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Best/Worst Christmas Gifts + TNF Preview (with Kyle Brandt)!! · NFL Podcast Network Selects

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Speaker 1: And when I woke up this morning, I was feeling
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Speaker 1: pretty dangerous for on the Cincinnati it's my cornback. They
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Speaker 1: are well, we thought they were. Are we not about Hello?
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Speaker 1: You plenty to win the gate. They want you to
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Speaker 1: cook the dinner. At least they ought to let your
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Speaker 1: shout for some of the groceries. And on the way up,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna buy to kneecapas playoffs. Are you're kidding me?
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Speaker 1: I'm just here so I won't get fine? How could
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Speaker 1: he not be romantic about football? Un I'll tell you
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Speaker 1: what Baker Mayfield saying, I woke up feeling dangerous. That
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Speaker 1: that's how you feel romantic about football. That just has
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Speaker 1: a whole new meaning. This week, Happy Tuesday, Happy week
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Speaker 1: twenty five? What year is it? I'm a lasbed. Welcome
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Speaker 1: to bench with Banetta m Guys, we are getting through it.
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Speaker 1: We are almost there. We're almost in a Saturday football mode,
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Speaker 1: which starts this week. We got some Saturday games this week,
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Speaker 1: we got some Sunday games this week. We got a
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Speaker 1: little Thursday night football this week which we will be
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Speaker 1: previewing Uno Momento. For those of you that are just
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Speaker 1: listening on the pod, maybe you're in your car. Maybe
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Speaker 1: you're cozy, maybe you've got your little tush tushy heaters on.
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Speaker 1: I love that for you. Thanks for taking a break
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Speaker 1: from the from the Christmas cheer and listening to our pod.
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Speaker 1: For those of you that are only listening to the pod,
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Speaker 1: you can't see this sweater that I'm wearing that's covered
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Speaker 1: in gingerbread cookies, and it says, oh snap, oh snap,
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Speaker 1: a new pod has arrived. Guys, We've got a packed
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Speaker 1: show today. I'm actually very excited. Kyle Brant is going
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Speaker 1: to be joining us in a second here. And then
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Speaker 1: I did something that I haven't done in a long time,
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Speaker 1: and it's something that I love to do. I opened
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Speaker 1: my DMS. I opened my DMS and I asked, you, guys,
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Speaker 1: what is the worst and the best Christmas present you
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Speaker 1: have ever received. I don't think I got any good ones.
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Speaker 1: I don't think I got any of like the best.
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Speaker 1: I got all worst, and some of them are terrible,
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Speaker 1: some of them are straight up awful. I'll give you
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Speaker 1: one right now, a soup cookbook. Okay, you know where
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Speaker 1: I stand on that. I'm gonna share mine, Kyle's gonna
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Speaker 1: share his, and then we're going to talk about the games.
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Speaker 1: It just happened. A lot of stuff went down. Brock
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Speaker 1: Purty shining, Tom Brady not so much. Baker Mayfield shout
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Speaker 1: outs again. If I could just do an entire podcast
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Speaker 1: on Baker, I would do that, but without further ado.
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Speaker 1: Let's get KB and here Kabe. What's that all right? Kabe?
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Speaker 1: Today is a sad day because this is the last
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Speaker 1: time we were going to be together before the festivities
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Speaker 1: kick off. People get busy. Your girls gonna put her
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Speaker 1: feet up in a in a couple of days. She's
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Speaker 1: taking a little quick holiday. Don't let the bosses hear that.
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Speaker 1: But this is gonna be the last time you and
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Speaker 1: I are together until the new year. So I wanted
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Speaker 1: to have a very custive show. I wore my little
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Speaker 1: gingerbreads for you. Okay, I'm gonna listening to Charlie Brow.
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Speaker 1: We were just talking about this. I've been listening to
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Speaker 1: Charlie Brown for like a month and a half straight.
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Speaker 1: Before we kick off, I have a question for you all.
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Speaker 1: I went to this place called like Candy Cane Lane
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Speaker 1: last night in Los Angeles, and it's just a couple
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Speaker 1: of streets that are completely shut down, like you can
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Speaker 1: only walk, you can't drive through, and it's just Clark
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Speaker 1: Griswold's everywhere on both sides of the street. It's absolute chaos.
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Speaker 1: And I was thinking to myself, let's say I bought
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Speaker 1: this house in June. Do you think that you know
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Speaker 1: how when you buy a house and somebody just died
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Speaker 1: in it, they have to let you know. I think
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Speaker 1: there should be a similar rule if you have an
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Speaker 1: aggressive neighborhood that goes all out for Christmas. Do you
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Speaker 1: not agree? Yeah? I think absolutely. It's just in a
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Speaker 1: little bit of an fyi. You move in in June
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Speaker 1: and it's eighty two degrees and it's beautiful, and someone
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Speaker 1: sup pulls you aside as, look, come, come, Like Halloween,
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Speaker 1: it's on, and it's on until like MLK, it goes
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Speaker 1: on for four months. And it's not just your lights.
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Speaker 1: It's not just just snowmen. These people are imbeciles for Christmas.
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Speaker 1: So just if you're into that, it's almost like a fetish.
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Speaker 1: If you're into it, that's great, But if it's not
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Speaker 1: for you at this house, for you, because this is
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Speaker 1: like a quarter of the year, would you buy into
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Speaker 1: something like that? Like if they was just like a
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Speaker 1: perfect little neighborhood, a little nook and like the most
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Speaker 1: perfect house that you were looking for, but you know
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Speaker 1: that it is like kind of hellish and you're not
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Speaker 1: even gonna be able to park on your own freaking
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Speaker 1: street for like a full month and maybe a little
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Speaker 1: bit in Halloween too. Would you do that perfect housewise? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: I like that you compared like having soldiers or Christmas
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Speaker 1: trees and free yard, having like a dead body pulled
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Speaker 1: out of your house and what it does. And look, Rachel,
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Speaker 1: if you have to answer the question, you know the
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Speaker 1: answer is yes, I'm all in for it. I think
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Speaker 1: it raises the property value. I'm a festive s ob
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Speaker 1: and I know you share that with me, so that
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Speaker 1: would be huge for me. I'd be, oh, shoot, I'll
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Speaker 1: pay more if I have to. That's part of the
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Speaker 1: fun I'm in. It does sound, it does feel like
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Speaker 1: a like a fun community situation. But like on week three,
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Speaker 1: I'd be like I would just turn or I'd be
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Speaker 1: the one house that would be Grinch and I just
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Speaker 1: like really play up the Grinch and I just have
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Speaker 1: like dark lights and just like evil vibes, like stay
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Speaker 1: off my lawn. Okay, let's get into this. We are
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Speaker 1: gonna do this a little bit later on in the show,
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Speaker 1: I opened my d and I asked people to send
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Speaker 1: me their worst in their best Christmas presents they ever
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Speaker 1: received as a kid. Do you have a best and
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Speaker 1: do you have a worse? Before we before we start
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Speaker 1: this thing. Yeah, well my best is we got a
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Speaker 1: puppy one year. And listen, it's not getting too much
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Speaker 1: into my life, but like you know, I had divorced parents,
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Speaker 1: so let's just say like that, the dad was going
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Speaker 1: hard for Christmas, like trying to compensate, and he couldn't
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Speaker 1: get us a horse, so he got us a puppy
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Speaker 1: and it was a bearded collie. His name was Fluppy
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Speaker 1: Fluppy the puppy, and that really brought the house down.
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Speaker 1: On the other side of it, the worst present was
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Speaker 1: there was one year, I think it was like ninety
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Speaker 1: one or ninety two where the entire world was obsessed
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Speaker 1: with roller blades. You had to have roller blades inline skates,
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Speaker 1: and my sisters and I begged and begged and begged,
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Speaker 1: and we opened them up in the morning and they
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Speaker 1: were like blade rollers, you know, like that not And
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Speaker 1: I love your mom, and I'm sure you saved a
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Speaker 1: bunch of money, but those things barely worked at all,
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Speaker 1: and they didn't do anything for our cool factors. So
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Speaker 1: fluppy the puppy blade rollers, what about you? My best
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Speaker 1: Christmas present? I remember coming out, and the best Christmas
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Speaker 1: presents are always like the ones that make you act
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Speaker 1: like a complete jerk at first. I come downstairs, there's
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Speaker 1: nothing really around the tree for your girl. All my
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Speaker 1: brothers have like these, like they're getting snowboards and like
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Speaker 1: cool stin shoes, And I was like, what the hell's
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Speaker 1: going on? Mom and Dad? And they made me sit
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Speaker 1: there for a while because I started to poup. So
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Speaker 1: they're like, oh, you're gonna sit in this and you
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Speaker 1: we're gonna feel extra bad in a little bit. And
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Speaker 1: they're like, Rachel, your present is on the front lawn.
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Speaker 1: And I was like, on the front lawn, what the hell?
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Speaker 1: I go outside and there is a my version of
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Speaker 1: a Corvette at the time, it was a little mini
6:39
Speaker 1: four wheeler like for a child, like very dangerous. But
6:42
Speaker 1: they got me like a little ramming. Oh yeah, that
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Speaker 1: was my That was my best one. I wrote it
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Speaker 1: every single day. I used to get like finger cramps
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Speaker 1: from like pressing on the gas that I used to
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Speaker 1: have to like hold two hands down because I was
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Speaker 1: such a weak little child. And my worst one was
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Speaker 1: probably one that I gifted. I'm notoriously not. When I
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Speaker 1: was younger, I was not very good at gifting presents.
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Speaker 1: But when I was in high school, I wanted to
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Speaker 1: get this this perfume that I had for my best friend,
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Speaker 1: and I shoplifted it. I stole it, and I got
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Speaker 1: busted and they had to handcuff me and everything. Because
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Speaker 1: I was so young, they wanted to teach me a lesson,
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Speaker 1: like a guy on the segway, like what happened? Fullmall cop,
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Speaker 1: fullmall cop arrested me a teenager? How did they know?
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Speaker 1: Like give me a few details. I think they said, Okay,
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Speaker 1: it was at a hollister. It was at a hollister,
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Speaker 1: so I feel like it had like night vision goggles
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Speaker 1: in that place because it's spitch black. You're like feeling
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Speaker 1: around for like your sizes on the shelf. Um and
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Speaker 1: I got a I got little perfume and I was
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Speaker 1: like lip into my bag. It was for my friend Whitney.
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Speaker 1: And that was the worst part about it. As I
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Speaker 1: tried to say, like this was for my friend, like
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Speaker 1: I was trying to be a good friend, and they're like,
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Speaker 1: you still stole. And they brought me in the back
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Speaker 1: and they sat me down and I was in there
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Speaker 1: for like an hour and a half and all my
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Speaker 1: friends had to like wait outside for me. And I
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Speaker 1: was so humiliated, and oh ball minds praying, praying to
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Speaker 1: Jesus like I had never for the first time in
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Speaker 1: my other day. It was bad, but all for a
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Speaker 1: good cause, all for friends. Okay, so we're gonna get
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Speaker 1: to it. We're gonna open up the DMS in a
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Speaker 1: little bit and I'll read off some more of those.
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Speaker 1: But um next Thing's next is there's a couple of
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Speaker 1: teams on the outside looking in for playoffs, And I
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Speaker 1: want to play Santa with you. Which teams are we
8:32
Speaker 1: gifting a playoff spot? We don't know much so far.
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Speaker 1: All we know is the Eagles. They're the only team
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Speaker 1: that have clinched the playoffs spot so far. There are
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Speaker 1: a couple of teams that are eliminated Broncos, Texans and Bears.
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Speaker 1: Who on the cusp would you say is deserving of
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Speaker 1: a spot? In your opinion? You and I have already
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Speaker 1: spent much time talking about the beautiful, beautiful team in Detroit, Michigan.
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Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna do it. That's a given. I
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Speaker 1: want the Lions in bad but I'll tell you the
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Speaker 1: other one, Sweet Caroline, Bubba. No, I want Carolina, and
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Speaker 1: I've been out to hear me out. I want them
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Speaker 1: so much, just for an auntie, for the other three
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Speaker 1: children in that family. Tampa, I'm tired of you, bleeper,
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Speaker 1: Get off the pot. They won't do it. Atlanta, No,
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Speaker 1: New Orleans. No. I am here for the Steve Wilkes
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Speaker 1: Sam Darnold Redemption Tour and the Carolina Panthers hosting a
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Speaker 1: home playoff game for winning the NFC South. I'm tired
9:27
Speaker 1: of waiting for the other teams. I want Carolina, and
9:30
Speaker 1: oh my good lord, I was not because they're like
9:34
Speaker 1: down the list I'm looking at. You know, you got
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Speaker 1: the you got the sixes in the seven. So the
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Speaker 1: six and the seven in the AFC AFC right now,
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Speaker 1: and the Dolphins and the Chargers for the NFC, You've
9:45
Speaker 1: got commanders and giants. We love that. Here is on
9:47
Speaker 1: the bubble right now. Jets are on the bubble in
9:50
Speaker 1: the AFC. The Patriots are on the Bubble Jags, okay,
9:53
Speaker 1: and then the NFC you got Seahawks, you got Lions,
9:56
Speaker 1: you got Packers, and then you got the Panthers way
9:59
Speaker 1: down there. That would be absolutely bonkers, Okay, chaotic Santa Like,
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Speaker 1: they gotta get to They're gotta get to eight and
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Speaker 1: nine maybe to win that division. So listen, I could
10:11
Speaker 1: sit here and tell you, oh, yeah, the Patriots, I
10:13
Speaker 1: don't know, screw the Patriots. They've had so many years
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Speaker 1: of getting the power wheels and the blade rollers and
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Speaker 1: all that stuff. They can be the kid for once
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Speaker 1: that has to steal to get in. They've I like
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Speaker 1: someone who has been looked down about, like a tiny
10:25
Speaker 1: tim like on a little crutch. Basically, that's Carolina. I
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Speaker 1: want them, man. I love that. Okay, maybe I'm I'm
10:32
Speaker 1: being a little bit of a scrooge. What about the
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Speaker 1: Packers who are still above them? Well, they're they're they're
10:36
Speaker 1: they're both five and eight right now? Are you? Are
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Speaker 1: you as stoked on on the Packers? Yeah? I find
10:41
Speaker 1: it hilarious, Like if they come back from the bye
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Speaker 1: and it's just like, in a lot of ways, I'd
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Speaker 1: like it, because everybody's worth nightmare, and sometimes that's what
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Speaker 1: Christmas is about too, that like, no, we can't let
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Speaker 1: Rogers get in this year. Yeah, yeah you might. He
10:52
Speaker 1: is like the hottest wide receiver in the league. They're rested,
10:55
Speaker 1: They're playing the Zombie Rams with Baker when they come
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Speaker 1: out of the bye So I like that just for
11:00
Speaker 1: the shock and awe of everyone who just likes to
11:02
Speaker 1: see the Packers burned down. I'd be hard press Waneta
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Speaker 1: to find somebody in the NFC. I don't want to
11:07
Speaker 1: see him make the playoffs. I just want that thing
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Speaker 1: to be chaos, and Packers and Panthers would be I know.
11:12
Speaker 1: I mean we got we got a taste of chaos
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Speaker 1: this past Thursday of football when Baker Mayfield, Oh my goodness,
11:17
Speaker 1: you called it, and then we called it because we
11:19
Speaker 1: said we I mean, we are fibbing a little bit.
11:21
Speaker 1: We're like the next the headlines on Friday are gonna
11:25
Speaker 1: be like welcome to Hollywood. Baker and we were texting
11:28
Speaker 1: each other all night being like, oh God, like, we're
11:31
Speaker 1: gonna have to turn this and do a funny edit
11:32
Speaker 1: with like some like burn and then all of a
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Speaker 1: sudden we looked like geniuses. We were right. I love chaos.
11:39
Speaker 1: I want as much chaos as I can in the
11:40
Speaker 1: playoffs because you only have so much football left. Okay,
11:44
Speaker 1: we're gonna continue with the you being Santa, and I
11:47
Speaker 1: am gonna list off a few people and you're gonna
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Speaker 1: tell me whether they're on the naughty or the nice list?
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Speaker 1: Are you ready? All right? Okay? This is an interesting
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Speaker 1: one today because we saw the Jets play on Sunday
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Speaker 1: and they didn't look great, and Mike White got hurt.
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Speaker 1: He went in, he got hurt, he went in, he
12:03
Speaker 1: got hurt. Joe Flacco came in. They never called on
12:06
Speaker 1: Zack Wilson, and now Robert Sali is saying, we're still
12:09
Speaker 1: not going to call on Zach Wilson. So let me
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Speaker 1: ask you, this is Zach Wilson still on the naughty list,
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Speaker 1: and why should he should he maybe think about getting
12:16
Speaker 1: onto the nice list to help this team out. Well, listen,
12:19
Speaker 1: if we're taking into the offseason headlines about him, he's
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Speaker 1: on the very naughty list and some people, hey, now, no,
12:27
Speaker 1: listen the fact that they won't even let that kid dress.
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Speaker 1: I don't even understand it, because poor old man Flacco
12:33
Speaker 1: came in and like, I love Joe, but like that
12:36
Speaker 1: that just wasn't happening. He didn't have it, So they
12:38
Speaker 1: won't even let the dude put on his uniform anymore.
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Speaker 1: I think you have to keep him in the naughty list.
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Speaker 1: I just feel like it's like maybe there's things that
12:46
Speaker 1: we don't know, but like if it's just saying that
12:49
Speaker 1: he let the defense down, I get it that he
12:51
Speaker 1: probably lost like a little or he didn't let the
12:52
Speaker 1: defense down. I get it that he probably lost a
12:55
Speaker 1: little respect. But at some point you gotta be like, okay, guys,
12:57
Speaker 1: like let's get over in place of football and like
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Speaker 1: get back to what we're supposed to be doing. Okay,
13:01
Speaker 1: what about the Raiders. We all saw your speech on
13:05
Speaker 1: Good Morning Football that they should have walked back to
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Speaker 1: Las Vegas. Are they on the naughty list or you
13:11
Speaker 1: putting them on the nice list this year? Look, putting
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Speaker 1: them on the naughty list acknowledges their existence. So like,
13:19
Speaker 1: I'm so mad at them right now. They don't even
13:22
Speaker 1: get an A or an F. They just get like
13:24
Speaker 1: an NA or an incomplete. I'm so mad at them,
13:27
Speaker 1: and I'm mad at the at us because we as
13:30
Speaker 1: a people who were like, oh, this is so cool.
13:32
Speaker 1: The Raiders are making a run because what they won
13:34
Speaker 1: three games in a row like that never happens. I'm
13:36
Speaker 1: just so frustrated and so mad at myself and you
13:39
Speaker 1: and anybody else who gave one second to the Raiders.
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Speaker 1: We got deeked, we got fish hooked. And so no,
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Speaker 1: they're not on either list incomplete. That's what they get.
13:47
Speaker 1: This is a good chip on the shoulder narrative, though,
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Speaker 1: because I do feel like the Raiders are a fun
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Speaker 1: team to root for, just everything that they've been through
13:53
Speaker 1: in the last few years, and then to have Baker
13:56
Speaker 1: Mayfield helmet off, given everyone ahead butts and you're looking,
14:01
Speaker 1: imagine washing that from the sideline like you just had
14:04
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield come in here on Tuesday and beat you
14:08
Speaker 1: guys in the very last minute, and you have all
14:10
Speaker 1: of your fans here from Las Vegas, and then you
14:14
Speaker 1: see this guy aheadbutting everyone celebrating. I would be furious.
14:17
Speaker 1: This is a very fun ship on the shoulder, just
14:19
Speaker 1: like an epic comeback waiting to happen. So we'll see
14:21
Speaker 1: how they react. But I agree, not even on a list,
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Speaker 1: we're just not acknowledging them. We've lost their names. Russell
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Speaker 1: Wilson and the Broncos the combo naughty or nice. This
14:34
Speaker 1: is the team that I almost feel bad for now,
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Speaker 1: Like it was almost like this Christmas miracle. They were
14:39
Speaker 1: getting destroyed by the Chiefs and it was like rock bottom.
14:41
Speaker 1: But then it was like, you know, they were gonna
14:43
Speaker 1: save the cookie shop in the small town and they
14:46
Speaker 1: did a bake sale and they started to get donations,
14:48
Speaker 1: and look, they're gonna save the shop. They're gonna come
14:49
Speaker 1: back and they're gonna beat the Chiefs. So I think
14:52
Speaker 1: in September October I would put them a naughty. I mean,
14:54
Speaker 1: remember how much mileage we got out of russ doing
14:56
Speaker 1: the high knees on the plane and everything. That was
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Speaker 1: like first team all naughty. Now it's like, I don't know,
15:02
Speaker 1: I feel like they're they're the charity case, like you
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Speaker 1: put your coin in the red kettle and the ghost
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Speaker 1: of the Broncos. I can't even put them on the naughty.
15:08
Speaker 1: I hope they get a Teddy Bear or something for Christmas. Nice, sir,
15:11
Speaker 1: they're trying. Um, I would say, you know, when it
15:15
Speaker 1: all comes down to it, you want to be entertained.
15:18
Speaker 1: And Russell Wilson has really done nothing but that, like
15:22
Speaker 1: he gave us the Let's Ride in the very very beginning.
15:26
Speaker 1: He is just a cringe video after cringe video. Oh God,
15:31
Speaker 1: please don't do that to me. He's the it's the
15:34
Speaker 1: subway video, It's it's the hy knees. It's is truly
15:38
Speaker 1: the gift that keeps on giving. I'm gonna put them
15:40
Speaker 1: on the nice list because when it all comes down
15:42
Speaker 1: to it, when it's all said and done, we're gonna
15:44
Speaker 1: look back on the memories, the laughs that we had,
15:47
Speaker 1: not the tears that we cry. Okay, um, this is
15:50
Speaker 1: an interesting one and I'm really curious to see your opinion.
15:53
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray not your nice list this year. Kyler is
15:57
Speaker 1: flirting with that Raiders no agnowed lists. I can't do that. Listen,
16:02
Speaker 1: they play their demundayante football. They're against the Patriots. I
16:06
Speaker 1: don't know. Also feels like Kyler's last stand. Yeah, here's
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Speaker 1: my experience. I got a couple of kids. What they'll
16:13
Speaker 1: do is that like the three days before Christmas, they
16:16
Speaker 1: try to rally, They try to like come back there
16:19
Speaker 1: their version of like a twenty eight to three comeback,
16:21
Speaker 1: and they try to be really well behaved for three days.
16:24
Speaker 1: Can I help you Daddy's what you can do. And
16:25
Speaker 1: I'm like, you have been such a little jerk for
16:28
Speaker 1: three weeks. Your behavior has been just like a wild animal.
16:31
Speaker 1: Don't rally now. I feel like Kyler, who also has
16:33
Speaker 1: to be the size of my son, might actually like
16:36
Speaker 1: try to rally here at the end of the season
16:38
Speaker 1: and maybe he can save Christmas. So I'm hoping I'm
16:41
Speaker 1: saving a space for him on the nice list, because
16:43
Speaker 1: why not. I feel like, Okay, like you've bought the
16:45
Speaker 1: new call of duty for him and you're just like
16:47
Speaker 1: keeping it locked away, like you may pull it out
16:49
Speaker 1: for him on Christmas Day and you also may not. Okay,
16:52
Speaker 1: one last one, I have to do it naughty. You're nice.
16:55
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, Oh so nice, the best, the star pupil.
16:59
Speaker 1: I love that guy. Love Baker, Love the way he operates.
17:02
Speaker 1: What the hell was that Thursday night? What was that? Like? That?
17:09
Speaker 1: That was the stupidest, dumbest plot of a movie ever,
17:12
Speaker 1: And it's it was real And I'm watching the end
17:14
Speaker 1: of the game and Al Michael's just sitting there going
17:17
Speaker 1: Hollywood has a new leading man. It was like al
17:21
Speaker 1: was halfway to Lake Placid, like he was he was
17:22
Speaker 1: ready to drop the miracle on us again. It was
17:25
Speaker 1: so great and so fun and I just listen I
17:28
Speaker 1: used to This always sounds so patronized, but like, I
17:31
Speaker 1: was really proud of Baker. I don't know him, I've
17:33
Speaker 1: never met him, I've never interviewed him never ever. But
17:35
Speaker 1: I'm proud of the guy. And he is on the
17:37
Speaker 1: nice list at the top. He's up there with the
17:39
Speaker 1: MVP candids. I love the guy so much. Great night
17:41
Speaker 1: for him. There's so many people that love to hate him,
17:43
Speaker 1: but they're really you can't deny that. There is like
17:45
Speaker 1: some people that you meet, they just have a sparkle
17:47
Speaker 1: to them, and he's got that, like football sparkle is
17:51
Speaker 1: like he can be atrocious sometimes and you're like, what
17:54
Speaker 1: is going on? And then other times he like pulls
17:56
Speaker 1: out something like this and you're like, this is the
17:59
Speaker 1: reason why I watched sports, this is the reason why
18:02
Speaker 1: I love football. So you can't knock him because he's
18:04
Speaker 1: the one. He's the one gifting these situations. He pulled
18:08
Speaker 1: the Browns out of absolutely nowhere and took them to
18:11
Speaker 1: the people don't love him too, I love them. On
18:14
Speaker 1: a personal note, Rachel, you'll relate to this a couple
18:17
Speaker 1: of years ago, like two years ago, Baker Mayfield started
18:20
Speaker 1: following me on Twitter and I was like, oh, that's
18:22
Speaker 1: really cool. So I dropped him this note like hey man,
18:24
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of yours. Thanks man, good luck. No response,
18:27
Speaker 1: And then, like over the last two years, like once
18:30
Speaker 1: every six months, I've pathetically written him like a little note,
18:33
Speaker 1: just like hey man, great game. You know they'd be
18:35
Speaker 1: really impressed. You're the man never responds never, and so
18:39
Speaker 1: if you go, if I go to dam them right now,
18:41
Speaker 1: there's like five dms from me like stalker over the
18:46
Speaker 1: last two years. And sure enough, when he beat the
18:48
Speaker 1: Raiders the other night, I hit him a note. I'm like,
18:50
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna keep doing it. I don't if you're
18:52
Speaker 1: reading them, great, If you're not great, I don't even
18:53
Speaker 1: need a response. I'm just a fan of yours and
18:55
Speaker 1: I want you to know. But it's a kind of
18:56
Speaker 1: a pathetic look over under six meth messages you've sent
19:00
Speaker 1: him already, Push Push, I think it's a book. I
19:04
Speaker 1: think it might be six, it might be five. But
19:07
Speaker 1: the last one was just like, you know, I don't
19:09
Speaker 1: want to get into I've already embarrassed myself enough, but
19:11
Speaker 1: he won't respond. And I liked that he won't respond.
19:14
Speaker 1: I liked it that he's just dialed in. I don't
19:16
Speaker 1: want him to respond to me. I'm some guy who's
19:17
Speaker 1: never met but I support him and I apologize for nothing. Okay,
19:21
Speaker 1: hold on Kyle, because I feel like I have to
19:24
Speaker 1: send him nah okay and no response to Okay? Should
19:30
Speaker 1: I read this? Should I read this? No response? I
19:33
Speaker 1: don't think he follows me. Okay. This was um, this
19:37
Speaker 1: was after he left Cleveland. This was my DM to Baker.
19:41
Speaker 1: This is so embarrassing. I said, Hi, Baker, you made
19:45
Speaker 1: the right move. Thank you for everything the past few years.
19:48
Speaker 1: Can't wait to see where you go next. I'll be
19:50
Speaker 1: a lifelong fan. Oh that's cute. That's like a letter
19:54
Speaker 1: you send when you're a kid to like Debbie Gibson
19:57
Speaker 1: or something like That's that's great. I love that. And
19:58
Speaker 1: he didn't respond exactly. It's a letter that you write
20:00
Speaker 1: when you're a child, not a thirty Wait, he doesn't
20:02
Speaker 1: follow you, but you can still DM like sims. Yeah,
20:06
Speaker 1: his dms. You're just like able to send to him
20:08
Speaker 1: a little message. Well, no, wonder he doesn't. That tells
20:11
Speaker 1: me that he probably like reads them if he has
20:14
Speaker 1: that option, or maybe he's just never on Twitter and
20:16
Speaker 1: doesn't know how to handle that. But I feel better
20:18
Speaker 1: because now he hasn't read mine because there's too many.
20:20
Speaker 1: It's not like he's seeing him ignoring him. It's unbelievable conversation. Yeah,
20:23
Speaker 1: I'm glad I brought it up. I mean, you send
20:25
Speaker 1: him six and I sent him one. So wait, I'm counting. No, Actually,
20:30
Speaker 1: I hate to disappoint you. I've actually sent him. It's
20:33
Speaker 1: it's actually it's Ali four. So much more dignified over
20:38
Speaker 1: two years. Oh see, we're all just a bunch of fans.
20:43
Speaker 1: We're all just a bunch of dorky fans. Okay, I
20:46
Speaker 1: love football. Thanks Kabe. Merry Christmas. We will see you
20:50
Speaker 1: next year. We'll get into uh, you know, our New
20:52
Speaker 1: Year's resolutions and all those fun things. But until then,
20:55
Speaker 1: happy holidays, love to the family. Thanks for joining our
20:57
Speaker 1: pod this year. You're the best. Merry Christmas do you?
21:00
Speaker 1: And I hope your old friend Whitney appreciates the sacrifice
21:03
Speaker 1: you made. She she doesn't deserve you. Yeah, she owes
21:06
Speaker 1: me fifty bucks from the charges. Okay, thanks Kab. We're
21:11
Speaker 1: gonna have him back on the podcast next year, do iend? Okay, guys,
21:15
Speaker 1: what do you think about? What if I just like
21:16
Speaker 1: send Baker like a happy Holidays that Thursday football game
21:19
Speaker 1: was great, like because now like his dms have probably
21:21
Speaker 1: like calmed down, you know, like Kyle sent him a
21:23
Speaker 1: message last week. Whatever, I can get to the top
21:25
Speaker 1: of the heap. I've waited for things to cool off.
21:27
Speaker 1: Now I can slide back in shit. Um always, I'm
21:31
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna think about that. I'm gonna think about it.
21:33
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe we'll craft together. We will craft the Ultimate DM,
21:36
Speaker 1: the Ultimate Christmas DMUM on Thursday's pot on Friday's pod.
21:40
Speaker 1: That'd be perfect. Okay, that sounds great. Guys, coming up,
21:43
Speaker 1: we're gonna preview Thursday football and then I am opening
21:45
Speaker 1: the DM, So don't go anyway. We'll get to secure.
22:02
Speaker 1: That's right, baby. Um justin I think you need to
22:05
Speaker 1: hop in here and tell the people what your girl
22:07
Speaker 1: did this past weekend. Did she go four and now
22:11
Speaker 1: you went four? And no? On the Sunday games. We
22:13
Speaker 1: all missed the Thursday game because we picked it on
22:16
Speaker 1: Monday thinking that we didn't know Baker Mayfield was a
22:18
Speaker 1: ram yet, so that was kind of not really fair,
22:21
Speaker 1: but you went not fair, and to be honest, I
22:23
Speaker 1: object because we also went on the pod and predicted
22:26
Speaker 1: Baker's incredible success, So that should be a wash, should
22:30
Speaker 1: almost should be a straight wash. Yeah. Yeah, we'll just
22:32
Speaker 1: eliminate that one. I mean, we all picked it, so
22:34
Speaker 1: it doesn't really change the record, but it makes it
22:36
Speaker 1: to wash anyways. But yeah, four and no again, that's
22:41
Speaker 1: like the third time this year you've had a perfect Sunday,
22:43
Speaker 1: so it's pretty nice. Thank you, thank you. I believe
22:45
Speaker 1: I did pick all favorites. No, I think I had
22:47
Speaker 1: a I had an underdog in there, but I digress
22:49
Speaker 1: Jets plus ten. That was a good killing it pick.
22:51
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. There were some wonky games this weekend, um,
22:56
Speaker 1: but let's look ahead to Thursday night football. We got
22:58
Speaker 1: the Seahawks versus the forty niners. I was actually gonna
23:01
Speaker 1: go to this game. I was actually planning to go
23:03
Speaker 1: to Seattle to watch this Thursday night football game because
23:06
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, Graver this game was looking noise. Yeah,
23:11
Speaker 1: we had Gino going off. I put the forty nine
23:14
Speaker 1: ers into my Super Bowl pick. I was like you
23:17
Speaker 1: know what, Seattle is so close to Los Angeles. Let
23:19
Speaker 1: me just hop up there real quick with some friends
23:21
Speaker 1: and go to the Thursday night football game. Now it's
23:24
Speaker 1: looking a little different. Seahawks have not been looking like
23:30
Speaker 1: themselves since they went to Germany. Yeah, and I get it.
23:35
Speaker 1: If you're a Seahawks fan, you're probably like, look, we
23:38
Speaker 1: lost Russell Wilson at the beginning of the season. I
23:40
Speaker 1: remember being like Gino Smith and who's their backup quarterback,
23:44
Speaker 1: Drew Locke. I was like, what are you guys even doing?
23:48
Speaker 1: And they've had a hell of a run. They've had
23:50
Speaker 1: a hell of a season. So maybe Seahawks fans you
23:52
Speaker 1: just sit back in the year just like grateful for
23:54
Speaker 1: what you have. But I don't know. I think people
23:56
Speaker 1: got a taste of that success and they were like,
23:57
Speaker 1: what's going on with this team? They lost to the
23:59
Speaker 1: panther on Sunday and then you look at the forty
24:02
Speaker 1: nine ers, go brock Purty, go beating Tom Brady at home.
24:07
Speaker 1: But Debo went out of the game. He literally twisted
24:11
Speaker 1: his leg like gumby. I don't know if you saw that.
24:13
Speaker 1: I had to look away. I had to be like,
24:15
Speaker 1: tell me when the injury is off the television. Apparently
24:18
Speaker 1: it's a high ankle sprain. I don't know how he
24:20
Speaker 1: got away with no broken bones, but he's got no
24:22
Speaker 1: broken bones. So I'm still I'm gonna go to I'm
24:26
Speaker 1: gonna go forty nine ers in this game. I know
24:28
Speaker 1: that the Seahawks are at home, but I'm going forty
24:32
Speaker 1: nine ers. I feel like brock Purty is still surrounded
24:35
Speaker 1: by enough weapons that he doesn't have to, you know,
24:38
Speaker 1: take over the world to win this game. And this
24:41
Speaker 1: defense is still very, very solid. So I'm going forty
24:44
Speaker 1: nine ers. What do you like in this one? So
24:46
Speaker 1: I pulled up some stats here to kind of dive
24:48
Speaker 1: deeper into this Seahawks streak that they're on there one
24:52
Speaker 1: in three in their last four games, and the biggest
24:55
Speaker 1: reason is because their run defense has been astoundingly bad.
25:00
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna run off ratleoffs and numbers for you.
25:02
Speaker 1: They played the Bucks in Munich. Bucks are last in
25:04
Speaker 1: the league in rushing at seventy three yards per game,
25:07
Speaker 1: ran for one hundred and sixty one on the Seahawks.
25:09
Speaker 1: That's eighty eight yards over their season average. The Raiders
25:13
Speaker 1: ran for two hundred and eighty three yards, one hundred
25:16
Speaker 1: and fifty five over their season average. The Rams thirtieth
25:22
Speaker 1: in the league in rushing. The Rams ran for one
25:24
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy one eighty five yards over their season average,
25:27
Speaker 1: and the Panthers ran for two hundred and twenty three
25:31
Speaker 1: yards yesterday, ninety eight yards over their season average. The
25:35
Speaker 1: forty nine ers are a run first team with Christian McCaffrey.
25:40
Speaker 1: They're currently ninth in the league and rushing at one
25:42
Speaker 1: hundred thirty yards per game, but they've only had McCaffrey
25:44
Speaker 1: a few weeks. I feel like this is just a
25:47
Speaker 1: bad matchup for the Seahawks in general. I think Christian
25:51
Speaker 1: McCaffrey's going off. I'm surprised this line is only three
25:55
Speaker 1: and a half points. I think the nine you're cover comfortably.
25:58
Speaker 1: Maybe that'll scoop up as we get through this week.
26:01
Speaker 1: But yeah, rip Seattle. I'm glad that I canceled my flight. Okay,
26:06
Speaker 1: so that's Thursday Football. You guys can catch that on
26:08
Speaker 1: Prime eight fifteen Eastern, and then we got Saturday Football. Baby.
26:12
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26:19
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26:21
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Speaker 1: the Dolphins battle the Bills at eight pm Eastern. That
26:30
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26:42
Speaker 1: I am opening my DMS. I am getting to your
26:44
Speaker 1: best and your worst Christmas presents and they are gnarly
26:49
Speaker 1: the dunk go anywhere. This is safe space. Tell me
27:08
Speaker 1: your dempest, darkest secrets dms now open. Okay, open the dms.
27:16
Speaker 1: You guys sent in your best and worst Christmas presents
27:19
Speaker 1: that you've ever received, and they are hilarious. I've been
27:21
Speaker 1: laughing all morning at them. First once, I'm just gonna
27:24
Speaker 1: rattle these off because I got so many different messages.
27:28
Speaker 1: Worst gift. I was eight in nineteen ninety four and
27:32
Speaker 1: my estranged grandfather sent me Dances with Wolves on VHS.
27:37
Speaker 1: I've never seen the movie Dances with Wolves, but if
27:39
Speaker 1: I got any vhs from a strange grandfather. I'd be like,
27:42
Speaker 1: what does this mean? I would have preferred a card
27:46
Speaker 1: that said, Hi, I love that one. Best present soup cookbook.
27:55
Speaker 1: You know where I stand on that worst present? This
27:58
Speaker 1: is from the same person. Hot dog toaster, Tobias. Who
28:02
Speaker 1: are you surrounding yourself with? Who are these people that's
28:06
Speaker 1: getting you? Either or they love food and drop me
28:10
Speaker 1: a link on that hot dog toaster? Baby it what's
28:14
Speaker 1: the toaster for? Is it to toast the dog or
28:16
Speaker 1: is it to toast the buns at bun toaster? Maybe
28:19
Speaker 1: it's just like God compartments for each you know I've
28:23
Speaker 1: seen giding me the hell up, Sign me the hell
28:26
Speaker 1: up for that. We will do a DIY test on
28:29
Speaker 1: this show with a hot dog toaster. Okay, next one.
28:33
Speaker 1: My worst present was a ship in a bottle from
28:36
Speaker 1: my girlfriend. I got her a necklace and flowers and chocolates.
28:40
Speaker 1: She gets me a dang wooden ship. It's sweet. I
28:47
Speaker 1: don't know, is it. How would you feel if you're
28:49
Speaker 1: a loved one, You're getting them beautiful, You're going to Tiffany's,
28:53
Speaker 1: You're getting them chocolates. You out of your way to like,
28:56
Speaker 1: you know, build a beautiful bouquet of flowers, and she
28:58
Speaker 1: gets you a ship in a bottle. It's not even
29:01
Speaker 1: a ship that you can play with instiade of a bottle, mean,
29:04
Speaker 1: but it looks Maybe it looks nice. Maybe it goes
29:07
Speaker 1: with the decor of the home. I don't know. I'm
29:10
Speaker 1: playing Devil's advocate. I'd still be upset. Even if I
29:14
Speaker 1: lived on the coast and I had a fully like
29:17
Speaker 1: um what even Grandma coast vibes, whatever that thing is,
29:21
Speaker 1: Even if that was my whole vibe, and I got
29:23
Speaker 1: a ship in a bottle, I'd still be upset about it. Okay,
29:26
Speaker 1: the best present I ever received my first pair of
29:28
Speaker 1: glasses I received in the fourth grade, because I can
29:31
Speaker 1: finally see the worst gift this person's ever received. My
29:35
Speaker 1: first pair of glasses I received in the fourth grade
29:37
Speaker 1: because the whole class roasted me. Oh poor thing. Okay,
29:43
Speaker 1: this one was one of my favorites. In nineteen ninety four,
29:47
Speaker 1: I absolutely harass my mom about getting me Donkey calling Country.
29:50
Speaker 1: Leading up to Christmas, I would call Blockbuster every day
29:54
Speaker 1: to see if it was in stock so I could
29:55
Speaker 1: rent it. Finally, after living with a monster for weeks,
29:59
Speaker 1: my mom caved and took it out of a cabinet
30:01
Speaker 1: and gave it to me. All I did was play
30:03
Speaker 1: the game for months, not too long after it was
30:06
Speaker 1: announced that Full House was ending for years. I assumed
30:11
Speaker 1: it was my fault for playing Donkey Kong instead of
30:14
Speaker 1: watching for a week or two. Oh my gosh, this
30:17
Speaker 1: poor kid, this person singlehandedly canceled Full House. They were
30:22
Speaker 1: really counting on that one view each week, and that
30:27
Speaker 1: was just sent them over the edge. I just gotta
30:29
Speaker 1: say a Donkey Kong Country is maybe the best video
30:32
Speaker 1: game ever. I love that game. I used to love
30:35
Speaker 1: it too. I think I had a Donkey Kong game
30:37
Speaker 1: on one of like the teeny tiny little Nintendos. Okay.
30:40
Speaker 1: And then finally I was actually the gift giver and
30:43
Speaker 1: was a bonehead. I was eighteen and gave my girlfriend
30:46
Speaker 1: a Cindy Crawford makeup book and she was offended and
30:50
Speaker 1: broke up with me. What that seems like? I don't know.
30:55
Speaker 1: When you're like, when you're that young and somebody says like,
30:58
Speaker 1: here I want you to like hot chick, here's how
31:02
Speaker 1: you look like Sundry Crawford, I'd probably get upset too.
31:05
Speaker 1: I refragile come on, I feel like there must have
31:09
Speaker 1: been other things that happened that led to a rocky
31:12
Speaker 1: road where this was the breaking point. Because if like
31:14
Speaker 1: everything's perfect and this is the thing that ends your relationship,
31:18
Speaker 1: that seems like a little extreme, like, maybe have a
31:20
Speaker 1: conversation about it. First she got him a ship in
31:23
Speaker 1: a bottle. He got her how to makeup book And
31:26
Speaker 1: that was all she wrote, folks, that was all she wrote.
31:30
Speaker 1: I'm keeping my dms open because these literally maybe chuckle
31:34
Speaker 1: all morning. So if you didn't get the chance, send
31:36
Speaker 1: me your best and your worst Christmas presents. I want
31:38
Speaker 1: to hear about them. We'll read them off until we
31:40
Speaker 1: hit Christmas, which is in like a week and a half. Guys.
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