Rockets Win Preseason Opener, Spectacular Monday Night Game, UT vs Florida Talk

Rockets Win Preseason Opener, Spectacular Monday Night Game, UT vs  Florida Talk

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Ten on one in h Town. Good morning, and welcome
to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas Showed Ross
here on Sports Talk seven Honey. Normally, after a performance
of a local team, we will play some highlights of
win or lose. How things went. Rockets did play last night.
It's just the preseason. Sports areva, just the preseason. We

(00:32):
don't have any preseason highlights. Well, I'm sure we do you,
but I didn't ask for you. You bully us into
playing your highlights, Jonathan, do you think that's fair to
I bully you into highlights playing I don't know if basketball.
This is my first time starting with y'all night. We'll see.
We'll let you to make that decision the upcoming weeks. Now,
if they win in Oklahoma City in two weeks and
ruin the oh, yeah, I want to hear a big

(00:54):
Rockets win from you. I didn't even use my nothing
manylon last night. You sets fires hits, kept everything on
the shelf. Hammer.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Yeah, you can't. It was a dry run for you too.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
You can't. Ye were not pulling out the three sixty
windmill in the preseason. You can't premature these things, you know. Yeah,
you gotta pace yourself. Yeah, I got you. I mean,
I gotta be honest with you. The fourth quarter, I
had to look down on my note card one hundred
times because I was not sure what number what Cameron
Matthews was, ok And I was locked in on Chief
Jaguars by that time. What a game? Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Can I just tell you the God's honest truth.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yes. So I got in the car after the Rockets won,
and that was a nice game. We can certainly get
into that. Unfortunate Kevin Durant did not play. I would
presume he's going to play tomorrow. They are, Yeah, they
have now a Coachi Jokas said before the game. He's
gonna play on Wenesday. Okay, that's good. That's about when
I asked you for your tickets, that you that you
offered me in the earlier in the day, that you
came up, that you came upon exactly, That's exactly how

(01:50):
I would put it. But yeah, so, okay, So I
got in the car and uh turned on Westwood Westwood
one's coverage. I can do it today because it's Yuh,
I didn't I get the game last night? Okay, well
you got one on, you got one on tomorrow. Oh,
I should do that the Westwood One's uh Sunday Night
Monday night coverage, Kevin Harlan is ugh.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
He just called the game beautifully.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
And I have such an appreciation for radio play by
play guys, yes, who do a great radio call. There
are too many TV jamokes that like to when their
TV deals run out, they come over to radio and
the half asset. Hm, he doesn't do it. He's a
maestro and he is his foundation. He got started in radio. Yes,

(02:35):
and what what's uh now? Far Be, you had asked,
mister analogy for this, but what's an analogy of It's
a skill that people don't necessarily value much these days,
but he's great at it. Well, it's attention to detail. Yeah,
Like when Kevin's calling the game, he'll tell you what
hash they're on. He'll tell you where the ball was thrown,

(02:56):
how it was thrown, playcock, where the playcock is time, Like,
he even gets hang timed. I know he's got great stats.
People with him. He's not doing he's not doing that himself,
but I mean he's got it. He's gonna stop watch out.
I mean he might. I never watched him call the game.
I don't.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
I don't think he would.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
I've tried to stop watch it, and I just give
up after one to you, yeah, because I'm like, if
Kevin Harlan can do it, I can do it. And
then I can't do it. Yeah. But the bottom line
is that he's so vivid. And I don't close my
eyes in the car obviously because that would cause vehicular
issues on fifty nine.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
But he's just so detailed and so excellent.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
And you know, we were talking about Eric Collins screaming
and yelling a lot in that Miami Carolina game, and
some people say that was his one opportunity to get
on national television and get and get his his flowers
on the social media streets. That's just Kevin Harlan. He
just he he just accentuates the most important parts. First

(03:56):
of all, a wonderful football game. I don't know all
the I look at the obviously, look at the box score.
I listened, but I couldn't get out of the car.
I was in my house yesterday and I like, I
can't get out of the car to see whether or
not Trevor Lawrence is gonna score on This was a
third or fourth and goal, and I remember, yeah, and
he get the one yard line, the one yard line,
he falls down, yes, and gets up and then turns

(04:17):
left and gets in the end zone and Jacksonville and
then you and then you got mahomes uh very little time.
I mean they there was the pick sixes, there was
all sorts of stuff. It was I wish the tonight's
can the Kansasity Jacksonville game was tonight because I'd be
in front of the television for three hours because from
what I heard and what I saw the highlights this morning,

(04:39):
an incredible football game and unfortunately for Texans fans, not
a good day because Jacksonville now also joins Indianapolis at
four and one in the AFC South.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
See the Jacksonville lost not looking so bad.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well, it's also not looking so good either, because now
you're still down two in the you have Jacksonville as
a winnable game. Yeah yeah, but I mean the Rams, Buccaneers,
Jaguars losses are none to be embarrassed about. And then
you got two wins over some wounded slash bad teams. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
So it's kind of a weird spot where the Texans
are right now.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Well, the reality is this. It is a jumbled messaging AFC.
And I was thinking about this because you know, I'm
having a hard time sleeping like I always do, And
I got up and I said, I wonder if I
don't think nine and eight gets you in the playoffs
and this would be a gut feel. I'm gonna use
this in an hour and a half. Now, n's not
getting you in this year. Yeah, I think everybody that's

(05:35):
in the playoffs ross he's gonna have to.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Win at least ten games. I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
I don't think so, because it is first of all,
it's took ten last year.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
Now you could say this.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
You could say that Indianapolis and Jacksonville are surprising to
the good side for those teams. You could also say
that Kansas City, Baltimore, and Cincinnati are surprising to the
bad side. I think Kansas City is just had a
rigorous schedule so far. I think they're going to bounce back.
I don't know if Baltimore comes back. Vegas believes they can.

(06:08):
I don't know. But who knows. Your division is bad,
which helps, right, But Cincinnati's a hot mess. Your division
is not bad. Your division is not as bad and
for the first time maybe you know, I don't know,
seven or eight years, the AFC South will not be
the worst division in football this year. But to go
back to the point, been battling with the NFC South
for some years. So you are, you are two and

(06:29):
three and you are on the you have two you
have eight teams in front of you. You're a playoff
watching now, Yeah, I I am. You are mister playing,
you are mister standings. I'm scorebo watcher guy. I am
standings watching. Maybe a lot of football left. Oh, you
don't think I'll be doing it. If the Rockets go
out to a two and all start, you will. Hey, guys,

(06:49):
here are the one seed tied with three other teams. Yeah,
I'm sorry, that's who I am. I don't know. I
can't explain this part of your charm. It is well,
I don't know if it's charming or not. All right,
So we got Rockets. If you want to get into
that last night, if you want to get into the
Monday night football game, we don't, and I wish we did.
I'm We're trying. I think I've been trying to do

(07:11):
this for a long time, trying to talk about things
that don't involve the Houston sports teams per se. Yeah,
if you miss I'll just say this, if you missed
out on Kansas City Jacksonville yesterday, you missed a great
football game. And sometimes the local football team doesn't give
you a great football game. Sometimes the local baseball team
doesn't give you great baseball games. It was a great
game from the sex this weekend, though. It was a

(07:31):
great game and it needed to it needed to be
a great game. But that Casey Jacksonville game, and I
don't know that that has to be now. Now, Trevor
Lawrence did take the Jaguars too. Is he taking them
to an AFC championship game? No, that was that Blake
Portals or something might have been Portals. You're right, but
he's going to the playoffs. I think one time they

(07:52):
went to the divisional round. I think because they won
a playoff game, wouldn't that And he threw four touchdown
interceptions in the first half and then four touchdowns on
the side. I mean, Jacksonville's gone to a championship game
in the last ten year or it was just a
big comeback I think, But that was huge for him.
I mean he had he had one of his linemens
step on his feet. He could have just rolled over

(08:13):
and died. He got back up, and he fought his
ass off to get to the touchdown. And he also
makes some brain dead plays. He's still not a great quarterback.
I still still not super accurate. No, he's still not
a superracc which is stunning to me that he's been
only as long as he has and he can't be.
But that was a huge one. That was a huge,
huge win for them. So again AFC is a hot

(08:34):
mess right now, the number one seed. And again this
is five games in and look that's thirty percent of
the season, thirty three percent, right you or take can?
I is it the Bills? There four and one Indianapolis Colts.
Oh the Colts. Okay, uh, that's because of their conference. Okay,
we're going tie breakers already in week week six. I
have an illness. I love it. I could look for therapy.

(08:59):
But if I go to my there say they said, Matt,
what's wrong with you? I standings watched too much. Be like,
get your ass out the door, shut it in, cat.
But that's treating the symptom, not the disease. Matt I
don't know how to get rid of it. Okay, I'd
rather go talk to about these obnoxious dreams I have
m like last night, You're not gonna this is so bizarre.

(09:20):
I'd had a dream.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
I got more Matt Thomas dream interpretation.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
No, I don't even know how you can interpret. I
was in a dorm room at Lamar University in Beaumont.
It was a one bedroom by myself.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
Why are you Lamar? I don't know what ties do
you have to Lamar?

Speaker 2 (09:36):
None. Now one of our great coworkers daughters plays volleyball there. Okay.
Alvin Brooks, who was the former Houston Cougar head coach
longtime assistant coach, is the head coach at Lamar. Now,
I've done one football game at Lamar, but that's all
I got.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
When was it, oh, ten years ago?

Speaker 2 (09:54):
I did it with nd Clove automonnically and I's had
a difficult time for you, Matt, I you know imrancically
it was a difficult time. Wow. But but why would
it be randomized? Random talked about in a dream?

Speaker 1 (10:03):
People?

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Why was that in the door. Maybe your brain is
telling you to come back, come back to Lamar and
confront these difficult times. It wasn't about Lamar's actually running
away with it was it was it because of Lamar.
I actually like Beaumont, man, not I mean because I'm
mister Texas. You I'm liking Beaumont. Doesn't make you mister Texas.
That makes you boring. Mister Arkansas doesn't like Beaumont, mister

(10:23):
Texas does You're not mister Texas. No, nobody's calling you that.
At least two people per show call me that. Yeah,
but they're just saying it as a joke to play.
I don't think so. I don't think so. I think
matter of fact, if you're gonna call the laughing in
your face, that's fine. They're still calling me mister Texas.
If you guys call the show today and ladies, please,
it would be very polite to you to call me. Please,

(10:46):
don't do it, folks. I think you're just gonna grow
his ego, which is already bigger than every room he
steps in. That's not fair either. I mean sometimes it's true,
but not in all cases. Depends on how big their
roommate is, like a banker room, it would be a
different energy stadium is just too small, that's fine.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Uh, did you, by the way, speaking to the big stadium?

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Did you? I saw on my Facebook feed Paul McCartney
played an Allegiant stadium. There must have been eighty thousand people. Oh,
I thought you were gonna bring up Kendrick Lamar and
all the people jumping in Argentina. I did not see that. Oh, okay,
I'll send it to you. You need to. That's fine.
But he's eighty three. It sounds like hell. Really doesn't
sound he sounds Where is this Allegiant? The super Bowl

(11:28):
a couple of years early? Yeah, m eighty three thousand,
crazy last last time. Also, Taylor Swift was on the
Tonight Show. She was she debunked the reason why she's
not singing at the super Bowl this year. What was
the what was the presumed reason? She wasn't asked. Oh,

(11:52):
so she was asked. She had. She said, I'm gonna
say if you can figure this out. Okay. She was
asked but wasn't asked formal, and she said she had
conversation with jay Z. Okay, she did. It meant that
she says that she and jay Z get along very well. See,
I thought jay Z's last year was the year before.
People said I do you. I want to see if
I'm gonna give you, like three got a minute left here, Okay,

(12:13):
I'm gonna give you three guesses as to why she said, No,
they don't pay. Let me give you some thraw. Oh
what she said? Yeah. What she said was the reasons
why logistics, No, she's busy. Nope, she plans on being pregnant. No,
but those are all not terrible. The reason why she

(12:33):
said she doesn't want to perform, I'll tell you after this.
On Sports Talk seven ninety Lebron's got a decision today.
We're gonna carry it. If it's If it's add related,
we're gonna annihilate him. If it's seriously, the decision number two,
which probably could mean retirement, that's a big gonna be
a big freaking deal. Got feelings as well, Loven ten

(12:55):
thirteen on Sports Talk seven ninety Ross if we pay
off on teases here on the Matt Thomas Show. So,
the question I brought up was why did Taylor Swift
tell Jimmy Fallon last night on his show why she
does not want to perform at the Super Bowl out

(13:17):
of respect for Travis Kelcey. She believes that it would
be very insensitive if the Chiefs were to get back
to the super Bowl this year or at any point
while he's still playing. I mean, I don't know how
much long he's going to play that all of a sudden,
he's playing. He's in his job, trying to in a
very tough and she's like, Oh, that's great, honey, I
gotta go work on my set. So I fully believe

(13:40):
the moment that Travis Kelcey retires that she will be
the halftime performance at a super Bowl. It just won't
be until he retires. So she probably could be at
the end of this year, could be next year, who knows.
But that's the reason why she gave. Whether you believe
or not, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
I'm just telling you.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
I guess. I mean, I think it kind.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
Of makes sense. I'm not I I believe that.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
I don't know. I mean, she can control whatever she wants. Yeah,
she can do whatever she wants. She doesn't need the
Super Bowl, No, she doesn't, if anybody mean. But she's
of all though, like top performers on the planet, she's
about the biggest one left off the list that hasn't
done the Super Bowl halftime. Yeah, since they started ramping up.

(14:23):
I mean, there's only a handful of really truly top
top top pop acts. Yes, and I think probably now
look bad Bunny is getting annihilated by those that don't
know he is or what he believes, or the fact
that he doesn't speak a lot of English and his songs. Again,
it is what it is. I don't particularly care, but
she will probably face the least resistance because here's the thing.
If you dare dares something bad about Taylor Swift, those

(14:46):
Swiftiers will come aft. Oh those Swifties are vicious.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
Oh yeah, that's a vicious crowd.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
I know. It's like Yankee fans. It's yeah, they're probably
worse all Red Raider fans. But by the way, if
y'all read Raider fans, calm down, after all Saturday.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
Coming after me, they are agreement. Whether they were, they're
not anymore. They're tortillas with holes in them.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah, we should know we aw to do. We need
to have a tortilla throwing contest. I'd rather not.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
We're not in Lubbock, We're not on Lubbock radio.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Everybody come on down and Tom's track their yard. We're
gonna have a tortilla throwing contest and the tortillas brought
to you by Billy's Barbecue. Winner is going to get
a pair of tickets in Texas Tech and what West
Virginia you you want to get tickets to see women's

(15:30):
basketball exhibition opener? I don't Why is my phone on?
I don't even have everybody you know, we hadn't got
a text town from you in years. No, I don't
usually have it on. I've been very good about it.
That has been playing with my phone? Yeah, I know
who it is? Who you know? Seriously, I swear to
God I did not put the phone tone on. Somebody
has been jacking with my phone, and I don't like it.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
But that's true. Oh no, I'm just saying I just
don't like the sound.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Unless worry about it. That's not my phone. I'm on silent.
Is it me?

Speaker 3 (15:57):
You shut your bub as sound?

Speaker 5 (15:58):
No?

Speaker 3 (15:58):
No, no, look it's it's off. It wasn't me.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Oh Tom, he.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
Walked right, Tom, Tom, our engineer was it here? He
walked out of here? Is why we were blaming each other.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
What a fraud.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
That's great, What a fraud? All right, that's pretty funny.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
Nick Casario, Uh just had to zoom our media availability.
We're we're not going to care a lot of greatuff
to say, We're not going to play We're gonna read
it because he's woring a Oh come on, No, I'm
not about Nick. No, no, we're not doing words salad.
That's not happening. But he doesn't be my favorite one.
He does have a Joe mix It update. You want

(16:37):
to don't look at don't look at the tweets. You
want to guess what he says. The update is there's
no update. That's not necessarily completely true. It's not it's
mostly true. All right, So we got that to get
to Kyle Tucker. Oh please, oh for last night? Okay?

(16:58):
You want to keep victory lapping this? You want him
bringing up the reason why I bring up the Batman,
The reason why I'm bringing up it gives me faint hope.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
What he went over three yesterday?

Speaker 2 (17:10):
I think, oh, I think, oh for two of a
walk maybe, and he DIDN'TNK did score run? Scored a run?
You're not paying that's called run production, Master. You're not
paying nine years, four to ninety nine million dollars for that.
What's his batting average in the postseason? This is listed
as one seventy six. That's he's also slugging that meaning
it's all every one of his hits are singles. Okay,

(17:34):
it's decent sample size. It's okay, five games game, five
games is a decent sample size in October most meaningful time. No,
five games is not a decent sample thing. I think
it's an amazing ball or really any game all right,
okay for such a decent sample size. MM actually am

(17:57):
getting a little worried. You shouldn't be. I'm just doing
more just for conversation between the two of us. Okay,
we'll see how it goes. Matt and I have a
bet seven and a half years. So once it once, yeah,
we we want to do two inside. Yeah, we want
to make sure we tell you this. So again this
is the daily affirmation by me. Is he in your
forgetting about the bet? Okay? What would you give him? Realistically?

(18:22):
I think he's worth a ten year deal, ten year,
three hundred Okay. I wonder if he's gonna wait for
Bregman to figure out what he's going to do and
at the market set that way, or it's regardless of
how he's the headliner. Yeah, one thing that really hurt
your cause. Was Vladimir Gerra Junior re signing with the
Blue Jays. Yeah, you're right, that's one last name off

(18:44):
the list. So I believe he's going to be the
headliner of the twenty sixth class or twenty five class,
what are you gonna call it? Yeah, all right, so
we got that we do have. By the way, the
Dodgers are two nothing in Philadelphia. Yes, it was a
must win game yesterday, says who Jeff Passon. He did not.
It was a must win situation for the Philadelphia Philly
that dweeb. Well, they're down oh two on the going

(19:07):
on the road. Yeah, and then the Brewers want to
nothing on the Chicago Cubs. There America, Lenk starts today.
You've got Mariners and Tigers playing in Detroit. You've got
the Yankees and the Blue Jays playing in New York.
Go Tigers, go Blue Jays. Let's get that sweet baby. Yeah,
go Blue Jays go.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
These are strange things.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
I've said, go Tigers and blow Blue Jays so much,
always said that in our entire broadcast, not very many,
So we got that to get to I would say
that the real baseball, good baseball matchup would probably be
Mariners Blue Jays would be a good series. Yeah. TV
ratings hell, but yeah, who really cares at that point.
They've already got their money. I'm just putting the games
on the background these days anyways. Yeah, that's true. All right,

(19:50):
So Casario talk, We're gonna get to that. If you
want to chime in on the Rocket, you can get
to that. Steve Sarkisian had some odd comments at his
presscotteage yesterday. Yeah, well, guarding Texas's opponents this year, okay,
and it didn't do him any favors. So we got
that to get to I'm just, yeah, you know what

(20:11):
I am today, I'm a tease machine. We're gonna get
all of this. We got so much going on. You
are the big teaser. And then we got Lebron James
really quick here, but because we got Lebron's coming thing
up in a half an hour, what do you think
this is?

Speaker 4 (20:22):
Now?

Speaker 2 (20:22):
He's got a deal with Mamazon Brime? Could it so?
Lebron James for those of you that don't know, put
out on social media yesterday, there is a is he
calling it the Final Decision or the Next Decision Part
two or something like that? The second decision, the second decision.
Uh yeah, I think it's just a Hennessy thing. Yeah,

(20:44):
he put the decision has been made. Cheers to year
twenty three. Oh so we're not being carried then, are we?

Speaker 1 (20:49):
Now?

Speaker 2 (20:50):
So we should do Jonathan, when you find it, when
you record it for us, we can play it. Yeah, everybody,
whenever you do. I was gonna say we can call
it we because if it's an AD, we're not gonna
talk about it. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (20:59):
And this is confusing because he said wait till eleven
o'clock and then yeah, he just posted an hour ago, Hennes, see,
this has been made.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
You know why? Do you know why he did that?
Probably backlash because if he would have gone on the
air and said this is my second or my next
decision or whatever the hell is calling it and it
was that, that would have been highly embarrassing. This is
a nice reference. Wait, you haven't seen a Christmas story,
have you? Or bits and pieces of it? Not the
episode nobody put the Oval teams a crummy commercial. Oh

(21:31):
I think those are the Christmas Story. I think it's
a hilarious thing. Yes, it's a perfect reference. Now ESPN
has dropped it on its most important list things like
they're to the top headlines. It is headline number ten.
So I was there up to speed on this as well,
so as much to do about nothing. Yeah, m I
was kind of hoping he will we tarre because all

(21:52):
the big headlines we get usually they drop between two
and six. I wonder if he's gonna want to do
the I would imagine Lebron doesn't normally shy away from attention.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
No, he would want the farewell tour.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
And you know what, as much as much as I've
criticized him in the past for some of the ridiculous
statements he's made, he deserves a farewell tour. He's the
second greatest player to play in the NBA. I loved
when Michael Jordan had his well he had two tour,
he had two tours, three, he retired three three times.
I loved when Kareem when I was a kid, Kareem
was retiring and he would go to these different cities

(22:25):
and would get the cowboy boots and rocking chairs and stuff.
I would do the exact same thing. Yeah, I mean
I I and maybe I'm in the minority. Noess, I
can separate the politics and this goofy stuff that he
says to the basketball player. I have been blessed in
my life that I have seen the greatest basketball player
ever play, the second greatest player ever to play, the

(22:47):
third ever in my mind, well fourth probably with Kareem.
I've watched hundreds of great NFL stars, major League Baseball pitchers.
We're we're blessed. If you love sports, you have seen
the very best in the last thirty years, especially in
the basketball side. I've seen three of the four greatest
players ever to play in the last thirty years. It's

(23:07):
pretty amazing to me. Very lucky, Matt. That's why I
love sports. We're also biased. Some guy who was watching
basketball in nineteen sixty would be like, I saw the
greatest that butet By Russell and the second greatest, Will Chamberlain.
Jorge Maid was really good back Cooozy, I saw the
third greatest.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
Yeah, and Oscar Robertson, that's who you'd be say.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah. If I was seventy five, I'd be like, oh, Oscar,
he was the greatest point god every who is his
magic Johnson, it was the so magical. Why I went
to that was middle of making Jojo on that. But
I mean, it is the greatest name in NBA history,
Magic Johnson. Well, and unfortunately his extra curricul activities weren't

(23:48):
so magic.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
Holes he's been able to.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
Live past that. I have to bring that up. But
you did, I did? Man? He all right, yeah, he stopped.
He just loved the lifestyle is let's put it that way.
You always have to turn that way. I didn't turn anyway.
I'm just trying to do not blunt, but just kind
of honest. People appreciate Auntie on this show seven one

(24:12):
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven ninety This What's up? Makes
you simp?

Speaker 7 (24:28):
Makes you simp?

Speaker 4 (24:30):
All right?

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Ross? And I just saw the video for Lebron complete
chill ad And by the way, when he's himping or
promoting whatever, it's gross. I've tried it. You're not a
cognet guy. Not that it's not good. What it's not good?

(24:51):
I don't like it. Okay, I'm an international man of
spirits too. I don't think you're the target audience by
what you mean, Ross, I just don't think you're in
their target demo. What would be the demo? I would
be younger I mean I'm not old. Yeah, I think
you're at a demo for Hennessy. Oh you mean, oh yeah,

(25:16):
I'm sorry. We're no free plugs, no free plugs. Okay, Jonathan,
you you a menacy guy. No, I don't do dark liquer,
dark liquor Rossy. Yes, you're a Tennessee guy. I've had Hennessy.
That's not my favorite. I'm not a big cognac guy.
A former Houston Rocket or Brandy was a big renissy

(25:39):
guy and made me try someone I was like anything good.
Perhaps it's an acquired taste. Too spicy, hurts when you
go down, down, goes down your throat ten thirty seven.
That's all right, all right? Uh, Nick ca Cereo is
a horrific interview. It is not interesting. It's words salad.

(26:01):
So I'm going off of Adam Wexler's tweets. Oh great,
you know wex will tweet anything. He's got like nine
million tweets. He tweeted today about the UFL coming back
to Houston next year. You see that the UFL is
coming back. Yeah, I know. The Roughnecks went away gone.
Now they're going to be the Roughnecks again. For no,
the rough next part three. No, okay, they are the

(26:22):
Houston Gamblers again. What yeah, And they're playing at bell
Benergy Stadium Belle Benergy home of the Dynamo in the day, okay,
home of the and the Rash. I don't think they
want to be called the Rash. You think they get
called that around the league. That's really among your NWSL fans.

(26:43):
Want you got in that group chat and say hey,
get you go to those games. They're actually pretty entertaining.
You go to drink and eat. Don't don't kid yourself. Okay,
I'd go for dollar dogs and three dollar beers. Yes,
I knew you fraud. But also those ladies are very talented.
All right, it's a good league. Two things. I don't like,
Guy Socker. No soccer appeals to me at all. So
it's better if you go to the game. Although I'm

(27:04):
gonna be going to World Cup. I watch it on TV.
I'm going on the summer all World Cup this summer.
Ready to go, let's go. You're all in the World Cup.
Oh sure, I'm gonna be. Why because it's it's it's
it's the world's game. It's a big event every four years.
Got to be invested in it. Now, Team USA is
not very good? Can we just close that program down't
watch team This is what happens every four years. You're like,

(27:27):
I'm gonna give soccer a try. That's me. Watch Team
USA sucks and you're like, hey, this sucks because the
team's not good. Think about this. This is the fourth
time I've said good teams. Yeah, exactly, watch Spain versus France.
But I watched you of a USA versus I don't
even know Ecuador. I try to go to the soccer
bars and are all jam packed. I'm like, do you
know who I am?

Speaker 3 (27:46):
I need a place to sit, And clearly they don't.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Man, No, they don't. They don't know. I'm not very well,
very well versed in the soccer community. We'll work on that.
For twenty twenty six. Nick Aserio on their player acquisition
philosophy quote, We're gonna take some shots on goal, some
are gonna hit, some are gonna miss. So the Cam
Robinson and CJ. Garner Johnson trade shots, missed the cage

(28:08):
or the goalie was standing on his head either one.
So he went with the little NHL vernacular that was
Adam Wexer's commentary. No he quoted Cassro on this. Yeah.
The quote ends at some will miss Oh okay maybe
so okay, Yeah, I gotta see that. Cassia wouldn't say
something good fun. Ye, that was pretty colorful. Cassario on

(28:32):
injured running back Joe Mixon. Oh did you you saw
because you're reading it right now, Well, now I saw it.
He's making progress over the next three to four weeks.
We'll have some more information. Once we get to that period,
we'll have a better idea how that's going to go.
All right, So, Last half Full says he may be
available in December. Last Half Empty says we're giving it

(28:53):
one last shot before declaring him done for the season.
Probably is that that feel fair? Nick Chubbs looking a
little bit better, maybe getting healthier as the year goes along,
because he's further removed from his surgeries and what he
mars is emerging as at least a threat and trading
for Derrick Henry. You said they're not going to trade

(29:14):
for Derek. That's right. I just want to see if
you were paying attention. So happy for you watching you No,
thank you so much. I was so happy you paid attention.
Let's go to the phones. And talk to the great
people of Houston, Texas seven one three two one two
five seven seven one three two one two five seven
Unable to talk to.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
Todd at Rice University. Hello, Todd, U, what U but up?

Speaker 2 (29:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (29:38):
I was just concerned about, uh, you know, the Astros
in the season, But now I'm concerned about Jill Mixing
and Uh, Okay.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
You sound kind of down the dumps. What can I
do to make your spirits a little higher to that.

Speaker 9 (29:55):
I'm doing. I just wanted to check out.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Okay, appreciate at you. You're doing all right, Todd.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
Yeah, that's what I'm like to hear, Tod. What's going
on your roll?

Speaker 9 (30:11):
A lot of surfing is going on.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
Yeah, the same for me. The waves are you're hitting
the slopes? No, he's on the he's at the beach.
He's a Jamaica beach.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
What kind of surfing, Todd?

Speaker 9 (30:25):
You know the really small ones? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (30:28):
You hanging ten or hanging like five and a half.

Speaker 9 (30:31):
No, I'm like, yeah, I'm like a two to four person.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
Uh, That's that's fine. I've been trying to get to
three to six levels.

Speaker 9 (30:40):
How we feeling about how we feeling about the Texans?
What are we thinking, what.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
Do you think? What do you Yeah, I don't people know,
but people listen to the show all day long. They
don't know. They know how we feel. People are more
concerned about how you feel.

Speaker 9 (30:54):
I'm just feeling you, guys.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
You're not driving today, are you, Tod?

Speaker 9 (31:01):
I was thinking of that.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
No, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
You don't want to.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
Stay in the couchtop. Yeah, stay on the waves. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
You know Jack in the Box has these double Munchie
meals for ten dollars. You can go a long way
for you bro.

Speaker 9 (31:15):
You know those McDonald's. They got the toys with the
K pop you.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Know it's right, k pop toys. I didn't know they
had those. No, I don't think the eight dollars big mcmeal. Okay,
of course that a couple of times. Oh really, you know,
how do you feel about the extra bun in the middle.
You know what that's called? No, the club, the club bun,

(31:42):
the club, the club because you can get club sandwich.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
You get three pieces of bread too.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
That's true. The more you know Todd was calling from Rice,
you did you think he was in the middle of
class something like that. I don't think so. I think
he's in the middle of a trip on the catch
from workers comp feeling no pain?

Speaker 10 (32:04):
Is he.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
The backstra Well, so he called about the Astros and
he appreciate you, todd At said, And he heard the
update at least gave him a boy Joe Mixon, and
he's like, well, do you feel about that word about you? Mixing? Now,
I don't mean to put a lot of worry on you, folks.
We'll just providing information. Yes, sounds like you may be
right that he's not going to play at all. Welthough,
have you haven't a fishy declared on that you didn't
put your name on No? No, that actually to me

(32:28):
sounds more optimistic than I thought it was gonna. Okay,
but here's the thing. Do you really want to bring
a running back in week twelve of the season? Yes,
okayo Mixing, And you answer the question if it's the
best running back you can have? Yes, Yeah, You're not
gonna shove him for the rest of the year. He's
like thirty now. But I'm saying what kind of impact,

(32:48):
not saying, Shelby, what kind of impact would you think
a guy would have that has not been on a
football field since last December?

Speaker 3 (32:55):
I'm not a I don't what's the injury?

Speaker 2 (32:57):
I think? Yeah, do you ask those things? Sorry, stop
asking questions you don't deserve to know. Remember, you don't
care about the Texans like Demico cares about the Texans
as long as it's not like Achilles or a cl
or something or I don't know the lefranc injury. How
does that hurt explosiveness? We need to get orthopedis in
on this and then I can answer your question. Do
you feel like we should do the Matt Thomas Show

(33:18):
with Ross and a sports physician, probably because it feels
like forty percent of our content is now is trying
to disciple what Houston's sports doctor before us.

Speaker 4 (33:27):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (33:27):
I know that. Yeah, but it's one of those situations
that the secrecy just get you know what We'll tell
you just we want to tell you. Yeah, just watched
games over the weekend. I mean it's it's Carson Wentz
and whoever else, Jake Browning and all these other backup
quarterbacks who are out there because guys are getting hurt.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
M M.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
But yes, Jayden Daniels came back. What if we you
and I created a sports league where you had to
tell the truth all the time, I think, how do
you think we would do?

Speaker 9 (33:57):
You?

Speaker 3 (33:58):
What do you mean, like if we impress commerce? How
we would do?

Speaker 1 (34:01):
Like?

Speaker 2 (34:01):
No, howe the league would do if we said, Coach Jones,
you called a run play on third and nine? What
were you thinking? I had my head up my ass. Honestly,
I don't know what I was thinking. It would never happen,
and just saying, what would it be like if we
had a completely truthful, be more entertaining I think so
people would be like, I'm gonna embrace this. You guys
are telling nothing of the truth. What happened to uh

(34:23):
Roe Bixon? Oh he was out surfing with his buddy Todd, Yeah,
and shattered his leg. Yes, he was out in Freeport.
Nothing but honesty. Yeah, we should do a completely honest
show one day. Yeah, let's do it. That's no chance
I would ever do it. Seven to three and all

(34:44):
of a sudden, Matt, No, I'm just saying I'm not
telling all the truth every day.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
No, you get to tell the truth once a week
at least.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
At dead eleven thirty on Mondays, apparently a Serio held
a press conference for twenty minutes. Gony, Oh, you need
better things to do with your life than listen. Maybe
some good stuff there, Maddie, what why why are you so?

Speaker 11 (35:06):
Why?

Speaker 2 (35:06):
You're kind of area because Nick Assario is the smartest
guy in the room and he's ready to tell you that.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
And he's sent a crappy job of this offensive line.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
Back to back big wins, big relative defensive wins, not
big one. Big one would be winning in Seattle. That's
a big offensive line. Rankings dropping tomorrow? Baby? Is that
topic a tomorrow? I guess?

Speaker 10 (35:26):
So?

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Can I make a prediction? Sure? They were thirty first
last week? Yes, they're going to twenty nine this week.
Oh man, let's go. That's not necessarily true. You don't
have to move up the chart. You can have a
great week. Yeah. Maybe they're in the top twenty next
this week. No, I think it's for the season based
Oh okay, I was gonna say, all right, you know what, Ross,

(35:47):
I think you're gonna hit your mark. You're gonna they're
gonna be the top. We're gonna be in twenty five.
Probably not, I would say, under I would I'm I'm
betting the ender or over on that. I know you're confusing, Yeah,
I know it'll be worse let me put it that way.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
But they're moving big win.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Is Seattle trending in the right direction needed wins for sure,
And I'm telling you I said this before. Seattle's on
a must win, So that'd be ridiculous, but it'd be
a much needed win. It'd be it would get, it
would get, it would get your mojo. Not all the
way back, but pretty close. I think Seattle looks Seattle.

(36:21):
Sam Donald's playing well for them, He just is. He
got into a back and forth Seesaw game with Tampa Bay.
Tampa Bay is just really good, he's said, one of
the more accurate quarterbacks in football. Yeah, in terms of
I saw some stats like throwing catchable ball, stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
So he's been very good.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
And you know, everybody said, Okay, sure he revived his
career because of Kevin O'Connell. Kevin O'Connell can win with
anybody in Minnesota. But he's been good out there. Yeah,
they're really good. And Donald's made good money for being
a guy that was left for nothing with the Jets, right.
I mean, he was like, you, Minnesota really wants to
bring this guy in. Well, the funny picture people keep
going back. He was with he was with Baker Mayfield

(36:58):
in Carolina and people keep putting up that picture of
both of them, and Panthers fans are not happy about
that picture. No, they're not.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
Although I think you're gonna be pretty happy with Bryce Young.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
Right, He's shown some flashes here and there. This Bryce
Young is a serviceable middle of the pack quarterback. Yes,
he's not a one dash one though they want better
than that. Yeah. The early line from a week out
is up for Texans at Seattle. Yes, Seattle minus one
and a half at DraftKings. Now, I'll say this, you

(37:29):
usually get two to two and a half for just
being at home. So there that would actually give us text.
Yeah for sure. What was what year was that draft?
That was twenty twenty two draft or twenty twenty three
Sam Darnold or Bryce Bryce twenty three NFL Draft No.
Twenty Uh yeah, CJ. Straw twenty twenty three draft. Okay,

(37:51):
so let's take a look real quick because I'm curious
about this time. I always like to look back, and
it's been a the sample sizes, it's nice, but it's
not completely all there. Hm Uh, Bryce Young, c J. Stroud,
Will Anderson two hits for the Texans. He hits for
the Texans and they Anthony Richardson flat out bust for
the cass I'm trying to look at the other quarterbacks

(38:13):
that were taking in that round. H that was it.
You didn't have one until until your boy Thomas Sports
Enterprises Will Levis. Hey, hey, now he was repping Will Levis. Yes, yeah,
we were bullish for a while. We're no longer bullish. Yeah,
mistakes were made, that's okay. Hendon Hooker with the Lions.

(38:36):
I forgot Hendon Hooker existed. Jake Hayner a name like that,
Aidan O'Connell. Clayton Tuone, Hey, troun pick. What's where's Clayton Tune?
Right now? Is quarterbacks coach? Graduate assistant with No, no, no, no,
that's not nice. I'm just asking. I want to Is
he not still a backup with the Cardinals? No, he

(38:58):
was with Apparently he got from the Packers practice always
on the Packers practice squad. Well, Dan, he's in the
NFL for him put a big Pats and Gamblers are
looking for a quarterback.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Hey what you can revive your career there.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
And usually if you go to the UFL, you're going
just to collect the check you're not going was that
one quarterback who was the the the rough next QUARTERBACKJ? PJ.
Tucker wasn't Tucker, PJ. Walker, PJ. Walker, but he started
in the rough Necks. Then he went to the NFL. Yes,

(39:35):
and what's he doing now? He's with the Calgary Stampeders. Yeah,
it didn't really work.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
He's got a job be saving up.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
Well, I gotta be honest, we were going to go
to this live media availability for Lebron James. We've root
that's well, he's already drinking Hennessy apparently. Well, I'll tell
you what. I'm glad he did it now because if
he'd have gone live in the ESPN would have interrupted
their coverage for this and it would have been for an ad.
He'd have been annihilated.

Speaker 4 (40:00):
HM.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
So somebody got them and set or somebody in the
media said, you know, I got to put this thing
out so people don't think. But I still think it's
not a great idea to use the term decision with this.
It is eleven o five on Sports Talk seven, Hoti
matten Ross with you here until two pm. We got
gut feelings coming up at eleven thirty. Roster the NFL
rewind at one twenty today. What a Monday night game

(40:24):
between Kansas City and Jacksonville. If you watched the game?
Did you even watch the game?

Speaker 10 (40:28):
Did?

Speaker 2 (40:28):
Did I know you did? Ross? I'm talking about the
great audience of Houston, Texas. I mean, I had it
on with the Rockets game. So how did you? You
are a double TV guy, and I think you know,
I think it's a grown ass man. I think I'm
a minority on this. Yey, come on, man, twenties twenty
twenty five. You work in sports, let's go. But I
was at the event, so it's kind of hard to
I don't. Okay, Well, I'm talking about in general. Yeah,

(40:49):
you get one on the red zone and one on
the Texans or whatever main game. It's beautiful. So I
use it with this is This whole thing is called
remote control. I use it previous and it works just
as well. No, it doesn't work just as well. That's ridiculous.
You think that works just as well as seeing both
at all times. I've been doing it all my life.
I'm just telling you're okay, you're so hard headed. No,

(41:10):
you're hard headed me? Yeah, yeah, you are, mister hardhead.
All right. Yes, I can be very stubborn, but I
all saw them right and modest. Well, listen to others,
go on, Matt, I mean TV's are cheap these days. No, no,
at actually even have a third TV now now I
have cheap otvs.

Speaker 3 (41:29):
They're not nice. One of them is. Okay, so you.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
Got so what what goes on that channel? Like? For example,
last night it was playoff Baseball, Monday Night Football and Rockets.
Yeah he's a piece of baby, all right. Any thoughts
on the Rockets from last night? Uh, not a whole
lot of thoughts. Read Shepherd got the start, which we
kind of talked about it. If he's made a big
leap over the off season, I'm okay with it. But
just what I saw out of read Shepherd last year

(41:54):
wasn't to me starting point guard material. He actually didn't
run in a whole lot of point yesterday. If you
think about it, Thompson was bringing the ball up a lot.
I noticed that. Yeah, Reed Shepherd. Uh, he had one
nice take to the basket that I was like, Okay,
he's if he can now he wasn't. My concern with
him offensively was that he wasn't even trying to get
to the basket last year. Now, was that lack of

(42:16):
confidence or lack of ability? I don't know. I'm hoping
it was lack of confidence. And he's more confident in
that ability now. So if he can go out there
and be a shooter from the corner, that'd be great.
Jabarti Smith Junior made his first two threes. He's looking sharp.
He talked with us in the in media day about
wanting to be a forty percent three point shooter. So

(42:36):
you're gonna need him to stretch the floor if you
hit him and Kevin Durant out there. Oh yeah, Man
Thompson made a corner three. He did, so if he
could be a thirty seven percent corner three, yeah, that's
that's on the baselines. That's the sort of twenty two
feet give me to thirty seven percent from there.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
I'll live with that.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
He was also making some crafty moves getting into the basket.
There was one fake he put on Chris tops Porzingis
and that's how he's going to if Look, the reality
is we've sat here and said if this guy could
only develop a jump shot, and a lot of times,
nine times out of ten it doesn't develop, correct, So
we don't know with him in Thompson. The book still
needs to be written. But the odds say he's not

(43:14):
going to develop. But he's not gonna become Kevin Durant
in his prime all of a sudden, And and here
is the reality of it. If he gets to average,
that'll be a win because everything else he does is exemporary.
He's a good ball handler, he's insanely smart on the court,
makes good decisions, doesn't force a lot of turnovers a
little bit for a second year guy. But I think

(43:36):
that that will come in due time. He'll be a
better decision maker than he is. Yes, But the problem
is he's also twenty one years old. He's been has
had a basketball in his hand probably since he was
the age of five.

Speaker 3 (43:47):
I don't know of all of a.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
Sudden, being in an NBA gym shooting five hundred jump
shots today is going to necessarily change who you are.
Right So there are guys, there is a history of
guys who are not great three point shooters who have
still been very effective score And that'd be you know,
Russell Westbrookshi does it right now. So the way they
do that is with speed craft and good ten feet

(44:09):
and in touch around the basket, so he can still
be an effective score even if he's not able to
develop that jump shot. So we'll see and and I,
like I said, I saw some crafty moves from him,
so he can win that way and score that way
and get to the basket and get to the restricted area.
All right. One guy I mentioned this on the show
very briefly yesterday, that might be able to sneak in

(44:33):
some minutes. Is this JD. Davison. Guy played seventeen minutes
last night, Oh, twenty two minutes last night, scored seventeen points.
He was five of seven from three point range. Now
again he's going against these second and third units of
the Atlanta Hawks. It's better going one for seven. Look
at his box score. How many players I had to
call yesterday. That's a lot. That is a lot. Poor baby.

(44:57):
I wasn't looking for a port. Yeah, I just look
at this. Is this is atypical a normal game. I
mean I feel bad for anybody. Like if you ever
listening to Robert and Steve during spring training, Yes, I
mean when their team is littered with guys with nineties,
you get the binoculars out, like there have been sometimes
that Roberts, like, I don't know who's in left field, Like,

(45:17):
I'm not sure if I should bother learning this guy.
He'll be cut from camp. But but I mean sometimes
with the visiting teams won't even bring the right roster. Yes,
so you're like eighty seven. I don't have an eighty
seven on my team. So what should we know about JD.
Davidson Davison's Davison Davison probably should know his name first, Yeah,
I mean that would be part of the battle. My

(45:37):
bad to the Davison family. He has been playing very
well in training camp. He is a was the G
League MVP with Maye. Oh that's right, had a cup
of coffee with the Boston Celtics last year and shut
the ball very well otternight. So there's your obligatory update.
Now again, I don't think he's fighting for the starting spot.

(45:59):
But honestly, we've talked about this a little bit with
Fred van Vliet being gone. That's thirty five minutes a
night that you're missing out on you're looking for a
diamond in the rough, Well, you're looking for somebody eight
the minutes it does that is the I mean, the
question is and we mentioned this yesterday. If Read is
your starting point, do you shift amen to the point
when Read's not out there like they did with Chris

(46:20):
Paul and James Harden obviously right, well, not the same dynamic,
but you know where I'm going with this. Do they
stagger them? Yes?

Speaker 3 (46:28):
And then if they don't, does J. D.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
Davison take over a San Aaron Holiday spot for those
backup point guard minutes?

Speaker 4 (46:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (46:35):
How much do they have? I mean, you just find
somebody to dump it into Alpi or Kevin Durant starting uh,
starting offensive sets at the top of the key, stuff
like that. They'll find a way. It'll take a village,
it'll be everybody, it'll be a mix, it'll be a potpourri. Yeah,
And I don't think it's a decision that may be
made in October, will be the one that we're using
in January and February. Right by the way, one of

(46:57):
their NBA note before we get onto some other things,
UH report over the weekend that weekend, but yesterday that
the only team that Yannis has been seriously thinking about
moving to, seriously thinking about moving to with the New
York Knicks. Okay, that that needs to be something that
needs to be kept sort of on the radar if

(47:19):
the Bucks struggle and the Knicks and need that little
oomp to get over the top to win maybe perhaps
win the Eastern Conference champions. So I think any of
the thought of him going to San Antonio to play
with Wemby or coming here, that was just internet fodder,
is what it was. And that's the hardest thing about

(47:39):
our business. Now, you know, I've told you this before.
I love rumors, I'll do for them. But the problem is,
nine times out of ten the rumors are literally based
in zero fact. I would say maybe sometimes there's phone
calls made, which would necessarily that would be accurate. Hey,

(48:00):
somebody kicked the tires on this. But I think other
times people just go to their social media and just
you know, their NBA Hoops World guy or what you
just whatever, fake account and they put it out there
and they want to see how much traction they get,
how much engagement they get. Yeah, by putting crap out
there that absolutely has no sense, it makes it is
far from the truth. We're in the age of misinformation
and it's only going to get worse. Well, and again,

(48:21):
you don't have to apologize that's true. It used to be.
Your reputation was on the line. Now people don't care.
You have Jordan Schultz making up crap and then he
gets a Well at least Fox dropped him.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
Yeah, they did drop him, thank goodness.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
Yeah. I don't know where he is now, and I
don't care. I think he's probably just collecting money from
his parent dad's company. I guess, yeah. I mean he's
set for life. That'd be cool if my dad was
a coffee billionaire. Mm hmm. Speaking of coffee. I got
ten seconds here and I'm gonna save this for a
little bit more. On Thursday. The pumpkin spice latte better

(48:58):
on this country is out of control. You don't order it, Matt, No,
I don't order it. People lose their mind and the
number one person loses their mind over it. You're a daughter,
my wife. I was gonna say that was my second game.
Well I was almost my first, guess, but I pivoted.
You want to get with a bunch of women, walk
up in a conversation and say, hey, hi, y'all doing
We're doing fine. How are you? I'm good. I was

(49:20):
thinking about getting a pumpkin spice latte. You start seeing
people sweat because women love it so much. It's incredible
how pumpkin spice latte has taken over the American coffee
drinker this time of year. You know what, you can
judge me if you want. Pumpkin spice is delicious. I
am more of it, like pumpkin pie. I love pump
pumpkin spy. I like pumpkin bread. Me too, rocks all

(49:41):
the time. You know, I bring you some my mama's
pumpkin bread. Oh, we don't turn it down. Missus V
does a great job. Love her for it. I have
to bring Jonathan some pumpkin b I'm not a big spy.
I'm not a big flavored coffee person. I do like
a little toasted coconut coffee or toasted cinnamon. But I'm
not the Ammororetto's dribe me nuts or anything. But yeah,
pumpkin spice is good. Just want walk into a like

(50:04):
if any any of you there single, go in a single,
spray yourself with pumpkin spice. No walk in and say
excuse me, beautiful woman, I like to buy you a
pumpkin spice. Lotte, she will melt, her cls will be
off in five seconds. She probably needs to go to
the psychiatric word. Well, I mean that's the power of
pumpkin spice latte. Okay, tell me, ladies, I'm wrong. Tell

(50:25):
me I'm wrong. Y'all go crazy for that stuff. I
live with. Somebody's been going crazy for like ten years. Okay,
Well have you done that? July nineteen, you're bringing home?
Bringing her home a pumpkin spice latte. Didn't tell you
what I did. I did a little delivery from uh Amazon, rhyme,
mm hmm, box of that.

Speaker 3 (50:42):
Put on some curt put on some Teddy pintograss.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
Yeah, some maybe, Yeah, Pumpkin spice loatte the way to
her heart. In other places. Well, watching MLB Network and
Ross is like, who's this old fart on the TV?
And I'm like, that's Buck Martinez, former longtime Major League catcher,
longtime Toronto broadcaster. So earlier though, what I said, stay
with me, it's called the show Let's Go, And what

(51:07):
I said was actually worse. I know, I was trying
to clean it up, so I was joking. Uh So,
Buck Martinez basically said a couple of months ago, the
Yankees aren't very good because I don't know why everbody's
giving all this run. So Aaron Moon minuted a point
the manager of the Yankees to rip on Buck Martinez.

Speaker 3 (51:25):
Say what what is he though? Well, the Blue Jays.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
Are up to nothing and Buck Martinez is on the
name and we know we're good.

Speaker 4 (51:33):
Bitch.

Speaker 3 (51:34):
Well, it ain't over till it's over.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
Yeah, I don't know. It's a little cocky beating up
two oh yes, got to finish that off. It's a
must win game for the New York Yankees today. Thankfully
you finally come to my side after all these years. Uh,
we got gut feelings coming up in about ten minutes
here on Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three two
one two five, seven ninety If you want to joint

(51:56):
chime in on the conversation seven one three two one
two five. I have seven HOI Jay is with us
at eleven twenty two Jay, Good.

Speaker 12 (52:02):
Morning, Hey, good morning, Matt.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
How are you, sir?

Speaker 13 (52:07):
Hey, I'm fine, I'm fine, just on my way to work.
I had one question about a Rockets rumor trade.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
I heard, Oh no, hold up, hold on, hold up,
hold up. Where'd you hear this rumor? By the way,
I'm just.

Speaker 13 (52:17):
Curious, man, you know how the internet.

Speaker 12 (52:20):
It is, it's just something that popped up.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
Oh, I'm gonna say, probably not, but go ahead, all right,
So whatever I'm gonna jay, I'm gonna guessed this. This
rumor is completely full of bunk, but I don't want
to say it ahead of time. But I'm gonna say
ahead of time, go ahead.

Speaker 13 (52:35):
I mean, we don't know yet.

Speaker 12 (52:36):
That's why I'm trying to see.

Speaker 13 (52:37):
That's why I'm.

Speaker 12 (52:38):
Asking, all right, said Okay, well, I've.

Speaker 13 (52:41):
Seen somewhere that the Rockets who there's a rumor trade
on John Morant maybe possibly coming out to Houston on
the trade deal, but I don't know, so that's why
I was asking. And then my second take was my guffing,
and I was thinking it might good.

Speaker 14 (52:57):
It's possible because a point.

Speaker 4 (53:00):
So why not job man, We'll be talking championship for
real with d so we have a big force and
was a big three with him and Shangong.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
So just go ahead, all right. What I'm gonna do
right now is I have not heard that it's I'm
looking on the internet. It's no, that's probably from That
was the very first time I was gonna do. Say
is it on the internet anywhere? Facebook, there is Sports Illustrated.
You used to be one of the heritage brands of

(53:33):
sports t unbelievably reliable and by the way, the swimsuit
issue fantastic. But everything about the magazine for a large
part of my life was excellent. Uh yeah, there's an
article from them in May says NBA trade idea. So
it's they took a Bleacher Report article, they just made
up a bunch of trades and then cited that article

(53:53):
as saying John Moran could be headed to the Rockets.
That was from May. So I don't know of where
Jay is seeing this recently, or maybe if that's tied
into that, but there's no credible reporter saying John Rant
could be a Houston Rocket. Do I see John Morant
finishing in Memphis?

Speaker 4 (54:11):
No?

Speaker 2 (54:12):
But do I see him being traded to somebody in
the Western Conference? No. If you're gonna move him in
your Memphis, first of all, you're gonna have to get
a Gianette a huge haul. The Rockets already made one
big offseason trade. They don't they like their core. I
talked to im yesterday just about that. I said, this

(54:33):
is a team that's got savvy veterans at the top,
and it's still got excuse me and Rossie, it still
has a lot of guys five years and younger. You
need that because if you are gonna go all in
on Kevin Durant, unlessen the Kevin Durant experiment doesn't work,
you're still sitting there going, well, you're not the LA Clippers.
You don't have four guys thirty five years in older.

(54:54):
Put that way, you know what I mean. I don't
think you want to get rid of that core nucleus.
Apron Shngoon is probably your second best player. He's entering
his fifth year in the league. Ross that's you don't
want to mess with that. And I'm not saying opprinching
you would have been a part of contract and conversations.
But Jabari Smith's the young guy. Tarry Ethan is a
young guy, a man. Thompson is in his third year.

(55:15):
You got too many young pieces that are already contributing
towards a championship or hopefully a potential championship run. Why
would you want to mess that up for a guy
that has had way too many off the court issues
and by the way, not even a great perimeter shooter.
You can drive the lane like the best of them.
You can get to the free throw line early and often.
But I'm not into that. He hasn't played a whole

(55:36):
lot of games either, has he had I mean other
than you know, pointing finger guns at the crowd. Other
than that, Yeah, it's been much looks stories that he
shouldn't have put up. Yeah, he can turn again. He've
been I'm asking has he been in legitimate legal trouble.
I'm not saying. I'm asking because I can't recall that.

(55:57):
I the the using the waving of the gun would
be legal trouble, the NBA trouble. He's been in there
multiple times. He's displaying a gun at a Colorado night club.
I don't think you can get arrested for putting a
gun on Instagram. That's just that's just a horrific optic. Look.
You know what's wrong. He's exercising his second man rights.
He likes the Constitution. Let's go, what's a big deal.

(56:20):
You know what, you can love the constitutions, the constitutionalists,
you can love the Constitution, you just want to put
it on live igs. He's exercising his right to bare arms.
There's no there's no right to put it on ig
and wave it around and say what's up. Well, that's
not also not a crime in the public image of
the NBA. It's a crime, especially when the commission tod
you not to do it. Okay, legal issues, we got,

(56:43):
Oh that's right, Heed. He punched somebody in a in
a pickup basketball game. It was like seventeen seventeen. Yeah,
verbal altercation. I don't know. Seventeen is nothing old enough
to get smacked if you're talking trash. Here is the reality.
Here's the reality of it. I need to hear both sides.
John Morant grew up in a very good family m

(57:04):
hm and you. Unfortunately, people will stereotype to the negative,
saying this is a guy that doesn't have any family
influence as it wasn't raised right. These are all things
that wasn't the case for him growing up. He just
ran into some people that are his friends that have
been absolutely terrible influences on him, and those friends have
been kicked out of the arena multiple times and have

(57:26):
been told do not come to the FedEx for me
to watch him play. You know, it's crazy. The kids
love him, like when they come to Houston and you know,
you know this too. Matt There's a lot of times,
depending on who's the road team, there will be a
bunch of people that'll congregate at the visitor's tunnel. Yeah,
he's almost like Steph Curry and Lebron are obviously like

(57:47):
the Kings. Yes, but John Morant has like fifty to
one hundred people like just waiting for his autograph. The
kid and it's a bunch of kids in Grizzlies John
Moran jerseys, yeah, that would that couldn't name another grizz
to say the yeah, and there's actually a kid. There's
actually like Jalen Jackson Junior, who's one of my favorite
Jaron Jackson's my one of my favorite players in the league.
He's way more of a goud root for than than

(58:09):
for John Morant, because John Moran just can't get out
of his own way. But when he is in his
when he's not worrying about trying to create this credit
that he doesn't need to have ross great player, he
can He is a play He's one of the five
or ten players in the league that I can tell
you can score twelve points in about three minutes by himself.
M hm. When when he wants to play at his

(58:32):
very best and is determined and takes the right shots.
He's just about impossible to stop. Still a great basketball player.
But I have not heard anything about any sort of
rocket connection to him whatsoever. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven ninety Bonnie Joe wants to talk about pumpkins spice.
C J wants to good about real rockets talk, not

(58:53):
that wild talk. Sorry, I'm reading about John Morant's mother
gott an altercation with an employee. The finish line at
the mall, finish line and shoes place. Yeah, that's the
last time you walked into a finish line. It was
not time we went to a root rocker. Excuse me,
a root rocker. Okay, but you're stroking out. It's been

(59:16):
a while. They used to wear they still wear referee
shirt uniforms. And yeah, get whistles and blow the whistle
on you for touching all the shoes you have been to.
You have been to rids lately either not lately. I
don't even go to the mall anymore. Athletes root oh
athletes root? Did John even know what that is? You've

(59:38):
ever been to an athlete's foot at store. You have
been to Spencer's. Okay, we're just throwing randos mall and
stores at you.

Speaker 6 (59:48):
Uh, what's the what's the old one? I mean the
Champs You know that Champs Camps is there?

Speaker 2 (59:52):
Yeah? Athletes, foot you got foot locker, you got lids?
You got? What else is there? Oh got? Whether you
get the bigger stores or Rick's Sporting Goods, m stew Depot,
chew Depot, that's not bad. But you can go back
to see your band to Spencer's. Yeah, of course, the
Ben Spencers. Okay, let's race to get my my pull
uh my uh uh posters from my room. Back in

(01:00:14):
the day, you were hip like that. Oh yeah, athletes
and girls Bara Faucet, No women, I didn't even know
who they were. Okay, you wanted to just hang it
in the back of the store, right, No, do what's
going on the back of the store Spencer's? Yeah, Hello
you there? What happened? You know what goes on in

(01:00:36):
the back of the Spencers? You don't. I don't neither neither.
I forgot innocence everything. All right, we'll do gut fillings
in a little bit. We want to get these two
calls in before we get the gup.

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Speaker 2 (01:01:53):
Hanging to Coach Sark, We're going to read some quotes
from his month is availability yesterday at twelve twenty.

Speaker 3 (01:01:59):
I'm worried about your coach? What about your school?

Speaker 2 (01:02:01):
And I never thought I'd ever worry about the University
of Texas, because I do. I mean, look, even though
I believe many of your fans are obnoxious and arrogant,
I still like your school one of one of the
greatest places in academic institutions in this country. Would you.
I got a friend of mine who's getting his daughter
automatic enrollment in there. Wow, must be very bright. It's

(01:02:22):
five percent now the top five percent. Well, used to
be top ten, and used to be top ten, then
I got five years ago, was top seven. Now it's
top five. So first of all, you got to be
pretty damn smart to go to University of Texas. It's
a beautiful campus in a beautiful city, with lots of
fun things to do. Hillatiously big fan base, jealous about
a lot of the things, but engaged fan base. They

(01:02:44):
fill a hundred seats, one hundred thousand seats to you,
they do, they do. They don't need some other school
to come in to fill forty We didn't fill.

Speaker 3 (01:02:52):
No, that's you need to apologize for that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
Right there, we were strong. I didn't mention any wrong
seventy five to twenty five, I didn't mention any names.

Speaker 3 (01:02:59):
What is the time you roll that John that he
rolled his eyes.

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
You know what he is?

Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
Who do you think I'm talking about?

Speaker 2 (01:03:05):
What is not with you? What's mater with you?

Speaker 4 (01:03:07):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
I just know how you roll. I was just typical
Texas fan, rootin, arrogant. I'm just thinking out loud, T
shirt fan. Okay. Yeah, how many people think of the
one hundred thousand in this stadium have ever attended one
class the university? What does it matter? See people always
say that you know why those people are there because
you're It goes to your game. Anyways, Your enrollment is

(01:03:28):
forty seven thousand, and you can every year, and you
can't get forty in one stadium. That's that's a it's
a pretty job. People always dropped this T shirt fan thing,
and it's it's funny to me. Okay, I didn't ask
for editorial. I just asked a question. What percentage of
the T shirt? I didn't survey. You're the one that's

(01:03:48):
all worried about it. I'm not. I'm not concerned.

Speaker 3 (01:03:50):
I'm just saying they're in there.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
You answer probably like I think maybe sixty. Yeah, that
sounds good. It sounds there's a student section, there's a
high level of enrollment the band. I guess, yeah, the
band goes to school. You would think, yeah, the band
goes to the school. Any way, by Texas Tech band
came this week. That's a long ass trip just for
the day. Maybe maybe they left on Friday, but damn,

(01:04:13):
it's an eight hour drive with all those band people
on that bus. You know what's coming. You know what's
going on in that bus, don't you? What do you
mean just saying? You tell me? I just think there's
probably some intimacy things going on. You think people are
are having sex. No sexual acts are being committed on

(01:04:34):
this bus. If I was a betting man, why would
you want we're talking about we're talking about the band.
It's wrong with your brain.

Speaker 3 (01:04:41):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:04:42):
It's not to kill twenty hours in a week.

Speaker 4 (01:04:45):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
I went from talking about T shirt fans all of
a sudden, you're talking about band members having sex on
the bus. I would be a T shirt fan of
with about eighteen seconds. You know what the worst thing
is is that you I mean, I'm the worst thing.
But imagine not going to Texas, going somewhere else in
being and rooting for Texas, Like if you went to
like the Texas Tech and rooted for Texas. Shame on you.

(01:05:06):
What are you an ultimate douchebag if you do that? Well, hey,
well Kentucky, we Kentucky. There was a lot of that,
just one they roughed Uk. They didn't care about it. Yes,
and you have a same thing, Aggie stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:05:19):
We ang are some douche douche do We.

Speaker 2 (01:05:20):
Used to have somebody who worked here who was a
Louisville grad who rooted for Kentucky. See, it's weird over there.
They only root for Kentucky over there. Who's that? Do
I remember who it was?

Speaker 3 (01:05:31):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
I know that is Okay, let's go the phones. Bonnie
Joe wanted some pumpkin spice conversation. Bonnie Joe, what's good?
What's a good word today?

Speaker 17 (01:05:40):
Hey, good to talk to you guys. As always great show. Yeah,
so I'm so first off, so I know I'm an
outlier woman on a lot of things, but the pumpkin
spice thing. I hate pumpkin spy slaver drink anything I like,
I and I like pumpkin muffins, but nothing pumpkin in

(01:06:00):
my drink. I absolutely even when I see the signs
that advertise it just it's like yuck, and you know,
but but I'm I know I'm an outlier as a woman,
but I just don't like being put into that all
women love Pumpkin Spies. Yea, all women don't love Taylor Swift.

Speaker 3 (01:06:20):
Okay, Joe, you hold on, let's get this straight here.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
You you don't like Pumpkin Spies and you don't like
Taylor Swift? Is this both accurate?

Speaker 17 (01:06:29):
Can I finish Joe like that?

Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
Get them buddy, Matt.

Speaker 17 (01:06:35):
Matt, Matt, please, Okay. Taylor Swift songs are fine, but
I really got stale on her when I would try
to watch a football game and all I saw was
Taylor Swift.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
Hmm.

Speaker 17 (01:06:50):
Okay, I'm just saying, thank you, Joe. I love you guys,
but that's just my opinion.

Speaker 2 (01:06:59):
I'm allowed my of course you I wasn't a debating
I was just trying to just trying to figure out
who you were. You are anti Taylor. He's trying to
let you finish, BONDI, Joe, Yeah, I was trying to
let you finish. You are anti Pumpkin Spice, you are
anti Taylor. Give me two more things you're anti? Okay?

Speaker 17 (01:07:14):
Okay? As a well, you know how women get plopped
into certain groups. So like, this is why I don't
go to Super Bowl parties anymore, because as a woman,
they wouldn't want to draw you into the kitchen talk
about who makes the best artist choke dip and I
want to just watch the game. Okay, So I haven't
been to a Super Bowl party in years because as

(01:07:35):
a woman, you would always get drawn into the woman
groups that wanted to talk about where to go get
the best massage or where to go you know things.
And I'm I was always there to watch the game,
not there to talk about who makes the best whatever dip.

Speaker 2 (01:07:53):
Well, you know I went to this party one time,
Bonnie Joe that one of the guys you'd be crazy
about this was criticizing the Chief Sticks flavor. It was terrible.
It's a very uncomfortable situation many many years ago. No,
I'm making fun of somebody else, the person of my right. Okay,
oh oh, this story is not accurate, Bonnie Joe. Let

(01:08:17):
me tell you something. You are such a good friend
of the show. I would never make fun of you
under any circumstances. Making fun of Ross. I lived for
it daily.

Speaker 17 (01:08:24):
You probably make fun of me behind my back.

Speaker 2 (01:08:26):
No chance, No, I know, no chance at all. I
make fun of Ross behind his back, in front of him,
to the side of case, and Jonathan Biden is back too.

Speaker 17 (01:08:36):
Love you guys, and thanks for letting me say, Joe,
I appreciate you getting in all right.

Speaker 3 (01:08:43):
Thank you very much. What do you think the person
I need to hold on?

Speaker 2 (01:08:48):
I didn't. I wasn't criticizing anybody's cheese sticks at them
at the party. I went to the party and you
asked me how the food was, and I answered, honestly,
the cheese sticks were lacking in flavor. Yep, was the homemade.
She stays, no, no, no, but from Jomo, somebody we've

(01:09:10):
got invited to a party. Yes, and when you get
invited the party, we can say it was Adam Planning's party,
super Bowl party, which he doesn't throw anymore. Yeah, and
he basically Teresa and they open up our home to them. Yes,
drinks and food and televisions and all big TV. Nice,
wonderful home.

Speaker 7 (01:09:26):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (01:09:27):
Frankly, Adam's making way too much money out of Teresa's
making a round. Teresa's probably Teresa, that's no question about that.
Adam spends all of his money on jerseys and.

Speaker 3 (01:09:35):
Chicken wrestling belts. Don't get that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:37):
Yeah. Uh, he has the latest six hundred dollars rockets
jacket and it gets cold two days a year. Yeah.
So if you go to somebody's house and you serve food,
and probably we should just say how was the food?
And what's my normal answer? It's fine?

Speaker 3 (01:09:52):
Ross said the food was bad.

Speaker 2 (01:09:54):
I see, I didn't say that's see, you're such a
liar to fraud. He's snickering to himself. You asked me
how the food was, and I think I broke down,
like I don't remember. There was, like I don't know,
cheeseburger sliders or something, and those are fine. I said,
the cheese sticks were lacking in flavor. I don't see
what the big deal is they served you. You only

(01:10:15):
had a negative responsibility. If I went to your house
for a party and you serve food and some of
it wasn't great, wouldn't you want me to tell you?
Wouldn't you want to be like, hey, man did like
those cheese sticks. They need a little salt on them.

Speaker 6 (01:10:27):
If I'm asking how the food was, I'm asking the
good things, like, don't don't about the bad.

Speaker 2 (01:10:32):
I don't want you to keep on going out there
and handing out people flavorless food. They're not gonna want
to come to your party, but the burger.

Speaker 12 (01:10:40):
You know what.

Speaker 3 (01:10:40):
We got to stop being so soft, all right?

Speaker 2 (01:10:43):
If you're out there, If I go to your party
and you're putting out flavorless, crappy food, somebody needs to
let you know. You say it's on air or like
into him? Matt asked me on air, So I answered
on air. He asked me a question. I answered it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:58):
I answer See why why am I do.

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
Get it? What's the big deal if I'm putting out
a dip. If I have a party and I put
out a dip and you guys think it's not very good,
let me know I won't put it out next time.
I'm trying to improve. You got to get better every
single day.

Speaker 3 (01:11:18):
In this life of ours. Life is short.

Speaker 2 (01:11:21):
Did you like anything? Improve it all facets of the game.
Did you like anything from that? Any food? I can't
remember this like a decade ago. I'm sure I like stuff.
I'm sure that the pace Pacconnie was nice. CJ on
Southwest Side on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross High.

Speaker 7 (01:11:36):
C J.

Speaker 9 (01:11:40):
Yeah, what's up about?

Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
Tell me?

Speaker 14 (01:11:42):
I'm just first of all, we got to stop the
John Moran slander. I understand he has had some troubles,
but we cannot just sit here and slander this man. Okay,
he's a great player.

Speaker 2 (01:11:50):
Nobody, nobody, nobody slandered him. As a matter of fact,
I just it was.

Speaker 14 (01:11:54):
A little bit of slander.

Speaker 1 (01:11:55):
It was a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
Man, WHOA what did.

Speaker 3 (01:11:57):
I What did I slander on? What did I slander on?
Please explain?

Speaker 14 (01:12:02):
It was just kind of it was a lot on
that guy. Man, he's still a great player, and if
the Rockets could get him, I would do whatever we
could to get him. But that's besides the point. Next time,
don't let nobody get up here.

Speaker 2 (01:12:15):
We didn't do it. That's not that's j Yeah, that's not.
Do you know what? The best the basketball guys like
Matt didn't slander. I wasn't slander and we were just
reporting what there's been problems in the past. Let's see,
he had the altercation with a seventeen year old and
the mother, multiple hospital wielding situation. He told him said

(01:12:38):
waving and say he was waiting a gun in a
strip club. But I remember saying a guy can take
over the game. I'm gonna let CJ Gogs get back
an extra there. You can call back CJ. butN I
don't know. I didn't slander. I was just reporting started
heading towards a black hole. I think I called one
of John Moran's college games at Murray State. Okay. He
was defendant in the lawsuit when he was accused of
punching a seventeen year old male during a pickup basketball

(01:12:59):
game at his home. Apparently he also he got the
seventeen year old of the ground, struck him multiple times,
and Maran claimed he was acting in self defense.

Speaker 3 (01:13:10):
Two different NBA suspensions, correct.

Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
I'm looking hold on. He flashed a gun at a
strip club on an Instagram live stream, remember that, and
then two days later he would not face charges. And
that's all I see right there? But where Yeah, where's
his suspension? He was definitely suspended. We're gonna take a break.
Were gonna get the gut feelings. We gotta do that.
Gut feelings are up next. One segment of gut feelings.

(01:13:35):
You got some of you on your gut. You want
to say, whether it's about pumpkin spice latte or the
upcoming Texans road game at Seattle. Yeah, he was two
months after the first suspension. He was flashing another gun
on Instagram live and then he got another suspension. Yeah.
When the NBA says don't bring out your heat pack

(01:13:55):
of heat, don't do it, he did it extra exercising
his rights as an American. Stand up for your freedom,
jam Morant, exercise your your Second Amendment rights and get
suspended though, because the commissires said don't do it. And
sometimes you get stepped two by a seventeen year old.

(01:14:16):
You gotta smack him down. That comment, Rossville, areel not me,
There's there's a slander. Previous caller seven one three two
one two five Sevenatti seven one three two one two
five seven. A segment of gut feelings are next. This
is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas Show. Friend
of the show, Grace is listening, sent me this message.

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She says, three hour football game in less than ten
minutes of Taylor Swift on the screen is so bothersome
dumb shut your ball mess up. Bonnie Joe, female female
on Crime, I like it, Love you Bonnie Joe, love you.
Grace seven one three two one two five seven ninty. Now,
normally we tell y'all that with Brad in the line,

(01:15:00):
you get in front of him, shorte segment here.

Speaker 3 (01:15:03):
That still so if.

Speaker 2 (01:15:05):
You want to get in before Brad, you gotta do
it right now with your gut feelings. It's seven one
three two one two five seven anti right now. Brad's
the only call her online. Seven one three two one
two five seven aty, how do we do last week?
I don't think I want to know. I don't think
he did well. I don't think I did. You said, well,
may you got some right. You said Detroit would beat
Cleveland the WA wild Card. Okay, I'll take that. Padres Overcubs,

(01:15:27):
l Yankees over Red Sox win, Dodgers over Reds win. Yes,
Texans beat Cooper Rush, but they would lose to Lamar Jackson,
who did not play. You had the Cougars covering ten
and a half versus Texas Tech. I forget what was
the final score on that, Matt thirty five eleven excuse me,
thirty five to eleven. Okay, that's not a cover. You

(01:15:48):
had the Texas Longhorns covering six and a half versus
Florida Oops. And you had one or more hitting coach
gun or the Astros. I'm going to keep that in play.
I had the Texans beating Cooper Rush. Okay. I said
Lamar Jackson would not play. I said the Longhorns would
not cover the six and a half versus Florida. Okay, win, win,

(01:16:12):
win for you. I said the Astros have training staff
and street the conditioning staff changes, and I said Walkers stays.
I guess Christian Walker. Yep, I don't know. I feel
why did I say that? And maybe they won't be
able to wait can I I'm gonna put one in here.
East sac Pretty is not playing second base. Everybody's trying

(01:16:32):
to push him over there. I'm gonna that's my first
guy feeling he's not. Yeah, put that in there, and
that's that's what's that's when we're gonna they play a
two over there. And I know, but I know you're right,
but I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with I'm gonna say
that defensively defense that est SoC Partties will not be
playing second base. Uh, okay, define that how many games? Zero? Zero? Okay,

(01:17:00):
we'll not play. Yeah. Now, I could be very much
wrong on this. Okay, by the way, there's rain Detroit
right now. That could be delayed the three to eight
first pitch between the Tigers in Americas. Roof. By the way,
I'm getting some some support on Twitter. Okay, thanks to Betz.
Ross is right.

Speaker 3 (01:17:20):
Gotta let people know about their food, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
Okay. Roy says, you sound like a real thrill at parties.
That sounds very nice.

Speaker 3 (01:17:30):
I'm not sitting in the corner like name. These cheese
sticks are flavor lins.

Speaker 2 (01:17:35):
No, shut up. I think Javian's gotch. I'm not Debbie
downering the whole thing. I've had better cheese sticks at
Rapplere's Title Town says, I can call out pre made food,
but if it's a different story, if somebody took the
time to make it. Yeah, Teresa went back there, handbreading

(01:17:57):
mozzarella sticks. Okay, they're out of a bag. They don't
buy that bag next time, or sprinkle a little sold
on him. This has gone for like five years more
than that. There's no way you said, I'm sorry, taste
it like cardboard. Somebody's gotta let you know. I just

(01:18:19):
don't get I don't get it. I just don't understand
why why this is.

Speaker 3 (01:18:24):
So controversial party anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:18:27):
I wonder why, all right, real quickly, Well, I know
I got feelings, I know why. Actually, sorry, I didn't
get the Jonathan's Vanderbilt beats Alabama. They were up.

Speaker 3 (01:18:36):
Early, doesn't get sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:18:38):
Texans beat Ravens arch Manning make or break game, and
he broke it. He broke hey, he threw two touchdowns.
He was up and down. Got Philly real quick, sure,
straight up. Texas beats Oklahoma. Line's down to one and
a half Longhorns. Yeah, uh ut gets it, gets its

(01:19:02):
mojo back. This is this is the game that not
necessarily defines Arch but gets the gets the heat off
of him from Yeah, I'm going with U T beats Oklahoma.
I don't even know if it's gonna be an arch
great game. I just known that U T is gonna
win the football. All right, that's fine. What else you got? Hurry,

(01:19:22):
we got phone calls to gain. Sorry, exkip me for
right now, all right, Jonathan, anything from you? I you
know what? No, I don't Okay, Well, this has been
a role bank. Okay, fine, Dodgers win the World Series.
I know rose actually know what I'm gonna be the
villain here. I think I think the manners.

Speaker 3 (01:19:44):
Go, oh you're just as bad.

Speaker 2 (01:19:46):
No no, no no. But I just have a feeling
that that they win the World Series. No no, no, no no,
I just didn't get to the next round. I'm gonna
go fill it off because I don't like any o
the other detroit I like to see Detroger Philadelphia win it. Okay, Well,
who in Toronto? I got to pick somebody? Oh you
don't have to? All right, Oh God, I go to

(01:20:09):
I'll go Toronto. Okay, I will go with Kyle Tucker. Wait,
they play tomorrow or today? Tomorrow? They played last night,
they'll played again today, I think. Okay, Kyle Tucker extra
base hit. Check the schedule first, Yeah, we make sure
they play. You get a day arrestl help. They put

(01:20:32):
tomorrow four games tomorrow potentially, Okay, Kyle Tucker, extra base
hit on Wednesday. Okay, I feel it in my bones.
At you, Doug, You're on seven on eighty. What you
got in your gut?

Speaker 18 (01:20:46):
I believe it's gonna be a Brewers Toronto series because
that's what the MLB deserves for keeping the Astros out,
even though we kept ourselves out. But and I think
Toronto's gonna actually win it. And I think they're gonna
win their work cheerio so uh. And I also I
have a good I had a good feeling about Texas
as well. I think Texas is gonna take care of

(01:21:07):
business against Oklahoma.

Speaker 2 (01:21:08):
All right, you guys are kissing me off. Yeah, so sorry,
Rob trying to guys. No, this is reverse.

Speaker 3 (01:21:17):
I don't like this reverse.

Speaker 18 (01:21:20):
And I just can't talk about that team of Colors
station right now. So I'm just not gonna talk about
him at all.

Speaker 2 (01:21:24):
Why aren't you talk about you? The Mississippi State took
a while, but you got going eventually.

Speaker 7 (01:21:29):
That's okay.

Speaker 18 (01:21:30):
Just see keep winning win after win.

Speaker 2 (01:21:32):
And I see what he's doing. He wants to he
wants to go sol on a squad. Wish my son,
my painting, my painting would do that. He's sending me text. Meanwhile,
my team's getting there asking and he's sending me text.
We can't score with the fourth and one. I'm like, dude,
you were down three scores here, shut tell about some
Payton shit about mess up? Is the Matt Thomas Show

(01:21:52):
with Rocks twelve O four on Sports Talks seven nine
eight is Matt and Ross We're gonna extend the gout feelings. Sometimes,
you know what, some people just have to do a
formula show. We are gonna go with the show, how
the show flows. I like that. Whether we're talking pumpkin spice,
we're gonna float with the show. We're gonna whether they're

(01:22:12):
talking about Taylor Swift cheese sticks. Oh my gosh, irrationally
dumb stands with me on Twitter, Thank you. I stand
with sports RV on this one. Please tell somebody they're
serving blank food. Don't let them embarrass themselves. If you
get offended by a little criticism, you're soft. I'm sorry.
I have gone to many a party in the last

(01:22:35):
year where the food has been horrific. I've never said
a word to those people. What were you asked? And
I would lie. Remember the lies will set you free.
You don't want to hurt feelings. Okay, that's all I'm saying.
I was at I don't want to give away too
much here. I was at one party where the food

(01:22:59):
was so bad I couldn't even feel bad was I
couldn't even finish it. It was that bad. So I
went to that. I'm full.

Speaker 3 (01:23:06):
I'm not gonna do it Okay, I'm just not gonna
do it.

Speaker 2 (01:23:10):
That's fine. They weren't my friends to each his own. Yeah,
they were friends of friends. I was like, I don't
know these people. Yeah, if you didn't know them especially, Yeah,
but maybe I would change my tune if I knew
them as well as you know Teresa. I don't know
her that well. I just know she wants to stab
me now she does. She doesn't like you, and we
all like you. She she's she no, she like tolerates you, tolerances. Yeah,

(01:23:31):
that's fine. I wish you're the best. She's doing very well.

Speaker 9 (01:23:34):
First.

Speaker 2 (01:23:35):
Oh yeah seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three. I can't believe this still comes up.
You're the worst. If I didn't, I just wanted Jonathan
needs to know about us. Most people are backing me up.
I'm feeling good. Most or the three only I only
had three. Roy says, can you tell my wife are cooking?

(01:23:57):
Is awful? I'm too afraid. Yeah, God, put it on
the phone. Roy, if you're listening to me right now,
thank you for listening. Get your wife on the phone.
Ross will tell your wife her food. I need some details.
What does she make? How can improve. No, Roy, No,

(01:24:18):
you can't just say this is bad. It's bad criticism.
I'm trying to give constructive criticism. But then you can't
do it because you've not tasted her food before. Well,
if he's, if he doesn't, if he thinks it needs you,
I don't know, a little Parsley, here's what you do, perhaps,
Ted Regan. My name is Ross, I'm Roy's friend. Yes,
Roy doesn't have the stones to tell you what your
food sucks. I'm not gonna say that. Well, would you say, then?

(01:24:41):
There used to be this I want to hear you
saw pedal this. There used to be this website you
could sign up for and you could anonymously tell people like,
hey you've got bad breath and you just put in
their email. Oh, I've got a company I'm starting up.
I already told you about this. He can do this.
I mean we're keeping a book right now. We asks
you know an my company. Don't you want to hundre
go after yourself? Okay, well you call people and I

(01:25:04):
call people's bosses and tell them to go half off. Okay,
that's not at all what I'm talking about. And I
have an email service too. Want to hunter go off
yourself dot com.

Speaker 3 (01:25:13):
I've talked about this many many times.

Speaker 2 (01:25:15):
Yeah, there used to be an email service where you
would put somebody's email in there and you would you
could send an anonymous email and it.

Speaker 3 (01:25:20):
Could be like, hey, your breath snaks.

Speaker 2 (01:25:22):
Hmmm. Remember we used to have somebody around here that
was not smelling good. We've had four kids, to the
point where I was going to say something and then
he got laid off. So so it was a win
for you.

Speaker 3 (01:25:31):
To the phones we go, David Spring.

Speaker 2 (01:25:35):
I mean, if you're you're smelling like cheeks all over
the place, somebody's got to say something. How did you
say it? By the way, I didn't as you got
laid off. Oh so you saved yourself. I think she'll
tell me during the break. Dave, You're on seven ninety,
and thank you for holding what is in your gut
this week?

Speaker 19 (01:25:51):
Hey, Matt, here's what's in my gut. Rocket season getting started.
Lots of excitement about KD.

Speaker 2 (01:25:56):
Yeah hear me, Yeah, sure, go ahead, Okay, I'm sorry.

Speaker 19 (01:25:58):
Yeah, count sure, yeah. Lots of excitement KD and what's
next for ALP and I'm man in terms of the development.
But my gut feeling is that when this season's over,
we're gonna be talking about how much Jabari Smith has
improved and made the Rockets better. I think there's a
ton of upside. He was so young when he came
into the league, and he's started to show a lot
last year before I got injured, and look good in

(01:26:18):
the playoffs too. You know, But I think Sabari is
gonna be a big story this year for the Rockets.
That's my gut.

Speaker 2 (01:26:23):
Well, Dave, you know what, You and I are birds
of a feather because I said yesterday I think he's
got main candidate for most improved Rocket from year to year.
You know what I want to I want to piggyback
on that best three point percentage of his career. You're
putting in your gut. Jabari's Ben Junior. Okay, I'm going
to tell you that. Oh you want a rocket prediction

(01:26:44):
for me, I can give you one. We see him
going off the beaten pass here. I'm going to tell
you when the season started two weeks you know, I'll
say mine for next week. You know what, I'll stay
for opening night? That's what an opening We got two
more weeks? Figure this out.

Speaker 3 (01:27:02):
Let's do me a Tuesday. Yeah, I'll be in Oklahoma City.

Speaker 12 (01:27:05):
Great.

Speaker 2 (01:27:07):
You stop. I pay more attention to the show on
the road when you to pay attention when I'm at home.
I have no it's my fault. It's more about me, Matt.
It is about you. I have attention span issues. I
fully admit this, and they get worse when you're on
the road. I'm gonna invite you to five road games
this year. Okay, so that's five less shows you can do.
You can do it in my room with me. We
can stay together. Oh, you got my air for Brian

(01:27:29):
on seven ninety Brian, what's in your gut this week?
Real quick?

Speaker 20 (01:27:33):
You guys, just have the segment like the Brutal Truth
was rough. Note, I got a question for you, but
only when you do the Brutal Truth with mt segment.
I gotta save it for that. It's about two of
your favorite female uh uh topics of discussion and so
but I'm gonna leave it at that.

Speaker 2 (01:27:52):
No, no, no, no, you can't do it that way
because we don't do segments like that. Just tell me
what it is enough, I can answer it. I'll answer.
Go ahead.

Speaker 20 (01:28:00):
If you had a hall pass one one night missus.
Thomas said, Matt live it up.

Speaker 2 (01:28:05):
All right, you have it.

Speaker 20 (01:28:06):
This might gift to you Taylor from Walking Bets or
the Great Shahati.

Speaker 2 (01:28:10):
You gotta choose one, and it ain't even close.

Speaker 21 (01:28:14):
Okay, okay for the she win.

Speaker 20 (01:28:20):
All right, all right, real quick on my gut feeling.

Speaker 2 (01:28:23):
But you know Taylor from the Walking Bed, she's a mother.
Now she's been birthing.

Speaker 20 (01:28:29):
Probably that's where you draw the line.

Speaker 2 (01:28:31):
No, no, I didn't would walk into Matthew.

Speaker 3 (01:28:38):
I didn't say that, all right.

Speaker 20 (01:28:40):
Well not not not to completely get off topic, but
real quick on the uh.

Speaker 2 (01:28:46):
I think the.

Speaker 20 (01:28:46):
Astros will settle out of arbitration. I saw Chandler posted
the numbers yesterday. Roughly, I think they will. They will
not go to arbitration with Paradus and most of their players. Uh,
they will just sign them meet in the middle with
those guys. I do not think Mauricio Dubon will be back.

(01:29:07):
I think they will sign Ramonierius for a cheaper amount
to basically do the same thing. And then my gut
feeling is, oh, you will beat Texas this weekend and
by the end of the year, either Steve Sarkaksian or
arch manning one of them will no longer be at
the University.

Speaker 2 (01:29:24):
Of Texas, will get loud whoa drum bey will get
loud that one of them will no longer be there?
All right, thank you, Brian Ross. Not I don't believe
that to be actively. Stark's not going anywhere unless it's
a complete collapse, unless they literally go like five and
six rite not for me. Many gets benched in the
next three games. Oh, actually for this one, like this

(01:29:48):
is not for a start, but at some point during
the game, right what you're saying? Yeah, next three games
he gets bingched. Okay, man, there is the Stark the
arch hate is I mean, it is free flowing around
this country orts RV. Yeah, Roger on seven on you, Roger,
what's in your gut?

Speaker 22 (01:30:07):
Oh man, guys, guys are awesome. Man, I love you.
It's not even it's not even Halloween yet, already burning
each other up on the on the Super Bowl of
dirt Man's classic. Uh yeah, my gut feeling is probably
won't half loss over for Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (01:30:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:30:26):
I haven't been invited back.

Speaker 22 (01:30:28):
Yeah, yeah, come kidding off. My mom My mom will
come over great and snap the crap out of the
door ever ever made anyway. So I've got the u
H rebounded well of Stillwater this weekend next week, and
i got the Rockets with a minimum willing off seven
in the road such season.

Speaker 3 (01:30:48):
What's up seven in a row? Thank you, I'll take that.

Speaker 2 (01:30:51):
Give me a seven o start, I'll take it last,
but not Lee Sprad, what's in? We're good?

Speaker 18 (01:30:58):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (01:30:59):
First of all, I wanted to tell you all that
at the beginning of the year, I predicted the Astros
would not make the playoffs.

Speaker 12 (01:31:07):
I'm the only one that did that.

Speaker 1 (01:31:10):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:31:11):
I did also predict that that this would get traded
by the deadline. Was wrong on that. I also predicted
Boston would be in the championship. I was wrong on that,
but I was right on the Astros not making the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (01:31:24):
Now also said the Rocket. You also said the Rockets
wouldn't get Kevin Durant. You also said Chas McCormick would
be traded.

Speaker 20 (01:31:31):
With a lot of predictions.

Speaker 2 (01:31:32):
You also said you also said you door Senators either,
you said you door Sanders is gonna is going to
be the starter for the Cleveland Browns. No, you're bringing
up what you got what you get wrong?

Speaker 5 (01:31:43):
He will you'll see he will.

Speaker 2 (01:31:45):
You also said Jacob Melmane is the real deal.

Speaker 7 (01:31:49):
There, I got.

Speaker 5 (01:31:50):
Manning will take two years more at the University of
Texas to show and believe he can be a top
ten draft pick.

Speaker 10 (01:31:59):
Not all right, best best chance is wild card or nothing.

Speaker 5 (01:32:12):
They aren't as good as Jacksonville. They aren't as good
as Indianapolis, so.

Speaker 12 (01:32:16):
You better beware.

Speaker 2 (01:32:18):
And then the.

Speaker 5 (01:32:19):
Last one is the Rockets will get a guard by
the trade deadline because their guards will wear down by then.

Speaker 2 (01:32:28):
There it is. It's a lot of stuff. I like
write his down. He the playoffs, Yes, I think I don't.
I don't see that any Oh, here we go Will
Wagner's Blue Jays everyday, third baseman. Oops, he said Las
Vegas Raiders will double wind total Oops. Something that's onto

(01:32:49):
a good track, he said, Boston Red Soxs will win
the American League. Oops. That was from April. Give him
a pass on that, thank you, Brad. The news at
twelve twenty is up next seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven nine zero. He said Brendan Rodgers would be traded,

(01:33:13):
and he's hurt. I'll get my pass on that one,
so I get released. How was he going?

Speaker 7 (01:33:18):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:33:18):
Yeah, that's a shame. Oh yeah, what was your friend
and favorite Brendan Rodgers an astro moment?

Speaker 1 (01:33:22):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:33:23):
When he was rehabbing and then broke his nose. Yeah,
when he landed in an odd spot in a triple
A game.

Speaker 4 (01:33:31):
He was.

Speaker 2 (01:33:31):
He was a good interview. I liked Brendan Rodgers. I
liked him too. He's very polite, unlike others on that squad.
But that one, that one guy's gone. So it's here
nor there? All right, M quick, pregnant pross all right,
we're good. Sorry, I was reading Brad's bad predictions. All right,
we got the news at twelve twenty. Coming up next

(01:33:52):
here on Sports Talk seven and eighty, we have breaking news, Rossie.
I'm not been checking Towy in the last couple of minutes.

Speaker 3 (01:34:07):
He only hit it once?

Speaker 2 (01:34:08):
Is that it one more? I really don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:34:14):
Is it a local team or outside outside?

Speaker 18 (01:34:16):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:34:16):
What do you got? Joe Flacco has been traded to
ooh Cincinnati. That is correct, Yes, like god for a
sixth round pick. Joe Flacco is going from one crappy

(01:34:37):
AFC North team to another one excuse me, Joe Flacco
and a sixth round pick to the Bengals for a
fifth round pick. So a fifth sixth swap Joe Flacco goes.

Speaker 3 (01:34:46):
In the division? Is Jake browning that batter?

Speaker 2 (01:34:50):
Is he hurt too? I don't think he's hurt. I
think he's just been that not that good in a
filling role. He's been decent. She's had a big day,
but I guess I think Joe Flacco is better. So
there's your breaking news on the news at noon ish.

Speaker 3 (01:35:09):
Joe Flacco was Cincinnati Bengals.

Speaker 2 (01:35:11):
I would not have anticipated Joe Flacco being topic number
one on the news at noon, and that's what he is. Yeah, uh, well,
it'll be interesting. Feels like the Bengals probably think that
they can seize the moment in the AFC North. With
the Ravens as bad as they are, it's not costing
them much. Joe Burrows supposed to be back. I think
what in like six weeks or somewhere around there, Steelers

(01:35:35):
leaving the division at three and one, Bengals second at
two and three, So Joe Flacco is going to be
at the helm. You have the Ravens and the Browns
at the bottom of the division at one and four apiece.
If you're Cincinnati, I think the season's done. I mean,
Joe Flacco's gone. I mean, Joe Burrow's gone three months
and once. What's the next thing you're gonna be is

(01:35:56):
he is he iah r ip? I mean turf toe
is so a rando odd injury? Uh? It was a yeah.
I mean, look it's it's I always tell you, especially
in the NFL. I feel like we can argue this
more in other sports. But the NFL, everybody gets hurt
all the time. They do, and Joe Flacco doesn't. I mean,
he doesn't have much of an offensive line. He's going

(01:36:18):
to be under duress a lot, and he has been.
But speaking, we have, yeah, we have like Joe's mixed up.
We haven't had an eye hip conversation. All right, here
we go.

Speaker 3 (01:36:29):
Can we just do a knock it out with who
you're on?

Speaker 2 (01:36:32):
Alvarez? You said he's never playing one hundred and thirty
games ever again in his career. I will bet you
he does. We got a lot of bets. Can we
pay off one at a time before we start making that? Okay,
this is I will definitely bet you on that. Eventually,
I just not Reaald. He's like twenty eight years old
or something. How old is Jordan?

Speaker 4 (01:36:51):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:36:52):
Is he even that old? Twenty seven? He's twenty eight.
Jonathan if you were, if you were to join the
bet squad, would you bet sports RV with me? Or
me or him? He just hurt himself again going to
home play right home play. Yeah, and then before that
and before he only played one hundred and forty eight.

(01:37:15):
He only played forty eight games last year. I would
I would be on that side, honestly. Okay, I'll bet
you too. You know, Let's go get ice cream cones. Okay,
try something different. Three grown adults shut an actual man
getting ice cream cones. O. Now, of course we got
to track Jonathan down eventually. It's all right. Could be

(01:37:37):
nine or ten years from now, you never know. I
take a while to pay this one off. Not toy
ship you some ice cream. By the way, you get
to go have until the end of his career. I'm
winning the bet, okay, but it's only for ice cream.
That's I can look. Okay, I'm going to write this
day and write it down for a hold on, let
me finish the news at noon and then We'll go
from there. Jeezh. Oklahoma's John Mattier, according to Pete Fammel,

(01:38:07):
is pushing to play versus Texas this weekend, just seventeen
days removed from his hand surgery. Decision on him being
available and not made yet. Oklahoma coach Brenton Vinibles has
said publicly it's uncertain when he will return. Venables saying
Tuesday that he's going through his normal protocol, but emphasize
the quarterback has done zero good on good work. Whatever

(01:38:30):
that means. I guess that's something of a football term,
an actual live action. So just being floated out by
a reporter from Oklahoma to give Texas pause? Or could
John Matier come back and play for the Oklahoma Sooners
this weekend? Let me tell you this. Let me ask you.
Is the Texas defense good enough to make his life

(01:38:52):
miserable for a guy it's missed the last couple of weeks.
I would have said good, yes, last week, but Florida
pushed around Longhornsden Okay, so I'm worried. All right? Anything
else we mentioned rockets beating the Hawk. You wanted to
mention Steve Sarkisian, What did he say that was controversial
to you, who wasn't controversy?

Speaker 19 (01:39:09):
It was.

Speaker 2 (01:39:10):
I think it was a little alarming. And we'll have
the cote for you after Ross tells you about Senner
Jacks twelve thirty four. It is Madden Ross. Oh, by
the way, I gotta work on believe it or not today, Libradad.
I told you I was gonna handle it. Thank goodness,
I forgot NFL rewind it one twenty today. All right,

(01:39:31):
so you tell me. See, I'm throwing this quote at
you and it's unfortunately going to a UT fan. What
does that mean because you're gonna well, you've run on biased.
Listen to your voice? Sorry, why am I john that
voice already? Kind of what happened when Sark called out
that reporter and said something stupid? What did I say?
Did I defend him? You said, Steve Sarcasian is godlike?

(01:39:53):
Oh yeah, exactly.

Speaker 10 (01:39:54):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:39:54):
I didn't say that. I said that it was ridiculous
and he shouldn't have said it. And I also I
think I called him out on shut your I don't
know how you're gonna runs up? Yeah, rocket all feisty.
He was asked about the team struggles against P four teams. Yes, quote,
I mean, how many teams are there in college football?

(01:40:14):
One hundred and thirty six. Take the other one hundred
and thirty five and have them go play at Ohio
State and at the Swamp see how they do. Okay,
So let me go first before you have a chance
to think about it. Okay, Well, I've heard these comments before.
You are the freaking University of Texas. You are a

(01:40:35):
national program. You are expected to compete for and potentially
win national championships. You are expected to play top flight competition.
You are expected to not play Utah State and Central
Arkansas and Eastern Missouri and those other dregs. You are
to play the Thoroughbreds, the number ones that the landmark

(01:40:56):
Hall of Fame, upper echelon school, like the reigning national
champion on the road. Correct, I no shame in that whatsoever.
Complaining about playing at Florida. You joined the SEC, your decision.
No one forced you, nobody pulled you into the SEC.
You knew. I'm not talking about Steve Persa, I'm talking

(01:41:16):
about anybody you knew. At the University Texas, You're gonna
be playing a much higherly competition. Look, I love the
big twelve. I'm happy to be in it, but the
Big twelve isn't as good as SEC. The SEC is
number one conference and it's going to be that way
probably for the rest of the time. Yeah, okay, so
that's what good says you dropping a little. Well, what
do you expect going to Florida? I expect you to
be the better football team. I expect you to have.

(01:41:39):
Forgetting about nil, forgetting about you. Just you are two
time national semi finalist. Game you're supposed to go win
at Florida. Florida is in a down period of their time,
Billy and Apier is on very thin ice at the
University of Florida. You've got the number one quarterback in
the country, you have routinely top ten fifteen recruiting classes nationally.
You're supposed to win those games. Now, Florida, Florida's competitive.

(01:42:02):
SE's he's difficult, But blaming who you have to play
as to well, nobody else could do this is apatently ridiculous. Okay,
there's a couple of things here. First of all, I
don't think he's blaming and saying, well, yeah, their schedule
has been super hard. He said, well they he was
asked about beating Power four teams, and they've only played

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two Power four teams and those were on the road
in the Shoe and on the road in the swamp,
and it is a fact those are two very difficult
road environments. But also, yes, he's being overly defensive and arrogant.
What I guess he wants is he wants to play
Kentucky and South Carolina every No. No, I think he's saying, yeah,
you're saying come back to me in a few weeks

(01:42:44):
when we haven't had to play two in the toughest road.
I get where he's coming from. He's just framing in
a very arrogant way because while he's he's a college
head coach and Steve sarkis and is, as we've seen
in front of reporters, very arrogant.

Speaker 3 (01:42:58):
So here's how I think you do and you go, man.

Speaker 2 (01:43:02):
We have played a really, really tough schedule, going to
Ohio State and going to Florida so far in the
first month and a half of the season. It's presenter
of challenges and we look forward to bouncing back. I
think you can always turn it to a positive spin
because that's who you are. You have to have some
sort of dynamic ability in front of a microphone. You

(01:43:24):
just have to he should, Yes, what he's kind of
in the ballpark of how he should have framed it
and said, you know what, we've we've taken care of
business at home, and then the losses that we've had
were on the road in the shoe and against the
Florida team in the swamp with their backs against the wall.
So we're looking to get better, but it's also been
a tough road for us. Something like that, Right, But
the way he says, well, if you look at everybody

(01:43:45):
else and they had to do we had to do,
I'd like to see where they are. That's that's not
placing blame on others, right, It's not the right way
to do it. So another mishandled press conference from I mean,
I have a question. It's just he's kind of implying
as well that U TEP and Sam Houston State aren't

(01:44:10):
competitors at all. I know he was asked specifically about
power power for school schools, but those aren't power school.

Speaker 6 (01:44:15):
And then my question, the second question is if Penn
State head coached the same thing about UCLA or Oregon,
would that be the same, Like I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:44:24):
James Franklin is gonna be saying a word he yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:44:28):
I feel like Starks to be the same way, like
you lost a Really they weren't even ranked regardless if
it's the known swamp. The swamp has been bad before,
as well as Ohio State has been bad before. I
just I think answer like Ross is saying, it's just
it's just a it's a it's a bad taste in
your mouth, especially if I was his athlete.

Speaker 2 (01:44:47):
Does that mean sense? I mean the Penn State lost
it in front of like twenty thousand people at u
C l A and nobody cares about that program, and
UCLA is terrible. It's a little bit different. But yeah,
the point is he yes, he him, he had it
laid in front of him to I guess you could
say excuse making or whatever. Losing on the road in
the shoe, there's no to the reigning national championship there champion.

(01:45:10):
There's no shame in that, and I applaud them for
playing it. And frankly, as I've talked, played four, maybe
we should stop telling these good teams to play good
teams because it obviously isn't a bad juju throat. You
didn't get You didn't fix yourself in the three games
you had against winnable opponents as you came back to
playing slug As football. It's week to week and everything
will be all better if they can just beat Oklahoma,

(01:45:32):
which their favorite, and I believe they do. Now. Don't
tell Jonathan I sent you a sound clip. Don't tell
Ross who it's from. Oh oh, but I was able
to find a man who I when I think, when
I respectfully think of who can give me the real
pulse of Texas football. Oh boy, I thought of this person.
Play the sound bite. Pleae mean give me two seconds? Okay,

(01:45:53):
it's somebody. When you think of college football analysis, a
real heart beat on Texas, think of this person. Here
it comes, loading, loading, leading loading.

Speaker 3 (01:46:07):
Loading, Okay, Instagram, No, don't do that.

Speaker 2 (01:46:11):
I'm almost a three thousand lists. Oh my god.

Speaker 23 (01:46:13):
Here it is Tarkisian right here on national television. I
respect this man. I like this man, and I think
that for the most part, he's been a hell of
a coach. I'm very disappointed with what I've seen from
Steve Sarkisian this year. To me, Paul, he has coached
scared he has coached like somebody who's been forced to

(01:46:34):
deal with all the allure, all the attention and notoriety
that comes associated with Arch Manning, and he has not
lived up to the billing any more than his quarterback has.
And I think that he's been feeling the precious.

Speaker 2 (01:46:47):
Since the opening of the season.

Speaker 19 (01:46:49):
Paul.

Speaker 2 (01:46:49):
I think he has coached like it.

Speaker 23 (01:46:52):
And I think that an example for him to say
what he said as a quote, what do you mean,
you know, how would they do your Texas? You came
into the season ranked as the number one team in
the nation and this ain't Florida that was coached. That's
been coached by Urban Maya.

Speaker 2 (01:47:07):
No disrespect, Okay, Urban Maya is not there. He's not
walking through that door. Tim t Boway's walking through that door.

Speaker 23 (01:47:12):
This is this is a different Florida Gators program. For
him to come out of his mouth and say that,
to me, just speaks to the level of disappointment everybody
should be feeling about Steve Sarkisian because I think that
he has coached scared because Arch Manning is there, there
was huge expectations, and he's been dealing with all of
that instead of just coaching football like he knows how.

Speaker 2 (01:47:34):
To coach football. There you go, Stephen A. Smith right
on top of things at the University of Texas. All right,
I did that just to poke at you. Thank you.
Feeling great? Just win, Just win this week and I'll
be here. You're gonna win this week. Now.

Speaker 6 (01:47:52):
The real thing is do they if they make it
up and Manning just majesty starts playing better and beats
ou and does this does all the start of seasons
just wash away?

Speaker 2 (01:48:00):
Or is this going to be? No? The only reason
is the only way it washes away if they if
they sneak pretty much, they pretty much have to win
out at this point. Anything less than a for a
preseason number one not to make the college football Tournament,
it would be a considered Did any three loss teams
make the playoff last year? Alabama did not? Remember they
were a three loss team. Yeah, they were right on

(01:48:20):
the outside looking in because of the automatic bids. Yep,
we'll get some logical, thoughtful conversation with Longhorns Scott next unbiased.
He's gonna bring it, is he always? Is he gonna
lift my spirits? Is he gonna talk me into the Longhorn?
Is gonna be okay, would you like would you like
Who's your? Who's your? Who's the most famous University of

(01:48:42):
Texas musical performer associated with UT like Lyle Love is
a UT guy? No, he was a Texas tech guy, okay,
or something like that. It would be what's her name
that we were saying was overrated the other day from
Port Arthur. Why is her name? Escape?

Speaker 3 (01:48:55):
Joslams Choplin.

Speaker 2 (01:48:56):
I will play some Janis Joplin coming back, okay in
our new song isn't a song? The most famous song
was me and sports RV. I think that's correct. Follow
sports RV on Instagram. I'd appreciate it, yet try and
build it up, have the big fell out. His squad
needs a victory in the worst way. Meanwhile, mine's double.
Did your favorite Oklahoma state better get that ass. I'm
just saying, what if they don't. I don't care if

(01:49:17):
they went by one is Las Vegas and tell me
everything Sports RV. Oh, okay, nobody made you bring it out.
I'm just saying that Vegas likes him, so it is
what it is. But I don't want I don't let
Vegas aside. That's another worst love. I mean nothing free
I think Coach Shark is playing this in the athletic facility.

(01:49:38):
Anybody fired up? I think he's jamming, getting the kids
riled up. Let's go baby. Oh, Bobby mcgode, this.

Speaker 3 (01:49:49):
Is I do have this song on my phone.

Speaker 2 (01:49:50):
This is a jam.

Speaker 3 (01:49:51):
It's a jam.

Speaker 2 (01:49:53):
That's my first time. Let's do it. Ask me like it.
He's im bad. I've never heard this number one in
nineteen seventy one. It's Jenis Joplin's cover of me and
Bobby McGee.

Speaker 3 (01:50:04):
Do you ever see The Rose? The What the Rose?
What is that movie that was based on her?

Speaker 10 (01:50:09):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:50:10):
No, I didn't. Yeah, Bette Midler played her. Oh really yeah?
I don't know if it's in a strict interpretation of
her life or a loose yeah, but very distinctive voice. Yeah, yeah,
was it good? I don't remember? Okay, how fresh was
it on Rotten Tomatoes? Go looking that because now I'm curious,
Bette Middler The Rose? Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:50:34):
Do they even have freshmatos?

Speaker 2 (01:50:36):
Back then? It was not rated for four Academy Awards.
They must have been really good then, these things I know,
I can't. I can't hold on. There's like five things
called the Rose. Give me a second, all right, let's
talk to a big genus. Joplin fan seventy three fresh.
That's good, right, yeah, what is it considered not afresh
when they get around fifty? I got sixty maybe sixty

(01:50:57):
Longhord Scott, good afternoon.

Speaker 12 (01:51:01):
Hey guys, Uh, you know, Ross, it's interesting. I mean,
I I really it's it's it's uncanny. I mean I
I really enjoy your contributions to the showy but no,
but but I don't know how this how it really
works out this way. But when it comes to your
teeth takes, I just go. I never agree. I'm always like,

(01:51:21):
what is he talking about? It's so odd? Because else
I I enjoy you know, your input. I think thank
you probably the doing you're carrying way more on this
show for a guy whose name gets listed. Second, Uh
to begin with.

Speaker 2 (01:51:35):
But anyway, hey, wait a minute, why why am I
catching straight? What did I do? I didn't do anything?

Speaker 14 (01:51:41):
All right?

Speaker 3 (01:51:42):
What am I off off base on? Let's let's talk
about it.

Speaker 12 (01:51:45):
I I think, you know, I think, but the world
less of and you guys, so you're not new to
the game, but you know it's amazing sort of the
exponential explode as we know, right with anything, right, when technology,
it develops and changes at a warp speed, and so
too the things that proliferate opinions. Right, And so when
Stephen A. Smith, though, and I know you did that

(01:52:07):
tongue in cheatment, but Stephen A. Smith, great, stand by,
because I'm about to give my opinion on NASA's new
development of progress they're making on the next man Tomorrow's
You know, I'd be about as qualified to talk about
that as he is college football. But it's amazing to
me that there's such there's no gray area anymore. Right,

(01:52:29):
So the guy that since ninete one, I've only missed
twelve games in Austin, I've watched a lot of ball,
a lot of good, lot of bad. You see, these
things have been to flow seasons where you you know,
you over deliver teams over to the expectations. See teams
that obviously everyone I think is shocked about the offensive

(01:52:51):
line being what it was. But that kills me. And
when we red that takes me the most is when
people are seeing the words of coaches in press conferences
and yeah, oh go ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:53:09):
Go ahead, finish it.

Speaker 2 (01:53:10):
We're having some phone issues, but go ahead anyway.

Speaker 12 (01:53:13):
At the end of the day, I like, guys, catch
your breath, calm down. Are things weren't anyone thought they
were being No, but like, let's stop parsing every word
of every coach in a.

Speaker 4 (01:53:24):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:53:25):
All right, we're gonna let you run Longhorn Scott, Yeah again,
I'm actually uh, I think I'm semi offended by his
lack of value in me, which is five you, Longhorn Scott,
appreciate you. You'll get a room. This season is a
massive disappointment to this point, I don't understand how there's
another way to spin that. Uh Now, losing the old
House date and close game, it happens. But Arch not

(01:53:48):
looking good after that against San Jose State and UTEP
and then okay, he made some plays against Sam Houston
and he was up and down in Florida. I think
that the biggest issue that they didn't win that Florida
games because they got beat on both offensive and defensive lines.

Speaker 3 (01:54:05):
But yes, this is a disappointment. This is the fact.

Speaker 2 (01:54:07):
What did Chris Gordy tell us the fastest team ever
to be number one preseason and be out of the poll.
Now that also may say, hey, Texas got overrated preseason
and they're not as good as everybody thought. And Texas
oftentimes is overrated in the preseason. I mean, we've seen
it time and time again. But you're you're not where
you need to be. And Steve Sarkisian is acting in

(01:54:28):
an arrogant way when pressed about not performing well against
top tier competition, and he hasn't done that so far
in his Texas career. And the thing when he was
asked about he was asked about wincing from Arch Manning
and then he started talking about videoing somebody while they're
taking a poop. I mean, I didn't do that. If

(01:54:50):
you want to defend that and say that sounds normal,
that's okay, it just isn't.

Speaker 10 (01:54:54):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:54:55):
I don't know if John tweets Sports is accurate here,
but he has Texas as. Steve Sarkisian is two and
eight versus top ten teams at Texas. Now, you're not
gonna be ten and oero versus top ten teams. That
normally means you're going against top tier competition. You're gonna
be going against him at least two or three times
a year. You'd like to be fifty to fifty. Two
and eight is not a good record, and I like

(01:55:15):
Steve Sarkisian. I don't want him fired right now. I
think he's a good coach. I think you can win
a national championship with Steve Sarkisian. But this season has
been a disappointment. Yeah, I don't know. You had your
number one preseason, Arch Manning was supposed to be all
world quarterback. And yes, you lost four offensive linemens, so
there was a lot of question marks there. And yes,
you've been lacking in the running game because Quinn Travian

(01:55:37):
Weisrener has been hurt. Now he just came back, and
I don't think he's very good. CJ. Baxter has been
hurt as well. You've You've had some injuries here and
there all over the place. But you add it all up,
it's disappointing. But it can all be remedied with a
win against your number one rival, the Oklahoma Sooners. And
by the way, if you run the table you get
to play in the college football playoffs. You're gonna have

(01:55:58):
a strong enough schedule for those people are making those
decisions to make that happen. Can I give you one
thing I want you to think about. Don't answer the
question to the top of the hour with Arch being
all worldly coming in, and with Quinn yours being so
highly regarded coming in, and you know the question I'm
gonna ask you, Okay, don't answer it yet, m h.

(01:56:22):
If I'm a top shelf quarterback thinking about where I
want to play and the last two quarterbacks that have
made their way to Austin, Texas are underdeveloped. Am I
going to a place that I want to go play
college football if I'm not going to be developed for
my future careers professional quarterback?

Speaker 3 (01:56:41):
Just throwing it out there.

Speaker 2 (01:56:44):
Answer coming up in mere moments, final hour of The
Matt Thomas Show with Ross by the Ways with Ross
Hill as a long horn dog would say, The Ross
Villarreal Show with the other guy that's I like that name? Yeah?
Seven one three two one two It's fine seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven ninety NFL re wanting twenty

(01:57:06):
minutes a live or dead I'm believing or not? Coming
up at t one point fifty here on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 1 (01:57:10):
Ninety is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 2 (01:57:20):
What oh four on Sports Talk seven ninety Man and
Ross with you here until two o'clock Rockets last night
did a preseason win against the Atlanta Hawks, won twenty
two to one thirteen. Nick Cassario, Texans general manager, says
that he will update everybody on Joe Mixon in three
to four weeks. That he is progressing to what level,
we don't know, but another decision or at least another

(01:57:41):
announcement will come from the team coming up at about
a month or so. I'm still gonna hold onto my
thought he's not playing in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 3 (01:57:48):
I think they're trying to whatever they can to get
him going.

Speaker 2 (01:57:50):
I just believe Rossi that if he does come back,
it's awfully hard to miss thirteen or fourteen games. I
wouldn't be that many. Maybe, man, who knows if it
was missed twelve games all of a sudden to pick
up in and try to lead a running attack when
you have been in the midst of a long season
all eight I mean, he didn't practice all season last year,
and he hit the ground running in Week one, So
he's a veteran For a guy who's a veteran now,
it is a new offensive system, so maybe there's something

(01:58:13):
to work with that. But I don't know if he's
working with the coaches or if he's in meeting rooms
right now, where is he We don't know. If he's
around the team and picking up the offense now to go.
And he's a veteran guy who can run you know,
inside outside zone, whatever you want to run that he
can pick it up and be fine. I'm not super
worried about him. And it's it's the running back position.

(01:58:34):
I don't want to, you know, downplay it necessarily, but
it's something I think Joe Mixon should be able to handle,
no matter what week of the season it is. Again,
don't know the tenor, but my guess is they said, hey,
we owe them an update. Let's give him three to
four weeks. Let's say this just to get him off
the cent for a little bit. That could also be
the case. Who knows seven one three two one two five.

(01:58:54):
And I remember sports teams don't need to tell you
the truth. They're not under oath, and they often lie. Yeah,
because the average person lies four times a day.

Speaker 12 (01:59:03):
Four.

Speaker 2 (01:59:04):
You know, when the show started, it was three two,
it was three, and the show started, I bumped into
four with inflation. Yes, I think by twenty twenty six
we're lying to the average person five times a day. Yeah,
I want you to do an exercise. I want all
of you. I am gonna send you guys a little
homework today before back on the phones. I want you
to keep a little small notepad with you for one
day and anytime you lie to somebody, it can be

(01:59:27):
a little fib it can be a granioselye. Just give
yourself a little check mark, and then sammy check marks
you have at the end of the day, like, for instance, hey,
does this alpha make me look fat?

Speaker 3 (01:59:36):
No, honey, it does not. That's a lie, but a check.

Speaker 2 (01:59:39):
Okay. How are the How are the cheese sticks at
Teresa's party flavors? They were great?

Speaker 7 (01:59:45):
Check?

Speaker 2 (01:59:46):
That's a lie. Hey U does my breast stink?

Speaker 4 (01:59:50):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:59:50):
You smell great? Check. No. Somebody asks you if their
best breath thinks you should tell them? Okay, that's the truth.
That's true.

Speaker 3 (01:59:57):
Okay, the truth. Tell the truth, because I'm telling you
if you don't.

Speaker 2 (02:00:01):
If you're not lying flurida five times a day, you're
probably have no friends. The truth does not always set
you for a sports making sense well, honestly, with Steve
Sarkisian telling the truth, man, this schedule is too tough
for me. I did to play go back and play
some belts you need. Look, the swamp is a tough
place to play. But I mean, your excuse making if

(02:00:22):
you're saying you couldn't have won that game. You're supposed
to be better than Florida. They had three losses at
that point. Now that was three tough one was it
South Florida Miami and South Florida Miami?

Speaker 3 (02:00:33):
And they some other tough loss Yeah? Uh there was
who was else?

Speaker 2 (02:00:38):
Miami's losses in there? South Florida was good, but they're
not spectaclear. They got beat up pretty good by Miami.
So yeah, but the Bulls are tough, Matt Lsu that
was the other one. Did you ever if you ever
thought you'd said the Bulls are tough? The losses for
Florida were yeah, South Florida, LSU and Miami. Okay, they

(02:00:59):
were one and three. Florida had one win over Long
Island football. No Long Island had a football team. Fifty
five is zero over Long Island. Yes, I was kind
of excited because my you know, uh down he had
to play the Florida Gators Lucas. Look at their their
Their quarterback is Lucas Stanziani. Lucas lean in the Long

(02:01:24):
Island Shocks. We're coming over here to Florida and to
play some football. Walk in to pros picks. I'm Lucas
dan Leani on a recorded line. I got so much
inside information about Florida football. I know people deep into
the program. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (02:01:42):
You know what's funny?

Speaker 2 (02:01:43):
We unfortunately do and I am especially horrific East Coast accents.

Speaker 3 (02:01:47):
Okay, what are you talking about?

Speaker 2 (02:01:49):
Matt hey Hey, then let him and tackles with Raphael Fosselino.
So wait a minute, why do we do it? And
we think we're charming when we're nearly not. When if
we ever heard of wf A N sixty six doing
a Texas you can get on your whole time, we

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would get so mad at them for doing that. That's fine,
we're hypocrites. Well duh, all right, so make sure we
knew that seven one three, two one two five seven nine.
If you want to get an NFLR want coming up
at about twelve minutes from now.

Speaker 3 (02:02:24):
Let's talk to it's been said.

Speaker 2 (02:02:27):
Huh, it's been the calendar all week and I'm reminded
on Twitter Michael on seven ninety at one o nine, Michael,
thank you for holding in. Good afternoon.

Speaker 7 (02:02:36):
Hey, what's up guys, big fans.

Speaker 2 (02:02:37):
Thanks.

Speaker 7 (02:02:38):
I just wanted to touch on a couple of things I
listen every day.

Speaker 2 (02:02:41):
Thank you.

Speaker 7 (02:02:42):
Yeah. The ard question, Maanning thing, I think, I think
it's very clear. I mean, the guy comes from a
private school. I just think he didn't see a lot
of competition like this and his playing days. I mean,
you're playing at Saint Pius or the Woodman's Christian. You're
not seeing north Shore talent.

Speaker 2 (02:02:59):
Yeah know, Katie talent.

Speaker 7 (02:03:01):
The Woodlands talent is better players. You know, you're seeing
you know, five nine Billy Jones playing cornerback. You know
you're gonna see much better talent in the SEC. And
I just think he's just above his walker. You know,
he just can't play with these guys. He looked real
comfortable against Sam Houston, and I think that's kind of
the level he played at when he was in high school.
So you know, he's seeing these, you know, much bigger

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talent and it's just kind of translating. And that's just
my opinion on that. You know, maybe next year.

Speaker 2 (02:03:28):
It didn't matter for for Eli Manning or Peyton Manning
who went to the same school. I mean it's it's
I don't think that's necessarily yeah, exactly. So I'm saying,
is that we're talking about is it a private school
or is it he just not good enough? As of
right now, I'm just gonna say he's just not good enough.

Speaker 7 (02:03:44):
Yeah, Yeah, I think it's a mess of the two.
That's just my opinion on that. The other thing I
wanted to touch on I called in at the beginning of
the season about the Micah Parsons trade. Yeah, you know,
fast forward, you know, gone down the line, the emergence
of James Houston, you know, three and a half sacks.
I think that's pretty good. I think our lines kind
of meshed.

Speaker 4 (02:04:02):
Well.

Speaker 7 (02:04:03):
I think we won that trade. I want to know
what you guys think on that. And the other thing
is no one's talking about us winning the George Pickens trade. Man,
we got rid of a third rounder for a number
one talent. And what do you guys think about when
CD comes back? You know, how is that offense gonna mesh?
Is it going to get you know, bigger? Or do
you think you know the pill is going to be

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kind of, you know, struggle to get spread around with
ferguson CD and Pickens as well as Williams, and I'll
hang up and live.

Speaker 2 (02:04:31):
Yeah, thank you. You're not taking pickings off the field period.
In the story he is a deep threat. I don't
know is CD's supposed to step back right back on
the field and act as like I know how long
he's supposed to be out. Honestly, look, Dallas's offense is
going to score some points. I mean, hell, it put
up forty against Green Bay Week seven. This is what
I'm reading on just on Twitter quick, okay, Twitter search.

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You know, I don't know enough about their defense. I mean,
losing Michael Parsons is a been bad. It's well, yeah,
you allowed forty at home to Green Bay. I mean,
I have you know, one of these situations.

Speaker 4 (02:05:03):
Now.

Speaker 2 (02:05:03):
The Jets are bad football team, so I don't even
count last week's game. But they can hang around. Uh
they can. They're gonna outscore their opponent. They're gonna try
to outscore their opponents. You're not gonna get into a
low scoring ball control game. They're explosive. Dacks having a
good season so far. Yards per play allowed Green Bay
second at four and a half, Dallas thirtieth. So I

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don't know if they've done. If Micah was there, would
they still be they would who knows? Who's to say?
I don't know. I the NFC East to me is
that Washington's really good. Big win at the LA Chargers
let this past weekend, uh Dallas, I think is gonna
is gonna stay competitive. Eagles are looking beat The Eagles

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are looking beatable. Act it was just their first loss
this season, but that but they've had some But they
should have lost the Rams game for if not for
that block punt at the very end of the game. Yes,
Buccaneers game was close, chee. They've been all close games,
Cowboys and Chiefs. Can I go ahead and give you
the playoffs and NFC go ahead? Four division champs, three
wild cards?

Speaker 4 (02:06:06):
Right?

Speaker 2 (02:06:06):
M hm?

Speaker 3 (02:06:09):
Oh boy? I don't know if I can do that.

Speaker 2 (02:06:12):
I don't think I can do it because I think
the Rams, Niners, and Seahawks all could fight for that
spot there and maybe one slips in as a wild card.
I think the NFC Buccaneers are running away with the South.
South only get one team in NFC North could get
Green Bay it could get Detroit. Chicago might be sneaky.

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I think Minnesota's toast. Okay, your division leaders are Eagles, Lions, Buccaneers, Niners,
and then it was at this point three wild Cards. Yeah, Commanders,
these are your candidates. Commanders, Cowboys, Packers, Seahawks, Rams. I

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think all five couldn't make arguments for getting in. With
the Falcons and the Vikings, I just don't know if
Dallas is des can stop anyboy it Between the one
in the year and by the way, they are the
Giants more competitive now with Jackson Dart kind of they
I mean they just lost to the same they had.
They had that game one too, but yeah, they're not

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making the playoffs. They're one and four and they're terrible.
But at least could be a thorn in somebody's side.
Between the one in the year, I mean, I could
see I could see a Giants team beating up on
the Cowboys just by accident. I don't know. Uh, this
is shaping up to be and again we got a
long way to go. I think this is going to
be an uber competitive n FC and both conference races

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and ross these tiebreakers are going to mean the world
to everybody. That's why, even though I don't want the
Texans to lose in Seattle, they can still do it
and get that ten win mark, because frankly, it would
be an NFC conference law and be ANFC loss. You
need to. You can't really afford to lose to anybody

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else in the AFC this year. You still have the
game of the Niners coming up till the Cardinals, and
you still have the Seahawks. If you're gonna have some blemishes,
you might as well do it against NFC teams. And
you're third in your division and you're gonna have to
You're gonna have to go to Indianapolis and win, and
you're gonna have to absolutely make sure that you do
not lose it home to Jacksonville, which has been a

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tough spot the last few years. No one said it
was gonna be easy to win the NFC South. Wait,
they did, no, they said, they really said exactly that.
That's what they said, all right. One fifteen of The
Matt Thomas Show with Ross seven to one three two
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(02:09:00):
I don't like you people, but that's okay, NFL rewind.

Speaker 21 (02:09:03):
Next, Oh, when you hear the fifth of Beethoven, you
think of nineteen seventy five, dancing at the Hustle, at

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the Hustle at the Club twenty one.

Speaker 3 (02:09:28):
That was a platform shoes.

Speaker 2 (02:09:29):
Platform shoes, white pants, white coat with the sleeves rolled out,
long hair, shoulders. Yeah, and of course let my hair down.
And of course Ross's NFL Rewind. Yes, Matthew. We talked
about this during the news at noon, but it bears
repeating bingles agree to acquire Joe Flacco from the Cleveland Browns.
How often do you see a quarterback trade matt for

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a guy who's probably gonna plug a plane soon, maybe
not start this week, but rather soon.

Speaker 3 (02:09:57):
And also in Division.

Speaker 2 (02:10:01):
A sixth round pick and Joe Flacco going to the
Bengals for a fifth round pick. Flacco is forty years old,
started the first four games of the season before being
replaced by Dillian Gabriel. This also bumps up Shador Sanderson
number two on the depth chart. Oh, the shud Door.

(02:10:22):
That's gonna be the lead on first take today, right,
So the Shudor Truthers like Brad and Miami or wherever
he is nowadays big year one Dylan Gabriel injury away
from Shudor Sanders being the Cleveland Browns quarterback Flaccow now
playing for his third of the fourth AFC North teams.

(02:10:43):
Of course he wont to Super Bowl with the Ravens,
play with the Browns. Now he is with the Sense
and NATA Bengals. Matthew Ah, it doesn't matter. There are
seasons to Does the Bingles make the playoffs? No, they're
two and three done. Winnable division Nope. I don't even
think Pittsburgh's falling off. I mean, I think Pittsburgh can

(02:11:03):
win nine. I don't think since I didn get Denine,
every team in that division has a negative point differential. Yeah,
they're all going to beat each other up and be
about all mids. By the way, three out of the
four in the ANFC South have a positive point differential. Okay,
I bet you can guess who has the negative one.
Uh tennessee for is correct? All right, let's move along.
More news with the Mark Sanchez issue with Fox. The

(02:11:27):
alleged victim in the Indianapolis altercation with Mark Sanchez if
you had not heard, allegedly, Mark Sanchez got an altercation
with a delivery an elderly delivery driver, and he was
drunk and perhaps on something else. Released from the hospital
as he recovered from stabbing wounds at the hands of
the driver who was defending himself. According to reports, he

(02:11:51):
has three charges, one of which was upgraded to felony battery.
Fox has not released a statement or clarified any sort
of status with Sanchez or Brady Quinn. But the victim
who was attacked by Mark Sanchez is suing has filed
a lawsuit against Mark Sanchez and Fox. Suit is asking

(02:12:12):
for an unspecified amount of damages.

Speaker 12 (02:12:14):
All right.

Speaker 2 (02:12:15):
I am not an attorney, but I'll play one on
the radio here for this second. They're suing Fox as
part of this because they're saying he was on a
work assignment, and Fox should have done a better job
of watching over their employees. Okay, I get that.

Speaker 3 (02:12:29):
I don't get and they got a lot of cash.

Speaker 2 (02:12:32):
I mean, look, well, I would assume that maybe forty
fifty percent of our audience does some sort of traveling
for their job. Oh yeah, you get wild, but you
kind of But if I'm if I'm an employer and
I send somebody somewhere, they're expected to do a job.
But what they're not on my clock twenty four to seven,

(02:12:52):
if they're if they're having dinner or having drinks or
whatever the case may be, that's kind of their own decision. Yes,
I just I don't like throwing Fox in this civil suit.
But frankly, it was Fox that didn't say, Hey, Mark Sanchez,
why don't you go get ripped and down to Indianapolis,
make an assy yourself and go get pepper sprayed and

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get stabbed.

Speaker 3 (02:13:14):
You see what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (02:13:15):
I just think there's a little bit of a line,
for sure. But I think legally they want money from Fox.
Fuck's got a lot of money. So I imagine Fox is
gonna settle this out of court and gets kind of
well they want it out of the headlines. So this
exactly my guess. There will be some sort of settlement,
but I just it doesn't feel right. But obviously, Ross
there's a president that says, if you're a high end

(02:13:37):
company with a big recognizable employee that doesn't behave themselves
their fair game to go after you and the company,
And so I just it's just to me, it sounds
a little scorely.

Speaker 5 (02:13:49):
All right.

Speaker 2 (02:13:49):
Matthew moved along. UH Texans general manager Nick Cassario speaking
on Joe Mixon today, saying there's no timetable for his return.
Of course, he did not participate in training camp. He
has been out all season. Nick Casario is saying, quote,
I think probably over the next few weeks, we'll probably
have a better idea he's making progress. So I wouldn't

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put it in a particular timetable on it. I think
over the next three or four weeks we'll probably get
more information here kind of see how he's progressing. You
know what, after you read it, after I read it,
he ain't coming back this year. We're taking it one
day at a time. But I think once we get
to that period, we'll probably have a better sense of
which way it's going for the duration of the year.
I'm with you. It doesn't sound like it does sound
of course Nick Chubb having a pretty good game over

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the weekend. Would he marks as emerged as a possible
threatut of the backfield both catching, receiving and pass blocking.
Joe Mixon? Will he play it down for the Texans
in twenty twenty five? I'm still going. No, feels like
it's trending towards me now what I'm right? Ultimately, will
you please, for the first time in your life call
me a Texans insider. No believe him or not. Cowboys

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owner Jerry Jones, did you see what happened over the
weekend at meant Life Stadium, Matt He celebrated a big victory.
There is a video circulating on social media that shows
Jerry Jones quickly flashing his middle finger to Jets fans
in the crowd after Dak Prescott's four touchdown increased the
lead to thirty seven or fourteen. Jerry Jones on the

(02:15:19):
fan in Dallas, that was unfortunate.

Speaker 3 (02:15:22):
That's not like Dana HOLGERSA sorry, sorry, Matt.

Speaker 2 (02:15:25):
That was kind of an exchange with our fans out
in front of us. There was a swarm of Cowboys
fans out in front, not Jets fans, Cowboys fans. The
entire stadium was brimming with enthusiasm of cowboys, and certainly
late in the game. It was inadvertent on my part
because that was right after we made our last touchdown
and we were all excited about it. He says he

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was not antagonizing Jets fans and it was an invert.
Believe him or not. Do not not not believe him.
I'll say this first of all, Bud Adams also middle fingered.
Was it Titan fans or Buffalo Bills fans? Way back
in the day. He throws a middle finger, and then
he points to somebody. Yeah, it's not an invertent. It

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is not an accident. He's not celebrating with cowboys. Can
I tell you this? And this is a god's honest
thing about me? And I tell you all a lot
of stuff about me, not everything, but a lot. Okay,
I probably have shot the middle finger twenty times in
my entire life. It's just not one of my mechanisms.
I've seen you do it twenty times. No way, I mean,
I'm not a mentle finger guy. You're a road rager.

(02:16:31):
I am a I'll swear at you, I'll call you names,
i will insult you, but I will not middle finger you.
But I will say in the Times that I have
middle finger. This is really strange on my apartment midmitting this.
I've done it spontaneously. It wasn't pre produced. So if
there's anybody that could do it that way, it would
be in the midst of an exciting moment where you

(02:16:53):
were sick and tired of hearing jets, fans, cattle, you know,
calling you name.

Speaker 3 (02:16:58):
I'm talking about the cowboys, So.

Speaker 2 (02:17:01):
I don't believe that's the case here, but I will
say me myself and I I have once in a
while throw the middle fingers for no reason. I'm not
a double question. Please, are you a thumb out to
the side, thumb on the ring finger or thumb way out?
Are you not full middle finger extension?

Speaker 6 (02:17:20):
Guy?

Speaker 2 (02:17:21):
I think I'm yeah, I don't know, thumb out to
the side. It's nice, Jonathan, throw throw it the road,
so let me see how you do it. The thumb
is out way out?

Speaker 6 (02:17:31):
Fact, I got you got. I got made fun of
when I did it, just like this. Yes, they make
fun of you. So it's not like intimdating you gotta do. Yeah,
I hear so coas is how smoker from Friday did it.
So that's how I do. So call me something, insult
me so I can give you a middle fingers.

Speaker 2 (02:17:44):
See how it works? All right, Matt Thomas, you are
a bad broadcaster. Oh it's they're they're tucked away. You
got it on the Is that the pinky? Yeah? I
tucked them away. You see my fingers? No, no, you got
it the index? Yeah, I tucked up, Yeah, I tucked it,
tuck it away. M okay, thank you learned? Yeah, I
think maybe more ring finger out to the side. All

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side is we're having a good time. Jonathan definitely had
his thumb's way out there. Yeah, yeah, I'm talking. That's
when you're partying. This is not this is on radio.
This is nothing making no sense of the audience on TV. Well,
someday someday is that the NFL will be on YouTube.
There's your there's YouTube. We actually media for now anything else?

(02:18:33):
Oh no, seriously, what's wrong with you today? A lot?
All right?

Speaker 20 (02:18:39):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:18:40):
Seven? One three two one two five seven down if
you want to jump, And we got one more segment
of calls to get to.

Speaker 3 (02:18:45):
Then we gotta get to believe it or not anything.
You want to get to?

Speaker 2 (02:18:47):
Rockets from last night? Can I get?

Speaker 3 (02:18:48):
Did we get a rockets call from last night?

Speaker 4 (02:18:50):
Oh? Quick?

Speaker 2 (02:18:50):
One more thing? The Bill Belichick inside North Carolina Hulu
series cancel has been canceled since they're getting their ass
beat every week. I also heard it you this yesterday.
They can They didn't want to mention Drake May at
all because he had a good day for the Patriots
as they're winning Buffalo and with the North Carolina and
there's a Patriot tie. They said, you're not mentioned. Belichick

(02:19:11):
told everybody, do not tweet that out, Do not mention
Drake May at all. Do you see what I'm talking about?
He's weird, It is weird, But his girlfriend's attractive, okay,
and she's forty nine years younger.

Speaker 3 (02:19:23):
We'd all like to have that kind of scoreboard, right.

Speaker 2 (02:19:27):
Don't you want to? Don't you want to date somebody
forty nine years younger than my seventies? What do I
have to say to a twenty four year old that's ridiculous? No,
I don't say what's up? Girl?

Speaker 3 (02:19:34):
What do you talk to her about her?

Speaker 2 (02:19:37):
Binkie Blinky, Politics, religions, Bob Life, The Wild, Thornberry's Love Island. Ooh,
Love Island? I get yeah, he is she making him
watch Love Island?

Speaker 12 (02:19:48):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (02:19:48):
They spot they She's probably making him watch the Love Island.
The Senior Bachelor, The Golden Bachelor. No, she's probably not. Well,
maybe she's interested in that. I don't know. You don't
tell you. He's young? Is like the Price is right too?
You want you can watch the Price is Right when
your stage young'us?

Speaker 4 (02:20:02):
Like?

Speaker 2 (02:20:02):
The price is right?

Speaker 3 (02:20:03):
Of course?

Speaker 2 (02:20:03):
They do you ever since Criss?

Speaker 4 (02:20:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:20:04):
Absolutely, Jonathan your a big fan of Prices. I've already
discussed this. Yeah, but I'm biased though Yeah. I used
to watch it with my aunt Rosie and we bonded
over it, and I loved Prices. Right, But how old
were you when you do it? Mikes? Eight? And you
and Aunt Rosie's still tight? She's dead. Thoughts and Prayers
one thirty two The Matt Thomas Show with Ross What
thirty seven? It is Met and Ross with you until

(02:20:26):
two o'clock today. We've got Believe it or not coming
up at one point fifty. I'm working on it. It's
gonna be By the way, it's gonna be alive or dead.
So if you say believe it, you believe the person
is alive, you believe the person is dead, you would
say not. All mine are television characters, famous television stars.
Oh great, So what if I haven't seen the show, Well,

(02:20:47):
then you're not gonna provide much help. What if I
don't know who they are, then you're really not gonna
provide much help. Jilliel White, Steve Rkle alive. But I
will be asking you first and then getting the answers
from the people. Okay, Now, Ross, when we first played
this game, was very good at it, and then he
got bad, and then he got good again, and now
you're back on a little bit.

Speaker 3 (02:21:04):
Of a cool, cool streak. You're right in the wave,
all right.

Speaker 2 (02:21:09):
Uh So the Texans are off this week, getting ready
for how are we doing on the I Guess Seattle,
which will be a week from Monday on the ESPN
Plus game. Now, for those of you that are worried
about ESPN Plus, if you're in Houston, don't worry about it.

Speaker 3 (02:21:23):
It'll be on channel thirteen. If you are gonna be
in Oklahoma.

Speaker 2 (02:21:27):
City, where I will be, I need to get my
ESPN Act ready to go because that will be a
digital game only. So okay, so that's where we are
on that. I was I going to tell you, oh
the NF this week, who were rooting for in the NFL?
Are we are we doing this right already? Are you
kidding me with this jumbled mess? You think it's gonna split?

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I mean, now, granted, the Colts and the Jaguars are
going to play each other, so there's there's gonna be
some losses there case Aserra Matt whatever will be will be.
The future is not ours to see. Well, here's the problem.
Broncos are gonna play the Jets. They're gonna beat the Jets.
That's gonna put them at four and two. Jet's gonna win. Please,
I got news for you. Is Aaron g Long gonna

(02:22:10):
survive this season in New York?

Speaker 3 (02:22:11):
Probably not?

Speaker 2 (02:22:13):
I mean either owned the first five. The first Nimt's
high school grad to be an NFL head coach is
gonna be there for about one year. Steelers are gonna
beat the Browns. Here's the one that's interesting. Can the Chargers,
who last week loss at home, go all the way
across the country to Miami and beat the Dolphins could
be an additional death nail in the career of Mike

(02:22:35):
what's it Mike McDaniel, the coach of the Dolphins.

Speaker 3 (02:22:38):
I can't believe he's still coach.

Speaker 2 (02:22:39):
Chargers need that win to stay alive because that's an
uper competitive West. Patriots are playing the Saints. The Pats
may go to four and too if they beat if
they win in New Orleans, Uh, this is not shaping
up well. ROSSI Oh, here's one. Go Cardinals Arizona Cardinals
at the Colts this week. Cardinals. Kyler Murray's listed is
questionable for that game. Great Seahawks at Jaguars. Go Seahawks,

(02:23:05):
that's a cross country trip. Go Hawks. Jags by one
and a half in that one. And then ooh, super
god Lions magic putting the Chiefs at two and four
after a home loss, potentially on Sunday Night, that's a
good these Lions Chiefs game. That's gonna be a great
Sunday night game.

Speaker 3 (02:23:23):
Chiefs could be two and four.

Speaker 2 (02:23:25):
Man. Chiefs have had a tough schedule to start, but
they've also been on national television it feels like every
single time. Yeah, that's because they're the Chiefs gotta get
Taylor's boyfriend on there. YEA, excuse me if you did
not know. We mentioned very early in the show today
Travis Kelsey is still active, obviously still playing. I think

(02:23:46):
he caught a touchdown pass last night, right, yeah, I
think so.

Speaker 3 (02:23:48):
Well, you tell me he's your time he is?

Speaker 2 (02:23:50):
I still lost because I didn't play the Carolina running
back Bey's on the Henro there Rico daddle. By the way,
rico' donde is expected to score six points this week
after scoring thirty last week.

Speaker 3 (02:23:59):
Because that is you. ESPN's just gonna mess with my mind.

Speaker 2 (02:24:01):
Uh they Oh, is somebody coming back? Is Chube Humbred
supposed to come back? Maybe so, I don't know, but
I was like, I can't wait to put him in there,
and like expected point total six point three, I'm like, oh, yeah,
he was. She was on the Tonight Show last night
and was asked about why she's not performing at halftime,
and she said because she does not want to take
away when she said she's focused on watching him play,

(02:24:25):
watching him compete in his job, and that it would
be not fair to her to be the good supporting
fiance rooting for her to his team. To go to
the Super Bowl and then all by the way, she's
got to take time away from her life to go
work on a halftime feature that he or may may
not be at the game or not. So I think
she was saying, Look, I don't want to jump into

(02:24:46):
his world until his world is done playing football. That's
the reason why we're gett interesting bad bunny instead the
baddest of the bunnies. How was his SNL? I haven't
looked at it yet either. I gotta look at some clips. Okay,
I'm good. I don't know he was. I haven't watched

(02:25:09):
an episode of SNL. And well maybe that. I watched
a little bit of the fifty Year one that was good,
that had all the best Nadie Murphy was hilarious.

Speaker 3 (02:25:18):
It is funny though, And this is this is an indictment.

Speaker 2 (02:25:21):
I think on what people want to tell you and
what they want to do or two different things. And
I'm guilty of it myself. You'll say, I've never watched
that show again, But yet SNL is enough viewers they watch.

Speaker 3 (02:25:34):
You know, I'm never going to that restaurant again. You
wind up going.

Speaker 2 (02:25:38):
We we I think we collectively as a society to
do that a lot. We are I'm never gonna do
something again, but you wind up doing it because every
other day, every other Sunday, I watched SNL again and
it was not funny, it was not interesting, it was
in poor taste. I'm done watching it. And yet I'll
go back to that person's timeline and they'll tell me
last year how much he hated as well. Well, people

(02:26:00):
do that with like the Texans Astros rockets. I think
TV shows it easier to say I'm giving up. Well, no,
you said you give it up. The righteous gym sounds
like five dad, I did it, but I have there's
there's a season on my DVR and I've not watched it. Oh, okay,
Desperate Housewives, Matt low Key, you gave me that was
pretty good. It's pretty good.

Speaker 6 (02:26:18):
Good recommendation is yeah, I know he gave me good
you know, good and critical announces of it, and I
you know, I really well Desperate.

Speaker 2 (02:26:24):
Housewives to me, By the way, that's so weird that
you're watching a show almost twenty years old. But that's
one of those things you can put in the background.
You probably should focus on the show because there's a
lot of plot twist to it, but I can see
how it's just kind of in the background. Isn't it
crazy how the kids are now watching shows that are
twenty years all, Like my son still is running through
all the Friends episodes, and my son's twenty six, my

(02:26:46):
oldest one. That is No, I mean you kiss when
you're a kid, you're watching all the old Sanford and Sons. Yeah,
that's true. But I was a last because I was
a last key kid. Okay, I still caln't watch me.
So everybody's a last key kid now, Yeah, so lat'sh
to their phones. I can watch just give me, you
give me a television full of Sanford and Sons and

(02:27:08):
good Times and What's Happenings and the Jeffersons and all
in the family laverneon Shirley's not so much Happy Days.
That was kind of corny, but I'm pretty pleased with
that group. But now today it's so we got to
run in through Seinfeld's and Friends. And now they're watching
what's that show that they're bringing back? But the mom

(02:27:31):
and the daughter, not Dawson's Creek, Oh with the Laurel Eyes, Oh,
hell Gilmore, Girls Killmore Girls. They're bringing girls back. They're
coming back with that. Okay, there's actually a show on
either Netflix, and my wife watches that. I wind up
being in the room with her and watching. It's not bad.
It's called Younger from about a forty one year old

(02:27:52):
woman who pretends she's twenty six and she works for
a book company, publishing company, okay, and how she lives
her life trying to act younger than she really is.
Got Hillary Duff, It's got Hillary Duff in it. Hillary Duff,
Hillary Duff. That's good stuff. That is that is way underrated.
I would say at the end of the day, I
think Hillary Duff properly rated.

Speaker 3 (02:28:11):
We don't talk about Hillary Duff.

Speaker 2 (02:28:12):
I No, just because you don't talk about it, doesn't
mean the streets aren't talking abouts are talk about Hillary Duff.
Oh got get you? That's fair, all right. Believe it
or not? All things alive or dead. If this person's alive,
you say believe it. If your person is dead, you'll
say not. Ross will try to assist and we'll do that.
Next seven one three, two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seven ninety Believe

(02:28:33):
It or Not a LIVEORDAD edition. Next eleven forty one
forty five on Sports Talk seven ninety to radio show
We'll have Shut Your Ball mass up at eleven thirty.
That's always a favorite part of our ways. That's is
that the most cathartic week of your week. That meon
that and THEE I'm sorry because I feel like sometimes
you just got things you just said you didn't mean,
and you just got a chance to apologize. We we

(02:28:53):
try to be a full service radio show. We're gonna
talk sports, sports and more sports. So frankly, the Texans
are are off for a while. The Astros haven't made
any moves in their off season. The Rockets are in
the preseason. Your college football team is in the Crapper,
Mine and the Crapper Matt Mine free and too baby
Mine's going to bounce back at Oklahoma State. Jonathan's may
even play this week. I don't even know what the

(02:29:15):
f he's doing anymore. They folded up, Shopper, I don't know.
Ask me the programs folded Yeah, they said they get
that beat down by you. Bough No moss Oh, I
forget to follow back all these people that followed me
on Instagram. I appreciate y'all. Oh wait man, I'm gonna
check me real quick before we get to believe it
or not. Here's a sports Harvey and Instagram. I will
follow you back if you follow me between now and
two pm. If you follow me, I will thank you

(02:29:36):
very much. And I'm Matt won't follow you back because
he didn't care about you. I care about your Instagram.
I I like you all, I love you. I'm very
nice to you. Metically. Shout out to the Cola delivery
driver at TDCU Stadium on Saturday. He is honking at
me as I'm pulling in the parking garage. He goes,
are you Matt Thomas. I said yeah. He goes, I
thought you looked for me. I said, I'm better looking

(02:29:57):
than you thought. He goes, oh, you're way better looking
than Ross. I said, thank you very much. He didn't
say that. Yes he did. I swear to got he didn'tkay, Well,
he's a liar. I think his name is Joe. Shout
out to you Joe at Coke at Rocrola. I said,
you got me PRODCT in the back and he goes, no,
we're just doing the pipe. So I said, oh damn wait,
you were trying to bum free Coca Cola off the
delivery driver. I don't think I think bum is a
strong term. Steal use his connections, grift gifting, grifting gifting

(02:30:22):
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They're ready to play. We're gonna go to Ross first.
He will give you his editorial advice, but it'll be
up to you to decide whether these people are live
or dead. Hi, Bill, Oh, Bill doesn't want my advice.

Speaker 4 (02:31:29):
Matt, whoever told you you look better than Ross was
telling the truth.

Speaker 2 (02:31:33):
Thank thank you. My friend Bert Ward, he played Robin
on the Batman TV series in the sixties. Believe it
or not? Oh, hold on, he said, believe sure. I
have no idea. Believe it is right. He's eighty years old.
Oh think I believe it? Second one, let Ross go first.
Barbara eaton Genie. Barbara eaton Genie. I don't know, Bill,

(02:31:57):
I think she's dead. I don't know.

Speaker 14 (02:32:00):
Oh, she's alive.

Speaker 9 (02:32:01):
Believe it.

Speaker 3 (02:32:02):
She's ninety four years old.

Speaker 10 (02:32:03):
Bell.

Speaker 2 (02:32:03):
Congratulations. Uh huh. This hurts my heart. Hopefully he's won
in the last thirty days, so he can't win today.
Probably John on seven ninety John, what was your favorite
part of today's radio show? NFL re whine? Oh, look
at that Ross. People appreciate that. Let's kill John Ross.
Any of the original threes company roommates, Jack, Janet and Chrissy,

(02:32:26):
any of them alive?

Speaker 12 (02:32:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:32:29):
Who those people are. Their names are Jack, Jenny, and Chrissy.
Those are the character names Jack, Janneys, Suzanne Summers, Joyce
to Win and John Ritter.

Speaker 3 (02:32:39):
I think they're all dead, John, What do you say, John?

Speaker 2 (02:32:43):
I believe it? Believe it? No, Yeah, Janet is still alive.
She's seventy six Joys to wit so good advice not
been given by Ross. Here we go. Number two Ross
Gavin McLeod he was Captain Stubing on the love Boat.
I don't know that, brother, John. What do you say, John?

Speaker 19 (02:33:01):
He's dead?

Speaker 2 (02:33:02):
He is dead. That's correct? Another one today, four to four,
Gil on seven ninety Gil, you're ready to play Believe
it or not? Hold on, Gail, Yes. Ricardo Montabon, mister
Rourke on Fantasy Island. Is he alive or dead? I
think I think he's dead. You think he's dead. He's dead?

(02:33:25):
That's not Ross. Statement Number two for the way all
of the Brady Bunch kids are they all alive?

Speaker 3 (02:33:32):
All of them apart are six. I don't think they're
all alive.

Speaker 9 (02:33:37):
Some of them are alive?

Speaker 2 (02:33:38):
Well, I need the answer, all or none? What do
you think? I don't know?

Speaker 12 (02:33:42):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:33:42):
All all are alive. Congratulations No, they've all had issues,
but they're alive. Good for them, all right. Sheldon on
seven ninety Sheldon, you're ready to play Believe It or Not?
Sheldon from the TV series Sheldon. Either of Everybody Loves
Ray's parents either one. I'm alive. I think it's still

(02:34:05):
getdy the mother? Is she dead too? Okay it's not. Yeah,
they're both dead. Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts are both dead.
Peter Boyle is dead, all right, name number two? Let
Ross go first? Tom Oldpatty was Luke Duke on the
Dukes of Hazard. I don't know that, dude, all right,
good hum out you think? What do you think? He's what? No,

(02:34:29):
he's no, he's alive. Sorry, thank you for playing. Finally
got somebody that got wrong. Brian on seven. He ready
to play Believe It or Not? Judd Hirsch he was
Alex Rieger on Taxi. Is he alive?

Speaker 18 (02:34:43):
No, he's dead.

Speaker 2 (02:34:44):
No, he's alive. Sorry, ninety years old, by the way,
nine years young. Sorry. Roger on seven Roger Roger the
prize whor Laverne or Shirley are either one? I'm alive.

Speaker 12 (02:34:59):
Her yet?

Speaker 1 (02:35:01):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:35:02):
No, they're both dead. You're right, congratulations there It is
up next two very live gentlemen, Adam Wexler, Adam Clinton.
They are the team. We'll talk to you tomorrow at
ten am right here on Sports Talk seven Night