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Here we go Jim. Todays! Billy.

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Yeah. Mikey

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A. was more excited for Eddie Jackson,

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who is going to join us on

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this episode of Stupodity, than

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any guest I can recall Mikey

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A. ever being excited for because

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Christmas cookies. It's true.

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It is, right? It's true. It was

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a weird reaction from him, right? Yes,

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he was very excited. So Eddie Jackson is

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the host of Christmas Cookie Challenge. The finale

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is coming out Thursday, December 21st. So

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tomorrow is the finale for the Christmas

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Cookie Challenge. Yes. And Mikey was very

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excited about this. He

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responded immediately. Billy usually sends out, hey, thinking about

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getting Eddie Jackson on. This is when I said,

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hey, I booked Eddie Jackson. We're going to do

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Christmas Cookie Challenge. We're going to do it the

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last week. Not knowing if I was interested, but

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you did that with Mikey A. and yourself in

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mind, correct? I did it because I thought that

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this was going to be a great episode, headed

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into the holidays. We're going to be on break

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next week. So this is our final episode of

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the year, headed into the new year, headed into Christmas, the

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holidays, all of that. I said, you know what? Let's talk about it. about

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Christmas cookies with Eddie Jackson. And

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you know, I wondered if

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me just deciding this is happening because normally it's

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like more of a conversation. I was like, this

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is happening. And Mikey bought in. It's

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the quickest he's ever responded to anything ever. I

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loved it. There was no asking. Billy just said

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we're having Eddie Jackson on. You

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love the holidays. Are you ready for the

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holidays? I am, but

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I'm not. What does that

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mean? Like I finished

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up my shopping early. Yes.

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But I think I've told you and I've told the

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audience a couple of times already. Now it's like tinker

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season. So now is like, I'm looking at

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the gifts, but I'm like, I could add a

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little more. Right. I mean, I was going to

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give you specific examples, but I'm worried that the

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people that I'm giving the gifts to may hear

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this. I doubt that they will. Right. But I

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was thinking there's an off-campus people. I mean, just

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that I can't tell you, because then if they

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do hear this, then they're like, Oh, so like,

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right, the gift that you got me, because here's

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the thing. I haven't finished the tinkering yet. So

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if I say the name of the person, then

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they get the gift and it's just the thing. Then

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they're like, Oh, so I guess you didn't go back

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and you didn't, you know, take you didn't add on

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a little bit extra. Because now it's just about adding

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on a little bit extra. Can you explain the tinkering

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though? You look at the gift, you say this gift

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is not enough. You went out, you purchase a gift.

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You say this gift is not enough for this particular

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person. So what I'm going to do is

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tinker with a gift and maybe add a little something

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to it. Is that, is that what you're saying? Yeah.

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So I have like a, um,

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I will make a list of all the

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names of all the people that I

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need to get things for. And I did

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it like, I think I did a Thanksgiving day. And I

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was like, these are people that I'm going to look for

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stuff on black Friday, on cyber Monday, whatever. So I have

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all the lists. And then of course what happens is then

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people get added to the list. Cause it's like, Oh, this

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person has a kid and that person has a kid and

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you get this person to get from that person to get.

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And then I also am like, I

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don't know how I managed to

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do this, but everyone in my

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life managed to be born in

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November, December, or. like the first

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week of January. So every single person, almost

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every single person, I have to get something for,

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I have to get two things

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for. I have to get a birthday present. A

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birthday gift and a holiday gift. Exactly right. And

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then I need to decide. Annoying. It kind of

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is because I... I would tell them they're only

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getting one, that's it. Oh no, that's not, no,

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that's not the way that it goes. But I

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have to then think of two things for everyone

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and then I also have to think, well, does

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this, is this feel more like a Christmas gift

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or a birthday gift? Does this person care more

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about like something on Christmas or holiday time or

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do they care more about their birthday? And then

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I need to play a game where I'm trying

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to guess what people care about more in terms

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of receiving gifts when in reality it's like, you're

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going to get these gifts two weeks apart from

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each other. It doesn't really matter all that much.

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Do you like go a little bit less on

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one gift, a little bit more on the other

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gift? Like my dad's, so my dad's birthday is

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right around father's debt. And so we just

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get him one gift. Yeah, no,

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that's not, no, I can't do that. I have

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to get the two, I have to get the

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two gifts. Okay. And then like here's, so my

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wife is one of the people that I have

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to get. But do you go more on the

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birthday or more on the holiday gift? It depends

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on the person. It depends on the person. Right.

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You're a great reader of people. You know what

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people want. I don't know. That's why it's very

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difficult. So like my wife is one of the

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people and her birthday was December 7th and then

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she also has, you know, Christmas coming up. So

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I went and I was

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like... I would load up twice for her. I'm

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just, just looking to see if... No, I know,

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but what I did was I went and I

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just started buying things. And I went around the

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mall and I was just buying things at the

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mall. That's very unlike you. And then I had

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a trunk... Your mid frugal. The trunk of my

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car. No, no, no. I'm a good ear faver.

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I mean, you're always looking for deals and stuff.

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Yeah, but no. Yes, I am always looking for

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deals, but I'm getting people things at a good

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price. Fair enough. That's

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what I do. Okay. So anyways,

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I went and just started buying things and then

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I had the stress of, well, why do I

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decide if this is for Christmas or

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if this is for a

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birthday? Right. work

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well together but I can't give

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everything for the birthday because then I'm in the

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exact same boat that I'm in for Christmas. And

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by the way, and this is just a secret

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between me and you and GQ and our audience.

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Got it. I'm in

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a predicament right now that I can't reveal

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until after Christmas because it has something to

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do with the Christmas present that I purchased.

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Okay. And I can't give any

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more information. So you're teasing a predicament that you

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can't tell us about until after the new year?

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So I'm in a predicament that is

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partially Tony's fault but

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is not Tony's fault because it's based on a

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conversation that I had with Tony. Right. And

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I'm trying to resolve said predicament. Sure.

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But I can't reveal the specifics of

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the predicament yet because the predicament involves

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a gift for Christmas. But

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once that predicament is revealed and

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once it's for my wife's gift for

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Christmas. Got it. So I

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can tell her what is going on.

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She's going to tell me you're an idiot and

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she's going to be mad at me for being

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in this predicament. Okay. Okay, guys. That's

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a daily occurrence though I mean. Guys do we all

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promise to not talk to my wife between now and

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Christmas? I haven't spoken

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to your wife in five years. Okay, good. GQ

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do you promise to none? I promise. Okay,

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audience. GQ this is a big test

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of your commitment to this show. And

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friendship and loyalty. And friendship, loyalty, all of it,

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right. Same with you because I can tell you

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I can tell you I can

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vaguely paint with a broad

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brush the predicament that I'm in. Okay.

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Yeah. I bought my wife

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tickets for something. And

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then I remembered thanks

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to our good friends at game time. Yeah.

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That I had credit on game time. So

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then I went and I found better seats for

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cheaper on game time. So I

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went and I bought the tickets for the same event I

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had already bought tickets for on game time. And

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now I need to unload the first tickets that I

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bought. And there isn't the demand

7:54

for this event that I thought there was going

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to be. So I Almost

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immediately was like. Are you going

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to lose money on it is physically as of

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yet less than what you pay for Him The

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air is almost one hundred and twenty percent chance

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that I'm going to get less than I paid

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for on the other side and trying to unload

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the tickets when I have to set of tickets

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to the same event and when I did it

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out I thought I was smiles like to they

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got them is like a priest or the time

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like on men's going to be like in the

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Manatee to them and put you back about your

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credit And then I went to games as I

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thought city right I know and I thought I

8:27

needed specifically to be in on this presale. And

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then I went. To games ominous on the tickets for cheaper

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and I was like of in a nearby these and I'm

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just gonna. Resell. The other

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ones and I remember Tony was running around

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is a bad bunny. I bought seventeen bears

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tickets and resell them on or be able

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to pay for my house and buy a

8:44

boat and old as like okay like I

8:46

could risk of for for two tickets right

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ear and now we're like. A

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month in and these things have moved for

8:53

and like I I basically and not lakes

8:55

the price of a have them set for.

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Is. Not even a profit. I'm like

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just. As. Their season everything when

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you go round are you got this

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right right? Five percent loss, but you'll

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be happy with that. Even.

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That are light So I just give

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them the someone else and I love

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and then like August and visit what

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will end up being a very expensive

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present for them as opposed to paying

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for a half of a stranger's night

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out at this fun event. Your name

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is this just too expensive? Too valuable

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to be, You know? I guess. A

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tinkering gift is way too much for tinkering. Gave

9:30

the gifts on it's own it's to gifts on

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it's a rip off was as you said before

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like I'm a frugal person so for me I

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see the runway you know how serves and my

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eyes like a cartoon like to that is hop

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out of my head as I feel bad about

9:43

saying that because you know frugal you just looking

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for best deal I love a good deal. more

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like it's mostly right around now right and be

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up there. Be a man and a lot of

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money offered to right outside Eight when I was.

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You know your wife is when I had an

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exam. So now the bad boy when I started.

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with my list i I had a

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list and I have and I need to get

10:03

rid of it because it's like too detailed. But

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I have a Word document on my

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wife's computer with like everyone that we were getting gifts

10:09

for what it is that we got them. And

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then like a green thing if it was like purchased or

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there was like another color code if it was like it

10:16

was like been ordered but it hasn't been received. Just

10:18

because when you start shopping that early you forget about

10:21

things inevitably because it because it's like well I bought

10:23

this like a month and a half ago and then

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all of a sudden you're like oh crap. So I

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made a list so that I wouldn't lose the things

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and I have them like in a specific area and

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then my hope is when I'm going to wrap them

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I can just go down the list and I was

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like that way I won't lose anything or forget anything

10:38

or I won't go and buy more things and tinker

10:40

more because I'm like why did I get that person.

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I forgot and I was like oh I already bought

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them a gift. So you're giving track. I was keeping

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track and when I started keeping track I was putting

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what I paid for it so that I could like

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go back and be like I paid $20 less on

10:52

Amazon or whatever right. Like God I'm so smart what

10:54

a good deal. You're crazy. And then like three gifts

10:56

in I was like I don't even want to know.

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I just can't keep track of this because I will

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have a heart attack if I see what my tinkering

11:02

has done to me. All right what'd you get me.

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I can't tell you. It's not time yet.

11:06

You didn't get me anything. Maybe you'll end up going to

11:08

a concert you don't want to go to. Depends if I

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get someone to fight or not. What'd

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you get Chris Sims? Here's

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something can I. So let me tell

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you something about Chris Sims. Okay. So like

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Chris Sims obviously does God bless football with

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us every week. Right. Yeah.

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So I have been talking with

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Chris and who works here at the office about

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sending gifts to everyone on God

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bless football. We've been having conversations and going back

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and forth. I collected a number of addresses all

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this stuff. I asked you to get

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one address and it was Chris Sims address and I

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still don't have it. I do have

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it. So the answer is I don't

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think Chris Sims is getting anything because Chris Sims

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I never got Chris Sims address. I got every I

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got my goal. Chris address. I

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got K. Fung's address. I got

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Cher Bears address. I got Gordy

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Grunkowski's address. What are you sending Gordy?

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I mean, the guy has everything. Here's the

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funny thing about Gordy. And the guy's bridges.

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When it was sent to me, Gordy

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included United States of America in the mailing

12:10

address. So we make sure to send it

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to the US. But

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I got everyone else's address. I was just like, can

12:18

you ask Chris Sims? Because I feel weird asking people

12:20

for their ad. I guess Carl Douglas, hey, can you

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send me your address? And that's a

12:24

weird conversation to have with someone. Because then they start like,

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at this time, you're like, I guess maybe they'll send me something. And

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then in the back of my head. Well, I know why you're asking

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right now. I know. But also in the back of my head, I'm

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like, god, I hope we follow through

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with sending these gifts. Because if not, I ask

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them, Miss Adjutant, I look like just a giant

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jerk for asking them their address. Then they expect

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something. And then it's nothing. And at the time,

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it was like, should we send them bottles of

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something? And then we've had conversations. And Gordy said

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he wasn't drinking at the time. And then Carl

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said that he hadn't been drunk in

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20 years. So then it's like, oh,

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man, am I possibly opening

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a portal that I don't want to open by sending

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these things? So then I had to awkwardly, you

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weren't there last week, but I awkwardly tried to bring it

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up when we were talking to them. And

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I was like, so do you guys drink?

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And then they're like, well. Who's in recovery?

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Well, I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure. And it

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was actually a conversation that I had with Kristin,

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where Kristin's like, do you know if anyone

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has a drinking problem? Because maybe we don't want it. And

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I'm like, that's a weird question. And I was like, but

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I don't know. So now I need to find a way

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to figure that out. And then we found

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out that you can't mail alcohol across state

13:30

lines. So that built us out of that

13:32

predicament altogether. Even though I told her, sometimes,

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let's put something in a box. And they say, what's

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in this box? You're like a teddy bear. And

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then it gets there. You know what I mean?

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Not that I would ever suggest that. I'm just

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saying I've heard of some people doing such things.

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Not me. I would never, but I've heard of

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it. I don't need confirmation to tell you that

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K-Funk has a drinking problem. So does Gorny Grinkowski.

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No, he was, well, I got an update yesterday.

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But he was going to be sober until New

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Year's Eve. I may have got

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in that outfit yesterday on that one. I do

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have Sims's address for you, by the way. I

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did ask him for it. He sent it to

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me and I never said to be here. Okay,

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well let's give it to Chris and after this.

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Also, hey, how- It's the house right next to

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Adam Silver's, not a fence. Yeah, that's not an

14:16

address. Okay, what were you gonna say? Christmas cookie

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challenge. Yes, yeah, you like Christmas cookies? I do.

14:21

Do you bake at all? I do bake. I'm

14:23

a good baker. Let's play a game, you

14:25

and I. Yes. And GQ, if you

14:27

want to play this to an audience, if you want. You know

14:30

what? This is where we're gonna do audience participation. When you hear

14:32

this, I want

14:34

you to tweet at myself and

14:36

at StuGots. I want you to go. I want you to step

14:38

on a scale today. Tweet at me and

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at StuGots your weight. So put whatever it is, 135 pounds,

14:42

if there's anyone that weighs 135 pounds out there, that's listening

14:46

to us. Just tweet us your weight and

14:48

then in two weeks, when we come back

14:50

or a week, whatever it is, when we

14:52

come back from break on our next episode

14:54

of StuPawdity, we will then weigh ourselves again

14:56

and see how much weight we've all gained

14:58

collectively. So

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what do we have to do now? Now we're

15:03

just tossing it to Eddie Jackson. We're gonna talk about the Christmas

15:05

cookie challenge. I thought you wanted that weight. I mean... No,

15:08

no, no, no. So people, you send us your weights. StuGots,

15:10

when you get home, you take a picture of the scale.

15:12

I have to tweet it to you? Yeah, show me your

15:14

weight or you can take a picture of the scale. Can

15:16

I just text you my weight? Yeah, whatever it is. But

15:18

let's all just document our weight and then let's see what

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we're at, like a week and a half from now or

15:22

whatever, when we come back. Because this is the time of

15:24

the year we're putting out some LBs. All right. So Eddie

15:26

Jackson is a host on the Food Network and

15:28

he also used to play in the NFL. And

15:31

so because we taped this, okay, I

15:33

will tell you that up front, it was

15:35

a surprise to me and I think the

15:37

Billy and to Mikey A that he provided

15:39

us not only with great insight on Christmas

15:42

and holiday cookies, but also a

15:44

great Tom Brady story. I'm super

15:46

excited. Let's get to Eddie Jackson. Eddie

15:51

Jackson's gonna join us. He's a former

15:53

NFL player. He's a TV host for

15:55

the Food Network, but he has a

15:57

show, the Christmas Cookie Challenge, going on

15:59

right now. How excited are you for

16:01

that, Billy? I'm very excited. I

16:03

like Christmas. I like cookies. I like baking shows.

16:06

I feel like this is the perfect show. It

16:09

does. It sounds like the perfect show. Addy, tell us about it

16:11

because it sounds amazing. Well,

16:13

you know, I've been, we've been doing this

16:16

show for a while now, many seasons. Me

16:18

and Reeve work really well together. But the premise of

16:20

the show is we bring these amazing cookie makers from

16:23

all over the country. And they come

16:25

in and they compete for a chance to win

16:27

$10,000. And we come up

16:29

with all these crazy challenges every week

16:31

from making their own automobile out of

16:33

cookies to gingerbread houses to

16:36

dioramas, like anything you can think of.

16:38

There's just wacky that you can make

16:40

out of cookies. We do it. Where

16:43

did your passion for cooking and food, where did that come from,

16:45

Eddie? Well, with

16:47

me, I grew up, both my grandmothers were chefs.

16:50

So my mom, my mom's side and my dad's side.

16:52

So I grew up around food. So all I knew

16:54

was sports and food at a very young age. And so

16:56

once I was forced to retire from football, I was

16:58

like, what else can I do now? Let me find

17:00

something to do with food. Which

17:03

one do you love more, sports

17:05

or food? That's hard. That is

17:08

hard. You know, sports is obviously

17:10

my first love. But, you know, once

17:12

that was done and I had to move

17:14

on to a different chapter in my life, I had to go

17:16

right into food. That's the only other thing I love to do.

17:19

So I figured out a way to get it done. What's

17:21

more difficult, football or cooking? Cooking. Really?

17:25

Football came easy. Football came

17:27

easy. Cooking is, you

17:29

know, especially when you're talking about baking.

17:31

Baking is a science. Right.

17:35

Wait, Billy, why are you saying yup? Like you're an expert

17:37

on the ego. What are you doing? No, he's right. I'm

17:40

more interested, Eddie. How much weight did you gain

17:42

while hosting a cooking show? Especially a cooking show

17:44

about cookies. No, you know what?

17:46

It's funny that you say that because I get

17:48

this question a lot. I

17:51

am the same exact weight that I was when I

17:53

played professional football. Get out of here. 200

17:55

pounds. 600. What? Yep.

17:59

You host a cooking show. You're eating cookies. Well,

18:01

that's because I'm in a gym. Yeah.

18:04

Oh, okay. Right? But,

18:08

Billy, why were you agreeing with him? Like you're some

18:10

sort of expert. Which one was more difficult? You've never

18:12

done, but you've never done either. I've never

18:14

cooked. Of course I've cooked. I played football in seventh

18:16

grade. I know. Cooking's not easy,

18:18

man. And one little thing goes wrong, and it's

18:20

all on you. You ruin the recipe. Where football,

18:22

if you have one little mess up, you have

18:25

a team of people around you who kind of

18:27

pick you up. Where cooking, it's all on you.

18:29

You can't make any mistakes. And at Christmas

18:31

time, you definitely can't make any mistakes.

18:34

That's what I'm talking about, Billy. You're onto something

18:36

there. Mm-hmm. Jesus Christ. More

18:39

difficult. Football or television? You know what? I've

18:42

never, never expired to be on TV at all. This

18:46

was something

18:48

that just kind of came out of the blue, and I

18:51

ended up being really good at it. Like I said,

18:53

football kind of came natural. And I guess the TV

18:55

came natural, too. My

18:57

very first show that I did was like, oh, you've

19:00

done a lot of TV, huh? I was

19:02

like, no. You're

19:04

so good at it. Eddie,

19:06

I remember you from

19:09

not one, but like two of my favorite

19:11

cooking shows on TV. You did MasterChef, and

19:13

you did Next Food Network Star. Yeah.

19:17

So MasterChef, I actually did. That was the very first

19:19

show that I did, but I got on

19:21

that show as a prank. So

19:24

my wife, she used to take all my ice avocator

19:26

companies, so she would take all this food that I

19:28

would have, and like, you know, they would take it

19:30

to work with her. And

19:32

her boss was actually a huge MasterChef fan.

19:34

I never watched the show. And

19:37

they entered me into the show, but never told me. And just one

19:39

day, I was at the gym. I got a call. I was like,

19:41

hey, are you coming down for this audition? I hung

19:43

up the phone like three times. Finally,

19:45

I called my wife, and I was like, hey,

19:48

these people keep calling for MasterChef. She's like, it

19:50

worked. I got on the show, and I

19:52

think I ended up like sixth overall. So

19:55

that's how that started. Kind of like the same

19:57

thing with Food Network Star, too. question

20:00

for you about cooking shows because there's like a

20:02

theme in cooking shows where it's like let's bring

20:04

in like bakers or cooks who are not that

20:06

great, right? And then they're going to come in

20:09

and they're going to compete and at the end,

20:11

the person who's improved the most wins the prize.

20:13

You have different shows that have this concept, right?

20:15

And what I've never understood is if

20:18

I'm in that, I want to fake

20:20

how good I am as a cook, right? Like I

20:22

have to fake it. I have to kind of mess

20:24

up some of my recipes so that I'm bad enough

20:26

to get cast and I'm bad enough that I show

20:28

enough improvement that I then win the cash prize at

20:30

the end. Is that something that you think people should

20:33

be doing kind of faking and pretending to be bad

20:35

so they can go in and basically steal money from

20:37

Food Network? So you say

20:39

people should basically fake it till they

20:41

make it? Exactly right. I've been

20:44

doing it for 20 years Eddie. You

20:48

know what? I've never thought about that. I've never

20:50

thought about that but I wouldn't put it past

20:52

on people. But like I say, like

20:54

you can fake it all you want to. But once you

20:56

get it to you, people don't realize how hard it is

20:59

to cook on TV, right?

21:01

You got to get past the nerves. But when

21:03

you have no idea, if I give

21:05

you the heads up and say, Hey Billy, I want you to

21:07

make me a pumpkin pie

21:10

next week. You have all the time

21:12

in the world to do your research and figure out the

21:14

best recipe. But if I tell

21:16

you, you meet me and

21:18

I say right now I want you to make me

21:20

a pumpkin pie. You know, you wouldn't know what to

21:22

do. Well, not just that and then it's

21:25

usually make me a pumpkin pie and you have 36 minutes to

21:27

do it. Exactly. That's the difference. So people

21:29

can be good in all these different things. But

21:31

the hardest part is cooking in front of people,

21:34

cooking in front of a camera and then the

21:36

time constraints and then you're in a foreign environment.

21:38

You know, it's easy to cook in your own

21:40

kitchen. Do you and Jesse Palmer

21:42

have a rivalry that's unspoken where you both

21:44

want to be the best former athlete that's

21:46

hosting cooking shows? No,

21:50

it's not. It's not. You know,

21:52

I think that there is no competition there. Okay.

21:55

You're better obviously. Wow. I'm

21:57

better. Yeah. Yeah. What

22:00

do you own that comment man? You're better than Jesse.

22:02

Hold it. Jesse's been doing a

22:04

little bit longer than I have. What's

22:06

your go-to meal? Like if you were trying to impress

22:08

someone, what are you cooking Eddie? You

22:12

know, I'm a meat and potatoes type of

22:14

guy. I love a good short rib. My

22:16

deathbed meal would be oxtails.

22:19

I love like braising oxtails.

22:22

They're like one of my favorite things to make

22:24

and it's so good. Do you

22:26

find yourself like when you're at restaurants, can

22:28

you have a peaceful meal anymore? Or do

22:30

you find yourself always judging like grating the

22:32

presentation, judging the food or do you just

22:34

eat it? No, I just

22:37

eat. Look, I don't go out a lot because

22:39

I cook a lot and

22:41

I don't judge food. But the thing that I have

22:43

my pet peeve, you know, when you're going out, you're

22:45

spending your hard earned money. And

22:48

I hate when you spend your money and the

22:50

customer service or the food is just not good.

22:52

Don't have to be great. You know, I still go

22:55

to just regular, you know, commercial places and go eat.

22:57

I'm gonna go out and eat fancy all the time.

22:59

But I just hate when you spend your hard earned money

23:02

and the service is not good. And then the food is

23:04

just, you know, cold or just not up to par. Those

23:06

are the things that I just cannot tolerate because you're

23:09

spending your money to get an experience. So

23:11

what does Eddie Jackson do in those situations? Like, do you

23:13

address? I just don't go back. I just don't go back.

23:15

You don't say anything in the moment though. You don't say

23:17

anything to the waitress or the waiter. I'm

23:19

not a complainer. I'm not a complainer. I'm

23:21

not a, I try to

23:24

avoid confrontation. I just, I

23:26

won't be going back to that place. I don't

23:28

impact the tip though. It has to impact the

23:30

tip, right? I'm always going to tip. I'm always

23:32

going to tip because I'm in the industry as

23:34

well. I have a beer garden here. I'm in

23:36

the restaurant industry. So I'm always going to tip

23:39

and a lot of times it's not the waitress fault.

23:41

You know, something comes out wrong from the kitchen. Eddie

23:44

Jackson is with us. So great. I'm

23:46

going to ask you for your top five

23:49

cookies. Okay, I'm going to ask for your

23:51

top five cookies. I have a question Eddie.

23:53

Which do you find it harder to do

23:55

cook actual meals and courses or baking? Because

23:57

they're totally different skills. Baking

23:59

is harder. and

26:00

he says, hey, we want this Jackson kid. But

26:03

the only thing is he told my agent

26:05

we want him to do his rehab in

26:08

Walpole, you know, at the Patriot Stadium. So I said, I

26:10

have no problem with that. So

26:13

I go fly from Miami, I have

26:15

on a tank top, some

26:17

short, it's May. I

26:20

fly to Boston, I get off the plane,

26:22

it's like six feet of snow in May.

26:24

So I'm walking through the airport, and

26:27

he shorts in the tank top glasses, people looking at me

26:29

like I'm crazy. I

26:32

get to the facility. I had

26:34

a beautiful S550 Mercedes, my first time going to

26:36

the facility, I had to go very early in

26:38

the morning to do my rehab. This

26:41

Audi speeds through the parking lot, it's like

26:43

six o'clock in the morning, off season. Blasting

26:47

little Wayne, blasting

26:50

little Wayne, so I'm like, like,

26:52

who is this blasting little Wayne at six o'clock in

26:54

the morning? I'm out

26:56

on my crutches, Tom Brady gets out. And I'm

26:58

like, what? He looks at me, he's like, what's

27:00

up, Eddie? I've never met the guy before. He

27:02

carries my bag, walks me into and shows

27:04

me where

27:07

I need to go do my rehab. And I was like,

27:09

man, this guy's never met this guy. He just walked me

27:11

in, carried my bags and spoke to me and I never

27:13

met him before. But he was

27:16

going to another workout in the off season at

27:18

six o'clock in the morning. That's and knew who

27:20

you were and helped you with your bags. Exactly.

27:22

I was a superstar. I was a role player,

27:24

you know, so right. But who was that in

27:26

tune to his team? And like, what was going

27:28

on? That's so cool. Are you guys

27:31

still friendly? I mean, we

27:33

see each other. We you know, we speak and things

27:35

like that. But we don't keep in contact and stuff

27:37

like that. But he's just such a nice guy. Before

27:39

we get to your top five cookies here,

27:41

okay. Do you have a

27:44

Belichick story? Because that was fantastic. I asked for

27:46

a Brady story. I was hoping I was praying you

27:48

would give us one. You gave us a great

27:50

one. Do you have a Belichick story worth? I

27:52

don't have any Belichick stories that I can say. When

28:00

he says in the meeting rooms, I think he needs

28:03

to stay in the meeting room. He can't in fact

28:05

deploy your time anymore Eddie. Like he can't. He

28:07

can't take you off TV. He's like your boss Eddie, okay? I

28:13

like VOCO, you know what I mean? All

28:16

right, are you ready to deliver

28:18

us? This is very exciting. Top

28:20

five cookies. I love cookies. Check

28:23

out Eddie Jackson. He's great. Check

28:25

out his new show, his new holiday show,

28:27

Christmas Cookie Challenge. It's on the Food Network.

28:29

Are you ready to deliver your top

28:31

five cookies, Eddie Jackson? Top

28:34

five cookies. My first cookie is an old

28:36

school cookie. Oatmeal, Raven cookie.

28:39

Nice. Something about it is just

28:41

gooey and all that. After

28:43

that, I'm going snickerdoodle. Really?

28:46

I love a good soft snickerdoodle.

28:48

Okay. Number three, the

28:50

OG of all cookies, chocolate chip. Nice.

28:54

Wow. There's two ahead

28:56

of that, huh? Chocolate chip. Number four

28:58

is a new cookie flavor that I just

29:00

discovered last year on Christmas Cookie Challenge.

29:02

This lady made me a butterscotch cookie with

29:05

butterscotch chips in it. Oh

29:07

my gosh. And then

29:09

the last cookie is

29:12

just a classic sugar cookie. You can't

29:14

go wrong with just a classic sugar

29:16

cookie. So good. You don't

29:18

put any frosting sprinkles on it, right? Just the

29:20

sugar cookie. That's it. Just the sugar

29:23

cookie. All right. Eddie, this has

29:25

been a lot of fun. We hope to do it

29:27

again soon. I'm serious. The Brady story

29:29

was fantastic. Promote the show one more time on

29:31

the way out and happy holidays to you, your

29:33

family and everyone involved with the show as well.

29:37

Thank you, brother. At Christmas Cookie Challenge, we have our

29:39

finale on December 21st, 9 Eastern, 8th Central.

29:42

It's going to be a great show. They're going to

29:44

be making, listen to this guys real quick before I

29:47

go, they're going to be making movie posters out

29:51

of cookies. Spoiler alert. Really? Movie

29:53

posters out of cookies, huh? Yes,

29:56

sir. Keep that in mind. How do we

29:58

get Billy on one of these shows here? Okay. I

30:00

mean, you know Billy you seem to have a connection with

30:02

Eddie Eddie seems to have a connection with you You don't

30:04

know how to cook and I and that's what the show

30:06

is all about Go on and make a pumpkin pie cake

30:08

or something. Well, we come out with the show called worried

30:11

cookies in America Billy

30:14

oh I got it It's

30:16

a date Eddie. Happy holidays to you and

30:18

we appreciate it back. Good luck with the show Thank

30:21

you, brother