The second hour of the show kicks off with a discussion surrounding Mike McCarthy and how the juice of the rivalry would increase if he took over the Bears before the conversation circles back to Christmas movies. The most important question of the day: Is Nightmare Before Christmas a true Christmas movie? A review of Don't Quote Me and a little Poll Dancing conclude the show. Merry Christmas everyone!

Merry Christmas Eve from Jim, Matt, and Molly! Jim, Matt and Riley take you in to your Holiday weekend with a good dose of tomfoolery and sports talk. First, Jim poses the question of how long you watched the Packers-Saints game before tuning out due to the nature of the blowout before asking about the ideal win as a fan. Some Christmas-y antics ensure afterwards during discussions of favorite Christmas movies, specifically versions of the Grinch.

Jason Wilde joins Jim and Matt as they prepare for Monday night's Packers game versus a downtrodden Saints team. Jason answers today's poll question asking if it's more important for the Packers to just get a win as 14.5-point favorites or avoid any injuries to key players. Jim asks Jason if, win or lose, will tonight's game change his opinion about this Packers team, and how big is next week's matchup against the 13-2 Vikings shaping up to be? With each team coming off very different wins against the Seahawks, are the Packers or the Vikings looking better right now as they likely compete for the 5 and 6 seeds in the NFC playoff picture. Also, what's the importance of playoff seeding for Green Bay now that they've officially been eliminated from winning the NFC North? Also, who qualifies into the "key players" category that the Packers would not be able to win in the playoffs without? Also, why is, or isn't, Matt Hamilton wearing a shirt under his Green & Gold overalls on today's show?

Jim Rutledge and Matt Hamilton start the show 4 hours early as their air 12-2pm ahead of a full day of Packers pregame coverage leading into the Monday Night Football matchup versus the Saints! The Packers are 14.5-point favorites against a Saints team that will be without Derek Carr, Alvin Kamara and Chris Olave... Not much matters for the Saints, and the Packers officially no longer have a chance to win the NFC North after the Lions beat the Bears on Sunday. So, is it more important for the Packers to just get out with a win for wildcard seeding or just come away without any injuries to a key player? Which players would qualify in the "key player" category as guys that the Packers cannot live without in the playoffs, and why won't Jim be changing his opinion on the Packers whether they win or lose versus New Orleans? Jason Wilde joins Jim and Matt as they prepare for Monday night's Packers game versus a downtrodden Saints team. Jason answers today's poll question asking if it's more important for the Packers to just get a win as 14.5-point favorites or avoid any injuries to key players. Jim asks Jason if, win or lose, will tonight's game change his opinion about this Packers team, and how big is next week's matchup against the 13-2 Vikings shaping up to be? With each team coming off very different wins against the Seahawks, are the Packers or the Vikings looking better right now as they likely compete for the 5 and 6 seeds in the NFC playoff picture. Also, what's the importance of playoff seeding for Green Bay now that they've officially been eliminated from winning the NFC North? Also, who qualifies into the "key players" category that the Packers would not be able to win in the playoffs without? Also, why is, or isn't, Matt Hamilton wearing a shirt under his Green & Gold overalls on today's show? Jim and Matt wrap up Hour 1 as Matt goes topless while Jim and producer Primetime thank him for some of the gifts he brought into the Everlight Solar ESPN Madison studio today!

Jim Rutledge and Matt Hamilton (shirtless) roll into Hour 2 of their early 12-2pm show ahead of Monday night's Packers game versus the Saints. They continue to ask if it's more important that the Packers get their 11th win of the season or just come away with zero key injuries in tonight's game versus the injury-riddled Saints. While the Packers don't have much to gain as 14.5-point favorites versus New Orleans, can they start looking ahead to next week's matchup against the now 13-2 Vikings? Where do the Packers stack up against the NFC's other top contenders like the Vikings, the 13-2 Lions and the 12-3 Eagles, and how do they compare to the 10-5 Commanders? Jim, Matt and producer Primetime all make their longshot Don't Quote Me predictions for the Packers vs Saints game, including a cameo prediction from Molly Brown as she travels in the zoo on wheels for the holidays. Jim, Matt and Prime also play a Festivus-edition of Throwing Stones, as they air some grievances about getting your picture taken at Medieval Times, the Matt-ernity attendance competition, the NFL's Christmas schedule, and Matt trying to kill Primetime with an open sack of nuts!

Jim Rutledge takes the JM&M family into the weekend with Jon Arias subbing in for Matt Hamilton on this Phish Friday! Jim and Jon first congratulate Badgers volleyball star Sarah Franklin for announcing that she is joining Madison's pro volleyball team LOVB Madison following her final season of eligibility this year! They work their way back to two crazy sporting events from Thursday night, including the wonky free kick field goal that the Chargers took going into halftime of their win over the Broncos followed by an all-time collapse by Nebraska Volleyball, which blew a 2-0 lead to Penn State in last night's Final Four matchup! They cue the fans to chime in with the strangest niche rules in that they can think of in pro sports and in their own rec sports leagues. They also run through some of the all-time greatest comebacks/blown leads in sports history, leading off with Vikings fan Jon's submission of the 2014 NFC Championship Game. With the phone lines still not working at the ESPN Madison Everlight Solar studio, they pivot from Jason Wilde's usual Friday appearance on the show to discuss the devil inside all phones nowadays: social media platforms and how much toxic, time-wasting energy they pull from our lives.

Jim Rutledge and Jon Arias roll into Hour 2 of Phish Friday when the phones are once again down at the ESPN Madison Everlight Solar studio. But, the talk & text line is still alive and well, and Jim triggers an "old" texter who was dilly-dallying with their time today at Costco. Jon fires back at the entire sports world for dunking on UW-Green Bay head coach and national radio host, Doug Gottlieb, who Jon feels was misrepresented in his "Nobody U" quote that surfaced after Wednesday's loss to D2 Michigan Tech. They continue calling out the olds with some of the awkward words that they feel should be eliminated from all grandparents' vocabulary. Jim and Jon wrap up their Phish Friday with a cheers to some more fish boils and the finest male soap operas.

Jim Rutledge and Alex Gravatt hold down the show with Matt out for the next two days curling in the cold Minnesota snow. Jim and G start the show reacting to some of the insane nonsense coming from Aaron Rodgers and Jets' owner Woody Johnson, starting with the article in The Athletic outlining Johnson's rambuctious rule over the franchise. Is it crazier to trust what Aaron Rodgers says in his Netflix show "Enigma" or the fact that Woody Johnson reportedly let players' Madden ratings influence the Jets' free agency and roster decisions!?!? They ask if Aaron's narcissism would finally allow him to admit that he actually made a mistake when being traded to New York, and is Woody Johnson in the elite group of worst owners in sports? Severe winter weather is moving into Madison, so the show struggles to connect with fans and guests alike... Will we ever hear from Evan Cohen down at the Boca Raton Bowl again? They wrap up Hour 1 with the High Life Dive Bar of the Week -- Antler's Tavern in Monona --, which springs into a conversation about Jim's memories (or lack there of) from waking up in a South Florida bathtub after three too many Long Island ice teas!

Jim Rutledge and Alex Gravatt finish up the lighthearted conversation about bathtubs to get into some more Packers conversation, discussing the ESPN article from Bill Barnwell today that ranked every NFL team's biggest miss since 2020. Barnwell claims the Packers' biggest miss was just over-drafting Quay Walker and Devonte Wyatt in 2022, but what are Jim, G and producer Primetime's picks for Gutey's biggest miss of the last 5 years? Jim makes a case that Gutey's biggest miss was the move that he DIDN'T make: moving off of Aaron Rodgers a year too late. After seeing how things have turned out for Rodgers in New York compared to Jordan Love over the past two seasons, is it fair to say for sure that the Packers should have moved to Love after the 2022 campaign? They wrap up with Throwing Stones, as fan-favorite Rob in Madison breaks through the downed phone lines to give his story of waking up in a bathtub in Minneapolis.

Jim Rutledge and Matt Hamilton hoist the in-season/midweek trophy on Wednesday's show, starting with a cheers to the Bucks for winning the NBA Cup Final! Jim and Matt discuss how impressive the Bucks looked in last night's 97-81 win against the Thunder, and they get ready to run through a brick NBA Cup court after hearing Giannis' postgame comments! Jim and Matt are hyped for winning the in-season tourney, but they wanna know which vibes the fans are feeling: YEAH!, That is neat, or Meh? Jim and Matt pivot to today's Packers conversation as they look past next Monday's matchup against the hobbled Saints. With the Packers currently situated as the 6-seed in the NFC playoff picture, they ask which wild-card spot the team is most likely to end up with. The Packers are virtually eliminated from winning the NFC North, but is there a realistic outcome where they can overcome the Lions or the Vikings for the 5-seed, and how worried should the Packers be about facing either the Rams or the winner of the NFC South in the wild-card round? They continue talking about Green Bay, but they focus on the university after UW-GB's brutal loss to D2 Michigan Tech. They listen to how part-time head coach and radio host, Doug Gottlieb, added insult to injury for his team by calling Michigan Tech "Nobody U" earlier this season... Jim and Matt try to dunk on Matt during Throwing Stones, asking him to name the 11 teams in UW-GB's league, the Horizon League, and they give Matt a chance to really show off his brains by throwing the 8 Ivy League schools into the mix as well!