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Speaker 1: Good evening, Texans, Welcome to the program. Mark Vandermaer with

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Speaker 1: going to take at least a year for it to

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Speaker 1: get here. Yeah, I think I think they said it

429
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Speaker 1: was coming in twenty twenty one, and I'm like, man

430
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Speaker 1: nine parts. I mean, Jason here, who did the Jordan documentary.

431
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Speaker 1: He started back I think in twenty seventeen, so, and

432
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Speaker 1: I mean, look all the different interviews he was able

433
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Speaker 1: to get. He had to sit with Jordan three separate times,

434
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Speaker 1: which spanned I think about I think fifteen sixteen months.

435
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Speaker 1: And he finished episode ten, he said, on Thursday, and

436
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Speaker 1: it played on Sunday. So nine parts, nine parts. Now

437
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Speaker 1: you can do nine parts if in some cases, if

438
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Speaker 1: you want to do like nine half hour segments, obviously

439
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 1: that's not as taxing. But if you want to give

440
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:14,280
Speaker 1: the full picture, yeah, then I think obviously you've you've

441
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 1: got some room to do some things. Well, everybody's seeing

442
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:20,760
Speaker 1: the last dance. This is just opened ESPN's eyes. ESPN

443
00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,280
Speaker 1: has ordered this Brady thing because they see what this

444
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 1: just did. Now, COVID has a lot to do with it.

445
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 1: You don't have any playoff competition, no baseball competition, no

446
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 1: nothing other than the NFL offseason, which is a big thing.

447
00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:35,600
Speaker 1: But they could get by with that and it got

448
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:39,640
Speaker 1: monster ratings. And what else is more compelling or as

449
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:43,280
Speaker 1: compelling or Brady Brady's compelling. So let's go with a

450
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 1: six times Super Bowl champion and get his story, get

451
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:48,600
Speaker 1: it out there in a similar sort of way. Look

452
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,119
Speaker 1: the Last Dance when when this was announced. When I

453
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Speaker 1: first heard about the Last Dance, I thought, they're gonna

454
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Speaker 1: do ten of these. I love thirty four thirties. We

455
00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:59,000
Speaker 1: all do. And when they're two hours, it feels like

456
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Speaker 1: a while, you know, or maybe a two part or

457
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:05,920
Speaker 1: two hours each feels like a lot of content. Ten episodes.

458
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 1: But it worked, you know, it was really well done.

459
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,840
Speaker 1: It just jumping back and forth as they got closer

460
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Speaker 1: to the end, like ninety eight, now we're jumping back

461
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Speaker 1: to ninety seven. I was like, well, wait a minute, Oh,

462
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:19,400
Speaker 1: we're in the Eastern Conference finals. Okay, oh, we're back

463
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Speaker 1: to the finals of the previous year. You know, jumping

464
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:23,240
Speaker 1: back and forth that way was a little strange. I

465
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Speaker 1: just find this stuff fascinating, and this is all we're

466
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Speaker 1: watching right now, and it leads me to this, Johnny.

467
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Speaker 1: There are a ton of football lifes on NFL Network

468
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Speaker 1: that I'm sure a lot of people have not seen.

469
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Speaker 1: And I was kind of joking about Carson Palmer, do

470
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:37,320
Speaker 1: we really need one? But there are a lot of

471
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Speaker 1: really good ones that people should take a look at.

472
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Speaker 1: I record all of them and catch them when you know,

473
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Speaker 1: I'm looking for something to watch pop on one of

474
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:48,400
Speaker 1: those babies, and it's great viewing. It's there have been

475
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 1: so many of them, Mark where I feel like I

476
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 1: know the story to a degree. In some cases, I

477
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,880
Speaker 1: know it maybe better than I don't want to say

478
00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 1: the normal fan, but the casual fan and I sit

479
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,640
Speaker 1: down and watch it and go man, I didn't know that.

480
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:09,200
Speaker 1: I had no idea about that. The one that first

481
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 1: comes to mind. Its funny when you said that, the

482
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Speaker 1: first one that came to mind was Terrell Davis. I

483
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 1: don't know you've seen the Football Life on Terrell Davis,

484
00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:19,440
Speaker 1: but it's you know, we all we all remember Terrell

485
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:22,920
Speaker 1: two thousand yard runner for the Broncos, and we think, well,

486
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 1: you know, his knee injury. That was kind of the story.

487
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,479
Speaker 1: You know, his career was cut short. Man. The fact

488
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 1: that he even got to the NFL was the story.

489
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Speaker 1: And it's just really it's incredible how NFL films put

490
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:41,320
Speaker 1: put that. I could watch those Football Life episodes forever

491
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:47,119
Speaker 1: because there's always something new in those particular episodes that

492
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Speaker 1: I didn't know. And the Tarrell Davis episode was was tremendous.

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Speaker 1: I knew some of it kind of from a thirty

494
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Speaker 1: thousand feet level, I didn't know the whole thing. But

495
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: then they've also stepped down. They did Houston ninety three,

496
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Speaker 1: then they did Cleveland ninety five. I told the story

497
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Speaker 1: of those two teams and those two cities and those

498
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 1: particular time, and they were so compelling, so incredibly compelling.

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Speaker 1: So I do think that there is a way to

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Speaker 1: tell Tom's story. And if you're gonna do it in

501
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 1: nine parts, here's the thing with you know, the bouncing

502
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Speaker 1: back and forth. You know. I know some people had

503
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 1: had a kind of a problem with that. I didn't.

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Speaker 1: I kind of liked that. I was kind of okay

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Speaker 1: with that. It made I don't know, it made sense

506
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 1: to me for some reason watching it that okay, now

507
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 1: they're gonna go back, now they're gonna tell this. It

508
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 1: made sense to me, and I know a lot of

509
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 1: people it didn't. But for some reason watching it, I

510
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 1: kind of I got the I got what they were

511
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Speaker 1: doing with it. The biggest thing was they ran episodes

512
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 1: one and two, and obviously everybody wanted to see it,

513
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:47,200
Speaker 1: but there was so much buzz afterwards that night. Now

514
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:51,400
Speaker 1: that episode ended East Coast time at eleven o'clock and

515
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,600
Speaker 1: mark my Twitter timeline. Obviously here was ten my Twitter

516
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 1: timeline couldn't have blown up anymore with hashtag the Last Dance.

517
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 1: It was amazing. And if you're like, oh man, I

518
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:03,159
Speaker 1: didn't see it, well, now, obviously you have ways you

519
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: can see it because you go to ESPN Plus or

520
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 1: watch it if you record on the DVR or whatever.

521
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 1: But you're like, I'm not missing next week. I'm not

522
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,120
Speaker 1: missing it. And it would get to the point where

523
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:16,880
Speaker 1: Sunday night, I'm sitting in front it was destination television

524
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 1: mark for me for the first time in a long time,

525
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 1: like I had to be sitting in front of that

526
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Speaker 1: television to watch to a point where Page would look

527
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 1: at me at about seven thirty on Sunday nights and goes,

528
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 1: are you getting ready for the dance show? And I

529
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:31,679
Speaker 1: was like dance show? Yeah, the dance show. And I

530
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 1: was like, well, I do like World of Dance in NBC,

531
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:35,639
Speaker 1: but no, this is a different kind of dance page.

532
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 1: And there's a clean version two that are on ESPN two.

533
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:43,400
Speaker 1: So I'd record, yes, and I would play it for

534
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 1: vander Kid, the clean one and sometimes not the clean one,

535
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 1: all right, So and I believe it was nineteen sixty.

536
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 1: There was a CBS television special called The Violent World

537
00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 1: of Sam Huff Yes, and I forget where I saw

538
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 1: this tweeted or reported on, because it was going back

539
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 1: to the sports documentaries, and this is one of the

540
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 1: very first ones that took you behind the scenes. And

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Speaker 1: it's on YouTube. I'm gonna check out. It's forty three

542
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:13,280
Speaker 1: minutes here, forty four minutes on YouTube and you can

543
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 1: watch it. A CBS television special from the sixties. And

544
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: remember when Hard Knocks came here to document the Houston

545
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 1: Texans twenty fifteen training camp. I remember that Matt Dissinger,

546
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 1: the director and Ken Rogers, the producer, they were talking

547
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: about the origins of this of Hard Knocks and NFL films,

548
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 1: visiting Vince Lombardi and the Packers in the late sixties,

549
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 1: and I guess it was earlier. It was earlier before

550
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 1: Vince started to win championships, or was he winning already,

551
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 1: I can't remember, but Vince did tell them and this

552
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 1: was a key selling point from there on out to

553
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 1: get access to NFL camps. Vince told the director that

554
00:29:56,480 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: the players were practicing harder when the cameras were rolling,

555
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,959
Speaker 1: so come on and shoot some more stuff. He liked it.

556
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 1: He liked it. Yeah, he liked it because he did

557
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 1: he thought that his players played a little bit harder

558
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 1: with that camera on them than not. Now, I would

559
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 1: imagine flash forward, you know, fifty sixty years forward, and

560
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 1: everywhere these players have gone, there's been a camera on them,

561
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 1: no matter, no matter where they where they have been.

562
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Speaker 1: So I think it's it's probably changed a little bit,

563
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Speaker 1: but I would imagine I would imagine if getting to

564
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Speaker 1: play and we have over the years, we've gotten players

565
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Speaker 1: kind of in a quiet moment, asked them about hard knocks, uh,

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Speaker 1: And it's it's been kind of interesting because a lot

567
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Speaker 1: of them pretty much just wanted nothing to do with

568
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Speaker 1: with hard knocks. I remember j Quiz Rodgers, he was

569
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 1: playing with Atlanta at twenty fourteen, and that they Atlanta

570
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 1: had come to Houston. And I remember because his uncle

571
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 1: is a good friend of mine, his agent, and so

572
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Speaker 1: we talk a lot of times about different things and

573
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Speaker 1: prospects and such, and so I went over to see

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Speaker 1: him and they were asking him about hard knocks, and

575
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 1: they're like, you're trying to get on camera, trying to

576
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 1: get a camera goes, I'm getting as far away from

577
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 1: that camera as possible. And there was one scene in

578
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 1: which Quiz it was a running backs meeting and Quizzle

579
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 1: sitting that you could see him look and see the

580
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 1: camera and he just bolts. He gets he gets out

581
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: of dodge. So I'm sure there were a few players

582
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: that were like that, that wanted nothing to do with it.

583
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 1: And then I'm sure there were a few that probably

584
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: reveled in the limelight that Hard Knocks creates for these

585
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Speaker 1: NFL players. I'll be here. That's you know, that's one

586
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 1: thing we ever really talked about. Mark, Will there be

587
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 1: a Hard Knocks? I guess if there's a training camp,

588
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 1: it's gotta be a hard Knocks, right. I haven't heard

589
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 1: anything about it this year, and I think it's gonna

590
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 1: be tough for them. It's gonna be, but there's gotta

591
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 1: be right. If there's gonna be training camp, there's gotta

592
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Speaker 1: be a hard Knocks. Didn't Rogers go to Lamar consolidated?

593
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 1: You're all blah blah as well, Quiz Okay, Mark saw

594
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 1: the best football programs in the city, or at least

595
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: it was. Then they split and they want the Foster

596
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 1: so ceedee, lamb, what are gone on? La Mark consolidate

597
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 1: it but steady and with the Foster all because of that,

598
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 1: schools have split because the area has grown so much

599
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: out there in Richmond in particular. So yeah, that would

600
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 1: that would all been Lamarket Solidated. But Foster was what

601
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 1: oh seven or eight somewhere and that maybe a little

602
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: bit earlier, but about that time frame, so that really

603
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 1: kind of pulled away. But Quiz is in his his

604
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 1: brother Quiz and Qwan James Rodgers, who both played at

605
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: Organ State. It was so funny to see those two

606
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 1: out of Organ State and here they are. Neither one

607
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 1: of them is bigger than five to seven. And they

608
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 1: were such giants in that program. I mean, they were

609
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 1: absolutely beloved in Corvallis. It was it was amazing to

610
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Speaker 1: see and and unfortunately James heard his knee late in

611
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 1: his career, but Quiz was able to put together a

612
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 1: decently long career in the NFL. So yeah, Lamarket Solidate

613
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: is where it's at. My friend, Well, I hope there's

614
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 1: a hard Knox. I hope there's a full training camp

615
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 1: that we all can go to that we all can observe.

616
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: I mean, every time I talked to McLean, I get depressed.

617
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: I don't know if we're gonna be loud to see

618
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: these games. I'm like, oh my gosh, Oh my gosh.

619
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Speaker 1: I know on television, you know, as far as what

620
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:07,719
Speaker 1: we do, we're spoiled. We get to see everything up

621
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Speaker 1: close and personal. Right, fans are thinking, well, I watched

622
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 1: on TV anyway, so it's no difference to me really

623
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Speaker 1: the way they're going to do it. I prefer fans

624
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: in the sands, just for the atmosphere. But you know,

625
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: it's just different. It's just different. Let's just hope it

626
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 1: all gets done, and the most important thing is getting

627
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 1: COVID behind us in some way, shape or form, coming

628
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 1: up with some sort of solution, some sort of remedy

629
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Speaker 1: so we can all get back to normal life, and

630
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 1: obviously football would be a part of that. Johnny, thanks

631
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Speaker 1: so much for visiting tonight. Absolutely, Mark, thank you. M

632
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Speaker 1: all right, John Harris with us Coming up next, it's

633
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Speaker 1: Patti Smith from the Harris County Houston Sports Authority. But

634
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 1: she's so much more than that, right, I mean, the

635
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: Houston Sports Awards has been great and she's been running

636
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 1: the show there but covering the Astros rockets Texans for

637
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 1: so many years? What does she think of everything that's

638
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: going on? And this is kind of a pregame show

639
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 1: to her visit with Justin Reed tonight at seven o'clock

640
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Speaker 1: on the queued up Show. What's that going to be like?

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Speaker 1: We'll find out next here on Texans All Access. For

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Speaker 1: the most in depth coverage of your favorite team and players,

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Speaker 1: check out Houston Texans dot com. Now back to more

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Speaker 1: Texans talk on Texans All Access. Continuing things on Texans

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Speaker 1: All Access today, Mark VanderMeer with you, joined now by

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Speaker 1: my friend Patty Smith of Harris Cuddy Houston Sports Authority,

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Speaker 1: formerly of Fox Sports Southwest, and so many other things. Patty, welcome,

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Speaker 1: How are you? I am great, all things considered, Mark,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing? I'm doing well. We were talking

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Speaker 1: a little bit off the air about my feelings on

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Speaker 1: the lockdown and how I'm coping. How are you coping?

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Speaker 1: How are you spending your time? Are you working out

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Speaker 1: of the house more or less? Are you back in

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Speaker 1: the office a little bit now? How are you handling

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Speaker 1: life working out of the house. We are not in

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Speaker 1: our office at all. We are extremely busy, which is

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00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,280
Speaker 1: kind of crazy. To think we are busy doing things

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00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:12,759
Speaker 1: in such a different way and kind of reimagining how

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Speaker 1: we used to do things, you know, from the confines

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Speaker 1: of our house. So of course we're you know, so

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00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 1: much involved in events, and with so many events being canceled,

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00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 1: you know, we had to spend a lot of time

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Speaker 1: doing that postponium, changing things, rearranging things. And then of

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Speaker 1: course we've launched this new show, which has brought me

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Speaker 1: to what we're here to talk about tonight. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: queued up que apostrophe Is it e ed or D

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Speaker 1: or whatever? Queued up? Tell me about just que apostrophe

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Speaker 1: D queue for quarantine. Of course, we launched it immediately,

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Speaker 1: like right away. We were I would like to say, pioneers.

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Speaker 1: We were one of the first ones to jump on

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Speaker 1: and do the whole zoom show call with graphics, a

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Speaker 1: whole bit. So we're like in week numbers seven or

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Speaker 1: eight on this already. We have a new episode out

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Speaker 1: every Thursday night. We go live with a Facebook watch party,

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00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 1: and we do different Houston athletes. We started off we

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00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 1: premiered back in March with Jeff Bagwell. We've done Roger Clemens,

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00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:15,160
Speaker 1: We've done George Foreman Whitney mercill of Alex Bregman. So

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00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:17,839
Speaker 1: we just kind of do you know, thirty forty five

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Speaker 1: minutes with a Houston athlete and kind of just talk

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Speaker 1: about what's going on in their life now, their careers

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Speaker 1: and just sort of have some fun with it. And

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Speaker 1: you have Justin read on tonight, which is very cool.

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Speaker 1: That's not in a few minutes seven pm Central Justin Reid, right, Yes,

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Speaker 1: Justin was actually a blast, and we for the you know,

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Speaker 1: we kind of try to change things up a little

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Speaker 1: bit each time. When we had Alex Bregman on, we

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Speaker 1: had Paul Wall came in and you know, zoom moms

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Speaker 1: the call and we didn't tell Alex, so we had

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Speaker 1: fun with it that way. But with Justin, this was

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Speaker 1: the first time we've kind of done it with a

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Speaker 1: live studio audience so to speak. I'm doing that with

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Speaker 1: air quotes that you can't see. But we invited some

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Speaker 1: people off of social media and some fans to come

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Speaker 1: and be a part of the call. So Justin and

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Speaker 1: I continued and did the interview as normal, but we

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Speaker 1: had about ten or fifteen fans that were watching, and

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Speaker 1: then at the end they were able to interact and

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Speaker 1: ask him some questions and he was just phenomenal. So

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Speaker 1: it was a lot of fun. Justin is a great talker,

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Speaker 1: great player. He's going to be good here for a

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Speaker 1: long time. So I can't wait to check this one

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Speaker 1: out tonight at seven with queued up. Now, tell me

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00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 1: about Clements. How did that go? I saw that. That's

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Speaker 1: fun to interview Roger for you. He's always talked with you,

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Speaker 1: even in the dare I say, darkest days. So what

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Speaker 1: was it like to meet up with him and do

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Speaker 1: this show? It was great. Rogers is easy, you know,

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Speaker 1: you can just toss anything out there and he just goes.

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Speaker 1: And Roger actually went about an hour long show and

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Speaker 1: we were Yeah, he sat in his office and then

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Speaker 1: he had him kind of pick up his laptop and

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Speaker 1: take us out to his calls at the Dome. Out there,

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Speaker 1: he has his own little training facility and he has

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Speaker 1: the colors and some of the athletes coming out there

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Speaker 1: still to train. So he kind of took his laptop

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Speaker 1: out there and gave us a little tour and showed us,

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Speaker 1: you know, where he works out kind of his whole compound,

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Speaker 1: some of his memorabilias. So it was pretty cool. Sounds

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Speaker 1: very cool, Patty. You've been in this business for a while, obviously,

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Speaker 1: not obviously, but with all your experience, I mean, covering

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Speaker 1: the Astros, covering the Rockets, doing so much reporting for them.

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Speaker 1: How bizarre is this to you to see Let's forget

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Speaker 1: about football for a moment, because you hosted Texas Huddle

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Speaker 1: for years, but let's talk about baseball and basketball. What

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Speaker 1: they're going through. Basketball having the plug pulled, and baseball

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Speaker 1: having the plug pulled before it ever gets started. It's

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Speaker 1: it's crazy. I mean, it's it's almost it is inconceivable,

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Speaker 1: but yet here we are, so obviously we can conceive it.

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Speaker 1: You know, how it comes back is going to be

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Speaker 1: really the interesting thing. And this is something that I

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Speaker 1: talked to every one of these athletes about on these

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Speaker 1: all you know, kind of what they're hearing, what it

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Speaker 1: will be like if they do have to go to

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Speaker 1: empty stadiums and play with no fans, and none of

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Speaker 1: them like that, but they all want to get back

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Speaker 1: out there on the field, so they're willing to do it.

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Speaker 1: Of course. I think, I don't know how you feel

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Speaker 1: about it, but for me, baseball seems fairly easy to me.

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Speaker 1: You know it's not so much of a contact sport football,

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Speaker 1: and I would love to hear your take on that

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Speaker 1: when you hear they're talking about trying to create masks

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Speaker 1: to wear under their helmets and you know, some weird stuff.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know that one is such a contact sport.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I mean, it seems

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Speaker 1: so like you and I were talking before, not to say, oh,

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Speaker 1: sixty thousand people in one place. You're like, oh, that

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Speaker 1: just can't happen, Like it's it's such a terrible thing.

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Speaker 1: It's just what we've done for our entire lives. So

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Speaker 1: you know, our new norm is just so different. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how it translates. It's it's hard to get

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Speaker 1: your arms around all of it, and it just changes

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Speaker 1: day by day. So I kind of like somebody else,

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Speaker 1: you know, and just kind of waiting to see and

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Speaker 1: hoping it all comes back. Well. I think there's risk

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Speaker 1: in anything, and I think that the only way you

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Speaker 1: can have football and basketball and you know baseball too.

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Speaker 1: You're right, baseball you can still sort of socially distanced

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Speaker 1: and play it to a large degree. And I know

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Speaker 1: they have all these rules about no spinning and things

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Speaker 1: like that. It's gonna be bizarre. No throwing the ball

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Speaker 1: around the horn. I think that one's a little too much.

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Speaker 1: But okay, but with football, I mean there's some touching

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Speaker 1: going on here. Basketball a little bit, right. I mean basketball,

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna have masks. You're not gonna play basketball

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Speaker 1: like that. They have to use the biodome concept at

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Speaker 1: Disney World, which is what apparently is going to happen.

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Speaker 1: But I think that the key is not to freak

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Speaker 1: out if somebody gets it. If somebody gets it, you're

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Speaker 1: just gonna have to remove them from the situation and

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Speaker 1: hope that more people didn't get it. And if they do,

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Speaker 1: I guess you have to adjust accordingly. You might have

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Speaker 1: to have a large reserve of players to sort of

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Speaker 1: fill in. But you know football teams, flu goes around

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Speaker 1: staff infections sometimes become a problem in some organizations that

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Speaker 1: you got to deal with that. So it's not like

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Speaker 1: they're not used to this sort of thing. But there's

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Speaker 1: such a level of concern, panic fear about coronavirus, and

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Speaker 1: I get why, and it's just something they're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to deal with. I mean, it's the only way you

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Speaker 1: can possibly play. I don't know if you're with me,

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Speaker 1: but I feel like they need to play. They need

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Speaker 1: to play for I don't want to be dramatic, but

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Speaker 1: for America, we need stuff like this to come back well,

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Speaker 1: I mean no doubt, And this was the whole premise

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Speaker 1: for starting qued Up. When you think of any of

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Speaker 1: these other things throughout the course of history, or especially

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Speaker 1: in our lifetime that has happened, whether it was a

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Speaker 1: hurricane or whether it was nine to eleven, sports was

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Speaker 1: that kind of common bond that brought people back together again.

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Speaker 1: It was sports that was able to take people's minds

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Speaker 1: off of things. So without sports here now there is

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00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 1: such a void. There's no content. I mean, no wonder

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Speaker 1: the last Dance was so successful, and that's kind of

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Speaker 1: what we were trying to do with qued Up was

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Speaker 1: to provide some live sports content because people want it

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Speaker 1: and people are you know, look at all the UFC

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Speaker 1: fans Now. I watch UFC because there's nothing else to watch.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't wait for that that match the other night. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a good point. And they're doing some touching. There's

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Speaker 1: some contact there that's not social distancing right there with UFC.

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Speaker 1: Are you with me that? Why did they ever even

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Speaker 1: stop playing golf? I mean you could. People are playing

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00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:24,280
Speaker 1: golf anyway, you could almost do it. Just no fans.

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00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 1: I've watched so many tournaments on the Golf channel that

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00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:29,840
Speaker 1: have no fans anyway. Just play golf, do it. That's

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Speaker 1: all I'm doing. I leave my little office here at

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Speaker 1: my house with about four o'clock in the afternoon, up

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Speaker 1: in my car, go down and got you know, golf

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Speaker 1: course smiled down the street. I've dropped my handicap by

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Speaker 1: a good eight stroke. Your pandemic because I'm able to

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Speaker 1: play so much golf. Oh, you're scaring me. I don't

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Speaker 1: want to play. You know my game pretty well. Mark, Yes,

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Speaker 1: you might. You might not want to mess with me, right,

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Speaker 1: I think I might be able to beat you too good.

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Speaker 1: How is the George Foreman interview? Because I did not

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Speaker 1: catch that one I queued up. George is always awesome.

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Speaker 1: The guy is such a character, and he's you know,

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Speaker 1: he's got a bigger than life personality. And you know,

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Speaker 1: no matter how big he is, he takes the time

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Speaker 1: and he does this. He's up in his he's got

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Speaker 1: his family up at he's got like a lake house

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00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 1: that's even further out than where they live here in Houston.

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Speaker 1: They're all up there together with his grandkids and you

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00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:21,800
Speaker 1: can hear them running around in the background. And he's

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00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 1: a preacher, so he does his weekly sermon. Still puts

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Speaker 1: him on Instagram. But he was great. He was telling

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Speaker 1: the old stories of All League and Frazier and and

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Speaker 1: you know, just his his day's growing up in uh

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Speaker 1: here in downtown Houston and kind of what a you know,

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Speaker 1: self proclaimed stug he was and now boxing changed his life.

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Speaker 1: So really interesting stuff. And you know, all those are archives,

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Speaker 1: so anybody who wants to see it can certainly go

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00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:49,360
Speaker 1: to um, you know, Houston sports dot org, girl YouTube channel,

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Speaker 1: or even the sports author his Facebook page and see them.

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Speaker 1: He was really good. But it's tonight with Justin reid

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Speaker 1: on queued up, So where can people go get the archives?

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00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,960
Speaker 1: And tonight how did they catch you? Once again? Well tonight,

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Speaker 1: go to the Harris County Houston Sports Story Facebook page.

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Speaker 1: Click interested now, click a little interested button. It will

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Speaker 1: remind you if you forget between now and then, it

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00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 1: will copyright up on your Facebook page. But like us,

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00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:18,799
Speaker 1: follow us, whatever, so you'll always be reminded, But yeah,

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00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:21,240
Speaker 1: jump in on the watch Party live at seven. Justin

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00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:24,760
Speaker 1: will be on there and he does some really cool stuff.

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Speaker 1: We had some I told you some of the fans

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00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:28,239
Speaker 1: were on there. We had a family that was on

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Speaker 1: from Mexico and at the end they asked him a

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Speaker 1: question and he just answered it whipped out. He answered

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Speaker 1: it in Spanish like it was nothing. We someone asked

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Speaker 1: him what he's doing in his spare time since he's

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Speaker 1: All right, coming up, in just a few moments. Patti Smith,

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Speaker 1: gonna have a segment of Tim Kelly stuff, bootleg stuff

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