HOUR 2 - Seth Sticks Around + What Changed with CJ Stroud + Soccer Clock is Still Weird

Summary

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Payne & Pendergast – HOUR 2: Seth Sticks Around + What Changed with CJ Stroud + Soccer Clock is Still Weird

Date: July 3, 2026
Hosts: Seth Payne, Sean Pendergast (with Ron subbing in)
Show Theme: Houston’s teams, sports culture, and sharp banter
Special Segment: Reggie & Ron RadioThon benefiting the Houston Food Bank

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Episode Overview

This episode combines the usual insightful Houston sports talk with a strong community focus, as the team co-hosts a radiothon raising funds for the Houston Food Bank. Seth sticks around for in-depth discussions about upheaval in the Texans’ offensive coaching staff, the ripple effects on CJ Stroud, and the nuances of football locker room leadership and culture. Later, the conversation veers into the world of soccer — specifically, how newly-enforced soccer rules and peculiarities in the World Cup (clock management, VAR offsides) are impacting fan experience, leading to some hilarious, very relatable tangents.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Houston Food Bank Radiothon

• Purpose: The show dedicates energy to raising funds for the Houston Food Bank, emphasizing community impact and the mind-boggling efficiency of converting $1 into three meals for Houston-area residents.
• How to help:
  • Text RADIOTHON26 to 71777 to donate directly.
  • Participate in auctions for one-of-a-kind memorabilia and dinners with on-air talent.

“People wait saying you can feed, you can get three meals out of $1... It's amazing just what an operation it is.” — Seth Payne (02:52)

• Competition: Friendly banter over competing shows’ fundraising dinners, with lots of jokes about who’s actually the most fun at Carrabba's.

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2. Texans Coaching Turmoil & CJ Stroud Aftermath

What Happened with Bobby Slowik?

• Surprise Departure:
  • The hosts dissect why, after two successful years, OC Bobby Slowik left the Texans — not for a head coaching job, but because of internal discord.
  • Suggestion: The departure wasn’t about performance, but deep-rooted tension and poor synergy among coaches, notably between Slowik and OL coach Chris Strausser.
• Locker Room & Culture Dynamics:
  • The group explores how the rookie trio — head coach, OC, and quarterback — may have compounded communication and leadership issues.
  • The lack of a strong running game in Slowik’s offense was a red flag, as was the failure to create an ideal environment for the young QB.

“You don't have the success that CJ had in this offense ... and then that thing just come to an end, and we feel like everybody's going every which way... That just doesn't happen unless something is serious.” — Ron (05:00)

“Chris Strausser and Bobby Slowik were never on the same page. ... Some of the decisions they made perhaps in how to create an environment around CJ maybe would have been different if they had more time.” — Seth Payne (08:03)

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Leadership on the Offensive Side

• Who Steps Up?
  • Noted lack of vocal/veteran leadership in the offensive position groups compared to defense.
  • Excitement for new additions like RB David Montgomery, Foster Moreau, and O-line vets Wyatt Teller and Trent Brown — all viewed as potential locker room catalysts.

“You want to be sure — there needs to ... be at least one of those guys in each position meeting room. ... On the D line, they've had old heads ... On the offensive side ... I don't know if they've really had that guy.” — Seth Payne (16:13)

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3. Houston Culture, Locker Room Stories, & Banter

• Comparing Cultures:
  • The Texans’ evolving team culture is compared to the “golden era” Astros, with new offensive leaders seen as crucial in maintaining harmony and accountability.
  • Light-hearted stories about high school football struggles and NFL player cameos add color and relatability.
  • Running jokes about dinner auctions and the elusive Ben at Carrabba’s keep the mood lively.

“In those locker rooms, if you have things off, it’s going to knock off even like the most capable of teams ... you need everybody pulling in the same direction.” — Sean Pendergast (13:22)

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4. Soccer Clock Weirdness & VAR Frustrations

Soccer's Odd Relationship with Time and Technology

• Fan Perspective:
  • The hosts express growing frustration with stoppage time and VAR's impact on goal celebrations, particularly during the World Cup.
  • The main gripe: Every goal is now followed by quick glances at refs and screens — killing spontaneous joy.

“Every time a goal is scored, I find myself staring at that son of a bitch that is over there with the flag.” — Ron (51:44)

• Stoppage Time Confusion:
  • A comically American confusion over ambiguous, sometimes extended stoppage time (e.g., 10-minute extra time actually stretching past the 13th minute).
  • The system, where only the official knows the true remaining time, baffles and irritates the hosts with honest confusion and plenty of jokes.

“You ask a few questions and none of the explanations are making sense ... nobody really knows how much time is left except for the official on the field ... How do you operate in this world?” — Seth Payne (48:51)

• VAR Offsides & Emotional Deflation:
  • The pattern of waiting, post-goal, for VAR decisions and offsides reviews feels “soul-crushing” and “like a movie pregnancy test”: celebration followed by waiting for confirmation.

“It turned every damn goal into a pregnancy test.” — Seth Payne (52:23)

Comparing Across Sports

• Analogies:
  • The shift in soccer is likened to instant replay in baseball — where overzealous enforcement of minute rules can hurt the game’s spirit and fan experience.
  • Offsides rule in soccer compared to football’s dead whistles erasing a huge play: both are debates about whether to prioritize accuracy or excitement.

“FIFA has robbed us of the movie pregnancy test version of celebrating a goal.” — Seth Payne (52:56)

“That's why I can't be a coach ... If there’s a horrifically bad call, I would just sit there on the field until they changed it.” — Ron (53:47)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

• “The 6am hour, people are slow to get going. It feels like we've done more football and CJ Stroud talk in the breaks than on air right now.” — Sean Pendergast (03:41)
• “You just don’t move off a coordinator and a rookie QB after two years of success unless something ... something very much [serious] happened.” — Ron (09:08)
• “It isn’t that the Kubiak/Shanahan system is antiquated; it doesn’t work when you’re not executing it properly.” — Seth Payne (07:17)
• “If you have things off, it’s going to knock off even the most capable of teams ... There needs to be an alignment.” — Sean Pendergast (13:22)
• “David Montgomery ... I can’t remember a skill position player with a name who talks as much about selflessness and doing right by the team.” — Seth Payne (14:53)
• “It turned every damn goal into a pregnancy test.” — Seth Payne (52:23)
• “Every time a goal is scored, I find myself staring at that son of a bitch that is over there with the flag.” — Ron (51:44)

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Important Segment Timestamps

• [01:26] — Radiothon kickoff, donation instructions
• [04:40]–[11:00] — What really changed with CJ Stroud & Bobby Slowik
• [15:30]–[20:30] — Locker room leadership; David Montgomery’s role
• [27:46]–[30:30] — Auction talk: Messi and other major items
• [41:49]–[43:40] — Fundraising dinner rivalry, more radiothon details
• [44:32]–[53:00] — Soccer segment: clock confusion, VAR, and ‘ruined’ celebrations
• [52:23] — Seth’s now-iconic “pregnancy test” analogy

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Tone & Style

• Authentic, relatable, conversational — hosts riff candidly, poke fun at each other, and swing between high-level Texans breakdowns and self-deprecating stories.
• Banter and inside jokes (e.g., Ben’s elusive Carrabba’s RSVP, Ron’s trash bag fundraiser excuses) keep things energetic.
• Honest emotional takes on both the joy and frustration of being Houston sports fans (and occasionally, baffled soccer viewers).

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Summary Takeaways

• The Texans’ coaching transition was more about fractured culture and misaligned relationships than performance alone — surprising given their on-field success.
• Leadership and cohesion in NFL locker rooms are essential, and the Texans are working to inject new voices on the offense to match their defense’s strong core.
• Soccer’s increased reliance on VAR and unclear timing deflates goal celebrations and leaves even regular fans bewildered, sparking hilarious and very real analogies.
• The team’s emphasis on supporting Houston’s vulnerable communities shines through, combining purpose with the show’s trademark wit.

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For those who missed this episode:
You’ll come away with a deeper understanding of the internal challenges for the Texans, the importance of team culture, some laugh-out-loud moments about sports quirks, and ways to get involved in supporting Houston’s food bank — all seasoned with signature Houston sports radio flavor.

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Transcript

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[Ron]

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[Sean Pendergast]

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[Ron]

All right, welcome back. As, as we said baby, one hour down as we enter the seven o' clock hour and let's pick it up folks. Let's get it going man. We appreciate you joining us today as you're getting ready on your holiday weekend. And within that we we welcome you to the Reggie and Ron radio thon. Last year we, we had a ton of fun and a ton of success and we're looking to build and move past that. And the best way that you can help us feed Houston, this is directly going to the Houston Food Bank. The Houston Food Bank. They supply over a million people, 18 different counties in the area and in the Houston area. And man, any kind of donations and help that they can get to help feed these people is huge. And it's kind of been on the heart of myself and Reggie and we got together a couple of years ago and said if we can, we could do something, put something together. And we decided on a radio thon and it was, as we said, as I said earlier, great success last year. We're looking to build on that. Text radio thon r a d I o t h o n 26 radio radiothon 26 all one word. Text that to 7177 and you'll have a chance to be able to donate any amount counts. Right.

[Seth Payne]

And the amazing thing about the food bank is that, you know, people, people here wait saying you can feed, you can get three meals out of $1. You know, and you always worry about, okay, when I'm, when I'm donating money, how much of is it got? Like, what's it actually going to do? You go to the Houston Food bank and it's amazing just what an operation it is. And they're able to, they're able to get that kind of return out of your $1 just because they're so efficient and they're dealing with such large quantities and everything that they just, they feed a massive amount of people and for, and do it really efficiently. It's really, really cool.

[Sean Pendergast]

Ron, do you remember around this time. Yes. Last year, how far we were? Because I'm not going to lie, I, I feel like we were further than $282 at this point last year. I'm not gonna lie.

[Ron]

I, I, it feels like we were,

[Seth Payne]

it feels like the, that 6am hour people are slow to get going. Yeah, yeah, I feel I've, yeah, but, but maybe that's my fault because I've told too many stories about offensive lineman and Amelia Earhart. You guys, you gotta do it. Do it now. Do it now. Go text Radio THON to 71777.

[Sean Pendergast]

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[Seth Payne]

as we keep 26.

[Sean Pendergast]

Is this, is this too difficult? Like of a, of a barrier? Like, is it too complicated to be like radio thon 26? Because I can do, I can make it easy. I can send you the link directly if you text into the Sports Radio 610 text line. 7 1, 3 5. I want to lower the, the barrier for entry. I want to make it as easy as possible.

[Seth Payne]

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[Ron]

Yep, yep, yep.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah, I feel bad though, Ron Seth, because I feel like we, we got into a little bit of CJ Stroud conversation that last segment. I think we've done more conversation about football and CJ Stroud in the breaks than we have on air right, right now.

[Ron]

And I'll be, I was, I'm not

[Sean Pendergast]

saying we have to. It was just funny that I just realized we got into the weeds in a couple of breaks already.

[Ron]

Listen, my whole thing, I was, I was thinking of, of like obviously it's Multiple things. But for me, I don't know what. What happened. As I see people texting in their thoughts, something happened, like, I hate to say it as, like, the adults in the room, but, I mean, the. The coaches. Something happened around him from year one to the end of year two to where, like, Seth and Reggie, you. I mean, you guys have. You've obviously played the game. You've been in locker rooms, we've covered it. That you don't have the success that CJ had in this offense and with Bobby Slowik. And then that thing just come to an end, and we feel like everybody's going every which way. And he doesn't leave because he got a head coaching job. He leaves because y' all move on from him. That, like, whatever happened with. Well, with that dynamic of. I don't know if it was push, pull or it. It seemed like. It seemed like there was. There was fights. And when I say fights, I'm just, you know, tug of wars within the people working with cj and maybe CJ had something to do with it, but that whatever happened in that dynamic, something had to be so serious because you just don't see a guy have. Arguably. Clint would say this. Arguably the best rookie season we've seen from a quarterback, a guy who is a top 10 MVP finisher with this dude who the team desperately wanted to keep as the OC and gave him a raise, and he didn't go and take a head coaching job. And that just come to a complete end immediately. Like, something happened.

[Seth Payne]

I mean, the biggest thing going into that, Going into that second season, what I had kept saying was that, all right, we think Bobby Slowik might be the real deal. But for. For me, I needed to see in that offense that they were running that you. You just absolutely have to be able to run the football. And they really hadn't been able to in that first season. And I didn't think I was. Like, I didn't feel comfortable saying that it was a good offense until I saw them actually do it with the run game. I mean, if you look at Kyle Shanahan, you talk to people that work with Kyle Shanahan, and they say that's the only thing he cares about, is he just wants to be able to destroy you in the run. And that sets everything else up. And part of it is just because Kyle Shanahan is kind of a mean and nasty dude, more so than people would realize by his boyish. By his boyish appearance. And I think that that's the part that Multiple things can be true. I think that without that run game, the offense just flat out wasn't going to be as good. You know, like that's what we went through that with Gary Kubiak here. There's times where people want to say, ah, that Kubiak Shanahan system's antiquated now. It's not going to work. I mean, it doesn't work when you're not executing it properly. When you're Clint Kubiak executing it in Seattle last year, it looked like it worked pretty damn well. And it's. If you don't. But if you don't get both that really critical part of it, the rushing offense, and it's really hard to make it work. And it wasn't like the Seahawks were an incredible rushing offense, but they ran the ball well enough to make everything else work. But then on top of that, I agree with you. I do think that C.J. as a young quarterback, C.J. as I may be liking this or not liking that, that was a dynamic. I think Chris Strausser and Bobby Slowik were never on the same page. And what was the filter down effect from that into the culture on the O line? I think there are multiple things and it's just ultimately, I mean you had a rookie offensive coordinator with a rookie quarterback and a rookie head coach at the same time. And I think that some of the, some of the decisions they made perhaps in how to create an environment around CJ maybe would have been different if they had more time to hire on that first cycle, get an offensive line coach who is familiar with the system, something like that. It's just that was a, it just wasn't a perfect environment. Obviously.

[Ron]

Yeah, that environment. That, that's. That to me, that, that is always something that is just. Because if you tell me like, all right, what's it going to take for Bobby Slowik to not be here and it not be because he took a head coaching job after, after year one like. And to think, yeah, man, they won the same amount of games the year before and they went to the playoffs, one of the playoffs. And somehow that, that didn't work. And I'm with you, it took a step back. But generally, even, even with that, the two years of success, it is hard to think we gotta move off of that. Unless something, something very much like whatever is happening in Boston, some reason they felt like we just have to get rid of this. Even though there is a high level of success, we have to get rid of this. Because something. Because you just don't you just don't move, move off of that.

[Sean Pendergast]

Right.

[Ron]

That level of success.

[Seth Payne]

Wind horse say this, this move doesn't happen unless they're under duress. That was. Duress was the word he used. Yeah. So were they under some sort of duress above and beyond the normal second year quarterback blips?

[Sean Pendergast]

We did get some like, you know, one of the things I love in sports is when a coach moves on or when like you turn the page because everybody becomes more willing and free to give us more of an insight

[Ron]

as to what happened.

[Sean Pendergast]

And we got so much that kind of intimated that, yeah, the relationships and the, I guess the cohesiveness, the unity, the synergy, whatever, you know, buzzword you want to use there was not to the degree that you probably need. And I, I mean being in locker rooms that I think we've all played at least at some level. Definitely not the same level as Seth, but Seth, you could probably speak to it, man, so much of what you're

[Ron]

talking about, man, that Blue Springs High School locker room was very similar, I'm sure.

[Seth Payne]

Honestly.

[Sean Pendergast]

Look, I didn't mean to disrespect you. I was just wanting to make clear that, you know, Seth played at a different level than us.

[Ron]

Clearly.

[Sean Pendergast]

We, you know.

[Ron]

Hey, hey. I had three pros in that locker room.

[Seth Payne]

You did? Yeah. You had a. Who were they?

[Ron]

Brandon Lloyd was the best athlete I've ever been around.

[Sean Pendergast]

You were around.

[Ron]

Brandon Lloyd saved my life my first day of 2 a days. I had a first day of 2 a days. My mom gave me a bike. And if you know this show. I don't know how to ride a bike, but she told me that's how you're going to get to practice because I'm not driving you or picking you up. So you're going to figure out how to learn this bike, ride this bike.

[Sean Pendergast]

And so you walked to practice and

[Ron]

I listen, it was my first day. Um, Bob Beatty was a head coach. He actually left to come coach in Texas. But I had never had conditioning like that. I had never in my life.

[Sean Pendergast]

And I had, I hadn't even thought about getting old after practice.

[Ron]

I'm afraid I had. And, and Brandon's a senior. I had cramps in my feet, my stomach. I like, if you've ever, like, I mean, I mean, whatever. Like I could understand what Darren Peterson was going. I felt like I had a full body joint and I'm, and I'm. There was no, I can't ride the bike 100%, let alone cramped. And I just Remember Brandon said, hey, he saw me struggling, walking beside it. He said, man, you all right? I said, no, I'm not. He said, where you live? He said, man, throw that bike in it. He had a truck. Throw that bike in the truck. And he. Thank God almighty he dropped me off at the house. I said, man, thank God. But that dude, he was our kicker, our best quarterback. He just didn't play it receiver and corner. And then John, John Garrison, he was a long snapper for the Lions for a long time and went to Nebraska. Jamar Mosey, I mean, yeah, we had, we had a.

[Seth Payne]

You were in one of those communities kind of like out in Sugar Land, where there's like a bunch of NFL players and their kids.

[Ron]

NFL players paying players to move there. Yeah, we had it all. Did you.

[Seth Payne]

So did you walk the bike to practice and back every day?

[Ron]

Well, that was the last of it. I just went. I just went ahead and just walk.

[Seth Payne]

Okay.

[Ron]

I just walked and became friends with somebody who could drive and that, that, that became, that became a thing rather than learning how to, how to ride that bike. But anyway.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah, but the point is, like, in those locker rooms, if, if you have things off, it's going to knock off even like the cape. Most capable of teams like the synergy, considering that we're talking about, at least at the NFL level, 53 bodies, plus however many coaches you have. Right. And then that's needless to say. You could also talk about nutrition, staff and all the other. There needs to be an alignment in

[Ron]

order to get this done.

[Sean Pendergast]

Like, this is quite an operation. It's the reason why there's such an authoritative hierarchy like environment in football, because you need everybody pulling in the same direction to get there.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah, it is. And it's. It's crazy. The thing that I like about the Texans is that we've had that culture on defense where it just seems like they've just all got the same types of guys. But in the NFL, it's really, really hard to find cultures or environments that are anything close to what you have in college or high school. If you're on a really good team, because guys just aren't. You're not going to be as tight knit. You know, guys have families, guys have this, that. But there are. There are teams that do a really good job of it. And I think that that's where, when you hear from free agents come in now in the last couple years, you really hear them talk about how different the culture, the environment is compared to maybe places that they've Been. And it reminds me a little bit of like the Astros during the golden era. You'd have these guys come into the team expecting it to be a bunch of divas or whatever, and they were kind of blown away by just how welcoming everybody was and how everybody was kind of built the same way. And I think, you know, it's going to be different type of feel in football, but I think, I think you do have that now. And a lot of it's because they've started to really focus on the offensive side of the ball in the last couple of years that there's, there's got to be. There's got to be a certain selflessness. That's why I love David Montgomery. I. David Montgomery. I don't know. I can't remember a skill position player with a name who talks as much about selflessness and doing right by the team and everything is David Montgomery. Like, that's. That. It feels like it's better on the offensive side of the ball than it was in the last couple years. Yeah, that was two years ago especially.

[Sean Pendergast]

That was the thing that I feel like I noted about the David Montgomery edition. Obviously, there's the, you know, dude who is a mauling back, especially in the red zone. There's those capabilities in goal line situations. I feel like this offense needed a. Their equivalent of Aziz or even Will, like somebody that rallies them. I, I remember back, like missing Joe Mixon, obviously. A dude who could just put the cape on and run the football was huge. Wasn't Joe Mixon the dude like the offensive side of guys when they were doing the, the. The players only meetings or whatever, he was the guy that was speaking. I do wonder what the, what the last year the leadership was like on the offensive side of the football, because I don't know who that lightning rod is who everybody kind of galvanizes around. I feel like David Montgomery could absolutely be that.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah, you know, that's a, That's a good. I'm glad you brought that up. I hadn't really thought about that. Somebody the other day asked, okay, who's the leader in the offensive line meeting room? And it's always one of those things. There never has to be like, you know, a true alpha guy in any one position group. But you want to, you want to be sure there needs to be. There needs to. Ideally, there is at least one of those guys in each position meeting room. A guy that's just a true vet that kind of holds everything together and sets a certain standard. You want to have at Least one, and hopefully more than that. You know, on the D line, they've been at. They've had old heads in there, like, in the D line meeting room, They've. At any given time, they've got at least three guys who are 30 years old or older. And I think that's. That's been awesome for giving Will Anderson as many resources as possible to see exactly how to do things the right way and how to do it in the NFL. Yeah. On the offensive side of the ball, I just. I don't know. I don't know if they. If they've really had that guy in the offensive line room. Weird. D' Ameco talking about how he's telling Ariante Ursary, you know, that he can be more of a vocal leader, which is cool. But I also wonder. Yeah. Like, all right, is that. Is that. Is that. Like, which of those guys, you know, whether it's Wyatt Teller or Braden Smith or. I think. I think Trent Brown is that guy. I think, like, just by virtue of, you know, when Trent Brown's been, you know, I heard him with you guys in the afternoon. Ron, you know, basically talking about how they. They needed to be better, that the standard is higher than where they are right now and that they want to match what the defense is doing. I don't know if we got that kind of like, it felt like for years the guys. The offensive line was more interested in convincing people that there really were no problems on the offensive line. So, like, last year, to hear Trent Brown in a couple different interviews say, yeah, we got to be better than where we are. We've made some progress. We've got to be better than where we are. I think that's just a. That was a shift in how that. How it felt like the O line was operating.

[Ron]

Yeah. And I feel like they believe they've got some of that with Wyatt Teller. They feel like they've got some of that with Braden Smith. At least they're hoping they have. They have some of that.

[Sean Pendergast]

And that's just the offensive line, like, it seems like they've got. Not just because I think David Montgomery could be that. Foster Moreau, oddly enough, seemed to come up as a dude who guys were galvanizing around.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah, I was excited to see. I didn't realize he was so sassy on the field.

[Ron]

I thought he was a coach at the way every time he talks, he sounds like he's a. He's a coach.

[Seth Payne]

You see him in interviews and you think he's. I thought he was A gm. We did that. When he did that first interview with Mark and John, he was talking about, he met, he met Caylee and he's got a good firm handshake and all this. He sounded like, yeah, he sounds like a coach or a front office guy. And then out on the field, he's actually kind of a smack talker.

[Ron]

Yeah. All right. A shout out to as we're starting to roll here. Shout out to Larry and Lee and Jeff the Beckman as they're the latest here to donate as we are trying to raise money for the Houston Food Bank. That's why we're here and that's why we have started at 6am to 6pm Reggie and I, with the help from many of our friends, as you hear, Seth Payne, we really, we really want to knock what we did out of the water last year. Nearly 30,000. We want to top that this year. Please help us out. Text RADIOTHON26R A D I O T H O N26 to 71777 for your ability to donate. And you can also, as I see some, some things are picking up there on our auction site. There's an auction site. If you go to sportsradio6ten.com and you check it out, you see the Reggie and Ron radio thon marker there you can get, catch the link to go right to the auction page and there are 17 items including dinners with all four of our great shows. You can go to Carabas with Seth Payne and, and, and Sean and I, I mean, I hope, I just, I'd like Ben to show up, but just me personally,

[Seth Payne]

I can't even throw that out there.

[Ron]

Ben would, I'm looking at it.

[Seth Payne]

Ben would literally murder me.

[Ron]

I want Ben to be there, damn it. I want him to be at Carrabba's. I want him.

[Sean Pendergast]

Honestly, I'm surprised we've gotten this far and without you hearing haranguing Ben at all.

[Ron]

I, I, I just, I, I think Ben is a guy who likes a good Bolognese and I think he would enjoy one.

[Seth Payne]

I've got unless I get any word from Ben at all that he wants to be a part of this. I, I would guess that there's no amount of money they would entice him into this and no, and you know what?

[Ron]

And the worst part is Ben is selfish.

[Seth Payne]

Selfish.

[Ron]

Oh, he's selfish.

[Sean Pendergast]

Oh, we got Ben on the mic.

[Ron]

Yes, yes, you, yes, you're selfish. Yes. Because that's the part is see, I've now I've been out with Ben. Ben was. Ben was at the holiday party.

[Sean Pendergast]

He was at the holiday.

[Ron]

Ben is. Ben is a lot of fun.

[Seth Payne]

He is.

[Ron]

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[Seth Payne]

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[Sean Pendergast]

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[Ron]

There are three bids up right now for for for dinner with with pain and Pendergast and I believe somebody right now I swear would bid right now. They will take this thing up if Ben said I'll go Ben what what's

[Sean Pendergast]

the number that the bid that the the auction and the the item for dinner with you know a winner and their guest to eat with pain And Pender gas at Karaba's. It's currently at $620. What's the number that it reaches where you go? I'll tag along.

[Ron]

I mean, I feel obligated to throw out a huge crazy number now, but honestly, I was just never asked.

[Sean Pendergast]

I'm fine.

[Seth Payne]

Oh. Oh, Ben. Ben, you're so. Honestly.

[Ron]

Now we're getting to the bottom of it, man.

[Seth Payne]

All right, now, do you want. Ben, do you want. Do you want to come on the dinner? I'd love to have you. Yeah, you're always. I always feel bad even making you say anything into the microphone that I. I felt. I just. I didn't even want to approach you with a question. Ron's putting the turning the screws on you here. Listen, we won it last year without Ben. If Ben wants to come. If Ben wants to come in, I think it would. I think it would help us, but I don't want to put any pressure on him at all.

[Ron]

Yeah, that was unnecessary for you to really just. Just boast about how you guys won it.

[Seth Payne]

Sean and I do it, Ed. Sean and I are a blast to hang out with and have dinner with Ben. Ben, I'll let you text me somewhere along the way, but I don't. I'm not. I'm putting zero pressure on Ben to be invol involved with this. Don't let Ron guilt trip you into it.

[Ron]

I'm trying to guilt trip him. I'm just saying.

[Sean Pendergast]

I'm trying to guilt trip him. I just want that to be clear.

[Ron]

I. Ben is a fun time. I mean, he was a fun hang. He had his nice Christmas sweater on and.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah, he did make that effort.

[Seth Payne]

He really did.

[Ron]

It did. And that's a Christmas party. Yeah, it was a Christmas party.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah, but you.

[Sean Pendergast]

You were there. Not everybody was wearing their Christmas best.

[Ron]

Yeah, I mean, yeah, I didn't. I sure still didn't. He had his drinking toll. He was. I mean, he was a good time, and I'm telling you, man. But. But no. But there are three bids up right now, and these are. And these are bids without being. There are three bids up right now for the dinner with pain and pender gas. You can also have a dinner with the fellas on in the Loop.

[Sean Pendergast]

Not in there. We need an opening bid. Federal Grill is awesome.

[Seth Payne]

Federal Grill.

[Sean Pendergast]

Lopez has already said that. He'll get you some OG Sauce. Uh, look, I can sweeten the pot in a lot of different ways. Just let me know. We've just get a bid on the board. $500 to start. Let's go.

[Ron]

There it is. There it is. 500 to start. Uh, and you. You can go with the drive as well as we've got a couple of bids there with us as well. You can go. You can go to Oak and iron. Great spot. I can't wait to see what their dinner menu is. I about cleaned out all of their appetizers when we. When we came.

[Sean Pendergast]

Are you typically an appetizer guy?

[Ron]

I mean, you know. Yeah, I'm not a dessert person, so I generally. I'll go apps first.

[Sean Pendergast]

Honestly, desserts at restaurants often feel like afterthoughts, don't they? Like, at least when it comes to the menu. Not necessarily with the ordering, but when they. I mean, the menu, it feels like there's a lot more thought, obviously, into the entree. The appetizers. Sometimes it feels like they were just like, I think we have to have a dessert option. And very rarely do you go to a restaurant where they have a dessert that feels like it's wild.

[Ron]

I don't know if Seth's had this problem. I just have the inability to. To. To save room.

[Seth Payne]

Oh, no, no. Yeah. No, I've always. I'd see. I'm the opposite. Reginald. I think every. Every. I think it's a masterpiece of. Of pastry chefs and everybody and whoever we're gonna. If you have a molten chocolate lava cake, I will every single time act like this is the. The greatest scientific innovation I've ever seen. Like, I don't know how they do it. It's hot, it's liquid, it's. It's incredible. And they. And they all hit it out of the park.

[Ron]

Yeah, I'm more of a. I'm a. I'm a Carmel. You give me something in the range of Carmel, I might. I might slip. I might slip my way into it, but generally, I've just. I have. I have gone to town so much on the appetizer and. And the entree that I just don't even have room. I don't even have room. I've got. I've got to move past it. So, yeah, I'm not. I'm not have to do that. But. But there's plenty of items on there, man. I see the opening bid out on the. This. This autograph Mike Tyson Everlast glove. That. That. That's. That. There's a. There's a bid on that. Already out enrolling that $300 to get

[Sean Pendergast]

you in the game. In the game on a Mike Tyson autograph boxing glove right now.

[Ron]

Yeah. And the in the messy joint. The messy autograph jersey.

[Sean Pendergast]

That is why you brought this up? Because I have to ask this as a question, genuinely.

[Ron]

I was 18 or. I was 8 or 6. 18 in a Ford Escape.

[Sean Pendergast]

That was not the question, but thank you for sharing at 7:28 in the morning on a. On a Friday. Thank you for that. Gentlemen, the starting bid that has been set for the Lionel Messi autographed framed FC Barcelona jersey. So it's a jersey. It's framed. It's autographed. Greatest soccer player maybe to have ever played Lionel Messi in the midst of the World Cup. The starting bid is like $3,500. Are we sure this. Are we sure this moves today?

[Ron]

I. Listen, you have to tell me, is. Does that. Because does that sound like.

[Sean Pendergast]

It sounds. It sounds like. I mean, it.

[Ron]

Is that a big. It's a big deal. It's a big.

[Sean Pendergast]

All right.

[Ron]

I just. I don't. I don't.

[Sean Pendergast]

I mean, similarly, right. If we're talking about the greatest of all time, imagine that we've got a Michael Jordan signed. You mean a LeBron James signed for the exercise here. A LeBron James autographed. Now, which jersey are we talking about? Right? Like what. Cleveland 16.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

Championship Cleveland jersey. Autograph signed. You know, in one of those. I forget what the framing is called, but in the frame with some pictures on it like that should sell. It's. That's a big money item. I just wonder, like, is this going to move? Because, I mean, the number is pretty damn big.

[Ron]

Yeah. Just to get your foot in the door. Seems aggressive, but I.

[Seth Payne]

It is a beautiful presentation.

[Ron]

It really.

[Seth Payne]

Frame in the jersey, but I.

[Ron]

But I'm assuming these people who set these bid numbers, Members know what they're doing.

[Sean Pendergast]

They know. They do indeed know. In fact, I gotta shout them out because I think it's Diamonds in the Rough. They. They helped us with the auto. The website also, but they, they helped us with these items. They know what it's worth. I'm just wondering is this. Is. Is there someone in our audience that's gonna be like, I either have caught the World cup fever or I'm just such a soccer fan. I got it for.

[Ron]

Well, I mean, you. We've got soccer fans.

[Sean Pendergast]

We do.

[Ron]

Yeah, we've got soccer fans.

[Sean Pendergast]

We got. We got 3,500 soccer fans.

[Ron]

That sucker move, boy.

[Seth Payne]

The, you know, the. The University of Texas 1 right now has got a pretty good bit on it where it's a signed photo with Colt McCoy, Vince Young, Ricky Williams and Earl Campbell, all Pictured and autographed.

[Ron]

Yeah, I just think. I just think Jordan Shipley got jobbed on this. Get.

[Sean Pendergast]

Get out it.

[Seth Payne]

Don't do that.

[Sean Pendergast]

I think of all the names you

[Ron]

could have picked, I just think Jordan. Jordan and coat are a package deal. I think Jordan. There should have been a. At least maybe like a. A Jordan Shipley on the shoulder of Colt McCoy. Like, I. I just.

[Sean Pendergast]

How do you visually represent that? They were roommates. That was the thing. I. Every time on the broadcast, if you watch the Texas Longhorns game in that era, you were going to hear that they were roommates. Like that. That was the thing. So I'm like, if we could visually represent that, like, hey, there's Colt. Great quarterback. Right next to him is his roommate. Like, I don't know how you do this, but that would be the only way that I need this knee jack. Jordan Shipley on here. That's the only way.

[Ron]

All right. Text in Radio THON 26 to 71777. As. As we continue to roll through as we're trying to hit. Hit that mark, baby. And it's early, but let's. Let's. Let's get it going, man. Any amount you can give $1. $1 helps feed three different meals.

[Sean Pendergast]

If you're gonna give one, might as well at least get five.

[Ron]

Yeah, I'm just. I'm just telling you like, I'm. Listen, I. I would like 15 meals. Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

Thank you for that quick math right there.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah.

[Ron]

Knocked it out the park right there. We'd love for you to. To get. But whatever it is, whatever amount helps.

[Sean Pendergast]

We've almost hit a thousand.

[Ron]

We're getting there.

[Sean Pendergast]

I'll be happy if we. If we're. If we're clear. A thousand.

[Seth Payne]

That's a good. No, you're. You're. You're getting the ball rolling in the very early morning hours. We're Pretty people don't have their donating thumbs. Right. Up to speed.

[Sean Pendergast]

Just get your coffee.

[Seth Payne]

This is a good. It's a good start.

[Ron]

Yeah, we're starting. Yeah, we're starting to roll, stretch in.

[Seth Payne]

But you guys. You guys really like you. You. You did way, way more than that last year. And. And I know you're. I know you're gonna do more.

[Sean Pendergast]

Don't say us. I hope you're talking to listeners. Me and Ron, we're just pointing the sign. It is. It is our listeners who. This is. This is. I want. I hope that people take ownership of this. This is Sports Radio 610 and listenership doing this and that's why I want us to. I want us to represent. Well, Like, I would really hate if the food bank was like, man, that was awesome. And then we come back, we're like, yep, couldn't quite do it again next. The second year. You know, I feel like, well, I'm

[Ron]

not speaking at it. To existence. Damn it. All right, we're good.

[Sean Pendergast]

See, I'm playing good cap, good cop, bad cop. You can be a good cop. I'm just like, hey, guys, this is real disappointing right now.

[Seth Payne]

It's a good. Well, you know. You know, you ever been to a charity auction where some of these auctioneers are really good at kind of bullying people into bidding more? I was at an auction once, and I was supposed to be one of the auctioneers, and I was, like, doing it, and I don't. I'm not good in that. I will never accept that role again because I just. I'm almost kind of like. I'm like a panhandler who's too meek to ask for any money. So they. They brought in. They had somebody else come in and be the co auctioneer. And this.

[Sean Pendergast]

This.

[Seth Payne]

This woman, like, bullied Emmanuel Sanders. It was. I honestly. I apologize to Emmanuel Sanders afterwards because I'm also in the mode of, like, I don't. Man. He was a current player at the time, and I'm like, Like, guys just don't get bullied into giving more than your. Like, you got to be sure you got all your stuff taken care of. But she bullied the hell out of Emanuel Sanders, and I think bidding way more than he wanted on something that wasn't as cool as any of the things you guys are giving away today.

[Ron]

He said, I ain't. Yeah. I'm never coming back to this again. See, I listen. I want to give for a good cause. I've made a donation myself. It's a good cause. Nobody's bullying me out of money.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah.

[Ron]

I'm a professional. I will stand. I will stand. I will stand. And look at those make a wish kids. And I will keep going if I don't want. If I don't want to give that money. Now is the make a wish kid.

[Sean Pendergast]

Is that. Is that the gold star? I always think. I always think it's the girl Scouts. The girl Scouts seem to have their game down.

[Ron]

I walk past them, I don't believe.

[Sean Pendergast]

And out of sweat, especially when they come out. And usually it used to be that you could walk by, so I don't have cash. Now they're like, nah, we take cards I lied.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah.

[Ron]

I lied to them.

[Seth Payne]

You lied to them?

[Ron]

Oh, I already. Already bought.

[Seth Payne]

Already bought some. Yeah, yep.

[Ron]

You, hey, you got to look them right dead in their eyes, see if they'll challenge it.

[Sean Pendergast]

You already got the industrious ones. The industrious ones were like, we got some new ones. We got some more for you.

[Seth Payne]

Part of the education, though, that they're getting too, is that, you know, like. Yeah, that's part of just sales in general. Like, okay, you're going to get a bunch of no's. So don't, you know, don't take it personal or anything. Ron's giving those girls a lesson, a life lesson, you know, more so than, hey, cash can. Cash can only do so much. Ron's giving them a life lesson on handling rejection. I told one that men will lie to them.

[Ron]

I think once I told him, like, oh, I'm sorry, I just, I just get the trash can. Trash bags. You're in a big yellow trash bags that people used to. They used to sell. You don't remember that?

[Sean Pendergast]

Talking about Girl Scout cookies?

[Ron]

I don't know. Not Girl Scout cookies. I will tell them. Oh, my foundation I give to is the trash bags. That's what I buy.

[Sean Pendergast]

I'm not even familiar with this.

[Ron]

The big trash bags. Oh, anytime they go to sell them big, no.

[Seth Payne]

What are you talking about?

[Ron]

Instead of the cookies, I'll tell them, oh, I only do the trash bag.

[Sean Pendergast]

Now I have to go because I

[Seth Payne]

have no idea what you're talking about. What trash bag?

[Sean Pendergast]

713572. Is anybody in there listening? Audience Know what

[Ron]

I did? Not every time they do like Girl Scout cookies, except they got those big ass yellow trash bags and they, they will get me. And I, I'll tell the girl Scout, Girl Scout girls like, hey, I don't buy cookies. I just buy the trash bag you had.

[Seth Payne]

This is what happened last year. Two 10 year olds showed up at Ron's door and said, we were displaced by hurricane Katrina and we're selling, we're selling trash bags. And yeah, before you could even ask, like, wait a second, you guys weren't alive during Katrina. You bought you about like 20 trash bags for $200.

[Ron]

I'm telling you, man.

[Sean Pendergast]

See, that's why, that's why those big

[Ron]

yellow trash bags, they last forever. They. Oh, man, that's why it works because

[Sean Pendergast]

people think you're insane. They're like, what is he talking about with trash bag? Just let him, just let him go.

[Ron]

He doesn't.

[Sean Pendergast]

Just let him walk.

[Ron]

Just let him walk. Oh, man, I turned up. I'm. It's the girl scout cookies. Those girls are easy. I even, I even answered the door to people who want to sell stuff. And I'll stand out there because I want. I want to let them give their whole presentation. I had some guys stopped by about trying to. I've had guys who go ahead and take care of my bug problems for years at the same people. This guy, man, I let him give his presentation for every bit of 5, 10 minutes. Just gay. Just judging how good he did. I just said, yeah, man, I think I'll probably go in a different direction.

[Seth Payne]

I'm on The Trash Bag fundraiser.com website,

[Sean Pendergast]

Yellow Trash Bag fundraiser.

[Seth Payne]

They sell like big durable trash bags for that. I guess it's just a higher quality trash bag and they've got ones that are like Halloween themed or Happy Holidays themed.

[Sean Pendergast]

And this is, this is a, this is a non profit or this is just people.

[Seth Payne]

I think it feels like one of those things they do. Like, you remember when you're a kid, you. When you're raising money for something, it's a company that specializes fundraisers. Got you. Whether it's candy or whatever else it might be, I feel like that's what they just choose to make trash bags their thing. It's probably a good strategy because it's. Everybody has kind of like, oh, yeah, you got to buy trash bags at some point. Might as well buy them. Buy them right now.

[Sean Pendergast]

I wonder if like big, big trash bag has been, you know, trying to cut into this. Like, obviously it's for a good cause, but you're ruining our bottom line. Like Hefty has got to hate that.

[Ron]

Well, the trash bags, people. If you could text radio find 26

[Seth Payne]

instead of spending money on a trash bag, buy yourself a meal with Sean and. Sean Pendergast and Seth Payne and potentially Ben. Yeah. Why would you spend money on a trash bag? To raise money for charity when you can. When you can actually get a delectable dinner and a whole and enjoyable evening out of it. Well, helping the Houston Food bank.

[Ron]

Yep. Radio THON 26 to 71777. As. As. Hey, we're having fun. We're having fun. I got. Listen, as we continue to roll through, I got a. I got a bone to pick. I had just spoke to Reggie about this yesterday about my biggest issue with this World Cup.

[Sean Pendergast]

Oh, okay.

[Ron]

And it came up again. And I think it is. I think it is. I think it's ruining the sport potentially.

[Sean Pendergast]

All right.

[Ron]

I know that is. All right. Let me try that again. I think it is ruining the sport for me. Okay, not, not not, not for everybody else. I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I just, I hate this development and yesterday was the worst we've ever seen of it. As we continue donate. There it is. Radio THON 26 to 71777. Let's get over a thousand during the break as we continue right here on the Reggie and Ron Radio Thon.

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[Ron]

That's right. Here we go, baby. Text in if you need to text in. Reggie is helping you out. If you are struggling to find the link of how to donate or the

[Sean Pendergast]

link to the auction site.

[Announcer]

I got you there, too.

[Ron]

The auction site. You can. You can. Reggie will help you out. But if. If you also just text. Radio Thon 26 radio Thon 26 R A D I O T H O N 26 to 71777 and you can make a donation right there. That's generally the easiest way to do so. But we don't. We don't really care how you. How you need it done. If you need us to hit you up on the text line to find that and get. And get Reggie to send you a link directly, we will do so as well. Because this is extremely important, and we are really looking to. To blow past what we did last year.

[Seth Payne]

And if you want to bid on one of the scintillating auction items, go to that same link. And last year's winner in terms of value for the dinners was by Payne and Pendergast. And we're hoping to really, you know, help feed some people, but also win this competition. First and foremost, Vershawn and I, it's very, very important to our egos that you guys just bit a boatload on having dinner with Sean and I because we. We deliver. We deliver. Okay. We. You're gonna have a delightful time.

[Ron]

Yeah, they do deliver. We deliver as well.

[Sean Pendergast]

On the drive.

[Ron]

On the drive.

[Sean Pendergast]

Oh, man, y' all are. Y' all are a good hang. I gotta.

[Seth Payne]

Let's be honest about this, though, Ron. Let's not try to sabotage anything late in the day or anything. All right? Is. So you're gonna have a lot of your listeners specifically are gonna be all tuned in. And I'm sure. And I'm. And I'm sure if you do get the high bid that you're not going to lord it over us for the next year. Oh, I would, but I would understand if you did.

[Ron]

Me?

[Seth Payne]

Yeah.

[Ron]

No, for the kids.

[Seth Payne]

If you do it for the kids.

[Ron]

If that.

[Sean Pendergast]

You just.

[Ron]

Just slid that in I'll just leave some yellow trash bags on your doorstep that have the winning bid written on the top of it is what I'll do. But. But no, man. Jump in there again. The easiest way. Text Radio THON 26 to 71777 and you can make a donation there. All right. I listen this. And I said this to you yesterday, and I don't. I don't know if this happens to you, too, or you, Seth. I don't. I feel. I do. I feel bad for my oldest son because he has to be there and he has to just take these takes and.

[Sean Pendergast]

Oh, he's who you test your.

[Ron]

Well, he was there yesterday and now. Now, I'll be honest, he kind of. I think he kind of wants to get into business. He's. He's. He's 12. He's done a couple of podcasts himself.

[Sean Pendergast]

Couple, you said? Yeah, a couple of podcast episodes or different podcast episodes.

[Ron]

He's created himself in which dad has tried not to take over, but he is. He is created himself. So I think he wants to do this so he'll go back and forth, but he had to take these takes yesterday. Listen, I. This is not the first time that I have watched soccer at a high level. I Like. I. I'm a Carli Lloyd fan. I've watched the women's years through the Olympics, through World Cup. You know, I've watched when. When Landon Donovan tried to sneak that hair past us.

[Sean Pendergast]

I've watched Atrocious. It's so bad.

[Ron]

He knows it's bad. He wore a backwards hat during the entire time until they did the taping.

[Sean Pendergast]

I remember the very first time, like, when he was early on in it and he just had to be in front of us with it. I. I really do feel bad for the folks who are in that process, because you just either have to become a hermit and never be seen during the process or. Or you just have to, like, you know, let it be known that I'm willing to live with this for a little bit until the hair come back.

[Ron]

Yeah, I mean, you just got. I mean, it. I mean, it looks like a bunch of wind might take it off, but. But just.

[Sean Pendergast]

Just one good gust.

[Ron]

So. I've watched. I've watched soccer. It. This is. I don't have a memory of remembering any time a goal is scored that it is, for me, such an immediate pause to look and see. All right, Is this offsides?

[Seth Payne]

Right?

[Ron]

Like.

[Seth Payne]

Like the video assistance review and like, how. How strictly they're monitoring it and everything. Yeah, like, it's especially in soccer, where the. There's such an emotional outburst when there is a goal that I. It does for, like, because I'm super, super casual. I haven't watched as much soccer as you guys, but I feel like a lot of actual soccer people.

[Ron]

I think we're in the same casual range. I think we're in the same.

[Seth Payne]

Well, but it's not just casual soccer people that are wondering, okay, do we have to be this persnickety about the offsides? Right. That to me, it feels like since replay got added to baseball, I am 100% on board with most of it. There's times when there's plays at second base, especially, like, when a guy holds the glove against the guy who just slid safely second base, and it just takes his foot a millimeter off the bag. That afterwards where I'm like, all right, this is. This is too much, man. Like, it feels like you're detracting from the spirit of the game.

[Ron]

Yeah, I just. It's. It's. It. And last night was the worst. That was. That.

[Sean Pendergast]

Are you talking about the. Portugal.

[Ron]

Portugal. Croatia. That is. That was a moment, man. I'm sit. First off, I'll be honest. I just felt like a whole bunch of stuff just didn't seem right in that thing. I don't know. Like, I need. And maybe this is the. The American portion of me, but I'm. I'm gonna need somebody to give me what. What a clock and a time is. All right.

[Seth Payne]

You didn't put up.

[Ron]

Yeah, you didn't put up there. 10 minutes of stoppage time. And we're. We're here at a buck 13. And I. And I.

[Sean Pendergast]

They did stop for a good long time to figure out what the. What's happening.

[Ron]

No, but I'm, you know. But the goal was scored it like, around like 112. The goal was scored like two and a half minutes after the 10 minutes of stoppage time. And I'm just saying. I don't know. I'm not saying that there wasn't still enough time that they calculated, but I, Like, I'm. I'm looking up like. And if I'm Portugal, like, hey, man, what's going on here?

[Sean Pendergast]

Like.

[Ron]

Like, who is determining this clock is my man over. Just. Just over there, like, man, let me.

[Sean Pendergast]

Let me.

[Ron]

Let me blow this thing dead when I.

[Sean Pendergast]

Sometimes you vibing you like, hey, man, I like what we got going.

[Ron]

Let's.

[Seth Payne]

Let's.

[Sean Pendergast]

Let's get a little extra of this in.

[Ron]

So that was weird. And then and then to me, like, you have a moment, and that goal was like the. Maybe the moment of the tournament with the time and everybody celebrating. And it's about five minutes of celebration. And then we over here looking at some. Something that, like, I don't even know like what. Like how that even.

[Seth Payne]

Factors of how stoppage time is. That's the one that. When you're watching soccer, the. I remember the first time I learned about soccer, stoppage time. I can't remember how old I was, but I kind of was like, you get to a point where you ask a few questions and none of the explanations are making sense and you don't want to look like a complete idiot, but the whole time you're like, wait, so nobody. Nobody really knows how much time is left except for the official on the field. Like, how does this. Wait, no.

[Sean Pendergast]

What.

[Seth Payne]

How do you operate in this world? In soccer, people just be like, yeah, that's stoppage time. Like, no, I feel like you're. You've been misled. How the hell are you living in a world like this where there's one. One person that knows how much time is left and you've only got a vague notion. I don't. I don't like it whatsoever. Ron, I agree with you on this one.

[Ron]

I just, I just like, I find. I think it is in any sport, I think it's a problem. And maybe it's just me, but I felt like you said something the other day of like, no, I think soccer fans are not loving it. Yeah, there's something about, you know, Seth, every time a touchdown is scored, everybody, you know, tempers their celebration to go start looking at. Looking around and everything. Every time a home run is hit, everybody tempers their. Their thoughts and start looking around a little bit. And I feel like that is. That is something that is happening in soccer. I told you I was. They were showing the watch parties around the country and half the people have lost it on the goal and the other half are like, hold on. Whoa. Hold on. What? Well, and I just think that is. That feels like. I don't feel like that has been happening.

[Seth Payne]

No.

[Ron]

All the other times watching soccer.

[Sean Pendergast]

This is a relative. This is a relatively new occurrence because of the way that they've decided to officiate off the offside rule because they're like, hey, we're going to let this play out and then we'll figure out if it was offside. It. Just in case we get it wrong. Because this. I think I would liken it to. In football, when they blow the whistle dead on. Like a. On, you know, an. An offside. Offsides. Funny enough, right? If a. If a defensive end is just coming off the edge, they're like, yeah, let's blow this thing dead. And those kind of st. Because you'll see some quarterbacks be like, damn, I had a shot. Why would you blow that dead? And I think that that is the place that they are coming from with this rule, because you. They used to just be like, as soon as they see that offsides, flags up, offside is called, and this is done. But, you know, on the other side, what that does is if you're wrong in the offside, we can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. On. That opportunity is gone. Especially in soccer, where those opportunities are relatively few and far between. So they. They are betting on the idea of giving this team the opportunity to go and score the goal so that we're not taking away an opportunity that we can't, you know, that we can't manufacture again, as opposed to. It's probably better than the circumstance of we're going to celebrate, but then find out that the rules actually applied in a different way. Every moment.

[Ron]

Every time. Every time a goal is scored, I find myself staring at that son of a bitch that is over there with the flag.

[Seth Payne]

You know what?

[Ron]

It reminds me every time I.

[Sean Pendergast]

That's.

[Ron]

Every. Every time a goal is scored, that's what I find myself doing is staring. Staring. Does he. Is he going to raise that damn flag?

[Seth Payne]

That's like. Like, you know, when you grow up and you watch movies and everything you. You see like, oh, her pos. Her pregnancy test is positive. Yay. They're having a baby. And then you get into the real world and you're like, well, hold on now. We got to wait. We got to get this confused. Confirmed by a doctor. And then don't tell anybody until after the first trimester, because in reality.

[Ron]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Seth Payne]

It turned every damn goal into a pregnancy test.

[Sean Pendergast]

We got a sonogram. I feel like we should see.

[Ron]

This is the second time today that Seth there. You could have given me 200 chances to guess the analogy that he's going to use. And I would have never settled on comparing pregnancy test, movie, movie, pregnancy tests.

[Sean Pendergast]

That's right.

[Ron]

To what soccer is with all.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah. FIFA has robbed us of the movie pregnancy test version of celebrating a goal.

[Sean Pendergast]

It is.

[Ron]

It is. It is frustrating to me. I couldn't, like, that's it. That. That's a moment. They took that off. Like, I I would not have recovered. I think I'd have like to understand this is every four years and the importance of this and to know this is over. I. I'd have lost it.

[Sean Pendergast]

You didn't see them boys balling after the game.

[Ron]

I would. No, I mean, but I would have. I would have been like, you know, red card, lost it. Like. Like that coach, that coach, who. I forgot that coach was for Bosnia, who would not give that ball up. That had been me. That meant when that man, that man took that ball, that ball rolled over him and he felt like it was out of bounds off the US he would not give the ball back. And they almost gave him. I think they end up giving him a yellow card.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah, he got a card.

[Ron]

He got a car. That have been me. I'm telling you, that's why I can't be a coach.

[Sean Pendergast]

You bring up. I could be calling up these situations.

[Ron]

I can't be a coach because I. If there's a horrific. Horrifically.

[Sean Pendergast]

Your email doka, you're called.

[Ron]

You're calling people like, I would. I've always told myself what, that. What was it? The. The. What was that, that, that penalty? It was the Rams and the Saints, I believe. Oh, yeah, that awful. If I were Sean Payton, I would have walked onto the 50 and I would have just sat there until they changed the call. Like, I would walk to wherever the line of scrimmage was and I would sit there with the ball and. We're not. We're not moving on. I'm just not. No, I'm not. We're not moving on. We're not moving on from the game. We're not.

[Seth Payne]

You know what this happens in. In amateur wrestling or like Olympic style wrestling. Sometimes a wrestler get PO'd about a call and he lost and he'll just. I'm sure it probably doesn't happen as much anymore, but a guy will just. He'll just strip his jersey or his singlet like down to the waist and just sit there on the mat like in protest, like, you know, no, this is not. I do not accept this rule.

[Ron]

I'm not accepting it. Yeah, that's what I would do. I have. The hell with that. I am not accepting it. I am not accepted at all. All right, Seth, man, I know you got a lot to get to today.

[Seth Payne]

I do.

[Ron]

We appreciate you jumping in.

[Seth Payne]

I got a clear room for John Harris. You guys got Jan Harris coming on?

[Sean Pendergast]

Yes, sir, that's right.

[Ron]

John Harris.

[Seth Payne]

Everybody donate money to the Houston Food Bank. That's why we're doing this. If you're just tuning in. Ron and Reginald did an incredible job last year, as did all of you guys, in really raising a whole lot of money for the Houston Food Bank. And you can do it just by texting RADIOTHON26 to 71777 or if you go to any of our social media links, you can find the link there, text the show and they'll give you the link. And it's incredible. Houston Food bank does an incredible job turning $1 into three meals and it's going to a great place in a lot of people's bellies.

[Sean Pendergast]

Seth, before you go, $1,285 right now. We have, we have crossed that and we are moving towards our, our stated goal. I think on the site they have it as 40,000.

[Ron]

Yeah. And just as a side note, the drive has 10 bids been made on the the Drive, the Drive dinner and at Oak and Iron and Pain and Pendergast has three.

[Seth Payne]

Oh, no.

[Sean Pendergast]

You want to give those dollar amounts or are you going to stay away

[Seth Payne]

from dinner with Sean and I? Dinner with Sean and I.

[Sean Pendergast]

He stayed away from the dollar amounts. Where y' all's bid is higher right now.

[Ron]

Your bid is higher right now, but the volume of 10.

[Sean Pendergast]

I love that. I love that the Drive dinner is operating.

[Ron]

It's the Ben thing. I did it.

[Seth Payne]

Damn it. You guys are out there scrounging for dollar bills. Sean and I are in the VIP room.

[Sean Pendergast]

People are bidding like Ron would bid.

[Ron]

Champagne room.

[Sean Pendergast]

Everybody's bidding $1 more in honor of me. Everybody's like, Ron would want me to bid just $1 above what the previous bid was.

[Ron]

Hey man, don't be cheap like me. Go ahead, dude. Seth, we appreciate you. We'll continue. We'll continue live right here. Sports Radio 610 on the Reggie and Ron radio.

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