The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Anything Goes Friday! Houston Astros vs Cincinnati Reds Tonight, Can They Get Out Of This Weird Slump?

Episode Date: May 9, 2025

Anything Goes Friday! Houston Astros vs Cincinnati Reds Tonight, Can They Get Out Of This Weird Slump?

I do miss you when I'm gone. You may not believe that. And I'll be with you for the foreseeable future. I mean, hopefully, like, the next 10 years. 15. I mean, I mean, brother. Look, can we get you retired now? That would put us at an even 30.

You don't want that? You're going to make me cry on air for the segment. I didn't mean to do that. And when we talk about 15, we talk about, for Jonathan's case, 15 months. That's how the average producer lasts in the show. Let me look at the job markets. Whatever, Jonathan, you, you, you. find your next job. We wish you know they'd be the very best.

Thank you. All right. It is a Friday edition of the Bat Taube Show with Ross. Thank you for taking care of the show yesterday. Opening at Pittsburgh. You really want that? Why don't you go to that Loser Sports Radio Convention? Chicago gets you a job. I would love to. I'm busy, though.

I'll get you a flight up there. You will? All right, I'll go. You can go tell that programmer he's full of crap. It doesn't know what the hell he's doing all he does. It was an opening in Chicago. Oh yeah, that got filled by former friend, actually current friend of the show, Layla Rahimi got the midday spot there. Congratulations to her.

Yeah. All right. So yesterday I was at my son's graduation at the Texas A&M University. How'd it go? It was, did you do a lot of whooping? Well, I mean, did they Sol Varsie's horns off? Of course, at the very end. That's great. Do you know, okay,

Reed Arena seats 13,000 people. And obviously there's a few court side seats that weren't in there because there was no cord. You weren't courtside, Matt? No, I wasn't. But I'm going to assume the concourse itself, the seats and the chairbacks are probably 12,000. Okay. There were 12,000 people in the stands. That's great.

For free. Now, I didn't, it's true. They sell concessions, all right? Absolutely. And we got waters. You could have gotten beer and pretzels, hot dogs. I have never seen of a beer being sold under graduation. Get a dog and a pretzel for the graduation.

It's going to be a while before they get to T for Thomas. Well, we should have done that because and the president of the school said this yesterday. They had three ceremonies on Thursday, three today, and three more on Saturday. That's nine graduations. When the dust settles, there will be 9,000 undergrad

graduations and an additional 4,000 post-gradation. So we're talking about 30,000. 13,000 Aggies now either have degrees or extended degrees. Doctorates, you know, masters, whatever. That is incredible. Yeah, they really up the acceptance rate.

It's a huge school now. They did not accept. They actually dropped it like everybody else does. I mean, brother, let me tell you, I can tell you from, it ain't easy to get in any easy to get in Texas. Look at the enrollment over the last 10 years. It's easier to get an A in Texas. They only guarantee, they should do guaranteed top 10%. They only guarantee top seven.

So they may have an open group of more people. Yeah. Hasn't the enrollment gone massive the last 10 years? That's the point is it has gone massive. But could you imagine? 24 was 78,000. Wow. 10 years ago was 64,000.

10 years before that was 44,000. No one is like huge. There's like 600 apartment complexes going up. But it's almost doubled in 20 years. It's crazy. That is crazy. And again, it's not easy to get into. They're restricted.

They're still very, those are two of the hardest schools that get in the country, much less the state. This is 63%. Get into A&M. That's not great. Compared to other places. I mean, what is Texas State? 99.9. Oh, yeah.

That's different. Texas State. They just let you get in. Yeah, like, come on. Say, cut the check, you're at 89% for Texas State. Woo! I mean, that's rather high. Mm-hmm.

We're not trying to downgrade. Texas State, but we're just throwing an example. I mean, yeah. Proud. What are they, Bobcats? I don't know they take some. I've done the once a run around Texas State. It's phenomenal. Uh-huh. It's so good you want to do it twice around. Hmm. But we move on.

Being at a, one of the graduation ceremonies. Oh, they did add a school of law. Maybe that added it added things in. And you've aged at a medical school. I mean, these are just getting bigger and bigger and bigger. My son's Tia isn't Thomas, and he was a history. So, it, Rossi, took about six pages to get to him.

And they were like three or four pages after him. Can you just walk out when they call his name? That's rude. Why? Well, the kids can't do it. You're not going to leave the graduation without your son or your daughter. What a fulfilling experience. You get the binoculars out and watch your son walk across the stage. Well, it's on the Gembo Trine. Oh, that's good. And the local PBS station? Was there a kiss cam? It was not a kiss cam. There was definitely Aggie cam. Okay. Everybody put their jagged thumbs up? I don't know they're jagged.

They're just regular thumbs. We're going to get to sports, I promise, I swear. But, you know, this is our life here. The local PBS station televises the graduations. For what? Just to do it. Local PBL, they're bored. Well, I mean, it's...

Yeah, they're cutting a lot of funding. I guess it's Brian College Station. I mean, how many episodes of Sesame Street can you broadcast? I think they got all the funding cut, so... Yeah, I believe it's called K-T-M-U, I think is what it is? Yeah, I think Charlie Horse was on the commentary. Oh, they don't do commentary. of that. Imagine

if they didn't have Dave South and he's like, oh, I've butchering all these names. Oh, that was John Rillard. No, that was actually Christine Jones. Oh, poor kids. Hey, come on. I'll take shots of the guy. He's been retired for like 10 years. He's been, he's done great. He's got a great long career. All right, let's move on.

Point being is this, um, graduations are extraordinarily long at the high school level. They're double the length of the old collegial level. Mm-hmm. But you wait and you see him turn his ring and you see them do their

saw of our seats, horns off, and you get a couple. There was no... Did they tell you not to scream for the individual names? No, you all did it? Okay. No. Did you say you screamed? Did you just go a quick? Man, like yell. You didn't go like...

I didn't go like... Petten! I didn't say... Yeah! Pete Nitty or anything like that. No. I just said, yeah, Peyton, that's all I said. He didn't hear it.

Because nobody can hear the dog. It's down the floor at the Reed Arena. You get the big booming pipes. What's up? Well, I didn't want to be that guy. Don't want to be that guy. Why don't you let it sing, Maddie? So, needless to say, a great day to have my second of my three children finish the college.

Wonderful. One down, baby. This one's going to cost me nothing. So I'm very happy about this one. It's going to cost you something. First of all, it's already cost you. Yeah, it's going to give me the volleyball cost me. And then flights up there.

Woo. Don't get me started. Can't wait for the Met from Providence or wherever. That's going to be in two years. That's right. You got two years of that before. But you'll be gone. You'll be in Lubbock by that.

Doing this weekend, Red River Football. I mean, if there's, hopefully they email me back. That's right. You keep trying to get those jobs in like Abercrug and they never call you back. It's a slow go. Yeah. I'm ready to talk. Yeah, I'm ready to talk some isotopes baseball. And lobo basketball? Yeah.

All right. It isn't anything goes Friday. If you've not figured that out so far today. And look, there was nothing in the local sports scene, correct? No. Astros were off. They didn't get a win on Wednesday in the day game. Yes.

Where Fromber was good von Fromber. Yes. Do you understand how aggravating it is that we have to spend time talking about good Framber versus bad Framber. It is. We talked about that with Brian McTaggart yesterday on the show, especially because I spent all off-season defending him like, no, there's no good and bad Framber. He just has the occasional blow-up, but he's remarkably consistent. And then this year he's been up and down basically every start.

Thanks, well, glad I spent all this time defending you. Same thing with Jalen Green. Glad I spent all this time defending you, Jalen. Really great job, buddy. The reality on Fromber is this, is that this will not be a conversation piece a year from now. I put the chances of the asteros re-signing Frombard 0%. Okay. I will say 0.1%.

Now, if it happens, then I'm be like, man, I really missed the bone on this. But every indication I have received both in what has been said publicly and maybe behind the scenes says, the whispering is... It's in the wind that he's gone. I mean, when you don't even have a conversation with him yet, I mean, that's pretty much reading context. Common sense also tells you that he's gone. They haven't, they didn't even bother to re-engage. Yeah. Now, I would like for them to be significantly more aggressive with Hunter Brown than they have been so far. Because sounds like that's been not been talked about much. But that will eventually pick him.

Scottie Boris says, I'll talk to you later. Who do you think calls him Scotty? Do you think his wife calls him Scotty? You think his best friends of the golf course called him Scotty? He was friends when he was seven. Well, there's like Scotty Schepler is an adult. Scotty Pippin. Scottie Pippin is a good one. Yeah. Scottie Pippin Jr. Scottie Barnes?

Yes, Toronto Blue J. I mean, a journal Raptor. Scotty from Star Trek. He's beaming everyone up. That's 1966. Okay, well, he exists. Oh, does he? Well, I guess he's a fictional character.

Or is he dead at this point of the character? May he rest. Any of their Scotty's were forgetting about? Yeah, I'm sure. Scotty Skiles. Scott. He was called Scotty in college, wouldn't he? A little bit.

But he grew up. Here we go. Scotty Cameron. That's the putter. He makes the putters. Scotty Pippin Jr. I mentioned that. Memphis.

No, you only said Pitt. Did you say Pippin? You didn't say Junior. No, I absolutely did, yeah. Okay, good. Scotty McCrary. He is an American singer. I don't know that, I don't know that guy.

Nope. All right, so let's move on. We will give you more Scotty's as the show progresses. The radio program today will feature this. Nobody's going to give you more Scotty talk than us. No, I mean, we can give you backup defensive line for the Texans if you want. We're all for that. Yeah, we can talk about that.

Remember, anything go Friday on the program. Anything go, 713, 21, 2, 212, 5, 790, 7190. 713212-1-2-5-7-9-0. There was Scotty Alcock, played in Major League Baseball. When? 1914. What was his OPS? Let's see.

Well, he was deadball era, Matt. So you've got to give him a break. So there's no OPS Plus. Ops Plus, absolutely there is. 32. So he's like an Adam Everett of his dad. It wasn't that bad. All right.

1130 today, we're going to give you an opportunity for one half hour on this radio show to say you're sorry to people. And I've got some people I've got to say sorry to from yesterday's events in the college station. Okay. So we'll have that for you today. We've got the news at New. We'll like the strippers up there. We also have non-Florida stories.

I have been given two gems of non-Florida stories from my non-Florida story research department. So we're reading those off today. And we were going to do the Bob Seeger, Hellier or not, from the other day. But we ran out of time because of the Rockets Press conference. We got to do Hellier or not, the new Pope. Is he going to be the coolest pope in the history of popes? Why? Well, he's, first of all, he's not 90. That's number one. Yeah. Number two, he's from Chicago.

I thought Benedict the 6th was pretty cool. Number three, he's American. Number four, he went to Villanova where you play in the 85 national championship team. He did not play in the 85 national championship. No, you're lying that. He's behind Harold McLean. You're lying to the people. I mean, I would lie. Disrespecting the papacy. And quite frankly, I'm offended. Okay. As someone who grew up Catholic. We will, you want me to help you the questions? We had to do a whole thing about the Pope.

Yeah, you should write it. I mean, I'll do it if you want me to. Yeah, I love that. Okay. I'm tired. 713, 212-579 if you want to join us. And does anything goes Friday? Ross, real quick, explain the essence of anything goes Friday.

Well, if you heard this first segment, it's anything that is on your mind. It is graduation season, but you can also, of course, talk Houston sports, a weekend set coming for your Astros and the Cincinnati Reds. 713-212-5-790 is the phone number. 7-13-212-5-790. We've also been talking some Rockets basketball. Jalen Green Talk has been taking over for the last week as well. We can get on that.

How'd your video, by the way, go? It's wedding season. What do you mean? You got a lot of clicks. I saw that or at least a lot of views. What do you mean? How did it? Well, then, yeah, there you go.

Went anybody like your trash, your son. Yeah, that's fine. A couple of people were upset. But whatever. Okay, that's good. Try to build my social media brand, Matt. Trying to become an influencer. That's going to take a lot of work.

Hey, we've got to get to the Astros against the Reds. we've got to get to the Bill Belichick super rumors that are out right now about his little friend. And Draymond Green, not happy with the way he's being treated nationally. 1016 on Sports Talk 790. Well, unfortunately, the local basketball team is not in the playoffs. So we're having to watch others, including that New York, I mean, back-to-back 20-point deficit. They come back and win it. pretty wild um last night it was golden state minnesota there was only one game and you know no step

and i didn't watch a whole lot of it honestly because i was coming back from college station but what i did listen to and did see this morning was the fact that jimmy butler was just kind of just out there couldn't take the go over the game and you know if you got moses moody and you got quentin post jacking up shots more than jimmy beller you're probably going to get your ass kicked and they did Yeah. Anthony Edwards had an ankle injury, but came back and played. Right.

So, Dreamont got another technical foul yesterday. Yes, he did. Which he is won away from being suspended in the playoffs for a game, which... In the second round. That's not helping him. Generally, you want to get to a conference finals before you're almost going to get suspended. Or, I don't know, say nothing at all and not worry about it. I mean, that's always the easy thing to do.

Yes. Unfortunately, there was videotape this morning, videotape, who am I saying, a phone, somebody recording that somebody was using a racial slur at Dremont Green yesterday in Minneapolis, and that's terrible. No justification for that whatsoever. But you add the technical, which is, I think, his fifth of the postseason, plus that. and Draymond Green, who normally Rossi, goes to the podium, because say what you will about who he is on the court. Off the court, he's fairly, I mean, not fairly, he's very eloquent. He talks the game.

He's smart. You know what he's saying. He's thoughtful at times. But on the court, he's just the ultimate demon. Well, he did not go to the podium yesterday, Rossi. He just went into him front of his locker and here's what he had to say. He looked like the angry black man. I'm not an angry black man.

I'm a very successful, educated black man with a great family. and I'm great at basketball, I'm great at what I do. The agenda to try to keep making me look like an angry black man. It's crazy. I'm sick of it. It's ridiculous. All right. No one's questioning that you've got a great family.

No one's questioning that you are educated. No one's saying that you're not a great basketball player. Draymond Green, I'm going to hear you are. Here I am saying in 1024, the voice of the Houston Rockets. Draymond Green is an excellent basketball player, has been one of the best defensive players in the last decade, for sure. Really, he along with. to a caller brought up last week, Andre Carlinco

invented the 5 by 5. That's doing a little bit of everything really, really good. Yes. But he does get on the court. He's angry. Whether he was Hispanic, Chinese, white,

he's just angry, period. And he swears at officials like he did last night and got away with it. He got a technical file earlier. So, unfortunately, you're not going to get any tears from me or,

man, I'm sorry you're being so misunderstood, Remaimond, you are who you are. And off the floor, you are well-spoken, educated. Frankly, Ross, to me, he's quite a bit complimentary to his opponents more times than on it. He has been hidden in the fact how much he likes the Houston Rockets, whether he was saying that when they were rebuilding or what they went through this past postseason.

But on the floor, he's a maniac. He is an uncontrollable, insufferable, maniac who gets in punch fights, he cheap shots, he also gets in fights with former teammates, he's been suspended multiple times. When he puts an NBA uniform on, he is, it's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. And for that, I will not apologize for saying that. Yeah, no, you shouldn't. And this is just also a problem.

First of all, he's just dead wrong. He's playing the victim card, which a lot of people do who are, you know, they're the initiators of causing problems and issues and then they throw stones and then they throw their hands up and play the victim card. That's what Dremont is green is doing here. But also what he did with bringing the racial angle in here is makes it worse because there are sometimes issues with the way public figures are perceived

and racial biases and all that type of stuff. It happens. But to try to invoke that here undermines other injustices or misperceptions elsewhere. So he's he's cheapening. what he's saying is making actual injustices, actual misperceptions, it's cheapening them and lessening them,

if that makes sense. When I look at Dremont Green, I don't look at him and say, that's an angry black man. I look at him and say, that's just an angry man. I've never worried about the, for instance,

I'll give you a guy, Grayson Allen, not even close in terms of talent in the NBA. I don't go, that's an angry white guy out there. I just like it's an angry, cheap shot, dirty player. Now, Grayson is obviously

clean up his act a little bit, but also because he's just a fringe, not a fringe. He's far from being a star in the NBA. So we don't pay attention to him like we pay attention to a guy like Dream on Green. But I hurt for those people that do have to suffer from racism,

but when you artificially throw it in there to try to justify your own argument, it makes it worse. It makes it worse. Like I said, you're making it easy for people to dismiss other issues that are actually there and relevant. And it's disappointing. The only word I could think of when I first saw this, I was like, this is just disappointing for him to invoke this and play the victim

and then throw in the racial angle when you are, I mean, literally put in Draymond compilation in YouTube. It's not going to be him throwing down dunks. It's going to be him smashing people, poking them in the eye, kicking them in the junk. His video is so long they have ads in between him. Yeah, no, they do. Oh, well, you can get rid of that by paying for the service, right? Like, you can buy it?

Yes. You're trying to get rid of YouTube? Well, because I do look at a lot of YouTube. I say once you buy it, Matt, you won't go back. It's a trap. That's too good. It's too good. What does it cost a year to get the ads taken off?

14 bucks, something like that? I have no idea. Or a yearly thing? It's a monthly thing. But I think, maybe like around like 11, 11, 12. Because look, look, I listen to podcasts at night. And I have, and sometimes I'm like, I'm 90% in my sleep bras. And then I hear this ad and it goes for like,

three and a half minutes. Like, I don't mind the 30 second ads, but the three minute movie trailers. Or when you're not paying attention, you can't hit the skip button or like you're eating food and your remotes on the other side of the couch. You want to hit the skip button, but you're like, oh, I got to go all the way. Or you're driving a car. Or like, again, 90% of what I do is I sleep. I listen to podcasts and go to sleep.

But when that ad comes on, it wakes me up because it's not what I was normally listening to. Put it on modifier or Apple Music. Apple's music. You can, that's fine. So, yeah, I'm trying to think if I'm going to spend the money, am I going to try to get verified on Twitter or spend the money on YouTube? Just put it on your desktop and use Ad Block Plus,

which although they're in a count and mouse game. Sometimes it works on YouTube sometimes it doesn't. But I'm in bed with the phone in my bed. I don't have my computer in my bed. Yeah, bring your laptop. To bed? Yeah, why not? I guess you're right.

Yeah, put it on your nightstand. But then the wife has to hear it. She doesn't want to hear Jim Corny at night. Get some earbuds. I'm not going to put earbuds on the other sleep. She has to hear it anyways, right? No, she usually doesn't. I hear it.

I know you too. So if I hear it, I know she hears it. We're in West Palm and I'm like, yeah, yeah, and then he got the razor blade out. Man, this is a hilarious story. And yeah, he nicked his jugular. He nearly died and had to go to the hospital. Yeah, great story, guys. I'm trying to sleep over here, Matt.

That's 100% accurate. It's fine. I'm just kidding. I prefer you than others snore really loud. I prefer that. Okay. I won't name any names. you shouldn't. Seven one three,

Gordy. Seven one three, two one. See, I wasn't going to do that. I did it. He's a thousand miles away to convention. What am I going to do? I just know on work trips to pack. Now, I'm a bit of a snore too, so I get it. I'm not going to crush anybody for that. But I just make sure I bring earbuds on work trips when we're sharing rooms. That's the responsible thing. And then I left them in the hotel in West Palm. The good hotel and a bad one.

The one we two recently. I forgot them. Yeah. Oh, well. And I forgot to call them and ask them. 7-1-3. We'll go back there next year and see if they're there. Yeah, go check out the loss and found. Let's do it. I once left a lottery ticket in a hotel in Minneapolis. Are you serious? And I called two weeks later and I was like, I left a lottery-hurt ticket. I think it's a $20-hour one.

I'm like, oh, no, so we don't have it. I'm like, of course you don't have it. What were you thinking? Why didn't waste your breath? Because I wanted at least pass by myself and that. It didn't work out. 7-1-3-2-1-790. 7-7-190. Ross, when's the last time you did the Humpty Hum? 1976.

There's no chance. I'd be later than that. Yeah, 1977. Okay, it's been a while then. All right, let's go. It is in anything that goes at a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show at Ross. By the way, last week, somebody clocked me at 17 seconds

of waking the strippers up. Oh, wow. I need to do better than that. Why? Because I think I... I don't think you can go any longer than 17 seconds. Oh, let me take it. Yeah, I'm in that 45 to 50 second mode in some categories.

Uh-huh. But this, I'm going to give you at least 20 seconds this morning. No. Don't clip that. Yeah, save that for next week. That's easy, peasy. God almighty. Yeah, so you'll get 20 seconds today at noon.

Okay. You'll be able to a good start. The weather's good. Got a big volleyball tournament downtown Houston this weekend. Mm-hmm. So. Volleyball town? Yep.

Okay. Remember I told you with the volleyballs. The volleyball moms are going to be crawling around downtown Houston? There are going to be two big hotels. We'll be swarming with them. Okay. If you're a single guy out there and want to hang out with a special someone that may be a divorcee with two kids. Yeah.

That's something that, you know, in your wheelhouse, so to speak. In your wheelhouse. Fish in a barrel. You know, if they did a movie about wedding crashers, why can they move a volleyball mom crashers? I like that, actually. That's a genius idea. You should get to writing on that. script or at least a treatment as they say well uh i'm still walking the treatment of ferris beuler's

kids day off yeah that's been slow going you've been bringing that up since uh the covid 19 pan in the thick of the covid 19 pandemic it is a genius decision that i can't believe i've not gone through you know there's so many different things in my life i went through that i should have done i have tremendous regrets tremendous don't tell me that that makes me so sad as a young man uh no i just well the number one regret i have is uh i flip it callette and french class class. It was Colette, not Paulette. I said Colette.

Oh, I said I were going to Colette. I love my wife, but... I'm just kidding. What's up, Colette? You know what? I'm getting you in trouble, aren't I? You are getting me in trouble. I'm just kidding. Sorry, go ahead. So, in 2015,

you don't know this because you were like six. The Asteros in that year in that baseball team had nothing but home runs and strikeouts. Literally, that's all they did, right? There were no base hits. It was nothing but home runs or strikeouts. It was Chris, Carter and Colby Rasmus and the boys hitting

bombs. Hank Conger? Well, he wasn't hitting that many bombs. But he was on the team. Yeah. So Jonathan, I put out on Twitter, I called it, I put hashtag Crush City. And it skyrocketed. So everybody kept putting shirts out saying Crush

City. Everybody kept saying it. It was, the TV channel made it. And then one day, I was thought to myself, you know, I should copyright this. And I went back and look, because Ross said the Baltimore Orioles used at early 2000. And I had no idea, but I guess who the hell

cares about the 2000 Baltimore Orioles? Right. And I went to a little look, and it was available to copyright, Crush City. And I thought to myself, man, this is going to be a really uncomfortable position I could be. And if I copyright this, that, you know, I have

very good relationship with the Astros. We carry their games. I didn't want it to be uncomfortable. So I didn't do anything about it. So one day, about, what, two months into it, Ross? Mm-hmm. I got a phone call from the former president of the Astros, remains a good friend at this day. Reed Ryan.

I can mention his name, right? Yes. I think I just did. Well, you did. And he calls me and I said, he asked, Reed, what's going on? He goes, hey, I just want to let you know that we're going to use Crush City and we're going to sell the T-shirts at Academy.

Oh, no shot. I'm so sorry. Wow. Wow, you know what's funny? I just Googled Crush City. There's a Reddit thread that gives you full credit. Question, where did Crush City come from? I started to see it everywhere today.

I was wondering where it started off. Most upvoted comment that Matt Thomas shows the first place I heard it. This is, first of all, you wouldn't have made very much money from it. I'd have made something. Probably, yeah. I'd have given some use of it. Yeah, I'll hold my breath on that. I didn't take it out for old Vietnamese barbecue.

It was Korean barbecue. Whatever, same difference. No. Okay, Korean barbecue. There is a difference. Go ahead. A lot of pork belly. Delicious.

Go ahead. Yeah, everyone's saying Matt, Thomas, this is crazy. Yeah, it's crazy. I mean, pissing me off. The threads from 10 years ago. Oh, you hear that, Jonathan? That's my number one regret.

Do you know my number two regret is? Do you remember I've talked about this before multiple times? I think one comment is giving Lance's airline credit for saying it first. Yeah, that's just not true. Says Lance said it first and then Matt Thomas ran with it. No, that's not true. And you could call Lance right now if you wanted. He would not agree with you on that.

Right? Yeah, I can't recall. You're just terrible What's my second biggest regret? Leaving North Texas No, this is going back to when I was in high school Becoming the mascot No, my second biggest regret was

Oh, not becoming an umpire Not skipping a year of college ago Be an umpire in baseball But you know what worked out well Because you and I are together here And we're happy That's great Johnny

Should have gone to umpire school I know I should have gone Johnny in San Diego, good 840 Pacific Time morning to you, Johnny. You, well, 1040 to you. So, yeah, thanks. Listen, Matt, I've been listening to you and Roth. You and Ross since 2010, right? Mm-hmm.

I was living in Gulfport. I remember the intersection that I was standing at whenever I called it and talked to you. And I said Crush City first. And I've been letting you ride on it for 10 years. Get them, Johnny. Get them, Johnny! That's not true. That's not true.

That's not true. That's not true. I've been letting you claim, oh, I should have trademarked. No, no. I shared that to the masses on your show and you took it. No, I, no, because the way I did it was I did it on Twitter. I simply went on Twitter one day, and during one of the hit one of the home runs. And I just said, hashtag crush it and I got like nine million likes.

That's, Johnny, your line. You were like, I heard that somewhere. That sounds awesome. No, that's not true. it on Twitter. No. No. No.

Johnny, you're just lying. Johnny. I would never sue you. I would, if you made money off of it, that'd be awesome. I would be happy for you. Well, if that was the case,

if there was evidence, let me tell you, if there was evidence of it, I would split the money for you 50-50. I mean, easily. But I'm the one that created. I'm sorry.

I'm doing all right for myself. What do you do for a mask? Well, I'm about to get out of the Navy after 20 years. Oh, congratulations. Yeah, I've done some investing and I have some,

some good options lined up getting out. Good for you. They pan out. I'll be doing all right. Well, guess what, Johnny? At the end of the day, you and I made Bupkus off of the whole thing. So, you know, we're... Yeah, and I'm fine with it.

I just love you. I'm not. I'm angry. Do you hear the angst in my voice? I'm not happy when you make any money off of this. And at this point, I would give you 50% of it. Thanks. Awesome.

Yeah, y'all keep being awesome, guys. I will see you, Johnny. Thank you very much. Congratulations. By the way, San Diego, God's country. You've been to San Diego, right? Of course. Oh, my gosh.

That's fantastic. Yeah, he was born there. You were born in San Diego? Yes, sir. How often he gets back? You ever go back? Yeah, my mom, my great-grandma lives right in front of the SoFi Stadium in the form. That's L.A., though.

But, yeah, but, like, San Diego, eh, every time. What do you mean? San Diego's amazing. Peco Park. Well, for me is, but I guess the story for the past, they don't want to go back. Oh, okay. We don't want any great-grand-me am mad at you. Nah, it's my, you know, the parents don't like the city, I guess.

I get you. By the way, that's the last zoo I've ever been to. I have not gone to the Houston Zoo or any of those zoos since then. I went to, uh, took the kids when they were younger to a San Diego Zoo. I heard it's amazing, though. It is absolutely amazing. And I'm not even a zoo person. I think when I went to San Diego, it was like $100 to go and I was like,

yeah. Now, Lego Land sucks. Legoland is a huge rip-off. But I did like the San Diego Zoo. Okay. And that's Matt's California, you know, a little world traveler update for you. Thank you, Matt. All right.

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Biscuits with us. Biscuit, what's going on on this Friday? Cougar Matt. How's everything on here, my brother? Amazing. How's your weekend so far? So far, so good. Congratulations to you, doctor.

Thank you very much. I got two down and one to go, Biscuit. This may be the most difficult one because she's going to be 2,000 miles from me. different issue for a different time. Boy, when that happened, you get a pay raise, man. Yeah. I get to eat. Yeah, man. Here's the thing with Draymond, man.

And this is one of the things I would put after you and wrongs. I would ask you, sometimes we use, it's the words we use and certain adjectives sometimes get overused. Because in Braymond's mind, he's not angry. He's just loud and intent. That's what he's saying. I'm not angry. I'm just loud and attentive.

That's why I talk. That's my emotion. I'm not mad at nobody. I'm not angry. So you say it angry. He's said, I'm not angry. I'm just loud and intense.

And he also is abusive and likes to hurt people. But then that he's great. Dirty? And dirty. And dirty. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? But he said he's not angry.

That's what he's saying. I'm not angry. I'm, hey, man, I love life. I love everybody. I mean, and there's enough video. you out there. There's a not video out there, basically. You can see that Draymond loves playing basketball. I mean, he's got to be about late 30s, and he could easily retire, go do television and make a very good chunk of change. He loves playing. He's still very good at it. I mean,

I never thought he was ever angry. I just thought he was an abusive, dirty, cheap shot artist, and there's a difference in the two things. Yeah, that's all. That's the only point I would make noise. Who called him angry? I don't remember nobody called him. No. Unless somebody just told him he was a... Well, I mean, there was somebody last night in Minneapolis said something really ridiculous to him and was racial, and that's horrific. And maybe he's taking that to it.

Maybe he's reading his own press clippings. My guess is a Dremont is a frequent checker of X and the other social platform. So he probably saw something and is reacting to that. Probably so. But do you agree with my point I'm trying to make is sometimes we use certain adjectives more, kind of overuse them and kind of dilutes them? because we put everybody in that category, you know. Yeah.

Everybody is this, everybody. Now, man, some of them is, you know, like I say, I would say he's loud. I would say he's intense. Anger is almost like you almost have to be, know the person real well. You know what I mean? Anger is something that's kind of more of an internal thing. So I don't know if you can really put that on somebody if you really don't know him that well. No, yeah, that's right.

That's right. That's right. Thanks, Biscuit. Yeah, if you're, honestly, Ross, if you're angry playing, if you're angry doing anything, you probably can't work. Like if I came to work or you came to work angry every day.

You couldn't do your job. If you are an angry construction worker, you're going to make mistakes. If you're an angry bus driver, you're going to get an accident. If you're an angry basketball player, you're going to wind up

not being able to stay in a basketball game because something's going to set you off. I never thought he was an angry person. I just thought he was overaggressive. Cheap chart artist. What else could we describe? Yeah, just dirty and psychopaths, screw loose.

loses his mind. Yeah, but not angry. If you're an angry boxer, that's probably good. That's true. M.M.A. Fighter. Otherwise, don't come to work angry. Well, as I said before, the key to JJ Watts' success was not having sex for several months during the season.

Then he came to work angry because he was like, I need some love in here, and it's not going to take it out on opposing quarterbacks, and he was able to do that. He took my advice beautifully. I don't think he did. I think he did. He didn't copulate once his entire NFL career

during the season. Come on, man. I did what you said? I said the best thing that JJ could do is not have sex through in a season. That makes no sense.

Jonathan, is any NFL player Jonathan, you are a Toronto track star. No, okay, so I'm, I didn't want to agree with you

but yeah, that sounds accurate. Women weaken legs? Is that what they used to say in track? Let me tell you something. You don't ever want to do it before me,

before practice? See? He's back in my appointment. I will agree about this point. Thank you very much. He's this person of everything. You're going to tell me JJ Watt wasn't getting after it at all.

any time during his career. I'm saying. You shouldn't have. He was the three-time defensive player of the year. Why can't he do it on Tuesday? Gaines not until Sunday? No, I don't even want to argue with this. Oh, my God.

I'm walking out of here. What is wrong with you? You're right. There's a 72-hour window. Oh, my God. Now, on the other hand, if you and I are the opposite, we should have relations

to make the show feel a little more lighter, a little more airy, a little more relaxing. Yeah, we don't need you pent up. No. So those five-game road chips, not good. All right. All right.

Let's talk to Vince in Midtown at 1055. Vince, good morning. Hey, good morning, guys. I want to interject, first of all, if Draymond Green has a podcast, TV show, whatever, I'll never watch it. I just can't stomach that guy. But wondering what you guys think about

if the reason he gets away with so much is because what happened when they played Cleveland in the finals and he got suspended and supposedly that cost him the series. I would say no, but I also believe that there is evidence that taking Draymond Green out of a game probably puts the officials in a spotlight that don't want to be in. Like you, it would be like, God, it's a terrible comparison. And Vince and Ross, I apologize. Maybe it would be like someone that finally throws the book at a judge that finally throws a book at a criminal who's been caught for two or three DWIs and they go,

we'll give you the second chance. We know you made a mistake. And then you finally... No, reject. I'm saying that if I am a referee, it's easier for me. I'll give you this one. It's easier for me to keep him in the ball game

than have to face the wrath of throwing him out. Because it might cost me playoff assignments. It might cost me a bad relationship between coaches and players. Because obviously, there's got to be some reason why Dremont's leash is longer than everybody else's. That's what I want you.

guys tell me right now, and I'll stay out of this. Why is his leash longer than any other player in the history of the NBA? In the history of the NBA? The only reason I can think of is because he's, his baseline activities are so much crazier than everyone else's that he's really got to go out of his norm to get thrown out of games. Like he elbowed Nas Reid in the head. He kicked Tari Isson in the head. Those are blows to the head. He hit Fred Van Fleet in the head. Those should be ejections. But they're not. But they're just normal dread. That's just Draymond being You don't think a little bit of it is because their officials are afraid to be the guy that finally threw out the player? Maybe. I don't know.

Thanks a call. But he's been ejected from a lot of games. And also there is a very, very interesting piece of data about Draymond and the benefit that he does get from the referees that I saw that we'll talk about when we come back. You are giving us so much data? Or is a kid say data? I don't think the kids are saying that. Well, my kids are. The kids are saying chat GPT.

They're going AI. By the way, you can Facebook chat GBT, and it winds up on your, like, your messenger page. I'm chat GBT and all the time. You are? Doing what? When I look at it something on Facebook, it'll say, what has this person done since they got off the show and they'll run through their bio? And it shows up. Hmm.

Okay. Do even kids write book reports anymore? I mean, what's the point? No, there's like this big article and people are talking about it, how chat GPT is basically ruining academia. I don't disagree. I'm going to get them to write in class. Yeah, you got a handwriting is coming back, Matt. I am so proud of your girl.

Get those hand crabs going and back. She's a demon over there. Ooh, she knows. Let me tell you something. Your future wife, she knows what she's doing in the classroom. Don't want to get away of that stuff. Don't want to get away with stuff that we used to get away with back in the back. It's bad, guys.

It's really bad. 1058, Sports Talk 790. 1101 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We are in an anything goes Friday. Texans rookie minicamp is underway. You should have been there to let the show to go cover it. Oh, Adam Wexer's there.

We're good to go. Okay. That's great. You want to get a report from him? I'm fine. Okay. Let me guess. They're going to be in shells and they're running around and they're doing their thing and they're very excited to be there.

And that should kind of take care of it. Okay. All right. Now, I have an piece of audio from Brian Winhorse that I'm going to send to Jonathan right now that's going to probably back up your claim of what you're talking about the data when it comes to one, Dramon Green. Yes. there was somebody I'm trying to give him proper credit his name is Owen Phillips

he does NBA data and stuff like that so what they did was they looked at the last two minute reports of course if people don't know when there is a close game in the last two minutes the NBA kind of looks at calls says when there should have been a call

no calls that were missed calls that were made that were wrong and probably doesn't do anybody any favors it just angers everybody it doesn't but I mean it's some transparency from the NBA so that's good So what they did was they collected all the last two minute reports or somebody else had did. And they looked at who the players who benefited from no calls the most. In theory, it's supposed to be 50-50.

You get some no calls. You get some call that shouldn't have. And I argue with that with Adam Clinton all the time about how these things tend to equal out on both sides. Because the rockets are guilty of it penalties and fouls and whatnot, as are the opponents. This is also just two minutes of a 48-minute game. But it's the sample that we have. That's right. Tremon Green benefits the most.

from calls that should have been made that weren't according to last two minute reports. So for instance, more than anyone. So he is a big outlier on the data on this graph that they have. So to dumb it down a little bit, every time a some sort of foul, potential foul, travel, whatever, the player will be listed. He obviously has a greater group of his name attached to oops, we move. missed the call than anybody else in the NBA. Yes. So more times than now, when a call is erroneously made in the final two minutes involving

Draymond Green, now those just involving Dremont Green. Just involving Green on fouls. On fouls, the officials get it wrong. Yes. More often than any other player in the NBA. And that's because of the reputation. I think Ross, and the more I say it, the more I kind of believe myself, I think there's a great group of officials that do not want to.

who be the one to say, I tossed Raymond Green. Now, some of the guys a little bit close to him, they are, like, defensive player of the year type guys. Rudy Gobert is skews a little bit to benefiting. Same thing for Janice St. Kumpo. So the reason why we're bringing up Dremont Green so much is because yesterday, he had a very, very brief comment in the locker room following Golden States loss in Minnesota yesterday, basically saying that he is being targeted for being an angry

black man. I'm not an angry black man. There's an angry black man. He said an agenda is being pushed. This is, and we'll let Jonathan play the cut some by. This is Brian Winhorst today on first take talking about the reputation that Dremont Green has around the NBA. He's got five technicals and two flagrants in nine playoff games. Those, he probably should have more technicals.

It was a restraint showed by the referees. By the way, that's a big complaint across the league that Dremont gets away with stuff after he commits a flagrant and after he commits a And sometimes even after he gets five fouls, there is a belief that Draymont actually gets too much leeway. This is not my word. This is what people tell me. They say he gets away with too much stuff because the referees don't want to be the one who ejects him or calls a flagrant on our second flagrant on him because they know that there's going to be an onslaught. That's a perception of opponents out there. Not necessarily my mind.

It's mine. Brian, I'll claim it. I have no problem claiming it. I think there are a lot of officials that don't want to be attached to that. You're the one that tossed Dremont Green. You're the one that's going to have to hear from Dremont Green post game. You're the one that's going to have to hear Steve Kerr go on a diatribe about officiating. Yeah, I think there's a lot of that, for sure.

And I'm sure Ross, in all sports, there are other players like that. It's like you don't want to strike out Barry Bonds on a strike three call. I think there are probably players that get bigger strikes. right zones. Greg Maddox? Greg Maddox? You know, because Greg Maddox doesn't walk people. It strikes people out or he gets people out.

I'm sure there are... Justin Verlainter would get calls? In football, maybe a quarterback gets to stay up right. It doesn't call for a sack. Maybe Pat Mahomes being a good example of that. Maybe less sacks are called on him in the pocket, you know, with, you know, when defense... They can hardly touch him and you get a, yeah. Or you get...

It's exactly right. You touch Pat Mahomes anywhere. and the flag comes. I mean, yeah, I think there is, that's the human part of officiating is there's going to be a bias towards a handful of people. The question is, why would you give a bias to a guy like Dremont Green when he's done nothing but just discuss how horrible you are? He doesn't play nice with them. He doesn't. No, he attacks them all the time. He swore at Tyler Ford yesterday and cameras got it clearly. When do you ever get to a fish, you to swear at officials? He elbow Nasreed in the head

He swings his elbow to his head And then tries to say he didn't do anything I think he just blacks out or something I know I think he's got a multiple personality disorder I mean is not as read a fridge And I think he is just saying How much you're going to cost How much cap space do you have?

I don't think we have Well he got much Unless you were to divest yourself Of a couple of players But that's a different issue different time point being is this he has a player option for 15 million he's like

so you got pay me more than that probably if he's opting out and I don't think the Rockets have that I think Nasreid you could argue is the second most important player in that team over Rudy Gobert Ooh Julius Randall I didn't Sutter

Ooh okay I'm gonna disagree with you but I mean I can see it either way He is important but I think Nasreid's Star Brightness has grown this year more than any other year in his NBA career. Well, he don't cost you that, Maddie. That's what I'm saying. If I'm Minnesota, if I'm, if I'm him, I'm going to go test

the free agent waters and I can get more. Not as we can get more than $50 million a year. Yes. Unless the wolves want to sign him to a longer term deal and get bigger money. Okay, so that's probably it for, we didn't take, we didn't break the game down because I'm going to assume it very few of you watch, but Minnesota didn't win the game in that series tied in a game apiece. And Draymond went Draymond.

and then claim to be the victim. Yep. Disappointing. Preusual of the case. 713-212-5-7-90. If you want to jump into the conversation at 7-1-3-212-5-7-9. You mentioned the Texans rookies are at mini-camp today. Again, it's just getting acclimated.

There could be nothing headline out of it unless somebody gets hurt. And if somebody does, we'll let you know. But other than that, they're putting the uniform on and they're feeling good. And they can't wait to get the rail training camp. And, I mean, we know the general stuff on that. Staying on football for a second. Do you know who Pablo Torre is? I do.

He was on ESPN. Is he still on ESPN? No, he's not. Okay. And he's gone into the political sphere now. He's also done, he's also part of the network that handles the Miami sportscaster Dan Lebitard. He is a media network. I think it's called Metal Arc Media, if I'm not mistaken.

Okay. He is out this morning with a variety of tweets. And you can follow him at. P-A-B-L-O-T-O-R-E. Just let you know. And again, no one else, nobody, North Carolina hasn't verified this. Other more mainstream ESPN reporters,

have not made, athletic, you know my gist on this. Pablo Tori in this morning in a variety of tweets is basically saying that Miss Jordan, I forgot her last name. Jordan Hudson. The 24-year-old of Bill Belichick will not be allowed to be around the North Carolina football program

because of the variety of things that she has tried to do or lead and it kind of crescendoed with that CBS News Sunday morning airing where she basically was a pain in the ass the whole time and did not allow the question to be answered about where they met. This is getting interesting. Was she trying to be defensive coordinator?

What is she doing? This to me is 100% I'm the young, young, young girlfriend of a guy who everybody around Bill Belichick hates that would probably include his family, that would probably include the assistant coaches, that probably would include the administrators.

She's a G-digger. Why'd you censor the first word? Gold digger. Yeah, that made it sound way weirder. Oh, okay, I didn't mean to. Yeah, she's, okay. Oh, you think people are trying to get rid of her. I think that she has got her hooks in him.

Oh, yeah. And you can see why. And he's letting her. And I think my guess is the people around him in his football world, his family world are saying, this gold digger is coming after pops, and we got to stop this. So you're saying that she is the Jack Easterby of UNC football? if Jack Easterby were sleeping with Cal? No, I would think that this is more Anna Nicole Smith to that old dude.

Oh, okay. You know how the family of the old dude that died hated her with all her passion? This comes across to me as we got to stop this. We need an intervention to say this woman is ruining your life. Why would they ban her from the football facilities? Because she's around all the time, I guess. Who's to say? Can you read those tweets?

Do you mind any of me? We're going to read them for you. I was just reading a story, an aggregated story. It's kind of a, it's a link to the audio. Here, here's basically what he said. Talk to 11 people who dealt directly with Jordan. How many again? Eleven people.

Yeah, there's a whole article that I would have to read, I guess. Well, let's just read Pablo's, I'll read his tweets real quick then. Let's make this nice and simple. He says, sources, this is from the Bill Belichick's girlfriend, Jordan Hudson, is now banned from the UNC football facility. One Belichick family source adds,

there is deep worry for how detrimental Jordan can be, not just for North Carolina, but Bill's legacy and reputation. Everything he's built and worked for for decades. By the way, PS, UNC can now choose to describe or change his position on Jordan Hudson's involvement, however it wishes, publication of our episode. This is obviously a podcast that he did. We requested to comment and

filed dozens of FOAIA requests that were not satisfied. And we stand by the specific reporting in our episode, which came from the highest levels of the football program. So somebody at the football level went to Pablo and said, you want to know what's going on? I'm about to tell you. Yeah. Freedom of Information Act is what he's talking about. FOIA, especially it's easier to investigate public institutions rather than private because of the Freedom of Information Act. if they receive public funding, they have to be more transparent about things that are going on. But you know what? The rejection rate on that is larger than I ever thought it would be.

Is that? Yeah. How do you know that? Because the Chronicles asked for some things about U of H over the years and they've been denied. Hmm. So I guess it has to meet certain criteria. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know what that criteria is. Yeah. But it used to be if you went, if you went for freedom of information, you got anything you want. Now it's a lot more difficult. Hmm. It sounds like to me this is this is the stage of the intervention that they let everything, go on until really Ross. I mean, of all

the less and hard-hitting news programs that are out there, Sunday morning on CBS is as lighthearted and as positive and as the sunshiny bright story. Puff piece you could get.

And if she's making that difficult, there must be something going on. That's what it sounds like. All these football legends are going outside. Who else you got? Who else is going sad. Should I say the name? Shannon.

Shannon Sharf? Yeah, it's true. That's young women is the common thread. Yeah, it's funny. Power the And then Deshawn Watson? Watch yourself. Deshawn Watson, well.

I don't know if he made it a legendary yet. No, allegedly. He was going to. He was going to. Somebody, some group of people wants to say this is enough. And my, in my super guess is on this Rossi, that there are members of his family that are like throwing this stuff in there like I can't let pops ruin his life over

this little hussy don't you think yeah what Steve bellichick's gonna got to get in there we'll see app can i tell you that you don't care i really don't i think i think it's very interesting i mean he's he's with some young chick he's in his 70s he's at unc but wish him the best but this isn't about her running the playbook. This is obviously trying to run his life. And there's two different things. Okay. And I think there's probably enough people that do like Bill Belichick. I don't know who that would be, but my guess would be his family that would say, you know what, we're going to use the power of the media to get this, this little, you know what. And apparently North Carolina has already denied banning her from facilities. Well, of course they did. I don't know Pablo Tori at all, but I don't think he's going to go out there and say those things unless he's got it with I don't think so either, but apparently there was some investigation he launched. Like you said, he was going Freedom Information Act stuff, interviewing family members. He did a whole thing on it. Maybe he's an alum, like, I can't let my school go down like this.

Let me ask you, I wonder, do you, I'll give you, we'll quick to wrap this up. Percent chance, he says, the hell with you North Carolina, and I'm out. Well, if they're denying it already, they're probably going to want to accommodate him. I'm going to say he'll coach this season. How many years? Three. Three is a good number. Oh, that three.

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Mr. Texas, what's up? It is an anything goes Friday here on the radio program that we call Sports Talk 790. Randy says, do you think the age and situation with this gold digger affects how his players view bill from a player to coach standpoint? My guess is those guys are just, if I was a player in North Carolina going, my coach is getting that young piece? Mad props. Give them some respect? I mean, how many 17-year-olds are bumping around with 24-year-olds? I don't know.

But also, when you're recruiting, you're not only recruiting the player, you're recruiting the parents. I think some parents Oh the parents wouldn't think it's that interesting You wouldn't think they'd be alarmed Yeah Maybe some of the mothers Oh for sure You're taking you're gonna be the father figure

To my son for the next four years And you're marrying somebody that's You're hanging out with somebody That's gonna be as old enough to be a granddaughter Yeah That probably could be affected I don't know I just I find some of these

To be intriguing dramas So we'll just gotta see what happens on that But it's interesting that Pablo Tori today of all, I mean, just a rando reporter would come out and have all this. Obviously, he's been working on it for quite some time. Mm-hmm. A little CBS News Sunday morning program. You're watching it.

You seriously, that's a show on Sunday. You could just sit back in your couch, have a cup of coffee, just kind of just lightly look at the news of the day. It's a little, where are they now kind of stuff. They'll do like some serenity now kind of, here's the peaceful Georgia peach farm, and just kind of just nice way to wake up on a Sunday. Okay. Sounds wonderful. I usually sleep in.

What times are come on? It's like 9 o'clock in the right. I'm asleep. Yeah. 1159. Football's starting. I'm waking up. That's true.

That is good. Unless the Premier League's still going. Speaking of that, and the same thing goes far away, I'm sorry, it's coming up and about it may are. Did you see what Ted Cruz is doing? No. Nothing about going to games. Okay.

I thought you were staying away from Ted Cruz after what happened on Twitter. That's true. But it's a little bizarre. he is very upset that the NFL is sneaking into windows where high school and college football should be played. Okay. And he brought this up in government hearings earlier this week. And we didn't have a chance of bringing up a little in an hour show there today and I was off yesterday. So he's like, I guess there's been an unwritten rule, or maybe it's even a written rule.

I'm not completely sure that you can only be on Sundays and Thursdays that there's a sacred window for. the NFL not to touch. Their own Wednesday, Christmas, and that's Fridays and Saturdays, through the college football season. And once the college football season is over with, which is in December, they do sneak some Saturday games in there,

and they've done that ever since. You know, I've been watching football. To me, my thought is originally is that I'd rather you continue to get my 401K built up and lower the cost of eggs and whatnot and gas. That's my first thought. But my second thought, And my perhaps more important thought on this is,

while I appreciate the honoring of set events, honestly, high school football is very much a, if your kid or your neighbor or your community is involved, it's cool. But generally speaking, I don't want anything in my life ever be affected by whether or not a high school game is out. Yeah, I'm with you with that. I haven't been to a high school game since I was literally in high school, but there are people who go to high school games just to see big games.

I mean, in Texas, it's just a different animal. It is a different animal. And maybe we're a different. But here's my point. If I was a high school fan and I wanted to watch, let's say, the high school my daughter goes to, King was going to play, say, humble. There is not a single NFL game in this world that would preclude me from going to watch that game. Unless it was a, I was a Texan season ticket.

holder and the Texans happen to play on Friday night. Short of that, if Baltimore versus Seattle is on, it might be a great football game, but I'm going to see Kingwood versus Humboldt. I can't imagine if you're a high school connoisseur that it all of a sudden is going to wreck your life if there's an NFL game. Yeah, it's not wrecking your life for sure. But I mean, I guess it does make decisions for people to have to make. I don't know.

But also, I don't care. And yeah, I thought Ted Cruz, aren't we? it was supposed to be limited government type of stuff why is the government getting involved on Friday night football who cares they're just saying this is a waste of government resources even speaking about this they're just saying keep the window what are they trying to do they're just trying to say don't interrupt the

Friday Saturday windows were they going to pass some legislation and against who the NFL and say you can't broadcast on Friday nights on what grounds because no it's not a question of it's not a question of acting government the government will go to Roger Goodell who Roger Goodell goes to the government and says, hey, can you cut us a break on this? Cut us a break on this.

And they'll say, we'll catch you some breaks, but you're not going to put games on on Friday and Saturdays. Okay. There's no legislate. You can't legislate the against this. It's one of those. If the NFL is looking for sweetheart deals for land, for property, for antitrust rights,

for variety of concussion protocol, it's a, don't forget about this aspect. And again, to me I don't care when the NFL is on. If I'm truly invested

invested into the game, I'll watch it. I don't care what day of the week it's on. I watch it every, I mean, I watch Monday night, Thursday night, Sunday night, I watch it every day. But if I have something I have to do, it's not going to, I'm not going to be angry by it.

If I had kids that were playing, like my daughter plays volleyball on Friday nights, I'm going to watch her play volleyball. There ain't no chance in hell I'm watching. Even the Texans are playing. I'm going to watch my daughter play volleyball. Or my son's going to, playing the band or my daughter's in the drill team.

I don't know. This feels like to me this is one of those situations that I understand and appreciate he wants to protect the, not the sanctity. Sanctity works. Sanctity work. Yeah, sanctity of high school football and Americana and mom and apple pie and the Saturday pageantry. But man, the world goes around the national football league when it comes to sports.

It just does. And every, you could put a game on at 2 o'clock in the morning and people will would watch it. Yeah, and like you said, they're not necessarily direct competitors. I mean, they're both football, but yeah. It is, yeah, if it was direct competition, I could see it, but it's just not. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we spend one half hour every week on this show apologizing to people. And I need to apologize to a certain group of women at the graduation yesterday for Texas A&M. Hmm, okay. They caught you staring, huh? No, I was, I was talking under my breath to them. Okay.

but I feel like it's the only appropriate that I apologize to them. That's good, I'm proud of you. And they don't even know. See if you actually apologize for something you did and actually mean it. It doesn't look like it by the face you're making. You don't know that.

If you want to apologize for something you've done this week, and Lord knows, I've met plenty of you. 713-2-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90. It's 1128. It's a Matt Thomas-O-Ross. If you want to apologize and say you're sorry, come on and join it.

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So there you go. That's long-lasting right there, friends. That's a little shit about the Matt's Thomas show Ross. Long-lasting. Of course, I need. Impressive work. You're all right, yeah. You're still recovering.

Don't get a hernia now. Yeah, Matt. You're not 23 at the summit anymore, Matt. I still got it. You can't take it away from me. 1206 is our time. Time now for the news at Dune. And with that, we present to you the Peter Jennings of Houston Sports.

Well, thank you, Matt. Here are on the news at noon. A number of things to get to. We'll start with your Houston Astros, starting a week into set with the Cincinnati Reds. Reds lose yesterday, so they are no longer 500. They're at 19 and 20. Astros squared away at 18 and 18. Sunday, it will be Ronald Blanco. Tomorrow it will be Lance McCuller Jr. But you are two to one favorites tonight. Hunter Brown back on the mound. We should be feeling good.

Hopefully updates later on in the day about Yoron Alvarez. He is supposed to be swinging a bat this weekend. Red's coming at 19 and 20. They're lost last night at the Braves 5 to 4. So they're going to be hashtag tired. Astro should take advantage. It's a guarantee. It's a guaranteed win night. Hunter Brown on the mound? Let's go. Yeah. How could you possibly lose? Two hours, 19 minutes, three one final?

I just said, how could you possibly lose out loud? I'm so sorry. I apologize. How does Vegas feel about this matchup today? Minus 200. Ooh, significant favorite. That's pretty good for Vegas. Vegas is like minus 125.

Yeah, right there. 145. Unless it's like Justin Verlander, prime Justin Verlander against like a bad White Sox team. Then it gets up to like 300. But yeah, minus 200 for your Houston Astros this weekend, as they welcome in the Cincinnati Reds. Elsewhere, Matt, the big news of the day has been what is going on with Bill Belichick and his girlfriend.

Report from Pablo Torre, who used to be on ESPN, but now hosts a podcast, said, quote, numerous sources close to Belichick's family had detailed a controversial relationship between the 73-year-old coach and Hudson, including claims she had been banned by University. facilities, a band from the university facilities. University of North Carolina has issued a statement in response. You got to say, you want to read it? Yeah. While Jordan Hudson is not an employee at the University of Carolina Athletics,

she is welcome to the Carolina football facilities. Jordan will continue to manage all activities related to Coach Belichick's personal brand outside of his responsibilities for Carolina football and university. Yes, she's a gold digger. We understand that. Her family hates her, and we hate her too, but he's, made us write this. Hey, come on, Matt.

You can't say quote and do that. All right. What did they teach you in journalism school? That didn't say the last two sentences. But you know that Belichick wanted to make sure this got dispelled quickly or Jordan did. And so she made

or he made or both that make go to North Carolina and say, did you say this? Oh, no. We wouldn't have never said this, Bill. No way, no chance. We'll put it out there to make sure that everybody knows that your girl, your little hussy is more than welcome at our campus. You know what? I wanted to get to this. I got to this yesterday, Matt, and I get a chance to address it with you. But according to Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley, of course, the NBA on TNT, the Knicks are up to nothing on the Boston Celtics.

Game three at home for the New York Knicks is a must-win game. I'm not commenting. Go ahead. Is it a must-win game? Well, Shaq says it is. Chuck agrees with a must-win game for the New York Knicks up to nothing at home. I'm not doing it. Why not? What do you mean? I'm not getting into semantics with you. Why not?

I'm just asking you. No, because... We're not arguing about it. I'm just asking you a question. People know how you feel about the term must win. You and I have literal and figurative meanings for it. I will say, can I just say this? Being down 2-1 in the series doesn't sound nearly as god-awful as being down 0-3.

It just doesn't. No, I'm saying that the... No, they're saying the Knicks, it's a must-win game for them, Matt. They're up to nothing in the series. Oh! That's the reaction I was right there. Oh, must have been for the Knicks? Well, I will say this.

If Boston wins tomorrow, it will give them tremendous momentum. So it is a must-win game. I can't even, no, I can't. Now for the Knicks. Don't get comfortable. It's a must-win for Boston, but it's also a must-win for Knicks. If you want to put serious pressure on the champs, game three is a must-for-the-nix. He just said must win for both of them?

Yeah. So let me take that for a second. He is 100% correct. You're, no, you know what? We're not having this conversation. All right, we can move on at the news and noon. But I know that if you really are going to pound the nail in their coffin,

you've got to win tomorrow. So you're agreeing. It's a must win game. I didn't say it. All right. See, this is why I started my crusade because of ridiculousness like that. All right, moving along, Matt. We also played this audio earlier.

Dremont Green lost his mind again. He elbows Nasreid in the head, gets a fligger foul. What is it? Five technicals, a couple of fragrance. Flagrants for him in nine games. He's close to suspension. Well, he says it's all about a narrative and an agenda. He looks like the angry black man.

I'm not an angry black man. I'm a very successful, educated black man with a great family. And I'm great at basketball. I'm great at what I do. The agenda to try to keep making me look like an angry black man, it's crazy. I'm sick of it. It's ridiculous. And by the way, also, if he failed to mention he's quite modest.

He is great at the game of basketball. He is going to go to the Hall of Fame. Yep. But he is also a dirty player. He has a screw loose. He loses his mind. Like I said, I think he blacks out because he tries to argue that he didn't do anything. He loses control of his limbs.

He needs to go back to whatever therapy. Adam Silver was making him go to last year because it clearly didn't work. It didn't work. He did it because he was told to do it. He didn't do it because he wanted to change as who he was. I mean, the bottom line is, he is diabolical on the court. There's really no other way to say it.

Well, he says he's a victim and there's an agenda to make him look like an angry black man. Why is there, who created the agenda? I'm curious. Who starts the agenda? Who started the agenda? Yeah, who started the agenda where you're poking everyone in the eyes, kicking them in the nads, raking them across the face, trying to dislocate elbows, elbowing people in the head, kicking Tari Eson in the head.

You know, there's no agenda for Jason Tatum. There's no agenda for Mike Conley. There's no agenda for Aaron Murray, the Denver Nuggets. Not that I know of. Help me out. Or Jamal Murray. Well, Aaron Gordon, Gordon. Aaron Gordon, Jamal Murray.

I use both those guys. Nuggets don't have those agendas. Why did the NBA choose Draymond Greed of all people for the Golden State Warriors, an undersized center who was really good at his job when he's acting legal. Which is about half the time. That's a question for Dremont Green. And that is the victim in all this. Dremont Green.

Should we set up a go-fund me account for Dremont Green? Yes. Well, how much you want to contribute? It's 75 cents a day. You can fight the agenda against Dramon Green. 75 cents a day would be about, what, $22 a month? You want to spend $22 a month? Let me ask you this.

What is money better spent for me? Draymond Green GoFund me at 75 cents a day. B, paying for the premium YouTube so I get rid of the ads, or C, getting my Twitter account verified. What do you want verification for? I don't know. Maybe, oh, longer characters on my tweets? What's the longest tweet you put out?

I mean, I have to sometimes curtail it at 140. No, because you get to, you go and you get 200 something now. I want 360. I want to use extra hashtags. Now, we need to limit your tweets. My tweets are fantastic. How do we get to the opposite of verified? Where they throttle you.

Oh, you know what? You want me to get nullified? Is that what you want? Yeah. I see it what you want. Okay. 1214. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

We're with you today until 2 o'clock. It's an ending goes Friday. I'm going to read you some quotes from Domingo Ryan's from today at mini camp. Texans rookie. Explosive stuff. My guess is I could take the exact same. same quotes that he had when he first took over the job to what he did today and it would be the exact

same thing. Okay. We need to start saving these for year after year? Year after year. Okay. And then we could do a game show. People can guess which year was this. Same thing with Nick Casario. Yeah. But you'd have to get through a 90 seconds award salad. And that would just be I mean. Yeah, we don't want to put the audience to sleep. I heard Nick on Twitter the other day, didn't talk about somebody.

It was not going on their alignment. I literally was not off. I'm like, I can't knot off him driving. I thought it would be nice to be informed, but he just never gives you anything. He is the most word saladity of word salad people in the history of Houston sports. Yeah, listen to

between the lines, Matt. Read the tea leaves. I don't have time to read the tea leaves. I'm sorry. I don't have three hours. Your schedule's lightning up now. Well, a little bit of it. If he is the word salad king, who is next in line? Who's the prince? I will tell you it. after we take the short time out.

It is anything goes Friday here on the program. 1221 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790 if you want to jump in. 7-1-3-212-5-7-9. So Nickasor, it was the King Award Salon. Who is the Prince? And you have a definitive answer. I did not say I had a definitive answer.

Can we use people that aren't here anymore? James Click. James Click was really bad. Yes. When we had both of them in this town, you weren't getting anything from anybody. I can't remember. What were the James Clicks-John Salisbury conversations like?

Where's salad? Could you get anything out of it? No, not really. It's better with Dana Brown. Yeah. I think Dana gives you more stuff for sure. Raffel Stone doesn't do a whole lot. He can do it a little bit, I think.

I just don't think you go to him. Basketball GMs don't get talked about a whole lot. Because, I mean, doesn't do much, Except I think he goes on with a radio station that went a semi-regular basis. But, you know, yeah. We very rarely play any of his soundbites because, again, I want to keep the show interesting and fun for people, and it just doesn't do much for me. All right. This is what DeBico Ryan said today about rookie minicamp.

We're just trying to get the guys acclimited of what we do and how we do it. There you go. Is that a quote from this year, last year, or his first year? That could be from anywhere. I would say that the answer is actually D all the above. Yeah, exactly. Every single year. He should just put like a button on it, like a button bar is what they call it in the radio.

And you just press the button and it says whatever, like the doll when you're a kid, like your action figure. Because honestly, the same questions. To infinity and beyond. Yeah. The same question is being asked. What you do is you give, you give D'Amico the transcripts of 23 and 24. And you go, okay. So this person asked me a question about how.

how we look so far and what's it like, what's the biggest transition, the biggest transition for rookies. You look down the transition. Oh, I was asked at fourth question in 2024. And then just read verbatim what you said. Just getting used to what we do. Oh, okay.

Thank you. D'Amico. Anything else? Anything groundbreaking? Let me look. Why don't you promote something while I do that? Yeah, you know what? I'm going to promote my Instagram account at SportsRV.

Trying to get the followers up. I appreciate you. Let's talk about that Instagram account for a minute. But always, very intriguing conversation about the Jalen and green data. But you had like a goofy little camera view in the lower left-hand corner with all the...

What do you mean? You look like you were like doing like a high school, like a... Presentation? Not a president, like a community access show. Oh, I got a green screen. Yeah, I use the green screen. That's called high production value, Matt. I got a chroma key that bad boy.

Got to get my studio lights going. Yeah. Then I had to edit it. And that was like take 10. because I don't, I have a pet peevo mine is when people do these a bunch of jump cuts in their videos and like, hey, what don't you want you to just do them one take? Like a normal person.

Like, uh, somebody doesn't do it in one take. Taylor doesn't do them in one take. What? Taylor. Our betting friend. She's not my betting friend. Well, I mean, she's a friend to all of us. Yeah, how her bets look at these days.

She had Boston Money Line and she did not win that one. Oh, well. But she was a winner in our books. Are you serious? Well, she had it. No, are you serious? They were 10.5 point favorites. She took the 10 and a half point favorites of the money line.

That is Tony the Hatchet Man parody that we used to do back in the day. Where there would be a team that was a two touchdown favorite. Let me be fair. We got him on the money line. That was a joke. This parody has become reality. Are you dead serious? No, well, here's.

Hold on. Let me finish. She had a parlayed. Okay. Her parley was what she had. Oh, my God. Excuse me. All right.

Her parley was, and I'm looking down, she's tweeting a bunch. Does she have the baby? I don't know. I don't know either, Matt. I need to send her a gift if I did. Anyways. Oh, here it is.

She had Celtics Money Line and Oklahoma City Money Line Parlay. Mm-hmm. She had Derek White over 14.5 points, Russell Westbrook, over 16 and a half points, and rebounds. and she's in Kentucky walking around. Hmm.

And if she's had the baby, congratulations second, by that baby will not go hungry. Anyways, it's a company initiative, so I'd appreciate it. I'm trying to build my Instagram up at Sports RV. How many people have got so far? I'm just zero right now. You have no followers on Instagram?

Oh, no followers? I got 600. That's not bad. Let me check my Instagram. I'm trying to get to a G. We're trying to get my weight up here. Like I said, company initiatives. I'm trying.

I got 2,531. Yeah, see, you're doing great. That's not great. It's okay. I think Adam Klan's probably got like 5K. Yeah, but he's on like 12 hours a day. It's still good for him. He's got 9,000. That's too many.

I'm not going to get up to that. He's got 3,800 posts. So let's just do this. I'm going to get there. Let's just knock this out right now. Follow us on Instagram at SportsMT and at SportsRV. See, why did you have to jump into this? Just follow me.

Unfollow Matt and follow me. Okay. No, I'm just kidding. Follow Sports RV. And if you're totally bored, add SportsMT to your list. Uh, Wex is, how's, Wex is like the, he's the IG king or TikTok king. I don't have time for TikTok.

It's a lot. I do believe, this is the way the world is. If you just say like your casual phrases and be like, I'm the voice of the Rockheads. You might get like, you know. Yeah, you go viral. Well, I mean, I've gone viral. My point is, I think there's, if you social media too much,

you just become irritating. Hmm. I'm sure. That's what I'm trying to do. well you've been irritating you yeah it doesn't matter if you're on social media not you irritate me anyway all right so let me tell me to promote something you were going to look up what was it oh uh any other quotes nothing i got nothing oh thank you matt yeah wait a minute buddy wade's like i'm shook that tony the hatchman was a parody what do you mean how do you

not know he was a parody oh he's kidding right i would hope so that's funny and burning the wolf i mean he wasn't a real draft analyst? Well, I don't think he appreciated when he used to make fun of his mother's sexual exploits. And that coach from Southwest Texas State that was using the Walmart carts to train his players, he wasn't real either? Oh my goodness. Yeah, I wouldn't want to say, yeah, y'all, I think some people thought it was real. I believe there's something, you know, like. Some people thought an SEC guy was real.

Don't give away. What are you? Are you a K-Fabin here? What are you doing? Oh, okay. I'm sorry. Am I breaking wrestling rules? Look at you K-Fabin over here. Is that what it's called? Yeah. What does that mean?

That means breaking the rules, telling behind-the-scenes stuff. Okay. Say it again? It's called K-fabed. It's a wrestling thing. It's a wrestling term. I don't know where the origins are, but it says...

That's cool. I like it. Where people have to pretend it's real. Like, what's the most unreal thing we've done on this show? Ungenuine? This is genuine. This is genuine. This is genuine.

We are who we are. All of your apologies. Oh, wait a minute. Those are authentic. What is he saying? He said the first round of playoffs, they can get swept. There'll be no game set or no game seven. Oh, yeah.

That was wrong. He said there would be no game seven. They were two. I was closer to zero than seven of them. We're getting there's not going to be seven game seven. You don't know that. I'm going to bet you there's never been seven game seven in the first round. That was the case.

The NBA is like, man, we're making some serious money. For real. 1228 on Sports Talk, 7. one hour from now we have non-flora stories. Ross, where are your non-flority stories from? Is that today? Yeah. And from outside of Florida. All right. I have two today. My story is from Vatican City. Would you like to know my two? Just kidding. I have one from, um, let's see where the story. Just give me one. One's from Springfield, Ohio. And another one is from, let's see where this is from. I think it's from Austin.

No, Lexington Kentucky. I'm going on 2 a day. Same thing. It is a same. Made of tomato. 713, 212. You want me to loan you one? I can loan you a non-floor store if you'd like.

This isn't real, is it? Which one? Papal conclave so heated, it erupted into fistfight, leaving Cardinal with broken bones? That's not true. As MSN.com. That's, you can have, probably fake. Yeah.

This is the thing when you look up non-floor stores. You've got to, like, get multiple sources, because a lot of times this is fake news. Yep. 713-212-5-7-90. Ross Delinger on Twitter is a Yahoo Sports College Football writer. Last night, he says that the four power commissioners held an in-person meeting in New York to discuss several issues, including a future playoff format that could ultimately result in an expansion of the college football playoff. from 12 to either 14 or 16 teams.

16 is horrible. So basically we're going to go from the college football season is going to last as long as the college football playoff season will last. That's ridiculous. Here's how it would go. If you went to 16, four guaranteed SECs,

four guaranteed. Guaranteed? An SEC? SEC. Four guaranteed Big 12. Really? Check that. Big 10.

Check that. Four guaranteed SECs, four guaranteed big 10. Yes, that makes more sense. Two guaranteed ACCs. Two guaranteed big 12s. One guaranteed group of six. Three at large. I don't like the guarantees.

Why? Because the SEC and the Big Ten are saying, do you know what we bring to the table? And if you're going to the table. don't play by our rules, we're going to create our own little playoff without you. Goodbye. And the ESPA will pay for it. Now here's the last part that I don't understand.

Maybe I need you help me comprehend. He said the very end of his tweet, he says, with season ending interleague playing games, third place versus sixth, fourth versus fifth. That I don't, I can't comprehend. Four teams have to have playing games, either between the candidates of, you have to play to get in if you're the fourth best SEC team? It says with season ending inner league playing

games third place versus six fourth versus fifth I got we're going to have to do some checking on that. So that means the SEC SEC tournament is pointless now isn't it like conference tournaments now? We're talking football here by here by here. Conference championship yeah yeah

no I don't think I don't think the SEC football championship would be moot at all it would probably it would for sure guarantee both teams are guaranteed a playoffs spot would be in there. You get a higher seed. Yeah, yeah. But you don't even get a buy now. That's ridiculous.

If, well, could you do a 16 team with a buy round, I guess? I'd have to look at the bracket. 3645. Yeah. I guess one would play 16 unless you're doing, I don't even know what you're doing multiple buys? Yeah. I need, yeah, it's confusing on this.

also by the way not related to this the SEC is contemplating going to a ninth game in conference which they should I think which you know who says

we want you to do that ESPN and ESPN is going to bump up their dollar amount to put a ninth game on because it does them more good to put on Georgia versus say Vanderbilt

than it would be Georgia versus Akron these non-conference are embarrassing From everybody across the board. I mean, it's basically three massive cupcakes and then one good non-conference team because the SEC made that rule. So let's put this way. You're going to have a chance to improve your power index, whatever, you know, your stature. And ESPN is going to give you more money to put a game, to just go from eight to nine.

If I'm the SEC, I don't care what the coach is say. If I'm the president of these schools or I'm the commissioner, oh, hell yeah. You're going to play nine conference games. Sorry, Charlie. and it frankly would grow, it would give you tremendous interest in your league for one additional week. Do you know who doesn't care about the SEC when Alabama plays Nichols? Yeah, for example, Texas starts at Ohio State. Then they go to San Jose State.

I mean, not go to. They, of course, play at home. San Jose State, U-TEP, and Sam Houston. You get one of those three. Goodbye. Yeah, absolutely. You go from three guarantees a two. So you have two guarantees.

you probably are required to play a power five in the other third. And you play your non-conference games. You know what to me? Guess what? That kind of makes sense. That's fair. It's very fair. And I frankly, if I was every conference in America, I would do it.

If I'm the Big 12, why don't you go run to Fox? Go tell them. You want to, we'll give you, we'll give you. Now, they don't, now, look, obviously the Big 12 does not carry the same cachet that, say, the SEC or the Big Ten does. but if you're Fox and who else, if you're ESPN, you can give me Colorado versus Houston for an extra week, or you want to give me Colorado versus Wyoming. I mean, what's going to draw some more interest? You want conference matchups.

And if I'm these TV networks, I would not insist on it, but I'm like, we're going to make it worth your financial while. Don't turn this down. And it looks like the SEC's not. going to vote on it this summer and I think it is the right thing they do to go to nine conference games. Yeah. I just look at it Georgia's schedule. They play Georgia Tech every year, so that's their power non-conference. Right. And then they play Marshall, Austin P. and Charlotte. Yep, ninth conference game. Let's do it. Now, the only thing that's going to hurt for them is you're going to potentially for half those, well, all those schools have one year they're going to lose a home game. Instead of Texas

scheduling, would you say San Jose State and everybody else, you go from three we go from probably at least six home games. Now, if you're playing a 12 game, you're probably going from seven home games to minimum six. Sometimes, some of the years you'll play seven, but, you know, because you're going to schedule the two pancakes, you're going to do it on your home field. Well, hell, you could probably, if you really get lucky, you could have all the games at home. Your three non-conference games, all being in your own state. Yeah, depending on how it works out with home and homes and paying guys. when the games of your cutting checks.

Man, the SEC, you know what, folks, the SEC don't screw up. They just don't. All they do is they're in bed with ESPN, and ESPN says, well, just keep giving you more money. Just keep giving us quality material. And frankly, when you are the most powerful conference in sports, they don't disappoint. When have we ever had?

Now, again, I'm not saying that everybody's a fan of every school in the SEC, but when does the SEC ever go, God, what do you, you're giving us this as your premier game of the week? It very rarely happens. Yeah. And this is just crazy to me because when is enough enough? When is enough money, enough money? How does this just keep happening?

Who are the people that are running this and saying, you know, I understand how it happens in, you know, the corporate world. You have very ambitious people who end up rising to the top and, you know, that's a faucet you can't turn off. That makes sense to me in the business world. College athletics that's happening? That's crazy to me. that it just keeps happening more, more, more. They said, well, BCS is fine. We're not going to expand.

Boom, then we go to four. Now we go to make the big league to 12 and now already with a couple of years of, it's been one year of 12, right? Correct. It's been one year of 12. It was fun. It was fun. I like the teams getting buys.

I don't like the automatic buys for like the Boise State Broncos or whatever. But I like the idea of a team who goes the whole season and wins their conference getting a week off to, A, look, their wins, to B, not have to be out there and be, possibly lose a game. And now you're just going to go to 16 or however they're going to format it. I guess if they're still going to do buys, it's weird, but it's all just for more money. It's more money.

Nobody needs to ask why. The reason is they want more money from ESPN. You know what? You can blame ESPN all you want to. Guess what the ESPN does? They kick the tires with their sponsors. Yeah. I'm not blaming ESPN, really.

And the insurance companies, the car dealers, the beverages say, Oh yeah, we want to see a lot of Jake from Rake from Rake from Rartm. Flow, see ya. Clearly is getting value from this. We put our ads on in those games and people use us. Because that's how advertising works. If you're not getting results, you stop advertising. Right.

ESPN must have gone to the SEC and said, you give us a ninth game. gives us an extra one or two weeks of games. We'll make it up to you, giving you more money. And that more money is coming from advertisers and said, you know what? We need as much as possible. Look, Auburn, Alabama, captivates America, Ross.

Name another regional rivalry that does that. Michigan, Ohio State does it. But Texas, Texas A&M? No, oh, you, Texas does. Yes. But playing each other's biggest rival. We're talking about six or seven rivalries. Does UCLA, USC, USC,

CADVAN America? Not really. Does Washington, Washington State? No. Don't hate on the Apple Cup. Does Oregon, Oregon State do it? Nope. But there's so many good football teams in the SEC.

And this is, again, why I would never be grudge players for trying to get as much money as possible because these presidents and officials and athletic directors do the same. Well, everybody's getting money now. Yeah. It's a free-for-all.

Except Nick Sebel wants to curtail it. That's why him and his buddy from Lobbock are going to be the co-chairs of the NIL oversight. Cool. So they do. I think even if this doesn't happen now, this is kind of the soft lob. This is, remember how they talked about 18 game schedule for the NFL for years and it's going to go in increments? They're smart. I know.

It's like a negotiation. You make a big offer and then you meet him in the middle. So they're going to load, they're going to kind of float this out, get people used to the idea, then probably within the next few years. If it doesn't happen immediately, which it might. Well, just like the NFL. Well, they went from 16 to 17, but they were thinking all the way through. It was going to be 18.

It's going to be 18. Eventually, yes. 1245. We're 45 minutes away from non-flora stories, one hour and change away from, believe it or not, hell yeah or not, all things about a new Pope. 1245, Sports Talk 790. Got a perfect response or question we asked earlier. And that was, if we said that Nick Casario was the key,

King of Ward Salad, who's the Prince? The Prince, according, I want to give the guy a shout out here on Twitter for getting you correct. At Tech Scott, T-E-X-Scott. He's right. It's Brock Oswater. That was a good one.

We said that at his introductory press conference is like, I don't know how this is going to go. He sounds like a used car salesman. And he was. Yeah. And then when you'd ask him, why'd you go 11 for 23 with three picks? He'd give you this. Well, you know, some of my passes went too tall and some I got to be better.

Some of the receivers got to, it was just like, this is just endless. It used to be very important to me when I was younger in sports casting to hear from the athletes. I really care about what the athletes tell me anymore. I just do because they just, they never give me what I'm really answering. and it's just this mealy mouth word salety, long-winded, blah, long answer.

I mean, we've been very lucky of the show over the years. AJ was phenomenal. Dusty was cranky at times. Up and down, but good, mostly good,

good storyteller. I think Joe is a little more measured, but at least Joe will answer your question as good saying, I can't answer that. Yeah, we can go for him a little bit. AJ was the goat. Love the Antony.

E. Mae answers everything we ask. He's great. Doesn't shy away, doesn't mince words. No. Yeah, we're very lucky. So I would say when we have athletes on and players on, we try to select those to the best of their ability can give us stuff that wouldn't be stuff that would bore you ultimately

to death. And I think a part of that is because I think these PR firms are measuring their athletes. And also, a lot of the athletes, frankly, want to go to their own podcast and yell and scream and swear to get their own clicks. That's good. They don't last very long. Well, some of them do. Some have done, okay.

Jamon's doing great, I guess. I don't watch it, but it seems to be. He's still going with that. Apparently Shannon Sharp still got a $200 million offer. Club Shaysay. The club Shaysay is a club in trouble hay. Yeah, what's the latest on that? Did you also see not to get off of sports,

but you know, we're sort of a sports show? Did you see the stories about Smokey Robinson? What happened? You haven't seen this? No. What's Smokey Robinson? it up to. Smokey's got to be what? 80? 75 or 80?

Let me look. 85. Okay. For about a fifth. Don't look, don't look. Don't look. I already see it. For about 15 years, give or take, there's allegedly a group of women who were his housekeepers, maids, whatever you want to call them, cleaning ladies,

that say that he was sexually harassing them. This is sexually assaulting. Oh, excuse me, that's right. Not harassment, assault. Basically rape. Yes. And that they were underpaid, well below averages, that Smokey's wife created a hostile work environment, that Smokey would lure these women in and would go meet me in the other rooms where there's no cameras.

He did this for like 15 years. And now they're, I mean, Smokey Robinson is one of my favorite. Fave, Fave, Fave, Fave, performers. Yeah, not only great as a performer. I mean, he wrote a lot of those Motown hits that you heard. He was the in-house writer. He wrote those songs. I mean, who are we supposed to trust?

Bill Cosby. Comedian, actor. America's dad. America's dad. I mean, Smokey Robinson. I'm sure we can go with some other names that I'm just not thinking of right off the top here. Jane Doe's 1 through 4

There's four women Yes Assaulted at least one one woman at least 23 times They were worried about their immigration status Oh my God What now Yeah he bullied them and stuff

Yeah And she bullied him too Mrs. Robinson did I mean When I saw that I was like Come on Not smoky Not tears of a clown

So not to get a Debbie down on you here but God, can't we just be somewhat normal? That's crazy. Sorry, Smokey. What's what I'm going on with this? I don't know. I don't know.

I hadn't seen that. Thanks for really bringing me down on a Friday, Matt. But in all honesty, it makes you not want to play Smokey in the car. I get it. I don't play R. Kelly anymore. There's another example. R. Kelly.

I mean, who's next? I mean, who's the next surprise going to be? I don't know. We shouldn't even mention names, because that would be fair. Don't speculate, man. That's how rumors get started. No kidding. Do you hear what happened on the sports show?

That's how defamation lawsuits get started. Yeah, we're not going to do that. Smokey. And still can say, he was in town not too long ago. Somebody we knew when I saw him. Was he at 85? Yeah, he was still touring. Hand him up, Smokey.

Well, actually, he's had to start another tour to pay for his lawyer fees. It's just, it's just, it's hard to fathom. That's crazy. It's hard to fathom. All right. 713-212-5-7-90. If you want to jump into the conversation, not about this, because we don't want to talk about Smokey Robinson.

But my point is this. 7-13-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. Do you know by the next week in the middle-the-week, we'll know the NFL schedule? Cool. Do you know how much we can custom discuss about the NFL schedule? I'm good.

We already know the opponents. Yeah, but we don't know the times and dates. Okay. We do have to speculate and guess. We do this every year. How many primetime games? I'll go over. Now, we shouldn't say prime time.

Staying alone is what we call on. It could be a new. Yeah, it could be a Netflix Saturday, 230 kind of thing. Yeah. I think it's three. Okay. Matter of fact, I want proper credit if I hit it right on the head. Okay.

I want proper credit if I hit over. But give us the defer. How many was it last year? Was it five? Yeah, I want to say it was, wasn't it? At a Monday night game, you had the three in a row. It could be three. Three sounds possible.

Yeah. By the way, a lot of rumors about all these international games. I don't see anything involving the Texans just yet, playing overseas. I thought you wanted to go to Jolly Old London and check them out. No, I'm not good. Let's see. Here's potential primetime games. They play the Ravens.

Yes. Broncos? Yeah, nineers. Bill's? Yeah, yeah. Chiefs. Sure. Chargers.

Yep. Rams. No. Seahawks. No. Buccaneers? No. Amazon Prime Thursday?

Yeah. I mean, I think Buccaneers, Texans could be a Monday nighter. Baker Mayfield and C.J. Shroud? That's actually true. You know what? The only ones that are not ready for prime time are probably Tennessee. It's a.m.C. South. It's AFC South Thieves.

No one wants to see Colts versus Texas. Yeah, Cardinals, Texans, probably not. but they're playing the AFC West, the NFC West, and then they have a first place game. It feels like a lot of 325 games or 305 games. Just saying. I will go over three, but you could be right.

All right. Final hour, the Matt Thomas show, Ross continues. In a matter of moments, anything goes Friday. We have the Astro starting a weekend series of the Reds. We'll get to some Astro Baseball conversation next. 1257 Sports Talk 790. Is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

Friend of the show, Aaron just texts me. He said, hey, three of the Texans road games are on the West Coast this year. So, we will not have a long streak of noon games. In theory, yeah. It'll either be 305, 325, or night games, either on Sunday night, Thursday night or Monday night. Yeah, Rams, Chargers. What's the other one? Seahawks.

got some long flights Seattle's like four and a half I have not been to Seattle in a long time I don't know what it's like anymore It's lovely I went there 2023 Yeah I've been to Portland many times obviously

Had a Seattle style I went to the Went to Team mobile park Okay Had a Seattle style dog Did you eat in the caterpillar's or no No I didn't eat I forgot The whole time I was there

I forgot to eat the crickets I would have I would have tried them Okay so Texan schedule You know what the Seattle style dog is Is that some sort of seafood on it? Crab? No, it's grilled onions and cream cheese.

It sounded whole, like, I was like, all right, fine, I'll try it, when in Rome. I was like, this does not sound good. Cold cream cheese or warm? No, it's hot. They put it on the hot dog, and it's hot. It's good. I'm not a huge cream cheese fan? Yeah.

You don't like cheesecake? Yeah. Cream cheese on a bagel? No. What? No. I'm on my north. I know. I got to stop. No, no, no, no, it's okay.

No, rip on me for that one. I'm not ripping. No, you should. You should. I put butter on my bagel. Yeah, butter's good. But no cream cheese. But I will eat some cream cheese. It just has to be, it's in very small doses, but not, not on my bagel. What a cracker's in cream cheese and some raspberry jam.

Delicious. Yes, if you put the jam on it, I'll have a little bit of that. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Well, what if you put a hot dog and onions on it? What's I'm saying? I mean, now it's actually good. Now you want me to try.

The only thing about worry about Seattle. but ballpark is it doesn't it sort of has a roof yeah but it's beautiful but on the sides it's not covered so if it's 48 degrees which it can be in Seattle it can be pretty chilly yeah beautiful ballpark I like to be in comfort

are you serious natural elements a little over a meal lands McCuller's in the same situation put every ballpark park closed yeah that's right you don't like camping or doing anything outdoors really that much I like waterfront cabins so there you go all right

713-212-1-7-190. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-9-0. It's an ending goes Friday. Final hour of the show. Now, Florida stories and a half an hour. I've got two this week. You know what? You shore up for me. Awesome. Although people sent me some, actually.

I appreciate you. Good. Okay. So the Texans will have. People think that, oh, somebody said the Chargers game could be in Brazil. I think we do need to wait on that, I guess. That would count as a standalone game. Yeah, it would be.

And that Brazil game is going to be. a YouTube game. Free of charge. Okay, good. I was going to say. I mean, I know RooRoo TV, you try really hard to get me on, but your sports package sucks.

I get an offer from them. I have a Google TV. So every time I open the TV basically, I get an offer from them. Hey, sign up. You don't have Space City. You're not going to win. You don't win.

Shut your bum ass up until you get Space City Home Network. Yeah, maybe we can talk. If you want to get Space City, we can talk. But until then, no. Agreed. All right. So maybe three stand-alone games, maybe two or three, three o'clock, three-25 games, then by, you know, your obligatory 10 or 11 noons.

Okay. I like 325 games. Me too. Because I feel like the matchup of better, typically. Typically. But also typically, I'm going to sleep for the first 30 minutes of them. Well, 325, I'm usually, around 3 to 325 is when I get my Sunday afternoon napping. Yes, because at that point

you're only missing the first quarter of the second game and then you wake up at halftime and you're like your rejuvenating. The game starts right at three. It's a bad matchup. Yeah, yeah. 325 is when the good ones are wrong. So you get a good 30 minute naping. If you're a 3.05 game, you're like because you're playing the Cardinals, you know? Exactly. Exactly. They're not going to put you in a double-heter.

You don't miss a whole lot. And you can hear Scott Hanson on Redzone in your dream. So you don't miss a whole lot. You're good. I kind of miss Andrew Siciliano doing that. I thought it was really good at it. I'm a Scott Hansen guy through and through. but I mean, I've also, I'm still still on us fine. Well, he's not doing it anymore.

I know. He's the voice of the- God-Hen's for everyone now, right? Yeah. Well, because DirecTV lost the package, the Sunday ticket. By the way,

I made an executive decision. I'm going to pay, I'm going to pay for the YouTube non-ads. How much? I don't know, but I'm going to do it. I explain to my wife. Just get an ad blocker.

But I can't, I can't get ad block on my phone. Can you? I honestly don't know. If you want a virus. Yeah. Well, yeah, you can't do it on your for the YouTube app. Yeah, that's what I'm looking for.

All right, Astro start a weekend series tonight with Cincinnati. Do you, let me, I'm going to give you just a good old-fashioned generic statement about the Astros the rest of the way. Or at least for the next couple of months. I think if they hang around, meaning within four or five games of first place, and right now they're four back of Seattle, A's are in second place, which is stunning. they are 7 and 11 in home and they are 13 and 7, 14 and 7 on the road, 13 and the road. They must really hate playing in Sacramento. Imagine they had a ballpark that actually fans cared about them. Back to my point.

If they hang within 5, do you feel like the Astros, we really won't see the season start in theory, like the real best of the Astros until they make a move? Because I get the general sense. that who this team is, I mean, you would hope that Yardan would come back and it boosts OPS. Yeah, I think his hand being healthy will be huge. I mean, is Yon Aar going to OPS 900 to equal out his numbers?

I mean, I think Pena's established himself as basically the leadoff guy. My guess is the days of Jose Altuva being an anti-OPS guy is gone. I think my guess is Cam Smith's going to continue to kind of labor through his rookie camp. campaign. Descenzel will give you a little bit. I think Christian Walker's got room to maneuver up his numbers because, you know, he's done it. But if you really want to get into the, wow, I want to see what the asteros are doing every single night. And I really think they're going to get into this matchup. I think the pitching staff's going to be fine. Again, you got to cut your starting rotation now because you're going to be burning

your bullpen up. But man, do you feel like that we really can't sink our teeth into what this team could be until they actually do decide, hey, we've got to improve it a certain position in the lineup. They may do that. I don't expect it because, again, they don't have a whole lot to give up. It would be later on, of course, I would think, closer to deadline. They're going to give it some time. They're going to let it shake out.

We can always, of course, point two last year and how they're ahead of schedule of where they were last year. And guys are going to heat up. And it can happen in the matter of a couple of weeks. And I'll use two names that are off this team who are thriving right now for. funny enough, and that would be Kyle Tucker and Alex Bregman. Alex Bregman, it was every year. Kyle Tucker, it was a couple of years here and there where he would

be off to very poor cold starts of seasons. And then it really only takes, to make your numbers average out, I'll point to Jake Myers and what he did within a week to where his OPS went from like six, under 600.

Here, here it is. He was at 588 on May, excuse me, April 29th. That's 10 days ago. And he got up to 800, May 4th. So within the span of six days, he went from under 600 to over 800. That's what I'm saying is that we're early enough into the season to where a hot week of Christian Walker can get his numbers right.

A hot week of Jose Altuve or Jordaun Alvarez. The problem is, is I just have to name a, when I see a hot week, I'm saying, Yonard Diaz. I have to name half the team. So is it going to come from all of those guys? We hope so. But the reality is you got five guys of performing. You can't expect all five. Right.

Oh, they're all going to turn the corner. That's the thing. That's the problematic thing. Is it all of the, or they're just having underperforming years? Or is there something going on that we don't know about. Somebody tweaked a knee or an ankle or like Yordon had been dealing with his hand. We didn't know about it. And we're like, what's going on out there?

So we hit CIL. So I don't know. I keep wanting. to believe, and it is still early, we keep saying, but it's getting late early. The reality is this, more hitting. The longer the Jake Myers leads a team in OPS, the longer the Astros are going to stay is the third or fourth team.

Unless he is just going to be literal all-star. If you play center field like he does in OPS 800, that's All-Star candidate. Seriously, I don't think it's going to stick. But right now you're doing well, Matt. By the way, friend, I don't know if he wants me to announce it, but somebody that listens to show, quite frequently, friend of the show, says that it would be very unlikely that Texans are going international this year. Okay.

Thank you, friend. It doesn't matter to me. I mean, the only thing that would be is... I don't care. I'm not going. 8.30 in the morning seems really... It's hard to really skit your... I mean, I can have a bowl of wetes and knock off some NFL football.

I get it, but most of time, if you're watching 8.30 games, it's involving the Jaguars and the Jets. Yeah, I'm the worst morning person on the planet, so I don't like it. I literally will go downstairs, go on the couch, flip it on, go on the couch, and then kind of half fall asleep or see how long I can stay up. Brazil? If it's a game I'm interested. I'm surprised they are going back to Brazil because of the fact that people hated the whole thought of Brazil last year. Yeah, they thought they were going to be unsafe, but I don't know.

I guess there was fine. Some incidents, I don't know. Yeah, clearly. You can't have that many people go to a country. I'm only seeing one international game in my life, and that was the orders against the Cowboys in a preseason game in Mexico City, and it sucked. Didn't you get the runs? Yes.

But I get the runs in Houston, too. Don't drink the water, folks. I have those flaming Dr. Peppers. Ooh, Lordy. You're flaming something else, too. I'm trying to think it's, I'm not a huge international person. I'm like, if I never travel overseas, it won't be that bad for me. But what would I want to go?

What would I want to go to say that the Texans play a game? I don't know. Spain doesn't anything for me. Australia would be, if you went to Australia, it'd probably cost you two weeks. You have to have two buys in a week. You have a jet lag. and take you a couple days to recover each way. Yeah.

Because you take you two days to get there and two days to get back in theory. What do I want to go see them play? Well, I don't know. The Super Bowl maybe? You know what's kind of funny, though? I would love for that to happen. Because a certain thing you said would be wrong.

It would be wrong. And Hannah would get her stadium a lot faster. That's true. That's a gruel. You would not believe how fast the stadium would be approved by somebody. If they went to a Super Bowl and then maybe that's what they need to wait for. Put it up for a vote. bonds and all that stuff.

Totally. I bet you even Harris County would give a name about at that point. Yeah. By the way, did I give you the definitive spot? I think I did. I know I did it all fair. What's that? I don't think this is going to happen.

But when I come back, I'm going to give you the definitive spot for the training center and the new stadium. And it's in Harris County. Okay. I'm intrigued. And you're going to say, hmm,

I should have thought of that. Okay. I got the definitive spot in Harris County. where the Texans should build their new facility. Wonderful. 114 on Sports Talk 790. 118 on Sports Talk 790. All right.

The definitive spot. Now, I don't know if there's enough real estate over there. You'd have to do a little bit of chopping down and getting rid of and maneuvering streets and whatnot. Harris County, Northwest Mall. Reason for that. One, that mall's just sitting there. that's got to be some acreage out. I don't know how many what that is.

Two, a lot of those places in and around Northwest Mall, I mean, not the greatest places. Third, you'd be close enough to the city and close enough to one of your most affluent suburbs, the Cypress area. 290 and 610, Northwest Mall, Cal Cana. Hal cana.

That's what they call them. It's like Brangelina. Yeah, Brangeline. Brantifer. Cal, Hannah, that president I don't know his name. Trust me, if you're going to do it in Harris County, which I don't know if you're going to be able to do it in Harris County, because Harris County may tell you to shut your bum asses up. But that's the spot to do it.

Is that enough acreage? It may not be. You'd have to obviously tear down some things over there. There is actually, it looks like a high school stadium right over there. You just play there. Well, you know, part of the deal is you tear the high school stadium down and you let them play there on Friday nights. That could work.

Yeah. Was it Turner over there? Turner, is that what it is? It's Dyer. Or I guess Delmar? It used to be Delmar. Delmar, yeah, Delmar Fieldhouse, right? Delmar Stadium.

Yeah. You guys know what I'm talking about. That's, if you were to go to Harris County, that's my recommendation. I mean, granted, you'd have to get probably a sweetheart deal. Delmar Sports Complex, Chin. Tear all that down. Tear a Northwest Mall down. Well, that's got to be municipal land then, right?

Yep. That's all I'm telling you. But if I was going Harris County, that's where I would go. Because you're not in the city. Oh, there's a DMV right there? That's nice. By the way, did you get your driver's license thing? Oh, my passport expires in October.

I need to get a new passport. I do too. I did get a new driver's license. Oh, is a star? They told me it was going to be 60. I already had one with a star, but it's kind of... So I'm legit, right? Yeah, you're good, Matt.

Man, how handsome I look right there. a little cracked. Mine was cracked, so I had to order a new one. Oh, okay. I got you. All right, so there go. What do you think? I mean, you think I'm nuts in the Northwest Mall area? I don't think you're nuts. I don't know. It doesn't seem like there's enough acreage. I don't know exactly where they'd find. Like that exact plot of land or that area.

I think that exact plot of land. I think you'd get rid of Delmar, you get rid of all that area. You'd get rid of, I mean, you'd be close to freeways. Doesn't seem, just my naked eye looking at the amount of energy space there is and the amount of space there. It doesn't look like it's big enough. You're right. You're probably right. But, I mean, yeah, you're close to Memorial Park. You're close to the golf course.

You're close to, you know, 290 adjacent, 610 adjacent. That's not the worst idea I've ever heard from you. I mean, I got worse ideas coming. Don't worry. We've got many years left for this show. So, oh, it's right near Karbach Brewing. Wonderful sponsor here on Sports Talk 790. Okay.

My second spot, I'd have to think. Now, I don't go to Sugarland that often, so I don't know. But tell me, if you're going to go outside, let's go Fort Bend County, I would then go, what's next to Smart Financial? Is there enough space over there? I'd have to pull that up. Some of the concert hall over there? Yeah. There's a lot space over there, actually.

Yeah. Okay. But you know the number one space, really, frankly, available. Well, there's U of H Sugar Land is over there. That can't be much. But I didn't even know that exists. We don't even know that was Rio H. We don't count you.

Yeah, there's a part. and some residential stuff over here, but it looks like there is a lot of land. But again, I don't know if it's enough land. It does look like a ton of empty space. Over there. And then after that, I mean, how much Asteroa lands over there just sitting over there?

But they're not going over there. I can say with Baytown. They're not going to Baytown. They need people with teeth to actually go to the games. Oh, Matt. What? I'm sorry Baytown, but you know you don't have teeth. It looks like there's a lot of land.

If you go a little past sugar land. Like we're basically getting close to Richmond and stuff. You can't. It's too far. Yeah. And my guess would be then you'd probably want to go west towards the catering here. I'm doing some land prospecting, Matt. Oh, they got to tear down that Home Depot. No, no, no, no.

You can't tear down that. The hardware stores are too important. Okay. Well, there you go. Just an idea. Now, I don't know. Now, remember, you have to have plenty of land because they're not building a facility just to make a facility. They're doing it because they want to make it a, you know, megaplex of everything, shops, restaurants, movie theaters.

They want Jerry World of the Arlington area. You know how those stadiums in Arlington are all kind of somewhat connected with each other? With hotels and all that in the area. That's what they want. It's still kind of a dumpy area. Oh, hell, Arlington's a rat hole. You have these majestic sports stadiums, this really fun little down Texas Live is what they call or whatever that is.

And then you got like 14 pawn stores on a Walmart. Yeah. I don't know into Texas Live. It's nice. I've never been inside there. It's a good. Yeah, basically every restaurant and bar is named after like a Cowboys Legend. It's like we're going to go to Aikman's. All right, I'll see it, Emmett Smith's.

There's Michael Irvin's that one? There's a Pudges, I think. No way. Yeah, I think so. Pudges? What does Pudges? serve. Pudge Rodriguez. Serve steroids.

Now, that's, whoa, that is really rude. I'm just kidding. All right. I'm going to put you to test. Oh, here we go. Here we go. Pudges Pizza? I just pulled it up. Troy's, it's Troy Eickman's bar.

Here we have Houston. We have Houston Live. Here we go. Oh, we're going to go over to Al-Too-Base. What are we going to have? Trash can. Trash can. No, don't do that. No, no, no. Well, we're going over to Earl Campbell's. We have sausage. You got to have sausage. We've got some hot links.

Yeah. Yeah. We're going to go over to Nolan Ryans. Nolan, no. Oh, natural. Beef, man. Welcome to Nolan Ryans. We're going over to

this delicious barbecue pop-up. His little pop-up stand. This is recommended by Steve McNair. Delicious barbecue. I heard it's pretty good. And it's ironically, there's a all-fifth of Neiman Marcus there. It says inspired by. She don't go off.

She goes right on fifth, the literal Fifth Avenue. She'd be called Hannah's hand-me-downs. Uh-huh. Just you get to a department store of nothing but things she's either worn or once carried. Then you go over to Jeff Bagwells? What's going on at Bagwells? The greatest astro of all time. Delicious cold cuts?

Sandwiches. Sub sandwiches? The number five? Yeah. Number five club. You get Bizio. We got Bizios. We already have a Bishios downtown.

That's true. Taking care of that. We're going to go over to Amman Thompson's. That would be really good. Okay. You get a lefty's cheese steaks and have it with Billy Wagner. He's a lefty. Oh, what do you want?

Dallas Keckle. Hmm. Going over to Mike Fires. They're serving rats. I knew you're going to do that. Sorry. We can go. endlessly on this.

Yes, we could. It's an anything goes Friday. It is very much in anything that goes Friday. The Texans are in goofy-ass useless rookie minicamp and the Astros didn't play yesterday. Stay with us on this.

Oh, here we go. Tom and downtown, Greenspoint Mall. Oh. It's a lot of land over there. There's also the carnival. No, no, no. The carnival's gone.

Obviously you'd have to take the carnival down. Greensp, there is a lot of land in Greenspoint. Problem is, it's so shady around Greenspoint. Hey, what do you mean? Oh, my. God. Hey. I'm sorry. It's shady. It's shady. I grew up over there off Gears Road. What's up? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You're just taking one shady part of town for another. Yeah, what's a big deal? Why? No, if you want shady, stay by energy. I made it out of there. That's the

epitomey of shady. I didn't get shot once. Yeah, but you got a knife wound on your back. That's actually from you. No, they're not going to, they're not going to Greens Point. No, no, no, no, no. You mean, you bulldozes this bad boy? It's a good amount of of land over there actually. I'm not going at Green's Point after 5 o'clock. Hell no. You'll be fine. Okay, you're going to tell me NRG is in the nicest part of town? That's why they're not going to go there. Northwest

Mall, book it. That's where the land is going to be cheap. Oh, those land is going to be cheap outside of Harris Kennedy. All right, well my gut feeling is that they just refurbish. Okay. And I will completely gut feeling the opposite of that. I think this whole thing about them asking for a practice facility is

just a, as the kids would say, a precursor. Well, the rocket's practice facility isn't near their actual arena. No one was asking for that, but they're not looking to build a rocketplex. They just build it because they want to make sure their athletes are in good shape, feeling good about themselves. Yeah. All right. Non-Florist stories are up next.

Great. Get yours? Yeah. Jonathan, you got yours? I got mine. All right. We're good to go. 128 on Sports Talk 7.

We find interesting stories that occur outside. the state of Florida and share them with the people. It's time for non- Go and non-floor. Stories only real about our little segment here on a Friday is we don't bring up stories in the state of Florida because that's a low-hanging fruit.

Gentlemen, I'm going to take you to Springfield Township, Ohio. You guys okay with that? Love it. All right, here we go. A woman was arrested. And it happened on a traffic stop on South Arlington Road after identifying a vehicle whose registered owner had an active warrant and a suspended driver's license.

That's nothing out of the ordinary, right? Sadly. No. When the officer approached the car, he found 55-year-old Victoria Vidal of Akron, Ohio, and was able to detain her without incident. However, guys and gals, things took an interesting and unusual turn, according to the police statement. As the officer returned to the vehicle, he observed a raccoon named, Chevy, or excuse me, Chewy, was sitting in the driver's seat

with a meth pipe in his mouth. Chewy had somehow gotten hold of a glass, mena, and phenamine pipe, leading officers to further inspect the vehicle. Police did confirm that Chewy was a pet raccoon and that he was on a wild animal after Vidal had the appropriate paperwork

and documentation to own him. However, a search revealed that Vidal's car contained a bulk amount of meta and amphetamine, crack cocaine, and three used glass meta-enphetamine pipes. Got some meth pipes and some meth. Vidal was charged with F3 possession of drugs, three counts of possession of drug, paraphernalia, and was cited for driving under suspension.

Thankfully, this is from the police report, Chewy the raccoon was unharmed. And notification was made of the proper authorities determined that she has the proper paperwork and documentation to own the raccoon. While officers are trained to expect the unexpected, finding a raccoon holding a meth pipe, the first. No raccoons were hurt or injured in this incident. As always, we remain committed to helping our community safe, no matter what surprises may come our way. So the question is, boys, have you ever seen a raccoon use a meth pipe? Because it apparently happened in this city of Springfield Township, Ohio. I have never seen a raccoon with a meth pipe, no. I just saw a raccoon for the first time,

like in person, like probably. For the first time ever. Would you see him? It was next to like a garbage can. apartment complex type of thing. Okay, I got you. That happens. Raccoons, generally speaking, are harmless, right? Generally. And I think they can be rabid. Like, I'm a little scared of squirrels more than I am raccoons.

You are? Why? I think squirrels are scurly. What are they going to do? Have you been attacked by one before? No, I think they're going to jump from the tree to your head. Are there a lot of squirrels on the campus at U of H? No, there's a lot of schools. In college campuses, there's a lot of squirrels in Kingwood.

Like on the UT campus, they're super friendly. like they always want, they would like climb on you. Shut up. Because they want food and stuff. Oh, I would, I would soil myself. Oh, that'd be terrible. You get used to it. It's fine.

Swole myself? Yeah, well, you probably have. Yeah, that's true. Well, fun fact, West of Kentucky is known and native to albino squirrels, as white ones as well, and over that in the hilltoppers. They're on the, where they're all over the campus and, like, trying to get food and stuff? Yeah. The one of the Nacodotias are huge.

Really? Either one of them friendly or no. They're not friendly or not. I think squirrels are A-holes. Yeah, they'll take your food, yeah. Yeah. They're hungry. Squirrel's got to eat.

I have no need to build a relationship with a raccoon, with a squirrel. I will build a relationship with a raccoon. Just a squirrel trying to get a nut, Matt. Girl trying to get a nut. Girl squirrel or male squirrel? Both? They all got to eat. Well, I mean, it is what it is.

We don't judge here on the show. Girls got to eat too. So you've been around a homosexual squirrel? What? Oh, excuse me. I'm sorry. Move on. You're not in Florida Story.

I got one more, by the way. Mine's just going to be less toxic. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, I'm going to tell you guys this, and I got to write Pope questions. Yes, sir. Well, man, there was a woman in Kentucky who, as many women do, was hanging around the house and allowing her very young son to play with her phone. Is this what you're using?

You suck. I'll turn out. No, I won't use it. No, go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. This is the phone? This is what you're going to use?

Yeah. That's hilarious. Holly Lafavors After getting her young son Liam, who was in the second grade, phone back. A couple of days later, something very odd happened. 30 cases of dumb-dums arrived at her doorstep, each containing 2,340 pieces of candy. Apparently, her son Liam accidentally ordered 70,000 dummns,

a total purchase of $4,200. Oh, I thought it would be more expensive than that. That's actually not bad value for a sucker. Yeah, I guess she's going to have to sell these for about a nickel a piece. How do you get your money back on these? Amazon initially agreed to allow her to return eight of the 30 cases, so she attempted to sell the others to friends and neighbors. After a long day of working with the bank and talking to a few news stations,

she said Amazon did contact her and agree to refund the entire person. Oh, that was awfully nice. Oh, that's not nice. Once they started getting bad PR, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, crap, people are talking about how evil we are. We've got to refund this lady.

Let me ask you this. Jonathan, you've been in a room with 70,000 dumb-dums? I can't say I have. Maybe at the-N-R-G on Sundays? No, don't you say that. Don't you say that. I knew that was where you're going to go with that. I couldn't, I don't know.

This is the first one that came to mind. How many licks would it take to finish off 70,000 dumbs? You don't have a bad habit of hard candy and lollipops? I just bite them. I'm the exact same way. Really? I just put them in it in. Oh, geez, how does this is going to get clipped?

It's fine. I just put it into my mouth for a little bit and then I start biting. Clip! 140 Friday, next Friday. Thank you. I mean, I just can't help it. I got a hot take for you. I don't want your hard takes at all.

I don't like hard candy at all. No, Johnny Ranch. Butter's butter scotch? I do like the Worther's Originals. That's it. That's a hard candy, so you lie. That's the only one. Those are the sour ones? Jolly Rancher? They're like a caramel flavor. What about a Tutsi pop?

Those are soft. In the middle. Once you suck on it, it gets a lot softer. Yeah, 140. Oh, no, no, not that. No, I was talking about the Tensy pops. No, I like Tizzy rolls. I will hear this one on Friday, too. You can't help yourself. Bye.

All right. Jonathan, what is your non-Florida story? I got one coming from England. I won Valentine. Was devastated to discover on the morning of February 28th that his beloved black 2016 Honda Civic Type R had been stolen overnight. Determined that he would replace it with an identical ride,

Valentine told the BBC that he searched until he could find a perfect match. Same color and year, even the same custom exhaust system. All right. What's so crazy about that? It was a different bin number. You just wanted the same ride, you know, it's nostalgia. From the sale of the Honda garage, he spent 26 big ones.

As he's driving home, he notices something familiar. Then again, then including candy bar wrappers and a tent peg. Investigating farther, he finds out that the car's GPS had the logged stopped at his home and those of his partners and his partners' parents. So basically, all I want to say, he bought his car again. Wait a minute. His car was stolen and he re-bought his own car? So the technicians at Honda dealership were able to confirm that the VIN was fake

and that Valentine had in fact purchased his own stolen car. Wait a great non-Flority story. That's crazy. Company to straighten the whole situation out. I couldn't believe reading this. You, you, that guy bought his own stolen car. So they find the people that stole originally? No, they're saying.

and the insurance company he's got to put it out because he just spent $26,000 on the exact same car so I guess he followed a claim when it got stolen. I don't know. Oh, so he got the insurance money

off of that. I wonder if he's in trouble. Well, that's what I guess he's what he's talking about because the police are working with him as well because they didn't even find out the guy who stole the car

ended up selling it to the dealership or it got back to the dealership somehow. So really? So here's the thing. He got insurance money because the car was stolen. So he's really not out of any money, right?

You would think? Well, I guess he spent the exact same he paid for it when he got the same car he had before. Same stock price at $26,000 and drove at home, like that day, and drove it home and realized all those things. So imagine you sign that contract for $26,000 just to realize it's just the exact car you lost a year ago. I would want to actually spend more time trying to find out who stole my car. That would be just me. And those are the non-flora stories this week. we have the crack pipe using raccoon.

We have a kid ordering 70,000 dumdums, and we've got a dumdum who bought his own car that was stolen originally. Let's play Hellyer or not. It's all things about the Pope. 144 is the time. 713-212-5-790 if you want to join our conversation. But more importantly, my guess, is you want to play the game that we call, believe it or not. 7-1-2-5-790.

7-1-3-2-1-2-790. Quick shout out to the 13,000 Aggies that graduated between yesterday and tomorrow. You know, in honesty, when I was thinking about that, you know, 9,000 undergrad, 4,000 graduates over the next three days. I was thinking to myself, no wonder we're never going to be able to stay me as a U of H. We don't graduate 13,000 people a year. That's 13,000 or 9,000 new members of the Association of Former Students. That's 9,000 potential Big 12 man, not Big 12. 12th man don't ease.

By sheer numbers. I know. They should be cash flushed more than anybody else in a country. I know. You guys let everybody in too and just can't keep up. That's not true. Are you kidding me? Oof. Yeah, very stringent over there.

Don't make me look it up. Look it up. What do you think the acceptance rate is? At A&M? At U of H. Oh, no, I'm not to my... No, we're not. No.

Let me guess. Do I get within 2%? Okay. 64% 70% Okay What is like What's the hardest school to get in

In the state do you think? Rice Rice is probably under 10% What's his rice acceptance? 8.7 So that means out of every 100 kids That apply about nine of them get in I was one of the none

I applied to rice You got in? No no I didn't get in Oh That was one of the 91 sorry I was like you're one of the nine Yeah sorry sorry I meant I misspoke That's okay.

It is for the best. Texas was my backup plan. Number one of my list was North Texas, where I went my freshman year. Number two was UCLA. My mom's like out of state, no. And then North Texas all of a sudden came in, and they had a bunch of people that were in the business, and I was like, I've got to go there.

Plus the announcer for world class championship wrestling, Bill Mercer, a long time. He just passed away a few months ago, taught a sports broadcasting class. I thought that was the coolest thing ever. Wow, that's great. until I realized you couldn't get into until you're a junior or senior. Hmm. He'd be proud of me.

He'd rest in peace. Never knew me, but I knew him. That's great. And with that, we have five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game. Show we simply call it Monday through Thursday.

Believe it or not. But a Friday's we call it a hell yeah or not. And here's how it works. You call 713-212-2-5-7. 790. 713-1-2-1-2-5-7-90. Today's edition of Hellyer-N-Nan is about priest. No, it's about popes. One higher, several bit higher. I'll read your statement about a pope. Statements completely and utterly accurate. You'll say this. Hell-yes. Statements, Your Honor. It's Fullibunk. A minute. You'll say this.

Not. Two hellier-or-nots about popes won your prize. What are you playing for today, Jonathan? A pair of tickets to see sticks with Kevin Cronin and Don Felder on the Brotherhood of Rock Tour on June 6th at the Woodlands Pavilion. Does it feel bad we're saying hell yeah or not? We're talking about popes? Uh-huh. Should we say heaven yes? Heaven yes or not? Okay, here's what it is.

Heaven yes or not? What about the sound or is he going to play? Uh, ha. Oh, okay. Find that real quick if you can. Oh, God. David on 790, ready to play heaven, yes or not? David.

Heaven yes. Heaven yes. Here we go. Heaven yet. Of the 266 Catholic popes, a whopping 83 of them have achieved sainthood. Heaven yes or not? Heaven yes. Heaven yes is correct.

Oh, I need my computer on. You get the sound of? Perfect. Statement number two. While conclaves to select the pope generally lasts just a few days, the longest ever was over two years and nine months. Heaven yes or not? Heaven yes. Heaven yes is correct.

So good. That's so good. Ken on 790, congratulations, David, your winner. Kevin, you're ready to play? Or Ken? Heaven yes or not? Yeah, heaven yes. Technically, the Pope has unlimited access to all the money in the Vatican's reserve funds, but popes always live modestly and do not abuse this power.

Heaven, yes or not? Not. That is correct. Statement number two for the win. In the Papal Conclave in 1605, a violent argument broke out that resulted in a cardinal with broken bone. Heaven yes or not? Evan yes. That is right.

Congratulations. I'll see you guys in hell. Brian on 790 Brian, you're ready to play heaven yes or not? Heaven yes, amen. Amen to you as well. Pope Leo the 14th graduated from Villanova in 1977 where his major was theology. Heaven yes or not? Heaven yes.

No, he's a mathematics major. Bill, who's your favorite pope of all time? Lionel Richie. I mean, no, no, no. Smoker Waffles. No, no. I'm going to go with Contavius Caldwell. No, stop seal my line.

Stop still on my line. Really? God, I hate you. Bill. The Pope's hobbies include reading, traveling, and playing tennis. Heaven, yes or not? No PJ parties? Heaven, yes. That's correct.

Statement number two for the way. And Pope Leo, the 14th is a dual American and Peruvian citizen. as he served as a missionary for many years in Peru. Heaven yes or not? No, not. He did. Bye. By the way, you stole Cantavius Colwell Pope from me. I'm so mad at you.

I got to be honest, I saw it on a tweet earlier. It's like the only Pope I respect is Contavius Caldwell. Jimmy on 790. Jimmy, you're ready to play heaven yes or not? Even yes. Pope Leo the 4th 14th is considered a very progressive pope and has supported the movement to a lot of women into priesthood. Heaven yes or not? Heaven yes.

No, he's actually conservative. He does not support it. Well, he's actually middle of the road is what the people are saying. Oh, okay. I thought he was deemed a conservative. Oh, I don't know. I'm still... Well, anyways, he doesn't support women in the...

I'm still flustered by containment. Oh, God, I was such a good line and you took it from me. Sorry. Oh, well. I'll say that for next Friday. I'll say I'm sorry. You owe me a sorry for that. Hey, you've got Astros on deck tonight at 6 o'clock.

Cannot wait to listen to that. You'll have Brian McTagrin. That's going to be in itself. That's about the best part of the show, honestly. Have a great weekend, everyone. Up next, it's Client and it's Wexler. It's the A team. If you're playing volleyball this weekend, I'll see you, George R. Brown.

I'm not going to play. I'm just going to be like a dad. Have a great weekend, everyone. The A team is next.