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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to the program that keeps you

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Speaker 1: up to date on your Houston Texans. Mark Vandamer with

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Speaker 1: you tonight. John Harris will be along. We have Nick

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Speaker 1: the show tonight. Hey, the players are back in the building.

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Speaker 1: We talked about this have been last night. And there

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Speaker 1: the people who cover the combine, it's the combine that

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Speaker 1: lot of you think, well, that's buried in the winter.

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Speaker 1: I'm not even thinking about football right then. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: interested in the Combine, but I hardly consider that the

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Speaker 1: start of the season. For some others, it's free agency

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Speaker 1: that starts the league year. Technically it does. The NFL

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Speaker 1: league sort of fiscal year begins in early March when

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Speaker 1: free agency starts, and I think a lot of you

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Speaker 1: feel like the year begins then certainly the new roster

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Speaker 1: buildup begins them. This is another one of those times

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Speaker 1: this week when the players come back for offseason conditioning.

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Speaker 1: OTA's stance for organized team activities. I get asked that

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Speaker 1: all the time. Now they're not on the field yet

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Speaker 1: workouts stuff. They can do various things. The coaches really

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Speaker 1: They can coach them in the meeting rooms in the classroom.

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Speaker 1: So that's big for the coaches for the players. We

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Speaker 1: explained a bunch of that last night, but it was

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Speaker 1: great to say a load to a lot of the

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Speaker 1: players today. We did start that yesterday internally, but we're

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Speaker 1: gonna get you a chance to hear from some of

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Speaker 1: the players today. J J. Watt. In the next segment,

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, of course, got out to the podium today.

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Speaker 1: That entire press conference is on Houston Texans dot com

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Speaker 1: and many of the Texans social media platforms. You should

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Speaker 1: be following us on Twitter at Houston Texans, the Facebook page, snapchat,

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Speaker 1: all of it, or just listening right here is Watson

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Speaker 1: was asked about taking care of his body. How that

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Speaker 1: has changed. I think the general asked him this question,

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Speaker 1: and he had plenty to say about it. It's very important. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's it's the temple, it's the it's the engine that

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Speaker 1: his peak at especially at this level, then you won't

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Speaker 1: the field. And uh, you know by doing that, you know,

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Speaker 1: perform on the film. Well he's doing them. And it's

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Speaker 1: great to see Deshaun Watson in the building and continuing

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Speaker 1: his rehab work. And Bill O'Brien has said previously he

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Speaker 1: we'll see what he means by some stuff soon enough. Again,

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Speaker 1: join us here in the Hunday Texans Radio studio tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: joining us right now is John Harris and Johnny What

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Speaker 1: a buzz in the building. To have everybody back, all

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Speaker 1: the guys here collectively, it really is special. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: injuries through game through game last year. Right. Yeah, how's

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Speaker 1: the off season been for you? What you've been up to?

428
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Speaker 1: Traveling a little bit? Have done into traveling? I know

429
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Speaker 1: obviously the restaurants still still going fast and furious for you.

430
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Speaker 1: Boy's the off seasons been like for you? Yeah? So

431
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Speaker 1: I got cleared, um man, that was like probably three

432
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Speaker 1: or four weeks ago, about a month. Um, So that

433
00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:50,800
Speaker 1: was a pretty awesome. So I got to go travel.

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Speaker 1: So I went to go like I went to France, Italy,

435
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Speaker 1: I went to China. Oh my god, goodness. I went

436
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Speaker 1: to Stafford sugar Land. So I went like far east coast,

437
00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:07,000
Speaker 1: far west coast. So it's pretty cool, um, just to

438
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Speaker 1: get like, you know, experienced like different cultures, see different

439
00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:12,119
Speaker 1: things in the world, um, you know, and it just

440
00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:14,880
Speaker 1: really expand my knowledge on you know, a different take

441
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Speaker 1: on like you know, my own life perspective and stuff

442
00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:18,800
Speaker 1: like that. All right, we want to get your perspective

443
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Speaker 1: on this because the draft is coming up. And what

444
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Speaker 1: are your memories of the build up to the draft

445
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Speaker 1: as you were selected in the first Rounditude that that's

446
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Speaker 1: a long time ago, now, man, man seven years, seven years, crazy,

447
00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:35,920
Speaker 1: the time flies by. Um, my memories about my draft time. Um. Honestly,

448
00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:39,560
Speaker 1: I remember putting in my grade for the committee, um

449
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Speaker 1: and getting a third round grade back. So then it

450
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Speaker 1: was like, you know what, I definitely can improve my

451
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Speaker 1: draft stock, and I sure did. At the combine, I

452
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Speaker 1: thought it was gonna go a little bit earlier. That's

453
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Speaker 1: what is being said by my agent. But you know

454
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Speaker 1: everybody thinks, well, a lot of the mock drafts, how

455
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Speaker 1: are you going a lot higher? Yeah, exactly exactly. So

456
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Speaker 1: I just kept on dropping and dropping. Um. So I

457
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Speaker 1: didn't know what's gonna happen. So I was just happy

458
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Speaker 1: not to be in Radio City, right but with the

459
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Speaker 1: camera on me, and so I was glad I was

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Speaker 1: back at home with like all my family, friends, my

461
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Speaker 1: coaches and stuff like that. Um, and sure enough get

462
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Speaker 1: picked up by the Texans, and I knew I wanted

463
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Speaker 1: to go somewhere and play like in warm weather, and

464
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Speaker 1: uh so, definitely, I didn't realize how it was gonna

465
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Speaker 1: get careful exactly exactly. So that was cool. And then

466
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Speaker 1: I remember that when I got drafted and then uh uh,

467
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Speaker 1: I remember my sister like jumping on top of the

468
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Speaker 1: couch and then like kind of skurry kind of came

469
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Speaker 1: up because like NFL network was like the Street Man,

470
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Speaker 1: and so yeah, that was wild. But uh it was cool, man.

471
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Speaker 1: It was like surreal because I didn't think that I

472
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Speaker 1: was gonna actually, you know, be playing in the NFL

473
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Speaker 1: or you know, get a chance to go to the NFL.

474
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Speaker 1: I was just more directed on my studies. It's cool.

475
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Speaker 1: I went back and I looked at what I had

476
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Speaker 1: to write about you in twenty and twelve. That's been

477
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Speaker 1: one of the fun things. And seeing the guys that

478
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Speaker 1: end up here and like what I had to say

479
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Speaker 1: about them. Yeah, I knocked it out of the park. Okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, so here we go. First of all, I

481
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Speaker 1: had the projection perfect late first round yea, okay, outstanding

482
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Speaker 1: quickness off the snap raw in terms of pass rush technique,

483
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Speaker 1: feeling feel relying most on athleticism. Yes, pretty good arm leke,

484
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Speaker 1: but needs to learn the extension and keep lining off

485
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Speaker 1: of him. Yeah, can close like a shot on quarterbacks

486
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Speaker 1: and running backs in space. On awareness is very marginal.

487
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Speaker 1: Sorry about that, Oh my gosh, doesn't show instincts he

488
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Speaker 1: needs at next level. That changed gets blocked and stays

489
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Speaker 1: blocked against the run on edge rush squares his shoulder's

490
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Speaker 1: quarterback is not easily redirected, shows good effort, plays into whistle. Yes,

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Speaker 1: here's my overall right, now, he's the second round of talent. However,

492
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Speaker 1: his full potential is definitely higher. When he learns to

493
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Speaker 1: use his hands effectively, he'll be much better. His thin

494
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Speaker 1: lower body will probably never be great against the run.

495
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Speaker 1: If given the opportunity to operate in space, is a

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Speaker 1: three fronts linebacker wide nine, he could become a force

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Speaker 1: as a pass rusher man. How close? Did I get?

498
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Speaker 1: Pretty close? Pretty close? Can definitely play the run now, Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: that's the one thing I would say. In fact, I

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Speaker 1: did a film room on that. The other day. We

501
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Speaker 1: watched you when you line up with the center, it's

502
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Speaker 1: one of the things we talked about. You line up

503
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Speaker 1: with the center and we saw against New England you

504
00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,320
Speaker 1: thought that spin move and man, it was one. But

505
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Speaker 1: then against Tennessee they had a third down run. You're

506
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Speaker 1: kind of caught in between, and you played the center perfectly.

507
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Speaker 1: And the one thing that stood out to me was

508
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Speaker 1: your hands and how much and how well you've gotten.

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Speaker 1: And that's one of the things I said, if you

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Speaker 1: learn to use your hands, how important has that become

511
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Speaker 1: to your overall game? Huge? Because I make more plays

512
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Speaker 1: that way. I get guys, you know, not engaged in

513
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Speaker 1: my body, not to hold me or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: So now I can make I mean at least fifty

515
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Speaker 1: percent more plays by just playing with technique and controlling

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Speaker 1: the man and playing with perfect leverage as well too.

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Speaker 1: And that's something that's what I've improved my game, especially

518
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Speaker 1: you know, when my rabrol was here to you know

519
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Speaker 1: really because he played the game, so he taught us

520
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Speaker 1: the way how to play outside linebacker, especially in different

521
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Speaker 1: areas like over the center or over the guard, things

522
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Speaker 1: like that, and just applying that all over the field.

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Speaker 1: And so once that happened, I mean, my production has

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Speaker 1: definitely increased significantly. All you forgot to put it in

525
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Speaker 1: your scouting report. John foodie potential. Yeah, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: how's that going with the restaurant and everything? Yeah, pretty awesome, man.

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Speaker 1: Uh honestly, we're still in like phase two, which is

528
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Speaker 1: uh a romance languages which is Italian, French, and Spanish,

529
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Speaker 1: and uh that's man, that's great. Um, everybody loves it. Um.

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Speaker 1: So we've gotten great reviews, we have great service and

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Speaker 1: all that and so uh man, it's been uh it's

532
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Speaker 1: been killing it, just uh blown it out the park.

533
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Speaker 1: And then we're just waiting to go into our next phase,

534
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Speaker 1: which is Mediterranean. Oh yeah, so that'd be uh September first,

535
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Speaker 1: and that'll run until again July thirty first. So this

536
00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:40,520
Speaker 1: year we'll run until July thirty first, slows down for

537
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Speaker 1: the month of August revamp everything like the decre uh

538
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Speaker 1: you know, the color scheme to shut it down for

539
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Speaker 1: a month. Yeah, I mean it's a slow month for restaurant. Yeah, exactly,

540
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Speaker 1: that's a slow month for a lot of restaurants there

541
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Speaker 1: in that time. Have you heard from other restaurant tours

542
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Speaker 1: from throughout the country or even throughout the world that

543
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Speaker 1: looked at your concept and go we want to try

544
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Speaker 1: by that man. Honestly, Man, it's pretty cool to actually

545
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Speaker 1: see like I taught it, like whenever I go to

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Speaker 1: like different restaurants stuff like that. Uh man. It's funny

547
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,800
Speaker 1: because like the food critics, um, which I've met a

548
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Speaker 1: few James Beard Committee members and stuff like that, and

549
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,159
Speaker 1: you know, they always have like on the radar and

550
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,159
Speaker 1: they read about it, and it's very interesting concept, especially

551
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Speaker 1: when you know you have Chris Shephard. It was already

552
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Speaker 1: you know, really entrenched into the food community and so

553
00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:27,360
Speaker 1: cool just to you know, they always asked me, why

554
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Speaker 1: do you want to get into the food business and

555
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:31,359
Speaker 1: all that, and I'm just like, I just love food. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's it. So that was cool just to you know,

557
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Speaker 1: be partner up with Chris who's just great at it.

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Speaker 1: What was China like a culture shock? Yeah? So um

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Speaker 1: once by that I went to was uh Zeno, China,

560
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Speaker 1: and uh that it's pretty difficult as far as the

561
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Speaker 1: language barrier. Um, you know, that's pretty difficult in order

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Speaker 1: to like communicate. But I did have an app to

563
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Speaker 1: like translate for it, like uh in Chinese. Yeah, so

564
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Speaker 1: you can talk into it and it'll pay yeah exactly,

565
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 1: I'll play it back, yeah, and then they can talk

566
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Speaker 1: Chinese and then it will play back as far as

567
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:06,359
Speaker 1: uh um, you know, in English and stuff like that.

568
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:08,720
Speaker 1: So it's pretty difficult, but then you go. Then I

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Speaker 1: went to Hong Kong. Alkhong is like really a beautiful,

570
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Speaker 1: beautiful city international. It's it's like it's so different, um,

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Speaker 1: you know everybody. I mean, there's so much money out there,

572
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Speaker 1: it's crazy, and it's just a beautiful city as far

573
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Speaker 1: as like having like the harbor run through the middle

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Speaker 1: of the city as well, and then these buildings like

575
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Speaker 1: they have like this light show. So I went on

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Speaker 1: like a night cruise and the cruise will like sit

577
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the harbor and then you'll look

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Speaker 1: at the buildings and the buildings will just like play

579
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Speaker 1: with some type of music they're playing on the boat,

580
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Speaker 1: and it's like spot on. It's like really really cool.

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Speaker 1: And then a lot of people like they party every

582
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Speaker 1: single night out there too. I'm just like, how do

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Speaker 1: you y'all do this? Man? I was ready to get out,

584
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:52,920
Speaker 1: but man, it's uh yeah, it really gives you a

585
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Speaker 1: different perspective as far as what's going on in the world.

586
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Speaker 1: So um, I would say when I was like flying

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Speaker 1: through like Beijing or zing shout. You could really see

588
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,440
Speaker 1: the pollution, um because they I mean they're very industrious

589
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:06,119
Speaker 1: as far as like having a lot of factories out there,

590
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,800
Speaker 1: so it makes sense. And even on a clear day,

591
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,800
Speaker 1: it's like there's like a huge fog over the city.

592
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:13,919
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, that's why you see a lot of

593
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 1: like a lot of them like wear the mask or

594
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 1: their face is just not to inhale all that pollution.

595
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,919
Speaker 1: But there's been talk, of course it can be just

596
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 1: internet talk whatever the case might be, but talk of

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Speaker 1: playing a game of a football game over in China. Yeah,

598
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Speaker 1: would you ever be excited? Would you be excited to

599
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Speaker 1: do that? Or would that that what they alone? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I imagine, yeah, Dome definitely for sure. Um. You know

601
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Speaker 1: what's tough is the flight over there. It's like so

602
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 1: every flight connects through Beijing. It just depends where you

603
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 1: gotta get, like where they want to set the stadium

604
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,439
Speaker 1: up and stuff like that. So I could be in Beijing,

605
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 1: which would be easy, but it's already a fourteen hour

606
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Speaker 1: flight straight from Houston all the way over on over

607
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Speaker 1: to uh Beijing, and uh yes, a lot I watched

608
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 1: a lot man um, so in you know that already

609
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 1: you've got like jet lag and it's a seventeen hour

610
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 1: difference on time, right, Yeah, so like pretty much you've

611
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,440
Speaker 1: got to get adjusted to that. So I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you want to spend the week, um, you know,

613
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,200
Speaker 1: trying to get adjusted and try to play a game. So, UM,

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00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 1: I don't know how that's gonna work out. Um if

615
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 1: they try to test it. Um, hopefully it's not in

616
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Speaker 1: my career, but I'll still be down though, I will

617
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Speaker 1: still be down. Whitney, thanks a lot for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Good luck. Yeah, I appreciate it. Whitney Merciless Here in

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Speaker 1: the Hyunday Texans Radio studio and a broadcast note. Whitney

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Speaker 1: will be back with us for some of our food

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Speaker 1: Rutgers Texans players shows this fall. Stafford location is his

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Speaker 1: haunt for that particular program Tuesday Night's during the regular season.

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Speaker 1: More information on that later and broadcast notes in the

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Speaker 1: next segment, including but not limited to, could the Draft

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Speaker 1: be televised by even more networks? Not this year, but

626
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Speaker 1: in the future. You know, Fox is joining the part

627
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Speaker 1: this year our draft broadcast. Who's gonna be on Night

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Speaker 1: number one? A guy we have never had as part

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Speaker 1: of our draft broadcast, but we should have. It's long overdue,

630
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Speaker 1: and we'll tell you who that is. Also, who's going

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Speaker 1: to do Texans preseason television games the second highest rated

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Speaker 1: sports TV series in Houston behind Texans regular season games.

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Speaker 1: Preseason TV Crew. I'll have that for you next, among

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Speaker 1: other things, with John Harris here in the Hyunday Texans

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Speaker 1: radio studio, it's Texans All Access all Right. Going around

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Speaker 1: the league a little bit. As we continue on Texans

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Speaker 1: All Access, Mark Factor, Aaron, John Harris with you all right, Johnny.

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Speaker 1: A few things in the last segment here and some

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Speaker 1: related to broadcasting. A couple of interesting news and notes items.

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Speaker 1: First of all, how about the Brett Farve failure of

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Speaker 1: his audition for Monday Night Football on ESPN. I don't

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Speaker 1: know that I would have ever seen Brett Farve as

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Speaker 1: a fit. I'm Monday Night Football for for whatever reason,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I just when I that he failed

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Speaker 1: the audition and went, yeah, I sort of expected that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, really, I don't yeah, I don't know why.

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Speaker 1: I just in an interview format, he's not that great,

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Speaker 1: but you know what, I've seen him in the miked

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Speaker 1: up stuff. He's phenomenal. Yeah, and that's that's the one

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Speaker 1: other thing about auditioning too. I would imagine there's some

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Speaker 1: guys when the lights go on, and you know this,

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Speaker 1: when the lights go on, you're a lot different than

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Speaker 1: you are in practice because you know it's practice and

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Speaker 1: go to the al and iverson thing. You know it's practice.

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Speaker 1: You know it's not the real deal. And I can

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Speaker 1: sense that too when you get into a real situation. Man,

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Speaker 1: just for some reason, lights going, I think Brett would

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Speaker 1: have done a pretty solid job, but for some reason

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Speaker 1: I just didn't. I didn't think it was gonna be

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Speaker 1: a great fit for whatever reason. I don't know. That's

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Speaker 1: just that's just me. But you're right, his micd up

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Speaker 1: stuff is very very good. I can tell you this.

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Speaker 1: If you put me in a room and had me

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Speaker 1: do play by playoff a monitor, it would not be

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Speaker 1: the same as doing a game live. It's just not

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Speaker 1: There's something about being there and you lend the wind

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Speaker 1: on your face through the booth window or whatever. Although

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Speaker 1: Andre doesn't like to open the windows if you can

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Speaker 1: help it, if it's at all below fifty degree. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: Trey called you out there. And by the way, we

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Speaker 1: might as well, announce this right now, a couple of announcements.

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Speaker 1: How about this for broad announcements. Here we go opening

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Speaker 1: night of the draft. Texans don't have a pick, but

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Speaker 1: we always do a show, right, We're not doing a

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Speaker 1: show from the draft, not a draft party, and all

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Speaker 1: right that because there's no draft party opening night draft. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but so we'll be on for the entire draft on

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Speaker 1: sports Radio six ten on Texans Radio dot com. Andre,

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Speaker 1: where is gonna join us for opening night? This is

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Speaker 1: gonna be great first round draft coverage. You me, Trey,

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Speaker 1: We'll have it off for you. And you know he

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Speaker 1: watches and does a ton of college football broadcasting. You

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Speaker 1: watch everything, so and I'll just sort of play along.

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Speaker 1: So this is gonna be a good night. Well, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna be a ton of SEC guys that he has

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Speaker 1: he's been in productions, production meetings with that he has

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Speaker 1: covered over the last few years. He's gonna have a

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Speaker 1: really good insight into those guys. And then guys like

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Speaker 1: Baker Field and Lamar Jackson, two Heisman winners that obviously

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Speaker 1: he's in that fraternity. It's gonna be really interesting to

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Speaker 1: get his thoughts. I was reading an article about Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 1: I want to say it was an MMQB. I think

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Jones did it, and he was talking about how

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Speaker 1: Lamar had been pretty difficult for people to reach throughout

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Speaker 1: this process because his mom was running things. And one

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Speaker 1: of the one of the two people that got interviews

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Speaker 1: one was I can't remember who one was, but the

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Speaker 1: other one was Andrea. Andrea was one of the few

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Speaker 1: people to talk to Lamar so exactly. And you're in

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Speaker 1: that fraternity, one guy every year is added to that mix,

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Speaker 1: and Dray's part of that, and Lamar and Baker, he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be able to speak to them, and of course,

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Speaker 1: as being a big quarterback draft, he's gonna have a

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Speaker 1: huge role in that. So I was thrilled when I

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Speaker 1: walked in today and you said, hey, Drey's joining us

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Speaker 1: for Thursday nine, went, yes, this is awesome. And another

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Speaker 1: one and we'll talk about this more later, but preseason

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Speaker 1: television play by play, Kevin Coogler is back, that's official now,

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Speaker 1: and Spencer Tillman is back as color commentator and Rude

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Speaker 1: Jority back on the sideline, So that crew is intact,

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Speaker 1: and our whole behind the scenes production crew as those

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Speaker 1: telecasts are phenomenal that go on ABC thirteen. As we'll

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Speaker 1: do all four preseason games this year. We give it

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Speaker 1: the schedule last week, schedule this week. I keep any questions.

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking Thursday. Now. I think if it was going

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Speaker 1: to be tomorrow, I would have heard by now, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would think. So I kept saying Wednesday. And that's

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Speaker 1: the day I held on too, because that was the

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Speaker 1: day the preseason schedule was unveiled, and so I was

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Speaker 1: holding out hope that it would be Wednesday, just I

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Speaker 1: was actually holding out hope it would be today. That's

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Speaker 1: a pretty cool day. I gotta admit, it's great. I

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Speaker 1: remember in twenty fourteen, you and I, you and I

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Speaker 1: had had talked about coming to board, and so I

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Speaker 1: was not on board quite yet when that schedule was released. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I remember being at home watching it. And then

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Speaker 1: the next year I was in the building when it

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Speaker 1: was about to be announced, and so it was like

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Speaker 1: this buzz throughout the building of where are our games?

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Speaker 1: Where our games? Okay, we played at home, what are

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Speaker 1: gonna be our special theme games? Where old primed time games? It.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's a really cool time to be

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Speaker 1: in the building to know what the schedule is and

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Speaker 1: get excited about it and all that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: So it's I'm looking forward to whether it's tomorrow, where

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Speaker 1: it's Thursday. But I'm with you now I think it's Thursday.

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Speaker 1: One other note on the draft broadcast stuff. We indicated

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Speaker 1: that we'd be doing the entire draft here on the radio.

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Speaker 1: We will. Now there's a report from The Sporting News

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Speaker 1: about the Draft being broadcast on multiple networks. Yes, this

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Speaker 1: year you're going to see NFL network, ESPNN, Fox, but

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Speaker 1: there's no real exclusivity in the contracts with NFL network.

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Speaker 1: Well that's the league anyway, But with ESPN that's why

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Speaker 1: Fox can do it. And the thought is that maybe

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Speaker 1: everybody who wants to gets to do it, kind of

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Speaker 1: like election night. It's election the NFL. Why not open

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Speaker 1: it up wide and let everybody do it. Now, the

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Speaker 1: league knows already that NFL network although it's great coverage. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people live on ESPN. They're not going

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Speaker 1: to switch the channel for whatever reason. Ask the people

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Speaker 1: at FS one that that happens a lot to them.

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Speaker 1: They have this ESPN challenge, But it's good. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be interesting if that ever happens that way, you cover

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Speaker 1: it like election night, because the draft, it's almost like

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Speaker 1: it's public domain, Johnny. I mean, I remember my first

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Speaker 1: ever full time radio job was for a small radio

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Speaker 1: station in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, and we actually did a draft

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Speaker 1: show and we played music in between songs. We'd give

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Speaker 1: you the last couple of picks or whatever. Actually that

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Speaker 1: was in the day of fifteen minutes between picks. I

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Speaker 1: guess like every three songs we'd give you a pick.

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Speaker 1: But you get my drift here. A lot of people

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Speaker 1: do draft shows. What's interesting you said two things. Number one,

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Speaker 1: you said night election night. That stands out to me

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Speaker 1: because did you ever I remember when it was announced

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Speaker 1: that the draft was going to three days and that

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Speaker 1: it was gonna be put on Thursday night, smart because

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Speaker 1: it was a Saturday Sunday, Neil. For for a long time,

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Speaker 1: afternoon Saturday would start in the morning and you got first, second,

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Speaker 1: third round in on Saturday forever and it went off.

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Speaker 1: I remember once it would go on first round. We

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Speaker 1: just never rand. We stayed on the air until the

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Speaker 1: first round ended. It was five hours and forty five

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Speaker 1: minutes once. I'm not making that up, And I was

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Speaker 1: probably one of the few that was like, Okay, this

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Speaker 1: thing can go on forever. I didn't care. And then

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Speaker 1: bother me and then Sunday was fourth through seven, So

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Speaker 1: I remember ridiculous. I remember when they moved it to

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Speaker 1: the to nighttime, and I believe that was two thousand

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Speaker 1: and ten. That was two thousand and ten. That was

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Speaker 1: the first year when Kareem got drafted. That was the

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Speaker 1: first year they went to night and I remember thinking,

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Speaker 1: Thursday night the single work. This isn't gonna work. And

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Speaker 1: now we're talking about part two. Everybody getting involved because

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Speaker 1: you do you want something on draft night as big

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Speaker 1: as you would have on election night. Obviously, election nights

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Speaker 1: a whole different animal. I get that, but you want

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Speaker 1: it to be a prime time we're gonna put I

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Speaker 1: mean because you're talking networks now, right, you're talking what CBS, NBC,

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Speaker 1: Fox is already involved, uh in ESPN, but you're talking

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Speaker 1: about major networks saying, yeah, we're gonna put the draft

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Speaker 1: on here. We don't have to do as much of

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Speaker 1: the others, but we're gonna be there on Draft night.

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Speaker 1: You don't The thing about the thing about it is

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Speaker 1: you can find people that could talk about the top

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Speaker 1: fifty prospects and talk about them pretty well. You can.

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Speaker 1: You can find guys that can do that. Once you

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Speaker 1: start getting into Saturday, when you're getting down into prospect

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Speaker 1: to fifty, it's a little it's a little tougher. Oh

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Speaker 1: they're a little tough running for you. Well, which is

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Speaker 1: not good for me. But if they're doing it for

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Speaker 1: prime time, if they're doing it for one night, yeah yeah,

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Speaker 1: they probably wouldn't do the Saturday thing. Yeah, you're not

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Speaker 1: gonna get a network doing rounds four through seven. But

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Speaker 1: if you're doing a prime time prime time show, heck

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Speaker 1: yeah you can get all your get all your stars

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Speaker 1: involved in some way, shape or form. I mean, heck,

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Speaker 1: if if say MBC is doing it and Collinsworth is there,

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Speaker 1: think about all the PFF information they're gonna be able

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Speaker 1: to use because that's Collinsworth's company. I want interesting. I

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Speaker 1: wonder if they would ever toy around with another way

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Speaker 1: to select undrafted free agents, make that a spectacle of sorts,

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Speaker 1: because right now they draft and Bill o'bryants talked about this.

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Speaker 1: You're drafting for seven rounds, so you're drafting three days.

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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, you're back to recruiting. You're back

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Speaker 1: to recruiting undrafted free agents to come visit. They have

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Speaker 1: to recruit Steven Anderson to come here, they have to

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Speaker 1: recruit Dylan Cole to come here. Hey, this is a

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Speaker 1: good fit for you. We'll pay you X. Now, the

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Speaker 1: money doesn't vary that much. It's not liking a FOURK

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Speaker 1: over a billion dollars for an underdrafted free agent. But

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Speaker 1: you can get a little bit of a sweeter deal

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Speaker 1: one place than another. And there are other elements maybe

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Speaker 1: playing into it as well. It well, the interesting aspect

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Speaker 1: to me is would they ever go back to be

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Speaker 1: And I'm trying to remember the year it flipped over?

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Speaker 1: But they way back in the day, they used to

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Speaker 1: have like thirty rounds and they cut down to seventeen

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Speaker 1: and the twelve and then bart Star again, seventeenth rounder,

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Speaker 1: seventeenth rounder apart star. And I wouldn't be surprised that

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Speaker 1: they went to another three rounds. Why not throw another

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Speaker 1: three rounds in there? Two minutes in between rounds. Those

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Speaker 1: are like your undrafted guys, but they get drafted. Go

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Speaker 1: a minute. Why not? I almost like put in bid

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Speaker 1: just youre like, all right, I'll put it to put

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Speaker 1: it in an eighth round. You're auction you're auctioning off

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Speaker 1: the bid. All of a sudden, Dylan Cole walks up

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Speaker 1: and you're like, how does the supplemental draft work? That's

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Speaker 1: exactly how it works. That's true. I'll take this guy

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Speaker 1: with a second rounder, but if somebody grabs them. But

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Speaker 1: it's almost like the waiver wire. Wow, it's like it's

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00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 1: a waiver wire's thought. But you're right, I think the

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Speaker 1: undrafted process is one that is I don't say it's

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Speaker 1: it's just a mystery to a lot of people because

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Speaker 1: we don't see it the draft. We all we see.

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Speaker 1: We now can see all those phone calls already in

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Speaker 1: the sixth and round because they're saying, Hey, if you

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Speaker 1: don't get drafted, will you signed with us? Right? Are

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Speaker 1: you interested in us? Here's what we'll be able to do.

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Speaker 1: And then those guys end up sometimes getting drafted off

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Speaker 1: the table. Yeah, so it's off the table. And sometimes

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Speaker 1: I feel bad for those guys because they end up

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Speaker 1: getting a call on seven three area code or are

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Speaker 1: we tweet one? Tweet one? You get that area code

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Speaker 1: and you think the Texas are gonna draft me, and

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Speaker 1: then you realize, what, wait a second, Texas don't have

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Speaker 1: any picks. Why are they calling hello when you think

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Speaker 1: about signing with us? And it's a great thing that

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Speaker 1: they're coming after. Yeah, but a lot of guys know

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Speaker 1: they're gonna end up somewhere. They're gonna get at least

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Speaker 1: a triumph, and that's all at that point, that's all

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Speaker 1: they're looking for. But the thing about being undrafted guy

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Speaker 1: is you pick. Yeah, you decide when you're gonna drafted

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Speaker 1: the six and seventh round, the teams are deciding, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're the undrafted guy. You decide where you want. You

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Speaker 1: want to be mister irrelevant or not. I want to

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to be drafted. The whole mister I

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Speaker 1: relevant thing wouldn't bother me. It would I would know

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Speaker 1: I got drafted. I wouldn't have to make that decision

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Speaker 1: of where I was gonna go. I wouldn't feel bad

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Speaker 1: about mister irrelevant. I got drafted. You got drafted, drafted

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Speaker 1: the seventh round, and you do get some attention. You

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Speaker 1: don't get money, but you get some attention. I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: even I wouldn't even want to do the mister irrelevant thing.

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Speaker 1: I really wouldn't. I would just want to just Okay,

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Speaker 1: I got drafted, great, I hold up to Jersey whatever.

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Speaker 1: But I'm I'm I'm seventh round or I'm moving on.

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Speaker 1: Lonnie Valentine was mister irrelevant and he got an article

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Speaker 1: and some magazine and you know, you get a trip

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Speaker 1: to Disneyland or Disneyland, do you really? Yeah, well that's

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Speaker 1: worth it. Yeah, you get things that can get kind

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Speaker 1: of pricey. All right, Johnny, thanks a lot. You gotta

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Speaker 1: mark that's gonna do it for the show tonight. Well,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much for listening. Nick Martin on the program,

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Speaker 1: Whitney Merciless on the program. And tomorrow night, Deshaun Watson

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Speaker 1: you've heard of him, he'll be on this very radio program.

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Speaker 1: Gallant at Night is next. Go Texans,