm trying to learn more. I'm trying to

847
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:43,880
Speaker 1: invest in the Vall. Well, it's a they're having a

848
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:47,719
Speaker 1: pretty good time these days. Yeah. Yeah, football had a

849
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:50,319
Speaker 1: pretty good year, and you know, baseball has not been

850
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:52,120
Speaker 1: as good to start with this year, but it's a

851
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Speaker 1: long season. Basketball, both men's and women's had a good year,

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Speaker 1: and track and swimming, and I mean they're they're on

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Speaker 1: a roll. So you know, they've just sold over seventy

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Speaker 1: thousand season tickets. Their goal was to get there by

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. They've already done that. And I mean

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Speaker 1: just the enthusiasm, enthusiasm and passion for SEC schools is

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Speaker 1: like nothing else. We have it with the Titans because

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Speaker 1: we are in this part of the country. We get

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Speaker 1: some of that, We get a lot of that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you see it on Sunday mornings at the tailgates. The

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Speaker 1: tailgates are very familiar, and it's fun, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: fun to have everybody be excited about their team and

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Speaker 1: be enthusiastic about what's going on. And yeah, I'm like you,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to being there. I think it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be fun. I've been in Tennessee for a decade. I

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Speaker 1: feel like it's time for me to start start learning. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's a good thing. I mean it's it's a good

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Speaker 1: thing to understand if you do business in this stage

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Speaker 1: like all A you have little hand signals, right, well,

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Speaker 1: we have the vol Yeah. You do the hand yeah,

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Speaker 1: with the with the fingers up like you're doing the

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Speaker 1: peace sign. And then and then there's the thumb and

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Speaker 1: finger the ring finger. You take the thumb and the

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Speaker 1: ring finger and make the O. And then the pinky

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Speaker 1: is the L. Yeah. So I think it's the opposite

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Speaker 1: of texas A and M, right, because texas A and

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Speaker 1: M is gigim is that it? Yeah? M is the

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Speaker 1: thumb up. Okay, so I got that wrong. And then

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Speaker 1: you've got I don't know what this that's lsue. They

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Speaker 1: do the L Texas to oh the gun. Although it

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Speaker 1: looks like an l for loser, which yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: know that. And then there's there's the Texas long horn thing,

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Speaker 1: and then there's the horn frog, which we see a

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Speaker 1: lot from Dave McGinnis. There's Baylor bear claw. There's a

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Speaker 1: lot of hand signals and we didn't see My school

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Speaker 1: didn't do that stuff. We've spell it each other, so

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to learn all and you spell incorrectly. You

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Speaker 1: don't spell Missouri, Mike, you just don't under Can you

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Speaker 1: not spell Missouri? No, we do in a song, there's

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Speaker 1: a whole song. There's that m I S S O

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Speaker 1: you are, which is how you learn how to spell

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Speaker 1: it when you are a finger, when you're a kid.

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Speaker 1: I know it's more of a chance song. But see,

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Speaker 1: but here's what you need to know. And I don't

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Speaker 1: know if Smokey's actually gonna be there Monday night. I

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Speaker 1: would die if Smokey was there. Let me see what

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Speaker 1: I can do. That would be so great. See what

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Speaker 1: I could do? I love a dog. Make a call,

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Speaker 1: that would be great. Who you're gonna call Smokey? Who

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Speaker 1: am I gonna call you? What do you wha you're saying?

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Speaker 1: You're saying, no, I'm not saying, you know, I'm asking

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Speaker 1: who you're calling calling Smokey's handler, Maybe mister Smokey. Maybe. Wow,

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Speaker 1: that's connections right there. Well maybe beautiful dogs. By the way, guys,

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Speaker 1: it pays to know Mikey. They are beautiful dogs. They

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Speaker 1: are big, good sized dogs. Yeah it's a good sized dog,

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Speaker 1: beautiful dog. But we're gonna be there Monday night, very excited. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is going to be this really is going to

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Speaker 1: be a ton of fun. Well, it's just off campus.

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Speaker 1: If you don't know Fieldhouse Social, I mean it is

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Speaker 1: just literally off campus, just literally off the strip. Good food,

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Speaker 1: really good food, and students can walk. Oh that's great

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Speaker 1: on a Monday night, come on down. Study. No, not

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Speaker 1: on a Monday. Nobody studies on Monday. If you study

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Speaker 1: for your Tuesday classes, No, you're too tired. On a Monday,

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Speaker 1: you don't start studying to like Wednesday, the Orange and

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Speaker 1: White game will have just happened, so maybe they'll be

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Speaker 1: a little worn out. So come on down. So come

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Speaker 1: on down. You're not going to study, all right, So

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Speaker 1: that's gonna do it. We'll stop talking now, so hopefully

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Speaker 1: we'll see you Monday night in Knoxville at Fieldhouse Social.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully you'll come see US American craft food. Oh now

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Speaker 1: she's looking at them, look at it doesn't help. This

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Speaker 1: is not visual the OTP. No, this is for me.

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Speaker 1: I know I'm not ordering. We gotta go. She's ordering food.

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Speaker 1: Now see a Monday Night in Knoxville for Amy Wells.

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Speaker 1: I'm Mike Keith. We appreciate you tuning in for this

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Speaker 1: edition of the OT Boxes. It is good her also,

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Speaker 1: and the meats a knows its own house, finding thought Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: making it to read Greatness is meant to be