Speaker 1: Santa's little helpers. I'm Jacob Hester and Tiva Aber are
taking over off the bench, presented by All Star Toyota.
Tune in for some naughty and nice sports talk this
Christmas season, live from the Mercedes Bens of Baton Rouge Studio.
Here's Jacob Hester and t bab a Bear.
Speaker 2: Sure that's right, guys, here we go.
Speaker 3: The holiday season is upon us, which means by extension,
college football.
Speaker 4: Ball season is upon us.
Speaker 3: And right now we're so pleased to be joined by
the executive director of Ball Season, the Bowl King himself,
Nick Carporelli quote a celebration of college football, which if
you listen to this show, if you listen to me
and Jake, you know that we love college football. In fact,
our entire a dope professional lives revolve around college football.
Kind of weird to say it out loud, Nick, what's
up man? Thank you so much for joining us this morning.
Speaker 5: Thanks for having me on Bowl King. I've never been
called that before. I kind of like you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know what, That's not the only thing
I'm gonna call you this segment. I'm just kidding, Nick,
help me out here. Uh, Bowl games right now seem
to be. I don't know if under attack is the
right word. But again, I'm not a I'm not a
great judge of this because I love college football, so
of course, like whenever it's on, I'm going to want
to watch it. But but as someone who puts these
bulls together, and you hear people.
Speaker 4: Like, oh, bulls don't matter anymore, play.
Speaker 3: Oh blah blah blah, what's your response to the bowl naysayers?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know if under attack is the right word.
Underappreciated certainly is the case. You know, the bowl games
have been around for one hundred years. Most of them
have never factored into the national league championship equation, and
a lot of them still don't. But that's okay. You know,
we have six balls that are part of the college
football playoff system. The others are are great rewards for
a successful season for for schools across the country, and
every school has a different definition of success. You and
I both know that college football is not an even
playing field. There's a lot of institutions out there that
play great football but probably aren't going to be considered
for the playoff on the regular basis, but they need
an opportunity to have a meaningful postseason experience, to play
a quality opponent, to win, to win their last game
of the year, and launch themselves in their program into
next year. And that's that's one of the many things
that the ball system provides.
Speaker 6: What about the situation and you and I have actually
talked about this before, Nick, you know, with opt outs
and teams trying to make sure that they have enough
players to be.
Speaker 2: Able to pay their respect to the ball game that
it deserves.
Speaker 6: Like, is that is that something that's still very challenging
for ball games?
Speaker 5: Well, it's frustrating, you know, but I think we're already
starting to see it resolve itself. And and I kind
of predicted it would, you know, we're you know, college
football in general has a problem right that the addition
of the transfer portal in the NIL. At the same time,
while both great concepts, they don't go very well together
right now with the way they're structured. So this is
a college football program. It's not a problem unique to
the bowl system. We've seen guys opt out in the
middle of the season when there was some controversy of
whether they were receiving the payment they were promised or
whether they even promised that to begin with. So you're
seeing a lot of these schools number one already starting
to build into their nil contracts with players the fact
that they have to play in the bowl game, otherwise
they don't get their full payoffs. So I don't know
this for a fact, but the fact that you're seeing
the Colorado Stars playing the bowl game, You're seeing cam
Ward at Miami player. I heard yesterday that Jackson Dart
is playing for Old miss That's that's not a coincidence.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 5: But then as we move forward and July first is
going to bring about the advent of the first real
pay for play system where every institution is going to
be able to allocate twenty million dollars to their student athlete.
I am certain that with that, Like, like you and
I were hired to do a job. If we don't
do our job, we don't get paid. Yeah. I love
the student athletes of getting paid. But you're you're a
big boy now, right, you get paid, you need to
play in football games. Doesn't seem to be a big
ask if you ask me.
Speaker 3: Uh, Nick, how do you go about how do you
go about deciding the sponsors of these of these bowl games?
Because every year we get some new ones. You have
our favorite classics. I'm personally very excited for the Scooter's Coffee,
Frisco Bowl.
Speaker 4: Little Memphis WVU Action.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, but like, what's that process like, you're getting
sponsors of the games?
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, that each individual bowl organization does their own
title sponsorship. Because I'm in the loop sometimes and I
am able to facilitate in certain situations. I was on
a panel discussion last night. I'm out here in Las
Vegas at the football called Football Hall of Fame Induction
and the Sports Business Journal has a as a series
of panel discussions, and on the panel with me was
this chief parking officer of Pop Tarts as well as
Steve Hogan. It runs the Pop Tarts Bowl and Achieve
a Bowl, and we talked about the fact that bull
games are really starting to develop a reputation of being
great delivering great value for the title sponsors. Absolutely, Bowl
games are willing and able to take some risks, to
be a little bit more creative and to have fun
with the game without taking away from the game itself.
The team's obviously still playing the game and they want
to win the game, But why I have some fun
and the gentleman from Top pop Tarts said that they
sold an inordinate amount of toaster pastries is what they
call in the eight week period after the bowl game
compared to the eight week period before. So the deliverer
return on investment was significant for them.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean they dominated the internet, right, look at
the memes. It was everywhere.
Speaker 3: The ritual live sacrifice of our pop tar mascot, to
the players eating the corpse right there on the field, like,
it was everywhere. And it was a great game. It
was a great game with two teams fighting for ten wins.
And that's one thing that I've always disagreed with is
like ball games no matter, bill games have been recently
in the fourteen playoffs, the only Bowl games that kind
of didn't matter were the old big ones that weren't
in the playoffs that year, right, So like a New
Year's six would be like everyone beneath that where you
had a Kansas State and a NC State trying to
get the ten and three, Like, yeah, those players still.
Speaker 4: Give it him.
Speaker 3: And now, like you said, I mean, now with being paid,
there's even more giving him because everybody's gonna play.
Speaker 5: What is is those are great points those are great points.
And every year Boleseason delivers a handful of games that
I could point to statistic examples of that. So last year,
for example, Rutgers finished the season six and six, playing
and probably the most difficult division in college football, having
to play tenn State, Ohio State, and Michigan. They scraped
together six wins. They go to the pen Straight Bowl,
they sell it out because their fans are local, and
they beat a really good Miami team. Launched them into
this year. Right this year, they win seven games Northwestern,
who had lost their head coach in the summer. People
left them for dead. Those four kids didn't deserve the
hand they were delt. Somehow, they won seven games, got
to go to the Las Vegas Bowl, beat a really
good Utah team, and I talked to their coach in
the offseason. They said it was an unbelievable experience. The
last one I talked about the last year. If you
want to talk about schools that have been there before, Clemson,
you know coach Sweeney. They were four four and four.
People thought what happened to Clemson is coach Sweeney lost that.
They win their last four games to go eight four,
go to the Gator Bowl win nine and four for
the I think it was the twelfth straight year they
won nine games and they kept that street going. It
was extremely meaningful to them in their program. And there's
all kinds of stories like that every year.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think it was a huge trels to
get to ten wins.
Speaker 2: Yeahst year and I agree with you there.
Speaker 6: And Nick, I want to ask you about a couple
of maybe bowl games. Maybe if you've got a matchup
that you're intrigued with, because there's two bowl games that
are outside of the college football play out there they
are going to be conference champions going against each other.
You've got one in the Cure Bowl between Ohio and
Jacksonville State, and then in the Independence Bowl you're going
to have a matchup of Marshall and Army as well.
So those are two games that are going to feature
four conference champions outside of the playoffs.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's always good when when the bowl system after
the CFP can have a little bit of flexibility to
put matchups like that together. So they have four conference
champions playing each other in two games, I think is great.
I'm a big advocate as we go into the next
cycle of bowl contracts after next season that we the
conferences can come together, and I'm working with them to
do so, where we say, hey, after the twelve teams
are selected and seeded, let's do away with these strict
conference alignments. Right, it doesn't have to be the same
two conferences in the same bowl. And let's have the
top bowls elect the next best team. See let's let's
say it's the next six bowls and you take the
next twelve ranked teams and you match them up. I
think we see some intriguing matchups. I love that Alabama
is playing Michigan. Yeah in Tampa. You know, I thought
I spoke to people who are on both sides of
that equation. They're like, hey, we're kind of excited about
that bowl game where they might have not have been otherwise.
So I think there's a lot of room to facilitate
great matchups after the CFP.
Speaker 3: We're talking to Nick Coperelli, Executive director of Bowl Season
Bull King Before earlier in your career, Nick, do you
have a pretty fascinating bullet point on the resume here?
Director of operations from New England Patriots during the first
Super Bowl run, which is insane, you know, working that
closely with Bill Belichick. But a lot of talk of
Belichick getting into the college game now, you NC things
are heating up some very funnily worded tweets yesterday that
Belichick's accepted the job, the school approves.
Speaker 4: I don't know what you know, what sure, what's not?
Speaker 3: What do you think how would Belichick do as a
college football coach?
Speaker 5: Well, I have no inside knowledge of that situation. Coach
Belichick was my boss and I'm fortunate enough to stay
in a reasona we could touch with him over the years. Honestly,
I think he would. He would he would be great
at it. You know, I think everybody thinks he's this curmudgeon,
this inflexible person. He has his style, it's his layer
of the highway. But that hasn't been my experience with him.
You know, he just doesn't let the public see He
certainly didn't let them see it and fresh converses and
whatnot when he was in the NFL. But I would
also say this if it was three years ago or
more before NIL when it was true, you know, recruiting
and you're just convincing a player to come to your
school or not for a scholarship. It might have been
harder for him at the college level, but nowadays, with
direct payments starting July first, twenty million dollars, salary pool
bus an il where you have, you're going to have
a true GM type position. I think at every school
you're managing your roster, managing the salary cap, and you
could pay guys, and then he could also sell the
fact that, hey, I think I can prepare you pretty
well to have a career in the NFL. Why don't
you get paid, come to a great school, learn how
to be an NFL player. Sounds pretty appealing to me
if I was a student athlete.
Speaker 6: All right, Nick, before we let you go, last question,
do you know what your calendar looks like for bowl season?
Do you know how many bowl games you're going to
be able to go out and actually see in person?
Speaker 2: Do you already have that kind of schedule?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I do.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: I'll say this because people ask me all the time,
and I have it. I don't know why. I still
haven't done an official count, but my rough count is
in my life, I've been to well over one hundred
and fifty Bowl games. I've been to thirty different Bowl games.
Last year I went to nine, which is a heavy
heavy lift. I had the worst case of the flu
after that from prayering and going to so I'm swimming
it back by a couple. I'm going to seven this year.
Hell yeah, it's a lot of fun. It's you know,
the best day of the ball season is going to
be December twentiears we have eight bowl games on that
one day. We've never had a day in the history
of college football where we've had eight bowl games. So
my advice to people is get all the food you
need for to day, get your positions staked out on
the couch, and don't move for twelve hours.
Speaker 3: Hell yes, dude, Nick Carbarelli, I cannot wait. A celebration
of college football. Bowl season is upon us.
Speaker 4: Nick, Thank you so much.
Speaker 5: My friend, Hey, can I can I give one quick plug?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Go ahead.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: We both season lost. We're trying to gauge our fans
even more. We lost the first ever pick them games,
so it's pick them dot bollseason dot com. You pick
the winners of all the bowl games and the CFP.
You can win tickets in airfare to next year's national championship.
You can win bowling for a year coffee for a year,
EA sports video games free to play. It's pick them
m dot bowlseason dot com, pick him.
Speaker 3: Dot bollseason dot com. We'll get out there, Nick, thank
you so much. You have an extra day.
Speaker 4: Thanks guys, take it easy, Take Carparelli.
Speaker 3: Yeah, essentially that was probably actually what we're supposed to
push THATM on in the first place. But yeah, thank
you Nick for coming on anyway, even though we didn't
really do our part. Pick him dot bollseason dot com.
So he said, right right, yeah, hell ya.
Speaker 6: Nick like soccer football. I mean I've gone on his
he has a podcast and I'm going out. Yeah, I've
gone out it before and talk bowl game I bowl
game experience.
Speaker 2: And so he does just enjoy talking college football.
Speaker 3: And there there's some sneaky good ones here, bro have
at Gasparilla Tulane in Florida.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but is that without mensa.
Speaker 2: Who knows who? I mean, Floria's gonna have their quarterback.
He's a freshman.
Speaker 6: But I know, it's like I was so excited for
the INDEPENDENCI Bull in my hometown to get conference champions
in Shreveport.
Speaker 2: You know Army is going to be there.
Speaker 6: So like the fact that you know, Treeford gets the
chance to see Bryce and daily. That's awesome, But it
there was a earlier today I sent you all that
Marshall's entire.
Speaker 2: Team is in the transfer portal. Yeah what I said.
Speaker 6: The report said that basically their entire team is in
the portal.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 6: So their coach left them after winning the Sun Belt
to take a job at Southern Miss, who finished last
in the Sun Belt, who didn't win a conference game,
won a single game overall, and their coach what coach
Marshall to go to Southern Miss.
Speaker 4: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: Damn.
Speaker 3: This looks really bad on Marshall's investment and in the
program if he was able to be lured away in
that way. All right, when we get back here, don't
you be we got a guy? Uh wait, we don't no, no, no,
I made that up here from last week, but we
don't know. We're not talking to.
Speaker 4: That right now.
Speaker 7: No, should we go back to the Christmas We.
Speaker 3: Do need to revisit that, But I think I want
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Speaker 3: We wrote a run along here found this Wednesday. Taylor,
what do you know about Missouri freshman d Lyman Williams
No one aary.
Speaker 9: Oh he was a big time recruit. Yeah right, last
year in solid season.
Speaker 3: Yeah so six five was actually the seventh ranked overall
recruit in last cycle. Now to the conversation that we
had maybe yesterday or the day before, he gotta be
a bit weary in the purtal of you gotta be
a bit weary in the portal of guys. Or she
were highly right out of high school. Maybe didn't play
that much. He played in four games this year, then
no more to preserve his red shirt. I'll offer though
here maybe a bit of extenuating circumstances go right. He
would have committed to Blake Baker and Kevin Peebles and Company,
only then for Blake Baker and Kevin People's company not
to be there when he got there.
Speaker 4: And so, okay, you need Edge.
Speaker 3: He was ranked as the nation's one number one EDGE
top prospect in MISSOO, now you have Blake Baker and
Kevin Peeples. He is set to Visit. Excuse me.
Speaker 4: That's I don't know if he said to Visia, excuse me,
but he is.
Speaker 3: A He is a potential target for LSU, though shay
On On three said, I wouldn't get overly excited about
this one if you're an LSU fan, but it can
hurt that you have Blake Baker and Kevin Peeples particilar
for God, that could be at a position of need.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, one programming circles as the front runners. Nebraska.
I love it, dude.
Speaker 3: Nebraska is gonna keep throwing money at it hoping that
things change. And I believe in your Matt rule. But
my god, if this year didn't go exactly like every
year is gone. You gotta have a year three bump
here next year for the corn Hub.
Speaker 6: Yeah, going back to LSU here in this conversation, it
is what we talked about yesterday with chasing stars, not
chasing production.
Speaker 2: You've been burned by that.
Speaker 6: Now when you chase production, you've actually benefited from it.
I think the first year you had a really nice
portal window. You brought in players that played so much
college football at a high level. They helped your program.
Now maybe this one's a little bit different because you
have a history with coaches that are currently on your
staff recruiting this player. So maybe you know they see something,
they know something that they can get out.
Speaker 2: Of this player.
Speaker 6: But again, do not just chase players because of where
they were in high school. You know JK. Johnson out
of Ohio State coming in. You know over the last
couple of years, he's now leaving Denver Harris. We know
how that worked out. That is not what you need
to do. I think you have enough of You have
enough of those players on your your LSU. You don't
have to chase stars in the portal. You chase stars
in high school recruiting, and you land those stars out
of high school recruiting.
Speaker 4: Here's what you need to do.
Speaker 6: You say, okay, man, this player helps us right now
in this position, not what we think.
Speaker 2: Maybe he can do what he did in high school.
Speaker 6: He can replicate that it didn't work at his first stop,
but it could work here. Maybe it does sometimes, but
more times than not, there's a reason why the five
star played three games, four games. Okay, So you go
and I don't care where the player played at. You
turn on the tape, you do your due diligence, and
you say, Okay, this is a player be it from
North Dakota State, or be it from Oklahoma or Arkansas
or wherever, that can help us. And he can help
us as soon as he puts two feet here in
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Speaker 4: I wouldn't you know?
Speaker 3: And and and Newerry is not one of the I'm
not when airy is not like I think. The worst
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a guy who played multiple seasons and barely played or
barely produced one season, Like you said, I'm willing to
give a bit more leeway, do my due diligence and think, okay, like,
do what do I think I could get out of him?
Speaker 4: It was his freshman year.
Speaker 3: This year he played four games, but again I don't know,
it doesn't maybe maybe Lsu not that much of a player,
but definitely interested.
Speaker 4: Definitely a name UH to keep an eye on.
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Speaker 9: All right, everybody, get your tissues, albac. I'm kidding everybody.
Speaker 11: Relax.
Speaker 9: You remember a while back, I told you guys the
story of Travis Kelcey and Patrick Mahomes's house getting broken
into on separate days when they were playing Monday Night football.
It's actually when the Saints went up there and played. Well, yeah,
someone has struck again, this time in the Cincinnati area.
Speaker 11: So this one.
Speaker 9: Burrow was on the road in Cowboys Stadium when the
Bengals were taken on the Cowboys.
Speaker 11: Someone broke into Joe Burrow's home.
Speaker 9: The call was reported around nine to fourteen Monday night,
so was during the game while it happened. The interesting
part is not the break in, it's the nine one
one call or who made the nine one one call.
Olivia ponta In, a Sports illustrated swimsuit model and social
media influencer, was in Joe Burrow's house the time this.
Speaker 11: Break in took place.
Speaker 9: She was staying there while Burrow was obviously away Playing
the best part. Olivia's mom, Diane, actually made the first
nine to one to one phone call. Olivia panicked, called
her mom, said hey, what do I do? Her mom
calls Cincinnati PD. She reports and says, hey, my daughter's
inside this house belonging to you know, Cincinnati Bingals quarterback
Joe Burrow.
Speaker 4: Inside the house. But yes, she was.
Speaker 11: No, Olivia was in the house.
Speaker 4: She went inside the house after seeing it was broken in.
Speaker 9: No, she was in while I got broken into. She
was already she was already in it. So she panics
calls her mom, Her mom calls the police. Then later
Olivia called exactly and then Olivia apparently called the police.
Olivia called the police about five minutes later, confirming like, hey,
my mother called you earlier about to break in.
Speaker 11: I'm in the house. Now.
Speaker 9: The police have not reported or have not released like
what was stolen, how much money, any items to these
suspects were. But now everyone is trying to figure out
Olivia Ponton's relationship with She's.
Speaker 4: Like house sitting, okay, maybe take care of the plants.
Speaker 7: So actually I think I am going to need the
tissues for this one. A dog hitter because why, I mean,
come on, what do you mean she ain't dogs?
Speaker 4: And what do you mean? Maybe she was just taking
and obviously.
Speaker 7: For Olivia's so maybe I should have just changed my
name to Olivia.
Speaker 2: Look, there's a John mayersong something about Oliviya.
Speaker 4: Look, one door closes in another one open.
Speaker 3: Okay, all loads, all loads now, all roads are leading
to Mark for sure.
Speaker 2: That was big time, Yeah, huge free.
Speaker 4: I don't they might not be dating.
Speaker 7: Why would she get Come on, a Sports Illustrated model
is at Joe Burrow's house. Let's be for real, man,
this is not going good for me.
Speaker 2: I feel bad. That's that's gonna be a tough. Look
if you're the ex.
Speaker 3: I know, right, I do kind of feel that for her,
and then like the next teing, you know, there's an
SI swimsuit model state at the crib.
Speaker 7: I think i'd have to, you know, for what it's
worth un alive everybody involved.
Speaker 4: Documents say Jill out Luigi b NL.
Speaker 9: Documents say she is employed by mister Murray exactly, dogsh
What is her employment?
Speaker 11: What is her role?
Speaker 9: We don't know, but it does say she is employed
by mister Burrow.
Speaker 11: It could be a simple house clean.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Sports Illustrated models out here cleaning.
Speaker 4: I mean, hey, hey, now.
Speaker 11: Magazine those SI swimsuit only comes out once a year.
You gotta hear some of the else said earlier.
Speaker 7: She's also an influencer.
Speaker 4: Also, if you're an SI Swimsuit model, you have a
very successful modeling career outside of the one issue of
Sports Illustrated as well. Nobody is just like, I mean,
I get to do swimsuit, but then I'm just hard
up for the rest of the year. Nobody wants to
work with me. No, I don't. I don't. I don't
think that's how all I'm saying it.
Speaker 7: I was the O g Olivia, I would be so upset.
Speaker 4: I would be like really, I thought some prayers are with.
Speaker 2: Some prayers to her for real, Like dang, I didn't
know they were broken.
Speaker 7: Up exactly, That's what I feel like. That's what makes
it worse.
Speaker 3: The real bad thing would be if they weren't broken up,
right then this Then this looks a little bad.
Speaker 4: But it does it?
Speaker 9: Does it count if they're the same name though not
according to Marilyn Manson, Yeah, I've.
Speaker 11: Heard that right. Yeah, why I actually posted this in
the in the YouTube chat. This is true. My wife
and my ex right before her have the same name.
Speaker 4: Wait on your wife and who's.
Speaker 11: X my ex right before her have the same name.
Speaker 4: Oh so you're still dating your original exit.
Speaker 11: I went from Victoria to a different Victoria.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, look at you and Joe Burrow two P.
Speaker 11: I get it.
Speaker 3: Do you make her made the way? Do you make
her wear the made outfit as well?
Speaker 4: Like Joe does?
Speaker 11: I don't make her Hey.
Speaker 6: Now, h Taylor said that like somebody that might get
in trouble for that comra.
Speaker 11: There ain't no.
Speaker 5: Hey.
Speaker 4: Are you a fair weather fan? If you don't watch
the El Bowl game?
Speaker 3: I would say yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you are.
Speaker 7: The definition of a fair weather fan, not even close.
Speaker 2: Are even better. I think you should listen to it
on the radio.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, you should have.
Speaker 3: Definitely you should turn down the TV and turn up
the radio so you can hear Big Five and bt pregame,
in mid game and post game, during the game.
Speaker 2: You know anything, tell me you don't listen out telling
Jake's point.
Speaker 3: Listen, I told you the first time. And if I
got to hear you when I was driving it on one,
I was blown away. I was like, God, Jake, You're incredible. No,
I'm not actually does midgames. I'm not putting on airs.
Speaker 11: What Taylor listen to me?
Speaker 9: Their my my favorite game as far as like how
I consumed it this year was the South Carolina game
and I listened to Jake and Chris on the radio.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: The chel nothing like a radio call. Like listening even
to baseball games on the radio is I.
Speaker 6: Will say, I didn't like a football like play by play,
like when you have to set the scene is completely
different than TV. I had only really like I'd done
some games on the radio, but I'd done more TV games,
and you have more time to talk if you're you know,
the color analyst. But the job of the Playboy play
on radio like to truly have to set the scene
before every play.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of work. Yeah, but the great ones
are great at it at all. They and they do
it just like that and.
Speaker 4: If you want to see the different friends.
Speaker 3: Uh so you know a lot of times Saturdays, I
always have a game on. So like even if I'm
like driving home to get changed or driving two done
one before the LSUE game goes on, I'll have like
games on mysel phone and so sometimes I'll be driving
I'll be trying to.
Speaker 4: Listen to the TV and it just sucks.
Speaker 3: It doesn't like just listening to the TV gives you
no idea of actually like what's going on. And then
you you're on a great radio broadcast, You're like, wow,
I can I can see it playing out in my head.
Like that's how I experienced the end of Ohio State
Michigan actually was on the on the radio and it
was it was great. It was super exciting.
Speaker 7: It's so great. I love a radio call.
Speaker 4: I agree. When you figure out down on how to
turn it up, turn down, turn it up, and uh
sync it up?
Speaker 11: All right?
Speaker 2: Uh, mis say Olivia A launder can figure it out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Launda didn't get there, Ti half, she's lazy.
Speaker 7: Probably because I'm at the games.
Speaker 4: I know, realize you just kidding?
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Speaker 7: Just one thing on me.
Speaker 8: I don't care about the present.
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Speaker 4: Welcome back.
Speaker 7: This just gave me an idea. Hear me out.
Speaker 4: Nope, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 12: What if we all four got together, Hey, now start okay,
and then we started harmonizing in one of these studios
in here, and we remake a Christmas song.
Speaker 3: I'm in and then we debuted on the last show
that we do before Christmas.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm absolutely in.
Speaker 7: Okay, what song?
Speaker 4: I don't know. We'll discuss that. We'll have to. Uh,
there's plenty that like you can you know that we
can handle them?
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: For sure, this one we can for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Tara, let me punch you in the nuts and
you can be our sopre.
Speaker 11: I know, I'd probably do it without that.
Speaker 3: That was my favorite part about like old cartoons stuff
you get hit that like really high. I like going
extreme bas when I'm in church. Yeah, man, you like wait,
let me, let me. I can't think of anything to sing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh I want Christmas is you see?
Speaker 13: And I could do I could go high like that's.
Speaker 2: One of the greatest, like thirty seconds of comedy.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, got a doubt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot going on.
Speaker 7: Yeah, what song is that?
Speaker 2: It was?
Speaker 7: Wait the one you're singing?
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Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: Okay, so let's revisit then our Christmas bracket. Here's what
we have been so far. It's a wonderful life home Alone,
Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation, die Hard, elf Ron, Howard's Grinch, Jingle,
all the Way White Christmas.
Speaker 4: We are at nine movies, three more. We need three more?
Speaker 3: But like, yeah, yeah, what about does Polar Express make it?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 7: I don't think any of us here in this room
like that movie.
Speaker 4: I agree, I agree, I agree.
Speaker 7: But do we have to take it into consideration just
because of everybody else?
Speaker 3: What about something like Miracle on thirty Fourth Street?
Speaker 11: It's a classic. I do like the movie.
Speaker 7: What about Charlie Brown Christmas?
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: So we've got that, We've got the old Rankin and
bass claymations.
Speaker 2: You know you think you're rude? All is my favorite one,
the Frosty one.
Speaker 7: Yes, makeeys once upon a Christmas?
Speaker 4: Oh makeys once un Christmas is great. I don't know
if Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas is going to make
this list, but I love I love all of the
Mickey Once Upon a Christmas specials.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and twice thinks have.
Speaker 3: Some new cool shorts, some animated claymated shorts with Making
Friends on Disney Plus.
Speaker 4: I'll watch yesterday there. Pretty cool. Mm hmmm, what what
did you say before the ranking and Bess Rudolph.
Speaker 7: The Frostiest Snowman one?
Speaker 10: I love?
Speaker 4: No, No, there's something, Um Which Christmas Carol do we
put on there? Do we have to put a Christmas
Carol in there?
Speaker 11: I'm not saying that. It's just like they've had so many.
Speaker 3: I mean, maybe we don't have to decide which one
right now, but I feel I feel like one of
them's got to be on there.
Speaker 5: Bro.
Speaker 3: It is one of the seminal not just Christmas stories
of our time, but like really like just like tales
of our time.
Speaker 2: Well John Anderson, what well?
Speaker 7: John Anderson? Anytime someone says seminal, that's what I think of.
Speaker 4: I think we're up to them. Kevin, if we add
million Christmas, let me.
Speaker 2: Through the top ten according to viewers on IMDb. Okay, yeah,
let's see, let's see, all right. Number one, It's a
Wonderful life. Number two die hard?
Speaker 4: Wow, Okay, dude, unreal's.
Speaker 6: Number three A Christmas Carol, the nineteen fifty one version.
Speaker 4: Oh, the nineteen fifty one not George Scott.
Speaker 6: Okay, number four home alone, Okay, so we're doing great this.
Speaker 4: Far, guys.
Speaker 2: Five Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.
Speaker 14: That's okay, so yeah, okay, go ahead to that on
the list, number six, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, number seven,
A Christmas Story YEP, number eight, the nineteen forty seven
version of Miracle on thirty four Street.
Speaker 2: Number nine elf M and number ten Grimlins.
Speaker 4: So somebody I mentioned somebody mentioned Grimlins earlier lunch break.
Speaker 3: I watched once the first time last Christmas, and I
do love it and it's very good. I don't think
I would put it in a Yeah, I don't think
it would.
Speaker 4: Make a top twelve bracket for me.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it wouldn't. It wouldn't make it the top twelve
for me. Scrooged nineteen eighty eighty eight.
Speaker 2: Bill Murray.
Speaker 4: I know then we're going double Christmas Carol them.
Speaker 2: It's thirteen Edwards or Hands twelve, so yeah.
Speaker 6: Edward Trading Places was fifteen. Charlie Brown Christmas is sixteen sixteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good list.
Speaker 4: I mean, Charlie Brown's Great.
Speaker 6: The Night Before Christmas is eighteen. Charlie Brown all The
Family Man with Nick Cage is twenty. That is a
very underrated movie.
Speaker 3: Family Man is Oh my wife put that on the
other night, but I was so tired here cast out
right at the beginning.
Speaker 2: Great movie.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what I heard Brett Ratners, the director, trying
to think who else is in it?
Speaker 3: I think Brett Rattner was awesome, but then I think
he ended up being problematic.
Speaker 5: I can't remember.
Speaker 4: And he directed X Men. I'm crazy.
Speaker 2: I think you're right. The Last Stand, Yeah, Rush Hour,
Red Dragon so funny.
Speaker 4: Yes, Okay, so.
Speaker 7: We have ended about three? What how did we end
up bout three? If we picked four each twice?
Speaker 4: We didn't pick four? No, no, so we will?
Speaker 2: How many do we need?
Speaker 7: I mean we picked each.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry because then we threw white Christmas on there,
none of us. It's said white Christmas. It has it
has to be on.
Speaker 7: Okay, I didn't remember.
Speaker 2: How many do we need? I think?
Speaker 3: Well, so right now we're it's one of five home Alone,
Christmas Story, Christmas Occasion, die Hard, elf Ron, Howard's Grinch Jingle,
all the Way Right, Christmas, White Miracle on thirty four Street,
Christmas Carol Rudolph we're actually at twelve, but not on
the list. Scrooge, Scissorhands, Grimlins like four Christmases here that
Santa Claus actual stress love Actually.
Speaker 2: Twenty two on this list.
Speaker 7: Actually so good.
Speaker 2: I happened seen any of the Grinches yet hater list. Yeah,
thirty fifth in the original How the Grinch Stole Christmas
is thirty fifth?
Speaker 4: Where's Ron Howard? Do you remember Ron Howard's Grinch? Did
not review well? Which is pathetic jingle all the ways.
Speaker 7: Forty three I did not review well, that's crazy.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think it's got like a fifty on Rotten Tomatoes
or something. Just Friends is fifty one. Forget about that's
a good one. Uh wait wait wait wait wait.
Speaker 4: Wait wa wait is that Ryan.
Speaker 3: Movie where he's fat at the beginning? Yeah, that's not
a Chris movie. It's fifty one. I think the beginning
in the fat suit is hilarious, and I think it's
not funny after all, I think it's funny. Oh man,
I did not like that movie. That makes me angry
that it doesn't make me angry. It makes me angry
that like Grinch wouldn't be on there, and and and
Just Friends.
Speaker 2: Would be Grinch was.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 3: Ron Howard is way more seminal than fris Yeah, it's
now I will say, Ryan Rails is the fat suit
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Speaker 4: What's the song? Yea, that is so funny?
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