A Wild Season Wild Card | Defending the Kingdom 1/14

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Speaker 1: Thank you Vantage on the day. All right, when you

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Speaker 1: get optunity, you guys the game they can play. OHI, Michaels,

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Speaker 1: I’ll join one touchdown Kansas City the Chiefs. All right,

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Speaker 1: in the thick of a baby, Welcome to this playoff

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Speaker 1: edition of Are Defending the Kingdom podcast, of course, brought

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Speaker 1: to you by three sixty Vodkid, the official d get

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Speaker 1: of the Kansas City Chiefs and the Chief’s Kingdom. I

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Speaker 1: had to put everybody in the mood here. Now, I

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Speaker 1: got my virtual background since we’re you know, we’re still

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Speaker 1: in this COVID protocol, but I had to put everybody

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Speaker 1: in my Sunday night football background. For those of you

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Speaker 1: that are watching and listening, I just gotta give good

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Speaker 1: Barbershop a feeling. Matt mcmallin. By the way, Matt McMullan

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Speaker 1: joining me, Chief’s reporter and the man we call the

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Speaker 1: shop the Barbershop, the spider Man, number four, number fifty nine.

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Speaker 1: He’s got to go on on Sean Barber. All right.

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Speaker 1: First of all, quick, Matt, do you have anybody around

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Speaker 1: the world that is joining in this week on Defending

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Speaker 1: the Kingdom? How do I? I mean, this is the

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Speaker 1: best part of our show every single week, right, is

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Speaker 1: all the people all over the country, all over the

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Speaker 1: world listening to DK and as always, we have tons,

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Speaker 1: So we’ll start with the people around the world. We

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Speaker 1: have Richard in Tokyo, a fan in Honduras, Josh in

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Speaker 1: New Zealand. This is kind of cool. So the game

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Speaker 1: last week was on a Saturday, obviously, but the whole

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Speaker 1: international dateline thing. Josh was watching on a Sunday morning

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Speaker 1: live of course while eating breakfast. So we’re representing out

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Speaker 1: there in New Zealand. Then also we have a fan

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Speaker 1: in Thailand and they challenge me to say the name

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Speaker 1: of the town that they live in. It’s a mouthful,

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Speaker 1: but I’m going to give it a go. Here, knock

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Speaker 1: Conci Thumbarat, knock on Ci Thamarat. I think that’s along

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Speaker 1: the right lines of what that place is called. We’re

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Speaker 1: representing in knockom se Thamarat. Let me know if I

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Speaker 1: pronounced that correctly in the comments. Then lots of people,

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Speaker 1: as always, all over the country. So Tuck in Watumka, Oklahoma,

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Speaker 1: Arrowheadwest like that, Troy in Shingle House, Pennsylvania, Pat in Owasso, Oklahoma,

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Speaker 1: Marco in Calexico, California, Dennis in Turlock, California, Martin in Fresno, California.

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Speaker 1: Lots of people in California this week. Nicki in Hannibal,

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Speaker 1: Missouri won in Santa Maria, California. And this is kind

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Speaker 1: of cool. If you remember Anthony from last week, He’s

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Speaker 1: from Joplin, but drives all over the country in a

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Speaker 1: representing wherever he goes. Well, Wan says he’s seen that

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Speaker 1: Chris in San Diego, Harold in Lakewood Ranch, Florida, John

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Speaker 1: from Lebanon, Missouri, Gary and Donna, Texas. Chaz in Greenville,

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Speaker 1: South Carolina. But he’s originally from Lake Quavera, Kansas, which

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Speaker 1: is a special place to me because I got married

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Speaker 1: in Lake Quavia, Kansas. So shout out to Chaz, William

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Speaker 1: in Rhode Island, Derek and Brooklyn, New York, Herb and

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Speaker 1: Kathy and Kohler, Wisconsin, which is sixty miles from Lambeau.

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Speaker 1: But the representing Chiefs Kingdom up there in Wisconsin. And

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Speaker 1: then lastly Bob and Littleton Colorado outside Denver, who shouted

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Speaker 1: him out last week. But he was checking in on

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Speaker 1: how I’m doing with my in laws this time around.

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Speaker 1: For those of you that don’t know, my in laws

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Speaker 1: We’ve kind of like a twelve hour rule in our family,

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Speaker 1: But around noon on Sunday, I got the text from

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Speaker 1: It’s all good, no worries, everything is everything is fine.

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Speaker 1: If you’re wondering out there, Matt, how could you marry

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Speaker 1: into a Bronchos family? The good news is since I

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Speaker 1: so we’re gonna keep this thing going here. Well, your

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Speaker 1: We bring the defending Gamion just brings the world together,

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Speaker 1: doesn’t it. The leven and Yellow Jackets. It’s the leven

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Speaker 1: we go the Steelers. This is fresh man three weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: it because it’s the playoffs. It’s the Steelers, hard nosed,

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Speaker 1: this first round after that crazy, crazy regular season week

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Speaker 1: a team shop. Your thoughts on getting the two seven

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Speaker 1: game against Pittsburgh. Well, I like the way that the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs end of the season. We ended the season with

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Speaker 1: So we did we did we had to do. We

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Speaker 1: they were quite ecstatic about surviving another week, creating another

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Speaker 1: opportunity to play possibly playoff football. But they had to

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Speaker 1: And as Andy has said, they prepared themselves for the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: be the team we’re gonna play against. And that whole

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Speaker 1: It’s playoff football, and so it’s either win or go home.

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Speaker 1: I said this, if Mike Tomlin’s walking down that tun

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Speaker 1: that’s got a lot of pride. That’s all you gotta

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Speaker 1: go into this game, Matt. You had your match stat

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Speaker 1: of the year, maybe because what’s interesting in this game

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Speaker 1: is the alpha and Omega nature of it. Here’s Big

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Speaker 1: I said, we were rescute three weeks ago Russian history.

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Speaker 1: Like he’s back, He’s in the playoffs, Like you just

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Speaker 1: one two notes. Yeah, it’s cool. So Patrick Mahomes has

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Speaker 1: played in a lot of playoff games. We know that,

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Speaker 1: career playoff game, starting at quarterback in the NFL. That’s

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Speaker 1: twenty seven in the Super Bowl era. It’s incredible. I mean,

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Speaker 1: think of all the great quarterbacks in NFL history, only

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Speaker 1: Big Ben came to the Steelers early on. They plugged

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Speaker 1: to end up in Canton one day. So the symmetry

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Speaker 1: of all of it, of Patrick Mahomes after this incredible

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Speaker 1: To be facing Big Ben, who did this eighteen years

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Speaker 1: really epitomizes the mindset of Big Ben It’s something that

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Speaker 1: we’ve talked about all week. You think about the Steelers,

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Speaker 1: what an improbable playoff team they are. They had a

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Speaker 1: What matters is it’s do or die. It’s the playoff game.

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Speaker 1: The parallel between the early prayers of Mahomes and Roethlisberger.

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Speaker 1: be his twenty third playoff game. He’s thirteen and nine,

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Speaker 1: breaking out the pack. D line lineback is taking the

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Speaker 1: proper angles backside corners and safeties, running to the ball

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Speaker 1: every single play expecting a turnover. We got a peanut

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Speaker 1: punch punch. We gotta high point the ball for interceptions.

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Speaker 1: Honey Badger, gotta be Honey Badger. I’m Chris Jones. Gotta

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Speaker 1: be Chris Jones. Willy Gay Gotta be Willy Gay. All

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Speaker 1: we need for our guys is to be who they’ve

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Speaker 1: been all season. You don’t need anything more, anything less,

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Speaker 1: but they have to play collectively. One is eleven, all

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Speaker 1: eleven guys playing as one so we can beat these

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Speaker 1: Kittsburgh stealers. That is Sean Barbara aka the Barber Shop

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Speaker 1: aka the Spider Man and Matt McCallan aka Matt Stat

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Speaker 1: who’s been digging deep this week. Man. You gotta follow

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Speaker 1: him because he’s got some awesome nuggets for this game.

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Speaker 1: This is a super wild Card weekend game, Sunday Night football,

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs against the Seedies special thanks to the folks

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Speaker 1: at three sixty Vodka. They are the sponsors who are

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Speaker 1: defending the Kingdom podcast, the official vodka, the Kansas City Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: and of course the Chiefs Kingdom. Thanks to all of

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Speaker 1: you who are listening so I’m watching all the way

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Speaker 1: around the world. We love it. Get ready to attack

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. Here in the Chiefs Kingdom down and the

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Speaker 1: celebration begins in their head.