The 2026 Halloween Spooktacular

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Speaker 1 (00:08):
At Saint Norman's Hospital. Every heartbeat counts, every patient matters,
and every fantasy lineup tells a story of triumph or tragedy.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Another flawless triple bypass, another week at the top. Life
is good when your doctor Aaron James, chief of Surgery
and reigning Fantasy football champion.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah, some of us are saving lives and trying to
figure out why we drafted Matt Ryan for sixty seven dollars.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Doctor Prime, You're a good doctor, but your fantasy team's
on life support. You've got to manage your roster like
you manage your patients. No emotion, just precision.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Easy for you to say, doctor Insider Access. Some of
us have twelve hour shifts and one hundred kids who eat.
Are draft magazines.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Doctors. I hope this isn't another code read about your
fantasy teams. Last week you fought over who got to
start in the encore room, and it was based on
projected points.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
Hey, those projections are.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Accurate, about as accurate as your bedside manner.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
I can care.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
You know what, Prime, Maybe you should want my life,
my roster, my calm.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah, well maybe I do. I give anything to be
you for one week stress free, undefeated, and smug as well.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Oh no, not again. Last time, two surgeons said that
they swapped hands mid surgery.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
What what what happened?

Speaker 5 (01:54):
Why am I wearing your scrub cap?

Speaker 4 (01:57):
And why am I holding your pager?

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Congratulations? You just freaky Friday, yourselves Welcome to each other's
rounds and e Chandon's fantasy teams.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Oh oh, my team is stacked. I'm thirteen and three.

Speaker 6 (02:15):
This feels powerful, and I've got Trevor Lawrence in a
bench full of injured reserved drags. This is moultpractice.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Oh, relaxed actors, Maybe you'll learn something prime. How it
feels to win Aaron, how it feels to have a pulse.

Speaker 5 (02:41):
This is a cove read lockdown.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
I repeat co read lockdown.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
At Saint Norman's Hospital, the real operation is self reflection.
Two men. It's one hospital and one fantasy league, where
pride is the deadliest condition of all. Next week on
Saint Norman's Hospital, one of them finds love in the
ICU and the other accidentally clicks on a trade from Dave. Hello, Dave,

(03:18):
I would tell you your fantasy buddies. Reality is the
thing we don't want to forget.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Doctor Riccado.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
I'm not comfortable.

Speaker 5 (03:31):
The balls are anything but deflating. Picked up my son
here the trophy is actually buckled up right next to him.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
I have to apologize to everyone other than Jason.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
Puppet mastering his way to success. You smurf and smurf
not if you bundle it.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Health of the league, knee deep into the waiver wire.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
These are my confessions.

Speaker 5 (03:53):
I didn't even know what fantasy football was. Trying to
retime stamps.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Six grade me just laughed so many times I developed
like serious soul ties.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
I can care.

Speaker 5 (04:04):
The texts are flying, Mike was silent, tumber threat you
get Lucky Trader in the works.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
I mean, the Vikings are winning the Super Bowl and
Happy Halloween. Fantasy Football League. What's up in the DPR.
It is one of the best episodes of the season.
It is our spooctacular episode. A lot of ooh yes, yes, Dan,

(04:32):
I'm just gonna do that all night. And speaking of
Danny's back folks, AJ Dave Bergran, Dan Meyer, A. J. Montsour,
the whole crew. This is you, guys. This is one
of the episodes that I even listened back to. Yeah,
years later, I'll go back and got what did we
do on Hallow? What that Halloween twenty three?

Speaker 5 (04:52):
I will frequently listen to last year's again, I loved
our breakdown of the elite candy of our day.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
So it's fun.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Well, I mean, hey, if there's anything that we can
call ourselves experts at, I don't know if fantasy football counts,
but candy, having big opinions on trick or treating and
sorting through the you know, it's the best night of
the year when you sort through the candy. And this
year we've enacted a new sorting system in the Monster household.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
We have their.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Bags that they fill up and we each get they
each get a bowl and they fill in the untouchables,
so this is Max untouchables, this is Mason's untouchables. And
then they get to look at the leftovers and consider
a trade, and if they trade on the table, they'll
take it. And then that third bowl that's been sitting
there the whole time, that's the mom and Dad bowl,

(05:42):
And anything that gets left over in the trades gets
thrown into the mom and Dad ball. And let's just say,
when you have two picky kids, dinner time is a
pain in the butt. But on Halloween. Mom and Dad
are sitting pretty.

Speaker 5 (05:54):
See, I go for or I'm given a lot of
like the coconuts and the toffees, you know what I mean,
Like like you know what I mean, which which I'm
fine with. But the kids aren't gonna want that. There's
only so much though that you know, you want the
hundred grand, you want the Milky Way, you want the
Three Musketeers.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Right right. Yeah, I love that you're teaching them how
to this is all leading them to a life of
fantasy football. Yeah at some point, right they're They're gonna
they're the air apparent to the Big Fantasyball League. They
are the next Scott Riley generation.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
Scott Riley generation. Actually that I have a bookmark that
says that. I was also gonna say, I like the
can't cut list with Candy. I like that you got
the cut list.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, you can't just drop you know, Patrick Mahomes, you
you know you can't just drop Snickers. No.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
See, that's the best part though, is my kids are
not fans of nuts. They're not fans of caramel. Really,
so like this this Mom and Dad bowl gets a
lot of the Snickers, It gets a lot of the
what else of the reeses.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
They don't like peanut butter candy. I'm like, I mean,
it's I'm sitting great now.

Speaker 5 (07:16):
Is it gummy? Is it nerds? Is it like fruity?

Speaker 4 (07:18):
Like?

Speaker 5 (07:19):
What do they? What do they?

Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (07:20):
They love the fruity stuff, so that each other favorite
fruity stuff. Mason loves the gummies, Mac loves like the nerds.
Nerds clusters, I know we talked about that on last
year's episode. Nerds clusters are elite. I don't think I'll
get my hands in any of those unless I sneak them.
But yeah, there's there's there's plenty to go around. And
again it's there's tons of candy.

Speaker 5 (07:40):
I will tell you this. Dave made an offhand comment
last year and it still sticks to me even today.
What he brought forward when we were doing our analysis
was sweetheart ropes. Yeah, and let me tell you, every
time that I have re listened to that, I go
out and buy a sweetheart from right and I eat

(08:01):
it in the car wash when no one can see me,
and just plow through seven eight ropes right there.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
It's like they took a like a Twizzler's polling peel,
but they like put it in the honey, I blew
up your kid laser and it got big and they
filled it with.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Good sweetheart sweetheart goo ye good goolicious love love your goo,
and and uh dan you obviously you paid you paid
cash obviously for that sweetheart, pay cash and in the
garden in the car wash, paying cash.

Speaker 5 (08:41):
Like you a J. I'm bringing the boys along and
so they'll be like, hey, dad, can we do the
car wash too? And my wife's going wild. They really
like like, yeah, it's crazy the lights, you know, and
then we're all just plowing down sweetheart ropes.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
It's so funny that you do car wash treats, because
that is a that is a thing like when I
when I take for car washes, we always go in
and get a treat and we eat the street during
the car wash.

Speaker 5 (09:01):
Yep, so we do.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
We do car wash streets. And you can sort of
bundle the whole thing into one big gas station purchase
so that your wife just goes, oh, you guys did
a whole gas station, you know, gas and gas and
fuel and not itemized, so you can bundle the whole thing.
And I need to wash, I need thirty on pump
two and I need three ropes.

Speaker 5 (09:21):
Three ropes, Yeah, you know. The other one that we're
big on right now is wild Berry Skittles. Oh, Wildberry
Skittle is another one.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Straight straight Skittles or do you go with the Skittles
gummies because they have the wild Berry Skittle gummies as well.

Speaker 5 (09:38):
I did not know that. Now.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Those those are dangerous because you will blow through like
the mango pack in about thirty seconds. They're super I
think one of the places that I've seen in the most,
I believe is Fleet Farm, which, okay, we'll go down
this road a little bit again. If you want elite candy,

(10:01):
Fleet Farm is like this little secret gem that is hitted.
I'm not sure if the Fleet Farm is near where
you guys live, but there's literally one about a half
mile from our house. First Off, they have all the
stuff that you can't find at most places, like the
wild Berry Skittles gummies. Secondly, they have their own brand
of stuff, their own brand of gummies which are super solid,

(10:22):
the chocolate covered peanuts love them are undefeated. And then
it's like you get to the giant like thirty ounce
bag for like four bucks.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, yeah, that is really good. Wreck. That's a really good,
it's a dangerous wreck. Well, we we put the big
at Big ten. That is clear and welcome into the
Halloween episode.

Speaker 5 (10:43):
Lots to get to.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
In fact, we're not done talking about candy because a
little bit later in the show we have a special
treat and we will unpack that a little bit later.
I don't think anybody's coming to the door like last
year's spectacular episode, but we have lots of fun things planned. Obviously,
Saint Norman's Hospital is back bipopular demand, okay, and popular demand,

(11:04):
but there's just a lot of things I want to
get into. I always throw in sort of an early
fantasy chatter topic, and what I want to bring up
here tonight briefly is what if what if we could
toggle off projected points? You know, you go on your team,
you see your head to head matchup, and you go, boy,
you know it's it's one hundred and twenty to one

(11:24):
hundred and eighteen, okay, But if I slot in this
guy from my bench, my projected points could be one
twenty five. Well, I you know, I think we get
too caught up in looking at projected points, and I
wonder if if there would be a league where you
could toggle that off and just make decisions based on
your own research, based on your own little thing, and
you didn't have that pesky little number to gnaw at

(11:46):
you and go, well, it looks better if I have
all my guys having a better projected total, even though
I think this guy's gonna have a better game. Yahoo
projects this guy's gonna have nine points, even though my
brain tells me I should probably start this guy who's
projected for six points. But I think we get lost
and caught up too much in projected points. What say you, guys?

Speaker 5 (12:05):
I think it's interesting. I do wonder they tend to
vary throughout the week depending on practice schedule, so I'm
curious as to how tied they are to QD all
the injury designations, because that could be one piece. As
someone who is always highly skeptical of projections, I don't

(12:26):
tend to follow them.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
No good and good for you, honestly, good for you.

Speaker 5 (12:33):
It's a great it's a great call. I do get that, though.
I think we do sometimes use them in pod pics also,
so we'd have to think through a new way to
you know, shut out out our pod pics. It does help,
But I agree with you. I'm just I'm just on
the website right now. It looks like, Dave, you would
have to pay an additional thirty dollars to roll that off,

(12:53):
So I don't know if that's there might be a
refive option.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Yeah, Spirit Airlines, let me let me get let me
let me get Gus's PayPal and I'll get on that.

Speaker 5 (13:03):
I mean, I don't know. Maybe Aaron aj maybe you
have another Aaron got another doctor another another topic there.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
But what I think the part that frustrates me the
most is, I don't know if you notice. When the
games are live, so when a player is actively playing,
it's color coded based off of where they are in
their projection. So if they're behind the projection, it turns red,
and if it if it they're head of it, it
turns green. Suffice it to say, I've been seeing a
lot of red this year, and it's a frustrating thing

(13:36):
because that the red just encompasses the.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
Feelings of anger, and I think it just draws it
out in you. This last week was a tough one
for me.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
I you know, had the top team in the league
on the ropes and I saw all that red and
it just kept getting more and more red.

Speaker 4 (13:52):
I had one player.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
I just looked one player that I think went positive
on the projections, and he went positive.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
About twenty points with James Cook. So it was, you know,
a possibility.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
But at the same time, I mean, I guess let's
let's let me ask this question to the group. At
what point do you buck the trend and ignore the
projections to put in a player that is projected not considerably,
but let's say like two points less, so it's enough
of a margin to say this is a This is
I got a hunch on this one.

Speaker 4 (14:22):
Is it a matchup play?

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Is it a do you ever go in and say, hey,
I need some home run hitters this week rather than
like the guy I know who's going to score me
six points?

Speaker 4 (14:30):
What goes into that train of thought for you guys?

Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yeah, I think I'm with you. I'm I'm I'm starting
to get to a bolder point now in the in
the season where I'm I'm willing to maybe take some
risks and not play it safe and go, well, yeah,
who tells me to start this guy? So I gotta
start this guy. I just hats up to Dan, right, Dan?
Is it sounds like you're doing the same kind of
thing where it's like, and I'm not going to trust
the Yahoo things and I'm just gonna sort of make

(14:54):
my own choices. But I just think psychologically, I wonder
it would be if it would be interesting if you
just saw a player name and who they were playing,
and you weren't distracted by this AI projection doesn't doesn't
mess with our heads too much. We're making our decisions, guys.

Speaker 5 (15:10):
I just ran into this issue last week where I
was going between DK Metcalf and Deebo Samuel. Deebo Samuel
had the higher by like a point, like the higher projection.
I didn't trust him, right, He's got some issues. He'd
come off of zero, you know, a week he was
out out one week. There's some quarterback situations. I got

(15:33):
that mclaurin's coming back, but you got to play him now.
Maybe maybe that'll help them. I even tested Mike. Mike said,
hey do DK. I was like, that's where I was going.
Bud actually texted my opponent and asked him what his
thoughts were. Yeah, whatever, I don't care. I think I
texted you too.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
What do you.

Speaker 5 (15:53):
Started? DeKay got me just enough points to get the win,
didn't have didn't have to worry about wait until Monday.
So yes, I think there's a matchup. I think there's
a quarterback. What's happening with the quarterback the time of day?
Oh yeah, I don't trust the Germans games.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah, yeah, we've got we do have a lot to
get to. We're gonna whip through this episode, but we
do have a lot to get to. AJ. I just
you know, cry on my shoulder. We were all, baba,
we were one behind you. I know, hashtag beat AJ
blah blah blah, but like we were with you on
Monday night as you had Marcus Mariota, and we just
needed to eke out a few more points late in

(16:39):
the fourth quarter, ball in Mariota's hands. We're talking, we
need like two completions and you know they're throwing because
they're down, and he grows a pick and we just
the air went out of the room, The air went
out of a thread, the air went out of your home.
It just was deflating. And I just felt like we
gave a way one to prime. He got an easy

(17:02):
point and you deserve it. And it's a bummer and
I don't know how you take that, but I'm sure
it wasn't pleasant.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Well, No, I didn't take it well, but I kind
of expected it at this point in the season, sitting
at three and thirteen. I knew by Monday night that
I was sub the median, So I was this was
gonna I was gonna give this week everything I had
and the best that I could have Mustard was going
to be one point. So I knew that it was

(17:30):
gonna be. I was ticked off about that, Like I
was still assuming that I was going to get to
one point, and I was pretty ticked off about how
that had played out in the mark. The projection had
dipped down and it had bopped up, and you know,
some teams are putting up crazy scores on a weird week.

Speaker 4 (17:45):
But yeah, Marcus Mariota.

Speaker 5 (17:46):
So that if you.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
Remember, Dave Dan, this was not on the recording of
last week's podcast. But after we hit the stop button
and stopped recording, the group of the four of us
stayed on for about another ten minutes and talked, you know,
some players and Trey Aids and you know, and just
like you know, just kind of after showing, right, it
was the after show, right for.

Speaker 5 (18:06):
The listeners, out there. I need you to know the
after Show is fire. You like subscribe and share please? Yeah,
it is protected behind a paywall. But other than.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
That, we've decided that we will we will will be
recording the after Show from here on out, like hit
to stop recording, but is the last thing we will
do from now on. But if you remember, Dave, it
was while we were on that after show portion of
the show where we were talking about Mike's problem with
quarterbacks and how he had to decide before Thursday whether

(18:38):
JJ McCarthy was going to be put in, whether Lamar
Jackson was going to have to sit out, and Lamar
Jackson ended up sitting out, and in just in the
midst of the conversation, We're talking to Hey, Marcus, Mario's
out there, blah blah blah, He's got eighteen points projected,
blow this, that and the other thing. And I'm just
listening to everybody talking. I'm like, oh, geez, like I
should pick him up. And I picked him up, And
it would have been just perfect if that would have

(18:58):
been the player. That have been the player, because by
the end of that conversation, Mike was going to the
waiverland saying I don't see Marcus Mariota and the It's
like because this guy already picked them up. But if
that was the player that would have tipped me over
to a win, it would have been like double retribution,
you know, with this budding rivalry that we have. But yeah,
it doesn't. Nothing's going my way this year.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
So it is what it is.

Speaker 5 (19:20):
Well, it gave you a couple he gave you a
couple openings too. Spencer Ratlers significantly underperformed, Red Bjeon Robinson
significantly underperformed. Yeah, rough, rough, I will say this to Mike.
Mariota's back out on the layer, So go ahead and
pick them up if you want. He's out there now today.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
Well it was a it was a great It was
a great matchup between Dan you Dan, the Westside Hooligans
and the Chicken Wing and and that went down I
think one nine if I can see that correctly. Uh
So that was Nip and Tuck and Breeze Hall going crazy,
Saquan going crazy. Yeah, that was Daniel, Daniel Jones and
the Josh Allen's and even your tua fun, right, your tua.

Speaker 5 (20:06):
That was fun. Yeah, that was not what he did tonight. No,
I'll tell you this. You know, I was down the
whole day. Uh, and Mike, Mike started texting as he
usually does. He always texts you when he's up.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
And.

Speaker 5 (20:22):
You know, oh, this is gonna be a great game,
all the best. He's up by thirty. You know, I'm like, okay,
but you know whatever. Then I come back, yeah, and
and then I was ahead, right, And then then I
was down just a few points and DK ended up
posing it out for me that night. But that was
that was a really fun game. I needed it.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
You needed it.

Speaker 5 (20:42):
I needed it. And I'm still Cellar Dweller with Riley
this week. We'll get to that later in pod picks.
So I don't I don't know that I love this
week anymore, but I needed that.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
Well. Backstory, Mike was desperate for a quarterback, right, so
he had Daniel Jones, but he had no QB two,
so he so I'm thinking I just got this sense
that the league was like, let's try to grab as
many quarterbacks as we can because we know Mike is
searching for one. So I went on Saturday night and
I grabbed Tyler Huntley. When they final out, I found
out that Lamar Jackson was not going to play, and
the Tyler Hartley was going to start, So I didn't

(21:13):
meet Tyler Huntley, but I was gonna, you know, little gamesman,
I was gonna roun on grab Tyl. So I grabbed
Huntley my playbook right right, it's your playbook, right, It's
it's the damn playbook. And so I grabbed Tyler Hunley.
And then of sure enough Sunday morning, Mike texts, hey,
see you got Huntley. You're not playing them? What can
we do? You know? And I'm like, well, what's it
going to cost you? You know, like fuck it up, right,

(21:34):
because I want to try to get something. So I
held I wanted Jamison Williams, right, and I held out
for it, but he wasn't budging. I'm just forget it then,
So I ended up sort of acquiescing. But I ended
up getting Jwan Jennings out of the deal, which is
in a Wes. But again I got jan I got
Juan Wednings, which is a distant cousin to Julio Hoones.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
And hey, hey McCarthy.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
Right right right, hip hip org. But so anyway, that
was just a fun little moment. It's like, if you
see that heving you see somebody. If you can send
some desperation out there, go grab a guy, maybe the
hold over. And sometimes it's fun to dude, Dan, it
is straight out of your playbook.

Speaker 5 (22:17):
But I love doing that. I don't know. Somebody on
the thread was like, oh, limit of qbs. I'm like no,
Like that's like what kind of you know controls are that.
Pretty soon we're gonna say, like, you know, price control
the supermarket and buses should be free, you know, ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
Ideas, Oh yeah, you should run from mayor of New York.

Speaker 5 (22:37):
But like, yeah, I think, I think, I think that
was excellent gamesman ship. Tip of the.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
Capsule Leapers continue their huge run one hundred fifty six.
They go Toyota, full on Toyota. He's in full on,
just full tilt mode. Yeah, slowing down Lembo leepers whatsoever?
Right now, gold to see past the football, finally get
off the schneid and kind of get a big win
over the bean Counters. That was huge.

Speaker 5 (22:58):
Yeah, just healthy out of the league, help.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
Win, you know. Uh, and then of course you got
airballs not topping one hundred going eighty five. Dan. We
talked last week about your sixty four, which was really historic.
The first time we've seen, like seen a number like
that in the last couple of years. Of course, we
talked about who really holds that record, and of course
that's a team with multiple names that we don't have
to get into right at this moment.

Speaker 5 (23:23):
Which team is that exactly? Yeah, it was a rough.
That was a rough. That was rough. I dropped everything,
I cleared my schedule, I grabbed my wife and we
went to the desert and had some R and R.
Came back and put up a one forty two. So
I mean sometimes that that rest and relaxation, rejuvenation, really

(23:44):
it's just what you need.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
Yeah. Oh, before we move on, two trades were made
before last week. I was involved in both. I just
told you about the Huntly trade. But I did a
little quick swap with Greg so we finally sort of
open cracked open that door a little bit, get a
quick little friendly Vikings, thank you, thank you, nineteen forties victrola.

Speaker 5 (24:11):
Big dog.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
Samon zone. But we swapped Vikings before that Thursday night
game last week. We swapped the Jordan's right Jordan Mason
Jordan Addison. Not a huge blow your socks off move
by any means, but at least we have two trades
on the books, and hopefully that sort of primes the pump.
I guess to use that term, we probably shouldn't use

(24:38):
that term. We probably need a new We probably need
a new hopefully greases the wheels, how about that?

Speaker 4 (24:42):
Yeah, it's push is gonna come to shelve here right.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
We're running out of time, you know, and whenever we
probably have a couple of weeks of the trade deadline.
I haven't looked yet to see when it is, but
if we need to, I guess we could probably just
talk to Dave and he'll push it back further too.
I mean, but yeah, it's the time is now. It
is time to strike while the iron is hot. I
think that you have opened up the door day and

(25:09):
hopefully set the tone for the rest of the way
to go.

Speaker 5 (25:11):
So, gentlemen, gentlemen, can we just have a quick fab
discussion because I was shocked this week when I saw
I think the highest fab grab of the year was

(25:33):
was also a hotly contested grab, and that is uh
tyrone Tracy Junior, the running back for the New York Giants,
going for a seventy six dollars winning offer from our
friend and yours past the football I had hoped he

(25:53):
was going to be here tonight. I think on the
thread I said fireballs and nobody called me out, So thanks,
you know, so I would say that that, you know,
the thirty eight to twenty seven I had an eleven right,
A lot of people were in there for it. I

(26:14):
masked Vin Trouble. Was it zero?

Speaker 4 (26:17):
You know?

Speaker 5 (26:18):
Seventy eight bucks? That's who that's that's a high grab
and I don't know that I see it paying out
for him.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
I love the term fab grab. He's startable, he's rosterble.

Speaker 4 (26:28):
The rest of the way.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
He had a good end of the year last year
where he was actually like an RB two sort of
putting up RB two numbers. I think he'll be fine
with Scataboo out by the way, just moment of silence
are Scatabu? What a fun player? What just added le
Giants team super fun to watch. I don't know if
you caught it that Skataboo was on the cover of
like what what magazine was he on the cover of,

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Like the New York Post at a knixt game, like
cheering at a Knicks game. He's just like taking New
York City by Storm and the guys love him and
you could just tell when he got hurt that it
was just crushed his teammates.

Speaker 4 (27:01):
Right, genuinely sad.

Speaker 5 (27:02):
Yeah, it was a bad It was a bad injury. Right.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
It showed a whole lot because it was not Yudgy,
but Tyrone Tracy could step in to be. Okay, he's not.
He's not a battering around like Scataboo, but he could be.

Speaker 5 (27:15):
He could be just serviceable.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
I don't to your point, Dan, may be seventy six
dollars worth, but also football needs to make a let's flash,
you move.

Speaker 5 (27:22):
You have to watch your guy. Get your guy right.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
We've always get on the podcast, Go get your guy.

Speaker 5 (27:26):
Yeah, I'm sitting ninety five dollars. Got to spend some
to get some, right.

Speaker 4 (27:31):
So I'll get to keep it at the end of
the season. Dan, Wait what, I hate to break it
to you.

Speaker 5 (27:38):
You Yahoo services with it.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
Well, Happy Halloween you guys, yea Halloween?

Speaker 4 (27:44):
Are we are? We ready to get spooky? To get spooky?
All right? I have a prepared bed for us tonight.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
We in the past we have really celebrated the Halloween
spoctacular and had some fun with it.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
So in the theme Halloween.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Today, the day that the episode will drop was actually
going to be on Halloween, which is you know, fully
planned and we planned it.

Speaker 4 (28:11):
I guess right.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
We're going to play a little bit of a game.
It's going to be called the Fantasy Frights. Now, this
is how this game works, gentlemen. I have assigned a
horror movie, a Halloween movie, a scary movie, a horror
horror movie to each of our owners based off of

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their personas, based off of their history in the league.

Speaker 4 (28:39):
I'm going to describe what this movie is.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
There's gonna be some hints, so listen carefully, and you
guys then are going to not only guess which Big
ten owner is this being described, but which horror movie
is being assigned to this particular owner.

Speaker 4 (28:56):
Does this make sense?

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Now? How do we or how do we do that?

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Well, there won't be a contest as far as speed.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
We will.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
We will just kind of go around and if you
think you know it, we'll do that.

Speaker 4 (29:11):
So are we Are we good to go? Does this
make sense?

Speaker 5 (29:13):
I'm right?

Speaker 4 (29:14):
All right.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
I'm welcome to Fantasy Frights, the Horror Movie Edition, our
first movie.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
We're gonna start right here.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
He thinks that he's pulling the strings, but everybody else
sees the wires. He might be the self appointed figurehead
of the league, but is the audience even paying attention anymore?
Always sending trade offers that are so unexpected and deeply
unsettling they feel like jump scares? Which Big ten owner

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am I describing? And which horror movie is he assigned?

Speaker 5 (29:54):
I mean that's Dave figurehead, tired figurehead and bad check?

Speaker 2 (30:03):
Is there an awful I'll even give you an era
because this one's a little deeper cut an awful?

Speaker 4 (30:09):
Eighties nineties?

Speaker 1 (30:10):
I got you.

Speaker 4 (30:10):
I got a movie.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
I'm gonna say, Freddy.

Speaker 4 (30:13):
Krueger, Freddy Krueger, Dan, do you have any guesses?

Speaker 5 (30:16):
I'm gonna say the Jason, The Jason Movies at Helm Street.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
This one's a little bit off the beaten path. It's
called the puppet Master. Remember the puppet Master.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
I'm gonna say Pinocchio.

Speaker 4 (30:27):
Yeah, that was you know, some Pinocchio music on this
part of it. Here, I got down, Okay, number two,
we're gonna pop over here. We're gonna pop over here.
Number two.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
Here's our description. M H forever the League's little brother.
But somehow he's the one giving everyone nightmares. He's tall, unpredictable,
and sometimes dominant, but sometimes floating. Every few seasons he
reappears from the sewer, riding a slingshot loaded with false hope.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
You'll float too, he says, right down to the bottom
of the standings day.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
I got it, I got it. It's it's certainly Greg
the character of it of it.

Speaker 4 (31:16):
You are correct. It's a ding ding ding for the
Greg Meyer as it.

Speaker 5 (31:21):
Good answer, George, we all live, George, good answer, good answer?

Speaker 4 (31:29):
Is it from Staten Island? What was that for? Get
a bottom walking here? All right, let's pop over to
our next one here, all right? This order.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
He may be short in stature, but he's never short
on words deadly, so don't underestimate him. This little dude's
got more bite than his size should allow, constantly talking trash,
plotting revenge, and clinging to players from seasons pasted like
old voodoo dolls. The scariest part, he always finds a
way to stab you in the ankle when you least

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expect it.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
I mean, this has to be our very own chucky.

Speaker 5 (32:14):
Like call chicken ring.

Speaker 4 (32:18):
Ding ding ding child's play and Chucky.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
Okay, let's pop over to this one right here. Next up,
we have an owner who is high on the shock
and awe, boasting multiple personalities. One week he's the hero,
the next week the villain, and the next week he
might be a nurse. Drafts based purely on vibes and
his kid's favorite football jerseys, yet somehow ends up terrifyingly competitive.

Speaker 4 (32:50):
He's a true shape shifter with championship level hair.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Oh wow, their very own creative director, the Goat, mister
Dan Meyer.

Speaker 4 (33:03):
All right, we got the first Quat is not the movie.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
The Goat is different.

Speaker 4 (33:06):
I'm sure there's a horror movie called The Goat.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
I'm sure, I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
All right, So this one key in on the multiple personalities,
multiple personalities. There's a movie from twenty sixteen called Split,
about a killer who had split personalities and would be
able to hide behind the guise of his other personality.

Speaker 5 (33:32):
All right, Next up, I don't know what you're saying.

Speaker 4 (33:34):
Next up, we have an owner here. I'm gonna move
this one around and re order that one. There. Let's
do this one. Okay. It's a two headed creature of chaos.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
You never know which personality is actually in control. One's
the coach, the others the quippy, sarcastic GM. Historically they're
the joke of the league now terrifying everyone by actually
being good. Scientists can't explain it, but the rest of
us are just trying to survive.

Speaker 4 (34:05):
This owner. This team is.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
Prime incompetence, prime incompetence.

Speaker 4 (34:14):
And do we know what monster this is? We're going
back to the eighties on this one as well.

Speaker 5 (34:19):
Eighties.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
Well I heard two headed monster? Is there a horror
cheesy eighties about a two headed creature?

Speaker 4 (34:25):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (34:25):
Children of the Corn?

Speaker 4 (34:29):
Is not Chill the Corn? It is called the Thing
that's from nineteen eighty two?

Speaker 5 (34:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (34:35):
Good, too deep?

Speaker 2 (34:38):
All right, a couple more here for you guys. You know,
we probably should have opened this segment talking about this.
Are you guys scary movie people?

Speaker 1 (34:46):
I do not particularly? Are you a balla?

Speaker 4 (34:50):
No?

Speaker 2 (34:51):
No, my kid, my oldest loves scary things. He went
to one of the haunted whatever the haunted hay Ride
thing is out by you, Dave, that.

Speaker 4 (35:03):
Rumor has it. It was a little dicey and he
ended up sleeping upstairs that night.

Speaker 5 (35:09):
But that was that was too far.

Speaker 4 (35:11):
That was well. He liked it.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
He had fun and he would do it again. But
as long as he knows that, you know, we have
the pull away back upstairs.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
So yeah, there's a there's parents, it's a parenting move.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Yes, yes, all right, our next movie, we'll pull it here.
A calm presence in a chaotic league until he suddenly
stops starting I'm sorry, until he suddenly starts dropping miracles
from the heavens. A quiet pastor who keeps his faith
while strange things start happening around him, like his bench
outscoring your starters. He preaches patience, then turns around and

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baptizes you with a forty point beat down. You might
think it's luck, he knows it's a divine sign when
the crop circles appear in your schedule.

Speaker 4 (35:58):
Swing away, Meryl wing away.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
Oh yes, Mel Gibson's finest.

Speaker 5 (36:04):
That is that the Mel getson movie.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
Yes, that would be, that would be signs.

Speaker 4 (36:09):
Signs, signs.

Speaker 5 (36:11):
Yes, that's gotta be. That's got to be Pastor peach Fuzz.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
And that's Pastor peach Fuzz are very own Pastor peach.

Speaker 4 (36:16):
Fudds Lamba levers himself, Ding, ding and ding. All right,
we have one one two.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Signs got a little jumpy. I don't remember the movie.

Speaker 5 (36:25):
Oh yeah, yeah, there were you were waiting for the twist,
the shots?

Speaker 4 (36:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (36:32):
Was that a Nalon movie? Was that an m night
Shyamalo movie? Was it?

Speaker 5 (36:35):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (36:35):
Ye? When it was good? Yeah? All right?

Speaker 2 (36:38):
A couple more here, this one. Every year, it's the
same nightmare on repeat. Draft hope collapse, Draft hope collapse repeat.
He's the caretaker of the league, the only one who
sets reminders, balances the books, and works to keep things
in order. But even he can't escape another third place finish.

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Next year, probably the same thing dominate the regular season
and collapse in the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (37:06):
Draft hope collapse, repeat. That's so good.

Speaker 5 (37:12):
When we think about this one, I mean, I think
it's Jason.

Speaker 4 (37:17):
It is Jason now Jason.

Speaker 5 (37:19):
I'm trying to place the movie though.

Speaker 4 (37:21):
I yeah, I stretched this one a little bit.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
This one technically isn't a horror movie, but it's horrifyingly repetitive.

Speaker 4 (37:32):
Draft hope, collapse repeat. Groundhog Day. I think the dad Okay,
I cheated, I cheated. I couldn't think of it. It is
groundhog Day.

Speaker 5 (37:41):
That's a good one.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
Groundhog Day is a horror film.

Speaker 4 (37:45):
I told you I cheated and it wasn't a horror film,
but it was horrifyingly repetitive.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Yeah, actually a very good movie.

Speaker 4 (37:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (37:55):
I thought it's like a Halloween or a Scream.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
But like you think it's done, but then it comes
back with the next version, and then the next one
the next year, and then it's screened.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
You guys write the bits. I don't usually write the bits.
I had nine solid ones and I had to find
one more. Great, all right, I think there's two or
three more here. We'll fly through these and then we
can get on to our next segments. This one right here.
Nobody has seen him win anything this year, but somehow
he's always lurking in the shadows.

Speaker 4 (38:29):
For the health of the league.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
He can be found weekly whispering excuses into the microphone.

Speaker 4 (38:34):
Injuries by Weeks and kittles.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
Oh my one's a champion now lost in the woods
of bad Trades and should have started him regrets.

Speaker 4 (38:44):
The footage is shaky, but the screams are real. Who
is holding the can?

Speaker 5 (38:51):
I mean starring in the Blair Witch Project?

Speaker 4 (38:58):
Ding ding ding? Okay, I went out of order, so
I'm confused here.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
All right, two more, we'll fly through them here, always traveling,
always hosting, always calm amidst the chaos.

Speaker 4 (39:14):
He's everywhere at once, flying across continents, but somehow still
setting his lineup. His team moves in perfect coordination, never
too flashy, never too dirty.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
The apocalypse. The apocalypse could hit and he would still
finish seven and three.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
Mmm mmmm, well we're talking about Normy Normy Norman Normy production.

Speaker 5 (39:39):
I'm picking up Apocalypse.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
Uh huh?

Speaker 5 (39:42):
Is it is?

Speaker 1 (39:42):
It? Is it like a well, what's another funny Bill
Murray movie?

Speaker 5 (39:51):
Armageddon?

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Yeah, the day after tomorrow? Is it?

Speaker 4 (39:54):
Don't look?

Speaker 1 (39:56):
Is it left behind?

Speaker 4 (39:58):
Left behind? That would have been a good one.

Speaker 5 (40:01):
Yeah, anyone's clothes are just neatly folded on the floor,
that's terrified. People used to play pranks on others at
like camp by immediately folding their clothes and like hiding
around the corner so one person would walk back.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
Yeah, good Christian human, that's good Christian humor right there.
That's mean also dark, like, Yeah, of all the people
we thought would be left behind, it would be you,
So let's prank you.

Speaker 5 (40:25):
That's a good bit, though. We gotta think we gotta
remember Jenkins and la Hey for a bit that there's
something there can do that.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
Last it's Jenkins, and hey, this one is World War Z.

Speaker 4 (40:41):
You remember the Apocalypse.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
Movie with Brad Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
All right, last but not least silent, unseen, forgotten until
you suddenly checked the score and realize he beat you
by zero point eight points. He doesn't say much in
the chat, but his ghostly presence haunts everyone's playoffs hopes.
You can't prepare for him because you never even know
he's there.

Speaker 5 (41:09):
Oh, Jason, is this Jason?

Speaker 1 (41:15):
No? This is this is fi.

Speaker 4 (41:19):
No? No, but that would have been That would have
been a good one. That would have been a good
fit Jason.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
So we're right, Yeah, what's the movie? Well it's coming.
It's give us that clue again in there a bala dumb.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
I mean, you can't prepare for him because you never
even know he's there.

Speaker 1 (41:41):
Sixth sense, right, sixth sense?

Speaker 2 (41:43):
That would have been a good one too. There's a
movie in twenty twenty. I've never seen this one.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
Give us another clue.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
His ghostly presence haunts everyone in their playoff hopes. I
think Dave Dave FROs paranormal activity.

Speaker 5 (42:03):
Oh, that's paranormal.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
This one is the invisible Man, The Invisible Man from
twenty to twenty. I don't think it was I don't
think a Top the box office that Bacon he was
in something like that.

Speaker 4 (42:19):
That was older though. That was an old one. Yeah,
called ghosts.

Speaker 5 (42:23):
They've tried to do. Kevin Baker, they've tried.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
To ghost was Patrick Swayze.

Speaker 4 (42:29):
That was swazy. You're right and we'll be okay.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
Well, those were your Fantasy Fries Horror Movie Edition, Gentle.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
Amazing fantastic what on episode guys, we got to take
a quick break. We're up against it. But after they're
after the break, we will get into some additional Halloween
candy conversation. We will talk week nine already, guys, this
week nine already, so we got to get into that, uh,
some of the other storylines from across the league. But
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Speaker 1 (44:44):
Oh yes, yes, guys, we taught candy at the top
of the show, and a lot of our conversations drift
to candy. This is the life we're in. But I
do want to in the speak of what Aj did
in the last segment, where he's really thinking about holistically
about the team and how each team is performing and

(45:07):
thinking about fun ways to sort of describe them. Dan
and I both have put together a little bit of
a segment. We like to call teams as candy.

Speaker 5 (45:18):
I've I've got a list.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
I put together a list of teams in our league,
and then I put together the candy that I would
compare them to. Dan, do you have your own personal list?

Speaker 5 (45:28):
I went through and I just thought, you know, whenever
I see this guy, I think of a certain kind
of candy.

Speaker 4 (45:37):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (45:38):
Like you ever you ever say, oh, yeah, there goes
Mike Toll, There goes Mike Toll. You know what he
reminds me of? Yeah, he reminds me of a jawbreaker, right, No,
you know, like one of those like gobstoppers. It just
keeps going and going and going and can't get to
the end.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
Well, that's funny when I see Mike. When I see
Mike walking down the street, that happens a lot more
than you think. I I think of the candy pop
rocks noisy loud, yeah, but ultimately doesn't have a It
has a regrettable taste maybe, but regret I don't know,

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no noisy, fun loud. And then I'll ultimately go where
are we going here?

Speaker 5 (46:29):
Just after the interaction, you just get very introspective, saying
what am I doing with my life?

Speaker 4 (46:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (46:35):
Now, now when I see you mentioned job breakers, when
I see Prime and Competence, I think of those, not
just job breakers, but those remember those oversized job breakers
we had that were like a softball, and you would
lick and you would and you would you it would
take lengths to finally get to the center, right, Yeah,
it would take and you just just gnaw and you

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you would rub your tongue raw.

Speaker 5 (46:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
Similarly, when I see Prime and competants and the two
guys that lead Prime and Competence, it has taken years
for them to finally get just something meaningful and and
that's why I think they're a giant oversized job breaker.

Speaker 5 (47:15):
I absolutely agree. It makes me. Remember the times I
had those giant job breakers. I was forced to put
them on a piece of wax paper on the corner
of my desk, yep, And oftentimes they would last years
before the payoff, before the y It's funny, Dave. When
I think of of Prime and foss, I I always

(47:38):
think of a TwixT bark right two for one. It's
two for one, right, you're getting getting one one of each.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
I'm I'm more of a right TwixT guy. You always
have been.

Speaker 5 (47:49):
But you know, everyone teach their own. I don't know
which one of them is the right, which one is
the left. I just know a little bit of rivalry,
but they harness it.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
Well. We know John's more of the right. Wellctually John
was Antifa. He might be the left. He might Yeah, No,
you know I I I think it looks. I mean,
I think about the teams that are really killing it
right now, and at the top of the league. I
think of Storm and Norman a lot right now. I'm
really happy for him. I'm happy for Storm and Norman
of what he's been able to accomplish this year. And

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but I really think about when I see the storm
of Norman, I think of the candy watching mc collage.
You guys remember watching McCall.

Speaker 5 (48:26):
It's the best, and you don't really see watch McCalla.
It's all that often.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
I was farm, would Fleet Farm have a watch mccullag,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
A j probably have like a large watch mccallage section
and what because it makes you appreciate them though, because
you don't get him every time.

Speaker 4 (48:42):
When you do, though, when you.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
Do, you're never disappointed.

Speaker 5 (48:46):
Right now, is that.

Speaker 4 (48:48):
Based It's like a Crispy carmely.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
Yeah, Krispy ca. I mean it's just a good shape.
I don't really know how to there's a wafer in.

Speaker 5 (48:58):
It's just a good good shape.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
It's a good shape. And when I when I think
good shapes, I think of Storman Norman. And but but
here's why I say that. I say that because he's
it's a crowd favorite. And I think Norman is a
crowd face. Yeah, he up his home every single year. Yeah,
And I think we're always just like solid rock solid dude.

(49:24):
I will say, you don't see him very often. This
is why I think they're a little bit on that
Storm Norman, because oftentimes they're just sort of trying to barely,
you know, creep their way into the playoffs. This year,
they've broken through. It's like seeing a watch a McCall
at a gas station. You're like, Wow, it's back, it's back, right.

Speaker 5 (49:40):
You know. Even the name implies you can't quite remember
what's what's Yeah, I would. I think that's better than mine.
When I think of Norman, I think of like the
Ferrero rochet balls. Had those for Ferrero rochet balls.

Speaker 4 (50:03):
I've seen them, like the.

Speaker 5 (50:05):
But not like the not like the hazel nut ones.
I'm talking about the ones that have a little liqueur inside,
like you might get on a flight to India.

Speaker 2 (50:17):
I'm glad I didn't jump in. Sorry, Dave Froze. I'm
trying to figure that out. I was gonna drop an
India joke about the watch McCall. It's and I'm glad
I didn' because I would have stepped on your touchdown call.
I was gonna heard watch mccaffs are super popular over
in India.

Speaker 5 (50:30):
It would have been a great it would have been
a great callback. So don't ever hesitate again. I'm totally
happy for you to do that a j the other
the other person I just wanted to chat about a
little bit was my brother Greg. Oh, yes, you know
my brother Greg. I know him. I've known him well

(50:52):
for several years. And when I think about my brother Greg,
the the one kind of candy. Again, maybe this is
a little bit of a stretch, but what I always
think of are like those Yogi's yogurt melts, you know,
you get babies like a sealable pouch. Like in my mind, like,

(51:16):
that's that's who Greg is. Maybe in the league, he's
the darling of the league.

Speaker 4 (51:23):
You know.

Speaker 5 (51:23):
Growing up we called him the crown prince. Uh you know,
So it's kind of it's kind of that gets me
there with with Greg. Greg drops ye Greg freeze dried
yogurt melts that you give a baby.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
That's that's really really good. I when I see when
I see Greg, and I think of I think of
the the air Balls, uh franchise. I think of the
do you guys remember now in Laters?

Speaker 5 (51:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (51:50):
Now and later. They are but they're they're tough. They're
sort of hard to get through. Yeah, they can pull
out your feelings, so they're sort of there. There's sort
of they're a tricky candy. You like them, but they're
also they're a tough out. There's sort of a tough
out also. You find them as sort of like rough,
you know maybe maybe maybe rough corner stores.

Speaker 5 (52:12):
Yeah, which is like the truck stop you went to
that one year, Dave.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, remember well remember well still sore and
and so just just I think there's a tough and ruggedness.
It's kind of a grittiness to the air Balls franchise
that's been around for a long time, almost sort of
an urban sort of gangster feel as well.

Speaker 5 (52:33):
I'll tell you. I'll tell you one of my favorite
Greg stories with Candy is growing up, we were never
allowed to eat gushers and gusher's the fruit stemma, right, yeah,
I would. I'll tell you this with the Crown Prince
the youngest, he was given whatever he wanted, as much
as he wanted. Yeah, and there was one trip to

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the dentist in which seven cavities were revealed. Whoa having
eaten cases of gushers. Now, I will tell you, as
an employee of Gushers who now runs their media measurement,
not as much sugar as there used to be. It's
it's great healthy family snacking moderation.

Speaker 7 (53:14):
But no more, no more colors totally okay, but yeah,
say you're killing.

Speaker 5 (53:26):
Just just a fun, fun story for Greg. Moving right along.
A J. You're sitting right here, you're looking great, one
of the core core members of the league. When I
think of a J and this is a newer, a
newer thought I've had, you know, a J, I really
think of a milk gud, something that melts under pressure.

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You know you need that, You need that hard candy
shell if you're going to just grip onto you. You
know you're not an M and M. But you know,
sorry for the roast. You're right here looking at me
with those guys.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
Here's what here's what's so funny. I had milk duds
as well on my list. I literally, but a J
and truffle shuffling are milk duds. And my rationale was
this once this was like the movie theater candy of
all movie theater candies. You go to a movie theater,
you get milk milk duds. It was everybody's sort of
popular boxed theater candy. It was just it was just like,

(54:26):
oh wow, now you see milk duds and you remember
sort of the good old days. You remember like remember
when that was a thing. Remember when that was a
big deal, and now people rarely pick them. They're not
off really on anybody's radar. Faded glory, faded glory head
their heyday, faded glory, new era.

Speaker 5 (54:43):
But I do want to just go on record and
say I don't believe your season's over, so just really quick,
just want to get that off there.

Speaker 4 (54:51):
Yeah, is not over, we hear you, mind you. This
is my off year.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
It's an every other year deal for me, So I'm
playing with free money in fair.

Speaker 5 (55:04):
Nate Nate to me, only one thing it can be. Okay,
I will fight you, Dave. Okay, it's got to be
peach rings for obvious reasons.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
I'm sorry, peach rings for obvious reasons. Okay, got it,
got it, I got it. Pe rink keep ptrings, Yep,
any explanation.

Speaker 5 (55:27):
There, obvious obvious reasons.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
Okay, I needed you don't You don't need to go there?
By the way, are elite, yeahs if you buy him,
you got to buy him at the right place. You
gotta find him in the right spot. But they're elite.

Speaker 4 (55:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (55:43):
Probably.

Speaker 1 (55:44):
I have Lamba Leapers is hot to Mally's because they're sweet,
but they packed some spice Yeah, they're this year. They're bold,
they're energetic, they're memorable. I love a good hot Tomali.
It'll burn your tongue, it will burn. That spice will rip,
see rip your tongue of shreds. You'll feel, you'll feel
in the morning.

Speaker 5 (56:04):
Conversely to that, Dave, you remind me of just some
just just like a just a piece of just delicious
dove chocolate. Oh Dave, you are dove chocolate. If you
are a smooth talker, you leave everyone wondering if you're

(56:24):
just flirting or just being polite. But somehow, somehow it
works out, somehow it just works either way. Dove chocolate.

Speaker 1 (56:33):
Man, Thank you man, I really appreciate you. I thank
you so much. I hit me as candy corn, so
that's sort of rot down. But uh but Dan, conversely,
I hit you as laughy taffy. Oh you are? You
are colorful? You're fun. You are I'm not sure are

(56:55):
we doing teams or actual personalities.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
I'm losing at you two are flirting over here.

Speaker 4 (57:01):
I get roasted, and you too, are.

Speaker 5 (57:03):
Like into just roasting each other's character, roasting each other's character.
I shang it.

Speaker 1 (57:14):
You are fun, You're colorful, You're loved at parties, right,
who doesn't want to unwrap a laughy taffy at a party?
You're the he likes the party because there's a joke inside.
And now, hey, everybody, listen, listen, I got a joke.
Let's see if we can all laugh together.

Speaker 4 (57:28):
There's a joke.

Speaker 5 (57:28):
There's a joke.

Speaker 1 (57:29):
Yeah, I also have it is a joke.

Speaker 5 (57:36):
I also had myself as laughy taffy because of the
corny jokes as well. So well done, typically kept.

Speaker 1 (57:44):
You yea, yeah, yeah, yep, exactly.

Speaker 5 (57:47):
Uh, moving right along. We just have two left and
then we can we can finally kill this monster. I'd say, uh,
you know Scott Scott Riley, who I wish was here.
I wish I could be, you know, telling him, roasting
his character to his face. You know, Scott Riley, he
reminds me of sour Patch.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
Oh does he know?

Speaker 5 (58:08):
But but like the whole like five pound family bag
of sour patch across you know, sour sour like his team, sweet,
like his personality. That's you know what I mean, like
just that that bounce, the sweet and sour.

Speaker 1 (58:23):
Well, I have passed the football as as pez and
and the and the accompanying Pez dispenser because you go.

Speaker 4 (58:31):
To the particular one.

Speaker 1 (58:33):
Well, but who hasn't gone to a candy shop and
you go Pez Pez dispensers?

Speaker 5 (58:38):
How fun are these?

Speaker 1 (58:39):
Right? And then give it a day or two and
you've lost the Pez dispenser and you realize the candy
isn't all that good.

Speaker 5 (58:46):
It's broken.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
It's sort of like it's here today gone.

Speaker 5 (58:50):
The head has snapped off, and.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
You know, the one piece turns like sideways inside and
gets stuck.

Speaker 5 (58:58):
The whole team gets clunky.

Speaker 1 (59:00):
This guy's on my r. I can't make this trade.
This thing didn't work out. The head's ripped off, the
Pez dispenser's on IR and that sort of where my
mind went.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
And they're really expensive now, like seventy six dollars a fab.

Speaker 4 (59:13):
I mean that's.

Speaker 5 (59:18):
You know, to round out this segment and just keep
things moving along as we are at almost an hour,
our very own who I equate to a puppet master,
But I think I might I might change that. After
the last segment, Jason Jason Dollom the being counters. You know,
when I think of Jason, I immediately think of airheads.

(59:40):
You know, he swears he's coming Wow. Then he vanishes
into thin air. All he's just vibes and sugar, Just
vibes and sugar. Guys. Hey, guys, just vibes and sugar.

Speaker 1 (59:50):
Hey guys. Yep, yep. Sometimes he's there. Sometimes sometimes he
shows up to draft nights.

Speaker 5 (59:54):
Sometimes he doesn't. You know, it doesn't even show.

Speaker 1 (59:56):
And I to being counter see, I went back to
the team here. I had been counters as as your
standard just Hershey's Milk chocolate bar, classic, always present. Love
to cross generations right, young and old, always near like
just like just a steady, steady team that regardless if
it's the if it's the two thousand, early two thousands,

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the twenty teens, the twenty twenties, cross generational, just a powerhouse.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
Well now I'm hungry and it's a good thing that
it's Halloween. So that was the big ten owners as
candy bars, any favorites like any what again? We talked
favorite candies last year? Does it associate with any of
the owners that you guys have.

Speaker 5 (01:00:43):
The once?

Speaker 4 (01:00:44):
You might call it? Is that again an elite poll
that you forget about.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
It's a good poll, you know, I almost an honorable
mention for Chicken Wing. I had chicken wing as wax bottles,
peanut love a good just being it. But I want
we wanted to play with wax wax bottles. And I
did a little Google searching, and I guess back in
the fifties and sixties, wax bottles were also called nick

(01:01:09):
l lips, Nica lips, nicoll. Yeah, and I didn't know that.
I didn't know that. I thought there could be something
there with just you know, lips. But we'll leave that alone.

Speaker 5 (01:01:20):
Yeah, I mean I think those all are great. Yeah,
well done, everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
Yeah, that was that was really fun. You guys. We
probably should wrap this show, but Week nine is going
to be fascinating for a variety of reasons. We're already underway,
you know, with this Thursday night game here, yep, but
we've got some sort of big matchups. I just want
to just briefly just make some call outs of some
of the matchups. We got Storm of Norman twelve and four,
Prime and Commentants thirteen and three. They're facing off against

(01:01:49):
each other. Were sort of like Battle of the League here.

Speaker 5 (01:01:52):
That's gonna be a fun live. That is Yahoo's matchup
of the week, gentlemen, And I'm very curious I know
all will be on this particular matchup.

Speaker 1 (01:02:05):
And then you've got and then I think the other
four remaining games. I think certainly three of the remaining
four games are all sort of playing with those teams
on the bubble, trying to make it, trying to squeeze
in barely there right around that Mendoza Ligne and I
think this is going to be one of those weeks
where the standings could look just very different one week
from now.

Speaker 5 (01:02:25):
So we have we have four teams that's seven and nine,
but still this game, right and a lot of them
are playing each other. So that is the hope.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
The hope that I am clinging to sitting at three
and thirteen is that it is not as if there
is like a top half and a bottom half.

Speaker 4 (01:02:42):
Certainly is a bottom team.

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
There certainly is a top team, but at the same
time it is you know, again with the two format,
two point format, week you're three weeks away, because what
we were week nine, we play fourteen, You've got six
weeks left. There can still be some dramatic moving These
are the affirmations that I'm telling myself every day when
I wake up. But at the same time, there is

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some reality to it, because there's just a log jam
right in the middle of this league right now.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
Yeah, and and based on my experience in this format.
Usually in my experience and I played this format many
times where you have victory points, fourteen usually sort of
sort of becomes the magic number. You got to try
to get to sort of that fourteen number or around
it to be a playoff team. Some teams are close,

(01:03:29):
some teams will need sort of need to quote unquote
run the table a j thing interview. You're not certainly
not out of it, but if you you kind of
if there's twelve points remaining in the playoffs, well let's
see that how many how many points? How many weeks left?

Speaker 5 (01:03:40):
In the right, it'd be twelve, it'd be twelve. When yeah,
it's twelve.

Speaker 1 (01:03:44):
Points, you got to go you know ten and two, right,
or or eight and or you know eight and four
for sure.

Speaker 5 (01:03:50):
Yeah, Dave, is this is this expert analysis from your
B league? Is that what you're saying? The point in
research league?

Speaker 1 (01:03:57):
Research?

Speaker 5 (01:03:57):
Yeah, research, It's nice to have that research league. Yeah,
it's nice.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
It's nice to just sort of have a have Yeah,
you just tested test the mice in the in.

Speaker 5 (01:04:07):
The test and learn that the pilot the pilot plan
and the league.

Speaker 1 (01:04:11):
Yeah, Beta League, Beta Men Beata men, actually.

Speaker 5 (01:04:16):
Beta men, Beta League leave extraordinary Beta Men.

Speaker 1 (01:04:23):
Guys. Phenomenal episode. Uh so, love you guys. Happy Halloween. No,
that's who looking class.

Speaker 4 (01:04:35):
And some to come because after Halloween it's Christmas.

Speaker 5 (01:04:39):
Yeah, I'm big into November first, but just Christmas.

Speaker 4 (01:04:48):
Christmas Tree is going off this weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
I'm all in. I love you guys so much. I
love this league. Got good luck everyone. I hope it's
a great week and I'm sure it will be. And
uh a, j do go take down the counters. We're
all with you. At Falla.

Speaker 5 (01:05:05):
On the gathering storm comes a tall.

Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
Handsome man, a dusty black coat with a red red hand.

Speaker 8 (01:05:14):
He repe you win his arms, tell you that you've
been a good boy.

Speaker 1 (01:05:30):
You re kindle.

Speaker 5 (01:05:33):
Dreams that took you in love. Time to the story.