The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Anything Goes Friday: Rockets vs. Blazers tonight, Texans With No Stroud??

Episode Date: November 14, 2025

Anything Goes Friday: Rockets vs. Blazers tonight, Texans With No Stroud??

This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. 10.3 at H-Town. Good morning. And welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. So I did a lot of the Scott Morris puns at the house last night. Yeah? It didn't go well. They were mixing up between bad attempts and humor,

and my kids telling me I was a horrific dad joke teller. That's what happens when you know I'm nothing to do. Rockets are off. Texans don't play until Sunday. They play a crappy opponent that nobody cares about. Can I peel the curtain back for a minute, please? Go ahead. By the way, good morning, everybody.

It is 1006 on Sports Talk Saturday. This is a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Ross is back on Monday. Jonathan, you've done a great job hanging out with me the last handful of days. Thank you. You appreciate that. You're welcome. You know, it's funny because you never hear Ross say, thank you, Jonathan, for all your hard work.

I mean, he may be a hamburger once in a while at an overpriced restaurant where they serve you less than regular order a size of fries. I won't mention you who it is. Burger ran. Okay. So my wife and I have been married for, it's going to be 28 years in November. And when I was young in the business, I felt like trying to learn the business and learn sports and do both at the same time, you had to watch everything because you wanted to be ready the next day when you came on to do a show that if somebody was going to get into a deep dive of the Jets Patriots game last night, that you needed to be prepared for that. And maybe there was a huge college basketball game on. Maybe Duke and Kentucky were playing.

You're like, well, maybe somebody may call about that. Or somebody may want to get into a deep dive of the awesome NBA game last night between, I'm just going to throw two rando teams, the Thunder against the Denver Nuggets. Okay? So I wanted to make sure I was all up to speed with those things in case, even if a local Houston team wasn't playing, that I would be ready to go to have a deep, or a meaningful conversation about those things. Well, as you get older and you've been in this business a long time,

you work wiser, you work smarter, you don't waste a lot of extra time. So my wife knows this as I've gotten deeper into the business and longer in the business. She knows when there's something I need to absolutely watch, I commandeer either the television in our bedroom or I go into my office and watch it. last night the Jets game was on with the Patriots and it was good for me

because I have Drake May as my fantasy quarterback by the way Dr. Roto joins us at 1 o'clock today the NBA slate last night had three games on I don't have the league pass so I didn't get to see any of that and not that I necessarily would have needed that because the rockets are playing the Blazers tonight and the Blazers didn't play last night

certainly the Rockets didn't play last night so what do you do Jonathan you sometimes do something that you don't want to do but you have to do. You have to give your wife the remote control. Not only do you have to give her the remote control, but you have to tell her that, yes, you're staying in the bedroom with her tonight

because you're not watching something you have to watch. There isn't a single college basketball game that was on last night that made any importance of the show. There wasn't a single college football game that meant anything. There was no NBA to speak of. We don't talk hockey. There's no baseball going on except the MVP votes were out. We'll discuss that.

But even the NFL game doesn't resonate because, again, the Patriots are far and away the better team. It wasn't on paper supposed to be very competitive, and it really wasn't. And on top of that, it's two AFC-E teams with don't have a huge fan base here in Houston. So I'm not going to be inundated with Jets and Patriots fans calling me saying, do you see what Drake May did last in or how bad the quarterback for the New York Jetapolitans was. Or Brees Hall only had 50-something yards on the ground last night, which you did. By the way, it's looking real hard for the chiefs to win the AFC. I'm just saying, you shut up. You don't you wait until they beat Denver this weekend. Yeah, you know, you're right,

you're right, you're right. So let me give you the point to be to this story. You ready for this? So we have spent the last two days that I have not worked games. Do you know there's one channel on my television and my bedroom that has never left in the last, probably, 4872 hours this damn Hallmark channel oh oh don't that

that that Hallmark channel is boring I'm going to tell you this look the Hallmark channel for 10 months of the year you can kind of live with because there's some old Golden Girls repeats that show up occasionally

there's a couple of shows off the beaten path but do you know ladies and gentlemen and you guys know this then hand the remotes to your women just like wheat I did everything on the Hallmark channel is campy

awful boring same storyline Christmas movies young girl comes back to her hometown meets the love of her life that she left away divorces her husband starts a little farm or something

young girl is a at a local department store who's going to go out of business if they don't sell enough ornaments. Meanwhile, ornament dude, who's a six-foot Hulk, six-foot three Hulk comes to town. He met her while he was designing ornaments. And now they're together. Oh, no. The bed and breakfast may not survive if the porridge isn't served well. I hate the Hallmark Channel. I'm over it. A lot of you could be saying, Matt, get up leave the room

go put on or a movie or a documentary which we're going to be talking about one today as a matter of fact but those of you that are married or have significant girlfriends or live with people

sometimes the women in your life like to have the television on and their husband next to them sometimes they don't that should be an indication maybe your relationship's not very strong But I am done with the Hallmark Channel. 30-year-old comes back to Weave Valley, Pennsylvania, some made-up town where she works at a library and they're running out of books.

Local author comes in, awkwardness, grandma can't pay her bills at the local coffee shop. There's, you know, something called last night, it was something so stupid. It was Missletoe Manor they were talking about in re-invigorating Missletoe Manor. I don't want to go to Missletoe Manor. I don't want to live in a city with Missletoe Manor. I'm losing my damn mind. I need relevant sports. I need for you, the great audience.

that listens to Sports Talk 790 to care about things outside of Houston sports. But you don't. You don't care that I watched any of the Jets New England on my phone last night. It's hiding it from my wife. You do not care. There was an awesome NBA game on last night. You do not. And I want you to care, but I can't force you to care.

Because the more you care about things outside, the more I can go to my wife and I can tell her, honey, I'd love to watch with you coming back home, part seven. But I have to watch this Jets Patriots game, which is very important for the audience that listens to the Matt Thomas Show Ross to know these things. I'm losing it. If I let her see that I'm losing it,

guess what she's not going to do. She's not going to let me watch the Texans or any, or Astro games in my bedroom when I want to lay down and chill out. Now, my office is very comfortable. I get that, but nothing beat your bed, right? 9.30 at night, you don't want to be in your office. You don't want me in your bed. Yeah, you've been sitting down all day. You've been sitting all day.

So anybody else with me on this? Are any of you just losing your mind? I'm cracking. I'm breaking like an egg. Jonathan, I can't have the Hallmark Channel on much longer. Sweating over there, I see it. And the worst part is, Jonathan, it's November the damn 14th. I got a month and a half of this left.

I got to get on the road with the Rockets. I got to start, you know what I got to do? I got to maybe have to lie to her and tell her there's rockets. They've added extra games to the schedule. Yeah, until she started looking at the skills of herself and she's like, she won't. She'll trust me. She'll trust me.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is anything goes Friday. I'm just explaining what I have to go through. I would love for our Houston sports community to care about things not name Houston in the front of the Jersey, but I don't believe it's ever going to happen. And thus, be trying to be a good husband, I say yes, here's a remote. Put on what you want.

Because if I say to her anything but the Mystery Channel, the Hallmark Channel, she's like, well, I don't make you do that. I don't make you say anything but Space City Home Network. And my wife's a sports fan, too. She gets it. But I'm done with the Hallmark. I'm going to go give you, and let me come back on the break,

I'm going to give you what's on Hallmark today. Every single movie involves eight to ten actors you've never seen your entire life, who will never be on a show on Netflix, who will never be major stars. You know who's on there all the time? Is Lacey Showbear from the Party of Five? and Candace Burray, who used to be on Full House. She was the oldest one. If you love those two ladies, you're going to be just full of excitement.

The rest of you, I'm going mad! That's why I came to the studio today to see you, Jonathan, and to get away from the damn Hallmark Channel. 713-212-5-790. It's an anything goes Friday. We have an interesting documentary coming up very soon. The executive producer is going to join us in about 35 minutes. I'll tell you more about that next here on 790.

All right, I promise we're going to get to sports. First of all, anything goes Friday, okay? 713-212-5-790. Look, if you're going to curse and disgust the Texans and Titans, no, that's nobody cares. Texans are going to kick their ass. We've got to worry about CJ's drop for Buffalo. Franklin, and there's your conversation today. We can get into too deep and whether the offensive line and Satan is going to do their thing.

No. Davis Mills, hand the ball off to Nick Chubb and Woody Marks and go kick the crap out of him. Texan defense, Will Anderson, Daniel Hunter, and Derek Stingley, and not Jalen Petra because he's got the concussion, but you get my drift. This is a layup drill. We will get into a much more appropriate conversation about the next game coming up. This is an ass kicking that should be happening Sunday between noon and three. Anything less than a 10-point game is a loss. Ooh, and the next week is Buffaloes.

Yes. So we will get into a much more responsible conversation about that. But right now, honestly, I'm pissed off about the damn Hallmark channel being on my house all the time. So you're saying to yourself, Hey, Matt, what's on the Homeart Channel right now? Right now, Jonathan, the show is called One Starry Christmas is on. One Starry? Okay.

Having missed out on spending the holidays with her family the past few years, Holly can't wait to go back to New York City this Christmas and introduce her boyfriend. Call me stunned on that. Starring Sarah Sangoon Carter and Damon Runyon. Don't know who either one of those Jerbony. are. Next, you, me, and the Christmas trees.

An arborist helps a farmer whose trees are dying before Christmas. Oh, I think I've seen that one before. And she tries to get to the root of the problem. There's some Scott Boris there. They begin to fall in love. Ha, imagine that. Now, this one's got a chance. Danica McKellar is in this one.

You know who Dana McKellar is, do you? No. She was winning on the Wonder Years way back in the day. I wouldn't know. I had a lot of impure thoughts about Winnie on the Wonder Years. Moving on. Most guys that I did in my age group, too. Also starring Benjamin Ayers and Jason Hervey.

I don't know who that is. Next, at noon today, Mary and Bright. Kate and Gabe worked together to make a candy cane company profitable. And find love during the holidays. What? No thanks This one has some stars in it too Jody Sweeten

She was one of the girls on Full House I think she's hot too actually now Older I can definitely say she's hot That Sarah Sangoon Carter She's a Canadian actress Okay well nobody knows who that is No even Canada go away Later on today

And I'm not done Christmas on my mind Where's the Thanksgiving at We don't know nobody cares about Thanksgiving movies David Hallmark I feel like that would be a good Here we go Lucy Lovett

Wakes up holding a wedding dress, assuming she's about to marry the love of her life, Zach Callahan, only to discover they broke up two years ago and her fianc isn't Zach. So sad for Zach and for this hooker, Lacey, Lucy. Starring Ashley Green and Andrew Walker, never heard of him. One more for you. You get home today after a hard day's work, and your wife is saying, Hey, we want to watch some TV before we have dinner?

Sure, honey, what do you want to watch? Let's watch Christmas Above the Clouds. Eager to avoid Christmas, Ella Kneeser, a CEO, books an international trip that skips the holiday and three spirits journey Ellie through her life to rediscover her Christmas spirit. Gross. Starring Ellen Craikow and Tyler Hein. don't know who you are, don't care, you're stuck. Cole's texting me, he said, bleep you, Sarah Carter is hot.

Cole, zero surprise, and somebody with bad gear, as whipped as you are, would watch the Hallmark channel, oh, honey, just spending clothing time with you is great. I might say that, but that's a bold-faced lie because you know what? I'm your favorite liar. I'll line average a four times a day and during the holiday season it may be up to five. Yes, honey, here's the remote. You watch whatever you want.

But if I said except Hallmark Channel, that blank's going to get real in the house. We'll sleep in the backyard again. Stunna on 790 at 1026. Stunna, good morning. What's going on, Matt? Man, hey, I feel your pain on that because I'm getting not just getting hit with

a hallmark I'm getting hit with Lifetime and then when we go out and I'm thinking oh man I can I can look at the game on my phone ain't got to watch the Hallmark or none of that stuff but I forget about the BBR

Oh no BBR the whole day's work of Hallmark and Lifetime Christmas in July Hey man I just roll out the bed I just roll out the bed, hit the floor, crawl out, old military style.

But stun it, at least with the Lifetime movies, people get killed and stuff, and they get strangled. And there's like, hot nurse won't leave my husband alone kind of stuff. I can live with that. I can't live with, oh, I forgot about Christmas. I slept through because I was in a coma. Will somebody come rescue me and bring me a gift? No, I don't want that crap. man i'm getting hit with it all so hey good luck to you man you got you got to adapt you got to adapt you know

i got adapt you know why because she holds the poison pill does she not yes she does yes she holds it and she holds it over your head thank you stony dvr oh oh oh oh let me tell you something if i had any Hallmark movies on my DVR? Arace. Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to do that. Where's my shows? I don't know. Maybe the TV reset.

I don't know. I wouldn't do it. I would have, you know what? I blame the kids. Oh, and so they sniffed back on you? It wouldn't dry snitch, man. I just pay them off. Let me taste something.

You pay your kids $20. You do movies and go get a burger or something, knock it out, and go, you know, take your friends out for, you know, some, uh, cover or something. Oh, they'll, they'll do it. whatever you want. I can bribe my children if it comes to food and going to Sonic for get a 44-hour Texas or whatever the thing are, the big blast.

No, do not. You have to, we as grown-ass men must lay the law down. We cannot have DVR because you can turn on a hallmark anytime in the next two months and there's a movie on. That's camping crap. You can't be DVR in that with a bunch of no-name actresses. Now, if we can, now here's the thing. Can I, can I, D.V.R. Danica McKellar movies?

Winnie. Mm-mm-mm. Fred Savage, one lucky day. You're odd, man. I am odd. It's fine. You know why? We're going to talk about sports from yesterday.

Let me just run through the run. What was all so sportsy about yesterday? Ah, I mean. Yeah, I mean, you know. Drake, May, I mean, you know. Drake, you think Dr. Mae is going to drive the conversation in Houston, Texas? Have I not taught you anything? Ah, yeah, it's a rough day, guys.

I don't know, say. Anything goes Friday. That's all we do it. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-70. Can I tell you something on it? I just started watching the other day. And we're going to have the executive producer on it.

For those of you that are old-school Houston order fans, the executive producer of a brand-new documentary called Love You Bum is out. We'll talk to Vance Howard coming up in about 20 minutes about this brand-new digital Apple, Amazon, iTunes, Google documentary that's going to be coming out on November the 25th about the great bum Phillips. We'll talk about that next. In about 20 minutes here on 790.

Yeah, looking forward to speaking to the executive producer of this love you bum thing and you're craving for some old school older stuff. I got it for you coming about about 15 minutes from now. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-6-7. 790. It is and anything goes Friday. Rockets tonight are home for the Portland Trailblazers.

It's an in-season group play game, which means a need to win it for sure and then beat the Blazers by as much as they can because a point differential is a tiebreaker when it comes to who wins out of each group. Every group has a winner, and then the next best record with the point differential goes in. Those four teams will play a knockout round. The winner of those two knockout games go to play the semifinals in Las Vegas. And when you said Las Vegas and you said NBA, basketball, you said me. Texans getting on the Titans on Sunday going to Nashville tomorrow. We'll give you an update on the injury situation from them in just about a half an hour.

Today is the last day, but C.J. Stroud already been ruled out for Sunday's game against Tennessee, and my guess is it would be not a foregone conclusion that he does not play Thursday against Buffalo. If Davis Mills is playing against the bills on Thursday, don't want to put my name on that? don't I want to

guarantee something guarantee what though what do you talk guarantee what would what would you think if I was trying to if I was going to guarantee something if Davis Mills is going against Buffalo that there would be this huge upset and a playoff picture

would be in the Texan's hands okay maybe we got to do that on Monday you never know 7-1 3212 5790 Rogers with us on the Matt Toma show at Ross and anything goes Friday Roger good morning to you

Good morning, gentlemen. Happy Friday, Jerry all. So. Yes, sir. I have to call in because you know how the fastest way, the most, the most efficient way to destroy everything you've built, Hallmark movie, holiday movie talk. That's how you do that. So I have to call in for your show, free for my life.

Yeah. So, yeah, if anything goes, if anything goes Friday, not everything's stuck Friday. Yeah, okay. But, you know, Roger, you know what? Since you are coming in with this fire and brimstone and then goes Friday, what? I can't believe I'm asking this because you're just typically one of our great listeners, but you're also surprised for. Roger, what is, what would you like to discuss today? I would like to discuss, I don't know, how about anything else?

How about, how about Parades, the first base? And since the Walker's not getting traded, neither the parade is getting traded, then who the hell is getting traded? Did you hear what, did you hear what Channel Rome said yesterday? And thank you, Roger, for the phone call. He said that maybe we read too much into the Christian Walker is not being traded conversation. That maybe Christian Walker might eventually be traded. He just won't be traded on November the 14th. I still think there's too many bodies in the infield.

you've got if Issaq Paredes who sounds like he will be close to being ready for the start of the season you have to play him it sounds too simplistic that you play

him at first on Monday you play him at third on Tuesday you play him a D.H. on Wednesday he takes Thursday and Friday off it never fits that way it just doesn't and I know that you don't want Jose Altuva playing a lot of second base you frankly don't want him to play a lot of outfield because I mean he was okay

but by far by no means it will be a plus defender so you'd say okay well then let's stick Jose Altuvae DH well if you got Issaq Peretti's playing DH Isac Perides probably isn't going to be mobile enough to move around and play second base my guess is Isac Peretti's when he plays as a defensive player in the 2026 season will be playing either first or third we've already got guys at first and third

so when Chandler was on with us yesterday he said don't read too much into that so guess what I will lean into Chandler and say I don't read too much into that can I ask a question about what he was saying yesterday sure I'm very confused on why

Cam Smith is getting the kind of harsh criticism he got just saying, like, we're not sure if he's going to stay there as outfield, you know, it's a product thing, like he needs to bring in the product. I mean, the guy had such a long year coming off of NCAA right into the major leagues and then saved your team's butt all of summer. So, and he was the one that was there when everybody was hurt and injured. And I just feel like that's kind of, if I'm Kim, I'm feeling kind of down on that,

you know, like hearing those things. I will say this. you know, this is a great example if I just don't get it. I don't get it either. Now, look, if the Astros weren't saddle with so many injuries, Jonathan, they would have sent him to the minor leagues.

He had a long enough slump that he could have gone to AAA and gotten his mojo back or at least thought about getting it back. But they couldn't because they were so decimated by injuries. So what did he do? He played.

And he went through a lot of growing And he didn't have time to, I just didn't have time to recover ever. He didn't have time to just get his thing, especially when he was in that slump. He played a lot of professional, he played a lot of baseball between his college and his, and his major league in one calendar year. I'm right about that. And, and, and, but you know what, that's, he, he would, he would not have it any other way. Right.

He would, he would never go on the team and say, you know, I need some time off. I need some time away. I mean, the guy wants to play. But I will agree with you. I was very surprised that Dana would say that Cam's, Smith spot on the roster next year next year is not guaranteed. Now you may think that, but

Smith, you know, I just don't know. Yeah. You may think that, but would you ever want to say that? I, you know what? You're learning about this business a little bit, my friend. I mean, you're slowly learning, but you're at least learning. It was a little startling. I mean, unless you're going to tell me

that Jesus Sanchez is going to be the guy, if you're going to tell me that Zach Cole's going to be the guy and you're going to tell me that Cam Smith isn't the guy I mean

there's some there are some log jams with on the outfield guys that aren't supposed to be guaranteed position holders and I'd put Cam in the mix but man

you're right Cam kind of not low key being hung out to dry a little bit it did surprise me you're right about that for sure good as two point in your part let's uh talk to uh tom in monroe louisiana calling us on the louisiana line tom good morning good morning man how are you doing good sir thank you um your solution to the homework channel is to get you a pair of smart glasses you know what i'm talking about yeah uh you can watch things on your

inside your glasses right basically well you can listen to things on the glasses. I'm using them right now to talk to you with. And you sync it up to your phone. You pull up your ballgame on your classes. You sit and watch the Hallmark channel and everybody's happy.

It's a win-win situation. How much those glasses cost, though? Depends on who you know. Oh, my God. Now you're trying to go down the legal avenue to get these glasses. No, actually.

dollars works for an eye doctor oh i see i you got a little side business you got a little side racking going i appreciate that tom thank you very much for the phone call problem is if you put the glasses on watch something else and she asked you says wouldn't that a cute little scene there when they're inside the uh gingerbread house and the guy finally says hey maybe we should get together after all well like if you ever do that to me i can't i don't know what i would do and you like what yeah like pretending to have a conversation with you to eye and I'm watching something else. I think I got to just, again,

I need more games. I'm going to say, you know, I'm going to tell Jonathan, I'm going to tell my wife there's like, the NBA expanded their schedule to 114 games. 82? And they play every single night in November and December. So I won't be home for two months. If she knew I was talking about the Hallmark General like I am now, Fort Knox

God Close for repair Close for repair Close for repair What's the appeal to Hotmark I just don't Go ask a girl

Because we as grown-ass men Don't think it's appealing at all At least as I said At least with Lifetime Channel They kill each other Yeah yeah My mommy turns out There's crimes of passion on there

There's oh my God I slept with the wrong woman And now she's pregnant I mean that's the kind of stuff I can get into like wrong woman in my bed coming up tonight at 8 7 Central I don't need

Oh my God This hot chocolate is so good That's the next Hallmark movie You heard me run through the list of them We don't have to do again, yeah I'm not doing it anymore Because I want to keep what audience I've got left We do

We'll always be true Because we Love your blue Yes, we love your blue Love, love you blue You know that we do We'll always be true Because we

Love your blue My only football team that I ever loved Now they're gutter trash in Tennessee. That's a different issue at a different time. Let's say hello to a first-time guest on the radio program. He is executive producer of a brand-new documentary that's going to be coming out in November, late November. The name of the documentary is Love You Bum, and the executive producer of that is Vance Howard here in the Matt Thomas show. Vance, thank you for joining us.

Good morning to you. How are things? Well, things are going wonderful. Thank you for having me on the show. What an exciting day. It is November 25th. It'll be available on digital and on-demand platforms, Apple, Amazon, iTunes, and Google. I have started to watch it. And today, a matter of fact, I woke up starting to watch it. And I wanted to finish it today. Unfortunately, I had to make an hour drive into the offices here. First and foremost, tell me your background. And Vance, what made you think about OA. Bum Phillips? Well, you know, my background is pretty buried. We own a large money management firm, but we got in a production of making films. that inspired, educated, and uplift people, and that's what Love You Bum did for us, and that's what the Love You Blue did.

When you look at Bum Phillips and all the things that he did as a coach and as a human being, it's just a wonderful story. And I think it's going to make people really feel something about, you know, the 70s Houston Oilers and that great team that they had and a great coach. Where'd you grow up? I grew up in Huntsville, Texas, about 70 miles north of Houston. All right. Would a young Vance Howard go to a lot of games with O.A. Bum Phillips running the things?

I was a great fan back then, and I still am a great fan, but I mean, the Houston Oilers used to come up and actually practice their practice season before they started the season was here in Huntsville, Texas at Sam Houston State University. So we got to see the Oilers team when I was 13 or 14, all walking around Huntsville, and they were practicing at Dan Pastorini, Billy White Shoes Johnson, you know, Robert Brazil, he had all these wonderful players and wonderful human beings, and it was really very, I just loved it. It was just great fun. Yeah, you got to, your opening a couple of minutes of the show went back to 1975 when the olderers had all of their coaching changes and they got Bum, who was the defensive coordinator at the time to replace Bill Peterson. So you have a lot of stock video, a lot of interviews, current guys that were covering the team or ex-players of his. But you had a lot of old stuff too. Where did you were able to acquire that from?

Well, we did a lot of historical research. We had a lot of Houston Chronicle. There was a lot of film footage that were available. NFL films clearly had a lot. Amy Adams and the Houston Oilers were very helpful. they love the film so we were able to acquire a number of these different film footages and stills that are in there and if you watch if you finish watching the uh the film today you're going to see amy adams in there she was very supportive of the film but how can

you not how can you not support bum phillips i mean the guy was just a texas character he was just an interesting interesting human being and his in his his uh football team his players loved him loved it as an understatement vance uh there were some early stuff And I knew this even as a young man, as a family olders back when I was, you know, 9, 10, 11 years old. He had such a family camaraderie with his guys that is almost makes me feel like Vance, if we could show today's NFL players that I know it's big business and the dollars are two million fold than they were back when Earl and Dan were running things in Robert Brazil and company. But they were still adults.

They were still fathers. They were still young men. They needed fatherly influence. and it was a real sense of family that Bum had, especially early as he was building the Love You Blue teams. It was. And when you listen to the interview with Robert Brazil, who's a Hall of Fame, and he's just such a wonderful individual, he talks about how Bum brought him in under his wing and took care of him as a young man who'd come out of college. He was in his early 20s, and he was with a pro football team and a big city.

And he made sure that some of these guys stayed in line, but he did it in a fatherly and a loving way where it was more done on watching how he lived his life. would emulate Bum because Bum lived his life with such a strong character and such a strong moral fiber. But he also made it fun. Football should be fun. Sports should be fun. And if you're playing the game, it should be fun. And I think he brought that out with that Houston team back in the 70s and early 80s. The name of the documentary is Love You Blum. It'll be available on November the 25th, Apple, Amazon, iTunes, and Google will be among the variety of places you can check it out. We're visiting with the executive producer, Vance Howard. So you mentioned Amy Adams, and I did see her in a couple of early clips.

Obviously, the most controversial thing her father ever did, besides moving the team to Nashville, was firing Bum. And again, maybe I don't want to give away too much towards the end, but how forthcoming was she about the last days of Bum running the Oilers? You know, I don't know if she was really in the mix with that. I mean, it might have been before her time because Budd Adams clearly on the team. He clearly made a decision that he was going to let Bum go. And I'll be honest with you, I don't think anybody but Bum and Bud,

but Adams know the reason why. I just don't know. But they did, and that's the way it ended up and as sad as it is, but I wish it hadn't to happen. I wish the Oilers were still in Houston, and I wish Bum was still alive. Oh, for sure. Mike Renfro is in there, one of my favorite players.

Obviously, Dan Pastorini, he's still a part of the Houston community. Was there somebody you were able to chase down that you had not heard or seen from in a long period of time? Well, you know, the good part about when you look at Renfro in there, and you look at that fantastic catch that he had against the Pittsburgh Steelers, what a lot of people don't realize you learn this in the document, documentary. That was setting up for instant replay, as we see today, because he was clearly in when they had the replay in the booth up top and then, you know, after a commercial at that game, you could tell that Repro made that catch. So I think it's interesting that historically speaking, that was the start of instant replay. Oh, for sure. That goes really without saying because anytime everybody brings up instant replay in the early 80s when it first got going, they bring up the Renfro what was deemed a non-catch. I thought your portrayal of Houston with how.

the sports teams were growing as the city of Houston growing was very interesting because back in 1980 and again 81 I'm 9 and 10 years old at the time so I'm not really reflecting on the city but you know the old business was great the downtown metropolis was building the city was becoming one of the biggest in the country and all by the way you had this dome stadium that still was relatively new it was in 1960s but it was an area that uh national attention finally came on the houston sports scene a lot of it's because of what you know love you blue did especially when Earl was doing his things on Monday night football. It was great.

You know, the Astrodome was, what, the Seventh Wonder of the world back in the 70s? But when you look at what he, you look at the talent that he had on that team, he didn't have a lot of A players. He had a lot of B players. But he took those B players, he made them into A's, and he almost took them to the Super Bowl. And I think that some of the games and some of the spirit and some of the heart that the Houston Oilers had at that time, it's just, it's just unimaginable. I mean, they lost a game, and they filled up the Astrodome, and they filled up Houston, Texas, to come out and support Bum Phillips

and come out and support Dan Pastorine and Billy White shoes and all their efforts and their courageous heroics on the field. They were just wonderful men and they just fought so hard to win. And I think that was the spirit of Houston at the time. Bance, do you like the documentary business? And if you do, what's next?

I love the documentary business. We just finished one on a gentleman with stage four cancer and he cured it holistically. But the one you're going to like the most is we're starting a documentary. We started about a month ago on the great cattle drives with Good Night and Loving and all the different cattle drovers that worked back in the 1800s and how that affected the entrepreneurial ship in the development of this great country that we have.

I can't wait for you to find the video footage of that. That's going to be something to find. We'll have a lot of still photos. There you go. I have footage out there. But we're going to make it into a wonderful educational inspiring documentary. All right, Vance, again, am I missing anywhere? Apple, Amazon, iTunes, Google, anywhere else that I would find this documentary.

Love You Bum coming up on November the 25th. those are the main places to find it but i think that the individuals that want to watch this film i think it's going to uplift inspire but at the end i think it's going to bring you to tears well it brought back amazing memories a little bit of what it could or should have a little bit of um how things used to be and i know that money and power and technology has changed the world but to see bum phillips coaching a game without a headset on was probably most interesting things to me because he didn't, there were headsets back then, but he had no interest in wearing him. He wanted to

wear his cowboy hat. And he did too. Thank you, Vance, for the time. We appreciate it. Hey, thank you. And have a good weekend. Thank you, Vance Howard, executive producer of the Love Yubum documentary with us here. And it's coming up on November the 25th. For any of you

that are old school, older fans like me, I'm sure you will want to watch it. Again, I got called up this morning for about 20 minutes and I'm like, I've got to continue to watch this. And I'm like, oh, crap, I got to drive. It is what it is. But Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing it this weekend, and you should to love you bum, November the 25th. 11 o'clock hour, Matt Thomas show begins with Ross in just a couple of minutes. In one half hour, we're going to say I'm sorry's.

Jonathan, I'm going to announce another I'm sorry for the kind of person I am when it comes to my vehicle. You need to. You don't even know what I'm talking about. No, but I can tell by your face right now. Okay. You can see me today. That's nice. 11 o'clock on Sports Talk 790.

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 1103, Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Ross is back with us on Monday. We look forward to hanging out with you. We got I'm sorry. He's coming up at the bottom of the hour, and I got to apologize because I'm going to declare myself something

when it comes to the way I drive. I can do it. Because sometimes I think the best thing I can do for you is to be cathartic and tell you exactly what I live through my life. And so as far as I'm concerned, I'm going to out myself and apologize to certain people in the Houston area. 713-213-212-2-790. Texans on the practice field for the final time today before they head up to Nashville to take on the hated Tennessee Titans. Now, I did see Amy Kronk-strunk in there a couple times in this Love You Bomb documentary.

She makes my skin crawl. Sorry, is what it is. By way, Dalton Schultz today, practicing, did not practice Wednesday. He is out there. That's good. So if I feel about that. Injury report from yesterday, and again, Al-Shaier was there in play. Jailien Petrie did not. He's out.

Davis Mills did not he's out. Kimey Fairbairn is out. I'm thinking about people that you actually care about. Ed Ingram on the offensive line was there for a little bit yesterday. Cade Stover, the tight end was there, and Dalton Schultz. So Dalton Schultz will be able to go and hopefully be able to play. It sounds like Dolton Shroats is going to be just taking some time off in the middle of the week before getting ready for the game. So here's the question before we go back to the phones.

If CJ doesn't play this week, which is now confirmed, the Thursday short week, you don't practice on Wednesday. Right. You barely practice on Tuesday. You just run around a little bit on Monday. How are we supposed to predict and think that he's going to be ready to go? We haven't even seen him on the football field at all. I have a sneaking suspicion. He's not playing against Buffalo Bills.

Maybe even longer. You really think about it. Well, Buffalo would be a third game. Yeah, like third and a half, yeah, because, I mean, two and a half. I mean, two and a half weeks, yeah. But, I mean, if it's that severe for a concussion for him not to come back next week, I mean. Well, I guess no two concussions are built the same. We know that.

If you were to send him out for the Buffalo game, he would then have a week and a half additional time. You have to go to the Colts after that. I mean, tell me I'm wrong. Tell me that, okay, I guess the argument would be, convince me if you can, the Texans with Davis Mills at quarterback can beat the bills on a Thursday night. Now, remember, when Buffalo was here on a previous short week,

I think it was on a Thursday night game. Josh Allen had one of his worst games ever as a quarterback. And the bills don't play nearly as well on the road as they do at home. We saw that when they lost to Miami last week. Yeah. They're not going to beat him. I mean, Davis Mills looked good, though. I mean...

Yeah, but... I mean, I know it's Tennessee next to... Jacksonville. And Jacksonville, but I mean... okay if you if you want to convince me that's what you got until next one next thirx thursday to convince me i think he'll i think he'll be back by monday at least thorn you know we're getting pads but well again i think we will have a pretty good feel by probably monday because i'll have to put an injury report out for monday because they have a short week with no off day oh okay that's a

little bit different situation there all right seven one three two one two five seven nine it's and anything goes friday i spent the first half hour of the show probably to my detriment talking about how much I despise the Hallmark channel because they've got campy-ass shows with people who've never heard of before except Danica McKellar, big fan. Jody Sweeten, if she was on there, she's okay.

So maybe some of your favorite kid stars are now adults. You don't feel nearly as creepy as you did maybe when you were a younger kid, 11-on Winnie from the Wonder Years. Steve is with us at 11.08 on 790. Steve, good morning to you. Good morning to you, Matt Thomas. Thank you for taking my call.

I really appreciate it. I am calling to take up for the Hallmark channel because you know what? Somebody's going to have to when you're just going after it. And here's the thing. All the stuff that you're saying about why you don't like it, that's the whole draw. It is campy and it's like, how should I say this? Like our grandparents used to watch, leave it to be. and Mayberry RFD and all of that.

And then our parents used to watch the Brady Bunch and shows like eight is enough. That's what this is. It doesn't make a lot of demands on the viewer. It's easy. It's like eating, it's like eating a slice of pumpkin pie and enjoying a really good cup of coffee. It's that, but for us, that's kind of the way I see it. has your wife infiltrated your phone did she write this down for you i mean you no no steve let me take some steve you sound like a really nice person and i think we'd be

great friends but do you have any testicles right now of course i do and let me tell you i love i love sports i love cars i love classic rock and when i first you know when this first started coming up and i and i saw it on the tv i'm like you know what i shouldn't like this i'm right there with you, Matt. I was like, I shouldn't like this, and yet strangely, there kind of is something about it. It's knowing how it's going to turn out. Oh, I got news for you. I got news how it's going to turn out. The young girl at 30 years old is going to wind up being with the guy and they're going to serve a bunch of hot cocoa kids all around the area. That's how it ends. In the little hotel, the little bed and breakfast stays open. That's how it's going to end every single time.

And isn't that the whole point? No, it's not. The Simobis suck. They suck. I don't need it. I don't need Christmas chair in mid-November. I want, I want, I want gunshots. I want knives.

I want blackmail. I want seduction. I don't get any of that on the Hallmark channel. Matt, I dare you. I dare you to tell me this on the radio. I dare you to tell me that you don't want your house to look like any of the homes on the Hallmark channel. The only thing we have in my house

is we put up our tree for a long period of time, and that's the only thing it bothers me. Other than that, I don't mind the lights. I don't mind, I don't like the music, but that's why I've ever talked about that before. I'm just not going to pretend that I live in New Hampshire and watch the Hallmark

channel for 20 hours a day. Steve, come on. Get those testicles of yours. Get that classic rock. Love that you have. Get that muscle car feeling going. And regain your manhood for the love of God. I dare you to tell me that you don't want to eat any of the

meals that they serve on the... No, gingerbread cookies suck. Christmas cookies suck. They got no flavor to them. Thank you, Steve. Your good support. Christmas cookies do suck. They do suck. I agree with you in that. White cookies with Greg... Yuck!

Give me some toll-house chocolate chip and call it a day. Give me some peanut butter. Old meal raisin. Macaroon. Chunk of chocolate chump a chip. What? Chalka chunk of chip. Say that three times fast.

By the way, tomorrow's movies, just Jonathan, for those of you playing at home, round and bound, round and round. Sounds like a, this is Rachel stuck in a time loop, reliving the night of her parents' Hanukkah party. Okay, thank care of the Jewish audience. Okay.

Scouting for Christmas. Magic and mistletoe. Okay, that has a nice note. The mistletoe secret. a Maple Valley Christmas Christmas Island and the all-time worst three wise men and a baby

that sounds interesting all right that seems like it gives me some mess three wise men and a baby I wonder what happened I would like to write a Hallmark movie myself do it I'm supposed to what's the title let's do that first this bitch is crazy

Get out of my mistletoe, you ho. Oh, there you go. That's what I would do. I'll create the ant, you know what? I will create a channel of anti-missile, Hallmark movies. You know what? You're getting nothing for Christmas and like it.

All I want for Christmas is a divorce. Let's see What else could it be? You think you got coal in your stocking How about this for your stocking? Yeah You can't give the movie away You gotta be more vague

A very miserable Christmas Twelve days of hell in late December That's nice Okay, that was a good one My business shut down Thanks to Chris Kringle Yeah, you know what, I can write the show. 1113 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross

and anything goes Friday. I'm going to apologize. Maybe I should be apologizing for all the women out there that love the Hallmark channel. But y'all don't even like the Hallmark channel as much as you think you like the Hallmark channel. You just put it on and make you feel better about yourselves. That's why we need more games.

We should play every single night for like two weeks. If I told my wife, I got to do 14 straight Rockets games, you'd be like, all right, check's clear, let's go. A lot of reaction to Steve calling in a minute ago. Dad's drunk... Let me see where it is. Ryan says, have Steve cough twice if he's okay. He needs a wellness check.

His wife, I guarantee, was next to him. There's no way a grown-ass man. I'm like, it's lighthearted. It's fun. It's fun. Trevor says dad's drunk again Christmas edition That's messed That's messed up

I'm getting over clumped over here Yeah I got to start writing my own movies Dad's Dad has any Christmas gifts for a season gambling dad How about this one? what a mafioso christmas with a mafia comes to your house middle of pennsylvania just shoots everybody up what's wrong with me i'm sorry i'm just trying to give you the the anti what you'd find on the hallmark channel all right uh seven one three two one two i find my show sometimes

too funnier than i think you guys do uh seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven one three two one two 790. Did you see you who won the American League Most Valuable Player Award yesterday, Jonathan? Yes, I did. I feel like he deserved it. All right. There are a lot of people, namely people that are Seattle Mariner fans, the quadrant of the Pacific Northwest, that believes that Cal Raleigh should have won over Aaron Judge. Judge, by the way, a now a three-time MVP's won it for the third time in four years. He had 20 more votes overall. Aaron had 17 first place votes, Cal had 13. Judge had 13 second place votes.

Cal had 17. So the 30 voters, either put them one or two. That's the right thing to do. If two riders had switched their votes, it would have been a tie. So it was pretty darn close. 15, 50. But instead, Judge gets more votes from being the first. place, and that's the Winsie Award.

He had an OPS this year of 1100, 331, 531, 53 home runs, 114BIs, and the OPS of 1145. He, year in and year out, does this. Now, granted, Cal Raleigh, 125 RBIs, 110 runs scored, 60 home runs. He had 11, Raleigh had 11 more RBIs, had 27 runs less scored. His OPS, his on-base percentage was 41, 96 points less. I mean, you could go either way, but the reality is, Aaron judged at a better season. That's just what it is. He just did.

He just did. Now, you could also say, well, did Aaron judge have people around him? Yes. Well, certainly the Mariners, especially if the All-Star break had people around him. They traded a whole new. Yeah, like a new first basement of Naylor. They got Eugenio Suarez. I mean, they had, he had Randy a Rosa Rana.

he's got the second J.P. Crawford two worthy candidates. You can only have one winner. You could tie, I guess. Look, we've dealt with that here in Houston for many years

with, you know, whether James Hardin should be the MVP winner over Russell Westberg or should James Hardin be the MVP winner over LeBron James. So it happens other places. Seattle fan Typical

A-hollish Mariner fan This is an outrage This man was putting up amazing numbers for a catcher Blah blah blah When you determine the MVP While defense certainly is a part of it It ain't a big part of it And just because other catchers don't hit 60 home runs

doesn't make his accomplishment any more or less special than if anybody, if Cala Raleigh had played first base and had 60 home runs. I'm not a Yankee fan. I will never be a Yankee fan. I'm never going to be a Seattle Mariner fan, so I'm right down the middle on this. And I think Ross and I even had an argument, not an argument, but a debate about this.

I think we both said at the end of the day that Aaron Judge's numbers, and there's nothing skewed or nothing in balance in one person's favor, Aaron Judge had the better season. And Aaron Judge does this on the regular, and Aaron Judd shouldn't be penalized for that. Just because Cowellie did something special in his life for one season, it was very special. It doesn't necessarily mean he was the most valuable player

to the sport that year on the American League side. Obviously, we know who on the National League side won, Mr. Pitcher and Outfielder and D.H. Man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He deserved it, too. No, yeah. Show Hay's amazing. All respect.

I mean, all respect. No agreements there. Allison and Spring Branch at 1125 on Sports Talk 790. Allison, good morning to you. Good morning, Matt. So my husband has to spend February basically in Florida doing business. So he says to me, so honey, at the end, come out and visit me and I'll take you to Epcot. And I'm like, just take a gun to my head.

I don't want to do that. So then I think, oh, spring train. meaning with the Astros, that's always been on my bucket list. So that's the good news. So the not so good news is we have to see them play the national. Like, why couldn't it be Baltimore or Cleveland? Well, you, wait a minute. How long are you going to be there for?

How long have I been in Houston? How long are you going to Florida for? Oh, well, it's the end of this trip, and it's the only weekend that kind of overlaps. like he wants to get home. Okay, well, let me just say, as someone that has gone to spring training for 30 years, it shouldn't matter who the other team is. Because if you play the home game, most of the stars and the other team are not going to be there. And if you go to play the road game, most of your favorite players aren't going to be there.

Now, there's exceptions to rule on both sides of it, but these are spring training games. You should just sit back and enjoy the experience of being in the warmth of Florida in late February and in March. and just enjoying watching America's pastime. I wouldn't worry about who the competition is. So who's going to be the pitcher for the Astros? I mean, who should I expect? A rookie call-up? No, no, no.

They go through a rotation. Now, there may be a rotation of seven or eight guys, but, I mean, you know, if Justin Verlinter has to, if he becomes an Astro, he's got to pitch. If Hunter Brown's got to be on the mound, he's got to pitch. Christian Javier, Spencer Arigetti's got to be out there, Lance McCullors. I mean, you're going to see some stars, but again, what days are you going again?

What days are the calendar dates? It's February the 22nd against the national. Oh, that's very early in spring training. You're going to see nobody. I hate to tell you that. I mean, I could lie to you. Allison, do you want me to lie to you? No.

No, just I don't like, just tell me the truth. Straight up, it's fine. The straight-up, the truth is, go to West Palm Beach, have a great meal, go to the beach, go to the Astros game, scream, let's go Astros, and then root for a bunch of players wearing number 96 is in the back of their jerseys. Okay. But you still go. Have you ever been before? Oh, yeah. No.

Well, then, what are you worried about? Enjoy the experience. This will be your first time. You're losing your spring training virginity. Yep. Okay, well, you have a great weekend. Thank you, Alice. I appreciate the phone call. Yeah, I never turned down a trip to spring training. Never, ever, ever. It's fun. Spring training's fun. Very low key. If you're, if you're an autograph seeker, you're probably a better chance of getting an autograph. Just telling you. All right, time for us to say some of sorries. Jonathan?

Take a deep breath and get ready. I'm going to admit something to you that I think I've, admitted somewhat on the show before, but I saw a funny video yesterday that was sent to me that I thought, you know what, it's dime down to me to go full circle when it comes to my driving and parking. I'm going to tell you folks, I'm sorry about something. That I think I may have said once, but I'm going to reaffirm to all of you that know that there are people like me out there in the world today. 1128 on Sports Talk 798. I'm sorry is our next. it's time call in and say these magical words I'm sorry

so sorry that I was such a fool all right here I go and Jonathan we've talked about parking before and what did you do this time? I just want to just I sent this clip from Kirby Enthusiasm, which is my all-time favorite TV show, okay?

You know Larry David is? No. Okay, well, I'm not going to go to it. Larry David was one of the writers of Seinfeld. And he did a show on HBO mini called Kirby Enthusiasm, which is the funniest show ever made on television. Oh, I know, Larry. I'm looking at me.

I know his face. I know he was. Okay. So, Larry, so people, I'm in a group chain, text chain, that sends funny clips from Kirby Enthusiasm. And one of them I got, yesterday hit close to home because the reality is I'm this I'm a pig Parker pig Parker yeah if I'm in an area in a garage and that's mainly in a garage or in some

cases a department store or a grocery store where the lines are super tight I will park over the line just to make sure no one parks next to me. Oh, even at the department store? I don't go to department stores anymore, but that could potentially happen. I do it here at the office all the time. I also go to the very top floor of our office. There should be less traffic up there. Yeah.

I mean, our salespeople aren't here on Fridays. They're all hustling on these streets. Matt. But be nice. I am tired of these office buildings giving us narrow ways to park our car. So how do you combat that? You'd be a pig parker.

So ladies and gentlemen, at 1135 on a Friday morning, I apologize for being a pig parker. Oh, I'm sorry. And I will try not to do it anymore, but even though I got the video sent to me yesterday in one of my text groups,

I did it this morning here at the office. So you didn't learn nothing. Not really, you're not sorry. You don't know that. I feel like you're the type to leave the grocery cart and you don't put it up after you. Not true. Oh, you put it up? You sure?

I do. 100%. Okay. Ask anybody that goes with me to the store. I have a few flaws in my life, ladies and gentlemen. That's just one of them. I'm nervous about my car being hit. I don't want to be stuck.

So I'm not going to lie. I see why you do it because mine's got Nick. So you are listening to. hopefully a respected sports voice in the city of Houston your radio voice of the Houston Rockets are playing Portland tonight and I'm a pig Parker and for that I say I'm sorry

Pig Parker I think it's time for some of you to admit some of your mistakes 713 212 5790 713 212 5790 If you want to apologize for something you've done this week or something that you are, I will try not to judge you.

Like hopefully many of you have not judged me in this last three minutes of the Matt Thomas show at Ross. 713-212-579. If you want to admonish me for being a pig, Parker, I'll accept it. Jonathan, what are you apologizing for this week? All right, I got to This is cleansing to Get it out Alright, let me put out the curtain a little bit too

All right, good You know, when your significant other tells you Like, hey, can you do this for me In the morning before you leave, right? Whether that's like, you know, put the dishes up Or something like that Okay You're supposed to do it and you know

You're not in trouble, make you know Happy wife, happy life, whatever Correct So she had did suits the laundry Last night And she's like, okay, all I want you to do Before you go to work you just fold the ones in the dryer

and switch it over. Seems very elementary. Yeah, but you know, something, you know, very simple instructions. It's just this morning. The bed was very nice. I just put the snooze button a little couple times. I'm like, oh, snap.

All right, let me get ready. All right. Brush my teeth, everything. All right, all right, all right, all right. Pipe my lunch. All right, I'm ready to go. And, baby, for listening.

in the class I didn't switch them over Oh So does that mean the clothes They're in the washing machine Are going to have to be rewashed? Tell the truth So yeah I didn't switch it over

Babe Yeah don't be mad Hopefully I get you some tickets Okay let me ask you this Who's getting you're getting home before she is Something yeah Yeah no no no no no She doesn't

How long has she worked till today? She gets four I don't get there in time Yeah How far from an apartment to this from this radio station? 40 minutes. Okay, so let's see. You get out of here at 2.15.

You're home by 3. You never should have said a word. Now, the question would be. Well, I should not listen to. I got to get up my chance. Now, but here's the thing, though. If you go home, you got to smell those clothes first. Because if you can put them in the dryer without them smell like they were old, you're okay.

But if not, you're going to have to rewatch those bad boys on the slow, on the quick cycle, no soap. To get it rewrought. But sometimes you do that, it isn't, that smell still there. You might have to do a whole wash. Trust me. I've been in your spot before. A rewash will cure your pain.

Okay. So you basically added yourself for no reason. I thought bad, man. I had rushed out of here and I was like, oh, man, like I'm going to. Okay. God, I got to teach you so much. You have a chance to get away with this. I'm going to text yet.

Okay. She's not listening. Nobody's listening. More importantly, just get home fast. Rewash those clothes really quick on the fastest cycle, not the deep, you know, the deep, you know, the deep, heavy dirt. Yeah. Just get her one quick warrants through.

Get them in the dryer. She'll be home at four. You're in good shape. Oh, that's right. All right. You know, I got this. But you can't say here past 2.15. I don't care what we make you do.

You've got to leave a 215. If you got a punch or chance to make this happen, you've got to get home by 3 o'clock. all right so i'm not gonna i get to finally meet her on sunday but i'm very excited about this she's very excited yeah all right and you know what i'm not even going to bring up this whole little ridiculous you you added yourself way too early no i said you know i should you know i should just talk to you before about it you know that yeah that's right so you know what just go through me before you start talking about what you're going to apologize for

i mean i'm the reason why i announced i was a pig parker because other people know i'm a Pig Parker. I got chastised by the Rockets medical staff the other day at the Rockets game when I came to the arena before the game against who we play, Washington. Really? They're like, parking in your lane. I'm like, no. I need room.

I don't want you hitting me. Best, I'm a pig parker. And if it's the worst thing I ever do in my life, I don't apologize much more than what I just did. Morgan, whether they said 1140 on the Matt Tommy show with Ross. Morgan, what are you apologizing for? Oh, man, I got the wrong section.

I wanted to ask you a question. Well, go ahead. I don't care. So anything goes Friday. Okay, okay. But you just mentioned curfewer enthusiasm. I'm trying to get into it. I got a good friend of mine gave me the whole box.

I said, man, but I'm telling you, man, I don't think nothing can't compare with Seinfeld, man. So sell me on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Make this. Just sell it to me, man. because I've watched a few episodes, man, but I'm still not quite getting into it. Morgan, it only gets better as the season's going along. There is a character,

there are more characters coming to the show that are just as funny. I'm just telling you it is 30 minutes of a basic storyline that just gets funnier and funnier and funnier. And I'm going to tell you the cliches, the funny terms, the stuff that Larry gets in predicaments with, it just, it won't let you down. And I'm telling you, I don't know if you and I, Morgan,

have the same exact sense of humor, but it's the funniest show I've ever watched in my entire life, and I miss it to this day. Oh, all right. Well, you sold me, brother. All right. And by the way, again, there is a character on there. Have you been in the, I'm trying to think of what,

are you on like the first season? Yeah, man, I just, yeah, I mean, the very first. I mean, not even through the, Susie is my third favorite character. Larry's my second favorite character. My favorite character is Leon. Have you heard from Leon yet? Not yet.

Once you get to watch Leon for a few episodes, your life will change for the better. Trust me, Leon is one of the funniest characters in the history of television. Okay. All right, Morgan. We'll see you later. Somebody back me up on this.

because Ross is so manby-pambi because you know the acting isn't great who cares what the damn acting is I'm not looking for Academy Awards I'm looking to laugh my ass off it's the funniest show I've ever seen in my life it's been running for 24 years well it's taking some breaks

it's not 24 consecutive years and they're done I think they're done done but I'm telling you gang Leon and Susie and all of his buddies Funkhauser Richard Lewis

Oh So damn funny 1143 on the Matt Thomas show at Ross If you want to apologize for something you've done or said And if you're a pig Parker Join my club You know we ought to do what Jonathan We ought to get some shirts

We ought to get us a pick We ought to get a picture of a car With a little ping on it and say Yeah I'm a pig parker too A little snout little place A little snout yeah yeah I think it looked good would.

713-212-5-790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We've got to wake the strippers up coming up in 15 minutes from now. So, Jonathan, I've decided that today's edition of Hellier or not is, is this a Hallmark Christmas movie or not? Yeah. So I'm actually having some fun making the ones up. So we'll see how if I can fool of these people. People's wives are going to call them.

Who's that? People's wives are going to call in with the other. Yeah, they're going to like, you know, we should, we should only. we should have women play the game we think we got enough women listen to the show that can play in all women's but hell yeah or not we have a good amount we're playing for jack johnson tickets right i need a crooner as it is but it's things that are they're going to be on at 150 though you know all right so here's what we're going to do we can't guarantee women to call the show but we will allow women to get on the show before the men it's a good idea yeah so any woman that calls

during helling air or not today at 150 gets to the top of the list so all of you that are You're like Brad for this one particular segment. We'll take any woman over you, the mail caller. So it's, is this a Christmas Hallmark Channel movie or not? We'll do that today at 150 here on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. We got another segment here for you to apologize for the terrible things you've done this week. I acknowledge to you, ladies and gentlemen, the great people of Houston, Texas, that I'm a pig Parker.

I take up more than one lane. I don't do it to not allow you to get to a spot I just do it because I don't want to be hit and I think that today's grocery stores and today's office buildings are not giving us enough wiggle room and by the way I also do it on a floor where there's like 40 open spaces I'm not that much of an A-hole stop now wait a minute you don't know you just now put that clarification

I don't know all right when we leave today at 2 o'clock Because you've got to race home to get those dishes, those clothes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I want you to come look at my spot and give me a ruling whether or not I was a pig parker. Are you like in between, guys, there's two yellow lines in between each spot. Are you like all the way over both lines? You'll find out today after the end of the show. Kay, so on 790, what are you chilling calling, let me say this again.

What are you chilly con apologizing for? Quickly, curb your enthusiasm is one of the best shows of all time. Leon Black, Ted Danson, and Little Orphan Funkhauser is, oh, and Richard Lewis, are some of the best supporting characters on a show ever. I just wanted to throw that in there. I want to apologize for a couple months ago, I think I called, or, I mean, a couple weeks ago I called and told you about how I shamed my wife's friend for breaking my glass. You remember that? Yes, I do. How did that ultimately turn out?

So I saw her on Halloween, okay? Was she wearing a naughty, something? Yes, she was. She was like a devil or something. And how'd you feel about her at that point? I forgot to mention this. This girl's like 6'5. Ooh, 6'5.

She's tall. I'm 6'2. She is taller than me. And I completely forgot about that. Are girls 6' 5? Usually very nice people in general, or are they kind of mean? she's very nice as my wife puts it she's she means good but when you say that that usually means someone is doing something bad or just can't control themselves okay so anyways i see her at this

party it's maybe 11 o'clock 1130 i'm already drunk or not drunk drinking okay under other substances and i see her and she goes hey guys good to see you and then she looks right to out. She looks down at me and she goes oh my God, I am so and then my wife goes, no, no, no, no, don't say anything. I go, stop, stop, it's okay. I just wanted to say that I'm sorry

for being upset with you. And just to let you know, I called a major market radio show and complained about it to everyone and I apologize. Oh, I'm sorry. And what was her reaction back to that? She then proceeded to ask

if I wanted a fruit punch bowl and I politely declined because that's disgusting. So I just wanted to share that with you guys. So, okay, thank you for that. Thank you very much, Kay. So the last question about this, how is your relationship with her as we speak right now at 1154? It's okay. I did get annoyed again with her after the party. And quite funny, my wife works from home. She's a hairdresser. So she came over around 8 p.m. for her.

haircut, and that's way too late. And once again, I was annoyed with her. And I just wanted to watch the Lizards game, Rockets and Lizards game. And I had to do that in the second bedroom because when clients are over, I'm not allowed to exist. So I'm sorry.

All right. Yeah. By the way, can you hook her up with any of your friends? Oh, sorry. Do you have any friends that are like six, seven? I mean, that's got to be tough. I mean, maybe, but dude, she's like one of those girls that's I don't know. She like she's like she like she like

she like a model and but she drives like a crappy car and lives in one of those crappy apartments so I don't know what her priorities are and with her breaking my glass I'm just oh man I'm getting angry again thinking about yeah let's end this conversation thank you very much Koso

yeah wait wait Jonathan the guy's got a six foot five one of her his wife's best friends is six five help the boy out help her out For my, from my experience, a lot of those tall women don't care too much about height. Do what? Do what?

They don't care too much about height. Like, they don't care like... So you're telling me a 6-5 woman wouldn't mind going out with a 5-9 guy? I find that to be impossible to believe. Okay, okay, okay, okay. That's, like, if he's like, say case with height, 6-2, 6-1, maybe like pushing 5-11 to 6 foot, they really don't mind that bad. Because they're already taller than everybody else, you know what I mean?

So it's not like, it's new to them. My daughter is 6-1, and she says she's marrying somebody taller than she. But she's 6-1, she's not 6-5, though. You know what I mean? It's like, I know, but 6-1 girls, that's tough too. But you're going to find a lot of, you're what, 6-2, 6-3? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to find a lot of guys that are like at least 6-3, 6-4.

You know what I mean? But a woman finding a 6-5 and higher is kind of like, you know, it's kind of nuts. Okay, so if you're a dude at 6-5 or higher, would like to date, Koso's wife's friend, create a little love connection here. I don't know. crappy car, crappy car, break the glass. I mean, there's a lot of strikes.

And he still had to apologize. But she was a devil. She was a naughty devil on Halloween. That got some points, right? It's a lot of leg. There's a lot of leg. James, what are you apologizing for? Yeah, I'm apologizing for my puns yesterday.

Oh, they were terrible. It's just terrible. Thank you for doing it. But one thing I ask is, though, when Hunter Brown does finish this contract, please don't bore us with the details thank you oh hey okay james

he just drove by and did that one that was probably his best one he's never done you know why he said he was an indictment against me he just doesn't want to hear about where he goes somewhere else he's afraid that that Hunter is going to play for somebody else when he's probably right I hope not

I mean do you Ross thinks one of the two guys are staying history tells me that both Pena and Hunter and agree somewhere else I hope I'm about that. I really hope I'm wrong about that. I mean, Pena's got the advertisements here in Houston, the community. Yeah, but I can get the advertisements

in anywhere now. Yeah, this is hard. All right. That's, I'm sorry for the week. At H-Town, Lilo says, I can appreciate the fact that you admitted it on there, but you are the worst kind of Parker on Earth. That's fair.

That is completely fair. And maybe someday I won't be, but if you know what, if these office buildings will start giving us a little more room between cars, maybe I won't do it. You know, you're not the only one that does this in the building, by the way. Well, then good. I passed a certain car every time, and he takes a spot.

Okay, well, here's the thing. Today at 2 o'clock, I'm glad to look at my car. I got you. And I don't want you to judge me. You can judge me. It sounds bad. It sounds bad. I don't think I did it.

I don't think I took half of the next spot, but I took definitely 20% of it. I mean, 20% off of 100 is a lot. 80. Yeah, that's a lot. You still can't park on 80, can you? Unless you've got a really small car. All right, ladies and gentlemen, time for us to wake the strippers up. It's 1158 here on Sports Talk 790.

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Oh, four in H-town. Good morning. This is Sports Talk 7.30. I kind of missed the guy Not really I didn't click that No

I thought you weren't going to clip that I thought that was so sweet of you Was that being genuine? It sounded like it Mm-hmm 12-07 on it Anything goes Friday 713-212-5-790

713-2-1-790 Great to have you with us if you need some fantasy football help we'll get that for you coming up in 50 minutes from now you know the worst part of it is not having Ross here it's not because of it's great material it said if I have to cough then we get dead air yeah

because you I can't see you I can't give you a sign I guess you can see me right yeah yeah I can see when you're coughing you know you can go hand wave so I need Ross for he's my official cover me up when I cough it's hard to get over by way I was a little nervous about how long I was going to go with the strippers today

I did okay for having to still get a little congestion in me Yeah, some character with it, you know? Yeah, we're getting there. Got that sailing going now, feeling much better. Rockets against the Blazers, we begin the news at noon. Rocket's going to try to pick up their second consecutive win at home. Their third win in a row overall, taken on the Portland Trail Blazers. It is an NBA end-season tournament playing game, so A, the Rockets must win.

And B, they need to win by as much as humanly possible because point differential will be determination in any tiebreakers along the way. So go Rockets, go beat the Blazers, and it wouldn't be the worst thing they won by 26 points. That's number one. Number two, we had an American Link's MVP award given away yesterday, and it was Aaron Judge winning for

the third time, and all the big number didn't win. And look, if we were doing Seattle Radio, Jonathan, Cal Raleigh would be our choice. We love Cal Raleigh. And I mean, not we, we don't, but if we were an average baseball film, like, well, Cal Raleigh's doing, it's pretty incredible.

But pound for pound, the better numbers overall go to Aaron Judge. Isn't an international conspiracy, isn't it a disgrace against Seattle fans or a slight against them. The reality is Aaron Judge deserved the award. He did everything and then some over a spectacular season by a guy that normally doesn't do it. So Aaron Judge, congratulations you were deserving of the American League MVP award. And of course we know Shohi Otani won up the nationally. Do you think Shohatani will win it for the rest of his life?

Like as long as he's playing, does it just give him the award and like, somebody would take it away from me? That's all I kind of feel about LeBron James Young in his career. On the NFL front, we had Dalton Schultz at practice today. It looks like he's going to go Sunday for the Texans

against the Tennessee Titans. There will be no C.J. Stroud. There will be no Jalen Petrie. And I think both those guys, frankly, at this point, are huge question marks even close to being doubtful. for the Texans game next Thursday against the Buffalo Bills. If the Texans do not beat the Titans by at least 10 points this Sunday,

I would say have a massive protest, but protests don't typically work. I'd have a massive I don't care fest. Just get rid of all your gear. Say, see you next year. I'd give up on the season. They have to win first and foremost, and they better win by at least 10 points. Because guess what? You guys know it.

Tennessee's the worst football. team or one of the two or three worst football teams in the NFL. Cam Ward has been a disaster. No surprise. Not much of a running game to speak of. No receivers to speak up. Their defense is terrible. And Cam Ward's going through typical rookie growing pains. Texans defense should feast on him all damn day long and then start to focus on next Thursday's game against Buffalo. I told you this week ago, the Texans need to go seven and two in their last nine games in order to make the playoffs. If they win Sunday, they'll be two and oh in their stretch towards seven and two. But again, difficult games coming up still.

You still have two with the Colts. You still have a game at Kansas City. And you've got a game at Los Angeles against the Chargers. It will be an uphill battle, an uphill climb, but there'll be no climbing if you cannot beat the lowly, sucky, horrifically owned Tennessee Titans in their stadium on Sunday in Nashville. And that, my friends, is the news at noon. 713-212-5-790. What do you guys want to get to? 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

If you want to follow us on Twitter, you may do that as well at SportsMT. I spent the first half hour of the show today talking about how sucky the Hallmark Movie Channel is. And today's edition of Hellier or not is all things about whether or not this is a Hallmark movie or not. I'm going to make up some names and some names that are going to be authentic and Ruby, really Hallmark Movie.

We'll be playing for that coming up at $150 this afternoon. Anything else I'm missing today in the world of sports we've got to get to? We got Texas, Georgia coming up tomorrow. And look, I don't get into a deep dive on Texas football. But if you do, if you're like a diehard longhorn fan and want to tell me how your squad's going to go beat Georgia tomorrow, I'm all up for that. Aggies have South Carolina tomorrow.

That should be a piece of cake. My beloved Houston Cougars do not have a game tomorrow. They have their second off week of the season And they've got two games left One at home against TCU And they go to Baylor to close out the year But yeah If you're a Texas fan

I mean are you all fired up for this Because I guarantee You're number 10 in the college football playoff You'd be the last at-large team in You beat Georgia And you stay competitive with A&M I think you're in I really do

I don't know. Texas fans always seem to me be the last ones to wake up on this. Maybe you can put me wrong. Come on in Texas fans. Just tell me about your squad. Tell me if you're going to do it. Because honestly,

Coupe has been playing, Arch, I should say, has been playing some of his best football of the season. That's even after he got concussed. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-7-90. It's an anything goes Friday.

We take this till 2 o'clock today. This is Sports Talk 790. Texas Titans Sunday 12 noon, Rockets Blazers tonight. Texas v. Georgia tomorrow night. That's the main game on ESPN, ABC. Aggie, South Carolina. Mack Rhodes out as AD, at least from the temporary. Could be more of a long-term thing, don't know, at Baylor.

Also leaving the college football player committee to determine the national champion, at least the rankings for the tournament coming up. Interesting stories. I'm hearing a lot of rumor. and don't want to discuss any of them because they're not true. But there are people that are trying to whisper things to me about what's going on at Baylor right now. And again, I've known Mack for a long period of time. I hope all of whatever's going on can be resolved ultimately

and that he seeks the personal intention that he needs during this time. But he is currently taking a leave of absence as an athletic director at Baylor University. 713-212-5-7-90 last night, the Jets and Patriots played the Patriots winning the game as Drake may underperform for my fantasy team. It's fine, I can live with it. And we'll have Dr. Rorto coming up in about 40 minutes from now. All right, we got to George with us at 1220 on anything goes Friday. George, how are you, sir?

What's going on, Mr. Matt? How are you? Happy Friday. Same to you. What's on your mind today? Hey, real quick questions. You were going to tell me something two Fridays ago, my chance, on October 31st. Maybe like a special day for me.

Happy Halloween? No, no. Happy birthday? It was my birthday, Matt. It was my birthday. Don't tell me you forgot. I did. Well, hey, I just turned 18.

What's up? Wait, whoa, whoa. Wait, wait, wait, me, you're 18 years old. 18 years old? Oh, this isn't this is not even a real George. No chance. I know, no, no, no, no.

I'm a real question. Okay, well, explain me. First of all, why are you so demented, fake, George? Demented? Yes. What does that mean? We have a common friend, and he thinks you're nuts. Oh, yeah, but he loves to take my money over at the Sugar Creek, though.

Hey, oh, speaking of that, Hey, what do you do next Saturday, Mr. Matt? I am on the road going to Phoenix, or I'm going to make something up. I'm going to not be available. Oh, perfect. So I can use your U-V-A tickets for a T-C game? Do you want to go? Heck, yeah, I want to go.

I'm a frog. I'm a booster. Wait, I can't let frogs in my building. Oh, no, hey, I wear a UVH big hat.

You can ask our mysterious friend. Oh, let me tell you, George, I'll talk to your mysterious friend enough. If I need to hook you guys up,

I'll hook you guys up. Yeah, hook me. I'm a big U. Vets guy. I had season tickets two years ago until the Cougar Pry

got raised and daddy don't pay as much he used to. Yeah. Hey, when dad doesn't want to help out. Yeah.

All right. I would love to go. I'll wear my kid your head. All right, that's good. All right, I'll, uh, I'll have, my people reach out to your people. How about that? All right, perfect.

I'll put you in a group chat. I don't think so. I don't know. I want no more group chats. No, I'm done with group chats. Nah. Nah. Hey, Mr. Matt, you're the man, man.

You are the man. Hey, tell me a joke real quick. Tell me a joke. I got nothing. Nope. Nope. Mm-mm. Hey, my life.

Ah. Yeah, see him, George. George, friend of the show. Jonathan? I can tell. He usually makes unsavory comments about my wife. Actually, they're very savory, which means he can't really talk about him.

And he's not 18 years old, by the way. I'm going to say, that was leaving my next question. Zero chance. Because his friend is not 18 years old. His friend is probably closer to 30 years old. George calling the show. It's anything goes Friday. By the way, we should both announce that our friends,

friend Clay Thompson, who you heard this morning on 790, both offered a good as McRibbs today. We both politely declined, because I already had lunch already. Same Zaire, yeah. But you didn't, you just knocked back a large order of fries, did you not? Medium. I asked him for a small, he gave me a medium. Oh, that was so nice.

You ordered a small order fries? Yeah. What are you a girl? I just didn't want, you know, he said for his treat. I know he's using his points in that. I'm like, you know, let me just give a small. You know, I have lunch right here, so just a little taste of the fries. No grown-ass man should ever order a small order of

What? What I'm knocking down a large fry for? That's a whole meal. No, I'm just saying, like, you go mediums, like, you got a pair down there. Small fries? Nah, man. What did you? I wanted you ask for a side salad on top of it?

I already had, like, some shrimp and stuff and rice from leftovers last night. Take a medium fry, so at least you know. That's what he gave me anyway. I mean, I ate it. Okay. Well, see, because he knew you were a man. He didn't realize he was ordering for a girl. I was trying to be polite.

Okay. I don't blow that by that for a second. Let's talk to Brent in Beaumont. Anything goes Friday? Brent, good afternoon to you. Hey, Matt, what are you doing next Saturday night? Nothing, none of your business, nothing. I don't want anybody to do it with anybody.

You know what I'm going to be next Saturday? I'm going to be at my Cougars versus TCU game. That's a great idea, Brent. All right, thank you, sir. Hey, I'm excited for the game tonight, but I'm kind of looking past that, and maybe this is cart before the horse. I see we've got the Nugget coming up next game on the cup, and really for the rest of the year, we're going to deal with the nugget.

What the heck? we're going to do with Yokic. He's having a phenomenal standout here. I don't know how we deal with them. It seemed like in years past we just ran around and ignored him. I don't know. I mean, he's still going to push he's going to push KD around. He's going to push Alfi around. You just put

Tari on him, hope for the best, and just watch out for double team swarming you can. I mean, let me ask you this question because yeah, let me ask you this, Brent. Last week were people flipping about how the rockets were going to try to stop Victor Wimbunyama. Not that I was aware of.

I thought he was going to be a pushover, honestly. I thought we were going to be a lot better than that game. Now, look, clearly, Yokic is a much more gifted player right now than victory. I understand that. But if you continue to, and I'm not saying you in particular, but if you are always worried about who's on the other side, you're never going to win. And that's why Yokic is a pain in the ass.

He's hard to stop. There's probably a very good chance a week from today. He scores 40 points against the Rockets. but that doesn't mean that it's guaranteed victories. I mean, Yokic has scored 50 points before in a game for Denver and still lost. You got to worry about the Aaron Murys of the world and some other folks on that basketball team. If you're just saying stopping Yokic is guaranteeing success, Denver's too good and too deep to say that. No, you're absolutely right.

I mean, you got Gordon on that team. I don't want to see he's younger, but him and Amory are both in their primes. Right. I mean, they're running up at the court making plays, and definitely being there when Yokic you know, get swarmed. I'm not saying it's impossible, it's difficult, and I haven't seen a team this year be able to deal with them.

You know, again, this is cart before the horse. I'm excited for the games, and I am interested tonight for the opposing team hair report from you and AC. Was I wrong? Was I wrong about Washington, though? Was I wrong?

It was very interesting hearing the both of you gentlemen falling over from Harry Men. That was very interesting. Y'all have a good night and go rock. Thank you. Now, wait, we got to straighten that out a little bit because people are like, what the hell is he talking about? Jonathan, Kishon George had quite a main.

Okay. I mean, that free-flown hair, you know what I'm talking about? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What do they call it? What do the kids call it? When it's poofed out? I mean. A perm?

No, it was, how can I explain? Can I need to send you a picture of what you look like? It was like a fro, basically. Oh, I'm looking on right now. There were like five or six different Washington Wizards players that had full frows going. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but you don't normally see that in a BenBA game.

Yeah, he's full rocking it, yeah. There's like four on one team that had it. They had a bunch of white guys wearing headbands, too. there's nothing more irritating than a white guy wearing a headband Corey Kisper I'm talking about you Why is it, wait Why is it irritated for him to wear a headband?

Because people shouldn't be wearing headbands begin with Doesn't they keep the sweat? I'll try it. There are a lot of NBA players Just Kevin Durant wear a headband? No He only take care of his hair, let's be honest, come on. Does a man Thompson wear a headband?

No. Only guy in the Rockets that were, what is it, Josh Kogi wears one? Does Aaron Holiday wear one? J. Sean Tate sometimes does. Back in your day, it was, everybody was wearing a headband. I'm 19,

and Michael Jordan didn't wear a headband. Everybody else around him was wearing a headband. Roger Johnson didn't wear a headband. AI did. Larry Burr didn't. A.I. might have. Okay, that's fair. But there was just a lot of Maine going on that Washington Wizards team.

I'm just going to tell you that right now. There were four or five of them that had it. They should be worried more about their hair care than than playing defense because they certainly didn't care about playing defense. No, I'm not jealous Could you imagine me with a fro? I could You could not

I could Get you a little perm Dreads Oh, okay That's saying something I went too far didn't I That's fine Do you ever hear those Red Bull commercials

Jonathan Ed Bull You know those ladies That just talked I was on them out actually Can you go back and play an own commercial For like five seconds go to the Red Bull one

One second Do we always just to know who these people are Or it's just like a fake radio people doing the show Can you get it or no Tanya you know we have jobs that require To have a lot of pep in our step When we're on the mic But let's be real some days

Do we know who Tanya is? I mean a billion percent says need to Do you know about Red Bulls row Have you tried it yet? You can turn it down I have, you know, it's exactly what I have. All right, it's fine. Red Bull, you got a free 15 second plug.

Do we know, I mean, do we know who Tanya is? Like, if Ross and I went to it to the national average and everything, say, you know, hey, Ross, man, are you really dragging here? Before we got our show, man, I'd go for Red Bull right now. Am I missing out who Tanya is? Do I work with Tanya? You've been in the, he's, you've been, is Tanya on the beat? I don't even know it.

How long like you've been a part of, I heard me, at three years? Oh, yeah, yeah, it's been that long. Yeah, you would know. I feel like I'm supposed to know who Tanya is. Because all she does talk about how many hours she works in front of the microphone on her podcast and her show. I'm like, I don't even know who Tanya in. I mean, am I missing something else? She's not like a Delilah for somebody, right?

She's not doing American Top 40 with Ryan Sechrest, is she? Got to be a big name, though. It's so big that I don't know who it is. You don't know who it is, and you're young. Just throwing it out there. Maybe who's what Tanya is, let me know. No. It's me and Tanya wants me to drink a lot of Red Bull.

You never had a Red Bull before my life? Never. Never. I'm, Tanya Rad. Oh, on air with Ryan Sechrest. Oh, I was right. You was right on a red. I kind of just flat out guest.

I was right. She's on Ryan Sechrest. Who doesn't, whose show's not on Houston? It's L.A., yeah. 102.7. Okay. Good for you. That's a good poll by you.

Thanks for finding out. Let's talk to a. Mark in Nashville at 1235, then Yankees Keith is calling in for some reason. Mark, what's going on in your town of a losing football franchise? No, this is Mark the Aggie. Oh, hi, Mark, the Aggie? Yeah, it's been a while. I've been up here about a year and a half.

All right. Anyway, isn't Red Bull in that a Longhorn drink? I don't know. Do Red Do, is that one that only? No, I bet Aggie's drink Red Bull. No, because Art's got $6 million to promote it anyway

I did not know that Do you know about NIL deals? I don't even know what guys make anymore Do you? Some of them Do people even pay attention That kind of stuff? Their world smartest quarterback

Left $8 million on the table And I think he's on the practice squad now Don't talk about Quinnieuers that way That's not very nice What's a fact Are you going to the South Carolina game tomorrow by the way? no why not i'm watching it on tv why don't you go the game and support your ages why don't you do your little uh dance in the fourth quarter why don't you do the hoop poop poop and all that stuff

that the aggie warham guys do that's that's a long way away it's tomorrow 11 o'clock in the morning isn't it early yeah but that's 12 that's like a thousand miles away from nashville oh you do live in Nashville yeah i've been up here a year and a half oh okay now i'm i'm mixing my Okay, I got you. So you live in Nashville, but you're an Aggie? Right. Okay. All right.

The PSA, I don't know if y'all got your email or whatever, but the PSA is anybody that's coming up here, be very careful when you got an adult Disneyland Broadway with all the bars because they have a big problem with people getting Mickey's and getting drugged. Really? Really. And I don't, you know, I never had heard anything mentioned about. about it until, you know, basically I got up here. You know, it's funny because yesterday, my son just called me and told me that he's got

a business trip to Nashville next month, and he's like, what do you do in Nashville? I said, it's one of the few cities I've not gone to very many times because there's been no professional teams there that I've covered. I mean, there's no NBA team, and I'm only gone up a couple times for colleges. But all I know is it's the, isn't it the like the epicenter of everybody's, what do they call an engagement party, the Bachelorette parties? Isn't that the Bachelorette Party of the capital of the world? yeah supposedly and it's called uh nash Vegas and everybody you know all the country singers and kid rock

yep uh they all they all have bars and you know their names on the bar but they'll be as many as almost a million people down there on certain nights is what they've said and you stay far away from that i'm assuming yeah all right i don't need to go pay nine bucks for a beer a long neck okay so all right That's fine. The joke is I'm an Aggie. I'm not stupid. All right.

That seems fair. Okay. Anything else? Anyway. Good. Are you going to the Texans game on Sunday? No. All right.

Watch it on TV. Do you ever leave your house, period? I mean, are you out and about in Nashville very often? Yeah. But I have my certain spots. Okay. That's good. Where you don't have to pay $35 to park.

Okay. But anyway, the important thing is tell everybody if they're listening or remind them to be careful when they come up here. Okay. I don't know if traveling Texans listens to my show per se, but I will be happy to pass that along to them. Mark, thank you for calling me, man. Take care of yourself. Appreciate you down on in and have a good weekend. And go eggs.

You know, I did tell my son, I don't know what. I wasn't like trying to, like, encourage him, Jonathan, but I was like, you're going to, going to Nashville next month on business that town parties hard yeah I mean when I was in West Kentucky it was only an hour away and we would always go down there I mean it's fun I mean even you're 18 19 it's a lot of things going down there

like what like I had roommates that would disappear for like a week just just like you know come back yeah I just I was at a party I took that and then I was on the street wait a minute they were gone for an entire week

Yes, this is, this is, I'm not even, I think you're making this up. No, I'm not. And I put this on the Lord. Like, you go to Broadway or down there in Nashville, like, they go crazy. Like, you can find spots. Very bad. Let's, let's be brutally honest with this. A lot of girls go there for Bachelorette weekends.

Yep. Because you can bar hop and you go to different places. You got about eight or ten girls that go. Yeah. Not very expensive to go. You all jam into one hotel room or Airbnb. And of those 10 girls, you have the girl that's, getting married, who's going to behave herself?

You got probably two or three that are already married. And then that group of 10, you got five or six that are single and ready to mingle. And don't really care where they sleep. And they mingle. And they mingle. It's a very fun town, though. I mean, it's

like, Broadway is very nice. If you're not into the country, you know, the country... Yeah, I don't think you have to be in the country music to enjoy Broadway, right? That's just like the attire you're going to see there, like the cowboy hats, you know, like the boots and all that stuff. It's basically

if you don't drink, you're going to have zero fun because literally everybody on those streets and Broadway, they just get hammered. And like I said, if you're single and ready to mingle, you're going to have zero problem with it. Now, the roofy thing is terrible. Yeah, that's horrible.

And I bet that's, but that can happen in every city that's got a party reputation to it. Yeah, I guess, but it makes it worse for Nashville because it's just one big strip too, so I mean. If you've got, how many bachelor parties you've been?

been in two in your life. Bachelors parties. Not one. Not one. Not a single one. No, not single one. I'm trying to think, I don't think I've ever been to one away from Houston. I've gone to bachelor parties in Houston. I've had my bachelor party in Houston. Now, is that

only in the movies where they go crazy at bachelor parties, or is that like, or is that like a real thing? It depends on who you're with. I will say my bachelor party, I told the guys, I said, hey, let's get a big room in a hotel like a suite. Yeah.

Let's fill up the bathtub with beer and play cards all night. Okay, that sounds a good time. That lasted five minutes. What do you mean? It only lasted five minutes. Because all the guys, every one of them, especially the married ones, wanted to go to the Wrens rub. I mean, that's not I shouldn't say that.

The Rens Club. Well, I mean, the Reds Rub would actually fit as well, but that's an issue for a different time. Yeah, they. The married dudes were like, let's go out. I hate my wife. Let's go. Single guys are like, we do this all the time. There's nothing for us.

Married guys are like, I got $1,100 for about 10 table dances. Let's go. There was one married guy in my bachelor party that, I mean, he had a wad of $100 bills. He's like, we're not playing cards. We are not drinking beer. We are going out. That's all right. It's fine.

So our show is set for the remaining 72 minutes of it. We've got Dr. Roto coming up at 1 o'clock. We have non-Floralora stories at 1.30 this afternoon. You want to do two or one today, Jonathan? I'm going to probably try to find two. I'm going to try to find two, but I definitely stay the one. Okay. Well, you got your only one for sure. Maybe we've got time for a second one.

And then hell yeah or not today is, is this movie going to be seen on the Hallmark channel this year for Chris's movies? If you didn't listen to short earlier today, I hate the Hallmark Channel. It hates a strong term. I hate it. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Let's talk to Yankees Keith.

Keith, congratulations on your guy, Aaron Judge, being named the MVP the American League yesterday. Yeah, he's my son, and I'm very proud of him. You should be. Anyway, I'm what I'm calling him. I know you like comedy, Matt. I do.

We got a great documentary that came on last night for Eddie Murphy. Yeah? It lasts about two hours. I can tell you that straight up. Okay. Let me ask you a question, man. I don't think, in my mind, there's no more talented person that's ever done comedy or movies than Eddie Murphy. Can you name one?

Eddie Murphy is the funniest stand-up comedian in the history of stand-up comedy, and there are a lot of good ones. There's George Carlin. There is Richard Pryor. There's Red Fox for Old School. There's a lot of George Carlin. There's a lot of them, but he's the all-time best. Yeah, he did all those movies.

He did a great job in a whole bunch of movies. Did you know that in the movie Coming to America in that barbershop scene, he played every character in there? Yes. and when he did the was that the nutty professor and they had a a scene at the table

with a whole bunch of the clumps family he was all the clumps yes that was fantastic man I don't know anybody there's nobody that's like him absolutely nobody no he is in you know I'm so glad he's actually

be able to reconvene with the folks at S&L because I know he was mad for a long time about them. He made it, they made a joke about all the bad movies he made for a while, and he said, F you, I'm going away. And about five years ago, he came back and hosted the show. He was on, he's been on some of the anniversary shows. He's the funniest, now the funniest man in my entire life to me was Robin Williams because of his ability to just ad-lib the funniest stuff on earth. But Eddie Murphy's not far behind, that's for sure.

You know what? You know, he survived. He was down there with Volusia and all of them. I don't know how many patterned-in-night-life characters died on a natural death. There's a lot of people that got OD and all kinds of stuff. Flew their head off. He survived all that. He said he never touched cocaine.

He's lucky. He's one of the rare ones that didn't because I'm going to assume that during that time in SNL, that the white stuff was readily available. That's all I got. That's it. All right. Thank you. You all,

I have a great day. Thank you very much. Well, Eddie Murphy on there. Anything goes Friday. You know, Jonathan, other stations in town are giving you the details

of what the Texans offensive line is going to do this week. We haven't done that today. No. I think I've let you down. I mean, they're what, 25 now, 24?

Oh, you know, we've not even done that. Can you give me some lookup music here? Because that's usually, that's a Ross's job. How is the Texans' offensive line this week? Just find some I don't care what you find

Just find some music here Let's take a look I don't even know how to work this out This website PFF.com Oh you're going with Jeopardy? I like this I know you do You've used this a couple times before

Where would I find offensive All right I'm going to Google I'm going to Google PFF offensive line grades Okay here we go This is it I'm a little nervous about this what's going to be. This is ahead of week number 10. This was posted November the 5th.

That's a week ago. So we're behind here a little bit. It's not great radio here. Mm-hmm. Okay. This is the last one I can find is the one five days ago. Where's the one from yesterday? Oh, screw it.

Would it be from yesterday? Well, yeah, they usually do them on Wednesdays. Two days ago, don't they usually do them on Wednesdays? The last one I see here is updated November the 5th. That's not any good. I can't do me any good on that. Yeah, this one's November 1st, I found. All right, I'm going to ask the audience.

Does anybody know where I can get me some PFF offensive line grades for the Texans? And this one has the Houston at 16. No, it's a lot. This is, I don't know. Oh, I found it. in here. Let's see here. PFF offensive line rankings ahead of week 11.

Here we go. By the way, the Colts are number two. That's not good. I got to read that. It takes Okay, here we go. Denver's one. Staying with me. Cults are two. Oh, and then it wants me to pay for the rest of the service. Oh, screw that. I'm not doing that. He says, want to keep reading? Subscribe.

I'm not subscribing to PFF right. You know what I'm going to say right now? According to pro football focus, they're the 27th offensive line. 27th? I'm just going to guess. I don't know if that for a fact or not. I wonder if Rodo knows that. Do you think Roto pays for PFF? He might.

Actually, he probably does. I would think in his job he'd kind of want to. Right. More information, more status. We're going to have to ask him to do that. All right. There you go. So, sorry, we could not give you the answer to that.

I don't think he made an audience necessarily waiting for it. I can't believe Ross pays for PFF. That's what I was about to say. I mean, the guy won't buy me a coat. and he's buying for PFF grades? That's terrible. Okay. I see how his importance is.

He'd rather have the dorks in Cincinnati, although he did call them Poonhounds because they are Poonhounds. They're getting some ass. I get that. But he's paying for that and he won't pay for other things. Like he's shaming me into buying thisibachi for him and he won't even, you know he's the least thing to share his pass code with me. I bet you if you would ask me before he left, he would get to you.

I should have asked him. When he goes on vacation next time, I'm saying, look, I need your PFF pass codes. And by the way, you're not that damn important PFF that I have to start to subscribe into your service. I'm the one giving you all the run. All right, hey, you guys get your fantasy football questions ready. Let's get those ready for Dr. Roto next here on Sports Talk 790. If you would like to join the conversation and get your questions in about your favorite fantasy football players, 713-212-5-790,

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I mean, Dr. Roto, joining us from Southwest Florida. Rota, are you a pro football focus subscriber? I am. I mean, it's changed over the years, if I can say this. I mean, I was there when I started when my friend Mike Clay worked there and Jeff Rackcliffe. I think the people there are good. It's not as good as side as it used to be, but, you know, still has good stats. I was going to look for the offensive line rankings of the Texans, according to PFF,

and they wanted to charge me. I'm like, screw that. I ain't doing more worried about that right now. I can just tell you, they suck generally. That's usually an easy way to look at it. You see who's let up the mode sacks, and when you see it's your team, you know, it's not good. Hey, I got a serious problem. We're going to have this coming in next Thursday's game with Buffalo and Houston.

Look, I had Drake May yesterday, and I wasn't. expecting Drake May to score, you know, four touchdowns and 300 yards every single week. But are you, I just feel like I'm noticing my Thursday players that I'm using are not performing as well, short week, obvious, but is it scare you off sometimes of picking a guy because they're playing on the short week in your mind? Or do you say, if you're still a good player, he's always going to be a good player, don't worry about the day of the week? The answer to that question is yes to both things. So I hate playing Thursday, not guys. I absolutely despise it. But are you going to sit Drake May against the Jets.

No. Problem was, he was good. He wasn't great. I mean, what did he put up for you? 14, about 18 points? Yep, not enough. Usually it's a 21, 22 range. Because we get spoiled, right?

When guys do that, so, you know, did we think Krivedon Henderson was going to have all those touchdowns? No, I would call May's game good, not great. You're going to need the rest of your team to play well. But I agree with you. Those Thursday games are rough. Sometimes they're high scoring, and then sometimes, like, I mean, we saw that horrible game the other week.

with Denver and the Raiders. So you just have to be very careful. I use my guys very judiciously. All right. Let's get to some of the interesting games. And I want to put them in terms of if the Texans win this game, which they're supposed to against Tennessee,

they're terrible. That puts them at five and five. You've got to start rooting for some other folks to lose. Let's start with how we feel about the Jacksonville, L.A. Chargers game. Going across the country is one thing. Chargers are good on national stages, not so hot in non-national stages. And then what is left for the Jaguars after the humiliating loss they had last Sunday here in Houston?

Yeah, what a disaster that was. I think that if you're the Chargers, this is a game that you need to win, right? If you want any chance of being in the AFC playoffs, you've got to go on the road, you've got to fly across the country, you've got to play their early game, which we know that West Coast teams hate doing, and you've got to win this one. Now, should they be able to win this game? I think so. I think you're looking at a team Gadsden is fine.

We were worried when he left the field last week injured, but he's back. You've got Quentin Johnson, you've got Ladd-McConkie, you've got Keenan Allen. All you have to do is keep the Jaguars difference from sacking Justin Herbert. Here's the good news. The Jaguars don't have a good pass rush. So with the one team, the teams that could beat the chargers right now are the teams that could sack Herbert. I think Herbert will have time to pick them apart. And if you give Herbert time, they should come out with a road win.

All right. Tampa Bay in Buffalo. I don't know what the weather's going to be like in northeastern in New York, but I know Tampa over its history, to matter how good they've been, have struggle going, say, north of Atlanta. Buffalo is spectacular at home

and really, frankly, pedestrian on the road so far this year. You're absolutely right. Now, here's the thing. Bucky Irving is out. Chris Godwin is out. How do you beat the bills? You run the football on the bills. So unless Sean Tucker is doing it, I think they're in trouble.

Right? If Bucking Irving was healthy in playing, I think Tampa would have had a better shot here. Now, how do you beat Tampa? Well, you beat Tampa by throwing the football because you can't run on Tampa. So, but Shakir, but Kincaid is out. So I think you have two teams that are good, but the guys who could help them be great or both out. So I think this comes down to can Josh Allen find his receivers? Can James Cook break off a big player too? I think that has a better chance of happening also to I think Buffalo is going to lose a game to Tampa after losing to Miami. It doesn't feel that way. Give me Buffalo on this one. This game with Kansas City and Denver, I think, Roto, is super important for standings.

Denver wants to be a legitimate AMC title contender. Kansas City has had a tough schedule. They're barely above 500. They lose this, and they're flirting with staying on the south side of the playoff line. Well, you're right. So this game has a lot of variables to it. First of all, I don't think J.K. Dobbins plays. If he's out, R.J. Harvey is going to be their starting running back.

So if you have him, it's not the greatest start in the world because the chiefs are good defense, but he's definitely start a ball. There's a possibility that Margaret Mims comes back and he had a full practice, so he's been playing. That really helps. But they're not going to be able to run the ball so much. They're going to have to throw it. We don't really see the Denver Broncos want to do that. So now all of a sudden you're getting a Denver team that needs to pass against a Kansas City team that knows it's coming.

On the other side of the football, Kansas City can't run. Pacheco likely is out. again and Denver's past defense has been good. So I think you've got the makings of a really good football game, but in terms of fantasy goodness, I don't know whether we see a ton of guys go off in this one. All right. Detroit plays at Philadelphia in a national game for the Eagles. They played the Packers last week in one of the most boring Monday night games

you'll see in quite some time. Now look, defense wins games, but doesn't make an exciting for us fantasy owners. Are we worried about the Eagles defense curtailing what Detroit's been able to put out this year? maybe slightly but but not not enough i mean look they got they finally got james and williams involved we've been waiting for that all season long but i love alma ross st brown you got to love gibbs and you got to play golf and i think with sam lapporteur not at a hundred percent jameson williams might be in play i think the guy that people are sleeping on in this game is a j

brown when a jrown starts complaining they feed them the football it happens all the time and Detroit plays a lot of man coverage. You don't want to play man coverage against A.J. Brown. This is going to be one of those A.J. Brown 120-yard two touchdown games. I don't think people are expecting it, but it's going to happen. Whenever he complains, they feed him. All right. Dr. Roto with us again to the bottom of the hour. Your questions are coming up for the next segment at 713-212-5-7-0.

Is everything all well now in Baltimore now that Lamar Jackson's back throwing the passes around? I think things are as good as they're going to be. Look, they have a very winnable game this week. They just have to keep Miles Garrett away from Lamar. I don't know whether Derek Henry is going to be able to run for a ton of yards, but you should be effective enough. But you've got Zay Flowers. You have Mark Andrews.

You've got a defense that's playing a whole lot better, which I think that was the biggest problem. Marlon Humphrey is out. But, you know, you've got a Wuzier and you've got Wiggins at the cornerbacks. I think that helps Roquan Smith was out. Now he's back. So I think so long as the Ravens' defense, It's healthy. It keeps them in games. The problem here for Cleveland is that they just don't have

enough offensively. I mean, Dylan Gabriel's not good enough. Sure, I like Quinn Sean Judkins, but, you know, Cedric Tillman, not healthy. Harold Fanon, dealing with questionable as well on the practice reports. They just don't have enough. Baltimore should pull this one out. I really like Mark Andrews to score. Everybody wearing a Carolina skill position player, and look, Rick O'Donnell has been largely a huge surprise for how good he's been. because of the split running back situation. But have we been, are there any sneaky Carolina players

that still might be available, especially for some guys that may be on an off week here? Not really. Honestly, without McMillan getting injured. And if McMillan was injured, I tell you,

I like Jalen Coker. But if McMillan's not injured, you literally have Rico Dowellon to Troy McMillan, and that's it. You don't have anybody else that they're even thinking of starting. Now, Atlanta, though, very interesting to me.

Bejohn Robinson's going to have a better week. Carolina's run defense has been both hot, and cold. I think it's going to be very cold this week. Drake London is in a prime spot and Kyle Pitts is in a great spot. All three of those guys are in great spots. The big problem is Michael Pennix Jr.

who's been supremely inaccurate over the last few games. If he can figure it out, the Falcon should roll in this one. Minnesota needs this one in the worst way. If they want to get back in the NFC race, they're only two guys of the first place spot between Detroit and Chicago. I think the division's only going to get maybe one because I think maybe

those teams in the West may scoop up all the wild cards. But can Minnesota, with McCarthy back now a couple of weeks, go up with the Chicago offensive, which has really played well the last month or so? The surprising answer is yes. Now, last week, McCarthy was throwing what I call hospital balls. He was putting guys in positions that they were going to get whacked. And you never want that. It felt like Justin Jefferson gave up sometime in the second half because he was tired of getting hit. McCarthy is a work in progress. This is really his first season. He's going to have ups and he's going to have downs. Here's the thing. Chicago doesn't pull.

put a ton of pressure on the quarterback. If McCarthy has time to sit there, he will be able to pick apart this defense that allows big plays. I think Jefferson does have a bigger week. I think Jalen Naylor is a sneaky guy. I mean, McCarthy seems super comfortable with him, and I think we're finally going to see T.J. Hawkinson, we haven't heard that name in weeks. I think he's in play.

On the other side, look, it's really, really hard to trust Caleb Williams. He's just a mess. But I think we start DeAndre Swift for sure. Roma Junzee, you know, not a great stylistic matchup here. I think if more is out, take a look at Luther Burton. Minnesota's not great against slot receivers. All right. Lastly, we've got the Texans and Titans.

It sounds like we know for a fact that CJ is not playing this week. It sounds very doubtful for the Buffalo game. In Mills, we trust, against very few opponents, one of them would be the worst team in the NFL, the Tennessee Titans. Look, here is what Texans need to do. They need to play Woody Marks. Okay? They did it last week, but it was almost like they did it by accident.

You can't do it by accident. You have to do it by design. Davis Mills did a credible job last week, but you have Woody Marks and you have Nico Collins. You've got to feature your best players. If you don't, even a bad team like Tennessee, if you keep it close enough, strange things happen in the NFLMT. And we don't need that to happen here. We need the Texans to play fantastic defense, which we know that they do. And we need them to, like, feature Woody Marks and stuff.

get him more involved. Why have we not seen Woody Marks more involved in the passing game? This guy was one of the best receiving running backs in all of college football last year, and basically he got two receptions. I mean, you've got to do better than that. So yeah, the Texans should win this game,

but if they really want to make a push to go deep in the playoffs or you'll make the playoffs, you've got to phase out Chub, phase in Woody Marks. This sounds personal. You on team Woody Marks. You must have like three teams with Woody Marks on it. A little bit, but I'm also, you know what I take personally?

I hate when general managers and coaches screw things up. It's like Trayvion Henderson. Brable didn't want to play this guy for how many weeks? They were playing Stevenson when he was fumbling all over the place. They finally played this guy. Look how good he's been the last two weeks. It's like, ooh, Henderson was good. Of course he was good.

They just didn't play him. Didn't heat it up, MT. I have found the Woody Marks fan club president. His name is Dr. Roto, 713-212-5-790. 713212-5-790 Your questions for Dr. Roto are next. This is Sports Talk 7-90.

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on Sports Talk 790 If you want to chime in on the conversation You may do so At 713-212-5-790. Let's start with with John for Dr. Roto on 790. Hi, John. Hey, how's it going, man?

Good. Hey, Doug, I got two questions for you. Do you start Cairo Williams or Wano Robinson? Or, and then my other question is Woody Marks or Rashad White. Thank you. All right, you got it. So I think as much as I like Woody Marks, you might have to go with Rashad White. And this one, Buckey Irving is out.

And the way to beat the bills is to run the football. I think you're going to go with White because you don't know if the Texans are going to commit to Woody Marks, and you also know this is probably going to be a pretty low-scoring game. Look, I don't love Kairn Williams's match-up at all. Seattle's really good stopping the run, but I can't tell you to start Wondale Robinson. That feels a little too risky for me. So let's go Kairn and let's go Rashad White. All right.

Continuing on with Brian for Dr. Roto. Go ahead, Brian. Hey, everybody. Hey, Dr. Roto, I have a quarterback matchup dilemma, and I got Mahomes and Purdy, and I also have McCarthy. Yeah, look, you got to, I think you have to start Mahomes. It's not that Purdy doesn't have a good matchup, he does, he has a very solid matchup. McCarthy, that's a risk after what we saw last week. Look, this is a game that Chiefs need to win this game if they want to make the playoffs.

They have nobody running the football. The only way Kareem Hunt scores is if, you know, were the. or Hollywood Brown or Travis Kelsey trips on the two yard line. That could happen but outside of that I think Mahomes throws for at least two touchdowns. Thanks for the phone call 713-212 5790 Evan and pass

a get down Dina for Dr. Roto. Go ahead Evan. Hey Dr. Roto you like Derek Henry or Travis E.T.N. I like Derek Henry in that one. Look I know it's a tough matchup. I get that but I just feel like you have to, Baltimore is going to give Henry

20 touches in football and once again. Strange things happen in the NFL. Guys trip on the three-yard line, they bring in Henry. Henry gets a touchdown. It happens that way. E.T.N. has been decent. I just feel like with the Jaguars there, they've got a lot of guys, ETN had pretty good touchdown equity last week, but two weeks ago, he couldn't find the end zone, so he's more consistent. How do you trust any Jacksonville skill position player, honestly? I mean, we have spent so many years, Roto, you and I, just talking about Trevor Lawrence, all this money that you spend on him, he's just not even an average NFL quarterback.

Agreed. And here's what happens. Why are teams stuck in mediocrity? Because they overpay Trevor Lawrence, right? How do you win in the NFL? You win on rookie contracts. You're bringing a young quarterback. You're paying very little because the minute you have to pay them big money, teams don't want to get rid of them. Look at Daniel Jones and the Giants. Look at Trevor Lawrence. Look at Kyle and Murray. Arizona can't get rid of him and he stinks. Amen to that. Let's continue on and talk to Corey on 790 for Dr. Roto.

Go ahead, Corey. Well, what up, fellows? Dr. Roto got two questions. First of all, do I play, hasn't played all season, first game back, Brock Purdy, or Davis-Mills against the worst defense in the league. And second question is, who would you take? Who's a better sidekick for Matt, all over a reliable, Ross or young, new, fresh, Cole Thompson.

Thank you. I can't go against my guy, Ross. You know that. Purdy, look, Purdy's in a good spot. I think that, look, Mac Jones has done a really terrific job, but this game against the Cardinals, this should be a little high scoring than we think. I think Purdy's certainly in play.

I mean, he's not Patrick Mahomes, but he's certainly in that next tier and he's solid. 713-212-5-7-90. Chris for Dr. Roto. Go ahead, Chris. yeah thanks dr rato um i just need to start one out of the three tyrone tracy Xavier wordy and romeo dobs what you got for me yeah i'm gonna start dobs so look the packers played very poorly that came monday night was was torture to watch and so you've got to

think that the packers are going to try better up more offensively here maybe throw the ball get out of their shell because they need to so look the only healthy receivers they really have now or Dobbs and maybe Christian Watson, but he came up injured in practice the other day, so you've got to watch that. I think Worley's a solid play, but Dobbs are a great play. All right.

We go on to Paul by Rice U on 7-90. Hi, Paul. Hey, guys, Deep League here. Teteroa McMillan or Jordan Addison at receiver and tight end is Cade Otton or Harold Fanon. Yeah, so first of all, we're going to go McMillan over Addison.

I think they are with McCarthy. There's a lot of options. She has to feed Justin Jefferson. He throws the ball to Aaron Jones. He throws the ball to, needs to throw the ball more to T.J. Hawkinson. Where McMillan, you know, even though Atlanta will be guarding him, he is the number one featured target on Carolina. So we go there. I think you go with Kate Otton.

Without Chris Godwin, again, Kate Otton has really stepped up. Now, Buffalo is okay against tight ends, but if they fall behind, which they probably will in this game, Baker always looks for Otton, especially in the same. second half when he's trying to make those comeback drives, doesn't it always seem like Otten for five, Otten for eight, Otten for seven, and then he finishes the game nine for 82, and you're like, how did the dude just put up 17 fantasy points?

Thank you for that. Let's go to Ed and Magnolia. Ed, you're on with Dr. Roto. Hey, Dr. Roto, it's Ed from Magnolia. I talked with you last year. Nice to hear you on again. I haven't called yet this year. But anyway, I'm still in Wisconsin

Magnolia. It's nice out here. and I had just a couple of things. Number one, I just picked up Purdy because Stroud is out, and I got Knicks. Okay, who am I going with? Purdy or Knicks? Yeah, I think you're going to go Purdy. It's just a better game environment in that one, Ed. Okay, also, I have a couple guys off from the Colts.

I got Pittman out, and I got Warren out, and I need to fill a flight. spot. Is Jerry, Judy, worth a shot? I mean, who are your other choices? Right? So Judy's okay, but do me a favor. Take a look at a guy named Michael Wilson. Marvin Harrison Jr. is out this week with a, he had his appendix taken out. Michael Wilson probably will get those targets and that game against the 49ers, especially if you have Purdy, right? You want that game to kind of shoot out because if that game shoots out, it's better for Purdy. the better Wilson does, the better for your quarterback. Let's do that, okay?

Ed, good luck. Thank you very much. Let's go to Chase for Dr. Roto. Hi, Chase. Good morning. Shippers, Dr. Roto, hello. First off, I wanted to start by saying, my team is two and eight, so this doesn't really matter. But Jordan Addison or Debo Samuels or David Montgomery and Woody Marks.

Yeah, we're going to go Debo Samuel for sure. That one, you know, that Miami doesn't play a ton of defense, and Mario is going to have to feature Debo Samuel. Look, David Montgomery's always in play. He's solid. I mean, it's a tough matchup of him. But, you know, the Lions are a team that can score 30. I think people are under, they're looking at that game with the Eagles and going,

oh, man, the Eagles Packers, that game stunk last week. But I think you have a Lions defense that is very suspect in the back. And I told you, I think A.J. Brown has a bigger week. I always want a piece of the Lions if I can have it. All right. Last one belongs to Josh on 790. Hi, Josh. Hey, how's it going, guys?

My question is Lamar or Dak Prescott and Zay Flowers or Cortland Sutton? Thank you, guys. Thank you. Yeah, I mean, good questions. I think I'm going to go Dak Prescott in Las Vegas. I mean, look, Dallas is going to put up a lot of points. And I think that, I mean, Lamar is a solid, solid play. But that game could be a little ugly.

When I say ugly, I'm talking about not as many points. So I'm going to go, Dak. I like Zay Flowers a lot. Now, if you want to go Lamar and Zay together because between the two of them, you think it's going to help you. I just don't think Zay scores a lot of touchdowns. Like when Lamar's throwing, he throws to Mark Andrews. So they go to Zay when they're losing the game. So we've got to be careful of that.

But I think I'm going back in Zay. All right, a couple of quick on Twitter. Full point PPR need to pick two. Calvin Austin, Jacoby Myers, Trey Tucker, Dalton Schultz. The Schultz, by the way, practicing today for the Texans. I think Calvin Austin, like when Ed was looking for a sneaky guy, Calvin Austin is just as sneaky as Michael Wilson. I'll go with him, and of course, Trey Tucker against Dallas, please get him in.

Brissette or Knicks for one quarterback? I think Brissette. Tough matchup for Knicks. All right. And lastly, Wilson, McMillan, or Trey Franklin when one wide receiver's position? I mean, it's got to be McMillan. He's there number one, and he always gets targets week and week out. Ladies, Jim, and once a week, we ask Dr. Roto to give us the 100% knockdown.

dragout, going to absolutely crush it for us in fantasy football. We present to you, Dr. Roto's. Lock of the week. What do you got? M.T. I really love. Nobody talked about the Steelers Bengals game. How come? You know this is going to be a high-scoring game.

The Steelers are favored to put up close to 28 points. That's four touchdowns. Are you telling me Jaylen Warren is not going to get that ball at least once to it in the end zone? I think he gets 120 all-purpose yards. a touchdown. Let's lock Jalen Warren in. There it is. There's Dr. Roto's. Lock in the week.

Can you also lock in Higgins for about 10 catches for 143? Can you do that for me too? It could happen this week. I like Higgins a lot. You want everybody in that game. Get off and get Higgins, get your more chase, get Warren, get chase around. Everybody in. Since

any Pittsburgh game, no one cares about except us fantasy football geeks. Hey, Roder, where can we find you between now and Sunday? You can always find me. at Dr.rotto.com. Oh, by the way, enter the promo code playoffs beginning tomorrow. We're going to give you five days for free of the all-access package, all right? Just use the promo code playoffs as of Saturday morning the 15th, and that we'll give you five days free on the site.

So please check that out. You can find me also at Sirius XM Fantasy Sports Radio on Saturdays from 7 to 10 a.m. Eastern or 6 to 9 Central. There it is. You said playoffs is the code word, right? Playoffs. All right. There it is.

Dr. Roto, have a great week. We'll talk again next Friday. You got it. I'm not. That is the one and only Dr. Roto with us here on Sports Talk 790. 131 is our time. Jonathan, I've got two non-flora stories. One is from the Philippines. And one is from Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

Oh, okay. We're going to have non-floor stories for you next here. 131 on Sports Talk 790. We find interesting stories that occur outside the state of Florida and share them with the people of Houston. It's time for non-floraida. All's time for non-flora storm coast to coast will bring the strange and wild

no alligator tales but something that will make you smile it's time for laughs from laughs from far and wide crazy world there's nowhere to hide all right this week as is every friday on the show at 130 we decide to find you some interesting stories want to pass along to our audience we call them non-floor stories only one rule you cannot pick anything that comes from the state of florida unless one or both members of the matt thomas show with ross are in florida that happens during when we're in Orlando for the rockets or the heat for the rockets or we're

in spring training. One of the two, three scenarios in play. Other than that, our stories must be from outside the Sunshine State. Jonathan, I'll go first and we're going to go with a woman in the Philippines. Apparently, doctors in the Philippines, Jonathan, have

documented a case of a woman whose armpits leak milk. Dermatologists writing in the journal Jod case reports said the patient was born with extra breast tissue on both sides of her underarms, which swelled up after she delivered a baby and produced, quote, milky secretions from the overlying hair follicles. The condition didn't bother her when she wasn't pregnant or breastfeeding. And the good news is, doctors say only happens to fewer than 6% of the women. in the world.

So, 6%. That's still quite a bit, right? Oh, I couldn't be a woman. Oh, my. Could you imagine if your armpits leaked milk? Oh, my God. It's like one of those nozzle machines you get when you go on the McDonald's. You're like one of those cones.

Really? Really? And you pull out and you just squeeze your arm and then all the milk comes out. Something's wrong with you. So, needless say, women in the, at least, woman in the Philippines has leaky armpits and it says doctors say it affects fewer than 6% of women that's still i think it's a fairly large number yeah that's like a good if you're a woman listening to showing you've ever had milk come out of your armpits let us know 713 212 5 790

and just tell jonathan yes my armpits leak of milk 713 212 5 790 all right jonathan you're up next all right mine comes from detroit uh this was during a virtual hearing and the 36 district court on October 27th, police officer Matthew Jackson showed up to testify about a woman charged with drag racing and disordidly conduct. But reported, he forgot when he was in the session, he forgot one important thing about his uniform. Yeah? He wasn't wearing any pants. As the judge was trying to hear him, his camera was face down and the judge saw something and goes and says, you got some pants on officer

as Sean Perkins the judge he said no sir and moved his camera up slightly so this bare legs will no longer be seen so basically he's on a Zoom call yeah and he's wearing his proper uniform up top yeah

but it is nothing below meaning no underwear no shorts no pants no nothing well thankfully I've actually seen the video of this right now too yeah his the top of the like the the end of the button down, like, best covered his crotch area. But the judge was very confused. And, yeah, I mean, the hearing continued, and it was fine.

The Detroit police had to come out and apologize to that they remind all the officers about proper etiquette and dress codes for virtual hearing. Let me ask you this question. Do you think I've ever been on a Zoom call before and I've never worn pants? I haven't worn pants? A thousand percent. You're very sure yourself on this. There's no way You're right

I'll throw it back at you Have you ever been on a Zoom call Not Worn pants? Yes I was in college Peak 2020 That's why I started Yeah I mean

I think you don't live life properly Until you've been on a Zoom call Not wearing drawers But to mess To mess it up On a virtual hearing Yeah you're in a You're in a like

Now I'm doing like interviews and stuff I'm not You see yourself right in the camera Before it starts up That's true your camera. Yes, you can definitely check your camera. I don't know. I thought that was interesting.

Good stuff there. So I'll beg the question. Do those of you that are take part in Zooms wear pants? You know what, but I'm going to put a poll question up on this. That's a good poll, yeah. All right. Well, he never, forget it. I'm going to go to Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

You ever been to Hopkinsville, Kentucky? Actually, I have a homeboy as from Hopkinsville. I knew from Weston, and is he a little odd? He's a little country, but you know. Okay. Well, there was a woman there in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, that was expecting a package of medicine that she had ordered. Now, that happens quite a bit. You can order your pharmaceutical things or any medicines online, correct, and haven't sent to you. Well, when the box came, she found something very different inside. Two human arms and four fingers.

Whoa. Matt, where are you finding these stories, man? The local television station reports that the woman dialed up 911 and, and, you know, Matt, where are you finding these stories, man? the Christian County Coroner's Office. A member of that corner's office, Scott Daniel, went to the home and gathered up the unexpected parcel. And here's the ending of the story. The body parts are being dispatched to the correct recipient. I'm confused. That's what I'm saying.

Why would you just pick up what the woman got and say, you know, we got to find out who really needs these two arms and these four fingers and get them to their rightful owner. Well, can you, I know fingers you can readtach them if it's quick enough. No, you're not taking people's fingers that you'd sent in the mail and retouch them to your body. No, I'm not their body. I'm just saying like for them to look for somebody else, you know, but at that point

you can't even save the limbs, no. No, you cannot. No, no, no. So, some, okay, first of all, who puts human arms and four fingers into a box? That's number one. Number two, who would want them? And number three, this corner is picking up these arms and these fingers and saying,

oh, wrong the address. Let's find out who needs them and wants them and send them to their rightful owner. Well, I mean, if the person's dead, I mean, it doesn't matter. You shouldn't be putting out arms and fingers out there. I imagine your grandma. What can Brown do for you? The Brown can not send me those damn fingers and arms.

Seriously, you are about to. open up a box and you think it's like either a cashmere sweater or some prescriptions you were hoping to get from your pharmacy, maybe some vitamins, maybe you were looking to a new computer and you open up and these arms and fingers come out. That's traumatic actually. I would be in therapy for a long period of time. Anything else are you done? I got a short one. Please. This is coming from Purdue. They reported on November 5th that officers receiving calls about a man walking all over campus, head a toe and peanut butter with no clothes. Head, two toe?

Yes. Full peanut butter. Full peanut butter. Witnesses were concerned for his safety. And for people's peanut butter allergies. Excuse me. All right. There's one more important question to that as well.

Well, it was actually two questions. Was he covered in smooth or crunchy? It doesn't say, Matt. And number two, was there a woman out there was covered in jelly? no something is wrong with you how long would it take for you for the average person

to cover their entire body and peanut butter you know I don't think it would take that long people cover themselves in like what 30 minutes yeah now I have gone to events where women have covered themselves in pudding what yeah a pudding wrestling you've been to that right

guys I have never you've never gone to a pudding wrestling event I don't know what he's talking about yeah you do you go to a bar and you watch these girls in bikinis and they fill it up with like vanilla or chocolate pudding and they wrestle in it

and the loser makes all of us winners. You've never seen a woman completely doused in vanilla and chocolate or vanilla pudding before? You live in life right. The first week I worked at 790 we had a pudding event.

Here, it was at a bar but I wasn't here but yeah. They said hey come out and listen watch the guy like I think Adam Waxson was with us And that's the thing for real. Yeah, you never been to pudding wrestling? No. Hey, somebody help out, Jonathan.

Get him a spot with there's pudding wrestling around town. You know what, guys? I think I'm a pass. No, you all. You'll enjoy it. I think I'm going to pass. It's smoother. It's cleaner.

You're not getting any pudding on you unless you're really close to the ring. Yeah, we've got to get you some. Yeah, you don't, man, I wouldn't go to a lot of pudding wrestling, but once every 15 years is not terrible. Let's play, believe it or not next. Let's do that right now. It is a helling or not. Whether or not this is a Hallmark movie, Hallmark movie or not.

713-212-5-790. 7-190. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Longhorns against Georgia. Tomorrow we'll have it for you here on 7-90 with, I believe, the one-hour pre-game show, the three-hour game, and the seven-hour post-game show. Rockets tonight here on 7-90. taking on the Portland Trailblazers. We'll have the launch pad at six, tip time at seven.

And then we've got, I think that's it. Oh, by the way, for hell yeah or not today, women are going to the top of the list. So any of you that are females that have ever called to play the game, you can get in first. I'm going to take females over males. Now, if you are a husband in the car right now and you want your wife to play, you can certainly help her, but you've got to be fast about it. The category is again, we'll tell you about it in a second, but females today get to the top of the list. So any females of Loretta and Renee are already in the line, 713-212-5-790.

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, believe it or not. On Friday, we call it a hell yeah or not, and here's how it works. You call 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. That's 7-1-3-3-1-2-7-9. 212.570. Today's

edition of Hellier or Not is, is this a movie that you have seen or will be seeing on the Hallmark Network come Christmas time? If it is, you'll say this. Hell yeah! If it's one I made up, you'll say this.

Two Hellyer Nots in a row when you tickets to see Jack Johnson coming up and when is exactly on that? I should have had that in front of me, my bad. What is old Jack Johnson? big crooner big huge fan of his women are going to love him can't get enough of jack johnson he's the best and can't kill any more time i certainly can jack johnson is going to be oh here it is

august 28th of the woodland's pavilion tickets are on sale right now at ticketmaster dot com remember ladies go first on hell yeah or not let's uh go to the phones and talk to uh loretta on 790 Loretta, you're ready to play Hell Yeah, hell yeah or not. Loretta, holiday touchdown, a Bill's love story. Hell yeah or not. Not. It's this year! Hell, Loretta!

Oh, no! Loretta, Loretta, Loretta, Loretta. Renee on 790, Renee, you ready to play Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. The snow must go on. The snow must go on. yeah or not? Hell yeah.

Statement. Name number two for the win. A Christmas cookie bake-a-thon for love. Hell yeah or not? Not. Yeah, I made that up. You win. Enjoy Jack Johnson. Natalie on 790, Natalie, what was your favorite part of today's 10 to 2 radio show? The hell yeah or not.

Okay, you just turned it on. A very special North Pole honeymoon. A very special North Pole honeymoon. Hell yeah or not. I'm going to say hell yeah. No, I made that up. Sorry. Say your husband.

I said hello. I don't even know your husband is. Chutie, chutee, chutee, chute. You ready to play hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. Santa in South Florida. Hell yeah or not? Yeah.

No, I made that up. sorry thing i know by june all right all we got love for dudes here's the man who watches the hellmark channel a lot hi bill hi this is billy yeah okay billy 12 dates before christmas

hell yeah or not hell yeah bye bye billy bye i know i get great joy out of that all right come on ladies hurry up 713-21-2-5-7-90. I want to take your calls before the guys.

7-13-21-2-5-7-90. Paul on 7-90, you ready to play? Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. Single on the 25th. Hell yeah or not? Not. That's a hell yeah.

It's going to be on a half-mart channel. Come on now. Ike on 790. Ike, you ready to play hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. A crazy crawfish Christmas. Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. No, it's not.

I mean, sorry. I think we're out of time. All right. My other two ones that were nots? John, do you like this one? Camping for Christmas love? Okay. Or Vroom, a NASCAR December to remember. Okay. They would have got that one.

I'm so lame. Speaking of lame. It's Clinton. It's Wexler. It's the team. Talk to you for rockets at 7 on 7 out.