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Guys, it's a magical time of year again.

The holidays?

No, full season.

No. It's the time where everyone goes on their spotify and they've figured out what they've been listening to way too much of this season. Which, by the way, thank you to all of our listeners that listen to us so much and have us high on the podcast list and all of that. We love you all and it's so great that you listen so much.

But also, that didn't sound enthusiastic.

I tried to clap in Woo and I got nothing.

That didn't sound like gratitude. You sound like you've been wearing a costume all day and are exhausted. Thank you, fans. Thank you, fans. Give it up for the fans. Yeah. Overwhelmingly loyal, unusual, unseen in this marketplace. People who listen that long to any one thing in a crowded entertainment field.

That's because you game the system by putting out hours upon hours of content and dividing it up in parts. In fact, your whole empire is built on lies.

That is right. We have fooled everyone into giving us money based on never mind the fact.

That you actually sit down, put in the work.

No, cutting up a podcast is the reason everybody gives us money because we.

Cut dare you put out so many parts of ours that you do.

That's right. But Billy, you were saying?

Well, I was just expressing my gratitude towards all of the fans and the listeners and saying how sincerely happy I am that everybody listens to us so much. However, you don't need to tell us, like, every song that you've listened. No, not the podcast. No, guys. No, guys, you're misunderstood that.

You need to tell us.

Tell us.

I love to listen. I'm beaming right now with joy and excitement that people tell us so much and they tag us and all that. But I don't need to know every song that you listen to this year. I don't need to listen to how many minutes a year. You listen to Bad Bunny. Tony was telling me that he listened to Bad Bunny for I believe it was 70 hours this year, which seems like a lot. And he said no. That seems about right.

What's wrong, Juju? Why did you just move away physically from Billy? I need you near the microphone.

I do not need myself near that take. I love the share with me.

I love the fans, too.

You listen to Bad Bonnie if you listen to Taylor Swift, send it to me at Juju Gotti at. Whatever. No subscribers, no fees for less than a cup of coffee a month.

Zero.

Juju, how many things around here do you want to separate yourself from?

Because I wish a lot more.

Especially. Look, my inbox right now is full of Caucasian people calling me the N word while accusing you of being racist. I'm like, Wait a damn, this don't add up. So I want to separate myself from a lot, but I'm a team player and I love all of you equally, so I'm going to take the brunch with you guys.

Thank you for that juju, but Billy is just telling the audience, stop sharing your musical tastes with me. I don't care.

It's not the fans, it's everyone. I don't care what anyone you want.

Me to tell you.

Mine, I actually would like to hear now that you mention it, we should.

All go around the room. Mine are exactly what anybody who looks at me would think that I listen to. Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift, Stevie Nicks and boy genius. So I'm exactly what you all thought I was.

Thank you so much.

I've been listening, and I don't know how many people out here do this, but I've been listening to too many songs.

Well, no, no, Dan, it's not what you think you've been listening to. It's what Spotify tells you you've been listening. You're playing this game wrong. You don't know it works.

I'm sorry for being so ignorant here about Spotify telling me what I'm listening to, but I'm telling you what it is that I listen to.

No, you don't know what you listen to. You don't get it.

How do you feel about the Kelsey brothers spirit of Philadelphia? Have you listened to that one? I have not, but absolutely incredible. It's electric.

I heard it climbed very high because TikTok Swifties and TikTok made the Kelsey's, on top of everything else, successful at singing Bad carol.

I like to think it's successful because of its own artistry and beauty, but.

Sure, it has been a marketing they have been monsters at being able to sell a center and a tight end as the future of football. I have not seen a whole lot of those positions be able to become what those guys have become. I'm not going to say overnight, but it's basically over the last twelve months, it's a series of things that have happened that feel like the economy around them is carefully orchestrated by a management team that really knows what it's doing. When they go from cashing in on the Super Bowl to having every commercial opportunity that they want, I think the.

Only thing that really feels orchestrated is the Taylor Swift stuff and all the network tie ins.

No. They're in love, Mike. They're going to get married. It's real.

Yeah, they want to have kids within the next year.

She's moving in. They saw her equipment outside his house.

But what I was trying to say was I'm not saying that. I'm saying that when people accuse it of being orchestrated, it usually hovers around the Taylor Swift stuff. But when you say you don't necessarily see a tight end or a center break out like this, you never see a center that good. You rarely ever see a tight end that good. They just so happen to be brothers. They played in a Super Bowl against one another. I don't think they're in this because they've been in the leagues for quite a long time. You don't see any of this if they aren't excellent, like hall of Famers, arguably the greatest ever at their positions.

They could have this if Jason Kelsey was not a hall of Fame center.

They're very charismatic and funny. I feel like I become a Kelsey. Truth, eric, I'm, like, so into the Kelsey's me three.

Nick Mangold got a bunch of commercials because he happened to be a center who was good with the jets. But the centers do not obviously get the kind of play that Jason is getting. And Jason wouldn't be getting it at all if it wasn't for everything going on with his brother that he can then also cash in on regardless of his excellence, it just wouldn't go to him. It has to have other elements here. But for selling your league, though, you have to understand that all I've seen for years is the people who are the pitchmen in the commercials only get to be the quarterbacks who have been in front of us for 15 years. It's always those guys who are entitled to the future of the league and how it's going to be sold to us, presented to us, marketed to us beyond. Today, these two brothers are telling a very simple story of family. The curry's did this. When you're watching sports and you want to connect with a customer base that buys products, not just the sports product, but the product of I believe this person, and I want this person to give me advice on what I should be buying.

The only way for all of those things to come into play the way they have, because it's not just excellent success. Mike the people around the economy of this, the business of this, had to be listening very closely when Travis Kelsey told them, I want more fame. Kansas City tried to come down on this. Andy Reid didn't like his dating reality show. They took it from him because they didn't like that image. Think about what Kelsey's image is now versus what it was then. He was very proudly dating women publicly on television in a way that made Andy Reid and that organization uncomfortable enough to shut it down. And what's mushroom clouded since then is exponentially more fame, more distraction, which those coaches hate. And now reports that they're going to spend the next six weeks together if she comes off of Tour. And it's the real test of the relationship because I don't know, man. Travis Kelsey is busier than Taylor. You've seen she's not making as many commercials as he is. Every time I turn on my television, travis Kelsey is grabbed at another commercial, even though I know Taylor Swift is the most famous entertainer in the world.

What those two with their teams have created in terms of an economy, everyone in sports should be looking at that and mesmerized by the amount of money making that you can make with success if you have the right people guiding you into the places where they're chasing for you the things that you want.

In Taylor Swift's defense, she does play three three and a half hour games in NFL stadiums a week.

Travis plays one and every game's, a road game.

I'd venture to say she's more exhausted after what she does.

You never answered your top five. I don't know what that whole thing was, but what's your top five, man?

I don't think the whole room answered that. And I'm basically avoiding your question.

Juju, what is yours?

My top song is Halsey. I have three out of my top five songs are from Sing Two. They're all related to my daughter.

Yeah, my daughter screwed up my algorithm, too.

I don't listen to music at all other than the old stuff, so my stuff doesn't even pop up. But I listen to podcasts. I listen to the should I say the other podcast I listen to?

Yeah, man.

The Pete and Sebastian Show with Pete Maniscalco sebastian Meniscalco and Pete Corielli. I listen to Dan. Soder's new podcast salute to Katie Nolan and my dog, the Bomani Jones the Right time. Also the JBP. Joe Button podcast.

You're listening to a lot of podcasts. You're not listening to music. That one surprises me.

I also don't listen to this show. That's surprising to a lot of people and hurtful.

Our show wasn't on my top five either.

Yeah, I don't think it's true, though. Juju listens to the show all the.

Time because I watch the show, but.

You watch it on the stream.

You don't have to listen max.

Yeah. Stream on, Max.

I mean, you can be on the show and not listen to a word. Sugars has done that for 17 years.

That is true. You're not recorded for our enjoyment. You are not someone who gives the company the clicks that it needs because you're too busy working on listening to the show in places where we don't get credit for your listening.

Yes, sir. YouTube gets my numbers. I can clip from there a lot of times. StreamYard the Asana app, you know what I mean? I don't give my listens to Apple. I should, though. Starting 2024, I proclaim that I'm going to be one of the listeners for the Dan Levitard Show with Stu Gott or else.

Yeah. Apple recently changed its algorithm to combat Dan LeBatard from gaming the system, even though it's still perennially a top three podcast. But that doesn't get in the way of anybody's argument against it. But I make it a point. I haven't listened to my own show and I love the sound of my own voice. So I go there every once every two weeks and make sure that my subscription doesn't lapse. And I sincerely hope that people out there listening are subscribed to us and do the same thing every two weeks. Even if we don't fit your schedule, just go back and listen to us so we can continue to build our empire on top of lies.

I got mad at Apple because just this week, out of nowhere, they tell me that I'm being charged 19 something a month instead of 16 something a month. Out of nowhere. No warning. I mean, I guess it's warning that this is about to happen, but I don't even know what I was paying the $16 a month for.

Yeah, they're good about that. You got to go to your settings, and there's, like, a subscriptions tab.

I know how to find it.

You sure? That's an upset.

I know how you can't pull up your spotify rep. Yeah, I know how.

To find not adding up.

I know how to find where my money is not sitting next to you for several hours a day, the devices that are chronicling, where it is that I'm listening. This doesn't happen to you guys, though, where you're getting a bunch of mystery charges that I had to get down to.

Yeah, I had to get down to the bottom of it. I'm like, I didn't have the cloud set up there, but my dad I once gave him an admin because my dad doesn't want to pay for subscriptions, and he just started buying cloud storage for himself, and now he venmos me 199 every year. It.