The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - The Matt Thomas Show 12-24-19

Episode Date: December 24, 2019

The Matt Thomas Show w/ @SportsMT, @SportsRV, and @ProNickLow 12/24/19Special Guest Host @MC790 JJ Watt is coming back for the Playoffs (0:00)Christmas Carol Karaoke (42:30)Aaron Reiss on JJ Watt and Will Fuller's Availability (1:05:19)Creepy Kevin Spacey (1:24:06)

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Sports Talk 790 without Matt Thomas. And you know what? Michael Conner's here. I'm here. Ross v. Real. Matt Thomas is doing fancy mad stuff. Nick Lowe's here. And somebody's back in the saddle for the Houston Texans, Michael. Oh, yeah. He's a large milk man from Wisconsin.

He may or may not get locked out of his house and give you updates. That's true. J.J. Watt. back for the Houston, Texas? Let's see, let's just go in. He spoke to the media earlier today. Here's what he had to say about, you know, being happy to be back out there.

I'm just excited to get on the field. I'm just excited to get out there to run around. I mean, I've been doing drills and stuff out on the field for the last couple weeks with the medical staff. And so I'm just excited to put our actual football jersey on again and get back out there. he's excited to get back in the saddle well appreciate that jay j wott can't lie excited that the possibility is there that he could play again because the

texans patch rush has been non-existent since he left yeah it's been basically jacob martin and that's about it i mean whitney merciless hasn't done much he had a good first few weeks a second a half maybe and then it hasn't been much also asked is he going to wear extra protection you always want to wear extra protection michael yeah i'll have some protection on it just to protect me from doing uh going to the true extreme backwards but I'll have full forward and upward motion available and I've been wearing

the harness for the last couple weeks while I've been training and practicing on my own so it doesn't really bother me at all I mean you want to wear the protection I guess if it's a questionable situation but sometimes it's more fun to live life dangerously. Hey JJ Watt I heard you going out to Thailand you got to be careful out there yeah I'll have some protection on it okay good good yeah just make sure you want to have protection of making sure that you're with the right person making sure everything's okay yeah so So, JJ Watt back as a Houston, Texan? Could this be what they need?

I mean, offensively, on the offensive side of the ball, was mostly the issue, I would say, last game. And also, you know what? I would even say, I'm not even going to necessarily put that on the players. I'm going to put that on Bill O'Brien. You had the number one run defense in the entire NFL, and he decided to run it on first down like nine out of 11 times. Let's just have Carlos Hyde run right into the line.

So let's see how that goes. Right into the teeth of like in Dama Kinsu and like the best run defense in the entire NFL. What is going on here, Bill? I understand sometimes you have to try to do what you want to do and make the other team adjust to you. But that's not how the NFL works, right? He's had those weeks where he looks, you know,

looks like a good play call, like the Patriots game. Great game plan. Then you have the week against Tampa where wasn't good. And yeah, that's probably the biggest issue for us having the enthusiasm and thought process that they could surprise us all and do something crazy. but having Watt back out there just from the again standpoint and it's not going to be this week

but if you get him in a playoff game just the threat of him out there and what the defense does to you know game plan for him and send extra guys and all that that's a big boost to it's going to allow I mean Whitney Merciless can benefit I mean DJ Reader has been good in the middle he can benefit everybody basically everybody's going to benefit from even the mere presence of J.J. Watt you at least have to account for him now of course we'll see how effective he can be he's he's coming off

a major injury that knocked out, speaking of Whitney Merciless, the peck injury knocked him out for an entire year. And then that was last year, he was his first year back from it, and he wasn't himself. Well, they also didn't play him in the right spots and everything. That doesn't help either. But they say that Whitney's was, and maybe Whitney even talked about it was at some point, was that his was more severe than this is what they're saying. Okay.

This wasn't the most severe. That's good. Peck tear that you've ever had, but it's still a peck tear. Yeah. It's brutal. Yeah, it does sound brutal. It does. Brian.

I wouldn't want to go through it. No, I wouldn't want to go through it either. But hopefully he comes back and things are good there. But talking about Bill O'Brien and the offense, that was my issue is you have basically what the Buccaneers have on defense and what they do as far as stopping the run. And then you wanted to run into them every single play. Like what the thing that the Patriots do, like if remember like, I'll make a fantasy tent to this. Like you know how when the Patriots have different running backs, you know, like, Which one are they going to use this week?

Are they going to use Sonny Michelle? Are they going to use James White? Who is it going to be? You can tell who is going to be by the opponent. If the opponent's good at stopping the run, you're going to see a lot of James White. Why do we know that? Because Bill Belichick and the Patriots are adjusting to what the other team does. Correct.

You're not just trying to say, you know what? They're good at stopping the run. We're going to cram Sony to Michelle down their throat no matter what, and we're just going to hope for the best. And so Bill O'Brien says, you know what? Buccaneers are good at stopping the run. We're still going to run the ball. No, you should adjust to what they're doing.

we should have seen more Duke Johnson and more plays out in the passing game and more passing plays than we did. Yeah, Duke Johnson in that game had how many targets for and one catch for 12 yards. And again, we saw like against the Patriots. We saw them the game against New England, Duke Johnson had six targets, five catches 54 yards. Why didn't you do that against Tampa Bay? I'm not sure if you guys watched the film. Well, didn't have to go back and watch film there, Bill. I just had to watch the game live and say, why do you continue to run Carlos Hyde into the line?

That's ridiculous. Yeah, you won that game because James Winston's turned the ball over. James Winston and the Buccaneers turned the ball over, what, like five times? And you still don't make it. That was good. That worked out good. Yeah, you didn't make it easy, though. You took the hard road to get there.

You get five turnovers. Was it four or five? I know it was four interception, but I think five total turnovers. They lost a fumble or something too. Yeah, they did. But it should have been. I mean, they get five turnovers. They drop at least two other picks that I can remember off top of my head.

And one of them for a touchdown, and you still only scored. 23 points of the whole game. Bless you. So, was that 16 offensive points the entire game against Tampa Bay Buccaneers? Yeah, there's nothing that JJ Watt can fix for this team

moving forward if they can't come out of the gate and ever do anything offensively. AFC South champions, two years in a row. That is correct. And especially when JJ Watt has been out, the offense has been what's needed

to carry the day for the Texans. You have to just, you have to keep scoring points. The defense. The defense has been better. But, I mean, they're not world beaters. They're not one of the top units in the NFL. You need your offense to be that.

With Deshaun Watson. The Ben-Badon break type of mentality. And they've had some clunkers of games, specifically the Baltimore game and the Denver game, where they just look like trash. But the offense, clearly again, and we're playing the scenarios out right now where it's, if it goes how it should,

they'll be hosting Buffalo in the first game of the playoffs at NRG. And Buffalo's defense is really good. And if he comes out and is running Carlos Hayden right into the line the whole time, guess what? It's going to be a long day. Unless Deshaun Watson, when he gets his chance to throw, just goes nuts. And he unfortunately hasn't done that all the time. That's what I'm hoping for, right?

I mean, you're hoping for him to show some trust in Deshawn Watson and not necessarily have to make. And now understand that, I do understand that. Deshawn Watson is at his best when the run game is going well. Yeah, like most. When he can go with play action, when he can extend play. plays and all that type of stuff and they're focused on the run, then Deshaun Watson does do better. I get that.

But you have to trust him at some point as well, even on first downs. Yeah, you have to go a little bit further than you've been willing to go and take more chances, because what can't you do in playoff games? You can't completely play scared of what you are maybe not that great at. You've got to go for it because you're not expected to go all the way. You're not expected to get deep into the playoffs. So why not just go all out and say, we're going full bore, taking all the risks? why wouldn't you do it?

I think you'd be silly not to. Because you're Billy O'Brien. Yeah, that's what you wouldn't do. That's true. You played the tendencies and the terrified Bill O'Brien that he can be sometimes. Look, if he wants to get risky, go for it. He's been risky in the past in playoff games. Just don't run JJ Watt.

How about that? Rightfully so. It's like he. Don't call for any wide receiver passes with DeAndre Hopkins. Rightfully so. Don't do stuff like that. Yeah, he calls those at the weirdest time sometimes. No kidding.

What game was that DeAndre through the intercept? it. I don't remember, but it was like the absolute wrong time to do it. In the wrong part of the field. Was that the, was that the panther game? No, I don't think it was the panther. I think they, I want to say it was a game they won. Was it? I can't remember. Maybe against the, no, one gets the, I do not know. I did go back in the, it was early in the season. It just, it was, like, they're in the, they're down near the red zone and he's having him throw passes in a tight window on a play that the defense can't be tricked because there's not a bunch of open field behind them. It never made sense.

I need to do better. Yeah. Correct. I know, Bill. You need to do better. And we all need to do better. You're going to be hosting Buffalo in all likelihood for a playoff game, and hopefully it goes better than the last playoff game you hosted.

Yes. I know this is kind of like our playoff game. I mean, this week it is like that for the Tennessee Titans. I think that Bill O'Brien should, unless they'll know going into the game on Sunday if they have a chance to get to the three-seat if the chiefs somehow fall to the charters at home, which we can't do that. We don't expect. No.

If they're not playing for anything, he should just go ahead and sit everybody down. I think he's going to. No. Did you love all the headlines that got popped out there yesterday that he's like, well, he commits that he's going to play a starters, then you go listen to the soundby. All he said was that we're going to try to win. That threw me off because I was with you.

I was buying into what everybody was saying. Like, oh, he says he's going to play the starters. I was like, really? Okay, I can't believe that he's going to do that. Good call, by the way, on the Hopkins Interception. It was the Carolina game. Oh, there you go. But yeah, he's basically saying we're playing to win.

Like here's what he says yesterday. At no point does he say I'm playing Deshaun Watson and my starters. Well, look, I think that any time we take the field, you know, based on what we're all about, our program and what we're trying to do here and what we've tried to build here for six years is we're about trying to win. Okay, yeah, we get that. About trying to win. You can try to win with A.J. McCarrant. He's not going to just not run the ball and they're just going to for a four, four, four. fit the game. Anybody that came to the conclusion

that he was saying he's playing his starters, that was just getting clicked back. Because he didn't do that. I came to that realization yesterday. I was talking with Joe, we were on the nightcap. I was like, wait a minute. He didn't say anything. Like all these headlines with Schaeftor and Rappaport and all that are acting like, you know, he's going to be playing his starters and Steelers fans

are all happy about this and stuff. No, he just says we're going to play to win. Yeah. You can play to win with your backups. Correct. And I think that's what's going to happen. All right. We've got to take a break here. That's some Texas talk. If you guys want to get in on that. The Rockets won last night. How much are you paying attention to them?

They are still, I believe, still in the three spot? Yes, they are. Now 21 and 9 through the first 30 games of the season. Beautiful. We can talk about that. 713, 2, 1, 2, 15790. 7.1.3, 1, 2, 5, 790. We'll also hear from Aaron Reese.

We also have, oh, in the third out. We're going to have Christmas Carol karaoke. We're doing that in the third hour? I think so. You want to do it earlier? I was thinking since Wex is going to be in the third hour. We say, we've heard. Oh, yeah.

Wexer is a special guest find. We'll do it in the second hour. I don't know. We'll do it whenever Michael Connor wants to do it because he's here. I was just thinking from a strategic standpoint if we did want to do reverse trivia today. Are we doing reverse trivia too? Yeah. I mean, didn't we say we wanted to? You know what? Look, this is the point. Don't leave until three. You'll hear all the great segments. Everything. So keep it right here on Sports Talk 790.

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7-1-3-2-5-7? Not really. It's a Matt Thomas show without Matt Thomas. Michael, which one of these is the one where JJ Watts says, bless you? I think it's the last one I put in there. What's the last one? He has told teammates? Yes, that one.

It's in that one. All right, let's listen to some more JJ Watt. He's back here as a Houston Tech or he's back in practice. Is he going to play this week? Do we have word on that? Okay, he's not going to play, but he's going to be ready for the playoffs. That's the plan is to play for the play in the play. He made no promises, though, Ross.

He made sure he said, I'm not making any promises, but all I promise is that I would work my heart is to try to give myself a chance to get back out there. We've kept it pretty quiet, I mean, because we just don't, I didn't know. I mean, we didn't know for a long time. You know, it was progressing that way and they've seen my progress. But, I mean, there were a couple of them that found out from the Internet today. So it's, you know, we never, you never want to over promise and under deliver. And so I think that's my whole time.

It's just been I've never, I've never wanted to promise anything to anybody. I just want to promise that I was going to work hard every single day for the possibility of coming back. And that's all I've done. And I'm not promising anything today. All I'm promising is that I'm going back out to the practice field today. I bless you. And I get the opportunity to be back with my team and to work towards that first playoff game. So like I said, I'm just, I'm very thankful and grateful for the opportunity to be back on the field because this is the game I love and this is the opportunity that I love.

Bill O'Brien is going to take that soundbite and put it on a loop for the rookies to learn how to deal with the media in next year's training camp. I'm not promising you anything. That's perfect. That was as good as it gets when it comes to PR 101. And also? Bless you. Bless you. But we also have O'Brien blessing.

Bless you. Who gives a better bless you? Bless you. Who's this more genuine? Bless you. I'm going on this one. I got one from Peyton Manning, too. God bless all of you.

And God bless football. God bless football. Man, I think Payton's is the tougher one to listen to, clearly, of the three. God bless all of you. God bless all of you. Bless you. Bless you. Jay J.J. is the most, well, maybe Manning's the most genuine because he was crying because his career's over.

Doesn't matter. Yeah, that's true. J.J. was legit saying bless you. And Bill was doing in his Bill snarky way. Bless you. He was blessed. Somebody had sneezed, though. It just didn't give the feel of genuine.

Maybe that's just the North East. Thanks, guys. Harsh. Bless you. You know? Okay. Just saying, I'm just looking to analyze these bless yous. Yeah, we've got to get deep into it.

We're going to spend the entire second hour on bless you's. That's ridiculous. I haven't sneezed today, thank goodness. Well, yeah, we need you to sneeze so that I can say bless you and then we can compare notes. I rather not. I'm one of those people once you get sneezes and sometimes I can't stop it. Really? I'm like a, you know, five to ten sneeze.

Five to ten? Yeah. That's excessive. I mean, I feel like it is too. Okay. This is how I've hurt my neck a few times. Yeah, that's right. Didn't you get a pinched?

I missed a day of work because I couldn't get out of bed. Because you had a pinch nerve from a-driving home from a Texan's game against the Seahawks. It's like when George W. W.A. Bush. Didn't he sneeze a pretzel or he was choking on a pretzel and he hit his head or something like that? Yeah. Something like that. Like Sammy Sosa back spasms? That's true.

Great sports injury lists. We've gone over those before. You can put those together. At least JJ didn't hurt his peck doing something stupid. It was just playing football. Like running into the end zone in a running play? With Vince Wilfork as his fullback. Who's his fullback now?

DJ Reeder, I guess. Yeah, it'd have to be. Wouldn't it? Yeah, I guess so. I would always go John Weeks, honestly. Do they even technically have a fullback? No, I don't think so. I don't think they do.

I don't think they've had one in a while. They had the guy they drafted for a while. What's Tyler Klutz up to? Yeah, I can't remember. I don't know what Tyler Klutz was the guy that was traded from the Bears like way back a couple of years ago. Yeah. That was after the Vante Leach days, wasn't it? Yes.

After Leach to the beach. There's been one great fullback in Texans history, Vante Leach. James Casey was briefly the fullback. Remember that experiment? Yes, I do remember that. I don't think it lasted very long. Yeah, I think somebody was playing Madden on the Texans office. Remember you could always put a tight end in at fullback and they were like a really highly rated fullback?

Yeah. If you had like two good tight ends, you could do that on Madden. That was always a great. Like a little cheat code. Yeah. Because you could send the fullback out to the flat and he'd catch and run and you'd be okay. Yeah, James Casey was one of those great guys to do it. Yeah, 2012, or 2011 and 12, Casey was a fullback slash tight end.

There you go. Your Texans history for the day. That's what we get here on the Matt Thomas show without Matt Thomas. 713, 212-790 is your phone number. So you did the pregame for the Rockets last night, Michael. How much of the game did you catch? Live, very little, went back and skim through it. as we got ready for the show this morning.

Yeah, I'm normally like more of a night out type, but... I just... I was watching it in bed and about halfway through the first quarter passed out. But I did get through it later on, like that said. But I did catch up for the most of it in the morning. The Rockets getting out to a huge lead in the first... The Kings are Paskey. Like, they're 12 and 18, but they had that win in... That win was at Toyota, right?

Yeah, it's one of the nine wins for the Rockets this season where... It's one of them, it's like, oh, the buzzer-beater, you know, losing there at the end. Elisa. And then the, that one in the Spurs lost. Like, okay, so you're 30 games in, you have 21 wins. You could have 23, 24 probably, if you go back and look at the schedule. But to their credit, they've completely kind of changed the early thought process and narrative maybe that people had because Russ continues to look good.

Yes, another good game from Russ last night. And what I like is the only four three-point attempts, he did make three of them, which is definitely above his average. Yes. But look at these last few games. only been taking since those games where he went 7 of 27 and 7 of 30 he hasn't been taking a whole lot of 3-pointers so the 3-point shot numbers at least the attempts have been down and the efficiency has been up I don't think that's a coincidence you look at the last few games

now he had three straight 30 plus games he scored 28 last night he has that 40 point game the first non-harden player since Kevin martin which that was mind-blowing to hear good lord i didn't even realize in the regular season for the regular season the first non-hardening player to score 40 for the Rockets since Kevin Martin. Good God. How far we've come. And speaking of like Kevin Martin, people forget, like people complain about James Hardin and his free throw attempts.

He was the first like King of Free Throw. He was like the, he was like the, he was like, foul me. He was like the beta version. I know, he's like the beta version of what James Hardin became. Yeah, he just didn't have the fluid looking game and had the goofy looking jump shot. He did have a weird looking jump shot. He has a rocket. Like, I mean, he was averaging, he was dropping like 20 something a night.

Well, see, once he got to. Houston, his numbers actually went down at the free throw line in terms of attempts per game. His first year he was 8.4, but after that he only cracked the five number per game. Well, he wasn't in Houston as long as I thought. How long was he here? He was only here for two full seasons and a half of another. Wow, but he brought you James Harden, so we are forever grateful for that. That's true.

Kevin Martin. That is true. But Russell Westbrook has been more efficient now 10 of 22 last night, 28 points, seven rebounds, six assists, doing his Russell Westbrook stuff. So the Russell Westbrook I've been seeing, Michael, the last like eight games, this is the Russell Westbrook you can win a championship with. Correct. This is the guy that, again, like you said, he's picking his spots in much better. He's still always going to take some shots where it's like, Russ, what are you doing? Like the 22-footer off the glass and stuff like, what are you doing? Yeah. But he's, he's, and he talked about it the other night after the Sun's game, like his hand feels better.

Okay. So he's getting, I mean, I think that that was playing a factor in his clunkiness. with making stuff early in the season. And clearly he's more comfortable in doing it. And like you mentioned, the three-point attempts have gone down. In the month of December where he's playing great basketball, averaging 28 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists a game, shooting 46 from the field and 30 from 3.

It's not great, but that's way better than it was early in the season. He's only taking 4.3-3-point attempts per game in this month. That's good. We've got to keep those numbers down. Yeah. I'm completely buying into it now. I mean, I was a little bit nervous. I always thought that they'd be good, but now we're seeing him play the way he has with James.

Like, this is very much a possibility of being a great team all season. Yeah, the idea was never that they wouldn't be good. They have so much talent. We're talking about we want them to be great. We want them to be championship caliber. We want them to be one of the best teams in the NBA. They're going to be good, no matter what, just because Russell Westbrook and James Harding together are more talented than 90% of NBA teams. So on a given night, you're probably going to win.

You're going to win 50 games. You're going to win 55 games. Are you going to get up to 60? Are you going to be a championship contender? And that was my question coming in. And I think I'm starting to see flashes of that from these rockets. Here's the question. If they stay where they're at defensively, which is basically middle the pack,

is that good enough? No. I don't think so either. I mean, it's going to get better. You have two. Eric Gordon coming back has to help. That is going to help. So that will be part of it.

But, I mean, you have teams like the Bucks who are top five in both offensive in defense. I think the Lakers are both top five in offense and defense and the clippers are top 10 in offense and defense. So I mean, if you have those other three teams who are that good on both sides of the ball who can stay with you offensively and be better defensively, you're

going to run into issues. So the defense does have to be better. I would like them to creep. Of course, the stats don't matter when the playoffs start, but I would like to see good defensive performances. And I think I saw some of that last night against the Kings. I was talking with you when we were kind of looking at the game. Like Daniel House Jr., I think his perimeter

defense is getting a lot better. There was a couple of times where I mean, Captain jump at everybody. Yeah, he was keeping Buddy Heald and Deeran Fox. I mean, nobody can keep them ahead of him in front of them for 48 minutes. But there were a couple times where I was like, wow, it was eye popping some good perimeter defense on takes to the basket from Daniel House Jr. And then if he's going to knock four of eight three-pointers like he did last night, he's exactly filling his role the way you want him to. Yeah, if he's going to do all that and be the wing type of guy that's, I mean, I think what's the most important thing for Daniel House Jr., though, is to be. as close to a knock down three-point shooters. A three-point shooter as well. And then when he gets chased off the line,

as far as getting to the basket and playmaking, I think he has to be somewhat proficient at that. And I think he's getting better at that too. I do agree with you there. I do see the growth from Daniel House Jr. We've got to take a break here on the Matt Thomas show. Without Matt Thomas, you want to get in on any of that. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-790. Are you liking what you're seeing from the Rockets? We'll talk about that. We also have Aaron Reese of the athletes. athletic to talk some Texans and a lot of stuff to get to as we go along. We're going to take a quick break here on the Matt Thomas show. The most awkward nooner you'll ever be a part of. This is the Matt Thomas show.

It's the best time of the year. I don't know if there is no. Is it? That's what they say. What is the best time of the year? To me, this is the best time. I mean, this is the best time of the year. in Houston because it's not 8 billion degrees outside.

That's true. I do like the summer, but I'm thinking sports-wise. Well, sports-wise, probably spring. Maybe when you have, what about when you have like the World Series and the football's starting up and basketball is kind of starting up. That's great because it's great for us at this moment because the last few years we've had all three playing at some time. Right.

So when you don't have all three, then it's probably not that time of year. That's true. I do love, I mean, like the summer where you get the NBA finals going on, baseball going on too. Yeah. That's usually pretty good for me. Think about this, too. And we were just talking about this this morning.

So we're going to be in the new year here in just a few days. Yes. Spring training starts like two months. Is that right? Like, there's no offseason when you play the last day of the season. The literal last day of the season. They've done that two of the last three years. Yeah.

We're going to be back to baseball before you know it. But we got the football right in front of us still. And then we have the entire, that's the other thing is you get to the Christmas mark and you're 30 games in with the rockets. And you're like, oh, There's still 52 games left in the regular season. Yay! It's long.

I love basketball. I love the NBA. I love the Rockets watching them every night, but it is a long season. I mean, it feels like, I mean, there are already 30 games at. Yeah, I know, but still, there's 52 games ahead of you. Yeah, that's true. 52. But I feel like these 30 have gone by kind of quick.

Yeah. Because we have been distracted by the things at times. That's true. I mean, we weren't paying attention to the Rockets in October. No, I mean, we were, but we weren't. This is around the time where people say they're going to start paying attention when it's Christmas. although I hope that it's not much of a game

for the Rockets on Christmas tomorrow against the Golden State Warriors. Yeah, I did the, Dwayne Wade, sent out some tweet about the Christmas games and saying that the NBA shouldn't schedule them, you should earn it. Like, it wouldn't work.

And what way? Dwayne was, like, they should match up the best teams like on Christmas Day, like as the season goes along, set the schedule then. Well, you can't do that. Like a flexing type of deal? Yeah, but you can't do that.

It's not workable in an NBA season. But also when the NBA set up the Christmas Day schedule this year, the matchups before the season all made complete and total sense. Yeah. It's a great NBA slate of games tomorrow. The only one that's a real dog. There's two. There's two there dogs. The Pelicans Nuggets at night because

I mean, the Pelicans don't have Zion. I mean, nobody's watching at 930 anyways. Yeah, but I mean like the Rockets Warriors game it probably would have been pretty good. The Warriors that they had Steph Curry not heard at all this season, they're back into the Western Commerce playoffs teams.

Probably with him and DeAngelo Russell and Draymond and are they great? No, but it was, and there's the history between the two teams. It made sense. Yeah, that was fine scheduling that one. And then, I mean, yeah, the Pelicans and Nuggets, you want Zion there. That one made sense when they scheduled it because of Zion and because the Nuggets

are good. And then you're passed out by having like six or seven cuts of cheer at that point anyways, right? Yeah, exactly. So we get Raptors and Celtics tomorrow at 11, and then Bucks and Sixers at 1.30. Rockets and Warriors at 4, which you have the launch pad at 3. Launchpad at 3 o'clock here on Sports Talk 790, followed by the Rockets Rapp.

Look, you can just call me and tell me what – it's the Rockets unwrap. Just tell me what presence you unwrapped, and then we'll just – we don't even have to talk Rockets basketball. Need to get you the equipment, by the way. I need that for me. Remind me tonight. Yes, please. I'll get that to you. The Clippers and Lakers is the 7 o'clock game tomorrow night, which apparently –

LeBron and Anthony Davis are going to play. And AD are going to play. Probably got orders from Adam Silver on that, right? Correct. There's no way that they didn't get orders in that one. And then you have Pelicans and Nuggets at 930. All these games are ESPN ABC. Rockets is on ABC on TV.

But of course here on Sports Talk 790, and I would assume News Radio 740 KTRH? I don't know. I know. I know they do like news retrospectives on Christmas on KTRH, so I don't know if that's going to be. Just turn it on to Sports Talk 790, where we'll have Best Oves.

Yeah, that's fine. Best of leading up to Rockets coverage all day long tomorrow. That's to the Matt Thomas show. Did we get that together somehow? I have no idea what's in it. I would assume trenches will still be Uncle Greg. That'd be great. So you can hear Uncle Greg stories again if you've been missing Uncle Greg who retired recently.

Get some of those. I saw him tweeting earlier today. Was he? Shout on Uncle Greg. Get yourself an Uncle Greg type of night tonight for Christmas. That'd be a great gift. Get yourself in a pile. Yeah, you know.

A little spinner. Soak a mattress. Things get a little while. All right. Anyways, what were we talking about? I don't remember. I have a little idea. Lakers Clippers.

Who's the best team in the NBA right now? I still say it's Clippers. Really? What if I said, what if I went with the Milwaukee Bucks? Well, yeah, yeah, it's probably the Bucks. I'm just talking about the Western Conference. Who's the biggest threat? How about that?

Who's the biggest threat in the Western Conference? To the Rockets? Yeah. To me, it's the... Clippers still? Clippers, yeah. Hmm. I think I'm going to go Lakers.

I think I was with it at the beginning of the season with the Lakers. I think I'm going to stick with that. I just question. still outside of LeBron and AD like if one of them is hurt which can happen for a 35 year old LeBron and AD is constantly I mean when's that guy not going to miss games

well yeah he's missed a few this year but not too many right but like I just I don't like their role players behind them as much as I do the clippers I think and I think defensively the clippers are a much bigger threat you're not a huge Jared Dudley guy no

Kuzma's not having a very He's on the bench. He's in a different role, but it's not the same, you know, potential that you saw on him. I like Danny Green as a piece. But, I mean, still, it's just... I think he's a better outside. I bet he's, I think he's a better player outside of the top two than, I mean, what's your best player outside of the top two on the Lakers?

Montres Harold? Montres, I guess. Montres is a better offensive throw at a wall, maybe. Yeah, Lou Williams is a pretty damn good score. I just never can get with Lou Williams. Maybe it's just because I'm biased because of how he was with the Rockets. But to me, he's just, he just chucks it up. And like, you are a great.

fit on a team like that? You like two like great scores when you need somebody that's just can go unconscious. He can go unconscious, but he can also shoot poorly. Like his his overall percentages, what are they? They're not great. But they can yank him off the floor because they don't need him then. He's shooting 41 from the field, 36 from three. Okay.

Solid. It's what his career's been. 19. 5 points by the day. Montres Harold, by the way, averaging 19 and 7 and a half off the bench for them. He's turned into a player. Yeah. Credit to him.

I never saw that coming. I mean, he's exactly what I'm sure what Darry kind of had in mind as far as a guy playing off to pick and roll with the James Harden. And that's where he's at his best. And Lou Williams and Montrez, Harold, pick and rolls are going to be problems for everybody.

Yeah. I just, I almost knocked the Warriors out of the first round last year, right? Yeah. And one through five in the West is going to be a dog fight the whole way, right? I mean, I would be surprised and I think they're starting, they're not completely there, but those teams are separating themselves from the rest of the West. it's going to end up in some whatever order,

the top five the way it is now, should be how it finishes up. I would say so, yeah. I wouldn't expect it. I mean, the jazz aren't too far back, actually. They're only a game and half a back of the maps. Yeah, but have you seen, they just kind of, there's just, I don't know.

They're good, but, and of course, Mike Conley's out for a while. I just, I don't know. Mike Conley had been playing well. Yeah. They just made a trade, who'd they just trade for? Jordan Clarkson. Jordan Clarkson. They traded Dante Exam over.

Okay. Exum is kind of a nothing. So you get Clarkson, who can be, can be a decent bench, scorer, but... Yeah, they needed that. I don't know. I just guess I don't fear them as much offensively to stay up there with those other teams in the West right now.

All right, we've got to take a quick break here on the Matt Thomas show without Matt Thomas. That's Michael Conner. I'm Ross, Fiorial. You are you. We got a lot of stuff coming up here with Texans talk. What are we doing Christmas Carol karaoke? Let's lock this down. You tell me.

I want to do it. Should we just do it straight up at 1 o'clock? We can. All right. You know what? One o'clock. Carol Karaoke. You have to sing.

We're going to have some tickets. We got Dave Attell and Jeff Ross tickets. We also have TXU Energy Lights tickets. If you want any of those, Zoo Lights. TXU Energy presents Zoo Lights. Tickets at 1 o'clock. If you want to win a pair of those, pick your Christmas Carol that you want to sing.

We will play it for you. Coming up at 1 o'clock for Christmas Carol karaoke. There you go. The Matt Thomas Show. Back to do it on Sports Talk 790. Escalated. Home of the Straws. Santa Claus.

Go straight to the ghetto. Hit up your reindeer. Now we're getting the Christmas jams in. Santa Claus. Santa Claus. Go straight to the ghetto. James Brown. Can't say I've heard this one.

What? I told you I don't celebrate Christmas catalogs, man. It's okay. hear a lot of them, but I just, you know, it's a good jam I can already tell because it's better than half the stuff. Well, it's James Brown. Yeah.

You know it's going to be a jam. Welcome back to the Matt Thomas show without Matt Thomas, Ross, V. Real, Michael Connor, with you. Coming up at 1 o'clock. You can sing this one. You can sing any Christmas carol that is your favor. We have a pair of tickets to TXU Energy presents Zoo Lights at the Houston Zoo.

And we also have bumping mics, which is Jeff Ross and David Tell at the Revention Music Center Saturday, January 18th, if you want either of those tickets, whoever does the best job at Christmas Carol karaoke at 1 o'clock, we'll get a pair of those, Michael. How long are they getting to sing the song?

I figure we'll give them maybe like a minute. That's too long. 45 seconds? 30. No more than 30. We'll play it by year. Okay. Because some of them have like,

if you want to do, like, all I want for Christmas is you has like a, that intro for that song is like two minutes. So this is probably already going to be a disaster. Yeah. But that's okay. Just belt out the best part of the song. Yeah.

We'll just put the on Nick. We'll just make him do all the work. Sorry, Nick. It's a real kind of you. You'll call in when we go to break here, and then we'll tell Nick what you want to sing, and then we'll go from there. Yeah. We'll figure it out. We'll try.

Whoever we deem it. Look, all you can do in this life of yours is try. It's true. Just like JJ Watt. I'm making no promises here. Thank you. No promises. Thanks.

Nick Watt or JJ Blow. Which one do you prefer? I don't know. It doesn't matter. All right. Welcome back to the Matt Thomas show. 713, 2, 1,22, 5-790 is the phone number. So you got the Christmas action in the NBA tomorrow.

Do you think you're going to watch a bunch? I definitely want to see, I want to see Clipper and Lakers. Let's talk more about Lakers and Clippers and who do you think is, who we think is the better team because we disagree on that. I mean, I just, I don't know. I'd like the, I will watch tomorrow, by the way. I mean, early because we're going to have the, youngans over and they love the NBA.

Oh, that's good. He's definitely, the oldest one's definitely going to want to watch LeBron. He is the biggest LeBron fiend and I just try to crush him for it all the time. Oh, hold on. What's wrong with loving LeBron? But he doesn't have any love for the Rockets and James Hart. I'm like, dude, you grew up here. Group for your damn team.

You know who's like that is my brother-in-law. Somebody doesn't like it. He's a kid, he's a kid, an impressionable kid. No, my sister's husband has been a LeBron fan basically since I've known it. He's lived in Houston his whole life. Yeah. And Livingston.

So that's the only place. The only places he's ever lived is Houston and Livingston. And he loves LeBron and doesn't care for the Rockies. Well, you would always expect the biggest LeBron fan to reign is from Livingston, Texas. Yeah, I know. But I always, you know, always make fun of him, too. Yeah. He just doesn't understand the greatness of James Hardin at times.

I mean, I just had an argue. I was playing him at 2K the other day. He's 11 years old. Yeah. And we're playing the Blacktop battle or whatever. And he just loses his mind if I don't. I'm picking the teams because I'm making sure they're even. I really do make sure they're even.

And if I like screw with him and like... He's like 11. Why don't you give him the better team? Because he plays the game all the time. I beat him either way. It doesn't matter. I mean, usually I do do a cut. Like my guys are a tick below his.

Okay. Typically. But I always make him sweat it out to the last pick and I don't put LeBron on his team. And I'm like, he gets, I had Steph Curry on mine. Yeah. Because I love to shoot. I mean, you play the Blacktop battles, two and ones. You just drain a ball.

bunch of threes on it. It's simple math. Right. And I'm putting Steph Curry on there and he's like, Steph Curry's trash. And I go, I go, look, I don't like Steph Curry and his mouthpiece and all that stuff. But my God, kid, we gotta have work on you here. Steph Curry's not trash. He's a two-time MVP? Yes.

How many is LeBron have? LeBron's got four. Okay. He goes, well, how many titles does he have? I said, three. How many? He goes, how many does LeBron have? I got three. He goes, well, he is KD and all. He goes, LeBron had Bosch and Wade. That's true. And then he had Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving.

Yeah. Kevin Durant's better than all of them, though. Of course that. Of course he is. But I mean, not like LeBron won the title by dragging a bunch of fools there. No,

of course. But then I'm like, Steph Curry's the greatest shooter to ever play the game. He said, what does that mean? I go, he goes,

what does that mean for anything? I'm like, he's the greatest shooter ever. That means a lot. Yeah. So, just got to, you know,

knock the kid down a pepper two with that stuff. What about, what about James Hardin? He's so he doesn't like James Hardin. No, he loves James Harden, but it's not to the level of LeBron. Well, these kids today, they love their LeBron James. It's because LeBron James is on everything. He sees LeBron James.

He's on all the commercial. Does he have a kid show or anything yet? Who knows? He's doing Space Jam, too. True. Which I'm going to, unfortunately, I have to see, I'm sure. When's that coming out next year? I don't know.

He was having a tough time getting NBA players to agree to do it. Would you want to be on a movie with LeBron James? Hell and low. Why not? Because he's out there trying to be captain producer and direct it to all. You know, that's going to be terrible. This is coming out in July. This has a release date in 2021.

Okay. They've been working on it for a while. It's going to come out for almost two years. Well, he doesn't have all. He can't shoot during the season. Well, yeah, I guess. His summers are typically, if he goes deep in the playoffs, the summer's going to be limited. He wasn't doing much last summer.

That's true. He's very available. I think that's where he really got working on the project. He was extremely available. I guess, I guess Bugs Bunny and Lola Bunny aren't going to age much in the time. I think that those animated. characters will probably do okay. Yeah. Who else is going to be in? I haven't. Porky Pig. Whoopi Goldberg. You want the cast that I have? Yeah. Don't Cheetle.

Is who? Soniqua, Martin Green. Don't know who that is. Don't know who that is. Um, wish her the best. John Bowman. Steve Harvey. Steve Harvey will be on there and get players names wrong or something. That's what he'll do. He's going to announce the wrong winner. Yeah. It's exactly. Clay Thompson, Anthony Davis, Damian Lillard, Kyle Kuzma, Diana Tarasi, Nekha Oguimike. Is that the girl from Saifere? Yeah, and she has the sister as well.

Yeah. They played basketball. Chinese? Oh, Guamikea. Huh? Did you say Chinese? Chinese. Oh, okay.

They're not Chinese. C-H-I-N-Y. I don't know how to say their names. Don't ask me. This is when we need any clue here. He would give us the proper way to say it. So no Bill Murray. Yeah, it didn't look like any Bill Murray's going to be in here.

That's a shame. This is where you turn your back of the project. Yeah. Because Space Jam 1 was just phenomenal with Bill Murray. Hell yeah, it was. He made the movie. No, Space Jam 1 kind of sucked, I thought. It's going to be better than this one.

And was, is R. Kelly going to reprise his role? Is he going to do, I believe I can fly too? I think R. Kelly's been canceled. I believe I can fly out of this prison cell. I believe he's busy dodging police. That's unfortunate. You know, that's... Then he have, like, is he in jail right?

right now or is he free? No, I think he's free. Wow. I don't know. Doesn't he have like 50 pending court cases with him? You know they're going to do the, they're doing part two. R. Kelly. Latest stories I look up on, on R. Kelly says Fed's fear R. Kelly may seek retaliation

against alleged victims while in prison. Oh, maybe he's in prison. Well, there you go. I don't know. I don't know what he's up to. They're going to make a part, they're making surviving R. Kelly part two. Are they really? I watched part one, like the first couple of the, everybody was tweeting about it.

I turned it on, and it was quite disturbing. It's... Calling it quite disturbing is, I think, an understatement. Probably the understatement of the year. It was as about as disturbing as it gets. Did Hart Kelly ever do a Christmas album? What musician didn't do a Christmas album? Did he ever do a baby?

It's cold outside? Let's see, I'll find out. Say what's in this drink? Hopefully Bill Cosby didn't do that one either. Is he in prison? Bill Cosby, yeah. He's gone blind and he's senile in prison now. Now you know.

Thoughts and prayers. Out to Bill Cosby. I don't know. All right. We're going to take a break here. When we come back, it's time. Michael, which Christmas Carol are you going to sing? None of them.

What? I don't sing, Ross. All right, look, if you want a pair of tickets to TXU Energy Zoolight, TXU Energy Presents, Zoolights at the Houston Zoo or bumping mics, Jeff Ross and Dave Atel, it's time for Christmas Carol karaoke. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-5-790. That's next.

is the Matt Thomas Show. All right, hour number two of the Matt Thomas show without Matt Thomas. I've got a pair of tickets to Zoo lights at the Houston Zoo. You can visit Houston Zoo.org for more information. I've also got a pair of tickets to bump in mics. Jeff Ross, Dave Atel, Revention Music Center, Saturday, January 18th. Do you want either of those tickets? You should.

You could call in and sing a Christmas Carol. Now it's 713, 2,1, 2, 1, 2, 5, 790. 7. 7.1.3, 2, 1, 2, 5, 790. Your favorite Christmas carrioki could win you a pair of those tickets. You can go home and tell your wife or your loved one that you have gotten them an extra gift this holiday season by singing on the radio and winning tickets to something. Already before those lines fill up. Yes. Yeah, hold on. Let's check line one.

Okay, yeah, we're good here. Oh, there we go. We got somebody. Somebody can win these. That's okay. If you were to sing one, Michael, what is your... Now, you say you don't care for Christmas music that much. Oh, we went to her company Christmas party a couple weeks ago.

And... Who's? Sabrina's. And we were forced into singing the happy holidays, happy holidays. Because she and I sing... She sings in a home and always waits for me to sing out the second happy holidays. So I just literally stood up there and go, happy holidays. That's totes adorbs.

Yeah, it was. That's nice. We're on to something here. I think I would go, let's see. I mean, I just can't sing high enough for all I want. want for Christmas is you, the Mariah Carey. That's a tough one to pull off. Yeah, you couldn't.

Maybe Nat King Cole of Christmas. What happened to that guy? He didn't understand. When I explained, he was singing, he's like, he backed out. Oh, man. We had a couple people call in, but I guess they're all going to back out, and that's okay. Whatever. This is, this is, you people are going to hold onto this segment and keep it forever.

713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Do you want the tickets to Jeff Ross? Or the Zoo Lights is a beautiful First date I've heard. Yeah, it was my first date, and it went very well that night. We walked through, we saw all the lights. Hey, what are you trying to say? It was a good first date.

Oh, okay. We had our first kiss there. Oh, that's beautiful. There you go. None of the zoo lights. Yeah, it was a good night. So explain that to me, and like, so what do the animals have to do? Is it just lights?

You don't really see the animals. It's nighttime. I mean, you see like the girass a little bit. That's about it. It's just a lit. They're tall. Yeah, I mean, they light up everything. It's all lit up and crazy.

It's cool. It's really cool. Okay. That's what I was trying to figure out. I was like, do they have the nocturnal animals coming out? I mean, yeah, you can see some of them, but not very many. It's just you're there for the, it's a good, for the dudes out there, it is a good date night activity. Because the ladies will absolutely love it.

All right, well, we've got a couple people getting lined up by Nick. We'll let him handle that. And then in the meantime, we'll go back to you guys in just a second. I would say these are my Christmas Carol Power rankings. This is me personally. Okay. Number one, Temptation Silent Night. Okay.

It's just to me, it's the best. We always used to play the Temptations album when I was a kid. We would put that one on. That one's got a near and dear spot of my art. Number two, got to be Nat King Cole of Christmas song. Okay. That works too. Number three, all I want for Christmas is you, Mariah Carey.

Mariah, you used to have that Christmas album as well. Mariah Carey in the liner notes in that in her little Mrs. Claus outfit? Dude, she, she had a good run. Some will say the run is... They re-filmed them... They refilmed the music video for that. They made like a new one like this year. Did they?

Yeah. Hopefully they... She's had some surgeries you can tell. Hopefully they did some, you know, Irishman-type level of... CGI on her. I haven't seen Irishmen still. Oh, you haven't? No, I still have to go watch it.

Well, it's... The CGI parts... I have a seven-hour flight coming up and a 10-hour flight. Okay. I can watch it on one. of those. Okay, we've got some people lined up. I'm getting pretty excited. So yeah, I'll probably do that. Yeah, that bells will be ringing one is please come home for Christmas. Just off way, I don't know if you know that. All right, let's, uh, you know what? Let's go ahead and start.

Are you ready, Nick? Or do you need a second? I guess I'm as ready as I'm going to be. Okay. What's Micah's singing? Michael, hold on. Let's just ask. Micah, what are you singing? Um, I'm going to be singing this Christmas. Oh, okay, this Christmas. I like that. The Donnie Hathaway original or which version? Um, the new. The newer one? Okay, the newer one.

Exactly. Okay, that's fine. The Mary J. Blige version? Oh, the Mary J. Blige version. All right. Let's, you know what? We got a couple of you guys on hold. Let's just go ahead and hit it.

For me? Go for it. Yeah, can you hear it? All right. Hang. Oh, well, I got. Here you go. Hang on the mistletoe.

I'm going to get to know you better. This Christmas. Okay, thank you. That's enough. Thank you, Micah. Baseline's been set. Appreciate it. I thought there was some soulful vocals there. Appreciate that.

All right, let's get Kathy. You're going to sing the bells will be ringing a song, which is please come home for Christmas. Yeah. Is the person in the background going to be singing too, or is that us? Hello? Hello, Kathy? Yeah, that's what I'll be singing that.

Okay, great. Let's get ready. Go ahead and hit it, Nick. Just sing. I can't hear it. Oh, my Christmas. Do you have the blues. My baby's gone.

Gone. I have no friends. To wish me greeting. Okay, thank you, Kathy. Wow, that was pretty good. It was better than I thought it was going to be. I thought that was pretty solid. Hang on, Kathy.

We'll see if you win. All right, next we have Robert. Robert, what song did you want to sing? Yeah, I'm going on. I'm going to be singing a Rudolph the Red Nose friend here. Okay, great. We've got a lot of versions of this one. Dealer's choice, Nick.

You're probably going to have to fast for a lot of them. Oh, you really want to do dealers and choice? Yeah. No, don't get too long. Oh, boy. Let's go. All right, here you go, Robert. No, don't do this one.

Damn it. Nick, get out of here. You're not doing the DMX. Stay away from that way. You know what? Hit the original Gene Autry. Not original, but the old school. Here we go.

All right, here you go, Robert. Here we go. You know dasher and dancer and dancer and dancer and mixer and fix it. Tell me that creeper and dachshund. But do you recall? The most famous rainbow. The most famous reindeer of the ball. All the red nose reindeer had a very shining nose.

And if you ever saw it. And if you ever saw it, you even say it. You even say glow. All of the other. All of the other reindeer. I used to laugh and call him name All right, thank you, Robert. Appreciate you that.

We got one more, Michael. I'm going to say, Robert should probably stick to his day job. Who do you have in the lead right now? I'm going to actually give it to Robert because he was so bad. He was great. Kathy is pretty good. We got one more, though, here. Sybil in Pearland.

Sybil, what song did you want to sing? This song? Okay, good. The Nat King Cole one? All right, let's get it started up. This is my jam, yo. Don't screw this up, Sybil. I'm going to hang up on you.

I'll try not to. Chessnought Roosting on an open far Jack Frost knitting at your nose You'll tie carols being sun by a

Eskimo Everybody know All right, thank you, Sebel Appreciate that Well Ladies and Jens Who are we going to give these prizes to? We got Kathy, Robert, and Sybil

still on the line Michael? Probably go Kathy. Go Kathy. Nick? I'm going to go with Sybil. You're the tiebreaker. Which one of the two are you picking?

Wow, I'm the tiebreaker. I've got to go with Kathy, I think. There you go. Although, I mean, we do have two prizes. We just got to get rid of at some point, right? Or are we going to do... No, we're going to do something later for a prize. Yeah, we got to give away a prize later.

That's true. Okay, we're only getting one of these ways. It's going to be Kathy. Thank all of you for participating. Kathy, you are our winner. All righty. All right. We'll put you on hold and then Nick will get your information.

Thank you very much. I would suggest everybody. That was as much as a train wreck as I was hoping it was going to be. Yep. I was, I am just saying this, I'm going to go ahead and suggest to everybody that's saying. We appreciate your willingness to get out there

and put yourself out there like that, but do not quit your jobs. Oh, that's not very nice. Okay, can I go back to this now? Oh, yeah. Doesn't get you in this pretty much of DMX. This is a classic. And we'll let DMX take you to break here.

We got Aaron Reese of the Athletic coming up at 1.30. I don't know. Some other stuff. Wexler's going to join us at 2 o'clock. As you can tell, it's a Christmas Eve edition of the Matt Thomas show without Matt Thomas. The Houston Lunchtime Sports Conversation most respected by head coach Bill O'Brien. I have a tremendous amount of respect for Matt Thomas. In his career here in Houston.

Of sorts. The Matt Thomas Show. So let's redeem ourselves from the great singing that went on last segment. What are you mean? Thanks to everybody who called in. Yes, thank you very much. And poured your soul out on the radio. Some of them were better than certain members of the Jackson 5.

Don't you hit on Marlon Jackson like that? I only know Janet and Michael. Marlon, Tito, Jackie. What if your name was Jackie Jackson? Kind of got the shortest stick on that one. Yeah, that would more. Germain Then Mike Jackson's dad

Joe Joe is a busy man How many kids did Joe Jackson have in total? This is the questions that we find out on the Matt Thomas show On a new, or I just call it New Year's Christmas Day edition Here on Sports Talk 790 I forgot he died last year Which by the way we'll have a chance for more winning coming up at 2.30 My favorite game that we always do

He had 11 kids Jesus Christ And two of them were winners Winners? Yeah, he hit the jackpot on two of them Oh, Janet and Michael Yeah But then Michael, I mean

I mean from a money standpoint you won From a money standpoint you won But Things were kind of weird Yeah, you know Janet There's nothing really been anything Bad come out about Janet, right?

Didn't she just have a kid At like 50 something? Yeah, I think she did do that I just mean as far as her being in any kind of weird stuff She had the most famous Super Bowl halftime show. Yeah, she had a nip slip, but you'll take that along with the millions that she's worth. That's totally fine.

Yeah, I mean, especially in today's world. I mean, she does look way too similar to Michael. That's a problem. Yeah, that's... Anyway... Michael just morphed more and more into her as the years went on. He morphed more and more into Latoya, though, I feel like. Well, I mean, he just morphed into any of the females.

Just saying. 713, 212-5-7-9 of the phone number here She gave birth in 2017 at 50 years old Oh my gosh, that's just not safe, right? I don't think so. Unless there's been a... Because the older you get, the more...

Well, let's see. Forget about it. I'm sure she had very good doctors. Had the money for it. So that's where the show is right now. As we are... J.J. Watt is back for the Texans, at least on the practice field.

There was plenty of video going around, showing him in his jersey with no pads on, moving around, stretching, and whatnot. you know, if that gets you all tickled in your fancies, then there you go. Probably helps the team if he gets back out there. I mean, how effective is he going to be when it gets back? That to me is the big question. How healthy?

How effective? How effective? I mean, even if it's just, I was saying this this morning, even if it's just a situational pass rush or type of thing, isn't it? I mean, that is effective enough just to have his threat on the field, having teams having to account for him. Right. Because Whitney was cleaning.

up early in the season with JJ out there. That's true. And JJ goes bye and Whitney quits cleaning up so much. So it'd be nice to have them. Even if he's on decoy level, it'd be nice to have some JJ Y back. And speaking of people coming back,

Marshawn Lynch is a Seattle Seahawk. He's just about that action, boss. I love that. We need them to get to the Super Bowl so we can get more Marshawn Lynch. I agree. And this morning, Gordy did not agree with that. Maybe it was Saker that didn't agree that you'd want to get them back

just for that. Why? I need more. I need more. Marsh, I'm just here so don't get fine. I'm just here so I don't get fine. You know why I'm here. I'm all about that action boss. Although, whatever happened, wasn't he supposed to do like a, like a Bear Grills type of show? He did it. It was good. It was hilarious. What is it? You need to watch. What's it called? What network is it on? I don't know. Is it on Hulu? I think you can find it on YouTube probably. It was good. It was funny. It was exactly what Marshawn Lynch you expect out of him. He's freaked out by some things. He's also way more brave than he's going to be in the third season of west world no way yes doing what i don't know he was in brooklyn nine nine and give marshawn lynch credit for a guy and then he didn't spend any of

his money apparently that he you know his salaries he's just yeah he's a smart guy like he's a he's a he's a he's a cow graduate he's a smart dude he's got like a big i think he's got a big is it medical marijuana or CBD business in oakland i don't know what he's doing he's doing well for himself but he's doing okay for himself and he why not go ahead and get an extra check for a week to come back and play and however many playoff games are able to play. Skittles partnerships. Yeah. And on top of that, you know, one last go around in a place that he will forever be a legend.

Still should have given the ball on the goal line. If that situation comes up again, does Pete Carroll give him the ball this time around at the age of 33? That'd be great. And then they get stuffed at the line and they lose the Super Bowl because of it. He just falls down on purpose. To the Patriots again. Just to spite Pete Carroll. makes a point, rips his jersey off, walks off the field.

Suck it. No, I don't think he'd do that at that point. He was in Call of Duty Black Ops 3. He does a voice. Guy makes money, man. Danny Lee's Hinchman. He's a mover and shaker. He was in the league.

Yeah, he's in Brooklyn 9-9. He's in... I'm trying to find... I'm trying to find his nature show. That's what I want to see him in. Well, just Google Bear Girls, Barshon Lynch, dude. It's not that hard. I guess. I'm struggling here.

Anyways, Marshawn Lynch coming back. That's cool, I guess. I mean, the Seahawks are really having issues. Chris Carson's out. They brought back him. They brought back him. They brought back him and Robert Turbin. Right. They're getting the whole band back together. I'm sending you the video.

This would be like the Texans getting Aryan Foster right now. And like Ben Tate. What's Ben Tate up to? Probably nothing. I'm going to go ahead and say this. Marshaun Lynch will be more effective than either of those two would be if they came back. Aryan Foster staying in shape, I think. I think he's been doing like Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Yeah, but like... Marcia's just a magic mushrooms.

Marshawn's just a different level. But Marciaun hadn't looked like he was in shape. They showed some video of him in a... He was in a charity soccer game. Where he picked up the ball and ran in for a touchdown. He looks, I mean, you know, I mean, far be it for me to judge. It's true. But if there's one guy that...

He looked a little doughy. He's power back. He looked a little pills, Barry doughboy. He's out there getting the yards that he needs, the short yard, right? My guess so. I just don't know what kind of shape he's keeping himself. I don't think it's going to be middle of the NFL season type of shape. And thank goodness you're not one of those teams that's,

and they're in a terrible spot to have to go out and sign him off the street. Yeah, I mean, well, they had three running backs go down. Yeah. And so, I mean, this is a huge game for them this week as well. They're going for, is the number one seed still up in the air for the Seahawks? I know it is for the. No, if the 49ers lose, yeah, it's, they're. they're going to lose it. It's the 49ers. The division title is on the line, correct?

Yeah, the division title, who's going to go and be a wild card? How crazy is that? You're going to go probably 11 and 5 or 12 and 4 and be the wild card. Dude, in the NFC alone, you're going to have the, you should have the Packers and Saints both get the 13 wins, and the 49ers could as well. And 13 wins won't get you a top two seed. Niners beat the Saints. Niners beat the Packers as well. All three of those teams should end up with 13 wins. Are the Niners the best team in football besides the Ravens? I mean, at this point, the only thing,

the only reason you wouldn't put them up there is because of their lack of experience in the playoffs, right? Yeah, but I mean, if you look at their resume, oh, their defense is unbelievable. Their resume is just about as good as anybody's. It probably is as good as anybody's. They had that weird loss of the Falcons a couple weeks ago, but then other than that, They lost to the Ravens and a close one and then the Seahawks.

Yeah. They beat the Seahawks this weekend to avenge that one. They're going to be tough to get past. I still think it'll probably end up being 49ers Saints at some point. I mean, we'll see how that all plays out with the seating and everything. But to me, those are the two best teams. The Packers are good, but I don't know if they're as great as their record. How come we don't talk about the Packers?

They got Aaron Rogers and they're 12 and 3. Because they just kind of, I mean, they're, they're, seriously, maybe we're not respecting them enough because they run the ball now and they play defense. And before, it was always put the ball on Aaron Rogers. And he's not been like, I mean, he's got like two interceptions or three interceptions on the season, I think 25 touchdowns. Yeah. He's not doing like Superman heroics out there on the field like he's done in the past. But maybe that's why they're not getting a love that they deserve. They're not winning like in sexy, sexy great fashion.

Yeah, 24 touchdowns, three interceptions. And they've laid some eggs against big opponents, I think. Aaron Jones has been good. They led the egg against the 49ers. They lost the Chargers. Yeah, they got absolutely spanked against the Niners. Yeah, 37-8. Those will happen, though.

You're always going to have one-ard. But they don't win like 2015 over the Redskins, 21-13 over the Bears who aren't very good. I mean, like, they didn't beat the hell out of people. Yeah, if you look at their record, probably at the Chiefs is their best win. And that was the game, I believe, that Matt Moore was. Yeah, Matt Moore was the quarterback that day for Kansas City.

Maybe that's why we're sleeping on the Packers. Yeah, it's a little bit of not believing who they've beaten at this point. Yeah, almost all their game, not almost all, but I mean, a number of their wins have been one score wins. You could make the case for maybe every team in the NFC, but two of them that they can win the Super Bowl? Yeah, I think so. And the ones in the playoffs? Yeah, probably all. Yeah, how come I believe more of the Vikings than I do in the Packers?

You shouldn't. Did you not watch them last night? The Vikings are Kirk Cousins plus that offense Latin, don't believe. in them. Don't. They're going to get bounced. The secondary hasn't been as good as of late either. Yeah. I mean,

Seattle is there. I did fall asleep during the Monday and football. You're definitely not believing in the Eagles. No. Nobody's. God, no. What if the Cowboys still sneak into the playoffs? You're not believing in them either. No, you're not.

It's one and done and see you later. Losing a home playoff game either of those two. Which is embarrassing to do when you have home field advantage, but it'll happen. I find the NFC playoffs infinitely more interesting than the AFC playoffs. Correct. How many teams in the AFC can you, like, do you actually believe can win the AFC? Ravens, and I'm done.

I think if I'm picking one of the team, the Chiefs could bottle it up. Chiefs, yeah. They've played better of, they've started to roll a little bit. The defense has been better. Yeah, and Patrick Mahomes is Patrick Mahomes. Like those, the Ravens should absolutely represent the AFC. It'd be a, their head and shoulders above. Yeah, it'd be a failure if they didn't, in all honesty.

And then the chiefs, to me, are the next, the next team you make a case for it. Yeah. Patriots are vulnerable, even though, I mean, they're, they're, they're going to end up 13 and 3 and we're talking about how they're having a down year. But it's like the Packers, you go look at their wins and it's just not that. It's true. It's not that great. The bills win last week was good. But you'll watch them play again.

I mean, like, they don't. Just grind it out. They find a way. Yeah. And at some point that, like, kind of catch, if you can't, what happens when they need Tom Brady to be Tom Brady and they need the offense to win them again? They're going to lose. They're going to lose.

Because that's what's happened when they've lost those three games this year, right? Yeah, I think that's. That's what's what will happen. All right. We've got to take a break here. We've got Aaron Reese of the Athletic. We'll talk about the Texans, the game coming up against Tennessee Titans, and the return of J.J. Watt.

We'll ask Aaron about it when we come back here on the Matt Thomas show. Good news. It's the Matt Thomas show for lunch. Let that boring brown bag lunch rot in the employee refrigerator. Oh, what's that smell? The Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790. Show rolling along without Matt Thomas here on Sports Talk 790. Ross Vioriel, Michael Connor with you.

And right now, pleased to be joined by Aaron Norese of the Athletic. You can find him on Twitter. At Aaron, that's A.A. Ron, J.R.E.I.S.S. Aaron, thanks for joining us on Christmas Eve. How are you? I'm good. How are you guys? Pretty good, man. Michael Connor here with me. So first off, of course, we've got to talk about the return of J.J. Water, the possible

return of J.J. Watt said he's not going to make any promises. But to me, a lot more questions and answers with this. I mean, how much would he play? How available is he going to be? How effective would he be? All these question marks. Is he going to play at all? So just overall, your thoughts on J.J. Watt, possibly coming back for the Texans. Yeah, I was wondering if that's what you guys don't want to talk about. What I called today. Yeah, you know, I think everything would indicate that he will play.

I mean, he hasn't promised that he hasn't technically been activated yet, but sounds like the goal is that he would come back for the playoff game, not play this week. Technically, technically, Texas can move to the three-feed, but that's not really worth him risking re-injury or trying to rush it. So as is he's kind of pushing it here probably. Yeah, I mean, it's huge regardless of whether he is a standout and plays as well as he's playing before the season began, or before he got injured, which I would doubt probably can't imagine if he's fully in 100%. And he kind of indicated I'm not going to put percentage on if I feel good. But it's huge.

I mean, even if he's half of his normal, typical self, he'll draw extra defensive attention. He can probably provide some sort of interior presence that they didn't have without him and allow Jacob Martin, Wendy Merciless, Charles Mennon, he'd be freed on the edges. And, you know, even if he doesn't end up playing against Buffalo, I think just the, or I guess if he played Buffalo in the playoffs, just whatever the play opponent is, you know, you know, he doesn't end up playing, just the idea that he could play will, you know, cause the opponent to have to dedicate some time planning for that and whatnot. And so, I mean, and every possible way you can think of it as an advantage for the Texas.

I mean, yeah, so looking back on the time that they've been without him, just how big of a, have they, how much have they missed him and how much will, like, a Whitney merciless, per se, benefit just from him being back out there? Yeah, I mean, it's huge. You know, actually, something I just throw that should go up soon. You know, opponent's sense in the games that he hasn't played in, they've averaged over three seconds to throw against the Texans, which is crazy. You know, I mean, typically if a quarterback is taking three seconds, he probably got hit events that day.

And, you know, he didn't have a great day or, you know, whatever. But, you know, the quarterbacks are able to get away with that against Texans, really not get hit much, pressured very minimally. Winnie Mercilaw specifically, I mean, he's drawn more double teams. And, you know, he had two sacks against Camp Bay. But prior to that, he had not had a sack since week seven, which is obviously when JJ Wild was healthy. I think week seven is when he hit Jacobi percent an absurd number of times in that game.

And, yeah, it's each for everyone. I think he'll open up holes for other guys to make plays. And that's the thing is even if he is not kind of the playmaker guy we're used to seeing, you have to imagine that he will still draw extra attention, and that will still have an impact on the game. Talking with Aaron Reese of the athletic here on the Sports Talk 7-9. And Aaron, we got the quotes from Bill O'Brien yesterday. We're going to play to win and all those types of things.

things, but he didn't really say we're going to play our starters. So there's no way Deshawn Watson sees the field if the Kansas City Chiefs win at noon on Sunday, right? Yeah, you know, I agree with you. I think everyone's overreacting him by him saying, you know, play to win. I don't know. What is he supposed to say in the situation, right? If he's supposed to have said, I'm going to totally mail it in this week, I can't imagine

that it would be helpful for the guys who are going to have to play. You know, you don't want to get totally embarrassed as we've got into the playoffs. Yeah, I would anticipate that anyone who is a little shaken up would probably not play I mean, I can't imagine Will Fuller is going to play or anyone else who's carried an injury in. And if they do play, you know, I wouldn't interest if they play the whole game. But I could be wrong. O'Brien's sticking pretty hard to this line here. So with the, you bring up Will Fuller there, the reports are out there that it's a multiple-week injury.

And he's been non-committal, at least Bill O'Brien on, you know, saying he's day-to-day and whatnot. If you're just to say the likelihood that we see him play again this season, and that includes the playoffs, what would you put it at? Yeah, you know, I doubt it. I think that, I mean, I guess depends on how long they go on a playoff run, but I think at least in terms of how far we can look out with the first round playoff game. I don't imagine you would play in that game. And if he doesn't, you know, I think they're going to need to have Kiki Kootie active and maybe he'll have to contribute during Thomas.

And, you know, Titan wasn't active. He hasn't been involved in the past game much. If I need to activate him just so they have some other options kind of just offensively. Because, you know, once, can he stills out with that cramp and Wolf Flair has gone out against Tampa Bay, receiving options really thin there for a moment of still having come back of the game. And just about the backup quarterback situation, AJ McCarran, let's just say that the chiefs do in fact win.

There was talk of the workout with Nick Fitzgerald. Have you heard anything about the Texans possibly getting another quarterback on roster for this week? Yeah, you know, I mean, they have a quarterback on the practice squad in Alex McHugh. So I would imagine that if they were to have someone else on the active roster, quarterback-wise, they would promote him. and McCarran would still be the backup of Carlin. I don't think you're introducing a new guy to the offense and all that in week 17. But, I mean, more likely I would imagine they would probably still go with two active quarterbacks.

And even if Watson doesn't play, you probably would be active, right? And then if he is the backup in the emergency situation or whatever, should McCarran play. But not, I mean, I think, assuming that they don't play starters and they'll play it starts the whole game, whatever, McCarran would be the guy. So we've done all this talking about what's going on and leading into this game. But back to the game on Saturday against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. it feels like once again they left a lot of points out there on the field because they had a lot of opportunities. But where are you at after another uninspiring, despite it being a win performance from the team?

Yeah, you know, I mean, I think there was nothing new, right? It's like they just wildly inconsistent offensively. You kind of know, at least prior to JJ Walker back, you kind of know what you're betting defensively from them. And they were pretty much saved by James Winston's carelessness. this. Yeah, I mean, you know, I don't think I just really learned much either. Other than that, I didn't really understand why O'Brien was one of the ball in first down too much in the first half.

It left the kind of the interceptions on the early lead dictated the game script a bit. But, you know, he's running first down against him one-run defensive league. It didn't really make much sense to me. And he kept doing it. So I guess, I guess, if I learned anything, that he's going to stick to what he wants to do on the ground. But otherwise, I mean, it's kind of what you'd expect, right? This team has kind of up and down at different weeks.

I think that, I think Watson's ankle did probably affect him, despite what he'd say. I mean, it didn't look like himself. He was just missing some throws he normally makes. And next-gen, S has a stat that tracks completion percentage above or below expectation based on all the tracking data guys on the field. And Watson was like 10% below the expected completion rate that they had for him, which was his worst disparity between the actual one and the projected one all season.

So he just kind of was not, wasn't quite himself in that game. You mentioned the continuing to run. and to the teeth of one of the better run defenses in the league. Did anybody ask him about that, or did he have anything to say about that? I mean, I know what his response probably would have been about check the – probably told you to check the tape or something like that. But, I mean, it just – I'm with you, Aaron, and I noticed you were tweeting about it a lot on Saturday and a lot of other people were tweeting about it because it just seems like the smarter teams go away from the other team's strength,

and just Bill O'Brien has no concept of that, or at least he didn't on Saturday. Yeah, you know, he actually – he actually – they checked the tape. He said he's got to do better. So there was that one. But, I mean, yeah, yeah, it didn't make much of us to me. I mean, he's, I mean, even when I think Carlisle Tide, everyone would most of a little day, you know, has been a pleasant surprise for this team. And it's an upgrade over Lamar Miller, even, if you kind of look at in terms of

consistency of his runs and stuff. But I think still, you don't necessarily need to run into the ground against the bucks. It seems like he was playing to hold on to the lead, you know, the first half, which is an odd strategy considering. you know, how explosive that Bucks offense, despite, you know, James's Carol Smith, whatever can be, and it spurts. And, of course, we could see that later on as they tied to game. But, yeah, it did not make much of the way. Looking ahead to where we're sitting at now with the current standing setting up for a Bills matchup in the Wild Card Run at NRG, what do you think of that potential matchup and how difficult would it be to get past that team?

Yeah, you know, I think, you know, I think that, Maybe I'm a little skeptical just because I'm around the Texans so often and stuff. But, you know, I think that is a dangerous magic for them. They, you know, especially with Wolfhlers out on the field, I think they're going to have a really difficult time getting chunk plays. The defense is really good, and especially against deep passes. I think only the Patriots have been better in terms of a defensive efficiency against deep balls. So, you know, I think they're going to have problems getting chunk plays.

And then the key integration of them know that, you know, they at least don't be facing a very good quarterback, Josh Allen, even if he has, made strides, they can kind of blitz them. They struggle a lot against the blitz. And without a lot, that was something they were doing more in terms of blifting in recent weeks to find creative ways to generate pressure. So you think if they have a lot

and they can still blitz against Allen, that would give them a good chance. But I think that it would probably actually be a pretty low-scan game. All right, Aaron Reese of the Athletic. You can find them on Twitter at Aaron J-R-E-I-S-S. Aaron just go ahead and let the folks know what you guys got going up at the Athletic this week. Yeah, well, I got a story a lot

that will be up there momentarily, it's not already up. And we'll have coverage from all over the league in terms of all the stuff that's playing out in week 17. And got a big playoff feature coming out next week that I'm excited about. So that's what we got. And good time to subscribe or if you need a last minute Christmas gift, we've got some promos going on for that too. All right. Thanks a lot. Aaron. We'll talk to you next week. All right, thanks.

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Hey, Michael. Now I'm Marathon Day. How are you? Marathon Day. Well, you know how it goes in the holidays. Yep. A lot of asses asked of us. That's okay.

I'll be on till 6 o'clock with the A team. It's going to be the raw team. Ross and Adam. Or is it the R team? Adam and Ross. Or the A.R team. The Raw team. It's always good to be raw.

Yeah, well, yeah. That is my favorite Egyptian god. Michael. Yeah. Did you hear about what the Rich Hill got tangled up into? Yeah, so Rich Hill, free agent pitcher. Yes. Formerly the Dodgers.

A lot of rumors that he'll be back there with them at the age of 40. still good when he pitches, but he's always hurt. He was at the Patriots game. Yes, he was. He was at the Bill's Patriots game over the weekend. And he and his wife, Caitlin, were trying to get into Gillette Stadium with an oversized back. Fox Boar Police Chief Administrator, Robert Bolger, told the Boston Globe.

She was arrested on disorderly conduct and trespassing charges after she refused to leave the area when ordered by police. I was going to say, didn't she try to go in multiple gates or something? Yeah, Rich Hill was then arrested in charge of the disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after he tried to stop police from putting Caitlin Hill into a police vehicle. He saw her as they were trying to get her into a van to bring into the police station and he started to interfere with the officers. He was told several times to back up and he would not and he ended up getting arrested. You know, usually goes that way when you try to do stuff like that. This is because the NFL has the clear bag policy and she brought a big ass bag that doesn't.

doesn't fit into this. This is a statement from Hill. Despite Saturday's events, my great respect for law enforcement remains unchanged. However, seeing my wife handcuffed for a problem that started because of her fanny pack was extremely difficult for me to witness. This was all overblown and regret to have it behind us. I mean, to me, it's not that hard to keep to that rule. Have they never been to an NFL game before?

I guess not. They have, they need to clear flags basically no matter where you go, right? The NFL games, yeah, you've got to have that. And it's, I feel like they do a pretty good job of making sure people know this before. But people always, you can go to a Texans game and you can go to the trash cans by the entrance and there's purses all in them. People just chucking their purses? They make you chuck your purse. Or can you come back?

They should just leave the trash can there. And then when you come back out, you just kind of find yours. I mean, I guess you could. Like a lend lease program. Somebody is going home with a bunch of price expensive purses and selling them off. What we really need to do is get a part-time job at the ticket gate and go ahead and get ourselves some. expensive purses hopefully and pawn them off. That's a good idea.

That's what I'm saying. Because you will, why don't people just go back to their car? Some people don't drive down there. What are you going to do with it? They should do a bag check. That's what they should do, but that's not what the NFL is about. Also, Rich Hill received the Tony Conigliaro Award. Why was that in this article?

Because it goes to a major leaguer who has overcome adversity through attributes of spirit, determination, and courage. So he's spirited, determined, and courageous. It takes all of those things, or maybe just stupid, to go after the cops, Michael. That's, okay. It is, it is correct. I mean, he did overcome a lot. Yes.

Spirit, he was spirited and determined to tell the cops to back off his woman. Hey, back off my woman. Yeah. Back off of her. She just, so, she had a, so I guess a fanny pack counts as a, as a big purse. And they just weren't going to let Miss Caitlin Hill go in there with it. I think it has to be clear. That's the other thing.

Do they make clear fanny packs? I do not know. I'm assuming that they do. Oh, they do make clear fanny packs. You can get one on Amazon for $9. There you go. So that guy was backing up his lady. Do you want to hear about a lady that was cheating on her boyfriend,

who happens to be an Instagram model? Oh, okay. There's an Instagram model named Neelan Ashley. She's 30 years old. Hold on. Spell that for me. N-E-Y-E-N-E-N- Ashley. Why?

Apple Watch Booty Self. out models cheating boyfriend is the headline from the New York Post. Instagram model Neil and Ashley 30 never fully felt trusting of her life, of her life, her live-in boyfriend of three years. Three years? It wasn't until she spotted a booty selfie or belphy, as they say. Is that a belfy? On his Apple watch that she came to realize how badly he'd been abusing her trust.

I always saw red flags, says the curvaceous influencer who boasts 1.6 million Instagram followers, and who is not publicly named her ex, I figured dating a normal man from a small town that he would be in all of me, but he treated me like I was anyone else. Well, hey, newsflash to you, lady, just because you're an Instagram model, doesn't mean you're any better than anybody else.

You are a human being. Now, that being said, nobody should be cheating on each other because that's terrible. Says the pair were introduced by a mutual friend in 2016, while Ashley initially found him immature, she quickly became smitten with him and committed to a long-distance relationship,

being apartment, things were easy for him to keep under wraps, she tells Jam Press. It was only after they moved in together that Ashley found more than a red flag, tons of evidence of affairs with prostitutes and relationships with other women, all from his Apple Watch. One day I was home when he was washing his truck outside, she says, at the moment. She learned at the extent of his infidelity. I saw his Apple Watch going off buzzing and buzzing and buzzing. I got curious because I saw a small square that looked like a picture of a girl's butt

and underwear. A belfie. And I opened it. She discovered he'd been messaging with a girlfriend of several months, side chicks, his ex, and that he'd been meeting with multiple prostitutes a week. He left me to see these prostitutes of my mother's birthday, knowing how stressed

I was, and wouldn't even talk to me on my birthday or post anything because he didn't want this, his other girlfriend, to see me. She says, what is that tattoo? She confronted him. He downplayed his cheating, and

ended things. Ashley says she since tried to get her he's tried to get her back but she's done. Now I know how indestructible I truly am and how strong and beautiful I have become. That's an actual quote from her. Well, good for her. While they're not ending their relationships for the better, Apple Watches have

been, well, yeah, Apple Watches have recently been credited with saving a number of lives including those of a New Jersey man who had fallen off a cliff and a grandmother with a heart condition. Wait, what? I don't know. That was the end of this new It was like, wait a minute. How did that get mixed up in this story?

Just saying that they're not, Apple Watches just aren't doing the duty of keeping you or helping you find a cheating boyfriend. They're also helping you save people. Well, I have found her Instagram account. I absolutely love the line that says, now I know how indestructible I truly am and how strong and beautiful I have become. Okay, good for her. She kind of looks like, uh, like Fergie.

Nobody needs to look like, Furgy. From the black eyed piece? There's no way like this is not sculpted by a doctor. Well, she's had

some work done. I mean, how dumb can you be that if you're going to get taken down for that, it's an Apple Watch? Yeah, this guy needs to cover up his tracks

better. I mean, just don't have News Flash. Don't have an Apple Watch and Echo Dot. None of that stuff. None of that stuff that tracks you.

All right. On that note, we're going to break. Adam Wexer's coming here. It's going to be, it's going to be, this is the first time we'll have all three to have been together, right?

We're going to get a brief for last night. I mean, yeah, that's true. But as far as an actual show, it's an hour of unprecedented hostage. It is. Here on Sports Talk 7-Henects. Is the Matt Thomas show. 202 of the PM here on a Sports Talk 790

final segment of the Matt Thomas show without Matt Thomas. I mean, sorry, final hour. I'm sorry, I'm new here. And not only is it not the Matt Thomas show, because Matt Thomas is not here. I mean, it is the Matt Thomas, but it's without Matt Thomas. It's with Michael Connor. It's with me, Rosville Real.

It's with Nick Lowe. And now it is with Adam Wexler. The man that never sleeps. No need for that. It was 2020 for that, if necessary. What did you, uh, when did you get done last night? Uh, right around midnight. You know, whoof.

I made it to, uh, 930. 935. So it was still close. Yeah. I don't even think. I think I fell asleep before the Rockets game even started, but I didn't watch it this morning. Yeah. We did watch it this morning.

We do that. Well, Adam, we were going to have some very serious Rockets talk, and we can do that for like two minutes. But Nick is the Kevin Spacey message ready. That's really what I want to talk about. Yep, I've got it ready. Okay, great. So I just went to, you know, as I do throughout the day, I just check. I see what's trending, what's happening on the Twitterverse, try to keep abreast of the top news.

of the day. Yes. And trending number one in America is Kevin Spacey. And I went to go find out... Is he back on House of Cards? I was like, was he died? Did he die? Did he something, was everything okay? Is he on some sort of O.J. Simpson type of run in a

Bronco, although he'd probably drive something nicer than that. Well, no. Apparently Kevin Spacey, last year on Christmas Eve, he put out some weird, creepy video in a Frank Underwood voice. And now he has just done the same. And let's just go ahead. Nick play this for You didn't really think I was going to miss the opportunity to wish you a Merry Christmas, did you?

It's been a pretty good year, and I'm grateful to have my health back. And in light of that, I've made some changes in my life, and I'd like to invite you to join me. As we walk into 2020, I want to cast my vote for more good in this world. Ah, yes, I know what you're thinking. Can he be serious? I'm dead serious. and it's not that hard, trust me. The next time someone does something you don't like,

you can go on the attack, but you can also hold your fire and do the unexpected. You can kill them with kindness. This guy's going off the deep end. Well, I, for one, am terrified. That's, that's like, is that a warning to people? Did Kevin Spacey just tell us to kill us to kill? kill all of our enemies. And he's also living his real life as Frank Underwood, clearly.

Yeah, and also... When method acting goes too far. I don't know if you guys saw this story in late October of 2019. You know, he was facing criminal charges from a man who said he was a masseur and Kevin Spacey forced him to touch his genitals during treatment at Spacey's home in October of 2016. That guy died unexpectedly and mysteriously at the end of October. Did they give you a cause, the medical examiner? Kill them with kindness. Maybe it was it.

There we go. He got kind to the guy. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office declined to file the case against him because of the death of the accuser that was in the investigation. And now he comes out with this video. Kevin Spacey has gone completely mad and has he killed somebody? I mean, he did on the show. Yeah, so something's up.

You're about to get charged. The person who's got the info. somehow mysteriously goes away. Right. That never happens. Only in mom movies. Well, it only happens to Hillary Clinton and Kevin Spacey. What happened to Killer Clinton?

Did you think Hillary Clinton? That was subtle. No. Just go look up a Clinton body count. Now you know. So you presented that entire scenario in a very good way. I do the same thing. You're looking around.

You've talked for a few hours. You want to make sure you've got everything ahead of you. What is everybody talking about? So you hit the trending topics. You set that up like you could have gone in another direction. You said, I'd like to keep abreast of what's trending out there. Did you not see what was abreast at the top of the trending topics around 1030 this morning? It wasn't JJ Watts breast, was it?

Did Janet Jackson do something? No, you're thinking correctly. I did make sure you heard that word. Justin Bieber, is releasing a new album? No. What did ESPN let us know was coming out sometime in the summer? Oh, Michael Jordan's 10-part documentary.

Ten parts. Seems excessive. So the tease that they used was now everybody's talking about it. Oh, I know where you're going on with this now. So there's Dennis Rodman, there's Phil Jackson, there's Michael's best friend Ahmad Rashad. There's Scotty.

Lots of people. He's lackey. A reporter, if you will, had an agenda. Maybe. Maybe had a friend that played basketball in the number 23 for the dog. He hosted. We'll get to that in a minute.

So they're all there, and everybody that was in it made sense. And then there was this one person in the video, and I'm like, huh, I didn't think much of it. And about 10 minutes later, she was the number one trending topic. I know Justin Timberlake was on the thing. Justin Timberlake seemed to be out of place. There was one, there were two females. Oh, was it? Carmen Elektra.

Carmen Elektra. But she was with Dennis Rodman, right? But it was a single shot of her as if she's like everybody else. You're right. So Carmen Electra was trending. Yes. Because ESPN's releasing a long documentary on Michael Jordan and everybody's talking about it.

Dennis wasn't trending. Phil wasn't trending. Khaustis wasn't. None of the... Carmen was trending. I saw Justin Timberlake trending and I was curious about that. And then I saw the preview or the teaser. If you were to go to the trending topics and you would see on a random December 24th in

2019 that Carmen Elector was trending, your first thought would be what? She died. So hold on what was the pit? Like it was just a singular... It's just they showed all the people that would be talking in the documentary. And she happened to be one of them. She's talking? She totally stood out as

Hmm. What is she going to say about Well, she was married to Dennis Robin, right? M.J. broke up the marriage? It could be anything. Do you think M.J. hit that?

That's what you're saying? He's MJ. I mean, they didn't have... I don't feel like Dennis wouldn't have minded that much. Or he might have been there. Was Carmen one of the ones that broke it?

Was she the one that broke it? Broke what? Broke his stuff. What? You didn't see that video not too long ago? Dennis Robin's sitting around with Kevin Hart talking about

how he broke his unit a few times. No, I didn't see that. Miss that video. Oh, man. That sounds painful. I put on the blog one morning. So I just look at Michael Conner's likes. Carmen Elektra's only 47.

Are you shocked? She looks at least 60. Well, I mean, she's weathered, man. It goes the other way around. No, she wasn't with Tommy Lee. That was a pale name. She was with Dave Navarro. And she was married to Dennis Rodman for a little bit.

And that was not the wedding where he wore the dress. She was also with Rob Patterson? What is she famous for? The guy who wrote Calvin and Hobbs? What did she do? There you go. Answer that question, Ross. Carmen Electra is most famous for Phil in the Blank.

Singled out? Probably so. Very good. This guy's good at all this stuff. Because it could be a number of things. She had a reality show for a while. And there's a bunch of low-level movies. She was on Baywatch as well, right?

She's been in Baywatch. But I do think those were your two answers, and you've now said them both. Okay. You're always at the top. Thank you. You're always in your A-game. There's a bunch of, you know, what's the Halloween movie screen? She was a part of the...

No, well, I thought it was scary movie. That's where it came from. It came from scary movie. I mean, came from Scream, the parody was Scream. But yeah, I would say she's known from Baywatch and singled out. Okay. And it does take a special kind of Sports Talk 790 host to recall Singled Out. You're probably in a group of two, me and you.

Singled Out was my jam. Matt Thomas probably remember Singled Out, maybe. You're talking about ages, by the way. Amad Rashad is 70 now. What? Yeah. Why would you not say Carmen Electric got her start in Playboy? I mean, I guess that's true.

Because it hardly feels like she's known for posing. Nuddin Playboy. Amma Roshat is 70 years old. Hold on, can I go ahead and out myself or something? I had no idea that Ramad Roshad was an NFL player. I was, I wanted to bring that up like kind of as I will just add that to it.

How do you not know that? It was good. I mean, he played in 72 to 82 to 82. I wasn't born in 1990. Inside stuff is what you're talking about. NBA Inside Stuff. I wasn't bored of when he played,

but I know he played. I had no idea. Inside Stuff was the show he was on, right? That's it. Yeah. It was like your... There were far fewer side. sideline reporters also far for your TV games.

So he basically did all of the games. Every time the Bulls were on, there he was. You want to talk to Jordan? Talk to Ahmad. Like Saturday or Sunday mornings or something like that? I used to watch some inside stuff back in the day all the time. But anyways, the point of the story is Kevin Spacey is coming to kill you. Basically.

Now, Frank Underwood, obviously. Yes. Aren't there like 10 other Spacey movies where he could be that? Capex. Yeah, he's crazy. Oh, he's clearly a nut. Seven? All what aren't, I mean, even horrible bosses, obvious common.

Yeah, that's true. Same kind of guy. That's true. An evil jerk. Swimming with sharks, same thing. Yeah, when was he, well, yeah, he was kind of, he was a weirdo in American beauty, for sure. Oh, yes. Weirdo.

But each of their characters in that movie had an element of weirdness. We were saying you should saw this weirdness coming for a very long time. He just has a real affinity for performing quite well in those roles. He was fine in Austin Powers and Goldmember. Okay Horrible bosses too He was in that Didn't he die in the first one or no

I never saw number two I saw the first one I never saw the second one either I don't know But the moral of the story is We're going to take a break And the moral of the story is Watch out for Kevin Spacey Because he has become completely unhinged

71321257790 We got a number of you on hold for some reason 713 1212 577 we'll get to you next And we also have to talk about The outlandish Request from one Uncle Dennis when he was trying to land Kauai at the Lakers,

or was he? We'll talk about that coming up here on the Matt Thomas show as we continue until 3 o'clock. Greg Bizjo here, the heart of the order is up right now. Matt Thomas is swinging for the fences here on Sports Talk 790. Malikiliki Makkah is a thing to say on a bride of wine Christmas day. That's the island greeting that we send me. I got a confession to make.

Merry Christmas to our Hawaiian listeners. I got a confession to make. I love this song. Who does it? This song just makes me think of Christmas vacation. That's a good one. My favorite Christmas movie. Clark is imagining himself on an island.

Welcome back, Matt Thomas Show. Without Matt Thomas, but you do have Michael Connor, Adam Wexer, Nick Lowe, and me. So all the shows are represented. Michael from the morning, Nick from the trenches, Ross from Matt, Me from the AT. See, only Wexford's brain were confused that. You just blew my mind. I'm just helping out the listeners get familiar with the party we have here at 790.

And also I was reading more up on this devastating Kevin Spacey death story. Apparently, I thought we were done with Kevin Spacey, Ross. All right, fine. But apparently Space's attorneys immediately notified the court of his death so that they could get everything processed quickly. They? Yeah. Mm-hmm. Okay, no comment. I'm just going to avoid that.

And do the unexpected. No, don't do the unexpected. This was characterized by the deceased attorney as undignified, insensitive, and inappropriate. How quickly they filed for their motion to get the case dismissed. Kill them with kindness. Yikes. Yikes. Anyways.

So, so guys. Quay Leonard is a clipper. Correct. Did you guys catch much of the story yesterday about all the stuff that came out? We knew Uncle Dennis was crazy, right? And what he was doing with Kawhi Leonard, but all the things that he requested of one Jeannie Bus in order for Kawhi Leonard to become an L.A. Laker.

So give the people the rundown, Ross. Sources say, this is according to the Athletic and Sam Amick, that he asked team officials for part ownership of the team, a private plane that would be available at all times, That's good. A house and a guaranteed amount of off-court endorsement money that they could expect if Leonard played for their team. Why does Uncle Dennis need a house? All of those items fell well outside the confines of the league's collective bargaining agreement.

A source with knowledge of the Kauai Lickert's talks said Robertson made these requests repeatedly to owner Jeannie Bus over the course of three phone calls that spans several days, and that she made it clear that such perks were illegal and would not be considered. There was even a question raised by Robertson. this is Uncle Dennis, about why Lakers legend Magic Johnson had been given a small piece of Lakers ownership so many years ago, with Buss explaining that the two situations could not have been more different, even beyond the fact that one was legal and the other was not. I want to say you can't get ownership unless you ask for it, so why not ask? That's true.

But don't you have to go through an agent to do that? Yeah, but like Ross is pointing out, which should be obvious to the player, the agent, and those operating as his agent, that absolutely circumvents the CBA. They could do lots of things. Like the Dirk stuff in Dallas, we all have our suspicions, how he was taking less and less money every year

and staying there because we all believe they're probably circumventing the rules. He'll get some money down the road. He'll have him be an ambassador, but he'll be making $15 million doing it. Things like that. I mean, you know, it's collectively bargained and everything, but baseball does this.

They deferred money. That's deferred money, sure. Why can't you just do, I guess I don't understand why you, He doesn't want deferred money. He wants ownership. Yeah, that is a little bit different. Why couldn't you just do deferred money?

That would be pretty awesome. But it still counts the same. Like the average baseball salary for the contract counts the same number for the average year on your number every single season. Then you could still defer it. You could. But I'd like to see this go through because that way Leonard could be sitting there with Lakers head coach. I guess it would still be Frank Vogel. Let's just pretend it's still Frank.

Nobody's coaching that team. So Frank's coaching the team. LeBron's on the bench. as the guy who makes all the decisions, right? Yeah. Except sitting to his left is owner Kauai Leonard. And his uncle Dennis, who's actually calling the shots here. Frank calls that, and Kauai says, I don't think so.

We're going to go ahead and do this. One of you bitches has a stake in this team, that's me. I really can't believe the Lakers wouldn't go ahead and try and bend the rules for this. I'm kind of shocked. Do you think if Magic was still involved he would have? Oh, for sure. But he would tweet about it so it would have not happened. That's true.

So great to have Kauai's part of the Laker family and look forward to getting him that new house on Sunset Boulevard. That's the thing. Can't Uncle Dennis buy a house? Why does he with whatever? I mean, first of all, is he... Does this tell us how cheap Kauai might be? What is Uncle Dennis's percentage with Kauai? Like, what's the relationship?

Does he have the agent's percentage? Does Kauai have an agent or is it just Uncle Dennis working on his behalf? He has an agent who only represents one NBA player. Kauai Leonard. But again, Michael's getting it something. And we all... These guys are going to make an insane amount of money. Hundreds of millions of dollars.

But the deal hinges on... these perks that are worth far less than the contract? Yeah. Far far less than the contract. This is like when in Goodwell, speaking of Goodwell hunting, when he sends his, when he sends Ben Affleck to go negotiate for him, yes. That's exactly what this is like. Retainer.

Retainer. This is the kind of crap that makes people turn away from the NBA, though, too. If everybody is paying attention to this article, which they're probably not. I'm just saying from the standpoint of like, the only these teams can go and do these things and get these kind of conversations going. You're not going to the Milwaukee Bucks and having these conversations. I think to me the funniest detail is that this was the, there were three phone conversations. The first two times Uncle Dennis asked for a free plane and an ownership stake and Jeannie Bus said no.

He was like, you know what? Try and try again. Let me go and call one more time just to make sure Jeannie's not going to give me a piece of the Lakers. So what you're saying is Uncle Dennis is the guy at the bar that will go out and buy the drink and is told no, and then he'll just keep trying until the woman late. Well. So he's like Rich Hills. wife. There you go. You can't come in. Sure I can.

No, you can't. Well, I'll just go to another entrance then. The rules are different over there at that one. Nope. Same rules here, lady. She probably had like a Gucci fanny pack or something. That's probably like the nicest fanny pack you can imagine. She didn't want to get rid of. Let me. Her husband is rich. He just got rid of a, just got off of a very big deal. No, that's his name. It actually is due. Then he actually is rich. Both ways. Let's see. I've just found a Gucci fanny pack for $1,100.

Do you think it satisfies your needs? What can it hold? Can it hold your stuff or is it just there for show? Well, you can select size. Do you want a Gucci 75 or a Gucci 85? I want the 85. All right, let's go to the 85. Rich Hill made $18 million last year.

He's made $57 million in his big league career. Wow. But he's looking for a home, is he not? Yeah. Everybody's saying he's going back to the Dodgers. Well, they have a hole now. They do. So I know you're in the middle of a very intensive search for Gucci bags.

Yeah, sorry, hold on. I'm on. Which monster franchise? is in the midst of a Let's see Yeah, which team in the mix The Astros or the Dodgers Is enjoying a less successful offseason?

The Dodgers Because they talked and talked about How they're going to go get big guys And they've got nothing Well, the Astros lost coal They've lost Rue They were in the hunt for coal The Astros weren't

Yeah, but they don't have I mean, they don't have Erlander still Or Grinky They got Bueller Yeah, they have, they're basically both teams done the same thing. They lost their best picture. But they talked a lot about spending and like they did it publicly. Like we're going to go get a big boy finally because they talk about it every year and then they don't get it.

They spent money on like Pollock a couple of years ago. And they're also not going to have their managers and possibly gentlemen are suspended. So I think the Dodgers win. We don't know that. We don't know what the commissioner is going to have to say. We'll see. I mean, when the Astros finally get their personal secretive meeting with the league to discuss their penalties, and they finally say, all right, you got us.

But here's why we were doing it. It was to combat this that Dave Roberts and the Dodgers were doing to us in 2017. And it's because of what Cora and the Red Sox were doing to us in subsequent years once he left the franchise. And it's because of what Aaron Boone and the Yankees were doing when we met them in the playoffs and still beat them despite the fact they were cheating. Here you go. Will you suspend them as well? You want a team name to keep an eye on for when this stuff gets leaked by other teams? The New York Mets?

Cleveland and Indians. How about Cincinnati Reds? That's where Trevor Bauer plays. I wonder how deep is this going to go. It's deep. Just asking. We were talking about that's what she said, Mom, we're going to bring back that's what she said, Wex.

I'm sorry. It's a never-ending supply of gold if you want to. I think we're actually going to do it. Okay, good. By 2020, we're going to make Nick do it. No, I'm going to do it. Good. I'm like, we'll pay attention.

I'll pay attention. No, the pursuit of Kauai Leonard and everything that goes along with it, it seems like any time, like Rich Paul has become an agent. He's an agent. It's not a friend of LeBron's who's trying to find him a job. He's a sports agent. Other players and other sports, now Kauai is among them. Andre Johnson was among them here with the Texans for several years. What was his uncle's name? Andre. That's right. Uncle Andre and Andre. And it just usually is not going to work out very well. Sometimes it does. Even when players act as their own agents, really usually the only complaint is maybe they didn't get the kind of deal

we think an agent might have gotten, but it usually works even better than it does when uncle, whomever. Major Adams. It's your agent. He's just friend, yeah. Major Adams. Major Adams with Vince Young. What you should really do is have your mom be your agent basically like Lamar Jackson, right?

That's true. And his mom is agent? Seems to be working. Yeah. Not much to do as Lamar's agent. Oh, you were drafted. Oh, you signed your rookie contract? All right.

We're done. And then now when his deals up, oh, I'm a free agent. Oh, pay me more than any other quarterback in the entire world? Okay, we're done. How do you go to your mom? though and say, listen, mom, it's been great this business relationship we've had, but I'm going to need to hire a real agent

for this go-around of contract negotiations. What about James Harden? That's an awkward dinner. Wait, uh... He went through several... Rob Polinka was his agent, then he went with somebody else with that firm when he went to the Lakers, and he subsequently essentially has his mom running most things these days. And again, in the NBA...

Give me the max. Yeah, you get to a certain level. It's like, it's just your choice. Do you want a two-year with an opt-out? Do you want a one year with an... That's all there is to negotiate. You're getting the max. he's pretty good. That's what matters. You've got to be pretty decent to get this kind of money.

I mean, he's just gets them, he's been getting the max extension like every two years, right? And the smart players don't sign seven year deals anymore. It doesn't make any sense. Sign a shorter to you'll opt out sooner, get a bigger payday, and keep doing it.

Yeah. Keep your options open. All right, it's time for a break here on the Matt Thomas show without Matt Thomas coming up next. It's a game we haven't played in a while and Michael is insisting only playing it, so we're going to do it.

Reverse trivia. Do you guys remember how to play that? This is how it works. You come up with a trivia question to ask us. And Nick, which tickets do we have left over? Do we have the Jeff Ross or we have the Zulites? Yeah, Jeff Ross and Dave Attell. If you want a pair of tickets to Jeff Ross and Dave Attell,

you have to stump us with a trivia question. 713212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-9. We have one rule about the trivia question. It cannot be minutiae. We can determine that. If it's minutia, if it is, you know, on this day, in 19796, how many points did Rick Berry score?

That's minutia. We need something that's an actual trivia question that you would see asked. And you have to know the answer to it. Yes. Yes, that's also helpful. People ask us trivia questions they don't know the answer to. So if you can stump us with a trivia question, we have the Dave Attell, Jeff Ross, tickets. 713, 21, 2, 5, 790.

7.1, 3,000, 5, 790. Reverse trivia next. At least now, we know that losing sucks. And if anybody knows how much losing sucks, it's Matt Thomas. I'm outstanding. This is Whitney Mercilis. Back to the Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790. It's now time for reverse trivia on the Matt Thomas show with no Matt Thomas.

Phone lines are available to stump us with your questions. All right. The way reverse trivia works, come up with a trivia question. That is not minutia. 713, 2, 1, 2, 5, 790. 713, 212, 5790. If you can stump either or all of us, Nick will include you in this too.

Nick, Michael, me, Ross, and Adam. You'll get a pair of tickets to see Jeff Ross and Dave Attell at the Revention Music Center on January 18th. 713-212-5-7-99. 713, 212, 5790. Get accurate, people.

This is going well. Let me think of a, let me think of a trivia question to ask you, folks. You should have done Will Michael and Wexelman. That's harder. Those are way more difficult. If you've been listening to Rockets Radio so far this season, not too long ago,

Mr. James Hardin had an assist, which pushed him past Calvin Murphy on the all-time assist list for the Houston Rockets. Hardin is now number one. Calvin Murphy is now number two. Who's number three? Ooh, that's a good question. I will go with John Lucas.

Not current Rockets assistant coach, John Lucas, good guess. Steve Francis. Also not Steve Francis. At least let Ross make a guess or two. No, screw that's James Hardin. He's number one. Not seen, James. Rayfer Alston.

Not the Rayfer. Bryce Drew. Come on now. We're off the tracks. a little bit. Sorry. You know I can't help myself. I know.

Who was here? Jeremy Lynn. Not here long enough. That's terrible. Jeremy Lynn is not in the top ten. John Lucas is nine. Kenny Smith. Steve Francis, seven.

The Jet. Kenny Smith is six. You have none of the other in the top five. Tracy McGrady. Not in the top ten. His name has been mentioned during the time I've been sitting in here during a break. many, many times, Michael. Many times?

Yeah, your little nephews know about him now because you showed him. Oh, Akeem. I literally just said that. Akeem is fourth. Okay. So not the correct answer, but one of the players in the top five. I said Akeem, like, two minutes. Sorry.

Mike Newellyn is fifth. I'm leaving you with just the one I've asked for. Number three. Mitchell Wiggins. Not Mitchell Wiggins. His son does plan the NBA. This man's son, however, he's not. He played for the Rockets with Rudy from 1979,

to 1989, had a 10-year rocket's career. He's the only team he played for. He's the only team he played for? Yes, and he's a guard. I have no idea. You know where assists you normally come from. I should know this, but I'm... He's from Oklahoma City University.

Just give it to us. His name's Allen Level. Okay. I wouldn't have a lot. Yeah, never mind. No chance for me. All right, well, let's get some people online who have some actual trivia questions for us.

And before we answer, we have to deceive whether or not it's minutia. Jimmy, in League City. What is your question? It is a Star Wars trivia. That's not sports. No, that's okay. Damn it.

Wait, we got Nick on our side. Yeah, Nick's good. Can you do it? Yeah. Sure, go ahead. Okay. Who were the two-star women that turned down the role of Carrie Fisher's role? Wait, what?

So that would be who turned up the Princess Leia role before Carrie Fisher, accepted it. So two actresses This feels like minutia, but Nick, is this minutia? They must be famous and popular, correct? This is a sports question. Nick, do you have something to offer? No, I don't. It's minutiaeathe. Thanks, Jimmy.

It also would have happened in the 70s. David and Pearland, go ahead with your question. This segment's always a disaster. Yeah, when the AFC and the NFC merged, or AFL and NFL merged, three teams from the NFL, Had to move to the AFL, the AFC. Okay, this is not minutia. I will say this is not minutiae.

Okay, let's think out loud. We're thinking out loud before we give our final answer, David, okay? It's the Steelers and the Browns, right? Yep. And who was the other one? No, charges were AFL, huh? Three NFL teams went to the A. No Googling.

We're not Googling, by the way. You have our honor, David. Okay. After we fail, we can Google, right? Right. If you lose, you can Google. What's the third one? Indianapolis, Colt, Baltimore.

You didn't even give us the chance to you. I thought you were asking me. Sorry, no, Danny, we didn't give it up yet. How did he know it's rhetorical? You flat out asked him. I was talking, I was asking Wex. Oh, you know, we'll put them on hold. We've got to put them on hold.

We might give it to David. Just hang tight, David. Uh, Stephen. What's your question? It's a baseball question about an outback. Oh, great. This sounds my minutia. Go ahead.

Okay. So what is the most pictures of batter can see at one legal at bat? Not including foul balls after they reach two strikes. I don't feel like this is a trivia question. And reach that. And they reach base. Move on. Michael says move on.

That is so minutia. Because of interference or something? I couldn't understand half of what he was saying. the other problem. Yeah. Call us with your real questions that said 13, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 5, 7, 7.

We're trying to hook people up with, you know, prizes here. Yeah, but I want to be stooped on something. Actually, it's fun to... So, back to Star Wars. I looked that one up. There was three of them, apparently. Is Jody Foster one?

Yeah, Jody Foster, Amy Irving, and Cindy Williams, were all... That's terrible. So, Freaky Friday... Yeah. L... Shirley... The hooker from...

Sexy driver. Shirley, right? I don't know. Well, Leverne was Penny Williams. Williams or but I have it backwards. I have no idea. And then who was the third one, Nick? Amy Irving. Oh, Amy Irving. Huh. I think they made the right choice

because you have to all relate it to the gold bikini. I think they did well. I have no comment on the situation here because I don't know any of these women. Wendy Williams? The TV host. He did not say Wendy. They said Cindy Williams. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It was before the Coke addiction?

I guess so. Jody Foster? Could have been, what's your name? Yeah, but she was also much younger at the time. Yeah, because she was, wouldn't she the young hooker and taxi driver around that time? Yeah. Let's see, Jeff and Conner wants to ask a question.

Jeff, what do you got? Hello, the only Astros player is second baseball an air in the All-Star game for catches and appearance. People aren't grasping the concept again. For minutia. If he would have got us, if that other guy would have stayed

and got us on the Colts, that would have been legitimately. The only Astro's second basement to commit an error in an all-star

game with the tension. Okay, look, word to the wife. If it takes you two minutes to get the clutch it out. Here's our options. Altuvei. Biggio and Jeff Kent,

right? Joe Morgan ever making an all-star team on Asthma? I don't know. I would have guessed so. Still, Manusia.

You guys really failed at this. I'm really disappointed in our listeners today for not. putting together actual questions. Joe Morgan made two All-Star teams as an Astro, so yeah. He would have counted him.

Don't know. So in other words, we could have answered his question. Also, how am I going to find out if his question's right? Because he'll tell you that's part of Ross's rules. Yeah, but where am I going back to find this? You've got to be a fine. You've got to trust the listeners at least a little bit, don't we? All right, I got a question for you guys.

We got another one on the line. Oh, sweet. Patrick and Bel Air. What do you got? Fair, Merry Christmas. Okay, what I would like to know. Who knows who Michael Conner's favorite American League baseball player is? Right now?

Or ever? Right now. Well, Michael Conner's here, so he probably knows that one. Jose Al-Tuve. Nope. Robbie Grossman. There you go. Robbie Grossman.

I love me some Robbie Grossman. Why? I played against him of the kid. Is that the whole entire main... That's my only grace with any MLB player in my life on a field. He's the only active major league baseball player. I think he was like 14. I was like 13. Maybe I was 12.

Yeah. You beamed him. Yeah, I threw one right at his back as hard as I could. Why? Because he was cocky. Was he owning you? He hit one off the wall at bat before. So you're like Roger Clemens.

Yeah. I can't get out, so I just hit him. He, he, he, I just, I didn't like him. He would crowd the plate. I didn't like it. So do you think you played a role in him getting to this level? I guess we got one more. No.

No. You made him tougher. Chris and Sugarlands. save us. Okay. What were the two major league baseball teams playing during the

Apollo 11-11 moon landing? They had stopped the game. See, this is your fault Michael. That's not so bad. That's not old enough. Yeah, so let's get sure. Give Chris the tickets. I don't care.

Yeah, whatever. You got to get rid of them. I'll say the Reds and the pirates. No. Okay, thanks. You just dumped us. he's a winner?

Sure, why not? I don't know. We've had so much fun with those... Santa Vera Rial. So much fun with those segments in the past. This is what you get when you try to do it on holiday. I'm trying to Google that. I don't know.

Let's take a break on that note. Final segment of the Matt Tom show is coming up. Houston's official sports cliche translator. I'm working hard. I'm trying to be a good teammate. I'm trying to go out here every day and do my job. Matt Thomas. Taking it one day at a time.

City sidewalks, busy sidewalks, dressed in holiday style. You guys want to end this show with some holiday cheer? I would love to. Seriously, move over Florida, man. Pennsylvania man is coming after you. We do a non-Florida stories with Matt on Thursday, I guess? What's today, Tuesday? We'll save this one and use it again.

Okay. Seriously, one of you take this. Couple charged after fight breaks out when woman wraps gifts for other boyfriend. Oh, man. That's unfortunate. A Westmoreland County couple has been charged, have been charged, with assaulting each other and in pre-Christmas mutual combat after the man grew angry that his girlfriend was wrapping gifts for her other boyfriend.

I'd like to get a Christmas present to this writer who wrote pre-Christmas Mutual Combat. That's a great phrase. It really is. Daniel Hill, 50 of North Huntingdon, uh, through a chair at Deidre DeBucci, 50 of Tafford around 4 a.m. Tuesday.

Day drop. And then threatened her with a kitchen knife, according to a criminal complaint. What he's presence for, Deidre? The incident unfolded at a home in Tafford. Police said Ms. Dubucci called 911 to report that her boyfriend was threatening her. Officers forced their way inside with a crowbar and found Mr. Hill clad in only a t-shirt. Oh, boy. Only a t-shirt.

No pants or no underwear? And do you be unexpected. Oh, boy. Lying on the floor of a second-floor bedroom, his face and neck, restructed. scratch police said. He told police that his girlfriend beat him up and that he hit her twice in the face or head in self-defense. He also said that he had put a kitchen knife under the couch in the living room and that

his girlfriend had tried to stab him with it, according to the complaint. Ms. Dibucci was in an upstairs bedroom with injuries to her face and arms. Both smelled of alcohol, police said. Naturally. Asked what happened. Ms. Dabucci said that she was wrapping Christmas presents in the dining room and Hill became angry because she was wrapping gifts

for her other boyfriend, the complaint said. They argued and Mr. Hill threw a chair into a glass cabinet, shattering it, according to the complaint. Ms. Dibucci told police that she did not want her boyfriend jailed, but police arrested him anyway. He was charged with aggravated assault, and resisting arrest. Police charged Ms. Dibushi with aggravated

assault. Holiday cheer in Pittsburgh. I like how he's just wearing a t-shirt. That's it. Yeah, why is he wearing a t-shirt and nothing else? I'm a little surprised that he wrote that awesome line about combat and did not indicate what was the t-shirt. Was it a concert t-shirt? Was it a mega-death? T-sot-T-shirt? Yeah, I don't know. T-shirt is in play. I think so. Nasscar T-shirts definitely in play, too. Yeah, there's so many options. Like a Wednesdays and now we just are left to guess. Yep, we really are. Was it a big t-shirt? Like, you know, girls like to sleep in bed with just a

big t-shirt on? Do you think he was pulling one of those or do you think he was not covering up his area? Not interested? I'm just saying. These are the things you have to ponder. I have some more sports news for you guys. This according, this from the Jacksonville Jaguars, or actually this came out last week. Jacksonville Jaguars, of course, fired executive vice president to football operations, Tom Coughlin. And a day later, the Jaguars and all their facilities were able to fix their clocks. Did you hear what AJ Boyer said about that?

He said everything was five to 15 minutes fast in an effort to get everyone to work on time. But once Tom Coughlin left, they all set the clocks to the correct time. Boy, I said, yeah, that was like the first thing I noticed. But when I was going somewhere, I thought I was going to be late. Turned out, I was right on time. They all noticed it as soon as it happened. I mean, how long it is. That's what I do to myself in my, you know, my car and my clock in my car.

I move it ahead a few minutes. I don't. Just to give yourself some time. Drives me nuts. I can't do it. I tried it for a while, but it's just, I don't like it. It's not for me. Why not?

It's just not for me. I'm an on-time person, so I don't need the thought of it being later than it actually is. I'm not very on-time person. It's a little annoying when, I mean, you got it, there's a lot of clocks around, your phone, at home, your car, whatever you, wherever you. If they're not all the same, really kind of ticks you off. That's what ticks me off. Yeah. They got to be the same.

It doesn't take me off. I make them all different. Just throw myself off because I'm very, very much not punctual. I don't have my watch on the day, but I've already set my watch ahead for time in Paris. So when I look down at it, I'm like, what am I doing here? When are you going to be in Paris? I leave Sunday. Oh, well, you've, four days from now?

Yeah, I'm trying to get my body somehow, you know, thinking. You're going to be jet lagged. She is what it is. I know I am. Unless you're just bringing up a whole... Don't make me think about it. I don't want to think about jet lag. Okay, how long's the flight?

Well, you've got a flight at D.C. first, so three hours and then seven. Wow. Ten hours in the air. And then for old Perry. But then a direct flight back from London, which is ten hours, like ten and a half hours. You're going to go to the Louvre? I don't know. I don't know where I'm going.

I'm just going where I'm told. That's true. Do you have a tour guide? Sure, I think on a few things. Nice. Yeah. Good job, Michael. It's going to be great.

Can't wait to follow you on Instagram. I'm not going to be posting things. Oh, why not? Because I don't, I'm going on vacation. Guess what's going to my pocket in my phone. Does my phone work internationally? I don't even know. Do you have to pay for that?

Sometimes. Yeah, you might want to check on that. I think in Mexico you're fine up to like a gig, but I think if you go, I mean, depending on what you have, you have to tell them you're going to international, or you have to turn it off or something. Yeah, you know. You might want to talk to Mr. T about that.

I might just wing it. See what happens. They got pay phones there, right? I don't know that they have pay phones in 2019 in Paris. Or it'll be 2020, I guess. It'll be 2019 when we'll get there. I'll be there in two different years. That's crazy.

It's called life goals. I'll be in 2020 while you guys are still in 2019. That's true. You're going to be in like Greenwich Mean Time or whatever. Yeah. Or I guess Paris is what, seven hours ahead? Something like that. Okay.

Well, you should know. you set your watch. I don't have my watch on. Well, I left it home today. Okay. I got up and came to work. Look how I'm dressed.

I haven't looked at how you. How are you dressed? Sweatpants. Okay. I'm in sweat. I wear sweatpants almost every day up here. We just got the dad jeans. Somebody had to look nice today.

They're just jeans. I know. I am a dad and they are jeans, so who am I to complain? Yeah, they're dad jeans. They're dad jeans. I went with the t-shirt only. Oh, God. Please don't tell me.

Stay behind the desk. Stay behind the desk. And you might want to wipe that chair down when you leave. He could get away with that in there. There's a random bag of Sour Patch Kids. Nobody's going in there. That's not random. Those are mine.

Yeah, I know. I just ate like two-thirds of the bag and I just had to give them to somebody. I had to pawn them off to somebody. How you feeling this time? My stomach's, I got like a brick a brick in my stomach. Kind of feeling full. It happens when you eat crappy candy. Whoa.

That is the best candy. That's not good candy. Sour Patch Kids? All right. Lucky for you, the show's over. Candy's overrated. general. I don't agree with that at all.

There's a little Otis Redding to play you out here on the Matt Thomas show without Matt Thomas. He hates Christmas carols, but I don't. The show is over, but also at the same time, the show is not over,

because it's going to be more Waxler, a little bit of Connor. I've got to take a segment off to go take care of some business. And then I'll be with you guys after that. In other words, the A-Team will start in a few minutes at 3 o'clock. It'll be the RAM team, Ross, Adam Mack, and Michael.

Or is the Mar team? Afterwards, I'm going to get my RAM from my Northwest Dodge. Well, there you go. The team ramrod? Not exactly. Our Ramrod? That's it, yeah. That's going to do it for a Christmas Eve edition of the Matt Thomas show.

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