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We need to get to Tony's Top 5 while he's dressed as Cuban Santa at our Toy Drive, but Rose is there and she has completely stolen the show. And while we laugh at her remarkable pronunciations, at least we're being subtle. Then, Tony finally gets to his Top 5 full of the ghosts of Christmas past, 40 burgers, and the population of Whoville. Plus, Mike is like a dog with a bone on the plot of Miss Congeniality 2, the Florida Panthers won a big one last night, and we finally get to a discussion about Wicked. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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There was no need for pepper spray to be rained down on me. And I sustained, oh, our time left eye injury. Ohio State sucks drama, you lost, that's the deal. The video clearly shows, with my eye almost blinded, there's Harry and Lucy laughing.
Baby, I can tell you that I'm pissed they hit Rose with the spray. Oh, she sounded like a goose who stepped on with heels. Yeah, even though Rose wasn't due, it's Harry and Lucy laughing.
Even though I wasn't doomed There's Harry and Lucy laughing
I've got a shameful confession a couple of them around this song one I Can't tell what some of the lyrics are which hurts me because I am so moved with that song that I will tell you and I have not felt music like that in about five years where it just really reaches me, her pain of like, oh no, why did they pepper spray Rose?
And in the background, I'm looking at Lucy and she's gazing at the heavens with a radiant smile on her face at her friend being pepper sprayed.
It was funny. And look, Rose was in pain for about 10 minutes. And then it was just funny. I think Rose is a phenomenal singer. However, I've become used to it because she sings all the time. And I don't actually love that because we'll be in the car. I'll be playing music and Rose will be singing a completely different song than what we're listening to in the car.
She will be singing a different song, usually Florence and the Machine. And we have to say, hey, Rose, can you stop?
All right, Lucy, let me help me right now produce a live what I'm trying to do here, a live radio and television moment. OK, help me do this. Produce this segment with me because I've got Rose out here. We're a bit of a gorilla outfit. OK, we're telling Ricky Williams yesterday that he's got to rain down holy hell on the University of Texas so that you can get into a game. You said that.
I didn't say that. I know I said that. We got Cuban Santa over at Flanagan's over here and he might steal your toys. He might take your gift cards. He wants your cash. I don't think we're doing this legally or well.
so far and I don't trust the technology and his mustache and beard don't work right but Rose is holding the camera and he's in front of the camera can we flip flop them so I can ask Rose some questions here and we're trying to do a toy drive at Flanagan's we're trying to get people out there in the next couple of hours Can I talk to Rose, Lucy, and try to make you giggle? Oh, thank you.
This is going to be so good. So, Lucy, look how happy. Okay, yes, please. I want Lucy cam here. I want to isolate, please.
Give me all Lucy cam here just as she smiles and looks at Rose because the question I want to ask Rose, thank you, Rose, for helping us in production from what I'm imagining is a puddle in a parking lot because this is not the most glamorous Flanagan's, but it's one of the legendaries. And Rose, can you hear me okay?
Oh yeah, I can hear you.
Okay. Can you say the name, please, of the famous, the Italian name of the person who has been accused of killing a CEO in the street over healthcare symbolism?
Luigi Migliani.
Okay. Nailed it.
That was better.
It was better than you were doing yesterday. I think you've been practicing. I think you've been cheating for this moment. Can you try again? I want to. Can you try again?
Luigi Migliani.
Can you be worse?
Luigi Migliani. Luigi Mijini?
Yes. There you go. Now you get it. Be worse. Yes. Thank you.
Okay. Thank you, Rose. I appreciate it. Luigi Mangione.
Mijini.
Now we're getting it.
Luigi Mangione. Luigi Mijini.
Luigi Mangione.
Luigi Mangione.
I think she nailed it.
Yeah, Mangione, bro.
Let's try this one.
I'm Spanish. I speak Italian.
Eric Mangini.
Oh, that's fast. Eric Mangini.
Luigi Mangione.
Luigi Mangione. Mangione.
Frank Cavallonato. That's a tough one.
Frank Cav... Frank Catalanado.
Good.
Wait, say that again?
Frank Catalanado. Yeah.
Frank Catalanado.
Yeah. Rose, did you know Travis Homer's a bear? What? Got it.
What?
Luigi Mangione.
Luigi Mangione. Luigi Mangione. Mangione. Ciao, la bella. Buongiorno.
Come visit her at the Flanagan's in Coconut Grove and drop off a toy. Don't just visit her. That'd be weird.
Luigi Mangione.
Luigi Mangione.
That's how you do it.
There you go.
Adrian Wojnarowski.
When Sue can't even say it, it's tough.
Adrian Wojnarowski, I think.
Adrian Wojnarowski. Yeah.
This is fun. She has an accent.
She has an accent. That's the game we're playing right on the line. That is the game right on the line. And bring us your toys. At least we're being subtle with it, though.
That's where we earn the points.
So subtle. Rose, hand the microphone to Cuban Santa Claus over there. Bring him your cash, your gift cards, and your gifts for toys, your toys for kids.
Now you're talking. It's 45 minutes, though, when they open.
Yes, so Tony, tell people to come on out. This is an old-style radio. Stugatz, you remember when we used to do these? Oh, I love them. Yes, it's a radio remote in the streets of Miami. Gather around, Miami. We're asking for your toys. Come meet Cuban Santa, Tony. Today we are at the Flanagan's in Coconut Grove, the famous one. There it is. Look at that. Look at that. Tony's top five.
Rose, get behind the camera. tony's top five we're going we're going live so we got toy drive and live content that mike sure was making fun of yesterday man that's a high compliment guys we skip past those around here mike sure knows of tony's top five and he thinks it's ridiculous that tony's top five has such basic observations and i accused mike sure of not getting the show right
I accused Mike Schur. He was insulted. Mike Schur, a comedy genius, a giant. He did not get the show because, of course, Tony's top five are the most obvious things. Of course. He's at a Flanagan's parking lot. He's around puddles. He's asking for toys and he's giving you... Those are puddles of pee.
No, come on. Dan, I am telling you. I love Flanagan's. We're doing a good thing. It's a toy drive. Bring your toys.
Bring your cash. Bring everything you have, okay? I think Rose just unplugged the decorative thing behind Tony by mistake.
I have spent so many nights at that Flanagan's. I mean.
Rose just unplugged something that does not belong to her at Flanagan's. Oh, Jesus.
That's not part of our promotion. That's just us. Look, Flanagan gave us a space in a parking lot. We're collecting toys. Don't make us look like fools. Go support Tony. Look, take our incompetence, ride it into the sky. If you support this kind of content live on television, capable of falling into a puddle and electrocuting Tony. Bring your toys, save Cuban Santa's life.
She's got it, man. She really does. We were trying to force it, and we probably fell on the wrong side of it, and then she's just organically making magic on her own.
No, look at her. I missed that. I've not seen that as video content. I have not seen that since Billy fell over. Tony, get out of the way. No, Tony, get out of the way.
This is her segment now.
Tony, get out of the way.
Stay right there.
Get out of the way, Tony.
Can't see Tony anymore.
Podcasters got to take our word for this one.
She's my favorite person on the planet. Plug it back in, Rose. No, no, don't plug it back in, Rose. You got this.
Oh, my gosh.
This is great. All right, Tony can come back. All right, Tony, come on back. She's legitimately pleading for help.
She lost her hat, too.
Tony, you there? There we go. All right, Tony, give it to us. All right, Walt, Tony's top five.
Tony's top five. Damn. Thank you. All right, Tony's top five is brought to you by Branches. Give that shirt a tug, Dan. You're going to hate that visual.
Untuck it. You might want to get up there. You're better now. Better now.
All right, sorry about that, Tony. We have to look out for our guy.
Do we have a Jeremy song we can play? All right, number five. Go ahead, Tony.
It was nice to see the vestiges of the Aaron Rodgers to Devontae Adams connection this week, like the ghost of Christmas past. It was fun.
I hate them.
Is Dan there?
Is he alive? He's on the floor. He's laughing at Rose. So let's move on to number four, Tony. So you were excited about Devontae Adams, Aaron Rodgers. They turned back the clock. It made me want them both to come back next year. Yeah.
It was just nice to see, like, oh, that's what it used to look like. That's right. That's what it was supposed to look like. Gotcha. Okay. It was fun.
Yep.
Number four, Lions in the bad spot of losing not only the battle, but did they also lose the war? Makes you think. A lot of guys got injured during that Bills game. David Montgomery out for the season, a couple of D linemen, a couple of corners. All of a sudden, that team's not as deep as it used to be. It's a good loss, though, Tim.
It is. It's the loss you want at this time. They lost like six guys. Yeah, but it allows Dan Campbell... They lost like six guys again. It doesn't matter. Good loss. It allows him to humble his team and hit the reset button.
It's the time to get hurt, too, headed into the playoffs.
This is when you want to get hurt.
Yeah. Now you have three, four weeks to get healthy.
It's about to circle the wagons.
Montgomery's out for the year. But is it the full year? It's never a good time for that.
There's only two weeks left in the year, so... He has to have MCL surgery. He's out for like six months. Well, he can achieve all things through Christ.
Number three, Tony. Yes, yes, but not this one. All right, number three. I can't wait for the Chiefs to pull off a Christmas miracle by making Carson Wentz look like the MVP now that Patrick Mahomes is hurt.
Billy has some thoughts on Carson Wentz and Nick Foles.
That's for later.
We're going to go full circle later. He's just laughing to himself about those thoughts, apparently. Full circle. We'll talk about it later. We'll discuss it later. Carson Wentz has a chance to go full circle, but we'll talk about it later.
Number two, John. No, I like that. Number two. You're tucked away in bed. It's Christmas Eve. It's nighttime. About 1130. Close to midnight. You hear a pitter-patter on the roof. Pitter-patter. You're like, what could that be? All of a sudden...
you kind of sneak out of your one out of your bedroom you're walking down the hall you hear somebody inside next to the christmas tree you hear some toys rattling you hear something you're like could that be there's no way you kind of like look over the corner of the wall right the hallway you kind of look over and you see the outline of jolly old saint nick and you're like oh my god i can't believe he's real you kind of take a step over to see is that really him and then he tells you
There's one for you right there, kid. Turn around. All of a sudden, a little tiny box right where you were. How did he know you were there? How did he know to put the box there? All of a sudden, you open up the box. What is it? It's a 40 burger. You look at it, you're like, a 40 burger? All of a sudden, Santa turns around. Guess who Santa is? Baker Mayfield.
Oh, wow.
He tells you. Yeah. Here come the bucks. Ha, ha, ha.
It was a long way to go for a 40-burger. It was a wordy number two, Tone. It was.
Pat McAfee says the Bucs can beat anybody. They can. They can beat anybody.
Check out that schedule. I mean, the Bucs are going to go into the playoffs on like an eight-game winning streak. They are.
And they've beaten the Lions at full strength. They've beaten the Lions. They've beaten the Eagles.
Yep.
Good team. Number one, Tom. He said they're on their way. Number one, we were talking a couple weeks ago about who's who, right? Were the Packers a who when they lost to the Lions? Who's who? Well, I'm here to tell you, the Whoville population is six. There are six people, six teams in Whoville, okay? My beard's getting onto the microphone. It's okay. There's six teams in Whoville right now.
The Buffalo Bills, residents of Whoville. The Philadelphia Eagles, residents of Whoville. The Detroit Lions, still residents of Whoville. Kansas City Chiefs, residents of Whoville. Baltimore Ravens, resident of Who'sville. And just sneaking in, right into the gun. Dan? Oh, Dan, you're there?
Yeah, well, Tony, see, here's the thing, Tony. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. This has never happened before in the history of the show, not in 20 years. Whoville? I have never before seen a segment stolen so effortlessly from someone as Rose just stole this segment from you. Rose just, what was happening behind you is the funniest thing this show has ever done.
Dan, we dug ourselves out of that awkwardness, and we're giving Tony a shine. Not to throw it back in his face and have him spiral.
He just told a story about Baker Mayfield.
Tell Dan about the 40-burger, Dan.
Yeah, do the whole story again. Do it again, do it again. Do the whole story again. Number two, Tony, number two. I think there were three all of a sudden. There's a pitter-patter on the roof. You looked around a wall.
We went from Lucy's roaring with laughter to Tony's solo drum act of there's a pitter-patter on the wall. And the big joke at the end is Baker Mayfield had a 40 burger.
You didn't hear it correctly.
Tony, number two. And later we're going full circle.
Full circle.
Well, that was a joke.
Foles circle. Did I not say it? I think I get it. Because he didn't get to win the Super Bowl like Foles did.
Now it's his turn.
Foles circle.
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This is the Don Labatar Show with the Stugats. It was hard to follow. Number two, Tony? No, I'm not doing that. Last resident of Whoville. Oh, Whoville. Not doing it. Yeah, last resident of Whoville. The Packers. Whoville population of six. Whoville, the Packers just snuck under the gun.
They have that look, Tony.
They have that look. Packers are good. I've got a little future on them on DraftKings Sportsbook. Oh, wow. Packers to win the whole thing. Just a little sprinkling that I had in August, baby. Got a good little price on it. So, again, your Google population. All right, listen to me. Bills, Eagles, Lions, Chiefs, Packers, Ravens.
Wait, this is if. Look. Look, I need to aggressively make DraftKings understand in a contract year that if the holidays are not filled with Cuban Santas telling you what to bet on this game from a parking lot outside of a bar, if Feldman and the others don't turn this into Tony making some money the next 10 days as Cuban Santa gives you gambling advice, we will have failed as a company.
We will have failed as a partnership. I agree. Tony, make it happen. I want you make it. I want it raining money on Cuban Santa.
They're selling Rose now. Sorry, we've moved on.
Cash and toys. What do you want to tell people about what they can do here for the next couple of hours, Tony, before we go back out to Rose later to see if she can pronounce Luigi Mangione?
Absolutely, Dan. 2721 Bird Avenue. We're here at the Flanagan's in Coconut Grove. We're accepting all toys.
yes we're accepting all toys unwrapped gift cards for kids that are a little bit older um bring those we'll put them right here in this box and you're supporting an amazing cause with the branches uh charity uh thank you tony it is branches it is uh branchesfl.org if you want to just in a real easy way i know uh i know many of you may not be able to get over to the places we're talking about our show is now you know on all over the place so you but if you want to help with what it is that we're doing
You can participate with branchesfl.org. If you're local, you can drop off things, unwrapped toys at Corner Coffee here at the Elser, 398 Northeast 5th Street, Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. The next couple of days, we're going to be out at Vivo where we were for the watch party.
And that's very convenient because you can just pull up to that location, and it's in a mall. So if you don't have a toy with you, walk in the mall, grab a toy, and bring it to Vivo.
And so we're going to make this real easy over the next few days. We're trying to do this, you know, in an old style radio remote thing over the next three days where we gather somewhere. And if fans of this show, you have a couple of days to gather or want to just bring us stuff physically, we would love to relay your happiness to kids during what can be a tough time.
Tony mentioned two teams there, the Lions and the Bucs. First with the Lions, Dan Campbell said after the game, that loss is exactly what we needed. Okay. I told you, Dan. I mean, Dan Campbell loves a good loss.
We told you this last week that this was a must lose for both teams and that one of them was going to get adversity of this. And Dan Campbell today on 97.1, the ticket said, quote, this is exactly what we needed. Sometimes you got to get punched in the mouth and remember what it used to be like to really appreciate where you are. And we'll do that.
Okay, so one thing I wanted to do, Stugatz, because of what Billy is doing there and what you guys are doing in general, we have gotten to the point of the season where you really like making the confident statements of knowing something when you say 15 weeks in, hey, you know what I know? The Bucs can beat anybody and the Packers can beat anybody. Yeah. That's what I got for you.
They can beat anybody. And those are two new teams to the they can beat anybody group. The Rams, too. Yeah, the Rams, too.
That Packers who's who performance actually paved the way for the Rams to host a playoff game and beat anybody.
I actually have my top five teams you don't want to see come playoff time.
In fairness to Dan, Tony knew that in August. He just didn't tell us. That's right.
All right. Tony struggled through that segment. And Lucy, holy. I mean, what Rose does to make you laugh, I can't believe. that the outtakes aren't filled with things that Rose has done to make you laugh.
Do I need to sing it like Jeremy?
She's filming.
She's holding the camera.
I know, but that was unbelievable what was happening behind Tony that entire segment. I could not have gotten paid actors to make that look like that.
She is so unintentionally funny. When we were at the Big Ten Championship game, we're watching the game. I look over. Rose is just watching Netflix. during the game on her computer. One time, Harry and I asked her what her favorite American comedy movie was, and she said Miss Congeniality 2. The second one. She is, what's in two? What's two? I don't know, you gotta ask Rose. She loves it.
She's like, you're not going to believe this. We're going back to you. You're going back to another pageant.
What?
They ran it back? I did this once before. O-L-I, O-L-I, I have a top five.
Okay. All right. That's how you do it, Jeremy. Teach the man something.
I had to do it like that?
Yes, let's see. I think it'll fall apart. I think that that's as well as you can do that. Number five, number five, the Denver Broncos. Yeah.
Yes, so let's see. What's the list? Top five teams you don't want to see come playoff time.
Okay, number four. Stu got storming his way into the segment with a Christmas song to knock Jeremy and Tony out of the way on This Is How You Do It, Kids. Number four. The Rams.
They do not want to see that team come Christmas time. Just one syllable, I guess it's tough.
Number three, number three. I think it's going to fall apart. The Green Bay Packers. Not bad. Not bad. Number four was my favorite. Just Rams.
Rams sports talk. Number two, number two. The Minnesota Vikings. No one thinks they're any good. I mean, why? Number one, number one, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Yes! All right, so it's a different version of the same game set a different way.
Dan, they've won four straight. They're going to win their next three. If you look at the schedule, it's Dallas, it's Carolina, and the Saints. You do not want Baker Mayfield in the first round. Baker, because some teams like to ease into the playoffs. Baker doesn't ease into anything.
Okay, I would like very much...
I have an important announcement to make. Rose just texted me and said Miss Congeniality 2 is not about going back, it's about Sandra Bullock's character saving her friend who was kidnapped by accident.
She got me. The rare. I haven't seen Miss Congeniality 2. I'm sorry.
So, Rose, you got it all wrong? You were talking a language here. Mike Ryan came in trying to support with faux fake. You didn't have it right on Miss Congeniality 2?
I took a guess that they decided to repeat the formula, the wildly successful Miss Congeniality 1. And I missed the mark. For that, I apologize.
Well, I think this is why Lucy was saying the randomness of that being your favorite comedy of all time. Like, Jessica's response... English comedy.
She gets really mad when you say it's her favorite comedy of all time.
Okay, but I saw you two... You sure there isn't a beauty pageant? Because Sister Act 2, back in the habit, was kind of, like, different, but also similar. In that she was still a nun.
I didn't understand why it is that you were showing movies to Rose yesterday and you were trying to get her to explain things. I was watching you and Rose and I'm saying, if someone were filming this, this would be a hysterical language barrier moment where Lucy and Rose are trying to enjoy laughter at the same time, but they're not enjoying things at the same time.
But Lucy is finding Rose being frustrated by trying to explain why this is funny, funny.
Well, so she showed us a clip, which was just Sandra Bullock chasing down Dolly Parton. And she was like, this is the funniest thing I've ever seen. And I was like, Rose, this isn't that funny. And then she said, okay, I have a great idea. I'll show you and Jeremy this really funny Spanish TV show, but it doesn't have English subtitles. And Jeremy and I don't speak Spanish.
She said, don't worry, I'll translate it for you. So she showed us the trailer. She translated the first five seconds and then just couldn't stop laughing throughout the rest of the trailer. So Jeremy and I were like, hey, we don't, We have no idea what is happening here or what's going on. But she was like, you have to be able to tell it's funny.
And that's pretty much all my conversations with Rose.
You guys have traversed the language. She's fighting through it all with an accent. And she is uproariously funny. And now she has replaced Chris Cody in most capable of producing a surprise. This is now two times we've gone to her where she is trying to help out and everything is funnier than what came before it.
She's a natural born star and she's a singer and she's collecting toys with Cuban Santa, Tony, who better have a gambling sponsorship by the end of this segment. Or I walk, DraftKings. Hold on a second. What? What happened?
Let's not hitch our wagon to Tony. Yeah, we're not doing that. I think we need to strap ourselves. That's how we ended up out of ESPN.
Cuban Santa. I think we need to ride Cuban Santa's top five into the sky.
Let's take a vote. Cuban Santa was going to be wearing shorts and we'd see some balls. I was hoping.
Really?
That's a callback.
Yes, it is. Well, you can't explain that it's a callback.
I don't want people to think I'm talking about my coworker.
Jingle balls, jingle balls, jingle all the way. I understand. That's a bad spot for you, Jess. That's a bad spot.
It's fine. I did it to myself. Also, Mike, I'm sorry. You made a comment about Miss Congeniality, too. So I thought you'd seen it. So then I put you on the spot and then.
And he faked it. I'm like a dog with a bone on this one. There's got to be some sort of beauty contest.
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But the pair has to put aside their differences when one of Gracie's former beauty queen pals, Heather Burns, turns up missing and the FBI is put on the case.
Huh.
There has to be a pageant somewhere.
There is a pageant. She's in a pageant dress on the cover.
Yeah, there has to be a pageant. Maybe she's one of the judges at the pageant.
Take my word for it. I've seen it several times. Is one of the possibilities, Mike, in any of the hypotheticals we're exploring that you might be wrong?
No, not at all. No, I'm telling you, there's a pageant in this goddamn movie. It's Mike's favorite American comedy. There has to be a pageant. She's got the whole pageant sash.
But you refused to acknowledge that one of the possibilities here might be that you're- I did initially, but now I'm a man, and I'm doubling down.
Do you know who you're speaking to? There is 100% a goddamn pageant in this movie.
Okay, you know what? You've gone now aggressive to lacking confidence. You were cornered by everybody on what your facts were, and you've come out aggressively loud, wrong, and no one trusts your information anymore. You've damaged your credibility. We all saw it. You were kind of faking your way through that. We all saw it, and we didn't support you on it. We all saw it.
We didn't live the lie with you.
Rose has texted me that we can do a movie watch day at the office because Mike needs to watch it.
I'll be out and out of this one. Yeah, let's do that next week. Do it on the 25th. That's a good idea, Billy. I'm free on the 25th.
I'm not. Chief Steelers. It's going to ruin my Christmas. I've basically seen it with how many clips Rose has played me. I don't know the plot or anything.
So everyone's in the car singing one song and she's just doing Florence at the top of her lungs.
That's insane behavior. No, it drives me up a wall. It's either Florence or it's Wicked. Is she wearing headphones? And Wicked is even worse. Sometimes she has headphones. For Wicked, she is just always singing Wicked.
Okay, if I may, please, because there were two places I really wanted to get here, okay? But I've been trying to get here for about 10 days. I really just wanted to talk about the Bears for a minute, because I know Jessica's so mad at the Bears. And I really do want to talk, as we talk about all the football tough guys, I mean... The Panthers going in last night to Edmonton with a reminder.
What a game. No, but that's a national echoer where you're like, look, I know we're all going to check back in in the postseason and it's going to get ratcheted to another place, but reminding Edmonton on the road, okay, yeah, you can go five goals, but we got six for you, including one from behind the net. It was startling to me to watch the juxtaposition of
Oh shit, the Heat just lost to the Pistons and I don't care. I'm over here. I'm over here because they got my attention last postseason and I'm watching what feels like playoff hockey because the Panthers want to remind Edmonton, oh, if we see you again, if we see you again... You don't get this sport from us just with a good regular season.
Right. It was so impressive from this standpoint. They won the Cup last year, Edmonton trying to prove something. I believe the Panthers were down 4-2 in that game, and they came back to win it 6-5. That's such an impressive win, and they did it in Edmonton.
And Reinhardt with one of the best plays, like stealing the puck on one end, taking it the length of the ice, and then putting it... Did it hit off the Skinner's back?
Yeah, he hit it off of Skinner. This is a complete play. Reinhardt's a great two-way player. Doesn't get the attention because he's on the team with Barkov, who was out... by the way. And this was such a huge win because the Oilers came in red hot, five in a row, scoring over five goals a game in that five. And they flatly don't lose when they score over five goals.
Panthers haven't been shut out again. The usual part of the calendar where they dip, they go down two goals and you think it's over. And then they have this incredible performance. And that is how you fake something without having watched it.
That's amazing.
I definitely didn't give up on that game after they went down two goals. Definitely didn't.
But the reason I want to get back to the Bears, but before I do this, because I haven't been able to do this for 10 days, and we've got a room, Stugatz, that wants to talk about something.
Everybody wants to talk about it, and it is not a conversation that it includes us, and everyone wants to talk about Wicked, and I have failed at any point to talk about Wicked, and Mystery Crate's going to get it, or there is some valuable... wicked content around how much the people in that shipping container care about. Jeremy's not here.
It's going to exasperate him that this is the day that he is not here because everybody has wanted to talk about this for about 10 days.
I actually saw it as a wicked virgin. I had never seen the play at all, and I was into it.
That's what people in Boston call virgins. Yeah.
Wicked. But I have one critique. I have one critique. Jeff Goldblum. You're just Jeff Goldblum, okay? Whoa, whoa, whoa. What do you mean by that? He's playing the Wizard of Oz, and it's like, I just see Jeff Goldblum. I thought that was a bad casting. Anytime he's in a role, I just am looking at Jeff Goldblum. There are plenty of actors like this.
My wife loves him. He's one of her favorites. Yeah, he's a zaddy.
I'm totally good with the wizard should be a Jeff Goldblum type. So Jeff Goldblum playing himself. I didn't have an issue with it, but I get what you're saying. But I also was a wicked virgin going into it. I love The Wizard of Oz, but I'd never seen the musical. And I came away blown away by it. And that's exactly what movies should be.
It felt like a throwback, not just because it was a musical, but you had these practical sets being built, and it took you to another world without this weird greenish hue of special effects clouding everything. It didn't feel like a Marvel movie. It felt like these were things that were rooted in real tangible things, and I loved it. Any other Wicked Virgins around here?
That was a terrible Boston.
I haven't seen the movie yet, but I did see it on Broadway, and I think that it's absolutely absurd that we're doing this when Jeremy's not here, when he dressed up as Elphaba last week. This is just like, I understand he's the annoying guy, and his character's annoying, and we all are annoyed by him, but this is just mean. Now it's just mean.
I didn't do it on purpose, no.
Jessica, wait a minute. I understand. Wait. He played 17 of his songs today. Wait a minute.
I understand that you... This is the first day in any of the days that everyone has wanted to talk about Wicked where I have three of the four people in who want to talk about Wicked on the same day. Your enthusiasm here... We can't produce anything other than that Stugatz wicked bad joke and Chris Cody's bad impersonation there.
It seems like the other people in that room know they're wicked more than Chris Cody, who's a virgin and is already here to tell us that Jeff Goldblum is overrated as an actor.
Not as an actor, just in that role. Very confident to do that. Why are you assigning the bad joke to me? It was Jess. I mean, I thought it was a funny joke.
Wicked virgin? You called it wicked. Yes, I did do that. What they do in Eastern Europe.
Well, Jeremy's got a Michael Vick song over there. Oh, no. Song for everything.
I guess you can't put my Vick in a box.
All right, we're reaching now. This is not a Christmas. Did he just send that in?
Yes, right.
I think it's because of the head coaching. But he is, it is a stretch. I mean.
Maybe he's trying to project what we're going to talk about.
He is working really hard today. Is he trying to get a record deal? Like, what are we doing? Because, like, these used to be, like, funny. Like, oh, this person. It used to be Taylor. Like, no one could sing. This is a fun, like, you're bad at singing. Are you trying to get a record deal? What's happening here?
We could admit the 201 yesterday was funny. Yeah.
Can we?
I didn't hear it.
Can I hear it?
I don't even remember that one.
I think Rose needs, I think Jeremy wants what Rose now has, which is just a natural, organic way of singing in a way that delights us instead of annoys us.
You better watch out. You better just slide. You better not tackle. I think you might die. Sue, will you please get down? Two, will you please get down Two, will you please just get down Alright, that's enough of that.
Eight more minutes.
But it is how I spent the game watching. It is some form of Christmas.
Jesus Christ, Sue, will you please get down?
I want you guys to imagine me, okay? Look, now that it's been unmasked, now that I'm clearly a homer who just votes for Cam Ward, I will be honest with you about how I watched the Dolphin game on Sunday. It's like this.
He's the best we've ever seen. Toad, get down! For six and eight! Like, okay, so you can be in the mix with the Colts! Get down! It's your brain! Not head first! Signed! It's Christmas! Christmas in the hospital is shitty! Get down! Get down! I'm worried about your brain! Get down!
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