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Speaker 1: Is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

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Speaker 2: At ten o'clock at h Town. Good morning, and welcome

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to a Wednesday edition of The Matt Thomas Show minus

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Ross again.

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Speaker 3: Ross to is down.

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Speaker 2: The home stretch, sources close to Sports Talk seven ninety.

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But today's being a little bit of a shorter show.

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We said, you know what, Ross, get one hundred percent healthy.

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Matter of fact, I think Ross is going to do

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the postgame show tonight, so we are going to put

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him to work a little bit today.

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Speaker 3: But I figured since it was an opportunity for us

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to have a.

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Speaker 2: Little intimate visit between you and me, as the show

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only goes to eleven and fifty five tonight or this morning,

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I should say we I thought, you know what, get

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some extra rest and get ready to talk up the

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Rockets against the Sacramento Kings. And that is indeed what's

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happening inside Tota Center tonight. It's a busy Houston sports

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day as the Astros will be taking their opponent today

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in Fort it I think it's in Jupiter's where they

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are Astro spring training. And yes, we're going to carry

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today's game right here live on Sports Talk seven ninety

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and we will be carrying many of the games live

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for you here on seven and including today's game and

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then tomorrow's game. It is a twelve to ten first

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pitch between the Astros and the Marlins, and Hunter Brown

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will make his start today for the local nine. So

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if you are a Hunter Brown fan and you're an

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Astro fan, you want to keep it right here and

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dialed in to Sports Talk seven ninety all right, since

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we have a shorter show, we only have one thing

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of this program, and that is shit your bom as

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a mat and I just don't and also you know,

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but I got time for that, so we'll do that

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at eleven thirty. It's a little bit of a shorter

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edition of that because again the show ends at eleven

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fifty five. It since it's just me and a little

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bit of Jonathan and you, you can freely call in

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at seven one three two one two five seven ninety

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nine to zero. If you want to follow us via Twitter,

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you may do that as well or Instagram at sports MT. Again,

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I mentioned rockets are taking on at the Kings tonight

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the Kings absolutely suck.

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Speaker 3: The Rockets need to get another victory.

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Speaker 2: It is helping out that the La Lakers lost last night,

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so the Rockets are trying to separate themselves even further

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from the likes of Denver and the Lakers in the

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Western Conference. The team to beat the Lakers the Orlando Magic,

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and that'll be the team that the Rockets will be

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seeing tomorrow in Orlandos. I'll take this show to Central

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Florida tomorrow for the program.

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Speaker 3: So a back to back again for the Rockets.

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Speaker 2: Still six back to backs left to go in the

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rest of the season, which is just crazy because we're

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down to like less than I don't know, we get

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thirty games left to go something like that. Still a

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lot of back to backs before the end of the

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year of it. So if you want to chime in

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and talk some astros baseball, you can do that as well.

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I want to give you a couple of astronotes and

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then come from our friend Brian mctagger, because I'm assuming

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that many of you are settling for this radio show, Joe,

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and then ultimately we'll be listening to Hunter Brown make

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Speaker 3: Let me give you a few things, Uh, remember that.

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Speaker 2: Remember yesterday, Jonathan, how upset we were when the Astros

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were down five nothing to the Mets and Jason Alexander sucked.

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It was the curse of Gordy. Did not Chris Gordy

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yesterday at about ten forty five say I got a

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sneaky guy who may make the rotation? Yeah, Jonathan, I

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should say Jason Alexander. I always want to get Jonathan Alexander.

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That's the Chronicle writer. Jason Alexander did himself absolutely no

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favors by not surviving the first inning. But the Astros

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came back.

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Speaker 4: I called it.

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Speaker 5: You didn't call anyth Did you really call it? I

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was telling you elseay, we could still come back, We

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can still come back. Maybe it was just more of reassurance.

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Speaker 2: But you know, all right, Hasky, this when you left

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the office yesterday, you didn't pay attention to one bit

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of the Astros game.

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Speaker 4: I thought we lost. I'm not gonna lie. See.

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Speaker 2: I love the weak part of you. You grow up

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as tro fan, you can say we.

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Speaker 4: Yeah see Texans.

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Speaker 5: I gotta stop saying that because I'm not a texting fan,

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but Astros and Rockets I'm moday.

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Speaker 2: You unfortunately it's this La Charger fan thing, which is

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really odd from California.

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Speaker 3: I get it.

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Speaker 2: I get it. So yeah, if you didn't know, the

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Astros tied the Mets at six six and then like

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we're done. Here is something that I saw from mctagger

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that I thought was awesome, which is very helpful, I

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think for Astro fans and especially those that would like

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to see changes in sports when it comes to instant replay,

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the ABS, the automatic ball strike system. We know the

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challenges you can have. You have two per game, and

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as long as you keep winning the challenges, you get

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to keep the challenges, which I think is awesome. The

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Astros yesterday were six first six on ABS.

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Speaker 3: That makes me very happy. But at the.

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Speaker 2: Same time, should we be alarmed if one team got

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six calls wrong and had corrected six times? Now, I

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know it's just the spring training, not to be confused

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with it's just the preseason, but it's just the spring training.

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But you got umpires blowing six calls on one side.

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I don't even know how the Mets did with theirs

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man ABS. You could not have come fast enough. But

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congratulations to Joe Espada and the hitters and the catcher

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and whoever else not named pictures. It said, you know what,

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we are not going to have the pictures do it.

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don't know, the catchers that are right behind home plate

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make that call six for six.

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Speaker 3: I love that. So that was interesting.

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Speaker 2: Note number one, as the Astros are gain with the

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comeback kids of spring training and we're able to get

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the six to six time other things from McTaggart. Three

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Great Fruit League games. It's just the spring training, it's

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just the Greape Fruit League. The Astros have drawn twenty

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nine walks. Well, if you're not gonna slug i e.

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The outfield, you draw walks. I think when we were

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left the air yesterday, Cam Smith had drawn two of them.

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Speaker 3: So that's good.

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Speaker 2: Twenty nine walks in three games. They all count the same.

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They're ninety feet now. They're not big home runs. They're

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not slugging doubles to the corners or into the alleys.

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I want to say the Astros did score a run

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before we left yesterday by loan on the basis thanks

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to walking. Then Zach Cole, our favorite left fielder got

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hit by a pitcher driving a run. Just the start

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of things, since the Astros overcame a five nothing deficit

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to tie the spring training Ports Saint Lucy's showdown six

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to six, A couple of the things from mctag worthy

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of pushing along. Uh Emi is going to start tomorrow

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for the Mets or verse the Mets, I should say,

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Korea and Walker will also make their spring training debuts.

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Lance mccullors will start against the Nationals, where Josel Tuve

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will make his start first start of the spring as well.

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Remember Jeremy Pingia playing a lot early on because the

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WBC is going to start up in a couple of

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weeks and they want to get as many at bats

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in for as an astro before he goes in place

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with the WBC. All right, other things going on in

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the world of sports. It's not a super heavy day, honestly.

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The NFL combine is underway in Indianapolis, where I don't

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know if y'all know this or not, And again I'm not

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a combine watcher, but I like the press conference.

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Speaker 3: I'd like to see if people say funny.

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Speaker 2: Things or starry to try something different or something controversial

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comes out of it. But the thing that gives I

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think people false hope about the combine is that anybody

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that's there that gets on a podium, some dufest member

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of the Houston media or any other media of the

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other town says, what would be like if you played

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for the Panthers, What would be like if you played

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for the Texans? How would you like to be a

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forty nine er? How great would it be to be

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an LA Charger? What do you expect these guys, these

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kids to say? Oh, hell no, I'm not playing for

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the Lions, No chance, no way, Miami member, would you

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like to come to Florida? I'm playing for the Dolphins. Nope,

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I don't like them at all. I don't like the

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new coach. I don't think to a tack of below

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is pretty good. I have no interest. Of course, they're

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gonna say all the right things. It's almost like, you

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know what you should do if you really want to

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find out who a savvy football player is at these

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combine interviews, you should pepper them with trivia questions, like

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you going to get talking to a running back that

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may be up for a Texans draft spot. Hey, John

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Jones can you name the Texans wide receiving corps? Hey

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John Jones, what running back to the Texans had that

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allegedly well, not allegedly. He didn't play this year, but

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allegedly may have gotten shot in the foot.

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Speaker 3: Not an insider.

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Speaker 2: It just sounds much better to talk about a shot

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foot than it does anything else.

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Speaker 3: That's what you do.

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Speaker 2: That's how you really know a guy wants to play

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for your team if he's done some due diligence. But

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to go up and say to have you know, Seattle reporter,

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how cool to be to play for the Seahawks.

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Speaker 3: Oh man, it'd be awesome play for the Seahawks.

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Speaker 2: Get a chance to play for Super Bowl contending team.

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Speaker 3: That'd be the best thing ever. Well, of course it would.

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Speaker 2: Actually, I'd actually applaud it one time if a player

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went up on the ponium and said, you know, I'm

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with the New York media here, and how would you

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like to play for the Giant to Jets, No, thank you,

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I want them to pick anybody but me.

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Speaker 3: I'm not interested.

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Speaker 2: I don't like to New York weather, I don't like

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the higher tax bracket, I don't like the coaching staff

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and by the way the Giants and Jets have sucked

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for a better part of ten years. No thanks, That

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to me would be more respectful than going yeah, I

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can't wait to play for in an insert team. These

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are little quirky things that I find in NFL combine

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talk as far as what they do in running and

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how many passes are thrown, or how many reps somebody

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T shirt and underwear. I'll let those NFL general managers

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hand that handle that and all. By the way, speaking

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to general managers, the comment from Nicki Cassario yesterday talking

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about how moronic it was for the CJ. Stroudrummers to

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go and go creet crazy out there, well, of course

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they did. One person that's got a national name brought

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up the fact that he would be surprised if teams

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were kicking tires on veteran quarterbacks, and he happened to

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just mentioned Cjay Stroud. So instead of it being it

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is what it is is just a blanket statement by

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a blanket football guy, it became all the Texans are

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moving along there, maybe trying some things. Think about it

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for a second. We kept saying this over and over again.

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If you're a dufist radio host spend in hour's talking

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about where CJ. Stroud might go go to and would

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you get in return, you gotta be ashamed of yourself.

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Take it for what it was, and it was one

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random dude saying it. But do you really think, folks,

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if CJ. Stroud was up for trade conjecture that it

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would be just one person saying it, You'd have everybody

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and their mother saying things. You'd have agents of other

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players saying it. You may even have a David Mulgatta going,

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why are the Texans throwing my client's name out there?

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Speaker 3: None of that.

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Speaker 2: I want?

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Speaker 3: And maybe we're just maybe the media. You know what

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we are. We're not very bright.

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Speaker 2: We're just gonna take one little thing and just roll

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it because we have nothing else to do. And hopefully

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we don't do that on this show. But you know what,

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we're all guilty of things occasionally on that. But I

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have said, no, I don't believe there's none of that

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going on. He wanted to make sure he got the

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dig in and say moronic. Are there people around this

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world of ours that are in media that had the

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opportunity to have a microphone in their hand, or at

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least go on their YouTube channels and say, man, I

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was a moron for even thinking this.

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Speaker 3: Look, I ain't.

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Speaker 2: Perfect on sports taks. I think I'm bad about seven twenty, seven,

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forty whatever. I liked to bat nine fifty.

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the start. I ain't buying it now. I ain't buying

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it a long term future. Cej strad to be irresponsible

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to do that. Even the Texans aren't even doing that.

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it is preposterous, and hopefully you thought the exact same thing.

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Speaker 3: Did you say something, sir? I want to know what's

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big city?

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Speaker 6: We do?

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The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Ross has the day off.

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Keep it back to help you back tomorrow. I'll be

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with you from or Orlando. Ross not. I guess he's getting

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over the last little symptoms of the flu. Flu kicks

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your ass. It just does. I always tell anybody that

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fluid to people. Very yeah, very very very contagious. Okay,

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I'll stay far away from him. That's why I'm going

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to Orlando, Florida. Then be far away from him. I'm

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worried about you, John. I don't knowed you getting sick,

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because you already got the sniffles earlier this week.

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taking some medicine.

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folks that that's study.

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thirty two, is that right?

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Speaker 2: Uh, we gotta shut your ball mass up at eleven

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thirty today and then we'll be out at eleven fifty five.

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and it involves a former Houston athlete. And frankly, you're

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going to hear this and then you're going to say

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I work with someone just like that. That's all I'm

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going to be something that is going to be I mean,

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on the disgusting scale, it's probably about a six or seven,

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but it's relatable to almost every one of you. So

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five seven nine zero. As I mentioned, the Rockets are

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gonna take on the Sacramento Kings tonight. Houston will try

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Speaker 3: I don't know if you caught this.

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Speaker 2: We talked very briefly about it yesterday, but Kevin Durant

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says he wants to play for the Olympic team UH

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in two years, which I think is a positive sign

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for the Rockets because even though he did sign a

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two year extension, and even though the money is going

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to be spectacular for a guy that'll be thirty eight

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and thirty nine years old, first of all, he'd be

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not guaranteed a spot with I don't know, could you

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imagine being the USA Basketball telling Kevin Durant, we don't

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need you. He's gonna find out being a top five

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scorer in the history of the NBA, and he's slowing

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down a little bit. Bettern ain't much still scoring on

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twenty six points a game, he said, a boatload of

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thirty point games with the team. I mean he wakes

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up with at least fourteen or fifteen points before tip time.

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doing that, if he wants to play and go for

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another gold medal, which he's got a pluthea of them already,

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that's encouraging that he wants to maintain his level of

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excellence for his primary job as the power forward for

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the Houston Rockets. So not only would I like to

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see him do that, it'll be again he'll be thirty

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nine or forty years old when that comes into play,

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but that will also mean he's going to want to

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keep his body and his wit, in his mind and

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his attention to what is in front of him, and

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that is hopefully leading the Rockets to a championship in

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the next couple of years. So even though he was

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downplaying and saying I know, I you know, I don't

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even know if I got a guaranteed spot. If you're

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Kevin Durai, you got a guaranteed spot. I had the

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great fortune, for those of you that don't know, I

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had a chance to be the PA announcer would They

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hired four of us to work in Atlanta in nineteen

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was it ninety six? It was the second Dream Team,

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I can barely remember any of them. Honestly. It was

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also thirty years ago. God has it been thirty years?

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Oh my god, it's been thirty years. So get up,

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I know, don't. I don't need you ad sound effects,

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So let me peel the curtain back a little bit.

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So in nineteen ninety five, when the Rockets won the

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second Championship, they went to play in the World Championships.

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in London, and the folks in London said, hey, can

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you bring your PA announcer with you to London to

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work these nineteen ninety six NBH these World Championship. They

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said you want to go? I said, oh, hell yeah,

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I want to go. So I was going to go

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just to do the PA for just the USA Games.

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all the PA for every game that was there. So

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I would do USA versus say, China, or I would

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do Turkey versus Canada, and then I would do an

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Australian game versus.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I worked my ass off.

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Speaker 2: I went for like seven or eight days, and I

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think I had one day of sightseeing while I was

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in London, which is one day too many because those

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people are rude. Guy on a double duck or bus

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called me an a hole. I guess I was not

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polite enough to him. You know, they called me mister

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polite Jonathan. You know these things, right. So I worked

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my ass off for this USA world, this World Championships

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in London, and those same people that ran that tournament

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called me and said, hey, do you want to go

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and be one of the PA announcers for the US

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for the basketball at the Georgia Dome at the time,

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which is where the Falcons played, And now it's gone

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because it's they've built a new stadium.

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Speaker 3: And I'm like, oh, hell yeah, I am.

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Speaker 2: So. I spent a month in Atlanta in nineteen ninety

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six doing a bunch of all the Olympic PA games.

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I think I was the youngest of the four p announcers,

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and I had the less skins on the wall than

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anybody else did.

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Speaker 3: So I did. I want to say I did, men

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and women, but I'm not. I don't.

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Speaker 2: Again, it's been thirty years. But that was a great

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experience for me doing that too, as I was able

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to be there. But and it just and I'm trying

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to circle back to this on the Olympics stuff here.

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Even though I did not watch much of the Winter

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Olympics because it's just not my thing.

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Speaker 3: I mean, ratings have been really good.

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Speaker 2: The ratings for the USA gold medal game with Canada

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was awesome, even though it was in an early morning

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for most of the country. I would tell you this,

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and again, it's been thirty years since I've gone. It's

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a once in a lifetime experience just to be able

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to go to anything. So I know there's a big

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raffle that they're going to be giving out and they've been.

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You can go to the USA website to say, hey,

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I want to secure tickets for Los Angeles.

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Speaker 3: And I've done it.

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Speaker 2: My wife has done it, my kids have done it,

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my friends have done it, my friend's friends of kids, friends.

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Speaker 3: Have done it.

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Speaker 2: If you can get to La somehow, some way, if

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you're a big sports fan, especially if you're a big

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Olympics fan, it is absolutely worth it because there's something

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special about rooting for people you've never met before or

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had no idea what they did two or three months ago,

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but they got those letters across the chest that just

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makes you go crazy, and that those letters are USA.

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Speaker 3: And look, there's a lot of security. It does not.

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Speaker 2: You just don't walk in like you knew with most

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supporting events because obviously they want to make sure there's

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nothing in terms of you know, security or terroristic threats,

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because that's unfortunately these world events sometimes have that. And

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obviously I was involved in that a small way when

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the bomb went off in Centennial Olympic Plaza in nineteen

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ninety six in Atlanta. I wasn't there, but you know

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my point on this, But if you can get the

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time off and you can save up some money and

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your kiddy to go to something like that, especially if

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you love the Olympics on television, to be able to

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see it in Los Angeles, I think would well be

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worth it. But it's just I was just thinking about

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when Kevin Durant was talking about, you know, he wants

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to do this one more time. It is awesome because

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you have the greatest basketball players on earth that are

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all assembled on one team, and you're like, how old

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world can anybody beat them? And for the most part,

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nobody has. So if you're a basketball officionado, to be

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able to see Kevin Durant on the same floor as

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Anthony Edwards.

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Speaker 3: Is amazing.

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Speaker 2: To have Lebron James addishing the ball off to you know,

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anybody else that's that's a great NBA player, it's a

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you know, a USA player. Get something else. To have

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Jalen Brunson running point, throwing the ball deep down low

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to I don't know, I mean maybe a Men Thompson.

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You never know, Man, Men could very easily become an Olympian.

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So I'm glad that Kevin wants to do it. I'm

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glad that Kevin thinks he can do it. And by

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Kevin thinking that he can do it, that means he's

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gonna try, hopefully give it his all for at least

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the next couple of years. Wearing a Houston Rocket uniform

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ten twenty eight on Sports Talk seven ninety if you'd

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like to come in and say hello. Seven one three

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two one two five seven ninety seven one three two

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one two five seven NUINTI. If astros are on the brain,

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we'll let you get to that. If NFL draft needs

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for your beloved Houston Texas are on the on the

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on your mind, seven one three two one two five

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seven NINTI. If the Rockets are in your on your

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agenda as well. Seven one three two one two five

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seven ninety Up next, an uncomfortable admission about a former

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Houston Rocket ten twenty eight on Sports Talk seven ninety. Again,

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if you want to join us, you may do so

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at seven one three two one two five seven ninety

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It is about Thomas Show with Ross Harvey back with

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his tomorrow. We got to shut your bumb ass up today.

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Come up at eleven thirty. So you didn't like to

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do that. Seven one three two one two five seven

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ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety

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All right, I'm gonna tell you about Dwight Howard.

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Speaker 3: I never called Dwight Howard's.

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Speaker 2: Games as a rocket, so that was actually a little

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bit before my time, but I was and I covered him.

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We talked about him a lot on the show, and remember,

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do you remember those of you that are OG fans

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of the show. The first ever update of the show

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was the Dwight Howard update because people kept trying to

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figure out where he was going to go, and that

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was the first significant, at least in the last fifteen

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or twenty years, free agent that said, you know what,

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I'm going.

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Speaker 3: To leave my team and come join you in Houston.

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Speaker 2: There was there was trades, obviously, there were you know,

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releasing of players and guys you know that maybe towards

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the back half of their career, but this was a

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prime opportunity for a guy who was still had everything

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left in the tank to come be a dominant player

478
00:24:13,839 --> 00:24:18,119
for the Houston Rockets. So when Dwight Howard came here,

479
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,039
it was a super big deal because so many teams

480
00:24:20,079 --> 00:24:23,480
recording him in Dallas and Lakers and other teams were involved,

481
00:24:23,519 --> 00:24:26,559
but he chose Houston and it kind of got things

482
00:24:26,559 --> 00:24:29,039
started for Houston becoming a better destination not only for

483
00:24:29,079 --> 00:24:32,000
the Rockets, but for other baseball teams and football teams. Now. Granted,

484
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,359
at the end of the day, it was about the money.

485
00:24:33,519 --> 00:24:36,119
It always is, but you know, there were so many

486
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,160
times that Houston was on the outside look at Anyon

487
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:40,079
when it came to free agents, that it was really

488
00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:43,680
awesome when Dwight Howard signed here and things with him

489
00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:47,039
and James didn't necessarily mesh as well as you would

490
00:24:47,079 --> 00:24:50,920
have liked, and then he moved on. Well, one of

491
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:55,519
his former coaches was on a podcast I guess it

492
00:24:55,559 --> 00:24:57,440
was the day before. It was hosted by Chandler Parsons,

493
00:24:57,519 --> 00:25:00,079
another former Houston Rocket who decided he wanted to go

494
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,359
to greener pastors in Dallas and it didn't work out

495
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:04,240
well for him. He went to Memphis and got hurt

496
00:25:04,279 --> 00:25:07,000
and didn't play well either. In Chandler Parson's career after

497
00:25:07,039 --> 00:25:09,000
he left the Houston Rockets was never the same. He

498
00:25:09,079 --> 00:25:13,960
made a lot of money, but it was never the same. Well,

499
00:25:15,319 --> 00:25:19,440
Dwight Howard is probably not going to enjoy hearing what

500
00:25:19,599 --> 00:25:24,400
was asked by Chandler Parsons and his podcast team to

501
00:25:24,519 --> 00:25:28,519
his former coach, stan Van Gundy now coach.

502
00:25:29,039 --> 00:25:32,039
Speaker 7: My last question during that time in that team, I

503
00:25:32,039 --> 00:25:34,680
got an inside source and I needed to confirm this

504
00:25:34,759 --> 00:25:38,359
of his chores that said she used to get pissed

505
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,480
at Dwight Howard during her pregame speeches because he would

506
00:25:41,519 --> 00:25:47,440
just constantly FARTI trying to get the guys going confirm

507
00:25:47,519 --> 00:25:48,000
or denying.

508
00:25:48,079 --> 00:25:48,359
Speaker 3: Coach.

509
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:51,720
Speaker 8: You know, I would confirm.

510
00:25:51,839 --> 00:25:55,079
Speaker 2: Actually I knew d I.

511
00:25:55,039 --> 00:25:57,319
Speaker 4: Knew it was true, disgusting and awesome.

512
00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:03,880
Speaker 8: Dwhite could goofer around and have fun. And I remember

513
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,440
having a talk with him once and I said, Dwight,

514
00:26:06,559 --> 00:26:09,599
I need you to be more serious, you know, when

515
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:13,000
we're preparing. And he said, Stan, I've got it all.

516
00:26:13,039 --> 00:26:15,240
I know what you're saying. I said, and he did.

517
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:19,480
Dwight's by far the smartest big guy I've ever coached,

518
00:26:19,559 --> 00:26:22,160
I mean, and it was part of his greatness. And

519
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,640
I said, no, no, I know you've got it, but

520
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:30,240
then you're distracting these other guys in Moore on what's

521
00:26:30,319 --> 00:26:34,720
going on. And Dwight understood that and things started to change.

522
00:26:34,759 --> 00:26:38,359
But you know, he was just a fun, loving guy.

523
00:26:38,519 --> 00:26:43,599
But he never got enough credit to meet because he

524
00:26:43,799 --> 00:26:47,599
was out there all the time, played through injuries, I mean,

525
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,799
until he had the major back injury my last year

526
00:26:51,319 --> 00:26:54,759
in Orlando. The guy was playing eighty two games every year.

527
00:26:55,039 --> 00:26:58,160
And you guys know that's back in the days when teams.

528
00:26:57,799 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 4: Practice, yeah, real practice.

529
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:07,039
Speaker 8: Practice, every day practice and Dwight never. I mean we

530
00:27:07,079 --> 00:27:09,640
would try to get him on the side some in

531
00:27:09,759 --> 00:27:12,680
practice and he wouldn't do it. Like I would put

532
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,039
Gor Todd on the same team as him so Dwight

533
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:17,799
could get some rest. And Dwight was always pulling Goar

534
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:22,200
Todd out. Love to play, love to compete, love to practice.

535
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:26,839
I mean, just a great player and a great competitor.

536
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,440
And that's what I don't think he got enough credit

537
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:32,200
for Bud.

538
00:27:32,319 --> 00:27:33,440
Speaker 3: He broke win quite a bit.

539
00:27:43,279 --> 00:27:48,680
Speaker 2: I'm going to ask the uncomfortable question, how do you

540
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:50,960
folks handle that at work? If you work with coworkers

541
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:59,279
that have that issue as well. Now, Jonathan, you as

542
00:27:59,319 --> 00:28:01,519
the producer of the show, don't have to handle such

543
00:28:01,559 --> 00:28:04,200
issues because you're in your own room right.

544
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:06,759
Speaker 3: Now.

545
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:09,799
Speaker 2: I'm going to be open and honest with you. Okay,

546
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,000
I've come in your studio before and have never had

547
00:28:12,039 --> 00:28:12,880
to worry about that with you.

548
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 3: So I applaud you for that.

549
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,440
Speaker 4: I no, thank you.

550
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:17,119
Speaker 2: You're welcome.

551
00:28:18,799 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 3: You're welcome.

552
00:28:22,599 --> 00:28:27,559
Speaker 2: But I believe crop dusting in the workspace is I

553
00:28:27,559 --> 00:28:29,680
don't know. I've never had a desk job before, so

554
00:28:29,759 --> 00:28:34,519
I can't speak to it. But could you imagine just

555
00:28:34,599 --> 00:28:37,680
for a second, folks, Stan van Gundy is on the

556
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,240
white marker board or on the chalkboard, or he's showing

557
00:28:40,279 --> 00:28:44,039
a video of the opponent, or showing a play that

558
00:28:44,079 --> 00:28:50,160
he wants drawn up, and Dwight Howard at seven feet tall.

559
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:53,759
Speaker 3: Breaking wind m.

560
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, Johnathan, there's a lot of protein, a

561
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,119
lot of food, a lot of cars. You know, those

562
00:29:04,119 --> 00:29:06,480
guys got to eat seven eight thousand calories a day

563
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:17,279
because they're running up and down the court a lot.

564
00:29:19,279 --> 00:29:23,599
Do you think Stan stopped the conversation midway through it

565
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:27,799
and said, all right, who did it? Is that what

566
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:28,240
you do?

567
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,559
Speaker 3: Or do you just go that's Dwight being Dwight.

568
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 5: Now, because the question was did you get pissed off?

569
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:39,319
And it definitely he's confirmed it, so he definitely had

570
00:29:39,319 --> 00:29:40,440
to say something while happened.

571
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, just pretend all of you for a second

572
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,119
that aren't driving. Close your eyes for a second. If

573
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:49,319
you're driving, don't close your eyes, keep your eyes open.

574
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:53,920
And you are driving around town and you're listening, and

575
00:29:53,599 --> 00:29:56,240
you're pretending you're in a locker room with coach Van

576
00:29:56,319 --> 00:29:58,240
Gunding and you're getting ready for this game, and all

577
00:29:58,279 --> 00:30:00,480
of a sudden you just have to stop what you're

578
00:30:00,599 --> 00:30:09,960
doing because of the noise. It's childish, but I can

579
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,480
see it be an issue because if you're trying to

580
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:16,119
he was trying to, I mean, he obviously didn't feel

581
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,839
well and or he was trying to be hilarious.

582
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,519
Speaker 3: And there is time to be kidding around. There's times

583
00:30:21,519 --> 00:30:22,359
to be joking around.

584
00:30:22,359 --> 00:30:24,759
Speaker 2: But I'm going to assume the stamp bank gunny's trying

585
00:30:24,759 --> 00:30:26,680
to teach something to his guys about a play he

586
00:30:26,759 --> 00:30:29,119
wants drawn up, or a defense he wants to strategize with,

587
00:30:29,519 --> 00:30:31,079
that's not exactly the best.

588
00:30:30,839 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 3: Time to do it.

589
00:30:35,319 --> 00:30:39,039
Speaker 2: So for as great of a rebounder as Dwight Howard was,

590
00:30:40,039 --> 00:30:43,240
as a shot blocker, as a guy that hit everything

591
00:30:43,279 --> 00:30:45,200
within five feet now, he was not much of an

592
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:46,960
outside shooter at all, was not a very good free

593
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:51,119
throw shooter. He'll also be known for other things in

594
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:56,279
his life, and that is in the most important times

595
00:30:56,279 --> 00:31:01,119
of a practice or a pregame meeting, before you're ready

596
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,559
to really break down the game and get into the action,

597
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:11,319
he's cropped dustin. You have somebody at your work that

598
00:31:11,359 --> 00:31:16,119
does it too, and if you want to tell them

599
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:20,279
to shut theirn I guess it would be not I

600
00:31:20,279 --> 00:31:22,839
guess literally it would be Jonathan Wouvich literally shutting their

601
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:23,480
bomb ass up.

602
00:31:24,039 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, the action nothing. Yeah, you're right.

603
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:30,319
Speaker 2: So I don't want to get into a deep dive

604
00:31:30,359 --> 00:31:33,519
of how you guys handled it work. But if you

605
00:31:33,519 --> 00:31:34,799
want to send me a tweet, you can tell me

606
00:31:35,519 --> 00:31:37,119
at sports empty or if you going to send me

607
00:31:37,119 --> 00:31:41,279
an email MT at Sports seven eight dot com. I

608
00:31:41,359 --> 00:31:44,359
thankfully don't have that issue. Ross's gas is contained largely

609
00:31:45,079 --> 00:31:48,039
mine is as well. We have restrooms down the hall

610
00:31:48,119 --> 00:31:49,759
if we have to so do things.

611
00:31:52,559 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 3: But man, I.

612
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:58,119
Speaker 2: Mean, I'm glad Stan is so jovial about it, but

613
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:02,359
I'd be mad, like, come on, can you give it

614
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:08,839
a rest? Thank you Stan for admitting one of the

615
00:32:08,839 --> 00:32:11,240
flaws of Dwight Howard's game while I was a professional player.

616
00:32:11,279 --> 00:32:12,920
Bab Why Dwight Howard going to the Hall of Fame, right,

617
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:14,440
I think is what he's going to I think I

618
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:18,519
think I saw that when he was when he came here, Oh,

619
00:32:18,559 --> 00:32:21,559
we were going crazy. Do you'll remember that that was

620
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:23,680
early in the history of this show. I mean, it's

621
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:27,680
gotta be fifteen years ago. A free agent really came

622
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,960
to Houston and it's Dwight freaking Howard, Oh my god.

623
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 3: And you're gonna pair him up with James Harden.

624
00:32:32,799 --> 00:32:37,039
Speaker 2: We're gonna win championships until him and James.

625
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:37,559
Speaker 3: Didn't get along.

626
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:41,599
Speaker 2: Then we got Chris Paul, Then we got Russell Westbrook,

627
00:32:43,799 --> 00:32:46,720
and then we went and got John Wall for a

628
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:52,400
while until that broke apart. And thankfully James is doing

629
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,880
his fine things with four of the teams since then,

630
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:57,319
and Kevin Durant scorn and doing the things he was

631
00:32:57,319 --> 00:32:58,920
supposed to do when he got here via the trade

632
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,960
last year. From Phoenix seven one three two one two

633
00:33:02,039 --> 00:33:04,720
five seven ninety. I don't expect you to comment on

634
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:08,640
what you just heard, but sometimes you gotta just point

635
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,079
out stories that uh don't hit the front page of

636
00:33:11,119 --> 00:33:14,720
your websites. Seven one three two one two five seven

637
00:33:14,759 --> 00:33:17,359
ninety seven one three two one two five seven NINEY

638
00:33:17,359 --> 00:33:20,519
see what it's like on U sload Sports Day ten

639
00:33:21,039 --> 00:33:26,519
forty nine. The Matt Thomas Showood Ross Brosford back with

640
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:31,079
is tomorrow. I'll be in Orlando to uh see the

641
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:33,519
Rockets against the Magic. First things first, the Rockets will

642
00:33:33,559 --> 00:33:37,279
take on the Sacramento Kings. Can I tell you something

643
00:33:37,279 --> 00:33:41,640
that has bothered me, and I don't know why it does,

644
00:33:43,559 --> 00:33:47,720
because I'm a fan of this form of entertainment and

645
00:33:47,799 --> 00:33:50,240
I know the answer to this because there's a promotional

646
00:33:50,279 --> 00:33:56,440
relationship between the two groups. But if you put on

647
00:33:56,799 --> 00:34:01,079
ESPN for any length of time, and maybe people aren't

648
00:34:01,119 --> 00:34:03,599
doing this as much, but I mean, if you're gonna

649
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:05,759
go to a TV channel and you're gonna really watch something.

650
00:34:05,839 --> 00:34:07,400
Because the reason why I'm bringing this up now is

651
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,320
because this is happening right now as we speak on

652
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:15,960
ESPN in my office. Cody Rhodes is a WWE wrestler.

653
00:34:16,039 --> 00:34:17,920
There's an event, a pay per view event called the

654
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:21,760
Elimination Chamber this weekend, and he's obviously there to promote it. Now,

655
00:34:22,039 --> 00:34:24,840
the show he's on now is more about entertainment, not

656
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:27,199
necessarily breaking down sports. It's Steven A. Smith's show, so

657
00:34:27,519 --> 00:34:29,719
you're not gonna get any real breakdown of anything there.

658
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 3: But ESPN.

659
00:34:34,639 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 2: Is treating the WWE like it's a sport. And as

660
00:34:44,599 --> 00:34:48,920
much as I love wrestling, especially when I was a kid,

661
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:51,840
I don't like the current stuff now because it's not

662
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:54,800
relatable to me. I like to listen to podcasts of

663
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,000
some of my favorite wrestlers when I was growing up,

664
00:34:58,119 --> 00:35:00,800
But I was also twelve and thirteen years old when

665
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:06,880
I thought it was real. It's not real, But ESPN

666
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:11,039
will treat it like they're breaking it down like it's

667
00:35:11,039 --> 00:35:13,280
an NCAA tournament basketball game.

668
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:18,360
Speaker 3: I know, we don't want to. I just don't get

669
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:19,199
it's on Thursday.

670
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:23,519
Speaker 2: But when did ESPN all of a sudden decide to

671
00:35:23,559 --> 00:35:29,400
give the same integrity watch towards talking about WWE stuff

672
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:31,559
and they do when they're talking about the NBA or

673
00:35:31,599 --> 00:35:34,719
the or the Major League Baseball.

674
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 3: It just doesn't make any sense to me.

675
00:35:38,559 --> 00:35:43,280
Speaker 2: Now they don't care because ESPN isn't is in the

676
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:47,440
business of making money and having viewers, and obviously they

677
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:52,400
feel like that putting on WWE wrestlers maybe gets them

678
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:55,760
a different audience that maybe wouldn't be normally watching Sports Center.

679
00:35:57,199 --> 00:36:02,000
But they again, if you want to say, hey, we've

680
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,679
got these wrestlers coming on, you got to check out

681
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:07,440
this vary. I mean, they've had celebrities on, they've had

682
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,239
actors on before. That's not out of the ordinary for ESPN.

683
00:36:11,119 --> 00:36:13,239
But like on this past weekend, I was I don't

684
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:15,000
know what city I was in, or maybe I was got home.

685
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:17,639
Speaker 3: Oh, I know it was. It was Sunday night.

686
00:36:19,119 --> 00:36:22,119
Speaker 2: Sunday night they had the closing ceremonies on of the

687
00:36:22,159 --> 00:36:25,800
Winter Olympics. And what did ESPN have on to combat that?

688
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:31,000
The rebroadcast the Royal Rumble. That's not a sporting event,

689
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:36,440
that is our that was predetermined. It's acting.

690
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 9: Now.

691
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:40,280
Speaker 2: If you want to say ESPN presents this presentation of

692
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:43,400
this form of entertainment, I guess that makes sense to me.

693
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:46,840
But every time I turn on ESPN, and I do

694
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:48,360
because look, it's got all the things.

695
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:48,599
Speaker 10: Yeah.

696
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:52,639
Speaker 2: Look, ESPN is the it is the easy, low hanging

697
00:36:52,639 --> 00:36:54,679
fruit to beat up on because of some of the

698
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:57,599
editorial decisions. But when they broadcast games and they put

699
00:36:57,639 --> 00:37:00,920
on you know, basketball or football, older baseball, they do

700
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:05,679
a good job, generally speaking, and there's really no competition.

701
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,199
FS one tries to, but they're not gonna eat be close.

702
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:11,079
I mean, ESPN just has way too much firepower over

703
00:37:11,119 --> 00:37:15,960
anything FS one does. But they legitimately have these serious

704
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,679
conversations with these guys on and they're trying to break

705
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:20,719
down how this guy's gonna do against this guy, or

706
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:25,039
who's gonna win this match. Brah, it's already predetermined. It's

707
00:37:25,079 --> 00:37:28,960
like one of my favorite college basketball football announcers, Joe Tessitour,

708
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,679
he works for he works for ESPN, does their college

709
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:36,840
football games, he does boxing, and he's also one of

710
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:39,480
the announcers for the WWE. And he's up on this

711
00:37:39,599 --> 00:37:42,599
stage and he's sitting there like he's breaking down a

712
00:37:42,599 --> 00:37:46,840
debate between Trump and the next candidate for the presidency.

713
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:49,280
Speaker 3: It's just odd.

714
00:37:50,559 --> 00:37:53,800
Speaker 2: And again, maybe it's because ESBN has to transform itself

715
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into something different, but I can't imagine twenty years ago,

716
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with all the other things going on in the world

717
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:02,880
of sports, even today, that unless there was some sort

718
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,039
of promotional attachment to it, which obviously there is between

719
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,360
SPN WWE, that they would have to give it the

720
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,639
time of day. Because thirty and forty years ago, when

721
00:38:10,679 --> 00:38:13,440
I was growing up loving wrestling, nobody gave wrestling the

722
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:16,920
time of day because they knew what it was. You

723
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:20,559
had superheroes and trunks using legal objects and throwing dusts

724
00:38:20,599 --> 00:38:22,920
on people, but that wasn't sport.

725
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:23,800
Speaker 3: It was entertainment.

726
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Speaker 2: Except to me twelve years old, I was scared the

727
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:29,800
death of scandrect bar Kamala the again a giant. I

728
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:33,679
hated Jim Cornett because he were he was his minnine

729
00:38:33,679 --> 00:38:35,719
Express were being at my rock and Roll Express. But

730
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that's a different issue for a different time.

731
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Speaker 3: I think it's.

732
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Speaker 2: Odd, but you know what what you have to do.

733
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And I'm doing this as a sports broadcaster and you

734
00:38:45,559 --> 00:38:48,360
guys are probably doing this as sports consumers. You gotta

735
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:52,119
just change the times a little bit. And you got

736
00:38:52,159 --> 00:38:55,719
to realize that just getting into the nuts and bolts

737
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:57,920
of a particular sports topic, it just isn't going to

738
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:02,039
cut it like you used to. Just like the second

739
00:39:02,039 --> 00:39:04,920
way just put a minute ago the podcast, when would

740
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,880
you have ever asked about to stan Van Gundy, about

741
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,000
Kevin about to Dwight Howard in his.

742
00:39:13,119 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 3: Interesting ways to interrupt conversation. You wouldn't.

743
00:39:18,519 --> 00:39:20,760
Speaker 2: Because what we've done in twenty twenty six, and it's

744
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:22,239
been going this way for a long time, is we

745
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:26,280
just don't really particularly care too much about the x's

746
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:26,960
and o's anymore.

747
00:39:29,159 --> 00:39:29,280
Speaker 4: Now.

748
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 2: If there's something happened to just happen yesterday or is

749
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,440
going to happen tonight, that's different. Like if we're talking

750
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,039
about a Game seven of a Rockets playoff series, you

751
00:39:37,039 --> 00:39:39,400
guys are hopefully calling the show saying, hey, how are

752
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:39,920
we gonna do this?

753
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:40,639
Speaker 3: How are we gonna do that?

754
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:42,639
Speaker 2: Or if the Astros are about to play an important

755
00:39:42,639 --> 00:39:44,760
three game series against Seattle to determined first place in

756
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:47,119
American League West, or the Texans just finished playing a

757
00:39:47,159 --> 00:39:50,880
game against Chiefs, you'll be ready to call and discuss it.

758
00:39:51,519 --> 00:39:55,079
But other than that, we as sports fans tend to

759
00:39:55,159 --> 00:39:57,840
let these things slip pretty easily, and we find other

760
00:39:57,880 --> 00:39:59,920
things to get to and thenk it's what the ESPNS trying.

761
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:03,800
Maybe I'm answering my own question that you just can't

762
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:06,639
spend a whole lot of time talking about what happened

763
00:40:06,679 --> 00:40:09,159
yesterday when people tend to forget about it pretty quickly.

764
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All right, we are a one hour in the books.

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We've got to shut your ball mass up coming up

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at eleven thirty today seven one three two one two

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five seven ninety. If you want to chime in seven

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00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:20,760
one three two one two five seven ninety, some Astro

769
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:22,239
notes will get to the top of the hour. The

770
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:26,800
Rockets play the Kings tonight and more from the Combine

771
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:31,000
at Indianapolis, where teams are looking at players and asking

772
00:40:31,079 --> 00:40:33,880
questions and trying to figure out who to draft. If

773
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:36,000
you had a chance to whisper in Nick Cassero's ear.

774
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It's offensive lineman in the first round, right, or am

775
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I missing something? Seven one three two one two five

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seven ninety seven one three two one two five At

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seven ninety it is the Matt Thomas Show. Ross, We're

778
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with you for another hour before Astro Spring Training baseball.

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Here on seven ninety is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

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Eleven oh one on seven ninety. We have one hour

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in the books. We's got less than an hour left

782
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to go. So if you want to come say hello,

783
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you are more than welcome to do so. MT at

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Sports seven ninety dot com is my email address, but

785
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:15,039
the easiest way to get ahold of us is through

786
00:41:15,079 --> 00:41:18,280
either Twitter at sports MT, Instagram at sports EMT, or

787
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:22,079
call the show at seven one three two one two

788
00:41:22,159 --> 00:41:24,840
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five

789
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seven Ainty. We have Hunter Brown making his Astros spring

790
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:31,239
training debut. You'll hear it right here on the Sports

791
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,239
Talk seven ninty and we've gotten that coming up in

792
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,840
about fifty five minutes from now. First pitch will be

793
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at twelve ten. We'll have the games for you tonight

794
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and the day and Thursday and then Friday, Uh, they

795
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:44,519
play an evening game. I think. So we'll have a

796
00:41:44,599 --> 00:41:47,360
daytime based for you for daytime baseball for you today

797
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and tomorrow, and I will be in Orlando tomorrow after

798
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,840
the Rockets hopefully beat up on the Sacramento Kings tonight.

799
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Houston in the third spot in the Western Conference again

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seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety. Astros'

801
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:03,239
got a six to six tie yesterday with the New

802
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:05,559
York Matts after being down five to nothing. So all

803
00:42:05,599 --> 00:42:09,119
the negativity we had earlier on long gone because things

804
00:42:09,119 --> 00:42:12,400
are going right there. Astros did it in terms of positivity.

805
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:16,360
Were six for six on ABS calls yesterday. I think

806
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:18,480
you guys are gonna love it. I'm looking forward to

807
00:42:18,519 --> 00:42:22,440
it big time. That's an automatic ball strike, six challenges,

808
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:26,039
six correct answers. Also, according to Brian mctagger, twenty nine

809
00:42:26,079 --> 00:42:30,079
walks have been drawn so far for the Astros in

810
00:42:30,119 --> 00:42:32,239
spring training, which means there's a good eye, which is

811
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:35,119
very encouraging on that. And then a couple other game

812
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notes for you. EMI is going to start tomorrow for

813
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:41,119
the against the Mets. Carlos Korea and Christian Walker will

814
00:42:41,119 --> 00:42:43,920
make his their spring training debuts, and then Friday against

815
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,920
the Nationals, Lance mccullors will make his first spring start

816
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,159
with jose L Tuvey in the lineup for the very

817
00:42:49,159 --> 00:42:51,119
first time. As far as the Astros line up today

818
00:42:51,159 --> 00:42:53,639
that you would care about, Jake Myers is going to

819
00:42:53,679 --> 00:42:56,280
playing back in center field today. Get was Cam Smith yesterday,

820
00:42:57,039 --> 00:42:59,760
Taylor Trammell's gonna be in left field today. The DH

821
00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:02,800
is going to be yan Air Diaz, So obviously the

822
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running program is okay and good enough for him to

823
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:06,719
be able to do that, so we'll look forward to

824
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:10,880
seeing him. Wickham, Sullivan, Winkler, Saco, Yanick, that's the first

825
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:12,480
round pick up a couple of years ago, the catcher

826
00:43:12,519 --> 00:43:16,039
from Sam Houston State, and then Day I don't know

827
00:43:16,079 --> 00:43:18,880
who that is plays first base, and then Hunter brownlo pitch.

828
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:22,480
So that's some of the things you want to pay

829
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:25,280
attention to as the Astros play that spring training game

830
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:27,719
coming up in fifty five minutes from now. I mentioned

831
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:30,039
the Rockets are going to take on the Sacramento Kings tonight.

832
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:34,880
Sacramento ending a sixteen game losing streak with a victory

833
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:38,119
over Memphis a couple of days ago. So the Rockets. Well,

834
00:43:38,119 --> 00:43:40,760
hopefully we'll be able to get a second straight win

835
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:43,039
and to get on the road. They've got some winnable

836
00:43:43,039 --> 00:43:45,639
games coming up. Orlando is okay. They did beat the

837
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:49,480
Lakers last night in Los Angeles. You've got Orlando, Miami,

838
00:43:49,559 --> 00:43:52,199
and Washington on a three game road trip after tonight's

839
00:43:52,199 --> 00:43:57,639
home game. Rockets tonight are a thirteen and a half

840
00:43:57,679 --> 00:44:01,960
point favorite at home. The Kings are thirteen and forty six.

841
00:44:02,159 --> 00:44:06,960
The Rockets are thirty five and twenty one. As far

842
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:09,880
as news headlines the day, not a whole lot. As

843
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:11,800
I mentioned a couple of times, and I'm sure many

844
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:15,119
of you know by now, the NFL's Sconting Combine is

845
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:17,639
going on in Indianapolis, will be there for a few

846
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:20,159
days where all the draft picks go up there and

847
00:44:20,199 --> 00:44:21,679
talk about how they want to play for each one

848
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:24,400
of the thirty two NFL teams over there. They're probably

849
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:25,679
lying to you and they don't want to play for

850
00:44:25,679 --> 00:44:30,039
five or six. One of the things that was quickly

851
00:44:30,679 --> 00:44:37,079
dispelled yesterday was the thought that cjstri was a trade chip. Again,

852
00:44:37,119 --> 00:44:40,599
that was completely erroneous, and as Nick Cassiro said yesterday,

853
00:44:40,599 --> 00:44:45,920
that was moronic. I Rapaport, who I think for the

854
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:49,320
time being works for the NFL Network. You know ESPN

855
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,079
owns that now, so I don't know what's going to

856
00:44:51,119 --> 00:44:52,800
happen with his job. He was kind of talking about

857
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:55,199
whether or not he was gonna be resigned. He didn't

858
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:59,079
bother me. Will my life be okay without Ian Rappaport's reports?

859
00:44:59,159 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 3: My guess is yes.

860
00:45:00,039 --> 00:45:01,639
Speaker 2: I guess is the Ian rap Report's been around long

861
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:02,960
enough that he knows that he's going to be able

862
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:04,880
to get a job, whether it's staying with NFL Network

863
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,840
or going to ESPN or doing something else. But he

864
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,760
was on one of their NFL shows yesterday and that

865
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:13,800
kind of gave us an update on what CJ. Stroud

866
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:16,679
is doing right now in the Texans offseason.

867
00:45:17,159 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 10: Yeah, and the quarterback, who's the team leader, who has

868
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,039
done it right, who has Nick Caseius that has bounced

869
00:45:21,039 --> 00:45:24,920
back and responded to every situation in as positive a

870
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,599
way as possible. He's out in California now working on

871
00:45:27,679 --> 00:45:29,840
his game, honing his game and trying to get back

872
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:32,400
to the level of play that he had as a

873
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:35,920
rookie and certainly at times last year as well. You're right,

874
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:38,960
the question really isn't Is c J. Stroud going to

875
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:40,440
be the Houston Texas quarterback?

876
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:41,159
Speaker 2: He is?

877
00:45:41,159 --> 00:45:44,079
Speaker 10: Is he going to be the elite, elite franchise guy

878
00:45:44,119 --> 00:45:46,920
that you have literally no choice but to pay. And

879
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:48,920
the fact that they don't have a firm one hundred

880
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:51,960
percent answer, the fact that the contract extension may Mike

881
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:52,960
wait until next year.

882
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:56,159
Speaker 2: That is okay because what we've learned.

883
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:58,079
Speaker 10: Including from Sam Darnold who just won the Super Bowl,

884
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:00,679
sometimes it takes a little bit of time for a

885
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:03,840
quarterback to figure out what they are and what we

886
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:06,000
are going to see. And I think for cd Stroud

887
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:09,599
that is what is on him this offseason to see

888
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:10,800
how good he can be.

889
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:22,519
Speaker 2: Hmm, all right, again, I don't want to go sentence

890
00:46:22,559 --> 00:46:26,079
by sentence here on this, but I'll say that I

891
00:46:26,159 --> 00:46:29,239
appreciate the fact that he's working out, that he's in

892
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:32,599
California working on his game. I mean it'd be better

893
00:46:32,599 --> 00:46:35,599
than saying, well, he's on a beach in Mexico and

894
00:46:35,639 --> 00:46:36,800
has not been seen for months.

895
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 3: I mean, that makes kind of sense that he's doing that.

896
00:46:41,679 --> 00:46:46,400
Speaker 2: But the reality is, and unless I'm missing something about this,

897
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:51,760
is that he's only going to get better when the

898
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:55,840
lights are on right. I mean, if he's throwing in

899
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,639
on a high school field with a couple of his bros.

900
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:06,239
Than are receivers with nobody, with no pads on, no shells,

901
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:13,559
no pass rush. I mean, is that going to all

902
00:47:13,599 --> 00:47:18,679
of a sudden change who he is? I guess the

903
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:22,519
answer is it can't get worse, right. He's probably not

904
00:47:22,559 --> 00:47:29,079
in California developing more bad habits. He is a guy

905
00:47:29,199 --> 00:47:33,079
that is saying, look, I know what I did wrong

906
00:47:33,159 --> 00:47:36,760
in those games against Pittsburgh New England, and maybe whatever

907
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:38,800
I can do to stay sharp in the off season

908
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:43,920
will help me get back into good graces and have

909
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:45,960
a better training camp. I can't, but we're sitting here

910
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:48,840
in late February. They don't put the pads on and

911
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:51,079
really get after it until middle of the late July.

912
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:57,159
So I would say this, I'm happy that he's doing

913
00:47:57,159 --> 00:48:00,920
that again. He could be running around doing forty different

914
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:03,880
podcasts and going on fifteen or seventeen different vacations to

915
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:06,920
Japan and Malaysia, and you could be going to the

916
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:09,159
Titi and all that, and people are like, do you

917
00:48:09,199 --> 00:48:12,119
really care about your craft? I mean, he's doing, for

918
00:48:12,199 --> 00:48:18,039
sure the absolute right thing, but the one thing I

919
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:20,840
don't think we can say is I don't think guaranteed

920
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:22,840
success right now, in this time of year, is going

921
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:24,840
to all of a sudden be different, is going to

922
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:28,599
make it give us a different results, unless he's learning something,

923
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:32,880
unless he is spending an hour in front of a

924
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:34,880
television a couple of days a week, or two hours

925
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:36,960
a week in front of him on her saying hey,

926
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:40,679
oh what did I do there? What did I see?

927
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:47,320
What can I do differently? I think, And this will

928
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:49,679
be a topic that will continue to be discussed for

929
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:52,840
months and months and months until they start playing real

930
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:54,320
games again in September.

931
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:55,039
Speaker 3: Will be.

932
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:01,159
Speaker 2: Is he happy with the people protecting him in front

933
00:49:01,159 --> 00:49:05,440
of him? Is he building trust with a receiving corps

934
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:07,519
not named Nico Collins? And obviously he had that with

935
00:49:07,639 --> 00:49:10,199
Tank Dell, But Tank's been going now for entire season.

936
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:14,079
And whether Tank comes back that's a mystery. If he

937
00:49:14,079 --> 00:49:17,360
does come back, it'll be great. But again I've said

938
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:18,760
it kind of a handful of times.

939
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:19,400
Speaker 3: I'm not for.

940
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:20,800
Speaker 2: Sure that this is the guy that's not gonna be

941
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,000
battling injuries for his entire career because of his frame,

942
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:28,800
and does he trust his own instincts? And does he

943
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:31,360
trust the field in which he's playing on, and does

944
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:33,480
he trust the fact that he is in a situation

945
00:49:33,559 --> 00:49:38,679
where he's had multiple concussions during his NFL career, and

946
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:40,320
is that something that's going to bother him in the

947
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:44,039
back of his mind. It would do that, It would

948
00:49:44,119 --> 00:49:46,880
do all that for me if I was him. I'm

949
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:49,880
not blaming him if his hesitation in his in his mind.

950
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:53,159
But if you have hesitation, then maybe this is the

951
00:49:53,199 --> 00:49:54,760
time that you get you try to get rid of that.

952
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:01,079
But if he you know, he should given a clean slate,

953
00:50:01,159 --> 00:50:03,679
He should be doing the little things to try to

954
00:50:03,679 --> 00:50:05,960
erase the memories of the last year. And it's not

955
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:09,039
And it's maybe like, maybe we're not fair because he

956
00:50:09,039 --> 00:50:12,920
didn't have an awful regular season, but it wasn't. Again,

957
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:14,760
it was a slight downturn from what he did and

958
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:18,159
obviously his first NFL season, and that's what we're still

959
00:50:18,159 --> 00:50:22,920
waiting for. The biggest thing going against him is one,

960
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:27,320
the two losses were so bad, and number two, you've

961
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:30,199
got to start thinking about how much money you're putting

962
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:35,960
into his account. And when you put that crazy amount

963
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:39,920
of money in a quarterbacks bank account, that's when the

964
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:44,039
pressure is turned up even more. Look at all the

965
00:50:44,159 --> 00:50:48,000
money that Coller Murray got to stay with Arizona, it

966
00:50:48,079 --> 00:50:51,519
has not panned out. Look at all the money to

967
00:50:51,679 --> 00:50:56,880
attack of Aloa has received in Miami, it hasn't panned out.

968
00:50:58,039 --> 00:51:05,599
Pat Mahomes yes, Gosh Allan, yes, Joe Burrow, yes. But

969
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:08,079
there's as many guys bumping around the NFL that are

970
00:51:08,119 --> 00:51:13,119
making crazy, crazy money that have handicapped their team because

971
00:51:13,159 --> 00:51:15,599
so much of that money goes to that one particular player.

972
00:51:18,159 --> 00:51:20,719
And that's what the Texans have to think about. Ian

973
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:23,920
Rappaport basically alluded to the fact that he knows an

974
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:29,199
extension is coming, but CJ can't be foolish enough to

975
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:32,559
think that he would be. He would be offended if

976
00:51:32,559 --> 00:51:37,000
they waited one more year. They've got until May first

977
00:51:37,039 --> 00:51:39,360
pick up the fifth year option. That's going to happen,

978
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:42,159
and when it does, you' all going to lose your mind.

979
00:51:42,159 --> 00:51:43,679
Some of you will be, but some of you also

980
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:47,000
realize the economics of the NFL, especially with rookie contracts.

981
00:51:48,800 --> 00:51:50,719
Speaker 3: It's it will be the right thing for the Texans

982
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:50,960
to do.

983
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:55,519
Speaker 2: It just would be. But yeah, there is a lot

984
00:51:55,519 --> 00:51:58,239
of indecision. There is not a lot of guarantees coming

985
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:01,000
out of that. I mean, I know that the mcneer's

986
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:03,920
are opening, are going to talk about Torotown today. I

987
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:05,840
would hope somebody that goes to that event that's covering

988
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:08,400
with media would ask about the CJ situation, Well, I

989
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:09,679
get will you get a clear answer?

990
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:10,320
Speaker 3: Probably not.

991
00:52:13,159 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 2: But that's why there's so much angst about this year

992
00:52:17,079 --> 00:52:19,199
is because now you're really gonna have to have those

993
00:52:19,199 --> 00:52:22,599
hard decisions with the door closed about what to do

994
00:52:22,639 --> 00:52:24,559
about that, because you've got other guys in your team,

995
00:52:24,599 --> 00:52:27,719
namely Will Anderson, who has done everything, and then some

996
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:32,280
to deserve the long term extension that he's supposed to

997
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:33,760
get after his third NFL season.

998
00:52:34,679 --> 00:52:35,119
Speaker 3: That's c J.

999
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:38,480
Speaker 2: Stroud at this point is not deserving of seven one

1000
00:52:38,599 --> 00:52:43,840
three two one two five seven nineties. What up, Bridgeland,

1001
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:56,039
Let me hear from you, Cyprus. So today.

1002
00:52:57,559 --> 00:52:58,960
Speaker 3: The Texans.

1003
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:07,840
Speaker 2: Cal their pres.

1004
00:53:05,559 --> 00:53:07,719
Speaker 3: Somebody from Howard Hughes Corporation.

1005
00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:21,719
Speaker 2: Come to Toro Town. We're gonna build restaurants, bars, flag,

1006
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:31,760
football fields, a great facility, and then we're gonna dodge

1007
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:33,840
questions about whether or not the stadium will be out

1008
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:39,599
here too. A Toro Town let me tell you something.

1009
00:53:39,679 --> 00:53:42,320
I'm going to Toro Town. They gotta check it out,

1010
00:53:42,559 --> 00:53:42,840
are you?

1011
00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:44,039
Speaker 4: I would drive for you?

1012
00:53:44,079 --> 00:53:45,719
Speaker 8: Know well?

1013
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:48,119
Speaker 2: I mean, if the restaurants are good, why wouldn't we

1014
00:53:48,119 --> 00:53:48,880
go to Torotown?

1015
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:49,880
Speaker 4: It's good point.

1016
00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:50,280
Speaker 9: Good point.

1017
00:53:52,039 --> 00:53:55,440
Speaker 2: Now, if they're all bringing up a Reese Cake rockery there,

1018
00:53:55,559 --> 00:54:02,480
I don't care. I can get that anywhere. So if

1019
00:54:02,519 --> 00:54:05,639
they gave me some c J straud Sliders, I'm in

1020
00:54:05,679 --> 00:54:11,840
for that. What would Will Anderson's dish be of choice?

1021
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:13,000
Speaker 6: See?

1022
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:13,559
Speaker 3: That's what you gotta do.

1023
00:54:13,559 --> 00:54:16,320
Speaker 2: You gotta open up a Texan steam restaurant and just

1024
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:22,239
name after your favorite players. I mean, honestly, would would

1025
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:24,000
it not be a Kimi Fairbrand foot long?

1026
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:30,239
Speaker 4: That is? That is? This is a rudway at that point?

1027
00:54:32,199 --> 00:54:35,039
Speaker 2: I don't know. But if Kymi Fairbrand's making like you,

1028
00:54:35,039 --> 00:54:36,800
you know, you get to meat some cheese, that's way

1029
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:42,320
you want it toasted, bun heavy, oil heavy, oil heavy vinegar.

1030
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:44,719
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1031
00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:47,719
Speaker 2: Today, I'm not kidding you folks. They're doing a Welcome

1032
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:48,559
to Toro Town.

1033
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:53,320
Speaker 4: Torot Town sounds so much better. I'm not gonna does.

1034
00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:55,679
Speaker 3: Didn't sound better than the Toro District.

1035
00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:58,960
Speaker 4: I don't know. Let me tell you something.

1036
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:00,559
Speaker 2: If Hannah and Cower listening right now, which they're not.

1037
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:02,320
They don't I don't know if they. I don't know

1038
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:04,000
if they even know he exists, which is fine.

1039
00:55:04,039 --> 00:55:04,719
Speaker 3: I can live with that.

1040
00:55:05,559 --> 00:55:06,920
Speaker 2: It'd be kind of nice for them to come over

1041
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:08,519
and say hi to us, to tell us what's going on.

1042
00:55:08,559 --> 00:55:10,760
I mean, i'd be let me tell you. I love owners,

1043
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:12,480
I love talking to Jim Crane, I love talking to

1044
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:14,599
Tillman Forteita. I would love to sit with Callahan and

1045
00:55:14,639 --> 00:55:20,519
talk about it. In fact, if anybody from the Texas listening,

1046
00:55:21,039 --> 00:55:24,119
I think this is a genius idea. I really do.

1047
00:55:26,639 --> 00:55:29,360
And if I were them, and I've told you this before,

1048
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:31,920
I told this to Ross many a time, I would

1049
00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:34,039
figure out. I would put up as much money of

1050
00:55:34,079 --> 00:55:37,119
my own personal money as I possibly could without really

1051
00:55:37,159 --> 00:55:40,280
being mad about it, and I would forgot get out

1052
00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:46,440
of energy. I'd go build the Toro Dome. There's all

1053
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:48,519
that land out there in the Bridgeland. That's where everybody's

1054
00:55:48,519 --> 00:55:50,679
going with. That's where your money is anyway, and who

1055
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:54,360
cares if people and Galveston are clear Laker friends would

1056
00:55:54,360 --> 00:55:55,760
have to drive an hour and fifteen to a game,

1057
00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:59,280
you're doing it nine times, ten times a year. Because

1058
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:02,639
I'm gonna tell you this again, Torotown isn't being built

1059
00:56:02,679 --> 00:56:04,599
for the city Houston to come run to see the track.

1060
00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:06,159
Speaker 3: The Texans practice facolda.

1061
00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:07,719
Speaker 2: You got you've never how many have you been in

1062
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:10,960
the Texans practice fasolda in your life? Less than a

1063
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:13,840
half percent of people in Houston maybe get one tenth

1064
00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:18,320
of a percent. I mean, they may open up for tours,

1065
00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:21,239
but that doesn't necessarily you're not driving fifty miles for that.

1066
00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:25,760
You're doing this because Cypress and Bridgeland needs more stuff

1067
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:28,679
to do and eat and drink and sit in movie

1068
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:32,280
theaters and maybe you build a you know, a small

1069
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:34,880
stadium that you can house football games, you know, like

1070
00:56:35,119 --> 00:56:38,280
you know, uh, scrimmages and high school playoff games and

1071
00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:39,320
stuff like that.

1072
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:40,400
Speaker 3: That's what you do this for.

1073
00:56:40,559 --> 00:56:44,480
Speaker 2: You're not building Toro Town because you want people from

1074
00:56:44,639 --> 00:56:46,320
Katie to run over there. O Loo Katie wouldn't be

1075
00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:49,000
too far, honestly, And you think about it, Baytown, You're

1076
00:56:49,559 --> 00:56:51,559
let me tell you, Baytown are leaving the BUCkies off

1077
00:56:51,559 --> 00:56:52,000
of it. Ten.

1078
00:56:52,039 --> 00:56:53,320
Speaker 3: They're not going up to Toro Town.

1079
00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:57,800
Speaker 2: So cal and Han if you're listening driving out to

1080
00:56:57,840 --> 00:57:00,800
Cypress today, I fully endorse this.

1081
00:57:01,559 --> 00:57:02,360
Speaker 3: Now you better.

1082
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:05,239
Speaker 2: I'm just telling you not because I need. I'm trying

1083
00:57:05,239 --> 00:57:10,000
to get into your piggy bank. But it's gonna be

1084
00:57:10,079 --> 00:57:12,480
very hard for Harris County voters to help you with this.

1085
00:57:14,159 --> 00:57:16,960
You might get a sweetheart Land deal, you might get

1086
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:18,840
some tax breaks in a variety of other things, but

1087
00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:22,679
if you're staying in Harris County, you're gonna have to

1088
00:57:22,679 --> 00:57:26,320
write a really big check because I think the City

1089
00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:28,360
of Houston has done at least they have been the

1090
00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:30,280
last twenty five or thirty years of running a lot

1091
00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:33,440
of checks for sports facilities. Did it back in the

1092
00:57:33,480 --> 00:57:35,920
nineties when you needed Dyke in Park? I mean you

1093
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:38,519
needed the Tote Center. You're not necessarily needing it here

1094
00:57:38,559 --> 00:57:44,559
in twenty twenty six. So yeah, Toro Town gets its

1095
00:57:44,559 --> 00:57:50,239
official debut. Everybody's gonna I guarantee you Cal Is gonna

1096
00:57:50,239 --> 00:57:53,920
say the word excited at least ten times. We're very

1097
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:56,880
excited to be here, very excited about this, very I

1098
00:57:56,920 --> 00:58:00,559
mean he's going to use the word excited times.

1099
00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:01,440
Speaker 9: Now.

1100
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:03,800
Speaker 2: I know, Joe, I know from our morning show, Cole

1101
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:05,920
and Dan are gonna go out there to Toro Town.

1102
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:11,320
If those boys are listening right now. Every time you

1103
00:58:11,639 --> 00:58:15,280
hear Cal say excited, you have to take a drink,

1104
00:58:16,159 --> 00:58:19,800
are think gon assume fer and drink out there? I mean,

1105
00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:21,320
I don't know where they're gonna necessarily do it, man,

1106
00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:23,199
I guess a plot of land. I guess you could

1107
00:58:23,199 --> 00:58:25,159
set up like a lemonade stand or something. I don't know,

1108
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:30,639
but yes, Toro Town the first introduction to it, aka

1109
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:33,760
the Torol District. Again, Torol Town to meaning sounds a

1110
00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:35,880
lot better. And if and if the Texas will want

1111
00:58:35,880 --> 00:58:41,639
to steal that idea from me and Toreltown, then I've

1112
00:58:41,679 --> 00:58:45,440
not copyrighted it like I should have copyrighted Crush City

1113
00:58:45,639 --> 00:58:46,480
and trade marked it.

1114
00:58:46,599 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 3: That was my mistake, my Air. Just give me season

1115
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:51,159
tickets for a year.

1116
00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:55,639
Speaker 2: With parking like good parking at Energy because it's hard

1117
00:58:55,639 --> 00:58:57,280
to get in out of Energy Stadium.

1118
00:59:00,119 --> 00:59:00,840
Speaker 3: So let's get.

1119
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:05,480
Speaker 2: Started the day. Toro District sounds fine, Toro Town much better.

1120
00:59:06,039 --> 00:59:09,719
Seven one three, two one two five seven ninety James

1121
00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:11,440
is with us here on seven ninety James, what do

1122
00:59:11,480 --> 00:59:12,119
you want?

1123
00:59:13,679 --> 00:59:15,880
Speaker 9: Yeah, you were talking about rocket duos. You thought we're

1124
00:59:15,880 --> 00:59:18,119
gonna bring the championship. I always thought that yoo Ming

1125
00:59:18,159 --> 00:59:20,280
and Tracy McGrady, we're going to do it, And that

1126
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:21,920
kind of disappointed me that they never got to do

1127
00:59:22,159 --> 00:59:26,599
I know, yeah, but the reason I called is, you know,

1128
00:59:26,679 --> 00:59:28,280
every day I drive forty four. I don't do it

1129
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:30,719
every day, but occasionally I drive forty five and I'm

1130
00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:33,039
looking at Green's Point Mall and why don't they level

1131
00:59:33,079 --> 00:59:34,880
that thing and build a stadium there. It's close to

1132
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:36,880
the airport. I don't know if there's enough lane to

1133
00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:38,960
build a stadium there, but it's an eyesore. They need

1134
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:41,440
to do something with it. What do you think.

1135
00:59:43,039 --> 00:59:44,880
Speaker 3: What part of the town are you talking about?

1136
00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:47,960
Speaker 9: Green's Point Mall? Level greens Point Mall? Tiar that the

1137
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:50,639
whole mall down. Use that space there and build a

1138
00:59:50,679 --> 00:59:52,079
stadium and be close to the airport.

1139
00:59:52,639 --> 00:59:54,440
Speaker 2: Well, why would he worry about being close to the airport.

1140
00:59:54,480 --> 00:59:55,480
What would that make a difference.

1141
00:59:56,360 --> 00:59:58,119
Speaker 9: Well, I mean, I mean in case you have visitors

1142
00:59:58,119 --> 01:00:00,280
come in and you know, from other cities one watch

1143
01:00:00,320 --> 01:00:02,800
the game. I mean, it's it really doesn't make a difference,

1144
01:00:02,840 --> 01:00:05,079
but it would be a good, good location at a stadium,

1145
01:00:05,079 --> 01:00:06,880
and you're not having to buy a new land, you're

1146
01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:09,760
actually improving the land. That's there. I don't know if

1147
01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:11,679
you tore down the mall that'd be enough for parking

1148
01:00:11,679 --> 01:00:12,199
and everything.

1149
01:00:12,239 --> 01:00:16,239
Speaker 2: But yeah, well there's that's there's too much stuff over there.

1150
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:18,880
That's that stuff's already built. You there's not enough room

1151
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:20,800
that the area that's the spot of air and then

1152
01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:22,920
the city of Houston and in that part of Harrison's

1153
01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:24,800
got the most space is out there by out there

1154
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:27,239
and near the Bridgeland Cypressurrey that's where the space is.

1155
01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:29,199
Speaker 9: Yeah, it was fifteen minutes from Bridgeland. I've been out

1156
01:00:29,239 --> 01:00:32,159
to Bridgeland. Yeah, there's land, but they're also expanding communities

1157
01:00:32,199 --> 01:00:33,280
after as well.

1158
01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:35,320
Speaker 3: That makes a perfect sense town then.

1159
01:00:36,199 --> 01:00:38,239
Speaker 9: Well it does, it kind of does. But but I

1160
01:00:38,280 --> 01:00:40,320
was just thinking get rid of one Eye saw and

1161
01:00:40,320 --> 01:00:42,320
put something nice there instead of having them drive by

1162
01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:44,719
greens Point Mall. It's you know, it's carnivals or whatever.

1163
01:00:44,679 --> 01:00:47,519
Speaker 2: Put out ther Yeah, I have. I don't go by

1164
01:00:47,599 --> 01:00:52,480
greens Point Mall. It's it's not not for destination. Yeah,

1165
01:00:52,599 --> 01:00:56,840
it's it's fine. I don't think I've ever gone to

1166
01:00:56,920 --> 01:00:58,639
a carnival at a mall parking lot.

1167
01:01:00,719 --> 01:01:01,000
Speaker 3: Really.

1168
01:01:01,039 --> 01:01:04,159
Speaker 2: I'm just I don't trust amusement park rides period. I

1169
01:01:04,199 --> 01:01:06,320
certainly don't ones that are like temporary that get set

1170
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:08,000
up in the middle of a parking lot at the mall.

1171
01:01:09,159 --> 01:01:11,519
Speaker 4: Right, oh yeah, okay.

1172
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:16,639
Speaker 2: Like I would have to tell you my favorite ride

1173
01:01:17,519 --> 01:01:19,280
not at an amusement park. You know what a Tilt

1174
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:22,840
the World is When you get in there and it's

1175
01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:26,960
like you're in a little mushroom and it's like seats

1176
01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:29,159
two or three people, and you have this one bar

1177
01:01:29,239 --> 01:01:32,039
that crosses over you to secure you, and you're going

1178
01:01:32,119 --> 01:01:34,639
up and down on a on a circuit like a donut,

1179
01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:35,840
and it moves around.

1180
01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:41,440
Speaker 3: At that tilted world, that's a jam right there. You

1181
01:01:41,480 --> 01:01:42,480
know what I'm talking about, do you?

1182
01:01:43,119 --> 01:01:45,679
Speaker 2: I think I can imagine go google Tilt the World

1183
01:01:45,719 --> 01:01:47,119
and you were like, damn, man, I know what you're

1184
01:01:47,119 --> 01:01:47,559
talking about.

1185
01:01:47,599 --> 01:01:48,280
Speaker 3: That was a ride.

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01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:50,119
Speaker 2: I used to see tilted worlds at all, like the

1187
01:01:50,199 --> 01:01:54,679
little mall parking lot ride things, because at least if

1188
01:01:54,719 --> 01:01:56,639
that's if that thing breaks down, you're not you know,

1189
01:01:56,960 --> 01:01:59,719
like five two hundred and fifty feet above the ground.

1190
01:01:59,760 --> 01:02:02,840
Speaker 5: You don't mean this is just like some teacups. Yeah,

1191
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:04,320
it's executive tea cups.

1192
01:02:07,280 --> 01:02:07,679
Speaker 4: You know what.

1193
01:02:08,079 --> 01:02:09,840
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna adell you because I actually don't. I

1194
01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:11,440
don't like I don't like going on roller coasters.

1195
01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:11,960
Speaker 4: I'm not a laugh.

1196
01:02:12,079 --> 01:02:13,800
Speaker 2: I don't know anymore. I'm done with roller coasters. I

1197
01:02:13,840 --> 01:02:15,760
was done with roller coasters five years ago. I am

1198
01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:17,320
done Gunzo with those bad boys.

1199
01:02:17,360 --> 01:02:19,480
Speaker 4: We have me thinking that this was like some big ride.

1200
01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:24,599
Speaker 2: Shit. Somebody backed me up on Tilt the World was

1201
01:02:24,639 --> 01:02:28,440
the jam. It's not that tea cups were going slowly.

1202
01:02:28,679 --> 01:02:30,760
Tilt the World will throw you around like a rag doll.

1203
01:02:32,760 --> 01:02:37,400
Don't you don't you hate on Tilt the World tea cups?

1204
01:02:37,440 --> 01:02:40,519
I get it, man, don't get no. I will not

1205
01:02:40,639 --> 01:02:42,840
accept Tilt the World slander on my radio show.

1206
01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:44,559
Speaker 4: I'm just surprised. I'm just shook.

1207
01:02:45,039 --> 01:02:47,360
Speaker 3: Stop that's terrible.

1208
01:02:48,079 --> 01:02:50,440
Speaker 2: All right now, I'm gonna tell Jonathan to shut his

1209
01:02:50,559 --> 01:02:53,760
bow mass up about Tilt the World. If you don't

1210
01:02:53,800 --> 01:02:55,679
tilt the world, you know you're not a friend of mine.

1211
01:02:55,920 --> 01:02:56,199
Speaker 3: All right?

1212
01:02:56,239 --> 01:02:58,119
Speaker 2: If you want to get in seven one three two

1213
01:02:58,119 --> 01:03:00,119
one two five seven, and he one tells people to

1214
01:03:00,159 --> 01:03:03,800
shut their bumbasses up, let's go right now. Seven one

1215
01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:06,360
three two one two five seven. Annie, ain't nobody got

1216
01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:08,519
time for that as well. We want those phone calls

1217
01:03:08,559 --> 01:03:10,119
to come in as well. If you've got anything.

1218
01:03:10,239 --> 01:03:10,800
Speaker 3: This is the.

1219
01:03:10,679 --> 01:03:13,920
Speaker 2: Most cathartic favorite part of the week for you. You can

1220
01:03:13,960 --> 01:03:15,840
really tell people how you feel like. I just told

1221
01:03:15,880 --> 01:03:18,880
Jonathan about the Tilt the World seven one three two

1222
01:03:18,880 --> 01:03:21,599
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one

1223
01:03:21,679 --> 01:03:24,000
two five seven Annie for shut your bumb ass up

1224
01:03:24,239 --> 01:03:26,360
and ain't nobody got time for that?

1225
01:03:26,679 --> 01:03:29,000
Speaker 11: He don't, leny get tap here, Let me get he don't.

1226
01:03:29,039 --> 01:03:32,920
Let me get tampered here. Let me getting tampered. Dear,

1227
01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:35,920
let me get damp it, dear, let me get tamp here.

1228
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:39,760
Let me get time here, let me get tampa ith.

1229
01:03:41,239 --> 01:03:43,920
Speaker 2: Here we go seven one three two one two five

1230
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:46,960
seven ninety seven one three two one two five Sevenati

1231
01:03:47,639 --> 01:03:51,800
to Jonathan Allen, my producer, Tilt the World slander, Shut

1232
01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:55,079
your bumb ass up, mane shits your bum ass up? Man?

1233
01:03:56,679 --> 01:04:02,280
Speaker 4: Who uh you know? It's what you like? That's what

1234
01:04:02,320 --> 01:04:02,599
you like.

1235
01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:05,559
Speaker 2: I'm not It's not my favorite, but it was it's.

1236
01:04:05,039 --> 01:04:06,719
Speaker 4: Again you like it. I love it.

1237
01:04:07,199 --> 01:04:10,239
Speaker 2: If here's the thing. If the machine breaks down, I

1238
01:04:10,280 --> 01:04:13,519
get out just fine. If the machine breaks down on

1239
01:04:13,639 --> 01:04:16,000
the ferris wheel, I'm up there for two weeks.

1240
01:04:16,679 --> 01:04:18,280
Speaker 4: You starting the ferris Wheel. Don't tell me that.

1241
01:04:18,559 --> 01:04:21,400
Speaker 2: Oh hell yeah, I am what. Anybody got time for

1242
01:04:21,559 --> 01:04:24,599
ferris Wheel? No chance, no way, I know how.

1243
01:04:26,519 --> 01:04:26,800
Speaker 8: M M.

1244
01:04:28,119 --> 01:04:32,639
Speaker 4: You scared of heights a little bit? Okay, that's fair.

1245
01:04:32,719 --> 01:04:33,800
I'm looking. I'm not gonna not.

1246
01:04:33,880 --> 01:04:34,760
Speaker 2: It's not major.

1247
01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:38,760
Speaker 3: But the fear of getting stuck is what drives me crazy.

1248
01:04:38,800 --> 01:04:38,960
Speaker 6: Hm.

1249
01:04:39,360 --> 01:04:40,320
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, okay.

1250
01:04:42,920 --> 01:04:45,840
Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven

1251
01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:47,960
one three two one two five seventy? What else am

1252
01:04:47,960 --> 01:04:52,920
I'm mad about? Let's see what else? Oh to our

1253
01:04:53,400 --> 01:04:56,800
buddy emailed a minute ago, we were talking about Dwight

1254
01:04:56,840 --> 01:05:01,719
Howard's crop dusting. If you crop dust on an airplane?

1255
01:05:01,719 --> 01:05:06,400
Anybody got time for that? Ain't nobody get your private jay?

1256
01:05:06,480 --> 01:05:08,159
You never you had never called, you never done it

1257
01:05:08,199 --> 01:05:21,159
for it? Really its exists. Ain't nobody get tad? Uh?

1258
01:05:21,280 --> 01:05:26,679
Speaker 3: What'll shit the topic? He tried out me.

1259
01:05:26,800 --> 01:05:32,000
Speaker 2: That's no way. Seven one three two one two five

1260
01:05:32,159 --> 01:05:35,000
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven

1261
01:05:35,039 --> 01:05:36,800
ninety all right, we're gonna go to Brandon in a second,

1262
01:05:36,800 --> 01:05:38,920
But first, Johnally, what's the matter with you?

1263
01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:44,079
Speaker 5: I saw this statistic talking about how many people are

1264
01:05:44,119 --> 01:05:48,320
going to go different cities at spring Break. It's estimated

1265
01:05:48,480 --> 01:05:51,639
that Houston is the news spot for spring break this

1266
01:05:51,760 --> 01:05:55,679
march Over says five hundred thousand people were gonna come

1267
01:05:55,679 --> 01:06:00,360
here to do what the rodeo. I don't know, because

1268
01:06:00,400 --> 01:06:02,760
you know that Miami set it down, so they don't

1269
01:06:02,760 --> 01:06:03,320
want to go Atlanta.

1270
01:06:03,360 --> 01:06:05,440
Speaker 4: So everybody's going to Houston because it's cheaper. I don't know.

1271
01:06:05,840 --> 01:06:09,440
Speaker 5: But who would you get this from? I don't believe this.

1272
01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:11,960
This is this is like even my age, like everybody like,

1273
01:06:12,199 --> 01:06:15,920
no chance, no, no no way, no how you're gonna

1274
01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:17,480
see this six' ten filled.

1275
01:06:17,559 --> 01:06:20,599
Speaker 3: Up no you're. Not you went to some fake ass.

1276
01:06:20,639 --> 01:06:21,679
Website don't you know?

1277
01:06:21,719 --> 01:06:23,559
Speaker 2: What you shut your, ball, man you don't get.

1278
01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:26,320
Speaker 5: An information like, that Right i'm Telling houston right, now

1279
01:06:26,320 --> 01:06:28,000
there's gonna be a lot of people coming.

1280
01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:29,199
Speaker 4: IN i don't know.

1281
01:06:28,920 --> 01:06:30,920
Speaker 2: What the rodeo cook.

1282
01:06:31,239 --> 01:06:31,880
Speaker 4: KIDS i don't.

1283
01:06:31,920 --> 01:06:32,480
Speaker 3: KNOW i don't.

1284
01:06:32,480 --> 01:06:34,000
Speaker 5: Know i'm just telling. You i'm just telling you. What,

1285
01:06:34,159 --> 01:06:39,559
okay time where there is going on the? Phones if

1286
01:06:39,599 --> 01:06:49,079
you live In Kansas city Or, Saginaw, michigan OR i don't, Know, Lexington.

1287
01:06:49,159 --> 01:06:52,559
KENTUCKY i just throw Three rando cities out there right

1288
01:06:53,639 --> 01:06:56,480
in your nineteen twenty twenty, one twenty. Two you maybe

1289
01:06:56,519 --> 01:06:58,960
hearing a young professional and you're about to go on a.

1290
01:06:59,039 --> 01:07:03,639
VACATION i, MEAN i love our, city but we're not

1291
01:07:03,760 --> 01:07:06,239
a vacation. City nobody, says, hey let's go To houston

1292
01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:09,639
for four or five, days LIKE i, guess we got

1293
01:07:09,639 --> 01:07:13,760
clubs and you, know, no, no, no, no, no you're

1294
01:07:13,880 --> 01:07:15,599
you know you went to The Weekly World news for

1295
01:07:15,639 --> 01:07:17,039
your From.

1296
01:07:17,400 --> 01:07:19,239
Speaker 4: This is the way in the. Street, okay there are

1297
01:07:19,320 --> 01:07:19,800
no where on the.

1298
01:07:19,800 --> 01:07:26,320
Speaker 2: Street the downtown, Sucks Baytown's, flora rednecks and uh energy

1299
01:07:26,400 --> 01:07:27,320
is a dangerous part of The.

1300
01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:32,280
Speaker 5: Houston that's that's the word on the. Streets come, ON

1301
01:07:32,760 --> 01:07:34,079
i warned, everybody just be Worn.

1302
01:07:36,920 --> 01:07:39,079
Speaker 2: Now The Rodeo cookoff is gonna bring some, people but

1303
01:07:39,119 --> 01:07:40,119
that's usually drunkards From.

1304
01:07:40,159 --> 01:07:43,679
Speaker 5: Houston AND i think like all the people that are

1305
01:07:43,760 --> 01:07:45,599
headlighting in the, RADIO i think Like liz and all

1306
01:07:45,599 --> 01:07:46,079
of them are doing.

1307
01:07:46,119 --> 01:07:47,039
Speaker 4: It so it's just gonna be a.

1308
01:07:47,559 --> 01:07:51,639
Speaker 2: Company Doesn't liz FROM i, think, well then she would

1309
01:07:51,639 --> 01:07:53,440
be coming. Home that would not be a new. Visitor

1310
01:07:53,480 --> 01:07:55,960
But i'll tell You little's Company. Houston i'm going somewhere

1311
01:07:55,960 --> 01:07:58,639
far away from. Her that voice is knowing as. HELL

1312
01:08:02,280 --> 01:08:04,320
i want to apologize, ladies, Gentlemen john think giving you

1313
01:08:04,400 --> 01:08:04,800
all some band.

1314
01:08:04,840 --> 01:08:10,039
Speaker 5: Information don't come over here To Christ Kelly Clarkson. Christ

1315
01:08:10,400 --> 01:08:12,800
what as headliners they're, Performing.

1316
01:08:12,679 --> 01:08:14,440
Speaker 2: Yeah but that's because they're going. There they're not coming

1317
01:08:14,480 --> 01:08:14,880
To houston a.

1318
01:08:14,960 --> 01:08:18,239
Speaker 4: Vacation but that's what's going to bring the influx of. People.

1319
01:08:18,279 --> 01:08:21,079
Speaker 2: Matt, sometimes, no, no, no no, no don't don't listen to.

1320
01:08:21,279 --> 01:08:23,079
Speaker 3: You you just you don't know what you're talking. About

1321
01:08:23,760 --> 01:08:24,479
let me go to the.

1322
01:08:24,479 --> 01:08:28,000
Speaker 2: Phones we're not getting half million people coming To. Houston

1323
01:08:28,119 --> 01:08:30,720
next one on the street in the, ward on those,

1324
01:08:30,760 --> 01:08:33,600
streets your. Streets in a cul to. Sack let's go

1325
01:08:33,680 --> 01:08:36,039
to a branded on seven Ninety, brandon what's the matter with?

1326
01:08:36,079 --> 01:08:38,079
Speaker 4: You, Hey?

1327
01:08:38,119 --> 01:08:40,840
Speaker 9: MATT i just wanted to tell that guy that Compared

1328
01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:43,479
Brian hoyred to T J stroud yesterday to shut his mask?

1329
01:08:43,560 --> 01:08:49,119
Speaker 2: Up what the hell was he? Thinking that's exactly? Right

1330
01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:51,760
that Was that's one of the all time worst, Analogies.

1331
01:08:51,880 --> 01:08:54,800
Brandon i'm a terrible analogis SO i know WHEN i

1332
01:08:54,840 --> 01:08:59,039
see one in, here one.

1333
01:08:57,479 --> 01:08:59,279
Speaker 9: That was that was really. Bad. MAN i heard it

1334
01:08:59,359 --> 01:09:01,239
yesterday when over else it's me to your, show AND

1335
01:09:01,239 --> 01:09:03,039
i was, like, man does this guy even watch the?

1336
01:09:03,079 --> 01:09:04,159
Speaker 2: Games, like what are you talking?

1337
01:09:04,199 --> 01:09:04,479
Speaker 9: About?

1338
01:09:05,880 --> 01:09:08,159
Speaker 2: YEAH i MEAN i understand What and thank You brandon

1339
01:09:08,199 --> 01:09:10,640
for the phone. CALL i understand there's gonna be some C.

1340
01:09:10,800 --> 01:09:13,600
J stroud's slander AND i and for the right. REASONS

1341
01:09:13,600 --> 01:09:19,800
i mean he, WAS i mean absolutely, horrific and he

1342
01:09:19,840 --> 01:09:26,600
Went Brian hoyer. BAD i, MEAN i don't even know

1343
01:09:26,640 --> 01:09:29,800
what a comp would. Be he just. Sucked how about

1344
01:09:29,800 --> 01:09:33,600
a quarterback that, sucks that had a really really bad

1345
01:09:33,680 --> 01:09:37,319
day and really bad two, weeks but.

1346
01:09:38,079 --> 01:09:40,760
Speaker 3: E Brian hoyer? Bad and that The Brian hoyer fan was.

1347
01:09:40,800 --> 01:09:44,439
Speaker 2: Listening, Hello i'm sure you're out wonderful, people but you

1348
01:09:44,760 --> 01:09:48,520
but your your your, husband your, son your, nephew your best.

1349
01:09:48,520 --> 01:09:51,880
Friend he went to go TO nfl quarterback seven one

1350
01:09:51,960 --> 01:09:55,239
three two one two five seven Ninety andrew on Seven.

1351
01:09:55,279 --> 01:09:56,399
Speaker 3: Andrew what's the matter with?

1352
01:09:56,439 --> 01:10:00,720
Speaker 1: You, yes, SIR i Think stroud only there is a two,

1353
01:10:00,760 --> 01:10:03,239
year two and a half million dollar deal on his next,

1354
01:10:03,239 --> 01:10:06,600
contract because that's What Brian hoyer got in twenty. Fifteen

1355
01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:08,920
and anyone who's been at the FIN cj sprout and

1356
01:10:08,960 --> 01:10:11,920
he's a look at the, stats look at the. Paperwork

1357
01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:14,920
he's the same C. J Brian Hoyer. Straw ladies and

1358
01:10:14,920 --> 01:10:16,880
gentlemen love the.

1359
01:10:16,920 --> 01:10:18,640
Speaker 11: Show heyybody got Tap.

1360
01:10:18,760 --> 01:10:20,399
Speaker 2: Ford i's gonna tell the shot has bout.

1361
01:10:20,399 --> 01:10:22,359
Speaker 3: Myself but he said he loves a. SHOW i can't do.

1362
01:10:22,399 --> 01:10:25,079
That if you love the, show you. CAN'T i can't crush.

1363
01:10:25,159 --> 01:10:25,239
Speaker 12: You.

1364
01:10:25,319 --> 01:10:29,039
Speaker 2: Right even Dumbass james and klines that he loves the.

1365
01:10:29,079 --> 01:10:33,039
SHOW i can't rip him too. Bad Even brad loves the,

1366
01:10:33,079 --> 01:10:35,000
show AND i can't rip him too bad. Either see

1367
01:10:35,279 --> 01:10:37,520
everything you can, do ladies and, gentlemen to get away

1368
01:10:37,560 --> 01:10:40,319
with murder on my, show like with horrible sports.

1369
01:10:40,319 --> 01:10:45,439
Speaker 3: Tanks just say how much you love the? Show seven?

1370
01:10:45,560 --> 01:10:49,039
Speaker 2: One did you already? Said two years two and a

1371
01:10:49,079 --> 01:10:50,520
half million? Dollars he makes more than.

1372
01:10:50,520 --> 01:10:51,279
Speaker 3: That, Now.

1373
01:10:52,880 --> 01:10:55,600
Speaker 4: I'm Just i'm he's ten toes THAT i. CAN'T i

1374
01:10:55,640 --> 01:10:56,239
can't even mad at.

1375
01:10:56,279 --> 01:11:00,000
Speaker 2: HIM i got ten toes that says they're gonna be

1376
01:11:00,039 --> 01:11:02,399
fifty people In houston over the next week and a.

1377
01:11:02,439 --> 01:11:05,199
Speaker 5: Half all, right you're gonna see You're i'm just telling

1378
01:11:05,239 --> 01:11:07,680
you there's nowhere to go to spring.

1379
01:11:07,760 --> 01:11:08,520
Speaker 4: Break it's Only.

1380
01:11:08,560 --> 01:11:19,920
Speaker 6: Houston oh my, gosh that's too.

1381
01:11:19,960 --> 01:11:22,640
Speaker 2: Funny by the, WAY i get some nice emails saying

1382
01:11:22,640 --> 01:11:24,560
you're doing a good job giving me grief Like ross

1383
01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:29,640
gives me. Grief you're feeling it, nicely my. Friend where's

1384
01:11:29,680 --> 01:11:31,199
next Year's oh you know? WHAT i just got word

1385
01:11:31,239 --> 01:11:33,960
From Jonathan allen's news. Feed, oh thanks for sending this to.

1386
01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:37,479
Me next year's big vacation spot is A Witchital. Kansas

1387
01:11:37,520 --> 01:11:39,119
oh that's really. Cool Thanks johnifer sending.

1388
01:11:39,159 --> 01:11:45,840
Speaker 5: That, Timmy, okay it's all.

1389
01:11:45,840 --> 01:11:47,640
Speaker 2: Seriousness people do come from out of town to go

1390
01:11:47,640 --> 01:11:49,119
to the. RODEO i get, that but we're not getting

1391
01:11:49,159 --> 01:11:50,399
a half million people here for.

1392
01:11:50,439 --> 01:11:51,239
Speaker 3: That i'm.

1393
01:11:51,640 --> 01:11:52,079
Speaker 6: Sham do you.

1394
01:11:52,199 --> 01:11:54,920
Speaker 4: Remember miami sitting? Down didn't anybody come to Spring?

1395
01:11:54,960 --> 01:11:58,039
Speaker 2: Break, well so we're not going To we're gonna go To.

1396
01:11:58,079 --> 01:12:00,279
Miami we can't go To, miami so we're gonna To.

1397
01:12:00,319 --> 01:12:01,439
Speaker 3: Houston song down.

1398
01:12:01,479 --> 01:12:06,000
Speaker 2: Here, Yes, No i'm going To miami this. Weekend Guess

1399
01:12:06,079 --> 01:12:11,079
i'm gonna be this weekend On South. Beach, baby my

1400
01:12:11,439 --> 01:12:13,279
white ass legs are gonna be On South.

1401
01:12:13,319 --> 01:12:16,560
Speaker 3: Beach you ready for? That anybody got time for? THAT

1402
01:12:16,600 --> 01:12:16,920
i bet?

1403
01:12:18,640 --> 01:12:22,560
Speaker 2: Hey nobody got time for? That all? Right final sex, up,

1404
01:12:22,640 --> 01:12:24,640
Man i'm gonna come back with dark.

1405
01:12:24,720 --> 01:12:26,000
Speaker 3: Legs, Johnathan you'll be so proud of.

1406
01:12:26,039 --> 01:12:29,239
Speaker 2: ME i don't see that problem IS i get them

1407
01:12:29,239 --> 01:12:31,960
all dark down In miami and Then i'm going To,

1408
01:12:32,079 --> 01:12:33,720
WASHINGTON dc On, monday where its supposed to be like

1409
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thirty five and. Snowing So i'm gonna lose The i'm

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01:12:35,720 --> 01:12:39,239
gonna lose the. Darkness something is wrong with.

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01:12:39,279 --> 01:12:41,600
Speaker 3: YOU i would agree with you on.

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01:12:41,680 --> 01:12:45,600
Speaker 2: That seven one three two one two five Seven naty final.

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01:12:45,640 --> 01:12:47,000
Segment if you have something that you want to tell

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01:12:47,000 --> 01:12:49,000
somebody to shut their butm on. Separating nobody got time for.

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01:12:49,039 --> 01:12:51,520
That seven one three two one two five Seven naughty With.

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01:12:53,840 --> 01:12:55,720
Speaker 3: Jonathan sent me the list.

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01:12:55,560 --> 01:12:57,640
Speaker 2: Where he got that the City houston's gonna have a

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01:12:57,640 --> 01:12:59,760
half million people visiting during spring. BREAK i got the

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01:12:59,800 --> 01:13:01,720
list of the other cities that are getting a lot more. People,

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01:13:02,680 --> 01:13:11,720
Omaha nebraska is doing really, Well, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Riverside, California Saint, Paul,

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01:13:11,800 --> 01:13:18,800
minnesota and Uh Fort, Wayne indiana also huge big training

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01:13:18,880 --> 01:13:20,000
spot spring break.

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01:13:20,039 --> 01:13:23,159
Speaker 3: Spots, yeah you could have.

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01:13:23,159 --> 01:13:25,960
Speaker 2: Seen i'm gonna see.

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01:13:25,800 --> 01:13:28,720
Speaker 4: All right, seconds that's twenty. SECOND i just, WAIT i.

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01:13:28,800 --> 01:13:31,359
Speaker 2: CAN'T i cannot wait to find out the tens of

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01:13:31,439 --> 01:13:33,600
people that come To houston for spring for spring.

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01:13:33,680 --> 01:13:35,880
Speaker 3: Break SHOULD i go To?

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01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:38,600
Speaker 2: Vegas, no should we go to L. A, no should

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01:13:38,640 --> 01:13:39,199
we go To New York?

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01:13:39,199 --> 01:13:39,479
Speaker 3: City?

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01:13:39,560 --> 01:13:39,640
Speaker 9: No?

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01:13:40,039 --> 01:13:41,960
Speaker 4: Houston, yes, yes?

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01:13:42,039 --> 01:13:44,520
Speaker 2: Exactly what get Good mexican?

1435
01:13:44,560 --> 01:13:45,760
Speaker 4: FOOD i get. That i'll tell.

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01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:48,880
Speaker 2: You the club life is. Good the strip clubs are.

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01:13:48,960 --> 01:13:51,359
Speaker 3: Nice we're friendly people.

1438
01:13:51,399 --> 01:13:56,479
Speaker 4: Here, see you're making the case matter exactly just getting

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01:13:56,520 --> 01:13:56,720
hips of.

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01:13:56,760 --> 01:13:58,800
Speaker 2: That can you imagine your best friend who's going to

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01:13:58,840 --> 01:14:00,560
School Western kentucky hand what him growing a.

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01:14:00,680 --> 01:14:02,520
Speaker 3: Vacation where's the friendliest. City we can go?

1443
01:14:02,560 --> 01:14:03,760
Speaker 2: To? Houston let's?

1444
01:14:03,760 --> 01:14:07,720
Speaker 5: Go and there was people willing to go To. Houston mm,

1445
01:14:07,800 --> 01:14:10,520
Hmmm i'm let's, know we got four. Minutes we gotta

1446
01:14:10,800 --> 01:14:14,319
get these. Done get let me go line. One, uh

1447
01:14:15,000 --> 01:14:17,199
let's go TO i gotta put on the screen, here

1448
01:14:17,319 --> 01:14:18,760
g O. Gio what's the matter with?

1449
01:14:18,800 --> 01:14:21,840
Speaker 12: You, hey, Guys first and foremost great.

1450
01:14:21,880 --> 01:14:22,760
Speaker 3: Show thank.

1451
01:14:22,800 --> 01:14:25,600
Speaker 12: You, SECOND i want TO i want TO i want

1452
01:14:25,600 --> 01:14:27,399
to thank you for the for those tickets THAT i

1453
01:14:27,439 --> 01:14:31,239
want to about that. Rocket, hey, hey hey, man, look.

1454
01:14:31,680 --> 01:14:34,359
Speaker 2: Mister texas took care of, you didn't he didn't he

1455
01:14:34,640 --> 01:14:36,000
Mister kingwood did this. Thing.

1456
01:14:36,119 --> 01:14:44,760
Speaker 12: Man when we got, there, right we got there pretty,

1457
01:14:44,800 --> 01:14:45,199
early you.

1458
01:14:45,239 --> 01:14:48,560
Speaker 9: Know, uh and there was these two these two drunk.

1459
01:14:48,600 --> 01:14:51,319
Speaker 12: Guys man sitting in the seats and uh and they

1460
01:14:51,399 --> 01:14:53,359
Get i'm, like, hey, man these are our, seats you

1461
01:14:53,359 --> 01:14:55,279
know WHAT i, Mean LIKE i got these from Mister kingwood,

1462
01:14:55,279 --> 01:14:57,720
itself you. Know and they're, like, well you, know we've been,

1463
01:14:57,760 --> 01:14:59,520
here this and, that And i'm LIKE i had to

1464
01:14:59,560 --> 01:15:01,960
call the sure to come help us out and everything like.

1465
01:15:02,000 --> 01:15:05,239
That so for people trying to steal, seats, man especially

1466
01:15:05,359 --> 01:15:05,920
given to you.

1467
01:15:05,880 --> 01:15:08,000
Speaker 4: By mister King with, himself nobody got time for.

1468
01:15:08,039 --> 01:15:10,680
Speaker 2: That, man come on against Mister texas and thank. You

1469
01:15:10,680 --> 01:15:12,319
i'm glad you had a good. Time geo won our

1470
01:15:12,359 --> 01:15:13,920
trivia the other day about. That see you.

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01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:18,079
Speaker 3: Later you know, what because.

1472
01:15:20,079 --> 01:15:22,239
Speaker 2: You can't but you can't know you cannot go to

1473
01:15:22,199 --> 01:15:25,439
the lower bowl and sit in somebody's seats upper. Deck that's,

1474
01:15:25,439 --> 01:15:30,159
fine do your. Thing you have a little, bull you

1475
01:15:30,199 --> 01:15:33,439
have a little little lower. Bowl uh what do you call?

1476
01:15:33,479 --> 01:15:36,199
Speaker 3: It? Uh not? Sportsmanship but, uh.

1477
01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:38,319
Speaker 2: You get you got you just gotta you gotta act

1478
01:15:38,359 --> 01:15:40,840
like you've been there. Before you can't just kind of

1479
01:15:40,880 --> 01:15:43,199
screw your way down. There no nobody got time for.

1480
01:15:43,199 --> 01:15:44,680
Speaker 5: That and he had his son with, him so like

1481
01:15:44,720 --> 01:15:46,159
and then they were not trying to get. It that's

1482
01:15:46,199 --> 01:15:46,680
kind of messed.

1483
01:15:46,760 --> 01:15:49,039
Speaker 3: Up, oh the poor son may be scarred because of

1484
01:15:49,039 --> 01:15:49,680
the whole. Situation.

1485
01:15:49,800 --> 01:15:53,199
Speaker 5: Nah, Nah i'm just, saying, like you have that much,

1486
01:15:53,239 --> 01:15:54,640
pride you don't want to give up the seats that

1487
01:15:54,720 --> 01:15:56,479
nine even years and he has a son with, Him

1488
01:15:56,479 --> 01:15:57,359
like that's that's a bad.

1489
01:15:57,399 --> 01:15:59,640
Speaker 3: Look. Man the key to going to the lower.

1490
01:15:59,399 --> 01:16:02,279
Speaker 2: Bowl is the second. Half if you're gonna try to scoot.

1491
01:16:02,319 --> 01:16:05,640
Downstairs i'm talking about anything like a football, game baseball, game,

1492
01:16:05,680 --> 01:16:07,359
basketball you gotta do it in the second.

1493
01:16:07,359 --> 01:16:10,039
Speaker 3: Half you gotta take the l on the first. Half

1494
01:16:10,039 --> 01:16:10,760
you just do.

1495
01:16:13,359 --> 01:16:16,359
Speaker 2: All, Right. Jonathan i'm gonna figure out what Destination i'm

1496
01:16:16,359 --> 01:16:18,279
gonna take my family this sweting next week on spring.

1497
01:16:18,279 --> 01:16:19,960
BREAK i think we're gonna think about going TO i don't,

1498
01:16:19,960 --> 01:16:22,319
KNOW i Don't, Oh i'm gonna go To Little, Rock

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01:16:22,399 --> 01:16:23,000
arkansas for a.

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01:16:23,000 --> 01:16:25,319
Speaker 3: Week it should be a lot of fun from y'all's.

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01:16:25,279 --> 01:16:27,359
Speaker 4: Family that actually sounds. Accurate Little rock is not. Bad

1502
01:16:27,399 --> 01:16:27,640
i've been.

1503
01:16:27,640 --> 01:16:29,960
Speaker 2: There i've only been a Little Little rock one. Time

1504
01:16:30,119 --> 01:16:31,520
to see a, concert you should go.

1505
01:16:31,520 --> 01:16:34,079
Speaker 4: To The you probably go to that, museum The Bill

1506
01:16:34,119 --> 01:16:34,920
clinton president of.

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01:16:35,000 --> 01:16:36,920
Speaker 3: MUSEUM i am not going to that. MUSEUM i go

1508
01:16:37,039 --> 01:16:37,640
to The Bill clinton.

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01:16:37,680 --> 01:16:39,159
Speaker 4: Airport of course you.

1510
01:16:39,239 --> 01:16:40,600
Speaker 2: Have that's because you.

1511
01:16:40,600 --> 01:16:42,479
Speaker 3: Fly everybody has flies in The Little Rock cassecal to

1512
01:16:42,479 --> 01:16:45,199
The Bill Clinton. Airport some people.

1513
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:47,079
Speaker 4: Drive is not that far from here eleven.

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01:16:47,119 --> 01:16:49,600
Speaker 2: HOURS i hate driving to my office much less driving

1515
01:16:49,640 --> 01:16:51,399
Enough Little. Rock oh, Hellmet that's exactly.

1516
01:16:51,439 --> 01:16:52,920
Speaker 4: Why in a week and a, half you're gonna see

1517
01:16:53,119 --> 01:16:54,000
why you hate it even.

1518
01:16:54,039 --> 01:16:58,079
Speaker 2: More Because i'm won't be back Until monday. Night so

1519
01:16:58,119 --> 01:16:59,680
maybe you, know y'all can. Do y'all can get all

1520
01:16:59,720 --> 01:17:03,560
the track begin you. Want traffic Next, tuesday WHEN i

1521
01:17:03,560 --> 01:17:05,560
come to the, station will be any worse than it

1522
01:17:05,600 --> 01:17:11,920
normally is on A. Tuesday hit the. Music Hey ross

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01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:14,000
is back with me. Tomorrow i'll be In. Orlando i'll

1524
01:17:14,039 --> 01:17:16,680
talk with you For rockets basketball tonight at seven o'clock

1525
01:17:16,720 --> 01:17:17,159
here on seven.

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01:17:17,239 --> 01:17:19,560
Speaker 3: Ninety but right now you all better.

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01:17:19,680 --> 01:17:27,520
Speaker 2: Listen it is. Required stay. Long Astros marlins next on

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01:17:27,640 --> 01:17:28,239
seven ninety