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John Harris: Welcome to everybody to a Thursday night at Nation of

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John Harris: Texans All Access. I'm your host, John Harris Football and

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John Harris: only Sideline reporter Mark will be back tomorrow night.

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Marc Vandermeer: But you know it's Thursday night, so that means it's.

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John Harris: The General John McClain, Hall of Famer with me this evening.

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Marc Vandermeer: John, How are you doing, my friend?

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John Harris: John?

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John McClain: I could not be doing better? Thank you for asking.

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John Harris: First of all, how is your House documentary moving along?

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John Harris: Any new news on the documentary?

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John McClain: And do we made our trip to Jimmy Johnson. We've got...

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John McClain: We've got a trip. We go to the Texas High

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John McClain: School Coaches Convention in San Antonio, the way we did

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John McClain: last year, and the Texans will sponsor a panel and

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John McClain: again which I will interview this year. It's Jackie, Cheryl Wade, Phillips,

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John McClain: Michael Bishop, Roberto Garcia and and somebody else. And that

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John McClain: was so much fun last year. And then we're going

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John McClain: to Brady. Brady is fifty miles from Atlanto and that's

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John McClain: big wine country. A lot of people don't know it.

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John McClain: Texas produces wine and santana. Dotson from Houston and Yates

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John McClain: High School and Baylor Sickham. He and his dad have

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John McClain: a winery and Brady his dad, Alphonse, played in the NFL,

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John McClain: and Alphonse was a teammate with the Raiders of Eldridge Dickey,

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John McClain: the greatest PBIL quarterback who died in two thousand. So

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John McClain: we are going to interview Alphonse and he's going to

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John McClain: talk about what happened with Dicky when he went from

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John McClain: Washington High School here to Tennessee State so he could

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John McClain: throw the ball. And al Davis made the first black

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John McClain: quarterback drafted in the first round in sixty eight, and

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John McClain: you wondered, well, why did he do it? He drafted

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John McClain: Kenny Stabler around later, and he already had Darryl Lamonica,

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John McClain: who was the MVP the previous year in George blanded

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John McClain: and al Von's is gonna tell us he did it

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John McClain: to keep him away from Hank Stran. So I can't

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John McClain: wait to tell that story. And this past weekend, John,

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John McClain: I did one of the neatest things I've ever done.

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John McClain: I went to Mobile, invited by Robert Brazil, doctor doom,

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John McClain: ten year linebacker with oilers. Because the city of Mobile

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John McClain: did something every city should do, including Houston. They unveiled

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John McClain: a Hall of Fame walk outside their Convention Center on

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John McClain: the water downtown, in which they have six Hall of

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John McClain: Fame players from a city of one hundred and seventy

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John McClain: nine thousand. Robert's the only football the baseball statues, nine

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John McClain: foot statues Hank Aaron Satchel Page, Sweet Swinging Billy Williams,

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John McClain: Willie McCovey, and Ozzie Smith, all from Mobile and it

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John McClain: was a fundamental event. Sweet Swinging Billy was back. Robert

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John McClain: made a short speech, Robert lives there, spends a lot

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John McClain: had so much fun watching Roberts celebrate that great moment.

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John McClain: And one of his good friends is Nolan the Nat Smith.

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John McClain: Nolan was a five foot six hundred and fifty pound

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John McClain: kick returner who came from Tennessee State and played three

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John McClain: years at Tennessee Stree with Eldridge Dickey. And we're bringing

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John McClain: him in here in a couple of weeks, flying him

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John McClain: in so he can talk about Dickey in college, and

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John McClain: then we'll have Alphonse Dodson and one other player talking

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John McClain: about him in the NFL. We could do a separate

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John McClain: documentary on Eldridge Dickey, who was by He was bilingual.

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John McClain: He was Ambidextros and they say could throw a ball

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John McClain: So I'm really fired up about that. Tell you what, John,

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John McClain: every fan, every sports fan would ahead a blast going

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John McClain: to Mobile and see what that city has done that

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John McClain: we should do too.

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Marc Vandermeer: That's really cool.

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John Harris: Mobile is one of my favorite cities, and not just

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John Harris: because the senior balls there. It when I would travel

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John Harris: Mobile a lot of times is a place we would

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Marc Vandermeer: But those baseball players you.

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John Harris: Mentioned, I mean those legends off of Mobile, I mean

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John Harris: that is really really cool, and Robert being mentioned in

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John Harris: that group, that must have been one hell of a trip.

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John Harris: There's no doubt. Now the Texans are going to take

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John Harris: a trip. They're going to the Greenbrier. So we'll be

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John Harris: up there for about four or five days. But training

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John Harris: camp starts on July twenty third, General, so we're less

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John Harris: than a month. And as you get ready, gotta have

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John Harris: a to do list in your mind as you get

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John Harris: ready for training camp. Are there any to dos that

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John Harris: you think about for this team as they go to

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John Harris: training camp. They've got to do these things as they

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John Harris: start training camp and matriculate through training camp.

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Marc Vandermeer: What are the things you would put on your to

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Marc Vandermeer: do list for this team? John?

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John McClain: Before I do a to do list, I like to

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John McClain: point out I thought the Greenbrier was great. Guys. Lewisbourg,

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John McClain: things to do, beautiful mountains everywhere, buller weather and I

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John McClain: am so envious of you guys going. And my wife

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John McClain: Carol said, well, why don't you just go? Cash in

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John McClain: some Marryott Points and United.

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John McClain: I remember, you know they went because Rick Smith wanted

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John McClain: Bill didn't want to go back, and I know the

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John McClain: McNair family had a blast. And I told Cal, hey,

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John McClain: you're the owner, you're the boss. Tell them they're going

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John McClain: back every stinking year. But as Cal pouring it out.

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John McClain: They don't tell the coach and the GM what to do,

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John McClain: and so they didn't do it. Obviously, Tomko believes that

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John McClain: you can bond. Were you guys that were up outside

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John McClain: Cleveland last year between games? Demiko got a lot out

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John McClain: of that and he wants to do it again. And

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John McClain: you know, Cleveland, the Greenbrier, Cleveland, the Greenbrier. I'm guessing

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John McClain: people think, well, let's go to the Greenbrier and y'all

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John McClain: are going to have a blast between those games. As

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John McClain: far as the to do list, they got a lot

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John McClain: of things we want to see from players, but none

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John McClain: more so than the offensive line. They're to do things

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John McClain: that they got to do, told Papovich. A new line coach,

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John McClain: to decide in trading camp in preseason who's going to

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John McClain: be in the starting lineup when the season begins. Now,

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John McClain: injuries will you know, help make those decisions easier. And

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John McClain: you want to think they're going to be better. And

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John McClain: their trade of Tunsul to Washington. But do you look

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John McClain: course would have been Blake Fisher's right tackle, and he's

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John McClain: not guaranteed to be in the right tackle. Everywhere I go,

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John McClain: including in Mobile, and I was a bunch of places

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John McClain: with former Oilers and everybody was talking about two things,

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John McClain: the offensive line and C. J. Stroud and Earl Campbell

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John McClain: told me twice about how impressed he's been with Stroud

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John McClain: And that narrative that he had an off season and

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John McClain: like we did, is kind of preposterous. Peyton Manning came

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John McClain: out and pointed out He's been the playoffs two years

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John McClain: one two playoff games, and I didn't want to playoff

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John McClain: game till the sixth year. And I saw Chris SAMs

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John McClain: about the offensive line and not Stroud, and he mentioned

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John McClain: you could see Stroud the Texans in the Super Bowl.

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John McClain: So people nationally are starting to come around and figure

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John McClain: out what happened to things that we already know. Man,

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John McClain: I think if this team were to proved by even

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John McClain: improved by fifty percent in the pass protection, that's not

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John McClain: a lot. You know, they could win eleven or twelve games.

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Marc Vandermeer: Yeah, no doubt.

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John Harris: I mean a lot of people are pointed out that

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John Harris: watched the Super Bowl and they're like, man, Matt Patrick

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John Harris: Mahomes ran for his.

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Marc Vandermeer: Life, and they're like, he was pressured.

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John Harris: I think on thirty eight percent of his passes that

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John Harris: was Stroud the entire season in twenty twenty four. So

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John Harris: there have been it's been on the right way of

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John Harris: saying this general, but it's been sort of cathartic in

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John Harris: a way to see and hear people talking about Stroud,

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John Harris: like Chris Sims, like Peyton talking Stroud up as opposed

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John Harris: to Oh, the sophomore slump. Yeah, the sophomore slump. Well,

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John Harris: he wasn't the only one having a sophomore slump. Laughter

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John Harris: last year, you're gonna call it that. But I just

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John Harris: felt like there were times in game where when he

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John Harris: took a step back to throw, my first thought was,

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John Harris: oh God, where's the pressure, like it's coming, and then

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John Harris: he still would beat it, especially in Green Bay. He

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John Harris: hitn't got a good throw off all day, and he

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John Harris: makes that throw to Xavier Hutchinson, which should have won

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John Harris: the game. They should have been able to run a

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John Harris: get that win. But I'm glad you brought that up, General,

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John Harris: because it feels like throughout the year there was this

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John Harris: kind of backlash at CJ, and I was like, Man,

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John Harris: if you're really watching, you realize it's not what you

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Marc Vandermeer: Let's get it a little bit further. And I think

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Marc Vandermeer: General in.

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John Harris: Comment on this, if you will, When the Texans, when

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John Harris: Dimiko Ryan's got rid of Bobby Slowick and moved on

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John Harris: from Chris Strausser, it felt like the Texans were sort

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John Harris: of acknowledging that thing that yet we don't think it

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John Harris: was CJ. We think it was everything really around him

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John Harris: not really giving him the best chance to be as successful.

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John Harris: What are your thoughts about that sort of thought process

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John Harris: that their actions kind of told everybody what they thought

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John Harris: issues really truly were not just CJ.

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John McClain: Let me take a step back about to do stuff.

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John McClain: Obviously a wide receiver. They have three new ones, two

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John McClain: Christian Kirk can stay healthy. And when I talk to

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John McClain: him in the off season program, I know what he's

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John McClain: listed at, but he actually looked bigger and he's, you know, thicker.

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John McClain: That's a great way to put it. And I don't

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John McClain: know if he's always looked that way or if he's

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John McClain: worked hard to look that way to try to stay

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John McClain: healthy for a full season. But seeing how the wide

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John McClain: receiver play plays out, who who makes it and who doesn't,

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John McClain: it's meant to break to me for John John Mitchie

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John McClain: the third and so that's going to be exciting as well.

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John McClain: And then can Nick Chubb stand up and come in

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John McClain: and be healthy and seize that backup job. We haven't

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John McClain: seen Damian Peers, and I'm assuming he's recovered from another injury,

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John McClain: but he may have a hard I'm making the team

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John McClain: or maybe if he's healthy, because Sario could get US

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John McClain: six or seven for him. But there's a lot to watch,

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John McClain: especially with the new players, you know, safeties, you know CJ.

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John Harris: Yeah, there's no question along those lines general, because there

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Marc Vandermeer: Whatever the number.

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John McClain: I think there's no question is the defensive line. If

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John McClain: And one of the reasons that they're as good as

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Marc Vandermeer: Thank you, John.

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John Harris: Chapping everybody, Welcome back to a Thursday edition of Texans

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John Harris: All Access from technically the Hyundaie Texans.

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Marc Vandermeer: Radio studio moved out West.

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John Harris: Yes, your boy is out in the City of Angels,

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John Harris: Los Angeles hang with my daughter for her birthday yesterday

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Marc Vandermeer: But appreciate you being with me this evening. Now. Mark

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John Harris: As my man, Drew Doherty spends his last couple of

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John Harris: you'll actually hear that in my voice early in this one.

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Marc Vandermeer: Now my man and Drew Doherty and I doing in.

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John Harris: The Lab for the last time, technically the last time

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Speaker 5: Here we go, Hello there, Welcome to in the Lab.

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Speaker 5: I'm Drew Doherty, You're John Harris, and you are you.

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Speaker 5: Thank you you for joining us. It's the three of

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Speaker 5: us here on this little old podcast that John is

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Speaker 5: coming up on seven years of age. We started this

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Speaker 6: I believe, right, I think I believe it was.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like, hey, maybe it was doing this and

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Speaker 5: in some odd spots, but many every week during the season,

436
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:04,000
Speaker 5: most weeks in the off season. And this is the

437
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:08,199
Speaker 5: last one we'll do because I'm leaving. I'm headed to

438
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 5: a new gig where we're shooting this on Thursday, releasing

439
00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:16,600
Speaker 5: this on Friday. I am gonna go to my alma mater,

440
00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,920
Speaker 5: Straight Jesuits, where I graduated high school back in the nineties,

441
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,399
Speaker 5: and it's kind of it's not kind of it. It

442
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:24,640
Speaker 5: is a place that shaped who I am. A lot

443
00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:28,479
Speaker 5: of what I did TV wise was kind of drawing

444
00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:31,159
Speaker 5: on the Shenanigans that I did back then. At s

445
00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:34,479
Speaker 5: JET Straight Jesuit Educational Television, That's what I'm gonna be doing.

446
00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:36,760
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be running s JET as the director there

447
00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 5: and then teaching some history classes, which people around the

448
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,480
Speaker 5: Texans joke and that guy's always teaching history.

449
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 6: He's always lapping.

450
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:48,160
Speaker 5: So hopefully it's a nice, seamless transition. But I'm really excited.

451
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:51,920
Speaker 5: This is a prayers answered type of situation. I'm gonna

452
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 5: miss you, I'm gonna miss this podcast. I'm go miss

453
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,000
Speaker 5: a lot of things about the Texans. But it's just

454
00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:00,320
Speaker 5: such a fantastic opportunity. And I've talked to about this

455
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 5: offline with you a bunch, and you've You've been such

456
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:08,359
Speaker 5: an awesome supporter of mine, and I'm pumped. I'm really pumped.

457
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,120
Speaker 5: On August fourth is my first day on the job.

458
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,480
Speaker 5: August thirteenth will be my first day in the classroom.

459
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:17,040
Speaker 5: So I'm sure shenanigans are going to ensue over the

460
00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 5: next few years, and.

461
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:21,000
Speaker 6: I can't wait.

462
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 4: Man.

463
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,639
John Harris: Yeah, I got a feeling that in a good way,

464
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,160
John Harris: you'll hear from me on August twelfth, the night before,

465
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:31,439
John Harris: because when you think about going to that classroom for

466
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:32,640
John Harris: the first time and you see all.

467
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,160
Marc Vandermeer: These youthful faces, there'll be that.

468
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:39,960
John Harris: Moment of oh god, yeah, but you know I went Now,

469
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:41,720
John Harris: I went through that as a twenty two year old

470
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:46,160
John Harris: and and I was teaching some kids that were literally

471
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,159
John Harris: two years I mean, I taught some kids there are

472
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John Harris: now fifty and it's kind of mind blowing in the

473
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:56,760
John Harris: sense to think back and there's there are so many

474
00:25:56,800 --> 00:26:01,720
John Harris: things to say and trying say it with UH without

475
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,640
John Harris: kind of breaking up, which I'm doing now. But when

476
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:06,720
John Harris: you came in with this podcast, I'll be honest with you,

477
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,919
John Harris: I was kind of mad at you. I was like, dude,

478
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:13,600
John Harris: I've got like all these radio shows that we're already doing,

479
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,480
John Harris: Like why the hell are we doing a podcast now?

480
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:18,440
Marc Vandermeer: Like what, what the hell?

481
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,880
John Harris: But I was like, you know, it's Drew, so it's

482
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,760
John Harris: gonna be awesome, So just you know, shut up and

483
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:28,240
John Harris: go with it. And the first one that we did

484
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:33,320
John Harris: was some incantation of if you could take two former

485
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:35,359
John Harris: oilers and put them on the Texans, what would it?

486
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:37,160
John Harris: Who would they be? And I like, all of a sudden,

487
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:38,840
John Harris: I was in. I was like, okay, this is the

488
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:42,080
John Harris: concept of our podcast. We're in, you know, because we

489
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,000
John Harris: got to geek out and nerd out, and I knew

490
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:45,679
John Harris: I would always be happy because I was doing it

491
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:49,320
John Harris: with you. But the flip side of that was, you know,

492
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:51,520
John Harris: I remember coming home and kind of telling Paige about it.

493
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,600
John Harris: She's like, well, you know, is is that too much?

494
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:56,320
John Harris: They're already asking you to do this this? And this,

495
00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:58,200
John Harris: and I was like, I was like, babe, it's with Drew,

496
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:00,560
John Harris: Like it'll be cool, it'll be fun. It don't feel

497
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:02,919
John Harris: like we're just you know, chopping it up about you know,

498
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:09,320
John Harris: former drafts, redrafts, you know, comparing foods to superheroes to Texans,

499
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:12,919
John Harris: and you know it'll it'll be fun. And I, you know,

500
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,840
John Harris: I I'm one of those, and I don't. I don't

501
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:17,520
John Harris: want to be this way, but I always think about

502
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:19,840
John Harris: I don't. I never want to think about the end,

503
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:23,200
John Harris: but I do because I think about, like I love

504
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:26,679
John Harris: doing this so much, like what's that last episode, Like

505
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,520
John Harris: you know, what's the last radio show, Like what's the

506
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,840
John Harris: last game? Like in some sense, and it's it's always

507
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:33,760
John Harris: kind of frustrated to.

508
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:35,520
Marc Vandermeer: Think that way. And then you're like, nah, you know

509
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,439
Marc Vandermeer: it'll be okay. Just kind of roll with it.

510
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:40,359
John Harris: And then you know, when we had determined, I'm actually

511
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:41,440
John Harris: I'm out in La.

512
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:41,920
Speaker 6: Yeah.

513
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,360
John Harris: They came out here for my my daughter's birthday, and

514
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:46,760
John Harris: well twofold I came out here for my daughter's birthday.

515
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:51,280
John Harris: And then I got hired by Paige Harris Incorporated to

516
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:55,600
John Harris: drive all of her painting stuff back, which I have

517
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,080
John Harris: no no idea, How'm gonna get all that stuff back

518
00:27:58,080 --> 00:27:59,960
John Harris: in our car because I drove it out of your

519
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,119
John Harris: four years ago for them to have out here, and

520
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:03,600
John Harris: so now I'm driving that car back either way.

521
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,360
Marc Vandermeer: So I got it for a double reason. And then.

522
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:09,359
John Harris: You know, you and I had talked because you had

523
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:11,640
John Harris: been out, you had been out, and then I came

524
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:12,240
John Harris: here and.

525
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:13,639
Marc Vandermeer: So then you send me a text and said, yo,

526
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:14,960
Marc Vandermeer: let's do in the lab.

527
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,000
John Harris: And I just remember it hitting me like okay, this

528
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,320
John Harris: is the last one, and I was like, ah, damn.

529
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,359
John Harris: So I will hold it together as best I possibly can.

530
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:26,280
John Harris: I know you and Mark, you know, are sitting down

531
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:28,680
John Harris: on Friday for a segment for Radio. But I'm gonna

532
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:30,520
John Harris: play this Thursday on Radio two because it's you and

533
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:32,840
John Harris: me and we're the we are the the nexus of

534
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:33,360
John Harris: in the lab.

535
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,440
Marc Vandermeer: We are the you know, we are in the lab.

536
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,800
John Harris: And so I will play this Thursday night after John McClain,

537
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,479
John Harris: as I typically would do throughout the week. And it

538
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,640
John Harris: was it was always so much fun doing it. I

539
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,280
John Harris: don't know if there were times, you know, even in

540
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,920
John Harris: twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, when it

541
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:50,520
John Harris: was like.

542
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:52,360
Marc Vandermeer: What is going on?

543
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:54,280
John Harris: And you and I would put on a brave face

544
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,680
John Harris: and get onto mics and put the cans on and

545
00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,520
John Harris: just start talking about Texans and start talking about wild

546
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,080
John Harris: stuff with the Texans, and you know, think a dream

547
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:03,760
John Harris: of a day when it would get turned around. And

548
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,000
John Harris: then it started toning twenty twenty three, and you know,

549
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:07,920
John Harris: you and I within the lab we started, you know,

550
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:11,120
John Harris: we we celebrated that, and it was always it was

551
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,960
John Harris: always great. I cannot think, and I remember I was

552
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,720
John Harris: the first one I think that put the bug. And

553
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:17,520
John Harris: HI may have had you may have had others, but

554
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,239
John Harris: I remember when you and I talked, you know, if

555
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,280
John Harris: you probably a couple of years ago, just you know,

556
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,000
John Harris: about the future and such. I remember thinking, because I

557
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,680
John Harris: always think about you know, I spent my first seven

558
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:30,680
John Harris: years in private schools, and I always think about, you know,

559
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:32,440
John Harris: if somebody came to me with some sweetheart deal and

560
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,560
John Harris: wanted me to be the head master of a school.

561
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:36,600
John Harris: You know, I'd have to put together a staff, and

562
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:38,680
John Harris: you know what people would I want on my staff

563
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:39,760
John Harris: and all that kind of stuff.

564
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:41,840
Marc Vandermeer: And You've always been one of those people at the

565
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:42,240
Marc Vandermeer: top of my.

566
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,360
John Harris: List that I would immediately say, Okay, what would it

567
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:47,240
John Harris: take to get you to come over to this school

568
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:50,200
John Harris: with me, because there's so many things that you needed

569
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,880
John Harris: a school and kind of like, you know, you know

570
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,600
John Harris: JJ Watt in a sense, how many of those can

571
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:57,360
John Harris: Drew phill Well, Like if you this and this and

572
00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,480
John Harris: this and this and this, and he's a guy that

573
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:01,880
John Harris: I trust in love inherently, so he would be perfect.

574
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:05,280
John Harris: And so you know when you you told me that

575
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,640
John Harris: this opportunity was available for you and that you were taking,

576
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,280
John Harris: I was just like I I was, I was pumped,

577
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:13,880
John Harris: and I was pumped for you. I was pumped for

578
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,040
John Harris: the kids that you're going to be around every single

579
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:20,000
John Harris: day and who they're learning from. It's just it's it's

580
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:24,640
John Harris: the perfect fit in my mind for you. I just

581
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:26,960
John Harris: you know, hate the fact that you know, you and

582
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:28,280
John Harris: I won't be able to do in the lab every

583
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,040
John Harris: week and amongst other things.

584
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,680
Marc Vandermeer: But since we run into lab, we'll start with that one.

585
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:33,479
Speaker 6: Yeah.

586
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 5: No, it's uh, it's really funny. It kind of came

587
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 5: about a couple a couple of months ago because my

588
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 5: wife had the great idea. She's like, why don't you

589
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 5: try and do a summer sports media camp, like a

590
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 5: day camp. Yeah, from eight to noon Monday to Friday

591
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 5: one week and you can take some field trips and

592
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 5: you can have some experts talk to the boys, and yeah,

593
00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 5: pitch that idea to the folks at Strake Jesuit and

594
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 5: I had a pretty solid list of guests that we

595
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 5: came in and places we got to go and things

596
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 5: that they got to see. And I think that that

597
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,480
Speaker 5: got some wheels turning in the minds of the folks

598
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 5: over there, and it all came together pretty quickly in May,

599
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 5: and yeah, I'm headed back and it's it's a it's

600
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 5: a really competitive place. I mean, it was always fast,

601
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 5: who's the smartest, who's the funniest, who's right this, blah

602
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 5: blah blah. So it's gonna be fun to get back there, uh,

603
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 5: you know doing I did the Deer Drew videos there

604
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 5: for a few years, and that was that was s

605
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 5: jet Man. That was was us screwing around back when

606
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 5: I used to interview the homecoming court and we had

607
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 5: them saying goofy inn, you know, goofy thing in the

608
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 5: mid nineties. I mean, it it's really fun. It's really

609
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 5: a great place. And uh, it's changed a lot, as

610
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 5: you would expect over the course of thirst. But it

611
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 5: hasn't shp at all, and that's that's the exciting part

612
00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 5: about it for me. So I'm looking forward to going

613
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 5: there and looking forward to meeting, meeting and reconnecting with

614
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 5: some people who were there when I was there, who

615
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 5: taught when I was there.

616
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 6: And then there's a whole.

617
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,640
John Harris: That's that's always a fun one that when you tell

618
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:12,840
John Harris: when you walk in, yeah, you know. And here's one

619
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:16,000
John Harris: of the things when you when you when you're out

620
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,880
John Harris: of school, it's always, you know, coach. The coach is

621
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,600
John Harris: easy because for me, like I call anybody that's a coach,

622
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,880
John Harris: I call them coach. It's always it's always been coach.

623
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,880
John Harris: But when I had math teachers, you know missus Han,

624
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:32,640
John Harris: you know my English teacher, English teachers, Miss Fhalan, h

625
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,600
John Harris: Miss Morris, like I would see them as an adult,

626
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,480
John Harris: like I went to go do a I went to

627
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:40,560
John Harris: go do a speech. My my English teacher, Miss Fhalan,

628
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,720
John Harris: Maxine Phalen was getting a school named after her, and.

629
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:47,720
Marc Vandermeer: I was they were, well, I should say, they were

630
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:48,200
Marc Vandermeer: trying to get her.

631
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:49,520
John Harris: And so they were like, hey, would you come speak

632
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:51,400
John Harris: about her for five minutes to the school district, And

633
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:52,720
John Harris: that said absolutely.

634
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:52,920
Marc Vandermeer: So I went in.

635
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,480
John Harris: I did that. That was in twenty nineteen, so it's

636
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:57,880
John Harris: before COVID. So they go this long stretch of time

637
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,240
John Harris: without she gets to school and they were like, okay,

638
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:01,760
John Harris: we're going to dedicate the school in this day. Would

639
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,720
John Harris: you come out to Richard Rosenberg and you know, dedicate

640
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:06,200
John Harris: this or speak to to everybody?

641
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:07,520
Marc Vandermeer: And I said absolutely.

642
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:09,360
John Harris: And I see her and it's like, hey, miss Falen,

643
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:11,280
John Harris: and I'm like, you know, here I am, you know,

644
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,320
John Harris: nearing my fifties and I'm calling my English teachers still,

645
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,040
John Harris: Miss Faling. You know, I can only imagine what it's

646
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:18,640
John Harris: gonna be like to maybe work next to some of

647
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:21,680
John Harris: those people that you you know, had called, you know,

648
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:23,960
John Harris: mister Hall, miss Jones, and all of a sudden you

649
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:27,240
John Harris: got to say, hey, Catherine, you know it's gonna Bewley.

650
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 6: It's coach Crowley. There's a guy.

651
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:29,440
Marc Vandermeer: Yeah. Yeah.

652
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 6: He's the closest thing to a big brother.

653
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:31,760
Marc Vandermeer: Uh yeah.

654
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 5: He was my cross country and track and field coach.

655
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 5: He taught history when I was there. Since then, he's

656
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 5: been the athletic director. He's been the dean of students,

657
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 5: he's taught other classes, he's had of rules. He's the

658
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 5: athletic director again. Now, uh, he was instrumental in making

659
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 5: this all happen. But I called coach Crowley and you

660
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,479
Speaker 5: always say that around people there now and they'll kind

661
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 5: of turn their head, like, Coachy, that's my coach. He's

662
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 5: a hell of a coach. Uh, but I think most

663
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 5: of them know him as mister Crowley or yeah, you

664
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 5: know whatever, but as a coach to me. So, I'm

665
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 5: looking forward to getting back, and it's gonna be really

666
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 5: really fun. Still gonna be here on game days. I'll

667
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 5: be up in a press box booth helping out some

668
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 5: of the folks on the game day entertainment side and

669
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:18,840
Speaker 5: nice there, so and you and I are gonna be

670
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be hitting you with random text here and there.

671
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:22,720
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, Ziper Kate.

672
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 5: And we might have some other little ventures cooked up

673
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:28,439
Speaker 5: a time or two in the in the field.

674
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:30,480
Marc Vandermeer: Never know, never never know.

675
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:34,000
John Harris: Yeah, it's funny because you you never you never you

676
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:34,680
John Harris: never say never.

677
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:35,279
Marc Vandermeer: Yeah.

678
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,719
John Harris: I think I learned. I learned that actually at you know,

679
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,680
John Harris: private school. I remember when I was leaving the private school.

680
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:43,719
John Harris: I just remember, uh thinking, you know, okay, that's it.

681
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:47,320
John Harris: I'm never never doing that. I remember my wife saying, eh,

682
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:50,640
John Harris: you you never know, you never know what might happen.

683
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:52,920
John Harris: And so when I got to Houston and started doing

684
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:56,160
John Harris: radio in two thousand and seven, I wasn't making a

685
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:58,080
John Harris: lot of money with it, and you know, not as

686
00:34:58,160 --> 00:34:59,480
John Harris: much as I thought I was gonna make. And so

687
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,359
John Harris: new not new school, but a school that had been

688
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,200
John Harris: opened was opening a high school and called the Village

689
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:07,239
John Harris: School over on the West side. Yeah, and they were

690
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:10,080
John Harris: opening a high school, and I remember my wife was

691
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:13,080
John Harris: going to apply for, you know, some some sort of position.

692
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,439
John Harris: Obviously she grew from being you know, part time art

693
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:18,799
John Harris: to basically like the second or third command over there.

694
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:20,280
Marc Vandermeer: I mean, she was instrumental in that place.

695
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:24,120
John Harris: And so I remember sitting thinking around, going, you know,

696
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,280
John Harris: I wonder, you know, male math teachers aren't the easiest

697
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,520
John Harris: thing to find. I wonder if I offer up, you know,

698
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,160
John Harris: kind of a part time thing, you know what. They

699
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,040
John Harris: let me teach in the morning and then I go

700
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,520
John Harris: to radio in the afternoon, and they were for it,

701
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:38,120
John Harris: and so I went right back, and I did it

702
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:41,400
John Harris: for a couple of years where I was teaching in

703
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:43,800
John Harris: the morning and then I was doing radio in the afternoon.

704
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:45,319
John Harris: So it's like one of those things where you never

705
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:48,319
John Harris: say never, and you know, it's like with in a lab,

706
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,279
John Harris: you know that it may not be the last one,

707
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,040
John Harris: might be. It may not be, you know, may not

708
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:54,600
John Harris: be the last time year Drew and I together.

709
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:55,560
Marc Vandermeer: Maybe it may not be.

710
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,000
John Harris: You know. It's kind of that that fun thing you

711
00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:00,200
John Harris: never say never. You never closed doors. And obviously when

712
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,200
John Harris: you you know, have people you love, you always telling

713
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:04,680
John Harris: me you love them, and you're one of those people

714
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:08,000
John Harris: that you you were family to me and to the

715
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,800
John Harris: Harris kids. I know when Jack always came in a building.

716
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:12,320
John Harris: There was a time where Jack was coming in to

717
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,720
John Harris: the building with me a lot. School was not going well,

718
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,440
John Harris: and I remember you would walk in, Hey Jack, and

719
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,120
John Harris: Jack was just Jack would just light up. You were

720
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,719
John Harris: always great with him. So I can imagine these kids

721
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:25,480
John Harris: are getting a great one man. And I'm looking forward

722
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,359
John Harris: to seeing how that goes and what that what that's

723
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:32,399
John Harris: like for you. But this podcast has been sometimes you'd

724
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:34,239
John Harris: walk in and you're like, you know, like, okay, what

725
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:35,799
John Harris: are we gonna do with the podcast? And you're like, yeah,

726
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:37,799
John Harris: just just dance with me. I'm like you'll know what

727
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,160
John Harris: to do. I'm like, okay, all right, let's go then

728
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:41,960
John Harris: those that end up being some of the best in

729
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,440
John Harris: the labs because we would you know, we would redraft,

730
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:49,360
John Harris: you know, catchups or you know Texans that could have

731
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,640
John Harris: gone to other places or came from other places that

732
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:54,520
John Harris: should have been Texans, and you know players from the

733
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,120
John Harris: city of Houston that went to other places that would

734
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,200
John Harris: be Texans all that. So it was always kind of

735
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:02,800
John Harris: fun because it always like peak my creativity and my thought,

736
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,040
John Harris: you know, about what could be, you know, as opposed

737
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:07,480
John Harris: to what was or whatever the case might be.

738
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:08,799
Marc Vandermeer: So it was always really good to do that.

739
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 6: Okay, so.

740
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 5: Let's talk about a few of my favorite things what

741
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 5: we used to do together that we did here. So

742
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 5: I loved road trips. Yeah, like when we get some dinner.

743
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 5: Sometimes I didn't. I didn't always go out to dinner

744
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 5: with you guys, because like, yeah, we've got family and

745
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 5: different places. I got friends in it, so I'd meet

746
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 5: up with them blah blah blah blah. Sometimes I just

747
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 5: stay because I have forty eight children at home and

748
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 5: I'm tired, I've got a little bit of a cold,

749
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 5: and I just yeah, what I love. The things I

750
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 5: love the most about road trips was after the game,

751
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 5: getting on the plane plus but the plane because inevitably

752
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:49,800
Speaker 5: i'd either be sitting in your row with you, yeah,

753
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 5: right by you and breaking down what just happened, but

754
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:55,800
Speaker 5: good or bad, you know, and lots of good times

755
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 5: because you've been doing this since you've been with us

756
00:37:57,960 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 5: since fourteen.

757
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 6: Good times.

758
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:03,319
Speaker 5: Lots of bad times too, But I love just like

759
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 5: the behind the scenes, like did you see this, yeah,

760
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 5: fourteen quarterback hits and you know, like going through things

761
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 5: and breaking it down kind of the way you and

762
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 5: I would break down, just and like the little offshoots

763
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 5: and what happened here and this guy said this here

764
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 5: and I heard this.

765
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:21,720
Speaker 6: And blah blah blah blah blah blah.

766
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,280
Speaker 5: I love that that it was that time right before

767
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 5: takeoff as you brett bag up, you sit down and

768
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:31,879
Speaker 5: just like that sometimes five minutes, sometimes thirty minutes, you know,

769
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 5: put your stuff up and talking the behind the scenes,

770
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 5: like the info and the the kind of the filler

771
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 5: material that you got. Yeah, so rich in those those times.

772
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:43,959
Speaker 6: I love those.

773
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:47,440
John Harris: It was really the first time on that Sunday or

774
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:50,359
John Harris: whatever night were the are night we were playing that you

775
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,560
John Harris: really kind of let your hair down because you and

776
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,920
John Harris: I even on the bus to the airport, you and

777
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:57,680
John Harris: I would be cranking out some sort.

778
00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:00,880
Speaker 5: Of article like a tyrannosaurce recks, because yeah, like you know,

779
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 5: like just HIPing like this.

780
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:04,279
Marc Vandermeer: Yeah, you know invariably, you know.

781
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:06,399
Speaker 5: Hope that scene right there that they got Hope that's

782
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 5: the thumbnail for us.

783
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:10,040
John Harris: Yeah, because you're literally just clocking keys and you got

784
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:11,839
John Harris: like people nextually you're like you're trying to and you're

785
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:13,839
John Harris: trying to send it, and you look, Okay, how much

786
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:15,040
John Harris: further do we have to the airport?

787
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:15,720
Speaker 6: Okay?

788
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:17,759
John Harris: Can I finish this? Okay, I gotta send it? Do

789
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:20,600
John Harris: I have wi FI? Who's got? Who's going? So we're

790
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,120
John Harris: actually working all the way up until literally we were

791
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:25,200
John Harris: getting off the bus to get on a plane, and

792
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:29,200
John Harris: it's kind of the first moment of like, okay, all right,

793
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:33,040
John Harris: what happened? And then you start going through the game

794
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:36,479
John Harris: and and parts, you know, the moments of it, and

795
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:39,520
John Harris: you know, invariably, you know, we'd be you know, an

796
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,160
John Harris: hour into the flight and and one of us, you know,

797
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:44,680
John Harris: we we might even still be working at that point,

798
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:46,719
John Harris: and one of us would kind of nudge the other

799
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:49,919
John Harris: like hey, and we'd have this we'll call it game

800
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:50,840
John Harris: book and all its stats.

801
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:51,640
Marc Vandermeer: I remember this one.

802
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:54,680
John Harris: We were coming back from Cleveland and fourteen and we'd

803
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:57,399
John Harris: beaten Cleveland. There's a lot of things that happened that day,

804
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,080
John Harris: but what was incredible, unbelievable.

805
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:02,560
Marc Vandermeer: And I remember looking.

806
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,840
John Harris: To you and it showed you the statu sheet and

807
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,719
John Harris: I was like, he's got a number in every column.

808
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's incredible, I think. And then of course there

809
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 5: was offensive Pender guests. I think at hitting the statistical buffet.

810
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:17,279
Speaker 5: He got yeah, salad, he got jello, he got yeah, right,

811
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 5: it was amazing, got okra, he get everything in the

812
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 5: every statistic in the in the game. But we've talked

813
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:26,359
Speaker 5: about this before on this podcast. But yeah, he Yeah,

814
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:27,239
Speaker 5: that was a fun one.

815
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:28,520
Marc Vandermeer: That was it was that was incredible.

816
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:31,000
John Harris: And so there was those moments on a plane, you know,

817
00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:33,200
John Harris: and and also there would be moments. I remember in

818
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:35,200
John Harris: twenty fifteen, you and I were sitting next to each

819
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:38,080
John Harris: other and we were on a plane. We got an email.

820
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:39,959
John Harris: A lot of times this happens, we want to play

821
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,080
John Harris: going to a game. We're going to Jacksonville on twenty fifteen,

822
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:44,239
John Harris: and we were sitting next to each other and we

823
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:46,000
John Harris: look down because we get the same notice at the

824
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:47,880
John Harris: same time and it says JJ Watt.

825
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:49,520
Marc Vandermeer: Is questionable with illness.

826
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,240
John Harris: Yeah, and we just looked at each other like we're

827
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:56,600
John Harris: we're screwed, Like this is not good. And it was

828
00:40:56,600 --> 00:41:00,080
John Harris: probably about ten to fifteen minutes later he comes roll

829
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:02,239
John Harris: and he at this. At this time, we sat at

830
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:05,239
John Harris: the front of the plane. He comes by us. He's

831
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:06,840
John Harris: got shades on it. You can just see it, and

832
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:09,200
John Harris: we're like, oh god, you know. And it was like

833
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:11,760
John Harris: those things that we would see that we knew about.

834
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:13,319
John Harris: And I just remember, you know, not looking at each other,

835
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:16,440
John Harris: like when we mouthed some bad words to one another.

836
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:18,359
Marc Vandermeer: Went on a field, he played the whole game.

837
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:20,919
John Harris: I remember he puked right out of my shoes after

838
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:22,600
John Harris: a j Boyot finished the game with interception.

839
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:24,600
Marc Vandermeer: He puked right on my shoes or right near my shoes,

840
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:26,280
Marc Vandermeer: just like exhausted.

841
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:28,560
John Harris: And it was it was one of his worst statistical games,

842
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,280
John Harris: but he played really well because that jacks will focused

843
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,120
John Harris: everything on him. But I remember you and I would

844
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:34,680
John Harris: have some of those moments too, sitting on a plane

845
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:38,439
John Harris: and just you know, seeing players go by. So what's

846
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:42,200
John Harris: Arian Foster wearing today? Oh, he's wearing a you know,

847
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:45,799
John Harris: an Indian outfit, and and then Deep would pipe in

848
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:48,239
John Harris: and go, yeah that I like that. You know that,

849
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,200
John Harris: my my husband has that, or I have a friend

850
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,440
John Harris: that wears that or something like that. I'd be like, okay,

851
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:55,160
John Harris: you know. So it was always kind of we always

852
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:57,600
John Harris: had those moments planes with. I always thought it was

853
00:41:57,680 --> 00:41:59,160
John Harris: kind of fun. You'd see a little bit of behind

854
00:41:59,160 --> 00:41:59,840
John Harris: the scenes stuff.

855
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:00,279
Marc Vandermeer: You know.

856
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 5: Another thing I loved game days sidelines. I wasn't always

857
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 5: on the sideline road games. Last few years, I was

858
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:12,479
Speaker 5: on the sidelines for home games. Yeah, road games. Every

859
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 5: once in a while, when the Texans would close them out, I.

860
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:18,960
Speaker 6: Take we take a selfie together, you know.

861
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:21,759
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it was I think it was that

862
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:24,359
Speaker 5: bitter bitter the coldest one I've ever been to. You've

863
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 5: been to colder, but the coldest one I've ever been

864
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 5: to was that at Tennessee I think two three years ago, Yeah,

865
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:35,400
Speaker 5: day before Christmas, and that was Yeah, that was a

866
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 5: fun one. And then home games, I just a lot

867
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:39,760
Speaker 5: of times I just come up and stand beside you,

868
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:43,279
Speaker 5: you know, while you're you're watching, I'm watching. But there's

869
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 5: just always fun, you know, being near you on those

870
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:49,840
Speaker 5: game is and then also coming back from practices, I

871
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 5: was enjoyed the conversation. And then every once in a

872
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 5: while we're walking, I'd kind of look over the side

873
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:58,360
Speaker 5: and see you walking, and then I'd start stepping on

874
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 5: every single crack as it would it would erupt your eight,

875
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,440
Speaker 5: your your o c D. And you're I still do this,

876
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:07,799
Speaker 5: I go crack it, yeah, yeah, And I get you going.

877
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:10,359
John Harris: I am very I'm very o c D that way,

878
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:13,160
John Harris: and so I step over, I step over cracks.

879
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:17,680
Marc Vandermeer: I do not want, uh like cracking my Yeah.

880
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:20,279
John Harris: And so I just remember one day you steping on

881
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:22,760
John Harris: all I'm not saying anything at first, and then finally

882
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:25,480
John Harris: you said something like, you know, hey, I'm stepping on

883
00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:27,960
John Harris: these cracks, and I finally was like, you aren't doing it.

884
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:33,000
Marc Vandermeer: On purpose, but doing it. So yeah, it was that.

885
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:37,319
John Harris: He used to like, man, you got me, but yeah,

886
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:41,000
John Harris: it was uh and I think that's what what uh.

887
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:41,960
Marc Vandermeer: So life's supposed to be.

888
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:44,120
John Harris: Man, You feel every single emotion every single day, and

889
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:45,879
John Harris: the people that make you feel those are the ones

890
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:48,440
John Harris: you you keep the closest to you, and you definitely

891
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:51,440
John Harris: have been one of those since even before twenty fourteen.

892
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:53,680
John Harris: I remember it was funny because when I went to

893
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:56,400
John Harris: the initial Bill Obriyant press conference in twenty fourteen, I

894
00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:57,040
John Harris: remember you.

895
00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:59,319
Marc Vandermeer: You came up to me and you were like, Hey,

896
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:01,719
Marc Vandermeer: we're gonna do more analytics. How do you think this

897
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:02,280
Marc Vandermeer: thing goes?

898
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 5: Like?

899
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:04,680
Marc Vandermeer: You know, knowing that I knew Bill, you know.

900
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:06,279
John Harris: You were trying to that was really kind of the

901
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:08,600
John Harris: first time I think we had we maybe met before that,

902
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:10,640
John Harris: but we kind of kind of chit chat at that point.

903
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:13,160
John Harris: And you know a few months later you were unfortunate

904
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:16,280
John Harris: enough to have me in your building, a former former

905
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:19,600
John Harris: O'Brien disciple, like near you. But but yeah, it was

906
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:22,759
John Harris: always always the the ideas we had in the lab.

907
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:23,000
Marc Vandermeer: You know.

908
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:24,279
John Harris: One of the other things that we got to do

909
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:28,200
John Harris: was you know Texas bowls, uh kill Texas kickoffs and

910
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:30,920
John Harris: you and I would be up on the board and

911
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:32,600
John Harris: that was all. That was always a good time. I

912
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:34,680
John Harris: always felt bad for people. You have to see my

913
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:37,080
John Harris: big head up there. But we would get texts like

914
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:39,160
John Harris: we would get text from people like hey man, I'm

915
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:40,920
John Harris: in the building and then they took a picture of

916
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:42,800
John Harris: you and I and you know, my wife used to

917
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:44,320
John Harris: get those when she was at home, like heym in

918
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:44,760
John Harris: the building.

919
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:46,759
Marc Vandermeer: I saw your husband Withdrew, and so I.

920
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:49,880
Speaker 5: Love that we did probably we did probably twenty games

921
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 5: combined of those and I think half of them either

922
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 5: involved Mike.

923
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:57,799
Speaker 6: Leech and or Urgerson, which is awesome. I love both.

924
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:03,399
Speaker 5: Yes, because we I mean we knew you know the game,

925
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:05,840
Speaker 5: you know college football, but I do a lot of

926
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:09,320
Speaker 5: background on those two guys, so it was fun to Yeah,

927
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 5: and the other guys were cool too, that from the

928
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 5: other teams, but Do in particular. We loved those conversations

929
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 5: about and everything that came along with it. So yeah,

930
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 5: go on and on forever, your dear friend. I've loved

931
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 5: doing this. We hope you have have enjoyed watching or

932
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 5: listening to this podcast over the years. It's been a

933
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 5: lot of different things, a lot of weird things, and

934
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:35,839
Speaker 5: I'm gonna miss doing it. It was always a thrill

935
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 5: to do this. It's always a fun part of my week.

936
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:40,799
Speaker 5: And uh, like I said, we might have something cooked

937
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:41,600
Speaker 5: up down the line.

938
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:43,400
Marc Vandermeer: Yeah, you never know.

939
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:46,359
Speaker 5: I love you very much and I will see you soon.

940
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 5: I know, your friend, You're not gonna We're not We're

941
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:51,880
Speaker 5: not saying goodbye. We're just saying so long right now,

942
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:54,880
Speaker 5: and be safe. Coming back to LA or coming back

943
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 5: and just don't step on any cracks.

944
00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:00,279
Marc Vandermeer: Okay, Yeah, I'm so glad that I got up.

945
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:03,440
John Harris: I woke my ass up to in LA because it's

946
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:06,360
John Harris: still dark thirty around here. So uh yeah, it was

947
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,080
John Harris: good man, but I yeah, I appreciate it. And the

948
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:10,440
John Harris: first crack that you step on as you're walking down

949
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:12,400
John Harris: the hallway, you will have a chuckle thinking of me,

950
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:13,080
John Harris: So that's good.

951
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:15,799
Speaker 5: Indeed, I will all right, this has been in the

952
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 5: Lab presented by Infinity one final.

953
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:20,360
John Harris: Time tomorrow night. Drew will be with Mark to finish

954
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:23,120
John Harris: it up on a Friday evening. U and I hate

955
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:26,399
John Harris: even saying those words. So with that said, we'll get

956
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:28,320
John Harris: to our final segment. We'll go round in the NFL

957
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:31,560
John Harris: quickly right here on Texans All Access. All right, we

958
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:34,319
John Harris: won final segment of this edition to Texans All Access.

959
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:37,280
Marc Vandermeer: I'm your host, John Harris, Football and a sideline report.

960
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:39,160
John Harris: It'd be a quick one because obviously we had spent

961
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:42,000
John Harris: some time with the General John mcclan and Drew dowerty

962
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:45,720
John Harris: uh in the final in the Lab on Texans All Access.

963
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:47,520
Marc Vandermeer: Make sure you tune in tomorrow. He'll be on with Mark.

964
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:50,240
John Harris: I'm sure We'll share a lot of memories about Drew's

965
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:55,040
John Harris: time with the Texans. Gonna miss him very, very very much,

966
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:58,439
John Harris: but I think what he is going on to do

967
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:01,960
John Harris: is going to be really cool, and I'm very happy

968
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:05,719
John Harris: for him and his family, And that's just one of

969
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:09,640
John Harris: the best family. Their family to me, and their family

970
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:10,680
John Harris: to a lot of you, because I know a lot

971
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:13,400
John Harris: of you have listened to Drew, respecting him for a

972
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:16,560
John Harris: very long time, and so we will continue to do

973
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:18,960
John Harris: that now. The news came down yesterday and I actually

974
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:22,040
John Harris: was in La Los Angeles where I'm visiting my daughter.

975
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:25,640
John Harris: The Texans open training camp June twenty third and then

976
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:26,560
John Harris: going to the Greenbrier.

977
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:29,360
Marc Vandermeer: Baby. Yes, so excited about this.

978
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:33,600
John Harris: I actually been sitting on that news for about two months,

979
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:36,680
John Harris: two and a half months that it was a strong possibility.

980
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:38,120
Marc Vandermeer: It was like, we can do this, we can do it.

981
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:41,799
John Harris: So glad that we can week in Houston, week at

982
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:46,120
John Harris: the Greenbrier, week in Houston, a week in Detroit roughly,

983
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:48,799
John Harris: and then we'll come back here to just get ready

984
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,080
John Harris: for the La Rams to start the season.

985
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:52,040
Marc Vandermeer: All Right, It's been a great show.

986
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:55,319
John Harris: Appreciate John McClain forever, love for Drew Doherty for all

987
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:57,680
John Harris: of you the same, We'll see all tomorrow and as always,

988
00:47:57,680 --> 00:47:58,240
John Harris: go Texans.