Playoff Picks, Burlesque Nights, And New Year Chaos

The calendar flipped, the takes got hotter, and the playoff bracket did not disappoint. We jump straight from chaotic date jokes into the meat of January football: why the Giants’ draft slide might not matter if they stick to trench and linebacker needs, how the Steelers can make life miserable for a brilliant but blitz-prone C.J. Stroud, and why the Vikings’ middle-slot reality complicates any dreams of landing a top-tier corner. It’s all framed by a bigger idea we keep coming back to—rebuilds work when you give them time. The early Cowboys and Colts ate their losses before they owned a decade; modern teams want the shortcut without the structure.

We break down NFC and AFC Wild Card matchups with real spreads and real skepticism. Rams traveling to an 8–9 home seed, a frozen coin flip between Green Bay and Chicago, and a Niners-Eagles showdown that hinges on which version of Brock Purdy shows up alongside McCaffrey. In the AFC, we spar over Bills-Jags momentum, pencil in a grimy defensive grind for Chargers-Patriots, and weigh whether Pittsburgh can ugly out a win by dialing up pressure packages. Along the way we ask which coaches can survive another January flameout, and which organizations admit they’ve hit their ceiling.

Then we cleanse the palate with cinema and swag. Knives Out’s latest left us waiting too long for the spark, while a Stranger Things finale on the big screen proved that shared fandom still hits hard when the lights go down. That tees up a candid look at con economics vs online drops—why big booths are shrinking, how warehouse restocks keep grails alive, and why a well-timed Tuesday deal beats burning loyalty credits on matinees. We end with Marvel trailer chatter—X-Men teases, Doom whispers—and a reminder not to let eleven-month hype steal today’s fun.

Join us for sharp picks, stubborn opinions, and the kind of frugal wisdom that pays for your next shirt drop. If you’re into smart football talk, movie detours, and the realities of fandom in 2026, hit play—and tell us your Wild Card upset and the trailer you actually trust. Subscribe, share with a friend, and drop a review to keep the conversation rolling.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_05 0:30

Exactly a year. A job would help. Government G has only go so far. No, it'll go all the way through a year. No, no.

SPEAKER_01 0:42

Lou, it's this. Not this. It's this. No, my oldest son isn't six seven in twenty twenty-five. Well, what's twenty twenty-seven then?

SPEAKER_05 0:52

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what to do.

SPEAKER_04 0:57

How do you leave six seven in twenty twenty-five? I mean in three in three days we're gonna hit the six and seven of January.

SPEAKER_05 1:05

And then there's June 7th. June 7th is gonna be a popular day.

SPEAKER_04 1:13

It should be.

SPEAKER_02 1:15

It'll still be a good idea. What do you matter is if you do the the European dates, all of July is gonna be lit.

SPEAKER_05 1:21

It was like the 26-7. Um yeah, and I do prefer that way of of date writing you would. I was like what you would get uh yeah, you're right.

SPEAKER_04 1:41

Never mind. Why even argue it?

SPEAKER_01 1:43

I can't even fight you on that.

Pivot To NFL Mayhem And Draft Fallout

SPEAKER_04 1:46

I was like, man, I would I would argue, but I hate being wrong, and I would lose that argument. Oh my god. What first? Football or New Year's?

SPEAKER_01 1:59

Well, we can start with uh congratulating Lou on his two favorite teams both just completely fucking themselves over as much as they possibly could today.

SPEAKER_04 2:09

Uh-huh. Giants dropping from the two-pick to the fifth pick. Now, okay, the only the only upside to that, I guess, is the Giants are gonna draft a linebacker or an interior lineman, which means it doesn't matter if they're fifth or fifteenth. They're gonna get their guy. So I suppose there's that. So not not as big of a big deal. The Steelers, who are a very bad team and could probably only beat the Broncos of the other six playoff teams in the AFC, um, won't have a chance to play the Broncos unless it's the uh uh well. Things could happen where Yeah, I was gonna say, it if in fact So you mean the number one seed for Broncos?

SPEAKER_02 2:56

The best team.

SPEAKER_04 2:57

Yeah, those those guys. The best team in the league who could barely beat the third stringers of the Chargers today, yeah, that team. The Steelers are probably that's probably the only team I could see the Steelers beating. So if, you know, the Jags beat the Bills, if the Patriots beat the Chargers, if the Steelers beat the Texans, then Pittsburgh would play at Denver the following week. Um, the other way that could happen is if Pittsburgh wins two, Denver wins uh one, then they play each other in the AFC titles game. Uh I just don't see them beating the Texans, first of all. And and I definitely don't see uh the Patriots beating the Chargers. Patriots are like the Broncos. They're an overrated team who had an easy schedule because their last year's schedule was a what was so bad, last year's record was so bad, they get a last place schedule this year. So the same, you know, what happened to the Broncos. So those two teams, the first I have a feeling the Chargers will lose immediately, or the Chargers will beat the Patriots immediately. The Broncos, whoever they play their first game, and it might be the Buffalo Bills again, they're gonna lose their first game, and it's just like uh So the Steelers had an opportunity to draft 19th if they lost tonight. Um, but uh see uh the Ravens have a smart kicker, and they're all like, if I miss this, we get a better draft pick. Um and we're not good enough to go to the Super Bowl, so let me just miss this and get a better draft pick. And they did. They missed it, so they get a better draft pick, and Pittsburgh has to go play next Monday night.

SPEAKER_02 4:25

It was the wind. I saw the wind wearing a Steelers jersey.

SPEAKER_01 4:30

Uh the wind was blowing. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:41

Because my Giants won this morning.

SPEAKER_01 4:44

Uh so you had firms. You had already firmed up that number one spot by the time your game even.

SPEAKER_04 4:52

Yeah, they firmed it up last week. I think. No, when the Giants won is when they firmed it up.

SPEAKER_01 4:57

Yeah, when the Giants Giants won this morning. And uh and then um And now we're undefeated for 2026.

SPEAKER_02 5:03

Who else can say that? The um Fords. All the other teams that won today.

SPEAKER_01 5:10

The the team who can't say it? The Chiefs. The Chiefs the the fourth hottest team in the NFL right now, and uh the number one team in my heart. Uh still looking on from the outside. Um winners of the last five games in a row are drafting 18th. I don't know what that means. It's the middle of the draft. Every every fantasy draft where I've been the middle of the draft, it's just ended up fucking me. So I am not uh holding out a ton of hope.

SPEAKER_04 5:40

It just the it just depends on what you need. Like I was saying with the Giants. The Giants need interior lineman, slash linebacker, so if they'll get their guy at five. I don't know what like what would you consider one of the bigger needs for the Vikings, and if they could get that position at 18. Corner? Yeah. Uh that's gonna be tough because the top quarterbacks usually go top 12. So you you could get a corner, but you could probably get one at like the number two corner of the college, not the number one corner. No, one of those type of things. Which isn't bad. I mean, I'm not that's not any kind of knock.

SPEAKER_01 6:13

Uh right now, USA Today says the Raiders uh are gonna draft the uh Heisman Renner, Fernando Mendoza, right?

SPEAKER_04 6:23

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The quarterback. That's that's done deal. I don't I don't think that's changing at all.

SPEAKER_01 6:27

I'll just do the top five and then we'll jump to our picks. Uh Dante Moore, number two to the Jets. Um quarterback from Oregon.

SPEAKER_05 6:37

Really?

SPEAKER_01 6:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:39

All right.

Giants, Steelers, Vikings: Needs And Picks

SPEAKER_01 6:40

Considering the Jets love to bury their quarterbacks. Like they have like three or four quarters. Yeah, I just it's amazing to me that they have three or four quarterbacks in the NFL that have exceeded way beyond any expectations that they set while they were a jet.

SPEAKER_04 6:54

I mean, yeah, that's the thing, right? Just leave the Jets and you're you're good.

SPEAKER_01 6:59

Yeah. Um three. Cardinals at three. Uh Arvell Reese, linebacker, defensive end, Ohio State.

SPEAKER_00 7:08

Uh four, Tennessee Titans, Keldrick Falk, defensive end from Auburn.

SPEAKER_01 7:13

Number five, uh the Giants, uh Carnell Tate, wide receiver, uh, Ohio State.

SPEAKER_04 7:20

That's that's that's the other side of the coin. The if if the Giants go offense, it has to be a receiver. If it's defense, it's tackle or uh linebacker. So I don't know that I'm opposed to that. I would rather have the defense of player get, you know, you know how it is, right? You can't lose if they can't score. So I will go 0-0 and 17 and be fine with that for and pretend they're the Vegas Knights with all those ties. That would be fine.

SPEAKER_05 7:48

I roll.

SPEAKER_01 7:51

Uh right now, US says the Vikings are gonna take Avion Terrell, a cornerback from Clemson.

SPEAKER_04 7:58

Oh, there you go.

SPEAKER_01 7:59

Don't know anything about him. Uh currently uh 21. The Pittsburgh Steelers are taking Ty Simpson, quarterback from Alabama.

SPEAKER_05 8:11

Oh god, I hope not.

SPEAKER_04 8:14

Well, the only reason why is if they took they took Will Howard last year from Ohio State. So unless they know Will Howard can't play football in the pros, as in I mean, we're not there, right? Practice and is like, dude, can't do it, then fine, get a quarterback, but not for Alabama. I don't not like Alabama, and I don't want a player from Alabama on my team.

SPEAKER_05 8:37

Fair. Uh Jack. Plus, I don't think he's that good.

SPEAKER_01 8:41

About taking the uh Heisman. Also, I heard rumblings that they might even fire Pete Carroll after one year. That's wild. So I've been hearing that's wild.

SPEAKER_04 8:49

That would be so stupid. That would be god damn, that would be that would be so stupid. It's like grant granted, it's his fault that he brought in Gino uh to be his quarterback, but the problem is who else was he gonna bring in, right? There was there was there's like nobody he could bring in to be his quarterback. Uh I am never a fan of that.

SPEAKER_02 9:10

They put Aiden back in the game. He didn't throw any touchdowns, so did uh Pickett get hurt? Yeah, I don't know. When I I wasn't watching most of the game, I think I tuned in on like the fourth, and Aiden was out there throwing, so I don't know if Pickett was out there earlier.

SPEAKER_04 9:26

You know, it might just be because he sucked. Pickett sucked, because at one point I was like, he was like one for three for three yards, and then balls getting batted, balls getting thrown at people's feet. I didn't watch a lot of the games today. Uh I'll be the first to admit, but what I did see was not good from Pickett.

SPEAKER_05 9:44

Oh. Motherfucker. They need somebody that can throw a ball, so Mother.

SPEAKER_01 9:49

Yeah. Hello, mother. Yep. She's all like, wow, the Campbell Steelers won. Oh.

SPEAKER_04 9:54

Right? I ain't telling her I'm talking to white people. Shit. I'm out the will if that happens.

SPEAKER_01 10:00

One day she's gonna find the podcast and her head's gonna explode like the guy from Scanners.

SPEAKER_04 10:06

Bro, you ain't even you ain't even wrong. My mom's the type, she will browse the internet looking for random shit, and all of a sudden this will pop up, and then she'll have her popcorn of watching every goddamn episode on 1.75 speed. That way it's as fast as she talks. For real, though.

SPEAKER_01 10:23

But yeah, I mean, bringing in a head coach and then not even getting him to your and saying, oh, it's because he brought in Gino. So the the Raiders have much bigger problems than just quarterback. There was no you could have put Tom Brady in there, and he there's no way he would have done significantly better than Gino did. Like, you guys have so many deficiencies right now and so many different levels that you know one sea one offseason is you're not gonna be able to fix everything, you know? Yep.

SPEAKER_04 10:57

Right, that's the thing, right? People forget how to rebuild teams anymore. It's like three years, you you get your line. You're like, people forget what the Cowboys did in '89 after drafting Aikman. And then you know, you get Jimmy Johnson, and then you make all these trades, and you you suck. Same thing with uh uh Indianapolis when they got Manning in '98. You sucked. You went three and thirteen or whatever it was, and then you built up, you built up, and then boom, you're a powerhouse for a decade. Same thing with the cowboys, right? You were a powerhouse for a decade. Um all these things that are happening, and the the the impatience is just beyond me. I don't I don't I don't get it. It's like this is what it takes, and they're not willing to do it. We want instant gratification because we saw what the Rams did in 2000. You know, it's like uh the 99th season, technically. It's like, you guys, uh impatient idiots.

SPEAKER_01 11:50

Because they already had a team. Like Kurt Warner showed up, and yeah, he improved the team, but they already had wide receivers. They already had a running back. This wasn't like Kurt Warner showed up, and all of a sudden Marshall Falk became a great running back, and Torrey Holt and Isaac Bruce became great wide receivers. Like they were all really good.

SPEAKER_04 12:08

Actually, that's exactly what happened. They weren't good the year before. They thought Trent Green was gonna do something with him, but getting Falk and then getting Mike Marks and that offense going, I mean, that that's you know, they had some, you're not wrong. They definitely had some pieces, but the offense, like Mike Marks took them over the top, though. I mean, coaching mattered there. Kind of like Chicago, right? Chicago after after look at Detroit with Ben Johnson gone. Detroit doesn't even make the playoffs, and you've got freaking the Bears, the number two.

SPEAKER_01 12:42

Bottom of the division.

SPEAKER_04 12:45

Did they really? The Vikings actually passed him. Oh, wow, I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_01 12:50

Yeah, because they split the That's crazy. They split the uh season series, and then the Vikings had a better division record because they beat the Packers today.

SPEAKER_04 13:02

Holy crap, dude. I did not know that. That's funny. After all that, they had poor Lions. Nah, fuck them. I mean, yeah. Yeah, I ain't gonna I ain't gonna lie. There's something about I mean, I like I like obviously the sun god because he went to USC, but there's not much more on the Lions that I care for.

SPEAKER_01 13:22

Um real quick, let's just go through the the the uh wild card for the playoffs and do our our predictions. All right.

SPEAKER_00 13:31

Um I'm the only one that likes any.

SPEAKER_04 13:34

Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, because Jack's got me curious. What are you eating over there? I say he's straws. He's drinking something. Should you get a happy meal or something? Oh, those nasty ass things. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 13:47

But Lou, that's how you like the Hydrox Reese's. But Lou, that's how you like your relationships, brown and white.

SPEAKER_04 13:54

I mean, you know I'm not a fan of interracial relationships. That's not my jam. I can't do it. That barely happens in my world. I don't want to hear that the way around.

SPEAKER_00 14:07

And and once someone hears the podcast, that I can recognize. And once somebody listens to the podcast next week, it'll never happen again.

SPEAKER_04 14:21

Oh, she knows. She knows. I'm against interracial relationships. I don't I don't do that. Yeah, stick with your own. Everybody knows.

SPEAKER_05 14:31

You are the whiteest man in the podcast. I'm so racist, I could be a liberal. All right, here we go. Let's do it.

SPEAKER_04 14:44

We're AFC or NFC. Who are we doing first?

SPEAKER_01 14:46

We'll do NFC since nobody has anyone playing in uh Okay, that's fair.

SPEAKER_04 14:52

So uh let's let's add some more let's add some more voice fun to it. After we pick our team, uh let's guess the spread.

SPEAKER_01 15:00

Okay. 69.

SPEAKER_04 15:02

Um yeah, over under.

SPEAKER_01 15:05

So uh Seahawks have the best record of the NFC and have it a bike.

SPEAKER_04 15:11

Don't give us teams that aren't playing. Come on.

SPEAKER_01 15:14

The number five team, the LA Rams are playing the number four team, Carolina Panthers. Rams are 12 and 5, Carolina's eight and nine.

SPEAKER_04 15:23

That is uh and they're playing on Oh, Rams are beating that one, and they're probably a four and a half point favorite.

SPEAKER_05 15:33

Yeah. I'd like to go for the Panthers, but because you know I'm from back.

SPEAKER_01 15:38

Actually, no, but it's actually in Carolina. That's wild to me.

SPEAKER_04 15:42

Yeah, the game the game's back in Carolina.

SPEAKER_01 15:44

How pissed are you that you're a 12-5 team and you have to go play fucking play an eight and nine team in their house?

SPEAKER_04 15:49

I'm not pissed at all. You should have won your division.

SPEAKER_02 15:54

You don't like it, be better.

SPEAKER_04 15:56

Yeah, Rams. Rams, if you had won one more game, if you didn't choke against the Seahawks two weeks ago, you'd be the one seed. So F off. I have no sympathy for them whatsoever. Like what it made your what it made your pain say, you want sympathy? You can look in a dictionary between shit and syphilis, you'll find it.

SPEAKER_01 16:18

The great philosopher pain. Great philosopher pain. Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 16:25

Like, I'm gonna say for I wouldn't be surprised if that's a fucking double-digit uh uh thread. Rams are gonna destroy the Panthers.

SPEAKER_05 16:33

But yeah, anyway. Yeah, no, I got I got the Rams. I'll go five. I'll go five. I'll go five. Yeah, I guess Rams. Rams eight. I'll do eight.

SPEAKER_01 16:54

Uh next is uh number seven Green Bay against number two Chicago. Green Bay ended the season nine and seven with a four-game losing streak, and Chicago ended eleven and six.

SPEAKER_04 17:06

Uh, I am rooting for the Bears. My I I gotta imagine it's either a pick'em game or a Packers or a small favorite, like a half point, because the Bears did not do what they got lucky against the Packers. Let's just put it that way. They got lucky against the Packers when they played. So I think the Bears could show up and all their potential. If all their potential shows up, the Bears are winning big. But if not, they'll probably lose a 21-20 type ball game.

SPEAKER_05 17:36

But I'm rooting for the Bears now. Yeah, I got the Bears. I like saying the Bears. And I hate the Packers because they beat the Steelers at Super Bowl in 2011. Let's go 21-14. Fuck it. Whole touchdown.

SPEAKER_04 18:00

Who do you who do you think's favorite though? Like who do you think the casino says is the favorite? Uh-oh. I don't hear Jack. Do you guys hear Jack? I hear him. He said something.

SPEAKER_01 18:13

I think the casinos are going for the Packers.

SPEAKER_05 18:15

There we go. Okay. All right.

SPEAKER_01 18:17

Uh playoffs. By how much? Uh Bears are favored by a point and a half right now, right? The plus, plus point.

SPEAKER_04 18:26

No, plus means you're underdog. Minus minus is the favorite. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 18:28

So Packers right now. Sorry. So the Rams are favored by 10. Just couldn't go back. God. Wow. All right.

SPEAKER_04 18:35

You know what though? Uh they'll probably cover it. I mean, they'll probably. Plus you put Devontae Adams back next week, they'll cover it.

SPEAKER_01 18:42

Pack uh Pack is a big thing.

SPEAKER_04 18:44

Packers by a point and a half.

unknown 18:45

Yeah.

NFC Wild Card Matchups And Spreads

SPEAKER_04 18:45

So it's I was close. I said a half point. But uh but that yeah, that that makes sense. That that'll probably be the closest game of the weekend.

SPEAKER_01 18:53

Uh Jack, what did you say? I was gonna say 21-14, but obviously not. I mean, if this uh if this game could end in a tie with both teams losing, I would be uh over the moon. Uh sadly, it's the playoffs, so a team has to win.

SPEAKER_04 19:10

Who do you hate more? From the Vikings division, who do you hate more?

SPEAKER_01 19:14

Packers by far.

SPEAKER_04 19:15

Okay, go Bears. Got it. Go Bears. I guess. All three of us, go Bears.

SPEAKER_01 19:18

Okay, go Bears. Go Bears. Uh and then the Bears could lose the following week. I think you're right. I think it's a I think it's a pickup game. Like I think it's gonna be a bunch of field goals, maybe a touchdown by each team, but I it's gonna be decided on the final kick of the game, right? It's whoever ends up with the ball last year.

SPEAKER_04 19:35

Right, right. Exactly. That could be a 1916 ball game, tied 16-16 going in to the last two-minute drive. So, yeah, I hear you.

SPEAKER_02 19:43

Where are they playing? Is it gonna be inside?

SPEAKER_04 19:45

Chicago outdoors. Yeah, it is outdoors in Chicago.

SPEAKER_01 19:49

Yeah, the Winnie City. You got it. The last uh last wild card game, we got the number six San Francisco 49ers traveling to number three, uh, play the Eagles. Um San Francisco ended 12-5, and Philly ended eleven and six.

SPEAKER_04 20:09

I will be rooting for the Niners because I really hate the Eagles. Word. Um, but I would imagine the Eagles are favored by probably a field goal. So three, three, two and a half or three and a half, probably the spread on that one. But I'm I'm I will be rooting for the Niners. I just the problem is the Niners had I mean, look, the Niners had no business. This being in the playoffs. All the injuries they got, the receiver situation with Ayuk, obviously the starting two linebackers, whatever it is, out for the season, all the stuff that's going on with the Niners. And here they are still in it. And you've got Christian McCaffrey on your team. Somehow Brock Purdy is uh can be uh wonderful, or he can be Sam Darnold at his worst day. So we don't know. Um so whichever Purdy we get is how the Niners will do. I'll root for the Niners. Uh, like I said, probably a field goal spread. And I wouldn't be surprised, but if the Eagles won, I mean they should, they're the home team won their division, but whatever. Jack.

SPEAKER_02 21:12

Well, I grew up not being allowed to root for the Niners, so I'll have to go for the Eagles. Finally breaking. Blasphemy.

SPEAKER_01 21:19

Finally breaking.

SPEAKER_05 21:20

Uh, how much do you think the Eagles are gonna win by? Um seven.

SPEAKER_01 21:30

I still have I don't want to say fond memories, but memories of the late 80s, early 90s Vikings 49ers, where they met each other in the playoffs some crazy amount of times. Um, so I got to see like prime Joe Montana, I got to see Prime Steve Young, uh, I got to see the Vikings lose to them way, way, way too many times.

SPEAKER_04 21:55

Prime Dante Culpepper, prime Randall Cunningham.

SPEAKER_02 21:58

Yep. That's why I'm not allowed to select 49ers, because my stepmom was a Vikings fan.

SPEAKER_04 22:03

So oh, look at that. It all ties in, it all ties in.

SPEAKER_01 22:08

That being said, I felt like I hate the Eagles with a passion. Their fans fucking suck. Um, the town of Philly could be nuked, and I would be I would not miss it because the Liberty Bell would still be around, and that's all that matters, and probably Gino's cheese stakes. Uh so I'm gonna call it.

SPEAKER_04 22:27

I was gonna say, as long as we got Liberty Bells and Cheestakes, we're good. I'm with you, bro. I'm I'm with you.

SPEAKER_01 22:33

We're on the same Lou, it's the second thing. We it's it's not we're not even five days into 2026, and we've already agreed about something.

SPEAKER_04 22:43

Everybody mark your calendar. It is the it is the 4th of January. Note this day.

SPEAKER_01 22:50

Um, so I'm gonna go 49ers, but I think it's gonna be a pick'em game. I think it's gonna be very similar to the Packers Barriers. I think it's gonna be whoever ends up with the ball at the end of the game. Neither of these teams scare me. Neither of these teams threaten, like again, like you said, the 49ers could show up and just be fucking balls to the wall the whole time, and McCaffrey could have 250 yards and five touchdowns, or he could have 74 yards and uh uh, you know, that's no right on 20 carries.

SPEAKER_04 23:20

Yeah, exactly. Eight catches for 16 yards, you know. You could go either way.

SPEAKER_01 23:25

Um I think you know, the 49ers, like you were saying, the injuries and stuff like that. I think that's gonna be the biggest thing against them. But the 49ers have also proven over the last decade or so that they can step up as a team when they need to. It's true, though.

SPEAKER_04 23:40

You know, I mean the fact that they're 12 and 5 having gone through what they've gone through and was one game away from winning the number one seed, are you kidding me? Yeah. I mean, the the the the front office of the Niners, top down, man, they they should win every award every year.

AFC Wild Card Picks, Upsets, And Coaching Seats

SPEAKER_01 23:55

Well, again, I mean, the fact that we got three teams from the uh NFC West, you know, and all and any one of those teams, any of those three teams could have been the number one seed, that just tells you the quality of competition on on in that division. So the fact that the 49ers were one of those three teams, like were one of those teams, like uh so that's that's my my my POV on that. So that's the that's the uh NFC. Then next week we can talk about uh divisional and go from there. So uh wildcard game. Uh our first wildcard game is going to be here we go or AFC, yes. Uh number six Buffalo against number three Jacksonville. Buffalo ended 12 and 5, Jacksonville ended 13-4. Jack, let's start with you this time. Who do you think is gonna win?

SPEAKER_05 24:43

Um Buffalo. Buffalo. And what do you think the spread's gonna be? Three. Lou?

SPEAKER_04 24:54

I I don't like either team, and I don't hate either team. So this this will be probably the most neutral game that I'll have. It'll just be good football, you know, because you know how I am. Good football first. That being said, if I've I gotta pick somebody, um I think Jacksonville has played too good uh football the last two months to discount, and Buffalo has been mid the last couple of months. Um I think Jacksonville, I think first of all, I think Buffalo is the favorite, which means I think Jacksonville, even though they're home, they upset the Bills. I would go Bills two and a half. I would say Bills are probably a two and a half point favorite, and uh, and I think the Jags upset them. And then when that happens, the Buffalo coach gets fired uh because they've been a top team for the five years straight. They can't get over the hump, and we're gonna have ourselves a Tony Dungey situation from Tampa 25 years ago, where Gruden came in and took Tony Dungey's team and took him over the top. And the next coach that comes in for Buffalo will take them over the top. Um, but I got Jacksonville, I don't know, 24-20. Even though even though I think Buffalo is favored. If I was odds maker, I'm making I'm giving Buffalo the making Buffalo.

SPEAKER_01 26:15

The last regular season game I saw were the Bills and the and the Vikings, and the Bills uh made me embarrassed to be in the building at the time. And I felt really bad for all the kids uh who had who their whose parents made them wear Viking stuff because I was like, you're ruining their lives.

SPEAKER_03 26:32

Child abuse.

SPEAKER_01 26:33

Exactly. Like I about called child protective services on the entire building. Uh that being said, uh bordles, the good place.

SPEAKER_05 26:43

I mean you know.

SPEAKER_01 26:46

Um I don't have anything against Jacksonville. I don't I don't necessarily the only thing that I would have is it would be uh amazing if the Bills made it all the way to the Super Bowl and lost. So then the Vikings never have to hear about how them and the Bills are the only teams that have gone 0-4 in the Super Bowl. Then it would just be the Bills have gone 0-5 in the Super Bowl, and then that would be the end of the conversation. Uh that being said, I hope Jacksonville wins.

SPEAKER_04 27:12

All right, all right. I can appreciate the hate.

SPEAKER_01 27:15

I think they uh I think the Jaguars are, you know, I I think this might be their time, their small window. I 100% agree with you about Buffalo. And going back to our conversation about Pete Carroll, you've had five years that you've had a great team around you where you've maybe had to replace one or two players every season and you've done nothing to improve the team when you're the Bills guy.

unknown 27:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 27:40

McDermott? Yep.

SPEAKER_01 27:41

Is that right?

SPEAKER_04 27:42

Yep, Sean McDermott. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:44

Um, so the fact that they've and the fact that they've been able to keep most of that team together for those five years, at least the people, the the players that are kind of the cornerstones of their team, and they still haven't been able to uh push it over the edge. Um, yeah, I it would not surprise me at all to see him get fired and then bring in somebody new. Um so yeah. Uh according to the according to the sports book, DraftKings Sportsbook, Buffalo is favored by a point and a half.

SPEAKER_04 28:15

That's close. I mean two and a half. I mean, that's not surprising. Not surprising.

SPEAKER_01 28:19

Our next game is the LA Chargers traveling to New England to pay the play the Patriots. The Chargers went 11 and 6 and were the seventh seed. New England is the number two seed and went 14 and 3.

SPEAKER_05 28:37

The Chargers fuck the Patriots. By how much? You think it's gonna be a close game, though? It'll still be a close game. Still um let's go, point and a half. Alright.

SPEAKER_04 28:51

I got I think the Patriots will be favored. Uh probably a field goal. Patriots probably favored by three. I'm rooting for the Chargers. I just because I think uh the Patriots are not a good team. They've they've had the benefit of a piss poor, easy schedule. And the Chargers are not that good of a team. I don't think they're a Super Bowl caliber team, but I think they're better than the Patriots. So I've got the Chargers probably in a low-scoring defensive game, because Patriots can play defense with Rabel as their as their coach. Um 20 to 17 Chargers.

SPEAKER_01 29:39

I think this is going to be our lowest scoring game of the week. It would not surprise me to see like a 9-12, something like that. Um while I don't want anything nice to happen to the owners of the Chargers, because I think they're giant pieces of shit for moving the team out of San Diego. I also have no love lost at all for the Patriots. So I do hope the Chargers win, uh, at least this game. Um but like I said, I think it's gonna be a field goal game. I don't think you're gonna see a ton of scoring. Um, I think Justin Herbert still hurt. So I think that's gonna hamper the Chargers a bunch. And like you said, I don't think the the Patriots have had a pillow uh pillow soft schedule. I think both defenses are are good, but I think the Chargers defense is just a little bit better. So uh I I would say the Chargers uh probably like 12 to 9, so like four-point spread, something like that, three-point spread. Right now the Patriots are favored by 3.5 points. Final game of the week, and all right.

SPEAKER_04 30:43

There we go.

SPEAKER_01 30:43

Uh we have the number five Houston Texans, the Strouds at 12 and 5, heading to the number four seed Pittsburgh Steelers, who went 10-7.

SPEAKER_05 30:54

Um, Jack, what are you thinking? I'll go for the Steelers.

SPEAKER_04 31:07

Just because you wanted to be able to get the biggest wants me to have a horrible off season and a terrible draft pick. Jack's like, I my team got the number one pick, so fuck everybody else.

SPEAKER_02 31:24

We're on top of the mountain. I don't care what happens below us.

SPEAKER_01 31:26

Uh what do you what do you think the score is?

SPEAKER_05 31:29

Uh four. Four. So one three to one?

SPEAKER_01 31:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:43

No, four to zero. Two safeties. He's two safeties and a scoreless team.

SPEAKER_02 31:48

The Raiders got a safety today, so it can happen.

SPEAKER_04 31:52

Two safeties in a game.

SPEAKER_01 31:53

We'll we'll save Lou for last on this one since it's his team. Um I like CJ Stroud a lot. I think he's, you know, uh I think he's been solid the entire time. So I think the Houston, I think Houston pulls out the win. I think it's gonna be like a 17 to 14 game, something like that. So uh I think the the the Texans beat the spread and uh and go on to the next round.

SPEAKER_03 32:22

Wow, he thinks Pittsburgh can score 14. That's impressive.

SPEAKER_01 32:25

Defense. Defensive scoring.

SPEAKER_03 32:28

Oh, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_01 32:29

Special teams. It'll be special teams. All right, you'll get a defensive, you'll get like a pick six or a fumble, a fumble return for a touchdown. Pick six and a punt return. And then you'll get a punt return. Exactly. The punt return will just be a breakdown in the Texans coverage, it won't have anything to do with the Steelers doing anything good.

SPEAKER_04 32:47

All right. Well, so we'll we'll give you we'll give you the heart picks and then the what I expect picks. So first and foremost, I expect uh the spread to be Houston favorite. I don't care if Pittsburgh's home. Houston is probably a four or five-point favorite in this game at Pittsburgh.

SPEAKER_05 33:07

My eyeballs, from what I've seen for the Pittsburgh Steelers, I don't know, man.

SPEAKER_04 33:16

Because they're a better team with DK Metcalf. He didn't play the last two games. Um, and Pittsburgh luckily won one of them and should have even won the last one against Cleveland without DK. So can they win the game? Sure. Um they're they're probably good for 20 points in this game. I know Houston has a top defense. Um and their defense is can, again, can do well, because that's the problem with Pittsburgh. If you watch fantasy or you just watch their games, their defense is either all on it or they get ran over like what happened tonight. You gave up 100 yards rushing to King Henry in the first half. Okay, you did a good job of stopping the second half. Then you gave up 200 yards passing in the second half. It's like, Jesus, they can't put it together, they're too old. Um, if I were to put money on the game, I would probably take Pittsburgh money line. I think they have the ability to win this game because I don't trust Stroud yet. That's my problem. I think CJ uh Stroud is going to be good in a year or two. Uh I have a feeling the pressure, because when he's under pressure, he doesn't do well. And I have a feeling Pittsburgh is going to blitz a lot to make sure he doesn't get comfortable. And that's the only reason why Pittsburgh had the chance to win this game.

Movie Night: Knives Out, Mystery Mondays, And Theater Rants

SPEAKER_05 34:39

So Pittsburgh! 20 to 13. Although again, I s I would guess that Houston's gotta be the favorite and it's gotta be four or five points. Nope. There we go. Alright.

SPEAKER_01 35:00

Does Tomlin keep his job if the Steelers lose?

SPEAKER_04 35:03

Yes, that's not that's not changing. There's not enough good coaches out there available to replace them, is the problem. It's not because he has done a great job. Um and and you gotta keep you gotta understand, I don't know how much of Tomlin's I don't have a a young quarterback to develop the way other teams have done is Tomlin's fault. Or is that GM's fault? Is that upper management's fault? So I'm not gonna say like Aaron Rodgers is was was playing uh like especially last week. He was he was making business decisions instead of making football decisions. Uh that slide at the 11-yard line, I'm never gonna I'll never forget that. It was like you dive and you put first down, you slide, it's fourth down, and it cost them that game. A young quarterback would have do a young quarterback would have absolutely dope for that. So, but is Rogers thrown up upon him? You know what? Is that what happened? Is it forced? So, because of that, I can't blame Tomlin yet. An example, he's is he a good coach? He was smart last week when he went for it from the 20, had his defense hold Cleveland to a field goal, knowing that they could, and then tried to drive down for the Titan field goal versus putting it away. Good job. Okay, fantastic. So he can still coach. I just don't think he has the players, is the problem. And I don't know how much of that is on him. I don't know how much he has control when it comes to the dynamics behind the groceries between him and the GM. And the GM, yeah. And so there's the issue there.

SPEAKER_01 36:38

So I mean yeah.

SPEAKER_04 36:40

Yeah. For sure. And because of that, that's why I don't think he Pittsburgh hasn't won a playoff game in a decade or whatever it's been. Um 2018 or something like that. Um and I don't know that this will be the the year they do it, but just because they lose it, I don't think that's a Tomlin thing. Um so yeah, players like him. He's a good coach, got great quotes. Um we'll see what happens, but have to say, like I said, I mean, uh I'll obviously I'll be rooting for the Steelers and hopefully they get that matchup against the the Broncos so they can get a Super Bowl. Because that's the only way they get a Super Bowl if they play the Broncos in the AFC title game. Um, but you know my rules Super Bowl or number one draft pick.

SPEAKER_01 37:27

So the Pittsburgh Steelers pulled off their last win against the Kansas City Chiefs 18-16 in the 2016 AFC divisional game.

SPEAKER_04 37:37

Yep. So 10 years ago is the last one they won a playoff game. And they've had two or three of them at home since then. And here we go, another home game. They have the opportunity. There's the other factor. We don't know what the weather is. I mean, gotta keep in mind, Houston's a dome team, y'all. They're indoors. We don't know what the weather's gonna be like. It could be an ugly game out there in Pittsburgh come uh come next Monday night. So that could matter too. You've got Nico Collins can't do anything catching the ball. Uh their receivers can't do anything catching the ball because you can't throw it five feet because of the weather. So we'll have to keep an eye on that as well. That may be a factor that works in Pittsburgh's favor. Uh maybe. I mean, I would say it works in Pittsburgh's favor because Rogers is washed up, so they just need to run the ball. So no not being able to throw the ball helps picker Pittsburgh as well. So less chance for Rogers to screw it up for everybody.

SPEAKER_02 38:35

They did have priest plus their field tonight, and it obviously worked.

SPEAKER_04 38:39

Clearly. Jeez. That reminds me. That reminds me. I watched I watched Knives Out. That was not a good movie. The third one.

SPEAKER_01 38:48

No, you didn't like it.

SPEAKER_04 38:50

No. And uh, I mean, it was mainly because it was slow. That beginning to that movie was so slow, they didn't get into it until got an hour into it, is when it finally picked up, and you gotta suffer that hour, and I do mean suffer. Um and then after that, it was like, alright, it'll play out. Uh, two was better than three. Uh I mean, I it's not like, hey, don't watch this, but just know you're getting into a a four, uh, a four out of ten star type movie, maybe five.

SPEAKER_01 39:22

Uh, and you had a Monday movie this week, too, right? No, tomorrow. Uh tomorrow? Tomorrow. And that's the automated one.

SPEAKER_04 39:29

Uh our our guess, our guess is primate or what the hell is that that comedy one? The stand-up comedy one. I can't remember. Is this is this thing on, maybe? Yeah, something like that.

SPEAKER_02 39:44

I think um either Regal or AMC put up the runtime, and it lines up with how long Primate is.

SPEAKER_04 39:51

So Okay, alright. Which is fine. That that trailer still looks good. So I'd be I I'd be okay with either one. I would prefer Primate, but I'd be fine with either one.

SPEAKER_02 40:01

I think there was one more option to that fit rated R, but if you're saying um the the Bone Hill or whatever that, 28 Days Later.

SPEAKER_04 40:10

Yeah, that was the other one that was rated R that's coming out soon. That's what I call it. So those are the three choices that we came down to as well. But if runtime dictates, then it's primate.

SPEAKER_01 40:20

I'm gonna sue them for copyright infringement because that's what I call my bedroom.

SPEAKER_04 40:25

Twenty-eight bones?

SPEAKER_01 40:27

No, the bone temple. Oh That's what he calls his weekend. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 40:34

Oh, for real though. Damn.

SPEAKER_01 40:37

It's a Ducaki party. Yep, because it's just me.

SPEAKER_04 40:45

But yeah, so there's our football picks, y'all.

SPEAKER_02 40:50

Well, speaking of movies, we went to go see um Marty Supreme. Yeah. Like the whole film.

SPEAKER_04 40:56

Table tennis.

SPEAKER_02 40:57

Uh no. Because it's rated R and there was like butts and balls in it or something. Well, it was table tennis, so yeah. So many balls. White balls. You could almost see Chalamet's balls. There was one point where he had to pull his pants down and there was a little bit of sack showing.

SPEAKER_01 41:16

I bet it was prosthetic prosthetic sack. He's really he's going all the way to try to earn that Oscar, huh? Right?

SPEAKER_02 41:23

Um enjoyed it well enough, but Marty is kind of an asshole. I didn't know if I was supposed to root for him during the movie or not, but yeah, that's the rumor person.

SPEAKER_01 41:35

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:37

No, I mean Chalamet's great. I enjoy watching anything he's in, but I just Marty was just kind of a dick.

SPEAKER_05 41:46

But it was entertaining enough. Alright. I mean. You don't sound terrible.

SPEAKER_01 41:52

You guys already gave a review several weeks back, but I finally got around to watching uh Eternity.

SPEAKER_06 41:57

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 41:58

And I liked it well enough. I I thought it was good. Like the I thought they did a nice job uh with the with the male parts as far as like the fighting and the like but then by the end of it, they're just like, eh, you're you're cool, man. And I'm like, Yep, that's pretty accurate. Like, that's how dudes be. Yep.

SPEAKER_02 42:18

Dudes almost got married. That would have been cool too. I would have been okay with that ending.

SPEAKER_01 42:23

Um that was actually the post-credit scene. You guys didn't stay through that.

SPEAKER_02 42:29

It wasn't in the pre-stay long enough.

SPEAKER_01 42:39

But but no, I was good. I thought everybody did a good job with their parts, and you know. Uh the acting was well done. The writing was pretty, you know.

SPEAKER_05 42:51

It were funny. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ooh, no.

SPEAKER_01 43:03

You had a chance there. And yeah, fucked it up. I like the idea of the archives being somewhere that everyone's gonna be able to do it.

SPEAKER_04 43:11

I like her double anything she's in.

SPEAKER_01 43:14

Um I liked the archives being like a place that everyone gets all excited to go to, but then always comes out crying because they see shift they didn't actually like you don't get to pick what memories you get to see, they just show you memories and so um that's how it would be. That'd be nice. I I would probably go to Yacht World, I think, if I had to pick a choice or make a choice between an eternity.

SPEAKER_05 43:45

I'd be in the nineties. Yeah, for sure. Star Wars was Gen X. Yeah, yeah, that only didn't even classic pointers. Yeah. Music top tier, movies top tier.

SPEAKER_01 44:06

Uh my only problem with space world is it would probably be a generic space world, and I wouldn't want to be part of that. I it would have to be Star Wars World. Like it couldn't just be like sci-fi world. Unless it was like unless it was like Barbarella Space World, and then I'd be like all no, you can't have sci-fi world.

SPEAKER_04 44:24

You might have alien showing up and shit. Like alien for alien.

SPEAKER_01 44:31

I want aliens who shoot second and have bad aim.

SPEAKER_05 44:37

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 44:40

Um I feel bad for I I feel bad for OnlyFans content creators in the Star Wars universe. These girls trying to get a face fill with stormtroopers, and it's like, help here. It's over here. You're just missing the whole time.

SPEAKER_01 44:55

Send me your tribute. Where's your tribute? It's on your picture. No, it's not. Nope. It's on the wall again. God damn it. Got it on myself again. God damn it.

SPEAKER_04 45:08

What aim?

SPEAKER_05 45:10

And it blends in with your uniform. Alright, so next would be uh Happy New Year's, guys.

SPEAKER_01 45:20

I mean, we're fucking in 2026 now. We made it. We survive in some future. Happy New Year's. Yeah, we in the future.

SPEAKER_05 45:31

I see y'all in a year. Right? So last year.

SPEAKER_01 45:35

Guys have a uh good New Year? I don't know. I know some of us were having a rough new year, so then do shit.

SPEAKER_04 45:42

Nice.

SPEAKER_01 45:44

I mean, do you guys traditionally do something for New Year's or are you like at a home? I mean, are you even up at midnight or are you like I was up till ten after midnight.

SPEAKER_05 45:57

Hit midnight, ten minutes later, time to go to bed. I feel like New Year's when we were young. Sorry, what was that direct? That's how long as BJs take. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 46:11

No, ten minutes was after was ten minutes after the uh was after the cell. So he he queued up uh a new hope to be like the Death Star exploded at midnight, and then the ten minutes that he stayed up after was just a celebration scene. And then he was like, okay, you say y'all don't do that?

SPEAKER_04 46:28

Come on, everybody knows that, right? No.

SPEAKER_01 46:30

I there was the YouTube video that had all that had it, everything all queued up, so you could see all nine Star Wars movies when the when whatever the big explosion or whatever the big thing that was happening in it happened.

SPEAKER_06 46:41

That'd be cool.

SPEAKER_01 46:43

So you could just start hit play at you know nine nine forty-seven or whatever, and then all of the movies at midnight would whatever blows up in that movie.

SPEAKER_04 46:54

I mean, I figured you guys rotate, you know, Death Star one blows up one year at midnight, the next year, you know, Luke is screaming, no, that's it's possible. And then the next year, next Death Star blows up, you know, you just rotate.

SPEAKER_05 47:11

I don't know. I like the idea of all nine of them. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 47:16

The first eight movies and uh Rogue One.

SPEAKER_04 47:22

And every once in a while you roll a die and throw in solo.

SPEAKER_01 47:25

Yep, exactly. Wait, does anything actually blow up in that movie? Yeah, does anything blow I mean the train blows up, but it's beginning. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 47:34

It's a late watch then, that's all.

SPEAKER_01 47:37

You just start that an hour and a half after everything else.

SPEAKER_04 47:40

Or you can time it at midnight where the blade goes into homeboy.

SPEAKER_05 47:46

True. No, I'm usually at work. Usually. Not this year.

SPEAKER_01 47:54

Um how are the calls on New Year's? I mean, are the majority of them just people complaining about fireworks and bullshit?

New Year Traditions, Fireworks, And Work Stories

SPEAKER_02 48:02

Yeah. I mean, they are actually illegal on New Year's Eve, so like it's a legit.

SPEAKER_01 48:07

Only on New Year's Eve? Yes.

SPEAKER_02 48:09

No, they're illegal. They're illegal other times? All year. They're illegal all year except for like the week leading up to the 4th of July.

SPEAKER_04 48:18

Oh wow. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 48:19

Otherwise, they're illegal. That doesn't make any sense. You allow 4th of July, but not for New Year's. America. America's yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_01 48:31

That was actually his training day when when he walked in that day, and they were like, so we're gonna talk about fireworks. And that was what they said. They were like, all right, so fireworks are allowed the week before the 4th of July, and then that's it. And somebody went, why? And they went, America, next slide.

SPEAKER_02 48:49

I mean, shit catches on fire, so they shouldn't allow 4th July.

SPEAKER_05 48:56

That's that's hypocritical to me. No. America.

SPEAKER_01 49:03

Do you actually have you guys actually have like I mean, do you have enough brush and stuff like that around to actually like cause any sort of like okay? Yeah. Palm trees. People don't take care of their palm trees. Them shits catch on fire every year. Yeah. And I'm sure the firefighters are.

SPEAKER_02 49:41

Well, the problem is they go to the Indian reservations and get like the bottle rockets and shit that fly up in the air that you're not supposed to have, even though fire the safe and sane ones that stay on the ground, you're allowed to have. But everybody goes and gets the big ones. And that's how they put different trees on fire. Now, if everybody just followed the rules and just did the ones that stay on the ground, we probably wouldn't lose as many fingers, houses. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_04 50:10

Hear me out, hear me out. We're gonna cut there was just capital punishment for the people that did that, there'd be less of that happening. I'm seeing it goes back to what I said last year. If you just killed them all, boom. Hey, there's a chance if I do this, I'd be put to death. Maybe I won't do this. Why is that so hard? Man, my world would be so much better.

SPEAKER_02 50:35

See, if Lou were in a country, President Trump would be kidnapping his ass and bringing them back to America.

SPEAKER_04 50:43

I mean, maybe. Oh, yeah. What what what cracks me up is all the libs now out there protesting protesting. Oh no, oh no, you captured a dictator, even though we were at the no kings protest in November. Hmm, how the hell does that work? Fucking hypocritical libs. No kings, no kings! Oh no, you captured a king. Take make up your fucking mind.

SPEAKER_02 51:09

No kings in America. We don't care about other countries.

SPEAKER_04 51:12

Either you like kings or you don't.

SPEAKER_02 51:14

No, we don't like kings in America. We had a whole war about it.

SPEAKER_04 51:17

Oh, is that what it is? It's okay as another country, though. Even though they send drugs and weapons and all a bunch of illegal stuff over here. That's okay. Allegedly. That sounds like a lib. Yeah, that sounds like a lib.

SPEAKER_05 51:29

Allegedly, sir.

SPEAKER_04 51:30

No kinks. Well, on the bright side, I have to give it, like I said, like I said, November, I have to give it to you. It worked. We don't have a king in America. So good job.

SPEAKER_05 51:39

The protest work. This is true. But we do because they imported him from Venezuela.

SPEAKER_04 51:48

Oh, we do have a king in America now.

SPEAKER_02 51:50

See? Look at that. I'm fucked up.

SPEAKER_04 51:53

Probably has his own cell and everything.

SPEAKER_02 51:56

No, he's a treatment. That's the thing. He's there with Daddy.

SPEAKER_01 52:03

He would do the same day Lou and I agree on something, it's the same day that that Duke does the position. Can't be nice all the time. This is why we can't have nice things.

SPEAKER_04 52:22

Hell no. We're ruined the balance of the universe. Come on now. We all know that.

SPEAKER_01 52:31

Pinko. I'm a Pinko.

SPEAKER_05 52:35

Shit. Wait, who's talking about anyway?

SPEAKER_04 52:39

Yeah, so me, I was gonna say, uh, back to New Year's. Uh I just kind of sat around watching shows, watched TV, uh, got into uh damn, what is it, high potential? The Olsen sister. I assume she's one of the Olson sisters. She looks like the other three Olfans. Um and she's got a high IQ, and she's helping the police solve crimes. Good show. Got into that already on episode eight or nine. And then, yeah, not even kidding. Uh my mom was texting throughout the night because she watches all the shows and everything. She hit me up at 10 o'clock. New York hit midnight. I'm like, yay, that's my show. And or a movie, whatever we were watching. Uh, it's probably a movie. And then, yeah, I'm not kidding. Midnight hit, and then might have watched 10 more minutes worth of whatever it was, or did did all the traditions opening the door and and whatnot. And then yeah, I I I'm pretty sure I was asleep by 15 after midnight.

SPEAKER_05 53:41

So since you weren't related to the Olsen sisters.

SPEAKER_02 53:44

She's ON, not Ian.

SPEAKER_04 53:49

Ian? Okay. Oh my god, she looks like she could be their their older sister.

SPEAKER_01 53:54

That's the girl from It's Always Funny, right?

SPEAKER_05 53:55

She's 50. I don't know, I never saw this show.

SPEAKER_04 54:04

All I know is when I first saw the trailers of that uh show last year, or year before now, when it was coming out in 2024. I saw her and was like, she looks like she's one of the old sisters. Uh hey, kudos uh for her for doing her own thing.

SPEAKER_05 54:19

She's pretty hot for a 50-year-old. And yeah. I'm not used to that because I'm used to I'm used to all the hot 21-year-old uh college kids out here. That never age.

SPEAKER_01 54:34

They just changed names and hair color.

SPEAKER_04 54:37

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're they're good about that. I mean, they all wear the same fucking outfit, so you can't tell who's who, but whatever.

SPEAKER_05 54:45

They all look the same.

SPEAKER_04 54:47

I've got slippers and pajamas on going to fucking Safeway. Wearing the same as my pajamas, house slippers. Okay, going to Safeway, whatever.

SPEAKER_05 54:57

Easy access, I suppose.

SPEAKER_01 55:06

What you're like easy access, I suppose. Wait, for what? What are you talking about? They're at the grocery store.

SPEAKER_04 55:14

Yeah, how easy it is to be able to do it. Yeah. Yeah. If only they had uh restrooms in Safeway. Oh wait, they do.

SPEAKER_02 55:26

Oh, I did do something on New Year's. I took um big one to go see uh things.

SPEAKER_04 55:32

Oh, I forgot you did that. Yeah, how was that? Yeah, she's still not happy because she keeps posted on Instagram. He's still dead. Don't know who he is, but somebody's dead.

SPEAKER_05 55:44

Y'all who watched it know. She has some weird obsession with fucking Vecna, the dude without skin. Oh, he died? He's the main fucking bad guy.

SPEAKER_02 55:59

He was going to die.

SPEAKER_04 56:00

He died.

SPEAKER_02 56:02

Series finale.

SPEAKER_01 56:04

The bad guy has to die so everybody can live happily ever after. So how so how was going to the theater and seeing like what was that experience? It wasn't bad.

SPEAKER_02 56:12

I mean, they didn't have a skip credit scene, so I was kind of mad about that. I'm like, somebody push the fucking button, skip opening credits. But no, we had to watch the whole fucking intro.

SPEAKER_01 56:23

And you got popcorn and drinks, like there was stuff, right? You talked about that. Yeah, they gave us uh twenty dollars each.

SPEAKER_04 56:29

Oh yeah, twenty dollars credit each?

SPEAKER_02 56:31

Yeah, for each ticket.

SPEAKER_04 56:33

Oh, holy shit. Okay, that's different. When you said the first time, I was like, yeah, whatever. I didn't know it was each. Each.

SPEAKER_02 56:42

So I got like ice cream and shit and candy that I never get.

SPEAKER_04 56:47

Hell yeah.

Burlesque, Big Band, And Pasties Debate

SPEAKER_01 56:50

Did you get the exclusive stuff? I didn't give a shit. No? Really? They had no exclusive stuff? That's weird. No shit. Nothing. No swag. No posters or nothing? That's sad. Nothing.

SPEAKER_04 57:01

You would think a poster, something simple to you just print up the code.

SPEAKER_01 57:04

Keychain or something. Son.

SPEAKER_04 57:07

No, keychain's more expensive. Poster, simple poster would have been great. Like we got in.

SPEAKER_02 57:11

Oh mini posters or Percy Jackson, one of those things. Yeah. Nope. They said fuck you. We gave you$20 for snacks. That's what you get.

SPEAKER_04 57:21

Twenty bucks of snacks. That's pretty good though. Especially when you get 20% off, 25% off as well. Right? So that's pretty solid.

SPEAKER_02 57:30

Yeah. Uh otherwise, it ended well. I mean, as far as series finales go, um the like everybody says, the fifth season's been kinda poorly written.

SPEAKER_01 57:45

Um like the last season of uh Game of Thrones.

SPEAKER_02 57:49

Yeah, not that bad though. It ended way better than Game Seconds.

SPEAKER_04 57:52

I was gonna say, I doubt it's that bad.

SPEAKER_02 57:54

Yeah. No, like there's a lot of um convenient happenings. Like, oh wow, this just happened. That just happens to work out for this character to escape.

SPEAKER_01 58:05

Boom.

SPEAKER_02 58:06

That kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_01 58:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 58:07

But um that's the lazy writing.

SPEAKER_01 58:10

The hole in the ground to get out from the upside down happens to be big enough for this person to uh too. Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 58:16

Um but I didn't hate it. You would it it wasn't a waste of time, right? It was cool seeing it on the big screen. Um again, I'm just uh a huge supporter of actually going to the movies when you can. So I wasn't mad about it. And like I said, it it ended well for as far as serious finales go.

SPEAKER_01 58:41

Alright. Uh Lou, I mean you haven't watched any you haven't watched season five at all of Stranger Things, right?

SPEAKER_04 58:48

I'm I'm caught up one through four, but zero on five.

SPEAKER_01 58:52

Uh so uh I saw this this graphic, and I'll send it, I'll put it in the chat, Jack. So if you want to try to drop it into the while we're talking about it, um they had the actors' ages from season one to season five. So like 11 was 11 when she started playing 11, and she was 12, and that was season one. In season five, she's supposed to be playing 16, but she's 21. So, like season one, most of the characters are in the same kind of general range, so like um, I don't know all the characters' names, so I'm just gonna say they they just have the actors' names. So Finn Wolf Henry will so Finn Wolford was 13 playing twelve, Noah Schnapp was twelve playing twelve, uh Galen Mazzaro was thirteen playing twelve, Caleb McLaughlin was fourteen playing twelve, Joe Carey was twenty-three playing negative or approximately seventeen, Charlie Horton Keaton was twenty-one playing sixteen, and Natalie Dyer was twenty playing sixteen. By the time we get to season five, Millie Bobby Brown is twenty-one playing sixteen, Finn Wolfhard's twenty-three playing sixteen, Noah Schnapp's playing twenty-two, playing sixteen, Calen Mazzaro's twenty-three playing sixteen, Caleb McLaughlin's twenty-four playing sixteen, Joe Curry is thirty-three, playing approximately twenty-one, Charlie uh heat. Is 31 playing 20, and Natalie Dyer is 30 playing 20.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:34

31. 31 playing 20.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:37

Jesus. I just think that's a good thing.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:43

Although Billy Bobby Brown is only she's only 21. She, I don't know, man. She looks older, so that's not a good thing. That's that is not a good thing at all. She looks like that.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:53

I just thought it was interesting how the majority, at least of the main main characters, were around the same age that they played. Um, but then by the time season five came around, they were like brp. Right.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:05

What was the gap between season four and season five, like years-wise? Like, wasn't there a season every year of one, two, three, four?

SPEAKER_01 1:01:13

Well, yeah, because they all played twelve and thirteen.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:15

But four to five wasn't a year.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:17

But they all played twelve and thirteen in season one. No, no, no, I get that. I got you, I got you.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:22

So season one came out in sixteen.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:25

Season two was seventeen.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:29

Three was nineteen.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:31

Okay. So there's four was twenty-two. Five was twenty-five. Thanks, COVID.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:41

Yeah, so COVID, the writer strike, that slowed it down for three to four. You were talking real world. Okay. I get it. I thought you meant Lou, I thought you meant like in season, in in uh world.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:54

Uh no, no, no, no. It was just like the time frame between season one and season five was I was like, that I'm like, how do they get to this gap? I'm like, okay, that's how they got to that gap.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:04

It was like a 10-year gap, basically.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:09

Ten years for five seasons, right? For all intents and purposes. Mm-hmm. Yeah. But it wasn't horrible. I mean, if you have enjoyed it up to this point, knock it out. It's not horrible. You know, when you're bored.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:30

Also, Deep, based on your recommendation, I also we started Pluribus last night.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:36

I'm watching them like tough start. But I liked it. I want to see where it goes, so we'll see.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:46

Did because I I read Bill's report on that, and it was like what his problem is.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:52

I I mean, if it's not like usually his jam, cool. But I thought it was interesting. Just the way it sets up with the weird alien signal coming down at first, and then it jumps over to these lab people, and then all this other weird shit happens.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:09

There's like some lesbian book writer, and it's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:16

It's a very interesting thing. I mean, it's like I said, it's on my list. I just remember seeing Bill's post yesterday about it was between that and something else when he saw it, and it started off like he wasn't sure, but he it grew on him towards the end of the episode. So that's a plus.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:31

Um I was in the office on Friday, and my boss, before she went on vacation with her family to go to like London and stuff like that, usually she makes like little pack like individual things for Christmas for everybody, but she just didn't have time because they were planning this trip. So she just brought in like a bunch of like uh a tin of like sugar cookies and a bunch of peppermint bark and stuff like that. And I was in the office on Friday and I grabbed a stack of the sugar cookies, and I was like, I sat back down at my desk and I went, hmm, I want to eat these. Yeah, like I was a tiny bit of a tiny bit skeeped out. I mean, I still ate them and I'm fine, but you know, there was a moment where I was like, hmm, because there were multiple times in that episode where I was just like, like, uh, nope. What the fuck? No, stop it.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:25

No, but yeah, yeah, redeem your your Apple TV trial, Lou. It like I said, one episode in. Um I'll probably stick with it through the end just to see what happens.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:36

It's only eight episodes. It's very Twilight Zone-ish. And then if you see the follow-up on Bill's post, everybody told him to keep watching it.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:47

So oh no, I did not see that.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:50

They all said keep watching it. It's totally worth it. Best show on TV. Man, we got so spoiled for good TV this year. It's kind of crazy. Like we got Andor, we got The Pit, we got Pluribus, like, and that's all the shows, like, yeah. I'm sure there's a lot of shows that I'm missing, but for as bad as movies were in general over the course of the year, I think we really got spoiled with with our with TV. I think it was yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:21

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:22

So we should have uh last week we should have assigned ourselves to do uh but our best of list for 2025.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:29

Womp womp. Oh, I went out with friends.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:37

I don't watch enough TV. I'm trying to think.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:38

I'm sorry, I'm trying to get enough TV to you you don't watch your problem is you watch it you watch a lot of TV, it's just not current TV. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Your problem is you'll go back and watch you'll go back and watch yeah, you'll go back and watch all five seasons or seven seasons of next gen in order and not be watching stuff that's actually out today, right now.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:01

Well, yeah, because you're doing that weekly crap.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:04

But my point is like Peacemaker, yeah. Did you ever go back to Peacemaker and finish it?

SPEAKER_04 1:06:09

Yeah, yeah, once it was done.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:12

So Pluribus is done.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:14

Like I'm waiting on Landman, I'm waiting on Fallout. Um, the ones that are done that I need to watch um the Reacher, season three.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:24

Reacher was good. I enjoyed Reacher.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:26

So I haven't seen Reacher Season 3, even though it's finished. Um Yellow Jackets, I need to go back and finish. I only finished season one of that. I think that's but now I'm into high potential, so I'll watch that one. But that one only has like 13 episodes or so, season one, and like 18 episodes season two or something. Or it will have eighteen episodes once season two is done in May. So I'll watch season one and then I'll probably just stop watching until season two is done.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:57

Nine episodes of thirds. I thought there were eight.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:00

Oh, I just got a text message from our local viewer. Ask Jack why there was no video for the pod last week.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:08

You know, I noticed that when I was going through YouTube, and maybe I just didn't finish hitting the upload button.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:15

But I'll take a look at it when I get back after this episode. I'm working on it. I guess she likes our faces. Right?

SPEAKER_01 1:07:34

I can't do the I can't do the triple chins because all you see is my beard. Like there you go. Oh, vigilante.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:45

I'm changing my face so they can't do facial recognition on me. Just get one of them masks that you put on, it makes it look like Tom Cruise. Right. Those things are creepy. What else? What else? What else? Um Wait, what about you, Duke?

SPEAKER_04 1:08:12

What was your New Year's? Um yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:14

I said he went out with friends. Yeah, I had a friend who Yeah, but but what'd you do though?

SPEAKER_05 1:08:18

Like, like what'd you do? Oh, I didn't I you guys don't care about that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:26

Um we had uh like house party at an event.

TV Catch‑Up: Plurals, Reacher, High Potential

SPEAKER_01 1:08:30

Like what was we so uh we started out going to This the thing where your friends had a table or whatever? Yeah, so they they reserved the table at a uh like a jazz club and they were doing like a special uh New Year's Eve big band slash burlesque show was how they brought in the new year. So we went um we went and had dinner. The five of there was five of us, we went and had dinner. Uh we got uh there was a restaurant, like a rooftop restaurant in one of the hotels downtown, and they got reservations for that, and it was like 65 bucks for like a four-course meal that ended up being really, really good. Like um, it was one of those ones where you got to pick from each, like you got pick an appetizer, pick a salad, pick a mane, and pick a dessert type of thing. Um that ended up being really good. We had a good time there, and then we uh made our way over to the under, it's actually in a basement of uh one of the oldest clubs in Portland. Um the layout is kind of funky for doing like burlesque, but where we were at, we got we got a good view of all the girls and the guy. Um but um yeah, there were people who like had bought GA tickets and were in the back, but like they didn't we expected them to kind of make a lap through everybody, but they only like came up and down the main aisle. So that was kind of a bummer because if like you would have bought a GA ticket, you would have been standing over off to the side for no reason. Um, I guess they were the people who got the ticket had been to this event before, and they said before yeah, they knew the routine, but they were like though in years past when they'd come, they would have made a whole lap through everybody to not necessarily stopping and giving them attention, but at least you would have had seen the girls and guy close up, right? Uh their performance close up. Uh this one they only kind of walked up and down the main aisle, so a lot of people kind of didn't get I I I think you know the and the show itself, the layout of the club, I think it made it really hard, but the music was really good. Like I really like some, especially kind of kind of the Fallout and stuff, so the big band stuff. Um, they sang Minnie the Moocher, and everybody in the place was was singing along, so that was super cool. Um so yeah, we did that through midnight, and then uh we're there for probably another half an hour finishing up our drinks, and then uh we called it good. So I was home by like one o'clock in bed by like one thirty.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:50

So burlesque like like titties or lingerie?

SPEAKER_01 1:10:56

Well uh titties, but with pasties. So they had pasties and that don't count.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:02

That ain't titties. No are if we don't get if we don't get nipple, no are if we don't get nipple, you're right. No area. I can go to Vegas and Fremont. No areola but no nips. Ugh. See, uh-uh. It needs to be rated M for mature. That's PG 13 right there. We ain't having that. I'm giving you my money, I'm getting nips.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:29

Um so, but it was fun. It was it was nice that you know people just made a decision and you know, it was a small group, so it wasn't like us having to like uh corral cats the entire night while we did some dumb bar crawl or some bullshit.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:42

Um so yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:47

Alright.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:48

And then uh New Year's Eve, I didn't or New Year's Eve.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:50

I was gonna say that college football.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:54

Yeah. Yeah, there wasn't a whole lot going on.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:56

So New Year's. We watched all three games. I didn't know what I did New Year's Day. Nothing? Nothing. I think I slept till like 10 or something. Look at you bringing in the New Year, right? Right? I mean we were up late because of the movie. Um Yeah, no, I think I just slept. Nice and boring.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:33

Uh are you somebody who has already broken down your Christmas stuff? Are you a Christmas like well uh normally? Like I know I know you've had extenuating circumstances this year, but are you would it have been nice to? Probably, but no, I'm usually lazy about that shit.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:49

It's usually down by February. No, but we decided to um start cleaning out the garage for whatever reason.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:58

Um so now the living room's a whole hot mess. So it's you cleaning out the garage with the city.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:04

I was gonna say, man, I remember seeing that garage.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:06

Good luck, right? Yeah. You and a supervisor. Yeah, pretty much.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:11

No, so like for like months I'm mad at the girls. I'm like, why don't they clean out their boxes? But we were going through it, it was mostly mine and my wife's clothes.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:18

I'm like, uh that was misplaced, Anger.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:23

Oops.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:25

You're gonna it'll be interesting to hear you talk to the therapist this week. Uh so yeah. Uh that you know, three months ago when I was saying my girls are fucking lazy kids. Uh my bad. I'm the lazy bitch.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:38

Who's got two thumbs and my bad. But since it's getting done, I emptied like seven, eight boxes already. So obviously it was clothes I wasn't missing. So donate.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:53

There's gonna be some stylish poor people up in this bitch.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:57

Be walking around with Roosevelt. I've been like, bro, that is a nice Star Wars shirt. I used that one just like it.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:03

Yeah. Yeah, nice Roosevelt's my ass. It was like, you better give me first pick. I'll wear two ass.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:13

They won't even fit me, but you better get a few. Yeah, I'm just thinking this.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:16

No, no, no. I'm more on the side, I'm like, there is I don't I just don't see uh Roosevelt in the donation pile ever. It's like if people like I'm done with this Roosevelt. It's going on Facebook's fucking group page. For real.$40. It would go for$40 on there before you donate that crap.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:34

Yep. But you were saying you were seeing people going to like thrift shops and Goodwill and they find Roosevelt sometimes.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:44

So somebody doesn't care about donating them. Mm-hmm. Ain't me though. I ain't donating a$70 shirt.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:55

Their list, uh their list of places they're going to this year is significantly lower than it was last year, though. Yeah. I was thinking about that yesterday.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:05

That is crazy how the that list of where they're not going this year or I don't I don't think I mean I don't know, I guess. I mean, we know they do well at San Diego. Uh they do well enough at Denver from my two years of uh experience.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:25

Portland doesn't seem like it's that popular.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:30

Just based off of Duke's uh experience. But I don't know, right? I don't I don't know which New York Comic Con is super popular. So New York Comic Con, San Diego Comic Con, Denver Fan Expo, those three, and only because I'm at Denver as I know. But the other Fan Expos might do well. I I I just don't know.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:49

Yeah, they're going to Fan Expo in New Orleans.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:53

Shit. Next this weekend. I don't know, there was a fan. Oh, I didn't know they had a bunch of thirty five. That would be fun. I didn't know they had a bunch of thirty-five dollar shirts up. Might have to come back to that one. 28 bucks. Fan Expo Canada, Fan Expo Dallas.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:18

I wonder if they have some sort of deal with the Fan Expos.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:23

Probably. They're probably like super easy to work with. And they're huge. I mean. But I suppose they could always add.

Con Life, Merch Math, And Roosevelt Shirts

SPEAKER_01 1:16:34

Yeah, I mean, it seems like easily a half, if not less, of uh than they had the year before. Was last year some sort of anniversary for them or something, maybe? I don't know. Because it seemed like they had stuff. It seemed like they had stuff going on every single week, if not, you know, every year.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:54

It really did. It really did.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:56

I mean, their busiest months are March and May this year. Otherwise, they're just at one uh one place a year or one place a month. Like it's kind of wild. And they actually have months where they're not doing anything, which again is kind of cool. Or cool, cool for them, right? Right.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:16

I don't know. I mean, I don't know. I mean, probably because they'll make just as much money not going to those conventions and selling online as they would by going, kind of like what happened with J. Scott Campbell at at at uh Sandigo Comic Con this year. He used to have this big ass booth, blah, blah, blah. He did all his shit online, and it was like, I could see it. All his stuff online sold out just like it would if it was at the event without having to pay to have a 20 by 20 booth.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:43

Yep. Well, and who the f knows? So it's like, all right. Who knows how much a 20 by 20 booth is at Comic Con this year? Like million. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:53

Either way, that doesn't even matter. Anything more than a dollar is more than what they would have done by doing it online. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_05 1:17:59

So no matter what, it's cheaper by online only. So that I that I get.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:09

I mean, again, that I use that loosely because you still have pack stuff up, ship it, you know, those costs. And if those costs are still cheaper than having the booth for five days, then or six, I guess you have breakdown, put up, because I think you're allowed to put up ahead of time. So that cost, I would it still maybe cheaper. I would rather spend the cost to mail stuff and the overhead to mail stuff from my warehouse, whatever, versus uh the cost to the pay for the booth, and then to bring everything to the booth. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:42

So and pay for the people that you're already paying for. Uh hotels, all that shit.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:49

Hotels, food that you got to add on top of. Yeah, that's a good point. That's you have to add on top of that. Yep. It is so not worth it. I mean, when I when I saw that that the J. Scott Campbell booth wasn't there, and I was like, let me go out his website, see what's going on. I'm like, oh, they're doing an online thing. Oh, the online stuff sold out. You know, it was like, all right, well, no wonder.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:09

Yes, he makes his money either way, right? He knows how much he's gonna make selling his exclusives. You only care because you can flip it, but it doesn't affect his bottom line, who buys it and where they're from.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:22

Yeah, after the fact, he doesn't give a shit. He's like, hey, I have 5,000 product. Oh, 5,000 products sold. I'm good. That's all he cares about. So can't blame him. Roosevelt might be leaning towards that. We're gonna do less of this because our product is so hot that it's going to sell out no matter what. Um now, that is not 100% true because they do have they did have some leftovers that did not sell out for Comic-Con. How much of that is they had too many exclusives versus it just wasn't a good IP, that's you know, they can look at their uh history to see uh what uh what has sold well and what hasn't to figure that out. Like, oh, if we do droid Star Wars, it sells out. If we do you know creatures, it doesn't, you know, whatever they want to do. That type of thing.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:12

But even still, whatever they have left over, they always at a couple shows every year, they have the uh Roosevelt's warehouse where they just bring in all their overstock and you can buy Comic Con exclusives from two, three years ago.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:29

Unquote, stuck with inventory. Their stuff's gonna move. I mean, hell, this weekend alone. Uh, the you know, I don't know if you if you saw it, Jack, on the Facebook group. Somebody was like, anybody have this R2? The one that came out of Comic-Con. And I was like, Oh, yeah, I forgot that's available on the website. I'm like, we should probably get this shirt before it sells out again. So three days ago, you know, we did. We we went ahead and jumped on it and was like, got her, her shirt. I'm like, well, I got this 50% discount. I'll get one for me too. You know, and now we both have the R2 shirt that'll show up like on Wednesday or something.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:10

Yep. Me looks so good in white, Lou. I look so good on white. What?

SPEAKER_04 1:21:25

Uh another matching shirt for for me and her to wear.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:30

So cute.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:31

That'll probably be a that'll probably be a Denver Comic-Con thing.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:36

Oh, they have uh a bamboo restock D. Did you get that one? The Rogue One one? Um, I think so.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:44

That's the white and blue one.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:46

Yeah, I already got that one. Was that the one you wore to the show?

SPEAKER_05 1:21:48

Yep. Nice. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:52

I just got an email that my Funko Digital uh Avatar ship uh like I just got the email. That shit was 27th of December. It arrives on the 8th, and I just got the email that it shipped. I was like, that was like a week ago, y'all. What are you doing over there, drop? Right.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:13

I just got mine the other day. The Proto was Appa? No. I got the email a while ago.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:20

Yeah, yeah. It was the the Freddy Funko was as Appa.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:24

No, it was Proto was Appa.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:28

What's it? Oh, you're right. It was the dog.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:29

You're right, you're right, you're right.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:32

But yeah, uh, that arrives on Thursday. I'm like, let me put that on the internet real fast. Yep, sell it before sell it before it uh floods. Soon as you get it, sell it. Yep. I usually get mine fairly quickly, so you know we'll see. Like I said, it's supposed to arrive on Thursday, it'll be posted on Thursday. I did pretty good on that one, too, because that's the one I didn't know you needed the uh the the Proto Azappa. I thought you already got it, because I got three of those. Uh two with the uh Aang with the armor, three of the freaking Koras, um, and one of the Sokka with the wolf mask. The three Koras I'm not happy about because I saw the first episode of Korra. Korra. And I was like, I was like, this is gonna be a long watch if I end up finishing this. I was like, that was not it did not draw me in, is the problem.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:28

Really?

SPEAKER_04 1:23:31

Maybe it's just the first episode. I'll go I'll eventually, you know, watch a little more. I'll be playing Magic and Film in the background, like I was doing with the rewatch of Avatar. And we'll see. But just off that first episode, let's go this way. I watched that first episode like three weeks ago and haven't come back to it yet. So it's like, yeah, yeah. It's been amazing. It's like uh I'll get to it when I really have nothing to watch. When I got no YouTube videos to watch, you know, when there's not a show. I was like, I gotta wait for a girl to watch this show. Okay, now I have nothing to watch. Okay, I'll put it on then. That's that's how not interested. It might get better.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:07

Your YouTube recommended feed is like, nah. I I got nothing for you. We're good. Yeah, I got nothing. Yeah, there's literally nothing else on YouTube for you to watch. Sorry, buddy. There are 8 million videos posted every single day. Nope, I got nothing new for you.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:23

Nothing for you. Unless you want to watch this guy break down on piano, uh appreciating, you know, John Williams' Close Encounters, which I did watch last week.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:34

20-minute video. Oh man. But what's the other you know, the other movie we watched this week?

SPEAKER_04 1:24:43

Uh the the Rebel Wilson movie where she's like the bridesmaid and she's really a spy or something like that. Secret agent. Yeah, spy hard. Or brideheart.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:54

Brightheart.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:55

Brideheart is what it was. And it was it was entertaining. I'm not gonna lie. I was entertained by that movie. I'm not sad that I didn't, you know, to see it in the theater. It just perfect, you know, watch it at home type. Right. Uh but uh but uh but I was entertained with it. It was it was silly fun.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:13

It's all you need in life.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:15

I don't think I watched it. We were gonna watch the first uh Dead Reckoning so we can watch the part two, just the refresher type thing. Um just never got around to it. And now that we're I wonder, does our does our movie tomorrow count as a ticket towards 26? Or since we bought it in 25? Okay, let's see how that works.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:36

Yeah. Yeah, it's when you see it, it's not when you bought it.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:39

Oh, you're right. It is when you redeem it. So already up to two movie watches and one movie, one visit. But hopefully Tuesday, they're back to frickin' uh Tightwalk Tuesday movies. This whole holiday crap where they get to pay full price.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:53

I'm not used to that.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:54

I'm not used to that. Man. I don't pay, I don't, I don't pay 80 cents to upgrade my cheese in my whopper. I'm not about to freaking pay full price for a movie if I can help it. Yeah, we got I learned that from my dad. We got cheese at home. I'm like, yeah, you're right.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:17

Government cheese.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:19

For real. Colby Jack. 30 seconds in a microwave. It'll be like it was cooked on there. 80 cents adds up, man.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:33

Chef Mike got you. It's fine. I'm checking right now.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:39

Hundred times, and that's a Roosevelt. Just saying. That's once a year. You upgrade all that shit, you get a free Roosevelt every year by not adding that stuff and just get it on.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:47

Yep. Uh Regal at least has their Tightwater Tuesday back on.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:52

On Tuesday? This Tuesday? Okay, good. Then maybe we'll go watch uh Housemates. Or Housemaid. That looked pretty deep. And you said it was pretty good, Jack.

Marvel Trailers, X‑Men Teases, And Doom Rumors

SPEAKER_01 1:27:03

Yeah, yeah, that was super enjoyable. Also, uh the new Daisy Ridley movie We Bury the Dead came out. So just as an FYI. It's getting 84%. It's getting 84% on Rotten Tomatoes.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:17

That's oh, never mind. Never mind. That's the one you were talking about. I'm thinking of the movie that came out earlier last year or middle last year. Um some zombie type movie, something with Bring Bring the Dead or some dead movie. It was it was one of the mystery movies. Yeah, yeah, it was one of the mystery movies, secret movies last year. So that's what I thought you were talking about. No, this is the one you you were explaining to us last week.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:42

Something. Yeah. But yeah, now that we're back to Tombstone movies. I still haven't seen it. The trailer? Maybe I'll watch maybe it'll show it tomorrow. That'd be especially primate. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:59

I think already out, has it released? We get one more Marvel trailer, I think. Yeah, it should be posted in the morning.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:07

I think Thor and Captain America.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:10

Well, they had Captain America Thor this week was actually X-Men. So it was supposed to be the X-Men.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:15

I didn't see that one.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:16

Yeah, this that's I haven't seen that one online. I think it's Cyclops, Professor X, and Magneto. Magneto. I think are in this one. And people are saying the one this week.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:26

Which versions of them?

SPEAKER_01 1:28:28

Um the OG Scott Summers. Yeah. And OG all three of them. Yeah. Oh Marsden? Yeah. Marsden, yeah. Scott Marsden. Yeah.

unknown 1:28:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:41

People are hoping that they There wasn't there wasn't one in the the reboot?

SPEAKER_01 1:28:48

It's always been him. Yeah. Yeah, he's always been. No. No, no, no. There was another guy. Um why can't I think of his name? Uh let's see. Scott Summers.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:00

Yeah, I thought I thought in the reboots, the Jennifer Lawrence ones, there was a cyclops.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:06

Yep, you're right.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:08

Uh it was. Is the trailer online? No, not this one.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:17

The X-Men trailer?

SPEAKER_02 1:29:19

No, it's I think it's just the AI one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:22

This one's truly out. So Yeah. Um James Marsden and then Tim Popcock was in X-Men Origins Wolverine. That movie doesn't count. And then Marsden. Okay, so this trailer was Pan.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:40

Who were the other two you mentioned? That was in the new trailer?

SPEAKER_01 1:29:42

Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:45

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:46

Uh and then I'm not sure. I didn't realize Ian was coming back. They were saying this uh they were saying this week was supposed to be maybe revolving around Doom. That's the rule rumor. About how we get to Tony Stark becoming Doom. Like they're giving some sort of like hint behind that.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:04

They're giving us all this shit and we don't even have a Spider-Man trailer yet.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:08

Bullshit. Spider-Man comes out way first.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:11

Yeah, but they had that, they had that, that, what is that, that that that spoiler that got leaked with the Spider-Man. I didn't bother to watch it because I didn't want to spoil it for myself, but that came out earlier this week. I didn't go look it up. I was like, no, I don't want to know.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:29

No, there was some.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:30

Which is funny. I don't want I don't want to know that type of stuff, but I want to know the characters who's in it. You know what I mean? You can spoil if this person's gonna be in the movie, but don't tell me what happens at all. I want I want none of that. Well, they're gonna bring in Black Hat. Sweet. You know, that type of stuff.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:45

The guy that played Ezra in Ahsoka is gonna be uh MJ's boyfriend.

unknown 1:30:53

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:54

Job of the Hutt will return in Spider-Man.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:59

Uh Ty Sheridan, the guy from Ready Player One. He was the other uh Scott Summers. Fake. So Scott Sum Scott Summers was played by James Marsden and then also played by Ty uh Ty Sheridan. Oh and Tom Popcock.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:18

Popcock? Tom Popcock.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:22

So yeah, I mean, obviously the whole thing, oh Phil Doom's filling babies.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:29

Yep. And we'll figure I guess we'll have to figure out why. Power! More power! I guess. I mean only stealing two babies.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:42

I mean Captain America's baby don't seem things based on it, but the other two are.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:46

Well he has the super soldier serum to one degree or another in him. True. He's gonna be fifty.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:59

Yeah, no argument there, but I just like but compared to what the powers love has, and the pair to the powers that uh Nathaniel, I think it's Nathaniel, um fantastic four, has like you know what I mean? It's like okay, you got these powers over here, and then oh yes, Hooper Theorem. Like, uh all right. But it depends on what if you if you have to pick one or three, no, he's always picked third. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 1:32:22

Oh, yeah, for sure. But yeah, if you're if you're constructing some kind of human, then yeah, I guess it's the uh it's the only room it's the only room that Captain America is the last person picked. His kid has so much to live up to. Basically. But I mean, facts I'm guessing there's going to be something between Cyclops and Gene with maybe another super baby if we're gonna focus on Cyclops in the trailer.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:51

Well, I guess it was the clone. Who was the clone baby? Uh cable, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_02 1:32:56

Yeah, cable uh Madeline Pryor.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:59

With Madeline Pryor, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:02

Nothing.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:02

But then they also had a Nate Summers, so there's Nathan, yeah, Cable. And then there's Nate Summers, who goes by X-Man, which is fucking stupid, but that is something Cyclops' kid will come up with.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:18

Uh-huh. I will tell you this much. I I know I haven't seen the X-Men trailer yet, but just with the first two and just whatever, I'm not excited for it yet. I'm sure I will be when it gloser and when more stuff comes out. Um but until then, I'm just like, meh.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:37

Everyone is the stuff I've been reading online, the X-Men trailer out of the three of them, is they they say it's the best trailer. So I guess he's fighting um he's fighting uh Sentinels and like the traditional Sentinel, the purple, you know, the purple, not the one from Days of Futures past, not the ones from uh first class. Like these are like true to life, legit weird skull cap uh weird beanies, weird beanie um uh who is he?

SPEAKER_04 1:34:09

So Doom is fighting them, or Cyclops. Magneto is Cyclops. Or Cyclops, okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:14

Where Magneto and and Professor X are just in the in the trailer, like they don't they're not acting.

SPEAKER_04 1:34:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:20

It's I think it's my my impression is it's more of a voiceover. Like they're just doing voiceovers while Cyclops is fighting.

SPEAKER_04 1:34:28

While Cyclops is fighting a sentinel or several.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:34:32

Alright. Like I said, while I watch it, it'd probably be exciting, blah, blah, blah. But look, man, we're 11 months away. I I I don't give a shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 11 months away, I'm not gonna lie.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:43

So much can happen between now and then that we will never even get to see it. So right.

SPEAKER_04 1:34:48

For real. For real. I have no excitement for Wonder Man. Um, I think that's what it's called. Yep, Disney show.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:57

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 1:34:58

Yeah. Uh Mando and Grogu. It's like, obviously, I'll be there Thursday night, but don't give a shit. I just don't expect anything out of it. You know what I mean? It's like, oh yeah, it's gonna be a long episode from the TV show. That's what I expect. I expect no real value.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:16

I think I'd be more excited about it if I knew if it was gonna be a capstone to that series. If like it was just the like we're wrapping it up, right? It's the end. But you know it won't be the end because they can never let that shit go. Grogu. Because of Grogu.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:33

And everybody else that's potentially going to be in it. Right?

SPEAKER_04 1:35:38

Like I just got a message because somebody's watching last week's pod. After Disney and we did our our raps, she got a stuffed potato, is what it was.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:51

Uh well, there you go.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:54

We didn't we were all like, it was something. We had stuff all over it.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:58

Written motherfucking community notes the week after the podcast. Let me clarify here. Um actually putting her glasses up.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:13

Hey, hey, um at least she's watching it. True. Well, hearing it because there's no video.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:21

Yeah, she's just watching a black screen going, why is Lou's butt just the whole thing right now?

SPEAKER_04 1:36:27

Right. She's like, this is the view I had all week. Oh man. So yeah, I guess we're we're almost there. You know, the January is 16, 23, 30, the three movies in a row that'll be good.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:46

Right. We're getting there. Getting exciting.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:50

Yeah, next next week, next week sets it off. I don't know if I want to you know, who am I kidding? I'll wait. I was gonna do I want to wait to watch Mercy on a Tuesday? I'm like, yeah, I'm cheap. I will. If you don't get me wrong, I got three free movie credits, but those are for emergencies. You know, that's braid glass for those.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:08

Yeah, every time I go to the front desk and ask, you know, uh Taywat Tuesday, I don't want to wait in line. Uh the guy will be like, I can help you here at the desk. And I went, okay, I want to see this movie at this time. He's like, Would you like to use these two free tickets? I'm like, motherfucker, it's Tightwater Tuesday. I ain't fucking using an$18 ticket for this is for a Thursday night premiere movie, sir. Yeah, exactly. What the fuck?

SPEAKER_04 1:37:29

Exactly. My movie credit is for the three o'clock Thursday show, which is the first time they can show a movie on a Thursday. It's three o'clock, is for that showing. Don't come at me with this. Would you want to spend your you know, your ticket on a$50? No, I want to spend it on it on a$16 movie. What is wrong with you? You'd be fired for asking dumbass questions.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:55

Come at me like that.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:57

I don't even use it for it's like, oh, it's Matt Nate prize,$10.50. No. Then your cost would be$4 right there. What price? Yeah, what part? I will pay$10.50 for two tickets. I will spend cash. This is for full price. Like, man, pay attention. Don't you? It's right there. Frugal. Typed right there on my forehead. Fru goal.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:22

The problem is it's backwards because you wrote it on yourself by looking in the mirror.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:28

Well, I'm the one that needs to know it, I suppose. If I set up three mirrors, three three mirrors will do it.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:35

But then, but then you'll you'll just be fucking Ray from Last Jedi. Where why is Lou not in the podcast this week? He's sitting here just snapping and watching his free reflections.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:52

He's got mirrors letting everybody know he's frugal.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:56

Spent all his money on mirrors, that's why he's frugal now. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_04 1:39:00

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:01

Lou, why are you in the poorhouse?

SPEAKER_04 1:39:02

Nah.

unknown 1:39:03

Mirrors.

SPEAKER_04 1:39:05

I'd just get foil. If you get the heavy aluminum foil, it's pretty good too.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:10

Lou being here. Oh, I ran out of foil, so I had to use wax paper for two of them.

SPEAKER_04 1:39:17

I got that part. You'd have to like cut the squares out. Yeah, you got you'd have to cut it out. You'd have to Xacto knife that out on a black shirt, and then that would be better.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:32

Oh boys. Alright, jump jump the shark at this point.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:35

Yep. You guys uh have yourselves a good week. Enjoy Primate, maybe tomorrow. I I'll wait. I'll wait in anticipation tomorrow night for the text to notify me. Um yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:39:49

I'll be I'll be sitting on the side waiting for all that to pop up. Sending you guys studio notes if they don't give me the damn title soon enough. And uh besides I have a feeling this one will start off pretty simple. I mean, like I have a feeling like if it's primate, it's gonna start off with the ape.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:07

Uh in the first time of the fucking the baby ape going through the forest and then all of a sudden like a trap like Yeah, it'll be something you know what I mean.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:20

I don't I don't expect this will be like, oh, we're gonna surprise you. It's like, no, man, y'all know you came for eight movies, so let me just show you the ape right away.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:27

Let's fucking killer monkey. Let's go. You're like, wait, I didn't realize Which was written by William Shakespeare. 45 minutes in and you still haven't seen the monkey.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:38

Wait, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_04 1:40:39

Right. It's like it's like, did I am I watching Hamnet? What the hell?

SPEAKER_00 1:40:45

Did I go into the wrong movie?

SPEAKER_01 1:40:46

God damn it.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:48

Like again. Shit.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:50

Um well.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:52

At least I can refill my squishy while I'm out there. Uh week of the fifth. Yeah, for me too. Yeah. Like I said, I'll probably make an effort to go watch a Tuesday movie, but that's about it. I don't think I have anything else planned. I don't lock that down for sure, but I'm almost certain there's nothing going else, nothing else going on other than the Monday movie and probably Tuesday movie. I think something might be planned for Saturday, but I don't know what. Can't remember what.

SPEAKER_01 1:41:21

We'll talk about it next Sunday.

unknown 1:41:24

Right?

SPEAKER_04 1:41:24

If it happened, like, oh, by the way, remember what I said I didn't know what it was? It was this. And we'll go from there.

SPEAKER_01 1:41:29

As you get the community note texted, do you remember? You said you didn't know. Don't forget to talk about this.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:38

For real. That'll be happening during, yeah, right? During the bottom. It's like, hey, you said you're gonna bring up this.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:45

Shit. We just stopped recording. All right, boyos. Oopsie.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:53

You guys have yourselves a good week.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:56

Happy new year again, everybody. Welcome back to the new year. Not quite the new season. New season for February.

SPEAKER_01 1:42:03

Yep. Yep. We got a couple more weeks left. We're wrapping it up. We're cruising. Cruising to the end.

SPEAKER_05 1:42:10

Ridiculous. Two years. Well, I'm glad you guys stuck to it with me. Of course, dude. Alright. Catch you later. Peace. Two year two years going on 20.