The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - NBA Protests, Best Rockets For Price Is Right & High School Reunions

Episode Date: August 27, 2020

So much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 12-0-1 in H-town. What's happening in luncht timers? Good afternoon to you, and welcome to a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790, alongside our producer, Brendan Riley. Rossville, Real. I'm Matt Thomas.

Hope you guys are breathing some. size of relief over what Louisiana got last night and what we didn't get. And needless to say, it was an interesting night for me on many, many reasons. I just finished a few hours ago a nine-hour KTRH weatherthon. Woo! Congratulations, Maddie. Thank you. You made it out.

We appreciate the city of Houston and Winnie and Beaumont and Port Arthur, Orange, Viter. I'm telling you, everybody east of Winnie, I mean, I don't know if I could run for mayor for multiple towns, but I feel like working nine hours of hurricane coverage can get you there. But I wouldn't say glad to do it, but needed to do it. I'll never say I was happy to be a part of, and it's strange because you can't do that. Thankfully, it didn't hit us because it pounded the hell out of Louisiana. I mean, the Al Capri Boat is stuck. Yes. Thoughts and prayers most importantly out to the Golden Nugget in the Island.

and Capri. And LaBarrish, too. Okay. Is LaBarrish okay? Or I saw, I saw debris flying off the top of the Golden Nugget on Twitter. Yeah. We have a television, and I don't want to spend a whole lot of time on this, because thankfully it's balls hot out here, 95 degrees already. But we have a television partnership with Channel 2 over in KTRH, and we so we can grab audio when we need to. So, you know, obviously their manpower is significant television and whatnot. They have Robert Arnold, who was in Lake Charles. And do you know Robert Arnold is a reporter for Channel 2? I know that he has two first names.

Well, we all battle these things. He and I went to college together. Really? We were in a couple of broadcasting class together. I don't think he remembers me. But clearly I remember him, because I've seen him on Channel 2 forever. He was in Lake Charles at the Nugget. I want to say on the third or the fourth floor of a parking garage.

That man worked his ass off. And you know how there's the faux? hair, I can bear you. Hanging onto a tree like they're blowing away. Meanwhile, you go five steps to the left and it's like a beautiful 85 degree day. Yes. That man and his photographer, I mean, death was coming at him. I mean, they had flying debris headed their way.

They had sideways rain and they had gussed up to a, I want to say, 120, 530 miles an hour. I mean, it's funny how TV does that. Yes, we can confirm. It is a hurricane and there are high winds and rain. Oh, thanks, TV. And then people just stay glued to the TV on it. And it works. Yes.

There's a reason they do it. Yeah, Channel 2 went to, from the convention yesterday at 1040. They did not go off the air with their news coverage at all at any point. So we went to Robert Arnold multiple times. And not only was he battling debris flying his way, heavy rain, heavy, heavy, heavy wind. But their coverage, I mean, their cell service, that fuels their microphone and their battery and their IEP, which is how you communicate with the station and their camera.

Pristine. They had transformers going off, Ross. I mean, every five seconds. You know how you have lightning strikes that kind of light up the sky? Well, when they're light blue, those are transformers. Transformers were going off every 10 seconds. And they're still on the air. He's putting together logical thoughts.

Let me tell you something. I can't have logical thoughts. at 12-0-5 on a midday show in a middle of a studio and a comfortable radio station. How in the world he was able to get his act together was incredible. So major shout out to Robert Arnold. They got bumped off the air twice. And they were like, is he okay? Is everything all right?

And then like three minutes later, he's like, yeah, I'm here. I'm here. And he'd back on camera. It was incredible. And thankfully, and now obviously the Midwest is getting Memphis looks like. like Texarkana, Little Rock. We had Louisiana earlier this morning, North Louisiana. They're getting it.

But, you know, we don't need 160 here. And that or 150. And that's what they got to. I mean, it was a high category four storm last night. And it did not disappoint if you were predicting where it was going to land and what kind of damage it was going to do because the videos and the photos. And I'm not seeing a whole lot. I woke up just about an hour and 10 minutes ago.

But quite astonishing. And hopefully everybody in Lake Charles, because we have a lot of friends that listen to the show or have business there or have family. Yes, we have our friend. One of our listeners out there, he called when you had stepped out for your nap and he was driving to San Antonio. Yeah, Jared, Buddy of ours, Jared is a casino host at Golden Nugget. And I text it back and forth with him. He's in San Antonio right now.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, he called in yesterday. So that was incredible part number one. And then, Incredulous part number two, or incredible, whatever you want to put it in. the NBA. Stunning, I will say. Stunning. And I have a tremendous amount of thoughts on this as well. I don't think, and again, I looked at your poll question yesterday.

You know, I always tell you how our America's cut 45, 4510? Yes. Your poll kind of was in that situation as well. You put a poll question out. Do you agree with the NBA? Do you support NBA players boycott it? And what were the final results on that? 43, 56.

Okay, so it actually spread a little bit more than it. It looked to me, it was 45, 50. Yeah, that's where it was most of the day. Yeah. And so, and again, very unscientific poll, but you have sports fans. You tend to have a few younger Twitter followers than I do. So we have a lot of cross-section, but there's a few little bit here and there. So that was going on before the coverage and just kind of trying to keep one eye on that.

And then hearing about the meeting where two teams, the Clippers and the Lakers wanted to cancel the season and leave. And then go to bed, wake up to find out that they're having meetings and whatnot. And then, I don't know, what was it, about 11 o'clock this morning, they decided they're going to resume play. They don't know when because the schedule's all messed up, to be honest with you. Today's games have been postponed. So the earliest you can get those games, which would be a game five for the Rockets, would be coming up on tomorrow night.

What do they wait, the weekend, whatever the case would be? So needless to say, Rossi, I don't think I'll ever forget Wednesday, August 26th, as a sports fan, as a weather, as a human being, as a citizen of Southeast Texas. So it was just an Uber, Uber surreal 24 hours for me, as much it is for a lot of sports fans as well. So the most important thing, at least for now, is the NBA season hasn't been canceled. It makes me feel good. It doesn't mean that what they did yesterday shouldn't be discussed. And again, it runs the line of 45, 45, 10, 45% of America.

absolutely loved what the NBA did yesterday and started with the Milwaukee Bucks. 45% of America thought this was the worst thing they ever have done. And you know what? I'm done with you NBA. And there's a 10% that's going to go up and down. Selfishly, I'm a sports fan. Selfishly, I'm a Houston Rockets fan. Selfishly.

And I haven't been, you know, I'm an employee of the Rockets, but I'm not losing money right now because the Rockets didn't play. So I'm not coming into the category of, well, you'd be speaking differently if you weren't being paid. I'm done being paid by the Rockets this year. So anything I work is just because I work. I'm glad there's sports back, but we got a lot of work to do as Americans, as sports fans. And I think, frankly, the players have some work to do. To me, Ross, and I don't know if you agree to agree, you and I actually didn't discuss this. I think bubbleitis hit yesterday very hard. I think they saw what happened in Wisconsin, they being the Milwaukee Bucson. And here they are.

They're thinking, we're in the bubble, playing basketball, we're doing nobody any good. And so what can we do to show how mad we are, but what happened in Wisconsin? And I don't think there's anybody going, yay, for Wisconsin. Yay, what happened with the death, not the death, but the shooting of that young man. No one's doing that. No one's applauding. No one's celebrating. But to do something as drastic as what they did yesterday, there was only one in game, Ross.

if they really wanted to make the impact that they said they wanted to make, they would have cut the sea, they would have canceled the season. That's the only way you survive this and going, wow, they really are serious. Because honestly, that 45% that's so pissed off at the NBA doing what they did yesterday,

they got scoreboard today. Because all they did was take a couple of days off. What's the scoreboard? The scoreboard is you really just do want to play basketball. Nothing changed. with what has happened today based on what happened yesterday. The NBA stills are going to resume its season. The NBA owners have been fully supportive.

Commissioner Silver has been very, very open and honest and supporting everything that the NBA players have wanted. The end game was, if you really wanted to be dramatic, was for LeBron to say, we're done playing, we're going to jump on a plane of Wisconsin, and we're going to speak to the governors, and we're going to speak to everybody else, and we're going to fix it.

They did speak to the governor. The Milwaukee Bucks and the Attorney General. I'm talking about the, I'm talking about the league. If the league was said, well, LeBron wanted to stop the league. The Clippers and the Lakers wanted to stop, right? Well, we don't know how many of them are because LeBron carries a powerful voice.

He just does. Okay. Well, I mean, I don't know. I think their aim was, I don't know what their aim was. And that's what I've been watching a lot of the news shows today. What was the next step? And look, you can't, some things have to be done. on the fly.

And no one's arguing that. I don't think anybody wins or has, I just don't understand the term they have scoreboard because they only stop for two days. Because if you're in that 45% that thought it was ridiculous, those 45% are going to say, okay, so you stopped games yesterday. What did you accomplish?

Oh, so if they stopped the whole season, the 45% would have said, you know what, I'm going to listen to these NBA players. But they're not going to change in. But Ross, that 45% would have said, they really are saying. serious about this. They really are, they're willing to give up their salaries. They're willing to

give up their game in order to fix this. Playoff shares aren't that much, right? That's not the issue. That's not the issue. We're not talking about they are so upset and so mad and so disgusted that they are going to give up their season in order to show how mad they are. And they didn't do that. So they don't, no, no, no. You're not missing. You're missing because you don't want to hear it. No, I don't. I'm just confused. As all of us are. Okay.

That's the point. Is that yesterday was a powerful day listening to Robert Ory on Lakers television, seeing Chris Weber. And man, we can't, we can't walk in their shoes. Anybody that tries to do, to walk in their shoes is foolish. Can't. I can't. So I listened and I'm, I understand.

Kenny Smith. So there was an effect on you then. If you say you listen and there. So there was something. But nobody. But I can't do anything about it, except listen, they wanted, they want other things that other, that they want elected officials, they want state representative, they want, they want, I don't know what, I don't know what they wanted.

But if you watch anybody today that talked about this, you can't do what you did yesterday and then not have it plan B or not have the next step in the plan. I think that that's why they had multiple meetings is because they didn't know what the plan was. But they knew that they didn't want to play right then in those moments. Like you said, they are in this bubble and they can't feel. figure out what they're going to do. And now they're going to play. I think the bubble has got, has, has freaked them out.

They miss their families. They feel helpless. They feel like they can't do anything. So they canceled the day of games. And I just, I don't know at the end of the day what that accomplished. Except really irritate owners who have been on their side probably 100% of the way. Now they didn't even irritate all the owners. There were some owners that like, you know what, this is great.

Milwaukee's been out there. The Rockets puts something. out there. I mean, I just, I just want my regular sports back. I just have a feeling we're never going to get those regular sports back. I just think they were just, let's, I think they didn't have it figured out. That's why they had that meeting with everybody. That's why all the games got canceled. And cooler heads prevailed. That, that's what I think. Yeah. So I don't think it was like a failure or scoreboard or anybody won or anybody lost. Well, but there's a really who lost was, I mean, NBA fans who wanted to watch games yesterday. And I think you lost

more fans yesterday. And that was the, that was the risk they had to take. 14 on Sports Talk 790. I'm just excited, but we got the games back. Me too. That's the most important thing. And I'm guaranteed work Sunday. As some of you were goofing around, you got an extra day of rest for Russell Resbrook. Yes, sir.

Two extra days for that quad. That's the most important thing. So there's really no questionable. He was in uniform. He was going to play yesterday, right? You think so? I guess there's no guarantee they would have. I was just nervous about the whole thing.

Even if he was going to play, was there going to be a minute's restriction? Was he going to re-injure himself? because we know how these quad injuries and the hamstrings and all that go, Maddie. Very precarious. You hate those soft tissues. 1214. It's a Matt Thomas show 713-212-5-790. Rip it H-Town, light, five, slamma-jammer.

Yo, what's up? This you boy, Bumbie, the Trill OG with the whitest man in America. Matt Thomas. You are now tuned in the Sports Talk 790, man. And you're marching ready to go. DJ Kahn. 1219, sports talk 790. And I don't want to spend a whole lot of time on this, but frankly, there's nothing else going on today.

I have been blown away by what the NBA has been able to do. The players have been able to put what they want in their jerseys. They've been able to speak to this all the time. Doc Rivers had an amazing platform after a game to speak about how hurt he was. And that stuff I'm hearing right now, and I'm loving it. Your guy, John Lucas, had a very impassioned speech. speech with with everybody yeah i mean that's the kind of stuff that that that's working um i have attempted to reach out to a couple of people uh in florida and they've just said matt it's still

very raw and a couple of reporters i wanted to get on as well so they're just chasing after things so it's just been hard to getting inside people in the bubble and i yeah it's very he it's i it's books will be written about this matt oh we should write a book about just 20 20 2020 documentary is going to be like you know see you know see and does those like the 60s, the 70s, the 80s. Right, like 1968 was a huge one. You could do 2020 and be just fine. I mean, not that you'd want to, but you could.

And there's still one of the most major presidential elections ever coming up here in a few months. So yeah, 2020 on CNN is a eight-hour event. Mm-hmm. You got Prez. Eight-hour event up to July. Yeah, it's true. Like, what is, you know, we always talk about what's the best thing? that's happened in a particular team, what's the best thing that happened in 2020?

I mean, here's the thing. Let's see. There's the assures cheating scandal. There's a cancellation of the season. I mean, our gas prices aren't being so low aren't a great thing, are they? Well, probably not for people in the oil industry. There was a lot of people losing their jobs, right? Yeah. I don't.

The best thing to happen in 2020 is when Joe Beijini gets DFAed. Does CNN do a whole hour on that? Yeah, do an entire hour. of his, it's his stand-up material. This is CNN. I'm James Earl Jones. The Astros had to fight a cheating scandal. At least they got rid of a sucky reliever from last year.

That's exactly right. So when Joe Diagini, I was called Joe DFA genie. Joe be a DFAed. If Joe be a DFA gets DFAed soon, which he will once we get some healthy arms. But the problem is, does Cleveland, Ohio carry the care that Joe B. Is you eating at DFA'd? You make them care, Matt. Get them interested. Okay, so, you know, I always talk about how Billy Joel should redo a new version of We Didn't Start the Fire. You could do what we didn't start the fire based off of 2020.

Okay, I just Googled Best Things That Happened in 2020. Okay. Same-sex marriage was legalized in Costa Rica. Okay. So if you wanted to retire there, Matt? I'm zero problem with that. Somebody was cured of HIV. That's interesting.

Was it Magic Johnson? No. He seems to be doing okay. I think overall HIV, the medicines have been amazing. Cheetah cubs were born through in vitro fertilization. If you want to celebrate, your thoughts on that, Matthew? Keep going. Fossil of a modern-day bird was discovered.

They're struggling on this list. Okay. I'll say this. You ready for this? You ready for this? This is going to irritate 45. You know, the 45-40-10-10 crowd? That's why I don't talk politics. I'd probably entertaineritate 90 of them. Okay. So 45-45-10 crowd, you know how much we love us from Waterburger, right? Yes. Uh-oh. But in and out coming to Houston.

Well, Sugar Land and Katie. Greater Houston area. Yeah. Is the best thing that's happened to us this year. Not that we don't love you, Waterberg. In fact, my girl, Jennifer. for over at Waterburger knows. I mean, I spend a lot of money on order.

There's one right by my apartment complex and... I wear out the Kingwood load. Do we have two in Kingwood? And I wear both of them out. Yeah, let's just say I had to go on like a, what do you call it? Not hiatus. I guess hiatus? Yeah. A moratorium. I had to make a moratorium on Waterberger because I was going there three times a week. Because here's the thing. My son loves the patty melt. He doesn't like the onions, which is, I think, sacrilegious. That's part of the patty melt. I don't disagree with you. You can't have a patty melt without

onions. He does. And they know me. We order it so much. They're like, oh, hi, Matt. You're someone on the patty. He's not no onions. I'm like, yeah, he does. Does he want a Big Mac with no special sauce? I mean, come on. You shut your dirty whore mouth. What you do right there. So, all I'll say is top bad, bees. What's the best thing besides, because here's saying, in and out, the Pico de Gaio burger? Hate in and out guy is part of, is a 45%. It's okay to enjoy burgers from more than one place? No, no, it's not. It's okay, people. No, it's not. I'm sorry. It's going to be okay. You can love, you can love hamburgers from more than one place. I can enjoy what a burger, double cheese, grilled jalapinos and onions. I can also enjoy

five guys with some hot sauce. Ooh, yeah, and Cajun fries. We are, we are not burger snobs here on the old match. Asian, for sure. By the way, I'm joining a fantasy football league at Cougar Pride 310 says joining our league. I'm in a fantasy draft Saturday and I am, couldn't be more ill What's going on with our league? We're having it. Okay. You just didn't respond to the email? Because I told you years ago.

I'm in in perpetuity. And by way, Brendan is the first. Brendan's in? No, he's not in. Yes. Oh, okay. He's first alternate. He is going non-rev on United on a flight and you're number one on the list.

So I wish you luck on this. But if the flight's full, you can't get on the plane. When is the draft for that league? We're going to do it online Thursday, September the 3rd. I wanted to know how much time I had for somebody to drop out. Oh, okay. Yeah. if you can get somebody sick

when you send you the list. I was thinking you were going to take Greg Cook's spot. Klan's back in. No, Klan's, Adam's taking somebody else's spot. He was first in the list. Okay.

Joe George was second and Brendan was third. Greg Cook is in our league this year. People, hey, there's always a line to get into this league, Matt. There is. Yeah. And I am reigning champion, by the way. Yeah, I don't know how that happened.

What do you mean how it happened? Pure luck. You know, I will say one of my best players, I can't remember who it was. He was auto-drafted on accident. Do you know, I, I went through like eight quarterbacks last year. Yeah, it was a rough.

Well, Dr. Roto tells you to go late on quarterback, and every time you do, it kind of doesn't work out for you. Starting Kyle Allen just isn't going to win a whole lot of games for you. Yes, Cal's rough riders, right again, Matt. We will be ready for to defend our championship this year, as long as there's no major outbreaks. What if the seasons canceled eight weeks in? Are you going to refund our money?

Or you're already going to spend that somewhere? Unlike others, I don't make you pay until the end. Yeah. I like paying up front. I do too, but I'm not sick of chasing money down. Oh, I'm sorry, man. Let me tell you about sorry, forgotten fantasy football money guy. You're a douche.

You really are. Oh, can I write, can I Venmo you tonight when I get home? Well, it's because every time we pay up front, we see you with a nice new Gucci wallet, Matt. Okay. You snitch. I'm just kidding. Well, it's because I presume I'm going to win some money. That is a good figurehead.

commission. I do all the dirty work. Sort of like the show noon to three. Because I'm punched drunk right now. I mean, I have any honest with you. All right, Matt. Okay, so I want y'all to Trump. Now, excuse me, maybe poor choice. I want you to top the best thing that happened in 2020.

Forget if it's sports or if it's not. I don't care. Yeah, people are tweeting us. Tweet us at SportsMT at SportsRV. We've got, yeah, Matt Thomas joining the Fantasy League, one of the best things. And also, spicy McNuggets, somebody says. But that's who Stephanie says. Has that happened just yet?

No, but I don't know. Spicey McNugget sounds interesting. Brendan, you joining this show is clearly the best thing that's ever happened to you this year. Yeah, you're welcome. I'm not kidding. I was thinking that might be my answer. There you go. See, we got them coming back there.

Somebody says Freddy's steakburger. Oh, that's good too. Better than Waterberg. I like Freddie Steak Burger. Freddie does a nice job. They've really, really thin, thin, like potato stick fries, which I like. You go hit the one on Cypress Wood and 45 on your way to the top golf? No, there's one in Kingwood, and then there's another one on.

There's one on I-10 West. They popped up. Yeah. They're big U of H sponsors. I like Freddy's. Solid stuff. I've had a few pops with the Freddy's people. They have beer?

No, they just like the drink. Okay. There's nothing wrong with that. They party. What up, Padden? I like that. I'm just saying it's going to U of H road trip. Patton's with us.

You're not drinking ice teas, put it that way. All right, 12.28 is at times. So if you can beat, something that's happened. And again, in the whole series, I'm really happy the NBA's coming back, that this hiatus is short. And if there are continued concerns, I want them to be open and honest, but I don't want them to do to not be able to say what they want to say. I'm not that kind of person. I just want a little form, you know, I just don't want half cocked.

I just, I want them to be changed for the right reason. And I want that 45% that just hates them, that number to do in a little bit. And that's all I was saying. 1229, Sports Talk 790, 713212-5-790, 7-13-212-5-790. Us as fans, we as fans, want to see that. Houston Sports Talk 790. From the owner to the coach to the players. Your home for your home teams.

Damn, Laura, is fresh in Arkansas right now. Holy smokes. Shreveport, Louisiana, Texarkana, Arkadelphia. Oh, yeah. I went to a children camp when I was in high school and the mascot. I room with a guy who was from Arkadelphia. You went to what?

A chilliter camp. What was that like? Fun. Did you help out with the stretching? I guess you could say that. It was a, it was a, it was a children camp at SMU, and I was the mascot, so I was the only guy. Yeah, I bet people made fun of you.

but that seems like a sneaky, great idea for a young teenage Matthew Thomas. They made fun of me. A young and reckless. See, Brennan, you don't know this. Matt in his younger age, he was reckless. He was hitting people over the back with pool cues. He was working at McDonald's all hours of the night,

giving people free food, throwing burgers on the floor. Young Matt Thomas was a wild child. You know domesticated father of three, Kingwood Palatial Estate, Weather guy. Chilled out Matt Thomas. Matt Thomas was a young, rambunctious lad in the streets of Maid Creek. I can see that because he has this vibe of like been there, done that too.

Yes, you're right. OG, if you will. Mm-hmm. He was rebel without a cause, Matt, stretching out of cheerleaders in Arkadelphia. Because when the guy came to the room, he's like, I said, where are you from? I said, well, I'm in Katie, which is West of Houston. And he goes, oh, I'm from Archedelia. I'm like, shut up.

Nobody you don't make up a town like that. Yeah, it's Archedelphi. I think it's on the state border of Arkansas and maybe even Missouri. I'm not for sure. But whatever. Yeah. And then you got some penicillin and you're all right. Well, it's a little uncomfortable rooming with somebody you don't know.

So yeah, I would go with that. Perhaps a ibuprofen, if you will. Yeah, 17-year-old Matt Thomas got teased about being the mascot. 48-year-old's like, man, you must have a good time. And I had a fantastic time. You should see Matt's eyes roll in the back of the head and you can feel the memories getting unlocked in his brain when he just said fantastic time. Well, that's why the 30-year reunion not being the summer kind of sucked. Oh, so you had the reunion was canceled because of COVID?

Yeah, oh, yeah. Man, that's terrible. You couldn't have a Zoom one? Zoom reunion. I don't need that. I'm going to look and see what everybody's looking. That's not the, I don't need that in Zoom. Can't you do that on Facebook?

Yes, I'm saying. Why would I want Zoom when I got Facebook? Okay. Although when you do Zoom, you can't really alter the pictures that much, right? I mean, you put a different background. You can shoot a background in. You can, you know, if you have a third chin, you can try to hide it a little bit. Yeah.

Yeah. You can't hide your, that weight game when you're in a hotel, chicken tenders. Yeah. So they want to share like the class and, like, like, the class and, like, the first three classes of Maid Creek, we were all kind of tight because we were the first three. We were also in the building together at the exact same time. I don't want to share my reunion with other classes. Oh, they wanted to do a collective one?

Yeah. People are dying off at this point, Matt. No, not at my age, no, very few. Well, the Nimitz people are, so. Well, that may be for different reasons, which I'm not going to get into. Only the strong ever survived so far. A happy hour is okay. I'm cool with that.

But if the class of 90s going to be together, we're going to be together. So I can only butcher 25% of the people's names as compared to forgetting, you know, if it was 88, 89, 90, I wouldn't want to forget 80% of people. You just want to dunk on the people that made funny when you were. Oh, I do that before. I do that in 10 year and 20. Okay. Ten year, not so much because I didn't have my career going. By 20 years, I was doing just fine.

Well, hopefully by my 30 year, I can. What do you do for a reunion? I'm 2003. Oh, three. So what are we now? 2020. Oh, so you're still three years away from the big two years. Yeah, I told you I slept through my 10 because UT upset OU and I got blackout drunk and missed the reunion.

What about you? When you got a reunion coming up, Brendan? Next year. You're going to go? I don't know. I mean, that would require a flight. Wait a minute. It's not like Grand Rapids cost you a thousand dollars.

Oh, Grand Rapids. You can't fly director of Grand Rapids, can you? It's going to cost you. Okay. So I can definitely fly direct to Detroit. I might. Yeah, but why would you want to go to Detroit? I just recently got added to a Facebook group of people trying to plan something for next year.

Okay. Are you going to go? I don't know, man. There's no. You tell me there's not one girl you want to go up to and say, 10 years ago, I just, my crush on you was authentic and real, and it's still to this day. And she'll either go, get away from me, or that is so sweet. Why didn't you ask me out back then? And she's got four kids by now. And now she's got a husband with multiple tattoos on his head.

I'm going to be honest. I think what determines whether or not I go will be as I get a better idea of who all is in the group. Right now, I don't know most of the people in the group that's trying to plan something. How big was your graduating class? Like 950. Oh, well, then, yeah, don't go. That's too much. We started with 900 and our freshman year.

We got down like 451. Mine's always easier to remember because we are 365. Oh, okay. 451 Class of 2003 Nimitz High School My high school had the biggest like enrollment

in the state of Michigan We only had three We only had sophomore junior year And senior year in our high school Because there were just too many kids Yeah we started with a bunch There's just a lot of pregnancies and rests Well if you want to go

I'll help you to go I'll help with your offer Well I appreciate it We'll see I got time to figure out I'm not going to help you go I just want you to go But I want you to go For content

For content Yeah you're going to have to tell us You're going to have to have sex with somebody there, whether you are attracted to them or not. Even if it's yourself. No, no. That is part of the content we wouldn't want under any circumstance. 713-212-5-790. Let's go to Brian on 790.

Hi, Brian. Hey. So, best thing for 2020. Yeah, what do you got? At least for five weeks, Houston had the best football team on TV. Oh, RIP Roughnecks. Yes, sir. And along that same line, I guess we won't know if this is one of the best things of 2020 so later on,

but maybe along the lines of systemic change, the Rock and his wife or ex-wife or whatever boxed the XFL. You know what? I have a mixed opinion on that, Brian. I'll explain it just a second. Thank you for the phone call. I underestimated how PIPO of the XFL was. And again, when you win, Ross, anybody in Houston don't go anything, it wins. And it was cheap.

Yes. And they had crowds of 50. And they had beer. And they had beer. It was 15,000 people. Great stadium, TDCU. I mean, that in itself was probably drawn half the crowd. Make sure your cars locked before you go to go into the stadium.

That's not true. It may have, maybe for a night game, stay home. I'm going to stay with this on the Rock. I don't think the XFL comes back unless the Rock gets the NFL involved. I like the idea. of, I mean, Matt, there's a lot of uncertainty with what's going on with Big Ten. Oh, I know we're going with this. ACC players.

You're saying, hey, Rock. Hey, Rock, call your boys in the Big Ten. Call your boys in the Pack 12. Hey, you want to improve your draft status? Come get some games in before you get drafted. Yes, sir. I'll accept that. I like that.

I think that's going to, that would be huge. I will absolutely accept that. but let's say there wasn't a pandemic. Well, first of all, the X-FIL probably... Maybe it would still be going. Still be going. I don't know, though. Shut the doors pretty quick.

And fired our buddy Oliver so fast. Yeah. How's that lawsuit going? What's the latest on that, Matt? Okay, but let's do the end game within the next five years. Does the rock and the NFL bridge to be a true minor league? I say yes. I want it to happen, so I'll say yes.

Okay. Because I don't know independently. how it can survive. I agree. No, that's a question. I don't know. I know it won't survive. Because if Vince can't hang out

through a pandemic and he's got, I mean, a treasure chest, and not that Rock doesn't. Well, because there was, didn't he have, was it an insurance claim he was trying to file two or something like that? So maybe he was like,

my guess is Vince's CD with those kind of things. 1243. It's a Matt Thomas show, 713, 21, 2,5, 790. We're going to just kind of keep it lighthearted the day. We do have the good news of the NBA returning.

It has been a, a tumultuous time in sports really for many months and obviously the events of yesterday. And then we're just trying to get over the fact that we didn't get hit by the hurricane. So that should be celebratory in itself. 1243, Sports Talk, 790. 713212-5-790 is how you reach a show. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Chance for you to win your purchase from the Shell Federal Credit Union.

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Love your shell. What was it talking about? By the sound of it, some of you started the party at breakfast. Matt Thomas on Sports Talk 790. Great idea from Stroh's relegation, Brendan. He says take a hooker or a stripper to the reunion. Can I ask how that's a great idea? Because, and I'll...

Wait, how is it not a great idea? Because, again, you don't ultimately care about these people, correct? I mean, I don't think anyone I would be seeing there now. Okay, so they're going to have you walk in with a smoke show and go, man, Brandon, what is going on, my man? Good for you. And they think, well, you know, maybe... And so they say, are you guys serious? And Brendan, you can say, well, I'm not really serious.

No, we're just dating. It's cash. Do you think it increases my chances of getting with somebody? Yes. attractive because I don't. No, it doesn't increase your chance. I'll take you. I'll tell you exactly. Go ask somebody that doesn't have a job.

How easy it is to get a job? How many offers do you get for other jobs when you're currently employed? Plenty. That happens to happen to me on multiple occasions. Or I've already been happily employed and someone else came after me. Uh-huh.

Brendan, you go solo. You ain't all that. You go on with a nine, nine and a half, whether you pay for or not. And you just sell her as just a friend. You're talking long term or that night? Because he's not going to, how long is he staying in Detroit? Well, I mean, if you find that special someone, you get the weekend, bring her back to Houston.

I don't mind that as a long term play. But a one night only, I don't think that's going to work out for you. I don't think Brennan comes across the one and only guy. Unless you send her home and you say she broke up with you and you're trying to play the sympathy card. No, just say we had planned this trip for a long time. I'm really not into her. and I'm looking to, you know, I think we're going to break up.

This feels too much like TV. That's exactly what we're doing. Matter of fact, I only go to Detroit once here for the Rockets Pistons. I could actually go and videotape this for you. Riley's reunion brought to you by Sports Talk 790. Yeah, we'll put some corporate sponsors on it, for sure. Okay.

Because, Brendan, you walk in with, you're leaving with no one. You're leaving with no one. You walking with an eight or a nine, and you spread the word that you're not happy with this girl because of relationship issues, you're going to get at least a half dozen phone numbers. Maybe some IG DMs. You never know.

If we could put some corporate sponsors on that and I can see the effects of that, I'll do whatever you want. He wants a cut, man. What about free roaming board? I'm paying for airfare, at least part of it. I mean, that's the least I can do. He's going to put you in America's Best Value in or something.

I got a point. I'll put you in a fair feel. I got points. Now, who's paying for the stripper? Ooh. Not me. Well, we're going to have to get a Detroit stripper. which Michigan girls

I mean sorry Brendan you know this a little heavier Is that right? A little bit It's cold Is that accurate? Tell them about hockey sweat More of them to love

Tell them tell them I mean it's just cold Yeah A little extra insulation Yeah For the winter I saw it Minnesota first hand I trust me on these things

I don't disagree with that Okay I don't know I don't know what the Midwest girls are up to I only know the stories from Greg Cook Well up to they're probably about up to 215 Okay Nothing is anything wrong with that.

Mm-hmm. No. You get on some... Never mind. Yeah, don't do that. Where are we going to this? I don't know. Matt Thomas show.

Anything goes Thursday. That's a fact. By the way, tomorrow, Dusty Baker's going to be on the show. Wow. What about, what about Mike Dan Tony? You know what? Under the category of it's just raw. And it is raw.

I'm not talking about the conversation. No, I understand. No. It's too, yeah. Yeah. All I'll know is is that, you know, the rockets have opened up voting centers in November at Toyota Center, which is a good sign. Oh, really? That's great. Regardless of what political candidate you root for or what political party, which Ross and I are largely, he asked me during the break how many minutes I've watched the convention so far.

And I told him zero. And how many have I watched? Like President Trump's... The only reason why I saw a little bit yesterday was because it was we were waiting for updates from the weather and Vice President Pence was on. but I didn't hear what he said. I saw him trending, but I, yeah. So, yeah, I want as many people voting as possible. That's the end game.

And if you love Trump, get after it and go spread the word. And if you don't, do your thing. But we need it. We need, I think, don't you think in the last 30 years that voting has dropped dramatically in terms of percentages of people, apathy has kicked in? I think probably for a lot of people, yes. So let's vote. I

there's not a candidate I'm excited about man I'll just say no I mean we're not but we're gonna do it anyway I'm not voting for the senile old man okay so which

libertarian you're gonna vote for yeah there is a liberal there's a woman right well I don't know what her name is well maybe you should start doing some research and then there's the green party is how we something or other by the way

because I get these texts from these people hey are you gonna be who are you gonna be voting for and then so I look up who is the green part who is the I've been saying the Libertarian and the Green Party. By the way, at Tiffany 722 says that's not the way women work, MT.

Tiff, we love you, but again, singles game going, Brendan going up to Michigan by himself is not, I mean, you seem like you got a decent personality, but I don't know how long that's going to last. Uh-oh. What? ATX Hobo girls replied to that tweet as well, Matt. What did she? Oh.

MT, not knowing how women work day ending in Y, eh? Mark that at 1254. Daily shot. Yeah, she takes shots to me constantly. Constantly. All right. So we got two hours left to go. Yeah.

I mean, I'm honest with you. I'm a little delirious because I'm kind of sleep deprived. There's no baseball games. No basketball games, at least yesterday, probably not today. And who knows,

maybe Friday or Saturday, which again, hashtag Rust Rest. I like that. Rust rest. That's kind of a difficult phrase to say, though. Say it four times fast. No, no, no chance.

Okay. But I said it once so he can spread the work. A couple of days for Russ's quad. It's the worst thing of the world for me. No. It felt like he was going to play, though. I mean, he was in uniform to test it out. I don't think Russell Westbrook would have gone out there in full garb, which he did,

in thinking I'm not going to play this game. So I'm encouraged that now with the additional time, it would be a complete shock if Russ didn't play in the next contest. Well, it doesn't look like that Laker series. is going to go seven. So Rockets need to finish this thing as quickly as possible. So Dame Lillard. He left the bubble.

He left the bubble. And I was watching Mark Spears today on ESPN. He said, I hadn't seen Dame smile since I've been here. And he saw him smile. This bubble sports RV, and I know it's luxurious. Yes. It's, we had, you know, Kevin Johnson's score on the show yesterday. There's plenty of room, but it's still a bubble.

Pickleball league is thriving. But it's still a bubble. Cornhole. Yeah, I know. Absolutely. I think, well, Paul George has been talking about it, how he's been dealing with anxiety or depression or something like that to deal with all this bubble stuff. If I put you in a really awesome suite at a hotel, 500 square feet, a couple of bedrooms, plenty of place to walk around, a bunch of TVs, you'd still feel, and I said, you can't leave. You'd still feel like, I got to get out of here, no matter how nice the room is.

And by the way, I'm going to feed you these great meals, I'm having delivered to your room, and you're going to have any television you want. take long showers if you want to ignore about electricity, you'd still feel like I want to get out. I mean, think about this. When we had Hurricane Harvey a couple of years, remember three years ago. And I would check on my family as I was working here at the radio station. And they had the power. They had satellite TV. They had plenty of food because they'd go to the grocery store.

I said, you know, I told, I said, what's the problem? He goes, we have cabin fever. And I think it's not bubble fever, but it's, I think it's bubble anxiety. It's being away from family and friends in a different city that you're not accustomed to except going for maybe once or twice a year. I think part of that compounded the anxiety of what it's going on. Paul George said as much the other day about his depression issues and how he had to kind of pick himself up in order to become more relevant for the Los Angeles Clippers. And when he did, he was the Paul George that we thought he was going to be. And part of the reason why we get scared with him.

When there is a feeling of helplessness, then you may see some acting out. that's in any situation in life. And maybe that's what we're some of what we were saying there with the bubble yesterday. All right. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90 on Twitter at SportsMT, at SportsRV, at Brendan Riley. underscore we start our number two of the Matt Thomas. We take you to 3 o'clock.

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This is the Matt Thomas Show. 103 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show. You know, the show after ours, which hardly works, although they actually put a full three-hour day in yesterday because of the cancellation. Yeah, they were only going to have to work 90 minutes. minutes, man. But they actually put in the walkout, boycott, whatever we're calling it?

It wasn't a strike. No. Boycott means the games wouldn't be replayed. Yeah, I don't think it was a walkout. Postpomment. Walkout postponement. Okay. So they actually got three hours in yesterday, which, you know, for them per hour is still, I mean,

they need a salary adjustment. There's no argument about that. But one of the segments they do is things you've missed. And I was like, case you've missed it. In case, whatever. And you do this, everybody does the same. Let me tell you, reinventing radio is no big deal. Everybody thinks they're wacky and zany and doing things differently.

No, you know how successful radio works is you come across as authentic as humanly possible? You talk sports. You have a good time. You laugh a little bit. You have some controversy. You have some good debate. You goof around. That's not coming up with inorganic bits like in case you missed it.

And I'm not saying there is, but the point is I feel like we might have to do some of that ourselves. because are there headlines we've missed? Today? Today. What is ESPN say right now? We could call it what's trending, or we could call it headlines, or we could call it.

No, no, we've already called them those things. Players group calls on NHL to postpone games. These are the top of ESPN headlines. Okay, that's what I'm saying. I want to see where we are in the sports world. Barcelona president, willing to quit to keep Lionel Messi at Barza? Lino? Lionel?

Okay. Lionel Messi. I have zero opinion on that. Well, it's not like Lionel Richie and Lionel Messi. It's more of a Lionel. Yeah, so Matt, where do you think Messi was going to end up? I want to do whatever makes him happy. Well, I hope he goes to Manchester City, personally.

Osaka to play in Western and Southern Open on Friday. Naomi Osaka. She said she wasn't going to play, and I guess now she's going to play. By we were getting a lot of libertarian candidate tweets coming in. Oh, no. Cool. So go vote for him. It's a girl, I think.

Whatever. A woman, I mean. Okay. I don't think it's a little girl. It's not a girl. It's a woman. I'm sorry. It's a woman.

I corrected myself. The Packers have canceled practice. By the way, Texas is supposed to have a skirmage tonight. I would presume they're still going to do this, right? The hurricane isn't an issue here. Yeah, I would imagine. Now, I think there probably is a little bit of, well, if Major League Baseball postponed some games yesterday because of the unrest and the NBA did what they did. do you join your fellow professional athlete brethren?

Again, those walls in Texanville are so closed that we don't have a real feel. Well, I mean, there was Bill O'Brien talking about how he would take a knee with the players. He has conversations with Romeo Cornell, Kenny Stills, he understands some of those types of things. So I don't know. That's like three people. I mean, the NFL teams are huge. No, I mean, I don't think that's the only two people he's ever had conversations with. I'm just saying he's talked about that.

But we only know the opinions of a handful. Right. No, I mean, I'm talking about before how he has these perspectives and he's receptive is what I mean. Yeah. My thought is they're going to, let me tell you, these guys want to hit each other. They're tired of seeing each other. They want to see what the show. They want to see if Brandon Cooks can run a route and catch a pass without getting hurt.

They want to see what Randall Cobb's got left in the tank. They want to see if David Johnson can do this thing and Duke Johnson can catch a ball to backfield. They want to see each other. They want, again, they're going to be very. careful about this. You don't want to get... Because here's the thing, Ross. They really haven't been doing much hitting at all. And the only time you ever get to really hit anybody is during the preseason.

And there are zero games this year. And then we can... Well, yeah, there's no preseason. After the scrimmage, can we still play your... It's just the preseason drops? No, they wouldn't be applicable. Dang it. It's just a scrimmage.

It's just a scrimmage. That's not as fun, though, Matt. Did we set up a voicemail when we did that? No, we just had a bunch of people throughout the years. Most of these people don't even work here anymore. So basically what we did is we had people call the show and say, hey, record your voice and say it's just a scream. And some people did. Only the preseason it is.

That somebody, no, you know what it was? People sent me MP4s on her phone. Hi. This is Tiffany. It's just the preseason. See Brandon, the things you missed in the early days of the Matt Thomas show? Hey, brother, it's the holkster. And it's just the preseason, brother.

Is that Sean Salisbury? I don't know who that is. It's out of like, Sean. Who's this? Hey, this is Bill Cosby. It's just the preseason. A legendary. Legendary?

Maybe perhaps all the wrong reasons. Maybe you don't know what that word means. It's just a preseason, don't you know? That was me, too. Yeah. I suck in impersonations. I really do. No, no, it's just the preseason.

What's your all getting been out of shape for? This is when I had laryngitis. It's just the preseasonation. Well, and I'm sitting next to Muhammad. And I just want everyone in Houston to know. It's just the preseason. All right. And there you go.

Those are your preseason ones we're never going to play this year. Maybe one more. You got one more? Just relax, baby. It's just a preseason, you know what to me? Thank you. Thank you very much. Now let me get back to my peanut butter and banana sandwich.

That's my favorite one, I think. Oh, I like the Cosby one except the Cosby one is, It's so politically incorrect. It's just awful. But yeah, I would be astonished if the Texans didn't scrimmage. And my guess is now that the NBA players have come back that you will see minimal pressure from the other leagues to step away from the game for a little while. Maybe we're going to, between weather, Rona and Sybil unrest,

none of these seasons are ever going to finish. It's just going to be like an MLS season where it goes 12 months. allowing forward. They've got multiple outbreaks, and they're just going at it. So I think, I think Major League Baseball is going to finish. They're like, please, can we just get to the playoffs? Yeah. And you know what they're doing? They're playing seven-inning double-headers and a lot of them. I think the Mets, I think I read this Saturday on the On-Dex show. I think they had nine games and six days.

Well, you know that I was talking about this with, I think, Brendan yesterday and Joe George, maybe. How did you feel about the seven-inning double-hatter once it finally happened? I actually didn't mind it. I hated it. You keep the bullpen. But it's not one of those things. I go, oh, my God. First of all, it's just one little small gimmick of yet an overall gimmicky season.

Yes. But it's not like I turned it off. This is disgusting. I just didn't like it. The extra inning rules I was on board with. And then when they happened, it was weirded me out. And these, I was for, I mean, I was against. And then when it happened, I mean, I'm sorry.

And then I was for it. So it kind of flipped. Yeah. Stance on doubleheaders, hate seven innings. It is what it is. You got to play it. short season. The extra runner at second base, I don't

mind, but I'm going to stay consistent on this. I don't think you do that until the 11th inning. I think you play an organic 10th. I agree with you, Matt. And part of the reason why is now that I've had it done about five or six post-game shows where every time the asteros go to extra innings, but guy calls the show, it just further irritates me.

It is interesting, the extra layer of strategy it adds. Because remember it calls Correa, pinch hit, and then they I can't remember what team it was. They immediately intentionally walked him and other stuff like that has been happening. So do you bunt? Do you double steal? When do you do this?

When do you do that? It's been kind of interesting in that way. It's added a little bit more because honestly, when you had the D-H in sports, it takes away some of the managerial decisions because you don't have to worry about the guy hitting in the lineup. I got a small trivia question for you. I don't know if you know, it's not a trivia, but it's either a yes or no. If I'm pitching a double header and I throw seven innings and I don't give up a hit,

is it a no hiter? it is not. Are you absolutely sure? Yes. Bernie, what do you think? I'm sorry, I didn't catch you. I'm trying to find my non-flora story.

Oh, we're still doing that? Oh, yeah, 2.30 today. I better start. We need it. We need a non-flora story. But yeah, it is not a no-hitter. It is not a no-hitter. Oh, yeah, definitely not a no-hitter.

Yeah. It's not an argument. It's a rule. The Elias Sportsbriot is, and Major League Baseball does not recognize a no-hitter that's not go nine innings. Yeah, I mean, you've had guys throw no-hitters and, like, six innings, and then it washes out with rain and stuff like that. That's not a no hitter. It's just not.

The only way it does be recognized is if that inning, that that seven-inning game goes to a nine because of extra earnings. What if you threw a seven-inning perfect game? Oh, wow. And then it just doesn't count. Seven really cool innings. What if Zach Grinky does that sometime this year? They're like, well, it doesn't count. Sorry, Zacher.

Would you like to be Zach Grinky, the pitcher? I'll explain that coming up in a minute. 35 million a year? Yeah. Okay, forgetting about the money. I could throw 54, I imagine. Just about the pitching repertoire. I hope I could throw 54. 113 on Sports Talk 790. 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-790. And a message here for Improve Myeriction.com.

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for the station across the way and I get terrible liners coming back. I see how y'all are. Well, that liner does talk about how much you're on air, Matt. For that, we appreciate you. The voice of you. Houston Sports. Not Florida story coming up in an hour and 10 minutes. This is a good one.

It involves New Orleans, an airport, and Spirit Airlines. Okay. Tell me that's not a perfect trio for non-Florida story of 230. New Orleans and Spirit Airlines means I'm jumping in with two feet men.

I mean, think about it. What is that like flying to New Orleans or going from New Orleans somewhere else on a spirit flight out of New Orleans. Because you've done the spirit going to Vegas with us. Yes. And it just pissed me off because your flight was multiple hours late. My flight was late.

And then they wouldn't let me check my bag late, even though the flight was leaving late. So because I checked, it was going to be a four-hour delay. So I didn't show up to the airport on time. Naturally. Why would I go and sit there for four hours? Then they didn't let me check on my plane. And then the same thing happened to a girl. And she had to put her in time.

Every outfit that she was going to wear, she put on. she was wearing like a dress, regular clothes, bathing suit, all that. She wore it on the plane. By the way, if I fly in Detroit for your reunion next year, your flying spirit, because I want you to take video on the flight. Well, folks, good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to Spirit Airlines, Flight 790.

Got a special customer flying with us today. His name is Brendan Riley. And he's got a special lady with him on the flight. flight. Her name is Veronica. They just met and he's paying $1,100 to take her to his 10-year reunion. Wow. So what we're going to do is we're going to hopefully have them have an extra relaxing flight. We'll give them a free beverage because again, buying escorts are not cheap these days in 2021. And Brandon, on behalf of all of us here at Spirit, if we do land on time and get you to the reunion in time, hope you guys have a great time and grab some more numbers and bring that girl

back with you from Detroit right here on Spirit Airlines. Don't sit back. Relax. About to get to Detroit. Oh, sorry. Brandon, we're not going to be able to, we're not going to get you the reunion. We've just lined in the Midway Airport in Chicago. No mistakes happen. Thanks for Flying Spirit.

Could you imagine flying in the wrong airport? That would take Uber stupidity. That doesn't really happen in 2020, right? It has happened not with a commercial flight. but I think it's happened with private flights but that would take several layers of stupidity from the flight control to the pilots to the aircraft

I mean you just couldn't do that right be a lot of incompetence in one flight is what you're saying yeah I mean you're flying Houston to San Antonio it would take multiple people to screw up the flight you wind up blaming in Austin how long is a flight to San Antonio about 45 minutes yeah it's not much okay so So we got to trip plan, spirit with $1,100 escort, because it's a weekend pass.

I mean, you're not getting her just for the one day. Man, she sounds way too classy for Brennan. Well, let me ask us, can Brandon get numbers without us behind him an escort? I would think so. I am confident I could get numbers. Oh, look at. That's the only bar. Okay.

I mean, more than that. Yeah, there's going to be a fake number, but I mean, it's the number. And then you know what? Nah, I can get real numbers. Then I'll fly you on a real airline. Hello, Spirit, if you're out there. Sorry, but... They're not real, Matt?

You're legendary. Yeah, and then on my entire flight to Vegas had a metal rod from the back of the seat stick jamming into my knee. Because... No, no legroom. The person in front of you reclined his seat, too. No, they didn't recline their seat. There's no legroom on a Spirit flight.

My knee was sore the whole Vegas trip. Yeah, you had arthritis the whole time. Yeah. All right. 713-212-5-790. It's how you reach a show if you'd like to join. 713212-1-2-5-790. It sounds like the NBA is not sure on a potential return that Friday may not be a go.

Woj is saying that it might be a Saturday return, according to Adrian Wojnerowski, who obviously Matthew is in the know on these types of things. He tweeted seven minutes ago. There is still a discussion ongoing among players about the timing of a playoff resumption with expectation that Saturday return of games will be finalized later today. Sources tell ESPN. Well, you know the smartest thing that happened yesterday? was that nobody left the bubble.

Could you imagine 10, 15, 20 players were all saying, F this, we're not getting proper justice, we are afraid for our lives, we're afraid for our citizens, we're going to go out and just be mad. I wonder, I mean, I would imagine that was discussed in that. Absolutely. At 8 o'clock, well, 8 o'clock Eastern last night, got pretty heated, and there was a Eudanus Haslam,

apparently, had to have an impassioned speech to calm everybody down. John Lucas gave some speech. all these little things were leaking out about stuff that happened. People were questioning the bucks like, hey, why did you throw this into our laps? We didn't know that we weren't going to play today. And then you had, who was it, Jalen Brown or somebody stepping up and saying, hey, they don't have to explain anything to us. We talk about the books being written about this bubble.

I think that's definitely going to be an interesting one whenever some of the details of that come out. You're seeing that already. Some already behind the scene stories are being out there as it is. It's true. And, you know, Ross, if we were in Milwaukee Buck and we saw are, you know, Kenosius what's south of Milwaukee, right? I want to say.

I think it's... I'll take your word for it. It's not in the metropolitan Milwaukee, but it's the team that represents the state. Yeah, yes. They obviously, this hit close to home to them. And they probably have their fans saying, hey, you see what's going on back home

when you guys are playing basketball? It probably engulfed them. Their emotions got caught up with everything going on. And again, now that I have a chance to think about this and I think others do, this bubble has created some emotions of helplessness.

And I think that's why, and I don't think it was done flippantly, but it certainly wasn't done with much advance notice. And I do believe that if you were going to take this kind of stand, that if you didn't have a part B to this,

you were going to find yourself facing a little bit of ridicule. But if you're Milwaukee, my guess is people that love the bucks, that love those players, are happy that the basketball team who's just trying to play some basketball

as actually thinking about what's happening back in their own home territory. Yeah, the fact of the matter is they said, hey, there's more important things going on right now than basketball. And we're going to take a pause. We're going to try to figure this out. We're going to talk to owners and talk to the governor, talk to the attorney general, all this other stuff, and figure out if things are going in the right direction and then discuss. And then they reconvened this morning, correct? Yeah.

Can I be really honest about one thing about this? And we've not spent a whole lot of time on it because we're trying to keep this as lighthearted as possible. there is a certain group of players. How many there are? I don't even know what there are. But I want to see them. If they really are as outrage as they have portrayed themselves to be, they should be as active as you ever have ever seen athletes when the season is over with.

Bubbles done, get back to their families, have a little bit downtime. That's what I think we'll see. You know, because Ross, I always ask you, I say, what are we going to see a change that makes everybody go, wow, that was something. Those types of things don't happen overnight. That's what I'm saying. You don't have to do it overnight. That's why you finish the season out and you go up there and you do and you do what you do what will blow, I think, America away is how active these athletes who want to say what they want to wear in their jerseys. If they do something that's outside their comfort zone, not on a basketball court, that's when I think that 45% that I would believe it only believes in one thing is going to take a step back and go, wow, that's an interesting perspective.

have had athletes all over the play set. I mean, Yonestine Ticompo was at, was at protest, Russell Westbrook at protest, Jalen Brown at road protests, other, I mean, Deshawn Watson was at the one that they had downtown. So a lot of these guys are going to be, but I think going to a protest is one thing. It's,

I want to meet with the mayor of Milwaukee. I want to meet with the governor of Wisconsin. Well, they, they talk with the Attorney General, I think, and the governor. But you just couldn't get enough done on a conference call. It's got to be face to face. It's got to be in your community. It's got to be multiple. Well, I imagine it's not done.

Well, no, I know what I'm saying it is done. But what they did yesterday wasn't going to all of a sudden, the attorney general wasn't going to go, I got to change my opinion right now. Or my guys aren't going to play. That wasn't going to happen. That's why I'm saying for the 45% that hate everything that's going on with this, you turn heads when you are in the month of September,

when you're supposed to be relaxing on a beach in Aruba, you are having solid, logical conversations with elected officials. and city leaders trying to invoke the change that you want. That's how I think you take that segment of the population that is so cynical about this and go, man, this is, this really is making the change. I think they'll still be cynical. You're probably right. That's why I say 45, 45, 10.

45% of the people last night loved Mike Pence's speech. 45% of America hated it. The other 10 is trying to figure out. I didn't see it. We're in the 10, I think. Yeah. Maybe even in a smaller percentage. I'm sure it was a fantastic speech.

Yeah, you know what I'm going to do instead. I'm not going to listen to Plinko's and PowerBiles. I was just going to say that. The podcast. How's that doing? I don't think particularly well. Did you get a cease and desist from the prices right for stealing there? No, you keep trying to make that happen.

That's rude of you to do that. Well, I've notified some of the executives there. Who? Who did you call? Drew Carey? Did you reach out on Twitter? I did. Episode 2 of Plankos and PowerBombs is on

on Apple Podcast and also on the Iheart Radio app. And it's me talking to my buddy Tracy. He was a contestant on the prices right. And he talked about the entire experience. We talked a little bit of wrestling. We also talked about our three favorite pricing games in the prices. When did he, when was he on?

Three years ago. Oh, really? Recently. Yeah. Cool. I thought, when are you going to get on, Matt? Here's what I've been trying to do. Where is it in Burbank?

Or what are they doing? No, it's in Beverly Hills. Okay. You're always over there Yeah, it's not far I went to this I drove by the studio You're over there eating $30 pancakes

Matt, why don't you get over there? Well the problem is this You can't go by yourself Okay And you need a whole day Like you gotta get there at 7 And you're probably not there To 4 or 5 o'clock

And if I'm working a Rockets game that night I can't miss a rocket scene Are they filming them during COVID now anyways? I don't think so They've been running repeats forever But yeah If you're gonna If the Rockets and Lakers

Slash Rockets Clippers Have like a couple days off in between I will try to grab Could you imagine me trying to grab a handful of rockets And us go into the prices right? You know, because it's strength in numbers, right? You do a group people, you all wear the same shirts. Imagine me, Craig, Bull, P.J. Tucker, Austin Rivers.

Who would be the best rocket on the prices right? We'll discuss that next. Austin Rivers, Dukey. 120. He only went there for one year, though. He's smart guy, though. Oh, he's dumb. But you were presuming because he went to Duke. but he only went to do.

I mean, he only probably has 30 credits. He got in. That's true. 129 on Sports Talk 790. Rockets, Astros, and Real Texans. Talk here. Any interest in the Houston area there. Houston Sports Talk 790.

All right. We'll get some phone calls in in just a second. 713-1-2-125-79. If you are on hold, thank you for listening to the show and calling in. We'll get to you in a matter of seconds. Ross asked who would be the best rocket on the price is right? Okay, James is not going to go. There's just no way he's going to spend hours waiting.

Yeah. Frankly, there isn't a... I wouldn't have confidence in him having any sort of being in touch at all with what the cost of normal products are. Yeah, there's no way he's going to do. And frankly, no. He doesn't know what a new Nissan Maxima is going to run. He has no clue. Or biscuits in a can.

Yeah. Maybe if we, you know what, if we had prices right where he had to price Lamborghinis? Well, they only do that on a couple games. I might want James up there. Okay, so let's under the preface of none of them are going to do this because you've got to get there like 7, 8 o'clock in the morning and you're not done to about 3 or 4 in the afternoon. Right. There's no way they're going to wait. Let's just say automatically it's like when they do celebrity family feud.

Like they're already in. Yeah. PJ, shoe game would know what a pair of shoes would cost like nobody's business. That's true. PJ would do great with the sneakers. I'm going to have to go Tyson Chandler. this because family man. He's domesticated.

I feel like Tyson could go to the grocery store and get some things. Do you feel like Tyson's like budgeting things out on mint.com? That I don't know. What about Bruno Caboclo? No. Tabo no. Clemens no. I think Chris Clemens might be sneaky good.

I mean, he doesn't have a big contract. He might know what I want to... So he's kind of watching his pennies a little bit? He might want to know what a 409. A bottle of 409 is going to get you, cost you? Okay, Russ. Now, Russ is a family man.

That's true. I think Russ is a sneaky good pick. I think sneaky good pick is Russ. Then Tyson. What about Uncle Jeff Green? If it's with moving expenses, yes. Because he's a journeyman. Yeah.

So who knows the price of a home is going to be. Has it been like on eight different teams at least? like that. It's something crazy. He's playing great for the Rockets. And his Uncle Jeff, so maybe he had Uncle Jeff go to go to grocery. I feel like Uncle Jeff would go pick up some groceries. All right, I'm going Ross 1, Tyson 2, Uncle Jeff, three, Austin Rivers 4. James way down on the list. Unless you're playing

the Golden Road for the chance to win the Lamborghini. Yeah, exactly. And that is today's edition of which Rocket would do well. Unless you're apprising bottles of Dom Perri-on in a strip club. They're not doing that. Yeah, I'm not doing it. that at all. You know what? They should do that.

What if he did Lamborghini and strip club prices right? And you could host Matt. Do not associate James with strip club. Let him do. Let him be himself. Let him do what he wants to do on the side. You call it the price is right. Ho? No. If James does his thing out, you know what?

James gets a 40 point triple double. I don't care where he goes. He knows what the shrimp cocktail at dreams cost, man. All right. We're done with this. Let's go to Gary. Magic City. Gary and Brenham at 1.30. Hi, Gary. Hey, how y'all doing, guys?

Thanks for taking my call. Sure. I listen to you all the time. Thank you. Y'all do a good job. Thank you. Hey, I just wanted, yeah, I thought it's been a good job, but the ones that are out of the park, the last few nights were Burgess Owens and Herschel Walker.

I think they came in different perspectives, but, I mean, it was just awesome to listen to their speeches and their lifestyle, what happened in their life. I think we lost Gary. Gary, oh, you're back. Go ahead. Go ahead. Okay. Okay.

But to get into the NBA, I like all sports, and I even got a relative as in the pro baseball, but I'm not going to get into that. But I just want to say they all, I mean, we know it as racial injustice, but we've talked about it in Brennan, everywhere. It's just that it's getting, when you see it was not even as much up here.

Yeah, we're going to let you run, my friend, because I just got a bad connection now. I appreciate it listening. I didn't want to even try to guess what he was trying to figure out. I don't know. The message was so blotchy. So thanks, Gary, for the phone call.

He did give us a rundown on the RNC. Thank you. He said he liked Pence and he, uh, no, I heard that Hershow Walker spoke. I didn't catch his speech. Is he very? Very what? We took a lot of blows to the head. Is he, can he, can he complete sentences?

is everything good with them? When I was a kid, I loved Herschel Walker. That he played on the Georgia 82 team. I want to say, did they lose to Texas? They beat Texas. Texas was number, Texas was number one. Something involving the Longhorns. Thanks for bringing it up.

I wouldn't even born, but I'm still upset about this. Texas could have won another national championship if they beat Georgia, I think in the Cotton Bowl, the 83 Cotton Bowl. That makes some sense, yeah. So, and then they lost. David Akers was the coach, I think. I don't remember, something like that. No, Fred Acres.

I mean, Fred Acres, whatever. David McWilliams. David, yeah, who care? Who can keep track? Well, he should have stayed at Texas Tech. Whatever. Yeah, he was terrible. He was a disaster.

What did Herschel do in his last year at Georgia in 82? Was he not on the 80? It was the 83 Longhorns who lost them in the Cotton Bowl. So the Cotton Bowl would have been January 1st, 84? That's not true. Yeah. Maybe it was maybe the year before they. Did they play Texas two years in a row?

I thought it was Herschel's year in 82. Didn't he win the Heisman that year? What was his 1982 numbers? That's the first time I remember watching college football on a regular basis. In 82, Texas did not play Georgia. I'm not cared about Georgia. I'm cared about Texas. Clearly, because you were minus six of the time.

1982, Georgia Bulldogs. They were 11 and 1. And lost two? Somebody. They lost to Penn State in the Sugar Bowl. Okay. In New Orleans, 1983. And what was Herschel Walker's rushing numbers that year?

If, let me look this up. You keep talking, Matt. You know why Herschel Walker? It's 1,700 yards and 16 touchdowns. 1,700 yards and 16 touchdowns. I want to see if you can figure this up. Brennan, you've got no chance. So it wasn't on the 83 team.

So why do you... Texas and the Con Bowl. I'm going to see if you can figure this out. Why does Herschel Walker beyond the politics support Donald Trump. Do you know the answer to that? USFL. Yes.

Good for you. I know a little bit about a little bit, Matt. Good for you. The New Jersey Generals. Yes. Didn't Donald Trump run that league? No, he was the owner of that team. Yeah, didn't he try to, didn't he run them into the ground?

He sued the NFL and they won. They won a dollar. A dollar. Quarterback in the New Jersey Generals team was? Doug Flutty. Damn. Right? Yes, that's right.

Imagine if we did a weakest link on USFL question. You'd be doing just fine. Man, if I would have known who the stupid man, Jay stupid-ass Tingler, I would have, I think I would have won the final round. All right, I think James... I could have named four of the top ten tacklers. I would have put Morlon Greenwood in there for the Texans.

James, you got some Texas football news for us? Yes, that game was actually played on January 1st, 1984. And I'm still just like how he was saying, I'm very upset. They would have won the national championship. They were 11-0, and if Todd Dodge was the quarterback, and the Long Worms had the ball at the 13-yard line with like 30-something seconds left,

and he throws an interception on third down. All they needed was a field goal to win the game. Final score was 10 to 9. Well, at least you got Peter Gardier after that. At least Peter Gardner saved your bacon after that. Todd Dodge. Todd Dodge was the quarterback. Go figure.

Todd Dodge. Thanks, James. members that. Thanks for the memories. I appreciate it. Thank you. It's killing me. Clearly, what, 37 years later.

David Acres was a kicker. Right? He was the Eagles kicker for a while. That's why I said David Acres. Fred, also known as Freddie Acres. Yes. Was the coach that replaced they're okay Royal, right?

Yes. And then his de-coordinator was David McWilliams. Who went to Texas Tech, killed it, and then said, come on back home. How long was McWilliams a coach attack? is not very long, right? Not a couple of years, yeah. And Mac Brown saved everything.

And then Mac came in and saved everything, and now he said... And then he was just more worried about eating Sally Brown's cobbler than working out in actual game planning or anything. I was... Did I tell you, I was listening to ESPN Radio when I was in Lovick a few weeks back? The host asked if Mac would like to be the commissioner of college football. Hmm. What he said?

He said, that's something that I wouldn't even think about it right now. Well, I'm not really thinking about that right now. I'm trying to do a wonderful job at North Carolina. Thanks, Mac. Does everybody do a Mac Brown? I do a horrible Mac Brown impression. Here it is, Matt. Because I feel like if everybody wanted to try their hardest, they could do it.

You know Mac Brown, his first two years at North Carolina, he went one in ten, one in ten. Yeah. He would have been fired on it. In 2020, he would have been out on his ass. Brendan, real quick, as you're producing the show, if we did an entire Mac Brown sounded like segment, not a full hour, would we lose audience? I would. Yeah, I think so.

Because I really want to do it. Everyone call in with your Mac Brown impression. Save it for like when we have an unreasonably short segment. Well, Robert Griffin, the third is a fine young man. We're going to put him right at safety. You know, we have a snack size edition of the Matt. Thomas show only going 12 to 1230 because of Astros baseball. Johnny Mansell could be a nice quarterback, but we're going to put him at the corner.

Thanks, Mac. All right. So the decision is we can't do a Mac Brown only set. Robert Griffin, the third out. Johnny Mansell out. James Winston contacting the school wanting to go there. This feels bitter. Now I'm upset.

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Big Citywings, big citywings.com. The morning sports show for those who partied in Midtown way too hard last night. The Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790. And, you know, we don't play the breaking news sound or a whole lot. Or we do sometimes breaking news is minimal, sometimes it's huge. The A's Rangers game tonight in Arlington has been postponed due to the civil unrest. And how that impacts things, A, two teams in American League West.

But B, more importantly, the A's are supposed to be in Houston for a weekend series with the Astro starting tomorrow. Hmm. All right. So you had, was it three games yesterday that didn't go on? Yep. Brewers, Reds, Dodgers, Giants. Can't remember what else. So,

does that put the Astro Series up for grabs? I don't know. I don't know. I wonder if every team is going to feel compelled to join their other sports brethren in missing some time as a symbol of, you know, because the A's will have missed.

You said, how many other, there were, what, three games canceled yesterday, right? Yes, yes. It was, I just looked, it was Mariners, Padres, Brewers, Reds, and Dodgers, giants. So, I mean, we're literally just throwing a question up in the air

and seeing if it's going to stick. Does, is every team going to feel compelled to miss something? I don't know who schedule maker person is in MLB, but whoever it is probably deserves, I don't know, 25% increase in pay. Because, you know, they build these schedules a year in advance. Like, we knew about next year's Astro schedule, even before the start of this year's schedule. They don't have to fight with stadiums per se,

and they try to get way ahead of the game in terms of scheduling opponents. So then they had to scrap the 2020 season, come up with this 20, 20 version B. Now granted, they were only doing division versus division and indivision, but it's still a lot of work. They made it a little bit easier because you can just tack on double headers every time somebody test positive for COVID or... But that's not easy either. I mean, try to reschedule eight to nine games.

I mean, when the Marlins and the Cardinals didn't play for like weeks, right? Yes. And then they were having... And then they were flipping series with teams playing in different cities. Yeah. They had Toronto in Toronto, but they really didn't have Toronto in Toronto. They had Toronto in Buffalo. Astro's got a home game in Los Angeles later on.

Yeah. It's just wild. It is, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, say that again? Gimicky. Oh, yeah. We knew that from the day it opened. Yes.

This is bizarre. What's the most authentic part of baseball in 2020, 2020 so far? Zach Rinky calling his own, oh, I forget the answer about, 54 mile an hour, Eva's pitches. I'm glad you brought that up. would you like to be this is a loaded question so let's forget about the years

if I gave you Ross Villarreal's Major League Baseball career would you want to be a guy that was known as 98 on the gun just throwing BBs or would you like to have known as a guy that was able to mix his pitches and was able to survive and thrive

despite the fact that maybe your fastball topped out at 89 well you know man I am left-handed and left-a-m- And lefties are crafty. Like I would, why didn't I? So I got a soft spot in my, on my heart for crafty lefties. Yeah, I should have done a better job of becoming a crafty, lefty knuckleballer. Could you imagine being a knuckleballer from the left hand side?

I feel like you'd be like a submariner, Matt. No, because. Like a Pat Neeshack. Oh, are Dan Quisenberry back in the day? Or young, young Kim. There's a few guys that are submariners now. Yeah, I think it kind of, I think there's maybe like one or two. Who was the Astros guy last year that was a submariner?

One Joe Smith. Oh, yeah, Joe Smith. Was it Joe Smith? Joe Smith's a sidearm. Okay. There's more of a sidearm. There's a difference between sidearm and submarine. Submarine is you take.

Somebody's almost like your softball pitching it up. Or you're bowling. Yeah, exactly. Which again, I don't, I can't imagine getting 90. Yeah, Joe Smith more of a side armor. Yeah. Which is also fun as a while. I love side.

Like, it's just so weird. What other sport where you just have guys just start? Well, you know what? I'm going to throw it sideways. Okay. Because you would think Granky would not get a...

He throws, what, one Ephus a game, if not more? A few, yeah, handful. And he had a bet with Brent Strom if he could throw a pitch

under 56 miles an hour. He owed him $100. So Brent Strom's got to pay up on that bet now. Let me tell you something. If Zach Granky makes Brent Strom pay him a hundred bucks,

that's the worst thing ever. What? Brent Strom's doing okay for himself? He ain't $35 million a year. Hey, if you got the cash, you make the bet. I don't want to hear it. No,

no welching. I disagree. Well, that's because you don't pay up on your bets. I pay my bets all the time. You owe me a steak dinner. No. I can't remember what for, though. See, if I'm going to owe you, you need to write it down.

You and Greg Cook are in the same situation. You can't make up someone owes you something without having either vividly remembering what it is. I can't keep track every time you fly off the handle with a crazy prediction, Matt. All I know is this. Zach Granky throwing one. He actually throws probably a half dozen pitches at a lot of. under 70. Would that be safe and saying? Yeah, I love it. It's awesome. Why do we have such respect for that over a guy like Verlander who's 35, 36 still throwing 96 on the guy? We have great

respect for Justin Verde. I mean, he won the AL-Sai Young. But we do love. We love putting it in your heart. We put the fingers out there and he says, I'm going to throw this 57 mile per hour pus and I'm going to get it over the plate. It's awesome. Like when I used to umpire softball, there was nothing more enjoyable than seeing big, fat, softball guy who was like high school stud athlete, but that's as far as he got swinging and missing on the slowest of slow pitch. Sweat pouring out of his armpits. You know, when you call a strike, when it's a swing and fratic. Well, you're not supposed to say it.

Oh, really? You say strike. You know, but if it's a call strike, it's strike or stear-write, whatever. If it's a swing and a miss, you don't say the same thing. You don't say anything or you just say straight. Just say strike or nothing at all. But big fat softball guy. Dude has an ankle bracelet from the St. Paul Police Department.

I love going steer right on a big swing and a miss. Like a naked gun level? Yeah. Well, give me your, for real though. Give me your, it was ninth inning or how many innings did y'all play? Whatever. Seventh inning. We usually did a timing situation.

Base is loaded. Well, okay, 59th minute. Somebody's down one. emphatic strike three call gave it to me man does this base does this this run called called strike three does he have an ankle bracelet uh no those he's a regular normal human being if you piss him off it's not that big of a deal he's not gonna he's not gonna turn to you with the de marini okay strike one is strike two is strike yeah strike three is out oh it stinks hurt your soul now i don't do the hand gestures like a lot umpires they put their hand up in the air and they throw you and they

point you to the yeah I just go how you don't give the dagger yeah I don't want to embarrass you don't need hand gestures to embarrass somebody certainly not in the softball field

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The three of us will have non-flora stories at 2.30. Mine involves Spirit Airlines in Louisiana. Yours involves Brendan, by the way, because Ross has not found his yet because he's been lazy. Well, I'm between two right now. One's in Detroit and another in Akron. Man, you are Mr. Midwest, aren't you? I don't know what to tell you. I guess that's where the good stories come from.

I feel like if I gave you, if you let me have Louisiana and Florida, I'll let you have there are 48 states and be just fine. I genuinely don't look for any specific region. I'll take Ohio and Oregon, mostly because I get Portland. You're in, you're a minute Portland? I have not.

I wouldn't want to go. Why don't you come with me on a Rockets road trip next year up to Portland for a game? Okay. Some friends of mine had gotten a campsite at Mount Hood out there, which is supposed to be really nice. But it was supposed to be like last week, I couldn't make it because of the Rockets. It's a beautiful city. Great basketball arena. Great basketball fans.

Just a weird city, though. A little different. Yeah. Not your homespun Texas friendliness. I will say this. Well, you got aggressive homeless people out. there, right? That's what I've said. Just ask Terrence Jones. No, I ask me. It's scary, frankly.

Two different times in my life, I have been really scared because what they do, and I think you do not want to put everybody in the same category, but it's happened twice. Where they get on their, the shuttle, the tram in the city, and they ask you if you have any money, and you say, I know I'm done, I'm sorry, and they run after you. Like, run after you in what way? Like, are they following you and say what? Yeah, you've got money. Where would you go? I mean, it was, it was frightening.

Interesting. San Francisco homeless are aggressive as well, I've heard. I haven't run into that problem there. And they do their business in the streets. I haven't seen that either. Okay, good. Oh, I've seen it in Houston. I saw a lady.

Were you and I talking about those jobs pay six figures? It was right by Minamee Park. Ladies just, I was walking to the ballpark. Oh, stop. Lady just dropped trow on the corner. No, no, no, no. I'm serious. No, no.

Yeah, I just, we know what I did? I looked straight and I just started walking a little bit faster. So I looked at a job in San Francisco, not for that job, but the job I saw pays $106,000. Ooh, that's like a 25, 25 in Houston. That's basically 60% of what Houston gets. Okay. So, look, we have our issues here, but we are one of the friendliest cities in America. Yeah, we got a baseball team that everybody hates.

We have a general manager and a coach in the same football team. And we have a roof that doesn't open up. But other than that, we're a great town. And we have no mass transit to speak of. But on that, we're great. And it gets hot. Ross, we got excellent text mix, beautiful women, generally speaking, very pleasant people. I had a guy called this morning on KTRA when I was doing the news that lives in the Houston area.

And he is part of the, you know, there's the Cajun Navy. Yes. They have a group called the Texas Navy. Okay. Are they going to head over there and help out? He was calling me on his way there. Nice. Wonderful.

And I had said, you know, were you for? from and what's going on. He says it was him and 16 other people. This is Ross. This is about 3.15 in the morning the guy calls the show. And they just got and they just they're taking their boat and they're like, we're going to go help people. Yeah, that was the beautiful thing. I mean, what I'd gotten flooded in my mom's house

and Harvey and my car flooded. And we had multiple people come up to the house with boats. You guys, okay? You need anything. You want us to evacuate. We'd had food and everything. So we were kind of just hanging out. We're like, man, we're cool. We're just waiting for the water to go down. We've got food. We're all, we got water. We're all good.

And yeah, I was just, that's one of the things that I would say shocked me is how helpful people were during Hurricane Harvey. And the guy, I mean, he called, like I said, I was punched drunk in the ninth hour of being on the air and it kind of lifted your spirits. That a guy would just get into his boat with his buddies and say, you know what? He called himself a redneck multiple times. There's a bunch of rednecks that don't want to go help people. That takes stones. Yeah, good for them. And it takes cost too.

And as I said that when I was on the hurricane coverage, you know, there was so much debris that had fallen in Louisiana. You're taking your boat into perhaps some unsafe places in terms of, you don't know what's in front of you in terms of water and whatnot. So it was probably even riskier in some respects than what we had to go through during Harvey because you're going in at night. And they're going to wait for the sun to rise to see where they were going to go. But you've seen a video from Louisiana. I mean, fallen trees, debris everywhere. That's what's going to happen when 150 mile per hour hurricane comes to your community.

Yeah, insane stuff. Okay, let's run through the headlines real quick. Seven minutes past two o'clock. If you'd like to join us, we're with you until 3 o'clock today. We are postponing a little bit of believe it or not until we're just, our offices are all screwed up because of, well, COVID's really screwed our offices up. But we had some people, parents missing school, our kids are missing schools. We're even more to Skeleton and Cruel today than we normally are. So we will pick back up on believe it or not next Monday with some amazing prizes.

But if you'd like to join us right now, 713-212-5-790, 7-13-212-5-790. NBA postponed games yesterday. Tellman Fertita called it something just a few minutes ago. Look at Fagan's tweet. I think he may have called it a delay or a pause. Oh, he called it a pause. Pause. He was on CNBC, I think.

Yeah, the NBA is going to pause today. and we do not know whether they're going to resume things on Friday or Saturday. I'm going to assume at this point they're just going to pick up the games and just push the calendar back a little bit. That would be the easy thing to do, right? Yeah, you just pick up and start just like it was supposed to be. Well, it might be three days, apparently. Oh, is it two?

Is it officially two? Because Woj said maybe Saturday. He said that a little while ago. Well, it would be three days if it gives. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Because the rockets are supposed to play the day they're supposed to get back in action. because they were supposed to play the 530 game. So what else?

Oh, A's game tonight with the Rangers in Arlington has been paused. Yes. And we don't know how that's going to affect the Astro series because the Astros and A's are supposed to play this weekend at MinuteMade Park. And the Astros had a game today, but it was canceled because of possible hurricane. Right. Because Mike Trout's like, I'll be damned if I'm going to be in this area. I had news for Mike.

If you just listen to the show on the I Heart Radio at, we didn't get anything. The rain got as far west as Winnie, home of the Holo and Oats concert that you and I didn't go to. What is that dance hall out there or whatever? It's like, I don't know what it's called. But that's got to excite people in Winnie to get

Hollow Notes come out there and play. Nuddy Jerry's. Is that what it is? Next time, well, Holland Oats is that Nettie Jerry's, you and I are going. I'm very busy that weekend, Matt. You don't know that. You don't know your calendar that much.

Supremely busy. Do you ever think about that at all in all seriousness? You know, we're talking about sporting events being canceled. Ross, there's a multi-billion dollar industry called concerts. Yes. That have, I mean, we have some resumption of games. Now, there's no fans, but there are, there is some, and actually some sports do have limited fans.

We're getting nothing. No Elton John, no Imagine Dragons, no Bruno Mars. When Janet Jackson was supposed to have one at Toyota Center? My son, one of my son's Christmas gifts was tickets to see Elton John. And we have no idea when that's going to happen. If it ever is going to happen. Well, he'll have a couple more farewell tours. He'll be fine.

Well, yeah, I think he's been like 17 of them. His latest farewell tour is supposed to end in 2023, so he's just going to push that back to 2024. Yeah. But isn't that, we have not even discussed that. That all, I would say, I mean, a lot of us have gone to concerts to go to Toto Center for more than just basketball games. We haven't even talked about that. how are you ever going to social distance a concert? That's never going to happen.

You're just only going to be able to sell a certain amount of seats. They've done concerts. Well, they've done it. It's easier to do like when it's an outdoor concert in a field. Right. They've set up tables or platforms I've seen. So you can only, you and your group can only be in this platform. But let me ask you this.

Who is the hottest? Ariana Grande. Too many of the hottest, but that's, or Taylor Swift. She's pretty hot. Why is Taylor Swift going to go get a lot? on a concert tour where she can only make 25% of what she's

is compared to just you know what I'll wait I'll wait this thing out oh it's a matter of supply and demand you jack up the ticket prices when it's you make something exclusive and you jack up has Fire Fest not taught you anything Matt

you make an exclusive event and then you jack up the price and then you don't build it well Taylor Swift has got a little bit more cash than that Yehu and Jha rule could Taylor Swift if I said She's come in the Toyota Center, say, October 10th. 4,000 tickets are going to be sold for this.

So you would... 4,000? To make up for 18. Yeah, and you triple the price, you're good. Well, I mean, the rose seating on the floor, your social distancing, you're probably skipping the row. Well, you're not going to do rows like that. You're going to have to do, like, clusters.

Okay. So what do you think you would get? Between the floor seating and the arena bowl, how many tickets could you sell for a concert? I don't know. I'd pay zero, so I'm not a Tatee fan. I don't know what the floor ticket. No, no, I'm not talking about cost.

How many people do you get in the building? 5,000? Okay, so I wasn't that far off. I'm talking about 1,000 people. 5,000 people. Would Taylor Swift do a concert for 5,000 people if the average ticket price was $200 a ticket? And is there are 5,000 Eustonians that would pay at least $200 to see Taylor Swift in concert? My guess is yes.

What's that a million bucks? What's a 200 times 5,000? as compared to if there were 18,000 people and the average ticket cost will say $125, $150. So what's the difference in that? No, you'd have to at least double the prices, certainly for the floor seats. So I'm not in an industry, so I can't really give you an answer on that. I'm just, I'm just interested to see. So let's say, 5,000.

Times 200 is a million. 18,500 times $125. 2,312,000. Mm-hmm. She's only going to make $1 million a night on her 20-tort, 20-date tour. Sounds terrible. Have you met her? She'll be okay.

And, oh, by the way, that also affects a number of alcohol, how much beer is being sold, how much ticket, I'm going to... You got to pay a promo people. You got to pay the roadies. And how much... How many T-shirts you're going to sell as compared to, if you had 18,000 people chasing after your shirts as compared to, say, 1,000. I'm going to... I miss concerts.

Now, granted, the concerts that I go to... Be okay. aren't going to be the same line as yours. I don't like leaving the house. I don't go to concerts a lot. Have you become old? Oh, I've been not leave the house guy since I was a kid. Oh, I am, let's get out and do stuff.

Because when I was very young, I shared a room with my brother and sister. So I value alone time. Well, we left you alone at the Stevie Wonder concert. I used to sometimes go sleep in the closet to be by myself. What? Yeah. Do you need a therapist? Probably.

you went in something a closet yeah that's almost like child abuse no it was my choice 17 about six months ago you still live it home yeah yeah poor

no wonder you're so bitter I feel great no wonder you're so bitter I'm happy I'm not bitter at all no wonder you you uh you're yeah who you are I feel great you get put into a closet I'm completely comfortable with who I am even wearing that shirt

too, huh? What's wrong with this one? This is from Ram Shirts. Oh, I didn't realize that. What's up? Ram shirts. Yeah, look at you. Changing your tune. Well, I mean, they are selling the very popular what's the Friday stripper shirt. Yeah, they sold at least four or five of those. They did okay for themselves. 214 is a time. Non-Florist stories in 15 minutes on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5.790. Are you all missing concerts? I know you miss sports. Mac, that goes without saying you miss going to events. But do you miss concerts? By the way, the Texans are going to stay and go ahead and scrimmage inside NRG Stadium tonight.

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NBA will resume, we presume, as early as tomorrow, maybe Saturday. And the Texans are going to have their scrimmage tonight inside Energy Stadium. And it's not televised. Because there's no way in the world, Bill O'Brien's letting these kind of plays being out publicly when there's no preseason games. If the preseason games are going, you have to show the games on television. They all have local deals. and I wouldn't blame him on this.

Because don't you think part of what will make the first month of the NFL season interesting is the fact there will be so much mystery to this? Ross, we have a team in our town, the Houston Texans, that we don't know what they're going to look like. We sort of have an idea. We know the athletic ability of Deshawn Watson. We know his escapeability. But we don't know what David Johnson looks like right now.

We really don't. Aaron Reese says he looks pretty quick. That's true. Aaron's seen him. So we can only go off of that. But it's also different looking quick when other guys on your own team are somewhat trying to hit you as compared to other teams that want to destroy you. Oh, yeah. Am I going to tell you that David Johnson is going to have over 1,000 rushing yards this year or anything?

Probably not. But hey, at least he's looking somewhat. Because I was alarmed. There was that video of last year where he was on a sweep to the left side with the Cardinals. And he looked like he was in quicksand. It was very concerned for David Johnson. Yeah. The only player I can think of in recent time that was a Houston Texan that even, you know, because this is, this is positivity month. Even the sucky New York Giants are like, man, I love what we're doing right now. The only player I remember recently where Bill O'Brien couldn't say something nice about somebody that I think he was relying on was Matt Khalil. Remember that?

Well, what do you think about Matt Khalil in his six blown blocks today? Well, I think everybody had issues. Yeah, he never said, what in God's Green Earth are we doing bringing in this old broken-down lineman to be our starting left tackle with our franchise quarterback. Not only are we going to let you go, we're going to go overpaid to get Laramie Tunsell to come here. Who is worse? Matt Khalil or Brino Jacamini? First of all, good pull using Brino Jacamini. I would say Khalil. Holy smokes. Yeah.

Matt Khalil hadn't played. played one in three or four years, right? I'm not sure if you guys watched the film. Well, we did, and we saw how bad he was. And that's the reason why you weren't going to keep him around, and that's why you went and got sold the Miami Dolphins, a pair of first round picks in the second to go get Laramie Tunsell, who said, I'm going to fire my agent because I've got all the power.

That was good. That worked out good. Well, it certainly did. highest paid left tackle in the NFL. Laramie Tunsell agrees. I got to tell you, as you do these sound bites here, was it with me here in Houston or in Minneapolis? I did a segment where I only answered questions with my sound bites and my own voice.

You know what you used to do? When your throat was a little sore, you would have your little greetings on there. I used to love that bit. Next time I have a sore throat, I'll do that. Do you still have those in here? Yeah, they're in their personal audio. Okay. I love those things.

Oh, here we go. People call 713-212. Now, we don't have any calls because nobody's listening. Well, that's not true, Matt. Well, it just feels that way. I think people are sports fatigue for the last 24 hours. There's been enough stuff going on that would make you think that. 713-212-5-7-9 if you'd like to join us.

And somebody would call in and say, because every time somebody calls it, say, Matt, how are you? Having a great day. I appreciate you dialing in. And it's not the caller's fault. You understand this, right? It's just natural. It's natural. You call somebody in the phone and say, hey, how's it going?

Like, I was taught. when you have an interview with a particular person, that it's easier because if, like, if I get Dusty Baker for like 10 minutes, can't be 11, can't be 12, it's got to be.

Well, sometimes he jets at 8. Whatever. It's got to be, so I want to make the most out of my 10 minutes with him. So I'll say, Dusty,

thank you for joining us and then get right to the question. What winds up happening sometimes is that person says, well, first of all, nice to be on the show with you, which kind of ruined it all.

So you feel rude. So I feel bad. So that's why we've done this. Terrific. Thanks for asking. Save my voice. Yes. That was years ago.

So when people ask, what's Matt, how's it hanging today? I'm great. Thanks for calling. Now, what year did we do those? This is loaded in 2010. Those are 10 years old. Fine yourself. Do you think it's time to update them?

How are they any different? What's I'm thinking, is there five or six more we can add? Hmm, I'm doing pretty good, thanks. You know what you need to add? I'm doing pretty well in these unprecedented times. Okay. We know we're all hanging in there. Stuff like that.

Okay, so start, can you start recording right now? Go for it. I'm always recording. Now, Ross, I have some vacation time over the next few months, so why don't we do some for you, too? Okay. Okay, so I'll do four or five. Here we go, 225.

Are you rolling? Hanging in there. How about you? man these are certain man these are uncertain times yeah I know these are unprecedented times oh can't have me laughing sorry

man these are unprecedented times I'm feeling great don't have the COVID peace be with you peace be with you and also with you are you going to start singing Osana now too well if he says peace be with you

then I want to say I'm also with you And let me do one more. I'm a little gassy. What? There's a little something different. Okay. Okay. Now your turn. Go ahead.

Okay. I'm doing all right, all things considered. I'm healthy and well, and that's all you can ask for in these days. I'm doing pretty good. Who's going to complain? He's on vacation. Back tomorrow. Yeah, Matt will be back tomorrow.

Yeah, I got you a week off. of Matt. You're welcome. Nobody ever says that. Oh, I say that to Mike Dantone every time you incite that. Can't confirm every time you've not been around. He said that to every guest. Yeah, you can confirm that. You're the producer in this radio show. You can confirm that 100%. I'm telling you. He has what he says he can't confirm. Oh, you can confirm. Okay. He has done that every, I'm not even exaggerating every single time you're gone. Well, just because they normally talk to Matt and this is a way as an icebreaker for me to say, hey, Matt's off. You got me here. Sorry. You don't have the great Matt Thomas interviewing you, but you're going to be, you're stuck with me for the next eight minutes and six seconds.

I like it. I think we've done enough. Is there any more that you want to add? Is Brendan, you need anything from Ross? No, he's answering the thoughts. Okay. I've been better, but we'll make it. What?

Now do one, now do the one that is completely uncomfortable. Like I did, I'm guessing. Like I said, I'm gassy. Try something different. I think I got a toe fungus. That's not bad. That's not better at all right. Let's see if we can get, see if we can take a phone call without either one of us saying anything. Oh, no.

So it would be a combination of O'Brien, me, and whatever you have in these soundball. Oh, geez. Let's go to Ronnie and Danbury on Sports Talk 790. Ronnie, the floor is yours. Matt, I appreciate it, but I did need to hear your voice. I'm sorry, but I'm just a real big fan. But you're making these little recordings, and I know you're a big disco fan. man. To me, you need to have some

on there and say, you know what, man, that's groovy. Groovy. I'm picking up what you're putting down. I feel you. I feel you. That's the kind of stuff you need to go with, Matt, because it fits your persona. Anyway, y'all have a good day. Thank you. Appreciate the silence. All right,

I don't think I can say groovy in 2020. Not that I wouldn't say it, but nobody says groovy in 2020. But we're going to have some groovy non-flora story. Maybe you can say, peace, love, and soul. Like on Soul Train? Yeah. Don Cornelius.

I missed Don Cornelius. He's dead? For a while. Oh, man. You knew that. You knew that. We didn't believe we're not on him that day. I'm going to take the rest of this segment off.

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West Grand Montrose, the home of Shaw's Jewelry. Hey, you son of a bitch, put on some Houston sports. Stone Cold. All you have to do is ask me to play Sports Talk 790 on I Heart Radio. Thank you very much. Now I got to go whip a man's ass. I love it when you go stomping mud holes. We have some NFL news to get to in a couple of minutes. Stand by for that. Nothing involved in the Texans. But it's time for us to do some down Florida stories as a Thursday 2.30 staple here on the Matt Thomas show. I know Ross's story.

I know mine. So, Brendan, I'm going to let you go first. You were either going to choose Michigan or Ohio and you decided to go with... Yeah, I'm going to go to Detroit. I've got to go home, right? Fair enough. 20-year-old women found breathing at funeral home after being pronounced dead. Stop.

don't want to hear it really that's uber freaky I mean you are gonna finish but I'm creeped out officially I could go the other direction no it's too late you already went down this avenue please yeah go ahead this is awful

I'm mad that we talked over you saying you are gonna finish but I'm creeped out officially because we could have clipped out officially because we could have but you didn't duh go ahead anyways the Southfield fire department released a statement saying paramedics responded to a call to an unresponsive woman Sunday morning. They had tried CPR and other life-saving methods for 30 minutes

before pronouncing her dead. But here's where it gets crazy. It wasn't just the paramedics. She then went to a medical examiner who also pronounced her dead. What? It wasn't until they opened up the body bag at the funeral home where she was looking back at them and breathing, that they realized she was still alive.

How long ago was this? August 24th, this story was from. Do we have an update on how her condition is now? She is alive, I can tell you that. But if you're in a body bag, how are you going to breathe? They did say if she had remained in the body bag for hours, she very well may not be alive right now. Okay, this is...

Wow, so this could have happened to people who stay in the body bag and die. I wonder if you... I wonder how many medical examiners in their life have had somebody on the table that was alive. I mean, how often that happens. Now we would never be able to have a lot of evidence of this. I used to have more back in the day, like in the 1800 or probably the 1400s, people got buried alive and things like that. Who's the most famous medical examiner you know? Howard Memorial? He was just a regular doctor. Oh. There used to be a show called Quincy M.E. Back in the 70s in early years. It was Jack Klugman. It was a medical examiner.

I learned this weekend that my great, great grand uncle used to own a funeral home. Really? So him. Okay. Can I tell you that this story? I think his name was Juan? It doesn't give me like any fear that this is a thing that could happen to me.

Have you guys ever had nightmares of being buried alive? You don't want to do. No. Have you? No. No. Okay. I have regular nightmares of not passing freshman English.

This is happening still once a week. I've been putting in my journal and it just, I feel like I could just cut and paste the same thing. My freshman English teacher's name is Valerie Taylor. Her husband was the band director at our high school, and she was a teacher there at our school, too. If anybody knows where Valerie Taylor is, I need to talk to her. I didn't cheat in her class, but for some reason, I continue to have one per week dream of not turning English papers and her not allow me to finish freshman English while the rest of my classmates did.

and it haunts me weekly. I need a therapist. Did this start pre-COVID? Oh, yeah. Okay. That was the only thing I could think of. I feel like COVID's probably messing with people's dreams. Oh, as Ross knows, I'm a terrible dreamer.

I write the crap down every day. I've just whacked out stuff. It has been a recent run of freshman English not turning papers in. Well, I hope this doesn't mess with your dreams. Well, I'd rather talk about those than being buried alive. That's what I'm saying. I'm hoping it doesn't mess with you. Hopefully you don't dream about being buried alive, Matt.

You just made it happen. Who sent her to the morgue, by the way? Does it say? The medical examiner. But where would they find her? She was unresponsive at home. Oh, okay. All right.

Ross, you're next. I think I like mine last. So I'm going to let you go next. You are going to the NFL. Well, we're going to the NFL, Matt. And we're going to a website called onlyfans.com. Hmm. Which, Matt, I think, believe you learned about.

when I was off on Corona vacation? I legitimately did not know what it was. Coronacation? Yeah, okay. No, I clearly know what it is now. Your bank statement says otherwise.

Well, just kidding. Only Fans is a content subscription service based in London. Content creators can earn money from users who subscribe to their content, i.e. the fans. It's very popular in the adult entertainment industry. It also hosts content creators

such as physical fitness experts and musicians, Matt, and other creators who post regularly online. So basically it's porn for IG models. Yeah, for the most part. Okay. And it's a subscription service. Well, great news for you, Matt. Plaxico Burris has officially joined OnlyFans.

He tweeted out, OnlyFans.com, Plaxico Burris. Let's go. Gonna be a fun ride. How much would you pay for an OnlyFans account of Placicago Burroughs. Negative a thousand a month. That's right.

You pay me a G a month? Oh, no. Then I have to watch it. No, I'm out. No, you're just going to unsubscribe. I'm off for research purposes. I don't need to do any Plaxico research. Wasn't he the one that got shot himself?

His bullet hole in his leg? Yeah, he shot himself in the club, right? Yes. Loaded gun in the sweatpants is not a good idea. But that's just me. And that's your non-Flority story. And that's my non-in-Flority story is that Matt is going to subscribe to Plaxco Burris' only fans.

Do we know the cost? It depends. It's 15 a month. The more months you subscribe, the lesser it is. Oh, is that right? How do you know that, Matt? You told me earlier today. 15 bucks a month, I think, for Plaxico's only fans. All right.

I don't even kind of want to click on it. No, don't. Are we sure? Plaxico. Look at you touching the buttons over there. Stay away from the computer. It's trying to make me sign up, and I'm not going to sign up. Ross, who is our favorite fantasy five woman in the history of the fantasy five game?

Flow from Progressive. No. $15.30 in 30, by the way, for Plaxco. 10% off right now. It's a hard pass. Go ahead. Who's our favorite? Adriana Lima.

No, who's picked every single time. Sophia Vergara. Well, I don't believe Mariel Vergara is related to Sophia. She might be. She's 27 years old. She's from Bebolo, Colorado. Hmm.

She went to New Orleans International Airport to catch a flight. MSY. Yeah. She went to the ticket counter to check in. Uh-huh. She was completely nude. What happened? 27-year-old Mariel Vergara.

She walked into the airport, made her way to the Spirit Airlines ticket counter on Friday night, Authority said. A deputy dispatch to the scene noted that Vigara had already put on a dress by the time he arrived. Well, okay, some mistakes are made. Sometimes you forget to put clothes on before you check in for a flight. We've all been there. She was still arrested.

You're saying why? Because she was still violating public decency laws because Ross, one, she had on no underwear. And two, you can't go. you can't go commando in the MSY? The dress was too short to cover her genitals. What? Well, airline officials told Vigara

she wouldn't be able to travel due to her attire or lack thereof. She was asked to leave the airport, but Vigera refused. Vergara ignored deputies' orders to leave the airport and scuffled with them as she was being taken into custody. She was arrested and booked with

obesity obscenities, resisting arrest, battery of a police officer, simple battery, and remaining in a place after being forbidden. She was arrested in a $5,000 bond where she was re-arrained and re-arrested and booked with battery of a corrections officer and resisting an officer by force or violence. I'm going to ask you in Houston, listen to me right now on Twitter, go to SportsMT and provide the punchline. You know how Jay Leno would tell a new story? Yes, headlines.

And then give the punchline. I don't know the punchline. Let me give you the genesis of it again. 27-year-old woman goes to New Orleans airport checks into spirit completely nude Ross what is the punchline she forgot to pay her change fees

at SportsMT if you can beat that punchline that's all I got that's better than what I had I know our devian audience can come up with a better answer at SportsMT 27 year old woman

Flying Spirit, nude at New Orleans Airport, and when she puts her dress on, it's not big enough to cover her genitalia. Think about that at 244. By the way, your story, I'll never forget about it. What? The cover, like, was there... No, it was a dress one long enough.

Okay. It was obviously a hoochie dress. A hoochie dress? You know what a hoochie dress is. No, explain to me, Matt. What is a hoochie? Go Google Hoochie. And your story was

bizarre too. I'm not going to forget about yours. You did work. Nice job. 244 on Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas, we'd like to thank his parents for only giving him two first names. Because who would listen to Billy Ray Thomas talk about Houston sports? The Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790.

Okay, I asked you all to go to Twitter and give up a punchline, and I have received one. Actually, I received one through a DM that I cannot repeat. Okay. So, Bon, I appreciate your brother, love you, but I can't read yours out loud.

So here's throw his relegation. Nude woman goes to the airport. The punchline was allowed to fly because all of the men were in the upright and locked position. I like that. Airplane, you know, you can't even joke on airplanes anymore. can't even speak on airplanes.

I told you when I went to Lubbock, I had to wear the mask the whole time. No coax. No, well, that's about, what, two hour flight or what?

Hour and a half? Okay. I mean, and it was, it's a small regional jet. It's 35 seats. So there's plenty of time to give us a pop.

Coke, whatever. Bottle water, room temperature. No snack. Hmm. I mean, is Southwest really cutting back to?

No, I bet not. I bet you get a Coke on a Southwest plane. They can't have, Are they still not doing people in middle seats? That's right. Through October. I like that.

Middle seats, the worst. I would, I would, if I could, never show up late to a Southwest flight. I would like to buy, if I was to run an airline,

I would buy planes that only had two seats on each side. I'd buy nothing but those, you know, those smaller jets. You'd have to charge a lot for them, though, Matt. Mm. That's true. In these uncertain and unprecedented times.

Yeah. But I think airfares are generally speaking pretty low right now. I think a lot of it's because, the cost of airplane fuels I can't catch the runner for at least another month so I'd need to probably start looking at some probably take some vacation after when are you going out on the town?

A little bit here and there. Oh, by the way, speaking of that, the Houston Cougars, I forgot to mention this. This is our Cougar update brought to you by the Joint Chiropractic, the Fisher Chiropractor of UBH Athletics. The Houston Cougars first game of the year

has been moved up a day. September the 18th instead of the 19th. It's a Friday? It's a Friday night. They're going to play the Memphis Tigers is this going to be the primetime ESPN game. Here's what I've learned from a birdie in the last 24 hours. ESPN is basically saying, okay, Pac-12, you're not playing.

Big 10, you're not playing. We're giving up your slots. So you're going to see more non-conventional teams playing in primetime slots than you would have seen in years past. And U of H is going to play Memphis. on a Friday night. They were given that slot for that game. So if you are, I don't know if anybody's planning on going.

I don't know if the Liberty Bowl is going to have fans, but I'm going to be up there for that trip, and that's one of the, I was going to take a day off to go up there for that. So it's U of H versus Memphis Friday, September the 18th. You'll be walking in Memphis. Yeah, I do like Memphis. Great, great food, nice people.

Weather's not terrible. The Liberty Bowl kind of sucks, but other than that, good ribs, right? Amazing. Maybe I should go up there. I don't want to go to Memphis. How far is Memphis from Nashville? I think it's like three, four hours.

Oh, that's a little rough. I want to go to Nashville, too. Why? I just heard it's cool. Nash Vegas. I heard it's pretty nice. I got live mute. Well, I guess it's not during a pandemic.

You're not doing anything during the pandemic. You're not going to the grand old opera. I'm going to go camping or something. Why don't you go to the Big Bear? I went to Big Bear. Oh, I like Big Bear. I would like to go to Big Bear. I went to Big Ben for my birthday.

So you're trying to get as many bigs as you can. Yeah. Big Sir, big bear, big bend. Big Vegas? No. You and I are not going to Vegas. Big boy burgers. You and I are not going back to Vegas until Vegas is really Vegas again.

Okay. Yeah, I'm fine with that. It's going to be, we're going to go for Cameron's 21st. Yeah, you know what? Maybe I'll go camping somewhere in November. You should. I'll support that. Go backpacking in the woods.

Fight with a bear. I don't think we're doing it. There'll be no sports except the football in November, right? No basketball. Yeah. NFL and we hope college. How weird is college going to be? That we're going to be sitting here watching some teams play

and then some teams trying to sell us. They're going to see you in the spring. That's crazy. It's, I don't even know what to say. I'm speechless. Real quick on the NFL. Andre Diller, remember the tackle that everybody wanted the Texans to take? Instead of Titus Howard.

Titus Howard? Well, he's got a torn peck. He's done for the year. By, seven. Biceb, excuse me, in Philadelphia. And the Chargers scrimmage today has been, what, postponed? Canceled, I believe. Okay, there's a difference in postponed and canceled.

I believe canceled, but that's a, I saw that earlier. I think Aaron Wilson retweeted some Chargers guy. Okay. And A's game with the Rangers today has been postponed. And Aaron Wilson also tweeted a, the Texans do plan to scrimmage, which we mentioned. Let's go to Mark and Willowbrook at 254. Hi, Mark. Hey, good afternoon.

I was just going to tell you, you know, both y'all are good, sensible guys, got great sense of humor, and just appreciate you all the sign they show up for her today. And that's not because of the story. Touche. You know what? I'm walking off the show. Tushay. Thank you, Mark.

Appreciate it. I'm pulling a Kenny Smith. What do you think about that? Was that weird to you? It was very weird. And I don't think Shaq and Chuck and Ernie were ready for it. They were a little thrown off. Oh my

MG We have to get a picture of this By the way yeah You put it on your own social media Your photos today on social media Had been quite How do I say this What did I do?

You wouldn't once you did What are you talking about? I haven't even been on social media today You put a picture of your wife on there Yeah it was good And tell us about it real fast She had a mask on And

That's all I saw You saw something else Did you? you like it, dislike it? Did you literally physically like it? I didn't physically do anything with it. Are you sure? No, you handle that.

Are you sure? You're under oath. I'm just proud that you guys are going to put it together a second three-hour day in a row. Well, if they play tomorrow, we're going to be back to the old schedule. Does anybody see what they're going to say when are you going to debut it? I don't know. How do you feel about it about it? There's a rumor of a restoration endorsement in the works, so it might not matter.

Oh. But here's a problem with those things. You're going to be back. is that... You'll be like Michael Jordan with the Wizards. But if you're not a hundred... But if it's not... If it's not completely authentic,

people are going to make fun of you. Here's what happened. Hmm. Right. So, you know, you've got the little... And I'm shaving it today. Yeah, so I was just like, it's already... It's a losing battle.

You got some dirt on your chin already. Oh, it's great. I'm gonna grow this out too. And then just this will be, you know? God, you are stone cold. You son of a bitch. You got a... It looks like a...

What was that name of that pitcher that the Astros hadling in the mid-two? 2000s, went to the Red Sox. Oh, man, what was his name? It looks like Mike Gallo. Through a two neck. Hi, oh, my galo, yeah. What a good poll, by the way.

Yeah, Wex. Come over to the microphone. I know, we're going to get out of here. We're going to actually have these guys work a three-hour show today. Enjoy the show hosted by Adam Clinton, who looks significantly different today. I'll let you go to his Twitter account and figure that out when he does put the photo up. Adam Wexel looks the same. Ross, you look the same as always.

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