Speaker 1: Come so much that life.
Speaker 2: Lunchtimers, Matt Thomas, Thomas, Ross vera real is The Matt
Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 3: Ten one an Age Town.
Speaker 4: Good morning, and welcome to a Thursday edition of The
Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 3: To my right is Ross to my left. It's our
computer screens and me. I'm here.
Speaker 4: Great to have you with us. Thank you Ross for
filling in for me tomorrow yesterday not having me off.
We can tune the music down.
Speaker 3: Here we go.
Speaker 4: Jonathan is off today. Uh so we have a brand
new young man working it. So there could be a
few bells and whistles that are issues during the course
of the show. We'll be fine worried about It's more
about the content. Yeah, content is king, Matthew, and you're welcome.
I had Chris Gordy hung out for a little while,
did he Adam? He probably probably was distracted. Was gonna well,
I'm not going to say that, but he uh yeah,
Well I asked him on Monday and he forgot, so
he was one segment late. But that's fine. You know,
I can handle it. I'm professionally, I've been in the
business a long time. You have been did a great
job of being someone you know as a producer, especially
when you're solo man, as you know, it's a little
more difficult. I would say I would put both of
us in the same category and that we can do it.
But it's better to have somebody to bounce off of.
It's a bounce. Sports radio is a bounce.
Speaker 5: And so.
Speaker 4: Just checking out little ten o'clockers, how y'all doing doing great?
And Jonathan was great. Uh, he was getting involved in
the conversation and he uh he, he did a great
job as somebody to bounce off of with conversation and
the times when I was solo. And then Adam Clinton
came in and trashed Lebron and somebody, our friend LJ
from New Zealand called in and got.
Speaker 3: Angry with him.
Speaker 4: Yeah it's gonna happen, and then uh, and then Adam
called the Celtics bungdent jomokes last night and we had
I got Arek in Providence. So you kept mixing your accents.
That's not true. I mean it was a little New
York in there at the end. I think if we
listened to it, I did pretty good. We have it, eh, oh,
I know, we don't want to play it because Ross
is gonna get compliments.
Speaker 3: So that's fine. No, no, no, you should do it live.
Speaker 4: Because the guy, because I was listening to it, the
guy was not buying in any of your stick He
was are you kidding?
Speaker 3: Well, he was just responding.
Speaker 5: He was like.
Speaker 3: I was like, I was like, that's unbelievable. He's like,
I know, that's unbelievable. I said, he.
Speaker 4: Doesn't know who Baylor Shyaman is. And the guy said, uh,
He's like, I know, it's unbelievable or something. Evidently he
does it. Baylor, me and my guy Eric were on
the same page. Okay, well you know we'll play it.
Then we should play We'll play in the next segment
ten to ten twenty ten twenty It is ten twenty
next segment.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Rockets sucked last night. There ain't no other
way to say it.
Speaker 4: That was not fun. That was a painful, painful way
to spend two hours of my life. I mean, as
great as early to the day was with my daughter
officially signing at the University of Hode Island and speaking
of Providence. Yeah, by the way, yes, congratulations to you
you guys who were in the news at noon.
Speaker 3: Oh great, took as long for that.
Speaker 4: For the ceremony humble I SD I love y'all, but
damn getting every umble Id kid it took for hours.
Speaker 3: And say, how many kids was it?
Speaker 4: Do you have a list eighty from eighty for anybody
that was an umble Id for the spring semester and
include some football, uh, some track and field, a lot
of baseball and volleyball and softball.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so it was.
Speaker 4: And I felt bad for Carly because they told everybody
and said, hey, can y'all please stay in here in
Clyd for everybody? So Thomas family, well maybe so, yeah,
we were in there because it wasn't our turn, so.
Speaker 3: You know, they went. They went alphabetical medical like not
by sport they went, and not by school. It was alphabetical.
Speaker 4: So ABC d EFG got a lot of collapse by
the time we got the t and it was like
sixteen people left. Yeah, well they were all there out
in the middle of the congrege drum church. They couldn't
be getting drunk, man, I guess it could possibly happened,
but then get into the sacrament wine. Yeah, but did
have a good time and it's good and a lot
of her old coaches and a lot of her teammates
were there, and my parents were there, and Carl's and
Kim's parents were there. So it's beautiful. Good time you
brought your checkbook so they could they could get a
view too. Who's they the church checkbook? Oh, chech book
contributed a lot too. The checkbook did a lot of
heavy lifting.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. Checkbooks some heavy lifting. Check probably
tears in its eyes.
Speaker 4: Checkbook's like Kim's like, we should do an airbnb, Like,
do you realize how this is much this is going
to cost? Like we're splitting on them? I said, do
you realize that it's just going to cost? You buy
the property and then you can rent it. That's the
way I cannot afford Rhode Island real estate. If you
know it, I don't know, Okay, I don't know. I
wasn't trying to pocket check or trying to help. I'm
trying to give you ideas. I'm an idea man. Yeah,
the abbe for four months is going to be insane.
That's what I'm saying. You buy the property, then you
make the rent. Okay, just put your house up for collateral.
That's gonna say and whatever, nice luxury suv your wife's
driving at the moment. God, it hits close to home,
it really does. I'm trying to make you money. I'm
trying to make you money.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll good. Well, maybe our salesforce can help
with that.
Speaker 4: You'd like to be a part of the Sports Talk
seven Hoey family where Ross and I can properly endorse
your product. Robert Reeese is always a good one to
go to. He likes soccer, which is a detriment to him.
Speaker 3: I don't know why.
Speaker 4: He's really a small fellow. That's my Manchester City dog.
Both made big Manchester City fans. We have been very
disappointed lately. Yeah, you did a two to two tie
with you, my son's big three to one win over
Newcastle to make the finals of the Caribou Cup. Though, Matt,
congratulations all involved, Thank you all right? And again, how
did you get man City? Just you just happen to
be the first one you saw him on TV? No,
my friend was a big Manchester United fan and we
used to play FIFA and you know what I found
out this weekend. Your son's the exact same way he
was in college playing the FIFA the video game Okay
with his good friend who was an Arsenal fan. They're
big rivals Tottenham, so we started using Tottenham and he
started liking the team. My friend was a big United
Manchester United fan there in their intra city rivals. It's
like you know, uh, you know Yankees and Mets and uh.
And I started to pick Manchester City. I like the players,
I started following them and then I picked him as
my team. I wanted to make sure I picked a
team that wasn't gonna be terrible. Some people go and
pick like our friend Alex Middleton from the Buzz He
picked west Ham United. Like they're fighting regulation a relegation
every year. It's not fun pitiful. I was like, if
I get to pick, I got Houston sports teams. If
I'm picking a team, it's gonna be somebody who has
a chance to win. It's like my situation here. I
have been a lifelong Astros fan. I have been a
lifelong Rockets fan. I have been a lifelong well not lifelong,
but Cougar's fans as I went to school there. I
actually liked them before they went a lot of losing
in Houston. So that's why I can't. I cannot draw
myself to NFL team. You know, when the Orders left,
it was like, hey, but what are we going to do?
And they're like, well, you know the Cowboys, and a
lot of people did gravitate towards the Cowboys because that
was the only team in the state and that they
were on TV. Every you didn't miss you didn't miss
the Cowboys game here, Every single Cowboys game on while
the Orders were gone, were always on television.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now right now it's about eighty percent, so you get
most of them. Plus if you have direct TV or
you have the Sunday ticket, you get to get everything
as it is. But I just like you, maybe you
should try to being like a forty nine Ers fan,
like that seems kind of artificial. Sans would make sense geographically,
it's not that. Yeah, but they weren't great back then,
so I have lived.
Speaker 7: You know what.
Speaker 3: Let's get you on the Saints band winging right now.
I don't think so a quarterback because then you can
talking to your New Orleans accent. Baby, Yeah, but yours
is better than mine. We work on it.
Speaker 4: We'll go play more black jack at the Caesars or
what is it now, Yeah, it was Harris, the New
Orleans themed casino changed to the Italian theme casino.
Speaker 3: And it's bigger and better than ever they could have refurbished.
You can kept it, Harris. It's huge. No, sportsbook's huge.
Pokeroom's huge too.
Speaker 4: I told you that you can't even get a spot
in the in the sports book unless you're laying down
like a thousand dollars. Yeah, like all these casinos and
Louisian like, come come, we'll watch the game with us.
We're gonna charge you two hunred and fifteen hours an
hour on boozing food. Like yeah, I'll be at home
for fine. Agree, give me some big City wings, break,
pick it up and go home.
Speaker 3: There you go, all right.
Speaker 4: So Rockets sucked last night, they tell you, and and
it was painful, awful to me as Kita was a
was the Steven Adams of the Boston Celtics yesterday with
an enormous amount of rebounds, both offensively and defense. I
didn't know that there was a Portuguez. I didn't know
his Portuguezeta got the Portuguese. He was locking down a
mentom a men Thompson, the use of five on a
men Thompson defense came again. Second time it's happened in
a week, and it was very effective. I'm just saying
people were telling me it wouldn't work without Wimby. It
worked without Wimby. I can live with Wimby. To me
is Kate that I cannot live with. Kate is an
NBA player, so it's not like, what is his wingspan.
He was poking everything away, he was making plays. I
gotta be honest, and then he blocked it. He fit
he the one worst part of it was and I
and the Rockets did score a basket off of this,
But there was a I'm trying to remember what happened.
It was in the fourth quarter when I was basically
tuning myself out. Uh, there was a turnover. Kaita runs back,
I think, attempts the block, winds up going about four
rows deep into the arena into the lower level, comes
back and winds up blocking the next shot. The Rockets tank.
Then it was scooped up by somebody in the Rockets
when I'm scoring a basket.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a really, really difficult night. Boston played
it back to back the night before. The Rockets did
not have to worry about facing Jalen Brown. Of course,
Jason Tatum not there or who else was not playing
ninth that was of somewhat value. Chris Bouchet, but he's
gonna be traded. Oh, Anthony Simons is being moved to
Chicago for a Nicola Vucevich.
Speaker 5: So it was it was.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say it was a bunch of Jimokes, but
somebody would, well, you can catch him two to six.
But the issue was it was not the primetime team
that built the Celtics where they are, which is a
huge surprise. In the Eastern Conference, all of your big
three were bad. You had four of eleven from from
Kevin Durant and then five of twelve each from Alpera
and Shingoon. I'm sorry Jabaris Smith June was also five
to twelve, and it was a Mentoms was three of eight.
Nobody was efficient. None of your big three were efficient.
I had people calling like complaining about Jabari Smith Junior
and Reed Shepherd. It's like a men Thompson, an Alperam,
Shingoon and Kevin Durant need to carry this offense. I'm
not worried about Reed Shepherd going three to twelve I mean,
I'm a little worried about it, but yeah, he's had
a he's in a run and it's not been great.
He's not the reason why they lost this game. They looked,
i think the word used by Emi a Doka in
the post game, like they were in the mud, like
stuck in the mud.
Speaker 3: They just looked.
Speaker 4: And you know, and I was gonna ask you this, Matt,
because I brought it up on the post. Harry, you're saying, Okay, yeah,
the first game, you're in the traveling party, so you
have a good perspective on this. It feels like even
the first game of a home stand, when they've been
running up and down around the country, like they have
been yelling back and forth.
Speaker 3: One game on the road, one.
Speaker 4: Game round, it feels like it's almost like a road game,
just the the energy of the team or lack thereof. Well,
let's pull the schedule up, and I don't want to
do a super big dive on this, but let's go
through some of that. We've had a lot of you know,
in a lot of road games. Now we got we've
had a lot of home games as of late. The
first game out of the long December trip, they won
at home versus Cleveland. They went to two Brooklyn Dallas
for the first year, came back to beat Phoenix in there.
So unfortunately, I know what you think, but the numbers
don't bear that out. Well, how do they look in
the game? So are they blowing these guys out? Well,
just wins and losses doesn't mean they played well. Sometimes no,
but I I don't what is the average NBA game
about a seven or eight point differential giver?
Speaker 3: Take sometimes ten sometimes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they came home from that long trip in January
and then they they beat Chicago.
Speaker 3: But if I remember, they looked like they didn't look
good in that game either.
Speaker 4: But either way, okay, well, whatever it is, there's no
as they look we're catching. We're catching the injury bug
hurt because of the fact that Adams has gone for
the year.
Speaker 3: That's one less body using your rotation.
Speaker 4: Clint Capello is playing those minutes, and Clint's nice player,
but he's not as good as a rebounder as Steven
Adams is. Clinton a little more of an offensive player.
But I don't significant more. You're still giving You're having
to use Kevin Durant way too much. Although he didn't
play in the fourth quarter yesterday, which was for the
wrong reasons, because you'd like to played him because you
were winning the game. And the Rockets had a nice
easy schedule the first two months of the year. We're
playing back to backs on a weekly base. We have
a back to back tonight against the Charlotte Hornets, who
have won six straight, and then back to back next week.
Oh the way, we got Oklahoma City coming up on Saturday.
So it's just it's a tough schedule SGA though.
Speaker 3: At least. Yeah, they lost to the Spurs last night, right,
you know what. I went to bed. I didn't know that. Yeah,
I know, I'm with you. The last I saw, Spurs
were up eleven, so I want to.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, so things we're gonna get too on
the show todayly won.
Speaker 3: Yeah, uh they.
Speaker 4: I think the Oklahoma City's under played four players you'd recognize,
and I think Shake Gildes Alexander's out with an abdominal
injury until after the All Star break.
Speaker 3: I hate to hear that. I mean, that's what we need.
Take advantage. Let's go, gotta do what you gotta do.
Speaker 4: Seven one three, two one two five seven nine. If
you want to join the show today seven one three
two one two five seven nine zero. It is the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross on the show today. Uh,
we're gonna have I just don't get it at eleven thirty.
Our buddy Softy's gonna join us from San Francisco at
twelve thirty today. You know, I'm kind of it's just
gonna go. Let him have the floor.
Speaker 3: I don't need it.
Speaker 4: We don't get a deep dive. Just give us the
experiences hanging on a radio row. Yeah, media Roe, excuse me,
media media. So we're gonna get to him, talk to him. He's,
of course from our friends at kJ ER in Seattle.
His Seahawks are playing for the Super Bowl Championship, the
Vintilbardi Trophy. University Houston Cougar's destroyed Central Florida last night,
Take that, Golden Knights, and then Calvin Sampson had a
little bit of a monologue about the state of economic
affairs at the University of Houston, which is to no surprise,
but as it's just ain't.
Speaker 3: You of age, it's five percent of colleges have played
Division one athletics. Ross, would you.
Speaker 4: Say ninety five? Coach Sampson is. I mean, he's a
true gym. He is an awesome does not give any
fs about speaking publicly about stuff correct. NBA trade deadline
is coming up today at two o'clock. Will the Rockets
make a move veteran buy out? Maybe after the deadline?
Maybe Will Giannis get moved today? Will John Morankett moved today?
I would like to adjust my gut feeling from Tuesday. Well,
we can discuss. Okay, we'll do that. Uh fromber is
now a Detroit Tiger got big big cat, big AAV
short term deal, short years big AA V targ School
was like, hmm, do I want to play for the
Dodgers or don't want to play for the Dodgers. I
want to play for LA. I don't want to play
for the team in southern California. Hey, Yankees can get involved?
And who needs a new haircut? I'm thinking I've been
thinking about it. It's it gonna change who you are. No,
it's not gonna change who I am, But you're thinking
about it. I've been going with the long pony for
like seven years now, tell us switch, are you just
gonna trimm?
Speaker 3: You're gonna go?
Speaker 4: I still want to have curls. I want to show
off the curls. What about getting rid of the beard altogether?
What do you think about the beer?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 4: Well, if maybe if I lose a little more weight,
the beard does a good job covered up the double
chin looks like one point five with a beard?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 4: Ten sixteen, It's a Matt Thomas Show at Ross seven
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was ugly last night Sports RV.
Speaker 4: That was I mean, that was, uh, what is the
old cliche we always roll out that one's not gonna
be They're not gonna ask for that.
Speaker 3: The Nate Smith Basketball Hall of Fame. The better.
Speaker 4: It was not a night to remember. It was ugly
offense from the get and then it got uglier as
the game went along. Derek White was knocking down threes.
I don't even want to say that out loud. Peyton Pritchard,
Derek White got hot. Peyton Pritchard thought he was Kaitlin
Clark for a minute, Peyton Pritchard was bawling.
Speaker 3: I guess it was, and nobody could get anything going.
Speaker 5: It was just.
Speaker 4: In I will use I will go back to Emo
Doka's phrase, stuck in the mud offense from the Rockets
last night. They were getting crushed in the boards Namasketa
with the seven rebound offensive rebounds, I think it was.
Speaker 3: Or was it more than that?
Speaker 4: No, seven offensive rebounds, they got twenty offensive rebounds. They
beat you on the boards, and then the second chance
points twenty seven to fifteen. They got twenty seven second
chance points last night. Matt not ideal got up as
much as twenty nine.
Speaker 5: It was just.
Speaker 3: Not fun Rockets basketball.
Speaker 4: But just like in baseball, if you get shut out
nine to nothing, you can come back and bounce back.
And yes, played the Charlotte Hornet still, okay, I got you.
We'll go Ernie Banks. Let's play two. I mean, I
gotta go that direction. Right, let's do it. I can
do that. The Charlotte Hornist, though they did they play,
They didn't play last night, right. I think they were
in the hotel rested. I think they've won seven in
a row. I thought I said six, but maybe I'm wrong.
I think it got up to seven. Now, yeah it
was six. Now it's seven.
Speaker 3: Damn it.
Speaker 4: There's a win over Spurs went over the sixers and
win over the magic in that space. Wait a minute,
they did beat Washington, Memphis in New Orleans in the mix. Okay,
but also San Antonio, Philadelphia, Orlando.
Speaker 3: Is that terrible? That's true. I'm just saying. And it's
not like the Rockets are being world beaters right now.
They're playing good. They want to know what they want.
Speaker 4: They won five out of six before last night, and
I know it sucks, but you know a lot of
calls on the postgame show. How that happens when they're terrible.
It's funny when when you win, uh, there is no calls,
and when you lose, it so gives us the recap. Yeah,
but that's how it goes. I mean, hey, I take
any post game call I can get. Just be consistent.
It's always yes. But you know we've been asking that
for a long time in sports. I need to get
a glass of water. I'm gonna you want to go
get you some water. I literally go do it. I'm
worried about you, just to say it. You should have
done it.
Speaker 3: I told you not to do it.
Speaker 4: Uh, there's a place that brought some chicken sandwiches to
us and hot chicken. It's just not gonna work for me.
I'm gonna go get you some water, all right. I'm
gonna talk.
Speaker 3: About it to make it through this night. Actually, are
you sure? Yes? Lois, You're absolutely right. Hi Lewis, Good morning.
Speaker 5: To you, MT and r V.
Speaker 4: How are we doing outstanding? Thank you for asking, Hey.
Speaker 9: Man, my little tough on your daughter going to Rhode Island.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much. I appreciate that.
Speaker 9: It's very excited she gonna play volleyball.
Speaker 4: Obviously, I would hope so I spend a lot of
money on playing club volleyball in the last seven years
of her life.
Speaker 9: Anyway, you know, last night is like a bad hangover,
you know, It's just.
Speaker 8: It's something that happens.
Speaker 7: And I hope it lights This.
Speaker 9: Is just a h being a GM on the radio me.
I just hope this lights a fuse under them to
do something, just to shake this team up.
Speaker 5: A little bit.
Speaker 9: And I want to ask you a question. I want
to bound some names off of you and see what
you think. Andre Drummond, I think is very attainable from Philly.
And if you had a choice either Chris Paul or
Lonzo ball I get and cut, would you pick up.
Speaker 7: Either one of those guys?
Speaker 4: I really don't think those guys will come via trade.
If those guys get bought out, there may be a
situation that would come into play because you'd be able
to get him on the cheap. I just I don't
anticipate the Rockets doing anything trade wise. And there's a
lot of rumors out there, and a lot of that
is because aidents are putting that out there. Other teams
are trying to put that out there as well, So
it's hard for me to say, Wow, this guy would
make a difference. And all the only question is is
this guy really worth it? Depending on the money that
you're spending. Like the Cavaliers traded Lonzo to the Utah Jazz,
is Utah going to keep him?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 7: Cut they cut him?
Speaker 3: Oh they already did, Okay, I didn't even know that. Yeah,
so they cut He's not gonna cost.
Speaker 9: You much, right, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: But do you think it's I just I wouldn't shoot
very well. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: It's funny to say I'm a little more interested in
Lonzo Ball as far as like a mystery box ad
than Chris Paul. Chris Paul, I know is done done.
Lonzo Ball. Thirty percent from the floor, guys. Yeah, that's atrocious.
Twenty seven percent from three last year he won. Last
year was better. But it's and it's all like he
hasn't been playing. That's thirty five games at twenty minutes
per like, that's not nothing. It's he's having a halfull
season shooting. You're not gonna well, you're not gonna get
an all started to buy out market.
Speaker 7: You're not.
Speaker 4: I mean, so I'll say this Lewis, and I don't
mean to give you a mamby pammy answer. I think
there'll be a roster add on. Yeah, I would. I
mentioned this on to tell the truth ourday. I think
it's going to be more of an extra big then
it would be an extra guard.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 4: My gut feeling is that you're gonna see a small
trade for a little bit of salary room, whether it's
like Jeff Green for a second round and you send
picks or something like that to help facilitate another team's trade,
or Jay Shan Tate or what do you exactly. You
get involved in three team deals to help somebody out.
That way, you can get yourself a little bit of
room to the salary cap and then make a buyout.
That's what my gut feeling Tuesday was there was gonna
be no moves. I just I've changed my mind. I
think it's gonna be a small move and I think
then you go the you go hunt, buy out hunt.
I think Dorian Phinney Smith's has been talked about, and
thank you Lewis for the phone call. I appreciate it.
He's been talked about his trade possibilities as well. I
don't know if that necessarily is something that would be.
Speaker 3: DFS.
Speaker 4: I like him a lot, good guy, but spend most
of the season injured and then he just hasn't shot
very well. Yes, he's got a huge contract. Yeah, I
mean he's got a he's got a long NBA track
record of being a decent player. So it's like, do
I liked it when the when the sign was made,
But it's just what I'm saying, how much time do
you give him to get back in a rhythm?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 4: It's see he's only played seventeen games. You can say, oh,
but he's terrible. This is what this is some cost,
that's what That's what Rafelson has to figure out. Yeah,
Or can he get better? Can he get healthier in
and you get more in a rhythm? Because let me,
I'm gonna completely ross Loby here for one second to
pill a curtain. I talked to im ay publicly and
behind the scenes, and if I if I got a
vibe from you from him that said, hey, he's he
wants to go find that missing piece, I'd kind of
I'd tell you, guys, I'd say, hey, I think I've
never gotten that vibe from this team at any point,
even when.
Speaker 3: Fred got hurt, even as readis struggle as of late.
Speaker 4: And even want Steven Adams going on, I I just
don't have it.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 4: There could be some blockbuster maybe maybe they're being coy,
maybe they're just trying to paint a blank face on things.
But he has been very consistent in saying this, and
he sent us a lot publicly. There are more teams
coming after our players, then we're going after theirs. And
I think the two players that are being talked about
is Jabari Smith and Tarise Natari makes a little more
sense because he is a restricted free agent.
Speaker 3: If the Rockets love a player, if you love someone,
you're not giving them up.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But and frankly, Tari is their best three point shooter.
I mean this late in the season, he's their best
three point shooter. He's shooting about forty nine percent from three. Yeah,
he's going like for historic numbers.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now he's not shooting volume wise a lot because he's
missing all that games. And I don't know if he's
going to play to night or nine. He doesn't play
back to backs during Phinney. Smith did not play last night,
and I'm expecting he would play provide it seems like
they wanted to stagger them.
Speaker 3: One available tonight and one the next night.
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people are going because My Twitter numbers have been fairly
standing because I get rid of all the bots. Yeah,
I'm sixteen away from fourteen hundred at sports RV on Instagram.
Speaker 3: That's not bad. We're trying to build. I want to
build a brand. I need to post more. I know
we've talked about this quite a bit. I keep saying
it new year, knew me, Matt.
Speaker 4: Eh, it's taking time, like you said that since twenty thirteen.
Oh yeah, I can't do everything all at once. I'm
trying to sleep better, trying to lose weight, trying to
eat better, and how those things coming along?
Speaker 3: Most of them pretty good. But now I've been sick,
so I didn't sleep so well.
Speaker 4: Okay seven one three two one two five seven nine
ten thirty two Here on seven ninety What the hell
is this song?
Speaker 3: It's my jam, Maddie.
Speaker 5: Who is it? Uh?
Speaker 3: Five Finger Death Punch?
Speaker 5: Oh?
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Speaker 7: Or no? Yes?
Speaker 4: You celebrate their entire catalog. I'm sure we're giving away
tickets to them eventually. All right, It is the Matt
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all right? Seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
We do want to play some of the uh and
we don't have a chance. I guess maybe we couldn't
edit it down. But Calvin yesterday, after the Cougar's annihilated
UCF's like, man, we're broke. He said that, well, I
want you to keep asking for donations afterwards, Well, not
necessarily donations, said cut to check EMT. Well, you know
the thing it is, and I we'll save this for
a little bit later. But it's not about you and me, right,
one hundred dollars check? He needs multi millions of dollars. Yeah,
so he's he was talking about this basically asking anybody
that runs a a big company. Oh okay, I mean
if every cougar dropped fifty dollars towards him. It wouldn't
take it wouldn't do much. You need Cody Campbell. Every
school needs those super, super big alums. And Tilman's already
put enough of money. And Tim's like, man, I'm busy.
He's at a palace in Italy. Yeah, I'm trying to
build my other empires. I mean I've given you enough. Yeah,
I mean it's basically been. And I'm sure there's been
others that are Cougar fans. And if you all, if
you all know other people that have given super money,
give me some run. I'll let them have their shine.
But Mattress, Mackus and I held them to death. Tilman's
done it, and I don't really know many people other
than that. I'm sure there's others, but Tilman's, i mean,
Coven minuted a point to say, Man, I like having
at Kingston here, I like having Chris Sinek here. I
can't afford this. We're going to start losing players so
we don't have money. And if it's not it's not
only just the University of Houston saying this. I'm sure
there's a lot of campuses across this country that are
saying these things. Let's talk to Roger one thirty nine, Roger,
good morning.
Speaker 8: Good morning, Matt and Ross. Yeah, you don't sleep one
five figure death punch. It's a good good jab going
through Darten to Houston traffic. And I am now uh
so uh Raphel Stones. I'm gonna take your action on
the phone. I'm gonna give him for his whole tenure here.
I'm gonna give him like that's maybe a C plus
just because of Durant Dale. Now, I just think this
guy could be doing more. I think he's gotten way
too comfortable with his job, you know. I just think
that Darre Moore, for all his flaws, you know, and
the guy was always fleecing people other gyms and deals,
and you know, he usually he knew how to move
and shake, you know, through all these trade deadlines. And
I just think we're Phil Stone's absolutely opposite of that.
And I just think it's time to move on. If
he doesn't, you know, at least try to get something
done here at the end of the daylight, we don't
we know what we are.
Speaker 7: We're going.
Speaker 8: We're an okay team. We're a good team with just
not a great team. And I just think, you know,
with a little help, but Yeah, you don't want to
get fleeced. You don't want to show your cards. But
you know what, they're not handing out GM jobs. Everybody
goes easy. So I'll just take your asser the floor.
What kind of grade you give him this guy if
the trade doesn't get done.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm asking for a gentleman as to be
a fire if a trade has not made you did
you did trade for one of the greatest players in
the history of the NBA. You did sign Dylan Brooks
and Fred Van Vliet to contracts and who helped you
get from five hundred to a playoff team in fifty
two wins a year ago?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 3: You didn't.
Speaker 4: You didn't miss on him and Thompson Rea alprinchting Gun
was picked in the teams and has been an All Star. Yeah,
and he's twenty one to nine and six a game,
and I know he's got his flaws to everybody does.
Uh reed, Yeah, sixteenth. He got picked in the at
sixteen and it's been an All Star. Reids reads up
and down. Jury still out on that. There have been
players behind him that have had more success. There's no
really no other way to say that. Uh Jabari's good
not an all star all starting good, but it's definite
starting guy. No, there, when you fire people is when
you make bad trades and you trade Luca to the
Dallas to the Los Angeles Lakers and you uh, I
mean who else, folks? They're they're fourth in the West. Yeah,
I mean, come on, like two games behind the Spurs
for second. Come on, now, you're gonna you're gonna let
a non draft day trade Dad line, go pass and
go oh, he's gotta let you let go?
Speaker 3: I mean, and Fred van Vliet.
Speaker 4: Ripped his his knee in half and Steven Adams ripped
his knee in half or ankle in half.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the injuries happened. The team was well built.
Speaker 4: You've just had some major injuries and then yeah, Donny
and Finney Smith hasn't exactly worked out.
Speaker 3: But who's getting fired? Everybody?
Speaker 4: Everybody liked that signing when happened. Everyone the entire world did.
Sneaky could pick up I'll tell you what. You didn't
think much about Josha Kogie, and he's turning to be
pretty very good acquisition for this team.
Speaker 3: It's a good point.
Speaker 4: So look, all I'll say is is that I when
this team plays well, and it has played well way
more than has played badly. It's fun, exciting, it's got
clutch scoring, it's had some really big wins. It's you know, again,
the schedule's tough right now, and they're just kind of
holding on for dear life for the All Star break,
it feels like to me, and that's up to eMate
to keep those guys motivated to do that. But the
schedule just is cruel. The schedule is what it is.
Three days in, three games and four nights. Then you
come home for a day and you get back to
backs before they all start break, and then you can
kind of decompress a little bit. Oh, Tari Easton's been
a good pick too, picked seventeenth. Yeah, Tarry, Yeah. The
only thing you can say is okay, now, Reed Shepherd
was obviously the Rockets choice and we're very happy about that.
Stefan Castle's played better and he was the Rookie of
the Year behind that, but they can't control their drafts selection.
They would have loved to have Victor Webbin yam, but
it didn't turn out that way.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: You mean the ping pong balls or whatever they used
to determine these things. They didn't go to the Rockets way.
Ping pong balls really screwed them. Both Palla Bancaro and
Cheed Holgren have been All Stars ahead of Javarismith Junor
You mentioned Winby. Yeah, but those are guys before the
Rockets couldn't get to That's what I'm saying. Everybody cheered
about Chet Holmgren not being a Rocket. Oh my god,
that was the biggest ovation downtown Houston, Texas.
Speaker 3: Take him, Oklahoma City, take Chet Holmgren.
Speaker 4: He gets hurt all the time. He still gets hurt
all the time, but he's still very good. And he's
an All Star this year and block hit threes. Yeah,
say eighteen points a game. This is not a bad
basketball team.
Speaker 3: You guys know that.
Speaker 4: I mean, come on, you give me a C I
get I give it. I think see okay, I'm sorry. C.
Plus I had worship giving him a bee. Yeah, I'm
going B plus.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter. It's all about what you do.
Speaker 4: You come playoff time, and you know what, I got
one of the best scores in the history of the
NBA on my side.
Speaker 3: I'm okay, all right?
Speaker 4: Ten forty four Sports Talk seven ninety. This is the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross seven one three, two one
two five, seven ninety. I'm gonna try to find that
audio of Kelvin talking about the money because I want
to get your thoughts on what he said. He is
spitting facts, but there's a little bit of a how
do I put this, uh, a little risk reward was
saying these things. And I'll explain that coming back on
it at ten and seven ninety.
Speaker 3: I believe the theme this show today is play songs
matters and idea what they are. But that's fine. It's
a good theme. You've got a lot of options about you.
Speaker 1: I stay clear.
Speaker 4: Nicholas Polar. Is that how he pronounced his name? Niggas
how you pronounce your name? All right, Nicholas Polar, he's
some mixing the songs for us. Yes, I'm gonna call
him some sir mix and Nick, watch your language, Matt,
he's got his USA Hockey jersey on. Or you know,
curling is already underway at the Olympics. Oh really, wait
a minute. Winter Olympics are on for real? No, I
just know the curling started. Whether they're on or not,
I don't know, but just tell let's go. Where is
there there in Italy. Yeah, I couldn't care less. Come on,
matt U s a U s a us right now.
Speaker 3: In curling? All right, yep?
Speaker 4: How do you learn how to curl? By the way,
I mean you get a brush out and you get
to get a big stone that works into the rink
and just push it really fast. Yeah, you and you
and the Fellas head out? Was that kinetic energy?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Sure?
Speaker 10: Why not?
Speaker 3: This guy man mass acceleration? Sure? Why not?
Speaker 4: All right, we're gonna play our audio here. Let's make
sure it's I can't so we're working on it. All right,
We're gonna eleven o'clock. We're gonna play this game.
Speaker 3: We can get it done soon.
Speaker 4: We'll get it done eleven o'clock. We're gonna hitle you're
with Kelvin Sampson. Kevin is real, so uh, I'll say
that for it.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: Robert Veldetz got traded, yes, not traded, he signed with
it and big fat aa V yes he excuse me, language, man,
what I didn't say average annual value?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 3: Good? What do you think I said?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 4: Look at him, he's got a fat av It is
so cute how everybody tries to could Robert come back
in a one year deal. No, hell no, stop, didn't
think it was gonna happen.
Speaker 3: Why do we do why do we do this? Radio
Cole Thompson was doing that yesterday. I'm talking to you.
Speaker 4: I mean, seriously, it's not gonna happen. No, Oh, we
get the when the women's hockey's on right now? Oh really,
why did you say that like that? No, I'm just
saying because I don't like any of it. But I'll
be and I'll watch a little bit. They're playing Czech Republic. Okay, yeah, see,
I get him. The Olympics, mate, come on, that's fine,
all right, So you don't I'll put first take on.
Speaker 3: No, don't do that.
Speaker 4: But hockey's much better. Okay, you'll take win Olympics over that.
So Frober gets the three year deal. He's obviously one
of the best pitchers the Astros have had in the
last twenty years. There's no disputing that. When Frober is excellent,
he is groundball inducing, innings eater, strikeout throwing twelve six curveball.
Speaker 3: It's fun.
Speaker 4: But when it implodes, you can bring Carlo's crey to
the mound. You can bring any of his childhood best
friend of the mound. The guy cracks like a bad
egg and he has not been able to shake that
his entire career. Well, last year was worse than he
had been in three or four years. The meltdowns were
far too frequent. And then the worst of course, what
is the word you always use, that fatal com plee
uh oh, the coup de gras whatever French we want
to break out peer sixer. Yeah, the bag at whatever
we want to call it, was when he got crossed
up with Sasar Salazar and and threw at his stomach.
That was the death now for him getting any sort
of big, long term deal in the off season.
Speaker 3: And that's what I really thought. Uh the dollar value
would have been bad, but he was it three one fifteen.
Is that what I saw? Yes, that's that's excellent. Thirty
eight million.
Speaker 4: There's opt out after the second year, yes, which is
the same thing for for Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 3: Everybody's kind of like, we're gonna see.
Speaker 4: What happens after this labor stoppage. We have to pray
not that just to make it today. Well that too,
but we don't want to go through a whole year
of work stoppage. Do we because there are some owners
privately say Ross, if it takes us a year away
from the business to reconvene the refigure, configure the.
Speaker 3: Business model, we'll do it.
Speaker 4: I'd be curious what those in the know, the Chandler Romes,
Brian McTaggart's, et cetera, have to say about a potential
labor stoppage, because just from us sitting here in our seats,
it feels like, not only are it's going to be
the owners versus the players, it's going to be owners
versus the owners. So it could be it feels like
an extended layoff with games missed, a season missed. I
don't know that would be hugely detrimental. I mean, it
took a while for people to come back in the nineties. Now,
when everybody's got Netflix and Apple TV and every other
thing going on, it would seem like it would be
even worse to try to get people to come back.
People in the nineties were angered because it was in
the middle of the season and it was fun and interesting.
If you go away for a while, you're right, I
got a new show on Apple TV. I want to
watch you forget We forget about stuff that I didn't.
I forgot the Pro Bowl games wrong.
Speaker 3: You didn't watch it. I forget.
Speaker 4: I forget what in I forget what game NBA is on? Well,
it's on Prime Video tonight or is it on NBC
or is it on whatever?
Speaker 3: I forget. It's hard.
Speaker 4: You said no to the Pro Bowl. I didn't intentionally
say no. I forgot about the Pro Bowl. But it's
still a known I'm proud of you.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Apparently it was a real barn burer. It
was like sixty six to fifty eight or whatever. Thank
you to C. J.
Speaker 4: Stroud for forgoing. Why did they say barn burner? Isn't
that really bad? Your barn is burning down? Is that exciting?
Speaker 3: And through?
Speaker 4: That sounds like an urban dictionary right? Or I mean
it feels like you know, back in the eighteen sixties
said that the Bonds, but we're gonna like to you
have a party and you'd burn the barn down. No
barn burner, I it would missed to be a connotation
for being a really hot game. Maybe okay, but who
saw barn burner in twenty twenty six? It originated from
the eighteen thought is the barn burners? Farmer burned his
barn to smoke out rats. The things you learn on
the Matt Thomas Show at all or educational Matt were
informative and entertaining, well and hilarious. One of us is
seven one three, two, one two five seven. Actually seven
one three, two, one two five to seven out of
eight real there was a lack of a barn burner.
It was an icy chilia burn barn Tota Saturday. It's
a slow bird, all right. So the Cougars take care
of business over UCF to start them out. Oh, by
the way, USA leading Czech Republic three to one. They
must be starting early because the tournament is so long, right,
tucket checks. So you got curling going and you got
hockey going. Yes, this is live, by the way.
Speaker 3: What's the time difference? Six seven hours? Six seven hours? Yeah,
you have been in Italy. I would love to go.
Speaker 5: I have not.
Speaker 4: They get mad at me when I want two weeks
straight off. And who's gonna spend like a three day
weekend in Italy with jetlag and do a postgame show
free leave? Yeah, exactly, we love it. Seven one three
two one two five day by the way, work labor day. Well,
that's just me seven one three two one two. It's tradition, Matt.
It is kind of tradition. I worked the holidays, all.
Speaker 3: Right, so Kevin on. We broke.
Speaker 4: And there's positives and negative that come out of that.
We'll talk about that after I tell you about Big
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Speaker 3: Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 4: Eleven O three Sports Talk seven ninety Our friends with
a joint Chiropractor. They are the official chiropractors at the
University of Houston Cougars Athletic program and our Cougars. I
mean the bludgeoned the UCF Nights last night Knights any good?
They beat Texas Tech in Orlando, but they came to Houston.
Texans got their ass whips seventy nine to fifty five
nice ooh, good for them. Kingston Flemings eighteen points six assists.
If you're a Kingston Flemmings fan, you USh him well
in the NBA because he's probably going to be I
would say, I don't want to guarantee it because obviously
injuries good to play a role in this but if
he stays healthy and he stays as productive as he
has been this year, he will be a top five
pick of the NBA draft.
Speaker 3: Coming up.
Speaker 4: Christinic fourteen points, ten rebounds, Cougar's seventy nine fifty five
over UCF. Cougar's will play at BYU on Saturday night,
a late game. All right, now, after the game, and
look is waxing poetic? Is that is that we want
to go with Kelvin Sampson being an all time good
at doing that, Yes, not pulling punches. He's very philosophic,
very real. Now, sometimes there is a underlying message that
he's trying to get out there, and I think clearly
he did that yesterday. I don't know what the context was,
but it was an interesting comment that I did see
on the social media streets. And this is the comments
directly about, you know how the world of nil and
revenue is impacting teams like the Houston Cougars, who are
number eight in the country. Ken Paul my Thin sawhim
at six right in my brother, Yes, yeah, I'm a
Kim Palm guy. I asked my Bible bracketology, according to
Joe Lonardie, puts them on the two line in the
South region, which ultimately means they could be coming to Houston,
which would be really good to play the Tota Center.
Speaker 3: But here is.
Speaker 4: Kelvin talking about how to maintain what has turned out
to be basically a decade of excellence at the University
of Houston of kim.
Speaker 1: Back and the NIO.
Speaker 11: Just like everybody else, we know what our kiss market
value is. We learned trust you're not starving here. We're
getting We're getting exactly what the market is for them.
But you know, uh, we have a very poor athletic department.
Speaker 10: We're poor. You know, we're poort when I got here,
and we're still poor. We probably have the lowest budget of.
Speaker 11: Anybody in power for you know, and you know, the
way our recruiting is going, we have to stop at
some point because we don't have enough money to keep
bringing in any good players. And that's not easy for
us to do. You know, people ask about recruiting. You know,
teams that have the best recruiting classes usually have the
most money. That's the way it is today. You know,
like we we know, uh, you know, we signed I
Kenna and Rathon early. You know, a lot of these
kids we have will come back, but who knows what
else will sign.
Speaker 10: There's how much money we have.
Speaker 11: It's not about who do we want to signs who
can we afford to sign? And even even though we've
been doing this U n il thing that it still.
Speaker 10: Feels funny for me to even say that.
Speaker 11: So it's like coach shocking that's coming out of my
mouth because for so many years it's illegal to do that.
Speaker 10: But it is legal now that's what they call it
nil Now it's legal.
Speaker 4: No, it's legal, I would hope at some point and
not obviously the chances of all of you doing this
will be will be zero percent. But you you get
a chance just to just sit and talk to Kelvin.
He's so philosophical about a variety of things, and he's
got such great quips. Excellent basketball coach is as Og
as og gets right, I'm doing it for a very
long period. Yes, So the reality is on the on
the negative side which he's speaking, the truth is, if
you want to compete, this is in football and in
basketball primarily mean yeah, at the end of the day,
you have to have nil money. And he's not the
only ones saying that. There are other coaches around this
country that are saying the exact same thing. There's a
few coaches don't say this because you know, give it
another word about that LSU Alabama, ALABEMA sort of does.
But I mean this, but most schools A and M's
got a treasure chest Texas, TeX's got Cody Campbell, A
and M's got the variety of different folks there are
they're about.
Speaker 3: What you say.
Speaker 4: I don't know fifteen schools in this country. Maybe maybe
that's a Tinge High that really don't worry about it.
There's our alums that will just say I have disposable income,
I will give it to you, and I'm give it
to you in large amounts. And when he says we're broke,
what he's essentially saying is, look there they're paying. The
players are being paid right now. There's but you can't
write a check to University Houston Basketball or University US
Athletics give him two hudred and fifty dollars and say
this is this is gonna help. I mean a little
bit helps along the way. But what he's talking about
is he needs all in gas money, he needs energy.
He needs big time businesses to cut seven figure deals
because that's what it takes to keep these kids. And
that's not just the University of Houston, that's at eighty
nine percent of the schools in the country. North Texas
probably feeling that way, saying, Calvin, you got some kids,
leave us alone. I'm guessing that people at Ball State
are like, man, that's a tough problem to have. And
then some of the people will say, and I saw
this on Twitter, Calvin, you make six million dollars a year.
You know, if you made five million dollars a year
or you made four point two million dollars a year,
giving that money back to the school to help them
pay could help your program. So there's a lot of
different ways to go to it. It's a very delicate
conversation to get into I don't have enough money, because
people in front of you are going to have more money,
people behind you're gonna be resembled that you're complaining about
money that you that you have that they don't have,
and you're like, well.
Speaker 3: You'd be happy what you got.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this, I mean, this is good from Calvin him
for him to bang this drum, especially as you mentioned
a folkloric figure in the University of Houston Athletic Department
to where maybe this could be a wake up call
for whether it be big donors or even medium sized donors,
are all getting together. Because there are a lot of
University of Houston Cougar's fans who are like, yeah, we're
the big time and all this stuff, and they get
all mad at me on their message boards and stuff
like that.
Speaker 3: But you get your funds.
Speaker 4: Together, and I love that Kelvin Sampson's calling them out
and saying, hey, something needs to be done here. The
argument I have on this is you can't take for me.
I mean I could give some money. I can't give
a lot, but I could give some. Well, if everybody
gave a little bit, it would raise a lot, but
you would need a big collective to do it.
Speaker 3: You need a big collective. What you have to do
is you have to go find the millionaires.
Speaker 4: And if the millionaires don't have a tie to the
University of Houston, and everybody's poking at these millionaires for money,
why am I choosing a program in a school that
I have no affinity for or no relationship with over
say my alma mater that I went to, or my
kids went to, or my company was founded by, you know,
a bunch of scientists that worked for particular school that was.
That was not a cat call, but it was definitely
a direct message to if you got money and you
like seeing us compete. As much as I appreciate the
fifty to fifty dollars checks and the seventy five hour checks,
I need you big heavy lifters that want to be
at the tournament and will hang out with me in
the final four to cut me a six figure check
bare minimum.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, and I can't do that. I can't can't.
I really can't even cut a five figure check. I've
got I've got a family. I just it's hard. I mean,
my outsider perspective is I mean, obviously you're closer and
you know Calvin better. It just seems like he's calling
everyone out, from the millionaires to everyone. Yeah, and because
he's already asked, because Central Campus already pays for a lot.
I mean, they've they've they've they've rolled over deals to
take money from the kids school, you know, the student fees,
and put it towards athletics. The TV money at the
Big twelve level is really really good, is better. Certainly
was as a members of the American or the or
Conference USA. But it's still not the level of the SEC,
and it's not the level of the Big Ten, and
that's who Kevin wants to compete with. Those are the
two other power conferences in foot in sports that the
Big twelve wants to be. So I don't know how
it's resolved. In fact, I don't even think it was
necessarily a message to get it out there. I think
he's just saying, we're gonna do our best. But if
I don't have more money to give these kids, I
can't get these kids. Because I'm telling you, gang, you
go to University of Houston, you're gonna get a great
coach who's gonna treat your sons like father figures, and
you're gonna get a great education, and you're gonna be
in the city of Houston, Texas, and you get to
stay home. But the kids in twenty twenty six do.
Speaker 3: Not care about that. Under any circumstance.
Speaker 4: Ninety nine percent of college players that play college one
Division one basketball do not make it to the NBA.
If this is the money they're going to make in
their life, they're going to go for the biggest deal
and if Baylor is offering one point six per year
as compared to the University Houston is offering one point one,
the kid at one is.
Speaker 3: Gonna take the one six deal. He just as he should.
Speaker 1: Not.
Speaker 3: Everybody's gonna do it.
Speaker 4: But if you get the numbers close, situation and coaching correct.
But that's not close. It's like free agency in regular stalls.
There's no there's no hometown just very rare anyway.
Speaker 5: Ye.
Speaker 4: So but here's the thing, and if I am, I mean,
how many true University Houston fans are are there that
don't have a dog in the fight. I don't think
there's a lot. You We always tease you about the
T shirt fans at Texas and the T shirt fans
at A and M, because it doesn't take you long
to connect yourself to somebody that went to those schools.
Because there's such big institutions and there's statewide properties, and
even the University Houston's a state school, it's fragmented a
round among Texas Tech and TCU and Baylor and SMU.
I mean, there's there's so many schools in the state.
If I'm a business owner and I have my kids
didn't go there, I didn't go there. Why am I
putting money towards something I don't care about? So I
don't necessarily blame the all the fortune five hundreds in
this city for not doing it, because there's no civic
responsibility to go give money to athletes. That's gonna if
you're gonna be civic minded and you own a large company,
you want to help create another museum, or you want
to build a piece of architecture, or you want to
build some you know what I'm saying, You're not doing
it because you want to.
Speaker 3: You're not paying for nineteen year old kids to enjoy themselves.
Does that make sense to you?
Speaker 4: So I think it was basically a plea if you
want to call it a plea for anybody that has
money at the University Houston, which I don't know. I
don't get involved in that game. I guarantee you I
could go find on who has the mine. Yeah, but
don't you feel like they know, like if you're they
know absolutely no. And these people I'm sure have been
contacted over and over again and over and over again.
So I don't know, man, I just I just hate
hearing that we got a big victory against UCF and
Calvin's on the days. He's like, man, we broke you
like these kids, And guess what do you want to
keep bringing these kids in there? Because they ain't they're
they're coming here for cash. They're not coming here because
the cuisine is still and the city culture's fun. Kakeson
Flemings came here because where's he from? I don't even
know where he's from. Sounds like if we'd be from Jamaica.
Wie Kingston Flemings Man Kingston Flemings was born in Newport News, Virginia,
but went to high school in San Antonio.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, well that makes sense.
Speaker 4: Texas mister basketball, damn. And I'm glad he's here. Phoeb
three three on three under eighteen World Cup gold medalist, Yes,
keep going.
Speaker 3: Raging about him. Let's go keep branging about him, all right.
M Machine forty two against Texas Tech A couple of
weeks back.
Speaker 4: Major General Studies. Wow, I'm just kidding. That's not gonna matter.
General study undecided, In general study, is contract is going
to sign it? Vehicle classic undecided? Yeah, I should have
gone general studies myself. You're good, You're doing great, all right.
Eleven fifteen it's a Matt Thomas show with Ross seven
one three two one two five seven any if I
just don't get it coming up at the bottom of
a Ross, what do you think about that sounds great?
Speaker 3: I just don't get it.
Speaker 4: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven.
Speaker 3: Ninety Oh my god, that's over the air. Oh my god,
poor Ross.
Speaker 4: Major sniffles, Nicholas, sir, Mix and Nick playing all your hits.
Speaker 3: I'm kJ true language Matthew Nick. Yeah, okay, what do
you think I'm saying? I just watch your language? All right? Ross,
we have breaking news showing Ross. That's one. Let it play.
That's on me just one now you know what it's
two you think so it's a major shift. Two for
for fundsies. It is for funies.
Speaker 4: Tom pel Saro and I and Rappaport have broken a
story that I've been not wanting to tell you guys
for a while.
Speaker 3: We want me to read it. Go ahead, Oh you
should ask me questions after this. I will. We'll have
your presser in a second.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 4: The Vikings are hiring Matt Thomas as football administration consultant.
Per Me and Tom peli Saro says he in rappaport,
and he will assist with the team throughout the twenty
twenty six NFL draft. Thomas sports enterprise, this has made
it to the big time. So let me tell you
what I'm doing. The hold they'll give you more.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: One of the most respected salary cap executives, Thomas spent
eleven seasons as Seahawks VP of Football Operations. He'll allow
interim GM Rob Brazinski to focus on the big picture. Wow,
so you're gonna roll your sleeves up and help the
Vikings with their draft, Matt Thomas. All right, here's I'm
gonna do. I'm just gonna put a tweet out. Okay,
it's gonna say, hey Minnesota, hashtag skull. Who are the
top guys you're looking at the draft?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: You know we're gonna look for a lot of quality
and we're gonna look for some good guys and some
guys are performing some or not. All right, Matt, Also,
how are you feeling about JJ McCarthy. I mean, are
you gonna be looking for a quarterback or are you
looking for a backup or do you feel like JJ
McCarthy can send as the guys. Some days he's got
good day, some days got bad day doing that voice.
I don't know, that's all. Oh it's me, Okay, honest,
I've had I haven't had a chance to do a
deep dive on Okay, but when I do, I will
be able not to tell you anyth because I want
to keep everything close to the best I got you.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: So what I just did is I just I just
put score School Vikings. I should get some Minnesota followers
out of it, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you will. Right when Matt Thomas, the NBA player,
where is he now?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 4: Long out of the league. I think he's playing in
Europe somewhere. I'm or something three point specialist. So I'm
doing at tend to two radio show on the Voice
of the Rockets, and I'm a Thomas Sports and I've
now created Thomas Sports Enterprises the Northern Branch. Okay, I
mean Thomas Sports Enterprises had some hits. Joe Alt, the
greatest of them all, Dak Prescott. I got my guy
a lot of money.
Speaker 3: You've got him sixty million a year.
Speaker 5: Yep, M.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: Cole says he didn't realize you had time to do this.
I know, so, ladies and gentlemen, it's the rass show now. Oh,
I've been waiting for this for decades. It's however you
want to do it?
Speaker 3: That's good. Well I need I need a co host,
and I need somebody to bounce off what we bounce off.
We have no money for that. In uh, keep in
my back pocket for fifteen years, try to keep them down.
Be fun. But how long would this bicco? Do you think?
Do you think anybody will confuse this?
Speaker 7: Or?
Speaker 3: I mean not anybody with an IQ above one ten?
Have you met people? Or one hundred? I should say? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Is one is one ten considered average? I believe one
hundred is average? Okay, have you read IQ test before?
Speaker 1: Hmmm?
Speaker 4: I took like unofficial ones when I was on that.
I have never taken an IQ test in the low
one third. I don't think I want to.
Speaker 3: Okay, when I was eighteen, I thought you don't wanna
do too?
Speaker 4: I'm going, I'm will going to I'm gonna put a
Vikings avatar on my phone.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, you should no, what are you really gonna
do that? But for one day?
Speaker 5: Do you have one? No?
Speaker 4: I go gonna fix i'na the picture of your son
in a Brett Faarr Vikings Jersey. Do you have anything
Vikings with you? That's what I'm saying. Do you have
any kind of Vikings picture from when you were in Minneapolis?
Speaker 3: No, I don't.
Speaker 4: I wasn't worrying the Minnesota Viking. You guys are the
radio home of the Twins and not the Vikings.
Speaker 3: Correct.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna go this is This is gonna have
some steam to it. Oh gosh, that's what I'm doing.
How can I when the rockets that they're asking about
the Celtics, let me have my fun?
Speaker 3: Please?
Speaker 10: Can I?
Speaker 3: How can I milk this for followers? And I'm also
confused with people?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: Yes, it's so funny. All right, I'm gonna try this.
I'm gonna I'm gonna put an avatar of the Vikings
helmet on my photo. Why don't I crack myself up?
I don't even know. I mean, it's pretty funny. A
dude named Matt Thomas is getting hired after a guy
named Matt Thomas was in.
Speaker 3: The in the NBA. Yes, well, I didn't realize there
were so many of us out there. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't even know any other Matthew and Thomas. But
I mean, I don't know how many Rossville Rials are there,
and there's not. My name is fairly common, Okay, maybe
not in Minneapolis, but you're you're still popular here Va.
There's many viar Rials. We had Oscar viar Rial the picture, yes,
the Astros, and he wasn't very good. So can you
do I believe it or not. That's how he had
to tell Milo to say my name because he oh
like Oscar, because he would write down my name.
Speaker 3: I've told this story before. Uh, what's your last name?
Speaker 6: There?
Speaker 4: Palais v I L L A R R E A L.
I'm gonna call you Alphabet. All right, thanks Milo, May
he rest? May he rest?
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm saving it to photos.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be brilliant, brilliant, all right, matt Can you
not do this in the middle of a segment?
Speaker 3: I don't know?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 4: Wait, by the way, usays up on check four one,
let's go. In the early third period they scored another one.
Speaker 3: Why why are we doing cajun yelling at you at
team US? Why can't they because there's no there's nice
I guarantee you.
Speaker 1: What do you mean there's.
Speaker 3: There's a single cage. Truman, cass is right there. Come
on now.
Speaker 4: When I went to go see the club hockey finals
in sugar Land, there was a team from Lafayette versus
the team from Nashville. And well their last names I
told you boot and Rob Smith and uh yeah and Drinkquits,
dren Quits. Yeah, all right, that's not bad, Rubatie Rubio.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But speaking of which, Chris just got traded from the Celtics.
The trader happened right now. By the way, we were
at our clocks at two and a half hours, watch
this happen, Watch the Rockets do something at one fifty,
and the damn uh from the Afternoon show.
Speaker 3: We're gonna get all the right. We have to bet.
Speaker 4: It's not like they're Jimokes Jamotis Jamokes. What's the difference?
All right, ladies and gentlemen, we ask you, uh one, oh,
I love the clock. Yeah, that is our trade deadline clock.
M We ask you once a week calling with something
in your life we don't get. And we'll do that
next year on the Matt Thomas Shield.
Speaker 5: Ross.
Speaker 4: If you've got something in your life you just don't get.
Ross and aren't gonna try to help you seven one
three two one two five seven ninties seven one three
two one two five seven Nutty, all right, well we'll
get the beg going eventually. The computers are freezing. It's happened.
I mean it's happening to me too. So we send
a trouble ticket in but it'll just go in one
ear and out the other. But that's fine, that's not true.
I don't get fixed eventually.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you. In Minnesota, I'll get this stuff
fixed there it is. Here we go. Oh, when you're
what is it?
Speaker 4: What is your time in the director of football operations?
I believe director of no no, non assistant. Now I
think you're like the consultant. Yeah, I have eleven years
or experience. I built the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 3: That's my team. Let's say like, you're gonna be the GMS. Bitch,
you don't know that. Why would I leave Sandle from
Minnesota title?
Speaker 4: I guess that's true. By the way, Uh, it sounds
like again this is from Shams. A lot of things
are coming in fast and furious.
Speaker 5: H oh.
Speaker 3: The New Orleans Pelicans are training Jose with Arono. The
New York Knicks. Dang it. I kind of wanted Jose here.
That'd be nice. Chris Bouche is going to Utah. Yeah,
baaby uh.
Speaker 4: The Bucks have been focused on incoming calls for Giannis,
but apparently they're going to I guess hold.
Speaker 3: On to keeping him through the deadline. Stunning. It's a
gut feeling L for me, A gut feeling L for
me as well.
Speaker 4: Gabe Vinson and the twenty thirty two second round pick
to Atlanta for Luke Canard. I'm sorry, a second round
pick from win twenty thirty two. I believe that's when
two thousand and one A Space Odyssey was set. Yeah,
remember when France back and then you don't remember this,
but remember when he was nineteen Like what are you saying?
Speaker 3: I can't believe. It's like it's nineteen o nine or something.
Dance like I was nineteen eighty.
Speaker 4: Nine about Prince Yeah, yeah, already, like it's nineteen ninety nine.
And nineteen nine came and went and we were fine,
We did fine, and all the bombs in the world
didn't explode.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 4: I amh By the way, you see johnath Kaminguz going
to Atlanta for Kristaps porzingis. Yes, somebody wanted us yesterday,
called in one and Kristaps porzingis here in Houston. He's
always hurt. He has always hurt, literally, always hurt. He's
good when he's on the court. Yeah, rerin protector shoots threes,
Celtics champion, but hurt. All right, Here's why I just
don't get it. Okay, seven one three two one two
five seven ninety. So I was off yesterday and my
timeline was being flooded by some barber who took a
bunch of pictures of him cutting C. J. Stroude's hair.
So the rolls are gone, right, the rose or rolls
Rose rolls, los locks, they're gone. He's now he's tightened
up his lettuce, so to speak. Okay, and you know what,
everybody's gonna change your hairstyle. Sure, you'll be changing years.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna make it a.
Speaker 5: You know what.
Speaker 4: I actually I've been contacting people, I've been trying to
make it a new story.
Speaker 3: All I'm saying is I just don't get it.
Speaker 4: Why the hell do we care about what our quarterback
who had six crappy quarters do with his hair during
the off season is that supposed to Is that supposed
to minimum change him into a better person and get
him focused for the year.
Speaker 3: It's ridiculous.
Speaker 4: Bad story by gravy training barber looking for some free publicity.
That's a good way to get some publicity. Hey, it's
hard out there for the barber's, Maddie. I go to barber's.
I go to three different barbers in Kingwood. I take
care of the different one, absolutely, I do. After Are
you going about every ten days? Maybe sometimes shorter? You
rotate depends on because some people are off on certain days.
You're cheating on your barber.
Speaker 3: No, they know, they know I'm gonna.
Speaker 4: They don I'm in an open relationship. Okay, I just
don't get it. Why don't we care about his hair?
Is that slow of a news day? I guess I don't.
I don't know either. While it became I look, I
guess news they got a field to day somehow. But
I think I'm mostly with you. I don't get why
it became such a national sensation. Maybe it's gonna help
him cut his hair.
Speaker 3: It was Houston. It was bored.
Speaker 4: There was like there was NFL accounts posting about it.
Ridiculous and no he didn't turn the locks over. Okay,
they didn't get intercepted.
Speaker 3: Oh no, they were not. They were not. Maybe I
just said that it's fine. I just say I just
don't get it. By the way, USA up five to one.
Now serious? Is there a mercy rule of women's hockey?
I hope not. This I got thirteen. This is the Olympics.
Uh yeah, there you go, I got one.
Speaker 4: Please sports, you know what I'm gonna let sir mixer
Nick just call him Nicholas.
Speaker 3: Nicholas, Nicholas. Do you understand what we do here? And
I just don't get it. Things in your life you
just don't get We gotta give them time to come
something you can't. I'm not doing it right now? Old
are you?
Speaker 4: By the way, I don't understand why you don't like
hold on, he's not wearing headphones. You gonna wear head wears.
Some heaphones are gonna be on in this segment. What
some headphones on? We'll come back to you.
Speaker 3: You have headphones?
Speaker 5: Nick?
Speaker 3: No, his name is Nicholas Nicholas. I'm sorry, head right,
you're right.
Speaker 4: I asked him if you prefer Nick or Nicholas, and
he said Nicholas I'm going Nicholas and for the way,
That's what I'm saying. All right, now, You don't you
get I prefer ross to you call me Putts, so
I prefers.
Speaker 3: I've called you many of worse things, don't you.
Speaker 4: Why did the Cavaliers trade for James Harden and give
up Darius Garland? You with the honest answer. I have
people in Cleveland, Okay, good? You know Garyus Darius Caland
wasn't super happy. He wants to do his own thing.
He made public comments like he wants to be the
big dog and all that stuff. He wants to get
out of the shadow of Donovan Mitchell this other business.
Speaker 3: But the big problem with that is that he's always hurt.
Speaker 4: And you cannot be the big dog if you got
a part of your paw is always in trouble, or
you get thorns in your paw.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess, yeah sure, if you're if
you're always going to the vet.
Speaker 4: All right, let's move on. That's hard from this analogy.
So that's you get it. But James Harden, James Harden
is is the solution. I mean, he's good. He's scoring
twenty five a game, eight assist a game, but he's
not going to get that volume of shooting on Cleveland,
good distributor. But then, you know, that's the beauty of
basketball is it's two way game, and sometimes it's the
curse of basketball. And while I we'll say James Harden
was an underrated defender in his prime, he is well
past his prime, well past his prime, and he's got
a familiar storyline. Goes to a team, put some decent
regular sis numbers and this year for the Clippers is
really good. But then he winds up faltering the playoffs
with epically bad performances. I mean, two for eleven, three
for thirteen, five turnover historically bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, really really bad. All right, what you got next?
All right?
Speaker 4: Now, all right, Nicholas, don't call him Nick, sir, mix
and Nicholas, Nicholas, what don't you get, my friend?
Speaker 12: I don't get why you don't like the Olympics. Matt Oh,
you cut him, old bear, let's go. That's right, Nicholas,
where you hand up for yourself?
Speaker 3: Nicholas? Where are you from?
Speaker 4: I'm from Katie you women, you're a Katie through and
Katie brethren.
Speaker 3: Where do you go to high school?
Speaker 1: I went to Katie High School.
Speaker 3: Oh geez, we paid athletes for like thirty years. You
know what you did?
Speaker 4: Don't tell me you didn't you hear me, Katie, I
know what you did. Oh wow, Sorry, this sounds like
made Creek jealousy, is what that sounds like. You know
that Katie is never the main Creek's never beating Katie
and football. Ever, how long have they been playing? Oh well,
I'm eighty eight.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be at least thirty years.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well I was a class of ninety and we didn't
beat him. So you were the first class, third class,
you know, the third class. Okay, so I would say
probably eighty. They were playing varsit in eighty nine. Yeah, okay,
so there you go. And that means they're due, Matt, No,
they're not, dude. That's never gonna happen because Katie, Because
Katie High School pays a player. There's always next year.
Speaker 3: They created an i l.
Speaker 4: They called it corn bread in uh Chicken Fried's Steak
at the Look Got the Country Cafe.
Speaker 1: And Katie swear we beat every district opponent by like
fifty every week.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's enough from you, all right?
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, Nicholas Why don't you Why don't you like
the Winter Olympics, Matt, I don't. USA is kicking ass
right now, it's just started. How do you mean will
watch that woman's bob sled team. I mean there's a
chance of that first, but it's fine. Sick freak man
I figure skating. I watch you when Nancy Carrigan was beating.
Speaker 1: Skating is good.
Speaker 3: You don't watch, you don't want to watch whatever. You
don't want to watch.
Speaker 4: Lindsay Vaughn with a torn a cl go down downhill skiing.
Speaker 3: I like the interview with Lindsay Vaughn. I didn't ask
you that.
Speaker 1: Oh, Kayla Schiffrin's been killing it slalom, Kayla Schiffrin.
Speaker 3: Honey, how do you know Mikela Schiffer's killing it?
Speaker 4: By the way, I'm twenty three, twenty three, and you're
twenty three and you're like winter sports.
Speaker 3: You live in Katie yep.
Speaker 1: Okay, I actually have a YouTube channel about on the Olympic.
Speaker 3: Sports scribers from Saskatchewan or something.
Speaker 1: No, we're Houston through and through.
Speaker 3: Wow, how many subscribers do you have?
Speaker 5: Three?
Speaker 4: I just started it gone three subscribers. Yeah, nice as parts.
You don't get a crown from the Texans. All Right,
shut your head for terrible it mean terrible truth.
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 4: What are your top three winner sports? Nicholas Nicholas? What's
your top three?
Speaker 1: It's a hockey definitely number one. I love cross country skiing.
Cross country scheme is definitely an underrated.
Speaker 3: Where your folks from, by the way, you said, Houston?
Speaker 1: Yea, My mom's uh, she's from Katie and my dad
he grew up in a leaf.
Speaker 4: There's gotta be are you his dad? I did grow
up in a leaf too, so for Ale and Kate
wait Man twenty three? What's your mom's name?
Speaker 3: Melody? Melody? That's a nice name.
Speaker 5: I like that.
Speaker 3: That's a great name.
Speaker 2: Like I love.
Speaker 4: There's about handful names. Melody is a great name. Samantha's
a great name.
Speaker 3: Is that my phone?
Speaker 10: Me?
Speaker 3: Whose phone's talking there? I think it's is it? Nicholas Nicholas?
He's watching the Olympics? You're I don't do I know? Melody?
Where does she go to high school?
Speaker 1: She went to Taylor High School.
Speaker 3: Oh, she went to the.
Speaker 4: That's your rival, Katie, Katy Taylor is our rival. Really
he couldn't be, Katie. We can beat Taylor though, Okay,
Taylor got the money. We can beat them, all right, Nicholas,
thank you very much. I you know what, Nicholas, because
you have come through so strong and this segment went right.
It detacked me right away. I will watch at least
one hour of the winter. You're watching it right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this count? What else is on open?
Speaker 4: We can put first things first with Chris Carter and
if you want to me, they're talking about my hiring.
Speaker 3: You don't know. You're not got hired, matt Any.
Speaker 1: Live Sports has got to be better than those studio shows.
Speaker 4: You got that right, all right now? I love Live Sports. Nicholas, quiet,
doesn't I love Live Sports? Tell him to be quiet.
You brought him into the segment. Yeah, he got head.
Someone phones on that. At least that's nice. I like
him already. He's taking shots at you. You've been producing
this for an hour. You know our training manual. That's
the number one rule. Trying to get back quickly as possible.
Let's take a time out, Brian and perland As. I
just don't get if you got it, I just don't
get it. Let us know seven one three, two one
two five seven.
Speaker 3: Ninety Welcome to the show.
Speaker 4: Welcome to Matt Tana's show at Ross seven one three
two one two five seven Onis. Actually, you know what,
if the USA team does well in Olympics, I'll watch that.
I like watching hockey, my anti hockey. It seems like
you hate hockey. You just said you hate the Winter Olympics.
It's the worst thing ever.
Speaker 3: And figure skating wasted their money.
Speaker 4: Figure skatings, borings, bob slid and what's the other one
they do.
Speaker 3: It's like similar to that skeleton skeleton. It's fine.
Speaker 4: You only want, you know, only watching downhill skiing for
the accidents. Just beat the Italian bob side team very
strong this year.
Speaker 3: What made you say that? I just that's what's what
the streets are saying.
Speaker 4: There are no streets in Houston talking about Italian bobsie
unless you're hanging out with Nicholas and his three fans
on YouTube. Yeah, well, I am all right seven one
three two one two five seven ninety. What don't you
get seven one three two channel Nicholas. I'm gonna go subscribe.
Speaker 1: It is Olympic sports talk.
Speaker 4: Oh see, you like you should be going national, right,
you should be just keeping to the local stuff.
Speaker 3: How am I gonna promote this? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I actually just created a podcast that's going to be
uploaded on all the iHeart.
Speaker 3: Oh look at you. Let's go Ba.
Speaker 4: Let me tell you if I listen to yours, will
you listen to my new game show podcast after the
Rocket seasons are worth?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I did that.
Speaker 3: What's your favorite game show?
Speaker 1: A favorite game show gotta be either a deal or
no deal or family feud.
Speaker 4: Okay, family fuse class, it's a let's go to uh,
Jimmy and Tim. We'll get to you to second, we'll
get him screened. Let's talk to Brian and pairline. Brian,
what don't you get my friend?
Speaker 13: Hey, i'mt First of all, congratulations, yeshuay a big day
for for the Thomas and.
Speaker 3: That's awesome, so you congrats on that.
Speaker 7: Second of all, what I or first of all?
Speaker 13: What I don't get I've got to him. I don't
get how you have time to run a successful business
like remote for you dot beiz im as sports enterprise.
It's a major market midday radio program. Look for property
and when you moved to Minnesota and do the Rockets
play by playoff at the same time. I just don't
get how you do it.
Speaker 7: And then finally what I don't get.
Speaker 13: It's really what I'm really starting not to get as
while these guys want to keep coming back for a
sixth or seventh year of college eligibility, ten years ago
this would have been unheard of or very very rare.
Now you got guys like Trinidad Chambliss coming back or
you know, trying to sue to get a sixth year
or a seventh year. Like, dude, you had a great run.
Just go out and enjoy life and see what snacks
instead of trying to hang on to all these glory
days like him and Diego Pavia and the petitioning for
seventh and eighth and ninth years of eligibility, Like I
just don't get it. Like at some point, move on,
nobody wants to see it, twenty seven year old quarterback,
you know, playing against eighteen year olds anymore.
Speaker 5: After a while, it gets ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Brian, I totally get it.
Speaker 4: Brian sadly to say, because most of the kids are
talking about are not going to the NBA, and if
they're getting and any nil money or any money from
the school, that's more money than they would get by
not competing. Yeah, so even if they're not making six
hundred thousand dollars a year playing football or basketball or baseball,
they maybe getting fifty thousand dollars and that's money that
they can put in their piggy bank for when they're
done with school.
Speaker 3: Any money you can get, might as well get it
while you can. Yeah, I totally get it.
Speaker 4: Remember Carson Beck kept coming back and back and back
again because he's not an NFL prospect, but he's a
good college quarter and got great money to leave Georgia
to go to UH to Miami. I mean, I totally
get it, totally get it straight cash homie. Yeah, it
feels like a lot of a lot of the times
I just don't get it can be answered with I
think that's the most popular answer money.
Speaker 3: I don't get it.
Speaker 4: Why are they doing this money? Why are they knowing
that money? What's this happening for money? We can always
kind of come back to that, and I just don't
get it. Yeah, money makes a walk go around. Let's
talk to Jimmy and tomball on. Jimmy always brings us
more life lessons. So Jimmy, what don't you get this week?
Speaker 3: My man, Matt.
Speaker 5: You know, not to be rude or anything, but I'm
asking Ross a question.
Speaker 3: I I just don't I just don't get why.
Speaker 7: This is called the Matt Thomas Show when Ross Ross
is the one who carries the show.
Speaker 14: Matt gone ninety percent of the time.
Speaker 8: I just wondered if Ross.
Speaker 5: Get explained that one to me and I'll hang up
and listen.
Speaker 4: Well, it is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Yeah,
even though a lot of our liners don't say that,
and that's not my fault. Starting to bother me a
little bit, but that's okay.
Speaker 3: I mean, hey, you know whatever, just a little on
me in the corner.
Speaker 4: It's fine. But it is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Which I had to ask for that to be added,
but we got it out. So it's good you asked.
And what did I say?
Speaker 3: You said, absolutely absolutely, I did, thank you, Matt. Yeah.
There are a lot of shows in this country that
don't do that.
Speaker 7: I know.
Speaker 4: And look, here's the reality of it. We both get
four weeks vacation. I actually get five, but you get four.
Speaker 3: Oh that's nice. And I miss time. Yeah, No, I
will not say that Matt misses too much.
Speaker 4: Time because and first of I don't take the whole
five weeks, yes, because I feel like and I do
work holidays and I work weekend so it all evens out.
Speaker 5: But I do.
Speaker 4: My schedule is disjointed because of the rocket schedule, so
sometimes tough travel. And then yesterday, I love y'all, but
I'm not missing my daughter's national signing day.
Speaker 10: I'm just not.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 3: Wait, I wouldn't either.
Speaker 4: And Ross is always saying this, and I'm not trying
to build a curtain back too much, but he's always saying,
you need a real vacation. I have not had a
real vacation where I've done nothing, Yes, in fifteen to
twenty years.
Speaker 3: I need you to do that. It's too still relax, Matt,
I thought too late. I can't. I need you to Like,
we're gonna go to Ross and Anna.
Speaker 4: You're gonna go to Hawaii in June? Yeah, change our mind?
This This airbnb is Rhode Islands. That's that's a budget crunch.
Is a budget crunch. So Ross and are't gonna go
to Vegas in July? We just said we're gonna go ya.
I'm gonna work while I'm there. Oh, I'm gonna relax.
Speaker 3: You are gonna rely. I'm I'm gonna swim, Yes, you are?
You put it? Can you put a T shirt on? Why?
Speaker 4: We don't needn fly walking around there? There's there's too
many fit people at circa.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, you know what they asked. You're not to
get in the pool because you're gonna clog all the
drains with your back hair.
Speaker 4: That's fair, all right, I don't do it. I'll be
the casino anyway. You didn't have a shirt out either.
It was also your translucent legs are blinding everywhere. I
know if there's anybody that needs to be out there
my pool, it should be me. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
So I can get a little base tan going look away.
There's plenty of places to look at. So I got
news for you. You're the last person exactly.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm down thirty three pound from last year.
Shut you, my massa. You're not listening as much.
Speaker 5: Dan.
Speaker 3: Dan's like setting down seventy five? Why are you rolling
your eyes?
Speaker 4: Congratulations to Danny's doing congratulations.
Speaker 3: I'm happy for me. I courage of being down ten
to fifteen. Uh oh.
Speaker 4: A friend of mine is calling me from Minnesota. She
thinks it's legit. There's no chance, there's one.
Speaker 3: Hundred percent chance. Why because I put it on my Facebook.
You put on your Facebook that you're What is wrong
with you? What is wrong with me? What's wrong with
my friend? Jennifer. If you're listening, you know I'm not
going to Minnesota.
Speaker 4: I didn't work pretty funny. I didn't work for the
Seahawks for eleven years. I can't well, we can't do
this on radio. She has to know she's being recorded,
and she's I would love for you to pick it
up and just try to convince her that you've been
hired by the Vikings. I'm called during the break, we
take a break. We had the news at new You're
gonna play some sound during the news at noon, weren't you?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 3: Oh, I know what you're gona play. I know what
you canna play.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna playing anything big Minnesota hiring. You're milking this
too much as it is. I probably am eleven fifty
seven to seven one three, two one two. We got
to talk to Softie in a half an hour here
on Sports Talk Sevenatti.
Speaker 3: Is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross twelve O two
in h Town.
Speaker 4: This is our number three of the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross Nice have be with us here on the show.
We're gonna check him with Softy in one half hour
from now again. Do we just let him free for him?
Speaker 3: No, you gotta have you gotta give him something to
bounce off of those who don't know.
Speaker 4: Softie is our Seattle correspondent from our sister station kJ
R and Seattle.
Speaker 3: Yes, we blank talk each other a lot.
Speaker 4: During Mariners aster a season, and we bout out on
him and give him his love and props and flowers.
Speaker 3: When the Seahawks go to the playoffs, I'm rooting for
the Seahawks. Are you really? Yes? I am.
Speaker 4: Seahawks in the ender I'm rooting for Why are you
shaking your head in me? What's your problem?
Speaker 3: Can't you just sit?
Speaker 4: I can enjoy the game for what it is. Oh shush,
You're the one like I don't have a rooting interest,
and gay is a very easy way to get a
rooting interest.
Speaker 3: But what if I don't want to bet the game?
Then don't how you betting?
Speaker 5: You got it?
Speaker 3: Brookie? That's none of your business? All right?
Speaker 4: Feels like I am not betting. By the way, I
am not betting on the game. That would be illegal
in the state of Thank you. You are having a
I got a friend in Vegas putting down some money
for me. Yes, uh, you have to what do they
call we have to put the bed proxy? Proxy? We
have a proxy h His name is Dave. Our friend
Dave in Vegas. Shout out to you, well, I need
to use Dave as a proxy more Dave. Dave's our
a proxy guy for sure. He's always wanting to bet
preseason football, he said. Maybe the best known CFL prones
odds maker.
Speaker 8: I know.
Speaker 4: I think he's got Norway in the curling Championships. You
can't bet, I'm going to say you. Of course you
can bet on the Olympics. I'm sure you can, but
you can't find Can you find the lines readily? I
mean you have to do some deep diving when you
you get to go in the dark web for that.
I think, Matt, is it five to one still? USA women?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I think the game might be over.
We have to switch. What else is on?
Speaker 4: They're downhill skiing. I'll take anything at this point over
a cross country guy or a downhill guy. Which one
has more abilities for greater accidents.
Speaker 3: Probably downhill, downhill, downhill, they go out speeds of like
one hundred miles an hour. Oh yeah, plus I like him.
Isn't that?
Speaker 4: Isn't that what Lindsay Vaughan's doing on a torn a
cl Yep, she's down on one leg and she's still
gonna be like, what's she gonna after this?
Speaker 1: She's that psycho though she said the doctors told her
it was okay, she.
Speaker 4: Gotta rip her knee at half on NBC. I'm worried
about her. Maybe they'll put that on like on uh
CNBC or something. Yeah, I mean that's why they had
that guy free climbing Taipe one on one. Why are
people tuning in now to watch him do it? They're
to see if he falls, if he ever does something
ever again, that dude, I'm not watching it.
Speaker 3: I didn't watch the first.
Speaker 4: That was he's he's done, like the thing that's called
Elcopyitan in Yosemite. Like that's stuff that he actually does
is way harder than climbing up a building like that.
Speaker 3: Actually, unless there was like a massive gust of window
an earthquake.
Speaker 4: Ladies, gentlemen, twelve o five. Here on the program, we
give you the top news headlines the day. We got
a lot of NBA moves to discovers, oh gosh, to
the Rockets from last night, and a former astro is
now playing somewhere else.
Speaker 3: Whole part of the News at noon. All right, Yeah,
we can get the bed down a little bit. Thank you, Nicholas.
We've got a lot of stuff to get to here
on the News at noon.
Speaker 4: Rockets get crushed by the Boston Celtics, one fourteen to
ninety three. The big difference was that third period, Matthew
Derek White making four threes in the third, thirty six
points for the Celtics, only twenty one for the Rockets.
Offense sputtered all evening long. Your big three combined to
go twelve for thirty one. Not gonna get it done.
Ninety three points, not gonna get it done. Not one
for the history books of the Rockets. One fourteen ninety three.
They lose to the Boston Celtics. Back in action today
against the Hornets.
Speaker 3: I'm staring at the box score.
Speaker 4: The Celtics out rebounded the Rockets fifty seven to thirty eight.
There's there cannot be a bigger discrepancy in a game
this season we had last night. Well, you are going
to also be in a discrepancy when you're missing all
of your shots so you don't make shots, there is
going to certainly be a rebounding discrepancy. The Celtics were
led by twenty eight from Derek White, nineteen from Luca Garza,
twenty seven off the bench. Garza Peyton Pritchard the Caitlin
Clark of the NBA twenty seven off the bench.
Speaker 3: He also had seven rebounds and Nimia's.
Speaker 4: Kita ten points, nineteen rebounds and five block shots. And
they used him as the five on one men Thompson
defense and it was pretty effective for the Boston Celtics.
Something to keep an eye on as we go along
on the season. Okay, Also the big news of the day,
at least, I guess it's Connie Houston related from bar
Valdez Agrasa. He's getting paid now, it's a short term deal.
Three years met I lost the bet, even though we
made that bet before he melted it down and then
hit his catcher in the stomach. But I did lose
the bet even though we didn't put anything on it.
Tigers get a three year, one hundred and fifteen million
dollars deal for from Barvaldez.
Speaker 3: He gets reunited with aj Hinch and it feels so good.
Speaker 4: Trek scouble from er Valdez pitching staff overall looking pretty
good over there in Detroit. Talk Schooble, by the way,
going to Instagram and putting up a photo of from
bar Valdez's new contract. Why do you do that, Matt,
Because he's saying they played all the contract language. You're
putting out the money for him and you can't pay me.
Talk Schooble. Maybe one leading to the other La Dodger
before you know it, what a doubt. Anybody that's good
goes the Dodgers. Lagrassa is a tiger. But okay, going
back to the NBA news, of course, it is deadline day.
All quiet on the Rockets front. The biggest news of
the day is a trade that is not going to happen.
The Milwaukee Bucks saying they're going to keep Ianist combo
through the trade deadline and we'll make other moves. This
news coming from ESPN's Sham Sharania. And after several days,
a fielding offers from the Golden State Warriors, the Miami Heat,
and the Minnesota Timberwolves, who were among the teams interesting
in acquiring Yannis Essakopa has been ready for a new
home for months, either at Thursday's deadline.
Speaker 3: Or in the off season. I'm stunned by this.
Speaker 4: I guess I felt like there was five or six
teams they were ready to just to throw the kitchen
sicke at there. Maybe they feel like they'll have a
better market come the off season following the lottery, where
they can have more more of a concrete idea of
what their draft picks will be if they're wanting future
draft picks, which of course they're gonna want, so, I
don't know, all right, Elsewhere a big deal in the NBA.
Speaker 3: We mentioned this earlier on the show.
Speaker 4: The Warriors are trading Jonathan kaminga buddy healed, both of
those players the Hawks for Christaps Porzingis. So Porzingis is
going to be a Golden State Warrior. Jonathan kminga out
buddy healed out as well for the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 3: Hawks are just I.
Speaker 4: Mean they I think they can get rid of Healed
and cominga pretty easily in this offseason. Yeah, they're gonna
go full rebuild mode. Traded away Trey Young. They're doing
their stock polling draft picks. Yes, they are praying for
a top five selection in this draft coming up, all right,
and elsewhere in the NBA, I mean, there have been
trades flying all over the place. Unfortunately, Rockets target Jose
al Verrado of the New Orleans Pelicans has been traded
to the New York Knicks in exchange for Dalen Terry,
two second round picks and cash. So a couple of
second round picks and Dalen Terry, who's, you know, not
some great New York Nick. He's not going to get
a statue at MiG and two first round picks. I
guess Rockets just didn't have much will go room. But
Jose Alvarado would have like to see him in the
Houston Rockets uniform. But he's going to be a New
York Nick and that will do it for the sports
headlines the day. Okay, thank you very much for that.
Ross One more, yeah, please. The Vikings have made a higher,
yes they did. The Vikings have hired Matt Thomas as
hold on, I'm trying to get the official.
Speaker 8: He is.
Speaker 4: He has spent eleven seasons as the vice president of
football operations. He's going to be a football administration consultant
for the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 3: Congratulations to Matt Thomas. How many people have sent you
that already? Too many? And that's great?
Speaker 4: Okay there, Yeah, I'm just running through all these congratulations.
Speaker 3: Are you really leaving that kind of thing? All right?
That's the news at noon. Thank you very much for that.
Speaker 4: We got to Sophie's going to join us at bottom
of the hour from uh San Francisco Media Row, or
they're calling it media good job, you got it right. Yeah,
apparently the leader the nicest person at Media Row has
been Pat McAfee.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now he's got a hillacious set, but apparently for a
couple of hours he talked to a bunch of people
and just let people come and talking to him in.
Speaker 3: Court, hanging out.
Speaker 4: My guest is pretty nice. He's a punter, had nothing
to do with it. He's he has reinvented sports entertainment,
some of it to the detriment. It's not my cup
of tea, but yeah, not everybody. I'm not everybody. It's
cup of tea either, So that's fine, I get it.
Uh seven one three two one two five seven ninety
let's get a quick time out. We'll come back and
get We got James coming in with the late. I
just don't get it. We'll figure that out.
Speaker 3: What's going on?
Speaker 4: Seven one three two one two five seven nineties twelve
twelve here on seven ninety all right?
Speaker 3: I feel like we're a jukebox here trying to be
a radio show.
Speaker 4: All right, it is a Madden Ross with you here
on seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seveny
Softy just sent me a text, and uh, it's him
on a beach okay with a Taco Bell cup. Huh
where is he? I thought you said he was at
media row. He is, well, not like literally, his show's
not until later on today.
Speaker 3: What do you think that is? We're gonna have to ask.
Speaker 4: There's a I mean they have the Taco bell cantinas everywhere, right, Yes,
they hadn't one? Told you there was one in downtown
Indianapolis last week. Yeah, it was really a weird spot,
the most happened in spot in Indianapolis. I don't believe
it to be the case. Mark Sanchez wasn't there. Oh,
you prefer the slippery noodle in That's true, all right?
Seven one three Sanchez was in there chasing the fight.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Fights.
Speaker 3: Some of the Boston media is like, what does chase
the fight mean? When were you listening to Oh thee Yeah,
They're like, what is chase the fight? I'm like, I
don't know. I think they You know, once a year,
people get into a room, shut the door and they go,
we need to come up with some term for the year,
and that was what they came up with.
Speaker 4: We'll get used to it.
Speaker 3: Those to me don't do much for me either way.
Speaker 4: Oh, curling is on, yes, now you know this is
like their home sport, right, Canada's got to be the goats.
Now you know a friend of mine is doing the
play by play for curling. Really should we get him
on the show next week?
Speaker 3: If you want. We can talk about the nuances a
curling again. To describe it, it's what is that?
Speaker 5: What is that?
Speaker 7: So?
Speaker 3: I don't know?
Speaker 4: Stone and they can bump people out of It's like back.
It's like shuffleboard a little bit. Yeah, it's shuffleboard on ice.
Curling stone is made of rare, exceptionally dense, water resistant
granite curling, believe it or not. Today come, oh no, no, no,
we we know Nicholas. Nicholas is getting a day off.
Speaker 3: He doesn't have a run. We don't want that happening.
I figured you appreciate that.
Speaker 4: Oh it's Italy versus Canada right now. Oh, this is
like the heavyweight matchup. This is like haggler hearns stop it.
Speaker 3: Oh so you're right? Is you're right? It's more Ali Frasier,
I will go heavyweights. Well, she's cute, so it's mixed.
It's a guy and a girl.
Speaker 4: I don't know how this works. Oh man, this is
this is drama right here. We should't have dead air,
but it's it. You know what's more fascining than I
frankly thought it was going to be all right? So
think about his shuffleboard on ice. Yeah, and you get
to you get to literally walk curling, Thomas, So you
can call me anything, James inclined.
Speaker 3: James with curler in high school. That's enough for you, James,
What don't you get?
Speaker 14: Yeah, last week I went to Lake Charles to go gambling.
Speaker 15: Yes, and me and my son in law decided to
go over to Shata Okay, and on the way back
from to Shata, there's this black it's like a dodge
charge or whatever with blue lights on. So I said,
well then i'll pull over.
Speaker 14: So I'll pull over. And it was a police officer.
I thought, think I should have red and blue lights.
He only had blue lights. But that's not the point.
The point is he said, I was going sixty two
and a fifty, say writes now a ticket.
Speaker 7: I'm thinking, do you.
Speaker 14: Want people to come back to Shotter or not? And
it sounds like I was going eighty miles an hour.
I just don't get it.
Speaker 3: Well, you're going twelve miles over. That's I totally get it.
You were twelve over.
Speaker 4: Usually you get the your your buffer zone is about five, right,
Sometimes people are twenty one over.
Speaker 3: Would that be oh, I know who the twenty one
over was? Huh?
Speaker 4: And they still complained. Yeah, somebody else's fault. If I
didn't have to go there, it would have been an issue.
Speaker 3: I'm the worst. I'm not far behind.
Speaker 9: Ah.
Speaker 4: This this curly is thrilling. It's good stuff. Okay, we
have to turn it off. We have to focus on
the focused and focus people want to hear foot. Yeah, okay,
let's suck football?
Speaker 3: Okay, CJ.
Speaker 4: Stroud? Should they extend him? Are they going to activate
the fifth year extension or fifth year option? Does his
haircut mean a sign of a times and a more
mature quarterback.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's going in.
Speaker 5: You know what.
Speaker 3: It's a new hair, it's a new do, it's a
new hymn. Don't do it. That's somebody chasing a story.
First new do, new you. No, let's go No.
Speaker 4: Twenty twenty six the year of the Stroud. I'm ready, baby,
I'm ready for the back talking about you. Oh, by
the way, you know I did a poll question has
never been lower as an NFL head quarterback. I forgot
to mention this. I did a couple of pole questions.
Oh you did on Twitter a couple of days ago
at Sports Empty. It was at Sports Empty. By the way,
if you're going to take shots, I mean at least
hashtag me.
Speaker 3: So I don't. I can see him as I don't care.
All right.
Speaker 4: Uh, here's the pull court. It was, should you give
c J. Stroud a clean slate for twenty twenty six?
Most everybody said yes, right they did. In fact, let
me pull the numbers up six and thirty nine votes.
Just shows you how football is piepulter six thirty nine.
Sixty five percent said sure, why not? Thirty five percent
said Nope, I'm done. The same question was posed at
just about the exact same time. Only two hundred and
seventy eight votes came in on this one didn't end
up in the for you tab as much. Are you
willing to give Christian Walker a clean slate?
Speaker 5: Sure?
Speaker 7: Why not?
Speaker 4: Seventy percent, Nope, I'm done thirty percent. The reality is
you have to give both those guys clean slates. Yeah,
I mean, it's going to happen whether you vote for
it or not. So he can cut his hair, he
can dye his hair, he can do all the charitable
things he wants to. There's nothing from a pr image
standpoint he's going to necessarily do. This is going to
make anybody feel better.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he can go play. He can just go play
and wins game. You'll play. You don't care what you do,
as long as you perform well.
Speaker 4: The question you are The thing you must you must
pray for if you are a Texans fan is that
your defense plays every bit as good as it did
a year ago. Chances of that are very slim. Like
I guess the question would be, and it would take
a little bit of research, it is, how was the
two thousand and one Baltimore Ravens defense? How are the
How are the eighty six Bears defense now? A little
bit different because we're talking about salary caps and what
thing they didn't have? Any six Bears defense is almosts
good as eighty five, if not better, depending on what
metrics you look at. Yeah, but what about two thousand
and one Baltimore Ravens. It's also we're in a different
era of the salary cap and all this stuff. As
we keep pointing out the Texans defense was healthy. I'm
not worried about the finances. I'm more worried about the health.
What a missed opportunity we can be talking about the
Texans getting their ass kicked in the Super Bowl? Now
what I think the line would be probably about the
say maybe five and a half, Yeah, because Sexans were
two and a half dogs with the detections, win two
more playoff games with an average to below average offense.
If c J doesn't throw the interceptions, could he have
at least put up more points than the Patriots had
to to beat them in Foxville. They could have, they
could have. All right, let's take a quick time out.
We're gonna go check in in uh San Francisco. All right,
Jonathan give Jonathan's not here.
Speaker 3: My name's Ross. Yeah, Ross.
Speaker 4: We need to give him a definitive. We gotta have
a SENTI go song. Right, We're gonna play something in
San Francisco's when you want with the Flowers in.
Speaker 3: Your Hair one. I like that, But that's old. It's old.
I mean, there's no there's no new happened in San
Francisco songs.
Speaker 4: Well, there's Tony Bennet left My Heart in sanch so
we can play that's yeah old, Yeah, it's old.
Speaker 3: It's also slower. Yes, what's the most upbeat song?
Speaker 5: You can go with?
Speaker 4: Rice Aerroni? The San Francisco Treat. That's not a song,
that's a commercial, but it's a jingle, which is a song.
The full house theme done, full house theme. You hear
me now, Nicholas, I think we might have it in
the system. Full house theme. Next for Softy from kg R.
He's joining us in the Bay Area. Next on seven
to eighty.
Speaker 3: The top ten theme of all time. No, No, No Way, Oh,
this is a classic. It is not a top ten.
It's a it's a catchy tune, but it's not a
top ten. No way, sitcoms only. I'm putting it up there.
Speaker 7: No chance.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, Now you're narrowing it down to sitcoms. It's just
saying you got no chance, no chance, no chance. All right,
Let's see Rolling Stone put together a list. Let's see
what they have. Number one's Jefferson's We're on the same
page there, Yes, good times on there list. Uh, gotta
keep the song up for Softy Nigga. Softy is coming on, Nick,
get thee of San Francisco. Yeah, Jefferson's One Brady Bunch
and Gilligan's Island.
Speaker 3: That can be a tie.
Speaker 4: Hey, get you know what, Get up the fence, Rolling Stone,
Stone sucks, Okay, sanfordis on three. I said Octopus's card
and was one of the Beatles' best songs.
Speaker 3: That sucks.
Speaker 4: The Pistol's golden All right, enough, what was the remix?
This is the album version?
Speaker 3: All right, that's enough. Let's let's we're a sports show,
come on now. We wouldn't want to deject any humor.
Speaker 10: On this program.
Speaker 3: Lord knows well, I know who's gonna inject some humor.
All right, let me tell you something. Softy is our guy.
Speaker 4: He was with us a couple of weeks ago, and
he's like he was passionate, he brought the fire and
people loved him. They don't like him during baseball season
because he likes to make fun of our beloved astros.
We're not gonna tell Softie with the theme of the
twenty twenty six Astros are we we can tell? We'll
tell him, Tortio, tell how bad it is, because he's
gonna make fun of us as he should.
Speaker 3: Yeah, as he probably should. Joining us now. K j
R Seattle, the Sports Leader.
Speaker 4: Spending thousands and thousands of dollars to send all the
radio hosts from KJR to the Bay Area.
Speaker 3: SOFTI, how the hell are you?
Speaker 7: What are we talking about here? Seventy TV shows?
Speaker 4: But no, we're talking about why you're drinking Taco Bell
Cantina drinks in San Francisco.
Speaker 3: Please explain yourself.
Speaker 7: I'm not in San Francisco. First of all, I'm in Pacifica, California.
Staying in San Francisco would have been way too much
for the iHeart family to afford. They stuck us in
an Airbnb in Daily City, which is about ten miles
south of San Francisco. We are now in pacifica City,
which is a beautiful beach area down here by the way,
right in the Pacific Ocean, and I have absolutely found nirvana.
I have found the only Taco Bell in the country
with a full bar, and I am sitting here enjoying
a breakfast burrito with a bloody Mary and a cup
of coffee on the beach at Taco Bell. No matter
what you accomplished the rest of the day, correct, the
rest of the week, you will never top what I'm
doing right now, By the way, by default a loser.
Speaker 4: By the way, why didn't you tell me there was
a Matt Thomas that played for that was an administrator
for the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 3: I'm getting some serious runday because of this.
Speaker 7: I mean, I don't know. I think you know, being
in your business is certain things that you should just know.
You were a professional.
Speaker 3: Oh, come on, all right, I'll what's wrong with you?
Name two members of the Texas Front Office.
Speaker 7: Go Sam Silverman and Shlomo gold Stein.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I see you're a sucher fraud all right?
Speaker 4: Hey, so are all of you KJRR hosts in the
same same Airbnb.
Speaker 3: Are you all separated by like different rooms and stuff?
Speaker 7: No? There, So we got we got seven of us here.
Six of us are in a house, and one of
us is at the Media Hotel up in San Francisco
on Radio Row. You probably can guess which one of
the seven is at the Media Hotel, and it's the
one member of our staff without a penis all right,
because they're not going to stick Jessamine McIntire in a
hotel with a bunch of dudes for six freaking days.
So all of us are down there at the Airbnb,
and producer Extraordinary Jessamin McIntyre is up north at the
Media Hotel.
Speaker 3: Yeah all right, Yeah, So I'm very I think that's.
Speaker 7: Kind of like an iheartman date that you can't have
six dudes and one girl in a room together.
Speaker 3: It's actually we all have our own room.
Speaker 7: And our own bed, by the way, which is shocking.
Speaker 3: Matt Thomas is actually the reason for that company mandate.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't. I don't doubt it man at all.
Which Matt Toms or the one for the Seahawks?
Speaker 4: Yeah all right, Hey, you guys are going to win
this game by ten points on Sunday.
Speaker 3: You know this correct?
Speaker 7: No, shut up, God, shut your mouth man. Nobody wants
to hear that. Nobody asks you, nobody cares.
Speaker 4: Nothing but Patriots and Seahawks here in Houston, Texas.
Speaker 3: That's all we want to talk about is why don't
the game bring it down?
Speaker 7: The linebackers, why don't you Why don't you just sit
there and cry over bramber Veld's guarded the Tigers and
be done with it for crying out loud. Let me
I mean, the theme for the theme for twenty six
is going to be sucked for Scooball. That's what it's
going to be. Just lose as many games as you can,
as many contracts as you can make room for Scooball,
and then maybe one day in your lifetime, you guys
are back in the playoffs. We'll see.
Speaker 3: See that's a softy wed love.
Speaker 4: During the springtime, he's said, I have to join the
experience of being in the Super Bowl, staying in a
fancy Airbnb, having tackled.
Speaker 7: Bell not fancy at all. It's it is not fancy whatsoever.
There's a reason why I am enjoying Taco Bell. By
the way, right now instead of some fancy, fancy breakfast
restaurants where the.
Speaker 3: Five lair burrito diets.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah's actually the Gordita.
Speaker 3: Yeah it's true. All right, Uh, what worries you about
your squad against the Patriots? Just tell me the truth.
Speaker 7: Well, right now, it's Nicki Monmourrey's ankle. Are you kidding me?
You see that yesterday? Yeah, Nicky Manoorre, who might be
one of the best, Well, he is one of our
best defensive players, that's for sure.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 7: He's been playing mostly SAM linebacker. Everybody calls him a safety,
but he's not a safety. That's just lazy. He's taking
like five snaps at safety. Almost every snap he's made
this year has been at the strong side linebacker spot.
So he's a Sam linebacker. Where's number three? Uh? Looks
looks nothing like Russell Wilson, But wear's number three like
Russell Wilson did. And he limped off the field yesterday
with the right ankle injury. So there's a video circulating
around the web right now of him limping into the
team hotel. I've watched that about five hundred times since
last night. This is exactly the problem that we had
with Cam Chancellor eleven years ago against the same you know,
god darned Patriot team. Sorry, when Cam rolled his ankle
in practice that week, and he just was not the
same in that game against the Patriots in forty nine.
So we'll see. But right now, that's what concerns me
is the help in the game and war for sure.
Speaker 4: Does Gonzales absolutely blanket Jackson Smith and Jingma for the
whole three and a half hours?
Speaker 7: I don't think so. But even if he does so,
what who cares? I mean, Matt, Jason Smith and Jimma
is unguardable even in games where he was under one
hundred yards, which happened eight times this year. You know
what the Seahawks record is in those eight games when
Jackson Smith and Jigma went under one hundred yards, seven
they did not lose a game with Jackie Smiths and
Jigba going under one hundred yards. So it was pretty good, guests,
you know, not not not correct, but still pretty good.
I just think that, you know, there's nobody that can
stop this guy, uh, down in and down out. And
I look, Gonzalez is a good player, despite the fact
that he's a freaking duck. But If that's the best
that New England has against this Seahawk offense, then they're
going to be in trouble because they're gonna need to
cause some havoc with those two big guys in the middle.
They're two big defensive tackles. Is a much bigger concern
for me than Christian Gonzalez shadowing Jackson Smith and jigbu.
Speaker 4: Roston legit questions for him. Uh, did you want to
get mad at Matt for talking about somebody on.
Speaker 7: The air who actually had some good questions? Come on,
let's go.
Speaker 4: No, I wanted to talk about playoff Sam Donald, like
Matt was saying, last time I told you playoffs donated win?
Speaker 7: How bad? How about slinging Sammy in the last two
games against San Francisco in LA. Remember we talked about
that right when I was on with you guys. This lazy,
stupid narrative about Sam Donald and he can't deliver in
the playoffs based on one game, Like, we're gonna go bananas,
We're gonna lose our mind. We're gonna create this narrative
over one game. Really, I mean, look, you want to
have a narrative about Lamar Jackson? Great, you want to
have a narrative about Josh Allen or Sean McDermott, for example.
That's fine. There's a buttload of data with those guys, right,
But there was one stay with me now, guys, one
game on Sam Darnald was the game that led to
everybody losing their mind. And Donald has been unbelievable come
playoff times. That ram game. I don't think we've talked
into the NFC Championship. Guys, third and seven, we're going
to a half minutes to go from inside their own thirty.
I look at my wife and I said, Babe, you're
about to see the biggest play of Sam Darnold's career.
And he converts on third and seven on a team
route to Cooper Cup. And they continue and they march,
and they have been They win the game. So I
don't have any concerns about Sam Darnald. You know, if
he ends up throwing a pick, okay, you know what,
give the Patriots credit, he ends up fumbling the ball,
okay whatever, Give the Patriots credit. But the Seahawks are
not losing this game because Sam Darnald cannot handle the
pressure of playoff football. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: All right now. You were looking for tickets? How you
doing on that?
Speaker 7: Got them? Good to go? Good to go, got tickets.
Ticket prices are actually dropping dramatically. You can get in
the door for forty five hundred dollars right now. Is
close for seven thousand bucks when this thing launched after
the NFC Championship game. But I think they'll drop even more.
I just think the market was way too high. It
was way too crazy, and way too many people decided
to pass on airline tickets and hotels. So a lot
of people are going to have to scramble and that's
hard to get a lot of people at the last second,
obviously to decide to make a trip to San Francisco,
especially from Boston. So I would not be surprised if
they're under four thousand bucks by game day. But yeah,
I was able to get in at face. How about that?
Lucky me? At face?
Speaker 3: Vat face? Who do you show?
Speaker 7: What are your connections Matt Matt Thomas for the Seahawks.
Speaker 3: I have no doubt about that all right, last, I
actually hate you know what.
Speaker 8: I actually texted you and I said, you know anybody
from the texting, Yeah you can hook me up?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I got nothing.
Speaker 8: I got nothing.
Speaker 3: I said on it, and then I said on it,
and I forgot all right.
Speaker 8: Listen, you never texted me back.
Speaker 5: This guy.
Speaker 7: This is what Matt's all about.
Speaker 5: Everybody he makes promises, yes he can't.
Speaker 3: Keep uh huh. True, true and true.
Speaker 4: I got you a sports bar for the final for
the national championship game. And what did that good to
do you?
Speaker 3: Nothing? You lost?
Speaker 5: You did? No?
Speaker 7: No, no, By the way, that that was Tom's right.
Speaker 3: Yes, don't worry, we were Tom.
Speaker 7: That place was freaking back. I told you had that
place shammed no Husky fans, dude, Matt, I'm not kidding here.
There were two thousand Husky fans at that bar. Those
people were losing their mind. They weren't even prepared. They
ran out of wings by nine o'clock at night. There
was no here. By eight thirty, we're sitting around drinking
water and eating bread just to pass the time at
that place. That was awesome, man, what a night that was.
But the game's tuck, But that night was great.
Speaker 3: That's fine, all right.
Speaker 4: Far let you're on you're on radio row. Give me
your best guest you've had so far, the best one.
Speaker 7: Well, the best guests we are going to have. I
will tell you that I'm fifty two years old. Who
do you think the greatest athlete I ever saw was?
I'm fifty two? Yeah, but you would be that guy?
Speaker 3: Is a specific Northwest or is this national?
Speaker 7: No? Doesn't national?
Speaker 3: Jackson?
Speaker 7: Fifty two? Bingo Bo Jackson on the show today with
us from Radio Row.
Speaker 3: Wow, all right? Who is the one guest?
Speaker 7: I'm not sure. I'm not sure if I'll be able
to keep it together. Man, No, Jack, I might start
I might start drooling when he comes over.
Speaker 4: I had Barry Sanders on when I was in Phoenix
years ago, and that was that was a kid in
the candy store for me. All right, worst guests, tell
me some of the crap that your producer's given you,
because I know that our producers here gave us crap
for me years.
Speaker 7: You know, we haven't had crap yet so far this week,
mostly because I just don't put them on the air.
I've gotten to a point with this whole thing, Matt,
And you've been doing this a long time like I have.
My first Super Bowl was Packers Patriots in ninety six,
ninety seven from New Orleans and back in the day,
we would just put any Tom, Dick and Harry on
the air. Anybody who wanted to go on the air
is getting on the air, And now we're being selected
right now. We're not doing that. If I can get
two or three decent guests today from Radio Row, I'm happy.
Dick and I drove down to San Jose yesterday thing
out about twenty interviews with Seahawk players from their media availability,
and I think fans back in Seattle would rather hear that.
I think they'd rather hear from Seahawk fans than, you know,
some guy pushing a freaking ventilator for God's sakes or
a vacation rental property somewhere in Mexico. So we're not
doing that crap anymore.
Speaker 4: Well, I want you to get Carl Mecklenberg on the
show that it'll be a huge gift for your program
between now and the other week.
Speaker 7: Carl, the former Denver Bronco.
Speaker 3: Carl a lot of Denver Seattle connections.
Speaker 7: There, Remember the Three Amigos back in the day.
Speaker 4: No, I don't care about the Broncos. They beat the
older several times. I don't care about them. By the way,
you won't be getting Mark because you only return your
text either.
Speaker 7: By the way, well he doesn't do iHeart stations. He's
a Bonnaville guy. Ricky Matteel Mark Jackson Van Jose to
the Three Amigos back in the day. Steve Largin sick Dick, Hey,
Dick Dick?
Speaker 8: Which hich? What's u?
Speaker 7: Harden? The Harden h Largent knocked the piss out of
the guy in Denver Mike Harden cornerback. Go look up
Steve Largent Mike Harden knockout on YouTube. You want to
get your blood going for a Seahawk Bronco rivalry. Sorry,
I'm rambling now.
Speaker 4: Sorry, I'm gonna go look at my Harrol Reynolds highlights
of Mariners games of thirty years ago.
Speaker 7: Hey, you should go look up your highlights of the
Textans or the Oilers and the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: A bastard you Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, suck on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, we'll do that.
Speaker 4: While when you look up the Mariners in the World
Series highlight. Hey, guess what, when's my next road trip
to play the Sonics?
Speaker 7: Breaking up? Breaking up?
Speaker 5: I can't what was that? What?
Speaker 3: Love your softy? See you later, good luck, wishing the
very best. That's enough.
Speaker 4: Enough Texans on me terrible then cutting oilers. I do
want them to get an NBA team against great NBA
wide open for a CounterPunch on the Mariners though. Yeah,
they were close, but then Toronto got and then they choked,
and then he's a shame and then he got all
macause Toronto and putting a shoe on your head and
your team chokes.
Speaker 3: That's terrible.
Speaker 4: Little I really feel like a jackass with a shoe
on your head and tears in your eyes. Yeah, we're
Scott Servis when you need them, all right, George twelve
forty six, putting in Robbie Ray all right, Uh, Terry
and David hanktime. We'll get to you in a matter
of Moment's twelve forty six at the time. It is
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We take it till
two o'clock here on Sports Talk seven Nutty top fifty
one on Sports Talk don't.
Speaker 8: Put it out.
Speaker 3: You can't want to fight. We don't want to fight.
Speaker 4: The song there we go, twelve fifty one on Sports
Talk seven, Hounty. It is the Matt Thomas Show with
Ross seven one three, two one two five, se Nicholas
back there, mixing the tunes up. I'm curious about line one.
Let's find out. Terry calling us from somewhere in Ohio.
First of all, Terry, thank you for waiting. Where are
you calling us from?
Speaker 3: Ohio?
Speaker 6: Hashtabul What where is it again? Ashtabille? It's about sixty
miles west of Cleveland.
Speaker 3: Oh nice?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: What's going on today in pastu Beulah? Anything interesting?
Speaker 7: No? I got.
Speaker 6: I got a couple of things about cold Thompson.
Speaker 8: Oh sure, Hey, he's such a homer.
Speaker 6: That's why the Texas did to win in the playoffs.
I want to make two predictions. The Patriots beat the
Seahawks and the Cavaliers in the Nbig Finals.
Speaker 3: Wow, because of the James Harden trade.
Speaker 6: Absolutely?
Speaker 4: What did you say about Cole Thompson. He's the reason
why the Texans did not win the playoff game.
Speaker 6: They kept saying every morning, Oh, they can't lose.
Speaker 7: They got c. J.
Speaker 6: Stroud, they got Woody Mars, got Derek Stingley Jr.
Speaker 4: So it's you know what, Terry, you bring up a
fair point. It probably is on Cole a little bit,
don't you think?
Speaker 3: I not a lot? They got over confident.
Speaker 4: But yeah, because frankly Terry Cole's kind of overconfident on
a lot of his Houston Texans sports takes. I don't
disagree with you on this, by the way, thank you
for the phone call. Appreciate it.
Speaker 6: Hey, yes, I can't believe you don't like the Winter
Olympics map.
Speaker 3: It's not it's not great. I like the Summer Olympics.
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 6: I like the Winter Olympics.
Speaker 3: Okay, you don't teach his own Terry. What show you watching?
Speaker 6: I'm not watching anything.
Speaker 5: What was that?
Speaker 3: We heard a TV in the background. Radio. It's the radio.
Hopefully it's on iHeartRadio app Thank you very much, Terry.
All right, thank you, see, thank you, Terry. I thought
he was watching Bonanza or something. Yeah, why was col
so arrogant about the Texans running the table?
Speaker 10: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm not up then, so I don't catch the I
don't normally catch the show. It's called third and long
weekday Morning Matt It's called.
Speaker 3: The Morning Drive.
Speaker 4: Put some respect on our morning show's name, Dan Matthews
and Cole Thompson The Morning Drive, and it's to today
Am here on Sports Talk seven Hoy. We want you
all to listen and Dan think it's top billing on
that show too.
Speaker 3: I guess I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean I would go personally, let's see Matthews and Thompson. Yeah,
that's alphabetical the way kept calling Colin Dan. It's not
CD alright or DNC all right. Um yeah, I mean
it sound like I despise it win Olympics. But I
can promise you because my life is ridiculously Hattrick. Right now,
I'm not going to be sitting down and going I
need to sit down and watch two or three hours.
Speaker 3: Snowboard tricks are going pretty good.
Speaker 4: I wonder if there is active in the Olympic village
as the summer Olympians are.
Speaker 3: It's colder, Yeah, I probably more active. Gotta get that
body heat. Do a Google search on that. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: Let's talk to our friend David in Vegas. David, by
the way, is our proxy for when we win major
amounts of money in Las Vegas.
Speaker 3: David, how are you?
Speaker 5: I'm fine. Yes, I heard my name taken in Vain
in this context earlier, so I thought i'd check in.
I have no idea what the laws are about running
bets for you guys from across state lines. Do I
get anybody in trouble, you know, I'd be I'm always
here for you. Anything I can do, you just let
me know. But just you got me thinking a little
bit on the whole subject of betting these winter sports,
and you probably wonder what I'm up to. Yeah, I mean,
of course, of all Super Bowl, I kind of agree
with you guys. I think I've got it at twenty
four sixteen Seahawks, so kind of a cover and an
under which is I think where you guys are kind
of leaning stuff. We'll see if that works out. The
obviously involved in that I am. I will probably watch
some Olympics. I certainly will bet and watch some ice
hoky menzaki anyway, some curling, which has its appeal for
a number of things. It is a fun betting sport.
But also did you check out the Sweetish women's team
last year. I what a smoke show just to watch
it curly, but.
Speaker 3: Is always very strong.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I may try a little bit. It's like
Downhills game and stuff like that. The thing is there's
a game changer out there a little bit in sports.
Yelling O very well in Ai, uh you know, every morning,
and I've been doing this for a couple of weeks.
Now I get up and I asked my AI program
two questions. I say, what survey all the hockey handicappers
and tell me what the bet bet is in the
shell today? And it gives me an idea and I
just bet that one game, whether I know or not.
Do the same thing with college basketball. So it picked
me a college basketball bet. Any surveys all these handicappers
that comes up with an answer or multiple answers. Since
I've been doing that, I mean it's it's been like
nine and five or something, which isn't bad.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 5: It's a whole new way to handicap and I think
may come into play in the Olympics. I mean, we
don't know anything about mets downhill slollom skiers, but you
could ask your AI program. I'm gonna make find you
better too.
Speaker 3: There you go, Thank you very much, David chat GPT
Maddy Uh.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: We're running into some trouble. I got people, I got
friends of mind fighting with chat GPT. I got kids
in today's high schools and college using chat GPT for
their for their papers and trying to answer questions. I
got radio hosts using chat gpt me. It's it's a crutch.
Speaker 3: It's terrible and it's oftentimes wrong. Managers are using it
for their evaluations of their employees. Explain, I'm like, uh,
for year in reviews and stuff like that. You can
just tell when stuff's written by AI. It just sounds
a little, for lack of a better term, robotic. Yeah,
there's no heart, there's no motion to you personal heartless. Yeah, yeah,
I get you. I got you on that.
Speaker 4: Thank you for the phone call again to David and
good luck. I mean that it's an it's an aggregator.
Clearly does he said give me the best college pick up?
And you say, hey, if all these of all the handicappers,
and that's actually not the worst idea ever. If most
handicappers and a lot of talents aren't giving out their
picks for free, Guys who are moving lines aren't giving
out their picks for free. If you here see some
guy and he's got his best bets and he tells
you that, you know, pay me twenty bucks and I'll
give you my picks, that guy's not a long term
winner in all likely. No, No, they want you to
spend thousands of dollars commit to them monthly because they
got inside information on a recorded line, inside information on
a recorded line. We are one hour away from the
conclusion of the trade deadline. There are five teams that
have yet to make a move by this trade deadline.
Twenty five of the thirty NBA teams, that's true, Yeah,
have made some sort of moves at the deadline. The
Rockets are not one of them. Will they go do something?
We will discuss. We will discuss the Rocket Celtics loss.
We will also discuss from ber Valdez not wearing astro
gear anymore.
Speaker 3: How sad are we?
Speaker 4: One to ten, We'll discuss that next final hour Matt
Thomas Show Ross here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 3: Yeah, is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 5: One four.
Speaker 4: I'm Sports Talk seven ninety final hour of the Matt
Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 3: It's nice to have you, folks with us.
Speaker 4: Rockets fall last night to the Boston Celtics by a
final score of one, fourteen to ninety three. They were
out rebounded by nineteen. Rockets were down one after one
eighteen seventeen. You're like, okay, nineteen eighty seven, It's like,
this is fine. Celtics outscore the Rockets thirty one twenty five,
and I thought, okay, he may dok is gonna go
in there and give him a good bow pep fashioned
pep talk. And then the Seas came out and outscore
the Rockets in the third quarter thirty six to twenty one.
League got as high as twenty nine. He may got tossed.
Alprin Shingoon got tossed. Yes, And my guess is Apron's
going to get suspended, not spend it, could probably get fined. Uh,
there is a little bit of a slippery slope when
it comes to female officials. I don't I think they
treat try to treat them the same. So what Alpern
Shingoon said, what he said about Jennermer know that he
would have said to a male official, probably yes, but
it feels a little more blunt when it's another phrasing
of a term for oh, he was not appreciative of
her efforts. Okay, I don't know what you're talking about. Well,
he just he said a couple of words probably would
have gotten him slopped, okay by as a girl. But okay,
I don't want to get too much into it. But okay,
if you could read lips, you can know exactly what
he said. So I guess you'll be deducted for saying
what he said. He got tossed. E mail got tossed.
And the Rockets have the Hornets coming into town to night,
who have won seven consecutives. They are twelve and six
of the Hornets since the turn of the calendar year.
Speaker 3: So they've been very good. Seven in a row they've won.
Speaker 4: Yeah, five teams have not made a tray for the deadline,
which is down down to fifty four minutes. One of
those five teams would be your beloved Houston Rockets. Um,
I would be stunted.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing that bothers me and man, Oh, Eric
Gordon just got traded. What Eric Gordon? Yes, somewhere Olympiacos.
Speaker 4: No, the seventy six ers are trading Eric Gordon in
a two thirty two drafts? Could be something else the
nature would I gotta tease him about this text him, Oh, yeah,
Eric Gordon is even playing, No, he hardly plays. I
wonder if he'll even play for the UH for the
Memphis Grizzlies. So he's going there to Memphis for says
the seventy six and flexibilities to complete a conversion of
a two way dominic Barlow contract.
Speaker 3: Grizzlies legend. I don't know that's crazy Clippers or it's Pelicans, Rockets.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's lots of maneuvering going around, but the
biggest I mean, James was the big deal going from
LA to Cleveland. So far, that's the headliner of the
trade deadline is staying in Milwaukee. Apparently John Morant. They're
still trying to make a move, maybe to get him
out of Memphis, but they got fifty three minutes to
do that, and uh, the Rockets at this point have
not done anything.
Speaker 3: Do you think team It just seems like maybe teams
do like to try to wait for the off season,
especially like when the lottery shakes out, rather than saying, oh,
I'm getting a lottery pick. Oh I'm getting the number
one pick or the number two pick. Well, I think
it's a lot of it is because you're not under
a time crunch like you are today. Maybe that's the reasonabhy.
Speaker 4: You get more time and you get more of a
handle on who's who's picking where, and you're dealing with
more complete information to where you don't have to.
Speaker 3: Rush it at the deadline.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I gotta get off this for you tab on
this because there's a lot of things that I mean,
somebody with you know, these crazy rumors, crazy rumors. Some
of us sixteen hundred squa of Twitter followers says that
the Rockets kick the tires.
Speaker 3: On John Morant. That could be just putting it out there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there needs gonna be that guy a massive, massive
Twitter penalty for putting on any rodents information. Well, it
used to be you had a check mark and you
could trust the information. Then Elon took over and like
seven bucks you can get a check mark. And then
now we're gonna have crypto five five billion crypto bots
with check marks responding with one word to every single tweet. Yeah,
that real great for the Twitter ecosystem. Been fantastic, And
we're gonna reward and we're gonna pay him out a
dollar thirty four for all their impressions and the millions
of impressions are getting so we're just have people running
bot farms.
Speaker 3: Terrible.
Speaker 4: You know, I really wish something else would take over,
but that's what it does. Bluesky didn't Works is doing
a little bit better, but still got a lot of
salacious material. It's tied to Instagram. So yeah, I got
one hundred likes on my my Jay little picture on threads. Yeah,
I don't even post on threads, but I think when
I from it goes from my so, which is fine,
that's good. It's all meta, it's all uh Zuckerberg.
Speaker 3: It's kindly confusing.
Speaker 4: So all right, rockets fifty one minutes until the trade deadline,
and I would expect them to. I think the roster
today is different than it is a week from today,
but it's not because of what it does happen in
the next fifty one minutes, just a feeling on that.
Speaker 3: We'll see who gets bought out and what's going to
go from there.
Speaker 4: All Right, other things going on in the world of sports.
Farber Valden has signs his new contract to go play
for the Detroit Tigers. Tark School did put a photo
of the numbers that Frober was getting on his Instagram page.
Tark School. I think the arbitration hearing is today, if
I'm not mistaken that right. Yeah, they've had one of
the biggest discrepancies in Manchor League baseball history. I can't
even remember how much it was it was like thirteen millions.
How I was going to say thirteen million dollars. We're
both saying that it's probably right. Yeah, uh, it's not
gonna endwell, Paul Skeenes is not gonna be a pirate
long term. No, Tark School is not gonna be able
to try Tiger long term.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 3: This is what all the owners who are the have
nuts are lamenting.
Speaker 4: They do have to trade away their players or get
rid of them because a cap, even if you even
if you're a small market team, a cap means the
Dodgers can't keep stockpiling people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not only halves halves nuts in baseball.
Speaker 4: It's the super halves or really the Dodgers are kind
of in a in a club by themselves.
Speaker 3: It's the super half Dodgers.
Speaker 4: It's a have like Yankees, Mets, Blue Jays, a couple teams.
Then it's the middle pack, and then it's the bottom field.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: Well, I guarantee you this whole deferred payment bit, which
is the Dodgers are using now, oh yeah, is a
thing in the past.
Speaker 3: I'm with you. That's gotta go.
Speaker 4: It's ridiculous because also it does at the very least,
it should still count. The aa V should count towards
the tax threshold because they're circumventing the tax.
Speaker 3: Because here's the thing, Yeah, you cannot.
Speaker 4: There are no there are ways around things, but there
are no crazy loopholes in the NFL salary cap. There
are no loopholes in the basketball salary cap. There are
aprons or penalties and whatnot. But what the Dodgers are
doing is, uh, well, they're mortgaging that they're going to
be as as vibrant as an economic entity thirty years
from now than they are right now. And if you're
the Dodgers, you probably can do that. Hopefully they are.
Hopefully the ENO have the default on show his payments.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing that.
Speaker 4: I don't even know if the players understand, because I
don't think the players care, and they need to. Twenty
twenty five thirty years of these regional TV networks paying
rights fees, these rights fees are now going away completely.
These network these regional TV channels are folding up. And
whether you and I don't, the players don't care who
broadcasts the games, how they have fans get them, They
just don't.
Speaker 3: They just want to go. But they're gonna carry about.
Speaker 4: They're gonna care about the fact that that twenty one
million dollars from Box Sports Cardinals is no longer there
and the Cardinals are now being run by Manja League
Baseball Broadcasting, where the Cardinals will be on their own
to get the advertising. But they're not get the rights
fees like they used to. They're just not Yea, I
have a dumb question, why why are we watching regional
sports networks? Not as much as we see a terrible
account what's there over? The networks are paying too much
for the rights fees. They can't sell advertising anymore. It
feels like ratings. I thought ratings are going up for baseball,
basketball and stuff like that. Is that just national rating
and they get they can't get the advertising and they
cannot get the subscriber fees like they used to be
able to get from the cable companies. Yeah, it's a
combination of things that makes sense. But again, what the
problem was ross to begin with. They were already they
were paying too much. Yeah, and there's about five teams
in baseball that can justify having their own TV channel.
Speaker 3: The Cubs do well in Chicago, the Dodgers, the Mets, our.
Speaker 4: Guys at s H and ah SC, Well, it was
easy for them. The folks that owned Space City Home
Network said, go lucky, we gave you a space on
your direct TV. That's a lock done deal. We're not
going to pay you anymore, but you can have everything.
The network is yours. So that's why the Rockets and
the Astros own the network because they were given to them.
But they were like the people that used to own
it said, we just not even were on paying.
Speaker 3: Was AT and T Sports to that, right?
Speaker 4: Uh? Yeah, it's AT and T Direct TV owned it
for others. I mean they'd been moving around left and
right for four or five years, but yeah, the channel
space was everything. At least have to worry about finding
a spot on direct TV to go get it six
seventy four, let's go, it's there. It's there, so uh
you know that to me. You know, the NFL doesn't
worry about local TV rights. They have one big national
television package. Base basketball has a local TV package, but
it doesn't carry the resident the run that the national
folks do. I mean, you had a ten being a
dollar deal coming from the NBA for all their TV
channels are Yeah that I'm saying Baseball had that the
macro keeps going up and up and up, and they
keep getting money and money money just to the micro
individual teams is not. Yeah, so like finally interesting, Yeah,
there's gonna be like I want to say it this
year and they maybe be fifteen teams at Major League
Baseball operates.
Speaker 3: Their TV dollars hikes. Now again, they can make money too.
Speaker 4: I mean they can go sella the Twins can sell
to local Minneapolis Saint Paul people and whatnot. So it's
not like it's a Tom Juice Lucy. Yeah, Matt's bar,
you know, Matt's good. Matt's really good, delicious. Jussie Luthy yea,
all right, one to fourteen on Sports Talk seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seven nine. If
you want to chime in anything we've been discussing so far,
the Rockets certainly on issue after a very disappointed performance
last night against the Celtics.
Speaker 3: Uh, Baseball, we're gonna be in spring training in less
than two weeks. Oh really, it's be fun m.
Speaker 4: With so many question marks, probably with the trucks have
left for West Palm Beach today. As a matter of fact,
with all the equipment trucks. Yeah, okay, that's gotta be
a terrible drive. Why just go straight down nine ten? Yeah,
but then you gonna go south for like another twelve hours. Yeah,
it's fine. That was always the great part about driving.
When you go, you thought about when you were a
kid going to driving to Sea World. Oh, we'll be
there anytime now. And you get to Florida, like, man,
it took us hardly no time, and then you're stuck
in Florida from nine percent of the trip.
Speaker 3: Be all right, just don't pick up any lot lizards.
Speaker 4: By the way, did you tell some people about your
lot lizards? I did, And what was the response back
to I got a lot of throwing up emojis, yeah,
and I got a lot of omgs. And then I
got one guy who was like, oh yeah, I heard
that from another truck of friend. And by way, it
was probably best on our best interest not to mention
that end of the story on the program itself.
Speaker 3: I'm glad we didn't.
Speaker 4: Yeah what fifteen on Sports Talk seven, euty seven one
three two one two five seven Onty please join us?
I got twenty two on Sports Talk seven, Aunty Matt
Ross with you here?
Speaker 3: On this Thursday. Emai Doug is going to join us
on the show tomorrow.
Speaker 4: We'll have a chance to ask him how deep in
the weeds the Rockets got on draft stuff or not draft,
but on a trade conversation. So about thirty seven minutes
before the deadline comes and goes, Tom Brady is getting
worn out by some old teammates.
Speaker 3: You catch some of this I did. We do have
a ruling in the Trek Schoobel case. If you'd like that,
please do so. Breaking news? Sure, why not? I guess
it's like one, Yeah, I think what you call that one?
It's fine? Yeah? Sure?
Speaker 7: Why not?
Speaker 3: Breaking news?
Speaker 4: Two time reigning American League p Size Young winner Tarek
Schooble has won his arbitration case. He will make thirty
two million dollars this year. This from Jeff Passing. Sources
tell ESPN schoobls bet to go for the largest salary
ever in the arbitration system paid off. He'll make thirteen
million dollars more than the Tigers argued.
Speaker 3: It.
Speaker 4: I don't know the situation nearly as intimately as we
know about the Kyle Tucker situation. You take Tarrek Scooble
the best picture in the game to arbitration and you
go in front of a group of people that are
arbiters and you talk about how you don't like him
and not worth the money. Yeah, I would not be
worrying about a retirement of the jersey ceremony for the
Detroit Tigers and targa back to back cy Young winner.
What is your argument against the back to back cy
Young Winner. Well, it's not a question than wanting to pay.
It just was what do you think the fair market
values and the fair market values Tark Schooble sets the
market for pair amount. Yes, and now we do have
some audio from Trek Scooble after the events.
Speaker 3: Obama's up man. That was what he had to say
to the Tigers.
Speaker 4: Kiss the ring is what he also said, Sorry, you
were going to Tom Brady Okay, So he was on
his podcast called It's Really Interesting.
Speaker 3: It's called Let's Go Where are we going? You're going
somewhere with Tom Brady.
Speaker 4: He was asked about who he likes in the game okay,
and tom Brady's response to that was.
Speaker 3: Quote, he doesn't have a dog in the fight. Hmm.
Speaker 10: Well.
Speaker 4: Vince Wilfork, former Texan great and Rob Grangkowski both calling
out Tom Brady for his comments. Okay, so Brady again
said I don't have a dog in the in the
fight in this one. Made the best team win. Will
Fork said he basically said that Brady's stance was for
political reasons and mentions Brady's role as a minority.
Speaker 3: Owner with the Las Vegas Raiders.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you're part owner of the Raiders going
on with Vince that's bullcrap. Tom All, that's political. This
ain't political. It ain't political what it is. Raiders ain't
in it. Say what it is what you see. Okay,
so what if you de scaid I'd like the Seahawks
to win foot was he talking about who he is
rooting for? Who he thinks is gonna win? Uh, you know,
it's a great question. It's definitely a difference. Let me
see what the exact question was. Is he rooting for
the Patriots? I mean, Mike Rabels is this guy I
would assume reading the context of who's rooting for?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Is he gonna? Is he gonna go?
Speaker 4: You know what if you're talking about cold hearted, calculated killers,
I mean, Tom Brady is on the short list. So
Will Fork then was asked by a radio host, a
w e e I in Boston. He says Brady should
be rooting for New England if he wants to be
quote a patriot for life. Vince, let me be perfectly clear.
Tom Brady, whether you want him or not, is a
patriot for life. You don't have any rings, Vince Wolfork.
Speaker 3: He does? If not for Tom Brady, Oh, vill Vince Wolfork,
does it? Vince?
Speaker 4: You were a run stopper, Yes, you were big and
nasty in the middle. Yes, But if it ain't for
Tom Brady, you're just a great nose tackle. You're You
might have had one ring, but it wouldn't have been multiple.
So this is a little heavy hand that I think
from Vince Wilfork. Vince Wilfork does not get to decide
who a patriot for life is. The Patriots get to
do it, and the fans do again, I guess, I
think just Tom Brady. I mean, because he won a
Super Bowl the Buccaneers and he's part over to the Raiders. Yeah,
Patriots will always have his heart, but he doesn't have
to root for them blindly.
Speaker 10: I guess.
Speaker 4: And by the way, he's supposed to be an objective
observer as a Fox broadcaster.
Speaker 3: Well, yes, that's right, But Vince, you don't get decide
how I mean his opinion. What do you want? Do
you want Tom to change his mind?
Speaker 5: Going?
Speaker 4: Okay, on second thought, I'm rooting for the Patriots. I mean,
question asked, questioned, answered, But really you have to understand
something here that Tom Brady, ladies and gentlemen, is loving
his life as a minority owner the Las Vegas Traders.
He was obviously huge into Clint Kubiak's hiring yees, saying
I don't have a dog in the fight, though, I
guess is it interesting? Very Brady, that's very milk toast Brady.
Although he's a much better analyst this year than he
was last year, as we would expect him to be.
But he's still gonna be He's still going to walk
a very nice tightrope to make sure he doesn't anger anybody. Meanwhile,
Rob Grangkowski, what did he have to say? He says
he's not spoken with Brady about this year's Super Bowl
between the Patriots and Seattle, but pondered whether Brady stands
is fueled by ulterior motives. Oh, It's Brady's podcast with
m with Jim Gray. You know, quoting Gronkowski. He probably
wants to be the quarterback. He's that competitive. He probably
wants to be the guy in the Super Bowl right now.
Then you have a Sante Samuel jumped in in the
mix of Oh. The former cornerback says he was quote
highly disappointed and Brady for quote not rooting for your
ex teammate Mike Rabel. He also accuses Brady of being
jealous of current Painters quarterback Drake May. This is getting interesting,
a Sante Samuel. Yeah, I'm pulling it up too, Brady.
You can't be the only one winning super Bowls. Let
me find out you hating on Drake May and Rabel.
I don't have a dog in this fight. Not what
I wanted to hear. Brady knows how I get down.
This ain't nothing new to him. Sante Sammy's gonna throw
hands with Tom Brady.
Speaker 3: No, he's not. I like to see it.
Speaker 4: Do I believe that Tom Brady in his mind could
put a uniform on and go back out and play today. Yes,
he did it forty five right, he did it when
no one.
Speaker 3: Said he could do it. If Philly Rivers can do it,
Tom Ready can maybe do it.
Speaker 4: But do I think that Tom is jealous of Drake
May about ruining the potential legacy of the Patriots quarterbacks atuation?
That's a little bit of a stretch to me. I
don't know, unless unless Tom is just that worried. I
will be brutally honest with you, and I love Monel
to death. Minel had a Hall of Fame broadcasting career.
He was always looking over his shoulder for the partners
of the people around him because he was always afraid
they were gonna get more.
Speaker 3: Shine than he was. Uh huh? Is Tom that way?
I mean you and I yeah, I would.
Speaker 4: I would say that's it's typical of a narcissistic personality,
is to want all to shine and then when somebody
else there or But it seems a little extreme to
take it that far, like if he's mad that Peyton
Manny's getting shine or something, or if he's mad that
one of his contemporaries is getting shy sense not Drake May.
If he's mad about Drake May getting shine, I mean,
that's that's an intense that's an intense level of narcissism
from Tom. Because Tom has done Tom has never Als says,
right now, he'll never be the throne. I don't unless
Mahomes wins four or five more Super Bowls. Mahomes is
at three and he's only twenty nine or how old
is Mahomes and thirty? But I feel like the Chiefs
are more dending south than they are upwards. Yeah, but
we felt like that too after Spygate. They didn't they
won those three and they didn't win for a long time.
The Patriots. Yeah, he's thirty. Pat Mahomes has three Super
Bowls and he's thirty. Tom won seven, Yes, with two
different teams, one in his early forties. Oh no, there's
no one touching Tom Brady. They're just not in terms
of super Bowl six or are I think ultimately longevity success. Yeah,
he's a freak of nature. He left on top kind
of you can call it avocado ice cream and TV
twelve method.
Speaker 3: I mean genetics too, I mean whatever it is. Yeah,
I don't know it. Does it really?
Speaker 4: If he says they have a dog in a fight,
I think he really he's being politically right. He's a politician.
Tom's a politician. I would say so, Tom again saying completely,
I don't have a dog in a fight? What what
was an eyebrow raising comment, like, you don't have any
dog in the fight. The team who won six Super
Bowls with is not your dog? You were like, you know,
you know, my heart is with the Patriots obviously, but
as far as the game and the way I analyze that,
I'm not going to be rooting for anyone as an
owner of the Raiders, like I guess he could have
phrased it differently to me, this was him trying to
protect his brain as a minority owner of the Raiders
more than anything else. That's size it one Sports Talk
seven ninety. It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross
seven one three two one two five seven ninetie seven
one three two one two five seven.
Speaker 3: Ninety programs unforth.
Speaker 4: When yesterday is Charlotte Horns are in town? LaMelo ball
nineteen points a game, seven and a half assist. How's
he shooting balls at? Uh, well, thirty six from three
to forty one from the floor.
Speaker 3: That's just mid. That's fine, better than his brother. Hey,
but hey, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4: Lonzo gets released by the Jazz, You go get him.
Doesn't shoot very well at all. He did last year
or better last year. Yeah, and he was good before
he had. I mean, how many major injuries as he had.
It's not like Lonzo Ball hadn't been playing thirty five
games for the Cavs twenty one minutes a game.
Speaker 3: I've always wore points, six points.
Speaker 4: I've been proud of the fact that I kind of
know who's with whom I am so lost over the
last handful of days. Uh Evins the Zubats, for those
of you that are NBA fans, got moved from the
Clippers to the Indiana Pacers just to go.
Speaker 3: Rockets struggle against him. So I'm glad he's moving to
the East.
Speaker 4: So the Rockets will have two games with the Clippers
next week and they'll have no James Harden and yeah,
no events a zu Bons.
Speaker 3: It's a shame.
Speaker 4: Kawhi Leonard's going to average about thirty five game in
those two games, provided he plays in both them, or
maybe he's got to go hang out with his arborous friends. Yeah,
how we have not heard word one about that. I
don't know the extra side money. Have you met the
United States legal system?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Taking their time, that's for sure. Not known for their
swift action. Man, No they're not. No, they're not.
Speaker 4: Uh, and I'm frankly surprised it doesn't have more for
those who don't know. Again, there is a dummy company
that is being funded by Steve Balmer. Was that is
accusing money being ship given to Kawhi Leonard on the
side to circumvent the salary cap. Yeah, for sponsorships, well
overpaying him for sponsorships to get it. Yes, to circumvent
the salary cap. Yeah, rocket's tough gold things. I got
to the Charlotte tonight and we leave tomorrow for Oklahoma
City for a day game against the Thunder. No, Shae
Yale was Alexander, and then two games with the Clippers
Tuesday Wednesday next week before the All Star break, so
almost you.
Speaker 3: Know, must win games, baby.
Speaker 4: Remember I said they were gonning too to one during
these three games, so they got there, they got their
work cutoff for him.
Speaker 3: Now, what did I say?
Speaker 4: I think you said three and oh, I believe I
said one and two. But also I didn't know that
SGA was going to be out, so I'm hopeful. I
didn't know that half the Celtics gonna be out, and
I thought it was a guaranteed wine. It wasn't all
the Jamokes on the uh on the Celtics were able
to allot of them get to win.
Speaker 3: That's fine. I just like the fact they had Providence
listeners listening to us. Well, he was listening to you
guys on uh two and a half games?
Speaker 4: Mind the Spurs one game ahead of the six seeded
Lakers and the seventh seeded Suns. So your like it
was like one game from being seventh and you're two
and a half games from being second.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm looking at some of.
Speaker 4: The ESPN sports headlines. Kelvin Sampson's comments are the fourth headline?
Speaker 3: Oh really? Yeah? Uh no, they're probably tailoring that to you, baby.
Speaker 4: No, because Expatriots star bull crap is first bucks to
keep you honest to Ford Anders or Rams opponent for
first Australian game.
Speaker 3: That sounds that's not going towards me. It's the seventh
headline for me. Okay.
Speaker 4: I know that they tailor stuff on ESPN. You know
how I know because they all the front pages. They
always get me. They're like, what's Texas Longhorn basketball disappointment
up to got? I never said I never see that
new you ever see the headline ever? Sean Miller's latest
comments calling out his team for fouling too much. But
those who don't know, Kevin Sampson basically said that the
University of Houston has the lowest budget of any power
for school.
Speaker 3: And he said, we're a poor athletic program. We have
a very poor athletic artment. We're poor. We were poor
when I got here, and we're still poor. He doesn't
mean poorly run either. According to a USA Today database,
this is where the story comes in.
Speaker 4: Makes Houston was ranked fifty sixth in Division one athletics
with a revenue of seventy eight million dollars. Revenue of
seventy eight million, that's television, that's stadium seats, that's advertising,
that's everything that could possibly go towards the bottom line
of athletic department.
Speaker 3: Texas is athletic budget. Triple that, triple of that.
Speaker 4: So meanwhile, ESPN called Eddi Nuniez and said, hey, you
want to comment on what your coach had to say?
Speaker 3: Uh huh and uh.
Speaker 4: Athletic director Eddie Nunyaz has been on the show several times,
issued a call to action looking ahead of the twenty
twenty five, twenty sixth year. We are embracing the new
era of college athletics with a positive mindset of bold ambition,
strategic investment, and relentless pursuit of excellence. Wow, like that,
there's wrong words. We are not just keeping pace with change.
We are setting the standard. Whether it's pushing boundaries and performance,
academics success or community engagement. Our standard is simple excellence
and everything we do. While revenue sharing with student athletes
is now officially upon us, it is critical that we
also maintain anil opportunities for our student athletes. Now, the
Cougars for the twenty twenty six class have already signed
a pair of top.
Speaker 3: Twenty five recruits. Oh nice.
Speaker 4: Sam's would say during this postgame get together last night
that his current roster is quote getting exactly what the
market is for them and not starving. But he warned
that future roster building could become more challenging unless his
athletic department boost revenue. You know who's also saying that
probably Indiana University football. You know you should be saying
that just about everybody. Yeah, you have to if you
want to get up there with the heavyweights, the big boys,
the UTAs, the Ohio States, the Michigans, the lsues.
Speaker 3: It just can't be.
Speaker 4: It can't be a quick fix. It has to be
a steady stream. And that's why it's going to frankly
take major corporations and I'm going to sue Ross again
with some sort of tie of the University of Houston to.
Speaker 3: Cut the check. How's remote for you, dubiz? Doing remote for.
Speaker 4: Your dobiz is publicly being on the sock exchange. Okay,
really it's trading at I think two cents a dollar
on the dollar. It's bullish as it normally things are, okay, okay, sure, yeah,
So even if even if I was to cut a
check for five thousand dollars, guess what you've h would
tell me, Matt, thank you. We need to be seventy
five hundred next year, in ten thousand a year after that.
But really, at the end of the day, it's probably
Tillman calling his buddies, honestly, right, the other mega millionaires
in this town on I guess who are those people?
I mean, I guess we just don't know some oilers.
I hadn't heard of Cody Campbell until he started. We
didn't know five years ago. We had no idea who
Cody Campbell was. No text Tech fans did because he
was a player there and he knew that he was contributing.
But Cody Campbell's direct cash infusion changed a dormant Texas
Tech football to a team that went to the College
Football Playoff, and I guess will be a serious contender
for a national championship next year. But again, it comes
down to a group of people or in text case,
one or two that just says whatever it takes now,
that doesn't guarantee success. How many years is what's his
name up in an Oregon been writing Phil Knight, been
writing for decades at Oregon decades, only to watch his
team fumble like fifty times in the beginning of that game,
and then they'll get their ass kicked. But what Calvin
is basically saying is I can continue to bring these
guys in, but as a sweet a as our facilities
are and as nice as the people are, and if
the girls are cute here and the food's delicious, they're
coming for the money. Gotta get some cash going, cash flow.
It's a big alumni base, huge enrollments going up and up. Yeah,
but you need I mean you need millionaires billionaires. Well,
I mean, I don't know how many billionaires do you have?
HS got gotta get some more. I mean, you know
what I need to do. I probably need to figure
out who the group who was a tech the ten
richest alums are right now.
Speaker 3: Okay, don't you start calling them.
Speaker 4: I'm busy. I got a job of the vikings today.
Sometimes I don't tell you're okay. Yeah, you do a
lot of scout breaking down a lot of tape. I
gotta get a nap in before that. I flight to
Minneapolis one forty six back to wrap things up in
just a moment. It's Sports Talk seven ninety n all
the clubies Arena play the day on the show with
the two.
Speaker 3: Drink minimum met bottle service in the back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we did not play Believe it or not to
take us, We'll go to a brand new producer.
Speaker 3: So that's not fair. But next time you produce a show,
we are gonna make you do it. Throw them in
the fire. Oh it's gonna go awful too.
Speaker 4: Hey, come on, oh come on, everybody gets just terrible
job in the first edition to Believe It or Not.
It's like it's like a rite of passage. Nicholas will do,
don't we I don't think we had. Did we have
those sounders from the beginning beginning of the first Believe
it or not?
Speaker 3: I think I had changed midway through.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I don't guess. I don't want to go
to inside radio. But do you know who's saying I
believe it? Who's saying not? And those sounders I don't. Oh,
not as Darryl Kuonda, one of our own production No
believe it is Daryl Konde, Yes, as our old production guy.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: And the knot is from the Borat movie, or as
it might be from the boor At when he did
a show. Ye not, this suit is not black, it's
from It's it's from a bit there you go. By
the way, Adam Clinton has given me a movie assignment
really that I want, and he sold it to me
is I will laugh repeatedly for two hours. Oh I
would never sell that to anyone, certainly not you here
it comes you ready, okay for Christmases?
Speaker 3: Really? Yes, with Vince Vaughan and Jennifer Andison. Okay. He
has he sent me the trailer.
Speaker 4: He's like, this is your kind of low brow humor,
And I'm like, I'm offended by this, not really, Okay,
I want to think of smart, funny comedy. I think
of three weddings and a funeral. Really, Yeah, don't you
think smart comedy? High browbe get Big Glebowski was kind
of smart and subtle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll give you that too.
Speaker 4: But when I think of dumb comedy, it's the greatest
funniest movie of all time Airplane.
Speaker 3: Yeah. That's why I've been telling you to watch. It's
so good.
Speaker 4: Okay, so for Christmas? Yes or no, I've never seen it? Okay,
Well I'm not the only one that I don't feel
nearly we go. Uh oh, smart comedies would be yes,
the Wes Anderson Films, Royal Tendon, Bounce, Grand Budapest Hotel.
Speaker 3: That's a good one. Office Space. Did you watch Office Space?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: I thought we bullied you into watching it.
Speaker 4: No all big Lebowski, Ai says oh Rick and Morty
all rested development Theresa.
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't recommend it too. Is that because
you want to keep it to yourself? I'm gatekeeping. Well
you see it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're fine. It's a smart comedy and you like
dumb comedies. I'm not saying you're dumb. No, it's no,
it's fine, it's your taste. Yes, yeah, I want to.
I want a mindless entertainment.
Speaker 3: When I go to the movie theater.
Speaker 4: Okay, by the way, my son says, my son, my
meddal Son Painting is a huge movie enthusdays. He's like,
are we gonna go see Michael Jackson movie? And I'm like,
I don't think I'm want to see it?
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 4: Because it's total from the family perspective, So what he's
not good. They're gonna gonna bring up everything. Apparently it
ends the movie ends at the trial. Doesn't really in
the trial. I don't know that for sure. I well,
I'm gonna tell you I'm gonna go because I'm gonna
see it in Imax, which I love going to Imax. Okay,
half shoutout, half priced Tuesdays, and you'll get the music
of the big booming movie theater speakers. There's the led
Zeppelin documentary that came out last year that was worth
the price of admission just to get the big mus
the music loud, and it's experience. Matt, all Right, I
just don't like movies that give me so one sided
viewpointing h Okay, especially on my biopics, because I mean,
let tasson one of my favorite biopicks of all time
was walk the Line and didn't make Johnny cashle a
good down down the stretch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so they don't talk about well the unpleasantness correct?
All right?
Speaker 4: Uh, tomorrow on the radio program, it's that anything goes Friday. Yes,
we will have I'm sorry at eleven thirty. Before that,
we'll have em a doke at eleven. Okay, hopefully he's
not sorry about back to back Rockets losses. I hope
he sticks around for this one four and a half
point favorite Rockets.
Speaker 5: What was the lot?
Speaker 4: What was the line on the you of age? Since uh,
Central Florida game was seventy two, I believe if they
had a play extra eight minutes, I prob would have
covered that. Somebody told me he was fifteen something like that.
Was that the Rockets eight and a half last night? Well,
you know, Vegas doesn't know everything, No, they There's a
lot of stuff it right every time?
Speaker 3: Every time.
Speaker 4: Oh here, I'm trying to find that line for you
here because man, that was Cougers fifteen and a half,
fifteen and.
Speaker 3: A half, and they want to win in by twenty
four something like that. My cougars.
Speaker 4: I was talking to the Rocket people the other day.
I said, I'm flying in for the championship game, plying
right back out. They're like, can't wait. If they make it, hopefully,
will you need to because we run out of money.
Speaker 3: We pull.
Speaker 5: What we pull?
Speaker 3: Pull? Pull pull? P oh poll po yeah po oh.
Speaker 4: I was legitimately confused. I was like, yeah, you're six
in the polls or eighth of the poles. Well, we're
in the poll we pull. Okay, all right, that's it
for the show. Let's say goodbye, yes the end of music,
and get out there.
Speaker 3: There it is.
Speaker 4: That's Ross I'm att. We'll probably believe or not tomorrow
or maybe not. Who knows up next? Wexler Clinton, Uh oh,
the team is