Prayers for Damar & the Unsung Heroes | Defending the Kingdom

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Speaker 1: Thank you advantage on the day. All right, will you

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Speaker 1: get up this game? You play touchdown Chansas City the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: All right, in the thick of a baby, everyone, and

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Speaker 1: welcome to this edition of Defending the Kingdom Match Alta’s

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Speaker 1: with your Voice of the Chiefs along senior team reporter

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Speaker 1: Matt McMullan. This will be kind of a different kind

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Speaker 1: of DTK. Before we go into this episode, let’s let’s

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Speaker 1: do go around the world. Yeah, and stay stay on

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Speaker 1: that tradition. Yeah, with our DTK tradition, so names and

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Speaker 1: people all of the world listening to DTK. We have

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Speaker 1: John in Wichita, Kansas. Steve is in celebrating Blake Bell’s touchdown,

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Speaker 1: by the way, very pumped up about it. I’m sure

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Speaker 1: had a parade which took all of which tas is

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Speaker 1: celebrating that. We have Steve in Cleethorpe’s UK. I’m probably

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Speaker 1: mispronouncing that, but he’s been a fan since the nineteen eighties.

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Speaker 1: Chat is in Malaysia, Clarissa is in Spokane and Washington.

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Speaker 1: We have a listener in Hawaii. Joe is in the Vada, Missouri.

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Speaker 1: Last week we had a listener in Iowa, Louisiana. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and now we have a listener in Nevada, Missouri, and

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Speaker 1: it’s Nea, Nevada. Yeah, that’s why. So it’s Potato Patada.

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Speaker 1: It’s like, it’s not the Arkansas River in Kansas. It’s

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Speaker 1: the Arkansas River, but it’s the Arkansas River, Arkansas. But hey,

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Speaker 1: home of Katie College. Okay, so Nevada. I’m learning things today. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we have Richard in southern California. Craig is in Miami, Oklahoma.

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Speaker 1: Dennis is in Taganoxie, Kansas. Jay is in Yakima, Washington.

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Speaker 1: Brandy is in Bangor, Maine. Declared at Chief’s Kingdom, New England.

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Speaker 1: And remember the Broncos staff member that flagged me down

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Speaker 1: at Mile High a few weeks ago that we mentioned

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Speaker 1: on the show he’s undercover. We don’t want to blow

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Speaker 1: his cover. Well, he has given me permission to blow

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Speaker 1: his cover. Oh my gosh. Yeah, his name is Justin.

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Speaker 1: He went to Blue Valley High School and then k

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Speaker 1: State and now he’s a Broncho’s employee. But he is

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Speaker 1: So shout out to Justin oh man, Justin hang in there, partner.

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Speaker 1: Uh wow, we’ve revealed your identity, don’t you know. The

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Speaker 1: Broncos are scrambling right now to go who’s our employee

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Speaker 1: named Justin that’s went to KSE State and from Blue Valley.

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Speaker 1: And I’ll give you another one. You talked about Iowa Louisiana,

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Speaker 1: Iowa Louisiana. Nevada, Missouri, it’s Miama Oklahoma. No. The first

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Speaker 1: year I was doing play by play, I was doing

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Speaker 1: and M Northeastern Oklahoma, A and M junior college. And

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Speaker 1: junior college football. They were they were a menace. And

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Speaker 1: I’m going Miami Oklahoma. They’re like, it’s miamaa Miama. So

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Speaker 1: I usually try to do my best to look up

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Speaker 1: the There was one last year. It was like Beatrice, Nebraska.

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Speaker 1: It’s Beatrice Beatris Yeah, yeah, yeah, same deal. Yeah, the

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Speaker 1: same thing. You’re going looks like Beatrice. No, it’s Beatrice.

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Speaker 1: Home of the Orange by the way, of course, and

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Speaker 1: And quite honestly, whether it’s Chief’s Kingdom around the world

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Speaker 1: or any place in the National Football League, everything just froze.

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Speaker 1: It just froze on Monday night watching the Bengals Bills

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Speaker 1: game and the situation with Damar Hamlin. And I know

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Speaker 1: you and I have talked about it since it happened,

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Speaker 1: but we’ll start with like everybody else. But you know,

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Speaker 1: I believe in the power of prayer. I’ve seen the

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Speaker 1: power of prayer work down through my life, and I

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Speaker 1: give you all kinds of these scriptures about it. But

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Speaker 1: we are praying for tomorrow and his family for all

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Speaker 1: intents and purposes. This is a an amazing young man.

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Speaker 1: And we’re going to start this DTK by just the

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Speaker 1: and just praying for Damar for a complete recovery. You

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Speaker 1: we get so into it and we’re both really excited

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Speaker 1: amazing how his foundation has raised so much money. And

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Speaker 1: And Rick is our vice president for performance in for

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Speaker 1: Athletic Training. But he’s one of the first people I

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Speaker 1: And DeMar made a decision, being a Pittsburgh native, to

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Speaker 1: And that’s just amazing. So that’s the power of humanity.

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Speaker 1: And you’re right, so often we’re reminded of the bad

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Speaker 1: and the procedures are in place here with the Kansas

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Speaker 1: one and save DeMar’s life. You never expect those things

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Speaker 1: And we’re so fortunate that those people are where they

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Speaker 1: but they are not only amazing people, they are highly

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Speaker 1: They for sure don’t know about the team Docks, and

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Speaker 1: Docks is. But Ricks group is exceptional. I’ve been in

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