The Clubhouse Podcast

The Clubhouse – Episode 25

December 29, 2013 Season 4, Episode 25

The Clubhouse Podcast's year-end wrap-up episode (Episode 25) features hosts Robin, Chad, and Don discussing 2013 in sports, entertainment, and pop culture. Topics include college and NFL bowl games, WWE wrestling developments, the closure of Blockbuster Video, and gratitude to the show's community and supporters.

About this episode

Key takeaways

  • Blockbuster Video failed to adapt to streaming technology, missing the opportunity to acquire Netflix for $50 million in 2000 and losing to competition from Redbox and Netflix's instant queue
  • Batista's return to WWE for the Royal Rumble was announced live on the show before being officially confirmed by the company, with plans for a potential two-year deal
  • TNA Wrestling is in decline, evidenced by Jerry Jarrett's resignation as founder and the collapse of a potential buyout deal with Toby Keith's group
  • The Great Christmas Light Fight on ABC featured elaborate holiday displays competing for $50,000 prizes and showcased creative outdoor lighting from families across the country

Q&A

Why did Blockbuster fail to compete with Netflix?

Blockbuster turned down an opportunity to buy Netflix for $50 million in 2000, failed to upgrade its outdated DOS-based point-of-sale system, didn't offer special features on rental DVDs, and lost customers to Redbox's convenience and Netflix's instant queue service.

What is the significance of Batista's WWE return?

Batista's return for the Royal Rumble is rumored to lead to a potential two-year deal with WWE, with speculation he could face Randy Orton at WrestleMania and possibly work with Triple H.

What happened to TNA Wrestling in 2013?

TNA faced serious problems including founder Jerry Jarrett's resignation, the collapse of a potential buyout deal led by Toby Keith, and ongoing financial and creative struggles.

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Friends Jesus Hey y'all, I'm bringing heat Beast and all, hot topics every week Waking news and I don't even try It is 702 on the East Coast It is 402 on the West Coast It is the 29th of December in the year of our Lord 2013 It is season 4 episode 25 for those of you playing the home game in this episode 211 The clubhouse is live on the air We welcome you no matter how you are listening Whether you are listening live right here on you stream You registered as a user You are going to give us live feedback in the chat room Whether you are listening on our archive Which we are going to talk about in changes coming to the archive here in just a moment Or whether you subscribe on iTunes We don't care how you listen We are just glad you are here My name is Robin I couldn't avoid the crowd Hit me shortly after the show and off the air last week This is probably the best I've sounded in about three days I'm still not out of the woods yet It is the year and wrap up show The last show of 2013 So we are keeping it simple tonight Joining me across the desk to my left Is a man who had company in his home for the first time in a long time Especially in the manner in which he had said company It was a good day You were a brief participant in that I wasn't I wasn't I knew I wasn't going to be good company But I feel like this I'm not good company And you sound better today than you did yesterday I mean I pretty much after I left your house I ran a couple of errands And came over back to the house And just shut it down brother It was me and the remote And some to go boxed Genghis grill That was the rest of the day So his left is the other member of Clubhouse proper He is the official fact checker of this show He just got back from the very very cold north west And but the good news is besides the fact that he's back He knows that it's actually six o'clock in the central time zone He is down forward It's great to be back How did you mess with that Family all that I just what I looked at what I looked in the chat room And it said I forgot the time change I went back and listened to last week's episode You blew the wheels off there for a minute It's becoming But real quick I got to wish my sister happy birthday today My sister Darcy having to interpret day to day My only sibling love Oh okay My dad's birthday was two days ago So I have besides Christmas I have a lot of birthday Same time What going on for you sir Love them both Happy birthday to your sister happy belated to your dad Welcome back It's good to be back Let's get into two corrections If you subscribe to this show on iTunes You have a lot of stuff to listen to We kept you company This past week there were four different shows That you got to choose from in the last seven days I just got caught up today So But nothing nothing nothing Nothing to crack Well meet you We're not telling the sense of time Well there's something Yeah I got part of the show It sounded good what I got to Chad your lovely wife who's our British descent is in our chat room right now I appreciate the well wishes It's a good thing I don't have a job or I have to talk a lot Either the one that pays me or the one that doesn't We would probably be remiss if we didn't at least mention the birthday of one doc house or as well Yeah stocks birthday was this past week We're going to talk about him here later on in the show as well He's doing really well How to get Christmas from what I talked to him the other day He actually texted me on Christmas day Not called me I could tell you are under the weather Yeah when you called me I was I was I was actually going to do all the updates for the website Everything While I was visiting my in-laws in San Antonio I mean I had my laptop back with me And You know Charlotte came over last Monday We were just kind of hanging out And I felt a little froggy but I was like I'll fight through it And then we left first thing Tuesday morning And I was little feeling little scratchy And pretty much by the time we got to San Antonio And got our bags brought in It hit me like a ton of bricks And it just And now I think I love the entire business as servants caught it too So happy days for us By the way shout out to my father-in-law You guys know I like my car I love the beast Yeah he's a pretty car Must be Yes Yeah it's my father-in-law Well played sir Not only does my father-in-law now have a Camaro He has the limited edition Hot Wheels Camaro in the chase I saw that and I was like I looked at Jen and she was like don't Ha ha ha Pretty it's a beautiful car She actually got to ride in Jesus really nice Shout out to my father-in-law on that He didn't take you for a ride in it Brother I really The reason they went out in the car Was to get drugs for me Oh In a say what I'm coming from Okay Oh this is going to be a struggle But we're going to get through it Because we do it for the kids Let's get into this thing the little TV talk The sing-off Which is a favorite of a lot of people My wife watches it a little bit But I know a lot of people that watch the sing-off But their finale was a four season low for NBC Scoring a 3.3 But it still ends up winning the night for the 18 to 49 bracket So I don't know what happened there It's the old the senior systems didn't like Well, it's the fact of you know you're in Christmas week So is anybody really monitoring ratings on Christmas week Unless you're a parade or a football game But then there's this and I went to talk to you about this yesterday when I saw you say What do you know about this next thing? Nothing after other than what you posted This I'm at I'm at my in-laws house And my mother and I says they'll feel a little blurb in the corner That talks about the great Christmas light fight And she's like, do you watch that? I'm like, I don't even know what that is She's like, oh, let me fix that for you So my wife comes into the room So it's my wife and myself and my father-in-law and my mother-in-law And she accused this thing up And this was pretty much right before the sickness just went full bore on me I went back to bed from the four hours This was about four episodes deep And the finale was two hours, it was two episodes In each episode it's an hour long There are four families from all over the country It's called the Great Christmas light fight And these two people from HGTV or something of itself There's a male and a female They go around the country and they go between these four families Who have these elaborate Christmas displays And the winning family in each episode gets 50 grand Which my theory said that paid their power bill It was interesting because you had families that did a lot of the blow-up Some that did the blow-molds, some that did Just traditional lighting, some that had choreographed lighting This was one of the coolest shows I've ever seen I don't know, I'm assuming this was the first year for this thing I don't know, I saw it on my DVR but I almost recorded it But if it comes back around or if you can catch this thing on demand There's some a check this thing out There were some of these displays that were amazing And it was really cool is they not only got the 50 grand But they got this trophy And what would you say that is that I'm showing you right there About three, two and a half, three feet About three feet tall And the top two thirds of it looked like one big Christmas bulb And there's little ones inside it and it lights up I think if ABC, I mean, I'll grant it It does pretty well winning its time slot But I think if ABC maybe had promoted this a little bit better This could have been a ratings check or not Because I'm a sucker for good Christmas lighting displays And I'm a little bum that we didn't get to go Christmas light Driving around this year Have they called it?

Is that a technical term? Christmas light driving around? I don't know what the official term is Because you and I and Chad, we've done that in the past Oh yeah We just piled a bunch of people in the car and just drove around the neighborhoods This was a great idea And I really hope that ABC brings it back And if you have the chance, like I said, maybe you can find it on YouTube Or maybe you can find it on demand or ABC.com Maybe who will probably check this out It was a great show The male host was a little weird for me The female host was a little, she was kind of over the top Because every display was just amazing But some of the stuff you do that at the end of the day I really, really rather not Some of these displays were just in saying There was a family in Fort Lauderdale for it And don't want that bias for you They called this guy Mark Giver Like he is not, now I'll tell you why I'll tell you why There were his neighbors would come up and just challenge him Like somebody had just read down their sprinkler system And so they gave them all their old sprinkler pipes And said do something with this And he was like fine And at Christmas he made it into a fully working Ferris wheel Oh really He found an old tire I found an old bike tire Turned it into a mechanism for a working ski lift For the little penguin that goes across the y'all It's ridiculous And it's over the top But it was amazing And go check this out And ABC bring this back We may be able to pull this up on ABC Uverson demand Because I'm on Uversus page and they've got a section for it Oh really?

Yeah So maybe we'll check one out after the show Because I really, and it's got to be one I haven't watched But it was, oh it was amazing And they gave away 50 grand And they were episode Every episode Every episode There's four families There's total of 20 families in there Four families at a time And they won family in each episode And 50 grand Michael Maloney and Sabrina Soto Yes You are correct Alright so Big news for Charlotte She's a family of the Americans And we have a return date for them It will be when they February 26 At 10 Eastern And it's going to pick up right We're season one left off Apparently Reagan's just coming into office If you don't know what this is This is about basically a KGB sleeper cell It's about spies It's about a couple Who look American everything like that It has a With a great carry Russell In Margot Martindale And she's in there? Oh yeah She's like their handler But a couple looked like the all-American thing And they live across free from the FBI agent But there's spies for Russian spies But not spies like us Because that's a completely different thing But very good Very very good show Yeah So Charlotte loves the show So she'll be excited It'll be coming back And finally in TV news This week at this time Your news gets kind of slow And he did lift Phil Roberson's suspension on Friday So season five of Duck Dynasty Will get underway There was cracker barrel I don't know if you read this story about this Cracker barrel came under some fire Because they removed all of their Duck Dynasty items From the shelves During the suspension Came under a lot of criticism Ended up putting its Back I'm sorry I'm trying to watch the game for Donna So we're trying to figure out Cancees to be missed the field Oh no So it looks like you're Oh no, we're going over times So We'll talk more about that in the bell talk But to me this was such a non-story The whole thing was And that's why we didn't really go into a deep on this show Because it gets too political And you're talking politics and religion And it's not two things we like to mix Not number one But number two Who cares It's somebody's opinion That's what I'm saying It's just somebody's opinion There's something there's an old adage about Appinions and what they're like Tell them to say Unless I say it better off Fair point You are listening to the clubhouse We are live every Sunday night 704 Pacific Hope all of you have a very safe new year coming up Hope you've got big plans Gonna be out there wopin it up But just make sure you're back with us next Sunday And the worth what's Five weeks away From our next live appearance It FOX in hand for the Royal Rumble Thanks So you have to last Sunday Got some Royal Rumble news Coming up in wrestling talk Remember we are your one stop shop for all things sports And entertainment Let's get into the sports realm And go on campus Bull updates Let's get to the scores Later Because what I want to do right now Is I want to talk about The week that was in college football in the bull season Monday night in the beef obradies bowl East Carolina over Ohio 37 to 20 I got that one right Don got that one right Tuesday night Christmas Eve in the Hawaii Bowl Oregon State Jumps out early Boise State makes it come back in the second half But not enough As Oregon State wins 38 to 23 I had that Charlotte had that Of course nothing happened on Christmas day But the kids have a rest Thursday night Two games happened The little Caesar's bowl Pitsburg versus bowling green Pit wins 30 to 27 Chad had that Charlotte had that Don had that I don't want to say who didn't Because they've been The point set a bowl Number 23 Northern Illinois Is beat By Utah State on ranked Chad had that You might see a pattern Start to form here Uh-oh Frightenites in the military bowl Participated by two teams Either one of them are military schools Marshall over Maryland 31 to 20 Chad had that Don had that In the Texas bowl With two teams either With which are from Texas Syracuse over Minnesota Gold and golfer 21 17 I had that Chad had that Charlotte had that Don had that So break even on that Enemy craft fight hunger bowl Washington Over BYU 31 to 16 I had that Chad had that And then yesterday And the pinstripe bowl Which by the way takes place in Yankee Stadium Notre Dame big over Rutgers 29 to 16 We all had Notre Dame In the Belk Bowl North Carolina over Cincinnati 39 to 17 Chad had that Charlotte had that In the Russell Athletic Bowl Way to go Miami You score a safety in the beginning of the game Don't score anything else So you have to touch down on the fourth quarter And Louisville beats you 36 to nine Charlotte is the only one that had that And in the late game Kansas State over Michigan In the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl 31 to 14 You want to know who had that one? Nobody So Coming up tomorrow night The music tomorrow Afternoon It's coming over there Did I get that right?

Okay Tomorrow afternoon at 215 Did I get that one wrong? Or did they move that one? Or did they move that one?

Or did they move that one? I guess they did they move that bowl Okay fair enough This is the way we jump No we had the arm forces bowl Was supposed to be tomorrow morning at 10.45 And it's not on the Sound on the deal Uh oh Middle Tennessee and Navy They must have moved it It's something I can figure Or they just forgot to list it on here Tomorrow morning at 10.45 The Bell helicopter armed forces bowl We'll be middle Tennessee versus Navy 215 tomorrow The Franklin American mortgage music city bowl Ole Miss versus Georgia Tech The Valero Alamo bowl Is all is a 545 Central Time Oregon versus Texas And the night game the National University Holiday Bowl, San Diego, California Arizona State versus Texas Tech New Year's Eve The Advocate RV100 Bowl and Shreeve Port Arizona versus Boston College The Hyundai Sun Bowl Virginia Tech versus UCLA The Liberty Bowl The Arizona Liberty Bowl Rice versus Mississippi State And the Chick-fil-A Bowl Duke versus A&M New Year's Day You've got a slew of games And I mean a slew of games The Taxlayer.com Gator Bowl Nebraska Georgia The Heart of Dallas Bowl The U.N.L. V versus North Texas The Capital One Bowl Wisconsin and Badger Badger Badger Versus South Carolina The Outback Bowl Iowa versus LSU The Rose Bowl presented by Visio Stanford versus Michigan State And the Toastinos Fiesta Bowl Central Florida versus Baylor On the second you'll have the sugar bowl Oklahoma versus Alabama The third you'll have Not only the Orange Bowl Clems and Versus Ohio State But you'll also have the Cotton Bowl Art in Arlington, Oklahoma State Versus Mizzou And then on Saturday night The BBVA Compass Bowl Vanderbilt versus Houston And then of course we'll be back on the year Next week and by the time we go up the year That'll be your next bowl So we'll give you the updated totals right now Currently leading And let me say currently leading Because at one point Let me just go let me score the record We'll go from the bottom up Because in the bottom is a man Let's just I'm in the last place right now Seven points I hate all of you Don you're a point ahead of me With me Charlotte's a point ahead of you at nine Chad is currently leading the field at eleven Let me give you Chad's record house at stands Out of the gate It's the first four right Mrs.

the next two And then goes on a seven nothing run Of pit Utah State Marshall Syracuse Washington Notre Dame and North Carolina But he's lost his last two So And this is my first year Numbers don't lie Numbers do not lie But if I'm last place in the end This is my first year That's my excuse No there's no excuse I'm sorry If I can't make excuses You sure as hell can make excuses Let's go to the other side of the coin And talk a little NFL Lot going on week 17 Payton Manning now has the single season passing record Beaton Drew Breeze Again, do we great on a curve because he plays half his games in Denver I don't see how you can't try to figure out how he can get out of this Shuelay something Shueling about him And plus the pie No that's down Casey Just happened History may today we'll get in the minute But well, it's still an OT because remember Oh no, no they haven't put on the board yet They haven't put on the board yet Okay But Denver Now has record for the most points in the season To it's over 600 It doesn't shock me I mean that's how they do with score points Also today was the very last game ever played again Okay Well because this is the second time allegedly this has happened But I believe it more this time First one Tony Gonzalez tied in for the Atlanta Falcons First ballot Hall of Famer No doubt watch this done just watch the play while I'm talking This was supposed to be a kick Kick got blocked Ball stripped out Oh, they didn't give it to him Wow Tony Gonzalez I believe it more this time because Guys had a rough goal for this year Had some great but Atlanta was just bad for in 12 But first ballot Hall of Famer no doubt in my mind Huge fan of this guy upstanding citizen You won't talk to a soul that doesn't love him in the league So thank you for the great memory sir You will definitely be missed in the lead Well we after this we've only got one game left But wait a minute Rob Last week on the show You said there was no prime time games this week No Sunday night game They moved it No money night game They flexed Yeah The Dallas Philly game To the night game So now NBC who didn't have a game before Now has a game and Fox is not happy Oh yeah it's a play because they were supposed to have that game as the new game today Because it's a playoff game basically Oh it is It's win in your end And the thing is the schedule said Because they want the season done By the end of you know like You know The afternoon the second game of the afternoon So everybody has the same time to prep and get ready for You know they're game because it's some people Don't know who their opponent's going to be Uh-huh And I'm calling you know shenanigans on that There is definitely shenanigans Yeah Because if I'm Fox I'm mad too I'm like you better give me an extra playoff game or something Because that's going to be a ratings gangbuster Now Romo going through back surgery And this is what I love People get on New England because they don't release injury reports Because they don't have to But did anybody really believe that Tony Romo's decision was going to be daily Kekno No And all of a sudden on Friday he has back surgery Oh really He wasn't going to play And the cowboys were denying it like five minutes before he went under the knife And remember on this show last week where I talked about conspiracy theory Did you read the Jerry quote? No Jason Garrett is not coaching for his career And his future is bright She remember what I said on this show last week Because it's going to come out What'd you say? The reason he's the head coach of the dance cowboys is he is Jason Garrett And Jerry Jones are in collusion when Wade Phillips coached this team But he told them to tell the audience to lay down It's going to get bad enough that we can fire Wade And I can make you coach Because if you go back to that season After Wade was fired all of a sudden the offense was getting better And improving every week It's because your offensive coordinator is now your head coach Being fooling nobody Being fooling me Dropped I believe it That's why I say he won't fire Garrett Do you think Houston lost intentionally today?

So they get the first pick? I don't think Houston loses intentionally They just lose But to Tennessee Are you also in one second, huh? In this twice this year?

Yeah Let's go over today's games Since an Adio for Baltimore 34 to 17 Andy Dalton 21 of 36 to 81 to touchdowns and four picks today And they still win the game Baltimore How bad are you? Don's Pittsburgh Steelers get the job done Over Cleveland, who by the way Cleveland's coach will be fired tomorrow According to ESPN I believe it Twenty to seven Scoring it all four quarters So what you got to do? Tennessee over Houston as we just had 16 to 10 Chris Johnson 27 rushes for 127 yards and a touchdown Carolina over Atlanta Which in a game that really should have been a blowout Carolina wins by a point Cam Newton 15 of 27 to 149 to touchdowns and a pick As they clinched the division You can't clinched the division any later week 17 Minnesota over Detroit 14 to 13 You're going to hear me meet in my mic a lot tonight We'll map you Stafford 22 of 33 to 17 The Jets Miami You had two jobs to do Beat Buffalo and beat the Jets You didn't beat Buffalo But there was still life if you could beat the Jets The Chargers can lose and Baltimore loses Baltimore lost Oh yeah by the way, so did you Twenty to seven You made Gino Smith look like Brett far Seventeen a twenty seven for a hundred and ninety yards Any rush to touchdown I put too much faith in you sometimes I'm just letting you know dolphins But I'm not jumping off I'm still a fan I've been a fan since I was like seven I'm gonna be a fan to lie to I Which at this rate maybe a lot sooner than I think it is In the over Jacksonville 30 to 10 Andrew luck 26 to 37 282 And a touchdown Chad Henny not a bad day First of all, Chad Henny, yes still in the league 30 of 51 331 a touchdown in the pick Indy tighten up that defense Address Harold, giant over Washington Twenty to six In that game Eli Manning goes down the injury he is done Done like his team why wouldn't you just sit him You're not gonna get in the playoffs Green Bay Chicago, coming down to the wire, Green Bay just took the lead with 38 seconds left, 33-28 is your score there.

They tried for a 2 point conversion, did not get it. Seattle, way up on St. Louis 27 and 9 with two minutes to go in the for everybody's run in long today.

All these games are still going on, two minute warning, 27 to 9. Then San Diego, 654 left in over time. Now, what happens if this ties?

Then San Diego is in. Casey has to win for my Steelers to get in. If San Diego ties or they win, then they're in.

And both teams have both time out to available to them. Exactly. Arizona.

Behind San Francisco by a field goal with a minute seven left in the fourth and Arizona has to ball. Denver, as we said, over Oakland, 34 to 14 today. Manning's numbers, 25 of 28 to 66 and 4 touchdowns to Real Prior with not a bad day.

21 of 38 to 07 and 2 touchdowns. New Orleans all over Tampa Bay of like a bad suit, 42 to 17. Tampa Bay just played a finish.

Get out of there. New England over Buffalo 34 to 20 today. Leggerit blunt.

This kid just keeps showing up. Why did Tampa pick it right at him? 24 rushes for 189 yards and two touchdowns that A for New England.

And then tonight for all the marbles. Filly at Dallas. Do you believe?

I'm not that drunk. Do you remember when I stopped rooting for this team? When am it left?

No. A little bit with a he left, but not that there was something else happened after he left when they signed somebody. Oh, T.O.

Uh-huh. Yeah. And I said, I won't room for a team that T.O.

plays four. And then T.O left and then then who do they signed? Who I also won't room for?

I've said, never trust a quarterback named Gus, Elvis, or Kitna. Yeah. Okay.

So Kitna goes away. Still a bad team. So who do they resign as their backup quarterback for this game?

Algebra 2 teacher John Kitna. But did you see what he's doing with his paycheck? And that I was about to get to that.

Okay. He's getting paid $58,000 for this game. He's actually donating it to the school where he teaches algebra 2, which is where he went to school apparently.

Oh, is it? Yeah. So I respect that totally.

Much love to him for that as long as they don't give it to the football team. Keep it academic. You heard it here first.

I agree with it. And it'll be $58,000 a check. Should they win and go on, he'll get another $58 grain and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

We talked about this in the pre-show. Saw status sports center yesterday. Since 2000, the cowboys in week 17, 211.

And the last time they played in week 17 for the NFC East title, they lost a Philly 44 to 7. Just sin. And then it's playoff time baby.

Winter, go home. That's the genius of the NFL playoffs. And the NCAA tournament.

Winter, go home. That's tonight too. Winter, go home.

That's the way it should be. The best of 97 series has to go away. There's one thing we get to wrestling talk.

I need to bring up about 20 rubble. Okay. Oddly, but okay.

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Since we are a person of interest. It is a segment we do on the show where we pick a person or an entity and we debate their greatness or lock their up. Depends on some swings back to chat this week.

Go ahead sir. Well, we reported several times throughout the course of the year. I think about the status of a company that all of us grew up in the shadow of.

Think one of us in this room grew up in the employment of for a short time. About two years, absolutely. Uh-huh.

And it's a company that was born and raised right in this fair bird. They opened their first store in Dallas in 85. Yes, they did.

I'm sorry. Skillman and Northwest Highway. For those of you that don't know, I'm talking about Black Buster video.

And they're pretty much, well, wrapping things up. I mean, I don't know if you can even find one that's got their doors open anymore. The one by your house maybe still?

I think it's, the last time I was there, which was about two weeks ago, they were pretty much picked over. And I know that all the stores will be closed by the end of January nationwide. And it's, I don't know.

It just, it seems like a sad thing to see go away. But, and again, this is something that you and I talked about off the air several times. They pretty much did everything they could to shoot themselves in the foot whenever technology started to pass them by.

Well, I, I don't know if I can truly agree with that. Until three years ago, because they really stayed, you know, they were the only place I knew of, except for one small mom and pop shop, over by the Blockbuster that I managed, that did laser discs. And they really carry through on DVD.

They really carry through on blue right. Right. But the Netflix showdown.

And from what I read here, and I always suspected this, but I really couldn't confirm it. But apparently, the, the question gets asked when exactly did this death spiral for Blockbuster begin. And they said it, maybe impossible to pinpoint, but it had to be pretty close to the moment in 2000.

When company executives turned down a chance to buy a one year old company called Netflix for 50 million. That kind of, well, I know. I mean, at one point, they moved their corporate headquarters at downtown Florida, because I remember the Blockbuster building.

It was gorgeous. I had like a prism thing going on with like multiple colors and the windows. And I mean, I enjoyed working for him.

Great perks. I have five free runnels every week. I went through every bond movie.

I like over the course of about three months. But I mean, I mean, I've lost track how many times you and I've talked about this. I'm like, can you imagine if somebody with the idea for Netflix came walking through the door and Blockbuster corporate said I've got this great idea that could be a direction that you guys could move into in the future.

And they, and they even tried to after the house really blew up. Right. That Netflix ended up buying that.

Mm-hmm. Like, no way. You know, we've, we've got this.

You know, and, and, but here's my thing. And you and I've talked about this, too. The, the downside to Netflix, which is really what I thought would keep Blockbuster viable, at least for a time.

Right now, if I want to watch the Tim Burton 1989 Batman, which I do not own, except on home video, I have to do one of two things. I have to call you which I did recently. And now we have to watch Batman begins, by the way, because I've got that one queue up and we're going to begin.

Begins or returns. Returns, I'm sorry. Or, I have to go buy it.

Which I can't believe you haven't done buying it. Well, it was only Christmas list. The, the forced, the four movie set was on my Christmas list.

I don't want to buy it if something is going to buy it for me. Now, somebody did buy me something, but it was a different, probably better. Yeah.

Thank you to my brother and law. But I can't get it on the instant queue right now. It is not available on the instant queue.

Well, I mean, and there are other, other options for streaming. I mean, you've still got Amazon that you can stream through. Right.

But why do I want to pay multiple memberships? If you're trying to get what you're after, some people are willing to, but blockbuster was a free membership. And you had all the library titles, too.

Yeah. But, you know, as they started getting, you know, consolidated their libraries were getting shipped from here and there and they would get some stuff in it, but then they would sell off their access stock and it was getting hard and hard to find these older movies that you're talking about. I mean, like, the article that I pulled up here said it was, it was beginning to get really tough to find old films like an old Hitchcock or Fellini movie or the obscure quirky TV films that fans like to discover.

I'm going to give you two moments to me that sunk them as you talk about this part of it. Moment one, they never upgraded their system. Until the day the last blockbuster closed, their entire point of sale system was a dust based system.

Wow. Now I'm not kidding you. This is a true story.

They never went to a system where, if you came up to me when I'm in this blockbuster and you're like, hey, dude, I want to rent the English patient. Do you have it? And I would say no.

For me to find if another store had it, I had to reach into a drawer, pull out my store list and start calling stores. That's ridiculous. Why can't you create a system where I can go and I can go, okay, now it wouldn't be available in the public, of course, but an inter-company system where I could type in a movie.

And it would tell me which stores have stock available in my area. And then just to verify, I could call my store and say, could you hold on to one. Right.

That's problem one. Problem two, but I completely lost my train of thought because it was a really good one. Charging mall prices for new product and stuff of that nature.

I don't know that's a downfall because they've been charging mall prices for 80 new. Because in those are not the full discs, those are just rental discs. That's where I was going.

Thank you. Well played sir. Thank you.

When they went to the, you can rent the movie from us, but there's no special features. It's a bear that killed it for me because I rent DVDs and blue rays. I'm the guy.

Yeah. You know, I want the commentary. And you're not going to force me to buy a movie by saying, well, if you want the special features you have to buy it, you can go parents sand.

They take a, they embrace the DIVICS technology and did they not take a bath on there? No, that was circuit city. Oh, that's, well, there was a rental outlet that did it though.

Hollywood video. That's what it was. That's why they're not a real room or one of the areas.

Those to me are the two things that killed. I got one. Okay, go ahead.

The red box. Yeah, we haven't talked about red box. Yeah, we were going to get around the end of it.

To me, red boxes, the same problem as the instant queue. I only have a limited selection of movies that I can watch. Only a limited selection.

And then I've got a hope as we found out one night that not only is it in stock at that red box because we were, when we went to go rent specific rim, which we got to use those rental codes one at a time. Reserved it went to the red box and the red box was broken. So I had to call red box customer service set on hold for 10 minutes.

Talk to a young lady. God bless her. She was wonderful.

Good on your red box customer service. But that was 10 minutes that we wasted. And then had to go to another section of town to find because she couldn't even reserve it for me.

I had to go back to the app after I got the phone to find another place that had the movie so that I could reserve it and go get it there. And everybody's going to have problems with every business. But the way I looked at it is, it was a bacon beans for the red box and a lot cheaper.

You pay a buck. Oh, it was a much cheap pay. I like a buck 20 to rent a movie for the night or as many keep his made days as you want versus the 495 at Blockbuster.

Number two, you could drop it off at any red box and haven't because it's thinking if you look forward, but you understand why that didn't work for Blockbuster because as I said, they are cake. Yeah. Since I mean, when I worked at Blockbuster, we had an entire drawer specifically reserved for movies returned to the wrong store.

And that's why I think was a big death nail. I think the final death nail was the red box because it's a major convenience. You could drop your desk off at any red box, anywhere, no matter where you pick it up from.

And of course, this happened to go back to the store of the Blockbuster and all that stuff. That's why I think that was the final death nail I think. It is a huge piece of my childhood that they might form in the years that is gone.

Because even before I worked there, friend of the show, James Harding, he reworked it a Blockbuster. And before we go out of the weekends, if he had to close the store, I'd go help him close the store so we could get out of there early and get to where we were going. I was there so much.

I was there so much. I have my name tag. Oh, give me a true story.

True story. And back then, they were the hard plastic name tags. Right.

And the way they did it at their store was you had your name on the front and if you flipped it up, it had your nickname on it. And mine had been, bam, bam, on the inside. I hope for a little bit of a good story.

That is a true story. You know, another mistake I think they made was trying to get into satellite television, too. When they became like a satellite television dealer for dish network.

Yeah, because they did their paper view. Yeah, and it just that didn't go well either. They didn't do it very long.

Well, and you know, I was going to say this for tech talk, but we can go ahead and start talking about it now. Netflix is purging the instant queue on January 1st. Yeah.

Movies like Braveheart and Top Gunner, too, that I've seen that will not be available against the queue. I think this is a bad idea. Well, it's something they do every, every several months.

They just, they cycle things through. It's not, I mean, they're not going to be gone for good. By bigger servers.

Well, because now, see, now the game is wide open. You have to make your back catalogue deeper now. Yep.

Because I'm telling you, I would love to be able to watch Tim Burton's Batman. Can't do it right now. Unless, again, call you or go buy it.

You know, the problem with Blockbuster going under, I think, is they weren't something like the movie trading company, which is doing good. Because you can find those old titles, and it's the full movie, and you get still rent. Yeah.

There's just not enough of those around. That's the only problem with movie trading company. Well, you've got, but other people like that, like Hastings, or it's regional.

Yeah. But like in our immediate area, we really don't have anything. We got to, we got to travel away.

We got about 10 minutes. But still, it's, it's not like Blockbuster. Yeah, with all these seconds up the road.

Yeah. Like go through a couple of lights. There's another one.

It's like, it was like a convenience store. So Viacone deos, Blockbuster video, you will be missed. You will be horribly horribly missed.

Sorry. They can have any online stuff or anything. They're done now.

They did a sketch on SNL about it, whereas a bunch of guys that worked at Blockbuster. We were like, we've been here since we were kids, where are we going to do? And they got this whole dream sequence.

And they, they wind up at this magical backwoods placed and turns out where they're just all lost and they wind up on a stoop. And they're manager walks like, guys, we're best by employees now. It's okay.

Oh yeah, the shirts are pretty similar. It's pretty funny. So let's move on and do music talk.

Shall we? Go to the big yellow tick instead of the big blue one. And that was five years.

And that's what I'm saying. You think they'll go under? Best buys in a bad place right now.

Yeah. Because it has been for a few years. Good luck trying to find a movie or a CD as I'm saying.

April 10th. If you're a fan of Nirvana, you might want to make a pilgrimage to Hokewim Washington. It will be Nirvana Day there.

That is also the day they will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. So I'm assuming that's where they are maybe Kurt's houses or where they're from official. Yeah, probably.

So there's that. Reports. We talked last week on this show about Selena Gomez canceling a lot of her performance dates for 2014 to take care of herself.

Rumors are now saying that the reason she's doing that was because she has now been diagnosed with lupus. Second week in a row, we've talked about this on this show. Christian Johnson last week.

Selena Gomez this week and her people are not releasing a statement in response. Really? Yes.

That's never a good thing. Also, congratulations. To be on tape.

I don't know if that's the right thing to say. She released. We talked about how she released her new album just out of nowhere a couple of weeks ago.

Since that has happened, the album has been pirated 240,000 times set on two weeks. Wow. It amounted about $3.8 million in lost revenue.

But the good news for her is that things already sold legitimately almost a million copies. So I don't think she's she's really worried about it. We're watching right now live footage of the winter classic getting ready.

Let's get some talk here in a minute. Oh, uh, hook. Um, fact check.

Okay, and Washington is, um, Kurobing was born and raised just four miles away in Aberdeen, Washington. Who else is from Aberdeen, Washington? Yes.

Yes. And when remind me of we're going to talk about that, tribute to the troops a little bit. Okay.

I don't know if you guys have watched it last night. I did. Very much enjoyed that.

We're going to talk about her long. Music new releases this week. There's only one.

I don't even know who it is. I'm getting kind of old. Angel Hayes is the band, uh, album is called Dirty Gold.

No, a band? I want to check out. I want to, uh, have you ever heard of a band called Heim?

H-A-I-M? H-A-I-M? No.

Yes. That's it. They're called Heim.

If they're last name, it's three, three young ladies saw them on an episode of SNL recently. A little intrigued. They're, I remember seeing them on SNL.

They're interesting. I, I might want to take more of a closer look at their work. They're, they're definitely different.

Kind of a throwback. Uh, let me see if I can find the, uh, I want to find the exact wording for you. I can Peter's running a little bit slow.

See here. They're from Los Angeles. It was, I saw great.

Okay. Somebody, uh, somebody's been, they've been described as music that sounds like it was written on a lake side retreat attended by Stevie Nix, John Wait and in Vogue. Okay.

It's an interest, I don't know. Very interesting group to, uh, to check out. Sorry, I'll talk about that later.

Let us get into some NBA talk. LeBron James climbing up the scoring ladder. If I'm not mistaken, past Larry Bird this week, did he?

And by the way, the heat won last night beat the best team in the West without him. Chris Bosch stepped up huge last night. But other than that, not much going on in the NBA, so let's get to your standings in the Western Conference Pacific Division.

The Sacramento Kings 9 and 19. They are 10 games at a first place. They are three games behind the Los Angeles Lakers who, by the way, and Chad, this will make you very, very happy.

The Lakers have lost their last four straight and they're three and seven in their last 10. That does make me happy. I know it does sir.

I'm here to help you. Golden State has actually won their last four, pushing them up. They're two and a half games out.

Phoenix right now. One and a half games behind the Clippers. The Clippers are 13 and two with home right now.

Good Lord. In the house, they share with the Lakers. The Kali.

In the Northwest Division, Utah, 17 games out there 9 and 24 right now. Denver is 10 us. Seven games better than them.

Minnesota is a half game up on Denver. Portland right now is a half game behind Oklahoma City, who is 24 and 5 on a two game win streak there. Nine and one and they're last 10 and a south west division.

Memphis is nine and a half games out. New Orleans is nine games out. Your Dallas Mavericks who are 500 in their last 10.

Chad, there are six games behind, but they're only three behind Houston. Houston is three behind San Antonio who is 23 and seven right now. In the eastern conference at Lannick Division, the Philadelphia 76ers.

You're not very good. 8 and 21. They're five and a half games out.

Not a very good division. By the way, your leader of the division is also sub 500. New York, five games back, Brooklyn, four games back.

Boston is one game behind Toronto. Now, let me remind you, Toronto's one two games straight and their 13 and 15 leading the division. You heard me right.

Half rewind if you have to. I don't, I don't get it. In the central division, Milo, Wakay is 18 and a half games out of first place and they're 6 and 24.

But when you realize who they're in a division with it makes sense. Cleveland has lost their last four straight. They're 14 games out.

Chicago, 12 and a half back. Chicago's in a lot of trouble right now. And Detroit is 11 and a half games behind the Indiana Pacers.

Indiana is 24 and five right now. They're 14 and one at home. They're 10 and four on the road.

They've won their last four straight in the southeast division. Orlando 9 and 20. They're 13 and a half games out.

Charlotte 9 and a half out, Washington 8 and a half out. Atlanta 6 games behind my beloved Miami Heat. Who are 23 and 7, 8 and 2 in their last 10.

We're about a month away from the All-Star Break. So get ready for that. Time to throw it in park.

No, not yet. Let us now because we are your one stop shop for all things, sports and entertainment. Let us combine both of them and talk professional wrestling, which is the bread and butter of this show.

Now we told you last week on this show. By the way, does anything personify the slogan of this show more than last week? We said on this show.

Now granted, it was a spoiler alert. Yes. At the time it was a spoiler alert that Batista would be back for the rumble.

Why in the name of all things good and holy is my Facebook news feed blowing up Monday night. But Tista's coming back. You want to know that if you don't listen to the show!

Thanks for listening, guys. Even I heard that, that's in Montana. Oh, I am proud you didn't listen to the show.

I must start ringing next. I saw that in my news feed and it wasn't like people that are talking directly to you. Well, people on sites that I members of, like on the news feed, I'm like, where were you 24 hours ago when I announced it?

And I noticed that people that were reporting it are not spoiler-free people. Like, I was like, really, dude? If you'd listen, if you'd listen, you'd know.

That's the slogan of the show. I'm a poet and I didn't know it, but I'm not sure. Show it because they're long fellows.

Okay, I was literally on the other side of the country. Got time's own screwed up and dang it, I still heard it. So the company, well, this leaks, the company gets so mad that they go ahead and announce it on Raw and back it up a week, because Batista was supposed to be a surprise entered at the rumble.

Now he's going to be on Raw the Monday before. So the original story broke that he was just going to do what they called the WrestleMania season. Yeah, which this is a new term I haven't heard before.

He's going to work the rumble. He'll work up until WrestleMania, maybe a little bit after. Now what we're hearing is maybe Batista wins the rumble and your WWE World Heavyweight title match at WrestleMania is Orton Batista.

Is that doing anything for anybody? I'm intrigued. I know who I'd rather see him take on.

Well, that's not going to happen. Who's that? We're going to talk about the end of minute.

Oh yeah. But this is not, but apparently this could be a rumors. This could be up to a two-year deal for him.

Really? And with built-in time off for him to promote Guardians of the Galaxy. Well, that's good.

And keep in mind that, you know, they were former members of Revolution, which they could add to the storyline with H pole and the strings between them. Oh, yeah. They could do this.

Or is this your H is in one quarter vincices in the other corner deal. I'm okay with this because if this was just a doing Johnson deal, I would be like, what this is the third year in a row when we've done this now. But if he's truly going to sign something and for him, I'll call two years long term.

Because Batista is not, he's not a spring chicken. No, he's not. He's been in the game a long time.

I, he's been away long enough that if we can bring him back face on cool. I just don't like heel Batista. Well, if he's going to wrestle with who I'd like to see him wrestle with.

I like seeing when the rumble though. I, you know, are we on the same page here with who we have like to see him match up with? Who's up?

You're a leader? No. Oh, there's another one you're leader.

No. Oh. Well, his initials are RR.

I'd love to see him work a program with Roman Reigns. Not yet. That might be a little too soon.

But I like where you're going. I mean, I'm just saying, I'd like to see something develop. I'd like to see those two law courts.

That'd be interesting to watch. They've got a goal minor riding and I help. Well, but here's it, but here's the thing.

If you're going to do Roman Reigns, you've got to develop him a little bit more as a character by himself. I agree. I agree.

I just, I'd like to see it get there. I'm not saying right now, but I'd like to see them work a program. Get ready to hear this music in WrestleMania because it was verified this week.

Triple H will work WrestleMania. Plan A, not in the guerrilla position. I'm assuming.

Oh, plan A is CM Punk. Plan B is Roman Reigns. Okay.

Sometimes you've got to roll with me for just a minute. This I'm okay with because you turn Roman Reigns' face. You break him away from the shield.

You can now set that up because you really can't have him. You could have him fight the shield. I don't want to see that.

No. But him against H. You're not putting H in that big of a high profile match where H feels like he has to blow the roof off the joy.

But you're putting them up against the guy that he can really truly work with. Because I mean, I don't do know my feelings on Reigns. Done.

What's that? That he's my favorite member of the shield. Always has been.

Oh, yeah. He has potential. He's got enormous potential.

Can't help it. You're Simone. Shut up.

Just wait for that. Someone else this week. We have verified will be working WrestleMania.

Now, as far as the rumor that we heard last week that I don't really want to go into, I did a little bit of research on the inside source that we talked about. It's possible. Because the information that was given to us by friend of my friend of the show Russ, that source there were multiple people talking about it on said source.

Okay. So and I haven't heard of anything from Russ. So I hope he's doing okay.

He's not in a room tonight. He might be working. Very possible.

We could find out probably. I have to show this right through. Big fan of that guy.

Nice. He's good people. But the plan for undertaker still appears to be Lesnar.

A lot of people this week have been talking to Dana White about the possibility of Lesnar working in both companies and Dana's like, I don't know what you're talking about. Invinces like, I haven't even heard that either. I don't think it's healthy.

I don't either. But besides hate for him to get his wires crossed, which we've worried about with him in a couple of different instances where he was the thought that he would treat him one arena like the other. Yeah.

And it wasn't a good way. Yeah. Then there's this other story.

We got a lot of WrestleMania news tonight. Rumors of Cena hooking in a tag match together at WrestleMania. No.

Oh, wait for the other shoe. If it doesn't happen, you're going to have Cena take on Bray Wyatt in the main event. Oh, geez.

What? No. You heard me.

You heard me. Come. Are we in like the reports?

The reports from backstage are saying that Vince has said, Cena is the main event until his time is clearly up that man feeds us. But Bray Wyatt. Yeah.

Exactly. Bray. Rumor reigns would be a better.

I agree. And I hope get he can't even move. This whole can't even walk.

How's he going to wrestle the main event of WrestleMania? This whole Wyatt family bit. I bet it's I think is it can get.

I think the tag match happens. Oh, God. Now we're going to talk about why when we get into Raw talk.

Okay. That's that's going to be down the WrestleMania worse than the last one. Isn't that what's bad?

It was pretty bad. Now, are you a fan of old school Raw? Yes, I am.

Because Raw goes old school next on Monday night. January the 6th. They have not officially published it, but there have been marketing material sent to the city Raw's going to be in Monday night that it will be old school Raw.

Didn't we just do this? I don't remember it being the first Raw the year, do you? No.

Because I know the anniversary is like, what, that's 20 if there's something? Looked that up on a Wikipedia for the very first episode of Raw. I think it was January to 20.

It's a 1994. No, it was late. It was this 1993.

So I think it was January 20. But they're going to go old school next Monday night. So be ready for that.

But it's before we go Raw old school. Let's talk about Raw on tape. Shall we?

Raw Christmas. Live from Austin, Texas. That Chad made me watch by myself.

January 11th, 93. I was close. I knew it was in January.

Since we had good Santa versus bad Santa's, I guess we're going to wait on the Mark Henry heel turn for another week. Are they turning the hill again? They're going to because he's going to face the length of the rumble.

Okay. Here's my thing. Does anybody in a right mind believe that the whole world would cancel Christmas if Damian's stand out one?

Christmas will be canceled if bad Santa wins. So the whole world's going to stop and not do Christmas if the Sheriff of Nottingham couldn't pull it off and Robinhood prints at thieves. Damian's stand out when pulling it off.

But I will say in the worst pun of the year goes to JBL as Glenn Jacobs was handing out Christmas mints through the children. Anybody else want to figure out where we're going here? No idea.

He was giving them candy canes. Yeah. Yeah.

And he pushed that one and one kid didn't want to. He just threw it on just hard funny. That was pretty funny.

And so we have the divas match. Is JoJo as who has JoJo offered him ticked off? Because she's the only one in that whole cast that wasn't there.

But it's a total divas tag match. We couldn't at least had her ring side or something that I missed something. Who knows?

And I could swear to you that Arch Ruth said something about Houston when he was in the ring. Oh yeah. No, I don't know that he did.

But I know that Darren Young sure did. Because the prime time players had their matches like, well he used to and then tie to so kneel could not have grabbed that microphone fast enough. Which had to have been a bit because Raw was taped a week before.

But was funny though when they were in their match. You thought you heard this is awesome. Oh no, sir.

You heard this is Austin. I heard that followed by a Houston sucks channel which didn't room business. But that was funny.

Oh, maybe it's like a this is awful chance or something. No, it was this is Austin. I was like, oh, well played.

And so we get to the good Santa versus bad Santa match. Can we stop acting like fire extinguishers are filled with sulfuric acid, please? Yeah, Christmas can't hold true.

I'm just saying now. We teased in just a moment ago about the whole scene of Hogan tag match. And it didn't click with me until we started talking about it.

You had a match where it was Daniel Bryan, CM Punk and Cena were we're attacking him. And I believe it was it was the shield or the Wyatt was it was the shield. Okay.

So they do the old school promo style chat. You'll know what I'm talking about. We're one of them talks and then kind of cues the other one to start talking.

So CM Punk starts the promo. And he's like, I had to find two tag team partners. So he describes Daniel Bryan.

Daniel Bryan comes in and cuts a little promo. And so then CM Punk has a little promo and brings in Cena. Cena comes in full Hogan.

And I don't mean it looks like him. I'm talking just full Hogan to the point where and you can see what I'm doing. You know when Hogan cuts a promo and he had that little hand gesture thing where he's got his his thumb covering his index finger now.

So it's kind of like a closed okay symbol, but he's holding it and he's going, brother, brother, right. Cena's doing the whole bit. And I was like, that is the most subtle thing.

Because he's giving me those. He got Daniel Bryan and you got CM Punk and John's, he was like impersonating Hogan, but you could see him channeling Hogan. I don't know who finally realized how just let that man do what he does.

Thank you. There's two things I have to bring up. Please, Jim.

They piped in crowd and noise on that raw, you could tell. There's this like T and A it's that bad with a chance. And we're going to talk about that when it comes to T and A in just a minute.

The other thing which I brought up earlier, they're in Austin, Texas. And did you hear that comment about J.B. Colt when Daniel Bryan was wrestling and goes, you know, Daniel Bryan's hearing like the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys, biggest game of the year, and he's not even going to be there.

The Michael Colt goes, something to affect. I don't know if you heard this. I was, I know what you're talking about.

Daniel Bryan gets full and off a stage and all that stuff. And he's back to three days later wrestling. And Tony Romo can't even make the play out, then make the game for the further Cowboys.

It's like, okay, you're in Texas. You're in Austin knocking the Cowboys. And this is called real life.

This guy has surgery and you're going to knock the guy for, because he has back surgery and you're going to complain that he's not in the game. But that didn't even shock me. That's just, that's then trying to be there.

It was called you're in Austin. They're actually oversold that. He definitely oversold that.

Don't run, run, then, uh, Daniel Bryan fell off a thing in three days later. He's wrestling, like, Tony was on to a mattress, on to a mattress. My goal.

He had back surgery. You don't go play football a couple days later. So, if you like watching wrestling on television, get ready to hear this.

But only if you watch ROH. Because AJ Styles will be at the next TV taping for Ring of Honor. Because apparently the negotiations were back on, but now they're back off again.

Good Lord. I mean, what, uh, TNA AJ me? That's what I'm saying.

He's going to be with ROH, because the negotiations were back on with TNA, but now they're off again. Oh, they're off now. Okay.

I thought they're going to strike a deal or they struck a deal. Uh-huh. Oh, they didn't.

Nope. So your theory may be true. It could happen.

Vince came on the phone now. If that wasn't enough, if that wasn't enough of an indication to you, the TNA is circling the drain. I submit to you the resignation of this man.

Jerry's done. So, Dixie finally just pushed him out or... He just quit.

He resigned. Were they in bed on TV and he were in a half? Yeah.

He was supposed to be the leader of Ace's at Ace. When the guy that founded the company is saying this is church, done, I'm out. And apparently, there was a group interested in buying the company headed by country superstar Toby Keith, but with Jared leaving, that hose the deal.

Wow. Let that sink in. Hmm, there's a knife on the counter.

I wonder if I should cut myself with it. What I see's doing a great job of it. What a calamitous mess she has turned that company into.

Now, in an interview this week, bully racers that his current dream opponent would be CM Punk, which I think apparently, Hayman told him, you two with a live mic would be gold. Yeah. But he wants to be in TNA because that's the best business decision for him.

Okay. What? Because you get coupons for free concessions at the Universal Studios.

There's a CC's around the corner. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Versus a Phil B in business.

And somewhere, debons hang him out. Going, yeah. Keep going, homer.

Keep going. Legends concentrate. Hey, fans, can I get a Legends contract, please?

Let's talk TNA, shall we? Go have to. Rockstar Spud.

Who is the executive something or other to Dixie Carter? His theme music. I mean, I know you're supposed to be British, but if your name's Rockstar Spud should theme music be something less, I don't know, Lane.

I feel like it should be eating a full five course meal of fine dining restaurant when he comes to the rate with a crumpet. And he's shorter than Tass. Who has we know from last week's episode is five nine.

Is that possible? Well, we've got a horn spawn. You know the sound effects of people play that it sounds like three people doing.

There's like, you mean, like, Rod did on that's what TNA sounded like on Thursday. And Rod did on Monday. Worst and wrong.

I know that. Worst and wrong. I know that.

I agree. Like, do your god. Well, that crowd was probably so worn out because it's probably the six hour of taping your watching in a row because they filmed this Thursdays episode when what three four weeks ago.

And you haven't even seen AJ yet. And so we have to have these three or four different segments that show the rise of Magnus, the rise of Magnus. He's been with the company for more than five years.

Do rise as faster if it's made in Antarctica. Yeah. Do so's rise better than you did.

Hey, they're in a better place. And he's the world champion. And did you watch impact on?

Yeah. Did you notice the really bad soap opera music that played underneath the bully right test mockers like, I didn't know I said, I'm going to watch. I've got halfway through.

It's like, you also just hear this. Oh, yeah. I was like, what?

Yes, and to the hour and your wife and your wife says leave the crumpets a load. Yes, and to the hourglass over the days of our lives. I was just waiting for him to go.

I mean, I'm already. Just be done with this thing. Oh, I'm saying.

He dumped her like a girl. And so after the main event, Jeff Hardy cuts a promo and says that was his last match in TNA. Well, it's probably taken time off and by the time he gets back, they'll be out of business.

That my daughter says until there's more light in this darkness. And I never, I never thought I would say this so mark the date. Please let this be real and let him be a surprise and trinch into the rumble.

I never thought I'd find myself saying that about Jeff Hardy. Come home, son. Lights on.

Calm down. I don't even know if you consider it home anymore. Fair point.

So Chad, take a deep breath. Is this going to hurt? There are still not cleared to return to WWE.

What else are you going to pick? Well, I thought I had my shovel cools theme, and if I don't much better sound. I'm sorry.

Yeah, fair point. She has not yet been cleared to return. She left for a while to hangle some family issues, but apparently something else has happened.

And nobody's saying what it is. So she's out. No, and no is why except people in the company.

Where's she in? Quick NFL updates. The Broncos have earned the top seed in the AFC playoffs.

The Seahawks clinched the NFC West and they're on the top seed in the NFC Close Be right there with you in a few hours. I'm sure Almost made history for those of you wondering about mysticos and she's not sent Cara anymore. His contract will be up a week from Friday Junior worried that the guy who's playing some car right now.

No, no, not the use to the gut. No, it's illegal right now But mysticos who was the originals in Cara his contract ends January 10th Did any of us catch the fact that all of a sudden he has a bunch of tattoos on him and they seem like they've been there for years Yeah, but knows what old tattoos and new tattoos look like I know that Also there there is talk and they talked about this a little bit on Smackdown of unifying now the IC and US titles Is this something you'd be interested in? They did it once before then they brought the IC back.

They have they interviewed both Cody Rhodes and Dean Ambrose Dean Ambrose is quote was as long as they make a really nice belt for me to wear again Funny admit it sir. I know you don't like him, but that's a funny moment But you know it's gonna be the IC title. They're not gonna get rid of the US title Although I like the you I It's already got rid of one bell of the unified champion, but let's see why would why wouldn't you just keep both belts and make them both worker belts You've got one tag you only one set of tag belts exactly.

It's not like back in the day My hero still hasn't got a belt. He's been there for two years. He hasn't got the IC belt or anything.

So, but speaking of Cody Rhodes. I don't know if you guys read this story Love this theme song WWE does a show at MSG this past week Cody Rhodes moon salt off the top of the cage Apparently the footage is out there on YouTube. Why would he do that because he's Cody freaking Rhodes brother Didn't he just get married Make her in development And the dude is mad athletic.

He's just a bad heel And unfortunately, he's probably gonna be the one that turns heel very soon. Yeah, I know And then that they'll kill the very gold dust. Yep, that's what I'm afraid of gold dust looks better than he's ever looked I think gold dust gets the winner WrestleMania But he's still gonna drown in mediocrity if he gets separated from Cody really to me.

This is the reason Dustin came back Because they both want the match Why wouldn't Dustin pass the torch to him? See my guy read something recently where he said he will never wrestle under the name Dustin again. Yeah But why wouldn't he want to pass the torch to his little brother?

This is the best possible scenario for both of them on multiple levels. They get to be tag champs together Two two guys that really as kids Dustin is 16 years his senior by the time Cody was born Dustin was almost in the business Do you think about that? Cody has never had a day in his life that he remembers where his brother was not in the wrestling business And now they get to time to spend together bond together as brothers Travel together as tag champs And then you get to have one of them turn heel and they get to wrestle each other This and I'm okay with with you to me you didn't have to turn one of them just say you know what?

We're not tag champs anymore. What is going on? We'll turn it off Don't even turn one of them heel Yes, but I'm saying just let him go what I'm saying But you know that you know the rules.

There's got to be a he a especially wrestling man. It's got to be heel versus face Not always but in this age Let's talk smack down So Kane comes out in the beginning and he books this match And then he and he shouldn't be allowed to blow up the ring posts in a suit. He just looks weird.

It looks stupid And I don't even know how to talk about this next story down. Did you watch SmackDown? Did you notice anything about Orton's promo I Fast-forwarded it the him walking down the ring Let me give you a paraphrase version of Orton's promo And I want you to tell me where it goes wrong Randy Orton it was a big 2013 for you What's 2014 gonna bring well Renee young I've already done everything I'm better than everyone So maybe in 2014 I'll enter the Royal Rumble match and win it And then go to WrestleMania Sit in the suite because I don't have to defend my title And as I'm sitting in that suite I'll write my acceptance speech for the next night when I'm inducted into the Hall of Fame The Hall of Fame is before WrestleMania Thank you It's the night before Sir Who is does he have a handler?

Can we get cue cards? Something for this man He sucks man. He has just gotten worse and worse and worse And to me he was never all that great on the stick to begin with And always happened to him And they had a week and a half to edit it I'm just like I give up What is wrong with that man?

I'm sitting in my couch and I'm like You know my math isn't real strong And it's not like they just started this I mean you know when I take the pen and kind of bounce it off the microphone You know Vince had to be like oh god So you had a triple main event in this deal Where you had Mark Henry Versus Roman Reigns You had Biggie Langston Versus Dean Ambrose And you had Seth Rollins versus John Cena all back to back to back Okay I implore you sir When you get a moment go back because I guarantee you they're on YouTube watch these three matches Roman Reigns and Mark Henry He does He's doing the Superman punch You know what that is Okay, you know how he cut it He got down on one knee and punched the glass Sorry story It was subtle And if you didn't know if you would have never have caught it And I was holding on hold on and I rebounded I was like okay that was cool You know we see the Hans Zimmer score And Seth Rollins versus John Cena Dear God sir That is that match alone is living breathing proof of why you brought him into this company That that arena was on fire Of course it ends in the screw job, but Seth Rollins Holland dude And I mean home with them Oh yeah, he did it was a great match I've got and I've got respect for Seth Rollins Now the other guy in shield that you seem to have I don't know you have a rage for it I don't know you have a rage for it I like all three Dean Ambrose has just got a big bag and nothing for you He's he's so melodramatic in the ring with his facial expressions he oversells everything Everything The other two guys just work But Dean Ambrose has to mug and act like he just got shot by a Barrett 50 caliber rifle with somebody hits him It's so stupid Okay, okay with it Just think he's a snare But I'm telling you those were three great matches all three of them were good even even But that's nice for a chance even Ambrose put on a good match with Biggie Langston And it was the last half hour of the show And all six men were at the ring So with one of them was wrestling the other four the two were wrestling the other four were outside So when one finished we went right to the next one Because I was like don't turn this into a six man tag And they didn't all three matches went as one on one matches So I can honestly say and I don't think you'll back me up in this three rocks on matches Oh yeah, that's good for change for one to this because it's been really really Medial All right, let's move on shall we because we are your one stop shop for all things sports and entertainment let's talk a little When we're gonna do the Oh, yeah real quick tribute to the troops was on last night Dude It was in the hanger I think go back to the other music for a good son The entrance way Was the back end Was it a C2 Is that what it was done? Were they huge bombers And you're like all those kind of cool and then they took a shot from outside the arena It was the full plane They had backed a plane up to the hanger And they walked into the plane through the normal entrance and then walked out through the bay doors There was like a little as tiny jumbo tron blocking the view and then they came through And the ramp was a runway that they walked down to the ring in I got to see this now and could if your Daniel Bryan retire right now Because at the end of it when they all came out the divas the roster everybody Everybody but Damian sand out because he'd been punched out by the big show Including coal and JBL we're doing the yes chant And I mean every Bach D Yes It was cool Now could I have done without Jeff Dunham? I already did it He was I always liked Dunham I've been a huge Dunham temper a long time he's kind of nailing it in for me now I'll say the other reason I have a dinner fence because of this guy I love Dunham But Dautry was good They did that new waiting for Superman I didn't know that was him But he was good It was a good show Yeah, but I'm surprised that a USA is not doing it to our version Oh, they're not going to do it I looked through my guide I couldn't find it Well, I think one thing of what's funny what Dunham is when they're about to close up and here comes Frenchy Yeah, Frenchy did walk out Yeah, Peter and Frenchy guy Because Frenchy had the main event with Damian Sandion Let's talk about three minutes So, there was that All right, let's talk in HL Great job again HBO pulls through They're 24-7 on the winter classic Which will be this coming Wednesday Detroit hosting Toronto It's riveting They do a great job I'm going to try to watch the last night's episode for a go to bed If not, I'll watch tomorrow But Very much enjoying that Straight to your standings Western Conference Pacific Division Edmonton I'm just enjoying this right now They have They've got the things I'll screwed up They have 30 points They are 31 points out of first place right now Calgary, four better than them Phoenix 47, they're three behind Vancouver The kings in San Jose are tied at 54 But Anaheim playing very well right now They are 28-7-5-61 points In the central division The Nashville Predators Are 23 points out of first place with 38 points They are one point behind the winter peg jets Your Dallas stars are struggling But they have one to straight And they're three seven and one They're one to ten I'm six three and one, I'm sorry It's Minnesota who's lost their last four straight And they are one point ahead of your Dallas stars Colorado 49 St.

Louis 55 Chicago Blackhawks Have 61 points as well They're tied with Amaheim With the best record in the conference They also both have the most points in the lead In the eastern conference Metro Pollock and Division The New York Islanders 29 points They are 26 points out of first place Carolina better than them The Rangers and Columbus are tied Philly and New Jersey are tied But Washington now 12 points behind the Pittsburgh Penguins With 57 points in the Atlantic division The Buffalo Sabres They are 28 points out of first place They are nine points behind my beloved four pantsers Sabres such a kick That's an office reference It's an office reference The Otor were Otor was Senators at 39 points Toronto 4 points better than them Detroit is two points better than Toronto They both have identical last ten three five and two They're both on a one game winning streak As they go into the winter classic Montréal is five points behind Boston But Tampa Bay is only four points behind So still early But a lot going on in the NHL Thanks me happy I enjoy hockey Hockey's good times When it's not on strike When it's not on strike Remember last year we didn't cover We were boycotting last year I've lifted a boycott You were upset I just you all make too much money Don't say Good And charge too much for tickets Yeah I've got to take a small business loan It comes to you play And you still go on strike You can go pound sand for a minute It's all I'm saying I mean it's like I'm going to fix anything But I can say publicly on the internet Yeah internet's muck up Merrick Let's see We'll be talking You serrido And this is new information No Movie talk time We always start with box office numbers We give you the new the weekend numbers Because we can Dropping out of the top ten this week For the dark world And it's run $660,000 for an eight week total of two hundred and two point four million dollars On a seven hundred and seventy million out of budget But it dropped out of seven hundred and ninety seven theaters So you know respect Looks like that's the only thing that dropped out Number ten I'm sorry No I'm walking with dinosaurs Also dropped out of the top ten They dropped from eight to twelve Seven point one million dollars For a two week total of twenty point eight million Dollars That's what she was One eighty million Ooh Ouch Grudge match debuts at eleven Ouch Yeah It's not going to All day weekend Ouch Seven point three million dollars For a one week total of thirteen point five million dollars On a forty million dollar budget Ten place Down from seven Much to Chad Sugar in Tyler Perry is a media Christmas Like seven point four million dollars for a three week total of forty three point seven million dollars In ninth place Day viewing But not day viewing Well This is the me guess Go ahead Baby You want to wear that debuted Is it coming up or not even in I heard no one saw Oh a debuted at fourteen Yeah, nobody saw the beaver Believe they abuse five million dollar budget is made four point two So But day viewing in ninth place forty seven Ronin I saw that Nine point nine million dollars You know what the budget It's got a one week total of twenty point six million dollars on a two hundred million dollar budget Don you said you saw what you think Um They kept that movie Moving it around for about a year I It's not as mystical as I thought it was I'm a samurai Kind of like show gun part two But a lot worse I'd like to know the raw I'd give it That to the listener DVD Wow Yeah Eight place Down from six hundred games catching fire makes ten point two million dollars Losing six hundred and thirty four theaters for a six week total of three hundred and ninety one point one million dollars on a one hundred and thirty million dollar budget I believe the letters are are Oh I Return on investment In seventh place day viewing A movie that all three of us saw And if you listen on iTunes and get a Two Exclusion The secret life of Walter Mitty Thirteen million dollars For a one week total of twenty five point six million dollars on a ninety million dollar budget What concerning? Not gonna lie Sixth place Dropping from five to six saving Mr. Banks friend of the show Julie Wade put on Facebook today the per favorite film of the year We've got to see this thing We have got to go see this Well, let me put it to you this way Listen to Hollywood Babylon today They did there they actually did a home show this past week They didn't do a live show From Kevin's house where they did they went through the Golden Globe nominees Ralph Garmin Ralph Garmin We know Ralph Garmin Oh, yeah The credits rolled on this film he cried like a female dog Let that settle in Yeah, because he's a pretty hard case Yep Fourteen point zero million dollars for a three week total of thirty seven point nine million dollars on a thirty five million dollar budgets Day viewing in fifth place another movie that a Dawn saw and reviewed in the chat room force last week the Wolf of Wall Street Which Kevin and both were both very very high on the caprio was incredible Eighteen point five million dollars Thirty four point three on a one hundred million dollar budget I don't know that it makes it three hours long That's the problem Very dull, but the cat Leonardo doesn't You're a top four stay the same with a little bit of shuffling American hustle stays in fourth place with nineteen point six million dollars For a three week total of sixty million dollars on a forty million dollars Did you enjoy it?

Yeah, I thought drank a couple bit, but the acting I thought was very good in there's some twists and stuff I recommend it. I would say Matt and the or twilight. Okay?

From two two and three switch places this week from the silver to bronze anchor man to the legend continues twenty point one five million dollars We're a two week total of eighty three points seven million dollars on a fifty million dollar budget So up from three to two is frozen Twenty eight point nine million dollars for a six week total of two almost a quarter of a billion dollars On a one hundred and fifty million dollar budget and winning again The Hobbit the devil is it's small girls. It's small. It's small because everybody's saying everything both of them Another twenty nine point nine million dollars for a three week total of a hundred ninety point three million dollars Movie weeks of awesome.

I'm sorry And I apparently have a rumor story that they were splitting the last one into two. No, okay I wasn't sure I They're not going to be there. It should have been two movies.

I would meet three out of it. Yeah So I still got what's the first one. It's time's not been my friend this year So Chad, yes, we're going to talk about a movie right now That's a sequel Okay, to a foreign film To a foreign film That I have to ask you have you watched it yet Who we call the raid redemption no See that I haven't had to do it.

I haven't had to do it. I haven't had to do it. I haven't had to do it.

Is it not just awesome? I love it. It's like a live action video game That's like elevator action in reverse The sequel the raid two releases March 28.

It will premiere its Sundance I've seen the poster and I don't even care what it's about at going to see it It's just a lot of people in a poster just looking bad A I mean the virtual poster has a guy just a big building. You know to do this this movie is The raid redemption is ridiculously good Shouldn't they have saved this title for the sequel? Well, no because you understand why it's redemption in the film But John Chew also says that GI Juke GI Juke Wow, that would hurt our condolts To the Our people that faith Does anybody want to bet me that it's not out there that that movie is not does not exist because I would bet you that it does We were kind of going along the train was kind of open and we just hit a brick will boom We have a title for the atmosphere Can I get a grenade?

I need the grenade We were going we were slowly but sure this could be the latest title to episode ever Why not finish the year strong kids GI Joe three director John M. Chew said it could start shooting next year That's where I got confused. I can't get it out of my head now Oh, you're just you'll want me the parachute way I can't do it.

We need no disrespect No one died It's not it's not cobra. It's pig I'm telling you I guarantee you this exists. I guarantee it.

I'm looking And if it doesn't and somebody writes it, I want some cash But they're saying it could start they're waiting on the rock schedule That's what they're waiting on. It was a family guy sketch actually. Was it?

Yeah That didn't surprise me Also chat. I want your opinion on this next story A movie originally that was called Amityville the lost tapes now being just called Amityville. It's not a reboot Oh, is it a found footage thing, but it's it is, but it's not It's set for January 2nd 2015 and it takes place after the original film Where an ambitious female television in turn leads a team to investigate the happenings in the house in New York I didn't recognize any of the names I do remember that it was an action figure It's voiced by the actor who impersonates Woody Allen on the ship somewhere in America tonight Booker T is like somebody finally got me off the hook For the bit I worked it No, I'm not talking about the promo.

I'm talking about GI Bro That was funny though, and so it was what you just didn't Yes, it was Moving you releases this week. I'm real quick. Oh, we're talking to Amityville there.

Yes, I did see that my Amityville horror that documentary about the kid Oh, really? Yeah, how was that? That can't screw it up Yeah, thank some people said it came out there.

There was a hoax But now this guy stands by everything and you know he hates doc and he this guy's real apprehensive But I like the documentary. It's only about 80 minutes, so Oh, really I saw it on Netflix If you like documentaries, the instant she was for you. There is a T shirt by the way on zazzle.com for GI Jew A real American Hebrew It's what it says Do you like this go?

We can move on that was genius again to anybody of Jewish faith That was not a comic grenade that was a comic land mine that you stepped on Given where I grew up. I know I get a pair of lads. You're allowed Your wife says I have to back away from the egg not Believe me, this is not me kicking you in the groin because that was brilliant in movie houses And movie houses this coming week Also on DVD this week is a movie called zombie Hamlet Wait for it.

Oh, I get it Despite filmmaker Osric Taylor's dreams of making his civil war Hamlet But when production funding drives up he agrees to take southern matron master boat champs offer To fund the film if he throws some zombies in it to make their money back But when the suspicions of both the local police But then when Hester dies in mid-shoot Osric just dresses up as Hester to cast the last check and awakens the suspicions of both the local police And ambitious local news reporters shine Reynolds inspired by an actual incident Now I do remember this story of a guy that dressed up as a woman who was dead and was collecting her checks I don't think it was to make zombie Hamlet But allow me to read you some of the names in this cast That impressive Vanessa Lee Evigen Related to Greg Malora Harden from the office John Amis And AJ Buckley are in this thing for John Amis You were the you were the head villain and die hard to what happened to you Shelly long is in this A man who inspired the phrase Snooch to the new Jason Muses in this by the way proud owner now of Jay and Silent Bob get Irish as well as two pat for 40 Thank you. Wow. Thank you to my wife Also Brother brother brother is in this Hogan's in this Jesus Who isn't in this thing?

Me, apparently He's perfect because he walks like a zombie already He plays himself slash Mr. McBeth Uncredited Also in movie and new house new movie houses this week Paranormal activity the marked ones. This is the spinoff Bad news on this one.

No press greetings Jesus, who I looked shocked That's a wine steam release Also a movie called open grade If he's in the trailer for this No Charlottes of coplies in this I like that too I'm see if there's any other names I recognize as I scroll through Quickly No, you know why he wasn't in the last movie because he's holding out for his For a management For his plum roll is you walk him the grenadier A man wakes up in the wilderness in a pitful of dead bodies with no memory And must determine if the murder is one of the strangers who rescued him or he and self Is the killer So it's the feel good movie Yeah, it sounds like it sounds like a blast Also Beyond Outrage This is a foreign film is an Asian film that is a Sequel to a movie called Outrage It's part of a trilogy about basically a father who goes nuts You're welcome DVD and blue right new releases this week A movie that I know you've been waiting on Chad and me Have forgotten about finally it's DVD and blue right this week Don John Yeah, I did want to see I know that's why I said that If for no other reason for the last shot in the trailer The movie that about CBGB that did that ever hit theaters I don't recall it, but I know we talked about when they first started talking It's on DVD and blue right this week Also the parody hell baby basically from the people who did Reno 911 about a An exorcism in New Orleans looks very very funny One direction this is us Hopefully that one direction is away from my house And WWE best paper view matches of 2013 the cover of this thing is CM Punk doing his on his knees arms raised from WrestleMania So should this should this DVD be like the contents of these Spoof discs that Don gives us every year pretty much also Shout out to my brother-in-law He got me the war game set Did he? Yes I'll say I'm Don John, I did like it I thought it's you did see it Yeah, he saw he was in the street Won't you uh didn't you go to the screen yet? Yeah, yeah before not one But not with the ally I'd read anybody but okay A very it talks about a guy who loves to his adult entertainment but it's that way All right Little tech talk chatting is anything I mean, we talked about the thing I wanted to talk about earlier I think we covered it all right Street lights on because we got other stuff take care of too We need show with a list And it is the last show with the year 2013 if you can believe it I can't And also if you can believe it next week This show is the first show is Fifteen months old god Thirty six and fourteen Three, no, they do that right now thirty six No forty two months old Three, six Something like that Public school now shut it down Rob just shut it down That's where we're waiting for what happened is hand And so something that I don't know that we've ever done on the show is just a list of thank yous And so I thought what I do is I do ten thank you's not not the top ten but definitely ten Because this is the time of the year that you're expressing your thanks and some of the people on this list I don't think get enough things Number ten I think the lovely and talented Mrs.

Irvin I said it when we got when we had an anniversary if you used the guy said that she accepts me for the man that I am But she encourages me to be the man that I want to be She knows that if it's Sunday night they're going to be people in her home Locked away in a small studio Doing this show for almost four and I almost three and a half years now And the fact that she shows patience And she doesn't yell at me for having all these people in the home That's just you know she gets me She truly does which is why she got me given Smith to Pepper 40 and James on the Bob get Irish Amongst other things although by the way the book that would that I got her Told score was it good good my wife and even my mother-in-law was like well played It's it's my wife's a huge downtown downtown Nabby fan And I found a book that's downtown Nabby re-enacted by cats and it's called Down and Tabby I'm a genius thinking of how to the how did the other gift go to the That way wins that way ran out and got that oh she's very very happy good. It was very heavy But I put it together as soon as we got home No, no, what you get down down Abby oh her mother yeah for her mom her mother was very excited But you know the the documentary it comes with it comes to the documentary about the house I'm just like don't watch this until you watch everything I guess there's major spoilers and I've done it Number nine I want to thank myself for being a shy kid You were a shot. No, this is this is an absolute true story and you guys know that I don't do a lot of I don't get real vulnerable on the show.

It's it's not something I'm very good at but Even and to an extent to this day, but when I was a kid, you understand, I'm an only child so I didn't Social interaction wasn't something that I was ever very good at and into this day I'm not if I'm in a room full of people I don't know it scares the crap out of me really Very true story. Wow I would never because I have serious There's a reason I choose radio You know, I have serious self esteem issues. I always have I could tell that I'm being being a shy kid.

Now, once the ice has broken It's very hard to put it back together. Don't get me wrong. Yeah, but Being a shy kid forced me to kind of Find other ways To not be socially awkward kind of up your game and other areas and so to speak and what I found And I can even tell you the moment that it happened I was in the second grade and I had gotten a book from the library That was sketch sketches for kids that were written by the people who did the electric company Oh, wow, that'll do it And I'm telling you, if you've somehow find this book at Royal Palm Elementary's library And you pull the original card, it's going to have my name on about 140 times Because there was one sketch that was like a new show And the sports reporter Was Howard Cowbell Howard Cowbell was the very first impersonation I ever did, you know, the first voice So that kind of taught me how to at least have some form of an outlet that I could talk to people Right, which is what would lead to things as life went on That's what everybody on the Super Bowl is one in simple Yeah, because that's at my core That's who I am, I always have been, I'm a simple man Number eight, to the University of South Florida And I say that because number one, I applied to two colleges The University of Florida and the University of South Florida Florida did not accept me Still a fan, it's not their fault, I was an idiot But South Florida accepted me and And I had been doing little DJ things here and there Nothing major But what I was at USF in my second semester I was allowed to do a Friday morning radio show And it really wasn't radio Because we didn't broadcast on the radio We were part of the cable system So you had to watch channel 30 We had all these really bad 1991 computer graphics On the screen And it was WBUL And it was, we called it the morning zone It was every Friday from 6 to 10 Nobody listened My own girlfriend didn't get up until nine o'clock But my next or neighbor Maddy landing Who was a friend of mine to stay on Facebook He co-hosted the show when he could get up that early And it really, that's where the bug really really bit me So there's that Number seven To John Houser Yes And not for the obvious reasons And I don't even know if you know this story sir Circa Let's call it 1996 Now we'll call it 1997 I had started spending my Tuesday evenings At a small Then low key sports bar called Sports City Cafe Think I've been there a couple And I can't try to tell Doc to come with me Do karaoke night Because Doc and I've been friends a long time I know Doc's in a band And so Doc and I aren't lunch I'm like you got to come with me He's like just answering me one question I said sure He said who does the karaoke there There's some dude named Greg He's like long hair glasses Yeah He goes dude he sings in my band I don't like you shut your dirty mouth He's like no His name is Greg Drew He was I'm coming tonight Don't tell him oh geez I said okay fine So I go because back then you had to get there early And I mean early just to get a table in the bar Because it was the only night they did it It was the institution So I got there Doc gets there about a half hour for the show Greg's setting up Doc says don't say word Okay fine Greg's setting up And he kind of looks up He does that double take thing That Chandler Bing does so well And Doc's got the Doc smile And it's because of which we've all seen Yes And it's because of that moment Him introducing me to Greg Who already knew me as a regular That legitimized me with Greg And that's what got me started working It's for city I know I didn't know that True story And if it wasn't for Doc I don't know that I would have made a career out of it For the better part of a decade and a half Probably not because that was a heck of a break to get To number six And if I if somehow this lands in his lap I will probably pee on myself To Kevin Smith Believe it or not it's true The man legitimized podcasting To the masses Yes Now there are other people Jimmy Pardo is one Who Mark Marin is one Adam Corolla is one There are some guys that are podcast legends in the business that are out there But Kevin Smith is the guy That convinced me After Chad We talked about the head and shoulders for about a decade No, no, no, no, no, no But The made me think you know what?

I could probably do this And He's been my leader since 1995 Let's not get it twisted Which had nothing to do with podcast Not at all I don't necessarily agree with some of the things he's doing now But he will always be very very special to me for a number of reasons One of them being The true model for what we do Every week Absolutely You want to blame somebody? Blame him Number five To everybody that has been in this studio in the last three and a half years The list is long and distinguished Some never made it to the air My mom Who actually sat in here for about a half an episode Really Yes Very early on my mother's actually sat in here and watched When Cody coded a close to the show with me My buddy James Harding Who sat in here Once and then we'll have to get him in here again To Lou who's actually been on the show Yes You know Very special day It's a great episode You all know who you are And if you don't just go back through the halls and the history of this show When we started doing in studio guests It gave a greater level and a greater Just sense of Naturalism if you want to call it that to this show That makes it what it is Legitimacy Kind of in the same way Number four To Foxon Hound To Big Dawn To Misty To Cody To Dawn That's just like a five-way tie Foxon Hound Thank you guys for Almost three years Letness come do this thing live It hasn't always been ideal As a witness to about three weeks ago But they've really they've opened their doors to us They let us help them build The Empire and the Foxon Hound audience To what it is Couldn't be happier Big Dawn is a guy who early on They're not racetalk39x.com Early on gave us a lot of wisdom On how to get this thing rolling I want to say Maybe not But Big Dawn he's Every time you see him post Somebody says live in the dream Because that dude is Yeah And every once in a while We can catch when the when the planet's Align right and he's in town We have him on and he He's amazing Love him to death Misty who helped us out Very very early on She's in California on vacation Right now I believe she got to go to Disneyland The other day Did she? Yes And Love her She just had a birthday She really kind of helped us Get things moving early on And gave us some great ideas And I wish we could see her more And I've told her she's overdue For a visit to the studio And she agrees And she does have tickets to Russell Mania 30 So she has agreed to be on the post Russell Mania show Her and Diana are both going to be here And they're going to talk about their Russell Mania experience So I'm very excited about that Oh, again Did you read this one?

Uh Cody The original co-host of the show Don't get to see him as often as I like To but you know he's a family man But every couple of years he must have moved Farther and Farther away I don't know what's going on there What his daughter is beautiful He's got a great family Love his wife You know his stepson is great too He and I've been friends for many many many years And We've come a long way from A small mixer with two mic inputs And a 45 minute show That ended up last again hour and a half To where we are now And he was an injured part of that And to the man sitting right across from me Don't afford A guy that we've known a lot longer than he thinks we've known him Pugs Back from the days in Pugsley's library When Gosh, I missed that place How do you do? Who somehow just decided he was going to get in His himself and snared in this bit After we started doing Fox and Helen Sir, I can't thank you enough for everything that you do This year For the show itself has probably been the biggest year yet 2014's probably going to be even bigger if we can get some of the things pulled off that we think we can do Number three To the Justin Timberlake of this show Who we also met at Pugsley's library for the first time Six and a half years ago Our sister Charlotte I know she's dealing with some some pain issues right now Just graduated college so proud of her Amen She has provided some of the most wheeled off moments on this show You think Who really I don't know I can't imagine what my life would be like Without her part of it I don't even think about that She's one of my favorite people And Then I tell you the text she sent me that night that she was babysitting I thought she wasn't allowed to watch any Hitler movies this time And so she said tonight's not Hitler, it's North Korea She should be okay with that Because communism's better Lord She's And number two To the man who sits to my left A man who has finally got his due on Facebook the other day That was a long way By the way, have not missed a day And there are two days left in the year And there are four people left We're going to finish on time Not this show But that project, well You had to do some shoe horny in the last couple of days too No, by the way You're calling him Christmas Do you change your name or something Maybe it's Montana Kind of Okay, Montana We're talking about later Okay It's hard to believe it's 17 years ago That's No, was it that long ago It's 97 It's making up on 17 years It was just it was a summer release Yeah That I went to a screening of spawn And met him and his cousin Mikey for the first time And we just got to talk in And the next thing I know I'm at the due to house plan in 10 to 64 Yeah, that's all It's South Park Rally That's where I almost broke my leg on an icy step Don't And To this day, he's one of my closest friends And a man who helped me create the idea for this Kind of let me go where I wanted to go with it And was patient enough to just stick with it And now he's in the chair To show isn't what it is Without shoes there It's just not Thank you so much Other than that, it's me on the solo adventure And I don't ever want to do that again I don't know I've jumped in my car that night And number one To the Empire Without an audience We don't need these microphones here We're not comic bookmen We don't get to be on AMC We don't get to be on iTunes lists It would be great if we could But If we get to talk to one person every week Or if I have a meltdown And that podcast has a spike That's why we do it guys We do it because we like to hear from you And hear how this show entertains you You know we know how we entertain ourselves I mean we were here we know we've done this for a long time But we've been friends longer than that But without the Empire and without your feedback And some of the friends that we've made over the last three and a half years Without you guys It's not worth it like it is now You know it's worth me Taking the time Writing the run sheet Doing a playlist Making an RSS feed Uploading it to iTunes just so you can listen to it Wherever you are Not necessarily just having to stream it through your phone You guys make it worth it And to hear you guys come up to us at live shows And say hey man what you did last week That was funny or Dude you're seriously adding your mind Stop That makes it worth it Yes That being said We're all in one room So let's do this Don't ask for this music Before we begin I want to make a vote tonight A vote? Yeah That we officially make this The official theme on the podcast for the Hunger Games It has been I mean officially I want to official The official sanction on this It has been for a long time sir Well I mean we always play a boot Officially officially But For begin others I want to thank you two guys And For let me in Sir it is our honor to do so Absolutely And I appreciate you and Charlotte Everybody on the list But there's I have to thank Gary Murray Who helped us on You know roads of something Yeah We have to thank everybody Galer Smith, Kelly Kitchens Everybody at Alight We have a lot of great friends Yeah This year alone with the show And I couldn't be happy I mean I'm looking at the RSS feed right now And looking at episodes 414 and 415 from Dallas video fast And we're meeting how much as As worn out as we were how much But we add that again But Start off this is kind of To Chad It is gift exchange time Yes That's where we're playing the same Keep the thing going Because for your present this is going to be That's fine What'd you do?

What'd you get? This is an audio medium sir Oh, I'm sorry I know what you were getting Because he did Oh, I got to the heartbacks I told That the hardback collection of the Hunger Games Wow But you're not going to read him So after the movies right? Well I don't read these two I could read the first two That's true It's fair point Well hold on He's got to give you yours Okay Yeah, I don't know He's getting the bag Underneath my Christmas tree There's one wrapped gift If you'll grab that for me please That's right Chad It's got to put on this His His His Santa hat You are still listening to the clubhouse We're not just playing music That's the one perfect perfect All right So don you got to get your gift from Chad Go ahead and close the door again Ah, the sound of the clicking Metal chair of our studio Do I begin?

They'll speak No, it's not a way What do you get to? I could not resist this Oh, he did tell me about this He got himself one of those two Yeah, dude I've been looking for these things forever American stuff burgers Oh, you could stuff your burgers I know you're from the region where the juicy Lucy originates And it's one of the best things ever And you're a burger nut Just like me Stuff's American stuff And if I'm not mistaken Donald do some cooking on Yeah, yeah I thought that actually one time Cooked the middle of the vice president of the United States in 92 Really? Yeah But can we recue this song?

Yeah, I'll cue as soon as I go You want me to start to just start it over? Yeah, that's fine How can you do that? Now, do you're gift?

Okay, fair enough, fair enough We have to do some remodeling in here Okay Okay Told you last year you didn't believe me At the rumble Me and Brittany Palmer go way back Loyal member of the Empire Listens every week Well, that's what we talk about every week And although we missed one of the exclusives But she, she appreciates you talking about her And she still has feelings for you You know, it wants to be the lovely and talented And this is her minor stance There is already one already And yes, there is She's like, but, you know, she still has feelings for you But doesn't really play up Fair enough Fair enough Then we get the, oh, is it the new calendar Did she sign it this time? This one's me Shut up, dude Did you know about this part of this idea? Did you know about this part of this?

Yes, I did I got to read it That it actually says to Rob the clubhouse rocks She actually this is On the calendar people The clubhouse rocks That is funny That is funny And the exo exo is for still Her feelings for that is funny That is genius He told me that I'm like, oh, he did It's good enough that I've got it from Kolkavanna But I've got it from Brittany Palmer too That is awesome We have to read decorate Yeah December's coming We have to get a photo copy of that in color Just to put that part on the white All right, so done For yours It's not going to be here till Tuesday Not problem Because I was hoping to buy it yesterday And I couldn't find it But I gave you a printout I was six pages of it I don't know why I promised it But this is what's coming for you on Tuesday To the house That's why I want to play hungry eyes Because I don't know Yeah, she has them on a cover I'm going to go on it No, are you serious? Yeah That's what's coming for you Tuesday No Tell them to tell the people she got Is this the history of the WWE The 50 year sports center team of blue On blue right, yes, sir It'll be here Tuesday by 8 o'clock Dude So if you want to drop by next week And pick it up, it'll be here for you Yeah, well I'm just I just ordered it last night And I'm like no, it'll be there Tuesday Oh wow So I was surprised Especially given with UPS's been going Did you see they had a 650% spike in business on Monday Well, did you see how many extra people they had to hire? Oh, yeah For that one day Five hundred the day after Good All right, to both of you Very Christmas And same to you sir Same to you Thank you for the gift, guys All right I Looney tunes Christmas wrapping paper Which I'm a fan of That was very carefully selected And by the way, I wrapped all my own gifts this year Oh Did I'm all British descent had to do these My and my wife was impressed My wife was impressed by the wrap job I did I'm incapable of it So Oh Yes I'm making sure that the lovin is talented This is everything Handles this It is a it is like a waffle iron But it makes soft pretzels And if you know me and I do I'm a soft pretzel Fan Fan I tell you I don't think you're going to need the lovin I think you'll be able to pull this one off on your own Does it come with the because if I have to make this stuff It comes with the mixes Oh, does it sweet And then you get you get the Finish strong here sir Now This is the gift from myself and a lovin And talented Mrs.

Irvin When you open it you'll understand Which Charlotte is getting you is in Tomb with this Okay Okay By the way, Chen has a sand head on For the people No, I said that when you're going to Okay Damn Tell the people I can even see what I know there's a delay But I know that my wife is going to make a B line for the door It's about a 5 second 7 second delay Because jules We now have a so-to-stream maker Oh no Well they had a curing already And this so-to-stream Is one of the greatest inventions in the history of ever You sir are fricking awesome And it comes with one bottle And you've got a little sampler pack in there too And And it comes with one But the canister is not going to last you very long So you want to buy an extra one You have to lay the 30 bucks out for the canister But you can only pay 15 on the exchange A hard pounding right So I passed that through the wife And she said yes that you can make that happen So it's the same exact one that we have Oh my god So I know that it's the good one So we get to make the sounds of Flatula in center It does it makes a great farting noise And you make it And they don't endorse this show But I love so-to-stream So Alright we're already running way over So let's do the plugs Visit our website www.clubhousepodcast.com We're going to try to do some revamp And here very soon Because I've got some other ideas I want to do with it Like our page on Facebook Look up the clubhouse podcast But the word podcast on the internet It's something completely different Follow the show on twitter At clubhouse show You can follow me on twitter And yes that robber And then it's called ERVIN I'm at chat in pg69 And I'm at fondango And my email is done At clubhousepodcast.com Email.com If you'd like to have us live But you're established because we love to do live shows You can email me If you want to give us some ideas Or maybe your opinions or something We've talked about I am robber at clubhousepodcast.com I'm chat at clubhousepodcast.com I'm chat at clubhousepodcast.com And I have a study stream Make it Charlotte Parker is on Pinterest We are more on it I've got to prove that I've got to prove that I've got to prove that And jules Walmic Surprisingly It's not in the studio yet I've heard you had a buzz at the door So Have a great new year Everybody please stay safe The next time we get to talk to you It'll be 2014 And two weeks from tonight We already, oh, she went She did say something In the chat room She's no M.G. Oh, I'm seeing right now Two weeks from tonight I'm a very special guest Of a friend that I've met Over the last couple months I'm very excited to have him on the show First person that we've had that we've had from my church on the show. Okay.

And two weeks. So very much looking forward to that. So until next Sunday night, 704 Pacific for Chad for Don for the Empire, I'm Rob.

The clubhouse is closed and I know Brittany Palmer listens now. The preceding was a sooner orgator production.

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