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Whales, Playoffs, and Holiday Movie Magic
Ever wondered why we call orcas whales when they're actually dolphins? Join us for a festive, light-hearted discussion where we not only campaign for a rebrand but also navigate the depths of ocean mysteries with a dash of humor. Our adventurous spirits then take us from the ocean floor straight into the curious childhood notion of digging to China, before we switch gears to express our enthusiasm—and a bit of disappointment—over the playoff season where high seeds reigned supreme.
As college football fans know, the playoff debate is as hot as a freshly made apple pie during the holidays. Should the system expand to 12 teams, or is eight just enough to keep the competition spicy? We'll dive into the thick of things, analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of powerhouses like Clemson and Texas, while speculating on player moves, with a special spotlight on Quinn Ewers. And if that's not enough to tickle your sports fancy, we also break down key matchups and potential rematches, all while getting excited for our upcoming Christmas movie bracket that'll be sure to jingle your bells.
Speaking of holiday cheer, the nostalgia is strong as we reminisce about classic Christmas movies. Whether it's the chaotic hilarity of "Home Alone" or the heartwarming charm of "The Muppet Christmas Carol," we're here to decide which flick truly captures the spirit of the season. With a healthy dose of humor and personal anecdotes about favorite holiday traditions, we wrap up this festive episode, leaving you with a New Year's movie recommendation that'll keep your spirits merry and bright as we head into the new year.
welcome back to not amused uh, first off, merry christmas merry christmas this is our christmas episode thank you for coming back again if you're're coming back.
Speaker 1:If this is your first time, thanks for joining us. It's true, come back for the next one, all we do ask is maybe go back and listen to last week's. This one makes a little bit more sense. But again, merry Christmas. Thank you, guys, for joining us.
Speaker 2:Okay, now this might make sense. I'm not sure, even even if you listen to the last one, because we're sitting here talking about sure orcas and dolphins and walruses and everything before we start this podcast, so we're already on it tonight uh, yeah, I mean we figured out that orcas are the largest species in the in the dolphin family yeah, so let's quit calling them whales. I'm going to start that campaign right now. No more whale talk. They're orcas, they're dolphins dolphins with.
Speaker 1:I mean, is that a hill you really want to die on? I'm not going to die on it. That's not enough of a difference. They're not a whale.
Speaker 2:They're not a whale, but I still do want to know about walruses and sea lions and seals, because they're all the same thing too, just bigger.
Speaker 1:Any marine biologist friends out there, just give us a call, because David doesn't know something and it's driving him insane yeah, so I mean there's a lot of things.
Speaker 2:We gotta figure this out. We've had this conversation in the past.
Speaker 1:The ocean I know there's a lot in there yes, but we also spend how many millions, billions or whatever it is trying to go to space. We haven't figured our own planet, I know like we've got so many things in the ocean that are curious that I can't speak.
Speaker 2:Curious but that reminds me I saw this um the other day. They say that the middle of the earth is hotter and molten lava, and yeah, yada, yada. And so some biologist or whatever saying okay, then why does it get colder when you get to the bottom of the ocean? If we're getting closer to the heat, well, why does it get colder?
Speaker 1:I don't think it's remotely close enough for that heat to come out because, like the, the higher up, you're getting sun and you know it's reflecting the water and you're keeping some heat, but I, I don't know the actual depth, but it's I don't know like miles, yeah, like.
Speaker 2:I just saw that video and I was like you're gonna feel the heat through that that was probably one of your conspiracy theory videos or something.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean there's, there's some people that say that doesn't exist, it's just empty void. The what doesn't exist. The core of the earth. It's not actual molten, it's just nothing. It's basically just an empty void that you just kind of fall into.
Speaker 2:But we've never been remotely close to that. What's the old timey saying? Like when you dig, you can dig to.
Speaker 1:China or something, yeah, yeah, but where does China dig to? So like if you have that saying here, it's like you keep digging, you're going to dig to China, do they say keep digging, you're going to dig to Texas?
Speaker 2:Maybe, but here's the thing I've never compared it on a globe. Does it actually even line up?
Speaker 1:I highly doubt it. Probably not. It's just something that the old people used to say because it was like hey, stop digging my yard.
Speaker 2:It wasn't even about. Actually I was probably gosh elementary school or something and I was putting the water hose in the ground and the water was kind of digging and I just kept going and going and going. I couldn't get it back out, but you thought you were doing something impressive. I mean, that water hose was deep in the ground. I know that.
Speaker 1:Reality is just going sideways.
Speaker 2:You didn't really go anywhere. Probably it wouldn't go back out.
Speaker 1:I know that I've got 13 feet of hose in there and I've made it really far. I'm watering the rice fields out in China or wherever?
Speaker 2:Where do you think?
Speaker 1:I lived when I was watering rice fields.
Speaker 2:It's going to China.
Speaker 1:It's deep enough. Oh Golly, stick with me 13 feet of hoses in China already. Man yes, but got you. You didn't have depth perception.
Speaker 2:Maybe, maybe that's true.
Speaker 1:Anyways, exactly I know We've been all over the place before we even started. We've been on 15 different topics.
Speaker 2:That's our warm-up.
Speaker 1:But a topic I do kind of want to jump into the first round of the playoffs. Yeah, it was horrible it was there was not a good game.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was horrible the game. There was not a good game. Now I am so happy to report on myself that the team that I picked that could have won it absolutely got destroyed. They're out. But as an ohio state fan, I could not be more happy to see how well they played. As long as they do it again, you know, next week. Um, they gotta string together. I mean, every lower seed just got absolutely destroyed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it wasn't as close as even the score made it look like.
Speaker 1:No, like the Notre Dame-Indiana game got closer at the end. I mean heck, even the Ohio State-Tennessee game got a touchdown closer and it wasn't it was well over.
Speaker 2:So the seedings was correct for what they had in there based on that, because all the better seeds won pretty handedly. But it goes to say, should Bama or somebody else, south Carolina somebody, have been in there?
Speaker 1:You know the seedings is the thing, but at the same time, like if you would have put, if Indiana somehow would have played Clemson, would that have been a closer game? If Indiana played Penn State, would that have been a closer game? If Indiana played Penn State, would that have been a closer game? It's hard to say Sometimes. You just run into a team. Tennessee, I think, is better than the other teams that lost. Yeah, probably, but I don't know that anybody could have beat Ohio State that night.
Speaker 1:That's what I said, not even talking as a fan, but just as that first quarter they could not do.
Speaker 2:Well, I mentioned last week that the reason I kind of picked them is because I felt Ryan Day and Chip Kelly, they had their backs against the wall, the whole group. But I think, seeing that it was even the players, said we're not doing this, no more, we've had enough.
Speaker 1:Well, they just hadn't proved it this year, like the offensive sets they were running, like we haven't seen that all year, I know.
Speaker 2:They were just freely moving and doing everything the way that they should do, but I love the defense. You know when we play college football on PlayStation. I want to bring the heat.
Speaker 1:I love it. Yeah, we were playing the other night and it's engage eight. Every time it's like, hey, you're in coverage, Good luck. Well, because here's the thing there's three of you back there.
Speaker 2:You better get it out quick and you ain't going to get many yards because we're got you.
Speaker 1:Well, as soon as the heat, now, everyone now, and then they'll get behind me and, you know, burn me. No, like I like pressure, I'm all for pressure, like I'm like a big reason I don't like a three four is so many people run a three four and they sit back. Yeah, I can't stand that.
Speaker 2:Like I need five, I need five people I feel like quarterbacks today can pick you apart if you sit too long or they're going to take off right away with it.
Speaker 1:Well and that's part of it is, if you send so little, even if they don't get anybody open, there's just so many more gaps for them to maneuver through.
Speaker 2:So that's very different. Yeah, no, I agree with that.
Speaker 1:But yeah, the games this week I find myself just not really watching them fully. I watched the Ohio State game being a fan, but the other games it was kind of just in passing because it wasn't. Yeah, it was not good games, it just was really no fun to watch.
Speaker 1:I've never believed in indiana didn't really see anything out of smu that I thought was gonna impress me this, this I have wrote down because you said this okay, indiana, notre dame, uh, greg mcelroy, right from, uh, he's played alabama. He was an announcer for that game, make up your mind. So, one second, he's like you know, indiana, they absolutely destroyed all the teams that they played. They should be here. And then he's saying well then, the teams they play were not any good and they won all these conference games, but the conference wasn't good. And I'm like and this was within two minutes of each other, which is it Like, make up your mind? Like, make up your mind, like I'm on the side that Indiana didn't play anybody. The only good team they played all year was Ohio State and, honestly, ohio State wasn't playing. Well then, they didn't play Penn State, they didn't have Oregon, they didn't have any of those teams that really like, their best win all year was a 6-6 Michigan team.
Speaker 2:Did you see that's not impressive comment. Um, I didn't teach him how to run his mouth like that or something. Yeah, signetti, yeah well, because he's run his mouth well his.
Speaker 1:His famous saying, too, is everyone's like you know I don't know who you are. He's like google me like I win. Wherever I'm at, google me which isn't wrong. I mean he's winning ball games. It's just, you can win ball games and then you go play real teams and you can't win those games like they. They were outmatched against a Notre Dame team, that's. I mean, they're good.
Speaker 2:I don't know how really good they are, they're okay.
Speaker 1:Again this week we have some odd matchups again.
Speaker 2:One of the big teams are still going to win it. 12 is going to make it more interesting, but in the end we're going to say see, 12 makes it interesting.
Speaker 1:But then I saw a friend of mine on Facebook. He's a huge Clemson fan. I mean, I know very few people that are bigger Clemson fans.
Speaker 2:So last minute I kind of talked to myself into thinking they might, could be Texas. And they even scored quickly. They did, and that was it. That was it. I was like okay, but even he said win or lose today he said win or lose.
Speaker 1:today he said we don't need 12 teams. He was like eight would have been fine. And then after watching that, you're like maybe eight wasn't so bad.
Speaker 2:You're not going to be able to know that, I think, until we change up how we seed them and how we put them in.
Speaker 1:I think 12 works. I really like 12. I think it makes for interesting that you've earned your buy. You've earned the extra week of rest. You've earned your bye. You've earned the extra week of rest. You've earned all that. I don't care if you win a conference championship or not. No, I don't either Like. I want the 12 best, Because all conferences are not equal. No, and even your path to the conference is not equal to somebody else.
Speaker 1:It's also not Well like the ACC. Clemson made it to the ACC championship, not because they were necessarily that much better. They didn't go beat everybody. Well, no, like you said the teams that they played.
Speaker 2:It was just tiebreaker stuff, the games they lost. I think they were a three-loss team, just weren't in their conference.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was two in conference, one out of conference. Yeah, miami only has two conference losses. They didn't make the ACC championship because of that Mm-hmm, and I personally think Miami would have probably put up a better game than Clemson did, just because Miami can score a lot of points. They can't stop anybody, but they can score points.
Speaker 2:I talked myself into it a little bit because, for whatever reason, I still can't just believe Texas is the best team or one of the best teams. Like they're good, but I can't like somebody's going to get them.
Speaker 1:I think Texas is good. I think they are very good. I just don't think their offense has been consistent enough. Or when they really play a tough defense ie Georgia, both games that they've lost this year the same team Georgia they've sent some pressure. They really know how to get into Quinn Ewer's head. I mean, he's looked awful both games. Both games. He did not look like a big-time D1 quarterback and now he's the rumor of a possible-time D1 quarterback. And now you know he's the rumor of a possible $4 million contract, no matter where he goes next year.
Speaker 2:Because I think Arch Manning.
Speaker 1:That's his team next year regardless. I think Ewers is done, but he's now talking about not going pro and, you know, rumor is possibly Oregon, possibly Ohio State, possibly. You know all these different teams and I'm like you're going to spend $4 million on a guy that can't beat his own conference. Why are we now? Now, I did love to see that Ohio State just absolutely destroyed Tennessee when it's been all year. Look at the SEC, we're just the best and they got them.
Speaker 2:Yep, you didn't look good, and that's so. I want to say this real quick. If you're listening we're going to get to the important bracket the christmas movie bracket yeah, we've got a lot of stuff going on with that yes so if you're listening just for that, we'll get to that here in just a minute.
Speaker 1:But it'll be in the chapter notes in the bottom, if you really want to skip to it. You can. I would appreciate if you didn't, but it is there just in case. That's what you want to hear but what?
Speaker 2:I hate I hate to see that oregon and ohio state play each other again and I'm sure Ohio State wants to get him back, but I want to see Oregon against an SEC school or somebody. I don't see him get challenged.
Speaker 1:I'm okay with Oregon Ohio State in the semis. I just hate to see it in the second round, like if it's the final four and we have to see it okay yeah but I would like to see it different?
Speaker 2:yeah, because we've already seen that that game and I.
Speaker 1:I mean, I think it's gonna be a good game. There's definitely potential for it to be a great game, but I do want to see both those teams play other conferences.
Speaker 2:You know, if Ohio State wins it, I'm going to say, all right, two games in a row, they got it going a little bit. Let's see what they can do. If Oregon wins it, I'm almost going to sit back and go yeah, you already beat them once. I don't care.
Speaker 1:I want for me really that to me, we'll go ahead and lead in picks for this week. Who do you have so like? For me, I think Texas runs through Arizona State like they're not even there. I don't think Arizona State can play with them. I would agree. I know you had said well, arizona State looked decent in the Big 12 championship game that running back looks good, but it's who they play. But against who he's saying well, I'm the best, prove it. Here's your week, prove it.
Speaker 2:Even if he is that good, your lines ain't going to match up. No, not even saying.
Speaker 1:SEC football. We're saying Texas, texas linemen go pro. Yeah, I'm not saying just SEC.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's that way at Ohio State, it's that way at some other schools, penn State You're not going to run on Penn.
Speaker 1:State Miami. Honestly you're not really going to run well on Notre Dame. It's the style that they play.
Speaker 2:I'm going to go with you on that one. I think Texas wins. Arizona State may play a little better than most expect.
Speaker 1:I expect it to be 2-3 touchdowns.
Speaker 2:I really don't think it's going to be much of a game and that's just going to prove again we don't need conference champions, it's just good, yeah, and that's kind of what I really.
Speaker 1:So I think Texas is going to win, but I really want to see that happen, to basically say, okay, your conference championship meant nothing because you didn't play anybody good all year.
Speaker 2:Like you had Iowa.
Speaker 1:State, BYU, Colorado. Like those guys would be 6-6 in any other league.
Speaker 2:Well then, just thinking of the bracket, I think Buckeyes beat Oregon. They've got it rolling. They've played them before and if you remember that game, they should have won that game.
Speaker 1:If he takes a knee a second sooner, Howard making that slide at the end a second too late. Yeah, they still had the timeout.
Speaker 2:They still could have got the kickoff, Like yes, there was a very good chance they were going to hit a field goal, I think.
Speaker 1:Well, but then the really questionable offensive pass interference. Yeah, that was a terrible call, I think. To me it's a no call with that in that juncture, like just makes sense you know how state's got it going.
Speaker 2:They figured some stuff out this week. They've got a chip on their shoulder from losing that game the way they lost it last time. I I think they're they take it. It might be a good game. I I think it will be a good game I, I want to pick ohio state.
Speaker 1:I really, really do. I'm on the wagon, I just I. I'm kind of the same way I feel against Tennessee, now that Oregon is seen. That's not the team we played. That's a much better team than we played. I also think Dan Lanning is in a lot of people's heads.
Speaker 2:He just. He's not somebody I like, he just seems very annoying to me. If you pick Oregon here, andio state goes out and plays like they did last week I have to pick, I have to pick against them every week yeah every single game.
Speaker 1:I so my biggest concern is the same thing that we said the first time they played, when we, you know pre-podcast. We talked about they if they can't pressure dylan gabriel, they cannot win, because if you give him time he can hurt you. Like, if you give him that much time and space to just throw it, you're in trouble. And I don't think that he's just this top tier like going to be the best thing ever NFL type quarterback. I just think at this level you give him time, he can destroy you.
Speaker 2:It's like what we said a minute ago Oregon has so much speed.
Speaker 1:They're so fast.
Speaker 2:You cannot sit back on them. You've got to send the house. Send Captain Jack on.
Speaker 1:I am picking Ohio State. I am picking Ohio State. I just think we have to see at least something that we saw last week for them to pull it out. I agree, I do. I also think Oregon, with that additional week off, maybe playing somebody else, it's something. But Ohio State has a lot to play for this game. You know it's, it's, it's avenging a loss it's at the rose bowl. Yeah, exactly, it's a huge huge, which it's basically a home game for oregon.
Speaker 2:They're going to travel there well, that's true, that's gonna be tough I hate that, but that's always been a big thing, for you know big 10 of the buckeyes to get to the rose bowl. Oh true, you know it's little something different this year it's very different now than it used to be.
Speaker 1:But yeah, to be in the Rose Bowl is always a big deal, yeah, so next game, I think, is kind of an intriguing one. I don't know what's going to happen. Boise State, penn State Any thoughts there?
Speaker 2:It might be the closest game that we see, but I think Penn State gets them Just running the ball.
Speaker 1:I'll be honest with you. Penn State's offense still didn't look great Against SMU. They had two pick sixes pretty early, three interceptions in the first half. It wasn't a great Showing by SMU, but at the same time, kind of what I said about Penn State Is they could be really good If they can score points. Now they ran the ball well. That's what I think they'll do. But.
Speaker 2:But Allard didn't look impressive like he didn't look like he could you know, just shred a defense, you're taking them off their blue field.
Speaker 1:I don't know if they can handle it. I mean you're right. You're right, I mean they've. They've won everywhere, but they've not won convincingly everywhere. I still think uh, they're running back um Heisman finalist. I think, he'll still probably break 100 yards, because I think he's going to run it 40 times. I think it's going to happen.
Speaker 2:But I don't know. I'm curious to see if he can run as he has against Penn State's defense. Just bigger line, bigger guys.
Speaker 1:I would say the line is much more pressure, it's bigger size, they're faster. We'll see. I don't know. I think they'll still get some. Really, their only loss this year was Oregon, but Oregon is more speed than they are strength, so I'm just not really sure how that will go.
Speaker 1:It might be the closest game I think I'm picking Penn State, but yeah, I think it could be a three to seven-point game, probably low scoring If Boise State Doesn't turn over the ball. Yeah, we could see 17-10. We could see 14-10. It could be pretty, Pretty low.
Speaker 2:Like I said, a lot of running the ball Clock going a lot Probably end up being A fairly short game.
Speaker 1:Yeah, most likely.
Speaker 2:Most likely Because I think both teams Are just Now that I've said this, they're going to book it up.
Speaker 1:Throwing it out of nowhere. It's going to be basketball scores at this point uh okay, then the final one. Uh, georgia and notre dame georgia.
Speaker 2:That's all I got to say. Kirby, smart I'm picking notre dame I'm not a georgia fan, by no. I know you're not, I fully know that. But I've seen them over and I've like, every time you count them out, they're there.
Speaker 1:I am gonna take freeman and the irish um. I know there's one person that heck. You probably won't listen to this for weeks because you get so far behind in this you just don't have time to listen to them. But I know you'll be happy to hear this. I think I am picking them. I don't think Georgia matches up great with them. I think they've got a decent line. Not sold on the backup quarterback either for Georgia.
Speaker 2:That's the key the backup quarterback.
Speaker 1:Excuse me, not sold on the backup quarterback either for Georgia. That's the key, the backup quarterback. And, excuse me, Notre Dame has really just been playing better, Like since that loss early in the season. They've not really had a close game. They're kind of just going in there like, hey, we're here to do some business and get out of here, and that's what they've done. So I think they're a very solid team that could absolutely make a run.
Speaker 2:Well, I do think they're another team playing with a chip on their shoulder. They've got something to prove. They're not in a conference. Everybody always comes out.
Speaker 1:When they come out and they're like well, the highest that they could ever get is a five. I'll prove that. I can prove you wrong with that, because if we come out next year undefeated best team in the country and come playoff time, you give us a five. Yeah, like that, that's an issue like. I don't like that. That's why I say get rid of the whole conference championship thing. Like best teams are best teams.
Speaker 2:That makes yeah, you shouldn't have to be in a conference. If you're good enough, you're good enough no, and it's.
Speaker 1:It's one of the few teams that it makes sense for them not to have one. It's just like historically what they've done. Um, you know there's plenty of money there for them to stay independent. You know they, they're ACC and everything else. I mean they've been ACC for basketball for many years now?
Speaker 2:Yeah, they might as well just jump in there.
Speaker 1:To win it every single year. Yeah, Like I couldn't imagine them losing ACC.
Speaker 2:I don't know what the? I know it's a traditional thing, but I don't know why they stay independent.
Speaker 1:I mean I guess you get a whole lot more. So, like they have, at one point they had their own network. It was like an Irish network, yeah, cause then when you get these big conferences and they do money shares and especially the ACC is one that they talked about crumbling cause they're, the shares were awful, Like a lot of the teams didn't really like it. Um. So yeah, I mean I guess make a little bit more sense of it, but that's really the only reason I can see it at this point Getting to make your own deals and kind of getting to do whatever you want.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm curious to see how these games play out. I think it's New Year's Eve. We get a game and then three on New Year's Day, or something.
Speaker 1:Something like that. Yeah, kind of similar to this. Today I would prefer two and two or all four, like. I just don't like the one and three.
Speaker 2:That's a I don't know what time it starts new year's eve, but that one kind of feels weird, because a lot of people are doing things on new year's eve or you know we're gonna watch the ball drop, or you know whatever if, even if you're not I don't think I've watched the ball drop in like two or three years uh, we'll put it on there for the kids and stuff. If you know, brooklyn's usually still I. I just don't I don't care.
Speaker 1:Like it's, it's new year's, it's another day to me. Like it doesn't feel like a holiday, like nothing special, like christmas is its its own thing, like there's just so much with christmas yeah um, that new year's is just kind of like why it is celebrating. It's a week later, yeah exactly, and there's really there's nothing to it like it's not like a gift thing.
Speaker 2:It's.
Speaker 1:Christmas extended.
Speaker 2:In a way, and it's not really worth it at that point. We're going to keep Christmas going for the week until we get the New Year's, and then we'll start over.
Speaker 1:Well, that's kind of how everybody feels. Anyways, it's well, I'll keep my Christmas lights up until then. Oh yeah, we do. You keep them up until New Year's.
Speaker 2:A lot of people their offices and things like that close for that week between the two. You know school's out.
Speaker 1:Well, that makes me think. You know, I sent an email or two the other day trying to inquire about some equipment and some different things, and they're like oh yeah, we'll be back in the office January 6th. I'm like how, that's not New Year's.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:That's a whole week after the fact, Like how are you off until?
Speaker 2:then? Well it's, you know, Christmas and New Year's falls in the middle of the week, Right, Like both of them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Wednesday is such a weird time.
Speaker 2:It kind of takes two full weeks, I guess.
Speaker 1:Well, that's the hard part is like you work Monday. They kind of usually give you Christmas Eve, christmas off and it's like all right, well, it's a Thursday, you kind of have to go back to work. I know Thursday, friday, you kind of don't really get much. This year. When it's in the middle of the season, it's wow, I don't even know what word I'm trying to say at this point.
Speaker 2:I don't know where you're going.
Speaker 1:When it's in the middle of the week, it's tough. I've been on seasons and years and holiday season. Holiday season that was the problem. I looked at the Christmas calendar movie bracket and I was thinking holiday season and you know I'm excited to get to that are we gonna do a new year's bracket, next new year's movie bracket? It's a week later. I don't have time it's not worth it for me.
Speaker 1:I don't have time for that um, yeah, this, um you know, it's been interesting to see how this played out on social media yeah, so obviously we, we kind of let the fans do a vote and pick all their you know their winner per round and everything. Um, not saying we're not going to follow that at all, but kind of the whole point of this is, this is kind of our uh, our, our thoughts on the top 12 and I want to see if we're going to line up with the people or not yeah, I mean I know you've got it pulled up over there, so I mean I'm I'm good with jumping into round one.
Speaker 1:Let's get the party started.
Speaker 2:Okay, I know you're getting situated.
Speaker 1:Jumping around, you're shaking the whole room. I mean it's a mess over there.
Speaker 2:You just called me fat.
Speaker 1:Gosh, I'm shaking the whole room moving around. Listen. Wow, your little one could jump in here and shake the whole.
Speaker 2:This floor is.
Speaker 1:It's not a fat joke If I was going to call you fat.
Speaker 2:I'd say, yeah, you're fat. We don't have our professional studio built yet, so if anybody wants to sponsor that, any donations for a professional studio.
Speaker 1:You know Small ask, we still have a small budget. At the moment it's the Christmas season. Okay, come on, guys, you really care about us. You'd help us out, that's right. Such good content. So no, I'm good. We'll jump right into the first one, which would be National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and a Muppet Christmas Carol which I don't think you had seen the Muppets before we had put it on the list.
Speaker 2:First time I'd seen it, I went back I said on the last podcast I was going to try to watch all 12. You got most of them, I got most of them.
Speaker 1:There's a couple I skipped that. I'm like I've seen it 10 billion times. If I have to skip that one, I'll skip that one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I went back and watched both of these. The people picked National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Through social media.
Speaker 1:So I was talking to a couple people today and they were telling me that's like their favorite movie and I'm like I just don't get it.
Speaker 2:It's good.
Speaker 1:Again. I put that on the list and I think it's a good movie. I think it's. I think it is very much so a, at this point, a classic Christmas movie. So many people want to watch it. It kind of just falls in line. It's truly about Christmas, it's all you know it's it really follows all those rules.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's kind of I don't even want to use the word funny, because I didn't find it that funny.
Speaker 1:I know you didn't really enjoy it at all.
Speaker 2:It wasn't as good as I thought I had remembered. Maybe it wasn't as good before either, I don't know.
Speaker 1:There's too many scenes they kind of left hanging when I text you it was way more slapstick humor than I really remember it being Like the little things of how he gets hurt or the little things of how he gets hurt or but I just never found it funny background noises Like it just felt very they never three stooge.
Speaker 2:They just never followed through with the scene to make me want to laugh at it. And and at the end of the movie I remember pausing it, so the little time thing would pop up and I still had like five minutes left and I was like, oh man, I need this.
Speaker 1:Oh man, I need this to come on. I probably should have turned it off at that point, but I was hoping something would get me back. So the thing is, though, funny enough, that movie and the Muppet movie are almost the exact same runtime it's like right at an hour and a half. Okay, so what was your thoughts on Muppet Christmas? Because that was your first time seeing it, which you would say. I don't even think you had watched any Christmas Carol story.
Speaker 2:I've heard of you know Scrooge yeah.
Speaker 1:Ebenezer Scrooge Right.
Speaker 2:But uh no, I'd never seen the story, Right Um, it's old school, you know it's kind of it's early nineties.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's, it's dated.
Speaker 2:What, just in the story itself, is kind of dated better than I expected and because of that I'm going up.
Speaker 1:It's Christmas Carol, so I put both of these on the list. Um, so they're.
Speaker 2:They're fighting against each other, oh, by the way real quick, yeah uh, I want to say thank you to Brian Becca and Maddie they did the seating for us, so they did that we did a great job with.
Speaker 1:I actually think the the seating turned out really well. Yes, as a whole, I got. I got a couple things that you I see, brian, I'm going to say come on, dude.
Speaker 2:Well, but that was the point. We didn't want our opinion to be on it To where? Because we could just move it.
Speaker 1:Brian, we text him and it was like, yeah, absolutely We'll do it. And then, not only that, he said I don't want to do it by myself. So he was like we're going to do it. And then he averaged it out and then made it for us and it was like well, heck man, that was way more than we thought you were going to do yeah, exactly, so I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2:That was great. That's exactly what we needed to kind of keep our opinions out of it, absolutely.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:I'm going with the Muppet Christmas Carol also. Any other movie I don't know it's the matchups.
Speaker 1:Maybe die hard. Sometimes it's the matchup. No, I don't know. I don't know about that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'd be honest with you, I might have picked Die Hard, even though I don't think it's a good movie.
Speaker 1:I know it's just it's a good movie. It's a good movie, but yeah, I think a Muppets Christmas Carol, think that's a good story, like it's another one it's. It's not a story that just follows the same old, same old, like it was, like it's different, it's something just there was one odd thing.
Speaker 2:I guess you'd say it is I didn't. I was like what's going on here? So first of all, it's a muppets, yes, and the first ghost is this kind of spooky little girl.
Speaker 1:So I'm like wait a minute, I thought this was a kid's muppet thing. Yeah, it's like this, like floating baby head in a way, like it's.
Speaker 2:It's a little bit odd so that was the the past and then the future. One was, like I guess, supposed to be like a creepy death kind of character yeah, it is, and it's kind of creepy but then the present was this like big puppet.
Speaker 1:Well, so the thing is full of energy any other story, any other version of that story you watch.
Speaker 2:It's very similar to that and he already had something going on his memory. He couldn't remember that he said the same thing.
Speaker 1:Five, yeah and I think that's just like and maybe that's the story. I don't know I don't remember all of that but I know like the present one it was always. It's a very like kind of energetic type character it's. You know whatever.
Speaker 2:But I will say I would recommend it and it's a fun movie.
Speaker 1:I forgot the songs, but the songs are actually a lot better than I remember them being um, so it's much more of like a musical style, but it's it's a good movie yeah, yeah, which, by the way, you're not a big batman fan I'm not but uh, christopher nolan's trilogy of the batman, that's alfred, the guy that plays scrooge in there, that's, that's the the. But oh, okay. So so when I saw that, I'm like, oh my gosh, I forgot he's in this?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, it was going to win for me, I think either way.
Speaker 2:So we got Muppets, christmas Carol moving on.
Speaker 1:Muppets. So then on to the next one. We're at Home. Alone 2 and.
Speaker 2:Die Hard.
Speaker 1:Die Hard's not a Christmas movie Like it's following it.
Speaker 2:I went and watched it and I hadn't seen it in years.
Speaker 1:I watched it like two nights ago.
Speaker 2:There is very little mention of Christmas.
Speaker 1:It's a Christmas party. The cops talk about it.
Speaker 2:The ending talks about it, but it's a like if they were at least exchanging gifts or something or maybe. But nobody even Listen. I didn't even see Santa Claus.
Speaker 1:I didn't see nothing. Hans ruined the gift giving. Santa probably got killed in an elevator, I don't know. I don't know either.
Speaker 2:That's really dark for the show, I guess. But um, no, but again home alone two versus die hard.
Speaker 1:How do you pick against?
Speaker 2:home alone two yeah, that's, it is so funny. I I don't think die hard is a christmas movie. It is a good movie, but regardless of that, home alone two is so funny.
Speaker 1:They did a really good job with re-watch, re-watching it and like all the little scenes he does with that little recording device which my brother had when I was a kid. I remember him having it. I was so jealous of that and it's like you know him with his uncle in the shower and just all the little things that he's doing with it. Like I just forget, like how quirky and funny it is.
Speaker 2:We were talking about this before the podcast all the movies with the little lines. That's another one of. You know, harry, I reached the top and things like that. You know, yes.
Speaker 1:Yes, it sounds like a tool chest falling down the stairs. Like there's just so many little things that's so funny. Yeah, yeah, I'm 100% Home Alone 2, like that's enough, like we move on Home Alone 2, that's enough.
Speaker 2:We move on Home Alone 2. That's a good movie, but don't watch it with your kids.
Speaker 1:It is so then on to the next one. It's a Wonderful Life and the Jim Carrey Grinch. Yep, you are a huge fan of the Jim Carrey.
Speaker 2:Grinch. So you go ahead here, because I got some thoughts, you go ahead.
Speaker 1:So it's hard. It's a Wonderful. Life is a great movie. It is just it's very old, it's much slower. I think I'm just naturally a newer movie. I kind of flock to a comedy. I'm going to go with Jim Carrey's Grinch. Okay, I think that's easy for me. I love Max.
Speaker 2:Max.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think it's really funny. I think it's a good movie. I yeah, I think I think it's really funny.
Speaker 2:I think it's a good movie. I mean when I was a kid at one point that was my absolute favorite movie of any movie it's somewhat after it came out, but it's again.
Speaker 1:It's probably it starts to feel a bit dated. Even now it does like just some of the Whoville and some of that stuff. It does feel a little bit dated.
Speaker 2:I've been on the, you know really wanting to push that movie along some Right, because I feel like that's who the Grinch is supposed to be. Kind of this mean, heartless character, and that's how he starts out in the movie A little more evil, not just mean yeah, A little darker yeah yeah, not that he's.
Speaker 1:No, I mean, he never really hates anybody, he just doesn't like Christmas.
Speaker 2:Nothing crazy, but it's still like he's a little bit darker. But so going back and watching that it was much more funny than I remembered. I laughed several times some of the quotes. You know it's that sarcastic funny and and I guess I might say I'm a little sarcastic myself at times- so well.
Speaker 1:Jim carrey could not have played any better. I mean, he did a fantastic job, I think the costume that they put on him was really good too. It felt like the Grinch, it just felt like a really good person.
Speaker 2:Whoville a little weird Some of the characters Whoville's a little odd, I agree with that and it done a really good job of telling the story of Christmas isn't all about presents, right? I think it did really good with that.
Speaker 1:And then so think it did really good with that and then so what it's up against.
Speaker 2:I forgot, well, so it's up against. Uh, it's a wonderful life, it's a wonderful life. So I went and started watching it and I got about 30 minutes in. Yep, it was like very, very late night and I was like I'm gonna finish it tomorrow and tomorrow might come, but I didn't came.
Speaker 1:Okay, so you may eventually finish watching it, but you haven't yet.
Speaker 2:I think I will, just because I want to know what happens.
Speaker 1:So I love the story of it. It's another one like it's not something we see, it's not a just Santa Claus, you know presence, it's not just that story.
Speaker 2:Well, that's the thing. I really don't know what the story is yet.
Speaker 1:Well I would say, yeah, 30 minutes in. You definitely know.
Speaker 2:But it was just the dialect and everything was kind of hard to follow. It's from like the 40s. I mean the Pharmacist slapped the bully. I was like what am I watching?
Speaker 1:It's very old, it is not stood the test of time. Great, but I still do think it's a really good story. It's a really good movie and it's kind of that same style of life worth living. It's not all about presence, there's just so much more to it.
Speaker 2:Talking about. We put this on social media. So, going back to the National Lampoon's Vacation one on social media, we're not going that route Home Alone, 2-1, obviously we were going that too, and on this one, the Jim Carrey Grinch one but I was surprised how many votes it's a Wonderful Life got, and so there's clearly a group of people that maybe enjoy that.
Speaker 1:I remember I saw in one of the comments I think it was actually Brian's sister-in-law, maybe it was like well, they left out Rudolph. Oh yes, but it's like those are all the movies that you see on TV every year. You see Frosty, you see Rudolph, you see it's a Wonderful Life, you see what is it? Miracle on 34th Street? You see those movies. Those are just constantly on TV every single year. And again David actually reminded me. I kind of left it on a cliffhanger. Probably nobody's even going to remember this.
Speaker 2:A movie I said my mother loves that we didn't put on this list is a christmas story I know I was listening to back to the podcast and you said I just got talking about other things. We went on to something else and I was like wait a minute, I don't even know what it is, yeah so a christmas story, but on tnt every single year.
Speaker 1:I think it starts tomorrow. Maybe it's a 24-hour marathon of that movie.
Speaker 1:I've never seen I despise it I might watch it, just because I've seen seen it, not even because I've seen it so many times. Don't get me wrong. Every year I've watched it with my mom because she loves it. I will watch it, but it's just Aren't you a good son? I've never thought it was a yeah, I've not been accused of that too many times, but I've never just thought it was that good of a movie. No-transcript, the allure of it, um, all right, so continuing on. So you picked Jim Carrey Grinch, right, I did. Okay, I did so. Yeah, we're so far, we're, we're all kind of right there, which it makes sense to me because I mean, both of us kind of flock to a comedy more. We kind of just yeah, uh, you know, kid friendly type stuff, like just kind of happens. Um. So the last one, uh, the animated grinch, which is the newer, new one, uh, benedict cumberbatch voiced um verse jingle all the way so the, the animated grinch, I have seen 10 000 times, probably over the past couple years.
Speaker 2:Just because my little boys love it, I think yours do too. My little one especially we watch it, which I have seen 10,000 times Probably Over the past couple years, just because my little boys love it. I think yours do too.
Speaker 1:My little one especially. We watch it year round. We had to buy it and download it on his iPad Because he wants to watch it all the time.
Speaker 2:And I think maybe that's the audience it's going for, Because of the one with Jim Carrey it was not really as much for kids. It's kind of scared some kids a little bit.
Speaker 1:Probably it is but it's got a little bit more scarier undertones. Yeah, but where this one, like he's barely even rude. Yeah, it's just such a different character, and for that reason like the movie's great If you watch it with your kids or whatever. Oh, it's a good movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a good movie and get the story out.
Speaker 1:But Well, but even my wife, she said this a million times. She said the first couple times I watched it I didn't like it. She's like I didn't think it was a good movie. And she said you know, after it's forced on your throat 15,000 times, you have to see it. You know she's like well, I actually really think it's funny, it's cute. You know, the song's a little bit different, they're a little more, more with than you can.
Speaker 2:A live action. There's some jokes in there with him finding the reindeer and things like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's definitely got some funny stuff. Yeah, the screaming goat that scares everybody away.
Speaker 2:So it's some funny stuff. I kind of want to go back and watch the original Grinch from years ago and see which the 50s or whatever it is.
Speaker 1:Just see which one it's like so it's more like the Jim Carrey one to me. He's a little darker, which it is the true, dr Seuss. It's got the rhyming, it's got the narrator in the back. It's the very old style. So I think that moves us into our next round. Well, no, we didn't say, a win there. Oh, we didn't. We didn't Anime Grinch or Jingle All the Way.
Speaker 2:I watched Jingle All the Way too. Jingle All the Way is fantastic.
Speaker 1:It's a good movie. Yeah, I remember when I was a kid I got a Turbo man and that was the coolest toy ever. I didn't know it was a real toy. Oh, it was absolutely real, I had it. I actually went on and looked. So they came back out with it early 2000s or early 2010s, I'm sorry. They re-released that toy, kind of like a repush of that movie. It wasn't exactly the same. It felt a little bit cheaper. You know, didn't get that one. Well, I found an original one on eBay oh $500. Original one on ebay oh five hundred dollars, holy smokes. And I'm like there's no shot because, like, if I bought that, I couldn't open it like it would just be such a like, an established like you could so.
Speaker 2:So you said you got a turbo man music kit. I did. But was your dad turbo man? Oh, absolutely not.
Speaker 1:Oh, and I gotta tell a little funny my dad couldn't fill out that suit like arnold schwarzenegger gonna. Are you kidding me? Like nothing against my dad, like he's in great shape for his age especially, but yeah, like that Arnold in that movie like he's jacked, he's jacked yeah there's no way that reminds me, so I haven't even said this to my wife yet.
Speaker 2:We were talking the other day about that movie and I hadn't seen it yet. It's been a few years since seen it, and we were talking about his accent and she says the kid's name in an accent and we were talking about the kid's name being Charlie, because he says Jolly, jolly and that's the terrible accent.
Speaker 1:When I got to watch it I was like wait a minute his name's Jamie. It ain't even Charlie. Yeah, I was going to say where's Charlie, but it's because of the way he says that it's like Jamie, you know it's. Yeah, I don't know the reindeer in my head and that accent. She's been trying to get me to say it and I'm like I don't have that accent.
Speaker 2:It just happens in my head well. So I mean I just one time I wanted, I wanted to hear what was in your head. But then I thought about it.
Speaker 1:That could go. That could go many different ways.
Speaker 2:So we're going jingle all the way.
Speaker 1:Uh, yeah, I am going jingle all the way. It's. It's such a good movie, like it's just. It's so funny to me. Um Sinbad, you know, was popular at the time. Yep, don't really know what happened to him, I haven't really even looked into him. I don't know what happened to him either to be honest with you, but he just he played that character well, Like the cop, all the stuff that happens to him, Like it was just really funny and so, yeah, that moves us into our next round, and we've got some tough matchups in this round honestly so.
Speaker 2:This is where we had the top four seeds gotta buy yeah.
Speaker 1:So if you haven't seen, the matchups are tough to pick from.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so if you haven't seen the rack, you can actually see it on our social media.
Speaker 1:Not, it is on, not amused for you and it is also on the for you golf uh page both instagram and facebook, so please go check out both and we'll post.
Speaker 2:Post that probably tomorrow with the champion from there, and we might post ours too, I don't know. Might as well post ours. I mean, ours is the only one that matters, that's true, like they voted, but we matter.
Speaker 1:I'm the one with a mic.
Speaker 2:No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1:My show so that moves us into the first Home Alone is taking on a Muppet Christmas Home Alone 1. End of story, move on.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm moving on. I think you agree. Right, I don't disagree. Home Alone is so good.
Speaker 1:Now there's only two Home Alone movies. Oh yes, they've made like 10. Yes, there are only two Home Alones. As soon as you got away from Kevin McAllister it is no longer Home Alone. You should have stopped it yeah, yeah, I actually saw they had a list of all four. I don't know if it was on Disney Plus or what I was on and I'm like one and two, just nostalgic pictures. I'm like I've seen three a few times very, very different. Didn't even know four existed.
Speaker 2:I Talking to somebody today about it and I said Home Alone 2, and they're like, was that the one with the RC car? And I was like no, that's 3. Yeah, like we're not confusing those.
Speaker 1:Don't you dare confuse those. This is New York. Yes, I mean, it's a very different story.
Speaker 2:So Home Alone. 1 moves on.
Speaker 1:Yes, home Alone 1 moves on. It's on to the quarterfinals. So, or Excuse me, semifinals Next. Christmas with the Cranks, home Alone 2.
Speaker 2:Christmas with the Cranks, my wife's probably favorite movie.
Speaker 1:That might be one of her favorite movies, even not.
Speaker 2:Christmas and I kind of hinted at this a little bit. I got a unique take on this, so I'll let you go first.
Speaker 1:For me it's back to the Home Alone 2 is funnier, so I go with that. There are so many quotable lines, there's so many just little things and it's honestly that's a movie to me that it has stood the test of time really well. It has Like it doesn't look as dated as it is. It's from like 1992. It's got Donald Trump in it. Yeah, Like in the hotel. It's just this random.
Speaker 2:Trump he looks so young.
Speaker 1:Wasn't it that they were in or something? Yeah, I think it might've been. Yeah, um, or probably he's there buying it or something, but he looks so young in that and it's. It's very weird to to see that now, especially. You know, when that movie came out, him being a politician was nowhere near you know happening, which is kind of funny now that you know all the stuff he does.
Speaker 2:I've seen everything now.
Speaker 1:I've seen him in that movie, but yeah, I mean that the Homeless Lady like it's just too good of a movie and I agree with everything you said about Homeless Lady.
Speaker 2:It's a great movie and it might move on anyways, but so Christmas of the Cranks is a very good movie. I believe that Tim loves the movie. We watch it every year. Yeah, there's one issue I have with that movie. Okay, it drives me nuts every year. Okay, okay, if you've not seen it, you've seen it. Whatever. I'll refresh your memory.
Speaker 1:Their daughter goes off to college, or whatever she's not peace corps, peace corps, that's right peace corps and she's not going to be home for peru, I think it was yep and so they always do this big christmas.
Speaker 2:Their whole neighbor does this big christmas, and all this and they put their houses in the house. Yeah, yeah for the whole, and so they're always not going to be there. And so tim allen, the the husband, talks his wife and let's go to the beach or cruise or whatever it is, yeah instead of having, we're going to skip christmas they're going to save money.
Speaker 2:They're going to go on a cruise and everybody in that neighborhood loses their mind, gives them such a hard time. Yeah, and every year I tell my wife if he don't want to have Christmas, leave him alone. What does it matter? Yeah, and I can't stand it every year.
Speaker 1:It's kind of like the whole HOA thing. It's like if one does it, y'all do it, type thing, which I think is stupid. I'm the same way. I'm like look.
Speaker 2:He doesn't put his house on the roof and they get mad at him If I don't Like you, put up Christmas lights every year.
Speaker 1:I never put Christmas lights up. Well, partially, like where I live, nobody would see them.
Speaker 2:That's it. I'm dropping Christmas lights off and you got to put them up.
Speaker 1:It's your turn.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm going to come hang them for you.
Speaker 1:I don't know. If you want to come hang them, you can. I'm just not doing it myself.
Speaker 2:If my wife said today, let's head to Florida, and we're going to be, let's go. We're putting the presents in the car.
Speaker 1:I don't think I'd be gone Christmas, because I remember as a kid we actually went to my grandma, dorothy, when she was still living in Tennessee. We went to her house and we actually had Christmas there. Think about how full your car is just on a normal vacation and now you have to pack, like I got a bicycle that year. I don't know how they put that in the car. Maybe they bought it when we got there.
Speaker 1:I don't know if Grandma Dora, I don't remember. I mean, I was very little at this point. I was maybe six, seven years old.
Speaker 2:Did you go on a trailer with you?
Speaker 1:No, but I mean, we just took one of our cars and it was like how the heck did we take that many presents? Yeah, Like like that. But that was the only time I can remember us having christmas away from home and it felt very different. I didn't, I didn't care for it, it was just a very different feel.
Speaker 2:Christmas just feels more right when, when you're in your own space, like yeah, I know I get that and I don't know anytime we can get out of town. I'm not gonna skip, I'm not gonna skip going to the beach.
Speaker 1:But that to me it's like all right, I all right, I'll leave the day after.
Speaker 2:Leave the day after Christmas.
Speaker 1:We'll go over New Year's. I'm going to leave over New Year's. Let's go to the beach. I'm all for it.
Speaker 2:Back to the movie. A little bit, yeah, so the movie's a good movie. That was just the pet peeve that every year I'm like I get frustrated.
Speaker 1:Like leave the there's you about that movie does not surprise me at all. Like for you, I'm sitting here thinking. Earlier today you said, hey, I have a take on that, I'll tell you later. Okay, now that I've heard it, I'm like, of course, that was your problem I mean it really is not, you know, the drunk looking santa that they invite in their house, that they don't know who he is, not the fact that the guy is robbing them blind and the cops are the biggest joke I've ever seen.
Speaker 1:Nope, it's the man doesn't want to put up Frosty, don't make him.
Speaker 2:They get him such a hard time over it and I'm like leave him alone. So with that, home Alone 2. Such a weird complaint. You're so weird, home Alone 2.
Speaker 1:Next, sorry, next matchup that puts Elf versus Jim Carrey Grinch. Quite a few people I've talked to. Elf is like number one for them. That is the movie for them.
Speaker 2:And I think every movie we've talked about so far other than I said about it's a Wonderful Life I have watched. I did not watch Christmas with the Cranks because I already knew I had that take.
Speaker 1:You've seen that so many times. Yeah, I remember y'all watch every year but both of these I watched recently yes, this past. Yes, um. Yes, you're right, I'm gonna take this one first however you want to do it, everybody loves elf good you, I know your take on this kind of somewhat not fully, but so you go ahead on this one.
Speaker 2:Everybody loves elf. Some people has that their number one movie. It's actually on social media. It's in our championship round right now today it is yep and I watched it. It's funny. It's got some funny parts. It's just not funny enough for me compared to the Jim.
Speaker 2:Carrey Grinch, because I was pleasantly surprised how much I laughed at the Jim Carrey Grinch. I really was. And for that reason alone, just because I feel like I laughed a little bit more not that Elf's not a good movie I'm going Jim Carrey Grinch just for that reason alone.
Speaker 1:All right, so this is going to be our first time that we're not agreeing.
Speaker 2:I knew it was coming eventually.
Speaker 1:So what I love and I've already said this a couple times what I love about Elf there's no other story like it. It stands alone in that category. The fact that human orphan goes into the bag, goes up to the North Pole, it's a very different. Raised by elves, it's a very different story and I think it's hilarious. He's so childlike when he comes because all he knows is Christmas spirit.
Speaker 2:That is true.
Speaker 1:Like, all he knows is Christmas and you know the love of Christmas, so he doesn't really know real world.
Speaker 2:Some of the things he does is really funny, but it's also annoying at times because it's so over the top.
Speaker 1:I just think it's so, it is so over the top, but it's so just like over the top Christmas to him, you know. And there's so again. There are so many lines in that movie that we quote year round. You know when he's like. You know you sit on a throne of lies Like that, that's hilarious. Or when he calls that dude an angry little elf and he comes across that conference room table.
Speaker 2:You're right, that is very funny, you can't tell me that's not hilarious. It's a funny movie.
Speaker 1:So I hadn't watched Elf in probably two or three years before I did last week. And they're talking about Miles Finch. Miles Finch, I'm like gosh who plays Miles Finch. And then when I see him, I'm like oh, yes, exactly, I was like immediately and he's like I didn't know you had elves working here, and it's just you left the North Pole.
Speaker 2:It's just so hilarious. It is by no means trying to take away from the movie. It's a good movie. No, and again this was the hardest one I had so far.
Speaker 1:So I'm picking Elf, but this is not me saying Jim Carrey Grinch isn't good. Yeah, it's again one of those. Probably another matchup. They probably both win.
Speaker 2:Oh, I agree, 100%, it's just against each other I'm like this I gotta go hard for me by far all right.
Speaker 1:So we we knew at some point we would probably have something and need a tiebreaker, so, surprisingly enough for those of you that know us personally, we actually came prepared all right and I know that's weird for you to hear um, but we have five, five people. There are friends, family, but not ones that we typically knew. Hey, they're just automatically going to pick this one. Yeah, what we did is we kind of went to some kind of outer.
Speaker 2:I found two people, you found two people, and then we had a third party find somebody that we don't know at all Right.
Speaker 1:So we actually found a co-worker of my wife who has nothing to do with those picks.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm just going to go ahead and tell you the two people. I asked, said Elf on this matchup. Okay, so that's already two right there, so all you need is one more of the other three.
Speaker 1:My first person said Grinch, really.
Speaker 2:He's like.
Speaker 1:I am a huge Jim Carrey fan.
Speaker 2:Let's go. I will pick him on everything. I think I know who that is. Let's go.
Speaker 1:But the other one picked the elf.
Speaker 2:Okay, I figured somebody was going to do it.
Speaker 1:My other person picked elf, so we really have to go to our fifth person. I actually, surprisingly enough again, we're somewhat prepared, but not fully prepared. The fifth one neither of us know. We don't even know the answers. We purposely was like we don't want to know, because if I have three that say it, or David has three that say it, we're already going to know the winner, and it's like we kind of want to be a little bit surprised on any of our possible tie that we need the tiebreakers for. So we asked probably three or four different ones. It was like, hey, what would you pick here, because these are the ones we think could be our ties.
Speaker 2:So with that, though, that means Elf is moving on, elf moves on, and that happened on social media as well.
Speaker 1:It did. Yeah, Elf moved on. Yeah, which I mean Elf moved a long ways on social media.
Speaker 2:A little funny story there. We had Elf winning so we put it up on For you Golf and Not Amused Right. So I looked at it late last night to kind of get the next day together, yeah, to kind of move it forward, and we had Elf was winning on For you Golf. Was this the?
Speaker 1:one I'm talking about? I don't remember. I remember you said there was one winning and one wasn't. I thought that was next round. That's next round. You're right, we'll get to that in a minute.
Speaker 2:Sorry, I'm jumping the gun a little bit. Hold on See, I got a good story coming out Stand by.
Speaker 1:He's so excited about this, I'm so excited he needs, he needs, uh, wolf-era to bring a cup of cocoa. I got an ornament and a nutcracker. Dear Lord, you watch too much TikTok. Um all right. So next, next one, two nineties movies, um the Santa Claus verse, jingle All the Way. Um, this was actually a little bit tougher for me than I thought, because Jingle All the Way to me is just such a funny movie when he punches that reindeer I laugh every single time.
Speaker 2:And then the buddy's after that.
Speaker 1:And he's like you started it.
Speaker 2:And I'm like that's so funny. Sometimes that's just what you got to do, right? Just punch a reindeer yeah, I don't know about reindeer, I don't know. But Just punch a reindeer, just get a.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know about reindeer, but I don't know.
Speaker 2:But every now and then you just see you might get in trouble for that one Punch an emu. Oh yeah, I'll punch one in a heartbeat.
Speaker 1:Emus are our friends Emu, emu I feel like I say it wrong.
Speaker 2:Every doesn't feel like a real word.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it's just like I don't know. It's fine, just roll on with it, big bird. Listen, y'all make fun of us. It's fine, it's all for the fun of it, it's for the fun of it. So, santa claus um, yeah, it's, it's such a good story, you know, santa falling off his roof and everything like that. Again, there's just so many little little things and it's just so funny.
Speaker 2:This is one I watch all the time and I even try to watch some of the others, even though the other you know, two and three, and and some of the episodes.
Speaker 1:They're not as good as good. They're not as good because that toy santa is just awful.
Speaker 2:No, I agree with that but I think the first one is so good that it kind of makes me want okay, let me, let me watch the others with it. Yeah, like it's part also one.
Speaker 1:One is such a good story and two like they're kind of trying to play off a little bit. You know he's got to have a mrs claws and it's just yeah they try. It was just it felt like we're trying to recreate the first movie, but trying to make it different, and it just kind of failed at both. It's almost like either recreate it or do something completely different. It just felt a little too half and half so the second one, it's okay.
Speaker 2:It's not as good as the first one, but I'm okay with it. It's the third one for me, then it gets way too far out there.
Speaker 1:I haven't watched the third one since I was a kid. I remember that's the Jack Frost one, if I'm not mistaken. I, if I'm not mistaken, I'll probably go back and watch it because at this point, like I've watched two, like I want to see it and I actually want to watch the episodes they came out with a couple years ago and those are pretty good, but they're I'm not going to watch them.
Speaker 2:They're modern and kind of different too. Yeah, it's going to be very different Very very different, but no I, so this one got through most of it, watched a little bit more today. I haven't got to finish it most recently, but it's still just as good as I remembered it it's such a good movie.
Speaker 1:I really enjoy it. But then too, they change the boy's mother. It's a different actress and I hate when that happens.
Speaker 1:I just want to see the same people stay and it's tough when they switch. So actually that brings us into our semifinals and we got a great matchup here. At first I say they are tough matchups. At this point, like once we got to here, I really had to think, and I'm not happy about having to think that hard well, I think that just shows, though, um, because it happened, like I said, the jim carrey gr?
Speaker 2:Elf, that's borderline for me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I understand that.
Speaker 2:But what we end up with right here Home Alone 1 versus Home Alone 2, elf versus Santa Claus yeah, it's the same thing that happened on social media. That's what we have now. Yep, that feels like a good top four, top four.
Speaker 1:I feel like I could easily put those in whatever order and be perfectly fine. I think so too, but unfortunately we've got to keep going. I don't know if it's unfortunate because I say that, but at the same time I'm like there's just a couple of these I feel like are better, One in particular in my mind.
Speaker 2:I just keep pushing, so I flipped on my thoughts with this first matchup we're fixing to talk about.
Speaker 1:Flipped as in, like recent, or flipped as in after you watched them this year After.
Speaker 2:Flipped as in like recent or flipped as in after you watched them this year, after I watched them this year. Okay, because we talked about it last week and I was home alone one, by the way, it's home alone one versus home alone two. Yeah, um, I was home alone.
Speaker 2:One is, it's the first one, it's the best, superior, it is and, and part of my comment was you know, when you see home alone two, well it's the same thing. You already seen it. But now that I've seen Home Alone for so many years, it is two. Every time I go watch it I already know what's going to happen, right? So I'm kind of basing it off of which one is better, and I want to keep watching even though I know what's going to happen.
Speaker 1:So my take on that is Home Alone is extremely good. The just classic pranks that he plays on them, the he plays on them, the classic, you know just everything. But I feel like they are very much the same movie, different, you know, two years apart. But the second one feels like it's a better done. First one like it, just it felt.
Speaker 1:I don't know if it's because you know macaulay culkin's a little bit older I don't know I don't know what it is, but something about it just feels so much more polished and just just as a better movie.
Speaker 2:It's almost like the, the writers, producers, whoever kind of learned a little bit from that first one that, oh, we could do this.
Speaker 1:Honestly, I don't know if it's the same people that directed it may not be. I don't have no clue, but I just think so in my mind it's like work with it.
Speaker 1:it makes more sense to me that he got lost in the airport than it did that they just left him at home, like that makes because there's so much commotion. I can see that. I know he was in the attic and everything, but how did he not wake up and then, like they counted the neighbor kid that was in there, you know, because he's backwards and it's like that just feels very like like in the airport. You know him getting mixed up, following the wrong guy because of the jacket, it's just like. All right, that to me made a little bit more sense.
Speaker 2:But even in both of them, though in the second one, even though you're saying, it's a little more believable when they get to the gate and she's like, oh, I'm going to count them all and Lily's like, no, get on, We'll make sure everybody's on.
Speaker 1:No, I'm counting my kids, it's very.
Speaker 2:There's still some of that, but that's part of the movie.
Speaker 1:What I love about 2 versus 1,. 1 feels like everything's kind of just at the house. Yeah, it pretty much is 2, there's kind of a little bit of the story that's in the toy store. But then you've got the hotel and kind of the mini bad guys of the hotel which in reality they're just trying to check on this kid who's at that point?
Speaker 2:got a stolen credit card, they did play them as villains, almost they did yeah, yeah, at that point I was stolen credit card.
Speaker 1:They did play them as villains, almost they did. Yeah, they really did, because you find yourselves wanting to not like them. Yeah, um, and it's funny too, like rob schneider is one of those that's in it. It's like how in the hell, like it's such a young rob schneider you know, because you know obviously him with adam sandler and everything he does now just felt very different back then I know, I feel like I should see adam sandler somewhere right, um, but then you know, using that clown in the shower for those guys and he absolutely destroys his shin on that table, like I.
Speaker 1:I crack up that every single time. But then to go to that abandoned apartment building, like that's just too funny for me. The, the pranks to me were just like a step above.
Speaker 2:They were like I mean, like really, really difficult there's one part that I kind of squeamish every time is when he steps on the nail that's the first one oh, that is the first one, so oh, you're right going up the stairs. Yes, he does it in the first, but there's a couple of those yeah, pranks like that. The second one is the staple gun right yes yes, that's the one that, yes, but then, but then again the staple gun.
Speaker 1:He's like got it in his butt and he's got that string that's going around the front to the back and I'm like that's just so funny. Now I love the fact too that it's the same bandits, but it's like it's those two guys and it's just following the whole thing.
Speaker 2:They're so dumb, though I mean oh, of course, of course just like the stable. He pulls it and he just keeps pulling the rope like how am I?
Speaker 1:who's gonna keep, just keep on going you really got this last year. You know what's coming right right, I just, to me that movie is just it's so funny, so funny, so I I kind of just I've really just gone with home alone 2, I don't feel like I could argue again.
Speaker 2:I never thought these would come together in the bracket no, I.
Speaker 1:So we actually at one point thought, depending on the rankings, those could be in the final they could be, yeah, that could have been a championship and we had a tough time with it. Yeah, but I'm going home alone.
Speaker 2:2, moving it on yeah, no, they're both great movies.
Speaker 1:After watching them again home alone 2, a little more uh yeah, if you haven't watched that movie in a while, listen to me talk. I pretty much talked about the whole movie, yeah, so, yeah, sorry about that I did think both of those um.
Speaker 2:They moved quicker than I remembered like we got to the action quick, yeah, and so, yeah, I'm with you home alone too.
Speaker 1:I didn't think I would say that last week, but after watching them home on, two is better than okay, one nice moving on uh, so that puts us into elf and the santa claus, um two, just full-on christmas, as christmas gets. Movies like those are christmas movies, not really movies you're gonna watch many other times. Uh, we're home alone movies. I mean, I could probably watch them anytime.
Speaker 2:These movies would just feel christmas time yeah, and I've already talked about elf a little bit. Yeah, um, I love santa claus and I just have to say santa claus is better than the elf. Santa claus runs the elf's worker santa claus.
Speaker 1:That's enough said well, so I I did say this the other day and I I kind of forgot about it. I hate the shape and size of Santa's sleigh in Elf. In Elf, yeah, it's like this weird long shaped. It is different. That may be why because you just kind of use that smaller.
Speaker 2:Maybe it's supposed to be modern because he's kind of in modern New York City.
Speaker 1:I don't know it just feels so weird I don't know. I didn't like that. I'll let you talk about this a little bit For me. I'm picking Elf, I'm going Elf on that one.
Speaker 2:Over Santa Claus.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh, I didn't know that I know, Hmm, I know, I don't know if we have a tiebreaker for this one.
Speaker 1:We'll be fine. Okay, yeah, we'll be good on that one.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, I am, yeah, I'm saying Santa Claus.
Speaker 1:So I know where that falls on your list.
Speaker 2:Yes, because Santa Claus is great.
Speaker 1:Santa Claus is a fantastic movie. I was honestly earlier today I was like Santa Claus.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Santa Claus and even now I'm sitting here saying Elf and I'm like how am I picking over the Santa Claus? Because Santa Claus is so funny and there's little things in Elf, like you said. Even now I'm sitting here saying elf and I'm like how am I picking over the Santa Claus, Cause Santa Claus is so funny? Um, and there there's little things in elf, Like you said. They can be annoying, they can be this, I don't know.
Speaker 2:But I what I like about Santa Claus. There's nothing else like it, and I think you've even mentioned that before.
Speaker 1:So I feel that way a little bit about elf too, it's. It's that way it is. I, I agree with you on that. But you know, listen, I'm gonna do this, I am going to retract my statement, I'm gonna switch, I'm gonna go back to santa claus. You go back to santa claus now.
Speaker 1:Well, because, because I sit here and I think about it. I'm like, all right, the animatronic reindeer are awful they are. They are horrible, but they're freaking hilarious like the. The faces of these. I don't even know what's going on here anymore, well, so I started. Are awful they are. They are horrible, but they're freaking hilarious, like the faces of these.
Speaker 2:I don't even know what's going on here anymore.
Speaker 1:Well, so I started talking about the Sleigh and I started talking about this, started talking about that and I'm like it's just a better Christmas movie.
Speaker 2:Which one? Santa Claus?
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm so confused Because I like Santa better like I like santa better in santa claus, I think he's a better santa than santa of. Well it's tim allen well but the, the santa and elf just feels like an angry old man he kind of is, he doesn't have that like christmasy feel so I said elf because there's so many funny parts and I sit here thinking about you know the uh, you know him calling him an angry little elf and like all these little parts it is funny, but then I also went back to the thing I said before.
Speaker 1:I said elf versus Santa Claus, these are two Christmas, as Christmas gets movies. You only watch them at Christmas time. And it made me sit here and say okay, well, I got to pause just for a second. Which is a better? The elves, Santa, the sleigh, the reindeer.
Speaker 2:So you're looking more at Christmas.
Speaker 1:So I said my answer and I said well, no, I've got to go back and think about Christmas on that side of Christmas, the commercial side of Christmas. Obviously not the Christmas that we necessarily celebrate fully, but just that commercial Christmas and Tim Allen's better Santa Claus the elves being kids I always thought was funny.
Speaker 2:They're super old, but they're children.
Speaker 1:Now you may ask me in a couple years and I may switch my mind because it's starting to age a little bit poorly.
Speaker 2:It is aging a little bit.
Speaker 1:It's starting to get pretty rough where elf is just so much more recent Recency bias. To me it's like you're going to pick elf because it's newer.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's a lot of that. I sit there and really think about it.
Speaker 1:I'm like man, but the Santa Claus is just good Him trying to shave that beard and it comes back immediately, and him getting fat really quickly.
Speaker 2:And they're trying to explain it. I'm being wishy-washy and I picked Elf, and then I picked Santa Claus and I'm going with. Santa Claus is a better movie. So just because you're wishing, I was you.
Speaker 1:I know him, I know him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's so many things I know that probably is this is where I struggled.
Speaker 1:I got to this point and I really had a hard time of picking, because it's just they are two unique movies to themselves. Nobody else does anything like it. It was really hard to pick.
Speaker 2:And so I ultimately really didn't think about it till just now and I was like crap, which is a better, which is better? I mean, I have to go say, even though you're back and forth, you, you make some good points there, because we've said several little lines and things from elf right, where santa claus don't really have that but.
Speaker 2:I guess you're right. As far as you know. Again, I was picking santa claus anyways, but it does seem like it is more of a christ movie. The Christmas part is better, I guess you would say.
Speaker 1:And no, this is not like a. Well, he read the script wrong. No, this is not a scripted thing. This is literally. Like I've been back and forth on this all day.
Speaker 2:You're starting to sound like me. I'm the one that everybody says I'm back and forth, can't make decisions sometimes. Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1:I'm usually better at that. I mean, I'm usually better at that. I just this was a tough one, this one's really hard.
Speaker 2:Now I'll get to my story that I left everybody hanging with On For you. Golf Elf was winning Right, not Amused. Santa Claus was winning Correct, and so I went back and kind of put them together and Elf pulled through by one vote. And when I went back and looked and I won't name any names, but you know who you are. This one person voted on both things, and they're the reason elf moved forward, so they should be very proud of themselves, and I can't get mad they use the system, they solely.
Speaker 1:That's the got it forward. That's impressive, that's smart, that's very smart I can't fault him at all.
Speaker 2:That was the system, uh, and then he made it happen so he did a good job of that.
Speaker 1:You're right he.
Speaker 2:He did the voting the way to be honest, I was glad to see it because I didn't want to see a tie and then I got to deal with a tiebreaker right I don't want to do that I agree with that.
Speaker 1:If they, if they tied, that'd be even tougher. Yeah, you know trying to break the tie on that.
Speaker 2:So in the I know I'm back and forth, but I'm, I'm, santa claus, yeah the final we have right now on social media was different. We have different than home alone one and elf, and we have home alone two and the santa claus, and so I'll tell you what I'm actually gonna go look right now if you want to start talking about next, I'm gonna go look and see what the people voted on theirs yeah, because I haven't seen their final vote.
Speaker 1:What the people voted is their number one. I almost just assumed Elf, maybe prematurely, because it's that recency bias. I think it's just the newer movies on your mind more you've watched it more Because Home Alone honestly it doesn't get played as much I feel like it did when I was a kid, but it's only on some kind of obscure channels at this point. So yeah, into our finals.
Speaker 2:Well, what I do know already just because we have a different two than the people, the people are wrong.
Speaker 1:Oh, they're absolutely wrong.
Speaker 2:I mean I can't help it. I'm sorry guys.
Speaker 1:Get better, just be better.
Speaker 2:Like you got the wrong two in the final round okay.
Speaker 1:Listen, they're all sitting there saying you gave us the crappy 12. I would have picked something else.
Speaker 2:okay, probably so I'm sorry, I've heard that a lot, with different people saying well, this one should have been there, that one should have been there.
Speaker 1:Oh, I've heard a bunch of people and they're like, well, I had to put this in there and I'm like, if I was pulling a March Madness and we had 64, sure I could see that being in there, but hard picking 12, having 12 was tough. I mean just to take it down to like the top 30, even just christmas movies, we brought in a 30 to do the draft and that was hard to do.
Speaker 2:um so, I'm gonna take this is a close race into our finals we, we have home alone 2 and the santa claus, and we've kind of already talked about both of these quite a bit we have we have, and I'm gonna struggle on this one I, I really am, I know.
Speaker 1:So we talked a little bit about our bracket this afternoon pre-podcast, but we didn't tell each other anything about our finals. We said nothing about the finals because it could be such a mess. I know where I'm at with it now. I know where I'm at with it now. I know my vote and I know you're still looking up the people's vote home alone, one versus elf.
Speaker 2:I am, and I'm a little surprised.
Speaker 1:Was it really close or did one run away?
Speaker 2:So 4U golf was really close between the two.
Speaker 1:Okay, so who ended up pulling that one out? Home Alone, home Alone, really Home Alone. I actually would not have guessed that. So then on, not Amused, what did we see?
Speaker 2:Home Alone.
Speaker 1:So Home Alone, just flat out won it for them.
Speaker 2:Now on For you Golf, which we have a bigger audience there.
Speaker 1:Sure, sure, sure Been around longer.
Speaker 2:It was 54% Home Alone, so it was close.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:But 100% I'm not amused.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Now, there wasn't near as many votes?
Speaker 1:Of course not, but still to solely go for it, wow.
Speaker 2:I expected to see Elf be ahead on the For you Golf page and then have to go see what happened, see what happened on Amused. Yeah, for the most part other than the one I told you, the one vote making the difference. Both pages have had the same winner.
Speaker 1:That's true. Same winner, that's true? Yeah, that's true, other than that one um now could we get a couple more votes in tonight?
Speaker 2:I, I doubt it. It's already kind of late.
Speaker 1:Uh, we could, but your votes don't count. Well, I mean, you've missed the deadline, we're not gonna get enough to make up that difference.
Speaker 2:No, no, it's a good little difference right now.
Speaker 1:So um, so I'm gonna tell you for me when we come come Home Alone 2 versus Santa Claus. I've thought about it all day. If I get to this point, what do I do? I'm going Home Alone 2. I just I can't not. It's just too funny. It is and the thing is they're like the exact same year, like they either came out the same year or a year difference, Like they're literally the same time frame.
Speaker 2:That's going to bring me to a good point. That's something I've thought of. Why is there no new movies in this bracket?
Speaker 1:Elf is probably the closest one. Yeah, and it's pretty old, but there's nothing that's like.
Speaker 2:Why are we not getting new Christmas movies? Is all the takes done Well?
Speaker 1:so there's a bunch of new Christmas movies. They're sounding good, but not like that, not like Santa Claus. We say elf is more recent. Do you know what year it came out? You gotta guess, I'm gonna guess 2004. November 7th 2003, 2003. Okay, so at this point it's old. I mean it's 21 years old.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like it's so what is up with that? Why is all these movies older?
Speaker 1:so I mean, I've had a few people that I talked to about this bracket. That was like they would throw out a name and it was a newer christmas movie and I'm like I didn't even remember that existed, like it was so just, it wasn't memorable, it didn't have the same. So is it same?
Speaker 2:feel or anything, is it? Even though the, the movies are good, it's the times are different, like back then, everybody watched it. Now it's like you've got so much social media and streaming you can watch all kinds of other stuff.
Speaker 1:I really don't know, um. So I mean, obviously I know you know post-covid, everything, the movie theaters are not the same, like where you're not going to the movies the same way, like growing up I mean, movies was like a, not an every weekend because it's expensive, but you know you did it quite a bit but if you put out a quality christmas movie like I, I think people would gravitate to it because there isn't anything. But you've got to put it out about Thanksgiving. That's when those come out.
Speaker 2:So there was a new Christmas movie that came out this year, and I can't remember. It's an action movie with the Rock or something.
Speaker 1:Red One or something like that, yeah.
Speaker 2:They protect Santa, I think, or something.
Speaker 1:But it's not. I've not seen it and I'm not really going to comment on like is it good or bad. From the numbers that it made on opening weekend it didn't seem like people were really into it. It wasn't very big.
Speaker 2:And again it's going to be yeah, it's a Christmas movie because it's got Santa Claus and everything, but is it really that Christmas movie?
Speaker 1:that we're talking about here. I don't know. I think I mean, obviously times are different. The commercial side of all that is very different. So I don't know. I think those movies really do. Well, I'm to the point. I'm just like, all right, we'll remake it.
Speaker 2:Let's do it as a modern of that. Why not?
Speaker 1:Well, they tried it with Home Alone and it was horrible they did, but I almost think you just have to say no, we're literally remaking one, or we're literally remaking two, Not let's do a three and a four.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would like to see a modern version of Santa Claus, which that's kind of what you get in the new episodes, but it continues with him being Santa Claus. I want to see a modern, let's just start it over. He becomes Santa Claus. Why does he become Santa Claus?
Speaker 1:And we just have it as a new person, new characters, new whatever. Yeah, like I'm not against that. So I've made my pick. I don't know where you're at here, because I know you've deliberated a lot.
Speaker 2:It's a tough one for me.
Speaker 1:I'm sticking, you know again. I changed my mind last round. Yeah, yeah, everybody laugh, whatever. Shut up this one. I'm Home Alone. 2, not questioning it.
Speaker 2:I love Home Alone 2. Watched it last night, as a matter of fact. You did, yeah, yeah, we were talking about it today, and I love the Santa Claus movie the first one, and I didn't get to finish it this weekend but I mean, I know the movie and what I have watched of it so far to this point here recently, like it all. Like, yeah, it all comes back um I know you're.
Speaker 1:You're literally over there struggling, right now trying to figure out where you want to go now.
Speaker 2:I do think the santa claus is a much more christmassy movie than home alone it feels like so yeah, it's, it's santa elves presents, it's, it is christmas now it's almost. You know the, the magical part of christmas versus more of the family traveling presents, christmas tree, you know.
Speaker 1:The destroyed bad guys with inanimate objects. Christmas Exactly, yeah.
Speaker 2:That's not part of most people's Christmas no.
Speaker 1:I've never had a Christmas that way. I haven't either.
Speaker 2:Now I mean, I don't think it'd probably turn out the way. I don't think I'd be as good as Kevin McAllister was.
Speaker 1:No, no, he was way more creative than I would be.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I think I'm going Santa Claus.
Speaker 1:I just had a feeling you were going to.
Speaker 2:It just feels more Christmassy. I really like Tim Allen and again, that's not taking anything away from Home Alone 2 or any of the Home Alone. I love those movies, To be honest, the two that's there, that's why they're there. That is my two favorite Christmas movies, oh sure.
Speaker 1:Sure, yeah, and I knew once we saw these in the finals it was going to be tough, because it's like man, those are both good Like I could easily see them making it. The same way I could have saw Elf making it. The same way I could have seen the first Home Alone making it. Like those four was like man. These are tough decisions.
Speaker 2:They uh first home alone.
Speaker 1:Making it like those four was like man, these are tough decisions that they are, and um, we're probably already gonna get some slack for elf, not?
Speaker 2:making it to our finals. Um listen, you guys were wrong just just get over it.
Speaker 1:Get over it okay. Don't be wishy-washy like me, just get over it okay um.
Speaker 2:So again, we did get five votes. We were prepared, we were prepared.
Speaker 1:Um, we were prepared, we were prepared. Both of mine said the same thing, both of yours said the same thing. The two people that I asked directly told me the exact same thing.
Speaker 2:Okay so we're going to have a winner then, because mine split on this the two I have. Okay, so our four are going to be a winner.
Speaker 1:Okay, so we don't need the fifth one. I have the fifth one's answers.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Well, the two you got, they tell you. So the first gentleman I messaged, he didn't skip a beat home alone too, he just straight up said it okay well, both of mine were standing next to each other and I got one that's right, that's right and I got one um one santa claus. Which one said santa claus, the older, the younger um boy, I don't know if I remember you are so unprepared. I have men wrote down with their names and everything oh, it's such a slide I'm.
Speaker 2:I'm a liar. They said the same thing they did. I just look back at my notes boy, this has been a long day. Sorry about that. God, you're killing me. They did, they said the same thing.
Speaker 1:Try to have a good channel. You're right, they said.
Speaker 2:The same thing. Okay, they both said Santa Claus.
Speaker 1:They both said Santa Claus, they both said Santa Claus.
Speaker 2:I just looked back, wow, when you said why didn't I separate them? That's why I didn't, because they both said the same thing. They both said the same thing.
Speaker 1:So Both of mine said Home Alone 2, both of yours did, both of mine said Home Alone 2. So we're going to the fifth one. We are going.
Speaker 2:I thought you just said they split.
Speaker 1:No, I said you said they split.
Speaker 2:Oh, you're right. What are you talking about, man? I don't know what I'm doing. The cold and the long month. I don't know what you're doing. It's too cold out here tonight. You're killing me, hey, you switch sides in in the middle of it, so I can have a mess up.
Speaker 1:Shut up, Listen. All we do is make fun of me here. I'm getting sick and tired of it.
Speaker 2:So we're going to the fifth vote. Somebody that works with your wife that I've never met. I don't know if you've ever met her.
Speaker 1:It's actually her boss. Okay, I've met him a couple times, I don't know him very well. Really nice guy and that's what we like a tiebreaker.
Speaker 2:Tiebreaker. We wanted somebody that we don't really know. We don't know what they think. Yeah, absolutely. We don't want to persuade them in any way.
Speaker 1:But I think it's very fitting that it's coming down to the fifth and final person on two that we struggled with Well what's going to happen is, whoever this person is, he's going to say it's your show, it's my show, I'm the one that picked it. Yeah, so it's his, his final, um. So, with that being said, we are putting this to a close all right, but it's the greatest christmas movie, according to not a muse podcast, which is the only one that matters, of course. Yeah, who needs?
Speaker 1:the other just listen to this one is home alone 2. Home alone 2. What home alone 2 it? And again, I could have went either way, as far as like, if the other one won, would I be upset. No, I'm the same way, but this one, it's like, yeah, it's too much. It's hard not to win, yep. So with that being said, guys, home Alone 2 is one number one. Number two you guys were wrong Picking Home Alone 1, it is the inferior movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's not.
Speaker 1:And number three again Merry Christmas. We will actually see you guys again next week, for New Year's Real quick turn on your TV.
Speaker 2:We've got the greatest movie right here, Home Alone 2. Go watch it. Go and put it on. Go watch it. Hey, put it on Santa Claus, where you at.
Speaker 1:That's good. I'm Santa Claus, just get over it. Merry Christmas you guys. Merry Christmas everybody.
Speaker 2:We hope to see you again next week for New Year's.
Speaker 1:But have a happy holidays.