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He's amused Cam Newton. He's been insulted by Charles Barkley.

He's interviewed Matthew McConaughey. And he's taken on Big Blue Nation. It's time for The Drive with Josh Grant. As if three hours wasn't enough this morning, we're back.

On a Thursday drive, we had a great time filling in for Jeffrey on Triad Today. But let's move on with the program here and to one of the oldest adages in all of sports. Great teams need their best players to play like their best players. It's a tale as old as time and during the Tar Heels run to the Final Four, that's exactly what happened.

If North Carolina was to advance, it had to be that way because Hubert Davis didn't play anybody else. And in March, the Iron Five was born and secured a place in Argyle history. Let's fast forward to last night. The Iron Five is obviously no more.

And to be honest, I have no clue where Brady Manning is playing basketball right now. But even though the Iron Five is gone, the Core Four remains and they handled Michigan last night. That was the story from that game. It was the same recipe as last year.

And like your aunt's Christmas cookie special that you're probably going to whip out either today, tomorrow, Saturday or Sunday, it still works and it works well. Carolina had four guys to play 29, 30 minutes or more. You know who they are, Arjay Davis, Caleb Love, Licky Black. And who's that fourth guy? Armando. Oh yeah.

But it goes deeper than that. Arjay Davis played 38 minutes in this game, by the way. They scored 72 of the 80 points in the game.

They attempted 50 of the 58 shots. The Core Four won the game. And now with consecutive Big Ten wins, it's time to pay close attention to how tough North Carolina is, because that's an underrated aspect of Carolina. They often get labeled as being finesse, perhaps being soft.

That's not the case when you tumble with a couple of Big Ten NCAA tournament teams and you take them down. Licky Black and his home, his homecoming, he's from the Charlotte area, had nine points, 10 rebounds, locked down some defenders, had a big block. He was an impactful player. Mr. Bacot, he scored over 50 plus points the last two games combined. He's not backing down.

B. Dot got a video last night that I thought was so cool where Hubert looked over to see if Armando needed a spell. Armando. He looked over at the bench and said, I'm not coming out. Same dude that said he would die on the floor last week for North Carolina. And he's bleeding.

He's scrapping. The key moment of the game, was in the first half when he forced Hunter Dickinson to pick up his second foul with about six and a half to go in the first half. Carolina was trailing by a bucket. From that point on, the rest of the first half, Carolina outscored Michigan 13 to 4. This was Hubert Davis talking about big number five. One of the things that we tweaked was is like we have to feed him the ball.

Like it has to go inside out as opposed to outside in. And that's just really energized him. And when we come down the floor, like our first, second, third option is to throw the ball down a little bit more. And I think at the beginning of the year, it may not have been the first option or we gave him one look and then we went away.

Now we're giving him multiple looks and he's played extremely well. There are not 10 teams in college basketball better than North Carolina right now. They don't deserve to be ranked in the top 10 because they have four losses. We all understand that. But if you're to run down the list and ask me how many teams I would rather have right now over North Carolina, the list is not longer than 10.

That's how long I evaluate. They will be ranked next week or at least they should. North Carolina, a lot was focused on them losing four in a row. You would think winning four in a row now with three high major wins, Georgia Tech, Ohio State and Michigan, that should be enough for you to get back into the top 25. We'll see after the Christmas holiday.

Will Dalton's the executive producer of this show. How many cups of coffee today thus far? Oddly enough, I've only had two.

You and me both, brother. You would think I would have had more. Yeah, I would have taken the over on that. It would have been a good bet. Yeah, probably.

I had over or under two and a half. Everybody in the office. Yes. Collect your winnings on that front. We'll see where we are by the end of the show. 336-777-1600 if you want in. Will Dalton, the executive producer of this show on Twitter at wsjsradio.

We're also streaming video there and on YouTube and on Twitch. Let's go to Ed in Winston-Salem who wants in on his Tar Heels. Ed, the core four got it done.

North Carolina's one, you guessed it, the magic number four. Ha ha ha. Merry Christmas to you.

What do you got? Yeah, yeah. Merry Christmas to Josh, you and the family and all your staff. Yeah, they, you know, looking back, I talked to you right after, you know, they lost that fourth game and you brought up a lot of valid points. All four of those teams they lost to have in the top 20 are being ranked in, you know, the top 25. And to hold you up, to hold you up, you and I seem like the two reasonable ones not wanting to jump off the cliff. And we were reasonable about losing four in a row, not getting, not over correcting when it comes to doubting this Carolina team. So I respect you for being one of those Tar Heel fans that didn't jump off the ledge.

Oh great, I appreciate that. And last night, the beginning of the ball game, to me, they didn't come out with a lot of fire and patience, but they picked it up and then again, the only negative thing I thought was that they shot the ball pretty well, shared the ball pretty well. So, you know, it was a shared the ball pretty well, but missing 12 free throws. I mean, that's something they got to clean up, but overall, like you made another valid point about the toughness. They showed their toughness last night and that little skirmish it went on. And the game in some points, you know, both teams, they get a little chippy, but they held their composure as far as I'm concerned and hopefully they'll keep on the winning trail.

Yeah, thank you so much for the call. Armando said it after the game at MSG. They tried to punk us. Teams try to punk us. We're not going to get punked.

And they didn't get punked by any of these Big Ten teams, the last two that they've played. You are listening to The Drive. We are not going to be live tomorrow or Monday for the holiday. We've got some best of shows those days lined up. And since that's the case, how about an early pick for Panthers Lions Saturday?

And who knows? Maybe this pick is going to be featured in Graham's Gambling later this hour, just saying. There's a chance that might happen.

Just throwing that out there. Because that might give you a hint from what I'm feeling on this game, too, because as soon as I saw the Panthers were underdogs, I knew I'd have them this week. Give me Carolina to protect the bank, so to speak, and upset the Lions. I can't believe Carolina is an underdog.

It shouldn't be an upset. If this, let's say Carolina was not playing Pittsburgh last week, but playing the Lions, what would that line be if it was a week ago for Lions Panthers in Charlotte? I'd venture to say Carolina would be favored because at that point Carolina would be 3-0 under Steve Wilks, all by double-digit wins. The Lions, yes, they've been hot, but before last week they hadn't been on the road and won a road game in about a month. But the Lions win late in New Jersey and Carolina loses it home to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Carolina could not run the ball in Pittsburgh.

That's all that happened in that game. The question is, can they run the ball against Detroit? And when I look at Detroit, I see a team that is 26th in the NFL against the run.

Seems like a significant number to me. That's the third worst run defense they've played all year, second worst run defense they've played in two and a half months. Meanwhile, nothing about the Lions' run game really scares me. So Jared Goff, come on down, you're up against this Panthers defense that I think is really good.

And it helps that CJ Henderson is probably going to play in the game. The Panthers, they're going to be strongly motivated. They're coming off a loss. They've been resilient. 1-5, they bounced back and rallied behind Steve Wilks. When they got blown out in Cincinnati, what did they do? Followed that up, short week, beat the Atlanta Falcons. They lose it home to Pittsburgh, short week, you're at home, you've got the Detroit Lions. Give me Carolina in this spot. They still have NFC South aspirations. Steve Wilks, they're rallying around him, still want him to get the job.

Carolina wins their home finale, 23-16 on Saturday. Might be something featured in Graham's gambling later this hour. Are you ready? All right, hold on. All right, do it, do it. All right, listen up.

It's The Drive with Josh Graham. WD, remind me what your family policy was growing up on Christmas gifts the night before Christmas. So we had this thing where I would get to open one of my gifts. Same here. It was always one, but it was never the best one.

No. And I didn't want the best one. I just wanted a little. It's a B-side for sure. Give me something. But it was never the big one. But now I don't even want that.

I want it all on Christmas day. So on the show thus far, we've been giving you a few of the picks that we have, because when you're just handing out winners left and right, people pay attention. I won't say any names among those that might be listening to this, but 57, 47 and 2 is pretty good. 10 over 500. We haven't had a losing week since mid-October. Two, two and one last week. Some broke our way.

Some did not. So here's what we're going to do. Five didn't work for us last week.

Let's go with six. It's a six pack in Graham's gambling. If you're not gambling, come on now, let's talk some money. You're not trying. You are so money. You don't even know it.

But you do. Let's play some bets. I'm going to make you rich. This is Graham's gambling. And we've made the executive decision.

Now that Sam Washington is not the coach at NCA&T anymore. We've officially retired the bring me my money drop. Did we actually edit that out of the computer now?

It's not. You acted pretty quick if that was the case. And the new drop comes from one of our favorite players to catch up with on the Panthers now from the locker room. J.C. Horn, who was going back and forth with a teammate about his exploits in ping pong. That's right. And apparently some money was on the line. And this is what he yelled across the locker room. Send me that cash.

I'm more of a Venmo guy than cash app, just saying. But let's get to the picks. W.D., should we start with college or the NFL?

I mean, if it's not broke, I think we should go with college first college. It is tonight. We've got the Armed Forces Bowl.

Here is my general principle. See what I did there? General Armed Forces with the Armed Forces Bowl. Take the military institution. Air Force is getting three and a half from Baylor. Baylor's had some opt out. Some weird stuff's happened with them over the last few weeks.

Lost their D.C., I believe. So Dave Aranda, who used to be LSU's D.C., is going to be calling the defense. I'm not worried about motivation from the military institution. From Baylor, I am. How's this for a stat? The last 16 bowl games featuring the military schools. The military is 13 and three against the spread.

And the last six, they're five and one straight up. Give me Air Force to win the night. I'll take the candy anyway.

Send me that cash app, fam. This bowl. Wake Mizzou tomorrow.

This is the illustrious Gasparilla Bowl at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. Wake wants to win it more. It just means more SEC?

Uh-uh. Wake Forest really had no opt outs, no transfers on the offensive side of the ball. The only guy who's in the portal that is not going to play is Christian Turner, because team said that he had to meet with them last week or else he's not going to be recruited by those schools anymore. And that just happened to coincide with the week that, you know, Wake was having bowl practices.

Dave Claussen didn't think that was fair. So Sam Hartman is going to play, and it's his last game at Wake Forest. And A.T. Perry is going to play. Mizzou is missing an all-SEC wide receiver, an all-SEC edge, another one of their defensive pass rushers, and they're not going to have one of their starting safeties in the game. Wake Forest wants to win it more. Dave Claussen, 4-2 in bowl games, straight up.

I don't mind laying the small number. In a matchup between two black and gold schools, give me the ACC team that also has an SEC win already against a black and gold school from Vanderbilt, Wake minus 2. We like the Deacs.

Send me that cash out, family. Last college pick. Middle Tennessee is facing San Diego State in the I don't even care what the name of this bowl game is. That's the name of the bowl. Very prestigious, too. Honestly, I just forgot to write down what bowl game that this was.

You don't really care. Middle Tennessee getting seven here. Same middle team that rolled Miami in the middle of last year, and they fell off a little bit, but finished strong towards the end of the season. They won four of their last five. San Diego State going back to Donnell Pumphrey at running back and some of the others forget who it was that Seattle drafted in the top in the first round. If it was Rashad Penny, they usually have pretty good offenses, but this year, not as prolific as they've been in the past. Middle might win this game outright, but I'll take the touchdown.

Send me that cash out, family. Would you look up the name of this bowl game? This is the Easy Post Hawaii Bowl. Oh, that might be a concern then. Is Middle just taking vacation?

If it's very possible. San Diego, they're already in a nice place on the West Coast. If Middle Tennessee loses this game, it's because they had a little bit too much fun in Hawaii. To the NFL tonight on WSJS.

You can listen to the Jets and Jags. There's no reason for the Jets to be favored in this game, right? The Jags are red hot. They're coming off the win against the Cowboys.

They're just burning people up. And Trevor Lawrence looks great. My guy Zay Jones from East Carolina caught three touchdowns against Dallas. They have a lot to play for. Potentially, they can win the AFC South still. Meanwhile, the Jets, a few weeks ago, they had the punt return. They lost to the Patriots. And your quarterback gets hurt, White Mike. You don't have him now for the second straight game. Zach Wilson's having the start. All is bad for the Jets. This is the hold-your-nose-it-stinks-but-you-know-how-this-is-going-to-go pick of the week.

Send me that cash out, fam. Jets minus two and a half. Here are some numbers to back it up. Teams that are at home on Thursday Night Football this year, that were also at home the previous week, which means they didn't have to travel from a road site back home to the West Coast. They were at home on the quick turnaround. 7-0, straight up, 7-0 against the spread, too. Also, the Jags coming off an overtime game, having to go on the road to a place that, let's just say, looking out the window and seeing what the weather conditions look like right now. Not like Jacksonville, Florida. Gonna work against them. We really like the Jets in that spot.

Next up, the New England Patriots, coming off that disaster. What are we calling that again? Pitchy, pitchy, boo-hoo. This is good.

Or the trucked rule. Chandler Jones, touchdown, all that. Oh my god. Yeah. You know, the most iconic Bill Belichick quote of all was this from a few years ago. We're on to Cincinnati.

Yes. So I wish, after that disastrous play that everybody's gonna remember, kind of like the Miami Miracle and some of the other disasters, I wish Bill Belichick answered every question on Sunday with this. We're getting ready for Cincinnati.

That's what he should have done. Because he got the Bengals. Missed opportunity, Bill. Your next game's against Cincinnati, and you didn't do the throwback after that.

What an opportunity. We're going with the Pats. Cincinnati's been unreliable on the road this year. New England knows it has to win this game in order to stay in the playoff hunt.

They are at home. They're getting three points. This just has New England get right game written all over it because you know, as soon as that game ended, on the flight back from Vegas, Belichick's focus, what was it solely on? We're getting ready for Cincinnati. That's right. Patriots plus three.

Send me that cash out, family. And lastly, in honor of J.C. Horn being the new drop, Carolina Panthers on Saturday getting two and a half from the Lions. If this line was set a week ago, Carolina, I think, would be favored prior to the loss to the Steelers. 3-0 at home against the spread. 3-0 at home straight up with double digit wins under Steve Wilks. This is their last home game of the year.

They talk about protecting the bank. This is their chance to do so against the Lions, who again are red hot. But the reason why Carolina couldn't beat Pittsburgh is because Pittsburgh didn't let them run the ball. The Lions are 26th against the run. Carolina's pretty good run defense, and the Lions aren't really all that scary in that regard. Whoever runs the ball better is going to win this game, and I'm convinced Carolina's going to be that team.

Plus, I'm getting points here at home, and I like that. We're getting ready for Cincinnati. What did that have to do with the Panthers and the Lions?

Send me that cash out, family. In review, we like Air Force and the Jets tonight, Wake Forest tomorrow, and on Saturday, the Panthers, the Patriots, and Middle Tennessee. Four dogs, two favorites, 10 over 500. Haven't had a losing week in over two months now. Going back to the middle of October. Let's get to some of the ACC action. Let's start with last night before we get to tonight. Did you see?

So we pointed this out. There was going to be at least one upset last night. Who is it going to be with Clemson going to Georgia Tech, North Carolina playing Michigan? You had Florida State actually lost, or Florida State won, excuse me, against Notre Dame. That was in tally by one point dramatically.

But that's not who we're really focusing on right now. The team we're focusing on is Virginia Tech, who was 21st in the country and lost in overtime to Boston College. That's right, Boston College. Boston College.

Huge win for the Eagles. Don't count out my guy Ashton Langford and company, who had a huge game last night for Boston College. For Boston College. You know what we have tonight, right? One ACC game.

It is NC State hosting Louisville. Uh oh. We talked about this. We've been talking about this for weeks. Is Louisville going to win an ACC game?

The week of Christmas. No other ACC game on the slate. Louisville almost won three in a row, but lost the Lipscomb the other night. They're really bad. This game's at PNC Arena. Law of the Wolf is, when you most expect them to win, bad things happen.

And then vice versa from that. So, I'm not saying, I'm just saying. Everybody understand?

WE SUCK! I can't see him, W.D. Is he wearing the same Met hat he was wearing at 715 this morning? Oh yeah. Darren Vaught, baseball guy, joining us a few days before Christmas. And this is our last live show until next Tuesday. We did unusual questions on Triad Today today, and that was buckets of fun. So, we're going to do something different that we haven't done for a very long time.

We're going to play the movie game for the first time in a long time. But I promised you this morning, that was what? 22 hours ago? Over 22 hours ago?

Or not 22. No. What are you doing? Math. You had the date wrong when I was with you this morning.

That's right. You're struggling, man. Oh, it's been a long day. 10 hours ago, I promised you. 22 hours.

22! Who's keeping score? 10 hours ago, is what I'm getting at, that we would talk about what has happened with the Mets over the last 24, legitimately, 24 hours or so. They got Carlos Correa when we thought he was a giant. And there was that one period of time via a John Heyman tweet that we thought Aaron Judge was a giant too, or arson judge, depending on, you know, how much fun you want to have with it. The Giants lose out on Judge, they lose out on Correa. Are you more surprised that the Mets pick up Correa or that things devolve the way they did in San Francisco so quickly?

I mean, I think it's got to be this, the surprise. Look, we all knew when Steve Cohen bought the Mets. Okay, this guy's worth 18 billion dollars. He is immediately the richest MLB team owner in the league. And he talks a big game, right?

Okay. He's capable, is what we knew, so it was good to finally see it, right? Like the Mets had had a good offseason. They retained a lot of talent. Edwin Diaz, their excellent closer is back in the fold. They retained Brandon Nimmo, very, very underappreciated from a general perspective of the way he did from a general perspective of fan, very underappreciated outfielder and hitter. And we've also, we've seen the Giants do this before. They have been known under Farhan Zaidi's leadership as the president of baseball operations to be overly precautious with some things.

And it's kept them from signing big time players in certain spots. And no, I mean, it's wild. The surprise is that Steve Cohen just keeps adding and adding and adding. He's going to be paying in luxury tax this season, Josh, what most teams pay in their average yearly salary to their teams. He's paying it across the board.

Like, it's just, it's unreal. And I want to specify too. Cohen is not necessarily paying this out of his pocket. It's not simply because he is rich. He owns a major league baseball team. So yes, he's rich, but he owns a major league baseball team. So yes, the baseball team within that umbrella of his finances, their finances, the organization's finances, they have the money. He's not doing anything that no other owner can't do or is unable to do.

He's just more willing to do it. You kind of are hitting on how much it costs to get into the business of owning teams nowadays. And we just saw that the Broncos earlier this year went for 4.65 billion. Saw the Phoenix Suns this week, 4 billion. Really makes you think, Jeff Passan put it out there.

And when Passan put stuff out there, it's usually not random. Well, when you're getting this much for people buying a team, really makes you wonder if the NBA is on to something with potential expansion, like the NHL, like the NFL, which expanded to 32, if expansion was in the future for major league baseball, what are the first two places you're thinking of? I think Montreal has wanted a team back for a long time.

There's an established fan base. I think they're probably third behind. And we talk about North Carolina in this sense, that there's a geographical gap in the map of where major league baseball teams are. In recent years, Nashville has seemed to jump the Carolinas in that regard. So I think it would be Nashville and then probably Vegas or Portland out west.

One of those two would be the other, I think. And maybe major league baseball is looking to expand its... Well, expand. They are looking to expedite their expansion theories, their expansion ideas, because we've heard for a couple of years now that we're some time away from MLB expansion. But look, the NBA is the NBA, the NFL is the NBA. The NBA is the NBA, the NFL is way ahead of it in terms of a league and value and just how they monetize their sport and their games. But a major league baseball team could probably go for pretty close to that as the Phoenix Suns. It's not like the Suns... It's not like they're the Lakers or anything. They're a team that's been around. They're not often that successful and they're in a period where they've got a really good team. So yeah, the valuations of major league baseball teams are probably close to that.

And again, I wonder if the league isn't thinking about expediting some expansion with that in mind. Darren, before we get to a Christmas movie themed movie game that we're going to play, I have a list here. I'm not going to do the five greatest Christmas movies ever because really that's just...

It's the same movies that you're talking about. Give me four. There's your Mount Rushmore. Give me four. No, no, no. I'm not going to do that because it's the same movies. Hey, white Christmas. It's a wonderful life. And the movie Christmas Vacation. It's the same movies over and over again. What's actually I did here I think is a little bit more difficult. You know, it is the year 2022 about to be 2023 in the year of our Lord.

And that means that people are old enough to drink who are born after 9-11. Surely there have been Christmas movies in the 21st century that could become classics one day. So rather than pull movies pre-21st century, I have what I believe to be the five best Christmas movies, excluding remakes, sorry to the Grinch and Jim Carrey. Five best Christmas movies of the 21st century. Would you like to hear that list?

You're leading up to giving it anyway. So number five, 5A, 5B, Polar Express and Just Friends. Just Friends counts, right? Where Ryan Reynolds going back to his hometown for the holidays, trying to win over Amy Smart, who he had a crush on in high school. That's like the plot to one of the Hallmark movies. It's like the plot is exactly how you joke about the plot to those Hallmark movies. And I'm including Polar Express because Sarah Bradford would kill me if I didn't include it. However, not a big fan of Hanks or the animation in that movie.

It doesn't really age all too well. But moving on. Number four. Four Christmases.

Underrated. This is a good flick. Yeah, especially see, I have a lot of friends of mine who are children of divorce. And this is a movie that speaks to them in a way you don't see in other Christmas movies where, hey, you got two weddings or not two weddings, two gatherings apiece with your family, two people who get together, Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon, who are children of divorce. And rather than going to four different Christmases, you just go on a vacation yourself.

But you get caught when you're at the airport and everything gets canceled, all the flights and they see you on TV. So now you're the jig is up. You have to go to all the Christmases. It's a really good movie.

And I don't understand why with Vince Vaughn and America's Sweetheart Reese Witherspoon, who I've never heard anyone say a negative word about how this movie is not considered to be one of the best movies, why it's not talked about like one we're going to get to in a second. Number three. You get the cameo two in four Christmases. I know I'm rolling all over this. Jon Favreau as the borderline psychotic amateur MMA fighter. Absolutely.

Elf. Great. Speaking of Favreau. Exactly.

He's the doctor and he directed the movie. Yeah. Elf's a classic. You know it's going to be there.

Number two. The holiday. Love Nancy Meyers movies. Women love looking at the houses, particularly.

I've noticed this movie is big with the houses that you see in it. Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Throwing 100, Jack Black, peak affableness, affability, if you will. Jude Law, still in that stretcher, is one of the more handsome men in the history of movies.

That guy. Attractive person. The holiday. I love rom-coms. Number one. And lastly, Love Actually.

Just so many memorable moments, man. Like you're talking about the Keira Knightley, Carolers portion. Hey, who's at the door? Carolers and the guy has the signs out and he's flipping them over and she has a smile that I'm convinced can cure diseases. Keira Knightley.

And then the Liam Neeson son angle and Hugh Grant doing Hugh Grant things. Oh, that movie's great. That's great. I would have had...

I like your top three a lot. Actually your four, because Four Christmases was there too. I think I would have had Elf as one.

Elf. And it's how I perceive it. It's how people around me perceive it. It's very directly a Christmas movie.

And it's like, it's canon now. It is a... It's like what Mariah Carey's song has become in the last couple of decades. It's the song that...

It's the movie that's picked up steam during Christmas. Yeah. Okay. So let's use that as the springboard into the movie game. I've just been handed an urgent and horrifying news story.

It's time for some kind of movie game. All right. All right. All right.

With Josh Graham and Darren Botz. Show me to my... Let's fly through this. And then we got Rhinestone Cowboy Thursday today. Because we're not on tomorrow again. We're not live with the holiday. Let's get things started. For those who don't know how the movie game works.

Let me refresh Darren real quickly. WD is going to throw three movies at us. And then we're going to have to try and guess the Rotten Tomato score of it. And it's a golf style situation where your score is added. However many points you're off by is your score. And you add it after three movies, whoever has the lowest score wins. If it's within 10 of each other going into or after the third movie. We will decide it with a fourth golden movie.

If you get it right on the nose, you deduct five points from your score. Ready to go Darren? I was born ready. What is the first Christmas movie you got for us WD? It's a Wonderful Life. Of course.

My favorite. I forget with older movies if they score really high or not as high as you would think. Darren, are you the person in my, in my circle, in my universe that hasn't seen it yet? No. Who also just does not typically like watching older movies. That's correct.

Pre 1969. I don't want, because we had this conversation before. Yeah.

Yeah. I've had that conversation multiple times with you. I, well, I'm just going to write my score down.

We can talk about it after. I got my score written down too. I'm going 84 percent. I have 89. I had 89 written down. I scratched it out and wrote 84. It is 95.

Okay. So I guess that answers my question that it's pretty high up these old movies. So your score is six.

My score is 11. That's right. What's the second movie? How the Grinch Stole Christmas. I assume we're not talking animated version.

We are not. So hold on. Jim Carrey. Is this Jim Carrey? This is Jim Carrey.

I think this is rated pretty highly, but I don't like it. And I love Jim Carrey. Yeah. I wasn't a big fan of it either, but there are some scenes in it. I was in California spending Christmas with my brother a few years ago and it was just on. And it's amazing how many parts of the movie I don't remember going out of my way to watch it anytime since I was a kid or, and there were just scenes that, Oh, I remember what's going to happen here.

And just specific facial expressions that Jim Carrey makes and things that happen, things that are just seared into my memory. There are a number of things actually, since that one been a, there's like a computer generated generated Grinch movie that I saw on maybe like a week ago. Yeah. Not too long ago. It came out pretty, pretty good.

They put it out maybe what, 2018, something like that. I enjoyed it. You got a score written down.

I do. I have 70. 81. It is 56. Oh, Darren did the Okie doke. Oh, I think it's going to be scored really high.

And he wrote and he gave a 70. Man, that that's a killer for me because now I'm like in the high thirties, low forties. And Darren is probably close to the twenties, but I'll leave it to Darren to WD to give us the update. All right, Josh, you were sitting at 36 and Darren is at 20.

Is that 20? All right. All right, so I need to get within six here to have a shot at the golden movie. But what is the third movie, WD? Die Hard. Last week, he watched Die Hard for the first time. Sure did. Watched Elf this week.

We've been doing our job. I think that was Darren's recommendation that you watch Elf and we made that happen. Because you had to, right? Because it's a classic. Yeah, I would have done Love Actually, but.

We took your recommendation. Die Hard. Oh, are you agonizing over this one? I am. Do you like Die Hard? Yeah, yeah, I do. I don't get all up in arms about whether or not it's a Christmas movie.

Neither do I. It's a good movie. See, I was on the camp that it was a Christmas movie until someone brought up a good point to me. It might have been somebody in the ACC community that is high up, we'll say, who said, Josh, here's how it's not a Christmas movie. It came out in July. And I didn't have a rebuke to that. I didn't have a response to that. It's kind of a game changer.

You can't be a Christmas movie if the people who put out the movie put it out in July. But anyway, what's your score for it? It's a great point. Uh, I've got eighty four. I had to take a swing on this because W.D., I knew Darren was going to go high on it. I did seventy seven. So if it's lower than seventy seven, then we got a golden movie or if it's right on the nose, if it's higher than seventy seven, then Darren wins going away.

It is ninety four. There you go. Darren Bot, congratulations. I think I forgot to tell W.D.

about the moment of Zen. You did. Is that like a weekly positivity thing?

No, it's just usually you get 30 seconds to tell people what's up while Blur 2 plays. You got any Christmas music or something that we can play to accent Darren Bot's win and celebrate, allow him to bask properly in in the moment? Not on hand. I don't. That's OK. Darren, how are you spending Christmas?

It's OK. I'm actually going to the Canes game with our friend David Glenn tomorrow and then Saturday morning, going to drive up to my folks in Virginia and spend a few days there. So pretty, pretty typical Christmas shenanigans.

I'll be in Virginia on Saturday and Sunday. So nice. I was going to say this is the first married holiday season for you. So you get married, married Christmas. Yeah, you get a you get a split time, right? That's no doubt you got to figure that out. That's fun. Well, good. I mean, it sounds like it was low stress because I haven't heard about it until.

No, it's not stressful at all. Folks are going to be coming. Families coming to Winston tonight and tomorrow. And then we're going to Virginia Saturday and Sunday.

That's going to be the deal. It's all going to work out very well. Darren, thanks for what you do for us. And Merry Christmas, Rem. We'll talk next week, I'm sure.

Yeah. Merry Christmas, guys. I'll see you. Merry Ghost. Darren, but it's a rhinestone cowboy Thursday, which is weird to say. What do we got and take it to the house? Florida deputy.

You're going to say it like that. Next, Merry Christmas to everybody in our audience. We had a great company Christmas party today. We had fun doing Jeffrey show in the morning, too. And now we're just so blessed and lucky to get to do what we do and work with the people we work with. And this feels like a tight knit family from Tom, our GM, the DJ to UWD to Gregory, everybody in our office. Real Christian fellowship, too, which was really neat earlier today.

And you don't see a lot nowadays in business and in corporate life. But let's sing along to some rhinestone cowboy on this Thursday to close out the week. And let's take it to the house. But in all seriousness, Merry Christmas to everybody in the audience. We will be back for another live show on Tuesday. God bless you as in you and yours. I hope you stay safe as well.

Don't drive too quickly on the roads that are wet and it's cold out. So stay safe. What do we got in ticket to the house today?

I tell you who I'd like to say Merry Christmas to. So Florida deputy responded to a report of an injured hawk on the sidewalk. He arrived. Jay one hurt? No, that would be an eagle. This is a hawk. What's the difference? I don't know, but there's a difference.

OK. So anyway, it turns out the hawk got engaged with a battle with a snake. He fought a snake.

So they got that report. The hawks just kind of laying on the sidewalk there. Deputy arrives and the hawk had a black snake wrapped around its body. And the deputy got there body cam footage that was posted to Facebook by the sheriff office showed the deputy using gloves and towels to attempt to unwrap the snake from the hawk's body, said both the hawk and the snake ended up being OK. Were eventually disentangled from one another, but not a hawk. What a turn from Florida to to Florida. Could you imagine just walking on the sidewalk and you see a hawk and a snake going at it like it's Mortal Kombat?

Yeah, that is true. I'm I'm actually imagining. A more loving picture than a fighting picture. You may see other animals.

Maybe the snake was just giving him a hug. Mother nature, man. Appreciate nature.

Appreciate the beauty of the animal kingdom and the food chain. No, I don't know. It's time to go home. Not 22 hours ago, but no about.

Man, my math is so bad. What is it, 11 hours ago? We took to the air today.

I believe so, yeah. Basketball players deserve some time off. We deserve a little bit of time off ourselves. Again, stay safe. Merry Christmas. Subscribe to the pod. Do all those things. Rate, review, subscribe. We'll talk to you after the holiday.