Never Better | Defending The Kingdom 8/26

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Speaker 1: Thank you vantage on the day a right will you

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Speaker 1: get opportunity in game they can play by Michael don’t

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Speaker 1: touchdown Kansas City the Chiefs all right in the thick

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Speaker 1: of a baby. Hello, Chiefs Kingdom, Welcome once again to

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Speaker 1: another edition of Defending the Kingdom, or podcast that does

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Speaker 1: exactly that. By the way, the Defending Kingdom is brought

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Speaker 1: to you by Defending the Kingdom is brought to you

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Speaker 1: by three sixty Vodka, your hometown vodka and the official

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Speaker 1: vodka of the Kansas City Chiefs. I’m Mitcheld’s Voice of

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs along with Chiefs reporter Matt McMullen. This is

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Speaker 1: gonna be a fun episode because it’s going to be

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Speaker 1: entitled never Better. We’re gonna get into that a second.

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Speaker 1: But we have called out, We’ve asked you where do

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Speaker 1: you watch and or listen to Defending the Kingdom? And

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Speaker 1: actually the results have been sometimes hilarious, it’s been awesome.

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Speaker 1: It’s been my favorite part of looking to see where

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Speaker 1: everyone’s listening. So I have a whole bunch of written

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Speaker 1: down here. We have Sam his flight was canceled in Dallas,

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Speaker 1: so he joined us to pass the time. Pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: In the part of anger management with that too. He

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Speaker 1: just calms you down, like Okay, dude, it’s okay, we’re

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Speaker 1: gonna get you on a plane. Just swimmer down. And

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Speaker 1: Sam in football is almost here so we can talk

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Speaker 1: about it helps Sam get to his flight. Michael doing laundry,

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Speaker 1: Anthony eating lunch in Oklahoma City. So the Kingdom’s bigger

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Speaker 1: than just Kansas City obviously goes down to Vicky was

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Speaker 1: working at a Colorado state park. It’s the same thing

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Speaker 1: right there out in Broncos Country, Defending the Kingdom Mountain,

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Speaker 1: Broncos Country. Matt was walking around a track watching his

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Speaker 1: nine year old learned football for the first time. This

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Speaker 1: wasn’t you, though, this was another Matt. It’s the second

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Speaker 1: most common name in Americas. Okay, yeah, great. I don’t

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Speaker 1: know where Mitch is down like four hundred and nine,

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Speaker 1: but so walking around the track with a nine year old. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And then one individual I will not say their name

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Speaker 1: for secretive purposes, but was using the restroom listening to us.

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Speaker 1: So there we go. Okay, I want to ask one

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Speaker 1: or two. That’s okay. So if you want to listen

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Speaker 1: to and watch Defending the Kingdom while you’re doing I

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Speaker 1: mean it’s a biological function here. Yeah, let’s go. It’s

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Speaker 1: not it’s this, you know. So yeah, so where are

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Speaker 1: you watching and are listening to Defending the Kingdom? I

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Speaker 1: got one from Cameron Black, who’s famous as the blind quarterback.

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Speaker 1: We know him, loves the Chiefs and he works at

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Speaker 1: Alpha Point. If people saw the three sixty NFL three

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Speaker 1: sixty feature a couple of years ago on Cameron, but

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Speaker 1: he says, I listen while I work at my desk

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Speaker 1: at the call centered Alpha Point, I do paperwork. I’m

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Speaker 1: waiting on calls with an earbud sneaked up to under

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Speaker 1: my headset and into my ear and with the podcast playing.

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Speaker 1: Now that sounds like maybe something you wouldn’t want your

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Speaker 1: supervisor to see. That’s like the old kid in school,

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Speaker 1: you know, listen to the World series back in the

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Speaker 1: old days with the teacher thumping you on the head. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but I mean, come on, it’s Chiefs Kingdom and it’s Cameron.

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Speaker 1: Cameron’s like a celebrity. Yeah he’s he is the blind quarterback.

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Speaker 1: So shout out to Cameron and the folks at Alpha Point.

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Speaker 1: Actually it’s an amazing place. We’ll get into that sometime,

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Speaker 1: all right, let’s get into this episode of Defending the Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: Some of you thought you would get fantasy football picks here,

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Speaker 1: we’ll save that for somebody else. We’re going to talk

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Speaker 1: about why this week, this week, in this last full

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Speaker 1: week of August, is a historic week for many reasons

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Speaker 1: in the Chief’s Kingdom, but the biggest reason is Geha

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Speaker 1: Field at Arrowheads Stadium. This Defending the Kingdom is entitled

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Speaker 1: never Better because honestly, Matt, you and I grew up

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Speaker 1: with this iconic venue. And when everything’s done they’re going

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Speaker 1: to get into with this Defending the Kingdom podcast discussion,

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Speaker 1: you will know why that Geha Field at Arrowheads Stadium

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Speaker 1: has never been better. It’s never been better. And first

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Speaker 1: of all, you’re right, we’re both from this area, so

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Speaker 1: And especially when I moved away and after the year

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Speaker 1: two preseason games where they were both on the Road.

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Speaker 1: To have everybody back to go and enjoy Chiefs football again.

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Speaker 1: It is going to be special. And just to be

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Speaker 1: to get back there. I mean, it feels like it’s

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Speaker 1: been forever, isn’t it. It’s been it seems like forever. Yes,

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Speaker 1: And really with this many fans, it hasn’t been since

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Speaker 1: the AFC Championship Game of the twenty nineteen season. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the first part of this. You’re gonna have some fun,

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Speaker 1: so bear with us. We’re gonna kind of nerd out

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Speaker 1: on history here. But without the Geha Field, that Arrowheads

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Speaker 1: Here we go, Lamar Hunt, it’s been famous. He’s gonna

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Speaker 1: So Lamar Hunt is leaving. Where does he go? Well,

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Speaker 1: it appears now when you look at the historical account

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Speaker 1: But when the Yankees came to town packed so lamars

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Speaker 1: an old municipal stadium, old municipal stadium at twenty second

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Speaker 1: in Brooklyn. If you’re in the Chiefs Kingdom, you can

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Speaker 1: just stop. It’s called Monarch’s Plaza now, but it’s beautiful.

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Speaker 1: Forty nine thousand, zero zero two was the capacity after

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Speaker 1: Originally when the Chiefs came here, it was thirty five thousand.

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Speaker 1: I mean they were putting up bleachers, temporary bleachers, pogo sticks,

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy season. But there was an edict given if

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Speaker 1: you’re gonzo. New Orleans still did not have a team.

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Speaker 1: Then the Saints did not come into existence till nineteen

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Speaker 1: sixty seven. So now the heat’s on Matt that, I

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Speaker 1: mean Lamar Hunt and Kansas City’s going to figure this

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Speaker 1: on the east end of town. Basically, they’re going to

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Speaker 1: build a complex with what is now Kaufman Stadium. But

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Speaker 1: if gha field, that Arrowheads Stadium was not built, the

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Speaker 1: and it really shows what a visionary Lamar Hunt was

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Speaker 1: right because once he had the plot of land to

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Speaker 1: build the stadium, think of how revolutionary. The stadium was

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Speaker 1: So I wrote some things down here. The whole idea

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Speaker 1: really cool. The Truman Sports Complex was a first of

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Speaker 1: its kind. Also the way people may not realize this

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Speaker 1: open areas where noise can escape. It was designed so

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Speaker 1: noise would swirl around. So we have the loudest fan

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Speaker 1: If you look at other stadiums around the league right now,

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Speaker 1: were just at Levi Stadium in San Francisco. Beautiful stadiums,

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Speaker 1: but they have large openings where noise can escape, and

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Speaker 1: built so no sound is escaping. The only way it

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Speaker 1: interesting about the way where the stadium was designed, and

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Speaker 1: also the way that the upper decks, how steep they are.

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Speaker 1: You can’t build stadiums like that anymore, and it helps

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Speaker 1: when you’re the opposing team. You feel like the crowd

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Speaker 1: It’s one of the things that makes the stadium so exciting,

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Speaker 1: so really interesting looking back at it, how what a

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Speaker 1: visionary Lamar Hunt was designing the stadium, making sure it

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Speaker 1: its time. This is the fiftieth season that football will

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Speaker 1: be played at gha Field, that Arrowheads Stadium. It was

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Speaker 1: August twelfth, nineteen seventy two when they played the preseason

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Speaker 1: opening game and it was barely open there. I mean

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Speaker 1: opened the doors to get that game in. But Charles

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Speaker 1: Deaton was the architect of GHA Field the Arrowheads Stadium,

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Speaker 1: and was brilliant because you talked about the noise. Also,

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Speaker 1: the site lines of those upper deck seats are awesome. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it’s great, and we know we both know fans and

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Speaker 1: we’ve set there in the three hundred level going well,

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Speaker 1: this is a pretty good seat. Yeah, you know, I

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Speaker 1: I’m thirteen stories above the field calling the game, but

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Speaker 1: those three hundred level seats are amazing. So Charles Deaton,

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Speaker 1: ironically from Denver, was the designer of the stadium, so

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Speaker 1: I knew who knew. And then Kevin and Myers, the

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Speaker 1: architects were involved in GHA Field the Arrowhead Stadium, and

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Speaker 1: they were the precursor a lot of them, a lot

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Speaker 1: firm which is headquartered here but has had impact throughout

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Speaker 1: the world. So you’re right, it’s a marvel. And some people,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it’s it’s the old phrase. It’s so old school,

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Speaker 1: it’s new school. Yeah, because it’s people are like, oh,

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Speaker 1: why do you get that sound? And how do you

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Speaker 1: in the stadium and now we know why. It’s just

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Speaker 1: brilliant architecture and a brilliant design. And what I love

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Speaker 1: about it is it seems like everywhere else stadiums get

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Speaker 1: recycled every twenty years. I mean, a stadium is no

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Speaker 1: him down a little bit because it’s a preseason game.

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Speaker 1: It’s preseason game and three. But he’s juiced up ready

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Speaker 1: to go because he’s Patrick Mahomes playing in front of

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Speaker 1: his fans. So it’s gonna be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: I know he’ll be fired up. Maybe a few deep balls,

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Speaker 1: will see how it plays out, but he is excited

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Speaker 1: to be back home. I was talking with Coach Read

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Speaker 1: this week about it in a private conversation and he said,

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Speaker 1: I’m getting chills on my back even just talking about it.

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Speaker 1: And he’s think about where he’s coached. He coached at

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Speaker 1: Green Bay and Lambeau with that great staff of Mike Holmgren.

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Speaker 1: Then he was in Philly right from the link and

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Speaker 1: then moving on to their new stadium and now with

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Speaker 1: being here at Arrowhead Stadium. But he just said, it’s

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Speaker 1: just a privilege to be standing there on that sideline

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Speaker 1: to coach at GHA Field of Arrowhead Stadium. So and

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Speaker 1: he just said how an impact it has on the guys. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but there’s times I think we’ve seen the guys get

429
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Speaker 1: a little too amped up. You’re talking about Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 1: Just bring it down a notch because we know what

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Speaker 1: he’s like when he gets wrapped up. So yeah, but

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Speaker 1: it’s it’s a it’s a privilege for these guys to

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Speaker 1: play on that field. Now it is a big week

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Speaker 1: and the naming rights with GHA field a Arrowhead Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Let’s talk about the impact of that and why it’s important. Now,

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Speaker 1: Let’s be honest here, there’s some coffee shop talk. Not

437
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Speaker 1: everybody liked that. Just leave it Arrowhead Stadium, right, But

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Speaker 1: we now know because we’ve been around GHA the company

439
00:20:55,640 –> 00:20:59,960
Speaker 1: for a couple of years now, that company’s awesome. People

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00:21:00,040 –> 00:21:03,560
Speaker 1: didn’t even know about it, least Summit based company worldwide impact.

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Speaker 1: But for them to make the commitment to join with

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Speaker 1: this franchise is something that has become necessary to win

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Speaker 1: in the National Football League. Yeah. Coach read always asked, one,

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Speaker 1: is this going to help us win? In two? What

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Speaker 1: does it do to help the resources so we can win?

446
00:21:20,640 –> 00:21:24,160
Speaker 1: And gha Field is on board with both accounts. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And so you’re thinking within that realm. So you want

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Speaker 1: to find a partner that represents what this team represents

449
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Speaker 1: and what its organization represents, and most importantly understands the organization.

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Speaker 1: So what you don’t want to happen is you don’t

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Speaker 1: want to find some big national brand that has their

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Speaker 1: headquarters in New York that then slaps their name on

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Speaker 1: the stadium because they don’t understand who we are. They

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Speaker 1: don’t understand what this team is about, what the players

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Speaker 1: stand for and represent, And truthfully, we see that now

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Speaker 1: in other places a lot one hundred. So how special

457
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Speaker 1: is it that you find a partner right down the

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Speaker 1: road that has its roots in Kansas City, started in

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Speaker 1: the city. They’re Chiefs fans, They grew up Chiefs fans,

460
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Speaker 1: and they love this team. They love what it’s all about,

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Speaker 1: and they understand what it’s all about and when you

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Speaker 1: can have a true partnership like that, because that’s what

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Speaker 1: it is. It’s a partnership. You can accomplish amazing things.

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Speaker 1: And we’re going to accomplish amazing things with them over

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Speaker 1: the next however many years, and it really began two

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Speaker 1: years ago. Like you said, that’s the important thing. It’s

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Speaker 1: finding a partner that gets it. And these guys get it.

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Speaker 1: Great point it so well put. They’re a great employer.

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Speaker 1: They have a big economic impact on the Chiefs Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: And now for them to say hey, we are with

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Speaker 1: you in this march to move forward into the next

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Speaker 1: realm of gha fielded Arrowhead Stadium is huge. It’s a

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Speaker 1: big deal. Now why is Arrowhead never gha Field? That

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Speaker 1: Arrowhead Stadium never better? Because of some big renovations going

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Speaker 1: on right now. They’ll be ready right now. Let’s start

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Speaker 1: with the Hall of Honor. It excites me. First of all.

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Speaker 1: I love the old Hall of Honor and how they

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Speaker 1: did it. It was in the concourse between the upper

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Speaker 1: the lower deck and the and the Community America Club level.

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Speaker 1: It wasn’t in a freestanding building. Nothing, it’s nothing. It’s

481
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Speaker 1: the royals. I love the roles. Hall of fame. But

482
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Speaker 1: it’s a free standing building. You got to go look

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Speaker 1: in a door and out a door. This one you

484
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Speaker 1: just walk through it, and I thought it was brant

485
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Speaker 1: and how they design that. I’ve been involved with other

486
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Speaker 1: Halls of Fame. There was a national sportscaster in sports

487
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Speaker 1: writer hall of Fame that was involved with the North

488
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Speaker 1: Carolina fantastic facility. It had to shut down nobody it

489
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Speaker 1: wasn’t part of a normal flow of people. And this

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Speaker 1: is like a museum in the middle of maybe a

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Speaker 1: shopping mall. So I mean, it’s it’s so well done

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Speaker 1: and how they did it, and I love now the

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Speaker 1: new Hall of Honor and what’s it’s going to me?

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Speaker 1: It’s going to be amazing, truth be told. I haven’t

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Speaker 1: seen it yet. Vision rendering, yeah, yeah, so we can

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Speaker 1: imagine what it’s going to look like. But the fact

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Speaker 1: of the matter is, think of all the history on

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Speaker 1: this team, all the storied history, first of all creating

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Speaker 1: the AFL, all the great players that helped create the

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Speaker 1: legendary history that the AFL had and then merge with

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Speaker 1: the NFL. Half the NFL’s history is because ultimately of

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Speaker 1: this franchise on Lamar Hunt. It all started here and

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Speaker 1: then the decades and decades of things that have happened.

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Speaker 1: Of course, the last couple of years, of course, have

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Speaker 1: been super exciting, but it goes all the way back

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Speaker 1: to Len Dawson and the Super Bowl year back in

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine. So my point is an extraordinary franchise

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Speaker 1: deserves an extraordinary Hall of honor. And you’re right, what

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Speaker 1: we’ve had for the last however many years has been awesome.

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Speaker 1: But to adapt with the times. That gets back to

511
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Speaker 1: my earlier point. To adapt with the times and to

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Speaker 1: continue being state of the art and keeping up with

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Speaker 1: what people want. That’s the important thing here. And this

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Speaker 1: new Hall of Honor is going to be awesome. I

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Speaker 1: cannot wait to see it. And I have a question

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Speaker 1: for you in ten years, how many guys on this

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Speaker 1: current team are in this upcoming Hall of honor. I

518
00:24:58,040 –> 00:24:59,480
Speaker 1: have to think about that, but it’s going to be

519
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Speaker 1: a and think about. And then guys right before this, yeah,

520
00:25:03,680 –> 00:25:06,320
Speaker 1: team you’ve got the Derek Johnson’s and the Tumbahalies and

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00:25:06,320 –> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 1: the Jamal Charles is like the floodgate’s going to open

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Speaker 1: here pretty soon. Yeah, and then you throw in the

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Speaker 1: Tyree Hills and the Travis Kelsey’s. In ten years, it

524
00:25:13,280 –> 00:25:15,720
Speaker 1: won’t be Patrick Mahomes. He’ll still be playing. Yeah, you’ve

525
00:25:15,720 –> 00:25:17,960
Speaker 1: got to be out for five years to be eligible

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Speaker 1: full to Hall. But there’s others I’m leaving out here,

527
00:25:20,840 –> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 1: but many because this we don’t. It’s easy to take

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Speaker 1: for granted the era in which we’re living. When you

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Speaker 1: look at it, it’s the best that’s ever been. It’s

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Speaker 1: the Golden Age thirty It’s the golden age of Chiefs football,

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Speaker 1: thirty nine and nine. The last three years six five

532
00:25:34,080 –> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 1: straight AFC West titles, three straight AFC Championship games to

533
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Speaker 1: AFC championships, in a super Bowl championship. There have been

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Speaker 1: another Super Bowl championship. But it wasn’t all that other

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Speaker 1: stuff around it. You mentioned something about the Hall of

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Speaker 1: Honor that I love that we do, and I tell

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00:25:49,320 –> 00:25:51,720
Speaker 1: out of town fans and many come now because of

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00:25:51,800 –> 00:25:54,720
Speaker 1: dynamic pricing. Let’s be honest. Think of the thousands of

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Speaker 1: fans that we see on the road that are Chiefs fans. Well,

540
00:25:58,200 –> 00:26:00,359
Speaker 1: go back to the Vikings game of twenty nine eighteen

541
00:26:00,440 –> 00:26:03,200
Speaker 1: or the Packers game of twenty nineteen, and they’re gonna buy.

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00:26:03,280 –> 00:26:06,159
Speaker 1: They’re gonna buy tickets and they’re gonna dynamic pricing there

543
00:26:06,200 –> 00:26:08,440
Speaker 1: they go. They’re gonna get it secondary market or otherwise.

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00:26:08,920 –> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 1: But I tell people that visit from out of town,

545
00:26:11,040 –> 00:26:14,280
Speaker 1: make sure you visit our Hall of Honor. It’s not

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00:26:14,359 –> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 1: just about the Chiefs, because it really is the AFL history. Yeah,

547
00:26:18,800 –> 00:26:23,560
Speaker 1: and how the AFL dramatically changed professional football. In the NFL,

548
00:26:23,720 –> 00:26:25,639
Speaker 1: there were no teams in the South, there were no

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Speaker 1: teams south of Washington, d C. And here comes Houston

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00:26:29,440 –> 00:26:33,480
Speaker 1: in Dallas, and then eventually the NFL put in Atlanta

551
00:26:33,800 –> 00:26:36,119
Speaker 1: and New Orleans, right could have been the Chiefs. But

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00:26:36,240 –> 00:26:38,439
Speaker 1: the point is, this new Hall of Honor will not

553
00:26:38,440 –> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 1: just be about the Chiefs and all they awesome history

554
00:26:40,720 –> 00:26:43,359
Speaker 1: that’s happened since that Hall of Honor was put in

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00:26:43,400 –> 00:26:46,720
Speaker 1: basically in twenty ten. But it’s also about pro football

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00:26:47,080 –> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: in total, and especially the AFLA, and I love it.

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00:26:50,760 –> 00:26:54,399
Speaker 1: I’ve got a fan that moved here the Chargers were

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00:26:54,440 –> 00:26:58,199
Speaker 1: taken out from under his feet, and he’s like, what,

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00:26:58,359 –> 00:27:00,640
Speaker 1: we’re losing the Chargers. He moved here because he wants

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00:27:00,680 –> 00:27:02,200
Speaker 1: to be part of the Chief’s kingdom. But he loves

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00:27:02,240 –> 00:27:03,639
Speaker 1: that part of the Hall of Honor because of the

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Speaker 1: AFL history. Yeah, and we’re both history nerds, so we

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00:27:06,480 –> 00:27:08,600
Speaker 1: love this stuff. But that’s the reality of it. I

564
00:27:08,600 –> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 1: remember being a kid and I grew up in Kansas City,

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00:27:10,760 –> 00:27:13,119
Speaker 1: so obviously I’m a Chiefs fan. But when I learned

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Speaker 1: one day is about all the different things that Lamar

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Speaker 1: Hunt did, that this franchise did to impact professional sports

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00:27:18,840 –> 00:27:21,400
Speaker 1: just in the world. It’s crazy and you know, we’re

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Speaker 1: lucky to be a part of it. So we should

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Speaker 1: be telling that story. That’s what this new Hall of

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Speaker 1: Honor will do. Hopefully. Wherever you’re listening or watching Defending

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Speaker 1: the Kingdom, you might be sneaking away at work, might

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Speaker 1: be on lunch. You might be walking around a National

574
00:27:32,760 –> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 1: park somewhere or in Colorado trying to you know, hit

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Speaker 1: a scale, a male scale, a mountain, or the dude

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Speaker 1: that’s on the pot. You know, we’re just we’re here

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Speaker 1: for everybody. But we’ll close out this edition of Never

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Speaker 1: Better g Eha Field, that Arrowhead Stadium and why this

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00:27:49,800 –> 00:27:53,160
Speaker 1: week in specific is historic in that regard and that

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Speaker 1: is and people could go back and find this it’s archived.

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Speaker 1: You go back. Is I did a podcast from Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl fifty four saying if the Chiefs went Super Bowl

583
00:28:03,160 –> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: fifty four. What could that mean for the brand? Let’s

584
00:28:07,000 –> 00:28:10,639
Speaker 1: put Geha Field at Arrowheads Stadium in that vein you

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00:28:10,680 –> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 1: alluded to it earlier minutes ago, because honestly, whether it’s

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Speaker 1: Soldier Field in Chicago, which has been renovated and not

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Speaker 1: not well done, or Lambeau Field, which is the Smithsonian

588
00:28:22,520 –> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 1: Institution well done, or Wrigley Field or a Fenway Park, yeah,

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00:28:28,760 –> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 1: there’s a charm to it, but there’s also you get

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00:28:31,640 –> 00:28:34,920
Speaker 1: more than just the game to me right now, and

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00:28:35,000 –> 00:28:39,040
Speaker 1: it’s fiftieth going into a sex decade. Geha Field at

592
00:28:39,080 –> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 1: Arrowhead Stadium almost becomes or is becoming that venue. It is,

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Speaker 1: and it matches the team that this team is becoming

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00:28:46,560 –> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 1: a global team. And it’s kind of an amazing collision

595
00:28:49,360 –> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: because for one thing, think about when you go abroad

596
00:28:51,800 –> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 1: and you see someone wearing a basketball jersey, it’s always

597
00:28:54,280 –> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 1: a Bulls jersey, right, so Michael Jordan jersey. And I’m

598
00:28:57,360 –> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 1: not trying to put tom of the expectations on Patrick Mahomes,

599
00:28:59,680 –> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 1: but the yality is he’s already a global superstar. People

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00:29:02,720 –> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 1: know who he is. And if you go somewhere else

601
00:29:05,560 –> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 1: in the world, if you’re in China or in Germany

602
00:29:07,440 –> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 1: or wherever you might see a Patrick Mahomes Jersey because

603
00:29:10,320 –> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 1: people know who he is. Because he’s not only incredibly successful,

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00:29:13,280 –> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 1: he’s a lot of fun to watch. At the same time,

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00:29:15,600 –> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 1: when you’re the NFL’s trying to marketing, trying to market

606
00:29:18,160 –> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 1: a star, he’s the perfect guy to do it because,

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00:29:20,360 –> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 1: like I said, has a ton of success, he’s incredibly

608
00:29:23,080 –> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 1: exciting when he does it, and he has a great personality.

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00:29:25,920 –> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 1: It’s perfect combination of things to be a global superstar.

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00:29:29,160 –> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 1: So you have him, You have these amazing players at

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Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey, Tyreek Kiell, Chris Jones, Tyron Matthew. You have

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00:29:35,040 –> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 1: the storied franchise, which the Chiefs are, Like we’ve talked

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00:29:37,680 –> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 1: about for the last half hour or whatever, the Chiefs

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00:29:39,880 –> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 1: are a storied franchise that helped create what the NFL

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Speaker 1: is today. And you add in gej Field, the Arrowhead Stadium,

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Speaker 1: which is the loudest stadium in the world, and it’s

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Speaker 1: had incredible moments and memories happen over the last five

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Speaker 1: and a half decades. That doesn’t happen. That doesn’t happen

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Speaker 1: when you have all those things collide, all at once.

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Speaker 1: So what it is is a tremendous opportunity for the

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Speaker 1: organization to capitalize on that, and you make sure that

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Speaker 1: when people come from wherever they come from, halfway around

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Speaker 1: the world to go to a Chiefs game. Like I

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Speaker 1: said earlier about the mystique, they don’t only feel the

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Speaker 1: mystique and the ghosts of Arrowhead, they also feel, Wow,

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Speaker 1: this is an incredible experience. That’s state of the art

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Speaker 1: in the league, and it’s just so exciting. What an

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Speaker 1: awesome time to be a Chiefs fan to not only

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Speaker 1: have all those things that I just mentioned, but also

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Speaker 1: have all the stuff we’re throwing into the stadium to

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Speaker 1: make it more exciting, and it’s awesome. So you have

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Speaker 1: all these amazing things that make that are making Geha

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Speaker 1: Field at Arrowhead Stadium such an iconic, incredible place. And

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Speaker 1: we’re not just you know, saying, hey, it’s the loud

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Speaker 1: of stadium the world. You should come here. We’re making

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Speaker 1: it a great place to be in addition to that,

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Speaker 1: So it’s super exciting time to be a fan. To

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Speaker 1: your point, when we went to Wembley Stadium in London

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Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen, I had that feeling. Now Wembley’s been

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Speaker 1: that’s a new Wembley, they’ve redone it, but that it’s

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Speaker 1: still the key pay Wembley Stadium. Think of all the

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Speaker 1: great matches that have happened here, world impact matches, and

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Speaker 1: it was awesome because you felt like it was not

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Speaker 1: just the game, it was an incredible experience. And people

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Speaker 1: now gha field that Arrowhead Stadium becomes that. Now there’s

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Speaker 1: two things that are going to help this three things.

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Speaker 1: One you’ve already laid out about the team, and we’re

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Speaker 1: gonna do another podcast maybe later in the year we

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Speaker 1: get a chance, maybe the bye week, we’ll talk about

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Speaker 1: the international influence of the Chiefs and where it goes

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Speaker 1: from here. Okay yea, and some of the contrived strategies

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Speaker 1: for that. But twenty twenty three, the NFL Draft is

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Speaker 1: coming to Kansas City. The anticipation I heard Mark Donovan

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Speaker 1: talk the other night about three hundred thousand people. It’ll

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Speaker 1: be the biggest influx of people to the capital city

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Speaker 1: of the Chief’s Kingdom ever. Now, a lot of that’s

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Speaker 1: gonna be most that’s gonna be downtown, but you know,

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Speaker 1: Arrowheads Stadium for those three hundred thousand fans that are

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Speaker 1: going to visit. They’re gonna want to see Arrowheads Stadium. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that’s the whole point. And they want to like, where

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Speaker 1: is it? What is it? Oh my gosh, this is it?

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Speaker 1: There it is. And that’s one. Two. There’s a real

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Speaker 1: chance that part of the legs of the World Cup

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six will be in Kansas City and

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Speaker 1: you know where those will be. Yeah, so you can

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Speaker 1: accommodate seventy three thousand fans. So Arrowhead gha Field, the

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Speaker 1: Arroowheads Stadium launches this week with its new name and

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Speaker 1: these new renovations. But you talk about the next ten

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Speaker 1: years of who’s going to be in the Hall of Honor.

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Speaker 1: The next ten years for the never better stadium could

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Speaker 1: be big for the grounds, it could be. And we

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Speaker 1: mentioned how this is the golden Major Chiefs football. Right,

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Speaker 1: how often do you have the golden age of a

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Speaker 1: certain team, But it’s because it’s a certain team just

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Speaker 1: caught lightning at a bottle, or it’s a quarterback towards

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Speaker 1: the end of his career, and that goldennagu doesn’t last

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Speaker 1: very long. Because my point, Patrick Mahomes is twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine the memories and the things that we’re

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Speaker 1: going to see over the next ten years at GHA

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Speaker 1: Field the Arrowhead Stadium. I think about just the last

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Speaker 1: couple of years. Honestly, his run against the Titans, the

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Speaker 1: twenty eight yard touchdown run. It’s one of my favorite

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Speaker 1: places of all time. It’s not even number one because

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Speaker 1: you have of course WASP wasn’t actually at the stadium,

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Speaker 1: but that’s the probably the best play in Chiefs history.

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Speaker 1: But then you all so have the Titans play, if

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Speaker 1: all the plays against the Texans, you have all these

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Speaker 1: different things. This has only been a couple of years.

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Speaker 1: Imagine the memories and the things that we’re going to

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Speaker 1: see over the next five to ten years. In having

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Speaker 1: it at a place like GHA Field, the Arrowhead Stadium,

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Speaker 1: where we know we’ve seen so many special things over

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Speaker 1: the decades. The things that are going to happen moving

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Speaker 1: forward is what I’m excited about. I can still see

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Speaker 1: the podium being wheeled out January of twenty twenty, twenty

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Speaker 1: nineteen season AFC Championship Kansas City Chiefs. As I mentioned

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Speaker 1: the team that Lamar Hunt found, it has just one

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Speaker 1: Lamar Hunts Trophy on the stadium. That was Lamar Hunt’s

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Speaker 1: dream and those moments. That moment I think is just

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Speaker 1: the door flying open for many more like it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it sure is. And we’re going to see that over

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Speaker 1: the next twelve years hopefully, And I can’t wait. Lamar

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Speaker 1: Hunts dream continues on heading into a sixth decade and

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Speaker 1: new dreams will be made. The stadium has never been better,

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Speaker 1: and we can’t wait for you to see it all.

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Speaker 1: It’s the new Geha Yield at Arrowheads Stadium. He’s Matt McMullen,

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Speaker 1: I’m Mitch Holtis are Defending the Kingdom. Podcast brought to

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Speaker 1: indeed see you at g E h A Field at

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Speaker 1: Arrowheads Stadium. Touchdown DWN and the celebration begins in their

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