Veach Never Sleeps | Defending the Kingdom 6/30

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Speaker 1: Hang your down until the day when you get off Duney.

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Speaker 2: This game you may can play.

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Speaker 1: Don’t touchdown Chansas City, the cheats all right?

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Speaker 3: The think of it baby.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Kingdom Defenders, Welcome to this unique edition of Defender

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Speaker 1: and Kingdom It chold us with your Voice of the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: along with Matt McCallan, senior team reporter. When Matt and

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Speaker 1: I are thinking of ideas for these we try to go, Hey,

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Speaker 1: let’s go someplace you maybe haven’t been thinking about all

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Speaker 1: the time, and especially this time of year where it’s

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Speaker 1: the closest thing The National Football League has to a

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Speaker 1: plant shutdown right after the mandatory mini camps for teams,

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Speaker 1: all thirty two teams, the NFLPA in the league’s like, hey,

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Speaker 1: can we just back up a second, even though fans

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Speaker 1: would love.

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Speaker 3: To have something going on right now.

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Speaker 1: So this podcast will deal with something we call v NS.

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Speaker 3: That is you ready for this? I’m ready. Here we go.

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Speaker 3: Veach never sleeps.

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Speaker 1: That’s right, even though it’s a plant shutdown, BRETTVA chief

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Speaker 1: general manager and his staff can’t quite sleep. And we’ll

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Speaker 1: get into this and why we’re exploring this in this

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Speaker 1: edition of Defending the Kingdom but before we do that,

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Speaker 1: let’s go around the world.

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Speaker 2: Let’s go around the world.

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Speaker 4: And also I want to mention these awesome shirts are

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Speaker 4: from our friends at ad Pro Sports. They custom made

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Speaker 4: these for us. So thank you to you all for

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Speaker 4: these awesome Veach Never Sleeps shirts. We need to get

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Speaker 4: Brett one of these. We got to get in one

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Speaker 4: out of his house. Yeah, all right, so let’s go

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Speaker 4: around the world. I have five today for I don’t know,

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Speaker 4: five straight AFC title game Tommy Tommy Towns, I like, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: let’s make it six straight AFC tititle games like that.

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Speaker 4: We have Ryan and Jefferson City. Chad is in Florida.

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Speaker 4: Arthur is in Western New York, out there in Bill’s country,

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Speaker 4: but he is originally from Kansas City and is representing

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Speaker 4: Chiefs Kingdom out there in Bill’s country. We have Zorian

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Speaker 4: from Croatia. Yeah, yeah, I don’t know if we’ve had

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Speaker 4: a Croatian.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, I don’t think we’ve had. Yeah, that’s awesome.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I had a chance to go to Croatia years and

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Speaker 4: years ago. I was studying abroad and I could have gone,

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Speaker 4: and I didn’t, and I regret it.

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Speaker 1: So fascintating area yeah, you know, of course they were

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Speaker 1: center stage for a while and then things have you know,

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Speaker 1: but just what the history and the Croatian people amazing

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Speaker 1: when you go study them, and just how entrepreneurial they are,

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Speaker 1: and how how many great people on this earth have

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Speaker 1: come from Croatia.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, including Zoran who is chiefs fans there in Croatia.

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Speaker 4: And you’ll love this last one. So this last one,

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Speaker 4: I don’t have their name, but a listener wrote the

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Speaker 4: following in our YouTube comments. They said, Mitch, glad you

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Speaker 4: got to work with some former teachers of mine from

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Speaker 4: high school with Home.

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Speaker 2: On the Range.

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Speaker 4: Tom Penning and Ken Spurgean are some of the best

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Speaker 4: guys around. Looking forward to seeing the film in the future.

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Speaker 1: There is a movie Home on the Range and Ken Spurgeon,

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Speaker 1: who is a terrific historian writer, He’s got a new

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Speaker 1: movie coming out they’re working on now called Sod and Stubble,

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Speaker 1: based on the very famous book. He deals a lot

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Speaker 1: with history, in pioneer history.

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Speaker 3: But yes, and.

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Speaker 1: In fact, there was just a I was just an Eldoredo, Kansas,

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Speaker 1: trying to think was that last week? And it was

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Speaker 1: a meeting for the cabin but also for the Kansas

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Speaker 1: Oil Museum in Eldaredo, Kansas. But some of the casts

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Speaker 1: showed up from the movie, so it’s a bit of

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Speaker 1: a reunion and there were some Now Rance Howard has passed, Noil,

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Speaker 1: Ronnie Howard, right, the famous director, and he was Happy

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Speaker 1: Days and as a child actor Andy Griffith show his

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Speaker 1: father is in the movie but recently passed. And then

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Speaker 1: but some others have been in the movie that are

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Speaker 3: So anyway, that was kind of fun. So yeah, fun

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Speaker 3: to do that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that’s our five for TODA.

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Speaker 3: All right, well there you go.

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Speaker 1: All right, let’s jump into this Veach Never Sleeps episode

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Speaker 1: of Defending the Kingdom, brought to you by Ticketmaster. By

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Speaker 1: the way, and Ticketmaster is your new best friend. Did

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Speaker 1: in Frankfurt? I sure did, Holy cow, I heard people

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Speaker 1: talking about in a waiting room of one point three

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Speaker 1: million and to eight hundred thousand and it’s sold out

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 4: And I feel bad for a lot of our German

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Speaker 4: fans that aren’t able to go. But what that does

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Speaker 4: show is the immense popularity and interest and not just

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Speaker 4: football but Chiefs football and Frankfurt, which is pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Spiel say November the But you’re thinking, what do

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Speaker 1: or what will be the most phenomenal home schedule in

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Speaker 1: the history of GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium every week

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Speaker 1: just amazing games either some crazy awesome theme or the opponent.

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Speaker 1: It’s just it’s been never been a year like twenty

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Speaker 1: So Ticketmaster check them out, all right? Veitch never sleeps.

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Speaker 1: Coach got me on this one time and talking about

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Speaker 1: coach read because you know he.

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Speaker 3: Never sleeps either.

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Speaker 2: Now his car is always here.

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Speaker 1: It’s always here, and this is time for the plant

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Speaker 1: shutdown in your huge Does he sleep like for the

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Speaker 1: whole year, like right now like a hibernation? You know,

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Speaker 1: keep thinking somewhere he’s out there sleeping hopefully. But I said, Coach,

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Speaker 1: you’re like a dolphin like half brain that you know,

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Speaker 1: a dolphin sleeps half brain at a time. And I said,

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Speaker 1: have you ever seen walking around? Like Okay, touche, but

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Speaker 1: Veach is the same way. He’s a dolphin, like he’s

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Speaker 1: he just half brain sleeping if he sleeps at all.

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Speaker 1: And even though this is the plant shutdown, Brett Veach

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Speaker 1: and his staff and VNS has a double meaning for

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Speaker 1: this episode because it’s Veach never sleeps, very nice staff.

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Speaker 1: Because one of the and I always say this, and

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Speaker 1: you know this, Matt, that I say the Chiefs win

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Speaker 1: because of one hundred different reasons. One of the more

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Speaker 1: underrated reasons the Chiefs win Brett Veach and his staff.

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Speaker 1: This is a spectacular all star group that Veach has

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Speaker 1: in his part of the Kingdom, and it’s why the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs win.

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Speaker 4: I was with Brett a few weeks ago for a

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Speaker 4: fan of at production day. There was like ten fans

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Speaker 4: here and Brett surprised them with kind of a meet

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Speaker 4: that interaction is Brett was talking about his mentality as

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Speaker 4: I’m coming into this job where I’ve led this team

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Speaker 4: to three super Bowl bursts and four seasons. We’ve won

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Speaker 4: two Super Bowls and four seasons. He’s the best general

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Speaker 4: manager in the NFL. The Chiefs have won so many

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Speaker 4: games because of Brett Veach. And he said, you might

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Speaker 4: I just come in here. I don’t have to worry

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Speaker 4: about anything. He said, it’s actually the opposite. We’ve set

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Speaker 4: such a standard now that I’m consistently thinking to myself

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Speaker 4: late at night, are we good enough? And what’s so

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Speaker 4: amazing about Brett and his staff is they are consistently

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Speaker 4: always finding ways to make this team good enough to

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Speaker 4: meet that standard. And they’ve met it every single year

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Speaker 4: under Brett Viach, winning all these football games, hosting five

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Speaker 4: consecutive AFC Championship games. And Brett would be the first

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Speaker 4: person to say that his staff has a huge role

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Speaker 4: in all of this. It’s a collaborative effort where Brett

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Speaker 4: doing this work twenty four to seven, three hundred and

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Speaker 4: sixty five days a year, consistently working and grinding trying

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Speaker 4: to make this team better, and we’re going to talk

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Speaker 4: about some of these people that make this team what

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Speaker 4: it is, but they deserve all the limelight.

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Speaker 1: We talk about the passion, direction and talent of Andy Reid.

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Speaker 1: He’s going to be in the Hall of Fame. We

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Speaker 1: know that same thing with Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey,

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Speaker 1: they’d be in the Hall of Fame. We talk about

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Speaker 1: Steve Spagnolo and Dave Tobe, But we don’t talk about

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Speaker 1: the guys We’re gonna mention now probably enough, and they

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Speaker 1: do work behind the scenes. I got the day after

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Speaker 1: luncheon this year. I got a sinilating video that last

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl parade, and it’s him and his staff.

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Speaker 1: off season. Mike Morgan’s he’s assistant general manager. His brother

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Speaker 1: works for the Bears. Right, he’s a linebackers coach, but

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Speaker 1: Borgo has been here preceding Brett Veach. But he’s assistant

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Speaker 1: general manager. A brilliant dude and steady, passionate sees things.

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Speaker 1: You know, you’ll ask Mike a question and then he’ll

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Speaker 1: give you, Hey, well, let’s move the neutrons this way

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Speaker 1: whole new atom. And he’s just a brilliant guy. He’s one.

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Speaker 1: Another one is Chris Shay, vice president for football Operations, Like, well,

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Speaker 1: who’s Chris Shay? All right, Well, Chris Shay also is

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Speaker 1: the He’s also an attorney, so he’s the team council.

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Speaker 1: He’s been around the block. He was with Philadelphia, Miami,

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Speaker 1: NFL management Council, Dallas. Brilliant dude. He’s not studying algebra

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Speaker 1: or algorithms, he’s writing them. And those two guys alone

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Speaker 1: are part of this team. And you’re going to mention

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Speaker 1: some others. But if you’re a fan of the Kansas

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Speaker 1: City Chiefs, look these guys up and realize they’re some

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Speaker 1: of the best, and not just the NFL, but in

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Speaker 1: professional sports again in direction, and you’re talking here about

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Speaker 1: cap management, roster management, and I mentioned cash management because

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Speaker 1: that’s a big part that we look at. Spow track writer,

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Speaker 1: you’re looking at, hey gosh, where are people teams against

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Speaker 1: the cap? Cash is the underrated part of this and

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Speaker 1: every team, all thirty two teams have got to do

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Speaker 1: cash management, salary, cap management, roster management. And the people

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Speaker 1: we’re mentioning as part of the Veitch Never Sleeps team

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Speaker 1: are some of the best in professional sports.

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Speaker 2: And one of the hardest things to do.

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Speaker 4: We always talk about this, and thefl is to win

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Speaker 4: after you have paid your quarterback. And the Chiefs just

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Speaker 4: accomplish that. They gave Patrick Mahomes, of course a generational

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Speaker 1: done that. All right, quickly, go us through some more.

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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty was the COVID year and it was weird, right,

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Speaker 1: worst pandemic since the nineteen nineteen Spanish flu epidemic. But

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Speaker 1: Beach never sleeps, Beach never rests. On July sixth, twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: he does the ten year extension for Patrick Mahomes that

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Speaker 1: basically set up the next three to five, maybe ten

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Speaker 1: years of salary cap strategy. The second one that year

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Speaker 1: was right there was Chris Jones, same thing July of

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty and COVID that’s the four year extension. I

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Speaker 1: know we’re asking about Chris Jones right now. We’re leaving

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Speaker 1: that up to each He’s never sleeping trying to figure

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Speaker 1: that piece out.

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Speaker 3: We’ll leave that where it’s at.

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Speaker 1: But the fact that in twenty twenty COVID year in July,

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Speaker 1: two of the main extensions that led to the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl fifty seven championship were done by Brett.

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Speaker 4: Beach, and there was one free agent signing in late

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Speaker 4: July that if circumstances have been different, I really think

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Speaker 4: it would have been one of these deals that we’re

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Speaker 4: talking about, Like, Wow, I can’t believe they got him

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Speaker 4: when they did this sign Colleccio Simile on July twenty eighth.

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Speaker 4: Collecchi was, of course a guard for the Raiders, a

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Speaker 4: Pro Bowl guard. We brought him in here and he

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Speaker 4: was going to be one of our starting guards. We

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Speaker 4: were so fired up about him, and then early in

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Speaker 4: the season he tore tendons in both knees and I

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Speaker 4: don’t think he’s played since. Just feel terrible for the

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Speaker 4: guy because he was having a really nice start to

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Speaker 4: the season. But the point remains that Brett found him

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Speaker 4: on July twenty eighth and brought him in and he

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Speaker 4: was a starter to begin the season. There was other

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Speaker 4: moves that year, the Le’Veon Bell signing, which was a

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Speaker 4: big deal time October sixteenth of that year, and then

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Speaker 4: I have Stefan Wesnouski as twenty twenty. Maybe we brought

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Speaker 4: him back from a previous time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we did. I think we brought because he was

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Speaker 3: in the nineteen Super Bowl two.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we brought him back in November November twenty third

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Speaker 4: of twenty twenty. DeAndre Baker was that year November eighteenth,

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Speaker 4: so constantly trying to find guys. Twenty twenty one, this

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Speaker 4: of course continued. We signed Alex okafor on July twenty fifth,

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Speaker 4: brought back Alex and obviously he had a sizeable role

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Speaker 4: on this team. Josh Gordon on September twenty seventh. That

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Speaker 4: was a big deal at the time. But that’s really

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Speaker 4: showing that Brett is consistently looking out there like hey,

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Speaker 4: does Josh Gordon want to still play some football, and

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Speaker 4: I mean Josh had a role on this team. The

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Speaker 4: big one though in twenty twenty one was the Melvin

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Speaker 4: Ingram trade that was on November first, and really once

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Speaker 4: Melvin got in here, the defense had a whole different

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Speaker 4: vibe to them and that team almost ended up in

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Speaker 4: the Super Bowl. Melvin Ingram was a big part of that.

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Speaker 1: His play against the Broncos that allowed Nick Bolton to

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Speaker 1: get the scoop and score the eighty six yard scoop

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Speaker 1: and score is etched in my mind forever.

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Speaker 3: That was a huge play by Melvin Ingram in that game.

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Speaker 1: And then twenty twenty two great examples Carlos Dunlap on

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Speaker 1: July the twenty eighth. On July the twenty eighth, the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs are able to sign Carlos Dunlap and one signature

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Speaker 1: play for him would be the play of Chris Jones

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Speaker 1: getting the sack against Joe Burrow in the AFC Championship

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Speaker 1: game when Chris moved Burrow, I’m sorry, moved Dunlap inside

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Speaker 1: against his old teammates. Just watch the video of that,

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Speaker 1: and Chris’s sack was basically set up by Carlos dunlap

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Speaker 1: being in the presence in the face of Joe Burrow.

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Speaker 1: So what we’ve tried to do here is the fact

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Speaker 1: that Veach never sleeps. These are significant moves that are

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Speaker 1: made when most of your roster is put together. And

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Speaker 1: yes it’s the plant shutdown, and yes, you and I

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Speaker 1: are looking forward to unplugging here a bit at least

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Speaker 1: for a couple of days. But for Brett Veach, he

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Speaker 1: only plugs half the brain. He’s a dolph.

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Speaker 4: And not to backtrack too much, but as a cheesy

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Speaker 4: narrative guy thinking about when Carlos Dunlapp first signed, he

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Speaker 4: laid out three goals that he had when he signed

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Speaker 4: with the Chiefs. They were to get to one hundred

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Speaker 4: career sacks. He did that for his dad, for his dad.

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Speaker 4: He promised his dad he would do it, and he did.

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Speaker 4: He wanted to win a playoff game because he had

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Speaker 4: been in this league for a decade and had never

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Speaker 4: won a playoff game. He did that against the Jags.

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Speaker 1: Hugged his neck after the Jacksonville game because I knew

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Speaker 1: what it meant, because he went twenty one years of

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Speaker 1: that one here.

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Speaker 4: And didn’t he tell you that we weren’t done because

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Speaker 4: his last goal was he wanted to win a Super Bowl.

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Speaker 4: He did that, so he had three goals knocked them

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Speaker 4: all off. Pretty cool. And that’s where if you’re Brett

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Speaker 4: Veach and you’re the leader of this team, you can

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Speaker 4: give guys like Carlos an opportunity in mid July or

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Speaker 4: mid August and say, hey, if you want to knock

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Speaker 4: out some career goals that you still have, and one

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Speaker 4: of them is to win a Super Bowl. Where a

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Speaker 4: great place to do that. And that’s why that Chiefs

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Speaker 4: are able to get these guys when they do, because

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Speaker 4: they say, hey, this is a great place where you

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Speaker 4: can come in and late in your career you can

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Speaker 4: win a championship. Now, before we close out, I do

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Speaker 4: want to mention the next thing on the horizon is

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Speaker 4: training camp. There will be seventeen total practices open to

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Speaker 4: the general public up in Saint Joe, and if you’re

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Speaker 4: a season ticket member, there’s a couple more that you

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Speaker 4: can come to that are exclusive just for you. The

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Speaker 4: first one for all fans is on July twenty third.

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Speaker 4: The full schedules on Chiefs dot com. You can see

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Speaker 4: what day certain players are signing autographs. It goes by

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Speaker 4: position groups, so you can see, hey, the linebackers are

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Speaker 4: signing autographs this day, or the quarterbacks and so on

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Speaker 4: and so forth. You can also see what if there’s

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Speaker 4: a season ticket member day when those are And lastly,

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Speaker 4: most of these practices are free to attend, even the

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Speaker 4: ones that do cost money or like not much at all,

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Speaker 4: But no matter what, you have to get tickets online.

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Speaker 4: The tickets are generally free, but it reserves your spot

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Speaker 4: because there’s only so many fans that can be at

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Speaker 4: camp each day. But you can go online right now

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Speaker 4: on Cheeses dot com and reserve your training camp tickets

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Speaker 4: and then come say hi to us because we will

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Speaker 4: be up there.

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Speaker 1: One of the things you and I both love about

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Speaker 1: training camp is that a lot of people go to

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Speaker 1: come to training Camp that either can’t afford or don’t

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Speaker 1: have the opportunity to go to the games at gha

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Speaker 1: Field at Arrowhead Stadium or a road game. But think about,

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Speaker 1: this is your game, So go to the Chiefs app

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Speaker 1: and make sure if you’re buying a ticket, even though

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Speaker 1: most of them are free, but you have to do that.

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Speaker 1: Last year there was some confusion and some fans would

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Speaker 1: show up and did not have that taken care of,

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Speaker 1: and it just led to some being uncomfortable. If we

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Speaker 1: want everybody there that can get there, it’s that we

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Speaker 1: can accommodate. And most of it seeing all those kids

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Speaker 1: and all those families coming from everywhere is one of

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Speaker 1: the cool things about training camp. So he’s Matt McMullen,

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Speaker 1: Senior team reporter. I’m a Chelter’s voice to the Chiefs ticketmaster.

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Speaker 1: Will get you taken care of this season. Make sure

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Speaker 1: that you see what they can do for you home games,

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Speaker 1: road games, and maybe trying to figure out a way

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Speaker 1: to get to that game Frankfurt on the fifth of November.

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Speaker 1: But know this, if you’re a red blooded, card carrying

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Speaker 1: member of the Chief Kingdom, you can be comforted with

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Speaker 1: this thought.

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Speaker 3: Veitch never sleeps

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Speaker 1: Don t touch down, washed it down and the celebration

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Speaker 1: begins in their head.