The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - ROSS RETURNS: Texans' Azeez Al-Shaair Appeals Suspension, Emotions Run High In Rockets Loss

Episode Date: December 4, 2024

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" react to Rockets head coach Ime Udoka's postgame comments following his ejection from Tuesday's 120-111 loss to the Sacramento Kings. Udoka joins the show to further explain his criticism of the officials and preview Thursday's matchup against the Golden State Warriors. Matt and Ross also;discuss Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair appealing his three-game suspension from the NFLreview MLB's proposed "Golden Bat" rulerecap the latest college football recruiting news on National Signing Daytell people to "Shut Yo Bum Ass Up, Ain't Nobody Got Time" and more.

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas Show. 101 in H-Town. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. 117-105 Sacramento. Technical foul.

Fred Van Blee, he's out. And so is Ime Adoka. We got everybody leaving here. And E-May is. Hiss. He is walking towards John Goebel and is being restrained by the security team. It wasn't Fred Van Blede. It was Alperin Shangoon,

but you could have picked and choose who you want to knock out of the game because there were a lot of angry rockets. Goodness gracious. Last night in Sacramento got ugly. And the comments from E.M.E. Doker are unbelievable. And we'll hear from him coming up later this morning here on Sports Talk 790. I'd like to introduce a new member of our Sports Talk 790 team. His name is Ross Villarreal.

He'll be co-hosting with me 10 o'clock until two weekdays here on 790. All right. All right. It wasn't that long, was it? It felt like a month. It was a little two weeks and change. I got a couple of extra days off because of the Thanksgiving holidays. Okay, so tell us about your body clock right now.

By the way, my body clock is a complete hot mess right now. That's every day. That's true. We got here at about 1245, and by the time I settled in my room, got my bag, and everything was about 115, 120, and right now it is 803 Pacific Mountain, Pacific Standard Time. Well, right now it's in Seoul, it is 1 a.m. So I'm doing the show from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. Seoul, South Korea time. Okay. So what time did you go to bed last night? Actually, I've been very good. There's this app. It's called Time Shifter. I recommend it to everyone. It tells you, like, when to go to sleep. when to get some low light, when to drink caffeine to try to reacclimate yourself. And I actually slept from like 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. I feel great.

Oh, that's good. The app has been perfect. It tells me exactly what to do, and I couldn't recommend it more. And how were the two long-ass flights? They were the longest flights I'd ever been on. The one there was like 15 hours because of the jet stream. The one back is only like 12,

so it wasn't necessarily as bad. But those were definitely the longest flights I've ever been on. and a bit of a struggle, but we made it. I brought some books. I slept a lot, and I was using that app, which tells you when to sleep. Generally, you sleep a lot on the plane, which I was able to do. And how was, did you get Wi-Fi either direction? I didn't get Wi-Fi there because the jet lag protocol said that I needed to sleep,

but on the way back I got it, and I was trying to watch a bunch of, so I subscribed to NFL Plus, and you can use the app, so I was trying to re-watch all the Texans games that I had missed, and then the why smasmerishman smear lines you suck your Wi-Fi

I'm literally I like took a I took a screenshot of my confirmation on the Wi-Fi and I took a screenshot of the speed test like I'm going to ask

for my $35 back they will usually give it to you oh they need to it was a disaster it was horrible but you had a good time on some of them pictures were great

oh my God yeah I mean haven't even begin to yeah I'm going to post some more stuff on Instagram at Sports RV where I'm trying to build up

my following if you want to follow me on Instagram at Sports. Yeah, normally it's not worthy of looking at, but you have put some good photos up, so I kind of look at vicaracy through you through that time. Thank you, yeah. Seoul was beautiful. Taipei was amazing and Taiwan as well.

I had a great trip of a lifetime. I was with people who spoke Korean and spoke Mandarin, so I mean, I was on easy mode. Very grateful for those folks and grateful for the trip of a lifetime. The wedding was good. Did I tell you I was the efficient of the wedding, Matt? No, you did not. I got rave reviews as the efficient of the wedding. So it was all of, like I said, trip of a lifetime is the easiest way to put it.

And lastly, we'll get to some other things going on. But security-wise, do you feel safe for you everywhere you went? Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Seoul and Taipei are safer than Houston, Texas. Let me tell you right. Right now. Safer, cleaner, the people are nicer.

The food is better. No, the food's better. I don't know if the food's better. Right, right, right. The food is, let's say, healthier. But everything was, oh, my God, the public transit and Seoul, it may be upset. the subway line is so fast and so good it's basically like the 610 loop but if that were a subway line and then a bunch of cross cross lines to transfer from it's so easy to use it's so awesome yeah well good

i'm glad you had a good time it's great day back thank you to dan matthews to chris gregor to came in for a day bryan mctaggart how was that i know i know well we just wanted to the first you guys talked 1983 cougars basketball the whole time didn't you i mean that might have come up five or seven times i don't remember how many times it did but oh you You're going to be taking some more time off before the end of the month. So I'm trying to move some people around a little bit. I've done saved up, baby. I get four weeks.

I use four weeks. Let me tell you something. Daddy goes with the Rockets to Vegas. I'm telling you, you're not going to hear from you for a few days. That's right. So you're rooting hard for the Rockets. Can you explain this to me like I'm five? If they beat the Golden State Warriors, they go to Vegas tomorrow?

Okay. So let me take you through this a little bit of what happened last night. So the Rockets were 3 and O going into group play. And this is the in-season tournament. They're calling it the NBA Cup. And it's brought to you by an airline that doesn't spend any money with this. They're not going to sponsor plug. The Rockets were 3-0.

They had a huge point differential. So as long as things kind of fell into place where the rockets could either beat the Kings, which are under 500, or not lose by a bunch, or somebody doesn't beat somebody by a whole bunch, then we're in good shape. We're going to host a home game. And this is that each of the three games. groups have a division winner, and then there's one wildcard team, the next best record, and it comes down to point differential because you're going to have a lot of teams with just

one loss. So last night, the Rockets just did not play well. Defense was terrible, couldn't shoot in the second half to save their life. It was bad, and they were getting blown out. Meanwhile, earlier in the night, Oklahoma City kicked the crap out of the Utah Jazz, but like almost 30 points. So this huge discrepancy we had in the point differential was evaporated. and we were on the verge of maybe hosting a one or a two-seed game

to having to go on the road for this NBA knockout round, which is next Wednesday. Thankfully, the Denver Nuggets beat the Golden State Warriors, kicking them out to putting them down to a three-seed, bumping us back to the two-seed, and so we are the two-seat going to the knockout round next Wednesday night where we will take on the Golden State Warriors at Toyota Center for an 830 start. Oh, got it?

next Wednesday. Next Wednesday. Okay. And we're playing the Warriors tomorrow here in San Francisco. Okay. That's why I was confused, but I got it now, I think. The NBA Cup fever. Catch it. Yeah, I don't think people are catching it. Although I will say this, and you and I have talked a lot about this, both on and off air,

the vibe in the Toyota Center has been lacking for five years, for good reasons, obviously. When the Rockets beat the Thunder on Sunday night, that was the best of the building in terms of energy that we had had in four or five seasons. Sweet. That's great That least going for you All right We got a lot to get to If we're like

Do we have to quiz you About what you've missed While you've gone Yeah I have no idea what's going on Ever gonna be made Do you know that Texas A&M Lost to your beloved school Oh I saw that game baby

I was up well actually I went out drinking heavily the night before So only caught the second half But I caught most of it You didn't miss much It was absolutely For Aggie fans As disappointing as it comes

And nothing about You know I'm a Facebook realaholic Right Yes You know what that is? Well, they have little clips of video. Yeah, it's just, yeah. It's like they basically, their version of TikTok.

So their version TikTok. So here are what my clips are. Old Dallas episode clips. Mm-hmm. Kirby and Therzias. Yeah, Taylor Mathis. Girls being interviewed on the street in New Orleans, Nashville, Vegas, talking about the types of sexual activity they have.

I don't know how that happened, but that's neither here nor there. And people that are texting. fans videoing the yell leaders before and during the game against Texas. Oh, the yell leaders. What a classic. Now, I've told this to my middle son, my middle son, Peyton, for those of you don't know, is a fight in Texas Aggie. He loves the Aggies all the way through.

He was actually very understanding. He was at the game on this past weekend. Look, he said, Texas better. And I said, thank good that you understood that. They are. I said, I love everything about your school. I love the culture. I love the fact that you enjoy the being experienced.

I said, but the yell leaders, are ridiculous. And he's like, I get it, Dad, but you know what? I don't care. But they were super ridiculous

this past week. Hook them horns, baby. They had 40,000 for their yell practice the day before. Normally it's a midnight yell, Rossi, they had it at 5.30.

Oh, man. And all the players showed up. And then they lost? Oh, man, that's tough. All right. So your beloved Texans won a game.

Yes. And one of your, and one of the linebackers, tried to destroy Trevor Lawrence's brain. Yeah, I caught the condensed game. I'm going to watch it again in full probably tonight. That has been highly... And we carried a Nick Casario press conference on this radio station yesterday.

I heard. Connor McGovern told me about to slip up. Yeah, he slipped up, I think, twice, but one was very blatant. It was, I mentioned this on the show to the audience yesterday. It was the most incredible 30 minutes of Nick Aserio's tenure. I was not embarrassed that we carried Nick Aserio. Wow, for once. He was fire and brimstone.

Hmm. You know what, honestly, Ross? It's a fire and brimstone Wednesday because we come back. We're going to let you hear what EMA Adoka said about the officials at last night's game. Oh, man. Can we do the over-under and what is fine is going to be? I had it at $10,000 yesterday. I don't know if that could.

I'm going over. I think you're right. When you drop us, they need to get the. Don't tell them. Don't tell them. This is what we call professional radio tease. Oh, it's not most people are. Yeah, we got to get you back to Radio 101, Rossi.

Oh, stop. I thought everybody heard it. We're going to hit our breaks on time. We're going to let the audience. We're getting there. You know what the worst? I'm hitting breaks is Dan Matthews. Well, I can believe that.

There's zero surprise on that. All right, our time is 10, 12. Ross is back in Houston. I'm here in San Francisco. We have shut you all my ass up. E. Mae I doke, by the way, is going to join us at 1.30 this afternoon. And I got even better news for you, Ross, because we couldn't take phone calls yesterday. Mm-hmm.

And I'm so stunning. We had technical issues back in the flag. I already did believe it or not for you today. All things, John Runyon. Hell yeah. Oh, John Runyon? Okay. He's the penalty giver.

He's the vice principal of the NFL. Okay. And he gave LZ's Al-Shayor a three-game suspension yesterday. 7-1-3-2. By the way, Connor, the phone's working. I have no idea. Phones are working. Oh, let's go, baby.

Let's go. Up next. How much is EMA and DEMA and get it fine for what he says? dead. 1013 on Sports Talk 790. More Matt Thomas. Now on Sports Talk 790. A little Jackson Brown for you here on Sports Talk 790.

How about me hit the post-sports? I noticed. I knew you were going to brag about it too. I was going to let you. Come on. Let me have something to enjoy. All right. So last night the Rockets did not play. Do you see the game or are you in sleep? I watched some of the highlights. I'll watch the game in full today. I want to watch the Thunder game.

I got so much stuff. What? I know. My DVR's backlog. Oh, yeah. You're like minus 6% on your DVR. Oh, yes. So, yeah, the Rockets lost last night.

Did not play well. De Aaron Fox was great. DeMontas was good. Malik Monk was, I mean, it was just a bad, bad night. Couldn't shoot in a second. I couldn't defend very well. And there were a lot of cheques. chippy calls, illegal screens, that kind of stuff that just kind of draws the ire of a coach.

And there was a few times that Alperin Shangoon got hit across the face. You know, Jalen Green got hit in the eye. There was nothing done really about that. And at the very end of the game, with the game, frankly, out of hand, and maybe the Rockets already knowing that Golden State lost to Denver, and the number two seat for them was captured. E. Mede Doka was not particularly pleased with how things went, and he got tossed along with Alprin Shain.

Goon. It was back to back on the technical fouls. Both guys got ejected. Then you had Tar Easton going to the stands after the game, which was never a good thing when it comes to the Rockets in history when it going into stands. Wait, what? And then... Yeah. Tari Isson went into the stands? Yeah, he heard something and... He went full

Russell Westbrook slash Verna Maxwell? Yeah, I mean, just said... Run our test? It's kind of a rocket thing. I don't know. I mean, it had happened a while, but it's kind of a rocket thing. Wow. And then he may Doka spoke to the media and this is we're going to play into the game called

How much is he going to get fined for this? What was going on? What did you see out there on the floor that you was disappointed? And miscalls, blatant miscalls right in front of you. You know, you're calling tick-attack moving screens and a little shit like that. And then you don't want to call the obvious ones right in front of you. So that was it. Help you got fouled a few times on that drive and on the layup and they don't want to call it.

And so I'm going to get some glasses open your eyes. Oh, is my mind? Mike open? Yes, it's so, I love that, man. I just do. If you drop a get-some bleeping glasses. Glasses? I don't think the fine process is going to go well for you.

I just, I just don't. All right. So I initially said $10,000 and you think that's low, huh? That feels low. I don't know if we're going to go like full on. What was it? Was 100 Gs that Jeff Van Gundy got fined back in the day? Okay.

So, you know, he was named Coach of the Month yesterday. day. And I don't know if you get any award. I think you get like a watch or something cool. I mean, you get something, but it's nothing spectacular. And maybe he has an incentive in his contract. He gets bonuses for that kind of stuff. I don't know. But I did offer him. I did see him after the game. And I said, look,

if you want to start a go-fund me, I'll be happy to help. So he laughed. Fred Van Vleet last year, remember when he confronted an official? That was a 50K fine. That was last week. I'm sorry, not last year, last week. Yeah, he went index finger on three officials or a sports RV.

That's not good. They get suspended, thankfully. The old, the old, the old, the old effing glasses card is going to, yeah. I'm going, I'm going well over 10. I'm thinking probably closer to Fitty. Yeah, I think you're probably right. He can afford it. Oh, he can, but damn, that's never a great text.

Can you write that? that off as a charitable donation? Hey, it's Joe Dumars from the NBA League office. Oh, hey, Joe, how are you? I used to love when you were on the microwave with the piston. You know, he was Vinny Johnson. That's Joe, who was the microwave? Vinny Johnson or Joe Dumas.

Vinny's, Vinny's the microwave Johnson. Okay, so Joe Deumars was just the great six man. Hey, Joe, I used to love those piston seam. Y'all were some badass. You all threw, you know, threw hands when you needed to. You pushed guys. You were dirty, but you won. Yeah, I don't care about that. Here's your fine. Pretty much what's going to happen.

Isn't it crazy that the two people in the sports today that are handing out suspensions and fines? I mean, John Runny was a dirty player for the Philadelphia Eagles. Those highlights are resurfacing. Yes, they are. As soon as the suspension came out. And you got Joe Dumars is one of the bad boys. Now, he was the nicest of the bad boys, but he was still a bad boy. Yeah.

You're on the team. Guilty by Association. And I think Kiki Vandoah, I don't be still with the league or not, but he used to be a guy that handed out fines. And Kiki wasn't a bad guy. By the way, you can't be a bad guy when your name is Kiki. Kiki Vandeway is one of the great all-time NBA names, I think. Oh, my God. How good is that?

I mean, when you're nine years old, you made fun of because your name is Kiki, and then you knock down jumpers from 30 feet. Yeah, I'm fine. Get away from me. Yeah. Classic. Oh, yeah. What a night. By the way, speaking of the tech of John Runyon,

they're going to have the appeals process today, as a matter of fact, from what I understand. So what do you think is going to happen on that? What are the folks talking about with that? Is it going to get, like, one game reduced, maybe? Well, we'll talk about that in the next segment. But, yeah, I'll be very curious to see what they do. They're going to do it via Zoom, apparently,

and they're not going to do it in person. Usually those appeals done are in person. Remember that one time that Brian Cushing got suspended? This was when the show first began because he was pregnant, and then Bob McNair went up to go talk to Roger Ceddle, see if he could get the Cushing suspension. Okay, man, you should be more clear about that. It was good.

What was it, Human gonadotropin? Oh, that's what you wanted me to say? You wanted me to say human good? No, he had, he was he was busted for steroids and then he tried to go with the overtrained athlete syndrome. No, apparently he was pregnant. No, Matt, he was not pregnant. We didn't have a Mr. Mom situation. I'm telling you, if I Google Brian Cushing pregnant, I guarantee I'll find a story.

Okay. Well, yeah, that was our guy. What was it, Bill Romanowski? I might still have those drops. It comes from the urine of pregnant women. It's like, oh, okay, thanks. By the way, what did you just call it again? Human something gonatotropin.

Now, how did you, did you just remember that or did you look that up? No, I remembered it. How do you remember that? I don't know. Here, hold on. It comes from the urine of pregnant women. Yeah, so Brian was pregnant. Pregnant women.

That was Bill Romanowski on Radio Row way back in the day when that happened. Man, we used to get good guests on Radio Row. Hey, Matt! We've gotten some good guests over the years. And then we got Ed Too Tall Jones and Harvey Martin and other ex-Caboy. Hey, why you ain't on Too Tall?

Legendary, Too-Tal Jones. I mean, legendary to the 1978 Dallas Cowboy fan. Yeah. To the regular audience. Meanwhile, Gordy is interviewing like Joe Montana and Emmett Smith and,

and these supermodels. And meanwhile, we're getting like backup linebackers from the first Carolina Panther team. He's gotten on like the ghost of Vince Lombardi. We've had Ray Lucas on like nine straight years in a row about suicide prevention. Oh, man. It's really depressing. Sorry, Ray. Yeah, sorry, Ray.

We're really bringing us down, though, Ray. We're using your interview from six years ago when you're out with this last time of radio. Oh, man. Oh, well. All right. 1027 is our time. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross, and Ross is nice to have back with us here on 790.

We've got Emaidoka coming up at 1.30 today. I don't know if he'll know his punishment, but we can certainly ask. Oh, no, you'd probably leave Malone on that. I think I'm going to say, hey, man, whatever happens happens. I got your back, but I don't want to say I got your back. We are going to talk about and get Ross's thoughts on the Alsharee hit and three-game suspension. Will it be reduced? There's a lot of social media conversation saying that he's probably going to.

going to get it reduced. We'll talk more about that in a moment. 1027, Sports Talk, 790. Ross, I know you're feeling great, but others might not be doing so hot. You might be needing to lose a little weight. Maybe you've been thinking about muscle tone. Maybe you're thinking about getting back to your best self. Maybe you need to be thinking about. No, I'm not maybe. You need to be thinking about synergenics, testosterone, and weight loss. You have a lot of options when it comes to TRTs. That's why you want to go with the folks that are going to give you the personalized plan, more advanced and basic standard therapy. also the experts in GLP1 weight loss.

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explanation. D'Amico talked to them yesterday. So, I mean, it is what it is. I'm sure Aziz will go through whatever process he's going to go through and then we'll deal with it accordingly. But I think what we take umbrage is is just the paint the picture that's been painted about Aziz, his intentions, who he is as a person. I mean, quite frankly, it's and it's unfair to the individual. It's unfair to the organization. I mean, we love everything about Aziz al-Shahir, what he means to this team, what he brings to this to his team. He was elected a captain after being here for four months. Like I said yesterday, you know how I feel about playing Nick Casario's soundbites and or press conferences, but yesterday, SportsRV, it was a different Nicky Cee C in front of that podium.

That's, yeah. Firing Nick Casario? Yes. It takes his player knocking somebody clean out of a game and getting suspended. That's what it took after all these years? Yes, it finally did. The word salad was at a bare minimum. Now, there was a bunch of false media questions after.

What do you think about Joe Bix's play so far this year? What do you think? Dumbass? This is really good. He's playing really well. Yeah, I'm a genius. Thanks, Nick. So the number one thing that I think basically that is really pissing everybody off

is the last sentence of the John Runyon statement yesterday. And you guys have seen it by now, but I don't want to continue repeating it. But I think this is where Runyon at least is getting. dragged nationally. And because I was, you know, after the show yesterday, you know, I'm in the Pacific Times on set a couple hours in between getting ready for the game and whatnot. But I was watching all the NFL shows, kind of getting the national feel of things. And here was the last sentence from the John Runyon statement.

Your continued disregard for NFL playing rules, excuse me, just for coughing. I can't wait to read it. I'll read it. Your continued disregard for NFL playing rules puts the health and safety of both you and your opponents in jeopardy and will not be tolerated. And before that, he says, you're like a sportsmanship, but respect for the game of football. And those who play coach and enjoy watching it is troubling and does not reflect the core values of the NFL.

I mean, that's like... That's a very heavy-handed preaching soapboxing right there. And I think, you know, there's an NFL live show that's on right after our show, I think, is what it is. And they were like, wait a minute. Was it a dirty hit? Yes. Was it maybe... Was it worthy of being ejected?

Sure. Was the fight after that making it... look like an ugly situation, get uglier? Absolutely. Is there worthy of a suspension? Sure. But the national perspective, again, it's just national perspective. I mean, it's the right one. But the national perspective, Ross, is that

John Runyon took this to a new level yesterday with the last two sentences of that statement. Yeah. Is this like trying to are they making an example of him? Are they trying to limit this around the league? That's kind of what it feels like to me is that they're putting all this strong, heavy-handed statement to like

someone not necessarily as much as at admonishing Aziz al-Shahir, but also just making a statement towards the league, like this type of activity is not going to be tolerated. You guys need to cut this out. Yeah. My thought was, and you and I'm not discussed it. He should have been ejected, and he was. The fight afterwards on the sideline and whatnot, that didn't certainly help the cause.

I felt like the Monday after the game that he was going to get suspended for one game. That three to me is a massive surprise. And like I said, the reaction of the last two sentences that statement that John Rony put out has got a lot of people thinking that maybe the NFL is trying to make Al Sharia an example and that that's not their responsibility. You don't make examples. You have to talk about and discuss and find what is in front of you, not saying, hey, we've got a poster child for, hey, we can't let our quarterback skiing against.

Yeah, when I first saw the hit, I think I was with some people who said that it was, it's a bang, bang, bang play, these guys are flying all for the field. but I mean when you think about it and watch it a few more times and really I think the best way to continue to watch it is in fast motion. Slow motion you just as slow motion it gives you a lot more time to think than Aziz al-Shahir had but I still think he definitely lowered the boom on on Trevor Lawrence. It was definitely a dirty hit.

Dude, yeah. If he thought he wasn't going to slide and he was going to, he would have tried to wrap him up. He literally sees him going down and then like he tried to knock him out of that game. There's no doubt in my mind. If you asked, if you got like truth serum on Ozzy, Ziz, I'll show here. He tried to knock him out of that game intentionally. He should have been ejected. I think a game suspension sounds about right. If this gets appealed, if they put it for three, kind of knowing it was going to get appealed down to two, and that's what happens,

that to me feels about right as well. I don't think, I don't think you can do what he just did and knowing that this is a league that is going to protect its quarterbacks at all costs and try to prevent this behavior and make an example out of Aziz. I think absolutely two games it just feels about right for the state of the league. Well, yesterday, Kasserer, as you heard the comments, was very upset about the characterization of Al-Z's as a person. That's what the intent of the last few sentences of that running statement. What I was bothered by yesterday was D'Amico really placing more responsibility

in Trevor Lawrence. And I know that there are some people that are saying that Pat Mahomes takes liberties with the slide and that he slides late, blah, blah, blah, blah. And that might need to be addressed. Ross. That may be a serious concern. I think it does. But what really, really bothered me was

that D'Amico was upset about the reaction from the Jacksonville sideline and the players on the field. I mean, come. And to make, I have tremendous amount of respect for Domingo. But if there weren't 40 players ready to beat Al-Sarious ass after that

play, then there had been something wrong. Yeah, I think. I just, I, that to me was the worst part of this whole, beyond the hit itself was that you went from right after the game on Sunday, D'Amico saying we don't condone that. We don't hope it's okay. And that, you know, we'll talk to how she's about this. And two, I had a chance to look at it and, man, Jacksonville overreacted. There is never a term in this entire situation in the last 72 hours where the term Jacksonville and overreaction

should have ever been discussed. No, I totally agree. I think a very, very easy way to think about this and when these types of situations happen is, is imagine C.J. Stroud is going in for slide the exact same way that Trevor Lawrence is and gets clocked the way that that he did, that Trevor Lawrence did. You would be, you would think nobody has his back if people didn't get up and, and basically start a ruckus like they did. Jacksonville Jaguars and what they did was defending their guy. It was, they weren't out of line at all to me.

All right. 713-213-2-2-790. 7-1-2-5-79 if you want to get it. Lots of stuff to get to today on the show. And we'll start today with Tony and Sugarland at 1039. The Matt Thomas show with Ross. Tony, good morning. Good morning, gentlemen.

Hey, and listen, I don't want to, in any way, shape, form of fashion, take the sting out of you guys' comments. But I think you guys are taking what D'Amico said totally out of content. And, Ross, listen, you are the reason why, bro, that people are, you know, that to me, I believe the NFL made the decision they made. Listen, pressure bust the pipe. I think that calling that a dirty hit is the start of it. Listen, let me just say this because I don't think anybody is saying this. If the hit was so, he was, listen, Azeal was not, he was not ejected because of the hit. He was ejected because of the aftermath.

That's what he was ejected for. He was not ejected because of the hit. Yeah, listen, if it wasn't, it checked it out. Listen to what I'm saying here, though, dude. After all of that, it was third and one, bro. It was a third and one. You know why? Because the penalties offset.

It wasn't, it wasn't, it had nothing to do with that. What happened was, the reason. why the reason why it was it was 31 31 after all of that it was 31 that's what that's what the that's what the referees are saying within the rules inside of the game if you consider it being such a dirty hit they would have notated that in the game did the referee never said that azare is being ejected because of the hit no they basically said penalties offset one guy one guy's been ejected another guy's been ejected it is 31 so the hit on azare really and truly at the end of the day wasn't As bad as you guys are trying to make it seen.

That's ridiculous. That is patently ridiculous, Tony. That is an absurd. I'm just talking about the game. I don't care if it was third and 26 or second and five. He went forearm to Trevor Lawrence's head. It was a dirty hit. Doesn't mean he's the worst thing in the world.

Doesn't mean that he doesn't have an opportunity to get a second chance. Doesn't mean that the three-game suspension is worthy because I don't think it was. But that wasn't clean. He got ejected for the hit. The aftermath of it. Everything I'm reading says officials ejected, I'll say here for an illegal hit to the quarterback's head and neck area. That's like that's the official ejection.

You are not reading it properly, Tony. It may be what they actually put in the actual out line of what happened after this whole thing rolled out. But it wasn't within the lines of the game. That's not why they ejected him. That's not true. Tony, you're not. No. Tony, you're wrong.

I'm sorry, you're wrong. You're not, you're putting on information that is erroneous. Ross just read it. No, I'm not. I'm just talking about the game. I'm talking about within the game, guys. I'm not talking about what they did after the fact. I'm talking about within the lines of the game.

There was no fight. He still would have been injected from that game. Yes, I seriously, I think that what had happened, if that wasn't a fight, gentlemen, here's what would have happened. They would have, they would have reviewed it like they reviewed it after the fact, and they would have gave him either a final ability. They was not going to inject him, gentlemen. You cannot give a fine.

You cannot give a fine in the middle of a football game. I'm sorry, Tony. This is going to know. How much cash do you have on you, Aziz? Hold on. Hold on. Hold on, Ross. I got the referee's mic here. Okay, good. Personal foul on the Texans.

Is it number zero, right? Yes. Zero. Shit to the head. Penalty is $23,474. Still first down. Payable immediately. Yeah, yeah.

We need your Zell. We need your Finmo. We're going to take it out of your money if you want to stay in the game. Come on. He was tossed because of the hit. The suspension goes with the hit, and it goes, as John Runyon said, things exacerbated two different times. Once after the play where the fight took place,

and then as he was leaving the field, there was video evidence of him continuing the conversation and trying to start an altercation. what my kind of favorite part about it is, is right after the hit, he throws his hands up like, why am I getting penalized? Like, you, you crushed him into the ground. Yeah, I mean, come on. Trevor Lawrence is like wriggling on the ground. He's like, what's the penalty for? Not moving. Has no idea where he is. He thinks he's back at Clemson. He's asking for a haircut. Well, he probably should ask for that anyway, but that's a different issue for a different

time. I mean, come on, gang. Let's let's not recreate history. this again three game suspension for me i think is overboard and i i mentioned on gut feelings i don't think it's going to change i hope i'm wrong about that but i i uh because it sounds like to me there is a lot of national vibe towards runyon made it way more personal than it should have been 1043 sports talk 790 ross matt with you here until uh 2 o'clock this afternoon we have shut your bum ass up at 1130 today 713 212 5 790 if you want to jump in 713 212 575 How are your trees? Do you know how they are? Well, then why don't you get my man, Martin Spoonmower, to come over to your house and check on those trees at affordable tree service? They are wonderful people that will take great care of your trees because they know what they're doing.

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Connor McGovern is our producer. By the way, Ross is going to be very proud of Connor. He handled the NFL rewind and the Rotten Five the last few weeks. The tradition continues. We've moved on the different people, though. Well, Ross stepped out for a second, but I'm sure he'll congratulate me and tell me how good of a job I did when he comes back. He didn't pay one bit of attention to the podcast, none of that stuff. He didn't say thank you or nothing.

No, no, no. Hey, what's happening? I was just telling you how great Connor did with the Rotten Five and the NFL Reef-on the last few weeks. Oh, yeah, I was listening to the podcast while I was in time off. I just exactly said that. I said, there's no chance you listen to the podcast under any circumstance. You're such a fraud. At least you're the same person before you left.

That's true. Thank you. All right. Best food you had while you were gone. Best single dish? Best single dish? That's hard. I'm just going to go with Korean barbecue, I guess. The last week, I mean, I ate Korean barbecue like five times in a week over there.

Dude, when you're in Asia, you eat, and then you go walk somewhere to eat, and then you go eat after that. It's like, you just eat the whole time, and everything is so good. So it's hard for me to say. I mean, I had a lot of soups. There was this chicken dish called Duck Galby, which is like spicy chicken noodles, and then they put rice on. Oh, it was so good. I'm going to go with, I'll just go with a good old-fashioned Korean barbecue.

Like the pork we had in the last day, it was perfect. All right. And the scenery there? Scenery was great. Taiwan, if you go, like Ali Shan in the mountains of Taiwan was beautiful. I wasn't talking about that kind of scenery. Oh. Okay, yeah, the tall buildings.

The city views. No, that's fine. I know what downtown buildings look like. Oh. I don't get it. What scenery? Oh, the museums. Yeah, the art museums.

No, I've been to museums before. I know what museums look like. Okay, you're talking about the ladies. Well, I mean, I think... I'm going to tell you something. I want to know. I don't know if I'm going to get some heat for this, Matt. But I'm going to give you my true and real observations, because that's what I do on

this show. Yes. I felt like in Korea, it was a little... bit more of a vanity-driven society. Like, there was a lot of plastic surgery. They're really into cosmetics over there, and that type of stuff, and

like perfect teeth and looking perfect. And I just, I'm not super down with that. If I, if I could just say to the ladies out there, you're beautiful the way you are, okay, don't be getting a bunch of puffed up lips and getting the same nose as everybody and all. Like, just be yourself. Just enhance who you are. And I just felt like

that wasn't the case necessarily in Korea. While I felt, of course, they're pretty girls everywhere. I just felt like it was a little too much of a vanity society. Taiwan felt like more down to earth in Taipei as well. How far is a flight from Korea to Taipei? Two hours. That's not bad.

No. And I went on Miva Marilines. Dude, they give me a straight up meal. Like I got a hot meal on that two hour flight, by the way. Shut up. Yes. It was good, too. It was chicken and rice there.

and on the way back, I can't even remember what it was, but it was good, too. It was beef noodles. Beef noodles on a two-hour flight. What? Airlines feeding you? Well, that's stunning. I don't know what these things. And the people were nice and taking care of each other.

They were clean. The craziest thing about Asia to me was that every street is super clean and there's no trash cans anywhere. If you had a bottle of water you need to throw away, you had to like walk a mile to find a trash can. All right. Let's go to Ray and Sugar Land before the top of the hour on 790. Ray, thanks for holding good morning. Hi, good morning, guys. I've been listening to this for a couple of days. I watched the game. I've watched the hit. I've been playing a slow-mo, fast-mo. I do believe that it was an illegal hit. I do believe that he should have been fined. I do believe that he probably should have been ejected. I'm a little questionable on should he be punished by not having to play another game. But I'm not really even concerned about any of those because those are out of our concern. I have a lot of are in trouble.

But the one thing I want to let you guys know is this. I've heard you say this morning, I definitely disagree with you. When D'Amico said that the guys overreacted, I'm going to tell you where he's coming from. We have the police on the field as the referee. So when he did the bad hit, the referees are supposed to go over, throw the flag, give him his fine whatever, not fine, but tell him he's ejected, he's out of the game.

If you allow the other team four guys to go jump on our guy and beat the hell out of him, then we can't clear our bench because we're on the opposite side of the field. We're on their side of the field. So they got 40 guys on 11 guys.

So that fight is not ever supposed to happen. And that's where, this is not Pat Fields and McCores. that fight is never supposed to happen. The referees are the all-end-all. So them jumping on our guys leads me to believe that now our guys can jump on their guys, so it will never end. Fans will come out of the stands.

So I disagree with you on that. Everything else I'm cool with. But the referees have to be the law because we can't do it any other way. That's all I got. Ray, you're absolutely right that referees have to be the law enforcement. I get it. But the emotions of a very physical football game with a very, very vicious hit, it's just a lot easier than done.

I've never played a professional football game. I've never played anything athletically to that level. But let's be really honest, in the heat of the moment, you're just going to let a bunch of guys in zebra uniforms say, oh, they'll handle it for us. No chance, no way, no how. One of your brothers gets hit in a vicious way. and is laid out on a field and is not moving.

It is a natural and totally understandable, now, maybe not justifiable, but understandable reaction to what happened. And if it would have happened to CJ, and I know that people are like, well, you can't always go to that. Yeah, you can. CJ Strah gets laid out like that and gets pummeled.

If Laramie Tunsell and Nico Collins and Joe Mixon aren't there ready to karate thrust kicks in people, I'd have a problem with it. Your karate kicks? No, but you're right. I mean, it's just, I would be, if it didn't happen, every talking head show would be like, why don't the Jaguars have Trevor Lawrence's back?

Why don't they care about their teammates? It's more, and I don't even say justifiable than it did happen. We had people when CJ Strah was getting his ass kicked for two, three games in the middle of, was it last season, when Laramie Townsendell wouldn't go pick him up? They're like, what's wrong with Laramie? Why is they going over there? You have to have your brother.

You have to have your guy. Oh, yeah, that one was stupid because Laramie hadn't even seen. Laramie couldn't even see that he was down. He was like downfield or something. That person was an idiot. Yeah. Look, I don't want fights on the field like that. I'm not saying that.

We don't want violence that's going to get into the stands. We don't want that. Nobody's endorsing that. But in the heat of the moment, you see your brother get laid out like that? Oh, hell yeah, you're going to react. It's just, it's a lot easier. you're sending done and you can replay it you can watch in slow mo you can watch in fastmo and dameco's wrong and dameco and it's okay we're not always going to be right about opinions

and may if dameco's listening right now which i know he's probably not he's probably saying matt you're wrong or ross you're wrong it's okay we can we can choose to disagree i'm just telling you that anybody that has a severe a big injury on a field or a baseball team or if a guy gets beaned or a guy gets a cheap shot in a basketball game or taken down what's a a natural reaction. It's not let's let the officials, the referees, the white guys that are slow moving that are 58 years old handling this.

We're going to make sure our guy gets protected. And I will fully expect the Texans to do the exact same thing if it would have happened to C.J. Stroud. Let's get the second hour started on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We have shut your bum ass up coming up in one half hour from now. Rockets last night lose to

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Yes. I am back after a two-refer. week plus absence in Korea and Taiwan and happy to be back and not feeling the effects of jet lag but anyways a lot of stuff going on in Houston sports we've been talking about of course the Aziz al-Shire hit and suspension

we should know later today on whether or not that suspension has been reduced and talking about the rockets and email a doka as the coach will join us coming up at 130 anything you want to get to you can at 713-212-5-790 713-212-5-7-90. You can also send tweets to at SportsRV and at SportsMT if you would like to get in that way. So the Rockets next in action tomorrow against the Golden State Warriors, but that's not the game that will be the in-season tournament, as I'm just learning this as I go along.

Next Wednesday, the Rockets will host the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Cup is what we're calling it these days, but it'll be regular action tomorrow. and then yesterday the loss, disappointing to the Sacramento Kings 120 to 111 as they continue to go along and really haven't talked a whole lot about the state of the Texans and where we're feeling. It feels like it's been more Aaliz, Al-Shayir, rather than the team at large, Matthew. Yeah, it has been. And the reality is another one-score game, Rossi, you didn't miss much while you were gone. Yeah, a lot of ones-score games.

The disappointing now I watch the Cowboys game wasn't a one-score game. That was a nice blowout. And a second half touchdown, too. Don't forget that. Yeah, let's go, baby. And, I mean, I saw people, I was kind of keeping tabs on Twitter a little bit. I mean, were you one of the ones calling that a bad win? You can't have a 34 to 10 bad win, can you?

No, I didn't call it that at all. Okay, or unsatisfying or something like that. Well, I said, are you satisfied? And people were like, no, I'm not satisfied. At 34 to 10, you're not satisfied? What do you want? On the road, correct? Well, I mean, yeah, it was Dallas.

It was fine, you know. Who had not won a home game. Oh, then they beat the Cam commanders the next week, right? In Washington, too. Yeah. The reality is this. And the Cowboys'Bow had no one. They won them on Thanksgiving Day, so that's good for them.

I said this before, and I've been sentenced for a month now, Rossi. They need to beat Baltimore and or Kansas City, and the city will get juiced up again for the team. Sure of that, that's where the state of the football team is in this town right now. So nobody's juiced? All right, let's ask. I don't know. I'm asking. I'm asking Houston, Texans.

Let's go right now. Okay. Are you juiced for the Houston Texans? Brian Cushing, gonadotropin type of way or some other kind of way. Again, I don't know how you pulled that out of your ass, but you did. You know, I got a bunch of rain. I can't remember what I had for dinner two days ago, and you're bringing up some foreign chemicals I haven't heard of them 12 years. I can remember that, but I can't remember like why I got up off the couch to go to the kitchen.

So it's just how it goes. You can't remember to do Believe it on every day, but yeah, you brought that. Oh, are we doing that today? I already get it done. Oh, that's right. John Runyon. See, I forgot. See?

It's already done. Yeah, short-term memory issues, Matt. A lot of alcohol. All right. All right. All right. All right. So, hell tell Ross, ladies, Jim.

Better Red is back with us today. Yeah, baby. Are you juiced for the Texans? 713-1-2-190. 7-190. 5-7-90. Is a simple question. It's a simple question.

Either yes or no. Or you can go me. my philosophy is I think the people will start to get fired up if they can beat. Now Baltimore did lose at home this week to Philadelphia and let me tell you, gang.

They've lost five times. They're human. Now they're really still really, really good and I'd be deathly afraid. Look, Rossi, they'd be a favorite in Houston in the playoff game. I would agree with that. Slight. But if the playoffs started now, I believe the Chargers would be coming to Houston, Texas.

That feels winnable. Chargers are good. He does. He does. He does. Uh, J.K. Dobbins is hurt, correct? Mm-hmm.

Okay. Because I know somebody in our fantasy league was complaining about injuries. Yeah, I know. Oh, this is my last fantasy football game ever this week. Are you serious? It's it. It's over. This is it?

You should play some ceremony. No, we have two more weeks, I thought. We play a 15-week season or 14? I thought it was 15 in playoffs or the 16 and 17 because of the extended season. Oh, that's right. Okay. Okay. the two weeks.

Come on, man. You got to come back. I will remember fantasy. Well, we can't lose our two weakest players in the league. You and Adam, Glenn. I'm not the weakest players. I'm just, I'm not interested.

I'm not enjoying it. The league's going to be tougher next year. We've just lost our two weakest players, man. This is tough. There's many more weaker players than me, and you know that. You're just saying it's me. It's definitely you and Clanton.

This is tough. I'm very upset now. By the way, Ross, would you like Clanton to get you some coffee in the way into the office today? When's he going to be here? I don't know. Send him a text.

Oh, did he text us? Is this been pre-discussed? No, it's an off-air bit. I'm feeling, oh, okay, I have no idea. I'm feeling remarkably good for the, considering it's like 2 a.m. Seoul Korea time. I'm feeling great. Well, I've had my third cup of coffee in 75 minutes. So I had two cups of coffee and I'm on to, I'm on to tea now.

We're on to Earl Gray. Yeah, Team T is not bad after multiple coffees. I agree. It smooths it out. It's like a pulling. a parachute for a soft landing mat. I don't know if I'd have gone that direction, but that feels appropriate. That's fine. I did it.

That's not a great analogy. That's something I would have probably said. That's fine. That's fine. By the way, every analogy that Dan Matthews has with us, and we love Dan, is a reference to a movie. Like a movie we hadn't seen. So when, no, there were movies we had seen.

So anytime, anytime Dan brought up a movie, we brought Jail and Rose out. Oh, really? Ding. Yes. Okay. That's cool. it kind of became a bit. Every time he'd say,

you know, I was watching Dumb and Dumber and Jalen's it is. I heard it's been Dan Talk 790. He's been in like eight hours a day. Yeah, you're going to be owning him

like 10 Rockets wraps coming up in the next few weeks. Yeah, that's my bad. But at least you got good games coming up. That's good. I'm looking forward to work on those. Golden State, you don't have a show tomorrow,

no post game tomorrow night because it's a late game and then you've got the game against the Clippers on Sunday and then Golden State on Wednesday. It's going to be good. You've got some good games. Can't wait.

And at the Rockets beat Golden State, not tomorrow, but next Wednesday. That is going to Vegas. It's not all about you, Matt. It's about the team and going for the NBA Cup. No, frankly, it's about me because they're going to have a chance of split a half-milly. I'll get zero of that. So at least I get...

Probably save you money if you don't go to Vegas, though. That's true. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-70. Look, on the call-liss, Rossi, people are not juiced about the Texas. Oh, there's literally zero people juiced about the Texas. There's zero people in the line. juice about the Texans.

They could have been better at the end of the game, but it looked like they were going to blow out the Jaguars for a little while. I think the explosive plays, right? That's got to be the, is that the number one talking point? They've given up two. When they're not giving up 50-yard touchdowns, they're stopping everyone. Matt Jones had too much success when he replaced Trevor Lawrence. That's the honest truth.

Seriously, Trevor Lawrence, by the way. I mean, he's been playing with a bad shoulder. He needs. But he's still bad. Yes, not good. Not good. If you are supposed to be a franchise not once in a lifetime

because that's an overused term. If you are a generational quarterback. He was a generational prospect for sure. And you're nothing close to that. Are you a bust? Or do you hear some of it? Or should we start calling out people that called Trevor Lawrence a generational talent? I think

I think it's just the expectation level is too hard. Like we bring up LeBron James and how like when he was a freshman. People were going to talk about him being a Hall of Famer and he ended up being like in arguably top five all time NBA. That is just the exception rather than the rule. I think the fact that you talked about a true freshman and he's been a serviceable to at times good. Like he's had a good season. What was it? The second second year I think he was really good that year. And it the expectation level is just too high. If you have a true freshman, you call him out as an NFL

quarterback and he's been a good NFL quarterback. That's pretty impressive, actually. Yeah. He's not been great. He hasn't been spectacular, and he's still overthrow. I mean, I made a joke. Rossi, he leads wide receivers wide open. I mean, he overthrows, underthrows.

His accuracy is nothing close to CJ Strauss. I think he's playing hurt, right? Yeah, but even when he was healthy, it didn't matter. He, I mean, his, his, his, I'm just pulling up his numbers here. As second year, he threw for 4,000 yards, 25 touchdowns, 8 picks. That's good. That's good. Last year, 21 touchdowns 14 picks.

This year, 11 and 7. Yeah. By the way, Greg on Twitter says he's lukewarm. So not juiced. He says, follow the money. Tough to give away tickets to the Dolphins game. I'd say feelings are lukewarm at best. That may be it's the case.

All right, so let me ask you this. Are y'all lukewarm in the Texas? That might get a few people to do. join us? Mm-hmm. I don't know. But yeah, Trevor Lawrence to me, for what was supposed to be,

remember he was supposed to be so good that he should leave after his freshman year if he was allowed to? Yeah. It was overhyped. It was overhyped from them. But the fact that he's been a good, you projected a true freshman in college to be a good NFL quarterback.

I'm going to call him good because he's had some good seasons. He's not been good right now. But not even anywhere close to being great. Oh, not even anywhere close to being great. But that's still pretty impressive. honestly. All right, 1113. It's the time.

That's Ross. I'm Matt here in San Francisco. 713-212-5-7-90 if you want to jump in our conversation. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Bottom of the hour, we're going to tell some people to shut their bum asses up. Ain't nobody got time for that. When we return, Ross is going to give us an update on what he thinks about the golden bat rule. I always feel like I'm going to be a little cautious when I say golden something, Ross.

I always think about something else. What is that, man? The golden hat? OU, Texas? Golden Cumbarro? The Golden Arches? There's just one other thing I'm afraid I'm going to slip up the tongue. I'm going to not want to say so.

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and it was about the golden bat rule that Rob Manfred says there is a buzz for, meaning you can take anybody in your lineup and put them in a special spot once per game to get a second at bat. through the lineup. 440 votes are in. 93% say ridiculous. 7% say, sure, why not? 7%? Dan Matthews among that 7%.

Sure, why not? It's ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. They're not, I mean, can you imagine in a playoff game? Like, it's not even, even a video game would even propose some rule like this. So, okay, explain this to me. again. So at some point, let's say it's like bottom of the ninth

and the bases are loaded with two out and Jeremy Payne is supposed to come up. You can just put in Yordon Alvarez. One time per game. That's exactly what you just described as accurate, yes. That's ridiculous. It goes against the whole, it goes against, now we've been doing things that have been going against hundreds of

years of baseball, but like, I got one for you. Let's say that you just described that. Let's say that the base is loaded and Jeremy Payne is to the plate and you want Jordan Alvarez to hit. What if Jordan Alvarez is at second base? I get they swap?

You put Jeremy at second? That's actually a good play. You can get home. It's just ridiculous. 100% ridiculous. You know what now? If the Astros were still trotting out Martin Maldonado, I'd feel a lot better about this rule. You know what? That's the bias everybody has. Well, you know, we have once. Do you want

you want Jake you want sneaky snake, Jake batting? Hey, Jake Myers? They'll be hating on Big Myers? You want Chazy Fizz out there doing it? Maricio Dubon, sly pitting single? I mean, I guess it's the D.H. The D.H. argument is, would you rather see a pitcher or would you rather see a D.H?

And it's the D.H. But this is just a bridge too far. Yeah. I'm just telling you, he says there's buzz. I believe he's making it up. When somebody ever tells you, hey, there's a lot of buzz around something, don't you ever tend to not believe them? I've never heard of this rule before him.

He brought it up. Yeah. And he says there's buzz around it. Do you think Jim Crane is having a cigar with its fellow MLB owners in Scottsdale or in Vegas or Orlando or Nashville, wherever the hell they like to hang out with rich people do, billionaires? Hey, guys, why don't we do this golden bat rule? Let's create some buzz for it. Is it negative buzz?

That's just to be like me walking up to you, man. I'm like, Matt, you know, there's a lot of buzz for me as employee of the year here at IHeart Houston. Oh, God, that would never happen. You take too much to vacation time. Oh, stop. He's already putting in for January time off. I'm actually thinking about doing that. I got some days.

I'm going first. I've sacrificed my days for your days. You're on rocket schedule. You're not taking any time off during the rocket schedule, right? No, but I mean, they're... Yeah, you're good till April. I was supposed to have today off because of this halacious road trip, but I had to make sure we had our reunion was back.

Religious road trip. Oh, you got like six, seven hours of sleep. What are you whining about? Six, seven hour? What body What time clock are you working off of? How many hours you get? I think I

put on some YouTube at 120 local time and I got up at 645 so that's 5 hours and 20 minutes. Oh yeah, 5 and 20, you're good. Take a nap after the show, you're fine.

Okay, I'm going to get some lunch. Yeah, it's called Super Duper Burger down the street. Super Dupor. Superburger. Hmm. Yeah. Should I have, I didn't try McDonald's overseas.

Should I have? No, by the way, we stopped at a bin-in-bout on the way to, from Sacramento, San Francisco. We had, there was like 12 of us. Yes. Two of the people in our party had never had been-in-bout before. Okay. And what they say? One said, eh, one said they loved it.

Just typical what people do about fast food food is say, oh, you know, my place is much better. It's no butterburger, or it's no butterburger. You and I are on the same page. The burgers are better. We have a lot of takes that we disagree on, and I'm always right about. But that one we do show. You still like that nasty pork gristled press sheet. Happy anniversary, by the way, 40 years ago, 42 years ago, I think.

Yeah, they still can't keep it on the menu. It's so disgusting. You know, it's such, it's like Mahi-Mahy. It's always a special. They just bring it out for a degenerate like you. Yeah, you know why they make it the special? Because they're trying to get rid of it. They were trying to get rid of it.

They were trying to get rid of it. Yeah, I'm telling you, the machines get all gunked up with pork. So the meat company is like, hey, man, what are we going to do all this pork gunk? I don't know. Let's make some sheets out of it and call it a McRib. I don't think gunk is a pork gunk. Yeah, it's pork gunk. It's a pork delight as well. It's pork gunk.

And that's being nice. Whatever. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-9-0. We got shut your bum ass up coming up in a few minutes. Let's see what Jay says on the golden bat roll. What if the bases are loaded? Otani strikes out.

Bet strikes. out, could Otani bat again? The answer is yes, he could. Could you go back to back or no? Yeah, why not? What? That's why this thing is absurd. You can't want me. Now, this doesn't happen a lot, but why couldn't you go back to back?

Yeah, I don't know why. There's no reason why you couldn't. Now again, the question is how do you replace people? And what if, let's say you have the base is loaded and Alvarez gets that single because you golden bat at him,

That's weird. First base, and then it's his turn to bat again. I mean, does the person he replaced go take the first base? Again, this. Why are we doing this? I don't know why. This is bad on me for bringing it up. It's just pissing me off.

It's pretty bad. There's no way. There's no way. The golden bat. I want to know who started this to begin with. Because, look, the pitch clock has sped up the game for the better. The man for the runner at second base had to be done because we don't want to be at baseball games in July for four and a half hours, okay? that's not essentially changing the rule of the sport. That's not changing what a lineup card is.

This is actually changing what a lineup card is. It's horrible. Exactly. It's changing. It's more woven into the fabric of the game than those other things that have been changing. No doubt about it. All right. 713-212-5-790.

Is there anything Ross that happened on your trip that you don't have time for? I got a lot, actually. You got a list? Oh, man. You want me to make a list? When is, are we doing this next? Now. And by the way, with the news at noon in 35 minutes.

Oh. See, I was going to give you nonverbal cues on that, but it's just, it's just, you know, I've got to get back in a routine here, Maddie. All right. So we got shut your bum ass up right now. If you are mad at somebody or someone or something, we want to hear from you right now, 713-212-5-790 7-13-212-5-7-90 happy wing day for all of you that are supporters of big city wings today my friends the folks are having a customer appreciation day at big city wings one-dollar wings all day today at any of their 13 locations also a five-dollar medella pint is available for you and a three-dollar

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BigCitywings.com. And I'm going to get bad for me. It is 1130. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Matt here in San Francisco. Ross back in Houston. Conardee McGovern is our producer. The program, the news at noon coming up.

We have IMEA doka in two hours here on Sports Talks at 190 at 130. All things John Runyon for today's edition of Believe it or not. Now, if somebody's made you mad, you have something you want to tell somebody. This is your platform. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3. 212-5-7-90 for shut you above my eyes up and ain't nobody got time for that ross what's the matter with you uh you know what i'll start i got a couple things matt but i'll just uh we can go around a round table

or something like that i'll start with uh on the flights now i was able to uh via somebody that is not me able to get some nice seats and exit rows for my trip to korea on the way back but while i was there in this nice extra leg roomed area there were people throughout the flight, standing right in front of me because there was a little bit of space, and they were taking their liberties to do like stretches and Pilates and like twirls. And I was like, I'm just trying to enjoy the flight peacefully. And these people are in front of me staging a Pilates class in the middle of the flight. And ain't nobody got time to watch you stretching out while I'm just trying to enjoy my flight.

And you're kicking me in the foot and getting in my way. Ain't nobody got time for that. This is stretching in flight? Yes. Like in the middle of the flight next to the bathroom, people would just come over and literally start doing like a Pilates class. Like 10 people did it on each flight. All right, I got something for you.

Hello, everyone. I'd like to welcome you to Elevator Etiquette 101. This just happened to me an hour ago, and it happened to me in Sacramento yesterday. When you are waiting for an elevator. and the elevator opens up. The number one, very simple rule is you let the people out, then you enter the elevator. I was trying to exit two elevators, one this morning, one yesterday in Sacramento,

and the person, one male, one female, two different trips, got in the elevator before I got out. Ain't nobody got time for you jumping in the elevator to muddy the situation when I'm just trying to get out. Ain't nobody got time for that. Ain't nobody got time for that? Well, you know, Matt, on the subway in Seoul, it's every man for himself. You just jump in there. Yes. People are jumping out.

You just go. That's fine on the subway. Elevator, we're not having a massive panic attack to get on there. I got you. It's a little bit much. It was ridiculous. It's very common. It happens all the time.

Well, that's what I'm here for to make sure that doesn't happen again. You always wait. for people to get out. What advantage do you have? Are you looking for a better spot in the elevator? Is that what it is? Yeah, maybe like the back corner. What's your favorite spot in the elevator, Matt? Next to the buttons. Next to the buttons. You can push them all.

I'm team button guy. I'm like tick-tack-tow with those buttons, Ross. You know me very well. You're spelling your name. M.A. That's wrong. Connor, what's the matter with you? Well, I was going to do a different one, but the elevator thing reminded me of something that happened early last week.

I was in the elevator from the parking garage going up to our floor and it was a packed elevator so I was right in the front and the doors open to our seventh floor here on IHeart Media and I walk

and right as the doors open somebody from behind me pushed through and pushed me out of the way and said excuse me and got it on the same floor and I'm like well if you would have just waited a second I would have been getting out with you too on the seventh floor so somebody here at work

but ain't nobody got time Oh somebody here? Wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute we got off on the same floor so you know, nobody got time for you brush you past me, being a little bit more patient. We could have gotten out together.

Hey, nobody got time for that. Is it an on-air person? No. Oh, damn. I don't know this person's name, but I've seen him in the office before. Oh, okay. Protect me. I know who he is.

I think, okay. Maybe he's one of those scourly producers at KPRC or KTRH. You got to watch your eye out for those guys. Yeah, they're a little different. All right, Ross, one more from you before. Oh, yeah, one more. I'm just going to go with, like, the drivers in Taiwan in general. Oh my God. Now there's a million people on scooters.

Like, I don't know if you've ever been in a country mat where everybody's like riding a scooter. There's like a thousand people diving in and out of scooters. There's people on bikes. There's pedestrians. And I feel like I was fighting for my life. I didn't want to sit. By the end of the trip, I did not want to sit in the front seat of Uber's because I was so scared they were going to get in 55 wrecks every time. People driving crazy out there. I will never say a bad word about Houston drivers again. Ain't nobody got time for these Taiwanese cab drivers. Hey nobody got time for that. You're the only person

that ever in the history of ain't nobody got time for that. Shut your bum ass up would bring up Taiwanese cab drivers. None of us can possibly relate to this. That's what I'm bringing it up for, Matt. You've seen, you've had crazy Uber drivers up before. That I have, for sure. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-2-2-7-90.

Rowdy and Katie. Roddy, what's the matter with you? All right, Ross. Glad you're back. Yo. I hope the trip was good. but so I want to tell Matt and Dan Matthews that have been dogging on our longhorns yesterday

about the fans to shut up. What did I say? What did I say? What was in this situation? We would never hear the end of it from Matt. What did I say? What did I say that was bad about the longhorns?

I said they were going to win the game. They're going to beat Georgia for the SEC championship. What did I rag on you for? Let me hear this. Yesterday, you were. and Dan were breaking down the A&M fans and the Longhorn fans and saying how obnoxious Longhorn fans can be. Absolutely.

That's accurate. Yeah, shut your bum ass up, man. Shit your bum ass up, man. All I do is spit facts, Roddy. I couldn't wait for you to get back, Ron. Yeah, shut up, Matt. Shit your bum ass up, man. Shut your bum ass up, Rowdy.

Your fans are obnoxious. You're entitled. Shit your bum ass up, man. Number one recruiting class of the nation. Shut your bum ass up. At the moment. Shut your bum ass up, man. Thank you, Rodi.

Appreciate it. By the way, we've not heard word one from Gordy. You know, they're dropping commits like flies over there. Yeah, we haven't heard the SEC breakdown. Yeah, it's funny. You know, they got outspent by Michigan by a million and a half, and then all their number one recruits leaving to go elsewhere. Well, there's still number nine class that I see on 24-7.

Well, they'll be. Hey, Euston's the top 50? That's good. I don't know what I'm saying. Let's go. Better than normal. better than old Dana. Wow, we're putting on recruiting this year, Matt.

By the way, shout out to Dana, the new offensive coordinator at Nebraska. In fun with that. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Chris, Jersey Village. Chris, what's the matter with you? Good morning, gentlemen. Welcome back, Ross.

So, yeah, I pay a lot of money to AT&T and a little bit of extra. for my DVR. And on Sundays, when I want to go watch the Texans on my DVR, I get a message pop up saying you need to subscribe to YouTube. I ain't got time or the money, Matt,

to pay YouTube when I already pay AT&T to watch the Texans on my DVR. So, shit their bumasses up. Mm. Shit your bum ass up, man. So he's not happy of it. Is he madded? YouTube matter

is direct TV mad at Space City. He seems like he's mad at everyone. Yikes. I didn't realize there was such angst towards cable TV providers. All right. 713-212-5-7-90. If you are mad about anything, this is your avenue. We give you one-half hour per week, so feel free to jump in and let us know what's

bothering you. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Oh, two restaurants that don't do separate. checks. Ain't nobody got time for that. We're on business. Let's separate. Let's go.

No, I like that policy. As a waiter. As a waiter. I don't want to be dealing with it. Ain't nobody got time for you and your six friends wanting to itemize every single check. Hey, nobody got time for that. Yeah, you need to let them know beforehand.

I do. We do with them. The moment we walk in. And they don't let you? Nope. So, well, they first of all give you this blank eating grin like, oh, you effers. And then they go, well, we see what we can do? They goes, why don't we just, can we just break it down at the table?

Because, you know, they're all carrying these, like, these monitor, not the monitors, but like the little, um, what they're like, they're electronic. What, what would I call them? No, nobody's writing things down anymore. They're all typing them in on a little, in the most system. Yeah, whatever it is. They're like a little computer. It's toast. I guess I can plug it because otherwise you don't know.

Yeah. That wasn't good. And did I tell you the other day about what happened. when I went through a Rick Relay and my order was $9. And I said, you have to spare me and they said, no, I don't. Yeah, they said, shut your bum ass up.

They are like, no chance. Shut up and give you that penny, bro. $0.99 and change. I wanted to throw the change back at her. I was like, here's your tip. That's rude. It was rude that she can't spare me a damn penny. It's probably not her call.

The rule is this. When I was at McDonald's back in the day, plus or minus $1, nobody had a word about your register. Uh-huh. And you took a steam engine to work. That's great. Different times, Maddie. No, that's not nice.

It was a Nissan Central. Okay. It was a stick-shirt. Sometimes it was steaming. I haven't driven a stick shift since like 1993. I don't even know if I could do it if I had to. No, it's like riding a bike. You'll be back on it.

You'd be good. Does anybody even drive a stick shift anymore? Taiwanese cab drivers. Do they really? Is it that bad? Not some of them. Did you break your neck? Did you have like vertebrae shattered in the back as you're going through between

the second or third year? Where are some close calls? There's a white knuckle rides. Rob Manfred on this golden battle. Shut your bum ass up, may. Shut your bum ass up, man. Don't reinvent the wheel. Baseball's doing just fine.

By the way, I'm surprised again. Gordy's not running today with some outrage about Alabama being in the college football playoff it was to end today. I mean, God, I was the angst over this 12-team tournament. I mean, are we ever going to be happy with college football playoff rules? It's funny, right? We used to argue over who's one and two for the BCS. Then we argued over who's the top four, and now we're arguing who's top 12. So now we're going to eventually get to 16, and they're going to argue about that, and then we're going to get to 32. Please, no more than 12. 12 is the max, I think.

12 feels about right. 713, 212, 5, 790. If something is bothering, you, you should. Shut your bum ass up. You don't get time for that. 713-212-5-7-90. More, the Matt Thomas show with Ross, and your phone calls next here on Sports Talk 790. More, Matt Thomas. Now.

On Sports Talk 790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. You want to shut somebody's bum-ass up. Let us know. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. At SportsMt, at SportsMT, at SportsRV at Connor D. McGovern. The news at noon coming up in a little more than 10 minutes from now.

Felipe on 790. Felipe, what's the matter with you? Well, first off, Matt, you already took the one I was going to say. To shut your bum ass up for Rob Manfred, due to the change of baseball just for the hell of it. I don't know what the guy's thinking. He's probably getting a Jerry Jones senile treatment right now. So shut your bum ass up, Rob Manfred.

Shut your bum ass up, man. All right, number two, a certain co-hosts on a certain radio show on 790 post of a picture. of his vacation of steak-flavored chips. Ain't nobody got time for Rossville reality teasing us with steak-flavored chips. Ain't nobody got time for this? I'm sorry, they're quite delicious. Did you bring any back?

No, I didn't. Why? I ate them all. You're allowed to buy more than one bag. I don't have room in my bag for a bunch of steak chips for you. They were good, though. The ribs ones were okay. The steak ones were incredible.

But maybe the steak ones weren't great because the first time I had them, I had a lot of whiskey that night. But then I had them again and they were really good. They need to bring those to the States. Did you bring anything back? Yeah, I brought some presents for some people and some whiskey. Okay. Shout out duty free shop. There's a brand.

You literally brought nothing back for any of us to try? No, I didn't bring you steak chips. You're not even here. When do you even get here? I can't even see you. I'll be back Tuesday. Yeah, no, that'd have been gone. Chips have preservatives in them.

They'll be fine. I brought stuff back for my family. And for me, I bought some Cavanagh's whiskey. What? What? What? Ross. What?

We have covered this show the best we can. We've missed you for two weeks. I'm working today because I wanted a reunion and you're bringing us back. No rib-flavored chips. Shut your bum-ass up. I mean, nobody got time for that? I didn't know you on me. Ain't nobody got time for that.

They're good. God. I would have liked to try Chip. Me too. Oh, go to Taiwan. Or no, Korea. They were in Korea. They're probably in Taiwan, too.

Order some. I'll put them on Amazon. You were there. You could have got us to have saved us all sorts of fees. I don't have room in my bags for chips. They're going to get all crumled up on the way over. What are you talking about?

You have plenty of room in your bag. No, I didn't actually. No, I didn't actually. Exactly what you did. My bag was filled. Once I, no. My backpack was stuffed. I had no room to bring you chips.

I literally did not. I don't believe you. I just don't. Yeah, I'm serious because I brought back presents for everyone and a couple liters of whiskey, so I didn't have any extra room. Okay. When I go to London next summer, I will not bring you anything back. Okay, that's fine.

What about me? You're getting something for sure, no question. I'm putting steak lays into... Oh, yeah, you can get them on Amazon. Yeah, get them on Amazon. I'll get you some two day on prime. I'm going to buy you some. I don't want them now.

No, you don't want them. I'll take it. No, I don't want them now. Yeah, you still try them, won't you? All right, I'll have a couple of counters. That's fine. They were good. I don't have a whole bag.

They were pretty good. All right, 713, 212-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Anything else going on? Let me try to think. What else? Is there anything else going on this week to tell the people? I think I'm good.

I think I've gotten exhausted all of my things. You? Oh my God. These are $15 a bag? Yeah, you could have gotten a lot cheaper. I could not. I had zero room left in any of my bags. Everything was all overweight as it was.

It was in a whole ordeal. Connor, we're going to close it off here? I think so, yeah. I mean, I'll say anybody got time for the phones being down yesterday. They're back today, so it's all right. Everybody got time for that? Maybe people are in a better mood. It's December.

holiday season, you're fresh off of Thanksgiving. And Christmas is coming around. Maybe we're going to be, maybe we'll be cheerful. Maybe we'll get crank your people in January of 2025. I'm feeling good. Yeah, you should be. You're fresh. You're on a beautiful trip for a couple weeks.

You brought back lots of souvenirs. I got a mental break from you for two and a half weeks. Yeah, I'm feeling good. I know. You'll miss me eventually sometime. I know. All right. I'll shut your bum ass out.

I'm taking Friday and Monday off. So you help you enjoy yourself. This Friday and Monday, too. Okay, that's fine. We'll figure it out. And then you're going to go, then you're leaving me in like 10 days ago on a 40th birthday trip. You have no money for all this.

So where's all this cash coming in? Oh, I'm broke. There is no doubt in my mind. I'm broke. You better get that OnlyFans account going again. Yeah. Onlyfeet.net. Is that what it is?

Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I just got a pedicure. Looking good. All right. That's, okay. Feet talk. Oh, by the way, shut your bum ass up, Taylor.

She had over five and a half assist for Fred Van Bleet last night. He didn't get a single assist. Oh, well, Matt. She's so bummed ass up, man. What do you think she's running frigging algorithmic models? Come on, Matt. She's pulling these out of her, well, between some places. Let's not act like she's running a bunch of data on this, okay?

Well, her recap, she was very sad about the situation. Yeah, well, whatever. So has Matt been bringing up? bringing her up on the show every day still, Connor? How's that been going? No, tell the truth, Connor. I've not. Actually, we haven't heard about her in a couple days.

Okay. Two days. This is the weekend. Well, it's the first time this week. The Taylor fan club is growing. I cannot divulge who is, we have a chat group now involving just Taylor conversation. You people are sick. What's the group chat name?

Yeah. Not, no, no. Taylor's. Yeah. Yeah. like that. I'm really not going to I feel like I'm in the ballpark.

I'm going to tell you something that's not me, but it's somebody in the group. Google Earthworth, they think she lives. Oh my God. That's a little much. This is getting bad. Actually, yeah,

you might want to go ahead and strike that from the record for the FBI's sake. Well, I don't, it's not me. It's just like Kim's listening. It's definitely not me. I would never Google Earth a person's location in where they live.

That seems like a little much. If I was single, maybe, but no, but I'm going to definitely agree. That seems like a little much. Yeah, that's true. But do you want in the group chat? I know. I'm good. Thank you.

Okay. 713-212-5-790. The news and noon is coming up will have some headlines involving. By the way, apparently Al-Zez Al-Shahir's hearing is today via Zoom. I don't know. I've checked on Twitter. I haven't seen nothing from the NFL national folks. But usually you have to go to New York to do that, but they're doing it via Zoom.

Frankly, you should, Zoom is fine, right? I mean, Zoom has changed the way we conduct business in everything. I guess it should be fine. Probably better to be in person. Especially if you wanted, like, if you're really pissed at John Runyon, you want to give him a double rods, you can do it under the table. I don't think, yeah, we don't know. He's not going to headbutt John Runyon in the middle of the hearing or something.

That'd be a bad idea. I'm just saying if he's, like, pissed off at him or he's, like, hit, like if Coach D'Amico is next to him and he's hit him on the knee and he's like, don't say that. Or say this, you know, write stuff down. No, I don't think that's happening. All right. Rockets lost last night to the Kings.

We'll give you the details on that. And also, Rob Manford, trying to gain some steam for this ridiculous rule. College football playoff rankings were announced yesterday. We'll get to all that as part of the news at noon, which is in just a few moments here on Sports Talk, 790. 713-2-5-790. If you want to jump in, 7-13-212-5-7-90. Word right now for the incredible people at Uptown Applants Repair. I hope your refrigerator is in your home, if you have more than one, are working.

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And then we'll play them in the knockout round game next Wednesday, which will be inside TOTA center. We'll get to that, among other things. NFL news straight ahead as well. But right now it's time for the news at noon with Sports RV. All right, Matt, still going here on the news at noon on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. a lot going on in Houston Sports and of the National Sports Ladscape.

As you know, the Aziz Al Jaire suspension hearing happening soon over Zoom. We should get some news on that. What is your final prediction on how many games he will be suspended for? And I said one.

The initial announcement was three. Final answer? Three. I'm going two. We'll go get reduced by one. Let's just have some fun with that one. Okay, elsewhere in the news. Let's see, Coach Udoka, of course, not happy with the officiating last night. We can also set a line on his fine.

No. No. He was out there on Florida, too. It was disappointed. Miss calls, blatant miscalls right in front of you. You know, you're calling tiki-tack, moving screens and look like that, and then you don't want to call the obvious ones right in front of you. So that was it. Help you got fouled a few times on that drive and on the layup, and they don't want to call it and something gets some

glasses open your eyes God I love that I love I am such First of all our team is so much better That makes me happy But God the call I mean just the comment

I mean he knew what he wanted to say And my guess is he knows He's going to light on the wallet But sometimes you just got to Say what you mean 25 Gs over under Well you know what I said 10

initially after it happened, but you may be, I'm going to go, ooh, 25 is a good number. I'm going to go, oh, got you thinking about it. I like this. 25,000 once, I'll go over. I think over as well. I feel like Fred's was 50. I feel like it's 50 has been kind of a number. I think the way that he if he would have just said, you know what, I feel like they miss some calls and it's terrible

and it needs to get fixed. That's one thing. But to go out there and say, put on some bleeping glasses? I think that's taking it to another level. And that's why I think it's going to be closer to $50,000, if not $50,000, if not $50 on the nose. Yeah, so, yeah, so you and I are both going over on that, basically, is what you're saying. Yes, I think so. Okay. Elsewhere, Matt, it is National Signing Day in college recruiting, Texas with a couple of big moves. A certain employee of Sports Talk 790 came in to lament you making so much fun of LSU saying they'd only lost a couple of recruits. It's not that bad. Maybe their name rhymes

with Schmiss-Morty. Just using 24-7s, sports's rankings as of right now, team rankings. Texas, one, Georgia, two, Ohio State 3, Alabama, 4, and Oregon's been making some moves. They are now fifth. Phil Knight, apparently just shelling out a bunch of cash for these Oregon players. well so is barstool sports so is the wife of owner of oracle i mean everybody in their mother is like let's pay them as much as possible let's make it a free agent bidding war it literally is ross i don't i know you i know you haven't paid attention no this year has been literally what how much money

do you have lfg free agency basically uh other programs of note texas an m coming in at number right now and the University of Houston Cougars, a couple of four-star players, they're 48th in the ranking. That's pretty good for the Coogs. Let me tell you something. We were usually, what, 7580, somewhere in that range? It's better than what Dana's been doing the last couple of years. Let's see.

Last year, Dana had the squad at 52nd, actually. Yeah, and maybe it's about where it has been. And Matt, the people were wondering, how much NIL money had you shelled out for the recruits of this year's University of Houston Cougars class? I do not want to announce that publicly.

Okay. Others elsewhere in the news, Matt, apparently, according to Alden Gonzalez at the ESPN, superstar Juan Soto is nearing a decision on free agency. No exact set timetable, but it should be coming close. I don't know exactly what the latest scuttlebut is, but Juan Soto could be signing soon, and that means to me that Alex Bregman might be following soon thereafter. Yeah, we were kind of talking about that with Dan the other day. He thinks it's going to be a one-two, bam, bam,

as soon as Soto makes his deal, pregnant's not far behind. Scott Boris is not even going to mess around. Is he going to do it at the same press conference? Do you think he was doing it to save money? No, if you have those two guys, they want their own shine. They don't want to split time. No, I'm just kidding. I think it would be one, and then I think the teams that miss out on one Soto

would be more willing to scramble and find something else, and that something else could be Alex Bregman is what I think. I think if you go big game hunting for Soto and you swing and miss, as a consolation prize, I think Alex Bregman could be in the mix for teams that aren't able to land the services of Juan Soto. Yeah. Soto and I, you and I both think he's going to the Mets.

My gut feeling, yeah, I think I was going to say last week, that was like three weeks ago. Yeah, you haven't got feeling in a while. Your gut's big enough. You can need those chips from overseas. You didn't bring us any back. All right. You were really upset about these rib chips.

You didn't ask me for any. I'm sorry, steak chips. They're really good, by the way. By the way, in Canada, they have ketchup-flavored chips apparently. No, I've seen those in America before. Have you really? I didn't think they're good. Those are big in Canada.

Yeah, that's, okay. Yeah, Connor McGovern is our official Canadian correspondent, by the way. By the way, Connor will be singing the O Canada National Anthem later on the show tonight. He will? It's actually, I don't mean to be unpatriotic, but it's a better. Ashland than ours. I disagree. Star Spangled Banner, jam, number one.

It's not a jam. Oh, it's a jam. Oh, Canada's a jam. What do you mean? It's slapping into clubs. Oh, they are? They're dancing to that? Yeah, I think there's a line dance. It's very similar to the electric slide. On my Facebook Reels, you know the little theme song to the peanuts, you know, dun da da da dun dun dun dun. Yeah, Linus and Lucy. Whatever that song is called, there are people putting old videos of 50s. 50s and 60s TV stars to that song and they're jamming.

It's very, very funny. Okay. You're watching this all night until 6 a.m. Well, because I can't sleep on the bus. We're going between Sacramento and San Francisco. I've got to watch something. Elsewhere in college basketball, it looks like the Cougars have been losing a lot of games.

It's going on with that, man. God, Ross, why do you bring this up? Ken Palm still got him top five, I think. Thank you. What's the squad? What's going on with your squad? Well, we just had a tough trip to Vegas. The San Diego State and lost Alabama.

We're 0 and 2 against SEC schools. San Diego State? I mean, I guess they're putting Notre Dame. Beat Notre Dame. Okay, that's good. That's good. So things are looking up, Matt. You need to go back to playing.

You need to go back to playing Valdosta State or whoever. Yeah, we got a game with Troy coming up next week. I'll be calling. There you go. Oh, okay. On ESPN Plus? Yes. Let's go.

Congratulations to you. Oh, look, you got Butler coming up this weekend. Yes, we need that one. Is it a must-win game? No. But by the way, the Tennessee loss made the Jacksonville game a must-win, and they must-win. Wait, were you calling it a must-win win? So was America.

Oh, my God. Yeah, I guess some people were calling it a must-win game. They've already clinced a division. There's no must-win games left, basically. You know what? Again, we're not literal. We're figuratively when we talk about this. And people are on my side of this.

Everything in life has to be literal, Ross. Everything in life is not literal. But if you're calling a week 15 game against a two nine, I'm sorry, Oh my God, Ross, if they would have lost to the two and nine Jaguars, this city would have been lit on fire. They would have been fine. Poor darling would not have been on television and been all over bling for games. Okay.

I guess it's a must-win game for what? Your mental health sake? Correct. Let me say so. What else? I don't know. I'm done. You have no off-the-beat past stories? No, I didn't have time.

You picked up where you left off pre-vacation. I'm trying to find you something? No, no, no. Oh, yeah, there was almost a military coup in Seoul, South Korea yesterday. Oh, were you involved in that? It literally happened. No, I'm not a sleeper agent. The CIA, as people were asking me, it happened three hours after I left.

The president declared martial law. Then the parliament voted it down of unanimously 190 votes to zero. and now there's no martial law and the president or prime minister or whatever he's called his chief of staff has resigned. Apparently it's a whole mess going on in there in Korea. Gotcha. All right, that my friends is the

news at noon. Let's talk to Neidgel at 1211 on Sports Talk 790. Neal, thanks for holding good afternoon to you. How are you today, Matt? Amazing. Well, I'm about to make it one notch better for you.

All right. I just went to McDonald's. Guess what's on the menu? The McRib. The McRib is back, baby. Yeah, you're late to this, Nigel. Have you been to live in a rock, Nigel? Nisiel, where are you been?

Everybody knows about the McRibank. I've been to McDonald's in a few weeks. So, I mean, you know, it's only seasonal. So I just found out about it. And you didn't let me know. What do you mean? We've been talking about it every damn day. It's America's sandwich.

Well, I missed it. I'm sorry. I was hoping to bring a little joy into your life because I know that you love the McRib, and I love the McRib, so I was just trying to help. That's why Nigel, that's why you and I are besties. We appreciate a fine sandwich. We appreciate a delicious pork patty, grilled perfectly, lathered in delicious sauce with pickles and onions on a toasted bun. It's just a little slice of heaven. It's a hunk of pork gunk.

Disgusting. And if you accidentally drop somebody's patty on the floor, and give it to them when you're 18, that's okay too. Absolutely. I've told that story many of times. Thank you, Eidio, for the phone call. You can also use it as a doorstop. They do not.

You had to make it with me within the last year. You said it was fine. It was okay. There's a reason it's not on the menu full year long because nobody wants to buy that crap. So next Tuesday when I get back, I was going to sack it by a brunt lunch, but we get to the office at 10 o'clock.

They don't serve McRibs until 11, so we're kind of screwed. Oh, really? Yeah, we're real screwed. terrible I'm so upset by the way I'm not door dashing I can't I can't do it the food's never hot it's a little expensive no yeah the food's usually cold

you got to get the priority last time I did it now I've been drinking so I didn't want to drive obviously so I ordered some food it said that they were on a bike and I was like man this bike is moving then a car showed up I was like did they just do this because they don't have insurance this is weird I tried the door dash in Sacramento I was going to make rib fries and an iced tea. It was going to cost me $23.

And I'm like, no, I'm going to pass, thanks. Yeah, I only do when there's some kind of promo. And even with the promos, it's not a great price. Delivery fees, and then the guy's got his hand down. He's probably had five or ten of your French fries. He probably took a sip of your tea. No, I'm, you know, n-uh. By the way, Uber eats is huge in Taiwan.

There's everybody scooters around. You can get it pretty quick with low fees. Okay. How did you handle the language and all that? Did you were able to talk to people? Oh, no. I know, like, basically, this is what I know. in Korean hello is

Anianhaeo. I know that. Say it again. Anianhaeo. Anianhaseo, Matt. Thank you. And then thank you is a, Komap samidavc.

That's all I know. Hello and thank you. What is such a bum ass up? I don't know that one. And then in Mandarin, the only thing I knew was hello and thank you. Nihow is hello and shishia

is thank you. Excuse me? What did you say? Shishia. So you were there for two and a half weeks and you learned four words. Correct. man

I would say it's a lot easier to get around in Taiwan most people speak English Korean was a little more difficult but I was with people who spoke the language is why I was a great trip but they could have been making fun of you like I feel like if I was to go to a foreign country where the language was not oh I could definitely tell people were like saying stuff without me knowing what it was it happened

I would be like I would be able to interpret who is his really handsome bald white man no that's not what they're saying all right 1214 that was the news at noon. That was a McRibb update. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-7-90 if you want to jump into the conversation. College football playoff, rockets from last night against the Kings. We're waiting for the Al-Shayir whether or not he's going to get his suspension reduced or it's going to stay at three. All these things are fair game.

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I was doing a little bit of a checking on the Worldwide World that is Twitter. I didn't realize that Phil Knight is 86 years old. And there's a bunch of headlines, Barstool Sports as a headline says Phil Knight is 86 years old and desperately wants to see a championship. So he's providing Oregon with unlimited NIL resources. Yes. I didn't realize he was 86 either. I thought it was like in his 70s.

Oregon's the number one team in the country right now. now. So he might see it this year. Unlimited. See, how do you, how do you, and this is the thing that, thank God we're not coaches, Ross. Because when you are in the NFL and you know when you draft a certain player to a certain position, you kind of know how much money to give them, right, based on their slot. You also have a track record of, well, offensive linemen are worth this, quarterbacks are worth this, squad receivers are worth this, because the league wage scale is kind of indicative of that. You've got to save a certain amount of money for your quarterbacks and whatnot.

When you have an unlimited amount of money and Phil Knight at 86-year-old says, here you go, Oregon. Whatever you want, it's yours. Then if you're a football, blank check. I mean, that's crazy that you, no amount of money. Like if you're a kid that's thinking about Oregon, all you got to do is say, all right, I'll come to play for you for $15 million. And then LSU says, well, I'll give you 16.

And then you call Oregon and say, look, I'll come to you for 22. And then Michigan come in for 20. I mean, this is crazy. I don't even know how to conceptualize that you've got a, there's no salary cap, endless amounts of money. And by the way, you're putting in millions and millions of dollars of these kids. And Rossi, they can leave after one year, at least when you sign an NFL contract. You're supposed to stay there for a while. The portal is your best friend a year from now.

They clean up in the portal too. UH has players they paid off with NIL money that are leaving. But every school is going to that. Not just U.S. talking about anybody. So basically you sign these NIL deals and you've gonezo after one year. At least in the NFL, if you sign Pat Mahomes

to a ridiculously amount of money, he's going to be a chief quarterback for a long period of time. When eventually the Texans signed C.J. Strait to a long-term extension unless you just want to get rid of him get rid of dead cap money you keep him uh yeah and i uh i did the news at noon and i said organ was the fifth class now they're the fourth at least i just refreshed it that's because they just ordered a chip for twelve million dollars somebody it just picked up another this crazy thing to me though is that if phil knight is spending unlimited money and organ's not even first in the rankings what are

these other schools spending texas georgia and alabama head of organ right now i mean maybe you don't want to go to eugene oregon it's way far away it is it is very hippieish it's austin on steroids is what I call it when I went through there. But you liked it. My daughter went there to go see a friend of hers competing in the track event. She thought it was fantastic. Yeah, I thought it was great.

It was beautiful. It's not easy to get to. If you're a Chicago kid or a Detroit kid or a Dallas kid and you want to be somewhat close to home, Eugene Oregon's on an easy place to get to. But hell, you call Phil Nights and Phil, I need five charter jets per year to have my mom and dad come see me play. He'd say, okay, done.

Yeah. You can go out there and drop acid with a bunch of barefoot hippies. It's nice. that I'm shaved in two months. Don't take showers. They all got arm pit hair. You said it right the first time. You know, you and I have talked about this.

We always think about who could possibly step in and try to regulate this? There ain't nobody wants this job, Rossi. No, because in CECWA steps in. They're losing their tax exempt status. But if you want the most risk, like if you said Kirk Herbstree, you love the game of college football and you're tired of calling games all the time and you want to take an administrative

lead on this what would incentivize you except you getting crazy money to try to regulate this Phil Knight the headlines he's trending on Twitter Ross and every one of the stories is blank check whatever it takes

well we'll see if it works for him handing a 17 year old $10 million a year to play college sports. I mean, I can't at least if you're doing it in the NFL, they have some sort of background that you were successful at a high-end college program, or

you were able to go through the combine. I mean, you're putting a lot of money into some young men that may just change their mind and say, you know what, Eugene Oregon's not for me. I'm looking at their top recruits, one from Duncanville, Texas, Tampa, Florida, Owings, Mills, Maryland,

and they are all over the place. In Conroe, Texas. How about the kid, the quarterback that was from Detroit, 10.5 milly to go to LSU. Then Oracle's wife's who's a Michigan alum steps in, says, let's make it 12. Barstall steps in. Done. He doesn't leave. I wanted to stay home after all.

Yeah, okay, good. Good for him. But at least, though, if we've been consistent about this, we bitch and moan about it on Monday through Friday, but on Saturdays we're watching the games. And we're going to have halaciously high ratings for games. day. We're going to have halaciously high ratings for A&M versus Texas. We're going to have halaciously high ratings for the college football playoff. We're just hypocrites. That's all we are. We are, we are flat out hypocrites. If we bemoan the college game for the amount of money

that is being spent on these young men for quote unquote name, image, and likeness, then we should say we're done with college football. But we're not. Stadium's are full. ain't him at the third highest biggest crowd ever for a game the TV ratings are astronomical we love it and we're going to keep watching I'm going to it's almost like Ross

you know what cigarettes are bad for your health yes we go give me a carton in a during a commercial break for me please I'm glad you brought this up on in Asia the cigarettes cards of cigarettes have like black crusty up clusted up lungs on them and like people with jacked up disease mouths.

Like rather than the surgeon general's warning, it's like a picture of people with messed up lungs and teeth and throw like throat holes. Yeah. Ooh, that's gross. Yeah. So are people smokers there? A lot of them? Yes.

Although they just doubled the price of smoking of cigarettes, I think, in Korea. So now the kids are vaping these days now. Yeah, the kids are right. All right. 713-212-5-790. 713-212-5-790. Our time is 12-29. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Coming up in one hour from now, we'll hear from Rockets coach IMA Adoka. Did we ask the Texans audience if they're fired up for this team after the win against...

Everybody's juiced. Yeah, everybody's juiced. Nobody's juiced. We didn't have a single juice caller. Maybe nobody's listened to us, but that's fine. We're still enjoying ourselves, right? Speaking of the juice, what's the latest on that possible confession audio? Oh, you got to ask Adam Clinton about that. We got to go to their OJ Simpson expert. Yeah, he's our official OJ on file guy. We call him Orenthal James Clanton. Have we heard the audio yet?

Does anybody know what this audio is? No. All right. So if you're not juicing the Texans, are we juiced on the Rockets, with exception of what happened last night? I say yes. But I'm always juiced. And I was juiced when they were losing 60 games, but that was by myself.

Gets my juices flowing. I remember that, but I don't remember what is in reference for it? You'll need to use it on Friday for sure. We haven't had anything from you like in two weeks. That's good. Connor, you got a super clean ear onto him. Make sure he's got something he wants to say. I'm going to be on my best behavior.

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I mean, I know his dad. You do? Yeah, let's go with him. Oh, I think I remember this story now. Yeah, he's two years older than I am. I have not spoken. I mean, I have said two words to his guy. You're not making moves from Eddie?

Come on. What? I don't know. Is it going to come down to playing time? Is it going to come down to NIL money? I mean, I don't know. The latter. Yeah, it's really going to be the highest bidder.

It's a five-star prospect. I mean, he had some success at A&M. I think in the right situation to have no compete, probably would be, yeah, I don't know. Currently the top quarterback in the portal. Is he really? Who said that? Is that somebody of like 24-7-4 or something like that? Okay.

Yeah, I don't know. My guess is he will have numerous offers to choose from. I think so, too. But Big 12, being at home, mom and dad can watch you every night. Cut the check, Maddie. The company that spent the money on his NIL and Collis Station is a Houston-based company. Oh, okay. I see you working. Just saying it.

Did Willie Fritz fire, he fired his offensive coordinator? He fired his offensive coordinator, and his defensive coordinator is going to Texas Tech, which I'm stunned because I didn't ever thought Texas Tech ever played any defense. Yeah, it's a low bar then, right? You hold them to 50. You're doing good at Tech. Isn't that crazy? you and I have grown up as kids and as adults watching Texas Tech be a complete dumpster fire for defensive

players. This is what we're talking about 40 years of utter futility on the defense. It's almost like when you get to that part of the state that it's like a defense it's a defense free zone. They've had, well I know Zach Thomas went there.

Haven't they had some other really good defensive players? I can't remember. I don't have a yeah, me either. Texas Tech. Probably not that many. But I mean, if it, we've come up with one name. Yeah, that's true. It's one. I mean, they've had plenty of great offensive players. I mean, obviously one leading the NFL these days, but they've had others.

I mean, we don't have to talk about Michael Crabtree. Why not? I don't want to. What did he do to you? Oh, what did he do to me? Rodney Black's your way back in the day? Robert Hall. Hmm.

West Welker, when Wes Walker, Red Raider? Yeah. They've had some guys. Yeah, I guess so. A bunch of quarterbacks that ultimately Cliff Kingsbury. I mean, BJ Simmons, Sonny Cumbie.

B.J. Simmons. Baker Mayfield-ish. Does Baker Mayfield, count? Yeah, for a while. A cup of coffee, that's right, that's right. But there, I mean, how would you like to, hey, you're a linebacker, where are you going?

Texas Tech. Oh. It's like Ohio State quarterbacks. Pass does not mean, It does not, past results do not mean future success or lack thereof. I think going to Texas Tech basically absorbs you from playing defense. You're just a bottom. Absolves, yes.

Yeah. But I mean, is there anything else that's a guarantee in life? Who doesn't, like, when you go to somewhere and you know this is going to have, like you go to Texas Tech, you're going to have to win games 56 to 52 most weeks. Yeah, you're talking about sports-wise. Hmm. Texas Tech and defense has got to be up there. Texas Tech and defense is never going to happen.

I'm trying to think what a similar situation. When you would think about going somewhere and you know this is going to happen. Oh, well, I mean, James Franklin led football teams, never going to win big games? Although they're going to get a chance to, if they win the Big Ten championship, I mean, they're going to be in the tournament, so they're in there. I mean. Yeah, I'm trying to think of an equivalent. Like, Texas Tech and Defense has to be the first. Texas Tech and Defense has to be the first.

happen. All right, y'all get your thinking caps on. When you, when I say Texas deck defense, you say what defense? Give me, give me another parallel, another example of what never happens. No matter who's the coach, no matter who the kids are, and I'm not trying to downgrade Texas Tech because I love Texas Tech. My oldest went there. I love going to Lubbock. I think it's a great school. I got a lot of friends that are tech fans. But damn, you're talking about at least a half dozen coaches that have never been able to coach defense or have any sort of assemblance of a decent defense 713215 790 all I want to know I was going to ask you about before we get to closer to the top of the hour so we had a lot of and you were overseas still

Rossi we had a lot of altercations involving teams after games yeah planting fly everybody's trying to plant a flag so the first flag planting was supposed to happen between Michigan and Ohio State when Michigan won at Ohio State. And as it was happening, I was like, good for them. This is good. This is what college robbery is all about. I didn't realize that five or six games later that this would be happening in every stadium and people are fighting everywhere.

Yeah, I guess can we just say? And then didn't the Longhorns players were like stomping on the A&M logo and Steve Sarkozyn tried to stop that? Correct. See, to me, as long as it doesn't involve violence, which I don't think it's possible when you're doing that, I don't like Michigan. I don't like Ohio State.

I don't care if they kick the crap out of each other for three and a half hours after the game. I kind of liked it. I thought it was an extra bit of juice. And the biggest hypocrisy of it all was, so Gus Johnson and our buddy Joel Klatt, we're just going, this is terrible. This is awful for the sport.

Somebody's got to stop this. Guess what Fox didn't do, Rossi? They didn't turn away from it. They showed every second. Of course. That's what we do in media. We decry something and then we show it. And show it.

They didn't say, what we're seeing on the field is so terrible. Let's go back to our studios in Los Angeles. No, they didn't do. They kept showing it and showing it and showing it. And I, you know how me about how I feel about college rivalries? If you want to insult me because I'm a U of H guy, I get it. If I give it, I got to take it. Just like with you.

I call your school pompous and arrogance and holier than Dow. And you should give it right back to me. And you and your loser school continue to never win anything. Yeah, and you and your school continue to be pompous asses. I mean, that's fine. It's what's all, it's what. Who's pompous? You're always poppice.

Wholener than now? No. By the way, always saying that Oklahoma's your big rival, we finally have proven to America the best. It's Oklahoma. It's Texas A&M. What? Without a doubt.

It's what? Everybody was saying it. You were gone. Everybody's like, yeah, we know. We hate A&M more than life itself. It's about, yeah. The highest price paid ticket to see a college game this ever was at Texas A&M this past week. That's because it's the Aggies.

No, because the Aggies are all fired up about it. Texas fans trying to throw their money in there. This is their Super Bowl. It's the biggest game in the history of their program. Matthew McConaughey. And they scored zero offensive points. Matthew McConaughey doesn't run the Cotton Bowl every year. Yes, he does.

He's absolutely at the Cotton Bowl every year. He's like in every game. Yeah, it's true. He's like the official sideline. Seriously. What are you talking about? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, he was all over the place. By the way, you're right. Why don't you get some new fans? Why don't get some new celebrity blood? I don't sit there and put out the Quaid Brothers every time the University of Houston plays a football game. Definition. Rival. A person or thing competing with another for the same objective or for superiority in the same field of activity.

That's A&M, Texas. Period. When's the last time they made an SEC championship game? When's the last time they won a conference, period? When's the last time they won a national championship, period? never 15th. The OU games have been bigger and more important over the year. It's a bigger rivalry.

Nope, sorry. You don't, no. Just because a bunch of Aggie fans fell all over themselves to pay $1,000 to watch their team lose. It doesn't mean the rivalries bigger. So you're saying Texas fans did not spend over $1,000. I'm sure some of them did. Oh, you know they did.

Their money fauners. They do. They flaunt their money. Oh, they were there. Trust me. They were selling, let me tell you. Agie fans, and this is it's up to you. Aggie fans were selling their tickets to Texas fans because they were in the middle of Sal and Varsely's horns off and there's this one text dudes handing up with his hookum sign up. Yeah, it's one guy.

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Oh, let me guess. 60? Keep going. What? What? Keep going. 75? Keep going.

Are you serious? 80? Keep going. A hundred? Keep going. Oh, 100 million dollars in six years? I didn't tell you to stop yet, did I? 120?

Bingo. $20 million per year? $20 million per year to scream about sports. I mean not know half the stuff he's really said. Good for him. No, good. good for him. I mean, wow. I got to respect his hustle. I mean, he works hard too. He's on like every show they have.

Well, he's going to be on every show and then some. They're going to create a Stephen, you know, like ESPN News is his ESPNS-A-Smith. Yeah, I like that. He's going to get his own channel. He needs to. I mean, he's doing like the podcast. He does, yeah, he's on all the NBA coverage. He does the morning show. everywhere. He works hard. Is he... I respect him more than say it's Git Bayliss. Is he a media personality that everybody can't run to Twitter fast enough to complain about,

but yet they watch every day? I don't watch him every day. I can't tell you the last time I sat through... Take yourself out of the mix. I'm talking about the general mess. Because obviously somebody has done the research and said, Stephen A. Smith moves the needle. Like, for instance, when I was growing up as a young man, this is before I got in the business.

Everybody's told the whole world how much they hated Howard Coasell. But yet they watched. I'm sure that's how ESPN feels. I think Howard CoSell and Stephen A. Smith are the same voices in a different generation. Or you despise them, you hate them, you want to hit them, you want to go run to your social media as fast as humanly possible to talk about how bad they are. But yet, if there's an important ESPN event on, Stephen A. Smith puts them on, he has put on that show, whatever it happens to be, and people do watch it. Hmm.

I guess, yeah, I guess some, I mean, somebody's watching. They're not shelling out $20 million for nothing. But the show they have on runs in our, runs between 9 and 11 a.m. in the morning. First take, I thought it's not, it's only two hours? That's it. I didn't know that. Yeah. Most Americans, not all, but most, have eight to five jobs.

Yes. So you're going to pay somebody 20, $20 million a year to work a handful of NBA events, a couple of boxings, do a podcast, do a couple of TV specials, and host a show at 9 o'clock in the morning, or in the East, 10 o'clock in the morning. Non-drive-time spots. Television. The industry itself is crazy what they spend. Tom Brady, Tony Romo, Trey Aitman, Joe Buck.

I mean, these are mega, mega, mega millionaires. And at the same time, you have those networks, the ESPNs, the Foxes, the CBSes, laying people off. I'm not an accountant. No, I'll ever try to be one, but it's just crazy. It's crazy how companies, especially in media, will super overpay

for the number one guy at the expense of hundreds of people that are not the number one. Yeah, I mean, I think that's part of it, is there's a market. I don't even know where they're, who's he competing with? I mean, would FS1 offer him that kind of deal? No, no chance.

They don't want him even thinking about going somewhere else. They don't want him going to... Well, I mean, think about this. You could go to, you could say Stephen A. Smith go to NBC. because they're going to be carrying a bunch of NBA games. They're getting involved in more and more sports. You could go to TNT, and because they're now getting involved in college and pro football,

a college football and college basketball and college basketball. I mean, I guess there is somebody out there. But for Stephen A. Smith to be able to drive the marketplace with that kind of money, when in reality there isn't a lot of major competition. I mean, ESPN is number one broadcasting network out there, and number two is not, FS, whatever you want to call it, is not even close to being a second. ABC Disney just is going to make sure he's locked up

and put him on a bunch of stuff, and obviously they've got some rate of return on him being able to drive advertising. It's all about advertising. That's what it is. It's not about his takes. It's not about his opinions or who he knows or what guest he gets on. It's when he goes on, do people watch his show? And do advertisers want to spend money on that show?

that's it. And the answer clearly is yes. Now it's not done deal, but the rumors New York Post had a story out this morning or yesterday about it said that it's on the verge of a six-year deal worth $120 million. Well, I saw all phone announcing made a post, and it was Mad Dog Rousseau kind of maybe hinting at it. They were asking how he was doing, and he's like,

well, I know Stevens having a good morning. I know that for sure, something like that, kind of a, like a sly comment. Say that one more time? Chris, Mad Dog Russo, I guess, today on first take, Molly Karam was like, how's everyone feeling? Are we chipper? And then Chris, you know, Mad Dog was like, the guy in front of me is very chipper talking about Stephen. I'll guarantee you that. Hello, Steve, how are you? I kind of, maybe I'll make making a hint that that could be a deal is done.

Yeah. And, and, God, it's, I mean, the Romo money is crazy. The Brady money is crazy. The Brady money is so great that that it might. not be good enough because I think he's going to have a chance to buy more of the Raiders. And that's a better investment. You're going to buy more? Yeah. I think he would be better suited to buy more of the Raiders than he would to get out of us. I mean, if he had to give up his Fox contract to buy more of the Raiders, I would buy more of the Raiders, wouldn't you?

Yeah, I guess so, unless he really wants to be around the game. He can be around the game and he can control things. I mean, the Fox money is great, but I think NFL ownership is even better than that. All right, 1256. Let's start the final hour of the show. E. May Adoka is going to join us in 35 minutes. We have Believe it or not today, all things about John Runyon. We have Rockets Lost from last time against Sacramento.

If you did not hear the comments from EMA Adoka, we'll replay those for you as well. We're still waiting on Juan Sotom where he's going to end up. Also, we have the Astros still waiting for Alex Brugman. It's been all kind of quiet on that. We have the NF, the NCAA football CFP announcement yesterday and the latest. That's the last one before the championship games this week. And apparently there is a lot of hate for a three-loss Alabama team that's getting serious, considerable run for making the playoff. Meanwhile, SMU fans alike, if we lose this game to Clemson, the ACC championship, we might lose an opportunity to be in the tournament overall.

So a lot of people are a lot of hand-wringing right now going on that. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-7-90. Final hour, the Matt Thomas show after hear a word from Ross. Yeah, a word from me about how you feeling, how you doing? How is your day-to-day been? How's your motivation? How are you doing in your workouts?

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I'm here in San Francisco. Ross is back in our Houston studios. And you are you at 713 and 212-790. If you want to jump in and say hello, 7-13-212-5-7-ani. Rockets last night fall to the Sacramento Kings. They still advance of the knockout round winning the group. They are the number two seed,

and they will take on the Golden State Warriors, not only tomorrow in a regular season game, but another regular season game, which will feature the Warriors, will be in Houston, and that'll be one week from today in a knockout round game. If the Rockets win that, they will go to Las Vegas to play in the semifinals of the NBA Cup, and then if they win the whole thing,

I think the price is $500,000. I don't know, Ross. For me, I'm kind of excited about it because it's selfishly about Vegas. I don't know if the average NBA fan is jiving to it, or it feels like it's adding anything more. This audience that we speak to every day 10 to 2 doesn't feel like it's adding a whole lot to it. But all I can say is the rockets are better. They were not in this position a year ago.

They're significantly over 500. I'm hoping that the next cup continues to give us some additional buzz. I just don't know if the NBA Cup is going to be the thing that's going to make it happen. I'm locked in, Matt. I'm all in. NBA Cup. I don't believe the fever. Can't wait.

I don't believe you at all. Let's go. No. I don't even know if the television ratings any better or not. I don't, you know, again, it's TV ratings are going to be good when the games are good and the stars are out. Yeah, but, I mean, those courts are such an eyesore for TV. Last night wasn't bad. Sacramento wasn't bad.

Some of them were disaster. Where were we, oh, Minnesota's court was lime green. That was bad. God, Ross. That was terrible. What is it like calling games on these courts? Is it an adjustment or is it fine? It's fine.

You know what, to me, though? I'm always afraid that there's some sort of, like, lacquer on the top of the court that make... Because I see like players are sliding a lot more. Interesting. But I mean, maybe that's just me. So if you did not stay up late last night, there were a lot of tiki-tack calls called against the Rockets.

There was a couple of times that Jalen Green got hit. There were a couple of times that Alper and Shangoon got hit in the face. And there were some non-calls that Imaidoka did not like, and he got ejected from the game as, at Alperin Shingoon. And then Jalen, excuse me, then EMA went to the podium, posting him like he does after every game. And he said a few things.

And I think he knew he had to have known that what he was about to say was going to cost him ultimately some money. And we're not going to get too deep into his pocketbook because that's not our responsibility. But here's what EMA had to say about the officials and the performance they had last night. What was going on? What did you see out there on Florida too?

It was disappointed. And miscalls, blatant miscalls right in front of you. You know, you're calling Tickey Tack moving screens and look like that. And then you don't want to call the obvious ones right in front of you. So that was it. Helpy got fouled a few times on that drive and on the layup and they don't want to call it. So I'm getting some glasses open your eyes. It's so good every time.

I don't think I can listen to that enough. I really don't. It's impossible. You don't make that by ringtone. It's like, you know what we need. I mean, we're never going to do this, obviously, but T-shirts is the way you go, right? I like that.

And, of course, you're going to want to put SportsMT on there somewhere. I mean, we'll put your moniker on there as well. Get some bleeping glasses, open your eyes. I mean, with a pair of specs on it. For the whole world to hear. I'll get Berkeley eyes center to pick up the tab on this. There you go. I like that.

Turn into a sponsor mention. I'm with it. it. Let's go. You should start saying that in your spots. Get some bleeping surgery. Open your eyes. If you're an official and you're blind as a bat, you need great eyewear, go to see my friends at Berkeley Eye Center. Yeah. The officials association or union or whatever

is not going to, can't be happy about these comments. Yeah. And I have, look, I've seen EMA charged up before, but Rossi, he crossed over mid-court. he was he had to be restrained two or three times because I think not only did he get tossed which first of all is going to make you mad but I don't know if John Goebel the official that tossed him I don't know if he flexed or he's like

come at me you say come at me bro which if John Goble did that he's going to get his ass kicked because EMA is going to crush you like a grape oh man I mean, Adoka, I've,

it's got to be one of the best quotes in, like, Rockets coaching history or Houston coaching history. Well, he also took umbrage with LeBron Leicester. Remember that? Yes, absolutely. Called him a soft-ass, soft-ass B. Yeah, I believe. That was correct. I just know that I'm a pretty good wordsman, you know,

when it comes to, like, insults and stuff and calling people names. Hmm. I think I would lose one. What are those? Wordsmen. Wasn't there a TV show? What's that what you're saying? You're a pretty good wordsman?

You know what I mean? Like, I can insult her. I can insult with the best of them. Or my wordsman. I'm an wordsman. I'm an insulter. Come on, man. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm a good insulter. I can insult with the best. Yeah, that's true. Eme may have me beat. Emey's pretty good. Eme's, man, I mean, that was, that was just cold. He knows he's getting, he knows he's getting fine when he says.

says that. And he still just goes, he goes right through it. He did just no, no hesitation. And he was a smart guy. He, he knew, this was, I don't want to say it was measured.

Because it's still he at the moment. I mean, you're talking 10 minutes after the game. You're still really pissed off. Remember that, the ejection happened late in the fourth quarter. It wasn't like it was like early third. So, we'll see what he says in 20 minutes. But the interest, well,

don't try to get him in trouble, Matt. I'm not going to. too. I'm just going to, you know, I'm going to lay it out and say, how, let's do a dress rehearsal on this. You want to. Yeah. You be, you be me. You go and I'll try to be you, man. Oh, me, uh, who, uh, who am I? Am I the, you're me? You're me. Oh, I'm Matt. Uh, Hey, I love the McRib and. Stop. What? I'm not bringing up the McRib to EMA adoka.

Hey, coach, the greatest sandwich of the world is this, press gristle sheet of pork called the McRibb. What do you think? Oh, how about that fine, coach? He hasn't had the fine yet. We're assuming he's going to get fined, coach. Did you say that knowing you were going to get fined, coach? No, I'm not doing it that way.

Oh, are we being serious? Hey, coach, did you want to speak about your comments last night about the officials and did you have anything to say about your comments? Now that the cooling period has really subsided and then some, is there anything you would like to say about your comments last night? I'm going to change it around a little bit. I'm going to go with, hey, coach, how's it going? Oh, okay.

Kind of leave it open-ended, you know what I mean? It's much safer for me that way. Yeah, okay. So he'll join us in about 20 minutes from now. Rockets off today. Tomorrow will take on Golden State and then at the L.A. Clippers on Sunday in their brand-new Intuit Dome. Apparently it's ridiculously fancy.

They got the student section that go on there too. What do they call them the wall? The wall. But doesn't every Bay Arena have like a wall of fans like that too? I mean, I go. There's about six red rowdies left. Are they like alums? Tillman's been whittling that section down for a while.

Hey, hey. There's a little few people there. I'm just saying it used to be like a full section. Do you have to, if you, if you're a red rowdy, I've been over there in a while. Do you have to dress up like in a costume or something to be a red row? I don't know. Do they still have tryouts?

Yeah, current Red Rowdies or former Red Rowdies, I'd be curious to hear. Because it's about half a six rows these days. Because if you go to see Rocky Horror Picture, you got to dress up for that, don't you? Yeah, I don't think of Rockets game is the same. But my point is, you have to dress up. And fishnets and black lipstick? Well, and then throw fruit at people? I don't know.

I don't think it's the same. have you ever seen it in prayer have you ever seen rocky horror picture yes i saw i did it in austin everybody was like oh you got it watch rock or rock or rocky horror picture show in austin which it's like it's one of the biggest austin things to do and i did it and i was like this is these people are weirdos i've never seen it before oh you never okay yeah i did it i saw it at the theater while the people were reenacting it under and i was like man these people need to get a life but i mean i think when you go see the movie back in the one that was made in the 70s you have that's what

still have to dress up and you have to throw fruit at the stage or at the screen or or what they arrest you if you don't No, I think you just, you know, it's like, did you know this, with this Wicked movie? There are some movies that let you sing along with the movie, and there are some movies that will not like you sing along in the theater? Absolutely there. Oh, no. Yep, absolutely are. That sounds horrible.

And apparently there are some movie theaters that are saying, we do not want you to sing. We want to hear them. I want to go to that one. I do want to see, I've never seen Wicked, and it's a huge deal to so many people, so I'm curious to check. I will check it out. And I don't hate musicals. I respect the musical game. but I don't know if I want to be there for everybody's going to be singing.

It looks like the CGI and stuff is cool, so I want to see it on IMAX. But there are sometimes you can go, they will encourage you to sing. Okay, I don't want to go to that one. I don't want to go to the sing-along. Where do I opt out of the sing-along tickets? But how do you know ahead of time? I mean, where do we look from this? If you want to go on a movie app, does it say sing-along version accepted, you can't sing-a-law?

Yeah, I don't know. This is out of our room. Because I don't think I'm going to see it. I have no interest. I understood it. Oh, okay. You know what I go with me? Nobody sang when I saw it.

Oh, there you go. Was it good? It was good. Were you familiar with the songs and the musical itself? I was not, actually. Oh, okay. Yeah, me here. Did you go?

Who went? Oh. Yeah, there you go. Oh. You took your mom out? That's outstanding. Did she like it? She loved it, yeah.

Okay, good. She had seen it before. Was there a warning, please don't sing? There was not a warning, no. But everybody was polite. didn't sing. It would annoy you if they would have sung, correct? Kind of, yeah.

You tell me you sing better than the Arianna Grande? I don't think so. I don't think so. That's great. By the way, Ross, Connor and I have a future, the similar likeness for, appreciation for Ariana Grande. Well, who doesn't like her?

I don't know. But I think she's better as a, as a, when she sings other people's music, than she sings her own. Okay. when she acts like she's Britney Spears. By the way, did you see that Britney Spears think she's five years old now?

Yeah, she's been having some mental health issues for a while, right? You think? Yeah. Kind of, never mind. I mean, you know, I'll be in L.A. this week, and I wonder if we're running into her. Because she goes to Beverly Hills hotels

and just, like, apparently gets into massive fights with people at these hotels. Yeah, that's true. Wouldn't she causing a whole scene before? Mm-hmm. Sometimes she takes her clothes off, Matt, so maybe you do want to be around. I mean, if she needs mental health, we can help her. Take her to lunch? I don't think that's kind of help she needs.

I don't think she needs it. It kind of help you're trying to provide. Hey, I'm a good friend, I swear. 114 on Sports Talk 790. EMAID DOCA coming up in 50 minutes from now. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Right now, a word for quality home products of Texas.

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713, 2125 is 790. 713 212 5-790. a couple things real quick, Ross. The NFL is having their appeals hearing right now for Al-Zez-Aleshire and his three-game suspension. Ramone Foster, a former NFL guard,

played for the Pittsburgh Steelers for the majority of his 11-year career, is running that. He is a guy that was approved by both the Players Association and the NFL. I think John Runyon's statement towards the back end is going to negatively affect what

this appeals board says, basically saying, You getting a little too painting of a broad brush by talking about how bad this guy is? Holier than Dow is what I was going to say. I don't know, maybe. I mean, the thing that's crazy, I brought this up at the show yesterday. The Houston homerism has come through like never should have been fined, never should have been suspended. It was Trevor Lawrence. I was like, we have to start having a little bit of objectivity.

Now, as I mentioned before, Ross, there are some fake meeting Houston frauds that want to, you know, get in good with the McNair so they can get Christmas cards and then and whatnot. And so they're going to obviously have a pro Texan slant on that. Yes. But we got to be objective about this. And my objective of viewpoint, this is my view of it being objective, is three games is too much. One feels about right. If you add with the ejection, what was on the second quarter? Yep.

With the ejection, he missed a half of a game. You add on a game under that. That seems about right. Three is a bit excessive. Yeah, because Sarah said yesterday, he's going to be out of our building for a month. You know, what's it going to do? I mean, I think he'll be able to handle yourself.

Yeah, I mean, he knows how to work out. It's not like he's going to sit on his couch, put his hand between his legs, and start eating cheeseburgers all the time. Well, that'd be bad if you did. I mean, I don't expect serious weight gain during his suspension. Yeah. So,

but don't you think John Runyon, who is in charge of this, doesn't have to run this statement by some people. Don't anybody, you just... Oh, I'm sure, you know. John Ryan, you probably didn't even write that. But he had to, he had to sign off of it because it was his quotes. Yeah, right. Yeah, this sounds fine. Sure.

Yeah, he calls his secretary. Can you write something up about this guy that we don't like... He said, GBT. Can you write a strong-handed statement about Aziz Elshahir's suspension? Yeah, and go over the things he's done in the past and just kind of just paint and just say, you know what? He's done all these four or five different penalties in the last two years as a Titan as a Texan.

Let's go ahead and make him a bad guy. It was a bad hit. I mean, he punched Rochon Johnson in the face. He does have a history of these late hits. Something happened earlier this year against Chicago. Yeah. It started about an hour ago. Did you say that part?

Yeah, I did. I did, yeah. How long those things last? I'm sorry. No, how sorry are you? I mean, like whenever you got to, Did you ever get suspended in high school? No.

I never got suspended. I got kicked out of class one time. I had to go talk to the vice principal. That conversation took 15 minutes. I had in school suspension a few times. Did you really? Yeah. You sound like it's a badge of honor. No.

I'll just say, are you that shocked? That was my, that might sense. My total was like, are you that surprised? I mean, I'm kind of thinking. I'm surprised you actually went to school. I don't think they even take attendance at Alden Nimitz. Hey, come on, baby. It's not open enrollment or it's not a, we got grades, at least back in my day.

I'd earn my grades. I think they just require you at Nimitz to show up on days with account of attendance for state funding. Yeah, and they hand you, uh, everybody gets a gun when you get in. That way nobody shoot and gets shot. That's an alum, not me saying that. Just kidding. Shout out to all of you in Alden Nimitz. Aaron Glenn, shout out Aaron Glenn and Brittany Griner.

By the way, Aaron Glenn. may be becoming the most famous alum, when he becomes a head coach. I don't know. Brittany Griner is embroiled in an international incident. We have to give a war criminal back to get her. Yeah, you need her to be the second most famous of the law. Don't you?

You want Aaron Glenn. Longtime NFL player, great defensive coordinator with the Detroit Lions, and now he's going to be a head coach of, you know, insert school. Yeah. Or team, yeah. Our team, that's true. Yeah, he'll say on that. But I just think it was, um, yeah.

I don't know. How long does it take? I mean, are they going to show the video and say, what were you thinking? How bad do you feel? What happened with this first fight you had? What happened with this second fight you had? I mean, I think it's going to take a lot, honestly.

That's why I said yesterday, and like I said, I hope I'm wrong. But I, that was such a venomous statement by Runyon that I thought to myself, man, they must really have the goods on this guy. Yeah, they really, yeah, they really came out strongly. We'll see what happens. Jonathan M. Alexander saying he expects the ruling today, maybe even soon. So it could fall into the laps of Adam and Adam. Yeah.

Yeah. 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-70. Yeah. You know, all the big news happens during the 18. And now they're an hour earlier. They get trade deadline, Rossi. They get press conferences.

We used to carry Domingo when it was relevant. You don't get that anymore. We did get Nicky C for 30 minutes yesterday. That's good. That was the most powerful 30 minutes. radio shows had in about three months. Yeah, I heard it was extremely powerful. When you get that Texas GM dropping a BS card on the show,

and to bleep it, those of you listening on the internet, you enjoyed it. Yes. Yeah, but he was absolutely fired up. And I always thought about, I wonder if he was, I don't think he was fired up about defending his player. I think he was fired up by John Wynion's statement. I think that's what really got him. Yeah, that might be.

He basically said, your character assessing this guy, you don't know who he is, what he's done. He's never been fine before. he's been fine never been suspended before for anything and you are sitting here taking every little thing he's done with this one nasty hit and granted it was nasty making him out to be a guy that is complete

disregard for the NFL I don't know there's like a full Aziz Alshayir dirty play well we tweeted it out yesterday you know Twex he didn't tweet very much I think he's what down to seven times an hour but you know he he put it out there

at Adam J. Wexler on Twitter 121,000 posts How many do I have? Can you see how many I have? Yeah, I think you're in the 40s. What's your name? Sports MT. Oh, not familiar.

Hold on. He's a 121,000 tweets. Let me unmute you. 46K. Damn, he's tweeted three times as much. It's given up three times. Now, I'm going to say there's been a lot of useful information. Your tweets are usually, I don't know, just bad references as Sanford and Son.

At least he's giving out info. If you rip on Sanford and Son, again we're going to have the problem i didn't rip on sanford and son it's a great show classic i still get caught up in uh youtube of esther versus fred sanford you do oh absolutely they haven't produced any more in 40 years how many how many do you have to see it's just when they fight it's so good okay i'll take your word for it you know what send me send me your top three favorites and i'll watch i'm going to send them to you and you're going to laugh your ass off okay you guys know you guys know you can

good on a you you go on your Facebook reels your TikTok and watch Fred and Esther fight and you'll be like that's some damn funny stuff EMA Doke is up next 128 on Sports Talk 790 Rockets are headed to do a little shoot around here in a few minutes and so coach is still

on the bus and we will call him back in just a couple of minutes Believe it or not today will be John Runyon that'll be coming up tomorrow on the radio program Ross will have the return of the rotten five excited about that You got to you have some serious homework to do.

Oh, okay. Explain. I mean, do you know who the five worst teams are in the NFL? I could probably guess. Let me guess. It could have significantly changed in the last few weeks. Jaguars, Panthers, Raiders. Did you, is there much NFL coverage overseas over there where you were?

Very little, no. The games are on like 3 a.m. It's ridiculous. You can catch the night games are on like 10 a.m. What American sports were you able to see? None on TV or anything. Anything I watched, I streamed on my phone. Okay, that's good.

And you like, yeah, go ahead. The ESPN app you got on your phone, just no problem? Well, yes. If I was on Wi-Fi, it was blocked. It said I was out of the country, but since I also did like a global data plan. And when I was on data,

for example, if I wanted to watch ESPN or Peacock because I was watching Primary League, if I did it on the data, it was fine. I don't know why, maybe because my, phone is American. But when I did, when I went on Wi-Fi, anytime I tried to go on Wi-Fi, it would not work. It would tell me I was out of the country and it was blocked. Did you swear

at your phone a lot and say, what's going on? I can't figure this out. No, I mean, normally it was the middle of the night when it was on, so I was generally watching it, like, as I was going to bed or something. Was there any TV shows you saw that, like, this is really funny. I wish I knew what they were saying? No, I didn't watch a whole lot of Korean TV. I was out seeing the sights, Matt.

You were out. I was, I was at home watching TV. I wasn't watching, like, I don't even know. Korean Judge Mathis. No. No Korean Judge Judy? No, I don't think so. What good for you for them?

All right, step aside then. We'll let you take a break. Let's talk to our friend of the head basketball coach, the Houston Rockets. Rockets getting a little bit of a workout in here. And before that, we say hi to Coach Doka here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Coach, good morning. I guess I'd like to ask you how you slept. Sleep great.

How are you? I'm sleepy. What are you talking about? We got out here at 1 3 in the morning. It's crazy. Hey, my man. Interesting night. Have you heard from anybody at the office, or is all good right now?

Shortly. I'll be hearing shortly, so we'll go from there. Uh-oh. Okay. Without getting into too much great detail, obviously you were displeased with some of the... Some. Maybe a lot of the officials' calls last night.

Yeah. Obviously, you know, when the game is called one way in the first half, and then it kind of flips in the second half, and by the touch fouls and certain things like, oh, if you want to not call fouls, that really benefits us. So please do that from the start and let us be who we are defensively. Other than that, didn't love the 7-1 advantage they had, including three offensive fouls on us on moving screens to start the third quarter

and voice my displeasure later on in the game. Yes, you did. The moving screen in itself, do generally speaking officials, is it as hard or is it an easy call in your mind? Because look, you teach, obviously, and all coaches try to teach the proper fundamentals of the big men setting the screens and make sure the feet are planted and you're not leaning a hip in or a shoulder in. Is it a constant problem? Do you do it? Is it occasional where you go, hey, that's tickey tack or hey, you've got to start calling a little bit more? Where do you see how screens are generally officiated in the NBA?

It's really a judgment call. It's, you know, certain reps call it at a higher frequency. And we know that. We know the guys who do call it, but it's a judgment call that you could call on every play. There are some egregious ones that are obviously right in front of you, but there are a judgment call that could be called on every screen. Guys move their hip, move slightly, whatever it is. And, you know, just to have three of those in the third quarter,

let alone four other fouls and be at that disadvantage, having them an early bonus. After we were allowed to play aggressive in the football, first half is what really stood out to me. How is Jaylen's eyes? He had it checked on this morning at all? Yeah, you got to look at it last night. He has a scratch above the eye, you know, and then a scratch abrasion on the eyeball.

So I'm thinking he'll be okay. Some minor scratch, but, yeah, we're scratching two places on that one play, and, you know, those are some of the things that I took objection with, which is you want to look at the monitor on every other, you know, soft touch or soft foul, but you don't look at the once when guys get hit in the face like Alpi did the other night and then Jalen that night. And so consistency there is what I'm talking about. And if you're not going to call anything, great that benefits us. But if you're going to look at everything, look at the obvious ones like that.

Well, if you want me to start a GoFummy account, I'll be happy to do that. You know I got your back. You know this, right? I'm okay. My coaches are all offering to chip into whatever. Oh, they're really good. They're not making more money than I am, so that's good for them. I'm glad they're willing to help out.

I thought of two about the game. You got hurt late in the context. Fox is going to do his thing. Subonis is going to do his thing. I thought the Keegan Murray sideline three, baseline threes really came at a terrible time for your squad. Yeah, we were getting out of rotation a little bit, and he got loose a little bit there.

He'd been struggling shooting, and so we obviously wanted to keep him down and keep him, you know, in a struggling mode like he had been, him and Hurtur. And they came out and made some shots as, you know, they were shooting around 27% on the year when they were typically 37%. shooter so we didn't want to let them go going those hurt us i think we're really hurt us even more was de rose and post um you know you have three points a halftime and then i think uh 12 to 15 in that

third quarter basically off of one play or we got in the early bonus foul trouble put him at the free don't line he made some shots in the post and so the combination of those things uh obviously heard us in the third quarter yeah uh as far as tomorrow night golden states had a long winning streak against you guys i know it's it means a lot to to snap through those things they lost last night in in somewhat controversial fashion themselves to Denver. What's it like facing a team? I mean, it's a barometer test. Not only are you going to get them once,

but you're going to get them twice in the next six days. Yeah, so it's another thing we'd like to measure ourselves against. You know, we talked about it before the Minnesota game and the OKC game and those things that the teams that are, you know, traditionally ranked higher or have we've struggled with. You know, we obviously, we're down 30 against them early in the year and came back and got it to overtime. And so good test for us.

Obviously, coming off a loss, we have a loss two in a row this year, so we want to self-correct and adjust and come back and get a win there. But to your point, we play them again in a few days to go to Las Vegas in-season tournament. So great test for us. They're struggling. They've lost, I think, four or five in a row, and we know it'll be a good test, and they'll come out desperate as well. What does it say about your team that you've not had to worry about long losing streaks?

Because even the championship-level teams go through some skids. And so far, again, we're still very early in the season. and you've not been able to have to worry about, you know, a streak that goes beyond, say, three games. Yeah, that was a big point of emphasis going into season. You know, I've talked about consistency this year, and I think, you know, we put up the winning and losing streaks last year. There were too many three-game losing streaks,

one, five-game losing streak in there, coupled by a six-game winning streak, and so with us, we said if we lose one, that's just, and, you know, make some changes that will help us in the next game and not, you know, make the same mistakes. So far we've done that, haven't lost two in a row, and I've come back with a nice amount of aggression after a loss. And so look to do the same thing tomorrow. Have you been around a team as a player or as a coach that has had so many different guys?

And I don't know if, look, everybody wants consistency, but part of the charm of this year's basketball team, I think he may, has been that if it's Fred struggles one night, Dylan comes through. If Tyre's hitting shots, Alpi's not, and vice versa, that you've had different guys kind of step up. Is that sustainable for 82 games? Do you like that variety? And do the guys, I know they pick each other up, but I'm sure there are some nights that you're hugging Tari saying, Greg, that great job, and then some nights where he'll miss five or six laps,

and he's now down on the dumps a little bit. So what's it like having a team that moves up and down when it comes to who's hot and who's not right now? I think it makes you tougher to defend, but, you know, consistency is the main thing we're looking for. We like the balance for sure. I think it makes you that much more of a hard team to prepare for. And, you know, you've got six or seven guys close to double figures. You know, you're kind of getting hitting everybody from different angles on different nights. But consistency is the main thing.

So the ups and downs that some guys are happening, we obviously like to erase those and have those guys on consistent basis. And if we do that, you mentioned the Chicago game and some other games where everybody's hitting on all cylinders. And you see the result in that game, obviously, regarding to a high level, but also scoring at a high level. It makes us even more dangerous. So as much as the balance we like, we obviously want to have the main guys be the main guys on a consistent basis. For I let your run, was the Oklahoma City win, the high water mark for you as a coach as a rocket through a year plus. That's a great vibe in the arena on Sunday night. I mean, there's been quite a few, honestly.

You know, you look at last year with the streak that we went on late. You know, some big wins against Denver last year, Sacramento and some of these playoff teams that were, you know, highly rated the year before. So we've had quite a few. OKC is a good one. Minnesota was a good one. as well, but, you know, they all count as one, and we're a confident group that we can compete and beat anybody on any given night. So it was a great environment in there, no doubt. And right after the holidays, the two top teams in the West and all those things that they looked at,

but for us, it was really to avenge what the loss we had up at OKC and play a much better game. And I think we did that, obviously, and pulled out a tough, hard-fought win. Coach, thank you for the time. I appreciate you jumping in before you guys get some work in at the arena again if the NBA is mad at you and they punish you just take your coaches pretty and they don't ever spend it anyway so just take it their money they're good for them got you merry christmas today exactly they owe you thank you very much appreciate it you may you may do with us here on the program all right that calls coming up a little while thoughts and prayers hopefully it's not too bad although the effing glasses is maybe the line of the year

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Oh, he's the silent reporter. Hmm. Hmm. That's weird. He's the Aaron Andrews for the Tennessee Titans. He's the Aaron Andrew. Go ahead and say that. I want you to say that to his face. No, I'm not going to see him. Are you kidding me?

Okay. Who should I have said? Who's the, who's a male sign-line report? I don't even know who there's any male. Tom Rinaldi. He's the Tom Rinaldi of them. There you go. Is that a better example?

I guess. All right. Believe it or not, all things John Runyon, I thought of these questions. They're on next. They're going to be fine. Don't be mad at me for that. At least I did something. Proud of you.

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Matt Thomas' way of doing it? That dude looks way better in bunny ears. Deal with it. Yep, all facts. All right, Junction, Matt, take it away. 150 on the Matt Thomas show tomorrow on the radio program Matt Thomasville Ross so long that's time to see you

if you gain weight are you about 5 pounds heavier 10 pounds heavy I probably stabilized I mean I was eating a lot but also I was walking a lot So do you keep track of your steps or no Yeah I was getting I was probably getting about 15,000 a day in Korea You know it's too many You know it's funny the place I

walked the most, or two cities, New York and Las Vegas. Yeah, I was walking a ton in Korea, less so in Taiwan. And I was eating good, but I mean, even there's, you know, it's healthier food. It's usually a lot of vegetables and, yeah, it's better

for you over there, even though it's quite delicious. Soups. Do you spend more money than you thought you were, or about what you thought you were about a lot? I spent a lot of money, but I expected to spend a lot of money. But the meal, everything was cheap. Korean meal.

Like, there was one night we all went out. We had a couple of beers. We had a couple of bottles of soju, which is like the Korean rice wine. We all ate Korean barbecue and it was like 11 bucks a person. Shut the front door. Yeah. Was there any food that you're like, what is this? You tasted it like this is unbelievable.

I had some weird foods. I had chicken feet. I had it. Yeah. I do not recommend chicken feet. The flavor wasn't bad, but it was all gristle. So I would say stay away from that. I had intestine.

Kidney was actually really good. What else? Did you go to any fast foods at all? No, not once. I'm just curious of a, did you see them? Were there McDonald's and Burger Kings? There were McDonald's everywhere. There was a few Burger Kings.

I didn't see like a Wendy's or anything like that. But McDonald's and Burger King, I definitely saw. There's Starbucks everywhere. Really? Everywhere in Korea and in Taiwan. Oh, and you know what? actually has low-key, like super good food? 7-Eleven.

Do you know how I feel about 7-Eleven food? I wouldn't go search for it, but I mean, if you want a hot dog, it's not going to kill you. No, in Korean and Taiwan, like they have actual really good, like, it's like Asian food there. And the papaya milk? Oh, so good. Wow. And your digestive system's okay during all this? Yeah, I'm feeling good.

Yeah, I mean, it was like I said, it was mostly vegetables and rice and stuff. It was, you know, for you. I was eating healthier than I eat back year for sure. All right. I'm going to go get some lunch right now. Where should I go? Should I go to Super Dupor Burger? Yeah, go there. You ever had a Super Dupor Burger? No. Sounds good.

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No, he was a 96 draft pick of the Oilers. He played his rookie year here in Houston, ironically later. 713-212-5-790. Neil on 790. Neil, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. In a Sports Illustrated magazine article in October 2006, Runyon was ranked second on a list of the dirtiest players in the NFL.

Believe it. Believe it. Statement number two for the win. Runyon had a history of injuries during his career, having played no more than 25 games in a row during his NFL career. Believe it or not. Believe it. No, he played 190 games in a row.

It's the opposite of what you just said. Ross, you impressed so far? Eh, not bad. Oh, come on. Give me some rum. Give me some flowers. Give me a single rose. We're all proud of you, Matt.

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Believe it. No, he's a guard for the New York Giants. Sorry. Nick on 790. Nick, you're ready to play Believe it or not? Believe it. John Runyon was the U.S. representative for New Jersey's third congressional district from 2011 to 2015. Believe it or not. Not. Believe it. It was. Ouch.

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