CO2ISFUNNY | Some Stuff Weekly 01.08.2026

UGH TO THE WORLD...

8 days into 2026 and the world is already going nuts! I thought we already had our own Greenland, and it is called North Dakota. No one lives there either and it is always cold. It has more Danish angst then Hamlet at a Holiday Inn Express breakfast buffet. Pastries for all!

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NFL WILDCARD WEEKEND

My life has become so meaningless, I'm almost excited for the Olympics. That's how far I am falling. I'm gonna start a sports gambling addiction, and place my mortgage money on the luge. I am hoping my bookie won't even know what it is, so I will win no matter what. Meanwhile, the Chiefs finally ended their Milli Vanilli season, where they posed as champs even though it was all a scam. Finally getting closer to putting a bow on this gridiron year...

Let's get to the picks!

  • SAT | RAMS @ PANTHERS | PICK: RAMS

    • Rams should have a bye. In fact, America should have a bye from having to watch this game. It's gonna be ugly. Rams score on every play, including defense, and a new world record for math in sports is set. McVay gets his Boy Scout Merit Badge and a Wildcard Win on the same day.

  • SAT | PACKERS @ BEARS | PICK: PACKERS

    • For the 11th time in the last 2 weeks, the Packers and Bears are set to do battle. Do these teams even play anyone else ever??? The temperature will be a balmy 11 below in Chicago--practically swimsuit season! I predict a tame 14 murders during the game, and a Packers victory, followed by a cow kicking over a lantern in a barn on DeKoven Street, and another 98 years of sports curses settle in for Chicago.

  • SUN | BILLS @ JAGUARS | PICK: BILLS

    • Josh Allen and the rest of the team not named Bill bring the ice and snow to Jacksonville. It is going to be a frosty afternoon for Trevor and the Jags, and Josh gets a very necessary playoff win. Afterwards, they make another Hallmark movie about the game that is just a pale imitation of the Chiefs' Hallmark movie--a dangerous trend that is sweeping the league.

  • SUN | 49ERS @ EAGLES | PICK: 49ERS

    • I am excited for this game! I get excited for every Eagles' loss, but this time feels like a guarantee. The 49ers spelunk their way to football gold, and the Eagles go sobbing back to the nest.

  • SUN | CHARGERS @ PATRIOTS | PICK: CHARGERS

    • There is going to be a real lack of gray hoodies on the Patriots' sideline come Sunday afternoon. No Belichek spells no victory for Drake Maye and the boys. Like a Ken Burns documentary on PBS, the Patriots' season has gone on just a little too long with dubious results. The Chargers take this one easy.

  • MON | TEXANS @ STEELERS | PICK: STEELERS

    • Coach Bum Phillips and his Houston squad, led by newbie QB Dan Pastorini, head to Three Rivers to do battle with grizzled vet Aaron Rodgers and the Steel Curtain. The terrible towels are out waving, but it is the pollution from Andrew Carnegie's US Steel mills that provides the highlights. The carcinogens in the Allegheny River catch fire, and the blaze lights up the night sky, distracting the Texans from completing their Taylor Sheridan-scripted destiny. Steelers win 3-2.

CHATGPT HEALTH

We all knew the day was coming. Now it is here--the launch of ChatGPT Health. If there's one thing the world has been waiting on, it is wildly off-target health assessments, but this time provided by AI, not Good Ol' Doc Weebly from the farm town three acres over. Rest assured the lawyers good folks at OpenAI are assuring us that ChatGPT Health is not here to "replace" your doctor, but just "support" them. If my doctor needs AI to tell me when I have the flu, then I need a new doctor. It was bad enough with Apple sticking its nose in my business all the time. Now I need a system that doesn't know the number of r's in strawberry to weigh in? Please count me as a victim of natural selection. If I win a Darwin Award for finding this annoying and too soon, then so be it. AI should stay in its lane -- making dumb videos of animals on diving boards at the Olympics and Donald Trump deepfakes that fool old people across the world. Not this. This is just going to lead to all of us finding out we have innumerable diseases without cures that our insurance does not cover. It's a hard pass for me.

THE SHOW I AM WATCHING

Stranger Things Final Season

I had high hopes for this final season of Stranger Things. I loved the show from the start, and despite my intense reservations for British actors, Millie Bobby Brown was captivating as 11--even as she aged up way past being 11, which is always a Kenny Loggins Danger Zone for child stars. The final season was fun and reasonably satisfying. Winona Ryder (literally) stole the show ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚, and all the 80s references were fun to spot. My only complaint is this-- I remember watching the last Lord of the Rings movie many years ago, and after the ring business in the fire land, etc, the movie decided to watch them walk home to Hobbitville for over an hour where nothing happened. Same here. They did all the action stuff and defeated the bad guy in the Upside Down, and it was cool, but then we watched them grow old in what felt like real time with nothing going on. END THE SHOW ALREADY!!! IT'S SO FAR PAST MY BEDTIME!!!

CLIP OF THE WEEK

Just sticking with a theme is all... Another oldie, but it's where I see the world headed!

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COMEDIAN TO KNOW: KAREN HABER

There are some comedians in the world that no amount of description and explanation does justice to. Karen Haber is one of those comics. Her sense of humor is wicked and sharp and unexpected, and her ability to mesmerize you with a story that is equal parts offbeat, hilarious, and so unexpectedly sweet will absolutely blow you away. I know it is clichรฉ to say you have to see her to know what I mean, but please believe me-- you have to see her to know what I mean. She is like no other comic on the market, and every show I see her in (and, on occasion, get to perform alongside her), I am luckier for it! WATCH A VIDEO OF KAREN HERE!

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