December 20, 2025 • 16 mins
On this week’s GAS Weekend Fix, the gang delivers some inspiring words for those who don’t consider themselves sports fans, explaining what makes sports so exciting and meaningful. Along the way, they even manage to convince Elmer, proving that there really is something for everyone in the game.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf
I A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Welcome this weekend to the Gas Weekend Fix. This is
the portion of the podcast. It's sort of an extra
bonus if you will, since we can't say some of
this ship on the on the air. Oh start, we
got we gotta establish our bona fides, and that's one
of the reasons we can't do this part on the
on the air during the week So thank you for
for listening on the weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
It always helps us.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
If you subscribe to the podcast, you share the podcast,
comment on it, rate it, all of that good stuff
no matter which platform you're listening to us on the
podcast you want.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
You wanted to talk about feeling.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
I have some feelings going on.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Are these feelings about boys or they?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
You know?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Because there comes a time in a girl's life which
she begins to notice things like they are about boys?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Oh interesting?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Yeah, all right, let's are you ready for this?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I am. I'm ready for this.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
If there's anybody ready to talk feelings, trust me, it's
I know.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I feel like I'm in a very safe space where
you won't understand any of them.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
So I'm feeling conflicting emotions about the playoffs, okay, and
in particular, before we even get to the playoffs, I'm
already feeling things about Monday Night.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Okay, now Monday Night for everybody that's following. Of course,
forty nine Ers are hosts. No, they're going to Indianapolis. Yeah,
play the Colts.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Yes. So here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
The forty nine ers need to win out because of
what happened on Thursday night, the Seahawks beating the Rams.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
The forty which we needed.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
To have a shot at the one seed. So that happened.
So now if the forty nine ers win out, they
get the one seed, they are home field throughout the playoffs.
Huge deal for a team that's been decimated by injuries.
Now they go to Indianapolis and they play Philip rivers
in the Indianapolis Colts, who are fighting tooth and nail
(02:01):
to get into the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Right now, this is in AFC.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
If you're a Monty Python fan, the Indianapolis Colts are
the Knight who had lost his legs and his arms
and is still continuing to fight right.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
So my my whole being foretting. My whole being is
saying kill him, like the forty nine ers have an
opportunity and Robert Sala to kill him to continue their
quest for that home field advantage. Like I know this
(02:37):
defense has been rocked by no Fred warn I get it,
but what they've been able to do is incredible in
this defense. I believe in I believe in Robert Sala.
I believe what they're doing. I believe in the step up,
next man up attitude that's gone on in San Francisco
all year long, and I freaking love it, and I
love this game and I love them. I'm like licking
(02:58):
my chop chops waiting to get that's weird to say.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I don't know either. I'm very sorry about that.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I feel awkward, but you should.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I am really excited to see an opportunity to completely
shut down the quarterback position by this defense. I am
excited to see the forty nine ers get the jolt
of violence and victory in Indianapolis to come back home
(03:33):
and beat the Bears and beat the Seahawks like.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I love this tough task.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Now, on the other hand, this is where my feelings
get involved.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I love Philip Rivers.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I've talked to Philip Rivers more times than I have
talked to any member of the forty nine ers. I
know Philip Rivers. Philip Rivers has sat in the studio
with us. Philip Rivers I.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Rooted for on the sideline for five years.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, five years sounds right, three years, three or four years.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Anyway, I mean a long time. I know who that
person is. I don't know any of it. I'm rooting
for Laundry. I've rooted for Laundry for forty five years,
and I'm fine with that. What it does complicate emotions.
I don't want Philip Rivers to die. I want Philip
Rivers to have the Disney movie ending. I want him
to beat a team in Indianapolis for the Colts, for
(04:27):
that city, for his comeback for the Disney movie. I
want this game for him so badly.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
But isn't that now?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
This is what I agree with you, and I have
an example that's similar to that. It's nowhere near as
important as that, but I do have that kind of
sports fandom when it conflicts that that unadulterated You're cheering
for the Laundry, but you kind of like.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
The other team or you like the other player.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Such a weird space for me to be yeh, very.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Weird, and I I have said this many times. So
base it is my primary sport in terms of I
love it more than I love other sports because I
played it, because I kind of get an idea of
the level of talent that the people have on the
field is so far and above what you can imagine.
And it's similar for football. Those guys when you're close
(05:16):
to the field are so large and so fast and
they hit so hard. It is not like your Thanksgiving
your Thanksgiving Turkey Bowl that you play with your cousins
or anything like that. But you have a passionate following,
a fanatic literally a fanatic feeling towards your team. But
(05:37):
when they match up against somebody that you kind of
want to root for or that you have a heart for,
like Philip Rivers, for me, it's always been keyk Hernandez.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Oh really he k is one of those guys who.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I think absolutely loves, completely understands the luck that he
has to play the game that he loves and to
play it at a high enough level that he's been
able to succeed for you years. He's always got a
good attitude. He's always been a great teammate. He's always
been one of those guys. But he plays for the
team that I have to root against.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
He says, fuck a lot. He says fuck a lot.
I mean all of these things.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
And when he went to the Red Sox, I was
close to buying a KEYK jersey, well Boston Keyk.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Hardanas jersey, because I like him that much.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
And then he went back to the Dodgers, and I'm like, well,
I can't have that.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
That would be that would be awful. But it's one
of those things where I agree with you. You have this.
You can be passionate.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
You want your team so desperately, especially now with the
tough schedule that the forty nine ers have. They have
to go through Chicago the way they have to go
through the Bears, and then they have to go through
the Seahawks in order to get that number one seed.
You this is such a great jumping off point. Yeah,
to get all their ducks in a row, to hold
the Colts to like the fourteen yards of offense.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I mean, oh my god, But.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
You don't want Phillips I don't want anything bad to
happen to that man. It's just it is such a
weird vibe in my head.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
So how are you gonna?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Uh, I'm gonna focus on the Chargers.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I'm gonna focus on doing what we all like to
do in America, and that's beat the Cowboys. And I'm
gonna just focus on that, get me through the weekend,
and then uh, and then you'll have to deal with
me on Monday and Tuesday the game right on Tuesday.
I think I'll be okay as long as he doesn't
actually die and the forty nine Ers win. Like there's
(07:28):
a world in which the forty nine Ers win and
Philip Rivers looks good and they just you know, they win.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I mean, it could be a squeaker game like we
saw on Thursday night with Seattle in La.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
I just fear for him. I fear for him.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
But as we saw in his in his in his debut,
I guess, or his re debut, his emergency, it.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Was not good.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It wasn't good, not good, but he was protected.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I mean in that the play calls were like two
steps back and shuttle it off to the right, right,
right back.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
And that is the lot is a great Seattle defense.
It is true, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
You can.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
But you're concerned about him.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
It'll be fine. I mean, it's football. They know what,
everyone knows what they're signing up for.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
It's fine.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
He has signed a release. I'm sure. I feel like
i'd like concerned about him.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
It's hard also to be so excited for two teams
at the same time going into the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
You're like the You're like the last couple of episodes
of The Bachelorette.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Uh yeah, I love It's so true.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah, you're down.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
For some dirty stuff with both teams, but you're not
quite sure which one is going to be better.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I got to jump over to TLC and beyond Sister Wives,
you know what I mean, I'll have all y'all in
the same house.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I love everybody equally.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
But and then there's a possibility, well you're Cody, Yeah,
he's the guy, and Sister Wives, I think, oh, I
don't know what that is. It's a Mormon thing where
he's got four wives. That sounds awf and like fifteen kids.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I know, people think that that's man.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
It was good for like six seasons and then the
freaking wheels came off that thing. And now they you know,
one of them I think is a lesbian. One of
them remarried. There's strife. It's a mess, really strife.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah, never would have seen that coming.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I know nothing good comes from that.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
And then there's a chance that the season's over after
that first weekend, depending on you know, seeding.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I'm not sure it will be, but that's sure, and
that's what But.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
That's what's so great about uh for people who don't
understand we we do get some feedback from people like
why do you guys talk about sports? Because it's energy,
It energizes us. It's such a great outlet for people.
It's not it's not rocket science, it's not high level thinking.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Very often makes you feel though. It makes you feel
something and you can do it together.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
You you watch things what is live that you watch
with people anymore that's not football or another sport.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
And there's there's no more.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I fucking sorry, I really I really hate I really
hate people who say things like.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Eh, sports, I carry ball, I touch ball, I hit ball.
I'm sports, you moron.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
They're gonna say, motherfucker.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I was also gonna say that it's people like that
that think they're above sports, or they're sports is such
a moronic thing to cheer for. Yeah, there are plenty
of morons who understand sports and love it. There are
also Supreme Court justices who die for their teams.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I will say this though.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I was at a holiday party with normals this week
and uh, and one guy I said to him, I go,
so what do you do because I who was a
spouse of another guy, and he goes, I'm an academic.
And in that moment, I felt like people feel when
they talk to me.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
About anything I bring.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Up with football, where it's just like, ooh, I'm going
to see myself out.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Like I get it, Like I get it when.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
People aren't into sports, specifically because I'm a woman and
I've got friends who do not know anything about the
forty nine ers or other Chargers or anything that goes on,
and so when I bring up something, they'll be like, oh, right,
the football, you know, and then it's like, okay, I'll
see myself out right. It was the same feeling I
got when he was like, I'm an academic. I was like, okay,
(11:29):
I would have first of all, free spons that way. Second,
I know well academics. But here's I've never heard that before,
the other.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Aspect of it, that people that that people that want
to shit on sports, or people that want to crap
on people who like sports or love a team, or
spend money to go to a game or whatever.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
It's joy.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Yes, it's even in the painful moments of your joy
your team lost a playoff game or something like that.
It is joy. And there's so little of that.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I forgot to show you this text message, but I
got a text message from a member of the Spanos family.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Who said, how close were you?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
How were you by chance standing on the sidelines right
next to where Derwin's game clinching interception happened? Interception happened,
and I go, yeah, it was in the vicinity. He goes,
I think, I see you, And here's the video.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
And you can see me like a psychopath.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Oh yeah, with your.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Hands in the air as soon as Darwin catches the ball.
I am the psycho cheering on the sidelines. And that's
been seven years and I will never not be that
psycho that feels that joy. I'm so glad I still
feel the joy and I have not been jaded at all.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
And that's the thing is it's an uncontrollable thing. There
are times controllable. We have to allow ourselves to have
those moments. And people who say things like, I'm an academic,
I don't know if that I like sports or not,
or he did not.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I had more ball game on and there was no interesting.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Where did these people find joy?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Is it manufacture joy?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
I find it in the poetry of So and so.
I can't even name a poet.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I think they have a dog.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Dogs can bring joy, but I'm never I'm never cheering
like that.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
They're not my dog.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Yeah, you don't do that.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
It's I don't know. And I love it. I love
and I'm always love.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
And this season's been incredible for me.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I also love the conversion that happens when people who
poo pooh sports go to a game or they catch it.
They're at a party, they're at a super Bowl party,
and maybe they don't know the teams. It's the red
team and the green teams.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Suddenly they're screaming at the team.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Suddenly they really, wait a minute, what was that. Yeah,
that's not holding. That is not holding. There you could
have called it on all four previous plays, but that
was not holding whatever.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
I don't want to a lot of college football.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
But I turned on that Indiana Ohio State game, yeah,
a while back, just because everyone.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Was talking about it. I turn it on and I
was like, oh, come on, like you don't even care.
I was like, I know, I all, you're so good.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I love the buck eyes.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
No it wasn't that, but yeah, I love it. I
don't want a world in which I don't feel the
sheer joy and the sheer depression. I mean, I still
remember sitting in the Dead Hooker Hotel in New Orleans,
where literally a hooker had died in the lobby the
week before. My parents and I were staying in the
same room for the Super Bowl for the forty nine ers.
(14:32):
Ravens and the forty nine Ers lose that Super Bowl.
They went out the next day to get Beniet's and
walk around the French Quarter.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
I didn't. I stayed in the room and cried.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I stayed in the room and cried and watched reruns
of Real Housewives. I couldn't function. I couldn't I couldn't
eat food. I was so depressed, and I wouldn't trade
that for anything, because on the flip.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Side is all the joy, all the joy I.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Felt when I was Atlanta and the Niners won the
NFC Championship game.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
It's funny that you mentioned that's part of the that's
the same attitude that people have about pets. When we
had to put our dog down, I was wrecked. I
was absolutely wrecked. But I could look back at eleven
years of absolute joy that that pet brought me.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
See, that's why that couple they have a dog.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Right, That's true. It's a different it's a different coin,
but it is the same flip.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Pleasure and pain. They're connected right in the brain. There's
no point there to my head. Oh what did you?
I don't know what you felt like I was putting
my boobs when you get the part in your hair
or something like that. Do you have a scar on
your head?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Do I? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Do you can you see it? Are you looking at
the one right here? No? Because I do have a
scar on my forehead, and it's a figurine fell on
my head when I.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Was a baby.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Sure it fell, but I think the boat has covered
it up pretty much.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
All right, Well, enjoy your Christmas. The next weekend.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Fix will be next Saturday, post Christmas, so everybody will
still be enjoying whatever you enjoy for the holidays. Maybe
it's your dog, maybe it's remember to subscribe to the podcast,
like it, comment, share it, all of that good stuff
and we'll see you probably the next couple days.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Bye.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Welcome this weekend to the Gas Weekend Fix. This is
the portion of the podcast. It's sort of an extra
bonus if you will, since we can't say some of
this ship on the on the air. Oh start, we
got we gotta establish our bona fides, and that's one
of the reasons we can't do this part on the
on the air during the week So thank you for
for listening on the weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
It always helps us.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
If you subscribe to the podcast, you share the podcast,
comment on it, rate it, all of that good stuff
no matter which platform you're listening to us on the
podcast you want.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
You wanted to talk about feeling.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
I have some feelings going on.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Are these feelings about boys or they?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
You know?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Because there comes a time in a girl's life which
she begins to notice things like they are about boys?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Oh interesting?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Yeah, all right, let's are you ready for this?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I am. I'm ready for this.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
If there's anybody ready to talk feelings, trust me, it's
I know.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I feel like I'm in a very safe space where
you won't understand any of them.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
So I'm feeling conflicting emotions about the playoffs, okay, and
in particular, before we even get to the playoffs, I'm
already feeling things about Monday Night.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Okay, now Monday Night for everybody that's following. Of course,
forty nine Ers are hosts. No, they're going to Indianapolis. Yeah,
play the Colts.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Yes. So here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
The forty nine ers need to win out because of
what happened on Thursday night, the Seahawks beating the Rams.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
The forty which we needed.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
To have a shot at the one seed. So that happened.
So now if the forty nine ers win out, they
get the one seed, they are home field throughout the playoffs.
Huge deal for a team that's been decimated by injuries.
Now they go to Indianapolis and they play Philip rivers
in the Indianapolis Colts, who are fighting tooth and nail
(02:01):
to get into the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Right now, this is in AFC.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
If you're a Monty Python fan, the Indianapolis Colts are
the Knight who had lost his legs and his arms
and is still continuing to fight right.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
So my my whole being foretting. My whole being is
saying kill him, like the forty nine ers have an
opportunity and Robert Sala to kill him to continue their
quest for that home field advantage. Like I know this
(02:37):
defense has been rocked by no Fred warn I get it,
but what they've been able to do is incredible in
this defense. I believe in I believe in Robert Sala.
I believe what they're doing. I believe in the step up,
next man up attitude that's gone on in San Francisco
all year long, and I freaking love it, and I
love this game and I love them. I'm like licking
(02:58):
my chop chops waiting to get that's weird to say.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I don't know either. I'm very sorry about that.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I feel awkward, but you should.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I am really excited to see an opportunity to completely
shut down the quarterback position by this defense. I am
excited to see the forty nine ers get the jolt
of violence and victory in Indianapolis to come back home
(03:33):
and beat the Bears and beat the Seahawks like.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I love this tough task.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Now, on the other hand, this is where my feelings
get involved.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I love Philip Rivers.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I've talked to Philip Rivers more times than I have
talked to any member of the forty nine ers. I
know Philip Rivers. Philip Rivers has sat in the studio
with us. Philip Rivers I.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Rooted for on the sideline for five years.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, five years sounds right, three years, three or four years.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Anyway, I mean a long time. I know who that
person is. I don't know any of it. I'm rooting
for Laundry. I've rooted for Laundry for forty five years,
and I'm fine with that. What it does complicate emotions.
I don't want Philip Rivers to die. I want Philip
Rivers to have the Disney movie ending. I want him
to beat a team in Indianapolis for the Colts, for
(04:27):
that city, for his comeback for the Disney movie. I
want this game for him so badly.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
But isn't that now?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
This is what I agree with you, and I have
an example that's similar to that. It's nowhere near as
important as that, but I do have that kind of
sports fandom when it conflicts that that unadulterated You're cheering
for the Laundry, but you kind of like.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
The other team or you like the other player.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Such a weird space for me to be yeh, very.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Weird, and I I have said this many times. So
base it is my primary sport in terms of I
love it more than I love other sports because I
played it, because I kind of get an idea of
the level of talent that the people have on the
field is so far and above what you can imagine.
And it's similar for football. Those guys when you're close
(05:16):
to the field are so large and so fast and
they hit so hard. It is not like your Thanksgiving
your Thanksgiving Turkey Bowl that you play with your cousins
or anything like that. But you have a passionate following,
a fanatic literally a fanatic feeling towards your team. But
(05:37):
when they match up against somebody that you kind of
want to root for or that you have a heart for,
like Philip Rivers, for me, it's always been keyk Hernandez.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Oh really he k is one of those guys who.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I think absolutely loves, completely understands the luck that he
has to play the game that he loves and to
play it at a high enough level that he's been
able to succeed for you years. He's always got a
good attitude. He's always been a great teammate. He's always
been one of those guys. But he plays for the
team that I have to root against.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
He says, fuck a lot. He says fuck a lot.
I mean all of these things.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
And when he went to the Red Sox, I was
close to buying a KEYK jersey, well Boston Keyk.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Hardanas jersey, because I like him that much.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
And then he went back to the Dodgers, and I'm like, well,
I can't have that.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
That would be that would be awful. But it's one
of those things where I agree with you. You have this.
You can be passionate.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
You want your team so desperately, especially now with the
tough schedule that the forty nine ers have. They have
to go through Chicago the way they have to go
through the Bears, and then they have to go through
the Seahawks in order to get that number one seed.
You this is such a great jumping off point. Yeah,
to get all their ducks in a row, to hold
the Colts to like the fourteen yards of offense.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I mean, oh my god, But.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
You don't want Phillips I don't want anything bad to
happen to that man. It's just it is such a
weird vibe in my head.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
So how are you gonna?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Uh, I'm gonna focus on the Chargers.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I'm gonna focus on doing what we all like to
do in America, and that's beat the Cowboys. And I'm
gonna just focus on that, get me through the weekend,
and then uh, and then you'll have to deal with
me on Monday and Tuesday the game right on Tuesday.
I think I'll be okay as long as he doesn't
actually die and the forty nine Ers win. Like there's
(07:28):
a world in which the forty nine Ers win and
Philip Rivers looks good and they just you know, they win.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I mean, it could be a squeaker game like we
saw on Thursday night with Seattle in La.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
I just fear for him. I fear for him.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
But as we saw in his in his in his debut,
I guess, or his re debut, his emergency, it.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Was not good.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It wasn't good, not good, but he was protected.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I mean in that the play calls were like two
steps back and shuttle it off to the right, right,
right back.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
And that is the lot is a great Seattle defense.
It is true, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
You can.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
But you're concerned about him.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
It'll be fine. I mean, it's football. They know what,
everyone knows what they're signing up for.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
It's fine.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
He has signed a release. I'm sure. I feel like
i'd like concerned about him.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
It's hard also to be so excited for two teams
at the same time going into the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
You're like the You're like the last couple of episodes
of The Bachelorette.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Uh yeah, I love It's so true.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah, you're down.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
For some dirty stuff with both teams, but you're not
quite sure which one is going to be better.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I got to jump over to TLC and beyond Sister Wives,
you know what I mean, I'll have all y'all in
the same house.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I love everybody equally.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
But and then there's a possibility, well you're Cody, Yeah,
he's the guy, and Sister Wives, I think, oh, I
don't know what that is. It's a Mormon thing where
he's got four wives. That sounds awf and like fifteen kids.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I know, people think that that's man.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
It was good for like six seasons and then the
freaking wheels came off that thing. And now they you know,
one of them I think is a lesbian. One of
them remarried. There's strife. It's a mess, really strife.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah, never would have seen that coming.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I know nothing good comes from that.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
And then there's a chance that the season's over after
that first weekend, depending on you know, seeding.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I'm not sure it will be, but that's sure, and
that's what But.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
That's what's so great about uh for people who don't
understand we we do get some feedback from people like
why do you guys talk about sports? Because it's energy,
It energizes us. It's such a great outlet for people.
It's not it's not rocket science, it's not high level thinking.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Very often makes you feel though. It makes you feel
something and you can do it together.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
You you watch things what is live that you watch
with people anymore that's not football or another sport.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
And there's there's no more.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I fucking sorry, I really I really hate I really
hate people who say things like.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Eh, sports, I carry ball, I touch ball, I hit ball.
I'm sports, you moron.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
They're gonna say, motherfucker.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I was also gonna say that it's people like that
that think they're above sports, or they're sports is such
a moronic thing to cheer for. Yeah, there are plenty
of morons who understand sports and love it. There are
also Supreme Court justices who die for their teams.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I will say this though.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I was at a holiday party with normals this week
and uh, and one guy I said to him, I go,
so what do you do because I who was a
spouse of another guy, and he goes, I'm an academic.
And in that moment, I felt like people feel when
they talk to me.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
About anything I bring.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Up with football, where it's just like, ooh, I'm going
to see myself out.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Like I get it, Like I get it when.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
People aren't into sports, specifically because I'm a woman and
I've got friends who do not know anything about the
forty nine ers or other Chargers or anything that goes on,
and so when I bring up something, they'll be like, oh, right,
the football, you know, and then it's like, okay, I'll
see myself out right. It was the same feeling I
got when he was like, I'm an academic. I was like, okay,
(11:29):
I would have first of all, free spons that way. Second,
I know well academics. But here's I've never heard that before,
the other.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Aspect of it, that people that that people that want
to shit on sports, or people that want to crap
on people who like sports or love a team, or
spend money to go to a game or whatever.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
It's joy.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Yes, it's even in the painful moments of your joy
your team lost a playoff game or something like that.
It is joy. And there's so little of that.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I forgot to show you this text message, but I
got a text message from a member of the Spanos family.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Who said, how close were you?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
How were you by chance standing on the sidelines right
next to where Derwin's game clinching interception happened? Interception happened,
and I go, yeah, it was in the vicinity. He goes,
I think, I see you, And here's the video.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
And you can see me like a psychopath.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Oh yeah, with your.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Hands in the air as soon as Darwin catches the ball.
I am the psycho cheering on the sidelines. And that's
been seven years and I will never not be that
psycho that feels that joy. I'm so glad I still
feel the joy and I have not been jaded at all.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
And that's the thing is it's an uncontrollable thing. There
are times controllable. We have to allow ourselves to have
those moments. And people who say things like, I'm an academic,
I don't know if that I like sports or not,
or he did not.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I had more ball game on and there was no interesting.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Where did these people find joy?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Is it manufacture joy?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
I find it in the poetry of So and so.
I can't even name a poet.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I think they have a dog.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Dogs can bring joy, but I'm never I'm never cheering
like that.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
They're not my dog.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Yeah, you don't do that.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
It's I don't know. And I love it. I love
and I'm always love.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
And this season's been incredible for me.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I also love the conversion that happens when people who
poo pooh sports go to a game or they catch it.
They're at a party, they're at a super Bowl party,
and maybe they don't know the teams. It's the red
team and the green teams.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Suddenly they're screaming at the team.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Suddenly they really, wait a minute, what was that. Yeah,
that's not holding. That is not holding. There you could
have called it on all four previous plays, but that
was not holding whatever.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
I don't want to a lot of college football.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
But I turned on that Indiana Ohio State game, yeah,
a while back, just because everyone.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Was talking about it. I turn it on and I
was like, oh, come on, like you don't even care.
I was like, I know, I all, you're so good.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I love the buck eyes.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
No it wasn't that, but yeah, I love it. I
don't want a world in which I don't feel the
sheer joy and the sheer depression. I mean, I still
remember sitting in the Dead Hooker Hotel in New Orleans,
where literally a hooker had died in the lobby the
week before. My parents and I were staying in the
same room for the Super Bowl for the forty nine ers.
(14:32):
Ravens and the forty nine Ers lose that Super Bowl.
They went out the next day to get Beniet's and
walk around the French Quarter.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
I didn't. I stayed in the room and cried.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I stayed in the room and cried and watched reruns
of Real Housewives. I couldn't function. I couldn't I couldn't
eat food. I was so depressed, and I wouldn't trade
that for anything, because on the flip.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Side is all the joy, all the joy I.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Felt when I was Atlanta and the Niners won the
NFC Championship game.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
It's funny that you mentioned that's part of the that's
the same attitude that people have about pets. When we
had to put our dog down, I was wrecked. I
was absolutely wrecked. But I could look back at eleven
years of absolute joy that that pet brought me.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
See, that's why that couple they have a dog.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Right, That's true. It's a different it's a different coin,
but it is the same flip.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Pleasure and pain. They're connected right in the brain. There's
no point there to my head. Oh what did you?
I don't know what you felt like I was putting
my boobs when you get the part in your hair
or something like that. Do you have a scar on
your head?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Do I? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Do you can you see it? Are you looking at
the one right here? No? Because I do have a
scar on my forehead, and it's a figurine fell on
my head when I.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Was a baby.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Sure it fell, but I think the boat has covered
it up pretty much.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
All right, Well, enjoy your Christmas. The next weekend.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Fix will be next Saturday, post Christmas, so everybody will
still be enjoying whatever you enjoy for the holidays. Maybe
it's your dog, maybe it's remember to subscribe to the podcast,
like it, comment, share it, all of that good stuff
and we'll see you probably the next couple days.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Bye.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
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