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00:00The big thing, you yesterday had a big excursion out to Bridgeland.
00:03I did, I did, yeah, I went out and went out to, it was a, boy, it was a big
00:07ceremony they had out there yesterday.
00:09Yeah.
00:10Big tent, catered affair.
00:12Saw, there was a band?
00:14There was a high school band there, the Texans.
00:17There were cheerleaders?
00:17Cheerleaders were there, yeah, Mark Vandermeer was doing the MC thing that he's so good at.
00:22Anybody out there, like, selling acid or anything?
00:25Not that I saw.
00:25Like at a dead concert?
00:26Okay.
00:27Not that I saw, but I didn't stay for the, most of the aftermath, you know, the, the longer it
00:31goes.
00:31You had a little feel of the beginnings of a music festival.
00:34It looked like it.
00:34I thought I was going to see you in the background with music, with glow sticks over your head.
00:39Dressed, dressed in a big Dr. Seuss, the cat in the hat.
00:43The big hat, yeah, yeah, I was tempted.
00:45But yeah, it was one of those things, and for those that don't know what Seth is talking about,
00:49the Texans had their big ceremony to celebrate their new headquarters out in Bridgeland yesterday,
00:54and it was, it was, it was really interesting.
00:57My, my, okay, I have a few takeaways from it.
01:00First of all, the renderings of it, I don't know if you've seen, Seth,
01:03the Texans posted the renderings of what it's going to look like on social media.
01:06It looks incredible.
01:08There's going to be three big football fields out there.
01:11There's going to be a huge indoor practice facility that will double as a facility where they can have
01:17three flag football fields, 21 volleyball courts.
01:22Yeah.
01:22Not exaggerating.
01:23It's 150,000 square feet.
01:25That part of it's interesting just because the, well, the, the,
01:28it's going to be much more multi-use than what they have right now.
01:31Definitely.
01:31So for doing a lot of the youth sports stuff and then everything that they do with Love B,
01:36they're going to be able to, it's on their own schedule, they'll be able to say,
01:40oh, okay, we're going to do this.
01:41We're going to have to worry about managing the radio or World Cup soccer coming in or anything like that.
01:45Nope.
01:4616,000 people it'll hold if they, you know, want to hold events in there and whatnot.
01:50For the, in, oh, in the facility?
01:52In the facility.
01:52Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:5316,000?
01:54If they want to, if they want to put it that way.
01:56Concerts there and everything?
01:57I suppose.
01:57Yeah.
01:57They called it the field house.
01:59They might be able to contain one of our remote broadcasts.
02:03Perhaps.
02:03If you and I, I mean, 16,000 might get a little dicey.
02:07We might have to talk to the fire marshal.
02:08Yeah.
02:08We'd be like, hey, maybe we got 17,000 here.
02:11Okay, buddy?
02:11Just turn the other way.
02:12Always try to break a record with each remote.
02:14That would be great.
02:15The headquarters itself is going to be 175,000 square feet.
02:19If you haven't seen it yet, if you're on social media or you've accessed the social media,
02:22go find the Texan social media account and look at the pictures of it.
02:25And you can see, man, it is going to be something else.
02:28My biggest takeaway in driving up there is it is out there.
02:32I mean, it was a 40-minute drive out there, so there's no getting around that.
02:36But I totally understand the placement of it out there.
02:39They had the county commissioners that were very involved in this spoke at the event.
02:44You can see how excited they are about it and to have this out there.
02:47And there's certainly the space for it and the community for it out there.
02:51My big takeaway is there will no longer be Texans players, starting in 2029 at least,
02:56living in Pearland and Missouri.
02:58Maybe Missouri City because you can hop that Grand Parkway, I suppose.
03:03But there's going to be – if you live in Bridgeland, get ready.
03:05In a few years, there's going to be a lot of Houston Texans players, staffers, employees living out that way.
03:11Prepare for a whole bunch of immigrants, Bridgeland.
03:13Yeah.
03:14Immigrants from –
03:17From Brazoria County.
03:19Brazoria County.
03:19Brazoria County.
03:20Fort Bend County.
03:21Yeah, yeah, just –
03:23Is Pearland – part of Pearland is in Galveston County, isn't it?
03:26No, no, Brazoria County.
03:27Something weird.
03:27Brazoria.
03:27Brazoria County, yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:29I thought Galveston County had a weird deal.
03:31Okay.
03:31No.
03:31I'm way off.
03:32Yep.
03:33Now that I'm thinking about it, wow, am I way off.
03:35Yeah, you're way off.
03:37All right, Sean, let it go.
03:38So, this thing's going to be amazing, and it was cool, man.
03:45Texans are super excited about it, and the community out there seems very excited about it, and a lot's gone
03:50into it.
03:52And, you know, we're three years away, but it was cool.
03:56A lot of your fellow former Texans were at the event yesterday, too.
04:00A lot of people there.
04:01I think that – I was kind of thinking of this from the fans' perspective.
04:04Okay, what does this mean for me?
04:05And I do think – if you think about the training camp experience alone, that I would imagine training camp
04:12tickets were kind of hard to come by over these last few years,
04:16or they really always have been because there's limited seating there.
04:19Yeah.
04:19And it's not always the most comfortable environment out there in terms of airflow and everything.
04:23They do the best they can, but it's temporary.
04:25They didn't put the canopies up until a few years ago out there.
04:28Yeah, yeah.
04:28I mean, there were people sitting in the sun.
04:30I think this is – especially because they have – now, D'Amico likes to practice outside as much as
04:36possible.
04:37Yeah.
04:37But because they do have indoor seating, and no matter how much of all that looks like,
04:40I think the training camp experience is going to be a whole lot different.
04:43You're going to – you know, you want to go to draft night, things like that.
04:47Yeah.
04:47There's going to be – they're going to have a potential to have all these permanent facilities in place
04:52and make all of those extra events that much cooler.
04:56So, not everybody will partake in those, but a lot of hardcore Texans fans are really going to like that.
05:01Oh, yeah.
05:01No, it's a chance for them to reimagine everything.
05:04You know, it's a chance for them to take a look at how they've been doing it,
05:07and now they can – whatever it is they want, they can do.
05:11You know, there's nothing – you look at the facilities they're in now,
05:14and some of the things you just talked about, like, you can't have watch parties out at NRG Stadium.
05:19Like, you can't have the draft – I suppose you have the draft party in the stadium.
05:23They've done that before.
05:24For draft time, people like to be outside, having a good time.
05:26It's a big party.
05:27They've done a nice job with what they can down near the convention center there.
05:30Yeah.
05:31But now they've got a chance to reimagine that whole outdoor area.
05:34I'd imagine there's going to be a big, huge screen where they can have watch parties out there for games.
05:37You think about – it was really cool when they've had the draft party at Herman Park,
05:41but the one huge variable in all of that is they got lucky with the rain situation.
05:46They did.
05:46And it's a time of year when you tend to get some rain.
05:50Yep.
05:50So that – you know, they can't necessarily plan everything that they'd want to do for situations like that.
05:56I'm getting excited about it just thinking about it.
05:58From a lot of the stuff that we go to, either as fans or as just people covering the team,
06:03it's going to be a – it's just going to be a more seamless experience, I think.
06:06Yeah, it is.
06:07I mean, the travel is going to be different for some people.
06:10It'll be different for me.
06:10I know that going out there.
06:11But I'm up for it, man.
06:13It looks like it's going to be incredible.
06:15It was a really – it was a cool day yesterday.
06:17I mean, it was being – it was being hailed and celebrated by the Texans
06:20as the second biggest day non-football game in the history of the franchise,
06:25aside from the announcement that the Houston Texans were born.
06:30Well, the – well, really.
06:31Well, I mean, if you look at the whole entire complex,
06:36once the various retail and hotel and – were there apartments planned or anything like that?
06:42No housing necessarily, right?
06:44I didn't see any of that in the press release or in the renderings,
06:46but there's medical, there's an entertainment district,
06:49there's all kinds of restaurants and everything like that.
06:51I mean, so the whole – you talk about having a walkable community
06:54and what are you doing before games, after games, all of that.
06:58That part's going to be really cool.
06:59Yeah, it'll be really cool.
07:00Not games, excuse me, but just before events.
07:02Well, but I think – but again, I think like road games,
07:05I think they should have watch parties up there.
07:08You know, like it wouldn't – it would not shock me if you and I were doing the pregame
07:12for road games up in Bridgeland before a big watch party,
07:15especially if the team's good.
07:17You know, like that would not surprise me
07:19because I would imagine they're going to have studios up there.
07:21I've already been told that the media area of it is going to be world class.
07:25I mean, we had Mike Tomin on, and we asked him about that,
07:27and Mike spoke yesterday at the whole thing.
07:29But, boy, the county people, Seth, are over the moon about this thing,
07:34and they were to the point where they were calling it like this is the new epicenter
07:37of Harris County, this is the new nerve center of Harris County.
07:41And when you look at a map of Harris County, you go,
07:43that's an interesting place to put the nerve center of Harris County.
07:45But then you see the renderings of it, and you're like, wow, this is really impressive.
07:49Well, and when it comes to that side of it, the public money part of it,
07:52you know, I'm always skeptical whenever any public money goes towards the sports team
07:56or whatever.
07:56This actually – I feel way better about this than I do with various stadium projects necessarily.
08:03Because this is – it's very easy to see where the tax revenue is going to come from
08:08in that the county is – the county is paying for the infrastructure.
08:11Right.
08:11Which is – that's something they do for lots of businesses.
08:14It's not necessarily – without getting into all of the details,
08:18and I'm sure I'm a schmuck in some regard any time I talk about this stuff.
08:21But, like, that is – they're paying for infrastructure.
08:24The Texans are going to take the vast majority of the expenses on this project.
08:29But the county is paying for infrastructure.
08:31And you can see in a project like this where all that sales tax revenue is going to come back
08:37to them over time.
08:38So I don't look as side-eyed at the $42 billion in revenue for the county as much.
08:44Because it's just – it's a classic retail slash commercial investment or development.
08:50Yeah, it's – there's all kinds of businesses that are going to be generating revenue
08:53and creating jobs in there, and a ton of them.
08:56I think, you know, they said $34 billion in revenue generated over the next several years,
09:0117,000 jobs.
09:02I know that was part of the press release that came out a few weeks ago,
09:05to your point about infrastructure.
09:07That was one of the things that the county folks were saying yesterday is, like,
09:10part and parcel of this project, we're going to finally be able to put this bridge over this part of
09:15Bridgeland
09:16and a bridge over that part.
09:17We can finally get from point A to point B within this community.
09:21We're sitting here.
09:22We're talking all high and fancy.
09:26Bridgeland.
09:26Yeah.
09:27We only got 27 bridges.
09:28We need more bridges in this place.
09:30We have to take a boat right now across this river to get to the other part.
09:34Venice is laughing at us.
09:35We got to get up in here and be the – did anybody say that?
09:42Did anybody get up there in, like, a big old, like, boss hog hat or anything?
09:48No.
09:49Play up the Texas oil man role or anything like that?
09:53No, but one of the county – and I forget the – I've apologized.
09:56I forget the last names of the two county people.
09:58There's one woman and one man from the county who got up there and spoke to commissioners.
10:03And the male definitely had a southern vibe to him.
10:06And I say that in a complimentary way.
10:08He was not a shyster like boss hog, but he had that Texas vibe to him, you know?
10:14Where we think big down here.
10:15Boss hog, obviously not a Texan.
10:17Don't anybody get mad at me or blow up a Texan.
10:19Hazard County, North Carolina.
10:20Where did that take place, Duke-Texam?
10:22North Carolina, I think, wasn't it?
10:22I think so, too.
10:23Yeah, yeah, I think so.
10:24I think North Carolina.
10:26So that was cool yesterday.
10:27Definitely wasn't Connecticut.
10:29Definitely was not Connecticut.
10:30Yeah, so, you know, I'm excited about that.
10:33Did you scout out any spots for me to do my stealth camping that I keep claiming?
10:37There's a lot of open space right now.
10:39It's hard to say because they haven't broken ground yet.
10:41I didn't see a lot of cover for my stealth camping setup.
10:44No, it is interesting, you know, because this is – Howard Hughes is the –
10:49you know, that's the private investment company behind that community up there.
10:53The pilot, yes.
10:54Still alive.
10:56Right, and they were behind the woodlands as well.
11:00This community just aesthetically looks totally different than the woodlands.
11:05When you're on the Grand Parkway there, you can just see the sprawl.
11:08The woodlands, it's a lot harder.
11:10The woodlands also has a lot more – it's mature now, you know.
11:13It's had 50 years of tree growth and all that.
11:16Right, it's got legit forest up there, you know.
11:18Yeah, and they did – yeah, I guess they had – I mean, they had more forest.
11:21They had actual forest to begin with.
11:22Yeah, yeah, this is – you and I were talking before the show, this Bridgeland –
11:26because there may be some of you listening right now who live inside the loop,
11:29haven't been out there to see it.
11:30Like, it's – they're beautiful homes.
11:32You can see where they're going with the whole thing and the community,
11:35and obviously you can see where they're going with this big project with the Texans.
11:38But it reminds me of when I lived in Denver.
11:41I know you've been to Denver before, Seth,
11:42and kind of seeing, like, when you get off I-20 there
11:45and you're going either to Highland – to Parker or Littleton
11:52or any of the communities off of the – you can see the whole thing,
11:56like the sprawl of just houses on houses on houses.
11:59That's more what this kind of looks like.
12:00It feels like you're on a wagon train.
12:02A little bit.
12:02Yeah, a little bit.
12:03Across in the prairie with Laura and whoever the hell –
12:06Right, right, right.
12:07And several – and a bunch of 5,000-square-foot houses.
12:10Yeah.
12:11No, my brother lives in one of those communities outside of Denver
12:15where it's all on Old Airport.
12:19So it's just wide open and flat.
12:21Yep.
12:22And from the air, because I can see it when I fly in sometimes.
12:25I'm like, oh, that looks just flat and boring.
12:27And then you get down on the ground, and they've done incredible things with it.
12:29It's an awesome little community.
12:30That's what this is.
12:31So, yeah, it was a cool day yesterday, man.
12:32Really cool.
12:33Really cool night last night.
12:34The Rockets won, and I didn't get angry at them.
12:37One thing about these renderings that I want to point out,
12:39they're pretty ambitious with the number of cars parked on the roof of this one parking garage.
12:43Oh, really?
12:44Yeah.
12:44Okay.
12:45That hints at a sold-out event somewhere.
12:48Hard to find a lot of cars.
12:50I love parking on the roof in Houston.
12:51Oh.
12:52Because I feel like I could pull off a drug deal or something, you know?
12:55You know, when you're in the movies, and you always see these, like,
12:57people are pulling off drug deals or, like, actually assassinating people,
13:02acting like nobody can see them.
13:05Right.
13:05And you're looking off in the distance.
13:07There's buildings everywhere.
13:08I've never understood this about Hollywood.
13:10No.
13:10Why do they act like the roof of a parking garage is completely and totally clandestine?
13:16How about in The Sopranos, when Tony shoots people, like, sitting in a boat in the river,
13:21like, right underneath the George Washington Bridge?
13:24Right, right.
13:25Like, he's shooting him.
13:26I'm like, there's people in their cars watching you right now.
13:28Nobody's ever just going to see this.
13:30Yeah.
13:30Yeah.
13:31Come on, Hollywood.
13:31Get it together.
13:32I park on the roof a lot because then I won't forget what floor I'm on in the garage.
13:38That's what I do.
13:39You've exposed me.
13:40That's exactly it.
13:42That's my cheat code.
13:44I'm like, I know what floor the roof is.
13:46It's the roof.
13:48Rockets won last night, Seth, and I didn't get angry during the game.
13:5211 turnovers, and Reed Shepard was a delight to watch last night.
13:57Reed Shepard and Shane Goon paired up, tearing apart one of the more formidable foes in the
14:02NBA.
14:05The zombie skeleton of the Sacramento Kings.
14:09Hey, they couldn't be impressive versus Utah, but they sure as hell were impressive versus
14:15the team that's won above them in the standings.
14:17I'll take it.
14:18I'm so tired of being angry at a team that's actually winning some games.
14:22Well, it was more pleasing.
14:24Yeah.
14:24It was more of the beautiful game that you want to watch.
14:27I can deal with 11 turnovers.
14:29It wasn't like that clown Donchich trying to dish it off to LeBron at the last moment.
14:34He got a lot of attention the other night.
14:36That inelegant basketball.
14:38That was weird that he didn't take that shot right now.
14:40Donchich is getting a lot of heat in LA.
14:42I mean, people are, it's starting to look more and more like, okay, we see why Dallas
14:47wanted to move on from him in the long term.
14:49I hope that's how it turns out, man.
14:50I don't like when the Lakers.
14:51For those of you who didn't see it, Donchich did what LeBron has done forever, which is,
14:55oh, two seconds left on the shot clock.
14:58I'm going to dish it to LeBron.
14:59But the difference is that he genuinely, like, he had the shot.
15:03Yeah.
15:03There was two seconds left in the game in that case.
15:05Yeah, yeah, yeah.
15:06And it was weird.
15:08It was weird, but I also had no appetite for LeBron criticizing Donchich for it.
15:13No.
15:13It was just like two people you don't like having an argument.
15:17You can't root for either of them.
15:18I don't want either to win.
15:19But that was fun last night.
15:21The Rockets.
15:21You mentioned Shen Goon.
15:22He had a triple-double.
15:23Basically a listener experience for our listeners.
15:25But yeah.
15:25He had a triple-double.
15:27I don't think so.
15:31Shen Goon, triple-double last night.
15:33Yeah, Reed Shepard looked good.
15:34Like, hopefully this is one of those games.
15:35Because there was no Amon Thompson last night.
15:37So Reed Shepard was going to get.
15:39Reed Shepard was going to get.
15:40I mean, he started.
15:41So he was going to get starters minutes last night.
15:43Man, my hope is that.
15:44I'm not saying that Reed Shepard should take Amon.
15:47Obviously, I'm not saying he should take Amon Thompson's place in the starting lineup.
15:50But man, stop giving Dorian Finney-Smith, who didn't play last night.
15:54He was getting load managed last night.
15:56Stop giving him 23 minutes a night.
15:59And Reed Shepard the same amount of minutes.
16:00And let's keep Reed Shepard.
16:02Let's keep rolling with Reed Shepard in the game a little bit more.
16:05Let's just get him some minutes.
16:06And also, the notable thing about this was that Kevin Durant got to take the fourth quarter off for the
16:11most part.
16:12Yeah, they were up by 30.
16:13With a back-to-back tonight in Orlando, right?
16:18Orlando, yeah.
16:19Yeah, at Orlando, too.
16:20So they had to travel last night.
16:22You know, they had to jump on a plane right after the game.
16:24So, yeah, that was good, too.
16:26Durant getting a little bit of rest was really, really good.
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