1 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 1: This is the OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Plants, 2 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 1: the great healthcare coverage with an Affordable Price tag. Let 3 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 1: Farm Bureau with Health Plans coach you through it. They've 4 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 1: been protecting Tennessee in's for seventy five years. My name 5 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 1: is Mike Keith, and we welcome you to Tennessee Tech 6 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: University and the Tech Pride Room. I am so excited 7 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 1: to introduce our esteemed panel. Immediately to my left, Ladies 8 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 1: and gentlemen, please welcome Titans Radios. Maybe well, hey, Mike Keith. 9 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 1: Big news is Amy Wells has Ralph's Donuts. People keep 10 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 1: feeding me and this is so great. I'm so excited. 11 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 1: They brought me Ralph's Donuts, which I don't know if 12 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 1: if everyone here is familiar with this. Oh my gosh, 13 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 1: I don't know what this looks like. A wet we 14 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: got a bear claw, situations got fruit on it. There's donut. 15 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's gonna be so good. I might 16 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 1: just start eating in the middle of the show. Please 17 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 1: say hello to Titans Radio's longtime Stalworth, the ever reliable 18 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: Rhett Bryan. Everybody, good to see you, sir, good to 19 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:27,120 Speaker 1: be here. You and pro Bowl Award winning mascot track 20 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 1: visited a school today. We did. We visited Avery Trace 21 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 1: Middle School right here in Cookeville and had a great 22 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 1: afternoon with about seven hundred students and made our way 23 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 1: over to here and here we are on the campus 24 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 1: also here. He's always the special guest wherever he goes. 25 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 1: He's the most interesting man in the NFL. Titans Radio's 26 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: coach Dave McGinnis coach Mac, I did not visit a 27 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: school today, and I don't have any donuts. You're not 28 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 1: gonna have any donut. I didn't ask you. I know 29 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get any. But I'm really happy to be here. 30 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: And you know, cook Felle, No, Cookville very well because 31 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 1: of that gentleman right down there on the end. Doug 32 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: Matthews and I do a really good coach to coach 33 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: show during the season for twenty weeks. Joined by let 34 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 1: me introduce steam guest. You're gonna introduce the man who 35 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:19,079 Speaker 1: founded Titans Radio and the man who is the president 36 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 1: and CEO of local Stonecom Radio. Right here in Cookfelle. 37 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:28,839 Speaker 1: My good friend, the legendary Larry Stone is here. Good 38 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 1: to see you. Welcome to Cookville. It it's great to 39 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:34,640 Speaker 1: be here, and I want to start with, oh my gosh, 40 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:38,079 Speaker 1: Tennessee Tech, what a great job they've been doing here 41 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: over the last several years. Doctor Oldham was supposed to 42 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 1: be here with us and got called out of town unfortunately. 43 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:49,119 Speaker 1: But the evolution of this campus and what's happening at Tech, 44 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:51,959 Speaker 1: it's very exciting. There's a lot of exciting things happening here, Mike, 45 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 1: and I think you know one of the things that 46 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:57,359 Speaker 1: you guys will understand. The light kind of came on 47 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: for Tennessee Tech when the universe in the city of 48 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 1: Cookville and Putnam County got the chance to host the 49 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: state football championships and it introduced this campus to football 50 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 1: players and cheerleaders and bands and parents who said Tennessee 51 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 1: Tech quite literally. People thought Cookville was Interstate drive. You 52 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: get off the Interstate, you go to Starbucks, you take 53 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 1: a restroom break, and you go to Knoxville, or you 54 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 1: go to Nashville. That's what they thought Cookville was. And 55 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 1: I can't tell you how many people have said, gosh, 56 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 1: there's a downtown. You know, there's a whole thing off 57 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 1: the interstate. And so the part of the growth that 58 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 1: happened here was that ten years that we hosted the 59 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 1: state football championships every December. It really introduced people to 60 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 1: what not only an excellent university this is, but what 61 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 1: a bargain it is in the state. The other part 62 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: of Tech is it's always been a great engineering school 63 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: and everybody it still is and everybody knows that. But 64 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 1: they've expanded the base of majors. I mean they've grown 65 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 1: not only the campus, but they've grown what's offered here 66 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 1: at and cook fills a good town and this place 67 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 1: is close to everywhere, and it's really been discovered. I 68 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 1: think you put it the right way. Great nursing school, 69 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 1: great education. Most of the teachers that are employed in 70 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: the kind of twelve counties of the Upper Cumberland come 71 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: from Tennessee Tech. They've been employed here and then doing 72 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 1: a lot of new things with all of us obviously 73 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:24,039 Speaker 1: our technology bound and we got phones and computers all 74 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:27,039 Speaker 1: right here, and a lot of work is being done 75 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 1: here to train students on how to do security, so 76 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:34,840 Speaker 1: that next level of security, cybersecurity, all of that is 77 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:36,720 Speaker 1: going on here at Tennessee Tech. So there's a lot 78 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 1: of a lot of great things. This is not just 79 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: anymore when I first moved here. This was the Upper 80 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 1: Cumberland's University. And you know people who for in Clay 81 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,279 Speaker 1: County or from Finchrist County or Van Buren County, they 82 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: came here to go to college. Now you're seeing young 83 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,719 Speaker 1: people from all over the state of Tennessee and even outside. 84 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:00,599 Speaker 1: And that's kind of the next thing that Tech wants 85 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:04,040 Speaker 1: to do is to expand to Huntsville and Birmingham and 86 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:06,359 Speaker 1: Bowling Green. I know you were in Bowling Green yesterday 87 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 1: to get those students to recognize this is a world 88 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 1: class university and one of the great bargains in the 89 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: United States. All right, let's talk about the reason we're 90 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: in this room, and we want to thank the folks 91 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: from the event planning class who have helped put this together. 92 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 1: Great job by all of you. Wonderful setup for the party. 93 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: But we are here too, in a very small way, 94 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 1: help the campus radio station wt TU celebrate their fiftieth 95 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:38,920 Speaker 1: anniversary as the student radio station here at Tennessee Tech. 96 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 1: And what a big deal that is. Well, it's nice 97 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 1: and they really the event management class did a great job. 98 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 1: We have a job in promotions for you at our 99 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 1: radio station. We'll be accepting applications after the show today. 100 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 1: But you know, the university's radio station has really expanded 101 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 1: in the last year. They've started doing some of the 102 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 1: ball games tech football and basketball. They've done more things 103 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 1: in the community, and so it's great that there's this recognition, 104 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 1: the celebration of fifty years with WTTU. Now we've talked 105 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 1: a little bit about how this has been engineering school 106 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:17,839 Speaker 1: and now here it is and there's so many different 107 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 1: things within the radio space that you can do. How 108 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 1: helpful is that to have these students here furthering their 109 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 1: careers and getting themselves started for of career in radio. Well, 110 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:33,479 Speaker 1: it's interesting you bring that up, Amy, because someone planted 111 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 1: a seed in my mind earlier this week. One of 112 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 1: the challenges that we have in the broadcasting industry right 113 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 1: now is we don't have engineers. You know, there are 114 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 1: not people that can come and take care of the 115 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 1: equipment and the it and all of that. And this 116 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 1: person from Maine, I've never met anyone from Maine, said 117 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:53,480 Speaker 1: you need to go to Tennessee Tech and started get 118 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:57,360 Speaker 1: a program started to train broadcast engineers. Great idea, and 119 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 1: so too bad doctor Olden wasn't here because we would 120 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:04,039 Speaker 1: have just sprung that on it's time. That's why he 121 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 1: didn't come. That's probably it. But you know, it's those 122 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 1: opportunities and this campus has been has done a great 123 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 1: job of seeing, like the cybersecurity, seeing where there are 124 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 1: opportunities to go out and create jobs. Now you have 125 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 1: seen the evolution of radio in so many different ways, 126 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 1: and part of that has been the evolution of Titans Radio. 127 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 1: We've been doing a lot of talk about the NFL 128 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 1: Draft because that's coming up, that is on the horizon. 129 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 1: When you started with Titans Radio, did you ever think 130 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 1: that the NFL Draft would be the event that it is, 131 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 1: the the monster almost that it has become. No, And 132 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 1: in fact, I must tell you that when Nashville hosted 133 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 1: it brought a tier to my eye for several reasons. 134 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 1: One of those being that when Mike and I started, 135 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 1: and you know, we were like Loretta Lynn and do 136 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 1: driving around looking for radio stations. I'm not going to 137 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: say which he was, Yes, get a bologny sandwich, but 138 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 1: we were driving around trying to tell people the story 139 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 1: of the NFL and they kind of looked at you like, huh, 140 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: what what are Titans? You know, why there's no oil 141 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 1: in Tennessee. Why are you the Tennessee oilers? And so 142 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 1: to see it from there, and that's nineteen ninety eight, 143 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety nine, and then Nashville hosted that event. 144 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 1: I mean amazing. But even beyond that part, you know, 145 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:31,640 Speaker 1: I covered the nineteen ninety eight draft and we did 146 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 1: sixty second reports and I remember the general manager of 147 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 1: the radio station saying, do you think anybody's interested in this? 148 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 1: And the answer was no, but it's in the contract 149 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 1: with the oilers. We better do this. Wait, so your 150 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 1: first coverage of the draft was just sixty second, just updates, 151 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,079 Speaker 1: sixty second update. Yeah, he was stud I wasn't working 152 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:57,959 Speaker 1: with him at that point, and so it was really 153 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 1: it was really wild because Brent Hubbs, who's a friend 154 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:03,839 Speaker 1: of ours, he was working with me at w I 155 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: VK and Knoxville and we were sitting in the room 156 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 1: and RTT will remember this vividly because he's such a fan. 157 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 1: But Randy Moss kept falling down the draft board in 158 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 1: the ninety eight draft, and Hupper and I had dealt 159 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 1: with Randy Boss during recruiting and he was not easy 160 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,679 Speaker 1: to deal with. He was actually very difficult to deal 161 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: with and Brent and I knew that I was going 162 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: to work for the Oilers, and Brent was sitting there 163 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 1: saying to me, you guys are gonna pick Randy Moss 164 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 1: and you're gonna which would have turned out probably okay 165 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,079 Speaker 1: because Randy Moss is now apparently a delight on TV 166 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 1: and he was a great player. But instead we selected 167 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 1: Kevin Dyson five picks before and to top it off, Amy, 168 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: we did that and that was it. That was it. 169 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 1: We covered the second round they selected Kevin Dyson, and 170 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:53,920 Speaker 1: that's the coverage. That's so. I mean, it's just it's evolved, 171 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 1: and there just wasn't all of this hype and everything 172 00:09:57,320 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 1: that goes into it. I mean, it was much more 173 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 1: the pictures that you see if you haven't seen the 174 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:06,160 Speaker 1: special on the ESPN of when Marino and those guys 175 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:09,440 Speaker 1: were selected in there at the Holiday Inn downtown New 176 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 1: York in a ballroom. I mean, it was much more 177 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 1: like that than the event. And I give the NFL credit. 178 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:17,200 Speaker 1: I mean, they can make an event out of just 179 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 1: about anything, and they certainly have out of the draft. 180 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:22,560 Speaker 1: It hasn't been that long ago. And you're right, Larry, 181 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 1: where guys didn't even find out they were drafted till 182 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 1: like the next day or later in the day. I 183 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 1: had an opportunity to interview Earl Campbell, the Hall of 184 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 1: Famer and first overall pick in the seventy eight draft 185 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:37,640 Speaker 1: of running back from Texas. And he had been at 186 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 1: his taking his final exams and he came home and 187 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: his roommate said, there's this guy named bum Phillips that's 188 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:45,440 Speaker 1: looking for you. And he goes, what's he looking for 189 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 1: me for? He goes, You're a Houston Oiler. You were 190 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:49,840 Speaker 1: the first pick in the draft. He's like, what, But 191 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 1: flash forward to nineteen ninety nine. That's when you went 192 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 1: to expanded coverage. And I was a part of that 193 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 1: one in I had a down board and everything and 194 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 1: be able to talk to you guys. And I was 195 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 1: in the trailer where they would in Bellevue right beside, 196 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 1: I have forty there where they would have draft where 197 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: the Titans were training at a pediatric office. That's right, 198 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:19,920 Speaker 1: let's put that into condu. That's right again, that's where 199 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:23,320 Speaker 1: they trained. Yep. You know these draft stories. Take me. 200 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 1: Here's my draft story. First draft nineteen eighty six, Chicago 201 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 1: Bears young coach Mac Super Bowl shuffle Bears first draft. 202 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:35,680 Speaker 1: I'm all fired up. We did twelve rounds in one 203 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 1: day by phone. That was it. Twelve rounds all in 204 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:43,199 Speaker 1: one day, and we got through. It was on a Sunday. 205 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:45,679 Speaker 1: Twelve rounds in one day, and I went, so this 206 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:47,679 Speaker 1: is how you draft, and this is it and that 207 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 1: was it, and now where are we now? But I 208 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 1: go back to Amy's thought that you know that ninety 209 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:56,760 Speaker 1: nine that Rhett was talking about, and we're sitting out 210 00:11:56,760 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 1: in the parking lot of the stadium that's not done, 211 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 1: and we had just had the jersey unveiling what two 212 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 1: or three weeks before, Yes, uh so that had happened, 213 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:10,719 Speaker 1: and Mike and I are sitting out in front of 214 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 1: an RV on a stage doing draft coverage and like 215 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:20,719 Speaker 1: we're tailgating. Yeah, basically there was nothing to eat but it. 216 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 1: And so the feeling though of you think we could 217 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:28,520 Speaker 1: get Javan curse. I mean, the fans even though that's 218 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 1: a Florida Gator and we are at the height of 219 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:34,440 Speaker 1: the Tennessee Florida rivalry. Yes, yes, yes, but remembered the 220 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 1: people just around doing the Gator chart, They're like, curse 221 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:40,840 Speaker 1: could get cursed. We get cursed. Absolutely, it was so 222 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 1: much fun and that was kind of a sign of Okay, 223 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:46,240 Speaker 1: it's coming, this is the roots of this are kind 224 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: of starting to build. It was real. The ninety eight 225 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 1: draft was not real. But the ninety nine draft, as 226 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: the Oilers in the parking lot of the stadium with 227 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 1: the stadium coming up behind us, suddenly it felt real. 228 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 1: And because we took Javan, and that Javan was the 229 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 1: first Titan, and that he was an SEC player and 230 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:08,960 Speaker 1: a prominent SEC player with the great nickname and the 231 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 1: great personality, and then he turns out to be the 232 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:16,199 Speaker 1: rookie of the year. I mean, all of that factored 233 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:20,480 Speaker 1: in largely to the success of the Titans in that moment. Sure, 234 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 1: they went to the super Bowl and the Music City 235 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 1: miracle happened, but Curse was such a big part of 236 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:29,560 Speaker 1: it because all of our fan base knew givon Curse. 237 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 1: It would have been different. I think if you had 238 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 1: taken an Iowa Hawkeye or or someone like if we 239 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:37,680 Speaker 1: had taken Booker McFarlane, which is the guy who went 240 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 1: right before him, who mindy pecked us to take in 241 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:43,800 Speaker 1: that draft. Yeah, but it was there. You started to 242 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:46,160 Speaker 1: see the signs of the thing coming together, and the 243 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 1: people always ask, you know, when did you know? And 244 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: it was all pieces. It was all pieces of a puzzle. 245 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 1: It was you know, people really liked the name, and 246 00:13:56,840 --> 00:14:00,320 Speaker 1: people liked the uniforms, and then they the Javan thing, 247 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 1: and then you see the stadium. You know, that was 248 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 1: the part of it. And then you know Faith Hill 249 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:09,760 Speaker 1: on preseason opener singing the national anthem at the height 250 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:12,520 Speaker 1: of her career, and people are like, wow, this is like, 251 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 1: this is going to be big time. You know, this 252 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:18,679 Speaker 1: is not you know, the junior varsity cheerleaders. I mean, 253 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 1: this is a big deal. And then the season and 254 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 1: the Rams game and McNair hurdling the Steelers and it 255 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 1: was just all these little pieces that added up to 256 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 1: the success. I think, what's the strangest draft story that 257 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 1: you have? Do you have one that's just like m 258 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 1: that was bizarre? I would say Grand Rapid. I was 259 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 1: gonna say yes, doing the draft from lovely Grand Rapids, 260 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 1: Michigan has to be at the top of the list. Michigan. 261 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 1: Mike and I at a time of where you agree 262 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 1: to do something that you probably shouldn't have done. So 263 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 1: we agreed to do the Nashville Cats Arena League games 264 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 1: because we needed something else to do in the offseason, 265 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:00,600 Speaker 1: and in all honesty, it was a of fun. But 266 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 1: we were in Grand Rapids the day that Vince Young 267 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 1: was drafted. Wow, So we ditched draft coverage from a 268 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:15,040 Speaker 1: radio station that was in the company that we worked for. 269 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 1: I a top Van andal Arena, so we were we 270 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: were there to do the Cats versus the rampage that night, 271 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:26,720 Speaker 1: but we did from seventeen people for a front of 272 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 1: seventeen and they were they were hardy, they were riding, 273 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 1: but actually Grand Rapids, they were hardy. And Amy Larry 274 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 1: sent me to Radio City Music Hall. Yeah, I got 275 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:42,360 Speaker 1: the best and I went to Van Andalarina and Grand 276 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 1: Rapids mission. We did get to go to the Gerald 277 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:49,280 Speaker 1: Ford Presidential Music Yes, we did well, no, which was 278 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:53,200 Speaker 1: very actually fantastic. But a few minutes after Vince Young 279 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 1: has selected third overall, they send him to me and 280 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 1: we put it down and then I pitch it back 281 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 1: to them and here we go. Is at Opera Land Hotel. Yes, 282 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:05,920 Speaker 1: so the draft parties at operate Land Hotel. We're in 283 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:09,400 Speaker 1: Grand Rapids and Rhett is in New York. We're in 284 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:14,720 Speaker 1: this fancy pink shirt. Yes, there's a great picture. Tis Well. Yeah, 285 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 1: he's looking sharp there and doing the interview, and I've 286 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 1: still got that picture. The draft coverage was always so 287 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 1: much fun because it was kind of a chance to 288 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 1: warm back up, if that makes sense. It was a 289 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 1: chance to kind of get back in the groove. And 290 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:32,000 Speaker 1: you know, we were introduced very early, and I think 291 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 1: you still use him extensively in Mike de Tillier d 292 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:39,600 Speaker 1: you know, who looks nothing like he talks, but you know, 293 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 1: the chance to kind of add the flare and the 294 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 1: sizzle to it and to really work as a team 295 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 1: and pull all the different pieces that was It was 296 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 1: in a lot of ways more fun than a lot 297 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 1: of games during the season because you could just you 298 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:54,600 Speaker 1: could do some fancy things. I want to ask coach 299 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: back about the two thousand six draft, because you're on 300 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 1: the Titan staff at that point. Larry and I go 301 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 1: to a restaurant on Friday night for dinner and we 302 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:05,040 Speaker 1: find out that the Texans are not going to draft 303 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 1: Reggie Bush after all, because all along the speculation was 304 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 1: that they are not taking him. Instead, they're taking the 305 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:16,159 Speaker 1: big defensive end, Mario William Mario Williams out of NC state. 306 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:20,280 Speaker 1: And so is it true Floyd Reese tried because he 307 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:23,600 Speaker 1: loved Reggie Bush more than life itself? Did he try 308 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 1: everything he could to make a deal with the Saints 309 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:29,560 Speaker 1: to take to take him. Well, let me just clarify that. Okay, 310 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:33,359 Speaker 1: during the draft, Okay, you're always chumming the phones. Okay, 311 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 1: you're always working the phones and prior to the draft, 312 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:37,720 Speaker 1: and then when you're on the clock and all of 313 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:40,920 Speaker 1: a sudden something happens like that, Absolutely you get on 314 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 1: there and start chumming it. I don't know how close 315 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:44,960 Speaker 1: he ever got, Okay, but absolutely he was on the 316 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:47,679 Speaker 1: phone the whole thing. That was a strange time in 317 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 1: the history. There's no doubt. I've got to ask though, 318 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:52,680 Speaker 1: because Larry, you've been here since the very beginning, and 319 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 1: when the Titans came to the Nashville area, they tried 320 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 1: to really separate themselves from the Oilers, and oilers were 321 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:03,240 Speaker 1: kind of a dirty word for a while. Where we 322 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:08,359 Speaker 1: are the Titans now, Now the oilers throwbacks are coming around. 323 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:12,239 Speaker 1: There's oilers. Who's with us here today? He's wearing an 324 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:14,879 Speaker 1: Oiler shirt and all the young people are wearing the 325 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:17,800 Speaker 1: Oilers gear. Again, I know it's all it's coming back 326 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 1: as these throwback Thursday different outfits, and the Titans are 327 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 1: hoping to wear Oilers throwbacks in twenty twenty three. There's 328 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,760 Speaker 1: there's so many Oilers things going on. Does it surprise 329 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 1: you that that is kind of cycling back around? No, 330 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 1: because I think amy that what had to happen was 331 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 1: there had to be separation. And again, when you think 332 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:44,639 Speaker 1: back to ninety seven and ninety eight, what people in 333 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:48,639 Speaker 1: this state said is we want our team. We don't 334 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:52,160 Speaker 1: want somebody, We don't want Houston's hand me down. This 335 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:55,400 Speaker 1: has got to be our team. And people laugh when 336 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 1: you say this. Mike will remember, but when we would 337 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:01,679 Speaker 1: go around and talk to people and people would say, well, 338 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 1: I can't cheer for the Oilers because I'm a Volls fan, 339 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:08,239 Speaker 1: and it's like, well, they don't play each other. And 340 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 1: at that time, the Valls probably would have won. But 341 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:14,159 Speaker 1: people wanted something that was their own and this is 342 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:17,440 Speaker 1: Houston's team and we want our own thing. And so 343 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:21,959 Speaker 1: I think that what mister Adams got some very good advice, 344 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:25,400 Speaker 1: and I you know from the times that I interviewed him, 345 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 1: and I remember sitting down with him one day for 346 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 1: about an hour and a half in his office in Houston. 347 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 1: Mike and I got the chance to go those colors 348 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 1: and that name. It meant something to him. It was 349 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:40,879 Speaker 1: not just a marketing guy with a name. It meant something. 350 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 1: And so it was hard for him to do away 351 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 1: with those colors. I mean, I think it took I 352 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:49,399 Speaker 1: don't know the whole story. You may know took this commissioner, 353 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:51,520 Speaker 1: but I mean it was taking people saying, look, we 354 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:54,440 Speaker 1: have got to do this, and maybe there's a way 355 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 1: to accentuate the love you blue in the Titans colors, 356 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:01,200 Speaker 1: but you gotta get a away from this. And so no, 357 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:03,400 Speaker 1: I'm not surprised because I think there's been enough time 358 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:07,439 Speaker 1: and now you realize that all of the history of 359 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:10,920 Speaker 1: the Houston Oilers, of which there is some amazing history, yes, 360 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:14,800 Speaker 1: that now belongs to the Tennessee Titans, and Earl Campbell 361 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 1: is part of the history, and Warren Moon's a part 362 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:18,919 Speaker 1: of the history, and and on and on. In the 363 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:23,200 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty you know, first team out of the AFL 364 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:26,720 Speaker 1: that goes to success, that belongs to us. So no, 365 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:30,520 Speaker 1: I'm not surprised, and I'm I'm happy that it's there. 366 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 1: Because it does mean something. It means something. I'm sure 367 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:35,159 Speaker 1: as heck don't want the damn Texans to have it 368 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 1: a man. Yes to your point, Larry, I hope they 369 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:41,960 Speaker 1: break those out in the next year or two and 370 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 1: have a Sunday night football game and bring him out 371 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: and play him in Houston. Yeah, I mean it's it's 372 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:53,439 Speaker 1: own Houston. Yes, that perhaps would be a little too 373 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:56,359 Speaker 1: much of love that, but I just hope, you know, 374 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:58,760 Speaker 1: do it on the anniversary that mister Adams announced he 375 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 1: was leaving fine By now you guys do it in 376 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:09,040 Speaker 1: the Astrodome, challenge him to a game in the Astronas 377 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:13,000 Speaker 1: rat The thing that I'm hoping, though, is in two 378 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:15,000 Speaker 1: thousand and nine, and you guys were around for this, 379 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 1: we wore the nineteen sixty Oilers jerseys for the AFL 380 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:23,600 Speaker 1: the AFL's fiftieth anniversary. I want us to wear the 381 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:27,399 Speaker 1: Tennessee Oilers jerseys with the light blue jerseys and the 382 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:30,119 Speaker 1: Derek on the helmet and the full the red and 383 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:33,840 Speaker 1: Tennessee flag. Well, but but everything or or or the 384 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:37,639 Speaker 1: Houston Oilers look that was that light blue with the 385 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:41,680 Speaker 1: you know, the red stripes and everything. The Dan Pastorini 386 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:44,280 Speaker 1: Earl Campbell. I always thought that was a great look. 387 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:47,159 Speaker 1: I hope that's what our throwbacks will look like. I 388 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,560 Speaker 1: certainly would hope so as well. I'm fond of a 389 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:52,240 Speaker 1: lot of the Love your Blue era, and I would 390 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 1: certainly not be opposed to a ninety seven ninety eight 391 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:58,440 Speaker 1: Tennessee Oilers throwbacks. You know who we should play that night? 392 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:03,479 Speaker 1: Who the Steelers? The Steelers talk about somebody that carved 393 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,719 Speaker 1: mister Adams heart out, Oh my gosh, on more than 394 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:08,800 Speaker 1: one occasion. But you know, we had some pretty good 395 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:11,960 Speaker 1: luck in our early years. We walked out of three 396 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,600 Speaker 1: Rivers Stadium and Hinz Field with some pretty big wins. 397 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:18,880 Speaker 1: In those early days, Jeff Fisher could beat the Pittsburgh Steelers. 398 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,879 Speaker 1: I'll never forget in nineteen ninety seven, sitting down with 399 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 1: Coach Fisher, we have to learn how to beat the Steelers. 400 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:29,720 Speaker 1: And that's step one to building this franchise to where 401 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 1: we want to be. It starts with beating the Steelers. 402 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 1: And so they started beating the Steelers. I think what 403 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 1: split it in ninety eight? Am I remembering that correctly? 404 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:39,720 Speaker 1: One of both ninety eight to make okay? So split 405 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:41,760 Speaker 1: in ninety seven one of both in ninety eight, one 406 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,280 Speaker 1: of both in ninety nine, one of both in two thousand, 407 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:46,880 Speaker 1: not two thousand and one. Then two thousand and two. 408 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:49,359 Speaker 1: We all forget two thousand and one. Two thousand and 409 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 1: two beat him a couple of times, and yeah, yeah, 410 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 1: I had quite a he was nine and two over 411 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:55,680 Speaker 1: a period of time against them, as a matter of fact. 412 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:58,920 Speaker 1: But Dave, you understand the point that he always thought, 413 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,400 Speaker 1: you start with your division, and you got to beat 414 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:05,160 Speaker 1: those teams. You gotta beat Baltimore, you gotta beat Cincinnati. 415 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:06,439 Speaker 1: You got to figure out how to do that, and 416 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 1: then you move on from there. Well, especially Larry, when 417 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:13,440 Speaker 1: you're developing, you're developing your identity, and the quickest way, 418 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,760 Speaker 1: the quickest way to be able to get anything done 419 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 1: at all. You want to go to the playoffs. You 420 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 1: got to win your division, and to win your division, 421 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 1: you've got to beat the people they're in the division, 422 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:25,320 Speaker 1: and to do that, you start drafting to your division. 423 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,360 Speaker 1: You start drafting to the strength of your division so 424 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,400 Speaker 1: that you can build your team to that. And then plus, 425 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:33,879 Speaker 1: you got to talk about it. Fish would talk about 426 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:37,639 Speaker 1: it a lot. He talked about Jacksonville a lot. You know, 427 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:39,920 Speaker 1: when we but you've got to put that in their mind. 428 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:42,120 Speaker 1: But you've also got to get the types of players 429 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:44,919 Speaker 1: that match up personnel wise to the best teams that 430 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:46,920 Speaker 1: you're going to be playing. We did the same thing 431 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 1: when I went with Jeff to the Rams. We built 432 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,280 Speaker 1: everything that we had to beat the Seahawks because that's 433 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:54,520 Speaker 1: when they were the best. But that's what you have 434 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 1: to do. And Jeff Fisher was always great about carrying 435 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:01,640 Speaker 1: a primary message, and once you could get the players 436 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,640 Speaker 1: to start talking about that message in the locker room, 437 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,160 Speaker 1: then you had a chance. Given mind that the division 438 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 1: meant more in ninety seven and nineties, absolutely the number 439 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 1: of games that the Central Division was a sixteam division. 440 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 1: You say, Mike Vrabel reminds you a lot of Jeff 441 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,400 Speaker 1: Fisher a lot way in terms of messaging, a lot 442 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:23,640 Speaker 1: in the way he handles his players, and a lot 443 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:27,000 Speaker 1: in messaging, and also a lot about how much just 444 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 1: hands on he is as a coach. You know, Jeff 445 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 1: Fisher wasn't a stand back and just watch him practice. 446 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,880 Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel is not a stand back and watching practice. 447 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,480 Speaker 1: But Mike Vrabel reminds me a lot of Jeff Fisher 448 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:42,960 Speaker 1: in this Jeff Fisher was very really good at altered 449 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,800 Speaker 1: scheduled games. In other words, when you had an offset 450 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:49,159 Speaker 1: game that you had less time to prepare for, or 451 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,800 Speaker 1: that it was going to be an unusual scheduling quirk, 452 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:56,159 Speaker 1: Jeff Fisher was magnificent in that stuff. Vrabel is the 453 00:24:56,200 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 1: same way beating Dallas on Thanksgiving Night in ninety seven. Ye, yeah, 454 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,920 Speaker 1: that was the only highlight really of that season. And 455 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 1: nobody thought the Oilers could go to Dallas and beat 456 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:09,919 Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving Day. Well, I mean and just you know, 457 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,919 Speaker 1: drawing the similarities what Mike Rabel did during the COVID 458 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:18,880 Speaker 1: year with NOE without sixteen days of practice, one walk 459 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,119 Speaker 1: through in sixteen days and then beat a really good 460 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:26,719 Speaker 1: Buffalo team on Tuesday. Those types of things, that's when 461 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 1: you're really coaching. That's when you're coaching. Can I ask 462 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,719 Speaker 1: an OTP question? Well, sure, this would be an OTP 463 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 1: Q Q. Okay, I'm curious from you. I've never asked 464 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 1: you this, but I would contend that Jeff Fisher was 465 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 1: the perfect coach for an organization that was going through 466 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:51,000 Speaker 1: what the Oilers Slash Titans did in ninety seven, ninety eight, 467 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:55,800 Speaker 1: ninety nine, that a lot of NFL coaches could not 468 00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: have handled all the chaos and turmoil that was happening. 469 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 1: You know him better than any of us here. What 470 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,879 Speaker 1: allowed that to happen Because he is a master of 471 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 1: juggling a lot of balls in the air at one time, 472 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 1: and he's also really good at seeing the big picture 473 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 1: when everything seems to be in chaos. And the point 474 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 1: that you bring up is so close to me. For this, 475 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 1: I lived the same thing with him when we moved 476 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:27,200 Speaker 1: from Saint Louis to la We took an entire team 477 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 1: and moved and we're living in hotels for six months 478 00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 1: before we ever played our first game, didn't even have 479 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 1: a place, did not have a facility built, much like 480 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,879 Speaker 1: what went on here. But he is so good and 481 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:45,240 Speaker 1: plus he is really nonpulsed by chaos. All this stuff 482 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:48,880 Speaker 1: can move around him, but he's always thinking very distinctly, 483 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:52,880 Speaker 1: and if something happens that everybody is upset about, then 484 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,479 Speaker 1: he finds a way to not be upset about it 485 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,159 Speaker 1: because everybody takes their lead from the head coach. So 486 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,400 Speaker 1: you're exactly right. And not only would out of coach 487 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 1: has not been able to handle it in this league. 488 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 1: Some of them wouldn't have handled it. Some of would 489 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,359 Speaker 1: have said, if you if you're moving a team, find 490 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,400 Speaker 1: somebody else to do that, because it's a massive I've 491 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 1: lived it. It's it's a massive overtaking, it really is. 492 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:16,159 Speaker 1: So you're one hundred percent right. And he's doing that 493 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,720 Speaker 1: right now. He's coaching now in the USFL. I mean, 494 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,040 Speaker 1: I'm in constant contact with him. He's down there, brand 495 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 1: new league that's starting. And when every time I talk 496 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 1: to him on the phone, he's loving it, you know, 497 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:28,480 Speaker 1: I'm asking him how's it going, and he said, oh man, 498 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 1: there's so much going on. I love it, you know. 499 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 1: But you're one hundred percent right, Larry Stone. And you 500 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:35,960 Speaker 1: know him very well too. We got to know TPQ 501 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:40,199 Speaker 1: and that's great, Larry. I feel like we spend so 502 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:43,479 Speaker 1: much time on the OTP going down memory lane and 503 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:48,160 Speaker 1: we're always talking about Titans radio stories and just all 504 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,600 Speaker 1: of these different moments, and I'm gonna be honest with you, 505 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,360 Speaker 1: you're in most of them. You're in most of the 506 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 1: the heyday moments. So I want to ask you before 507 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,320 Speaker 1: we let you go, what are some of your hop 508 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 1: Titans radio memories. Is there a story that stands out 509 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:07,639 Speaker 1: or a moment that just really warms your heart. There 510 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,359 Speaker 1: are a lot that I can't share, even on the podcast, 511 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:15,480 Speaker 1: but this is a safe space, you know. I was 512 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 1: thinking about this this morning. I remember the first time 513 00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:21,360 Speaker 1: I was driving through the Smokey Mountains. I was on 514 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:25,080 Speaker 1: my way to the University of Tennessee to talk to 515 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:28,639 Speaker 1: someone that Mike knows very well, doctor Herb Howard, the 516 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:32,040 Speaker 1: longtime professor at the University of Tennessee's broadcast school. And 517 00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:36,439 Speaker 1: I'm listening to the Houston Oilers radio network and the 518 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 1: NFL in Tennessee. Yes, this was nineteen ninety six. This 519 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,880 Speaker 1: is the fall of nineteen ninety six. And so I'm 520 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:47,320 Speaker 1: driving through the smoke He's listening to this, and Amy's 521 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,720 Speaker 1: probably not been in radio long enough. Coach is not 522 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:53,040 Speaker 1: a real radio guy. He's a coach. He's not a geek. 523 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:56,120 Speaker 1: He's not a dwee like those of us. But people 524 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:59,080 Speaker 1: in radio, we hit scan right when we're driving, just 525 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,680 Speaker 1: listen to things. So I'm listening to this game and 526 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:03,160 Speaker 1: I don't remember who they were playing. They were in 527 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 1: the astrodome, and all of a sudden, the feed goes down, 528 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 1: and so I'm like, okay, So whoever was running this 529 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 1: game in Nashville just put a crowd loop, So thirty 530 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:22,719 Speaker 1: seconds of a crowd So you're kind of like, Okay, well, 531 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:24,280 Speaker 1: how long is this going to last? I know who 532 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:28,480 Speaker 1: that was too, by the way. Yeah, and so I'm 533 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,480 Speaker 1: listening to this. We're at twenty six minutes of this 534 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 1: thirty second crowd loop, you know, and it's like you 535 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:41,920 Speaker 1: can hear the person and so this goes on for 536 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 1: twenty six minutes straight, and so this is I mean, 537 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,320 Speaker 1: we don't have the internet. We haven't, so I'm sure 538 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:51,000 Speaker 1: this person had no way of contacting Houston and saying, Houston, 539 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:55,760 Speaker 1: we've got a problem. But I thought this morning, I'm like, 540 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 1: that is so ironic that my life twisted in that 541 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:04,280 Speaker 1: way and that that suddenly became my issue six months 542 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:07,120 Speaker 1: later that that's how it started. And I heard that 543 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,520 Speaker 1: driving over. So what are the fun story? I mean, 544 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,320 Speaker 1: there's a heartwarming story. A lot of caravan We told 545 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 1: some caravan stories. The last time that I was on 546 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,680 Speaker 1: the OTP that was that's always so fun. The job 547 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,120 Speaker 1: that Red has now, getting to work with t Rex, 548 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,120 Speaker 1: that's one of the great joys that I'll ever have 549 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:28,600 Speaker 1: of getting the chance to see those kids' faces when 550 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,400 Speaker 1: they saw, first of all, a six foot tall raccoon 551 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:35,120 Speaker 1: I'm running through or here in Cookeville as they advertised 552 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:39,400 Speaker 1: him at the mall one year t Rex. That's a 553 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 1: common thing, confusing messaging, but seeing that and seeing the 554 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,760 Speaker 1: kid's faces, that was always fun. And then you know, 555 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,200 Speaker 1: you think about the games, and you think about the 556 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,920 Speaker 1: great wins, and you know, I still have in my 557 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,920 Speaker 1: desk drawer the original cassette that has the Music City Miracle, 558 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:02,120 Speaker 1: the original recording. Nice of that. Nice. So I mean 559 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:03,920 Speaker 1: there were a lot. They're just a lot of great 560 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,760 Speaker 1: moment you know, working with this guy, we changed a 561 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:09,360 Speaker 1: lot over the years. You know, when he and I 562 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,200 Speaker 1: first worked together, he was a bit of a hothead 563 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:13,960 Speaker 1: and I was kind of a know it all and 564 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:20,120 Speaker 1: you know that changed very little there. But you know, 565 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 1: the relationship of of of working with him and getting 566 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:27,280 Speaker 1: the chance, and you know, we were so blessed. I 567 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,280 Speaker 1: mean we were so blessed. Who in the world would 568 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:33,720 Speaker 1: give these two thirty somethings a chance? You were twenty something, yeah, 569 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,920 Speaker 1: I was thirty something. Yeah, I just turned thirty. I 570 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:43,280 Speaker 1: worked cheap. That was the only getting the chance to 571 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,600 Speaker 1: do that, and you know, building the network the way 572 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,719 Speaker 1: we did and the relationships with the stations, you know, 573 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:51,840 Speaker 1: that meant a whole lot. And that kind of led 574 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,479 Speaker 1: me down the path that I'm on now of you know, 575 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,720 Speaker 1: doing it myself. Because we we'd go in and visit 576 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,720 Speaker 1: radio stations and Mike would talk about, you know, the team, 577 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 1: and oh, yeah, we're gonna be great this year two 578 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,520 Speaker 1: thousand and one. It's going to be great. And I 579 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:07,600 Speaker 1: would kind of be around looking at the equipment and 580 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:09,400 Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, you know, kind of nerding it 581 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,840 Speaker 1: out again. So but you know, I just have to 582 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,640 Speaker 1: say about him. You know, we spent so many hours 583 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:19,760 Speaker 1: in cars driving from place to place, and so a 584 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 1: lot of the memories that I have are are with him. 585 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:25,960 Speaker 1: For the WTTU students who are here, a lot of 586 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,520 Speaker 1: it is not very glamorous, no, but it's all worth it, 587 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,640 Speaker 1: Oh sure, absolutely, if you love it, it's all worth 588 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:36,320 Speaker 1: it because the opportunities to see these moments, it to 589 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,040 Speaker 1: work with these people that I work with, and to 590 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:43,040 Speaker 1: see this today and proud of this group who's here 591 00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 1: with us and helping us put on the OTP Live. 592 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:48,800 Speaker 1: This is big time to me. We were not big 593 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:52,560 Speaker 1: time in the early days, we were in very big time. 594 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 1: It was it was not Mike and Rett talking their 595 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,720 Speaker 1: way into getting to sitting Brett Farve's locker. The first 596 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:02,120 Speaker 1: time we ever played at Green Bay when they renovated 597 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,120 Speaker 1: lambeau Field. We did that, Yeah, because we wanted to 598 00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:09,560 Speaker 1: see his locker. We played in lambeau There's pictures somewhere. 599 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,200 Speaker 1: There's a lot of stories that would would not make 600 00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:14,760 Speaker 1: Mama proud. You know. In ninety eight, one of the 601 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,880 Speaker 1: great broadcast stories is we're playing ended with the Joe 602 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:21,560 Speaker 1: McConnell place. Yeah, listen to this one. So Joe McConnell 603 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:25,840 Speaker 1: is the was the legendary voice of the Bears. All 604 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:29,160 Speaker 1: the if you hear Walter Payton highlights, they're all Joe McConnell, 605 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,400 Speaker 1: Cardinals cults. He was kind of grumpy, so he worked 606 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,840 Speaker 1: in a lot of places White Sock wor worked with 607 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:38,080 Speaker 1: Harry Carry on the White Sox podcast. Ah, Harry, Harry, 608 00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:41,640 Speaker 1: terrible guy anyway, So for all of us, it was 609 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,080 Speaker 1: our first time at lambeau Field. And it's snowing Sunday 610 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:48,400 Speaker 1: before Christmas, right correct, And it was Reggie White's last 611 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,280 Speaker 1: game for the Green Bay Packers, and everybody knew it 612 00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,720 Speaker 1: was going to be Reggie White's last game there, so 613 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:56,960 Speaker 1: I mean it was it was everything. And for those 614 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,960 Speaker 1: of us who had watched the NFL, coach Michael understand 615 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,360 Speaker 1: this because he was a fan too. I mean, we're 616 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:08,280 Speaker 1: at lambeau Field, it's snowing, we're down on the field 617 00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,160 Speaker 1: before the game, and we're like, and I think you 618 00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:13,960 Speaker 1: have to say, would you not agree? I mean lambeau 619 00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:19,319 Speaker 1: Field would be like having a football stadium in Sparta, right, 620 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,480 Speaker 1: I mean that's what it's like. It's right next to 621 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:24,040 Speaker 1: a kmart. Yes, it's right next to a kmart. That 622 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:26,600 Speaker 1: that is kind of strange because driving into Green Bay 623 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,560 Speaker 1: and there's the kmart on the right and there's the 624 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:30,959 Speaker 1: stadium right in front of you're kind of expecting Clark 625 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:33,680 Speaker 1: Griswold with the light around it. But no, there's a 626 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,719 Speaker 1: kmart next door. If you drive through a neighborhood to 627 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:39,960 Speaker 1: get there. Yeah, right on the bus us. Yeah. So anyway, 628 00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:44,040 Speaker 1: we're there. We perhaps are embellishing things just a little 629 00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:45,840 Speaker 1: bit in the pregame script, but we're on in the 630 00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,560 Speaker 1: Nashville part of the pregame, and you know, da da 631 00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:52,360 Speaker 1: da da, we're here. You know, it's snowing, it's December. 632 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:57,080 Speaker 1: This is pretty cool. And Joe McConnell, God bless him, says, 633 00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:04,239 Speaker 1: I've been there, done that letter. Well, Larry has written this. 634 00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:09,319 Speaker 1: Larry has written this eloquent open and we're gonna have 635 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:13,440 Speaker 1: a moment because we're in one of those moment places 636 00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:19,000 Speaker 1: in the NFL. And Joe McConnell totally shoots a fire 637 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:22,680 Speaker 1: hose on it with his whole latitude. He's like, who cares, 638 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,680 Speaker 1: there's one more part? But then there was a second part. 639 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:31,399 Speaker 1: So Larry's like destroyed because he's had this all planned out. 640 00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:35,200 Speaker 1: And so then he asks Joe, well, Joe, do you 641 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:38,319 Speaker 1: have a favorite Green Bay Chica? You've been here a 642 00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:40,800 Speaker 1: lot of times, you've covered the Bears and the Packers, 643 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:44,400 Speaker 1: you've seen it for years. What's your favorite memory. It 644 00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:47,279 Speaker 1: was nineteen seventy nine and the Packers were three and 645 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:50,799 Speaker 1: twelve and the Bears were two and fourteen, and there 646 00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:54,000 Speaker 1: was a seven to six I mean, just like we're 647 00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,880 Speaker 1: in uck. That was his favorite was his favorite moment? 648 00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,400 Speaker 1: I mean he could have He says, yeah, Bob Evalini 649 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,719 Speaker 1: ran around right end and scored late and we won, 650 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:07,680 Speaker 1: and Don mccowski fumbled, and you're like, you could have 651 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,520 Speaker 1: pulled out anybody. You could have talked with Walter Peyton, 652 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:12,920 Speaker 1: you could have talked Brett Farr. If you could have 653 00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:16,360 Speaker 1: talked Reggie White, you could Mike did come. You know, 654 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:20,080 Speaker 1: you come up with Don mccowski and Bob Avellini years 655 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,520 Speaker 1: in a seven to six star. So, kids, if you 656 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:26,400 Speaker 1: work here at w t TU and you have something 657 00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:29,520 Speaker 1: planned out, it often won't work if you work with old, 658 00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:33,480 Speaker 1: grumpy people. The oldest living human being, and he wasn't 659 00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:35,880 Speaker 1: that old, he wasn't, but he was a he was 660 00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,240 Speaker 1: one hundred though it in terms of how he acted. 661 00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:41,080 Speaker 1: Fifty five and one hundred and ten year old. Oh gosh, 662 00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:44,799 Speaker 1: he was a kurmudgeon. He was. He was the kurmudgeon. Yes, 663 00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,560 Speaker 1: at that time, we did the coaches show, Coach Fisher's 664 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:51,759 Speaker 1: Show at o'charlie's. Okay, right, what NFL coach comes to 665 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:53,920 Speaker 1: a restaurant and does a radio show. Jeff Fisher for 666 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,000 Speaker 1: thirteen years, Jeff Jeff Fisher. And before we get off 667 00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,279 Speaker 1: of this, well we got Jeff Fisher's name come up. 668 00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:03,400 Speaker 1: I told Fish that I was doing this with you. Today, 669 00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:05,200 Speaker 1: and he said be sure to tell you hello, well, 670 00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:09,759 Speaker 1: thank you, because you're one of his favorite people for 671 00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,160 Speaker 1: a lot of reasons. But Joe McConnell every night for 672 00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,600 Speaker 1: two years when he did the show before Mike took over, 673 00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,560 Speaker 1: ate a let us wedge and a glass of milk. 674 00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:26,319 Speaker 1: It's horrible. Who wants milk? Nobody who has? But he 675 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,320 Speaker 1: was a great announce of great announcement. And he is 676 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,399 Speaker 1: a great guy and he's he was a good man. 677 00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:34,040 Speaker 1: But he was just so grumpy, he was so gross. 678 00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:35,799 Speaker 1: But he put up with us. He did put up 679 00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:37,680 Speaker 1: with us. He did put up with us. And you 680 00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:40,400 Speaker 1: put up with us. And we thank you and thank you. 681 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:44,000 Speaker 1: We thank you for having us in Cookeville and for 682 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:46,920 Speaker 1: telling us all the great things happening here at Tennessee Tech. 683 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:48,960 Speaker 1: We're gonna do a little bit of draft stuff if 684 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:54,359 Speaker 1: that's okay, awesome, all right, Larry stowed. Everybody, thank you. Well, 685 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,879 Speaker 1: that was kind of fun. Huh, very fun? All right, 686 00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,360 Speaker 1: not kind of fun. Does he have to leave? Doesn't 687 00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,440 Speaker 1: have to leave, veg But he doesn't want to get 688 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:05,279 Speaker 1: into all this minutia with us. That's the architect and 689 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:08,040 Speaker 1: the godfather of Titans. Radius tell me all I know 690 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:10,680 Speaker 1: he is the Godfather, all right. So a review of 691 00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:14,080 Speaker 1: the OTP from Western Kentucky. I got my picture made 692 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:17,000 Speaker 1: with Big Red, which was awesome. That was the highlight 693 00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:18,600 Speaker 1: of your whole week was so far. I got to 694 00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:21,520 Speaker 1: get a picture with awesome Eagle. Speaking of awesome, who's here? 695 00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:25,080 Speaker 1: From Tennessee Tech? Western Kentucky Athletic director Todd Stewart was 696 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:28,760 Speaker 1: a great guest, especially discussing his time in the NFL. 697 00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:33,480 Speaker 1: We reviewed sixteen offensive tackles, twelve offensive guards and four 698 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:38,120 Speaker 1: centers from the coach mac one fifty. Coach Maxie's four 699 00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,080 Speaker 1: offensive tackles going in the top twenty, maybe even all 700 00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:44,200 Speaker 1: four in the top fifteen. Those four are Evan neil 701 00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:49,160 Speaker 1: ikey Akwanu, Charles Cross, and Trevor Pennig. Tulsa's Tyler Smith 702 00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:52,680 Speaker 1: also could be a first round offensive tackles. Central Michigan's 703 00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:58,120 Speaker 1: Bernhard Rieman is another intriguing prospect. Several good tackle prospects 704 00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:02,560 Speaker 1: in Day three. Among the guards, Kenyan Greene and Zion 705 00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:05,640 Speaker 1: Johnson could be first round picks. Coach Mack is a 706 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:10,120 Speaker 1: big fan of Chattanooka's Cole Strange. They're a bunch of guards, 707 00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:13,399 Speaker 1: so you can find one on day three who can 708 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:18,920 Speaker 1: help you. Same with centers, although Iowa's Tyler Lenderbaum is 709 00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:23,320 Speaker 1: a first round talent. So let's move to the edge rushers. 710 00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,680 Speaker 1: On the Coach Mack one fifty list, He's got nineteen 711 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:34,680 Speaker 1: edge rushers. Aidan Hutchison Michigan, Kavon Thipodeaux, Oregon, David Ajabo Michigan, 712 00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:40,640 Speaker 1: George Carloftis Purdue, Jermaine Johnson Florida State, Travon Walker, Georgia, 713 00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:46,239 Speaker 1: Cameron Thomas, San Diego State, Drake Jackson, usc Arnold Ebachetti, 714 00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:51,719 Speaker 1: Penn State, Boya Mafe Minnesota, Kingsley and Bare South Carolina, 715 00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:57,600 Speaker 1: Josh Pascal Kentucky, my J. Sanders Cincinnati, Nick Benito Oklahoma, 716 00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:01,880 Speaker 1: D'Angelo Malone, Western Kentucky, Michael Clements, Texas, A and m 717 00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:06,160 Speaker 1: Tyreek Smith, Ohio, State of Marie Barno Virginia Tech, and 718 00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:10,960 Speaker 1: as Z's Odo may Woe from Minnesota. So, Rhett Brian, 719 00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:14,160 Speaker 1: you first, who is the number one guy on this list? 720 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:17,000 Speaker 1: And is he the number one overall pick of the 721 00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:20,240 Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars. On April twenty eight, people have been talking 722 00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:24,800 Speaker 1: Aidan Hutchinson for months, and that's the guy that everybody 723 00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:28,040 Speaker 1: wants to point to. However, Trayvon Walker from Georgia, I 724 00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:30,200 Speaker 1: do believe is the top guy in this class. I 725 00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:32,440 Speaker 1: do believe he is that will be the target of 726 00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:36,000 Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars from Georgia. He had an outstanding combine, 727 00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:40,640 Speaker 1: it's outstanding pro day, did some freakishly athletic, twitchy things 728 00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:43,919 Speaker 1: as a large, large human being, and I think that's 729 00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:47,560 Speaker 1: where the Jacksonville Jaguars began. Two weeks from Thursday Night. 730 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:51,200 Speaker 1: You know Trayvon Walker, he's right, And Trayvon Walker got 731 00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:53,480 Speaker 1: lost a little bit, not lost in the sense if 732 00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:55,799 Speaker 1: you didn't know who he was. But that defense for 733 00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:59,320 Speaker 1: Georgia this year maybe one of the best collegiate defenses 734 00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:03,560 Speaker 1: I've ever scene as a group in a demanding conference, 735 00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:07,160 Speaker 1: and Trayvon Walker I think has elevated himself. And plus 736 00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:13,319 Speaker 1: is a Southeastern Conference player going to Jacksonville who needs this. 737 00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:17,680 Speaker 1: But his abilities warrant that pick. Now, Mac David Dajabo 738 00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:21,120 Speaker 1: tore his achilles at his pro day. Do you think 739 00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:24,200 Speaker 1: someone takes a shot on him in the first round anyway? 740 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,000 Speaker 1: Not the first round. They won't take him in the 741 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,000 Speaker 1: first round, but he'll be drafting the first two days. 742 00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:31,399 Speaker 1: I think he would have been a fringe first round pick, 743 00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,520 Speaker 1: you know, maybe before he got hurt Amy. Now he'll 744 00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,960 Speaker 1: be an early second day pick, which sometimes is just 745 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:44,040 Speaker 1: the same as a football player who is Euros. George Karloftus, Yeah, 746 00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,640 Speaker 1: George Carloftus. And here I'm gonna read you right out 747 00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:48,759 Speaker 1: of the coach mac note book. Good. I love the 748 00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:51,440 Speaker 1: coach notebook. I've got thirty six of these and the 749 00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:54,319 Speaker 1: drafts that I've done, handy dandy note book that I 750 00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:56,279 Speaker 1: just this is this is what I write on when 751 00:41:56,280 --> 00:42:00,359 Speaker 1: I'm watching tape. Right here, Okay, Carloftus, here's what coach 752 00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:03,319 Speaker 1: Mack says, who maybe did not write, but here's what 753 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:06,200 Speaker 1: I say. Has power, excellent effort in hand U see, 754 00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:11,120 Speaker 1: very disruptive, He's a key starter, has key starter ability, 755 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,920 Speaker 1: quick first step, relentless energy guy. He played a stand 756 00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,960 Speaker 1: up rusher a lot for Brad Lambert, who's the defensive 757 00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:20,680 Speaker 1: coordinator there at Purdue, who played for me at Kansas State. 758 00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,319 Speaker 1: So I know Brad very well. And the thing when 759 00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:25,279 Speaker 1: you look at him, just looking at his numbers, he 760 00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:28,520 Speaker 1: doesn't have elite length. He's not an elite twitch guy, 761 00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:32,200 Speaker 1: but he's an every down effort guy that makes plays. 762 00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:35,239 Speaker 1: That's who he is and that's what you're looking for, 763 00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:37,400 Speaker 1: you know, and I believe he will be somewhere in 764 00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:40,040 Speaker 1: the first round. Now keep that little notebook out and 765 00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:44,000 Speaker 1: do the same thing for Jermaine Johnson. Jermaine Jumps Johnson. 766 00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:46,960 Speaker 1: First of all, First of all, I got him right here. 767 00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:49,200 Speaker 1: First of all, I've got him in order here, Amy. 768 00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:51,040 Speaker 1: I mean, I've done this a few times, but I'll 769 00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:53,279 Speaker 1: do whatever you want me to. I'll flip it like. 770 00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:56,080 Speaker 1: There we go, Here we go. We have a podcast 771 00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:58,960 Speaker 1: together that is a million listeners. And that's why right 772 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:03,880 Speaker 1: here Jermaine Johns sponsored by Farm Bureau Health. Also sponsored 773 00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:08,800 Speaker 1: by Farm Bureau Health Plans, Titan's Amy's name is first. 774 00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:13,040 Speaker 1: Please always say it first, because I'm scared of her. Okay, 775 00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:17,240 Speaker 1: this guy left Georgia because there were so many good players. 776 00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:20,439 Speaker 1: He couldn't get numbers, he couldn't get the reps. All right, 777 00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,160 Speaker 1: this guy is a little bit different than karloftus. This 778 00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:27,000 Speaker 1: He's got excellent length and agility. He's got combative hands, 779 00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:29,600 Speaker 1: which means he can knock at the offensive layman's hands 780 00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:33,160 Speaker 1: off of him, great wing span, He's got immediate starter ability. 781 00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:36,920 Speaker 1: But what Karlaftis has that this guy doesn't. I think 782 00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:39,279 Speaker 1: carlaftus is get off is a little bit better, just 783 00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:42,400 Speaker 1: a little bit better. But Jermaine Johnson Karlaftus on a 784 00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:45,439 Speaker 1: vertical draft board, they would be right there together, right 785 00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:49,200 Speaker 1: there together. Two different types of players, but both warrant 786 00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:52,440 Speaker 1: a first round grade. Rep. Brian, how many addressers go 787 00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:56,000 Speaker 1: in the first round? I've got five, five, Aiden Hutchinson, 788 00:43:56,120 --> 00:44:00,960 Speaker 1: Cavon Tibadeau from Oregon, Karloftus that you've mentioned, Jermaine, You've mentioned, 789 00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:04,360 Speaker 1: Trey Von Walker from Georgia. I believe that's it. Mac, 790 00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:07,160 Speaker 1: that's it. He's got five. He's got five. Who's the 791 00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:10,759 Speaker 1: potential steel in the edge rusher group? All right, we're 792 00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:13,640 Speaker 1: talking steel now, we're talking out of the first round. Yes, 793 00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:17,120 Speaker 1: I like D'Angelo Malone from Western Kentucky. Yes, Sir, I 794 00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:19,320 Speaker 1: like this kid. This kid is he's not a finished 795 00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:21,680 Speaker 1: product yet, but you start looking at his numbers and 796 00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:24,560 Speaker 1: his ability to him, this guy will come into the 797 00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,799 Speaker 1: league and immediately will go into your third down package. 798 00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,960 Speaker 1: Or now anymore if somebody's running three wise, one tight, 799 00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:33,399 Speaker 1: one back and spinning it all around a lot. This 800 00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:35,560 Speaker 1: guy's somebody that you can put in and bring off 801 00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:38,440 Speaker 1: the edge and as he gets refined and gets the 802 00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:41,480 Speaker 1: nuances of rushing, but he is a twitched up dude 803 00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:43,719 Speaker 1: that can really go. I like this guy. Would you 804 00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:47,000 Speaker 1: be surprised if the Titans took an edge rusher at 805 00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:50,000 Speaker 1: twenty six? Right? No, I would not, But it would 806 00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:54,360 Speaker 1: depend on who's sitting there, Okay, And obviously that's in 807 00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:57,440 Speaker 1: the taste of what John Robinson wants and if he 808 00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:00,399 Speaker 1: has a guy in a pod that he se he's fit. 809 00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:02,480 Speaker 1: But no, it would not surprise me if he took 810 00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:05,200 Speaker 1: a pass rusher there. You're always looking to bolster that 811 00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:07,800 Speaker 1: stuff in a three four defense. I'd be a little surprised, 812 00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:09,680 Speaker 1: just because I think the depth in this thing is 813 00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:12,200 Speaker 1: so good that he might be able to find one, 814 00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:15,160 Speaker 1: you know, with his next pick, if that's what he wants. 815 00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:19,400 Speaker 1: All right, So let's go to interior defensive line. Coach 816 00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:22,720 Speaker 1: Mac has twelve of these in the Coach Mac one fifty, 817 00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:28,880 Speaker 1: Jordan Davis, Georgia, Travis Jones, Ukon, de Marvin Leal Texas 818 00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:33,080 Speaker 1: A and m DeVante White, Georgia, Logan Hall Houston, Federian 819 00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:40,719 Speaker 1: Mathis Alabama, Neil Farrell Junior, lsu Otito Obano from UCLA, 820 00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:46,560 Speaker 1: Haskell Garrett, Ohio State, John Ridgeway Arkansas, Perry On Winfrey, Oklahoma, 821 00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:51,239 Speaker 1: Zachary Carter Florida. Do any of these guys go in 822 00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:55,000 Speaker 1: the first round? Rat Yes. In fact, I'm saying two 823 00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:57,680 Speaker 1: to maybe three go in the first round. Jordan Davis 824 00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:01,200 Speaker 1: from Georgia is the leader of the pack. Wyatt from Georgia, 825 00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:04,560 Speaker 1: his teammate is probably also right there, and that Travis 826 00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:07,399 Speaker 1: Jones from the University of Connecticut is also a guy 827 00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:09,480 Speaker 1: right there that could be taken in the first round. 828 00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:11,680 Speaker 1: But I think at least two go on Night one. 829 00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:13,840 Speaker 1: Those are the three. Those are the three, and the 830 00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:16,839 Speaker 1: outlier being Travis Jones. You saw him down to Senior Bowl, Mike, 831 00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:18,840 Speaker 1: when you were down there. He made some hay for himself. 832 00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:21,520 Speaker 1: But the two players from Georgia, and it depends on 833 00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:23,880 Speaker 1: what flavor you like, those two will absolutely go in 834 00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:26,520 Speaker 1: the first round. Who has the better pro potential among 835 00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:29,400 Speaker 1: the Georgia d Lineman and I'm talking about Jordan Davis 836 00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:32,160 Speaker 1: and DeVante Wyatt they both got excellent pro potential, but 837 00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:35,160 Speaker 1: they're different players. DeVante Wyatt is a three technique. He's 838 00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:37,080 Speaker 1: gonna line up on the outside shoulder of a guard 839 00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:40,520 Speaker 1: and move and go. Jordan Davis is a space eater. 840 00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:43,440 Speaker 1: He's a monster in the middle that's got really good movement. 841 00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:47,520 Speaker 1: So both of these guys, they both will have really 842 00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:49,799 Speaker 1: good careers in the National Football League. They are just 843 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:53,239 Speaker 1: different types of defensive front players. All right, Matt catch 844 00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:56,560 Speaker 1: notebook out again. Tell us about Logan Hall. Who is 845 00:46:56,600 --> 00:47:00,880 Speaker 1: Logan Hall? Here? Here's Logan Hall. Heavy handed, really really 846 00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:03,319 Speaker 1: tough dude, a little bit raw around the edge. He's 847 00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:05,839 Speaker 1: plays at the University of Houston. Here's where I like 848 00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:08,680 Speaker 1: Logan Hall. Logan Hall has got good length, he's got 849 00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:11,600 Speaker 1: he got decent ball, but he's not just a real 850 00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:15,560 Speaker 1: drop your front end loader in the middle. I think 851 00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:17,640 Speaker 1: Logan Hall will find a place real early in the 852 00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:20,239 Speaker 1: National Football League. Is this. He will come in in 853 00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:23,359 Speaker 1: your rush package and move over a guard. He will 854 00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:25,239 Speaker 1: come in and move over a guard and then be 855 00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:27,560 Speaker 1: able to give you some really good edge Russia. And 856 00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:30,840 Speaker 1: he's a violent, violent player. This guy plays with a 857 00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:34,440 Speaker 1: nasty attitude. That's who he is now speaking of attitudes. 858 00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:38,160 Speaker 1: Perem Winfrey was the MVP of the Senior Bawl a 859 00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:42,760 Speaker 1: because he played incredibly well, but also because he dropped 860 00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:48,120 Speaker 1: an F bomb on live radio, which is not necessarily advised, 861 00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:51,400 Speaker 1: but I mean made him the MVP. In our minds, 862 00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:59,000 Speaker 1: where do you guys, broadcast, where do you feel he 863 00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:02,880 Speaker 1: fits into this draft? Ret he is going to be 864 00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:06,840 Speaker 1: in very early in night two in the second round 865 00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:09,759 Speaker 1: because there are some good players, and we mentioned two 866 00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,400 Speaker 1: to three guys that are ahead of him in this group. 867 00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:14,600 Speaker 1: He certainly isn't far behind. He would be in the 868 00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:16,960 Speaker 1: top of the next tier in this thing. You mentioned 869 00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:18,880 Speaker 1: he had an outstanding week in mobile. He was the 870 00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:22,440 Speaker 1: MVP of the Senior Bowl and the MVP of interviews 871 00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:26,200 Speaker 1: in that process on Serious XM Radio. But yeah, he 872 00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:29,759 Speaker 1: certainly is somebody that is can we use a little 873 00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:31,640 Speaker 1: more development in his game and that's why I think 874 00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:34,200 Speaker 1: he is a second round pick in this thing. Good 875 00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:38,319 Speaker 1: stuff everybody, and we've had a great time here. The 876 00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:44,920 Speaker 1: celebration for WTTU goes on, and congratulations on fifty years 877 00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:49,640 Speaker 1: as the campus radio station here at Tennessee Tech. Congratulations 878 00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:52,800 Speaker 1: to everyone at Tech on the continued growth and success, 879 00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:56,120 Speaker 1: and you students are here at the best time in 880 00:48:56,239 --> 00:49:00,120 Speaker 1: Tennessee tech history, so we're excited to just be a 881 00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:03,520 Speaker 1: all part of this. 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