The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - The Matt Thomas Show : Wade Phillips, Tad Brown, Fantasy Five

Episode Date: March 27, 2020

The Matt Thomas Show with @SportsMT, @SportsRV and @ProNickLow 3/27/20Anything Goes Friday!Randall Cobb Doesn't Know Any Better (10:40)Wade Phillips Discusses The DeAndre Hopkins Trade And The Draft (43:06)CEO of The Rockets Tad Brown Discusses Path To NBA Returning (1:04:54)Fantasy Five (1:49:17)

Much larger than life. Yeah. Launch timers is the Matt Thomas show. Welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. With Nick Lowe with Rossville around. I'm Matt Thomas. And yeah, this sucks, but for the next three hours,

we're going to not think about it. It may come up in conversation, but I want everybody to, if you're at home, relax, have the IHeart radio app on, the dial at 790 on the AM position. Ross and I, Nick, we're going to get through this every single day until they give us the all-clear

and then we're going back to sports stadiums and arenas as fast as humanly possible, and I'm going to Lake Charles as fast as humanly possible. And I'm not even trying to convince my wife if I can go to Las Vegas for a couple days. You're just going to go. Well, she knows Lake Charles she doesn't get the option.

Okay. Sports RV and I must win the all clear is given. Are you getting stir crazy, Matt? You know, actually I'm not super bad. I thought it'd be a lot worse than I would be, but I'm just kind of in a routine right now that I'd like a little bit of a difference. At least I get in my car, I go get takeout,

I come see you guys for a few hours every day. Saturdays and Sundays are kind of a drag, honestly, because then I just don't have anywhere else to go. But you know what? Monday through Friday, 12 to 3. This is kind of our little, what would you call it, a little hideaway, kind of a little getaway. Getaway, would be the term, yeah.

And that's what we're here are for you every day here on Sports Talk, 70. So please tell your friends that we're here every day, live and local. We're not going anywhere. We're not taking any days off until this bad boy gets over with, or at least I'm not. Ross and Nick, you might need it because Nick's working a lot harder than one of us. Yeah, I'm going to take a week off, Matt. You can handle it. I can handle it.

I'm not going to go anywhere. I can't go anywhere. Every day I check United to see what the air fares are to Vegas. Uh-huh. Oh, my gosh. You know what basic economy is, right? Yes. You can't even get a bag or a carry.

You can't even get a carry-on. You can't choose your seat. Yeah, they can't change your sheet. It's terrible. I would never do it. Well, I mean, if you are really desperate to get somewhere. I would never do it. I can't physically be in a middle seat.

Middle seats do suck. Actually, I'd rather be in a middle seat than in a window. I'm quasi-closrophobic a little bit, so it creeps me out to be in a window. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. No, the flights. So let me just give you. I put in April 3rd, 8th.

April 5th. This is going from Houston to Las Vegas. If we went on August the 3rd, it came back, I'm excuse me, April 3rd came back April 5th, and we flew basic economy, $59 round trip. Jeez. But where would you play? You wouldn't. You'd only reason why you'd go for $59.

To go take pictures in front of the, well, if you want pictures in front of the Eiffel Tower, pictures in front of the Empire State Building, pictures in front of the swash-buckling pirate boat. You could do that, but you could also, let's say you had family there. You can go see your family, but that'd be about it because all the casinos are closed. I have family there. We've already discussed that. Yeah, his family runs a brothel out there. Is the chicken ranch still open?

Yeah, I'm at. I don't know now. That's a good question. I'll text my mom. You can't social distance yourself from a hooker. They're not called hookers out there. Professional escorts? I don't know what they're, but it's legal, right?

Out in the boon? They're not slaves if they get paid, Ross. Oh, that's true. And they get paid. I told you that one time when we looked at the menu, I was like, Geez, I'm paying all that for that. I mean, it's nice, but I don't pay for that. Wade Phillips on the radio program today at 1 o'clock.

The son of bum. They've got a publishing company that's like, hey, people are reading more. Now, I wouldn't be one of those people, but people are reading more. And if you missed Son of Bum the book, Wade's going to come back and tell you how cool it is. And he's going to join us at 1 o'clock this afternoon. He's going to tell us what he's doing and everything. Yeah, Tad Brown, the chief executive officer of the TOTA Center,

and the Rockets to join us at 130 today. Oh, really? Just for an update on the NBA. I don't know about you, Ross, but I, Shams and Woge, I check on them 12 to 15 times a day. I think you're a little bit more involved in it than I am. That's right, for sure, because it is part of my life. And it is gone. I mean, at least, I mean, we have the radio show here, which hasn't really changed.

But I have no NBA right now. Well, as we've discussed before, you don't. really miss the NBA. You miss the fancy mat lifestyle. I miss it both. You miss five diamond hotels. You miss getting pampered. You miss shrimp cocktails. You miss peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Yes. And the private jets. That's what you really miss.

You don't really miss the NBA that much. I miss all of it, but I don't want to make sure you know that I do miss the other parts too. Fancy Matt lifestyle number one. Okay. So fan some, again, it could be part of that. But Tad Brown's going to give us an update on things in the NBA at 130. And then Brian T. Smith for his regular Tuesday Friday appearance of two.

2.30 today I had been thinking about a Fantasy 5 and we couldn't figure out and we may have to go back to some topics and freshen things up like next week we might have to go back to good old fashioned sidelined reporters because we did those silent reporters really early in the Fantasy 5.

There's a lot of new candidates. And there's a fresh batch of talent out there. A crop of young talent is now populated our airwaves. So we will redo the Fantasy 5. Now are we talking about talent or looks? Yeah. I mean, if you want to draft Holly Row or something, you can.

Okay. So today's Fantasy Five, you just want to just... She's a great sideline reporter. She's the best one, right? I mean, in terms of most information. Yeah, so put her top of your list. Okay, today's Fantasy Five at 2.30. Adam Wexer's coming into doing. We're going to do an honor of what's going on right now and a salute to the people that take care of us in times when we are. are sick and not feeling well.

Best TV, nurses or doctors? TV or film? Both. Fictional. Fictional. Yeah, they cannot, Dr. Phil, Dr. Ruth, Dr. Oz does not count. Wouldn't draft any of them anyways. Fictional TV nurses or doctors

on the Fantasy 5 today, and Adam Wexer will be in to do that with us today at 2.30. So is it going to be a three-way? No. No. Ross is bowing out and Ross doesn't even get a vote You still get the 7th vote Because you're not applying this week

Okay So Nick you Unless you want to give Ross The opportunity to be the 7th vote No that's fine Give it to Nick All right I think Nick kind of like enjoys being that

Determine factor I don't want your steek and vote It is a lot of power It is a lot of power So that's coming up on the show today All right headlines of the day Nothing in terms of Earth shaking stuff

Randall Cobb the new Texan receiver spoke today and we'll hear from him coming up in the next segment of the show. They had a teleconference where everybody just jumped on and heard things. And I didn't hear anything. So are we going to do what you're talking about Randall Cobb? I mean, I guess it would be easy, right? I don't know what he's going to say.

I mean, I think it would be. I have a pretty good handle of the way Bill O'Brien's going to talk. Yeah. Maybe we'll have to say what you're talking about Randall until we actually hear more from Randall Cobb. Spoiler alert, Bill O'Brien did not say a word. He wasn't on there, was he? Nope. I didn't think you would be.

When is he going to speak, by the way, about any of this? Probably not until, at least until the coronavirus is gone. But, I mean, they can do teleconferences. He won't, though. How many out here, gang? Didn't he not trade the most valuable player on the team or one of them? Exactly why he doesn't want a public appearance. That's exactly right.

He hasn't said a peep. He wasn't quoted. He hasn't said anything. Do general managers usually have to address the media when they make major trades like this? Where are you, Bill O'Brien? Seriously, where are you? Let me ask you, do you think him and Jack Eastbury do the social distancing thing? Or are they so close they say, just forget about it?

Do you think they have bunk beds? Do you think they share each other's meals? Like when you go to a restaurant, hey, you order this, and I'll order this, and we'll split it in half. Yeah. I don't know. I try to do that with you sometimes. Yeah, we do that a lot, actually.

I have no idea if they're distancing from each other. but they're definitely distancing themselves from society. I mean, I'm asking in all seriousness, why hasn't the general manager of this team spoken about one of the most, the most impactful trade of this offseason? I mean, the NFL. Forget about the Texans.

All over the NFL. This is the biggest bombshell trade. Maybe he's in quarantine. He forgot his phone. You're making excuses. Both of you are. It's time for Bill O'Brien to speak and for us to crash every word he says

because it won't be the truth. And that's the reason why he won't speak because he knows the backlif. is going to be just as bad as it was the moment he moved DeAndre Hopkins to Arizona. Other things to get to on the radio show today, the draft is set for the NFL, and Commissioner Goodell says, all of you general managers, shut up about it. We'll explain what that is. We have one of the premier college football voices, SportsRB, believing that there will be no college football season.

Keith Jackson? If he's right, it's going to be a really, really long rest of the 2020. sports year. Bruce Ariens was asked about the thought of Antonio Brown wearing Buccaneer gear. We'll give you his thoughts on that. LeBron James, not particularly antsy to start playing games in front of no fans. He might not have a vote on that. And let's see what else. Oh, P.J. Tucker had somebody asked him on his Instagram today about playing small ball. We'll let you hear what he had to say about that. We've got a lot to get to today. It is the Matt Thomas show. It isn't Anything Goes Friday, if you'd like to join us on any of those topics.

713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-790. Up next, Randall Cobb, the newest Texan wide receiver, thinks it's going to be in a good spot with his quarterback. You'll hear from him next on Sports Talk 790. Hi, this is former running back of Herschel Walker. You're listening to Matt Thomas on Sports Talk 790. It is 1218 on Anything Goes Friday.

Ross, the essence of anything goes Friday is quite simple. Monday through Thursday, we are diligent. We are rigid. Friday, we let loose a little bit, right? Let's not get crazy. Monday through Thursday, it's pretty crazy around here. Friday can be even crazier. But like I said, I think we're several weeks in a row where we haven't had a, well,

I think we got one last week. Anything goes type of topic. I can't remember what it was. But you know, we got enough sports to get to, which I am, we still have stuff to get to over the next few weeks. Somebody knocking at the door? No, I was just me knocking.

What is this made of? Formica? Fo granite? Yeah, formica. Yeah, as Charles used to call it. Formica? Yeah, knock on formica. We have stuff to get to.

All right. 713-212-5-790 if you want to get in on a topic today on the radio program, including hearing from Randall Cobb in a matter of moments. Real quick, the NFL is announced, actually it was not the NFL.

Roger Goodell said, we're going to maintain the draft April 23rd of the 25th. We're going to do it over three days. We're going to do it via teleconference in New York, and we're not going to do the Las Vegas thing. It's going to be each individual team is going to be huddled up in their own rooms or I guess they wouldn't even be in war rooms. There's just going to be individual computer spots, I guess. I mean, there's no grouping of 10. It's a very going to be a very intimate group. They're going to broadcast it.

We're going to have something to watch. Roger Goodell said, we're going to do this and stop asking you about. changes. We don't want to hear about your bitching and complaining about not being able to do the physicals and have the interviews and to decipher who's mentally strong and who's not. Everybody's in the same position. Everybody is going to, no one's going to have any more advantage over the other. And then he also at the very end said, if you continue to complain about it, we're going to punish you. It was like, Ross, it was like your mother. No, you're not going to go to the movies with your girl tonight.

And if you keep asking me, I'm going to take your car away. I didn't see that part of the memo. Did we have that specific excerpt? Well, I'm just reading off of the wire story. I kind of just scanned it when it came out. It came out towards the end of the nightcap last night. And I scanned over it and talked about it. We didn't really get to spend a whole lot of time on it.

Yeah, he's basically saying anybody else saying that, and we'll give you the exact phrase here in just a minute as Ross looks at a point. I'm going to paraphrase. just saying, look, we're all in the same situation together, and any other subcommittees or anybody else complaining about this, how this is not fair, it's going to be subject to disciplinary action, which I don't know what that's going to mean. Mean loss of money. Oh, here it is. They're going to get fine. Cubs have reached out to us to discuss particular issues, and we encourage clubs with questions or concerns to continue to raise them with me, members of the CEC, which is something something committee, or our staff.

the CEC was also clear that the public discussion of issues relating to the drafts served no useful purpose and is ground for disciplinary action. Yeah. So shut up. Yikes. I've told you the story five million times. When I was a kid, there was a marker. It was Buck Rogers and the 21st century marker set I wanted for my mother very badly.

Buck Rogers marker set? Yeah. And it came in either a six pack of markers, six different colors, or in a 12 pack. Well, I wanted 12. My mom said, I can only afford the six. You're going to get the six. And I kept screaming at her and said, I wanted the 12. And she says, if you don't stop asking about the 12 and just accept the six, you'll get nothing.

And I got nothing. And I really screamed and really yelled. And then you got hit in the mouth with a wooden spoon. Actually, I did. No, no, I do not. Point being is this, he's saying, stop. You're not like it, but I'm the commissioner. We're going on.

Because you know what, Ross? And I don't even have to do anything with money. Ross, there are these commissioners of these sports know that people need sports. He knows if you backlog this another month, there's a chance you might really lose that audience where if you're the next big thing, which the NFL draft is going to be the next big thing in sports, you're going to have crazy, crazy viewership for it. And I think he wants to take advantage of that to the best of his ability, knowing that there's no other sporting events going on. Because there might be something.

If they pushed it to say June 1st, we might have basketball back. I'm not saying we will, but there might be something that will come into play that might take away from that audience. April 23rd to the 25th, sounds like to me there's going to be nothing else going on in the sports world except us watching ESPN, the NFL network, and ABC to see the draft. And that's the reason why he's like, stop. Yeah, it's for money. It's because they're the only game in town. I wonder, I mean, there's the idea that was floated by Adam Schaefter that they should have one round, night, that way they can monopolize sports TV for seven nights and have discussion and all that

type of stuff. That seems a little absurd. I don't think everybody's going to be tuning in to check out the sixth round of the draft, but maybe they will because we're that desperate. Well, I would say as much as I'm not a draft fan, I will watch more. I guarantee I'll watch more of it this year than I will in years past. In the past, I will always watch the first round because there were usually recognizable names. Plus, there were some trades that were interesting. I would watch most of the second day. I was never a third day watcher. I would click it on to see. maybe what the Texans were doing or maybe there was a trade, but in terms of just watching hours and hours and hours of offensive linemen being drafted in the fifth round,

it didn't do anything for me. But I might be in the minority, and maybe even more of the minority this year. I think I'm with you, though. We've always been a guy, we don't really. I'm not huge into the draft, especially. I mean, when the Texans, like when they took Clowny, it was kind of already a formality that they were going to take Clowny. There wasn't a whole lot of surprise there.

Some people wanted Johnny Mansell. but it was already... Remember there was those billboards? What did they say? Keep Johnny Eat football in Texas or something? Just nuts. Yeah, that didn't work out. All right.

Randall Cobb is now a Houston Texan. He tells us what he helps to bring to the team. It was pretty much Coach O'Brien that, you know, he told me how he saw that I was fit in the offense. And obviously, some veteran presence that I could bring, you know, to the team. You know, this is going into my 10th year, and I've been on some winning football teams, and I've been on some teams that haven't quite made it. So, you know, I went to the playoffs for my first six years, and then the past three.

Fortunately, I haven't been able to get back to them. So, you know, I think over the course of my career, I've seen a lot of different things. I've seen how to win. I've seen how to lead, and I think just being able to come in and be another voice. I know some tremendous leaders on the team, but wanted to come in and be another voice with so many young guys on the offensive side as well. Makes a lot of sense right there, right?

Nothing wrong with that? Yeah. He was that. Yeah, good. He sounds good. He sounds smart. Sounds like a guy that's going to be a good guy in the locker room. Great teammate.

Works hard. Perfect Bill O'Brien guy. Perfect Bill O'Brien guy. And we paid him $9 million a year when he probably didn't have an offer close to that from the Cowboys. Not even close. He was getting like $9.75 from the Buccaneers. The number one,

reason apparently why he picked the Houston Texans. We know it's money, but here's part 1A. The reason I pick the Texans is, I mean, obviously I think that you look at what they've been able to do over the past two years, went to the playoffs for the past five times. You know, at this point in my career, I still don't have a ring. So, you know, I want to be in a situation where I have that possibility. And, you know, I think when you look at the son and what he's been able to do since he's been in the league. I've been really impressed from afar watching him. He has tremendous ability, and he's a winner. You know, he's won at every level from high school to college to, you know, I think he has that ability to take us to a Super Bowl, and I want to be a part

of something special with him. AFC South champions two years in a row. Bill O'Brien is a winner, Matt. I feel like I need to get a hold of Randall Cobb. And do what? And shake him. Not like to shake him to hurt his skull or something, but... Yeah, don't hurt him. If he thinks he's getting a ring here, he's mistaken. Now, if he wants to think that Deshaun Watson can get him to a ring, that's... I'm well within a right to believe in that could be a possibility.

But you're not getting a ring, Randall Cabo, Bill O'Brien's a coach. Do the Texans hand out AFC South Champion rings? I wouldn't surprise me, honestly. Yeah, and there's plenty of shirts always available. Bill O'Brien shows up to some banquet with four rings on his hand. Look at all that jewelry Bill O'Brien's wearing. What is those? AFC South Rings.

But you know, AFC South Rings? I would totally see that. You know, AFC South Rings are made of Kubrick-Sercone. You don't get the diamond until you at least get the championship. I feel like the Mayn-N-A-Mayers can spring for the diamonds. No, no, but league rules. A league rules. Cubrics are coning only.

That's unfortunately misguided by Randall. He's not winning a ring here. Let's see. Has Bill O'Brien want a ring anywhere he's been? Not at Penn State. The Patriots didn't win when he was there, I don't think. From 7 to 11? He was there during the drought.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. He's ringless. Maybe they won... The Sean's got a ring. National Championship ring, right? Maybe they won a... Maybe they won an Ivy League championship when he was a Brown. Yeah, that's a possibility.

But they only rings at Brown? Maybe. Poor Randall. I can't wait to get to know him a little bit. But I'm also under the... We've got to assume that he just doesn't know any better. he got a big contract from the team that no one else was willing to pay him and they said all right look we're going to pay you nine million dollars a year but you have to say the following

here's your script that's why you know we're going to win a ring we love bill o'brien we love to Sean Watson great culture great a jack easterby's a swell fella can't wait to work with these guys i think bill o'brien was listening in into that conference call even though he didn't speak at all probably oh yeah bill o'brien was under was under an alias he was um he was let's say he was from the Bay City Register. Bay City, Texas? Yeah. Wow.

He's the Texas beat reporter, Texas PR department. We don't have anybody that covers us from the Bay City paper. But his name is Brian O'Bilsom? Oh, okay. Brian O'Bilsom wants to be on this conference call. I guess we'll let him. I feel like he'd be more like from the River Oaks Times. No, it'll be too much of an easy.

It would be a bad alley. He's got to put them with a suburban paper, like an out-of-town. Nobody's going to notice? Yeah. Or some made-up blog, like Texanscairn.com. Hmm. Or like, well, there's already a battle red blog. There's already a Toro Times.

There's already a... What else can you name it? Oh, calforlife.com? The bullpen.com. That's not bad. Texans bullpen.com. Not bad. All right. Patrick and Belair has a question for me.

And anything goes Friday. Have you done your due diligence and figuring out what the question is, Nick? No, I told him he could ask for every one. wanted. That's a very dangerous thing you've just done, my friend. It just is 1229. It is Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. We're a half hour away from our friend Wade Phillips during the show, 130, T. Brown from the Rockets, 2 o'clock Brian T. Smith. And it's Adam Wexler versus me in the Fantasy 5 fictional nurses and doctors, as we honor those that are taking care of us now. It's Sports Talk 790. This is Ricky Williams. I may have worn a wedding dress.

on a magazine cover, but it still looks better than any outfit Matt can put together. Let your wife dress you, man. Texas Five! Back to Matt Thomas on Sports Talk, 790. Wow! I feel good. I knew that I wouldn't. This fantasy five, we have at 2.30 days, would be very interesting because there are a lot of choices. It depends on what kind of movies you liked and what kind of TV shows you liked about who your favorite doctors and or nurses were.

So we've got that coming up at 2.30 this afternoon here on Sports Talk 7.9. We've got Wade Phillips in a half an hour. Tad Brown and Brian T. Smith between now and three o'clock today. 713-212-5-7-90. The reason when we played Ricky Williams is because his beloved alma mater will be on these airwaves tonight. That's true. The January 4th, 2006 edition of the Rose Bowl, Texas versus USC, going to play tonight at 7 o'clock. there will be a special nightcap pregame show, the segment before that. Looking forward to it. Going to break it down, you know, a lot of NFL talent on both sides of the ball, Matt. It would be interesting to see how that one plays out.

Not much defense, neither one of the sides. Well, you know, they both had a lot of talent on defense. The offenses were just, I mean, two of the all-time great offenses in the history of the sport. I remember being in Utah watching the game and thinking, man, if we could get this game to go five more minutes. It was like a game that I never wanted to end because it was just, one amazing athletic accomplishment after the other. Fourth and one, Lindell White was one of the scariest moments of my sports. I thought it was over.

I was like, well, Lindel White has been crushing Texas the entire game. He's going to get this one yard. There's no way they stop him. And they stopped them. And then the drive started. How did you celebrate? I was just really hammered out. I was just watching my dad's house.

So, 2014. How old were you? 21. Okay. I had just gotten back from Vegas. I wasn't back at school yet. in Austin. You didn't have to be back yet.

We were in Vegas for New Year's, but the game was on the fourth. I had a betting ticket. I had money-line Texas, and I'd pick them against the spread. So you cashed in quite well. Yeah, it did pretty good for me.

At that time, when I was 21 years old, I made a couple hundred bucks, and that was, you know, it's a huge boon. I remember going to Vegas as a 21, 22-year-old betting $25 on a game thinking, my God,

please, please, please hit this because I can't afford to lose this bet. I had to sign my ticket and mail it to, I think it was an MGM property. Which I'll never do again. They had to send me a check. Yeah, I'll never do that again.

I'll never buy a ticket. I want to go back and go cash. I was the happiest ever when I had to, when I cashed that check. Because that was the check that said Texas won the national championship. You should never have cashed it. Let the casinos be off on their money a little bit. 21-year-old Ross for about $200.

Yeah, I was cashing it. Patrick and Bel Air at 1235 on 7-90. Patrick, good afternoon. Good afternoon. All right. So my couple of questions for our peelbacks, the curtain call here. I was watching the NBA

that the day they had Phoenix in Boston and the final. It was kind of interesting. They basically had like two card tables set up for the scores table. So my question, my first question to you is there, you know, the older arena that you wish you could have called a game in, like the forum or the spectrum, the mecca,

or, you know, like a chemistry arena. Oh, great quite. One arena that I would have liked to call the game in. I called a WNBA game in the old form. So I was able to do that. Never, Boston Garden doesn't do much for me because I'm just, I'm not a big fan of East Coast.

Trying to think of an arena that I would have liked to have done a game in. Oh, I did a game in Seattle. These are all WMBA. Give me a minute to think about that. Hold on. You were the voice of the Houston comics? I didn't do every game I did like seven or eight a year.

I was a feeling. How many do they play? Like 30? They played 32. Okay. So I did every time. When you did Seattle, did you do Tacoma or did you actually do it in Chi Arena? Key Arena.

Oh, okay. Yeah, that's much better than the Tacoma place. Well, actually, in the old arena was called the Seattle Center Coliseum. They tore that down and rebuilt Key Arena. And then now they need to tear down in Key Arena to build something else. But they're doing that because Seattle's getting a hockey team here. Right, right. Now, one of my questions also I thought about, too,

I got to visit the old Carmichael Arena and I got to visit Smith Center. And I thought about how, don't know, Smith Center was a great building. But you could see how cool Carmichael was because it's kind of like, you know, Cameron Endor. Everyone's on top of me. You can kind of, you know, picture that. My other question is since you've had a chance to be work for somebody to every new, the worst season, all the different jobs that you've had, was ever just one coach you, you know, just told great stories. I don't know if when you're in Utah, Rick McJarres was there, you know, like after you did, like,

your little post game or pregame. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Was there someone who were like, God, this guy, he may not have been the greatest coach, but the greatest story to him. If you don't mind, I'm going to hang up and listen to. Great, great stories. Thank you very much. Actually, I was not, Rick Majeris had just left Utah when I got the job at the University of Utah.

So there was a guy named Ray Jackaletti, who was the coach when I was there. But it's funny because Rick Majeris, you had this thought of him, him being this big, fat, gregarious, interesting person. He was an a-hole to people in Utah. They couldn't get rid of him fast enough. Really? He was such a miserable human being, but he had this national persona to him. Let me give you some people that told great stories. Speaking of the comments, Van Chancellor is an amazing storyteller.

Yes. I think I had dinner with him more than I have any other coach on the road. And he would tell stories about current players. he would tell stories about his old players. But when he wanted to talk about the comments, when we were at dinner, he would never refer to them by their names, meaning Cheryl Swoops, Tina Thompson, or Cynthia Cooper. He would just put his hands up and give the uniform numbers up.

It was almost like he felt like he couldn't tell him. He couldn't utter their names. He'd say, you know, Matt, when this one was doing this, and this one was not getting along with this on this one, I mean, I was like, you had to watch his hands while he was talking to you. Yeah, that's funny. Van Chancellor on a mobile was one of my favorite on a mobile. Other great storytellers, Ken Hatfield, the coach at Rice, was a great storyteller.

You've got to be a great storyteller if your name is Ken Hatfield. Yeah, I mean, it was a great college player and a great college coach, so it was easy to talk to him. And Mike Dan Tony is a great storyteller, too. Really, really, really, really fun to be around. And that's the one thing I always tell the audience, and I repeat this again. I really wish good things upon people when they're really nice people, when they're good people and good coaches. And I hope Mike Dan Tony gets what he wants in terms of a new contract. Again, I think it's very much still up in the air.

But I rooted hard for AJ Hinch because A.J. Hinch is a great storyteller. We never broke bread. We've always had lots of conversations off air before. I'm trying to think who else would be great in terms of storytelling that I've dealt with. Those are the ones that come right to mind. He's talking about coaches. Greg Cook is an amazing storyteller. I didn't believe half the things that he used to tell me

until I saw him firsthand. I'm like, they're all true. Everything that Greg has ever told you in Uncle Greg stories, 100% happened. He, okay, I'll just say this.

He told me one time, he says, I'm mad, I'm going to get a haircut. I said, okay, that's fine, Greg.

He goes, Matt, I get the best haircuts from this woman. I said, what? I said, how hard is it to get a, a regular haircut.

He goes, yes. I said, okay. I can't really tell him much more beyond that. What? Was he having some sort of intercourse relationship with...

I'll let you interpret that. In the chair? I hope they wiped the chair down after. Especially in today's world. Any other coaches that I've dealt with that were great in terms... I think that's about it. Utah, Rockets.

Oh, Calvin Samson's a good storyteller, too. McKell? McCell had some stories. I never did. I never did interview with him. Calvin Samson is a great storyteller, too. You know, it's funny. The ones that have been around the block a little bit

have great stories about every situation. Of course. So, yeah, those are on my list. And the first question was name it, was an arena that I wish I could have done a game in. I've done Madison Square Garden. Not anything that comes to mind. The mecca is interesting in Milwaukee,

but I don't, that's, that was just an old dump. I actually did a game with the old mecca. It was called something else. The bank named it. I did a NIT basketball game there one year. So I've actually done a game there. No, there's not anywhere that I wish I would have done. U.S. Cellular Arena, was it called?

Yeah, it was called. UW Milwaukee was a team. They were coached by Bruce Pearl at the time. It's called the UW Milwaukee Panther Arena right now, so it's still going. I will tell you the most over. He's called it a dump. Yeah, it's old. I mean, super old.

But that's where Louis Alcindor played his games early on. Oh, they broke ground on it in 1940. Yeah. I'll say the most overrated place to do a game is in a dome. Like a big dome? You can't see anything, right? Yeah, well, you're usually going to be two rows below the floor. You know how the guys usually walk up steps to get on the court? There's nothing fun about calling a game in a dome. Zero. Nothing interesting about that.

So, yeah, I get there's just, there isn't a, I mean, I've been lucky to do games in L.A., I mean, all over the country. So it's just, there isn't a place that I wish, man, I would have to go to Boston Garden, nah. Philadelphia, the spectrum, no. The Omni in Atlanta, no. Oh, you know what? I wish I could have done the play-by-a-played a summit game. I did PA there for two years,

for three years, but never did the play-by-applied. It counts. You worked. That's true. All right, 1243 is our time. Speaking of arenas, LeBron James is not overly amped about playing. LeBron James.

By we're going to talk about the videos we did yesterday. Of course. LeBron James, not a huge fan of playing an empty arenas. We'll discuss that next. Toll 43 on Sports Talk 790. Load up on those napkins, straws, ketchup, hot sauce, mustard. Oh, and don't forget duck sauce. It's the Matt Thomas show for lunch on Sports Talk 790.

Sitting in the morning sun, I'll be sitting when the evening comes. Watching the ships rolling. Are we allowed to sit on the dock of the bay? Probably not. As long as you're separated by a few feet, right? I don't know. Is it public property? Good question.

By the way, congratulations. Actions and congratulations. Here's a sigh of relief. Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gober have been cleared of any coronavirus symptoms. I guess they've been cleared to resume normal life here. So after being in self-quarantine for a couple weeks. We need something. We need something good news, sports-wise.

This is the Matt Thomas show at 1250. We'll visit with Wade Phillips coming up in about 10 minutes from now here on Sports Talk 790. Wonderful. And then Tad Brown on the Rockets coming up at 1.30. And that's not really the Rockets. It's more about the NBA. LeBron James appeared on something called the Road Tripping Podcast.

Oh, by way, real fast, I want to give you credit for something. I don't want to giving Ross for anything. It hurts my feelings. Ross and I and Chris Gordy yesterday put together a little couple of fall little videos. One me doing PA and one me doing play by play on NBA 2K19. It was the Rockets and the Lakers at TOTA Center where I would do the PA, and it would be the Rockets and the Lakers at Staples Center with me doing the play-by-play. I'm retweeting them now.

They came out of a few hours ago on Sports Talk 790. We should have made a blog of this. Would you please do it? Yeah, I'll get somebody on it. Nick? I'll make it at three. Yeah, we need to put a blog. We need some blog hits on it.

The blog is very important at Sports790.com. Yes. So I did a little bit of that. It was fun. It was much more difficult than I thought it was going to be, especially from the play-by-play perspective, because the numbers that are attached to the players are not their real numbers.

Yeah, well, Gordy made all the trades, and he didn't change the... I mean, it's fine. It's not his fault. No, but Dwight, Howard War 21, and there were some other players that didn't have numbers that matched. Anthony Davis had number three. Yeah, so there were some strange ones. But we took little best clips of them, and if you want to look at something that kind of keeps us kill time during this non-action. We should slap it up on the blog, and then we'll plug it in full then.

Please do that. All right. LeBron James says when he was asked about the thought of playing games without fans, what in the world, what is the word sport without fan? There's no excitement. There's no crying. There's no joy. there's no back and forth.

There's no rhyme or reason that you would want to go on the road and just dethrone the home team because of their fans and vice versa. Like that, so it also brings up the competitive side of the players to know that you're going on the road in a hostile environment, and yes, you're playing against that opponent in front of you, but you really want to kick the fans' ass too. So to get back on the floor, I would love it. I'm not going to sit here and say nothing.

Like if it gets out there and get back on the floor five on five, but like we can do that in scrimmages. Let's just go to each other's practice facilities, put out a camera, just scrimmage and live stream it. But until the fans come back, I just don't know how we imagine a sporting event without fans. It's just, it's just a weird dynamic. Nothing he's saying is not the truth.

It will be very odd when these guys come back. But there's no way in the world, guys, that the NBA is going to come back and have full arenas again. We may not get, Rossi, we may not get full arena. is again until, I don't know, 2021. There is a distinct possibility of that. But what I think LeBron is going to have to get a phone call from Adam Sovere,

he's going to say, look, this is not how we want it. We don't make money this way. But we got to get, if we can, if we can medically clear you guys, and it's safe, everybody, America misses you. America needs a little boost. And sports will provide that. So, well, again, I am. empathize with what he's saying, LeBron and the rest of the NBA, we need you back out there.

Well, he's not, I mean, did he say anything about, I mean, they need to, they need to not do this until we can get fans or anything? I don't think he said that. I mean, he's just expressing his frustration. I'm not saying anything about that. Exactly. Yeah. It's, it is what it is. We're all going to have to say, I mean, everybody's making sacrifices some more than others.

LeBron James is going to have to not play in front of crowds for a little bit there, I guess. you're going to have to find he'll be fine you're motivated to beat the guy across from you there are people who get motivated to play in in gyms and I mean think of like that 92 a dream team when they had the

the inner squad scrimmage and there was nobody there was no crowd there and that was one of the most intense games that you'll ever see if you see footage of that so I mean you can you'll be fine without crowds it's not going to be the same and you're going to be missing it of course everybody's got to make sacrifices

everybody's going to make sacrifice they'll put some music in they'll have I wonder if they'll, do you think they'll pipe in crowd noise or anything? That would seem a little weird. It would. But I can see music being played a lot. You think they'll still do the,

like the arena music and stuff? Could I be used? Are they going to play monie, monie at the brakes? Yeah, is there going to be P.A.? Defense. Yeah. Are you going to encourage James Hardin, Eric Gordon and the crew to play defense? And let me taste something.

If any PA announcers, guess what I'll be doing? PA announcing. James Hardin! Anthony Davis. Offensive foul, PJ Tucker, his third. Yeah, that sounds about right. A nice warm welcome for the Los Angeles. Fall and PJ Tucker for moving screen.

Yeah. Also, he was asked about if they should start playing right away, do they go to playoffs or do they play games? And he says that he would like to see them play five to ten games before starting the postseason. It'd be nice to get a little ramp up. Yeah. He says basically, you have to make those previous 60 games everybody played means something. Yeah, we need James Harden to play into shape.

Well, all of them. Some, I bet there's a few games. Some more than others. Like, I've gained six pounds since the start, since this quarantine. It's not, you know, it's not anybody's fault. Yeah, it's my fault. But it's just, you're a victim of circumstance, Matt. I had tequitos at 11 o'clock last time.

Like, what am I doing? I had some leftover lasagna about 11 o'clock. You see, you know what I'm doing is I'm eating I'm eating earlier than I ever had before And thus, I'm getting hungrier At night before I go to bed See a little, when I was a kid, we used to call it an MS, a little midnight snack

My MS has become 11 o'clock snack, 730 snack, 915 snack 1051 snack 1159 dessert Matter of fact, I'm going to have something during the break here JW and Beaumont on 790 Hi, J.W. J.W. Can you hear me?

Barely. What's that noise, J.W. Is that a woodpecker back there? Well, no. What I'm on is a... And I'm driving towards Bommon. I'm a over-the-road truck driver. All right.

What my question is, is what in the world is going on with Bill O'Brien's mind for crying out loud? I just found out about them literally giving away Andre Hopkins. Maybe we should have made it another deal. All right, John. We'll let you go because that pounding in the back is really annoying. But thank you for the phone call. It's not annoying or no? He said he was, was he driving over, what was he driving over?

I don't know, but the man's working. I don't want to respect. He took the time to call to give him respect for that. It's true. Thank you, J.W. for the call. Thanks, J.W. We've spent two weeks on this. Bill O'Brien ain't going anywhere.

Sorry. Bill O'Brien ain't going anywhere. He doesn't regret the trade or we don't think he does because he hadn't spoken to anybody about it. He probably doesn't. And the only person he has to answer to loves the deal. Cal McNair loves the deal. And also, by the way, my guess is that Jack Easterby loves a deal too. All that building is, Rossi, is yes, men.

It seems to be the case. Just the way Bill O'Brien wanted it. You're going against Bill O'Brien. Texans Communist Network, you would be traded or fired or reassigned. Dom, dumb, do, do a better Russian accent. I don't know if I can. You do a Russian accent? DeJone Watson is great quarterback.

Dejondre Hopkins is no good. DeAndre Hopkins say he wants more money for three years' contract. We move him to Valley of Sun. DeAndre Hopkins is product of my system. I make DeAndre Hopkins. He is no one without me. Texans Communist Network. Texans number one, rest of NFL teams,

Bia! AFC South Champions, not one year, not two years. years in a row. Wade Phillips, I'm sure he's got plenty of pleasant things said about Bill O'Brien. Next, we won't do that to him. 1258 on 790.

Next is the Matt Thomas show. Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show. And we are pleased to be joined by one of the greatest defensive masterminds in the history of the National Football League. He is a fellow Houston Cougar.

and the book, son of bums, to be something all of you should be reading. We have nothing else to do because you're going to learn a lot of great things about football and life and fatherhood and being a great son. Wade Phillips here on the Matt Thomas show. Coach, it's Matt and Ross.

Thank you for spending some time with us. How are you today? Well, I'm doing all right. You know, I'm not doing nothing. I don't start until noon. Wait a minute. What time do you go to bed at night? Tell the truth.

shoot i don't know we stay up later now i guess uh you know because you're sitting around the house all day yeah preaching i understand when you were in the prime in terms of uh whether no matter where you were in terms of your coaching stops what was the normal sleep habits that you would have i'm curious about that because there are always stories about guys that were sleeping in their offices and on the couch i mean were you able to get some normalcy or where there were a couple nights a week where you were one up in the couching or the coaches chair trying to get a couple of hours asleep? No, I mean, you know, I even start one by dad.

I mean, you know, I think you're nonproductive at a certain point, you know. So, no, we try not stay up all night. Now, playing against Tom Brady, those nights seem like a little longer before you're going to play somebody like that. But seriously, I think you, you know, you put in the time it takes to, to help your team win. And then, of course, the players have to do a big part of it, too. I mean, it's not just what you do.

It's what they do. You mentioned Tom Brady. Is he number one on the list? I mean, is there three or four that come right to mind of I spent a lot of time looking at trying to find something wrong in their game and had a very difficult time doing so? Yeah, well, obviously Brady and Peyton Manning and those guys. I mean, you know, and then I'll tell you, lately this Mahomes kid is really something, you know.

Brett Fav, I mean, you go on and on with all the great ones, you know. Jim Kelly, when we played against him, Elway. I had Elway, but also had to play against him. So there's been a lot of great ones, you know, sometimes no matter what you do or what you think of, they're still going to find a way to beat you. You wrote the book, Some Obama a couple of years ago. How long did it take you? And I know you wrote it with Tom.

Who was the gentleman? Vic Carucci. I was going to say Tom Verducci, but that's not right. How long it had it taken? Are you thinking about doing one more before your writing career has come to an end? It took a little while, and then, you know, I really didn't have time to go out and promote it, you know. So we've got a little time right now, so that's why we're kind of coming back with it. But I got a lot of stories, that's for sure. but I don't know if I could put them all in the book or in a book

Well then you should do like do a podcast Like stories I couldn't write in the book But I want to tell somebody That'd be a great way to introduce yourself to a new audience Yeah maybe so Yeah maybe so What did you think about Locally here

We're all kind of still shell-shocked about DeAndre Hopkins We're in somebody else's gear That had to throw on you and the rest of your friends And the coach you were turning off a little bit Seeing him move on a different team You bet You bet you know D-Hops, awfully hard to stop.

I mean, what a receiver, you know. So, you know, anytime you lose a great, great player, I mean, it's got to hurt you some. I don't know, you know, so surprising. But, you know, they know what they're doing or at least they, I mean, they've won the division several years. And, you know, he's done a good job here. So, you know, maybe it'll work out for him. But, you know, paying against him, I mean, you just have to game plan. try to stop him and you couldn't.

You know, that was a big thing. To me, what makes him so attractive, and I'm sure you had to defend a lot of great receivers as a coach over the years, but the fact that he won almost every 50-50 ball. I mean, I know there have been a lot of guys in the NFL coach that were way faster than DeAndre L. Everby, but in terms of quarterback throws a ball up in the air,

you got a really good chance of DeAndreys near it to grab that football for a catch. Yeah, I think he's the best in the league contested catches. you know, yeah, a lot of guys catch the ball and so forth and run with it. But as far as contested balls, he's a guy I'd pick every time to get one. And he got most of them. So Bill O'Brien was the guy that made that move that we've been talking about, Coach.

What do you think of Bill O'Brien as a head coach in the direction the Texans are going? Well, I mean, you know, they won the division several times. And, you know, we won it a couple times when I was here with Coobes. you know, it's hard to do. It's hard to win the division and get to the playoffs. So I think they've done a good job there. I know everybody wants them to win more, but, you know, it's still hard to do. Those Super Bowls and championship games and all those things are tough to get to.

I know you've got a lot of friends still in the fraternity. How is everybody handling with, I don't know how much phone calls you've had or text messages or whatnot? How's everybody handling the current situation in terms of getting ready for the draft right now? well they're looking at the players at home you know they're looking at the tapes at home of of the players and they did have the combine so they can look at they can look at that tape too and they had taped interviews there so you know they're on top of that I just how valuable was this time of year for you when you were coaching I mean some guys will try to overestimate how how much the value of having those in-face conversations are.

Some will say there's never, never enough time to review film. How much work could you get done in the months of February and March and would there be a big payoff down the stretch on that kind of thing? Well, I mean, you know, coaching-wise, you have to catch up. You know, scouts have done all that. And so once a season, over, you got to catch up by watching the film you're talking about. And I've always thought, you know, and I think it's true. it's still, it's not what he can do in shorts. It's, you know, how he played the game.

And so you look for certain skills. And we're still wrong on a lot of it. I mean, you look at first round picks and, what, 50% of them are busts or don't do what they think of first round. They ought to do. So it's a tough evaluation to get players. But I think the best thing is to watch them on film and see what you like about them as far as their skills, as far as, and it's changed the direction.

It's not just all out speed. It's change the direction. It's movement skills. It's decisions, you know, it's decisions, you know, quarterback decisions, but defensive players have to make a decision on every play and where the ball is. So you look at those things. And how much does that add to the experience of being able to meet these guys, which, of course, the teams aren't able to do this year, Coach.

I mean, is it, would you say, I mean, where on the priority list is that? Because you say, of course, the film is important, but if you didn't get to meet any of the guys personally, is that a huge loss or is it not that big of a loss? I don't know that it's that big, especially, you know, these ages and stuff, they prime them for, you know, what to say. You know, they're in the one-on-one meetings, you get some kind of feel, but you, you, you, They do a pretty good job of prepping those guys on the right things to say. Visiting with Wade Phillips, the longtime NFL coach, name of the book, Son of Bum, Lessons. My Dad taught me about football in life. Vic Carucci helped Wade to put the book together.

You know, obviously the practices, the number of padded workouts changed since Bum was coaching. If he was with us today, what would he think about how the NFL has changed, how teams are practicing now? you know, we were one of the teams when I was coaching with him, way back with the Oilers. We practiced in shorts, not shorts and shoulder pads, but we didn't practice in full gear all the time because he didn't, he thought that, you know, you beat him up too much if you,

if you had full, full tackling and full things that a lot of people did at that time. So I think he'd be comfortable with it. Now, as far as life for you, does your wife want you out of the house already? Or once the coasts? Already, we got, hey, we put a piece of tape right through the middle of the living room, you know. So we've been together a little too long. You got one side and she's got the other? Yeah, one side.

Yeah, that's it, baby. Do you got the TV at least? Yeah, well, yeah, I got the TV side. Okay, I'm glad. Yeah. That's actually very funny. My wife's been social distancing with me for like a decade, coach. So trust me, it's something new for me. If I was to, if you were to watch two or three games,

because we're all doing a lot of retrospect, watching NFL network and some things on ESPN and ESPN and ESPN classic, what are the two or three games you'd like to see over again on television? Super Bowl 50 for one. Yeah. That was a good one. Yeah. No.

Well, I don't know. I mean, you know, I don't like to see all those high-scoring games. You know, with the Rams, we beat Mahomes of them, but it was 54 to 51, so that was a great defensive game. But that was an exciting game, you know. But just one, do we want, you know, although the old-order games against Pittsburgh, you know, even though they won the ASC championship, or won the Super Bowl. I'd like to go back and look at them just to see

to re-see it, I guess. I saw it live, but we had some good games against them, too. So, you know, I don't know, on it on, I've had a lot of ball games that I enjoyed being in, and most of those were wins, obviously. Yeah, those are the ones you do want to enjoy. Well, you know what, we need to see you back on campus more often next year if you're not working in the league, because I'd like to see what, Dana does in season number two, and I know that you still keep in touch with the Cougars quite a bit.

Yeah, I went out to their practice the other day, you know, before all this kind of came on and I watched and practice, so I hope they do well. We'll leave it at that. It's a son of bum lessons my dad taught me about football and life. The book is available through Amazon and other places. I was going to say go to your favorite bookstore, but can't do that now, but you can't do that now, but you can just go online and find it. Coach, it was a real pleasure having you on the show.

We wish you nothing but the very best, and keep that tape separated for you and the wife, so you didn't get the chance to change a channel on your television, all right? Okay, Matt, thanks. You got to take care of yourself. Wade Phillips joining us here on Sports Talk 790. Always good to visit with one of the truly nice, nice people in coaching. You know what we were talking about earlier, how coaches are nice? Yes.

He was very nice about Bill O'Brien. Very, very nice. Well, he's won the division. It's hard to do that, Matt. It's a fact. Yeah. I like that he and his wife have taped off the living room. I guess I just got a text of my wife.

Tell Coach Phillips, great idea. Love Kim. Oh, okay, thanks. 114 is our time. We check in on the NBA in 15 minutes on Sports Talk 790. Back to the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. For the corner, and that's no! Home of your Astros.

118 on Sports Talk 790 with Nick Lauer, producer, Ross Villarreal. Matt Thomas with you. Thanks again to Sonobum for joining us for a few minutes. he's plain folks he just like his dad was. Hey, you're working. What are we ever going to get this fixed? I don't know. Are we waiting for parts? Is that what the deal is?

I don't know. Yeah, the parts are coming over from China. It's going to be a minute. Give me a minute. I'm just kidding. I don't know. It'll be a lot longer than that. And my on-off button doesn't work. Okay.

Have we told anybody this? To peel the curtain back. Yeah, they know. Okay. They're working on it. All right. So thanks again to Bum for joining us. Son of Bum.

Yeah. I never got to, I only got to talk to Bum a couple of times in my life. He's do a radio show with Dan Patrick, and he'd come on a couple times a week. Really? Yeah. The beloved Lieutenant Governor, Dan Patrick? Um, but, I mean, yeah, I don't know if beloved's the term I'd use. I mean, I think 45% of the state loves him.

45% hate him. And then 10% are just up and down. Just like any political leader. Yeah. Maybe. Like, who's the most, is there a beloved political leader? right now. No, there's no chance. Right now? Yeah. No.

No. Because like really, when Rudy Giuliani was the mayor of New York and he, you know, he was obviously running things during 9-11. Who's a guy? Go ahead. People love, you know, the great leadership, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then now they hate Rudy. They hate Rudy Giuliani. The last, I would say Reagan was pretty universally loved it. This second term was a, landslide, right? Well, that's because Nancy was kind of running. in it. Is that right?

Well, he was recovering. Alzheimer's kind of kind of got in the way. No, the answer is no, because I guarantee if I said Bill Clinton was beloved before the whole Monica Lewinsky thing, Republicans like, no, we hated him. JFK wasn't even beloved, and then he got shot in it. I mean, that helps things. You can't hate a guy who got shot in the head. There's just no, there's nothing, no. The answer is no. The answer is

no one is universal beloved in politics. Lincoln? I don't think they had poll ratings back then. Yeah, they did, I think. They did not. Okay. Let's go to some of a couple things. Let's see. I mentioned the NFL is going to have their draft after all.

And Commissioner Goodell basically said, do not speak any more ill will of this draft, or we're going to punish you. Meaning we're going to have this and you're going to like it. Yeah, Mickey Loomis and others stop coming out and talking about how this, you can't get your hands on the prospects. Is he the only one saying it, or is he's the one that? being talked about because he's the chairman of that subcommittee.

No, I think there was a lot of general managers who didn't like it. And, yeah, I was glad we got to ask Wade about it because he's obviously been in those conversations. He says since the agents have you ready for, have them ready for every question, it's not, you can't get a whole lot of information out of anyways. And here's the thing, if you ask a question to do one of these prospective guys that's so off the cuff because you're trying to find something, how they handle it, they're going to want to tell the media and the media is going to crush you.

Wasn't there something like three or four years ago? There's a guy, the Dolphins guy, who asked him if your mother was a prostitute or something like that. Yeah, that kind of stuff. I don't think you can do that anymore. Because that athlete's going to go to his agent. His agent is going to call his favorite NFL reporter and he's going to say, you wouldn't believe what XYZ team asked him. So yeah, it is, it is heavily rehearsed.

But that's okay. I mean, there's a lot of things in life that are heavily rehearsed. The other things that you're told that you need to say are not saying. Here's some weird combine questions from a couple of years ago. Do you find your mother attractive? When did you lose your virginity? Oof. Could you imagine?

What is your murder weapon of choice? Let me ask you. That's actually a good question. That's an intelligence question. Yeah, you say butter knife. No, why? Because it is a knife still, but yet it isn't showing you're going to want to go out and kill somebody. I know.

Okay. I cycle, I guess makes sense. So what do you want? You want him to say something really, really fierce? Like a bow and arrow? If you would use a gun or a knife, guns are more traceable. I think you'd go with a knife. That's why you go with the icicle, it melts.

You can't kill somebody with an icicle. Sure you can. If you live in Antarctica, you do. I don't think so. They're not that sharp. In Minneapolis, you can kill people with an icicle. Well, if you make your own, they're that sharp. Oh, geez.

Okay, that's enough from you. Nick, you've thought about this way too much. Yeah, way too much. And that's not surprising at all. What other questions are there? Would you rather be a cat or a dog? You would think the answer would be dog, but maybe they want to hear you say cat. I'd rather be a cat.

Because you're on your own time and you get to do whatever you want. And if you're a cat, you're always trying to avoid the dog. So if you're speaking... Cat runs the place. They're more agile. Dogs need the help of everybody else. But the cats are also ambivalent, too. Cats are more important.

I'd rather be a cat. I'd rather be a Labradoodle because all my Labradoodle does is sleep and eat. That's it. It's basically my life the last two weeks. Sleeping and eating. Doing the show with you. Dogs need constant approval. I'd rather be a cat.

Okay. Well, what else is there? Are you sitting on a bus or speeding on a mountain? What? You're on a mountain in Alaska on a bus going 100 miles per hour. Where are you sitting on the bus? bus. Oh, in the back, so that when the humps hit, you can jump up in the air.

That's what he said when we were kids. Did you arrive in the back of the school bus? If you can pack something, I guess you're screwed no matter what. What's the correct answer to that question? You sit in the back for the more bumps. Oh, was there a quarterback who didn't know where the sun rose and where it's set? Yes. Can't remember who it was.

Well, you know, the, what's that test, the Wonderlich test is always the, you know, supposedly indication of a quarterback's intelligence. Oh, here's the one. A team asked an offensive tackle, would you share your internet history with us? No. I'm yes, because I'm team hashtag incognito window. Oh, I'm team of race history.

Oh, geez. Her wife's not still listening, is she? No, it doesn't do with her. Nobody wants to know what kind of deviant things you're looking up on Pornhub Premium. No. Yeah, how's that going, by the way? I wouldn't know.

What color is chocolate? Oh, they're afraid they're going to say milk or something, I guess. I don't know. These seems kind of silly. Boxers or briefs? Boxers? The correct answer is boxer briefs. It's the perfect combination of comfort.

Was it an option? It's comfort and support. You can't go wrong with boxer briefs. I swear by them. Well, I think all of us would agree with you on that. I did see that video. the lady using boxer briefs as a coronavirus mask the other day. Oh, geez.

By the way, did you hear about Fanatics? Because of the pouch. You know, Fanatics is stopping uniform. They're now creating mask. Oh, that's good. Isn't that great thing? I'll tell you what's something that's been really kind of heartwarming. I'm going to make some money off of it. But that's fine. Everybody's got to make money some money. Yeah, that's why they're like, oh, we're

short as a mask. She'll let the factories ramp up for a little bit. I mean, they'll be fine. They make Pat Mahomes jerseys. Of course, yeah. But I mean, we've seen Deshawn Watson give money. We have seen Mike Dantone Give money. Drew Brees gave

$5 million. Five million dollars. He gave more than any other organization we've seen, right? That's right. Yeah. But we've seen different athletes. Carl Scrae is giving a half million dollars to the, I think the Houston Food Bank, I think something like that.

Here's another one. What kind of fish would you be? What's the right answer? Is there a wrong answer? Tiger shark. I was thinking more about fish that you would eat. Great White. Would you be a sea bass?

Talapia? Oh, yeah, you see, I could see you being a tilapia. That's a bottom feeder. Cheap dirt, cheap dirt fish. Tulapia. That's not very nice. Yeah, you know what? You're telling me these general managers are missing these conversations.

You know, you're fancy mad. You'd be like an ahie tuna. No, I'd be mahi mahi, mahi. Here's another one. Are you afraid of clowns? No. I'm a little bit afraid of clowns because of it. I watched it when I was a kid.

That's the only reason why you wouldn't be normally afraid of them. But if a clown walked in the room, like I wouldn't run out. Would have bozo. walked in here with a long red hair. I would punch him in the stomach. Well, he's dead, so that would be kind of weird. It would be weird. You just got weird right now. 127 on the Matt Thomas show. Let's get out of this. These terrible questions. That's the reason why general managers should not be bitching and complaining about not having these interviews,

because they're not asking relevant questions. They're asking stupid questions about mountains and chocolate. But they are seeing how your brain works. So I get where they're coming from. How about asking just general trivia? Put a, put a Jeopardy board up on the screen. My question is Take potent potables for 1400 If they're trying to figure out how your brain works Are any of these GMs actually smart enough To understand what that tells you about your brain?

Probably if they have the question They probably got it from some book of questions or something There's a team psychologist too is helping out All right, Tad Brown for the Rockets in the TOTA is going to join us, give us an update What's happening around the NBA with this coronavirus 127 on Sports Talk 790 This is your home for Houston Rockets basketball

Sports Talk 790 131 on 790 The Matt Thomas show continues Our next guest is the CEO of the Toyota Center and the Houston Rockets Tad Brown with us on the program Ted I got to be honest with you

I check shams and Woj's tweets about every 45 minutes because I'm an NBA geek and I want good news so can you give us some good news right now anything anything good news at all? Well, yeah. It's a beautiful day here in Houston,

and we've got to stay focused on making sure that we all get through, you know, the current situation safely and that we follow all the guidelines of social distancing and everything else. But from an NBA perspective, I think that the most important thing is, you know, we are going to be playing basketball again. We are going to be, you know, hosting conference. and celebrating at Toyota Center again, we are going to make sure that we listen to all the experts. And Dr. Fauci, I know, like many Americans, we all have a new hero, and I love that guy.

And I appreciate all the information that we're getting from all the experts nationwide. But we are going to get through this. We are going to be playing basketball. We are going to start getting back to our routines. And hopefully that's going to be sooner than later. And as it relates to the league, we were, unfortunately, probably the beginning of the tipping point for all of sports to shut down with Rudy Goberra's positive test. And hopefully we can maybe be the ones to book in that and kind of get people going and people excited again about restarting our sports environment. Well, certainly good news today. Mitchell and Goberra have both been cleared.

So that's some positive news. You know, you are a part of the, obviously, the leadership group of the Rockets and the arena. How often do all of you get on conference calls? Is it twice a week, daily, once a week with the league? And how often are you in communication with Commissioner Silver during all this time? I talk to Adam pretty often, a few different times a week, depending on what's happening. We'll have conference calls with the league at various times. We've had a few different Board of Governors calls.

And from a staff perspective, I literally just got off the phone five minutes ago with all of our team where we're doing the Microsoft team conference calls. And you give them updates. You give everybody updates. Everybody's able to hear. Make sure everybody's safe. Make sure everybody's taking care of getting the resources they need. But also that we're focused on what we need to do to get ready for when we start playing. again. And just because the season's got a little bit of a hiatus here doesn't mean that we're

that business can stop. We're doing everything we possibly can to make sure that our customers know we're engaged and our players and our coaches and that we're prepared as soon as we're ready to get on with the rest of the season because it's going to happen. We're going to play we're going to play games and we're going to play the playoffs and there is going to be a champion crown and hopefully that's going to be us as soon as we get going. Amen to that. Tad Brown, the CEO of the TOTA Center and the Rockets with us here on the Matt Thomas show. You do control your building so you have a master counter, I'm sure, in your office. How much flexibility do you in particular Houston and the TOTA Center have when it comes to dates

or will there be, you know, some consideration of doing it somewhere else if fans are not welcome in the arena just right away? You know, it's certainly preferable not to do it somewhere else. And it is always our preference. You know, Tillman and I and our team, you know, it's always our preference that when we're able to come back, it would be great to be with our fans. The experience is second and none. And it's just the entire ecosystem of the league that it's such a fan-based interactive sport. But this is a unique time in history.

And if we need to start up, say, mid-June and the recommendations from the healthcare professionals are that we start up in Toyota Center, possibly without fans, for a little bit to make sure that we get to the next level. and then, you know, through the playoffs, we engage in a different matter. We're going to have to figure those things out as we go along. I think the most important thing, we're planning and all of us are aligned with the same objectives, whether it be players, owners, fans, everybody, all constituents who rely upon the NBA, whether it be part-time employees, full-time employees, every broadcasters, you name it. I mean, everybody through the entire environment of the league, the infrastructure of the league,

we're all aligned with the same objectives, and that's to make sure that we finish this season out in week and we get our playoffs in. But making sure that we do so with everybody's safety, top of the list, and that we do so at the recommendations of the CDC and the healthcare professionals from around the country and here locally. So we might have to be a little creative. I'm a way to get things kind of kicked back off, if you will. But, you know, at some point we're going to be back in, we're going to be living our lives again, and we're going to be back in restaurants, and we're going to be in hotels,

and we're going to be traveling the world, and we're going to be doing it in a very safe manner that's going to be at a time when the health professionals say we're ready to do so. but I don't think we've ever seen anything like this before, Matt. You know, we've gone through floods, we've got through hurricanes, we've been through lockouts, we've been through the financial crisis in 0708. But there's never been anything like this from a standpoint of whether it be, and it's not just the sports world, it's all of the business world where there isn't an end date. There isn't, you know, deadlines make deals,

and there's no deadline that you can point to to say that that's when we're going to be back. All we can do is continue to move. monitor all the information that we have and make the best decision possible based on what the health care professionals and the experts are telling us and be as prepared as we possibly can. Our guys, our staff, the building, everybody be as prepared as we can. As soon as that opportunity comes, we're ready to turn it out. How much flexibility do you have, Tad, when it comes to the arena, say in the months of July, August, September, I'm going to presume that I've gone a lot of concerts in the building. That's a heavy concert time.

a lot of those concerts either being postponed or rescheduled. Is your calendar right now kind of up in the air because somebody wants to come perform, but you also want to open up some dates for potential playoff games and other things that are happening in the building? It's a daily, it's a daily give and take, right? And Hillary Thomas for our staff or Booker, she's doing Yeoman's work right now. Because, yes, we're rescheduling concerts that currently now are looking to be. push back possibly into the fall. And then we're also looking at dates that even possibly traditionally might have been

not only for concert dates, but maybe, you know, early, early family events that might be during back-to-school time that we might need for basketball events, and whether it be August or, you know, early September or July. But it's just part of the process that we're going through right now. We've got to be as flexible as we possibly can. I think our organization is dissimilar to many in that we control the entire aspect of the experience at Toyota Center. So we're able to kind of easily look at things and say, okay, this hold might be for one show, yet we know that they can reroute somewhere else and then we can plug in a game there. So we've got a little more flexibility, but it is a Rubik's Cube at this point, one that we're hoping as soon, again,

the next trigger point, which is going to be important, which I think is going to be happening. Hopefully, you know, we'll get more information throughout the coming weeks. But the next trigger point is going to be, okay, this is when we believe we're going to be starting again. And I do think that that's going to be, you know, sooner than later, but only at the time when the healthcare professionals are going to say that we think it's safe and we think these are the parameters upon which we can start playing games again. A couple more questions here for Ted Brown Rockets and Toyota Center CEO. There has been a lot of conversation about how many games are played when everybody resumes postseason five games, seven game series. I'm going to assume that you're into the category of we need a few regular season games to get back acclimated. Are you in that group or do you envision this thing maybe potentially going right to the playoffs?

Not sure yet, but I am in the group where, you know, if they were asking me, I do think we need some. regular season games, you know, without question, because remember, the guys are going to be coming in from a little bit of a layoff through the, through the recommendations from the CDC. They're not working out at the building right now. So nobody is really in the, they're all working out. I know, I know that they're doing everything they need to do to stay in shape, but you have to get back into basketball, the basketball cadence, right, of practice and playing and getting through it to make sure that you're getting the guys as ready as possible,

the players as ready as possible to play at the highest performance that they can. So I would say we definitely need to hit some of the regular season games, if not the majority of them, if not all of them, and then go into the playoffs. But some of these things, it's interesting, Matt, because there are so many different people who are leaking, whether to be to the guys that you were talking about earlier or local reporters or people. And there are so many different voices that possibly could say something, hey, this is what I think.

And then it goes out there and it becomes viral. And then you realize that it's not even something that was even vetted through the league or would be presented to the board. So I think we're kind of in a moment right now where everybody just got to take a breath. We've got to focus on what's most important, which is let's get through this current situation, specifically for us in Houston. And let's make sure that we give our health care professionals, we take care of the people who are the most at risk,

and that we make sure, at least from my perspective, from Tillman's perspective, of making sure that the organization is good, and we've got the resources applied to the people who need them the most and to our players and our coaches and our families so that everybody gets through this time really safe. And the rest of the stuff is going to take care of itself. We are going to be looking at this down the road later on,

this summer, you know, hopefully later on this spring, where we're going to be, you know, we're going to be moving on and we're going to be still cautious about the environment that we're in, but we're going to be back to playing games. We're going to be back to, you know, hopefully competing for a championship and getting this thing going sooner than later. But again, let's get through the current situation, which is we've got to be as cautious and as vigilant as we possibly can, follow all the guidelines from the mayor, from from the county judge and from our health professionals to make sure that we're all safe. Last question, Ted. Let's say an NBA champion is crowned, give or take, September 5th.

Hopefully it's in Houston, Texas, on the floor of the TOTA center. That would then probably push the start of next season into a December start, and then there will be, I think, pretty good dialogue out there about whether or not the NBA should move its season permanently to December. Any thoughts on that, or do you want to kind of wait and see how things go out here first? long term, you know, that's going to be something that the board will take on. Me personally, and the conversations I've had with people is I think we should really look at the rest of this year and next year in more of a rolling kind of 18-month, 20-month cycle. And if it means that we start our next season a little bit later, whether it would be around

the holidays or the like, depending on when we end up finishing up, that's okay. because, again, we're all aligned to do the same, to really focus on the same objectives. And if that means that we finish the playoff this year coming in in August or Labor Day, let's say that you said that, I didn't say that, but I'm just responding to what you mentioned. And that means that we push back into the holiday season and start the season, which means then we finish a little bit later than we normally would. Hey, it's really, these are unprecedented times that are going to call for unprecedented reactions. And whatever we have to do to make sure that we, that we protect the game,

we protect the players and the people who are serving the game, as well as the infrastructure that relies upon the game for so much of their livelihood and so much of the benefits that we all enjoy and the great experiences that we all enjoy, that if it takes a little bit longer, it takes a little bit longer. That's the right thing to do. And I think that's what we really have to focus on. Tan, thank you for the time. You know, we've got a huge rocket audience here.

So anytime you have news that you want to pass along to us, we would be glad to have you on to discuss. And I can out wait for the text, whatever it may be, say, Matt, time to come back to the arena because I'm, King was a great community, as you know, but I want to spend more time in downtown Houston. We'll do it in the right situation to get these teams back on the floor. Thank you for the time this afternoon.

I was wondering if you were at your Kingwood Broadcast studio because I'm at my Kingwood office as well. No, I'm actually in the gallery, but I have used Kingwood occasionally. But I got to hang out with my people here at 7-90. They miss me too much. It's good talking to you. Take care. Everybody be healthy.

We appreciate it. And everybody's stay safe. Thank you, Tad Brown, Chief Executive Officer of the Rockets and TOTA Center with us here on Sports Talk 790. He sounds encouraged. I'm glad he did. because we've had some discouraging stuff out there a lot in the last few weeks especially when it comes to getting back to sports.

One person wasn't nearly as encouraged about the return of sports, and we'll tell you who that is, and what he said next, 146, it is the Matt Thomas show here on Sports Talk 790. Back to Matt Thomas. Drives this state to left center field. This is Sports Talk 790,

home of Astros baseball. 150. Thanks again to Tad Brown for joining us. Yeah, have you had concert tickets Be ready for these things And move around, right? Ross, I mean, I know Jackson's coming this summer

I knew that James Taylor And Jackson Brown are coming That's, I meant to be as big But maybe not even 20% as big But that's not here nor there I have tickets for that Right now matter of fact, I got the tickets right here You do?

Yeah Oh my gosh Where are they out? May 16th Yeah, that's not happening Saturday, May 16th, that should be a prime NBA time, right? Hopefully. Is that too soon?

It's March 27th. Jackson Brown and who now? James Taylor. Okay. We're going on that together? No. Oh. But you said you're going to take me.

Not to that. If Stevie Wonder comes back, we'll give it one more chance. Oh, please. I'm not going. Actually, good. That's a great point. I'm not going to any concert with you ever again. Who's headlining that one, James Taylor or Jackson Brown?

James Taylor. Got to be James Taylor, right? Yeah. But Jackson Brown's got some hits, too. Running on empty and what else? Doctor My Eyes. Oh, that's true. Doctor My Eyes?

Get his song, what do you call it? Discography out there. How about he has five or six top 20s? Yeah, that I don't want to hear live. That's why you're not going with me. Does Jackson Brown just kill it in the live setting? Is it a movie? Most associate with this song.

Oh, that would be the Gremlin's. No. Oh. You know, Nick? When you hear this song, you should. should think of a classic movie. Boulevard, somebody's baby. He had some hits.

Lawyers in Love. I don't know that one. Forrest Gump. Yes. Well, there's so many songs that are associated with that movie that I would never have thought of this. I think a fortunate son when I think of Forrest Gump. Yeah, I'd go see it.

It's going to be a good concert. So whenever it is, I'm going to see him. You're not invited. Yeah, I don't want to go. And the running scene in Forrest Gump was like the lamest scene in the whole movie. You shut your dirty horrible. I thought it was funny. Because remember he invited.

He invented the... Smiley face. Yeah, he invented the smiley face shirt. He invented the bleep happens. Bumper sticker. That whole movie's gold, Nick. I can't believe... You talk about sequels.

I can't believe we never saw a Forrest Gump. They wrote one, or they were going to produce one. What happened? I think it was going to be a little over the top. Because Forrest Gump's based on a book, and I think they wrote a sequel to that book, and they wanted to make a movie on that, too. Because Forrest Gump is something. is Forrest Gump.

Granted, Jenny's no longer around, but that's... Yeah, but his son isn't an idiot savant like him. Forrest is not even a savant. He's just an idiot. But you could talk about him running Bubba Gump. I think that's not Forrest's son anyways. I think... I think Jenny got knocked out.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. They had sex one time. It only takes once, Ross. Yeah, how many other guys that she have sex within that time period, though? She might have been a whore. That's fine. I get that. That Jenny is sleeping around all over the country, getting beat up, getting tossed around,

and Forrest comes to save her ass every time. All he did was chase out there for a decade. She only comes over because she needs to sleep and sleep and sleep. And then she throws him one bone there. And then she's all around the country again, slutting around, and then finally when she catches an infectious disease of which she cannot recover. Which she also gave to Forrest and her son. She's like, oh, well, you know, I'm ready to settle down for us because I'm about to die.

And you're a millionaire. Now you're making things up. Forrest, by the way, we don't know if forests have AIDS. Yeah, I don't know. You're just adding things to the show that's not there. Well, they never said AIDS. It might have been hepatitis, some people said. Anyways.

I always presumed it was AIDS. That was the presumption, but according to research. Did the forest do you get tested? I didn't see that in the movie. So wait a minute. Okay, time out, time. I'm going to the doctor's about it. He's at the bus.

That's what Forest Cup 2 starts. He's at the bus stop. I'm going to get checked out. You're telling me you would not watch Forrest Gump 2. Yeah, I would watch it. I'm just saying Jenny is a... Well, Jenny ain't a part of it. I want to know what Forrest's got to...

If he dates somebody like his mother or somebody that's pure. It hurts when I pee. Oh, now he's a millionaire. Yeah, so he's... Oh, oh, you're a millionaire, and I got knocked up. Hey, hey, Forrest, I love you now. Look, I bought you these sneakers for 60 bucks. Thanks.

Can I move in? Thanks, Jenny. Why don't you take care of me because I'm a struggling waitress, single mother? So needy. It's one of my... favorites and you guys are just crushing the show. Really quick before we get to the top of the air. Wait a minute. Jackson Brown has coronavirus? He does not.

Yeah. That's what Joan just tweeted us. What? Yeah, I don't think he's going to make it. Well, I mean, hold on. Wait, I don't mean he's not going to die. Maybe he's not going to make the tour. You know what, Joe? Jackson Brown has tested positive for the coronavirus. If Kim can't go to the concert, I'll take Joan to see Jackson Brown and James Taylor. The Forest Gump already had it, too. I want to go and make comments the whole time. No, you don't. You're not invited.

You know, we can go buy your office tickets. I'll buy you a drink. No. I don't want you anywhere near me. I'll buy all your drinks. You go sitting in the upper deck. I'll hang out with the people that appreciate Caroline on my mind and shower the people. Cool.

Yeah, you'll all be asleep by the second act. All right, let me give you 60 seconds at a pressing set before the top of the hour. Are you okay with that? Sure. Because you already ruined my segment with talking about Forrest Gump in disparaging ways. What did you want to talk about? Who said this? I'd be shocked if we have NFL football this fall.

If we have college football, I'll be surprised at that. happens too. Guess who said that? Give me a hint. I know. It rhymes with Merck Nurb Street. Dirk Dirk Street. Just because, from what I understand, people that I listen to, you're 12 to 18 months from a coronavirus vaccine. I don't know how you're going to let these guys go into locker rooms and let stadiums be filled up and how you can still play a ball. I just don't know how you can do that with the optics of it. Now again, he's got no inside information. He's just respected voice. he's not bombastic.

He tells the way it is. What does Skip Bayliss have to say about all this? Well, I don't care. That's why I'm not reading Skip Bayless quotes. But Kirkhirt says something like this. Again, he's not a doctorate and I'm playing one on TV. But he's also thinking probably what a lot of other people are thinking. If we can't get, think about the locker room, Ross, that's 60 to 80 people.

Well, that's 100 people when you throw trainers and you throw physicians and you throw equipment managers. I mean, if the NFL and college football are going to play this season, which, God, if they don't, we're really going to be in trouble, they're going to have to, it's going to have to be as cleansed as a hospital, wouldn't you not say? Yes. They're going to have to take extraordinary measures. I think locker rooms are going to have to get bigger.

I think you're going to have to separate players by two to three different individual stalls. I think you're going to have to do amazing amounts of, you know, what do they call, Lysol cleansing and spraying, wiping down of things. Has our friend been in here to wipe down the studio today? She's not been here today. Oh, no.

I'm not overly encouraged. Nope, she's okay. We usually have a wiped down person come down mid-show. That's what she's right. She wipes things down. She comes in here to wipe everything down. Yeah. And that's it.

You guys have ruined this entire segment. What was it supposed to be about Herb Street? Herb Street. Oh, we can talk about the next segment. No, you can't get it. We can't, Brian T. Smith. Oh, you can ask him about it. No, I'm not asking him about it,

I'm not going to ask him about Forrest Gump either. And you should ask him about Forrest and why Jenny was the worst. She was the worst. And I feel bad because Forrest deserved better. But Forrest loved her. It was a classic love story gone terribly wrong. He loved Ping Bong too. And drinking Dr. Peppers.

At least 15 of them. I haven't had a Dr. Pepper in probably 35 years. Really? Don't like it. But you drink... What? Yeah. Dr. Pepper is amazing.

I don't drink soda a lot. So, I mean, I don't know when the last time I had a Dr. Pepper was? maybe it's probably been over a year or two. Do you know my drink of choices right now? Coke zero. It's one. Yeah, you always force me to buy you one. And diet squirt.

That's the grapefruit sort of delicious. Is the Matt Thomas show. 203. Bottom of the hour, 25 minutes. Our buddy Adam Wester's going to come in and play the fantasy. Best Fictional Doctors and Or Nurses. And I'm leaning heavy towards doctors on this, by the way, for those of you playing at home. We'll have the Fantasy 5 coming up in a few minutes.

And Ross, I decided we're going to let you vote. No, you're going to vote. Trust me, you're going to vote. All right. Our friend Joan was right. Jackson Brown has the COVID. Am I saying it wrong? COVID-19.

Do you have to say 19 when you say COVID? Can you say the COVID? The COVID. Guess who just announced that she has it? Who's got the COVID down? Brian G. Smith. Doris Burke from ESPN has a coronavirus. I just saw that. That's, man, what do you say?

Nothing. This is terrible. Nothing. You can say nothing except this sucks. This really sucks. I mean, Idris Elba has it. Boris Johnson. Doris Burke.

Pretty much everybody. It's going to get it at some. point. I guess just bring it on. I mean, I guess you and Ross and I and the whole world, you know, I don't, what, 70, 80%

something like that? I guess. I don't even know what to say anymore about this thing. You know, it's crazy, and I don't want to give out misinformation, but a buddy of mine who's one of the Minnesota Timberwell's broadcasters, was in town, obviously when the Rockets played their last game, and he had said his doctor told him that he

believe 70% at some point was going to be affected by it. And I'm thinking that, that seemed like a preposterous number. But man, the numbers are crazy. So let's forget about that. Let's not worry about the science. Yeah. The NBA is trying their damnedest through positive messages, through hope, through optimism, to not only finish a season, but to have some regular season games,

to have as close as you can to a playoff. They've cleared their arenas for the most part in most of the cities around the NBA. So I'm going to put you in, I'm going to put you in Adam Silver's spot. If we get this thing cleared at some point, now I'm not saying 16,000 people in the arena, let's presume that it's zero in the arena. How would you, if you're a commissioner Silver, handle the rest of the 2019-20 NBA season? Again, it's so difficult, Matt. I mean, I appreciate the question. Look at what major, I think.

think to me, Major League Baseball is almost more telling than the NBA. I mean, Major League Baseball, they in no way can even commit to a season right now. And they came out this week and, you know, Manfred said, we'll do regular double-headers if we have to. We might have to do an expanded playoff, abbreviated regular season, play into November, play into December. I mean, major, like, you don't mess with baseball, right? I mean, if there's one thing that makes it through, I guess there are two things in life that make it through, everything. Survives everything for the most part, cockroaches and Major League Baseball, right?

I mean, you can have nuclear destruction, you can have hurricanes, baseball makes it. And the fact that baseball is potentially having to play neutral-site playoff games, mutual site, world series, to me, that says it all. I feel like if this thing finally gets contained and our leaders locally, regionally, especially nationally, on both sides of the aisle and down the middle, if they actually start getting the testing like they're supposed to do, they should have done weeks ago, if that starts to happen, then the NBA may, maybe can play games, and it does feel like they will start without fans.

And then, you know, what do you do? I mean, I read about this a Chronicle last week. Play eight, ten games. I mean, you can't go straight into the playoff. Play eight or ten games. Maybe have a type of play-in for the number eight-eight seed with the eight, nine, ten teams. Abbreviated first round, maybe an abbreviated second round. Conference finals, NBA finals.

And Matt, they might be playing that in August. and perhaps they start the next season on Christmas Day. So I read about it last week in The Chronicle. I think, you know, trying to be positive, trying to be optimistic at this time, there is potential in this for the NBA to get really creative and turn this in some way into an advantage. But Adam Silver, Rod Manfred, you know, the NCAA, Betman. I mean, you know, you go down the list.

nobody knows when anybody is going to be playing professional sports, again, let alone will there be fans in the stance? Did you see Kirk Herbstreitz comments? We mentioned just a couple of minutes ago. I did, and I didn't like it. I did. I'm glad you're asking about that. I thought, you know, I'm not knocking him personally.

He is fully entitled to his American opinion. I thought it was absolutely absurd. And I think we all have our complaints in life. I think, you know, one of my pet peeves during this has been. I'm not a doctor. I'm not an expert. I try to listen to people, read, get as much, you know, factual information as I can. The last thing I'm going to say is I don't see any way college football or the NFL, you know, is possibly going to have a season this year isn't going to play. That's so drastic, but I guess he knows more than, you know, Fauci or the president or any other doctors in the country right now. I guess Kirk Hurstreet knows more than everybody.

If he ends up being right, it's not going to be because he's a genius. It's because he called it six months early when he's just guessing. Yeah, it was just sobering because, you know, while we have something we try to. I mentioned this to Tad Browns with his last hour. I said, I run to Woj and to Shams because I look for optimism. And when I saw Kirk's comments, the pessimism came back into play. I understand why they said that. But the thing I thought of as soon as, you know, I don't think they're going to let a season go by.

But I think locker rooms are going to have to be different because of all the sports, it is going to be the most people in a very small area. An NFL locker room, home locker rooms are okay. But, Brian, you travel on the road, you go to these other stadium, especially older facilities. And to put 60 players and equipment managers and trainers and water boys and all that kind of thing into a small area, there's going to be some new rules about who gets to go in those locker rooms. Maybe the access you as media get, especially when you travel to say, Buffalo to go to a Texans' Bills game might be half of what it used to be permanently. Yeah, it's a good point, Matt.

Again, we just don't know. I mean, I was watching last night, and, you know, you're starting to see talk from the experts who do this for a living, just like we cover sports for a living. And they're saying there's the potential. And we, you know, we weren't talking about this two or three weeks ago. There's the potential that it gets contained, it dies down, and then it comes back in the fall. Or, you know, it's a recurring thing.

The idea of that, until there's a vaccine, the idea of that is devastating. Like, I'm trying to be optimistic. I'm trying to, you know, like all of us, find something to get us through this because it's so unprecedented. It's so surreal for everyone, for everything to be shut down, for us all to be, for the most part, stuck in our houses. I have to believe the sports world isn't ending. The world isn't ending.

They're going to figure this out. They'll get it contained, hopefully come up with a vaccine or some types of treatment, and we avoid these doomsday scenarios, like some people are already talking about six to nine months early. Yeah, I hope you're right. And, you know, of all the things, what do you think about the NFL

before I wrap things up? Basically, the commissioner is saying, yep, we're going to have this draft and stop bitching about the unavailability of your players. That was pretty interesting because I think what Gidell is doing, and you can agree or disagree on this, is that he's like, look, there's nothing else going on in late April. The NFL is going to seize the opportunity for every sports eyeball to be watching those three days of NFL events. I've written about this several times in the Houston Chronicle, Matt, Houston Chronicle.com. The NFL is a bulldover. The NFL is a steamroller. The NFL is a capitalist machine.

And the NFL is also a smart business. I mean, there's a reason. You know, we can debate this endlessly, but at some point, and I don't always agree that the president, very much. But the country does have to open up. And we can't do this forever. And, you know, people have to work and we have to have entertainment. We have to have our lives.

Or it will be in time. Pretty soon we'll have a depression. So if you're the NFL, You're not playing games. As long as you can protect yourself and not negatively impact anybody and the facilities are shut down, you can do everything electronically now. You can have the draft via Zoom or whatever the crazy, cool kids are using now to communicate. They can do it.

And they can still put it on TV because there's nothing else going on. And the NFL is king. Godell is king. The NFL rules the world. And just by the luck of the calendar, Matt, and the NFL continuing to be aggressive, to be smart, to push it. I view the NFL, and they are. They are a major international corporation,

and in a lot of ways, love it or hate it, the NFL is being more aggressive and smarter with its product than a lot of other businesses out there right now. But you know the big question on that is, though, BTS, is that they can say all these things, but when is minicamp going to happen, when is rookie OTAs, and what a radio OTAs? So that's where I want to see.

if indeed the NFL's ahead of the curve. It's easy to do the drafts. And that's exactly it. Right. They may be benefiting from this just because of the luck of the calendar right now, but it's going to be a lot different

if there aren't, if week one doesn't open up on time, that will change everything. Well, leave it at that. Have a great weekend. Stay safe with you and the family. We'll talk again next Friday. Hey, Matt,

plug for the new Pearl Jam record. It's absolutely amazing. When is, I was going to say, when's Pearl Jam on concert, but that's just too soon for you, isn't it? That's really painful, Matt, because I was supposed to be seeing in Oklahoma City.

Next week with a new record, Gigatunt is amazing, and it came out today, and I highly, highly recommend it. Should I listen to the next Pearl Jam album or watch Ozark this weekend? We need to continue that discussion down the road. I'm not as big of a fan of Ozark as you are. I think it's overrated. Whoa! We will discuss this next Friday, my friend.

We'll see you later. All right, appreciate it. Brian T. Smith from The Chronicle. If you don't like Ozark, we can't be friends. And that's not even my jam. See what the show has done is I've opened up some genres that are not normally in my wheelhouse. Like Pearl Jam? Nah, Pearl Jam is just okay.

Brian Teak can listen to a record backwards and he wouldn't care. He always him and my other buddy, like, you go to a Pearl Jam concert, no two concerts are ever the same. That's where you have to keep going to ones over and over and over and over. Well, good thing is pretty soon we can put together a whole show. of bump music of all artists that have the coronavirus. That'll be fun. You're suspended for the next segment. 215. It is the Matt Thomas show.

15 minutes away from Wexler versus me in a fantasy 5 best TV or movie doctors. It's Sports Talk 790. The Matt Thomas show Back to it on Sports Talk 790. Escalated. Home of the Stroves. Doctor my eyes have to.

The crowd roars. People are going wild. Women are throwing their underwear on the stage. By the way, this fits perfectly because we're doing Fantasy 5. Ross and I, or I say it's Adam Wexer and I are doing. We've gone through some of the rules. Yeah, I bow it out gracefully. You don't like Jackson Brown?

Either one of you? He's all right. I don't hate him. I don't hate Jackson Brown. I hope he makes it. Is this really getting your juices flown? Not really. It's a concert number to go see.

So here's what Wex and I have decided for the bottom of the hour. We need judges. If you want to be a judge, call us right now at 713-212-5-790. We're going to do TV shows only, fictional TV doctors and nurses. One of our lists, I mean, one of our selections has to be a nurse. We can go three nurses, two docs, four and one, whatever, but we have to have at least one nurse. Oh, Jackson Brown wrote Take It Easy by the Eagles. Very talented.

Easily better than the Beatles. I don't even know you exist. I really don't. And he's suspended for this segment? Yeah, you can't use that comment because you're not allowed to talk on this segment. Your Honor, I moved to strike. Is that what you're saying? Yeah.

You're in contempt, is what you are. All right. So if you would like to be a judge, we're doing best TV doctors and nurses coming up at the bottom of the hour. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Let me run through just quick headlines of the day a little bit. We mentioned the draft day is set. It's going to be in April 23rd, 24th, and 25th,

and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said, Stop General Manager's complaining. Kirk Herbstreet, Dots Hill will play college football this year, and he's also presuming the NFL is in the play. Bruce Ariens, by the way, the coach of the Buccaneers, not particularly interested in having Antonio Brown being a receiving threat for one, Tom Brady.

Is there anything else that is going to happen in this offseason? Because there's speculation that Antonio Brown wants to come down there and play with you. Now, you know him a little bit, obviously, from the Pittsburgh Steeler days. What's the likelihood in AB gets back in Tampa? Because I know he has, or at least Tom, has had an affinity for him because of his work ethic.

Forget all the other antics, but just how he works on the field and in practice, it's one of the, it's top of the line. Yeah, it's not going to happen. There you go. There's no room. Yeah. You know, it's probably not going to money, but it's just not going to happen.

It's not a fit here. Interesting. Well, there is room, though, because you lost Perriman. I don't know. If he says I'm coming in on the veteran minimum, coach, I just want to play with Tom. You still wouldn't find a way to get him in? No.

Wow. Is it just because you don't trust what he can do to the culture? Why so steadfast that you would not give it a chance? Yeah, I just know, I just know him and it's not a fit in our locker room. I don't think you need to say anything else. You're not a fan. Understood. Gotcha. Okay. I don't blame you. I've said the same thing. I wouldn't risk it. I really wouldn't. I would not risk it. That was a soundbite or the questions were three times as long as the answer. Four reasons. Who are these guys? It's, uh, Tiki Barber and Burr? Brandon Tierney. They're on a national morning show that no one listens to. But that's okay.

Nobody listens to this show anyway. How come he was... Okay. Yeah, let's talk about what Bruce had to say. We'll leave it from that. Yeah. He don't want him. You can ask 50 times over.

He don't want him. Like, wow, you don't want him? Oh, okay, it makes sense. Cool. Great interview. Tactics. Lease, I get to talk to a head coach. Yeah, good for them.

Number of times Bill O'Brien's been on this show? Zero. Number times he ever will be. Zero. Number of times he's. taking the Texans of the Super Bowl. Zero. Number of times he will take the Texans of the Super Bowl, zero.

One guy picked the Texans, receiver Randall Cobb. The reason I pick the Texans is, I mean, obviously, I think that you look at what they've been able to do over the past two years, went to the playoffs for the past five times. You know, at this point of my career, I still don't have a ring. So, you know, I want to be in a situation where I have that possibility. And, you know, I think when you look at it, you look at a game. at the son and what he's been able to do since he's been in the league.

I've been really impressed before watching him. He has tremendous ability, and he's a winner. He's won at every level, from high school to college. I think he has that ability to take us to a Super Bowl, and I want to be a part of something special with him. I love his optimism, Ross. I don't believe him, but I love his optimism. He wants to be part of something special, Matt.

That's why he picked the Texans. It's not because they offer him nine. million dollars a year. Because I don't think he would have gotten half of that anywhere else. Well, he was on a one year $5 million deal, not $5 deal. That'd be interesting. And how did he perform in that fund for the $5 million? Yeah, like 800 yards.

Like two, three touchdowns, something like that? Is that the going rate $5 million a year for a guy that catches enough passes to get 800 yards? Yeah, I would say so. Man, that's why I'm a terrible capologist. $9 million? It seems like a little much. And that's with a bounce back year.

last couple years before that I mean he hadn't had a really good season since basically 2014 he had three touchdowns last year I had him in my fantasy league for about six games two things I couldn't keep a hold of last year this is why you're holding a Randall Cobb grudge

wide receiver and quarterback I had like I started the year with Cam Newton and he got hurt and never played again blah blah blah so that's a shame I think how did I do I don't know. Here's one we did not play. Did I win the league?

No. Yeah, you didn't win the league. Congratulations. Who can recall? What other teams made offers? Would he be forthcoming? Could you imagine saying, nobody did? I just took the first one. Let's see what he said.

It was a few teams that made offers, but our showed interest in Dallas and Houston were two teams that offered. And, I mean, it was, it was tough to change to make. you know, but hearing what my agent was telling me about money. And the opportunity to give me to kind of do some of the things that I did when I was back in Green Bay was one of the main reasons that I jumped at the offer. Yeah, Randall Cobb, Dallas, what were you signed you one year, $23,000

or you can get $9 million from the Texans? Yeah, they had to do something. I mean, think of if they didn't have Randall Cobb right now. to be Kenny Stills and two hurt receivers. Now you got two nice receivers. Yeah. But nobody's going to stretch the field. Nobody's going to put the fear in cornerbacks around the NFL.

So we can make fun for Bill O'Brien for overpaying them, but he had to do something. Only because, you know, the move that he made himself getting rid of number one, number one. Adam Wexer. Uh-oh, he's entered the chat. This is going to be really, really good. Best fictional T. doctors and a nurse at least. So you touch the trash can, but you don't touch the plates.

That was one more safe than the other, Adam. We'll find out next. Adam Wexler versus me in the Fantasy Five. If you would like to be a judge, 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-790, Wex and MT in the Fantasy Five. Best Fictional TV Doctors and Nurses on Sports Talk 790. This is Coach of Anthony. to be in Houston, man.

This is H-Town. The Astro and the Rockets. This is Sports Talk 790. You're home for your home teams. Time for the Fantasy 5. Thank you to Mike Dave, Tony. He also is kicking in $100,000 of his own money for Houston charitable purposes. A category this week is famous, best, coolest, most awesome TV doctors and nurses.

Fictional, Dr. Phil, Dr. Roo. I guess those are characters too, though. Let's turn, let's turn Wex's a microphone on. That one doesn't work either? No, no, that one didn't work either. Hi, Wex. Well, Nick doesn't know because nobody sits over there. I feel like Dr. Wexler, you should win this by default because you're a doctor.

There is a fake Dr. Wexler account on Twitter. That's true. But I don't think I'm... He plays one on the radio. Yeah. Okay. I'm with you. I'm here for you, buddy.

We must pick one nurse in the mix. Got it. What? Yeah. You just drop in... stuff on. No, no. He informed me. Yeah, yeah, I told him. One nurse, four, or you can be, you can have four nurses

if you want to. There must be at least one nurse. That's tough, man. Wex, as you're the guest, you have the option taking the first pick or going to the snake system and pick two and three. That's a good one. I'm going to take the snake. So you can go first. Please record that. Take the snake. Turn your mic. We need his microphone on, too.

We've lost, we've lost Ross. There it is. Hey, I'm back. This first one. one, this is not a no-brainer, but if I'm going to put together the coolest, best doctor list in TV all time, I'm going to pick one who graduated from high school when he's nine years old. You can have Douglas. Graduated from college at 10 and finished and became a doctorate 14. It's Duky-Houser MD.

Blew it with Wanda. Whatever, you can have him. Wanda was with Wanda. Wanda was never nice to him. All they wanted was a little hug. He didn't want it. He didn't want sex, clearly. Luckily, his buddy that kept going in and out of his window

ended up on soprano, so he had a nice career. Vinnie Delpino? Vinny Delpino. Very nice call. Yeah, this show was just okay, but I think having a 14-year-old doctor is the coolest thing on the world, so I'm going to go with Doogie Hauser, MD. That's a little disconcerning.

I would say weird. Well, thank God you're not part of the contest. Or sick where you need doogie. I do get a vote, though. Fake sick. Okay. So you taking Dugge Houser off the board initially? Yep.

All right. I think I'm safe with some of my other doctors down the list. He was on my list. I have plenty of backups. Let me eliminate him. I'm going to go to one of the all-time most popular television programs of our era. He had a nice family. It was about his whole family.

He had his office right there on site at the house down below. His name was Clifford. Dr. Cliff Huxstable. Ooh. Mr. Cosby. I mean, it's not bad. Thank God we're not talking about real life. I know what Fantasy 5 is all about. You said TV doctors.

That's right. You're right. I'm glad the doctor to portray them. Yeah. I didn't think about that one. That's a good pick. So I get another pick, right? Yeah, you do. He practiced in his basement? Yeah.

Oh, yeah. That seems unsafe. They have brownstone in New York. Okay. So, you know, patients didn't walk through the house and then go to the doctor's office. It went straight to the office. Could you imagine why Bill Cosby delivering your child?

Yeah, I mean, Bill Cosby from Dr. Hux. St. Dr. William H. Cosby. Just great stuff. All right, I am going to put my patience for this one. They should be on the couch for the familiar reference, but they're actually always sitting in a chair in my office, talking about anxiety, among other things. Dr. Jennifer Melfi from the Sopranos.

Good call. That's off the board. That was way off the board. I like that one. I was going to hang on to that one because I knew Matt would never think of that, but I figured I might as well just grab her. Just in case. All right. Next up for me, I'm going to go a little old school and then go really old school.

You know, sometimes you need a good therapist. You need someone to listen to your problems. And not only does he do that, but he also had a very successful radio show. I speak of Dr. Frazier Crane. Hmm. Okay. That's a good pick. Yep.

An awesome doctor who was born on another television. He wasn't even the best doctor in his own relationship. And, uh... I won't be taking Lilith. Don't worry. All right. Yeah, I was going to say. Next, I'm going to go old old school.

When you think of the Starship Enterprise, and you're going all from galaxy to galaxy, You think of Dr. Bones McCoy going, Damn it, Jim! Damn it, Jim! Such foul language. Going Dr. McCoy from Star Trek. Okay.

Pretty popular programs. I have one more way off the board choice, but I'm trying to think back to when you intro the segment. Best, most memorable, favorite, all those things apply to this doctor or nurse of choice, right? Yes. Okay. I'm taking my doctor at...

Number three, last pick of the third round. He's very animated, literally. Dr. Nick Riviera. Oh! Matt doesn't get that one. I don't, but it sounds like it's a good pick. I'm Dr. Nick. I would have went with Hibbert.

What was the other one? Dr. Hibbert? I think that's right. Because he's actually going to get the job done. Dr. Nick is going to screw everything up. You're probably in bad shape once he begins the operation. He was Rivera, right? You're going to give yourself.

skin failure. It's Nick Riviera. Dr. Nick Riviera. Yes. Okay, you know over my head, but that's fine. Now, there's a handful of programs that were literally titled right after the lead character, the doctor, if you will. And there's several of them out there.

I have to make one of my last two selections as a nurse, though, correct? As do I. Well, in light of that, I'm going to make my nurse selection now. I feel 93.7% sure this is the nurse you'd like to choose. So I'm going to take

her now. Matt likes old school stuff, right? Right. He's a fan of the 70s, right? Yes. So I'm taking Margaret Hulahan. Hot Lips! All right, that was one of my... Who's that? Okay. I mean, I had to, that's, I'm trying to do a steal here. This, by the way, is on my game, on my theme song, All-time list. We're going to have a bracket for eventually. Suicide is painless. That gets the people going. And Hot Lips was quite promiscuous. I mean, she was having all the doctors. A limited number of parts for that particular setting, and she was one of them. I don't know if that character

would run quite as well this day and age. So does that remove the rest of the MASH characters? I thought for sure someone was going to pick Hawkeye. The doctors are still there. Still applicable. There's still time, Nick. We don't have enough. We've only got a couple of spots. All right. Then I can go with the next two.

Yep. I'm going to go with my nurse as well. This nurse, probably on one the most successful doctor's dramas of the last 25 years. She seemed sincere. She was a leader.

Did she work in Chicago? Or New York? That's the only place doctor shows are, right? I don't know. I don't know where they were... I should know this. Okay. And she hooked up with George Clooney on a regular basis.

Juliana Margulies? I speak of Nurse Carol Hathaway of ER. Okay. I always felt like when she was in the ER, things were going to get done. She didn't worry about the time clock. Now, the final pick is really difficult for me because there's about five or six different options I can go with. But I'm going to have to go with, okay, he has a nickname.

He had sex with every doctor at his hospital. He sure is mixed something. And nurse. and he was officially known as Dr. Derek Shepard, but all of the girls called him McDreamy. Did he deliver pizzas in a previous

movie role? Way back in the day. Was he looking to purchase love from somebody way back in the day? I speak of Derek Shepard. Is this the theme of that stitch? From Grey's Anatomy.

Is this Grey's Anatomy theme song? Yeah, that's pretty lame. It's very lame. It's not on my list. Not on the show. Not on the show. Listen, I've watched, let me tell you Is that show still running?

It's been off like 30 years. I watched the first four or five seasons, but then every time they would kill a character off, they would do it the most gruesome way, hit by a bus, a plane falls on them. I mean, you know, just die a rigged away. And so, when you have a nickname

and you're a doctor and you sleep with the entire cast, Derek Shepard, you deserve to be in the fantasy five. You have one more selection. Yeah, I tried to actually steer clear of almost all of these obvious doctor programs, St. Elsewhere, ER, Gray's Anatomy. But most of the time when you're a doctor, it's a doctor's show. And my final pick is going to come from one of them. I am not selecting the medicine woman, Dr. Quinn. I'm not selecting the man

who in the show was named after, Dr. House. Even though it was eight seasons worth of excellence. Did you watch? How many episodes did you watch? Not very many. Okay, fairness. Much better on Veep than he was on House. I'm going to Scrubs for Dr. J.D. Dorian. Ooh. J.D., who? J.D., the main character, Zach Brath.

Yeah, I never watch an episode. Now, the blonde is kind of cute. Wasn't she on Scrubs? She was the second... Jennifer Chalky or something? Yeah, Sarah Chalky. She was one of Roseanne's daughters for a short period on the Connors program. But then they went back to the old ones.

one. J.D. What's his name again? Dorian. Dorian? Dorian. He was annoying. I like Turk better.

Turk would have been a better pick. I almost went with Nurse Carla from my nurse. It's good. I liked it. I used to watch it on Comedy Central all the time. When they had reruns. A lot of reruns. I used to watch it via reruns.

I didn't watch it via reruns. There you have it. All right. A little too touchy feeling for me. With Sarah Chalky? No, everything was about their relationship. Feel goods. Yeah.

All right. you would like to now judge, you have the list. Hello? 713-212-5-7-90. 7-13-212-5-7-90. The Fantasy 5 list is complete. Give us your list. My list, Duky-Hauser MD,

Dr. Frazier Crane, Dr. McCoy, Bones-McCoy from Star Trek, Nurse Hathaway, and Derek Shepard, Dr. McDreamy. Okay. Let me give you a few that were not on my list, that I would list. I wanted to go with Doc on the loveboat. Yeah.

I want to go with Hawkeye Pierce. Doc Brinker. I wanted to go with Meredith Gray, Gray's Anatomy. Yeah. And John Carter, Noah Wiley from ER would be on all the mainstreamers. Yeah. Because we were talking about the show.

The show is, for as long as it's been running and as popular it's been, that character is unwatchable. Which one? Her character. Great. Well, first of all, she's a whore. Secondly, she did move up the ranks.

She went from intern. Apparently now she's the director of surgery. She was fine as the girlfriend love interest in old school, but after that, I'd like her in that role. All right. So my list is, yeah, go ahead and you go to yours again. Dr. Huxstable, that's Bill Cosby. Dr. Melfi, who helped Tony out on the Sopranos. Dr. Nick Riviera from the Simpsons.

I went to MASH for Hot Lips Hulahan for the nurse and Scrubs, Dr. Dorian, Zach Brack. All right, we have three lines open. I know you guys have an opinion on this. Well, maybe somebody would get sweat. Me and Nick are picking, too. Yeah, but see, that's, okay. I'm a little nervous about your selection. Why?

Because you like me to lose regardless. That's not true. I'm fair and balance here. Does this count in the official tally? Why would I want what's her to win? Not really. We don't count. Yeah, it doesn't count.

7.13-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-7-90. Who has the best doctor-n nurse list? Let's go to Chad and Klein. Dad, who wins a fantasy 5? Wex or me? Got to go with M.P. All right, thank you very much. Have a wonderful weekend.

No comment. You don't want to say go to hell? You don't like that? Yeah, you're supposed to. If you want to be like Matt. That's host show preference. Okay, fair enough. Home court advantage. Michael on 7 out of Who Wins a Fantasy 5, or on...

Wex or Nick. Wex or me? Well, I really can't go with Matt because, I mean, there's so many dudes. But he's closer to my age. He should know this. is Dixie from the show Emergency. Ooh. Ooh, good poll.

No. I can't even think of her name now. Julie London. No. Yeah. Yeah, I pulled that out. Wow. So who wins?

Wax or me? Wax, man, I can't do that. I like it. Okay. Welcome to the show. I appreciate it. Goodbye. I actually have the emergency television series

LP. Believe it or not. You please believe it. John, who wins the Fantasy 5, Wex or me? Just off of soprano and symptoms alone, Wexler's got to win.

All right. Thank you, make a blast. Line 4. Jimmy, who wins a fantasy 5, Wex or me? I've never seen a single one of any those 10 shows, but I just trust MT's knowledge, so I'll go with him to be very much. Appreciate that. Have a wonderful weekend,

you've got to have some way to vote. What's the vote? It's two to two to. You guys will be the last two, so we'll take a couple more here if we need to. Dave on Sevenotti, who wins a Fantasy Five? Wexerby. Well, I'll age myself, but I used to watch Marcus Welby, but anyway, I'll go with Matt. All right, thank you very much. I actually thought Matt was going to take Dr. Welby, Trapper John, MD.

I could have taken Trepper Jev, but no one would have known who that is. I'll let Nick go. Nick, you are the sixth vote, my friend. if I need one of the two of you to vote for me and I win. Wex needs both. You picked Gray's Anatomy, so that means you lose, Matt. Oh, now I got pressure. Give me the list again.

I hear the list. I'm going, I'm Duky Hauser, Dr. Frasier Crane, Dr. Bones-McCoy, Nurse Hathaway, and Dr. McDreamy. Okay. Dr. Cliff Huxable, Dr. Melfie, Dr. Rivera, Nurse Hulahan, and J.D., whatever his name is. I got to penalize. I think, both your lists are blot to me. Well, that's the reason why you didn't play to begin with. Exactly.

Nurse Hathaway is a huge one for me that tipped it to Matt, as does Fraser Crane. I knew it. And you made two missteps. You should have went with Turk over JD. And you should have went with Hibbard over Riviera, so I got to give it to Matt. So I went to the right shows and picked the wrong doctor and lost. Exactly. Probably shouldn't have gone with a rapist either, but I still gave it to you.

Wax your. good sport, my man. Not on the show. There wasn't a rape episode of Bill Cosby. Yeah. She's. Yeah. We're not confusing things.

Back to wrap it up at a minute on 790. The Matt Thomas show continues on Sports Talk 790, where Rockets and Astros play. And real Texans talk. On two straight fantasy fives in three or four years. There was a run you went on where you won like, three out of four or even maybe five out of six. Then normalcy came back. Yeah.

You know, it's like you're, you know, like you see the Hawks win a couple of games in a row and you're like, yeah, maybe they're going to turn it around. No, they still suck. No, I'm the, I'm the, sure. What am I? I'm the Sacramento Kings of the Fantasy Five. I fully admit that. I'm well bored of that.

You guys have an assignment this weekend. Two assignments. One, everybody's got to watch Ozark, try to run through as many episodes as possible. I'm going to try to binge it this weekend. I'm still going to catch up on. Tiger King. Get Tiger King done. Get to Ozark this weekend. And I'm also going to, I'm working on my, because everybody's doing brackets. If you're not doing a bracket right now, you're just not a part of life. I will have a 64 song bracket for the greatest TV theme song of all time.

And we're going to mix up instrumentals with songs that have lyrics. And we're going to do what like they do in the NCAA term. We're going to rank them one. I'm going to have me and some other people double check the list. We're going to rank them one to 64. So one will play 64. It will do four 16 team brackets, right? To the ultimate tournament. I guess I forgot to finish, believe it or not. I have six questions. That's all right. Do you want to do it? Nah. Are you wanted to do it? I have six questions. I don't know what the topic is. Wait, Phillips. Well, let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it. Sorry. Because we were doing the segment and then we were talking during the break. Let's do this. Let's see. We'll do a six question, believe it or not. And we're doing it for shoutouts.

Yes. So we got four minutes left to go in the. show. What should we do? I have to send it to you. It's time for us to play America's fastest growing sports game show. Monday through Thursday, we call it B, leaving it or not, but on Fridays we call it a hell

yeah, and I don't know. Here's how it works. You will call 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Today's edition of Hell-Year-N-Ot, not brought to you by Woodhouse Day Spaws. Prunuched gift card for the gift of relaxation at Houston Woodhouse Spas.

com. The category today is all things about our earlier guest, Wade Phillips. I'll read your statement about Wade. The statement's

completely and utterly accurate. You'll say this. Hell yeah! If it's the erroneous full of bunk and made this. I mean, full of bunk and

made up, you'll say this. Not two hell yeah or nots in a row on Wade Phillips won your prize. Ross, what's the prize? Matt, it's a shout-out. If you'd like to say

hello to a loved one, we had somebody yesterday. They would say, wish to happy anniversary to your wife. You can always check it on the podcast, let him listen to it, and win you some points. Or if you want to get a podcast, a website, or anything you want to say hello to,

you can shout out right here on Sports Talk 790. I don't mean to be all weird on you, but if you give a shout out to your wife on our radio show... I just said it. You guys don't have them? The chances if you're having sex is greater. It just is. And I still don't have the questions. Well, I guess I can read them.

Go to the people. Keep checking yourself. You mean the person. 713, 212-5-790. Al on 790, Al, you're ready to play, hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Wade Phillips was inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in 2013. Believe it or not.

Hellyer or not. Oh, yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah. No, he has not been inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame. That's unfortunate. 7-13-212. 5-790. What was it, 15-year anniversary? the guy did yesterday for his wife.

That probably got him to points. He got at least a hug and a kiss out of it. 713-212-5-7-90. Tyler on 7-9. You're ready to play, hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. Wade Phillips has been the interim head coach for five different NFL franchises,

which is two more than any other coach in NFL history. Not. Not. Number two for the win. Wade Phillips' record as a head coach is 65 and 64. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. No.

He is 82 and 64. Pretty good head coaching record. I would have thought it was. I would have said hell yeah. He's been successful. A lot of places he's gone, but you know what? Can never get a fair shake. Michael on 7-90.

You ready to play hell yeah or not? Yes. Hell yeah. But I guarantee all your guys' hands smell really good, don't they? Yes, they do. Okay. Go ahead. Wade Phillips turned down Bear Bryant at Alabama

in order to play college football at the University of Houston. Hell yeah or not? What year was it? When he was in the 70s, I don't remember. Hell no. Hell yeah. Hell yeah, get out of here. Yeah.

Don't have a smell of my hands ever again. He's just saying we have been washing our hands a lot because of coronavirus. Oh, for sure we have. You're not a weirdo now. That's just, yeah, calm down. You told him to get out of here. That's fine. I was taking your lead.

That's because he was asking about the year and I didn't have it. Richard on 790. You ready to play, hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. Wade Phillips married his high school sweetheart, Lori, who was a cheerleader when Wade Phillips played football at Port Nitchis Groves High School. Hell yeah, we're not. Nah.

Hell yeah. Oh, sorry. And we're done. What a mess. We gave away no shoutouts today. That's a shame. The people were clamoring, though. They were clamoring.

All right. Have a great rest of your day. Adam Wexer will discuss his loss on the Fantasy Five. Clanton, you'll get to come play too. I wouldn't lose to you. You would not lose to me. Where did Wex groove up on? I got something for you. I got a present for you.

Oh, here's. Your food. Yeah, to your food. What are you eating, by the way? Pretzels, protein bar? You're going to put that spittle on your microphone. Wexler and Clanton, the A team next on seven-odding. Have a great weekend.