December 12, 2022 • 32 mins
Rachel Bonnetta and company are back for a brand new episode of Benched with Bonnetta! To start, Rachel is joined by Kyle Brandt and they discuss the NFL's Naughty and Nice lists (2:20). After the break, Rachel looks ahead to Thursday night's game between the 49ers and Seahawks (21:57). Finally, Rachel opens her DM's to find out the best and worst Christmas gifts everyone has received (27:03).
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
And when I woke up this morning, I was feeling
pretty dangerous for on the Cincinnati it's my cornback. They
are well, we thought they were. Are we not about Hello?
You plenty to win the gate. They want you to
cook the dinner. At least they ought to let your
shout for some of the groceries. And on the way up,
we're gonna buy to kneecapas playoffs. Are you're kidding me?
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I'm just here so I won't get fine? How could
he not be romantic about football? Un I'll tell you
what Baker Mayfield saying, I woke up feeling dangerous. That
that's how you feel romantic about football. That just has
a whole new meaning. This week, Happy Tuesday, Happy week
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twenty five? What year is it? I'm a lasbed. Welcome
to bench with Banetta m Guys, we are getting through it.
We are almost there. We're almost in a Saturday football mode,
which starts this week. We got some Saturday games this week,
we got some Sunday games this week. We got a
little Thursday night football this week which we will be
previewing Uno Momento. For those of you that are just
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listening on the pod, maybe you're in your car. Maybe
you're cozy, maybe you've got your little tush tushy heaters on.
I love that for you. Thanks for taking a break
from the from the Christmas cheer and listening to our pod.
For those of you that are only listening to the pod,
you can't see this sweater that I'm wearing that's covered
in gingerbread cookies, and it says, oh snap, oh snap,
(01:29):
a new pod has arrived. Guys, We've got a packed
show today. I'm actually very excited. Kyle Brant is going
to be joining us in a second here. And then
I did something that I haven't done in a long time,
and it's something that I love to do. I opened
my DMS. I opened my DMS and I asked, you, guys,
what is the worst and the best Christmas present you
have ever received. I don't think I got any good ones.
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I don't think I got any of like the best.
I got all worst, and some of them are terrible,
some of them are straight up awful. I'll give you
one right now, a soup cookbook. Okay, you know where
I stand on that. I'm gonna share mine, Kyle's gonna
share his, and then we're going to talk about the games.
It just happened. A lot of stuff went down. Brock
Purty shining, Tom Brady not so much. Baker Mayfield shout
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outs again. If I could just do an entire podcast
on Baker, I would do that, but without further ado.
Let's get KB and here Kabe. What's that all right? Kabe?
Today is a sad day because this is the last
time we were going to be together before the festivities
kick off. People get busy. Your girls gonna put her
feet up in a in a couple of days. She's
taking a little quick holiday. Don't let the bosses hear that.
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But this is gonna be the last time you and
I are together until the new year. So I wanted
to have a very custive show. I wore my little
gingerbreads for you. Okay, I'm gonna listening to Charlie Brow.
We were just talking about this. I've been listening to
Charlie Brown for like a month and a half straight.
Before we kick off, I have a question for you all.
I went to this place called like Candy Cane Lane
last night in Los Angeles, and it's just a couple
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of streets that are completely shut down, like you can
only walk, you can't drive through, and it's just Clark
Griswold's everywhere on both sides of the street. It's absolute chaos.
And I was thinking to myself, let's say I bought
this house in June. Do you think that you know
how when you buy a house and somebody just died
in it, they have to let you know. I think
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there should be a similar rule if you have an
aggressive neighborhood that goes all out for Christmas. Do you
not agree? Yeah? I think absolutely. It's just in a
little bit of an fyi. You move in in June
and it's eighty two degrees and it's beautiful, and someone
sup pulls you aside as, look, come, come, Like Halloween,
it's on, and it's on until like MLK, it goes
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on for four months. And it's not just your lights.
It's not just just snowmen. These people are imbeciles for Christmas.
So just if you're into that, it's almost like a fetish.
If you're into it, that's great, But if it's not
for you at this house, for you, because this is
like a quarter of the year, would you buy into
something like that? Like if they was just like a
perfect little neighborhood, a little nook and like the most
perfect house that you were looking for, but you know
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that it is like kind of hellish and you're not
even gonna be able to park on your own freaking
street for like a full month and maybe a little
bit in Halloween too. Would you do that perfect housewise? Yeah?
I like that you compared like having soldiers or Christmas
trees and free yard, having like a dead body pulled
out of your house and what it does. And look, Rachel,
if you have to answer the question, you know the
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answer is yes, I'm all in for it. I think
it raises the property value. I'm a festive s ob
and I know you share that with me, so that
would be huge for me. I'd be, oh, shoot, I'll
pay more if I have to. That's part of the
fun I'm in. It does sound, it does feel like
a like a fun community situation. But like on week three,
I'd be like I would just turn or I'd be
the one house that would be Grinch and I just
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like really play up the Grinch and I just have
like dark lights and just like evil vibes, like stay
off my lawn. Okay, let's get into this. We are
gonna do this a little bit later on in the show,
I opened my d and I asked people to send
me their worst in their best Christmas presents they ever
received as a kid. Do you have a best and
do you have a worse? Before we before we start
this thing. Yeah, well my best is we got a
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puppy one year. And listen, it's not getting too much
into my life, but like you know, I had divorced parents,
so let's just say like that, the dad was going
hard for Christmas, like trying to compensate, and he couldn't
get us a horse, so he got us a puppy
and it was a bearded collie. His name was Fluppy
Fluppy the puppy, and that really brought the house down.
On the other side of it, the worst present was
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there was one year, I think it was like ninety
one or ninety two where the entire world was obsessed
with roller blades. You had to have roller blades inline skates,
and my sisters and I begged and begged and begged,
and we opened them up in the morning and they
were like blade rollers, you know, like that not And
I love your mom, and I'm sure you saved a
bunch of money, but those things barely worked at all,
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and they didn't do anything for our cool factors. So
fluppy the puppy blade rollers, what about you? My best
Christmas present? I remember coming out, and the best Christmas
presents are always like the ones that make you act
like a complete jerk at first. I come downstairs, there's
nothing really around the tree for your girl. All my
brothers have like these, like they're getting snowboards and like
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cool stin shoes, And I was like, what the hell's
going on? Mom and Dad? And they made me sit
there for a while because I started to poup. So
they're like, oh, you're gonna sit in this and you
we're gonna feel extra bad in a little bit. And
they're like, Rachel, your present is on the front lawn.
And I was like, on the front lawn, what the hell?
I go outside and there is a my version of
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a Corvette at the time, it was a little mini
four wheeler like for a child, like very dangerous. But
they got me like a little ramming. Oh yeah, that
was my That was my best one. I wrote it
every single day. I used to get like finger cramps
from like pressing on the gas that I used to
have to like hold two hands down because I was
such a weak little child. And my worst one was
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probably one that I gifted. I'm notoriously not. When I
was younger, I was not very good at gifting presents.
But when I was in high school, I wanted to
get this this perfume that I had for my best friend,
and I shoplifted it. I stole it, and I got
busted and they had to handcuff me and everything. Because
I was so young, they wanted to teach me a lesson,
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like a guy on the segway, like what happened? Fullmall cop,
fullmall cop arrested me a teenager? How did they know?
Like give me a few details. I think they said, Okay,
it was at a hollister. It was at a hollister,
so I feel like it had like night vision goggles
in that place because it's spitch black. You're like feeling
around for like your sizes on the shelf. Um and
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I got a I got little perfume and I was
like lip into my bag. It was for my friend Whitney.
And that was the worst part about it. As I
tried to say, like this was for my friend, like
I was trying to be a good friend, and they're like,
you still stole. And they brought me in the back
and they sat me down and I was in there
for like an hour and a half and all my
friends had to like wait outside for me. And I
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was so humiliated, and oh ball minds praying, praying to
Jesus like I had never for the first time in
my other day. It was bad, but all for a
good cause, all for friends. Okay, so we're gonna get
to it. We're gonna open up the DMS in a
little bit and I'll read off some more of those.
But um next Thing's next is there's a couple of
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teams on the outside looking in for playoffs, And I
want to play Santa with you. Which teams are we
gifting a playoff spot? We don't know much so far.
All we know is the Eagles. They're the only team
that have clinched the playoffs spot so far. There are
a couple of teams that are eliminated Broncos, Texans and Bears.
Who on the cusp would you say is deserving of
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a spot? In your opinion? You and I have already
spent much time talking about the beautiful, beautiful team in Detroit, Michigan.
So I'm not gonna do it. That's a given. I
want the Lions in bad but I'll tell you the
other one, Sweet Caroline, Bubba. No, I want Carolina, and
I've been out to hear me out. I want them
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so much, just for an auntie, for the other three
children in that family. Tampa, I'm tired of you, bleeper,
Get off the pot. They won't do it. Atlanta, No,
New Orleans. No. I am here for the Steve Wilkes
Sam Darnold Redemption Tour and the Carolina Panthers hosting a
home playoff game for winning the NFC South. I'm tired
of waiting for the other teams. I want Carolina, and
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oh my good lord, I was not because they're like
down the list I'm looking at. You know, you got
the you got the sixes in the seven. So the
six and the seven in the AFC AFC right now,
and the Dolphins and the Chargers for the NFC, You've
got commanders and giants. We love that. Here is on
the bubble right now. Jets are on the bubble in
the AFC. The Patriots are on the Bubble Jags, okay,
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and then the NFC you got Seahawks, you got Lions,
you got Packers, and then you got the Panthers way
down there. That would be absolutely bonkers, Okay, chaotic Santa Like,
they gotta get to They're gotta get to eight and
nine maybe to win that division. So listen, I could
sit here and tell you, oh, yeah, the Patriots, I
don't know, screw the Patriots. They've had so many years
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of getting the power wheels and the blade rollers and
all that stuff. They can be the kid for once
that has to steal to get in. They've I like
someone who has been looked down about, like a tiny
tim like on a little crutch. Basically, that's Carolina. I
want them, man. I love that. Okay, maybe I'm I'm
being a little bit of a scrooge. What about the
Packers who are still above them? Well, they're they're they're
they're both five and eight right now? Are you? Are
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you as stoked on on the Packers? Yeah? I find
it hilarious, Like if they come back from the bye
and it's just like, in a lot of ways, I'd
like it, because everybody's worth nightmare, and sometimes that's what
Christmas is about too, that like, no, we can't let
Rogers get in this year. Yeah, yeah you might. He
is like the hottest wide receiver in the league. They're rested,
They're playing the Zombie Rams with Baker when they come
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out of the bye So I like that just for
the shock and awe of everyone who just likes to
see the Packers burned down. I'd be hard press Waneta
to find somebody in the NFC. I don't want to
see him make the playoffs. I just want that thing
to be chaos, and Packers and Panthers would be I know.
I mean we got we got a taste of chaos
this past Thursday of football when Baker Mayfield, Oh my goodness,
you called it, and then we called it because we
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said we I mean, we are fibbing a little bit.
We're like the next the headlines on Friday are gonna
be like welcome to Hollywood. Baker and we were texting
each other all night being like, oh God, like, we're
gonna have to turn this and do a funny edit
with like some like burn and then all of a
sudden we looked like geniuses. We were right. I love chaos.
I want as much chaos as I can in the
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playoffs because you only have so much football left. Okay,
we're gonna continue with the you being Santa, and I
am gonna list off a few people and you're gonna
tell me whether they're on the naughty or the nice list?
Are you ready? All right? Okay? This is an interesting
one today because we saw the Jets play on Sunday
and they didn't look great, and Mike White got hurt.
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He went in, he got hurt, he went in, he
got hurt. Joe Flacco came in. They never called on
Zack Wilson, and now Robert Sali is saying, we're still
not going to call on Zach Wilson. So let me
ask you, this is Zach Wilson still on the naughty list,
and why should he should he maybe think about getting
onto the nice list to help this team out. Well, listen,
if we're taking into the offseason headlines about him, he's
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on the very naughty list and some people, hey, now, no,
listen the fact that they won't even let that kid dress.
I don't even understand it, because poor old man Flacco
came in and like, I love Joe, but like that
that just wasn't happening. He didn't have it, So they
won't even let the dude put on his uniform anymore.
I think you have to keep him in the naughty list.
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I just feel like it's like maybe there's things that
we don't know, but like if it's just saying that
he let the defense down, I get it that he
probably lost like a little or he didn't let the
defense down. I get it that he probably lost a
little respect. But at some point you gotta be like, okay, guys,
like let's get over in place of football and like
get back to what we're supposed to be doing. Okay,
what about the Raiders. We all saw your speech on
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Good Morning Football that they should have walked back to
Las Vegas. Are they on the naughty list or you
putting them on the nice list this year? Look, putting
them on the naughty list acknowledges their existence. So like,
I'm so mad at them right now. They don't even
get an A or an F. They just get like
an NA or an incomplete. I'm so mad at them,
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and I'm mad at the at us because we as
a people who were like, oh, this is so cool.
The Raiders are making a run because what they won
three games in a row like that never happens. I'm
just so frustrated and so mad at myself and you
and anybody else who gave one second to the Raiders.
We got deeked, we got fish hooked. And so no,
they're not on either list incomplete. That's what they get.
This is a good chip on the shoulder narrative, though,
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because I do feel like the Raiders are a fun
team to root for, just everything that they've been through
in the last few years, and then to have Baker
Mayfield helmet off, given everyone ahead butts and you're looking,
imagine washing that from the sideline like you just had
Baker Mayfield come in here on Tuesday and beat you
guys in the very last minute, and you have all
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of your fans here from Las Vegas, and then you
see this guy aheadbutting everyone celebrating. I would be furious.
This is a very fun ship on the shoulder, just
like an epic comeback waiting to happen. So we'll see
how they react. But I agree, not even on a list,
we're just not acknowledging them. We've lost their names. Russell
Wilson and the Broncos the combo naughty or nice. This
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is the team that I almost feel bad for now,
Like it was almost like this Christmas miracle. They were
getting destroyed by the Chiefs and it was like rock bottom.
But then it was like, you know, they were gonna
save the cookie shop in the small town and they
did a bake sale and they started to get donations,
and look, they're gonna save the shop. They're gonna come
back and they're gonna beat the Chiefs. So I think
in September October I would put them a naughty. I mean,
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remember how much mileage we got out of russ doing
the high knees on the plane and everything. That was
like first team all naughty. Now it's like, I don't know,
I feel like they're they're the charity case, like you
put your coin in the red kettle and the ghost
of the Broncos. I can't even put them on the naughty.
I hope they get a Teddy Bear or something for Christmas. Nice, sir,
they're trying. Um, I would say, you know, when it
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all comes down to it, you want to be entertained.
And Russell Wilson has really done nothing but that, like
he gave us the Let's Ride in the very very beginning.
He is just a cringe video after cringe video. Oh God,
please don't do that to me. He's the it's the
subway video, It's it's the hy knees. It's is truly
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the gift that keeps on giving. I'm gonna put them
on the nice list because when it all comes down
to it, when it's all said and done, we're gonna
look back on the memories, the laughs that we had,
not the tears that we cry. Okay, um, this is
an interesting one and I'm really curious to see your opinion.
Kyler Murray not your nice list this year. Kyler is
flirting with that Raiders no agnowed lists. I can't do that. Listen,
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they play their demundayante football. They're against the Patriots. I
don't know. Also feels like Kyler's last stand. Yeah, here's
my experience. I got a couple of kids. What they'll
do is that like the three days before Christmas, they
try to rally, They try to like come back there
their version of like a twenty eight to three comeback,
and they try to be really well behaved for three days.
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Can I help you Daddy's what you can do. And
I'm like, you have been such a little jerk for
three weeks. Your behavior has been just like a wild animal.
Don't rally now. I feel like Kyler, who also has
to be the size of my son, might actually like
try to rally here at the end of the season
and maybe he can save Christmas. So I'm hoping I'm
saving a space for him on the nice list, because
why not. I feel like, Okay, like you've bought the
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new call of duty for him and you're just like
keeping it locked away, like you may pull it out
for him on Christmas Day and you also may not. Okay,
one last one, I have to do it naughty. You're nice.
Baker Mayfield, Oh so nice, the best, the star pupil.
I love that guy. Love Baker, Love the way he operates.
What the hell was that Thursday night? What was that? Like? That?
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That was the stupidest, dumbest plot of a movie ever,
And it's it was real And I'm watching the end
of the game and Al Michael's just sitting there going
Hollywood has a new leading man. It was like al
was halfway to Lake Placid, like he was he was
ready to drop the miracle on us again. It was
so great and so fun and I just listen I
used to This always sounds so patronized, but like, I
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was really proud of Baker. I don't know him, I've
never met him, I've never interviewed him never ever. But
I'm proud of the guy. And he is on the
nice list at the top. He's up there with the
MVP candids. I love the guy so much. Great night
for him. There's so many people that love to hate him,
but they're really you can't deny that. There is like
some people that you meet, they just have a sparkle
to them, and he's got that, like football sparkle is
like he can be atrocious sometimes and you're like, what
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is going on? And then other times he like pulls
out something like this and you're like, this is the
reason why I watched sports, this is the reason why
I love football. So you can't knock him because he's
the one. He's the one gifting these situations. He pulled
the Browns out of absolutely nowhere and took them to
the people don't love him too, I love them. On
a personal note, Rachel, you'll relate to this a couple
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of years ago, like two years ago, Baker Mayfield started
following me on Twitter and I was like, oh, that's
really cool. So I dropped him this note like hey man,
I'm a fan of yours. Thanks man, good luck. No response,
And then, like over the last two years, like once
every six months, I've pathetically written him like a little note,
just like hey man, great game. You know they'd be
really impressed. You're the man never responds never, and so
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if you go, if I go to dam them right now,
there's like five dms from me like stalker over the
last two years. And sure enough, when he beat the
Raiders the other night, I hit him a note. I'm like,
I'm just gonna keep doing it. I don't if you're
reading them, great, If you're not great, I don't even
need a response. I'm just a fan of yours and
I want you to know. But it's a kind of
a pathetic look over under six meth messages you've sent
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him already, Push Push, I think it's a book. I
think it might be six, it might be five. But
the last one was just like, you know, I don't
want to get into I've already embarrassed myself enough, but
he won't respond. And I liked that he won't respond.
I liked it that he's just dialed in. I don't
want him to respond to me. I'm some guy who's
never met but I support him and I apologize for nothing. Okay,
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hold on Kyle, because I feel like I have to
send him nah okay and no response to Okay? Should
I read this? Should I read this? No response? I
don't think he follows me. Okay. This was um, this
was after he left Cleveland. This was my DM to Baker.
This is so embarrassing. I said, Hi, Baker, you made
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the right move. Thank you for everything the past few years.
Can't wait to see where you go next. I'll be
a lifelong fan. Oh that's cute. That's like a letter
you send when you're a kid to like Debbie Gibson
or something like That's that's great. I love that. And
he didn't respond exactly. It's a letter that you write
when you're a child, not a thirty Wait, he doesn't
follow you, but you can still DM like sims. Yeah,
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his dms. You're just like able to send to him
a little message. Well, no, wonder he doesn't. That tells
me that he probably like reads them if he has
that option, or maybe he's just never on Twitter and
doesn't know how to handle that. But I feel better
because now he hasn't read mine because there's too many.
It's not like he's seeing him ignoring him. It's unbelievable conversation. Yeah,
I'm glad I brought it up. I mean, you send
him six and I sent him one. So wait, I'm counting. No, Actually,
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I hate to disappoint you. I've actually sent him. It's
it's actually it's Ali four. So much more dignified over
two years. Oh see, we're all just a bunch of fans.
We're all just a bunch of dorky fans. Okay, I
love football. Thanks Kabe. Merry Christmas. We will see you
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next year. We'll get into uh, you know, our New
Year's resolutions and all those fun things. But until then,
happy holidays, love to the family. Thanks for joining our
pod this year. You're the best. Merry Christmas do you?
And I hope your old friend Whitney appreciates the sacrifice
you made. She she doesn't deserve you. Yeah, she owes
me fifty bucks from the charges. Okay, thanks Kab. We're
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gonna have him back on the podcast next year, do iend? Okay, guys,
what do you think about? What if I just like
send Baker like a happy Holidays that Thursday football game
was great, like because now like his dms have probably
like calmed down, you know, like Kyle sent him a
message last week. Whatever, I can get to the top
of the heap. I've waited for things to cool off.
Now I can slide back in shit. Um always, I'm
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gonna I'm gonna think about that. I'm gonna think about it.
Maybe maybe we'll craft together. We will craft the Ultimate DM,
the Ultimate Christmas DMUM on Thursday's pot on Friday's pod.
That'd be perfect. Okay, that sounds great. Guys, coming up,
we're gonna preview Thursday football and then I am opening
the DM, So don't go anyway. We'll get to secure.
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That's right, baby. Um justin I think you need to
hop in here and tell the people what your girl
did this past weekend. Did she go four and now
you went four? And no? On the Sunday games. We
all missed the Thursday game because we picked it on
Monday thinking that we didn't know Baker Mayfield was a
ram yet, so that was kind of not really fair,
but you went not fair, and to be honest, I
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object because we also went on the pod and predicted
Baker's incredible success, So that should be a wash, should
almost should be a straight wash. Yeah. Yeah, we'll just
eliminate that one. I mean, we all picked it, so
it doesn't really change the record, but it makes it
to wash anyways. But yeah, four and no again, that's
like the third time this year you've had a perfect Sunday,
so it's pretty nice. Thank you, thank you. I believe
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I did pick all favorites. No, I think I had
a I had an underdog in there, but I digress
Jets plus ten. That was a good killing it pick.
Thank you, thank you. There were some wonky games this weekend, um,
but let's look ahead to Thursday night football. We got
the Seahawks versus the forty niners. I was actually gonna
go to this game. I was actually planning to go
to Seattle to watch this Thursday night football game because
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a couple of weeks ago, Graver this game was looking noise. Yeah,
we had Gino going off. I put the forty nine
ers into my Super Bowl pick. I was like you
know what, Seattle is so close to Los Angeles. Let
me just hop up there real quick with some friends
and go to the Thursday night football game. Now it's
looking a little different. Seahawks have not been looking like
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themselves since they went to Germany. Yeah, and I get it.
If you're a Seahawks fan, you're probably like, look, we
lost Russell Wilson at the beginning of the season. I
remember being like Gino Smith and who's their backup quarterback,
Drew Locke. I was like, what are you guys even doing?
And they've had a hell of a run. They've had
a hell of a season. So maybe Seahawks fans you
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just sit back in the year just like grateful for
what you have. But I don't know. I think people
got a taste of that success and they were like,
what's going on with this team? They lost to the
panther on Sunday and then you look at the forty
nine ers, go brock Purty, go beating Tom Brady at home.
But Debo went out of the game. He literally twisted
his leg like gumby. I don't know if you saw that.
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I had to look away. I had to be like,
tell me when the injury is off the television. Apparently
it's a high ankle sprain. I don't know how he
got away with no broken bones, but he's got no
broken bones. So I'm still I'm gonna go to I'm
gonna go forty nine ers in this game. I know
that the Seahawks are at home, but I'm going forty
nine ers. I feel like brock Purty is still surrounded
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by enough weapons that he doesn't have to, you know,
take over the world to win this game. And this
defense is still very, very solid. So I'm going forty
nine ers. What do you like in this one? So
I pulled up some stats here to kind of dive
deeper into this Seahawks streak that they're on there one
in three in their last four games, and the biggest
reason is because their run defense has been astoundingly bad.
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I'm just gonna run off ratleoffs and numbers for you.
They played the Bucks in Munich. Bucks are last in
the league in rushing at seventy three yards per game,
ran for one hundred and sixty one on the Seahawks.
That's eighty eight yards over their season average. The Raiders
ran for two hundred and eighty three yards, one hundred
and fifty five over their season average. The Rams thirtieth
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in the league in rushing. The Rams ran for one
hundred and seventy one eighty five yards over their season average,
and the Panthers ran for two hundred and twenty three
yards yesterday, ninety eight yards over their season average. The
forty nine ers are a run first team with Christian McCaffrey.
They're currently ninth in the league and rushing at one
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hundred thirty yards per game, but they've only had McCaffrey
a few weeks. I feel like this is just a
bad matchup for the Seahawks in general. I think Christian
McCaffrey's going off. I'm surprised this line is only three
and a half points. I think the nine you're cover comfortably.
Maybe that'll scoop up as we get through this week.
But yeah, rip Seattle. I'm glad that I canceled my flight. Okay,
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I am opening my DMS. I am getting to your
best and your worst Christmas presents and they are gnarly
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the dunk go anywhere. This is safe space. Tell me
your dempest, darkest secrets dms now open. Okay, open the dms.
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You guys sent in your best and worst Christmas presents
that you've ever received, and they are hilarious. I've been
laughing all morning at them. First once, I'm just gonna
rattle these off because I got so many different messages.
Worst gift. I was eight in nineteen ninety four and
my estranged grandfather sent me Dances with Wolves on VHS.
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I've never seen the movie Dances with Wolves, but if
I got any vhs from a strange grandfather. I'd be like,
what does this mean? I would have preferred a card
that said, Hi, I love that one. Best present soup cookbook.
You know where I stand on that worst present? This
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is from the same person. Hot dog toaster, Tobias. Who
are you surrounding yourself with? Who are these people that's
getting you? Either or they love food and drop me
a link on that hot dog toaster? Baby it what's
the toaster for? Is it to toast the dog or
is it to toast the buns at bun toaster? Maybe
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it's just like God compartments for each you know I've
seen giding me the hell up, Sign me the hell
up for that. We will do a DIY test on
this show with a hot dog toaster. Okay, next one.
My worst present was a ship in a bottle from
my girlfriend. I got her a necklace and flowers and chocolates.
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She gets me a dang wooden ship. It's sweet. I
don't know, is it. How would you feel if you're
a loved one, You're getting them beautiful, You're going to Tiffany's,
You're getting them chocolates. You out of your way to like,
you know, build a beautiful bouquet of flowers, and she
gets you a ship in a bottle. It's not even
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a ship that you can play with instiade of a bottle, mean,
but it looks Maybe it looks nice. Maybe it goes
with the decor of the home. I don't know. I'm
playing Devil's advocate. I'd still be upset. Even if I
lived on the coast and I had a fully like
um what even Grandma coast vibes, whatever that thing is,
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Even if that was my whole vibe, and I got
a ship in a bottle, I'd still be upset about it. Okay,
the best present I ever received my first pair of
glasses I received in the fourth grade, because I can
finally see the worst gift this person's ever received. My
first pair of glasses I received in the fourth grade
because the whole class roasted me. Oh poor thing. Okay,
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this one was one of my favorites. In nineteen ninety four,
I absolutely harass my mom about getting me Donkey calling Country.
Leading up to Christmas, I would call Blockbuster every day
to see if it was in stock so I could
rent it. Finally, after living with a monster for weeks,
my mom caved and took it out of a cabinet
and gave it to me. All I did was play
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the game for months, not too long after it was
announced that Full House was ending for years. I assumed
it was my fault for playing Donkey Kong instead of
watching for a week or two. Oh my gosh, this
poor kid, this person singlehandedly canceled Full House. They were
really counting on that one view each week, and that
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was just sent them over the edge. I just gotta
say a Donkey Kong Country is maybe the best video
game ever. I love that game. I used to love
it too. I think I had a Donkey Kong game
on one of like the teeny tiny little Nintendos. Okay.
And then finally I was actually the gift giver and
was a bonehead. I was eighteen and gave my girlfriend
a Cindy Crawford makeup book and she was offended and
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broke up with me. What that seems like? I don't know.
When you're like, when you're that young and somebody says like,
here I want you to like hot chick, here's how
you look like Sundry Crawford, I'd probably get upset too.
I refragile come on, I feel like there must have
been other things that happened that led to a rocky
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road where this was the breaking point. Because if like
everything's perfect and this is the thing that ends your relationship,
that seems like a little extreme, like, maybe have a
conversation about it. First she got him a ship in
a bottle. He got her how to makeup book And
that was all she wrote, folks, that was all she wrote.
I'm keeping my dms open because these literally maybe chuckle
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all morning. So if you didn't get the chance, send
me your best and your worst Christmas presents. I want
to hear about them. We'll read them off until we
hit Christmas, which is in like a week and a half. Guys.
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And when I woke up this morning, I was feeling
pretty dangerous for on the Cincinnati it's my cornback. They
are well, we thought they were. Are we not about Hello?
You plenty to win the gate. They want you to
cook the dinner. At least they ought to let your
shout for some of the groceries. And on the way up,
we're gonna buy to kneecapas playoffs. Are you're kidding me?
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I'm just here so I won't get fine? How could
he not be romantic about football? Un I'll tell you
what Baker Mayfield saying, I woke up feeling dangerous. That
that's how you feel romantic about football. That just has
a whole new meaning. This week, Happy Tuesday, Happy week
(00:45):
twenty five? What year is it? I'm a lasbed. Welcome
to bench with Banetta m Guys, we are getting through it.
We are almost there. We're almost in a Saturday football mode,
which starts this week. We got some Saturday games this week,
we got some Sunday games this week. We got a
little Thursday night football this week which we will be
previewing Uno Momento. For those of you that are just
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listening on the pod, maybe you're in your car. Maybe
you're cozy, maybe you've got your little tush tushy heaters on.
I love that for you. Thanks for taking a break
from the from the Christmas cheer and listening to our pod.
For those of you that are only listening to the pod,
you can't see this sweater that I'm wearing that's covered
in gingerbread cookies, and it says, oh snap, oh snap,
(01:29):
a new pod has arrived. Guys, We've got a packed
show today. I'm actually very excited. Kyle Brant is going
to be joining us in a second here. And then
I did something that I haven't done in a long time,
and it's something that I love to do. I opened
my DMS. I opened my DMS and I asked, you, guys,
what is the worst and the best Christmas present you
have ever received. I don't think I got any good ones.
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I don't think I got any of like the best.
I got all worst, and some of them are terrible,
some of them are straight up awful. I'll give you
one right now, a soup cookbook. Okay, you know where
I stand on that. I'm gonna share mine, Kyle's gonna
share his, and then we're going to talk about the games.
It just happened. A lot of stuff went down. Brock
Purty shining, Tom Brady not so much. Baker Mayfield shout
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outs again. If I could just do an entire podcast
on Baker, I would do that, but without further ado.
Let's get KB and here Kabe. What's that all right? Kabe?
Today is a sad day because this is the last
time we were going to be together before the festivities
kick off. People get busy. Your girls gonna put her
feet up in a in a couple of days. She's
taking a little quick holiday. Don't let the bosses hear that.
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But this is gonna be the last time you and
I are together until the new year. So I wanted
to have a very custive show. I wore my little
gingerbreads for you. Okay, I'm gonna listening to Charlie Brow.
We were just talking about this. I've been listening to
Charlie Brown for like a month and a half straight.
Before we kick off, I have a question for you all.
I went to this place called like Candy Cane Lane
last night in Los Angeles, and it's just a couple
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of streets that are completely shut down, like you can
only walk, you can't drive through, and it's just Clark
Griswold's everywhere on both sides of the street. It's absolute chaos.
And I was thinking to myself, let's say I bought
this house in June. Do you think that you know
how when you buy a house and somebody just died
in it, they have to let you know. I think
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there should be a similar rule if you have an
aggressive neighborhood that goes all out for Christmas. Do you
not agree? Yeah? I think absolutely. It's just in a
little bit of an fyi. You move in in June
and it's eighty two degrees and it's beautiful, and someone
sup pulls you aside as, look, come, come, Like Halloween,
it's on, and it's on until like MLK, it goes
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on for four months. And it's not just your lights.
It's not just just snowmen. These people are imbeciles for Christmas.
So just if you're into that, it's almost like a fetish.
If you're into it, that's great, But if it's not
for you at this house, for you, because this is
like a quarter of the year, would you buy into
something like that? Like if they was just like a
perfect little neighborhood, a little nook and like the most
perfect house that you were looking for, but you know
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that it is like kind of hellish and you're not
even gonna be able to park on your own freaking
street for like a full month and maybe a little
bit in Halloween too. Would you do that perfect housewise? Yeah?
I like that you compared like having soldiers or Christmas
trees and free yard, having like a dead body pulled
out of your house and what it does. And look, Rachel,
if you have to answer the question, you know the
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answer is yes, I'm all in for it. I think
it raises the property value. I'm a festive s ob
and I know you share that with me, so that
would be huge for me. I'd be, oh, shoot, I'll
pay more if I have to. That's part of the
fun I'm in. It does sound, it does feel like
a like a fun community situation. But like on week three,
I'd be like I would just turn or I'd be
the one house that would be Grinch and I just
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like really play up the Grinch and I just have
like dark lights and just like evil vibes, like stay
off my lawn. Okay, let's get into this. We are
gonna do this a little bit later on in the show,
I opened my d and I asked people to send
me their worst in their best Christmas presents they ever
received as a kid. Do you have a best and
do you have a worse? Before we before we start
this thing. Yeah, well my best is we got a
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puppy one year. And listen, it's not getting too much
into my life, but like you know, I had divorced parents,
so let's just say like that, the dad was going
hard for Christmas, like trying to compensate, and he couldn't
get us a horse, so he got us a puppy
and it was a bearded collie. His name was Fluppy
Fluppy the puppy, and that really brought the house down.
On the other side of it, the worst present was
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there was one year, I think it was like ninety
one or ninety two where the entire world was obsessed
with roller blades. You had to have roller blades inline skates,
and my sisters and I begged and begged and begged,
and we opened them up in the morning and they
were like blade rollers, you know, like that not And
I love your mom, and I'm sure you saved a
bunch of money, but those things barely worked at all,
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and they didn't do anything for our cool factors. So
fluppy the puppy blade rollers, what about you? My best
Christmas present? I remember coming out, and the best Christmas
presents are always like the ones that make you act
like a complete jerk at first. I come downstairs, there's
nothing really around the tree for your girl. All my
brothers have like these, like they're getting snowboards and like
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cool stin shoes, And I was like, what the hell's
going on? Mom and Dad? And they made me sit
there for a while because I started to poup. So
they're like, oh, you're gonna sit in this and you
we're gonna feel extra bad in a little bit. And
they're like, Rachel, your present is on the front lawn.
And I was like, on the front lawn, what the hell?
I go outside and there is a my version of
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a Corvette at the time, it was a little mini
four wheeler like for a child, like very dangerous. But
they got me like a little ramming. Oh yeah, that
was my That was my best one. I wrote it
every single day. I used to get like finger cramps
from like pressing on the gas that I used to
have to like hold two hands down because I was
such a weak little child. And my worst one was
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probably one that I gifted. I'm notoriously not. When I
was younger, I was not very good at gifting presents.
But when I was in high school, I wanted to
get this this perfume that I had for my best friend,
and I shoplifted it. I stole it, and I got
busted and they had to handcuff me and everything. Because
I was so young, they wanted to teach me a lesson,
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like a guy on the segway, like what happened? Fullmall cop,
fullmall cop arrested me a teenager? How did they know?
Like give me a few details. I think they said, Okay,
it was at a hollister. It was at a hollister,
so I feel like it had like night vision goggles
in that place because it's spitch black. You're like feeling
around for like your sizes on the shelf. Um and
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I got a I got little perfume and I was
like lip into my bag. It was for my friend Whitney.
And that was the worst part about it. As I
tried to say, like this was for my friend, like
I was trying to be a good friend, and they're like,
you still stole. And they brought me in the back
and they sat me down and I was in there
for like an hour and a half and all my
friends had to like wait outside for me. And I
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was so humiliated, and oh ball minds praying, praying to
Jesus like I had never for the first time in
my other day. It was bad, but all for a
good cause, all for friends. Okay, so we're gonna get
to it. We're gonna open up the DMS in a
little bit and I'll read off some more of those.
But um next Thing's next is there's a couple of
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teams on the outside looking in for playoffs, And I
want to play Santa with you. Which teams are we
gifting a playoff spot? We don't know much so far.
All we know is the Eagles. They're the only team
that have clinched the playoffs spot so far. There are
a couple of teams that are eliminated Broncos, Texans and Bears.
Who on the cusp would you say is deserving of
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a spot? In your opinion? You and I have already
spent much time talking about the beautiful, beautiful team in Detroit, Michigan.
So I'm not gonna do it. That's a given. I
want the Lions in bad but I'll tell you the
other one, Sweet Caroline, Bubba. No, I want Carolina, and
I've been out to hear me out. I want them
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so much, just for an auntie, for the other three
children in that family. Tampa, I'm tired of you, bleeper,
Get off the pot. They won't do it. Atlanta, No,
New Orleans. No. I am here for the Steve Wilkes
Sam Darnold Redemption Tour and the Carolina Panthers hosting a
home playoff game for winning the NFC South. I'm tired
of waiting for the other teams. I want Carolina, and
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oh my good lord, I was not because they're like
down the list I'm looking at. You know, you got
the you got the sixes in the seven. So the
six and the seven in the AFC AFC right now,
and the Dolphins and the Chargers for the NFC, You've
got commanders and giants. We love that. Here is on
the bubble right now. Jets are on the bubble in
the AFC. The Patriots are on the Bubble Jags, okay,
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and then the NFC you got Seahawks, you got Lions,
you got Packers, and then you got the Panthers way
down there. That would be absolutely bonkers, Okay, chaotic Santa Like,
they gotta get to They're gotta get to eight and
nine maybe to win that division. So listen, I could
sit here and tell you, oh, yeah, the Patriots, I
don't know, screw the Patriots. They've had so many years
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of getting the power wheels and the blade rollers and
all that stuff. They can be the kid for once
that has to steal to get in. They've I like
someone who has been looked down about, like a tiny
tim like on a little crutch. Basically, that's Carolina. I
want them, man. I love that. Okay, maybe I'm I'm
being a little bit of a scrooge. What about the
Packers who are still above them? Well, they're they're they're
they're both five and eight right now? Are you? Are
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you as stoked on on the Packers? Yeah? I find
it hilarious, Like if they come back from the bye
and it's just like, in a lot of ways, I'd
like it, because everybody's worth nightmare, and sometimes that's what
Christmas is about too, that like, no, we can't let
Rogers get in this year. Yeah, yeah you might. He
is like the hottest wide receiver in the league. They're rested,
They're playing the Zombie Rams with Baker when they come
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out of the bye So I like that just for
the shock and awe of everyone who just likes to
see the Packers burned down. I'd be hard press Waneta
to find somebody in the NFC. I don't want to
see him make the playoffs. I just want that thing
to be chaos, and Packers and Panthers would be I know.
I mean we got we got a taste of chaos
this past Thursday of football when Baker Mayfield, Oh my goodness,
you called it, and then we called it because we
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said we I mean, we are fibbing a little bit.
We're like the next the headlines on Friday are gonna
be like welcome to Hollywood. Baker and we were texting
each other all night being like, oh God, like, we're
gonna have to turn this and do a funny edit
with like some like burn and then all of a
sudden we looked like geniuses. We were right. I love chaos.
I want as much chaos as I can in the
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playoffs because you only have so much football left. Okay,
we're gonna continue with the you being Santa, and I
am gonna list off a few people and you're gonna
tell me whether they're on the naughty or the nice list?
Are you ready? All right? Okay? This is an interesting
one today because we saw the Jets play on Sunday
and they didn't look great, and Mike White got hurt.
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He went in, he got hurt, he went in, he
got hurt. Joe Flacco came in. They never called on
Zack Wilson, and now Robert Sali is saying, we're still
not going to call on Zach Wilson. So let me
ask you, this is Zach Wilson still on the naughty list,
and why should he should he maybe think about getting
onto the nice list to help this team out. Well, listen,
if we're taking into the offseason headlines about him, he's
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on the very naughty list and some people, hey, now, no,
listen the fact that they won't even let that kid dress.
I don't even understand it, because poor old man Flacco
came in and like, I love Joe, but like that
that just wasn't happening. He didn't have it, So they
won't even let the dude put on his uniform anymore.
I think you have to keep him in the naughty list.
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I just feel like it's like maybe there's things that
we don't know, but like if it's just saying that
he let the defense down, I get it that he
probably lost like a little or he didn't let the
defense down. I get it that he probably lost a
little respect. But at some point you gotta be like, okay, guys,
like let's get over in place of football and like
get back to what we're supposed to be doing. Okay,
what about the Raiders. We all saw your speech on
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Good Morning Football that they should have walked back to
Las Vegas. Are they on the naughty list or you
putting them on the nice list this year? Look, putting
them on the naughty list acknowledges their existence. So like,
I'm so mad at them right now. They don't even
get an A or an F. They just get like
an NA or an incomplete. I'm so mad at them,
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and I'm mad at the at us because we as
a people who were like, oh, this is so cool.
The Raiders are making a run because what they won
three games in a row like that never happens. I'm
just so frustrated and so mad at myself and you
and anybody else who gave one second to the Raiders.
We got deeked, we got fish hooked. And so no,
they're not on either list incomplete. That's what they get.
This is a good chip on the shoulder narrative, though,
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because I do feel like the Raiders are a fun
team to root for, just everything that they've been through
in the last few years, and then to have Baker
Mayfield helmet off, given everyone ahead butts and you're looking,
imagine washing that from the sideline like you just had
Baker Mayfield come in here on Tuesday and beat you
guys in the very last minute, and you have all
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of your fans here from Las Vegas, and then you
see this guy aheadbutting everyone celebrating. I would be furious.
This is a very fun ship on the shoulder, just
like an epic comeback waiting to happen. So we'll see
how they react. But I agree, not even on a list,
we're just not acknowledging them. We've lost their names. Russell
Wilson and the Broncos the combo naughty or nice. This
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is the team that I almost feel bad for now,
Like it was almost like this Christmas miracle. They were
getting destroyed by the Chiefs and it was like rock bottom.
But then it was like, you know, they were gonna
save the cookie shop in the small town and they
did a bake sale and they started to get donations,
and look, they're gonna save the shop. They're gonna come
back and they're gonna beat the Chiefs. So I think
in September October I would put them a naughty. I mean,
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remember how much mileage we got out of russ doing
the high knees on the plane and everything. That was
like first team all naughty. Now it's like, I don't know,
I feel like they're they're the charity case, like you
put your coin in the red kettle and the ghost
of the Broncos. I can't even put them on the naughty.
I hope they get a Teddy Bear or something for Christmas. Nice, sir,
they're trying. Um, I would say, you know, when it
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all comes down to it, you want to be entertained.
And Russell Wilson has really done nothing but that, like
he gave us the Let's Ride in the very very beginning.
He is just a cringe video after cringe video. Oh God,
please don't do that to me. He's the it's the
subway video, It's it's the hy knees. It's is truly
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the gift that keeps on giving. I'm gonna put them
on the nice list because when it all comes down
to it, when it's all said and done, we're gonna
look back on the memories, the laughs that we had,
not the tears that we cry. Okay, um, this is
an interesting one and I'm really curious to see your opinion.
Kyler Murray not your nice list this year. Kyler is
flirting with that Raiders no agnowed lists. I can't do that. Listen,
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they play their demundayante football. They're against the Patriots. I
don't know. Also feels like Kyler's last stand. Yeah, here's
my experience. I got a couple of kids. What they'll
do is that like the three days before Christmas, they
try to rally, They try to like come back there
their version of like a twenty eight to three comeback,
and they try to be really well behaved for three days.
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Can I help you Daddy's what you can do. And
I'm like, you have been such a little jerk for
three weeks. Your behavior has been just like a wild animal.
Don't rally now. I feel like Kyler, who also has
to be the size of my son, might actually like
try to rally here at the end of the season
and maybe he can save Christmas. So I'm hoping I'm
saving a space for him on the nice list, because
why not. I feel like, Okay, like you've bought the
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new call of duty for him and you're just like
keeping it locked away, like you may pull it out
for him on Christmas Day and you also may not. Okay,
one last one, I have to do it naughty. You're nice.
Baker Mayfield, Oh so nice, the best, the star pupil.
I love that guy. Love Baker, Love the way he operates.
What the hell was that Thursday night? What was that? Like? That?
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That was the stupidest, dumbest plot of a movie ever,
And it's it was real And I'm watching the end
of the game and Al Michael's just sitting there going
Hollywood has a new leading man. It was like al
was halfway to Lake Placid, like he was he was
ready to drop the miracle on us again. It was
so great and so fun and I just listen I
used to This always sounds so patronized, but like, I
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was really proud of Baker. I don't know him, I've
never met him, I've never interviewed him never ever. But
I'm proud of the guy. And he is on the
nice list at the top. He's up there with the
MVP candids. I love the guy so much. Great night
for him. There's so many people that love to hate him,
but they're really you can't deny that. There is like
some people that you meet, they just have a sparkle
to them, and he's got that, like football sparkle is
like he can be atrocious sometimes and you're like, what
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is going on? And then other times he like pulls
out something like this and you're like, this is the
reason why I watched sports, this is the reason why
I love football. So you can't knock him because he's
the one. He's the one gifting these situations. He pulled
the Browns out of absolutely nowhere and took them to
the people don't love him too, I love them. On
a personal note, Rachel, you'll relate to this a couple
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of years ago, like two years ago, Baker Mayfield started
following me on Twitter and I was like, oh, that's
really cool. So I dropped him this note like hey man,
I'm a fan of yours. Thanks man, good luck. No response,
And then, like over the last two years, like once
every six months, I've pathetically written him like a little note,
just like hey man, great game. You know they'd be
really impressed. You're the man never responds never, and so
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if you go, if I go to dam them right now,
there's like five dms from me like stalker over the
last two years. And sure enough, when he beat the
Raiders the other night, I hit him a note. I'm like,
I'm just gonna keep doing it. I don't if you're
reading them, great, If you're not great, I don't even
need a response. I'm just a fan of yours and
I want you to know. But it's a kind of
a pathetic look over under six meth messages you've sent
(19:00):
him already, Push Push, I think it's a book. I
think it might be six, it might be five. But
the last one was just like, you know, I don't
want to get into I've already embarrassed myself enough, but
he won't respond. And I liked that he won't respond.
I liked it that he's just dialed in. I don't
want him to respond to me. I'm some guy who's
never met but I support him and I apologize for nothing. Okay,
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hold on Kyle, because I feel like I have to
send him nah okay and no response to Okay? Should
I read this? Should I read this? No response? I
don't think he follows me. Okay. This was um, this
was after he left Cleveland. This was my DM to Baker.
This is so embarrassing. I said, Hi, Baker, you made
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the right move. Thank you for everything the past few years.
Can't wait to see where you go next. I'll be
a lifelong fan. Oh that's cute. That's like a letter
you send when you're a kid to like Debbie Gibson
or something like That's that's great. I love that. And
he didn't respond exactly. It's a letter that you write
when you're a child, not a thirty Wait, he doesn't
follow you, but you can still DM like sims. Yeah,
(20:06):
his dms. You're just like able to send to him
a little message. Well, no, wonder he doesn't. That tells
me that he probably like reads them if he has
that option, or maybe he's just never on Twitter and
doesn't know how to handle that. But I feel better
because now he hasn't read mine because there's too many.
It's not like he's seeing him ignoring him. It's unbelievable conversation. Yeah,
I'm glad I brought it up. I mean, you send
him six and I sent him one. So wait, I'm counting. No, Actually,
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I hate to disappoint you. I've actually sent him. It's
it's actually it's Ali four. So much more dignified over
two years. Oh see, we're all just a bunch of fans.
We're all just a bunch of dorky fans. Okay, I
love football. Thanks Kabe. Merry Christmas. We will see you
(20:50):
next year. We'll get into uh, you know, our New
Year's resolutions and all those fun things. But until then,
happy holidays, love to the family. Thanks for joining our
pod this year. You're the best. Merry Christmas do you?
And I hope your old friend Whitney appreciates the sacrifice
you made. She she doesn't deserve you. Yeah, she owes
me fifty bucks from the charges. Okay, thanks Kab. We're
(21:11):
gonna have him back on the podcast next year, do iend? Okay, guys,
what do you think about? What if I just like
send Baker like a happy Holidays that Thursday football game
was great, like because now like his dms have probably
like calmed down, you know, like Kyle sent him a
message last week. Whatever, I can get to the top
of the heap. I've waited for things to cool off.
Now I can slide back in shit. Um always, I'm
(21:31):
gonna I'm gonna think about that. I'm gonna think about it.
Maybe maybe we'll craft together. We will craft the Ultimate DM,
the Ultimate Christmas DMUM on Thursday's pot on Friday's pod.
That'd be perfect. Okay, that sounds great. Guys, coming up,
we're gonna preview Thursday football and then I am opening
the DM, So don't go anyway. We'll get to secure.
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That's right, baby. Um justin I think you need to
hop in here and tell the people what your girl
did this past weekend. Did she go four and now
you went four? And no? On the Sunday games. We
all missed the Thursday game because we picked it on
Monday thinking that we didn't know Baker Mayfield was a
ram yet, so that was kind of not really fair,
but you went not fair, and to be honest, I
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object because we also went on the pod and predicted
Baker's incredible success, So that should be a wash, should
almost should be a straight wash. Yeah. Yeah, we'll just
eliminate that one. I mean, we all picked it, so
it doesn't really change the record, but it makes it
to wash anyways. But yeah, four and no again, that's
like the third time this year you've had a perfect Sunday,
so it's pretty nice. Thank you, thank you. I believe
(22:45):
I did pick all favorites. No, I think I had
a I had an underdog in there, but I digress
Jets plus ten. That was a good killing it pick.
Thank you, thank you. There were some wonky games this weekend, um,
but let's look ahead to Thursday night football. We got
the Seahawks versus the forty niners. I was actually gonna
go to this game. I was actually planning to go
to Seattle to watch this Thursday night football game because
(23:06):
a couple of weeks ago, Graver this game was looking noise. Yeah,
we had Gino going off. I put the forty nine
ers into my Super Bowl pick. I was like you
know what, Seattle is so close to Los Angeles. Let
me just hop up there real quick with some friends
and go to the Thursday night football game. Now it's
looking a little different. Seahawks have not been looking like
(23:30):
themselves since they went to Germany. Yeah, and I get it.
If you're a Seahawks fan, you're probably like, look, we
lost Russell Wilson at the beginning of the season. I
remember being like Gino Smith and who's their backup quarterback,
Drew Locke. I was like, what are you guys even doing?
And they've had a hell of a run. They've had
a hell of a season. So maybe Seahawks fans you
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just sit back in the year just like grateful for
what you have. But I don't know. I think people
got a taste of that success and they were like,
what's going on with this team? They lost to the
panther on Sunday and then you look at the forty
nine ers, go brock Purty, go beating Tom Brady at home.
But Debo went out of the game. He literally twisted
his leg like gumby. I don't know if you saw that.
(24:13):
I had to look away. I had to be like,
tell me when the injury is off the television. Apparently
it's a high ankle sprain. I don't know how he
got away with no broken bones, but he's got no
broken bones. So I'm still I'm gonna go to I'm
gonna go forty nine ers in this game. I know
that the Seahawks are at home, but I'm going forty
nine ers. I feel like brock Purty is still surrounded
(24:35):
by enough weapons that he doesn't have to, you know,
take over the world to win this game. And this
defense is still very, very solid. So I'm going forty
nine ers. What do you like in this one? So
I pulled up some stats here to kind of dive
deeper into this Seahawks streak that they're on there one
in three in their last four games, and the biggest
reason is because their run defense has been astoundingly bad.
(25:00):
I'm just gonna run off ratleoffs and numbers for you.
They played the Bucks in Munich. Bucks are last in
the league in rushing at seventy three yards per game,
ran for one hundred and sixty one on the Seahawks.
That's eighty eight yards over their season average. The Raiders
ran for two hundred and eighty three yards, one hundred
and fifty five over their season average. The Rams thirtieth
(25:22):
in the league in rushing. The Rams ran for one
hundred and seventy one eighty five yards over their season average,
and the Panthers ran for two hundred and twenty three
yards yesterday, ninety eight yards over their season average. The
forty nine ers are a run first team with Christian McCaffrey.
They're currently ninth in the league and rushing at one
(25:42):
hundred thirty yards per game, but they've only had McCaffrey
a few weeks. I feel like this is just a
bad matchup for the Seahawks in general. I think Christian
McCaffrey's going off. I'm surprised this line is only three
and a half points. I think the nine you're cover comfortably.
Maybe that'll scoop up as we get through this week.
But yeah, rip Seattle. I'm glad that I canceled my flight. Okay,
(26:06):
so that's Thursday Football. You guys can catch that on
Prime eight fifteen Eastern, and then we got Saturday Football. Baby.
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(26:27):
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I am opening my DMS. I am getting to your
best and your worst Christmas presents and they are gnarly
(26:49):
the dunk go anywhere. This is safe space. Tell me
your dempest, darkest secrets dms now open. Okay, open the dms.
(27:16):
You guys sent in your best and worst Christmas presents
that you've ever received, and they are hilarious. I've been
laughing all morning at them. First once, I'm just gonna
rattle these off because I got so many different messages.
Worst gift. I was eight in nineteen ninety four and
my estranged grandfather sent me Dances with Wolves on VHS.
(27:37):
I've never seen the movie Dances with Wolves, but if
I got any vhs from a strange grandfather. I'd be like,
what does this mean? I would have preferred a card
that said, Hi, I love that one. Best present soup cookbook.
You know where I stand on that worst present? This
(27:58):
is from the same person. Hot dog toaster, Tobias. Who
are you surrounding yourself with? Who are these people that's
getting you? Either or they love food and drop me
a link on that hot dog toaster? Baby it what's
the toaster for? Is it to toast the dog or
is it to toast the buns at bun toaster? Maybe
(28:19):
it's just like God compartments for each you know I've
seen giding me the hell up, Sign me the hell
up for that. We will do a DIY test on
this show with a hot dog toaster. Okay, next one.
My worst present was a ship in a bottle from
my girlfriend. I got her a necklace and flowers and chocolates.
(28:40):
She gets me a dang wooden ship. It's sweet. I
don't know, is it. How would you feel if you're
a loved one, You're getting them beautiful, You're going to Tiffany's,
You're getting them chocolates. You out of your way to like,
you know, build a beautiful bouquet of flowers, and she
gets you a ship in a bottle. It's not even
(29:01):
a ship that you can play with instiade of a bottle, mean,
but it looks Maybe it looks nice. Maybe it goes
with the decor of the home. I don't know. I'm
playing Devil's advocate. I'd still be upset. Even if I
lived on the coast and I had a fully like
um what even Grandma coast vibes, whatever that thing is,
(29:21):
Even if that was my whole vibe, and I got
a ship in a bottle, I'd still be upset about it. Okay,
the best present I ever received my first pair of
glasses I received in the fourth grade, because I can
finally see the worst gift this person's ever received. My
first pair of glasses I received in the fourth grade
because the whole class roasted me. Oh poor thing. Okay,
(29:43):
this one was one of my favorites. In nineteen ninety four,
I absolutely harass my mom about getting me Donkey calling Country.
Leading up to Christmas, I would call Blockbuster every day
to see if it was in stock so I could
rent it. Finally, after living with a monster for weeks,
my mom caved and took it out of a cabinet
and gave it to me. All I did was play
(30:03):
the game for months, not too long after it was
announced that Full House was ending for years. I assumed
it was my fault for playing Donkey Kong instead of
watching for a week or two. Oh my gosh, this
poor kid, this person singlehandedly canceled Full House. They were
really counting on that one view each week, and that
(30:27):
was just sent them over the edge. I just gotta
say a Donkey Kong Country is maybe the best video
game ever. I love that game. I used to love
it too. I think I had a Donkey Kong game
on one of like the teeny tiny little Nintendos. Okay.
And then finally I was actually the gift giver and
was a bonehead. I was eighteen and gave my girlfriend
a Cindy Crawford makeup book and she was offended and
(30:50):
broke up with me. What that seems like? I don't know.
When you're like, when you're that young and somebody says like,
here I want you to like hot chick, here's how
you look like Sundry Crawford, I'd probably get upset too.
I refragile come on, I feel like there must have
been other things that happened that led to a rocky
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road where this was the breaking point. Because if like
everything's perfect and this is the thing that ends your relationship,
that seems like a little extreme, like, maybe have a
conversation about it. First she got him a ship in
a bottle. He got her how to makeup book And
that was all she wrote, folks, that was all she wrote.
I'm keeping my dms open because these literally maybe chuckle
(31:34):
all morning. So if you didn't get the chance, send
me your best and your worst Christmas presents. I want
to hear about them. We'll read them off until we
hit Christmas, which is in like a week and a half. Guys.
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(32:16):
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