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Speaker 1: In the Lab, a Texans podcast that takes a different

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Speaker 1: look at things. Drew Doherty and John Harris have their

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Speaker 1: lab coats and goggles on and the Bunsen burners burning.

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Speaker 1: Here's Drew, Johnny, it's here. Man.

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Speaker 2: I am so amped about this schedule for the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 2: Our Houston Texans twenty twenty four six. The only game

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Speaker 2: in town games.

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Speaker 3: Oh. I like the way you put that. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: in town, so a good way to put it. Ya.

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Speaker 3: It's not after seven.

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Speaker 2: Pm, so it's not technically a prime time but it's

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Speaker 2: a primetime game, right, only game. It's out Christmas Day.

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Speaker 2: I think you know, everybody's healthy. This is a lot

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Speaker 2: different Christmas Day than the one in twenty seven.

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Speaker 3: Oh gosh, you know. Oh man, I can't wait. What

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Speaker 3: struck me?

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Speaker 2: And I want to get this from you in a second.

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Speaker 2: But the first thing that leaped out to me when

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Speaker 2: I saw this schedule three primetime games in a row

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Speaker 2: late in the season. I don't I know, that's never

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Speaker 2: happened in Texans Street. That's kind of rare for any team,

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Speaker 2: but that that was a big, big deal to me.

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Speaker 2: And then kind of two A because that was one

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Speaker 2: A plus two. A was well, that's a late bye,

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Speaker 2: and I like that late by in December. I'll take

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Speaker 2: that every day of the week, really really fun schedule.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be hard, but every game, every schedule in

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Speaker 2: the NFL is hard. Those are the two things that

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Speaker 2: jumped out at me. What did jump out of What

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Speaker 2: jump out of you?

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Speaker 3: First?

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Speaker 4: Well, you're right immediately, the the primetime games in a

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Speaker 4: row and all on a different day.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Jets Thursday.

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Speaker 4: Then you get Sunday night Lions, and you get extra

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Speaker 4: and row and then you know, Christmas Day stood out

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Speaker 4: for sure. But when I went back and I'm like, okay,

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Speaker 4: let's let's look at a number of things here. First

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Speaker 4: of all, the when you play these rookie quarterbacks, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: because you got a bunch of them on the schedule,

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Speaker 3: Well you're facing those three pretty early.

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Speaker 4: And there are the thought that maybe now Kayle Williams,

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Speaker 4: I would imagine, unless he's injured, you'd see him for sure.

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Speaker 4: Don't know about Drake May and JJ McCarthy because of

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Speaker 4: how early we're playing those teams. But if you don't,

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Speaker 4: you're facing Sam Donoland Minnesota, and you're facing Jacoby Brissett

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Speaker 4: in Brissette in New England. Now, Jacoby Brissett in New

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Speaker 4: England has always been a bugaboo. Jacoby Brissett and Jillette

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Speaker 4: Stadium have always been a problem for the Texans. We've

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Speaker 4: only beaten one of those two entities once, Jacoby Brissett.

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Speaker 4: We beat him on Thursday Night Football in twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 4: That's it.

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Speaker 3: Than when he was a cult Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, He's owned us in every other uniform he's been in,

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Speaker 4: and Gellette Stadium has owned us. So I kind of

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Speaker 4: hope it's Drake May in some sense. But I also

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Speaker 4: look for that, and I looked at the start of

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Speaker 4: the schedule, and of course, you know me as a

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Speaker 4: weather situation. Well, you start off at Indianapolis inside, then

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Speaker 4: you come back for two at home Bill's Jaguars inside. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Your first road game outside is week six at New England, right,

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Speaker 2: and that a high temperature of sixty four degrees.

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Speaker 4: Right, And then you get Green Bay the week after that,

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Speaker 4: which is the first time that we're going to Green Bay,

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Speaker 4: not in December. So you've got all that working for you.

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Speaker 4: If you go back to the two preseason games, the

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Speaker 4: bye week, so inside inside, bye week, inside for five

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Speaker 4: straight games. So after the Steelers preseason game, you don't

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Speaker 4: So you have nine of your first thirteen games inside

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Speaker 3: Could be chili bones. Man, we've been there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was rough, Arctic, it was rough in Kansas

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Speaker 4: but there's something about in December I can handle. I

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Speaker 4: I look at those kind of things. But then you

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Speaker 4: start looking at how it starts. You know, how the

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Speaker 4: then Chicago got home. Then you go too Minnesota again,

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Speaker 4: you come back home for those two, and you got Jacksonville,

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Speaker 4: the Bills you're gonna break out those h Town unis.

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Speaker 4: And I guarantee you, with all the hype there's been

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Speaker 4: team is not gonna go out there and lay an

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Speaker 4: you can get off to a pretty good start. Then

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Speaker 4: to be pretty good. But you've never wanted your lead.

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Speaker 4: But what if you win that? Then you go to

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Speaker 4: see what they've gone. Maybe you start off really really

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Speaker 3: Kind of ride ride the wave.

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Speaker 4: Not saying you win all three prime time games, but

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Speaker 4: come out of there maybe two, one, which would be nice,

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Speaker 4: but you survive that that and then you finish up

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Speaker 4: the first thirteen weeks with I think Jacksonville, Tennessee.

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Speaker 3: I think that's right.

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Speaker 4: So you can come out of there, you know, those

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Speaker 4: so it's a big Matza ball, but I think you

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Speaker 3: So hopefully that's the case.

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Speaker 4: Hopefully I'm right about that, because if they get off

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Speaker 3: But that's gonna be tough.

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Speaker 4: So you've got to be in a pretty good you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's tough.

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Speaker 2: Now, many of you listening to this, I'm sure Dave

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Speaker 2: Howard Dave, what's up say to this? Know that because

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Speaker 2: of the NFL plays seventeen games, Texans are playing the Cowboys.

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Speaker 2: But one of my best friends, who's a pretty big

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Speaker 3: What's the deal there? So, just as a friendly reminder.

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Speaker 2: When the schedule went to seventeen games a few years back,

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Speaker 2: it lines up with the division. So the AFC South

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Speaker 2: the winner of the NFC East, the Cowboys, plays the

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Speaker 2: Last year, the AFC South played the NFC West, So

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Speaker 2: So that's the reasoning behind that.

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Speaker 3: So that's how they added that game.

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Speaker 4: And it's similar to what happens with your AFC schedule.

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Speaker 4: Our AFC division that we match up with the AFC East,

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Speaker 4: but we're still going to play one team from the

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 4: And then the in where we finished first place. That

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Speaker 4: what it did was it instead of us facing the

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Speaker 2: And on paper, hey yeah, that's the harder schedule. But

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Speaker 3: That no change. The teams that are at the tippy.

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Speaker 3: You know, you never know. It's the beauty of the NFL.

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Speaker 2: So Texans are just gonna play the game in front

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Speaker 2: another thing to add on to this Cowboys game. Texans

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Speaker 3: Two thousand and two.

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Speaker 2: They won the branchise opener here at ag Stadium twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 3: They went to overtime and beat the.

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Speaker 2: not no problem. I'm fine with that. Get to stay

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Speaker 3: As far as.

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Speaker 2: Rest and short week games, there's not too many of

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Speaker 3: One thing, it's not perfect.

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Speaker 2: It's not a dune game like every like last season

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Speaker 2: Week eighteen. But it could be worse, and I don't

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Speaker 4: As what my point is, I think where it gets

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Speaker 4: to me, where it gets dicey.

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Speaker 3: The short weeks.

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Speaker 4: You've got two I'm gonna say Thursday games in air quotes.

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Speaker 4: So you just listening, I'm putting up the air quotes.

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Speaker 4: You're watching, you're seeing me do it because Saturday, and

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Speaker 4: you've got Saturday to Wednesday and Sunday the Thursday, so

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Speaker 4: you have two of those.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 4: I think it was Mike Florio pointing this out. There

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Speaker 4: I don't I don't think it was more. I think

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Speaker 4: you know every game was at noon last year?

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Speaker 3: Okay, how sexy is that?

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Speaker 4: We were playing in Halloween in New York, ye against

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Speaker 3: So let's see if the NFL is trying to do there.

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Speaker 4: And I think what that's leading towards me is this

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Speaker 2: Let's do this and once you get to eighteen games,

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Speaker 2: let's have two bye weeks per team.

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Speaker 3: And I think that's what they're gonna find out.

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Speaker 2: Ultimately, let's nuke the sports month of February it's the

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Speaker 2: get right into March in college basketball. That way, we

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Speaker 3: Yep, I agree.

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Speaker 4: I think that's I think that's what we're gonna get to.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna happen.

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Speaker 4: I think you're gonna have to start a labor day

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know football. It's tremendously well and

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Speaker 4: Well, here's one of the things I found out last night,

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Speaker 3: But that's a that's a football smorgas board.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I know on YouTube TV, I can split

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Speaker 4: You know, college football, they're gonna steal from you know, look,

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Speaker 4: it's a collge football playoffa and they're playing people watching that.

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Speaker 4: They're gonna be plenty of people watching. The Texans are

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Speaker 2: Plenty of people watching HGTV too give a crap about football.

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Speaker 4: And as they used to say, there are probably one

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Speaker 4: hundred million people in China that don't give a damn.

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Speaker 3: Exactly exactly, but we give a damn.

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Speaker 2: We do the Houston Texans and we're excited, man, I mean,

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Speaker 2: It's a big, big day to schedules and it's out.

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Speaker 2: You wrote a fantastic folks, buy the numbers.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of cool he's John just spouted off

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Speaker 2: a few of the stuff that he wrote about in

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Speaker 2: that column. But there's a lot more, so go check

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Speaker 2: that out. There's so much on Houston Texans dot com

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Speaker 2: because you listen to this, and we appreciate you, you

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Speaker 2: Samkusner checking this out and watching this on YouTube. Make

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Speaker 2: subscribe to our YouTube channel, the Houston Texans YouTube channel,

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Speaker 2: so you get that stuff updated like this and like that,

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Speaker 2: and like this and and it'll be even better. And no,

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Speaker 2: I'm not going through puberty. My voice is cracking and

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Speaker 2: is old. I've coached two primetime playoff baseball hate you

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Speaker 2: and there you go. These are playing for the title

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Speaker 2: on Saturday morning. We're excited.

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Speaker 3: Let's go Bees, so Bees, no Bees? Baby? All right, John,

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Speaker 3: Always good to be with you, my friend.

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Speaker 2: It's always good for you to check us out here

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Speaker 2: on YouTube, Spotify, iTunes, Houston Texans dot com, the Houston

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Speaker 3: We do it for you. And if we didn't have you,

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Speaker 3: we wouldn't be able to do it. This is in

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