The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Anything Goes Friday! Rockets vs Suns Tonight! Texans vs Chiefs Sunday

Episode Date: December 5, 2025

Anything Goes Friday! Rockets vs Suns Tonight! Texans vs Chiefs Sunday

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10-01 in H-Town. Good morning. And welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show at Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. I think I took my shirt off this morning outside. A couple of degrees warmer than it was in the last few days. Balmy!

It is definitely hoodie, quarter zip, sweatshirt weather. I was born for sweatpants weather. I was born for 81 degrees in Florida today. 47 degrees. It would be a beautiful weekend. 65, 71, sunny on Sunday. Ooh, that's nice. And you can enjoy the day because the Texans don't play until the evening.

That's right. That's right. I'm looking at Fort Lauderdale's current weather. Fort Lauderdale, why? Oh my God, it's 81 degrees in Florida. Is that where the Blue Jays facility is, where they're meeting with Kyle Tucker? Allegedly, according to reports. My guess is the report would be accurate.

And you don't get to, well, I guess we didn't do an AAV bet. You can't convert to Canadian dollars. We're not worried about the dollar amount. I'm worried about the years. That's what I'm saying. But if it's seven and a half years, is that like eight and a half years Canadian? No. Oh, that's not how it works.

Hey, good morning, everybody. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross on a Friday. It said anything goes Friday. I mean, anything goes Friday. Anything? Anything. Okay. I've had a wonderful day.

Let me peel the curtain back for a slight moment. On my cell phone, I have, my number has been picked up by the spams and telemarketers. And I probably get on average, and I'm not lying about this, about 40 spam calls a day. They don't reach me because. I silence unknown callers. So if I don't know who's calling me, it goes right to voicemail. Yes. Well, today I went on a Kansas City pregame show with Soren Petro, who will be with us coming up at 11 o'clock today from WHB in Kansas City.

And so I had to undo the silence on that because I had to have this phone, his phone, the studio line come in. I don't have the studio line put in my phone. So I got a few telemarketers, and I had some fun with some telemarketers today. yes and unfortunately the line that eventually got me hung up on i cannot mention on the radio show because you heard me do it once already yes i did were you offended by such remarks or was it offended or do you find it to be a checkler i think you're a sick human being okay that's what i think they basically asked me if i had any disabilities and i said yes i do and then i explained what my disability was you were not overly pleased with that response i hung up immediately

As long as you entertain yourself that I called Kim with one of them and they're like She goes, that's funny Mm-hmm So as long as you keep your wife happy with your kid With a comedy Oh, I heard one of them told you where you could stick that disability That is actually correct

I told them of my disability Or my enhancement And he told me what I can do with that enhancement Mm-hmm There you go Hey, we've got a busy show today We mentioned Sorin Petro from Kansas Diorito is going to join us at 11 o'clock today

Oh, wonderful We have, I'm sorry, he's at 1130. I guess we should apologize the telemarketing industry. You should. For me basically being crude and obnoxious and vile to them. You're wasting their time. They're wasting my time. Stop calling me.

They're not wasting your time if you don't pick up. That's true. We have Dr. Rodel at 1 o'clock today. Wonderful. By the way, Jumeir Gibbs, thank you very much. Oh, what do you end up with? 33 points, I think, something like that? Three touchdowns?

That's great. You know, you should be thanking me for you making the playoffs. Yeah, I forget. I've taken Jemir Gibbs like I should have. I mean, I'm the premier general manager in the league. You're Nick Casario. No, you're not. You make mistakes.

I have four championships. You have zero. Nobody cares about the past. It's about the president and now. You're terrible. Okay. I'm not terrible enough. I'm already clinched a playoff spot.

I know. I think you might actually get your first championship. I'm really hoping you don't fall flat on your face in the playoffs. I'd be really disappointing. So completely disingenuous on your part. You know who's the number one in our league is Cole Thompson. Is he? Yeah, he's got nothing but SEC players in his group.

Well, that's usually a good idea. Yeah, it's a good idea, yeah. So we've got Dr. Roto, we've got now Florida stories. We have believe it or not today. And then we have Rockets basketball tonight, home against the Phoenix Suns. Dylan Brooks is in town for the first time since being traded. He'll get, what, a warm round of applause in the first quarter and be booed obnoxiously in the fourth quarter? Is that filled by right?

How much of a hype video is he going to get pregame? He should go a good one. Should he? It's a huge part of the reason why where the Rockets are. today. Was it one season or two? Two. Okay, two. Yeah. It was the best three-point shooting on the team last year. Had a little veteran moxie to him. Okay. Now, should they show nothing but flagrant ones called against him? That'd be, that's actually the appropriate video, right? All the flagrants and staring down of people.

Yes. All the technical files he got. That's how, that's how you honor Dylan Brooks. You don't show like the community stuff and he's in the chair, you know, you know, serving food. to people and had Thanksgiving or Christmas or giving toys to kids. You show him getting into an argument with LeBron James. You show him getting teed up by referees. That's how you give a tribute video, right?

Yeah, I guess we'll see. Oh, you know it's going to be campy. I mean, he had some big games. He was terrific. He's good. The Rockets won almost 100 games with him in two years. That's pretty good.

He wasn't the sole reason, but he was a part of the reason for sure. And he brought you Kevin Durant. So thank you for your sacrifice. Thank you very much. We have the Texans against the Chiefs. I was on, as I said, Sorin Petro's pregame show. They're going to play on Sunday. They're winging out.

I've gone on a variety of other city stations before. First of all, the amount of respect, we talked about this a little bit on the show yesterday. The amount of respect to Texas defense is getting nationally, you can't hide it anymore. Yes, sir. Even though the Texans are not the main game usually. The game against Buffalo was on Thursday night. They have had some higher... The game against Indianapolis was a high profile game nationally.

People know who they are now. There's no hiding the Houston Texans defense. Even Texans hater met has to admit. The defense is really good. I'm a Texaner realist and the insider. Okay. So gloss me properly next time. Thank you.

Yeah, you have to respect the hell of it. Now, this is to me, and again, I gave you plenty of analogies yesterday. that didn't fit. Okay. One being you are Texas A&M and you have to go to Texas and win. You hated that one, right? Well, it just doesn't fit.

Okay. To be the man, you got to beat the man, Rick Flair? I mean, they're six and six, though. This is like a faded champion. But don't you throw the records out when they're at home? I mean, they're a pedestrian in the road, but they came back and beat the Colts at home. They beat Detroit at home.

They're really good at home. It's degree 25 degrees, whatever the case may be. I mean, aren't they a Jekyll and Hyde team? Very pedestrian the road and super awesome at home? Hmm. Maybe it's like Muhammad Ali at the end of his career, and you're looking to see if he still has it in a rematch against Ken Norton. He's going to throw, Muhammad's going to throw one more haymaker,

i.e. Pat Mahomes to probably, what, Rashid Rice? Mm-hmm. And then you take your chances. Oh, wait, I was thinking of Leon Spinks, but that works. It's fine. Nobody really paired. Oh, no, he rematched Ken Norton and beat him a late career, too. That works too.

I believe that was in the Astrodome, if I'm not mistaken. Look at this guy. Yeah. That's what we call you, Mr. Boxing. Well, the rematch was at Yankee Stadium. Muhammad Ali took on somebody. Was it the white Texcah, maybe? Cleveland Williams?

No, Muhammad Ali late in his career was at the Astrodome. In matter of fact, it was saying, you're thinking of, are you thinking of George Foreman? No, no, no, no, no. I'm thinking Muhammad Ali. Please tell me I'm right. He fought Jimmy Ellis and Buster Mathis. At the Astrodome? What year?

1982. Oh, no, no. This has got to be early 80s. Oh, God. Now I'm going to be, it's going to drive me nuts. I'm sorry. He fought Leon Spinks in the Superdome. Ross, tell me.

It sounds like you're right. I have his career in front of me. At the Astrodome. All right. Ross, promote your Instagram. You know what? Follow me at Sports RV. We just got over 1,300.

I'm trying to post more content. It's really going to help me out personally up here. if you know what I'm saying, if I could get my brand built. And I'm trying to do those things. I'm actually trying to try. I haven't really tried, basically, in my entire life. I'm actually trying to try. So if you can throw a brother a follow at SportsRV on Instagram,

I really would appreciate it. Thank you very much. I told you I have his career in front of me. Yeah, the last fight I see him in the dome was 71. Yeah, well, see? Somebody help me out. There was a fight in the early 80s at the Astrodome. Yeah, Texcob fought somebody in the...

It was Texcob against somebody recognized. Larry Holmes. Okay, that's what it was. I think. But it was... Here's the crazy part. It was blacked out here in town. You know, can you believe that?

Yeah, it was Larry Holmes. Isn't that the fight that made Howard CoSell quit calling boxing? It might have been. Because Tex Cobb was like just a bloody mashed up mess. And he's like, this is terrible. Yeah. There's a generation of people that don't know what the word blackout means in sports. yeah because when I was a kid and a young adult

the orders who when they were struggling had a difficult time selling out games at the Astrodome and they would black the game out locally do you remember them much of that at all the bloodied one fight and oh sorry what do you remember one yeah I remember like I can say Randalls right there's still there's somewhat around but not much but Randalles would like scoop up and buy 5,000 tickets and their prices are too high

gallery furniture would buy a bunch of tickets at the very land to sell put these games out and they would give them to kids and various organizations and stuff. Yeah, Howard Cosell was horrified. Texcob got beat up so bad by Larry Holmes. He's like, I can't watch boxing anymore. And then I gave up the sport.

He has an absolute bloody mess here at the Astrodome. Astrodome used to be the place. Well, now it's full of rats. Yeah. In an embarrassment. It should be dismantled. And that hag was trying to keep it alive with spending money because her husband's rich.

This is what it is. Why does everybody got to be a hag, Matt? You know what you need to apologize? I apologize to the hag. Oh, what did I need to apologize? I said about you yesterday. I can't remember. It's always daily.

Something you need to. I meant to write it down. You needed to, yeah, because you forgot you didn't want to wrench it. All right. On the radio program today, we mentioned we've got checking in Kansas City. We have the Rockets tonight. We've got Dr. Roto. We have fantasy, not fantasy, but we've got non-floor stories.

And, by the way, we do have a list of the 10 worst Christmas songs of all time. I think it's worthy of discussing today. And how much of that do you agree or disagree? Okay. Do you have any idea with the worst Christmas song of all times? Well, I know what it is. I don't care where that list says. It's that Paul McCartney dribble.

You're suspended. What is it? What is it? Wonderful Christmas time. That sucks. Oh, playing Christmas music? Is that I heard? Yes, do it.

All right. That song blows. It's Paul McCartney, wonderful Christmas time. It's a delightful treat of a song. Yeah. You can hear it next. Anything goes Friday. 713, 21, 22, 577.

9713-212-5-790 Simply having a wonderful Christmas time simply having a wonderful Christmas time here here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross Simply having a wonderful colonoscopy This song is ridiculous to catch you I'm glad you like it. Simply having a wonderful intervention for our heroin-addicted cousin. Like this, this is terrible.

I didn't know it was this song, man. It's bad. It's good. You're welcome here. Go ahead, Jonathan. What do you think? So catchy. You know, I don't even like Christmas music either.

Yeah, catch pneumonia. Wrong. Ding dong, ding dong? This is horrible. Clip that. Yeah, clip yourself Yeah, clip your stuff There's no John in the clips

By the way, get some other people on the station I know Adam Clinton says stupid stuff all the time Ouch Oh, he knows it too He knows he says stupid stuff Wax doesn't say anything stupid at all So 2 to 6

Sports Talk 790 All right, let me really quickly Because I want to pay off on this The 10 worst Christmas songs According to Who is this? Let's see. What website?

This is, well, Yahoo did the story, but a bunch of different people jumped on this. I saw this on Today Show this morning, so I don't even know who did it. But here it is. This is in no particular, this is from 10 down to 1. These are 10 worst.

Number 10, in sync, I never knew the meaning of Christmas. I don't know that song at all. I don't say, this is the problem. I don't know the modern ones. I stick to the classics. Number nine, Neil Diamond's Cherry Christmas. What the hell is that?

Never heard that one. Sounds terrible. Neil Diamond sucks. you know what i you know what i said that just to trigger you i want to apologize um mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-n-n-mm-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n't shake that one off uh number eight the killers don't shoot me santa what never heard of that okay uh number seven the pussycat doll's santa baby i know the song's santa baby i'm assuming anything pussycat's saying would be treachid that feels about right number six loo

Montes Dominic the donkey Never heard of that Lou Montane Yeah Number five, new kids on a block Funky Funky Christmas Not familiar with that No jam, that diddy

Number four Here's one Jessica and Ashley Simpson's Rendition of the Little Drummer Boy Now that's a personal favorite of mine That sounds terrible But that does sound terrible

Number three on the worst Christmas song list of all time Would be the Christmas Shoes By something called New Song Don't know that Oh, I know that one. The Christmas shoes, and it's like, it's all kind of heartfelt and mushy?

Mushy, yes. It's a great way to put it. Number two, one you've definitely heard many, many of times. Elmo and Patsy singing the 1979 cult classic Grandma got run over by a reindeer. I have not heard. Elmo's version. No, not that Elmo, a different one.

Oh. Grandma got run over by a reindeer. And the number one, worst Christmas song ever. And I don't know who, I should find out who this was, but this is the same list that today showed I had this morning. The Chipmunks song by Alvin and the Chipmunks. Oh, hell no. That's a classic.

That's a banger. Oh. No, tell him, Jonathan. That's a banger. The Christmas, oh, wait, the Christmas song. Me, me, me. No, no, well, hold on. Well, the Christmas song is chestnuts roasting on an open fire.

No, this is their version. Play it, Jonathan. No, no, but what does it say? What does it say on the list? Oh, let's say. number one. I heard it this morning. They played it. It's called Christmas Don't Be Late. No, Christmas Don't Be Late. I thought you said Christmas.

Somebody said Christmas song. Christmas song. Christmas song is the chipmunk song. Okay, Chipmunk song. Sorry, I got confused. Christmas Don't Be Late is a jam. You know what? Delete this whole website. Play it. Play it, John. You find it. It's fine. Let him find it. No, it's in the system. Come on, baby. We got Sunday Night and Point One. We got all.

We got all the Christmas jams in the system. Let's go. We got 46 million Christmas song. That's how we make our money for a little of this year. Any Christmas song you want to find is in the because we got sunny. This is according to USA today. The worst. It's a jam. I'll say we are.

Yeah. Let's sing it now. Okay, Simon. Okay. Okay, Theodore. Crank up the bass. Okay, Alvin. Alvin.

Alvin. Alvin. Okay. Christmas, Christmas time is near. Time for toys and time for cheer. We've been good. but we can't laugh This is a jam, Maddie.

Yeah, it's not a favorite of mine because I don't like Christmas music in general, but this isn't the worst. Thank you. I want a hula. When you were kids, you loved the chipmunks. If you didn't love the chipmunks, you didn't love the chipmunks, you weren't a kid.

And then they act and they bicker in between the verses. Yeah. You want to kick Alvin's ass constantly? Alvin! It's fun to just be sitting at home saying Alvin. Yeah. Yeah. Norah Jones did a nice version of that song as well.

Did the fat Albert grew ever do a Christmas song? Hey, hey, hey, hey. No. Stop, don't even. Oh, go ahead. So bad. No, I won't. Go ahead.

No, I won't do my fat Albert. I can't do it. I can't even pull it off. What are you looking? Oh, dear. Anything goes Friday. I did make a prediction on the Texans game on the Kansas City pregame show. Okay.

I am not. not doing it here in Houston. Really? Yes. Okay. I did pick a score of a game earlier this year because I think it's just one of those. Why don't you do it? We'll see.

Come on. You got to have three and a half hours. Nobody likes a fence sitter. I got to have a wrong take. Yeah. That's what you told me, Matt. In this business, you must have an opinion. All right.

I will tell you the score of the game. Okay. Coming back. Now? Come back from the back. How about the 12 o'clock hour? Oh, we'll save it for 12. wait the strippers up with the score of the game we'll build up the drama yes you 10 o'clockers we love you

but you're gonna make you wait in it because i know people are bump around time like i wonder how what man thinks about this game coming up i know i want to know what you think do you know every week i get it i pick it i pick it wrong that's why i want you to pick the chiefs let's go you don't know what i'm gonna make is your chiefs matt no i'm not i'm chief's realist it's that thing let me i'm get myself a little space here oh here we go so many so many so many many water carriers and boot lickers in this town in fact the Texans only invite media over there that

lick their boots I mean that's just the reality of it and that's a problem with the Texans but that's their issue is not mine we are texans realists that's why this show is what we are because we're going to love them when they're good and we're going to rip on them when they're bad just like normal human beings would do we're not going to oversell a victory against a particular team and we're not going to say the sky's falling when they lose to a particular team by the way I did put a poll question up on my Twitter

account at SportsMT, and I simply ask the question. Call your shot. 129 votes are in. 67% Texans, 33% say Chiefs. I'm feeling another upset, bro, I just am.

Why? I said it on gut feelings. I wasn't sure. I'll tell you why, Matt. After this. When we come back? This is way too early. We did this in like for two weeks. Let your heart be alive

And seriously, my home has multiple televisions with a Hallmark channel on Tis the season, Maddie. No, it's not the season. It's a season to have regular life. It's fine. But Hallmark Channel blows. Super sucks. Wow, I can't help you with that.

I've never seen more than five minutes of the Hallmark Channel. Nothing more than a bunch of white people loving on each other. I hate that. Ugh. Terrible. Okay. By the way, friend of the show, Chase says, I love the Chipmunks' Christmas song

because that's when playing in the Sopranos when Tony realizes pussy wore a wire when he came in with the Santa outfit. Oh, okay. I never watched more than two, three episodes of the Sopranos. A little too violent for you. No question about that. That's fine.

One of the greatest shows. Top five greatest show of all time. I would have to agree with you even though I've never seen it because everybody consensusly says is one of the greatest shows of all time. Just like it's consensus. Kirby enthusiasm is the funniest show ever made on television.

That's not consensus, no. It is absolutely consensus. I mean, that's your opinion. That's okay. Thank you very much. All right. So, oh, another thing, real quick. We just had an ad for Donnie Rinse and Refresh.

I'm sure, a great sponsor here of 790. Okay. Are you bothered when people sell their songs for commercials? I'm not bothered in... The song is bluntly a rip-off of Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart. Yeah. A terrific 1980s song. A great, great song.

One of the few of the 80s, it was a good one. Okay. I just think it cheapens the song when you sell your song for an ad for... Bonnie's total eclipse of the heart. Terrific song. Is such a sacred monument to music that it can't be used in a Downey commercial? That's what I'm saying. I didn't set her.

I will say, I'm willing. you that some songs seem a little too, I mean, I'll stick with sacred, hallowed, whatever you want to say for, to be cheapened by commercialization, total eclipse of the heart does not make the list for me personally. So you are, you are subjective. You're like, if that song was just kind of a mid hit, it's okay to sell to Downing Rins and Refresh. Like for example, Led Zeppelin for years and years and years wouldn't license their songs to anyone. And then they did rock and roll for like a Cadillac campaign. They're very judicious. With, the way they give out their music. I think Stevie

Wonders one of those that only does it for certain things. Like there are certain people who, yeah, they want to gatekeep their songs and stuff like that for television, movies, and commercials. Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart is fair play.

I don't know. I love that song and I just out when I hear a commercial that rips it off, it just makes me sad. It just makes me think of old school when the guy's singing the cover. Yeah. But it's happening all the time. And sometimes, and to be fair to the, to the advertiser, they're getting run because the song gets stuck in your head.

It gets stuck in my head. Yeah. So I just. SC Johnson Wax or whoever the hell. I'm sure they do. Whatever were those major conglomerates that owns Downey. All right. So you are ready to make your prediction.

Yeah. Yes, I am. Go ahead. Houston, Texans. win 23 18 So you think the Texas

defense is so good it's going to hold Pat Mahomes to 18 points I think they will again They're firing on all cylinders They're healthy They're The Kansas City Chiefs

Aren't this They aren't the boogeyman That they once were You're not worried about him Camarie Lassar not playing this week I'm not saying I'm not worried about it I'm worried a little bit about it. I mean, Rishi Rice is good.

We know Xavier Worthy can stretch the field. Travis Kelsey has been very good. I mean, overall, Pat Mahomes is having a pretty good season. They've been scoring some points, and their defense is good. It's going to be a low-scoring, one-score type of game. Because that's what the Texans have been in basically all five of their losses are by one score. All four of their last wins. That's nine games there right there by one score.

And they've been in 12. So nine of their 12 games have been one score. It's going to be another one-score game again. It's our most NFL games. Yeah. Even though Arizona's been terrible this year, they play nothing but one-score games. I'm not going to go with like,

they're rallying the troops and they're going to make a statement and all this other stuff. No, they're going to get it. You've got to get it down on the field. All this narrative stuff and whatever. Like, they're just too good on the field. And the offensive line continues to get better.

And I think as long as, what's the Woody Marks's status? I think okay. Okay. So as long as Woody Marks is, is going to be up there and he's going to be fine and CJ Stroud is playing a lot better or not playing a lot better. I mean he had some cobwebs he had to shake off early in that

game but he made a ton of great throws he's looking like himself. He's going to be good enough and they're going to get it done. It's a combination of things. I think the Texans are playing better and I think the chiefs aren't what they once were and I think this defense

is going to carry the day. It's all those things. And we'll see. I have been right back to back ankle Juan Taylor bad triceps and knee those are two members of the offensive line their offensive lines I can tell you this being just on Kansas City radio about an hour and a half ago they're wgging out about their offensive line and we'll talk more about that

with Sorin Petro coming up in a few minutes okay so you've got a team that's worried about their offensive line going against one of the best front sevens of the NFL okay that sounds like a recipe for a Texan success sounds good to me now of course the big X factor is this guy named Pat Mahomes And by the way, and look, Travis Kelsey wasn't what he was five years ago. But the discussion of his demise, in my mind still is over-exaggerated. The guy still gets the end zone once a game.

He just does. I know this for a fact he's in my fantasy league. He's not nine for 93 and two scores anymore, but he's four for 37 and a score. And if you forget about him, like the Texans have had a history of, he can come back. So this thought of Travis Kelsey's old and is getting ready for his wedding is premature. they got plenty of offensive threats except the problem is will my homes be able to stand upright

long enough to find those people this is the reality of it we'll see all right let's talk to Yankees Keith at 1040 in the Matt Thomas show with Ross and anything goes Friday Keith what do you have today

good morning just quick question has anybody tried the steak tips from Arby's they look good on TV you know I'm glad you brought them up it looks like to me first for they look delicious but the issue i have is i like my meat medium rare or medium they look like they're all well done which then makes them beef jerky and so why would i want to go get up a piece of

steak which i'm assuming is sirloin cut up it's well done why would i want to do that keith help me out with that well i'm gonna try them today i just wanted to find out as anybody ever called in and said they have they're bad yeah they have not done so so i would you please call us next week with a report court? Yeah, but here's what I'm calling about. So the Yankees are real desperate. You know, we lost that punk soda, and he went to a losing team, so that's good for him. And we also lost Cody Bellinger. So right now, I think we're going to overpay for ex-astro whose injury prone, Kyle Tucker. We're going to outbid everybody for him to protect

hood. What do you think? There'll be a contender for him. I mean, I could have told you that a year ago, Keith, that Kyle Tucker will be interested in the teams that will have money. Mets, Yankees, Cubs, Angels, Dodgers, I mean, all the familiar foes. I didn't anticipate Keith having the Royals having a mean offer ready to go for Kyle Tucker. No, I'm pretty sure that the Yankees are going to outbid everybody. for him. And he is injury for him.

And they do have to have protection for judge. We also are going to try to get Boba Sheck, because we need a shortstop that can hit. All right, that's nice. I mean, this is not Yankees' radio, so I can't really get, I mean, I don't have a comment. I don't particularly care what they're doing.

All right. Y'all have a good day. Give us a report on the RB steak nuggets. We need that. All right. See you later. Frankly, to me, the Yankee Steak Nuggets is a more interest to me than what the Yankees doing free agency. Agree or disagree? Hmm.

I think I'm more interested in Yankees' free agency. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Don't you want to know if those, I mean, the commercials are... No, I'm saying, I'm... How long have they been out? Probably a couple months. Yeah, so you're not that interested. It's not like you're running over.

Oh, you love Darbys. I do love Darbys. There's actually one importer. You usually can't sprint there fast enough. It's more of a gallop. Yeah. So if they've been out for a couple months and you can't wait, you haven't had them yet. so you're not that interested

let's give up the hot pot today and go get some artbies instead I'm going to hot pot it's cold warm beef nuggets can help you too I want some soup I've been dream I was dreaming about it

I'm starving I had different dreams than you did be so good you dream about soup I dream about other things yeah you dream about these AI models that you're selling out cash to

you know what I'm sorry that was first of all that's not true mrs thomas it's just a joke not second of all i apologize thankfully people are gonna try to be better than the new year

people are starting to realize what i've been trying to say for years Joan our great listener you know what she's saying she says you know i'm mean to you and i'm like yeah you are i've been externally nice to you the last couple weeks and months and uh we're watching now the tide turn here All right. Up next, Randy wants to talk Texans and the RB steak report.

John Alexander of the Chronicle reporting that Camarie Lasseter is at practice but working off to the side with trainers today. That doesn't sound great. Now, again, Friday is the last day when they really work out. Saturday, it's like I walk through. They jump on a plane and go to Kansas City. Kamar Lassar could be saying, hey, this is a really important game. I'll figure it out somehow, some way to get on the field, try to help, which would be good. But usually if you don't practice during the course of week, even if it's late in the season,

unless you just all of a sudden wake up feeling 500% better than you did today, that I would consider him doubtful for the game on Sunday. He is working off to the side with trainers at practice. Yeah. Not beating up people. Who's it going to beat up? He didn't go to the MMA gym You know

Those Texans practices are pretty physical That's true I said I know this because I They do They do swarm a lot Let's go to Randy Randy are you going to talk Texas first Or RB Steak Report

The RB Steak Report Go for it, what do you got? I thought that was funny When I was listening to you guys Yes, I did try them, but I must say I am an Arby fan. I do love their sandwiches, but I did try those steak bites, and I must say, yeah, you're right, Matt. It's like beef jerky, you know, they're dry, they are dry, and make sure you have your enochloss because you're going to need it, brother, after knocking those down. But if you dip them in Arby sauce for about 30 minutes, you know.

30 minutes. What are you looking for a marinade on that or what? Yeah. Yes. If you dip them in Arby sauce for about 30 minutes, let them marinate, they're pretty appetizing, brother. But yeah, you're right. It's a little bit of beef jerkyish, you know?

Because, again, if you're cutting those nuggets up, they're, by, in putting them under a heat lamp, they're not going to, there's going to be no pink to it. And you love the pink. You're right, Matt. They're dry. You know, they are dry. You're right, brother. So, you know, if you got the money to the spurs on them, I would try them out and see what you think.

But that was my experience, brother. Let them marinate an argy sauce for about 30 minutes. And as far as the Texans, hey, my prediction, my opinion, but I think the Texans win this Sunday. And I've kind of been spot on with them. So I say they win this Sunday in a close matchup, defense comes through again. And, hey, I think we get into the playoffs, I think we go to the Super Bowl. opinion brothers. Hey, you guys have a great weekend, Matt. Thanks, Randy. Nice to hear from you. Appreciate

the report on the Arby's well-done shoe leather. That's what they look like. I mean, they're not going to give you prime rib-eye in a steak bite. They didn't mention a word sirline ever. No, they didn't say what kind of steak it was. Right, right, right. Okay, so let's back to Texas

for a sight. Well, hold on. What's more authentic as a meat? The McRib or the Arby Nuggets? Probably the Nuggets. I don't know. Is there such thing as fake steak? The McRib is congealed pig splatter. It's slurry.

It's pig slurry. But it's pig. It's pig slurry pressed into a sheet with bumps on it. It's disgusting. We're done. I'm not having this conversation with you. You're going to, you're just... He brought it up.

I'm sorry. I'm not bringing up to McRilleryb. I'm not bringing up to McRibbribs. I am done. Callers of bringing up to bring it up to Rick Rims. I know. I'm getting still about three tweets a day and about two. DMs of people.

I'm getting, all these people are sitting the video, people always send this when the McRib comes back. The video of the guy making the McRib. Yeah. The video I got yesterday was, that was a family that had a platter of McRibs and fries on a plate

and said this is an appetizer. That's one I got yesterday. So, you know, just keep making fun of it. I think 10 and 7 gets in. I keep saying that, but it's not even not, I mean, I don't even have the gospel on that, unfortunately, because you got timebreakers and whatnot. So if the Texans go with their 7 and 5, they go 3 and 2, the rest of why they puts them at 10 wins,

which in theory would get them into the playoffs. In theory. In theory. But again, as you've talked about before, 10 doesn't guarantee it. I think it does, but it doesn't. Only one team hasn't made it since they've gone to a 17 game season. And their conference record is 6 and 2 right now. That's excellent.

Yeah. Their only NFC game left is the Cardinals, right? Right. So even if they were to lose that one, which would be a major bummer, it's not going to be nearly as detrimental as saying losing to Indianapolis or the Chargers. So in theory, if they go three and two, as you said, their conference record will be nine and four. That's getting in. That they're in. That's getting them in. But let me ask you this. If you lose this game and win the rest of the way that will put them at 11 and 6, which will get them in, or 8 and 5 at the worst, conference record, I should say. But yeah, that'll be enough.

but would that give you encouragement or do you say man we had that chance to get on the road and get rid of a demon no i mean they're honestly it feels like kind of i know they're rounding in the shape and it's the long season it's feeling in a way like found money right now i thought they were out of the playoffs we were all gut feeling that they were out of the playoffs and nick haley was going to get fired and they're oh and three there were three and five i mean all three of those losses look a lot better than they did at the time rams buccaneers jaguars Jaguars are leading the AFC South. I think that, is that three division leaders, actually? So, yeah, that's three division leaders. You lost two to start the season, oh, a three, all by one score. And we were thinking they were horrible. So I feel great. As Battle Red Ross, I was losing all kind of hope,

but the offensive line has gotten better. Let me give you, let me. And the defense is the elite. Let me give you positives. Tier 1 elite. You finally slayed the dragon. Yeah. This year's different.

Which dragon is that? Oh, if you beat the Chiefs. I don't care if the Chiefs are average. It's still a Sunday night game, national television, Arrowhead Stadium, 25 degrees. Let's go. Okay? That's, you need to win that game. And of all years for them to be as vulnerable as they are, this, you really need to win it, okay?

That's number one. If you do that, you exercise a lot of demons. If you lose the game, you create the, I guarantee you, Ross, it's a here we go again on Monday. I guarantee. No. Well, okay. Here's how it goes. Monday.

Hey, the Texans have an easy schedule rest of the way. They're probably going to get in the playoffs. Good for them. But they had a chance to win on the road at Kansas City to really separate themselves from a mediocre Kansas team and they couldn't do it. It's like it's, again, I hate to use A&M Texas parallel. A&M's going to the playoffs. A&M's doing great, but guess what? A&M fan, you can't get rid of Little Brother syndrome.

You just can't because you didn't beat them. I think the Texans have a chance to get rid of a little bro syndrome this week. So go and do it. As you like to say, go win the game. Go win the game. Yeah. They can do it as possible. Go win the game.

Spreads down to three and a half and the juice has turned towards the Texan side. Feeling good. We had real gambling to say it would be really fun to discuss these things. Well, whatever. 41 and a half total. It's going to be a knockdown, drag out, not fun to watch game. And we'll watch it. Fourth quarter, Pat Mahomes, is the thing that scares me the most.

Kami Fair Baron outside, does it scare you, or is it comfort you? I mean, it's fine. Harrison Bucker knows that stadium. Now, Fairbairns are more accurate than Bucker, it feels like, to me, the last couple years. Yes. But Bucker knows those kids. It's wobbly. I mean, Fairbairn, he goes into spurts.

Like, he can be very reliable, and then he goes into spurts where he's missing three out four. I mean, it happens. Get that injection. Let's go. Yeah, that's fine. Don't care with that. Get the legwormers going. Win's a win.

All right. We're going to talk with Sorin Petro next. He's our Kansas City insider, reporter? Sure, why not? We'll talk to him. He's talking all things chiefs here at 1057 on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 1101 on 790, Matt and Ross with you here on anything goes Friday.

We'll be saying our sorries coming up at a half an hour from right now. And we say hello to Soren Petro. He hosts, I mean, look, there are some original names for sports radio shows, Sorin Petro, but yours is just the program? That's all you call your show, The Program? That's right, the program, you know? You know what you are? It speaks for itself.

You know why it is? Because you're a legacy host in Kansas City. When you have that kind of cash show, you can call yourself the program. I love it. I was just called Old in the nicest way possible. Thank you. I appreciate that. No chance.

Sports Radio 810, W.H. is the show that Sorin Petro and I think Ross and I have both been on a fair number of times over the last couple of years. I've been replaced that's okay though. No, they just called me because you are unavailable and that's all it is. Sauron, have your producer call Ross? He's feeling negligent over here.

Well, you know what? I think it is like when we change producers and then like whatever the last number that was called as long as somebody keeps saying yes, he just keeps calling that person. Right? So I think, you know, you know, that's where he's gotten out of the rhythm of Colin Ross.

So basically, I should just avoid your producer sending me text and just say, a new phone who this is what you're trying to tell the audience. Yes, that worked great. Forgetting about this game, let's get to the more macro version of Kansas City Chiefs Football this year at 6 and 6. What has gone right? What has gone wrong and have your fan base and not necessarily the locker room, they would publicly ever tell you this, but is this the eventual down?

downfall regression of the most dominant team in the AFC the last five or six years? I would say potentially yes. They have always talked, in fact their owner, Clark has always talked about never wanting to go all in on one year because they've got

Patrick Holmes and they want to make sure that they're a contender every single season. That's what he's said. But in reality the chance to win three in a row had them making some decisions that maybe they shouldn't have made, right? Like giving Chris Jones a contract into his 30s. he's not a bad player he's still very good he's still the first guy you got to account for on

defense but he's not what he was a couple of years ago and he's a massive number on the cap going to be 48 million against the cap next year they didn't want to you know look around anywhere so they re-signed creed humphrey gave a center the biggest contract of football then they added on with tray smith getting the biggest guard contract in football those aren't premium positions nick bolton their middle lineback and they gave $15 million too so you know they had all these players that have been a part of the run, they wanted to keep the band back together, and because they've been trading up a lot in the draft, you know, the draft is in an exact science, everybody has misses. I know every fan base thinks every pick should be a gem, but, you know, it's a 50, 50, 60, 40

proposition. And then when you give away those picks, be it for, you know, veteran players or to move up and rounds, you get fewer and fewer young, talented, cheap players, and the chiefs have a very top-heavy roster right now with some of the guys getting old, and that's created a problem. for them this year. Offensive line, you described my visit on your show. Tell the audience, it feels like as you were rattling it off with me, it has been a hot mess, not only just coming into this week's game, but it's been all season, correct? Yeah, it has. And I mentioned, you know, the expensive interior guys, Juan Taylor carries a huge number at right tackle as well.

They're the second most expensive offensive line of football and they have not played to that degree. Now, when Josh Simmons was healthy and was playing, they looked like they found a gem if he's going to play. He left the team for unspecified reasons for like five games, so that'll be an issue until it's not. But now he's got an injured wrist and he's out. Well, they doubled down at left tackle because it was so bad, ultimately moving all pro guard Joe Tooney out to left tackle in the Super Bowl, which, you know, the Eagles exposed and blew them up in that game. And that's why they spent so much in the offseason on getting a guy like Jalen Moore. You know, two years 30 million for a guy who started 11 games in San Francisco, but they wanted to make sure that they had options at left tackle.

Now Joanne Taylor's banged up, and Jalen Moore may have to go at right tackle, which brings them right back to the guy, Wanya Morris, who was so bad last year, they ended up moving their all pro-guard from left guard to left tackle and just a desperation move. So Wanya Morris is a left tackle. Everyone in Kansas City is hoping that's the chief's just sending a smoke screen out there and that J-Wan Taylor is going to be able to go at right tackle, and J-Lan Moore will be solid, okay, at left tackle. That gives them a pretty good chance to attack.

But Trace Smith, the guy that gave all the money to it, right guard. He's been hurt pretty much all year, hasn't been as good as he was last year. And if they have Juania Morris at left tackle, I mean, go ahead and get the pain out, because you can put a couple of stripes right from the left tackle spot straight to Patrick Bahams. Because Juania Morris, I don't think could block me. I don't know why he's on the roster. We didn't make a big deal out of it, St. Joe, at training camp, when they kept him because you thought you had redundancy. You had two different guys, Josh Simmons and Jalen Moore, that would have to go down before you guys.

got back to Juania Morris. Well, now here it is against the worst possible team. You may send out the worst left tackle in football. And that brings me to the running game, which just seems like it's been non-existent. What do you make of what's been happening with Isaiah Pacheco? And then we know Kareem Hunt's kind of, to me, just a guy. How much is that is the offensive line?

Or how much is that they need to improve at that position? A little bit of everything. You know, I think the line is a part of it. You know, Juan Taylor is a pass blocker, not a run block. you know so they've got some guys like they want to throw the ball they also like Andy Reid is a is a passing coach at a heart and and listen all the analytics will tell you you should throw the ball it's more efficient but the running does help set up the passing and that's pretty much what the running game's been is the setup to the passing game but now more

and more teams are not doing what they used to Andy Reid had a lot of success in this league because teams would talk about like yeah yeah we you know we're going to establish the run we're going to pass and defenses would set up to stop the run and then andy re would just keep throwing over it well now defense is set up to stop the pass they play nickel the cheese face the most light boxes to get teams out of that to get the safeties moving up to get some freedom in that passing game you have to run the ball they just haven't been able to do it their running numbers aren't that bad but you when you dig deeper you're right to talk about the running backs because it's patrick mahomes running on scrambles and smart teams and i think the texans will be one of them have started to put a spy on him

He's not Lamar Jackson like he's going to beat you, but he consistently runs for first downs, backbreaking first downs that allows Andy Reid to get deeper into the play sheet and be effective that way. Well, you know, teams are saying, ah, that's not going to happen. We're going to spy Patrick Holmes. You're going to have to beat us with the pass, and they haven't been willing to pound the running game enough,

and they don't have the personal. They don't even have a fullback on the roster to really play a heavy personnel. All their tight ends are pass catchers first. So they don't really have the personnel to play the style of football that teams like the Rams are doing. And then they just don't seem to want to get under center and give the running back a moving start at being effective. So many of their runs are RPO's, our draws with the running back standing still when he first gets the football as opposed to getting ahead of steam and headed towards a hole. So, you know, maybe they'll turn

over a new league. Maybe they'll do something completely different here against the Texans. But I think they'll show the run. And Kareem Hunt has been, you're right, he's a jag, but he's at least a Kyle mover, he's great in short yardage, and he does put some thump and can wear down a defense because he is a physical back, but there is no threat of anybody in the run game, unless it's some kind of wide receiver reverse of getting any kind of 10, 15-yard run. It's just not existent with this team. Soren Petro, Kansas City's sports radio 810 WHB with us here on Sports Talk 790. You mentioned Andy Reid, and there's been a lot of talk here in Houston about one-score games, games management of Demico Ryans, and a lot of one-score.

talking Kansas City as well. How do you think Andy Reid is as a game manager with challenges and tie-in, timeouts and those types of things? You know, he's been fantastic. That was one of the big knocks on him when he came to Kansas City, and it persisted in Kansas City because he had Alex Smith. I mean, I will tell anyone who knocks a coach on their clock management and they're running out there guys that are good or bad at quarterback, that's the problem.

You want good clock management, get a great quarterback. Suddenly Andy Reid's a genius with Patrick Mahomes taking 20-yard chunks. You know, when Alex Smith would have a minute, 10 and one time out, and he'd check down to a wide receiver in the middle of the field, and he'd get tackled. You'd look up and you had 15 seconds, and you'd gone 25 yards and burned your time out because Alex Smith just wouldn't push the ball down the field. Andy Reid has looked like a genius with Patrick Mahomes in that spot, because Patrick Mahomes will take those chunks.

He understands that we've got to go. We've got to get the ball down the field. So 13 seconds against the Buffalo Bills in a playoff game, that's plenty of time to get down the field and get a field goal. So, you know, he has the ultimate weapon there if they provide time for Patrick Mahomes. I think in the hurry up where defenses can't change their personnel and they start to wear down, Patrick Mahomes becomes even more effective. They do have talent at wide receiver.

They don't have a Nico Collins. Roshy Rice is pretty close. It's pretty good. Travis Kelsey still finds holes in defenses. Xavier Worthy's fast, but literally a breeze will knock him off his route because he's so slightly built. You know, Ju-Jew Smith-Schuster's actually pretty effective still for them when they need it.

Hollywood Brown is kind of Hollywood Brown. He's there every now and then he makes a play and a few people in town get excited, but he's not consistently a threat. But there are guys that can beat you. And so, you know, he does a pretty good job of managing the clock. Last year they won all those close games. Some of them with block field

goals and miraculous endings, but other ones just making plays. They are still dangerous even though they're one and six in one score games. But They just have not been able to find the rhythm, and they have not been able to get the big plays when they need them. And really, penalties have crushed them all year long. At the worst times, they're a heavily penalized team. They talk about it every week.

Nothing gets better, and that's been crippling them this year. So it hasn't been what they've normally been, where if you get to 50 seconds and give the Chiefs the ball, you're going to lose. That hasn't been the case this year. All right. Soren, so obviously confidence here in Houston is very high. this is the great defense against a as mid of a Kansas we've seen in a long period of time. So let's flip at this script a little bit.

Texans don't go to Kansas City and win very often. Playoff games, regular season games, night games, day games. If the Chiefs pull this off, it keeps the Chief season alive in terms of being a robust playoff contender. How do they do it? If there is a scenario where Kansas City pulls off the victory, and again, Vegas believes that they're still a three and a half point favorite for a reason. Explain that to the Houston.

an audience. I think the reason is just the stubbornness of the betters, right? Like the point spread is not a prediction. It's based upon trying to bring money in. Sometimes it's weighted a little bit based upon a sharp player putting something. But for the most part, they're, you know, trying to balance it out. And I think the public, but the Chiefs were still the favorite to win the Super Bowl like two weeks ago, right? I mean, you know, it's just that like fans were continuing to put money down because they'd just seen it time and time again. Most fans don't want to see it, but Patrick Mahomes is going to get it done. They're going to turn the corner two years ago. is carrying a lot of weight in this town.

Everybody wants to point to, remember how awful they looked against the Raiders on that Christmas Day game, and from that point on, they really took off. And so everybody in this town, a lot of people are expecting that corner to be turned. And I think that's what Vegas is expecting.

I think a lot of football fans on the outside are expecting that because they've always done it. But what changed in that season was they quit playing Cadarius Tony. They quit playing Sky Moore. They quit playing the guys who suck. They're already playing the good players. There's no one to bench now in this.

situation, right? There's no one to turn to. They started focusing on getting the football to Rashi Rice and Travis Kelsey two years ago. Well, they're already doing that. And so I don't see this magic bullet that they seem to have two years ago, which really got that offense going was when they eliminated all the stuff they were trying to do for guys that simply were not good football players. So that makes it harder. If they get it done in this game, there's going to be a lot of misdirection. They're going to try to get those edge rushers go in the wrong direction. They're not going to be afraid to punt. I mean, I think they are aware they can look at Amir and know who they are.

They are a good defense. They can't pressure the quarterback with just four. In fact, they haven't had a sack in two weeks for the first time in four years. So C.J. Stroud is going to have more time than he normally does, even though the Texas offensive lines a problem. The Chiefs will have some success because Chris Jones is still a player, but George Kolofus has got a hurt hand that's affecting his pass rush somewhat. So I think they'll be happy to tear this into a rock fight, turn it into a rock fight and play

in the mud and try to find one or two big plays. I think that's what they'll be looking for. If the Chiefs get there, you know, they'll stay on the field with the Texans, but they're going to need to find a couple of big place somewhere where they get that Texans defense going the wrong direction and have a gotcha moment because they're not going to just grind it out down the field. So on great conversations always. Thank you very much for the time and stay warm of this holiday season.

And we appreciate you visiting our show this morning. Thanks again for the time. Yeah, thanks so much for having me. Matt, we'll lose your number, Ross. Get ready to get a call. Call Ron. I'm busy. Call him a lot.

lot call him like every day just check to see how he's feeling sorry thank you very much sir we'll see you sir and petro good man can't WHP radio powerhouse can't die hard chiefs nation chiefs kingdom is it's intense I'll call it

chiefs chieftom that's what they call that's what it should be okay they love them some chiefs love the rolls when they're good ones every 15 years but uh it's more about bobby witt's cool bobby witt and a bunch of double a players are all nice

okay New basketball. Oh, really? Good. Not as good as you age. Lately. Well, am I wrong? Nope.

Did Kansas won the championship in the last five years? I don't know. I don't remember. 713-212-5-7-90. How many of this use and have? A bunch. 7-13-212.

All we do is a final four. I believe it's zero, yeah, and then lose. All right. 7-1-3-21-5-7-90. We've got I'm sorry. He's coming up, and Ross has should file that file of listing of things he wants to apologize. for. I'm not apologizing for that. You should apologize for a lot of things.

713-213-212-5-790. 7-1-2-790. Something happened in the NBA that hasn't happened in decades. You want to guess what that is? Yes. I think I know what it is. We'll tell you about it next. It actually makes me very sad. I'm going to join you in that sadness. We'll explain next on 7-99. I want to apologize, we did not carry the draw alive of the World Cup. Oh, is it done deal? I don't know.

People are like, there's a few people on Twitter. I mean, I don't follow anybody as soccer-wise because God knows what I want that part of that crap. Ooh. Oh, geez. Wolf. Yon. I will watch every U.S. game. No, we're not that good.

No, you should watch. See, this is a thing. I try to get you to watch good games, and you're like, yeah, MLS sucks. Yeah. suck. You're like, I'll watch USA. USA's not that good. Like, you need to watch But I mean, but I need a dog in the fight though. You didn't use, you told me you watched the last World Cup final was Argentina, and it was entertaining. It was entertaining. Yeah, I mean, again, what? Yeah, France and Argentina. Once every four years. Watch some actual good games.

That's what I'd be like, hey Matt, uh, I'm trying to get you into the NFL. Let's watch the, the Raiders versus the Titans. And you'd be like, man, this sucks. This sport is terrible. Yeah. You need to watch Cadillacs, baby. You need to, like, watch some Bulls, some Bills, Rams or something. Is that what it is? So I've got to make sure I've got to find, watch the good stuff. Yes. Try to, you know what, pick a team.

Well, USA, I guess, I mean, it's fine. I'm going to watch them and root for them. USA, USA. All knows, four years ago, I tried to go to a bunch of bars and I couldn't sit down and watch. No, you didn't. You didn't go anywhere. Yeah, I did. Okay, where are you going to Yogi Barrel on us?

Nobody watches that sport anymore. The bars are too crowded. I didn't say that. But I'm just saying that I need a nice warm seat. Not warm, maybe summertime. Book a table. Let's go pony up.

Let's get a bottle. Let's get a bottle service, Maddie. Let's get it. If you're trying to be fancy, Matt. You know what, Big City Wings will set us up. Put the credit card down. Let's go. We'll go to Big City and watch.

Okay. That's probably, USA? I'll watch at all. Is the draw done? I don't know. I just saw the people. we're just losing her mind over the draw, but apparently a bad presentation. By the way, Fiba is corrupt.

FIFA. Whatever. Same thing. FIBA, FIBA. Yes, they are. No, actually, FIBA could be corrupt, too. Well, FBA's corrupt, too. Yeah, they're all corrupt.

Well, yeah. International agencies. All right, so real quick, um, , uh, 20007, January 5th, what were you doing? January 5th, 2007. I was living in Austin.

2007 for me I was living in I just recently moved to St. Paul, Minnesota. I probably wasn't, well, January 5th I'd probably be back in Houston before going ahead and back to Austin. Go to UT? Last time this happened was January 5th, 2007, LeBron James did not score 10

or more points in an NBA game. 1,297 games came to a streak yesterday when the Raptors and the Lakers played in Toronto. him, 2,297 times that he took a floor and scored at least 10 points. I think that we take LeBron James for granted. So there are people who are scoffing at that.

So I want to provide a little context. I'm curious. They're all, LeBron haters. Come on. People hate LeBron. The dude's never committed a crime. Right. He's one of the all-time great scorers.

He's one of the, he was like a five-time first team all defense. Yeah. He's had, he's been in a pressure cooker since about the age of six. I'd say he's doing okay. Yeah, he made a few ill-informed comments about China. And all of a sudden, we need to, like, hate the guy and he's the worst human being that ever lived. Shut your bum ass up. Anyways, second-greatest player of all time.

Depending on who you talk to. And you're talking to me. Yes. So I say second-in-party. That's right. Okay, behind Kareem, I like that. To contextualize that, the second highest, longest 10-point-plus streak is Kevin Durant. and I read on the Twitterverse yesterday,

he'd have to do 82 games for 12 straight years to match LeBron from where he is right now. I mean, it's an incredible feat. I am able to, because I'm actually of an IQ of above 75. I'm able to contextualize. You appreciate you. LeBron, the player, is LeBron, the ill-informed person on a lot of things. But again, everybody we meet isn't always perfect about everything.

1,297 games. Durant is second most right now with 200. you can add a thousand and he's behind lebron's streak you know we always do this we do sometimes in sports radio that's a streak that will never be broken i called my shot right yeah i think you're it's you know it's demasio well it's 80 can think about the average NBA and NBA season is 82 games yes if you don't play all 82 you're still looking at probably what um 70 let's do seven something whatever 70 so that's uh 50 so that's uh Fifteen seasons, essentially, give or take.

Of scoring 10 every time. That means not getting kicked out. That means not injuring yourself. That means getting up enough. You have to, you have to shoot the ball. The ball has to go through the net some form of way, either at the free throw line or with field goals of two or three point variety. Tennis, I mean, it doesn't seem like a lot,

but it's remarkably a consistent number that. People leave with injuries in the first and second quarters. I mean, yeah. You get sideways with an official and get tossed out. Well, you get mad at your coach and he put you the bench, you know. So, yeah, not that I think it's one of those sad moments, but it does show you that he, for the first time in Quarta while, is becoming rather human. It makes me sad for what it signifies. And they still wonder, that pissed me off.

We're at the, I don't, generally, when we talk about all time, all time greats, like watching them decline and fade is like, it makes you sad to watch it. And then it also just makes you feel old in your, so it's like, in a personal way, it's like, oh, I'm getting old. LeBron James is, LeBron James is washed. But see, I've been growing my old adult life. I'm, because I'm like two weeks older than LeBron.

So for me and when I was born, it was always, now he's only four championships ahead of me. So we're pretty close. But he was always that guy. I don't know if there's anybody like this for you. Like he, watching him play, has been basically my whole adult life

has been watching LeBron James being be great when I'm watching sports and it's going away so it makes me sad it has not happened to me with one athlete it's happened to me with 500 of them yeah it's like every great athlete that I've ever loved

watching right now Aaron Rogers in a Steelers uniform in 10 years right now we'd be like oh my God remember Steelers Aaron Rogers Ew when I was a kid I marveled at Nolan Ryan being 41, 42, 43 years old pitching at 96 miles an hour

when he started going on the injured list for boosters and stuff like that and the velocity was down and he was hurting his arm It was pretty good his last season though, right? Yeah, I don't think he embarrassed himself. But I will say that about some of your favorite baseball players of all time.

Kobe Bryant's farewell tour. Jose Al-Tube is starting to drop a little bit. He doesn't wake up with 200 hits like he used to. That's a great one to pull up last year. We're seeing multiple years of decline of Jose Al-Tube. It doesn't doesn't make us happy.

No. Boston Celtic Shack. It's not making us happy. Larry Burr with a bad back all the time. Even though I hate Larry Bird, I appreciate the town that he brought. In 10 years, back to the Clippers, Chris Paul is going to be like a trivia question. Yeah. Makes me sad.

So, yeah. But again, we, father time. Undefeated, ever loses. Bastard. But LeBron fought it. But as you say it, though. LeBron fought him as good as anybody. I don't think LeBron's on the verge of retiring.

I think there's a huge part in because I think his ego is huge that wants to play until he's 50 or at least close to it. He wants to get to six championships. That's why he played as long as he has. And that Laker team is good, though. Yeah, they ain't happening, though. I would hope not. That means if he gets to six, it means the rockets are having to wait a while. I don't want to wait much longer.

I mean, I'm not, I mean, I'm still looking great at my age, but I don't wait too much. How old is Shagel, Alexander? How old is Chet, Holmberin? We need one. How old is Jalen Williams? As I said earlier this week. Let's get one torn peck muscle. That's what it's going to take.

I'm sorry. That's what it is. I'm not ready to say that. Healthy thunder, no. It ain't happening. You can push them to six. You can push them to seven. Let's go.

Let's push. Push. Push it real good. All right. Salt. Or are you Peppa? I'm Peppa. Hey, you're salt.

Would you like to apologize for the things you said this week? I know Jonathan's going to have a lot of apologies. I'm thinking about him. I don't know. I've been a good guy. Should we call the girl and find out? Oh.

Yeah. Yeah. Did you criticize her? Did you criticize her for sleeping in the movie theater? Did you make it public knowledge on a radio show? Does she know you're putting on her blast? I did tell her. She knows.

You said you're sorry to her about 130 this morning. 713-213-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Time for you to say, I'm sorry. Let's do it next here on 790. This is the most cathartic half hour in Houston radio. Forget about sports radio. History of Houston Radio.

We ask you to simply call 713212-5-790 and say these words. I'm sorry, so sorry that I was such a food. I didn't know This is the time That you need to apologize for what you've said I want to apologize to any of the spam people That I told them about my Medical condition

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I want to say sorry to the LeBron James fans. By the way, we were talking about less than 10 points last night. On Sunday's game against, or Monday's game against Phoenix, he had 10 points. So there was a trend going. LeBron's scoring numbers have dropping. He's declining and I'm going to cry. Don't cry that.

Sorry. I'm not sorry. I'm glad. Thank God. Get out. Go. Bye. See you.

Second greatest player of all time. All right. To the sorries of this week. Wow. I feel like I apologize during the week for a lot of things that I do. so it's like if I shouldn't say I should actually start to save these up for Friday. What I apologize for? I wish a lot of people ill.

Okay. And I do it during text. Hmm. Okay. You know what? I got an apology. Go ahead. So I often, look, we're 10 to 2 now and I like to watch live sports when we're here.

And generally that means that live sport is going to be something weird or soccer. and I know that it annoys Adam Wexler when he comes in here and soccer is on. Yesterday was handball. That's what, thanks. Thank you, Matt. That's what I'm getting to. Good. Yesterday I put women's international handball on because I knew it was going to annoy Adam Wexler.

Not pleased. And as soon as he walked in here, he was like, come on, man. Soccer's bad enough. Handball? And I was so pleased with myself that it annoyed Adam Wexler. And I want to apologize. I'm sorry for purposely annoying Adam Wexler by putting on random sports that make him upset. I'm sorry that I take great joy in it.

Yeah, look. Oh, we got beach soccer. Let's go. It's on the golf right now. Ladies beach soccer, hopefully? No, no, no. We're watching ladies beach soccer. Are you kidding me, Jonathan?

Beach soccer? Oh, wait a minute. They're not wearing like. But they're not wearing bikinis. So now you're upset. Y'all hear him? You hear the disappointment? Point in a minute, Matt's voice.

I mean, it's fair. If I said beach soccer to be dirty, you would be looking at, what would you want to see, girl, like, when they're wearing beach volleyball gear? I just, I guess, I didn't know what beach soccer was till right now. This is like a dirty brown sand. Are they in Galveston or something? Hey, you know what? Apologize for that.

Galveston's fantastic. Oh, I'm sorry. Fantastic relative to what? Relative to people like go on vacation for little getaways, two, three getaways, great shopping, good food, beautiful people. You got a tight budget head to Galveston. Oh, my God. I'm not talking like a little port. I'm not saying visit Baytown.com.

Nobody out of side of Harrison Fort Bend has Galveston as a destination. Grimes County loves Galveston. Brazoria loves Galveston. Maybe Brazoria. All right. Johnson, what are you apologizing for? I can probably apologize for something I did this morning. You know, when you're like, you're trying to take a left on a two-way street or two intersections,

you got to hit that media and to, like, wait. You know what I'm saying? Yes. Like take a left or right, whatever you want to do. So I got into the middle. You know, I was sitting there going to work. And I just briefly looked on the right and he was coming kind of fast. But I was like, no, that's fine.

No cars is around him. I just went in front of him. And this dude didn't slow down at all. And I guess I kind of was in the fall. I kind of was a little slow on my turn. So he kind of like ran up on me. You know, almost like hitting the back of me. And dude gets on the side of me, rolls his window down.

It's this big buff dude with his hat brim all the way to his eyebrows, staring me down to the red light. And I was kind of scared for a little bit. I was like, you know what? You throw your hands up at him. What's he going to do? My bad, man. Tell me shut his bummed ass up. Early in the morning, man.

I'm sorry. I would like to apologize to the Woodlands location of Kroger. My mom is going through some cancer treatments. And so I went and visited her with her on Tuesday when I got back from Utah. And I went, got her some flowers. Yes. And the woman at the Kroger, the counter, not the counter, the checkout lane, was not very speedy in her work. And I wasn't like in her hurry, but I, you know, it's a, it's a flower's, it's a scan thing real quick.

You put your little loyalty, ID in it, and you pay and you get out. Well, another customer that she recognized, she saw, and she started talking to her. And she forgot, frankly about paying my flowers. So I whispered under my breath because I'm not, I know the stones up to stay in front of her directly. I said, today while we're young. Did she hear you? I don't know, but she's probably 80, so the answer would be no. Oh, man, come on, man.

So I want to apologize the 80-year-old bitty. I'm sorry. I said today while we're young when she's not young, and I was sitting there waiting to get my flowers paid for. You know what? Why are you always coming after old ladies? Defenceless old ladies. Yeah, you know, that's a bad reflection of character, quite frankly. you know what you don't know how to play blackjack

get off the table if you don't want to play blackjack get out of the table if you don't want to play blackjack this poor old lady no clearly she has a job the customer comes first friendships and talking later wow

she goes you haven't been to the store in a while and I'm like I never been to the store period here we go let's pay let's go I got cash and everything but I should have I should have directly said today while we're young I was a cheap shot on my breath it was a cheap shot on my part. And for that I say, I'm sorry. You should be. It's disappointing, but not surprised.

I'm so sorry. So, if you want to apologize for you being a meanie at the grocery store, 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Let's talk to our friend Koso. Now, Koso calls, and he really uses this time as a cathartic measure for his life. And so we appreciate him. We are certainly here to help him. He's committing a lot of crimes. That he is. So, what are you apologizing for this week? All right, guys.

I have an absolute doozy for you today. Let me start from the beginning. I'll make it quick. I live here in the wonderful Second Ward, Eastwood, Edo, whatever you want to call it. I've been here for 12, almost 13 years. And I've seen a couple crazy things. happened, but this was probably the craziest thing that I've experienced. I was pulling out of my house on the way to the grocery store with my wife,

Ms. Casso, and we're at the closest intersection off of Harrisburg, and it's off of Harrisburg. And I'm sitting there at the light, and there's this shady little gas station to the left of us and these half a million dollar homes to the right of us. So I'm just sitting there waiting for the light to go green. And all of a sudden, this car just speeds out of the parking lot, reverse style. And then a guy comes running out of the gas station saying, that's my car, that's my car. And then the guy floored the truck, and I could tell it was stolen because it was, he was flooring it in first gear, a stick shift. He didn't know how to switch gears, and he just flies down rubbing the engine, 20 miles an hour,

Harrisburg as this guy approaches me he sees that I'm filming everything from my car because I'm in disbelief runs up to my window and says that's my car man you've got to help me go get it come on let's go let's go and he runs around to the side of my car

and while I'm filming I go dude I can't help you I can't help you I have my wife in the car I'm sorry and then I take off and I watch as his truck goes 20 miles down 20 miles per hour down Harrisburg probably destroying his engine and his four gentlemen running after his truck and for that I say sorry I'm sorry that doesn't make him feel any better honestly you could apologize you're blue in the face

I mean what are you doing that situation do you do exactly what he did I mean you I guess you could try I mean if you got stuff to do you can try I mean you could follow the car call the police to follow the car and tell them where they are I guess, until the guy who gets smart and bails out. That's an interesting Choose Your Own Adventure. I'm going to go ahead and just do what Keso did. And call a radio show two days later, an apology.

You're not going to help out? You're not going to... I'm busy. See you later. We will watch you go. We will watch your cargo. Leave the wife from the... Let me ask you this. If that happens today, like you and I are going, we're going to go have some soup out for the show

today. Then I'm going to go to the Toyota Center and take a nap. And then I have the game. Now, go ahead. If it happens during my potential nap time, that cuts in a nap. That's what I'm saying. It's context dependent.

First of all, if it's just you, that's fine. You don't want to put your wife in danger with some stranger who's obviously going to be in an emotional, bad emotional state. Mm-hmm. Yep. Or heaven forbid your children or whatever. If I was by myself and I had nothing to do, I might scoop the guy up.

That'd be a good. That'd be a fun. I don't think. I think it's easier for you to say this on a radio show than it is in real life. I think I might. I'm not saying I don't know. You never know until you get in a situation, right? Okay. All right. Maybe I would tell him to shut his bum ass up. Because then you're stuck with him, too. But I like helping strangers. You like picking up strangers? I don't know if I've ever picked up a stranger ever in my life. Do people even hitchhike anymore?

No. I actually have seen one. It's rare, I should say. Going to Bowling Green from Texas. And they were just having a thumb on, like the whole, like, out of a movie type of thing. I saw one within the last year. I didn't pick them up.

Yeah, I, it's just, it's 2025, sadly. I mean, they've had a truck, you know. Get the guy in the back of the truck. Well, if it's a bumpy or right, you can't have him back there like that and fall out of there. That would like it would be spliced. I'm not going off. roading and I'm on a highway.

If you're not 75, you're not putting some in the backseat of 75. We've got paved roads here in Texas. That's true. All right. Short timeout, then back on the phones. You know what? I'm sorry. The state of Louisiana, I've apologized to you.

I think twice this year. By the way, LSU fan, I apologize. You hired an A-hole for a coach. Me as a good coach, be still an A-hole. 1145 on Sports Talk, Severnetti. All right, 1150 on Sports. Sports Talk 7 in 8. We're going to wake up the strippers coming up in about 10 minutes from now.

We have Dr. Roto at 1 o'clock today at 1.30. We've gotten on Florida Stories. And hell yeah, or not at 150. 713, 212-790. Real quick, remind me to give you a note about Kevin Durant coming up during the news and noon in sports survey. Can you remember? Write it down. Yeah, whatever.

You know, I'll write it down. Remind. I have a note about Durant. Note about Durant. during the news at noon. Okay, there we go. 713-212-5-7-90 if you want to apologize for anything. And look, I met a lot of you. You owe me and over the city of Houston, some apologies. Ryan on 790 at 1151, Ryan, what are you apologizing for?

I'd like to apologize to my wife. Supposed to have a short day at the office yesterday. Walked the property with my contractor and he invited me to lunch. He ended up taking me to lunch at Ruby's Rice House and they don't serve food. And several hours in an Uber ride later, I came home to a very upset wife. And I'd like to say, honey, I'm so very sorry. It was free. He paid for it.

Yeah. So you drank your lunch. What was a liquid lunch? What did you have to eat later that day to soak up the said liquid lunch? I had the Uber driver stop at Waterburger. They don't like it when you do that. But he came in clutch. Okay.

And how long was she mad at you for? Just a little bit We worked it out I think I don't know I hope I'm sorry Does your house key still work

Yes it does The coat on my front door It still it still worked Are your clothes on your In your driveway You're still in the closet And I still have permission to go to the game tonight So we're all good

Oh my gosh. And what is she doing tonight? I guess she's going to hang out with her parents. They live down the street, which is a blessing and a curse. Is there a, do you have a rule about parental welcoming to your home? They have to call ahead of time? I prefer a text. You know, I'd like to know they're about to walk into my house, but they generally don't. They just roll up on the golf cart.

But, you know, pros and cons, you live with it. But if they're good people, you accept it, yes? Who? My in-laws? Yes. Oh, they're great. Okay, so you don't mind. We have, thank you for the phone call, Ryan. My father-in-law, when my mother-in-law was still alive,

they live about three miles from our house. And one of the great things about them, among many things, is they've never come over unannounced. Every time they call or text or we plan a visit, just because, you know, it's just the right thing they do. We don't go to their house unannounced, vice versa. That's good. A little courtesy.

Yeah. I don't think you should I think you should always announce when you're coming over to somebody's house I would agree nobody likes the unannounced pop-in because you don't know what you're doing what you're wearing

what you're thinking about doing what you want to rest you want to take a nap you want to eat especially if you came home a day early from your trip who does that you don't want to catch something

you want to see oh I'm sorry I got a long trip coming up too won't be seeing the family for quite a while James on Seven Ani, what are you apologizing for? I'm apologizing to the Houston, Texas, because when they ain't made that draft,

I thought, man, what a wasted draft. But it's turned out to be a really good draft. Everybody they drafted seems to be contributing. So I want to apologize to Houston Tech. I didn't mean that. Hey, James, look at that. He apologized to an entire organization. She probably should apologize to Nick Cacario.

Let me see. Let's see. Jaden Higgins is coming along. Arionte Ersarcery's coming along. all the Jalen's Woody's been good when he's healthy Yeah, I was asked by Sorin on his show

about Woody Mark's long term And I'm like I don't think so I mean I think he's got a spot in the roster But I don't think he's I don't envision him being say I don't know An Ashton Genty or something like that

No Third down back Yeah Has a spot in the NFL Great blocking running back And third down back And decent recast-catcher Out of the backfield

Yeah A good change of pace, third down, back guy. But not a, what are they called? Bell cow carriers, that what they call? Not a bell cow. But there's only a handful of bell cows in the whole NFL. By the way, we've not had anybody call in today that is a Dallas Cowboy fan. What's going on with that?

Are they toast? Yeah, what happened to that Cowboys fan that said Trade us Will Anderson for, what was it for George Pickens or something? Yes. By the way, George Pickens, he is getting annihilated on social media. He's getting crushed. That is not good. By the way, the Cowboys yesterday, well, the Cowboys' defense

showed up like we thought they would, giving up 44 points. Ooh, that's it. That's pretty light. That's light work for them. That actually was a close game in the fourth quarter with eight minutes left to go. It was.

So, but the Cowboys now, the standings in the NFC, the Cowboys are the number 10 seed. They are... Six and one. They're two and a half back of San Francisco. They're toast, right? I think so

That's a shame Like the number 7 seed You know who's not in the playoffs right now? The 8 and 5 Detroit Lions Wow So it's going to take 11 wins to get Into the NFC it feels like And if that's the case

The Cowboys can't get to 11 because they're 6'6 and 1 Yet another season of no Dallas Cowboy Playoff football I will say this I applaud you Houston Texas because the Cowboy fans of the last 25 years have been very braggadocious for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Obnoxious. And they

have been super silent this year. They've made trades, they've signed guys, they've acquired receivers who are really good when they want to be good and they're going to be lazy when they want to be. But yeah, George Pickens, if you're a George Pickens fan, don't go on the Twitter streets because the video of him basically doing what George

Pickens did as a Pittsburgh sealer who's been on display for the Dallas Cowboys, especially was last night. And the Detroit Lions A, I wouldn't say not say a heavy favorite, but a decent-sized favorite to win the NFC if the playoffs were to begin today would not be in them. Should be fun down the stretch. NFC is even, it feels like even more competitive than the AFC is at this point. I think it's pretty wide open.

Rams Seahawks probably the best two teams. Are you ready to make Sam Darnel NFC title contender? What have we going with the, I'm just saying they're good. Okay. I said Rams first. Yeah. Are we down on the Eagles to the point? of, uh, they're out?

Are we just sleeping on the bears or they're just not that good? Are we sleep on the Packers? Could be. We sleep on the Buccaneers who can score 35 points of their eyes closed. Bears are plus, are nine and three with a plus six point differential. Fine. I'm calling it. Paper Tiger. Fraudsters. They are the Jacksonville Jaguars. They're on fraud alert. I'm putting the bears on fraud alert. I have the Jaguars on

fraud alert and I've been there all right. You should too. By the way, I do believe with that being said, I do, I think I want to, I think I one Jacksonville beating Indianapolis. Because I think if you beat the Colts again, I think they are so down in the doldrums

that this is a free fall they can't get out of. You beat them, if the Colts beat the Jaguars this week, they get their mojo back. You want to win the AFC South, though. So, and you don't play the Jaguars anymore.

Maybe it would go to win and then beat the Colts. It'd go of the AFC South Records would it go to. All right, 1158. We need to wake the strippers up, Ross. You ready to do that?

All right, we got the news at noon coming up as well, including a anecdotal note about Kevin Durant. Something special could happen tonight inside TOTA Center, besides me being there. Okay. It's Rockets and Sons. It's 1158 on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. 12-03 in H-Town. Good morning, good morning.

Mornings, it's the third hour of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. That's his Sports Talk 790. Yeah, I admit it. I would like to see four to five major injuries of the Oklahoma City Thunder. Wow. Listen, being honest. Have you no decency, Mr. Thomas? Have you no shame?

I have zero shame. I need my rockets to win the championship for multiple reasons. I need a ring. I need the playoff bonus. And I need an opportunity to enjoy the life that is the NBA world. And if it takes some injuries to make that happen, not cancer, but just like, you know, maybe I don't know. ACL tears, ribcage, maybe separated shoulder, something like that. Tommy John, maybe, I don't know.

Tommy John? Yeah, you never know. You've ever heard of a basketball player getting Tommy John. There's always a first time for everything. Okay. Ladies job at 126 is the time it is the Matt Tomba show, Ross, is an anything goes Friday. Ross explained the essence of an anything goes Friday. Yes, Matthew, anything you want to get into.

We'll cover some top sports news items of the day momentarily, but anything sports related or not sports related. We've been talking steak nuggets for some reason. We've been talking McRibbs. We've been talking anything. Texas cheese, big game coming up. Worst Christmas songs we were talking about earlier as well. 713212-5-790. Also, women's beach soccer full breakdown as well. It's just a 7-13, 212, 579. It's kind of a slow-paced game because you have to run in sand. Yeah, it's, I mean, soccer itself sucks. It's not their fault. it down makes it worse. I mean, it's four to one. You're you always complain about scoring. There's been

some goals. There's like 30 yard field, though. Man, but they've been scoring some golosos, actually. These chicks can kick. All right. It's fine. It's just a slow-paced game because nobody runs fast and sand. I mean, unless you're Rocky. Do we have, yeah, he did run fast and sand. Do we have the draw for the World Cup announced yet?

I have no idea. We should find out right now during the news. Is it all still TBD? I don't know. I'm looking. What is it happening? I thought it was supposed to happen in the middle of the day. I mean, just wake me up when the game start. I mean, it's interesting to talk about,

but I'm not going to really heavily invest my life in which teams are going to beat USA's ass in the World Cup. Hopefully they get a little favorable FIFA corruption. Good draw. All right, anyways, Matt, a lot of stuff going on in the news at noon. Of course, you have the Rockets in action tonight against the Phoenix Suns. You have the Texans in action Sunday night football against the Kansas City.

Chiefs. Both must win games for each of their respective teams, Matt. Every game is a must win in the Western Conference and the Texans must win against the Kansas City Chiefs to exercise the demons of Pat Mahomes and Andy Reid. Elsewhere in the news, though, we talked about this earlier. LeBron James only scores eight points. His double digit point streak ends. The Lakers did win the game. LeBron James did have an opportunity to tie the game and shoot a basket and get his double-digit scoring streak, but he whipped the pass to the corner to a wide-open Rui Hachemura who hit the three-pointer and they won the game.

So he's Team LeBron. He's Team Lakers. So asked after the game what he thought about the streak ending, he said, no thoughts, we won the game. A selfless act from LeBron James, giving up his streak, he made the right play. I do believe him.

Now, is he saying, is he saying, at the end of the day, like at a quiet time when he's by himself, he's going to reflect and say, dang, the streak is over, that sucks. But I think he's happier that they won the game. Yeah. All right. Speaking of the Rockets and Sons,

would you briefly brought up, go to the game tonight, or listen to it here on 790. Kevin Grant needs four points for 31,000 in his NBA career. Wow. He would tie LeBron for third fastest in the history of doing it. This is game number 1141 for Kevin Durant coming up, and that's where LeBron got to his 31,000.

Only two people do it faster. This should come as no surprise. Kareem. Michael Jeffrey Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain. Ooh, and Wilt. Jordan did it in 1,011 games. Durant and O'Brien will have done it in 1,141 games. All time great.

All time great is playing in your town tonight. Yes. On a Friday. And get there like before 7 o'clock. Matt, how many years have you been in for this? 7.30, 7.45, maybe 8.15ish, maybe. I don't know. don't hold your breath just asking second happy they're by the second i'm getting lightheaded i need

i can't wait to crush this food after two o'clock can i buy you a lunch or something okay yeah you're buying me lunch you are no i'm saying i can buy you a lunch no we're doing all you can eat lunch at two o'clock i'm saving for that i actually and i'm wopper junior this morning coming to work who has a wopper junior for breakfast this guy and you would be hayden on burger king yes he does no i don't hang on burger case you don't their fries. No, their fries are not. Their fries suck. Wow.

Anyways, elsewhere in the news, Kyler Murray is out for the rest of the season. According to head coach Jonathan Gannon, he has a wink-week foot injury that wink-wink-wink hasn't progressed to the point

to where he could play according to the Arizona Cardinals. No, I think I'm good. Okay. Jonathan Gannon, believe him or not, Matt, I just feel bad for the quarterback. He got hurt and he wasn't healthy enough to play.

So, I mean, that's first and foremost. That's where I would leave it right now. No, I think Connor Murray and probably the Cardinals have gotten sideways with each other and the Cardinals are deeply regarding the money they've spent on him. I saw a tweet that made me chuckle. Go ahead and get ready for Kyla Murray to the Steelers. When it out. Send a mid-quarterback there.

They take all the quarterbacks. scraps. Give them all those Steelers. Or he could be a Las Vegas writer. You never know. Yeah, that makes sense too. Yeah. Who knows where he could end up. All right, moving along, you had Thursday night football last night as the Dallas Cowboys lost 44 to 30 to the Detroit Lions at Ford Field. One of the big stories after the game was George Pickens. CD Lamb exited the game with a concussion early in the third quarter. A couple of plays where people felt like George Pickens was not giving his full best effort. Richard Sherman blasting him for his, quote, half-ass effort after the game.

George Pickens throughout the game, especially late in the game, just looks uninterested in playing football. That's what you cannot have. You can never be disengaged. It doesn't matter if the game's going your way or not going your way. You can't disappear in these games or else you're not going to have an impact. George Pickens, disinterested in a football game? We've never heard that before.

Never. Or maybe we have. And there you go, Matt. That's your news at noon. All right. Today's college financing report will focus on East Lansing, Michigan. Home of the Spartans. Of Michigan State.

Congratulations to Greg and Don Williams. They felt very charitable. They just wrote a check to Michigan State University for $401 million. $290 of that is going to athletics. Of course. The overall $1 billion in fundraising by Michigan State was a campaign launched this week and promoted by Magic Johnson. Well, so far he's 40% of the way there with one person, one group of people.

So Jonathan Smith was the former coach. He had a buyout of $30 plus million. He got the check and said, gone. easy-peasy paid for because this nice couple decided to pay $30 million to go away. Pat Fitzgerald's got a new five-year contract to be the coach of Michigan State. We're $30 million. They are also giving $100 million as part of, on top of the $401 million to something called Spartan Ventures, a nonprofit tech exemption corporation set up to raise funds for the athletic department.

So there's your collective there. It all it takes, and I went to dinner last night with a couple of tech. Texas Tech Red Raiders, and they were getting so upset because people were mad at them because all of a sudden good. All it takes now is decent leadership, decent facilities, decent athletes, and a lot of cash. Straight cash, homie. It's beautiful. Get these players paid. Let's go.

See? Look, Michigan State can get in the game. Texas Tech can get in the game. Vanderbilt's in the game. Vanderbilt's in the game. Vanderbilt was left for dead three years ago. You're worried that this is going to keep the blue blood's blue? No, everybody's got a shot.

Let's go. And meanwhile, Oklahoma State's like, pick his family. Can we help? Can you help us some more? He's dead. Yes, I'm saying they're in trouble. Clemson's in trouble. Alabama.

We're talking about some really significantly successful programs that are looking for some financial help. Yeah, let's go, Michael Dell. And whoever else, Longhorn's billionaires. There's another guy. I can't remember his name. I got to figure out who's got the money at U.S. Why don't you? We cut these checks, Matthew, come on, let's go. I got to pay for an Airbnb in Rhode Island.

That's funny. Once I'm done with that, I'll come stay with you? You're more than welcome to. Is there a spare room? You got a roll out of bed? No, we have extra rooms. What are the flights looking like? What do you fly into?

You can fly to Boston and Drive or Providence in Uber. Okay, we split the car? We're going to have a car up there. I will come for a weekend. No, because here, I'm going to do some shows up there next fall. That's what I'm saying. You should come on do the show with me. Yeah.

I have like a mini studio I'm going to set up. Okay. Yeah. Can you get a second mic? Yeah, I will. I can take day off. You can also work, too. Let me go cover the rockets.

Is there a B&B you going to have a pool? Like a heated pool? I could. I don't know. I'm not in charge of it. I would say get one with a heated pool. Really? Yeah.

Okay. Salt water, please, for my skin's sensitive. You hear that, folks? He wants specs now on his vacation home that he's not paying for. I just, you know, chlorine that irritates my skin. I'm asking for a salt water pool. So you don't go in the pools ever because of that? No, I do.

but I can't stay long or I have to shower. I have to shower immediately after. You really just have to take it. You get clammy and red and all that kind of stuff? I did not know that. Yeah. Let's contact dermatitis. I'm allergic to cats.

Okay. Things you learn on the show. Thanks, Matt. You're welcome. 713-212-5-790. Stop. It'll be here. It'll be here.

Better than before. Yesterday's gone. Yesterday's gone. Yesterday's gone. We're going. a Fleetwood Mac. Is it Lindsay and Buckingham? I'm going to go with

Stephen Nix. I know it's a cliche, but she's the best. Do you miss Christine McVee? She did? Yes. Oh. Yeah, I miss her. Do you miss John McVee? No. He didn't sing. Oh, I don't think he did.

Dang, this was on rumors, too? That's straight up. I mean, it's got to be the... That's one of the greatest albums of all time. Top three albums of all time. Next to anything the Beatles put out. Well, all right. A good kid, Mad City. Kendrake-Kamar is up there.

Oh, shit. That's what people are thinking. Apple music had it, I believe, has the number three album of all time. Apple music's run by a bunch of 22-year-old. I'm just saying, Maddie. I'm just saying that no one's running around going. There's some respect on the Pulitzer Prize winner's name, baby. Let's, you know what, still, let's you and I go to a bar.

I mean, of a wide variety of age. All right. So, name the greatest album of all time. You're going to hear Pet Sounds Beach Boys. You're going to see. That sounds. You're going to have the rumors. I'm sorry, it was number seven.

Yeah. Rumors that has number 11. Wow. Kendrick Lamar, ahead of Fleetwood Mac rumors on this Apple Music list. Said, only you. I didn't say it. I didn't make the list.

I'm just reading it. That's AI generated. Oh, okay. AI is dangerous. Okay, so ladies gentlemen, that was a prediction. Why did you choose that song as a prediction song? Don't stop thinking about tomorrow. Even though it's Sunday.

I was going to say, I can think about something about tomorrow. Ladies and gentlemen. talking about the future. I am a guy that has done a woeful job of predicting final score of some games. So before I do it, are you sure you want me to do this? Yeah, I'm 100% sure. Get off the fence, let's go. The Houston Texans will defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 20 to 16.

Oh, no, that does make me worried now. You're doing this on purpose. You're reversed jinxing. I see what you're doing. I'm not. Wow. Terrible. No, you asked me for a prediction.

I gave you one. 20 to 16. Okay. What? I think the Texans pass rush. We've already talked about three-fifths of the offensive line is either hurt or not good that's in their place. There's no running game to speak of. And the fact is the Texans secondary has had, even with no Lasseter probably, is still very, very good.

I think there has been so much heavy lifting for Pat Mahomes and granted the game is at home. But this is a different Texans football team. if the Texans are ever going to really be who Texans fans want them to be they have to go win the game they have to go do something that they've never really Have they ever won in Kansas City ever? I'm sure they've done

at least once I'm sure they probably have But I mean it's a long line of utility Matt Castle or someone Yeah Dave Craig when he was done I don't know I'm sorry to name out there Was it at Arrowhead when Andre Johnson had that big catch

against the Chiefs or was that at home? Was Trent Green the quarterback? I mean Are we going back that far? I'm sure they've beaten Alex Smith before, have they not? Probably. Point being, get up there. You're on paper a better football team. You have the momentum.

You have a chance to kick out the AFC champions from being a playoff team. Go do something this franchise has been asking you to do. Go get a super big road win and get in the playoffs and get rid of a potential team that will get in your way. Because if you go up to Kansas City and you, win and you lose, Ross, you still can make the playoffs, but confidence will be mid because beating Arizona and Las Vegas ain't going to, you can't beat your chest that are beating those two teams. You just can't. You can beat your chest to beat Kansas City. Yeah. So they're going to do it 20 to 16. They just have to make enough plays. It's going to be a one, it feels like it's going to be

a one score game. Kansas City has been in a million one score games. Yep. Texans have been in a million one score games because they both don't have good offers. There's a reason the total is low as it is. The thing that does scare me is if it kind of comes down to game management, as we talked with Sorin Petro earlier, like Andy Reid's good game manager. It also helps have Pat Mahomes to be a good game manager. And quite frankly, Damico Ryan's, that's one of his major deficiencies as a head coach. And by the way, when we say that, and I feel like we have to say this about once every week or so,

D'emico is not an exceptional game manager. He ain't the only one. It doesn't mean he's not, by and large, a good football coach. The guys love him, and that's the most important thing. he has created this defense, which is one of the five best defenses maybe in the last 20 years in the NFL. Is that too much of an embellishment?

One of the best in the last 20 years? 10 at least. I don't want to go there yet. Could be. It could be. Now, as I said, it's not the 85 bears, not the 2,000 Ravens, but it's as good as, I mean,

it has carried, one side of the ball has carried the other this entire season. What are you talking about? Don't hang on money mills. Davis money meals like that. Okay.

He's the greatest things in sliced bread. Just ask some Texans fans. Like Darlene saying stuff like that? Yeah. Okay. Well, that don't really counts. By the way, I have a poll question up on the Twitter account at SportsMT. Who wins?

69% Texans, 31% chiefs. Hmm. If you'd like to vote on the poll question, it's at SportsMT. I voted for the Texans. Okay, good. Well, then you're part of the 69% then. Let's go. All right, 20 to 16.

Low scoring game. Take the under. Take the points if you're so inclined to bed on these things. I said 23 to 18. Okay. That'd be right, what is the number? What is the number? It was 41.5 last night, look.

I can go look again. Yeah. Which is very low. All right, so let's run through the scenarios then. I'm going to put this, you are the Texans fan of the two of us. Woo! If the Texans win, tell me what your life is like

Monday when we open the show at 10 o'clock and they're going to the playoffs I mean I don't know what the exact math would be but their playoff odds are going to go massively not only winning it's winning a conference game and it's winning a game against a team that is also in the thick

of the same running you're in and you get the head-to-head tiebreaker yep but from an emotional standpoint you are on cloud nine because you have finally won in Kansas City cold weather game on the road and you have started the Slave the Dragon. You know, I've been saying the last couple of weeks.

I'm not saying it's happening. Mm-hmm. But you've been saying. I've been popping it in my head. The word Uber-Role. AFC contenders, which we're saying the same thing, but yours sounds crazier than what I'm saying. No, because we've said it's wide open.

Championship contenders. Which they are right now. They are. But if you make the players, aren't you automatically in A&M. championship contender? Did you feel like they were a contender last year?

No, not in close. Darlene did. No. It didn't feel like they were close last year. Last two years. How about this? Can I tell you this?

There will be seven teams that will make the AFC playoffs. All seven of them I could legitimately have an argument for to win the whole thing. Last year we didn't feel like it because the chiefs were very good. The bills were insane.

The ravens were good. Everybody's vulnerable this year. That we just named. Yeah. All right. So I've given you all those. all the flowers here Monday 10 o'clock

Texans lose the game to Kansas City how do you think you will be feeling I'll be okay I'll almost be like did you get too excited did you get too excited I thought I did and then I predicted them to upset the Colts and then they did it

and they looked like clearly the better team in that game that's the thing like they they were better than the bills and it was at home on a short week so that was kind of like eh whatever go on the road and look better than the Colts and if they go on the road

and look better than the Chiefs I'm feeling good I'm going to give you the national narrative if they win you will have everybody in their mother and this is going to be something that we have not had in the history of this city if the Texans beat the Colts

this Sunday in Kansas City you will have the national pundits and again whether you choose to believe them ignore them treat their words as gospel you will hear Super Bowl attach the word Texans I promise you

that's going to happen if the Texans beat the Chiefs in Kansas City and you know what you should Patriots are the favorites right now I guess Patriots and Broncos yeah you know what I'm not calling them put them on fraud alert

but I'm not scared as the Broncos I am the Patriots if they lose the game the narrative is not going to be the Texans were fraudulent or they finally or they show that they're true colors or they are who they've always been.

The argument will be on the Monday after on the national shows. Again, you can choose to listen or mute. I won't. I won't listen at all for a second. Don't sleep on the Chiefs. Yeah. That's a big game.

It's a week-to-week league. That's the NFL. Week three, the Texans were the worst ever and they're never going to do anything. You beat the Chiefs this weekend. We're talking about going to the Super Bowl. That's how it works. That's the NFL.

That's why I brought it up. If Kansas City wins, you better be ready as you're getting your cereal about hearing about the chiefs being an AFC title contenders again. Did you guys make a bet or he's just been salty? He's just been salty. He said they were going to win out and win the AFC as a whole. I did not say, I did not predict that. I said, don't sleep on them doing that. I'm not to check the tape.

I wasn't here. I wasn't here. I wasn't here. Win the whole AFC. We're going to have to check tape. I could. They could win the AMC. But you got to watch those to tell the truth.

But you could imagine. I can easily amend that because you're kicking them down the ladder if you beat them, period, end of the story. You're kicking them down the ladder and it may be too much for them to overcome. I'm just saying, 713, 212-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. We've got Dr. Roto coming up in 25 minutes. So get those fantasy football questions ready for the good doctor. He's coming up in a short period of time here on Sports Talk 790.

We've not talked much about the Astros off season because I've never heard of the people they're signing. Astros yesterday made a minor trade acquiring minor league right-hander Nico Zeglin from the Cubs for international bonus pool money. Zeglin is 25 years old. He pitched an A ball in 2024 and missed the 2025 season due to injury. wait a minute. He was 23 years old pitching an A ball. He's going to pitch 155 innings for the Astros with an ERA

at 2.66. Let's go. I don't even know who the other dude is that was, they signed. I legitimately... He was in the Mexican League. Yeah. Zeglin? He was playing for Tabasco. I'm proud of us. Neither of us making a Tabasco pun.

Good job. I was going to go with an eastbound and down reference, but it's been a few years since the shows been on, so I can't do it. He played for the Charros? A Kinney Powers? That's shortlist greatest comedy show of all time. Of the shows that he did,

eastbound and down by far the best, Vice Principles was a distant second, and then the righteous gemstone just fell off the map. Those little clips show up in my YouTube algorithm. Which one? The Eastbound and Down. Yeah. Eastbound and Down was.

calls the little kid Shrek phenomenal Anyways Vice Principal is okay And then again He writes Jim Jones People say it's great I know people

They love it Yeah I mean There are parts of it That are hysterical But there It just got so freaking weird And too many male Genitalia shots

For anyone to look at Okay There is one of those In Walk Hard Which I keep telling you to watch Excuse me Walk Hard movie Yeah I'm good

yeah mr cinema matt thomas yeah did you see the 25 best movies of 25 came out i didn't i only saw one of them i think i'm zero 25 one battle after another i'm down i'm down to basically watching anything that's on the netflix apples and then biopics i'll go see i'm actually going to see so when uh when i take my time off one battle after another and sinners are coming back in 70 millimeter i max matt so i'm gonna go see them in dallas Only one theater in Texas is showing them it's in Dallas. Why does Dallas get it over Houston?

Well, they don't have any 70-millimeter screen IMAXs here in Houston. So what will 70-millimeter do that other ones don't do? It's supposed to be a bigger, more immersive experience. They only have one in San Antonio and one in Dallas, I think, are the only ones in Texas. Well, it's time of Houston has checked your game up. Well, I know. The 70-millimeter iMacs of Christopher Nolan's Odyssey is already sold out, and that doesn't come out until next summer.

I'll watch them at DBR. Yeah, I know. IMAX, it's a great experience, Matt. It's fine. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. If you want to chime in, it's anything goes Friday. Are you a little disappointed in the fact that we've had enough to chew on Astros off season-wise?

No. I'm not either. What are we expecting, folks? Come on. We're expecting minor-leaguers have never heard of before. I mean, we got Marisio Dubon traded. That was a hot ticket for a couple days to talk about. Yeah, and Ramon Urias not being tendered.

And Jake Myers is going to be gone. I mean, it's just two years like club control left, right? I think it's what it is? Yes. Yeah. But he's made, what, do we figure out what he filed that or what happened? There's no arbitration. Do he make a deal?

I forgot. Well, let me ask you this. And you and I are not a town evaluators, but we know at the very top who Jake Myers is. We know what he is at the very bottom. and that is a soft-hitting injured player. The middle of that is... Whoa.

Oh, come on. You know, he's had injuries the last couple of years. How many games he played last year? He didn't play the last week. Well, he would have if they carried off the field. Oh, he only played...

Oh, I thought he played more than this. He only played 104. Okay. 148 the year before. So let's split the difference. An outstanding defensive player. Yes. That win plays on a regular basis

is about a two. 280 hitter with very minimal power, but good on base percentage, good base dealer, excellent defensive player and all-around swell fella, and is cheap, relatively speaking. Yes. So what I just described, you get you what in return? If you're looking, if, if Dana Brown is insistent on going after a starting pitcher as part of a Jake Myers compensation package, what does that get you? Does that get you a number three starter, number four?

It's going to, I don't get you an ace. I don't know. I feel like you get you a guy that was 11 and 10 in the area of four and a half. It'd be some starter where they like a couple of his traits or one of his pitches that they need to use more. They think they can tinker and get here and turn him into something. Kind of like what Hayden Wiseneski was before he ripped his elbow in half. Somebody that we looked at Hayden Wisenkki and were like, eh, numbers aren't that great, but clearly the Astros saw some stuff in there.

I can't even remember what the pitch mix was that they liked and they wanted him to throw more, curb ball or whatever. And he was successful here before he got hurt. All I'm saying is when the trade is done and Jake is gone, I predict Ross it's going to be for somebody we've very seldom heard of. Yeah. Then we're going to be like, you traded Jake Byers for this slum?

It's going to be because whoever they trade for, probably going to have team control, probably arbitration as well. an arm. You have guys, Jacob Melton can come in and fill that good glove soft hitting roll and he has more value as a lefty than Jake does as a righty.

And maybe injuring concerns are part of the package. Which also again is going to go to the fact that other teams have, they have doctors too. Yeah, but the other teams, yeah, if he's Mr. Injury prone, he's always going to be hurt, nobody was going to trade for him. So, I mean, I don't think that is a concern.

I would put the percentage chance of Jake Myers being on this team in spring training at 0%. Okay. I'll put it at 6.5. Okay, that sounds about right. I mean, if he's on the team, you win. We ran the algorithm a few times. This you really? Yeah, a few million iterations. But that's what I'm afraid of is that

I, you know, like when the trade was made for that soft-hitting infielder for the Braves in the deal with Maricio Dubon, we're going to be underwhelmed. It's a regular name. What was his name Nick Allen or something? I believe it. Yeah, a regular name. I think his name is Mark Jones, I don't know.

But I think we're going to have the day of two of Astros discontent. Who is this guy? I've never heard of him. And you're training for a guy with any area of four and a half, five? Yeah, they're going to throw Zach Cole out there. They're going to throw Jacob Melton out there. People are saying Bryce Matthews could have a name to play some outfield. So they'll have options if and when they get rid of Jake Myers.

Do you think Bryce Matthews has a leash here because? of the fact that it was a Dana Brown guy, right? You know what I mean? I think he's a major league player. He's got obviously, I mean, it's going to be, how many, stop me if you heard this before, got a lot of power, strikes out a lot. You also say about 90% of minor leagues are coming out. Trey Cabbage, Zach DeZenzo.

You dropped a tray cabbage on us? Trey Cabbage, Zach to Zinzo, Jake Melton, Bryce Matthews. Tremendous upside. Needs season, need some A-Bs. And by the way, you throw Cam Smith on a mix on that, too. because obviously Dana Brown was like, Zach Cole?

You're not earning that kind of guy. Well, Cam Smith, we weren't seeing power or anything. We just weren't seeing contact. Yeah. I mean, the book got out on him and he was just... He's fighting for a spot now. No guarantee he makes the major league team. Said Joe a spot at the end of the year.

Said Dana Brown. Or was it Dana Brown? Yeah, one of them. Joe's like, I need whoever I can get to help me because I need to keep my job. It is weird. You got lame, seasons for both Dana Brown and for Joe

a spot on the final season. Not often happening. But in the world of sports today, smart teams don't start paying people way ahead of time. College football could take a note of that, right? College football, what's the first thing you do with team wins a game? You extend them

as fast as you can. And you're stuck with big contracts. How long are they going to let Jimmy Sexton run these programs into the ground? And these giant buyouts? When somebody going to wise up and say, you know what? We can win. As long as we have our NILA, you've got to get the boosters together and say, hey, as long

as we pay for players, we don't need to pay these certain coaches, unless you're talking about a handful of coaches, who are real difference makers. Like if the Aggies next year go 8 and 4, will there be people going, what are we doing here? What are we doing with Mike Elko? Yeah, it was happening after the game. After the game, people were like,

Mike Elko, you can't win with Mike Elko. It's crazy. I think Mike Elko's a very good football coach. He's a very good coach, but is he replaceable? I think so. Absolutely. I mean, the previous place he was was Duke. It wasn't like it was a football factory there. The name I'll keep bringing up.

Joey McGuire. What happened when he was hired at Texas Tech? Footballing genius or who the heck is this guy? Yeah. Not great at Texas Tech? You get $50 million to NIL. All of a sudden, he's a top five genius. You can pay for defenses after all?

Wow. That's crazy. Happy birthday wishes out to an OG. Marissa Tomei. 61 years old today how's she doing looks great good for her

yep rockets tonight at home for the hated Phoenix Suns and what else Sheel and Green's hamstring still does yeah no Jalen Green no Devin Booker

no Devin Booker yeah you know what I can't make it to the arena all of a sudden wait a minute I thought we're going to bond today for the show. I'm busy. All right.

That's fine. Oh, wait. Actually. Yeah. I'll go. Okay. And what else? We got Big 12 championship game tomorrow, 11 o'clock.

Safe Travels of my son and his buddies that are going up there to see their beloved Texas Tech Red Raiders. And BYU Cougars. Sold out, by the way. There would be the first sellout in Big 12 championship history at the stadium. That's great. They've sold it out before at Arrowhead, but this would be the first time, I think, at Jerry World, they've sold it out. Good for them. And Jerry, not particularly pleased at BYU's there because that's alcohol sales.

Alcohol sales drops, but again, Tex-Tech kind of evens it out. Coffee sales will be up. No. Oh, no coffee. I'm sorry, no tea. Root beer, no. Root beer and Sprite. Roo-beard and Sprite sales will be up.

Thriving. It's ridiculous. I mean, what a... It's their religion. Okay, fine. It's great. Yeah, I was just saying, you know, to each his own. I'm going to hit your mute button.

You may not agree with it, but, you know, it's going to say it. It's fine. Sal, on 790 and 1254, Sal, good afternoon to you. Guys, how are you doing today? Good. Friend, thank you. I wish you didn't bring up the Oilers in Kansas City game. I was the last game I went to at the Astrodome,

and I've been having flashbacks for three days of, Chris Dishman getting beat by Joe Montana in the fourth floor. Oh, geez. But anyway, stay with me on this. I'm thinking, this is more like a gut feeling, that the Astros are paring down

this team because they just recently saw that Tampa Bay Rays get sold for $1.6 billion. And if that's what Tampa Bay is worth, they're going to probably send some feelers out to see what it's worth. So that's just, I've got a sneaky feeling that maybe Jim Crane is going to shop around sometime during the season and

maybe bank a big profit and head off into the sunset. First of all, we would have absolutely no indication of that whatsoever, but I will say I don't know how much the Crane kids want the baseball team. I really don't have an answer for you on that. I know they're not intimately involved in the organization. Like Patrick Fratita, one of Tillman's sons, is now running things for the Rockets. I think Cal's kids are too young to be an active part of the Texans organization, but I don't know there. I just know for the fact that two of Jim's kids don't have anything to do with the team except just go to the games. Some Cal have like six or seven kids?

Jim Crane does? Cal McGowan. Oh, Cal's got a bunch, yeah. Two different wives. Quite fertile. Barely quite frisky. point being is this I usually can tell a trend based off of

how involved the kids are and there has been no sign that the Astros I thought one of his sons was supposed to be involved with the baseball ops or something I don't think so I don't think that I think it was discussed it was discussed for sure but it was perhaps in name only

how old's Jim got to be 701 I just looked to know okay James Robert Crane now my guess now also when you have other things going on like Jim's logistics company is one of the worldwide leaders in that.

So, I mean, there's stuff to fall back on. Plus, it's also, I would say, if I own a sports team in 2025, I wouldn't get rid of it. All they do is their values go up, unless you just want the, you don't want the headache of it. Yeah, I don't know. It feels like massive returns. But can that happen forever? That's what I'm curious about. I think we were saying that 20 years ago.

Could that happen forever? Yes, the answer is yes. Well, I mean, relative to inflation. Yeah, they can keep growing and growing. But I don't know. I think you do hit a, you're going to hit a brick wall at some point. I just don't know when that's going to be. Well, how long is Tillman on the Rockets?

About nine or ten years, eight, nine hundred years, and the value of that's gone up triple. Yes, NFL franchises. They've grown greatly worldwide. Yeah. I mean, do you just go take over the world? Is Major League Baseball going to take over the world? NFL is trying to explain their worldwide reach.

That's the next frontier for them, all of them. To Sal's point. If the rays are going for $1.6 billion, and they put in $2 a year in the operation. By the, they're going back to Tropicana, the field this year. Oh, really? Yeah, they think they're going to be ready for the start.

They let a tarp over the top. I think they put some sort of like a balloon covering or something. They stapled some garbage bags. The hefty dough. Yeah. Let's get to Dr. Roder Nikes. You want to, everybody? No, I don't.

All right, you're going to work on, believe it or not. Yeah, give me a topic. Do you want to go with our girl 61 years old today? Marissa Tomei? Yeah, well, let's do it. Marisa Tomey, happy birthday, girl. We love you. I mean, like, love you.

We just love your work. Everything about you. What's your top three favorite movies of hers? My cousin Vinnie. That's about doing. Roto's next, 1258 on Sports Talk, 7.9. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Waiver claims have to be made

And I've got trade proposals For lying my way My first round pick Turned out to be a big flop I don't know which wide receipts I need to drive. Ooh, Dr. Roto, give me the news.

I really don't know what I should do. My quarterback keeps getting sacked. I've got a bad case of fantasy blues. It is the fastest 30 minutes of major market radio. And Ross, did you know that Dr. Orto besides being the number one fantasy football expert in America is an accomplished volleyball player and coach. How about that?

I did not know that. How about that, Rodo? It's awesome. It's a great sport. The tournament's getting fired up. Isn't it? Is this weekend? Yes.

Roto, how the hell are you? I'm doing great. I was so proud of your daughter. M.T. You'd be a starting center at URI? I hope so. We got to get her to... Our goal is to be 8-10 freshman of the year.

We're going to work on that for next year. We've got to get up there first. No pressure. Right. No pressure. All right. Let me ask you this, because I think the Cowboys are toast the rest of the way.

And there's other. teams that are already long said and done. How are we feeling, generally speaking about the vagus of the world, the jets, some of our fantasy football players that are long out of the playoffs? Can we still thrive on them on Sundays? Are we worried as hell about how ambitious they are? Like, I'll give an example. George Pickens last night against the Detroit Lions.

Man, didn't it look like he was jogging in the field? I mean, there was a play at the end where back through that bomb. He just laid up. I mean, I don't know whether he's injured. I'm not sure what's going on. But when you want a big contract, which we know Pickens does, you can't be doing stuff like that. So I think you ask a really great question. So years ago on Sirius XM Fantasy Sports Radio, I had Jake Ariens on, Bruce Ariens' son.

And I was talking about, you know, our team's trying for next year's top pick. He goes, players don't think that way. Players want to win, right? Even if they haven't won a game all year, nobody wants to lose. So I think the key is in fantasy, look, is Ashton, And Jent, he's still a good fantasy player. He is. He's just on a bad team.

I think what you're going to see as we move forward are these incentives. And I know that happens a lot in week 17 and 18. If this guy gets a certain number of yards, he gets an extra $250,000, extra $500,000. You've got to pay attention to those things. So when I see those things, I'll certainly bring them up on air for people because that'll help deciding who to start. But obviously, this is why when we draft early in August, we want players on good teams because players on the bad teams like the Jets, they're not going far.

All right. Speaking of two teams that had lousy weekends last Sunday, Pittsburgh was atrocious in the second half. Baltimore kept turning the ball over. How we feel about anybody in skill positions between the Steelers and the Ravens this week? You're going to laugh at me. I think I told you last week I liked Carolina to play well against the Rams, and they did.

I think Lamar Jackson's got a great week. I do. I think he's going to have a great week. Just when you bury guys, just when you think they're going to do nothing. nothing, they start to do something. Now, Pittsburgh also plays a lot of single high man coverage, and that's Zay Flowers, loves that.

So Lamar to Zay feels like something that's going to win people money this week in DFS. I think Lamar is a good play. Mark Andrews is a good play. Derek Henry is a good play. On the other side, I don't really love any Steelers. I mean, maybe D.K. Metcalfe, but I don't love it. Maybe Jalen Warren, but I think Baltimore rolls on this one. I'm hoping you're right about Zay Flowers.

he got me a minus 4.4. I'd have been better used to just forgetting about the position and getting zero as compared to my. I mean, two fumble. Terrible. It's terrible. I'm vigorous. Indianapolis and Jacksonville.

Did you see what Jonathan Taylor didn't do against the Texans defense this past week? And what does that mean for this week at Jacksonville? I think there's going to be a really good game. It's one of the highest scoring games on the slate. And look, they have to feed Jonathan Taylor. He hasn't had one of those three touchdown weeks in a long time. time, right? So maybe he gets one this week, but I think this would be a competitive

game. Daniel Jones in play. I really like Michael Pittman this week and I really like Tyler Warren and I like Taylor. On the other side, will we ever see a Brian Thomas Jr. game? This could be it. There's no sauce gardener so there should be no excuses

and also Brent and Strange, Indianapolis, very soft against the tight end. Strange has been terrific since he's been back from the IR. I like him a lot. Cincinnati shocked the world and knocked off the Ravens last Sunday on Thanksgiving. They're going to Buffalo this week. First of all, where are we on

T. Higgins and how do you like this match up between these two teams? Yeah, last I saw T. Higgins is expected to play, so that's a great thing. So you've got Cincinnati firing on all its cylinders. Now, the other thing is Buffalo without

two key defensive players. So Terrell Bernard, their best linebacker is out, and Joey Bosa is out. So you're not going to get the pass rush. You're not going to get some tackling. I think there's going to be a wide open game. So let's talk about the players you want. You want Josh Allen. You want James

Cook. You want Shakir. I'm hoping that Dalton Kincaid comes back. If he comes back, he's a must-play Cincinnati's the worst team in the league against opposing tight ends. If not, I'd play Dawson Knox. No problem. On the other side, Burrow, great start. Chase Brown,

great start. Higgins, Chase, load up this game. This game is in the 50s. It's the highest score. game on the slate. I think it can end up in the 60s. Wow. All right. Jane Daniels sounds like he's back for the commanders. Will it make a difference for them at Minnesota? I think it'll make a difference and he's certainly back. I think

it helps Debo Samuel. I think I mean, Jack Ertz, Terry McLaurin. This could be a wide open game because you have two defenses that haven't been great. So the question is everybody's done well against the commander's defense. Can Jay-J McCarthy? Because

if he can, then I mean, isn't Justin Jefferson finally in play? We haven't seen Justin Jefferson do anything in quite some time. I think another guy is really sneaky as Jordan Mason if Aaron Jones is out and he's not a sure thing. So I love Justin Jefferson. I potentially love Jordan Mason. On the other side, I'm with you on Daniels. I'm with you on McLaren, Debo Samuel and Zach Ertz. I'll stay away from Chris Rodriguez. We as America, except for the windy city, roto, are waiting for the Chicago Bears burst, a bubble to burst. Is it happening in Green Bay this Sunday?

Yeah, I think it bursts. I do. So right now, Kyle Monongai is questionable. Roma Zunzei is questionable. He's a little bit more doubtful than questionable. But so a sneaky start is, I like Luther Burton. I think he's interesting in this one.

I obviously like DeAndre Swift. On the other side, one of my locks for the weekend, I'm not going to go lock of the week, but it's close. I think Josh Jacobs has a game. I think he has a game. he scores. I think Green Bay is a better team. Chicago has been, is extremely well coached and they're schemed up, but they're not really that good. I don't know how they're

doing it. I really don't. So I like Jacobs this week. I like Christian Watson. I like Romeo Dobbs. And like I said, Burton might be a DFS flyer. This game between Philly and the Chargers on Monday night is so intriguing. Chargers want to keep momentum and solidify their spot in the aFC wild card. Philadelphia has been mid for about six or seven weeks. We don't like West teams going east. How do we feel about East teams going West? And can Jalen Hertz with, get that mojo back for that Eagles offense this Monday night? I don't know. This game feels messy to me because you have two good defensive teams. You have good offensive players. But look, Justin Herbert's not 100%. That's for sure. I expect Hampton to be back and I expect him to be integrated in that

offense and running the football with Vidal. I like Ladd McConkey a little bit, but do I like any of these receivers? Gadsden McConkey, Keenan Allen, you start them, but this is not one of those boom weeks, right? This is one of those games where it's like, I don't know,

24, 21, 21, something a little ugly like that. On the other side, I don't know whether A.J. Brown makes a big play. I do like Barclay a little bit. You always play Jalen Hertz, but man, it's so hard to watch Jailen Hurts. If they got rid of a tush push, I mean, this guy would be a below average quarterback.

All right. Now, 713-212-5-790. If you got a question for Roto, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90, we'll take those in the second segment. Houston Texan's defense, best defense they've had maybe in the history of the franchise, second worst, at the second best of the very worst. They are playing hot. They're beating up on good teams. They're second quarterbacks. Buffalo, Indianapolis, an impressive run as of late.

but going to Kansas City, different animal, cool weather. Mahomes having a great season, but he's got a decimated offensive line. I've set it up for you, Roto, forgetting about the end result in who you like or don't like in terms of winning the game, who we playing and who we sit between the Texans and the Kansas City Chiefs. Yeah, you don't want to start Texan running backs, okay? If they are going to win this game, I think it has to be with C.J. Stroud. And then it has to be with Nico Collins. Dalton Schultz has been great

and by the way Jaden Higgins is coming into his own he's looked pretty darn good recently so I think all those guys are in play you're not going to start Woody you're certainly not going to start Nick Chub just don't even think about those through that for a chub but if the Texans can just stop the chief's pass rush

and give Stroud a little time Stroud Collins Schultz Higgins are all potentially decent starts on the other side easy peasy Mahomes yes rice yes Kelsie Yes. Forget Crean Hunt, forget Pacheco. Were these on the borderline, if you like to have one of those Sunday night, Monday games, I have no problem starting him.

But I think this game is all about defense. It's all about tactical, you know, maybe more punts than we're used to. So sadly, this is not a boom fantasy game. This is more like field position, field goal, you know, Fairbant, Butker, guys like that. So be careful starting too many guys in this game. So you think it's going to be low-scoring? I think all of America at this point thinks it can be a low-scoring game.

All right, let's get to your questions next. 7-13-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. You have a question for Rodo. We are coming down in the last couple weeks of the regular season. I'd have Ross ask his obligatory fantasy question in week, Dr. Roto, but he's in dead last place in our league, and nobody really cares about dead last.

I'm in the playoff hunting two other leagues. So shut your bum-ass up. Okay. Get your question in. Let's go right now. All right, he's good. Launch timers. Launch timers.

It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. You're all the kids that flow through my mind, but it's just a sweet, sweet, and a sip-in-lawed when I close my eyes. Look at a doctor with us to the bottom of the hour on Sports Talk 790. You got a question for Dr. Roto, 713-212-5-790. That's 7-13-212-5-790. 790. Let's start today with Josh for Dr. Roto. Josh, you're on 790. Good afternoon and thank you for holding. Hey, yeah, so quarterback, I've got to pick up one. Jordan loves, C.J. Stroud or Joe Burrow? Oh, this is an easy one. Joe Burrow all day, every day. He looked at the highest scoring game in the slate.

And Cincinnati, when they get pushed like that, when the other team scores, Zach Taylor calls more offense, right? So you've got to go with Joe Barrow. All right, Joe Burrough it is. Let's go to Josh in Cyprus on 7-90. Go ahead, Josh. Hey, guys, I got two of them real quick. I need a wide receiver and a flex. I got Michael Wilson, Debo, Samuel, Woody Marks, or Terry McLaren. And then the other one is a quarterback.

I got everyone injured or hurt. So it's Aaron Rogers, Tyrod Taylor, Tua, whoever's on the other. the bench. I'd go with a, I'd skip the week of the quarterback spot if you're thinking about Tyrae Taylor. My God. Yeah. You know, don't laugh. Here's a, here's a guy that nobody wants to pick up, but maybe Tyler Shuck against, for New Orleans against Tampa. You can kind of throw a little bit against Tampa. It's not like the greatest start ever, but it's not like you name me guys out there that I really liked. I hate all those guys. I do like Michael Wilson. They ruled Marvin Harrison Jr. out. And look. PMC. look good. By the way, I look kind of

like J.J. McCarthy, too. I know that he's been awful. But if you can't throw against the commanders, maybe you need another profession. So I think if you're desperate for a quarterback, look at McCarthy, look at Shuck, let's start, TMC, and Michael Wilson. All right. Since you asked, I'm desperate. I had a

choice of, I picked up Tua, Taga Voloa. Should I go with Taga Voloa or Shuck this week? Oh, man. I heard that in the background. Yeah, shut up, Ross. I'm sorry. No, you know what? I would go with Tua. Miami is going to win that game, right? So we feel confident that Miami's going to win that game.

It may not be a pretty game, but you've got to think they're going to score three touchdowns. A Chan should get one. So I'm hoping that two against two. Maybe Darren Waller gets a couple of touchdowns. Let's go that way. By the way, you are so influential in NFL circles. We need to have the elimination of the off weeks in December. This is atrocious.

We've got to get all this done by like week nine tops. Bad for my business, actually. Oh, sorry about that. I know what, I do have a question. Oh, here comes the obligatory Ross in last place question. I'm not in last place. I'm, well, 7 and 6 in this league. Need a win.

Must win week, baby. Pat Mahomes or Jaden Daniels is on the waiver wire. Oh, that's an interesting one. Do you really think that Mahomes booms? Because I don't. No. I'm thinking like a good week for him is $2.50 and 2, right? And that's like an upside because this Texan view.

defense playing great. Where Daniels could run one in, Minnesota can be beaten with the pass, especially now with McClearns back. I think I would go with Daniels here. I think that game has a chance to be higher, to be higher scoring. Are people sitting Justin Jefferson on my mind just high in the night here? Because he was so grumpy last week. Right. So here's what happens. It's like that whole thing with the Rams and Carolina. Nobody wanted to play Carolina because you saw them two weeks ago and how disgusting they were. The Rams are the greatest team ever and they laid an egg. So this week, nobody wants to play Jefferson. That's why you

need to play Jefferson. Remember, Washington's defense has been terrible. So McCarthy to Jefferson could be that the stack you didn't know that you needed it on draft Kings or Fan duel if you want to win money. 713-212-5-790.

Chad for Dr. Roto. Go ahead, Chad. Hey, Rodo. R.J. Harvey or Marion Hampton. Yeah, I really love R.J. Harvey. I'm sorry that he got the job this way that J.K. Dobbins got hurt, but this guy's explosive.

He can catch out of the backfield. If he can get around the corner on Max Crosby, I mean, he can a guy could score a touchdown on virtually every play. I don't dislike Hansen. Tough defense, and I think that Jim Harbaugh is going to phase him in, meaning maybe 12, 15

touches. He's not getting 25 touches this week, so I think I'm going RJ Harvey Harvey. John for ROTO on 790. Go ahead, John. Hey, Dr. Grotto. How's it going? I have two questions. Do I start Debo or Waldo? And my other question is, if Josh Jacobs does play, do I start Josh Jacobs or Justin Jefferson? Thank you. Oh, wow. I mean, look, like I said before, Josh Jacobs is going to play, and I think Josh Jacobs is going to score.

Could this be a good Jefferson week? Yes, but I'm not going to say Josh Jacobs, I feel it's like a lot for 80 yards and a touchdown. So listen, I normally like Waddle. I don't love him this week. I love H.N., and I like Darren Waller. I think those are the two Miami Dolphins that I like more than Waddle. So I'll go with Debo. You know, look, Jane Daniels has a report with Debo.

It throws that quick little out. Debo could take advantage of that Vikings secondary. That's a little overly aggressive. I mean, maybe good things can happen. All right. On the email, Andrews from Baltimore Johnson of New Orleans needs one tight end to play, says Sean. I mean, look, I think you're playing Mark Andrews. It's not that I don't like Joanne Johnson.

It's just hard to get behind your saint here. I like Chris Oliva. He's my favorite saint. But Mark Andrews just signed a big contract. If Lamar has the week that I think Lamar is going to have, Andrews probably fine Zienzo. All right. Who sits?

Trey Tucker, Alec Pierce, or T. Higgins, which are the three sit from Cody? I mean, Trey Tucker does not have a great matchup this week against Denver. That could be a little ugly, so I'm probably sitting him. All right, Tyler Shuck or J.G. McCarthy? Again, Cody, I would leave that blank. Yeah, I'll go J.J. McCarthy.

Let's find some love for J.J. Because if you can't get it done this week, they need to figure out options. All right. Who do you trust? Lamar, Herbert, or Daniels? And by the way, how nervous are we about this Herbert injury? I think we have to, it's pause, you know, cause the pause, right? Especially you're playing the Eagles.

So, I mean, don't love it. So it goes back to that Mahomes and Daniels thing. Normally, we love Mahomes, but we don't love this magic. up, right? This is not a 30-point game for the Chiefs. I think the team that has a better chance of scoring three or four touchdowns might actually be Washington, so I think it's

Daniels. All right. Kelsey Goddard or Kincaid? Oh, if Dalton Kincaid plays, you play them. I mean, Cincinnati's epically bad against opposing tight ends. They've let up more touched, double the amount of touchdowns than any other teams let up against opposing tight ends. I mean, that is

a crazy statistic. All right. Let me go to Jeremy in Montgomery before we get to the lock of the week. Jeremy are in 790 with Dr. Roto. Yes, I need three out of four. Devante Smith, Shakir, McLaren, or Christian Watson? Which three? I think we're going to go Shakir and McLaren for sure. So now it comes down to Watson and Devanta.

I don't love Devonta start this week, but I think he's, I like having that guy on the Monday night day. right sometimes there's just something about that i don't i mean christian watson is an okay play here's what we'll do if jane reed is out i'm fine playing watson because chicago lets up big plays but if jane reed is activated i want no part of it it becomes very messy in green bay and i'll pass ladies general we asked dr rhodo once a week to give us the player who's going to be dynamic amazing the 100% must play we present to you dr rhodos lock of the week MT, there are guys who are chasing records.

And you know who's chasing a record? Jackson Smith, the Jackpot. JSN is chasing a record. I think he's got a great chance. He was a disaster last week. I think he comes back this week. Sam Donald to JSN, I really love it. I think he goes 8 for 150 in a touchdown.

Eight for 150. JSN is Dr. Roto's. Lock of the week. Roto, where do we find you between now and Sunday? You find me at Dr. Roto.com. You find me on Twitter, DRROTO, and you find me on Sirius XM Fantasy Sports Radio from 6 to 9 a.m. Central Time. Roto, great hearing your voice, as always. We'll talk volleyball and fantasy football next week on the radio show.

Thanks for the time as always. Can't wait, guys. Take care. All right, Dr. Roto with us here on Sports Talk 790. We have the full United States men's national team group stage schedule. I'll write this down, Rossi? No, I'm good. June 12th, USA versus Paraguay. That'll be at SoFi.

Wow. Okay. Friday, June 19th, they'll take on Australia in Seattle. Hmm. June 25th, they will take on the UEFA PATH Sea winner. Okay. The bracket's not even finished yet. Back in Englewood.

Okay. So two games at Sofi in Los Angeles. One in Seattle. One in Seattle. Funny. Houston's not getting one. It's crazy. Go ahead.

Did you expect them to or no? No. I mean, it doesn't really matter what we get here. I mean, we're going to have a full stadium, correct? That'd be nice to have one in Houston. What do you mean? Yeah.

Go ahead. I got nothing. I mean, I'm nothing to say. I thought there was in there three matchups in the group. I'm just looking what sports. Oh, no. I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm dumb.

You said LACL's L. Yeah. What does the Uifa PASC winner mean? It'd be a European club They're having playoffs basically One last thing I gotta give a shout out It'd be like so whoever wins the play-in game kind of

It's like a European play-in type of thing And we need to get on our sales force Because we want to have some sports RV World Cup updates I can't wait We have some play by play of already a match underway There's not a match underway No there's not

We got a live feed of it right now Here it is Oh well I don't have hold on All right, let me remind folks. Shout out my friend Chris listens to the show. Chris has his high school, Randall High School, playing in the regional championships tonight at Legacy Stadium. They're trying to go to be back-to-back state champions.

Good luck to Randall High School in the regional championship at Legacy Stadium. And now, live coverage of a World Cup match going on as we speak. Halfback passes to the center. Back to the wing. Back to the center. Center holds it. Holds it Holds it

That'll never get tiresome Yeah it's a 30 plus year old bit And it's still as good as it was the first one we ever played it Non-Florida stories And Mark says he wants to talk about Ross About the Longhorn win Woo! I was there, let's go So all you can talk longhorn football

And non-Florida stories next at 131 on Sports Talks 790. We don't run on algorithms. We run on Altovae, Durant, and Stroud. Sports Talk 790, guaranteed human. We find interesting stories that occur outside the state of Florida and share them with the people of Houston. It's time for non-flora.

Oh, it's time for non-Florida Still from 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 far and wide. In this crazy world, there's nowhere to hide. November 24th, Colbertles, 33 years of old, was in a convenience store in the front of it. In St. Charles, Missouri, and he kicked the front glass door of the convenience store down. he climbed into the locked business guys

and he proceeded to eat a bag of beef jerky and drink a sweet tea that he did not pay for well quoted by burtles to local police in St. Charles Missouri I know you're going to think I'm crazy but there's an AI intelligence speaker

in my neck what? When cops arrived at the Rookle Ray store. Burdels was detained and asked about the... Ricle Ray? Yeah, they don't spend money. Burdels was... Conneeded store. Good money.

He was detained and asked about the break-in. Burtles repeatedly confessed. The voices in my head told me to kick it open since it was locked and that he, quote, just wanted to use the bathroom. Good God. He is unclear what role the perpetrated

implant played in the alleged burglary. Burdels lives about 40 minutes away from the 40 miles away from the Missouri store. He added that he walked to the Circle K from Illinois. You ever walked 40 miles to go to a convenience store? I don't know. The longest I've ever walked is probably like 10 to 12 miles on a hike. But that was over several hours and you meant to do it. Yes. Burdels was arrested for burglary, a felony, a property damage, a second degree misdemeanor. He was also charged with stealing property value at less than $150. Locked up in lieu of $2,500 in cash.

Burdels has been ordered to have no contact with Roco Ray and submit to a little. a mental health examination if he bonds out of custody. Until his parole earlier this year, Burdels was locked up in the Illinois State Prison for aggravated robbery in which he was sentenced to nine years. His rap sheet also includes multiple felony burglary convictions. Do you have an

AI device stuck in your neck sports RV? Not that I know of? Sounds like that person needs a lot of help. And that is my non-for-istorian. But AI, having something in your neck that make you want to go to a convenience store 40 minutes away, 40 miles away and steal beef jerky. If you're a stolen

beef jerky before. No. I did steal things from convenience stores when I was a teenager. Well, I stole quarters from my mom, so it's fine. I'm not proud of it. I know, but at least you fessed up, and for that we appreciate you. I'm sad. Jonathan, what is your non-floor story this week?

All right, so this one was given to me about a fellow caller this morning at 10 o'clock. You're just getting help now, too? I'm getting help. Wow, that's good. Get on it. So mine's from New Zealand. Police in New Zealand have charged the man with theft after he allegedly stole a jewel-encrusted gold fabricag egg locket from a jewelers by picking it up and swallowing it. The unusual incident occurred on a Friday afternoon at a store in central Auckland, according to a statement from Inspector Gray Anderson, Auckland Central Area Commander.

Store staff contacts police around 3.30 p.m. local time. And officers responded minutes later arresting a man inside the store. The 32-year-old man has been charged with death and reprimanded in custody prior to a safe. scheduled court appearance on December 8th. Given this man's man is in police custody, we have a duty of care to continue monitoring him and given the circumstances of what

has occurred. The stolen item is a fiberjig James Bond Octo Anyway. I think I know the back half of that word. It's a movie title, correct? Yes. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I didn't. Don't say it.

Okay. Yeah, okay. Man, it's a movie title. I mean, go and say it. Octopussy egg Octopussy There you go Faberger eggs are very expensive By the way Are they not?

Yes The Locket was worth $33,000 New Zealand dollars So 19,000 USD According to court documents Listen to CNN

There's one way To get it out Correct Yes That's what I'm keeping it Yeah Yeah It was 18

Kari yellow gold And green I'm not gonna read this But yeah 15 blue sapphires In there 60 white diamonds If he pulled this off

he would have been rich. So if you steal it, I wouldn't think consuming it would be the best plan of action unless you were going to go home and... Well, it's saying one of them sold on Tuesday for 22.9 million pounds because it was an original Russian to Sierra, Alexander III, and Nicholas II.

But if it goes to your digestive system, doesn't lose value? I mean, unless you polish it up when it comes in the back end. I mean... Oh, my God. People do that all the time With like stealing jewelry And stuff I guess

So you mean So you steal jewels You swallow them And then you Get them out Okay If that's how you do it I would put it into a jacket

I would try to maybe put it In a pants pocket I don't think I would want to Have to ingest it In order to get away with it This is crazy And it's kind of big too Huh

So you're saying the guy Ingested a big thing and that is Jonathan's not in Florida story yes it is wow did you ever see the movie octopussy I don't think I did I missed I didn't see a lot of the 70s 80s

James Bonds I saw quite a few of them Maude Adams was the woman in that Maude Maud Adams Maud Maud Okay thank you Matt She's okay sure why not Generally Bond girls is very hot Generally speaking they are

Okay Was Mr. Tomey ever a bond girl Marissa to tell me, I don't think so. Could be a believer in it. Or was she? You'll never know. Yeah, well, I guess you could very easily Google it. All right, I guess it's my turn.

Let me take you to Ashland, Virginia, where there was a burglar breaking into a Virginia liquor store early on a Saturday last week. Scotch and whiskey were drinking by this burglar. bottles were smashed, the ceiling was destroyed as well, alcohol was pulled over the floor, and the burglar was found, passed out, drunk in the liquor store bathroom. I know this is going to end. This burglar was a raccoon. Yeah, I knew it.

Was it in the Rocky Raccoon? It did not have a name. An employee at the Ashland Virginia liquor store found the trash panda, as they are called, of course, passed out on the bathroom floor at the end of his drunken escapade. Samantha Martin works at the local animal control in Ashland Vineyard said, I personally like raccoons. He fell through one of the ceiling tiles and went on a full-blown rampage, drinking everything. The raccoon was taken back to an animal shelter, of course, as everyone had their laughs along the way.

After a few hours of sleep and zero signs of injury, the raccoon was safely released back into the wild. And sober. We think so. Thank you. But now he might have the itch. He's going to break back in.

Just wondering. Raccoon says, take the edge off. And that had a rough day. Was our non-floor stories for this week? Thank you. Well, quick, let's go to our friend Mark on line two wants to have a deep conversation with Longhorn Ross. Hello, Mark.

Mark? Mark? Mark? You know what? This is the anti-longhorn agenda. Oh, you know what? Is it on Line B? You guys are...

Oh, what are you doing over here, Matt? I didn't do anything. Is Mark on the B? There he is. Oh, look at you guys. They're trying to shut down the longhorns, Mark. Well, first of all, congrats on the greatest prediction you've ever made. Thank you. the Longhorns were going to win. They did. You said they were going to cause a lot of pain.

They did. Yes. I've got Aggie friends that I guess have been muted or blocked on Facebook now. That's great. Oh, my God. The amount of pain that the Longhorns cost, who cares about the college football playoffs? I mean, if we sneak in, we sneak in. They lost the Florida.

Everybody gets that. That's a longhorn pain. but to beat them and ruin that perfect season, that was epic. That's the kind of pain that Longhorn fans want to see Aggies have. So it was one of the best sports moments of my life. I've seen Earl Campbell. I've seen Nolan Ryan. I've seen the Rockets win two championships.

Vince Young? Yeah, I've seen that too. I'm pretty old. Yeah, you sound like it. Anyway, I'm just kidding, Mark. Aggy Matt's upset. Sorry, Mark. I'm just kidding, Mark. I'm just teasing. Hey, thank you for the phone call. Well, Matt, I will tell you this. Yes. You're not up there with the best of the Rockets announcers, but I do enjoy listening to you on the radio. Wait, man, I'm not among the best. He said now. He said now. Now, okay. You're among the best. Oh, among. Okay, I got you. I got you in my top five, Matt. I'll take that. Thank you very much. I got Adam, Adam Planton one, Adam Wexter, two, Gene Peterson, three. Greg Ackerman 4, and you're 5. I hope Carson Clanton gets some nice things in life because dad buys everything for himself.

It's just atrocious. What do you mean? He's got a Houston rocket jacket on that. Why can't he have a rocket jacket? That's a nice one. He's got like 10 of them. That reminds me, I think Hakeem Olaugent, when I see that bad boy. All right, there you go.

Let's play Believe it or not next. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. And hell yeah, or not. And hell yeah, a Marissa-Tomei, happy birthday, girl. 145 on Sports Talk 790. All right, prediction time. You ready?

Here we go. Texans 20, Chief 16. You guilted me into saying the predictions. So there you got. Let's go. Texans Matt, Liberty White, Matt. Let's go. Liberty White.

23 to 18, Texans. Will Dylan Brooks get booed tonight at any point during the game? Yes. At some point, yes. Not in the intros, I don't think. But at some point, yeah, he's going to, there was going to be a little moment between him and a man or Jabari or somebody.

Okay, so let's put the favorites on the board really quick. Who does he skirmish with? Here are the candidates. No Kevin Durant. That ain't happening. He has respect for him. And he could still get into it on the court. Respect for LeBron. He's not going to respect KV. Okay, so then set the lines

then. Who we got on our favorite? The favorite is a man. Okay. Second favorite I'm tossing in Jabari. Third favorite I'll put in KD. Den Alpi? Alpi's a long shot, I think. Stephen Adams, off the board. No, he's not throwing hands with Stephen Adams. No chance. You could crush like a great.

Our audience disagrees. We have an audience? No, I'm talking about Adam Clinton. Oh, that's on an audience. He's wearing a nice retro. What does look like the pregame 95, pregame jacket. And he's got a rocket shirt on, man. You are Team Rocket. Good for

you. You're wearing, aren't you wearing Rockets gear? I wear it every time. What are you talking about? I said, I said, look at you. I was impressed. I was applauding him. It sounded kind of sarcastic.

No, it didn't. Oh, get him, Jonathan. Now he wears that boorish Texans gear. It makes me vomit, but that's a different issue for a different time. Going to the playoffs, baby. Big win in Kansas City this weekend. You heard it here first. 20 to 16 Texans win.

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Hell yeah. No, Ross made it up too. Ross, you got three hell knots in a row. What are you doing to these people? I got Adam Klan three times in a row. Jeff on 790, ready to play hell yeah or not? Marissa Tomey is Zoe Kravitz's godmother. She is close friends with Lisa Bonnet.

Hell yeah or not. That's a hell yeah. They were together on a different world, correct? Statement number two for the win. One of Marissa Tomey's first major acting gigs was appearing in 18 episodes of the soap opera as the world turns. Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah.

Hell yeah, is right. Congratulations, you win. Daniel on 790, your favorite part of today's 10 and 2 radio show, Daniel. Not Florida story. One of Marissa Tomei turned down the role of Mia Wallace in the 1994 film Pulp Fiction, which she states was her biggest

career regret. Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. No, Ross made the that up. These are really good this week. I gave you this extra time during Roto and you come up with some gems. Garrett on 790, ready to play Hell yeah or not.

I'm ready. Marissa Tomey made her directorial debut with the 2007 independent film Grace is gone, which is just 27% fresh according to Rotten Tomatoes. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. No, people loved it. Sorry. Out. The film doesn't exist.

Oh, does it? Carry on 790. Ready to play. Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah Marissa Tomey's brother Adam is also an actor He's been in several films Including Independence Day And the Truman Show

Hell yeah or not Hell yeah Hell yeah is right Congratulations Finally a couple winners All right We're going to eat some hot pot Or drink some hot pot

Maybe smoke some No we can't smoke pot before the game I got a Rockets game Up next it's Wexler It's Clinton It's the A team Talk to you at 7 o'clock For Rockets against the Suns

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