Royal Rumble Chaos, Knicks Lakers Hype, and Idiots With Idioms

Evan & Tiki

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Sports

4.2 • 990 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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It is a packed sports and pop culture run as the Brooklyn Nets hit the road, the New York Rangers, New Jersey Devils, and New York Islanders all take the ice, and New York Knicks host the Los Angeles Lakers at MSG in what might be the hottest ticket in years. Then the conversation veers into WWE madness with the Royal Rumble airing at a very strange Saturday afternoon time from Saudi Arabia. Viewing habits get debated, streaming platforms get questioned, and bold predictions are made, including a surprise pick involving Braun Breaker, plus talk of Roman Reigns, Cody Rhodes, Liv Morgan, and Sami Zayn. And just when things cannot get any more unhinged, the weekly fan favorite returns as “Idiots With Idioms” delivers an all time long, chaotic recap of verbal slip ups across the station. Sports, wrestling, nostalgia, and total nonsense all wrapped into one very busy segment.

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0:00.0	The Nets will head out to Utah. The Rangers, Devils, and Islanders are all in action on Saturday.
0:05.0	And the Knicks also will be part of NBC's Sunday night basketball as the Lakers visit MSG for the hottest NBA ticket in years.
0:13.5	Plus, apparently, there's the Royal Rumble.
0:15.7	There is.
0:16.5	The Royal Rumble is on Saturday.
0:18.5	And it's on at 2 o'clock, which is odd.
0:20.7	But as Tiki pointed out, it's in Saudi Arabia. So it's very, like, I'm not watching it, 2 o'clock on Saturday, 2 o'clock. Yeah. I mean, to the point where, and this made me laugh, our good friend Sal Lekata just launched the YouTube channel as well, and he had Seth Rollins on, which was a great get. And I was watching.
0:39.9	And by the way, his producer asked a great question.
0:42.1	This Bada Boom guy, I got to reach out to it.
0:51.4	He's like, well, you ever close to having a shield triple threat map? Oh, I love it. It was a great question. Got a great answer, but whatever. So Seth in promoting the Royal Rumble says Sounds like hey how you gonna watch it like you going what are you doing and Seth's like well I can't watch it live
0:57.2	I'm on daddy the Royal Rumble says, sounds like, hey, how are you going to watch it? Like, you're going?
0:54.4	What are you doing?
0:55.4	And Seth's like, well, I can't watch it live. I'm on daddy duty. And my daughter's got gymnastics and she's got dance. And I'm like, yeah. People are busy on Saturday afterno. Yeah, to a 2 p.m. 2 o'clock. And if you're on the West Coast, it's 11 a.m.
1:09.8	Yeah.
1:10.3	So that's just, that's just, it's just odd.
1:12.2	I'm watching it like the West Coast, it's 11 a.m. Yeah. So that's just, it's just odd.
1:12.2	I'm watching it like the next day, honestly.
1:15.0	So I'll probably not check Twitter, not check text messages, which is annoying.
1:18.8	You can find it globally on Netflix or where else is it?
1:22.2	Peacock!
1:22.9	I have no idea anymore.
1:24.3	I don't even know where it is.
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