The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Cleveland Walks-Off Yankees, NIL Causes Coach To Retire, Texans Underdogs At Lambeau

Episode Date: October 18, 2024

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" preview the Houston Texans traveling to Lambeau Field to take on the Green Bay Packers. Doug Russell, sports director at 97.3 The Game in Milwaukee, joins to provide some insight into the Packers, who are coming off a 34-14 win over the Arizona Cardinals. Matt and Ross also:React to the Cleveland Guardians hitting a walk-off homer to take Game 3 of the ALCSRecap the Rockets defeating their Spurs in their final preseason matchupDiscuss Virginia men's basketball coach Tony Bennett announcing his retirement due to the "current environment" in college athleticsTell their "Non-Florida Stories" and more on this "Anything Goes Friday"

Launch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 12-01 in H-town. Come to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Which is, first of all, way too long, but you know what? I'd be too long and too short. You poor baby.

That feels like a clip. And you love dudes on dudes. But there'll be 0% chance. I'm going to be Googling dudes on dudes. 0% chance. They say we suck, you suck. Let's suck. Let's go suck together.

Let's go have fun sucky. You know, let's enjoy it. And that's happening what we did. I think we did that as a team. You know what? I feel like a dirty whore. Yankees Dodgers in the World Series. Yeah, you are a dirty wharf.

Fox is like, I got zero problem with that. And then Kevin Harlan started to dropping booty on us, so I didn't know what the deal was. I don't follow any famous people on Instagram, Rossi. Hmm. Okay? Why are you on there all day? Connie, do you hear that?

You know what? That was rude. I'm just kidding. God, the shade that you throw at me. It looks at your face. Well, completely accurate. It is an ending goes Friday. Which means we're going to kiss and discuss a tick and sputball against Green Bay Packers.

We're going to break down second team D line versus first team O line. Let's go. We're going to break down cornerback. versus slot receivers. We cuss and we discuss on Sports Talk 790. I love it. It is.

And I mean this in all sincerity on anything goes Friday. Anything goes. And that includes discussing why the Packers are going to beat the Texans on Sunday. Or why the Texans will beat the Packers on Sunday. Because that is the essence of it. Anything goes Friday. It could go either way.

You know, typically you go both ways. No, I'm usually one way. No, I've heard of flip-flopper. No, you go both ways. You're the back and forth guy. Not at all. All right. Ross is a little under the weather. You look like absolute crap. Thank God we're not on Space City Network. Is that different from the rest of the week? Well, yeah, I need to get my, we're going to

get our makeup crew in here like they do for Adam and the other Adam. they do put a lot of makeup on. I mean, my gosh. I think we call one of them, Lippino and gloss. It's like your great grandma getting ready for a funeral in here. I know.

A lot of makeup. Yeah, a lot of work there on that show. So we're not on television yet. I don't know if we'll ever be on television. I don't think so. I think the people at Space City were like, you got to be on. They need the ratings hit between noon and three.

We're going to try to help the folks out eventually. What's on there now? I don't even know where the remote is. Oh, it's over here. I'm going to guess it is probably an infomercial. It's not the repeat of the Rockets' Austin Spurs game. Oh, I think the Rocket's repeat is probably the favorite, honestly. We have this channel on, we do have DirecTV.

Yeah, we do. It hasn't been scrubbed just yet. All right. What's it called? It's going to be a while. It's called Utah. Might be a fishing show. Let's see.

When we turned it on, it was us, that'd be hilarious. Somebody turned up by accidents. You guys want to get on that bad, huh? Okay, I see how you are. Space and. Network. We love those folks. Great people over there. Oh, just fantastic. But I mean, it would be in their best interest to put our show on there for sure. Craig Ackerman, huge fan. Oh, it is a replay of the Spurs Rockets yesterday. Oh, and the World Highlight League,

you could at least get us on the alternate where the World High Lie League is on. Oof. Yikes. So you're telling me, World High Lie is more popular than Space City? Yes. Than our show would be? Well, at least in Miami. I have been to highlight one time of my life, and I bet on it. You did? You went to a game? It's very confusing. I don't remember how to do it, but I remember it not taking a lot of work. It seems dangerous. Ironically enough, do you know who I went with?

John McLean. No. I've never done anything with John McClain except maybe be in the same room. We've never done anything socially ever together. Okay. But, I mean, you continue to push that narrative down, which is fine. I went with, I did an arena football game in West Palm Beach, Florida, back in the mid-90s. And Dan Patrick, our lieutenant governor, right now, he and I went to a highlight place. Okay.

So I know that Dan likes to gamble a little bit. I don't know if he's in for proposing it for the state of Texas. Now, was he the one that he was getting indicted or was that somebody else? I don't think Dan's ever been indicted on anything. Okay. At least I don't know. I'm known for my... Oh, is it Ken Paxton?

Yeah. What's that guy do? It doesn't matter. I don't think he does High Lie. Maybe he was betting on Highline, and that's how he got in the hot water. But now I'm watching, now I'm actually, you know what, I think Highlight might be better than the show today. I'm fascinated by this.

I don't know what they're doing, but it's a huge bet bit. I just don't know how to, I forgot how to do it. It just looks like racquetball, except instead of rackets, they got these big old giant highlight baskets. And you sit at what you do is you watch this game in a theory like a- I'm turning this off. You're getting distracted. Can you focus on the show?

I was going to cuss and discuss Highline. We're not cussing and discussing. High lie. Not in the first segment. I know it's in anything that goes Friday. Come on. Let's keep it focused here, folks. All right.

All right. Lambeau Field. Texans, Jordan Love. Is he good enough? Is he the best quarterback day face this year like Dimeco Ryan says? Have you ever dated a traveling Texan person? Hmm. How bizarre are those dudes and do that?

I don't know how to free income. They spend it all on trips to Green Bay. Well, they're not. They're not going. I mean, that may be a few. you, it had to be some. The group's not as big as it used to be. Well, the bottom line is they don't go

because they're rooting for the team. They're rooting because they want to get on camera. That's what they do. They dress up like every week is Halloween and they just want to get on camera. Well, Halloween is coming up. It is. That's every fan base has people that just want to get on camera. Matt. Why are you always, why are you hating? Why are you so bitter? I don't hate the Texas.

I do hate the traveling Texans. You know what? Only Love Can Conquer Hate. I love you, Matt Thomas. I hope you're having a great day. I'm going to I'm giving you a hug. I'm giving you a hug. No, you're not. If I weren't sick, I'd give you a hug right now. I want you nowhere near me. I'm a matter of fact of fact. I'm going to go home and do the show from the Kingwood Studios because I don't want to get sick. I got a lot of things. I got Rockets games next week.

I'm going to wipe this whole thing down for Adam Webster. I know. Oh, he's not going to be happy with you. I know. All right. Anything goes Friday. Here's how it works. You will call 713-212-5-790. You can talk about the Texans and Packers game. You can get into what you saw last night or heard between the Rockets and the Austin Spurs. That's like you've called because they were. was no assemblance of a real Spurs team except Harrison Barnes is out there. Did they cover the eight and a half?

Oh, I tuned out by the fourth quarter. Under six minute timeout they did. That's good. It was quick. We can get into Georgia v. Texas. Yes. We can get into everything that the SEC was going to give Texas in Oklahoma and then some. It's such a powerful conference.

Every weekend there is this super marquee game. And certainly no disfirm. respect to the ACC and no disrespect. A little disrespect to them. You always say with no and you end up doing it anyway. With no disrespect to the mighty Big 12. The SEC is, and I even think more so than the Big Ten, honestly. Mm-hmm.

It just, it, it, there's going to be at least one or two matchups per week that are going going to go down the wire that are going to be highly entertaining. I spent, we were in the New England states over the weekend, and I spent more time looking at Ole Miss LSU that I, whatever would have thought of. Don't have a dog on the fight. Great football game. SEC is king. And it ain't even close.

It'd be fun if the Texas Longhorns their first season in with all this talk about the prestige of the SEC would be able to win it in their first year. It would be nice. Hopefully it can happen. Well, I mean, they're got to be a favor to win the whole thing. I would imagine not only win the conference, but the whole thing. We've got a tough schedule coming up, starting with Georgia this weekend. Yeah. You can go, well, Oklahoma was supposed to be kind of tough, but they suck.

No, they were terrible. All right. So we got that to get to today. If you want to get in on the Rockets game from last night, if you want to get into what I thought was, and I didn't see it because obviously I was calling a Rockets game, but some high drama last night in Cleveland between the Guardians and the Yankees.

Yes. We're going to play the John Sterling home runs when the Yankees went back to back. And then John Sterling, I believe he's 81 or 82 years of age, was starting to rhyme and do a bunch of poems on home run calls. And then all of a sudden the guardians come back. with a dramatic home run to win that,

so we'll play some of that highlight for you. Thank goodness. Please, come on, Guardians. Let's go Mets. Geez. Meanwhile, the Mets are just basically non-competitive against the Dodgers. They can win three in a row.

All right, everyone, let's work on this together. What? It's easy. For me. Let's go Dodgers? Oh, no. Let's go Mets. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's easy. That's easy. Let's go Mets. Zero and a lot of them. They're not going to win three in a row, though. Let's go Mets. They're not winning three in a row. They haven't been competitive in days.

I know. They're just not good enough. What else we got going on, Rossi? We have, oh, we got Doug Russell from the Patriots Radio. Patriots, the Packers Radio Network's going to join us at 2 o'clock. Let's go. We'll have non-Floridt Astoria's today at 230. Okay.

And believe it or not, today, at 250. Okay. Category is? Lambo. Green Bay? Green Bay proper, not Milwaukee? I think we should do just the city of Green Bay and Lambo Field. How about questions about Greg Cook, Green Bay Packer Hall of Famer?

Questions about the things he slayed when he was in Green Bay? Yes. And also two days before our fantasy draft, he dropped out of the league. Believe it. You know, you tease me about what I think the average Green Bay Packer fan looks like. I don't tease you. You tease them. If there's anybody in the world that would know what it's like to be with a Green Bay Packer female fan, it would be him.

Yes, it would. And he'd probably verify what I was saying. A little bigger. Not much bigger, but just a little bit. Man, the Uncle Greg stories on air were great. The off-air stories. The off-air stories. Explancially better.

Are significantly better. Especially with the girls in the 80s hair, you know? Oh, my gosh. All right, 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. If you would like to join us here today on anything goes Friday. And when I mean anything, you want to talk about bowling, you want to get more into plasma confidence,

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More Matt Thomas. Now on Sports Talk 790. Anything Goes Friday continues at 1221. on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. Ross thoughts. Al-Ziz al-Shayr and Henry Toa-toa

are not practicing today in Texanville. That's going to be hurtful in the run game. I think they're very good, especially when you have the guys in the middle. How's the Folli Fottikasi doing? He's back out there, I believe. Mario Edwards is going. Yep, four gamer.

Let me ask you this about, I'm glad you brought this up. We're in 2024. Yes. We are in a mode where coaches, administrators, general managers, strength and conditioning, player personnel, they consistently, almost daily, tell these guys, listen, if you don't know what you're ingesting or don't know when it's in it you don't ingest unless you ask us

Mario Williams did not ever announce Mario Edwards or Mario Williams or Mario Edwards I don't it doesn't really matter who they are Mario Edwards did not say Hey I took a blip blub blub blub blub I thought it was for this for pain I thought it was for this I made a mistake I apologize

And I will serve my time And I will not let this happen again he went recreational. I mean, we can, we don't know. We don't know for, definitely, but I think a logically

thought of non-explanation followed by four-game suspension means he probably had a good time and decided he wanted to enjoy something to kind of make him feel better. Okay,

I don't know. Sure, why not? My point is, what are you doing, dumbasses? Seriously. I would say, NFL players are flawed human beings and everyone's a flawed human being to some extent and people think they can get away with stuff and maybe he's done

whatever he did and he got away with it five times and then he got caught this time. People drive home drunk and they don't get caught and then that one time they go and get a DUI. Also, isn't the testing isn't it random? All the things you're saying are right. So he was getting away with whatever he thought and he thought he was going to continue to get away with it and he slipped up. And perhaps your best example is people do drive over the legal limit.

May not be significantly over the legal limit, but it's going to be over the legal limit. I think anybody in our audience that has ever partaken in a couple of beverages in our life probably have been behind the wheel and shouldn't have been. I don't think anybody that I know of my entire life has ever said, oh, I've lived my entire life with never going, never getting in the car after having one too many. It means it means we got lucky that we didn't hurt anybody. or we got away with it, whatever the case would be. But when you're in a very public world, like an NFL, where you have 17 opportunities to do your job, this really hurts. Yeah.

Or, I mean, the other alternative is maybe he is on some sort of juice or steroids, and then he didn't follow the instructions properly on whatever cycling he was supposed to do. I don't know. I mean, we could just speculate and speculate. But that would be performance-enhancing drugs policy, right? And not the substance abuse policy? Correct. That's correct. So then, yeah, maybe he was just on...

I think cocaine's supposed to get out of your system very quickly. And maybe it didn't. Or I don't know if it was marijuana. But it's funny, we almost feel like it happens to every team every year. And generally speaking, we usually get the, I took this, this, and this, not knowing or was told by somebody that it was going to be okay. We've heard word zero from him.

So it's four games. Mary Edwards has never had this issue before. So hopefully this is a lesson learned. People are allowed to make mistakes and be forgiven for such mistakes as long as they don't repeat themselves. Oh, this says NFLPA.com says they do not test for THC. Okay. so that knocks off one potential thing it's four.

Point being is this. I'll be learned from it. But every year, Rossi, it feels like we've got somebody that's just doing this and saying, I didn't know, or what was I thinking, and we've heard zero about this situation. Hmm.

Now I'm confused. Don't worry about it. It's not that big of a deal. Why am I reading the NFLPA's policy? I don't know. I mean, because you're bored? This is your fault. Yeah, I am bored.

You're boring me. No. It says for the substance of abuse annual test, it will not test for THC, but I guess they can for whatever the PES test is. What does that mean? I don't know. You're going down a road I don't, I'm trying to detour from. I'm trying to figure out what he did. You brought it up.

I'm just saying whatever he did, he's guilty as charged, didn't say I'm going to file an appeal against this or I can't believe. I mean, everybody has been super tight-lipped about it. And frankly, he's needed right now, right? I mean, losing anybody's any sort of pass rusher on this Texas team, especially when you're going against a team like the Packers, you're going to put as much pressure on the quarterback as humanly possible. So now he is down for four weeks. Okay, PES and performance enhancing substances,

which does test for THC, but the substance of abuse test does not test for THC. So if he violated substance of abuse, he was not tested for THC. It was something else. Maybe he, you know what, maybe he pulled him for us Whitley and took some Adderall. We don't know. But if he took Adderall, would you want to announce that? Would you hide Adderall use?

Would you make an announcement? I don't know what the policy is. I don't think Adderall, so I don't know. You tell me, I don't think Adderall is considered a taboo medication. I think if it's misused, clearly it is. But do you have to make a statement if they didn't say what the substance was? Or are you allowed to make a statement? I don't know what this is.

This seems like stuff with the PA and the... But I mean, we've heard nothing. Usually we hear about something every single time this happens. I don't know. Like, I'm sorry. I'll do better. Catch you in a month. Peace out.

Deuses. Nothing. Not that I think the average Texan fans, I'm not bum around going, what happened tomorrow? The point is he's gone for four weeks. Yeah, you'll be back in four. And I think it's Josh Jacobs season this weekend.

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Just saying Texans run defense has been one of the best in the business But those are three key pieces missing from their run defense Yeah Again, I have 30 to 20 Packers on Sunday

Okay And you have it as I don't remember what I said 33 to 31 Texans So the reason why you're taking the Texans In all seriousness is because you think that this team has just got the moxie to win games

are not supposed to win. And I could go with that. It's a three-point game. It's not like they're supposed to get thrashed in this one. Yeah, but I think anybody that looked at the schedule going in, knowing that what the Packers were going to do, that they probably thought this was one of the... I mean, you can't win everyone.

I guess you theory can. Going in, I thought they'd lose the Buffalo Bills, and they beat them, and they made Josh Allen look like a chump. So I'm feeling now the defense, like I said, it's going to have some issues. Camarie Lasseter remains out. I mean, we're talking about four of your regular starters out right there. So, yeah.

So I feel confident 30 to 20. I think it's going to be a high scoring game. What I don't, here's what I don't want. I don't, for the Texans fans that listen to us, I don't want it to be like a Minnesota repeat because then people are going to be like, oh, this was just a fraud, fraudulent team. Because they do have quality wins. Buffalo winning the game is a quality win.

Indianapolis is frankly better than maybe we thought they were after week one. You beat up on the Patriot shirt like you were supposed. to. Jair Alexander was limited in practice yesterday, so that should help if he continues to be out. And I think, to me, with Joe Mix, I'm not scared of, now the Vikings defense was quite scary.

If you believe the Texans are going to. They're a complete deal. They're not unstoppable, but to me, they're a top five offense in football with Joe Mixon. So that basically means if you have the Texans, if you think they're going to win this game, that means you think that that team's going, I'm not saying you,

I'm not saying anybody, it's going to think that when it comes, down to it, our offense is more high octane than what Green Bacon throwing you. And I think Jordan Love is more prone to making mistakes and turnovers than C.J. Stroud is. All right. 713-212-5790. 7-1-2-2-790. Look at those lines

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The Matt Tomba Show with Ross. It's 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Coming up in about 15 minutes, we're going to play some highlights of the American League Championship game yesterday. Sorry. Poor Rossi. It's blowing out your...

Is there a funny line? Was that audible to the audience? It threw me off, honestly. It did. I should be a better professional than that, but you blowing your nose and blowing out, God knows what's out of that nose is... Yeah.

A hazard area in here. Sorry. All right. 713, 212, 5, 7. Let me tell you, I get sick, too. I'm just lucky that my wife's been sick, you're sick, which means next week I'm not going to feel great, which is great because I got four rocket schemes next week.

The regular season starts on Wednesday against the hated Charlotte Hornets. Are they hated? I mean, I think any opponent's a hated one. Who's the greatest Charlotte Hornet of all time? Alonzo Morning. Larry Johnson? Yeah, I mean, there's your list.

Spudwet? No, he was a hawk. You're thinking of Mugsy Bokes? I don't know. Yeah, Mugsy. I was thinking of another short player, whatever it was. There you go. That'll conclude today's edition of Charlotte Hornet Talk here on the Matt Thomas. Gerald Wallace?

Greatest Bobcat of all time? Jason Capono? I don't feel well now. Let's talk to... You're going to say something? No, go ahead. Randall and Sugar Land on Sports Talk 790 at 1236. Randall, good afternoon to you.

Hey, good afternoon, guys. I've heard the first show, the second show, and your show give your predictions for the Houston, Texas, Green Bay game. Yes. My prediction, overtime, Caini Farabaron, with a field goal. I like that. You know, Randall, that's not crazy. if there's anybody that, I mean, they have a significant kicking battle.

They're going to go with Brandon McManus of the Packers this week. Brendan McManus. Right, everybody's overlooking that. No, I don't think anybody's overlooking that. I think everyone's going, Kimey Fairbairns, one of the, Kami Fairbairns would be an all-pro kicker right now. No one's overlooking him. Okay.

Yeah, and Pete Rose to the Hall of Fame. That's all I have. Hmm. Hmm. You know, we really never did much of a deep dive into that. that. I'm going to have, I don't know if it's an unpopular opinion. He was betting 10 Gs a game. Get him out. I'm sorry. You can't be in the Hall of Fame. You broke rule number one. Sorry. You knew what the rules were. You broke them. Get out of here. Here's my stance.

I 100% agree with you on that. But my caveat is, if he would have fessed up and spent the latter years of his life, apologizing, doing something of maybe 1% remorse, then I probably would have said, okay, enough of a penalty, let's go. There are people in the Hall of Fame that have done much worse things than bet. Although betting is about the number one cardinal sin. It's compromising the integrity of the game. Is surely Joe Jackson's not in the Hall of Fame, right? No, he's not.

Or any of the black socks. But the argument you could have is, I'm not trying to play devil's advocate, the argument is that he never bet on sports as an active player. And when you go in the Hall of Fame is he wasn't going in as a contributor, he wasn't going in as a manager, he was going in as a baseball player, the all-time hit king. I guess I can get that argument. But I'm...

Betting on as a manager is worse, to me. That is worse. It's not great. You're setting your lineup, you're picking your relievers, you're saving... Maybe if you didn't bet on him, you don't go with your best leverage guys. You did bet on them. You try to win a little bit more. That is absolutely compromising the integrity.

of the game. Yeah. But the argument then would be, does the punishment fit the crime? And my argument was, you could have, if he would have spent 10, 15 years

saying, I goofed, I'm sorry, and apologize to anybody on God's green earth to say how sorry he was. But the only time he ever, ever fessed up, Ross, when he was trying to sell a book. He was trying to make money on top of making money.

Exactly. And so you never got the public sentiment. Those that said no chance, no way, no how. They never thought about flipping an opinion on it because of the fact he just never could say, yeah, I did it. At the end of the day, Hall of Fame is reserved for the best of the best of all time. And Pete Rose is one of the best of the best of all time. He just doesn't have a plaque. And he didn't get an induction ceremony. Other than that, he's a Hall of Fame. But I don't. But I don't. I don't. caliber guy. I don't think the baseball Hall of Fame is going to say now that he's dead we'll put him in. So he's never going to get in. That'd be kind of funny though. We wish he was here now to celebrate this. Isn't that a little bit of the spit on the grave?

We waited until he died. We waited until his body was cold. Yeah. And then we're welcoming in with open arms. All time leading Hornet score, by the way, Matt. Campbell Walker. What a sad franchise. Del Curry number two. Gerald Wallace number three. Terry Rozier is fifth on the all-time Hornet scoring list.

What a sucky franchise. Glen Rice 6, Mugsy Bogue 7. I'm going to have you have, believe it or not, all things Charlotte Hornets are ready for Wednesday. Wednesday. Or Wednesday, yeah, I'm sorry. I don't know why. I said Tuesday last night, too, and I know it's Wednesday. Oh, how was the half-hour edition of the nightcap?

It was great. Talked to Little Texan, played some Bobby Sloick audio, and then it was kind of a mini launch pad in the second segment going into Rockets coverage. Do you listen to my calls? And I'm, what? Did you listen to my calls? Yeah, you know what? I sat around, I got a campfire going, and then we just, we all sat around with making

s'm making s'mores and listening to your calls. And I recorded it for the segment. God bless you. 713-212-5-790. Let's talk to Jimmy in the Woodlands at 1241. Hi, Jimmy. Hey, Matt, what's up, buddy? How you doing, man?

You tell me, how's your weekend going to start B-this? You're going to Green Bay, huh? Yeah, I got a surprise. My son's taking up to Green Bay We can see the Texans play. Where's like some cool spots to go hang out and watch Texas Georgia before we watch the Texans beat up

on that Green Bay butt? Are you staying in Green Bay? Are you staying in Milwaukee? We're staying in Green Bay. We're right in Chicago and then drive in the Green Bay and staying in Green Bay. Wow, you must have a rich son because the Green Bay hotels are not

cheap them at before a game. No, they're not. That's why we're flying in Chicago, yeah. Yeah. Honestly, Green Bay has nothing. I've not been enough to tell you where to eat and drink. I can just tell you it's not what you would think. It's by far the least cosmopolitan city and professional sports,

meaning that it's got the charm of basically Lufkin. Yeah. Now, are there good bars and restaurants there? Absolutely. That would take you a quick yelp check on that. But I've been to Green Bay twice, but I literally drove in, got to Lambeau Field, watched the games, and then drove back to Minneapolis.

So I can't tell you where the places were to hang out. But I'm sure you will be able to find some sort of... There's a Packers Hall of Fame, which is kind of cool if you have time to go see that. You can go see our buddy Greg Cook. He's enshrined in that. We're going to 100% see that. And tell you what, the world needs more Charlotte Hornets basketball calls.

Oh, no question. Jimmy, there is not another radio... Thank you, friend. There's not another radio show in the marketplace is going to give you more Charlotte Hornets' talk. than this one. And maybe they know what they're doing better than this show. No wonder our show sucks. You know what

more Gerald Wallace talk? Oh, by the way, Nick sends me an email. Glenn Rice, duh. Is Glenn Rice the greatest hornet of all time? I still say along the morning. Am I in the minority on this? Or is he more known for the Miami Heat? Was he long there long enough?

I don't know. What a tough. That's tough for that franchise. It's been around that long. Glenn Rice's greatest conquest, Ross. I know this because you've talked about it before, but mourning was a hornet only from 92 to 95. Okay, so I will take him off the list. Does anybody know Glenn Rice's greatest conquest?

You're speaking sexual. Of course. Oh, I thought it was like being one of the all-time great three-point shooters. Well, he was a shooter all right. You really don't know. Are you just forgetting? I'm forgetting. You've told me before.

You've specifically brought it up to my attention before. I'll let people think about it and see how they answer. What's the Pippin? No, but you're getting warmer. He might have been there. Seven might have been down that road. 1244 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790.

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Houston's home of Longhorn Football. The Matt Thomas show continues now. Rossi of the year is 1987. The Michigan Wolverines basketball team played in a great Alaska shootout. Remember when those college basketball tournaments used to mean something that was really, you know, like Maui invitational and there would be,

There's a couple of Las Vegas Theos. Great Alaska, which I've called two Great Alaska Shootouts before. You did? Yeah.

Okay. I've been to Anchorage twice. You have? Yes. Basically it's Salt Lake City but just it gets darker

a lot sooner. Was it all dark or all light? No, it was when you were going there? It was like a mushroom cloud was over the city so it was light from about

9 in the morning until about 3 in the afternoon. Okay. That sounds depressing. So it was during Thanksgiving week. So in 1987 there was this great player from Michigan named Glenn Rice

And yes Oh this is this is coming back You've told this story before And he happened to introduce himself And this woman introduced himself to her She was a sportscaster in Anchorage Okay Ah

And they hooked up Her name was Sarah Palin So he was Nailin Palin He got his great Alaskan Out there too as well Oh That feels graphic You said nail and painly, what's the difference?

What you said is worse than what I said. Are you new here? It's every time. No matter if it's true or not. Correct. That's fine. So you're telling me that female sports reporters hook up with male athletes? I've never in my life ever heard that.

Never behind the scenes heard of that. Not once. There is one that's really creepy. I can say it publicly now. Okay. Because there have been photos of them together. Okay. Arthur Blank is the owner of the Atlanta Falcons.

That's right. I got to check how old he is, real quick. Arthur Blank age. He's got to be in his 80s. Or close. Arthur Blank age. 82. 82.

He has been seen arm in arm with a woman named Jen Hale, who used to work the Pelican C. sideline reporting for the Pelicans TV network. Okay. She doesn't do it. She works on Fox now. She does some Fox NFL Sunday. She used to be like the what would you call

what... Studio host? Studio host when Skip Bayliss was doing the TV show. Okay. Cold pizza or when... No, no, this was first take. Not first take. This is unscripted or whatever when it was with him and Shannon Sharp. Oh, undisputed? Undisputed. And the two of them would

fight and he'd have this woman on there that would like throwing the topics. Kind of like what our girl does on ESPN now. Molly Karam. Oh, she's fantastic, by the way. That's a different issue. Jen Hale has been dating or has been with or has had some sort of relationship with Arthur Blank. Hmm.

Jen Hales. She seems nice. Jen Hale's age? Looking at, she was born in 1946. So he's 82. She's 46. Yeah. She's smart.

He's a winner. Good for Arthur Blank. He may have lost that Super Bowl, but he's a winner in my eyes. He tries to win with the Falcons. He spends a lot of money. He makes a concessions cheap over there. Yeah, he does. Awesome.

Yeah. But he put a chick-fil-A inside the stadium, and they're not open on Sunday. That's okay. What's the point of giving a chick-fil-A and you can't go to a Falcons game and enjoy it? When you go for the SEC championship every year. That's true. That's true. So, unfortunately, most of the game.

the stories you hear about women hooking up with athletes that are reporters I would say probably seven times out of ten they're true. Not every time but seven out of ten. I'm staying away from that. You're going to disagree with me though?

I didn't disagree. Did you hear me disagree? No, I didn't say more about it. Not a word. And there's so many more stories I can tell but I can't verify them so I just can't say anymore. Hello Joe on the Matt Tomo Michelle with Ross at 1253.

Joe, what's going on? Hey, hello. I just want to make a couple of comments. First comment is, I think Texas can still win without Nico, but they get to cut back on their penalties, especially on third downs, whether your defense or

offense, you cut back on those penalties on third downs, and we can still win this game. When Pete Rose, it's too bad. He didn't have somebody to blame like the time he did. That's all I have. Oh, so there are some Otani gambling truth

are still out there. Oh, let's go. Doesn't it make you sick that how good he is as a Dodger? It does make me sad. He was charming when he was an angel, and he would do all those things and then lose. He would have three bombs,

and he would go out and throw sick shut out and they'd still lose. Yeah, they're down seven to five of the eighth to the Royals. It was fun. It was harmless. It was great because then he would come to here. He would come to Houston multiple times.

You'd get to see the greatest show on Earth and the Astero would win. It was perfect. Now he's what the, Dodgers is going to get a ring and they're deferring 99% of his contract. So it goes back to a basic question. And we mentioned us the day he signed the contract. If he's deferring $68 out of $70 million every year, why isn't every team deferring it?

You need to get to somebody to agree to that, to show Iotani agreed to it. But if you know that money's coming your way, that's stupid. You don't think the Brewers are going to go out of business. Financially, it's the Dodgers, yeah. Or any team for that matter. financially it's stupid because in theory $68 million this year is going to be worth much more what it is in 15 years and you can grow that money invest it and when you add in interest as well you add in inflation and interest I mean I don't know what the exact mathematics are I'm not an economist but that's that's 68 million that he's giving away is costing him millions on the back end

so it's not necessarily the teams are willing to do it's more like the player what are you thinking right that makes sense a lot of people want their money up front absolutely Like, you ever notice when a coach gets fired in college football and pro, they usually say, pay me bitch right now. Don't defer any of this. Yeah. Unless there are sometimes it's contract language that it'll be paid over a certain amount. I think Jimbo's getting paid for. But I can tell you a former coach at the University of Houston.

I was like, give me a check, tellman. Give me the money right now. Go coogs. And you can suck it. Give it that vodka red ball. And I gave up on recruiting. And I made up a bunch of excuses over the years. Cut the check, Tillman.

See you at the bar. Why is Jim Adler cutting checks for Tillman from Tillman? I didn't do this one. That's true. Let's go to Mike in San Antonio on 790 at 1256. Mike, good afternoon. Good afternoon. Anything goes.

Anything goes. Hey, since you mentioned Otani, is any of his contract money guaranteed? I mean, I know he's getting a, got a bunch of money, and I know they're deferring on the back end for salary, But do you know? I'm just curious. Oh, I'm sure he's getting something. I mean, they can't be paying him zero.

But it's, I think, if Ross is accurate. Well, I know the salary is small. Forget it's like a million or two million. But I just think he's deferring 68 out of 70, I think. Man, okay. And man, that LCS was, of course, I don't want the NBA or the Dodgers to win. I caught the end of it. It's just fantastic scene in the playoffs.

I get Pete Rose. I have a few topics, and I'll make them quick as I can. Pete Rose, I had the idea that he should go win, but you guys convince me, otherwise, listening to, I agree with you. I don't think he should be in the hall. Texans, I'm really concerned. I don't think they're going to win. I mean, we'll see how they do, but it's going to be tough for them.

And I actually do have a question, Matt, and Ross of the Rockets. So what have you seen from them? If you've seen anything now, I mean, it's preseason. I haven't watched them at all. they seem like they have the same team going in. Hopefully they're going to make it into the playoffs. Also, on the schedule, the first week of the season, they're playing the Spurs back to back.

I think they only play them four times, and why do they do that? I don't know if you know, this is early in the year, and it just kind of schedule follows. Oh, it's terrible. Thanks, Mike, for the phone call. They play them three times in the first 10 games of the year. They play a back-to-back in San Antonio,

which makes absolutely no sense. Yeah, they started the back-to-back thing with the COVID pandemic, right? Yes, which does make sense when you are traveling to far places. Like if you're playing in Portland twice, if you're playing in Sacramento twice, if you're playing in L.A. twice against the same team, it makes all the sense in the world. Why you would schedule a back-to-back with San Antonio, who is an easy place to play, especially in a back-to-back situation. Like, I think you should play back-to-backs against all your division opponents.

because you know in theory they're close to where you live. Yes. I think wasting back to back with an opponent that you're playing twice is just ineffective calendar management. And I know it's a tough job. Matter of fact, I don't think it's a tough job. I think it's an impossible job. The algorithms and trying to place everybody

has got to be very, very difficult. So somebody's going to have just kind of a weird, wonky schedule. Playing the Spurs three times in the first 10 games and they're not playing them again until early March, seems ridiculous. You play them four times. You play everybody in your own division four times. I don't know what they're doing.

Now, that's a busy week for me because Saturday, Friday they play Memphis. Okay. We fly to San Antonio and play the Spurs the next night. Then I'm driving back to Houston on Sunday to call A&M versus Houston Cougars basketball. You are? On ESPN Plus.

You are? Yeah. I'm so proud of you. That's awesome. That's a good game. And then fly. They're not playing the Stets and Hatter? I know.

It's stunning. Our Lady of the Lake? I know. Look at you, Maddie. I'm beaming with pride. That's awesome. It's a rarity. That is cool, dude.

And I'm driving back to San Antonio to do the Rockets game on Monday. So next week, it's a super busy week. Yeah, but worth it. Yeah, I ain't even am Houston. I'll do that one. Hell yeah. That's awesome, man.

Either two games, one's against Toledo and one's against Troy. That's cool. Well, not the other ones. I'm talking. And the checks are cashier. All right. We're going to play some highlights of the... We're breaking.

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This is the Matt Thomas show. One, two. Swung on and hit of the air to center field and deep. That ball is high. It is far. It is gone. Stanton and Judge have hit home runs. A back-to-back and a belly-to-belly.

And the Yankees take the lead. Giancarlo and non-se-poastopalo. He homers and he and Judge hit him back-to-back. Five to three Yankees, runner at second, two down, ninth inning, and the one-oh-pitch. Swigabend to three. The Drew Carey TV show when I hear this, I never watched one episode because I don't find him particularly funny. He's got my dream job. Yeah, I'm a hater.

At least I admit it. I used to like that show, but I also was a kid. I don't think it's, I haven't watched it recently. What was his occupation? He had a regular desk job, didn't he? I don't remember. The ugly woman was on the show with him. She had all the makeup on.

Mimi was her name of it. Yeah, Meenie. I don't remember what his job was, honestly. I guess I should remember. There's a memorable show then, basically. I see how you are. That's funny. I'll try to find it.

I don't think the Guardians win the series, but for one night to stop the New York hysteria, the Yankees are the greatest thing since the slice spread. It was kind of nice to see not only a full house. I think it's called R. guaranteed rate reeled. And to have that in the middle, and the cold night,

a bunch of home runs, dramatic, winning, makes you miss, poltsies and baseball, does it not? I don't want to talk about it. We miss it.

I mean, honestly, we as sports host missed it. No disrespect to the Texans and Green Bay game. Because that's really going to be a fun game to watch on Sunday. Jim dance,

my close personal friend, we'd call them play by play. But I'd rather be thinking about game six, America League Championship Series. I'm sorry, I'm busy. I'm locked in trying to find out what Drew Carey's job was. He just works in our office. That's all it says.

We'll figure it out. What now? Playoff baseball? Yeah, it sucks. And it's going to be the Dodgers and Yankees. And that sucks. Two of the highest payrolls in baseball. Evil empires. Well, you fill the Mets in there, too.

It's another halacious. Money talks. That's why if you are anti-big establishment, anti-just-spend-to-spend, You're rooting for the Guardians. Rangers spent half a billion dollars to get a ring last year, and well, it worked. Yeah. They spent a half billion dollars to get a ring, and they put together like $49 for a parade.

It was really odd. It was very bad. Worst parade I've ever seen. I mean, I've seen WMBA parades more organized than that bad boy. Well, I don't know about that. Stay with you. Who you got the finals, Matt? Who's playing the Liberty and the...

The Links? Links? Okay. I believe it's the Links. I'll take your word for it. If we were in Lake Charles, you'd be betting on it because you know you like to bet WMBA. Yeah, why not?

Because you don't know one player from either side? I lost the... Oh, yeah, I do. Sabrina Ionescu. It's on the Liberty. You think I'm going to check you on that? Brianna Stewart's on one of their teams. I think so.

All right. So, yeah, good luck, Guardians. But just continue to rehearse and say, Let's go. Let's go Mets. Let's go Guardians. They're not coming back. They're not.

We can hope not. Not only are they not winning these games, but they're getting beat up in their home field. I mean, have you seen that Dodgers lineup? God, it's terrible. I know. Show Otani is awesome. He makes the Dodgers easier to root for me.

Mookie Bets is finally hitting a little bit. Can we talk about that? Why isn't anybody screaming at Mookie Bets to be a cheater? About being a cheater? He was on the 17 Red Sox and the 18 Red Sox. That's two-time cheater. What's the deal? Why isn't anybody making Apple Watch jokes?

Phil Alex Bregman and Jose Al-Tube would be a lot of trash can jokes. Where are my Apple Watch jokes? Where are my references to him being a cheater? Two times. Part of it is? I think Mookie's a decent dude. Jose L-Tuve is the sweetest human being to ever walk the planet. I know.

But Mookie does, Jose doesn't do a lot of interviews. He's never really come to his own defense. Or Mookie would be like, you can shut your bum asses up. I don't know. I mean, I don't think it's fair either. I mean, trust me on this. It's ridiculous. All right.

When we return to this amazing radio program, we're not going to be gone very long. I have found someone who has some insight and analysis in the Texas Georgia game that you're going to have to listen to. Really? Yes. From you? Not from me. From somebody else. Okay.

I think this person would deem himself to be a Texas football expert. Hmm. Okay. We'll have that. plus a very recognizable college basketball coach suddenly retired yesterday. And you get one guess and one guess only why he retired. Couldn't hang.

So we'll have those two topics coming up for you in the next few minutes. Two o'clock, Doug Russell's going to join us from Packers Radio to give us a thought or two about the Green Bay Houston game on Sunday. 2.30, my non-floor story today is about an airline trip I feel like 60% of your stories are about airline trips I would say closer to 70 Ross what is today's edition of believe it or not

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120 on Sports Talk 790. All right. So we're trying to fix the audio up. The audio I sent Connor is not great. The person that sent this, put this on his ex-account, Ross, needs to stereo up a little bit, if you know what I'm saying? Okay. He's got incredible insights on his beloved Texas longhorns. Okay.

All right. So Tony Bennett, not the singer who passed within the last, what, year and a half, two years. And may he rest? A longtime successful coach at Virginia won a national championship at UVA. Uh-huh. Suddenly retired yesterday and then I guess had a little media get-together today to say, the reason why I'm getting out is because I just can't handle the nuances of the job. Hmm.

And the nuances are not two, three zones, calling a plan of the timeout. A one-three-one, boxing one. recruiting to get a 6-9 power forward who can put us back to the basket. The nuances, and I'm paraphrasing here, is the transfer portal and NIL is killing my love for the sport. And when he initially announces retirement, he's only 55 years of age. He signed an extension like 20 days ago. It was going to keep him to 2030. And people thought his age was 55 and that there was nothing.

that would be hopefully nothing medically that was going to preclude him from keeping the job. He just said, NIL's killing me. I'm sorry, he's signing his attention in June. 20 days is when the season starts. Yeah. Well, same difference. Yes. So you can only have two philosophies on this.

Philosophy one is either you're in with the boys and you get down and dirty with it and you go with it or you get out or option B or philosophy B would be we're driving some really good human beings that are good coaches that want to win, that want to play by the rules, that want to get into sport because they love to coach and teach young men or losing them to things that have nothing to do with things that are on a basketball court, i.e. practice, i.e. workouts, i.e. drawn-up game plans, that kind of thing. I have a conspiracy theory. Because I think, honestly, I don't know, not to interrupt you. I think we lost Nick Saban.

to NIL, which is weird because, well, he says no. I don't believe him. Okay, well, he said it was because the negative recruiting against him was always that he was going to retire. When was he going to retire? When was he going to retire? And he didn't want that question looming over the program. So that was one of the reasons that he retired. Also, he knew that the Texas Longhorns were coming to the SEC and he was scared. Whoa. I like, that seems a little fraud, but I I'm just kidding. So let me ask you this. I'm probably NIL and all that transfer portal stuff wrapped into it.

Can you say this? If you don't want to fight with the, and I'm not, this is a terrible cliche. If you don't want to fight with the sharks, get out of the water. I mean, I don't know. You can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen? Yeah. Could you just be that? Or do you think this is a sign that we're going to see other coaches?

Because I can't find anybody that you can't Google Tony Bennett as an a hole and find anybody with any stories about it. Yeah. He is a very widely. respected coach at a very good institution of higher academics and a team that won a national championship not too long ago. Yeah, Tony Bennett's comments, he says he does think it's right for student athletes to receive revenue. But he says it's got to be closer to a professional model. There's got to be collective bargaining.

There has to be restriction on the salary pool, transfer regulation restrictions. Some limits on agent involvement. I agree with all that. The problem is the NCAA can't do any of that because you go in front of the Supreme Court, and you say all that stuff. And you have, if you have salary pool, if you have agent restrictions, transfer regulations,

you are running a professional league. You are no longer a nonprofit. And the NCAA, not 30 days ago, Ross, said, we're not getting involved. They can't. They just frankly said, no, thanks.

Not going to do it. This is the unhappy medium that we had to come to. Because the system has needed blowing up for decades. Yeah. But it's with the extreme other direction. It has been a professional, oh, a semi-pro league, basically a minor league.

College basketball and college football have been a minor league to the NBA and NFL for decades. And especially on the side of college football. Yeah. You know, I try to give analogies, and this is just not my strong suit. They just generate all this revenue. How about this? How about taking a really?

effective chef. Okay. Of a restaurant. Hmm. And he creates these masterpieces. And he's working with the other younger chefs. Okay. And you're doing all these things. This is going to go, it's going from bad to worse. I'm loving this. I'm kicking

my feet up. You should. And the owner says, we love that you're the chef. But now we're going to have you, uh, hire the bartenders. We're going to make you order the food. We're going to make you a vacuum. He, I think the new amount of responsibilities for a head coach, in this college world that we're in football and basketball, I think is too much for a lot of people. I frankly worry about Willie Fritz.

And I'm being God's honest truth on this. I worry that Willie Fritz is like, I'm here to coach young men. I want to coach, I am 60-something years old. I came here to build a football program. I don't want to spend 20 hours of my week trying to find cash for these guys. Yeah, it's tough.

Because if you don't, if you don't bring up the cash in the conversation, these players are going to go bye-bye. Like my daughter has a friend who has been, who's going to be graduating from high school in a couple of years. And this guy is going to be probably, he's going to probably have 20 Division 1 offers to play football. And she said to me the other day,

she goes, where do you think he's going to go? I said, probably. Where the biggest NIL deal was going to come. And academics may matter. Facilities may matter. The honeys that will recruit him will make a difference. A little bit, a little bit. but it's going to come down to what can you offer me.

And I think there are going to be some coaches, whether it's Willie Fritz, whether it's, who else is, whether it's Davosweeney, whether it's anybody else is just going to say, you know, I love this. But if I wanted to get involved with money and everything, I didn't do college football. I can just go to the NFL and just coach and just be done with it. And I don't know if Tony Bennett's going to ever be an NBA head coach, but he doesn't want to do it at the cleach level. And I think it's bad for the, I think it's bad for the industry. But it's unnecessary evil. If you cannot play by the new rules, then find something else to do. And that's what Tony Bennett's going to try to do.

It's just, I kind of mind the D-bags leaving, but I think Tony Bennett's a good guy. I don't know, Tony Bennett. He could be a slime ball. Maybe they got a notice of allegations coming from the NCAA step down. Go Google Tony Bennett slime ball and see how long it takes you to find something. Well, I mean, then I'm going to find a bunch of stuff about the singer. From everything I read, he's a sweetheart. So basically you'll never be able to find anything bad about Tony Bennett, the singer,

or the coach about being a slime ball. Bennett, coach. So, Ross, you seem to have all the answers. No, I don't. I'm going to pretend you do for the sake of this next 30 seconds. Okay. If the NCAA is, you know, part of this, we're just going to let this thing run its course? What happens?

What happens if the NCAA says we, if the court's rule, you're not a nonprofit, you keep the same, you do regulate, how much money is lost by the NCAA in these schools if they say we are going to regulate because then everything becomes taxed and why can't they do that? What organization can do it to where they say we are going to regulate

as far as salaries and how much money teams can make and tie it into revenues and all that type of stuff. So why don't they just do this? Why don't we just create a corporation? Forget about being an NCAA. Forget about being an NCAA and just create that, hey, we have a minor league

of competitive athletes who are compensated that all by the way happen to go to the same school. And would you have to get in partnership with the leagues of the NBA, NFL, to a much lesser extent, major league baseball? But do we lose any of the charm of rooting for a team if it becomes full on pro? Yeah, a lot of the charm is going to be gone. A lot of the charm is gone for people now.

I still watch on Saturdays. We talk about Monday through Friday, we're talking about NIL, we're talking about it's not how it used to be. And Saturday at 630, I'm going to be watching Texas versus Georgia and I'm not going to be thinking for a second about NIL. I'm going to be watching the game. And that's the only

way that things will change if if ABC and ESPN don't send us press releases is saying ratings for SEC football up 24%. Yeah, and they're going to be they are. They're always up. And guess what also goes up? It goes these money deals and all the money being made.

The Peacock deal for the Big Ten network. NBC gaining huge numbers on Big Ten Saturday night. It's all working for them. It's a haves and a have-nought system as it is. But when's the last time I have not won a national championship? Like an outsider. But I don't even think it's for that. I think it's just, are we enjoying it?

I am. But if you were a fan of, say, Utep, you wouldn't have me enjoying it? Or would you? I don't know. How are the miners doing this year? Not good. Oh, they're not? I'm about to get a bit worse.

129 on Sports Talk 790 7197-1-2-5-7-9-7-1-3-2-2-7-9. More coming up in a moment and hopefully some sage words from a University of Texas fan about the big game against Georgia next. All right, here are some sage words, Ross, from a Texas football analyst you've never heard from before. October the 19, 2024. The other team called to Bulldogs. There are a game with us more than a stadium. That's a night game.

Who, face in the fact, everyone's been at times, copping and lubricated. Big Dennis, our season. Big Ted Edison. I mean, that's the team of the team. We're out there in hand, and continue to play against how nearly we can be. That's who I even need to play against. While playing them and giving them for respect,

there's no time for long, or there's no time for exhale. We obviously will be able to be hyped up. We will be way up. This game, just got to play at. It's Coach Sarkeesies. They play smart, intelligent, and then... Okay, first of all, Matthew, let's get a little clearer audio next time, bro.

It's on his phone, I guess. Yeah, with 12 people behind him. You're in a Grammy Award winning actor, right? Or is he nominated a winner? Yeah, I think he won for Dallas Buyers Club. Okay. Time to Kill was also a great movie, too. One of the all-time great...

That's my favorite Matthew McConaughey's movie. Really? Yeah. Okay. Interstellar was great. Ashley Jeb was in a movie too. Okay. All right.

Back at it. Yes, they deserve to die, and I hope they burn in hell. But, bra, I mean, you are the unofficial national celebrity of Texas football. Let's get a cleaner feet next time. Okay. And you as a Texas fan, yes. Every time we regret Matthew McCona, you feel bothered. by his...

It's a little too much. He's become like the mascot of the program. Anytime anything happens, it's let's immediately go to Matthew McConaughey. So here's the big question. Over under... Actually, it's not one. Who will get more looks this week?

Travis... Taylor Swift in San Francisco. Hmm. She'd be in there, confirmed? Well, I don't know. She's starting her last part of her American tour this week.

Okay. The Ares Tour, which she's getting a lot of my money, but it's another different issue for different time. It's been like a 10-year era. How long has that tour been going on? An era. Taylor Swift tour dates. Is she performing on this Sunday? So here's my question. Assuming that she's there, who gets more looks? Taylor Swift at the Chief Snyder's game or Matthew McConaughey on the field at Darryl K.R. She'll probably get like three, three and a half.

It's also dependent on how much Travis Kelchie catches the ball or if he gets a touchdown. They'll go to McConaughey. Oh, she can be there. She's in Miami tonight, tomorrow and Saturday. She's doing three straight shows in Miami? At Hard Rock Stadium. No, this says she's got a Sunday, Sunday 7 o'clock. That game's on Sunday at 3, right?

Oh, wait a minute. You know what? My days are wrong. Yeah, she won't be there. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Miami is a Hard Rock Stadium with the Dolphins play. So that's got to be, what, 65,000 seats pop? Mm-hmm. Then a few days off.

and then she'll be seeing my daughter on Sunday in New Orleans. She's not going to see your daughter. Yes, she is. Your daughter's going to see her. But there's a chance that can tell her may see her. Small chance. You got her floor seats? No.

Oh. God, these hotels. Oh, these prices. She's doing three in New Orleans? Three New Orleans. Three New Orleans. This woman is insane. Yeah.

So she will miss. She will not be at the Kansas City San Francisco game. Six shows in Toronto? at the Rogers Center? Man, she is banking. Lock that up, Travis. Lock that up. Lock that up. And then go on dudes on dudes on dudes podcast.

Yes, on the IHeart Radio network. And go on dudes on dudes and talk about how you're a billionaire. Wow. Okay, so let's go. Let's demo them it down then. Matthew McConaughey appearances on ABC this weekend. Over under, is it two and a half? What are you going to do? This has to, I'll go over.

This has to be the biggest money tour like in history, right? Correct. Has to be. This is insane. Good for her. Okay, so let's do this. You can maybe look this up. I'm going to try to give you a guesstimation of the biggest tours in U.S. concert history.

Adjusted for inflation? You sure, why not? Taylor is number one. Would the Jackson's tour of the early to mid-80s be in that group? I don't know. Maybe. because I remember when I was a kid, the Jackson's came to Houston even post when Michael was a star by himself

and then he can't, then he hooked when he was with his brothers for a while. I can give you, I brought, Wikipedia has the highest grossing tour. Of course, Taylor Swift's heirs tour is number one. I'll give you a billion guesses and you'll never guess number two. Grateful Dead. Cold play. Oh, what? They made a billion dollars.

Good for them. Elton John 3, that makes sense. Yeah, because his tours, but his last. last ever tour was like three years too. Ed Shearin for U2, Harry Styles. Ed Shearin again. People can't get enough of Ed Shearin? Guns and Roses makes sense. Beyonce, Rolling Stones, Rolling Stones.

Yeah, Coldplay. Hmm. Coldplay, any good? Metallica's up there? No. Coldplay sucks. Connor, do you kind of rock to Coldplay songs? You two's up there? No. All right. Hmm. The original, the Jackson's Victory Tour, is that you're talking about?

Yeah. 1984. Yeah. That was the original record set in gross. Because I knew how... Yeah. $7 million. Taylor Swift made $75 million.

She's making $2 billion. Who made $75 million? The Jackson's in 84. So adjusted for inflation, what's $75 million? It's still not going to be $2 billion. No, it's not. No, no, no. Wow.

I remember when I was a kid, it was a big deal. The Jackson's were going to play at the Astrodome. That was a huge, huge, super big deal. That's why these guys, that's why these performers won't give up these, These concert tours, even when they haven't had hits in 30. That's why Billy Joel still travels. Well, they have to, too. They're not making as much off record sales because it's a streaming era.

Yeah. So the way to really make some cash is to go out there and perform in concert. All right, so back to McConaughey. Yeah. If he is the most famous rep of the University of Texas, is Roger Clemens number two? Uh, I guess. Earl doesn't get down there much anymore. No, he doesn't.

I mean, Scotty Chef. is going to be the guest picker on game day. The actor Glenn Powell. Yeah, Glenn Powell. What is he known for? He was in Twisters. He's been in the new top gun. He's kind of one of the hot Hollywood actors right now. Okay.

For my school, the number one national cheerleader has got to be Jim Nance. I don't think Randy and Dennis Quater are out there going go coogs. Randy's off the deep end. Yeah, he's really lost his marbles. Dennis, he's out there campaigning. He did Reagan. For Donnie T.

Yeah. And he did a Reagan impression for my movie that bombed. Nancy, go ahead. You do great work. Can you do the rest of the segment in your Ronald Reagan voice? It was horrific, but so bad I'll still listen to it. Let's see. I just Googled famous UT alumni.

Farah Fawcett. No, she will not be in the game. Owen Wilson, well, tried to may he rest, but he's alive. But he wasn't, he doesn't run around. I'm talking about people that run around boasting about your school. No. It's got to be. Wait, is this true?

John Hamm went to UT? John Hamm went to Missouri. Oh, this is? Like, who is the biggest national Missouri honk for Missouri Athletics? I guess he went to both. He went to Texas and then went to Missouri, I guess. Is there some celebrity that likes to hang out and go tigers? Not really.

I mean, Brad Pitt, but he doesn't really acknowledge that he went to Missouri. Wait a second. In 1989, John Hamm enrolled at the University of Texas. He was a Sigma new and was a Sigma new and was. arrested along with seven other students for violently attacking and severely injuring a fellow student at a fraternity hazing party. Hooligans at UT. Oh, there's hazing incidents when we're up there, for sure. Those stupid frat boys got nothing better to do but get drunk and haze each other.

Yeah. Yeah, my school is, it's Jim Nance number one. I don't even think like Robert Wohl does anything for U of H. So he transferred to Missouri after getting deferred adjudication and a plea deal. I didn't know that about John Ham. Look at you guys giving second chance to people. So, Mazoo wasn't his first choice, but good for him. You know, Missouri is the second-bast journalism program in the country, I believe.

Behind Syracuse? Or Northwestern? I believe it's Northwestern. Is that true? Yeah. I have known... What's Clinton doing here? Come on, Connor. He's the Houston guy. He came home to represent.

Look, I tried. Here are the safety net. And you settle for us. You're watching the safety net, baby. 713, 212-5-790. Non-Floristories is coming up at 2.30. We'll check in in Green Bay in about 17 minutes. Ross, where's your non-flora story from?

It's from the outside the borders of Florida, Matt. Mine is at about 40,000 feet up in the air. Oh, okay. I guess that counts. Now, let's tell you about the folks at Uptown appliance repair. If you have any sort of equipment in your home, refrigerators, ice makers, wine closets, wine cellars, wine, refrigerators, I've got one of those in my house.

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Matt Thomas and Ross Beaureale, two guys extremely passionate about Houston sports. You can tell them to go get a room. We've shared a hotel room. But they already have. And then I've put music on. Truth be told. That's true. Thanks for the visual.

in between. There's no pillow between you and more lunchtime Houston Sports Talk on Sports Talk 790. People are sending me Coldplay emails. Let's see here. Colplay's first album Slaps and this is coming from

someone who loves death and black metal. I mean they're making billions of dollars in their tours. They've got to be with something right. If you would have said named the second biggest tour in the history of music, Colplay would have never reached the list. I would have thought the Wiggles

that maybe you had more money than Coldplay. I'd spend a lot of money on Wiggles. Maybe you gotta download some Coldplay, Matthew. Like, what is their number one song? I'm going to look that up right now. And by way, you're still sticking to all things Green Bay, Wisconsin, I believe it or not. It might be all things cold play.

No, we're not giving them any run. Oh, like, that's on the UK list. Sorry, hold on. Yeah, this, what is this? Viva La Viva. Yeah, I know this song. they play didn't they play a super bowl? Yeah, this song sucks. How long is this going to go? You've heard this.

Oh, absolutely. What is it wrong with you, America? This is the second-gratist tour. This is what you spend a billion dollars on? Magic, a sky full of stars. They had a billion top-10 hits. You know what? Maybe I need to put some respect on Cole's name.

Something just like this with the chain smokers hit number three in 2017. I don't know. know. Yeah, I'm good. Hmm. They did a Super Bowl, right? Yeah, they split like half of it with Beyonce and Bruno Mars. Oh, okay.

Do males download their song besides my man here? They just sent me the email. What does that have to do with anything? Well, I mean, there are girl bands. I mean, they're a boy bands. Well, they're guys. It's all dudes. Jude's on dudes.

Are they, dudes on dudes? By the way, I got an email from a great friend of the show to stop talking about dudes on dudes. Talk to my parent company IHRMEA is like Go dudes on dudes So Alex Bregman I was kidding

Is he coming back? No he's not coming back I know he's not We have to do it We have to start preparing for that I think a little bit I'm prepared What's the song?

Oh the song I'm gonna go with Adele Someone like you I mean we We will have about 30 different options to go with It's too hard to say goodbye as a will and we always are kind of our default or someone like you might be for the first time

that Alex Brevin comes back. How about Julian Lennon, early 80s smasher? It's just too late for goodbyes. Don't look at me that way. You know I got to throw a linen in there somewhere. Okay. Maybe. Maybe. We can just stick with the hits, the boys to men, into the road. No, we're finding something else. We're going to find, we're going to have some songs with all we're going to do an entire farewell day on the show where people can cry and call it. in with why did the Astros spend their money? By the way, speaking of the Astros real quick on this one,

this is not on field. People are wearing me out about the name of the new, of Minutemade Park in a couple of years or next year. I don't, I've not heard anything. I've heard, there's rumors in a new window.

I'd heard the rumors for a while about the air conditioning. Which have you heard of the name of that company? I don't even know how to pronounce it. But I remember when I heard the rumor, it was a company I'd never heard of. And yeah, that's it. It doesn't matter. I don't care.

Well, the only reason why people care is, what are you going to call it? Can you pronounce it? What's going to be the new nickname? Because I've never called Minutemay the Juice Box. Me either. I'm not a huge nickname of Stadium guy. I don't usually use it. Yeah, I just call it Minutemade Park.

I say, go down to Minutemade. We'll go down to company when they spend the money. I don't care. Like I call Toyota Center TC. I don't call it the... I call it the Toyota Center. Whatever. They pay the money and that's what the building's called.

But people seem to think this is going to help the pregnant situation. No, that's money they already allocated for their normal operating expenses. The budget is the budget, unless you can do a GoFundMe account. And then all of a sudden, you know, Jim Crane looks at his go-fummy account and there's $114 million over the next four years. And maybe things will change a little bit. Actually, that wouldn't be enough. He's probably a $30 million a year player, right? Yes.

Going to get a deal over six years. That's right. We have six. We get nothing. You got a seven-year deal. I win. I think a five or less. Or like a one.

I think the way you win is going to be the one to three-year deal with opt-outs type of situation. Yeah. Which is certainly possible. Yeah. Now, front of the show, Bailner-Bome thinks you're going to win. Yeah. But Bailor and I have been arguing. We did have been debating this.

I thought you all had a bet, too. He thinks he's getting a mega deal as well. He's on your side of this. Well, I'd rather have him on my side than not on a baseball matter. Well, but I mean, LSU matter and something else. He does like a bet. his LSU Tigers, that's for sure. Poor kid.

Let's see, what else is going on? We're going to go to Green Bay in a few minutes. Talk to Doug Russell from a Packers radio. Can't wait. Mentioned the Rockets yesterday playing the Austin Spurs. By the way, I walked in to the concourse at the exact same time that Victor Wimbunyama walked in.

Okay. He's two feet taller than you. He's seven foot three. Mm-hmm. And still razor-thin. Yes. He'll never add in any bulk. He'll never be quasi-bulky.

But do you really have to? I mean... No, I mean, this is the thing. What he did last year is what he was always expected to do. That's, well, seeing that's the example. Ralph Samson had the first couple of great years in the NBA, correct? But the knees got to him. And then things started to break down.

That was also the 1980s. Sports science is better now. But bone structure is bone structure. I'm not a doctor. But we had reservations about... Chet Hongren and well he missed his entire first year with a Lefranc injury and that's the

question mark. Yeah, I will see. Yomeng was great when he was on the floor. Yeah. Let me also say that I think Pop as long as Pop is there is going to baby his minutes. There are going to be some back-to-back. It's not going to play in. Yeah. I don't ever anticipate Victor Womenyama playing 39, 40 minutes in a game. Yeah.

Yow had to play all that for the Chinese basketball team. Now they have measured his playing time in the preseason but a lot of that was because he played for the France in the Olympics. So maybe that's a little bit different. He's had a lot of wear and tear. But he's going to be committed to a lot of world events for France, just like Yao was when he was with China.

It's going to be that bad, though? I don't think so, because it was a professional thing that Yao had to play in. Also, I think Yao was, I mean, for as big as he was, he was stout. He had muscles. He didn't look so frail. Yeah. But I'm telling you, he's still very imposing. Yes.

And the reason why he was the definitive number one selection in any of him, close. He looks the part. Who won a defensive player of the year last year? Did he win it? He was the first rookie he'd ever lead the league in block shots per game, so why wouldn't he won it? Oh, Go Bear won it. He got a second. Okay. Go Bear's won, I think, four times. Remember when Timma was praying for Victor? Probably for Victor.

It was a reason why. Yeah. Franchise changes. He's still got to be a better three-point shooter if he's going to shoot as many as he did. He's young. People think in San Antonio that Chris Paul has made a huge difference for him. Really? I don't know why. He's going to put him out of punch people in the nuts and complain to the referees? He's not going to put his back to the basket anymore. He's still a square up shooter.

He's a perimeter guy. The art of flopping and yelling at refs. Is that what he's going to teach you? CP was yelping at referees last night. It's like preseason, relax. The guys have one break. We go to Milwaukee next, talk to Doug Russell from Packers Radio, start the final hour of the Matt Thomas show.

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He is also the host of Packers Game Day. And I believe Doug Russell, you had a couple of. coffee in Houston, Texas. Doug, it's Matt and Ross. How are you? Longtime, Noir. I'm great. Thanks for having me on Matt. Ross. Good to talk to you. And yes, about 12 years ago, spent a wonderful year in Houston. I love your city. Home called. So I came back home, but I always cherish my time in the Bayou City. It was a wonderful time. Great to hear your voice. Doug, we'd play a game called, Believe it or not, where it's a question is about cities or sports or heroes or athletes. Give us something anecdotal about Green Bay, Wisconsin, the city that could either be true or false. We don't

care, just give us something. Okay, something about Green Bay is that, okay, true or false, I would say that it is the paper capital of the world. The paper capital, like more papers. I read toilet paper capital of the world. It is just the paper capital of the world. And is it believe it or not? That's it.

Right? Is that true? It is true. Okay, the paper, write that down. That's one of our questions. Okay, very good. All right. So let me help me out with this. The squad is four and two. The NFC North is super competitive. So as good as the record is so far, and the fact that Jordan Love is back off of injury, the Packers can't afford a slip-up at least for a while because all these teams in the division in which you cover are so good right now, right? Yeah, the Packers are in last place right now with a four-and-two record, believe it or not. And they are in last place with two close losses. One in South Paulo on opening night, a Friday night, opening night against.

Philadelphia where a lot of fluky things happen. And then that other loss against Minnesota, now we can talk about the revolving door at kicker for this team. But Braden Narvison, who was released this week, he missed two field goals in a two-point loss against Minnesota. Now, the flip side to that is the Packers also got down at 1.28 to nothing to the Vikings back on September 29th in week four, but it was still a missed opportunity. But the Vikings looked spectacular this year.

The Bears, you know, they're an entirely different team than they were a year go, just look at what they brought in offensively, not only with Caleb Williams and Roma Dunesay, but also Keenan Allen. Cole Comette, I think, is a great player. He's really blossomed into a great tight end in the NFL, and they're kind of rolling on all cylinders right now. The surprise to me is Minnesota, the reclamation of Sam Darnold, and the Lions are the champions of the division, and they're showing why they're the champions of the division.

It's a really, really hard division. You can't afford any slip-ups like they had against the Vikings, but Houston's coming into town and as you guys know right now five and one the texans are a really really good squad all the defensive injuries have started a pile up for the texans as i'm sure you've noticed from watching and getting ready for this game for your side of things uh it feels like to me that jacobs could have a really big game for green bay describe his season so far and a has he had a breakout game and b could he have one this sunday yeah i think he's had a couple of breakout games the first one that comes to mind for me was in week two when jordan love was injured he

He sprained his knee against Philadelphia. And then the next week, you know, Malik Willis comes in, and he was only a member of the Packers for 19 days when he was pressed into starting duty against the Colts in Week 2. And Josh Jacobs carried the ball 32 times. And that was, I think, the breakout for him. Not that he necessarily needed a breakout. I mean, two years ago when he was with the Raiders, he led the NFL in rushing yards. So they invested heavily in two free agents specifically in Josh Jacobs on the offensive side and his college teammate at Alabama. them, Xavier McKinney on the defensive side, and both have performed at extraordinary levels.

But Jacobs is younger than Aaron Jones was, and a little bit more durable than Aaron Jones was, certainly last year. And, you know, he's had some injury issues with the Vikings certainly this year as well. So there was a reason that they went with Josh Jacobs. But he's been everything that the Packers had hoped that he would be when they brought him in as a free agent from the Raiders. 26 years old, still has a lot of tread left on the tires in his sixth season in the NFL. so the Packers feel like they didn't necessarily get a bargain, but he's really looking like a really good investment that they made. Talking with Doug Russell 97.3, the game in Milwaukee here on Sports Talk 790.

And Doug, you had Dimeco Ryans earlier this week calling Jordan Love, the best quarterback the Texans have faced this year. Your reaction to that comment, and just in general, how you view the career arc of Jordan Love and where he is right now? Well, the Packers have this thing where they make their quarterback sit for three years, It's just kind of circumstances. It works out. It has worked out.

I know there's something, but CJ Stroud had an incredible rookie season, so sometimes you need to sit for a couple of years. Sometimes you don't. I mean, Jordan Love is senior season or his last season. He went out as a junior at Utah State. He threw 17 interceptions. So when the Packers drafted him in the first round, they saw something that obviously the rest of us didn't because he didn't necessarily take care of the football all that well at Utah State, which isn't even, you know, what are we at? Power 4 conferences now, but it wasn't even in a Power 5 conference.

at the time and he still struggled. But they saw something. And what he was able to learn under Aaron Rogers feels like some of the things that Aaron was able to learn under Brett Farr 15 years prior to it. So his career arc is very similar to the last guy. Now, I'm not saying that Jordan Love is going to have a Hall of Fame career. I'm not saying that he's not, though, either. Packers fans have been extraordinarily blessed with more than 30 years of Hall of Fame

quarterback play. They feel like based on the second half of last season when Love played as well as anyone in the entire NFL that he can duplicate that. I think that is a tall order, but we also saw it once the first year that he was the starting quarterback, and we've also seen it in spurts. Not that it appears as though his knee feels like it's close to 100% from when he sprained it against Philadelphia. So as far as his career arc, it feels similar, but he also isn't Aaron Rogers.

There's this kind of narrative that's going on in Wisconsin among Packers fans that maybe there's just a little bit of Aaron and maybe just a little bit of a gun slinger from Aaron's predecessor as well sometimes Jordan doesn't always take as good of care of the football as Jordan doesn't take as good care of the football as Aaron did and maybe there's a little bit of Brett in him as well and if you can combine those two guys and come up with Jordan Love I think Packers fans would be happy with that but again that's a tall order for anybody to have much less somebody who's only in his second year as a starting quarterback in the NFL and on the flip side you're side view of here in Houston. We love C.J. Stroud. I mean, we think he's somebody who's starting to enter that

top five conversation with quarterbacks. How do you view C.J. Stroud from your side? He's been great so far. I mean, it is still early in his career, just like it is in Jordan's. I think that quarterback play has never been better in the NFL right now, and you've got some extraordinarily talented young players that are playing that position. And you see it with other quarterbacks around the league that, you know, or other teams around the league that are trying to find that next guy. I mean, you look at everything that the Jets gave up to get Aaron Rogers because they, you know, felt like they weren't, Zach Wilson wasn't going to get the job done, even as a number two overall pick. They invested incredible draft capital in him. Wilson obviously didn't pan out as

number two overall pick. You look at all the quarterbacks that the Chicago Bears have brought in as high draft picks, whether was Mitch Trubisky trading up to get him at number two. You know, Justin Fields as a first-round draft choice. Now they've got Caleb Williams. They feel like he's the guy as well, but again, it's still early in his career. We're still waiting for Josh Allen to have a breakout in the playoffs and become what a lot of folks think that he can be, and that's an MVP caliber quarterback. I don't know that I can rank the top five right now. I mean, are you going to put my homes in that category just based on what he's done? He's still 28 years old. A couple of

MVPs, three Super Bowl rings. He's been incredible. I just think overall, I think you've got a great one down there in Houston and Stroud. I think the Packers have a great win in Jordan Love. You got Lamar Jackson still, two-time NFL MVP. He's got to be in that conversation as well. So there's a lot of great guys that are playing that position right now. I don't know that I can rank the top five, but certainly if you're talking about C.J. Stroud, I put it in the conversation. Doug, the great thing about the Packers you love watching this year,

what's the one thing that frustrates you? And then I want to get to the third part of my question. You mentioned a field goal kicking situation. The Texans have a sizable advantage in that particular category. Could this game in your mind get down to a field goal game? And if that's the case, does that worry you if you're a Packers fan? All right. What order do you want me going?

Anything you want. It's your world, my man. All right. What I love watching about this Packers team is the swarming defense. They're opportunistic defense. Xavier McKinney already with five interceptions. he had picks in his first five games as a Green Bay Packer. He had interceptions in six straight games.

If you go back to last season, his last game with the New York Giants. That hasn't happened. The Packers already have as many takeaways this year as they had last year. New defensive coordinator, Jeff Hathley, has these guys believing, has these guys swarming. Even when they go up against mobile quarterbacks, as they've done a couple of times already this year. This is a team that has been able to contain last week. it was Kyler Murray. The week prior to

Kyler Murray, or actually earlier in the season, I guess I should say, Jaylen Hertz, Anthony Richardson, they've been able to contain these mobile quarterbacks so far. And that's why they always have their eyes on the quarterback, kind of a mush rush that they've had. So their defense has been extraordinary to watch.

What's been frustrating, penalties, too many penalties. You brought up the kicking game. The kicking game has been awful for the Packers this year. They've had seven kickers come through seven since January. That's, I, I've been covering this team a long time, Matt. I've never even, not even half of that in a season for any NFL team ever.

But they've had seven kickers and now, you know, the latest that is in Brandon McManus. So could it come down to a field goal? Last part of your question. Yeah, sure. Texans are very, very good team, very stout team. And, you know, it's not, the weather's not going to play much of a factor in this one because it's going to be in the 70s. It's going to be a pretty pleasant fall day in East Central Wisconsin. So, you know, that that's not going to give the Packers any kind of advantage whatsoever.

So, yeah, I think this is going to be a close one. And to think people hated Mason Crosby for the longest time, right? I think Packers fans would just kill to have Mason Crosby back right now. But he hasn't kicked in a couple of years. And I think that door is slammed a little bit. And Mason probably would admit that it's probably past his prime. man, just to have some consistency in that role right now is something the Packers fans are just begging for. Well, Doug, my partner here, we call him Battle Red Ross, has the Texans winning very, very close game.

I think the Packers win 30 to 20, so you're the tirebreaker. What's going to happen on Sunday? See, Matt, I hate making predictions because I'm always wrong. Me too. That's why people love me because my predictions don't mean Jack Squad. So you're on a show, it means Jack Squad. So we won't hold against you. I promise.

I think that if everyone performs as well as they're able to perform, and so I don't like making predictions because I can't predict whether or not, you know, who's going to execute the game plan or not. I think Green Bay probably, they're playing with a lot of confidence defensively right now, especially with the way that they were able to contain Kyler Murray last week. And I think they look at CJ Stroud as, you know, there are some similarities, perhaps. I'm going to say the Packers are going to win it, but it's not going to be very high scoring. I'm going to say 24 to 21.

All right. And lastly, we have a friend, I listened to the show that just called earlier and said, Matt, what do you do in Green Bay? Now, honestly, when I lived in Minneapolis, I could never get a hotel in Green Bay. So I would, me and my buddies, my cohorts in the media there, we would drive from Minneapolis to Green Bay, do the game, watch the game, then go back to Minneapolis. So I don't know the hang. If somebody was bumping around the metropolitan Green Bay area, where's the one place to get a drink, a burger, brought, coke, whatever the case would be? What's the definitive Green Bay hangout in that town? All right.

The hangout is Andozy. which is near the stadium, excuse me, near the stadium as well. They've got really good pizza and really good wings. So go to And Doosies. Also, the National Railroad Museum is in Green Bay, too. So if you want to hit that, maybe that should have been my fun fact about Green Bay. The National Railroad Museum is there. Other than that, there's not that much.

I'm going to be honest with you, Matt. There's not that much in Green Bay. Hey, I equated it to being the culture of Lufkin, so I don't know if it's an infinite. My brother was born in Lumpkin. Please tell him I said that and see what his reaction is. Oh, that's funny. Yeah, Lufkin. I was going to say, call the station.

It's got the football. Oh, there you go. No, no, I'm just kidding. It's got football. It's got, you know, the Bush Museum is there. You know, if you like history there, we've got the railroad museum in Green Bay. And it's just a smaller town, but there's nothing wrong with that. No, no, no.

It's the most unique sports facility I've been into and all my years of covering sports. I think, as I've told the audience here in Houston, and I was frankly surprised a lot of the Texans fans are not going because the Packers, there were some tickets open because the Texans are not taking their allotment. If you're going to go to a game this year, it's got to be green, especially 73 degrees in October. Are you kidding me? That's crazy. It would be beautiful. It'd be beautiful.

I mean, listen, every week I see somebody who walks into Lambeau Field for the first time. And oftentimes, they just kind of stand there and they just look around. I take it for granted. I've been there, but I don't know, a thousand times. but I see people there who have made it their bucket list and there's a sign on the wall right when you walk in and it's for the employees of the Packers and it just simply states right on the wall

in big bold letters, today is someone's bucket list. That's just a reminder that it is a really special place. Great visit with my end. I really appreciate you spending some time with us and look forward to maybe talking with you, maybe on a Super Sunday you never know. Oh, that would be awesome.

We'd love that. Thanks so much for having me up. I got it. Doug Russell joining us up from Milwaukee, part of the Packers Radio Network and the sports director in Milwaukee and Madison. He's so popular, he covers the entire state. Non-Floristories in just 15 minutes here on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show.

Matt Thomas on Sports Talk 790. All right, we got non-flora stories coming up in a few minutes. I need a ruling. And you guys know how I feel about the University of Houston. And that's my love and that's my alma mater. And I'm very proud of it. got my degree there, met my wife there, all the good stuff. We have a member of the 790 team that claims two schools as his beloved schools,

which you can somewhat tolerate, but however, they're in the same conference. Josh C., who is my network producer on Rockets Basketball, he also does. He is the Aggies. He is the biggest Alabama honk in this station. Yes. Josh is in there talking to Connor. And since Connor, you're part of the SEC too. You may get this as all.

You're only not, you're just a fringe member. Sorry, it is what it is. We work with someone, I won't name his name, Dan Matthews, who happens to be a big Georgia fan. Yes. Trying to get tickets to the game in Austin. Trying to get tickets. And he is a huge LSU fan.

I ask you, Josh C., Alabama, crimson tied, diehard, and you've been consistent about this. Is that allowable to be a fan of two teams in the same conference? I'll say this. My dad went to Alabama, a bunch of family went to Alabama. I went to Alabama for two years. Graduated from Texas A&M. Graduated from A&M, cheaper.

Go to school still. But I'll say this. I really don't root for the Aggies much. I don't mind them, but if I pay them, tuition at both universities, I feel that gives me the right to cheer, have some sort of yeah, both teams I kind of like, but one is way ahead of the other.

What a mealy mouth answer that was. What about Dan? I'm just trying to explain my son, Matt. I don't care about you. I don't care about your experience. The question is, can you be a honk for two schools in the same conference? Honk? No, but can you have rooting interests

kind of for both? Sure. Because I won't mention a person name again, Dan Matthews. He's wearing a Georgia hat today. Where's a Georgia's but he would wear an LSU gear on Monday. He hung out with me and some of the family on Saturday. He was wearing LSU Tigers baseball hat and jersey. All right. So back off, Mr. Mealymouth.

Let's go over a fringe SEC member here. A fringe FCC. Oh, come on. Nobody is in the country. Nobody even cares about Missouri and the SEC. You guys are big eight at best. 19 in the country. Okay, whatever.

Top 25, Matt. What about the Coogs? The Coogs are going to be winning the Missouri State Championship this weekend. in Kansas City which is weird. We're playing Kansas in Kansas City. Don't ask. I won't. All right, what do you think? Can unnamed members of our on-air

staff, Dan Matthews, be an LSU and Georgia fan at the same time? That's kind of rough, especially if you didn't attend either school. But, yeah. I don't know. You can chew for whoever you want. I don't care. Yeah, I will say two things. You can be a fan of whoever you want because fandom in the end of the day doesn't make any sense

anyways. Correct. But number two, we reserve the right to make fun of you for your fandom. I'm not going to tell you to stop rooting for the team, but we can call you a waffler, a fence sitter, and a two-timer. So fan all you want, just feel the wrath. Exactly. So what happens if your daughter goes to a Big 12 school? Are you not going to root for them whenever they play U of age?

Aren't you Red Raider Matt too? Okay. So, you know. He's my, I have paid thousands. and thousands of dollars to Texas Tech and to A&M. I will damn well root for who I want to root for. But at the end of the day, if U of H plays Texas Tech, go Coogs. If you of H plays A&M, go coogs.

No if, ands or buts, no matter how much, to be brutally honest with you, I've spent more money in A&M and more money in Texas Tech than I ever spent at the University of Houston. Tuition is skyrocketed, Matt, since the 70s. So first of all, thank you for calling me out on that. But second, I'm consistent. It's good. I'm proud of you. So there you have it. Thank you, Josh.

Thank you. Connor N. McGovern. No thanks to you, Ross. Why no thanks to me? I don't know. They hardly make any money. They need applause. I'm Longhorn, burn, orange.

Rain or shine. no matter the sport. Volleyball, rowing. The sports we actually win national championships over there in. And football this weekend against the Georgia Bulldogs. All right. How about this?

We have technically determined that an alum is someone that goes to school. Okay. Do you get more cachet if you're a graduate as compared to being a loan? Yeah, I didn't graduate from school. For instance, if I would have gone to Ohio State for one semester,

Mm-hmm. That made me an old house stand alum? What is technically, by the definition of the water. Do I get to get to carry all the flowers that comes with being in a one semester of a house day? Guess who emails me asking for donations? They don't care about my crib by being having a degree or not. That's the Texas X's. Okay.

There you go. All right. Now we got that all the way. Let's do Florida stories. Oh, is that next? Connor, where is yours from? Because Ross has no idea where his is from. Greece.

All right. I'm going mine from about 42,000 feet above the. sea level. That's up next 228 on Sports Talk 790. We find interesting stories that occur outside the state of Florida

and share them with the people of Houston. It's time for none. Have you heard of the airline that rhymes with Bantus? It's an Australian airline. Maybe?

It's Quantus. You've heard of Qantas. before. Okay, sure, why not? I've never been to Australia. I would love to go. The thought of an 18-hour flight just scares the bejes out of me, but that's a different issue. I would be on a 16-hour flight. How are you going to kill that time? asleep? We're going to do a whole show with you. We're going to do a whole show with you about how, when you come back. I can call you on the, do you want to zoom in that day? Can you do that? I'll be on the flight. Oh, my God. Okay, here we go. So there was a flight from Sydney to Tokyo.

The Kwanis airline had to apologize to the passengers on that plane. Technical issues made individual movie selection unavailable. Okay. So a movie was selected out of a limited list for the entire flight based on the request from some of the passengers. Okay. The movie turned out to be something called Dadio. Daddyo? Dadio.

The movie featured profanity, sexual material, and brief graphic nudity. A passenger who reported on the flight said this. The movie they played was extremely inappropriate. Here's the best part. It was impossible to pause it, dim it, or turn it off. It featured graphic nudity and a lot of sexting, the kind where you could literally read the text on screen without needing headphones. It took almost an hour of this before they switched to a more kid-friendly movie.

but it was super uncomfortable for everyone, especially with families and kids aboard. Quanta is issuing an apology. The movie was clearly not suitable to play for the whole flight, and we sincerely apologize to customers for this experience. All screens were changed to a family-friendly movie for the rest of the flight, which is our standard practice for the rare cases where individual movie selections aren't possible. Ross had been done a Rotten Tomatoes check on the movie

Daddio. Is it D-A-D-D-I-O? That is it. Believing star D-D-O. Sean Penn, I believe, is it? Yes, it has a rating of 6.6 on IMDB. Okay. And I will look up the rotten tomatoes for you.

So let me... 77% fresh. Wait a minute. How do you not... Are you unable to turn the movie off? 88% on the popcorn meter. That's the fan vote. How do you not

unable to dim? Come on. Something doesn't sound right on this. Quantus Airlines needs to get their bleep together. Yeah. Now, would I want to watch a long movie between Sydney and Tokyo that featured profanity, sexual material, and brief graphic nudity? I mean, I've seen worse. Okay.

Well, that's a yes. So, Daddio will not be on your local flight anytime soon. Or at least it's kind of flying to Australia. Yeah. And that's my non-Flority story. You guys ever get a little uncomfortable when you're watching a movie on a plane and some? intimate scenes going on. I see other people watching.

I don't watch movies with nudity on planes. Connor, you have not heard this story before. I'll tell the story for the second time. When I was doing Rice Basketball in the late 1990s, I flew to Tulsa for a game, and I was sitting in first class. And the guy next to me pulls out a hustler magazine. Do you do anything else?

Okay, so... Did he pull out to Kleenex? So there's Playboy. There's the next run. above that is penthouse and then there's Hustler. Hustlers, yeah. Hustler leaves

when Larry Floyd got sued. No room for the imagination. And while I looked at the magazine for a very brief short time, no, I didn't do that. I couldn't believe an adult male would pull out a porn magazine on a flight.

Did he pick it up at the airport shop? I don't know, but you know, back in the day, this was before you were, this is when you had a bit, a little kid. They would put, you'd be able to go to a convenience store and you'd be able to get the porn magazines and they'd be in these plastic wrap. You can't do that anymore? I don't know. I don't know.

I don't think you can. I mean, I've not done lately, but. Are these magazines still being manufactured? I don't know. You used to be able to buy them in the Newport News or the Hudson News or whatever. Yeah, I know. With the black. The smoke shops, too.

Yeah. So you would go to the airport. I remember seeing you bill, you'd be, you'd be able to get Playboys at airports with plastic cover. and then you got to do what you got to do. But why do you bring a hustler on a flight to Tulsa? That guy gave zero Fs. Next to me in first class.

All I want to do is take a little rest, Ross. I don't need to be... You need to get in the mood for a rest. So, there's your story. And that's my non-floor story. Thank you, Matt. Am I next? I'll go next. I don't care.

Let me tell you about a man named Michael Smith. That's original. A 52-year-old from Cornelius North Carolina. Michael Smith was making some music and posting it on Spotify.

Turns out, though, that Spotify became suspicious when his music was getting over 600,000 streams per day, and they were owing him millions in royalties. Congratulations. Well, Michael Smith had come up with a bunch of fake bands

using AI and also created an army of bots to fake, listen to the tracks to give him over $10 million in streaming royalties. Now, Spotify, of course, found out there was an investigation, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and the FBI calling this quote a brazen fraud scheme. He has been arrested and charged with wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, and money. laundering. He partnered with some AI music company in

2018 and mass produced an enormous catalog of tunes. As I said, garnering at least 600,000 streams per day. So do you pay the money back? I don't know. I guess he's going to have to,

right? Now, our non-flora story, theme music is AI created, correct? That is correct. Yes. Did Michael Smith do it? So Colplay didn't do it. What? Coldplay has a greatest tour of all time by anybody not named Taylor Swift, Matt. Put some respect on their name.

I need to. I apologize. There you go. Michael Smith and his army of bots and his AI music going to jail. And that's your non-Florida story. That's my non-Flority. I'll talk to you later. Where you're headed?

You leaving early? You can leave early if you don't feel good. I got a freaking nightcap in three hours. You're just going to replay the interview with Doug Russell. That's half of it. Now, you tried to stretch it out and talk to him for a while, but it wasn't that long. It was great material, why not? Okay, yeah, let's talk more about restaurants in Green Bay. Great stuff.

That will be cut. Traveling Texans are going to be there? Where's Texan darling going to go? You know where she's going to go. I do. To the Golden Corral. Connor, what is your non-Floric story? So my last non-Florida story was about a man arrested for hiding underneath women's cars at a car wash to stare at their feet.

Sure. Now we go to Greece, where a judge imposed a one-month prison sentence on a man convicted of disturbing his neighbors by repeatedly sneaking into their properties to smell their shoes. A police had been called after a neighbor found the 20-year-old in his front yard sniffing his family's shoes, which had been left outdoors to air. The court heard that there had been at least three similar incidents in the past six months, despite neighbors having asked the defense family to get him to stop. That man expressed to the court that he was unable to explain his behavior, which he said, had caused him great embarrassment. He stressed that he had no intention of breaking the law or harming anybody. So the man sentenced to a month in prison and court-ordered therapy sessions

after being caught sneaking onto private properties and sniffing people's shoes. Among all the different smells in the life, I would put the shoe smell, like, boys, in the lower tan of things. Like, workout clothes sweat would be in the low tens. Shoes sweat would be in the low tens. Swamp ass would be in the low tens. cookies and cream ice cream high tins

Honeynut Cheerios Beautiful flower arrangement Top tens Cinnamon sticks Mmm That's true A good cigar maybe Middle 10

I hate cigars I don't bother They irritate my eyes So you've gone to foot fetish Card two consecutive weeks Is this something Man I think we're finding A little something about Conardee

This was on the Associated Press I'm not looking on any weird book sites For these stories Don't He's a foot guy. Don't know. Definitely not. It's okay, Connor.

It's not to me, you know. I'm not shaming the people that are. I'm not saying to. If this is your fetish, we're you, bra. We're not. I promise you. We're not.

We're judging you at all. People can do what they want. Well, as long as it's legal. That's true. Consensual. All right. There you have it. Those are our non-floor stories for the week.

We are doing all things about the city of Green Bay and things around Green Bay, and things around Green Bay, Wisconsin. We're playing for spectacular prizes, Connor. What are we playing for today on this edition of this edition of Hell yeah, we're not. We got a pair of tickets to go see Judas Priest. We can't get those bad boys away, can we? We actually only have two pair left.

What kind of crowd is a Judas Priest crogging on track? Hot dating scene? What do you mean? Yeah, I think so? Yeah, everybody needs love, Matt. What's their opening act? Oh, that I don't know. All right, well, if you want to go see Judas Priest and you're going to break the law,

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And I have Cougars beating Kansas 2016. They're going to score 20 points? Yeah. Be proud of you. Thank you. It's a winning weekend for me. I'm going to go three on my five-star Lachtobos selections. Texans beat the Packers

Final I said 33 to 31 but I want to lower that Okay Let's do 2926 And you have Georgia Texas As

Longhorns win 2721 And if they lose Mass and you would text Have you texted me all this season They won in the big house Did you text me then They destroyed Oklahoma

In a big rivalry game Did I hear from you then? No And then I don't want to hear from you. I have bad connections. I don't want to hear from you when they lose, no. Unless you just want to be an A-hole. Which I know you're comfortable in your skin in that regard. I feel like that's not the worst thing I could do to you.

Okay. And what was the third prediction? Oh, U.H. Kansas. What do you like? I don't care. Kansas 77, Cougars won. Really? One? Yeah. How do you score a single point in college football? You're going to kick an extra point and somehow the touchdown is going to be taken away.

We're unprecedented That's the kind of great football I can you'll get tonight at 6 o'clock on the nightcap. Five minutes up to go. Please call into the nightcap. The show's going to be awful. I wouldn't bother listening. Five minutes left to go on the show.

What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game show Monday through Thursday. We call it B, leaving it on Fridays. On Fridays we call it a hell yeah. And here's how it works. You call 713, 212.

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pick-em entry. Category is all things about Green Bay, Wisconsin. I'll read your statement about Green Bay. Statements completely notarly accurate. You'll say this. Hell yeah. If a savings you're already full of bunk in a man up, you'll say this. Two, hell yeah. Hell yeah. Or Nots in a row. When you apprised, Connor, we're playing for again today. A pair of tickets to see Judas Priest live on their Invincible Shield

tour, October 22nd, the Smart Financial Center in Sugar Land. Thank you. 790 T-shirts. Ross, favorite member of the Judas Priest band. It'll be Doug, the bassist. I'm going with Doug Priest. You can't take Doug ever right? I just said Doug. But you didn't say which Doug? I'm going with Doug Priest. Steve on 790, you're ready to play Hell Yeah or not? Doug. Or Steve, I'm sorry. Steve, you're ready to play Hell yeah or not? You're speechless. Steve's not ready. Hello, Steve.

Green Bay, Wisconsin sits upon a small southwestern part inlet of Lake Superior. Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. No, it's like Michigan. Come on, get your geography, right? Matt on 790. Ready to play, hell yeah or not? Hell yeah.

Green Bay was first settled in the 1800s and is the oldest city in Wisconsin. Hell yeah or not. 1600s, excuse me, 1600. Check. 60-100s and is the oldest city in Wisconsin. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. There you go.

Hell yeah. Statement number two for the win. In the 1930s, Curley Lambo served two terms as the mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin. Hell yeah, or not? Oh, hell yeah. No, why would a football player be a mayor? Come on now. That's like saying a wrestler would be a governor of a state, please.

Randy on 790, ready to play hell yeah or not? Randy is not. Oh, yeah. Oh, there you are. The official seal, the official city seal and flag of Green Bay has a Green Bay Packers logo in it. Hell yeah, or not? What'd you say? Hell yeah. There you go. Statement number two for the win. The public transportation is also named after the NFL team as Green Bay's rapid transit line is known as the Packer Line. Hell yeah or not. plus a hell yeah no you're going to say no you're winning no judas priest

ticket sorry John on 790 John what was your fair part of today's radio show Women's feet The term cheesehead was actually a negative Taunt invented by police from Illinois Wisconsinites then lovingly embrace the team The term hell yeah or not

Hell yeah There you go Statement number two for the win because of its prominent paper industry Green Bay is known as the Toil paper capital of the world. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah? Of course. It is toilet paper full of TP, yes.

Rob on 7.90, ready to play hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. Green Bay, Wisconsin is home to the National Railroad Museum. It was founded back in 1956. Hell yeah. Or not? Not.

It was. We just talked about the 2 o'clock. All right. So the question is going to be is how long will it take before Adam Wexler gets sick off of all the germs that Ross had between noon and three today. I'm wiping. You better be hurrying. That's it. All right.

You guys are in your conversations? Anything for public? No? Okay, we're just talking on your breath. All right. That's good. I got to kill time, Wex. I can't just start.

10 seconds. Let's go. I got 25 seconds. They told me 6-256-15. So up next, two television stars who have not changed their egos at all since they're now on space to the network under any circumstance. We speak of Adam Wexel. and Adam Clanton. They are the team.

Have a great weekend. I'll talk to you for Cougars football tomorrow from Kansas City at 1.30 here on 790.