The First Foe | Defending The Kingdom 7/30

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Speaker 1: Taking danage on the day. When you get opportunity in

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Speaker 1: this game, you make a play, Michael, don’t do it.

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Speaker 1: Touchdown Chansas City. The Chiefs are right in the thick

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Speaker 1: of a baby. Well, hello everyone, and welcome to this

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Speaker 1: edition of Defending the Kingdom, and we’re getting closer to

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Speaker 1: real life training camp football here. Mitch holds us with

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Speaker 1: you the voice of the Chiefs, along with the Man,

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Speaker 1: ten year National Football League veteran community leader. He’s been

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Speaker 1: great in our ambassador program. He is the shop, He’s

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Speaker 1: the barber shop, He’s the spider Man. Sean Barber, Sean,

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Speaker 1: You and I have done these podcasts now for over

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Speaker 1: a year, but since March we’ve alluded to it of

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Speaker 1: the entire world. But now we’re getting close for the

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Speaker 1: to defend their world championship. And we have got a

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Speaker 1: special Offend the Kingdom here because Rick Burkholter, vice President

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Speaker 1: for Sports Performance and Athletic Training. We’re going to turn

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Speaker 1: he really gets into this in depth. And Sean, I’m

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Speaker 1: telling you, if people haven’t watched any of our podcasts,

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Speaker 1: in this damn moment. The most important podcast is this one.

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Speaker 1: Rick Burkholder does a great job of walking you through

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Speaker 1: the spiritual, mental, physical aspects of this pandemic. He sees

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Speaker 1: it from an employee standpoint, but he also walks you

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Speaker 1: through how Coach Reid is seeing it, how the league

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Speaker 1: is seeing it, how his employees, how the family of

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Speaker 1: the employees, and the friends and employees. So he’s looking

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Speaker 1: at this thing from a three hundred and sixty degree

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Speaker 1: model and letting everybody know how they can play a

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Speaker 1: part in the solution. We all understand the problem. The

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Speaker 1: pandemic is what it is. He talks about that seventy

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Speaker 1: fifteen fifteen split. Later in the podcasts, when you hear

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Speaker 1: him talk about that, understand where you are on that split.

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Speaker 1: Understand if you are part of the solution or part

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Speaker 1: of the problem. And like you said a few months ago,

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Speaker 1: the pandemic hit and one of the things that some

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Speaker 1: people did in the community was they started something new.

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Speaker 1: They found a way to be a positive light in

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Speaker 1: a negative environment. So right now I’m wearing this wear

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Speaker 1: a Mask shirt. You see that that beautiful Casey wear

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Speaker 1: a mask Save the season, let’s saying football. That was

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Speaker 1: done by a company here in town, own Casey Apparel.

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Speaker 1: It’s a guy who to fight the pandemic, to fight

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Speaker 1: And that’s somebody a man. I take my hats off

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Speaker 1: the guys to find a way in this culture and

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Speaker 1: this time when everybody’s going crazy, they want to wash

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Speaker 1: You’ve got to understand that the process is greater than

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Speaker 1: the product. And Rick Burkholtze and him and Andy Reid

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Speaker 1: together has set the Kansas City Chiefs again above the risk.

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Speaker 1: Mits Reynolds has mentioned in this discussion, he’s been a

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Speaker 1: And so the Chiefs have done a remarkable job to

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Speaker 1: the IDR, the the infectious disease emergency response. Rick’s going

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Speaker 1: ask two things here before we get into Rick’s discussion.

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Speaker 1: One is the safety for players and players, families, coaches

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Speaker 1: The concern that players have and we’ve already seen players

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Speaker 1: But it affected the Orioles, the Phillies, the Yankees who

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Speaker 1: Then therefore, let one of their family members. So if

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Speaker 1: that Rickets put together to keep them as an entire

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Speaker 1: the field, they’re foes. They’re gonna go battle when it’s

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Speaker 1: training camp. But the Miami Marlins thing was an alarming

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Speaker 1: as a country, us as leaders in our own families,

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Speaker 1: this interview becomes one to listen to and take to hearts.

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Speaker 1: So now, ladies and gentlemen, Sean and I present to

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Speaker 1: Rick Burkle. All right, Chief’s Kingdom. We’re in unusual times,

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Speaker 1: five months. But this young man who’s with me now

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Speaker 1: fact that you have had that now consolidation to help

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Speaker 1: you with communication over these past five months. Well, thanks, Mitch,

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Speaker 1: And I’m not young, but i am a world champion,

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Speaker 1: me feel good about the Chiefs and it put those

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Speaker 1: guys they’re leaders on the field, but I put him

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Speaker 1: in a leadership role in the NFL. They’re they’re like,

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Speaker 1: the newest facility, but we have one of the safest

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Speaker 1: this franchise and everybody has been involved with you. Now,

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Speaker 1: just a couple more questions. One, Hey, let’s be honest here,

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Speaker 1: we’re dealing with twenty two to twenty eight to twenty

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Speaker 1: nine year olds in the bulk of this team. You’ve

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Speaker 1: got them in the biosphere, but they’re not in the

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Speaker 1: biosphere twenty four to seven they leave. What do you

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Speaker 1: tell these guys to say, because we’ve seen it throughout

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Speaker 1: in colleges. We’ve seen it. You know, they’ve got to

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Speaker 1: go to a party and twelve guys get infect or

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Speaker 1: test positive. Whatever, What are you telling them? What’s coach

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Speaker 1: telling them? And how do you guys saying, Hey, you’re

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Speaker 1: leaving our biosphere now you’re coming back in just a

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Speaker 1: short while. We’ve got to have you, man, don’t don’t

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Speaker 1: get crazy. What do you tell them, well, previously pandemic.

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Speaker 1: I believe that you control what you can control. Pandemic

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Speaker 1: change the world. You’ve got to try to control the

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Speaker 1: things you can’t control. And the only way to do that,

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Speaker 1: it’s like grays and daughters, right, you can tell them,

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Speaker 1: don’t hang out with those. You got to educate them.

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Speaker 1: Got to educate them, educate them, educate them. And education

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Speaker 1: to rely on I rely on coaching as coordinators to

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Speaker 1: make sure that the coaches are compliant. I make sure

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Speaker 1: that like individual departments like Ted’s and the cafe cheering workers,

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Speaker 1: and Mitch and his staff, and my staff and equipment staff.

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Speaker 1: We got young kids working for us, and we’ve got

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Speaker 1: to tell them if you if you get anybody sick,

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Speaker 1: you’re gonna this is terrible. So you got to go

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Speaker 1: home at night. And I’ll continue to educate through the process.

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Speaker 1: nugget each day that they can kind of remind the

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Speaker 1: players about. I will tell you this, Mitch. So I’ve

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Speaker 1: tested every player in the organization. Now, nobody was late

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Speaker 1: and nobody missed. Wow, it says that says almost everything

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Speaker 1: right there. Finally, some of your boys beat me to

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Speaker 1: testing this morning. I’ve been up there early because I’ve

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Speaker 1: got to make sure it’s up and running and all that.

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Speaker 1: But like Scherm and Schwartz and Winchester and me Coole,

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Speaker 1: and I’m like, and they add massed on and I said,

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Speaker 1: I said, what are you guys doing here so early?

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Speaker 1: And they go, we want to get this thing rolling. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if you have that, you have a chance. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: love these guys as you do. And honestly, Rick, it’s

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Speaker 1: been separation anxiety because I’m not around him and I

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Speaker 1: don’t think I’m gonna be around him maybe all season long.

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Speaker 1: But love those guys. And you’ve in this podcast, which

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Speaker 1: is basically I’m going to call it. We’re winning this

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Speaker 1: first game, and the first game is this. But finally,

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Speaker 1: what would you tell the kingdom now? And two things? One,

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Speaker 1: if you’re talking to the kingdom as if you’re talking

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Speaker 1: to our players, what would you tell the I’m about

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Speaker 1: the protocols? How do we handle this the second what

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Speaker 1: would you tell them from a mental and emotional standpoint

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Speaker 1: this first game. Yeah, that’s a great question, mitche And

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Speaker 1: unfortunately for society, we don’t have a head coach, we

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Speaker 1: don’t have athletic trainers for society, we don’t have the

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Speaker 1: great doctors that we have from Ku, and we don’t

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Speaker 1: have the great doctors like Monaco to tell the world.

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Speaker 1: But first of all, it’s a real it’s a real pandemic.

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Speaker 1: It’s a real disease. It’s viral, so viruses are hard

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Speaker 1: for us to contain, whether it’s influenza or back in

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Speaker 1: the HIV pandemic or a pandemic. But it might have

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Speaker 1: been an epidemic. There’s very few pandemics. But this thing’s

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Speaker 1: real and you can’t see it. So we have to

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Speaker 1: treat everybody like their cut COVID positive. You have to.

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Speaker 1: You have to go to the grocery store and assume

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Speaker 1: the person that is checking you out is COVID positive.

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Speaker 1: You can be safe. You can be safe. Keep a

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Speaker 1: mask on, wash your hands twenty seconds at a time

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Speaker 1: with water and soap. Use hand sanitizer, don’t be with

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Speaker 1: anybody more than ten minutes because ten minutes and six

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Speaker 1: feet is to cut off. And we can do this

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Speaker 1: as a society, and this thing will a lot of

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Speaker 1: viruses die out on their own because they viruses go

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Speaker 1: because they can give it to each other and they

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Speaker 1: mutat and all that kind of stuff. Can this can

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Speaker 1: be contained if we do the right thing. The problem

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Speaker 1: is many people and many people in the Kingdom, and

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Speaker 1: I’m a Twitter guy and I’m a Facebook guy. Don’t

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Speaker 1: get your news from there. Go to medical websites to

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Speaker 1: you don’t even have to be medical background. Go to

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Speaker 1: the CDC. Go to places like that and find out

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Speaker 1: information and do the right thing, because you never know

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Speaker 1: don’t feel well but you feel like you need groceries

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Speaker 1: and you go there and you run into Mitchell Schwartz,

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Speaker 1: or you run into Anthony Sherman, or you run into

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Speaker 1: me Cole Hardman, and then they can’t play for two

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Speaker 1: weeks and it’ll probably never get traced back to you.

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Speaker 1: But you’ve got to do that now. Mentally, it’s okay

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Speaker 1: to get the virus. Like I’ve told these guys it’s

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Speaker 1: okay to get the virus. What I struggle with is

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Speaker 1: when you spread the virus because you do doubt things.

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Speaker 1: I took a webinar and somebody told me this on

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Speaker 1: a webinar. Seventy percent of the people in society will

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Speaker 1: do the right thing. Fifteen percent will get infected. Even

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Speaker 1: if they’re doing the right thing. Fifteen percent of the the

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Speaker 1: people don’t give a damn and they’re infecting all everybody else.

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Speaker 1: And so the number is going to continue to grow

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Speaker 1: until that fifteen that doesn’t really care about it and

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Speaker 1: doesn’t care about society gets with the program and washes

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Speaker 1: their hands and puts a mask on and all the

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Speaker 1: stuff that we’re asking you to do. It’s real. We’re

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Speaker 1: going to try to keep it safe here, but it

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Speaker 1: doesn’t do us any good if you guys are sick

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Speaker 1: in the Kingdom. Yeah, we need you. We need you

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Speaker 1: guys because that’s been our that’s been our bloodline through

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Speaker 1: this organization. Well before I get out here, you guys

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00:28:14,520 –> 00:28:16,639
Speaker 1: showed up whether they were winning and losing. Now we’re winning,

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Speaker 1: we want you guys to be able to come and

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Speaker 1: enjoy it. And it’s going to break my heart on

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Speaker 1: September the tenth. If there’s not a full stadium and

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Speaker 1: we’re raising that banner for the first time, that’s going

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Speaker 1: to kill me. But I know my group went a sideline.

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Speaker 1: I hope they’re going to be safe. I’m praying that

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Speaker 1: they’re gonna be saving. I’m gonna do everything I can

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Speaker 1: to keep them safe. I asked the Kingdom to do

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Speaker 1: the same. Pray that you’re safe, do everything you can

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Speaker 1: to be safe, and maybe by the end of the year,

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Speaker 1: when we’re really hitting our stride, you guys be able

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Speaker 1: to be back in the stadium full and we’ll do

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Speaker 1: this thing. And Rick, when we dropped that banner, whether

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Speaker 1: it’s some fans, no fans, all fans, you’re going to

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00:28:53,240 –> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 1: feel that spirit and they’re going to feel the spirit

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Speaker 1: of this podcast coming back because it’s something I say

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Speaker 1: every day. Rick, This we’re going to zation is at

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Speaker 1: a whole completely different level U and leading for not

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00:29:05,480 –> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 1: just the NFL but the rest of the professional leagues.

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Speaker 1: But you will feel that spirit because it’s very real.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us, my friend, Let’s run it

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Speaker 1: back and God bless you and just hanging her buddy,

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Speaker 1: keep keep rinding away for us. We’re counting on you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Minchin. Know this, When Fauci makes us wear rubber gloves,

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Speaker 1: I’m putting that big old ring right over the rubber gloves. Sir,

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Speaker 1: I’ll do the same. Thanks, brother, appreciate its love. You

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Speaker 1: touch down down and the celebration begins in our head.