Last Second Christmas Gifts | CFB Playoff Dud | Festivus

Last Second Christmas Gifts | CFB Playoff Dud | Festivus

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Is this today a Festivus? Let me do some googling.
It wasn't a huge Seinfeld guy. But yeah, well, if
that's what you're into, congratulations it is Festivus Day. That's great.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
All right.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
So what do we do?

Speaker 2 (00:12):
I suppose if you participate, you could air your grievances.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
We're doing that right now.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
If you want to your show. That's not the first
thing that we do. Isn't there multiple things that you're
supposed to do? Oh, i'd have to refresh. You want
me to refresh my memory? Here one of the rules
of Festivus. Some examples of Festivus include adorn an aluminum
Festivus poll to be displayed in your home. Okay, we
don't have that. Serve a traditional dinner. I don't know
what that means. It's just what it says here, traditional

(00:37):
festivst dinner. I suppose during the dinner, allow the airing
of grievances. All right, okay, Oh, and here we go.
Heats of strength follow the dinner and involve wrestling. It
involves you wrestling the head of the household. So it
sounds like the head of the household's got to keep
his title, her he or hers title. Excuse me, So

(00:58):
what if you only have two people? Well, you know
who's the head of the household. I mean, either way,
it sounds like you and I have to wrestle. Festivus
miracle is next a frequent, unimpressive miracle whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
That means, like we're gonna get that, We're gonna get
done with a four hour radio show and nothing's going
to burn down. That sounds like a miracle some paste.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Some days, it does, doesn't it, I suppose. So over all,
this this holiday is you know, it's lacking Christmas cheer.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
That's what it's lacking. Yeah, that's what it is. If
you don't want to, you know, get with all the
Christmas hullabaloo, you can just enjoy Festivus for the rest
of us. Anyway. We'll do the airing of grievances and
the feats of strength later. That's a promise. Christmas is
in two days, two days. Of course. We love that

(01:44):
you're with us here on this daff fate. Like what
ninety percent of people probably work in a day at least,
that's a good question.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
See, this is like a I mean, you know, if
you're taking any days off over Christmas isn't it this one?

Speaker 1 (01:56):
This one?

Speaker 2 (01:58):
And then if you're just taking like one, this is
strategic because you get the weekend and then today and
then Christmas. That's a five day block right there.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Well, yeah, but do you have Christmas Eve off too?
My wife doesn't have Christmas Eve off? Oh, family, friends
don't have Christmas Eve off. I thinks you and I
are a little bit strange that we do have Christmas
Eve off. Interesting. Yeah, okay, which, by the way, fair
enough you, Matt and I will not be here tomorrow
or on Christmas Day, that's correct. Well, if you're out
there working, we're here for you. If you're out there
driving doing some gift shopping, we're here for you. Now,

(02:28):
before I get into a big news here, we both
needed to do a little bit of Christmas shopping, isn't there?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Right?

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah? How'd that go for you? Are you done?

Speaker 2 (02:36):
I'm trying to think I was mostly done at the
beginning of the weekend. Now I'm pretty much done. Yeah,
pretty much.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
There. There's some loose ends I could tie up tonight
if I needed to. You know, I have one person
left to buy four and it is my wife, and
I waited until the last minute because it's hard to
hide those things. So as soon as I get done,
I've already built in the excuse that you and I
have to stay late to uh work on some stuff
for the two days that we're going to be missing,

(03:04):
So she's not gonna expect me home on time. What
should I go buy her? What should I do?

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Here?

Speaker 1 (03:09):
You're asking me, No, I'm asking the other guy that's
sitting in here. Yes, I'm asking you.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
It's just an interesting question to ask me. I figured
you might know her a little better. I know, or
it's just like I don't know what. I don't know
what to do. I mean, well, what does she like?

Speaker 1 (03:25):
That's that's the other thing, right, Like, she's kind of eclectic.
She likes new paint, she likes she likes good smells,
which I did. I did that she liked the new
paint smell. No, who likes that?

Speaker 2 (03:38):
I was just trying to put into Sometimes you want
to combine interests and make one great gift. Yeah, No,
get like you know people buy those like wine sampler kits.
You could get a a paint sampler kit.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
All the fresh paint smells you can handle them, and
some you couldn't. I yeah, good, try if we sat.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Our dining room had those little stickers of the different colors,
like various shades of green, for like three months before
she finally picked one. What'd you go with? I don't know.
It's like a sea green. It looks like one day
I just walked walked into the house and it was green.
I was like, oh, you're painted the dining room. You're like, yeah,
it's not as bright as I wanted it to be

(04:19):
or something like that, and I was like, okay, yeah, sure.
Now she likes smelly stuff, but I gave like, for
a birthday this year, I gave her smelly stuff. It
was one of those things that is for wax melts.
So you put the little wax melt thing in there
and it has a little light on it and you
turn it on and it warms the wax melt. Yeah,

(04:40):
and then it makes that room smell really good. Nice. Yeah,
And then you can just keep getting different sense of
wax melts in there, right, you know what I'm saying.
I know what you're saying. So I can't go there,
you know, I can't just do smelly stuff. I kind
of swore jewelry off too. I've done plenty of jewelry
in past years. You know, we've been together over thirteen
years now, so I've done a lot of jewelry. She

(05:01):
doesn't wear a lot of it that much, right, Like,
I would bet that half of the jewelry I've bought
her I might see once a year, she says. It's
just not something that she does very much. So I
definitely want to steer clear of that. I intermittently throughout
the year get flowers, that's no big deal. I bought
her at Christmas cactus for the Christmas season, so Christmas cactus.

(05:22):
Can't really can't only do that.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Get the camels away. They love cactuses, I know, I know.
But this Christmas cactus, you know, it's got a little
bloom too. It's kind of interesting, is it blooming? Some
flowers and stuff.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
I got a little bulbs kind of on the end
that kind of bloom out and then fall off. It's
pretty cool. Yeah, And my wife likes succulents, you know.
So there you go. So I can't do that. I
don't know. If you have inspiration, email it to me
so I can sift through these because I'm not sold
that I know exactly what I'm doing here. Emory at
kfab dot com, E M. E. R Y at kfab

(05:55):
dot com. That's the easiest way you can get a
hold of me. If you want to call into the
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five five eight eleven ten four two five five eight
eleven ten. Beyond me trying to last minute by a
gift for my wife, there's a lot of news that
we have to get through. The Matt Gates House Ethics
Committee report has been dropped. The media has it in

(06:17):
their hands. We can figure it out. We can also
try to figure out what is going on with Joe
Biden commuting thirty seven death sentences for people who have
received those convictions, and also Matt Besides that, we got
this guy who set a woman on fire on the

(06:38):
subway system. That's horrible. This is a terrible story. We
are going to try to get that information out there
as well. So stick with us. We're happy to have you.
Merry Christmas. News Radio eleven ten Kfab Emery's songer on
news radio eleven ten Kfab. Do you have an idea
for me?

Speaker 5 (06:59):
I do have an idea. You've been married thirteen years.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
I've been with her thirteen, but yeah, I've been married
for eight so yeah, it's it's been a while. Okay,
so you.

Speaker 5 (07:09):
Know, it dither really well as far as your likes
and your dislikes. Yeah, I think what she would really
really like is the two of you actually just sit
down and talk to each other about maybe getting a
gift together and enjoying it together. Wow, my husband, I've
been married thirty five years, and that always seems really special,

(07:34):
like a dinner date together, or we purchased patio furniture
this year that we've been waiting for for a long time. Yeah,
and just something to be instead of just going out
and just buying something that you think she'd like, like
you were talking about the jewelry that she doesn't wear,
and it gets a little more personabal when you do
it together and enjoy something together.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
I think that's awesome. Yeah, there are differently things that
we need in the in our house, like a sofa.
Brand new sofa is like a necessity. Our old one
is really falling apart on us, So maybe maybe that's
a good plan. It's just like, hey, that's our gift
to each other. And I don't know if she's bought
me a little something or not already, but we should

(08:16):
we should do that, and because I know that she's
going to want to pick out what kind of thing
that we get, you know, especially for something as big
as a sofa. But that's a good idea, June. I
really appreciate you for calling in today. Merry Christmas.

Speaker 5 (08:28):
Yeah, Mary Christmas. Just go out to dinner together and
talk about it. You know, I don't think we take
time to actually just go out to dinner together.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
That's a that's a good point, June. Thank you so much. Yeah,
all righty, all right, So big things to June for
calling in. That's a good idea. It's a good idea.
My problem with that is, my problem with that is
that I may end up being like a little late
to the party because knowing her, she's probably had my

(08:57):
gift ready for a week plus and she went shopping
for a couple of family members on her side that
I certainly would not be able to help out with yesterday,
and I did not. I was still kind of like
half asleep on the couch watching football. My guess is
she may have also yesterday taken care of me while
she was out, So I just I don't want to

(09:18):
be I've done this on accident before. Right, it was
accident because I was just like, I was pretty sure
we told each other we weren't going to buy each
other any big gifts or anything. And then she gave
me like a brand new watch, and I was like, oh,
I don't have anything to give her, because I thought
we weren't giving each other anything. Like I thought we
were just going to like something like June said, right like,

(09:38):
maybe this was Valentine's It may not have been Christmas,
I can't remember, but she got me a watch and
I wasn't expecting a gift. And then I felt like
a real jerk because I didn't have a gift to
give back because I thought we weren't doing that for
that time. You're looking at me like I'm a dumb guy. No,
I wasn't.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
I was looking at my computer. He kept his eyeball
on me, like, what kind of idiot would do that?
What kind of idiot would not gift his wife something
during a holiday like that? You want to know the truth, Yeah,
I wasn't really listening very well. I was kind of
doing something behind the scenes there. So is that is
that better or worse? Giving her no gifts, No me
not listening versus giving you the side eye that you

(10:14):
thought I was giving you.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
I probably worse.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
I would say that unless it's been explicitly stated we
are doing no gifts, and that is final and and
that is our decision. And the hammer has been swung,
then you know you got to give a gift.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, I probably should. I probably should. That hammer has
not been swung. Yeah, if you'd like to help me
out here, I got a lot of emails coming in
now of Emory at kfab dot com. Emory at kfab
dot com, and I appreciate all of the patronage. If
you'd like to call in four two five five eight
eleven ten is the number four oh two five five
eight to eleven ten. Jenna is on the line. Welcome Jenna.

(10:50):
What's going on?

Speaker 5 (10:53):
You know that Jim Stafferdy and Jerry Steinfeld.

Speaker 4 (10:58):
You can get her tickets.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
To the comedy Oh yeah Seinfeld and Gaff again. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (11:04):
Because because we went and saw Tyris for my birthday
and Greg gut Felt and stuff for my birthdays and stuff.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
You know, I mean my husband got me that. Yeah.
Or you could go good, or you could.

Speaker 5 (11:17):
Go horseback riding and not I know the Pellant, mister Pellan,
the governor pelling got hurt.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
On hornstack riding.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 5 (11:24):
My son loved adventures like that.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yeah. That that's she actually bought me. That's a good one.
She actually bought me horseback riding. I've never been before
until like twenty eighteen. I got really into horses, and
then for my for my birthday, she took us and
we did horseback riding. I would love to go again, Jenna.
That's a great idea, or even something kind of adjacent
to that, that would be a good like just experience gift.

Speaker 5 (11:49):
One more idea. We went riding down on an airboat
down the river.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Okay, that was really fun. Yeah town, Yeah over there
by just to the west of here, kind of by
like that river. Okay, yeah, I've seen theirbuts over there. Yeah,
that would be fun.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
It was a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Jenna. Thanks so much for the ideas. Appreciate you calling in.
You're welcome by Biden. Okay, all right, now we're getting somewhere.
Now we're coming up with some ideas. This is what
I like. Yeah, two twenty four, let's dip out of
this conversation. We'll get back to it momentarily. Did want
to talk about the commuting of death sentences for thirty
seven of forty individuals who are on the federal death row,

(12:36):
Joe Biden said in a statement today today, I'm commuting
the sentence is of thirty seven of the forty individuals
on a federal death row, life sentences without the possibility
of parole. These commutations are consistent with the moratorium my
administration has imposed on federal executions in cases other than

(12:56):
terrorism and hate motivated mass murder. Make no mistake, I
condemn these murders, grief for the victims they're despicable acts,
and ache for all of the families who have suffered
unimaginable and irreparable loss. But guided by my conscience and
my experience as a public defender, Chairman of the Senate
Judiciary Committee, vice President, and now President, I am more

(13:17):
convinced than ever that we must stop the use of
the death penalty at the federal level. In good conscience,
I can't stand back and let a new administration resume
executions that I halted. End quote. So, who were the
three people that did not get their sentence commuted. Where
did he end up drawing the line? Well, he mentioned
this in cases other than terrorism and hate motivated mass murder.

(13:41):
Here are your three people that are still on death
row at the federal level. Zokhar Zarnaev. Zarnaev at ring
a bell, it should? The Boston marathon bombings. Dylan rufe
Zar Ringabell, Well, it should because he massacred nine people
at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina that already

(14:03):
nine years ago, nine years ago? Are we eating old? Also?
Robert Bowers does that ring a bell? That was the
guy in twenty eighteen that killed eleven people at the
Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. Those three are still
on death row at the federal level. Now beyond that,
you might be asking yourself for trying to figure out

(14:25):
on a bunch of levels, right, like why would Joe
Biden do this? Well, you know what's very political, the
death penalty. There have been people out there that run campaigns,
especially local campaigns, on whether or not the death penalty
is something that they are in support of. Now, I've
talked to people where that is a big deal for
them one way or another. There's a lot of different,

(14:46):
you know, aspects of the politics of should the government,
especially at the federal level, have the ability to end
the life of someone else, And a lot of people
will say, if a judge or a jury come to
the conclusion that this person is convicted of these ridiculously
heinous and despicable crimes, then there should be the option

(15:09):
that's left for them to make that determination as a punishment. Now,
on top of that, right, we have a few different
ideas of why that shouldn't be a thing. If you
feel like the government shouldn't have the ability to do that,
obviously the states have their own ability to do those things.
The federal government had forty people on death row. Now

(15:30):
it's only three, And of course Donald Trump said he
was going to pick those back up. Because let's be
realistic here, what is the likelihood of any of these
getting overturned and why does it take so many years
decades to carry out these sentences that this is something
that is eventually going to take place. That's a good
question too. Two twenty eight. There's plenty of other news

(15:52):
that we're going to get to throughout the show, including
the met Gates House ethics reports that has dropped today.
We'll also get to this horrific situation on New York
City subway system of a man accused of burning a
woman to death. Not the kind of thing I want
to be talking about two days before Christmas. We'll sprinkle
it in on our feelings and at the end of

(16:13):
the day, we still need to talk about the news
that's all coming up. Stick right here with US News
Radio eleven ten KFAB and Ry Songer on News Radio
eleven ten KFAB. There was no excitement to any of
this stuff. And here are these teams that I think
rightfully got their spots in based on winning more games.

(16:34):
SMU won eleven games in the regular season. Indiana won
eleven games of the regular season. You know how many?
Alabama one nine? Okay, and we're okay with just like oh,
Alabama was the first team that we would put in
and replace Indiana with, even though they'd lost two more
games in Indiana. And then Kirk Kurbstreet, who I like.
I want to like Kirk Kerbstreet. He has done a

(16:55):
lot for college football, but the way he talks, and
this could be an ESPN thing, to be honest with you,
it could be all the big networks just trying to say,
oh yeah, these teams, these non blue bloods, they don't
they don't deserve to be here. I don't know, man,
I don't know. I kind of sort of agree. Oh,
come on, SMU, who they beat this year? Who did

(17:16):
Texas beat? Texas had no ranked wins? But it's okay
that Texas didn't have any rank wins? Right, they were
the fifth team. Texas beat Clemson. That's something SMU didn't do. Yeah,
they also got to play them at home. Well, I
see your point. I just but at the same time, nobody, gus,
nobody gets to be at the big boy table except

(17:37):
the guys that are already big boys.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Congratulations, Right, how do you become a big boy without
getting a spot?

Speaker 1 (17:41):
I can't, you can't, I get it. Hey, you know what,
I hope Boise State goes out there and Arizona certain
Boise State literally are carrying the hopes and dreams of
every school that's not a blue blood program, and they
have to if they if they lose, which let's be honest,
it's plausible, they get the doors blown off of them.
Two Texas plays Arizona State and Boise plays Penn State,

(18:04):
they get the doors blown off of them. That might
be the end. We may just go to an eight
team playoff, no automatic burst for anybody, and they just,
you know, give the eight best programs that are blue
blood's the keys. Wouldn't you rather see Old Miss against
Notre Dame though?

Speaker 2 (18:18):
No? Okay, no, well some people might have no. No,
they won nine games and you don't won eleven games.
At what point does winning games matter? You're telling me
it just doesn't matter to win games. Yeah, you can
lose a four in eight Kentucky, Ole Miss, no problem,
no problem at all. Well, make sure you get in anyway. Hey, Alabama,
it's okay that you lost to Vanderbilt in Oklahoma, two

(18:40):
teams that were barely Bowl eligible. That's okay, we love
you anyway, you still get in. It's just when when
you see SMU get smacked around like that, and you
see Indiana, you know.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Two teams that won eleven games this year for what
it's worth, right, I mean, he's to say that one
of those SEC schools didn't get smacked around two? I
mean Tennesseeed, nobody was saying Tennessee shouldn't be there. They
got smacked around.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
That's true, fair enough, yep, I don't know it was
very disappointing, and thus the cycle of college football being
broken at the biggest level continues.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
It's always been broken, so we got to get bigger.
I I mean, I don't know how you're not doing
a sixteen or twenty fourteen playoff.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
I think, honestly the only way to solve it. They
want to be the NFL, but they have some problems
with that. They're way too big to be the NFL.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Right now. Well, that's the thing is, like, if we
did twenty four it would mirror the FCS playoffs, which again,
why wouldn't we try to like do that more games? Right,
And people will be like, oh, well, that means the
regular season means nothing, and like all of the rank
teams basically get to play a part in this thing.
And that's true. But FCS playoffs, every conference champion gets

(19:52):
a seat at the table. So even even the team
that wins the Sun Belt would have a chance at
winning a national championship. Even the team that wins conference, say,
would have a chance at winning a national championship, that
would be very unlikely. Just like you know, it's unlikely
that the team that comes from the Southland Conference or
the Big Sky conference in basketball wins the national championship

(20:14):
or even makes the Final four. But you know what
it's about for those teams, It's about winning a game.
We love it in basketball. We love the Cinderella in basketball,
we love them. We want to see Saint Peter's going
to the elite A What a great story. We love
it when Oakland University from Michigan somehow makes it to
the Sweet sixteen, we love that. But in football, get

(20:34):
any SMU out of there who cares no. What I'm
saying is, let's open it up. FCS has been able
to do a twenty four team playoff. You want a
real playoff to figure out who's the best team in
college football, every single one of the nine conferences that
they have right now and when the Pac twelve gets
reinvigorated this offseason or whatever them too, So the ten
conference champs twelve at largest, fire them up. Baby. Are

(20:56):
you so you're saying a MAX school gets in? Yeah? Man, yep,
you win a conference championship, you're in the twenty fourteen playoff.
Who won the Sun Belt this year? Uh? Uh?

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Louisiana, Marshall So Louisiana and Ohio The Bobcats they're getting
in there.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
Marshall, Marshall, Marshall. So, Marshall, yeah, the uh no, they
won the Yeah, they won the sun Belt. Yeah, you're right,
that's correct.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
And the Ohio Bobcats they're getting into twenty four. Yeah,
I'm telling you you do that and maybe twenty three
same situation.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
No, no, because twenty three and twenty four is a
lot different than eleven and twelve or in this case,
four and twelve.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
I bet you though, if you did that and you
put all those auto bids in and then you found
the eleven or twelve at large, I guarantee you there's
gonna be a there's gonna be a number thirteen and fourteen.
You're gonna be sitting there saying you're telling me that
these guys get left out in Ohio gets put in.
I can just see that now.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Twenty four teams, if you're not in the top twenty
four or in the in this case, the top twenty two,
to make sure you're safe because the theoretically twenty third
and twenty fourth rankedeams will get pushed out for these
unranked conference champions. Tough luck.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
Tough luck win more games. I still think the central
issue is, well, play more games, you get to settle
it on the field. Son, Well, but that is the
central issue. These conferences are way too big and there's
way too many teams vying for these spots.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
It's just too big. How are you gonna figure it out?
Unless we go back to like a BCS computer type
that just basically says, okay, this is who the best
team is.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
Well, they had that, They had the whole We have
way too many teams. How do we figure this out?
Because they all can't play each other. They had it
figured out, you know what they did? They had bowl games,
and then at the end of the season, the writers
and the coaches got together and said, you know what,
we all all these teams couldn't play each other. It's
just not possible. So we're gonna win national champion ordered
a national championship based off of a whole bunch of

(22:42):
metrics and merit and our own feelings and thoughts on
the matter.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
And we didn't decide it on the field. I'm sorry.
The ratings just don't work the same, and I don't know,
my excitement isn't the same for a bunch of writers
giving the national championship to the same six schools. Kevin's
on the phone line. I think he wants to talk
about this. Kevin, what's on your mind?

Speaker 4 (22:59):
Hey? You know I'm an opinionated guy, so I had
to call you. Yeah, I'd like to roll out cock.
Let's go back forty years and go back to just
having two or three bowl games that are actually means
something instead of this, everybody that wins a couple of
games gets to go to a bowl that has become
more of a participation trophy than a reward or a

(23:20):
goal to work for.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 4 (23:21):
Missed the prestige of the Orange Bowl and the Rose Bowl,
and those were the only two bowls that anybody cared about.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah, well I'm watching the famous Idaho Potato Bowl.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Now.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
It doesn't do it for you, Kevin.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
No, the Pinstripe bull don't do it for me either.
None of that does. Participation trophies for week skilled individuals
that didn't compete hard enough to actually win anything. And
I'm sorry if that offends my Nebraska fan base. I
love the corn Husks almost as much as I love life,
but they haven't done that good the last twenty years.
We've got to be realistic that's fair.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
That's fair, Kevin. I always appreciate your opinion. It's Mary Christmas.
Thanks for calling you man.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
Thanks Emmery love you man. Have a good weekend.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Yes as well. Yeah, so, I mean he basically agrees
with you. Let's just do it the old way and
then figure it out. Well, I think, I don't know.
I think the BCS was the right thing. The problem
was there were only two teams that played for a title.
If you had a BCS situation and we figured out

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the right metrics as to what we wanted this formula
to spit out instead of thirteen individuals who obviously have
to think about hit contracts, television contracts. They need good games.
ESPN is gonna be. Yeah, they're biased against. They want
the SEC to get as many teams as possible because
they get SEC rights throughout the season. Those are the

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biggest games. They need to prop those teams up. So yeah,
Texas has a very very similar resume to SMU. They
didn't beat any ranked teams in the regular season and
lost to the only ranked teams they ever played, very
similar to Indiana and SMU, yet they were ranked and
thought of better than any of the others. Why because
they're in the SEC and they're protected because of the
t Long Corns, and they were ranked in the top

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five to begin the season, unlike the Cinderella stories that
apparently people don't want to have in college football anymore.
So I'm just saying the metrics could have figured out
that kind of quality, and then let's just open it
up to having like a sixteen or twenty fourteen playoff,
and it should matter that you win your conference somehow,
and it should matter that we have the opportunity to

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settle some of this on the field, and everybody would
love to watch that. And you know what, they're blowouts
in the fourteen college playoff too. I remember vividly Michigan
State making to the College Football Playoff only to get
beat by like five touchdowns to Alabama. It happened a lot.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
Notre Dame is thrilled they expanded it because at least
now they get to win in the first round.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
Yeah, I don't know. It was just a weird thing
to hear. Everybody's so excited for this playoff and then
now everybody hates the system because the four road teams
got the doors blown off of them.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
I don't know, isn't that just social media? It doesn't
matter what people are always.

Speaker 4 (25:58):
Going to be.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
Yes, a fan says it, it's going to matter. It
will matter because they have a major seat at the
table because of the money that they pour into the SEC,
into college football. They're going to have a chance to
be like, we better get five SEC teams in this
every single year. And I guess I guess we'll see
if that actually ends up happening. Two forty nine More
on the Way News Radio eleven ten KFAB and it's

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two fifty two. Thanks for listening. My name is Emrie
Songer and we got what two days so Christmas? Hopefully
your shopping's done. We're taking some calls for two five five,
eight eleven ten. We got Brian on the line. Brian,
welcome to the show. What's on your mind?

Speaker 3 (26:37):
Well, I was able to call into your Friday Final
four and I have a cartoon Christmas special you might
not have heard of, but I wanted to recommend.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Okay, Fireway and that's.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
Mister mcgoo's Christmas Carol. It used to be free on YouTube.
I just checked and now they just have scenes that
if you type in mister mcgoo's Christmas Carol along with
the word archives. You can find it on Internet archives.
That's archive dot org and it's from nineteen sixty two

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and I first saw when I was five. It's got
some great songs in it. My favorite is Weird Despicable
from the scene where the thieves upon his belongings.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah. I love a lot of different variations of a
Christmas Carol, but I've not heard of that one. I'll
look into it, Brian, thanks for giving us the heads
up today, Mary Chris sure bye, Yeah, Okay, that's cool.
Mister McGoo, I've watched the mister McGoo back in the day.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
It's a funny guy. Yeah, very funny classic. I love
it when he gets in the car and, you know,
just drives all over the place. Yeah, because he can't
see anything. Yeah. Bad example. Bad example. I had Adam
one of the time in on the College Football Conversation.
He said everything to make college football special and different
from the NFL is quickly being wrecked. A twenty fourteen
playoff is stupid in my opinion, with conferences having eighty

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seven teams and select players making NFL bank. I can't
connect with the game and the players the way I
used to at least a fewer and fewer people giving
a crap. Make no mistake, that is happening here, and
that's why they'll be just downsizing Memorial Stadium. Well, they're
not downsizing Memorial Stadium, I don't think because they think
less people will go to the games. I think they're
trying to increase supply and demand and economically, yeah, we're

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going to take out, you know, fifteen to twenty thousand seats.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
That's just going to make the prices go up. We're
going to make the same amount of money, and it's
probably going to be a better experience for a lot
of the people that are in there who are okay
being basically up charged for a lot of the stuff
that's going on there. So that's why I think they're
downsizing Memorial Seatum. The twenty four team playoff, I only
mentioned that because FCS Division One FCS does a twenty
fourteen playoff. Every conference champion is in there, even the

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little ones, and they get to decide it on the field.
I think that that is the best way to do it,
is let's get a bunch of teams in here and
decide it on the field. And if the FCS can
figure out how to make that work with their schedule.
How could we not do that in the big time. No,
it is because all these bowl games and the sponsors
of these bowl games were super protective of how we
did this because it was the way we always did it.

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So let's stop caring about who the national champion is.
That's the real answer to college football. You wanted to
go back the way that it was, It's never going
to do that. With the players and the transfer portal
and the nil and all that stuff. There's way too
much money flowing into it. But if you want to
enjoy the college football games and in playoffs and all
that stuff, don't even care who wins. Right. A national

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championship in college football means nothing. It never has meant anything.
I mean, it used to be Walter Camp decided who
was going to be the champion one guy, and then
the press and then the coaches, and then eventually we
started playing games for this stuff. I don't know. It's
just backwards to me. Man, That's fine. I like football anyway.
We're gonna come back. Got some more news and Christmas

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e stuff to do here on news radio eleven to ten.
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