1 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:06,640 Speaker 1: In the Lab, a Texans podcast that takes a different 2 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 1: look at things. Drew Doherty and John Harris have their 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: lab coats and goggles on and the Bunsen burners burning. 4 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 1: Here's Drew. 5 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 2: Hello there, welcome to in the Lab. I'm Drew Doherty, 6 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 2: You're John Harris, and you are you. Thank you you 7 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 2: for joining us. It's the three of us here on 8 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 2: this little old podcast that John is coming up on 9 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:33,840 Speaker 2: seven years of age. We started this in twenty eighteen 10 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 2: in the season. 11 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,239 Speaker 3: I believe, right, I think I believe it was. 12 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:39,519 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like, hey, maybe it was doing this and 13 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 2: maybe it was seventeen. 14 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe it's coming up on eight years, 15 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 3: but nonetheless I think it was seventeen. Anyways. 16 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:50,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, point is, we've done this a long time, almost 17 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 2: on a weekly basis. 18 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 3: There have been some times where you know, we miss. 19 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 2: A few weeks in some odd spots, but many every 20 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 2: week during the season, most weeks in the off season. 21 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:05,639 Speaker 2: And this is the last one we'll do because I'm leaving. 22 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 2: I'm headed to a new gig where we're shooting this 23 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 2: on Thursday, releasing this on Friday. I am gonna go 24 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 2: to my alma Mater Straight Jesuits where I graduated high 25 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 2: school back in the nineties, and it's kind of it's 26 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 2: not kind of it. It is a place that shaped 27 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 2: who I am. A lot of what I did TV 28 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 2: wise was kind of drawing on the Shenanigans that I 29 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:31,840 Speaker 2: did back then. At s JET Straight Jesuit Educational Television, 30 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 2: That's what I'm gonna be doing. I'm gonna be running 31 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 2: s JET as the director there and then teaching some 32 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 2: history classes, which people around the Texans joke and that 33 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:40,759 Speaker 2: guy's always teaching history. 34 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 3: He's always lapping on this. 35 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:46,679 Speaker 2: So hopefully it's a nice, seamless transition. But I'm really excited. 36 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 2: This is a prayers answered type of situation. I'm gonna 37 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 2: miss you, I'm gonna miss this podcast. I'm go miss 38 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 2: a lot of things about the Texans. But it's just 39 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 2: such a fantastic opportunity. And I've talked about this offline 40 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 2: with you a bunch. You've You've been such an awesome 41 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 2: supporter of mine, and I'm pumped. I'm really pumped. On 42 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 2: August fourth is my first day on the job. August 43 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 2: thirteenth will be my first day in the classroom, so 44 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:15,919 Speaker 2: I'm sure Shenanigans are going to ensue over the next 45 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:17,520 Speaker 2: few years, and. 46 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:19,519 Speaker 3: I can't wait. 47 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 2: Man. 48 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a feeling that in a good way, 49 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 4: you'll hear from me on August twelfth, the night before, 50 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:29,919 Speaker 4: because when you think about going to that classroom for 51 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,679 Speaker 4: the first time and you see all these youthful faces, 52 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 4: there'll be that moment of oh god, yeah. But you 53 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 4: know I went Now, I went through that as a 54 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 4: twenty two year old, and and I was teaching some 55 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 4: kids that were literally two years I mean, I taught 56 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:48,640 Speaker 4: some kids there are now fifty and it's kind of 57 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 4: mind blowing in the sense to think back and there's 58 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 4: there are so many things to say and try and 59 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:01,359 Speaker 4: say it with without kind of breaking up, which I'm 60 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 4: doing now. But when you came in with this podcast, 61 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 4: I'll be honest with you, I was kind of mad 62 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:09,520 Speaker 4: at you. I was like, dude, I've got like all 63 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 4: these radio shows that we're already doing, Like why the 64 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 4: hell are we doing a podcast now? 65 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:16,920 Speaker 5: Like what what the hell? 66 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,399 Speaker 4: But I was like, you know, it's Drew, so it's 67 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 4: gonna be awesome, So just you know, shut up and 68 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 4: go with it. And the first one that we did 69 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 4: was some incantation of if you could take two former 70 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 4: oilers and put them on the Texans, what would it? 71 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 4: Who would they be? And I like, all of a sudden, 72 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 4: I was in. I was like, okay, this is the 73 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 4: concept of our podcast. We're in, you know, cause we 74 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 4: got to geek out and nerd out, and I knew 75 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 4: I would always be happy because I was doing it 76 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 4: with you. But the flip side of that was, you know, 77 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 4: I remember coming home and kind of telling Paige about it. 78 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 5: She's like, well, you know, is is that too much? 79 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 4: They're already asking you to do this, this and this, 80 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 4: And I was like, I was like, babe, it's with Drew. 81 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 5: Like it'll be cool, it'll be fun. 82 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 4: It'll feel like we're just you know, chopping it up 83 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 4: about you know, former drafts, redrafts, you know, comparing foods 84 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 4: to superheroes to Texans, and you know, it'll it'll be fun. 85 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 4: And I, you know, I I'm one of those and 86 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 4: I don't. I don't want to be this way, but 87 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 4: I always think about I don't. I never want to 88 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 4: think about the end, but I do because I think about, 89 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 4: like I love doing this so much, Like what's that 90 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 4: last episode? Like you know, what's the last radio show? Like, 91 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 4: what's the last game? Like in some sense, and it's 92 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:32,919 Speaker 4: it's always kind of frustrated to think that way. And 93 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 4: then you're like, nah, you know it'll be okay. Just 94 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 4: kind of roll with it. And then you know, when 95 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 4: we had determined I'm actually I'm out in La. 96 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 3: Yeah. 97 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 4: They came out here for my my daughter's birthday, and 98 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:45,279 Speaker 4: well twofold I came out here for my daughter's birthday. 99 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 4: And then I got hired by Page Harris Incorporated to 100 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 4: drive all of her painting stuff back, which I have 101 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:56,600 Speaker 4: no no idea How'm gonna get all that stuff back 102 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 4: in our car because I drove it out of here 103 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:00,680 Speaker 4: four years ago for them have out here, and so 104 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 4: now I'm driving that car back either way. 105 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:04,680 Speaker 5: So I got it for a double reason. And then 106 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 5: you know, you and I had talked because you had 107 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:08,279 Speaker 5: been out. 108 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 4: You had been out, and then I came here, and 109 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 4: so then you send me a text and said, yo, 110 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 4: let's do in the lab and I just remember it 111 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:16,359 Speaker 4: hitting me like okay, this is the last one, and 112 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:19,919 Speaker 4: I was like, ah, damn. So I will hold it 113 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 4: together as best I possibly can. I know you and Mark, 114 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 4: you know, are sitting down on Friday for a segment 115 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:28,280 Speaker 4: for Radio But I'm gonna play this Thursday on Radio 116 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 4: two because it's you and me and we're the we 117 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 4: are the the nexus of in the lab. 118 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 5: We are the you know, we are in the lab. 119 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 4: And so I will play this Thursday night after John McClain, 120 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 4: as I typically would do throughout the week, and it 121 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:43,160 Speaker 4: was it was always so much fun doing it. I 122 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 4: don't know if there were times, you know, even in 123 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 4: twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, when it 124 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:50,839 Speaker 4: was like what is going on? 125 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 5: And you and I. 126 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:53,719 Speaker 4: Would put on a brave face and get onto mics 127 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,480 Speaker 4: and put the cans on and just start talking about 128 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:59,040 Speaker 4: Texans and start talking about wild stuff with the Texans, 129 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:01,160 Speaker 4: and you know, think a dream of a day when 130 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:03,000 Speaker 4: it would get turned around. And then it started toning 131 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:05,279 Speaker 4: twenty twenty three and you know, you and I within 132 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:07,839 Speaker 4: the lab we started, you know, we we celebrated that, 133 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:11,360 Speaker 4: and it was always it was always great. I cannot 134 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:13,159 Speaker 4: think and I remember I was the first one I 135 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 4: think that put the bug and then may have had you, 136 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:17,280 Speaker 4: may have had others, but I remember when you and 137 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 4: I talked, you know, if you, probably a couple of 138 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:21,880 Speaker 4: years ago, just you know, about the future and such. 139 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 4: I remember thinking, because I always think about, you know, 140 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 4: I spent my first seven years in private schools, and 141 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 4: I always think about, you know, if somebody came to 142 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:31,479 Speaker 4: me with some sweetheart deal and wanted me to be 143 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 4: the head master of a school, you know, I'd have 144 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 4: to put together a staff, and you know what people 145 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:37,840 Speaker 4: would I want on my staff and all that kind 146 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 4: of stuff. 147 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:40,360 Speaker 5: And You've always been one of those people at the 148 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 5: top of my. 149 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 4: List that I would immediately say, Okay, what would it 150 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 4: take to get you to come over to this school 151 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:48,719 Speaker 4: with me? Because there's so many things that you needed 152 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 4: a school and kind of like, you know, you know 153 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 4: JJ Watt in a sense, how many of those can 154 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:55,839 Speaker 4: drew Phil Well, Like if you this and this and 155 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:58,039 Speaker 4: this and this and this, and he's a guy that 156 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 4: I trust in love inherently, so he would be perfect. 157 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:03,800 Speaker 4: And so you know when you you told me that 158 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 4: this opportunity was available for you and that you were 159 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 4: taking I was just like I I was. I was pumped, 160 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 4: and I was pumped for you. I was pumped for 161 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 4: the kids that you're gonna be around every single day 162 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 4: and when who they're learning from. It's just it's it's 163 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 4: the perfect fit in my mind for you. I just 164 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 4: you know, hate the fact that you know, you and 165 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 4: I won't be able to do in the lab every 166 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 4: week and amongst other things. But since we run into lab, 167 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 4: we'll start with that one. 168 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 3: Yeah. 169 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 2: No, it's uh, it's really funny. It kind of came 170 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 2: about a couple a couple of months ago because my 171 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 2: wife had the great idea. She's like, why don't you 172 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:45,800 Speaker 2: try and do a summer sports media camp, like a 173 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 2: day camp. Yeah, from eight to noon, Monday to Friday, 174 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 2: one week and you can take some field trips and 175 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 2: you can have some experts talk to the boys and yah, 176 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:58,800 Speaker 2: pitch that idea to the folks at straight Jesuit and 177 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 2: I had pretty solid list of guests that we came 178 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 2: in and places we got to go and things that 179 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 2: they got to see. And I think that that got 180 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 2: some wheels turning in the minds of the folks over there, 181 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 2: and it all came together pretty quickly in May, and yeah, 182 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:18,440 Speaker 2: I'm headed back and it's it's a it's a really 183 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:21,400 Speaker 2: competitive place. I mean, it was always fast, who's the smartest, 184 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 2: who's the funniest who's right this blah blah blah. So 185 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 2: it's gonna be fun to get back there, uh you 186 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 2: know doing I did the Deer Drew videos there for 187 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 2: a few years, and that was that was s jet Man, 188 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 2: that was it was us screwing around back when I 189 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:37,559 Speaker 2: used to interview the homecoming court and we had them 190 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:40,760 Speaker 2: saying goofy inn you know, goofy thing in the mid nineties. 191 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 2: I mean it, it's really fun. It's really a great place. 192 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 2: And uh it's changed a lot, as you would expect 193 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:53,840 Speaker 2: over the course of thirst, but it hasn't shp at all. 194 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:56,320 Speaker 2: And that's that's the exciting part about it for me. 195 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 2: So I'm looking forward to going there and looking forward 196 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:02,960 Speaker 2: to uh, meeting, meeting and reconnecting with some people who 197 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 2: were there when I was there, who taught when I 198 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:06,680 Speaker 2: was there, and then there was a whole. 199 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 5: That's that's always a fun one that when. 200 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:10,960 Speaker 4: You tell when you walk in, yeah, you know, And 201 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,199 Speaker 4: here's one of the things when you when you when 202 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 4: you're out of school, it's always you know, coach the 203 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 4: coach is easy because for me, like I call anybody 204 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:20,960 Speaker 4: that's a coach, I call them coach. 205 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 5: It's always it's always been coach. 206 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 4: But when I had math teachers, you know missus Han, 207 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:32,079 Speaker 4: you know my English teacher, English teachers, Miss Falan, Miss Morris, 208 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 4: like I would see them as an adult, like I 209 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 4: went to go do a I went to go do 210 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:40,439 Speaker 4: a speech. My my English teacher, Miss Fhalan Maxine Phalen 211 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:43,680 Speaker 4: was getting a school named after her, and I was 212 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 4: They were well, I should say, they were trying to 213 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:47,599 Speaker 4: get her. And so they were like, hey, would you 214 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 4: come speak about her for five minutes to the school 215 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:51,640 Speaker 4: district And I said absolutely, So I went in. I 216 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 4: did that. That was in twenty nineteen, so it's before COVID. 217 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:57,320 Speaker 4: So they go this long stretch time without she gets 218 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 4: to school and they were like, okay, we're going to 219 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 4: dedicate the school on this day. Would you come out 220 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:03,959 Speaker 4: to Richard Rosenberg and you know, dedicate this or speak 221 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:04,680 Speaker 4: to to everybody. 222 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 5: I said absolutely. 223 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 4: And I see her and it's like, hey, miss Falin, 224 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 4: and I'm like, you know, here I am, you know, 225 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:12,839 Speaker 4: nearing my fifties and I'm calling my English teachers still 226 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:15,559 Speaker 4: Miss Faling. You know, I can only imagine what it's 227 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 4: gonna be like to maybe work next to some of 228 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:20,200 Speaker 4: those people that you you know, had called you know, 229 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 4: mister Hall, miss Jones, and all of a sudden you 230 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:24,559 Speaker 4: got to say, hey, Catherine, you know it's gonna be. 231 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:27,040 Speaker 3: It's coach Crowley. There's a guy. 232 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:27,400 Speaker 5: Yeah. 233 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:27,960 Speaker 1: Yeah. 234 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 3: He's the closest thing to a big brother. Uh yeah. 235 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 2: He was my cross country and track and field coach. 236 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 2: He taught history when I was there. Since then, he's 237 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:38,440 Speaker 2: been the athletic director. He's been the dean of students, 238 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 2: He's taught other classes, he's had of rules. 239 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 3: He's the athletic director again now. Uh. 240 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 2: He was instrumental in making this all happen. But I 241 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:50,640 Speaker 2: called coach Crowley and you always say that around people 242 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 2: there now and they'll kind of turn their head, like, coach, Yeah, 243 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 2: that's my coach. He's a hell of a coach. Uh yeah, 244 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 2: but I think most of them know him as mister 245 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:03,320 Speaker 2: Crowley or yeah, you know whatever, but as a coach 246 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:06,440 Speaker 2: to me. So I'm looking forward to getting back, and 247 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 2: it's gonna be really really fun. 248 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 3: Still gonna be here on game days. 249 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:12,320 Speaker 2: I'll be up in uh press box booth, helping out 250 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:15,199 Speaker 2: some of the folks on the game day entertainment side 251 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 2: and nice there, so, and you and I are gonna 252 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 2: be I'm gonna be hitting you with random texts here 253 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 2: and there. Oh yeah, Siper Kate, and we might have 254 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 2: some other little ventures cooked up a time or two 255 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 2: in the in the feud. 256 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 5: Never know, never never know. 257 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:32,520 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's funny because you you never you never you 258 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 4: never say never. Yeah, I think I learned. I learned 259 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:37,320 Speaker 4: that actually at you know, private school. I remember when 260 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 4: I was leaving the private school. I just remember, uh thinking, 261 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:43,200 Speaker 4: you know, okay, that's it. I'm never never doing that. 262 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:47,160 Speaker 4: I remember my wife saying, eh, you you never know, 263 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 4: you never know what might happen. And so when I 264 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:53,200 Speaker 4: got to Houston and started doing radio in two thousand 265 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:55,440 Speaker 4: and seven, I wasn't making a lot of money with it, 266 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:57,240 Speaker 4: and you know, not as much as I thought I 267 00:11:57,280 --> 00:11:59,880 Speaker 4: was gonna make. And so a new not new school, 268 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:01,599 Speaker 4: but a school that had been opened, was opening a 269 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 4: high school and. 270 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 5: Called the Village School over on the West side. Yeah, 271 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:06,680 Speaker 5: and they were opening a high school. 272 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:09,679 Speaker 4: And I remember my wife was going to apply for 273 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:12,959 Speaker 4: you know, some some sort of position. Obviously she grew 274 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 4: from being you know, part time art to basically like 275 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:17,320 Speaker 4: the second or third command over there. 276 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 5: I mean, she was instrumental in that place. 277 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:22,640 Speaker 4: And so I remember sitting thinking around going you know, 278 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:25,840 Speaker 4: I wonder, you know, male math teachers aren't the easiest 279 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:28,040 Speaker 4: thing to find. I wonder if I offer up, you know, 280 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:30,679 Speaker 4: kind of a part time thing, you know what. They 281 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:32,559 Speaker 4: let me teach in the morning and then I go 282 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:35,040 Speaker 4: to radio in the afternoon, and they were for it, 283 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 4: and so I went right back and I did it 284 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 4: for a couple of years where I was teaching in 285 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:42,320 Speaker 4: the morning and then I was doing radio in the afternoon. 286 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:43,840 Speaker 4: So it's like one of those things where you never 287 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 4: say never, and you know, it's like with in a lab. 288 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 4: You know that it may not be the last one, 289 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:51,560 Speaker 4: might be. It may not be, you know, may not 290 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 4: be the last time. 291 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:54,079 Speaker 5: Year Drew and I together. Maybe it may not be. 292 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 2: You know. 293 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 4: It's kind of that that fun thing you never say never. 294 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:00,160 Speaker 4: You never closed doors. And obviously when you you you know, 295 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:02,200 Speaker 4: have people you love you always telling me you love them, 296 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 4: and you're one of those people that you were family 297 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 4: to me and to the Harris kids. I know when 298 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 4: Jack always came in a building. There was a time 299 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:11,400 Speaker 4: where Jack was coming in to the building with me 300 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:15,080 Speaker 4: a lot school was not going well, and I remember 301 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:15,920 Speaker 4: you would. 302 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 5: Walk in, hey Jack, and Jack was just Jack would 303 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:20,600 Speaker 5: just light up. You were always great with him. 304 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 4: So I can imagine these kids are getting a great 305 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:24,720 Speaker 4: one man, and I'm looking forward to seeing how that 306 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 4: goes and what that what that's like for you. But 307 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 4: this podcast has been sometimes you'd walk in and you're like, 308 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:33,320 Speaker 4: you know, like, okay, what are we gonna do with 309 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 4: the podcast? 310 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 5: And you're like, yeah, just just dance with me. I'm like, 311 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 5: you'll know what to do. I'm like, okay, all right, 312 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:37,840 Speaker 5: let's go. 313 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 4: Then those that end up being some of the best 314 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:42,960 Speaker 4: in the labs because we would you know, we would redraft, 315 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 4: you know, catchups or you know Texans that could have 316 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 4: gone to other places or came from other places that 317 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:53,040 Speaker 4: should have been Texans, and you know, players from the 318 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:55,640 Speaker 4: city of Houston that went to other places that would 319 00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:57,720 Speaker 4: be Texans all that. So it was always kind of 320 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:01,319 Speaker 4: fun because it always like peaked my creativity in my thought, 321 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:04,560 Speaker 4: you know, about what could be, you know, as opposed 322 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:05,559 Speaker 4: to what was or whatever. 323 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 5: The case might be. So it was always really good 324 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:07,320 Speaker 5: to do that. 325 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 2: Okay, so let's talk about a few of my favorite things. 326 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:14,240 Speaker 2: What we used to do together that we did here. 327 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:18,839 Speaker 2: So I loved road trips. Yeah, like when we get 328 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 2: some dinner. Sometimes I didn't. I didn't always go out 329 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:22,680 Speaker 2: to dinner with you guys, because like, yeah, we've got 330 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:25,160 Speaker 2: family and different places. I got friends in it, so 331 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 2: I'd meet up with them, blah blah blah blah. Sometimes 332 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:28,920 Speaker 2: I just stay because I have forty eight children at 333 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 2: home and I'm tired. I've got a little bit of 334 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:31,680 Speaker 2: a cold, and I. 335 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, but I love the things. 336 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 2: I love the most about road trips was after the game, 337 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 2: getting on the plane. Plus but the plane because inevitably 338 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 2: I'd either be sitting in your row with you, yeah, 339 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 2: right by you and breaking down what just happened, but 340 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,320 Speaker 2: good or bad, you know, and lots of good times 341 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 2: because you've been doing this since you've been with us 342 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 2: since fourteen, right for lots of good times. Lots of 343 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 2: bad times too. But I love just like the behind 344 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 2: the scenes, like did you see this, yeah, fourteen quarterback 345 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 2: hits and you know, like going through things and breaking 346 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 2: it down kind of the way you and I would 347 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 2: break down, just and like the little offshoots and what 348 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:18,400 Speaker 2: happened here? And this guy said this here and I 349 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 2: heard this and blah blah blah blah blah blah. I 350 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 2: love that that. It was a time right before takeoff 351 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:26,960 Speaker 2: as your bag up, you sit down and just like that, 352 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:31,240 Speaker 2: sometimes five minutes, sometimes thirty minutes, you know, put your 353 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 2: stuff up and talking the behind the scenes, like the 354 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:39,240 Speaker 2: info and the the kind of the filler material that 355 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 2: you got. Ye so rich in those those times. I 356 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:42,480 Speaker 2: love those. 357 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 4: It was really the first time on that Sunday or 358 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 4: whatever night were there night we were playing that you 359 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:51,080 Speaker 4: really kind of let your hair down because you and 360 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:54,440 Speaker 4: I even on the bus to the airport, you and 361 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 4: I would be cranking out some sort of. 362 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 2: Article like a tyrannosaurce rex cause yeah, like you're like 363 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:02,760 Speaker 2: just HIPing like this. Yeah, you know invariably, you know, 364 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 2: I hope that scene right there that they got, Ope 365 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:06,160 Speaker 2: that's the thumbnail for us. 366 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, because you're literally just clocking keys and you got 367 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:10,360 Speaker 4: like people nextually you're like you're trying to and you're 368 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 4: trying to send it, and you look, Okay, how much 369 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 4: further do we have to the airport? 370 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 3: Okay? 371 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 4: Can I finish this? Okay, I gotta send it. Do 372 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 4: I have Wi Fi? Who's got who's going. So we're 373 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 4: actually working all the way up until literally we were 374 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 4: getting off the bus to get on a plane, and 375 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 4: it's kind of the first moment of like, okay, all right, 376 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 4: what happened? And then you start going through the game 377 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 4: and and parts, you know, the moments of it, and 378 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:38,040 Speaker 4: you know, invariably, you know, we'd be, you know, an 379 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:40,680 Speaker 4: hour into the flight and one of us, you know, 380 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 4: we we might even still be working at that point, 381 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:45,160 Speaker 4: and one of us would kind of nudge the other 382 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 4: like hey, and we'd have this we'll call it game 383 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:49,360 Speaker 4: book and all its stats. 384 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:50,120 Speaker 5: I remember this one. 385 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:53,200 Speaker 4: We were coming back from Cleveland and fourteen and we'd 386 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:55,920 Speaker 4: beaten Cleveland. There's a lot of things that happened that day, 387 00:16:56,520 --> 00:17:00,880 Speaker 4: but wat was incredible, unbelievable. And I remember looking to 388 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:03,480 Speaker 4: you and it showed you the statu sheet and I 389 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:06,240 Speaker 4: was like, he's got a number in every column. 390 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:09,119 Speaker 5: Yeah, it's incredible, I think. And then of course there 391 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:10,360 Speaker 5: was the offensive. 392 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:14,160 Speaker 2: Pender guests I think hitting the statistical buffet. He got yeah, salad, 393 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:15,800 Speaker 2: he got jello, he got yeah right. 394 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:17,200 Speaker 3: It was amazing, got okra. 395 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 2: He hit everything in the every statistic in the in 396 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:23,200 Speaker 2: the game. But we've talked about this before on this podcast. 397 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 2: But yeah, he yeah, that was a fun one. 398 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:27,400 Speaker 4: That was it was that was incredible. And so there 399 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 4: was those moments on a plane, you know. And and 400 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 4: also there would be moments. I remember in twenty fifteen, 401 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 4: you and I were sitting next to each other and 402 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:36,639 Speaker 4: we were on a plane. We got an email a 403 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:38,680 Speaker 4: lot of times this happens, we want to play going 404 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 4: to a game. We're going to Jacksonville in twenty fifteen, 405 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 4: and we were sitting next to each other and we 406 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:44,520 Speaker 4: look down because we get the same notice at the 407 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:46,400 Speaker 4: same time and it says JJ Watt. 408 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 5: Is questionable with illness. Yeah, and we just looked at 409 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 5: each other like we're we're screwed, like this is not good. 410 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:56,960 Speaker 4: And it was probably about ten to fifteen minutes later 411 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 4: he comes rolling he at this At this time, we 412 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 4: sat at the front of the plane. He comes by us. 413 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 4: He's got shades on it. You can just see it, 414 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:07,560 Speaker 4: and we're like, oh god, you know, And it was 415 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 4: like those things that we would see that we knew about. 416 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 4: And I just remember, you know, not looking at you other, 417 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:14,959 Speaker 4: like when we mouthed some bad words to one another. 418 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:16,880 Speaker 5: Went on a field. He played the whole game. 419 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:19,440 Speaker 4: I remember he puked right out of my shoes after 420 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:21,120 Speaker 4: a j Boyot finished the game with the interception. 421 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:23,119 Speaker 5: He puked right on my shoes or right near my shoes, 422 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:24,800 Speaker 5: just like exhausted. 423 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:27,080 Speaker 4: And it was it was one of his worst statistical games, 424 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 4: but he played really well because that Jack's will focused 425 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:31,640 Speaker 4: everything on him. But I remember you and I would 426 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:33,200 Speaker 4: have some of those moments too, sitting on a plane 427 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:36,960 Speaker 4: and just you know, seeing players go by. So what's 428 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:40,720 Speaker 4: Arian Foster wearing today? Oh, he's wearing a you know, 429 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:45,280 Speaker 4: an Indian outfit. And then Deep would pipe in and go, yeah, that, 430 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:48,720 Speaker 4: I like that. You know that, my my husband has that, 431 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:50,240 Speaker 4: or I have a friend that wears that. 432 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:52,199 Speaker 5: Or something like that. I'd be like, okay, you know. 433 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:54,080 Speaker 4: So it was always kind of we always had those 434 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 4: moments planes, but I always thought it was kind of fun. 435 00:18:56,560 --> 00:18:58,359 Speaker 5: You'd see a little bit of behind the scenes stuff. 436 00:18:58,640 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 5: You know. 437 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 2: Another thing I loved game days sidelines. I wasn't always 438 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:06,520 Speaker 2: on the sideline road games. Last few years. I was 439 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 2: on the sidelines for home games. Yeah, road games every 440 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:15,760 Speaker 2: once in a while when the Texans would close them out. 441 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 2: I take we take a selfie together, you know, yeah, 442 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:21,080 Speaker 2: I think it was I think it was that bitter bitter, 443 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 2: the coldest one I've ever been to. You've been to colder, 444 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:25,199 Speaker 2: but the coldest one I've ever been to was that 445 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:29,360 Speaker 2: at Tennessee, I think two three years ago, Yeah, day 446 00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:34,480 Speaker 2: before Christmas, and that was Yeah, that was a fun one. 447 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:36,640 Speaker 2: And then home games, I just a lot of times 448 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:38,480 Speaker 2: I just come up and stand beside you, you know, 449 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:42,480 Speaker 2: while you're you're watching, I'm watching. But there's just always fun, 450 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 2: you know, being near you on those game. And then 451 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 2: also coming back from practices, I was enjoyed the conversation. 452 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 2: And then every once in a while we're walking, I'd 453 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:55,600 Speaker 2: kind of look over the side and see you walk 454 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 2: in and then I'd start stepping on every single crack 455 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:02,199 Speaker 2: because it would erupt your ate, your your OCD, and 456 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 2: You're like, still do this. I go crack it. Yeah, yeah, 457 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 2: And I get you going. 458 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:08,880 Speaker 4: I am very I am very o CD that way, 459 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:11,879 Speaker 4: and so I step over, I step over cracks. I 460 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:16,879 Speaker 4: do not want uh like cracking my Yeah, And so 461 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,159 Speaker 4: I just remember one day you stepping on all I'm 462 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:22,160 Speaker 4: not saying anything at first, and then finally you said 463 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 4: something like, you know, hey, I'm stepping on these cracks. 464 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 5: And I finally was like, you are doing it on 465 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:31,520 Speaker 5: purpose but doing it so yeah, it was that. 466 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:35,800 Speaker 4: He used to like, man, you got me, but yeah, 467 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 4: it was uh and I think that's what what Uh. 468 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 4: So life's supposed to be. Man, you feel every single 469 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 4: emotion every single day, and the people that make you 470 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:45,880 Speaker 4: feel those are the ones you you keep the closest 471 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:48,080 Speaker 4: to you, and you definitely have been one of those 472 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:50,960 Speaker 4: since even before twenty fourteen. I remember it was funny 473 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:53,760 Speaker 4: because when I went to the initial Bill Obryant press 474 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 4: conference in twenty fourteen, I remember you you came up 475 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:58,399 Speaker 4: to me and you were like, Hey, do you. 476 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:00,200 Speaker 5: Think we're gonna do more analytics? How do you think 477 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:00,800 Speaker 5: this thing goes? 478 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:01,000 Speaker 2: Like? 479 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:03,200 Speaker 4: You know, knowing that I knew Bill, you know you 480 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 4: were trying to that was really kind of the first 481 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,119 Speaker 4: time I think we had we maybe met before that, 482 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,119 Speaker 4: but we kind of kind of chit chat at that point, 483 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,680 Speaker 4: and you know, a few months later you were unfortunate 484 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:14,800 Speaker 4: enough to have me in your building, a former former 485 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:18,119 Speaker 4: O'Brien disciple, like near you. But but yeah, it was 486 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:21,280 Speaker 4: always always the the ideas we had in the lab. 487 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 5: You know. One of the other things that we got 488 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:25,880 Speaker 5: to do was you know Texas Bowls. UH killed Texas 489 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:26,879 Speaker 5: kickoffs and. 490 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:29,440 Speaker 4: You and I would be up on the board and 491 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:31,119 Speaker 4: that was all. That was always a good time. I 492 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:33,199 Speaker 4: always felt bad for people. You have to see my 493 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 4: big head up there. But we would get texts like 494 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:37,680 Speaker 4: we would get text from people like hey man, I'm 495 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:39,439 Speaker 4: in the building and then they took a picture of 496 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:41,320 Speaker 4: you and I and you know, my wife used to 497 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 4: get those when she was at home, like. 498 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:44,640 Speaker 5: Heym in the building, I saw your husband Withdrew, and 499 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 5: so I. 500 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 3: Love that we did. 501 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:50,639 Speaker 2: Probably we did probably twenty games combined of those and 502 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:53,040 Speaker 2: I think half of them either involved Mike Leech and 503 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:55,639 Speaker 2: or Urgerson, which is awesome. 504 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:56,320 Speaker 3: I love both. 505 00:21:56,480 --> 00:22:01,359 Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, because we I mean we knew you you 506 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:03,639 Speaker 6: know the game, you know college football, but I do 507 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 6: a lot of background on those two guys, so it 508 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:09,280 Speaker 6: was fun to Yeah, and the other guys were cool too, 509 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:11,240 Speaker 6: that from the other teams, but do in particular. 510 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:16,119 Speaker 2: We loved those conversations about and everything that came along 511 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:20,560 Speaker 2: with it. So yeah, go on and on forever, your 512 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:24,480 Speaker 2: dear friend. I've loved doing THEAST We hope you have 513 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:28,120 Speaker 2: have enjoyed watching or listening to this podcast over the years. 514 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 2: It's been a lot of different things, a lot of 515 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:33,720 Speaker 2: weird things, and I'm gonna miss doing it. It was 516 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:35,520 Speaker 2: always a thrill to do this. It's always a fun 517 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:38,399 Speaker 2: part of my week. And uh, like I said, we 518 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:40,120 Speaker 2: might have something cooked up down the line. 519 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:41,919 Speaker 5: Yeah, you never know. 520 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:44,880 Speaker 2: Love you very much, and I will see you soon. 521 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 2: I know your friend. You're not gonna We're not we're 522 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,399 Speaker 2: not saying goodbye. We're just saying so long right now. 523 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,399 Speaker 2: And be safe coming back to LA or coming back 524 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:56,520 Speaker 2: and just don't step on any cracks. 525 00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:58,760 Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, I'm so glad that I got up. 526 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:01,440 Speaker 4: I woke my ass up to uh in La because 527 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:03,440 Speaker 4: it's still dark thirty around here. 528 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 5: So uh yeah, it was good man, but I yeah, 529 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:06,399 Speaker 5: I appreciate it. 530 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 4: And the first crack that you step on as you're 531 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:10,680 Speaker 4: walking down the hallway, you will have a chuckle thinking 532 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:10,919 Speaker 4: of me. 533 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:11,600 Speaker 5: So that's good. 534 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:13,120 Speaker 3: Indeed, I will all right. 535 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,280 Speaker 2: This has been in the Lab presented by Infinity one 536 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:17,000 Speaker 2: final time.