State of the Kingdom | Defending The Kingdom 11/24

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Speaker 1: Thank you vantage on the day. Ah, will you get

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Speaker 1: opportunity every day they can play? Oh by Michael, don’t

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Speaker 1: do one touchdown Kansas City. The Chiefs all right in

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Speaker 1: the thick of a baby, everybody, and welcome to another

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Speaker 1: edition of Defending the Kingdom. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Rich

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Speaker 1: Alters with you the Voice of the Chiefs, along with

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Speaker 1: Chiefs reporter Matt McMullan and mister Mattstad himself. Okay, this episode,

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Speaker 1: by the way, is brought to you by three sixty Vodka,

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Speaker 1: the official vodka of the Chiefs Kingdom in Kansas City’s

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Speaker 1: hometown vodka, you know, perfect for the holidays. So three

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Speaker 1: sixty Vodka thanks to them. This episode will be called

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Speaker 1: the State of the Kingdom during the bye week, which

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Speaker 1: just happens to be during this Thanksgiving weekend. It’s a

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Speaker 1: chance for the Chiefs Kingdom bus or train just to

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Speaker 1: stop for a second pull off on a roadside park

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Speaker 1: and go, what do we have here? We’ll talk about

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Speaker 1: this twenty twenty one Chiefs team and this remarkable rise

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Speaker 1: over the past four weeks. Then we’ll kind of take

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Speaker 1: a look ahead, not just to this season, but really

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Speaker 1: from a Google Earth view of the Chiefs Kingdom, and

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Speaker 1: we’re why it’s so exciting on the road ahead. But Matt,

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Speaker 1: before we do again, greetings around the world, because we

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Speaker 1: know week by week by week we hear from you

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Speaker 1: around the world that you enjoy defending the Kingdom YEP.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of good ones this time. So are

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Speaker 1: you comfortable this is going to take a while, go

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Speaker 1: for it? Okay, okay, well good, We’ll start on the

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Speaker 1: global perspective. We have Miles in Ontario, Canada. He emailed me.

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Speaker 1: Actually he’s been a fan since the nineteen seventies growing

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Speaker 1: up in Canada. It’s so pretty cool. Miles repping dtk

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Speaker 1: up in Ontario. We have Chester in Guam, Stuart in

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Speaker 1: Zimbabwe via Jackson County. So we have what South West Africa,

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Speaker 1: Southeast Africa covered now Gary and Florencia, Colombia, a fan

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Speaker 1: in Yokohama, Japan, and then Susan and Costa Rica. Then

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Speaker 1: lots of fans just around the country. So Matt in

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Speaker 1: Larry in Bakerton, Pennsylvania, so Brett Beach will like this.

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Speaker 1: Lots of Pennsylvania fans Ryan in Ormond Beach, Florida, Ryan

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Speaker 1: in Northwest Kansas, Charles and Crayton, Missouri, a fan of Mississippi,

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Speaker 1: a fan in Arizona, a fan in Saint George, Utah.

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Speaker 1: And the happiest man on the planet Jeremy in Carrollton,

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Speaker 1: Texas in the DFW area, who was saying on our

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Speaker 1: last episode, how it’s difficult time of year being in

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Speaker 1: a cowboys country being a Chiefs fan. I bet he

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Speaker 1: is pretty happy this week. The only thing that would

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Speaker 1: dissipate his enthusiasm is the cost of fuel because he

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Speaker 1: is just driving around the Metroplex with his Chiefs flags

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Speaker 1: flying and just like at a stoplight like how we’re doing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he doesn’t care though, Yeah, he’ll fill up over and

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Speaker 1: over again. And if he looks, it’s just the it’s

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Speaker 1: the look we had, or we saw when the elevators opened.

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Speaker 1: We were doing Chiefs free wine down at the Locker

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Speaker 1: Room Club, and the look on the chairman and CEO

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Speaker 1: it was priceless. Yeah, Like it was just such a

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Speaker 1: proud guy that his team won back the Preston Road Trophy.

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Speaker 1: It was that was just that was something to a

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Speaker 1: relish on that day. Well, we’re shooting rewind and I

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Speaker 1: saw the Hunt family and the Jones family. I’m like, hey, Mitch,

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Speaker 1: look over at this. And we talked about it in

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Speaker 1: previous episodes like that, that’s a big deal. And this

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Speaker 1: is a very big deal Chiefs and Cowboys. And it’s

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Speaker 1: not a division rivalry, it’s not even an AFC rivalry.

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Speaker 1: But it’s a big deal when it comes to the

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Speaker 1: Hunts and the Jones playing one another. And that was

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Speaker 1: a big one for Clark. I’m glad he got it.

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Speaker 1: Clark’s proud of all of his kids. You know, we

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Speaker 1: know Grace miss Kansas USA, Nobles on the SMU soccer team,

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Speaker 1: avas doing great things. But wow, that looky head on

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Speaker 1: Kingdom beating the Dallas Cowboys nineteen to nine. But the

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Speaker 1: state of the Kingdom, and again, I just love hearing

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Speaker 1: from all of you from around the globe and how

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs Kingdom is growing. We’re gonna get into that

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Speaker 1: in this second half of this show. But the state

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Speaker 1: of the Kingdom as it is right now, the seven

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Speaker 1: and four. Kansas City Chiefs get a bye week. It

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Speaker 1: will deserved bye week. This has not been an easy

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Speaker 1: eleven weeks. These have been a lot of high leverage games.

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Speaker 1: These last three games, all of them have felt like

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Speaker 1: start winning games in consecutive order. And this bye week’s

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Speaker 1: coming at the perfect time. And we saw when we

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Speaker 1: late November, and we’re like, that’s perfect. Hopefully we’re hitting

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Speaker 1: and then we have all these divisional games after the

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Speaker 1: bye week. Well, season didn’t start the way we expected,

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Speaker 1: but you start three and four, all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: you rattle off four straight. It was no loss November.

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Speaker 1: Chiefs did not lose in November. They’re really hitting their

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs Kingdom, but almost everybody else in the AFC

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Speaker 1: losing in November. And we’ll see what happens this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Is the Chiefs will just back up and watch everybody

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Speaker 1: kind of duke it out. That’s always one of the

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Speaker 1: fun things. A bye week is like, you know, we’re

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Speaker 1: gonna take a breath, you guys, just fight this out

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Speaker 1: and then see what happens to start December, especially off

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Speaker 1: a win too. Like a loss into a bye week

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Speaker 1: is the worst, but winning four straight games into a

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Speaker 1: bye it’s pretty nice. Absolutely. And course we’re getting used

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Speaker 1: a buy it’s becoming a little bit of a habit here. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let’s talk defense first, because this Chief’s defense has completely

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Speaker 1: rewritten the narrative in a month. And what they’ve been

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Speaker 1: able to do when you look at and you and

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Speaker 1: your point was a great one that you put out

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Speaker 1: on social the fact that they’re limiting teams to less

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Speaker 1: than seventeen points, a game, like nobody else in the

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Speaker 1: league is doing that. Yeah, and I’m not sure they’re

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Speaker 1: getting enough attention there. Plus people want to say, well,

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Speaker 1: then oh, guys, Ceedee Lamb got hurt in the in

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Speaker 1: the Dallas game. And then gosh, the Raiders have gone

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Speaker 1: through so much. Who whoa WHOA. I always tell people

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Speaker 1: when they say that, go back and look at the

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Speaker 1: Friday and Saturday articles and check those out and go this,

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Speaker 1: you weren’t saying that. Then. The other thing is the

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Speaker 1: run defense, which is now overall and average yards given up,

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Speaker 1: our total yards given up on the ground. The Chiefs

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Speaker 1: are now in the middle of the National Football League.

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Speaker 1: And this has been done in a month where they

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Speaker 1: have faced in the last three games these six running

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Speaker 1: backs Ezekiel Elliott, Tony Pollard. They have faced Josh Jacobs

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Speaker 1: and Kenyan Drake. They have faced Aaron Jones, and they

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Speaker 1: faced aj Dillon and they’ve stopped them all. Yeah, Like,

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Speaker 1: I’ve just not heard that discussion much around the National

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Speaker 1: Football League. None of those guys had a big game

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Speaker 1: against the Chiefs. None of them, and most of those

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Speaker 1: guys are dynamic players who can catch the ball out

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Speaker 1: of the backfield too, and nobody had a game against

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Over our last four games, we’re allowing eleven

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Speaker 1: point eight points per game, second best rate in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: It’s crazy and I don’t care who you’re playing or

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Speaker 1: who they’re missing. That’s hard in the NFL consistently to

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Speaker 1: do that. The defense has been a huge reason why

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Speaker 1: this team has won four games in a row. They’ve

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Speaker 1: been fantastic and we have to look at this and

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Speaker 1: not think about what the early part of the season

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Speaker 1: looked like, because yeah, there were struggles there, but there

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Speaker 1: was growth as well. We saw it in the second

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Speaker 1: half of some games. The Tennessee game, for example, they

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Speaker 1: talk about we’ve got to find ways to build on that.

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Speaker 1: You don’t necessarily want to hear that in the moment,

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Speaker 1: but the guys built on it, and it shows the

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Speaker 1: resiliency of this team, like the defense could have packed

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Speaker 1: it in earlier this season. Hey, things aren’t going well

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Speaker 1: the way we expected maybe we’re not very good, but

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Speaker 1: they didn’t listen to any of that. They said, hey,

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Speaker 1: we know that we can be good. We’ve done this before.

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Speaker 1: We know we’re good football players. We know we believe

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Speaker 1: in this scheme, and look what’s happening right now. And sure, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Amara Cooper didn’t play for the Cowboys, but that Cowboys

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Speaker 1: offense is the number one scoring offense in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: And I’m pretty sure Amara Cooper isn’t the only reason

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Speaker 1: for the number one scoring offense in the NFL. If

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Speaker 1: not very good. So I know this Cowboys offense is

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Speaker 1: good without Amari Cooper. They on six of their twelve possessions,

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Speaker 1: they were held without a first down. For some context,

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Speaker 1: they only have thirteen three and outs coming into that game.

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Speaker 1: Now they have nineteen. I mean, the Chiefs defense was fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Doesn’t matter who wasn’t playing, you have to look at

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Speaker 1: who was playing, and the Chiefs dominated all four of

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Speaker 1: these games defensively. The past rush is heating up thirty

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Speaker 1: eight percent pressure rate on Dak Prescott last week. We’ve

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Speaker 1: seen the pass rush heating up over the last several weeks,

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Speaker 1: Guys like Chris Jones, Oh my god, what can you

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Speaker 1: say about Chris Jones. Frank Clark’s been playing some of

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Speaker 1: the best football of his career lately, Mike Dana, Jaron Reid,

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Speaker 1: different guys getting after the passer. The linebackers are playing

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Speaker 1: well in the secondary. We can have an entire DDK

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Speaker 1: Trevarious Ward and Lagarius Sneed are making plays. This whole

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Speaker 1: defense is cooking at the perfect time right now. And

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Speaker 1: like I said, you enter the buy now feeling really

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Speaker 1: good defensively, and now you start playing these divisional games

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Speaker 1: teams that you know, and this defense is getting very excited.

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Speaker 1: I think, yeah, And you look at Chris Jones’s line.

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Speaker 1: I’m not going to pass this up. Chris Jones’s line

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Speaker 1: against the Dallas Cowboys for a defensive lineman. I said

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Speaker 1: on Twitter, it’s like a triple double for Steph Curry.

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Speaker 1: And then somebody goes really like a quadruple double. It’s like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it’s a quad double. But when you look at five tackles,

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Speaker 1: three and a half sacks, maybe really four. In reality,

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Speaker 1: you look at eight pressures, three quarterback hits, a force fumble,

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Speaker 1: and a fumble recovery. You’ll go twenty years and now

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Speaker 1: see that in a line for a defensive lineman. I’m

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Speaker 1: just not gonna let it pass. It’s something you may

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Speaker 1: not see in a generation. This is It was the

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Speaker 1: lad Derrek Thomas, it was Buck Buchanan. You see Aaron

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Speaker 1: over the last few weeks. It doesn’t matter how he started.

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Speaker 1: What matters is how you finish. And then Chi’s right now,

413
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Speaker 1: are eyeing a pretty exciting finish here in passing Patrick Mahomes, guy,

414
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Speaker 1: she’s having a day on year? Is he he’s got?

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00:19:14,280 –> 00:19:16,720
Speaker 1: I mean he’s got twenty five touchdown passes. Only Tom

416
00:19:16,720 –> 00:19:20,840
Speaker 1: Brady has more by two I think. And the interception, okay,

417
00:19:20,960 –> 00:19:22,840
Speaker 1: wasn’t on him the other day? Really that’s eleven he

418
00:19:22,880 –> 00:19:25,959
Speaker 1: says it was on him, is behind him, But come on, Kels.

419
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Speaker 1: I think Keils would see I should have had that one.

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Speaker 1: But the point is, is he really off here? Now?

421
00:19:30,560 –> 00:19:33,520
Speaker 1: Completion percentage is down, He’s twentieth in the league. But

422
00:19:33,560 –> 00:19:37,440
Speaker 1: if you look at volume in passing yards, completions, touchdowns,

423
00:19:37,480 –> 00:19:42,440
Speaker 1: touchdown interception ratio. He’s right there, He’s still right there. Yeah,

424
00:19:42,480 –> 00:19:44,359
Speaker 1: he leads the league in passing yards right now, he

425
00:19:44,440 –> 00:19:47,160
Speaker 1: leads the NFL and completions. I mean he can. He’s fine.

426
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Speaker 1: The turnovers are not like egregious, like you’re not thinking

427
00:19:50,800 –> 00:19:52,960
Speaker 1: like wow, what was he thinking there? Yeah, it’s it’s

428
00:19:53,000 –> 00:19:54,480
Speaker 1: things that are just going to happen when you’re playing

429
00:19:54,480 –> 00:19:56,159
Speaker 1: a football game. He said a few of those, but

430
00:19:56,280 –> 00:19:58,520
Speaker 1: not in this four game winning stream. No, No, I

431
00:19:58,520 –> 00:20:00,680
Speaker 1: mean it’s and for the most part season like, it’s

432
00:20:00,680 –> 00:20:02,840
Speaker 1: been balls that have bounced off Guy’s hands. And again,

433
00:20:02,840 –> 00:20:04,920
Speaker 1: that’s going to happen sometimes. And the reason he’s such

434
00:20:04,920 –> 00:20:07,119
Speaker 1: a great leader is he takes responsibility for it. He

435
00:20:07,119 –> 00:20:09,520
Speaker 1: doesn’t point any fingers or blame anyone. He just wears it.

436
00:20:09,800 –> 00:20:13,360
Speaker 1: But he knows if I keep firing, we’re gonna be okay.

437
00:20:13,400 –> 00:20:15,919
Speaker 1: And that’s the most important thing I think throughout the

438
00:20:16,160 –> 00:20:18,520
Speaker 1: early struggles this year is that the team didn’t lose

439
00:20:18,520 –> 00:20:21,359
Speaker 1: their confidence or their belief in one another. That’s what

440
00:20:21,400 –> 00:20:23,360
Speaker 1: you worry about when teams struggle, and that you see

441
00:20:23,400 –> 00:20:26,520
Speaker 1: that most of the time in team sports, when teams struggle,

442
00:20:26,680 –> 00:20:29,160
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, fingers get pointed and they struggle

443
00:20:29,240 –> 00:20:31,600
Speaker 1: more and the season falls apart. Right, Well, that did

444
00:20:31,640 –> 00:20:33,679
Speaker 1: not happen with the Chiefs. They believed in one another,

445
00:20:33,960 –> 00:20:36,399
Speaker 1: They fought for one another, and they knew if they

446
00:20:36,440 –> 00:20:39,359
Speaker 1: just kept together, they would figure it out. And they have.

447
00:20:40,160 –> 00:20:45,359
Speaker 1: Enter Andy Reid. That’s the tag on that thought, because

448
00:20:45,359 –> 00:20:47,480
Speaker 1: he’s done it time and time again, and he’s done

449
00:20:47,480 –> 00:20:50,680
Speaker 1: it five times in the nine years he’s been here

450
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Speaker 1: as head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs. One other

451
00:20:52,760 –> 00:20:55,480
Speaker 1: note here before we get an interview with Clark, and

452
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Speaker 1: that is, okay, look at the running backs then, well

453
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Speaker 1: I was if you put Clyde Edwards Hilaire and made

454
00:21:02,960 –> 00:21:06,560
Speaker 1: him one person with Daryl Williams, they would be fifth

455
00:21:06,600 –> 00:21:08,679
Speaker 1: right now on the National Football League and running the

456
00:21:08,680 –> 00:21:11,600
Speaker 1: ball like what’s wrong? The fact that the Chiefs tag

457
00:21:11,640 –> 00:21:17,080
Speaker 1: team and now you’ve got Clyde back makes this team

458
00:21:17,320 –> 00:21:19,720
Speaker 1: even more dangerous in running the ball in these next

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Speaker 1: six weeks. That’s one of those stats that you hear

460
00:21:22,240 –> 00:21:25,040
Speaker 1: and you’re just like, oh, didn’t realize that, you know,

461
00:21:25,119 –> 00:21:29,000
Speaker 1: because if all you do is listen to national narratives

462
00:21:29,080 –> 00:21:32,680
Speaker 1: that for whatever reason don’t really want to believe in

463
00:21:32,720 –> 00:21:35,000
Speaker 1: the Chiefs anymore. You’re not going to hear those kinds

464
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Speaker 1: of things. But once again, the beauty of this team

465
00:21:37,280 –> 00:21:38,920
Speaker 1: as they find a way, and they’ve found a way.

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Speaker 1: They kept together through a rough stretch to open the year,

467
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Speaker 1: and they’ve found their groove. I mean, going four now

468
00:21:45,119 –> 00:21:48,040
Speaker 1: in the month of November and now to attack this

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Speaker 1: post buy slate with four divisional games and their final

470
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Speaker 1: six matchups while being in first place in the AFC West,

471
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Speaker 1: already heading into du buy. Worst case, no matter what

472
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Speaker 1: the Chargers do, they will not be any better than

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. The Chargers win, they’ll be seven and four,

474
00:22:02,160 –> 00:22:04,399
Speaker 1: matching the Chiefs and we still play them in just

475
00:22:04,440 –> 00:22:06,800
Speaker 1: a few weeks. So just a very exciting time right

476
00:22:06,840 –> 00:22:08,520
Speaker 1: now to be a Chiefs fan. And again goes back

477
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Speaker 1: to what I said this week. With the bye week,

478
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Speaker 1: you watch everybody slug it out, like to let me

479
00:22:12,560 –> 00:22:14,639
Speaker 1: know when the smoke cleares what we got. So the

480
00:22:14,720 –> 00:22:17,120
Speaker 1: Chiefs are the last basically to get their bye week

481
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Speaker 1: in the division. And you know, talking about Jonathan Taylor,

482
00:22:21,320 –> 00:22:23,920
Speaker 1: great job, man, he’s just killing it. But the Chiefs

483
00:22:23,960 –> 00:22:25,960
Speaker 1: just don’t do it that way. But if you put

484
00:22:26,000 –> 00:22:28,040
Speaker 1: the sum of the parts together, you’re going, oh gosh,

485
00:22:28,080 –> 00:22:30,560
Speaker 1: they’re right there in the top five. Okay, that being said,

486
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Speaker 1: you did have a chance. We’re talking about chairman and

487
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Speaker 1: CEO Clark Hunt. You had a chance to get him

488
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Speaker 1: as he was pulling off the exit and taking a exhale,

489
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Speaker 1: if you will, with the bye week, and he’s excited

490
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Speaker 1: as we are about this team. Yeah, this is our

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Speaker 1: State of the Kingdom episode, right So who better to

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Speaker 1: talk about the State of the Kingdom with than our

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Speaker 1: chairman and CEO, Clark Hunt. I unfortunately caught up with

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Speaker 1: him before the Cowboys game. That’s when we had the availability.

495
00:22:52,800 –> 00:22:54,800
Speaker 1: Otherwise I would have asked him all about the Cowboys game.

496
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Speaker 1: But we got him after the Raiders victory, still very

497
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Speaker 1: excited about that one obviously, and got his thoughts in

498
00:23:00,840 –> 00:23:02,399
Speaker 1: the state of the Kingdom and what this team can

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Speaker 1: accomplish moving forward this year. All right, we are joined

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Speaker 1: now by the chairman and CEO of the Kansas City Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: Clark Hunt. And Clark this is our State of the

502
00:23:10,520 –> 00:23:12,800
Speaker 1: Franchise episode, so you’re the perfect guy to talk to

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Speaker 1: you about this. Just your thoughts in the state of

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00:23:14,640 –> 00:23:17,560
Speaker 1: the franchise right now? Heading into the bye week. Well,

505
00:23:17,600 –> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 1: it’s been great to see the team rally here over

506
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Speaker 1: the last several weeks. We obviously got off to a

507
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Speaker 1: slow start. The offense was in a little bit of

508
00:23:27,640 –> 00:23:31,760
Speaker 1: a funk, and it’s great to see the offense playing better,

509
00:23:31,800 –> 00:23:35,480
Speaker 1: but probably as important as the improvement on the defensive

510
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Speaker 1: side of the ball. The first five weeks we’re really

511
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Speaker 1: challenging and it’s great to see the defense getting better

512
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Speaker 1: every week. Yeah, Well, I want to ask you about

513
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Speaker 1: the resiliency this team is shown as a whole. We’re

514
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Speaker 1: getting used to a lot of winning here in Kansas

515
00:23:47,760 –> 00:23:50,400
Speaker 1: City with coachried and Patrick Mahomes, but not every season

516
00:23:50,480 –> 00:23:53,240
Speaker 1: is going to be fourteen and two. You start undefeated,

517
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Speaker 1: you know, it’s an easy season all year long. You’re

518
00:23:54,960 –> 00:23:57,960
Speaker 1: gonna have battles in the NFL. What’s impressed you about

519
00:23:57,960 –> 00:23:59,760
Speaker 1: the resiliency of this team over the course of the

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00:23:59,760 –> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 1: season and so far. Well, you’re exactly right. Every NFL

521
00:24:03,920 –> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 1: season is different. Every team in the league is capable

522
00:24:07,119 –> 00:24:12,040
Speaker 1: of winning any given week. You can’t take your opponents

523
00:24:12,280 –> 00:24:15,720
Speaker 1: for granted, and h you know, the narrative of each

524
00:24:15,760 –> 00:24:18,960
Speaker 1: season is very, very different, and I think one of

525
00:24:19,000 –> 00:24:22,000
Speaker 1: the hallmarks of the team this year is the resiliency.

526
00:24:22,440 –> 00:24:24,280
Speaker 1: It would have been easy for the team to get

527
00:24:24,320 –> 00:24:27,920
Speaker 1: down when they weren’t playing as as well as they

528
00:24:27,920 –> 00:24:31,400
Speaker 1: have been in recent weeks, but they’ve found a way

529
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Speaker 1: to keep working, stay focused that they know it’s a

530
00:24:35,200 –> 00:24:39,119
Speaker 1: long season. You know, week to week, if you have

531
00:24:39,119 –> 00:24:41,080
Speaker 1: a loss, it can be very disappointing, but it’s still

532
00:24:41,160 –> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 1: long season and our goals are still in front of us. Yeah,

533
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Speaker 1: it’s a testament to the leadership on this team. I

534
00:24:46,359 –> 00:24:49,199
Speaker 1: think leaders like guys like Tyrone Matthew, Chris Jones and

535
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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. And Patrick’s the guy want to ask you

536
00:24:51,040 –> 00:24:53,320
Speaker 1: about here because he’s kind of a microcosm of that

537
00:24:53,480 –> 00:24:56,200
Speaker 1: resiliency because we all know what Patrick can do right

538
00:24:56,359 –> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 1: former League MVP, super Bowl and VP. It seems like

539
00:24:58,560 –> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 1: every single record through a player’s first however many games

540
00:25:01,960 –> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 1: he has that record so far. He’s had a bit

541
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Speaker 1: of an up and down year so far, and by

542
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Speaker 1: his standards, I mean, by most player standards, he’s still

543
00:25:08,720 –> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 1: been tremendous, but by his standards, it has been a

544
00:25:11,040 –> 00:25:13,080
Speaker 1: bit of a roller coaster at times. What’s impressed you

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Speaker 1: about his resiliency though, to fight through maybe a game

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Speaker 1: or two that he’d like to have back, to have

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00:25:16,960 –> 00:25:20,520
Speaker 1: a game like he had against the Raiders for example. Yeah, well,

548
00:25:20,520 –> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 1: as you allude to, he’s certainly had an up and

549
00:25:22,760 –> 00:25:27,399
Speaker 1: down season by his standards, and it’s a testament to

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00:25:27,480 –> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 1: his work ethic and I think also his mentality to

551
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Speaker 1: see him playing better. I’ve got to give us some

552
00:25:33,480 –> 00:25:36,800
Speaker 1: credit to to coach Read in the offensive staff, and

553
00:25:36,960 –> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 1: he’s been around the game of football a very long time.

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Speaker 1: He’s helped quarterbacks he’s had in the past, you know,

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00:25:42,400 –> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 1: worked through difficult periods, and I think that was really

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Speaker 1: key in keeping Patrick focused and allowing him to make

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00:25:51,200 –> 00:25:54,800
Speaker 1: the improvement that we’ve seen. So, you know, compliment to

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Speaker 1: all the leaders on the football team, because that’s what

559
00:25:56,880 –> 00:25:59,359
Speaker 1: you’ve got to have with both on the coaching side

560
00:25:59,440 –> 00:26:03,120
Speaker 1: and also the players themselves. You know, they’ve really helped

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Speaker 1: keep the team together and help make the improvement that

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00:26:06,280 –> 00:26:08,480
Speaker 1: we’ve seen. Yeah, well, that improvement has got us right

563
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the divisional race. The AFC has

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Speaker 1: wide open. The AFC West is certainly wide open. Trying

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00:26:13,000 –> 00:26:15,359
Speaker 1: to secure a sixth consecutive division title would be the

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Speaker 1: first time that has ever happened in the AFC West,

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Speaker 1: and the Chiefs have a great shot at doing that

568
00:26:19,160 –> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 1: here over the last several weeks against all these divisional opponents.

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Speaker 1: Last question for you, just looking at the latter half

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Speaker 1: of the season, now, what do you believe we can

571
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Speaker 1: achieve this year? Well, you mentioned the AFC West, and

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Speaker 1: you know, when we were struggling early on, one of

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Speaker 1: the amazing things was how close we were to still

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Speaker 1: being in first place. We were. We were in last

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Speaker 1: place for quite a few weeks, but we weren’t that

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Speaker 1: far out of first place. And I think that’s the

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Speaker 1: way the division’s going to go the rest of the year.

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Speaker 1: We have a lot of division games over the last

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Speaker 1: six or so weeks of the season, and those are

580
00:26:55,680 –> 00:27:01,240
Speaker 1: incredibly important. The NFL’s schedules every team to play against

581
00:27:01,240 –> 00:27:02,959
Speaker 1: their division opponents late in the year, and I think

582
00:27:03,000 –> 00:27:06,200
Speaker 1: it’s one of the most attractive things about the scheduling overall,

583
00:27:06,520 –> 00:27:09,120
Speaker 1: and we’re going to have that opportunity. So I think,

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00:27:09,640 –> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 1: you know, winning the division is very much in reach.

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00:27:12,760 –> 00:27:15,440
Speaker 1: We’ll have to play well and get better each week,

586
00:27:16,480 –> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 1: and then once we’re in the playoffs, I think we’ve

587
00:27:19,560 –> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 1: seen what this team can do, and certainly the goal

588
00:27:21,920 –> 00:27:23,359
Speaker 1: is to get back to the Super Bowl. Yeah, well,

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00:27:23,359 –> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 1: I think we have as good a shot as anybody. Clark.

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00:27:26,119 –> 00:27:27,679
Speaker 1: I think I speak for all of Chief Kingdom here

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00:27:27,720 –> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 1: when we appreciate everything that you’ve done for this franchise

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00:27:30,000 –> 00:27:31,399
Speaker 1: to make it what it is today and something that

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00:27:31,400 –> 00:27:33,119
Speaker 1: we’re all very pride of. So thank you for that,

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Speaker 1: and thanks for your time here today. Absolutely great to

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00:27:35,600 –> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 1: be on with you all. Right. Awesome stuff there from

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00:27:39,680 –> 00:27:42,120
Speaker 1: Clark Hunt. I meant what I said there. I mean

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00:27:42,160 –> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 1: as a lifelong Chiefs fan. And you can see other

598
00:27:44,840 –> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 1: ownership groups around the league and see how other teams operate.

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00:27:48,320 –> 00:27:50,360
Speaker 1: It just makes me feel very fortunate that we have

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Speaker 1: the ownership and the leadership that we do because the

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00:27:52,960 –> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 1: success that we’ve been having over the last ten years

602
00:27:56,080 –> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 1: here in Kansas City is a direct result of his

603
00:27:58,400 –> 00:28:01,639
Speaker 1: desire to win, his desire to bring the city a winner,

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00:28:02,160 –> 00:28:03,919
Speaker 1: and we just see it each and every year, and

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00:28:03,960 –> 00:28:06,159
Speaker 1: that resolve that we’ve talked about throughout this episode, it

606
00:28:06,240 –> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 1: starts with him. Amen and Amen. It’s Thanksgiving weekend, and

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00:28:09,920 –> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 1: we give thanks for the Hunt family in being the

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00:28:13,400 –> 00:28:18,679
Speaker 1: leadership family and owners of this franchise. Okay, I know

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00:28:18,720 –> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 1: you want Travis Kelsey helping you during the holidays and

610
00:28:22,320 –> 00:28:25,359
Speaker 1: even beyond do your laundry. You have that chance. What

611
00:28:25,440 –> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 1: a pivot. I kid you not, I just kid you not.

612
00:28:27,720 –> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 1: Here we go. Chief’s Kingdom is turning the cold water

613
00:28:30,560 –> 00:28:33,679
Speaker 1: washing with Tide, okay, and we’re calling on you to

614
00:28:33,720 –> 00:28:36,880
Speaker 1: do the same. You’ll save money on energy bills. It’s

615
00:28:36,920 –> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: tough enough to tackle NFL stains, so if you can

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Speaker 1: handle a little nacho cheese or whatever you get on

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Speaker 1: the ultimate reason to turn to cold. A talking Chief’s

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Speaker 1: cold washer. This washer talks to you, Okay, but it’s

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Speaker 1: not only talking to you, it’s a reminds you to

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Speaker 1: turn a cold at every turn with the voice of

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Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey. It’s Kels talking to you, the voice of

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Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey. Ready for this. Take it from me. Cold

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Speaker 1: can tackle all your stains amazing every single time. It’s great.

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Speaker 1: The Chief’s cold water wash could be yours and Kelsey

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Speaker 1: doing your laundry. Just take the pledge. Just take the

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Speaker 1: pledge to turn to cold and enter for a chance

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Speaker 1: to win at Tide dot com. Okay, we’re going to

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Speaker 1: take since this is the state of the Kingdom. We’re

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Speaker 1: going to take the next couple of minutes to kind

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Speaker 1: of look ahead here at the near future. But then

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Speaker 1: I want to take a little bit of a Google

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Speaker 1: Earth view because there’s a couple of initiatives that are

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Speaker 1: very exciting that’s going to include all of you, including

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Speaker 1: all of you that are watching us, listening to us

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Speaker 1: around the globe. But let’s talk about the next six weeks.

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Speaker 1: It’ll course start with that Broncos game. But this is

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Speaker 1: the NFL schedule. They’ve done this now. They love to

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00:29:52,280 –> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 1: backload these division games, not just the AFC West, but

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Speaker 1: almost all of the other divisions are backloaded to make

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Speaker 1: December a big deal. And it’ll be a big deal

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Speaker 1: here in a big deal because we’ve fought back to

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Speaker 1: this point. Right, So we’re seven and four we currently

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Speaker 1: have as of this shooting, we have a one game

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Speaker 1: lead in the AFC West. The Chargers have played one

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Speaker 1: less game than we have, so if they win, they

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Speaker 1: will be seven and four as well, and that just

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Speaker 1: makes for an awesome ending to the season here because

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs will play the Broncos at home out of

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Speaker 1: the bye, then the Raiders here at home, then go

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Speaker 1: on the road on Thursday Night Football and play the

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Speaker 1: Chargers and what could be the game of the season.

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Speaker 1: Then two quick games against the AFC North and the

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Speaker 1: Steelers and the Bengals, then wrap up the season on

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Speaker 1: January ninth, which is so strange to say a regular

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Speaker 1: season game on January ninth in Denver. So all these

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00:30:41,080 –> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 1: divisional games a lot of good news though here for

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs if you’re looking at historical context about how

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Speaker 1: this month could go for the Chiefs. So we all

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Speaker 1: know that coach Reid is the best in the business

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Speaker 1: after a bye. I mean, we’ve talked about the stat

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Speaker 1: since he got here, and all he does is keep

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Speaker 1: adding to this stats. It’s worth mentioning he is nineteen

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Speaker 1: and three following a bye in his career includes a

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Speaker 1: six and two mark with the Chiefs. So while we’re

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Speaker 1: all relaxing and hanging out over Thanksgiving, I’m pretty sure

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Speaker 1: he will be watching film getting ready for the prone.

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Speaker 1: He’s gonna cook turkey though, he’s gonna tell me he’s

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Speaker 1: gonna cook turkey this year in his office. I’m sure. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: maybe he’s gonna do a little bit at home. The

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00:31:14,200 –> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 1: second year he’s gonna do it. He said last year

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00:31:15,960 –> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 1: wasn’t too good. We’re gonna give it another shot. I

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Speaker 1: believe he can do it. Yeah, he’ll take Thanksgiving. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: at least the afternoon. Yeah afternoon. So the Chiefs in

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Speaker 1: December under coach Read since twenty thirteen are twenty seven

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Speaker 1: and nine. Twenty seven and nine. That’s the most victories

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Speaker 1: in the month of December in the NFL. This is

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Speaker 1: when every team is supposed to be hitting their stride,

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00:31:38,440 –> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 1: playing their best football, and the Chiefs consistently, even when

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Speaker 1: he first got here, are playing their best football in

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Speaker 1: December and against the division. Since twenty thirteen, the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: are sixteen and three in the month of December against

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Speaker 1: the AFC West. So, you know, we haven’t done it yet.

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Speaker 1: We’ve done these things in the past. We got to

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Speaker 1: do it this year. But if you’re looking at historical context,

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Speaker 1: makes you feel very good. Winning four straight games going

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Speaker 1: into the bye and then getting ready for the stretch

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Speaker 1: here once again. Yeah, that’s what the Chiefs did in

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Speaker 1: the past. They haven’t done that yet this season, but

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Speaker 1: if they can do it all of a sudden, the

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Speaker 1: story of the season is going to be a pretty

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Speaker 1: exciting one, and I love it. I shouldn’t say this

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Speaker 1: because it’s you’re gonna be behind enemy lines during the

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Speaker 1: bye week because you’ll be in Broncho country visiting your

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Speaker 1: in laws. So scouting the bronchos. Oh yeah, Matt stat

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Speaker 1: I’m telling you, MATTHI spy. Yeah, I just don’t get caught. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it’s not good for spies or get caught. I bring

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Speaker 1: my flag everywhere and take the pill. Yeah. So here

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Speaker 1: we go. We’re going to close this thing out again,

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Speaker 1: wishing you all a great Thanksgiving weekend. But there are

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Speaker 1: a couple of initiatives that I want to bring up

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Speaker 1: as we do take a thirty thousand foot view of

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs Kingdom in a global view. And the first one,

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Speaker 1: we’re wearing our salute if you’re if you’re listening to

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00:32:54,560 –> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 1: not watching, We’re wearing our salute to service gear for

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Speaker 1: one more week. But there are some cool things planned

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Speaker 1: in the military realm worldwide. And we’ve got to get

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Speaker 1: props here. Rob Alberin or a vice president, we’ve got

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Speaker 1: him back. He was here before he was with the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers, and then we’ve got him back here.

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Speaker 1: But this he has such an expertise in this area.

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Speaker 1: These we’ve been dealing with focus groups. We’ve said this before,

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Speaker 1: but some of the most impactful military and installations in

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Speaker 1: the world in the world are within two hours of

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Speaker 1: where we’re doing this podcast. That being said, there is

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Speaker 1: a reach across the world to our allies and to

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Speaker 1: our service women and men who are around the world.

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Speaker 1: But there’s something really cool that’s about ready to come

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Speaker 1: down in that realm, and I love the fact that

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs are taking the lead. Yeah, there’s some cool

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Speaker 1: stuff and the works, and it’s important because we think

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Speaker 1: about how important the Chiefs are to us, how important

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Speaker 1: football is, and think about Thanksgiving. We’re gonna sit down

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Speaker 1: with our families and watch football, right and be thinking

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Speaker 1: about how excited we are to watch the Chiefs in

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00:34:03,720 –> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: just a few weeks. But if it wasn’t for those

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Speaker 1: that protect our freedoms and put their lives in the

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Speaker 1: line and make the ultimate sacrifice for people that they’ve

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Speaker 1: never met, we wouldn’t get a chance to do that.

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Speaker 1: And it’s important to always remember those that once again,

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Speaker 1: we’ll never meet most of them, but they go and

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Speaker 1: put their lives on hold, They leave their families for

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Speaker 1: six months to a year at a time, and They

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Speaker 1: put their life on the line and many of them

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Speaker 1: lose their lives making sure that we can live a

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Speaker 1: peaceful and harmonious life without conflict and war and terror.

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Speaker 1: And it’s just something that’s very important to all of us.

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Speaker 1: And if we could wear the Salute to Service stuff

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Speaker 1: every week, we would. I would, I definitely wouldn’t I

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Speaker 1: know you would too. Off at Air Force Base in Omaha,

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Speaker 1: Whiteman Air Force Base, be two, Bomber and Moore in

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Speaker 1: nob Nostrom, Missouri. McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, the

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Speaker 1: Big Red One, the Big Red One, the First Interest

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Speaker 1: Vision in Fort Riley at Fort Riley, Kansas, Command General

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Speaker 1: Staff College. The West point of West Point is it

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Speaker 1: Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. Our allies are involved there as well.

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Speaker 1: You look at Fort leonard Wood, Missouri. I’m trying to

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Speaker 1: and the Coastguard Pay Center is in Topeka, Kansas. It’s

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Speaker 1: so cool. And we’re not leaving the Navy out here either.

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Speaker 1: We’ve got a Navy reserve around here. We just don’t

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Speaker 1: have an ocean or you know, we don’t have aircraft

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Speaker 1: carriers or destroyers. But all of the branches represented in

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Speaker 1: the Chief’s Kingdom in some in a big way. Now,

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Speaker 1: the other big initiative is going to be an international initiative.

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Speaker 1: I’m telling you details are coming on this, but we

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00:35:35,280 –> 00:35:38,359
Speaker 1: read names every week. We’ve been on every continent right

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00:35:38,400 –> 00:35:41,239
Speaker 1: except Antarctica. We haven’t. Still still wait on Antartica. If

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Speaker 1: you know somebody that watches their listeners to defending the

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Speaker 1: Kingdom and Antarctica, let’s go. We want to hear from it.

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Speaker 1: We joke about it, we kind of chuckle, but we’re

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00:35:49,640 –> 00:35:54,879
Speaker 1: serious about this. The Kansas City Chiefs, their brand has

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Speaker 1: grown so has grown exponentially on a worldwide basis. You

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Speaker 1: think about the English Premier League. You know, I’m a

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Speaker 1: fan of Arsenal. Is it the color scheme red and gold? Probably?

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Speaker 1: But the point is there is a worldwide appeal to

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Speaker 1: the National Football League that is growing, really growing, and

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00:36:13,920 –> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 1: that appeal with the Kansas City Chiefs is growing even

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00:36:17,200 –> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 1: at a faster pace. We’ll just leave it at this.

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Speaker 1: Some great things are in the works potentially for the

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Speaker 1: International Chiefs Kingdom and it’s very very exciting stuff and

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Speaker 1: good and I mean it. When we read off all

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Speaker 1: the different names all over the world and the country

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Speaker 1: where you guys are listening to us. I mean, it’s

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Speaker 1: it’s truly one of the favorite parts of my week.

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00:36:40,680 –> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 1: It’s just cool, and it’s it’s cool that you guys

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00:36:43,120 –> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 1: are listening, but it’s also cool that you’re just Chiefs

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Speaker 1: fans and that you exist all over the world. And

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Speaker 1: we grew up as Chiefs fans, right and whenever I

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00:36:50,000 –> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 1: would travel abroad, if I saw a Chief’s hat or

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Speaker 1: a Chief’s jersey in Europe or wherever, South America, Africa,

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00:36:57,800 –> 00:37:00,319
Speaker 1: it’s the coolest thing. It’s like, hey, that’s a nection

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00:37:00,360 –> 00:37:02,799
Speaker 1: to home right there. And to see this growing all

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Speaker 1: over the world. And when you have a tremendous Super

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00:37:05,120 –> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: Bowl caliber team each and every year and you have

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00:37:07,120 –> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: an icon and Patrick Mahomes as your quarterback, certainly that

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Speaker 1: makes you more enticing to fans all over the world.

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Speaker 1: And it’s just a very exciting thing because if you’re

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Speaker 1: listening in the Philippines or Malaysia, or in Guam or

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Speaker 1: China or wherever you are, you’re going to raise your

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00:37:20,640 –> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 1: kids as Chiefs fans, and they’ll raise their kids as

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00:37:22,680 –> 00:37:24,720
Speaker 1: Chiefs fans, and their friends will become Chiefs fans because

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00:37:25,080 –> 00:37:26,720
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are really good and all of a sudden,

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00:37:26,719 –> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are all over the world and it’s just

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00:37:28,560 –> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 1: a very very cool, exciting time to be a member

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Speaker 1: of the Chiefs Kingdom. We’ve also discovered through this podcast

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00:37:34,480 –> 00:37:37,920
Speaker 1: that Eastern Europe is a big Chiefs Kingdom. It’s the

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00:37:37,960 –> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 1: Meca country. Yeah. But let’s just a big props here.

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Speaker 1: I’m gonna do this with Rob alberin or Vice president

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Speaker 1: for Content and creativity basically, but he has expertise in

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00:37:48,320 –> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 1: both of these areas. Getting him right back in the

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00:37:51,160 –> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 1: middle of the Chiefs Kingdom is huge in these two

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00:37:56,239 –> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 1: endeavors and he is just none better in the world

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00:37:59,400 –> 00:38:01,280
Speaker 1: really to do it. This is gonna be so exciting

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00:38:01,280 –> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 1: to see what happens. And again with Rob being the

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00:38:04,560 –> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 1: vice present for content and production and to get this

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00:38:06,640 –> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 1: title right still, this is going to be fun and

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Speaker 1: it’s going to be exciting the next year, the next

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00:38:12,800 –> 00:38:16,280
Speaker 1: five years, the next ten years for the Kansas City Chiefs,

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00:38:16,280 –> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 1: the Chiefs Kingdom worldwide, and also with military initiatives absolutely,

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00:38:21,640 –> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 1: and the next six games because this team is going

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00:38:23,960 –> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 1: to win the Super Bowl this year. You heard it

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00:38:25,560 –> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 1: here first, and we’re gonna look back at when this

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00:38:28,200 –> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 1: team started three and four and it was difficult, but

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00:38:32,440 –> 00:38:35,359
Speaker 1: Chief’s Kingdom, just like this team, stayed together and they

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00:38:35,400 –> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 1: believed in this team, and it’s so exciting to see

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00:38:38,680 –> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 1: how they’ve found a way here to get back to

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00:38:41,280 –> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 1: a top of the division, to be seven and four,

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00:38:44,080 –> 00:38:46,360
Speaker 1: feeling really good going into the bye week, and we

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Speaker 1: think about all these global endeavors that we’re going after

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Speaker 1: and how we’re trying to honor our nation’s heroes in

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Speaker 1: so many different ways. That’s a global thing, and what

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Speaker 1: ties it all together is that everyone believes in this team.

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Speaker 1: And it’s one thing to go fourteen and two and

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Speaker 1: just to be awesome all year long, and that was

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun. But for me, I really had

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Speaker 1: a chance to think about this year’s team and to

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Speaker 1: think what we can accomplish this year. If we can

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Speaker 1: go on and accomplish what we know that we can achieve,

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Speaker 1: we’re gonna look back at this season and go, wow,

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Speaker 1: that was really special. You mean, like we did in

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. Because, first of all, thanks to the folks

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Speaker 1: at three sixty Vodka, the official vodka the Kansas City Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs Kingdom in the hometown Kansas City Vodka, enjoy

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Speaker 1: it during the holidays, drink responsibly though. Let’s see, in

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, we celebrated a Super Bowl championship at the

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Speaker 1: bye week. The record was I Believe seven and four. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we were okay, here we go, folks. It’s belief, it’s resolved,

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Speaker 1: it’s being thankful, but it’s also the chiefs Kingdom worldwide

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Speaker 1: down the celebration