Late-Round Perspectives: Joey Wright

**JJ** (0:00)
Joey Wright's a community ambassador for Footballguys who host Trivia Night Live, their Sunday morning live show and the new Home League show. He previously did work at Rasball. He's a girl dad, he's a film critic, and no one has better outfits than Joey at the Fantasy Football Expo. These are his late-round perspectives.
You being a movie critic, I have to ask you this to start this. Top three Christmas movies, go. Holiday movies. We won't even say specifically Christmas, just holiday and general movies.

**Joey Wright** (0:40)
Holiday and general, let's get the good feels, let's get the good vibes during the holidays. For a little snarkiness, I love Scrooge, with Bill Murray. I'm not gonna put him in order.

**JJ** (0:48)
You know who's obsessed with that is Denny Carter.

**Joey Wright** (0:51)
Well, Denny is a very, very funny man, so I would get it. That's a very like, yeah, that's Denny's Christmas movie. I get that. I like Christmas vacation, and I got into a little argument last night with Paul Charchin about it and he can kick rocks. I don't know.

**JJ** (1:07)
Is Charchin not a Christmas vacation guy?

**Joey Wright** (1:09)
He's anti-Christmas vacation.

**JJ** (1:11)
How is that even possible?

**Joey Wright** (1:13)
I don't want to speak for him. All he said to me was he saw it 20 years ago, he didn't find it funny.

**JJ** (1:18)
Wow. Wow.

**Joey Wright** (1:20)
Listen, when Randy Quaid walks up and just one finger hits the little windmill and it just collapses, it's comedy gold.

**JJ** (1:28)
It is good.

**Joey Wright** (1:29)
And I need to pick one more. I'm not going to say Eyes Wide Shut. That's like Joey's Christmas movie. I annoy my wife every Christmas Eve. I watch it.

**JJ** (1:36)
Pretty sure Denny is throwing that one out there too.

**Joey Wright** (1:38)
Yeah, it grows every year on me. No, like listen, It's a Wonderful Life is rated one of the best Christmas movies for a reason. I don't think it's a bad movie. I think it holds up. Don't watch it in color. Watch it in black and white. Yeah, I'll throw three classics out there for you.

**JJ** (1:53)
Don't you have a cat named after Kevin McAllister?

**Joey Wright** (1:56)
I do.

**JJ** (1:58)
You didn't even name Home Alone there.

**Joey Wright** (1:59)
I know. I should have named Home Alone. You put me on the spot.

**JJ** (2:02)
You didn't say Joey. That's the only on-the-spot question, I promise you.

**Joey Wright** (2:07)
That's fine.

**JJ** (2:08)
No, I mean, I figured you would throw Home Alone out there after naming a pet after Kevin McAllister.

**Joey Wright** (2:15)
Listen, I don't want to take credit for that. My incredible seven, she was seven at the time, she's nine now, we adopted the cat, and we've got it in the car, and its name was Simba, and I look in the rear-view mirror and I was like, honey, hate to tell you that name's not going to work.
We name our dogs and pets after real people, type family.

**JJ** (2:34)
Yes.

**Joey Wright** (2:35)
She's like, what about Kevin from Home Alone? Because it's Christmas, and I was like, Kevin McAllister, perfect, you're brilliant.

**JJ** (2:41)
Kevin is a fantastic name for a pet. We have a Henry, so we're in the same boat for human names.
Henry's going to be 16 though in June. He's a little dog, so his time is limited, and we're trying to enjoy it as much as we can. But I'm with you with the human names for pets. It's more fun that way.

**Joey Wright** (3:00)
100%. We've had a Rob, we have a Betty. We have a Betty as a golden trigger.

**JJ** (3:04)
Rob is pretty incredible.

**Joey Wright** (3:06)
It was Robert Loja was his full name.

**JJ** (3:08)
But just Rob is a pretty incredible name for a pet. Love it. All right. Well, this is your first time on Perspectives. For the record, you're catching me on a bad week. My voice is horrible because I got this cold that my son gave me.
People are hearing me sound like I've been smoking cigarettes all day. That's not been the case. It has been me with this cold. So you're going to have to carry a little bit on today's show, my man. Okay.

**Joey Wright** (3:37)
If I have to.

**JJ** (3:39)
No pressure. But this is your first time on Perspectives. Give everyone a glimpses of you and how you got into this space and what you're up to.

**Joey Wright** (3:47)
Yeah. In 2020, I got really sick. My gallbladder almost ruptured. I had a minor stroke. Things were going bad. I was in bed for a lot of the time. I had always played fantasy football, but I got into my first industry tournament. I played in the Razz Bowl. It was my first thing I ever played in that was a toe dipping into the industry.