The Killer B's: Joel Blank & Jeremy Branham
11/05 Hour 2 - Which Houston Athlete Would Be the Best Presidential Candidate?
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Yeah, it's 100% flour. There are times when corn's fine, but given the choice in most cases, I'd prefer flour. All right, Virginia asks green or red salsa. They're asking the difficult questions today for their candidates. They're asking the questions that are hard. Nothing really, not really that difficult. So far, not difficult for either. Red is red in a landslide. Green in a landslide. That just proves the point about how difficult this question is here to stand. These are the policies, these are where the people want to know. What are the things that we stand for? I love both of them. I think it depends on the restaurant quite frankly. That's true. I'll give you that. I'm going to lean. Really? I love red salsa. And that's just the way I always lean. Yeah, I would. Even the chewy's? Because I know you like the green salsa chewy's. The red salsa's pretty mad. Even when we get takeout, don't even give them to me. Just give me the tons of the red salsa. So, jalapeno ranch is what you get there. Yeah, but the creamy jalapeno is right through red salsa. It's pretty mad. Is that what they call it? The creamy jalapeno? Yeah. Yeah, that thing is so good. Why are they based on what they call the red salsa? Salsa fresco. I think they call it the red salsa fresco. Yeah, there you go. No, I'll take red salsa if I had to pick between the two for the rest of my life. No, I do like both of them. Salt or no salt? No salt on your margaritas. I don't eat salt. How do you love it at that, Brian? No salt. Off the space is my favorite. I have to get that one. No, give me salt. You have to have salt in the margarita. No, it distracts my palate for me. Yeah, I don't like to speak your favorite. It does. What does that mean? You have a palate that has ADD? What's going on with your palate, dude? Distracts my palate. When I want to enjoy the flavors of margarita, I don't want to punch in the face by salt, like raw salt rocks. Say, I don't want that on there. Like, no, just give me the margarita. I think it pairs well. Together. I love me a little salt on the ground. Let me pull in your background. You can't swim it. 1-4-0-1, LeBron or Jordan? Oh, my God. Don't even get me sorted. It's Jordan all day, every day. Yeah, Michael Jordan, for sure. 4-4-4-7 says that Joel's red sauce is warm. Catch up. Can you confirm or deny? That is Mr. Presidential candidate. Denied. Joel Blank. Not going down. Let him be proud. Not going down. Red sauce is good. And the rest is bad. Thank you, Dan. Thank you. Thank you. Was that what you're going for, Danik Harvey? What's Danik doing? The senior bush. Okay, all right. Oh, okay. 4-3-2-3, grass or turf? Grass. Grass. Yeah, it's got to be grass, right? It's like Tuck McGraw used to say. I can't smoke turf. Damn right. I had to take no lies. 2-3-2 McGraw's daddy. That's right. Yeah, look at you showing off your knowledge. Yeah. Yeah. 2-3-4-5, whiskey or vodka? Whiskey. Whiskey. Yeah, absolutely. It's whiskey. Wait, wait, you blankers. You said whiskey? Yeah. I wasn't right about that. I am not a vodka guy at all. All my life, I have gone through different brands of whiskey. I have never been a vodka guy. Okay, I wouldn't show you're going to answer that one. 9-3-8-4, brisket or ribs. This is tough. Is it right now? The pork ribs are beef ribs. Because that changed the answer for me. It didn't say. Doesn't matter for me, brisket all day, everything. It would be brisket over pork ribs, but I couldn't turn down beef brisk or beef rib over brisket. Beef ribs, fantastic. Yeah, I go beef rib over brisket, but brisket over pork ribs. See, this is also another where you're going. Because there's places that do a pork rib better than a brisket. There's places that do a pork rib better than a beef rib. There's places that do a beef rib better than brisket, but brisket better than a beef rib. So it depends on where you're going. But if I had to pick one for the rest of my life, give me the ribs. Because I might-- Really? Yeah, I might get like a little bit of variation here. Like if I go, hey, give me ribs. Some places might give me the pork rib. Some places might give me the beef rib. Beef rib to me is the best. I love a good beef rib. Yeah, I love brisket. So I'm going that way and be happy with regardless of what you guys want. If you take the ribs. Do you trust people that don't like brisket? Probably hard to. Right. Yeah. Okay. Seven, one, three-- That's the vegetarian. Seven, eight, zero. I forgot the number. Seven, one, three, seven, eight, zero, three, seven, seven, six. I didn't forget it. My pallet got distracted. Five, eight, two, four. Coker Pepsi. Yeah, I like-- Beefy choice. Yeah. Will you ever-- will you ever get a Pepsi though? Never. Really? You're just anti-Pepsi for ever? I will if I-- if forced to. Like, yeah, like if I met a movie theater and like-- I can't go to a movie theater and not have popcorn and soda. And like some of the regal theaters are only Pepsi products. I will have a Pepsi in that situation. I'll switch it up and get a Pepsi every now and then. But yeah, Coker Pepsi for sure. I am a die-hard Coke addict from the-- I'm going to flip that. From the time I was in the-- Growing up in the Midwest, my mom-- Explain something. My mom had to have-- My mom had to have at least one Coca-Cola every day. Really? Yep. Yeah, I mean, I'm not far off of that. Unfortunately, 0002 Black Mirror or the Twilight Zone? What? I've never seen either. Well, they're TV show. Joel's not going to have-- No, I've got me either. I'm abstaining. I've never actually seen either. So unfortunately, I have to abstain as well. I've heard somebody mention Black Mirror being good. I've never heard anybody mention the Twilight Zone being good. So I guess-- Well, it's also for an older generation than you and I are Jeremy. Twilight Zone, I think-- Yeah, me too. So it's more blinkers? Yeah, it's more blinkers than ours. But yeah, no, I've never seen either show. It's not a racist, not ageist. 5453 Xbox or PlayStation? Xbox. Yeah. Yeah, Xbox. Xbox. I'm not sure that I've played either one in years. I'm trying to remember. Was that a humble brag? No, sure. I think the last PlayStation-- I was a PlayStation 3. I want to say the last Xbox. You're going eight years ago? Was that eight years ago? And then the last Xbox. I think it was an Xbox one. Oh, yeah, you're going about eight to 10 years back. Which one's the one that has free online gaming? Uh, neither. No, I thought one did. Well, I mean, you can play-- I mean, you still have to subscribe to the service to get online. I don't think either one is free, free quite completely. I thought one was free. I don't remember. I mean, you're not-- I'm like, I'm not the person to be asking here. Gumbo seafood or chicken and sausage? Uh, chicken and sausage. I would go gumbo seafood. Yeah, seafood by a mile. Yeah, the shrimp. Yeah, I can't-- No, because there's certain seafood I'll have an allergic reaction to. So I'm going to-- and I can-- crawfish I can't do, so I'm going the other way. I almost don't even eat chicken and sausage gumbo. Like, I love seafood gumbo. I mean, I wouldn't turn it down, but I'd prefer to have the shrimp and the crawfish. Yeah, I wouldn't turn it down, but if I'm ever in a gumbo place, there is-- Sure, I'm not going to order the chicken and sausage. I'm not going to order the chicken and sausage. Someone would offer it. I wouldn't turn it down. True. 1-0-2-2 mustard or mayo. Ugh, uh, mustard. Yeah, mustard would be my preference. Sure, I mean, it depends on what you're putting it on, but if-- just blanket-- blanket statement, I would go mustard. Oh, look at Brian jumping the talent. Come on, Brian. Come on, Brian. I'm just kidding. Give me-- I hate mayo. I cannot stand mayo. It's why I was always anti-will-levis. Never trusted him. Give me mustard over that. Open stadium or closed stadium? Open. Give me closed stadium. You can't get rain delays in games that are suspended and delayed for hours upon hours with a closed stadium. And you also can't get rain down on the sidelines. Can we do a tractable roof? Nope, sit open or close? Say, well, then I'd prefer the natural grass, so therefore I prefer the open state. Stop trying to hedge like all of these, uh-- Because we are-- Yeah, that's actually a pretty good point, by sure. That's what I said previously in a different-- answer to a different question. That's why my opponent, you should not vote for-- You know what? If they can't stay consistent. I think you swayed me, Joe. I was gonna say-- I was gonna say close, but yeah, I want the natural grass. I'm gonna go open. What are you talking about? The coast stadiums have grass. Not perfectly closed stadium have natural grass. Don't get a permanently closed stadium that has natural grass. Well, the one in Arizona's closed business is open. Yeah, but why couldn't-- Does that matter? It doesn't-- no, no, no, hold on a second. You could still have grass at a closed stadium the way that they do. I asked if it means it's a retractable roof, and you said no, so therefore if it has to stay closed all the time, you can't have natural grass. That's not true. They roll it in. In one stadium, I guess-- No, I think there's two. I think there's two. I think there's another one, but I don't remember which one it is. And I want to say that the new-- Is it the Liverpool stadium? That they do the same thing? No idea. No neither. Soccer matters at six o'clock. Break long. Yeah, that was well done there, Brian. Charcoal or propane? Charcoal. Charcoal. Yeah, charcoal tastes better. Propane's easier though. Bidiad or enchilada? What? Bidiad taco or enchiladas? Enchiladas. I like enchiladas a little bit better too, but bidiad's fantastic. Both, but enchiladas. queso or fajitas? That's dumb. queso or fajitas? This is two completely different things. Yeah, like we have both. Well, you can, but they're giving you one. I mean-- These are the platforms that you're standing on. This should be like queso or guacamole dip or something like that. That would be more fitting. Listen to y'all flip this around. Now, you're being true politicians here. You're not-- You're ducking the questions. Fajitas. Fajitas or queso? Fajitas. Yeah, that's fajitas. I just don't like the question. It's fair and not like the question, but if you have the answer. There's coke or doctor pepper. You push the reporter, you get suspended. Coke or doctor pepper? Coke, coke. Yeah, I go coke too. I do like an occasional doctor pepper. Down here, though, there are a lot of dedicated die-hard Dr. Pepperfane. Oh, it was created here. Huh? It was created in time. I know, but I'm sorry. There's a lot of loyalty with Dr. Pepper. Sure. Yeah, it's a little-- It's got a little bit of like the following like a water burger does. Yeah, absolutely. It's fair. Yeah, I like-- I like some Dr. Pepper every now and then. My wife doesn't like it. She thinks it tastes like medicine. Really? Yeah, like the cherry? A little syrup, yeah. I kind of get where she's coming from. No, I disagree in like our opinion of the flavor, our likeness of it. 5453 Granado or Lance? Hall of State. Oh, okay. I like the politician answer. Yeah. I'll go Granado. Granado has been known to get people fired that have went toe to toe with him. So I think it's an obvious answer. And I don't think his lands will take any offense. I think he'll understand my point of view where I stand on this platform. Star Wars or Star Trek? Neither Star Wars. Star Wars? In the last one, 309. Rice or Potato Salad in Gumbo? In the way, in Gumbo? Y'all have never done either one in Gumbo? You guys need to live alone. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Potato Salad in Gumbo? That sounds disgusting. That's the way they do it. That's the way the hardcore Creole people do it. Potato Salad in Gumbo? You guys need to live a little bit. You need to get out of your house. You need to get out of your house. You need to get out of your house. What type of potato salad are we talking about? Seriously, this is like a regular mustard. Now that's a good question. That's the first thing I thought. First of all, I'm not doing the mail. Regardless, but I'm still not going with the mustard. Yeah, I don't love it. I have tried it. And it is very popular in certain areas of Louisiana. Give me two rice. I'll do rice too. I can't believe I've never tried it though. No, I've never even heard of that. You guys need to be a little bit more sophisticated when it comes to your Gumbo intake. Drumsticks are, I lied. Drumsticks are wings. See, it's a bad question too. I like drumming. Like you're going to get more, you're getting more chicken on the drumstick than you are a wing. Now I think the better question is the drumstick or the flap. If you're talking wings. Give me the drumstick over the flap. Give me the flap. That's how I know you guys are noobs when it comes to the wings. That's your Mr. Self-proclaimed wing of fishing out of you. Always go that way. Anybody who knows the thing or two about wings would go flap over drumsticks. I'm really not heard if I don't know that much about it. Sounds like you're a little hurt. I'm not. Sounds like you're a little hurt. Crunchy. Don't research it like you do. I didn't take research. Crunchy or creamy peanut butter. Well, I like the crunchy. Crunchy 100% easy. I'll go creamy. Both are good though. Okay. Oh, it's mustard potato salad. People are tasty. Yeah, it is pretty good. I prefer the rice though. Yeah. You pour the gumbo over the potato salad. Everybody's texting in now saying you guys need to live a little. What was your first name? I heard that. Oh, mustard. We heard that. Brian's on a dating app in between both. Gotta call Clarence a confirm or deny that New Orleans gumbo seafood combo. I don't think it's a New Orleans thing. I think it's like some other parts of Louisiana, which I mean, same thing. I like putting rice even at the other night with the chicken noodle soup. I'll put some rice in there too. Yeah, it makes it a little bit harder. Yeah, that's why I like it. Yep. All right, let's go with the phone line. 713-780-ESP and Don. It's got some gumbo points. What's up Don? How's it going, guys? It's all good. Just a little hungry. Yeah. I'm taking the right hand of the potato salad in my home. Put it all in there. Am I kind of guy? Don, what are you making some jambalaya when you are inviting me over? I love me a little jambalaya. You know the best jambalaya is in somebody else's backyard. That's where you're finding the best jambalaya. Don, Don, what happens to the mustard when it's put into the hot jambal? I just can't get to that point. And it's all going in the same place. Just try it. You'll love it. Okay. It's not bad. It's really not that bad. I prefer the rice. I'm with you there, but it's not that bad. It takes a little getting used to. I had rabbit jambalaya once leaving New Orleans. Never been sicker. It did. It did a number on that. That does not sound good. Caramel or caramel? I grew up calling it caramel. Caramel. I'm not sure what I say. I think I go, I think I go side to side on that. Did I alter it? Because I said caramel. I said caramel. I always say caramel or caramel. I think I say caramel or caramel actually. It's caramel or caramel. I say caramel because like, I mean, maybe they're supposed to be a silent letter there, but if there's not, then it's caramel. All right, we'll do a few more of these on the other side. Also, if you had to pick one Houston athlete, Pastor President or Pastor President, it would be the best presidential candidate. Pastor President, 713-780-3776. It's the B's on ESPN 97-5 and ESPN 95. ESPN 97-5. [MUSIC] You're back with a killer B's on ESPN 97-5 and 92-5. Life in the Veritex Community Bank Studios. Here's Joel Plank and Jeremy Brannon. You get one, Houstonian. One, Houston's sports figure, Pastor President, to be the President. Who are you picking? 713-780-3776. Who's your guy, Blakers? Sports figure? Yeah, Houston's sports figure. Man, uh, Rudy. Well, that's a good call. Rudy T, good leader of the people, was open to- I said, you're hearing the ideas of the people, wasn't afraid to have a few beverages with the people and got results. Rudy Tom Johnovitch for President. Does it hurt that he went to rehab once upon a time? No, because it shows you that he's a real person. He can take a punch. That's not nice, but true. Wait, he can't. He can take a punch. Also, a lot of American citizens can get money from that for the city. And he got his number, he's been honored by being having his jersey retired. He's a man of the team. Sure. Yeah, both things are true. I believe all that. And he also has a pretty good slogan. Don't ever underestimate the heart of a champion. That's a pretty good slogan to run on. That's not bad. It's a big word for the posters, but it's still good. Yeah, but you can just put like a heart emoji and then like champion. Like, it'd be pretty easy to do. It'd be a creative here, man. It's not hard. I was going to go JJ Watt, but man, you might have- That was my gut reaction. You might have- Man, that's pretty good. JJ Watt was your reaction. That was my gut reaction when you asked the question, yeah. 713-780-ESP-N. Okay, 0452, that was funny, but I'm not going to read it on the air. You did get a chuckle out of me, though. So you could be happy with yourself. 8341 says Larry "Durker" for president. Do we think he's fit for office? Oh my god. Are you in the same way there's a lot of biting in him right now? I'm just saying- I didn't say anything. I'm in the office. He might have to get replaced by his vice president. Yeah. Wow. Somebody said Peyton Manning. He's not a Houston man. Nolan Ryan. That's not a bad one either. That's a good one. I can get behind a little Nolan Ryan. My president has to be Andre Johnson. He'll throw a punch. Rudy took one. Andre throws one. It's not a bad call. And a texture- And he's able to adapt when he has less than a quarterback. Good call. I'm not sure how that helps him to make some of a better presidential candidate. Whatever the situation. Okay. The party still produces no matter his teammates around. It brings the level of play up for everyone else. Texture Bo says hello friends Jim Nance. Good call. That's kind of the entire demeanor of a politician. Yeah. That would be a pretty good one. I didn't think about Nance because he's not really an athlete. But I said Houston sports figure. So I guess you would give me on that one. Did he golf at U of H? He did for a year. Yeah. And then they kind of made him a coach. Okay. Because he really wasn't that good. I mean he's way better than I am. 555-35 James Harden and VP Simone Biles. That's a weird ticking boy. Harden and Biles. Different heads of spec. That is a weird ticket. Don't know that I could get behind that one. What about what about Daryl Morrie for president? You know he can make deals here. I wouldn't trust him. I wouldn't trust him at all. I don't know man. He gets deals done. He's going to give you his word for about 30 minutes. And then it's going to change. As long as it's on our side. That's all you don't know. It's going to be on his side. 8 7 1 6. Come on manning on Houston. That's a ferry bottle. That's a good rebuttal. Well done. Fred Couple says 7 2 1 2. Yeah. I do like me some Freddy Coups. George Foreman. That would be an interesting one. You know he's had an interesting career. Retired from boxing. Was a preacher. Got back into boxing. And then won a heavyweight champion. Maybe one of the greatest comebacks of all time. Quite frankly. If any of them were class president in school. They could use the back of the baseball card reference. Guess so. You know the back of his baseball card. Bum Phillips. So long with us. I'm a hard time running for office right now. President James Hart is going to put so many young women through college. That's a good point. Oh. That's a good point. Calvin Murphy says 0 4 5 2. Also we'll put a lot of women through college. Calvin. Really bad comment on Hart with the political. platforms that are out there today. But I'm not saying. Well you can't just say that. You have me the toothpaste. Is that the two? Yeah. Go ahead. Say it. No. Come on. No. Aaron says Tommy Boy, Cal McNair. That would be awesome. Maybe America. Never. Never. I mean. Yeah, the McNair. I don't know. There's your political. There's your posters. Oh. I don't know for Hannah. What do they call the the first gentleman? Yeah. First gentleman, Cal McNair. Is the first gentleman. Never. Never. Quit. That's your poster. Never. Never. Quit. Hannah might need a divorce. If she's going to be the president. I don't blame the Cal. 7404, Lance McCullers. You know, he's had time to just make a plan instead of doing that baseball thing. He's kind of political. I can see that. Like he's kind of smooth talking. The only knock on Biz would be his playoff performance, right? Yeah, Biz would be solid. Because I think Biz would be really good. And he's kind of, you know, like he doesn't really take a side. So he can kind of, you know, play both sides. But he's always like, he's always been hyper aware of his like his persona. Yeah. And I think he's very like humble too. Uh, Yao Ming. That can't work. No, no, he did more out too. I believe we're ineligible. Bum can apparently vote though. Watson Hardin ticket would be hilarious. Not bad. Mattress Mack. That's not a Houston sports figure. But Mack has gotten a little bit into the politics. Hardin Biles flipping tricks. 2024. That is the text of the year. That is well played right there. That goes. Carlos Carré when American is struggling, he'll call a meeting on the mound. I like the joke, but not American. So he probably didn't do that. Cow with a pinky ring. Tillman for Tita. Is he used to the sports athlete? Or sports figure? I guess so. As much as an owner, I guess. Just talking about Yao. Yeah. Can't have Dana Brown. He's only good when there's a draft. Um, well, it's interesting about Dana though. He can talk. Yes, he can't. Well, Nick Cessario can talk too. He can't. He really can't. He can give you some word salad now. And a eight course meal and get nothing out of it. It's true. Charles Barkley. How would he do his president? Charles Barkley would be all right. Depends on his cabinet. To be honest. Gary Kubiak. We used to say that when he said he wanted to be a general manager someday. We're like, you're going to need a hell of a lot of numbers, guys. Gary Kubiak's not bad. That's pretty good. Gary Kubiak. Charlie Pulilo for president. I could see it. Yeah, maybe. I could see it. Somebody said Jake Aspen for president. Uh, maybe, maybe, maybe like State Center. Maybe State Center. Or why would he hold on? He's not eligible. Yeah, because he's not 35. Oh, is that the age? Yeah, it's 35. He's not 35. I don't think so. Texture Bose is the undertaker. Hey, that's not that far-fetched. Kane is, Kane is what a mayor? I was going to say that your boy Booker T said that. Kane is the mayor of Knox, uh, Knox County, Tennessee. Jesse Finchera. What was he, the governor of Montana? Jesse, the mayor of Minnesota. The governor of Minnesota. Minnesota. Yep. It's one of those M states way up there. I mean, that's not that far-fetched. These wrestlers actually get into politics. Booker T wouldn't be bad. We said that. You probably would be against them. You'd be the one who would be for president. Go more over Booker T. Oh, I would, I would campaign against Booker T openly. There's no doubt about that. But he wouldn't be bad. Uh, Case Keenum, great call. Great call. Case Keenum. What a great call. I'd rather go for Kevin Cobb. I mean, he is not eligible age-wise, but CJ. Could be that guy. Amy Adams is president. We'll turn our country colors to just red and white. It is pretty good. What else we got here? Oh, Granado. John Granado for president. He could just make it happen. Yeah. Yeah, he really could. And what Lance is going to be his VP. Could be. Earl Campbell. We'll worry about his cognitive. Uh, not from Houston. Give me Al Michaels and his hairy chest. Does Al Michaels have a hairy chest? I did not know that. If you know that, you know more than we do. I did not know that. I've never seen Al Michaels bare chested. Have you? No, I've never seen either. Yeah, he doesn't even eat vegetables. I did know that. Yeah, you can't imagine that his bare chest looks all that great. 7-2-1-2 Kelvin Sampson. He would be a great president. He'd be great at everything he does though. He's, he wouldn't be good at it. Yes, I would agree 100% that he could, he can do whatever he needs. You'd probably get the prime of the chest. Just about anything. Yeah, let's get a couple on Twitch here. Uh, shan't private jet. Uh, Shane Batty, uh, Shane Batty. Oh, he's very busy. Yes. I could see, I could see him being a politician. He's a dukey though. Well, his teammate, uh, Reggie, Reggie King, was in the cabinet for Obama. There you go. Look at Blakers again. There you go. Flexin'. Uh, Mike says Antonio Smith. Another one for Ryan Bizio. JJ Dusty Baker. Says Orange Wagon. That's not bad. Yeah, I thought about Dustin. Water Bizio. Watt. Cubiac, uh, Indi Colu. [laughs] Says, oh, so. Hey, Indi Colu. Indi's right. Indi's right. Indi's right. Indi's here. He wants a rice. He's an intelligent guy. He could do it. I just would have never thought of Indi Colu. That seems very out there. John Wall. Granados of California now. But it's a, it's president of America. Gilbert for president. For Tito. Bring gambling. Joanna Howard. Eh. Joanna Howard's tenure is the Michigan head coach. I think probably eliminates him for being a presidential candidate. Random fun fact there. He's an assistant coach with the nets. I saw him on the bench the other night. I was like, oh, wow. Didn't know he was in the league. These are the things you can learn whenever you're listening to a radio show. Joel Blank. He's dropping a bunch of nuggets today. Try it. I'm enjoying this. Davis Mills. All right, that's enough of that. Cashumber trash him with the B. 713. He wouldn't be afraid to stick his neck out for you. Yeah. I mean, he would have a neck up on all the other candidates. All right. Get your cheesy neck jokes in there. Cashumber trash him. 713-780-ESPN. What do you cash in or trash in? 713-780-3776. It is the B's on ESPN 97-5 and ESPN 92-5. ESPN 97-75. Prepare for overreaction on my mark. It's that time of the week where overreactions are welcome. He stayed Muhammad Ali was the greatest of all time, but he never fought Cash's play. What was he afraid of? Boom. I take it. It's Cashm. That is so good. But that's exactly right. Or trash him. This is your hot date. Hmm. Seems like an overreaction. With a killer B. Give us a hot spoonful of your opinion. What do you cash in? What do you trash in? 713-780-ESP and HRP listener line. 713-780-3776. What do you cash in? What do you trash in? Blanker. First one, fellas. Because spin off of a conversation we had earlier. I think it was last week. NRG will be natural grass opening day next year. Because of the fact that digs in a non-contact injury got hurt on the energy turf. They've had issues with it in the past. Players association making it a big deal. World Cup demanding grass. NFL focused on this. I think NRG goes to natural grass again. Yeah, I'm trashing it. Um, trash. I think that we'll use grass in the FIFA World Cup. I think that's mandatory. It has to. But that's not until 2026. And I also don't think it's going to be permanent. I think they're probably going to do the whole will it in there, roll it in there, type of deal. Which is kind of scary. But no, I don't, they've tried grass there. And it was horrible. It was terrible. That was the pal. You got him sued. Yeah, but what is it, how are they going to do it? I think that if you do, you could try, like to your point, you could try the trays. Because the question is going to be how are they going to do it for soccer anyway. So they're going to have to- Well, for soccer, it only has to be there for a month. But there has to be new technology. And I think it's, I think it's only for like a week. I know the World Cup goes for an entire month, but I think the ones in Houston are only- I think it spread out. I thought it was spread out more. I didn't know if it was going to be for a period of time or for the month. I think it is a month. I think you're right about that. Still, that's a big deal, though. I mean, only lasting for a month versus an entire NFL season and beyond is much, much different. Tees are maintained. They've tried the grass. It was a failure. They were sued because of the grass. No, I think that they, I think they stick to the turf. Yeah, I'm going to trash it as well. Trash. All right, my cash or trash them. A Min Thompson will be the rocket's best player by season 10. Ooh, I'm trashing it. Not by season 10, but boy is- Trash. I believe in him long-term. There's no doubt about it, just not by season 10. Yeah, that's kind of where I'm hung up to. The season's end qualification. I don't know if he passes Shingut and Jalen by seasons end, partly because I don't know if he's going to get enough run for us to say that. Not that he's getting no minutes, but certainly not going to be top three in minutes. So I'm going to trash it, but I think sometime next season he gets there. Okay. All right, my cash are trashing this week. I know one team in the Chiefs is 8-0, and another team in the Ravens, 6-3, three losses, including one to those very same Chiefs. But not just last night, but seeing what we've seen over the full course of the season, seeing that the Ravens have only had a few losses, and when they lose their close games, and their wins are blowing out of all these teams, including what I think a 31-point win against a team that's probably making the playoffs in the Broncos. I think the Ravens are the best team in the AFC. Not even close. This is the year Lamar Jackson breaks through and gets to the Super Bowl. Ah, I got to trash it. I just feel like whether they win or lose their third in a row, they're going to get there. They just find a way. They've got Andy Reid. They've got Pat Mahomes. They've got a whole lot of reinforcements this year. And Lamar's got to prove he can do it in the playoffs. I don't care how many they're winning by. They're still winning and they're the only undefeated in the league. I'm trashing it. Yeah, I'm going to trash it too. Lamar Jackson is pretty historically bad in the postseason. Like the AFC does feel a little bit more open to me this year. Oh, Lokanta City kind of did this whole deal last year too. But I'm going to trash it. I just don't trust Lamar in the postseason. I really don't trust a whole lot of quarterbacks in the postseason. Um, 3-2-7-0. Cashier trashed the Houston Cougars when two of their final three games to become bowl eligible. Uh, what's the schedule? They play at Arizona a week from Friday. That's a win. That's possible. They host Baylor. I could win that. And then they finish the regular season at BYU. That's a lot. I think they go two and three down the stretch. So I'll go ahead and cash it. No, I could cash it too. I think I think Arizona is starting to fail. It's starting to fail. I think they can do that. I don't think they're ever going to lose a game ever again. I think they're going to run. I think they're going to win out. Go to a bowl game with a bowl game. And then they're going to start an unprecedented run of never losing a game ever again. That's going to be a lot of fun. A341, the Texans will beat the Lions by 10 points. Trash it. Yeah, I'm going to trash it too. Trash, I think the... I almost made this my cashier. I do think the Texans win for reasons they're too long winning to get into now. But by 10 points that I got to trash them in those rounds. I'm interested in the three of the favorites. What'd you say Jeremy? Lions are three and a half point favorites. Yeah, I'm interested in Brian. This is going to be... No, I mean, it's already five passes. I mean, I'm not now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll be in the middle of the year. This is going to... Oh, yeah. Oh, later in the week. Yeah, we'll do it later in the week. Don't save it for air, Brian. Maybe Thursday for bad take Boulevard. This will be a good litmus test, though, to see where the Texans are. Although at home... Techs are saying that Puerto Rican can run for president of the United States. I don't believe that's true. They're not a state. How can... Well, they are. Like it's a territory. They are part of the United States, though. They're territory. They're territory, but not... They're controlled by United States. I'm pretty sure they can't. Well, I mean, I guess the logic kind of makes sense in the same way someone born in Washington, D.C. could run for president, because they're not a state. But, I mean, it kind of be similar to Puerto Rico. And that's in that sense. I don't know exactly the person to ask. I'll report back. Yeah, all right. 7-1-3-7-8-0-E-S-P-N. Cash and Matrash. Coming up next with the Killer B's... 7-1-3-7-8-0-E-S-P-N. Which Houston sports figure comes to mind when these politicians are talking? We're going to play some political sound bites from the campaign, and then which Houston sports figure does it sound like? Is talking or are they talking about? It is the B's on ESPN 97.5 and ESPN 92.5. My colleague, he'd be your president. U of H class of 1990, go Cougs. He's been protecting the interests of businesses for nearly 25 years. Chris Fisher over there. Be great vice president. HRP provides comprehensive human capital management services, including HR compliance, benefits administration, and payroll. HRP will work with you to customize a plan for whatever you need. There's nothing cookie cutter about HRP. If you need a little help, a lot of help, anything in between HRP will create a plan for what you and your business needs. 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I'll do it all the time. I'm super self-deprecating. You don't agree? I'll leave it. Who is more self-deprecating? You or me? I'm always. I think me. You think you? Who's more self-deprecating? 7-1-3-7-8-0-E-S-P-N. This is not our 3-7-8-0-3-7-7-6. Who's self-deprecates more? Blanker Branham. This campaign season today is election day. Do what you will. But we're going to play the funniest sound bites from the campaign. Whether it's presidential candidates, VP candidates, maybe some local politicians. But whenever you hear the cut, you tell us either which Houston sports figure do you think would be saying this or who which Houston sports figure do you think they would be talking about? So let's start out with our first one. Hit us with the one, Brian. All the investigations, the impeachments, the court cases, and he's still standing and kicking their butts. Okay. All right. So which Houston sports figure either would say this or would they, this is the holster obviously, would they be talking about? See, the easy answer would be Deshawn until you get to the last part. Because he ain't kicking anybody. That's what I was thinking. It was all Deshawn until you got to the last part. Yeah, I was thinking along those same lines too. Because it's like, okay, that would be Deshawn, but he's not kicking butt. You guys are different than I am. To me, I mean, talking about beating cases, I mean, this is more of a team case than a personal case, and still kicking butt to me. So I suppose they all too vague. I mean, this is the guy that took the slings and arrows for 2020 and they still made multiple world series. And obviously one one is stats have been just as good as they ever were, well, except for defensively and running the bases, but offensively, just as good as they have been. I would say Jose Altuve. That's a really good answer. I was thinking somebody like that actually had to go through the, you know, courts for something illegal or legal, like in the court of law. Wouldn't it be the buzz saw Tony Busby then? Is he a Houston sports figure? There's the technicality there. He's represented many Houston sports figures. Yeah, I wouldn't consider him a sports figure, but I see how you could make that point. It could be actually hard too. Trustee Hardin's done that and he's got a lot of results. Yeah, same thing with the is he a sports figure. Does love his basketball though. Trustee Hardin does love his basketball. This is a difficult, I really like the Jose Altuve answer. I think I might just steal the answer and go with Jose Altuve. Because I was thinking to Sean Watson, but he's not kicking butt. Is there any other athletes that, oh, it could be Joe Mixon. It could be Joe Mixon. Yeah, Joe Mixon's a good answer. Could be Joe Mixon. So I'll go with Mixon to be different than Altuve. Okay. All right, let's go to our next one, Brian. I'll tell you what, it's a great franchise. It's a great company and they've been very, very nice. It's a great franchise, a great company. They've been very, very nice. Who could this be in the world of Houston sports? Or who could be saying this in the world of Houston sports? I'm going to go with the Astros because the Astros complied with whatever they were told to say when there was time to say it. And they're a great franchise because of their golden age of Astros baseball, the run they've been on and the success that they've had. So I'm going to say the Houston Astros. It's a good call. I'm going to go with the University of Houston University. What great people they are, the world class. And they're all very, very nice. Goldcoops. I'll go with the great University of Houston here. I think the Tommy Boy-esque vocabulary leaves me with one answer. Never. This is not what I'm talking about. The Houston Texans. Never, never quit. That's a campaign you can run on. I really do think it's a campaign you can run on. Let's get to our next one, Brian. The Puerto Rican that I know are Puerto Rico where I'm in my home state of Delaware. They're good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is just supporters. Whoa. His demonization as seen as unconstitutional. Wow. And it's on American. It's totally contrary to everything we've done. Oh, unconscionable. Who is he talking about or who is he? I mean, he's talking about the second part, he's talking about the Yankees. Oh, okay. Yeah. And I was going to say that he's looking at the truly good Puerto Rican representatives we've had on the Houston Astros. There have been a lot of those. Yeah. So I would say that the overall is that maybe he's Jim Crane talking about how he believes. I like that answer. Yeah. He talks about how he loves his players that are from Puerto Rico and that the other side. Yankees fans are garbage. Yankees are cheaters. Yeah. I like it. I'm going to go with the Texans offensive line. They're talking about the Texans. They're garbage. What are some of the words you use? Unconscienceable or whatever? Unconshiable. Unconshiable. This is the Houston Texans offensive line. It is garbage because they are ruining CJ Strauss. I'll go Texans offensive line. I'm going to back Blancers pick of Jim Crane talking about the Yankees being garbage. I like that answer. That's not bad. Since they says Jose O'Brayo. Oh man. That's probably down a path we don't want to go, but it's funny. 807 says it's D'Amico talking about the offensive line. All right. Let's get to our next one here, Brian. I have concepts of a plan. Concepts of a plan. Well, that's definitely D'Amico because all he's done is stood up for his offensive line by saying we're fixing it internally. We have concepts of a plan that we're going to work on so that the offensive line is going to get better. Don't need to go outside. Don't need to be benching guys. We've got this. That's a good call. And he's been very positive. I mean, that's who he is. D'Amico's a very positive guy. So it's like, yeah, we just got to get it fixed. You know, what do you, well, you're benching this guy. We got to get it fixed. We all got to be better. Good call for the, that's probably where I was going to go, but for the sake of being different here. I'll go, this is Dana Brown talking about the Astros off season because they, you know, Crane and Bagwell and Reggie, they're like, hey, Dana, go face the media. That's your job. You're going to go sit in front of all the reporters and you're going to ask all the questions at the end of the season. And whenever he's asked, like, what are you going to do financially? What are you going to do with your payroll? He's not even really the one making the decision. He's going to answer these questions knowing that if Jim Crane gets a wild hair, he's going to go sign somebody that if Jeff Bagwell likes the calves of some second baseman. Well, it wouldn't be a second baseman, but if he likes the forearms of some random first baseman, then that guy is going to be a Houston Astros. So Dana Brown, we got to get creative with the payroll. What do you think about this guy? Well, I don't know. So I'll say the concept of the plan. Dana Brown sitting in front of the reporters and asking all these off season answers. That's a pretty good one. I was along the same lines as Joel, but I took that as more as Nick Osario than Nico Ryan's. I mean, for the kind of the similar reasons, I mean, obviously, obviously trying to fix the offensive line, trying to figure out what the wide receiver room is. Now that you had the deal with multiple big injuries, we obviously didn't see any movement any actual moves. So the idea that he has a concept of a plan, but not an actual plan, I think, fits Nick Osario on how he's approached the last couple of weeks. By the way, did anybody suggest to me go for president? No, no, we really should. We missed on that one. Yeah, we did. We should definitely be a candidate for president. 5 7 9 8, concepts of a plan is David Kully, a 4 1 7 says that slow. I know analytics has them. There you go. Maybe David Kully for president. 8 4 1 0, slow x second half offense this year, concepts of a plan. That's a good call on that one too. 8 8 0 7, concepts of a plan. The Rockets. Hmm. I wouldn't. I wouldn't think Rockets with concepts of a plan. I feel like they have a pretty good one. Maybe with roster construction, just the amount of people they have needing to get minutes. Because they've got repeat at different positions. A lot of repetitive on the roster, yeah. They're still trying to find like one star player maybe. Okay. I assume more of these on the other side. 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