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December 23, 2025 • 12 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Shane carterin Sam Free's Along for the Ride today as well.
So I was during the break, I was reading more
about this Brooks Kapka story and him going to live
and they had our leading live and he had this
code in there. I need to spend more time with
my family. I'm like, dude, she'll work anyway. You play
golf and you're gone what fifteen weeks a year. I've

(00:25):
got news for you. Your family would probably like for you
to be gone more. Yeah, they're probably okay with this arrangement.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Also, you make.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Several million dollars a year and you're gone less than
half the year.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
I'm good with that.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Yeah. And now you don't even have to win to
get the money. And what are you doing leaving this?

Speaker 1 (00:42):
You have to go work, You have to go to
somebodace else where you actually have to perform to make money.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Now, and you see this in every sport.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
I'm going to retire from my position because I need
to spend more time with my family. That lasts about
ten minutes, and you're bored to death. And like, I've
been doing what I've been doing my whole life. I
got to get back to doing it at some point.
It's the urban Meyer syndrome. I'm tired of being at
this university. I'm going to retire, step away to spend
time with my family.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Oh wait, no, I'm going to get back into the game.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah, somebody else, somebody else wants me for more money.
I mean, listen, I don't know how every person is,
but if you're a professional athlete, you're doing what you
are in a way destined to do because you have
the skill set to do it, whether you're you know,
I read a deal the other day. So my handicap,

(01:33):
according to gin the Golf Handicap Index is four point
six right now, which I can't shoot that because I
haven't played much lately. I probably legitimately a six or seven,
but whatever, which puts me in the top one percent
of golfers that have ever played the game ever. And
it's like the top one hundred millionth of golfers are

(01:55):
the ones that get to play on the PGA Tour.
So I'm like mile, I'm the guy that can't break
eighty is closer to me than me in the PGA Tour.
The guy that can't break a hundred is closer to
me than than I am to a player on the
PGA Tour, and so you didn't get to the PGA
Tour without being really, really exceptional. And yet I need

(02:19):
to go spend more time with my family. That's just
that's the stupidest response ever.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
I mean, he might not spend a lot of time
with him now is the problem. We don't know his
daily life.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
I think he's spending plenty of time with them, and
they're probably going to go like, yeah, I mean, how
many times can you get on the yacht and sale
around the world you want to.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Go find out? I guess right, I say.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Again, let me report back someone, let me, let me,
let me have a hundred million dollars in a yacht
and I'll see you a year. If I remember correctly,
I believe Brooks. Kupka also said the reason he chose
golf was to spend more time with his family. A
bit of inconsistency, more consistency.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, every time I don't want to do something, it's
be because I need to spend more time with it.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
It was the wife's fault, is what he's saying.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yeah, Yeah, I'm going to start trying that from now
on when when iHeart needs Yeah, I got to spend
some time with the roommate.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
I'm sorry I tried that other day.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
My wife's already pissed. I'm here today.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
I'm normally on off.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
We'll see.

Speaker 5 (03:15):
If we had communicated properly, you wouldn't be in hot
and probably upset too that you're As Jeff Taylor says,
it's our job to screw up Christmas every year because you.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Know, you wouldn't be here on Friday if there wasn't
a football.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
The bull Slaze Committee screwed up my Christmas this year
because we're supposed to have that Friday off.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, well, that's what we do.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
We're in the business of entertainment, so we work when
other people are playing. If what we're doing is actually
defined his work.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Hey, look, our lack of communication is keeping it's one
day less that I am up in North Texas, so
I I will take happily take the I'm just a workaholic.
Andy just I just have to tell the family.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
I'm sorry. I just for everybody.

Speaker 4 (03:58):
You're up every day at five, you go at an eight.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
You know you your early riser. I know that about
you something like that. Yeah, yeah, closer to five pm
than am.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, five o'clock should come once a day, all right,
let's uh. I just every time I hear that that
cop out, I'm like, please tell me. You're a world
class athlete at whatever sport you're playing. You entertain massive
amounts of people. You have to get a little bit
of an ego boost every time you see your name
and headlines or somebody asks you to endorse something because

(04:29):
of your celebrity status. You live in a mansion, you
fly privately, you have a yacht in the backyard.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Well, was me.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
I don't feel sorry for you. Just go play golf
and entertain me.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Please.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah, that doesn't feel like the That doesn't feel like
the hardest of existence out there.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, it's there's a there's a movie that was filmed
in the eighties with Randy Quaid and a bunch of
others where he's a journeyman player that wins the US Open.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
It's called Dead Solid Perfect.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
So if you ever want to find that, it's the
night Let's I think Dan Jenkins wrote the book and
then they made a movie at it. And so Randy
Quaid's going through a relationship situation where he's separated but
not quite divorced, and basically playing the field on the
PGA tour, and for a series of weeks he's with

(05:19):
somebody that's probably twenty five years younger than he is,
and he says, you know, this is a tough life.
You have to hang out in five star hotels, eat
free food, and drive courtesy cars.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Not everybody can handle it.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah, once again, I would love to report back on
how difficult that existence is.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
All right, let's get to football here for a little bit.
The forty nine Ers and Colts played last night, and
once again San Francisco proves me that they're better than
I thought they were going to be this year.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
So I give up.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
I guess they're going to still they're They're they're they're
in the hunt for a playoff spot with the a
bunch of other teams in the in the NFC, but
they certainly in the NFC West, have both cl and
the Rams in front of them with some big games
coming up in the next couple of weeks. But San
Francisco able to win on the road. Obviously. The issue
with Indianapolis is all the injuries they've had in the

(06:08):
last couple of weeks. After getting off to a seven
and one start, and then just not really being able
to perform at that level with all those injuries.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah, and we see it. You see it every NFL season.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
I mean last year it was or two years ago,
I should say, it was the Eagles that started you
know what eight to o and then lost their final
six games of that season and fell all the way
out of playoff spot or ended up, you know, getting
beat in the first round of the playoffs by Washington.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
I think the.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
Thing that the forty nine Ers do seemingly better than
any team in the NFL is handled the annual attrition,
the physical attrition of the league. They it doesn't I mean,
whether it's Mac Jones playing quarterback, whether it's losing Warner
and Bosa early in the year and still finding ways

(07:00):
to fill a bold average defense, a good defense.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
I think that is, if.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
Anything, more of a compliment to the structure they have
as an organization there, from the coaches to the front
office to truly being when I think of next man
up when it comes to the NFL, That's who the
forty nine Ers seemingly are every single year.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
And there's a big game this weekend with the Bears.
That should be a fun game.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
To watch.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
It's the Sunday night game Bears and forty nine Ers,
and the Bears could still be the number one seed overall.
The forty nine Ers are trying to get into one
of those wild card spots. And the forty nine Ers
are at home after the success they've had recently. So
a big matchup coming there with those two teams. And

(07:48):
then the Seahawks have a game at the Panthers, and
the Panthers have been kind of the renaissance team this year.
They're trying to hold off Tampa, who we thought was
basically going to be.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Conceded that division.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
And then the Rams also play this weekend, and who
they got The Falcons. Oh well, and you never know
what the Falcons are going to be sometimes the Falcons.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
That's the Monday night game. The Falcons are.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
At home, and sometimes they play above their heads and
sometimes you pick them and then they disappoint you.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Yeah, I mean, and they are the prototypical NFL team.
You never know what you're going to get weak to
week How about the NFC West, though, the last ten
days we've seen the matchup of the Seahawks and the Rams,
where now Seahawks won, They're sitting as the one seed
in the NFC rams fall all the way back to

(08:40):
the sixth seed because the other team in that division,
the forty nine ers, continue to handle their business. And
you're looking at you know, between those three teams a
combined eleven losses this year, and I'm not sure which
of those three is the I'm not sure any team
is a bigger threat to win the NFC than any

(09:00):
of those.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, you've got Detroit and green Bay who are basically
playing for the final spot. And because Tampa's going to
get well, Tampa's in.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
Or Carolina is going to be in.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Both Tampa's Yeah, Tampa has been in free fall, but
Tampa can win this game and get to eight and
eight and then the final week of the seeds and
determines who's in and who's out as the af at
the NFC South champion. But then the other spot is
basically right now between Detroit and green Bay with a
two game separation in the loss column for for green Bay. So, uh,

(09:34):
green Bay still has games to play that that Detroit
has already played. So it's good, you know, it's I
can't remember we were this. Usually it comes down to
the final week but we may not. We may have
teams in all the playoffs. Maybe have the teams decided
just not the seed the final week.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
Yeah, and I think that, you know, it makes for
a pretty anti climactic final week of the NFL season.
But it's also going to make for some really if
you do see any teams playing starters because they're trying
to get a specific matchup in the first round in
the playoffs, I think we're going to see a narrative
emerge after Round one of the playoffs of certain teams saying, well,

(10:18):
maybe they should have played their starters the final week
of the season and they wouldn't have had to play
either Chicago or Philly whoever it is in those two
and three seeds.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
And all the big name players that have gotten hurt
of the last like just two weeks alone. Yeah, really
set up not only an anti climatic into the season,
but really have shaped the playoffs in a way to
where now it's pretty much anybody's game. Because for years
now we pretty much said that the Chiefs are going
to win the AFC, and whoever wins between you know,
the forty nine Ers or the Eagles is probably going
to win the NFC. But now, while the Niners are

(10:51):
definitely a threat in the NFC, like said, like Puma said,
anyone who wins the West is probably going to might
end up being the win of the NFC overall. And
you just can't trust the Eagles of this point. But
now the AFC is not only wide open, I can't
really pinpoint who I think was a true contender in
the AFC, because if you think about contender, that's someone
you trust offensively and defensively. But right now, would you say,

(11:11):
is there any team in the AFC that you can.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
I trust Houston defensively, I don't offensively. Trust Pittsburgh defensively,
not offensively I trust. I think the best offensive team
is either a New England or Denver, but we'll see.

Speaker 4 (11:24):
I think Buffalo is probably I would be the team
I trust the most in the playoffs, to be honest.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
I think if you're looking at you know, we did
confidence rankings last week when you were out of the room,
and in the NFL, the only position, like you can
tell me you have a great defense, but if you
have a below average quarterback or an unproven quarterback, I'm
still going to have more confidence in the team that
has the better quarterback.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Well, and no matter how good you're I think Strouds
are really good. I think C. J.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Stroud's a really good quarterback based on what he did
two years ago when he had a full compliment of players.
But he's got a makeshift offensive lineage running backs and
I don't know that Jordan's gonna be great in the
future or not, but none of them are as good as
Joe Mixon was. And so you've got average players at
running back, You've got good wide receivers and a banged
up offensive line. So if Houston can figure out a

(12:13):
way to keep their defense intact going into next season
and get an alignment and a running back, they're gonna
be another great team again.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
Well, and the good thing about the AFC this year
is maybe you can rely on a great defense because
every single quarterback outside of Josh Allen is completely unproven
in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
All Right, we got to get to the six o'clock
hour here in just a little bit more coming up
on the show.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
It's the indie average show on the ticket
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