The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Anything Goes Friday!! Rockets Take Down Hawks, Astros Grab Another Picture 

Episode Date: January 30, 2026

Anything Goes Friday!! Rockets Take Down Hawks, Astros Grab Another Picture 

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10.1 in H-Town. Good morning. And welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. What? Yeah, it's on the 4-U. Somebody shot test.

What is going on on your 4-U tab? It's all only fans models and testicle shots. That is not true under any circumstance. What happens? For you tab stays on my 4U tab. Higher! Oh man, it's real... You're coming down with something over here.

Who is you? Yeah, I think so. You're all right? Doing great, Matt. How are you? Can I tell the honest truth or can I lie? You're going to say you're tired because you and the Rockets are yo-yoing all... This part of the schedule sucks.

It... I'll say it. Get it together, NBA. You're in Houston one night. You're in Atlanta the next. Then you come back just for one game against Dallas. And then you're back in Indiana. And then you're back home.

It's supposed to be a homestand or a road trip. Not a home game in one road game. Let's go. I mean, you know, I'm Mr. Preface guy, right? Yes, we understand five diamond accommodations. Nobody's crying for you. Yes. Five diamonds.

Chartered aircraft. He's nice. Good food. Nice per diem. I get treated well. I'm getting my ass kicked, Ross. I can be brutally honest with you. It's just, this is a tough part of the year.

As I've told you before, when I like to go on the road, I like to go knock out two or three cities at a time. This bouncing back stuff sucks. And the rockets bounce back. That's the most important thing. But, yeah. Getting in this morning. Yeah, the hawks are getting their ass kick, too.

So that's a good thing. Ooh, yeah. My head hit the pillow at about just shy of 3 a.m. this morning. Okay. Oh, okay. Well, I went to bed about 2.30, so what'd you be doing? I was just hanging out. Okay. Staring at the ceiling. Thinking of everything that's gone wrong in my entire life?

No, no, you, let me tell you about your life. It's not as bad as you think it is. No, no, I know. I'm very blessed. I'm very lucky. Yeah, we are blessed. We're very blessed to be able to be with you guys every morning between 10 o'clock and 2. Thanks. By the way, I got to tell you, I listen to you guys almost the whole way to Atlanta on my flight. Oh, really?

Really awesome internet. This Starlink, whatever this is, on the plane. No. And I listened to the I heart radio up the entire time. I don't know if it was legal or not, but I did it. No, you didn't, Matt. I did not listen to it in the Geo Cities drop. No, no, we were okay.

Okay. We weren't listening to games. We were just listening to you guys. I got you. listen to Jonathan's, I just don't get it. He absolutely nailed it. I don't get the continued outrage for Bill Belichick. It is insane.

Yeah, players being held to a different standing in the coaches was an excellent and astute point brought up by our former athlete. I appreciate you all. That's coming from somebody with the SFA. I mean, we're done. I knew it was coming too. Oh, this is what happened. when you compliment somebody not named Matt Thomas, Jonathan.

I'm sorry. You should get used to it. I've been dealing this for a long time. I know. I'm just teasing, Jonathan. I tease because I care. All right, I got to be brutally honest with you like I always am on the show. Now, look, I'll lie to y'all and not feel bad about it.

But I'm telling the truth here. I have had the great opportunity to call lots of NBA games with some of the greatest athletes. I mean, this between LeBron and between KD and between Steph Curry, even though we hate them. I mean, there's been just a fantastic amount of players. And on the rocket side, Chris Paul, James Hardin, Russell Westbrook. You got me thinking about it.

Who do you think there's the worst player you ever called? I don't know. I mean, there's been, I mean, Nepali Dante. I don't know. I'm going to go Kenny Lofton. Kenny Lofton, Jr., by the way, right? Oh, that's right. Kenny Lofton, Jr.

No, no relation at all. Just a Lofton member. So, and this is just me coming to you open and honest, a little sleep deprived, but the reality is this, I'm fanboying Kevin Durant more than I ever thought I would. We have no relationship at all. Yes. And you used to crush him for having burner accounts and be it all over Twitter. I didn't crush him. I just said, why are you doing it?

I love it. I love that he mixes it up. Well, now that his burner's got outed and now he's like, you know what, I'm going to do it. as the kids say on main, on his main account. Yeah, do it on Maine next to a delicious barbecue over there with our boy. No, not on Main Street. And next to the CBD shop. Oh, that was a technical glitch, right?

Yeah. It was a drop. We had a drop on the radio. Good, good, good. Computer. So here's the thing. I'm struggling just to fly on an airplane and call a radio game after a late night, getting into Atlanta wee hours of the morning.

how does a human being at 37 years old, not 37 is still young, it's old for NBA standards, but it's young in life, right? Yes. How is a 37-year-old score 31 points and play 34 minutes after playing about the same amount of time and scoring about the same the previous night and jumping on a plane and running up and down the court with guys that are about 70% his age? And oh, by the way, being like half the speed that he was 10 years ago, and oh, by the way, playing really good and hard defense all season long.

Yeah. And smack talking like a mother. He took a shot to the chin by Vit Krati. Yeah, he did. And he says, stop throwing them MF. And I mean, he is a swearing machine. But he's so incredibly good. Rockets, by the way, one last night if he did not catch it, 104.86. The first half was dog crap. I mean, it just was. It was two tired basketball teams, both off back-to-backs, both traveling. And what was it at halftime? 43-42. 1987 NBA didn't even watch the game. No.

And then the Rockets exploded for 61 points in the second half scored, the 35 and the 3rd start hitting threes. Out rebound like a muddha. Kevin Durant, 34 minutes, 31 points. Now, I know there is a segment of our show listenership, because I hear it about it all the time. I don't like the NBA. All they do is shoot threes.

They're too political, blah, blah, blah, blah, all the excuse in the world. I don't know if it's going to be under the radar when the dust settles because Kevin has played other places. But you are getting one of, and again, we can go to a list and we've done this probably too many times, one of the 15 or 20 greatest NBA players is still competing at a high level and he's wearing Houston Rockets gear off. I'm saying top 15 is cinch and I will stick with the second greatest shooter of all time. Okay. Well, we can debate that down the road.

But point being is he just kicks ass. He just does. He's smarter. He doesn't go full 94 feet anymore. He can't if he needs to, but he knows he's got to save his energy. He's playing crazy minutes. He's knocking down threes. He's giving a professional approach on the defensive side.

And he's got the well and desire that maybe guys that are in their 20s don't have. He's incredible. And I hope that even if you are a casual, or as a kids would say, Ross, a cash, I don't think they say that. I'm going to put that into play. Jonathan, tell your friends to say, so say, casual a lot. Oh, I'm going to pass on that. If you're a cash.

Trendsetter, M.T. Go watch him. Go listen to him. Thank you on 790. Just go see him. He's not going to let you down. He's going to miss shots. Everybody misses shots.

He's going to turn the ball over probably too much, but that's always been in his repertoire since the time he's been an NBA player. He dribbles a ball. Guy, he dribbles a ball a lot. Period. It's going to happen. The Bleacher Report did do their hundred in the summer.

you know it's prime NBA summer content Matt greatest 100 NBA players of all time they had him 13th you think I'm going to argue with you about this it's not going to happen I don't think you should when they did the all 75 team in 2022 ESP and rank them

they put Durant 12th now we're going to get mad about this in Houston they put him 12th Elijah won 13th oh we're fine there's so many great players I mean everybody's got their own list to put the guy well also 11 was Shaq so Houston's not feeling good about Elijah would be behind Shaq. Don't bring that up. Now you got everybody cranked. And Tim Duncan

and eighth. Oh my gosh. Akeem's better than both of those. Let's move on. We all agree. We all agree. I'm sorry, San Antonio fan. If I want to watch a 91-84 game, I'll use Tim Duncan as my main go-to guy. But I want some excitement.

All right. On the radio show today, Rossi, it's an anything goes Friday, correct? Anything goes. And I mean anything. One of us is sleep deprived. One of us got lots of good rest. I didn't get great rest now.

Okay. I want to know. We ought to do a segment call. What does Ross do between 10p and 2A? That's none of your business. Come on. I was doing one thing for a little while, and I was doing another thing for another. And then I went to sleep.

Did any of involve physical activity? Huh. You want to check my heart rate is what you're saying? No, I'm just a question asked. I'm looking for an answer. That's none of your business. My, yeah. I mean, I'm not open book.

My cardiopathic metrics are none of your business. So you know what my 10 to 2 was like getting on the plane, going up there, trying to get a comfortable, you know, when you were flying, you try to sleep on a plane and you do fall asleep, but then you're in an awkward angle when you wake up with a terrible crick in your neck or something or your joints are aching. That was me moving around. I'm sorry, Matt.

Then I drove home when I put the ESPN radio app on my phone, on the in the car, heard my hotline. of Kevin Durant 3-pointer. It's always a good sign when they actually use your highlights. That's nice. Yeah. Getting the national recognition. I'm all for that.

Great job, Matt. Thank you. Anything goes Friday. You're saying, what does anything go Friday? I mean, it could be about the Rockets last night. It could be about the Astro signing a trading for another pitcher. I did give the assignment to Ross to give us a deep down, a breakdown of the new Astro pitcher they got from the Giants yesterday,

so I can't wait to hear that. Yes. I've talked to my sources in the Taiwanese baseball baseball league. And what did they say? They said don't call us ever again. They actually said they actually gave you a rundown and since you don't speak Taiwanese it did you know. No. No. Well yeah they well I think they it's Mandarin they speak over there back because you know I was in Taiwan I guess two years ago now. You know what is it two years ago? We ought to send you back and see if you can find us a beautiful. I love Taiwan. Taiwan was awesome. Also though they said I got super lucky with the weather because

it rains apparently every day and it didn't rain when I was there. So I've been told that I got very, very lucky. And then we're going to talk about a couple of other things. We're going to discuss what an NFL kindness officer is. Okay. And should I apply for that job? You for a kindness officer anywhere? In the NFL?

I would say anywhere. You shouldn't be the kindness officer at Iard Houston. Oh yeah, I heart Houston. I'm definitely the kindness officer. People walk in, they celebrate me. You're the bully officer. You're only nice that people that make you. money. They throw flowers at me.

They serve me wine and sparkling grape soda. It's really nice. It's a nice atmosphere. Anything goes Friday. From sports to your life. We have I'm sorry's at 1130. We have the stripper wake up today at noon. We have non-flora stories at 130 and a hell yeah or not at 150.

713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. Our time is 1015. It's a Friday edition. Anything goes Friday here on Sports Talk 790. Ross, the deputy AG, is having a news conference of the Epstein Files, so I think today would be the perfect edition

of playing, hell you're not, is this person in the Epstein Files? I thought everything was heavily redacted. First of all, I love the word redacted. I don't think we use it enough in life. But I don't know. It just happened to be showing my TV screen outside. Sometimes when you tell stories on air,

you've got to redact the names to protect the innocent. I've got that truth. Is anything goes Friday here on Sports Talk 7. I mean, Rockets again beat the Hawks last night. The Astros make a trade. How many Astro pitchers are they going to be in camp, like 64? I love this. I think this is really smart.

I mean, first of all, it's not like you can go out. You don't have the funds to go out and sign everybody or anything like that. Right. But this is great. I like this approach from Dana Brown and the Houston Astros, and some of it is their hand is force because they can't go out and sign everybody, like I just said. But getting a bunch of guys who, can be an option

stocking as many arms as you possibly can after what happened the last couple of years totally on board with it and I'm intrigued to see how it plays out especially when you have an organization that is famous for turning pitchers who are either from good to great or from mid to good

and etc. Yeah, we're talking about and I get I've not heard his name officially I guess I could have gone to YouTube to listen to it. K-Wing-Tang? That sounds great. you're not going to try it are you I'm good

that's probably right Tang 27 years old spent the 2025 season with the Giants between AAA and the Major League level I did make seven starts for the Giants it wasn't great two and four with an ERA at 6.37

but it's the wind it's the weather out there it's fine I'm sure they have some something they want to tinker with or some pitches they like and they're going to mess with this pitch mix and then go from there yeah 395 ERA a AAA Sacramento, 89 strikeouts, and 26 innings. Oh, that's not bad in the PCL.

Oh, yeah, for as much of the ball jumps out of those stadiums there. He is from Taiwan, originally assigned as an international free agent by the Twins in 2017. He was traded the Giants in 2019. 27. So he was originally in 2017. How old was he? 11? Jesus. 17 years old.

27. Yeah. I know nothing about him. So if you're looking for a deep dive on that, Why don't you DM Chandler at Rome? He'll give you all the deets on that. I'm good. He wanted us to do a K-Wing Ting, believe it or not today.

I was like, that would be quite a challenge. We could do Taiwan. There's a very deep and rich history with them in China. I watched a whole, when I was going to Taiwan, I watched like a 30-minute YouTube on it, and I still don't know what the hell was going on. Okay, so let's do this really quick because anything goes forward. If we go to Taiwan, yes. And I say, Ross, let's go get some dinner.

What's in front of us over, like, say, let's say a two or three course dinner. What would we be eating? I mean, you can go to a hot pot place, which is very good. They have, what else did I do? They had, I mean, any kind of soup places they have. They have, what they really have there is what they call the night markets. And that's what you do in Taiwan, is there.

There's night markets all over the place. And that's where you can basically hop from booth to boot to booth. So you can get a little fried pork. You can get some steak. you can get some fried rice you can get they have like these little Japanese buns that are really good you can get little sticks of fried chicken

so when you go to the night markets that's what you do and you get a little bit of everything and everything is so good and super cheap I love to yeah just go do Taiwanese night market that's what I that's what I would say okay well let me tell you Ross has got Taiwanese Travel Incorporated ready for you to be the leader of your trips if you're thinking about

a trip to Taiwan Instagram is sports Harvey and he'll set you up and get you reservations for all the top restaurants there. Yeah. And it's fun and delicious. Yeah. One thing I've learned is that if you need to go get regular food, a matter where you go, it's not too difficult to find it.

Well, you know, people have been eating for a long time. And you've ever going to somewhere that's populous, they've been eating good. So. If you really want a Chili's in Venezuela, my guess you can probably find it. I don't think you can find a Chili's in Venezuela. Okay, maybe those are a bad selection in my time. I mean, maybe ask Jose El Tuve. Well, let me tell you this.

When I was in London, when I worked for the NBA back in the mid-90s, the food in London sucks. I mean, look at those people. Yeah, that's terrible. Yeah, but they're miserable and in-bred. So, I think I've got bad teeth, but that's not here or no there. I went to the hard rock cafe probably four times because at least I knew what I was getting. Okay. Overpriced hamburgers with a bunch of guitars against the wall.

Yeah. Remember that was it the thing? I feel like you can eat good somewhere in England. They have great Indian food. But I'm not an Indian food guy. You don't like Indian food? My digestive system doesn't like.

You're like a little butter chicken, baby? Yeah, I'm just saying. Oh, man. A biriyani? Oh, Indian food is incredible. Matt, you know what, never mind. Yeah. Go eat it McRib.

Indian food, no, McRib, yes. That's where we are, yes. We're on the bus yesterday going to the arena. And Craig, you know, the television voice of the Rockets, a great friend of the show. Yes, pallet of a six-year-old. Is making fun of my McRib love. And one of our social media people, you know, social media people are like 23 tops. Yes.

They're very young ones. She goes, I didn't know they were still around. I'm like, how do you not know their America sandwich? Oh. So then he pulls a Ross on her and says, it's this pork gristle-pressed quasi-patti that's disgusting. They're literally getting a class action lawsuit over it, Matt. You know what?

I'm going to join the class action lawsuit against him and say, leave America sandwich alone. You're going to counter sue. By the way, I did hear somebody call you the other night. Was it on the post game or on the show yesterday. It said, I love the Matt Thomas show and Ross, and I love the McRib. So whoever that was, shout out to you, my friend. Yeah, he was also drunk.

You don't know that. He said he was. Oh, okay. Well, he said he had a few beers. and then, well, he was... It's slurring his words a little bit, but he was very nice. All right.

We're going to have to take some offense to a former Texas Longhorn Great. Case McCoy? No. He's now a sports analyst, and he just destroyed a new coach. Oh, no. Do we have to pay attention to this guy?

Well, he's one of yours. No, he's not. I mean, I guess he is, but... but he i think it was frankly highly irresponsible okay we can discuss i guess we're going to do when we come back

713 212 5 790 713 212 5 790 this the matt thomas show ross it is an anything goes friday rockets on the on the brain astros uh super bowl coverage really will start kicking in next week uh are we saying nor to the pro bowl this weekend rossi not watching it dot dvr

any of that stuff? I forgot it was on. Good. If I'm really hurting for something to watch, I will, but I'm locked in on the Tottenham Hotspur

versus Manchester City game on Sunday, Matt. Does my son know about this? Yeah, we're going to meet up. Am I invited? You're not going to be here on Sunday, are you? Well, we don't leave until the afternoon.

Oh, you want to come? I literally thought you're going to be out of town. Yeah, Sunday morning, come. There's other people you know are going to be there as well. Nice people or people I regret? you know what you don't you know what say home text me who it is no I'm not

text me and your son yeah but I see him all the time people in your life if that's not enough and I see him all the time all right you know what no shut your bum ass up I want to know who the fringe proud is we don't want you there on sports talk 7 out of your time is 1034 rocket's been a nice win in Atlanta

spoke to two games this week they have play actually two and one after reading Memphis really quick on the four you tab before we get to this Emmanuel Acho stuff. There are some really stupid rocket fans out there right now. I hate to say that.

I don't know. I guess because it feels worse this year. And I guess that's because Kevin Durant came and there's just, I don't know, or maybe I'm seeing more of a talk of it in the 4U tab or something.

That's exactly where it is. These are not people that I follow. Okay. Reality is this. They're saying that the rockets have crescendo at the very top of the Roy with E-May. He's not a good offensive mind. Oh, my God.

His team costing his victories, time to let him go. And I was literally, as I was sitting on the plane, we were waiting to leave him. I was feeling dumber by the tweet that I was reading. And I want to tell these people, not figuratively, but literally I want to call them and tell them to shut their bum asses up. It's highly embarrassing.

This team is the number four C-Rexam. in the West. It's got a puncher's chance to get to the two spot here in the next two weeks if they can get a run going here. They're going to win 50 games. Now, are they the favorites to win the NBA championship? No, and that's not great. Fred Van Bleet being out hurt.

Stephen Adams being out hurt. Will the Rockets make a trade? I don't know. I'm not getting the vibe that they're going to do anything significant because they love their core. But this talk of EMA has, it's the best he can do. it was just

and every fan base's Twitter is stupid at some time oh yeah we spent all summer talking about how stupid the Astros Twitter was the Astros Twitter is the worst

Twitter of the moment oh no no no oh no no no no no no but Astros Twitter is the worst by far I'm still I'm sticking with Rockets

because I also think it trends younger and the kids are lacking seasoning. I'll just say that. And I was there, too. What are you're trying to say? Kids are dumb. Got a lot of life perspective.

Well, look, when I was 19 years old, I thought Stroh Miles Swift was going to save the Houston Rockets. I was an idiot. I was stupid. I didn't have any perspective, okay? So I could say that knowing full well that I was in that same place, and that's where I'm going with this. I think Rockets fans trend younger than Astros fans,

and it's because, I mean, nobody's talking about, watching the rockets back in with Elvin Hayes when it's Astros fans, they're talking about the Colt 45. So I think they trend younger. And generally, that doesn't mean you're dumber, but you just have,

I think, more prisoner of the moment. I could not agree with you more. Now, every group is volatile. You just, when you have 140 characters and you're mad because your team lost, you can just run to your computer and just let it all out.

But I am, and I'm trying to look at something. find something here that I was like, well, here's, okay, Red 94, nice enough guy, I actually followed this dude. I got him muted. Here's what he said. And Red 94, he said,

let me tell you some, I love Diehard Rocket fans, so I need, we need them in this world. We don't have enough, frankly. So, but I'm just, this was the one I was like, come on now.

This is the closest I've been to being completely out on the email, mainly because he's the guy that put the ball on Alpi's hands, and he got us out of the mud, we were at our darkest point. So I'll never be truly out him, but he's just fell completely over his head when it comes to the offense this year, without the Fred's security blanket.

How do you just sit there and watch it unfold last night in the second half of the men and not make an adjustment? Maybe I'm missing something, and this is some Phil Jackson 3D chest to force a man's growth. Yeah, I've had that guy muted for years. Yeah, I mean, shout out to you, Red 94. I like you. I'm mute them. The takes are bad.

I mean, look, I mean, I wish him the best, but of course you do. Hope things are going great on his blog or whatever. I don't know. Is he a blocker? I don't even know. It's just like, come on. This team is like 11 or 12 games above 500. It's going to be a finish of top four, probably at worst in the West.

And you got Kevin Durant, who shows no significant signs of aging. Let me tell you, Ross, we've seen some 37-year-old's age. Chris Paul didn't age. Well, he actually did age. That's what I was meant to say. Steph Curry didn't age. Clay Thompson aged. Everybody at some point ages.

The guy wearing the rocket uniform hasn't aged just yet. They had to, I mean, something happened in the, in the middle of that game, I mean, in the third quarter of that game, and they didn't adjust well, and they all talked later in the game about possible, I mean, not impossible solutions of things they could have done and tried. So, I mean, yeah. All right. Now, to Emmanuel Ocho. Acho. Acho. How would you describe him among the all-time greats in the University of Texas football history?

I mean, he was a pretty good linebacker for a little bit. I think he was on the Eagles for maybe a year or two. I don't even think he was like first team all big 12 or anything. I can look it up, but he was good. And he, of course, with his brother Sam, Sam, Acho was great, and Emmanuel Acho was pretty good. I mean, they were decent Longhorn players, Emmanuel especially in the dark eras of MacRown, I think.

In 2012, okay? So you know what? There's six round picks that are great. His career history, he played one year in Cleveland. He was a practice squad. in 2013 with the Eagles and the Giants and then went back and then actually played for the Eagles between 2013 and 15. He has 33 total tackles in the NFL. Now he does. He has won an NFL uniform he has played. So with that comes some credibility. He does have the ability

to speak in complete sentences and the grammar is decent. No, he's very smart. The Atcho Brothers actually, that was one of the storylines. They're very smart. Right. Coming into school and well, when you are an athlete and you say things, it's going to probably gravitate and carry a little more weight than say Matt and Ross, especially when you have a national platform. Here is Emmanuel Acho discussing Chodor Sanders, which is a lightning rod topic as it is. And Jonathan, tell me when you're ready to go on this.

Okay, there you go. All right, here it is. The new coach of the Cleveland Browns is, lean, those to say, probably not the number one or two selection for most NFL teams, but he is still a significantly successful assistant coach and now gets his opportunity to be a head coach in Cleveland. Here's Sam Acho discussing how Shador Sanders should handle all this. Because any expectation for Shador Sanders under Todd Munkin, I believe, will lead to disappointment.

There is nothing about Todd Munkin as a head coach that should get you excited. As an offensive coordinator, you could say Lamar Jackson had an MVP season under Todd Munkin. As an offensive coordinator, Lamar Jackson had 41 touchdowns and four interceptions under Todd Monkin. As an offensive coordinator, you can make arguments under Todd Monkens. Stenson, Bennett won two national championships of Georgia under Todd Monk. But as a head coach, no, nothing about Todd Monkin as a headman gets me excited. I need to see who the offensive coordinator is going to be. That's what I need to see.

But what I don't yet see T is like, how is Todd Monkyn going to command that locker room, command that group of men? And also, if I'm Shador or anybody in that locker room, why am I listening? thing to Todd Monkin? What if you won on an NFL level as a head coach? You're not even a head coach on an NFL level. So I don't even have expectations for Shador under Todd Monkin because I believe any expectations I would have

he would not meet because why am I excited about it, T? So if you were to take everything into context, what Immanuel Ocho is saying is that either you played or an MVP or

you coached in one of a Super Bowl, and if you don't have either one of those two things, no coach, no players should ever listen to a coach. Yeah, it's, it's ridiculous. Emmanuel Acho, I think, knows what he's doing. He's trying to get, he is somebody who said a bunch of crazy stuff recently. And as I said, I don't think he's a dumb person. I think he knows, I'll give you another example.

I don't think Nick Wright's a dumb person. I think Nick Wright knows if he frames things in a small. certain way and pushes certain agendas he's going to get maximum eyeballs on what he's doing and saying and I just feel the same about Emmanuel Acho. I don't know if Acho's got beef with Munkin. I don't even particularly care. It's an indefensible position. It doesn't make any sense.

As you said, I mean, how many first time head coaches are getting hired all? How many of the 10 or what are we up to? I think it's eight head coaches that have been hired two vacancies still. Yeah. Yeah. It's a real interesting mix because there is so much more opportunity to get your voice heard, especially if you are a former player. And obviously, Chador Sanders is a lightning rod.

But man, that's just, that's character assassination, really, frankly, to me. It's stupid. I mean, Jesse Mentor, first time coach, Joe Brady, first time coach. I think Jeff Head coach we're talking about. Jeff Halfley with the Miami Dolphins who got hired there, first-time head coach. I just feel like that maybe Acho is just trying to already build a defense mechanism for if Chodor doesn't succeed and Gannon Cleveland doesn't get the starting spot or if he gets the starting spot and he's not good. Ocho could say, well, I told you so.

You're bringing in an expending first-time head coach. Well, what do you expect? Well, another thing that happens is that you dig in. When you are one of these loudmouthed ESPN Fox or whatever guys and you push this agenda, you try to figure out any sort of reason to deflect and deny whatever agenda he's pushing. Now, I don't know if he's been supporting Shador Sanders because I don't listen to a man you watcho. Like hook him horns and all that stuff, but I know what he is. He's a guy who's going to go out there and just say a bunch of sensational stuff.

So I'm going to presume that he's been defending Shador Sanders. And so, yeah, as you said, you can set it up. Like for example, I mean, like with the agenda that Skip Bayl's pushed for years with LeBron James. Like it was easy to do when he lost the 2011 finals, but then he wins a couple of championships. He's got four or five MVPs. He wins another championship. And then you have to just keep moving the goalposts and keep defending your position because otherwise you have to look yourself in the mirror and say, I was wrong.

I am incorrect. And some people cannot do that. Or they're just doing these sensational agendas and they just have to keep pushing them for clicks. So all Acho has to do now is if Shador is the quarterback and is successful, and Munkin does get the Browns of lower respectability. Oh, I guess I goofed. But, you know, and maybe I'm different because I grew up in this business in a different time. The reality is that Acho's getting, I mean, we've never played a Sam Acho cut on the,

manual Acho cut on this show ever in our life. I think we should put a moratorium on it. Yeah, you're probably right. about that but it's just like mission accomplished you're talking about this and i just i i i never want to be made fun of i mean in terms of a sports take that ruins the credibility of who i am now i'll say some crazy things just to have some fun on the show but i'm not going to ever come to you and we've done this show for a long time and say hey i've got this take that i think is so preposterous that it's going to get us clicks and i i don't i don't want that that's not

that's not why we got in the business we came into entertain and to bring some an analysis analysis to things, but I don't want to be the punching bag of something. And I think Acho is getting annihilated because, first of all, he doesn't have the resume. He was a fringe NFL player at best, then telling a guy who worked his ass off to get to where he is as a coach, as a coordinator, at both the collegiate and the professional level, you suck. You're never going to get this fixed. And oh, by the way, Shador Sanders, I've got an easy way for you to get out of the fact that if you're not good, it's going to be your coach's fault.

I just, I thought it was Bush League. I really did. And it's a ridiculous state. And what it does, it just, for me, Rossi, it just checks another person off the list of people.

I just don't respect. And I don't want anybody to go that. I don't want anybody to come and say, Matt, your sports takes are on a variety of things are so outlandish and so ridiculous, I'm not going to respect you. That hurts more than me than,

oh, I watched your YouTube clip or I watched whatever. I just found it kind of off-putting. I didn't think it was fair. Now, look, do I think the chance of Cleveland being awesome are great? No. Could this be a guy that's there for two years and out? I mean, he's 59 years old.

Never been a head coach before, so there might be a reason for that. But damn, I mean, this, he's already built in. Why should Chador Sanders listen to a word he says? How completely disrespectful that is to a coaching fraternity? Well, yeah, there's just no leg. That take has zero leg to stand on. Yeah. All right.

So that's it. 1047 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. If you'd like to be with us on anything goes Friday, you may do so. At 713, 212, 570. 719. 7.19. 10.53 and anything goes Friday. 713, 212.5.790 if you want to join us, 713, 212579. We're going to have a couple of off-the-beaten track NFL conversation pieces coming up in 11 o'clock, Rossi.

One is going to be about how much you're going to drink on Super Bowl Sunday. Okay. And we have a survey that is out. I will tease the survey and saying that apparently the livers of Houston Texans fans get to quite in a compromising position, so to speak. Hmm. Okay. So we got that. And then something we tweeted about, I tweeted about for the show promotion for the day. we're going to have to figure out what the hell is a NFL kindness officer.

Have you heard about this? I mean, I saw it, but I don't know many details. Do you know who Dar a man is? I do not. Jonathan, name a ring a bell to you? He's talking to Cole. Oh, is he? Okay.

That's fine. Why is Cole still to go home? I think he might be. Is he still kicked out? And we had him on yesterday. He said he's out of the doghouse. I mean He was sleeping there for a week, right?

Yeah I think they were talking about Mississippi State's basketball recruiting class Do you think when Cole's with his lady middle of the night And they're trying to get romantic And he's like, babe, you're so good You're like Auburn's front four

Oh, you're so good You're like Willie Fritz's new backfield Was that your Cole Thompson impersonation, Ross? That was actually Cole Thompson I'm just, I knew it was you Okay. Yeah, seriously. Cole is so SEC.

He's more, is he more SEC than Gordy or less? I don't know. I don't know Cole well enough, honestly. The only thing I know about him is he says things to his wife, he should not. Yes, I believe that to be accurate. And he ends up in the doghouse.

Yeah. And he drinks like a gallon of water every morning, which seems a little excessive. That's good. That's what you need to be doing, guys. In the morning and four hours a gallon, I think that seems excessive. No, I'm pretty good.

Did you have your hydration? Did you have hydration? Stay high. right everybody you shouldn't have a gallon before 9 a.m. Like you gotta dose it. You gotta burst your bladder. Yeah, I mean, is he taking like 12 minute breaks every commercial breaks so can go to the restroom? I mean, that's terrible.

Yeah. Yeah. Hey, girl, I love you. I don't love you as much as I do about Mississippi State's receiving court, but I do love you. Maybe he did the same thing, too. I mean, he married a Kentucky girl, so I mean... Yeah.

Oh, they talk, they argue all the time. What? Well, yeah, she's a big Kentucky. Homer. Yeah, I don't think I use sports to romance my wife. I did tell I was in sports and that we could maybe go to some sporting events and whatnot, but that wasn't part of it. I mean, she found me and she loved me because of my personality, my charm, my good looks,

maybe my economic potential, all those things. That's good, Matt. Security is important. Yeah, but I don't think she was thinking about, hey, Matt, do you think the Astros rotation needs a trade at the deadline? And if you do, then we're good for, we're good to go forever. But I did marry the ultimate bandwagon. I mean, Duke basketball, Notre Dame football.

Wait, she's a Notre Dame football fan? Oh, yeah. Why is that not ringing a bell for me? We haven't talked about it a whole lot, honestly. But the Duke basketball, it's like you got to be careful when you bring that up to people because Duke is pretty much one of the most hated things in sports, correct, right? Yes. You got Yankee hate, you got Dodger hate.

Dodger hates it an all-time high, I think. What's that? Dodger hates it an all-time high probably. Well, it's because they're spending $147 on players this year, and the one I'm spending $147 million on them in 2015. It's all deferred. Yeah, they buy their players on Clorna. Yeah.

Do today's kids even know Layaway is? No. Jonathan, context clue. Do you know what layaway is? Layaway? Yeah, layaway. Yeah, layway. Like I put some on a layaway?

Yeah. Okay, that's good. I used to get my school clothes lay away at Wieners, Matt. Ooh, Wieners. What? Yeah, Wieners. This is, this is, this is, you never looked at Wieners back in the day? I just know Burlington and that's it.

Oh, Burlington's a good call. It was more, you know what, I would compare it maybe to like a Steinmart. Yeah, I used to Steinmart when I was really fat. Oh, I could get 46 waist easy to Steinmark. Well, Husky. Husky. obese. I would love to have got the husky at some point in my life. You're doing great, Matt.

All right. Hey, um, okay, so the alcohol levels for people in the NFL, we'll discuss. That's a teaser right there, right? Wow, that's huge. I mean, we could go into more C.J. Stroud talk if you want. Yeah. Okay. Don't sign them. I'm actually soft. We actually can talk about that. And as the days have gone on, I'm, uh, not feeling as harsh mentally towards C.J. Stroud. Oh, you know what? Because you have been CJ Truther more than I am.

I don't know about, well, okay, yeah, Truther, I guess. Well, I said he was a franchise quarterback this first year when he threw 30 touchdowns and like 500 yards against the Buccaneers. But you've said he's softened your stance? He's massively regressed. We're going to hear the softer stance of Ross Villarreal. Plus alcohol habits for us as Houston Texans fans

here in town for the game next week. All coming up as part of the second hour. Plus we got I'm sorry. He's in one half hour. It's the Matt Thomas Show at Ron. This is Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 1102 on Sports Talk 790.

It is our number two of four, the Matt Thomas show with Ross, here on anything goes Friday. And I mean anything. What do you want to get into? You want to apologize for the mean things you've said over the last week or so? 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. I'm back from Atlanta where the Rockets last night took care of. of the Hawks.

Kevin Durant was awesome. Riechep was awesome. Josh Akogi. Did you have double-double on your bingo card last night, sports, Harvey? I did not. I believe it was a career-high

rebound. Certainly was a career-high offensive rebounds for him. Yeah. Yeah, he's sneaky, nice addition. He's kind of doing more than I thought he would, and Doreen Finney-Smith

probably doing a little less than I thought it would be doing. Yeah. Is that a good assessment? He'll be fine. All right, I hope so. Rockets off tonight. Don't.

It'll be really good or he won't be really good. Well, I mean, we'll find out. That's life, Matt. Either it's going to work out or it's not. Let's go. Rockets and Mavericks tomorrow night. Did Cooper Flagg scored 49 points last night? I thought it was Connip, or was it Flag?

It was Flag. Okay. By the way, how did U.S. beat both Cooper Flag and Con Canip? Well, they got lucky when Duke Chalk. Talent. They got lucky when Duke choked. No, no.

No, no. It's called talent. It's called defense. It's called aggressiveness. Duke was the best team in college basketball last year. But the best team always doesn't win. I know, exactly. As we found out on Championship Monday.

I agree. U of H is better than Florida, but. My wife saw the credit card bill for the airline flight, and she's like, what is this for? Dang. That's funny. Well, I mean, what are you doing, Matt?

She's like, why are you flying on a rando from, because the flight's Phoenix, Indianapolis is back. She's like, are you flying somebody in? I'm like, no, no, no. I'm going to go to Indianapolis to watch the Cougars International Championship. That's great. By the way, the Hornets beat the Mavericks last night in Dallas. Watch out for those pesky hornets.

So Concanipal scores 34 points. Flagg, who was his room dog at Duke, scores 49. Crazy. Cooper Flagg. 49. Why can't the rockets have like a room? Rookie that scores 49 points. Yeah, some people questioned how good Cooper flag would be coming out of the draft, but he's been pretty good.

He was 20 of 29 from the field and 6 to 6 in the free throw line. Is that good? I think it's incredibly efficient. That's what the kids would say. Man, dropping 49 on their heads. And still losing. I was going to ask whatever the rookie scoring record is, but it's probably Wilts Chamberlain. Yeah, I think he scored 806.

What's a non-will? What's a non-wilt chamberlid record? I wonder, and we're going to get to your Shigey, take on a second, but if we could ever go back in time and you and I would sit in the stands in a basketball game in 1962 watching Wilt, would we like the game? Apparently it was back and forth, very high possessions. Because I think they were just around that time.

We're instituting the shot clock. And all of them were wearing shorts really high up. Blackhuggers, if you will. I don't think I can say the first word, can I? No, I'm not going to. Well, Chamberlone to play 48 minutes, get a 50-point triple double, and then he'll go off the floor and get a triple double. No shot clock, no, no three-point line.

Do you all think he actually scored the 100-point game? Yeah, oh, no. You know the kids don't believe it, man? Yes, he did. There was like thousands of eyewitness accounts. Why is there no footage? Because they didn't film every single game in the 60s. They were playing in Hershey, Pennsylvania, where they don't normally play.

There wasn't ESPN. Don't you think the New York Knicks who had a hundred, somebody dropped 100 on their head would be like, nope, didn't happen. Richie Garon and the boys would have been like, there ain't no chance, no way, no how that this guy scored 100 points. It didn't happen. We got video over Jackie Robinson. That's, I don't know.

Yeah, you have film of Will Chamberlain. You just don't have film of that specific game. Didn't happen. Oh, my. Jonathan, listen to me very carefully. I'm going to give you because I'm a man of, of, uh, and solid knowledge and great insight. I'm listening.

He scored 100 points in the game. He did not sleep with 10,000 women. Yeah, he did lie about that. Well, that's a lie. Yeah, 10,000 is overestimation. They did call him wilt to stilt, though. Yeah, but they also called him Walt. They didn't call him Walt the Viagra machine.

Call him the big dipper. They did not. He was doing some dipping. All right. Okay. We've had this conversation before. Literally, there was like hundreds of people there who accounted for it. They tried to foul him.

They were like trying not to get him in the 100 points. The other team tried everything in their power to not give him 100 points. Literally watch one YouTube video on it. Jonathan, why would a thousand people at once lie? Maybe to boost the NBA. I don't know. I'm just, I'm just, I'm watching it. I'm watching it. Okay.

Trust me, he scored 100. Because there's no, I mean, there's really no narrative for it to say, well, he scored 100 points, but it didn't happen to no video. And it's not like his second highest scoring game was like 50. Yeah. He averaged, Jonathan, he averaged 50 for a year. 50 points a game for an entire season. One of the greatest legends.

I know, I know. What else don't you believe? No, no, I don't want to open this can of worms. Ah, we're doing it. Anything goes Friday? Anything goes Friday, Jonathan? By the way, hold on. Let's make sure we're on the air.

Peace be with you, Jonathan. Hey, anybody want to call in, get in? All right, what else don't you believe? In sports, not in life. Does the O.J. Simpson thing count? What do you? Oh, what don't you believe? What don't you believe on this?

I don't know. I was on a deep dive one day, like a two-hour video, saying that it was a son I don't know. No. I'm interested. Just like Clayton this I'm the same way. I just don't know. His blood is all over the scene.

His blood, but man. His fingers were cut. Where was his son's blood? Nowhere to be found, correct? I'm saying I just watch a video. I'm just saying I watch the video. Okay. See, this is a thing. You're watching, look, let me say.

They have to go to the cops and all that stuff. Jonathan's very young. Clearly. If you watch a YouTube video where it's only one perspective, you can buy into stuff. I remember this happened with like 9-11 truth or stuff. And I'm like, yeah, you know what? They're making a lot of good points. Literally, it can all be refuted.

It all is a house of cards and it can be refuted very easy. Go ahead and watch, I don't know. Hopefully somebody made like a refutation video of it. Because I get you, Jonathan. If you watch some one perspective of a conspiracy thing, it can be very convincing. but you got to go ahead and go If you watch a flat earth video Like they can make some points where you're like

Hmm that's interesting But no then you literally watch Five minutes of refuting it Like watch watch that OJ made in America ESPN documentary It's one of the greatest DocuSeries ever of all time One in Oscar for greatest docu series

Uh OJ did it OJ did it He did Now And this is going to take us to the end of the segment This is fine There is one thing, Jonathan, and I think Ross knows this.

There may be more than one. Oh, I know what you believe, and you're wrong on that, too. What's this? Matt. Go ahead and say it. David Stern banned Michael Jordan from the NBA for gambling. Oh, I believe that. That's for sure, but I wasn't thinking about it.

Oh, you were going there? You can believe that? Okay. Yes, I can. I 100% believe that. Absolutely believe that. And he said, come back in the middle of the season? He said take some time off.

Didn't he said 18 months? One season and a half? Didn't his dad get murdered? And I've heard a theory that it was because of the gambling. That's why his dad died. I also believe that. Oh, okay. Okay.

Absolutely. I believe all of it. Yep. Okay. But that's what I was not thinking about. But thank you, Ross, for bringing up another one. I believe that there was a frozen album in the patent. Oh, I remember that.

Yeah, I don't know about that one, I guess. I need to do some digging into that. to get the New York Knicks, the number one overall pick in Patrick Ewing? Yep, that's what I'm going with. I believe that one. All right. Oh, yeah, I had forgotten about the...

Yeah, I believe Michael Jordan, absolutely. Absolutely was told to go away for a while. That doesn't make any sense. Really? What doesn't make any sense? The greatest, biggest, brightest star on the planet. You know what? Why don't you go ahead and retire?

No, no, no, no, no. It was never going to be a retirement. Okay. Why don't you go ahead and we're going to suspend you for a year and a half for what? He was gambling on basketball? Here's how it goes. I'll be David Stern, you be Michael Jordan. Michael, listen, we know you've gotten some trouble here and you've got some people chasing after you.

And we cannot have the greatest player in the history of the NBA, the most recognizable face in our league attached to gambling and or mob issues. why don't you take some time away, talk about your father's death as a reason why you want to get away and decompress, and when the time is right, you can come back. Michael says back to David Stern, okay, I'll do that. I'll do something that I've always wanted to do as a kid and try to play professional baseball, and I'll call you when I'm ready to come back and you agree, then we'll do it. Meanwhile, the Chicago Bulls and that second year are just kind of wasting away,

mid-level team, Scotty Pippen can't be the go-to guy. Hey, let's create a storyline where I come back and I resurrect the Chicago Bulls. That's ridiculous. No, it's completely plausible. No, it's not. It's 100% plausible. It's kind of convincing me. I don't know.

Thank you, Jonathan. Why did he get suspended? I don't know. No, it's not suspension. What is it? Hey, let's get out in front of this. That's exactly what I am. Get out in front of it, and then you can come back in the middle of the next season and play

like 17 games or whatever he did and play the playoffs? There was no time. There was no timestamp of how long he was going to be gone for. So he said he told him to leave the league but didn't say for how long. Correct. He said, yeah, just leave the league and we'll come back when we tell you, you can. No, when the time is right for both of us. Get your gambling debt's in order.

Just get away from those people. I'll do what I need to do on my end. You need to do on your end. And when the time is right and you go to this little baseball thing to keep yourself in the headlines, then the time is right and come back. Yep. Absurd. It may be absurd, but I believe it.

All right, let's get a timeout in 1114. I'm sorry, it's coming up at the bottom of the hour. So, Ross just gave us a tease. It was incredible. We've not paid off on it. His hard line stance has a bit softened. So yes, folks, Ross got hard, then it got softened. What?

713-212-5-7-90. All right, just to give you a little preface on what we're about to discuss here. I'm sorry it's coming up at the bottom of the hour. You're like, what is that? Well, bottom of the hour is if you get to a call and apologize for something mean or something you did wrong and you want to atone for it. That's why we give you an opportunity for a half hour per week to call the show. I'm again to do that. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-790. We've got I'm sorry's coming up in about 15 minutes. All right. So let's backtrack a little bit here. Well, one quick backtrack. Jonathan's going to have to apologize to Wilt and the Chamberlain family. Because we found the radio broadcast. There is audio of the fourth quarter.

Should we play it? It's very kind of, I guess you can, could you call audio grainy? Yeah, it's a little warbled. I thought of the same thing. I actually started a roll on it, Matt, but it doesn't sound great. Yeah, it's fine. We won't do it then. Maybe on a best of.

Yeah. Okay. So, CJ's rookie year. Ross and I are like, whoa, franchise quarterback. Yes. Easy, easy, peasy, right? Yes. Year two, franchise quarterback.

Yes. A slight downward trend, but it's early, still young in the game. Can't wait to see what happens. Third year, regular season, okay. Still not spectacular, but okay. Playoffs, he's the victim of every bad meme in sports and society. society today. A national punchline.

You and I have debated about whether or not the match isn't playing. I said there's going to be concerns because not only do you have to pay one max, but you're going to be paying a second max out of that same draft class, i.e. Will Anderson, Jr. Well, that was before he turned the ball over seven times in two games? And you kept saying, and you were right, when you have one, meaning franchise, or what you think is a franchise quarterback, you've got to pay the guy. And even though I was hesitant, I understand.

understood and said, and by and large, you're right. Then the playoffs come through, and then you say, I'm not so sure now. What are they going to do? This is uncomfortable. You know, David Mulligan is going to go through, say, hey, where were you, you, CJ Stroud fans, haters when he was beating Kansas City, and this team was after an 0-and-3-star, came back to win the playoffs, yada, yada, yada, yada. So now you said flippantly, not intentionally flippantly, but flippantly about 25 minutes ago,

you are softening on CJ. So I would like you to talk about your hard stance and how you have since softened. I was talking about him being a sunk cost and how the Texans maybe do not need to invest in him at all and maybe even as soon as next year start looking for alternatives. But as we've gotten away from the horrible, inexcusable

performances of the playoffs in talking and thinking more about how again, it keeps getting drilled into my head. No run game, no offensive line. Nico Collins out. Dalton Schultz getting hurt in the game. Nick Cayley, an inexperienced play caller. On the road against a good defense.

It's okay. You can still win with C.J. Stroud. I mean, I was almost ready to get him off the team immediately. And the more I think about it, like, he can be fine. He can have a good offseason. You can improve the situation around him. He did, as I mentioned, bounce back from a QB, from, you know, touchdown percentage, interception percentage, QBR, all the yards in a temp, all that. He bounced back from a sophomore slump.

You can win with C.J. Straub. You can. Well, now, I'm about to ask you an unrealistic question here. When you say when, are you saying he's going to get me to 11 and 6 every year and we're going to take our chances in the playoffs or are you saying this is a guy that's going to get us 13 wins, another one seen the AFC, and he's going to take us to the Super Bowl. He's not going to lift everybody at the Super Bowl.

Because, I mean, it's a team game. Nobody's, no quarterbacks ever won a Super Bowl by themselves. But you can win with him. Can he be Sam Donald? Can he be Jared Gough? Yes.

I do believe that. Because Sam Donald looked like a disaster in the playoffs last year. People forget that. And we were, all questioning what was going on in Seattle. Like, oh, they signed Sam Darnold? Is that even an upgrade against Gino Smith? Sam Darnel has moved past C.J. Strat.

Of course. So now C.J. is right in the middle of NFL quarterbacks now. Do you know that? And Sam Darnold is, how old, 28? C.J. Stroud's 24. If this is a cop out on my part, you need to call me out on it. Okay. I'm not going to back what you say, but I'm going to say, and I think I said this even the day after the season ended, you have to give him a clean slate for 2026.

Yeah. Look, no, if you say 100% CJ Strouds this or that, I mean, we're not on first take. So you can have a measured take, Matt. It's okay. All right. My measured take is this. I can't come to this audience and say 26, 27, 28 year old C.J. Stroud is going to be any better. than he was. I don't feel that on my bones, but I'm not ready to trade him for a seventh-round pick. I mean, look, they have her probably out there about him and how bad he is and how the Texans goofed again is unfair. We are about what just happened. He did have an excellent rookie season. He did have a lot of things going against him. He had a below-average offensive line, no real running game to speak of. His second best offensive threat was his tight end. His number one threat was not available in the playoff game. The reason why I'm giving a benefit out is because the Texans have to give him the benefit out.

They don't have to give them a big extension. They don't have to pick up the fifth year option at this point. They have until May to figure that out. But I am not ready to say because there have been a lot of quarterbacks that have had those one or two-year flashes and then all of a sudden they're done in three or four years. There's no reason why we could think that CJ couldn't be one of those guys. And also, CJ could be a 29-year-old quarterback that could be doing this as well, to Sam Darnold. The problem is if he does it, Rossi, he'll be doing another uniform because

if he doesn't have a better 2026, there will be no conversations about an extension here long term for him. They won't do it and they can't do it. Hannah won't let that happen. Could C.J. Stroud be in a situation where you have a great running back, you have a great running back tandem, you have a good offensive line, you have a really smart, innovative play caller, you have arguably the number one wide receiver in football and a couple of good guys behind him and throw 25 touchdowns in 14 picks because that's what Sam Darnold did.

Okay, but I got one more for you here and we're going to get to I'm sorry's. How does a team fix RB1 and an offensive line and a wide receiver two all in one off season? That feels like it's too much work. Yeah, it's probably not going to happen all at once. And that's an interesting layer to the conversation

because as you're trying to build that offense, Sam Darnel's making $33 million a year. That makes it easier to add and have pieces around him. Baker Mayfield, when he first came to Tampa Bay, was on a smaller contract. They makes it easier to fill the roster around him. And by the way, Will Anderson Jr. is going to become the highest paid defensive player in the NFL this year,

or whenever it happens. Yeah, perhaps. We had Joel Corey on yesterday. Do you like him? Yes, he was very good. He mentioned how Micah Parsons reset the market so much that he might get more of an Aidan Hutchinson. It was $46 million a year for Micah Parsons.

So Aiden Hutchins' his deal was $45 million a year. So he's either going to reset the market and be above Michael Parsons or there's going to be a situation where he'll just be nestled right under it or around it. So, yeah, he don't get paid. All right, there it is. So how soft are you right now about this? You're such a child, Matt. I'm trying to have this layered, nuanced conversation

about a franchise quarterback, is he or isn't he, and getting the correct pieces around, and all you want to talk about is how soft you are. No, how soft your stance is. That's what I said. Yeah, I was angry with C.J. Stroud, and you know what, I've let the anger dissipate. You know, I've done a lot of thinking on it,

situation wasn't great. I'm not mad at him. I'm disappointed. There it is. Time for you to apologize. You've said some things this week that you regret, and we're here for you. 713-212-5-790.

7-13-212-5-7-90. It is the Matt Thomas show at Ross. We're going to wake the strippers up in about a half an hour here on the show if you want to chime in and say your sorries to people that you all apologize to. I'm going to assume that you guys, both you and Jonathan owe me an apology

for something you said during the show yesterday. Any point? Did you ever say anything mean? Or nasty or rude? I don't even remember bringing you up. Okay. I mean, you listen to some, right? I listened to Sam. I did not listen to the whole thing. I did listen to. I just don't get it, which I thought was interesting. But then I fell asleep. That's fine. Cathartic 30 minutes in Major Market Radio. It can be found on Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas Show with Ross. If you simply call in and say this.

I'm sorry. So sorry. Yep. You were a fool. You were an idiot. You've done something wrong. Let's hear it. Get it off your chest. You'll feel better. We can actually record them and send it to the people you love. If you want to do that, we can provide a service.

713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. I'm sorry. He's right here on Sports Talks. I'm running. Jonathan, you want to apologize to the Chamberlain family. Go ahead. And the 4,000 witnesses

and the recorded radio call. Let me just play this quick. Let me just play this real quick. Okay, here we go. Back to Chamberlain. He shoots up. No good. Get it out.

The rebound working bill. Back to Rutland. In the chamber. He made it. The fans are on the floor. I just want to sit here and come and say, I don't know.

My young age is showing And I am I having some questions To ask myself I just wanted to apologize Everybody heard that And just, you know, to Ross, I'm sorry Sorry, Jonathan Much to learn

Much to learn With life comes experience and knowledge And wisdom Oh, you play more of that audio? Sure, why not? Oh, no, that'd be better than our show. 169 to 147, the final score in that game. I'm so sorry,

Sorry. All right. I'm trying to think Ross. I feel like I apologize a lot on a daily base. I should start banking these things and writing them down. Okay. I got nothing at this point. I don't believe you.

I've lived there. All your misgivings. Yeah. You need to apologize with running with the hard and soft thing there. Oh, you're right. I'm sorry that I've mentioned that your stance has gotten soft. Forgive me. Mm-hmm.

I apologize your soft stance. Ross, what do you got this week? I can apologize to C.J. Stroud for even attempting to float the idea that he was a sunk cost. It's very rude. It's unfair. He's young.

Situation is an ideal. Maybe that stance wouldn't have been correct. But he needs a bit of a more leash. It's too early to say. I'm going to, can I push back a little bit on that? I don't think the leash. He's been the league three years, Ross. He's got 40 games under his belt.

C.J. Strat, I mean, Sam Donald's been eight years. How many years has, how many years has Trevor Lawrence been? Five or six? More, right? Yeah, for sure. How do you think, who feels better about their quarterback? Trevor Lawrence and Jacksonville or Houston Texans fans fan of C.J. Stroud. Jacksonville. And we were not saying that nine weeks ago.

We were saying how much he sucked. Well, you get Liam Cod. offensive genius in the building. You look a lot better. You got Nick Kaylee and the rocket in the Texans building. Now you're making me upset. First time play caller. Back to back years.

How are we feeling? C.J. Stroud, if he doesn't work out here, is going to be a Baker-Mayfield slash Jared Goff slash whoever. Gino Smith and Seahawk type candidate to have a resurgence in a better situation. Yeah. Look, I think he's absolutely a good guy. So it's easy to root for him. I don't think he's nearly as arrogant as, say,

Carter Marie is, or a Baker Mayfield. I mean, we've got rooting interest in us. We want good guys to finish and succeed. Yes. No one's ever said, well, CJ doesn't put the work in. CJ doesn't care. He doesn't look at his film. He's the last to arrive at the first.

There's none of that stuff, none of those whispers are out around the Texans facility. So the problem is his biggest detriment is something. I don't know if he'll ever shake. And I think it's unsteady feet. I think it's decision-making. And I don't all of a sudden think the light bulb's going to turn and go. He was a below-average decision-maker. All of a sudden, he's an elite decision.

In his rookie season, one of his greatest attributes was making difficult throws under pressure. So then what happened? Did the concussions get to him, which very well could be the case? That's another layer. Like we've talked about it. I mean, there's a lot of layers on this onion. That could be possible. I'm not as neurologist.

I'm not as psychologist. I don't know if he's had some sort of multiple concussions that he's missed multiple weeks both times and is there something that can't get repaired? I don't know. But I do know it is... You're a good therapist. You want to get a lot of my phone calls.

I'm trying to help. You know what? I'm trying to help everybody. All right. On line two, it says, I'm sorry to Matt. I love these things. Okay. Cameron on 790, Cameron, what are you apologizing for? Matt, I want to apologize. About two weeks ago, said, you were talking about Robert Kraft.

And I sent you a tweet making a joke. And I checked my Twitter about a couple hours later and I saw that you blocked me. I just want to apologize. I didn't mean to upset you or I was being a jackass.

Really? What's your Twitter account? Anadized mine. What is it? That's weird. What is it again? Anadized mind. All right, I'll have to, I don't know, I'll have to go look and see if you're worthy of being on block. How do you spell that? Yeah, that's a lot of words there.

A-N-O-D-E-D mind. What made you think of that? Oh, I used to work at a shop where we do anodizing. That thought was cool. Okay. Well, let me tell you something. You're calling and apologizing means the world does. So you got a puncher's chance.

I can't give you a great chance, but I'll give you a puncher's chance. I'm asking. That's all you can ask for. Thank you. Well, if you're on Instagram, follow me on Instagram at SportsMT. Also, you can follow me on Instagram at SportsRV. I got a bunch of new folks.

I'm almost at 3,200, Rossi. Wow, what that? Great job, Matt. Thank you. I'm, uh, anybody else? 25, I'm sorry, 35 away from 1,400. All right, let's go. Follow sports RV.

Thank you. Follow because he's going to give you videos with a Koo your back. backgrounds, but greatest sports analysis. What's peculiar about it? They just, they look like they're like 1978 video productions. 1978 video productions. With a green, with a chroma key?

Yeah. Now, this is 2025, baby. I know, you're right. And my Logitech cam? You know what the hell you're talking about. Oh, if you want exciting pictures of clouds, go to SportsMT. Hey.

More volleyball updates of stuff you don't care about. Go to SportsMT. Can I do an early? I'm sorry? Sure. Next Wednesday is my daughter's official signing day at the University of Rhode Island. And we're having a big event. The Humble School District is doing a big event where all the athletes that have scholarships are signing are making their big day.

And so I will be flooding all of my socials with pictures of my daughter and her signing day. So in advance, if you find that annoying that I'm proud of my daughter, I say I'm sorry. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, there is a mute function on Instagram, right? Yes, there is ironically enough. It's not ironic. It's good. It's funny because there's a lot of people I follow on Instagram. I like their photos.

They never like mine back, because I feel like I'm being muted by a lot of people. Yeah, I think that's probably the case. I'm a mutie, not a muter. Yeah, that's probably right. All right, here we go. Let's get a quick timeout in. Look, y'all, let me tell y'all. I know it ain't the hottest time in sports.

but this is about a segment about you apologizing for the mean things that you've done I know you're out there hold on what you didn't apologize for anything really I will have an apology I'll come back I did an early preface I'm sorry because I'm going to flood my social media's with that's good actually that's good you're really gonna hear a paper about it is it gonna make you it's gonna want the cockles of your heart when you see all the pictures I sent of of Carly signing her letter of intent You know, I will say, there are many negatives about you, Matt. I mean, whew, laundry list.

Come on. But you are a great, loving, proud father, and that's one of your best attributes. Well, I mean, I basically already paid for her college with the club's volleyball was seen. It is very cute. And the TV pieces that were done as well, very endearing, is very sweet. All right. That's maybe the nice thing you've ever said about me in the history of this show. And I'm wishing your daughter the best.

Let me know where to drop the NIL check. Oh, if you all want to get your NIL out there, let's go. At Carly Thomas, I think it's V-Ball-2020-6, whatever. She's on Instagram, too. So we'll get that going. 1149 here on the program. It is Matt Thomas River Ross. 1-3-2-1-2-5-790.

Coming up at the top of the hour, we've got the news at noon. What's the strippers out. And then we're going to get to how, and you know what, I need to apologize to influencers. I don't like to paint with a broad brush, so I won't. I will say 90% of influencers are 24-year-old douchebags. Okay. Oh, I'm sorry. So who are you apologizing to?

I'm going to apologize to what the NFL is having with their new officer they're going to bring to the Super Bowl this week, so we can get unprecedented coverage of the big game. So we'll have that for you coming up in a few minutes. Okay. Let's take a look here. the Vikings just fired the general manager. Hmm. I'm kind of blip.

I do not apologize, by the way, for saying that Nick Casero doesn't keep his job if the Texans don't make it to the AFC championship. You shouldn't have to apologize. Just a take. I mean, you could be right, but I, if they make the, if they don't make the playoffs, that's one thing. No doubt. I don't know.

There's no doubt. I mean, what if they're, I don't know, what if C.J. Stroud gets hurt. and they're like 9 and 8. I guess you're right. I mean, there's a million scenarios that can play out. All right. Joining us next,

a man who was at that 100-point game, James, on 7-90. Go James. Yeah. Yeah, good morning, Liberty White, Matt. I'm glad to see you're back

in the Texas bandwagon. I am. Oh, good. I'm glad to hear that. I need to apologize. Actually, so this turned out pretty good. I kind of imitated you yesterday. I thought it was funny,

but apparently, not many others did James let me tell you somebody let me tell you about James you're a good man you call the show we appreciate you listening every day it means a lot to us

the only thing that it's negative about you is you're not funny other than that you're probably a really great person oh it's hilarious and Jonathan thinks so funny Jonathan you think James is funny that impression yesterday it was kind of spot on I'm gonna give James a little bit of credit

all right let's hear it oh do we have it You want to hear the original one? I don't care. Let's hear it. Jennifer Lawrence, Jennifer Conley, or Jennifer Anston? That was your impersonation of me? Wait, you didn't say Jennifer Lawrence.

That changes the math. Well, yeah, no, yeah, I didn't say Jennifer. You said a different, Jennifer. Garner, yeah, Garner's in fourth place of the lot. Now you put him on the spot, though. Yeah, well, I can't do your voice. I have to get a little more feminine to do that. but you can't do your voice.

Oh, my God. But nevertheless, Jonathan, why don't you tell, Jonathan, why don't you tell James what you asked me a couple days ago about James? What I asked? Do you know? Go ahead. I can take it.

No, you can't. Go ahead. What do you go up at their 100-point game? What did you want to say? I want to say that that actually did happen because you have to realize what kind of defense he's up against. I mean, he's up against five, six, four white guys. So it wasn't hard to score 100. points in those days.

Plus, if Kobe scored 80 against the competition he was up against, we'll can score 100 against all those white guys he played up against. So it wasn't that hard to believe to be, actually. And I don't know if you know about this, Jonathan, but white guys can't play defense. Yeah, exactly.

Or they cannot jump either. I've seen McCloom. He can jump a little bit. Thank you, James, for the phone call. By the way, I guess I didn't see this, I didn't see it because obviously I was calling the game. Was Craig Ackerman fighting with Ryan about whether or not Craig Ackerman could dunk a basketball. There was a...

Wait, what? Matt, you know Craig. I do know Craig. And you know how he can get fixated... Yes. On a topic. Yes. And then continue to bring it up.

Especially if you doubt him or say something negatively towards his position. Uh-oh. He mentioned that he could dunk when he was young, which I have no reason to dunk. doubt if he's saying it. Ryan Hollins wasn't doubting him, but he sounded surprised. And apparently Calvin Murphy

said he didn't believe him. And then Vanessa was, you know, they were kind of messing with him. You also mess with Craig when you know it's going to burn him up. And so Vanessa was messing with him and saying she needed to see tape. So he kept bringing it up how he could dunk.

He's like, you guys are calling. He wasn't saying it this way. But this was the, he was doing it a must less harsher tone, but basically you could tell, like, he's like, you guys think I can't dunk and I can dunk. Like, he brought it up like three or four times of the broadcast. I got to be honest, I've known Craig for probably at least 25 years. And like most of us, Craig has gained weight in 25 years. When I first met him, he was a string bean.

I'm going to go ahead and say he could do it. Because Craig did play a little bit of Division I baseball. Now, he moved around from school to school to school, but I think he once told me he could top out of like 91 on the gun, which is not bad. He was a pitcher and a catcher, yeah. Pitcher and a catcher, that's right. He was a pitcher and a catcher in college.

Where else would he be? Yeah, right in baseball. Correct. The sport of baseball, where there's pitchers and catchers. That's right. What are you talking about? I don't know. You're trying to...

I'm not trying to do anything. All right. By the way, Cleveland Buckner on the Knicks. I'm trying to find the tallest player that played in that game. He was six... he was 6'9 9 guys back of the day imagine that everyone else was

well uh darrell i'm sorry darrell i'm sorry darrell i'm hoff was 6'10 but he only played 20 minutes in that game so you had one guy who was 610 one guy who was 6 9 everybody else 6 6 and under in that game looks like against on the new york knickerbockers and how many shots did we'll take uh he was 36 of 63 and this is why he scored 100 because he was a bad free throw shooter his whole career, but he made 28 out of 32.

I don't think we would, if we were there for the game, we probably didn't enjoy it. I mean, we were kind of mesmerized by the number, but it was probably going, what is this guy trying to score 100? Oh, he is going to score 100. And wasn't that the year that he, there was a year where he shot,

he shot underhand and made like 60% of his free throws, but then he thought it looked like sissy stuff, so he went back to the regular way and then went back to shooting like 50% or under. Yeah. Yeah, they don't, no one's going to ever shoot underhand on regular base ever again because they're going to be made fun of. And it's ridiculous.

There's a lot of bad free throw shooters. What if it goes in, who cares? They apparently care. I know. Let's get that underhand going. Let's go, Alpy. Let's go. Don't get me start on Alpy's free throws.

I love Alpy, but he's leaning into his shots. There's a hitch in a giddy up. That's what I'm saying. Let's go granny style. Let's get his, Rick Berry's dead, right? No, he's alive. Oh, Rick Berry's alive, right? And what can't we get him out there teaching granny style?

Because he's probably been asked by like 5 million people to teach him the granny style. He said he could get shack shooting 75%. Rick Berry used to shoot like 90% granny style, right? Because you know why? It was the same motion every single time. Also, he was a great shooter and spawned some great shooters. That he did. All right, let's wake the strippers up.

It's 1158 here on Sports Talk 7.9. We have the news and noon coming up, and we're going to find out what new titles are available for you to work for the NFL, including some Gibroni influencer who's going to give us unprecedented coverage and put a smile on our face during Super Bowl 60 coverage, 1158 here on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. In H-town, Gangster! This is Sports Talk 790. It would be terrible.

Why did you say that like that? You go bad. What is wrong with you? What's wrong with me on multiple occasions per show? One of those crutch phrases. I mean, it may be applicable, but it is what it is. 1206 on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

713-212-5-790. If you want to get with us today, it isn't anything goes Friday. We have non-Florida stories coming up today at 130. We have a hell-year-or-not at 150. but right now we present to you what has won three regional Marconi Awards. It's the news at almost noon. Yes, Matthew, it is the news at noon. You did have the Rockets in action last night in Atlanta.

Ells, they were able to get a victory over their hated rival, the Hawks. 104 to 86. Kevin Durant leading the way with 31 points. 12 and 22 from the field. rebounds for a sift, didn't turn the ball over three times. Nary another rocket over 15 points. 104 to 86, the final back from like 1996. But hey, you got the job done and you were able to have stifling defense on the Atlanta Hawks. How about 14 blocks in the game for the Rockets? Take that, Wemby. Five blocks for Jabari Smith Jr. and three apiece for Alpern, Shingoon and Amen Thompson.

good contributions off the bench from Reed Shepard and Clint Capella. Was he fired up from that tribute video, Matt? Is it just me or he had a little extra pep in his step? I teared up during that whole thing. Oh, you did? Yeah, of course. That's my guy. All the great things he did with the Atlanta Hawks.

Okay, that's cool. By the way, the Hawks average on their front line about 6'6. So, I mean, I would think I could get a block shot at that. I don't think he could. That's fine. By the way, I want to give kudos to Jonathan. I did hear the news of noon yesterday on the plane. when I was bumping around town.

I was listening to the I Heart Radio app when I was at the hotel. Yes, you can listen to us on the I Heart Radio app anywhere. Yeah, when I was at the hotel and I was like, Jonathan's using sound bites as part of the news at noon? I know.

You know, he's just growing every day. That's all me? And that's all we can ever do. You didn't use any sound bites in the news at noon so far. You could have played a great call of mine from last night. I'm good.

All right, continue on. All right, Matt. Elsewhere you have in the Australian Open, Alcarez, slugging it out with Zverrev, over a five-hour semifinal. He is heading to the finals as the ageless. Okay, he's 38. Novak Djokovic in five sets in a thriller over Yonik Center. It's Al-Garez versus Djokovic in the finals of the Aussie Open.

Are you getting up at 3.30 a.m. on Sunday to catch it. I will not be going to sleep. going to sleep. I'm going to stay up all the way to walk. I like that. I like that. You're going to need a couple of pots of coffee for that, Matt. Probably. So good look. And some, what was that a Viver? What was that caffeine? Those caffeine pills back in the day? For truckers?

Oh. Viverin or something? Yeah. They also used truck stop lizards too, right? What they call them? A lot lizards? A lot lizards. Now, why am I talking about truckers staying up and you immediately go to dirty prostitutes? Well, they stayed up that way. I read, Ooh, I can't say this on air.

I don't know what I was doing on Reddit, but there was a story about a truck stop. I'll tell you, I'll come in there in the break and I'll tell you and Jonathan, this is not safe for air. Wait a minute. You're teasing something you cannot tell you. Yeah, I know.

I know, I'm sorry. I had to stop myself. You know what? I'm giving it on Friday. I'm sorry to the audience. You know what? If you ask me on, follow me on Instagram and send me those DMs.

Yes, and I will tell you the story. Okay. It's nasty. It's not safe for error. I'm sorry. This is your fault. You brought up a lot list. No, I'm frankly disappointed in you.

I'm frankly more intrigued by what we're going to hear during the break than I'm hearing right now in the live commentary. Oh, it's so foul. Continue. What else is going on? Follow me on Instagram at Sports Harvey. I'll follow you back and I'll tell you the story. All right. Where was I?

Oh, you have random fireings are happening everywhere, Matt. The Minnesota Twins abruptly. firing their team president, just two weeks before the team is due to report to spring training. Derek Falvi let go, who has been the baseball operations president with the twins since October 2016. And then you have some breaking news with the Minnesota Vikings firing their GM. Yes. His name is Quesi Adolfo Mensa. Yeah, reason for firing. you traded Sam Darnold away for a bag of donuts, and we are not in the playoffs.

McCarthy sucks, and Sam Darnold's going to the Super Bowl. Pretty easy to figure that one out. I mean, Jonathan Grenard was a good signing. What is good as getting rid of Sam Darnold? Who was the name of that line by Blake Cashman? Good signing. Former Texan legend. Well, they have a tribute video when the Vikings come here to play,

and Cashman gets a video like Clint Capellic got in Atlanta. He's only been there since 2002. Woo! Okay. All right, there you go. So some firings happening there.

Elsewhere in the sports news, Matt, unfortunately, Lindsey Vaughn crashed and injured her left knee Friday in her final down race before the Olympics, but said she still hopes

to recover in time for the Milan Winter Games. Aren't the winter games like in 10 days or something? Yeah, they're pretty soon. And she crashed and hurt her knee. And she says,

41 years old. Looks great for 41. Yeah. Wasn't she, wasn't she hanging out with JJ Watt? No, no, Tiger Woods. I know. But she was hitting on JJ Watt

openly one time. Maybe that's the reason why. He's happily married, of course. Of course he is. And they have bouncing a baby boy or girl? I can't remember. Two kids now. Okay.

Or at least one coming and one's already out. I don't know. Excuse me? You know, like one baby's already. No. young child. Oh, okay. All right.

I mean, do you want anything else? We can break here. No, we're going to talk about this Chief Kindness Officer. Oh, okay. Well, actually, one more thing. Yeah. A potential off-season trade suitor for Mac Jones.

Is? The Minnesota Vikings. Oh, imagine that. Dang. J.J. McCarthy was supposed to be the guy. That's why they let Sam Darnel walk. Are the Texas being talked about? I would say no, right?

I haven't seen that, no Yeah, I'd be intriguing By the way, we're going to hear about Oh my God, I have I have seven requests On Instagram No way I love y'all

I'll follow you all back at SportsRV We're going to, Ross is going to tell us In the studio Oh my God What it is And then we're going to do a PG version of what you say I read it on Reddit

So it could be a fake story. Well, it could be a right. Yeah. First of all, that it was a reason, it was a reason a driver swore off a lot, lizards forever. All right. PG version of this. I don't know.

Plus what an NFL kindness officer is. As the Matt Thomas Show at Ross continues here, until 2 o'clock. We're grinding through, folks. I love all y'all. Anything goes Friday here on 790. 1217, the Matt Thomas. with Ross, it as anything goes Friday.

And Ross did, as promised, tell us exactly what was on the Reddit page. Those of you who don't know, lot lizards are basically prostitutes that go to truck stops and they do their thing because truck drivers are lonely and it's quick. It's profitable. There's not a lot of lateral movement. Okay, so how do I do this here? Just don't. No, because we need to pay off on our...

No, you don't, because I said I wasn't going to say it. Gosh. PG version. Lot lizard spends some quality time with truck driver A, gets out of the truck, cleans herself off, goes to truck driver B for more quality time. The part B of this is

she doesn't go into a bathroom to clean, herself off. And that's as far as we can go. Right? I said I was, I'm staying out of this. Okay. If you want the full version, send a

D.M. on Instagram and he'll tell you. Thanks to all of you for listening. And then paste it up by everybody else. Oh, I'm trying to, I'm actually giving everybody personalized messages and then I have this story. I'll give a personalized message and this story might be copied and pasted.

and slightly right there in there so ross we need to explain something to the audience next week will be super intense super bowl coverage from san francisco all the national folks will be there and um the nfl is like you know we need to continue our marketing brand and we're going to create something called a chief kindness officer basically this guy is going to give you angles of the super bowl not necessarily the x's and o's but just the on the behind the scenes kind of stuff that the youngans like the social influencers well they hired a guy named dar man d h a r m a and and as his chief kindness officer now he has a huge following on youtube and i believe instagram he's got 25 million subscribers

on his dar man studios the content is mainly scripted short movies about 20 to 30 second minutes in length that features celebrity appearances and thought-provoking titles like Mikey falls in love with YouTuber and vegan teacher bands all meet inside school. The videos apparently are quite popular and have an uplifting message, which is clearly what inspired the NFL to partner with him. Well, apparently this guy's got a checkered past. Yeah, people are, I don't know, I never heard of this guy. He's got four million followers on Instagram.

In 2023, news was made as work. workers in his videos protested what they claimed to be poor working conditions. Man denied the accusations. And there was never ever any proof one way of the other. But you go look at Adam Schepter's tweet yesterday announcing this guy name, what is the name? Darman. And there are lots of videos of this guy not acting very, very friendly and not very kind. this is again the new era of media coverage forgetting about talking about things that are

relevant to the game which again i don't know if people particularly care about i mean i don't know if there's going to be a whole lot of exes and nos about new england and seattle except for the national pundance and those folks obviously in boston and seattle that would be covering the game a lot closer than we would for you and me we have an interest in the game we want it to be good but we're not going to be sitting there thinking about whether or not uh christian gonzalez is going to pick off a couple of Sam Darnel passes. I mean, you may be, but that's not going to be the top of my mind. So you've got to figure out ways to

reinvent yourself, and this is what this so basically this Chief Kindness officer is, let's take a mega influential influencer, let's give him a title, let's give him all access, and he can shoot some really funny, cool videos. Hmm. It just

and I guess the main thing I want to say is it's just probably not for not you and for me. Yeah, I mean, I don't understand exactly what's happening here. I'm not going to pay attention to it. I'm reading on SB Nation. This guy has felony charges?

Yes. Hydroponsi scheme? Yes. He's basically a young guy that has had some bad business deals and that have been covered up because he's insanely popular on social media streets. It's just weird. I just don't get it. I mean, the NFL does a really good job.

I feel like all the sports leagues in this country do a great job of giving us behind the scene stuff. Why would you want to put, I mean, is there a segment of the population that's just going to be like, oh, thank God you're covering what the Seahawks are eating for lunch today. You know what I mean? It's just weird. Well, I think we need a chief kindness officer up here, Matt. So I'm glad you brought that up. We have the two guys in the morning, you and me. Yes.

The two afternoon guys. Yes. All of us have our own individual show producers. We have Gordy. Yes. Who should be the chief kindness officer of Sports Talk 790? Adam Clinton. No chance.

Cheat. I hate everyone officer, Adam Clinton. Wow. I don't know. Who's the nicest guy? I'm going to take myself off the list. You're right. It's got to be me. This is a torch I'm willing to carry, Matt. I mean, honestly, you're probably the least judgey of everybody that we work with. That's good.

I don't know Cole won't have to say if he's a judgeer or not. Hmm. He only judges is like a secondary of mid-level SEC football teams. Yeah, he's wearing Hawaiian shirts every Friday. He seems like a pretty chill dude. It's not Wexler. Unless his wife is getting under his skin. Oh, yeah.

Clanton, it just hates everybody, so that's not going to happen. Wex, cramaging. Yeah, Wex, no. I would have to say either you. I got to be my, me by defense. fault? I mean, Danimal. Yeah, Dan calls everybody buddy, so that kind of helps. That's true. I'm his buddy.

Yeah. Like, if he was going to give you, if he's going to drop it, FUIU, he'd say, hey, buddy, F you. Hey, buddy. He does put that in play a lot. Yes. I don't know. You know, here's what the NFL is doing to a much bigger picture of this. They're trying to recreate new ways to gain audience.

They're creating new ways to gain. games. They're looking for new ways to generate revenue. My assumption is this chief kindness officer is going to be doing a bunch of nice videos about how cool it is to be at wine country at 3 o'clock and on a practice field at 7. That's going to be brought to you by XYZ. I don't think NFL is doing anything out of the kindness of their heart. They're always, no matter what they're trying to do, what kind of economic impact can that give us to the bottom line. You know who shouldn't mind that honestly?

The NFL players. the NFL players should absolutely give any sort of access they want to anything the NFL does because at the end of the day the NFL monetizes about everything they do and that monetization goes into a big piggy bank and at the end of the year they split up the revenues and they say this amount of money that the NFL generates must buy rule because it was collectively bargained must go towards NFL salaries. Yeah, I don't know what the heck is going on with this whole thing. I mean, I guess they're just looking for some PR.

But the reality is, apparently the kids liked it. He's been in, like, Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards. He's been nominated in 24 and 25. He won some kind of shorty award, which is like for TikTokers and YouTubers and Instagrammers. But you know what that means? That means he's going to get access to players and coaches

that perhaps legitimate members of the media will not receive. which is going to create a firestorm because the legit guys are trying to get their stories in and are going to be like, I didn't have a chance to talk to X, Y, and Z because Drake May was busy having a vanilla yogurt put over his body. What? You know, doing crazy stuff like that. Okay. I don't think Drake May is going to do that, but I'm just saying.

Because everybody, you know, all these players have responsibilities, media responsibilities, and if the NFL's pulling them away because the chief kindness officer wants to a story about what is game day how he ties his shoelaces it's going to ultimately get this is not going to end well yeah it feels like this might not even i mean can this guy i mean multiple different incidents where he's gotten charged with felonies yeah 13 counts of kindness and felony charges defrauding oakland city beautification program submitting fraudulent checks made it appear as though he was paying contractors more than he was oh my god he pled no contest a hydro ponzi scheme He's a chief swimmer.

He was growing a chief kindness guy. He started a business called We Grow, hydroponic cannabis business in 2010. What? He's not that young. Accused by his, how he's 41. Wait a minute. You're 41. Yeah, I'm young.

What do you mean? Why don't you do a chief, why don't you be the chief kindness? You know what? You are the chief kindness officer of 790. Yeah. We want to see, we want to see behind the scenes of the station and how everybody gets along so well. And everything is kumbaya and the equipment works and people are always in a hell of a humble mood. no matt but life is going to throw you curveballs

you got to keep swinging baby all right so yeah good luck with the chief kindness officer of the NFL I don't even think this is political correctness I think it's just hey we need to get 22 year olds to look at our TikTok videos feels like he's going to be removed from his post by the Super Bowl yeah I think you're probably right all right 1228 here on the matt Thomas show with ross

if you want to jump in on anything goes Friday 713 212 5-7-90. One last thing about this Chief Kindness officer. The ultimate total on this, Ross, is 13 felony counts of fraud and he took a plea deal to avoid

prison time. Man. Yeah, there's no way. Somebody did not do their due diligence on that. All right, it is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. What is on your mind? Anything. Anything goes Friday? 713-1-21-2-125-7-90. 713-215-790.

The Wemby rumors are out there. The latest that I heard when I was driving home this morning in the wee hours, the Western Conference teams that are showing the most interest would be the Golden State Warriors and the Minnesota Timberwolves. Apparently, we already know the rockets of not showing any interest. And apparently the same thing goes to the San Antonio's first. They're like, you know what, we're 31 and 15. We got Wemby, we got a lot of good young guys around us, we got draft picks.

we don't think that he would make that big of a difference or would it be willing to give up too much for that. Eastern conference teams that are showing interest would include the Miami Heat and the Toronto Raptors. You know what, Ross, if he wants to go play the rest of his NBA career at least the next handful of years in Toronto, I'd have zero problem with that.

Sounds great. Sounds amazing. Do you see that his mom posted a picture of him in Miami? No, it would say. It was just a picture of Janus in Miami while the stories were all leaking about him going somewhere else. It was like him on the heat court, I think, with the Heat logo prominently featured.

So now they're just trying to agitate. I don't know. Miami Heat, Yonis? Let me tell you, as long as anywhere in the East, I'm more than okay. Yes. Agreed. Now, what they were saying about the Golden State deal is if they were, if he was going to Golden State, it would be more of the future,

not necessarily the present, that they're kind of stuck where they are. They would have to send Jimmy Butler to Milwaukee in return and give up a lot of draft pieces, but I don't know, just Yana's still very much in the prime, but he's about to hit the not so much prime. He's on the downside of his career. I don't think that's it. There's any yeah. And we talk about Kevin around how great he is at 37, but that's also

he can shoot the lights out. Yonis cannot shoot the lights out. Now he's always going to be able to win with some of, well, because of his length and he is skilled inside the paint. Yes. But he doesn't have that primary game that Kevin Durant does. So anywhere close. And he's going to have to go a full 94 feet where Kevin doesn't have to do that more times than not. So if he was to go to Golden State, obviously it would be a huge national, I mean, wherever he goes is going to be a huge national story.

But do you see that team with an older Steph, an older Draymond, and a not. Not 100% Janus, but maybe 85% Janus based on his peak. Contending a year from now? It feels like to me that Golden State is just trying to stay relevant? You know that Milwaukee's going to be asking for a major hall. Now, losing Jimmy Butler, especially after his season-ending situation, is not that big of a loss. But Golden State does, has kept a lot of its draft picks

because they knew at some point they couldn't rely on stuff. Curry to be the guy that could score 35 points in them every single night. Yeah, it would be pretty difficult to turn around. I'm trying to think of teams recently who were really, really good and then had a bit of a swoon and then bounced right back.

Really, the Warriors had, I mean, the Warriors beat the Rockets in the playoffs last year. It's not like... They did. They did. And you know what? If, was it Curry that got hurt, right? If Curry would have played, would they have given the Minnesota Timberwolves a better option? By the way, Minnesota's also being a team that's being talked about as a potential

trade ship. New York may be offering Carl Anthony Towns for Janus is part of a deal. Who knows on that? Carl Anthony Towns going from New York to Milwaukee. I think Carl Anthony Towns is lighted to New York. I don't think he's loved. And the Nicks have shown a history of being able to

pull up these big moves. Yeah, maybe they should be the favorites. What are the odds makers saying these days? You know, I'm not paying attention to that, but I just, I'm sure usually we get an email. Yeah. Can you please mention our company?

No, we're not going to. Sorry. I'll say this, and I don't mean to get a too early gut feeling on this. I would not automatically make the team that Janus goes to the NBA favorite to win the whole thing. Now, if he goes from an Eastern Conference team, then maybe I would say that this is a guy that could get a team that's maybe a team that's maybe a a three or four seed and make them a number one seed or a team that would be hard to stop come playoff time. I don't think putting Janus on Golden State's going to threaten

the supremacy of Oklahoma City, Denver, perhaps Houston and Santa Turner in the West. Minnesota would be very interesting to have him and Edwards on the same basketball team. My gosh. That's 60 points a game from two guys right there. Yeah, we would just be guessing on how many more games, Yonis. I mean, how many more seasons, I should say, of this high.

He's been insane. I mean, he's shooting 64% from the field. Is there any part of you that is, and look, I'll be honest with you, folks. I've not spent a lot of time looking at the, I mean, I look at the sheer numbers of Yonis. And when he plays against the Rock, it's not fun to call because he is so good. but has the way he's kind of approached all this with booing the fans of Milwaukee and mom as you said

putting the photo out of him in Miami is he trying to go heal on us right here? I think he's always been an honest guy and had his shoulder on his sleeve I mean what is it? A heart on his sleeve. A shoulder crying. Yeah, sure, why not?

All those things. I think he's always been kind of an emotional, loud, outspoken guy talking about wanting to stay in Milwaukee. I remember he used to post those videos about, well, did things with he and his wife, and clearly they get along.

I think she's got like, they got like five kids together or something to this point. What else are you going to do in? That's true. You're snowed in. Things happen. 14 degrees outside.

Isn't that why September is like the most popular birth month? Nine months from the winter. I never thought of it that way. I was a June kid, so. Well, I'll let you think on that. Yeah, I'm going to. Speaking of big man, and I was on the show yesterday with you.

So Wembe and the Spurs beat the Rockets, obviously, right? Does Wembe have to fall down on the ground, on the court every single time he's fouled? Is he that brutal? He does. He's pretty light. He's added some strength. I mention this on the game broadcast, Rossi. If he doesn't learn how to take fouls better,

he's going to break bones weekly in the NBA. So he needs to go to, What did it do? What did Tua do to learn how to fall down better? Was it jujitsu or judo or something? Yeah, I know. I'm saying like he can train. But unless they're just, I don't think NBA players are bullying him.

I don't think they go, hey, if we're going to go foul Janus or Wembe, we're going to make it as hard as possible. We're going to make sure he feels the pain of it. He's just frail. Can you say a 7 foot 4 guy is frail? Dispersing impact techniques. such as jujitsu inspired methods, Matt. Excuse me.

It felt like to me the other night that the, I don't know how many times he was foul, but it felt like 80% of the time he was falling on the ground. And that ground is a hard court. It's a hardwood court. There's no give to it. Well, he only had to play 28 minutes and change. It's all he's playing, by the way.

He's scoring north of what, 25 a 9, and he's only playing about 29 minutes a game. Spurs? are doing all those things and keeping him fresh and they're winning games they're in the two seed. I think and they've had some really good success

against the Thunder this year. I know we don't want to say this in Houston. We're not going to say it then. They're dangerous. They're very dangerous. We're not going to say it. They're deep, well-coached, the two-seed and the one seat ahead of them.

They're three-in-one against this year? Is that right? Against Oklahoma City, yes. Okay. Two-one against the Rockets. One more game in San Antonio. I'm just saying. You want to go? I'm not saying, I'm just saying.

Yeah, when is it? March, huh? It's a Sunday night TV game. Let me check my calendar on this big old thing I got. Oh, did you get him a daytime? Yeah. Uh-huh. You like it?

It's maybe a little too big. No, no, no, no, no. No, you needed a bigger one. No, I needed a bigger one, but this is too big. No, you need it. You chicken scratch your way through that thing. No, it's fine. But this is too much.

Especially, it doesn't, we don't have to talk about this. But it's like the calendar part, you have to open it up, both sides. It's too much. I bought a gift for Ross,

and he doesn't appreciate it. You know what? You know what? I'm sorry. You know what? I'm sorry. It's nice. It's nice.

Thank you, Matt. I appreciate it. I'm using it. Yeah. I'll get used to it. But you don't love it. That's fine. No, I will learn to love it.

I would think so. It's like I learned to love you. I'm like a daytimeer. You learn to acquire it or appreciate it. Even when it's bigger than it should be. 1244 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. If you want to chime in, God knows we could use you at this point. We've gone to daytimeer talk on the show, folks.

That's it. We're going to back up tight-in talk when we come back. Got to do something right. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90 it's an anything goes Friday's clearly the case Ross, you respond to your DMs on Instagram I think he went to go check out some food

I've got food out the house I know where his motive He's certainly motivated today, is you not? 1244 here on 7-90 Ross I was having this great conversation with you and you were already in the fajita line No, you weren't. You don't know that.

What great conversation? Well, you wouldn't know because you were trying to figure out if you're going to get chicken or beef. Did I miss a segment? No, no. I was trying to bounce something off of you and we heard that you already headed for the lunch line. Oh, okay. Yeah, it's okay. Yeah, I mean, it's free lunch.

Don't act like you wouldn't be in line if you weren't here. Come on now. Okay, you caught me. 713212-1-790. 7-190-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90. I'm trying to think what... Is there anything we've missed? We talked about how much I've appreciated calling Kevin Durant's games

and how he's scoring 30 points a night despite being 37 years old. And you can't hide him. I mean, he's the main go-to guy. I mean, a man has had some good scoring games this year. He's got 20-plus and a bunch of games. Alperin wakes up with 20 typically. Tari, you know, score.

is 15 when he plays. Jabari's kind of running up and down a little bit. I think when it comes to the Rockets, the expectations are so high that if there's any blemish along the way, it's, oh, my God, this team sucks. You know what I mean? That's how I kind of feel it. And you have people on the 4U tab,

Quora, saying Udoka's not a bad coach, and Udoca's got to go. And like, come on, man. They're 29 and 17 of the Rockets. They are two games back of Denver for the three seed. They are a half game in front of Minnesota for the five. The Lakers are eight and a half out. By the way, speaking, I was talking about the Lakers a little bit here.

There are, there are us a fair amount of rumors. And again, rumors are only what they're worth, but that the Cleveland Cavaliers may be kicking the tires on LeBron. I got a news for you. For what? Well, for two things. Either to be traded, which if you're the Lakers, you can't do, you're still trying to go all in for this year. even though you're right now the 6th C in the West. But he is going to be a free agent at the end of the year

and that if he's going to go keep his career alive, wouldn't it feel kind of apropos that he finished his career where it started? I've got to be honest with you. I'd like to see LeBron end as a clap cavalier. I guess it would be cool. He has been Mr. Akron slash Cleveland for 80% of his life. Forget about the basketball side. I mean, that's where he grew up.

he played most of his NBA career there. Now, he's obviously had success both in Miami and with the Lakers. Now, I know he's got bigger fish to fry in his world. He wants to get into movies more and TV and maybe ownership of NBA franchise. And Cleveland's not going to have that for him. But doesn't it kind of feel like that's the one safe space for LeBron, no matter where he's been? It's been Cleveland, Ohio.

It's always good to come home, Matt. Yeah. But do they need him? Can they afford him? him well again if he's if he's going to come back in limited dollars does he does he keep the limited dollars that the lakers may offer him or does he take the limited dollars that cleveland may offer i mean there's no way he's going to be among the highest paid players in the mb a mb a for the rest of his career i mean he's i'm not going to say he's going to be an mbay minimum

guy but he could be a guy that would be maybe 10 to 15 million dollars a year which you're saying man that's that's ridiculous well in the NBA world that's poultry for guys that have had as long as of careers he's had yeah and would he do that i mean he's been getting paid bunch of money by the Lakers. I mean, I guess maybe he would because it's Cleveland. Yeah. I don't know. It's, again, more stars leaving the West to go to the East, I'm more than okay with.

I'm okay with it. And LeBron James is a mostly faded star, but what is his comp right now? Is he a six man? If you really, if you put him on a really, put him on Oklahoma City, where does he end up? He's just so unique because, I mean, look, he's averaging 22,

6.7 assists, 6-rebounds, shooting 50% from the field. Right. Only 32% from three. Defense is non-existent. Minutes are restricted now. Very unique case. I mean, these are like Kevin Martin numbers with no defense.

Ooh, you just gave him a Kevin Martin? I mean, he's 42. I mean, I'm giving him a break or 41, sorry. But he still does multiple things on the floor. I mean, he can still play four different positions. Yeah, but his defense isn't anywhere close to what it once was. Yeah. He's averaging as the lowest points per game since his rookie season, I think.

Yeah. Well, honestly, what do you think is left in his agenda the rest of the way? I mean, he should retire. What's that? I mean, just retire. I don't know. The money's still good for him. You know, there are a handful of athletes that have given breaks.

Like, Tom Brady gave the Patriots a break for years so they could build around him. Dirk Novitsky was an example that was brought up last night. that, you know, he took lesser money to stay in Dallas to keep other guys around him. Jaylen Brunson took less. Jalen Brunson took less money in New York. That's right. LeBron's never been one of those kind of players.

He's always said, hey, I'll help you build this team, but don't forget I want to get paid too. It would have to probably take a philosophical change for him to, you know, to really go for what was the most important thing that you would think most players want, and that would be one more championship. But if you are trying to gain enough well, to own a franchise.

Getting another $25, $30 million is putting that in your piggy bank and helping you do that. Now, will another team in the NBA pay that? Would the hometown team do that? Who knows? Would the Lakers want to do that just to get into the Brons? It feels like to me the answer to all those things are no. But LeBron, to me, comes across, and I'm only going off a previous experience, is still a guy that will go to the highest bidder, more than anything else.

And Forbes says he's worth $1.3 billion. What did he do besides Is it the shoe deals? Is it the commercial? I think he did investments. I think he's been doing a lot of investments since he's very young. Let's see.

This is what AI says. Yeah. He invested. He co-founded the Spring Hill Company, which is involved in film, TV, and content creation. Okay. Huge deals with Nike. He has a lifetime contract with Nike.

Pepsi. He's made $400 million in NBA salary alone. he does dunk commercial with Kevin Hart yes yeah what is that for math means it's for one of those yeah yeah yeah I guess I can look up more of his investments

so really the $20 million he's part owner he's with the the the Red Sox group what are they called oh oh yeah yeah yeah I know you're talking about it yeah isn't he owned part of soccer teams yeah Liverpool the Fenway group right I think so yeah he's not well for himself He's taking his money and built on it.

Yeah, Finway Sports Group. And they own the Red Sox. They own the Pittsburgh Penguins. They own Premier League's Liverpool, which that's a big six. I mean, reigning champion, Big Six. They're basically kind of like, maybe not quite the Yankees. Maybe the Dodgers. Yankees are Dodgers long term of the Premier League.

Yeah. RFK Racing. So he's diversified his funds, that's for sure. So maybe 10 or $15 million doesn't make that big of a difference. Oh, Blaze Pizza? I think he got in pretty close to the ground floor of Blaze Pizza. Well, I've supported that, so good for him. Yeah, he's doing quite well.

Yeah. I don't think the Lakers are going to offer him big money, and if it's the Lakers in Cleveland, what's the fastest track to winning a championship? I would say Cleveland faster than the Lakers. He also is a part owner of A.C. Milan. That's one of the biggest clubs in Italy. Yeah. dude what is the who does his taxes can you imagine doing lebron's taxes

uh Italy Finway group England well don't you have a firm doing that you could one person could you need like 15 people on your team doing lebron's taxes you need h and r block and everybody else's block too that was a good line Matt I wasn't like to know I was impressed I'm down an hour here before I take a massive nap yeah I mean I don't know how much is he investor

and in clutch sports, I don't know. Well, the next big thing he's going to do is he's going to go by an NBA team. Or he's going to be given the carte blanche to build an expansion team. Oh, he's invested in Lobos 1707 tequila, which I've never heard of. No, is that any good? I never heard of it. All right. Probably just tastes like every other tequila.

Yeah, is there really a good? Is there really a big difference of tequila flavors? I mean, when you get to this high end, now, people are like, I don't want Don Hulia. I don't want Patron. All right, let's blind taste test you. Let's see. Especially when you're just shooting silver. If you're doing Anyahu or you're doing like Super Inejo that's actually going to have depths of flavors that you're going to drink either neat or on the rocks, absolutely there's a difference.

But if you're just shooting, you know what? I'm going to get on a soapbox. Those are you just shooting silver tequila like, oh, I got to do, I got to do Petron. Just do some Cuervo silver. It's basically the same thing. It's going to cost you the half. You want to look cool and flashy and impress everybody with all this high-end tequila. And then you're just shooting silver.

Get out of here. I got a hot take for you. Tequila snob equals barbecue snob. Okay, that's wrong. Like I said, it depends. If you're doing gold, that does have different notes

and depths of flavor and stuff like that, but if you're just out with the boys and shooting silver tequila, like spending extra, and I will say this too, mixing it with a margarita because you're putting all the other liqueurs and lime and orange juice

and all that other stuff. So what you're doing is you're diluting the higher quality. So to a point, Yeah, maybe well tequila is not going to be as good as a nicer patron, but like Cuervo Silver get the job. Cuomo silver margarita get the job done, folks. That it does. You want to order a $75 margarita?

What you're doing is you're wasting good tequila. Let me take something. There's not another radio show in the marketplace. It's going to give you LeBron James Future Talk and a tequila discussion. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. It is the Sport Talk 7 in the final hour of the Matt Thomas show. Ross. We've had piping hot sports conversation for a better part of

three hours here on the show. We look forward to talking with you at 713. 2125-790. 7-19. 7-1-3-21-5 is 790. We have a death in celebrity news today, Ross, it just came down. I just saw this. I'm sad. Catherine O'Hara,

comedic actress, probably best known for being Kevin's mom in the Home Alone movie. Will that be fair? Yes. She was also in popular series Shits Creek. That's what it's called. No, that's,

I was trying to figure out how to wait to say it without potential getting into any issues. That's what the show is called. It is called that. Yeah, she was Second City veteran.

Yeah, the Home Alone movies. She was hilarious in those well, man, you know the Christopher guest mockumentaries like Spinal Tap,

Best in Show. I know of them. I don't, I've never seen them. Oh, she was hilarious in Best in Show. Waiting for Guffman. is a great movie.

A Mighty Wind. Just a funny woman in general. Yes, and a great voice actress as well. She was Sally in the Nightmare Before Christmas and some other stuff. You were looking for a, believe it or not, category today. You want to go with that? Yeah, she just died. Yeah, she was in Chicken Little over the head.

Yeah, a very prolific voice actor as well. Was she had suffered for, was she having an illness or some sort? I don't know. Yeah, she was in the Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice movie. Of course, the original Beetlejuice and the second one. Right. Dang.

You're getting choked up over there? Okay. Yeah, you're going to be fine. I'll be fine, but. Also, very close with McCauley Colkin, who still calls her, well, not anymore, she's dead, but still called her mom from the movies.

Really? Yeah. Yeah, McCauley Coakin, and there's others that have done this, but has he done anything as an adult, really? No, he didn't lie. He got out of the acting game. But he still gains a lot of notoriety.

I mean, anytime McCauley Cawkin does anything, you hear about it. Well, his brother, Kieran's very famous and was on Succession and some other stuff. Kieran was amazing on Succession. And Franklin probably has had a more distinguished acting career than probably McCauley has, right? I mean... Yeah, McCauley more famous. Yeah. But, I mean, he was a great...

I don't know if this is a weird list, I guess, to make. but one of the greatest child actors of all time. Yeah, and didn't get any trouble, correct? I want to say, right? None of this, you know, drugs and alcohol? Maybe a little bit, who knows, I don't know. Speaking of that, the wife had the Drew Barrymore show on today. Okay.

And we've had conversations about Drew, correct? Yeah, didn't she get in trouble? What was she doing? Something with her work? She did a lot of drugs and alcohol when she was young. Well, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about her workers or during a strike. She was still working during a writer strike or something like that.

Oh, really? I did not know that. I can't remember. Yeah. She, I always thought she was very cute. And then she took the Hollywood Square show and made it completely unfunny and interesting. So I'm pissed off about that.

Okay. So Catherine O'Hara, believe it or not? Yeah, let's go with that. Okay. Yeah. Nate Burleson is the host, which is pissing me off there too. Because, I mean, when you think of game show host, Nate Burleson does not come to the top of mind.

No, he's in my top five. No, he's not. Yeah, it's a wink. Wink Martindale, Bob Barker, Chuck Woolery, Dick Clark, and Nate Burleson, yeah, that's my list.

It's awful. Snoop Dogg just on the outside looking in. Oh, Snoop Dogg when he hosted the Joker's Wild. Now you're just trying to pour assault on my own, so that's fine. I get that. I know.

Howie Mandel from Deal or no deal. I have him in seventh. Don't forget Rob Lo's hosting a show, too. Rob Lowe? Yeah. That's good, I guess? No, that thing is that these actors are running out of gig, so they're, by default, they're taking game shows.

And they're taking away from people that deserve game shows, me. I thought Rob Lowe was on that, yeah, he was on that firefighter show. Well, he still is. He's in Austin, where they're, oh, they're honky tonking. We're in Austin, Texas. We're going ride all horses into work, and we're going honky talk all night. No, they're not doing that. Austin 911.

I saw like five minutes of it once, yes. there's no show called Austin 9-1-1 I think it is yeah no oh say 911 Lone Star is what it's called okay but it's so you're saying it's based on Rob Lowe and Liv Tyler yeah

but I mean he's yeah he's got these guys Go ahead sorry Let me tell you we do the same thing We stereotype We don't stereotype No we don't Give us a call

On 66 WFA the New York Jets, how we feeling about Aaron Glenn? ease of putts. And we could possibly do a Boston accent. We would probably figure out a way to do it for a new one-in-land Patriot talk. Tom Brady. Bill Belichick, this is an outrage. They're kind of similar.

You've got to go more apoptica. Patriots. You got to mention multiple Boston suburbs. Billa-check. Mike Grable. Yeah. Isn't it sick of you Texans fans a little bit? they're back already.

They're going to get waxed, and I'm going to feel a lot better. If they win it, I'll feel kind of sad. But they still have an EFC championship. Yeah, but, I mean... Because think about this, and I was not trying to be the leader of the Patriots back their way in, but they had the easiest schedule of all the playoff teams. Check, right? Yes.

They took on, in the first round of the playoffs, an L.A. Charger team who never wins playoff games. And had a horrible offensive line. Horrible offensive line. Then the following week, they had C.J. Stroud have one of the greatest implosions in NFL playoff history. Yeah, but now we're sounding like Chris Gordy. And then, I'm not done. And then you get to play the Conor Stenheim in the championship game.

Yeah, but we're going full, Gordy. Who do they really play? That's what he does every year in college football. Yeah, but who, they won the championship. That's who they really played. Okay, Gordy? Texans won 12 games. Chargers won 11

They definitely got a gift with the Broncos And if they want to win it all They got to beat the Seahawks who I will say are the best team in football Most complete team in football Yeah Their defense was always stout The way that Darnold and Jack and Smith and Jigville Were working together last past week was incredible

Yeah I'm trying to back away from this 7 to 10 point win and I can't do it I'm with you. Has the line moved much? It really scares me. Did you and I agree on something? That's not good. But I'm with you.

Let's see. Yes, holding it four and a half. Total went down a tick from 46.5. Which I got that number. Thank you. Now, I think it's going to under as well. 45 and a half now. You're saying all I have to do is give the Patriots four and a half points.

That's it? Mm-hmm. Very easy. Where are you traveling and has casinos next? Nowhere. Not in Indiana? Indiana's got about 40 minutes away from downtown. I don't think they've got a sports book.

I thought they had sports gambling, though, in Indiana, don't they? They have casinos, yeah, but they don't have, I don't think they have sports gambling. And does Oklahoma have sports gambling? I don't think they do. Yeah, I think they do. Okay. I don't know, Ross. That's...

But you always tell me how smart Vegas is. So why is Vegas keeping this thing? Is this because the Super Bowl and... you never put big spreads out between teams no matter who there's in it? I'm telling you, maybe there's a reason we should be wary. I mean, the Patriots, look,

I think people are certainly taking them lightly because of what we just lined out, but they've been taking care of business against everybody, and especially if you wait the end of the season, rather than the whole total of the season, the defense is playing a lot better. Everything's kind of come around for them. They're a pretty darn good team.

They're in the freaking Super Bowl, so it's not like they're terrible. Yeah, I, I think Vegas is saying that you may have a fluky season, but you can't be fluky to win two playoff games in January. And four and a half is not nothing. I mean, four and a half is kind of, you know, every NFL game's a one-score game.

Four and a half is pretty meaty. By the way, Wayne says he is that McCauley Cawken is still, I think he's in a series called Fallout on Amazon. Oh, there you go. So he came back. I mean, he took a long hiatus and he hadn't been acting much. Oh, by the way, he was also, Catherine O'Hara was

the Funkhousers on Kirby Enthusiasm Crazy Sister. I forgot about that. Yeah, she's, I mean, just one of the funniest female actresses of all time. No question about it.

Just not like comedian funny, but just comedic actress funny. Yeah. And she wasn't super funny. I mean, she was good in Home Alone, but it's not like she was, you know, a bunch of knees lappers. No, she was screaming Kevin the whole time.

Yeah. Kevin! It's funny. All of his siblings didn't do much for careers, do they think? What I really love, is how great she wasn't improvising. Those movies that I talked to you about the Christopher Christopher Guess like Best in Show movies, like they improv

those whole things. Like she's just... And that's why Kirby Enthusiasm is the funniest television show on earth because largely improv. Yeah, it's improv, but it's not that great of improv. Oh, it was amazing improv. Some of it's good. Some of it's a little too much.

Some of it's good. Most of it's amazing. In your opinion. I've watched every episode of Kirby Enthusiasm. Less than five of them sucked. And that's pretty incredible for as long as you've been on. Okay. We debate, and sometimes we debate to agree.

I think it's a good show. I don't think it's all-time elite. But, I mean, I look, the rotten tomatoes and IMDB all agree with you more than me. So what do I know? You know some things. You know your tequila. We totally found that in the last segment of the show. Thanks, Matt.

All right. We are 50 minutes away from non-Flority Stories. We are 30 minutes away, 45 minutes away from Catherine O'Hara, Hellier, not a late add-on to the day's edition of Hell Yeah or not. Rockets are going to win over Atlanta. We'll discuss that. We have the Astros. I've got to mention this quickly again as well.

Signing a acquiring a new pitcher via trade from the Giants. Details on him as well. 116 on the Matt Thomas show at Ross. Anything goes Friday. 713-212-5. 790. Matt and Ross with you today until 2 o'clock. And the A team will entertain the hell out of you between 2 and 6. Rockets off until tomorrow.

They'll take on the Dallas Mavericks at 7. That's right. If you're going to the game tomorrow night, it's a 730 tip out of 7 o'clock because the ESPN folks are coming in to broadcast the game. Dallas is a 730 town anyways, right? What's that? Oh, no, it's Houston. I'm sorry. I keep thinking the games in Dallas. It's here, though. No. No, we need some home.

Dallas is a 730 team, though, right? Normally? Yes, Dallas 730 team. Atlanta's a 730 team. But there is a rule where you have to have 22 and a half hours in between NBA games for both sides. So that's where they're going to push the game back to 8 o'clock because we played late and the, Hawks also played a game on the East Coast and had it traveled from Boston.

Yeah. Apparently it was a sudden passing for Catherine O'Hara, by the way. 71 years. 71 years old, Ross. That's not good. Guys, I didn't know who she was until I lit up all the movies she was in. That's my childhood, really. Yeah.

That's nuts. I'm hurting over here. Over the hedge, Chicken Little. You ever watch those? Yeah, Monster House. Monster House? Oh, it's all my row, man. This is a tough one.

It's on the very front page of the New York Post website. Yeah, and I would say especially when it's kind of, it's sudden, it's more shocking. So I'm trying to find my non-flora story from the New York Post website. Ay, aye, aye, yay. Everything is Florida related. Everything. Hmm. Interesting.

Yeah. There's a woman that, yeah, I can't. Go read the Florida stories, actually. I'm curious. Um. A man arrested for a performing act with vacuum cleaner at Kazemi Resort. That's the one I saw. I did see that one.

Yeah. I didn't see that one. I didn't want to get into two graphic details on that. I'm going to go to Utah for my story. And it's actually a, it's a storyline that was once a very famous movie. Okay. That's coming to real life.

So that'll be our non-floor story coming up. All right, so the Astros did make a trade. They didn't get a Taiwanese pitcher that was formerly in the San Francisco Giants. And I feel like you and I are going to have a little bit of homework to do when it comes to this. There are so many pictures, Ross, I think they're on this 26-man roster coming up for next year.

That's true. It doesn't make sense. Yeah. Chandler Rome did put out his roster projection recently. On the athletic, and we went through the lineup, by the way, too, yesterday. Okay. You can guess, well, let me just give it to you. Let's start with the outfield.

Cam Smith and right, Jake Myers, and center. Zach Cole in left. That makes sense because, uh, who else you're going to put it left at this point? Because then you're going to put Altube out there and you're going to have your Rundas your DH. Yiner behind the dish. Okay.

Coray at third, Pena, it's short. Uh-huh. This is where it gets fun. Al-Tube at second and at first base. Christian Walker. Christian Walker. Just like you and I talked about an Astro Fan Fest. Yes.

I think Yisac Paredes is one of their top three hitters. I think it's Alvarez, Pena, and Paredes. That's why Ross, and I feel like, like I'm not beating the drum by myself in here, but it's going to be weird. It's, you've got a really good hitter. Again, we're going off what he did last year, but, I mean, he's had a really, I mean, not an exemplary major league career, but a solid major league career, whether he's been a Marlin, a cub, or an astro.

He hits the ball. He hits it and has power. And he works pitches and gets on base. How is there no spot for him? And if there isn't a spot, then my gosh, get an, improve your outfield. Go make a legitimate argument for a fourth outfielder or some of our left-handed bad. And go get that.

Would you like the projected rotation? This is a 1.0, of course, Chandler reserves the right to change us as injuries and other things happen. All right. Can I guess it? Sure. I will start with Hunter 1. Yes. EMI 2.

uh, Javier 3. Flip 2 and 3. Oh, really? You might not have to start. It will be the third starter. Mm-hmm. Who's the new kid? Mike, what's his name?

Burroughs. Mike Burroughs. Number 4. And I will go Spencer Arrogatti 5. Spencer Arrogati is listed sixth here. Who's number 5? I guess this makes sense because of how much money he's making. Lance McCuller's Jr.

No way. What? I could see him getting a shot for a month and then just getting rid of him. He's making $18 million. I mean, I got one for you. You always do funny bets on the show. Is Lance McCuller's on this team at the end of the season? At the end of the season? I mean, end, and the two, whether it's my own. I thought you were going to say June 1st.

Well, okay. That would be a little more of a challenge. How about May 1st? I want him here. Man, I love Menace McCullors Jr. bury me in the age. But what do you love Lance McCuller Jr? For 24 straight curveballs,

nine years ago? You know what you are? You're a guy, and I'm not saying you by yourself. You're the guy who loves that band who has one hit and everything else sucked. No, he hasn't sucked. That's not true. He's just been hurt.

I'm trying to use a cross parallel to... Yeah, he's probably done. It's like a high school friend who just got out of rehab. I'm giving him a second chance. Girl or boy? He stole 300 bucks for me in high school, but you know, it's water under the bridge. He's in a lot of rehabbing.

He's in a good spot now. You know what you also said to that guy that sold 300 bucks for me? Just pay me back 50 bucks a week. Yeah. He's making 17-7 this year. It makes sense for them to give him a shot for 10 starts. Because that would be over painful.

Because I'll think of all the money that's already been lost in him to begin with. Yeah. Much less if you're telling him goodbye. Our old friend sunk cost fallacy. Okay, so Margetti is six. And who was the guy we had on a fan fest last week?

Ryan Weiss. Does Ryan Weiss know this? I don't know. Then there's Nate Pearson, Colton Gordon, A.J. Blueball. Jason, Alexander. A friend of the show. Jason Alexander, J.P. France, DFA, yesterday.

We didn't mention that, I don't think. Right. By the way, if you want to go see some decent AAA play, is that, that's space cowboy. Oh, they crush it. They're like in the championship. ship almost every year. This farm system is stocked with

quadruple A players. Pedro Leone, space cowboy legend. Mm-mm-mm. All right, so there you go. We just give a nice plug for the space cowboys. So go see, maybe, you know, they're going to be sick. Seriously.

By 15-game winners in their rotation. What other Mildo-Ling program can say that? Yeah, they're going to be the 72 Orioles of the AAA. And by the way, did you use, and on the Mildon League, before we get to down Florida story, did you see that the, the, what, Model League rankings are out by ESPN. The Astros are 29th.

Oh, is that good? How many teams are there? No, it's not. It's a horrific. There's 30 of them. Oh, I was wrong, by the way. It's a 71 Orioles, my bad. Yeah.

Pat McAnally is really upset that you've got that year off. Dave McNally? Dave McNally? Matt Dobson. Mike is there. Somebody. How do you have 515 game winners at AAA, and you can't, you only have the 29th best prospects? Because, Matt, they're all 28th.

Okay. Hey, this is a bunch of spring chickens. They all have mortgages in Sugar Land right now. Yeah, Carson Beck's in the championship game. How's he not a first round pick? Well, you're 26. Yeah, all right, that's fair. All right.

A frankly sad edition of non-flora stories for me is coming up now. Oh, interesting. I'm trying to find something lighthearted and interesting, but I just can't find anything. Okay. And everything I find lighthearted and fun is in the state of Florida. Let me have to amend this bit and just call it general story. I like that. I've been pushing for that. But the problem is it separates us from the rest of the jobbronians out there in radio that we find stuff outside the state of Florida.

I don't know a single show that does Florida stories. Oh, go look at listen to a week-ass morning radio. You'll find it. Hey, come on, man. Dan and Colin trying their best, Matt. Oh, okay. It's 131. Not Florida Stories is next here on 7th.

90. We find interesting stories that occur outside the state of Florida and share them with the people of Hugh. It's time for non. No. All right. All right. harrison and demi more it was called indecent proposal did you ever watch it i did not that's when they said let me sleep with your your old lady for a milly for a one million dollars and i could tell you

as a guy who was not married at the time girls and guys would talk about this in the singles world and when you're benigans having potato skins and cheap beer like would you let your would you give up your wife for a million dollars and a single bro's like of course you would it'd be great and the married guys like, no, I would never do that. I would never let my wife be with another man for a million dollars. That's why she was in the present? Oh, God. What? Did you hear what I said that Snoop Dogg album was called? Doggy style? Yeah, I put that in search to try to confirm it was, came out in 1993, and now I may be flagged. I might be flagged by the company now. And now you got a bunch of blurred videos in front of you. My God. Mistakes were made.

I was not thinking. All right, here we go. A married real estate mogul, allegedly, this is allegedly, Ross. This is in Utah, by the way, which is come as zero surprise to you, offered a female subordinate more than $3 million from his company's stocks

as part of an indecent proposal to steal away from her husband. Timir Polig is the chief executive of the Utah-based real estate firm Real Brokerage or Real Brokerage, allegedly tried to bribe Paige Steckling, a married mother of two who worked with him, with heaps of cash, real estate deals, and lavish trips. According to Page's soon-to-be ex-husband, Michael Steckling. Michael accused Pollock of destroying his marriage through the indecent attempts to poach Paige. and yes, Paige and a husband, Michael, are going to get a divorce.

He says, my marriage, and it for personal reasons, and the claims made in this lawsuit do not reflect the reality of those circumstances. The complaint says that Pollock offloaded $600,000 worth of real estate brokerage stock and funneled the cash into the indecent proposal. Weeks later, Polling allegedly booked a hotel room in Miami for himself and Paige, though it was unclear if she ever followed through. or accepted the bribe. In early February, around the time the beach side, Trist was booked, Polling emailed page

a set of instructions detailing how she could access the promise $1.5 million in two installments. Poling admitted the Daily Mail that he did send the email reference and lawsuit but claimed he was merely offering financial support page had requested. I don't believe this. I think she did it. And by the way, Not that this matters. She's very attractive. Uh, huh.

One of the way is worth almost a billion dollars. So one and a half million is nothing to him. It falls out of his pocket on a Tuesday. So there are indecent proposals even happening in 2026. They're probably happening all over the place. Yeah, they probably happen a lot more in between 1993 and 20206. Yeah, it's true. Unfortunately, my sad, but yet very real.

for a story, and I believe that she did take the money. Thank you, Matt. Thank you. I'm going to do my story because then I've got to work on Believe it or not. All right. Matt, are you familiar with Olympic Trek star Shakari Richardson? I am not, but should I? Oh, no.

This happened in Florida. I'll just say real quick. I'll find another story. Okay. She was caught super speeding. She's the fastest woman in the world on ground, and she was arrested going 104 miles an hour. in Claremont, Florida, in Orange County.

And now has been arrested for super speeding and dangerously tailgating and traveling across lanes to pass other motorists. What's a ticket for that, by the way? Do you get a ticket or do you get arrested? Super speeding. She was arrested. She was booked. She was 1004.

104. What was his own? Yeah. All right. I have another one actually that I wasn't going to use, but now I'll use it. Go ahead. Well, Matt, when's the last time you went to the club? I cannot confirm nor deny my recent existence inside a club. Okay, well, I'm just asking, you don't have to give any names or where or cities or where. It's been a while. Within the last 10 years, you've been to a club.

I have been to a club. Well, not so fast in Tokyo, my friend. Taking cues from South Korea, which by the way, in South Korea, they try to deny people who are older. We saw it happen. So we were clubbing and, you know, I'm 40. We had like some younger, more attractive people with our group. We let them lead the way and then we got in so we were fine. Right.

They are opposed and they imposed limits of age 39, 40, under 40 only in many Korean pubs. And now in Tokyo, they are following suit. Tori Yao Dogenzaka. Mm-hmm. In Tokyo's Shibuya district talked about how they are now limiting customers between the ages of 29. And 39. Pub is for under 40 only. So basically every nightclub in Las Vegas now.

Door staff will reportedly check that the customer is in an appropriate condition and happy with the pub's ambiance according to news sites in Japan. All right. This is ensure to supposedly to ensure cohesion between patron preferences and the pub's atmosphere. Older customers tend to make a lot of compassion. complaints about the restaurant being too noisy and such, so we decided to limit who's coming in. Yeah, we only want good-looking young people in our bar. Sorry, that's a lie. In Hong Day, Seoul's University District, many clubs and pubs with dance floors enforce and upper-age restriction of those over 30,

with some going as low as 28 or 25. That's Vegas. Do you think next time we go to Vegas and you and I want to go to a club, do you think we're getting in? Yeah, we can get in. No problems. You got cash? You're going to charge you more. Yeah.

And every beer we're going to have $35. We saw some older, some older dudes right in front of us got turned away. We were in E. Taiwan, that's that they mentioned. That's like the club district. Got turned away right in front of us. We were like, they're getting profiled. Mm-hmm.

It was the brother of the bride for the wedding. We were like, Jeff, get in the front, man. You're young. You're young and good-looking. Get up there. I hate age discrimination. I just do. It was fun in there, too.

Oof. All right, Jonathan, what you're now in Florida Story? You know Peter, right? People for the ethical treatment of animals? Yes. Well, on January 20th, the group sent a letter to Puckswiny Groundhog Club, the president, Tom Dunkel, offering to donate a state-of-the-art 3D groundhog projection, a hologram for Groundhog's Day. They say that every year that this terrified little animal is subjected to loud announcers. and noisy crowds. It's time to put it in to this heinous holiday.

It is not a heinous holiday. That's ridiculous. They said, why don't I put technology to good use? They made an example saying pixelated pop stars are headlining concerts and long-departed celebrities are attending conventions, so why not the Grandhawk? Pox Tony Field gets one day a year. He probably likes the excitement.

That's totally ridiculous. That was crazy. No more AI. We've got too much AI as it is. Thank you very much. Real quick, boys, when we get to our break and we play,

hell, yeah or not. The story today, the top 10 heavy drinking NFL fan bases. Coming in at number 10, the Detroit Lions, number nine, the Chicago Bears,

number eight, Washington commanders, number seven Cleveland Browns, number six Miami Dolphins, number five, the New York Giants, number four, the Cincinnati Bengals.

Number three, the New York Jets. Number two, the Las Vegas Raiders. By the way, there is no Green Bay in here. That's ridiculous. All they do in Green Bay is drink. The number one, heaviest drinking NFL fan base would be the Houston Texans. 30% of those polled on a survey of 3,000-plus NFL fans by the Action Network say, Listen to this everybody.

30%. Texans fans are the heaviest drinkers saying they'll have at least five or more drinks on Super Bowl Sunday. They break it down by percentage. 0% of those polled that consider themselves Houston Texans fans will have one drink. 26%, that's a quarter, will say they will not drink at all. 13% said they will have two drinks, 26%, that's another quarter, say they will have three drinks,

four drinks or more, 44% and the biggest percentage, 30% of you that consider yourselves Texans fans, will have five or more drinks on Super Bowl Sunday. This is a bizarro segment and a bizarre poll. how does anybody know what they're going to drink on super bowl sunday jophan with your bros this weekend if you're watching the game on super bowl sunday you're

going to say hey guys what are you going to do for drinks i'll have a couple beers niggas i'm going to have five or more no i'm not you're just yeah you're right that's a good this is a dumb ass poll question how many are you going to have oh i can't wait to have six gin and tonics stupid anybody knows the nfl the biggest beer drinkers and the biggest alcoholics are in Pittsburgh and and Green Bay because it's cold, their women are ugly, and their teams disappoint them. Terrible. That's why I don't read these poll questions very much, but I thought the Texans at number one, 30% of Texans fans, I guess, are assuming they're going to have at least five drinks or more on Super Bowl Sunday. How ridiculous.

All right, let's play Hellier or not. Kind of a sad one today. Catherine O'Hara passing away today at the age of 71, a sudden death. And again, one of the, I would say, most famous comedic actresses, not stand-up, but just funny, funny movies, TV shows, character actresses out there. She passed away, of course, probably best known for her role as Kevin in the Home Alone series. That is up next for Hell Yeah, or not, if you want to play 713-212-5-790. 7-1-2-5-790. Five minutes left to go on the show.

What should we do? We should play America's fastest-growing sports radio game show Monday through Thursday. We call it a Believe it or not, but on Fridays we call it a Hell Yeah or Not. And here's how it works. You call 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Today's edition of Hell-Year not is all things about Catherine O'Hara. I'll read your statement about it.

Statements completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. Hell yeah! If a statement is erroneous full of unka made up, you will say this. Not! Two, Hellyer, not to a row. When you are a prize, you've got a choice here today of tickets to see. Let me take a look here.

At the prize's fault, it has Monster Energy, AMA Supercross. That's coming up tomorrow on Energy Stadium. Tickets are on sale at Ticketmaster.com or a pair of tickets to see Riley Green. March 2nd at Rodeo Houston for a full entertainment lineup. Go to RodeoHuston.com. 713-212-5-790. John on 790. John, you're ready to play Hell Yeah or not?

I'm always ready, Matt Thomas. Hell yeah. Catherine O'Hara was born to Hollywood's actors, Marine O'Hara and Robert Mitchum back in 1951. Hell yeah, or not? Hell yeah. No, there's no relation. Ross Mandat.

Thank you for playing. 713-212-5-790. Stephen on 790. Stephen, you're ready to play Hell yeah or not? Oh, yeah. Catherine O'Hara got her started show business. with a Second City comedy troupe out of Toronto. Hell yeah or not.

Not. Oh, yeah. That's kind of elementary, Ross, wouldn't you think? Second? Eddie on Seven Daddy, ready to play Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Catherine O'Hara was hired in the Second City Company by John Candy and was cast as the understudy to Gildner Radner.

Hell yeah or not? Not. That's a... Yeah, she's really synonymous for being with Second City for a long time. This disappoints me greatly. Ronnie on 790. Ronnie, your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show. Listen to you.

Catherine O'Hara's dated Bill Murray's brother, Brian Doyle-Murray, while the two worked together with a Second City comedy troupe. Hell yeah, or not? Not. That's a not. Statement number two for the win. Catherine O'Hara stayed close with her home-aliener. own movie son McCauley Cawkin, with the latter still calling her mom as an adult.

Hell yeah or not? Matt. Oh, yeah. Thanks for listening. Yeah, we talked about this 40 minutes ago. 40. Not two hours ago, 40. Jimmy and Tom Ball on 790.

Jimmy, you ready to play Hell yeah or not? Yes, sir. Catherine O'Hara was also a prolific voice actor appearing in the film, such as the Nightmare before Christmas, Elemental, and... And Chicken Little. Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. There you go.

Hell yeah. Statement number two for the win. In 2002, Catherine O'Hara received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. No, she doesn't have one. She probably should. I bet you'll get one.

I'm sure now. Let's go to Dave on 790. Dave, your favorite part of today is 10 to 2 radio show. I believe it or not, it's my favorite part. Thank you. In 2021, Catherine, O'Hara was named the honorary mayor of Brentwood, Los Angeles

suburb, California. Hell yeah, or not? Hell yeah. There you go. All right. That's it. Have a great weekend. I'll talk to you guys Monday from Indianapolis. Rockets play the Mavericks first on Saturday. Up next, it's your favorite

Captain O'Hara movie as part of the A team with Clinton and Wester next. This is Sports Talk 790. Yes.