Texans Make A Trade, Brady Is An Owner, How Much Are College Coaches Making?

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show.

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Good afternoon to you, and welcome to a Wednesday edition
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of that audience back noon to three with some relevant
great commentary. What do you rip? Oarte and little shut

(00:30):
your bumm ass up? At one thirty this afternoon. I
personally just it's almost like, uh, you know how you
look at your calend, you look forward to, you know, Friday,
five o'clock you can blow the whistle and just have
a have a beer or whatever you're gonna do, and
just get home and just not thinking about anything the
rest of the weekend. That's how I kind of feel
about shut your bum ass up on Wednesdays. I got
multiple Do you really? Yes? Did you write them down

(00:51):
so you don't forget them? Uh? Yeah, I got I
got it. It's fine. Yeah, but you're forgetful. Like me,
We week forgetful. We tell we tease something, and we're
very proud of our teas, and then we have to
go to Connor and ask him what do we just say? Yeah,
that's our problem, a lot of things in our minds.
It's funny you say it. I did write it down.

(01:11):
I have a little, uh kind of a Google doc
that I use, and I did write down what I
was going to say, and then I came up with
another one this morning. Good gracious, I'm upset with some
people this week. Am I involve any of it? I mean,
I think it's just a default. Even if I don't
say tell you to shut your bumb ass up, it's implied.
It's just it's basically just every single week. You have

(01:32):
to know that no one likes it baked in. It's
inherent it is. It's in the segment I'm telling you
to shut your bum ass. I don't feel great about that,
but that's fine, all right. On the radio program to day,
we will get to a depleted Texan secondary depleted. What
happened now our buddy Kamari Lassiter is gonna be gone
a while. It sounds like it happened. We got hurt.

(01:54):
I mean, I don't think you know it was out
Last Week's not going to Cankun for a long sinda vaka.
He wants to he's been making hard. You can do
that during the off week. What happened to what come
out about Camori last year? But they just think that
this is going to be significant time missed and you're
going against a legit quarterback this week in Jordan. Love
the foreign two packers at lambeau Field. A lot of

(02:15):
targets to cover out there. You know. Look, I goof
on the traveling Texans a lot because their dorks generally speak. Yeah,
I do hate them, They're they're annoying a skid. I
I don't hate the Texas. I hate them. You're right,
Oh my god. But if you were going to go
to a road game this year, okay, Green Bay is
where you would go. It ain't even close because right

(02:36):
now it's not twelve degrees below zero there over Jacksonville.
You go to Jacksonville every year. We're gonna hang out
with Jaguars Lady. Now, yeah, I would say the taj Mahal.
I guess is the greed is lambeau the number one
football stadium? Well, it depends on you have definitions of
what you want. Creature. Comfort is not even close. No,

(02:56):
it's not gonna be it in terms of mystique and
the neighborhood and the environment. Prestige. By the way, I
mean it's named after a guy named Curly. Yeah, that's
how old it is. Oh, how about this the game
on Sunday? This is another break. You're catching seventy three
degrees the high temperature Saturday or Sunday in Green Bay.
I mean, you can't ask for chamber Great Stadium. The

(03:20):
smells they tailgate like you wouldn't believe. The beer brons,
the beer brons, the bullskaki of basa if you will. Okay,
the portly women, I mean, if you're into that sort
of thing, are they They're all portly. You're glossing an
entire city and fan base. Do you see my tweet today?
Yeah it was I had to shield my eyes. I'm

(03:42):
gonna mute you. If you can't do that stuff, you can't.
Why are you putting a woman in packers underwear? Okay?
Usually you would say stop right there, that sounds great,
but then what it's just I'm just stopping there. You
can elaborate if you'd like. No, I'm just saying it's
probably a no good seven one three two one two
five seven dotty. But it is. I've been twice and

(04:06):
it was worth it because, Uh, here's the thing. When
I was living in Minneapolis, who went twice and we
were gonna spend the night, we just can't get any hotels,
so there's just not enough hotel space, so you have
to legitimately we live to Minneapolis. We drove four hours there,
watched the game, and came back back. It was there
was noally another option, basically like it's going to be
for uh uh Georgia and Texas weekend. If you're looking
for a room in downtown Auferd. Yeah, at least I'm

(04:26):
getting offers in Sagein. It's funny, Leander, you got an
offer for l Passel, which I thought was kind of
a little bit at a little further that you needed
to take a shuttle bus. I mean, you get a
two bedroom conda waiting for you in Lubbock. You know what,
maybe I'll think about that I can bust in and
bust back. I think the two am greyhound ride with
me and the fifteen my closest convicts in Sant Marcus

(04:47):
or in Sageen. Sagein's for the President. No, where is it?
Is there a prison in sagein Well, some people say
Texas Lutherans San Marcus. I thought too. I don't know.
I don't know. Oh, Sat Marcus great, great town. Mm hmm.
I would say best once around in the state. Okay,
what does that mean? Matt means you go driver around

(05:08):
the campus once around and you've got the most beautiful
campus maybe in the state, in the states. Yeah, I'll
take your word for it. I've never been there. I've
never been on the campus at least. Yeah, I was in,
I mean, sanely impressed.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Ye.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
The outlet malls is great in San Marcus. That's about it. Hey,
I've purchased a lot of things at the San Marcus Outlet.
Sure you have. All right, So we got Texans to
get to today on the radio program, wonderful. We have
a train involvement in the Texas we have to get to,
which is kind of not curious, but it doesn't give

(05:42):
you direct help for this year. Okay, we'll discuss that
on the radio show today. The American League Playoffs, Cleveland
had the bases loaded two different times last night, so
we said it. Yankee Dodgers Garrick Cole, they are the
best teams in baseball. By the way, a nationally recognized

(06:06):
baseball critic, not critic, but analysts whatever on the same
pathway with you. When it comes to Garrett Cole's voice.
I'll explain that on the radio show today. Okay USA
Today put out a list of the coaches in how
much they make Steven Ruiz or Nate Davis, I don't know,

(06:29):
but Nate Davis is always a de facto guess on
that one. The database for college coaches. If it once
again sways you to paying kids, it's going to do
it again for you today because the amount of money
that is being spent ross isn't about the top end schools,
the national contenders. The money that is being spent on

(06:50):
average football programs, programs that have not been the title chase,
that are respectable seven to eight win teams is still incredible.
Like the Missouri coach, really good guy that he was
on the A team with the boys during the Lombardi thing,
not Lombardi but the d Yeah, during the ad he
makes a bowl LA. The money that we're going to

(07:11):
talk about with some of these coaches, we're gonna play
guess how much they make. He's getting all that money
to go get thrashed at Kyle Field and and and
make Connor mcgovernent sad so Coon Bowl last year. That's sorry.
And then he Connon Bowl. That's a power. That's what
they call that. A Big six games, they call that. Okay,
So he's probably worth the money. So don't don't look
at the data base. So look at it today. We're

(07:32):
gonna see how close you can get on these coaches.
And you're gonna miss out every time. And by the way,
you were trying to slander Missouri and he's not binding.
I was not I just what did I said? That
was wrong? You were laughing at yourself? Paid all that
money to get thrashed at Kyle Field? Where did? Where?
Where is the And then you started inaccuracy in the statement,
and then you started laugh at yourself. No one else
is laughing. I was just looking. I wasn't laughing. You

(07:54):
were chuckling. I didn't chuckle check the tape. No I
saw you. If we were on Spacey Networks, people would
see you. Then you're in chuckling. I'm just I got
a happy disposition in general. Matthew, Is that so wrong
about Bassouri. I mean they had a quality win last
week against the Minute Men. I mean, you're doing great.
See I'm not allowed to say anything, so I'm just

(08:15):
shut up. No, you say how as much as you want,
but no, Maszoo's great. They are the best program ever.
They should have beat the Aggies. Eli Drinkwitz needs more money.
Well when when you find out much money's gonna make
you like he's paid? Just fine? Shut you by ass up?
Today when thirty we Rockets win against the Pelicans last
night in the blow preseason game, Wow huge? Getting down

(08:37):
to one week from tonight, the Rockets open up the
regular season against the Charlotte Hornets. What a rivalry too,
What a way to start the season. I mean it
kind of feels like a guaranteed win. I don't want
to say that because then then all of a sudden
you say, well, who are you gonna guarantee you win? Yeah?
Are you gonna go? Are you gonna go with these?
Should the Charlotte Horns just quit?

Speaker 4 (08:57):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (08:58):
If I would have been did I do that with Oklahoma?
U T the last week? I don't know you could
have done that. After about the second Oklahoma drive you
could tell that Oklahoma was not going to be able
to move the ball for the OU fan is listening
to the show right now, When you find out what
Brent Vna Wills is making, you be like, this has
got to be fixed immediately. So we'll get to that

(09:19):
on the radio show today. What else is going on,
ROSSI that you're curious about? You were out there prepping
like a mother for the show today. Yes, I am
Adam Silver doesn't regret that backing betting. What I saw
the headline and I'm thinking to myself, why should he
regret it? They've had like five betting scandals, but no,
he's not gonna regret those cash, those checks keep casting.

(09:40):
Are you kidding me? The number of advertisement dollars that
are going towards these sports leagues and their parent TV
networks is astonishing. Ross. Part of the pregame show on
the NBA Show on TNT is here's Chuck and Kenny
giving you the math beings. Who does what picked to go?
I mean the yeah, the parlay. Yeah. I I continue

(10:07):
to be so disappointed that we, in the stead of
Texas cannot do what just about every other state in
this Union can do. Exception of what Utah and Maine probably,
I don't know, I'm just thrown out states, but it's
it's I think it's onn over thirty states. Now, it's
just crazy that we can't that we because look, we
don't regulate alcohol like a game eight. We don't regulate uh,

(10:29):
recreat recreational, but marijuana use like we do. Sports betting does.
But you know what I mean, My point is that
there's a lot of other terrible vices out there besides
betting on a sporting event. Yeah, I'm actually I used
to be really gung ho about it, but now that
they're they are so predatory and then everybody's face with it,
and it's and they also these books cut off anybody

(10:52):
who shows a semblance of a pulse as a winner,
they cut them off. It just hasn't gone there. I
guess I should have predicted it to go this bad direction,
but it's just bad to me, meaning what the odds
are bad. They're advertising it all over the place like
it's a freeway to make money, and it's not a
freeway to make money. And then if you're a winner,
they cut you off. You're talking about the ones who

(11:14):
think the biggest books. Okay, Yeah, but would that be
the case we lived in Vegas. Uh, if you're like
a not to the level of what they're doing with
there are some people who are betting like one hundred
bucks a game getting cut off by these Dracula Sanduels. Yeah,
so if it's a big Vegas book, you need to
be betting like thousands of dollars and then they're gonna
start keeping Well, it is certainly an imperfect system, but

(11:35):
I want to be the judge of whether or not
I I think it's an imperfect system. I don't get
that option. I'm a little bit worried. But the next
generation of gambling addicts hopefully it's well all right, Umm,
I'll say this, I'll and I'll be as brief as
possible in this. You and I cherish the opportunities to
go to Vegas into Lake Charles because we don't do

(11:58):
it every week. It's a it's a getaway. It's fun.
We don't live for it. We don't I have Frankly,
we don't have an addiction problem to it. But I guess,
like anything, you could be addicted to anything. I would
say that maybe I wouldn't have as much fun if
I could readily do it on my like for instance,
me betting, uh, you know, like the fantasy football numbers.

(12:19):
I like with underdog. It's fun because you can you can.
There's nothing they can do to circumvent the system that you.
Either you hire or lower, that's your decision. But maybe
I wouldn't enjoy betting on games once a year if
I if I could do it in Houston, I I
don't know. I don't have answer to that. I don't
like to find out, but I certainly, yeah, I want
to find out, and I certainly wouldn't want to do
it on my phone. Being at home betting on things

(12:39):
would would just be I don't think it'd be nearly
as entertaining. But again, I want everybody to have that option,
and we don't have that option right now in Texas,
and I would like for you everybody to at least
have that option. Seven one three two one two five
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If you're not in legiti media, you're failing. Sorry, Oh Matt,

(16:18):
you're firing for a reason. So the Texans this week,
all right, So cam Akers gets traded? Oh no, cam Akers,
he carried your offense for a couple of weeks. And
this is how you trade him. You send them to
maybe the best team in the NFC. So the Vikings
will send a conditional twenty twenty six sixth round draft
pick of the Texans. Yes, in exchange for a conditional

(16:41):
twenty twenty six to seventh round pick. Is part of
the deal. Okay, okay, So the reality is this camp
akers Is was on the depth chart fourth. Yes, realistically,
and while again in I don't blame the team doing it,

(17:03):
my guess is Cam went to Cassera and said, hey,
you got to do me a solid here. I gotta
Can you find me somewhere else to play because look,
I'm not gonna play over Joe Mixon. I'm not gonna
play over Damian Pearce. A Google Wiley catches basses out
of the backfield, so I know I'm not doing that.
Find me somewhere else to go. You think that's what happened.

(17:24):
Well would be the other option. I don't know. Why
wouldn't the Texans be trying to shop him around? Well,
the shop and they went to the flea market. I
mean they got nothing back In regard sixth round for
a guy you're not gonna play, that's pretty good, I think,
But six round pick for somebody that's gonna be buried
on your depth chart and you don't have to pay
their salary. Conditional six probably gonna be a sid okay
six or seventh anything. It's Cam Acres, It's camp Is

(17:48):
signed him in the middle of camp. But here's my question.
Joe makeson fresh off of injury. Yes, could get hurt again,
like anybody, I mean, anybody get hurt. Damien Pier Okay,
he had one great game against a subpar Patriots run defense. Yes,
and is not a guy that I mean, not that

(18:10):
you're carrying a bunch of running backs. But it's not
like you've got the guys in front of you that
have this incredible track record. Now, Joe Max, it was
great in week one, it was great last week. So
I guess if healthy, he is productive. Yes, So if
you're gonna make this move, how about trying to help
something for the here and now gets Can you get

(18:33):
somebody as a live human being to come help you?
In twenty twenty four, again it's cam Akers. Cam Akers
is not very good. He's just a guy. I think
getting a six round pick, I was shocked they got
anything for him. I don't know. I think this team
needs as much depth in other categories that you're telling me.
There wasn't a single team out there that could have given

(18:53):
him an extra corner, just an extra body. I just
don't know why I'm looking forward to a twenty twenty
six pick that ultimately probably eighty percent chance it doesn't
even make the team. This is yeah, this isn't necessarily
something to help for now. This is this is junk

(19:13):
you have in the back of your closet.

Speaker 3 (19:14):
Now.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
This is assuming hopefully that Damian Pierce and km Akers
are at least one of them stays healthy for the
rest of the season. If they both go down again,
then yeah, this is a bad deal and you shouldn't
have done well. But you can't do the deals on
that because any team that loses two running backs is
gonna get is gonna be in better. I mean, it
can happen. It's happened in San Francisco forty nine ers
right now. McCaffrey's on I Jordan Mason has a shoulder

(19:35):
injury and you're down to your third guy. It's I mean,
it can happen, But it's Cam Akers's He's He's basically
gonna be rotting on the bench, and you got a
sixth round a future six round pick for it. I
think that's cool. You can find somebody off the street
that is as good as Cam Akers. I truly believe that.
I like Cam Akers, but it's not He to me
is completely replacement level. He is a he is the

(19:57):
best running back with two shreded acls. He said he
can't get downfield. They they were replacing him with Dariogunbowale.
After giving him a couple of weeks with a shot
as the RB one, they started using Dario Gunbowalemore. So
really he's fourth on the depth chart even if both
of those guys go down because they didn't like the
way that cam Akers was fitting. He wasn't making runs,

(20:19):
he was not finding cutback lanes. He's not extremely explosive.
I mean, he's he's a guy you can find off
the street. My only my only point is I don't
mind training him. I don't think he plays again unless
the two running backs in front of him get hurt.
My own thought was there was not a live human
being that could help you in twenty twenty. That's my
only issue. And again nobody and nobody has the answer
to that except the Vikings and the Texans. Yeah, I

(20:44):
guess maybe Aaron Jones is really gonna be down for
a while. If they're going with they're trading for cam Akers.
So I don't know who's the sad it was. It's
if that's the biggest splash in the Texans News headline day.
It's not a sply, it's not a splash at all,
but it's you had something, Like I said, he's in
the back of your closet and somebody gave you something.
It's like you're at a garage sale and you didn't

(21:05):
think you were gonna get anything for something, and then
somebody comes up and buys it, like, oh yeah, sure, Cam, akers,
here you go, six round pick, okay, sure, turn into seven.
We don't care. Here you go. So basically, you just
described the Texas running back as an item in a unwonted
garage sale. Mm hmm, oh that's rude. Cam. If you're
listening seven one, three, two, two, five, seven ninety, he's
the one that said, are not me well the Vikings

(21:25):
watching Cam, So that's good, but you were he was
going to be fourth on the depth chart. Darry Ogumbowally
was taking over carries from him. If dary Ogumbowally is
taking carries from you, the organization doesn't hold you in
very high esteem. No, and they helped you out they
I think I think they did. You sold. They also
did Yeah, good job, you're on the best team of
the NFC buy record, buy record, But the best in

(21:50):
the NFC is at a Troy Allons. They play this weekend.
We'll see what happens. We get in that game this
week Oh yeah, because this Texas road game. Yeah, we'll
get it. Get red Zone, get them all. That's a
three o'clock game. Three you catch almost all of every
three o'clock game with Red Zone. I have so great Saturday.
My Saturday is based super crazy. I'm leaving in the
morning to go to Kansas City. What are you doing
doing the pregame showing this helping up with stats on

(22:11):
the Cougar broadcast. Oh and I'm flying right back the canvas.
I'm going up and down. You can't see in the
same day. Wow, Sunday, I'm not leaving that. That's a
short flight though, right, two hours. That's not not crazy.
That's good. Then Sunday you come over the house. You
watch a Red Zone Texans. Why don't you come over
to my house. It's not bazy. You're only watching one TV.
It's not big enough. Well, we're not going to be
exploring your home. Are we playing hide and seek? But

(22:31):
we need We're gonna be a one room. Is there
a room to lay out a big couch. Yeah, yeah,
I have a living room, Matt. Yeah, I don't want
to just think what kind of shack you think I'm
living in? Well, yeah, well we'll put you on the
cardboard box on the floor there, Matt. We don't have
a living room right now. You've talked about your lack
of square footage. This is the this is the utility closet.
But you know, I make do with what I got. Man,

(22:51):
Just get me along, like a sleep or sofa. Yeah, absolutely,
we had an extra bedroom and a sleeper sofa if
you'd like, if you vacuum, yeah, all right, will not
have it back. Yeah, there's a lot of bacteria in
that house. Seven one three two one two five seven
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All Right, we're gonna piel the curtain bag. Just for
a second. There's a new weather girl at Channel six
and Tulsa. We're watching her right now, and Matt is
very upset. Where's your other girl? She went onto bigger,
better things. She's a former Miss Oklahoma and this girl
could certainly be in a Miss Oklahoma, but it's just
not the same. Has a Miss Oklahoma? Everyone missed? Yousay?

(25:04):
I don't know. Let me tell you about Oklahoma underrated.
You know you've been to the ou Texas games. I have.
I just was asking a question, Oh, well this year
Oklahoma got third place. Well then yeah, don't criticize that
great state. I'll be up there in a couple of weeks.
A matter of fact. Well, Oklahoma City Thunder versus Houston Rockets.

(25:24):
First things first, we have the hated San Antonio Spurs
here on Thursdays. Thank Chris Paul wearing a Spurs uniform.
It's gotta be looking weird. He's one of the greatest
players of all time. He just bounces around from team
to team to team. Yeah, let's see, what did you
start with the Hornets? Hornets or were they the was
a Pelican Orleans Hornets They went to Do you ever

(25:48):
play in Charlotte. I went to the Clippers, Clippers. Then
he went to the Clippers in Houston, Rockets, Oklahoma City,
Golden State, gowhere else it was in Washington, any point,
any Eastern Conference team, you can't remember. God, you are
the all time greats point God, Yeah, Sons, we missed
Sons zero championships. Hmm. But us bowtloer cash and also

(26:13):
buys a meal for our media once in a while.
Bunch a few guys in the nuts on the court
back when he was at Wake Forest. Yeah, mistakes. You
never made mistakes, and you were in college. I've made
a lot of mistakes. I mean, you still make mistakes
on an adult daily weekly.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
All right.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
A couple of days ago. Uh, well, actually was it
yesterday that Jerry went off on the Dallas Jero went
off and here again is what Jerry did if you
did not catch it. Uh. Not particularly happy with his
team's flagship station, the host asking about why this team
didn't make enough adjustments in the off season to cure
the issues that they had going into this season, which

(26:48):
they currently have right now.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
Oh, I remember those criticisms very well. Okay, so what
are they playing out to be accurate? What's your point?
What's your point? My point is it seems like, let
me tell you what I'll do. Let me tell you
what I'll do about it. I will let us sit
down and look at the decisions we've made over the

(27:10):
last several years. Okay, I'll look at it now. If
you think I'm interested on a phone call with you
over a radio and sitting here and throwing all the
good out with the dishwater, you have better be smoking
something over.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
There this morning.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
I'm not, and I really don't, and I don't need
want our listeners to listen to me to talk about
this is not your job. Your job is to let
me go over all the reasons that I did something
and I'm sorry that I did it. That's not your job.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Well, my job is to ask one.

Speaker 3 (27:44):
Job, or I'll get another. I'll get somebody else to
ask these questions.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Man, Jerry, We're just we're trying to figure out why
the team out.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
I'm not kidding it. I'm not kidding it. You're not
going to figure out it's what the team is doing
right or wrong. If you are are any five or
ten like you, you need to come to this meeting.
I'm going to today there are thirty two teams. Here
are your geniuses.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
It has to be hard to be a Dallas Cowboy
fan because he's taken your team and as soon as
he bought it, granted he was working with other people's groceries,
but he hired the right coach. They won super Bowls.
But it's been basically thirty years of what I could

(28:37):
have should have, right, I mean I been thirty years, Yes,
I mean it'll be the thirty year anniversary of their
ninety five team next year. Thirty years of massive, massive disappointments,
thirty years of it's my way or the highway, Get

(28:58):
out of my way. I've made more mind for this
team and for this league. From a business aspect, he's
the greatest owner in the history of professional sports in
terms of taking investment, not only increasing his own value,
but the value of his competitors. Frankly, yes, only there's

(29:18):
any possible argument. But my guess is rows when we
started the show back in twenty ten, we're probably criticizing
Jerry Jones for his front office acumen. Then yeas fourteen
years later and it's his team. He can do what
he wants, and I understand his selfish point of view, like,

(29:39):
you don't tell me what to do my team. I
bought this team, I built this empire. It was worth
how are many millions when I bought it, and now
it's worth like ten plus billion, right, So I'm gonna
do what I want with my team. That he continues
to run the rosters into the ground and they continue
to underperform, and clearly whatever he wants. His son, who's

(30:01):
getting like almost sixty now, I mean, it's not like
you said, young, wait around, he's gonna be a retirement
age before he gets over. I mean, yeah, go ahead.
He isn't able to stop his dad. The only thing
I've ever heard Stephen Jones do to stop Dad in
his tracks was Dad wanted to take Johnny Manziel, and
Stephen Jones like, no, you're not. I'm going to take Johnny. Okay, relaxed, Dad,

(30:24):
sit down, eat your pudding. We're not taking Johnny Manziel.
So that makes me think that, I mean, I guess
he doesn't have full reigns over the I mean, is
he really a capologist? Is he looking at the cap
and looking at all this other stuff and dead money
and or how much is it He's just the The
buck stops with him, Everything goes with him. I don't

(30:45):
think anybody else at this point has any sort of
saying there's no there's no cross checking. There's nobody he
doesn't call it. For instance, there's a lot of family
owned operated businesses in sports and in business, and you
may say, well, I'm the one that bill this, but
I am, I have my kids involved, I have a
business confidants. Nobody has the stones to go to Jerry

(31:09):
and say this is not what you're supposed to be doing.
His son, who's been with him arm in arm for
twenty for all, I think from the time he bought
the team, hasn't been able to control Pops. So he
talks to Diana Racini and some guy named John Makota
of the Athletic and basically Jones. Obviously, as you heard

(31:32):
the audio, took exception to the questioning that was being
asked by one O five to three the fan in Dallas.
He goes on there twice a week with them twice
a week. Yeah for him, he always does like the
limelight as well. Quoting a comment he got the Diana
Racini got, I don't know that I would go as

(31:52):
calling the volume connotation as yelling, meaning why were you
yelling at these guys? Okay, but the facts are that
if I'm going to be grilled by the tribunal, I
don't need it to be by the guys I'm paying.
I can take it from fans and I can take
it from other people. I take a lot of pride
in how fair and how much I try to work
with the media. We're brothers and sisters. But I was

(32:13):
a little frustrated there today. We got in there as
of accounting for decisions made in the off season. Okay,
they might as well have gone back to my decisions
been made in twenty ten. My point is, and that's
from my perspective. There's no question I'm sure they would
have liked to have grilled me. Like the fans are thinking,
what are you going to do about this? I get it.
I get all of that, and I really will go

(32:33):
along with it. He also goes on to say the
wrong ones were doing the questioning. Now, if those had
been real fans sitting there, or there had been people
that knew what they were talking about, football people, I
might have had a different answer. It's insane arrogance and

(32:56):
look to peel the curtain back, and I feel like
we do it at least four times a show. Kind
of separations the difference. It's sometimes as hard as radio
hosts on a flagship station of a team to be
able to get in there and get down to the
things that you as fans want to know. I think
you and I do a pretty good job of that.
Matter of fact, I think there have been previous managers

(33:19):
Rusty Raker that hasn't been overly pleased with the line
of thinking of some of the questions we may have
asked any years asked Yes, Joe a spot has been fantastic.
He knows. I've talked to him face to face about it.
He says, I know. I'm not he says, I said,
he knows it's not personal. But there are things that
fans want to know, and we are the number one
spot to go to because we have a direct connection

(33:40):
to the manager. And I be brually honest, Jerry, if
you took fans and they asked those questions to you,
it'd be ten times older than you would be. They
first of all, they call you old, they call you
sew they ask you to go get a general manager
like they've been asking you to get a general manager,
a real one for the last twenty years. And my
guest is Dallas cowboy fan would not have been nearly

(34:01):
as they weren't soft pedaling, but they were certainly being
respectful of the opportunity they have, the radio hosts have
and talking to the general manager of the team. What
a mess. It is interesting. There isn't a single person
out there that I've at least seen in the media
world that has said those those radio hosts went too far.

(34:24):
I haven't seen that. We've played the audio multiple times.
I don't hear anything that I go. They're trying to
go to him into saying something, they're trying to chiy
and they're trying to be antagonistic. That wasn't the case.
The case was. You just lost what forty seven to
nine or forty six to nine, whatever it was, to
the Detroit Lions. You're sitting here as a middling, meddling
five hundred football team, and you did nothing to address

(34:48):
the issues that you had going into the off season
except pay for guys that frankly sucked. Dak Prescott apparently
on Sunday sucked. You're paying him sixty something million dollars
to suck ceedee lamb, you're paying over thirty million dollars.
You didn't address the defense, you didn't trust the offensive line,
you didn't get it, you know, address a real legitimate
running game. Everything seemed fair to me, and he's very

(35:15):
upset about it. Forty seven to nine, forty seven to nine.
Let me ask this. I'm gonna throw this out for
the next segment here. If you're a Cowboy fan, and
unfortunately we've got Cowboy fans that are in this town,
way too many of them. Frankly, they've wanted Jerry Jones
out for a while, I feel like you have to.
I don't know if you have to cut the cord,
because look a lot of them, pull the plug. Pull

(35:37):
the plug. Dallas Cowboy fans to me here would be
because mom and dad were, because my uncle was, my
grandfather was. But if you're a thirty five year old
and you're a Dallas Cowboy fan, independent of your family,
what are they giving you in terms of satisfaction? Because

(35:57):
when they were winning the Super Bowls, you were a toddler. Yeah,
they haven't made a Super Bowl. Have they made an
NFC Championship?

Speaker 7 (36:05):
Game.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
I I don't know, but my point is it's been
thirty years of complete mediocrity. It's sort of like to mean, frankly,
they're on par with the Texans in terms of postseason
success in the last twenty something year. I think the
Texans have more playoff maybe they maybe maybe they do,
but it's it's I don't under the category, but I
just don't get it. I don't get thirty five year

(36:29):
old who doesn't have a mom or dad, or cousin
or uncle that was a diehard Cowboy fan that can
come and legitimately say I'm a Dallas Cowboy fan and
this is the reason why, because they've given you no
joy seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seventy. If you're
a Dallas Cowboy fan, just tell me why at this point?
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Speaker 2 (38:35):
In forty minutes, we're gonna have shut yobam mass up.
That is a weekly stafole of the show on Wednesdays,
and uh Ross has got so many shut your ball
mass ups he might take up the first having with
just his own personal complaints. I said, I just said two,
all right, but they're good ones though, because you've are

(38:55):
these are these?

Speaker 1 (38:55):
Foe?

Speaker 2 (38:56):
Did you just make these up for the sake of
the show. I don't want to oversell it. We'll see
or is that what them in the media business you
do not want to miss coming up in forty minutes
the best segment of our lives. Yeah, it will separate
us from everybody else in the world of sports radio.
What we do in forty minutes will shut you up
on my ass up. Okay, all right, Uh did you

(39:17):
catch any baseball last night? Not really, No, I was
busy with Rockets. I was just watching the score. I
went to a concert last night and it was really Yeah,
it was good. Six to three. The Yankees win. They're
up now to nothing. Dodgers and Mets play game through
their series tonight. Yeah, so I have to give you credit,

(39:38):
which I hate to do. Love it, No, I don't
love it at all. It pains me. Actually, those team
I can find. By the way, a lot of people
are not happy with my picture of the girl from
the Green Bay Packers. That's shocking. Jared Carabis, Oh gosh, no,
wait a minute, Okay, I'm gonna see what his title is.

(39:59):
He is the Tribal Chief of Baseball. He's made Underdog Fantasy.
He does a radio segment on ninety eighty five in Boston.
He worked for MLB network. Nessen, I thought it was
a I thought it was a barstool guy. Is he
not barstool any?

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broadcast career. Pick Brent Rooker not tagging him because he's

(40:36):
too humble and will disagree. But it's true. This guy
has one hundred and sixty seven responses, seventeen retweets, a thousand,
eight hundred likes, and boy, the reach is almost two
hundred thousand. So something called nugget chef at jy Haykid,
said Garrett Cole, in which Jared responded, I said future

(41:02):
baseball broadcaster, not future voice actor for the Muppets. Oh
that's rude me. He's rude. You're the one. You're the
ones doing it.

Speaker 7 (41:10):
How would you say I'm gonna be on the Muppets.
I'm trying to play. I'm trying to win a world series.
This is unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
So you and Jared Carabis, whatever that person is, follows
I'm trying.

Speaker 7 (41:27):
I'm trying to game plan for Jose.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
Four one hundred and fifty five thousand followers. What the
hell is he doing Uh, he's been true. He has
been a bostontrol for many years. I thought maybe he
was a barstool and left. Somebody else can break this
down for me. I've had him muted for ages. Oh okay,
So you don't respect him that he appreciates your Garrett
Cole game. He's just a I mean, he's one of
those kind of loud mouth, younger media types. It gets

(41:51):
a lot of engagement, So good for him. I just
I just think most of whatever whatever he does is
troll ish, and so I won't engage in that type
of behavior. That I apology bringing detriment and that's okay.
But I thought it was interesting that he agreed with you,
so basically you this actually makes a lot of sense.
You agree with someone that's basically a troll, Well, you're

(42:11):
you're a Houston troll, so that works preferent.

Speaker 7 (42:13):
We agree on things, doesn't mean we agree on other things.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
Matt now connor from here on out. Anytime that Ross
goes to the UH, for Pete's sake, Matt goes to
the to the kerb of the frog. You have to
have rainbow connection on lockdown.

Speaker 7 (42:27):
What's rainbow connection? I'm just trying to throw my four
seam fastball.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
Again. You've been giving instructions. We have to have rainbow
connection locked in life.

Speaker 7 (42:38):
I don't know what that is. I'm just trying to
strike out Stephen Kuan. It's very difficult.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
So yesterday the Guardians had basically loaded two different times
in the game. Yesterday m HM and got bup gus
out of it. Oh, Garrett Cole only went four and
a third runs. Didn't get the.

Speaker 7 (42:53):
Win eighty nine. He was inefficient. I couldn't get the win.
I gotta be better. You brought this up, Matt, don't side,
don't heavy sighed me.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
It is my fault, isn't it? It's your fault? Yeah,
it's now what is this? This is the most famous
Muppets song of all time?

Speaker 3 (43:20):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (43:21):
You never heard it? Listen to This is from the
Muppets movie, A great nineteen eighty classes. I've not seen that.
I don't think why.

Speaker 7 (43:32):
There are so many.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
On their side.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
You really never heard the song before.

Speaker 7 (43:43):
Rainbows our visions only irusions.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
You know what rainbows have not. I would actually turn
the station right now. So for those of you that
enjoyed the first hour of the show and you're mended
the first hour this way, have a great rest of
your day. We'll talk with you show all right, turn
it off, turn it you know what, Connor, that's a
bad mistake on my part.

Speaker 7 (44:09):
Will find it the Rainbow Connection.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
This is your fault. I didn't even know what this
song was. This is totally my fault. And again, please
stay with us to this brief time out. I promise
you the next two hours will be better. Now I
can't guarantee it, but it can't get really anything worse.
You just promised. I did promise. Jesus. What am I doing?

Speaker 1 (44:34):
So?

Speaker 2 (44:34):
We need something median sports to happen. We need somebody
to get fired or traded in the next few minutes.
Seven one three two one two five is seven ninety
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up then who's practicing who is not? From the Texans
And we'll do that to start the second hour next
on seven.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Ninety lunchtimers, this is the Matt Thomas show.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
What four on Sports Talk seven ninety It is the
Matt Thomas By the way, a lot of people already
are giving us their opinions of Jared. What's the guy's name,
Jared Cannabis, Caribs, Caribis whatever. Friend of the show says,
Jared is a megabitch. Astros hate out. Oh wow, that's

(45:21):
that's rude. Jackie d'Antona makes it cross reference to Canabis
as to a member the seven Ony Air team. You
could say it if you'd like, he said it, not us.
All right, this is Jackie. Caribis is basically Boston's Clayton.
If he's on your side, you love him. If not,
you hate him. Loel Okay, So there you have it.

(45:46):
And then yeah, somebody else says, as Rs Junior, he
was with barstool and then left. So I was correct
on that. And Steven just sent me a gift of kermit.
I'm surprised you've never heard this for as well as
your kermit is that you've not heard the rainbow connection.
So it sounded familiar. Okay, I've heard it before probably

(46:06):
at some point. Yeah, and h Town Dad says Marconi
winning segment. Hashtag Garrett the Frog. Garrett the Frog. By
the way, there is a new movie coming out called Saturday.
I think it's just called Saturday Night Okay, it's about
college football. No, it's about the very first episode of
Saturday Night Live. Oh I saw that, and they are

(46:29):
saying potentially could be a Academy Award winning picture. That's
how good it is. Really, Yes, And the apparently the
guest on the first show or one of the first
guests in the very first show, I don't know, because
the first episode was Jim Henson. Mm hmmm. So Jim
Henson and Andy Kaupman was also on that first episode too,

(46:52):
are being played by the same guy that played the
cousin on Succession. I didn't watch Succession. Oh my god,
that's such a good show. I'm trying to get the
guy's name, the cousin from Succession. So good, let me
look it up here. Okay, but he was he's an
actor that's gonna be on He's gonna play both roles. Okay,

(47:12):
So there you have it. But looking forward to it,
what is the point, There's no point. It was Jims.
It was Jim Henson. I was just bringing it up,
Thank you, Matt as I was weird that the same
actor who would put the cousin on Succession is going
to play Jim Henson and Andy Kaufman in the same movie. Okay,
that don't happened a lot, two different characters. One guy,

(47:34):
what do you mean Eddie Murphy did it every other film? Okay,
but okay, name somebody else? Go you can't. There were
some others. Oh, Mike Myers, all right, there's two. You said,
name somebody else. I'm tapped up. Tomer Perry, Perry, Tom Perry,
mister Academy Wie winning actor. There's three people. And there
had been eighty million movies. Peter Sellers doing what in

(47:57):
the in the Pink Panther movies? Didn't he have multiple
roles in some of those? Oh? In Doctor Strangelove he
had like two or three roles. He was fantastic. He
was the President, Murk and Muffley, and then he was
also the he was the the British inspector. Guy. Okay,
great film, but uh, pass way past my prime, way

(48:18):
way out of my time range there, What do you mean?
I don't know. I've never watched it. On me, I've
seen it, I haven't seen it. It's a classic. Doctor
Strangelove may be my favorite comedy of all time. Over
Airplane See Airplane is the funniest movie ever. Made, said
me and Rolling Stone magazine. Okay, like I've never seen

(48:43):
a full blazing saddles all the way, but they also
put blazing saddles in the Pine is great. I'm not
gonna say anything, but Airplane. I love Airplane. It's funny
and those style of movies. Yes, slu Naked Gun. Yeah,
you like joke him in it? Yes, yes, which is
why I told you to watch Walk Hard and you
won't watch It makes me upset. All right, I'll do

(49:06):
it this weekend in between my Texans Green Bay and watching.
You're going on like eight plane rides in a week.
I know you've got time. You're not pooling anybody, all right,
as far as the Texans are considered as on, a
lot of you are bumping around town going Matt, who's
practicing today? Who's not? Henry toatoa concussion? Not practicing? Disn?

(49:26):
Oh my god, Alsi's Al Shayer or al Shaiir or
al Shire not practicing because of a bad knee. I'm
just fantastic. Kamari Lassiter not practicing, okay, Jimmy Ward not practicing. No,
Robert Woods not practice. It's fine if Robert Woods is famous. Listening, right, now, well, Robert,

(49:51):
you didn't play last week and they had their best
offensive week of the year. It's fine. Laramie Tunsel is practicing.
That's good, that's very good. He hurt his ankle and
Blake Fisher had to come in. Yeah. Uh. And one
thing we've failed to mention the first hour, Will Anderson,
congratulations and he named the defensive player of the Week
in the NFL. Oh wow, that's great. Yeah. So there
you have it. That's that's the Texans injury report. You

(50:14):
will get a much bigger breakdown that tomorrow. Tend the
noon on the stand Northfleet show. Three to six will
lock in on it too. Oh that's true. Three to
six is all than that as well. Oh, by the way,
Grace is Saturday Night is out and she really enjoyed it. Oh,
it's already out in the theater. Let's go, you want
to go? We have we ever't had a movie night
ever met? Have we ever assumed in a movie together? Ever?

(50:36):
Over all these years, I don't think I've ever sat
how many seats in between one? Okay, I mean, if
it was crowd, I'd sit next to you. I don't
have a problem with that. Are we off? My arm rests.
Are we sharing popcorn? Absolutely? Hand in hand? Sharing my popcorn?
You can get a little one of those little courtesy. No, look,
I'm not.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
I don't have that cut. I don't look as long
as you don't lick your fingers in between putting your
hand in the in the bucket, which it seems like
you might. No, I don't like. I don't like butter
on my popcorn anyway, the well, the buttered substance, the
butter whatever that is. Yeah, it's the imitation buttered substance.
I feel like my my arteries are clogging up after bite.
So that's a little much to me too. So you

(51:15):
so you and I can share a bucket. Some people
like to put pickles in their popcorn bucket. You like that?
Uh No, I've also heard milk duds are very popular
in cycles for lecture spice. Okay, so let me here's
what you're saying. No on all that. No, I don't
do any of that. I'm so I could just think
regular is fine. Okay, we're not sharing a soda? Correct?

(51:35):
Why would we share a soda because it's thirty two
ounces of drink? Okay, I'll get a free refaill. So really,
I'll bring a foldable plastic cup in my pocket. Is
that a fun? Is that a foldable plastic pocket? Put
up a can of coke and in the theater and
you're like, you try to call no Ross, I've never
done that, never done no. Well I have Well it's sweet,

(51:57):
it's not stealing if you paid for it. I bought
the coke, I bought the sour Patch kids, and I'm
smuggling in. But I believe the rule is that you're
not supposed to bring any out of uh out of
store food and drink. I don't want to spend twenty
five dollars for a movie and then ten dollars on
a little back of sour Patch kids. I'm not getting
pat price gouged. I'm smuggling in my candy. What's up?
Stop me? You should be stopped. A matter of fact,

(52:19):
if you and I ever go to a movie, I'm
gonna have you searched. Okay, that's fine, I'll just walk
out my sour Patch kids. Actually, okay, one of our
great listeners is a movie operator, so we'll be fine. Yeah,
we'll go to the right people. Yeah, okay, that's good. Seven,
bring the big person. We'll be good. I'm not bringing
a purse. Why not? Back to the Texas fanny packs

(52:39):
are back? They or not. I've never had a fanny
pack in my life. They call them a body around
the body bags or something like. Now what do they
call them? I forget which member of the seven on
they air staf would be most likely have immerse standof easy,
easy answer. Cross body bags, that's what they call them. Okay, yeah,
you get your cross body bag stuff as many a

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bunch of crunches as you can in there and they
head onto the film. Watch a movie? What's that one?
The chicken stick that makes it super like a super
crunching the delicious, underrated, quite frankly really good. It's it's
like a longer, more refined butterfinger. I gether similar. Lemon

(53:25):
juice on popcorn is my fave. Lemon juice gross? You
people are sick. That's gross. What do you bring your
own bottle of lemon juice? What do you packet lemon
juice and a holster squeezing limon cilantro on it too?
Or what what the hell is that all about? You
bringing a zester to the theater? You know about lemon

(53:49):
peel Ross. That's pretty funny. I think I'm I'm pretty
much tapped out. Okay, it's time for a break. It
is okay. We killed a segment there. We got shut
your bum mass up at the bottom of the hour.
There are people bumping around town right now, going Matt

(54:09):
we need Texans conversation. Okay, let's bring it to them.
We did. Toto is not playing or practicing. Five players,
deep Woods, last Wood, Toto, and Alshaire are all not practicing.
Tod That's not good, but it is wish It's just
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Speaker 1 (55:24):
Matt Thomas returns on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
All right, for your old school oiler fans, you gotta
stay with me on this because I'm really troubled by this.
The NFL has announced it's Hall of Fame like candidates
for the next year coming up. We don't have to
worry about Andre Johnson again making that a talking year

(56:00):
after year. Yeah, thankfully. So they've trimmed it down apparently
to sixty people, as I think is what it is. Okay,
and I'm trying to get the definitive term, but I
just know there's one candidate on the list right now
that I'm troubled by Bud Adams is one of the
lists on the finals list. I mean, I know you

(56:26):
don't like it. I one of the founding members of
the AFL. Yeah, twenty twenty five founding members AFL founders.
What else did he do besides just own a football team?

(56:49):
I would just say starting up the NFL, Well, bring it,
I'm sure the up, starting up the AFL, and then
the merger with the NFL. Fifty four years as a
found under owner, chairman of the board, president, CEO of
the Titan Slash Orders franchise, Adams was a pivotal figure
in the NFL, help with the merger. I'm assuming had

(57:11):
two AFL championships, never sniffed the Super Bowl, got to
a handful of AFC Championship games. Other people he's competing
with in the contributor class for twenty twenty five Rune Arlich,
television executive, have no idea who that is? Longtime ABC.

(57:33):
I want to say he was pivotal with Monday Night Football. Okay, Okay,
Chris Berman, what de rad is, Howard Cosell, Herman, Howard
Coast sales seems more did Monday Night Football Between nineteen
seventy and nineteen eighty three. I thought he did it

(57:53):
more than that, Okay. Otto Otho Davis was an athletic
trainer for the Baltimore Colts and for the Philadelphia Eagles.
What John Facinda? Oh get John Facinda and his pack
of SIGs in there. Mike Giddings created the NFL talent
evaluation analytics company called pro Scout. Ralph Hay was the

(58:15):
owner of the Canton Bulldogs between nineteen eighteen and nineteen
twenty two. Oh man, he was so great player, personnel
and scouting for the Philadelphia Eagles, Redskins, and Cowboys. Bucko Kilroy,
Buckle Kilroy. Oh, he's a final lad from Belfast. Don
Klausserman built the league's built teams in successful three different leagues, NFL,

(58:35):
AFL and the USFL. I don't even know you're going
way off the rails. He let me give you a
few more than one. Make sure why not? Robert Kraft,
owner CEO of the New England Patriots. Okay Art Modell,
former owner of the Browns ro Ravers have ever done
besides just win a bunch of Super Bowls with the
best coach of all time and the best quarterback of
all time. Doug Williams in there, Doug Williams. Doug Williams,

(59:02):
these are the special contributors. Oh okay, what what Doug
Williams being there with some sort of uh color barrier.
How it is described as credited with creating opportunities for
future black athletes beyond this the color barriers. Yeah, okay,
So let's go to Bud for a second. Do you

(59:25):
do you get in because you've owned something for as
long as he has. I would think of more of
the AFL stuff. I mean, because the AFL forming and
then merging with the NFL and starting the Super Bowl
error is really when things kind of started. But when
I think of owners getting big for the for the
n did things to transcend their sport, Jerry Jones, I

(59:51):
think of George Hallis. I can think of clearly, you know,
Eddie de Bartolo before he got into some financial issues
with the Niners. When you think Pat Bowling with the Broncos,

(01:00:13):
sustained success, stable front office. To be honest, Rossie, the
last twenty years of Bud Adams owning the Titans, slash orders.
He was a joke. He was giving double birds from
the owner's box. That was fun But I mean he
was he had the you know, he was firing but

(01:00:34):
Adams or bum Phillips. After going to the Championship Games,
he had a press conference. Words I was at personally
when he admitted that he told Jack Pardi to put
a headside on even if it wasn't turned on or not.
That was an incredible moment in my life. I could
not believe I heard what he said. That's funny. He
double birded the fans. He moved a franchise. Yes, after

(01:00:57):
living in that city and working and making all that
money in his own private company in that city. He
held Jacksonville hostage, he held Houston hostage, and ultimately got
his whatever he want, his palace in Nashville. Yeah, so
that you could see why the owners would hail him
as a hero. That's true. Citi's hostages and getting what
he wanted, I don't know. To me, To me, I

(01:01:18):
have such a terrible endgame for him that it'd be
hard for me as an adult to go. You know,
Bud Adams, I appreciate your contributions in nineteen sixty and
nineteen sixty one. I appreciate the merger in nineteen sixty seven,
you should get in. I just to me, that doesn't
do anything for me. Okay, yeah, but I'm not voting
if being part of I don't know are the rest

(01:01:39):
of the original AFL owners in. I have no idea.
I would assume Lamar Hunt and the super in the
in the Hall of Fame, Ralph Wilson, the old old guard.
I'd have to go.

Speaker 3 (01:01:50):
Look.

Speaker 2 (01:01:53):
Okay, so when I say this to you, first blush,
Bud Adams should be in the Pro Football Hall of
Fame for being a legacy owner. You say no, So
you're having to think about it. I don't know. I
kind of don't care. What does it matter, what is it,
what happens. They're gonna put up a bust of him
somewhere and they would, we would give him shine, Yeah,

(01:02:16):
but he's dead. Give Amy Crunk Shrunks shine. Okay. I
guess I hate her. I know you do. I hate
very few things in life. I hate her. I hate
what Bud did to our city. I mean legitimately not hate.

(01:02:36):
Isn't like I want bad things to happen, but I
sports hate them. And there's a difference. I can sports
hate things and I hate other things in life like
I hate cancer. I hate people fighting in wars. I
mean that's what I hate. Hate. I sports hate the
Tennessee anything related to the Tennessee Titans. They stole my team.
I have no football team because they stole them from me.
They took him away from me. Embraced the Texans, Matt. Yes,

(01:02:57):
I'm fine. Okay, you said if they get to the
super Bowl, you're in here right? Hold you do that?

Speaker 3 (01:03:01):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
I you know what. The Rockets have a one o'clock
game that day and the super Bowl, super Bowl, super Bowl. Yeah,
what is it here? Yeah? Okay, I will ridiculous. I
will host the party. Okay, I will invite. I will
invite all those traveling Texans dorks. I'll invite Darlene, and
you'll paint a Texans logo on your head. I didn't

(01:03:23):
say that. Now, I'll wear some gear, Okay, I'll ask
for al Basta. Borrow something from Adam Claine. He's got
like fourteen different outfits. I think you one for the day.
You know he can borrow. I can borrow one of
those five block uniforms. Yeah, excuse me, deep, still your
son's Davis Mills Jersey. God if Davis Mills with lead
the team. That's the super Bowl. That'd be really something.
My son be like Dad, scoreboards. I told you, told

(01:03:44):
your son, or told you, Pops. All right, So there
you go. Buy Adams on the list of potential contributors
to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. I get it.
If we were doing I just don't get it. I
get it because of the AFL stuff. Outside of that, Yeah,
he just owned the team for a long time. Who cares.
But if that's the case, why would you this long?
I don't know how to put him in. You know why?
Because they didn't have great Chris Berman's getting Chris Berman.

(01:04:06):
I mean Chris Berman really Now, I will give Chris
Berman one bit of credit. The highlight show was amazing.
The two greatest highlight shows in the history of highlight
shows is Chris Berman doing NFL Damn TAM at six
o'clock in the ESPN on Sunday nights and Howard Cosell

(01:04:27):
doing halftime highlights on min the Night Football. Does that
get you into the Hall of Fame? No? But no
highlight show. No, you're talking about Berman.

Speaker 9 (01:04:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04:35):
He was also a reporter. He called some games and
he was terrible. But he also he was a long
term reporter for the NFL too. Yeah, but he also
hosted one of the legacy NFL shows. Well, I imagine
he's in good for him whatever. Like, at the end
of the day, it doesn't matter. That's right, I'm not
gonna it's I gonna change my day to day life
that Chris Berman's in the Hall of Fame. Will they
continue to dye his hair if he gets into the
Hall of Fame? Yes, yeah, I think so. All right,

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Speaker 3 (01:07:34):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:07:35):
Anybody got come for that? And I got one. Something
just happened in the bathroom, Matt. We don't need not
mean on me. Guys in there on the pot sitting down, okay,
having a deep phone conversation on the phone on the
speaker phone toilet. Oh, get in there, do what you

(01:07:57):
gotta do, get a couple of quick wives.

Speaker 3 (01:07:59):
You get out of there.

Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
And I had the phone call, eh Ain't nobody got
time for you having a twenty minute conversation in pot
number two. I do not pick up the phone in
those situations. Well, you people that do disgust me. I'm
just telling you. It literally just happened two minutes ago. Goodness,
great shoe. Well I'm in there just peeing, trying to
get back in here to the show. Yeah, I gotta
hear about this guy's life. He's trying to finish off

(01:08:22):
a three million dollar business deal when he's dropping Trout's ridiculously.
You know what, Maybe it's maybe he's doing something right.
Then A time efficiency is key? Oh is that right? Yeah? Okay,
I say I saw what a good time for that?
Like it's working. Nobody got time for day? Bross. What's
the matter with you? By the way, if you got
something matter with you? Seven one three two one two

(01:08:43):
five seven ninti second one three two one two five Sevenatti.
So I was at a concert last night. Uh, the
lovely and talented Norah Jones was at seven one three
Music Hall. She did a great job. I've seen her
before at jazz Fest. She's been she's great. But I
ran into a problem that I feel like I'm running
to running into increasingly as we go along in years. Okay, look,

(01:09:07):
you want to take a picture of the stage at
a concert, that's cool. Whatever, some of you people I've
done before on this segment or maybe for I just
don't get it where you film the entire concert, like
you're gonna go back and watch the whole hour and
a half of the concert. Whatever. But if you're gonna
do all those things, stop putting your flash on in

(01:09:29):
people's faces while we're all trying to enjoy a concert
and you're taking a five minute video with your flash
or you're taking photos with your flash. Keep the flash off.
We're all trying to enjoy the concert. We don't care
about the three legs you're about to get on Instagram.
Stop using flash at concerts. Ain't nobody got time for that.

(01:09:51):
Ain't nobody got time for nick I'll turn around and
give stink guy in the middle of their video. So
you said nothing, You're being passive this one like this,
Look you act blind? What do you want me to say? Hey,
shut that off. I get it. I uh, I'm right
there with you. I share a frustration. Doesn't happen when

(01:10:12):
I go see to my concerts. But that's a different
issue for a different time. I do sing along with
my in my concerts though, yeah, okay, I sing along
absolutely the voice to men on Saturdays at the top
of my luck, Michael has lost my voice. When Adam
Clinton and I went to go see Billy Joel, we
sang as loud as anybody else around us. Absolutely. When
saw Barry Manilow did the same exact thing. That's that

(01:10:33):
looks like we made day.

Speaker 3 (01:10:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
Look, I think Barry Manilow sucks. But if you if
that's how you get your jollies and you want to go,
that's a part of being at a concert. One of
the reasons to go to a concert is to get
the energy of everyone singing the same song and having
a good time. It's good vibes, that's great. I don't
want to hear you see your flash in my face?
Your phone flash? Okay clip that please? Well anyway, I

(01:11:02):
wasn't as egregious as the Now you've got one more?
Do you want to go to Connor and back to
you somebody else. I'll take Connor, what you got? What's
the matter with you this week? So the Rockets last
night when their preseason home debut. Yeah, did you hear
the radio call? It was spectacular. I caught the highlights.
We got a lot of complain emails about it. Though,
that makes you so bad, that's terrible.

Speaker 5 (01:11:22):
But but I wake up to a lot of highlights
from rookie Read Shepherd on Twitter, and uh, he looked
pretty good. Probably going to get more minutes there on holidays,
the backup point guard. But uh, anybody got time for
people saying he's the next Steph Curry? Everybody hyping him up, Like,
let's not set ourselves up for disappointment. Anybody, anybody got
time for that?

Speaker 2 (01:11:40):
I've seen that multiple places. I mean, that's ridiculous. Steph
Curry is the greatest shooter to ever walk the planet,
and it's not particularly close. I have not seen that.
I have been chasing after it, honestly. Yeah, there's been
a couple of people going with Steph Curry and Read
Shepherd comparison. Is that because of rocket Twitter? I think

(01:12:02):
it actually has been piece of Rockets Twitter. Well, Kevin
O'Connell Kevin O'Connor or one of those Kevin or oh
somethings was talking about as well, Like I as a
voice of the Rockets. I hate the Nicola Jokic, Alpria
and Shangunden cross references. It's not fair to either one
of them. Oh calling him baby joker. Yeah, he's not

(01:12:23):
anywhere close. I'm sorry. He is who he is. Let
him be him. Okay, so you're telling me that people
are putting Reen Shepherd and Steph Curry in the same conversation.
I mean, that's that's spectacular territory. But he's got about
fifteen years of three point shots to make before he
gets in that category. So that Yeah, that doesn't make
any sense. Yeah, this was a couple of weeks ago.

(01:12:43):
I'm finding Well, somebody said the closest thing. Yeah, Tom
Habistrow he okay, used to be in NESPN. I don't
know if he still works with him. He's an analytics guy.
He's not Steph Curry, but I think he's the closest
thing to Steph Curry we've seen in a long time. Okay, well, see,
i'd be let me tell you however, if that's gonna
happen here, in Houston. If that's the case, I'm gonna

(01:13:05):
make a lot of highlight calls in ESPN. I'm all
for that. Oh my gosh, it's just just go ahead.
And how can this help you? Matt?

Speaker 1 (01:13:12):
Are you kidding me? Ross?

Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
That's exactly what I'm thinking about. I know I've called, like,
let's see sixty about two hundred and twenty losses in
the last four years Rockets wins as well. I did
a Rockets prechously when yesterday you did. That's good?

Speaker 3 (01:13:28):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:13:29):
Have we played in my call from last night?

Speaker 5 (01:13:31):
Connor?

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
Who show what? I don't know? Just because it adds,
It adds to the show, the Rockets preseason, they should
be Oh lord, come on, Connor, you gonna your production
value on this show. Let's go Connor, don't do it, Connor, don't,
can't come back. We're close to a break and I haven't.
I gotta get my second win in real four You're up.
You know what. I'm gonna name them by name your

(01:13:52):
card readers, A GV suck. I was sitting there in line.
First of all, I guess I should have just gone
to the self cat check out. This happens to me
every time you put the card in, it says bad
read and then they're like, oh, you got declined, and
I'm like, I'm lady, I'm looking at my Make of
an America app. I have not gotten declined. My card

(01:14:13):
is not frozen. Then they call the manager over and
they're blaming me. Then I try to use my debit
card and that doesn't work. Your card readers suck. I
have issues with them every time I go. I know
they're finally getting tapped to pay, but this has been
gone on for way too long. It's ridiculous. And AGB
managers shut yobamass up. My car's not getting declined. I

(01:14:33):
got money in my account, okay. And then also, AGB,
ain't nobody got time for your crappy card readers.

Speaker 11 (01:14:39):
Get those tap to pays in now, shit, ch Obama
ass up, man Ain't nobody got tapped.

Speaker 1 (01:14:45):
It.

Speaker 2 (01:14:45):
Ain't nobody got time for Newark air traffic controllers to
take two week vacations, so I miss my flights and
I have to get rebooked and have to buy a
hotel room in Newark Airport, spend the night, miss the show.
Ain't nobody got time for Ramy mincing shows like that
ain't nobody got time for day. It's funny United hasn't

(01:15:09):
asked me about how my trip went. You know how
usually listen to your emails, like how would your trip
to rain our group? They know they haven't asked. They
know you'll give him that one star, Matthew. Now I'm
gonna write something. I want to get some miles out
of this, at least maybe a free upgrade somewhere. Seven
one three two one two five seven, Oh, Ross, look
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Speaker 3 (01:15:28):
Three?

Speaker 2 (01:15:28):
Connie, you see who's online?

Speaker 1 (01:15:30):
Three?

Speaker 2 (01:15:30):
Oh, we had him last week. We haven't had this
in a while. My friends, New.

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York, let's go James, Garden Oaks you on sixty six
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Speaker 9 (01:15:54):
Hey, good afternoon, Phis. That you've for take him up,
called Governor Thomas. Listen, I'm gonna get straight to the
white I got a whole slew of these bonus ass
from here, everywhere, even back in New York. I already
spoke to r V and I think I straightened him out.
And uh, this idiot, this idiot from blox Sports, Jason Smith,
he's a Met fan.

Speaker 1 (01:16:14):
Look, I already know what the.

Speaker 9 (01:16:16):
Yankees could do. And the Yankees are gonna go all
the way. They're gonna finish off these Mickey Mouse people
in Cleveland.

Speaker 2 (01:16:23):
Finish them off. And whoever they play.

Speaker 9 (01:16:25):
If they played the Mets, the Mets in six, if
they played the Dodgers, it will be.

Speaker 2 (01:16:29):
A battle like like nobody would.

Speaker 9 (01:16:32):
Ever want to see.

Speaker 2 (01:16:32):
But the Yanks could take them down.

Speaker 9 (01:16:34):
And seven, even if Tony puts on.

Speaker 2 (01:16:36):
The show, it will be epic.

Speaker 9 (01:16:38):
And also, I got two picks this week.

Speaker 2 (01:16:40):
I haven't been talk about it for a while.

Speaker 9 (01:16:43):
I got the Lions over the Lions over the over
the Vikings, which they're gonna not gonna be winners. They're
not gonna be uh, They're gonna get.

Speaker 2 (01:16:52):
The first hour of the season.

Speaker 9 (01:16:53):
And I'm sorry to tell you guys.

Speaker 2 (01:16:56):
I also got you guys losing to Green Bay. I
got a little with a friend of mine.

Speaker 12 (01:17:04):
Start Radio sixty six, Scort Radio WQF FAIG, New York.
The New York Yankees gonna win the World Series again.
It's can suck it because I'm a Yankee fan. I
was born at forty third and Rice Boulevard. Going down

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to the Bronx. They won't be coming back. Yankees got
this one in six.

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Speaker 1 (01:18:45):
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Speaker 2 (01:18:58):
Als six point three seconds left to go. The Rockets
so going to win their preseason home opener and their
second and three tries. So tonight from Tanna Center, it's
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ninety eight. Damn the melt of tones of the voice
of the Rockets. Great man, we're all brought to you
ten and ten no notes, ten and ten no notes,
and out of ten no notes, you're the best. That's
a low key or high key on the on the
highest of keys. All right, So that's that's the only
call you fought last night was worthy of playing. That

(01:19:40):
seemed that's that's fun. I've better get my I've better
get my flowers of the season starts. Do you want
two o'clock show open or something that'd be actually pretty good?

Speaker 3 (01:19:50):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (01:19:50):
When Rockets win twelve o'clock opens, what a great decision
your part. Thank you so much. I'm gonna throw up.
So Robert Ford was doing the Robert Ford with Raw Show.
Would you tell Robert forty can't have his highlights round?
Robert Ford's actually a humble and nice guy. Oh my god,

(01:20:10):
that feels that's incredibly rude. I mean really as as
rude as it gets with you. Sorry. Seven one three
one two five seven ninety seth, I'm in at made Park, seth.
What's the matter with you?

Speaker 3 (01:20:28):
Hey? Guys?

Speaker 13 (01:20:28):
So I need to got an incident. What happened with
Spirit Airlines with a friend of mine the other day?

Speaker 3 (01:20:33):
Uh? Oh flying?

Speaker 13 (01:20:35):
She's flying from Bush to Fort Lauderdale. Yeah, and going
through the security line pier so no problem with her
bags whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (01:20:43):
They let her carry it on.

Speaker 13 (01:20:45):
But coming back from Fort Lauderdale, a Spirit representative says,
your bag is too big, you need to go check
it in. So she goes over and not only chagion
are ninety five dollars to check a bag just slightly
bigger than carry on? And then she goes back in
line and a lady in front with a big whe
as big as hers. They let her go through, and

(01:21:06):
the lady and the Spirit rep goes after walking, why
is she allowed to ticket? And the Spirit rep says, well,
she's traveling with a child.

Speaker 2 (01:21:14):
What does that have to do?

Speaker 13 (01:21:14):
With anything, Alines, Come on, ain't nobody got time for that.

Speaker 2 (01:21:19):
This is your friend or your girlfriend, a friend of mine. Okay, well,
first of all, be a good friend and tell our
stop flying Mirrort airlines. I mean she's just asking for trouble.

Speaker 13 (01:21:29):
Absolutely, we're going southwest from now on.

Speaker 2 (01:21:32):
There you go. You gotta save your cash somehow.

Speaker 3 (01:21:33):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:21:34):
You know who Seth sounds like a little bit I
believe it would be butt heead Matt Beavis. Hold on, Seth,
hold on, Seth? You there, Yeah, I'm still here. Seth.

(01:21:54):
Do a butt head impression?

Speaker 4 (01:21:55):
Do it?

Speaker 3 (01:21:55):
You do it?

Speaker 2 (01:21:56):
Do your best butt head impersonation, go for.

Speaker 13 (01:21:57):
It, all right, Ain't nobody got time for that?

Speaker 2 (01:22:01):
Come on up? I mean, am I right?

Speaker 3 (01:22:07):
Look?

Speaker 2 (01:22:08):
Hi said this is Ross. Matt is the one saying
you sound like the cartoon character voiced by Mike Judge
named butt Ahead. I did not say that. Seventh Matt
Ross asked me to ask you that that is not true.
Sting right here the truth. Nobody can see us. We're
not on Space Aitty network, yet you can see us
saying that, Oh my god, they need to get us

(01:22:29):
on TV. Did they really see I've seen the three
to six shows. Yeah, they were way more entertaining. I
was seeing dinner at the Tota Center and I saw
Clanton's face all of the big scram vomited my dinner.
It was terrible, way too much of Adam actually wishing
them the best. Catch them here on Sports Talk seven
ninety and Space aity home network, but mostly Sports Talk

(01:22:52):
seven ninety or ninety four point five HD two. Yeah, nice,
let's go. Yeah, and again, don't eat when you see
Adam and Adam on your television screen. That's rude. Oh
that's true. All right, last call for anybody that would
like to shut their bumb masses up. Have someone shut
their but masses up. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five

(01:23:15):
seven ninety Uh, Uncle Pete says, shut your bum ass up.
All these slobbering from MLB and Jeff Passing on the Yankees,
I'm not I'm not watching any coverage of the ink
of ESPN's baseball sits. So bum ass up, man. So
let's see here. That's all I got. Nobody else. Everybody's

(01:23:39):
seem to be in any pretty good mood today. By
the way, people aren't talking to me about when they're
putting on their popcorn lime and Valentina sauce. You will
thank me later. Interesting, what is Valentina sauce? It's uh,
it's a hot sauce, like a Mexican style hot sauce.
You've never had Valentina you've probably seen. It's like in
the big bottle, says Valentine on it. No, that's the

(01:24:00):
reason why I asked. Oh, yeah, I guess you're not
going to taco shop so real ones. Oh so I
have to go to a real taco shop to enjoy
Valentina sauce. I don't know how much of that's going
on in the k Wood. Let me tell you someone's
not going on the k Wood. Digestive issues Valentina sauce
that are authentic taco shop, now, what's wrong with that? Yeah,
you're not gonna feel good. Be like going on your

(01:24:22):
stomach upset easily, be like going to an edo and
getting a barbecue and eto something. What's wrong with that?
You can get digestive issues. It's happen. There's one restaurant
in town that lot of people getting sick at it.
But that's the other here there. Okay, all right, last
call seven one three two one two five Sevenatti. We
smelled about don't look at you, that I'll look away,

(01:24:43):
you should look away. Anything else by let's see uh
oh uh oh, we got college salaries to talk about.
The top of the hour. I'm gonna be giving you
some numbers that are going to absolutely astonish you. But
the amount of money the college coach are being spent,
it's a lot, and it was a lot last year,
and it was a lot the year before. It feels
like it's just getting even the mid not mid majors,

(01:25:05):
but the mid power force okay, are getting crazy amounts
of money. So well have been for you coming up
all right? Last one just added the nick of time.
Let's go to uh Alex and Conra Alex.

Speaker 13 (01:25:18):
What's the matter with you, hey, guys Joe, y'all are
relatively familiar with all my insurance issues over the last year.
Uh and I have, Man, I can't talk too much
about it. But the Daspit Law firm.

Speaker 2 (01:25:32):
Y'all are a bunch of bums.

Speaker 13 (01:25:34):
Y'all are ambulance chasers.

Speaker 2 (01:25:36):
Y'all are scumbags and swindlers. Your time will come.

Speaker 11 (01:25:43):
Shit, so bum as up, man, I've gotten well, well,
all right, well number three in the show, come on there, three.

Speaker 2 (01:26:02):
I haven't chucked on Taylor lately? How she doing the sport? Taylor?
Are you serious? By the way, I love this In
the middle of this, can you can you take a break? First?
I love the fact that I get to find out
people that I know that follow Taylor. I won't name
who they are, but any who you are oh looking for? Okay,
Philippe is gonna end this segment on a much better note.
We can't end with that that last one, fully know it?

(01:26:24):
Felipe one fifty seven, Felipe, what's the matter with you?

Speaker 3 (01:26:28):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:26:28):
Well, this goes up to James and garden Oaks.

Speaker 14 (01:26:31):
Man guy always calls in like he's hyped up on caffeine. Man,
lay up the coffee a little bit, slow down so
we can understand you, bro.

Speaker 2 (01:26:38):
Shut your bumb ass up. No one cares about the Yankees.
No one cares.

Speaker 14 (01:26:41):
About this and that. No one cares about New York
Sports Man. They haven't been relevant for years. Asher's other
daddy Man. That's right, sixty six and we are your
home in New York Yankee Sports.

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Speaker 1 (01:28:05):
Launchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 2 (01:28:10):
Here we go the final hour of the Matt Thomas Show.
We've got Believe It or Not coming up, being fifty
minutes from now. Ross is today's category Believe It or Not?
I have no idea? All right? Seven one three two
one two five seven Anti Matt Thomas Show with Ross
here on seven ninety. Let's get to the latest rankings
as announced by USA today of how our college coaches

(01:28:33):
are being compensated. Okay, how do you want? Do you
want to do a little guessing game? Do you would
like to give you? Number one was always Nick Saban,
So I'm gonna guess Kirby smartest number Herby smartest number one? Okay?
Uh within two million dollars, twelve million, thirteen million, two
hundred eighty two thousand dollars. Okay. Let me give you

(01:28:57):
the rest of the top ten, my goodness. Number ten
to ten highest paid coach in the country is Lane Kiffin.
Okay at ole miss million and a half range ole?
Miss uh oh, he's seven eight nine okay? Okay. Mark
Stoups number nine in Kentucky, the Kentucky has the ninth
highest paid college football coach. Stoops is making more than
Lane Kiffin nine million, thirteen thousand, six hundred dollars, so

(01:29:20):
by thirteen thousand. Brian Kelly comes in at number eight.
How many of these are in the SEC? By the way,
stay with me. So far we've got one. Two is Kiffin,
Kiffin's one. Stoops is two. Brian Kelly LSU conference, LSU
at n C s u's SEC nine point nine seven
five million dollars for a for a state that's bankrupt.

(01:29:42):
Good for him, essentially. Number seven Alabama? What conference are
they in? SEC? Ten million dollars? Kaylin Dubar, he's only
making ten million? Oh, that's it. That poor guy. Mike Norvelle,
head coach Florida State, goes from Memphis to Florida State.
Acc his compensation ten million dollars. Wow, his bonus is

(01:30:03):
a little higher than Kalin de Bor. That's the reason why,
and he might be fired. Number five Ryan Day, Ohio
State Okay ten million, twenty one two hundred and fifty dollars. Okay.
Number four Lincoln Riley USC ten million, forty three thousand,
four hundred and eighteen dollars. Now that's a private school.

(01:30:24):
And the initial numbers for him to come over, they
said they paid him like twenty million dollars to come over.
So I wonder how that average is out for whatever
deal he signed. Yeah, let's see here, there's an asterisk
next to it. Every coach in Division one is on here,
but the private schools are not listed. He would be,
are you sure US is private? I mean I don't, Okay,

(01:30:44):
I want aren't they wait? Am I wrong? Yeah? Because
the schools that are not mentioned here are are private schools.
I mean I guess you could call and ask. I
mean you could be it's yeah, it's a private research
university in the Los Angeles. Yeah, that's private. So yeah,
you can call and then say thanks thanks. Uh. Number
three Steve Sarkesian, you know how much money's making? Well,

(01:31:07):
you said Lincoln Riley was eleven Well, Lincoln Rillley is
ten million, forty three thousand, eleven and a half ten million,
six hundred thousand, okay, Dabbo Sweeney Clemson woo eleven million,
one hundred and thirty two thousand, seven hundred and seventy
five dollars. Good for him? How was Clemson doing this year,
Clemson is struggling. No, they're not. They're not Stirling, are

(01:31:28):
they weren't? They were? They had one bad loss this
year they got by Yeah. And the number one we
talked about Georgia thirteen million, two hundred and eighty two thousand,
five hundred and eighty dollars. Okay, Clemson's undefeated since then,
but they've beat Appstate, in c State, Stanford, Florida State,
and Wake Forest. Not a murder's row. Acc even with

(01:31:52):
all the additions. Not a murderer. It's like there's one
currently ranked team left on their schedule. That's Pitt who's twentieth.
Would you like some other school it would be that'll
be of regional interest. Yes, let's continue. We'll go down
the list in terms of order. What's Mike Elko making
uh Eli Drinkwitz is that he pronounced a coach of
their Missouri fan club, A lot of drink wits nine

(01:32:15):
million dollars. He's doing well for himself. Hi, how much
money can you possibly spend in Columbia, Missouri? If you're
making nine million a year, I mean, what could you
possibly like that thirty million in Austin? That's crazy. Let
me say Brent Venables at Oklahoma eight point one five
two eight million water and fifty two thousand dollars. Well

(01:32:36):
spent Mike Gundy seven point seven five million dollars. Lance
Leopold Kansas. They're one in five this year seven million,
five hundred thousand. Have they just had a bunch of injuries?
Why are they so bad this year? I thought Lance
Leopold was supposed to be the next hot thing and

(01:32:57):
the best coaching slights Brent Well, he's making great money
at Kansas. Billy Napier the battle excuse me, the in
battle coach at Florida. Oh, five straight one score losses
for the Kansas Jayhawks. What's that line over there? And
have you looked I haven't looked at the Cougar line.
They gotta be a public Oh no, now you're laughing,

(01:33:19):
Kay Lemons, Can I guess? Go ahead, Gigglings, it's gonna
be I want to say nine. That's five and a half. Oh,
I mean, come on, man, they're one in five. The
only team they beat is Lindon Wooden. You guys are
six point dogs almost. M oh well that's rough.

Speaker 3 (01:33:35):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:33:36):
The Cougar's plus the five and a half lit go.
I'm all for that billion A Pier seven point three
seven million dollars at Florida. Billy Napier's not as making
as much as Lance Leopold, not as much. Leopold's more
made more. Mike elko A and m coming in at
number twenty four seven million dollars. That's good. So you're
the twenty fourth highest paid. You add what Jimbo's getting paid.

(01:33:58):
They're spending a lot on coach, right, You got that right?
Anything else that you would be interested in, Let me
to look at some schools in the state of Texas.
I'm going on this list here. Sorry for this, Sunny
Dike's at TCU. Not happy with them, five million dollars
a year. Mack Brown at North Carolina is at five

(01:34:19):
million dollars a year. Five million dollars. A great salary
over here at North Carolina. I love it over here
in the Tar Hills are going to be great. Sally
makes plenty of that Apple Betty for the team. Dave A.
Randa at Baylor four point five four million dollars, Willie
Fritz at Houston coming at number forty seven at four
point five million dollars. Okay, Joey McGuire at Texas Tech

(01:34:43):
four point twenty four to seven million dollars. Maybe the
best deal in sports. Maybe at Matt Campbell at Ioways
staying just makes over just shortly more more than four
million dollars a year. How's Ihoway State doing? They bounce
back this year. You're doing good. They're doing really good.

Speaker 7 (01:34:58):
You're winning.

Speaker 2 (01:34:59):
They're doing really good, really at their early in respect,
you know, you can't disclaim anything by the plans out
of ams. You gotta watch those cyclones. They're very dangerous.
And then let's go to the bottom. Let's go to
the bottom five. If you are bottom five head football coach,
I'm getting there's some school power. Is anybody this is anybody?
Anybody anybody that plays college football? Okay, uh, that would

(01:35:20):
include Sammy Houston. Oh you know what, within three hundred
thousand dollars named Sammy Houston seller for the millions, Casey Keeler.
I believe this is the head coach two million Casey
Keeler as the head coach at sam Houston State Goat
Cats is making I just saw it here. What's the
deal here? Oh, six hundred and twenty five thousand dollars

(01:35:45):
come on Bearcats. They're good too, right they be? I
think so? I think so, yeah, six and twenty five.
That's a lot of that's a lot of cracker barrel
in Huntsville. What do high paid high school coaches in
Texas get paid? It came far off. I bet there
are coaches in the state of Texas making two hundred

(01:36:09):
Let's see major Apple White Friend of the Show head coach,
South Alabama eight hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. This
says Barber's Hill coach making one hundred and eighty and
that's the highest in the Houston area. Mike Blungren head
coach at Rice nine hundred and eighty one thousand dollars.

(01:36:29):
Tom Herman Florida Atlantic one million dollars. So what was
he get paid to Texas? That's a major five. That's
a major drop off. But of course I'm guessing he's
still getting paid. Charlie Strong is still getting paid. Strong
is not still getting paid. It was a while ago.
David McWilliams is still getting paid. Not Fred Acres not

(01:36:50):
out of the payroll. Matt John mcivic is still getting paid,
all right. Trent Tilford left a college broadcasting career NFL
broadcaster to be the coach at UAB one point four
to five million dollars. How the Blazer's doing these days?
I think they're they're terrible. Oh, I think they're getting
like getting seventy points put on on the by like
two lane or something like that. Two Lane didn't beat

(01:37:12):
them seventy one to twenty. What's uab's record this year?
They got crushed by Army. Well, Army is the top
twenty five team. Oh that's right. Do you know what's
going on between Army and Navy? By the way, Oh yeah,
aren't they going to have to play each other three
times or something twice? They could potentially play each other
in the conference championship game and then play each other

(01:37:33):
the week after that probably will solidify one of their
spots in the college football playoff. Could potentially be that way. Okay,
So there you have it. UAB Blazers have lost five
straight games. They got crushed by Navy and Army. South
Florida next Rossie Kirby Smart thirteen point two eight two

(01:37:58):
million dollars. And you know what the thing about it
is for Alabama or for Georgia, they're not batting an
eye on that. No, they're winning championships again. They're winning championships.
Their stadium is full, their corporate sponsorship is amazing, and
they get a hilatiously large check from the TV networks
to carry their games. They're the class of the SEC
right now. You had to add the right now, didn't you? Yes,

(01:38:21):
what do you mean? Because in a few weeks they're
going to be on They're not going to be in
the top of the SEC world. Your beloved Texas Longhorns
are because they're going to beat Georgia this Saturday in Austin, Texas. Well,
they're already ahead of Georgia because the Georgia has a
conference loss. But we'll see big game coming up this weekend.

(01:38:42):
And you've made a final decision or not on whether
or not you're going to go still looking, it's going
to cost you two grand. I know I don't want
Do you want to go to two grand for a
regular season game? As your friend, I would rather you
spend the two grand in a playoff game? Okay, like
you did. Where's the championship this year? Well it was
in Houston last year. I know that was perfect and

(01:39:05):
it didn't go We went to but you had a
good time in New Orleans, all right, No, I didn't
have a good time in New Orleans, Matt. I watched
my team lose and quinn Ewers missed a bunch of
throws at the end of the game when they were
true and when when Washington was trying to get wrapped
in the game. Thanks for bringing in or I would say,
what are you gonna say? Sorry for your loss? Thank you.
I was almost gonna send out to Gordia other day

(01:39:27):
because LSU almost lost this past weekend. Oh, the finals
in Georgia again. So the SEC championship game is in
Georgia in Atlanta, and then the College football Playoff finals
in Atlanta again. You know, I'll get you tickets. I
know people, Okay, that's the deal. No, I need your
credit card. I mean, I'll get you the tickets, but
you got to pay for that's a deal. Two fourteen

(01:39:49):
on Sports Talk seven on eighty Texans are back on
the practice field. A handful of players were not part
of that. We'll tell you who they were coming up
in a minute. Plus. If you went to the Rockets
game lost or watch it, I would take an observation.
So far are you Okay, I don't want to hear
your full breakdown minute by minute. No, I don't think
I'll do that because they require playing some highlights, and
you guys want to play highlights of No, we'll play

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We'll play all highlights, Matt, nothing for you, nothing of
highlights for me for the for the front remaining portion
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Speaker 1 (01:41:31):
This is the Matt Thomas Show. Matt Thomas on Sports
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Speaker 2 (01:41:36):
Ninety Texans and Green Bay Sunday. Jim Nantz, Tony Rommel
on the call. It's the number one game on CBS
this week.

Speaker 9 (01:41:50):
Go.

Speaker 2 (01:41:52):
You can't be surprised, right, It's great. Here were the
choices for who was going to get the main game
this week? Uh schedule? Okay, so you've had Kevin Harlan,
Iron Eagle and now Jim Nance and Tony Romo. Yeah
the last few weeks. Yeah awesome, Well, I mean it helps.

(01:42:13):
They're they're very they're I mean the team is good.
Panthers Commanders is at three o'clock CBS game. That's a
that's they only get one game this week. So it's
not like a double header, is it not. The Raiders
Limes Vikings is still at noon? Yeah, that's on that's
on Fox. Yeah, Raiders and Rams on CBS at three.

(01:42:34):
But it's a single game week. It's what do you
mean double headers on Fox this week? Okay, so we'd
only get one game in the market on CBS. Dang
Lion's Vikings. Huh, that's gonna be on That's gonna be
on channel twenty six this week. It's gonna be on
it noon. Yeah. I've got the old schedule here. For

(01:42:54):
some reason, why my my NFL schedules not popping up here?
This is old. Patriot Jaguars are in London, and again
they live in London? Do they not?

Speaker 3 (01:43:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:43:04):
I guess so out of those work visas don't expire.
How long are they? Speaking of stadiums? Real quick for
the schedule here, do you see that the city of
Cincinnati is asking to finance the Bengals are off to
put a roof on their stadium in Cincinnati?

Speaker 3 (01:43:18):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:43:18):
Really, isn't that weird? Well, yeah, they've had crappy weather
there for decades. Yeah, well probably for centuries. And it's funny.
The same thing was asked of people in Kansas City
to put a roof that would cover Arrowhead and Royals Stadium,
and the taxpayers of Kansas City said no, no thanks,
that's Big Chiefs country too. Yeah, good for them, all right,
So the troy their own stadiums. So the choices where

(01:43:38):
Jim and Tony could have gone this week would have
been Houston, Green Bank, Tennessee, Buffalo, No since Anni, Cleveland,
Oh hell no, Carolina, Washington, and Las Vegas at the
La Rams. So there you go. Yeah. So it's yeah,
most of the countries getting this game, and then on
Fox we're getting Detroit and Minnesota. So it's gonna be
a great day of two really good football games. Love

(01:44:01):
it plus the red zone. Yes, do not bother me.
Between twelve and seven day, he said, you're coming over,
non pistill. Okay, you don't want me to come over?

Speaker 3 (01:44:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:44:13):
What not?

Speaker 2 (01:44:13):
Because i'd We'll put some little smokies in the crock pot,
get some nachos going. We'll have a nice little and
a little Smokey's barbecue sauce is very underrated. It's some
chips and QSO and some Bruce Kis will be a
good Sunday. Does me and you bros hanging out?

Speaker 3 (01:44:26):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:44:26):
Maybe a couple other people. It's weird if it's just
me and you. Yeah, going through all that just for you?
I see enough who use it? Is all right. So
as far as the injuries are concerned, we mentioned this earlier.
Are we super super concerned about five players ross that
didn't practice today? Yes, I'm super concerned. There's a five
key players, well except for Robert Woods. Now wait a minute,

(01:44:49):
Robert helped out a little bit last year. Yeah, we're
in twenty twenty four. Now he's stepping in returning punts
because Steven Simms is muffing punts and they don't like that.
Nobody likes that as a a coach in the NFL.
But they'll be fine, all right. Jimmy Ward, Kamara, Lassiter,
Henry Toata, Robert Woods, and al ziz Al Shaier are

(01:45:11):
all not practicing today. Okay, you'd like to have all
of those on the team. If not, it's gonna be tough,
now you if that both the linebackers. Both of those
linebackers are out. I think it's gonna mean good things
for Josh Jacobs in that run game for the Packers. Yeah. Now,
you as a Texan fan, mm hmm, are you like

(01:45:34):
when I as an Astro fan when the Astros make
the playoffs. Now it's you're not comparing apples and apples here,
But do you haven't the energy of I can't wait
to see what this team does in the postseason, or
you're like, man, I don't even want to think about
that right now because I got to get past this
rigorous regulars in schedule. For fresh I would say I'm

(01:45:54):
not thinking much about the postseason right now. I mean,
they're to me, the third best team in the AFC,
and the Ravens and Chiefs are clearly a tier above.
But you've got good games coming up. This game against
the Packers, you're taking on the Jets, who have now
traded for Davonte Adams. I think that's an interesting game
you're playing. The Lions are gonna be a good measuring
stick game. So finally, with the exception of the two

(01:46:15):
Tennessee games coming up, you're starting to in the Miami
game is gonna be a little weird because it might
have to a tack of Malowa back. Yeah, what's weird
about that? Because what are we getting back from him?

Speaker 3 (01:46:27):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:46:27):
I imagine if he's cleared to play, he's gonna be okay.
He didn't get any he didn't have any concussions last year,
but he suffered a pretty bad one this year. Yeah,
when his arms are flailing like please get me, scoot
me off to feel like up with a spatula. I
don't think it's great. It's not great. But he will
have been played for a couple of weeks by then,
he could be back out with a concussion. So we'll see.

(01:46:48):
Will the Texans to seeing him, will he be concussed
by then? I'm not anxious about this Sunday's game because
I kind of think Green Bay, I mean the Texans,
you're gonna lose game. I mean they're not They're not
sixteen and one. They're five and one. They're not gonna
be sixteen and one. They're not gonna be sixteen one,
could be fifteen and two. I have them. I did

(01:47:10):
my gut feeling, and so far, I've not found anything
to make me waver although well, maybe these linebacker injuries
make me waiver a little bit, I'm still going with
the Texans. I'll say this, I don't care how ugly
of a win if it is. If you win at
Green Bay with these injuries and that home field advantage
that Green Bay has have, this will be safe to

(01:47:31):
say the most impressive win of the year. I mean,
beating Buffalo at home is cool and everything. Yeah, but
you're going to a territory that has been one of
the better home field advantages in the history of the sport. Yeah,
they've got a good quarterback, They've got a great offensive line,
running back. You just mentioned Josh Jenning back, they got
a lot of offensive weapons like as far as pass catchers. Yeah,

(01:47:52):
it's gonna be good. I think it's gonna what's the
total on this one? So let me ask you this,
Let's flip the other side of it. If if they
come away with that with a law, do you say, well,
against the upper echelon teams, they failed miserably. As with
any NFL game, I will say, how did it look?
Losing because they got to kick the last second field

(01:48:13):
goal is one thing, and getting your ass kicked like
you did in Minnesota is another. So really, we don't
even we don't even know what to anticipate this one,
because any win in green Bay, no matter how oidly
it is, you will come back beating your chest going,
oh hell yeah correct. You lose at thirty to twenty seven,
You're like, damn, congrats to green Bay. They noted it.
But if you lose thirty four to ten, then it's like, then,

(01:48:36):
who are the Texans? It would be hard to figure
out who they are at They're five and two of
their two losses being against upper echelon teams and two
bad beatdowns, right with every other win other than the
Patriots win coming by one score getting escaping by the
skin of your teeth. You know what you want to
do Ultimately, you want to get into the tier one.

(01:48:57):
You want to be with Baltimore in Kansas City, and
I think winning at Green Bay can get you a
little bit closer. Absolutely, So, big game this weekend. I'm excited,
Big game, Big girls. Seven month. It's just not these
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beautiful women of Wisconsin. Go look them up? What do
you mean? Go look what up? What do I put you?
What do I put in my search bar, you tell
me women of Wisconsin, female Green May packer fans, women
eating cheese curds. No, I'm not putting that on the
in my Google search. Matt. You're afraid to see what's

(01:49:39):
gonna happen, don't you. Peerre brought some cheese curd diet
sweaters Harrybacks. Oh, come on, that's just I was just
you're out of line for that, you know, I apologize.
You should to the fine big women of Wisconsin. Gonna

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(01:51:49):
certainly as a quarterback. But he is now Rossie a
five percent owner of the Las Vegas Raiders. Congratulation. I
feel like I've gone back and forth on this about
whether or not he's gonna if this is gonna be
an intent to grow it larger or just keep his
hands in ownership to see what it's all about. He's

(01:52:11):
got a holatiously large contract to work at Fox. You're
not gonna give that up? Yeah, but did you see
the parameters again that he has to live by now
being a member of the NFL Owners Club. He's not
allowed to be in any practice facilities, not allowed to
talk to the players. He's gonna do nothing that it
would normally take for a color analyst to do prior

(01:52:34):
to a game. Now he can broadcast Raider games, okay,
but he cannot be in other teams facilities. He cannot
have those night before media availabilities to talk to the
players and coaches. So he's gonna miss out on a
lot of insight. Now, my guest is the folks at
Fox will record them mm and then he can see

(01:52:54):
them and then he can see what's the difference. Well,
you can't you can't ask questions. Okay, I don't know.
My feeling is there's gonna be a way if Tom Brady,
tom Brady goes to his game producer and says, hey,
go ask this question and get me an answer to it.
You know what funny? My initial thought is that, man,
this is these restrictions are ridiculous. Why would they just
Tom Brady's not going to use any of this information

(01:53:15):
that I'm like, wait a second. This is the guy
involved in Spygate and the Flake game, would do anything
to gain an edge, and one of the most hyper
competitive persons on the planet. You know, it's funny. He's
pretty good. I don't think he's been bad at all.
If Week one was a little rough, but it feels
like yours since. But you know what, it hasn't done.
It hasn't spiked ratings. There's spose it wasn't supposed to. Yeah.

(01:53:40):
Do you know what the number one game of the
entire weekend in the NFL is this weekend? It's Kansas
City at San Francisco yes, that is the premiere five
Star Game of the week. You could have uh Martin
Short and Lady Gaga doing the broadcast and people would

(01:54:04):
watch it. They would I wonder if this is something
I think a lot about. Actually, how much does the
play by play zero? I don't think it's zero. I
don't actually because for you and me, who are going
to watch the game no matter what, it is zero.
But I think for the casual fan kind of kind
of just turning it on, maybe it helps you stay

(01:54:26):
longer if the call is good. Not that you're sitting
there on your couch saying, man, this is a really
great call. It's that you don't notice mistakes being made.
You don't. You know, good energy from a good booth,
I think can add a certain layer and it's very small,
and I think it's only a small percentage. But that's
also you're dealing with thin margins when you're in fl anyways,

(01:54:50):
is what I think. I'm going to completely disagree with you, Okay,
And my human is this, if I'm an average football
fan and I'm gonna sit down for a little bit,
I'm gonna watch Kansas City in San Francisco because I

(01:55:13):
know it's the two of the best teams. It's a
potential super Bowl matchup. This is an average fan. What
you're asking for in this rager thin margin is for
some of that doesn't watch football at all, or very
little or very very little to say, ooh, Tom Brady's
doing the color commentary in this, I better turn it on.
I believe that sector of what that population is, it's minister.

(01:55:35):
I don't think it's zero though. Oh I think it's
close to zero. I think it's and I think a
lot of it is more subconscious. I don't like I said,
it's not active. Now, I will say this in my
own First of all, I'm in the business, so maybe
we have to take ourselves out. But I can tell
you this, my friends, my son's my son's friends will
turn a game off if they don't like the commentators,

(01:55:58):
like when Beth Mowens does a game. See they turn
it off. Okay, But if it's if for instance, Fox's
number four crew is Kenny Albert and Jonathan Filmah, if
all of a sudden they were given in Kansas City
a San Francisco game, You're not going to get anybody
to per se turn it off because those two dudes

(01:56:18):
are doing the broadcast, then why does Fox pay Tom
Brady three hundred four whatever? It is halatiously bad money spent.
I mean, and Tony Romo gets all this money and
terrible money spent. Why wouldn't they just if if the
deal is up with say Jim Nance, right, if the
deal is up with Jim Nance, why do they say,
all right, screw you, Jimmy. Because you do want to
have we're gonna we're gonna kick you to the crew.
You do want to have the best in the industry

(01:56:41):
doing it. Is it only to impress their peers? I
think it's for a variety of reasons. One, you want
the best doing it. Tarico is the best. He got
it and gets paid competent from somebody has to be
paid the highest because you're the best. You're telling me
if they fire, if NBC fired to Turico and just
got some guy, then then it wouldn't matter. I think
largely it would not matter. Now you do now when

(01:57:04):
Mike Tarico calls a game on NBC, there are very
few complaints because it's a solid broadcaster, which you don't
want is you don't don't want to put somebody in
that position that is overmatched for the job. Case in
Point Notre Dame games on an NBC Chris Collins were
a son I think his name is Zach or Jack
or something was so bad and got ridiculed for being

(01:57:25):
so bad at his job. They eventually said, we got
to get rid of you. So what you have to
do is you have to put somebody really good with
the really good games. And that's the work, and that's
what the network is the problem that what the networks
have is they are paying the really good people way
too much money. It is a lost benefit for CBS
to have Tony Rummel being paid fifteen million dollars a

(01:57:47):
year to do the Texans and the Green Bay Packers,
And like I said, I think about this, and I
think for you, and I'm gonna watch the game no
matter who's on it. But then I live and breathe sports.
Not everybody lives in breathed sports. But the Texans had
Andrew Catalan during the Week one game against the Colts.
Did anybody go, I'm not watching that game because Andrew

(01:58:08):
Cantalan's in the game. No, No, it's not even about that.
It's about sticking with something more. When the call is
better when it's the other guys, when it is Jim Nanson,
Tony Romo' I just think of this is my belief
the casual, which is the most incredible waste of money
network television has spent spent as on talent. I think,

(01:58:30):
if you want to have the best doing it, do
you want Kevin Harland doing a basketball game? Yes? Does
Kevin Harland have a value? Whatever that value is, it's
determined by Kevin Harlan's agent and by the network. The
network has said we believe Tom Brady is the best
analyst and will be the best analyst for our network,
and we're going to pay him three hundred and seventy
five million dollars over the next ten years. I'm telling you,

(01:58:53):
if I was a stockholder at Fox, I'd be like,
Tom Brady is good, Tom Brady is worth X. Bet
he ain't worth three hundred and seventy five minusion dollars X.
And that to me is not money, not money that
I'm gonna lose. But I just think, to me, it
is a way way over compensation for what cha. It
seems like it to me as well. But every network
does it, and we're not talking about just you know.

(01:59:14):
I mean Prime Video is doing it, ABC, CBS, NBC,
They're all doing it. They say it's sasine. Seemed like
it must have some sort of who But who is
being and we got a little time here. Who is
being overpaid? Romo's overpaidpaid? Is there anybody else that you
would say if I told you, if I told you
that Mike Turico is making six million dollars a year,

(01:59:37):
what's Jim Nance making? I don't know. I don't know.
Maybe you don't. But they're the very best at what
they do. They should be paid. I could see five
or six million dollars being fine. Well, if they thought
anybody else, anybody could do it, I think they. I
think these networks look to cut money anywhere they can.
It's so that's why Brady's ever gonna leave. Brady's got

(01:59:58):
the best broadcast deal in the history of broadcast talent.
He's making thirty seven and a half million dollars a year.
Do you know what to do? Ross to do twenty
NFL games, To go speak at a Fox advertising and
get together and be a mole for the Raiders, and
to be a Moltier Raider, and to play golf with
some high end Fox executives and Fox sponsors. By the way,

(02:00:21):
by the way you bring you bring Tony, you bring
Tom Brandy into a golf affair, that's gonna carry more
cachet than if you brought Mark Slarett to a you know,
a football into a golfing if you don't mean to
sell a deal. Okay, So maybe that's what they see
the value perhaps, And it has to have some value somewhere.
I don't know where it is. It's to me still,
and look, I'm all for getting as much money as
you can with anything, but I just think to me,

(02:00:43):
like broadcast fees, ABC paid hundreds of millions of dollars
for the sec good deal, money well spent, people will
watch it. I was glued in the East Coast watching
Ole Miss LSU saturdaynight. Just was it's money well spent,
all right, believe it or not? Today? Ross, what is
the topic and what are you playing for? See Old
tod I gotta get together, Judas Prieste tickets, Judas Priest,

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best song in Judas Priest. I'm gonna go breaking the law.
You guys gonna go next?

Speaker 3 (02:01:13):
Okay?

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