The Josh Innes Show - JIS Classic: Matt Bui Segment On The Jim Rome Show

Episode Date: June 17, 2025

Here is audio from one of the times I hosted the Jim Rome Show. Looking back, it's really one of the coolest things I've ever done. This segment includes the famous Matt Bui Loves Carl Landry audio... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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i think you've learned this when you heard from that bully who was obsessed with carl landry I think you've learned this when you heard from Matt Bowie who was obsessed with Carl Landry. Whenever I think about how much I miss Carl Landry, it's like how much I miss an ex-girlfriend or something. Whenever he made a big play or anything, you just click so hard with this joy. We'll still love you no matter what jersey you're wearing. Carl Landry, we drafted him. We watched him grow up.

I like Kevin Martin, and we really need Kevin Martin, but Andre, Carl Lowry like my favorite players. We'll still root for you wherever you are wherever you go. I miss you Carl Andre. That movie misses you. That movie for you. Matt Booey misses you. Whatever it takes or how my heart aches. I miss you, Carl Andre. I will be right here waiting for you. Matt Booey misses you, Carl Andre. And I play that to tell you this.

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Terms at pick six dot draft kings dot com slash promos. A, that I just love that. It doesn't get old to me. And two, that the Rockets fans in particular are a dedicated loyal bunch. And Yao Ming just recently retired. You can say what you want about him on the court and't it didn't bear out because the guy was hurt for like the last five years of his career nice guy so people have an attachment to him he meant something to the global game i get all that but on the rockets

website fans wrote letters to yow and those were posted on the website you want to read one of these three bodies give me some kind of uh... emotional sappy music for this one then give me something that uh... means something because some of them you know some of them make sense you know they're just hey yeah you meant a lot to the city we appreciate it sorry things didn't work out you know that kind of thing

but then you get people that you're just fairly certain live in their mom's basement fairly certain the kind of guys's basement. Fairly certain. The kind of guys that wear their pants right up above their navel, play a little D&D. A guy named Chewie, it's already off to a good start isn't it? Guy named Chewie wrote this letter to Yao, and Chewie writes, you are one of the most important motivations of my life. You made me know that I cannot be as tall as you, but I can have a pair of soft hands as you.

You told me that I cannot prevent accidents in life, but I can hold faith like you, instead of being a coward, fighting for my destiny. You taught me that talent is useless without hardworking attitude, and hardworking attitude only makes sense with persistence. You made me brave. Yao made this guy brave and helped me build my confidence to walk on this earth. Here I want to say Yao thank you for everything and he continues. It's a sad day for everyone who loves basketball because of your retirement. However, as Gandalf said in the Lord of the Rings, death is just another path that we all have to take.

Retirement does not make your influence vanish. It is just another stage of life which makes you complete man. Your spirits will be locked in your legendary decade in rockets, but keep spreading through the future and inspire more young men like me. So long my friend. Wish you and your family all the best in the future. Your biggest fan, Chewy. Okay, now listen, I get it.

You have an emotional attachment to somebody. That's how fans are. Fans feel like they know these guys, and they love these guys. I get it. That's fine. But keep in mind, the guy just retired. He didn't die. However, as Gandalf said in the Lord of the Rings, death is just another path that we'll have to take. I just think that that quote is a little bit out of context.

You know, as Carl from Caddyshack said, when you die on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness. So you got that going for you, Yao. Which is nice. That was so out of context, you could have put any quote in this letter to Yao and it would have made sense. However, as George McFly said, hey you you get your damn hands off her anything could have applied here

fans get emotional just like matt buoy i think the rockets might have the most emotional fans in the universe they grow attached to players like matt buoy grew attached to carl andrea that we've been through and he misses yel too, I'm sure.

1-800-636-8686. Were you ever a die-hard fan of something like that? Like to a point where you were so emotionally tied to it that you would write a letter to someone who's never going to see it. I don't think I ever got to that point in life. Now that doesn't mean I haven't done dopey things in my life and gone into crazy fandom at any point in my life. You know, I did some wacky things.

When I was 15, I used to watch the Baton Rouge Kingfish Minor League Hockey Team and I used to dance for my dinner in the stands. Fat 15-year-old kid in between doing awful play-by-play for them. I was up in the stands, 1200 strong at the Riverside Centraplex Christmas time I put on a Santa suit They were playing around Halloween time. I would put on you know a costume. I got wild. These are the kind of things I did There was a guy saw a picture these are things I don't understand It's looking at the Houston. Well actually I was looking at Sports Radio 610's website, that's the station I work for.

We were posting pictures of fans at Texans practice. And there was a guy that was dressed as Darth Vader. And I made fun of him because, you know, bless his heart somebody has to. It's 110 degrees outside and the guy's dressed in a Darth Vader suit but with a Texans jersey. He's a little wacky. That's fine. And that's cool. He's wacky. He's dressed in full on Darth Vader gear in 110 degree weather with a Texans jersey on. But here's what makes that story even better is I got a tweet from this guy at Josh Anna 610 his name is Darth Texan and he says heard you were calling me out give me a chance to defend myself said no I don't think that's going to happen although I'd like to give you a chance to

defend yourself it has all the makings of something really special if I did It has all the makings of something really special if I did 1-800-636-8686 Always the guy and then we in on Monday Night Football It's watching the Texans Jets on Monday Night Football. You got guys in Viking helmets You got obese guys You got guys that look like they're roided up sleeveless jerseys on looking like Mark McGuire Like I wonder what goes through your mind when you get up, you go to work, whatever you do for a living. That's another thing I wonder. These

wacky guys that dress up at these games are probably the most straight-laced guys you've ever met. They're guys that work at a bank or they're accountants, CPAs, they do all that. And then at the football game, they get wild. It's like eyes wide shut. By day Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise, they were just business people. By night they were involved in freaky deaky sex world. And that's kind of what those fans are like. They've got a family, maybe. Sad thing is their wife is probably embarrassed by it. What would make it even worse is if the wife was actually

into it. But I guess you gotta find someone you have common ground with, right? You've got to find someone to bond with. Alonzo Highsmith will now join us at the bottom of hour number two. So in the second hour, Brian Baldinger will join us. That comes up next. Bottom of the hour, we'll talk with Alonzo Highsmith from the U. That story's just big right now. And again, it's the hypocritical people out there that claim they want change in college football in college sports

yet what i get they get sold out stadiums in giant television revenues and ratings think everybody just needs to step back and stop being so hypocritical about it so talk with a long so high smith at the bottom of the second hour coming up next we will talk with brian baldinger from the bottom of the second hour. Coming up next, we will talk with Brian Baldinger from the NFL Network. He's one of my favorites.

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