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I am Bart Winkler. It is the first episode of 2025 which I am really having a hard time with. I'm really having a hard time with it being 2025.
It doesn't seem real. I mean 1999 to 2000 you kind of like looked forward to that forever. 2010, 2017, 2022, these are all futuristic ass years. 2025?
Shit seems fake. Shit seems like Blade Runner 2025. Or like a year that back in the 90s we watch a TV show and they go, here's the desolate wasteland of 2025. It doesn't feel real. I don't like it. There's always the new shock of oh it's a new year, new me. 2025 I don't like it. I need to grapple with the fact that it is 2025. It's going to be something.
Hopefully there's some sports success along the way. Went to that Vikings game. Last time I chatted here on the pot I was en route to the Vikings game in my car. It wasn't that riveting. Never did get pulled over. That was good.
Never did get pulled over through Rosendale. That was refreshing. But we went to the Vikings game. They lost.
I'm now 6-9 on these road trips that I take with the high school buddies. Shout out Bear, Double C and Coin. Great to be with all of you guys once again. Shout out Sprades who we saw too. But it was a good time even though they did lose. That's just come to be expected.
There was a point of the game where I was an asshole. Big surprise. I got mad that the Vikings were doing the horn after field goal. They do the horn. You know they do the horn too much. But they did skull vikings da da or whatever their chant is. After a field goal. Imagine at Lambeau if we did bang on the drum all day after a touchdown.
People would make fun of us and yell at us. So I was trying to do the same. Friends told me to shut up. I complied for a long time and then I finally snapped.
That's something else minor that I'm sure pissed me off. But there were many grievances that I had over the winter break of which I brought to the Bart-O-Meter on the Infinity Sports Network Thursday January 2nd show. I'm going to hashtag tack it on.
So rather than just run through dry run here. I'm actually going to give you the full Bart-O-Meter segment because it is a good refresher of everything that's been going on. I want you guys to hear the Bart-O-Meter.
I want you guys to listen to that show. Which is actually my livelihood rather than a pet project. Not that if you don't.
But if you only listen to this and not that. I still love you. I still love you.
I still love you. But I mean. Yeah. So I'm going to hashtag tack that on. Hashtag tack it on at the end of the show of this show. Of this podcast. So you don't have to go anywhere. But in the future you do.
A little bit of synergy here with the promotion. So check that out. Including one story that happened to me at a gas station. You know my name is Bart. And I think if you think of other Bart's you think of. I mean it doesn't take you long to get the Simpson. At 40 years old I got the worst Simpson interaction that I've ever gotten. That show came on in 1989. I was born in 84.
That means for 35 years. I don't remember my life before people called me Bart Simpson or in some way shape or form. This one real bad. Worst ever. Absolute worst ever.
You know people would be like your name is your mom's name Marge or this kind of stuff. This was even. I couldn't believe it happened.
So massive tease to get you to listen to the Bart-O-Meter coming up in a little bit. It's for the Vikings game itself. Stadium was nice. City was fine. Did get a full body pat down before I entered Cowboy Jacks.
Not sure why. But I did feel safe in there. Even though I was recovering from. Guy got a little too close. If I may say so. Guy got a little too close to my area.
A little further and I'd be growing up all night. Had a good time. Walked to the game.
Checked out some bars beforehand. We were at the Packers everywhere party. Prior to that Mark Murphy is there taking pictures. Couple of Packers legends. Durell Thompson was there. A second guy was there.
But we were sitting on the opposite end of the bar. Where they did give away free stuff. So this is the most Wisconsin thing that I've ever seen. And I'm not judging it. I'm not criticizing.
I'm just looking at it and pointing it out as being Wisconsin. They had a booth where from 4 to 7 you could get free stuff. Now you'd register and they'd scan your code. And then you would either get like a sunglasses or a fanny pack. Some people got a winter hat. I think the ultimate prize maybe was an autographed helmet.
Although I never saw anyone get one. The little things you put on the back of your phone. Koozies. You know some of these kind of stuff. Patches.
Knick knack paddy wax. From 4 to 7 you could do that. And it was free. And everyone was a winner. It's a very Wisconsin thing to start lining up at 3.30. Your odds did not improve. The odds of your prize did not improve depending on what time you got in line. And then people started getting in line so then the natural inclination is I gotta get in line too. And that I think is a very, that might be a more tribalistic human thing. But I think it's very Wisconsin to know that if I got something free, I'm getting in line.
Even if there's a 3 hour window to get it. And even, here's the best part, once the Packers Everywhere thing was done at this bar, Tom's Watch Bar in Minneapolis, they just left all the shit on the table. And there was plenty, oh shit. Tons of sunglasses. Tons of koozies. Tons of pop tops. Just for the taking. Which I did.
And then tried to give out to different Packer fans throughout the night. But that, I just think it's very, I'm just pointing it out. I'm just pointing it out for the story of what did occur. The stadium, you know, I don't like tour the stadium.
I just kind of walk to my seat. But I have no qualms about the stadium. It was impressive. It was nice. There wasn't really like any tailgate action around it. It was kind of like a lot of these downtowns hit a bar or something and then go to the game. I always like when the stadium's downtown. I think that is elite.
And I don't, it's a bummer we don't really have any, well we got Fiserv. Yeah. Which I was at two days later for the Harlem Globetrotters. But the Vikings game was good. Even though I was yelling a little bit, I didn't get a lot of fan interaction. There's been other fans that have been meaner. And there were a lot of Packer fans there.
Not like overtake the stadium, but there were a lot of Packer fans there. But after the game ended, everyone just kind of left. It felt like we all left.
Unless I was just cooked. We just all left. You know, there wasn't any like, oh we'll get them or we'll see you in the playoffs or, you know, go Paco or go back home or just kind of left. Because the Vikings have bigger fish to fry. They got the Lions coming up this weekend.
And then the Packers, I mean, looks like we just tripped into the seven seed to maybe have to go play the Eagles depending on what happens with the commanders and cowboys. So it was a good experience. I mean, I drank too much. Clearly. You can tell that by now. But I had fun.
And I am eager to go on a trip next year. Possibly Denver, possibly Arizona, possibly Ireland. That was weird.
Every time I see these rumors, you know, I need to see, I'm sorry, I need to see it from everybody. I don't know if the Packers are going there or not. It'd be weird to send them overseas two years in a row, but if it's not a home game. And also the NFL don't give a shit.
Or a fuck. I said both to be double cool. As far as the game. I mean, guys, we got to get a pass rush at some point in our existence. And we got to get good secondary.
I don't know. I'm not looking at this year as a year that the Packers win the Super Bowl. I think clearly they're good enough to go to the playoffs. I mean, they could go in the Philly and win. Are they going to get in the playoffs and win four straight games against a combination of the Eagles Vikings and Lions teams that have all beat them this season and then if they do that play bills, Chiefs, Ravens, whoever in the Super Bowl and win. I don't know that they're there yet. So I don't expect them to be there yet. But next year. I do. If your third year of Jordan love is your starter.
You should have a plan in place by then. And one of the problems like I said is that defense now not so much a problem that Rashawn Gary can't get his first Pro Bowl nod. Congratulations to the aforementioned Rashawn Gary. It is him, along with Josh Jacobs and Xavier McKinney. Rashawn Gary, you wouldn't believe this he is number eight on the Packers all time sack list. He's got 38 career sacks. Third Pro Bowl nomination for Josh Jacobs first Pro Bowl nomination for Xavier McKinney Elton Jenkins, a first alternate. Other alternates include Nixon Myers love craft Kenny Clark, and somehow Jair Alexander, who we will speak of.
I'm momento. The Pro Bowl again sucks. They ruined it.
I look at as bad as it was I used to watch it, you play a little fantasy. It's a bad thing. It's bad. I don't know the Pro Bowl was ever even worth saving. But you made it worse. If something's bad, don't make a bad thing worse. The NBA All Star game is bad. I believe they are going to make a bad thing worse with their changes. But it is always nice to be named I mean they still have to name, they have to name the, even if the Pro Bowl games don't exist, they still have to name and All Star team, they still have to name people to the Pro Bowl for the sake of like historical arguments, I suppose.
So they do have the Pro Bowl coming up. Get the Jair in a minute. Let me tell you about my friends at Happy Place hemp calm now after the season we're going to have that deal with a little bonus rate I think the promo code Bart bort bort is going to be coming up right now that promo code Bart is good for 25% off all products, had your sampler pack for the holidays, need a little reload guess what you can still use the code that code is still kicking 25% off each and every order at Happy Place hemp calm. They are in the ski go physical location they make all their stuff there they pack all their stuff there they send all their stuff there. And you can check them out there Chris and Rob standing by let them know that you listen to the show they will be happy to hook you up with the deal in person.
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I'm going to, I'm going to text grant and Paul that right now. You're already giving grant a hard time about Rashaan Gary being on there. Jair I text him Jair played seven games. How is he an alternate.
That is blowing my mind. He played seven games a season for the Packers. He had 16 tackles. He had two interceptions.
What was for a touchdown. How is he an alternate. How is he an alternate.
That doesn't make any sense. So he hasn't played since the 17th of November. And we found out on who knows what day it is but we found out that Jair is going to miss. Probably the rest of the season. He could come back at the end of the season. It's a PCL tear undergoing surgery went through that. And he could come back for the Super Bowl.
The tweet from Schefter was as it turns out Packers pro bowler Jair Alexander underwent arthroscopic and whatever knee surgery alleviate pain and swelling he could make it back to the Super Bowl the Packers make it that far so if you're going to miss five weeks. What if you did this five weeks ago. Why were we dicking around so much. Trying to figure out when the surgery would need to be and maybe it's something that you want to put off for as long as possible. I totally understand that. But at some point you have to make a decision. At some point that this Packers team back in November, knew they were going to make the playoffs.
So you have to make a decision. If he's hurt. When can he have surgery, when can he come back.
And they decided to push it off as long as possible. So I don't think we're going to see Jair Alexander and Packers uniform in 2025 five again. But will we see him in 2025.
The season 2025. Andy Herman packet a podcast he's on the fan as well he put on social media keeping Jair in 2025 will cost Green Bay an additional 17 and a half million overall. So the question you need to ask isn't would you keep him for seven and a half. The question you need to ask is would you sign him to a one year 17.5 million dollar deal because if he's released. It's 18 million dollars dead cap. If he's kept for a season. There's a cap with 25 million dead or 25 million on the cap and 25 10 million dead if he's kept for two season. Look, I'm trying to read you math that I haven't even read this tweet yet.
And now I'm trying to read it. Basically. Do you want to keep Jair or not. And if you do, he may come with some dead cap.
If you don't. But here I got this from Ken Ingalls, Tim Post. There's 18.1 million dollars of dead cap baked into the rest of Jair's contract. That number cannot change. It is past money paid yet to hit the cap.
It is what it is no matter what. So the real question is the Packers want to play Jair 17.5 million to play 2025 for the Packers. I think that I think that you do. I think that even though he's only played a half a season for you here. I think that their depth is going to really come into play. Because they've got nobody else in 2021. He played four games, then he played a full season last two seasons, seven games.
Is it worth it? I mean do you, I know everyone's saying Jair is the Packers Chris Middleton. But do you Chris Middleton this guy? Keep him out, let him play a little bit. Make sure you have him for the playoffs. If you get to the playoffs next year and you're thin at corner. Would you say God I wish you would have signed Jair for 17 million dollars.
So I think because the other options are so limited and so poor. I think they have to keep Jair Alexander. Perhaps the boys will change my mind. But right now, I mean I just saw Sam Darnold cut us up. And I think Sam Darnold is in the good category if there's a good and bad category. Where is he in the good category?
I don't know yet. But against the Packers secondary that we have now. You can be in the good category to start the game.
And by the end of the game you're in the greatest of all time category. Secondary is thin. So you are going to need some help there. Isn't that such a curse that the Packers can never figure out what to do at cornerback. Despite how many high draft picks they used to spend on this position. So I don't know what you do. Maybe there's a guy who's a free agent you'd throw a boatload of money at.
I haven't looked too much into it. But I think if the answer is do you bring back Jair Alexander for 17 and a half million next year. And you can afford it then yeah you do. That's where I'm at. Is that you do. The whole process has been disappointing. I mean can baked into that 17 and a half million dollars be reporters that actually get these kind of answers. Before Adam Schefter does.
You know if you're if you're going to gloat for having the coach on a podcast asking him the question how come you're not the one breaking the news. You can't have it both ways. You can't not do the race and then strut around with a medal. You got to play that you got to run the race. Ain't that hard to.
To run the race. All right. I got a couple of voicemails. Oh let me tell you first. Packers of the Bears. We hope they win. And I'm much more to say about that at this point.
The Harlem Globetrotters. You need to go and I put a picture up online and people are like not a lot of people there. I don't give a fuck. Over there was three thousand four thousand six thousand I don't know the wave game got more great. There's that means there's a lot of great entertainment options on New Year's Eve in Milwaukee. Boo.
And they've been doing this for years. People probably already gone. I've never been to the Harlem Globetrotters. I thought it was just like fun basketball whatever though they're like talking during at one point they accosted my friend because he was taking his kid to the bathroom. He's taking his kid to the bathroom guy thunder stops the game says where are you going. Everyone's kind of confused. He runs into the stands.
And he's right there. And then they go to the bathroom and he tells the crowd OK when they come back round of applause. Look maybe this is cheap pop but it was funny. They did some things that were hit or miss and maybe maybe if you keep telling jokes enough that the bad ones become funny just because you're enjoying yourself which is what I did. Enjoyed myself. I will never apologize for enjoying myself cannot do it cannot do it. I enjoyed myself and my kid enjoyed himself and his buddies enjoyed myself and my wife enjoyed herself and we had a great time.
And you know what. Well I might actually go again. It was fun. I had fun. Leave me alone.
I got it. Let me let me read you a blue sky thing and I you know I don't tweet as much as I used to and now when I tweet I delete it and I think my first tweet up there. I just I want to be able to put my stuff out there and not get feedback feedback. I want you to be able to have this and then you could talk about it with other people.
I don't know even though I'm going to play voicemails which I will then ask for I guess what I don't want is a certain kind of criticism and there's a certain kind of criticism that has always bothered me. And that is well I'll tell you I put up a picture of the Rose Bowl. In. Because it was the beautiful picture and that picture is beautiful. When the sunlight hits the mountains there's a football game it's beautiful. And I put that picture up I said is this one shot worth the generation long reluctance to use a playoff to determine a champion, and then now soon to be who knows how long reluctance to move all these games as college campuses. The answer stupidly seems to be yes college photo college football is handcuffed by a photograph.
Now I just done Zach show on Wednesday and I just had a lot of good conversation with myself with people that were calling in about what do we want out of college football. Do we want tradition. Do we want bowl games do we want to play off, where do we want those games to be. Do we want the regular season to feel like a playoff How much do we want the regular season to matter, what do we want to college football.
The answer has been all of it. We want it to be in a new era but also appreciate the old era, and the middle era, when it was a 14 plan we're trying to keep it all together at the same time, that cannot be. We cannot feed all the hungry mouse, all of the cake.
And then the second cake can all ever cake eat it to and get another cake. Why put that picture up there was because it does seem like every decision that they've made in this whole process is to make sure that on January 1 at three o'clock Pacific four o'clock Pacific, the sun starts to set and you get that picture were handcuffed by that picture, even before it happened, Kirk Herb Street starts talking about how great it is isn't this great it's a fucking 40 to nothing game or whatever it was. What do we want to college football. Do we want entertaining games. Do we want to find a champion.
Do we want entertaining games that help find a champion but the venues got to be great. Like what do we want everything we want every single thing. And so that I saw that and I put that out there because I'm going to have more of a conversation about that on the show in the coming days, and I get the quote getting paid to be grouchy about everything seems like a sweet gig. And I take a lot of offense to that guy says I recognize most of that is trolling I said nothing about this is trolling. And here's something that's always bothered me, because it's not trolling. I'm not, I'm not trolling I'm not trying to get. I'm not trying to, I'm not, I did this on blue sky.
Billy anyone's fucking looking at that. I don't get paid to be on blue sky and I don't get paid to be grouchy. I get paid to be alive on the air for four hours a night.
And hopefully it's good. Talk radio is paid trolling and usually grouchy. You're not responding to me on talk radio, you're responding to me. That's the shit that pisses me off it always has, because there are people that have never listened to my show.
Ever. And they yell at me and you say you're getting paid to troll. And I understand now.
When other hosts used to do that. I just look, there's a difference. There's a difference. I'm just putting out a tweet. Whatever. Just separate the two before you dunk on me.
That's all I want. I'm about to talk about the Rose Bowl. And I'm about to say a lot of this stuff, and I have to preface it on the national show with here's my experience on the Rose Bowl in 1994 that shipment the world to me. When the, when the Badgers won a Rose Bowl meant the world to me as college football started to expand the Rose Bowl became less and less meaningful, like it's still a cool thing and this is like what do we want baked in tradition. And the people that I mean, yeah I watched Wisconsin sit down against TCU or Oregon or Stanford and they lose and I'm like, darn I was rooting for them to win that game, but some of you react to it in a way that is like devastating. Whenever that list comes out when the Wisconsin sports teams blow a game. They always includes Rose Bowl losses on the list from the 2010s.
No. And so what I always used to say was that shit doesn't matter. And these are the kind of calls that I get less than I used to. I always say the biggest difference between doing a national show and the local show and maybe this is specific to Milwaukee. But when I say something on the national show, and people disagree with it, and they want to talk about it, they'll talk through the disagreement. And usually, I do find a spot where I agree with them.
I like when that happens in Milwaukee. I think everybody understands like this is meaningless I'm saying it's meaningless in the context of what college football is now, and I would get phone calls to say meaningless, you tell those guys that are out there sweating with their brothers. I don't know. I think the problem is, the people that listened to me, really only listened to me during the commercials of the show they were actually listening to, and we're already pretty wound up about something, is what I think. So then they hear this guy with the, with the shit seeping right off of me. Oh, I don't like him. Just, just, I don't know I, I, I need to figure out a way to not still be mad about shit that happened seven years ago, but a lot of people. And I don't think there's anybody like if you didn't like me on the radio and you listen to every day. You did not follow me two years into this podcast. I still need I still need like closure with some of these people.
The Ron in Rome's the Tim and Fredonia's. I need them to like, we need we need I need some closure. Okay. The sponsors that didn't like me after friends was no longer and didn't think I could hack it on my own. The people that still think I got fired because. Oh, it's August of 2022.
Let's fire Bart because he said wear a mask two years ago when he had a six month old and he thought that I could never sport we didn't know when sports are coming back. Yes, sorry, dude. I did not intend for this to go this way. I do intend to cut this. My guess is I probably didn't.
Based on laziness. And also, I don't really care. I think I've said a version of this several times before in the past. Okay, I do want to hear some voicemails. Got one from brick. You can check out the Carl's place voicemail line 402915 Bart 402915 B a r t. And this one is from brick. Rick I'll have you know that I was, this is Monday morning.
I was asleep in a Twin Cities hotel room, and I had my ringer on, and this woke me up. Hello board, and then to the link rivers. How's everyone doing hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas happy plans and have an ongoing good Hanukkah, and everyone plans on having a good New Year, yes we wouldn't plan on it. Anyway, just quick thoughts on the Vikings Packers game. Kind of an annoying game to watch in the beginning because like I kind of resigned myself okay they're gonna get about to kick, whatever and then they come back and give me a little bit of hope acting like the Brewers they're giving me hope at the end of the season and not falling through my quick takeaways are. I'm not too concerned with the past defense from the standpoint we have guys missing and guys out, and they clearly weren't going to show a whole lot without much on the line.
The past rush. Probably good thoughts they're counteracting what I said before but another way to look at it. Pass rush is a little concerning. I don't think they're going to be able to get after the quarterback against good teams without bringing pressure which they don't like to do a lot. Back out of the backfield at the end of the game was annoying they did three or four times on that last drive, and nobody covered the fullback, or the running back out of the backfield. That was a little concerning annoying frustrating at the end there.
And then my last, my last words failing sorry. My last concern would be the unforced errors as I as my coach likes to call them. The pre snap penalties the alignment penalties and all that, that kind of stuff that I can get I can live with the holes because holes happen in the moment, stuff like that PIs whatever, but the tree snaps up when the opponent isn't making you do anything, you're doing it to yourself it's frustrating. Good takeaways me and will rally back a little bit at the end they're not just kind of rolling over me like well, good enough. And, yeah, I mean lots of catches from different guys love look like he settled in a little bit past protection was decent.
I mean, Minnesota's gonna get pressure anyone so they did a decent job to anticipate that a little bit better next time, if we see him again. Other than that, I hope everyone has a Happy New Year, and a great start to 2025. And I hope everyone has the day they deserve. Have a good one.
brick and West Dallas love you too. I tried to play the Vincent and Anaheim voicemail last time I do want to play that I haven't. I've only read the transcription. I do need to hear more about this hoarding situation I had sent him a Dan Cheney insurance koozie means you got to go to Dan Cheney if I send you a koozie he's got to be in your insurance agent. That's the rule, but I don't know what the rule is, if you haven't opened the package yet which I don't think he has so I need clarification from Vincent and Anna.
Anna. It is the 23rd so Merry Christmas. Happy Kwanzaa if y'all celebrate that man I want to say what's up.
I did get your koozie. I just haven't opened up the package to kind of have a hoarding problem so sometimes I'll get packages that will open up. But that's the other point is why the car say what's up. No, that's that's Vincent that's, that's the all. Wow. The podcast bar. I am stuck on April 15, I think right now.
April 15. I got way behind. Listen other podcasts and all this stuff man but I still want to continue to listen to it so we're getting to end. I might change up my philosophy I might listen to your newest episode first that then go back to the, to the old ones you know this I can stay current, but you know I'm so glad that you're doing your national show, showing all the haters what's up one year later almost right is going to be the graduation by that man shout out to the weekly reverse. Everybody out there that go pack go go crew crew. And don't forget to go go giant special giants and go angels and how about the rafters still think the bus coming to play off about that we'll see what happens. Yeah, I just want to say what's up for you are still down and I still lay behind, but I'll tell us I'll catch up one day.
I visited Anaheim. This is an inherent human flaw that I exhibit the trade very strongly where brick has been listening for a long time interacting on these postgame shows, calling the voicemail line. Vincent, getting to know him the experiences of him on the show over the years. I need to cherish the relationships that we have instead of be bent out of shape and still vindictive about the ones we don't. And in about two weeks I'm going to pay a couple hundred dollars to tell that to some one else. In the meantime, we've got the bar to meter. This will be a good recap of everything between Christmas and New Year's.
So that's coming up here, did it on the Infinity Sports Network, as I do every Thursday at 10 o'clock Central Time will be back next week with an update, hope to do something after Packers bears at some point. Until then, thanks for stopping into the Winkler verse more after this. There are debates. There are hot takes.
There are strong opinions, but in the quest for the truth. There is only one way to get the final say it's time to fire up the bar to meter. This is time for the bar to meter I am Bart Winkler, the bar to meter is my machine that I have created long ago. It's been around for about a year, but it is a machine that I created it's long ago it's long ago and bar to meter times. It's a machine because we live in a society in a world where we embrace debate and have hot takes and have our conversations and whatever and sometimes I just want to get to the final I need to I need to know the answer.
And so I've created a machine where I have ingested years of history I'm constantly updating it it's got the AI it's got it's got every piece of information that's available on the internet. If the bar to meter says that it is true. That's what the bar to meter is now it is an actual physical machine.
About the size of a speaker. Okay, but I have been working on something which I have not shared with any of you. And that is a mobile radar for the bar to meter. So I can actually it just unclicked at the bottom here, I can take it with me think of like an air tag or like a GPS tracker, I can take it with me, almost as a measurement. And what I did was I kept it with me over the last week and a half before our last show before this one really to gather everything over the 2024.
Let's call it a holiday break. I attached it to me, so it could read my readings and my thoughts and my mind really, so that I could come up with this week's bar to meter, which are the things that pissed me off the most since I last talked to you. Okay, so there are eight things that it is decided that pissed me off the most. I don't know what the bar to meter is going to say. I know things that made me mad, but we've been tracking it and measuring it.
And so here are the eight things that pissed me off the most since we last spoke number eight. This is very interesting because the reading may have just spiked because of a bet I just lost. They had a few over unders tonight. D'Angelo Russell, Giannis, Dame, basically, I just needed Giannis to have an assist to Dame and he needed to make a shot. And that situation presented itself at the end of the Bucks lost to the Nets, and I didn't win and the Bucks didn't win.
And I'm mad about that. But also I had a bad couple of weeks. So at number eight is losing bets because like one of the nights before I took this little break, I hit one.
I hit a good one. I'm not I'm not talking anything in the thousands, you know, but something to bankroll me for a while. That's 500 or so bucks. And I felt really good about it, especially around the holidays. And what do you do when you win 500 bucks? What do you do? You take it and you put it in the bank and you let your money work for you.
Oh, no, no, no. You think I won 500 and I'm going to make a bunch more bets. And if I win 500 on just one of those, I'll be up to this and then one of this. I won and I gave it all back via the great mobile apps that we have on our phone. So I still enjoy them.
They are fun. I get a big win from here to there. But I gave it all away, including some just mere minutes ago.
So I think because the reading is still high, I should probably take the tracker off. But losing bets is number eight at number seven. These are things that made me mad since we last spoke over New Year's and Christmas. The Netflix Christmas games. Now, it didn't make me mad that they were on Netflix. And in some ways, it actually was a convenience when I was trying to figure out how to watch these games. It really didn't change my viewing experience at all. I would watch the games on the TV and then the presents were opening and I did tuck it away and, you know, still kind of keep an eye on things and the games weren't that good. So you could kind of step away and see what was going on.
But I had read a report earlier before the game started because it was pretty amazing. You had all this different talent from all these different networks working together. And I was thinking, OK, that's cool, but why would they all give up their Christmas to work these games? And then I saw there was a report that they got around an average of six figures to do one day of work. And so, one, you're going to be jealous about that. That didn't make me mad, though. This is a profession. If you can get it, get it. Congratulations.
Good for you. The part that made me mad was when the game started and Mariah Carey had redone the video to All I Want for Christmas. Clearly, Netflix paid her F.U. money to do this, but she didn't show up and actually perform. Beyonce performed. OK, and she did perform. But the Mariah Carey thing was just Netflix way of saying, we've got money, we can do whatever we want with it. It's your money that you're giving us.
We're going to keep jacking her up and we're going to give it to Mariah Carey. So it felt very and I don't want to be too harsh. Netflix, I'll work Saturdays for you if need be. If you're paying six figures a day. It felt kind of like a live, golfish invasion of sports, like we can do whatever we want. We have a lot of money and money rules all. So we're just going to do it. Doesn't matter if it makes sense. Doesn't matter if it's good. We got the money.
We're going to do it. So that kind of I did not like that. I don't know how mad it made me, but the Bart-O-Meter is right. I definitely did not like that. Number six things I didn't like over the holiday break.
Number six. And we know it's coming every year and we try our best to combat it. But the holiday weight, the holiday weight, guys, putting on the pounds and what's what makes me mad about. So it makes me mad as I have a threshold that I never want to be over again. And I got back over again. OK.
It's 200. I'm trying to get under 200 pounds and I was under 200 pounds. OK. And so I was very happy about that before.
And I knew, you know, holidays are going to be whatever. But I kept doing my routines. I kept doing my exercise. I got on the scale tonight. I got on the scale tonight. You know what the scale did to me? And this is not a joke or a bit or anything.
This is what it did to me. I got on the scale and it said two hundred point nine pounds. And I thought, OK, it's night.
I try to fast in the overnight and wake up, you know, skip breakfast and eat lunch. So it's high now. It will be low. What's this? It looked at me. I swear to you, it said two hundred point nine. Then it changed to two oh two point three. And I thought, did it change the three oh three two oh three point seven? It changed twice on me, just standing there. That's not what a scale does. I've never seen a scale do that ever. And it did it to me tonight. So not only am I mad that I gained a little poundage, as we all did, but I've got a scale that it might have a Bart-O-Meter and it's of itself taunting me. Don't like it.
Number five. This is something we started the show with, if you missed it. The rewind feature on the Odyssey app and the Bart Winkler show does put out on podcast. But I mean, I guess we do. But we put our we give it to you.
It's on podcast form so you can listen to the start of the show. I came in blazing about college football. We got to figure out what we want with this. But what I don't want is a day full of games happen.
No one talks about the games. Instead, it's everybody complaining about who got in. We already did that. We had to do it again. We did it again this weekend. Let's stop doing that.
Once the field is set, the field is set. We have to get to a point where we don't have Kirk Herbstreet and Nick Saban and Paul Feinbaum whining that the SEC didn't get more teams in when there's only one team in the SEC left. And it's not even a true SEC team.
They just joined this season. And Precious Alabama didn't look so good against Michigan the other day, did they? I don't like it. It bothered me. It needs to stop. But it won't stop because we don't know what we want with this sport.
We're trying to do everything at once. We want playoffs to matter. We want the teams we like to get in. We want entertaining games. We want tradition.
We want that 4 p.m. sunset in Pasadena. We got to figure it out. That made me mad. Number four, things that made me mad over the holiday break. This is different than losing bets. I was in a few fantasy leagues. I was in five of them. I'm in ten of them. And five of them I made the semi-finals. I only made the finals in one.
I, of course, lost. But there's this one league that I've been in for a while and I don't like anything about it. I'm in too many of these leagues where I only know like one or two people.
And then you can't just join a fantasy league these days. You have to join their additional group chat. So there's one I had to join WhatsApp. There's another I have a text thread. There's another I've got this.
It's fine. But there's this one league that I am in that everybody in this league, they're like 15 years older than me. Their humor is bad.
They're always ribbing each other in the dumbest ways. One guy's trade and he just offers me trades. He offered me 17 trades a week. His whole team was like, this is my team week six.
It's going to be completely different by week eight. It drove me nuts. So I told him the other night, I said, hey, I'm out of the league. It's too much.
Too many trade offers. Just telling you now for next year. He goes, all right, man, thanks for the years of fun. Do you know what I said to him?
And I've been wrestling this with this. I got to figure out why I'm so angry. I said to him, if it was fun, I wouldn't be leaving. I already left.
I already made my thing. He said gracefully goodbye. And then I spit on him before I left.
Why do I have to do that? But I feel like that's what happens in fantasy leagues. You can't just be like, all right, guys, this is fun, but it's always some anger, some problem. You never leave a fantasy league gracefully. There's no there's no it's mutual breakups in a fantasy league.
It's always something crazy. So that league and the art of leaving a league drove me nuts. Number three, we're going through things that upset me over the holiday break. And I don't know why again.
But it really did. And we'll talk about this. But Dan Campbell, three. Number three is Dan Campbell. Dan Campbell's driving me nuts. I don't know what he is doing. And it might work for him.
That's great. But I said this the other day about Dan Campbell. He is like a comedian that is edgy. And once you're a comedian that's edgy and people like you to kind of stay edgy, you can't just tell the same jokes forever. You've got to get a little more edgy. He gets a little more edgy. Well, you've got to keep that process going. And then what happens? Eventually he's too edgy, says something horrible and gets canceled.
Okay? That's where I feel like Dan Campbell is going with his risk and his aggressiveness. He's doing things that he should not be doing. He should not be going for the onside kick down 10. He should not be going for a fourth down on his own 30. He should not have played anybody in that game on Monday night. But he did.
Against the 49ers, he played everybody. I think that he's flying too close to the sun here. I think that he is addicted to the risk and the bigger the risk. And if it doesn't hurt him, he thinks he can go bigger. The thing that got the lines to this point, you're not to this point without Dan Campbell's riskiness.
I understand that. But it could also be your downfall. You're going to cross that line.
You're going to tell a joke too extreme. I feel like that's happening with Dan Campbell. One of the things that I put on social media was this should not be an interesting game, but it is because Dan Campbell is proving why NFL coaches are already the dumbest part of our population. Football coaches are so stupid yet we entrust them with our favorite teams. Their stubbornness ruins the product for me. Eggman just said you can't argue with Dan Campbell's success.
What's success exactly? Blowing an NFC championship game because you are addicted to making bad decisions? And you might think, Bart fantasy, Bart bats, and that would be normal to think, but that has nothing to do with it. I had nothing on the line here. I was just that upset. I don't know why, but the Bart-O-Meter says it was the thing I was upset about the most, or at least the third most. Again, things I was the most upset about in the last week and a half. Number eight, losing bets, of course.
Number seven, the Mariah Carey Open on Netflix Christmas. Number six, gaining weight. Number five, the whining about the college football playoff. Number four, bad fantasy leagues. Number three, Dan Campbell.
Number two. So the Packers have this thing where they play bang on the drum. Todd Rundgren after a touchdown. They play it after a touchdown. Other teams do their things too. Fly Eagles fly, I can think of.
The Vikings have one, and they played it after a field goal. And I got very upset. And I was upset at people around me. And I decided there that I'm not going to talk for a while. I think that was the best course of action in this game.
They did it after a field goal. The Vikings, man, I know that you guys are having a great year. And I got no reason to think that. I don't think you're as fraudulent.
I don't think you're fraudulent at all. But I think the whole being, because I was at that stadium. I should preface it with that. I was at that stadium for the Packers-Vikings game. So it was upsetting to me to watch my team lose.
Even though that's the figured outcome that I thought. But the Vikings, they just like, the skull stand, they stole. They bang on the, or they blow the horn, which is a rip off of another thing. It just all seems like it's the most manufactured tradition that I've ever seen. The Vikings. And that bothers me. Because their tradition is bad.
And even the good stuff is stolen. Number one. Yeah, I figured it would be this. So on the way back from that trip, Minnesota back to Milwaukee. We stop at a gas station for gas and lunch on Monday. And I go to the counter and I order my meal and they ask for my name. And I say it's Bart. Now, I've been alive for 40 years. The Simpsons have been around for 35.
Obviously people are going to make that connection. Oh, are you related to Bart Simpson? Yes, I am related to a cartoon character on a first name relation.
Good for you. Certain generation will ask me about Henry. Some will ask me about the Simpsons. Is your mom's name Marge?
You know, you're going to get it. A lot of names, you can't escape it. There's going to be that with a lot of different names.
And so it's fine. This, though, was the worst instance of being named similar to a Simpsons character ever. So I say my name's Bart. Then she starts going, do do do do do do do do do do do do do. And that's the Simpsons theme. And I go, yeah, I mean, I like the show. I kind of have to, right? right okay it's fine I've played it off I'm not offended by that I sit down I hear her go to the back to say hey this guy's names Bart the guy who's making my food who then calls out my name says oh watch this I've got a great Homer voice so I don't know what is going to come five minutes later my food is ready he goes Bart your foods ready don't don't and I sat there in stunned silence and I wrestled to myself am I surprised that this happened or am I surprised that it doesn't happen more but either way I felt very I felt violated I'll say it I felt violated in that way so number one thing that made me mad the most over the break Bart your foods ready dough dough and that is the Bart o meter I'll take the mobile device off and put it back in there
