Hi, Ryan Reynolds here for Mint Mobile. Are you looking for a beach read this summer? May I suggest your big wireless bill. It's got suspense, mystery, a slightly flat emotional arc, and a shocking twist where you realize you've been overpaying the entire time. Fortunately, though, Mint's story is better.
Every plan, $15 a month, even unlimited. That's it. Happy ending, zero tears. Give it a try at mintmobile.com/slash switch. Up front payment of $45 for three months, $90 for six months, or $180 for a 12-month plan required.
$15 per month equivalent to taxes and fees extra. Initial plan term only graded with 50 gigabytes be slow and network is busy. See terms. With the Capital One Saver Card, you'll earn unlimited 3% cash back on dining, entertainment, and at grocery stores. And for a limited time, new card members can earn a $250 cash bonus after spending $500 on purchases within the first three months.
So grab a bite, grab a seat, and earn unlimited 3% cash back with the saver card. Capital One, what's in your wallet? Terms apply. See capital1.com slash saver for details. Whether it's a birthday trip, a family reunion, or just a fun getaway, booking a Verbo vacation rental means no worrying about surprises.
VerboCare and 24-7 Life support have your back if something's off. The Loved by Guest filter helps you find top-rated homes, and verified reviews mean real feedback from real Verbo guests.
So you know exactly what you're booking. Honestly, I just booked my Verbo because there was a sweet wine fridge. Hey, we all have our reasons. Don't walk into a surprise. If you know, you Verbo.
Terms apply. See Verbo.com slash trust for details. Do you know? Uh Afternoon, everybody. Welcome into the Winkler Verse.
I'm Bart Winkler. Alongside today, Grand Pills. Recently quoted an awful announcing. Was I? I didn't read.
I'm the worst. I didn't read the actual article. Your quotes were, and they quoted us like just with all the choppy. From ways that we speak. Whatever.
Shout out to AA. Paul Imig is here as well. Paul, hello. Shout out to AA. Sorry.
I didn't say anything interesting enough to get quoted, but I read they actually Sub-led, the sub-header was Bart saying, stick to the fucking jets and the electromagnetic grid destroying the 49ers' wide receivers. What a title. That's the Winklerverse. Thanks again to everybody. About a week ago, we had the tailgate.
I appreciate everybody coming out. That was a great time. Gonna get back to a brewer game next Thursday, although it must be a last day game before summer because I'm not finding cheap tickets anywhere, SeeKeek or anything. I found some $60 ones in the club section, which is fine, but I. I've been able to find like $45 off the dugout.
Pretty much all summer. Teams in high demand, although. They're not playing well in San Diego. Love that this bay guy dips his glove in a vat of butter before the game. He's atrocious.
Yes. And then for Renhifo to hit a grand slam. Of course. Knew that was coming. That was stupid.
I'm also already preemptively upset about the Logan Henderson versus Tarek Skubel matchup that's coming up this weekend. Is that official? Yeah. Let's go how stupid that's going to be. That's going to be great.
See the brewers. This is the guy the brewers wouldn't trade for. This guy. Logan will out-pitch him. Let's just go for it.
He's out-pitched him in his last two starts. If you can. I know. Who needs the big money guy? And an update on what I'm doing the rest of the day.
It's a very sad day. My kid recently turned seven, which means another toy purge. We're getting rid of a lot of books. That I cherish reading to him. We're getting rid of a lot of toys.
A lot of wrestling toys have entered this house. We have nine figures now, life size, or not life size, but big. We have a wrestling ring. We have two different belts. We have to fight for it today, me and him.
We've got a raw microphone. And one of the big ticket items that's getting out of this house is his big bin of dinosaur toys. We are officially. Past dino age. You're out of the dinosaur business.
Yes, because dinosaurs were made up as a fairy tale for children. And now he's seven, so he no longer needs that fairy tale. We've talked about this before. I was going to call back to a previous episode: Dinosaurs did not exist. Yes, thank you.
Thank you. Call me on that. Uh if you like. Folks at AA. We've got about a tight 30 here.
And then I'll, you know, song and dance to get it to a 45 minute show. For some reason, that's what I like the shows to be. Um Paul, take it away. You can always call back the cruise line that you Yeah, I could call Bonnie back. I didn't hear the ending.
I've only heard about halfway through. Bonnie's fake? Yeah, AI. AI chat Bonnie. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. The first thing calls me for a free cruise. You want a cruise?
So I call back and it's like Yeah, hello, you're talking to Bonnie or you're talking to Mike. And I'm like, Bonnie called me. I want to talk to Bonnie. Oh, she's on another call. Craziest thing.
Does the chat bot sound? Does the chat bot have an accent? No, she sounded totally nice and normal. Oh, I was going to say, you almost talked with an Indian voice. Yes, I didn't mean to, but I accidentally did.
I tried to revert it back as quickly as possible. And then you're like, Mike, his name was Mike. I think the second guy you called back was Mike. Yeah. So I think you combined your two guys.
Yeah. It's just the advantage of the call bot is that you don't need to have the call center in India, and therefore the accent that sometimes makes it difficult, you also don't need that. Although that would be keeping the human element of the call center would be kind of nice in AI keep the accent just because it's what it's supposed to sound like. Anyways, do you remember that show on NBC? NBC had all its source.
I knew where you were going. That show was terrible. I watched the first season. I think it was only one season. I definitely watched the first season.
Do you remember the show they had during the pandemic? They made a show of people. Just like the show was watching people on a Zoom chat. No. It was like Uh it was called like quarantined or something.
Mm-hmm. I mean, it was so, you knew right away it was not going to last. NBC sitcom about COVID. Uh show. It was called Connecting.
The show aired in late 2020 and focused on a group of friends trying to stay connected and sane through video chats. Why would anybody just watch like three guys talk in a box for an hour? What the fuck? Strange. I'm glad you made the joke because I was about to if you didn't.
Stupid. What do you got? Box number three. The Christmas Day slate of collective games, NFL, and NBA. Purely based on the matchups.
Is the best day of sports of the year? on the worst possible day. of the year. Mm-hmm. Or mm-mm.
It is. Spurs at Nick's to start the day. Packers Bears Pete Celtics in what will be obviously Giannis in Boston. Bills Broncos, LeBron going back to LA to play against Bronnie. And the Lakers, if Brody's still a Laker, presumably.
And now with the new Lakers ownership. Uh thunder wolves, which will be Lamello with the wolves, of course, rams, seahawks. And then Jokic versus Steph Curry as the nightcap. Eight games. All seemingly, like, I mean, we don't know where these teams will all be on December 25th, but like.
That is an awesome day of sports. Best day of sports games of the year on the worst possible day of the year to watch them. Mm-hmm. Or mm-mm. I think you got to say mm-hmm.
It's clear for me. Like, do this on any other day, please. This is amazing. Why?
Well, I don't mind.
So, I don't mind sports on Christmas. Not all this. I want to watch. Right, because there are times during. Like For the longest time, we were a Christmas Eve family, and Christmas was kind of like.
A nothing day. Christmas Eve was the day. Very simple. Yeah, now with my family being all over the place, we usually do Christmas. at her house or her parents or wherever we go.
So Christmas is taken up.
Okay. And there's times in the past. where it's christmas eve and it's like eight o'clock and you're like i wish there was a game on So now there's an NFL game even on Christmas Eve night, which used to be they went to Christmas, but Christmas Eve was still sacred because it was like, You know, Santa's coming and church, church is big Christmas Eve, midnight mass.
So Christmas Eve. Night has almost become like For some people, the main most religious part of the day. Or the time they do the most. Anyway, also on Christmas, like on Christmas, we wrap up with things. It's 8:30 again.
Oh, I'd love to watch Stefan Jokic. Yeah. I'd love to watch that.
Now. Ideally. There would be one game That you could just watch when it was convenient to you. Yes, exactly. But that's different for everyone.
But you were on eight. No, there's one Christmas Day game.
Okay. It happens when it happens. And you can watch it live. Or you can watch it at six at night, but you have no way of knowing. Yes.
What happened? Like, that'll never happen, obviously. It happens for me. I do it all the time, but continue.
Well, yeah, but that would be the ideal way. What sucks is Now, NBA already had a day, and NFL already's got a holiday too. And NFL on Thanksgiving works. Nobody's watching these Christmas Day games like they're watching Thanksgiving. They're running upstairs and checking the TV, they're checking their phone, they have it on, it's just not the same.
I don't like it. I think it's a waste of your biggest inventory.
However, it's not because. People are home and they get massive ratings. Yeah. I don't like that the NBA takes a back seat. This was their day.
I don't like that. Um, And I also really don't like that the Packers are playing not just on Christmas, but against the Bears. Yes. As once again, my aforementioned in-laws are from Chicago. And so we got to do the whole Packers Bears thing at fucking.
Christmas Which just sucks. Yeah, it does. I mean, at least everyone's gonna want to watch the game, so I'm not just like, sorry, family, I gotta go to the back room and watch the Packers on a 20-inch TV. At least we can all watch it together, but I don't want to watch it together. Right.
I don't like watching Packer games. with other people anyway. I don't even like watching Packer games knowing that I'm watching a Packer game. I like complete solitude. Yeah.
And for this to be on Christmas, yeah, the whole thing sucks, but this is again, there's nothing you can do about it. This is, we just have to deal with things that are happening. There's no way to stop it. I want to build more on that. Going against the tide, whatever your phrase is, Bart.
Yeah, you can't go. You can't push the river the other way. It's going to flow. The question is whether you're going to stand in its way as it flows. And you want to slow it down.
What are you slowing down? You're not. Let's do more of that, but Grant, first you. This is the best slate of games of the year. on the worst possible day of the year.
Mm-hmm. Or mm-mm. I think excuse me. I think it's a really good slate. It would be hard to be better.
Yeah. Um what's what's with yeah mean? I think the games, the slate is excellent. Oh, sorry. Ah, there.
I'll stop short of saying worst. Day because I think there are worse days name it for you personally. Like, what would be a worse? Oh, that's a good one. That's good.
I don't like when the. Playoffs are on New Year's Eve. See, that doesn't. I'm not a New Year's Eve guy. It's college football playoffs.
Nah, I don't care about that. I think that fits. I was going to say Eastern. That's my anniversary. Oh, yeah.
Easter, but Easter's perfect for a baseball game. There's one baseball game on Easter. Easter is perfect for the Masters. Masters need to be on Easter. Yeah.
Maybe it is. Maybe it is the worst, Paul. The problem is, some of this slate would be great. What I would like is there for it to be all-day NBA and like one football game. And preferably not my team.
I don't want to watch my team on Christmas. I just want it as an option. And if I miss it, I miss it. Yes. But it's there if I need it.
Mm-hmm. Great. I'm a romantic. You know, I want to sit in the living room and We're a sweater. You know, my sister is a bartender for a long time, so we always put her to work making drinks and we're talking, you know, we're connecting on a.
at a human level.
So, I'm not going to say that the TV can't be on on Christmas. I'm not a prude. Um And I wish it wasn't this much. This is so much. And if you don't watch any of these games, you're going to feel like you're missing out.
That's what I don't like. Like, I wish there was one football game as an option. And if you miss it, oh, well, there's still the rest of the weekend. That's not really the case with this slate. The defending champs, Packers, Bears, and then Josh Allen are all playing.
Yeah. And by the way, um Not for nothing, I don't think, but those first two games of the day are on Netflix. which people will not complain about at all. But then what's strange about this is there are no NFL games. on December 26th.
Saturday. Right, on Saturday, December 26th. They're going to have no games left for Sunday if they do that. That's the problem. That's the problem.
All these Sunday slates are dog shit now. The day that football is supposed to, football's like, we've got our own day. We actually like We took away God's Day essentially for 20 weeks of the year. We took Sundays. We haven't.
We claim Sunday. And now we want to claim other days. And now the day that they had, they're giving back. I don't like that. Also, when you watch with At Christmas.
And when you watch a Thanksgiving. with your entire family, you run into Somebody, it could be aunt, uncle, cousin, grandpa. I don't know who. It's different in every family, but it's. Hey, I'm not interested in what you guys are watching, however, I'm going to ask questions about it every 30 seconds.
Sure. Like, so who which are these teams again? And is this a playoff team? And well, why wasn't that a catch? And oh, that guy's still a coach.
And there's one guy. When's that third game been on at night? Like for 20 years, there's been three Thanksgiving games. For 20 years, there's been a night game. Every year.
The same guy. Then I'm worried. Oh, there's another game coming up tonight. When did that start? We did this the last seven years.
We've done this since I entered the family. I think this is a Bobby Moynihan character, the drunk uncle, you're talking like. This is the se There's another game. Yes! Can I?
They've been promoting it. If you're like me, you're the kid who savored every last drop of sugary milk at the bottom of your cereal bowl while watching Saturday morning cartoons. Cachava's new flavor, cinnamon French toast, gives you a bit of that classic nostalgia. And I love that it's made with real cinnamon bark. It's a comfort flavor, but with benefits and without the sugary drawbacks.
There's no artificial colors, flavors, or sweeteners. It's non-GMO, there's no soy, there's no animal products, no gluten, and no preservatives. But cachava does provide all the nutrition your body craves in one deliciously simple shake with just two scoops.
So treat yourself to a childhood favorite. Go to cachava.com and use code SPORTS for 15% off your first order. That's cachava, k-a-c-h-av-a.com with code sports. Try angel soft for your tushi It's made by angels Soft and strong but you're friendly The choice is simple. Pick up a pack today.
Angelsoft.
Soft and strong and simple. Can I ask you a Thanksgiving football question? If you could only have one game on Thanksgiving, which time slot would you want to have it in? Would you rather, like, which one is the most valuable? Which means the most to you.
I'll take the night the night game. Yeah. Um Which would I rather have the Packers play? No, you get one with the Packers. There can be one game on Thanksgiving, and you get to put it in one of those spots.
Which one would you pick? Oh, three thirty. Yeah, the cowboy game, typically. I guess that'd be my second choice before the 11 o'clock game. Interesting.
Well, we like to watch the parade. Yes. And that's the time of day that we do our festivities and so Similar to eating.
Well, yeah, like probably like 11:30-ish. We eat at 1. Yeah, you eat Thanksgiving at 11:30 in the morning. I mean, somewhere in that one-hour range. You don't eat to like 3:30, fam.
Oh, no. What do you do all day? That's too late. We watch football. I heard that that's a We sit around waiting for the meal while we eat the rest of the food that's been put out and then are too hungry for the actual good meal and then still have three, yeah, twofold, and we still have three plates.
And then I lay down and my tummy hurts. God, I love Thanksgiving. Imagine wanting to get rid of Thanksgiving. I was about to quote a different thing where I was like, I don't know about football. I heard it's a bit of a.
Toxic masculinity type of sport.
Well, correct, it is. All right, you got a week. Don't say anything stupid. I want to cancel Thanksgiving. What the fuck?
Just don't say anything at all. All right.
So now I want a I want a bardometer. I wanna mm-hmm oh meter these eight games. Oh. Mm-hmm. Ometer?
Mm-hmm. Or meter this. And no one's trying to keep the Bartometer alive as much as Paul Imig. It was a great bit, and it shouldn't just be left out for fashion. Yeah Most must-see game of Christmas.
Well, I don't think Grant or I are looking at the list. No, I have the list in front of me now. I pulled it up. I'll just say that.
So four through eight are NBA. Uh Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
I know things are askew in the Immig household. You're telling me Spurs, Knicks, the presents don't get open until the plus minuses are all charted for the day. Back. Spurs Knicks played on Christmas two years ago. Been there, done that.
I'd watch Browns Jets over Spurs Knicks, Paul. Oh, yucky.
Okay. NBA Finals rematches. Six months later in the regular season, our Stupid. Is everyone playing? Can we guarantee every player is playing and trying hard?
We waited. We waited to put the schedule up for Sixers, Lakers. LeBron ain't fucking playing in that game. Yes, he is. If he plays one game all year, it'll be that game.
Also, but hold on. The same thing would be said as: what if Josh Allen's hurt? Like, then Bills Broncos is dog shit. And I will assume everyone's healthy. Let's assume everyone's healthy.
Okay, number eight. I have Nuggets Warriors. All right, just give me your list. No, oh, oh, okay. Your list.
Is there, is there, no, let's do it one at a time. Is there a worse? Eighth of eight, it's still a good game. Is there a shit up? Thunder at Wolves.
Thunder at Wolves is eight. Nuggets Warriors has Steph. That trumps literally anything, the rest of everything, and either of these. Yeah. Okay.
I mean, maybe it's because I haven't yet seen like the Ant Edwards Lamello thing. Celtics Heat. Do we give a shit? I want to as a book guy, yeah. I do.
That's on during Packers Bears. Right. It's just like you get the eight games and you get to watch them in the order of which you would want to watch them. And it's Bills Broncos? Bills Broncos.
Rams Seahawks.
Okay, so one's Rams Seahawks. Because that's what everyone wants to watch. It's prime time. I want you. Two, I'm doing it.
Two is Bill's Broncos. Wait a minute. Because it's an interesting matchup, playoff rematch in NFL that matters. Three is Packers Bears, because I need to think that on the whole, Packers-Bears has become to the rest of the country what Steelers-Ravens has become to us. Like again, Giants, Cowboys, a fucking gang.
I have to watch this shit.
So you're doing it from The end The NFL is a top three games. Then it's LeBron versus the Sixers. Versus, you mean? Yes, yes, sure. Then it is NBA Finals rematch.
Then it is Celtics Heat. Then it self takes over the finals rematch, but go ahead.
Sorry. Okay. Okay, I will agree. Really? No one cares about Nick Spurs.
I give a shit about the basketball games and who's winning. We care about the players in New Shots. One name out of 82. I'm not saying it's Spurs are going to go up 25 and lose anyway. But again, I think you got to.
Got him! You think you're fucking immune from me on August 10th? Whatever it is. Fucking Spurs! I don't know why we were fucking not motivated.
We got a pep talk from a corpse. What is going on? I don't know. I don't drink anymore, so I've got energy. I'll agree, LeBron in LA, especially if you get like the Bronny LeBron thing.
That would be extra. LeBroni versus LeBron thing? I'm saying if you get an actual possession, what was the thing he said the other day about hold on? If you get a couple possessions on Christmas of father and son being guarded by each other. Yeah.
That's That's poetry. Like, that's sports poetry. It's a sideshow. Fine, but it's It is cool. I, that, that does more for me than his return to LA.
I don't give a shit about his return. Nobody around the country cares about him going home to LA. Yeah, yeah. Wasn't he there the longest consecutive time? I think he tied with Cleveland the first time.
Okay, when you 30 years from now say LeBron James was a Cleveland Cavalier. And then Miami Heat. And then a Philadelphia 76er. If they win a title. Lakers are gonna a fucking forgotten footnote.
First of all, it happened in the decade, which all of us are just gonna like memory hole by the time we're. I mean, this has been a weird six years, dude.
So we're all gonna forget that any of this shit even happened. We won't get ratings from Netflix because that's not what Netflix is. Are we arguing that the NFL is more important than the NBA? Are you taking the other side of that? No, no, no.
I was surprised you put Packers Bears third. I mean, I get what you're saying. No one gives a shit about Packers Bears anymore besides us. It's convenient that a Packers fan says that just as their team starts losing in the rivalry, I will say that. I think finally, maybe to sum this rivalry, heck.
We actually might see a different team win for the first time. Did you read that LaFleur article, the puff piece? Yes. Yeah. I don't think it was for us.
I think it was for the masses. I think it was to hype up Matt LaFleur. She's like, the author's like, oh my God, this guy's a fucking mess. I need to write something good about him, or he's going to have a fucking aneurysm. He's going to beat the shit out of a cop here.
Yeah, yeah. And that is my absolute take. Mad LaFleur. Was mad that a printer didn't work. reacted emotionally, and then later laughed it off.
But that doesn't mean he's not going to react emotionally the next time. He cannot keep his emotions in check. And I'll tell you this also. I don't like him popping up on the Hall of Fame game broadcast to say hi to his brother. You need to get your ass in the playbook.
Ben Johnson's not even seeing his kids all summer. Yeah. The least you can do is not say hi to your brother. This guy, what do you want more? You asked Matt LaFleur today: what would you rather have?
A Super Bowl or your brother win a Super Bowl? He would say his brother. And that's a good fucking brother. But that's a bad fucking coach. I hope you're wrong.
I'm not. I used to play football in the backyard in the neighborhood, and I would be quarterback, and I would purposely throw interceptions to my brother.
So that his team could win over mine. And I'm a great brother, but I'm a terrible football player. I think that's Different? No, maybe it's not. I only shit on these guys for things that I know.
I know Matt LaFleur can't control his emotions because I can't control my emotions. I see it in him. I know Aaron Rodgers is having a period of life where he thinks he's better than everyone because I thought I was better than everyone. I know Giannis is having a hard time figuring out what to do with the next chapter of his life because I had a hard time figuring out what to do with the next chapter of my life. I know Kirk Herbstreet needs a fucking dog everywhere he goes because he's insecure, just like I used to take a little blanket around and not tell anyone everywhere I went.
Poinky. Thank you. Uh Grant, you initially said mm-mm to the part about It being on the worst day of the year. Have you come up with one that? You would less rather it be on?
No, I suppose not.
So maybe, maybe the life lesson here is: Paul, there's really no. Bad day to watch sports. There's just days that are less good. Your worst day watching sports. It's better than your best day not watching sports.
Good, thank you. I'll tell you, my worst day on the on the on the course. Still better than my best day at the office. You know what I mean, Jim? Mm-hmm.
Netflix won't tell you the ratings, but if they did. All three football games will clearly surpass. The viewership of the NBA games, right? That's a obvious. Didn't the, what was it, the Hall of Fame game outdid every, what was the seven million?
But it which was more than I forget the the exact statistic.
Well, let me that brings me to a real quick aside. Nobody watches hockey. Do people understand that? The Stanley Cup games pull in about two and a half million people. That is nothing.
That is nothing. That is a non-number for a championship match. Yes. Okay, you throw anything on any of the broadcast networks on a weekend, it's going to get 600,000 viewers. like second division soccer or swimming or women's volleyball college.
Anything, anything. And then for hockey's premiere event in prime time, it's only getting two and a half. I know people love hockey. And I'm not shitting on hockey. It's a wonderful sport.
But no one watches it. Outside of the people that watch it. Maybe this goes back to what you guys were. AA'd about with awful announcing. Like, is maybe you don't need to grow golf.
Maybe you don't need to grow WWE. Maybe you don't need to grow. You don't need to grow any of this shit. Just be happy with who your audience is and call it a day. Could you imagine if I started to try to grow the Winklerverse, the kind of bullshit I'd be doing?
Well, you do that. I mean, your clips, you know, every once in a while, you'll get a clip. But that's not, I'm not changing. Yeah. I'm not like changing who I am.
If anything, I'm just being more who I am, which is somehow worse. Yeah. Undoubtedly. Um Mm-hmm. All right, but okay, last question on this topic.
Yeah. You watch Packers Bears, maybe not to the degree you would on a different day of the year, but you're going to watch Packers Bears. You get to watch just one other game. For the rest of the day only one and the other six are blacked out for you Which game are you Choosing, I'm going to say. It is the rest are blacked out, but you get to watch Rams Seahawks.
You would take that deal, mm-hmm, or mm-mm.
Well, I like the time of it. I like the nightcap. I like the nightcap. And uh I really like taking a couple seltzers and just morphing into my couch these days. But I will take Bill's Broncos only because.
I know that in my Fantasy draft for my high school league. Mm-hmm. The last three years, I've taken Josh Allen two rounds too early. And I will probably do it again.
So, I want to watch Josh Allen. I always take. I always take a quarterback in like round three when no one's thinking about it. Sure. Because in our league, they do score six points for passing touchdowns.
Oh. Because a touchdown is worth six points. It is. A lot of leagues have four points for passing touchdowns, which is so stupid. And then, if a running back throws a passing touchdown, it's four points.
It's a running back. It should be 20 points. We also, that's why we introduced into my league. Safeties are worth five points. Why?
Five-point safeties. Because a fumble recovery is worth two. A safety is worth two. There should have been a safety in the Hall of Fame game. But they won't even do it like they will not call fucking safeties, man.
Calling safeties is like giving a red card in soccer. They'll do anything not to do it. Yeah. All right, so your bar your answer is Rams Seahawks. Grant gave like a response at first.
What, Grant? What's what Tim Shea you? Ray I what Shay I is uh Rams Seahawks, which is the proper night game. The AFC game between the Broncos and the Bills should be played at least when the game starts during the daylight. That feels spiritually correct.
You know what I mean? The NFC West should be the night game afternoon. Or are we at home on Christmas? It's Chicago, right?
Well, if we're in Christmas, maybe I'll fucking go. To Soldier Field? Every time you say, by the way, that's Soldier Field. Yeah, every time you say that, I just want to say, we'll have Halloween on Christmas. Every time you keep it.
I wish it never ends. Don't waste your time on me, you're already You've just been copyrighted. Because it sounded too much like Tom. Um I think If I chose Ram Seahawks, I would probably be really. I'm going to protect.
You get to protect one game. I'm going to protect Sixers Lakers. That's my second one. You get to what? You get to protect one game from your blackout window.
You get a blackout window. You can blackout Packer. I'm not going to, you get to blackout, not blackout. I think Paul's taking this serious. I think he's going to only watch that game now.
I think that's you can only make it realistic if you do it for real. Um but by the way, but that's because we haven't seen LeBron plays with the Sixers yet? By December 25th, that might be totally different. And the standings in the NFL might be, it be, might be such that like Ram Seahawks is irrelevant, right? This is another reason why the NBA should start on Christmas.
All these games would be 10 times cooler if it was the first time we saw Giannis as a member of the Heat. That would make it much more must-see. You'd have a much more competitive day ratings-wise with. the NFL, then you will if it's You know, 20th game with the Heat and LeBron's 20th game with the Sixers. Thank God they fixed the all-star game, though, or whatever.
Oh, thank God. Thank God.
Alright. More next week. I liked this Christmas and August motif, Paul. Yeah, I did too. I didn't expect this.
I would have known. I have, if I would have known. I could have uh Going snowman with it. Ah, we're all blocked they won't they're uh uh Why does that look both Easter and oh, okay, I see. There we go.
It's a tropical snowman on the day on Shaney YouTube stream. He's eating uh Watermelon? Yeah. I thought I had banners. Oh, here's what I'm looking for.
There. I'll have a move. I thought he was about to say, bees will buzz. There's what I'm looking for. There you go.
Time. And then I could do I could do that, Tim. And we'll have where are my banners? We'll have Halloween on Christmas. We'll have Halloween.
I'm trying to grow the game by adding special effects. It's getting good. Trying to grow the game. We need to do more WWE rants, apparently. That's the thing that gets aggregated.
Yeah. That and tits, but we're short on those.
So I guess we'll do professional wrestling. I could enter the WNBA draft. That'd be a fun bit. That's true. All right, I got to run.
See you Paul. Bye, friends. With the Capital One Saver Card, you'll earn unlimited 3% cash back on dining, entertainment, and at grocery stores. And for a limited time, new card members can earn a $250 cash bonus after spending $500 on purchases within the first three months.
So grab a bite, grab a seat, and earn unlimited 3% cash back with the saver card. Capital One, what's in your wallet? Terms apply. See capital1.com slash saver for details. Hear that?
That's now Crispier McCrispy Strips meeting creamy Caesar sauce.
Sounds extra crispy. Caesar sauce at McDonald's for a limited time. Bada ba ba ba. See you. What's coming up on the show tonight?
Well, you gotta do it during a brewer game, huh? Yeah, some of the affiliates won't have us for that reason. Football Frenzy: Peter Bukowski, Mike Renner, and Jesse Temple with Badger Connector. Badger. Peter Bukowski play.
Alright. 530? I always say at the beginning of the show: if there's a lull, I'll play it. If the show is rolling, go find it in the pod. But there's always a lull, man.
There's. I'm tired. I'm tired. Yeah. And thank God I can't talk about the brewers because I just bitch, bitch, bitch bitch right now.
And then people are like, it's better than the 90s. And then I get angry and. Do you the the um the sports radio idea is if there's a brewer game on. Counter program. Yeah, I don't, yeah, exactly.
But is that what you follow? I don't know that I like that. I do follow that. Because how can I talk about the brewers while they're playing unless I'm just Following the game, and that's not good radio. Yeah, but then once you think people that they're listening to you, they're also.
Maybe. But if they are making an attempt to watch or listen to me while also watching the game, I think they're going to watch me no matter what. What I'm talking about. You know what I mean? They've made quite an effort to pull up my show while also watching The Brews.
So I don't know at that point if it matters what I'm talking about. It's too bad you can't just do the play-by-play on your own.
Well, I don't have express written consent, so Have you tried? I haven't even asked, come to think of it. You don't know until you ask. Grant, thank you so much, buddy. No, thank you, Bart.
See you soon. Grandpills. Paul Imig. Both joining us today. This is Into the Winklerverse, and I am Bart Winkler.
We are brought to you, as I mentioned, by Happy Place Hemp. Promo code is Bart, 25% off. Actually, I didn't mention him by name, but I'm doing that now. And I'm mentioning the promo code, which again is 25% off. Every order, you guys, this has been a code for four years.
How much money have you saved? by still getting these products.
Sometimes you don't have the code, or you're not by your computer, and you see some out in the wild, and you buy them. You're paying full price. This is a way to get the savings.
Now they do, the government wants to take this shit away.
So we got to figure out how to not have that happen because without these seltzers, I'm probably dead. There's my endorsement. I need these babies, and I love them. I love the gummies. I love the gummies based off the seltzers that I talked about the other day.
Check it all out for yourself. Happyplacehemp.com. Promo code BART at checkout not only saves you money, but helps the show. And I appreciate that. Also, brought to you by Carl's Place.
Link is up. They are giving away a golf simulator. In the month of August, and again, Dan Shaney. who uh he went to the tailgate and he Got to see a lot of the people that he's already servicing as clients. Give Dan Shaney a call for your insurance needs.
And let them know that the Winklerverse sent you. Excuse me. There's two other things I wanted to mention. And that was regarding the uh Packers So the athletic did a poll. about who will win the NFC North.
And when I'm asked this, I'm typically saying the lions. Because they do have a fourth place schedule. Yeah. And I don't think the lions are the f First best team. in the north, but they are playing.
The easiest schedule. I'll pull up the lion's schedule just to highlight who actually. They are playing. But, you know, just because you're fourth place last year doesn't mean you're going to be good. They start the season against the Saints.
They've got the Jets. Carolina's on there. It looks like we play the NFC South anyway.
So, who are their other teams that they play outside of the division? Are they playing other Titans? They get the Titans. We don't get the Titans. And then, um They play one other team in the NFC that's no good, and that would be maybe the Giants.
Shit. I don't know. I don't think that Kyler Murray is going to be that good.
So I'm going to eliminate the Vikings. I think the Packers are good. They could win the division. I'm still worried about LaFleur. I don't think the Bears are going to do it.
I think the division winner is 10 wins. I think there's a little cannibalism here. And maybe it's Detroit. Maybe the Packers have 10 wins too. But there might be a tiebreaker at play.
So I'm not taking the Packers to win the division. Um I mean, I do like them to make the playoffs, but they always make the playoffs and then lose. The poll was 11% said Vikings, 24% said Packers, 31 Bears. And 32 lions. I think of the Four teams, the Packers are one being overlooked the most.
Just because People are down on whatever. The Lions were propping back up. Last play schedule. The Bears are getting too propped up because Caleb had some nice throws and he's on the cover of Madden. Which means he shouldn't be propped up.
The Vikings have a new quarterback, but that doesn't mean he's good. Reports are JJ's playing just as fine, if not better, than Kyler. Also, I may have to retract my Deshaun Watson vibes. He's thrown like nine interceptions in 12 practices or something. I don't know.
That situation's a mess. And that's our owner, Jimmy Haslam. Great. Every time the Browns do something stupid, oh, they traded Miles Garrett. How would an owner ever trade their superstar?
Oh, we traded Giannis. I see. Bears and Lions atop. There's also the over-under for how many wins you think you'll get in the NFC North. Lions are three and a half, Bears are two and a half, Packers and Bears are three.
So we play the Bears twice, Lions twice, Vikings twice. The line is set at three, which is tough to bet because there's no hook. But basically they think Will win against every team and probably lose against every team. If there's a team we beat twice, I would say it's the Vikings. I actually would take the over three.
I think we can split with Detroit and the Bears, and I'm going to give us two wins against the Vikings. In fact, why don't I win-loss the Packers schedule? Right now, again, without my guy Horvey, all these months later. Vikings on the road win at Jets win. Atlanta win.
Tampa win, Chicago win, Dallas win at Detroit. We can win that. We're 7-0. Oh, fuck. Maybe we're going to be good.
I mean, I hope we're good. And I want to win the Super Bowl. I just Don't think. Matt can do that. We're going to have a Packers preseason post-game party.
Tomorrow in the verse.
So check it out. After Packers Steelers tune in right here on the same bat. Or same Bart time, same BART channel. That should be my phrase. I'm gonna make a shirt of that.
We'll see you later. Thanks for stopping into the Winklerverse.
