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Speaker 1: Game day is every day. No, it's Texans all excess.

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Speaker 1: All right, we have to do a podcast because we're

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Speaker 1: happy Demiko Ryans is the head coach of the Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans and it's hot off the press for us as

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Speaker 1: we record this. Mark Vandermyer, Drew Doherty, DP City. So

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Speaker 1: so I tweeted, I quote tweeted your tweet. Let's just

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Speaker 1: start here. People are wondering, what's the building like? Because

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Speaker 1: I was on a show already, they were asking me

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Speaker 1: about that. The building. I don't think I've ever seen

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Speaker 1: it this happy outside of a playoff game victory or something.

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Speaker 1: But you're not in the office during a playoff game victory.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever seen the offices like that.

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Speaker 1: It is electric right now that Demiko Ryans has become

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Speaker 1: the head coach of this team. Can we just start

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Speaker 1: with the fact that we are in a four hour

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Speaker 1: marketing meeting and people just started dropping like flies, Like,

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Speaker 1: While you were talking, someone else is talking. That person

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Speaker 1: And we're all getting on our phones like it's happening.

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Speaker 1: It's literally it's the office meme. It's happening. Mark is

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Speaker 1: going on, Mark, This is you talk about talking about

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Speaker 1: how happy the office was. So we're waiting to put

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Speaker 1: some content up and we're watching Twitter and the news

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Speaker 1: But right before the news comes out, we hear this

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Speaker 1: the business side seeing Demiko walk in with a big

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Speaker 1: I actually got it from my desk because I have

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Speaker 1: such severe fomo. I could hear cheering, and I ran

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Speaker 1: operation side, and I just hear someone go, hey, Drew,

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Speaker 1: just so giddy and happy. I've been grinded on this

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Speaker 1: guys are I said, I did congratulate Nick, though I

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Speaker 1: based on reports, this thing was not in the bag

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Speaker 1: as we all were hoping as of Monday that Denver

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Speaker 1: But he and Rapp report reported that. I'm just glad

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Speaker 1: that that doesn't factor in at all. Demko's a Texan,

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Speaker 1: he's back home. And that meeting you were talking about,

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Speaker 1: Actually my group was done presenting. Your group was up next. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And so it's funny. I saw him the cafeteria earlier today.

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Speaker 1: leadership can't be overstated enough. Damiko Ryans is the leader

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Speaker 1: about bringing Demiko Ryan's back. It's a memorable name because

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Speaker 1: He's gonna make a fantastic head coach someday. The fact

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Speaker 1: The city knows him, the fans know him. I mean

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Speaker 1: I was joking to Mark. I tweeted about him walking

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Speaker 1: if Shane Steiken or one of those other guys came

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Speaker 1: now you're beloved. Okay, Now that's it. Because the day

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Speaker 1: many days that is, this is the greatest offseason or

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Speaker 1: other than the launch of the team itself. And McClain

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Speaker 1: and text about this very topic. The Kubiak hiring was

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Speaker 1: Does some of it have to do with where you've

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Speaker 1: been the last three years? Well maybe all right, but

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