Podcast Summary: The Herd with Colin Cowherd – "Show Me Something - Kansas City Chiefs Thanksgiving Showdown, Montana Pride & Sophie’s Lost License"

Date: November 26, 2025
Hosts: Wes & Sophie
Theme: Sports Talk, Thanksgiving Traditions, Life Updates, and Listener Q&A

Episode Overview

In this lively episode, Wes and Sophie dive into their reactions to recent football games (with special emphasis on the Kansas City Chiefs and Montana State), discuss their cozy Thanksgiving traditions and debate leftover food, share home design advice for bachelors, discuss Sophie losing her driver’s license, and answer uplifting questions from young listeners about basketball and injury recovery. The tone is warm, fun, and highly relatable, blending light-hearted banter with genuine insights and supportive advice.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Football Reactions: Montana Pride & the Chiefs' Crucial Win

• Montana State’s “Brawl of the Wild” Victory

  • Wes gushes about Montana State keeping the trophy: “Brawl of the Wild trophy stays home in Bozeman, Montana, where it belongs. Fantastic game. Fucking awesome.” (05:06)
  • Discusses the back-and-forth nature of the game and landing a 2-seed in the FCS playoffs.

• Chiefs’ Thanksgiving Showdown & Playoff Hopes

  • Sophie and Wes break down the stress of the recent Chiefs game and what it means for the season:
    • Wes: “Chiefs needed that win to kind of save their season…Played like shit to start and then found a way.” (06:22)
    • Both note how the tighter, more unpredictable season actually adds excitement:
      • Sophie: “There's more pressure behind it, you know, more at stake.” (07:05)

2. Cozy Sunday & Thanksgiving Traditions

• Building the Perfect Football Sunday

  • Sophie describes her ideal: early church, cooking breakfast, football, naps, and a walk, but wishes for more friends or family to share it with (07:27)
  • Wes loves the big city Sunday bar atmosphere or relaxing alone at home: “Being in a crowded bar with your friends…or couch by myself. Known around Chiefs game. Light a candle.” (09:18)

• Holiday Feels: Football as Focal Point

  • Wes and Sophie agree: football brings family together, filling the after-dinner lull on Thanksgiving:
    • Wes: “I like football on holidays because it kind of gives you something to just do in the middle.” (17:13)
    • Sophie's family tradition: “Everyone eats and then we all go to our spot to put on football. But it’s a big old nap.” (18:36)

• Thanksgiving Food and the Leftovers Debate

  • Wes: “Leftovers are better in my opinion than the original plate. I don’t know if that’s a hot take.” (19:03)
  • Both share their ultimate Thanksgiving plates:
    • Wes: ham, dark meat turkey, cheesy potatoes, mashed potatoes with gravy: “my king is a big portion of mashed potatoes with a shitload of gravy.” (25:09)
    • Sophie: heavy on ham, hash brown casserole, mac and cheese, green bean casserole, and pies (26:47)

3. Life Skills & Apartment Aesthetics for Bachelors

• Wes’s Surprisingly Cozy Apartment
  • Sophie is shocked at how put-together Wes’s home is:
    • Sophie: “I was not expecting your apartment to look so cute and, like, sophisticated.” (10:08)
  • Wes’s advice to other guys: “The bar is super low for their apartments… just have a normal apartment. Keep it clean… a candle, add a picture and make sure it’s framed.” (12:29)
  • Both encourage small investments in bedding and furniture, and basic cleanliness above all.

4. Giving Back and Uplifting Community

• Thanksgiving Volunteer Plans

  • Wes and Sophie brainstorm orchestrating a Thanksgiving meal for those without one, inspired by Chiefs players’ turkey deliveries:
    • “We should put a Thanksgiving dinner for people who never get one next year, like, to give back to Columbia.” (27:31)

• Sophie’s Basketball Classic

  • Sophie outlines her high school girls’ basketball charity event, the Sylvie Cunningham Classic, which raises money for groups like Ronald McDonald House and provides much-needed resources for female athletes (29:13)
  • “We get all the stuff, like girl shorts and shirts and socks and shoes... it is fun, and it's really interactive.” (30:09)

5. Sophie’s Lost License Saga & Driving Incompetence in Arizona

• Sophie tells the wild tale of her driver’s license “getting flushed,” leading to two years of using her passport for ID:
  • “I flushed and I saw my license and I like went in and tried to grab it, and it was the hardest flusher I’ve ever seen in my life.” (38:48)
• Rants about incompetence with rain-driving in Arizona:
  • “People in Arizona don’t know how to fucking drive in the rain worth shit. Like, people don’t know how to drive in general...” (36:06)

6. Celebrity Dinner with Jimmy Fallon

• Wes recounts being invited to dinner with Jimmy Fallon and his wife Nancy after meeting her at BravoCon:
  • “Jimmy was great. Like, really funny. Just in a cute dinner way… so fun. He was such a treat… So kind and sweet to everybody.” (33:16)

7. AI in Country Music: Satire & Concerns

• Discussion of a viral, AI-generated country song, leading to debate about AI's impact on music:
  • Sophie: “You’re losing the human piece of things… People love artists because it brings people together.” (03:06, repeated at 50:33)
  • Wes plays a ridiculous, explicit AI track: “That was a fake AI country song about jerking off.” (04:05, 51:34)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On football and stakes:

  • Wes: “Every game matter. I don't know. I'm having fun.” (07:05)

• On baseball bachelor pads:

  • Wes: “Don't shave your pubes on the toilet. Like, have a candle, keep it clean... easiest thing you can do.” (12:29)

• On AI music:

  • Sophie: “This is ruining Americans’ brains. Turn that shit off. Oh my God. This is so bad. This is so bad.” (03:41, 51:10)

• On friendship and support:

  • Sophie, to Wes: “You are so, so intelligent and you have a true gift of interviewing… you bring out the best in people. Like, it’s—that’s you.” (47:24, 48:01)

• On resilience after injury:

  • Wes: “You just fully pivot into like trying to accomplish what’s in front of you next… you stay hungry.” (57:19)
  • Sophie: “Fall in love with the things that are hard, fall in love with the things that you don’t want to do that aren’t fun.” (58:27)

Listener Q&A Highlights

[54:47] – [59:41]

• Mia, 10, on defense in basketball:
  • Sophie emphasizes versatility and never giving up. “Just never giving up, even if you're slow behind them…make them work for every little thing. That’s how you become a good defender.” (55:24)
• Shelby on returning from injury:
  • Wes highlights focusing energy on rehab goals; Sophie draws life lessons from setbacks: “Fall in love with the journey… embrace what being hurt is teaching you: resilience, discipline, obedience.” (58:27)

Timestamps for Notable Segments

| Time | Segment | |----------|---------------------------------------------------------| | 05:06 | Montana State win and football discussion | | 06:22 | Chiefs’ playoff hopes & the thrill of a stressful season| | 09:18 | Ideal football Sunday traditions | | 17:13 | Football as Thanksgiving family tradition | | 19:03 | Thanksgiving leftovers debate | | 25:09 | Favorite Thanksgiving plate items | | 29:13 | Sylvie Cunningham Basketball Classic | | 33:16 | Wes’s dinner with Jimmy Fallon | | 36:06 | Driving mishaps in Arizona & Sophie’s license saga | | 47:24 | Sophie praises Wes’s sports journalism and skills | | 50:33 | AI music debate (repeated from early banter) | | 54:47 | Listener Q&A: Defensive basketball & injury advice |

Episode Tone & Style

The banter is casual, energetic, and full of inside jokes but blends seamlessly into earnest and heartfelt moments. Listeners are treated like old friends, and the back-and-forth creates a welcoming, engaging vibe, whether talking sports, life hacks, or answering fan questions.

TL;DR

This episode is a warm and irreverent Thanksgiving week catch-up centered on football (Montana pride and Chiefs stress), traditions, home life, giving back, and genuine advice for listeners. The cohosts’ playful chemistry shines throughout, as does their commitment to their communities, to each other, and to those tuning in for laughs, life tips, and real talk.