The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Snack Sized Show, Dwight Howard In The Bubble & Twitter: Good Or Bad

Episode Date: July 21, 2020

Snack Sized Show, Dwight Howard In The Bubble & Twitter: Good Or Bad

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Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 12 o'clock in H-town. What's happening in lunch timers? It is a short snack size edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790 with Ross Villarreal and Brendan Riley, who needs to hit the cue button on his control board. I'm Matt Thomas. It's nice to have you with us here on the radio show today. Sports RV. is only a 50-minute show today.

I like to call it fun-size, Matthew. I've called it snack size. Actually, the snack size is more like 30 minutes, right? Yeah, I guess so. This is heavy apps. What do you mean like a mozzarella sticks? Well, no, we've got 50 minutes, so we can order two or three things and then just share them. Okay.

And by the way, I know we're in Corona World, but we're going to still share things. We're just going to be careful about it, right? I think so, I guess. I don't know. If we get six cheese sticks, you get three, I get three, we get a spoon, we put the sauce on the plate, we're good. We can still share. Yeah, you don't double dip the marinera like you would do at a real restaurant when we've gone out. I have double dipped in years.

I don't know. You've shamed me to double dipping and I'm just over it. This is a double dipping free radio host. Good. All right, we are with you today until 1250 and then we're going to send it over to the Astros Radio Network for the finale of the two game series between the Astros and the Royals. Yesterday, the Astros put the beat down on Kansas City. Lance McCullors looked spectacular.

I don't know how much Ross you saw the game. It was free and available on the MLB TV app on your phone or computer, whatever the case may be. I caught a couple of meanings. Lance McCullors looked pretty sharp, as you said. Yep, Bregman looked good. You've got a big home run from Martine to Mount the Nato, the former short-term Kansas City Royal. How about our friends at AT&T? They must have thought poker was more important than putting the game on yesterday.

I didn't they? I thought they put some classic game. Well, I guess it was later on they put some 2019 classic games. But yeah, poker, you got to get the ratings, Matt, of the gambling degenerates. So let me ask you this. You think people would rather watch hours of poker or an Astros spring training game? Now, granted, it wasn't a home game. My guess is if it was a home game, like it was over a minute made, they would have put the game on.

It was difficult for them to get to feed maybe somehow? Well, you know, they're not family members with Fox, so it probably would have been better if the Astros would have played like the Rockies who also have an AT&T affiliate. But that's TV minutia. All right, 713212-570 is how you reach our show today if you'd like to get in. Rossi, during this pandemic, we haven't had a lot of phone calls. And that's okay. We still have good listenership, and we really thank everybody for that. But can we get three calls in in 50 minutes?

Is that even a possibility? We could at 713, 212, 57790. You want to talk about the Astros? I feel like we have a wheel of topics to get to. A wheel. Okay. Because I feel like I challenge the two of us to get in as many topics in the next 47 minutes as humanly possible. I can go at least four deep in the next 47 minutes.

Can you top that? It just sounds bizarre for me to say I can top you going four deep, but I'll just, you know what, Matt, I'll let you have the crown. Let's go ahead and record that for future. purposes. All right, so we have domination of the Astros, and today they'll have the Josh Flames James will take the hill for the local nine. Wonderful. How's that one going to go, Matt? It can go one or two ways. He'll strike out seven over three and two thirds, or he'll walk five in a inning and a half. Or maybe both. Well, he probably won't get that many pitches. My guess is he'll get 75, right?

Is, yeah. Which is what you normally supposed to get the last R-Barr? before your first regular season start. The bullpen's still very much a work in progress. I don't know how they're going to set it up. I don't know. Is Chris Tivinsky the new closer now? I don't know what that is, to tell you the truth.

I don't even know if Dusty Baker knows what the answer is. All I know is that Joe B. Eugenie, I don't mind him getting outs. I don't even mind him telling jokes. But you have to get outs first before you tell jokes. You can't have the jokes. getting outs. Right. You need one with the other. Yeah, it's like, give us a similar situation. If somebody's always funny, but never serious when the time is right, you just discount the funniness, correct? Right. Like if Joe B. Eugenie was to go to a funeral, you would have to

then turn off your joke monitor. You'd have to, everything wouldn't be a funny quip. You would need to be serious for a short period of time. I'm looking for the funeral-esque Joe B.ijini to come through here in the next a handful of days. Hmm. How's that for comparison? How about somebody who makes some, like, you can't make fun of somebody for being, I don't know, overweight and then you're just, you're 450 pounds. You got to have one with the other.

I just want to know, I want, well, I want, what I want is serious Joe B. Eugenie. He can tell jokes until he's blue in the face. Matter of fact, he can have a private hotline. We could do a segment of the show just called Joe Biazini's one-liners. Yeah, I don't even know if he tells jokes. Because jokes have a punchline, right? He just says weird things.

Like, I'm going to pet some puppies. That's not a joke. It's just being weird. And you can pet all the puppies you want. Yeah. You strike people out and get people out. And you're the new seventh or eighth inning guy. Joe, you can come on this show.

We'll call you Shecky Beijini. And you can tell every joke humanly possible. Yeah. Like when he came to Fan Fest, and Michael Connor said, hey, you go ahead and have a seat. He sat on the floor. That's not a joke. That's just him being weird.

Okay. I'm just telling you. Joe Beijini is welcome on this show as long as he gets out. You get a set an ERA threshold with Astros PR? Look, if he's over a five, he's out. Or a 450? Well, do you think similar than ERA five would want to come on the back on the show?

Well, it's happened before. That's true. I never quite thought of it that way. All right. So we have Astros and Royals. I will say this. And the guys on the Kansas City TV broadcasts were saying it. It's everybody that I've seen, and I've been watching quite a bit of the MLB network,

because they're all like putting on, you know how the NFL network puts on preseason games on an endless loop? That's what MLB network's doing, and it's the smart thing to do. And by the way, if you want to listen to the game today, which obviously we want you to do so here on 790, you can actually watch today's game and then, you know, turn the volume down, because you don't want a Kansas City version of the broadcast. You want an Astros version. So that's where Robert and Steve will come in, and they will be with you at 1 o'clock for the first pitch, and then you can watch a game on TV.

But every broadcast I have seen, and I probably watch bits and pieces of four or five games, these broadcasters, Ross, are flipping out. You can pipe in all the crowd noise you want. You can put all the chance in there. You can do the seventh inning stretch. You can have a PA announcer. It's still an uber surreal moment to see every one of these baseball games.

These are like practice games, these spring training games. But this is the real thing coming up on Friday. There are going to be no fans in any venue. And it's going to make this the most peculiar season, I think, Ross, that we will ever talk about baseball. First of all, 60 games. Secondly, the DH in both leagues. Lastly, you've got the Toronto Blue Jays who still don't have a home yet

with four days left to go until the start of the season. I don't know if there will be any normalcy in any part of this 2020 baseball season, which for all things considered, we're not a normal world, it's kind of part for the course, right? Yeah, absolutely. It's going to be a hot mess this year. Books will be written about this. Documentaries will be filmed about this.

TV shows, interviews. It's going to be all that type of stuff that we're going to have to do. We're going to have to see over the next several years. And it's going to be interesting. I think, though, like I said, as you know, Matt, the Manchester City game is on right now on NBC Sports Network. They've been piping in the noise, and it doesn't bother me. It kind of get used to it and you forget about it after really a few minutes. Yeah, as I said when I was at the Astros game on Sunday, it's there, but it's not over, you know,

like for instance, will the A's fans pipe in Vuvuzela's at their stadium? But that's all you hear. That's way more annoying than hearing artificial crowd noise. Yeah, shouldn't they pipe in drums and mostly silence? Shouldn't they pipe in crickets? Yes. Like, what name a stadium? I'll go first.

Oakland, crickets piped in. Perfect. wherever the Miami Marlins play Crickets as well Complete silence Maybe like a In the left field Like somebody

A concession worker just shuffling papers Or something like that Yeah Like you know They're saying Get your cold beer here Yes You get a guy's like

I've still got plenty of cold beer here And then five minutes later It's pretty cold And then like five minutes Get your luke warm beer Because he's not selling any beer basically what it would be like during the normal Marlin season. Yeah, don't you think those guys get paid by the beer they sell, right?

Or do they get commission? You know, I think probably every stadium is different. I don't know that for a fact. I can tell you that, you know, Cleveland doesn't draw flies. You ever notice that too when the Astros are playing the Indians? And then the Indians have been a pretty good baseball team for a decade. They don't draw. Baltimore doesn't draw, but Baltimore's been god-awful for a long period of time.

the joke of Major League Baseball for some time. Yeah. So we have that to get to. Other things to get to in this radio show. It's the Wheel of Topics. NFL has a testing protocol, we believe. And there is also going to be some concession. Maybe there will not be any preseason games after all,

which would then be another Noster Thomas' correct prediction. Some great results from the NBA testing on their COVID. and when we return, the UIL has decided how they're going to conduct fall sports. If you've not heard, we'll tell you about that coming back. Our time is at 12-11. If you'd like to join our radio show, we'd love to have you. Again, we're only on until 1250 this afternoon, so come on in. You can take your time, but you better hurry because we're done in 39 minutes.

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He just sounds like he's Rico Swarbe, right? That's a good one. My favorite one is when Mike Danone says he's going to watch, he listens to the show on mute. Yeah, okay. I got to reach out to him today, see if he's available tomorrow or Thursday.

Rockets off today, by the way. And then it sounds like to me, Ross, that Russ will not go Friday against the Toronto Raptors. No. Okay, yeah, that's fine. As long as he's back next week. Get him rested, get him back in his shape. I mean, we don't know that he's out of shave.

We don't know how much he was working out while he had the coronavirus. I could tell you from personal experience, you get a lot of fatigue. So I don't know if he was working out of time. We just need Russ back in a shape and back ready for the playoffs, most importantly. Or maybe when he's ready for Sunday against him. Memphis the game I'm calling because that'd be a lot easier to see him. I know what he looks like on a television screen.

Being purely selfish. Well, I mean, as opposed to who? You're fine. You know the roster? I know the roster. I just want to make sure I don't make any major glaring airs. You wouldn't do that, Matt. That's true.

All right. This does not impact me directly. It doesn't impact you at all. but the UIL announced today that if you are a 1A or through a 4A school, which I don't think there's very many even 4A schools in Houston. There may be some 4A, you know, 45 minutes an hour away each direction. So I would say certainly within our listening area, but most of the listening area that we have is 5A and 6A schools.

You are going to be able to start your football and volleyball seasons right on time. meaning that football season is going to start August the 27th, and then the state championships will eventually end in December, mid-December of this year. That's for 1 to 4-A schools for football and volleyball. If you are a 5-A or a 6-A school, which most of the audience, either has a friend or a kid or you work at, whatever the case may be, your seasons get delayed until the end of September. If you're football, the first day the guys can practice is September the 7th.

The first game they can play will be September the 24th. They're going to crown Ross, which will be very, very odd for all of us. Like everything has been odd this year, we will have a high school football state champion crowned in January of 2021. Wonderful. So we get like 50,000 people into, into Jerry. Jerry World for that. Hopefully? Yeah.

Maybe. Hopefully. Well, no, I don't think it'll be 50,000. No way. Well, what is Jerry World? Is Jerry World over 100? Yes, when you factor in the standing room only seating, I believe. Yeah, my guess is the problem.

Well, who knows? Hopefully we have a big, awesome vaccine that everybody can just take a shot before they walk in and be done. Well, then you've got to deal with the anti-vaxxers. You're always trying to bring politics in the show. I was not politics. They're not, I don't know the political agenda. I'm just saying there are people, vaccines not necessarily going to solve everything. Well, better for, I'm pro vaccine.

I'll take anything. You can just anything you want. I'll take it. All right. So that's interesting. I think the first question people were asking when this came out was why does one to four A get the benefit of playing on a normal schedule and five and six A? And I thought, and maybe Ross, you can think of a different way. The simple answer to me is those 1 to 4A cities are smaller and probably don't have the rate of positive tests that the bigger metropolitan 5A and 6A schools have.

Is there anything else you could possibly? Yeah, I would imagine, right? The bulk of the positive tests have been where there's actual people living. But a 4A, I was just kind of looking it up. A 4A school can have up to 159 students and then you go to 5A when you're at 1,060. So, I mean, if you have one school has 1,000 people, the other one has 1,100 people. It's kind of like, isn't there still a very high level of risk in both of those scenarios? Yeah.

But there's got to be some cutoff at some point. Yeah, exactly. You got to. Yeah. So, and I think a lot of my friends that have kids that are high school age are semi-wigging out. I'd rather have this, to be honest with you. And I haven't really thought too deep about this. That's why I'd like to, if there's anybody out there driving around the day that's got kids.

and going to supposed to play football this year. Does the delay make you mad, happy? Are you indifferent to it? My general answer is, and again, my daughter plays junior high sports, which they have not announced whether or not they're going to have junior high sports or not. If she was playing high school volleyball, okay, so instead of starting on August and 3rd,

she's going to start on September the 7th, if they're playing volleyball, Ross, or playing football or anything like that, that's a good sign to me. It doesn't bother me at all then. So, you know, as far as I'm concerned, you delay it all you want. Let's just at least have a season. Let these kids have some normalcy in their life because it feels like to me the first six weeks of the calendar year in schools, no matter where you have it, most people are doing online stuff anyway. So I don't even think like the first six weeks of the year is going to be in real school atmosphere to begin with.

I don't know. There's just so many things to figure out. It's about the, like you said, the kid's not in school. It's about these, can these coaches get their hands on the kids for, I mean, they're supposed to be in training camps and all that type of stuff. Is most of that canceled right now for football? High school football? Yeah, you cannot, you cannot even practice until September 7th. Oh, wow.

Huh. But at least you got a season. I mean, could you imagine the firestorm if they would have come out today and said, you know, we're just going to be safe this year? We don't need athletics. Wasn't there, has there been a state that's done that? Was it California or somebody that's canceled? high school sports? I can't remember.

Look. California? I wonder what the revenue, because we've always talked about, when we talk about these professional sports, we talk about how it comes down to revenue. And these high school sports generate revenue as well. But I just wonder what the numbers are on that

and how much money the school would be missing out on or if it is even in profit, or obviously it's a school-by-school basis as well. Well, I'm looking up California. California is not going to play anything this fall. Okay. They're going to move everything to January of 2020. Yeah, that's right.

That's what I saw yesterday. So let me tell you what I think about what you just asked. Granted, again, I don't know of that many schools that have football stadiums that are so full that it's a huge revenue maker. Okay. But I will say this. These schools love to send their kids to college, right? and they especially love it when those kids get scholarships to those institutions. So I know we're talking about a very small number, but I think KDISD, Cypair, humble,

they all like the fact that they can send 25, 30, 35 of their students off to a college on an athletic scholarship. So that's really the, I think the main reason why that you would say, is there any real push for these school districts to play? Plus, it is the experience of going to school, right? Being involved in extracurricular activities. And that's the same for band. It could be for cheerleaders. It could be for, you know, you just, you know,

we built these public schools not just to go learn about math and English and history. We wanted, we were trying to, you know, create well-rounded people in sports. In theory. Yeah, it's going to be a big part of it. And I'm kind of just Googling now about there is a lot of some schools, their athletic budget is completely dependent on football revenue. So that's going to be interesting.

It looks like from what I'm reading, it's similar to colleges and where football can fund, and where football is very popular, it can fund the entire, athletic program. So you're going to have some budget issues going on as well in the next couple of of months in a lot of the high schools. But how much does a football? I really don't know the answer to this because, I mean, how many, I don't go to a lot of high school games. So it's really out of my run. But I can't. I mean, our high school stadiums filled with 11, 12,000 people every week? It depends on where you go. And I mean, obviously, and Katie and stuff like that out West,

they'll be filled up. And it depends on the district you're in. Like when I would go around and do these these high school games and where some of them will have like really nice spreads, really nice stadiums, really nice facilities and all that type stuff and some of them not so much. So I think it varies from district to district. Even where I was going to school in Michigan,

we were probably doing 1,500 a week. And if you figure, what, a $10 ticket, it's not the same scale, but that's still a lot of money for a high school that's not spending as much on their sports. Yeah, I, would have to say the last high school game that I went to was in New Caney because what a Cameron's buddies was doing the play-by-play on Texan Live,

it probably had 2,000 people in it, and it feels like that's kind of small. When I was going to high school and the grandma's a long time ago, we used to draw 7,500, 8,000 because you'd have the local, each school would bring, you know, three or four thousand people. So let's say, what would you think the average attendance would be at a 5 or a 6A football game? 5,000? Less? Let's go with 5,000.

5,000. And you are drawing, and your average ticket costs is 10 bucks a person. You're not making that much money. It's 50,000 bucks. 50, Jesus. It's not bad. Yeah, but you've got to pay the facility. You've got to turn the lights on.

You've got to have the concessionaires. I don't think it's as big of a cash cow as maybe we're letting it on to be. No, I don't mean like it's profitable. I mean it's like, so the volleyball team. can have their equipment or the other leagues, you know? Yeah. All right. So I just wanted to pass that along with the audience that, yeah, they're going to be a delay this year.

And again, hopefully it's just one delay and they can resume and have a full season. Question is, Ross, they haven't even talked about testing yet. If colleges and NFL school teams are having a difficult time, how do you test 65, 70? Oh, forget that. You have junior varsity teams, you have freshman teams, sophomore teams of our. I mean, you're talking about a couple of hundred kids at each. of these schools, right? Yes. It's pretty much

next to impossible is what I'm thinking. Yeah, I bet you sub varsity stuff is out for this year. Some really good testing news from the NBA. We'll tell you about that coming up in a minute. Our time is 1228. It is the Matt Thomas show. 713212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790 with a message here for TGS Insurance. Hey, would you like to say

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You okay, man? I mean, we got 10 minutes left to go here. Can we make this happen? I think you can do it, Matthew. You're a strong, trained professional. Okay, so you ready for some really good news about COVID testing? By the way, this show from here on now will be COVID-free on Fridays. Okay.

COVID-free Fridays. I like that. There's just so much stuff going on Monday through Thursday. We just can't avoid it. But Fridays will be COVID-free Friday. So the NBA took 346 test. Yes. Zero positive results. Wow.

So you get them in a controlled environment. You have protocol set in place and you have testing and you have a snitch line where people are getting snitched on and everybody's good. Yes. It's all working out beautifully. Except one thing. Dwight Howard is... I've come to figure out why Dwight Howard is hated by his teammates, no matter where he goes.

He's bitching about wearing the damn mask. I know there are some people out there that hate the mask. I'm not a particular fan of it. But bra, just wear it because guess what? You'll be able to play. You'll be able to help the Los Angeles Lakers. And my guess is you're probably going to do more helpful things than harmful things. in trying to lead the Lakers to a championship.

Hopefully it doesn't happen. But you know what I'm saying? Why is he being difficult? Everything is working out, Ross, beautifully for the NBA. You don't need Dwight Howard to go AWOL on this whole mask bit. And that's the funny thing, because all you need is one person to create an entire outbreak in this. And, yeah, Dwight Howard, it just seems to me, Matt, he's just kind of childish. He just kind of acts like a kid in everything that he does.

Here is the thing about Dwight Howard. He's, and here's a strange term, he has an infectious personality. Oh. I didn't mean to do that, but I just did it anyway. And the little that I got to know him, I like him. I do. But I just, first of all, he has terrible posse around him. Just, you know, a posse.

You know, a posse. You know, your friends or whatever. Oh, okay. I mean, you know, you're part of my posse, so we're good. Thanks. Don't thanks. You love being a part of the MT posse. Provisional member.

Well, you actually, after the last few weeks you've been, you dropped a provisional. That's true. You're down to part time. But his group of friends just get him in all sorts of trouble. Not like legal trouble, but just not showing up the things, not, you know, sending mixed. messages. And I think he's probably just bored out of his mind and he's like, hey, so these results are coming in beautifully. We're not doing anything wrong. We've got zero tests. We're about to play. Let us have a little freedom. I'm sorry, when you chose to go into the bubble, you lose freedom

until your season's over with. Now, if you like the Lakers losing the first round and then go out and do your own thing for the last handful of months, go for it. Go for it. I've got some disturbing news for you, Matthew. Is it breaking or just general disturbance? It's general. It's about Dwight Howard. He also does not believe that vaccines are effective. Okay. We don't need to get into that. Well, actually, it does do because

he's, if you are anti-vaccine guy, then you are anti-everything, correct? I don't know. It depends. I don't know how much research Dwight Howard has done on this. Like I said, he acts like a kid and that's what makes him so fun. And as you said, his

infectious personality, But I think that's part of, I think it's also not only his personality, I think that's also his level of intellect, quite frankly. I just think he just can't ever settle for anything normal. Does that make sense? That, you know, him and James worked really well together for a while. And then I don't, he just couldn't get comfortable with the fact that James was the go-to guy. And that he thought he was a better basketball player,

a more pronounced offensive score for the Rockets. And once he got that in his mind, and I think his people around him was like, man, you used to score 25 points a game. Used to get 17 rebounds, the game, blah, blah, blah. I think he couldn't shake himself with that. And then he would go from team to team to team to team. And he thought he, you know, it was the teams that were not treating him right.

I just think he got into a locker room setting and got around coaches. And sometimes coaches don't want pains in the asses around them all the time. And I think he just can't ever settle. And that's where I think the problem is with Dwight and the reason why he's bounced around from so many teams in the last four or five years. Yeah, I agree. I think he's definitely got some maturity issues,

and I think he's had him his entire career. I mean, he butted heads with Stan Van Gundy. He had issues with James Hardin here. He had his... With Kobe Bryant and Mike Dentone in Los Angeles. And he's just had issues everywhere he's gone. I mean, great, great talent. He's going to go to the Hall of Fame,

three or four-time or whatever it is, defensive player of the year. but just flawed. Yeah. I mean, he was like the lead dog in the, I'm not going to Orlando. Hell no. And then when he realized

that he'd be missing money, the chance to win a championship. All right, I'll go to Orlando. Because, I mean, let's be really honest about this. The NBA has had very few players. I mean, less than 10. And of those 10, some of those were beyond this. I mean, how many truly

COVID I'm afraid of COVID stuff was there. Five or six guys maybe? I mean, relatively speaking, a very, very small amount that said, I'm worried about being. And as I said from day one on this, and I'm not trying to brag on this. I'm just saying this is one of the things that I thought about, that if you got to the bubble, you were going to be in the safest place on earth.

Yep, you said that. And yesterday is proving that. 346 tests and zero positives. All right, speaking of test, you see the NFL is going to have a protocol in place. They're going to test daily. Yeah. Here's the thing, Ross.

They're going to test daily for a couple weeks. And then once those numbers go down, they're going to save themselves some money. Right? That's what it is. Exactly, right? Well, you don't need to test daily if everybody's cool for a couple of weeks, right? I guess. That's what they're thinking.

It's going to cost a lot. Because they have a contract with a lab, correct? Yes, not the Salt Lake City Lab. That has been majorly baseball dominated. Yeah. So I thought it was like Major League Baseball built their own lab, and then they're having issues, and the NBA has contracted a lab,

and I think that's what the NFL is going to do as well. Whatever. Just make sure the results are coming in on a fairly regular basis. That's all you need. I mean, because I guarantee you, if testing results don't come in, guess what's going to happen? You're not going to call the pharmacy. You're not going to call the lab.

What are you going to do? You're going to go to your Twitter account. Yes, you are. my results are in. All I want to do is play. We want to play. New hashtags out there. Hashtag, let me play.

Hashtag, why can't I play? Hashtag, do your job. Rossi, what would our world be like if we didn't have hashtags? It would be like it was 10 years ago, I guess. I don't know. Is Twitter overall good or bad? Overall, externally good. Really?

Yeah. Brendan, go ahead, Brennan. Hard, hard, bad. I love it, but it's a hard bad. I'm going to tell you five things about, because I'm fair and balanced here, I'm going to tell you about five things I love about Twitter and five things I hate, okay?

Okay. Number one, it is a tremendous form of information in terms of getting quick headlines or whatever you need to get, okay? That's number one. Number two, it does connect you with, with similar people that you like the same things. So if you're a fan of a rock band

and you don't have time to sit in front of your computer and you're a van of, say, Van Halen, and Van Halen stuff's going on Twitter, you can react and do things and talk about them with fellow like-minded people. Number three, there are some things out there that are just generally, really, really, really funny.

Sort of little get, you know, like Rex Chapman's blocker charge. I know we stopped doing that now, but that's just generally fun-ist content from other people. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. That's okay. He's a content grifter.

Number two, number four, let me say. I got to give you five, right? I promise you five. What else is good about Twitter? You're on the positive side here. Oh, hold on. How much time's left in the show? Okay.

Okay. What are your positives, information, funny things, in real-time reactions? Oh, real-time. reactions. I'll give you that. Real time reactions is good. And number five, for me as a radio host, it connects me to the audience. But not all of you are a radio host. So that's, I think it connects celebrities with common, with the common people. It connects common people with radio show hosts, anybody that's in entertainment. Well, not only. There's a five. People who are fans of our station, or anything. If you're a fan of, like you said, you said, Van Halen, you can find other fans of Van Halen and

connect with them. We have fans of, of our station who tweet us, and then fans who are also fans of our station, they find each other. So it's kind of a, you can make a community, and it's good that way. Yes. So I gave you five. It took me a longer than I thought I was going to be. Okay. So let me give you the five things that suck.

The term keyboard warrior is really Twitter. Yes. Like, I had this a-hole yesterday that saw the picture of me and you in the studio. And he starts talking about, I should be wearing shorts. I'm like, who the hell are you? So you keyboard warriors, I hate keyboard warriors more than life itself, okay? First of all, that's one of the things I hate. Number two, I would say that Twitter generally speaking, Ross, can be pretty vicious, right?

Yes. Judgmental. Yes. Person A gets arrested on narcotics charge. The cancel culture as well. I would go with the judgmental thing. Yeah. No one has ever presumed innocent

So there's anybody ever been Accused of something They absolutely did it And the number one thing I hate about Twitter is You could put something out there that is inaccurate And face no repercussions because of that Yes, that's what I think of the problem Like one of the beautiful things about Twitter

Is the information that you're that is available And at your fingertips But also one of the terrible things is a lot of it is misinformation A lot of it is skewed A lot of it's slanted and not as much in the sports world, but in the political world. Like, any time something trends, and there's a quote of Donald Trump said this, a lot of times I just have to check and make sure it's not out of context.

I have to make sure, you know, because they're edited videos, there are things taken out of context, and all to make this one slant that one side wants to make. And to me, in 2016 during the election, I called Twitter a cesspool, and I think I'm getting ready to call it a cesspool again, coming up here in November of 2020. Propaganda has become almost normal. Yeah.

It doesn't seem crazy to see propaganda on my phone every single day. Yeah, it's like, you know, press secretary, whatever that press secretary name is, she said this. And then you watch the video, you're like, well, that's not really what she said. Yeah, the video doesn't match the headline. I always have to make sure I watch the, there's just sensationalism. And honestly, quite like pretty much yellow journalism. It's just, and like you said, Matt, because of the fact that there's no repercussions, that's, that's why it's such a cesspool to me.

Overall, I think there is a lot of positive. I say it's a net negative. If we got rid of Twitter, I think overall the country would be a better place. I'm going net positive. I am going to say this, though. Those that like to take cheap shots at people, look at yourself in the mirror first. Because I've met some of you that like to take cheap shots of me. And I know what you do look like, and I know what you do.

I'd rather just take cheap shots and not look at myself. I take cheap shots at you and not look at myself back. Well, you and I have been working together for a decade. So I, there is, I mean, there's just nothing that I don't know about you at this point. It's not totally true. Oh, you get some more secrets? Yeah, you don't know about my Gimp Dungeon. What?

You just said Gimp Dungeon on my own radio show? Go look, go put that on Twitter and see if it gets trending. That was a joke. Stand by for Astros baseball. Back tomorrow at 12 noon for Ross. that I'm Matt. Thank you for listening. Astros baseball now on 7-9.