1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:01,480 Speaker 1: What's happened everybody. 2 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:03,920 Speaker 2: Happy Friday to all of you out there on a 3 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 2: beautiful Houston day. 4 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:06,520 Speaker 1: What a day it's been. 5 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:09,800 Speaker 2: I'm your host, John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter for 6 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 2: your Houston Texas. 7 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: Glad to be with you, and this is gonna be 8 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:13,119 Speaker 1: a special show. 9 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 2: As I mentioned yesterday, Texans Jog Podcast with our guy 10 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:17,599 Speaker 2: ind Clue. 11 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 1: He sits down tonight with. 12 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:25,759 Speaker 2: The goat, the first Hall of Famer in Texans history 13 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,320 Speaker 2: that spent the majority of his career with the Texans. 14 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 2: We're not talking Tony Bisselli or Ed Reed. We're talking 15 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 2: about Andre Johnson. Let's get it kicked off right here. 16 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 3: Today's a very very special day. This man needs no introduction. 17 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 3: I don't need to go through his stats, his years, 18 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,159 Speaker 3: everything that he accomplished. All I have to do is 19 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 3: say three words, Hall of Fame. The first Houston Texan 20 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 3: Hall of Famer, Andre Johnson sitting down with us OG podcast. 21 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 3: Welcome and my brother, and congratulations. Appreciate you man. 22 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 4: You have me first of. 23 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 3: All, appreciate you for I've been trying to get you 24 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:05,479 Speaker 3: in the studio for ten years now, so I'm glad 25 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:09,399 Speaker 3: I finally got you but does it ever get you know, 26 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:11,400 Speaker 3: we're gonna be transparent, we're gonna have some fun here 27 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 3: over the next thirty forty minutes. Did you ever get 28 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 3: annoyed or like, here we go again. Another congratulations on 29 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 3: the Hall of Fame Because as soon as I heard 30 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:23,679 Speaker 3: about it, and I just told y'all sitting in my 31 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 3: living room and I was screaming like it was my 32 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 3: blood brother when I found out. But I know every 33 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 3: time somebody sees you, they want to hear the story, 34 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 3: they want to congratulate you. 35 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 4: Are you getting tired of it yet? Nah? 36 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 3: Actually, I don't think it's something you can really get 37 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:38,840 Speaker 3: tired of. 38 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 4: Man. 39 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:46,080 Speaker 3: For me, it's just it just like just the city 40 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 3: of Houston and what it means to everybody, you know, 41 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 3: like your teammates, coaches. You know, I got a chance 42 00:01:54,800 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 3: to see coach Kooby act this weekend and it's like, 43 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 3: you know, it's like they made it, you know what 44 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 3: I'm saying, Like it's so exciting for everybody. So I 45 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 3: don't think it's something you could get tired of because 46 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 3: it's made so many people so happy, you know. So 47 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 3: I think for me, I just enjoyed that, Like to 48 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 3: I don't want it to be just about me, you 49 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:21,360 Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, Like, Man, you went the battle 50 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 3: on the field together, so I want you to feel 51 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 3: a part of that too. So I think that's what 52 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 3: makes it special, because everybody else feels a part of it. 53 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 3: You know what you just said. I think that's why 54 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 3: so many of your teammates, you know that you played with, 55 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 3: even guys that you weren't that close with, were so 56 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 3: excited because of how genuine you are. Like in my 57 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 3: twelve years, I played with like six Hall of famers. 58 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 3: I was never more excited than when I heard your name. 59 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 3: And I'm if Brian Dawkins was sitting there, I would 60 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 3: really say the same thing. It's because of what you 61 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 3: just said and how humble you were. I'll never forget 62 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 3: my first week here, and you won't remember this conversation. 63 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 3: But I remember after a week of practice, I pulled 64 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 3: you aside and I was like, man, you practiced like 65 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 3: a rookie trying to make the team, And I'll never 66 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 3: forget you said, that's the only way I know like 67 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 3: you weren't even like hell, thanks, man, it's because you 68 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:11,679 Speaker 3: were like that's it was almost like you were saying 69 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:14,359 Speaker 3: that's a stupid asd statement because that's the only way 70 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 3: I know how to go. But I don't know if 71 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 3: you realize how that that resonates with your teammates, Like 72 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 3: just kind of talk about that thought process. It's so 73 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:27,840 Speaker 3: for me as a as a player, I just always 74 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 3: was like, cause you know, you you coming into the 75 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 3: NFL and you hit a story, so it's always a stereo. 76 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 3: They're gonna try to replace you every year. So I 77 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 3: just had a mindset where I was like, I ain't 78 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 3: gonna give them no reason to replace me, you know 79 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 3: like that, And that's that's how I approached it. And 80 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 3: it was never in a selfish way though, Like I 81 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 3: always wanted to help and bring other guys along with me. 82 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 3: So that was just always my approach. You know, I'm 83 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 3: gonna go out here, I'm gonna work my ass off, 84 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 3: and whoever want to follow on following who don't they 85 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 3: not and you know they they'll fall off on the wayside. 86 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 3: So that was just always my approach to it. When 87 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 3: did you realize because when you hear the leader, uh, 88 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 3: you know, you think of the raw, raw guys And 89 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 3: I'm not saying a negative way like Dimigo Ryans was 90 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:25,480 Speaker 3: a leader, but it was obviously the way he carried 91 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 3: himself and the things he said. You were a quiet leader. 92 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 3: Like the few times you said something was like shut 93 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 3: up man, Like when you realize, like, man, my voice 94 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:37,040 Speaker 3: has power. Like about what year in the league did 95 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:42,160 Speaker 3: you did you realize that? Man? This is this is crazy. 96 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:47,720 Speaker 3: I remember my rookie year. Jonathan Wells probably could tell 97 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 3: you about this story. Dumb Capers was out head coach 98 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 3: when I first got here, and I remember like, man, 99 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 3: like you know, dumb old school, like you grinding every 100 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 3: day and dou was like really like beat down, like 101 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 3: you know, just tired, you know, And it was like Dre, man, 102 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 3: you're the only person here listen. 103 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 4: To as a rookie as a rookie. 104 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 3: So I'm like what they was like, I'm talking about 105 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 3: they they It was like it was so funny, Broke. 106 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:20,920 Speaker 3: We were sitting in the team lounge and I got 107 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 3: all these veteran dudes around me telling me what I 108 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 3: needed to say to Damn Capers. So I go up there, 109 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:29,599 Speaker 3: I say what I say to him, and you know, 110 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 3: they gave me told me everything what to say. It 111 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 3: was all playing out there and you know, he actually 112 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 3: he actually listened, and but I think in that moment 113 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 3: it was just like even though I was a rookie. 114 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 3: And another story, we was playing against Buffalo. I think 115 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 3: it was my second some of either my second or 116 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:53,119 Speaker 3: third year in the league. 117 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:55,720 Speaker 4: Jay Well, same dude he. 118 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 3: Came up to He was like, man, you need to 119 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 3: speak to the teams before the game, and like that 120 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 3: was my first time ever doing that, like in my life, 121 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 3: like in all my years of playing football, high school, 122 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 3: high school, college, first time ever like I actually spoke 123 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 3: in front of the genest and the way like could do. 124 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 3: Dudes was listening to what I'm saying, Like it's just 125 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:23,520 Speaker 3: kind of like damn, like like they you know, it's 126 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:28,159 Speaker 3: it's a sense of respect, you know. So I'd probably 127 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 3: say that's probably the first time I really really like 128 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 3: realized because it was the first time I ever did it. 129 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 3: So with the success you had in high school, college, 130 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 3: you know early on in the NFL, did you think 131 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:41,960 Speaker 3: they wouldn't listen or you just didn't think about it. 132 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:44,479 Speaker 3: You were so focused on just the grind. I was 133 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 3: just more just a grinder, Like I didn't really I 134 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 3: always felt like that was for everybody else like to 135 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 3: be talking and I just never really that just went me. 136 00:06:56,680 --> 00:07:01,039 Speaker 3: I wentn't my who I was. Eventually I had to 137 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 3: grow into that, you know, but early in my career. Now, 138 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:08,040 Speaker 3: I just even in high school growing up, I just 139 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 3: never was that guy. Like I never felt like I 140 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:13,680 Speaker 3: needed to talk to the team or but I used 141 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 3: to always have coaches tell me like you're the leader, 142 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 3: you know, But I just wasn't a raw rock guy. 143 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 3: Did you feel like the way you work, like your 144 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 3: work ethic, could you tell people were trying to get 145 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 3: in line? Like for me when we when we became teammates, 146 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 3: it was like year nine or ten. For me, I 147 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 3: had two knee braces. My knees were hurt. But when 148 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:36,440 Speaker 3: I saw you working, I was like, you know what, 149 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:38,240 Speaker 3: I need to step it up. Like I actually thought 150 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 3: that I need to step it up, Like could you 151 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 3: sinse Like even though I'm not a vocal guy, guys 152 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 3: are kind of getting in line. Well, I just for me, man, 153 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:49,760 Speaker 3: like I had some great guys like in college like 154 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 3: Santanamos and Reggie Wayne. You know guys I played behind 155 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 3: if you you know, I always tell people those are 156 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 3: like my big brothers, Like that's where I learn learn 157 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 3: that from. Like if you saw these guys like work, 158 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 3: Like I remember my receiver coach, Curtis Johnson, he was 159 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 3: you know, I was a freshman and you know back 160 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 3: then we had freshman practice before the you know, the 161 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 3: veteran guys would come in and he was like, don't 162 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 3: worry way to these other guys, wait to Sattanna, Reggie, 163 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 3: don't get here, y'all gonna really see what it is. 164 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 3: Cause like our first day, me and Kevin Beard, the 165 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:32,720 Speaker 3: other guy named Anthony Johnson, like, man, we he used 166 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:35,439 Speaker 3: to make us do cone drills before, like that was 167 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 3: our first name. We would do like right out of 168 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:41,040 Speaker 3: warm ups and we would be like dead, like and 169 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 3: I didn't really realize like how greater shape you had 170 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 3: to get in like all that. That was a real 171 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:52,240 Speaker 3: like learning experience for me. So but just being around 172 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:55,359 Speaker 3: those guys, Reggie, like they gave me like the blueprint 173 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 3: of what it was as far as like just working 174 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 3: and grinding and and really working on your craft, you 175 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 3: know as a wide receiver. So you know, that's interesting 176 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:08,199 Speaker 3: because everyone always talks about the culture, the culture, but 177 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 3: it sounds like y'all really had the culture. Of when 178 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:13,439 Speaker 3: you get to the U and for those under a 179 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:16,040 Speaker 3: rock who don't know he went to Miami. Once you 180 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 3: get there, you know you're gonna have to put in 181 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 3: the work. Michael Irvin, way before your time, they even 182 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 3: had that same mentality. So do you even know where 183 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:28,079 Speaker 3: it started from as far as that culture, Well, I 184 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 3: mean it had to start from the guys that was 185 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 3: you know, yeah, I think Mike, like Mike, Lonzo hot Smith, 186 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 3: Jerome Brown, god Reschi, saw all those guys like they 187 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 3: laid the foundation, you know, and it was a standard 188 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:50,920 Speaker 3: that was set. Like you knew when you went to 189 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,200 Speaker 3: the University Miami, it was a certain standard. You had 190 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 3: to carry yourself a certain way. But at the same time, 191 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 3: it was just like you come out of that tunnel 192 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:04,559 Speaker 3: on Saturday. It was you will see so many guys 193 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 3: like former players, like the support was crazy so and 194 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 3: you ain't want to let them dudes down because for me, 195 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 3: I grew up watching it, you know, so I knew 196 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 3: what it was about, and I as a kid, I 197 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:21,839 Speaker 3: used to always be like, man, I want to be 198 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:25,719 Speaker 3: a part of that, Like it's something special about you know, 199 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:27,839 Speaker 3: them dudes that were that you on their helmets, so 200 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 3: I always wanted to be a part of it. And 201 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:33,959 Speaker 3: you know when you got that man like, man, I 202 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 3: don't seen dudes get called out. 203 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:37,439 Speaker 4: Man. 204 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:40,439 Speaker 3: We used to have we used to have a some 205 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:43,400 Speaker 3: couches set up in the locker room. We used to 206 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:47,559 Speaker 3: call it the ring, and you want to do it 207 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 3: what you were supposed to do, you had to get 208 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:51,880 Speaker 3: in that ring like it was. It was. It was 209 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 3: like that, oh yeah, nah, you're gonna wrestle, okay, like 210 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:59,719 Speaker 3: with somebody who calls you out. Yeah, okay, yeah, like 211 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:02,840 Speaker 3: it's it's going now, like someone's real about that. If 212 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:05,079 Speaker 3: you call someone out, you better handle your business. So 213 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:07,679 Speaker 3: it was definitely But if somebody called you out, trust me, 214 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 3: you're gonna be in for a fight like it was. 215 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:12,959 Speaker 4: It was. It was. It was just different. Man. 216 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 3: I tell people all the time because they always be like, man, 217 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:17,679 Speaker 3: how was it that? How was it at Miami? I'm like, man, like, 218 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 3: I don't think words can really describe it. You had 219 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 3: to be there to see it. But it was a 220 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:23,200 Speaker 3: standard light. 221 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:24,600 Speaker 4: Man. 222 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 3: You might have had some guys that didn't get aloan, 223 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:29,959 Speaker 3: but when we got on that football field, we knew 224 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,319 Speaker 3: it was about one thing and one thing only you know, 225 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:36,280 Speaker 3: So that's what made it special. Man. It was a 226 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:38,839 Speaker 3: it was a I tell people all the time the 227 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 3: best days of my life. I'm getting goose because I 228 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 3: could I could feel it, but I didn't experience that 229 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 3: in my college was just kind of hard to believe. 230 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 3: Considered I went the rights you probably thought we had that. 231 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 3: You know, don't laugh too hard, but you know that 232 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 3: I'm getting goosebumps listening and you kind of answer what 233 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:57,200 Speaker 3: my next question was going to be. I was going 234 00:11:57,280 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 3: to ask you, But it sounds like from day one 235 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 3: Union that was the school you wanted to go to. 236 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 3: When did you know that that was gonna be a reality? 237 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 3: Like what year in high school? So I probably say 238 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 3: my it probably didn't really hit me until my senior year. 239 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:20,560 Speaker 3: I think for me, I was just kind of enjoying 240 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 3: high school, you know while I was there. And I 241 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:28,040 Speaker 3: remember my my high school coach one day he put 242 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:30,439 Speaker 3: me to the side. He's like, hey, man, like, you 243 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 3: don't talk about college, Like you don't talk about nothing. 244 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 3: Like he was like, what what you playing on doing? 245 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:37,959 Speaker 3: You know? Like I was just focused on I was 246 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 3: just having fun playing football, man, Like you know, I'm 247 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:44,839 Speaker 3: a kid like so but my senior I remember my 248 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:46,839 Speaker 3: senior year, he put me to the side. He was 249 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 3: just like, you know what schools you like? You know, 250 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 3: so he was like, if you had to give me 251 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 3: five schools, give me five schools. So that's kind of 252 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:59,880 Speaker 3: like where it started, like when I really started taking 253 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 3: and uh, I always wanted to go to college, but 254 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 3: I just didn't, you know, I ain't really know the 255 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 3: whole process of getting cleared by the clearehouse and after, 256 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:13,839 Speaker 3: you know, do certain stuff before you're able to go. 257 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:17,320 Speaker 3: But so that's when it kind of like really took off. 258 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 3: It Like once he told me about it, that's when 259 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:21,959 Speaker 3: I really just like after that, it was just like, Okay, 260 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 3: I need to do this. I need to make sure 261 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:26,760 Speaker 3: I got certain GPA, got to take my S A T, 262 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 3: A C T, all that stuff. So it was I 263 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:32,319 Speaker 3: probably say that some of my going into my senior 264 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:34,839 Speaker 3: was when it really like just kind of hit me. 265 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:37,079 Speaker 3: So he asked for five, I'm only going to ask 266 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 3: for two outside of the U. What was your second choice. 267 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 3: I tell people this, they don't be believe it. I 268 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 3: almost went to USC. 269 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,360 Speaker 4: To be honest. Yeah that's a long way from home. Yeah, 270 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:52,760 Speaker 4: did you take a visit. Yeah is that what did it? Yeah? Okay, 271 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:55,680 Speaker 4: we'll leave that one or that's for the after hours. 272 00:13:58,520 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 4: OJI was recruiting. 273 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 3: Oh wow, Yeah, Now Keishawn Johnson has already gone. Right, Yeah, 274 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:08,640 Speaker 3: he's gone. He's what he's definitely, yeah, he's he's with 275 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 3: the Jets at the time, Paul Hackett was the coach, 276 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 3: Hugh Jackson was the offensive coordinator. Huh Bojah was the 277 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 3: d Lion coach. Cossa Poma yeah the quarterback. Okay, So 278 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 3: I could definitely see why that would have been excited. 279 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 3: I like what you said, because you know, you've met 280 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 3: my sons there of the age, and I think a 281 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:32,800 Speaker 3: lot of their friends don't appreciate just having fun in 282 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:36,760 Speaker 3: high school because now it's what are you rated? Who's 283 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:39,200 Speaker 3: looking at you as a sophomore, And I always feel 284 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 3: like a lot of these kids aren't enjoying just the 285 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 3: process and playing at high school ball. So now I'm 286 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 3: going to ask you a tough one. I'm gonna ask 287 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 3: you a tough one. You you obviously played in Florida. 288 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:50,640 Speaker 3: You're a Miami guy. You've been here, and I know 289 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:52,320 Speaker 3: you love the sport of football. You go to some 290 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 3: of the high school games. I don't know if you 291 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 3: know where I'm going Texas high school football, high school 292 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 3: football or Florida. Hey, you know I'm biased. I'm taking 293 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 3: Florida all day. 294 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:03,120 Speaker 4: Speed. 295 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 3: It's because of the speed or just now, I wouldn't 296 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 3: say speed. I think and this is just my personal, 297 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 3: paid up pear and what I see from just being here. 298 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 3: So I've been here twenty years now. If you go 299 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 3: see a little league football game in Miami and you 300 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 3: go watch a little league football game in Texas, it's different. 301 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:28,520 Speaker 3: It's totally different. How lit League football in Miami is different. 302 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 3: Like when I say different, like you might go to 303 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:34,920 Speaker 3: the park. It might be ten thousand people out there 304 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 3: for a Lily League game. Yeah, huh okay, that's all 305 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 3: you have just said. No, But it's like it's different, bro, 306 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 3: Like little league football in Miami. It's crazy. I'm talking 307 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:49,920 Speaker 3: about people coming out there seven in the morning with 308 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 3: they barbecue grills. You want to see the pretty ladies 309 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 3: for pee wee football? Little to the ball? Ye, go 310 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 3: to the park? Wow football season. Look, I've never seen 311 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 3: You've seen both, So I guess I can't argue with that. 312 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 3: I will say this the guys that I and you 313 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 3: don't like to put these umbrella statements because there's outliers. 314 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 3: But growing up in Texas, I'm a little biased. But 315 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:16,640 Speaker 3: I will say this. When I played with somebody, I 316 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:19,600 Speaker 3: could tell before I asked, Oh, he probably from Florida, 317 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:21,200 Speaker 3: you know, just by the way they care in a 318 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 3: positive way, the way they carry themselves on the feel, 319 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 3: the grind. And if I'm wrong and they're not from Florida, 320 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 3: they're typically from Missipi or Alabama. There's just something about 321 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 3: where the Texas high school players. I think they call 322 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 3: them stars before they're stars, where y'all are very talented, 323 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 3: but y'all still have that grind. But I tell you 324 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 3: the difference too, is like it's the facilities and things 325 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:52,160 Speaker 3: you guys have here. We don't have that, gotcha, so 326 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 3: to me, And it's no disrespect to anybody that's played 327 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 3: in Texas or within o high school here. Like like 328 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:04,679 Speaker 3: like you said, I go to games. I think Houston 329 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 3: has a lot of talent Texas period, just in football, 330 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 3: but I think there may be a little spoil, a 331 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 3: little more spoiled than we are, because like I go to. 332 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:16,680 Speaker 4: These stadiums and I'm like Damn. 333 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:20,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, in Miami, you ain't playing in that like you 334 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 3: playing they might have to feel covered up with some dirt, 335 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:26,920 Speaker 3: like you know, like it's just it's just different. Now. 336 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:28,600 Speaker 4: You know, they're starting to. 337 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 3: Put a lot of the field turf down now and 338 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 3: a lot of the stadium like the stadium I played in, 339 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:37,359 Speaker 3: they probably put you know, field turf and stuff in, 340 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:39,679 Speaker 3: and now there we're doing a lot of the parks 341 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:42,919 Speaker 3: and stuff down there. But like when I got here 342 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:45,320 Speaker 3: and I saw some of the high school facilities, I'm like, 343 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 3: if you just saw my high school weight room, bro, 344 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 3: like trash terrible. But when I came here, I saw 345 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:56,119 Speaker 3: some of the stuff, I'm like, damn, this is high school, 346 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 3: Like we don't we don't have that back on. 347 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:00,919 Speaker 4: Do you think that it gives y'all more of an 348 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:02,560 Speaker 4: appreciation when you do have? 349 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 3: Oh, definitely, the facilities definitely like you because when you 350 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:12,160 Speaker 3: see it, when you see it's almost like even when 351 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:14,960 Speaker 3: I when I first got here, Bro, I'll never forget 352 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 3: I went to north Shore. I want to watch north 353 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:21,200 Speaker 3: Shore play. That was the first time I ever seen 354 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:25,000 Speaker 3: the Jumbo run in the high school stadium and Earl 355 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 3: Mitchell was played on that team. Like I was like 356 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 3: when I walked into Stays, I'm like, this is a 357 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 3: high school. Like I'm like, we don't have this back home, 358 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:36,920 Speaker 3: like you know, So if if I had to say 359 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 3: the difference with that between the Miami and the Florida 360 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 3: and the Texas thing, that's probably what I would kind 361 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:48,720 Speaker 3: of compare to. Within Florida are the rivalries Like here 362 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 3: you have Houston versus Dallas Austin area, they have something. 363 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:53,200 Speaker 4: Yeah. 364 00:18:53,320 --> 00:19:02,359 Speaker 3: So in Miami, man, like Northwest and Central those are 365 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:05,479 Speaker 3: like booger T like those are like the Hearts, columb 366 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:09,159 Speaker 3: Like Columbuses has has really came up from when I 367 00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:16,240 Speaker 3: was playing, But Northwestern, booger T, Karen City Central, like 368 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:24,679 Speaker 3: those teams have always been pretty consistent. Saint Thomas they 369 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 3: have a man, I think you you could go look 370 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:30,760 Speaker 3: at Saint Thomas history. That's where Michael Irvan went to 371 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:36,560 Speaker 3: school at. But like the Bosa brothers, like they went 372 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:39,920 Speaker 3: to Saint Thomas. Yeah so like but that's up and 373 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 3: brow with but they they they got to St. Thomas 374 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:46,119 Speaker 3: got some players that that came up out of the 375 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:49,200 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah all right, so that's what helped molds you 376 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:51,800 Speaker 3: to become the Hall of Fame player. Uh, you know 377 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:53,440 Speaker 3: that you are today, You'll always be a part of 378 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:56,640 Speaker 3: the Hall of Fame. When how did you truly find out? 379 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:58,640 Speaker 3: What was it what we saw on TV? Either knock 380 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 3: on the door or was that more just for the cameras? 381 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 4: Like did you know that was? 382 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 3: Actually? I actually didn't know. So before the knock, you 383 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:08,240 Speaker 3: didn't know you were about to be bro I had 384 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 3: no clue really, So somebody said that up good. Yeah, 385 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:16,399 Speaker 3: so Canard by Agent he set it up. So I 386 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 3: was I tell people this story day laugh. So he 387 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:23,720 Speaker 3: told me. He called me one day he was like, hey, man, 388 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 3: I needed to come by the house. Uh, me and 389 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 3: my wife were gonna come by the house on Thursday, 390 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:35,800 Speaker 3: and I need you to he said, I'm changing my wheel. 391 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:41,160 Speaker 3: And he was like his dad is you know, going 392 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:44,440 Speaker 3: through cancer? He said, it's just the ad cancer. So 393 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:47,879 Speaker 3: it made sense, you know, like when he was telling me. 394 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:51,879 Speaker 3: So he was like, man, I just want to you know, 395 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 3: if something ever happened to me, I just want to 396 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 3: make sure my son is okay, and I want you 397 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:59,440 Speaker 3: to be the person to be responsible for him. So 398 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 3: he was like, I'm gonna have my lawyer come over 399 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:04,879 Speaker 3: you know what, I'm signed some papers and he was like, 400 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:11,440 Speaker 3: but we got to have two witnesses. I'm like okay. 401 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,120 Speaker 3: He was like, so your mom and your brother gonna 402 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:16,200 Speaker 3: be the witnesses. So I was like, all right, cool, 403 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:20,200 Speaker 3: so bro, I ain't thinking nothing. I'm like all right whatever, 404 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:23,600 Speaker 3: like we get this over with. I gone about my day, 405 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:28,720 Speaker 3: you know. So we at the house and my mom 406 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:32,680 Speaker 3: my brother comes so is he already there? He gets 407 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:37,920 Speaker 3: that first him and his wife and then my mom 408 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:41,120 Speaker 3: and my my mom gets that. Next day, my brother 409 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:44,679 Speaker 3: gets there like two minutes after, and they know they 410 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 3: don't know. 411 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, they don't know either. 412 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:50,880 Speaker 3: He the only one who know. That's why my mom 413 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:54,959 Speaker 3: screamed when when I opened the door. She she had 414 00:21:55,040 --> 00:22:00,040 Speaker 3: no clue. So we we at the house and he 415 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:04,440 Speaker 3: gives this whole speech about hey, you know, obviously we 416 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:08,440 Speaker 3: know why we hear what's going on, and you know, 417 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:12,040 Speaker 3: I'm changing my whib blah blah blah. You know, I 418 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,960 Speaker 3: just want Andre to be responsible for a little canar. 419 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:18,479 Speaker 3: It was a whole speech like I'm like all right, 420 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:22,120 Speaker 3: like you know, I'm like I got to do it all, like, liten, 421 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:23,800 Speaker 3: get this over there, let's sign these papers so he 422 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:27,280 Speaker 3: can busts out and say what the lawyer. The lawyer's playing. 423 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 3: His flight was delayed, so he was like, he'll be 424 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:31,439 Speaker 3: about thirty minutes late. 425 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 4: So it was like all right. My brother. 426 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:40,200 Speaker 3: Him and his girlfriend just had a baby boy, so 427 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:43,240 Speaker 3: he he had his son with him, so my nephew. 428 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:46,119 Speaker 3: I grabbed my nephew. I go outside, and I'm just 429 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:49,440 Speaker 3: walking around in the backyard, walking around the pool. So 430 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 3: my brother came outside. He was like, hey, canar say 431 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:56,440 Speaker 3: come in the house. So I'm thinking, like, okay, the 432 00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:59,480 Speaker 3: lawyer here, like we're finished signing these papers and we're 433 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 3: going by business. 434 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,119 Speaker 4: So I go ahead. 435 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 3: I give my brother his son back, and I'm kind 436 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:13,040 Speaker 3: of like standing in the kitchen and because I think 437 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 3: I had went to get like a bottle of water. 438 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:17,440 Speaker 3: So and then I heard his knock at the door, 439 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:19,480 Speaker 3: so cause I was like, hey. 440 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:20,080 Speaker 4: Man, grab that. 441 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 3: So I was like all right, but I'm in my head, 442 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 3: I'm like why you can't grab it, Like like it's 443 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 3: your lawyer, like you need to grab it. 444 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:32,879 Speaker 4: So but I ain't think. I'm just like yeah, all right. 445 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 3: So the way my house is like I had to 446 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:39,639 Speaker 3: kind of like walk around because I can't see the 447 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,359 Speaker 3: front door from where I'm standing at So when I 448 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 3: walked out, I seen like you can't see who's out. 449 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:50,920 Speaker 3: You can make out what's outside, but you can't tell 450 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,600 Speaker 3: who it is. Okay, So I could tell that somebody's 451 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:58,159 Speaker 3: standing there, but I can't see, Like you still don't know. No, 452 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:02,200 Speaker 3: That's when I knew. When I when they knocked on 453 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 3: the door and I walked around and I saw it, 454 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:08,680 Speaker 3: I was like, I know this is not about to happen. Like, 455 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:10,440 Speaker 3: I was like, I know this is not about to 456 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 3: happen right now because I can see a guy, I 457 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 3: can see a camera, and I can see a guy 458 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:21,280 Speaker 3: in a gold jacket. So like I'm just like, bro, 459 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 3: I'm literally walking to the door and I'm nervous as hell, 460 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:28,480 Speaker 3: Like wow, I'm like, man, like I know this is 461 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:31,080 Speaker 3: not about to happen. So when I opened the door 462 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,240 Speaker 3: and I saw Chris, I was just kind of like 463 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 3: that's why I like you saw Like I just turned 464 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:38,879 Speaker 3: around and put my hand around my mother and I 465 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:42,119 Speaker 3: was just like damn, like like I did, like I 466 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 3: made it. 467 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:43,680 Speaker 4: That's yeah. 468 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:48,040 Speaker 3: Shout out to Canor because that's an elaborate plan right there, 469 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 3: and a crazy thing me Cal already knew, but he 470 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:58,600 Speaker 3: didn't tell Hannah. Like the funny thing was me Cale 471 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:01,159 Speaker 3: and Hannah and Travis was at the Rockets game the 472 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 3: night before it happened. So it's funny because Kyle asked me, 473 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 3: he said, you think you're gonna get in this year? 474 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:12,199 Speaker 3: But he already knew the answer. So I told him, 475 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,239 Speaker 3: I said, yeah, I say I think. I said, if 476 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 3: it's any year that I felt the most confident about it, 477 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:23,080 Speaker 3: it was this year. And he was like, okay. So 478 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 3: when I called inform him I made it, he was like, 479 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 3: oh I already knew. Wow, that's a great story. 480 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:31,240 Speaker 4: Yeah, so it was. 481 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:31,639 Speaker 2: It was. 482 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:34,440 Speaker 3: It was a good it was a good time, good moment. 483 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:38,160 Speaker 3: My daughter, she didn't have a clue, like because she's 484 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,280 Speaker 3: like why, she was like why all these cameras here? 485 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 3: Like what's going on? Like oh she now fifteen wow 486 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:50,400 Speaker 3: fast wow. So so you probably can't even explain the emotion. 487 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:52,760 Speaker 3: I mean, so you knew before you open the door 488 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,520 Speaker 3: because you saw a camera because so that's when I 489 00:25:56,840 --> 00:26:02,200 Speaker 3: that's when I knew. Like I was like like because 490 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 3: I started thinking about everything he was telling me and 491 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:05,199 Speaker 3: the whole story. 492 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:06,199 Speaker 4: So I'm like. 493 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,680 Speaker 3: Going walking to the door. Yeah, probably like one of 494 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:12,920 Speaker 3: the most nervous. 495 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:14,879 Speaker 4: Like I I. 496 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:18,879 Speaker 3: It was almost like you didn't I don't want to 497 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 3: say I didn't want to open it, but it was 498 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,560 Speaker 3: just like hmm, it was it was a nerve like 499 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,080 Speaker 3: it was a I don't even I don't even know 500 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,440 Speaker 3: if you can explain the feeling it was. 501 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:29,800 Speaker 4: It was just different. 502 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:34,080 Speaker 1: Well, definitely was different for a guy who was built different. 503 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:34,800 Speaker 1: Andre Johnson. 504 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:38,160 Speaker 2: We're gonna have more from Indie Kollute and Andre Johnson 505 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,880 Speaker 2: when we get back. 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When we left, they were discussing the knock 519 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,280 Speaker 2: at the door that Andre had gotten and how Cannard 520 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:31,760 Speaker 2: Maguire's agent had kept it all quiet for him. 521 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:34,920 Speaker 3: So you opened the door, which we all saw Chris 522 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:39,760 Speaker 3: Carter's there after the cameras are off. What's going I mean, 523 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,240 Speaker 3: are you just still processing it? Like when the cameras 524 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:45,919 Speaker 3: are turned off? What's going on in the Johnson household? Man? 525 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 3: I ain't gonna lie in dy I I had to 526 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:52,280 Speaker 3: take a moment. Like I was sitting on the couch, bro, 527 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:58,000 Speaker 3: just like just trying to like gather your thoughts, like 528 00:27:59,160 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 3: like what just happened? 529 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:00,680 Speaker 4: Right like? 530 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,960 Speaker 3: And like I'm sitting there, I got my hands and 531 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:09,600 Speaker 3: I'm just like nobody's around me because they were just like, 532 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:15,199 Speaker 3: you know, lett them need to Yeah. So it was just, Bro, 533 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:17,080 Speaker 3: You're just sitting there trying to take it all in. 534 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:18,119 Speaker 4: You know. 535 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 3: Afterwards, you know, we sat around for a while. Even 536 00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,920 Speaker 3: Candace was at my house. Candis was like crying. She 537 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,000 Speaker 3: was like, these people really just came and knocked on 538 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:33,199 Speaker 3: your door. She came after No, she was there, oh 539 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:37,520 Speaker 3: during yeah, okay, got so she for those that don't 540 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 3: know kandas Maybury does an awesome job. She runs the 541 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:44,719 Speaker 3: textan Ambassador. It's called Texting Legends program, and she obviously 542 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:46,240 Speaker 3: the biggest and best legends. 543 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:49,200 Speaker 4: She's very close with himself. So she was listening. 544 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:51,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, she couldn't even she was like. 545 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 4: She was just she couldn't stop. She was just like 546 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:56,880 Speaker 4: they really came and knocked on your door. 547 00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 3: Like because we would joke all the time, like she 548 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 3: be like, we're going to Vegas for Hall of Fame, 549 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,720 Speaker 3: just you know, like joking around. Yeah, but you know, 550 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,120 Speaker 3: you don't you don't know when it's gonna happen. So 551 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:12,800 Speaker 3: we would just be like, yeah, all right whatever, like 552 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:17,720 Speaker 3: I just kind of brush it off and yeah, like 553 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,440 Speaker 3: it was it was like even I told you, like 554 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:22,480 Speaker 3: with my mom, like when I open that door, she 555 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 3: saw Chris, she just started screaming. 556 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 4: So that's all. 557 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, man, it couldn't happened to a better, better person, 558 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:33,800 Speaker 3: now you knew. That's how they surprise people, and we 559 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,480 Speaker 3: all know. And I guess it's different because it's actually you, 560 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,520 Speaker 3: but all your teammates you like, he's going in. It's 561 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:41,800 Speaker 3: just a matter of this year, next year, but he's 562 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:43,240 Speaker 3: going in. I felt like it should be at the 563 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,560 Speaker 3: first ballot, like anytime somebody came to your house where 564 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,880 Speaker 3: you like, oh man, it's the damn Amazon guy, Like, nah, 565 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:54,719 Speaker 3: you know. I never And I tell people this all 566 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 3: the time, like when I made the finalist list. The 567 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:04,760 Speaker 3: first time, I said to myself, I was like, like, 568 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,240 Speaker 3: I'm gonna make it. It's just a matter of time. 569 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 3: But I never I never really worried about it though, 570 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:15,320 Speaker 3: really like I never, like. 571 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 4: Like even when I was sitting there, like. 572 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:23,440 Speaker 3: I'm not thinking in my mind like are they gonna 573 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:25,080 Speaker 3: come knock on my dooring it really a couple of 574 00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:28,880 Speaker 3: days like I'm not because I'm just like when it's happened, 575 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,240 Speaker 3: when it's gonna happen, it's meant to happen. So I'm not. 576 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,960 Speaker 3: And I think a lot of guys, like I know 577 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:38,440 Speaker 3: some guys that's been up for the Finance list, like 578 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:42,600 Speaker 3: Devin Hester. He used to get pissed when he didn't 579 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,720 Speaker 3: make it. Like I remember David called me what time? 580 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,200 Speaker 3: But he was like, Yo, they call you yet, I'm like, yeah, Brian, 581 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,760 Speaker 3: make it. Like but I'm not tripping, like I don't. 582 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 3: They don't. They don't bother me like that, because like 583 00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:00,120 Speaker 3: I tell people, like I can't catch another pass, I 584 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:03,880 Speaker 3: can't score another touchdown. What I've done, I've done. So 585 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:09,080 Speaker 3: when it's due to happened, it happened. But you know 586 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 3: some guys are more passionate about it, you know. So 587 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,160 Speaker 3: Devin was like, it's so funny. We were we were 588 00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:18,800 Speaker 3: actually Joe, we were actually in can not too long, 589 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 3: maybe about a month ago for our orientation and like, 590 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 3: uh jim porter. He was like, man, I ain't want 591 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:33,400 Speaker 3: to call Devin, you know. Yeah, like Dev used to 592 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:37,000 Speaker 3: get upset, man, but I never I never took it 593 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,440 Speaker 3: like that, like they'll call me. I remember the first 594 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,840 Speaker 3: two times they would call me and inform me I 595 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:46,280 Speaker 3: didn't make it, and I would just be like, man, 596 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,240 Speaker 3: thank you, Like you know, it's just an honor to 597 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:51,760 Speaker 3: even be mentioned to be a finalist for the Hall 598 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,440 Speaker 3: of Fame, like and they were it was funny because 599 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,800 Speaker 3: they'll be like, well, Andre, we wish everybody else would 600 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:01,640 Speaker 3: accept the door, you know, but yeah, yeah, like that's 601 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,680 Speaker 3: just that's just how it was. Like you know you 602 00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:08,680 Speaker 3: that's that's football royalty, you know what I'm saying. So 603 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:14,640 Speaker 3: like to be in that, like I mean, you no more, 604 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,200 Speaker 3: nothing else you can ask, right, you know what I'm saying. 605 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:20,720 Speaker 3: So I was I was always like I just respect it, 606 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 3: man like, so that that was just always my approach 607 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:24,200 Speaker 3: to it. 608 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:25,560 Speaker 4: I still to this day. 609 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:28,600 Speaker 3: I mean, obviously it's you, so you were has a process, 610 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 3: but I think we were more excited than you. I 611 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:34,880 Speaker 3: don't know, are you part of the textan ambassador group chat? Yeah? Yeah, 612 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,280 Speaker 3: I don't know if you saw all the messages going 613 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,960 Speaker 3: back and forth, but you know, and I think what 614 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,000 Speaker 3: you just said is probably what makes you special on 615 00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,400 Speaker 3: why people appreciate it for you the way they do. 616 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,600 Speaker 3: Like I've I've liked and loved most of my teammates. 617 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:50,240 Speaker 3: I can't even think of any that I don't like. 618 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,040 Speaker 3: And when I heard certain guys made it to Hall 619 00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:53,520 Speaker 3: of Famous, kind of like, oh man, that's cool. 620 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:54,200 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's cool. 621 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:56,320 Speaker 3: And again, I don't want to get too corny because 622 00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,160 Speaker 3: you're sitting here, but when when we found out you 623 00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:01,120 Speaker 3: got in like it was kind of like, hey, kids, 624 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:05,280 Speaker 3: step away, you know, daddy's allergies acting up just because 625 00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:08,720 Speaker 3: of the type of person you are. So and even 626 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:12,240 Speaker 3: early in this podcast, you mentioned like you appreciate it 627 00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:15,400 Speaker 3: because it's like we all got in Kubiac, all the 628 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,280 Speaker 3: guys that you play with. So that's what made it 629 00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:22,720 Speaker 3: special for us. So you've processed it. I'm surprised Travis 630 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:23,720 Speaker 3: Johnson didn't mess up? 631 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:26,880 Speaker 4: Was he there? I wasn't. 632 00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:31,040 Speaker 3: I was just about to bring him up, and that 633 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:35,920 Speaker 3: you don't understand. So mind you. I found out a 634 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:41,680 Speaker 3: week a week and a half before super Bowl? Okay, yeah, 635 00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:44,040 Speaker 3: so I got my knock maybe like a week and 636 00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:48,000 Speaker 3: a half before super Bowl. But you can't tell nobody. 637 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:50,440 Speaker 4: Oh for how long? For that weekend? 638 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:50,800 Speaker 2: Oh? 639 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:51,479 Speaker 4: I didn't realize. 640 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:56,000 Speaker 3: So it doesn't get unveiled until the NFL. Honest, got you. 641 00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:59,760 Speaker 3: So I couldn't tell my family. The only people that 642 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:03,800 Speaker 3: who was knew who was at my house, So you couldn't. 643 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,920 Speaker 3: You had this high nda, you couldn't disclose it to anybody. 644 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:18,239 Speaker 3: So we're in Vegas, Travis Johnson, so rap Jay we 645 00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:22,280 Speaker 3: were together, so he that was That was that Thursday 646 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:26,800 Speaker 3: it was announced for the show. We were together earlier 647 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:31,320 Speaker 3: that day in Vegas. In Vegas and Travis, Yes, So 648 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,000 Speaker 3: are y'all I just want to set the stage. Are 649 00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:35,560 Speaker 3: y'all just there just to hang out? Or no, I'm 650 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:37,560 Speaker 3: in Vegas because I got to be there to get 651 00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:41,560 Speaker 3: to walk on the stage. Breakfast was already he was 652 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:45,680 Speaker 3: just going to Vegas just for Super Bowl. So you know, 653 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,799 Speaker 3: I'm sure he had his appearances whatever is going out there. 654 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:49,960 Speaker 4: But so. 655 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:58,320 Speaker 3: Me, Travis, my mom, my daughter, and my brother, we 656 00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:04,880 Speaker 3: were all like sitting in the food Mike uh Parsons 657 00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,759 Speaker 3: there used to be the equipment guy. So we all 658 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:12,000 Speaker 3: kind of was just you know, just catching up, you know, 659 00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,560 Speaker 3: because I had seen Mike in a while. So really 660 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:18,400 Speaker 3: we're just catching up with Mike and you know, just 661 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:24,680 Speaker 3: talking whateverever. And so he said, Travis bus to say, damn, 662 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:26,320 Speaker 3: dog is getting about that time. You ain't get no 663 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:29,800 Speaker 3: phone call yet. So I said, I say, Travis, I 664 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,200 Speaker 3: gotta go up to the room. I say, they're gonna 665 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,720 Speaker 3: come knock on the door. But I'm lying. I already 666 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:38,600 Speaker 3: know what's going on. Like but I'm lying cause I'm like, well, 667 00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:41,400 Speaker 3: y'all gotta go. Y'all need to go get dressed, because 668 00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:45,440 Speaker 3: you know, they they so they take the family over first. 669 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,800 Speaker 3: So like I can't, like I can't take no picture 670 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:50,880 Speaker 3: with my mama in the red carpet, none of that. 671 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:54,880 Speaker 3: Like yeah, so like when you go, they take you 672 00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,520 Speaker 3: in the back like you go later the show has 673 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,600 Speaker 3: already started. They take you back through this little way, 674 00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,400 Speaker 3: put you in this room, and you sit there and 675 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,520 Speaker 3: just watch the show on the TV until you actually 676 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:12,640 Speaker 3: go out to Vietnaunce Hall of Fame. So Travis is like, 677 00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:16,600 Speaker 3: I'm in the room. So we we leave from downstairs 678 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,120 Speaker 3: in the little food court area because you know, I 679 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:20,719 Speaker 3: had to get my mom and my daughter and I'm 680 00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:22,480 Speaker 3: gonna get to the area where they needed to get 681 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:26,400 Speaker 3: to go to the show with my brother. And Travis 682 00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:32,080 Speaker 3: is blowing my phone up like, dog, you ain't heard nothing. 683 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:32,319 Speaker 4: Yeah. 684 00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:35,239 Speaker 3: I'm like, Travis, we're sitting in the room, bro, Like 685 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:38,239 Speaker 3: we just waiting to see anybody cursing them out too. Yeah. 686 00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:40,400 Speaker 3: Like I'm like, we just waiting to see what's happening, 687 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,640 Speaker 3: Like where where your mama and everybody at. I'm like, 688 00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:46,200 Speaker 3: we all sitting in the room. But I'm lying my 689 00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:49,040 Speaker 3: mama room is I'm in the room by myself, Like 690 00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:55,560 Speaker 3: I'm not. So he starts calling me again, you ain't 691 00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:59,640 Speaker 3: heard nothing yet. I'm like, So it got to the 692 00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,839 Speaker 3: point where I just stopped answering his call because I'm 693 00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:05,800 Speaker 3: just like he's like trapped doing too much. But he 694 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,400 Speaker 3: was so excited, like he just wanted to know. He like, 695 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:09,320 Speaker 3: I need to know. 696 00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:09,960 Speaker 4: I need to know. 697 00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:10,239 Speaker 2: Man. 698 00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:13,560 Speaker 3: So when I stopped answering this cause he started calling 699 00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:18,160 Speaker 3: my brother, so like my brother was sending me the 700 00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:21,200 Speaker 3: text messages and stuff. He like, Bro, what's the road 701 00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,640 Speaker 3: with Travis? Man, I'm like, man, he just wanted to know. 702 00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:26,480 Speaker 3: I say, you know, how trap is? He just excited 703 00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:32,759 Speaker 3: so he found out. Oh of course I didn't talk 704 00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,360 Speaker 3: to him, like I just literally like, how hard was that? 705 00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:36,600 Speaker 4: Just for you? Was hard? 706 00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:38,759 Speaker 3: It was hard because you know how close men. 707 00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:39,880 Speaker 4: So like. 708 00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:44,160 Speaker 3: It's like I want to tell you, but I can't, 709 00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:46,880 Speaker 3: you know. So he wasn't gonna keep no secret. For 710 00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:48,680 Speaker 3: those who don't know, Travis is one of the most 711 00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:52,640 Speaker 3: loyal dudes. He's a huge friend of Andre. There's no 712 00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:53,360 Speaker 3: way he would. 713 00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:54,120 Speaker 4: Have kept that he was. 714 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,600 Speaker 3: If I would have told him, he would have went crazy. Yeah, 715 00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:59,040 Speaker 3: you know, he'd probably been yelling and all that stuff. 716 00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:01,520 Speaker 4: So so we go. 717 00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:08,360 Speaker 3: Go to the show, do everything I see, uh the Mico. 718 00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,840 Speaker 3: That was a great moment too, man, Like after I 719 00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,440 Speaker 3: came off the stage and we were walking out, man, 720 00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:20,520 Speaker 3: Miko saw me. Man, he just like bro we hugged 721 00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:24,000 Speaker 3: and just laughed, you know, like it was. It was 722 00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:30,400 Speaker 3: a really really good moment afterwards. And but Travis, he 723 00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:35,480 Speaker 3: found out. We went to dinner that night after its public. Now, yeah, 724 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:40,399 Speaker 3: after this public so me, Hannah, you know a couple 725 00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:44,120 Speaker 3: of people here with the organization, we all went to 726 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,880 Speaker 3: dinner my mom agent stuff. Travis was there and uh 727 00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:52,520 Speaker 3: he uh he he. You could tell it really hit him, man, Like, 728 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:56,120 Speaker 3: he got emotional. You know, he did get old me though. 729 00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,600 Speaker 3: He was like your ass already knew me. You wanted 730 00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:02,440 Speaker 3: to tell me, But I just laughed at him. But 731 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:05,520 Speaker 3: you know, it was it was, like I said, man, 732 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,400 Speaker 3: like you could tell like it meant so much to 733 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:11,600 Speaker 3: so many people. Man, people, you probably don't even realize 734 00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:13,799 Speaker 3: how much you mean. Like we cool, but we don't 735 00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:15,920 Speaker 3: talk about you and Dravis, And I don't think you 736 00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,680 Speaker 3: realized what even meant for me. And it's just because 737 00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:21,560 Speaker 3: of the type of teammates you were, type of person 738 00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:22,719 Speaker 3: you still are to this day. 739 00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:24,000 Speaker 4: This is a weird. 740 00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,440 Speaker 3: I hope I can kind of let people understand how 741 00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:29,800 Speaker 3: this story is and they could get a feel for it. 742 00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:31,440 Speaker 4: I don't know if you remember this. 743 00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:34,520 Speaker 3: So my first year with the Texans, preseason were going 744 00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,600 Speaker 3: on in the way Trip and Antoine Peak, for those 745 00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:41,000 Speaker 3: who don't know, outside linebacker. I love playing with Peak, 746 00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:44,480 Speaker 3: but he was definitely afraid of flying, definitely, and we 747 00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:46,880 Speaker 3: had we didn't have a signed seats, but for some reason, 748 00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:50,799 Speaker 3: he always sat behind Andre Johnson. And at the time, 749 00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:52,920 Speaker 3: keep in mind, this is my first trip as a 750 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,560 Speaker 3: Houston Texan. It's a flight. And when I say Antoine 751 00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:59,600 Speaker 3: is definitely afraid of flying, like that's not an exaggeration. 752 00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:02,520 Speaker 3: And me and Antoina are sitting in the same aisle, 753 00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:07,760 Speaker 3: but he's directly behind Andre. And when the engine starts 754 00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:11,680 Speaker 3: and we hit the runway, he literally wraps his arm 755 00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:15,280 Speaker 3: around Andre in the seat and he's like bear hugging 756 00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:19,279 Speaker 3: him because he's afraid. And I'm thinking, because I just 757 00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:21,640 Speaker 3: met Andre, but obviously I knew who he was, Like, man, 758 00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:24,600 Speaker 3: Andre is gonna turn around start swinging on him. And 759 00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:27,520 Speaker 3: when when I tell y'all who are listening, Andre just 760 00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:31,920 Speaker 3: acting like nobody was grabbing him. You just like it 761 00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:35,040 Speaker 3: was the weirdest but coolest thing at the same time, 762 00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:38,120 Speaker 3: like you weren't phased by it. You weren't bothering, And 763 00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:40,200 Speaker 3: in my mind, I'm like, does this happen every trip? 764 00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:43,239 Speaker 3: But when he grabbed you and he's shaking your seat, 765 00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:45,560 Speaker 3: you were literally like if you were on the phone, 766 00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,480 Speaker 3: you wouldn't have skipped a beat, like explain, kind of 767 00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:51,640 Speaker 3: explain that relationship to where that didn't bother you. So 768 00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:55,080 Speaker 3: me and Pete were drafted. We were in the same 769 00:40:55,200 --> 00:41:02,600 Speaker 3: draft class, came in together, and the first time we 770 00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:07,480 Speaker 3: traveled my rookie year, it was when I experienced it, 771 00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:12,080 Speaker 3: Like I was just like, damn, like this dude really 772 00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:16,000 Speaker 3: like I've never seen nobody scared of flying like that 773 00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:20,759 Speaker 3: ever in my life. So it was one other time 774 00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:24,120 Speaker 3: that the people don't know about this, of course, because 775 00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:26,320 Speaker 3: they're not on a plane with us. I was sleep 776 00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,960 Speaker 3: one time before we actually took off, he literally had 777 00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:33,400 Speaker 3: me like my face and everything like their hug, Like 778 00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:35,959 Speaker 3: just like, this dude is crazy. But he was really 779 00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:40,160 Speaker 3: really scared of flying, and it just became something I 780 00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:43,320 Speaker 3: was just used to. Like, I'm like, if it helped 781 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:48,080 Speaker 3: him feel comfortable, I guess to be able, you know, 782 00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:51,000 Speaker 3: because it would only last for like a few seconds, 783 00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:54,719 Speaker 3: but it was just you know, he was I was 784 00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:56,360 Speaker 3: just used to it. I ain't gonna lie though. I 785 00:41:56,480 --> 00:42:00,160 Speaker 3: used to be like, well they keep putting in did 786 00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,640 Speaker 3: I did used to say that, but but it didn't 787 00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:05,520 Speaker 3: really bother me. It was something I guess. It's something 788 00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:10,040 Speaker 3: you just kind of it just becomes y'all, uh yeah, process. Yeah. 789 00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:12,480 Speaker 3: But when I say and I wish I had the 790 00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:15,480 Speaker 3: words so people could kind of picture it, it was 791 00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:19,720 Speaker 3: like it wasn't happening, Like you weren't laughing, you weren't like, man, fool, 792 00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:22,360 Speaker 3: get off me. Like I don't know what exactly you 793 00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:25,879 Speaker 3: were doing. You might've been texting, but you just didn't. Yeah, 794 00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:28,839 Speaker 3: because kip a beat. Yeah, it becomes like and I'm 795 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,480 Speaker 3: looking at him like, man, get your hands off, Like 796 00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:34,680 Speaker 3: it becomes it's almost like it it just became normal. 797 00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,960 Speaker 3: You know. I knew when we hit that run we 798 00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:40,080 Speaker 3: were about to take off like all right, it's coming 799 00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:44,320 Speaker 3: like you know, and it just it was just normal 800 00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:47,160 Speaker 3: for me, man, Like it didn't like it got to 801 00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:49,279 Speaker 3: that point where it just didn't even phasee you no more, 802 00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:52,280 Speaker 3: Like that's amazing, Like I don't know that that's always 803 00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:54,360 Speaker 3: stuck with me. And it just shows what type of 804 00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:57,239 Speaker 3: and you know, there's a stereotype that wide receivers in 805 00:42:57,280 --> 00:43:02,000 Speaker 3: the NFL or prima Donnas, which you're the complete opposite 806 00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:05,640 Speaker 3: of that stereotype. But like that vision, it kind of 807 00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:09,160 Speaker 3: just encapulates who you are. Like the fact that you know, 808 00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:11,719 Speaker 3: the most important person on the team, the best player 809 00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:13,120 Speaker 3: on the team. I know you would never say it's 810 00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:15,360 Speaker 3: almost say it for you and it's obvious. Is in 811 00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:19,360 Speaker 3: phase that a backup linebackers bear hug, you know, before 812 00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:21,919 Speaker 3: we're going on a flight, and that's when it first 813 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,640 Speaker 3: kind of hit me, like, oh, okay, this guy's a 814 00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:26,920 Speaker 3: little bit different. Like even though from the way he 815 00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:30,319 Speaker 3: practices and the fact that he doesn't mind getting roughed 816 00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:33,560 Speaker 3: up on an away trip, he's a little bit different. 817 00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:34,600 Speaker 4: Man. 818 00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:37,600 Speaker 3: Look, we've already reached our time limit. There's so many 819 00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,480 Speaker 3: other things that we want to discuss, but we'll probably 820 00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:42,319 Speaker 3: get to it another day, another time. I just want 821 00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:45,120 Speaker 3: to congratulate you on behalf of the entire city, and 822 00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:48,279 Speaker 3: more importantly, all of your teammates, because, like I said, 823 00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:50,560 Speaker 3: not even the guys you and Travis are best of friends, 824 00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:53,239 Speaker 3: we all have a respect for you, but the guys 825 00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:56,759 Speaker 3: that you probably didn't even realize you've impacted. I just 826 00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,200 Speaker 3: want you to know how we feel and how excited 827 00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:01,359 Speaker 3: we were. So I'm gonna keep saying it next time 828 00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:02,680 Speaker 3: I see you in an event, if I hug you 829 00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:05,400 Speaker 3: and say it again. My son was so excited. He 830 00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:08,200 Speaker 3: still remembers when you told him he was taller than me. 831 00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:11,560 Speaker 3: Like little things that you say, like they just last 832 00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:14,279 Speaker 3: with people. But man, from the bottom of my heart, 833 00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:17,120 Speaker 3: like I've played with hundreds of gods just like you have, 834 00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:19,719 Speaker 3: and I don't know if I could think of one 835 00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:24,160 Speaker 3: guy that practices harder, that holds himself, you know, in 836 00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:27,640 Speaker 3: a way that we all should so much enjoy it. 837 00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:30,040 Speaker 3: It's on my birthday, so that's gonna be a present 838 00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:34,399 Speaker 3: from me. I'm watching you get honor publicly. But man, 839 00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,200 Speaker 3: just just basically wanted you on this podcast so we 840 00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:38,400 Speaker 3: can say congratulations. 841 00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,719 Speaker 2: Yeah, man, and de captures all of our thoughts right there, 842 00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:45,400 Speaker 2: did it so very well. We do appreciate Andre Johnson 843 00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:49,719 Speaker 2: so very much. I mean, it's it's hard to kind 844 00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:50,520 Speaker 2: of put into words. 845 00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:50,759 Speaker 4: Man. 846 00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:53,719 Speaker 2: It feels like Chris Farley and SNLP. So like, hey man, 847 00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:57,080 Speaker 2: remember when you got flipped over in that game against Minnesota. 848 00:44:57,280 --> 00:44:59,120 Speaker 2: That was like it was really cool like I find 849 00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:01,960 Speaker 2: myself too that with and sometimes, but man, he is 850 00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:04,040 Speaker 2: one hell of a competitor and glad he is the 851 00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:05,720 Speaker 2: first one to be going in for the Texans. 852 00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:06,359 Speaker 1: All Right, we get back. 853 00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:09,680 Speaker 2: We're gonna go round the NFL quickly with some of 854 00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:11,239 Speaker 2: the things that happened on Friday. We'll do that next 855 00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:14,440 Speaker 2: right here on Texans All Access, brought to you by 856 00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:17,040 Speaker 2: Mattress Firm, the official sleep partner. 857 00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:18,240 Speaker 1: Of the Houston Texans. 858 00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:21,120 Speaker 2: We're back in a few We got one final segment 859 00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:23,640 Speaker 2: of this Friday edition of Texans All Access, brought to 860 00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:26,000 Speaker 2: you by Mattress Firm. They spread the word you could 861 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:29,680 Speaker 2: score bonus savings on better Sleep during Mattress Firms Friends 862 00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:32,200 Speaker 2: and Family Sale. Hurry in to save up to seven 863 00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:34,960 Speaker 2: hundred dollars with your extra discount, plus get a free 864 00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:38,360 Speaker 2: adjustable base on select beds. 865 00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:40,719 Speaker 1: I know we're getting up on seven o'clock and makes 866 00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:44,440 Speaker 1: me want to go to bed. I'm tiard, but. 867 00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:47,040 Speaker 2: Still got a few things to hit going around the NFL. 868 00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:49,160 Speaker 2: We're gonna start with where I want to start, and 869 00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:52,200 Speaker 2: that's the NFL Draft. The NFL Draft that we held 870 00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:55,759 Speaker 2: in Detroit this year begins two weeks from yesterday's we're 871 00:45:55,840 --> 00:46:01,000 Speaker 2: under two weeks for the draft. Thirteen players did invitations 872 00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:03,800 Speaker 2: to be in Detroit. That's one of the smallest numbers 873 00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:06,760 Speaker 2: they've had in quite some time, but it does feature 874 00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:11,960 Speaker 2: the quarterbacks Jaden Daniels from LSU, Drake May from North Carolina, 875 00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:18,480 Speaker 2: and Caleb Williams, presumably the number one pick in the draft. 876 00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:24,680 Speaker 2: Tom Brady was on a podcast and he was asked about. 877 00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:27,319 Speaker 1: Are you really truly done? 878 00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:31,560 Speaker 2: It's a podcast called Deep Cut with Thick Blends, and 879 00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:35,439 Speaker 2: he was asked if team called you, do you want 880 00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:37,160 Speaker 2: to do it? And he said in a quote, I'm 881 00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:39,239 Speaker 2: not opposed to it. I don't know if they're gonna 882 00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:42,080 Speaker 2: let me be if I become an owner in an 883 00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:44,920 Speaker 2: NFL team, But I don't know. If I don't know, 884 00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:46,640 Speaker 2: I'm always gonna be in a good shape. I'm always 885 00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:48,080 Speaker 2: gonna be able to throw the ball, so to come 886 00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:49,880 Speaker 2: in for a little bit like Michael Jordan coming back. 887 00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:51,640 Speaker 1: I don't know if they'd let me, but I wouldn't 888 00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:52,800 Speaker 1: be opposed to it. 889 00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:53,239 Speaker 3: I know. 890 00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:54,719 Speaker 1: I think it was. 891 00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:56,919 Speaker 2: Landry John talking about this the other Dance Ports Radio 892 00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:00,000 Speaker 2: six ' ten. You don't know whether he's gonna be 893 00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:02,400 Speaker 2: into booth this year. I mean, Greg Olsen is just 894 00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:04,160 Speaker 2: kind of hanging in the wind. He's up for an Emmy, 895 00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:05,640 Speaker 2: which is awesome, but you. 896 00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:08,319 Speaker 1: Don't even know if he's gonna be there in the booth. 897 00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:09,320 Speaker 1: Nobody has the idea. 898 00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:10,879 Speaker 2: Is he gonna go back and play? I mean, what's 899 00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:12,640 Speaker 2: gonna happen. This is just kind of a kind of 900 00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:16,320 Speaker 2: a mess. But it's to be expected from competitors like that. 901 00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:19,520 Speaker 2: So will Tom Brady end up somewhere I don't know, 902 00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,480 Speaker 2: big shoulder strug and we'll find out later on. 903 00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:24,800 Speaker 1: Appreciate Indy and Andre Johnson. 904 00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:27,000 Speaker 2: That was great stuff. Thank you all so much for listening, 905 00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:28,759 Speaker 2: thank you for matches, for him being a board. My 906 00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:31,120 Speaker 2: guy's back at six ten. We'll see you on Monday 907 00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:34,520 Speaker 2: when the off season starts in Earnest for your Texans. 908 00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:36,400 Speaker 2: See that everybody, and as always, go Texans.