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Speaker 1: Welcome in another edition of OG podcast, or we get

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Speaker 1: a chance to talk to some of the OG's in

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Speaker 1: the NFL who came through the Houston Texan locker room.

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Speaker 1: Today's a very very special day. This man needs no introduction.

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Speaker 1: I don't need to go through his stats, his years,

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Speaker 1: everything that he accomplished. All I have to do is

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Speaker 1: say three words. Hall of Fame. The first Houston Texan

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Speaker 1: Hall of Famer Andre Johnson sitting down with us OG Podcasts.

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Speaker 1: Welcome in, my brother, and congratulations. Appreciate you man. Appreciate

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Speaker 1: you first of all, appreciate you for I've been trying

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Speaker 1: to get you in the studio for ten years now,

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Speaker 1: so I'm glad I finally got you.

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Speaker 2: But does it ever get you know, we're.

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Speaker 1: Gonna be transparent, We're gonna have some fun here over

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Speaker 1: the next thirty forty minutes. Did you ever get annoyed

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Speaker 1: or like, oh, here we go again. Another congratulations on

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Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, Because as soon as I heard

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Speaker 1: about it, and I just told y'all sitting in my

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Speaker 1: limit living room and I was screaming like it was

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Speaker 1: my blood brother when I found out. But I know

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Speaker 1: every time somebody sees you they want to hear the story,

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Speaker 1: they want to congratulate you.

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Speaker 2: Are you getting tired of it yet? Nah?

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Speaker 1: Actually, I don't think it's something you can really get

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Speaker 1: tired of.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 1: For me, it's just it just like just the city

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Speaker 1: of Houston and what it means to everybody, you know,

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Speaker 1: like your teammates, coaches. You know, I got a chance

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Speaker 1: to see coach Kobiakt this weekend and it's like, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's like they made it, you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: Like it's so exciting for everybody. So I don't think

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Speaker 1: it's something you could get tired of because it's made

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Speaker 1: so many people so happy, you know. So I think

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Speaker 1: for me, I just enjoyed that. Like to I don't

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Speaker 1: want it to be just about me, you know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like, man, you would the battle on the

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Speaker 1: field together, so I want you to feel a part

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Speaker 1: of that too. So I think that's what makes it special,

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Speaker 1: because everybody else feels a part of it, you know

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Speaker 1: what you just said. I think that's why so many

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Speaker 1: of your teammates, you know that you played with, even

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Speaker 1: guys that you weren't that close with, were so excited

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Speaker 1: because of how genuine you are, Like in my twelve years,

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Speaker 1: I played with like six Hall of famers, I was

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Speaker 1: never more excited than when I heard your name. And

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Speaker 1: I'm if Brian Dawkins was sitting there, I would literally

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Speaker 1: say the same thing. It's because of what you just

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Speaker 1: said and how humble you were. I'll never forget my

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Speaker 1: first week here, and you won't remember this conversation. But

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Speaker 1: I remember after a week of practice, I pulled you

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Speaker 1: aside and I was like, man, you practiced like a

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Speaker 1: rookie trying to make the team, and I'll never forget

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Speaker 1: you said that's the only way I know. Like you

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Speaker 1: weren't even like, hell, thanks, man, it's because you were like,

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Speaker 1: that's it was almost like you were saying, that's a

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Speaker 1: stupid ass statement because that's the only way I know.

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Speaker 2: How to go.

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Speaker 1: But I don't know if you realize how that resonates

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Speaker 1: with your teammates, Like just kind of talk about that

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Speaker 1: I just always was like, because you know, you you're

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Speaker 1: it's always a story or they're gonna try to replace

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Speaker 1: I was like, I ain't gonna give him no reason

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Speaker 1: to replace me, you know like that, And that's that's

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Speaker 1: how I approached it. And it was never in a

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Speaker 1: always my approach. You know, I'm gonna go out here,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna work my ass off, and whoever want to

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Speaker 1: follow on following who don't they not and you know

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Speaker 1: they they'll fall off on the wayside. So that was

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Speaker 1: just always my approach to it. When did you realize

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Speaker 1: a negative way, like Dimigo Ryans was a leader, but

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Speaker 1: it was obviously the way he carried himself and the

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Speaker 1: Like when you realize, like, man, my voice has power.

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Speaker 1: Like about what year in the league did you did

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Speaker 1: you realize that? Man, this is this is crazy. I

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Speaker 1: remember my rookie year. Jonathan Wells probably could tell you

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Speaker 2: To as a rookie. As a rookie.

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Speaker 1: So I'm like what they was like, I'm talking about

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Speaker 1: We were sitting in the team lounge and I got

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Speaker 1: Jay Well, same dude he came up to He was like, man,

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Speaker 1: you need to speak to the teams before the game,

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Speaker 1: and like that was my first time ever doing that,

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Speaker 1: like in my life, like in all my years of

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Speaker 1: like it's just kind of like damn like like they

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Speaker 1: So I'd probably say that's probably the first time I

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Speaker 1: we when we became teammates, it was like year nine

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Speaker 1: Like could you sinse? Like even though I'm not a

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Speaker 1: Well I just for me, man, Like I had some

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Speaker 1: Like I remember my receiver coach Curtis Johnson, he was

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Speaker 1: Cause like our first day, me and Kevin Beard, the

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Speaker 1: I didn't really realize like how greatest shape you had

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Speaker 1: know as a wide receiver. So you know, that's interesting

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Speaker 1: because everyone always talks about the culture, the culture, but

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Speaker 1: it started from as far as that culture, Well, I

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Speaker 1: And you know when you got that man like, man,

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 1: We used to have we used to have a some

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Speaker 1: like that and what oh yeah, no, you're gonna wrestle, okay,

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Speaker 1: was definitely. But if somebody called you out, trust me,

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Speaker 1: It was, It was. It was just different.

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Speaker 1: I tell people all the time because they always be like, man,

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Speaker 1: how was it that? How was it at Miami? I'm like, man, like,

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Speaker 1: I don't think words can really describe it. You had

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Speaker 1: to be there to see it, but it was a standard.

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Speaker 1: Like man, you might have had some guys that didn't

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Speaker 1: We knew it was about one thing and one thing only,

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Speaker 1: you know, So that's what made it special. Man, it

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Speaker 1: like yeah, all right. So the way my house is

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00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:10,080
Speaker 1: like I had to kind of like walk around because

432
00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:12,000
Speaker 1: I can't see the front door from where I'm standing

433
00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:17,479
Speaker 1: at So when I walked out, I seen like you

434
00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 1: can't see who's out. You can make out what's outside,

435
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,480
Speaker 1: but you can't tell who it is. Okay, so I

436
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,520
Speaker 1: could tell that somebody's standing there, but I can't see,

437
00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:30,280
Speaker 1: like you still don't know. No, That's when I knew.

438
00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 1: When I when they knocked on the door and I

439
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:37,760
Speaker 1: walked around and I saw it, I was like, I

440
00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:40,480
Speaker 1: know this is not about to happen. Like I was like,

441
00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:42,200
Speaker 1: I know this is not about to happen right now

442
00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:45,760
Speaker 1: because I can see a guy, I can see a camera,

443
00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:48,880
Speaker 1: and I can see a guy in a gold jacket.

444
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:53,719
Speaker 1: So like, I'm just like, bro, I'm literally walking to

445
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:57,879
Speaker 1: the door and I'm nervous as hell, Like wow, I'm like, man, like,

446
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,160
Speaker 1: I know this is not about it happened. So when

447
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,639
Speaker 1: I opened the door and I saw Chris, I was

448
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:07,199
Speaker 1: just kind of like, that's why, like you saw Like

449
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 1: I just turned around to put my hand around my

450
00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:12,600
Speaker 1: mouth and I was just like damn, like I did,

451
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:13,640
Speaker 1: like I made it.

452
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:14,440
Speaker 2: That's awesome.

453
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, shout out to Canor because that's an elaborate plan

454
00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:23,960
Speaker 1: right there. And the crazy thing me Kyl already knew,

455
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:29,159
Speaker 1: but he didn't tell Hannah. But the funny thing was me,

456
00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 1: Kyle and Hannah and Travis. We was at the Rockets

457
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 1: game the night before it happened. So it's funny because

458
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:38,719
Speaker 1: Cayle asked me, he said, you think you're gonna get

459
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:42,560
Speaker 1: in this year? But he already knew the answer, so

460
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,520
Speaker 1: I told him, I said, yeah, I say, I think.

461
00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:48,199
Speaker 1: I said if it's any year that I felt the

462
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:51,720
Speaker 1: most confident about it, it was this year. And he

463
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 1: was like okay. So when I called inform him I

464
00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,280
Speaker 1: made it. He was like, oh I already knew. Wow

465
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,719
Speaker 1: it's a great store. Yeah. So it was. It was

466
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,480
Speaker 1: it was a good it was a good time, good moment.

467
00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 1: My daughter she didn't have a clue, like because she's

468
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:11,360
Speaker 1: like why, she was like why all these cameras here?

469
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:17,440
Speaker 1: Like what's going on? Like now fifteen wow? Fast wow.

470
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,880
Speaker 1: So so you probably can't even explain the emotion. I mean,

471
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,119
Speaker 1: so you knew before you open the door because you

472
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:28,280
Speaker 1: saw a camera, because so that's when I that's when

473
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:33,280
Speaker 1: I knew. Like I was like damn, like because I

474
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:35,480
Speaker 1: started thinking about everything he was telling me in the

475
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:36,439
Speaker 1: whole story.

476
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 2: So I'm like.

477
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,840
Speaker 1: Going walking to the door, probably like one of the

478
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:48,359
Speaker 1: most nervous, like I I it was almost like you

479
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:50,879
Speaker 1: didn't I don't want to say I didn't want to

480
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 1: open it, but it was just like it was it

481
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,440
Speaker 1: was a nerve like it was a I don't even

482
00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 1: I don't even know if you can explain the feeling

483
00:25:59,200 --> 00:25:59,520
Speaker 1: it was.

484
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:00,880
Speaker 2: It was just different.

485
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,160
Speaker 1: So you open the door, which we all saw Chris

486
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:08,919
Speaker 1: Carter's there after the cameras are off. What's going I mean,

487
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:11,439
Speaker 1: are you just still processing it? Like when the cameras

488
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:15,120
Speaker 1: are turned off. What's going on in the Johnson household? Man,

489
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:17,639
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie in d I I had to

490
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 1: take a moment. Like I was sitting on the couch, bro,

491
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 1: just like just trying to like gather your thoughts, like

492
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 1: like what just happened?

493
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 2: Right like?

494
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:34,159
Speaker 1: And like I'm sitting there, I got my hands and

495
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:38,880
Speaker 1: I'm just like nobody's around me because they were just like,

496
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:44,400
Speaker 1: you know, letting need to Yeah. So it was just, bro,

497
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 1: You're just sitting there trying to take it all in.

498
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:53,199
Speaker 1: And afterwards, you know, we sat around for a while.

499
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 1: Even Candas was at my house. Candics was like crying.

500
00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 1: She was like, these people really just came and knocked

501
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 1: on your door. She came after No, she was there,

502
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:06,439
Speaker 1: Oh during Yeah, okay, got so she for those that

503
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 1: don't know, Kansas Maybury does an awesome job. She runs

504
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:13,240
Speaker 1: the textan Ambassador. It's called Texting Legends program, and she

505
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:17,080
Speaker 1: obviously the biggest and best legends. She's very close with himself.

506
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,040
Speaker 1: So for those listening, yeah, she couldn't even she was

507
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 1: like she was just she couldn't stop. She was just

508
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:26,439
Speaker 1: like they really came and knocked on your door, like

509
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 1: because we would joke all the time, like She'll be like,

510
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:33,439
Speaker 1: we're going to Vegas for Hall of Fame, just you know,

511
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:37,359
Speaker 1: like joking around. Yeah, but you know, you don't you

512
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,679
Speaker 1: don't know when it's gonna happen. So we would just

513
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, all right, whatever, like I just kind

514
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 1: of brush off and.

515
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, like it was.

516
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 1: It was like even I told you, like with my mom,

517
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 1: like when I open that door, she saw Chris, she

518
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:53,200
Speaker 1: just started screaming.

519
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:55,239
Speaker 2: So that's all.

520
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, it couldn't happened to a better, better person,

521
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 1: now you knew. That's how they surprise people, and we

522
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 1: all know. And I guess it's different because it's actually you,

523
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,680
Speaker 1: but all your teammates you like, he's going in. It's

524
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 1: just a matter of this year, next year, but he's

525
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:12,399
Speaker 1: going in. I felt like it should be at the

526
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 1: first ballot, like anytime somebody came to your house where

527
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 1: you like, oh man, it's the damn Amazon guy, Like nah,

528
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,879
Speaker 1: you know, I never and I tell people this all

529
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 1: the time, like when I made the finalist list. The

530
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 1: first time, I said to myself, I was like, like,

531
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,440
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make it. It's just a matter of time.

532
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 1: But I never I never really worried about it though,

533
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,959
Speaker 1: really like I never, like like even when I was

534
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 1: sitting there, like I'm not thinking in my mind like

535
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 1: are they gonna come knock on my doing it? Really

536
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: a couple of days like I'm not because I'm just

537
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,280
Speaker 1: like when it's happened, when it's gonna happen, it's meant

538
00:28:59,280 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 1: to happen.

539
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 2: So I'm not.

540
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of guys, like I know,

541
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 1: some guys that's been up for the finals list, like

542
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 1: Devin Hester, he used to get pissed when he didn't

543
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 1: make it. Like I remember Devin called me what time

544
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 1: and he was like, Yo, they call you yet I'm like, yeah, Brian,

545
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: make it, Like but I'm not tripping, like I don't.

546
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 2: They don't.

547
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 1: They don't bother me like that because like I tell people,

548
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 1: like I can't catch another pass, I can't score another touchdown.

549
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 1: What I've done, I've done. So when it's due to happened,

550
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 1: it happened. But you know some guys are more passionate

551
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 1: about it, you know. So Devon was like, it's so funny.

552
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: We were actually Joe, we were actually in Can not

553
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 1: too long, maybe about a month ago for our orientation

554
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 1: and like.

555
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 2: Joe Porter, he was like.

556
00:29:55,840 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: Man, I ain't want to call Devin Hester, you know, yeah,

557
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 1: like that we used to get upset, man, But I

558
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 1: never I never took it like that, like they'll call me.

559
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 1: I remember the first two times they would call me

560
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 1: inform me I didn't make it, and I would just

561
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 1: be like, man, thank you, like you know, it's just

562
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 1: honor to even be mentioned to be a finalist for

563
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:22,959
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, like and it was. It was

564
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 1: funny because they'll be like, well, Andre, we wish everybody

565
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 1: else would accept it, do you know? But yeah, like

566
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 1: that's just that's just how it was, Like you know

567
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: you that's that's football royalty, you know what I'm saying.

568
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 1: So like to be in that, like I mean, you

569
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 1: no more nothing else you can ask, right, you know

570
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So I was I was always like

571
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 1: I just respect it, man like. So that's that was

572
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:54,719
Speaker 1: just always my approach to it. I still to this day.

573
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously it's you, so you were had the process,

574
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 1: but I think we were more excited than and you.

575
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 1: I don't know, are you part of the textan ambassador

576
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: group chat? Yeah, I don't know if you saw all

577
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: the messages going back and forth, but you know, and

578
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 1: I think what you just said is probably what makes

579
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 1: you special on why people appreciate it for you the

580
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 1: way they do. Like I've I've liked and loved most

581
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: of my teammates. I can't even think of any that

582
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: I don't like. And when I heard certain guys made

583
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: to Hall of Fame, it's kind of like, oh man,

584
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 1: that's cool. Yeah, that's cool. And again, I don't want

585
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 1: to get too corny because you're sitting here, but when

586
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 1: when we found out you got in, like it was

587
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,719
Speaker 1: kind of like, hey, kids, step away, you know, daddy's

588
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 1: allergies acting up, just because.

589
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 2: Of the type of person you are.

590
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 1: So and even early in this podcast you mentioned like

591
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 1: you've appreciated it because it's like we all got in,

592
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 1: Coach Kubiak, all the guys that you play with, So

593
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 1: that's what made it special for us. So you've processed it.

594
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 1: I'm surprised Travis Johnson didn't mess up this surprise. Was

595
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 1: he there? I was just about to bring him up

596
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 1: and that you don't understand. So mind you, I found

597
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 1: out a week a week and a half before Super Bowl. Okay, yeah, yeah,

598
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 1: So I got my knock maybe like a week and

599
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 1: a half before Super Bowl, but you can't tell nobody.

600
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 2: Oh for how long?

601
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,959
Speaker 1: For that weekend half? I didn't realize, So it doesn't

602
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 1: get unveiled until the NFL, honest got you. So I

603
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 1: couldn't tell my family. The only people that knew who

604
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 1: was knew who was at my house. So you couldn't

605
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 1: you had this high nda, you couldn't disclose it to anybody.

606
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 2: So we're in Vegas, Travis Johnson, so rap J.

607
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 1: We were together, so he that was that was that Thursday,

608
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 1: it was announced for the show. We were together earlier

609
00:32:56,400 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 1: that day in Vegas. In Vegas and Travis, Yeah, so

610
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 1: are y'all I just want to set the stage. Are

611
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 1: y'all just there just to hang out or no, I'm

612
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 1: in Vegas because I got to be there to get

613
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 1: to walk on the stage. Was already he was just

614
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 1: going to Vegas just for Super Bowl. So you know,

615
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 1: I'm sure he had his appearances is going out there.

616
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 2: But so.

617
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: Me, Travis, my mom, my daughter, and my brother, we

618
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: were all like sitting in the food court. Mike uh

619
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 1: Parsons used to be the equipment guy. So we all

620
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,239
Speaker 1: kind of was just you know, just catching up, you know,

621
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 1: because I had seen Mike in a while. So really

622
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 1: we're just catching up with Mike and you know, just

623
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: talking whateverever. And so he said, Travis bus to say,

624
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 1: damn dog is getting about that time.

625
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 2: You ain't get no phone call yet.

626
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 1: So I said, I say, Travis, I got to go

627
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 1: up to the room when I say, they gonna come

628
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 1: knock on the door. But I'm lying. I already know

629
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: what's going on. Like but I'm lying because I'm like, on,

630
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 1: y'all gotta go. Y'all need to go get dressed, because

631
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 1: you know they they so they take the family over first,

632
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: so like I can't, like I can't take no picture

633
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 1: with my mama in the red carpet, none of that.

634
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: Like yeah, so like when you go, they take you

635
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: in the back, like you go later the show has

636
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 1: already started.

637
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:29,280
Speaker 2: They take you back through this.

638
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 1: Little way, put you in this room, and you sit

639
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 1: there and just watch the show on the TV until

640
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 1: you actually go out to Vietnaunce Hall of Fame.

641
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:43,439
Speaker 2: So Travis is like, I'm in the run.

642
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:47,240
Speaker 1: So we leave from downstairs in the little food court area,

643
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 1: because you know, I had to get my mom and

644
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 1: my daughter and I'm gonna get to the area where

645
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 1: they needed to get to go to the show with

646
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: my brother, and Travis is blowing my phone.

647
00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 2: Up like, dog, you ain't heard nothing. Yeah.

648
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 1: I'm like, Travis, were sitting in the room, bro, like

649
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: we just waiting to seeboy cursing him out too. Yeah, Like,

650
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:09,840
Speaker 1: I'm like, we just waiting to see what's happening. He like,

651
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 1: where your mom and everybody at. I'm like, we all

652
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 1: sitting in the room. But I'm lying my mama is

653
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 1: I'm in the room by myself.

654
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 2: I'm not.

655
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 1: So he starts calling me again, you ain't heard nothing yet.

656
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 1: I'm like, So it got to the point where I

657
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 1: just stopped answering his call because I'm just like, he's

658
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: like trap doing too much. But he was so excited,

659
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 1: like he just wanted to know. He like, I need

660
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 1: to know. I need to know, man. So when I

661
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:45,399
Speaker 1: stopped answering this cause he started calling my brother, so

662
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 1: like my brother was sending me the text messages and stuff.

663
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 1: He like, bro, what's the road with Travis? Man, I'm like, man,

664
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 1: he just wanted to know. I say, you know, how

665
00:35:54,280 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 1: trap is. He just excited, so he found out. Of

666
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 1: course I didn't talk to him, like I just literally.

667
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 2: Like, how hard was that? Just for you? Was hard?

668
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,839
Speaker 1: It was hard because you know how close me. So

669
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:13,360
Speaker 1: like it's like I want to tell you, but I can't,

670
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 1: you know. So he wasn't gonna keep no secret. For

671
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:17,879
Speaker 1: those who don't know, Travis is one of the most

672
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:21,840
Speaker 1: loyal dudes. He's a huge friend of Andre. There's no

673
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 1: way he would have kept that he was if I

674
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 1: would have told him, he would have went crazy. Yeah,

675
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 1: you know, he'd probably been yelling and all that stuff.

676
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 1: So so we go go to the show, do everything

677
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: I see. Uh the Miko, that was a great moment too,

678
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 1: man Like after I came off the stage and we

679
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: were walking out, man, Miko saw me. Man, he just

680
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 1: like bro We hugged and just laughed, you know, like

681
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: it was. It was a really really good moment afterwards.

682
00:36:56,760 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 1: And but Travis, he found out. We went to dinner

683
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 1: that night after it's public. Now, so me, Hannah, you

684
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 1: know a couple of people here with the organization, We

685
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 1: all went to dinner. My mom, agent, Stefph Travism there

686
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:20,879
Speaker 1: and uh he uh he you could tell it really

687
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 1: hit him. Man Like, he got emotional. You know, he

688
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 1: did get old me though. He was like your ass

689
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 1: already knew you want to tell me, but I just

690
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 1: laughed at him. But h you know it was it was,

691
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 1: like I said, man like, you could tell like it

692
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 1: meant so much to so many people.

693
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 2: Man, people, you.

694
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 1: Probably don't even realize how we're cool, but we don't

695
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 1: talk about you and Travis, and I don't think you

696
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:47,880
Speaker 1: realized what even meant for me. And it's just because

697
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,760
Speaker 1: of the type of teammates you were, type of person

698
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 1: you still are to this day. This is a weird

699
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 1: I hope I can kind of let people understand how

700
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 1: oh the story is and they could get a feel

701
00:37:58,719 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 1: for it.

702
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 2: I don't know if you remember this.

703
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 1: So my first year with the Texans, preseason were going

704
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 1: on in a way trip and Antoine Peak for those

705
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: who don't know, outside linebacker.

706
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:10,839
Speaker 2: I love playing with Pete, but he was.

707
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 1: Deathly afraid of flying and we had we didn't have

708
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 1: a signed seats, but for some reason he always sat

709
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 1: behind Andre Johnson and at the time, keep in mind,

710
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 1: this is my first trip as a Houston Texan. It's

711
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 1: a flight and when I say Antoine is deathly afraid

712
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 1: of flying, like that's not an exaggeration, and I'm me

713
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:32,439
Speaker 1: and Antoine are sitting on the same aisle, but he's

714
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: directly behind Andre. And when the the engine starts and

715
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:41,320
Speaker 1: we hit the runway, he literally wraps his arm around

716
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 1: Andre in the seat and he's like bear hugging him

717
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 1: because he's afraid. And I'm thinking, because I just met Andre,

718
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 1: but obviously I knew who he was, Like, man, this

719
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,879
Speaker 1: Andre is gonna turn around start swinging on him. And

720
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 1: when when I tell y'all, who are listening, Andre just

721
00:38:56,719 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 1: acting like nobody was grabbing him. You just like it

722
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:04,280
Speaker 1: was the weirdest but coolest thing at the same time,

723
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,359
Speaker 1: like you weren't phased by it, you weren't bothering. And

724
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 1: in my mind, I'm like, does this happen every trip?

725
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 1: But when he grabbed you and he's shaking your seat,

726
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:14,760
Speaker 1: you were literally like if you were on the phone,

727
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have skipped a beat, like explain, kind of

728
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 1: explain that relationship to where that didn't bother you. So

729
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 1: me and Pete were drafted. We were in the same

730
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:31,919
Speaker 1: draft class, came in together and the first time we

731
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:36,759
Speaker 1: traveled my rookie year. It was when I experienced it,

732
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:41,400
Speaker 1: like I was just like, damn, like this dude really

733
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 1: like I've never seen nobody scared of flying like that

734
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: ever in my life. So it was one other time

735
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 1: that the people don't know about this, of course because

736
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 1: they not on a plane with us. I was sleep

737
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 1: one time before we actually took off. He literally had

738
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: me like face and everything like hug, like just like

739
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:06,360
Speaker 1: this dude is crazy. But he was really really scared

740
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 1: of flying. And it just became something I was just

741
00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:14,920
Speaker 1: used to. Like, I'm like, if it helped him feel comfortable,

742
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:18,319
Speaker 1: I guess to be able, you know, because it would

743
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:21,359
Speaker 1: only last for like a few seconds. But it was

744
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 1: just you know, he was I was just used to it.

745
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie or I used to be like, well,

746
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:30,279
Speaker 1: they keep putting it, but I did use I did

747
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 1: used to say that, but but it didn't really bother me.

748
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:35,439
Speaker 1: It was something I guess. It's something you just kind

749
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:38,760
Speaker 1: of it just becomes y'all, uh yeah, yeah, process.

750
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:39,440
Speaker 2: Yeah.

751
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: But when I say and I wish I had the

752
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 1: words so people could kind of picture it.

753
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 2: It was like it.

754
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:48,880
Speaker 1: Wasn't happening like you weren't laughing, you weren't like, man, fool,

755
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 1: get off me. Like I don't know what exactly you

756
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 1: were doing. You might have been texting, but you just didn't. Yeah,

757
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 1: because they kip a beat. Yeah, it becomes like and

758
00:40:57,840 --> 00:40:59,359
Speaker 1: I'm looking at him like, man, get it, get your

759
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 1: hands off. Yeah, like it becomes it's almost like it

760
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:06,279
Speaker 1: it just became normal, you know. Yeah, I knew when

761
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 1: we hit that run we were about to take off,

762
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 1: like all right, it's coming, like yeah, you know, and

763
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,359
Speaker 1: it just it was just normal for me. Man, Like

764
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 1: it didn't like it got to that point where it

765
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:18,880
Speaker 1: just didn't even phase you no more, Like.

766
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:21,800
Speaker 2: That's amazing, Like I don't know that. That's always stuck

767
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 2: with me.

768
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,279
Speaker 1: And it just shows what type of and you know,

769
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: there's this stereotype that wide receivers in the NFL are

770
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 1: prima Donnas, which you're the complete opposite of that stereotype.

771
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:36,279
Speaker 1: But like that vision, it kind of just encapitulates who

772
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:38,919
Speaker 1: you are, like the fact that you know, the most

773
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:41,319
Speaker 1: important person on the team, the best player on the team.

774
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 1: I know you would never say it's almost say it

775
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:45,880
Speaker 1: for you and it's obvious, isn't phase that a backup

776
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:49,720
Speaker 1: linebackers bear hug you know before we're going on a flight,

777
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:53,280
Speaker 1: and that's when it first kind of hit me, like, oh, okay,

778
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 1: this guy's a little bit different. Like even though from

779
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:58,280
Speaker 1: the way he practices and the fact that he doesn't

780
00:41:58,280 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 1: mind getting.

781
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 2: Roughed up on and away trip, he's a little bit different. Man.

782
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,799
Speaker 1: Look, we've already reached our time limit. There's so many

783
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 1: other things that we want to discuss, but we'll probably

784
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 1: get to it another day, another time. I just want

785
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 1: to congratulate you on behalf of the entire city, and

786
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,479
Speaker 1: more importantly, all of your teammates, because, like I said,

787
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:19,760
Speaker 1: not even the guys you and Travis are best of friends.

788
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:22,440
Speaker 1: We all have a respect for you, but the guys

789
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 1: that you probably didn't even realize you've impacted. I just

790
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:28,400
Speaker 1: want you to know how we feel and how excited

791
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: we were. So I'm gonna keep saying it. Next time

792
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 1: I see you in an event, I hug you and say

793
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:35,360
Speaker 1: it again. My son was so excited. He still remembers

794
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 1: when you told him he was taller than me. Like

795
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:41,280
Speaker 1: little things that you say like they just last with people.

796
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:44,399
Speaker 1: But man, from the bottom of my heart, like I've

797
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:46,560
Speaker 1: played with hundreds of guys just like you have, and

798
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if I could think of one guy

799
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 1: that practices harder, that holds himself, you know, in a

800
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 1: way that we all should so much enjoy it. It's

801
00:42:57,600 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 1: on my birthday, so that's gonna be a present for

802
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: me watching you get honor publicly. But man, just just

803
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 1: basically wanted you on this podcast so we can say congratulations.

804
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Man.

805
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:13,720
Speaker 1: I think for me, like with this whole process is happening,

806
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 1: is like you say, like you don't realize how many

807
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,880
Speaker 1: people you've I mean guys I didn't even play with,

808
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 1: you know, and like here like hearing a guy like

809
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:28,560
Speaker 1: Marshall and Lynch come up to you and be like, man,

810
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 1: you was a guy like I watched, like I just

811
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 1: watched the way you carried yourself. Like to hear that

812
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:41,839
Speaker 1: from you know, those guys, Man, it's it's a it's

813
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 1: a great feeling because you don't know who who you're yeah,

814
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 1: who you're affecting, you know what I'm saying. So like

815
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 1: I never thought in a million years, man, like playing

816
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 1: a game, man, the kids game, and you can you know,

817
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 1: just hearing people say Man, you the reason why I

818
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 1: play football? Are you the reason why I'm in Texans?

819
00:43:59,080 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 2: Shit?

820
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 1: And like it's crazy like to hear that stuff so

821
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 1: or even like I came in contact with guys who've

822
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:08,439
Speaker 1: been in prison and they was like, man, you don't

823
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:10,799
Speaker 1: know how much easier you made it for me when

824
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 1: I was locked up. Really yeah, that's strong. Yeah, So

825
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 1: it's it's crazy, man. So you never really know the

826
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:20,840
Speaker 1: effect you can have on people by just carrying yourself

827
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 1: the right way and just knowing you know, I'm not perfect,

828
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:27,600
Speaker 1: but you know I tried to be the best person

829
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:29,839
Speaker 1: I can. So a couple of things, and I know

830
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: I said we were over, I have two more because

831
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 1: again the effect. So the the Courtland Finnegan incident that

832
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:42,320
Speaker 1: was the year after I retired. So I'm actually upstairs

833
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,240
Speaker 1: when I say I had to hold myself from taking

834
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:47,720
Speaker 1: down the first of all, my old ass was probably

835
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 1: not even make it downstairs. But I know how you are,

836
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 1: so to see you that upset it just to this

837
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 1: day annoyed the heck out of me. So I want

838
00:44:57,239 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: to just real quick because people did it. When I

839
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 1: had my racevideo show. Every quarter of the year, somebody

840
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,360
Speaker 1: will bring it up. Have y'all met since that has happened?

841
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:11,760
Speaker 1: Have you had a chance to saw once since that happened?

842
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:16,920
Speaker 1: But we don't. We don't speak because of that. I

843
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 1: just don't. I just don't really fool with dude man

844
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:23,399
Speaker 1: like I don't.

845
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:23,879
Speaker 2: I don't.

846
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 1: I don't know him personally. The crazy thing is before

847
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:35,560
Speaker 1: that happened, he we were at the Pro Bowl and

848
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:39,440
Speaker 1: this year I think it was like three guys out

849
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:41,359
Speaker 1: of their secondary they had They had a really good

850
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 1: year this year. I can't remember what year it was,

851
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:48,360
Speaker 1: but they had like three guys out of their secondary. Him,

852
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 1: Chris Hope, and Mike, Mike Griffin. They all made the

853
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:57,759
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl and men, Chris Hope was real tight. So, uh,

854
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 1: we were sitting on the back of the bus and

855
00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 1: it's just it's so funny because it's like I'm sitting

856
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:07,320
Speaker 1: on the back of the bus, but I'm surrounded by

857
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:11,799
Speaker 1: Tennessee tights, right, So we all sitting on the bus. Man,

858
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:14,400
Speaker 1: Like I said, Man, Chris is real tight because we

859
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Speaker 1: played against each other in college, you know, Florida State.

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Speaker 1: So we're talking and Chris was more trying to kill

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Speaker 1: the he could tell it was like some tension between

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Speaker 1: me and him. So, now is this before the incident? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this was before, So there was tension before that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because he's been trolling for Yeah, okay, gotcha, gotcha. So

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Speaker 1: a lot of people don't realize we actually got in

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Speaker 1: a fight. You just couldn't see it because it wasn't

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Speaker 1: as big as but we got in a fight in Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so.

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Speaker 1: On the on the actually it was actually on our

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Speaker 1: side on our sideline.

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Speaker 2: Same year, the same season. No, this was the year before. Okay.

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Speaker 1: So Chris was kind of trying to you know, easey

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Speaker 1: whatever whatever. So I actually talked to him on the

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Speaker 1: back of the bus that day, so I thought everything

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Speaker 1: was cool after we talked on the back of the

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Speaker 1: bus and man, I don't know, I guess. So we

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Speaker 1: played them in Tennessee earlier that season, and that game

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Speaker 1: I got the best of them, and he I just

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Speaker 1: he was he was he was talking to me real reckless.

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Speaker 1: So I just told him like, yeah, like I was

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Speaker 1: thinking everything it was cool. Like, you know, I don't

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Speaker 1: played against a lot of guys and dudes talk a

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Speaker 1: little trash on the field, right, but it's just certain,

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Speaker 1: like we grown man, certain stuff you just don't say okay,

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Speaker 1: and he was talking kind of reckless and I was

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Speaker 1: just kind of, you know, had we exchanged a few words.

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Speaker 1: Fast forward, we come back, we play here, and he

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Speaker 1: just kept like hitting me up under my helmet and

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Speaker 1: if you if you look go back. I was miked up.

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Speaker 1: That was a crazy thing. I was micd up that

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Speaker 1: game and I told her ref like, I was like hey,

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Speaker 1: Like he was like, oh, I'm watching them, you know.

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Speaker 1: And after that we was up twenty to nothing, and

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Speaker 1: I was just like, I was sitting on the sideline.

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Speaker 2: I was just like, you know what. I was like,

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Speaker 2: I'm just and that's just how it went.

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Speaker 1: Like. It wasn't even because I was I just I

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Speaker 1: don't know whatever. I just was sitting on the sideline

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Speaker 1: and I looked up at the skowboard and I saw

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Speaker 1: the score and I was like, we got this under wrap.

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Speaker 2: So I was like, that's awesome.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, man, you've dropped so many gyms today that that's awesome.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's gonna do it. We went way over.

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Speaker 1: But it's only once you could have not just a

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Speaker 1: Hall of fame, but the first ever. And they can

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Speaker 1: never take that away from a first ever Hall of

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Speaker 1: Famer in the organization's history. Andre Johnson, appreciate the time.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to give a candace so we could

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Speaker 1: do a part two, three, four, a five, because there's

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Speaker 1: so much I want to talk to you. But man,

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Speaker 1: I know you busy, like I said, and the words

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Speaker 1: kind of express how proud and happy we are for you.

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Speaker 1: So congratulations and thanks for jumping in with us. Thank you, man,

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Speaker 1: appreciate you for having all Right, that's gonna do it

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Speaker 1: for our most special episode of the OG podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: Indi Kalu. That was Andre Johnson aka hof. We got

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Speaker 1: to find a new nickname for him. That gold Jacket

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Speaker 1: go GJ GJ. Now I'm gonna work on it. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna find a new nickname for my man, Andre Johnson.

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Speaker 1: So we all realize we're talking to a Hall of Famer.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you, the listener. Don't touch that down.