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Ep 371: The Pass Rush with Stevie Lee and VIPs, David Gbenda & Peter Mpagi: Unwavering Spirit: Texas Longhorns Football, Heart Transplant Journeys, and Life Beyond the Field

June 10, 2024 Shawn Clynch, Mike Murphy, Michael Hardge, & Maurice Harris Season 1 Episode 371
Ep 371: The Pass Rush with Stevie Lee and VIPs, David Gbenda & Peter Mpagi: Unwavering Spirit: Texas Longhorns Football, Heart Transplant Journeys, and Life Beyond the Field
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Ep 371: The Pass Rush with Stevie Lee and VIPs, David Gbenda & Peter Mpagi: Unwavering Spirit: Texas Longhorns Football, Heart Transplant Journeys, and Life Beyond the Field
Jun 10, 2024 Season 1 Episode 371
Shawn Clynch, Mike Murphy, Michael Hardge, & Maurice Harris

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What does it take to thrive in the grueling world of Texas Longhorns football as they prepare for their first SEC season? Discover the secrets behind their intense training regimens and recovery routines through the eyes of David Gbenda, and join us in celebrating Peter Mpagi'ss unforgettable birthday weekend filled with laughter and camaraderie. This episode delves into the dynamic life of these athletes, both on and off the field, showcasing their unwavering dedication and the strong bonds they form along the way.

But that's not all. We share the emotional and uplifting story of Peter's heart transplant journey, a powerful testament to resilience, faith, and the critical role of a support system. Listen to David Gbenda's heartfelt reflections on witnessing Peter's struggle and recovery, emphasizing the strength of their friendship and shared faith. This chapter is a poignant reminder of the incredible spirit and perseverance that define the Longhorn community.

Finally, we venture into the world beyond football, exploring the multifaceted lives of student-athletes and the importance of adaptability in the ever-evolving landscape of college sports. Hear from Stevie Lee about his transition from the gridiron to the business world, and gain insights into the opportunities and challenges brought about by NIL deals and conference realignment. With a blend of humor, inspiration, and valuable lessons, this episode offers a comprehensive look at the life of a Texas Longhorn, both on the field and beyond.

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What does it take to thrive in the grueling world of Texas Longhorns football as they prepare for their first SEC season? Discover the secrets behind their intense training regimens and recovery routines through the eyes of David Gbenda, and join us in celebrating Peter Mpagi'ss unforgettable birthday weekend filled with laughter and camaraderie. This episode delves into the dynamic life of these athletes, both on and off the field, showcasing their unwavering dedication and the strong bonds they form along the way.

But that's not all. We share the emotional and uplifting story of Peter's heart transplant journey, a powerful testament to resilience, faith, and the critical role of a support system. Listen to David Gbenda's heartfelt reflections on witnessing Peter's struggle and recovery, emphasizing the strength of their friendship and shared faith. This chapter is a poignant reminder of the incredible spirit and perseverance that define the Longhorn community.

Finally, we venture into the world beyond football, exploring the multifaceted lives of student-athletes and the importance of adaptability in the ever-evolving landscape of college sports. Hear from Stevie Lee about his transition from the gridiron to the business world, and gain insights into the opportunities and challenges brought about by NIL deals and conference realignment. With a blend of humor, inspiration, and valuable lessons, this episode offers a comprehensive look at the life of a Texas Longhorn, both on the field and beyond.

Support the Show.

Please like and follow each of Stories Inside the Man Cave Podcast social media links on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and Tik Tok.

Speaker 1:

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Speaker 3:

Stevie Lee man another episode we're up to. What is what? Is it? 371, and this one is going to be a lot of fun. We've got, uh, some true insight from behind the walls of dkr with this football program as they enter the sec their last summer, before their first sec experience yeah, it's gonna be fun.

Speaker 4:

I'm looking forward to talking to these guys and you guys um their last summer before their first SEC experience.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, it's going to be fun. I'm looking forward to talking to these guys and you guys stay tuned, it's going to be fun for sure. That's right. That's right, man. And so, without further ado, stevie Lee, let's rock. Thank you, all right guys. Thanks for joining us. Episode 371,. Man, I cannot believe we're approaching episode 400. And you know, before we get going, introduce to these fine, esteemed, accomplished young men, stevie Lee. We don't say it enough, but the folks at Hargrove Roofing are like family and, stevie Lee, there's a reason why you're the spokesperson, because you say one line, the best way. You do it even better than the Hargroves themselves.

Speaker 4:

Hargrove Roofing know who's on your roof.

Speaker 3:

There you go, there you go. Hey, be sure to like our social media platforms, that being TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, which you're probably watching this on Facebook or YouTube, or the Instagram and Twitter slash X, whatever you want to call it on whatever day of the week it may be. But you know, before we truly introduce these guys, we've got to introduce them the right way, and this is the only way. Stevie Lee he has his own box on the right, but joining our Brady Bunch boxes. We're too short of six.

Speaker 3:

But Peter Pudgy, former defensive lineman for the Longhorns, and David Benda, current linebacker for the Longhorns and guys, thanks for joining us, because there are some. These are two amazing, inspiring stories, not just because they play for Texas or played, but they've got a lot of wisdom to pass along and, trust me, these two guys are characters as well. Man, I appreciate you both for making time for us. Yes, sir, it's somebody's birthday and I didn't mean to block out your face, Peter, but happy B-Day weekend to Peter Pudgy. First off, how do you sum up this weekend, Because it was all over Instagram? You're out on Lake Austin, it looked like. Can you even discuss how you guys celebrated?

Speaker 5:

Yes, I can discuss how we celebrated. It was a great birthday. I got some hometown friends and some former teammates to celebrate my birthday. We went on a boat and then we had dinner at Fogarty Show, Then we had a great night out at a place called Mayfair. So all in all, it was a great fun weekend with my friends.

Speaker 3:

And Stevie. I mean, if you ever need birthday celebration planning, that is your guy right there. He's the man of all.

Speaker 4:

Sounds like a bro weekend, bro. You go get some steaks fill up on steaks at Fogo de Chow and then head over to Mayfair. Mayfair can get pumping over there, man. Yes, sir, I like Mayfair. Did you have a table? Did you get a bottle of service?

Speaker 5:

Yes sir, we did have a section.

Speaker 4:

That's the only way to do it over there man. Yes, sir, it's good stuff.

Speaker 3:

Well, first, guys, this is people think, because it's the summertime, that you guys are just chilling, taking it easy, vacationing, but so far from the truth. Yeah, of course, celebrating birthdays, that's one thing, but the state of Texas football this is the last I mean. Right now, it's all SEC, it's all everything getting ready. But try to give the fans, tell them what you guys are. Your daily routine is not kicking back and relaxing and enjoying the summer. And we'll start with you, david.

Speaker 6:

The daily routine entails of me waking up at 5, starting out with workouts at 6. And I'll work out. Using entails of just a nice little warm-up for 10 to 15, but that's what Coach Becton wants you to think. It's not a nice little warm-up, it's a really strenuous warm-up that gets you activated and acclimated to what we have to do for the day. And then we work out for about a. We run for a good like hour or a good like 45 minutes usually a good like hour or a good like 45 minutes. Usually then we're in the weight room for another 30 to 45 minutes.

Speaker 6:

Then after that I usually begin my my process of recovery, and that entails stretching with our assistant coaches. Coach James usually gets that in with me. Then I usually cold tub, hot tub for a couple minutes, just alternating between the two, because that's good for my legs, because what we do isn't easy and I have to always make sure I'm on top of my recovery. Then I might go into the training room for a little bit if I have a knicker bruise here or there, but after that get in with my coach, coach Johnny Nansen. He's been a very good addition to the staff and he's been a really great guy and a really great linebacker coach for me, and we usually talk chop it up for a little bit. He tells me what I need to work on for the day and then go on and watch film and then that's usually what the day entails for me, and then it's a rinse and repeat process. But you can't get too tired with the minute details, because the minute details make the big difference.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, that's good, that's good.

Speaker 6:

So you can have face time with your coach right now. Huh yeah, I can call him any time of the day. He's just, he's very available and open and he's always. He's really big on making sure he's correct so that he can help us grow. He's like he's really big on helping us become the best that we can be on and off the field yeah, so that's.

Speaker 4:

That's, uh, one thing that learned the great ones actually study the game, and if you can get in there and study the game with your coach, that makes you even better man. So keep it up. Yes sir, yes sir.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, hey, peter, I was going to ask you and we'll tell you why. He had a life-altering event. We're going to talk about that here shortly. But you had a life altering event. We're going to talk about that here shortly, but you're still very much a part of all this. I mean, you and david best friends, your brother, so to speak. Um, you guys both and stevie, we've watched it from afar. You know a little. There's been a. You guys have gone through a ton of changes, but for you p watching it, you lived it. What's happening right now with this football program, what is it that maybe fans aren't aware of? That makes you really proud to be a Longhorn and the direction this program has been going.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, I'd say from my freshman year to now I've seen a lot of changes and I think coaching definitely has to deal with that. I think the inclusiveness of the guys on the team.

Speaker 5:

I guess it's very much more player-led throughout the years as they've been getting better. I think whenever I got there, I feel like the coaches had the reins. But as the years have gone by, while I've not been playing, I feel like it's been player-led. A lot of people are getting uh together and uh, they're just getting along along better and uh, they're. They're excited to go out there and compete with each other. I feel like when I was there, I feel like a little drag. It felt like a job not to be out there on the field, but now they're excited and ready to go and, as you want, it's more fun. More people want to help the culture and just let the culture just be better, and you know the fans are having fun too. So I think that's the biggest thing that everyone's smiling, and once everyone's smiling, you know you have motivation to be the greatest version of yourself for sure.

Speaker 4:

No, that's good stuff, man, that's good. So I wanted to kind of get into you know, when you got there the events that happened to where you are right now. Can you get into that for us?

Speaker 5:

Yeah for sure. So I graduated high school in December of 2018. So I graduated high school early to come to Texas because they told me that would be like the best chance to, you know, get ahead of everyone. So when I got there, I mean I was 221 when I got there and then it took me like three or four months and I got to 260. I was just eating a lot and pumping a lot of iron, so I got 260.

Speaker 5:

And then when I got there, I'll be honest, I was not the best. Um, I didn't have the confidence. I feel like I overthought stuff too much, so I wasn't playing to my best of my abilities. So I was put on scout team. And then, uh, whenever I was put on scout team, I was going against Sam Cosme, who's a current guard, I feel for sure, for the commanders, and I was just going against him each practice and getting better. And then I was getting my confidence. And whenever you can mess like, whenever you can do full speed on scout team and like piss off the coaches, I feel like that's the best feeling. I was always in Sam's face and one time I actually hit his arm and they all just stared at me like I was crazy. But then Sam said good, hit bro. And I was like okay. And so I mean, as I was doing scout team, I was getting better, and then I had a feeling.

Speaker 5:

I was like, yeah, next year's going to be my year. And then, unfortunately, during that fall of 2019, my heart started to have complications. And then I got to get a. I had to get chest x-ray and then whenever I had a chest x-ray, they saw I was enlarged. And so the whole time that I was playing my, my heart was enlarged and I had shortness of breath.

Speaker 5:

So I'm over here squatting like 400 pounds and after I do like four or five reps I'm just like out of breath. Before I could do that easily. And then our practices were really hard. I remember I was getting very short of breath during the stretch part of practice and I was telling them and then they they felt like the best thing what to do was to give me an asthma inhaler. So I think that helped a little bit. And then once I had to go in the hospital, once they found out what was the cause and then then from there on it was a hard journey and then I had to get my heart transplant. And from the heart transplant on, I feel like I've gotten better and I've been trying to be the best person I can to other people and motivate them and inspire them, through the Lord, also because I'm buried being my faith. So I try to use God as a way to inspire these people and be a living testimony.

Speaker 3:

David, I was going to ask you you know you guys have old enough and had enough experience to realize certain things in life happen to position us to see life, a certain thing or let go of things we have no control over. But when this happened, peter, and what did it do? How did this affect you and and and the team? Because obviously fans and people like me, we don't have the true pulse of what it's like. I mean, that's for me all. Would I be fair to say that? I mean that would scare the hell out of me if one of my teammates experienced that, if I would have been a part of that team. I mean, what was that like for you watching him experience that? Because that could have been easily tragic.

Speaker 6:

It was a very hard thing to watch but it also showed me how resilient and strong he was but at the same time it showed me that the God that I serve there's no God like him because he was able to help Peter go through this transition because at first we didn't really understand what it was and I couldn't believe it because people would tell me that with this type of situation, that it would lead to him having to get a heart transplant.

Speaker 6:

I never thought it would get to this point but honestly it was a rough couple of months for him and both me as well, just struggling to deal with my own issues and also having to watch my friend go through probably one of the hardest battles of his life and just having to understand and see that man there's a possibility that he can make it out there, make it out of the situation, and just never trying to let that thought cross my mind but also trying to be realistic about just the percentages of all the things.

Speaker 6:

It was just a lot. It was very tough, but there was a lot of prayer involved with my mother and just a lot of information being said, because she's a nurse as well, so she was very well informed of his situation but was tough. But god got him through this and, like he said, like peter says, it really did show he was a living testimony and just just allowed me to really also have another, just another reason to be grateful from the lord that he was able to help my best friend get through this, this hard process that's good stuff.

Speaker 3:

No, that's beautiful. So, peter, it's not as easy as it as you guys make it sound. You just can't find a heart donor. I mean that process. I mean, were you ever concerned, like man, this may not happen yeah, there's a.

Speaker 5:

There's definitely times. Uh, you know, I'll be honest, I just didn't want to be alive, like I just thought it's too much. I did tell my mom that and it was really hard for her to hear that, but, uh, she's the reason I kept moving. I feel like, at one point, just so weak you know just a lot for me at such a young age to go through all this and all I've been wanting to do is just play football at my dream school. So I think that was pretty hard, you know, like fathoming that. I mean, I did have a lot of like mental health issues during, like the 2021, like season, but like I couldn't mask it. Well, I mean, I just made sure to cheer the guys on. It was really hard watching them for sure in the stands, like during the 2020 season and 2021, because I thought those would have been my years to, you know, get my best self chance of getting drafted. So that was pretty rough and hard for me.

Speaker 4:

I am not a Republican, I'm not a Democrat. I'm just a person that votes, you know. You are not just a football player. Uh, you are a person. You are a child of god, so don't get caught up in the identity of being a. I wanted to be a football player and that's all I wanted to be, um, but you're much, much bigger and much more than just a football player, and I mean, you can still. You can still, you know, accomplish a lot of your goals and go on and have a beautiful, healthy life without football, you know, or in a different capacity of football, you know, not just playing on the field. So don't get caught up in identity foreclosures, what they call it just because you're not on the field, you can get people get caught up with just even though I'm not on the field. I'm not anything anymore. That's not true. You are a child of God. You are a person that's inspiring people as well. So I'm inspired by your story right now too. So just keep it up, man. That's awesome. Thank you so much.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, oh, that's beautiful. You look at this collage here. I mean, first and foremost, you did find the mental fortitude to graduate despite all that. I mean, I don't think most people could stay focused and achieve what you did in that middle photo, yeah. And then your guy over here, bendaenda, it looks like you're on a subway we were with, uh, our, our, our old teammate moro jemo.

Speaker 5:

He showed us the grand time in uh in new york. He took that program.

Speaker 4:

Man, I love New York.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, it was definitely a fun time.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, we loved it too, we did enjoy it, it was our first time going yeah. So, it was a really wonderful time yeah.

Speaker 3:

I love the bottom right. It's after the Alabama win bend in the middle budge in the left, it looks like Jet Bush on the right. Yep bend in the middle budge in the left. It looks like Jet Bush on the right. And can y'all even remix that dance he had in that locker room, was it?

Speaker 5:

that night when he was swift kicking that right leg. No, that was a different game. I'm pretty sure that was whatever game they had near Thanksgiving. I forgot what game that was. Was it Texas Tech, I think Tech. Yeah, that was Tech. He was doing the dance. That was Tech. It was during the dance.

Speaker 4:

That's funny, yeah, that's funny. You know these pictures, man. It reminds me and I wanted to also make another statement, man, the people that you guys meet in that locker room are going to be some of your best friends for life. Man, I went to the University of Texas with my best friend from high school, phillip Geiger. He played DB, he was a safety and I am Uncle Stevie to his kids and my kids are Uncle. He's Uncle Phillip to him and he lives up here by me.

Speaker 4:

We get together just about every week for lunch and you know, just know that those guys are your friends for life. And then when you guys graduate, when you graduate, you'll, you know, get your T-ring. You'll also have brothers for life. Man, the T-Association is awesome. I love leaning on my friends from the T-Association. So, you know, coming to the University of Texas is special, but the life after football, life after school, is even more special, man, I love going to the stadium. We have our own section that they give us, and I see all my old teammates and I see other people from from this way, older than me and know me, and then kids that are way younger than me, that are graduated, that know me, and we all just kind of hang out in jail together. So you guys experience all that stuff after a while. So just congratulations on graduating, pete. When did you graduate, dave? I already did, same time as you did, oh, really.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Speaker 5:

Thank you, yeah, thanks so much.

Speaker 3:

We're going to be calling Dr Benda here pretty soon. Oh hey, one thing before. I wanted to show a piece of video related to that bottom right photo. But you know one thing that I think a lot of people forget, because you guys have seen a ton of change in just college athletics period through the student athlete that only you guys can live. I mean when you, when you try to articulate and tell people about the changes in your four to six years and everybody thinks, well, no, nil's great transfer portal, wonderful, you guys have more not so much power, but you have more control of your path. But how do you? Is there any way to describe what you guys went through and that it's not all glamorous as one may think it is?

Speaker 6:

I would say, with the addition of nil, I guess, like you said earlier, I am very thankful and I know a bunch of collegiate athletes have benefited from the use of name, image and likeness and I'm thankful to the one fund and coach stark for helping me and my family out and all the other athletes out. But yeah, with the addition of NIL it is a new added, it is something new that athletes have to deal with and Coach Stark himself he's talked to the team that he doesn't want it to become a distraction. He is very happy for us that it is a new addition and he's glad we're able to have this opportunity. But he doesn't want to. He wants the main thing to be the main thing on the team. He doesn't want egos to be inflated and stuff like that. So he just wants everyone to be well kiltered and just to have to have the same sort of mindset and hunger.

Speaker 6:

But with the addition of nil it's sort of uh, athletes are introduced to the business world of things you know you have to deal with taxes and just brand partnerships and all the things that you would have to deal with as a professional athlete. So it is a lot but at the same time. It's. It's a wonderful addition, I feel like, honestly, because with the new addition I've been able to do so much more and be able to experience so much more things and meet new. We meet new people so.

Speaker 3:

That's how we all met. Yeah, seriously yeah, because of nonprofits, exactly. Fyi, these guys are incredibly active in the community. I'm just wondering. Put that out there all the time.

Speaker 6:

I mean, you gotta be, you gotta be man. It takes. I remember growing up with the saying that it takes a village to raise, to raise a child. So it's always for me, it's always like been a thing to always give back to others who helped. You know I'm saying help me. You know, just get to where I'm at today and become the person I am. So being able to give back and help has been an amazing opportunity that I've been blessed with.

Speaker 3:

Peter, Stevie, you and I talk about what he just talked about, mentioning the NIL, the opportunities. But, Peter, you got. What has it done for you?

Speaker 5:

I mean as far as balancing and managing your schedule. Yeah, I'd say like the experience of having a student athlete is like you, you know like I feel like if I didn't go through all that, I wouldn't be able to like be motivated to wake up in the morning. I like working out. So like whenever I go work on the morning, I almost feel like you know, I'm still playing football and I'm still going to go work out, just me by myself. But I mean that's all the motivation I need to wake up just to go work out, make myself feel better, my body, my heart. So I feel like and being organized too, I think having a schedule and know what you're going to do.

Speaker 5:

I personally have a to-do list of what I need to do in a day and I feel like that's my little teamwork. That's what they have to check off whenever they go in the facility and do X, y and Z. So I have my own way of my little to-do list. I write it down of what I have to do and I make sure to eat, like my lunch, like I track my, I track what I eat because I'm just in there like that, so I make sure to get enough protein in and work and have, you know, good, strong muscles. So I feel like everything I went through first year in athlete definitely helped.

Speaker 5:

And also networking. I feel like networking is a big thing. I've met a lot of great people like y'all just through you know little events, so I think that's very important. We had I forgot what it's called, but the system where students are allowed to meet like business owners and all that. So I think that the networking aspect of being a student athlete also helped me meet a lot of great people to help me do a lot of great things I've done in my life.

Speaker 3:

So I'm very thankful for that opportunity. Experience, stevie, you can relate to that. I mean because of that schedule, even though NIL didn't exist in your era. It has helped you become who you are correct.

Speaker 4:

Oh, absolutely, being a student athlete. We have to juggle workouts. We talked about it a little bit. We have to juggle workouts. We talked about it a little bit. We have to juggle workouts. We have to juggle school and then juggling managing your body, you know, with nutrition and rest and things like that. So doing all that while in school and young helped me to transition into the business world was kind of easy for me, believe it or not. When I wake up in the morning after I got done playing, I went straight from a University of Texas locker room to an office with four women Overnight right, I see y Like overnight. Right, I see y'all's faces, right. So we lost Peter.

Speaker 6:

He's going to jump right back. Keep that thinking, yeah, so yeah.

Speaker 4:

So I'm in the office and I wake up in the morning and I go to the office, but then I get done with everything that I need to get done and it's still like seven more hours during the office. But then I get done with everything that I need to get done and it's still like seven more hours during the day. I'm like what else do I need to do? So, being a student athlete, it's just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. You got something to do homework, something always. But when you get out into the business world, it was like I got all my stuff done, now what do I do? So what I did is I went ahead and got married and started having kids.

Speaker 3:

So yeah, man, so crazy thing. Before we talk about the hype, the sec is that you guys are about to live. I mean it's amazing, stevie. I mean has the picture-perfect family. His wife was a cheerleader at Texas while he was playing at Texas. So you know the big dream matchup. Whoever the match, who was your matchmaker, Stevie?

Speaker 4:

uh, rod babers actually. Oh wow, rod babers was the matchmaker he introduced us. We were at kent solving back then. I don't know these guys know what kent solving is, but it's an all girls dorm. So yeah, in the summertime, when we came back for summer school and summer workout, they actually put the football players in that dorm, um, so it was-ed during the summer, but during the year it was all girls. It was a setup for disaster. Luckily I found my wife over there, though. Luckily I found my wife and she's great. We've been married for what Next month will be 18 years. Congratulations, appreciate it, man, appreciate it. So go to Kinsolven if you're trying to find a spouse, bro.

Speaker 3:

Every time, every now and then, when they are out together, which they're on the town a lot, so every now and then somebody will ask him if his wife is his daughter.

Speaker 4:

I get it a lot, man, I get it a lot, so it's all good. Man, it's a compliment to me, I married well, I guess.

Speaker 3:

Real good genetics, real good compliments. Well, the football side of this, I mean you're going through the protocol. This is the slowest part of the year. This is where the hype build up. This is where coaches would love for their players to stay off Twitter and social media, because everybody's got an opinion, everybody's in everyone's ear. So in Destin, florida, recently, the SEC meetings coaches from all sports, including your head coach, steve Sarkeesian. He was asked about all the changes that have taken place at UT in a short period of time.

Speaker 8:

From the moment I got this job at Texas, we were still almost operating under the old ways. And here comes the transfer portal, here comes NIL. Here comes conference realignment. Now here comes nil. Here comes conference realignment. Uh. Now here comes a new settlement. Now there's talk of potential roster size being being being reduced. Uh, but through it all, you have to adapt right, and if we don't adapt, we aren't going to be here I mean you, all three of you are creatures of adaptation.

Speaker 3:

For Peter and David, I mean, we don't see it. People like me just get excited about it, but have you guys experienced or felt that need to rush and prepare differently? How does that work for you guys as a player or former players, as you enter the SEC?

Speaker 6:

Realistically, with us entering the SEC, everybody already doesn't like us. Everybody wants to beat us for everybody's Super Bowl. So we already understand the severity of each game we play and we have a goal we want to go to the national championship. So we understand that each game is realistically do or die. And coming into a new league, new SEC league, that, no, not everyone's going to be too keen on us just entering the league. And you know I'm saying Texas is coming in thinking they're going to roll over everybody. So I understand that the SEC, they SEC and the SEC teams they're not really too highly on us. But it's a challenge that I'm glad I get to experience and be a part of, because I didn't want I came to Texas to be challenged and I didn't want it to be easy. So that's why I came here. I want to be, I want to be the best and play the best.

Speaker 6:

So us during the SEC was the best thing I've heard so far. It was probably the most exciting thing I've heard, because you got rivalries like the a&m rivalry. I'm gonna get to play against georgia, lord at home, get to play against oklahoma, and even now as we, as we see the two flags up there. But, as I was saying, but, um, just to play that game again on the in an even bigger stage, in a bigger league, it just empathize that rivalry, rivalry even more. So it's just it's honestly the sec hype. It's amazing.

Speaker 6:

But like you said earlier, sean, we try not to read too much in the press clippings. We try to keep the work. The main thing, the main thing, you know, just earn the right to play those opponents, because every team in the SEC it's great talent, great competition, they're all very well coached. So for us to go in that league, we have to be on our P's and Q's and we work right now for the right to be able to play these teams and earn the right to win. And so, realistically, you're saying this is a downtime, but in reality this is a time where we earn it, we earn the right. It's not downtime, it's work time. That's how we look at it and that's how the team is looking at it right now.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, you're absolutely right. The summertime is where you start to win right now, and so Sean and I have talked about this man and maybe you guys can speak on it a little bit. We got the A&M game back and that's a rivalry game. Right, you mentioned rivalry games. We got OU rivalry game. A lot of people, a lot of you young guys, was kind of I'm not saying you guys, but some of the young guys are skipping over Arkansas. Arkansas was a huge rival back in the day.

Speaker 6:

Top of the conference right.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, yeah, exactly there you go. You got the history buff over here Smart guys, man.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, yeah. So don't forget about it, don't sleep on that game, because you know, being an athlete and you guys know this rivalry games hit different. Yes, you know we can watch film, and you guys know this, rivalry games hit different. We can watch film and we will watch film and do all this stuff, but something about a rivalry game especially that Red River rivalry in Dallas everything goes out the window and it's what happens between the lines. You know what I'm saying. When it comes to Arkansas, they're going to come out on fire. The last time we played them, I played them. I only lost one game in the DKR stadium and that was against Arkansas. Houston Nut was their coach then and then. So the next year, my senior year, we go up to Arkansas to play them. They hate us up there. Just know that. They hate you up there and it felt personal you know what I'm saying. It was even more than an OU game, honestly, and so it felt personal up there.

Speaker 6:

So when you go up there, just know they, they ain't gonna like y'all at all I mean, yeah, last time we were up there, that, uh, that get, yeah, I yeah, exactly everything you said we felt we, yeah, we went in there, we, we lost to them, sadly was the outcome we're expecting, and just that that game, I feel like, helped to shape and build the culture that we establish now and so, just like you're saying, that game is going to be very much a game that we have to we're going to be on our P's and Q's about, because the last time we were in that stadium it was not the best feeling had to walk a ship out the stadium, the fans heckling us. It was very, very, very hostile environment. We felt it. They did not like us. They did not like us. They wanted to beat us and prove a point.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, I'm interested to see if there are any other NCAA teams that has three rivalries on their schedule. That's a good question for you, sean Do your homework.

Speaker 3:

I'll get right on it. Man, to Benda's point, and Peter. So I have family in Arkansas. They've been in the Fayetteville area of their entire lives and they went to the University of Arkansas. So three years ago when you guys went up there, I said, all right, I'll go. And they said that you got to wear they're season ticket holders, you've got to wear a white shirt because each section, if you remember, is like alternating colors. I said I'm not wearing white, I'm wearing burnt orange and I'm not spending all this money to go fit in with you guys Right up there. And wow, I have never been abused so badly in my life.

Speaker 3:

Went to the at the urinal in the men's room of the restroom, a guy with a mullet, the stereotype. I was like I'll just, I'll leave it there. Then beer thrown everywhere. I mean it's, they hate Texas, they hate everything about us in the state of Texas. But yet a third of them are from Texas. I think you guys know that. I think every SEC opponent is going to feel that way about Texas, for sure. So if there's a message to the Longhorn fans that you guys would love to pass along, that I know everyone's riding a high after the great season you guys had last year. There's a lot of good feelings you guys mentioned everyone's smiling, everyone's happy. I'm now a season ticket holder for the first time in my life. Congrats, man. That's a good feeling. What would you guys like to tell? Because you guys have, everyone has these rumors that they think they know what's going on. But what's a big message that you guys can collaborate on to tell the Longhorn fans to get them from point A here in June to kick off in late August.

Speaker 6:

Man. I just honestly want to tell the Longhorn Nation that we've been working hard and diligently and we're just not the old Texas. We're establishing a new standard under Coach Sark and we're here to stay. That's what we're working towards and that's what the right we're trying to earn right now, and the SEC is just another league. That is well. It's big competition, but that's what you come to Texas for, man. We're trying to reestablish that old Texas fight. That's basically it. We're here to stay. Last year wasn't a fluke.

Speaker 3:

What do you see?

Speaker 5:

Pete yeah as being David's roommate, I could definitely say the boys are dialed and they're ready to go and they're just one step away from the national championship. So I definitely know that they're holding that in their hearts and they're using that as motivation. And I have no doubt I went to a couple of spring practices. So I have no that they're holding that in their hearts and they're using that as motivation, and I have no doubt I went to a couple of spring practices. So I have no doubt they're going to be great. And they got some new ammo with new freshmen.

Speaker 5:

And I think another guy I think will be great for the team is Wingo. I got to watch him in the spring game and he actually helped me last weekend too. I think he's a great guy and guys like that that starts recruiting is only going to just benefit the team and they're going to be able to beat all three rivals. I believe in those boys and they're going to kill OU and they're going to kill A&M, they're going to kill Arkansas and they can all be happy and great and hopefully these boys make it to the SEC Championship and then they win the chip and then they go natty. I believe in these guys If they can beat all these big guys like last year.

Speaker 3:

There's no doubt in my mind they can do it again, stevie, what do you think? I see that, thought bubble I just can't tell what it says.

Speaker 4:

No man, I've drank the Kool-Aid. Man, I'm all in now. You know, whenever we got, you know I played for Coach Brown guys, so you know he got a special place in my heart. But you know, I saw when Coach Strong came in, I was all in with him. Unfortunately, you know, we can't lose to Kansas, right, yeah, and so that happened.

Speaker 4:

So you know, we made a change and we get, um, what's his name? Herman, oh, herman, herman came in and then you know there was ups and downs. We were losing games we were supposed to win and winning games we were supposed to lose, I don't know. So, um, uh, then we make a change and I was all in. I mean, I called, I didn't call his number, I called that we should have called higher sharp before we even made the change, right, and I said there's got to be somebody else that's next up, like Nick Saban was. You know, somebody's going to be next up, and who better than a guy that's been on Nick Saban was? Somebody's going to be next up? Who better than a guy that's been on Nick Saban's staff and know how to run an offense and know how to put a running back and a quarterback in the right position, and that was our biggest, you know, downfall back then. Our offense really, for me it was I don't know about you, sean, but for me it was the offense. Our defense always been great. I love defense, you know so.

Speaker 4:

But so when he got here and he started to implement things and I started to see his style I have been all in ever since man. So I see I'm excited as a fan now and alumni, I'm excited that these guys are dialed in. I am good friends with Torrey Becton and I love the way he is dialed in. Know this man. He talks about you guys without y'all around or anything like that. He likes what you guys are dialed in. I like the way he got y'all dialed in. I see bright lights in the future of Texas football. It's on an upward trajectory. I like the mindset that you players have too. It reminds me back when we, when I played, it was and you said it earlier in this interview you said David, I think you said player led team. Did you say that that was you?

Speaker 6:

He alluded to that. We're more player.

Speaker 4:

Yes, player led. We were very player led back then. You know, my big brother was, uh, casey Hampton and then there was Sean Rogers playing next to him. Um, hodges Mitchell was a a leader on the team. Um, you know, chris Sims and Major Applewhite, all those guys were leaders and taught us how to be leaders coming up. So for a while we had lost that, we had lost leadership on the team. And now, you know, last year I thought that B John was a great leader for you guys. Or was it the year before last, last year, the year before last?

Speaker 6:

The year before last. Yeah.

Speaker 4:

B John was a great leader. I wish I want you to be more vocal. You know what I mean. But with the defense.

Speaker 4:

There were always vocal guys on the defense that was getting the guys to come along and things like that. So and I saw it in practice too, getting on each other. When I knew that we were going to be great again no pun intended was I went to practice and you guys were getting after each other in practice and I was like that's what we used to do. You know how many times I punched Jay Heels in the head. You know what I'm saying. Not Jay Heels, tony Heels, his brother. So I don't know how many times I punched him in the head, just going at it, you know.

Speaker 4:

But we were brothers fighting for bigger cause. And I saw that when Shark first got to Texas, when I went out to a couple practices and I said, okay, these guys are fighting for something else, bigger than themselves, and it's not, you know, just kind of playing handsies with each other at practice. Y'all are really going after each other in practice. So I'm really impressed with that and that's going to take you from where we were last year unfortunate loss against Washington to going back to that game and killing whomever is the opponent now. So it's just on an upward trajectory and I'm excited for it.

Speaker 3:

Hey, before we take a quick break, you guys have any man cave worthy type story that maybe you two were involved with and that is just as comical now as it was when it happened.

Speaker 5:

I'll go first. My freshman year, I freshman year I had bad luck with scooters. So, um, so, uh, my freshman year I was going down the hill near sand jack and I I fell, and then it like tail of my ankle and I cut deep into my ankle and I I hurt it and uh, I had to go like to like the, the, the doctors for the school and they fixed me up or whatever. And so then, like I'd say, a couple months later, um, I was drunk and I went to a frat party and then I left, and then I was like one of the last people to leave. I was telling myself I think I should get an Uber. And then I saw scooters. Like I actually never mind, I should take the scooter.

Speaker 2:

So then then, I saw a scooter I was like actually never mind, I'm just going to take the scooter.

Speaker 5:

So then I was going down the scooter. I was going down the scooter really fast and then I just faced the ground and I just snapped out of my drunk and I was like holy crap. And so then I pretty much ended up breaking my wrist and I had a game the next day. This is when I was not traveling, so I had a game the next day that, uh, my lie to the coaches was that I punched a wall in an italian restaurant because somebody hit me in the face with the door and, uh, they nobody bought it. Honestly, um, my teammates all thought I got jumped by frat guy, frat guys because my face was so messed up. They're all like oh, pete went to that friday party, got beat up.

Speaker 5:

I was like no bro, that's not what happened and yeah that's just a little story that happened and, uh, somehow it got on orange blood. So one of my my best friend's dad, who got me into like pretty much lightning ut, he texted me. He's like why do you have a boot on in?

Speaker 5:

the in the traditional or the the nutrition center where we ate. I was like how did you even know that? I didn't even tell him anything, he just knew that and I was like that's crazy. And so I guess he got an orange buzz that I had a boot on in the nutrition center. But that's a story that David knows and some of my teammates know, but I don't think everyone knows the true story of what happened. I got the team banned from scooters that year so everyone could not ride them, no question.

Speaker 4:

Had to walk in the summer in the heat.

Speaker 5:

I've never gone to a scooter ever since. I'm traumatized, so I stay away.

Speaker 3:

Between you and then former baseball player David Hamilton. I will probably not get on a scooter after he tore his Achilles tendon.

Speaker 5:

I heard about that. I'm not going to do it. I heard about that story. Somebody told me that I was like oh my. God, I'll tell you guys my scooter story.

Speaker 4:

I'll tell y'all my scooter story over dinner, so we'll hold off on that one, okay.

Speaker 6:

Oh, man, story over dinner. So we'll, we'll, we'll hold off on that one. Okay, I said, man, I have another screw story. So, um, whenever uh peter was sick and uh he, he called me at like 11 or 12 or whatever, and we had workouts the next day, he was like bro, like I'm so hungry, can you please, like get me some food? So, like me being a good friend, I'm like, yeah, I don't care, like you're not feeling too well, I'll go get it for you. I just go to Wendy's and Jester get them like a quick 4 for 4, easy, cheap, call it a day. I, I like him too, got him a little shake.

Speaker 6:

I remember that same hill he's going down. I didn't think so much of it, but I had the milkshake in my hand this is at night, by the way. So I'm going, I'm trying to get to San Jack, and then I go down that same hill and I was so scared from Peter's story. So in my head, as I'm going down, I'm freaking out, trying to maintain control, like I don't want to bust my, I don't want to fall on my face, I don't want to injure myself too badly, and the milkshake, just it was out of the mirror the milkshake, and I'm not going to lie, I had to sacrifice the milkshake.

Speaker 6:

I sacrificed the milkshake, almost lost my life, and I was so scared I just picked up the remaining of it, threw it away and I screwed it up, acted like nothing happened, just played it off cool and smooth, went into his room. I was like here you go, bro. Oh yeah, I'm sorry about your milkshake. I almost lost my life. He goes what, come to find out he didn't even eat all the food. Oh yeah, I'm sorry about your milkshake. I almost lost my life. He goes what, and then he come to find out he didn't even eat all the food.

Speaker 3:

Oh yeah, he got mad about it too.

Speaker 6:

He was like where's my drink? And I said, bro, I almost lost my life. I went down that hill. I said, okay, long story short, he didn't even eat the food, had to go to the hospital where I forgot. But hey, anything for my guy, anything for my guy, that's good stuff, man, you got it.

Speaker 4:

You got it.

Speaker 3:

Look at this. This is at Dirty's. You guys have probably been there, yeah, yeah, here at Troll Job hilarious when Jimbo Fisher was hired at A&M. He's no longer the head coach. I think it was an Aggie former student made this 2020 National Championship trophy and dirties as it now. Look at that boy right there.

Speaker 5:

That's funny, that jinx the program. I think yeah, for sure, 100%. That's funny.

Speaker 3:

That jinxed the program, I think.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, for sure 100%.

Speaker 3:

Hey, let's take a quick break. Second segment's going to move like this and you get to see Stevie Lee in his acting debut. I think this is your second commercial, I guess, for Hargrove Road We'll see, I'm a great actor, so this is a five-star acting talent.

Speaker 9:

Here at Hargrove Roofing we try to think outside the box, to kind of get the creative juices flowing. So I brought in my friend Stevie Lee, former defensive tackle for the Texas Longhorns. He's going to help the team strategize, really motivate them. Light a fire.

Speaker 4:

This guy's going to block down. This guy's going to block down. You put your butt into the guard and that way my Mike linebacker gets free to do what.

Speaker 9:

Not only are they going to learn a thing or two, but they're going to also leave with a great attitude and a bunch of smiles on their faces.

Speaker 3:

I'm sorry. What does this have to do with roofing exactly?

Speaker 4:

Get out Right now. I said get out.

Speaker 9:

For me, that's what it's all about. It's just having fun, making our employees have a great time. Hargrove Roofing know who's on your roof.

Speaker 3:

Look at that man. That was one of my favorite plays, next to Stevie Lee's acting. I call it the Benda hustle play at Alabama. I'm just going to admit it, I acted like an eight-year-old kid when you made that play, because not only did you stuff that guard, I mean he had a good block. It's when our coaches used to always say keep your feet moving. You did it. I was fired up. That play that was textbook man.

Speaker 4:

I think college coaches around the country showed that film how to do it. Stay on your feet. Put that man's head in the ground and stay on your feet. Get up and keep after the play. Man's head in the ground and stay on your feet. Get up and keep after the play. Man, that was a great play. I was giddy after that play too, man. So that's all.

Speaker 3:

Thank you, you were there. I mean, there's pictorial proof that you were there.

Speaker 5:

How did you?

Speaker 3:

react when you saw that sack.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, I mean, I was in the stands with his dad and I just saw David get chop, blocked, and then he got the sack and I was like I told his dad yo, david got the sack and he started freaking out. He was like oh my God, oh my God, it was crazy, bro, because I saw David just get chopped and I just like kept watching. I was like whoa, he just got chopped, we just got chopped. And I was like wait, what? Yeah, the place it was just it was wild.

Speaker 3:

I was really hyped man. That was really awesome.

Speaker 2:

The stadium- got quiet quickly yeah hey, uh.

Speaker 3:

For the second time in three years, texas and ou played in the women's college world series, national championship series. And for the second time in three years, man, oh you does, oh you things in softball.

Speaker 2:

And this was the young longhorns afterwards to play in this environment um, I know on our end it's allowed. It's a lot of noise and it can seem like a hostile environment and for them they have a lot of momentum and a lot of fans on their side. Uh, but it's not just that. Like they've been in this position before and they know how to conduct themselves in big moments and big games, and I mean they've done it four times in a row, so they know how to conduct themselves when it comes to a championship series.

Speaker 7:

Sometimes the environment can be overwhelming. Sometimes and I try not to let it overtake me, but I don't know just sometimes they just pass the bat. They execute on mistakes, that's it.

Speaker 2:

We continued the fight. I mean, we showed our Texas fight the whole entire year. We worked our way to number one. For a reason, we'll be back here again.

Speaker 3:

So it leads me to ask you guys this you guys go to school with these young ladies. I mean, they've got a great program. How close do y'all think they are to catching up with OU?

Speaker 6:

I feel like they're very close, they work very hard and they were led by Alyssa Washington who did great things for the team. But they seem like a very tight-knit group of girls in that I feel like the work they've been putting in and then the way they've been able to reload with the young talent they've had and for them to show up and show out like they did this year. I was very proud of them and very excited to see them get so close to the gold and then for them to have the OU matchup. I was very excited for that matchup man, it was very good. But I know that that team of girls. They work very hard, they're very driven and they're led by a great group of veterans like mia, alissa washington and others. But I just know that they're very close. I feel like they will bring home the gold this upcoming season.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, I mean, to be honest, I do not watch that much softball, but I did watch last year when they played oh you, they're very close last year. I mean I think at least they're getting in there and they're getting in the national championship. I feel like that experience itself could speak for itself and they'll hopefully get far. They'll hopefully win next year. You know, use this as motivation, just like for the football team. Use this as motivation to be OU and all that. The hatred can take you a long place. I feel like the more these hard times with the OU, I feel like these times will help them next year and hopefully they can bring the chip down to Austin. I'm wishing the best for the team. I know some girls there, hey, man.

Speaker 2:

Tell me something good.

Speaker 3:

Man, this is how we do it. Tell me something good. We're gonna go around the horn. We'll go. David, stevie lee and the peter pudgy. Tell me something good, my brothers man, something good is just.

Speaker 6:

I'm very excited and glad to be a part of this amazing podcast.

Speaker 6:

I was excited to meet you, sean, and you too, mr Steve, and I'm just excited that I was able to just display my message to Longhorn Nation and just let the world know that what we're capable of and I'm also grateful for life not every day what Peter showed me and taught me throughout my college experience is that not every day is going to be given to you, so you got to really use it and use it to the best of your ability and help others, not just worry about yourself.

Speaker 6:

Because with peter going through that situation, he was always there for me with my situation, my personal issues that I had, and it really showed me that if peter was capable of being and literally having a catheter yeah, a catheter in his private parts and tubes in his stomach, blood coming out of his mouth and stuff like that, this is all just to show how tough he is, but it's just the real severity of the situation. At that point in time it gave me hope and strength to really understand that the God I serve is real and that whatever I have going on in life, I can get through it, because if my best friend was able to get through that situation, I can get through anything I can get through. So never give up and always keep going to strive to be the best, absolutely man.

Speaker 4:

That's awesome man, that's really good. I want to piggyback off of that man. First of all, thank you both for being on. This is something really good for having both of you guys on. What's really good to me is I see within you guys that there are some good kids that are still at the University of Texas upholding the legacy of the University of Texasing the legacy of the University of Texas. So I really appreciate that.

Speaker 4:

The other part is is Pudgy man, you're an inspiration, right? So, like I think I told you earlier that you know, I lost my nephew through cardiomyopathy. He had a heart at nine and at 19 that heart gave out on him and he ended up passing away. But technology was different back then and things like that. So you are an inspiration. I do understand that. I don't understand and I've never been through it, but I've seen that whole transplant process and things like that and it's scary. But when that doctor comes out to tell your family I know your family was happy when they say that everything is okay and we've got the first heartbeat of your new heart and things like that. That was a huge relief for us knowing that my nephew Dakota was going to be around for longer with us, you know. So I am looking forward to talking to his mom about this, my sister-in-law and man, but really you are an inspiration.

Speaker 4:

That's something good that people need to take away from this, that you, you are a living testimony and, uh, know that, um, you know, because you're still here, there's something else that you got to be doing. You know there's something else you're here for. So continue to. I mean, hopefully I can encourage you to just keep going and, um, football is little. This is little. Yeah, you know, I played football and I love football and it got me great things, but hindsight is 20-20. And it's way behind me now, but it's little. Football was just little. It got me to meet Sean, it got me to meet all my other friends and it got me right here to talking to you guys right now, and this is really special for me. So that's something good for me, for the world, that you are still here and you have a bigger calling on your life, and I can't wait to see it. Man, the future is bright for both of you guys. Thank you so much.

Speaker 4:

That's my something good around here right now.

Speaker 3:

Man, it's getting better with each one. A lot of pressure building up to that last one.

Speaker 5:

Is it my turn or your turn, Sean? It's your turn or build them up to that last one. Is it my?

Speaker 3:

turn or your turn Sean.

Speaker 5:

It's your turn. Okay, yeah, I was going to say something good. This past weekend I was able to throw a second annual UT player at football camp and we were able to smash our goal. Last year we raised $6,000. This year we raised about $9,000. We were at $8,500. Wow, so that's another great thing I did this weekend at 8,500. Wow, so that's another great thing I did this weekend. So I'm very happy about that.

Speaker 5:

A lot of smiling kids, a lot of smiling kids. And I want to shout out the guys. We had Arch Connor, roshan Morrow, justice Ben Ballard, jalen Guillebeau and we had Ryan Wingo out there. Deandre Moore couldn't make it, but he made sure to tell me hey, bro, I'm not going to leave you out to dry and I'm going to send Ron your way and I really appreciate them. I really appreciate them for that and I appreciate Jake as well.

Speaker 5:

Those guys coming out showing up for the community of Austin, and every female volunteer that helped me out. I want to shout out Sherry Artaza, lexi, kingston, charlie and Jade. I want to thank them for helping me out with all the little stuff of signing in and all that. And I want to shout out Vantage Sports. They helped sponsor that camp and Patrick Johnson helped me put a good camp together for the kids and I'm happy that the kids had fun and they were able to meet the guys they look up to, and I'm happy that the guys were able to, you know, help me out, do this again the first time. You know it's kind of hectic. I didn't think I was able to do it, but second time for sure was laid back. So I'm happy that I was able to raise them that much amount of money for hard research and I don't think my mom for giving me inspiration to do that. So, yeah, that's something I have to say. So, yeah, I'm very blessed and thankful to be in this position to do that man.

Speaker 3:

That is great. And I'll end with this. It's going to be short and I'm all about picks, but if it wasn't for the nonprofit Partnership for Children, I don't know if we all would be here right now together in this podcast. I knew both of you were solid humans from afar, the thing that I love about you guys and probably so many others in college athletics, specifically the Longhorns. You guys know where you came from. You're grounded. You know the world is bigger than you and some of us. It takes a little bit longer to realize that, but I know we've mentioned how inspiring both of you are, but I can speak for stevie on this one man. You guys inspired us to not just be better but just to do more in life and and really with our faith, whatnot? Because it is all. It's all important. It's all a part of living that good life and realizing that you know what the problems that we think we have are not as bad as you think they are.

Speaker 4:

That's my tell me something good. That's awesome, man. That was a good pick, bro. That also reiterated how small you are. Sean also reiterated how small you are. Damn man God. Those dudes are huge.

Speaker 3:

Big fellas. Oh my God, my growth was stunted in the eighth grade. I was this high in the eighth grade I got a fighter.

Speaker 4:

You started smoking in the eighth grade. That's what happened, man.

Speaker 3:

That's what happened, man, that's what happened.

Speaker 4:

That's what happened.

Speaker 3:

It's your growth. I blame my father for putting me on the bench press in fifth grade. That's it. It wasn't genetics, it was that dumbass bench press. Yeah, man, gentlemen, it is my pleasure. You guys are now VIP alumni for life of Stories Inside the man Cave. Anything we can do for you guys, let us know, seriously.

Speaker 5:

Thank you so much. We appreciate y'all. We really do and we wish.

Speaker 4:

I appreciate y'all man.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, and David Peter, we wish you guys, the Longhorn family, a phenomenal first season in the SEC. It's going to be fun. I think it's great for the state of Texas. We're going to see A&M Texas go back to seeing each other. It's going to be a fun ride. And, man, we are deeply appreciative of you both, and Stevie too. You know he's a fine American, always hey for Benda, for Pudgy and the OG man Cave boys, that being Harbaugh Hards, big Mike and the coach Mo. What do we tell them, stevie Lee, we out.

Speaker 2:

You see the jumpy. I'm fitted up, I'm in my car in the Giddy Up.

Speaker 4:

I said get out.

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VIP Alumni Reunite in Man Cave