¶ College Football Excitement and Christmas Cheer
Hello , good morning , happy Saturday .
Good morning , happy Saturday .
This is the last day of November .
It is Go Dawgs . It is the last day of November . Go Dawgs .
And tomorrow starts my favorite month of the year .
December . That is correct . First thing I wanted to do and I forgot about this was give a shout out , just say happy , heavenly birthday to my mother . She would have been 100 years old today , which makes which makes me feel very old now , but she would have been 100 years old today , today's .
I'm thinking about you today happy birthday honey birthday and she would have been up late , late , late last night , cheering like hell . She has been sitting there quietly , but cheering like hell , so to speak , for the Georgia Bulldogs last night . Wow as all .
I can say yeah , that was something else .
Wow , I mean Georgia Tech just played an outstanding game . They outplayed Georgia , they outcoached Georgia . Every bit of the game was just mystifying to the Georgia players , to the Georgia fans . It was incredible . But the way the with the heart that Georgia had and the you know sheer ability of the team to do it , they came back and won the game in eight .
Let me repeat that Eight overtimes .
That was insane .
Eight overtimes .
That was insane .
Nobody plays eight overtimes .
You know I watch football with you . You know whatever blah blah blah go dogs . You know I like whatever I like them . But that had me on the edge of my seat and if I was still a nail biter I would have bitten every single one of my nails off . Oh yeah .
Oh yeah , oh , I mean , you know , I had given up the ship .
Yeah , you had .
Long ago . But you know people who had truly given up the ship would have turned the TV off and gone to bed , but I , you know , had to watch it to the end . I'm going to watch it to the end .
And they came back . Oh my gosh , sorry about that y'all .
Sorry about that and I'm probably going to do it again here in a minute . But when it happens , but I don't know the heart with which the guys played you saw a couple of guys on the Georgia team step up and make plays that you know they aren't the stars , but they are the stars in my heart and a shout-out goes to them Wow .
You know , I'd like to describe it and go more into it , but you know that's something that coaches can't prepare for and they don't prepare for . You know what if we go into eight overtimes ? What if we go into nine overtimes ?
And the funny thing is I was showing you last night the box score of a regular game where you have the four quarters listed in the final score , and then I showed you and then I started to get the finger on the phone and start scrolling over and you're going .
You know that's pretty much the score Scorebox had to go four quarters , then four overtime quarters , then four more overtime quarters I don't call them quarters but periods to get to a final score , like a baseball At the end of periods to get to a final score .
Like a baseball it looked like .
at the end of it it looked like a baseball thing Nine-inning , 13-inning game or a 12-inning game or something like that that was insane . Yeah and yeah , wow . Anyway , shout-out again to Georgia Tech players and coaches . That was a phenomenal game they played . They played with a lot of heart .
So does this mean Georgia will go into a final or something ?
Georgia is already in the SEC championship . Okay , now Georgia Tech's an ACC team . Okay , so this was just our state rivalry . Okay , georgia's already in the championship game for the SEC .
But people are saying , regardless of whether we beat Texas A&M or Texas in the championship game , that cemented us into the top 12 to play in the bowl series , national championship thing . So if we'd have lost we'd have had to beat , had to win the SEC championship . But you know , we'll see they still may .
You know , if we lose in the championship game , that may still . The committee may say well , you see , you know we're getting more money from other schools , so we're not going to put you in . I jest about that , but that apparently did get us into the championship , regardless of what happened in the SEC championship game . So yeah , it was a big game .
All right , any games going on this morning or today .
Well shoot . Yeah , you know you wouldn't think Vanderbilt Tennessee would have any bearing on anything . But Tennessee still has a chance to get into the championship , but Vanderbilt's been quite a big spoiler this year . Certain teams like Alabama lost to them .
So this is rivalry weekend , so that means Auburn and Alabama play .
And after the Tennessee-Vanderbilt game comes the biggest game in Alabama all year long , the Auburn-Alabama game .
Alabama-Auburn .
It could be said that way too . Could be said that way too .
And then I guess Ohio State plays Michigan .
They play at 12 o'clock . I believe Ohio State plays Michigan and that's probably not going to be much of a game . Guess , ohio State plays Michigan . They play at 12 o'clock . I believe Ohio State plays Michigan and that's probably not going to be much of a game . Ohio State should kill them . But you never know , it's a rivalry game .
A lot of times it's a rivalry game . And then , of course , tonight , the big game tonight is the Texas A&M game .
It will be played at College Station and for those of you who I'm glad we've talked about this , for those of you who don't know about Texas A&M , it's got about 105,000 or 6,000 capacity stadium and they are very vocal , very strong tradition for the 12th band .
But if you haven't seen the Texas A&M band perform in halftime , if you haven't seen it live , you've missed something special . But if you can go YouTube it and watch one of their performances , they are the best , most outstanding marching band you'll ever see .
All right , we'll watch one as soon as we get done with this episode , we're going to watch one .
It's phenomenal . Go watch them . Yes .
All right well .
And that's a full day of football .
All right , I'm glad we got the tree up last night then .
Yes , my goodness me . Yesterday I was cleaning house and doing laundry and I got the tree out because somebody here in our family got special new decorations and we don't have any of our old decorations up . We have all new decorations and it is a red maga tree that's right , baby doll every ornament , everything , every , whatever you call it .
We've even got a red light under it , projecting upwards to show more red .
That's right baby , it is red , I don't know what made me think of that , but I was , you know , diddling around whatever , and I thought you know what , let's do new . I wasn't really excited about our old Christmas . Although our old Christmas decorations are kind of new , they were only like a couple of years old .
I thought I'm not really I'm not digging it this year , but what else ? And then I realized , oh , we've got to do the red maggot Absolutely . With the red wave of the mandated elections and voting and I was like we've got to do red .
And there are so many red ornaments on this tree .
You can't even see the tree . Well , they were 50% off .
Well , of course you know . That way you only spend half your money . Half as fast , right ?
Yeah . I mean it is red , everything is red and there is a lot .
Yes , but it's very tastefully done . You would think that many ornaments on the tree would be all kind of gaudy and all that stuff , but actually it looks really good . Thank you very . I'm quite happy with our tree . Thank you , quite happy with it . We aren't going to take it down this year . Just leave , we'll just leave it up . That'll be , that'll be good .
But yeah , that it's very beautiful and that's how . That's why . That's what I gotta say about that . Thanks , yes I'm ready .
I'm ready so much .
So when I up this morning , the first thing I did was go over and turn the lights on and just stood there and looked at it for a minute .
It is a good-looking tree . I'm kind of proud of it .
You should be , I'm happy with it .
I don't want to say I'm proud of it , I'm happy with it . It makes , and it makes me smile .
And you should be proud of it . I think you should be proud of it Absolutely , and if you haven't , if you really want to know what it looks like , go look at Carol's Twitter feed , Twitter X feed , and you'll probably find a picture of it somewhere .
You're going to see probably lots of pictures .
Yeah , most likely . Most likely , Absolutely . What else you got for us Most likely ?
Absolutely what else you got for us . You know it's December coming up , it's my birthday month , it's Christmas . Oh , that's right , birthday . We got Tina Turner review coming up . That's right , it's just going to be a great . Hopefully I don't want to . I always get excited but then I pull myself back .
You know it's one of those waiting for the other shoe to drop . I don't want to get too excited and get my get all happy and excited and then something bad happened .
So I just kind of pulled myself back all the time . I've got my yearly physical this month . That pulls you back real quick especially when he says , okay , this is the final part , and you're like , yeah , I'm waiting for this . Oh , and , of course , yeah .
And , of course , december . I don't like the last week of December , though that's my . I hate that part . After Christmas and before New Year . I hate that week . I don't know why , but I just do Very depressing , so I'm going to have to try to figure out something else to do . Oh , we're also winding down the podcast this month .
That's right , but we're having a new one , that's right , our last podcast is next weekend . Yeah , Last episode will be December 8th , Mm-hmm , but oh so I've already thinking about New Year's , though .
What I want to do , I think one of my things I'm going to stick with , I'm going to try to stick with my new , I think one of my things I'm going to stick with I'm going to try to stick with my new , my resolution I did this year , trying to give you an answer whenever you ask me a question , Instead of saying , oh , I don't know , whatever , whatever
you want to do , what do you think ? I want to give you an answer , Like you say where do you want to go to dinner ? I'm going to tell you . I want to try to do that again .
No-transcript okay , but taking selfies makes you happy . Well , why aren't you gonna stop doing ?
I don't know , because it's stupid no , I think it's fun .
I think it's fun , I think y'all keep doing that but you do what you , you do what you do . You know you're talking about the last week of thanksgiving or last week of december . Uh , it's kind of good week . I think it's kind of a good week because it's getting towards bowl games , the upper echelon bowl games .
So with my football pools I've got that to look forward to . Plus , it's one of my . You know we don't get to cook a lot for everybody and all and I like to have that one-time meal where you know I make the ham and the greens and the black-eyed peas and the macaroni and cheese and all that stuff . So you know my head goes to planning all that stuff .
So that kind of . You know , I think once we get to the first week of January is when I go but , that last week of December is okay for me .
You've got something to look for .
Yeah , well , you know , you've got .
You do Thanksgiving now , and you do Christmas and you do New Year's . I do nothing around here . I do nothing around here . We don't really do .
You know , I cooked some sides for Thanksgiving , that was it . And then , thanks , christmas we're not . You know what are we doing for Christmas ? We don't have any idea , except for , you know , going over to in-laws and all that stuff . And you know we're going to have people over for New Year's and that's about it . You decorated the tree .
I put decorations on it , big whoop .
And it's gorgeous .
Thank you .
Absolutely tree . I put decorations on big whoop and it's gorgeous . Thank you , absolutely so .
Anyway , december's a good month , is what we're trying to say I think I'm going to create a made-up holiday just for our family , so that I can cook something and prepare it and have everybody over I'm all for it'll just be me doing it , be my own thing I'll sit back and relax and watch you .
What do you want to do ?
I don't know . I've got to think about it I might do something easy like chili .
One thing we're going to do .
We'll do a crockpot meal .
I think we have two podcasts coming up . Well , two joint podcasts with episodes next weekend . Those will be the last two we do . I think one of the things we're going to do is , when we announced that this was going down , we were inundated and thank you all out there with all the fan letters . I mean wow , it was unbelievable the amount that we got .
They just started pouring in . As a matter of fact , the mailman was just . You know , he was like I've never seen such a abundance of mail .
We got more than Christmas letters for Santa Claus .
It was crazy . I'm about a quarter of the way through them . I'll be making progress , but I plan on selecting a few and reading them online If you go ahead and drop them in . So if you uh on our pocket , so if you , if you , you know , go ahead and drop them in the mail and send us to us .
Um , I'm not going to give the address out again because we've gotten too many of them , but for those listeners that are out there that , uh , do have the address and I only , I'm only going to read the ones that are mailed , the physical . I'm not reading the ones I get online .
So , if you've got the address , send them on and I'm going to pick a couple to read next time .
All , right , that sounds great .
All right , I'm looking forward to it Okay
¶ Family Christmas Traditions
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Do you have a question of the day and then we can stop or we can end this one ?
Let's think about that for a second .
All right . Question of the day . I'm sure I've asked this before in the past , but we're going to ask it again . Share a Christmas tradition of your family's with us .
If you have a family tradition in your family , what is it and share it with us , that's a great one .
I like that Alright good , you come up with some good ones sometimes , Sometimes yeah absolutely . All right , we got to go .
Wow Go , dawgs , have a great weekend .