The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets Begin NBA Cup, New Bregman Update, Are You Watching Jake Paul Vs. Mike Tyson?

Episode Date: November 15, 2024

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" preview tonight's matchup with the Houston Rockets hosting the Los Angeles Clippers for their first game towards the NBA Cup tournament. Matt and Ross also:discuss the latest update regarding Alex Bregman in free agencyreview the injured list as the Texans prepare to face the Dallas Cowboys on Monday Night Footballpredict the outcome of the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fighttell their "Non-Florida Stories" and more on this "Anything Goes Friday."

Launch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 102 at H-Town. Good morning. And welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. You know we should do? We should get the sound effects of me with the reverb.

Most, must, must, win. Must win game. Yeah, we should do that. Yeah, we should click that part. That'll be good. No, it's not good. That wasn't good at all. I would not have a clip that underneath circumstances.

I love it. Revenge is best served warm. I thought it was revenge as a dish best served cold. No, in my case, it's warm. It's a ancient king of proverb. It's much warmer when I do it. What the hell is going on with the Texans? That was garbage.

Jesus Christ. Oh, I like when you close your eyes. Coria, all right. Now, how long have you been a traveling Texan? It's a wild group, and here's the reason why I called, because your mom's in the group, too, and believe me, we all hook up. Oh, yeah. Talk about a market.

Dude, you're a dumbass. Seriously. I knew that was a setup. I believe nuts will be getting cracked this weekend. People dress up to concerts. They don't wear garter, though. Not most of them, but ones who are attention-seeking whores do. I felt personal.

Okay, wait, that came out right. No, no, no, no, no. Hold on. I know what you said. Let me clarify. Everybody knows what you said. Stop calling people whores. Wait a second

Hold on You call people whores On the ancient market radio show Attention whoring No, you called her a whore The lovely and talent of Mathis What are her greatest talent That were her top three greatest talents

I don't know But she wore her garter belt To a concert And I have zero issues with it Yeah, you wouldn't stop talking about it Well, you're right I don't know what else to say It's 1005.

What? It is Sports Talk, 7-90. Let's go. We are here today and every day. It looks up Saturday and Sundays. From now until 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Let's go. This is Ross's live show over a couple weeks.

So your best better bring your best. I don't want you mailing it in. I don't want you in vacation mode. Me? Yeah, I'm talking about you. Oh, it's already, I've been mailing it in since Tuesday. I was going to say it's been mailing in since 2010, but that'd have been rude. Yeah, but it's also not that in.

accurate. Yeah, that's true. When Ross and I first worked together, he had a really hard problem getting here right at noon when the show was at noon. And you would always, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm like, I don't care. You're here. That's the most important thing. That's overblown. I probably, you could probably count on three hands the amount of times I've been after dude in 15 years. I mean, that's not bad. Three hands in 15 years. I don't know, man. I got sleep issues. What do you want me to say? I'm here though. You are here. Hi. Hey, and ladies

gentlemen, like it is no matter what time of the day it is, when these two voices you hear are on these airwaves called Sports Talk 790, it is an anything day.

And that means you will call 713-213-212-5-7-90. 7-13-212-5-7-90. And Ross will explain the essence of an anything goes Friday. Yes, Matthew, the longest leash in the biz

as far as the phone lines. First of all, some shows don't even take calls. We take calls here on the Matt Thomas show. Yeah, we actually don't like to, we like to have conversation with you folks. We actually find most of you decent. Yeah, and normally they're day drunk. Well, at this point now that we've switched time slots, they're morning drunks as well.

And you know what? We got the longest leash in the biz. It gets even longer on a Friday. Anything you want to get to, 713-212-2-790 is the phone number. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Of course, we have full breakdown. Amanda is going to go through the two-deep. both teams.

Yes. Texans versus Cowboys coming up on Monday. You also have, Matt is going to go blow by blow. We're going to simulate the fight. Mike Tyson versus Jake Paul tonight on Netflix. We're going to get a full breakdown of that as well. And the rockets are in action, and they're going to make your eyes bleed with the city court or whatever they're calling it, the NBA Cup court tonight at the Toyota.

That thing is going to be big and red. It's what is it going to be. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-5-7-90 You won't be hearing that next week You just can't help yourself I might have to tune in, no I won't No, there's no chance

Like what time is it there You're going to be in Taipei next week? Right now I'm going to be in Seoul For eight days and then Taipei for I think seven And how are you getting from one to the other? Flying. How long is the flight between us? I think it's two hours. That's not terrible

Yeah And the thing is I got to pack for two trips Because Seoul is going to be cold It's going to be like 50s and then down to the 30s at night. And then Taipei is basically in the 70s, and it rains every day. That doesn't sound fun.

I think it rains for a little bit every day. You just go to Seattle. Same thing. That's true. It should be fun, though. All right. I've been to Seattle. If anybody has advice for long traveling raws,

this will be your longest lot ever, I'm assuming, right? Yeah, 16 hours? It's going to be a record for me. I don't know. The longest for me has been Hawaii nonstop. I don't know. I've been Houston, Hawaii a bunch of times. I've been Chicago to London one time.

I don't remember how long that was, but those are the most of my longest flights ever. I've only been cross-country from Houston, in Houston, which is, you know, fairly centrally located. Right. And to Columbia, which the first leg was to Panama City, and that was six hours. So that's the longest flight I've been on, it was only six hours.

And did it go by fast, or did you feel like you were just killing? I think I slept most of it. Okay. But also, yeah, it's a completely different situation. 16 hours from Dallas to where? Incheon, which is the airport to get into Seoul. There's subways everywhere. It looks like travel over there is really easy, so I'm looking forward to that.

Okay. Well, I hope you have a great... First of all, I really want you to have a great time. Secondly, I think I would lose my mind being on a plane for 16 hours. Well, four hours of that, the flight from... I connect through DFW, that flight leaves at 10, and at 11 is Longhorns in Arkansas. So that'll kill four hours right there. assuming there's direct TV on the plane uh there is Wi-Fi I can't be stream on Wi-Fi

only at the airline Wi-Fi's had only if the airline has Wi-Fi television well if we're going all the way why can't I stream uh ESPN Plus because if you try it's like ununited let's let's say you're going from Houston to Sacramento okay uh if you don't have direct TV on your plane you're not going to be able to watch live television because they will not let the phones will not let you off of the United's Wi-Fi. Is that accurate? I have never been able to do it. Don't people watch Netflix and stuff?

Netflix is different, but you have to download your Netflix ahead of time. Oh, okay. Well, now I'm upset. No, no, I mean, I'm not trying to give you bad news. I think I'm right about this. I'm not 100% sure, but I'm telling you. I use Iheart radio?

I can listen to Craig Way on the call. Some airlines do have I-Heart radio connections, yeah. Okay. I don't know if Schmerican is one of them. Shamerican Shmer Airlines. Yeah. But no, yeah, yeah. They always say, you know, you can't how you can't download videos and you can't stream live events.

Now, again, I can be wrong about this. Well, there's the point of having Wi-Fi if I can't download stuff. You're Wi-Fi and just like normal computer stuff, like web pages and stuff. But they're not, access to video is usually very limited. That's probably because people like you just trying to watch porn. Now, that's not true. Let me ask you this. Who is Texas playing again tomorrow?

Arkansas. Oh, you're not worried about that. What's the line on that bad board? It's not about being worried about it. It's about that being my team and me watching their games. So that would actually literally kill three and a half hours of your flight. And then I'm going to sleep for four more. Got a book.

Did you pick out your food yet? Oh, so I went to go look at that. And that's only if you need a special. I guess they're going to ask me if I want beef or chicken or whatever in the flight. Because it's only if I need to request for, you know, kosher, Muslim, other, that kind of stuff. Yeah. Yeah, don't have the shrimp or the fish. Because you know what happens when you have fish in a plane.

You can choose vegan. Like all the options were stuff I don't need. It was either, are you kosher? Do you need a Muslim? Are you vegan? none of those things. I was on this plane one time and a bunch of people on the aircraft ate fish and they got really sick. And then what happened, Matt? And there was a lot of storms on this flight. Yes. And they wound up having to go get an old war veteran to fly the plane because

all the pilots in the in the cockpit ate fish and they got sick. It sounds like the plot of an overrated comedy. I don't believe it to be accurate. I'm just kidding, by the way. Airplane is a 100% classic. The funniest movie ever made. Period. In the story. They've done scientific studies, you know,

and they actually say that because it has the most jokes in the hour and a half or whatever it's on. There's like a joke. I think there's something like a joke every 40 seconds or something like that. And the crazy part about airplane, I know we're going to get to our Texans breakdown. Trust me on this. Is that 90% of what was jokes could not be used today, which is frankly sad. I don't even think that's true.

I think comedies that come out. Have you seen like Deadpool and Wolverine? I have not. They still do off-color comedy. All right, let me just give you. I think it's very in vogue to say, you can't make that today. Let me,

all right, let me run through a few things of the funny things. Okay. Great moments in Jewish sports history. Okay. That's a part. Do you think that could be... Was anything Sandy Kofax did?

Well, it's a pamphlet. Well, you just said it. Uh-oh. I think I'm going to be canceled. Speaking Jive. Okay. Very funny to me. Maybe not funny to others.

Yeah, just, but comment, never mind. We don't need to get into this. I think comedy's still today. I hope you're right. I hope you're right. But it's funny because people say that all in the family couldn't be said today. Well, weren't they dropping in-bombs on that show? Oh, they were doing everything.

Yeah, so I don't think that's going to happen. All right. Is that anything goes Friday in the Matt Thomas show with Ross, 713-213-2-5-7-9 if you want to jump in on the conversation. There is no one in the marketplace, not even like YouTube shows, aren't talking about Texans, Boys. Why is that? I don't know, Matt. Nobody's breaking it down. Certainly not like this show. You know the reason why there's no buzz for this game? There is buzz. There's zero buzz for this game. I'm buzzing hard right now. I know you're buzzing hard, but for different reasons. By the way, I'm getting a lot of tailored emails saying keep talking about her. She's fine by me. That's one. Jay, shout out to you. He knows what he's looking at too, as is the rest of America. Yeah, she's quite attractive, but does she need, do we need to interject talking about her every single day?

She had, I think she had the Eagles giving up the points of the commanders last night. I mean, if you're into that kind of thing. Okay. How are her picks doing overall? I think she's at about a 250 winning clip. My favorite is when she makes a couple of picks and one of them is like a minus 300 favorite. And then she puts out the record like it's not about units. It's about how many.

Oh, yeah, I went two and one. Well, yeah, you pick two huge favorites. You should be going two and one. That's Tony Hatchet the Man, Tony, the Hatchet Man Valentine stuff. Yeah. Maybe they're working together. You never know. And then goes Friday, 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-790.

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Can I go with the... Yeah, it's your turn. Brittany. Brittany? Why is that the password? Weren't they lovers at one point? I believe so, yes. Yeah. He's married to Jessica Beal. Oh, okay.

This is not about his music or his story career or movies. It's about women he's slept with. I mean, it is, it's not like the Jeter tree. It's not bad, though. It's not bad. Just telling you. I think there's a lot of overlap with Jeter, quite frankly. Okay, so here we go.

For scrapping Brittany, the password is Jessica. At least you chose his wife. By the way, Justin Timberlake's list. Cameron Diaz, Britney Spears. This is according to Google. Yes. Alyssa Milano. Jessica Beal.

Is this? Olivia Munn. Oh, my God. Rihanna? Is this true? What? Fergie. Veronica.

He was with Scarlet, Johanson, too? No way. Beyonce? That can't be right. No, this is made up now. This is from Google.com. But also, Google.com's added this A. thing that's often wrong.

Yeah. Janet Jackson? That's Jeteresque. He's a Hall of Famer. In more than what. All right. So Jessica is the password today. Jessica. Jessica.

Not Jessica Beal. I mean, you could say Jessica Beal. Jessica Timberlake. Yeah. Any of those are applicable. So Jessica has to be part of the password. Okay, that will be the password. When we go to, believe it or not. Hell yeah or not, 150 this afternoon. At 150, you'll be asked the password, say, Jessica,

and we'll let you on to win a pair. One left? One pair left of Justin Timberlis. I'll try to write difficult questions today for you, Connor. Because here's the thing, if nobody wins today, Connor gets those tickets. Yes. So if Connor was really crafty, he would say,

Matt, people have been calling in, they don't know the password. You know, we should have him write the questions. The chemical formula for this, this is 38% this. Yes, see, but it's believe it or not. It's only 50, no, matter how difficult the questions are, He's still got a 50-50 shot. Absolutely.

All right, hell yeah or not today at 150 here on Sports Talk 790. Let's talk to Steve on anything goes Friday. Steve at 1024. Good morning. Hey, good morning, Matt and Ross. This is kind of a long overdue thank you message to both of you, a long-time Astros fan. I really enjoyed this Astro season. I enjoyed the World Series a little bit.

Thought it would be more of a dog fight. But this is the kind of time of year where I'm lonely. some for MLB baseball. I'm not much of a basketball fan, but I get it and I really enjoy y'all's passion hearing y'all's passion for the Rockets and everything. And especially

I hate the time after the Super Bowl where there's no football and no baseball. But anyway, I just want to thank you guys for a wonderful Astro season. I enjoy y'all's content very much, particularly from your show. And I had a

curious question in for the off season. I know we have our Astros flag planted pretty solid in Cuba. I was wondering if we could maybe take that over to Japan and scout out some good players that are coming out of there.

They don't all just need to go to the Dodgers, but I thought there'd be some good pitching in the farm over in Japan. Thank you guys for all you do. Thank you, Stephen. Very nice. You just say that. Much appreciated. It has been basically a philosophy for this organization for going on 30 years, that the money they spend in international waters and scouting is in the Dominican Republic

and the Mexican leagues. They just have never really gotten involved in the Pacific area, Japan, China, that not, because frankly, a lot of those players that have come over there have gone to West Coast cities and New York. And that's just a brutal truth. I mean, again, has the Royals ever really claimed an international player from Japan over the years? No. St. Louis doesn't even do that.

Chicago doesn't really even do that. It's in basically Seattle all the way down to San Diego. For some reason, they just feel like it's just, and it doesn't make any sense because it's a far trip no matter what. And if you are, if you are Hedeki Nomo, Hadeo Nome or Ndeke, whatever, Hadeo is Hedeke's his cousin. You'll be piping around where you are. Yitiro Suzuki was going to be just as popular as a raise as he would have been a Seattle Mariner. Yeah, I'm just trying to think, I mean,

I'm just looking it up. Shoto Amanga is with the Cubs. Where did you, did you, Darvish start with the Dodgers? I know Kukuchi, did he, I believe he started with the Mariners. That's all West Coast. Right. Not every one of the players from that

Pacific part of the world is. But it's also a higher, it's a highest bidder system, isn't it? Yeah. Well, unless you're of a certain, unless you are a rule where if you're a certain age with a certain experience like for instance

there's this kid right now that's being talked about you can't just pay overpay him to come sign here he's got he's got you gotta use your international pool water there's a posting

I thought there was a posting fee and then you could just go bid you can't and this kid they change it now yeah there's a new guy that's out right now that I don't know his name because I couldn't pronounce it

but he is 23 years old I know what you're talking about and he is being sought after but they can't go strike it rich with this guy rookie Sasaki yeah I think for $3 million you can get him,

whichever team obviously would go through, but I think he is leaning towards a preference towards one of the Pacific time zone teams. No, but I, and it's been asked before by other general managers. I think every team just kind of decides, hey, we think we've got a certain pocket of the world that is more advantageous for us. And I think the Dominican players, the Venezuelan area,

has first of all done the Astros very good. I mean, look at all the number of players that have come there in just the last 15 years. years for this Astros team. And so they just have decided it's better for us to invest in that area. We can get those players to come here as compared to trying to go after and try to outbid a lot of times players that are playing in China or Japan. I don't think they're favoring one over the other.

I just kind of have the way it's been shaking out. I think Geographic's a lot to do with it. I don't think the Astros have been like, yeah, we don't need Japanese players. We're good. No, no, not at all. By the way, we have a brand new. Connor, we'll give you a few seconds to get this ready. We have a brand new update today.

When we come back. When we'll debut. And the question is, do we have an update on the update? I don't know. We'll find out in a moment. 713, 212, 570. 713-212-570. It is in anything goes Friday.

By the way, we're getting good word from your people here that you may be able to stream on your flight. I figured I would. It's 2024, math. But, I mean, I can't unshmited. I fly shmited 80% of the time. you can't stream on dark breast unless you watch off it off the dark breast app so you get the you get the you get the shm you can put if it's negative you can say their name so you get the united wifi and you can't stream on it no are you sure you're not just getting just the texting one no no i sometimes i pay the eight dollars for it not very often but i sometimes i do depending on the longer flights okay well i don't know i'm reading i should be fine i told you you're gonna text me tomorrow you have to take i'm busy as soon as soon as you're like you're like over Arizona. Let us know. Okay. Because if not, I can text you

updates in the game. All right. Well, I'll just let us put the score and you'll have to guess who's winning. I would hope it's the longhorns. I would, whatever. I'll figure it out. All right. 7.1. I'll just sleep. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

1029. A brandy update on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross is next. Time is 1032. Good morning. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. And anything goes Friday. You are more than welcome to a part of our program today. How you do that is join us at 713-212-5-7-90. 7-13-212-5-7-90.

As promised, a lot of folks have asked about exactly what you do when you try to update people on things. You create and build an update. The bit's never going away. much to the chagrin of some. It will never go away. We'll update on updates.

Phillies remain a team of interest is apparently they're going to try to move Alex Baum away from third base off the Phillies. Alex Boehm? Boam, Baum, I don't really matter how you pronounce it. He's not an Astro. It won't be an Astro, I don't

think. If he's an Astro, we'll call him by his right proper name. What did Chandler Rome have to say about this? four hours yesterday. Did you listen to the show? No. Why not? I was I'm packing. I'm busy. You can listen to radio and pack at the same time. It's not possible.

I got to put music. I'd have put something gets me moving. I'll put some James Brown on. You don't think a Chandler Rome four hour conversation could get you going? Let's see. What gets me bugging? Chandler, Rome, waxing, philosophic about baseball or James freaking Brown? All right. MSN has a report out today that says the five teams that would be

of most interested in Breggman would be the Astros. The Yankees, the Mets, the Blue Jays, and the Nationals. You know what this has become? He is so gone. He is so gone. So gone. Should we rehearse? Which song are we going to go with?

You know, we could do. And this is going to irritate some people. I'm already irritated looking at you. We could do, we could start pre-recording some farewells. No, stop. Well, I can do it, though, because I'm going to be gone. You know what? It could happen.

This is actually not a terrible idea. because if it happens while you're gone, people are going to want to hear your reaction to it. Yeah, that's true. I'm thinking someone like you by Adele. I mean, there are so many options for breakup songs. I mean, this will be, the day that he leaves, whenever it will be,

Connor will have zero difficulty trying to find songs that match. So I want you to find a song that you want, and then we're going to let you have about 45 or 60 seconds to say your goodbyes because you want to do it just in case he's gone. Are we ready? Fire the music off. I put it in there.

All right, here we go. It is blank, blank on Sports Talk 790 on Blank the Blank Day. And we have just found out that Alex Breggman is going to the blank. His time as an asteros over. He is going to play for the blank. And for his thoughts on Alex leaving the Astros to go play for Blank is Rosfield Real. Alex Bregman, we'll never forget you.

We'll never forget how you're one of the representatives of ushering in the golden era of the Houston Astros, taken number two overall in the draft, along with Carlos Correa in the crop of the young up-and-coming players where we said, we're not going to lose 100 games anymore. And then you matriculated through the minor leagues, you came up and you struggled mightily. and you look terrible, but people always believed in you,

especially LSU Tigers like Chris Cording. And then eventually, you hit your full potential, especially when there was a juice ball and you were hitting like 40 home runs, which you can't do anymore. But we appreciate you, Alex. Crank this up.

Forget me. You done or are you guys more? No, I'm sorry. I was letting Adele speak for me. Okay, I was going to say. We're going to remember the multiple times you were an all-star. We're going to remember you calling Trevor Bauer, Tyler Bauer.

Oh, yeah. We're going to remember you should have walked him, the wheelbarrel, all the great moments. The leadership you provided, Jose Al Tubei begging you to come back. And before you're done, wish in the best of luck. I wish you the best of luck with

Blank. The Yankees. No. The Red Sox. Yeah, do every team. I'll get out of the way here. Go ahead and finish it up. Wish you the best luck with the Nationals, the Yankees, the Mets, the Mariners, the Red Sox.

You're forgetting one. Tigers. The Tigers. AJ Hinch could take him away from us. It is over. The Astros Golden Era, I'm saying it. It's over. No Alex Bregman.

They're going to sign some Jake off of the scrap heap. Jake Myers? Maybe. Put him at third. I'm sad and I'm sorry to see you go Alex You'll be missed gone but not forgotten And you wish them the very best in And I wish you the very best in Seattle, New York, Washington

Dallas California Baltimore The United States of America Detroit With the Dusan Bears in Seoul Korea That's not happening You can edit that one off

That's like a part of it All right you've done your job Thank you So what I'm thinking is if I do this, we can take a whole day off. Just play it on a loop and just oh, to take callers ahead of time.

Hmm. Okay. Let's not do that. I mean, it's kind of sad to do that, but it... So only use that if he signed in the next two weeks. Yeah, we'll get you to freshen one up when you get back. Okay. Thanks. I don't know. Chandler did say that

he would be not completely shocked, but he would be surprised if Bregman didn't sign before Soto Because He said he Not likely But he says there are teams That are still going to do

Their due diligence On Alex Bregman Regardless of where If Soto goes anywhere So that You doesn't They may try to get both Which would be

There's more teams that can sign Soto that can sign Then can sign Uh Breggle I'm sorry More teams that can sign Bregman That can sign Soto

But also it feels like It would be Scott Boris waiting The market Would be is going to be more robust when you have people who strike out on Soto and are scrambling to the next best option and

Alex Bregman would be one of those. It's like when you were dating. You went for a 10? You didn't get a 10. No, it's like you settled for a 7. It's like 1.30 a.m. at the bar. You got to scramble for the next best thing. Alex Bregman is not a 1.30 at the bar guy.

He's 10. He's the next best thing. He's 10.15. No, you're trying to pick up the 9.5. And she goes home with someone else. Guess what? You've got to scramble to something. No, you know what? If Soto's a 10, Breggie's an 8 he'll... Okay, let's make sure.

Lord. I forget what I was going to say. Sometimes that 7's more fun, Maddie. The 7'll do more things. Not as much work. I got to go. I got to go. Fewer drinks. Less cuddling.

So Alex Breggman is the... We're not saying 1.30 a.m. That's that's not respecting him I'm just saying He's more like 1150 10, 1130 He's not the 5 at 1.30 But he's just not the first option

He's the second option Okay The first option is either Juan Soto Or Corbin Burns or Blake Snell probably Okay, that's right But you're going home and Bregman And feeling great about it Yeah, you're feeling pretty good

That's pretty good You're feeling You're selling You're gonna You're gonna show Breggman to mom and dad A lot faster than you think you're going to You're going home with a silver slugger Yeah

And a gold glove. Yeah. And he grabs everything. Yeah. I mean, does a great job at the hot corner. He's fiery. You know he carries a whirlbarrel, so they can't be wrong with that. Ron on 790 at 1041.

Ron, good morning. Good morning, man. Ross, love the show, man. Thank you. Love the new time slots, see you there. Thank you. Yeah, I just want to, you know, say, do appreciate Alex Breggen, all that he's done. I've been a great player for us, wish him the best.

in his future in all of his horse racing endeavors and hope that every one of his horses wins the triple crown every year. And his notorious slow start, hopefully he can work on that too. But anyway, just thoughts, love Bragman, hope he stays, but wish him the best if he goes. Yeah, see, we're not the only one doing this. Thanks, Ron for the phone call. Ron's ready. Ron is prepared.

Ron had that set up locked and loaded. Brought up horse racing. You know how much Braggs loves his horse racing. That's how I know he's going to get the most money possible. You know how to do. That's not going to do. cheap. See, he can't go to the Kentucky Derby because it's in May, so he's always playing baseball. Wow, that's true. You can't take the weekend off?

No, you cannot go to your new team after a fresh new contract. What is they? I need a three-day weekend to go see the Kentucky Derby. Maybe he'll sign in Cincinnati so he can be close. That's actually not a terrible call on your part, or St. Louis. Well, how about this? What if he gets a horse that competes in the Kentucky Derby, and he takes a scheduled off day? He plays Friday night. Yeah. on a plane, gets there for the race,

takes Saturday off, back in his bed and his new home on Saturday night, and he plays Sunday the one o'clock game on Sunday. I got no problem with that. His teammates might, but I don't. That's a good question. We'll have to ask him. The team that signs them to a $180 million contract

might have an issue with it, but I don't. I don't have an issue with either. The guys needs a day off. Yeah. I'm going to judge you. If you get PTO, you got PTO. Yeah. Put on a big hat,

crush some mint juleps and have a good time. I mean, and I would hope he'd invite me. Because I've got my zoot suit, my top hat, my cane ready to go. You do not have a zoot suit. I do have a zoot suit. I'm putting on the rich. Your suits are from the 90s, not the 20s. Oh, my God.

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on Sports Talk 790 I put up a poll question for today on the Matt Thomas Twitter account at Sports Hinty I'm going to say with Twitter by the way and there's just a variety of reasons for it First of all it's the most popular platform Don't put the hands on it I don't make any money off of Twitter I don't

Not a damn thing And I got a little something on my And while there are other websites Other social platforms that are trying to get going they just don't have the reach at this point. So if they eventually, if Blue Sky gets the reach and Threads gets the reach, I'll be more than happy to change over.

But I know a lot of people are deactivating their accounts. I know a lot of the fake bots are gone. So they're getting better on that. It's a more authentic number of people. I block people constantly that I know our bots. So it gives my number or not... Because I like to have an authentic number as much as I can. Okay.

But yeah, that's just where I'm going to go. So the poll question is on the Twitter at SportsMT is interest in Nepal versus... is Tyson tonight. And the answer is, the options are, can't wait, or don't care. And let me see what the people have said so far. What if you're in between?

I'm more of a like, I guess I'll keep an eye on it. If you make the move to go to your Netflix account and click it, that would mean you're looking to watch it. It's not a flippant, it's not, I'm going to put it on the second TV. but not most of the rockets most people don't have second TVs I think they need to they're very cheap now you're entitled so it works that way no it's she it's like cheap whole it's a cheap TV with burn in on it Matt you got to do something with it can't wait 47% not interested 53% hmm so I would say I'm mildly I want to see I don't really want to watch it but I'm probably going to

so my question I'm in between them I got the Rockets game tonight at seven yes I'm more locked in the Rockets so my game I'll be home probably 1015ish if it's if it's if it's if it's on. Well, I can't, you know what, I can actually go back and watch it whenever I want. Isn't even on? I mean, what time? I don't even know what time the fight is. You don't have to watch it live if you don't want to because Netflix, you just dialed up whenever you want to. Is that true? With this fight? Is that true with the live sports they do? Yeah, because I, unless I know on Amazon Prime, I can go back and start at the very beginning. Let's say, yeah, but if the game's already over, can you? Because I think that the NFL Plus has their replay stuff.

So I don't know if you can. But I know that I've jumped into games late on Amazon Prime and said you can start from the beginning. You can do that. But I don't know. I honestly don't. Okay. I think Netflix probably is giving you the option of watching it. It's a freak show, honestly. And we've got some audio that we're going to play in the start of the next hour about how Mike Tyson views his legacy.

We're going to go with that. Okay. Yes. Or if he even believes in legacy, we'll have it for you coming up in a little bit. But that's the question is Jake Paul tonight can't wait or not interested with him and Mike Tyson. And again, the poll question is out very early on. 55% not interested, 45. And by the way, Ryan, I know the U.S. is playing the night.

That wasn't the question. I'm not asking what your viewing habits are. I'm asking you what you're doing. Can't wait or not interested. It's pretty simple. I'm not looking for playing C or D. I would hope you're playing A would be rockets. Plan B would be Cougars.

But I was asking about that. My plan A is rockets. And then I'll put the fight on the second TV. And the Cougars are playing B. Oh, you know what? I'll put the Cougars on. It's a 9-15. Were they playing?

Arizona. Oh, it's football. Yeah. Oh. And now I'm good. I'd rather watch their basketball team, much better. What? I'm sorry, me and most of America. We're on the Friday man game of the week. Yeah, exactly. I mean, because nobody wants, it's too crowded on Saturdays. Nobody else will watch your team. I don't know. Fox has a Friday game every week and they're plenty of people watching that. It's UCLA and Washington tonight on Fox. Oh, it's on Fox? With ours on Fox Sports 1. Oh. Still a big network. Is it?

Full of great shows. Yes. A lot of great talking shows. I believe the lead-in is the fishing program. That's not true. And then afterwards, it's going to be Billy Mays and OxyClean. That's not nice. It is actually the post game.

Not true. James and Alvin on 790 and 1055. James, good morning. James. I hear you in the background. All right, James. We're going to put you on hold. We'll try this again in a minute.

Good talk, James. It was a great talk. Appreciate you. I'm not an MMA guy. I'm not a box. guy. I used to be a boxing guy, but the sport just got so corrupt and full of lack of stars that it just didn't do anything for me anymore.

But I'll watch it because I like freak shows. There's probably just one must watch global star and well, I'm still going to stick with one. For the general public, and that'd probably be Canelo Alvarez. Outside of that, do you know who Tyson Fury is? I've heard the name. Okay, good. Do you know who

Olexander Ucicc is? No clue. Okay. But MMA is taken over. Yeah, MMA is a bigger sport. Absolutely. Boxing killed itself with these greedy promoters and going with going with the four belts, the WBA, the WBO, the WBO, the WBC, the IBF, they killed themselves. And times change with sports. I mean, there was a hundred years ago, boxing and horse racing were the two biggest sports. Absolutely. And then NASCAR for a while was supposed to be the sport and it's kind of falling back to where it's supposed to be. No, you know, nobody trusted boxing. There was bad judging.

There was controversial endings. There was people that you couldn't recognize. You had doping. You had unsavory. First of you had pay-per-view. That was number of them that killed it. Yeah, the pay-per-view model just did not work out. You can't build up fighter.

People don't get attached to the personalities and watch fighters grow up and progress in their careers. And it's because it's on this streaming. service to zone, which costs hundreds of dollars, and then they tack on a pay-per-view fee on top of that. Yeah. No thanks. One more time. James, you there? Yes, sir. Thank you for accepting my call. Can you hear me? Yes, sir. Hello? Yes, James. We hear you just well. Oh, good, good. I'm kind of going to pick it back on what you guys are talking about on Alex Brickman. Alice Brickman is the best third baseman in an all professional baseball.

if we want to look at his resume, not too many third basements can say they went to eight consecutive playoffs appearance, seven consecutive LCSs. So with two World Series rings, four World Series appearance, that is an accomplishment that no other third baseman can say.

Now, Jim Crane, Jim Crane is no more than a businessman because Alex Bredman put a lot of money in Jim Crane pocket. People pay tickets. Now you're going to get somebody

up from the AAA or double A to fill Alex Brickman's shoes and you're not going to get the same results. I can remember when 2015 Jim Crane had a $16 million payroll

and made a $100 million dollar profit. owners got together and called a commissioner. This guy down there in Houston, he's not, he's not, he's not, he's not, he's not playing by the rules. So, uh, I just fought this on Jim Crane and the way he, it's his ball club, it's his business. I just fought his way of, of doing business, but you will see a bunch of paper bag in, uh, in many May Park. Thank y'all for accepting this. Thank you, James.

I don't think any of that's true. Owners came after Jim Crane for not spending us and then he tuned up his spending. James is just flat out making stuff up. I don't recall that. I don't either. Rob Manfred is on line three. We never came to Houston and told Jim Crane how to spend his money. No.

They didn't spend early on. The team came good, became good, and Jim Crane spent a lot, has spent a lot. top five i mean they went over the he went over the uh luxury tax yes he did competitive spending went one went over maybe it's still going over yeah we'll see if he'll do it again well the other time he did it was the covid and there was no penalties yeah but this year he didn't you got a penalty all right uh so how does mike tyson view this fight tonight from a legacy standpoint we'll tell you about that start the second hour the matt thomas show with ross here on sports talk 790 lunch timers this is the matt thomas show

All right, 11.03. Who's ready for Texans and Cowboys on Monday? You know what? We're not going to be ready, Ross. No one's ready for this game except on Monday. It's two teams. One is spiraling out of control, and one more is one more loss going from spiling out of control,

despite winning another AFC South championship. AFC South banner. Start stitching it up. Do they hang banners or do they put a list on there? I don't even know. Should they just like superimpose one? like a shining light on it and then it changed the year after year after year when they win it

it's automatic crank it up like the like the home run pump at minute made right the number changes I like that number of AFC South titles number of divisional wins well that's they're still looking for one of those but that's a different issue for a different time

all right so we have you to join us at 713 212-2-5-790 713-212-5-790 it is and anything goes Friday and that would include a bizarre fight tonight. Have you seen the way in with Mike Tyson? Where he slapped Jake Paul?

Yeah, and the way he, I mean, there's no body fan on the guy. I mean, give him that. Yeah. He's 58 years old. He's 58 years old. He was recently hospitalized. And it's, I just don't think it's going to go well. Look, to me, it's a win-win.

because I don't have a bookie, like I said. I want to bet on Jake Paul. I feel like the odds are just, it's just ridiculous. See, I don't have, I don't know enough about Jake Paul's skills to say. They're not very good, they're not very good, but he's big and strong. But what's the age difference? He's 27 years old, big and strong. Mike Tyson is 58 years old.

And if you look in that workout, it's, he, he's falling off balance. He just does it. He's got grain his beard. Well, yeah, there's nothing wrong with that, man. No, I know. No, I'm sorry. As I would say. Yes.

He doesn't look like he's moving super well. He was hospitalized with ulcers recently. I would love nothing more for him to knock Jake Paul out, but I just don't think it's going to happen. All right. So let's do this real quick. If Mike Tyson gets beat tonight quickly, this will end these foe fight, these one-offs, right? No. These crazy, let's put weird people against weird people.

people kind of fights. You're going to say that the Netflix shelled up millions of dollars for this. They got a big hype for this. A bunch of people are going to be watching and they're going to stop doing it. I think if it goes one round and a minute and a half and it's embarrassing and bad, I mean, I think that there will be hesitation. I don't think it'll be elimination, but there'll be some serious hesitation. Like, for instance, name somebody of Mike Tyson's stature that is well past his, I mean, maybe boxing is a bad example of that because we get guys retiring coming back all the time. it'd be like a pickup game between let's go

Anthony Edwards of Minnesota and Julius Irving I'd watch that I know you would because you're a sicko but if Anthony Edwards is making it's making yeah but hold on if Anthony Edwards is making Julius Irving run around the court and he's huffin and puffin

and he's holding his heart like he's going to have a heart attack we're not going to watch these crazy ass events anymore but Jake Paul's not a serious boxer like Anthony Edwards is one of the best basketball players on the planet. Jake Paul is a YouTuber and he has a professional boxing career basically via YouTube.

His knockouts include guys like Nate Robinson and like guys who were UFC fighters like Nate, he's fought Nate Diaz, he fought Tyron Woodley. And his one loss was when he fought somebody who was actually a boxer, Tommy Fury.

Since then he's been fighting a bunch of people I never heard of. Who's Mike Perry? Okay, so let's do the reverse on this. let's say Tyson comes there and kicks his ass. There's going to be a plet of these coming out. That's why I don't think it's going to happen. If I was, if I was, you can bet on this fight, obviously.

First of all, I think there's something borderline corrupt to it just because of theatrics on it. I don't trust it, so I wouldn't bet it. But even if I was asked to bet on, I don't know which side I'd go on this. Because Mike Tyson, again, granted he's 58, but he's he's one of the goats

of all time he looks like he can crush anybody with a grape still to this day. Jake Paul has no discernible boxing skills. Is the main reason why he's such a heavy favorite because he's 30 years younger? I guess that would be it. Yes. There's a reason all the highlights in these hype videos

for Mike Tyson are from 1989. Yeah. He's 58 years old and the last time he went out there in a professional ring he quit against Kevin McBride. And then went out there four years ago against Roy Jones Jr., who is at least a former professional fighter, and he didn't

look good there. That was four years ago. All right, so we're betting the house on Jake Paul. I know. I'm convincing everyone, and Mike Tyson's going to knock. And see, that's win-win. If I lay money on Jake Paul to win, and

he gets knocked out by Mike Tyson, I'm okay with that. That's win-win. Because I'm a Tyson guy. As crazy as it is. for Tyson, I just don't think he has a shot. As a young man watching him compete, it was the most feared man alive

until Buster Douglas ruined all that. Most boxers are retired by like 35 max. Well, now these days with sports science, they're fighting into 3940 and stuff like that. And Mike Tyson wasn't even good at the end of his career. All right. So now here's page

two of this story. I don't know how this happened. I don't know the backstory to it. But there is young reporter that got an opportunity to talk to Mike Tyson to promote this event coming up tonight. Yeah, apparently she's like 13 years old. I don't know if she's got a YouTube channel. There's a lot of kid reporters who go to these, go to sports events and ask questions. Jose Altuve's been interviewed by some of them and I mean, every sport. So you have these 13 year olds that are trying to generate views and they're going to win on this. Had a chance to catch up with Mike Tyson. Now, some teams like

sports teams will have a kid reporter for the night when they get to talk to the conference. coach for the game, that kind of thing, kind of fun stuff. This apparently was semi-legit, and it did not end well for this kid reporter. Here is this kid reporter talking to Mike Tyson prior to the fight tonight. And your return to the ring for this fight, you are setting a monumental opportunity for kids, my age, to see the legend, Mike Tyson, in the ring for the first time. So after such a successful career, what type of legacy would you like to leave behind when it's all set and done? I don't know.

I don't believe in the word legacy. I think that's another word for ego. Legacy doesn't mean nothing. That's just some word everybody grabbed on to. Someone said that word and everyone grabbed on the words. So now it's used every five seconds. It means absolutely nothing to me. I'm just passing through.

I'm going to die and it's going to be over. Who cares about a legacy after that? What a big ego. I'm going to die. I want people to think that I'm just. I'm great. No, we're nothing. We're dead.

We're dust. We're absolutely nothing. Our legacy is nothing Well, thank you so much for sharing that That is something that I have not heard before Someone say that as answer Can you really imagine somebody Say I want my legacy to be this way when I get debt

Why do you want to think someone I really want to think about you How you what's your dad that I think I want people to think about me when I'm gone Who the fuck cares about me when I'm gone My kids, me, my kids, me, your grandkids That's true Who cares?

Poor little kid is like, all right. That kid is seeing a therapist right now. That kid is unfortunately on suicide watch. And that kid will be permanently staying for the rest of his life. He'll be seeing a therapist for the rest of his life. Welcome to nihilism, kid. That's great. Does that sound like a man motivated to knock out Jake Paul?

I would say yes. He sounds so angry. Ross, he's not happy with his life. if he's not happy with his life, he's going to terrorize Jake Paul. Hmm. Okay. He didn't go in there going, you know, I'm really looking forward to this opportunity. I want us older guys to have some fun out there. I want to let everybody know that I wasn't left for dead.

You know, I was doing a career in television and movies and whatnot. I'm still an athlete. I'm looking forward to this. And kids, it's nice for you to come over and say hello. He did the opposite. I don't care about you. I don't care about legacy. I don't care about my life when I die.

I'm just going to be a little bit. a little bit of dust. And I'm going to drop a nap bomb in front of you, kid. Sounds like he's ready to go for tonight for me. That was great. I think he's absolutely ready to go. All right, 713, 212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790.

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A reminder, 150 today. We're going to play hell yeah or not. We've got one pair of tickets to see the legendary Justin Timberlake, first person to win on Hell Yeah or not win those tickets. But you must get entry into the contest with the password. And Ross, the password is?

Jessica? Jessica. Jessica. Jessica. Call in to, believe it or not, coming up at 150 for a chance to win one pair of Justin Timberlake tickets. The password will be. Jessica. By the way, our buddy Hans listened to us in Denver gave me the list of Jeter versus JT.

You ready? Yes. J.T. Mariah. Jessica Beal. Jessica Alba. Scarlett, Scarlett Johansson. There's some overlap here. Rachel, you could tell.

Vita Gera. Vita. He was with Vita Gera? This is Jeter. Oh, okay. Tyra Banks. Gabrielle Union. Hmm. And my girl from Friday Night Lights.

Minka Kelly. Minka Kelly. Oh, Minka Kelly. All right. Minka. All right. More like Minksa. Mm-hmm.

J-T. Vita Gare is one of the all-time greats. J-T. Fergie, Brittany, Alicia Keys, Alyssa Milano, Cameron Diaz, Beyonce, Jessica Beale.

There's the crossover. Rihanna and Olivia Munn. He was with Rihanna, for real. Rihanna, Beyonce? Mary Jessica Beal. We know what he, we know what type of guy he is.

Who? Hmm. There's two types of men. in this world, Matt. Yes? Sensitive ones and non-sensitive? I know what... Rihanna, Beyonce, and Jessica Beale?

Giddy up. Workhorse. All-nighters. Thoroughbreds. All right. Which list? You don't want to do? We had to let the audience inside.

Oh, God. So, Hans, I'm going to take your list, and I'm going to put on Twitter. He sent me a text. Talk about a Fantasy 5. I couldn't make you through five of these. I'd be happy with a fan. Fantasy 2. Goodness. All right. 713212.5.790. Again, it's Jessica is the

password for those opportunity to play for the JT tickets at 150. All right. Ross, they had the Thursday practice yesterday, which is really the Wednesday practice because they're playing the Monday night game. Well, Anderson did not participate. Bad Ankle. Danico Autri had a day off for rest. Follow Russo, follow Kasi bad foot. Kamari Laster with a concussion. We kind of talked about that about whether or not he can clear from protocol in time. Derek Stingley has a bad hip. Those are five people that did not take part in practice yesterday.

Limited participation. Al-Zis Al-Shayor, Nico Collins, Blake Fisher, Jake Hanson, Damian Pierce, Laramie Tunsell. Full participation. CJ Stroud has a right-hand ailment and Jeff Akuta. You just basically ran through the 53 man at that point. Or among key players. Okay.

So how we feel? Here, so we're not doctors. We didn't wake up next to Nico Collins this morning. That'd be weird. Limited participation. Yes. We're into week six of this hammy. Yes.

Now, two things you could say about that. One, they're treating it with kid gloves. I'm okay with that. Or two, it's just, you're in 100% yet. Got a feeling. He'll have a full Full practice Gut feeling

Kid gloves Gut feeling he'll have a full practice within the next couple of days Or I don't know if they're going to go They're there with Saturday as a Friday Yes Okay There'll be a full practice designation

Gut feeling And then he will play on Monday You kind of need him It is a must win game You know what I would like to have somebody Back me up on this I'm sure there's dozens of

I'm the weird one I get it Now again, I value when you take things literally. But everything in life should not be taken literally. I correct. And in one of those cases where I don't take this literally. When I come to you, and I don't come to you with must wins every time. You know better than that. No, you don't.

You've actually. You're better than most. Better than most. But in my world here, the reality is they win this game. I think you're going to feel a lot better about themselves. If they lose this game, they're still in first place in the end. AFC South, there's nobody else challenging them. But I think from a morale standpoint, from a, are we a really serious football team,

or are we just a byproduct of playing in a ridiculously bad division, I lost the Cowboys who are flat out imploding. Not only did they lose games, Rossi, they get embarrassed and they get embarrassed at home. No one has gone to AT&T Stadium this year and said, I don't think we're going to win this game. the Cowboys can't win in this. They don't lose in their home building. Not only Rossi, they lose in their home building. They get their ass kicked in their home building.

That's why, in my mind, it is not literally, but for us as sports radio host, a must win for this team. Okay. I've made my point. Yes. Go ahead. There's just, with this, some people take it too far,

game two of the rocket season is a must win game. Matt just spilled his drink everywhere. Swatted. fine. Well, you shouldn't spill coffee all over the console like last time. I'm proud of you. Thank you. And I just take the gray area out. If you can't be eliminated, it's not a must-win game

because there's too much gray area. Oh, second game against the Rockets after losing to the Hornets. This is a must-win game. Week 9 against the Cowboys, this is a must-win game. I think you're using two bad examples. You either must win it or you must not. You're either eliminated or you're not. I keep it simple. That's all.

And I understand I'm in the way, way, way, way, way. At least you know that. Way minority on this. And I'm okay with that. I don't give out opinions to be with the crowd, Matthew. No, I give out the opinions that should be respected and thought of and highly. You want to try that? Yeah.

Okay. And the reality is this team loses on Monday night, which they're not going to do. You're going to have what was the point of the team meetings. You're going to have what's wrong with CJ. You're going to have, is Domingo just an average coach at best? You're going to have all these things start to run together. And it's not going to end well. And you know who's going to wear this as much the players are?

It's going to be probably a little Nicky C on this too. You think so? Because think about this. What if the Texans lose this week, what's going to be the problem? They turn the ball over too much. I would probably say, whether it be fumbles or C.J. Shrout. You can say that about any game. But what has been their hassles this year?

Not being able to put together four quarters, a very suspect offensive line. I'm saying that with this game. That's the only way because they're not giving up points. They're not giving up points to Cooper Rush and unless they're turning the ball over. That's the only way they're going to lose. I mean, to me that's it. I just still think, and I'm going back to two weeks, that it was malpractice for Nick Kesey.

Serio to say what he said about the trade deadline. Can you pull that cut up again? My computer is way frozen. I've been trying to pull something up. All right. Well, I'm sorry. Okay. Connor might have it. Can you find it, Connor? Remember that one? This is pre-trade deadline. I've been trying to play my must-win bit. Oh, you have one? Yeah, I've played it for you before. Is it good? Let's see if this works. Let's see if my computer's unfrozen. I love whenever there's a best of seven series, because then I get to you. No, you can stop.

Jesus. sorry it's not going to be my problem for two weeks is this is this must win or is this casario yes cario i think here's cassario usually much to do about nothing so essentially a lot of players you're a lot of players that get moved a around a kind of expiring type contracts b hasn't worked out with their team most of it is kind of late round picks some flips essentially you saw a few trades there with a compensation maybe it was a little bit bigger than what it was but You're kind of looking at your team. If there's an opportunity to add a player that you have a specific defined role for,

great. If not, it's just, you know, you're not going to do something just to do something just to create a bunch of busy work. That is so bad to say in 2024. That is such a terrible message to send to the fan base. When the Lions, Steelers,

chiefs, I mean, Ravens. When they're all making moves to improve their team and you're sitting on your hands to say it's much of due about nothing, that's just not true anymore. You are stuck. in the mud in an archaic way of thinking.

If that's what you think about the trade deadline in the NFL, open your eyes, take your head out of sand, and look at what's going on around the league. The league said we're active. The league has been as active this year with trade deadlines or was that it had been probably in the previous five years. And the Texans sat on their hands. Nick C., you're going to wear it if this offensive line continues to cause issues.

The A team had a guest on yesterday. Said, what's the problem with C.J.? The guy said, I think it was some Dowell's report, or NFL networks, says, look, his feet aren't set. He's skittish. He's not following through. Just the things that me, my untrained eye, said to you two weeks ago. Well, I think that guy's wrong.

It's a byproduct of his offensive line. Having zero trust. He's rushing things. Not feeling, you know, every quarterback faces pressure. He's facing abnormal pressure. Phone calls are next. Gillen Hockley will start with you. Anything goes Friday.

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Home of your Rockets. I love whenever there's a Best of Seven series, because then I get to hear my favorite sports reporter question, would you consider this a must-win game? You know, they always feel like they have to say yes. Yeah, we want to win it. Very important, you know. Got our uniforms on anyway.

Anyway, might as well try. But it's not always the right answer, man. It's a math question. I wish I would answer that question. Honestly, it's a best of seven. You're down one game to nothing. Would you consider this a must-win game? No.

No, we can lose tonight. We can lose tomorrow night, too. We don't want to, but that wasn't your question. You asked if it was a must-win game. And if you'd ever take in a rudimentary math class, you'd already know the magic numbers three. When you're down three, then you must win them or you're out. Very funny, but and true. But we don't deal in absolutes here.

If we dealt in absolutes, we would never want to do sports talk radio because all we do is guess on things all the time. We do sometimes deal in absolutes. Give me an example. Go for it. The Houston Texans will never win a Super Bowl As long as count the air is the owner You can put that on the board, yes! Trust me, you don't want me to say that.

You don't like it when I say it, but I feel very, very confident. Let's go, baby. They're going to turn things around. The protection's looking good. Nico Collins coming back and we're going to a Super Bowl. Or mine. You're going to win the AMC South with about a 9- and 8 record of 10 and 7. you're going to barely beat the first round opponent

and get you asked you to the round two. That's very possible as well. That's more of absolute. Probably more likely. Let's talk to Gil and Hockley at 1135 on 7-90. Gil, good morning. What's going on, guys? Hi.

So me personally, I could care less about Dallas, but I grew up with the Oilers, and I've got a bunch of relatives from Corpus, from San Antonio, from the Valley, and all they would talk about as how good the Cowboys were, how bad the orders were. And now that we have a good team here, I mean, we did beat him opening day, which was great,

was absolutely perfect for our first game ever. But growing up and listening to them idiots, and I'm being my doggone relatives. Then they want to be Astros fans. Can you get a ticket to the dome? No, you know, they don't have a team. But even friends of mine, you know, I'm mixed in American, so a lot of them in the Valley and stuff like that.

And that's it. They're always ranking on the doggone boilers, and now we got the Texans. So me personally, I do not want to lose for that reason. But I don't want to hear it, especially them being that bad. If they win this game, oh, my God. I know.

And that's a lot of it. Thank you, Gil, for the phone call of a good weekend. We appreciate it listening. A lot of it is from fans, they don't want to hear it from their buddies that are cowboy fans. Or friends, yeah. I mean, we all know Cowboys fans. My brother-in-law is a Cowboys fan,

and his kids, my niece is a nephew's, he's turning them into Cowboys fans. It's disgusting. Mm-hmm. I don't want to hear it because guess what? The move and elevation of who the Texans are and the consistent downfall of the Dallas Cowboys year after year after year has kept Cowboy fans off of Houston Sports Radio.

There's a guy who'd call me very young in my career. Those of you listen to Sports Radio for a long period of time, Bill Lamza was named Cowboy, Cowboy Bill Lamza. And he would call every week. This is in the heyday of the 90s when sports radio was really starting in this marketplace. and he'd call all the shows around town. He called me when I was young and we'd talk. And I wasn't bothered by him because callers don't bother me.

But some people were like, you get Bill Lambs off there. I mean, he was just the ultimate cowboy honk. And there were other people. There was Cowboy Steve and Cowboy Greg and Cowboy Hieranamo and all that kind of stuff. And they've gone away. Because that's what Cowboy fans do. When things are down, they go and hide. But when they get to 9 and 8,

and they get to a host of wild card playoff game against the Feldauffy Eagles or Green Bay Packers get their ass kick. They go away again, but they're bragging beforehand. I don't want Cowboy fan infiltrating the show on Tuesday. Are they going to infiltrate the show? If they beat the Texans, they will. For sure. Then I'm going to hear it for four hours. I would say three, four.

Four. Ten to two. Sports Talk 790. So here's the reality of it. Texans win. You feel better. You don't feel great. It's not a good Cowboys team.

It's not. Well, it's about how you look. It's about the game. It's about how it plays out. It's about protecting your quarterback, getting the running game going. Nico Collins getting you 100 yards and a touchdown. Yeah, if you squeak out another bad loss like you have had really throughout this season for the Texans and barely beating the Jacksonville Jaguars and barely beating other teams that it, well, they barely beat the bills.

That was good. But not looking good against the Bears who are turning out to be a not very good team. And barely beating the Colts. with a quarterback that got benched and then well came back, but was benched after that game, yeah, you're not going to feel good. Blow somebody out for once that isn't a rookie making his first start on a horrible team. The reality is there's only two chances left, Ross,

for I think the fan base to really go back to what they thought they were going to be before the start of the season. That's either beating Baltimore or Kansas City. You beat both, then you're really flying high. You split them, you go, you know what? I'll take it. I think they could split. You lose both, and you're not planning any trip to New Orleans for the Super Bowl.

You can score on that Ravens defense. The problem, of course, is on the flip side, stopping Lamar Jackson and Derek Henry, and Zay Flowers, and Mark Andrews. You mentioned Derek Henry, right? Yes, I did. Remember when America thought Derek Henry was done? We've tried to bury Derek Henry's career five times. At least. Every year when, like, reading about it.

fantasy stuff and drafts is like well you know he had 300 touches last year core running backs the data shows running backs after 300 touches always have a down year except derrick henry never does let's just accept he is simply built different hallfamer absolutely i agree first ballot probably not i would have to see where he is in the all-time rushing yards a list and when he retires who he's going against i'll tell you this coming out of the draft i didn't think he was going to be this is a big miss on my part i didn't think derrick henry is going to be good in the nfl i didn't think he had the lateral movement to make guys miss. Because heavy running backs can have

some success, but seven or eight years sustained, not likely. Yeah, I didn't think he was, he can get north to south, but he can't get east to west. But it doesn't even matter. He just runs people over and he has enough subtle shiftiness. I think he's kind of sneaky shifty,

is what Derek can't, because he's so big. Just a little subtle movement is enough for him to shake off tacklers. Apparently good teammate, too. Never had any issues, right, in the NFL? I don't know. I guess so. I mean, I don't care about that. Well, it goes part of it. I mean, it's going to build a legacy. Guys that I've done problems off the field.

Legacy is nothing, Matt. Haven't you ever? Mike Tyson is believing in legacy, but I think most of us kind of do. Yeah. He's caused a lot of heartache for the Texans over the years, no matter what uniform he's put on. He's over 10,000 yards rushing. How many years? Nine years. Okay, so about 1150 a year, give a take? He's got a 2,000, well, his, uh,

Yeah, his average, his 17-game average for his career is 1,400 yards and 13 touchdowns. Why you're laughing about that? That's insane. It's really good. You know what? If you told me that, what's his yards per carry? Does any idea? 4.8 for a career.

He's at 6. He's 30 years old and he's 6.0 yards of carry. I got to change my mind. He might be a first baller the way he's performing, the way he's reinvented himself. Well, I mean, he got on a better team with a better offensive line. I mean, situation matters a ton. We always talk about Emmett Smith and being the all-time yards rusher. Nobody has Emmett Smith as the best running back of all time.

And the crazy part is that when the Titans released him, he got to pick and choose where he wanted to go. He didn't have to worry about having to be shipped off somewhere else. Yeah. The problem is, and it's not a problem, because there are so many great running backs, but when you close your eyes and say, and I hate to go Mount Rushmore on you. But you are? But when you go Mount Rushmore and running backs, Derek Henry's name does not come to the top of the list.

But you know, there's so many fine running backs that are in the Hall of Fame. It's maybe narrowing it down to are you on that list is probably too tough to do. He's 25th on the all-time rushing yards list. If he can get, what do they have left? Like six, seven, six games? Yeah, who is the five guys behind him? Jamal Lewis, Thomas Jones, Tiki Barber, Eddie George, and Marshawn Lynch. Read those five again?

Jamal Lewis. Better than. Thomas Jones. Way better than. Tiki Barber. Way better than. Eddie George. Better than.

Marshawn Lynch. Better than. The five guys ahead of him, Corey Dillon. Better. O.J. Simpson. Not better than O.J. Simpson. LaShawn McCoy. Better.

Work done. Better. Ricky Waters. Better. I mean, if he just gets... How high can he ultimately go, do you think? Can he get 2,000 more yards? Over his rest of his career?

Yes, I say yes. He'll be 11th and past Jim Brown. Yeah, he's going. He's first ballot Hall of Fame. Just you don't think about it that way, but he is. 2,000 more yards. He'll be 11th behind Tony Dorset. Yeah.

Yeah, that's first ballot. Ahead of Marshall Falk, Edron James, Marcus Allen, Frank O'Harris. Because the reality is he's playing during a time Ross where you have splitbacks and you have passing becoming a much bigger part of the game. Shout out Stephen Jackson. 18th on this list.

Ahead of John Riggins just behind Fred Taylor. Fred Taylor, too. Not a Hall of Famer. Stephen Jackson, underrated. Is Fred Taylor on the Hall of Fame? I don't believe so. I think he's been like a finalist, but I don't think he's made it. 1143, Sports Talk, 790. This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross 713-212-5-790.

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We wake the stripperies up as well. And if you missed our 10 o'clock open, it's always a jam where Ross calls somebody a whore. And we'll play that for you coming up in about 10 minutes from now. I meant to say attention, whore. It's different. Us as Taylor fans, we forgive you. Good. She's looking for a new show to watch, by the way.

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I can take it at. Let's go ahead and check it out. Jacob, Northside, 1151 on 7.90. Jacob, good morning. Yes, sir. Hey, man, Derek King were your first battle at Hall of Fame. Plus, he's going to crack the top 10, the lead about the top five.

Once he is done, he still got about three or four years. He over 10,000. He's not going to catch him in the 18. But he's going to catch, like, 12. He's going to catch Dorcette. and all the rest of them guys. He'll get, he had 12, I mean, at 10, 6, he's going to get, he can get at least over the next four years, another $4.50.

So that put around $15,000. He'll at least get $15,000. If he get $15,000, automatically in. Isn't it crazy, though, that every single time, Jacob, somebody wants to bury his career, he comes back in as bigger and better than ever? He's awesome. He's awesome. I really am.

Yeah, I don't understand it because maybe the team. He had, he was stuck. in Tennessee on a bad team. Now they're going to go for championships, I believe. They're going to be thrown the Chiefs. And the Texas, man, it's the process. They own their way, man. But it's

hard, bro. They got the Chiefs and they got a second year coach and a second year quarterback, but they got the Chief and the Ravens. It took a little time for Andy Reeves to get we yet. D'Amico was only in the second year. I think people got to, you know, realize that they, Texas,

how many Super Bowl was they been? been in existence for a while. They ain't been in the zero. So, just so because of one year they had a, you know, he did a great year for his first year. 10 or seven is good, man, a second year coach. And when you're division, back to back. I'm sorry, the chiefs, he got

to get through the chiefs in the Raven and that's going to be a tough task. All right, man. Thanks for the phone call, Jacob. Yeah, I, um, at some point, Ross, and your battle red, you want to have, stop having these conversations about, well, this team's really good, but they need to get past this, this, this. What's it going to take for the Texans?

And we don't have the answer for this today in the middle of a regular season. But what's ultimately going to take for this team to say, you know what? This team is on its way to get past the Ravens, get past the Chiefs. And I don't think a trade deadline deal would have done it. But at least it would have given the signs to say, we're ready to go all in. Nick Assyria with his word salad about just moving around draft picking and expiring contracts, did not bode confidence that he, He thinks his team is on the cusp of something great.

I don't think they're far off. Oh, I think when your offensive line's been a mess for two years, you're far off. You lose on the last second field go to the Lions and your way off the Super Bowl convention? I don't think so. I'm being embarrassed by the Jets on Thursday night is far off. Yeah. Well, beating Buffalo Bills is pretty good. Yeah, but the bills also came back in early and made it a ball game.

Yeah, but they lost. And you almost came back. And the Lions came back to you. And I've told you all this, and it ain't changing. They ain't close. And Nick and Sarah had a chance to change it and get it closer and they didn't get closer. It depends on how you want to define it. You're right.

Because it's just the nature of the NFL. You always be good for two weeks. Kansas City can be bad at some point. Baltimore thought they were there last year, to your point. We had the AMC championship game in our building. We're there. Baltimore's close. Only one team wins the AFC every year.

And everybody else is, everybody else is a failure and everybody else is terrible and everybody else is the worst. Now, they definitely got manhandled by Baltimore. But as I said, we all thought the lines were going to come here and just absolutely destroy the Texans. And it's very clear in a game where they didn't have Will Anderson, they didn't have Nico Collins. They're going to not have Stefan Diggs for the rest of the season. It took a 58-yarder from Jake Bates and a 52-yarder, both barely inside one of the uprights. And that's how they lost that game.

and your guy missed his 58-yarder. But people aren't thinking of it that way. The people are thinking of you had a chance to take your foot and put it on their throats and you didn't do it. Everything's the worst and this is trash and we're the way. Like they lost on a last second field goal to the Lions in a game we all thought they were going to lose. So I don't think they're that far off.

I think there are some better offensive. I think the things that need to happen are the offensive line needs to play better. Of course. You get Nico Collins back. That is going to be a huge help. You need to get Will Anderson back. needs to be healthy if you're going to make any sort of run. And I think something, all those things can happen, something that I'm not sure is going to happen. And you can win with, but it's going to

hold you back. And that to me is the conservative nature of the way D'emico Ryan's can coach not to lose. And how is that going to change? Joe Nixon's words, not mine. That's what I just, I just said. I don't think that's going to change. And that's the reason why I don't think things are going to change because unless Domingo gets talking to, and that's a strange word, but somebody has to put a bug in his ear to say, hey, you've got to loosen things up a little bit. You can win a

Super Bowl with a conservative coach, but it's just going to hold you back. And also, I mean, people think about this. Andy Reid, no one never thinks he's conservative by anything. No, he's not. Dan Campbell. But there were people crushing Dan Campbell in the playoffs last year when he was going

for fourth downs, and then they can get him. So, either, but I would take dink if if you could put Dan Campbell's aggressive nature into everything that this Texan's team does I think it would be a lot. I think they would be a lot better. I would feel a lot better about them winning because because the NFL is all about taking that 1% advantage and turning it into a 2% advantage because that's how close the margin is as we just saw this weekend against the Lions. Chris, the ones talking about the Rockets. Hang time. We will get to, man. We'll get to, let's get you in real quick because we have the news at noon coming up here.

Chris, I'm going to squeeze you in before the top of the hour. Hi, Chris. Hey, what's going on, fellas? Hi. Hey, really quickly, man, I want to make a public service announcement to the fans that are going out to the game tonight. Man, please show up on time. Please get there and, you know, make your presence felt, man. But this is the tournament game.

You know, since the thing started last year, I think it was a good promotion thing for, you know, NBA all together. But, hey, man, I want to ask you. You can answer the question when you come back on the other side. All right. Do you believe that we have the worst fans in the NBA? Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Be honest, man.

You know, because really, man, I mean, the fans suck. And I'm at a lot of the games. And they suck, man. They had like they scared to get up and clap and participate in the game until it's towards the end and it's really tight DNA. I only feel like they can say something. But, man, man, get to the game on time. Make your presence felt, man.

just a young, exciting team. We got a better chance than getting farther down the line than these Texans. I don't think the Texans going anywhere not next year, this year, and five years from now. They're still not doing anything with Rockets.

I believe they got a chance to actually make some noise. All right. I will give you, thank you, a phone call, good to hear your voice. I will give you, we got the news at noon, and I will give you the honest assessment. And Ross, you're going to probably agree with me.

It's not just Rocket fans. It's sports fans in general in this town. I want to say the worst lot is the Rockets, though. I will speak in a macro, micro thought about the fan bases. When we come back? We wake the strippers up in two minutes on Sports Talk 790. Launch timers.

This is the Matt Thomas Show. 1202 in H-town. And welcome to our three of a Matt Thomas show at Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. You know we should do we should get the sound effects of me with the reverb Must must must must win Must win game Yeah that's like we should do that

Yeah it's better than that'll be good No it's not good that wasn't good at all I would not I would not have clipped that on any circumstances I love it Revenge is best served warm I thought it was revenge as a dish best served cold No in my case it's warm It's much warmer when I do it

What the hell is going on with the Texans That was garbage Jesus Christ Well, I like when you close your eyes. Corey, all right. Now, how long have you been a traveling Texan? It's a wild group, and here's the reason why I called, because your mom's in the group, too, and would believe me, we all hook up. Oh, yeah.

Talk about a monster jam. Bam! Dude, you're a dumbass. Seriously. I knew that was a setup. I believe nuts will be getting cracked this weekend. People dress up to concerts. They don't wear garter, though.

Not most of them, but ones who are attention-seeking whores do. I felt personal. Okay, wait. That came out right. Attention to do, no, no, no, no. Hold on. I know what you said. Let me clarify.

Everybody, everybody knows what you said. Let me tell you something. I like regular Joe's, and I like attention-seeking whores on the show. I'll take y'all. Attention hores is what I meant. Take out the seeking? Yeah, you said she was a whore, and Taylor is going to find you. Hunt you down like a rabbit dog.

Huh. She moves around a lot. She's been in middle America, then she's been traveling to Aruba, and then she's in Mexico, and then she's going to a concert in Phoenix. I mean, the girl moves. Sugar daddy? Gotta be, right? You in the situation, Matt?

Making donations? She does not have an only fan's account. I didn't bring that up. You did. Oh. People are asking me, if they want me to share their only fans. I'm not, I don't want your only fans account. No, thank you.

I think I don't like you're already subbed I don't look at that debauchery yeah all right 125 it is a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross he's Ross I'm Matt we are with you till 2 o'clock this afternoon 713 212 5 790 so our man called in a minute ago

and said that rocket fans suck at games a micro and macro view of that after the news at noon and with all the headlines here on anything goes Friday sports talk 790 it's Ross Villaryam all right Matthew

Texans continue their preparations for the Dallas Cowboys on Monday. Hearing from sources, well, this source being Aaron Wilson, friend of the station here at Sports Talk 790. Camari Lasseter not practicing for the Texans. Will Anderson also not spotted at practice. But at the open portion, Derek Stingley is there. So some good news there. And Nico Collins, will he be limited again? Today, we shall find out with the practice report because it'd be very nice to have him back on Monday for the Texans.

One more chance would be tomorrow, but tomorrow's practice will be significantly lighter than today. Today is the last full, let's get going beat some people up kind of practice. Yes, and D'Amico Ryan also did speak to the media yesterday. And well, one of the things we were bringing up in the last segment about the conservative nature of the way that the Texans are coached, Joe Mixing himself, saying this week, playing not to lose far too often. Here's what D'Amico had to say about head coaches getting criticized in the NFL. When it comes to the outside doors on decision-making and play calling, all those things, that's the NFL, right?

We'll always get that. I don't listen to it. I don't have time to spend on everybody's opinion on how we're running our team and what we're calling and what we're doing. right? As an NFL coach, you make decisions and you stick by the decisions that you make. And everybody, of course, being in the NFL, being an NFL head coach, probably one of the only jobs where everybody critiques you on Monday, right? That's the only job. And besides the NFL head coach and the president, you probably get critiqued on every decision that you make because everybody else has all the answers right after the fact. But nobody has the answers in the heat of the battle, in the heat of the battle. of the moment. We can all hit rewind

as many times. We can slow it down as much as we want to, but that's why I'm here to make the decisions, and that's how it'll be. And shut your bomb ass up. All you YouTube Texan podcast host. I think, especially when it comes

to offensive coordinating play calling, when you call a run down the middle for Joe Mixing and it goes for negative one yards, what are you doing? Why are we running on first down when it goes for eight yards? Oh, great job. Joe Mixon. Yeah. So I think to that extent, he's right.

But I'm going to disagree on the fourth down and the playing for the field goal stuff. We've been saying that stuff in the moment as it's happening. And we're seeing it on repeat. It's happening almost every single week. Very conservative play calling because, again, I think there's too much reluctance, not reluctance, reliance on Kimey Fairbair. Yeah. And the fact, well, if we get within 60, he can get us there.

But no, it was a 58-yarder and he missed it. And by the way, and I hear this from a coach is a lot, Ross. And this is actually a bigger issue. Okay. When you take a head coaching job, second guessing comes to with the critique of the job. Absolutely. And we'll talk more about that. But if he's going to think that critiquing is going to stop immediately,

especially Monday morning cornerbacking, retaking, then he probably should get out of the coaching business because it's never going to change. You want fans involved, you want fans vested. They're going to have opinions. opinions will be valid, sometimes they will not be valid. But they're always going to be there. And if coaches get upset or discouraged by the fact that people second-guess them as soon as the games are with, then again, I'd find something else to do. All right.

Also on the news at noon, the Rockets in action tonight against the Los Angeles Clippers. Matt, they've won five of six. They're looking pretty good. Fifth in the West, baby. They didn't look, speaking of teams being closer now, they didn't look close to the Oklahoma City Thunder, quite frankly, in that game on Friday night. But, yeah, they have four losses this year. Cleveland or Charlotte on opening night. Bad.

At San Antonio. Bad. At home for Golden State. Understandable. They were down 31. Old State's been playing great basketball. They were really, really good. And then the game in Oklahoma City, where they were competitive for the first quarter.

And then, you know, well, not in their league, but also the expectation level, I would say higher for the Texans relative to the Rockets. But tonight, Matt, the NBA Cup, Group A play in Western Conference. How much percent? if your interest level on Wednesday was, let's just put it out of five just to make it a baseline. How much does it go up with the NBA Cup on the line? May I take myself off the five list? Yes.

If my interest was calling the game on Wednesday was a 10, which always is, because I love calling games. No, it's not a 10. It's game seven of the NBA finals is a 10, Matt. Okay. Wednesday night against the clippers. Okay. I would say it's an eight.

Okay. I'm going to go if I'm out of five, I'm at a five and a half. So even less than me. Yes. And for me, it's not about the new uniforms are wearing tonight. It's not about the new not the floor. It's just about there's a chance

for a little something something. Like you have in your place of business, you have goals to reach. You have a budget. And if you reach an end of the year goal, you're going to get a bonus. Yeah, here's a $100 gift card to mess my. Well, we don't give those anymore. But if your boss

all of a sudden send you an email and says, hey, in the next 30 days, if you capture five new deals, we're going to give you a little extra bonus. it's the boss sending you the email saying, hey, step up a little bit in the next month and we'll give you a little extra, a little present. It's a little extra pepperoni on your slice of pizza. I see where you're going, Matt.

Or it's like a free brownie. I like that. And in my case, the Rockets won when these tournament games, that are you going to free trip to Vegas out of it? Are they going to give you a share that 500K each player gets for winning? They don't even know my name. How do they give me a share? When they go divvy out the money.

You know what you need to do? What? You just need to wear a shirt every time you go to the arena, It just says Venmo at SportsMT. And then maybe they'll cut you a chunk. Do it on the plane. That's a good idea. That's actually a better chance.

I'll see them as close as I possibly can. For the Buhre games. It's not a bad idea. You know, they always end practices with funny things. Like, EMA will say, one, two, three, chocolate chip and they'll do that. I told me email during, was it, were you with me when I said that, Tim? I said, one, two, three, Matt?

One, two, three. One, two, three sports MT. It rhymes. I guess that's actually not bad. Continue on with the news at noon. What else is going on in the news? Well, tonight on Netflix, it's a Mike Tyson fight. Yes.

Can you believe I am saying this sentence? If I had told you this 20 years ago, tonight on Netflix, which at the time probably you were getting DVDs through the mail, tonight on Netflix, Mike Tyson fights YouTube sensation Jake Paul. What? 58 years old Matt Thomas, going back to the interest level 1 through 10 scale, your interest level is? six, maybe seven.

I'm going to say I was like at a seven, maybe even an eight. But then when I saw Mike Tyson not moving well in the workouts, when he got hospitalized, like my interest level is kind of going down. I'll keep an eye on it, but I'm going to be more locked in on what the rockets are doing against the clippers tonight. I'll say this. Level of, I think this is going to be fixed, eight and a half, nine. And that's why I would never bet on it.

It's sanctioned. The only reason I say that it's not going to be fixed like that is because it is sanctioned. by the Texas Athletic Commission? Well, as you're telling me the athletic commissions are on the up and up. Okay, as long as you're telling me that's okay. I'm not going to say that. Is Lawrence Cole going to be the referee? He always works Texas fights, and he's terrible

because Daddy is the commissioner of the athletic commission. But anyways. Who's the ringing out of dress? Well, let's get you there, Matt. I can't. I got a rocket skin. It's probably going to be Michael Buffer. He's losing his best.

How old is Michael Buffer? I mean his 70s now, right? He's throwing like Zach Grinky fastballs right now. It's not good. It's a little sad to see. But Matt, a new ring announcer must emerge. Out of the ashes of Michael Buffer, here comes Matt Thomas. Let's go.

I love it. I absolutely love it. And can I give you a non-the-news at noon sports item? Okay. The inductees for the 2004 rock and roll hall of him have just been announced. Okay. A minute. Do we go through the list?

Justin Timberlake? No. You ready? No. Here we go. There are some people on here I don't know who they are. Okay. Norman Whitfield.

Oh, Norm Whitfield, the folk singer. Alexis Corner. Oh, Alexis Corner. That's the producer, I believe. The in-house producer stacks records in the 50s, 60s. A tribe called Quest. Oh, well, you know that. Come on, Matt. Tribe called Quest, rap group. I made that up by the first two people. I don't know who they are.

Big Mama Thornton. Oh, Big Mama Thornton. He ain't nothing but a hound dog. The Elvis Presley ripped it off and made it a hit. Suzanne DePass? That sounds made up, too. MC5? I know MC8.

I don't know MC5. John Mayle? M-A-L. John Mayer? No, M-A-L-L, M-A-L, M-A-L, M-A-L, M-A-A-L, M-A-A-A-A-M-A-A-M-A-L. No, I don't know that. Now, here comes people you're going to recognize. You ready?

Okay, thank you. Mary J. Blige? Yes. Jimmy Buffett. Jimmy Buffett is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for Cheeseburger and Paradise. Share? Share? Ozzy Osborne?

Share! Ozzy Osborne has not had not been in there for two decades? Dave Matthew's band? I'm in the Hall of Fame. I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Pretty Baby! Foreigner? Foreigner!

We just talked about how underrated they are. Peter Frampton? Okay. Cool the gang. Okay, now that's deserved. And Dionne Warwick. Dionne Warwick, okay. And that was the news at noon.

Thank you, Matt. All right. Macro, Micro View on A previous caller asking about the Rockets. Okay. Fans, not the Rockets as a team. By the way, have won eight of their first 12 games. Playoffs started the day.

They'd be the 5C in the West. I'm all for it. 713-212-5-790. That, my friends, was the news at noon. 7-13-212-5-7-90. It is an anything goes Friday, which means you can call us about anything you humanly would like to at 7-1-2-2-7-90. 7-1-3-21-2-5-79.

More. Matt Thomas. Now on Sports Talk 790. All right. At 150, we're going to play Hellier or not. We've got one pair of tickets to give away for Justin Timberlake. And you have to require, if you get a password to get into play, hellier not.

Doesn't mean you win the tickets, but you have to the password just to play. And the password, Ross, coming up at 150 today, is Jessica? After the name of Justin's wife is what we went with. Not Rabbit, just Jessica. Yes. Jessica Beal is also an acceptable answer. So there you go.

Jessica is the password you must use if you want to play Hell yeah or not today at 150 this afternoon. I'll leave it at that. It's a jam. That's good. I mean, I'm not going to download any of his songs. That's fine.

I'm not asking you to. By the way, John Alexander, Houston Crockles, says that Nico Collins looks good today. Sprye, run around. Yes. It's going to be a nice benefit to have him back in uniform for the Texans Monday night in a

desperately needed victory. Well, a top 10 receiver in football coming back is big. It's big. Really big. All right. To our caller Chris,

and we'll get to Tim and Nakedy in a second. Chris called in, and he said, look, going to the Rocky Games suck. Because the crowd isn't there. The crowd is two facets right now. It's largely corporate and lower bowl. And it is,

I think there's also a fair number of people that are just not super diehard basketball fans in the building. I think of the three major sports teams in our town, more casual fans will check out a Rockets game than they will to give it three and a half hours to watch a football game or give three hours to watch a baseball game. And you're saying, well, Matt, how do you come up with that? I have no clinical formula.

But I will say when I walk out of the arena pretty quickly right out of the games, I'll do the postgame interview if we win, run through a few stats, and then Adam or the other Adams will handle the postgame stuff. There are more women, and I'm using this as women, not men, but there are more women that are dressed out to go to a bar, to a club. They don't dress like they're dressed to go to a sporting event. And I'm trying to walk a little bit of a fine line here, if you can't tell already. Does that make sense to you?

I mean, I guess, but how, what percentage? I don't know we're talking to 100 people or do you see? I would say this next time that you're at a Rockets game with me. Yes. I mean, I've seen come. Walk out with me at the time that I walk out. Now, you're usually working post games. This one that will not be applicable for you.

Oh, that's okay. Usually Adam or Adam is rambling on in their post game for about a good 20 plus minutes. So I got time. I can't put a percentage on it. But I can tell you it's, I significantly notice every single time, the women that go to the. games, you don't dress the way that they dress to just go to a Rockets basketball.

I don't think it's as many, I think it's more in your, I think it's more in your warped mind than it is like, I don't think it's like half the people's a building or something. No, I'm not saying that, but I'm saying. I don't think it's enough that would make the crowd not good. I think, no, I think it's a crowd that wants to go get a beer really quick. I think it's a crowd that wants to hang, out in the

in the middle, in the lower level club and the upper level club more. I don't think, and I'm, and I shouldn't, I can only go off this. I don't think the women

that go to Astros baseball games dress like they're going to go watch a baseball game and they're going to go out dancing. There's a lot, no, they don't dress like they're going out dancing, but there's a lot of women

or people in general, whether it doesn't have to be women. There are people who just go to the games just to take a bunch of pictures and put it on IG and talk about being on the game. They're going to get them a lot of likes. So that's,

That's going to answer my question for me. And there's a larger section of that than the other two sports teams in this town. So when it's a minute 47 left to go and it's a Rockets game with Kings and it's a two-point game, the crowd takes longer to generate the, oh my gosh, this is a big moment coming up. As compared to an Astros game, 3-2, top of the ninth, one out. Oh, they're doing the wave? No, but at least No, not do the wave of the ninth, but they're doing the way of the seventh.

Yeah, people know. It's been close to game in the eighth. That's terrible. That's terrible. That's broken. Now they absolutely 100% is happening in Astros game. Okay. But that's good.

But that's stupid George people doing that. I don't go to Texans games, so I can't say to that. I think a lot of it is the corporate people in the lower bowl. I think it is, even when the Rockets met, we're like in the Western Conference finals, the lower bowl was half full for the first quarter. Yeah. It's just, I don't know, for whatever reason it is.

If it is just the corporate thing, the fact that there are so many Fortune 500 companies downtown that have four season tickets or however many season tickets. But the crowd downstairs is not corporate. The corporates may own those seats, but it's not the corporate. I don't see guys and a lot of people wearing suits at basketball games. Yeah, but it's like finance bros who get off at work at five. They go to the happy hour and they hang out until they look at their watch. Oh, it's seven. I guess we should start heading into the game.

They close out their tab, and then they're finally at the game at like 745. I've seen that happen with my own eyes. With people who are like in finance that work down down. Well, I just, I think it's a mix of IG picture-taking crowd and corporation. And I would say the true jersey wearing, cap wearing, cheering on for that first slam dunk group is found larger in the upper deck. And I don't know if those. How many of those people there are, but we only notice really what's happening downstairs more than we ever do up.

We just do. But the upper, but the lower level seats are always sold. That's a crazy thing. People say, well, there was empty seats. No, they're all sold. Somebody, every seat downstairs is essentially sold. Essentially, not every single one, but never a game, but essentially it's a

sellout in that first game and it was not full. So could could Rocket games be better in terms of attendance in terms of people giving a buzz? Absolutely. And the Rockets fight this all the time. trying. You try to offer things beforehand. You try to offer things in game. You try to make it, you offer post game parties. They're trying to keep people energized for two and a half, three hours. And the mix right now just doesn't have that. The biggest help is going to be winning basketball game. Winning. Winning. Winning. For years. He asked me about comparing to other cities. This is me being God's

honest true. Most cities are like the rockets. There are very few cities, and I'll go to the old place. places. Boston, Philadelphia, New York. Seems like OKC is pretty good. Toronto. I mean, I would put the rockets in terms of fan base in terms of being energized and fully invested in the game. It's probably the middle of the pack. Go to a game in Dallas is exact same thing. You go to a game in Atlanta, exact same thing.

Usually the multi-city large metropolitan towns, with the exception of the old school East Coast places and the cities that have just one pro sports team are all about the same. The vibe in Houston is exactly the same five that you would get in, say, Minnesota. Not good. Could be better. Not good. It needs to be better. Okay.

How about that? 1230, sports talk 790. We'll talk to Tim in a matter of moments. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Ross, where's your non-flouristory from this week? We're doing that this year? Yes, we are.

We do it. Every Friday at 1.30. We've done it for many, many years. 1230 on 790. On the phones we go, and anything goes Friday. 713-212-790. Now, Florida stories coming up in one hour from now. We've got to hell-garine out for a pair of J-T tickets to give away among the nice gifts that we have in about an hour in 15 minutes.

7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Tim is in Katie on the Matt Thomas show. Tim with Ross. Tim, thanks for waiting. Good afternoon. Thanks, guys. I just want to put in a good word for the NBA Cup tonight. We're going to be in our seats.

the upper part of the lower bowl, me and my son, and we're going to be rooting it on. We pick this game because it is the NBA Cup game. I'm just a little worried that it's hard to beat any NBA team back to back like this, and the clippers are a decent team. So give me some reasons why we should win tonight. Thanks, guys. Well, I'm going to give you a couple reasons. First and foremost, the team is not shot while this year, and it hasn't mattered.

There do, you're saying. 37.5% from three on the game on Wednesday. Rockets are 26 out of 30 NBA teams at 44%. They're 28th out of the league at 32% from 3. Wow. And those numbers have given them an 8 and 4 start. Normally you shoot those type of numbers. You are under 500.

Why? You're going to outrebound anybody else. The number one in the league in rebounding. You don't turn the ball over. You defend very well. Rockets' defense giving up the third fewest points in the NBA. I've just given you one stat after the other. Wow.

Thank you, Matt. And Tarisen and Amman Thompson are playing their best basketball, their very brief NBA career. We call them the Terror Twins. The Terror Twins is what's been circulating around the league. I'm all for that. I like it. Yep.

And of the category of their due? Jabari, Fred, Jalen, as I talked with Coach Adok about a couple nights ago, wouldn't this be fun if one night the Rockets just shoot, you know, 14 to 31 from three? Yeah, we'll be more than that. Let's do 20 of 42. Okay, you get my drift.

Close to 50%. But they're winning because they hustle. They rebound. They steal the basketball. They force a lot of turnovers. They win the second chance game. They do, as the kids would say, Ross, the intangibles. Yes.

All the little things, and that's what Coach Edoch is here for. Discipline and attention to detail. Rockets best start, 8 and 4, since they went 9 and 3. in the 2019-20 season. Back of the good old days. Well, would you think of James Harney tonight, by the way? Did you have a thought on him? No.

He's a foul hunting and a good ball distributor and made a few step-back threes. Boy, he dropped his body about four or five times in the course of the game, and he got one call of the group. That was it. That's good. NBA's catching onto it. Well, now that he's 36 years old or whatever? I mean, it's been around.

He was in his 16th NBA season? How old is he really? 35? 35? He is 35. still good still figures a way to get to the free throw line Hall of Famer

Still a great finisher at the basket Yeah he's I mean he can play about as long as he wants His game was never predicated on elite athleticism Yeah Shooting three point percentage down even this year 31% only 36% from the floor He to me the biggest difference in his game now

Is that he is strictly there for volume shooting As compared to nights where he can go 10 for 14 Get to the free throw line 11 12 times He is strictly for volume now. T's distributing the ball as well. averaging just shy of nine assists per game. That's pretty good. The biggest difference for the clips,

I don't know if we're doing much clipper talk here, Norman Powell has become a legitimate number two score. And by the way, when I bring up Kauai Leonard to the L.A. folks, they're like, mm-hmm. Who's that? Mm-hmm. Never heard of them. They go, mm-hmm.

Yeah, he's got. Imagine a flexibility that clippers could have to make trades and sign free agents if they didn't have the albatross that is Hawaii Leonard's contract around an attack? re-sign him? Yeah, that's crazy. He's got like degenerative leg issues. Yeah. This was always going to be a problem. Yeah.

Was he done anything memorable for the Clippers ever? I'm sure he has, but nothing comes to mine right away. I remember his great days in San Antonio. I remember helping them when the Toronto Raptors winning a championship. But I can't think of memorable Clipper Quay Leonard moments. I can't think of one. No. Let's go to James in League City at 1238 on 790.

Hey, Matt, for a long-time caller, first time, excuse me, other way around, first-time caller, a long-time listener. Thank you. Hey, listen, just about the Rockets, we went to a New Year's Eve game versus the Knicks a couple years back. I think it was 22 going into 23. We were lower balls sitting directly across from the Knicks bench. It was a blowout. Knicks were winning. It got very quiet in the stadium.

I yelled out to Tom Tibido when it was no music going on. I said, Tom, put in Arch Diagono, and he looked over to Archie Agono, gave him a little head roll. Arch Diagano came in the game within the next 30 seconds. It was a phenomenal moment. I just wanted to pass that along. First of all, congratulations that you were able to convince Tom Thibito will do anything because he's a cranky man. That's right. We did the same thing recently at the Memphis Grizzlies game.

We told, I forget his name. I yelled out his name. I said put in a cacucci. No, not cacucci. Why don't you say cacucci playing for the Memphis Grizzly? No, I don't like you say, Kukuket. No, the, uh, uh, uh, uh, I said, put in Yuki to, uh, man, I forget the coach's name for the Grizzlies. And sure enough about two.

Taylor Jenkins. Taylor Jenkins, Taylor, you're speaking of, right? Taylor Jenkins, I said, hey, Taylor, put in Yuki and Yuki came in. I just want to pass that along, man. Great show. Thanks for having me on. Thank you, James. Look at James, like, I can be the PA announcer for the Rockets.

I can, I can draw a crowd. Hmm. He's running rotations for any teams. Have you ever, if you ever screamed anything in your life to any athlete or coach and they heard you? No No I don't think so

When I was flinging jalapinos of the Astrodome back in the day Yeah I called Don Ossie A-A-S-E I call him Don something else Oh I'm sure he's never heard that Well he's not going to hear anymore He's dead but that's a different issue for a different time

May he rest? Yeah it's been a while Today's believe it or not actually Don Ossie? Yeah I don't believe that for a second I'll believe that it's not I've yelled at Vin Scully one time.

I would think I was in junior high. I said, Vin, I didn't say, Vin. I said, Mr. Scully, do you have time for lunch? I wanted to take him to lunch. You? What? Yeah. He said, I'm busy, but thank you for the offer.

Are you serious? Yeah. That is adorable. I thought it was kind of cute. Let me tell you something. A 14-year-old wants to take you to lunch. Why wouldn't you take him up on it? Sounds weird.

No, it doesn't sound weird. What was I looking to get up? except meeting one of my broadcasting idols. That's great. Don't tell you what else have I screamed at. How did you think that was going to go? I didn't know. I was 14 and immaturity like I do now.

Last thing I've ever done is I've screamed at a professional wrestler but not calling him by his name, but by calling him by his legal name. Okay. Would that be Terry Ballia? Well, like one man gang, his real name is George. Okay. I said, man, George, you're killing it. You're killing it.

You did? Yeah, because he didn't... One man gang didn't hear George back and he was going. He was one man gang. How'd you know his real name? Because I did. I know the inside stuff. Were you getting wrestling magazines back from there?

Maybe I maybe was. Don't hate me for that. I'm not hating you. I had to have some interest. Yeah. I had Sports Illustrated SwimSuit covers and Pro Wrestling Illustrated. I thought your only interests were eating Wolf's Chili straight at a can.

Oh, God. Back in the fat days. I'd go home. microwave the dogs, microwave the wolf chili, put it on there, try to go out and play baseball. And microwaves then? Okay, sorry. When was the microwave invented? I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Your vacation can't come fast enough. When were microwaves invented?

Oh, 1945. You must, you, first of all you sound like an idiot. Now you must feel like one. No, it's more popular in the late 1970s. Okay. Well, this was got to be 84, 85. Okay. Well, I didn't know. I thought they were invented like in the 80s.

So it was late 70s. I'm sorry. I was way off. You really think microwaves were invented in the 1980s. This says late 1970s is when they became popular. Connor, you ready to do the Rotten 5 next week? I'll be good to go. You ready to do the NFL rewind?

I'll handle everything else. I'll handle it, believe it or not. I'll handle it to tell the truth. Okay. Sounds good. Dan Matthews in here to give us numerous movie reciting lines and movies. Yeah, I'm feeling safe. 1243 on Sports Talk, 7.90.

You're just the worst human being. Just hanging around. Having some fun. You're just the worst. You hear that, folks? You hear how awful he is? What? I'm going on vacation for two weeks.

If I get Wally Pipped, I get Wally Pipped, it's fine. 713, 21, I'm sure you'll be, yeah. 713, 2125.7. Ross, explain the essence of anything goes Friday, please. If you haven't heard it already, you just listen to the show. You're making me laugh and I'm taking a swig of tea. So anything you want to get to. When were microwaves invented?

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For the corner, and let's go! Home of your Astros. One quick little nugget about the Rockets game Tonight Clippers, actually, in the tournament game. You know the all-time three-point shooter is an NBA history, right? For Makes? Yeah. Steph Curry?

Yeah, that's correct. Sound a little more confidence next time. That's Stephen Curry, Wardell, Stephen Curry, Jr. Who is second, you know? Or the second, I think is a second on junior. Second is Ray Allen. Who is third? Well, I saw that, I saw that James.

Harden. Yeah, James Hardin. Yeah, I wouldn't have brought up unless I was going to tie it into something locally. He has three away from tying Ray Allen for second on the all-time leaderboard. I'm sure he's way behind in percentage. James Hardin has 2,9703. Three-pointers. Oh, my God. Do you know who's fourth? I'd be stunned by this. Current NBA player and really not that old. Oh, geez.

This is fourth all time in threes? Three point makes. I'm a little surprised. Not Clay Thompson. He is sixth. Okay, give me more chance. Fourth all time and threes. You're probably going to need some sort of hint.

Was recently traded within the last few years? All NBA kind of player? Yes. Face of the NBA? Not really. I give up. Damian Lillard. Dame Lillard?

Is fourth. LeBron James is 8th. Paul George's 11th. Kyle Lowry is 13th. Kyle Lowry? This is hilarious. So double check for me. Hardin's got 2,0973.

Is that right? Number of makes? 2973 is how many Allen has. Oh, so Hardin has 2970. Okay. So there was, I know he's three away. I just didn't know anything. Damian Liller is fourth all time.

Wow. shout out Kyle Corver. He's seventh. Kyle Corver? Vince Carter, 9th, Jason Terry, 10th? This isn't at the most prestigious list. I'm not building a whole of all 70-fifth elite team off of this. I mean, Curry, Hardin, LeBron, in the top 10, Ray Allen. Okay, so as you say that then, it's his volume.

This is sheer number of mix. Right. Who has the best percentage? Is there a number on percentages? I don't have it in front of me. I'm going to guess Stefan Curry as far as guys. So let me ask you this. If that is the case, does that diminish being the greatest shooter in NBA history?

When you're known as that, does that diminish who you are as a player? Not saying it's a bad number. Like if you created the all-NBA team, 15 roster spots. Is Def Karin that list? Of all time? On that 15-man list. That's what I'm saying. I don't think it's an automatic.

I think he's, if you're the greatest shooter of all time and you're not automatically on top 15? Well, it's because he's not a good defender, it never has been. In his prime he was okay But I would go with two-way players who can defend as well Like I don't know Kevin Durand But you have to have guards You do have to have guards If I'm creating a 15-man roster

And I need point guards I'm going to go with magic Bob Cousy See I can't I'm just kidding Let's go with people we know Am I going with Stockton because of his way he distributes Am I going with Gary Payton

The Greatest Defensive Guard Ever to play the game if I'm creating a 15-man roster. I mean, don't I need that? Defensive lockdown guy? How about I got one for you? Yeah. LeBron James.

As your point guard. Oh, okay. I could go with that. That's the NBA's all-time leader in turnovers. Ooh. What's this? I wonder what LeBron's assisted turnover ratio is. It's not great, but he's in the all-time assist list as well, I think. Let me go look where he is.

He is. The all-time assist. list is John Stockton, Jason Kidd, Chris Paul, LeBron James, Steve Nash. So LeBron is number one in scoring and fourth an assist.

He said the bonus hand a lot during his 20 years in NBA. First in turnovers. And I want to say he's got to be closing in on like top 20-ish as far as rebounds. How about top five and misses? I know he's no he's missed more shots than anybody else. Well yeah, I was a

I mean, because he's not a 50% shooter. So, yeah, that makes a... And he's over a 50% shooter. Over for his career? Absolutely. LeBron? Yeah. Look it up.

I mean, I'm not doubting you, but I... I bet you're Snickers bar. Nebraska is a 50% field goal shooter. Yeah, there was years where he's shot like 60% from the field. So he just kind of gave up, shooting, of being a high percentage guy later in his career. Oh, he is close. 5.06.

Okay, so you win, you win the Snickers bar. Oh, he's Snickers. Maybe the most underrated candy bar out there. Underrated? Everybody's got it in their top three. Are you sure? I'm going overrated. What's up?

What? Yeah. No, no, no, no. Caramel, chocolate, nuts? Nothing's overrated about it. It's properly rated. I don't like nuts in my sweets. And if you like the nuts, then you can have the nuts, Matt.

The nuts are all yours. You've been eating nuts for years. What are you talking about? It's not my preference. Now, you put a snicker bars in front of me and I'm hungry. I'll eat it. You know what you did? You not my preference.

You valued it by making it as a part of our bet. It's not even close to a Twitter. No, Twix overrated. Overrated. We're at the fight now. Stale cookie covered in chocolate? No, thanks. No, thank you. You are, it's not a stale cookie.

What are you talking about? I didn't stutter. Don't argue food with Matt. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, you're going to get into a deep, you're going to argue with me about Twix, please. No, I'm not. I should have to remember. That's ridiculous.

McRib guy. Can't argue with McRib guy. Oh, Twix sucks. James on 790. Hello James. Hey, how y'all doing? Good. Yeah, I want to ask a couple of questions since anything Friday. Is Ross leaving the country because Trump got elected?

No, I have a vacation that has been planned for months. Did you? You should say that. Go ahead. Go with it. It's funny. No, that's stupid. Is that two weeks you're going on vacation?

Is that going to be enough for you and your lady boy? What do you mean? Well, I'm sure you're going to Thailand and get a last. lady boys. I'm going to, I'm actually going to Korea and Taiwan. I don't know if you got some, yeah, you must have got some wax in your ears. Yeah, I must have some, I can swear.

What if I wanted to go get a lady boy in Thailand? So what? Well, that would confirm my suspicions about you. Yeah, okay. Nevertheless. That's fine. Nevertheless, let's talk about U of H. Let's talk about, I know you hate me. Let's talk about your age. Well, you're an idiot. And you think you're going to coming off well right now?

Well, I think that you deserve some of this, the way you treat people, but that's okay. The way I treat people, you treat people. I totally agree with James. I treat people who ask dumbass questions like dumbasses, but go ahead. You call me simple-minded dumbass. You call me everything. You treat brad.

Do you think you haven't come off like a simple-minded dumbass in these two minutes? No, I think you have. No, no, it's fine. Go ahead. Well, okay. Hopefully you'll be back to see the Texans lose before the Texas Longhorn's lose before the national championship. But nevertheless, let's talk about that.

You have H-night. Are they going to be able to pass the ball or not, you think, Matt? I don't think it's a huge part of their game, honestly. Zeon and Chris, we've got to get to the top of the hour break. Zion and Chris won 11 for 11 against Kansas State. Nice. That's perfect. I didn't see the game because I was busy getting ready for rockets, but I'm going to assume that they were not a lot of deep threats down the field.

11 for 11's crazy. He's great running. He's a great running quarterback. They're going to be able to control the clock because Kansas can't, I mean, because Arizona can't run the football. They had five running rushing yards. against UCF two weeks ago. They don't allow UCF to get any,

or Arizona get any ground game going. They're going to win this football game. And they're forcing a lot of turnovers, and their defenses are very, very good. And their offense is providing just enough. Once again? Tonight. 8.15 in the pregame show on 950 KPRC.

It's a 9 o'clock start on a Friday? Yeah. Okay. You're going to be able to stay up for that? I'm going to be up. I'll be listening to the way home from Rockets. Oh, so you're not going to be listening to the Rockets rap? No, there's no chance.

I mean, I'm sure. Well, you know, Dan's hosting, so, yeah, I'll give it a shot. I wouldn't normally listen to if there's other people hosting it. Got an hour left to go. Yes. I think you're ready for vacation. You annihilated poor James. No, you know what, James?

No, you're an idiot. I'm not going to say anything nice about him. So rude. So, so rude. Final hour of the Matt Tobin Show with Ross coming up in a matter of moment. 713-212-5-7-80. I think you're angry. I appreciate you calling.

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This is the Matt Thomas show. All right, final hour of the week on Sports Talk 790. It is Matt and Ross and Connor with you at 713-213-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. Anything Goes Friday on the headlines. We've got the Rockets tonight against the Clippers and the in-season tournament game number one. We have the Texans back on the practice field. Nico Collins moving around pretty well, according to one, Jonathan M. Alexander.

No sign of Kamari Lasseter, which could not be a good sign because you need him for your secondary coming up this week. Texans and Cowboys, I think we've done probably the best job of breaking it down like a mudda like any other show in the marketplace. I've heard no one else in the town even talk about this game coming up, and we've done it. And I applaud ourselves for that. Yeah. Well, we're petting ourselves in the back. We're going to do four more hours of it on Monday. Oh, I won't be here.

We're going to get a Dallas perspective on the show. Okay, great. I have that. We'll tell the truth. and we will give out predictions on a what should be a guaranteed win Monday. Oh, speaking of which, since I'm going to be out of town for like two weeks, yeah. I wanted to, can I get in a couple of gut feelings?

If you're going to do that, we need the gut feeling music here. And by the way, we welcome you at 713-212-5-7.9. We'll take your calls. It is anything goes Friday for the final hour of the show. We have now in Florida stories coming up at about 25 minutes. So if we're going to do this, we might as well do it right here. Let's let Connor find the music and let you get these done in it. advance. You're going to do for two of these, right?

Yeah. All right, here is Ross with an exclusive by himself on his own gut feelings. And write these down, by the way. Jake Paul wins tonight. Okay. By decision, not KO. It's 10, two-minute rounds, right? It's 20 minutes of boxing. That's ridiculous.

How hokey is that? You're going to feel like a dirty whore watching it on Netflix. You mean her? Am I going to feel like Taylor like you called her a horror earlier? I'm sorry, she's an attention whore. I don't know that she sleeps around. perhaps she's saving herself for marriage. I don't know.

That's not my business. I meant she's attention-horing. I misspoke and I apologize. Tatea, she called you a war. Her legal team. Texans, next three games are against who again, Matt? They have the hated Cowboys,

the hated Tennessee's, and they hate the hated Jacksonville's. Three and O. What's up? Let's go. They're going to be nine and four. We're not going to be talking about all this. We do. losing and the O line is bad. Nico Collins is coming back.

The defense is going to play good. They're winning their next three. What's up? You hear that, folks. Ross basically just told you the sun's going to rise each of the next 21 days. Three and up. That's nothing to break.

And you're going to quit your whining. Yeah. No, you're probably not going to quit your whining because you're Texans hate or Matt. No, I'm Texans realist, Matt. And Texas realist, Matt, also greets to you. The Texans are one of the the next three games. I told you that.

I'm scared. The Cowboys, 23 to 13. 23 to 13. 23 to 13 is the final score. Okay, very good. Jake Paul, as I said, wins by decision. There's something I want to say, but I don't think it's going to happen.

So, never mind. No, it's got a feeling. It's about the starting five of the rockets. Oh, when you come back, there'll be a change. When I come back, it will be the same. Okay. So you didn't have to necessarily make an adjustment. prediction about that. Well, there's a lot of people talking about a starting 5 shakeup. I'm going to say it will

be the same. A bar barring injury. Okay. Will Mike McCarthy be the coach of the Cowboys when you come back? Mike McCarthy will be the coach of the Cowboys. All right. I think if the Texans beat them by

10 points or more and it's a dominant performance by the Texans where the Cowboy fans of 85,000 or so, of the 100,000 of their start booing, I think he loses his job. I think it's going to be enough of an embarrassment to get to be beaten by the intrastate team, right? Interestate or interest state? Alex Bregman will not be signed.

Yep. Already said that. And Juan Soto will be signed first as far as, and I know what was talked about is possibly Breggman signed first, but that's not happening. All right. I want to do one more thing here, Connor, before you take a phone call, so you can turn this off. This is the gut feelings. I, if Bregman does sign with someone. I interrupted a lot of your goodbye to him.

And I feel bad. Okay. We did it earlier. So what I want to do is I want to do another version. Another one? And for those that don't know, earlier in the show, with Ross leaving for a couple weeks starting tomorrow, he might not be able to say goodbye to Alex Spragman on the radio. So we were pre-recorded something, but I felt like I added too many things in there. Yeah, you wouldn't shut up.

I don't disagree. I don't disagree. So now at 108. Again? Yeah. Without me saying anything. I'm going to give you the next minute to say goodbye. Now remember, you cannot say goodbye to what team he's going to.

You'll leave some spaces or maybe leave some. Put all the teams in so we can quickly erase them. Okay. All right. So without any further ado, we present to you Ross saying farewell to Alex Springman because he is not going to sign here. Now, the only question will be is will he sign somewhere while Mr. Villarreal is away from this country. Alex. Alex.

Alex. Alex, Alex F. Bregman. We really appreciate you as a representative of the new era of Houston Astros baseball where we didn't have to watch Bo Porter Bumble through double switches

where we didn't have to watch Brad Mills just call everyone special when they were a replacement level to where you finally got some national You, Carlos Correa, Dallas, Keiko, Lance McCuller's Jr., Jose Altuve, the foundation of the new Houston Astros. We will always remember

how you could hit 40 home runs when there was a juiced ball, at least. We will always remember you're calling Trevor Bauer Tyler and being brash and young and setting the edge and having an attitude about the new Houston Astros and all the great times you've given us

and all the great plays over there at the hot corner. Go ahead, Adele. Two-time All-Star. Gold Glover. Crawford Box shots. Sure, you couldn't hit home runs over 400 feet, but they still went out, and we appreciate you for that. An all-time Astro great.

Well, welcome you back for your orange jacket to be in the Astros Hall of Fame. Go ahead and as Marshawn Lynch would say, get your chicken. And we appreciate you. And we won't be rooting for you as you play for. Insert team.

But we'll always love you and respect you. And remember the greatness of Alex F. Brighman. I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited, but I couldn't stay away. I couldn't fight it. And scene.

All right. Nice clean version there. Thank you. It'd have been funny if you would have put every team in, then we could just, you know, edited the team style. Yeah. He's got to go to a national league team. It's going to be too painful if he's an American League squad.

It just is. Because we'll seem at least six times, if not 12, if he plays in American League West teams. Let's rank worst case scenario. One is Yankees? Yankees one. Mariners 2. Red Sox? They don't, they don't.

Don't bother me. Tigers will be three. I don't care if he goes to the Tigers. Tigers? Tiger? Wait. Tigers? Yeah.

Get the pros together again. Reunited and it feels so good. Getting the band back together. Yeah. That's three. Okay. He won't be signed. I don't think.

Yeah. I don't think Scott Boris is going to wait until May. I don't know March because that didn't work out really well for his clients last year. They got lost him some clients. Are the Astros going to kick the tires on blue? Lake Snail, by the way? Or am I just, is that just foolish? I don't think so. But I could be wrong. I've heard nothing

associated with him. But I also didn't hear anything about the Astros being around Josh Hader this time a year ago. That's true. Is Josh Hader, Boris, Corporation too? I don't know. I don't know the agents as well as maybe I should. I know Soto and Bregman are. That's why I think Soto is going to go first. And Hunter Brown, by the way, brand new to the

Scott Bores family. Oh, yeah, Hunter Brown. You're welcome to Alex Breggman telling you to throw a sinker and now you became one of the best pitchers of baseball. Oh, no, that's right. Josh Hader was CAA. CAA is like that. Yeah, two days in a row.

Three days in a row, we're good. Six outs, nah, we're good. Why don't you go ahead and slow things down? So Hunter Brown goes to Jose L. Tuvance says, Jose, what's it like having Scott Boros as your client, as your agent? He goes, oh, this here's a really nice guy. He's really good. He's very friendly.

He's always reachable. And then he takes his index finger and his thumb, and he goes like this, back and forth like this over and over again. Maybe he asks Garrett Cole. Hunter Brown He's going to get you a bunch of money Oh for Pete's sake You'll have a huge

You'll have money coming out of your ears I'd rather you do that than Cal Honestly What do you mean You know your cow sucks Your your No Your cow impersonation sucks

Which by the way Glaring omission in the Friday open We didn't have you talking about the Cowboys And the suck off Oh Do you hear that Connor? Was that a couple I already told Ross

I know I know he told me. No, it's fine. I'm calling him. I lost the time. I'm telling him so we can find it. What day was that? Maybe I erased it. You never know. Why? Is Monday the suck off? That works. Oh, stop. There you go. We just replaced it. We can use that for the rest of the... You hear that, Dan? You're filling in for Ross. Monday is the cowboy suckoff. You see? There's a method to my madness. Yeah, I see. You threw the bait out?

and I'm rattled me hooked me up and brought me in people are getting mad at me way to kill the vibe on a Friday a man told me to do it I'm sorry it's not because we want to believe

we had to prepare for these things you'll be missed 713 212 5790 713 212 5779 you didn't kill any vibe on Friday seriously we don't even have a vibe Are we vibe creators or killers

I don't think so that's not our job. 713-212-570 on Twitter. You can find us at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Connor D. McGuvern. Hey, got non-flora stories coming up at the bottom of the hour. Mine involves a woman from China. Hmm.

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That's Martin Spoonmore at Affordable Tree Care, 713-699-2663. Matt Thomas returns on Sports Talk 790. Monday will be endless Texans Cowboys preview. That's the promise I make to you. on the Matt Thomas show with Ross, who will have if Dan Matthews, he's going to be in for a couple days. Gordy will be in a couple days

and working on a couple of other people to say they come hang out with us. We are your friendliest radio show, certainly in the marketplace, maybe in the entire country. Unless we put you on air and you immediately start just trying to blank talk us.

Start stuff. Yeah. That's okay. Like that douchebag that called earlier this week. Dude, what was the Texans record when Nico Collins got hurt? If they won a game since then? Da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

And then he calls Sean to rip on me. Dushbags. And that duchy coach at Sy Falls or wherever he co. He's a douchebag too. With two of the wins coming by double digits. What's up? I'm okay with that. All right.

Real quick. Rossi, we've got to the password for the chance to win those Justin Timberlake tickets. Password is Jessica. There's your final name. Jessica. You must use that during believe it or not today at 1.50s. Okay. All right.

Since anything goes Friday, we're going to play Let's Make a Deal. Okay. You know what that game is? Not exactly. Okay, it's a game where you basically have to choose different curtains and different boxes. You have to figure out which is the better of the two and you win prizes. Usually great prizes in one and a zonk on the other one.

Okay. This isn't a zonk. It's just a little one. If I'm going to give you the following, you're going to receive two pirate I blew it already Dang it What's happening here?

All right You'll receive two pirate season tickets behind home plate for the next 30 years Okay You're going to be able to meet a certain player For the Pittsburgh Pirates You're going to receive two jerseys From this guy, autographed

Okay You're going to get a softball game for 30 at PNCP Park with coaching from a Pirates alumni. You'll get a pirate, a private tour of Pirate City and LaCombe Park. I think is that what they call their new park, the park that's been renamed, I guess. I have no idea. And also more unique experiences. All you got to do back is to get the Paul Skeen's rookie debut patch autograph card back to give him back to him.

His. Somebody has a Paul Skeen's rookie debut patch autograph card. Hmm. Okay. And the pirates want it from you. Interesting. So if you had that card in your possession. You get season tickets for 30 years?

Behind home plate for 30 years. Wow. Meeting greet with Paul Skeens. Wow. Two Paul Skeins autographed jerseys. Softball game for 30 from Pirates alumni and coaching. Private tour of Pirate City and Lecom Park and many more unique experiences. Did you see his girlfriend Livy Dunn up the stakes?

Uh-oh. how much did she up the stakes? She said the person who finds the card can sit with me at a Pirates game in my suite. Okay, so... With security hanging over. So obviously this card is somewhere and they can't find it.

But it's out there somewhere in the world and the pirates want that card. I'm assuming, Connor, have you seen it? Is there only one card of this has been signed? Is that right? Or are there been multiple Paul Skeen's autographed cards?

It says one of one. Oh, you know, I'm looking at it right now. That's exactly what it is. One of one. There is one rookie autograph card with his name on it. So, Ross, let's make a deal. It's a patch from, I don't know, the patch is off of his

debut jersey. His debut jersey, okay. Oh, it's going to be found in a pack. Yeah, it's from tops. Okay, it's going to release in a pack releasing November 13th, so it's already released. Okay, so we should go

and pull these cards. Now, baseball cards when we were growing up, the ones that were autographed for the first in a series or a rookie card or a complete set was extraordinarily valuable. Yes. I think that's one of the things in sports that have really fallen off is the baseball card.

I think I'm doing the deal. What is that guy? I guess it has to be worth so much if they're trying to give away all that. What is if it's more at auction? What if I'd rather auction or not? I would rather have a million dollars than 30 years of Pirates baseball that I can't even get over their watch. So two Pirates season tickets behind home play for the next 30 years.

That's got to be 81 times, I'll say, $100 a game for the two tickets. That's $8100 times 30. That's $24,000. No, more than that. $240,000 in value, correct? I guess. Okay. You meet and greet with Paul Skeens.

You don't know what that's valued worth. Meet and greet with Livy Dunn sounds better. Two autographed jerseys, those are probably going to be worth at the end of the day, $10 or $15,000 each maybe. So you're looking at about $275. Softball game for $30, you can't put a price on that. Private Tour of Pirate City and Lecom Park, can't put a price on that. So let's put the intangible price at $100,000 on the rest of that stuff.

So you're looking at about $3.75. I'm putting an auction. I'm going to wait, really. Isn't it going to be more valuable in 20 years when he's a Hall of Famer? and we're assuming that he's going to be a Hall of Famer. Unless he has Tommy John five times. Or two of them, yeah, I was going to say at least twice. Is this brilliant marketing or is this, we made a mistake?

It's got to be marketing, right? Are they saying, did they accidentally put this to top? No, I don't understand. I think they're just doing for opportunity to get some promotion. Because they don't look like oops, we made a mistake. They put this on their Twitter account. That's what I'm getting it right now. The Pittsburgh Pirates just offered season tickets behind a home plate for

30 years in exchange for Paul Skeen's one-of-one rookie debut patch autograph card. Would you accept this offer? They're throwing it out there. People that have to have conjecture on it. So this is like a Willie Wonka type of golden ticket situation. Yes. Hmm. It sounds too good to be true, right? So then I would probably hold on to the jersey.

Okay, so this is Topps Marketing. Yeah, it is Topps Marketing. Okay, so they gave it to them on purpose. Yeah. But if you're a pirate fan, you get season tickets for the rest of your adult life? That's pretty good. Is it? Are they going to be good over those 30 years?

But it's a good ballpark. It's great seats. I'm sure you're going to get all the chicken tenders you can possibly stand. So, okay, for, man, the problem is it's like a stock. The stock is really high right now, but it could plummet. You could have 20 lost seasons. He could have a couple TJs. He could be, you know, get caught with performance enhancing drugs.

Oh, come on. He just had an ERA under two as a rookie. So basically they're getting. They're offering about $350,000 worth of tangible and intangible things for you to give them the patchback. Would you do it? No. Straight cash, homie. Now, does that person get made fun of when he says no?

I'm going to go buy a pack of these cards now. But that's what Tops wants. Dang it. Tops is winning on this, right? I know. They're winning either direction. Yeah. They're getting publicity.

They're getting people to buy the tickets, the cards. He's smart. We're talking about it on this show. Yeah, I think it's interesting. It's the most baseball card talk we've had on this show in five years. I think so. I think so, too. All right, let's get our non-flora stories in.

You ready? Okay. We have, believe it or not, or hell you are not coming up in 20 minutes from now. Let's do this. 713-212-5-790. If you are going to play, hell yeah or not, that's in 20 minutes, you can't wait that long. So wait a few minutes and make sure you do have the password. Let me tell you folks about love volleyball.

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Whatever her name is. If I don't, well, if the person that finds the, uh, the, uh, patch doesn't get to meet her. And I use that term, meet her. It's a no deal. She's, um, yeah, go ahead and go ahead. Euro for one on describing women today, so.

Perfect. Yeah, okay, that's one for one. She's not, she's not batting 500. She's one for, it's one for two. You guys want to give her a call? I have her number. Oh! Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. Did you do a story with her or something?

No, I just have a friend who went to LSU and knows her. And what do you know about? her? She's a gymnast. Okay, better man, personality-wise. Oh, I've never met her. I just have the phone number. Have you ever... Call her right now, no, do you. Do you not do that? No, I've never texted. Say, what's up, girl?

I'm sure she gets enough of that on social media and stuff. Can you throw 102-mile-an-hour sinker? No, I don't think I have a shot. I'm sorry. Tarx, Scoobel, or Paul Skeen? Which one do you want? Yes. I guess I'll go Skeins, but I mean, why Cooble? Either way. Either way, you can't

you're wrong. No. Two bright stars. I'm going with Hunter Brown, baby. And we're trying to bring back Verlander at 89 Mount Hour Puss. He was hitting the 93. I don't want any more divas on this organization. We've got plenty of them. Why not? Because then Ben will be like, Hey, Adam and I'm you're my favorite bros, dude. Can I come on your show again once a a week? Your fixation on Ben Verlander is puzzling.

It is puzzling. And white belts. I don't know what you're more fixated on. Taylor, white belts, or Ben Verland. Taylor right now. Alex and Conroe on 790. Hi Alex. Connor, do me a favor. Go ahead, hang up on me and call Livy. If that's at all possible. That's the best call today right there. I sacrifice my call. Thank you very much. That's awesome. But in all seriousness, I don't know what I can call him. That jacknob that called in earlier

talking about Ross meeting a lady boy. Ross, to be frank, if you did want to go over there and meet a lady boy, I wouldn't care one lick. I don't think you should. If you came back and your name was now Rosalind, I wouldn't care. Good. It doesn't matter. It's none of my business and it's really weird that he's thinking

about what you might be doing. That's just, that's odd. By the way, just for the sake of interest for information, a lady boy is an informal term for a transvestite or transsexual, especially one from the Far East. Just want to pass that along. Yeah, thank you, I thank you, Matt.

All right. Anything else? You had to look that up. I think he was very familiar. I don't think he had. Honestly, Alex, I had no idea what a lady boy was until he said it. So I was able to learn something new every day. Every day on the show attended too. Thanks, Alex, for the phone call of a good weekend.

We appreciate it. I really never heard of that term. Oh, you haven't? Uh-uh. Well, I'm not going to Thailand. I'm going to Taiwan. So I know James, simple-minded, unintelligent James is very confused there. So it cuts deep.

Time now for some non-flora. stories. All right. I'm going to go first. I kind of like mine. I'm going to China. You're not going to China, are you? Again, Seoul, South Korea

and Taiwan. And you're not going to find a lady boy while you're there. But if you did, I wouldn't care. What if I did? I don't know. I'm not going to judge you. Okay, feels like you're judging. Nah, I mean, I thought judge.

But that is not in the plans, no. I would like to introduce you both of you into our audience to a woman named Chen. And you'll be able to Google her after I read this story. Because once I tell you about her, you're going to be like, is this really real? And the answer is yes, it's real. But it's not spectacular.

Okay. She's 107 years old, Rossi. What? Yeah. She has become a social media star. You're saying, well, how did that happen? In the October 29th, New York Post, a story about Ms. Chen was discussed because she has an unusual facial feature. she has a four inch long horn growing out of her forehead what some people think the growth is responsible for chan's advanced age and are calling it quote a longevity horn doctors however are calling it a cutanidious form cutanineous horn which is often associated with prolonged sun exposure chen however remains in good health she eats heartily and she has no intention

of having the horn removed. I'm going to tell you, please go Google chin with a horn. C-H-E-N with a horn. She's real, and it's not spectacular. It's quite annerving to look at,

but she's 107 years old, and if you're 170, you have a horn in your head, so be it. So just know that if you're going to get to 107, chance are you're going to have a 4-inch horn coming out of your forehead. And that's my non-Florida story. Thanks, Matt.

Connor, go Google it so you can at least give it an instant reaction to what you think Chen looks like. What do I Google? Chen with a horn? C-H-E-N with a horn out of her head. With a horn. You find it?

Yeah, it's very disturbing. Yeah. I'm not going to sleep tonight. All right, I'm moving on. Let me tell you about some people who were in the San Bernardino Mountains northeast of Los Angeles. Oh, good.

vacation spot. Well, apparently, on January 8th, there was a parked car at Lake Arrowhead. It was a very nice car. It was a 2010 Rolls-Royce ghost that apparently was trashed by a bear. Four people saw this bear trashing the Rolls-Royce videotaped it and, of course, sent it into the insurance company. Oh, yeah. And then tried to, of course, make claims on the totaling of the car. However, upon further scrutiny, the investigation determined that it was actually a person in a bear costume.

No, shut up. Shut up. That's ridiculous. Yes, the California Department of Insurance says that the group, they determined it was a person in a bear costume. Ruben Tamarazian and Arbott Chichikratan. That sounds about right. Something or other. Good God.

Four of them of Valley Village arrested on charges of insurance fraud and conspiracy. Charges have submitted against the four people arrested. The case is under review for decisions on charges. The scam cost the insurance companies over $140,000. Apparently they did seize the bear costume. It had brown fur, head shaped like a bear, paws, and metal hand tools to simulate claw marks that were found in the suspects home.

Number of times you've been in Rolls Roy's in your life. Zero. I've been in there once on my wedding day, November 29th, 1997. Investigators showed the videos to a biologist from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife who opined it was clearly a human in a bear suit. in the video. And the only wild bears in the San Bernardino Mountains or anywhere else are black bears. They were, of course, dressed as a grizzly bear.

You've got to keep your biology together, folks. Shout out to my good friend on Twitter who sent me that one. His name is Kevin Andrews. Kevin, thank you very much for that. We always appreciate when y'all send us in on Florist stories. It makes our lives a lot easier. All right. We'll leave Ross alone because he's got a good hellier or not put together.

All right, Connor, what do you got for your non-Floristory? Matt, do you like to fish? Not really, but for the sake of the argument, I love to fish. Okay, do you remember anything that you've caught? Some Chilean sea bass? Okay. Well, this Norwegian fishing boat probably had one of the biggest catches of all time, a U.S. Navy nuclear-powered submarine.

The 32-foot fishing boat was on its way back to harbor after looking for halibut when the fishermen discovered that a near 8,000-ton submarine was tangled in their nets. quote, we had just emptied the nets and put them out again and were on our way back to harbor when we received a radio call from the Coast Guard, the ship's captain said. The fishing net got sucked into the submarine's propellers and had to be cut out by an escort vessel provided by the Norwegian Coast Guard. The Coast Guard explained that the submarine had dragged the nets two nautical miles out to sea where they were eventually cut off. So a fishing ship in Norway full of 20-year-old fishermen looking for Halbert were having their nets dragged by a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine armed with cruise missiles and didn't notice until the Coast Guard called them. And the boat didn't fall over anything like that?

I mean, that's crazy. Yeah. They didn't even notice. And how long it would take them to figure out they had captured a submarine? However long it took to go two nautical miles. And they didn't realize until the Coast Guard called them, then they had to wait for a vessel to come help them. Those are a bunch of guys taking a nap or didn't give two craps about what was being caught.

That's ridiculous. That was a waste of tax money, correct? They actually, the fishermen lost a lot of money, they said, because they lost their nets in a day's worth of halibut. Wow. How do you feel about halibut, generally speaking? I like it. I like fish. I'm getting better towards the only fish I don't like is salmon.

I like everything else. Good white fish is very good. Good halibut is good. I've never had like a brand zino where it's like the whole fish. No. I've never done that. Don't ever have ludophisca. That's the worst fish ever created on earth.

My wife sent, we were living in Minnesota. She sent me to the grocery store. So get some fish with dinner. I went and got Lutafisk, put it in the oven. It's dunked the house up for a week. It was so bad that we didn't even need a single bite of it. We ordered pizza. That's just a name that doesn't sound appetizing.

No, go look up Lutafisk. It's the most disgusting fish ever and no one should eat it. Outside of people outside the state of Minnesota. All right. That's it on Florida Stories. Nice job, boys. We've got six people already locked and ready to go because they want to win. Now, so one pair of tickets to see JT.

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All right. A reminder that Rockets and the Los Angeles clippers, should people Ross bring their sunglasses? I think I'm going to be okay with this red. This floor is Uber red. It's 90%? red? Once your eyes adjust, you get used to it. Yeah, I'm, I've only called a couple of games on those floors like that, so I don't remember what it was like. But it's still, you know, you'll be able to identify the lane and something

the circle and the dotted line, all that kind of stuff. So, but it's, it's going to be a little bit of an adjustment for sure. The in-season tournament. Can't wait. Now, the NBA last year got a slight uptick, but not dramatic ratings bump. And I think, they're doing the smart thing doing on Tuesdays and Fridays for the next couple weeks. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game show Monday through Thursday. We call it a beat, leave it or not.

But on Fridays, we call it a hell yeah or not in here so it works. You'll call 713-212-5-790 and you have to have the password to play. Category today is all things about where Ross is going. and where he's going is Seoul and where else are you going Taipei. Yes. I'll read you about those two places.

The statement's completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. Hell yeah. If the statement's erroneous full of bunk and met up, you'll say this. Not the first person to get two right wins this. Connor D. McGovern. A first winner will get our last pair of tickets to see Justin Timberlake

on his Forget Tomorrow World Tour December 4th at the Toyota Center and everybody else gets some 790 t-shirts. Everybody else. You don't be that guy I didn't realize my mic was on Yeah, we heard it Those t-shirts are great

They're wonderful Carlos on 790 Ready to play hell yeah or not Hell yeah Having been a capital Since the year 18 No 1394

Seoul is one of the oldest Capital cities in the world Hell yeah or not Not It is really damn old Really old Joe on 790 Ready to play

Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah, Matt. With over 200 miles of subway track, Seoul has the largest municipal metro rail system in the world. Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah?

No, several other Chinese cities have longer ones. Yeah, why don't you guys take a look at the track of the distances and do some research beforehand? Jesse on Seven-90. Ready to play, hell yeah or not? Hell yeah, Matt. Seoul is home to Poo-Poo Land,

a museum dedicated to toilets and other oddities surrounding bowel movements. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Here we go. Seoul's National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art was built out of a royal palace built in the 1600s.

Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Oh, God, Ross made that up. I'm sorry. Danny on 790, ready to play Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. The current population of Taipei City is 7.7 million. Believe, hell yeah or not?

Hell yeah. No, it's 2.45 million. Come on, man. Get your Wikipedia. Connor might go. Connor's going to the concert, baby. Roger on 790. Ready to play hell yeah or not.

Hell yeah. The currency used most in Taiwan is the Chinez Juan. Hell yeah or not. Chinese. Hell not. Oh, did I miss go? Yeah, you're right. It's a new Taiwan dollar.

You said C-H-I-N-E. yes, I was going, Sheenis. I must have misspelled it. That's fine. Still not. It worked. Here we go. Good luck.

The skyscraper known as Taipei 101 is the tallest world in the building outside of Dubai. Hell yeah or not? Hell no. You win. You're going to see JT, baby. Jason, how excited are you about playing for a 790 t-shirt? Not much now.

Taiway. Taiwan is known globally as a tax haven. always has and also has no extradition treaty with the United States. Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. You win a shirt. He's like, yeah, I'm good. Rossi, I want you to be careful.

I want you to bring me back some treats. I'm not bringing you back Jack. All right, that's fine. And what else? I'll see you later. Get out of here. So checked out. And poor Dan Matthews. Works the morning show today has to hang out with Clinton.

And then he's doing the rocket's coverage. Meanwhile, you're going to be at home. Take a little 99 because you get early fighting the morning. I got packing to do. I got cleaning to pick up. I got my hair trim, a beard trimmed. Are you going to cut it off? No, it's trim, I said.

You know what trim means? Cut it off. You know trimmed. You like trim? Adam likes trim. Adam needs. Who doesn't like trim? A trimmed beard and haircut, obviously.

Have a great weekend. Talk to you for Rockets at 7 on 790. Up next, the team with Wexel and Klan right here on Sports Talk 790.