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Speaker 1: If you want Colts talk all year long, you're in

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Speaker 1: the right place. This is the Official Colts Podcast giving

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Speaker 1: you an updated look and what's new with the Horseshoes.

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Speaker 1: Just gets up the Taylor season touchdown? Why fires that way?

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Speaker 1: Terius flitting at the five yard line, plants in the pocket,

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Speaker 1: the Cults bring it down. A sack for indian Apolis

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Speaker 1: steps up in the Antony throlls go pipan touchdown. Let's

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Speaker 1: get the podcast started. What's up? Everybody? Welcome into another

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Speaker 1: episode of the Official Cults Podcast presented by Win Bat

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Speaker 1: I'm JJ Stankovitz. Joined here at the Colts facility by

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Speaker 1: Lara Overton and Matt Taylor as we welcome players back

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Speaker 1: to fifty sixth Street. We got Ryan Kelly Colt's Pro

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Speaker 1: Bowl Center coming up later in the podcast. We had

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Speaker 1: a chance to sit down with him to talk about

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Speaker 1: the return of players to fifty sixth Street, a little

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Speaker 1: bit about how the season and ended, and what is

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Speaker 1: But the big news everyone this week, the Colts got

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Speaker 1: back into the facility on Monday with a new teammate,

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Speaker 1: Stefan Gilmore. The twenty nineteen Defensive Player of the Year,

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Speaker 1: two time first team All Pro, five time Pro bowler.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, ex accolades. He's just a really

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Speaker 1: freaking good football player. And I guess you could say, Matt.

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Speaker 1: The Colts are a little bit happy about getting Gilmore, right,

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Speaker 1: but next up Lafferty, Daniel and Gilmore happy. I've been

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Speaker 1: waiting on that all weekend, as most people have. I

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Speaker 1: Red Lobster Classic. So the cults made a big splash

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Speaker 1: by signings to find Gilmore. You know, I think he

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Speaker 1: beautiful family. I was like hanging out with his children

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Speaker 1: He posted a video on his Twitter account of his

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Speaker 1: was very prudent and taking his time, being very patient

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Speaker 1: he said that when he made the visit here, you know,

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Speaker 1: So to me, this is further reassurance in the belief

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Speaker 1: Stefine Gilmore is not signing in Indianapolis if he doesn't

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Speaker 1: He's in his thirties, he's already won the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: And he brings that veteran presence in that very strong leadership.

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Speaker 1: of situation and Stefan Gilmour was asked about this from

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Speaker 1: So Matake kind of alluded to it the four corners

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Speaker 1: But I like the Gilmore signing a lot. I think

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Speaker 1: And I also think too, it's always prudent to add

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Speaker 1: That's a position that you know seemingly gets tested a

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Speaker 1: guys about what that ultimately does to your body. I think,

426
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,680
Speaker 1: you know, coach Frank and Chris have been very open

427
00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:26,200
Speaker 1: and talking about what the offseason could look like going forward,

428
00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:27,960
Speaker 1: and so I think we made some certain changes that

429
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,399
Speaker 1: I think will help guys to get them out of

430
00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:32,840
Speaker 1: work that we need to grow camaraderie, the things that

431
00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:34,880
Speaker 1: we were missing in the last two years without having

432
00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:36,639
Speaker 1: to go out there and pound, you know, your body

433
00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:39,480
Speaker 1: too far. So I think it's been it's been great

434
00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:41,480
Speaker 1: to kind of have those meetings and talk about that.

435
00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:43,479
Speaker 1: But also the last two years we just didn't have

436
00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:47,040
Speaker 1: the camaraderie, we didn't have the the the guys training together,

437
00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:49,560
Speaker 1: being in the building every day, even if it's only

438
00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 1: for four hours, you know, those those hours really add

439
00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:55,080
Speaker 1: up over time. And because of the type of professional

440
00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:56,600
Speaker 1: that you are, the type of person that you are.

441
00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:00,920
Speaker 1: You have always established quick chemistry with your various quarterbacks

442
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:04,040
Speaker 1: when you've gotten the building with them. First impressions. Working

443
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:06,960
Speaker 1: with Matt Ryan, yeah, we went to um lunch couple

444
00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:08,640
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago when he first got up here,

445
00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,600
Speaker 1: and UM, like I said, yeah, like you said before,

446
00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:13,840
Speaker 1: it's it's been tough. I mean, unfortunately, I've become very

447
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 1: emotional attached all these quarterbacks just because the nature of

448
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,880
Speaker 1: of our job, and um, they've all been fantastic guys.

449
00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,960
Speaker 1: So it just gets harder every year. But Matts has

450
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,160
Speaker 1: been awesome, Um, obviously an incredible competitor of fifteen years

451
00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,200
Speaker 1: in the league. Um, you know, he said he wants

452
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,160
Speaker 1: to play for a good long a good while longer,

453
00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:31,840
Speaker 1: which is is great to hear as well, And so

454
00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:34,159
Speaker 1: I think that we've also got a lot in common,

455
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,239
Speaker 1: which is you know, and never hurts as well. It's

456
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:39,080
Speaker 1: a great relationship. And so it's that's why I'm thankful

457
00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:40,399
Speaker 1: that he's here and that I'm here, so that we

458
00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:43,359
Speaker 1: can you know, grow our relationship. And um, you know,

459
00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,840
Speaker 1: this is really where you start the foundation for good seasons.

460
00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:49,840
Speaker 1: Right now, Ryan has them has the sting of last

461
00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:53,040
Speaker 1: season and how it ended. Has that warrant off yet?

462
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:56,320
Speaker 1: How long does something like that linger. Yeah, I don't

463
00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:58,439
Speaker 1: think it ever wears off. Just when you know what

464
00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:00,119
Speaker 1: kind of caliber every team you had, and then you

465
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:01,800
Speaker 1: look back at the stretch of run that we had,

466
00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:05,000
Speaker 1: we were really playing great football. We just didn't start

467
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 1: great and we didn't finish great. So when we had

468
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:09,639
Speaker 1: a good chunk of of week in there in the

469
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:11,360
Speaker 1: middle of the season where we were really playing well

470
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 1: and hitting our stride, and so it's just it'll always sting,

471
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:18,159
Speaker 1: because you know, unfortunately the NFL, when that season's over,

472
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:19,959
Speaker 1: you wipe the slate clean and you go next year

473
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:23,280
Speaker 1: or so. I think that we're all starting to kind

474
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 1: of realize that we're in the midst of our prime

475
00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:28,080
Speaker 1: as players. You know, this would be year seven for me,

476
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:31,000
Speaker 1: and you know, those those two or three year periods

477
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,879
Speaker 1: where Chris was really drafting a lot of players and

478
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,120
Speaker 1: developing those players, those guys are starting to look into

479
00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:38,200
Speaker 1: four or five six. So I think you start looking

480
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:40,159
Speaker 1: at that and the time is now. And so I

481
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,840
Speaker 1: think that there's no pressure, you know, on each player,

482
00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:45,639
Speaker 1: but individually and as collectively as a group, we know

483
00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 1: what we can do and know that there's not you know,

484
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,400
Speaker 1: it's not gonna last forever. So I think that there

485
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 1: is definitely a sense of urgency to get it going now.

486
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,960
Speaker 1: So with that said, how therapeutic is this getting back

487
00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,920
Speaker 1: together with you know, for the off season workout program?

488
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,680
Speaker 1: Kind of like that first up in the process of

489
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 1: of forgetting about last year very much. I mean, you know,

490
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:08,120
Speaker 1: not just being able to sit next to somebody as

491
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 1: opposed to having to sit six seats apart from him

492
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 1: or ten seats apart, right, all the stuff that we

493
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 1: had to go through the last two years, you know,

494
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,480
Speaker 1: new quarterback and dealing with COVID and all this and that,

495
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 1: you know, you just never really felt like, you know,

496
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:23,880
Speaker 1: as close as you were as a team, you never

497
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,679
Speaker 1: felt like we were totally there. So um to finally

498
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 1: get back and the off season's gonna look a little

499
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:30,960
Speaker 1: bit different than it did when I was a rookie.

500
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Speaker 1: But I think that the overwhelming amount of guys are

501
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,440
Speaker 1: here or we'll be here soon to get this thing going.

502
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 1: And ultimately, you know, the meetings that we have are

503
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,720
Speaker 1: the most important. The workouts and growing the camaraderie. I

504
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:45,320
Speaker 1: think that that's that's you look at all the great

505
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 1: teams that I've ever won championships. Yeah, they've been really close,

506
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 1: and so I think that that was something we were

507
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:52,920
Speaker 1: certainly missed in the last couple of years. But it's

508
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 1: not an excuse for the way things finished. Do you

509
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 1: do a number of different circumstances. You had quite a

510
00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 1: rotation across your offensive line with the departures of Mark

511
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:03,720
Speaker 1: Lewinsky and Chris Reid, two very good friends of yours

512
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:07,119
Speaker 1: who are getting opportunities now elsewhere. Where is your confidence

513
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 1: level as well with guys like Matt Pryor stepping in

514
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 1: apparently for Eric Fisher and then also Danny Pinter and

515
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 1: where he is and how he's grown in the time

516
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 1: that you've shared the locker room with them. Yeah, I

517
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:18,880
Speaker 1: think it's tough. Um. You know, you look back at

518
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 1: it and it was it was you know, for a

519
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,400
Speaker 1: while there was ac Q, Me, Glow, Brandon and that

520
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:26,359
Speaker 1: that was a great group. I mean we played a

521
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:28,679
Speaker 1: lot of games together and then ac retired and we

522
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 1: still had Glow for another year. So having those guys

523
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,359
Speaker 1: um depart has been tough. Obviously. Like I said, this

524
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:36,679
Speaker 1: is the hardest part about this game is that you

525
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: make friends with these guys that you're going to be

526
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 1: friends forever with. But um, it's part of the game.

527
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:42,480
Speaker 1: So I'm glad that we still have Q, ME and

528
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:46,440
Speaker 1: Brandon to have a core nucleus of of what the

529
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 1: room is transitioned to be from where it was. And

530
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:53,119
Speaker 1: so you know, I think it ultimately having Danny and

531
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Speaker 1: Matt and there to step in right now, um, and

532
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:57,439
Speaker 1: and to kind of make sure those guys know that

533
00:26:58,000 --> 00:26:59,960
Speaker 1: you know, this is a room that you know whole

534
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 1: standard to a very high, high level. And so I

535
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:04,240
Speaker 1: know that we can even get better from what we

536
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 1: did last year. We had some really good games last year,

537
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 1: and then we had some games that weren't so great.

538
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:11,200
Speaker 1: So having a more consistent upfront offensive line is really

539
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 1: going to help. And I really hope that we have

540
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: the five guys like that in the nucleus. I can

541
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,440
Speaker 1: play like that for a while. So certainly making those

542
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 1: guys know the level of standard players around here and

543
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:24,919
Speaker 1: bringing those guys up and ultimately it's about, you know,

544
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 1: whatever they see us doing is what they're gonna do.

545
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:27,919
Speaker 1: And so I know we got a lot of young

546
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 1: guys and we'll probably have more young guys at the end.

547
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:33,119
Speaker 1: Of next week. So it's all about you know, veteran

548
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,680
Speaker 1: leadership and going on. Two guys going into year five,

549
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 1: one going into year seven. So we got some young

550
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 1: guys behind us. Ryan, last one for you here before

551
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: we let you get out here. I saw a couple

552
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:44,480
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, a couple days ago, you were able

553
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,680
Speaker 1: to speak at in Washington, d c. For the Concerns

554
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:50,880
Speaker 1: of Police Officers fundraiser. I know you supported them under

555
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: my cause, my cleats for a number of years. Just

556
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 1: what a bat you know trip mean to you and

557
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 1: to the mission of their their charity. Yeah, so actually

558
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 1: that events coming up in a few weeks that was

559
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 1: actually just the so the Indiana chapter, they run their

560
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:08,120
Speaker 1: event usually in the wintertime, UM, but because of COVID

561
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 1: they're kind of backed up, so they just pushed it

562
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 1: to this a couple weeks ago. So when I was

563
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 1: a rookie, UM at that time and even to now, Um,

564
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 1: there's been a huge gap in law enforcement and the

565
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 1: trust of you know, citizens across the country and in

566
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:28,240
Speaker 1: my opinion, unrightfully so, but let's not here nor there. UM.

567
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,399
Speaker 1: I got involved with cops because, um, my dad was

568
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 1: a cop. So thirty years he was a cop, and

569
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 1: I knew what those guys do every single day. And

570
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 1: you know the amount of hats that they wear in

571
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 1: today's society, whether that's UM, things that they should be

572
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: called out to, were things that they shouldn't be UM

573
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 1: due to lack of resources, that's what they do. So

574
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 1: they're a job has evolved over the years, and in

575
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 1: doing so, um, ultimately, there's been you know, there used

576
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 1: to be a line draw on the sand of what

577
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 1: you can't it can't do, and unfortunately that seems like

578
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: it's been kind of moneyed up a little bit. So

579
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of police officers killed, you know,

580
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 1: more so this year than there ever has been in

581
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 1: years passed, and the number keeps growing. So I go

582
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: speak yearly at the Concerns Police Survivors Event to family

583
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 1: members and we donate auction items, we reraise money for

584
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: them to go out. Every year there's a Police Week

585
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: in Washington, DC and the kids and families from all

586
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 1: across the country officers have been killed in the line

587
00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 1: of duty come out there and what those kids do is,

588
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 1: you know, they're they're they're fallen dad, mom, brother, whatever

589
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 1: is read out loud, and then their name is placing

590
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 1: a memorial in DC. So we raise money for these

591
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 1: families to be able to go travel. I mean, they're

592
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 1: some can't afford it, you know, and some of them

593
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 1: just ultimately want to be out there. And it's it's

594
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 1: a really hard event because they play a video there

595
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 1: where every name the officer that was killed in the

596
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 1: line of duty and Indiana has been read and so

597
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 1: there's it's a very emotional event. I've gone back every

598
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 1: year because of that, and it's just a very difficult event.

599
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 1: So I'm always very honored to be there. It's very

600
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 1: um humbling, you know, to be there, And obviously I

601
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 1: think it means a lot to those people, especially in

602
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 1: today's world where you're trying to do best for your

603
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 1: community and raise your kids the right way and protect

604
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 1: the sworn citizens you're that you, you know, ultimately take

605
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: the oath to do and so I think to have

606
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 1: a professional athlete in that sense is helps them a

607
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 1: lot too, and it helps me. All right, Ryan Kelly,

608
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 1: that's here Colts Pro Bowl Center. Thanks for joining us

609
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 1: here on the Cults Official Podcast. Thank you guys, have

610
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 1: a good day, all right. So just a couple of

611
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 1: quick thoughts here before we get into Mate's Random Thought

612
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Speaker 1: of the Week, which is a new segment that we

613
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 1: were going to go into. I'm very excited about it,

614
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 1: just to build up the suspense a little bit opened

615
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 1: up Pandora's box, and I like it. I think the

616
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 1: something you could hear we talked a little bit about

617
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 1: COVID fatigue before we got got into talking to him,

618
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 1: but like the quarterback fatigue of just like you know,

619
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Speaker 1: you're Ryan Kelly, like you're the center, You get emotionally

620
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 1: attached to these guys. You form deep relationships with Andrew Luck,

621
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: with Jacoby Brissette, with Philip Rivers, with Carset and and

622
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 1: to have that constantly changing over Like I get it,

623
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 1: that's got to be exhausting and that's got to be

624
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: really difficult mentally to go through that. But the way

625
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 1: that Matt Ryan seems to be going about this very professional,

626
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 1: very straightforward, very direct, and very intentional, I think is

627
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: really encouraging to hear at this early stage well. And

628
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: I also think that what we've seen from the various

629
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Speaker 1: offensive linemen who we've been able to just just talk

630
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 1: to now that they're back in the building, and people

631
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 1: that we've seen or the receivers who Mats worked with

632
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 1: is I believe even the veteran guys like Ryan Kelly

633
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 1: or a Quentin Nelson or Braden Smith, they can see

634
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: how Matt Ryan will make them better. There is nothing

635
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: that Matt Ryan hasn't seen, hasn't played through, hasn't experienced

636
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 1: a situation that he hasn't been thrust into. You think

637
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 1: about all of that, so that is only going to

638
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 1: be a benefit to all of those five guys up

639
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: in front of him. Well, you also think about, you

640
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Speaker 1: know something Ryan said about how somebody players on this

641
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Speaker 1: team are in the price of their careers. Yeah, Matt

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Speaker 1: Ryan is not in the quintessential prime of his career

643
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Speaker 1: as he turns thirty seven, but quarterbacks can play deep

644
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Speaker 1: into their careers. The other thing, Matt Ryan He's got

645
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: experienced playing in the prime of his career. He's got

646
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Speaker 1: experience playing with a wide receiver in Julio Jones who

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Speaker 1: is at the top of the NFL and the prime

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00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 1: of his career at that position. That I think lends

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Speaker 1: itself when you have a quarterback who knows what to

650
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Speaker 1: do in those situations, who knows how to maximize guys

651
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Speaker 1: talents like you were talking about, Lara with the offensive line,

652
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 1: and that'll go for Jonathan Taylor, for Michael Pittman Junior,

653
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 1: for Moli Cox, for all these other guys in the offense.

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00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 1: I think that just lifts everyone else up when you've

655
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Speaker 1: got this kind of steady veteran presence there in Matt Ryan.

656
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Speaker 1: And again it's still very early in this process, but

657
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Speaker 1: you love hearing like you. You know, you said Lara

658
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: about how Matt Ryan's already taken the initiative and getting

659
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 1: out there with these guys and getting to know him.

660
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 1: That stuff all counts for a lot. What else counts

661
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Speaker 1: for a lot? Matt Taylor your rand thought of the week?

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Speaker 1: Let's go Maytex random thought of the week. And why

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Speaker 1: is the carpet all wet? Todd? I don't know, Marco.

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Speaker 1: You guys going out of town? Does this choth push

665
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 1: your food by American Gentle Association? If it's cold there?

666
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: These vans get good gas mileage? How fast does this

667
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Speaker 1: thing go? Does it have automatic transmission? Does it have

668
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:28,240
Speaker 1: four wheel drive? Shut up? Shut shot up, shut up,

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Speaker 1: shut up. Sometimes you just have random thought induced intro

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Speaker 1: um that like carpet wet. Bit Uh, that's from a movie, right, Yes,

671
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Speaker 1: you ripped me for not watching Coach. Yeah, I don't

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00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: have you seen National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation? Never in my life?

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Speaker 1: All Right, God, what are we doing? Yeah? I'm watching football, dimber,

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Speaker 1: not Christmas movies? Wow? Weird Flex? Okay, no, Flex, you're

675
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Speaker 1: a football reporter, Matte? Yes, what do you got? All? Right?

676
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 1: On the first installment? Which I guess is not true

677
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Speaker 1: because I have a lot of thoughts every day. But

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Speaker 1: the first thought I'm gonna give you guys today on

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Speaker 1: a podcast form. We talked about this a couple of

680
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Speaker 1: weeks ago, but we never circled circle back to it.

681
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,399
Speaker 1: I want to know, guys, we've made the people late. Yeah,

682
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: like we've had like a month of pondering on this.

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00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: But my wife actually said, when aren't you going to

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Speaker 1: get back to this? So Betsy, Betsy's been waiting for this. Good.

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Speaker 1: I want to know, guys, what items at the grocery

686
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Speaker 1: store are completely suitable for buying the generic versions of?

687
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,759
Speaker 1: What items would you never purchase generic versions of? And

688
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: why what's the difference? All Right, I will always buy

689
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 1: generic cereal at the grocery store. Oh no, go always

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00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 1: generic cereal. Never generic potato chips. Tortilla chips are fine,

691
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Speaker 1: never generic potato chips, and never, ever, ever, ever, ever

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Speaker 1: generic pop. Oh see I I yeah, there was a

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Speaker 1: can shore diage of pop. You say pop and most

694
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: people say soda or cokee. It's a it's a thing.

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00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,359
Speaker 1: Is that a Chicago thing? Yeah? Yeah, that's all right.

696
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 1: We we we we would say pop. Sometimes every everything

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00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 1: was a coke, no matter what it was. If it

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Speaker 1: was the same that's yes, it was an orange drink

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00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: or sprite diet coke, just like, go get me a coke.

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Speaker 1: I've always said the same thing exactly, Yes, we are one.

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Speaker 1: But there was a can shortage and they didn't have

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00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:26,360
Speaker 1: diet coke at at Kroger down the street for me

703
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,360
Speaker 1: for the longest time. So we bought diet you know whatever,

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Speaker 1: was diet cola, whatever the whatever the box said, and

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00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:36,360
Speaker 1: it was it was okay. It got us through. Um

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Speaker 1: I am an insight into how neurotic I am. I

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Speaker 1: am I, which is no shock to you nor anyone

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Speaker 1: else who listens routinely to this podcast. So I am

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Speaker 1: a caffeine addict in every single sense of the word.

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Speaker 1: And I absolutely love diet coke, and we have the

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Speaker 1: good fortune of having this lovely soda machine, a fountain

712
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 1: machine where I usually get a diet coke every day. Therefore,

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Speaker 1: I do not buy diet coke because I don't trust

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Speaker 1: myself to keep it in the house. Like I will

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Speaker 1: polish off at twelve pack of diet coke in two days,

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Speaker 1: so I cannot purchase it at the grocery store. That

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Speaker 1: is on That's on like my like the like do

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Speaker 1: not fly list, Like that's on I do not fly list.

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Speaker 1: It's on the do not buy list. Good self discipline,

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Speaker 1: well you know, well there are a lot of other

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Speaker 1: things that I have no discipline on. So okay, I

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Speaker 1: am disciplined. No generic things. You can buy milk very

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Speaker 1: suitable to buy generic, and I will lump in ueneric milk.

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00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 1: There's generic milk. Yeah, you can like like Deans Deans

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00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 1: is a brand name, or like the ober Wise, I

726
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 1: mean like you can get like the store brand the

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00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 1: Giant Eagle, Yes, store Branko milk was milk. Okay, all right?

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Speaker 1: So yeah, and then um, even like I am a

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Speaker 1: big almond milk person. Uh so the generic almond milk

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Speaker 1: I will buy pretty like the silk brand is nice

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Speaker 1: and all that, but or the almond breeze or whatever. Oka. Um,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, generic almond milk I think is very suitable.

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Speaker 1: Also pasta, Yes, that's a great call. Like yeah, like spaghetti, spaghetti, languii,

734
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Speaker 1: Lianquini to boat tie, the you know, the pine, it

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Speaker 1: all plays. The difference between your barillas and your store

736
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Speaker 1: brand is not that much, but the difference between those

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Speaker 1: and the like super premium yeah stuff, right is significant. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's my Italian heritage coming out there. You go, all right,

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00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 1: I have okay to buy generic is water? Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: it's water. It's fine. Tell my wife that, okay, because

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Speaker 1: we have we've gone back and forth. We've done sixteen

742
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:36,800
Speaker 1: rounds on water. Um. Bacon fined to buy generic bacon

743
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:40,240
Speaker 1: or the store brand bacon because the name brand bacon

744
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:43,359
Speaker 1: nowadays with inflations like ten bucks. I know a lot

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00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 1: of people probably disagree with that. Orange juice, the generic

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Speaker 1: orange juice fined by me. Bread fine, condiments, catch up,

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00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: and mustard. They all taste the same time. Oh, I

748
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Speaker 1: don't know about that really, okay, Oh, Casey Valier is

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Speaker 1: shaking his head. I'm not sure on condiments. I don't

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Speaker 1: know because I like, oh, I'm going to love that one.

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00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:12,319
Speaker 1: All right, I've got ice cream um cleaning supplies. Yeah,

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00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 1: I'm with you there. Cleaning supplies. It's fine, you know,

753
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 1: like Windex is wind. I'm gonna throw my foot down here,

754
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: and just my wife Betsy is going to vehemently disagree

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00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:24,320
Speaker 1: with you on cleaning supplies. I got the Kirkland brand

756
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 1: disinfecting wipes once and she was like, these are terrible.

757
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:31,840
Speaker 1: You gotta get chlorox. Well, I guess it's cleaning supplies

758
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 1: is a big it's very broad. It's very broad. But

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00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: like the generic lysol or um. What's the spray stuff

760
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 1: on wood? You know I'm talking about You go, oh

761
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 1: what am I thinking of? Yeah? Yeah, paper products, trash bags,

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00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 1: and crackers all suitable to buy generic brand? Yeah, I

763
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 1: think yeah, I can paper products, trash bags, you're just

764
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:56,840
Speaker 1: throwing them away anyway. Yeah, looks a good point. Okay,

765
00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:00,880
Speaker 1: uh not okay to buy generic toilet paper, which I

766
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:03,319
Speaker 1: know goes against everything I just said, because you're throwing right,

767
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 1: you always always spend money on toilet picky. I wrote

768
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 1: down generic sports drinks, you know, like if I want

769
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 1: a power you need a Gator, I need a Gator Rader, okay,

770
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 1: JJ said Cereal, I disagree. Cereal is in my not

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00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: okay to buy generic list. I like my name brings.

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00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 1: Now it depends on which cereal. I think it's very

773
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 1: dependent on that. Cereals are totally fine to buy. Yeah, yeah,

774
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 1: I think that's what I'm going. You have to go

775
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 1: very specific as to the cereal itself. I believe here

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00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,440
Speaker 1: you go. Also in the breakfast mode, pop tarts, the

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00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,399
Speaker 1: generic version of pop tarts are no good. There's only

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00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,479
Speaker 1: one part in my opinion part and probably twenty five years.

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00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 1: I love pop tarts. And then I had popcorn. You're

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00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 1: a popcorn gall So popcorn is also on the list

781
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 1: of things I don't buy and take home because it

782
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:52,720
Speaker 1: never tastes the same. I only consume popcorn while out.

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00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 1: Also because it's turn on a flick and make popcorn.

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00:39:56,960 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 1: No ever, no, because it don't watch movies. Um no.

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00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:03,279
Speaker 1: I like the stadium popcorn to me, like like the

786
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 1: tier of popcorn like microwave is like, man, it's fine. No,

787
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:12,360
Speaker 1: I'm saving myself for like the really like salty coded

788
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:15,839
Speaker 1: stuff that we get at the stadium. I survived my

789
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Speaker 1: entire career of covering Indiana University basketball solely on Assembly

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Speaker 1: Hall popcorn and diet coke. So yeah, yeah, no, I'll

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Speaker 1: only get popcorn out. Popcorn at home just doesn't as

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00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 1: the as the kids say. You know, it doesn't hit.

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00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:32,399
Speaker 1: You know, generic popcorn doesn't hit. That's why I will

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00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 1: splurge from it. Hits different. That's HiT's different. There you go,

795
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:36,799
Speaker 1: you got it on the second try. There you go.

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Speaker 1: If you have any of these ideas, If you disagree

797
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:43,240
Speaker 1: with us, like I disagree with mate, mate disagree disagrees

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Speaker 1: with me on some of these, tweet about us at

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Speaker 1: JJ Stacovetz, at Lara Overton at may Take Colts. We

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Speaker 1: would love to hear what you think of this discussion

801
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:53,839
Speaker 1: and what we are right on and what we are

802
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 1: total idiots on. You know one thing, I'm just gonna say,

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Speaker 1: you can't go generic on it's kind of random cool whip.

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00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,240
Speaker 1: The generic cool whip just is not the same as

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00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 1: as the real cool whip whipped topping. I would probably

806
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 1: agree with that. Yeah, I would agree with that, although

807
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't use cool whip a lot, but

808
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 1: when I when I want it, I want it to

809
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 1: be good. If I'm putting it on a pie that

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00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 1: you know, my mom made in late November Thanksgiving. I

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Speaker 1: want better, better, be good stuff. Yeah, I'm not putting

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00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 1: you know, junk on that and ruining a really good pie. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: Speaking of Twitter, Hey, we're doing this every week to

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Speaker 1: a Twitter mailbag because last week we did that whole

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Speaker 1: mail bag episode and we loved every single question we

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00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 1: got and we're so impressed at the detail and creativity

817
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 1: in those questions, and we're gonna make this a weekly

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Speaker 1: segment as well. Let's go to the mailbag. Here's the

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Speaker 1: mail at never want to my tail. The first Colts

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Speaker 1: Twitter mail bag question comes from at c n Price

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Speaker 1: four six four six on Twitter. We're gonna get a

822
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Speaker 1: little bit serious again here. After our little discussion here,

823
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:02,280
Speaker 1: we have paper thing depth that guard are projected starting

824
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 1: left tackle and right guard of a combined two NFL starts.

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00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 1: I think it's a little bit more between Matt Pryor

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Speaker 1: and Danny Pincher, but maybe at those positions, who is

827
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Speaker 1: going to compete and push prior at left tackle? How

828
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Speaker 1: will the lack of overall depth that guard be addressed

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Speaker 1: will beat your free agency, the draft or a combination

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Speaker 1: of both. Thanks mate, First crack, Well, let's see is

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Speaker 1: it guard or tackle or offensive line? Is it just guard?

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Speaker 1: Let's let's say, will the Colts bring someone in to

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00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:32,919
Speaker 1: push Prior at left tackle? You can take this one first. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they have to. I mean, right now, you only have

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00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:38,719
Speaker 1: that last look. You only have ten offensive linemen on

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Speaker 1: the roster right now, and I know the roster's just

837
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Speaker 1: a shade over sixty guys offensive tackle in the second

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00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 1: round or third round absolutely in play. I mean I

839
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Speaker 1: looked it up last night. There's there's probably five guys

840
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Speaker 1: offensive tackle wise that are projected in the mock drafts

841
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:58,920
Speaker 1: that I've been able to compile that are projected to

842
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 1: go either first round or mid second round. So there's

843
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:04,800
Speaker 1: gonna be guys that are there that are going to

844
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 1: be viable candidates for the Colts to take. And I

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Speaker 1: know the Colts are very high on Matt Prior. They're

846
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:12,840
Speaker 1: high on his ability to take over that position and

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Speaker 1: play at a high level. And if he does, that's great,

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Speaker 1: But the Colts still need depth and the rest of

849
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:20,879
Speaker 1: their tackles outside of Brandon Smith on their roster as

850
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Speaker 1: of right now. I got a bunch of guys that

851
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:26,839
Speaker 1: have never played a NFL game, and you got another

852
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Speaker 1: guy that hasn't played in a game in the NFL

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Speaker 1: since twenty seventeen. Not saying those guys still can't play.

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Speaker 1: They're here for a reason, there's no question about that.

855
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Speaker 1: But in terms of depth, yet, it's gonna get tested.

856
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:41,560
Speaker 1: It always does. The Colts started ten different offensive line

857
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Speaker 1: combinations last year, so it's always a good thing to

858
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Speaker 1: have depth and guys that you can plug in and

859
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,319
Speaker 1: feel good about if they have to make a spot start. Lara,

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Speaker 1: let's go to you here for the second part of

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Speaker 1: this question about depth at guard and what happens at

862
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Speaker 1: right guards specifically. So Danny Pinter right now is in

863
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Speaker 1: line to get that nod at right guard, but like

864
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Speaker 1: our our Twitter question here points out, he he doesn't

865
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Speaker 1: have a lot of experience there in the NFL. So

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Speaker 1: do the Colt. Could the Colt still address interior offensive

867
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Speaker 1: line in the draft and free agency going forward? Sure

868
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Speaker 1: they could. I think you're always going to look to

869
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Speaker 1: bolster what you have at that position. But what I

870
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Speaker 1: want to do is almost you need a quality of

871
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:29,840
Speaker 1: starts almost for Danny Pinter, because although the starts themselves.

872
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Speaker 1: It's a small sample size. He played incredibly well. He

873
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Speaker 1: played at a very high level. There was a very

874
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Speaker 1: little drop off in the games that Danny Pinter stepped

875
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Speaker 1: in to play. That is a credit to Danny Pinter.

876
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Speaker 1: That is a credit to Chris Strasser and Kevin Mawai,

877
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:49,280
Speaker 1: and that is a credit to the Colts scouting department

878
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 1: for identifying Danny Pinter out of ball state. So to me,

879
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 1: at some point, you have to you have to put

880
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:00,760
Speaker 1: your confidence a couple of places us with the amount

881
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:02,879
Speaker 1: of money you have tied up in your offensive line

882
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,400
Speaker 1: with Brandon Smith, with Quentin Nelson and Ryan Kelly, you

883
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:09,400
Speaker 1: have to balance things out a little bit by taking

884
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Speaker 1: advantage of young guys who you have on rookie contracts

885
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 1: or on guys you are banking on to develop. And

886
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 1: I feel like that across the NFL, the offensive line

887
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 1: is a group where you tend to see players that

888
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 1: can make incredible strides, guys who were undrafted or came

889
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:34,719
Speaker 1: in later rounds who emerge to being very productive, consistent,

890
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:38,320
Speaker 1: reliable NFL starters. So I think that this is a

891
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:41,320
Speaker 1: situation in which I think financially you have to balance

892
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 1: it out a little bit and have some guys prove

893
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Speaker 1: it for you and play at a starter level on

894
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 1: those rookie type of contracts, and then also trust the

895
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Speaker 1: coaches who you have to develop guys into starting caliber players.

896
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 1: Great way to look at it. They're great question from

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Speaker 1: at CN Price four six four six. The second question,

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Speaker 1: our last question this week comes from our friend at

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Speaker 1: Cash on air Cash. If you had to compare the

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Speaker 1: upcoming cold season to a Tom Hanks movie, which would

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Speaker 1: you pick? And why I've got one? Maybe you guys

902
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Speaker 1: are gonna steal it. Go first. Okay, I'll go first,

903
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Speaker 1: so I can't Apollo thirteen starts off looking great. This

904
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Speaker 1: is we're starting in twenty twenty one starts off looking great.

905
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:27,879
Speaker 1: It didn't start of looking great anyways. Things are going

906
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,960
Speaker 1: well the last last season or the upcoming season. We

907
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 1: have read this incorrectly upcoming season, but I'm I'm looking

908
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:37,400
Speaker 1: at it through a larger scope. Starts off, everything's going smoothly,

909
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:42,160
Speaker 1: maybe a little right, and then you realize, oh, this

910
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:44,480
Speaker 1: isn't going the way we wanted. You have this big

911
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 1: problem that you gotta fix, and you've got to find

912
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:50,919
Speaker 1: a way out of it. You go through addressing things

913
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:54,359
Speaker 1: in a certain way this off season, Unique and got way,

914
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Speaker 1: uh you know is the you know, I don't remember

915
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Speaker 1: the ins and outs of the movie too well, but Houston,

916
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Speaker 1: he's yeah, they're building that. Ryan and Unique and Gay

917
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 1: Gilmore are Houston, and they're figuring out a way to

918
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Speaker 1: get an Yeah, and you ultimately return to Earth Earth safely,

919
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 1: and the mission, while not being the success you envisioned,

920
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:18,319
Speaker 1: it is a success overall. And the story. The point

921
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 1: here is the story of the season is not the failure.

922
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:24,919
Speaker 1: It's how you responded to the failure. So is Frank

923
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 1: Greig Tom Hanks in this scenario, because Tom makes like

924
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Speaker 1: the captain on the ship or something. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It's been yeah, probably, Okay, do you have one? It's

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Speaker 1: another movie you have not seen. No, I saw it.

927
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Speaker 1: I did. But this is from like in that from

928
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Speaker 1: like the nineties, Like I mean, I haven't seen it

929
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Speaker 1: since it came out. Yeah, it wasn't Live Tyler in

930
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:49,320
Speaker 1: that like in the peak of Live Tyle. Oh, come on,

931
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Speaker 1: it's been alack. It's another movie that took space in

932
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:58,440
Speaker 1: place in space that's sort of like ninety seven. Clearly,

933
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Speaker 1: my head's been thirteen was probably like two thy or

934
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four. Oh, I was confused. Okay, all right, Matt,

935
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:06,880
Speaker 1: go ahead, man, you gave that way more thought than

936
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:11,439
Speaker 1: I did. Jj Um. I just went with big. It's big.

937
00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 1: This season's gonna be big. It's gonna be big, by

938
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Speaker 1: the way, can we all right? There's this this stereotype

939
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 1: out there, or this this common theme that Tom Hanks

940
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:24,960
Speaker 1: has never made a bad movie, and I don't know

941
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Speaker 1: if that is true. I think there's a lot of

942
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 1: Tom Hanks stinkers out there. To be honest with you, really,

943
00:48:30,640 --> 00:48:32,880
Speaker 1: I do. Now. I'm trying to look. We got we

944
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 1: got to bring Bill Brooks in on this because last

945
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 1: season our old co worker Nick Molina made some comment

946
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 1: about Tom Hanks not being a very good actor and

947
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Speaker 1: Bill Brooks. I didn't say that. I Brooks got fired

948
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:45,839
Speaker 1: up about it. I did not. I say Bill Brooks

949
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:48,279
Speaker 1: might be our guy to go to. Well, but everybody says, oh,

950
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:50,560
Speaker 1: the greatest actor alive right now is Tom Hanks. He's

951
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:54,400
Speaker 1: never made a bad movie. I mean, he's not immune

952
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:59,800
Speaker 1: to the box office slump. I mean the Burbs, the

953
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:03,880
Speaker 1: money pit. Uh, these these are not Academy Award winning

954
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 1: I'm Bachelor Party. I'm looking. There's a lot of Time

955
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 1: Hanks movies I haven't scene. I know it's not there's

956
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:10,719
Speaker 1: some great ones, there's some epic ones. I mean, a

957
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:12,719
Speaker 1: league of their own is probably in my time to

958
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 1: be my backup answer to the description in the next

959
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 1: cold season. Yeah. Yeah, mainly because there's no crying. I'm

960
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 1: tired everybody crying about stuff. There's no more crying. I'm

961
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:26,800
Speaker 1: going full Jimmy Dugan on everybody. You're still missing the

962
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 1: cutoff man, something I'd like for you to work on,

963
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:33,520
Speaker 1: because yeah, so that was gonna be one of my answers.

964
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:34,919
Speaker 1: But anyway, there are a lot of Time Hanks movies

965
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:37,920
Speaker 1: haven't seen. But yeah, because like, uh, Matt Ryan's like,

966
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:44,759
Speaker 1: you're Dottie Hinson, right, Like who's kid? Who's kid? Who's

967
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 1: like the up and coming little bit of a hothead,

968
00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 1: got a little bit of a temper. Oh, I don't know,

969
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:53,920
Speaker 1: Maybe I shouldn't answer. That's that's for the podcast Cutting

970
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 1: Room Floor, Larry Crown, that you tell me, Larry Crown's

971
00:49:57,200 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 1: a great movie, like The Bachelor Party. These are all

972
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 1: these are all kind of stinkers. That thing you do

973
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:05,239
Speaker 1: that was okay, I guess, Oh I loved that Thing

974
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 1: you Do. It was okay, come on The Wonders. Yeah,

975
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:14,840
Speaker 1: Joaquin Phoenix like the the lead man, but but he

976
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:17,720
Speaker 1: live Tyler wasn't that? He has so many great movies

977
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:19,920
Speaker 1: that offset that, right, I mean, The Green Mile, A

978
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:22,920
Speaker 1: League of the Rowne, Forrest Gump, Sleepless in Seattle, so

979
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Speaker 1: movies of all time, of course, yeah, like course, just

980
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 1: I mean so like growing up, my sister and I

981
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:33,880
Speaker 1: would go every other weekend. My parents were divorced, are divorced.

982
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:35,239
Speaker 1: I guess they still are. It's not like it was

983
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 1: a temporary thing. Uh So, like I would go split

984
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:40,279
Speaker 1: every other weekend and we would go to my dad's

985
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 1: house and like we would go through I feel like

986
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:43,480
Speaker 1: we had like a Tom Hanks trilogy. It was like

987
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:46,440
Speaker 1: we would watch a Forrest Gump, we would watch a

988
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:49,319
Speaker 1: League of their Own, we would watch that Thing you Do. Yeah,

989
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:52,440
Speaker 1: that's like nostalgia and sae not that that's a Tom

990
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:54,959
Speaker 1: Hanks movie. That was just heavy in the rotation because

991
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:56,760
Speaker 1: my dad's like, what do I do with a thirteen

992
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:58,759
Speaker 1: year old? A ten year old? All right, Well, that

993
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:01,480
Speaker 1: thats good. These are good questions. Yet again, you can

994
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:04,879
Speaker 1: tweet us your questions at JJ Stankoffs, at may Take

995
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:07,000
Speaker 1: Colts at Lara Overton. We're going to do this at

996
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:10,080
Speaker 1: the end of every Tuesday episode. Hey, I got one

997
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 1: quick plug before we wrap up the podcast. This week,

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Speaker 1: Saturday Night is the Courage to Compete bowling events supporting

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Speaker 1: the Not Today Foundation, Frank and Linda Reich's foundation, which

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Speaker 1: is an incredible organization that works to eradicate child exploitation

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Speaker 1: and sexual abuse. So go ahead and give Not Today

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Speaker 1: a follow. This is a massive event. There's a ton

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Speaker 1: of participation from the players who are serving as captains.

1004
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Speaker 1: It's Quentin Nelson, DeForest Buckner, Jonathan Taylor, who are all

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Speaker 1: going to be there, So be sure that you follow

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Speaker 1: them on all the social platforms. It's knot Today that's

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Speaker 1: on all of your platforms. So just to follow the

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Speaker 1: work that they're doing. Support the work that the Reiks

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Speaker 1: are doing with the Not Today Foundation. It's made incredible

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Speaker 1: strides over the past two years. You're going to be there.

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00:51:57,600 --> 00:51:59,880
Speaker 1: I will be m seeing. I'm very very honored to

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Speaker 1: be a'm seeing. I was just talking to de Forest

1013
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:03,840
Speaker 1: and I said, please do not make me bowl. I

1014
00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:06,719
Speaker 1: already embarrass myself in a number of other facets in

1015
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:09,719
Speaker 1: my life. I don't need to further do so by yeah,

1016
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:12,680
Speaker 1: trying to trying to bowl because it's for a good cause,

1017
00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 1: but I think for a better cause. If I can

1018
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:17,440
Speaker 1: get the bumpers, then we'd be in your guardrails. There

1019
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:20,160
Speaker 1: you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So all right, me and

1020
00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:22,279
Speaker 1: the Stank of its twins and old Molly Taylor can

1021
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:24,359
Speaker 1: be out there on the bubbers. Yeah, you guys should

1022
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Speaker 1: have your own league on Thursday nights. That sounds great.

1023
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:29,120
Speaker 1: That sounds great. Maybe maybe you can bowlings. Not in

1024
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:31,160
Speaker 1: our genes, so our boys are gonna be terrible bowlers.

1025
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Speaker 1: That's just not a thing that you could still break

1026
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:36,440
Speaker 1: two hundred doing the the bumpers. The bumpers, Yeah, you'd

1027
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 1: be all right. It would be impressive if you didn't

1028
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 1: a couple of spares. That's that's true too, But she's

1029
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Speaker 1: talking about five year olds anyways. Speaking of impressive, Hey,

1030
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm punned for this. Inside Football with Rick vent

1031
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Speaker 1: Terry is back tomorrow. We got mate and Rick vent Terry.

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Speaker 1: Rick's going to give his thoughts on Matt Ryan Unique

1033
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Speaker 1: and gatways to find Gilmore in the upcoming NFL Draft.

1034
00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:57,880
Speaker 1: I am so excited to hear what coach has to

1035
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 1: say about this whole Colts office and one's coming up

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00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:03,960
Speaker 1: next week. Absolutely in the NFL Draft Thursday Inside the

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Speaker 1: Draft with Rick Sarah Tella, NFL Draft analyst with NFL

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Speaker 1: Draft Bible, and Sports Illustrated Friday on the Last Word,

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Speaker 1: you guys are going to be breaking down Chris Ballard's

1040
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:16,200
Speaker 1: pre draft press conference that we are going to hear

1041
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:18,520
Speaker 1: from the Colts general manager. If you haven't listened to

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Speaker 1: it already. On Monday, we dropped an interview that mate

1043
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Speaker 1: Casey Valier and I did with Stefan Gilmore welcoming him

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00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:30,279
Speaker 1: to Indianapolis. So turn on those notifications, subscribe, rate and

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1046
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Speaker 1: we will talk to you next week here on the

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1049
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Speaker 1: and Matt Taylor. I'm JJ Stankamitz. Thank you so much

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