Jonathan Wier (00:07)
Welcome to the show all 11 of you. It's me, Jonathan and my good buddy, Cody Aikens. Hey, my good buddy. Now that I'm pissed off is what's going on.

Cody Akins (00:14)
Hey, what's going on?

Yeah, computers. If only they did what they were supposed to. Well, then I wouldn't have a job.

Jonathan Wier (00:22)
Yeah, actually, guess you, you every

you hearing me ranting for the last 20 minutes is probably like, Kaching, Kaching, Kaching, Kaching, Kaching.

Cody Akins (00:30)
Well,

if I would have actually, you know, like ate a whole lot faster than the 30 pounds of food that I spent the last hour eating, we would have had more time to practice.

Jonathan Wier (00:39)
Yeah, I don't think I I'm you know what I'm gonna blame. I'm gonna blame Facebook for this. So we were trying to connect live stream to Facebook, which I was able to do last night. Easily for the hangout just did it like last night and I was like, Oh, I should do that again. It was fun doing that at night and honestly makes less work for me. I don't have to edit anything. I just post it all and hope that people are okay with it. Nope. No today goes we're not gonna let you post to your own goddamn page. How do we know?

Cody Akins (00:45)
Okay.

Jonathan Wier (01:09)
Jonathan Weir that you're Jonathan Weir. Here's a clue. No one else would want this. No one else. No one else would be this on purpose. On purpose. No one. Anyway, so I did post earlier tonight that we would be doing a live show and I said, ask us anything and then we'll answer tonight on the show.

Cody Akins (01:12)
That meme.

I mean, some.

Jonathan Wier (01:35)
I assumed I would be able to do that live and then we'd have like even more questions to answer it being live. But we did get a bunch of comments on that post. So we'll just answer them now. Okay. Yes, would love to hear your first question, Cody.

Cody Akins (01:45)
Can I start with one first? This

is one that came to me on the way home from work. Should you legally be allowed to rear end people who stop at roundabouts who have more than enough time to enter the roundabout without impeding traffic?

Jonathan Wier (02:00)
Wait, say that again. Let me get into my mind. Okay. Okay.

Cody Akins (02:02)
Okay. Okay.

Should you legally be allowed to rear in somebody at a roundabout who stops before going in even though they have plenty of time to enter the roundabout?

Jonathan Wier (02:14)
so they're yielding, but they're they're not yielding. They're coming to a stop. Yeah. Yeah, I think you should like I think if legally you did hit them, it'd be their fault. Right? Yeah. You know, it is a true test of human camaraderie that we're able to not constantly just plow our cars into each other. It just because they're safer and bigger and stronger than they've ever been.

Cody Akins (02:19)
Yeah, and there's no reason to.

Yeah, impeding traffic.

Jonathan Wier (02:43)
If ever there was a time for human beings to just go, you know what, I'm done with you people. I'm going to destroy your precious little, you know, my kids aren't going to college mobile. I'm going to do that right now. That'd be great. driving home Saturday from work was crazy because I saw so many people driving correctly.

But it only took a couple of people to drive incorrectly for it be an absolute shit show. You know what mean? Like everyone was driving, because we had the ice storm coming down, everybody was driving about five miles an hour. It was eerie. Not from like, like cars were moving, some of them, their wheels weren't moving, but the cars were moving. That was disturbing. That was weird. But it was also eerie, like seeing people actually try to not be assholes. You know, just to try to not be total...

Cody Akins (03:10)
Yeah.

Jonathan Wier (03:32)
spewing dicks and it was amazing and then there were those ones that weren't The there were the ones that were just like you know what this literally I saw this I've got a Honda Civic with the spoiler on it I Can drive as fast as I want? saw that car Do that driving Look all of us were going about five ten miles an hour at the most this thing was going at least 30 Driving around people weaving around

because at that spot there was no ice, but that was the whole point. You didn't know where the ice was. And then he went to turn on, this was at 130th, I got 143rd, 143rd street. Went to turn, lost his back end, kept going, hit a light pole, flipped on his side. Saw all that happen and I didn't want to leave because I wanted to see what would happen next.

Cody Akins (04:00)
Yeah.

Okay.

Did you see the lady that jumped out of her car? It's the video. Huh? Yeah, dude. She was hit. She was on some kind of a ramp coming off the interstate or something. Forget Jesus. Take the wheel. Jesus. Take the whole car, dude. She she jumped right out the side and it just kept going right into a ditch.

Jonathan Wier (04:21)
Like, abandoned it? She abandoned it?

Good for her. She knew when to bail. You gotta know when to hold him, know when to fold him, know when to jump out of the car, know when to slowly walk away because you're gonna fall on your face and bust your ass. Anyway, this car went on its side and it was laying on its side and the funniest thing kept happening. The wheels kept spinning because the guy kept revving the engine hoping...

Cody Akins (04:57)
He's

all like, meh-meh-meh.

Jonathan Wier (04:59)
Yeah, hoping that somehow

that would fix it. And you know what happened? The car was kind of moving a little bit at a time, kind of like when Curly would hit the rug in the three stooges and start spinning in a circle. Yeah, it was like that. It was great. It was the best thing I've ever seen. So thank you, Old Man Winter for delivering that. Yeah, I think you should be able to rear end people. But I'm also, this is coming from five years of driving in Boston, where I think that you should allow to be

allowed to murder at least one person a year. And I don't mean like from a distance. I mean, you should be able to get your hands good and dirty. You should be able to really get in there. All right, so let's start. After that lovely question with I'm to go with the most up voted and liked questions that we got from Facebook. So we'll start with those. Jennifer Jackson says, Did Kansas City lose to the Broncos?

Just to spite Burrow First of all, his name is Joe Burrough. I just want to say that. But second of all, no. You know what? Here's the way. Here's a perfect analogy for this. When I was in school, in high school, I didn't do great. I didn't dedicate myself, except for in two classes. Really good in history, took AP history, and in American lit.

AP American Lit. It really good. It just came naturally to me. I didn't like applying myself, but those things just kind of worked for me. And in my AP American Literature class, junior year, I did so well that the teacher said that anybody with this grade average or grade at the end of the year doesn't have to take the final.

That was 98%. If you had above a 98%, didn't have to take the final. I had a 99. I had missed like one question or gotten one thing, like didn't put full 100 % effort into one essay the entire time. She loved me. And so I had a 99. So she was like, yeah, hey, you don't have to take the final. I was like, that's awesome. She's like, yeah, you busted your ass all year. Well, in this case, all semester, but all semester.

So yeah, your reward is you don't have to take the final. She's like, but you do still have to show up for class. You have to show up for class. Obviously, I can't get you out of class, but you do have to show up. She's like, and the final was a group project. was like this, I don't remember. We had to recreate a scene from The Glass Menagerie, which is a Tennessee Williams play. And we had to rewrite it and everything. But I didn't have to. But she put me in a group.

Cody Akins (07:15)
Thank

Jonathan Wier (07:42)
And when I got into the group, this girl named Kelly was like, my God, Jonathan's in our group. we're going to get an A now. I know we're going to get an A. Basically, like, Jonathan's going to do all the work because he's real good at this and we don't have to do anything. Jonathan, guess what? And I told her, was like, Kelly, Jonathan ain't doing jack shit. Jonathan's in your group because he has to be at school today by law, but he doesn't want to be.

Cody Akins (07:56)
Jonathan ain't doing shit

You

Jonathan Wier (08:09)
And so I'm not doing anything. And she like tried, she like put her hand on my hand. She's like, come on, you're so smart at this. And it's like, I don't give a shit what you want me to do or what you think I owe you. I'm not doing anything. I'm not completing your assignment for you. And she's like, but if I don't get a good grade on this, I'm going to fail. I was like, well, you know what? You should have tried harder back in September when I saw you not putting anything in.

I sat next to you in class and there were so many times where we had assignments that you just went, and didn't turn them in. Back in September, you didn't do anything. And then you started getting panicked in October because you were like, my God, I'm going to start to fail. And then you were trying too hard and not doing good. And then November and December, you kind of hit your stride. It's not my job to drag you over to the finish line, Kelly. I was like, and I said this to her, when this class is done,

Cody Akins (08:36)
Crazy.

Jonathan Wier (09:03)
When we leave this school, I'm not going to remember your name. And to prove that, her name isn't Kelly. I don't remember what her name is. I can tell you what she looked like. She was a kind of a cute blonde girl who always had a purple scrunchie in. But I don't remember her name.

Cody Akins (09:08)
you

Jonathan Wier (09:17)
If you haven't gotten the analogy yet, that's what it's like. The Chiefs worked their asses off all year and didn't have to take the final. And then Kelly, the Bengals, are like, no, but we, it's not fair. We're just not as smart as you. We expected you to do all the work for us and drag us across. No, you should have tried harder back in September. Yeah. No.

Cody Akins (09:40)
Welcome to wrecking the curb,

bitch.

Jonathan Wier (09:42)
Was I not doing that work to spite Kelly? Was I not doing the final to spite her? No. Was it an added bonus that she was pissed off because I wasn't doing it? Yeah. So no, the point of it was not to spite Burrow or the Bengals. The point of it was we needed to rest our starters. We, I mean, for God's sake, our best

Cody Akins (09:54)
Absolutely.

Jonathan Wier (10:10)
pass catchers 35 years old. And Deandre Hopkins might be the second best and he's like 32. So no, it wasn't despite them. It's just a nice bonus. And I'll say this too. The idiots in the media who keep pushing this lie out there that the Bengals scared the Chiefs are out of their freaking minds. I mean, we talked about this on the last podcast a little bit. Oh no, please save us from a nine and eight team. Please God, a team that

Cody Akins (10:31)
Yeah.

Jonathan Wier (10:38)
One more game than they lost. please save us from them. They have no defense. Yeah, because we don't have the greatest quarterback of all time playing for us. What are we going to do? Also, I feel like people are this is how stupid people are too when it comes to this. I'm not saying you, Jennifer, were I think that you just asked this because you want to hear me rant.

People don't understand this. The Chiefs were probably not going to play the Bengals no matter what happened because the Bengals were going to play the Bills. And what the story should be, it shouldn't be, that we did the Chiefs throw the game against the Broncos by sitting their starters just so they didn't have to play the Bengals. The story should be, are the Bills relieved that the Chiefs did that so they didn't have to play the Bengals? Because while the Chiefs lost one playoff game to the Bengals and Joe Burrow,

Cody Akins (11:01)
you

Jonathan Wier (11:23)
The Bills have lost two. They've lost two to the Bengals and Joe Burrow. Okay. They, I think the last time they played the Bengals, they got blown out. So the story should be are the Bills relieved that they don't have to face the Bengals in that round? And they probably are. They'd much rather, you know, face who's seventh seed then? The Broncos. Yeah, they'd rather face the Broncos. Also, the only way that we would be facing

Cody Akins (11:43)
Rockers!

Jonathan Wier (11:49)
the bangles in the playoffs is if they beat the Bills. Do you know how happy we would be if we didn't have to deal with the only team who's beaten us all year? Pretty happy.

Cody Akins (11:58)
Well,

technically speaking, mean, if you want to be real, the Broncos did give us a donut there at end of the season. mean, great.

Jonathan Wier (12:07)
No, they didn't. Oh, oh, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, technically. Let's,

and you know what? They're going to hang that on us. I know they will. Just like they'll say, they say this all the time. Well, Justin Herbert is, has like, I don't know, I can't remember, like two wins against Patrick Moe. No, he doesn't. No, he doesn't. He only has one. His other win came against Chad Henny for the same reason. In 2020, the Chiefs are resting their starters at the end of the season.

because they earned it. And it's funny, nobody bitched about it back then. Nobody said, you can't rush the starters. That's not fair to the teams that need to make it into the playoffs. Because there's this myth that the Bengals are actually a good team. Bengals are no better than any other nine and eight team. And by the way, I want to, I'm not, I didn't want to go get this far into it. Okay, I'm gonna do it then. Okay. I went, I did something that I am pretty sure that the people who get paid,

Cody Akins (12:54)
Do it. Do it. Open the bar. Do it.

Jonathan Wier (13:04)
thousands of times more than me. Like the Rex Ryans and Ryan Clarks who think that the Bengals are this amazing scary team despite the record who think that Joe Burrow should be the MVP. I did something that they didn't do.

I went and watched the Bengals games this year because of this narrative about Joe Burrow being so amazing and he should be the MVP. You know what I found?

I felt that he definitely should not be the MVP. In fact, he's cost his team a lot of games. Here is how the games have ended for the Bengals this year in the games that they lost. They ate losses they had, okay? I wrote these down as I was watching. Week one versus the Patriots. On their last drive that the Bengals had the ball, it was third and 10 on their own 10. Joe Burrow checked the ball down to his running back.

well short of the sticks. He was tackled. They had to punt the ball because they were pinned into their own end.

Patriots got the ball back, won the game. Didn't have to score touchdown, they were in the lead. Joe Burrow gave the ball up. MVP Joe Burrow threw the ball short of the sticks on third and 10 from his own 10.

Cody Akins (14:15)
And you know what's funny about that move? If he doesn't check that ball down and gets that first down and wins that game, the Bengals are in the playoffs and the Atreids have the first round draft.

Jonathan Wier (14:24)
Yeah, yeah.

If he's Patrick Mahomes, Patrick Mahomes finds a way to convert that. He probably with his legs, but Joe Burrow is not as good as Patrick Mahomes. Week two versus the Chiefs. Everybody remembers the past interference call that the Chiefs got. By the way, nobody's going to remember that before that, Mahomes made this insane scramble, hit Rashi Rice right in the numbers.

But because of a justifiable hands to the face call against Wanyi Morris, it got pulled back and the Chiefs were at fourth and 16. Because it was a fourth down to begin with. They converted. But then because of a hands to the face call, it was fourth and six and then it was fourth and 16. Mahomes made another amazing play. Scrambles hits Rashi Rice. Okay, everybody remembers that. Well, he didn't hit Rashi Rice.

The Bengals player hit Rashid Rice. It was a pass interference call and only idiots are going to argue that it shouldn't be called. Before that happened though, on the last drive that the Bengals had the ball, Joe Burrow got sacked by a corner blitz that he was totally unaware of. Now all of you who are Chiefs fans, you've watched Patrick Mahomes for years now. How many times have you seen him get hit by a blitz he didn't see coming? I would say maybe a handful of times.

Cody Akins (15:14)
that you have the bangles for here.

Jonathan Wier (15:43)
I gotta tell you, watched all the Bengals games this year. It happens to Joe Burrow at least once a game. He gets, it happened in the Pittsburgh game. He'll get hit by a corner blitz he does not see coming all the time. But again, he's the MVP. Shouldn't intelligence and the ability to see that kind of play coming factor into it. Joe Burrow got sacked by a corner blitz. was totally unaware of and the Chiefs got the ball back, won the game with a field goal. Week five versus the Ravens.

He got the ball in overtime. He couldn't advance the ball much further than the Ravens 40. So they had to kick a field goal. It was over 50 yards. They missed. McPherson missed. They lost the game. Week 10 versus and by the way, these are the only ones that he could be held accountable for because the other games were blowouts. Like they got beat by the Giants by 10. They lost the Eagles by 20.

In week 10 versus the Ravens, he threw an incompletion on a two point conversion with the game on the line. Now, I know Bangles fans will go, there's a bunch of penalties. Doesn't matter. He threw an incompletion with the game on the line. He messed it up. Week 11 versus the Chargers. This was, this one pissed me off more than any other ones because it was the second most recent one of their losses and people don't remember this. Week 11 versus the Chargers couldn't get the ball back.

It couldn't get the ball within 50 yards for a game winning field goal with a minute 51 left. So they got it. Try to kick the field goal. It misses. The defense, as bad as the Bengals defense is, the defense got to stop. Then Joe Burrow gets the ball back with a minute 44 left. On third and 10, at his own 30, he makes one of the dumbest plays I've ever seen that just shows how completely unathletic

He is where he kind of like, it's one of these things where I'm sure he's seen Mahomes make this play a million times and he's like, I can do that. And it's if you've seen Mahomes, go watch the end of that Chargers game if you want a good laugh because he like throws it like this, like he jumps and goes, like that. It's a terrible throw. Again, on third and 10 in zone 30, horrible jump pass attempt. The ball dies like a duck.

Cody Akins (17:58)
.

Jonathan Wier (18:09)
They have to punt, the Chargers get the ball back and score with 18 seconds left. Joe Burrow throws a Hail Mary, it gets broken up to end the game. And finally, week 12 versus the Steelers. He threw an interception that began the fourth quarter, threw an interception to begin the fourth. He scored a garbage time TD. They lost 44 to 38.

They were going to lose anyway because they were down by two scores, but he gets a lot of credit for garbage time TDs. Matt Stafford when he played for the Lions is a lot like that too. Like people are like, he's amazing. And he was, he's a good quarter. I'm not saying Joe Burrow is a bad quarterback, but I'm sick and tired of being told that he's the actual MVP. To answer another question, because somebody said, you can't say Mahomes, who is the MVP? I can tell you right now, it ain't Joe Burrow.

Cody Akins (18:57)
Nah.

Jonathan Wier (18:58)
So there go. That's my rant. I'm done. Matthew C. Hodges says, did KC lose on purpose? Again, it's not about losing on purpose. It's about not having to win. Did they want to lose? I don't think they cared. Did they want to get blown out? No. On New Heights today, I didn't watch it, but I saw a clip of it. Travis Kelso seems pretty pissed off about how...

much their asses got beat in that game. But he's also very indignant about, you guys didn't want to play the bangles. Like we would play the bangles. We're not afraid of anybody. We're the two, that's the other, they're the two time defending goddamn champions. They aren't afraid of anybody. You know why? Cause if they lose, they're still the two time defending champions. They've still done something that only eight other teams have ever done.

Cody Akins (19:43)
Yeah, and the first team in 20 years to do it.

Jonathan Wier (19:45)
Yeah.

All right. Let's go to other questions. So we're not just talking about Chiefs all night. Troy Hardwick says, Are you ever going to get a real job? You put a laughing face on it. So it's fine. We're laughing together. I've never had a real job. I don't know what you're talking about. I mean, I have a real job now, I guess. Technically, what I do for a living is real, but it's I enjoy it and I like doing it.

Cody Akins (19:56)
you

Jonathan Wier (20:11)
So I think the only real job I ever had was the railroad. That felt like a real job. That was like a job. That was like coming home stinking of diesel, covered in grime and dirt and sand. I still, for years, I had a wallet when I worked there. My credit cards got ruined because one of the things you have to do on the railroad is you have to sand the engines, which literally means there's a sandbox on every

locomotive and it's to help them when it's raining, when it's slick, to put sand on the rails to give them extra traction, right? And I would have to tons, literally tons and tons of sand into all of the locomotives. And it would get on my clothes, it'd get in my pants and my pockets and it got in my wallet and it ruined like several credit cards. I got a new wallet, but somehow enough grit and sand had stuck to other things that had in that wallet.

that it was still ruining credit cards.

Cody Akins (21:07)
Rumor is to this day he's still pulling sand out of his butt crack.

Jonathan Wier (21:10)
I that's I mean sometimes I get a little grit in my teeth. Yeah, Jamie Taft by the way is who said you can't say my homes who's winning the MVP. It's going to be Lamar. It's Lamar and he deserves it this year. He didn't deserve it last year, but he deserves it this year. His numbers are amazing. The only thing I'll say is it might be an upset. Josh Allen might win the MVP. Because in the only reason why he'd win it, the only reason what?

Cody Akins (21:31)
That's... Stat padding.

Stat padding. no. This is brushing touchdowns from the one.

Jonathan Wier (21:37)
His stats aren't that good. Yeah, it's not even that. No,

the reason he might win the MVP is because people are just like, it's just his turn. It's just his time. It's his time. He had a good year. Mahomes had a down year. So we'll just give it to him. And you realize that's what the MVP has become. I know you can't say Mahomes. Mahomes is the MVP. I believe Kevin Wilde's on First Things First said this, and it's one of the most brilliant things I've ever heard.

somebody say on sports television about Patrick Mahomes. He said, the only thing that makes Patrick Mahomes the MVP of the league is that everybody knows he's the most valuable player.

Everybody already knows it. They know. You put him on any of those other teams and they're better. You take him off of the Chiefs and they're obviously a lot worse. Did you see the game on Sunday?

Cody Akins (22:25)
That's

why we didn't make that's why my homes didn't make the Pro Bowl and you know, like it's because they just knew they're like look man He's gonna be playing in the Super Bowl. Why are we wasting a quarterback spot? Like don't need to vote for the alternatives. Just do we know he's gonna make it don't even vote him in

Jonathan Wier (22:33)
Yep.

Yeah, I mean, that's you know, Steven Spielberg didn't win an Oscar until Schindler's List until he was like 20 years into his career as a filmmaker. But everybody knew he was the best director in Hollywood. He didn't need the Oscar to prove that it's like, well, who makes the most memorable movies? Who makes the most money at the box office? Steven Spielberg. So does he need the Oscar? No.

That's where honestly a lot of that comes from. I do think it's also there's some Chiefs fatigue as well. I okay, this is my last thought on the Chiefs. This is it. This is it. Okay, I promise. Three Chiefs made the Pro Bowl or no All-Pro made All-Pro. Chris Jones, Trent McDuffie got snubbed. I don't know how the hell because you look at all of his PFF.

stats and all that stuff. He's amazing. He's the best quarterback in the league by far, but he got snubbed. Chris Jones, Creed Humphrey and Joe Tooney. Also, Tooney, Humphrey and Trey Smith all made the Pro Bowl, right? It's kind of.

In a way, a diss on Patrick Mahomes. A little bit. Do you realize why?

Cody Akins (23:52)
because other players got voted in and he didn't?

Jonathan Wier (23:55)
Because they're saying, yeah, his offensive line are pro bowlers. He's not.

It's just another way of saying he wouldn't be anything without Tyreek. That's what that is. His offensive line are all Pro Bowlers, and they deserve to be. But he's not a Pro Bowler, let's be honest. He's not. He just hasn't had the stats this year. He hasn't had a good year. He hasn't had a good season. mean, granted, he's the only quarterback with that record, 15 and 2. I mean, technically his record is 15 and 1. But, you know, whatever. Doesn't matter.

The wins don't matter because he has nothing to do with those wins. by the way, go watch the end of every Chiefs game. Because you'll see the opposite of everything I was talking about with Joe Burrow from earlier, where you see over and over again, Patrick Mahomes puts them in a position to win and to ice the game and doesn't screw things up by throwing short of the sticks on third and 10 from his own 10. All right, moving on.

Mark Dodna says, why is it so cold? Is it global warming or not? Mark, get with the times, buddy. It's not global warming. It's climate change. That could mean anything. It's not global. Nobody's called it global warming since the 90s, buddy. It's climate change. What could mean it's really cold sometimes and it's really out of the times. It changes a lot. Also, is it that cold? It's snowing a lot.

Cody Akins (25:04)
Thank

Jonathan Wier (25:20)
But 20 degrees isn't that cold.

Cody Akins (25:23)
Cold enough for me.

Jonathan Wier (25:24)
I don't like it. I'm just saying like if

it was negative 20, I'd see his point about, I guess there's all the scientists everywhere are wrong. But I don't I don't know. don't I don't want

Marnie says, while I know the answer is everything, what do like more about the Midwest and Kansas City over the East and Boston?

The thing I like the most is the worst thing, because it's bad for me, because I put on 15 pounds since I moved here and it's the food. It's easy to get around, it's easy to get to the food, the food is plentiful and everywhere and delicious, and it's killing me.

Cody Akins (25:59)
dude, I've seen the way your wife cooks man. I showed up to those f***ing big ass rib eyes that day I came to watch the game. was like, thanks for outdoing me on my New York strip you butthole.

Jonathan Wier (26:10)
You think my wife cooked those? That was me, buddy.

That was me. All right? Yeah, that was this guy right here. She made potatoes, I think. We had something else, maybe fries. no, it was good, yeah. But I don't actually, I eat out way too much. That's the problem. And it's killing me slowly, significantly, and surely. It's two things, it's eating and drinking.

Cody Akins (26:16)
you

The potatoes were good. The whole meal was good, but yes, I mean, you should.

Jonathan Wier (26:36)
when I was laid off, it's not like I was becoming, was without like, or is becoming an issue other than I was gaining too much weight from drinking. I wasn't like doing it at work. I wasn't, you know, driving drunk or anything like that. I, when James was here, we were pretty much drunk the whole time. Yeah.

Cody Akins (26:55)
Dude, on the topic of food for like the holidays, my vendors and my customers have just been bringing me like cookies and food and everything else. I mean, look at me like, blub blub blub.

Jonathan Wier (27:05)
stop it. Stop it.

I'm not, I'm not gonna get into a gut measuring contest with you, buddy, because you will lose... What are you up to? A buck eighty? One eighty, I mean?

Cody Akins (27:12)
That's probably a concept I wouldn't...

I'm up to 195. I'm getting pretty... Got a six foot.

Jonathan Wier (27:18)
That's actually... how tall are you? Okay. Alright,

yeah, you're fat. the...

Cody Akins (27:25)
Getting

close to the old two double bagel.

Jonathan Wier (27:27)
You're still 25 pounds short of me though. Yeah, I'm at 220 right now. So I need to.

Cody Akins (27:34)
Well if this snow

doesn't go away and I keep hibernating on the couch, I'll get pretty close.

Jonathan Wier (27:38)
Well, go out and shovel it. That'll burn off some collaries.

Cody Akins (27:41)
It's funny you would say that every neighbor or every driveway in the neighborhood is completely shoveled except for mine except for mine Well, no, I got four wheel drive man put that bitch in four high and send it like see everybody Everybody shoveled their driveways and did the salt and everything else and they're calling for like four more inches of snow tomorrow night. Yep. I'm cool I never even shoveled my driveway the first time

Jonathan Wier (27:47)
Mm-hmm. It's yours. What are you doing? Is he having had to leave the house? Haven't you been working?

Well, I also

have a 15 year old who did most of it, so I...

Cody Akins (28:11)
No, dude, I

did not spend 50 grand on a four-wheel drive truck to not use four-wheel drive in the snow.

Jonathan Wier (28:18)
You know what? That's a good point. Like, why would I have it if I'm if I'm just going to shovel my driveway? Why would I have spent all this money on a four wheel drive truck? At least maybe get a snowplow for it or something. All right. Brad asked, as we're listening, Brad said, on a scale of one to ten, how much of a hero is this man? And then he quotes somebody who says, I worked at McDonald's for two and a half years and I put 11 nuggets in every 10 piece McNugget meal I made.

Cody Akins (28:27)
Yeah.

That dude's a hero.

Jonathan Wier (28:46)
That is an American hero.

I mean, I don't know who that person was, and I don't even know if the Catholic Church still does this, but he should be canonized into sainthood. He's probably done more for starving people than Mother Teresa ever did.

Cody Akins (28:58)
Well, it's not any of the McDonald's workers in my area. I don't ever remember getting an extra nugget.

Jonathan Wier (29:02)
I think I've gotten some extra fingers. I just mean some of that. People are how what it is. People are bitchy at the drive thru lane lately. Like just I don't it doesn't take that much just to sound friendly. You can still be bitter. You can still be angry and go welcome McDonald's. What can I get you? You can be saying in your head screw you you fat ass like you need more food and still say welcome McDonald's. What would you like today?

Cody Akins (29:07)
Yeah.

Jonathan Wier (29:29)
It's not that hard. Shove it down. Shove it down. Use it as a base. Use it as a base to propel yourself out of your terrible job. I've done it many times.

Cody Akins (29:38)
Well,

the McDonald's employees in Hawaii need to teach the rest of the country how to do it because those guys are the nicest people in the world even when you've got your head stuck out the sunroof, you're drunk off your ass, and you're just yelling obscenities because...

Jonathan Wier (29:52)
You know why? Because they live in Hawaii. Who's angry?

Who's living in Hawaii? Even if you're angry or something, have to be like, yeah, but I just looked outside. I remember I live in Hawaii. So I don't get Florida. When I was living in Florida, everyone was so angry. I'm like, you not see the palm trees? Do you realize it's January and it's 70 degrees? Like, what's wrong with you?

Cody Akins (30:01)
Yeah.

Did you know it gets cold enough in Florida that the iguanas will freeze and they'll fall out of the trees and hit people?

Jonathan Wier (30:19)
That actually happened in Gainesville many times. Yeah. Yeah, it's hilarious. Actually, it's I've never saw it happen, but I think it's a hilarious thing. All right. Christian Episette says, and Cody, I'll let you lead with lead the answer on this one. What celebrity would you choose to fight if you win? You get all of their money.

Cody Akins (30:40)
no, Jonathan, you count as a celebrity? Okay.

Jonathan Wier (30:42)
No, no, no,

no. I mean, I was on, what was that celebrity? Famouspeople.famousbirthdays.com for a while. I was in the top like 30,000 most famous people in America, not anymore.

Cody Akins (30:58)
Dude, I don't think there's any celebrity that I could, I mean, cause you can't fight the women, cause you know, that looks bad as guys. But,

Jonathan Wier (31:10)
I don't know. It's

2025, man. I don't know.

Cody Akins (31:14)
well then dude I'm taking Ariana Grande because right now she looks like Skeletor and I'm thinking, you know... But Yeah, If it had to be any celebrity I'd say it'd probably have to be her because that's the one I think I got the best shot at.

Jonathan Wier (31:19)
You wouldn't beat that hard you can beat her. It's probably worth a lot of money. Yeah.

Hold on. I need to look up who this person is. You're fine. No, I'm gonna make it worse. you go. Hold on. Who is that actress? She's on Seinfeld. Jamie Gertz. I would fight Jamie Gertz. She was on Seinfeld. She was on an episode of Seinfeld where she wouldn't pass toilet paper to Elaine underneath the stall and she's like, I can't spare a square. I don't have a square to spare. And she...

Cody Akins (31:33)
I'm gonna get cancelled for that one, I'm sure.

Jonathan Wier (31:57)
also was in a bunch of movies and is not that famous anymore but certainly celebrity you'd recognize her if you saw she's also the richest actress in Hollywood because she married rich so

If I get all if it's just based on I get their money. Then Jamie Kurtz. Sorry, sorry, Jamie. I got kids to pay. I got kids to feed.

Cody Akins (32:15)
Now!

I'll go with the old age adage. Would you fight Mike Tyson for a million dollars? You don't even have to win. Would you? Like, would you help? Yeah, like.

Jonathan Wier (32:26)
I better not have to win. I don't even think I can beat Jamie Gertz. There's no way.

I don't know about you fighting Ariana Grande, Mr. 195.

Cody Akins (32:35)
It's like I'll take the Mike Tyson fight, you know, a million dollars and a free nap sign me up

Jonathan Wier (32:39)
Yeah, well,

sure. Yeah, except for, you know, the concussion and brain damage. You'll end up waking up talking like Mike Tyson, too. All right.

Gregory says, what is the dumbest way you've been hurt? I think we've discussed that or nauseam, I'll say the dumbest way I ever hurt myself was I was at a pool party in the eighth grade and I was kind of by myself. I was just like not really hanging out with anybody else. I saw a badminton racket and a tennis ball and I thought it'd be funny.

If I took the tennis ball and the bad minute racket and hit the ball into the pool and then hid, I don't know why I thought that'd be funny, but like the ball would come out of nowhere and hit somebody in the pool and they'd be like, what happened? And they would think God hates them and is raining tennis balls from the sky to punish them for their idolatry. I didn't manage to do that. And what ended up happening was I threw the ball up to myself. I went to swing it, missed.

and somehow angled the badman racket and it's important that it's a badman rack by the way because a tennis racket is perfectly like kind of more oval badman racket is more flat on the sides hit myself right in the left testicle like just

So what people saw was they weren't paying attention. Tennis ball rolled towards the pool and then it looked in the direction it came from and they saw me on the ground screaming in agony. And it hurt. It hurts so much like I look I've had I've had ball damage. I've been been kicked. I've been on dates. know not really. I've never dated anybody, but I.

I've definitely been kicked or hit in the balls by other things before.

Cody Akins (34:29)
as every guy has at one point and it's always funny yeah it's always funny when it's not you like if you see another guy get hit in the nuts you always gotta laugh

Jonathan Wier (34:31)
at some point, usually from another guy.

Yeah. it's hilarious.

you know, I just want to examine this. Do you think there's something about the testicles that makes your voice go up when they get kicked? do think you're in just so much pain?

Cody Akins (34:50)
Well,

I'm thinking from the immediate trauma, your body immediately shuts down all testosterone production. So you know, like, you get squeaky voice.

Jonathan Wier (34:58)
I maybe maybe that's it.

I I tend to think it's you're just in so much pain that you sound like Mickey Mouse so that would be the dumbest way that I've ever hurt myself because I thought it'd be like it was dumb to begin with like

Cody Akins (35:14)
So

the dumbest way I've hurt myself was back in the day there was this really cool thing called a mineral oil PC. Because mineral oil doesn't conduct electricity, you could use it to cool your computer, get rid of all your fans, and cool it in the oil. By the way, I will never build one ever again. This is the only one I ever built. I'll never build another one. If you ever get...

Jonathan Wier (35:27)
yeah, yeah, Yep.

Cody Akins (35:35)
I got a customs warning because when I ordered the mineral oil from Amazon it came in a five gallon bucket and it wasn't just labeled mineral oil it was food grade lubricant.

And for some reason that got flagged by custom, so I don't even know where that came from, but apparently outside of the US. Well anyways, there are parts of the mineral oil PC that cannot be submerged in the oil because of the moving parts that would cause the computer to deteriorate.

Jonathan Wier (35:54)
Mm-hmm.

Cody Akins (36:04)
So I put a glass divider inside this PC. So half of it was for where the oil would go. And then the other half would be for the parts that had to stay dry. And I just put the divider in. I put the glue in. And I left the radiator sitting on the floor. And I wasn't paying attention. I turned around and tripped. And I went right into the machine. And that shard of glass went right into my hand. I shattered the divider. And the glass went right on through.

Jonathan Wier (36:28)
Mmm.

Cody Akins (36:32)
And you can't really see it too much now, but there's a little bit of scar tissue still left on my thumb. But yeah, that was the dumbest way by being a slob and trying to build a unique PC that I will never ever build again, which by the way, it was built in the time it doesn't support Windows 11. So that machine's a paperweight in a couple of months. But yeah, that was the dumbest way. I waited for like a week for them to cut the glass for that divider. And then I tripped right into it and shattered it into a million pieces.

Jonathan Wier (36:45)
Yeah.

Mm.

It's amazing how much damage glass does and we just put up with it as a thing. Like, could replace it with plastic a long time ago and no. I have, can't probably see it too well. There's a scar on my finger here. I was holding a glass, it's like 15, 14 or 15 years old. was holding a glass and watching a football game. I believe it was actually the Rams versus the Saints and I was a Rams fan.

because the Chiefs weren't even in the playoffs. And I was holding the glass and it shattered in my hand. Like I didn't realize how upset I was, what was happening, and it shattered in my hand and yeah, dug in. So that's a football injury is what that is. That's a football. I injured myself while watching football. It's the same thing. Let's see, any more questions? Okay, a couple. Greg Jamieson says, is a hot dog a sandwich? Yes.

Cody Akins (37:54)
mean, we've had this argument before, but it's meat inside of an arch. It's a taco.

Jonathan Wier (37:55)
Yeah, yeah. Better question.

is a hot dog. If you could reanimate a hot dog, which animal would it be? That's if you bring it back to life. Which animal would it be? Would it oink? Would it moo? What would it do? Would it it make screechy noises like a raccoon?

Cody Akins (38:17)
I believe it depends on which manufacturer you get it from.

Jonathan Wier (39:53)
Yeah, I think they're all bad. Let's see. Cody Aikens said, now that Tyreek Hill realized that the money wasn't all it was cracked up to be, do want him back in Kansas City? No, he'll be back in 2026.

Cody Akins (40:07)
Now, I don't want him back, dude. I mean, first off, knock on wood, we've been undefeated in the playoffs since we got rid of him.

Jonathan Wier (40:09)
I don't.

I mean, we did win a Super

Bowl with him. It's not like he was the reason we weren't winning.

Cody Akins (40:18)
I know, but we've won two Super Bowls without him, statistically speaking, and we've lost one with him, so you know, I'm doing the math here. And, mean, that dude's turning into Antonio Brown 2.0.

Jonathan Wier (40:20)
Yeah.

True! That's a good point. Yeah.

I think

that give him another year and he would be perfect for the Chiefs as they are constituted now. He... Yeah, well, not only because of the money, but also because he'll be slower and will be more understanding of not being as needy. He won't be, like in two years, won't be as fast as... I he's not going to be Xavier Worthy out there, and Xavier Worthy will probably be a... He'll have... So three years from now, we could have Worthy, Rice, and Tyreek Hill on the team.

Cody Akins (40:40)
on the veterans minimum.

Jonathan Wier (41:00)
I would go for that. As long as Hill realizes he's not wide receiver one anymore. All right. Margaret Riley says do you think Mr. Kraft thinks she means Robert Kraft should have given coach Mayo another year. So if you don't know the Patriots fired their coach after he won a game and because he won the game is the reason he got fired.

Cody Akins (41:06)
Now.

Jonathan Wier (41:26)
Because winning the game cost him a draft pick. Or not, it didn't cost him a draft pick, but it cost him the number one draft pick, and they really wanted that. They wanted Brock Bowers, or not Brock Bowers, he's already got Travis Hunter, mean, Travis Hunter. So he could be with Drake May. Not gonna get that. And he blew it for him. And I think he deserved to be fired for it? Not, I don't think he deserved, I don't know how to put this.

It wasn't good for the team winning that game. I also don't know that he was trying that hard to win the game. Because you know, everybody's made such a huge deal about the Broncos beating the Chiefs. The Broncos are a playoff team who had their first string in for almost all of the game, right? Until like the very end. Yeah? The Patriots were playing their third string quarterback at one point. They weren't trying to win and they still beat the Bills.

So you tell me which is a more humiliating loss. Nobody's saying anything about the Bills trying to lose though. But he, I don't know if he could have done more to tank the game other than playing his third string quarterback. Like what else is he supposed to do? But if he did anything that cost him at draft pick, then yeah, he should be fired because that's not good for the team in the long run. And I know that's not good sportsman. That's not.

Cody Akins (42:26)
Bye!

Yeah.

Jonathan Wier (42:49)
you know, the American way where you should win at all costs. But it was a meaningless game. It gets you nothing to win it and it gets you a number one draft pick to lose it. A bigger question is this. Why the fuck do we have the system that we have in the NFL where a player and a team can play worse to improve? It's so stupid. That shouldn't happen.

What it should be is like what the NBA does, where the five worst teams in the league all get put into a lottery when it comes to draft time. You get put in a lottery, pull your number out, whichever number we pull out gets to pick first, second, third, fourth, and fifth. Make sense? Then they're not trying to lose at the end of the year. I also wish we would do what the Premier League does in England.

Cody Akins (43:41)
or

Jonathan Wier (43:45)
And if you suck, if you're the worst team in the league, if you're the Patriots, instead of getting rewarded with a draft pick so you can ruin a young man's life, we're relegating your ass. Guess what? We're going to take the best XFL team, bring them into the NFL, and then drop the worst NFL team down to the XFL. There. That's what they do in England. And it works great. They love it.

Cody Akins (44:08)
Yeah. Fight your way back.

Or, you know what, make it even crazier, the winner of the Super Bowl gets the first round pick. Gets the first pick. The Rich Nitricher!

Jonathan Wier (44:19)
So that they could never lose Yeah,

I mean I'd be I'd be fine with that. That's fine. Yeah No, I think the lottery system and then relegation I think that that's the part Should he be fired? Yeah, because that's the way the system is and he screwed up by winning the game Should have done everything he could to lose it and the crafts knew that on top of that He was gonna lose his job anyway, because they're gonna go with Mike variable

He's a former Patriot, was never a coach for the Patriots, but he is a former player. And they're going to want him to come in and fix the team. Hey, Cody, here's a question for you. And this is from Derek. It says, hey, Cody, if my computer keeps freezing, should I put it in the microwave to defrost it or is there a less expensive way to fix it? think they're making a joke there, Cody, about computers freezing and being cold. It is very cold outside, though.

Cody Akins (45:11)
Yeah.

Yeah,

yeah, no, the cheaper way to fix it would be bring it to me before you burn your house down. But there was a rumor that went around on the internet when the iPhone 7 came out, that when an iOS update came out and it activated wireless charging, and all you had to do is put your phone in the microwave, and people were doing it! And I'm like, yeah.

Jonathan Wier (45:19)
you

Good. No, good. Those people don't deserve to have phones. They don't deserve to be able to access communication 24 hours. If you're that dumb, then no, you don't deserve to have a phone anymore.

Cody Akins (45:48)
Yeah,

no, it's like the old age adage in the computer world. have this joke. It's like when Windows freezes, just throw water on it, you know, because it's cold outside. You want to defrost. Well, yeah, no, I threw water on it and the computer is way worse than it started.

Jonathan Wier (46:02)
Yeah. So how things going at Agants PC Repair there in Belton, Missouri there, Cody?

Cody Akins (46:08)
We are still getting settled in. Obviously, like the rest of Kansas City, we've been buried under 300 feet of snow. So that has slowed us down a little bit. But the work bench is up. We're starting to have customers come in. I had three people walk in today, man. It's the busiest.

Jonathan Wier (46:24)
That's more than I had at my store. Wow, congratulations. We had two. We had two.

Cody Akins (46:29)
busiest day I've had since the move so I was super excited about that. It's kind of funny because I was used to dealing with about 6 to 8 people a day and now I'm like woohoo I get 3 people!

Jonathan Wier (46:39)
Well, I'm glad to hear that business is bad everywhere.

Because if you're only getting three, that's pretty bad. You typically do better than that. And you should. You're the best PC repair dude in the entire Kansas City area. If not the world, I think. I mean, didn't mean anybody in Boston better than you. And MIT is right there. I probably could have. I just chose not to.

Cody Akins (46:54)
say the world

I'm just good at Google.

Jonathan Wier (47:01)
That's every IT person will tell you that. It's just 90 % of it is just Googling the answer and being... I think it's more than that though. I think it's also being patient.

Cody Akins (47:10)
Yeah, yeah, my job does require a lot of patience.

Jonathan Wier (47:10)
Yeah.

Because I'm

smart enough I could fix a lot of problems. I go to you because I don't have the patience to fix these problems.

Cody Akins (47:18)
.

Jonathan Wier (47:18)
So make my computer guy your computer guy. Go to Cody Aikens at AikensPCRepair.com. Alright, anything else you want to say there Cody?

Cody Akins (47:25)
I think we're pretty good. We do apologize for the for the live stream not being live tonight. know, Jonathan had a better computer guy maybe would have figured it out. Instead he was stuffing his face with people.

Jonathan Wier (47:29)
Yeah, I suck.

I

mean, you're good hardware guy. I think I need a social media guy. Yeah, Rebecca does that. Maybe I'll get Rebecca to fix my problems. Rebecca fixes a lot of my problems. Just talking to her makes me go, man, I don't have that many problems. Her life is way worse than mine. I'm just kidding. All right, that's it. Bye, everybody. Thanks for all the questions. Bye.

Cody Akins (47:42)
Meh.