It's time for this week's episode of the Split Ends podcast, What Up Splitches. Welcome to another fabulous episode of Split Ends. I'm Colleen Wolf, Connie Fox, tiny box, ice box, whatever you want to call me, joined by Erica tamp Posey and producer Aaron Guys. Quiet week in the NFL, Nothing, nothing really to talk about. I think I'm actually going blind in one eye after staring at my Twitter timeline for days uninterrupted, like one eye. I don't know why, just one eye, but one eye is definitely not working. It's been wild Tom Brady maybe retiring, maybe not retiring than actually retiring. Championship Sunday went off. I mean that lined up perfectly for the Westling Bowl with the Bengals and the Rams and Murderville is dropping tomorrow on Netflix, so I cannot wait more. We'll have more on that later though, I promised Erica. It's a lot though, So that's why I have you guys, and our NFL queen will be joining us in a little bit espns Mina Kimes. I'd like to dedicate this episode to Jeff Carcia. Um. If you don't understand that, ref you will soon. Plus we have a headline check that includes a drive through, a cry baby, and a man named Charles. But before all that, Erica, is today the day that we get this pod under thirty minutes? Colleen, No, there's no chance we have mina times on. You think we're gonna be able to cut her off. She is the most brilliant mind out there. If she wants to talk for four hours, we'll take it. That's fair. We're gonna We're gonna try. One of these days, we'll do it. I'm I'm very confident in that, Erica. Do you have your motivational water bottle nearby? I don't. Actually I didn't fill it up because spoil spoiler alert, just had a stroke. Um, we're taping this a little early today. Normally I get up and make my coffee, I fill up my motivational water bottle, which I try to drink four of every day. That Colleen is making fun of because she saw it during the weekend and was making fun of the fact that I have a water bottle that's like keep chugging. It's like a cheerleader on the water bottle. Where's where's my sweatshirt? By the way, Actually, so you know, we will talk about this in a little bit, I'm sure, but the Bengals and the Rams are going to the Super Bowl. But we got to watch the game all together with Keisha and Link and our you know, our surrounded NFL family, which was so beautiful. But I got there and I was looking cute. I was in my yoga pants and my little Rams T shirt. And then I realized, oh my gosh, it's kind of actually cold out. And John, your husband, was like, oh, I brought another sweatshirt for Colleen, but she already had one, so here put this one on and Colleen was like, you can't steal that, you better give it back. So then, because it's a Tybee one, it's like a special Tybee Island one. And I am watching you right. So then when the Bengals win, it was so emotional. I was like sobbing and I just get mascara all over Colleen's sleeves and everything. But I did wash it, and Jet did sing it to dry, didn't even put it in the dryer because she knows what she's doing. Jet. I love her. I love you guys. That's great, um perfect, So, but I'm not here. We get now, I'm getting that back. I will show up at your house and just like look into a window and when you open the shades, I will be standing there waiting for the sweatshirt. So I better get that back a little split end housekeeping, some sweeping, if you will. We have a special announcement coming your way at the end of the show. Uh huh. And it involves one lucky listener winning the first ever split eas Challenge. I don't want to say too much. I don't want to give it away, so you're gonna have to stick around until the end of the show to hear the details and the prize um for that right there. Uh huh. And it's a great prize. You guys are absolutely gonna want to hear this. That's a tease badge, all right, Colleen, you are so damn busy, right, So I saw you on the network this week. No broken fingers they throw from from Kurt Warner, So that was great. Yeah, but you're on every TV show known to mankind known to womankind, So I thought i'd gather some more headlines for you this week, so that way you're totally prepped for the rest of your shows this week. I'm sure you've got plenty to do, so I got that's so nice of you. Yeah, I just really wanted to have you prepped. So I pulled everything that you absolutely need to know. I left out anything that's not really going to serve you. So this is all the stuff. So get your notebook out because you're really gonna get to know all this. All right, let's do it. The Washington Commander's name change got spoiled by a helicopter reporter flying over FedEx Field, spotting the banners and signage hanging before the big announcement Wednesday. This is it's hot that they got the scoop. It's not because their name is now the Commanders, and I wanted Washington football team, so they got a name now. That's fine. They just need a quarterback, that's all. They'll be in good shape after this, I guess. Payn Manning was on SNL and was asked about the craziness of the games during the divisional round. He responded with why he didn't watch it? Ste didn't watch any of the games? Well, I planned too, but I had an already killed before the first game, and just for fun, I put on the first episode of Emily in Paris season two, and I watched the entire season straight through. Oh my god, Colin, this show has everything. Okay, Erica, we this is I guess it's hot that eric We asked Mike Golic about Emily in Paris a few episodes ago, and he, like us, hadn't seen it yet. But as it turns out, we actually have a lot more in common with Peyton Manning than maybe we ever thought, because he went on Jimmy Fallon on Monday and this happened. Colin just wanted to have you want to talk about football, and all you wanted to talk about it was Emily in Paris. I want to know, have you ever seen an episode of Emily in Paris. I've never seen an son of Emily in Paris. I'm not sure if I'm going to in the future. I feel like I know so much about it now, Jimmy, but I think I'm gonna be asked to be in season three. Like so, it turns out we're not alone. No one has seen Emily em Paris. That is amazing, all right? Is this Conference championship or two thousand five? Bonaroo? Sunday's broadcast for the Rams for felt a little bit like a jam band concert. The broadcast feature Tube and sand Deep cuts from Fish Farmhouse album released in two thousand and some Grateful Dead. We'll be back after this fourteen minute guitar solo. Hot or not? Am I supposed to respond there? This is ad like, that's very interesting. Thank you for for that, for pointing it out. You're so welcome. I just really needed you to know that a man named Charles was selling parking spots for a hundred dollars for the Rams Niners game. When authorities learned it wasn't even his land quickly got shut down. Hot or not? This is this is so hot, This is the most hot. A man named Charles is my favorite thing that has happened today and tomorrow and forever. I love a man named Charles. A man named Charles is an entrepreneur, a man named Charles is a dreamer. And a man named Charles probably is in some trouble. Yeah, Rihanna is expecting her first child with Asap Rocky. Hey, now I love this. I love these two together. And I have an update on that that I just read before the show. According to a Yahoo article that was just posted a day after this announcement came, Drake unfollowed Rihanna and Rocky on Twitter. Huh, and so this article was posted, uh this morning on Wednesday, and it says cool. As of writing this, Drake still doesn't follow Rihanna but has since re followed asap Rocky, who also follows Drake back, and Rihanna does not follow Drake at all. So it sounds like in my feelings is exactly where Drake is. Wow, that is some awesome tea. I live for that kind of stuff. Kylie us Check's wife Kristen walks through drive through McDonald's after the forty Niners loss, explaining through the order board that their bus wouldn't fit through the drive through. The McDonald's employee started smack talking through the order saying, Jimmy just wanted to ring and he isn't gonna get it. Kristen filmed it and was laughing, writing, we just want some nuggets man crying laughing emoji. But she was a good sport about it. McDonald's is serving nuggets and truth. Poor Kristin us Check had to be like, not now, Donna, I am not loving it. I also love Kristin used Check for walking through the drive through. These are a little bit older, but I feel like you probably missed it because you're so busy. During the overtime coin toss for the a f C Championship, when the visiting team, the Bengals, called the coin toss wrong, Josh Allen tweeted, pain period, Oh no, how can you laugh at that? And I wonder what producer Aaron is feeling right now, Probably the same thing. Pain. I wonder if it felt better or worse for him to watch the outcome of that game, but made it better. I don't like so I'm happy more petty. I love it. In iconic fashion, Joe Burrow and Jamaar Chase's dad smoked a victory cigar together after their sons were heading to the Super Bowl. Well, I'm I have fallen in love with the Bengals. I it's just they have gone straight to my heart. And it's so weird because they're such a young team. It's a fresh faces in the Super Bowl, but somehow they have this throwback been too. I just feel to them with the cigars and the carrying Joe off the field, like what year are we in? It feels it feels like not two. I love it. I'm still here for it, but guess Judy blooms trending, I can't keep up, kind of like you're never going to believe this. But after an emotional win over the Niners, O b J went back to Delilah in West Hollywood to celebrate. Tiger was with him again and so much. Travis Scott tom Brady retired from the NFL after a long back and forth. He said, She said, He said it was time to move on and thank the Buccaneers. I just didn't know if you knew that yet till I wanted to let you know. I heard about this. It was a it was a pretty big story for like thirty seconds. But after twenty years in New England, no love, no mentioning the Patriots in his retirement eight page retirement statement on Instagram, Are you okay with that, buddy? No, I'm not actually, And also I know it's like you should be thanking him for the twenty years he gave you in New England. That's what everyone's in my mention, saying, Colleen. The picture he posted for his first page is him in his Bucks uniform at Gillette when they beat the past. That is intentional, Calleen, Hello, that is what pissed me off. Wow, what is he trying to tell us though, Just that he's he's also petty? Yeah, I think so that's man. I love it. I like I like the calculated Instagram post. Okay, well I also found a few loose ends for you. So I have a couple of couple of little headlines here, I know, Here we go. The Cincinnati Public School District, one of the largest in Ohio, announced Monday, February four will be a holiday, so no need to show up now. The kids just need to write their parents notes to get out of work. Yeah. Absolutely, that is really hot of Valentine's Day day off parents. After the super Bowl, love love, Love, Love Love is in the air. After l A earned a trip to the Super Bowl, Rams gm less sneed got a standing ovation at his local hole in the wall Starbucks. I see what you did there. I love that. That is great. Hot less sneat hot Starbucks. Just a little mom and pop shop trying to get the word out. Bengals cornerback Eli Apple generously offered to buy super Bowl tickets for Kansas City wideouts Tyree Hill and Nicole Hardman. That's nice. This is a plus. Trash talking at its finest. Eli Apple also called Tyreek Hill a baby and retweeted a goal line tackle guts stuff. I mean this is honestly. I know we say this word a lot on this podcast. Petty. It should be the Petty podcast. I don't know why it split ends. It's just the petty podcast. This has my petty meter just completely broken. Like this is off the charts, Petty. I love it. Eli Apple offering to buy Super Bowl tickets for Tyreek Kill and Nicole Hardman signed me up. It's awesome love that we can't keep our guests waiting any longer. Erica, our favorite Seahawks fan, the smartest, the snarkiest, the president and first lady of the football COGNIZENTI. She is Mina Comes, Mina. I have a little song for you. I don't know if you've ever heard this before, but oh, Mina, You're so comes, You're soup comes. You call my mind. Hey Mina, Hey Mina, hey Mina. Wow. Erica, we were supposed to do that together. I texted you about that. Thanks for hanging me out to dry. Oh yeah, I didn't go through. I have an iPhone, so you know your Erica. Didn't you do a song for me when I taped with you did and mL Was it the same song or a different song? No, it was Actually it was way better. No offense calling because it was the recorded it was comes after times. Yeah, that's right. Sorry, yeah, and it was a lot better. You're right. Um anyway, Mina, what's up? Not like this is a busy week or anything for you? Right, yeah, you know, just chilling hoping something interesting happens in the NFL to talk about, um grinding Bengals tape. I don't know how you guys doing. We're great, We're much better now that you're here. You are going to the Pro Bowl. You're going to Vegas? Yes, yes, later this afternoon, going to the Pro Bowl a couple days there than coming back to l A for the Super Bowl, which is great because, like you guys, I live in l A. Although our show is taping in Anaheim. So that's been a fun um thing to explain to people who are not from l A. You always end up sunding like you're in the Californians when you try to explain how long it gets from one place to another in l A. But people really need to understand the logistics of going from Anaheim to Los Angeles. Why you guys in Anaheim. Well, I am a cast member, it's my job title. I work for Disney. Uh and we are taking at Disneyland. So do you get like a pass, like do you get to go on the rides like before or after? Yeah? That's separate, independent from this. Yeah I get Uh, I get to go to Disneyland for free? No big deal? Really a plus one or what I get? Plus like four plus two? I mean, I've never been to Disney before, so I feel you haven't been either disney World and in Orlando for sure, but never out here. I've never been to disney World or Disney Do you think these rides that Colleen can't do at Disneyland because she's too short. We could leave her, she could watch our she could watch our purses, me and while we she could hold our backs. Even like rides, it doesn't matter loose her seats for her. I don't want to be a flying off one though. Yeah. I used to be so afraid, well not really afraid. I don't know why I would always go back to the gravitron because it always made me sick. Uh, Not that the gravitron is at Disney. But also since I've never been to Disney, I don't know what is at Disney. So this is just me trying to relate to Disney. I'm like, oh, car, you boles used to come to my town and gravitrons were there. I don't know if that works. I used to When I first moved out to l A. I was living in Irvine, which is even further south than Anaheim, and I was trying to trying to get my foot in the door and the biz. And so I was working actually on a Nickelodeon commercial or one of those like NERF gun commercials, and it was with Steph Curry. And it was when I met Steph Curry, like eight years ago, and he was getting slimed for this Nickelodeon thing. So I woke up at four in the morning because my call time was like six thirty am, drove up to l A because it takes that long even with no traffic at six and six am. Because I was the p a like the bottom of the barrel. I was cleaning up slime at eleven thirty at night with like a toothbrush and like a shop back. And then I had to mind. I had to drive the hour and a half home to Irvine to where I was staying, and then get back up at four to get back onto set. Like it was absolutely brutal Mina. So I'm sure you have the exact same schedule. Yeah, pretty much, pretty much the grind. It's real. You know, you move out to l a big dreams. You don't know you're gonna be cleaning slime with the toothbrush and driving an hour and a half in traffic. We've all been there, um, but you know it'll be fun. I like, I like Disneyland, and it'll be fun to be there. I like doing outdoor sets Collegen. You're on outdoor sets a lot. It's kind of a different vibe when you're amongst the people kind of pick up on the energy of it. It's fun because it's usually a little chaotic, and it's the energy is like palpable. So when you're in a studio a lot of times it's like a little quieter and you kind of have to like do your own thing to kind of get motivated sometimes if it's like an early morning or something like that. But outside, I mean, it's just like all their the energy. It's electric. It's really fun. But I mean, since we have you today, UM, I want to start with the most important stuff first. It's been all over the internet. There's a ton of opinions about it. Your watercolors are just like amazing. Um. I don't know if you have an art studio and a TV studio over there, like what's going on? Um, thank you so much. It's been a while actually since I've done one. I want to say, like since the season began, because he's been so crazy. But I have there's no studio. The paper I use is really small, and I've always um enjoyed doing things on a small scale. I love building dollhouse furniture. Is like, why am I talking about this? What? Um? Yeah, that was where my hobbies as a kid. Ums now as well now as welcome. Um. I just like miniature things and so I like the idea of doing really tiny paintings. That why we're friends that were friends. Yeah, put are in my pine pot is my private private nickname for you. Does the like water color colors and the building tiny dollhouse furniture doesn't help with job stress because I see the crap that you get on social like, hello, Jeff Garcia, do you have a watercolor of him yet? I do not. Yeah, I guess maybe they're somewhere. I don't know what your guys listener basis like, but maybe if you do have a psychologist who listens, they would hypothesize that it's a tiny world I can control. Perhaps I'm just trying to money learning quarterback myself a little bit here. Um. Although I've always loved small things, I don't know. I always I had two dollhouses as a kid. And why are we talking about this guy? No, I love this. Actually, this is such a weird road that I did not expect to go. I always love little things. And anyway, so the paintings, I use really really small paper and a really really small brush so I can do it on my desk. It doesn't take it. And And I would actually bring it with me too when when my husband I go on trips, sometimes I'll bring my little watercolor pad and sketch what I see see. I love that I used to I used to be an artist. Um, I was actually instead of doing this whole thing, I was going to go to art school. Um, but I haven't. Yeah, I haven't really done anything in years. So that's why I actually like love your watercolors. I'm like, oh, look at her. She's like doing her job. She's doing it well, and she's finding time to paint I don't even know how, and and apparently make tiny like dressers and beds for your dollhouses. So I mean, go you, that's awesome. We might need to get a bonus episode with Nina and Johnny Stanton painting miniatures together. Yes, I love that guy, the fullback. I think he's so great. Um, the gamer he has yeah, yeah, he doesn't twitch. Yeah, he was on. He's actually sat down with me and we got to talk about his cleats and how important they were for the league and stuff. He was. He's awesome. And it's actually a name that Colleen loves to just yell out, oh yeah, Johnny Stanton. I love it. Like it's just a fun name. It's more of a quarterback name, right, like it's he's a fullback. But um, it doesn't Johnny Stanton sound like someone who has maybe drafted a little bit too high because he went to an se C school and he's got a big arm, but he's not that mobile and some team's gonna get their hopes up and he's probably gonna be a backup that has that feel to it. It feels like and it feels like a Johnny Manziel type of situation, but also like Johnny Stanton, he was a quarterback in college, so that makes total sense. I do want to go back real quick to the Jeff Garcia thing because for our listeners that don't know former NFL quarterback, he came at MINA with the whole what do you know about football you never played? Argument? Uh? Running to Jimmy G's defense after Mina was like speaking truth about the San Francisco quarterback. So, first of all, did you feel at all? I have so many questions about this. What was it like to have him come at you out of nowhere? Unless it wasn't out of nowhere, Like do you know him at all? Did you have any relationship with him? Because people come at you all the time, but that was like on a different level. Yeah, I don't know. I only knew about it because I opened Instagram. Want to be like a Thursday or something. I don't know the first take on Tuesday, and yeah it was Wednesday because I was flying and maybe it's once Thursday. I don't know whatever my I opened it and as often is the case, if I don't have comments turned off, which I periodically just turned off. You told how to do that, which is so great, by the way, Yeah it's pretty important, I think mentally for some reason, I hit them off so immediately underminument advice, and I it just was a deluge of hate comments and people, you know, threats and curse whatever. It's it's a day. They ends with why, But I was like, this seems more than usual, and it seems angrier than usual, and so actually was kind of I only found out about the comment from other comments, from hundreds of other comments telling me, you know, how much I suck. And then when I saw the original comment, was actually like a little bit confused because I say a lot of ship on TV, and I didn't think this is a particularly controversial all this fuss about a average quarterback, you know, and and I thought, yeah, anyways, whatever, he had been playing really poorly in the playoffs in particular, which is what we were talking about in the TV segment. And the other funny thing about that TV segment was and this didn't clipped, so it is obviously Jeff probably just didn't see it, and other people didn't see it. Stephen A was agreeing with me and then proceeded to pantomime being Jimmy garoppolo taking a handoff on television and and did like a cartoonish impression on him and was like, this is all he does. So I was like, wait, I didn't even have the most insulting opinion on this show that particular day, But yeah, you know, I just kinda kind of blew up from there. I didn't. I didn't. I kind of just wanted it to go away because I was so busy. Did you feel vindicated watching Jimmy g throw that interception? You know? I was just kinda relieved that I wouldn't have to talk. But I'm happy to talk to you guys about it. But I you know, I didn't really want to be trending topic on Twitter. I never want to unless it's for saying something or doing something, certainly not for being uh insulted or disliked or defended honestly, which is you know a lot of the response as well. So many people came out and we're defending you, like we're did you almost feel like, oh, this is so nice? But also like, oh, shoot, I have to respond to these people are like like how do I how do you spot? I mean, it's something I struggle with a little bit, which is I don't want to feel I never want to feel like a charity case for my colleagues or for anyone in our industry. But then I also I believe them when they're being kind to me, and I appreciate them. So yeah, I have mixed feelings because I know to the outside world it can seem a little bit like excessive. Perhaps the did the defense and I just want to like stand on a mountain scream. I didn't ask for any of this. I'm just trying to do my job, the good and the bad. And by the way, I think I can also seem like, wow, this is all over one insult. But I guess what I want people to know is it's not one insult, and what he said relatively mild compared to what I usually get. I don't know. I I just I just want to just do my job. And uh, it was hard to do my job for a couple of days because of UM. I kind of feel like I was I became like you know, you know, you never want to be like a flashpoint in a culture world that has nothing to do with you, if that makes sense, and social is just like a complete cesspool. And you teaching me about the filters to block out the mentions of like people that don't have like a verified phone numbers or like you know, pictures or emails, or people that you don't follow or people that don't follow you, like has really helped. I have been able to block out so much of the noise because that's what so much of it is. And then for Jeff to come after you with like the most reductive, stupid argument ever too, is just like it's something that I hear all the time. I'm sure you hear it all the time. It's just like tiring. It's a tired argument, Like just because I don't play an instrument doesn't mean that I can't have an opinion about music. It's just like it's the same exact thing. So we'll move on from that. But I do want to know what you think about Jimmy g where will end up and where this Niners team will move on from here. Well, I think they're going to move on. I mean it sounds like the already language coming out of the organization, And I think there's reports about Jimmy G and his agents kind of looking to the next destination and trying to work out a trade as well. And I actually tweeted this, but like there should be a market for him. I mean, he would be an upgrade for several teams because you know, I know, I just said earlier he's pretty average, but like average is better than what a lot of teams in the NFL have right now. And he does have a skill set that I think translates several offerences, which, by the way, if Jeffrey whoever wanted to disagree with my points by pointing out what Jimmy D does well instead of talking about me, I'd be happy to engage. But you know, it's he's got the He is pretty accurate throwing the ball over the middle of the field. Also has a very quick release, which is part of the reason why San Francisco had been successful this season, in particular against the Rams. So I looked to a team like Pittsburgh Washington as being possible death. Oh my god, how are you thinking about the Commanders? Does anyone bad? What are they commanding? Like? Nothing? Also, like Washington football team was perfect I was just keep it. It's classic. Nobody can dunk on it. It's perfect. It was like it was so bad that it just became good like it. It made a full loop. And I just don't understand why they're saying that, Like Washington d C. Has a lot of commanders and a lot of you know, are the Pentagon is there and like we're a very like you know, a eight country and all that kind of stuff, and I'm just like, yikes, guys, watch Handmaid's Tail. That's what I just keep thinking whenever. Yes, yes, I haven't seen it. And they're in Red To Yeah, the bad dudes are commanders in that show. What's wrong with animals? Animal mascots are great. Everybody loves them. They can be cute, they can be angry, they are not offensive. Um, you have a name in my good Animals. Well, you know, I thought Red Wolves was great. I was I would watching the Red Wolves. Yeah, even the hogs or whatever that thought that was kind of funny. Yeah, I don't know, the wild hogs, the Farrell Hogs. Um, the Farrell Hogs is pretty everything. But commanders I and I agree with you. I had gotten used to saying football team the team to the point where I actually thought it was kind of cool. Yes, I know, missed opportunity by them. It's whatever, it stinks. What does the stink is the fact that we have the Rams and the Bengals in the Super Bowl and it is the wrestling Super Bowl. Mina, I know you were tweeting us about it just watching. We were with Lakisha Westling watching the early game with the Bengals and the Chiefs, and that first half did not feel like the Bengals had a shot. And then to like watch them come back a furious comeback at Arrowhead against the Chiefs and Andy Reid and to be there with Lakisha while she was burning stage and then it was just like so emotional. It was such an entertaining game, but it was also for us like just such an emotional day. I can only imagine. I saw the videos, I was texting a little bit with our mutual friend Greg Rosenhal, and I found myself also rooting for the same outcome of Rams Bengals for the just because and this is why football is great. Like you know, you if you don't really have a rooting interest and your team is no longer in it, you roof your friends, you root for your family, you root for players you've met, and I think I seen you guys kind of rally around those teams because it wasn't and it was just really nice to see and it was really cool because they're both great stories. I think, I think it's a fantastic Super Bowl. I'm like thrilled with the outcome just from a football perspective. To get these two quarterbacks is going to be really really fun. And yeah, that was one of the crazier games I've ever seen, that the Bengals victory. And I'm still kind of processing it. And for any of our new listeners. Chris Westling, our dear friend, former colleague, he passed away from cancer last year year exactly almost a year to the date, and he had this complicated relationship with the Bengals, but he absolutely loved Joe Burrow and to watch Burrow just mature and and he he was already mature when he came into the league. But like, how what does this mean for the city of Cincinnati. This just young, up and coming, fun team going to the Super Bowl? Mina. I mean, I think they've already kind of won, even if they don't win because you know, when you when you find a franchise quarterback, not just a franchise quarterback, but the franchise quarterback only a couple of years in, it's kind of all systems go, Like the future is bright regardless of what's happening around Obviously, what's happening around him is good. Um, you know, and they've are if there's other players Chase Higgins, some players in the defense are fantastic as well, and I think the defense is kind of why they won this game. But um, it just gives you a sense of always being hopeful about your football team. And I think, like for the city of Cincinnati, it just must be so incredible to have that hope right now and excitement regardless of what happens, because nobody expected this. I certainly didn't expect this. I thought the Rams would in the NFC West. I didn't think the Bengals would even finish in second in the a f C North. So, um, that's that's what's so great about football, Like it really can take you by surprise. And I think that's certainly what's happened this season. It's such a gift like from West, like it's to his friends and family, and then Lakisha is a like a die hard RAMS fan like has been you know, like live or die by this team forever. And then both of them are in the super Bowl and I kind of feel like we're playing personally for me and Calleen. I'm sure you sort of feel the same way, like we're playing with house money at this point, Like whoever wins this game, like I want it for oh b J. I want it for Sean McVeigh and Aaron Donald to get over this hump, and Stafford especially, like I want that for them too. I want it for the city of Cincinnati. Like no matter who wins this game, I feel like I am going to be like screaming, losing my voice like I did this weekend, because like I'm just I'm so excited for this outcome, like it feels written in the stars, Like I cried so much on Sunday, and it's like this felt bigger than when the Eagles were going to the Super Bowl and that was like my entire life. But I felt that same feeling just walking around after the game and just knowing that it was like so much bigger than the game and having all of the layers of West and then watching with the guys and it being like the one year anniversary, even like later in the day and Monday a couple of days ago. Just just talking about West still is really hard for me. And I actually learned from Sean Payton's press conference when he retired, because he was like guzzling water to help with him to like not cry during the press conference. He said he had cooled. That's how you don't cry during a speech. And so that's kind of helped me um talk through my feelings about West and the Bengals and and everything else. But the fact that we have these two new fresh teams and and the Rams. They've been in the Super Bowl a lot recently in the big picture, but it's feels like a new fresh team because of Stafford and oh b J and Cooper Cup who wasn't in who couldn't play in the Super Bowl the last time they were in it. So Mina, I know we don't have you for any more time. So do you have an early pick for the Super Bowl before we let you go? I am So I've kind of just started my preparation for this game in terms of looking at the matchups and I think my mind will probably change a few times because I think this is a legitimate It's not pick him, but I think it's pretty close. I am leaning Rams because of the advantage in the trenches. I just saying, Aaron Donald and Von Miller gonna be really hard for that Bengals offensive line to handle, although the Bengals had a very conservative game plan last week to kind of neutralize that. But I don't know it really is. It's going to be close, and I don't know who want me. I don't really have a rooting interest other than hoping that it's a really good game. I just hope that everyone goes out there and has fun. How's a good time. Honestly, nobody loses except for the fans of the losing team, but for real, all of us, everybody else that's watching this. It's fresh storylines, it's fresh faces, and there's so many characters and people and storylines to root for. So it's awesome. I can't wait. Mina, You're the best. We love you so much, Thank you so much for coming through. Uh legit the busiest possible time of the NFL. Here the craziest week. We love you, We love Lenny even though he low Ki scares me. Um, good luck with all of the madness with Super Bowl. Tell your husband high. We grew up in the same neighborhood, which is pretty crazy everybody. So if you want just say yeah, Eric hi to well, you know, well anyway, we'll see you at some point next week, or maybe we won't because you're in Anaheim. Yeah, I'm gonna find a way to see you. Mina times, the Mina machine just crushing life. That's why we love Erica. She's so great and it's it resonated with me so much calling when we're just talking about this too, because you and I know that it's not just about a single comment. It's like women in this league get you know, absolutely just ridiculed NonStop. And to me, it is so crazy because when I think of like the brightest football mind, the brightest mind, like everything Mina says is like something that I would feel, but she articulates it way smarter, way better. Like when I look at Mina, like Mina is the smartest man or woman in the football sphere to me, and it is such like a role model and to to see people just you know, take her down on a peg. It's like mind blowing to me. See I thought, um, when you were talking about it resonating with you, I thought it was like the dollhouse um motion of the conversation because I know that that's something you've really wanted to get into an embarrassed but now she yeah, you shouldn't be like Mina is out here normalizing tiny homes and building them and together we will build each other up because that's what we do on split ends. What a transition. Oh my god. When those drums come in, it can only mean one thing. It's time for the split end of the week. Hit me with the sexophone Erica speaking about building each other up. I have a new idea for split ends of the week, and it's basically when I air some of my grievances. So I'm gonna build you up and then I'm gonna knock everybody down. But really this is it's gonna be our split ends of the week multiple because it's just gonna be a portion of the show when I bring up some random crap from the week. We can pay off some things maybe from last episode. It's just all the split ends that have fallen on the floor. We're gonna sweep them up. Okay, alright, so I love that Erica. At the beginning of the show, I mentioned murder Ville, which is Will Arnette's new improv murder comedy show, and uh, whenever I mentioned the word improv, it is a little bit of a trigger. And I thought, maybe we should tell the listeners about how you tried to bully me into taking a very expensively class. Erica tried to trick me into this, and Eric, I think it's time to calling calling Aaron. I need like royal rumble music in the background right now because I am fuming. I'm I'm I have to take my sweatshirt off because I am so mad. So Colleen's like, oh, I did Improblem. I loved it, and I just did my one on one by one, a one show I crushed at m A. VP was there and Jet. They were like, You're the best thing on that stage and I had the time of my life. And Colleen was like, I love improv. We should do to a one together and I was like, oh my god, yeah, we should. We should totally do that. So then I'm finding all the classes. I go, hey, there's one on a Monday. We're both home. We both this, we're both that. I go, okay, the twelve to three class, does that sound good? Calling is texting me right back, Yeah, that sounds awesome. Here's the link. Oh my god, it's five dollars each. We cool? You sure? And she's like yeah, totally in, totally cool, totally yes. And then I go here, I go, I'm signing up for improv two oh one. And I signed up and then Colleen goes ghost. I do not hear from her again. And guess who is taking that improv class before the pandemic shut it down alone without her splitch next to her, and she totally ghosted me when I like confirmed four thousand times. So for you to pull the put the bully narrative out there, shame on you, Erica. You know you know, good friends they push their friends, They push their friends to be uncomfortable so they can find versions of themselves. So this was me being selfless and pushing you into two oh one because I knew that you could do it. Splitch. I'll tell you what, next time we take a class together, we'll go to Talilah right afterwards. Yeah, exactly, as we can get in. Well, we'll try, we'll try, hey calling. Also, I looked up and I talked to some of our Australian listeners, which we actually have, which is pretty cool. Do you know what to go off like a frog in a sock means? We talked about it last week. Thank I'm bringing this up. Yeah, to be very excited, like like the frog is stuck in the sock and like kicking out, so it's jumping all around and it's going crazy. Oh so some people aren't actually putting frogs in socks. This is just saying yeah, it's just like a you know, figures. Okay, well that's great. Shout out Australia. I like your style. That's cool. We're gonna start just phasing it in like a frog in a sock. Um Erica, great job, by the way with the sex in the City sketch. Loving. Where can people find it if they haven't seen it, they can find it on Twitter. The Rams retweeted it. It aired on NFL network a couple of times, which was very cool. Um Taryn kill Him from SNL liked the video, which I was like screaming about. It was awesome. I gotta I got a text from a very high figure at the Ram saying, and just like that, we're super Bowl bound. So I was very excited, Like it was like I almost like I am afraid to do anything else because it was so good that anything else is going to be a letdown. Only only good things from here on out. I will push you onto your next venture, so you're the best version of yourself. Okay, that's awesome. It was really good. It was really funny. You and ever did an awesome job with it. So make sure you guys check that out. Aaron, get back in here. I have some notes. I got some notes for you that I figured this is probably the best place to talk about them. So last week in the episode, we edited out, um a line in the pod that ended with Erica saying that she was going to stroke out again. Um, but that didn't make the actual episode. The only thing that did was my maniacal laughing. So, um, can we just like my laugh is very haunting and the fact that it was left in kind of left it was a little jarring for me. Can we just play that back real quick so we can listen? Things we love to see. Speaking of significant others, Patrick Mahomes fiance Brittany Matthews, a lot of Brittany's in this you know dating circles? Its great? Um, I just about that at all. Um, My maniacal laugh is a lot. There's a lot of cackling. I've had neighbors leave notes on my door that my voice carries, that my laugh carries to shut the windows. I get it. I'm a lot. I probably wouldn't hang out with myself if I had the choice, but I have to. I can't get away from myself. In fact, I am the ursula gift from the Little Mermaid. So I just wanted to let everyone know why I was laughing so hard. Do we have that clip? Because it was really funny. Things we love to see. Speaking of significant others, Patrick mahomes fiance Brittany Matthews. A lot of Brittany's in this you know this, this trifecta of dating circles. Um. Yeah, I'm just gonna have another stroke on air. That's great, you know, And you are a brilliant editor, and you make me way better than I am in real life. I've I've been out of improv for two years with the pen Emmick. I gotta get I gotta get my speed back. I'm just I'm yes, ending every single one of your lines. I'm there exactly exactly. I didn't think the laugh was out of place, Callie, and I felt like, you know, you were just laughing at Erica's joke about because I'm so funny. Yeah, I understand. I need to pull back the laugh a little bit. Again. It's hard for me to do that. I've gotten a lot of comments about being Joan Rivers and stuff like that. Um so, I'm a lot of my friends are like Collie needs to talk more about the Eagles and laugh less like less way less, by the way, Aaron, Happy Lunar New Year? Yes, I heard it's the year of the Tiger. So can you tell me more because like, I don't really know a ton about Lunar New Year and I'm trying to learn more. I ordered like twenty pounds of Chinese food, but I don't think that that's like the correct way to do things. What what tell me everything? Oh? Man? I mean I only know sort of from what my Chinese family did growing up. But it is celebrated in China, Korea, Vietnam. One of the most popular traditions that you'll always see is wearing a lot of red and then giving out lacy, which is like the little red envelopes the pouches and you tybally have you give money in them, which is something that can be doesn't have to only be done on New Year's but it's something that is typically given out. And so you know, you you see family and you get these little little like packets full of money or gifts and things. That sounds great. There are some special foods around it. I typically am just eating like whatever my favorite Chinese food is at Lunar New Year anyways. But there's a like, in particular, this Korean soup that is incredible that is like rice cakes, which I don't know if you've ever had duck Bookie, but it's like it's incredible. It's so unhealthy for you, but it's like the soup we these rice cakes in it, and yeah it's for good luck, but it's it's amazing. And there's the Chinese zodiac twelve different animals. We just left the Year of the Ox in the Year of the Tiger. They're not one to one football team comparisons for each one, but the Year of the Tiger for the year that the Bengals go to the Super Bowl is a pretty good omen. We're going to celebrate next week when you're out here in l A. It's gonna be awesome. We're gonna go out to dinner. Um And speaking of next week, what are you guys planning for? What's what? You've got to be doing something big. I know you guys, I know you two are playing in something massive. Totally to spoil it, but Colleen and I did find a place offering improv three oh one. We're all going to do it together. I know you guys are just being coy. I know you guys are going to be doing something massive next week. Like you're just being cute. Like there's no way you're not playing in something huge. You're right meet us it Delilah. We'll see you. They're okay. Well, final thing before we get out of here. Gang, if you're still listening, you have passed the first test. Aaron, it is time I wanted to weed out any fair weather split End fans. Now it's just for the splitties for life. What I am so thrilled and so honored to announce the first ever first annual intern Eliminator. That's right, ladies and gentlemen, Split Ends will be selecting one dedicated funny bastard to be our show in turn for an undisclosed amount of time, mostly because we have not talked about this yet with each other out there. Can submit yourself or you can nominate a friend for this honor and an honor it is. Everybody listen next week for your chance to become our split Turn. We'll have full rules and directions on how to enter, because we gotta figure it out still. It's the Split Ends first annual intern Eliminator Split Turn Challenge. Maybe we can get a man named Charles in here. We'll see at Split Ends pod on Twitter Tweet America, what a surprise for you? Are you excited? It's gonna be like a Survivor game And I don't know what the intern is going to do um, but they will be named our split Turn and I think that they will bring a lot to the show. Oh my god. That that's an amazing opportunity for people out there, especially if you're trying to you know, rise in the ranks with with your current company. Putting that at the top of your resume. It's an eye grabber and we can be recommendations for you for future and lawyers whatever you need. So it's gonna be a huge opportunity out there. You don't want to miss it. Make sure you tune in next week. Also, we'll be live from the super Bowl and Radio Row next week. We're lining up guests. We have a Random Question lotto coming your way, so we're gonna have a ton of stuff going on. Feel free to tweet us some random questions, uh if you want them answered from some randoms on Radio Row. That's how it all works. But guys, until next time, tell your friends about us, tell your enemies to You can rate, review, subscribe, follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Erica, it's been real. You're ready to get out of here. Let's do it cool, Let's split