Fat Chance Podcast - Superbowl Must Haves Ep.189

Episode Date: February 5, 2026

Back from Canada and ready for the Superbowl!

Just comfort in between you? Oh, I'm full of comfort. Just full of it. The only thing I don't have comfort on is the bare feet. Does comfort make socks? Should we? I bet they do. Actually, I don't know if they do.

I mean, comfort socks would be pretty comfy. I think that would be pretty fun. There you are, dude. Anytime I have to do something, you come to annoy. Come on up. come on up yeah he knows he knows it's ready though are you do you feel like you have to whisper now that you're in the kitchen yeah definitely do uh also i think it's just very funny because like uh you you know and now the viewers know that we just get done with whiffle and um it it's always

just like a hassle to uh say goodbye to friends oh yeah yeah In the Midwest, yeah. Dude, it is rough, especially like a lot of friends because, I mean, you know, but like a lot of my friends have kids or, you know, have kids on the way or anything of that. So it's like when they're out without their kids, they know it's a different type of like. I'm milking this for every minute I can get. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. They're like, oh, you're leaving?

And you don't have kids? You don't need to leave. You know, it's like that sort of situation, which is very. funny to me. They know the minute you're leaving too. It's like, fuck, I probably should have left 45 minutes ago. Yeah. But how you been, man? I haven't seen you in a bit. How's life? We've been busy. Life's been good. I just got back from Canada last night. Yeah, I'm officially a Canadian now. This actually, I actually, you know what? I'm lying to you. I'm still in Canada. I left. I went to

Whistler, went to Vancouver, up to Whistler. I have a new annual ski trip because, you know, that's what I need in my life is another event to add to the calendar this year. Yeah, you definitely need that. It's a great time.

This is one of my favorite trips of the year. Beautiful, absolutely beautiful. One of the few times I've made an extended, like, drive, which I would consider like two hours an extended drive to get somewhere from Vancouver to Whistler. I couldn't have cared less. Could have been four hours.

It was so cool. Just along the coast, it was absolutely gorgeous. Skied for three days, was there for a total of five. And this is one of the few vacations in my life. And this is how I know I think I'm getting older too, that I got more sleep on vacation than I do back here in the States. Yeah, I mean, skiing takes a lot out of you. So you got to, you know.

But Whistler, It's known for it as like an operate town too. So a lot of partying, definitely. I don't know what's operating mean. After. It's like an A bar kind of thing. So definitely a lot of operate opportunities. And we took advantage of it for sure one night.

We took advantage of it leading up to, I mean, like after skiing and do a while. Then you just, you kind of burn out after a while and you're like, I'm tired. And let's go back. Let's chill. I've had enough to drink. And let's go to bed.

It was great. I mean, I was in bed. I didn't go to bed after midnight once. That might be a lot. Maybe once. I don't know. But it was beautiful. How was the skiing was beautiful?

The views were great. Yeah, it was good conditions for the most part. We got snow every time we went out. Whistler has like the highest, I could be talking out my ass, but one of the highest peak to base, like elevation differences. So it may not be actually like the highest elevation mountain you can do, but the distance from top to bottom is one of the greatest. And so it rained and it was like 40 degrees the entire time we were there at the base,

pretty comfortable. It didn't have to bundle up, just sweatshirt, maybe a hat. But then you go to the top and it's snow's coming down, which is really cool. So we kind of got the best of both worlds where like you could operate and hang out and not be super cold. You're not freezing in between bars or anything like that. And then when you're actually skiing, it's like, we're getting a fresh powder.

I'm bebopping around the mountain, and it's a massive mountain. So it was definitely one of my best trips I've ever been on. This might be a new thing to ask because I've never been skiing. But do you listen to music while you ski? Oh, see, I used to. I used to. Back in the day, when the corded headphones were a thing.

Yeah. And they still are. But when my, the last iPhone I was able to do it with, it had the lightning cable. I had lightning headphones. The minute I upgraded my phone, I lost that capability because I'm not, there's not a chance in hell. I'm wearing AirPods on the mountain. You lose one of those. It's gone forever.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Fair enough. But I wish. I should just get the headphones that go in there because it is kind of nice. You get a nice longer run. Nothing too crazy. you put on a few of your favorite songs.

You're just... Yeah. Yeah, for me here, I obviously didn't go skiing. I didn't do any of that. I went to Upper Michigan. It was very funny because I had these Upper Michigan shows at the casinos, which, yeah, casino shows are very different than... A bar show.

Yeah. Or just any show. Yeah. You never know what you're going to get. And the audience usually is on the older... side. So I did, I did Hoddies only casino casino casino

and the hotties only show went so well. I was like, oh, it was a blast. And then it was casino casino and then the first night was great and I was like oh, word is running over it. We have a great weekend and then each show got equally worse hours. And by Sunday

I'm like, get me out of here. Like this casino is taking my I, you've, it was just. That's got to be tough because, like, if you have, like, one really good show, what do you want? You have one really good show and you're like, all right, this can be a good weekend. And you have a bad one. And you're like, you know what, maybe a rough crowd.

We'll bounce back. Was that, is your cat meowing? That is, yeah, Mr. Toulouse here. Okay. Look at that. Look at us cat daddies. But then you just don't bounce back and you're like, dude. Oh, fuck.

It was, uh, I. I was with Nathan Timmel, one of the comedians. And after our Sunday show, he looks at me, he goes, I hate everything about this crowd, the entire crowd. And it wasn't like it wasn't full. It was full. And they were just dead silent. And then they came after her, and they're like,

we had a great time. Like, really? Did you? I feel like the people at a casino show, they're there just to keep themselves from losing more money. So they're already in a bad mood. They're like, I need a break. Let's go maybe lighten my day.

And then if it's not to their level, like I lost a grand and the schmuck is talking at me for the next 20 minutes. Yes, it was a while. But I did do, it was very funny because we had two casinos. So we had a Friday casino, which was different than Saturday Sunday. And on Friday Saturday at the second casino, we would go, Jeff Fox was there. Oh. So it was packed with people to go see Jeff Foxworthy.

And then you guys in like the bathroom. Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. So it was so funny to like see the floor was crazy. And I was like, I'm not going to go down to a casino. And then a buddy's mine who we know we won't name on here. I was like, I'm bored at this casino. We got nothing to do, but Jeff Foxworthy's here. So I'm like the floor's back.

They're like, just go down and put $100 on black. Will Benmo you $100 right now? All right, $100, I'll put it on black. Couldn't get on the floor because there was so many people. And I had to wait my turn. And finally, after like 30 minutes of waiting my turn, is my time to be on the electric table or the roulette table. And when I got on there, literally seven reds in a row.

So I was like, all right, $100 on black, hit right away. Both of them, like, that'll be $200. So I put $200 on black, boom, hit right away, $400. I cut off the tape right away. Oh, I'm getting off immediately. I'm like, all right, I'm good. I'm like, boys, you just doubled your money right away. Yeah, so that was fun.

The way had that, and then last week was, Uh, one liner madness. Yeah, how'd that go? How did that go? Because I did look over some of your jokes. Uh, I got third place. Third place. Three place.

Uh, six, four. Yeah, I won my bracket. Um, they kind of, it's like March Manist style. So they have four like different brackets, but it's 64 comedians. Oh, this is a one liner madness, not the one joke. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was one liner madness. Um, and, uh, the, the, the, so basically your decision.

in your bracket. You have your, and I looked at my bracket and I was like, all right, the hardest person, the person that I'm in like Barron's, John Barron's and Sam Barronies and Maddie Fields.

I'm just like, all right, the hardest person, the person that is, this is set up for and probably besides John Barron, who does the one-liners, is Sam Barrony.

I was like, oh, Sam's going to be good at this. Yeah. The other brackets were tougher. I would say it. They had like Elijah and AJ were in the same. and like Rachel Maxen one.

That's a tough one. There's a lot of good comedians in this. That's he day. Yeah, yeah. So my one, I was going to face Sam this second round. I was like, all right, just wait, just save my best truck for Sam. That was all I worry about. So then we get on stage in the first one, the lady I'm going against didn't have a one letter.

She had at least four to five lines. of her joke. She gave like a full story. She literally got a whistle blown on her and was like, oh, yep, that doesn't count. They're disqualified. So I'm like, all right, well, I guess I just passed the first round by default.

I still said a joke. It's a good joke that was a head butt. But, yeah, that was very funny. And then I go on against Sam the next round. And I beat Sam. Then I go against Manny Fields, beat Manny Fields. Then I go against John Bairns, beat John Burns. Then I get into the next round,

It's me versus Rachel Mac. And I had a good joke, but Rachel had such a killer joke. Yeah. She lights out. Yeah. And so then it was her versus Breanne, who I don't really know. She's from Madison. And the last joke that Rachel did, she didn't finish the tagline.

It was like one of her jokes from her set that she didn't finish because she thought it would be too long. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. So I was like, oh, okay. But, yeah, so Brian had a more solid joke, which is fun. But yeah, Breyan won. So Rachel got second, and then me and Chris Schmidt were third and fourth. So, yeah.

So Brian won the whole thing. Brian won the whole thing. Then Rachel Macdon, me and Chris Schmidt were in the consolation. The Chris Schmidt makes sense to me like that. Oh, yeah. You kind of assume he's going to be top. five no matter what yeah yeah he's built for that he's built for i would i thought like there's so many people that are just built for one-liners like evan pack and and uh that's what they do like

elijah's very good you know like um people with the longer stories i'm like yeah it's not it's not it's not it's a you can be a so great comedian and not do well like ryan mason was out the first round by a guy who does open mics like it was wild um yeah Because it's just not what he does. It's not his domain. My dad sent me the, like, poster forward. He goes, you should come back home and make it 65. And I was like, I think that would ruin the format.

But it was interesting because people from Annas, we had people from Chicago. We didn't have it all from Milwaukee. But it was really cool to see a lot of the comedians. I was like, you guys aren't booked right now? What are you doing? Because of Friday night. But yeah, we had a lot of fun.

I was very happy with what I did. A third place is great. Yeah, I was worried. Bragging rights? No, I mean, I got money. The winner got money. Like, everyone in that place, they got money. Oh, really?

Yeah, yeah. So it was at least worth our time. And we also got head shots out of it. Oh, who did the head shots? Some guy, I don't know. Some guy, yeah. Like me, it was funny because, no, it wasn't Diego. me and Dana Airman

kind of got headshots right back to back and the guy took so many pictures to the point where I looked at Dana and she goes I hope he doesn't use any of them like literally he took 70 of them I hope he used none of them you know

but yeah that was fun and we wiffled tonight and we won so yeah how's my team doing we are four and three, I think, four and three. Oh, man. When I was there, we didn't lose.

We, so we lost three, two in a row, two off the bat, and then one, one, and then lost another one. All by one run, all by walk-offs. That's tough. That's tough. Yeah, yeah. But we are, it's very funny because, like, we don't have everyone every week.

So it's like, last week was, me, T.P. Josh and Ev, who Ev's a sub. And we were, like, facing people that are, like, there every week. And they're like, you guys have a different team every week. I'll like, yeah, we'll see who shows up this week. And this week we had better this week. It's hard when you're getting older, especially when you mentioned,

like you have kids. You have, like your kids are expected. Kids just came. Like, hey, I have to prioritize the child that's either growing or here now over playing withle ball on the back of. a brewery with my aging friends. Like, it's real tough. And, I mean, in general, those leagues are tough.

I think those are meant for, like, definitely right out of college. And not meant for, but, like, you're going to have your team together more often than not for the kids that are right after college. Are you doing anything for the Zerbo? I, well, I just started thinking about it again today. I think I'm going to try and invite some people. We had people over last year. might just keep it casual. This is one of my,

I looked at my calendar for the next three weeks, three months. I have three available weekends and I'm considering this one of them and that's just because I have Sunday free. The thing you should do, if you have a party

and my buddy dog does a great job. Super Bowl game? I'll be all ears. Dude, so this is what I want you to do, print out like a Super Bowl trivia for everyone to do during the half time. And it's just $5 in, whoever winner takes all sort of situation.

And then do print out before the game, do a prop bet thing for $5 as well. And it's like crazy prop bets. He doesn't do anything for the game, sure. But also it's like National Anthem. Will the Super Bowl halftime show, how many performers have it over under one and a half, you know,

just a bunch of crazy stuff of like, what's the Gatorade color? It is so much fun to do that. Yeah, just put, just like, literally print that off. Yeah, and everyone can sign it out $5 a piece and literally

winner takes all. It is, it keeps everyone engaged and it's also like so much fun for people, A, not wanting to watch the Super Bowl and also like, doesn't care. It's nothing about the actual like football game and like, oh, how many first downs are they going to get around there? It's just like all the crazy.

The weird things. Yeah, it's all legit prop bets that you would do too. Is there a streaker this year, over under? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, exactly, exactly. Yeah, all this crazy stuff, which is a lot of fun. So we go to Dougie's first. The Super Bowl is, I think it's definitely because I like football the best, but it's,

and because it's one game. Like the best of, unless my team's in it, the best is seven, C, or, Best of Fah, all that. You're not going to get my full attention for every game. You're not. But you're going to get my undivized. No matter who's in it, I'm going to be, I'm in to the Super Bowl. It's a fun little get together.

And it's also the commercials are great. They're going downhill. If they wouldn't like just have it all like leaked online, if they wouldn't like try to do. Yeah, but you still try to watch them. There's not a point where you're like, you know. So it's a good get together. And like you said, your team isn't in it. So you just want to be engaged in some certain aspect of whether it's the halftime show

or other you're just watching it for shits and gigs and stuff. So who are you rooting for? I'm going to be rooting for the Seahawks. I am too. I think, I think Sam Donald would be a good story to win a one. Great story. And I j-s-send on my fantasy football team, so I think that's the only other reason. Do you think three years ago someone told you Sam Darnold would have a Super Bowl before Josh Allen, you would have taken them seriously?

I saw a very funny tweet that said, if Sam Darnold stops the Patriots from getting a Super Bowl trophy, then the Jets picking him third overall. was worth it. Yeah, I'm fine with that. Like the Jets hates the Patriots so much that, like, if anything, of them picking San Donald. Yeah, it's very funny. I mean, the fact that this guy was on the Vikings last year,

and they were like, yeah, we don't want him. Wild. But also, I'll be the first to admit. We won 13 games? We don't want this guy. I'll be the first to admit. I didn't think you would go as well as it is going right now. The Seahawks.

I thought they might do another, like, 13 win, 12 win season, win a game in the playoffs, bounce. But, I mean, they, they're strong. I think their defense is great, but also I think the Vikings could have used him. Oh, my God, yeah. Oh, because my favorite thing when the Seahawks won the NFC championship, my like Packers only, like the owner's only group chat I'm in, just all they just started sending memes of McCarthy just like the the one he's in the locker room flexing yeah they're all just like no which is hysterical knowing that you chose that over the super bowl quarterback yeah yeah it's very funny so um but yeah what uh what are you um what

what what super bowl party we got the i like the betting i think it should be interactive if you're not just watching the game. Spread. I think the spread is super important. You can't just go in and have nothing for a game, even if your team's not in it. Give me an ideal spread that covers all the bases. Not overboard, an ideal spread, 10 people.

Shoot, hit me. So what we're doing is we get, so this year's halftime show is Bad Bunny. Yeah. So we're doing, a taco bar Mondellos and Churros

and having a full-on Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we're going to have a full-on party like that. I think it's going to be great. We did throw around at first. We tried to do

the Super Bowl, S-O-U-P-R-Bull. And then everyone bring their favorite soup. but someone else threw in the Mondellos, Chiro's, Taco Bar, and they're like, oh, yeah, it's great. Let's have, let's do that. Are you putting an N in Modelo?

Mondello? Modelo. Modelo. What am I saying? You're saying Mondello, like, there's an N in it, like Monday L. Mandela. Oh, Madello. Okay, so, all right, you have tacos, you have churros, so you're doing.

Yeah, what are you doing for yours? I don't know. That's what I'm asking. It's like, all right, let's say you don't have a theme party. Your football spread. Ten people. What's on the menu here? A lot of dips and chips.

I love a good potluck. I mean, it's just like. It's the Midwest in us. Dude, yeah. Like put something on the crock pot until meatballs or like I'm good with a bacon wrap weaners. I mean. Oh, the cocktail weaners. pigs in a blanket, the barbecue

meatballs, just get something out of the frozen section, put it in the crock pot, crescent rolls, a buffalo chicken dip, you go chips and salsa, but like if you're the guy, I'm going to be honest, the worst guy

at a part, you can't just bring Totino's scoops and a jar of Totino's salsa. You can't be that guy. Because guess what? That jar of salsa just got donated to whoever, is hosting the party. No one's opening that salsa up.

You'll open like one of those gourmet salsa up. You get from maybe Sendix or the nicer grocery. Like, yeah, we'll crack that open. It's just a seal. Uh-uh. I see that warm jar of salsa and Totino's scoops. I'm out. That scoops will get open for buffalo chicken dip.

It is not getting open for canned salsa. Yeah, scoops are wild. Scoops are wild. I mean, I'm big with some spinach and art choke dip. I love a good spin dip. you know so that's always big there's one from trader joes you can get it's very good like the number one thing for trader joes for

condiments but yeah I mean I think that the biggest thing is just just having go all out for the Super Bowl go have fun just just make it an event and how blast that's what I say that should be life put in some effort

you half ass everything you're never going to really like it if you put in an effort for Halloween. You put an effort for Christmas. You put an effort for Thanksgiving. The Super Bowl, Valentine's Day, President's Day, MLK Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Arbor Day, Earth Day. You know, you name it. You're going to have fun. You're going to look forward to so many more days out of the year.

You made a very good point. And in life, and this is a great way to end it. In life, never half-asset, if anything, full asset. Full asset. If you could take anything from this podcast, full ass.

I think we renamed this to the full ass podcast. Full ass. Full ass it. We're done half ass in this. I'm going to edit every one of these clips now. I like it.

Name change. Name change to the full ass podcast. Well, a good reband. That's good. Clap it on a three one two two three