Latest / Fanatically Speaking with Kent / Christmas Movies, Grinch Teams, and the Spirit of Sports

Transcript

Christmas Movies, Grinch Teams, and the Spirit of Sports · Fanatically Speaking with Kent

0:00
what's up everybody welcome to fanatically speaking
0:02
i'm kent i'm log off i'm the log off legend and
0:05
uh we're here to say everything that every fan
0:07
is thinking but louder and probably a little
0:09
crazier get ready this is fanatically speaking
0:12
with kent and log off you know what's funny like
0:15
i don't hate i don't i'm not a social media hater
0:18
i'm a social media I don't want people to think
0:25
that I get on the internet and start hating people
0:27
on social media. That's not what I do. The first
0:29
half was absolutely, absolutely horrible. You
0:33
know, just inept offense, inept defense, special
0:37
teams, you name it. I'm going to turn into Oprah.
0:40
Why were you so angry? He sucks this season.
0:45
This game, whatever, whatever's going on, right?
0:47
And then in the very next pitch, guess what?
0:50
They double Homer. And he's like, told you that.
0:53
Why are you always knocking down people? Listen,
0:55
you got the highs and the lows. Yeah, so I knew
0:58
that. You need the highs and the lows. So I do
1:01
that, yeah. I'm trying to be the voice of reason
1:04
here. I am what I am. Hey, what's up, everybody?
1:21
Welcome to another episode of Fanatically Speaking.
1:23
I'm Kent, the co -host and promoter. I'm Log
1:26
Off, the Log Off legend, hater of social media,
1:30
co -host and producer of the show. And today's
1:32
episode is the Christmas episode. It's Christmas
1:35
time. It's Christmas time, yes. And we're going
1:38
to combine some of the topics or some of the
1:44
categories that we normally talk about. So it's
1:46
going to be a combination. of movies and sports
1:49
world? Yes, yeah, movies and sports. We got a
1:55
couple of themes we're going to run with, but
1:57
I think you guys will be able to pick it up as
1:59
we're putting it down. Just try to have some
2:02
fun. The holiday episodes are fun for me. The
2:04
Halloween was super fun. The Thanksgiving episode
2:06
was fun. So we'll have some fun with the Christmas
2:08
one, too. Try to. That's what we do. We try to
2:10
have fun. Yeah, so the first thing we're going
2:14
to get going with the movies. You know favorite
2:18
underrated worst What you got So, I mean when
2:25
it comes to favorite it I Get stuck on like the
2:29
specific words that we use to describe shit.
2:32
So when you say favorite to me it's something
2:35
that always has like watchability and Like you
2:40
if it's on you'll always stop Even if it's just
2:42
for five or ten minutes until it gets to the
2:45
commercial break, you'll just, you know, stay
2:46
tuned to it. But in terms of Christmas movies,
2:50
the one thing I'll say that's probably the most
2:52
disappointing is there is no real like recent
2:55
classics. OK, like I had somebody pitch one to
2:59
me that was like from 2008. But for me, just
3:04
kind of like my favorite. I mean, it's really
3:06
only two. It's the, it's the original Home Alone.
3:12
So the first one, the OG. And Die Hard. Like
3:18
that, that's it. Like it's, yeah, man, John McClane,
3:22
Hans Gruber, like, yeah, like all day. And it's
3:25
such a, and again, it's one of those movies like
3:28
that. It doesn't matter at what part of the movie
3:32
you see three seconds of the scene, you go, oh,
3:34
that's Die Hard. And you can stop and give it
3:37
a look. Home Alone kind of the same thing But
3:41
you know there's I think what I found is I've
3:43
got a like a newfound respect for Home Alone
3:46
It's a lot of little goofy things in that movie.
3:48
That's funny. Okay. Yeah, I don't know why like
3:51
when Like when the pizza delivery guy pulls up
3:54
and keeps running over the little statue in the
3:56
front I don't know why it makes me chuckle every
3:58
time it's ridiculous. It is dumb But I didn't
4:02
appreciate it that much when I was young watching
4:04
it. But now it was like, look at this dummy just
4:05
running into it every single time. And they leave
4:08
it right there and they never move it. And people
4:09
just keep running it over. Yeah. It's a, it's
4:12
a running a bit in the movie that no matter if
4:17
it's the airport shuttle, the pizza guy, it doesn't
4:20
matter who it is. If you're growing up front,
4:23
you're going to hit the, you're going to hit
4:24
that statue. Yeah, and by the way, yeah in this
4:27
dope -ass house this you know, this circular
4:29
half -circle driveway where the cars can just
4:32
pull up right to the front of the steps We're
4:34
gonna put this statue right here in a way so
4:36
that people can run it over You know even the
4:39
even the wet bandits Yeah, what uh what you got
4:44
for movies man, I mean obviously at home alone
4:47
is up there we could get in to die hard cuz Not
4:51
everybody considers that a Christmas movie I'm
4:55
willing to fight whenever you are. Yeah, I'm
4:57
I put it in like the category I think it's in
4:59
like its own category though that it's a movie
5:02
that happens during Christmas and I've got one
5:05
that's one of my favorites and one of the funniest
5:07
movies and I watch it every year and I'm gonna
5:12
go ahead tell you that one now so So the category
5:16
will die hard. I put like Batman Returns Gremlin,
5:20
that's a good one. You know, those are like movies
5:23
at Christmas and I'm probably missing one. But
5:29
another one that is during Christmas, but really
5:33
doesn't have anything to do with Christmas outside
5:35
of the traveling part of how the location ends
5:40
up happening. And that's Just Friends with Ryan
5:45
Reynolds, Anna Ferris. And Sandra Bullock, right?
5:50
No, no, no, no. Just Friends. Anna Ferris. Anna
5:52
Ferris, Amy Smart. Ryan Reynolds and It is one
5:57
of the funniest movies you'll ever watch. It's
6:00
to me. I've got the it's it's an always You know,
6:04
it's not like it not about Christmas. Let's set
6:07
in Chris at Christmas. So That's my die -hard
6:11
and I know they're not even the same or close
6:13
to the popularity And obviously you can't have
6:17
you can never go wrong with Batman movies or
6:18
gremlins, but Yeah, as far as those classics
6:22
and then I'm gonna I'm gonna give you one that
6:24
is my like underrated and Then I also give you
6:28
a newer one that people should check out I'm
6:33
torn and you know me it's hard sometimes for
6:37
me to make decisions. We do these things because
6:40
home alone is up there a Christmas story Christmas
6:45
vacation and the Santa Claus I feel like, and
6:49
you can throw an elf there, right? Different
6:52
years I go through different, I don't know, moods,
6:57
what I wanna watch a lot. Home Alone always hits,
7:03
The Santa Clause always hits, Christmas Vacation,
7:08
set in different times, right? I mean, the 80s
7:10
and you got the 90s and you got early, you know,
7:12
2000s. But yeah, I, you know. I don't know, man.
7:20
If you, if you made me pick, man, it's, I'm a
7:26
big fan of the Santa Claus. No, and it's not
7:31
a, that's not a bad pick. Like it's a, it's a
7:35
good, it's a good premise. It's, um, you know,
7:41
it's in that era, you know, mid nineties, Tim
7:45
Allen, The one scene that kind of sticks out
7:50
to me is when he's making his transition into
7:53
Santa. And the doctor's like, you put on a little
7:57
weight and he grabs his belly and shakes it and
7:59
says, does this look like a little bit of weight
8:00
to you? It's a good classic and it's funny. It
8:07
doesn't get a lot of shine like Home Alone does.
8:11
Home Alone is on repeat. Home Alone is the movie
8:16
version of Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas.
8:19
It's just going to keep on repeat over and over
8:23
and over again. But the Santa Claus can hold
8:25
its own, man. And that's kind of one of those
8:28
Disney classics that doesn't get the credit it
8:30
deserves. So no, I'm not upset with that at all.
8:33
And the one thing about both of them were they
8:35
were so popular and big hits that they made sequels.
8:40
And Home Alone 2, It's basically not the same
8:44
movie, but it's the same idea, right? It's just
8:47
in New York. And it's got classic parts, too.
8:51
And then the Santa Claus II, Santa Claus III,
8:54
even the Santa Claus series on Disney Plus, they
8:58
all continue the story. None of the Santa Clauses
9:01
live up to the first Santa Claus. I think other
9:05
ones you could go with, you know, you can go
9:06
with Jingle All the Way. Bad say Arnold Arnold
9:11
and Sinbad. Yes. I mean, it's up there man. It's
9:14
really up there not jingle all the way to That
9:18
that that is more like Home Alone 3. It's like
9:21
why did you make this guy? Hey, you know, I mean
9:24
the answer is the money But continue even like
9:27
a Christmas story, you know, they did make a
9:29
sequel that was not good Christmas story 2 That
9:33
hardly anyone watches or ever knows about And
9:36
then they recently did the Christmas story like
9:38
an updated grown Ralphie version and it wasn't
9:42
bad. But again, you're never gonna remake that
9:47
classic and get the same reaction. And that's
9:51
the one thing about like Elf. Will Ferrell was
9:53
just like, you know, I think he was maybe offered
9:56
to do it again. And it's just like, yeah, like.
9:58
Why mess up? How are you gonna out? Yeah, how
10:01
are you gonna outdo the first? There's no there's
10:03
no way to outdo elf, you know one. It's an original
10:06
movie, right? Nothing like other ones I mean,
10:12
I mean you can say that about the Santa Claus,
10:14
but There's always a spin with Santa Claus. So
10:17
elf was just something different. We've never
10:19
seen Grinch the new the old the class. There's
10:24
like three different versions bad Santa not for
10:27
the kids but a great movie. Yeah. Yeah. You can't
10:33
beat that Billy Bob Thornton, Bernie Mac. Yeah.
10:35
Yeah. And even the bad center too is okay, but
10:38
nothing like the original. And I'm just naming
10:41
movies now. Four Christmases is another one gets
10:44
played a lot. So I'm a cut right to my underrated
10:50
and then like newer ones. And I don't know if
10:54
these were ones that someone told you about.
10:57
Well, before you say that, before we move on,
11:01
one thing, one, shameless admission here. I have
11:06
zero shame and zero regret. Two Christmas movies
11:11
I've never seen. One of them you mentioned. I've
11:13
never sat and watched a Christmas story. Ever.
11:18
Okay. Another one I've never watched, either
11:21
rendition of the classic original or the remake,
11:23
which was made in the nineties, I think, Miracle
11:26
on 34th Street. Never watched that either. Yeah,
11:29
I'm not. I'm not sure when the remake was made.
11:32
Ninety four, I think. OK, yeah, I mean, you know,
11:35
I've seen it. I think, you know, they used to
11:37
make us watch these movies in school. So it would
11:40
be, you know, it's a wonderful life. Miracle
11:43
on 34th Street. I don't go to that one, by the
11:48
way, I don't. If I'm going to watch a Christmas
11:49
movie, that's not it. It's like really low. No,
11:53
it's like really low on my list. Like I've seen
11:54
it. Saw it as a kid. Even it's a wonderful life.
11:58
I used to watch it When it would come on I did
12:02
actually watch a little bit of this year, but
12:04
normally I don't it's a it's a You got to be
12:07
again. You got to be the mood for an older movie
12:09
like that, but nothing wrong with it But yeah,
12:13
I mean, you know ain't nothing wrong now a Christmas
12:15
story I'm you know I mean they show it for like
12:18
a week in a row starting on Christmas Eve the
12:21
non -stop on about five channels So just check
12:24
it out just one day check it out And that's like
12:30
you said, you notice something different. And
12:34
I think the more I watch it, I've picked up other
12:38
lines and other moments where they're my favorite
12:41
moments, not the ones you think of, so. Yeah,
12:45
no, I get it, you know, and I could say those
12:47
are good picks I mean there there's not a ton
12:50
to really pick from when it comes to Christmas
12:52
movies Which is shocking to say that Christmas
12:55
is by far the most popular holiday in America.
12:57
Yeah, and the fact that there's not There's a
13:01
lack of like if you think about like all the
13:04
horror movies that you can associate with Halloween
13:07
Oh, yeah, it blows Christmas movies out of the
13:10
water just in terms of volume and quality because
13:13
there's so many So, I mean, part of it, I don't
13:16
know, and maybe it's hard to make good Christmas
13:18
movies now, because there's just so many, there's
13:21
a limited range that you can have before you
13:23
start to get on repeat. But yeah, I mean, those
13:26
are all strong. Yeah, I think it's because, you
13:30
know, you gotta come up with an original idea
13:32
now. And, like, The Rock has got Red One, and
13:37
it was an original. Not a bad movie. We talked
13:43
about elf and then you've got you know, they
13:46
tried to do you know, they'll do a family movie
13:49
when and all this stuff and Try to add in something
13:53
To make it original make some jokes and it's
13:57
kind of like yeah, you're trying to be like Christmas
13:59
vacation But in a new version, you know, so they
14:02
try to do these things One another one that is
14:07
newer and I don't know if you've seen this is
14:10
daddy's home, too Okay, so is that a Christmas
14:14
movie? Well, they're getting together for Christmas.
14:19
Okay. So, you know, and it's set at Christmas.
14:23
I consider a Christmas movie. Will Ferrell, Mark
14:26
Wahlberg, and it's Daddy's Home 2, not Daddy's
14:29
Home. Yeah, that's the one, isn't that the one
14:32
where Mel Gibson plays Mark Wahlberg's dad? Mel
14:34
Gibson, yes. It is great, and I watch it even
14:38
when it's not Christmas. Okay. And I'll give
14:41
it, well, I mean, I've seen, I know I've seen
14:44
like trailers. I think I saw a couple of reviews
14:46
for it. It said it was good, but I didn't make
14:49
an attachment to Christmas for it. And I don't
14:51
even know if it's like marketed as a Christmas
14:53
movie. I don't think it was. There again, I'm
14:56
not sure. I saw it on TV. So it was one of those
14:59
like, or streaming, you know, when it came out,
15:03
I think like during COVID it was like, Oh, I've
15:05
never watched this. Let me watch it. Gotcha.
15:08
I think it's funny that Vince Vaughn has two
15:10
Christmas movies and four Christmases and Fred
15:15
Claus. But I guess if you count, yeah, and like
15:19
somebody, again, when you look at it, it's almost
15:23
like the premise and the plot is dumb. But again,
15:27
original, I like original because again, we got
15:30
these classics and I think that's why there's
15:32
not more made. Because we do have these classics.
15:37
Like A Christmas Vacation, Christmas Story, Home
15:40
Alone, and then we, you know, Guess Santa Claus,
15:43
and then we, Miracle on 34th Street. I feel like
15:46
those are like classics and they're the go -to's
15:48
and people just watch those. And you gotta give
15:51
the new ones a chance. Another newer one that
15:57
got bad reviews, but I watched it again recently,
16:01
was Dear Santa with Jack Black. Really? I mean,
16:08
I haven't seen it. Again, original life. That's
16:13
really new. It is really new. Like last year,
16:16
new straight Amazon or Apple, whatever it was
16:19
on. We'll do this. Don't spoil it for me. I'll
16:22
give it a look because I didn't realize it was
16:24
that like it is this super, super. It is like
16:27
one of the newer. Yeah, Christmas movies. I don't
16:32
know of any other new ones. But then my underrated
16:36
one another, you know, one of my underrated movies
16:40
is trapped in paradise It no and no idea what
16:46
yeah exactly It's always just been one where
16:49
I'll watch it and it was own. I don't always
16:51
watch it And again, I like certain types of comedy
16:54
and some comedians Now Nicolas Cage isn't it
16:58
which that's not that's not the reason I watch
17:01
it. He's not a comedian but Dana Carvey John
17:05
Lovitz so Okay, I think John Lovitz is super
17:10
funny one of the funniest people. Yes. I like
17:13
I like that sense of humor I like that dry sense
17:15
of humor Dana Carvey plays goofy, you know, so
17:19
Again, it's an older movie. I think it was like
17:22
early 90s somewhere in there You know that time
17:25
frame Not gonna blow you away But a Christmas
17:31
movie That again, I still watch it when it's
17:35
on or I'll go find it But yeah, that's that that's
17:40
what I got with Christmas movies it's kind of
17:43
like you said they're not remade they're not
17:45
Again, it's got to be original. I find that a
17:48
lot of people are trying to do Christmas music
17:51
nowadays Because they see there's a there's a
17:54
huge market for Christmas music So to me, there's
17:57
a lot of new Christmas music every year. These
18:00
artists come out with albums But as far as movies,
18:04
you know, I guess, like I said, the newest ones
18:06
are Dear Santa, like Dear Santa, Red One. And
18:10
again, you just gotta be original. And again,
18:13
you never know what's gonna hit. I don't know
18:15
that they knew Elf was gonna take off, so you
18:17
know. Well, I'll say this. I'm not in a quest
18:22
for new Christmas movies. Those types of things
18:25
have to find me. But I will tell you that if
18:29
I am inebriated in any way, one of the peak forms
18:34
of December, I don't have to work today entertainment
18:38
is not necessarily watching a Christmas movie.
18:42
Okay. But you can actually just watch the Christmas
18:45
channel, also known as the Hallmark channel.
18:48
And their Christmas movies are so bad that they
18:53
are great. They are so poorly written and acted
18:57
in that they are amazing. And it is the, my favorite
19:03
form of unintentional comedy where I can just
19:06
put it on and just point out all the missteps
19:10
that they make, the horrible writing, bad lighting,
19:14
terrible sets in the background, D -list actors
19:17
and actresses, you know, lazy story lines. I
19:21
love all that kind of stuff. especially when
19:24
I've got nothing to do, there's nothing going
19:25
on, there's no sports or anything, and I can
19:27
just sit and just watch it and have it be mindless.
19:30
I could probably spend about four or five hours
19:33
watching some garbage Hallmark movies, specifically
19:36
the Christmas themes ones. Just going to throw
19:38
that out there, man. It's bad, but it's the best
19:42
kind of bad. I got you. I won't do that. And
19:47
I'll accept whatever judgment's thrown at me,
19:51
I'll take it. Don't care. Yeah, I'm not watching
19:53
the Hallmark channel just like I'm not gonna
19:55
watch Lifetime movies Okay, I'm gonna ask a question
20:02
and we'll move on here a little bit Is this a
20:05
Christmas movie or a Halloween movie the nightmare
20:08
before Christmas? Halloween, okay Yeah, it's
20:15
Halloween I've always considered that but I find
20:19
that they play it at Christmas as well Yeah,
20:23
I know it does I mean it's got that it's got
20:25
it in the name but you know to me it's a you
20:28
know a spooky esque type movie and I mean you
20:32
can play it during Halloween too good for the
20:34
kids, but no I was always associated it with
20:37
a with a Halloween Yeah, I will say at Disney
20:39
World. They do bring out The characters at Halloween
20:44
not at Christmas Okay Disney says I'm just looking,
20:51
I'm also just looking for some other movies we
20:53
might have missed and like Edward Scissorhands,
20:55
I didn't really ever think of it as a Christmas
20:57
movie. I don't know if it snows, does that make
21:01
it a Christmas movie? No. Trading places. No,
21:10
it's gotta, oh man, oh damn. I'll give you Trading
21:15
Places. Yeah, that I think that that is definitely
21:19
a Christmas movie Yeah, I'll give you I'll give
21:23
that I can I can do that yeah, I give that to
21:25
you and again You've always got the Christmas
21:26
carol and those and I'm just again hitting them
21:29
and newer ones I got another new role with Christmas
21:32
Chronicles. It was okay. I wasn't again Didn't
21:36
get blown away And I think if you look hard enough
21:39
You'll find some Christmas movies So yeah, yeah,
21:45
I just want to ask that about night. I saw a
21:46
nightmare before Christmas. I'm like, let's see
21:49
what we think And again, yeah, I'm with you Halloween.
21:52
But uh, yeah, so Yeah, I don't know what else
21:56
to say about Christmas movies, but uh No, I mean
22:01
the one thing for sure and I'm not gonna argue
22:04
with anybody is die -hard to Christmas movie
22:06
It's it's done. It starts at Christmas. It's
22:10
a Christmas party The shenanigans go down. Carl
22:15
Winslow shows up. It's a Christmas movie through
22:20
and through, and it ends with John McClain having
22:25
a Merry Christmas with his family. So yeah. Okay,
22:30
Sami. I got you. I got you. I don't argue. I
22:34
just say I got different categories, but I'm
22:37
okay with it. I knew you loved Die Hard anyways.
22:40
You didn't surprise me there. It's part of my
22:44
soul, man. I love that movie. Okay, so let's
22:53
move on to sports. We got a couple of different
22:56
themes, categories here. So this is for the year
23:04
of 2025. We're at the end of the year. We're
23:07
at Christmas time And we kind of split teams
23:11
and players We're gonna focus on teams right
23:15
now. We talked about teams that are Grinch's
23:22
Yeah, so so clarify that like break that down
23:25
like describe what makes them a Grinch So what
23:27
is the Grinch right? He comes and he takes he
23:29
steals Christmas. He steals joy from you He takes
23:34
everything that is good and he takes it away
23:37
because, you know, he doesn't want to see others
23:40
celebrate. Now that's that part. I look at it
23:42
more with these, we were looking at these teams
23:45
in MLB, NFL, NBA, are teams that, again, took
23:50
our joy. Who took our joy away? Who is a Grinch
23:53
as a professional team? Let's start with the
24:00
NBA. You go on with your NBA one because I, But
24:05
like I've had a pretty good idea of what you
24:08
were getting at okay, but so I'm curious if my
24:11
team fits But I want to hear what yours is first
24:14
So I'm gonna I'm gonna go with the Charlotte
24:18
Hornets. Oh They take your joy and your money
24:28
they take joy and my money away And they get,
24:34
as we've talked about before, being a Hornets
24:36
fan, yeah. They get your hopes up, they act like
24:41
they're going all in, and then somebody's hurt,
24:46
somebody sits out, and the next thing you know,
24:48
they're 10 games below 500. And every single
24:52
year and this year is no different. You could
24:55
say last year, this year, however you wanna put
24:58
the Hornets right at the moment. They are Grinch.
25:02
They take my joy away. Okay. All right. My. Okay.
25:10
So you went with a team that you're an actual
25:12
fan of. Yes. And they are a Grinch esque organization
25:18
for all the reasons that you just said. And what's
25:20
funny is they've never played on Christmas day
25:22
in their entire history. and they don't deserve
25:26
to. But who wants to watch that? I mean, I don't
25:32
know. Maybe they'll have a flash in the pan year
25:34
and then the league can follow it up by scheduling
25:36
them on Christmas, maybe for early afternoon
25:38
games. If Kahn Knipple continues, maybe, maybe
25:41
he will, he will get them on Christmas. Yeah,
25:45
it's possible. It's possible. So I'm going to
25:49
go in the totally opposite way. Okay. You're
25:52
talking about a team that steals your joy. You're
25:54
talking about a team that takes away the feel
25:56
good from a sport from you. And I'm going to
26:01
pick a team and an organization that does both
26:04
those things. They're also not fun to watch.
26:09
They're also incredibly great. And they're going
26:13
to easily win the championship this year, taking
26:16
the Oklahoma City Thunder. Oklahoma City Thunder
26:20
are the Grinch's. They're the Grinch's because
26:22
they're going to come and take everybody's shit.
26:24
They're going to take the best from every team
26:26
and blow them out. They've got probably, and
26:31
this is a shot, there's no way to say this without
26:34
disrespect, probably the least popular NBA MVP
26:42
that you can remember. Is that fair? An SGA?
26:48
Yeah, I mean, you know, he's getting there Like
26:51
I said, I mean like if you if you if you if you
26:54
took the less but even like yeah, but even like
26:56
even like Joker even like Jokic Like he he he
27:00
has some charisma like he's funny. He's silly.
27:03
He's goofy. Yeah, you know, he loves basketball
27:06
But not really he cares about winning but the
27:09
second he gets bounced out He's on a plane to
27:11
go back to this country to ride horses. Yeah,
27:13
like he loves horses he does love his horses
27:16
and But so SGA doesn't like he's their star,
27:21
but he's not really a star. And I told you like,
27:24
for me, like the barometer is when, when regular
27:27
people on the street who don't care about basketball
27:29
know who that person is, that's what makes them
27:31
a star. Okay. To me. Okay. Um, but also it's
27:35
the fact that you already know. And the reason
27:39
why I can equate them to the Grinch is because
27:42
you know that whoever your team is in the league,
27:45
They don't stand a chance to beat them then.
27:47
It's not happening. Not this year. They're so
27:50
out and far away ahead of everybody in a seven
27:54
game series. You know, it's a foregone conclusion.
27:57
If the Oklahoma City Thunder don't win the championship
28:00
this year, it'll be the biggest letdown in NBA
28:03
history that you can remember. So in, I don't
28:07
see it happening. Like they're going to take
28:09
it from everybody. So for me, yeah, like, yeah,
28:11
they're my Grinch team. Wade. You mean them losing
28:14
in the NBA Cup doesn't concern you for the NBA
28:18
final run they're going to go on? Not at all.
28:22
Doesn't matter at all. Not one bit. And and I
28:27
think you know it. But more and more importantly
28:30
than them not winning the NBA Cup doesn't matter.
28:36
The Knicks winning it. May not even matter even
28:39
more it never does matter even if they come out
28:41
of the East it still doesn't mean I'd love to
28:44
see okay see destroy them I'm gonna say one more
28:47
thing about the Thunder then we'll move on I
28:49
Actually did not want them to win the NBA Cup
28:52
because I felt like it was beneath them Because
28:55
they just won the NBA Finals, but again, you
28:58
know how I feel about the NBA Cup so Well, yeah,
29:03
actually how everybody feels about the NBA Cup
29:05
except Adam Silver Okay, I would have loved to
29:12
see them win it and win the championship to give
29:16
it some relevancy Yeah, I mean well But if you're
29:22
a great team, it doesn't matter because you don't
29:24
need it. Yeah You know what? I mean like you
29:27
like you could like to me you can be a great
29:29
and this is a Sports takey Hot takey thing to
29:36
say but to me you can be a great player and not
29:39
win an MVP as long as you like you're winning
29:41
championships Yeah, if you're great and you know,
29:45
you're great and everybody else knows you're
29:46
great Like I put like this like Anthony Edwards
29:48
to me doesn't need an MVP because we know he's
29:51
a great player He doesn't have to be the greatest
29:53
player in the world who have a fantastic career
29:56
Maybe he was a championship. Maybe he doesn't
29:59
but he doesn't need an MVP to validate him Hey,
30:02
it makes so it makes sense And and your pick
30:05
makes sense and because of the way you explained
30:08
it the Thunder are dominating so Taking everybody's
30:12
joy. Everybody's fun and chance of winning Speaking
30:16
of speaking of that. I'm gonna shift to baseball
30:19
MLB Go and it's the Los Angeles Dodgers again
30:26
They sign every free agent and obviously they
30:29
just won the championship And I don't care they
30:32
went to seven games. And they almost lost to
30:36
the Blue Jays, who nobody thought was going to
30:37
be there. The Dodgers are taking everybody's
30:41
joy nowadays. One, they are running their team,
30:44
as we've talked, better than any other franchise
30:48
in the Major League Baseball. They are a Grinch
30:52
personally for me, obviously, because they took
30:54
Freddie Freeman from the Atlanta Braves. And
30:57
I will never, ever live that down. or let that
31:01
go. I just can't. Now he's winning World Series
31:05
Championships with them. So yeah, the Dodgers
31:08
kind of the same, you know, like I said, I like
31:10
the Thunder. They're loaded, you know they're
31:13
gonna win, and you kind of know they're gonna
31:15
be there. If someone would beat them, that would
31:18
be great. You know, it's like the Yankees in
31:21
the 90s. That's what the Dodgers are now. They
31:25
are the Grinch. They take your joy because if
31:27
you think you're gonna sign, your team's gonna
31:29
sign that big free agent, think again. The Dodgers
31:33
will. They'll defer their money and they'll pay
31:36
them, you know, in 2100, the year 2100. Okay.
31:44
All right. That's fair. I can see that. Okay.
31:51
That's fair. I'm going to, I'll kind of go a
31:56
different way. I'm gonna go with the Mets. And
32:04
along the same lines of your Charlotte Hornets
32:09
take. They're you know, a franchise is gonna
32:12
consistently underachieve consistently disappoint
32:15
You know and one of the biggest media markets,
32:18
you know in in professional sports But the main
32:21
reason why I'm gonna go with them is because
32:23
they are trying their hardest to be the Yankees
32:28
and be the Dodgers With their payroll in the
32:31
last five years being in the top five, you know,
32:35
we're talking hundreds of millions of dollars
32:39
for them to continuously disappoint as a baseball
32:43
franchise. And I think it's because, I mean,
32:49
I don't want to call their front office unstable,
32:52
but when you look at the money that they're spending,
32:56
the acquisitions, the contracts that they're
32:57
signing people to, and I think they had like
32:59
an ownership shift recently. So when you put
33:03
all those things into play and it's like, hey,
33:05
you know, we're just going to go and buy a great
33:06
team, and you still fail. It just makes you look
33:10
like a, like a ugly green faced loser. So I'm
33:15
going to go with, I'm going to go with the Mets.
33:18
You know, I like that. They are, they are the
33:21
Yankees little brother and they always will be
33:25
because like you said, they try to be like them,
33:28
the Dodgers, you know, they're trying to be like
33:30
the Phillies and everybody else and the Phillies
33:33
too. And they still fall short. They went to
33:37
the World Series in 2000, lost to the Yankees,
33:41
their big brother. And then in 2015, they made
33:44
it again and lost to the Kansas City Royals,
33:48
who had not won since the 80s. And then they
33:53
haven't been back. And again, they normally flame
33:56
out in the playoffs. And like you said, they're
34:00
signing everybody under the sun. If we want to
34:04
talk about recently, they have signed some guys
34:07
from the Yankees recently in Devin Williams and
34:11
Luke Weaver, but they lost their Freddie Freeman.
34:15
They lost Pete Alonso to the Orioles in free
34:17
agency last week, and they lost their closer
34:21
in Edwin Diaz. So they lost two fan favorites,
34:24
two guys who were kind of the face of the Mets
34:27
before Soto got there. And I don't know if that's
34:31
going to work out. They made another trade, they
34:34
lost another. They've removed like three starters
34:36
already, whether losing them in free agency or
34:40
making a trade. So we'll see how that turns out,
34:44
but I like it. They are on the same line as the
34:46
Charlotte Hornets for my basketball pick. The
34:49
Mets definitely disappoint and steal their fans'
34:53
joy, just like the Grinch. Yes. All right. Let's
35:06
go to the big boy NFL Go ahead and crack it open
35:10
man. What you got? Okay? so I Went with the Kansas
35:16
City Chiefs And again kind of that same they
35:21
keep winning they're always here and they're
35:23
taking our joy They're taking our you know, because
35:26
it's like hey, you know now finally This year
35:30
we won't we will not have to watch the Kansas
35:32
City Chiefs in the playoffs Or the Super Bowl,
35:36
obviously. They ain't in the playoffs, they ain't
35:37
gonna be in the Super Bowl. It will be someone
35:39
else. And we got at least a year break. We might
35:43
get two year break. Unfortunately, my homes is
35:46
injured, right? So it's just one of those, like,
35:50
you get tired of seeing the same team unless
35:52
you're a fan of that team. And I think this is
35:55
the same way. It was like, hey, I know Josh Allen
35:58
and Lamar Jackson were definitely thinking the
36:02
Chiefs of the Grinch. because they can't get
36:04
anywhere without because the chiefs were still
36:06
around. And yeah, they got they started getting
36:11
that stank on them of, you know, the same old
36:15
same old winning all the time. And then again,
36:17
like we talked about before, the the Mahomes
36:19
crying to the refs or everyone thinking the refs
36:22
are giving them calls. And I think this year,
36:25
you know, it finally it finally did catch up
36:27
to them. But they're still to me, they're still
36:30
the Grinch because they they're taking, you know.
36:32
again, the Swifties and the Kelsey, you know,
36:36
all that. And it just kind of got to be a lot
36:39
where it would take the joy from watching football,
36:42
especially obviously when they were playing.
36:47
OK, and that that's fair. It's going to come
36:52
with dominant teams, and they've been dominant
36:56
in that in their division, making Super Bowl
37:01
runs. Patrick Mahomes is amazing. And Trav took
37:05
away for his season to end. You know, you get
37:08
bounced from the playoffs in a game where they
37:10
had a chance to win, you know, tears his ACL
37:13
this late in the year, which I mean, obviously
37:16
there's no great time to tear your ACL, but to,
37:19
but to lose it, to tear it so early, turn it
37:24
early in the season gives you a chance to come
37:25
back earlier. And even though you may be able
37:28
to write off your whole season, the Chiefs still
37:31
thought that they had a chance to compete. So
37:33
it was it was sad to see. I didn't like it kind
37:35
of, you know, happened in the way that it did.
37:37
But so that's unfortunate. But to your point,
37:41
yeah, that's what they do. And the Swifties and
37:43
all that you you got my vote. My my answer is
37:47
just too easy. This is a layup. It's stereotypical
37:50
as hell. And I don't care. It's the Cowboys.
37:54
Yeah. Now, The reason why I'm going to say this
37:58
is for one reason only. One reason. I would have
38:03
let the Cowboys skate if it wasn't for this one
38:05
thing. The Cowboys have been mid all season.
38:10
Okay. They started off, you know, are they going
38:14
to be good enough to make the playoffs or are
38:16
they not? They hit a losing stretch and then
38:20
they went off and won some games Okay, you know,
38:23
of course they you know, they beat the Eagles
38:25
they end up beating the line, you know, they
38:27
they have they have they have some some notable
38:32
wins and Questions started being asked Do we
38:38
owe Jerry Johnson Jerry Jones an apology Do we
38:42
give Jerry Jones enough credit for the way this
38:44
this Cowboys team looks? And they were making
38:48
the case publicly all over Sports Talk radio
38:51
of how the Cowboys were gonna make a comeback
38:53
and win the division and make the playoffs. Only
38:56
for it to fall flat with the gigantic fart. And
39:01
I for one took offense to it because I felt like
39:06
everybody was just waiting for a little bit of
39:08
like a glimmer of hope. for the Cowboys to have
39:11
a chance to, you know, to come back and win the
39:14
division. I don't see it happening. And I feel
39:17
like by saying those things, it was trying to
39:19
appease Jerry Jones to make him feel better about
39:24
the situation that the Cowboys are in. And I
39:28
found it offensive. And because I find it offensive,
39:32
I'm gonna say like, yeah, they're my Grinch team.
39:37
Okay. I wanted to go that way, and then I put
39:42
in my notes, the Dallas Cowboys are like the
39:45
Tooth Fairy. How so? They make money off of your
39:55
loss as a fan, because for 30 straight years,
39:58
they're losers. So they're mythical, which I
40:03
know Santa Claus is mythical, Grinch is mythical.
40:06
I just... I don't know if that's a good analogy.
40:09
Cut this out later if you want. But I just said,
40:14
they keep making money and gaining in value for
40:18
losing. Gotcha. No, I see the correlation. I
40:23
see the correlation between the two. Yeah, however
40:25
you want to do it. But again, they are also a
40:28
Grinch. I can agree with that. I can get down
40:30
with that as well. And they will forever be a
40:32
Grinch. Especially they are they are and it's
40:36
like and and I'm looking at it their three wins
40:38
were against the Raiders You know, they did beat
40:41
the two teams that were in the Super Bowl back
40:44
in the back years They beat the Eagles and the
40:46
Chiefs which we both can admit that neither of
40:48
those teams are what they were last year So it
40:51
was again them benefiting off the hype of someone
40:55
else getting those wins Only to fart out two
40:58
losses to the Lions and then to the Vikings.
41:01
And with a tire on their record, it's a wrap.
41:04
You ain't making the playoffs, dude. Yeah, at
41:06
the moment, as of this recording, they have one
41:08
percent chance. But I will say this. I don't
41:10
know if you saw this and we'll go to the next.
41:13
There was a there's two videos of the show get
41:16
up from ESPN. There they had two different reactions.
41:23
The first one was them when the Cowboys beat
41:26
the Raiders. Greeny and the whole guy everybody
41:30
on there were praising Dallas that their defense
41:33
had gotten figured out their offense was rolling
41:36
how good they looked it was just a great win
41:39
and you know it's still the NFL and they were
41:42
just giving them so much praise on that next
41:44
that next morning then they showed the video
41:47
after the Eagles just beat the Raiders shut them
41:51
out hold them to 75 yards They were like well,
41:55
you know, it's the Raiders. What can we really
41:57
take from that? They beat the Raiders. That's
41:59
a get -right game That's Again, I think that
42:05
goes into your take of why they're the Grinch
42:08
is Again the media two different. I mean just
42:12
I mean it was like I'm not surprised but it was
42:16
like oh the Cowboys beat the Raiders and it's
42:19
Look at the Cowboys the Eagles beat the Raiders
42:21
and it's well, you know, I mean I mean, they're
42:24
still a team, but are they really a football
42:27
team? So I found that very funny, but it doesn't
42:31
surprise me. As we always talk about the Cowboys,
42:35
we've been dealing with this our whole life.
42:39
Yeah, and I'm not shocked by, like I said, the
42:43
mainstream media bias, especially ESPN. I feel
42:49
like the Eagles have gotten the Eagles have gotten
42:52
a lot of hate. So to put the comparison between
42:55
the Eagles and the Cowboys is fine. And the Eagles
42:58
have had their struggles. They have earned the
43:00
criticism that they've been getting. That's fine.
43:03
A get right game, you can call it get right game,
43:05
whatever you want to, but it's when a team goes
43:07
out and does the thing that you expect them to
43:09
do against terrible opposition. And you can say
43:13
whatever you want to, but I saw that score of
43:16
the Eagles Raiders game. you know, and I saw
43:19
what the Cowboys did against them. And you can
43:22
pick whoever you think was more impressive, but
43:24
you know, looking at it, I mean, you let them
43:26
put up, you know, 16 points on you. I mean, it's,
43:30
you know, whatever works, man. It's fine. Whatever
43:33
works. Yeah, what else we got? All right, so
43:44
we're going to jump to another topic, sticking
43:47
with the Christmas theme, obviously. And it's
43:49
the Naughty Nice list for the sports figures
43:52
for 2025. OK. Now, what's the criteria for this?
44:02
Naughty list. They've been naughty this year.
44:05
And that means they were bad. They did something
44:09
bad this year. I don't think they're going to
44:13
get anything for Christmas or they will get coal
44:15
in their stocking. I will give you my list. I
44:20
don't know if you need explanations for this.
44:22
I tried to do four to five of each. So here's
44:27
my naughty list. Steve Ballmer. With his side
44:34
deal to get Kawhi more money. And he is just,
44:38
again, skating around No penalty, no one's in
44:45
a rush to punish him. Meanwhile, his team sucks.
44:48
And they've also kicked legend, of course, they
44:51
kicked the legend CP3 off the team. The next
44:55
person on the naughty list is Terry Rozier. He
44:59
is at the moment suspended. He's been arrested
45:03
for his fixing NBA games or gambling. Own himself
45:12
to have others make money on the blind bet lines
45:16
So Terry Rozier is on the naughty list. You don't
45:20
get Christmas presents for cheating the game
45:22
Another another one Kathy Engelbert the Commissioner
45:28
of the WBA We mentioned her earlier, yeah, she
45:33
does not speak fondly of her players or try to
45:38
treat them with the respect that they deserve.
45:42
Again, not going into a lot of detail, but we
45:44
already know about her, like what she'd said
45:46
about Kate McClark and other players. Yeah. And
45:49
then she got exposed and, you know, they're trying
45:51
to work out a deal so they can play basketball
45:53
again next year. Another person, and he is not
45:59
a current player. He is a former player, but
46:01
he was a broadcaster, Mark Sanchez. He decided.
46:06
Oh, man, that's a good one. He decided to drink
46:12
a little bit, go a little crazy, and stab a truck
46:16
driver, I believe. Delivery driver. And then
46:21
he ended up, yeah, that crazy situation. So yeah,
46:23
he is definitely on the naughty list. And our
46:25
last one, we just spoke about him on an episode
46:28
this week. Our former coach in Michigan, Sharon
46:32
Moore. He is on the naughty list. He has been
46:36
very naughty. And yeah, so he finds himself now
46:41
without a job and with some issues going on outside
46:46
of that job as well after his firing at Michigan.
46:51
If you don't know the story again, go look all
46:54
these people up. You will see why they are on
46:56
my naughty list. Okay. No, that's a really good
47:02
list. You covered a lot of ground there. and
47:09
my naughty list, and I only had three, but I'm
47:15
gonna expand this to five just to stay true to
47:19
your list. And... I'm going, so I'm going to
47:24
go with four, and then the fifth is going to
47:26
be a name, and I think you'll understand why
47:29
I throw it in there. It'll make sense. This isn't
47:31
going to be too confusing. I'm just going to
47:34
rattle it off, and this is in no particular order,
47:37
but I'll just start it off with one, Steve Ballmer.
47:39
Hey. Two, Kawhi Leonard. Yep. Three, Tyronn Lue.
47:47
Four, Lawrence Frank. And the reason why all
47:52
of them are on that list is for what they did
47:55
to the gentleman number five, who isn't on the
47:57
list, but he's the reason for all of those jackasses
48:00
being on the list, Mr. Chris Paul himself. The
48:04
Clippers are full of shit. And the fact that
48:06
they've been able to skate all season and look,
48:09
the fact that they're having a bad year, nobody's
48:11
playing well, they can't win games that they're
48:14
supposed to win. The way that they sent Chris
48:19
Paul home, the accusations coming out that Chris
48:23
Paul had tried several times to have discussions
48:25
with Tyronn Lue, and he just wouldn't have talks
48:27
with him. We're watching the decomposition of
48:33
a franchise, and sadly, I don't think it's gonna
48:38
matter, because whenever the Clippers, and we're
48:40
used to them kinda shitting the bed, and Steve
48:44
Ballmer's a novice at owning a basketball team,
48:46
but just watching this dysfunction, is satisfying
48:50
and it is, not only does it make me happy, it
48:55
is my honor to put that entire franchise on my
48:59
naughty list. Love it. I love it. They all deserve
49:03
it. All deserve it. Super easy. And again, not
49:06
Chris Paul. No. And I'm going to say, I'm going
49:09
to give me one minute. I'm going to defend Chris
49:10
Paul for one minute. Okay. Let's say that Chris
49:13
Paul is the asshole that we all think he could
49:18
be. The rumors have been around for Chris Paul
49:20
since Wake Forest. Yeah. Okay. Where he's a firecracker,
49:26
man. It's tough for him. It's tough for people
49:28
to kind of get along with him. He's so intense
49:30
and he can get on people's nerves. But the one
49:34
thing you know is that that guy wants to win
49:36
and he wants to win at all costs and he wants
49:38
to play basketball. What he deems is the right
49:42
way. And that rubs a lot of people the wrong
49:43
way and it could have head coach. But for but
49:47
for him to be disrespected like that in his final
49:50
season after announcing the businesses last year
49:52
and willingly going to your organization that
49:55
was already in a shit show situation and You
49:58
decide to cast him out as opposed to just dealing
50:01
with the issues head -on It speaks to how they're
50:04
handling all the kawaii contract stuff, you know
50:07
Lawrence Frank being a jackass and press conference
50:09
is not answering questions. And the other thing
50:12
out there out there is Theron Lewis tied up in
50:15
gambling scandals too, and nobody's talking about
50:17
that shit. So take it however you want to. It
50:22
has been implied that he is a part of it. He
50:26
is connected. So yeah, I'm all for it. I like
50:32
it. Yes. Yeah, absolutely. What else we got?
50:37
So we're going to go to the nice list. And I've
50:41
got another list of four to five people It's
50:46
funny that I got a guy on the nice list that's
50:49
it that's on one of your Grinch teams and That
50:54
person is Shay Gilders Alexander Okay, he is
50:59
on the nice list because one he won a championship
51:02
the first one in OKC Thunder history He was the
51:07
MVP his first one And again, he's just a nice
51:12
guy. He just plays the game He doesn't do the
51:16
extra People could say whatever about him getting
51:19
fouls and the calls and all this He just minds
51:22
his business, man And I like that and I find
51:26
him on the nice list Another one this is not
51:30
my bias. This is just I Watched the Saquon documentary
51:37
and I don't know how you don't watch that and
51:39
not become a fan of Saquon. If you already wasn't
51:42
a fan of Saquon Barkley, but I don't just have
51:45
Saquon. I got a combo with Saquon and Jalen Hurts
51:48
because once again, I don't know how you can't
51:51
like a guy who just won a Super Bowl, Super Bowl
51:55
MVP. All he does is win. All he does is come
52:00
to work. All he does is just push and grind and
52:04
show no emotion. Except when he threw that touchdown
52:07
against the Raiders, that's the most emotion
52:09
I've ever seen out of Jalen Hurts. He threw a
52:12
dime right down the middle of the field to AJ
52:14
Brown and he was pumped up screaming. I was glad
52:17
to see emotion out of him, but I like that he
52:20
is business out there. He is business on the
52:22
football field. And again, these two guys are
52:25
on my nice list. Another person, another one
52:29
on the nice list, Asia Wilson. I don't think
52:33
she gets, I think she gets enough credit. But
52:36
again, we've talked about this and we're not
52:37
gonna get on the big WNBA thing here of who's
52:40
good and who's not good and who can play basketball
52:42
and who can't play basketball, but if you watch
52:45
the WNBA or any games watch watch the You know
52:51
watch Vegas the aces and Watch Asia Wilson. That's
52:57
you know your daughter little girls everywhere
53:00
wanting to grow up to play basketball, watch
53:02
Asia Wilson. She knows how to play basketball.
53:06
Another MVP this year, another championship.
53:09
So again, for the women out there, and men some
53:13
too, Asia Wilson's on my nice list. Another and
53:19
just totally different sport again I like to
53:21
hit on my wrestling is the GOAT, John Cena. He's
53:26
on my nice list for a reason. This was his retirement
53:29
year. He did a whole year of retirement, basically
53:33
tour, where everybody knew it was his last year.
53:37
He just had his last match. So he is finished
53:41
now for his life, he says, from entering performance.
53:45
And he gave us all he had this year, ups and
53:49
downs with the heel turn and coming back to being
53:51
the John Cena. And again, it's one of those.
53:55
don't think I appreciate him so much when he
53:58
was the man and it's kind of like now I appreciate
54:01
him for you know this year and you get some appreciation
54:05
for the wrestler and performer that he is and
54:08
was and Just got to give it up for John Cena.
54:11
He's gonna be on my nice list And my last is
54:15
I didn't know to do the team the coach or the
54:18
quarterback and that's the Indiana Hoosiers college
54:22
football team I mean, they've never been good.
54:27
They've never been a football school. Fernando
54:30
Mendoza wins the Heisman, you know? Kirk Signetti,
54:36
he's a winner. He said, I'm a winner. And I mean,
54:41
look at them. They're the one seed as of this
54:43
recording going into the playoff. And how can
54:47
you not put them on the nice list? What a great
54:50
story. What a great, you know, like I said Just
54:54
I went all over the place with my nice list.
54:57
But yeah, man, Indiana who's just football team,
54:59
man Yeah, no, that's not uh, no, that's not bad
55:04
for me I'm gonna go with I only got one name
55:11
and For this for this one. I wanted to go with
55:15
somebody that I have a lot of respect for that
55:19
I don't really have a lot of bad things to say
55:22
about them. And they have this almost pristine
55:27
public image for all the right reasons. Not because
55:32
they don't say the things that piss people off,
55:38
but I think you genuinely think of them as a
55:41
good person. You would want them on your team.
55:44
You would want them leading your team. They Above
55:50
everything they've got like a good gravitating
55:53
appearance To where even if you for some reason
55:57
didn't think you'd like them the second he walked
56:00
in the room You'd go, you know a man. I think
56:02
I do like that guy. I'm gonna go with Josh Allen.
56:05
Okay, and We know he's great. We know he's a
56:09
quarterback MVP level player You know have yet
56:12
has yet to get over to hump and actually win
56:13
a championship, but it's got a good smile You
56:18
know, he's one of those, you know, one of those
56:22
football players that you feel like his teammates
56:24
will just follow him into the fire. You know,
56:26
he plays hard. You know, we talked about the
56:29
stats and the records and everything that he's
56:30
broken, but his Q rating is at an all time high
56:35
and he has an opportunity to catapult himself
56:39
into the stratosphere with the Kansas City Chiefs
56:44
out of the way. And this is his opportunity.
56:47
You know, the Ravens are teetering right now.
56:49
You don't know whether or not they're going to
56:50
make the playoffs or not. The Bills kind of hold
56:53
their own, you know, path. You know, if they
56:56
can win enough games, they'll be fine. They'll
56:58
make it to the playoffs. But I'm just going to
57:01
go with, I'm going to go with Josh Allen. He
57:03
just seems like an overall nice guy. He does
57:06
all the charity work and, you know, and all that
57:09
stuff as well. But just even if you, even if
57:11
you, I mean, no one hates the Bills, but If you
57:14
did hate the Bills, it's like, nah, I like that
57:16
Josh Allen dude. He's a good egg. I think unless
57:20
you're like one of their rival, you're definitely
57:25
pulling for the Bills, for their history. And
57:30
Josh Allen helps you pull for them and root for
57:32
them. And he's winning in life. He's married
57:34
to Haley Steinfeld. Yeah, he's winning. He's
57:40
out here winning. That guy is a winner. He's
57:42
a winner on and off the field. And yeah, not
57:46
a bad pick at all. I like it. And that's our
57:50
naughty nice list. And now we're going to go
57:52
to what we do. We try to do every episode. We
57:55
don't always depend on the topics, but in our
57:58
timing. But we're going to run through this really
58:01
quick. We said it's Christmas. So I wanted us
58:04
to both Name our best gift we've ever received,
58:08
either as a child or as an adult. Oh, I'll lead
58:14
off on this. I'm going to stick with my, I like
58:17
nostalgia. I like those things where you make
58:21
that ask for the thing and you end up getting
58:25
it. This was something that I didn't think that
58:26
I was going to get. And it was something that
58:30
I wanted so bad that mistakenly, I didn't realize
58:36
it. I asked for one from my dad. And then I happened
58:43
to mention it to my mom. And I ended up with
58:46
two of them. Nice. And the best thing is, is
58:50
I've got a sister that's almost exactly to the
58:53
day one year older than me. So anything that
58:56
I would play, we would play together. And with
58:59
one of them, it wouldn't really be any fun. But
59:01
with two of them, it made the perfect amount
59:04
of fun as I stood at one end of the hallway,
59:07
and she stood at the other end of the hallway,
59:09
and we would spend hours shooting each other
59:12
with the Nerf bow and arrow. Nice. Not the Nerf
59:16
gun, no bow and arrow. Not the gun, the Nerf
59:20
bow and arrow. Nice. Yeah, man. It was a good
59:23
time. And like I said, it was one of those things,
59:25
I opened the one for my dad, and he kind of had
59:27
this... He saw it, it was like, okay, he saw
59:31
that I was happy. And my mom had this strange
59:35
look on her face and I opened the other one and
59:38
I didn't even realize that the package was pretty
59:40
much the same. And it's like, well, I got two
59:42
of them now. And then my sister just walked over
59:44
and was like, okay, well, I'll take this one.
59:46
And then we just, you know, stood at each other,
59:49
stood at the other opposite ends of the hallway,
59:51
shooting each other with the Nerf bow and arrows.
59:54
And that's like early on Nerf. Like, you know,
59:56
now Nerf is cool if you got kids. again, especially
59:59
boys, you know, Nerf is always a great gift until,
1:00:03
well, most of their childhood. So back then,
1:00:08
again, that's probably, again, Nerf was kind
1:00:10
of still hot and new and fresh, so. Oh, it was
1:00:13
popping, man. I mean, I may have been, I may
1:00:16
have been seven, eight years old. Like I said,
1:00:18
Nerf hasn't gone away and they've definitely
1:00:21
evolved, but yeah, I can see that for sure. That's
1:00:25
a great gift. Yeah, yeah, I missed it man. What's
1:00:30
your what you got? Yeah, so, you know, I went
1:00:32
back and forth on some Christmases, but the one
1:00:35
I always remember and probably was the biggest
1:00:38
Christmas You know me and my brother we We got
1:00:43
a lot this Christmas It what it felt like a lot,
1:00:47
you know when you're when you're young obviously
1:00:49
with toys you get action figures and things like
1:00:51
that You know toys again, like they say it's
1:00:55
doing kids get older it starts costing more but
1:00:57
when they're young I said, I remember a lot of
1:01:00
stuff that Christmas I don't know all what he
1:01:02
got But I know like us the one that we got together
1:01:05
Like you said like say, you know playing with
1:01:08
your sister with the bow and arrow nerf bow and
1:01:10
arrows So I guess this was like a combo gift
1:01:13
for us. And at the time we only had one figure
1:01:17
And our grandparents had gotten that for us It
1:01:21
is the WWF LJN wrestling rubber figures. They
1:01:30
were big. They didn't move. They were rubber.
1:01:34
And we got like, I mean, we got the ring and
1:01:37
we got all, you know, I don't know how many.
1:01:39
So. That was the Christmas, you know that we
1:01:43
you know, we played with them And of course now
1:01:45
they're it's WWE and they just are now coming
1:01:48
out with them again But you can't get them because
1:01:50
they sell out immediately Immediately I wanted
1:01:53
I wanted that, you know Hulk Hogan because that
1:01:56
was the first one we had and of course now they've
1:01:59
got you know They made a dusty roads when he
1:02:02
was in WWF and Logan Paul and a John Cena So
1:02:05
me being the big kid and I you know toy collector
1:02:09
that I can be sometimes I wanted them, but never
1:02:12
could get them or get to the store. They're always
1:02:15
sold out. But yeah, that Christmas was again,
1:02:19
getting those wrestlers. We beat the crap out
1:02:22
of those things, man. They had marks all over
1:02:24
them. But yeah, that was it. Nah, I remember
1:02:28
those, man. Like I said, I was never big on wrestling,
1:02:31
but I remember seeing all the commercials for
1:02:33
them. I remember seeing other kids have them.
1:02:35
Yeah, that's a good one, man. And again, Nostalgia's
1:02:39
undefeated, man. I think it's one of the strongest.
1:02:44
If you could put nostalgia in a bottle and sell
1:02:47
it, you'd be worth trillions. Yeah, yeah. I mean,
1:02:50
again, if I could go back to the 80s and 90s,
1:02:54
I would. So let me turn on Alf and play with
1:02:57
my GI Joes. I'll be good. Hell yeah, man. All
1:03:04
right. So that is it for this Christmas episode
1:03:08
2025 For fanatically speaking and I am Kent the
1:03:12
co -host and promoter I'm log off the log off
1:03:16
legend hater of social media co -host and producer
1:03:19
of the show For this episode go to the comments
1:03:24
put in what your Naughty nice list is put in
1:03:28
what your favorite Christmas gift was as a kid,
1:03:32
et cetera, et cetera. Just throw it in there.
1:03:34
Put it in the comments. Put it in a review. Who
1:03:38
cares? Send it to other people and just ask them.
1:03:40
See what they think. Everywhere, YouTube, Facebook,
1:03:45
TikTok, all the social media platforms that I
1:03:47
am not a part of, I know you are. So just share
1:03:50
it there. Like, share, review, follow, all that
1:03:54
jazz. Yeah, social media stuff. Yep. And again,
1:04:00
like you said, podcasts. You can listen to us
1:04:02
on all podcast outlets that are out there and
1:04:04
available. Again, go listen, like it, share it,
1:04:09
comment, download, same thing you said, log off.
1:04:12
Do it all. More the better. Got it. Yeah, absolutely.
1:04:18
That's it, man. All right, that's a wrap. That's
1:04:21
all I got.