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Speaker 1: Hello, Texans, Welcome to the program. Mark VanderMeer with you

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Speaker 1: tonight with a lot of great stuff going on. A

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Speaker 1: little bit later on in the show, Dpcityho catches up

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Speaker 1: with Mark Berman of Fox twenty six. If you're a

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Speaker 1: sports fan, you know Mark Berman is the best story

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Speaker 1: breaker in the market, and he's retiring, so he's got

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Speaker 1: stories galore. Deepe had a podcast with him. We will

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Speaker 1: play big chunks of that coming up a little bit

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Speaker 1: later in the program. That'll start in segment two. And

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Speaker 1: it's a great way to kick off the holiday weekend,

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Speaker 1: which means so much to so many obviously Memorial Day weekend. Look,

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Speaker 1: it's not just about your barbecue, not that there's anything

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Speaker 1: wrong with having a cookout barbecue enjoying your family and friends.

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Speaker 1: Because we have this holiday, many of you have to

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Speaker 1: work through the holiday weekend. We really appreciate that. Of

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Speaker 1: course I'm going to work some as well. We'll have

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Speaker 1: a show on Monday. But this is about honoring and

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Speaker 1: acknowledging those who have served and paid the ultimate price,

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Speaker 1: and it's really important that we do that. I'm not lecturing,

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Speaker 1: I'm just telling you what you already know. Here, folks,

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Speaker 1: and the Texans were a part of it this week

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Speaker 1: because they toured several players toward the VA Hospitals right

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Speaker 1: by NRG Stadium. Denzel Perryman, Christian Kirksey, Brevin Jordan, Thomas Booker,

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Speaker 1: and Andrew Beck was out there. I mean, it's really

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Speaker 1: important to the mcnairs that the Texans not only serve

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Speaker 1: the community but serve those who have served, and the

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Speaker 1: Texans a bit about that from the get go, as

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Speaker 1: you know. But Andrew Beck was one of the players

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Speaker 1: out there. Like I said, we're going to get into

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Speaker 1: what he does. He's a full back, h back, tight

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Speaker 1: end type guy. We'll get into the x'es and o's

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Speaker 1: of it a bit. But it was a really important

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Speaker 1: visit to the VA and Drew Doherty caught up with Beck.

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Speaker 2: This is a special day where you're at the VA

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Speaker 2: Hospital close to the Energy Stadium. Drew Doherty with Andrew Beck, fullback,

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Speaker 2: tight end, Swiss army knife.

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Speaker 3: You do it all. I mean, you're probably probably gonna

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Speaker 3: do some surgeries heart a little bit.

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Speaker 2: But this is I say a special day because Memorial

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Speaker 2: Day is upon us. This is a special event for you.

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Speaker 2: You give your time and charity to a lot of

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Speaker 2: different things, but this is one of your focal points.

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Speaker 4: Good reasons how come.

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Speaker 5: Obviously you know a lot of people know my dad's

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Speaker 5: active duty Army, so growing up in Army Bratt, you know,

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Speaker 5: to come back and be able to give back anytime

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Speaker 5: we get a chance to hang out with with veterans

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Speaker 5: and former servicemen and women, obviously, that's something that we

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Speaker 5: all try to do. And it's something that's near and

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Speaker 5: dear to my heart, like you said, and it's it

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Speaker 5: is truly something that a lot of us enjoy and

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Speaker 5: I think that's why a big group of guys wanted

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Speaker 5: to come out to the VA Hospital, especially on this weekend,

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Speaker 5: like you said, So it's it's definitely something that I enjoy.

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Speaker 6: Though.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, you're new to the team, and you got

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Speaker 2: times you'll come into a place like this, you'll shake hand,

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Speaker 2: you'll take a photo, and you skid down all on

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Speaker 2: out and that's nice. But today you guys were playing chess,

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Speaker 2: you were hanging out and sitting down and spent like

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Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, you know, and and just talking to them

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Speaker 5: and hearing their stories. You know, it's some of the

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Speaker 4: I'm sure.

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Speaker 5: You know. I got the chance to hang out with somebody.

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Speaker 5: Her name is Nadia, and she was telling us a

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Speaker 5: She was in Iraq and was blown up. And the

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Speaker 5: back and do it all over again, you know once

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Speaker 5: it's so you're always a soldier. And to hear that

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Speaker 5: what she's going through right now and that's her response

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Speaker 5: is you know, it puts things into perspective for sure,

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Speaker 5: and you know, to be able to hear more stories

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Speaker 5: we got to, like you said, play chess with some

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Speaker 5: people and just hanging out, spending a couple of minutes.

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Speaker 5: It was meant more to us than it did to them.

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Speaker 5: But everybody said it meant so much to them. It

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the ear to ear smiles kind of it's

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Speaker 2: I mean, that they were loving it. So talking about football,

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Speaker 2: what's it.

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Speaker 3: Like being here?

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Speaker 2: You're back into you're a Longhorn, a proud long Hoord.

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Speaker 2: What's it like being in Houston being a Texan?

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Speaker 5: You know, I love it. I've got family from down here.

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Speaker 5: My wife's from down here, Mine lass still live down here.

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Speaker 5: Their whole side of the familly's down here. So we

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Speaker 5: considered it moving back home and that was something that

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Speaker 5: to be in Houston, Texas. It's such a great, great

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Speaker 5: There's something to do for someone, there's something to do

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Speaker 5: for everybody. I mean, it's there's a million things going

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Speaker 5: on always. But we've we've really enjoyed our time. Getting

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Speaker 5: but other than that, it's it's been a blast and

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Speaker 5: can't wait to You know, OTAs are fun, but it

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Speaker 5: makes you excited for the season and get ready to

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Speaker 5: play other people and we're definitely not part of it

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Speaker 4: No doubt.

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Speaker 3: Tell me about ot is.

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Speaker 2: What's it been like in this offense? This is a

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Speaker 2: really you know, dynamic offense. If it if it kind

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Speaker 2: of holds true to what we've seen from Slowick and

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Speaker 2: what he has learned from who he has learned from.

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Speaker 2: What do you get a glimpse of in these early days.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, like you said, you know, it's it's the more

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Speaker 5: we can do in personnel groups he does. If he

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Speaker 5: do it out of all of them. And that's that's

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Speaker 5: kind of what we're learning right now. And how he

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Speaker 5: wants to plug guys in. You know, it's it's learning

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Speaker 5: the system, it's learning to work with the coaches. It's

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Speaker 5: also learning to work with the players, you know, building chemistry.

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Speaker 5: We've got new guys coming in. We signed a bunch

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Speaker 5: of new guys, the guys that were here, you know,

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Speaker 5: how they function, things like that. So it's an important

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Speaker 5: time absolutely, But like I said, it makes you missed

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Speaker 2: And these offenses they attack you a lot of different ways,

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Speaker 2: and historically, tight ends, fullbacks, those have been big, big

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, that's the goal.

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Speaker 3: Here.

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Speaker 5: I'll get us involved in more that we can be

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Speaker 5: And I score a bunch of points, win a bunch

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Speaker 5: of games.

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Speaker 2: Andrew Beck, we appreciate the time. Thanks so much for

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Speaker 2: doing this awesome event and have a happy summer.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, thank y'all so much.

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Speaker 1: There's Drew Jordy with Andrew Beck part of the Memorial

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Speaker 1: Day weekend start here on Texans all axis and that's

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Speaker 1: going to be on Texans three sixty as well. And

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Speaker 1: Beck full back. You look at this offense, how's he

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Speaker 1: going to be used? You still have Troy Harriston on

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Speaker 1: the roster, rookie from last year from Central Michigan who

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Speaker 1: had aized campaign blocking for Damian Pierce. Not on every dawn,

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Speaker 1: but on a lot of downs. I think he can

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Speaker 1: catch the football too. Beck can catch. Then you look

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Speaker 1: at the way Kyle Hugheschek has been used in the

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Speaker 1: forty nine er offense, and will the full back here

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Speaker 1: have a similar role. It's not like Uscheck had a

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Speaker 1: Beck can catch the ball as well, so Controy. But

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Speaker 1: they always seem to be big plays when they catch

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Speaker 1: the ball. Right, every time a fullback catches the ball

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Speaker 1: always seems to be a really important first down or

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Speaker 4: Who knows.

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Speaker 1: We'll see out all fits together in the coming weeks

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Speaker 1: and in training camp. All right, the draft, you're familiar

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Speaker 1: with that, right, Remember that seems like a long time ago.

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Speaker 4: Not really.

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Speaker 1: It was about a month ago when the Texans made

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Speaker 1: the big move.

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Speaker 4: They drafted c. J. Stroud second.

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Speaker 1: You know, they moved up to take Will Anderson third,

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Speaker 1: among other selections. Well, tomorrow morning, that would be Saturday morning,

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Speaker 1: at ten am, the Texans will release an episode of

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Speaker 1: Building the Texans on YouTube and it's going to be phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna play the trailer right now. This audio is

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Speaker 1: gold of the trailer, and you hear Cal McNair driving

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Speaker 1: he's driving to Miller Outdoor Theater and he's miked up

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Speaker 1: in the car talking about what the Texans might do.

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Speaker 4: There's some key stuff here, and it's really.

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Speaker 1: Exciting to hear the music in the background or the

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Speaker 1: way this whole thing is put together. Building the Texans

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Speaker 1: on YouTube. You can watch the trailer, but listen to

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Speaker 1: some of this audio. I've edited it especially for Texans

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Speaker 7: Well, I'm excited to see the fans. I know there's

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Speaker 7: a lot of excitement around the draft and the draft

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be fun. I hope you all enjoy it and.

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Speaker 4: Let's go Texas.

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Speaker 8: It's always awesome to be around the fans being able

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Speaker 8: to interact with them. You can tell they're they're really

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Speaker 8: excited out there and just just as we are. So

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Speaker 8: it's it's gonna be fun. It's exciting for the season,

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Speaker 8: and it's exciting to have the fans that have stuck

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Speaker 8: and so are we.

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Speaker 7: So it's a fun time right now.

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Speaker 3: You're probably no more than anybody am. I gonna ask

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Speaker 3: you your ticket, but even as the owners of you,

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Speaker 3: you're kind of nervous and public process.

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Speaker 8: You'd be the first person that hasn't asked who he's aking.

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Speaker 7: So the Houston Texans have a lot of ammunition. They've

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Speaker 7: got two picks in the top twelve. How did Nick

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Speaker 7: Cassaro and company plan to utilize all that opportunity.

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Speaker 2: No one has any idea what the Houston Texans are

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Speaker 2: going to do, literally, no one.

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Speaker 7: One thing is we are exploring trades. Those trades down.

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Speaker 7: I said, yeah, end.

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Speaker 3: Up, everybody, Candy started.

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Speaker 4: This is the pig double change the entire draft.

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Speaker 3: The first big mystery is about to be sold.

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Speaker 8: Hello, C Jay, what's make what's having a brother?

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Speaker 3: How you doing?

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Speaker 1: I'm going well, but a lot better now.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to Texas, Budd.

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Speaker 4: The Houston Texans select.

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Speaker 5: C. J.

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Speaker 2: Stroud.

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Speaker 5: There's somebody game go to work every day and that

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Speaker 5: they tell that a lot of you wants to hear it.

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Speaker 7: One of the most remarkable beginnings of an NFL drafts.

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Speaker 1: As promised, we have something very special for you tonight.

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Speaker 9: Now it's a Deep Plant one on one presented by

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Speaker 9: Everyone knows who you are, Mark, and you announced that

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Speaker 3: Apology not necessary, It's fine. I'm honored to be here.

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Speaker 9: So you've held the same job at Fox W thirty

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Speaker 11: I graduated I from your Versity of Houston in August

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Speaker 10: You came back.

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Speaker 11: That was That would have been May of nineteen eighty.

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Speaker 11: I was there for eight years, the last two at Fox.

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Speaker 11: So I worked at Kick Radio as a sports director

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Speaker 3: Two years later.

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Speaker 11: I was promoted to sports director in April May nineteen

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Speaker 6: That's it.

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Speaker 11: That's it for forty five years.

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Speaker 10: That's amazing.

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Speaker 9: I mean, most people change jobs so frequently, and especially

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Speaker 10: But why now, Why did you feel like now was

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Speaker 11: My wife and I've been talking about it for about

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Speaker 11: Been talking with my general manager, d'Artagnan Maybell, one of

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Speaker 9: You do work one hundred hours a week, I don't

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Speaker 11: I The thing is you got to understand, more than anything,

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Speaker 4: It's the truth.

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Speaker 4: What are your But I still have I have a

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Speaker 11: If I'm putting my name on it, I'm gonna do

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Speaker 3: I can promise you that.

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Speaker 9: Or well, even if it's not at the crack of dawn,

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Speaker 11: Yeah, but it's the starting off in the morning at camp,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really hard.

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Speaker 10: And in your holidays, I mean, you've had no holidays.

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Speaker 11: A couple of years ago Christmas Eve, my daughter and

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Speaker 3: My phone was upside down. I turned it over.

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Speaker 4: On Christmas, of.

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Speaker 3: That was all Christmas Eve.

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Speaker 4: I had no choice.

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Speaker 3: What am I going to do? Say, I'm not gonna work.

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Speaker 1: Way, You're lesarding to Dbcity's exclusive interview with Fox twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Is Mark Berman who's retiring.

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Speaker 9: I'm sure you've got so many big stories that you've

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Speaker 9: that was I'm really proud that I got that story.

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Speaker 10: Well, is there any one or any at the risk

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Speaker 11: There's so many, There's so many I can't remember, but

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Speaker 11: Tillman and for Tea to buy in the rockets, Okay,

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Speaker 11: now you understand why not, just because that is a

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Speaker 3: Tilman was already an icon and used to he just

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Speaker 11: And then right behind that was we were the first

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Speaker 3: After I did that story and he got.

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Speaker 11: Some play, a couple days later, he calmed me up

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Speaker 3: And he hung up on me, and I was so

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Speaker 11: Next morning, deep my phone rings about seven point thirty

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Speaker 3: What are we gonna do about it? I go, I

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Speaker 4: Look it up.

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Speaker 3: So John was right.

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Speaker 10: Remember nobody remember, but you had that story. It's on

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Speaker 7: You had that.

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Speaker 3: Nobody remember then.

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Speaker 10: I remember when I started with the Texans.

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Speaker 9: It was about that time that a Football Life, the

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Speaker 10: A long long time.

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Speaker 10: So the Oilers.

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Speaker 9: I mean, there was just so much. What do you

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Speaker 9: remember about covering the Oilers and how much things have

445
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Speaker 9: changed from that era.

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Speaker 10: To this Texans era. You have to understand have cell

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Speaker 10: phones when you were even doing.

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Speaker 4: You have to understand back again.

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Speaker 11: For instance, during the off season, I would be at

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Speaker 11: the Oilers three times a week in their locker room

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Speaker 11: with the run of the place, so did John, so

452
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Speaker 11: did the others.

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Speaker 3: We were there all the time.

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Speaker 11: We knew the players backwards and forwards, and players stayed longer.

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Speaker 3: It was a different kind of thing here.

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Speaker 11: You know that access doesn't exist in the NFL anymore,

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Speaker 11: not just here, everywhere.

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Speaker 9: Well even for us who work in the building. I mean,

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Speaker 9: I can't just walk into the locker room and start interviewing.

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Speaker 11: With We were there all the time, hanging out, shooting

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Speaker 11: the breeze with the players.

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Speaker 3: It was just a different time.

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Speaker 9: You had a different relationship with the players, not even close,

464
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Speaker 9: not even close.

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Speaker 11: How do you do you?

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Speaker 9: I mean, I feel like the probably social media has

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Speaker 9: changed a lot of that because now nothing is off

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Speaker 9: the record.

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Speaker 3: Well that's not true, that's not not for.

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Speaker 10: You, but I think for players.

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Speaker 11: Really, there's nothing more important in our business than that statement.

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Speaker 11: If it's not that way with others, it's a shame.

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Speaker 11: But if you if you knew how many stories I

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Speaker 11: didn't do, really well, I'll give you one. It was

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Speaker 11: one of the worst you Before we did this interview,

476
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Speaker 11: you were saying, well, what was one of your worst memories? Okay, okay,

477
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Speaker 11: When the oilers were negotiating to move to Nashville. I

478
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Speaker 11: knew three weeks out off the record, couldn't do anything

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Speaker 11: with it. And then the mayor at the time decided

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Speaker 11: to have a news conference with Bud Adams to let

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Speaker 11: the media there know what was going on. Well, at

482
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Speaker 11: that time, our station, our Fox station in Nashville.

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Speaker 3: Didn't do news. They were race station. They didn't do news.

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Speaker 11: They didn't get the press release. So we were the

485
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Speaker 11: only ones in Uston who didn't know. So it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 11: Everybody and you should have had it but me, but

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Speaker 11: Fox we got destroyed.

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Speaker 3: Wow, crushed. Didn't matter that I do. The person that

489
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Speaker 3: had told me thought, well, it's a pressure release. You'll know.

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Speaker 3: Didn't work that way.

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Speaker 10: I mean, there's nothing you can do about that.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't matter, does.

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Speaker 4: A loss.

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Speaker 9: Is there any other story that you think about over

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Speaker 9: the years that you're like, that is one that I

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Speaker 9: wish I'd had, Or there's.

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Speaker 10: A buns wish you could have come out?

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Speaker 3: You couldn't. Let me tell you something. Nobody on planet

499
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Speaker 3: Earth loses more than me.

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Speaker 11: And I'm not being but I'm trying on everything, so

501
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Speaker 11: I lose all the time. So I can't I can't

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Speaker 11: even remember how many stories that made me miserable a lot.

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Speaker 10: Really.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, of course, especially here.

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Speaker 10: I have such a great relationship.

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Speaker 9: I feel like you always treat whether it's like Rice

507
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Speaker 9: basketball or you of ahe or the Texans, you treat

508
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Speaker 9: everything with equal.

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Speaker 11: Everything, importance, everything matters. Yeah, it's all very important to me.

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Speaker 11: Rice basketball, Uh basketball. I was interviewing the baseball coach

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Speaker 11: of Texas Southern last night on Zoom.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: You all find it, You find everything, and you build

514
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Speaker 9: those relationships with people.

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Speaker 11: It's all very important. There's not anything that's not important

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Speaker 11: to me.

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Speaker 1: More with DP Cities exclusive conversation with Mark Berman from

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Speaker 1: Fox twenty six.

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Speaker 9: I see you interacting with the players in the locker room.

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Speaker 9: You did an interview with Clowney recently. You always had

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Speaker 9: a great relationship when he was here, and he wasn't

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Speaker 9: one to be warm and fuzzy with the media all

523
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Speaker 9: the time. What do you think it is about you

524
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Speaker 9: that players gravitate towards.

525
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Speaker 10: I would always see Kareem Jackson and them just joking around.

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Speaker 3: Said, Kareem was there.

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Speaker 9: Kareem was great. He said you were his intern on

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Speaker 9: kjack TV. He made you an honorary intern.

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Speaker 3: They love you well.

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Speaker 11: I don't know how to answer that. They just know

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Speaker 11: they can trust me. They know I'm never gonna doything

532
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Speaker 11: to hurt them. Sure, and I'm always going to make

533
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Speaker 11: sure they know what I'm doing. I'm never going to

534
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Speaker 11: surprise them, you know. I always try to do the

535
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Speaker 11: right thing. I'm not a negative reporter. I go in

536
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Speaker 11: there trying to do the right thing. Every now and

537
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Speaker 11: then stories get negative. If they do, it's gonna be

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Speaker 11: with the player or coach or somebody being negative.

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Speaker 3: It's not me. Yeah, I'm just I just cover you

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Speaker 3: and they know that. Okay.

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Speaker 9: I think in the forty years that you've been covering

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Speaker 9: this sport, I just think about, like in twenty years,

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Speaker 9: how much has changed with technology.

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Speaker 10: We mentioned like.

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Speaker 9: Social media, but what about like you're so good with

546
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Speaker 9: the cell phone, taking the video instantly tweeting it out.

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Speaker 10: Now everything's instantaneous.

548
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Speaker 9: What was it like when you first started and how

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Speaker 9: easy or difficult was that adjustment for you to sort

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Speaker 9: of transition to the social media platform.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, my daughter helped me get on Twitter. I first started.

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Speaker 11: I first tried it in two thousand and nine. I

553
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Speaker 11: didn't like it, Okay, so I didn't do it. If

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Speaker 11: you go on my phone or Twitter. It says since

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Speaker 11: two thousand and nine. That's not really true. It's twenty eleven,

556
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Speaker 11: and I realized that. First of all, my bosses wanted

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Speaker 11: me to do it okay, and I realized it was

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Speaker 11: the way to go.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how to say how.

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Speaker 11: I'm sure the transition was difficult, but that was twelve

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Speaker 11: years ago.

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Speaker 3: I don't remember, like.

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Speaker 9: How do you even do press conferences? Before the era

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Speaker 9: of cell phones, it.

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Speaker 11: Was a lot more fun, like it just take down,

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Speaker 11: taking notes. But now I'm trying to take notes tweet Invariably,

567
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Speaker 11: when I'm tweeting something, I'm missing something.

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Speaker 4: Yes, happens all the time.

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Speaker 11: Yes, today c J. Stroud scept something that was funny.

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Speaker 11: I don't know what he said, but it was funny.

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Speaker 11: I have my headphones on I couldn't hear him.

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Speaker 9: Happens all the time, I mean to me, I think

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Speaker 9: that's the most commendable part of what you and John

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Speaker 9: McClain and some of these reporters that have been around

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Speaker 9: for so many years to be able to transition.

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Speaker 10: It's not easy to get on social media and be

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Speaker 10: good at it. You guys are good, and you're fast.

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Speaker 11: You have to roll with the flow. If you don't,

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Speaker 11: you'll be left behind. Believe me, you got you got

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Speaker 11: to get up to speak really quickly. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 11: is that.

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Speaker 10: Your best advice for aspiring journalists? You think?

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Speaker 3: Just yeah?

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Speaker 10: Do you have advice for anyone that wants to do

585
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Speaker 10: what you do?

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Speaker 3: Well? If you want to do what I do, you

587
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Speaker 3: got to go do it.

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Speaker 11: You can't get another job and think about doing it

589
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Speaker 11: like you got to pay the price. My first job

590
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Speaker 11: was Odessa, Texas, seven hundred bucks a month in the

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Speaker 11: fall in nineteen seventy eight. I had to go out there,

592
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Speaker 11: had to figure it out. If you want to do this,

593
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Speaker 11: do it.

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Speaker 3: Find a way.

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Speaker 11: I don't know any there's no magic. I don't think

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Speaker 11: I'm no child prodigy.

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Speaker 3: Trust me.

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Speaker 10: It's I think your work ethic.

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Speaker 9: I think you will never say no to a store,

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Speaker 9: You'll never say no.

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Speaker 10: To an interview.

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Speaker 9: Your work ethic is really second to none. Where does

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Speaker 9: that come from?

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Speaker 3: Well, fear of losing.

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Speaker 10: You just have this fear of losing, But you really

606
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Speaker 10: have fomo. You have fear of missing out on story.

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Speaker 11: Absolutely, But let me tell you, I've always believed this.

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Speaker 11: If a coach player team official lawyer. They call you

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Speaker 11: and you're supposed to be off. You don't take the call,

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Speaker 11: or you don't call him back, they won't call you back,

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Speaker 11: so you're never off. If the phone rings you go

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Speaker 11: to work, that's that's like Christmas Eve. Nobody called me,

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Speaker 11: but there was news there. But I can't tell you.

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Speaker 11: It's like my wife, he said, when we've ever tried

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Speaker 11: to just be off for a day or two, my

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Speaker 11: phone explodes. Who knows why. But you can't ignore anybody.

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Speaker 11: You got to return every call, every text.

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Speaker 10: Otherwise they may not call.

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Speaker 3: Every direct message on Twitter that matters. Okay, they won't

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Speaker 3: call back, that's right.

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Speaker 10: Okay.

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Speaker 9: You have a great story about getting a number from

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Speaker 9: a very famous NBA player, which is this is really

624
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Speaker 9: my all time favorite Burman story. And I made you

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Speaker 9: tell it so many times because it's just tickles me. Okay,

626
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Speaker 9: but it's so humbling, So we gotta we gotta tell

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Speaker 9: this story about getting Speaking of getting.

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Speaker 3: Numbers, well, I had done a story.

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Speaker 11: Shack was here. I done a story on Shack. He

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Speaker 11: did something very unusual. The next day I saw him

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Speaker 11: and he goes and Mark I liked that story. I'm like,

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Speaker 11: what who does that, right, Nobody.

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Speaker 10: I wouldn't expect to him, and we shook hands.

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Speaker 3: I thanked him.

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Speaker 11: I really appreciate it today, Shack. You know, since you

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Speaker 11: liked the story and all, how about you giving it

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Speaker 11: your cell number? Fore develops that I need that's usually related,

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Speaker 11: I can get you on the phone.

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Speaker 3: He rolled off a number really quick, and I was pumped.

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Speaker 10: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So maybe a month or two later, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Something happened.

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Speaker 11: He was with the Lakers. Something happened. I got to

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Speaker 11: get him on the phone. I called him, they answered

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Speaker 11: the phone. The guy goes Pizza.

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Speaker 6: Hut like you did that Pizza Hut's number off the

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Speaker 6: top of his And I made the mistake of telling

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Speaker 6: that story to several people, and it went everywhere.

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Speaker 9: It is is because it's so it's so humbling to

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Speaker 9: know that that can happen to the best of us.

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Speaker 9: But the fact that he did it with a great

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Speaker 9: sense of humor, obviously, and you have a great sense

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Speaker 9: of humor for telling.

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Speaker 3: You what, I've actually gotten up a little bit. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: he's a really funny guy.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 11: His kids have been at Texas Southern. One of them

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Speaker 11: plays on the men's basketball team. So or did does?

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Speaker 11: And I got destroyed with him about that. Wow about

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Speaker 11: about his closest to the TSSUE coach Johnny Jones. They

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Speaker 11: were together when Shaq was an l ISSU. Talk about

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Speaker 11: a track record this kid he wanted his son to play.

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Speaker 3: For coach Jones. That's pretty impressive.

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Speaker 11: So you know, anyway, getting back to the telephone number,

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Speaker 11: I bet I'm not the only one he's given that

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Speaker 11: piece out number.

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Speaker 9: Two none if he's rolling it off the off his

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Speaker 9: tongue like.

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Speaker 11: Off the top of his head. And I'll bet you

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Speaker 11: he's ordered a few pieces there.

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Speaker 9: I'm sure he has.

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Speaker 10: He remembers it.

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Speaker 4: All right.

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Speaker 1: You thought that was it, But there's more. But wait,

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Speaker 1: there's more with DP City with Mark Berman. It's coming

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Speaker 1: up next here on Texans All Access. We continue with

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Speaker 1: this special Memorial Day weekend edition of the program with

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Speaker 1: dB Cithu's podcast, her interview exclusively with Mark Berman from

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Speaker 1: Fox twenty six, who's retiring. Quick anecdote here. When I

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Speaker 1: was at Miami his voice of the Hurricanes through the

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Speaker 1: two thousand and one season, Butch Davis was the head

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Speaker 1: coach and he left for the NFL. He went to

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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. After that, Larry Koker took over. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: Butch was interviewing for NFL jobs and one of them

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Speaker 1: was with the Houston Texans. And I remember being in

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Speaker 1: Miami and seeing video of Butch Davis at Busch Intercontinental

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Speaker 1: Airport and it was shot by kriv Fox twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Mark Berman was doing the interviewing. So he caught up

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Speaker 1: with Butch Davis at the airport. Is DP sitdo and

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Speaker 1: he had been talking about he does a lot of

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Speaker 1: airport work, Mark Berman. He probably has his own personal

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Speaker 1: parking space there because he's caught up with so many

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Speaker 1: athletes and coaches at the airports in Houston over the years.

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Speaker 1: But I remember that from before I ever lived here,

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Speaker 1: that footage, that story broken because he is the story

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Speaker 1: breaker and it's great to hear these stories with DP

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Speaker 1: Sitdoo and Mark Berman. Let's continue with Deep's podcast with

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Speaker 1: the Goat one of them along with John McClain, the

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Speaker 1: Lennon and McCartney of Houston Sports Media.

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Speaker 9: Mark Berman, when you look back at all the athletes

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Speaker 9: and the players that you've gotten in over the years, I.

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Speaker 10: Know this is going to be a hard one.

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Speaker 9: Impossible, But who who give me a few that really

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Speaker 9: that you really enjoyed covering.

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Speaker 4: Well, you got dB.

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Speaker 11: There's so many, and I feel like if I started

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Speaker 11: naming names, I'm gonna lose somebody. But one of my

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Speaker 11: for sure, but one of my favorites of all time

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Speaker 11: was the former receiver with the Oilers named Drew Hill.

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Speaker 11: He no longer with us, but he was hilarious and

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Speaker 11: his teammate, Mike Rosier, they're running back hilarious. We were

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Speaker 11: at an old Owlers reunion a couple of years ago

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Speaker 11: and Rosier did something that never happened me before and

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Speaker 11: probably never will. He walked up and kissed me on

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Speaker 11: the cheek. And I haven't told that story very much.

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Speaker 11: But beyond that, I mean there's a zillion guys. I mean,

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Speaker 11: Jeff Bagwell, you know, Warren Moon, you know, lots of

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Speaker 11: guys here with the Texans, bunch of guys here. I

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Speaker 11: can't think of names come off the top of my

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Speaker 11: head right now, but well, Kareem Jackson, Jonathan Joseph, they

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Speaker 11: were devian you.

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Speaker 3: Know all those obviously, just to get to see.

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Speaker 9: Cover and JJ from the ground up, and you'd always

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Speaker 9: joke around with you and press company from.

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Speaker 3: The ground up.

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Speaker 4: But he got so big so fast.

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Speaker 11: It was you know he had that that pick six

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Speaker 11: return against since he in the playoffs, he just exploded.

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Speaker 3: Here's a million guys on this team, but that I

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Speaker 3: like enjoy working with.

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Speaker 9: I know when signed here as head coach, I asked

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Speaker 9: you what was he like as a player, and you

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Speaker 9: really enjoyed covering himself?

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Speaker 11: If I remember, Okay, this was a different era when

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Speaker 11: he signed here. If I remember the story correctly, when

736
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Speaker 11: he signed here, his agents had me at the hotel

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Speaker 11: with Tamiko when he signed.

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Speaker 3: Wow, that doesn't happen anymore.

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Speaker 4: How did you?

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Speaker 3: I don't remember.

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Speaker 4: I don't remember.

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Speaker 3: I got to know the agents they let me come

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Speaker 3: up there. I don't know.

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Speaker 11: I don't Demiko was fantastic to cover. Yeah, he was

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Speaker 11: the best. He'll be the best here as a coach.

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Speaker 6: Coach.

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Speaker 11: That'll be something that I will greatly. I can't say

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Speaker 11: I miss it because I have it. He's just getting going.

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Speaker 11: That's one little one regret that I won't be here

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Speaker 11: to follow his success, because it will be here. They'll succeed.

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Speaker 9: I feel like the one thing that I have to

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Speaker 9: ask you is your airport interviews.

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Speaker 10: Did you get to meet with the airport.

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Speaker 3: By the way, I don't remember. Okay, there's been so many.

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Speaker 10: Okay, your airport interviews are iconic.

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Speaker 3: I know.

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Speaker 10: I wish we could do I hope, I hope.

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Speaker 9: Before your final sent off at Fox they do just

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Speaker 9: a mishmash of all of your best of airport interviews.

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Speaker 10: How, first of all, how does that happen?

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Speaker 11: Well, it's just many years ago. I realized the airport

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Speaker 11: is the place to be because when they land, you're

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Speaker 11: literally first. Well, but if they have luggage where they

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Speaker 11: gonna go? You know how long it takes to get

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Speaker 11: luggage at the airport, So they're just sitting there waiting.

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Speaker 11: I remember one time Fred Couples, the golfer, flew in here.

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Speaker 11: There's number one golfer in the world at the time,

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Speaker 11: for you of a star, And we got him at

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Speaker 11: the airport, but he didn't want to do the interview.

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Speaker 11: He was in a hurry, so we followed him to

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Speaker 11: the baggage. I go, Fred, you're not going anywhere. Oh no,

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Speaker 11: the luggage.

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Speaker 1: He goes.

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Speaker 3: You're right, let's just do it.

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Speaker 11: I remember, let's see Tubby Smith, former basketball coach, big

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Speaker 11: time coach, won a national Championship Kentucky. We were chasing

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Speaker 11: him around because they were talking to him in the

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Speaker 11: first of Houston, and he was We couldn't get him.

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Speaker 11: We couldn't, I couldn't, We couldn't corral him. So I

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Speaker 11: knew when he was leaving. He was leaving it southwell

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Speaker 11: on the Southwest Airlines flight from Hobby. So we went

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Speaker 11: to the gate back when you could go to the gate,

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Speaker 11: back when you could literally go to the gate.

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Speaker 3: So about the gate and the line is forever.

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Speaker 11: Here comes Tubby at the last second, running through the airport,

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Speaker 11: runs up to the counter, checks in. There's nowhere for

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Speaker 11: him to go. So he just stopped and did the interview.

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Speaker 11: He wan's he gonna do?

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Speaker 9: What are other people doing at the airport when you're interviewing?

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Speaker 9: Do they just sort of turn around and audio so

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Speaker 9: focused on.

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Speaker 3: What I'm doing? Very focused. I just I think they

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Speaker 3: kind of get used to it, they've seen it before.

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Speaker 9: You know, Are you allowed to divulge how you know

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Speaker 9: so much information about flights?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely not, Okay.

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Speaker 9: I mean we all have our you know, theories as

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Speaker 9: to how you know who's flying out when and where.

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Speaker 10: Flights.

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Speaker 11: Well, sometimes it's very simple. Sometimes the agent tells you,

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Speaker 11: which is almost never. By the way, I'm just gonna

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Speaker 11: give you some options. Sometimes times you find out from

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Speaker 11: the player. Almost never that's an option. The rest of them,

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Speaker 11: I'm not going to talk about it.

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Speaker 3: Because that's right.

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Speaker 10: Okay.

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Speaker 11: So when you used to get right now, then you guess,

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Speaker 11: but guess it usually doesn't work.

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Speaker 1: It's deep said. It's exclusive podcast with Mark Berman.

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Speaker 4: We continue.

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Speaker 9: I feel like you've had an airport story that of

812
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Speaker 9: being at the wrong gate and nearly missing a player.

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Speaker 10: Does that happen very often?

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Speaker 11: No, But I will tell you another self deprecating story.

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Speaker 11: I feel like you're chasing and we were chasing a

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Speaker 11: quarterback they were bringing in. I think he'd been waived

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Speaker 11: by Denver. This is some years ago Texans. I go

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Speaker 11: to the airport. I see a guy that looks like him.

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Speaker 11: He's got headphones on, he's got a hat. He didn't

820
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Speaker 11: he was supposed to have a beard, youd have a beard.

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Speaker 11: And I walked up to him and said, Hey, I

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Speaker 11: want to chat with you a minute.

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Speaker 4: It's not me.

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Speaker 11: So next day I'm at the I'm at the at

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Speaker 11: the locker room and I told him, I said I

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Speaker 11: was I was looking for you at the airport, but

827
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Speaker 11: I couldn't find you. He goes, yes, you did, Oh

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Speaker 11: you found me. I just didn't want to be interviewed.

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Speaker 3: I said, So you told me it wasn't you.

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Speaker 11: You had a hat on and sunglasses. I couldn't tell,

831
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Speaker 11: you know. He goes, it was embarrassing. Why would you

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Speaker 11: want to talk to me because that's my job. But

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Speaker 11: he deeped me that doesn't happen often, maybe.

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Speaker 3: Never, but it did. But it did happen. Absolutely. Haven't

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Speaker 3: told that, sir either.

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Speaker 10: Why you can't name who the court?

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Speaker 3: I can't remember.

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Speaker 10: You can't remember who was?

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Speaker 3: No, he was just here for a cup of coffee.

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Speaker 3: But I can't remember.

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Speaker 10: All right, So what do you do?

842
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Speaker 3: What do you?

843
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Speaker 10: What are you gonna do now when you're retired?

844
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Speaker 3: Not work for one?

845
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Speaker 4: Work?

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Speaker 10: I know you. I call it a ranch, you call

847
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Speaker 10: it five acres of land.

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Speaker 3: I mean you know. My wife is put up with

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Speaker 3: an awful lot.

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Speaker 11: We're gonna celebrate our thirtieth anniversary in September. Okay, she's

851
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 11: put up with an awful lot. It's my turn to

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Speaker 11: give back.

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Speaker 10: Oh that's nice.

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Speaker 4: How about that?

855
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Speaker 10: That is really nice?

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Speaker 3: She needs my help on some things. I'm gonna for

857
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Speaker 3: once in a.

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Speaker 10: While, I'm gonna be working on the house.

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Speaker 11: Well, no, I mean we're doing that now. Our home

860
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Speaker 11: is over twenty years old. We're doing some renovations. What

861
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Speaker 11: you have to do. I mean I may get I

862
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Speaker 11: may get some part time freelance work down the road

863
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Speaker 11: that'll have nothing to do with this stuff. Really, you know,

864
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Speaker 11: maybe if you're like John McClean. Oh God, John didn't retire.

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Speaker 3: That's the chronicle.

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Speaker 11: John's working just as hard as he ever did. Okay,

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Speaker 11: that's no, you'll never see it. Look here's how here's

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Speaker 11: how I look at it. If I'm going to do

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Speaker 11: anything to augment our retirement income and have anything to

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Speaker 11: do with chasing stories, covering practices, covering games, travel news conferences, do.

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Speaker 10: You want more of an eight to five.

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Speaker 11: No, not eight to five, maybe fifteen hours a week.

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Speaker 11: That's I said part time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 10: I was like, well that is part time.

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Speaker 11: Maybe maybe maybe maybe I don't do anything, but if

877
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Speaker 11: something develops that I can do it from home and

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00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 11: it's something that I'm capable of doing, I don't have

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Speaker 11: a hello, a lot of talent outside what we do here.

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Speaker 10: Well, that's what I was going to ask you, if

881
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Speaker 10: you weren't doing this, what do you think you would be?

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00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 3: No idea.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to dB Cities Exclusive podcast with Fox twenty

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Speaker 1: six is Mark Berman, who's retiring.

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Speaker 10: But you remember, okay, you didn't have like a backup

886
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 10: plan of the sports thing.

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Speaker 11: When I was growing up in Hempstead, Texas, which is

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Speaker 11: fifty miles northwest of here, in the back of my

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Speaker 11: dad's clothing store, I would sit back there and pretend

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Speaker 11: to be on TV.

891
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Speaker 3: Really, I would sit there and do the sports.

892
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Speaker 10: That was your dream?

893
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 3: Is absolutely this is all I ever wanted to do.

894
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Speaker 10: Your dad had a clothing store.

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Speaker 3: So I I did the books. I helped do the books.

896
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 10: You think into accounting or something like that.

897
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 3: I'm not what's smart in the business. Was it smart?

898
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Speaker 11: The doing the books is one thing being an accountants

899
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Speaker 11: or something else altogether?

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Speaker 3: No, this is what I always wanted to do, and

901
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 3: I did it. Uh huh. And I always want to

902
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 3: be on TV in Houston covering sports, and.

903
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 4: Fox made it happen.

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Speaker 10: That's tremendous.

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00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:40,240
Speaker 4: Now, I tell you's the mills.

906
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Speaker 3: This is true.

907
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Speaker 11: When I came to Fox in May of eighty six,

908
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 11: their standards weren't quite the same as they are now.

909
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Speaker 11: If I came to Fox now with the same credentials credentials,

910
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 11: I would not get the job.

911
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 10: Really, you think so no way. What do you think

912
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 10: got you the job back then?

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Speaker 4: Well?

914
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,319
Speaker 3: Back then? I remember the news director. I was on

915
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Speaker 3: radio at the time.

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Speaker 11: The news director said, can you get us stories like

917
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Speaker 11: you're doing on the radio.

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Speaker 3: I said, why not? I thought it could, So that's

919
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Speaker 3: what we did.

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Speaker 11: I wasn't very good on television, but I could get

921
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Speaker 11: the story. I get the information. That's what they wanted.

922
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 11: They wanted to be very local, so that's what we did.

923
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Speaker 11: We were local, very local, not local local local.

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Speaker 9: So me and you were chatting about this because I said,

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Speaker 9: my husband grew up watching you in Houston and he

926
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Speaker 9: wanted to know if you could go to any sporting

927
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Speaker 9: event in the world after retiring, where would you go?

928
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Speaker 10: And I said, I don't know. If Mark is really

929
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Speaker 10: a huge sports fan out I'm not because you don't

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00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:31,719
Speaker 10: really have time to enjoy it.

931
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Speaker 3: If I can watch it on TV, I'll be good.

932
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Speaker 10: There's nothing there's no like us Open.

933
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 3: Well, now, look wimbled. The only thing did you think

934
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Speaker 3: about the things.

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Speaker 10: That masters yeah, no, no.

936
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Speaker 3: Can't take you for well. Masters. It don't matter now

937
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 3: because I need my phone. Okay. I've covered the Rockets.

938
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Speaker 11: Winning championships, yes, and their sister team that no longer exists,

939
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Speaker 11: the comments. I've covered the Dynamo doing having some great years.

940
00:37:56,200 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 11: I covered the Asterisks who have been absolutely phenomenal. I

941
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Speaker 11: didn't get to cover the Texans in the Super Bowl. Okay, Okay,

942
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Speaker 11: if they get there, I think I'd probably have.

943
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Speaker 3: To be there.

944
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 10: You would have to be there, I.

945
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Speaker 3: Would think so.

946
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Speaker 11: And there are a couple of guys that don't want

947
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 11: to name names. It's not fair if they got in

948
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 11: the Hall of Fame, their respective hall of fame.

949
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Speaker 3: Sure, I think I need to want to be there.

950
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 3: I think I need to be there. That really nice,

951
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 3: that sort of thing.

952
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 11: But you know, who knows, who knows. I really don't

953
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 11: want to travel. I don't want to travel much. I

954
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,319
Speaker 11: don't want to get on planes. You know, my wife

955
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 11: and I've talked about going places.

956
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:31,839
Speaker 9: But driving, you'll drive around the country something like that,

957
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,359
Speaker 9: you know. Yeah, I was joking with you because you've

958
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 9: got a lot of animals that a lot of.

959
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:37,320
Speaker 3: People, well, my wife has animals.

960
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 4: I've had.

961
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 3: I've had to learn to love them.

962
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,879
Speaker 11: But we have We have a rabbit. We have a dog,

963
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 11: thump thumper. We have a dog named Yuki. Now here's here,

964
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 11: let's break some news.

965
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:47,359
Speaker 7: Here.

966
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 11: Our cat Nano, we lost him a while, a couple

967
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 11: of months ago, and she's got a replacement. And his

968
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 11: name is Yuli, not not Juli Guriel, the former astro star.

969
00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 11: I've never said that because I know if I tweet

970
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,800
Speaker 11: out his name is Yuli, they're gonna chops.

971
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 4: They're gonna bust by chops.

972
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 3: They had nothing to do with me. Okay.

973
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 11: Our dog's name is Yuki. So the cast name is Yuli,

974
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 11: of course. And I'll tell you something else my wife does.

975
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:16,320
Speaker 11: Our subdivision is overrun by deer. So you see me

976
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:19,400
Speaker 11: tweet photos of deer. We have deer everywhere, and she

977
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:22,319
Speaker 11: feeds them and they come to our driveway and I

978
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 11: mean twelve fourteen to sixteen of them out in our driveway.

979
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 10: Wow, that's amazing.

980
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 4: Yep.

981
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 10: And you don't live that far apart. Where do you live?

982
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 3: About forty five minutes north of here.

983
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 9: And there's a ton of deer around? Oh yeah, and

984
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 9: you make that forty five minute drive every single morning

985
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,840
Speaker 9: forty seconds. You don't like the early morning forty.

986
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:39,799
Speaker 4: Five fifty minutes.

987
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,759
Speaker 11: Absolutely in the morning, it's over an hour sure, with

988
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 11: rush hour coming here now, I hate it, but nothing

989
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:46,239
Speaker 11: I can do about it.

990
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:46,919
Speaker 3: It's a job.

991
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 10: I see your tweets about Deer and your grandson.

992
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 11: That Jackson is your favorite subject. Huh, Jackson's a favorite subject.

993
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:55,800
Speaker 11: He'll be eleven years old in June.

994
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 10: Wow, that's fantastic. Lots of lots of time with him.

995
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:01,320
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and your wife that's the plan.

996
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:01,919
Speaker 10: That's the plan.

997
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 3: And my son Martin, my daughter in law.

998
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 9: I just I feel like, once you retire, I'm not

999
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 9: going to see you because I know that you've got

1000
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:10,400
Speaker 9: all this decompressing that you need to do.

1001
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 10: But come by any time.

1002
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 9: I hope we do meet again in the textan super

1003
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:16,520
Speaker 9: Bowl and the Hall of Fame, and you know, it's

1004
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 9: just been my absolute pleasure to get to know you

1005
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 9: and work with you over the years.

1006
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 3: Same here.

1007
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 11: Let's uh, let's get together when the Texans are in

1008
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 11: the super Bowl.

1009
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 4: Let's do it about that.

1010
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:26,759
Speaker 10: It's a plan, all right, absolutely, thanks so much.

1011
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 3: Mark.

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00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 1: Okay, if you missed any of that, it's a podcast

1013
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Speaker 1: on Houston Texans dot Com and the Texans app and

1014
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Speaker 1: wherever you get podcasts, and I recommend you get them

1015
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Speaker 1: from the Texans platform itself. You can just click on

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Speaker 1: it it starts playing. You can do other stuff on

1017
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Speaker 1: your phone while you're listening. And I know that's very

1018
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Speaker 1: important to you, because it's important to me. That's how

1019
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Speaker 1: I podcast stuff at night, not record the podcasts, but

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Speaker 1: inges podcasts our own.

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Speaker 4: Or I don't know what your faves are.

1022
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 1: Maybe you listen to SmartLess, Like I was on a

1023
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Speaker 1: binge with SmartLess when it first came out around the

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Speaker 1: pandemic with Jason Bateman and those guys. But I kind

1025
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Speaker 1: of backed off of it a little bit and I

1026
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Speaker 1: went on to other things Peter Schiff, who is an economist.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's not the most entertaining thing in the world,

1028
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Speaker 1: but I like it because it's informative for me. Also,

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Speaker 1: I listen to The Ringer, I listen to the Rewatchables

1030
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:19,839
Speaker 1: where they talk about older movies, and I freaking love

1031
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 1: that stuff. But I also love listening to Deep Slant

1032
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 1: and Johnny stuff and true stuff and it's all very good.

1033
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Speaker 1: And yeah, I do air check myself, air checking for

1034
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 1: those not in the biz means listening to what you

1035
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Speaker 1: did on the air or in a podcast in this case,

1036
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Speaker 1: just to make sure that it's okay. I can't possibly

1037
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Speaker 1: listen to every single thing, but I try to games

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Speaker 1: included too. By the way, you young play by play

1039
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 1: announcers out there, you've got to listen to yourself a

1040
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Speaker 1: little bit. You've got to hear yourself a little bit,

1041
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:51,799
Speaker 1: maybe a lot, especially when you're starting out, just to

1042
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 1: hone the craft. All right, that's gonna do it for

1043
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Speaker 1: the program tonight. A reminder that Building the Texans, the

1044
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Speaker 1: latest episode drops at ten a m.

1045
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Speaker 4: Tomorrow. Draft episode.

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Speaker 1: Lone Star State and beyond, and also on Bally, which

1053
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:32,280
Speaker 1: maybe you're not watching too much of these days. In Houston,

1054
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Speaker 1: I have Exfinity, so I get it. But it's around

1055
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Speaker 1: the state and around Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana. All our Texan

1056
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Speaker 1: shows are seen around there, so it's very cool. Anyway,

1057
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Speaker 1: great to have you listening. Thanks so much for being

1058
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Speaker 1: a part of the program tonight. Have an excellent weekend.

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Speaker 1: Go Texans.