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This is a podcast offering analysis, breaking news, interviews, and information you want to know about professional sports in Houston (with some college thrown in). The name has its origins in the 2022 postseason for the Houston Astros, where New York Yankee fans infamously chanted, "We Want Houston" ahead of their ALCS matchup. The Astros went on to sweep the Yankees 4-0, and would eventually hoist their second MLB championship in team history. They wanted Houston, they got Houston. And now, everyone else is going to get a little bit of Houston, too.

The Conquest of Texas is the story of the struggle between Anglos and Indians for land. Anderson tells how Scotch-Irish settlers clashed with farming tribes and then challenged the Comanches and Kiowas for their hunting grounds. Next, the decade-long conflict with Mexico merged with war against Indians. For fifty years Texas remained in a virtual state of war. Piercing the very heart of Lone Star mythology, Anderson tells how the Texas government encouraged the Texas Rangers to annihilate Indian villages, including women and children. This policy of terror succeeded.

What's it like to travel at more than 850 MPH, riding in a supersonic T-38 twin turbojet engine airplane? What happens when the space station toilet breaks? How do astronauts "take out the trash" on a spacewalk, tightly encapsulated in a space suit with just a few layers of fabric and Kevlar between them and the unforgiving vacuum of outer space?