Open Labs Exclusive Interview

Bo Koster

- by Tatiana Ryckman, Open Labs Staff Writer   

When the show was starting the weather was cool. Cool for Texas. Cool like it might rain.

At a hotter time of day I'd walked across hot dirt and gravel to a cracked, wooden door labeled “Dressing Room.” After knocking timidly I pushed on the knob. There was some conversation about Nebraska, “Nothing west of Lincoln,” I agreed. Bo Koster came in and introduced himself. He looked around at the five or so guys sitting, standing around. “I feel like we're in a college dorm room and it's the morning after a big party,” he looked where the TV would be if it were his dorm, “like ESPN should be on.”

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