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Launchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show ten oh one
in h Town.

Speaker 7 (01:40):
Good morning, and welcome to a Thursday edision of The
Matt Thomas Show. At Ross. This is Sports Talk seven
ninety Tari Cross mid court to Landells, poked away by Batuma.
Go on a back hole release and I'll grab it. It
was deflected Tari straightaway against Patoom at the right elbow
down the link or not and he'll throw it with
a right hand familee baseline and a lob out to

(02:03):
shng gun to his left shot clock at eleven seconds.
Alfie left side of Fred Pump fakes gets by zoobots.
He's foul ful behind. He's got a nine to one
on a whistle against Chris Dunn. Ball to flot that's
a steal and stole right back by easton baseline rank.
How about a man for a three ball and he
nucks it down A man Thompson with his second three

(02:27):
pointer ninety eight seventy nine. Houston with this clock can't
run fast enough. Fam Leen against a triple te floats
up an eight foot and missed it. The final up
dump is not there, but shn Gun gets his own
offensive rebound off the miss, and Alfred Shangun, with now
his ninth double double of the season, his seventy fifth
for his career, and Atlantic makes it one oh seven
ninety nine with two on nine remaining footback is no

(02:48):
good bye Mither Paul is still losing to nod of
the paint picked up by vam Leech throws up to
make court hair cuts.

Speaker 8 (02:52):
Tar reason within an evedic win bill.

Speaker 7 (02:57):
Down sevens remaining straight on three. No good on a
three point try by Jordan Miller and ladies and gentlemen
inside tona center hits another.

Speaker 6 (03:12):
Rocket twin.

Speaker 7 (03:16):
And again I know we're all one belt in today
sports Harvey. But I'll take eight and four at every
twelve games you play. It feels good. I don't know
why I thought of this song, but I just said,
you know what, I haven't heard this song in a while.
Let's play and see how it rolls. Well, you and
most of America Tony Towne had them hits. Though, Mattie,
it's that bad song. I don't download it, but it

(03:38):
wasn't bad.

Speaker 9 (03:39):
It works.

Speaker 7 (03:40):
I didn't know you were such a new jack swing
kind of seward. Well that's what they call me, new Jack. Yeah,
well they something like that Jack something. Excuse me? How
much are we gonna miss you on Fridays when Damn
Matthews and Gordier phone in?

Speaker 10 (03:57):
It's what do you mean?

Speaker 7 (03:58):
Because you provide about half them material for the Friday Oldlips. Yeah.
I've been really trying to dial it back, but it
just doesn't. It doesn't. I don't know what happens. Is
your fault? Really most of the time I feel it
to be accurate. Yeah, I'm blaming you, all right. Good
morning everyone, ten O four on Sports Talk seven AUTI
is nice to have you with us on this Thursday
edition of the show. I am in a fantastic mood.

(04:18):
You are well. I mean, why wouldn't anybody not being
a fantastic We wouldn't take you ninety five minutes to
get to work. Yeah, that sounds great. You can listen
to a podcast, you can listen to some music. You
can I mean just deep breaths, maybe even quiet time
thinking to yourself. That sounds quite therapeutic. Man, I'm want
to enjoyed it. I'm going to tell you that I
used Siri to text a lot of people while I

(04:38):
was driving. Okay, and Siri, by the way, I don't
if y'all know this or not, does a really good
job of capturing swear words. Yes, she does that a
lot better than regular words. I think. Yeah, she's had
some issues with the regular stuff I've sent, But when
I want to drop an F bomb or blank this blank,
she's right on top of it. And I appre you

(04:59):
remember you have some bre back in the day. Yeah,
I don't think that does Sabrina can can she? I
don't think she can do it. No, we would certainly
wouldn't find out on this radio show if she can.
But no, shout out to you Siri. For being able
to capture every one of the f this is I
hate this life. I want to get rid of my life.
I want to I told my wife and the drive
this morning, we're going to move. Oh really, And then

(05:19):
I told her I'm quitting the work, quitting the show.
Oh you're such a whiner. Oh Apps. That's the thing
about me you should appreciate, is I don't hide the
fact that if you want to call me a whiner, Yes,
always look at the bright side of life. Matt, let's
go the glass is half full now. I would be
more like Demiko Ryan's You don't what that's I'm gonna

(05:40):
go to. I'm gonna have Demko and I drive to work.
My drive is so bad the Demiko get creaky in
to keep sacking. Yeah, all right, ken Ingreeds do it great.
When nobody talks about Kenyon Greed's good reps, did he
really say that? Oh my god, you know we're gonna
have to do We're gonna have to start and do wing.
You remember one James Corden would have those karaoke uh

(06:06):
car karaoke. Yes, I think I'm gonna start doing that.
But by yourself, you do that by yourself already, probably
with Chris when Christopher Cross comes. No, No, I'm gonna take
sports figures in this town and we're gonna go for
a drive and talks sports and talk sports. I like that.
Now you don't like driving, though, No, I'm gonna have
somebody to do it for us. Yeah, you know, part
of the charm is that he was driving. No, here's

(06:27):
what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna get the two main
transportation services in the world, Uber and Left Oh okay,
and we're gonna call it Uber Sports with MT or
Lift Sports with MT. And we're gonna go pick people up,
and we're gonna get the car and we're just gonna
drive around. We may stop through a drive through, get
some food and just talk about things. And I'm gonna

(06:49):
and and I want to pick up Demiko and I'm
gonna pick them up, take them back to my house.
You can meet my wife and my kids and my dogs.
And then we're gonna drive to work here and we're
gonna see how how how how positive been he puts
on an eighty ninety minute drive. What if you get
in an Uber that's blasting reggaetone music, then you give
him one star, no tip. Oh okay, then the bit

(07:11):
doesn't work. No it does. You got to set up
your camera. Yeah no, I'll just use my own phone
and just take a picture of us the whole time.
I always get one of those you know those things things, yeah,
selfie six, I borrow yours. Yeah, okay, I use it
all the time. I'm gonna use it forever. I just
use it in locker rooms. And you're never in locker rooms,
so yeah, that's true. I don't need to. I got

(07:31):
connections elsewhere. Oh there's a bunch of phony meeting in
this time. I go in the locker room all the time.
You know what you don't know, Jack, You've got a failed,
miserable radio career and broadcasting career. You're not relevant. Stop
telling me you go in the locker rooms. Nobody cares.
You're not informative, you're not entertaining, and you're gonna be
serving me my coffee before you know it. Wow, all right,

(07:52):
you like spicy mpt at tennels eight. I think you're
spicy every day least days. Well, but you're at now
not being a much better spot or Matt. Come on,
I'm happy to be here. Good yeah, you should be. No,
I'm serious. So this is this is this is the
raw emotion of me, and you should enjoy it. At
least I'm not faking y'all with stuff. This is who
I am, empty and the raw that sound of appealing, Yeah,

(08:15):
because emptying the roll be like if had a co
host name raw, we would never call you that. Hey
on the show today, I just don't get it. At
eleven thirty, I don't get you. You haven't got me
for a long time. At one o'clock, we've got doctor
Rodo for his weekly Thursday visit. We have the Rotten Five.
This will be your last Rotten five for three weeks. Yes,

(08:39):
that's at one, and then we have another. We have
two pairs, not one, but two pairs of Justin Timberlake
tickets give away today. It's right, we had no winners yesterday.
We're doing more k. We got to do password again. Yes,
and since you didn't like my password yesterday, it's not true.
It was great, Matt. You rolled your eyes. You just
rolled your eyes. No, I got something in my eyes early.

Speaker 10 (08:59):
For me.

Speaker 7 (09:00):
So you're on space. Any people would know how disingenuous
you are. I don't think we're worthy of putting on
the TV. But that's okay, that's fine, you have to
We can just dress up like the way we did.
We're in a hoodie and you're wearing a T shirt,
your track shirt. Yeah, I'm gonna go for a run
after the show like that. I think I'd be faster
running back to Kingwan than driving. But that's a different
issue for a different time.

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Speaker 7 (12:22):
And then we've got the rotten five at one thirty
one fifty will be the uh believe it or not,
where we will give away not one, but two pairs
of a justin Timberlake tickets and you will come up
with the password today. Okay. By the way, I mean
to ask you, Connor, H, how many people tried to
play yesterday they didn't know the password. I'm very curious
what that number is about? Five really? And so when

(12:42):
you said what's the password, they were like did they
try to guess a password or they just didn't know
and hung up.

Speaker 12 (12:49):
No, they would just say like, oh, I just started
this thing, I don't know and then I hung up
on them.

Speaker 7 (12:54):
Oh satisfying. It sounds like the way you said it.
It sounds like it was satisfying a little bit.

Speaker 12 (12:58):
I told him, like, you got to listen to the
show to hear the password to play against tomorrow, and
we gave them.

Speaker 7 (13:03):
We give you four chances. So I look, I don't
expect anybody to listen from ten to two. I mean,
if you do, bless you, We thank you so much.
We think if somebody could listen to us ten to
two every day, we'd be a we've been a better place.
I don't even listen ten to two. I know I
sit with you about fifteen. You check out for like
thirty minutes. Yes, so what for those of that don't know,

(13:26):
Yesterday we gave away a password to get into believe
it or not, because we're trying to weed out prize
wwards because of the very good prize of justin Timberlake tickets.
In about ten minutes, we'll give out the password for today. Yeah,
and once an hour, so you get four chances to
catch it. So it's like we're not we're trying to
hide it from a certain group.

Speaker 10 (13:42):
All right.

Speaker 7 (13:43):
I listened to the Rockets rap last night. You actually
had a few callers. I was, I'm we're building. I
don't feel like it's a mountain climb. We're going up
a nice hill and well, and we're bringing calories. Yeah,
we're hiking. We're not running up there.

Speaker 13 (13:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (13:57):
Yeah, it says sprint up there. We got our walking
stick on. Yeah, and we're not nearly as fatigue as
we were because we've dropped a few pounds. Okay, we're
getting more exercise we're taking frequent breaks. We're holding on
the rail still or not. Yeah, we're taking up a
lot of breaks, and we're like, oh, I was just trying
to check out the view. It's so beautiful. Okay, So yeah,
so Rockets went again. It was a really strange night.

(14:21):
Clippers didn't miss a three point shot. It felt like forever,
and then the Rockets came back and put the suffocating
defense on again. As Tarre Easton and Amen Thompson have
been absolutely do you have a battle for six Man
of the Year with two guys in your own team?
That's true, it's pretty incredible. None of them may be
starting at some point. Yeah, Jabbari's really struggling from the floor.

(14:42):
Yes he is. I mean it's you can't you can't hide,
it's it's just not going well for him. And so
those two guys are getting serious crunch time minutes. Then
Tyron Leu, who's the coach of the Clippers in the
fourth quarter, is like, ten minutes up the gum, we're good,
We're gonna take this l and he puts on a
bunch of people I've never heard of before. Case in point,
what is your favorite Kobe Brown moment. Uh, well, I

(15:05):
was when he won five championships with the Lakers. No,
that's Kobe Bryant. Oh you got a rundown of Jordan
Miller's career. No, I don't. Is he Andre Miller's son.
I don't know who it was. But these guys came
in and scored twelve points in like eight minutes of play. Well,
you know who Kevin Porter Junior is? I do get
three thousand? A first quarter Clippers legend? Yeah, wearing seventy
seven played only six minutes last night and was basically

(15:28):
booed or complete indifference. There wasn't a video to celebrate
the life of the best of Kevin Porter's highlight tribute.
There was Kevin Porter Junior. No, that's weird. So uh yeah,
rock Is held on and beat the Clippers, and now
Houston is eight and four. They'll take on the Clippers

(15:49):
again tomorrow night. It'll be a n season tournament playoff game.
So quote unquote, it just means more. Who said that before?
In sports? That's sec stuff? Is that what that is?
It just means more? You know what, right, I guess
losing to Vanderbilt on the road, it just means well,
I mean, the Big Ten and the SEC dominate the
college football playoff, and they're saying our leagues mean more,

(16:10):
and the rest of America's like, yeah, we're right. We
don't want to admit it. But I think there's an
inherent SEC bias in a lot of the rankings because
a bunch of these teams play like three FCS opponents
and then and then they beat up on each other,
and then everybody's just ranks them high. Yeah. Well it's
because again, it's based on it's based on reputation, track record. Uh.
And at the end of the day, is if Georgia

(16:32):
played Boise State, who's winning?

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Uh?

Speaker 7 (16:35):
Bebbe Boise State And Ashton gent t he's running for
three hundred. You are such an aston gent fan. You're
not He's fine? Well, he's fine. I mean again, he's incredible.
I could run for one seventy six against Colorado State.
You could not. He ran for almost two hundred against Oregon,
the number one team in the country. Yeah, but they
were they only they played their second and third ten. True,

(16:58):
it was a it was a gimme, no, it was,
and it was a close game. They almost got upset. Okay,
Ashton genty is going to be just a guy in
the NFL. Oh you put my name on, yes, put
my name on. Love this? Yeah, Oh I love this
because I'm going to prove you right like I prove
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Speaker 7 (19:03):
All right, so the time is ten twenty and I
did a lot of like we got off the air
at two o'clock, went now ten to two here on
seven nuty and so I went to our prep room
where I took a nap. Althile, we all a password.
So what do the password? First? I'm sorry, focus up
all right, So JT tickets to give away today at
one fifty two different pairs are given away, I believe

(19:25):
it or not, Yes, And today's password is to play
the song that was playing at the end of the
Super Bowl halftime show with he and Janet Jackson when
there was the wardrobe malfunction incident, which is what Rock
your Body?

Speaker 10 (19:44):
Matt.

Speaker 7 (19:45):
Okay, come on is working the super Bowl, So rock
your Body because he says that the I'll have you
naked by the end of this song, and then he
and then a nipple popped out. Okay, so rock your
Body is your body is the path? Speaking of that,
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Speaker 7 (23:13):
She wore garter belts to a concert, so what I mean?
Most women don't wear garters to concerts. People dress up
to concerts. They don't wear garter though not most of them,
but ones who are attention seeking whores do. M I
felt personal. Okay, wait that came out right. What you
said clear? Everybody, everybody knows what you said. Okay, attention

(23:40):
horror she's attention horring. I don't need to imply she
sleeping around. Hi, I apologize attention horring. There's no coming
back from the wet that I miss spoke.

Speaker 10 (23:56):
Play.

Speaker 7 (23:56):
I'm trying to speak to the legal team. I misspoke.
I would say attention hoaring is what I mean, and
it came out attention seeking whoreror. I mean, perhaps she
keeps her chastity. I do not know. Perhaps she's saving
herself for marriage. That's you know, I'm not any not
pretty to idio that information attention hoarring. If your attention hoaring, yes,

(24:21):
you do dress like that, and she obviously is very good.
It's seeking and gaining attention, especially of this person sitting
in a chair to my left. Connor. That was done
at ten twenty, just to mark that down. Oh I
got it. Okay, good, that's my boy. Well clarified, you did,
but it's too late that partly get cut out. Yeah,

(24:42):
we don't ever love clarifying stuff. Raffeine hasn't hit me yet. Yeah,
I'm not awake yet. All right. So the best thing
So I was napping and I woke up and I
was looking at to Twitter. The best thing was when
you saw Taylor on Twitter. It wasn't the worst thing.
I can tell you that, all right, mister Bookmark. Generally speaking,
everybody yesterday after seeing some of the video of the

(25:02):
Astrodome press conference, was like, no disrespect missus tutor a
Phoebe Tutor, but you're out of your damn mind. Yeah,
it's this is going to go nowhere. It was just
a press conference to have a press conference. There isn't
a single human being outside of anybody in the astrodom
conservatory that believes this is going to pass. No one

(25:24):
needs it. Feels like there needs to be an economic
impact for that area. No one thinks it's viable, and
it's going to not get any more steam than what
it is, no matter what media people in town try
to push to say that city Houston needs this, we
don't need it. And I'm very happy that yesterday, generally speaking,
anybody that had any was important in our community said
this is a joke. And the number one thing that

(25:46):
was out of everything was said was the Rodeo was like,
we're not endorsing this, we're not behind this. And if
the Rodeo doesn't want it and the Texans don't want it,
it ain't happening, are they the operators of NRG Park?
Is that the Texans that have it's supports authority? But
I mean, yeah, but you are if you're the two
main tenants, you know, uh yeah. If the Chronicle coming
out with their follow up story was after week they

(26:08):
published after we got off the air Rodeo, Houston and
Harris County Sports Corp, which maintains and manages and operates
Energy Park, object to the new plan. Yeah, yeah, we're good. Yeah,
we're good. We're good. So does you know. I know,
we spend a lot of time on it Yesteray, we'll
be spending more about it today. But I just I
just was. I had a huge sense of relief that

(26:28):
no one took yesterday's prescofference. Seriously, we respect the efforts
of the Astrodom Conservancy and have seen their proposed concept.
Over the last few years. We have seen several concepts that,
while thought provoking, have it resulted in viable funding and
maintenance solution perfect that is the chairman, Bishop Dixon, the

(26:48):
chairman of Harris County Sports and Convention Corp. Yeah, so
the conventioneers do only want a part of it. It
justing makes sense. All right, So if you want to
discuss the Rockets from last night, I you know'll go. Look,
I want as the voice of the Rockets. I would
love for daily Rockets chatter because honestly, look, gang, the
Texans don't play until Monday night. I don't want to

(27:10):
spend the next Well, we're gonna do it on Monday,
obviously because the game will be that night, but I
don't want to. I mean, what are we gonna do
with the next two days. We're gonna go, We're gonna
rehash the same crap word to talking about offensive line sucks.
CJ hasn't been nearly as effective. You've got second half meltdowns,
team doesn't score point. I mean, I don't know how
much more we can do with that. Yeah, we can't
come on, Matt, how much Nico Collin's gonna impact the team?

(27:32):
Is Dalton Schultz gonna step things up? Is CJ Stroud
going to assert himself in these next several weeks. I mean,
the only reason why we would bring up fresh material
is if we were invited to the team meeting. That
would have been cool. M hmm, Like we need like
a mole inside the Texans to kind of tell us

(27:52):
what happened at the team meeting. Okay, Like we used
to have players come out on the show all the time.
That doesn't happennymore because the Texans don't allow it. But
that's a different issue for a different time.

Speaker 10 (28:00):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (28:00):
But we used to talk to guys and then say,
all right, here's kind of what's going on. Not not
like talking under their breath, but just like, hey, Loki,
here's what we're going through right now. Like if somebody
happened to be in the locker room serving barbecue during
the meeting or something. Yeah, Dale Brinson, we haven't heard
from Daleen forever. That's true. How does he feel about
this new astronom plan? No, no, no, he wants no

(28:23):
part of that either. That'll hurt his business. That's true,
because he's on my stream, but he never knows this
cross section. That's true. He's by the CBD shop. He's
the CBD shop. Okay. So uh, Like I was gonna
back to my point, I don't The Rockets aren't going
to generate tremendous conversation, but I would like some, okay,
because it's fun. They're playing well, and I do believe

(28:44):
believe at some point Ema is going to have to
kind of make a decision about what he wants to
do if he wants to keep those two guys off
the bench, move one in the starting five because right now,
Jabari and I like Jabari a lot. He calls me
boss every time because I don't think he knows my name,
But that's fine. I didn't call you chief, No, it's
always boss man, big dog. We did talk about the
Auburn flight to uh Houston. Oh okay, that's funny. He's like, man,

(29:07):
nobody will ever, nobody say anything about it. I'm like, yeah,
they're gonna trying to keep it on the lid on
that thing. Brawling on the prop jet. I mean, if
all places to brawl, the worst idea ever, Like where
if you're brawling on a prop plane, where's the second
worst place you could brawl? On the top of a mountain?

(29:29):
On a bridge? Yeah, I would take a bridge. Wouldn't
be particularly great on that one, either. So yeah, but
I like Jabari. It's let me look at the statute here.
Jabari Liive points one of six twenty minutes, one of
four from three, only one of the five starters that
didn't play at least thirty minutes and he was only
one of the top seven not to score in double figures. Okay,

(29:55):
if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I guess they're
winning five out of six. Yeah, seven of and I
think something like that. He does other things. Uh yeah,
there's intangibles for sure.

Speaker 13 (30:06):
Hmm.

Speaker 7 (30:06):
You don't necessarily you don't need him to be you know,
people are like, man, they need to run more plays
for Jabari Smith juniors, Like do they Why? No, they
don't need to. They don't need to involve him more
on the offense. He hasn't shown the ability to create
his own baskets unless he has a mismatch with somebody
really short on him in the post, and then he's
just going to back down with a couple of dribbles
and hit a turnaround and shoot a turnaround fade away,

(30:29):
and he's going to hit him at like, I don't know,
forty five percent. Yeah, he's he was a better three
point shooter last year than he was as a rookie year,
but he has taken a downturn. Frankly, in both ends
of the floor. I'm both shooting sub two and beyond
the two point three point line. So Uh, I would
think as long as things are going well that that
would be very hesitant for the Rockets to make a
change on that, because I do like instant offense off

(30:53):
the bench, and I love instant aggressiveness, and I love
the fact that nothing just get like.

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Arden was harassed last night. Just get in the mid
court and that's fun to watch. Yeah, I think it's
extremely entertaining, and I think the league is unnoticed. A
lot of the NBA people and writers and media that
I follow are talking about a lot about him. In
Thompson and Tarry Eesan and the nickname. How do we
feel about it? Terror Twins? Did correct come up with that?

Speaker 9 (33:52):
No?

Speaker 7 (33:52):
I think he said he he said he couldn't take credit.
He saw it somewhere, but I think he was he
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Nothing but nylon. So Ross is gonna be leaving us
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telling me about he's gonna pick his meals on his flight.
I think it would be awesome if you put it
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(35:02):
I would do the former before the latter, because you
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But the bottom line is you think the mcgrib is spectacular.

(35:24):
It is spectacular, exactly. I have not had the chicken
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(36:28):
to Roger on seven ninty Roger, good after or good morning,
good morning, Matt.

Speaker 15 (36:33):
I know this is weird, right, so uh yeah, Ross,
you shut your horrors mouth when you're talking about rhythmic
rib sandwich.

Speaker 7 (36:39):
Thank you.

Speaker 15 (36:40):
It sucks, so no, it doesn't, you shuck, No, just
kidding you got anyway, So I'm really digging this Tarots
wins man. I you know, I'll start to think that
we're gonna have to uh you know, it's got a
long season, small sample size. Loving their energy though God

(37:01):
off the bench, don't I don't think they come in waves.
And the teams they just can't stop it from coming,
you know that they're just I know they they study
it in the film, but they just can't experience it.
When these guys come at him, especially i Atari, and
it's like a it's like a whirling dervish.

Speaker 10 (37:18):
With a man. Thompson just just a ball of energy.

Speaker 15 (37:21):
Before, you know, when he was a rookie, it was
just like raw energy and he didn't really know, like
a deer, you know, running for the first time. But now, uh,
you know, just a year removed from you know, from
from a season ago, and these guys are just man,
they're getting it.

Speaker 10 (37:36):
They're getting it.

Speaker 15 (37:36):
And you could just tell that like Udoka six the dogs,
you know, he's like, all right, let's let's let's let's go,
let's run, and you know, and yeah, Jabari is struggling
a bit. But I do like the way handles himself
on the court. He doesn't go too high or too low.
So that's a good thing, I think. Uh So, you know,

(37:57):
with Shangoon, it's contagious. He's actually playing deepest and I'm
wondering because of these guys who are just you know,
motivating them and that you know they level up because
Amari and and Tari bring that level up in him.
So that's all I got to say. It's nice to
see and a long time coming.

Speaker 7 (38:15):
Thank you, Roger, appreciate it. There's there's a large amount
of dormant Rocket basketball fans in this community. I'm convinced
of it. Not that it's ever gonna overtake the Astros
or over take of the Texans, I get that, but
I think there's been a lot of people that have
largely checked out because of let's face it, four years
of non playoffs. We'll do that for any go ass
the Astros and and honestly in this community, in this

(38:38):
sports market in which we live in, it's gonna take
you get into a championship level to get those people back. Yeah,
it's gonna yeah, That's what it took for the Astros.
They didn't. I mean the first time they drew in
this era, three million fans is what last year yep,
and they won a World Series in seventeen. So it
takes years and years and years to rebuild back a

(38:59):
fan base. It just does, especially here in Houston. Yeah,
it's not like, hey, we'll see you as soon as
you get good again. It's we're gonna have to see
you be prolonged, have prolonged success, And I think the
getting to five hundred was one part of it last year.
I think the next national progression would be to try
to at least get to the play in Yes, I'm

(39:21):
trying to. Look, let me give you the next ten games.
Rockets are a real quick on this. You got the
Clippers that got on Friday, when at Chicago, Saturday, Sunday
at Milwaukee, Monday, when Indiana to Portland's let's say they
go they lose two of those? Why not? And then

(39:42):
at Minnesota, at Philadelphia home Oklahoma City, and then a
three game west road trip at Sacramento, at Golden State
and at the LA Clippers. How about this? Why don't
we by the time the December eighth number whatever number,
that game number game, Okay, we really have a serious
assessment of where this team is. Okay, we'll know a
lot more because the competition will improve a little bit.

(40:05):
Although again Portland sucks, Chicago's not very good. Philadelphi has
been a major disappointment. This year, Milwaukee's been a major disapointment,
but those are also home games for them. Joel Embiid
is back playing at least a little bit for the
seventy six ers. Let's talk to Anthony and deer Park
at ten forty on the Matt Thomas Shows. Ross Anthony,
good morning, thanks for holding Hey, good morning guys.

Speaker 13 (40:26):
So I did have two points and I have a
question for y'all. So two things that have excited me
from last season to this season through twelve games, Like,
em you donks a damn good basketball coach, And I
think the second thing that's really exciting for me is
that to me, it looks like Jalen Green is taking

(40:47):
that next step, Like it feels like this is Jalen
Green's Rockets, and that's really exciting to me. My question is,
do you, Matt, do you think Ken Ross, do you
think that Jabari Smith Junior could benefit by going to
the bench for a little bit like a Men Thompson
with the exception of Jalen Green is playing the most

(41:09):
minutes on the team, So like, do you think that
the Rockets and Jabari Smith Junior could benefit from maybe
starting a Men Thompson for a while.

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Speaker 7 (43:53):
We've talked about this a lot so far, Anthony, and
thanks for the phone call. There's parting this says an
aim bronk, don't fix it, pardon me, also says you
need to get Jabbari out of this funk, and you
can do that by not having to rely on him
so much early in the game. But there's also a
part of me that says, if the Rockets are really

(44:13):
gonna take that next level jump and stay on this
winning clip of winning eight out of every twelve games
they play, you can't have somebody in their starting lineup.
That's just gonna be a minus offensive player. I don't
it's it would if it was gonna be anybody, I
would say it would probably be more Tari Eason. But
I think they also like, as you said, Matt his

(44:34):
bench energy, and they like Jabari Smith Junior in that
starting lineup because for for what he can bring defensively
and guarding Biggs and his size and he's like I mean,
he's he's six foot ten, he's bigger than him in Thompson.
He's bigger than uh than Tarry Easton. They don't need
him to knock down shots. I think people are getting
a little too fixated on that. Oh my god, he
only had five points. Yeah, they won the game. They're

(44:55):
they're gonna run the They're gonna run the offense through
Fred van Vliet, through Jalen Green and through Alprin Shingoon going.
They don't need Jabari Smith Junior to be dropping twenty
every night. They want him to go out there guard
one through five. They play him as a five and
small lineups, and they like what he does there and
eventually his three point shots will fall. I'm a big
believer in that because it's just you look at what

(45:19):
his career sample has been, it's much better than what
it is. So he's struggling right now for ten twelve games.
It happens in the NBA to to so many players
every single year. The three points will start, three pointers
will start falling, and then he's still gonna do everything
else he brings on the floor. And I don't think
we're gonna be talking about it as much. I would

(45:39):
like it not to be a key part of I mean,
if he gets something from him and moves along and
does some more things offensively and gets out of this slump,
it'll be even an additional bonus. I just don't want
this to be the reason why the Rockets are taking
steps back. I don't think if the Rockets all of
a sudden drop five of seven it's because a Jabari
Smith is shooting at thirty five percent.

Speaker 6 (45:59):
It won't be.

Speaker 7 (46:00):
It won't be because or because it'll be on Jalen
Green or Albert chin Green or Fred Vanvlied or I mean,
it's it's not gonna be like man Jabari Smith Junior.
You know he got up those ten shots and for
the fourth quarter only made two of them, right, that's
not the Rockets offense. That's not how it's built. And
I don't think necessarily has to be Jalen Green's team.
I mean, the Rockets last night won the game despite

(46:21):
the fact that Jalen he did have five threes, but
he was seven to twenty one overall. He is he
was five or fourteen. Yeah, he's volume. He's not about
It's not about overlay accurate. Now does he comes from
with some big shots down the stretch and have some
high flying dunks and whatnot and key three pointers. He's
done that. I mean, he hasn't played party this year.
But it's not a This Rocket team and I mentioned

(46:43):
this to em yesterday before the game. This Rocket team, folks,
is winning by shooting about forty three percent from the floor.
That to me is not sustainable unless you continue to
have guys that are fighting for offensive rebounds, that take
the ball away, that get points off turnovers. And that's
been the recipe for what this team has been. Its

(47:04):
defensive work has been significantly better this year. Their top
five and deep in points allowed so far this year.
They are getting lots of second chance points opportunities. In fact,
they had twenty four second chance points when you start
losing to rebounding battle. They're number one and offensive rebound
number one rebounding in the league. If those numbers continue,
you can live with forty three percent. Yeah, but you
are looking for at some point somebody from the perimeter

(47:28):
to start heating up. And yet the offensive rebounding thing,
that's by design. We had Emandoca on this show say
his goal is for this team to be number one
in the league in offensive rebounding. Seven one three two
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(47:50):
Are we sure that mister Laser is going to play
this week? No, he's in concussion protocols. It almost feels
like every time you get somebody in protocol, you lose
him the following week. Yes, I want to say, was
it Tyrone Tracy of the Giants? Somebody passed it within
a week, But it's very rare. For most of the time,

(48:12):
you miss at least a week. So does that mean
if you're watching the Texans Cowboys game, Derek Stingley is
gonna haunt Ceedee Lamb for four quarters? Right, hopefully.

Speaker 1 (48:24):
No.

Speaker 7 (48:25):
Does that mean then you go after if you are
looking for fantasy perspective, maybe you look at the other
Dallas receivers. Is that what you're going with. No, Derek
Stingley's not a lockdown corner. Derek Stingley is not somebody.
First of all, they don't they don't do shadow coverage normally.
He's just gonna he's gonna stay on the left side
and Kamari Laster is gonna stay on the right side.
So it's not He's not a Patrick Certain, he's not

(48:47):
a Joey Porter junior. He's not a I don't even
know there there's a couple others what Sauce Gardner was,
who's having a step back year Matt but is still
good so one of the best, right But he No,
he's not somebody who are like man Ceedee Lamb's going
to be erased off the field tonight. That's not because
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Seven one three two one two five seven NINTI. Good morning,
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Not coming up at eleven twenty. All right, Uh, you
know I was talking about obsessed about yesterday about all
the people just shunning the astrodome deal. Yes, I'm also
obsessed about every time somebody puts a story out about
Alex Bregman rumors. Okay, it's been happening a lot. Yeah,
and so Bleacher Report put one out to deck that's
just sent to me by a listener of ours. Oh

(50:12):
did they actually write it or was it aggregator? I'm
sure it was aggregated, So I'm only going off of
what this br Report says, Okay, this br report says
Busher Only says that the team now that should be
the leader in the clubhouse for acquiring Alex Bregman through

(50:33):
fre agency is the Philadelphia Phillies. Philadelphia Phillies. Yeah, really yeah, hmmm,
they have money. I always feel like Philadelphi's got money.
They spend a lot of it. Yeah, I guess would

(50:54):
they be putting him at second base? Bomb probably would
be moving over? What do you mean, Yeah, yeah, somebody's
got to move over.

Speaker 10 (51:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (51:01):
I'm gonna be honest, I don't know what the the
third base defense prowess of Alec Bohm is. I can
look it up. The Phillies have a projected payroll of
two hundred and sixty six point five million dollars heading
into free agency, per spot Track, that's most in the
Major's only says, And you know, I'm gonna say if
I can, I'm gonna click on Buster's name and see
what he if he actually has a story about this. Yeah,

(51:25):
here's what Buster tweeted out two days ago. Late the
most interesting prediction heard from a rival evaluator, the Phillies
land Alex Bregman his swing translate in that park strong defense,
lots of postseason scar tissue. Now, wait a minute, scar tissue.
He's being metaphorical there, I understand, but that's kind of
a weird one. Scar tissue is normally a negative connotation,

(51:51):
as in, like they he's had a lot of playoff
failures postseason scar tissue that is odd, or like boxers
can build up like a scar tissue on their orbital
bones and stuff and then it hurts them in their careers.
That that's gross. So I'm just saying, I'm trying to
think of a build up a scar tissue as a
good thing.

Speaker 10 (52:11):
Uh, I can't.

Speaker 7 (52:13):
How about this, Let's interpret it as as great as
the two World Series victories have come, there have been
also lots of losses. There have been. It doesn't matter.
You can lose fifty times in the playoffs. You get
two rings. You got two rings? Yeah, Donald underscore Duck
two one seven. A Phillies fan replies to Buster Oldies

(52:37):
tweeted says, this is dumb. We don't need another expensive
contract on a thirty one year old. This seem as
too many guys in the back end of their thirties.
Buster replies, they actually have a lot of money coming
off the books. In the next couple of years. Super
two Sports has falls in line Bomb traded for an

(52:58):
outfield bat Slash Highlight Average Reliever replaced by Bregman. Okay,
so yeah, some Philly fans are on board. Okay, so
there's another shooter.

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He go, yeah, you would. When I look for these stories,
I'm hoping to say free agent possibilities drying Up looks
like Houston's best landing spot. I have not seen that
story so far. No, it'll be one Soto and then
probably shortly thereafter we'll find out what's going on with
it is crazy. All you had to do is just

(56:01):
pay him what he's worth and whatever that he Bregman's
got a magical number in his head, or at least
Scott Boris does. Scott He's gonna say, Scott Boris does.
Now what Scott is saying and what the real market
value of Alex Bregman are probably two entirely different things.
But there's a number that could have settled this a
long time ago. And maybe maybe the Astros are saying, Hey,

(56:26):
we want you back, but it'd be better for us
to let the market dictate what you're worth is compared
to what you think you're worth. Question would be, if
they're basically two years of this conversation, if the Astros
find out from Bregman's folks Boris at that he got
a six year deal worth one seventy four, does Bregman

(56:51):
call and say, can you match it? And I'll stay
I think so, And I think they will say thanks,
but no thanks the ash. So if the deal's over
five years, because that has been the hard line, maybe
they would go six for Bregman. But I think I
think he's going to get offered over that because there's
just seems to be so many suitors. So the thing

(57:14):
that we'll never know is what's more valuable to Bregman
the money per year or the length of the contract.
Probably everybody, everybody is dealt differently. I would say probably
the total dollars. Because let's say somebody was to pay
you thirty three million dollars a year for five years. No,
I don't think he would do that. I think he
would take like, you know, twenty five or seven or whatever,

(57:35):
whatever the matter. So you think it's you think it's
length over No, well, I think it's total value the contract.
Oh okay, because when he hits free agency, if he
gets a five year deal and he hits free agency
at thirty six, probably nobody's gonna want to give him
whatever aav he would get on the back end of
whatever deal he signs. Yeah, but I think everybody's different.
I mean Carls Korea went for everything and didn't get
it and wound up taking short deals.

Speaker 6 (57:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (57:56):
Well, well they were agreed to long term deals and
then he had met medical issues, right, medical red flags?
Yeah uh yeah, Yan Easy says they're done with bomb.
He's on the chopping block. Oh okay, well there you go.
Boom boom, boom bombed or whatever.

Speaker 10 (58:16):
I mean.

Speaker 7 (58:16):
He was fine for them, but kind of fizzled out
towards the stretch. But obviously you know Buster's connected. The
question is if you're a bustered you do you take
what one Gabbroni said for another team or do you
take it from a series of agents or what you're
hearing what he's saying right now is in a whole
bunch of I would say it's mostly a whole lot
of nothing. It's generating, well it's generating talk on this show.

(58:37):
But it works. But you know, like I said before,
I'm fascinated about it. Every time I see something about
where he could be, I think about it. Does that
make sense? Oh, Boom is an arbitration and he's not
a free agent until after twenty six, but he makes it.
But I think if you're going after Bregmant, you're making
him a trade chip. You think, guys, Boom has been
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Speaker 7 (59:44):
Sports Talk seven. Auntie, it is the second hour of four.
We take you to two o'clock today. Thank you very
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basketball tomorrow against the Clippers, the Texans, and the Cowboys.
Monday night we were really interesting Washington Philadelphia Sunday night
game or a Thursday night game tonight, Yes, Kansas City
Buffalo playing on the national stage for the late game.
CBS like, we don't even know regional games on that.
Everyone wants to watch that one, Like, yeah, we do, Yes.

Speaker 10 (01:00:27):
We do.

Speaker 7 (01:00:29):
And uh, Treigman, Joe Buck and Lisa Salters as you
did the Sielines. I don't even know. I don't know.
I don't think I've watched a full Monday night game
in years. Really, Yeah, Okay, a lot of it is
because I've been working, but I can't remember the last
time I sat down for a Monday night game and said,

(01:00:50):
I got to be in front of it. And it's
funny because not to be the when I was a
kid guy, but I'm gonna go with it. When growing up,
the Monday night game was the game to watch. First
of all, they never gave you a sucking matchup under
any circumstance. Secondly, you had to catch Howard Cosel's halftime
highlights because he was so awesome, and there was never

(01:01:11):
a sucking matchup did they have? Did they flex?

Speaker 9 (01:01:12):
Back?

Speaker 6 (01:01:13):
Then?

Speaker 7 (01:01:13):
They didn't flex, But it felt like to me, you
never had to be mad. But I'm going to assume
there wasn't a lot of Detroit Green Bay in nineteen
eighty seven Monday night football games, OK, A lot of Philadelphia,
a lot of Giants, a lot of US San Francisco AFC,
a lot of Charger games with Dan Fouts, a lot

(01:01:34):
of Miami Dan Marino games. I'll take your word for it. Yeah,
they didn't flex. But the reason why the Monday night
game just doesn't carry the same cache anymore is because
so many more games are nationally televised. Yes, and ESPN
gets screwed on a lot of matchups. That funny. They
spent all this money and look when when Washington Philadelphia? No,

(01:01:56):
what's the monine game?

Speaker 10 (01:01:57):
This week?

Speaker 7 (01:01:57):
Houston Texans, Dallas Cowboys. This Monday was Dolphins Rams. I
watched all of it. When they got that game, they go,
this is gonna be awesome. I think preseason Dolphins Rams
sounded pretty good and it doesn't sound like like a
Tier one like Bill's Chiefs.

Speaker 16 (01:02:12):
Right.

Speaker 7 (01:02:12):
Pretty good. But if you think about it. The best
games of the week typically are on Sunday Night football.
Does I wonder NBC must be paying obscene amounts of
money to get that. Yeah, they seem to get the
best ones. But I think ESPN wasn't there a story
that a couple of years ago they were mad. They
were mad that they were getting bad matchups, and then
they kind of ramped it up and they've been giving
them the double bill games on some of the Mondays.

(01:02:33):
And then I think I think Amazon was getting pissed too.
They're like, I don't want to keep seeing Jacksonville CINCINNTI
playing on Thursday night football. They've been getting everybody gets
a mix now and they try to keep everybody happy.
It's it's this dance that NFL has to do. But
the only people that get a flex is just is
Sunday Night, right, Oh yeah, nobody else can flex. Uh
So recent games as of late, Chiefs Buccaneers month and

(01:02:55):
night that was on paper looking good because you know
the playoffs, Yeah that was good almost what you know
it went to overtime? Did the Steelers Giants come across
the game? That was gonna be a must watch? It
wasn't a must watch. Before that, you had two choices
Baltimore Tampa Bay. That's good. And then you had that
game that was an ESPN Plus only between Arizona and
the Chargers. Well, of course that's an ESPN Plus game

(01:03:17):
it was. That was a decent game too, Bill's Jets
because people like to see Aaron Rodgers apparently, yes they do.
Week before that it was Kansasity New Orleans that felt
fine bad not bad. Was Derek Carr hurt before that?
I think he might have been, and then so and
then they got many of these weeks whether you have
like double two games on the same week, which is

(01:03:38):
really weird, but you know, they stagger him and hoping
that one of them catches a line. Like nobody thought
Bill's Jaguars was gonna be much of a watch, and
it wasn't because the Bill's won forty seven to ten.
But it's just the television landscape has changed in all
the different sports or Monday night football. Would you even
say twenty years ago was the game of the week

(01:03:58):
or do you think since every NBC he got the
Sunday night game that's always been that the main party
has been that one. When esp like twenty years ago,
ESPN had Sunday Night Football, right, yes, and didn't feel
like they were as big as the NBC matchups. Right,
that's just a guy. Yeah. My feel is that that
NBC said, look, we're gonna write you this blank check.
You're gonna give us the best games, and you're by
the way, we're going to tell you to flex some
games too, And they've done that. Yes, they have seven

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Speaker 9 (01:07:28):
When it got to Bragman, I stated, what the long is?
Bragman just has not been the same player since the
changes cannib was exposed. I mean, prior to the chi
candle for the WP candidates bat three hundred belted forty
long bonds and so forth to so long. Since then,
he's been consistently of two sixty or so inter twenty

(01:07:52):
five give a take dingers. Now the glove is still that.
But we all know chicks did the long bomb, but
he was.

Speaker 7 (01:07:58):
In eighteen and nineteen. They weren't cheating in a teen
of nineteen. What happened was they dejuiced the ball. He
hasn't been great since they de used the ball. That's
that's the one of demarcation to me.

Speaker 9 (01:08:07):
Well, well, I'm not even I'm not even insinuating that
the cheating issue in and of itself was the total
reason for Bregman's offensive rold since the I'm just saying
the fact that they were exposed. I mean, I'm assuming
there was probably some adjustments had to be made in
regards to his game because you didn't have that advantage anymore.
But with that said, uh, you're not in baseball. Guys

(01:08:29):
don't get paid for defense. If that's the case, we
would have still had career or Maldonado would have got
a two year extension. The fact of the matter is
you get paid for the offensive numbers you put you
put on paper at the defensive of bonus. I would
love to keep Regman, but I mean, if the market's
gonna i'll price him, then man let the new wall.
I mean, I'm not saying that likely because again, at

(01:08:49):
the end of the day, I like what he brings
to the table, but I'm not gonna overpay you for
a two to sixty bat average and twenty five long ball.
With that said, I'm looking at the Rockets have two
or three games, and I've noticed a trend when it
comes to email Doka number. As you at the game yourself, Matt,
I think you two it Ross. So you guys seen
this up cloas in personal, I've consistently seen him putting

(01:09:12):
in Tarry Easton and Thompson towards the end of the
games as opposed to Jabarbie Smith. I'm wondering if that's
indicative of to me, Jabari doesn't bring in defensive we
like the rest of the guys. He's an average rebounder,
he's shotted, suspect, he's he's infatuated with a three point
line for somebody that six eleven, And I'm wondering if

(01:09:34):
this is uh a foreshadow of them potentially training him
or at some point benching him UH in place that
either Tarry or R.

Speaker 10 (01:09:43):
Thompson.

Speaker 9 (01:09:43):
Just want to hear what you got some guys got
to say about that.

Speaker 7 (01:09:46):
Let us up, Thank you, k Joe. Let me go
back to Bregman first, because it's two interesting conversation pieces.
Well probably will address the Rockets. We can come back.

Speaker 10 (01:09:54):
Ross.

Speaker 7 (01:09:55):
If you and I went to a sports Bar, and
we pulled one hundred Astro fans. I'm talking about, you know, Astros, Karen,
I'm talking about logical been watching games, a regular follow
over the team. Okay, they really love Bragman, yes, but
they sense a little frustration with Bregman because he has

(01:10:16):
been such a slow starter for basically the last five years,
and that he does heat up. He started slow when
he first came up.

Speaker 6 (01:10:24):
Yeah, but it called that.

Speaker 7 (01:10:25):
But when you when you go, when you started his
career that way, and then he wound up finishing with
you know, ops of nine to twenty, you forgot about that.
When the ops struggles to reach eight hundred like it
has the last couple of years, people tend to go.

Speaker 8 (01:10:41):
You know what.

Speaker 7 (01:10:42):
We love you, Briggs. Your third base glove is amazing,
but it's tough watching you the first three months of
the year. So I really believe that kJ is a
fan of a majority of people that says, we don't
want you to leave, but life will go on. And
I believe that some of the charm of Bregman is

(01:11:05):
because he is a such a key cog of the
championship run. Joseel Tuve has been his teammate they've been brothers.
They have been through all the wars. That's why I
think Alec that's why Joseel Tuvey was so passionate about
trying to keep Bragman, because I think he's trying to
keep as much of the past and the goodness of
the best era in Houston Astros history still around. But

(01:11:27):
from a performance standpoint, does Alex Bregman deserve a significant
race based off of offensive production? The answer is no.
Off of defensive production. Of course, he's still one of
the best. You gotta go glove. He's the best at
his position defensively in sports. But does that give you
cause to give somebody a long term contract worth more

(01:11:52):
than maybe the on paper value? Says I love Bregman.
I don't want him to leave. I'd pay him, but
I'm not the one in charge of that. It's Dana
Brown and Jim Crane that are doing that. Yeah, to
answer your question, yes, I mean he is valuable, and
I think a lot of the fan base is and
it does want him here long term. And I think
it's a lot of because of not only what it's
on the field, what we've talked about off the field,

(01:12:13):
as far as game planning with pitchers and all that
type of stuff. And I don't think it's an accident
that jose L two eight came out as strong as
he did about keeping Alex Bregman. And it's not even
necessarily about the narrow what is he worth to the Astros.
It's what is he worth relative to other third basemen.
And that's when Matt Chapman's contract comes into play, and

(01:12:34):
that also when what other teams are willing to pay
him comes into play. And Scott Boris and to a
lesser extent, Alex Bregman are gonna come to the negotiating
table and they're gonna say, Matt Chapman is making what
was that deal? Was like five years, one hundred and
one hundred and sixty or whatever it was, was making
this amount of money. And well, at the end of

(01:12:54):
the day, Alex Bregman is younger and better than Matt
Chapman right now in this stage of their career, so
he's worth more money. It's that simple. So if that's
the case, then why aren't they Why didn't the Astros
do it? Because they don't want to pay him, and
when he's thirty six thirty seven, so they're gonna let
their best, They're gonna let somebody go away in order

(01:13:17):
to avoid paying off bad contracts in the final two
years of a particular player's career. It happens all the time.
It's sunk cost to them, and I totally get it.
We've we've looked and scanned across the baseball as far
as the big deals, like Francisco Lindor's deal. He's bounced back,
but he's had a couple of bad years in that deal.
I don't know Anthony Rendon has been That deal has

(01:13:38):
been a disaster for the Los Angeles Angels. I mean,
Mike Trout's deal has been a disaster, but that's because
of it. Maybe I just get more of Bregman Ain't
worth it calls, and maybe you do. I don't think
it's universally discussed by Astro fans that they've got to
figure out any way anyhow to keep them. I think
I think people are nervous about the fact that other

(01:14:00):
player would be gone, and then how many times can
you let a player go? And ultimately it does hamper
your your future success? Does it go against what Jim
Crane believes is I'm always searching to win a championship.
I mean, it does go against that, and he's still
he's still in the prime of his career, at least defensively.
He is right saying both of those things, saying the
window will always be open if I'm owner, and also

(01:14:21):
saying we're not gonna pay guys over five year deals.
Then those two things don't jive. They just don't. Yeah,
And I think that's where the argument is. Which side
is Jim Crane talking to and which in which side
does he agree with? Seven one three two one two
five seven Dointyes, seven one three two one two five seven.
I mean, I again, personally and professionally, I don't want

(01:14:42):
him to leave. Yeah, it's not my money, Pam, okay,
but you can say that with anybody. I mean, that's
that's what general fan says. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
If you're a general fan, no salary cap. If there's
a salary cap implications, and then it would be different.
But I mean, when when did we did we say
that about Garrett Cole. Sure, we said about carlos Quay, Sure,
we said about Charlie Morton, shirt, we said that about

(01:15:04):
who else we have left?

Speaker 6 (01:15:05):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (01:15:06):
George Springer, Yeah, spring off. Then the Astros that have
a seven hundred million dollar payroll. Yes, speaking of deals
that haven't worked out that George Springer dial. I mean
he's been hurt the entire time up there in Toronto
and they haven't done much of anything. Seven one three
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say that now it'll make a female between twenty and
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There we go the real Tigers of the SEC. Yeah,
that's true. Or is it Auburn or is it uh?
Who's the third Tiger? Lsu? Yeah? Do you feel like
when you're school? I think I've asked his Connor this
on air two before. If you're the Tigers and you're
playing the Tigers and then like two weeks later you
play the Tigers, are you like, you know what our

(01:19:57):
mascot name is? Kind of lame? I don't think anybody
thinks like that at all. Okay, well that's true. I
guess a Cougar fan would say that. Well, I mean,
the reason why nobody wants the Longhorns because it's a
dumb ass name. Why is it? It's a freaking cow
stately about Texas. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm very
excited to be of a cow. Is my master represents
Texas more? A longhorned cattle or a friggin' cougar, along

(01:20:19):
with I don't know BYU and seventy six other schools.
I want to call yourselves the University of Texas ribbi.
So that's what your longhorns are, gonnam eventually be ribbis
are delicious. That sounds great. You know what you know
what your chuckstakes? What you are medium rares, medium rares.
Let me start calling you all the Texas surloins. Okay,
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(01:20:39):
name it least five Houston BYU, Washington State, Chicago State, Yeah,
Cal State, San Marcus, No, Cal States?

Speaker 1 (01:20:50):
Is that?

Speaker 7 (01:20:50):
Just put it on there. Okay, it's non d one,
but that's not fine.

Speaker 10 (01:20:53):
It's fine.

Speaker 12 (01:20:54):
The Cougars are playing the Wildcats and back to back
and then they coming up next to the Tigers and
then the Eagles.

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By the way, shout out to my Cougar basketball team
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it was. The final score was ninety five to forty one.
Sit Downs. Longhorns also had a great win on Tuesday.
Would y'all play? That would be the Cougars of this
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I've done a game of Chicago State many years ago.

(01:21:49):
Is University Texas ranked?

Speaker 15 (01:21:51):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (01:21:53):
They were nineteenth and then they lost to Ohio State.
I don't think they're ranked anything. I mean this in
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uh one to fifty eight. That wasn't great? Watch you
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play Tier twos, we play Tier twos. Big game coming
up for the Longhorns against Mississippi Valley State. That'll be
this Saturday, okay, and then after that next Thursday, Syracuse
acc SEC Challenge. I think it's one of some other

(01:22:34):
sponsored challenge. You know what's crazy is that? And this
is again just trying to separate sports here. When you
have a duke Kentucky played in college basketball a couple
of days ago. I mean you talk about the two
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(01:22:55):
there are two among the group of about five or six. Right, Yes,
did America even care? I didn't watch, but I didn't
know it was on. If it was, I might have
flipped it on. If I did know, Well, you know
that was Cooper Flagg doing.

Speaker 10 (01:23:10):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (01:23:10):
He's supposed to be the number one pick. He had
two terrible plays in the last minute. My wife was
mad at me. I'm like, this is the number one
pick in the draft. I mean, he's good. Did you know?
This just shows you? I don't know if you know
this about so Mark Polpe is the new coach at
Kentucky and they love him. There they're starting five from
that game against d because we actually watched it at
the house internight, all five of the starters were transfer

(01:23:33):
portal guys. Wow, that's I don't think i've ever heard
of that, especially at a school as highly prolific as Kentucky.
Well they're playing well, he had to bring in like
eight new players. It seems like it's every it's every
basketball team. I have to relearn like six seven new

(01:23:55):
players every single year in basketball.

Speaker 10 (01:23:57):
Now.

Speaker 7 (01:23:58):
It's like my daughter is going through this recruiting price
us now and she's like this portal thing. I said, Yeah,
you don't want to be a part of it, but
there's a chance you're going to be. Every sport goes
through this and it's a combination of things. The portal
Either is you're unhappy for one minute and you have
to leave as soon as possible. There's a changing coach
and you don't feel excited about the new coach, or

(01:24:20):
you're at a smaller school and a bigger school find
you and says, hey, come play for us. And then
there's also of you know what, I want some nil
money and this school can't give it to me, but
another school can, so I'm leaving for there. It's basically
one year contracts. That's what it is. That's what exactly
what it is. Yeah, it's like the Longhorns have this

(01:24:45):
this big man Arthur Kaluma he was. He was at
Craton for two years, and he was spent a year
at Kansas State, and now he's at Texas. I mean,
is he getting into the education? Should we even be
worried about it? Apparently he has a degree from Kansas State.
Well that's good. I mean, so at least he's still
going to school. Yeah, but I'm seeing you know, these
college football games that I'm going to. You Age had
to do this, you Age had to go run to

(01:25:05):
the portal because nobody left. The Longhorns have Cougar legend,
tremon mark. He started, he went to he went to
Arkansas and Texas. Texas says he's a graduate student. Well, man,
it's good for him and his masters. You know what,
I don't really begrudge him. If you if you finish
your degree, it's good for him. You're not wasting state money.
Well he got a degree from Arkansas, though, Man, that's

(01:25:27):
like getting it. That's like I'm trying to think of
a parallel. I don't want Toyes receipt is held in
higher esteem than Arkansas. I mean Arkansas. Arkansas is open
to rollment. Right, Yes, she's optional at class I believe,
is that right?

Speaker 10 (01:25:43):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (01:25:44):
I believe you get extra credity if you bring all
your teeth to class, even.

Speaker 17 (01:25:48):
In a jar.

Speaker 7 (01:25:51):
And by the way, you cannot live. You cannot live
in marry with your cousin you can live with them,
says here he he majored in banjo playing right minor
Moonshine production. We don't stare at type here on the show,
not at all. All right, ladies and gentlemen, We're gonna
ask you folks to uh tell us something in your life,
whether it be sports linit or your life in general,

(01:26:11):
that you just don't get. I don't get driving any
miles any minute, drives it down from Kingwood to Houston
to do my radio show.

Speaker 10 (01:26:18):
You get it.

Speaker 7 (01:26:18):
But I get it because I look at my paycheck.
I'm like, oh, I get it.

Speaker 10 (01:26:21):
I get it.

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Just see if we comprehend the thing that they can
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Speaker 8 (01:27:02):
It's time to stay.

Speaker 10 (01:27:03):
I just don't get it.

Speaker 7 (01:27:12):
This is where we get to act as you're not
therapist but mentor guide advisor. We just don't get it.
Something we don't won't get. You got something you don't get,
We're here for you. It's seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two

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five s of an hounty ross. Mine is quite simple. Connor,
you can probably jump in on this one because you
take this route very similar to me every day. Why
is Ways and Apple Maps on two different playing fields here?
What do you mean they give me completely different routes
about having it to work and avoid traffic. They have

(01:27:54):
different algorithms. I don't like either one of them because
they both delay my trips. One is owned by Google
and one is owned by Apple. But what aren't they
Aren't they in the service of providing mes a customer
great service. There's more than one way to skin a cat, Maddie, Well,
I'm not scanning no cat on these on these trips
and a lot of them. I think they base their

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traffic and stuff on on users. So if you, for.

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Speaker 7 (01:30:49):
They use your data. If you are in traffic on
fifty nine and six ten, yeah, then it alerts other drivers.
So if one app has more users on one thing
than the other, then maybe their traffic dad is gonna
be different. I just don't get how they give me
two different worlds, and I know you try to explain
it to me, so thank you for helping me. I'm
still mad. I'm still mad at them. I don't know

(01:31:11):
which one to trust, and frankly, I don't trust either one.
To switch it up, I'm going to I tried. I
went Apple Map today and I got screwed. I run
both actually, and what do you how do you feel
about it? You open both apps at the same time
on your phone.

Speaker 12 (01:31:22):
Yeah, as I in the morning, I see I hit
the address on both the apps, and I see what's given.

Speaker 7 (01:31:28):
Me interesting hmmm. Apple Maps used to be the absolute worst.
Now they turned it around, It's actually pretty good. I
would say Apple has made made some ground up against Ways.
Ways makes me get off on strange streets in very
bad parts of town, and I still feel like I'm
not doing I'm just just going in forty different directions. Yeah,

(01:31:50):
there's there's a meme and it's something to the effect
of Apple Maps. I'll get you there in fifteen minutes,
Google Maps, I'll get you there in twelve minutes. Ways,
I'll get you there in eight mans. And it's go
through this guy's driveway and go through this guy's living room. Yeah.
Another thing, going back to yesterday, I just don't get
why the Conservancy all of a sudden said let's have

(01:32:10):
a press conference and embarrass ourselves because that's what you
did yesterday. It was routinely shot down by anybody, most
importantly the Rodeo and the Texans that said, you know what,
leave the isoor alone. It's our yore. We're not gonna
get rid of it. We're not gonna expand on it,
We're not going to improve on it. But why the
need yesterday to have the press conference? Is there pressure?

(01:32:31):
There was pressure twenty years ago to have the astrodome
replaced or fixed or remodeled or torn down. I just
don't get why in twenty twenty four they had to
get together yesterday. I guess there is some pressure, some
internal pressure because they founded the thing in twenty one, right, yeah,
it's like three years you know, can we what's the plant?

(01:32:53):
And I guess they had they're so invested. Whoever this
Phoebe two doors?

Speaker 10 (01:32:58):
No? What is?

Speaker 7 (01:32:58):
Do you think Phoebe's husband like blank or get off
the pot? I don't know about that. I you know
what I'm calling my shot now? Yeah, I think mister
Tudor is like Phoebe, Look, I've given you this play
money because I'm rich and I need you to stay
away from me while I go gamble and lake Charles
for a few days and hang out with some friends.
Here's a couple hundred thousand dollars, knock yourself out. What

(01:33:20):
do you want to use it towards? I think I'll
think I'll start a conservancy. I wonder if mister Tudor said,
missus tutor, phoebes, it's not febs, he's phoebe to me,
pete o, you got about three years to figure this out.
If not, we're getting our money out of this. I mean,
it's a ridiculous plan. And you got the Rodeo and

(01:33:40):
the operators of the energy park not on board with it.
It's a waste of everyone money. If you you know what,
if you donated to that, you deserve to lose your
money because they needed to tear down the dome for
years and years and years. It's a condemned building. It
hasn't had an event in there for twenty two years.
If there were piles of money to be made with it,
it would have already been done. Yep. I just don't

(01:34:01):
get it. I don't get it either. I got one
food I do we get it. Actually, people are sentimental
and people have like quarter brain and can't let go
of the past some people. I got one more for
you seven one three two one two five seven ninety
Here is Here is what I just don't get. Okay.
I went to rick Role yesterday for breakfast, okay, and

(01:34:21):
got a bacon cheese biscuit, no egg.

Speaker 6 (01:34:25):
No egg.

Speaker 7 (01:34:26):
Yeah, that's the best part, the bacon. The bacon's the
best part. It's a breakfast. Stay with me on this.

Speaker 6 (01:34:32):
I don't get you.

Speaker 7 (01:34:35):
Wouldn't that essentially be the exact same thing as a
sausage biscuit with cheese.

Speaker 15 (01:34:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:34:42):
They charged me for the bacon, egg and cheese without
the egg. And I asked him, I said, well, aren't
I essentially just replacing one pork product for another? Should
I be charged the sausage sausage biscuit with cheese price?
And she said, sir, that's just the way it came out,
is that when you take the egg off, you're paying
for the egg, whether you want it or not. She's like, sir,

(01:35:03):
I'm making twelve dollars an hour, will you and I
have to tell you it's my pleasure. Will you shut
your bum ass up and in so get it move
up the line, I say, charging me for the bacon,
egg and cheese without the egg, and they should be
charged me for the sausage biscuit. I just don't get it.
I get it. Bacon's bacon be can be more expensive
than sausage. That's exactly what I was about to say.

(01:35:24):
Isn't bacon pricier than sausage in general? Over wait a minute,
one little slab of bacon is going to cost significantly
more than one little slab of sausage. It's not significantly.
It's about costs. Matthew By played twelve cents, So you're
trying to grift one of the drifting for value. You're
asking for handouts. No, I paid for it. Of course
I paid for it. I lost my black card many

(01:35:46):
moons ago. That's a different, different time. Those are good times. Yeah, God,
I love the cards. You get a black card. Oh
we had. We used to get rick Relay black cards,
which would get entitled you to one free entree, one day,
free meal per day. I've heard. Yeah, that's when their
marketing department was good. I don't know if you know
this at kind of but ross and rare, kind of
a big deal. Oh okay, it's cold. Well then, yeah,

(01:36:09):
now you know corporate cutbacks well, no, no, no, no, no,
that wasn't the reason.

Speaker 6 (01:36:12):
Why really, what was it?

Speaker 7 (01:36:14):
People abusing it? Somebody somebody went on their Instagram account
and showed off the black card. And the number one
thing about the black card is you don't talk about
the black cars. It's like fight club. Who did that?
They ruined it for all of us.

Speaker 6 (01:36:25):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 7 (01:36:26):
I believe it was a disc jockey for ninety seven
nine in the box. Are you serious? Rick Rolet had
to face a lot of backlash from other media people
that didn't get the black card because the other girl
was bragging about her black card. Oh my god, you idiots. Yeah,
so now we then we went to getting a bunch
of just gift cards, and now they don't give us

(01:36:46):
anything at all. Yeah, I thought it was cool. I
want my I want my bacon cheese biscuit and sausage
cheese biscuit priced. This is what's wrong with America. You
can't just have something nice. You can't just have a
black card. You gotta try to stunt on everybody and
show how important you are. You gotta run to your
Instagram and post your Chick fil A black card, and

(01:37:07):
you ruin it for everyone. Else exactly. And I want
to rule about black card. Is you don't talk about
the black card. That's annoying. Now I'm upset. I didn't
know about that. Yeah, I thought they were just going
cheapo on them. No, no, no, I used to take
days off till I can go to the meetings. You
had to you had to go to the meetings to
get the card, you had to go to the meeting

(01:37:28):
to pick it up, and then you had to make
your oath that you would only get one entree per day, which,
by the way, a member of the iHeartMedia team doesn't
do that. I will mention his name. Michael Marfield. Okay,
America's guest. You two two pieces of a pot you No, no, no, no.
Michael Marfield gets multiple Chick fil A meals per day
and he's a chat and cutter and a first day

(01:37:50):
when you get a free yambo yak for the Texan
score and touchdowns or whatever, he goes to like four
of them. He's got like six large drinks, six for
you rumbo racks. Yeah, what don't you get Rossie. I'm
gonna say this, and you're gonna say I get it,
But I'm still gonna say it go ahead. What's going

(01:38:10):
on with this Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight. Mike Tyson
is fifty eight years old, he was recently hospitalized with ulcers.
He looks like he can hardly move.

Speaker 6 (01:38:22):
He is in there.

Speaker 7 (01:38:23):
They're they're selling out Jerry World for a YouTuber and
a boxer who hasn't fought professionally in twenty years. What
is wrong with America? I don't get how this fight
is still happening. And I also don't get how Jake
Paul is only like a minus two twenty. Now, look,

(01:38:47):
I don't don't. Don't let me tell you something. Don't
bet on it. No, hey, money is money. No no, no, no, no,
don't do it. It's this This thing looks like it
is gonna It's like a wrestling it's already been predetermined.
I will bet on two rats in a race. I
don't care. Don't do it. I'm telling you, I don't
do it. I wouldn't. I don't want you to doing it.
I don't want you throwing your money away. Don't. I
bet on Roulette wheels, I bet on the You can't

(01:39:07):
watch it, but don't bet on it. Belgium League two
soccer I don't care. I'll bet on it. It's fine,
But I don't really have a bookie right now. But
if you want to be on a bookie at sports
RV minus two twenty seems like free money, right. He's
fifty eight years old and recently hospitalized. Hopefully I'm wrong

(01:39:29):
on this, because if I'm wrong, then Mike Tyson, you
said the stadium is gonna be full. Yes, and there's
been pay per free money. It's on Netflix, Netflix who
paid to have this event? Yes, I totally get it.
How why can you watching? Because look at reality television
there are forty nine editions of Real Housewives. The Kardashians
are still a thing. I totally get it, all right,
you have something you just don't get. This is so Connor,

(01:39:51):
I know, living his life, and his best life is
in his twenties, cutting rugs, hanging out with chicks. Yeah,
enjoying Missouri football. He's got something he doesn't get. We'll
get down how much he's enduring football. They won last
week to beat Oklahoma. I've been a lot of hard
attack games too, and then a lot of bad losses. Yeah,
seven one three, two, one two five seven out of
If there's something you don't get like somebody bashing on
Missouri football or somebody bashing on a lovely woman who's

(01:40:14):
just trying to live her best life through Twitter and photos.
Attention whore. It's fine, and she got your attention.

Speaker 13 (01:40:21):
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Speaker 7 (01:44:04):
Connorney mcgovernor's a producer of this radio program. He's the
youngest of the three of us, and he tells us
what he just doesn't get so the fans throwing water,
bolls and objects in the field has been a problem
this season. Uh, but Texas Tech throwing the tortillas on
the field. I just don't get that. I don't know
if it's some sort of tradition, tradition it is, okay,
but the fact.

Speaker 12 (01:44:24):
That Deon Sanders was complaining and then the Texas Tech
coach had to get into the mic and tell people
to stop, Like why why did Texas Tech people think
that's a cool thing to do?

Speaker 7 (01:44:35):
You know, I'm bored. I can't speak to this honestly
because I didn't go there. My wife went there for
a short time. My son graduated. I my oldest did
you know, why don't we call him? You know, you
could actually call Cam he's one of your Saint Thomas
brother and he could give you the answer to that.
I don't even know. Daz Are, one of our listeners,
is a Texas Tech grand I mean, she's she's a

(01:44:56):
fan of thirty different schools, so maybe she doesn't an
answer to this, But I don't know. It's I think
it's just tradition. Better than in batteries. Well, they throw
those two mm at the I believe people that I
know that were in the Longhorn band say the absolute
worst place to go to is Lubbock. They throw stuff,
They're rude. Why throw Yeah, Google says. While there isn't

(01:45:20):
a confirmed reason, one theory claims that it started after
an ESPN announcer said that Lubbock, Texas quote had nothing
but Texas Tech football and a tortilla factory. That makes
perfect sense. Now here's the issue. If Texas Tech really
wanted to get it stopped. I mean, I know a
lot of women put tortillas in their purses. Yeah, but
it's the thousands of people they smuggle them in. Think

(01:45:44):
about it. If guys don't wear fanny packs, which you
shouldn't be wearing. No, man, it's it called a cross
body back. Now it's a hard note for me. Let's
get you a Let's get you a family putting him
in sol women joggers. Why can't we get you a
fanny pack?

Speaker 10 (01:45:58):
Now?

Speaker 7 (01:45:58):
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That's good, expensive, but very much comfortable.

Speaker 6 (01:46:10):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (01:46:11):
You know, Connor, The answer is I get it because
it's just tradition. I just think it's kind of No.
I don't get it. No, but you don't get it
because you don't know why it started or why it happens.
It's stupid. I'm with Connor, get together Red Raiders. We're
gonna hey, guys, all right, I'm gonna put a bunch
of tortillas down my pants and then we're gonna throw
them at the game. Okay, if that's if, Bro, if

(01:46:34):
that's what you're thinking, then then how do you get
not am I having female cheerleaders. I'm gonna put I'm
gonna put some. Yeah, that's stupid too. While we're here.
Why wouldn't they have female chip They got a bunch
of guys in milkman outfits screaming a bunch of stupid
this and that problem and hissing at people testing you
always do it makes that's time I heard, but that

(01:46:56):
it was in a stay real knee slapper.

Speaker 10 (01:46:59):
Bro.

Speaker 7 (01:47:00):
By way, you always go to the milkman card. There
is not a single human being in this audience that
had a milkman come to their house. Some people are
fathered by milkman around here. Oh, I don't doubt that
you ever been you've had a milkman come to your house,
Connor in your life? What's a milkman? That's exactly my point.
I never seen a milkman either, but I haven't either,
you know what I'm saying. But there are there is,
there is outfits. There is a company out there you

(01:47:21):
want to go. It's in Saling insane Asylum. Orderly that's
what they dress. That's actually, that's pretty close. It's pretty close.
Carlos in downtown at eleven fifty five. Carlos, what don't
you get, my friend?

Speaker 17 (01:47:33):
You know, I don't get why we have so many
streaming services Thursday Night Football, Monday Night Football, Sound.

Speaker 7 (01:47:40):
And Night Football, smag Down Raw.

Speaker 16 (01:47:43):
Now HBO does NBA too, Apparently. I don't know what
everybody else is doing, but I having a hard time
finding in my sports.

Speaker 10 (01:47:51):
What do you guys think?

Speaker 7 (01:47:52):
You know what I'm telling you, Carlos, this is I
totally don't get it either. But the answer, Carlos, my friend,
is very simple. These streaming services are cutting hillatiously big checks. Yes,
next year, if you're an NBA fan, you're gonna have
to go to Peacock and Amazon Prime to watch a
lot of your basketball games two different streaming services. Great, right,

(01:48:17):
now you have to go to zero? Wait is this right?
Somebody just tweeted me shout out to Tide Turns. The
weirdest part about A and M and cheerleaders is they
actually have girl cheerleaders. They just don't let them cheer
at football games that I see them dancing at. They
have dance teamers at basketball games. They don't have an

(01:48:40):
Amazon I remember. No, there's gotta be something if that's true.
So what do they hang out?

Speaker 10 (01:48:47):
Like?

Speaker 7 (01:48:48):
Sorry, ladies, we're gonna focus on football. Here you gotta go.
We're gonna have a bunch of these guys in full
white outfits dance around and twirl. And here's the thing,
lee Ye. What I would want to do if I
was an aggie is I would have let those yellow
leaders do do their thing. But I would have to
write their material because their material is so horrifically bad.

(01:49:10):
So how are you gonna help? Because I'm I'm I've
got great, great comedic style. Okay, I just do Okay,
we see the improv. I mean I could do some
stand up if I needed to. Point being is this
we make fun of you because not only do you
look stupid, but you wear stupid outfits and you say
stupid things other than that you're great, your great school.

(01:49:31):
That's I've told u to my my middle son. Peyton's aid, Peyton,
you are getting the greatest education you possibly can get.
I'm so proud of you that you love everything. But
I said, the only thing I just don't get and
I will never get. I don't care how long my
son is an alum and gets to do all of
any things he wants to do as an aggie. The
yell leader bit is ridiculous. It's it's just stupid. It's
their tradition, Matt, the only ain't no one else likes.

(01:49:53):
So Texa Tech has tortillas, Yes, and A and M's
got stupid yell leaders and longhorns throw water bottle onto
the field and by you people get smacked with them.
You know what that was? You know what now you
just reminded me? Can we stop with the water bottle stuff?
That didn't a cheerleader nearly get knocked cold out by
a full water bottle? Yeah?

Speaker 12 (01:50:14):
Somebody just called me and said, the reason Texas Tech
fans were throwing stuff is because Shador Sanders was taunting
the fans like, well, how about you just win the game?

Speaker 10 (01:50:22):
Then?

Speaker 7 (01:50:22):
Yeah, how about you not throw things onto the field.
There's no excuse for it now, man, I got that
Red Raiders back?

Speaker 10 (01:50:28):
You do? Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:50:29):
Most guys. Yeah, it's good school. I love. I love
going to Lubbock. Oh okay, when's the hell? How many
times have you been there since your son graduated? Once? Okay, once,
that's good. I've never been to Lubbock. Every time you
make splay sex second football, I will be there. Oh okay,
well that's for work. Okay. How much have you gone for?
Not for socializing?

Speaker 9 (01:50:52):
How man?

Speaker 10 (01:50:52):
Go back?

Speaker 7 (01:50:53):
It's just too long to drive. It's good. Not on
the bucket list, the love of Texas. Sorry. The News
at noon is eleven fifty eight on Sports Talk seven.

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Ninety lunchtimers, This is the Matt Thomas Show.

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Twelve o three on Sports Talk seven.

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the TV anchor voice that he does every day. It's
I hear the music, it's Pavlovian. I can't. I can't
help it. But if you're gonna do that, sound authoritative,
not sound like fake like. I'll give you an example.
Watch this. This is me doing the hurricane Here we
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(01:51:53):
for Hurricane Beryl coverage. I'm Matt Thomas. It's one twenty
five in the morning. And here's our this morning's top headlines.
See that's that's news authorityator. Yeah, whatever, this is you. Hey, everybody,
this is the news. This is the News at noon.
On sports job, Well, you're a You're more like the
lead anchor, and I'm more like the funny sports guy.
You're the whack job. Did you get WAT job uniforms?

Speaker 10 (01:52:15):
Mad?

Speaker 7 (01:52:15):
Christmas came early?

Speaker 10 (01:52:16):
It d RG.

Speaker 7 (01:52:17):
Don't don't be TV guy. Don't do it. It's not
it's not bad. I can't let you be there looking
like Christmas trade ornaments. On Sunday night weren't they, Matt.
All right, time now for the news at noon. Here's
some less nessman, wanna be go ahead? All right, Matt,
let's keep it going here on this wonderful four hour program.
I was still getting tweets if you're not aware, No,

(01:52:38):
the show isn't just starting now. We are on from
ten am to two pm here on the Matt Thomas Show.
What's happened to lunch timers? By the way, what is
happening lunch timers? Well, I'm gonna tell you right now.
Rodeo Houston and NRG Park operators respond to the ambitious
one billion dollar plan to save the astrodom. This from
Amber Elliott of the Houston Chronicle base the Rodeo, and

(01:53:02):
this the NRG Park operators with Harris County, the Harris
County Sports and Convention Corporation, both of them are not
on board with this new plan. That's it. Yeah, Well,
sound bit like, do you tell Phoebe to get off
the stage? We're not spending one dime on the Astrodome. Well,

(01:53:25):
here was the statement made by Bishop James Dixon, a
chairman of the Harrison County Again, Bishop James Dixon, something
else of Harris County Sports and Convention Corp. We respect
the efforts of the Astrodome Conservancy and have seen their
proposed concept. Over the last few years, we have seen
several concepts that, while thought provoking, haven't resulted in viable

(01:53:48):
funding and maintenance solutions. We are currently working with Harris
County and a team of industry leading experts to plan
for the future of NRG Park. The solution for the
Astrodome must be decided within that context, i e. Get
away from us, leave us alone, your idea sucks, and

(01:54:09):
we're moving on. We cannot consider Yes, you can translate that.
That basically translates from this, we cannot consider any future
vision for Energy Park without first understanding certain baseline financial
information related to the astrodome. Basically, he's saying, shut your
bumb ass up. This is not going to make money,
this is a terrible plan, and we've been wasting all
of our time. Yeah, basically what we've heard for the

(01:54:30):
last twenty years. Yes, Matthew. Elsewhere in the news, the
latest is not necessarily news, but Buster Olney of ESPN
has put out a tweet talking about Alex Bregman and
a possible landing spot for the Astros gold glove third
basement buster Olney, saying that as he's been pulling around

(01:54:51):
with industry insiders that one person has said, a rival
executive or evaluator, that he would not be surprised if
the Philadelphia Phillies were a landing spot for Alex Bregman. Matthew,
is your reaction, Can I tell you when he leaves?

(01:55:12):
Because I believe it's still at nine to nine point
one percent he leaves, it would be easier for me
if he plays for a National League team kind of
definitely don't want him going. Well, Tigers is fine. I
guess in division would really be either Red Sox or
what is the worst case scenario. I'm gonna go Mariners, Yo,
Yankees for me because they're gonna lose one Soto. Not

(01:55:34):
that once that replaces the Matts Bragman is the backup plan.
I could see that. Yeah, I again, not that that's
an equal change, but uh, the Dominos can't are gonna
have to fall that way. And oh, by the way,
you're gonna if he is a Yankee, you're gonna see
Alex Bregman on fifteen to twenty national broadcast a year
or if you're Phillies. He may be on two or
three times. We don't get a lot of Phillies games

(01:55:55):
down here, and you only see the Astros and Phillies
play once once a year. So yeah, I I could
live with that. From the rival evaluator quote the Phillies
land Alex Bregman, his swing translates in that park strong
defense lost lots of postseason scar tissue. Yes, I interpret
that as he's lost a lot. He's been there. It

(01:56:20):
just looks through the wars he's he needs to go
somewhere else to try to get one more change in it.
And frankly, Philadelphia a perennial playoff team last half dozen years,
right ROSSI Yes, so he's going somewhere. He's going from
a maybe a ship that is making it. They're passing
in the night. I was gonna say, I don't want
to say sinking if that's not what I'm He's surfing

(01:56:41):
from one one crashing wave and finding a rising wave.
I don't like that one either. Okay, well whatever, fine,
screw you final play. We'll still play one of your highlights.
What's back is palis so Paula is still lose in
the middle of the pin the middle of the pain
picked up by Vampleet goes up the mad court. Sorry reason,
he said, stop try that, try that again. That's terrible.

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Hold on, I'm gonna avoide some god should not be
treated like that. I didn't hear Jim nance on the call.
Oh that's so nice. Hold on, I'm trying to open
it up in our audition program we have let's try
look back is no good bye? Miller ball is still
lose in the middle of the paint, picked up by
Van Bleek goes up to make court. Hair cups to
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Speaker 7 (02:00:26):
Matt, you've been ripping out rockets win five of the
last six times. I've had a lot of postgame guests.
Usually we only have postgame guests when we win. Oh
is that true? Yeah? I didn't even know that, so Jalen.
The first question I asked him was what do you
think it was? Should you hear it? Jalen Green, I
think I tuned out. Now who has a better wind mill?
Jam him or Tari? I'm sure he said himself, and
he set himself normally, but he gives Tarri credit for

(02:00:47):
last night. Okay, that's cool. Yeah, it was a two
handed windmill. It's like Dominique Wilkins style. It was good.
He had a chance to actually sit back and think
about it for a second because there was no one
coming back for the Clippers to try to defend it.
Amen Thompson and Tarry Easton, known now as the Terror twins.
How about this for a terror tin twin stat line,
both of them with eighteen points, one of them with

(02:01:09):
ten rebounds, the other with eleven, one with a stealing,
the other with two, one with the block, the other
with two flipped. They are the terror twins. Amen Thompson
and Tari easton the league on notice a lot of
national media types noticing how well they played defensively, and
I mean eighteen points a piece. Nothing to sneeze at either, Matthew.
The Rockets looking good and they opened Group A Western

(02:01:32):
Conference play in the NBA Cup on Friday. I don't
mean to make this about me, but I'm going to
Can we go to the Vigas put that on a
really want to do the show from Vegas? That's We're
gonna put that on your gravestone. I don't mean to
make this about me. How does the mad Thomas Ethos
words to live by? Feel?

Speaker 10 (02:01:55):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (02:01:55):
And then one quick note as well, Matthew, have you
heard about the Alex Jones info wars ordeal?

Speaker 10 (02:02:02):
I have not.

Speaker 7 (02:02:03):
Well. He is the conspiracy theorist who was sued by
the Sandy Hook parents who lost their children in that tragedy,
and he tried to claim it with a hoax while
he lost a defamation suit, and apparently there was an auction,
a bankruptcy auction, info Wars website up for sale. It
was bought by the Onion. So one fake news outlet

(02:02:25):
bought by another. What is the value on that? Do
you have any idea?

Speaker 9 (02:02:28):
I have no idea.

Speaker 7 (02:02:28):
It wasn't made public. And well now they're trying to
make me sign up for No, don't pay for it. No,
disabled my ad blocker, jerks, Because here's the thing. You
don't when you have some of these pop up fake
news organizations, you don't know what's the truth and what's not.
I've heard of info Wars for the last twenty years.
During the for you during the election, I was looking

(02:02:49):
for you quite a bit. I didn't know what to believe. Yeah,
that's why I'm trying to get off Twitter. Find me
on blue Sky at sports rvkds at sports RV if
I dump Twitter and go to blue Sky. What is
the advantage of blue Sky over the other ones? I
think it's supposed to be it's a The problem is
it's a small community and it's supposed to be like

(02:03:09):
less toxic. But once it grows. It's gonna get toxic.
This is how we were, this is America. I think
it is gonna be more people with like fake news
and all that type of stuff. It's probably just gonna
end up going over there. So it kind of doesn't
matter because I mean, what I'm getting is nothing but
bots all the time. I've lost about one hundred and
twenty five followers. I think it's people are turning their

(02:03:30):
Twitter a council. Well yeah, and the bots did their job, yeah,
just putting out basic political rhetoric.

Speaker 10 (02:03:37):
M yeah.

Speaker 7 (02:03:37):
I mean, like the election's over, maybe they'll be back
for the next election. I don't know. By the way,
you're getting ripped on by Rolando. That bag you were
talking about the guys wear, uh huh. It's called a
sling and comes in quite handy. Don't be in the
anderthal he's talking about you. You're the one saying that
people can't wear them. I didn't say people couldn't wear them.
You know what, shut your bomb ass up, grown ass

(02:03:59):
mentioned I be wearing slings. Sorry, it's ridiculous. It's ridiculous.
A goof hmm, yeah, I said it.

Speaker 10 (02:04:10):
Fight me.

Speaker 7 (02:04:12):
We as adult men, when we see other guys wearing slings.
We make fun of you, We just do. I don't.
That's because you're perfect and you don't make fun of
anybody if you want to, if you want to. You
just called Taylor a w horr. A couple of hours ago.
I set attention horror. You called her a horror?

Speaker 8 (02:04:26):
We have connor?

Speaker 9 (02:04:27):
Do we have uh?

Speaker 7 (02:04:28):
Do we have evidence of what you what you call
the lovely, beautiful sweet til Taylor matth time for a
break here on the program. I think we've got time
for this, don't we not.

Speaker 12 (02:04:37):
I don't have it yet, but if you want to
hear it, it'll be at ten am and at noon tomorrow.

Speaker 7 (02:04:42):
Oh baby, yes, it's the weekly open. Look, Matt, you
want to make fun of people for wearing scarves, You
want to make fun of people for wearing body bags
and all that type stuff. I mean cross body bags.
That's that's up to you. Cross body bags. That's nice
and sometimes we're glad you got a cross body blag.
I have one question for you. Yes, why do you care?

Speaker 8 (02:05:01):
Who cares?

Speaker 7 (02:05:01):
Because the guy's coming after me, so I'm coming back
at him. But you started it. If you want to
wear a cross body bag or a panty pack, can
wear a fanny pack. You'll be made fun of. It's good.
You want to people make fun of me for a
arriety of things. You put on five five scarves and
put on your fanny pack and you're happy. That's good.
Doesn't bother me. Not because you look like a door
doesn't mean anything to anybody. Yeah, just do you do you?
Everybody can be That movie is so cool and yeah

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We are the Terror Twins. You're the Lulu Twins twelve
fifty eight on Sports Talk seven ninety you just call
us the Lulu Twins. What's the matter with you?

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Houston Lunchtimers, Lunch Timers.

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This is the Matt Thomas Show, twelve twenty two on
Sports Sock seven nine. We've got the Justin Timberlake tickets,
not one pair, but two to give away today on
today's edition. To believe it or not if you can
get the questions, All right, what is today's topic? Do
we have something coming up? Justin Timberlake? Part two? Electric
Boogloo might be a lot of made up ones today. Yeah,

(02:07:40):
that feels and talk about his role in Trolls and
Trolls Part two. How about famous twins? We were talking
about the Terror Twins earlier. Oh, okay, Minnesota Thompson Thompson Twins,
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(02:08:05):
Who else are famous twins? Uh Tall, the Wonder Twins,
Taylor's famous twins. Did you already say the Olsen twins? Olsen? Yeah?
How about yeah, well a little yeah, we can do
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other night, coach U Doka was asked about who he
would compare now we get get get away the password
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(02:08:26):
who he would compare Tarry Easton to and he brought
up Kawhi Leonard. Last night he was asked who he
would compare a man Thompson to and he said auser
Thompson as a joke or okay laugh? Oh did they okay? Yeah,
that he made He's called a youngster that is high praise,
is getting a pair compared to Kawhi Leonard. But ouser

(02:08:49):
is being able to is finally able to resume basketball activities,
he said, blood clott issues for many months. No, that's good. Yeah,
not good at all. And there's a there's a Patriots
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(02:09:50):
I hope they keep winning eight out of every twelve games.
We will actually, for the first time, as me, being
the full time radio play by play voice, be able
to have deep co conversation. It's not like Ex's and No's,
but at least good regular conversations about the Rockets team,
pre and post game, Rockets, launch Pad, playoffs, playoffs. That

(02:10:11):
sounds good. Because Clan has been wanting to travel with
me forever. I'm like, I don't think Teresa's gonna let you.
Oh no, now, Wax will be able to go because Robin,
it's not like clan does anything around the house, does
he I don't know. Changing light bulbs doing the launch.
I mean he's working on his pool installing the water
new hotter heater, yeah, and the lammaging in the pool

(02:10:32):
and working on her two different things. That's exactly right.
But it'll be fun, I hope. So I cannot wait
for basketball to be relevant again in this community. It's been,
you know, look a little uptick last year. But forty
one and forty one doesn't move the needle when it
comes to sports fandom in this town. I'm I thought

(02:10:54):
you were a little you feel good. I still feel
good about forty eight. When you said forty eight, I
was like, that's a little much. But so far I'm
pacing above on average. Some good tests are coming up,
but the question is who in the West is going
to take that drop. They didn't look like they were
in Oklahoma City Thunders League. We have to be honest.

(02:11:17):
They had a furious comeback against the Warriors, but they
got down as much as thirty one in that game.
So we do have to temper our enthusiasm somewhat right now.
The Mavericks win was good. The thunder are ten and two,
Golden State's nine and two, so Golden State's not going away.
Phoenix is not going away. Denver is seven and three
and probably feeling it should better than that. The Rockets

(02:11:38):
are right now the five seeded eight and four. The
Lakers are the sixth seed. The four teams below them
are Memphis, Sacramento, the Clippers in San Antonio, San Antonio
six and six. By the way, Oh did you see
Wemby did last night?

Speaker 15 (02:11:51):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (02:11:51):
You mean that bum stiff just a guy? Course, what
did you call him that? According to some which who
who said that rhymes of shmandame Shmanton Samanah Shanton said
he was just a bum. He said, Oh no, I don't.
I think his official wording was stiff and just a guy.
Fifty burger. Now Grant is against the Wizards. Hey, nobody
in the Rockets drop fifty against the Wizards. No, and

(02:12:13):
not every night. The Wizards are giving up fifty particular
player and I mean he is he is that spurs
offense against a bad team. And he had been shooting
very poorly from three, but has made six or more
in three straight games. You know what, this is actually
making me sad? What's that? You know how you make
me root against the Cougars because you talk about how much,
how great they are. Yeah, Clinton's making me root for

(02:12:35):
Wimby because he's talking about how bad he is. No, no, no, no,
I'm never gonna go this is your fault. Adam Clanton,
dang it. I mean he's incredible. Let me tell you
that in sports talk radio, we are getting We are
paid for our opinions. That's true. Every opinion we give.
We'd like to be right, but we're not. Now the

(02:12:56):
really bad talk show host will always say, for instance, uh,
I'm gonna prove you right, no matter what the case
may be.

Speaker 10 (02:13:05):
You can't do that.

Speaker 7 (02:13:05):
I'm not saying Adam does it. I'm saying you can't.
For instance, I don't think Deon Sanders is a good
human being at all. I don't think he's a very
good coach. But guess what, the results of this year
are proving me wrong, and I can take an l
on certain things. He's got Colorado on a very fast
path towards a Big Twelve championship game, which means if

(02:13:27):
you win that championship game and there's no dominant team
in the Big Twelve except for b William b will
you doesn't feel like it's overly dominant. They barely They
barely beat Utah, a team that had lost what four
or five in a row before that. I gotta give
Dionnis Flowers. I don't want to because I don't like him.
Season's not over and Wemby. We in this community wanted

(02:13:48):
Wemby in the worst way. The owner of the Houston Rockets,
Tillman J. Fertita, was praying for Wemby. Pray for Victor,
Pray for Victor. Everybody in their mother wanted him generational talent.
Especially in today's NBA draft world, we're really after the
first pick. You're just praying for something. Mm hmm. He's

(02:14:10):
gonna be a thrown on the side. Not only did
he get drafted not by the Rockets, but he got
drafted to a team in the same division three hours away.
Now does he stay there long term? Who knows. That's
just two different thing. But I just but I refuse
to look at the guy with as much success as
he had and say I don't like him because he's
going he's not playing for the Rockets. I can't. I
can't do that. There's one thing to not like him,

(02:14:31):
but also to evaluate him as as going to be
just a guy in a stiff I mean, but I mean,
we've had, we've had plent on go ahead.

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Speaker 7 (02:17:14):
Guys his of his frame, yes, tend to break down.
So it's not like it's it's completely out of the
out of the realm of possibility that Wemby could be
just a guy. So I'm gonna defend at him on
that point. Okay, Well you can defend him, and we've
had him on this show and I don't even really
mean to bring this up, but we can do it.
But no, when he's on the floor, it's his long
term health and his on court play are two different things.

(02:17:35):
Ched Holmgren is great when he's on the floor, but
now he's got a broken pelvis and he missed the
season with at least fronk injury. We're worried about his
long term health. He's HP if it's only his we're
talking about on the court. Calling him Hill level, yeah,
and that's on the floor. Is calling him a stiff
He's not. He doesn't shoot too many threes, absolutely, but
last tight he was good at it. Needs to he
needs to develop some sort of back to the basket game.

(02:17:57):
I don't know if he'll ever do that, but if
you could do that and develop a baby hook of
some sort mid range, I mean, he he blocked shots,
he's a frequent protects, he rebounds, he dishes the ball,
he does hit outside shots. He's gonna be really good.

Speaker 10 (02:18:16):
Now.

Speaker 7 (02:18:16):
There are sometimes I've had sports takes that I've hit
on and I've been very proud of that. I never
thought Ben Simmons was gonna be great coming out of college.
I just thought he was just Yeah. This is two
different things. Saying a coach that went four and eight
and then was blowing up at the media and losing
a bunch of people in the transfer portal is not
going to be a successful coach. Is different than calling
a generational talent who's dropping fifty a stiff. It's two
different things. Well, oh, I know is that I can't

(02:18:36):
be I can't bat a thousand and every time somebody
wants to go on Twitter and tell me that I
said something that was wrong, I'll take the l on it,
but you don't be rude about it. Yeah, well, you
mean again, I wish everybody was one hundred percent everything
they did, But it's not about that. It's about degrees
of being wrong saying it's But still I still will
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(02:18:58):
and again give him credit, I mean to mix sports
on you here, but the way Dion conducts his business,
I don't think it's as a has a long shelf life.
There's just something that I don't think so either I
don't I can't pinpoint it, but I don't know if
it's it's just because he's so brass brash about things,

(02:19:18):
whether he's relied on his kids, whether he is I
don't know, but it just looks like to me, I
would rather go down the nick sabing route of running
a football program than Dion's because I still watch Colorado
games and I still see fourth quarter coaching mistakes like you,
and believe horrible use of timeouts, running play past plays

(02:19:41):
with a minute fifteen, trying the dream clock just because
you're trying to add to the scorecard. It's just ain't
get he just rubbed me the wrong way. So I'm
not rooting for him. Okay, but I'm not. But I'm
not rooting.

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I'm not.

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(02:22:21):
I try to wake up every morning and be the
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Speaker 16 (02:23:30):
I land.

Speaker 7 (02:23:31):
I said, I've never go on this again. The yoke,
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Grand Canyon in four hour ride I'm like, oh, hell no,
m yeah, I don't want to be in a helicopter.
I'm good, You're good. It's not two things. I'm I'm
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I mean there's been other accents, Kelly Bryan and others. Right,
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Speaker 10 (02:24:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (02:24:04):
Thursdayight football game. It's good. Texans are back at play.

Speaker 10 (02:24:06):
Oh.

Speaker 7 (02:24:06):
By the way, one quick baseball note. The Rays have
a new baseball home for twenty twenty five, and they're
moving to Tampa. They do, Yes, they are. They're living there.
They're living Saint Petersburg, Okay, and they're gonna be really
in Tampa and they're gonna play George Starbrenner Field the
spring trending home with the Yankees. Really yeah, Okay, what's

(02:24:28):
the capacity there? Eleven thousand? I went and show that's
good for them. They don't need more. Let's put it
this way. The Rays have always been financially challenged. The
super successful baseball teams, the ones that really have a
lot of money, draw two point eight to over three
million people if they sell out every one of their

(02:24:50):
Ray's home games. So I think it's the calculator out here. Okay,
let's say they boost the capacity to eleven thousand, one hundred.
I think that's what it's give or take eleven thousand,
one hundred times eighty one home games. The most people
that can see a Race home game would be eight
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(02:25:16):
this year was Oakland Day's nine hundred and twenty two thousand.
They averaged sixteen a game. Anyways, it's not that big
of a dit for them. But if you're major League Baseball,
don't you isn't isn't there some sort of financial not responsibility?
But kind of like we got to even the playing field,
just dismay solution. The solution was to move them out

(02:25:37):
of Tampa in the first place. YEA, that is weird.
You got the A's playing in Sacramento. I think their
stadium is fourteen thousand, and then you have the Race
playing in Tampa at the spring training home of the Yankee.
I mean, you're just always going to be the step child.

Speaker 9 (02:25:56):
Right.

Speaker 7 (02:25:57):
It's gonna be hot there too, Right. It's an open
air rainouts galore every day in Tampa. It rains at
three o'clock every day, is that right? And I mean vicious,
not like little sprinkles. I'm talking about Like you know,
Tampa is the lightning capital of the world. I didn't
know that. Well, that's why their NHL team is named that. Boom. Wow,

(02:26:19):
you learned something new every day, Matt. I believe there's
more lightning strikes per capita in Tampa than there's any
other metropolitan city in America. Don't tell me to that,
but I think I'm pretty good. I was a liar. Wow, Okay,
but I mean vicious, vicious lightning. Hmm. Remember that time
when we were doing the show with the sheholl Houston

(02:26:40):
Open and they can hear the crackling of the lightning
around us. Is we're trying to get Charlie out of
that little tenth manis you were producing? You weren't there
with me right where Houston Open and Charlie was doing
his show. I was producing, and he nearly died. And
you have that audio somewhere. God, it was so funny.

(02:27:00):
I mean it wasn't funny at the time. I came
to a golf tournament to get pneumonia and die. He's
still living. I still see him all the time. Yeah,
I see him. I saw him in a Rockets game,
did you. I was like, Chas, what are you doing here?
What do you say? I didn't ask it. Oh, I
said hello, Charles. That's what I always called Charles, and
he said hello to you. Yeah, okay, And he always
gives me like a horns down or something. Oh, that

(02:27:21):
sound very nice. I think it's funny. Well, if I
give you a horns down, you know I ever think
it's funny. Yeah. Well that's that's because I don't respect
you like I respect Charlie. Oh that feels pretty accurate.
It's fine. The lightning capital of North America Tampa Bay.
So that takes care of Canada too, and Mexico and
North America. Yes, I got it right. I didn't guess

(02:27:46):
you know what. I'm proud. We're gonna give you a
gold starter in the break man. That was great. You
did great. I'd get that question named. These three countries
are in North America. Yes, you and most third graders.
We're proud of you.

Speaker 2 (02:27:55):
Man.

Speaker 7 (02:27:55):
Oh god, that's embarrassing for me. Florida averages ten deaths
and thirty injuries from lightning strikes per year, with several
usually occurring in and around Tampa. Now weird how Tampa
of all places, because again it rains. I think it's
I think it's just because it just rains there so
much every single day during the summer time. Now we're talking,

(02:28:16):
we're crossing Tampa Bay off the list. I've never gone good. Well,
that's why we have to have Adam adamder the on
deck show those days, because if it's a Raindoly can
get back and do their show. That's true. Good for them.
I'm glad they're working hard. They get the four hour two. Yeah,
they're doing all right, all right? Seven one three two
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You are absolutely preaching. I'm trying to look if anything
going on Texan wise, if when does practice start. They're
already over there today. I've not seen anything in terms
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(02:29:19):
out until late or we'll pass our show. But I'm worried.
I should be worried. We should be celebrating Nico Collins.
Hopefully it will be a full participant today, right, get
him back on the fan. I think so he'll be
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he does see Laramie Tussel, He does see Daniil Hunter.
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Now it'sist now, now, now, don't worry. Today is a Wednesday. No,
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(02:34:07):
So now I've got I've laid it out. Go ahead. Literally,
it's not a must win. There we go. But we've
discussed this for ten years. Nobody ever thinks of things
as literal in sports. Okay, just like teams that go,
you don't want to go down oh two in a
series of any sort. Nobody wants to do that. Nobody

(02:34:30):
wants to go oh two and a home when you're
in best of seven home, especially if the home team. Okay,
So literal conversation out figurative Yes, Okay, Cowboys suck.

Speaker 17 (02:34:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (02:34:47):
Backup quarterback one for them is terrible. Backup quarterback two
is even worse. Okay, you have a coach who has
lost the locker room. Micah Parsons would be the first
to tell you that, whether he backed or not, this
is a Cowboy team that has significant beatdowns at home. Baltimore,

(02:35:11):
New Orleans, Detroit, Philadelphia. Am I right about that? I
think all four home losses? Yes, Okay, your team is
on paper and by performance better at every category. Nico Collins, Well,

(02:35:35):
do no Cede Lamb's better than Nico Collins. You're better
at quarterback. You're better at running back. You are better
in the secondary. As long Astingley plays, you're better. You
have played good football this year. You've not embarrassed yourself.
Then there have been some bad losses. Then the Jets

(02:35:55):
Probabic game is the worst of the group. You need
to get your mojo back. Had multiple team meetings. It's
time to end the team meetings. It's time to go
out there and kick some ass against a team that
doesn't play well at home. You need your road Moejoe Beck,
you want to fight to avoid the four seed in
the AFC. I don't think it's gonna happen, but you're

(02:36:16):
in your mind. You're something. I gotta start something here.
The Cowboys suck, They're not good. Forget about the fans,
forget about the sports radio. This is about you fixing
your ailments. You should have beat Detroit. You never really
were in the game of the Jets and the scorer
into I mean score. The score was a one score game,

(02:36:36):
but it was really a two score game because the
Jets guy dropped the ball to one yard that would
have been a touchdown, right, so that would have that
doesn't really count. You never really in that game. Honestly,
they Yeah, they tried to gift you that game and
you did not take it out, not literally but figuratively.
This is a must win game because if you lose
the game, that's how many losses in a row? Three,

(02:37:00):
four out of five. Yes, your last win was a
one score game against a sucky Colts team. Mm hmm,
you're gonna have a You're gonna have another reason why that.
People ask is there time for another team meeting? You're
gonna have start. People are gonna start doubting whether or
not CJ. Strotte is the as you would as everyone
has said a franchise quarterback. You've said, yeah, he has

(02:37:22):
a franchise quarterback. Not playing like a franchise quarterback right now,
but he's a franchise quarterback. If the Cowboys beat the Texans,
it's because CJ's not good, hadn't played well. I can't
imagine CJ throwing twenty seven passes and throw completing twenty
three of them for three to nineteen and four scores
and losing the game. The Texans defense not that bad. No,
the Texans defense is very good. Dexans defense is greater

(02:37:44):
than the Texans offense has been for a better part
of a month, and if they go up and lose
this game, it will have zero impact on their playoff chances,
it will have zero impact on the AFC stout sound standing.
So none of must win game, that's literal. I'm figurative. Okay,
more people are on my side than yours, that's fine.
Coaches and players are on my side over yours. Yeah,
every game is a Every game is a must win

(02:38:06):
game with the cut and that's all. That's all. I
just make a line of demarcation because I have a
I have a rule, and then otherwise it's just up
in the air, so it's a judgment call. Otherwise weak.
Let me tell you something. If the Texans beat lose
of the Cowboys were flipping the f out on Tuesday,
we just are yeah. And then time will march on
and they come up to get the Titans into town.

(02:38:27):
They beat them, They got the Jaguars, they beat them,
and then one will no one feel good about it,
and no one will care. No one will even think
about that in a couple of weeks. It's the NFL.
You need a bounce back. You need to do it
on the road. Yeah, it'd be nice. It's a it's
an important game. We're just arguing semantics. Mat Come on, man,
can't we leave that two to six? So you want
to be semantic free? I mean, I guess we could.

(02:38:52):
It's it's a perfect landing spot for a bounce back
game after these back to back horrible games on Monday,
on not Monday, but on national television. I doesn't care
about the national television. But this is just about winning
the game. Put the game on it now, I don't care.
You gotta beat the Cowboys, the Cowboys. You need to
kick the dog downs with those annoying Cowboys fans. And
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That's the last thing you need. We don't have time
to ask this right now because we're running. We get
to it rotal coming up here. But I want to
know we'll do this tomorrow. Remember this. We don't oh,
anything goes Friday tomorrow. Yeah it is. We need to
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(02:42:11):
because let me tell you something. You've loved this girl
for a long time. Her name is Cassie, okay, and
you went to high school with her. You reconnected on
Facebook and you started dating her and you're like, this
is she's so wonderful.

Speaker 10 (02:42:30):
I love her.

Speaker 7 (02:42:31):
And it's time to meet her parents and you go
to her parents' house and the dad's wearing a Cowboys jersey.
M that's got to cost some strife. Not only is
future father in law a Cowboys fan, he's wearing a
Cowboys jersey at four o'clock on a Thursday afternoon. That's

(02:42:54):
a little weird, just saying when do you get out
of prison? So you're assuming that anybody that's a Cowboys
fan wearing a jersey at four o'clock on the Thursday
went to prison if there's no game that day. Yes,
you're rude and insensitive, and it doesn't sound like they
have a day job. You're you're not rolling up to

(02:43:14):
the office in a Cowboys jersey on a Thursday. So
tomorrow spread the word. If you know anybody in your
life that has a house divided, yes, because maybe you
were a Cowboy fan growing up. I was briefly when
the when the Oilers left and the Cowboys were on
every week, So you said to yourself, go Cowboys a
few times in your life. I mean I would watch
them and root for them. Yeah, I don't know if

(02:43:36):
I said go Cowboys. Maybe I probably at something you
probably did. I think my dad was very upset with me.
It was that awkward period where the the Oilers had left.
I couldn't go for the Tennessee older. There was no
change happening three ishes and it wasn't bandwagon hopping. It
was like Quincy Avery or what was his name? Quincy

(02:43:56):
and then Carter Quincy, Carter and Aiden Hu said not
Aiden Hutchinson, Chad Hutchinson. It wasn't It wasn't no bandwagon
open to get that moment. Well, I remember doing sports
radio back in the day. Here we had to figure
out what we're gonna do, and there are a lot
of people. We used to have a Dallas Cowboy radio
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(02:44:17):
because we want to talk football. We're gonna just forget
about the sport. And then I moved to Austin and
at wore off. Doctor Ronto's up next final hour of
the Matt Thomas Show Ross after this.

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Waiver claims have to be made, and I've got trade
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Turned out to be a big flop. I don't know
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My quarterback keeps getting sacked.

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I've got a man Keith of Fair to see Blue.

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As thirty minutes of major market radio begins right now,
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Speaker 10 (02:45:49):
I know it's usually the Thursday night games stink, but
this one should be a really good one. You know,
Jaydeon Daniels since the injury hasn't run as much, so
I'm interested to see whether he will because that's such
a big part of his game.

Speaker 7 (02:46:01):
Yep.

Speaker 10 (02:46:02):
But you know, look, Jalen Hurts, the toush push, all
those touchdowns, Sakwon Barkley playing have an MVPs type of season.
I mean, this should be one of the better games
of the year.

Speaker 7 (02:46:10):
All right, So who is sitting and who is playing tonight?

Speaker 10 (02:46:14):
All right? For the Eagles, you're playing Hurts, You're playing Barkley,
you were playing aj Brown, You're playing Dallas Goddard. I
think I'm playing Devanta Smith. I don't feel great about it.
On the other side, I think we're gonna keep it simple.
We're gonna play Jade Daniels, We're gonna play Terry McLaurin.
Brian Robinson is expecting to play. I don't think he's
gonna have a big game. But only need is three yards.
He could get seven carries for eighteen yards and two

(02:46:35):
touchdowns and then you're gonna miss not playing him. So
I think he's got to be started.

Speaker 7 (02:46:38):
All right, New OC in Chicago, we'll to make a
difference in the Packers Bears game.

Speaker 10 (02:46:44):
I don't think so. I think I think this team
is really damaged. It's a bad offensive line, it's a
bad head coach, and I think it's a quarterback who
you know, people inflated their opinions of him. He's not
very good right now. If you ask me, would I
rather have Drake May or Caleb Bllliams, I'm taking Drake May.
I might even take bo Nix over this guy. So
when I look at it, I think the Bears are

(02:47:06):
in trouble. Packers, you know, Jordan Love is a week healthier,
This offense is still rolling. I think the Packers win
by seven.

Speaker 7 (02:47:13):
All right, Detroit, tell me about the fantasy numbers of
Jared Goff as you're watching the game live last Sunday night.

Speaker 10 (02:47:21):
Yeah, I mean it's like you get the Tale of
Two Halves, right, I was just literally writing an article
for doctor Rodo dot com. I always played Jared Goff
at home. It's just one of those things. He gets home,
there's more confidence. I mean, he played great and I
come back against the Texans. But I mean Vegas has
the Lion scoring over about thirty one points. That means
they're talking four touchdowns. Four touchdowns. Even if I give

(02:47:43):
David Montgomery one, and even if I give Jamior Gibbs one,
still Golf is going to throw for two. So his floor,
his fantasy floor is at least twenty points in this game.
So you want to start golf. You want to start
Saint Brown, You want to start Jamison Williams. And there's
a good chance Sam Laporta may miss this game, which
makes Saint Brown and Jamison Williams even more valuable. To

(02:48:03):
go with those running backs.

Speaker 7 (02:48:05):
Let's go to New Orleans. They'll host Cleveland this week.
Did we notice much of a change in philosophy with
the interim coach last week in New Orleans?

Speaker 10 (02:48:14):
I don't think Dennis Allen was loved by his team,
and I can tell you that from if you remember
that controversy with the Arthur Smith where they were running
up the score and Jamal Williams was getting that late
touchdown when they were up by like thirty or something
like that. You don't do that to a coach you respect.
I think Darren Rizzy brought a sense of confidence back
and it was you know, look they made some good

(02:48:36):
plays last week, and you know the Falcons got caught
in Valdez. Gantling was you know, had a great game.
Do I think lightning is going to strike twice?

Speaker 13 (02:48:44):
No?

Speaker 10 (02:48:44):
I love Jamison James Winston. This is a borderline revenge
narrative where he's coming back to a team. The team
basically gave three bags of money to Carr and nothing
to Winston, who had to go to Cleveland to be
a backup. You think he's happy about that? I don't either.
I think he is a good game. I think Cedric
Tillman has a good game. And you watch Nick Chubb
scores a touchdown this week.

Speaker 7 (02:49:06):
Oh is this a guarantee?

Speaker 10 (02:49:08):
There's no guarantee, but I feel pretty good about it.
I feel pretty good about it.

Speaker 7 (02:49:13):
H help me out. I do believe that Lamar Jackson
has not enjoyed playing the Pittsburgh Steelers. Even when the
Steelers are down a little bit, Tell me what you're
thinking this week when they go to Pittsburgh as a
battle of seven and two teams.

Speaker 10 (02:49:26):
It's a great game. I mean, really, this is one
of the This is the game that you're circling as
the must watch game, isn't it. So you're sitting there
and you're saying yourself, the Ravens pass Stevens has been terrible.
Russell Wilson is firmly in play. The only thing that
could ruin this game is if the offensive coordinator for
the Steelers decides, hey, maybe we should run the ball. Dude,
you shouldn't. You should throw the ball on Baltimore. Russell

(02:49:47):
Wilson pick ins, Mike Williams now there from the Jets.
Isn't good play? Is a great play, And I think
Pat Fryer moves is really a great play. The Ravens
and struggled against opposing tight ends all season long. On
the other side, look, I like Zay Flowers, I do,
but I think Deontay Johnson this is a revenge narrative
spot for him he wants There was a quote last

(02:50:08):
week last week. I think maybe he was earlier this
week or last week where Mike Tomlin they said to
him about what do you think about Deonta Johnson. He goes,
I haven't seen him in any of the film. You
don't think that pisses off Deontay Johns. Right, he's going
to have a good game. Yeah, and Derek Henry is
gonna have a good game. Fireworks, You start everybody on
this game.

Speaker 7 (02:50:23):
All right? Minnesota scores twelve points last week at Jacksonville.
They have not played well for basically about four weeks. Now,
are you getting nervous about skill position players for the
Vikings or a trip to Tennessee going to fix all that?

Speaker 10 (02:50:38):
I don't know if it fixed. I think Tennessee's defense
is like Jacksonville's. They play better than you expect, but
they're not great because the offense takes right. Will Levis
is going to make a lot of mistakes and that's
going to help Minnesota out. But Sam Darnold is showing
who he is. Right. This is Cinderella at twelve thirty
at night, and it's not good. He stares down receivers,

(02:50:58):
he refuses to throw if there's any traffic. He likes
taking the you know, the quick underneath stuff. So TJ.
Hockinson is a great play. Jordan Addison kind of lost.
Aaron Jones great play. Justin Jefferson not as good a
play as we want him to be. I mean, does
he go for six six taxes for eighty maybe? But

(02:51:19):
is this going to be six for one eighty and
two touchdowns?

Speaker 6 (02:51:21):
No.

Speaker 10 (02:51:22):
On the other side, Will Levis looked a little bit
better last week, but can we rely on him against
Minnesota's defense? I don't think so. I think this is
a low scoring game, this game maybe under forty. So
just play Hockinson for sure, you play Jefferson, you play
Aaron Jones, and let's keep it.

Speaker 7 (02:51:38):
To that, all right. Yeah, Indianapolis is going back to
Anthony Richardson. I can't imagine a lot of folks are
using the receivers for the Colts anyway, But how do
you size up the Colts and Jets this week?

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Look, I think Anthony Richardson is surprisingly in play. He
always is.

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Speaker 4 (02:54:27):
In terms ofpply the mistakes he will.

Speaker 10 (02:54:30):
But look, the guy can run for two touchdowns, he
can run for one hundred yards. He can still has
a big arm. The Jets are in shambles. The Jets
looked terrible last week. I mean that was really one
of the most pathetic displays I've seen all season. So
I worry about Colt's receivers because when you think about it,
I don't think Richardson is going to complete more than
ten or twelve passes. So those guys, unless it's Josh Downs,

(02:54:51):
I don't think you can play Mitchell. I don't think
you can play Pierce. I don't think you can play Pittman.
So you play Richardson. You've played Jonathan Taylor. You played
downs for the Jets. You play Breese Hall because he's tremendous.
I think you played DeVante Adams and you played Garrett Wilson.
But you hope that Aaron Rodgers gets better because what
I saw last week of Aaron Rodgers man, he was

(02:55:11):
borderline rival, you know, looking like Mac Jones and Dan.
That's not a good thing, all right.

Speaker 7 (02:55:17):
Kansas City Buffalo. If the Chiefs are going to finally
have a blemish in the regular season, it could be
Sunday in Buffalo. We don't care about that for the
sake of this segment. Will we see lack of production
or are we going to see a high scoring game
and that maybe the last team on the field offensively
wins the contest.

Speaker 10 (02:55:34):
I think it's one of those. I think at halftime
this game is like seventeen to seven and you're like really,
and then all of a sudden, the second half it
starts that make some adjustments and you see more points.
So this game probably ends like twenty seven to twenty four. Now,
I'm always starting Josh Allen at home, especially against the
Chiefs during the regular season. I'm starting Allen. I'm starting
James Cook for sure, I'm starting Khalil Shakir, and absolutely

(02:55:58):
you start the tight end there if it's Kinkaid or
Dawson Knox. The Chiefs have been terrible against opposing tight ends.
One of those guys has a great chance for a
big game, depending on who's healthy on the other side.
I really like Kareem Hunt this week. Buffalo is susceptible
to running backs coming out of a backfield. I think
he's in play. I don't love Travis Kelcey this week.

(02:56:19):
Mahomes is okay, not special to me, and I do
like DeAndre Hopkins. I think Hopkins and Hunt are the
Chiefs you want to start, all right.

Speaker 7 (02:56:26):
Lastly, Texans and Cowboys. It feels like Nico's East practicing
today and he was held out last week. It feels
like it's a pretty safe bet he's going to play.
But is do you get a little scared holding off
on guys that are questionable going into the game because
knowing that Monday night that's the last game of the week,
and if he's not all of a sudden doesn't play,
you're left out with trying to find some scrab people

(02:56:46):
in between the two teams. So I guess the long
winding question is you play Nico just praying to he
plays correct, right, But what you.

Speaker 10 (02:56:54):
Do is you get another receiver in this game. So
maybe Jalen Tolbert is on waiver wire, maybe John Metchi
is on the waiver wire. You protect yourself because look
what happened last week was a disaster. I would have
told people played Nico Collins. Yeah, he didn't seem probable
that he was playing all of a sudden. Yeah, think
we're gonna hold him out one more week. You know
that sucks. You're getting the you're getting the zero there.

(02:57:15):
We don't want that, So you gotta cover yourself. I
like Nico this week. I love Dalton Schultz this week.
Dallas bad against opposing tight ends, and this is a
Joe Mixon week and I've ever seen one. On the
other side, I would tell you to start ceze Lamb.
Of course you have to, but I don't feel great
about it. Cooper Rush thirteen completions for forty five yards.

(02:57:36):
I mean that's barely over three yards a reception. That's pathetic.
Zeke looks like he's cutable. Tell me the other cowboy
you want to start? So I think it's mixing. I
think it's Collins. I think it's Lamb And if you're
really desperate, it's Schultz too.

Speaker 6 (02:57:50):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (02:57:50):
You can tell about Dalton Schultz. Yeah, you think desperate? Huh.
I see, we're thinking they're gonna finally get him involved
in the offense.

Speaker 10 (02:57:58):
Like really many weeks can we say that?

Speaker 13 (02:58:00):
I know?

Speaker 7 (02:58:00):
But they he did throw now CJ did throw what
come nine targets at the two tight ends this past week.
So just curious that that made any difference to.

Speaker 10 (02:58:07):
You, right, because Nico wasn't there. When Nico's there changes everything, Right.
We want to see this team with Nico, and you know, look,
we wanted to see them with Stefan Diggs two. But
with Nico there, you don't have to rely as much
on Dell. I think the Schultz gets four for forty,
that's okay, but I think there are better spots out there.
But look, if Schultz goes four for forty, Texans are

(02:58:27):
most likely when it means he's involved.

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Heavy TD dependent non PPR league. Jamison Williams or Quintin Johnston.

Speaker 10 (03:00:36):
Jamison Williams okay, so like him. I mean quin Johnson's
been pretty good this year. He has, He's been good,
and it looks Cincinnati is susceptible to a big play.
But Jamison Williams is the boomer bus play. Every week
he's at home. You know they want him involved. They
can go to him at least three or four times.
So if it's a touchdown league. I think he has
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Speaker 7 (03:00:57):
All right, Metcalf, Johnson or Cup. One of those three
does not play? You play two Metcalf, Johnson Cup.

Speaker 10 (03:01:05):
Yeah, I mean, look, you play Metcalf, especially in the
game that I think is gonna be pretty high scoring.
I don't I'm not worried about the injury. Cooper Cup
worries me a little bit. They seem to go to
Pooka in a coop a whole lot more than I
want them to. But I can't ever be benching Cooper Cup.
So I'll go Cop and Metcalf. But I'm worried. I mean,
look at in that game against Miami, they featured Poocker
way too much for my liking.

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Speaker 19 (03:01:33):
Hey, guys, Okay, so doctor, I got three quick ones.
Should I start Jayden Daniels or Russell Wilson. And also
in my super flex league, should I start uh Anthony
Richardson or the quarterback from the Cleveland Browns.

Speaker 7 (03:01:49):
I forgot his name.

Speaker 6 (03:01:49):
I don't know why.

Speaker 16 (03:01:50):
And also out of these three tight ends. Who do
you think is gonna have a better day? Dost, Knox,
Ertz or Rock?

Speaker 6 (03:01:57):
Right?

Speaker 10 (03:01:59):
Okay, so first of all, I'm starting Russell Wilson. Secondly,
I think Jameis Winston is more of a floor. Richardson's
the higher ceiling. Gimme Winston's floor. I think I'm pretty
good with that. Look, what I would probably do is
wait on knocks. Okay. I don't need Ertz tonight, So
what I would do is wait on knocks. Between Knocks
and Wright, I expect one of those guys gonna play,

(03:02:22):
because Laporte and Kincaid very iffy right now. So I
wouldn't rush on the Earth's move tonight.

Speaker 7 (03:02:27):
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talk to you Jo, Sorry about that?

Speaker 10 (03:02:36):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (03:02:36):
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Speaker 10 (03:02:37):
No?

Speaker 7 (03:02:37):
Let's go to Jaio Geo is it you?

Speaker 10 (03:02:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 20 (03:02:40):
Sure, go ahead, afternoon, guys, Hey, Doc so Emon Ingram,
Kyle Pitts for this weekend, and also Djamore or Mooney.

Speaker 10 (03:02:53):
I'll hang up and listen. Thanks, I got it, Yeah,
you got it. So firstly, I don't really like Atlanta
in Denver. So I'm gonna go with Ingram even if
mac Jones is playing. I think Jacksonville is going to
keep this game a little bit closer than most people
do DJ Moore and Moody. That's a tougher one for me.
What I'm envisioning is that Courtland Sunton sorry, Patrick's ten

(03:03:14):
is going to cover Drake London, which is going to
lead Mooney slightly open. I like him, I don't trust
the Chicago offense right now. I think that's a mess.
So give me Ingram and give me Mooney.

Speaker 7 (03:03:24):
Let's go to Brian I Perland for doctor Rotal on
seven Ony. Hi, Brian, Good.

Speaker 21 (03:03:30):
Afternoon, gentlemen, doc PPR League for both of these one
tight end position, either Cole Comet or Bete Bryer Mooth.
And then at the running back, I need to select
one between JK. Dobbins, Josh Jacobs or Brian Robinson Junior.

Speaker 10 (03:03:48):
All right, so first of all, I'm going to go
Patty Fry love him this week. Ravens are terrible against
opposing tight ends. He's a great play. So here's your problem, Robinson.
Because of the knee injury, it's becoming tough uchdown dependent.
JK Dobbins. Gus Edwards is back. We saw him on
last week. I don't want to be seeing Gus Edwards
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(03:04:09):
going to be Gus the bus. So I think your
best player is Josh Jacobs. I know it's a tough
matchup against the Bears, but I mean he's going to
get the most opportunity. So let's go Friar Moves and
Jacobs all right?

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Speaker 10 (03:07:07):
Yeah, I mean, look, so some of the optimizers and
simulations that I use, like Ford a little bit this week,
I don't see it. But sometimes you know, the play
that I don't see that pops up like that is
the one I end up going with. Bixby's not one
hundred percent. I'm worried. I think Etn's a better play.
Jalen Warren maybe all right, but I think I'm gonna

(03:07:28):
lean forward. Like I said, sometimes I just trust the sims.
They run these games like ten twenty thousand times, and
Ford has been popping up a little bit, meaning that
they think he's going to score somewhere around six or
ten points. I don't know whether the other two guys will.

Speaker 7 (03:07:40):
Let's go to Scott and river Oaks on seven honty
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Speaker 6 (03:07:47):
How are y'all?

Speaker 10 (03:07:48):
All right?

Speaker 20 (03:07:48):
So I have a very good fantasy team. My team
is nine and one. The biggest trouble that I'm running
into going forward, as I happen to have Jayden Daniels
and Joe Burrow. And now I heard you say you
would start russ So Wilson over Jadon Daniels this week,
which surprised me that you said that. So I'm guessing
you would start Burrow this week over Daniels.

Speaker 10 (03:08:08):
Well, here's the thing about Daniels. If he's not running,
then he becomes a good quarterback, just not a great quarterback. Right.
We want Jadon Daniels to two hundred and twenty yards passing,
We want one or two passing touchdowns. I want sixty
yards rushing and maybe I get lucky with a rushing touchdown.
The Eagles defense has been much better the last couple
of weeks. I know they've played crummy teams, but they've

(03:08:29):
looked better. Baltimore hasn't stopped anybody anybody all season long.
So the only thing that stops Russell Wilson is the
play calling or game flow because he's going to have
to be throwing it. So sometimes you just have to
look at what teams are doing. Well, would I start
Borrow over Jaydon Daniels, That's a closer one. Cincinnati's played
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(03:08:51):
seven points that they should have won. They should be
a playoffs team. They've played that well. So yeah, I
just don't trust Chargers defense. The Chargers defense has been
very good this year and very stingy, so I would
think Wilson one hundred percent over Daniels. Daniels Borrow is
fifty to fifty for.

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Go ahead? Fedrick Talman, Tyreek Kale Jayan Reed.

Speaker 10 (03:09:36):
All right, So I'm playing Tillman. He's been fantastic and
he's playing against a team where they can throw all day.
I think I'm gonna play Tyreek. This feels like one
of those Miami games where they put up forty. I
don't like West Coast teams who travel and play the
early game. Raiders have been a train wreck all season, Tyreek.
Maybe this is their last Stan Miami, So let's go
Tyreek and Tilman.

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Speaker 16 (03:10:02):
I need one of these for a flex position. And
this is assuming that Devonte Adams is going to play.
So between Adams, Stevenson, and Hopkins, who would you play?

Speaker 10 (03:10:14):
Yeah, I'm gonna play Hopkins. He's starting to look great.
I mean, he's gelling with Patrick Mahomes. This is going
to be a higher scoring game. Aaron Rodgers looks terrible
right now. He looks terrible. I know he's trying to
feed Adams, but why not feed Garrett Wilson, Who's obviously
Dare I say that the better player at this point.
Wilson can make these acrobatic plays, and Adams just can anymore,

(03:10:36):
and Rodgers isn't helping him. So I think Hopkins is
a safe play. Six for sixty, maybe a touchdown. Maybe
he gets seven for seventy. They like to just take
their time down the field. They want to keep Josh
Allen off the field. I think Hopkins is a good
safe play.

Speaker 7 (03:10:50):
All right, Jimmy and Tom ball for Doctor Roto at
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Speaker 17 (03:10:53):
Go ahead, Jimmy, Hey, guys, doctor Roto. Two quick questions
Cleveland or Philadelphia's defense, And then I have toggled all
year in a flex between Ramondo, Stevenson and Austin Eckler,
And I feel like I've missed every single week, which
which you recommend this week?

Speaker 10 (03:11:10):
Yeah, I don't think you can play Eckler this week
because Brian Robbinson his back, So that's a game changer. Stevenson.
When when Cleveland has win, I'm sorry, When the Patriots
are winning, Stevenson is good. So I think Stevenson is
a decent start this week. Look, I don't want I
would play the Browns. I think that the Saints had
a big week last week. It was an emotional week
last week. Do I think it's gonna happen two weeks

(03:11:30):
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play well wins. They'll play well until they'll play well.

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I'm sticking with that Steelers Baltimore game, I am, And
I'm sticking with George Pickens. He has been sensational this
year the Steelers. I mean, look, I wrote this down.
It's like they've the ravens of out the most yards,
the most touchdowns, the second most receptions. I mean this
is this should be a game that Pickens feasts. I
think he goes I don't know, six for one hundred

(03:12:09):
and ten in the touchdown. Let's lock him in.

Speaker 7 (03:12:11):
That is Doctor Rodo's lock of the week. All right,
we are coming close to playoff time and not too
distant future people need you over the weekend. Where do
they find you?

Speaker 10 (03:12:21):
If you find me at exit d R r ot o,
you find me at my website, Doctor Roto dot com.
We do a Sunday morning discord show from like ten
thirty to twelve Eastern, trying to answer every single one
of your questions, and of course on serious XM Fantasy
Sports Radio Saturday morning from a to ten Eastern.

Speaker 7 (03:12:38):
All right, but man, thank you very much for the
great information. As always, we'll talk again next week.

Speaker 10 (03:12:42):
Take care, fee you bye bye.

Speaker 7 (03:12:43):
That is Doctor Roto with us every Thursday in the
one o'clock hour right here on Sports Talk seven and eight.
Up next. It takes absolutely zero ability to tell you
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(03:14:34):
family but me as a Cowboys fan. She grew up
as a dancer. She's a Cowboys fan because they have
the most famous cheerleaders.

Speaker 17 (03:14:42):
Ah.

Speaker 7 (03:14:43):
Interesting, that's a weird way to become a fan of
a team. But you know what teaches on. Everybody has
their own different strategies there, that's true. Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders.
Really quick, Okay, here we go. They have a you know,
they have a reality show. They no, I didn't know that.
It's apparently coming back for a second year. Okay, what's

(03:15:06):
it called? Is it well is it when the the
the audition and stuff. I think it's a ver I've
never seen it. I think they run the Today Show
a few days ago promoting their new show. Okay, do
Cowboy fans go, We're so lucky we have the most
famous chierleaders in the world. We love going to the
games because they add such a huge dimension to our

(03:15:27):
game day experience. No, Jerry Jones does. Okay, Now you're
not a stereotyper, so go ahead and explain what the
average fan thinks about the old Dallas Cowboys Chiladers. What
do you mean we like them? And and I believe
your favorite was Debbie Correct Debbie the Chili Yeah, Debbie
the Dallas Cowboy Chiller. They they have, They've built a brand.

(03:15:51):
I don't think anybody would say, hey, come see them
in person in a special concert series. They probably have
the highest appearance fees in the NFL. I wonder if
people go were they the ones they went on strike?

Speaker 13 (03:16:02):
No?

Speaker 7 (03:16:03):
Not the Cowboy Chilladers?

Speaker 13 (03:16:04):
No?

Speaker 10 (03:16:06):
Are you sure? No?

Speaker 7 (03:16:08):
But I can't imagine any Chilladers would go on strike.
Ye because they weren't getting paid? What's they being underpaid?
Though not necessarily not being paid. It was underpaid. But
if I say, if we were doing a Dallas rate,
we'll have to ask the Dallas we're gonna have a
Dallas radio guy on Monday.

Speaker 10 (03:16:23):
Oh.

Speaker 7 (03:16:23):
In twenty eighteen, a cheerleader did sue them for not
paying her for all hours work, including some filming for
the reality show making the team. But if I said, hey,
come out to the Cowboys paid two point four million
to settle allegations of voyeurism involving four cheerleaders and act

(03:16:43):
and an influential team executive. Yes, I forget about that.
What if we owned if we had if we owned
Barney's Barbecue and said we're gonna have five text cowboyd
chilladers come hang out.

Speaker 10 (03:16:54):
Do you think people would go to that?

Speaker 6 (03:16:57):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (03:16:58):
Yes I do. Oh, I know what you're thinking. Okay, forget,
I forget what I even asked that. It's just they've
carried this mystique. And I bet it's a I mean,
obviously the huge deal. I'm going I'm googling appearance fee.
Oh god, and to see emails I'm gonna get after this.
Did they even say, oh it says the girls only

(03:17:19):
earn fifty to seventy five dollars. I think it's more
about being on the calendar and being you know, having
that on your business card. So it's yearly salary seventy
five k to dance and smiles so bad they make
seventy five thousand, I think it's time to try out.
What do you think the Texan chielders get. I don't know.

(03:17:43):
The Cowboy childers make seven. Now, granted, they probably put
in more hours than anybody else because they do stuff
all over the country, don't they don't They go like
parades and stuff like this. Five hundred per game, fifty
to seventy five for public appearances a piece. It's a
lot of hours, that is all right. So there you go,

(03:18:03):
Dallas Cowboys. I want a full report of the Dallas
Cowboy cheerleader if any of y'all watch it, let me know,
damn to be a Cowboy fan just because of cheerleaders.
That's a new one for me. But that's also female touse.
You never know, all right, ladies, Jim and Ross. It
takes up some zero ability to give you the five
best teams, right, So we find someone who looks at
a lot of things life with the glass half empty.

(03:18:25):
I present to you, Ross in the rotten five.

Speaker 6 (03:18:29):
They've gone there. They draw flies wits, Ross's rotting five.

Speaker 7 (03:18:38):
This don't smell quite right, all right, Matthew, it's getting
increasingly difficult to whittle it down to just five teams.
Holy smokes, there's a lot of bad football being played,
and well we did whittle it down. Let's go ahead
and start with our friends from up interstate forty five. Yes,
you are back in the rotten five, Dallas. One of

(03:19:00):
the reasons the Cowboys, some of the reasons on their
on list not their fault. They've had a lot of
injuries all season long, both sides of the ball. Dak
Prescott's hamstring is off of his bone, but a lot
of it is their fault, well, at least Jerry Jones's fault.
He continues to be infatuated with Ezekiel Elliott. Bad moves
have been made in the draft. Jerry continues to stick
with Mike McCarthy, who never should have been hired in

(03:19:21):
the first place. Cowboys' latest embarrassment at the hands of
their divisional rival, the Philadelphia Eagles, yet again run roughshot
in their own building, and yet again a storyline being
the sun blinding your own players, Jerry, what are you doing?
Cooper Rush is horrible? The Cowboys, like Dak Prescott, are
done for the season and they are the fifth worst

(03:19:41):
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Speaker 7 (03:22:22):
All right, Look, Congratulations to the Jacksonville Jaguars for hanging
in there and sticking with the Minnesota Vikings this week,
nearly pulling off an upset reverse. Congratulations to Dravon Walker
for causing a penalty after they stopped the Vikings on
third down, gifting the game away. It's not like Mac
Jones was going to lead a game winning touchdown drive anyways,
but giving yourself zero chance because you just can't avoid

(03:22:44):
getting into a fight during the most important drive of
the game in excusable. The Jaguars terrible with Trevor Lawrence
as they're starting QB and well they're even worse with
Mac Jones. They are a bad football team and they
are the fourth worst team in the NFL.

Speaker 10 (03:23:00):
This is Oh, We've been strong, We're just playing the rules.

Speaker 7 (03:23:06):
Are going great. Want to apologize for our radio cleman
once again letting us down. All right, I haven't heard
yet if the United States has been publicly censured for
sending them the New York Football Giants and the Carolina
Panthers to play a football game. But they we should
be glad that they didn't fall on to Claire war
after sending them Daniel Jones and Bryce Young got to
be embarrassing to lose any game, but losing to the Panthers.

(03:23:27):
Come on, Brian Daboll and Daniel Jones. So far this
week day Ball not committing to Daniel Jones being his
starting QB. No reason he should. Drew Lot gonna be better,
probably not, but things just run. Things to rookie Phenom's
Tyrone Tracy and Milik Nighbors and everything should at least
be competitive. Giants, they are terrible. They have lost five
games in a row. They are the third worst team

(03:23:48):
in the NFL. Oh no, it's bad. It's Guillo bad
all right. The Las Vegas Raiders inactive on their bye week,
that is, I mean, we forgot about him here on
the rotten five. The Raiders have been terrible all season,
switching back and forth between Gardner Minshew and Aidan O'Connell,
switching back between Alexander Madison and Mirror White and the

(03:24:12):
mirror abdula. What is going on? What a sinking ship
over there in Raiderville. I can't believe that the offensive
coordinator they fired, Luke Getzi, couldn't turn Gardner Minshew, Jacoby
Myers and Alexander Madison into perennial Pro Bowlers.

Speaker 10 (03:24:26):
Huh.

Speaker 7 (03:24:26):
Talk about getting the short end of the stick. And
to make matters worse, the Raiders next three games, surging Dolphins,
surging Broncos, and the undefeated Chiefs. Good luck, Raiders, you
are terrible and you are the second worst team in
the NFL. I shant to even bother hitting these drops.

(03:24:48):
The computer's so broken.

Speaker 6 (03:24:50):
All right.

Speaker 7 (03:24:50):
You know what's else is on the rod and five?
This computer is number one. Well, okay, fine, let's go
to the Tennessee Titans. The team is bad, no matter
who's starting Mason Rudolph will Levis does not matter. Things
not going well for the Thomas Sports Enterprises product the
Titans losing four of their last five games, with the
lone win coming in a field goal game against the
New England Patriots. At least things get easier for them

(03:25:12):
this week they take on the Minnesota Vikings. Yikes. How
about another loss for the Titans. Probably gonna say at
the bottom of this list because they are the absolute
worst team in the NFL. I've seen team suck before,
but they would just suck. He as punch of sucks
that ever sucked. And there's your run in five and
there is there a definitive number one quarterback in the

(03:25:32):
draft coming out? I believe cam Ward or Shador Sanders.
I think people are on cam Ward. Did you see
what Dion said that he's going to keep a close
eye on who drafts him. Yeah, well that's what Archie
Manning did. Archie Manning did it, and I got rich Man.

(03:25:52):
You got us get away from Pops, don't you?

Speaker 1 (03:25:56):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (03:25:57):
This is Shador Sanders rank number one. This is I
have random, random website. I just brought up Travis Hunter.
People think the best prospect, but you know, usually the
best quarterback goes. Are we gonna see a two way
player in the NFL. We haven't seen one win since
what I don't think? So, who's the last two way
player we've had? And we had guys that have played
special teams Paul Horning, Otto Graham, Oh, you're going like

(03:26:23):
seventy years Jones, I don't know. Now you're seeing guys
that have been special teams awesome, like Devin Hester. I
was gonna say Devin Hester kind of did. Yeah, Devin
Hester was a little bit, but it didn't do it
a whole lot of it. So, uh, Chuck Bednarick is
what this says, fell off the Eagles, right, the last
true two way player in the NFL Eagles till nineteen

(03:26:43):
sixty two. You know his nickname was Bedrock Close. What
is concrete? Charlie? Okay, very good. I've kind of proud
of myself on that. Yeah, Google is saying, Chuck Bednarick,
all right, I look forward to seeing it. I think
it's gonna be fun. I think it's we we love
shoehel Tani. Why can't we see two wayne football? Because

(03:27:05):
swinging a bat is a little bit different than than
playing playing wide receiver and cornerback. There's no way. But
I don't think they play every play both sides. I
don't think it's gonna like your three. Okay, he's gonna
well if he's gonna still get around sixty snaps and
do thirty five only on important I don't think it
makes any No, I'm not saying it's not special. They'd
be cool. I would like to see it. It's just
I would be surprised. Yeah, I think you're probably right.

(03:27:26):
All right, let's play Believe It or Not. Next, we
have the people online that have to know the passwords.
So that's good. That's good Believe it or Not for
j T tickets. Next one forty five on Sports Talk
seven ninety.

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for lunch on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 7 (03:28:00):
All right, thank you very much for everybody listening to
the show. Really means a lot that you spend some
time with us, and we are here every day ten
o'clock until to tell your friends and neighbors about the show.
Ten am to two pm Sports Talk seven Autie A
reminder tomorrow, I'm going to send out a little message.
I want to find out. I want to see if
there's any civil war stuff going on between Cowboys and

(03:28:20):
Texans fans in the same household. We'll have a non
Flora stories tomorrow. We'll also have a little preview maybe
of the Rockets and Clippers round two in season tournament. Okay,
the two game set. We'll have a deep intensive breakdown
of Washington versus Philadelphia tonight NFL football wonderful, and we

(03:28:42):
will give you analyst Texans preview. Can't wait and it
goes Friday, love it and Alex pragmant update because I
always like to get Alex. Do we have Oh, we
don't need to get update. I think we just ask
him m bragman update about where's our third basement gonna go? Hmm,

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it's easy enough, I guess. Yeah, we need a little
more originality. No, that's fine, we've been doing. There's literally
one of them says, when is this bit going to go?
And that's from like twenty thirteen. Yeah, the bit's never
going away, much to the chagrin of something clearly all right,
what else we got. I'm trying to think what else
is happening in the world of sports tonight. There's only

(03:29:24):
one NBA game tonight. It's not that they would be
a you know, the NBA is like, we're not putting
anything on against thursdaynight Football. It's Amazon Prime. We don't care.
We're still gonna get their asking with the Mavericks and
the Jazz. I'll put it on NBA TV if you haven't,
I do. Okay, and uh, what do you like? Eagles
or Commanders. I'm gonna go with the who's at home? Philadelphia?

(03:29:47):
I'm gonna go with the home team.

Speaker 10 (03:29:48):
There.

Speaker 7 (03:29:48):
You go to Philly, that's called an insight. You'll get
nowhere else you're welcome. I think Philadelphia sneak. I think
people are sleeping on Philadelphia. Okay, you ready for a
hot take? Yes? Off you detroent for the NFC Championship
that's in reasonable? Is that reasonable? I think? So that's
a Reforget why I said hot, it's a reasonable I
would say, I mean, Line's certainly the favorite. Who would

(03:30:10):
even be the second favorite? Probably the Eagles right now
they're seven and two. Okay, so it's actually Franklin Vikings. Yeah, no,
they're struggling, you Sam donalding, They're not taking the Sam Donald.
They're Sam Donald's not taking it with us to the
NFC title. They weren't struggling against the Texans twelve to
seven against Jacksonville, five minutes left to go. On the show,
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Speaker 7 (03:31:49):
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Speaker 6 (03:31:51):
Believe it or not?

Speaker 7 (03:31:53):
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In winning the fight Believe it or not? Believe It?
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Speaker 10 (03:32:12):
Matt.

Speaker 7 (03:32:13):
Mike Tyson was once the owner of the world's largest
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Believe It or Not?

Speaker 6 (03:32:24):
Believe It?

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Speaker 10 (03:32:36):
I am.

Speaker 7 (03:32:37):
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way and Mike Tyson has stated that he only agreed
to appear in the film The Hangover to fund his
cocaine habit, and that he was high on the drugs
in his scenes. Believe It or Not Believe It? That's

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Speaker 7 (03:33:20):
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Speaker 10 (03:33:30):
Believe it?

Speaker 7 (03:33:30):
No, rossman up. He was on skits on Vine. I
don't watch that. You didn't watch Vine? Nope, you've seen vines.
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Believe it?

Speaker 7 (03:33:44):
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Speaker 9 (03:33:53):
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Speaker 10 (03:34:24):
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Clinton too. Don't you Likeswimby too? What do you can
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It's a full breakdown of Wimby's fifty point games. Oh no,
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