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1 hr 24 min
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May 14, 2026
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Thu, May 14, 2026
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David NjokuJonathan TaylorA.J. BrownBrian RobinsonChase BrownChris JohnsonDeebo SamuelIsiah PachecoJosh JacobsTyler WarrenWoody Marks
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A.J. Brown
PositiveRole100:03
A.J. Brown was interviewed on the show at some point during its four-year run, though the hosts acknowledged they had no clear memory of the interview despite Brown being an absolute superstar.
Insight pageBrian Robinson
PositiveRole0:52
Brian Robinson is referenced for wearing a big hat that went viral on the internet, becoming a notable cultural moment associated with the player.
Insight pageChase Brown
PositiveUsage0:11
A viewer suggests Chase Brown should be nicknamed 'the Gobbler' because he will gobble up receptions, though the hosts debate whether this is a nickname Brown would actually enjoy.
Insight pageChris Johnson
PositiveRole16:40
Chris Johnson (CJ2K) appeared on the show at the Super Bowl in Vegas and promoted his personal Airbnb rental in Nashville rather than the official sponsor partnership.
Insight pageDavid Njoku
PositiveRole0:24
Njoku is a great blocker who was signed by the Chargers, and the team appears to want to run a lot of 12 personnel with him, Omari and Hampton, and Charlie Kohler, with Gadsden potentially moving to power slot rather than the line of scrimmage.
Insight pageNegativeProjection0:25
Njoku will likely catch around six touchdowns and be frustrating for fantasy owners because no one will know which weeks to start him.
Insight pageDeebo Samuel
PositiveRole0:59
Debo Samuel appeared as a guest on the show during a Vegas Radio Row segment and seemed uncertain about the situation, laughing awkwardly as the hosts engaged in comedic antics.
Insight pageIsiah Pacheco
PositiveRole0:08
Matthew Berry uses Isaiah Pacheco as a comparison point for how he would perform as an NFL running back, describing himself as slower and easier to bring down but with similar plotting characteristics.
Insight pageJonathan Taylor
PositiveProjection0:41
Jonathan Taylor had 218 yards and scored his third touchdown of the game, demonstrating strong performance output.
Insight pagePositiveRole183:21
Jonathan Taylor was referenced in the context of the show's production notes and analysis preparation.
Insight pageJosh Jacobs
PositiveRole0:05
Matthew Berry mentions not facing Josh Jacobs in a 14-team, two-quarterback league with show staff, noting this as important context for his league performance.
Insight pageTyler Warren
PositiveRole0:40
Tyler Warren kept the game alive with a key play, showing his importance to the offense in critical moments.
Insight pageWoody Marks
PositiveValue0:11
Woody Mark is noted as being 69% available in fantasy leagues, suggesting he is widely available on waiver wires.
Insight pageFull transcript
Episode Transcript
0:00Cheers! Bottoms up! Many other drinking terms to you.
0:03My name is Matthew Berry, welcome to the Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry.
0:07Jay Croucher is next to me, we're gonna meet him in one second, but welcome.
0:11Jay, I just want to point out before we get started with anything else.
0:15So this is a set, it's a work in progress.
0:18Can you see all the way in the back?
0:21Like, you're like, oh, well, Matthew's got his name in the title, it's so exciting.
0:25Like, is there anything like that? And then, but like, look, they've got cowboys, they've got stupid cowboys in the back.
0:31Everyone knows I'm a Washington Commanders fan. This is awful, it's awful.
0:35We will change the set. Literally, like, can we get a shot of this?
0:39Like our sad jersey wall here for a second?
0:41A couple of Washington players, great, and Chad Pennington.
0:44The Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry. Welcome to the Fantasy Football Happy Hour.
0:48Where did that go? That Chad Pennington. That's right.
0:51On the jersey wall. Live from the dead. I didn't remember that.
0:54Yeah, I didn't remember the wall was that bad.
0:57Two-time comeback player of the year, Chad Pennington, by the way.
1:00This is another man who could have cost me money.
1:03I don't know if I was old enough to bet back then.
1:06What an electric factory between you two, by the way.
1:09Unbelievable. Can't imagine how I ended up here. Amazing that show didn't get canceled after season one.
1:14This sad little helmet wall and the jersey wall as well.
1:17But, you know, things survive, I survive, you survive, and Chad Pennington survived as well.
1:22Connor joined us pretty early on in the run.
1:24Chad Pennington, greatest Jets quarterback? I mean, Joe Namath.
1:27But taking that away, yeah, I'll give him number two.
1:30In the NFL? I'll give him number two. Greatest Jets quarterback in the NFL?
1:34That played well after the merger. Who's number three, though?
1:37It was like Ryan Fitzpatrick for his one year?
1:39This is where it gets like real. It'd be like 80s and 90s guys.
1:43Yeah, it would get really ugly. Ken O'Brien. You're talking about Ken O'Brien, Vinny Testaverde for a year.
1:48Yeah. Let me tell you, Mike White really had a good four games.
1:52I really believed in Mike White. Tim Boyle ends up somewhere down the list.
1:56He's on there. He's on the list. All right, so welcome to Fantasy Football Happy Hour.
2:01Gentlemen, I have a prepared statement. All right, so listen, here's the thing.
2:05You guys may have seen this in the press a little bit here.
2:08It is not a secret. My current contract with NBC is going to come to an end in a few months.
2:14So I can't tell you, as we sit here today definitively, where I'm going to be in August, which means, of course,
2:21I don't know what the future of Fantasy Bowl Happy Hour is.
2:24I can tell you this much. I'm continuing to talk to NBC and a bunch of other places, and I'm confident, this
2:31is me being positive, but I'm confident it will work out and that we will see Happy Hour this August.
2:36But what I don't know is what exactly it will look like and whether or not, candidly, the three of us will specifically be here together again.
2:44I can tell you genuinely, you know, we joke a lot, but genuinely I can tell you guys, I hope so.
2:50I truly love working with the two of you.
2:53I truly love working with everyone on this show.
2:56I truly love the regulars. I love the audience.
2:58I really love this show. And so you guys are amazing, and I'm genuinely hopeful that everything works out.
3:04But because there is a chance this is our last show, we wanted to acknowledge that, right?
3:09And we wanted to celebrate the last four years.
3:11And our thought was, hey, if we do come back, it would be the most Happy Hour thing ever for us to
3:18do a big, serious finale spectacle and then show up in the fall like nothing happened.
3:22That was fun. Never mind. Ignore all that stuff.
3:25So what I will say, however, though, you know, I like to quote Jimmy Buffett.
3:29Don't get me wrong. This is not a sad song.
3:32So what you're going to see over the next 90 minutes, we've got a supersized show.
3:37We've actually got after hours from the Happy Hour this time is going to be a celebration.
3:42It's a celebration of you guys, of the show, of the last four years.
3:46We're going to have an absolute blast. And I would say to the regulars, listen, it's the last show.
3:51There are no rules. So bring the heat and we will have an absolute blast, just like we have over the last four years.
3:58Steven, roll the tape. Jay, you are the head of trading for PointsBet and you have been for five years.
4:04You've obviously done a lot of stuff with NBC Sports.
4:07People don't know who the hell you are. And I think people also don't know what the head of trading for PointsBet does.
4:13So talk to me about that. Yeah, so I set the lines, basically.
4:17So when we talk about Cowboys are three-point favorites over the Eagles, that's my job.
4:21And it's not just football. We do all sports.
4:24So if we want to do a Happy Hour on Portuguese soccer, I can do that as well.
4:29You can. Yeah, I can do that. Good, you can do that with somebody else.
4:34I am not going to be the Portuguese soccer guy here.
4:37Yeah. When I came over to NBC, they promised me no Portuguese soccer.
4:41No Ben Beacon. It's in small print in my contract.
4:43You'll find yourself here on the Fantasy Football Happy Hour where we will drink.
4:47Listen, I'm no longer on Disney, so cheers to that.
4:50Happy Tuesday. Welcome to the Fantasy Football Happy Hour.
4:53Not what you were expecting, right? I'm Connor Rogers alongside Roto Worlds and the co-host of the Roto World Football Show, Denny Carter.
5:00Denny, great to have you in here, man. Don't adjust anything right now.
5:03Matthew is on the way. We're going to welcome in Matthew Berry, who is in the building right now.
5:09I am looking right at him. We are excited to have him here as he walks over the grand entrance.
5:15Welcome on. Matthew Berry. What a disaster. That's okay.
5:17You made it. What's going on? Sit. You know what?
5:20It's not enough to have Connor here with his good-looking hair and his young, boyish good looks.
5:25Let's make sure Denny Carter and his head of lettuce is on camera as well.
5:29I don't know if you heard this, but so it's a 14-team, two-quarterback league that Jay and I are playing in with all the show staff.
5:37I'm in it. Oh, you're in that league? Yes.
5:40It's 14-teams. I wasn't told to learn everyone's names.
5:4214-teams. You've got the gig. You don't have to fake laugh at everything I say.
5:46You don't have to Ed McMahon it. You don't have to Robin Quivers it.
5:51You can legitimately laugh or ignore, because not all my jokes are winners.
5:54No, they're not. In fact, there's a lot of losers.
5:57That's what I'm thankful for. No, Josh Jacobs. Yeah, whatever.
6:00I've got healthy kids and a wife. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
6:04No, no. I didn't face Josh Jacobs. The important stuff here is, you know, didn't play against Josh Jacobs.
6:09I'm a proud peacock, baby. Proud peacock. Woo-hoo. Is that what they do?
6:13That's what they do, right? That's on peacock. Are you on the TV-12 diet?
6:17No, I'm on the chicken finger diet. Okay, I like that.
6:20No, it's what I am. Yeah, no, exactly. I'm on the chicken finger and choco taco diet.
6:25You know what I'm talking about? Like it's an animated, like it's an animated, like not animated.
6:30It's like a stuffed animal. It's a stuffed animal, a monkey.
6:33And he's just like, he's doing this. Yeah, I've seen that one.
6:37It's a good name for the award. Is it the happy hours?
6:40The happies? You know, they want a happy? The happies?
6:43The peacockies? No, that's bad. That's real bad. No, don't go peacockies.
6:46Yeah, don't go peacockies. I kind of like the peacockies.
6:49I think it's the happies. I think it's going to be the happies.
6:53Let's start off. The peacockie goes to? Come on.
6:56The peacockie goes. No, we can't do that. Happy Peacockies Day.
6:59Yes, the annual award show is back. But I have no idea where Matt Deberry is.
7:03Do you guys know? Aye. We kind of need him.
7:06I think I see something walking in. Oh, no.
7:09There you go. Here we are. With a big ass purse.
7:12Peacockies. We're going to turn to the camera. That's original.
7:15Look at him. Look how beautiful he is. I'm taking you home later.
7:19For your next touchdown celebration, could you do a peacock?
7:22Like a... Like just kind of like... Right. And people might think it's an eagle, too.
7:26Or it's an eagle. But just like... And we'll know it's really for a peacock.
7:31And it'll just kind of be a shout-out to us and all of our friends.
7:35It's kind of like... I project 275 yards and four touchdowns for Ty Lockett against my commanders.
7:40The expectation there is that they'll put a manual force on him to just get burned left and right and right and right and right.
7:47Penn State Blake over there, who's a diehard Eagles fan.
7:50He's all smiles because he knows... There he is.
7:53Look at him. He's all fun. He's actually the happiest we've seen him.
7:56He's all smiley because he knows they got away with one.
8:00If I was an NFL running back, I'd be much more closer to Isaiah Pacheco.
8:04Kind of just, you know, like a lot slower and a lot...
8:07Like much easier to bring down. Yeah. But just, you know, kind of that plotting sort of like...
8:13Connor Rogers alongside, I think, Matthew Barry and Jay Croucher.
8:15Hey, it's me. I'm Luigi. I'm a Luigi. Get used to this.
8:19I'm a company of man. Yes. It's me, F-Mario.
8:22Yeah. All about the Luigi. Yes. Hello. You didn't win the Emmy.
8:25That's not my Emmy. Let's just make sure. Who won?
8:28Who won the Emmy? Todd Zeal. Yeah, sir. My colleague at SMY.
8:31Todd Zeal from Mets Postgame. Does an incredible job on Mets Postgame.
8:35He beat a loaded field. I mean, a loaded field in terms of analysts.
8:39And because of that, I believe you are Todd Zeal from SMY for Halloween.
8:43That's correct. I'm the man who beat you. You get the Emmy, not me.
8:47This is the Emmy that I won. So, if anyone has any questions, I'll answer it on the show by an Emmy.
8:53Yeah. Hey, you know what the... F-A-U, Todd Zeal.
8:56F-A-U. Yeah, yeah. F-A-U. You should have won it.
8:59Yeah. You should have won it. Yeah. Yeah, maybe next year.
9:02Read between the lines, Todd Zeal. On the flight back from Pittsburgh on Monday morning at 8 a.m., Matthew Barry's ordering Diet Cokes.
9:08Like on the flight? From the steward? Yes. Like the flight attendant?
9:12Yes. Yeah. You can't be ordering Diet Cokes at 8 a.m.
9:15That's an absolute mess. That's how he does. And then after he asked on the flight for Diet Coke, he asked if
9:21there was a platter of chicken tenders available. There wasn't.
9:24I'm sitting in first class. Jay should be in the back of the bus.
9:28But somehow, because there are only first class seats available on this particular flight, NBC had to put him in first class
9:35so he could observe everything I do. Normally, he's back.
9:38You pull the curtain over? No, f***. You see a Jay and pull the curtain.
9:42Yeah, I see a Jay and I'm like, no, no, no.
9:45Use your own bathroom. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely not.
9:48Not a beer. Not a beer. Absolutely not. I wore this because, Jay, I don't know if you remember this, but today,
9:54today is the one-year anniversary of our magical night in Buffalo.
9:57Is that right? Yeah. Oh, my goodness. Exactly. So just one night in Buffalo.
10:01I know you don't remember a lot of that night where you claim not to, but look, it meant a lot to me.
10:08It meant a lot to me. Hola, and welcome in to the desk of this.
10:12Great costume over there, Fred. Thank you very much, obviously.
10:15Yeah, Fred from Scooby-Doo. You know, it's interesting, doing my research for this role.
10:19Fred's, there he is. 10 out of 10. Pretty good.
10:22I mean, I think, you know, like, we're doing what we can with the hair.
10:26Yeah, that's right. You're going so far with that.
10:29I'm always follically challenged, even when wearing a wig.
10:32Fred doesn't have, like, a lot of catchphrases. There's not, like, a lot.
10:35He doesn't really have much to say in general.
10:38He's honestly not particularly interesting. He's just sort of the leader.
10:41Fred and Daphne don't bring a lot to the table, if I'm being honest with you.
10:46It's a part of few words. Which is why it's perfect for me.
10:50Here, honestly, Connor. You bring the knowledge, and I'm just sort of here for the good looks.
10:55I'm just telling you, like, when you have a chub and then a young Woody shows up, the chub goes down.
11:01It is what it is. Everyone knows that. Our next player, Rashad White.
11:04By the way, Woody Mark's 69% available. I don't want to leave that out.
11:08Yeah, 69% available? Do they love it? Unbelievable. Like, you really can't make it up at this point.
11:14I'm not gay, but if I was, I would go there.
11:17That's the type of outfit you're a fan of?
11:19All right. He looked awesome. Oh, man. Yeah, the chat is upset.
11:23No ankles. I feel robbed. That's from Jesus Hermosia.
11:25Yeah, Matthew, you got a different look today. The ankles will be back, what, Monday?
11:30Maybe Sunday if people are lucky? You know what?
11:32Oh, here we go. You know what? Be careful.
11:35Don't strain anything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't pull anything.
11:38Oh, boy. I really can't really see an ankle.
11:40Five to one odds Barry is not wearing pants, which those odds might have cashed, judging by the angle.
11:46A man, Johnny D'Angeli from YouTube. Chase Brown should be called the Gobbler because he's going to gobble up receptions.
11:51Do you think Chase Brown would enjoy being known that somebody wants to nickname him the Gobbler?
11:56I just don't know that that's the kind of nickname that a lot of guys would like.
12:01No, I don't think nobody. Look, his last name, Brown, too.
12:05Imagine being called the Brown Gobbler. The Brown Gobbler.
12:07You definitely don't want to be that. You definitely don't want to.
12:11The Brown Gobbler sounds like a rejected Batman villain.
12:13Right? This one from Valiant Vincent. Connor looking like he just stepped off the set of Happy Gilmore 2.
12:19I love it. That is true. It's a golf polo.
12:22Or honestly, you kind of look like a waiter at a knockoff theme restaurant.
12:26You know what I mean? I am self-deprecating, but I don't think that one lands.
12:30I disagree. Like, hey, welcome to Islands. I'm Connor.
12:33Can I get you a Mai Tai? I was searching Cameo to see if I could find somebody that could do a draft order for us.
12:40And, well, I did. Hey, it's Emmy Award winning broadcaster and analyst Todd Zeal.
12:44Just here for Matthew to give you guys the draft order for this year's Fantasy Football Camp.
12:49We're going to start out with Roto Pat at the top, followed by Denny.
12:53And then Matthew is going to be third. And I guess that would leave number 12 and absolutely dead last.
12:59That would be Connor. Let me make sure that I got that list right.
13:03Let me grab that list. Oh, yeah, here it is.
13:06Right here underneath my Emmy. This is unbelievable. It's always your own people.
13:10Enjoy the Fantasy Football Camp. Oh, man. A lot of good memories.
13:13We didn't even get all of them in. That's all.
13:16And they're well done by the team, though, putting that together.
13:19It's really good. Some I forgot, honestly. I had forgotten a lot of those as well.
13:24Stunt man Chuck. Jay has aged a decade and four years, which is very rude from Todd Zeal.
13:29All throughout that, Todd Zeal, who, by the way, had a 350 OPS in the 99 playoffs in Texas.
13:34So, please, Todd Zeal. Some of our stones being thrown in the glass house here.
13:39Come on. Two-time Emmy winning. Todd Zeal, thank you very much.
13:42A lot of comments about how Jay and I have aged.
13:45A lot of bricks. Connor hit people really hard since his first appearance.
13:49Well, that's in four years. Yeah, I mean, working with me every day will do that to you.
13:54Yeah, it's like being the president. Matthew looks similar.
13:57Yeah, you do. You look exactly the same. I have looked like an old man for the last 25 years.
14:03That's the thing. I mean, like, I lost my hairline fairly early.
14:06You know, right. I just, I'm an old man.
14:09I've been an old man since I was like 30.
14:11Yeah, you're like Keanu Reeves, except your age got frozen 40 years after his age.
14:16That's right. That's the, you know, the immortal thing with Keanu.
14:19I did not even notice. Like, I noticed when they showed the very first episode and your bio, the third line of your bio was Keanu Reeves enthusiast.
14:27I didn't even catch that. Yeah, that was unbelievable.
14:30Yeah. Shirtless Ben Johnson, are those socks on the last show?
14:33I know. Oh, you know what? Shirtless Ben Johnson, they are.
14:36I just, you know, the wardrobe, they ran out of it like the small socks.
14:40Maybe I should. Ah, wardrobe thrown under the bus.
14:43Plus 210 to cast on the last show. But good time if you had it.
14:47In a game seven, the pressure gets to people and the pressure goes to wardrobe.
14:52There's the ankles for people. You know what I'm going to do?
14:55Shirtless Ben Johnson, in the break between segment one and segment two, I will take off the socks entirely.
15:01That's what I will do. There you go. Good for everyone.
15:04That's something to look forward to. Yeah. Make sure we roll cameras on that so we can have a highlight that we roll back as well.
15:11By the way, you didn't hype it enough. We have some premium guests on this show today.
15:16Yeah, no question. Absolutely. Like big names. Superstars. Yeah, big names.
15:19Nothing but superstars. Yeah. We've already seen Todd Zeal.
15:22Todd Zeal, that's a tough act to follow. Is A.J.
15:25Brown coming back? No A.J. Brown today, although maybe.
15:28But we welcome in a frequent guest and friend of the show in Roto Pat.
15:32Oh, there we go. Yeah, there he is. There we go.
15:35Roto Pat. Roto Pat. Yeah, defending champion of our League of Assholes.
15:39And wins guillotine every year. Yes, he does. Every single year he wins guillotine.
15:43Hello, Pat. Hello. Well, Jaden Daniels canceled, so they brought me in.
15:46They thought I'd be the preferred first guest for Matthew.
15:49Matthew, hell of a run here at Fantasy Football Happy Hour.
15:52I look forward to it keeping going. And yeah, I look forward to it.
15:56I hope we get to keep doing the guillotine league because my favorite yearly tradition is to get 15th place in week
16:03one and almost get eliminated and then somehow win the league going forward the rest of the year.
16:08But how you doing, buddy? I did not remember Scooby-Doo Barry.
16:11Yeah. That was quite the variation of Barry there.
16:14Can I just say, Roto Pat, do you think that if Matthew does leave NBC, that'll be the impetus for you to get some Bluetooth headphones?
16:21Because that would really maybe be a good country.
16:24There's no budget large enough in NBC Sports that would afford me YouTube Bluetooth headphones.
16:28So that will not be happening. You don't think so?
16:31The money they save on my contract, you don't think they can do it?
16:35I think it's like Aaron Rodgers. He is choosing this.
16:38He is. They sent high-level executives to my house and I just refused.
16:42Like, this is philosophical reasons. It's religious reasons. It can't be done.
16:45Denny, one of the things that... That's proud of you.
16:48Denny, one of the things that... I'm just plowing through that.
16:51Denny, one of the things that... One of the memories of this show that didn't make the highlight reel for whatever reason
16:57is that you were in the peacocky outfit the last time we had...
17:01Most recent one. Not every year. Not every year.
17:04That we know of. We don't know. Honestly, we don't know.
17:07I can't confirm that. It might have been you in the outfit every year.
17:11Yeah, exactly. I never did reveal peacocky. So my question is, is like, have you worn it since?
17:16Did that inspire you and Mrs. Rotopat? You know, I don't think people realize this, but Rotopat has like 12 kids or something like that.
17:24He's a challenge for a little river. Yeah. He is fertile.
17:27Rotopat is fertile. Make no more sense. His boys can swim.
17:30Yeah. I was just curious of, you know, what's going on with the peacocky outfit.
17:34Well, to answer your question, first off, it takes three months to dry clean.
17:38A very involved outfit. A lot of cleaning on that.
17:41And that was in January. We had four children at that time.
17:45Next month, February, all of a sudden we had a fifth child.
17:48So you be the judge of what the peacock costume did to our family.
17:52By the way, Matt, you're the only person in the industry, I feel like, who would get me to debase myself to wear a peacock costume.
18:00But it felt like an honor. And that part wasn't stressful.
18:03The most stressful part of the peacock costume was after one or two awards, the whole desk was kind of getting uneasy.
18:09They started murmuring. Basically, the peacock is not dancing well enough.
18:12Right. Like, we need better dances out of the peacock.
18:15And in my head, I'm like, I'm a 39-year-old dad.
18:18I haven't learned a new dance since the Soulja Boy.
18:21But I powered through. I came up with some new dance.
18:24That honestly really was a highlight. Just two quick things, Roto Pat.
18:28Firstly, you're lying because I know you dress up as a peacock all the time for field yates.
18:33So you'll do it for anyone in the industry.
18:36And then secondly, no one ever get into a Waymo with Pat because he sits in the front seat and he touches the wheel.
18:42It's the only rule of being a Waymo. It's the one thing you can't do.
18:47That's the one thing that he does. Yeah. He's always been a rebel.
18:51He's always been a real rule breaker. Did I call?
18:53Apparently, I called you Denny at some point during the segment.
18:57I apologize, Roto Pat. I don't know your name.
18:59It's my last show. You know, whatever. So we're trying to figure it all out.
19:04But Roto Pat, listen, you are a gentleman and a legend.
19:07And for my money, the best peacocky we've ever had.
19:10So continue to appreciate your friendship and support. And thank you to all your contributions over the show.
19:15We will absolutely do the Guillotine League next year.
19:17100%. We will absolutely bring that back. Matt, I'm the best.
19:21Matthew, I'm the best peacock. You're the best to ever do it in general.
19:25Thank you so much, man. Thank you, my friend.
19:27Thank you, brother. Stay out of the Waymos. Well, you gave away the next guest three times.
19:32Did I? It's Denny Carter. Is it really? Yeah.
19:35Okay. Sorry. Well, I kept saying. I don't know.
19:37All right. Fair enough. We'll have Denny on in a second.
19:41Yeah. Quite sweaty, that outfit, the peacocky. Oh, it was unbelievable.
19:44I felt bad for him. Me too. I don't think he really knew what he agreed to until he was about 20 minutes into it.
19:51Yeah. It was like Ryan Reynolds and Buried. Yeah.
19:54It was basically the exact same thing. One last film reference for The Road.
19:58I was just going to say, and like not a movie that anyone's seen.
20:02You can have picked any Ryan Reynolds movie. No one's seen Buried.
20:05Like people have seen almost every Ryan Reynolds movie.
20:08Yeah, I don't know that one. No one's seen Buried.
20:11He's trapped in a coffin. He needs to get out.
20:14Yeah. Well, I figured out the premise from the movie, from the name of the title, but I've never seen Buried.
20:20Let's see. 87% on Rotten Tomatoes did not have that on my bingo card.
20:24Maybe with this newfound time I'll have, I'll watch them Buried.
20:27I will tell you that we were, I was trying to think of, like, we had a couple of conversations about, okay,
20:33for the last show, what should we do and everything like that.
20:37And I just like, should it just be a three-hour watch party of Magnolia?
20:41Should it be live from the Jaguars bar? Should it be, like, we actually pitched this as well, and unfortunately the FCC
20:47said no, but I wanted to, legitimately, this was an idea that we talked about, that I was just going to get
20:53hammered throughout the 90 minutes and take a breathalyzer at the end of it to prove that I am impervious to beer,
21:00which I still insist that I am. Maybe we'll do that at the wrap party.
21:04We're having the wrap party June 4th at an undisclosed location, so maybe we'll have, maybe we'll do that.
21:10The FCC also, they banned the idea of us doing the show at the Jags bar.
21:14You can't show Jags fans on TV. That's not America.
21:17It's fair enough. It's fair enough. All right, let's welcome on Denny.
21:21This is not Flexual Frustrations. This is just Denny Carter, not Dr.
21:24Denny. Hello, Denny. Hey, guys. Hey, you can call me Rotopat since you called him Denny.
21:29That's fine. Yeah, the good switcheroo. Well, you're wearing a hat, which is so weird.
21:33You know, like, normally you've got your luxurious locks, your great head of lettuce out there for me to be jealous of.
21:39I'm a Bolts fan first and foremost. Everybody knows this.
21:42Sure. Thanks. I'm going out the way I came in.
21:45I've worn this on the show before. Come on, man.
21:48Can you explain why, Denny? It's actually not a San Diego Chargers fan at all.
21:52I like the color. I don't know. I don't know what to tell you.
21:57And I can hold a conversation. Here's the thing.
21:59When I'm in the grocery store and someone goes, oh, Chargers, I can hold a conversation like I'm a Chargers fan.
22:05Oh, man. It's been tough luck for the past 40 years, but I think Justin Herbert can get us over the hump this year.
22:12Yeah. I know you go deep in the Billy Volick bag.
22:15Yeah. We've got that in the club. But couldn't you have that conversation about any NFL team?
22:20I would think anyone that does what we do for a living.
22:24Like, when I go to parties, it's always, you know, somebody talks to me about a team and then I can talk to them about their team.
22:32I could do that. I could do that. I live in Maryland, okay?
22:35No one's even heard of the Chargers here. That's fair.
22:38That's right. Yeah. How often do you really get stopped wearing that at the grocery store?
22:43Do you think the biggest, just I'm curious, guys, do you think the biggest flaw in that story is that Denny actually gets invited to parties?
22:50No, he said it at the grocery store. Oh, it's a grocery store.
22:54That I believe. He definitely has to go food shopping.
22:57I believe you go grocery shopping. I do believe that.
23:00I do that a lot, guys. Yeah. But I wanted to thank you for having me on today and for letting me
23:06be part of the show over the past few years and for letting me do fun bits and, you know, joining along with those bits.
23:13The flexural frustrations, I almost said sexual frustrations, but that's not what it was, was one of my favorite things I've done
23:20in the industry and you all really played along, really made that happen.
23:24So I wanted to thank you all, especially Matthew.
23:26Now, listen, Denny, you were an awesome contributor to the show throughout.
23:30We love that you took some time out of your schedule to be with us.
23:34And you played along with our dumb bits, whether it was flexural frustration or honestly, I always loved what the mainstream media didn't want you to know.
23:42That's sad. Denny Carter. Like, I love the year that we did that.
23:46Who did you keep calling? Rachel Maddow? I believe she wasn't answering, but that was a really good one.
23:51Got me for like three weeks in a row.
23:54Chris Hayes wouldn't come on the show. I don't know why.
23:57You know, he was too scared. So I came on instead.
24:00Right. I keep trying to tell the mainstream media about Trey Harris, but they won't listen.
24:05They're not answering the calls. Yeah. Or Greg Dorch.
24:07Right. I was trying to go with a charger because of the hat.
24:11Oh, yeah. There you go. You're forgetting he's a Chargers fan.
24:14He's celebrating David Njoku. Right. Of course. Very timely.
24:17Yeah. It's very exciting. Are you excited about the Njoku signing?
24:20I'm so excited, guys. Listen, I'm excited for him to run 35% of the routes every week, no matter what.
24:26You know, that'll be fun for fantasy. It'll be fun to figure out.
24:30We're going to talk about it all season like we can figure it out, but we won't.
24:34That's what I promise you. The one thing I will say, we don't, I mean, we could do 10 seconds of a
24:41fantasy analysis here if we want to, but since Njoku's brought up, the one thing I will say is that I actually, Njoku's a great blocker.
24:48And just you think about like, we're excited about this run game under Mike McDaniel.
24:53We're excited about Omari and Hampton finally being healthy.
24:55Their offensive line being finally healthy. And I think, you think they signed Charlie Kohler.
25:00They signed David Njoku. Like, feels like, Connor, they want to do a lot of 12 personnel.
25:05And then they have Gadsden to maybe not have to play on the line of scrimmage, which would be nice.
25:10You'd rather him playing as a power slot or whatever it may be.
25:14Especially because you don't, they're probably not bringing back Keenan Allen.
25:17Right. Right. So, I mean, you just, you think about like, you know, it should be another McConculus year here, but I think it hurts Gadsden.
25:25He's probably from a high end, tight end too.
25:27Now he's kind of in that 15 to 20 range.
25:30Right. You know, it hurts Gadsden's fantasy value. Probably helps Omari and Hampton the most.
25:35Yes. Right. Yeah. Just being able to run the ball.
25:38Yeah. And you run it back, ride or die part two.
25:41Yeah. And maybe. And Njoku will be, will catch like six touchdowns and just be super annoying because no one will ever
25:47start on the weeks that he does. Barry is ruining the show with a fantasy football talk.
25:52That's what I wanted to say. Look, Barry is so committed that he is going to break down the Chargers tight ends in May on this last show.
26:00So, that's a credit to him. Look, just be sure to pass on all that info to all your Chargers friends in Maryland.
26:07Yeah. At the grocery store. Yeah. Between the produce.
26:09Yeah. Yeah. When you're squeezing the produce, just turn to somebody and say like, no, I think he meant.
26:15He said, yeah, you squeeze the produce. Oh, I don't do that.
26:18Yeah. Yeah. Of course. You know, Denny does though.
26:21I would never. I would never. Denny? I'm married guys.
26:24Come on. Yeah, exactly. Please. It's all. Of course he is.
26:27I haven't squeezed the produce in 10 years. Stop it.
26:30He's a produce squeezer if I ever saw one.
26:32Stop it for me. Thank you, Denny. Thank you, Denny.
26:35You know, he's just sitting there going, I think Keaton Mitchell was an underrated siding.
26:40He's just sitting there doing that. He was around him.
26:43Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Squeezing the produce. Anyway, we appreciate you.
26:45You're probably going to be out for that. Appreciate you, Denny Carter.
26:49Our next guest. Dr. Denny Carter. A deep, deep pull.
26:52Is this a deep cut? Yeah, I'm going to build it up.
26:55We're going to wait a little bit before we actually reveal to it because I think this one will genuinely be a nice surprise to you.
27:03By the way, the chat cannot believe we snuck in football talk.
27:06Well, why not? The people need to know. Yeah.
27:09David and Joku is part of the show. Yeah, why not?
27:12Of course. Yeah. He's a seminal character. I thought one of the things that would make the montage was me walking in
27:18as in Joku with the big, you know, we did our entrances one year.
27:22That was another FCC band. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we couldn't show that again.
27:26Was that on? That was on pregame. That was on something.
27:29That might be on. Maybe. Who knows? Maybe that's coming up later in the show.
27:34Who knows? Me ruining the show and not looking at the rundown before.
27:38Classic. Right. On brand. All the staples are cashing today.
27:40On brand. Yeah. On brand. All right. This next guest, it's a pretty nice surprise because he hasn't worked on our show
27:47lately, but he was here from the beginning, and that is Penn State Blake.
27:51You saw him in the mashup. Wow. On brand.
27:53On brand, guys. On brand. Good to see you guys.
27:56Wearing the tracksuit. We all went tracksuit today. I'm sort of in a more of a jumpsuit.
28:01You're like in some sort of like burgundy. And mobbed up.
28:04Wine color. Mobbed up tracksuit. Bit pod character in the town.
28:08Yeah. There we go. That's what I was going for.
28:11That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Jay, what he just normally does.
28:14Yes. Whatever they put out there for you. The man that was earliest on Parker Washington.
28:19Penn State Blake. That's not a joke. Number one Parker Washington fan.
28:22He was right. What's up, Blake? I didn't get enough shares in Parker Washington when we were bringing him up, but yeah,
28:28he was one of the greatest Penn State wide receivers I've ever seen.
28:32That's right. Yeah, no, it's great to see you guys.
28:35I'm really happy to be here. First two years of the show.
28:39I mean, so many great memories. I think one of the best memories I had, I wasn't even there, but it was
28:45when you guys were in Philly for the Applebee's show.
28:48And it had to be somewhere between $30 to $50 margaritas on a berries tab, I think, which may be a little bit short.
28:55There were dollaritas, which makes that. Dollaritas, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
28:58Yeah. I'll never forget being at that Applebee's, Blake, and Matthew turning to me in an ad break after his $6 dollarita
29:04saying, I think I'm in a bit of trouble here.
29:07No. I need some pretzel stick stat. There was also that makeshift Eagles mascot guy that showed up, and it was kind of an eagle.
29:14It was kind of something. I wasn't really sure what was going on, but yeah, that guy was awesome.
29:20So, Penn State, Blake, I have to ask you, first off, since the time that you've left the show and now you've gotten married, so congratulations.
29:27Not yet. Soon. Well, you got a game. Yeah, soon.
29:30Three kids. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Another on the way.
29:34But I just want to know, since this is potentially the last show of Fantasy Football Happy Hour, after four years, Penn
29:40State, Blake, will you finally admit that Craig Reynolds is never coming on this show at this point?
29:45I mean, I know we have an hour left.
29:48Maybe he's coming out today. Maybe he's coming out.
29:50Yeah, I mean, you know, he brought it up one time.
29:53He said if he could ever get to Stanford, Connecticut, and then he did go to the Patriots, so he was a
30:00little bit closer than when he was in Detroit.
30:02But yeah, I'm sorry to say I don't think that's happening.
30:06Yeah. It's good that you finally admit that. Yeah.
30:08It was a good try. Yeah. Hey, if it makes you feel better, Penn State, Blake, you are on the Mount Rushmore of Fantasy Football Happy Hour researchers.
30:16For sure. Let's go. For sure. I think it's a short list.
30:20It is. Yeah, we're still looking for the fourth person on the Mount Rushmore.
30:24Yeah, there we go. For sure. There we go.
30:26It's been so long since we've seen you, Blake, that in the time between your last appearance and now your team, the
30:33Philadelphia Eagles, have won a Super Bowl and since become an absolute mess.
30:37You've gone full circle through that experience. It is fun to see that it's schedule day released also today.
30:42And I swear at this point, like, we're on, like, 10 primetime games.
30:46Like, I don't think I'm ever going to see another 1 o'clock game with the Eagles it's honestly very depressing.
30:52Like, I go, got to watch something at Sunday night and then, like, if they lose and I go to bed at, like, 2 a.m., just super upset.
31:00It's very sad. Yeah, but, you know. You play at 1 o'clock every Sunday against the Titans and the Dolphins.
31:05Exactly. It's hard to feel bad for you. I've been hanging my We Beat Boston banner for the last two weeks for the Sixers.
31:12Even though they got swept by the Knicks, you know, we finally got over that Boston hump.
31:17Yeah. There you go. Thank you, fans. Four and seven in the playoffs.
31:21That's right. Blake, great seeing you, man. Great to see you.
31:24Thanks for all your contributions to the show. You're always a fun part of it.
31:29And we miss you in the League of Assholes, where you refuse to draft a quarterback in the two-quarterback league.
31:34I was moving. He was driving to you, I swear.
31:37Thanks, guys. See you, Blake. There you go. Now Rushmore of researchers.
31:41Yeah. Well, the best part was, for a while, he was Blake.
31:44He pulled off something that is very rare. And Scott McClory, Tony Soprano wants his drip back.
31:49It's fair. Penn State Blake pulled off something that I think is very hard to do, which is he gave himself a nickname.
31:56Like, you're not allowed to really give yourself a nickname.
31:59And it's usually like, what are you doing? Did he give himself that name?
32:03He called himself Penn State Blake. Yes. But it really...
32:06It stuck. It works. That's the problem. I know.
32:08So you really didn't want to roll with it because it's a self-given nickname, but it does work.
32:13Because he was trying for a little while. He originally was like Researcher Blake, and then he was like Philly Blake and whatever.
32:20And then he just... One day, he just started calling himself Penn State Blake.
32:24And it somehow stuck. And it worked. Did you not do the same thing with Mr.
32:29Roto bit? I guess people don't call you that.
32:31I did. I did. But like... That's why we didn't call you it.
32:35That's right. And it was a column title. Like, it was the name of my column.
32:40It wasn't like anyone I said like, you know, hey, Connor.
32:43Hey, talented Mr. Roto. Like, no one ever says that.
32:46I certainly hope they never said that. No, no, no.
32:49I will say there are still friends of mine to this day that will be like, hey, TMR.
32:54Like, I have people that... There are people in my life that will call me TMR.
32:59But like, not... Anyway. Let's continue on the journey of Mount Rushmore of our researchers.
33:03Speaking of great and great nicknames. Yeah. And great nicknames.
33:06Let's bring in Big Show. Wow. From the car.
33:08From a vehicle. From the car. Wow. Very celebrity-like.
33:11Well, too many things going on. Got to take it from the car.
33:15Well, Big Show... One of the things Big Show does is he does NASCAR resources.
33:19So this is... Oh, very fitting. This is very fitting.
33:22He's in the car. He's in the car. Are you actually in traffic right now, Big Show?
33:27No, I'm in a parking lot right now. Nice.
33:30With a safe belt on. That's right. You never know.
33:32Dangerous ones around the corner. Safety first. Safety first.
33:35I like that. Oh, Big Show. Good to see you.
33:38You too, guys. Only you can pull off an entrance like that, I must say.
33:42Unbelievable. I do my best. Yeah. We were nervous when Blake left the show.
33:46We were. But you quickly asserted yourself that you would fill in the role just fine.
33:51Yeah. Big Show. Yeah, and I didn't go to a Big Ten school.
33:55I'm no Penn State guy. You know? Yeah. I went to a little Curry College, Division III school outside of Boston.
34:01Um. What? You got nothing for me? No. Some man Chuck says Big Show calling up to being stopped for speeding.
34:07I could believe that as well. You are a Patriots fan.
34:10Big Show, any thoughts about the offseason for the Patriots?
34:13Been interesting to say the least. Are we talking on the field moves or off the field moves?
34:18Very PC answer from Big Show. I'm leaving the question open-ended, Big Show.
34:22It's up to you. Well, I'll put it this way.
34:25We still have a head coach. And I'm glad he's still there.
34:28But, well, there we go. Get myself back in the frame here.
34:32Yeah. Other than that, you know, because I also work in the business.
34:35I don't want to say anything that could get me fired.
34:39So, I say let the, let it play out.
34:41And we'll be fans of the, of the story.
34:44But, yeah, I'm still glad Coach is there. And it's, hopefully we can have another Super Bowl run this year.
34:50But that schedule is going to be a little tough for the, for the Patriots.
34:54They had quite an easy one last year. I'm, I fully admit that was a cakewalk.
34:59Listen, Big Show, I just want to say, look, we loved having you on the show.
35:03You were a great sport. It was always, you know, there is, there is legitimately a Big Show fan base that would,
35:10that would ask, when I would go to parties, people would ask me about Big Show.
35:14And I would ask, even if the show, you know, even as we head into the off season, and I miss this,
35:21like, just when random celebrities die, will you still text me, please?
35:24That's going to be my, my, I miss that.
35:27I miss that from you. Will you do that?
35:29Absolutely. Thank you, my brother. Thank you, my brother.
35:32I appreciate you. See you, Big Show. Thank you, Big Show.
35:35We love you, Big Show. We'll see you. What a great demonstration of safety.
35:39On a national platform. To be wearing a seatbelt in a small station in a car park.
35:44Unbelievable. Great work for Big Show. To give a story of Big Show reporting deaths, the one notable one to me that
35:50comes to mind, because it was in person, we do the show, I get off the desk, take the mic off, didn't even step off the stage.
35:58And Big Show comes up to me and he's like, ah.
36:01He's like, Bob Barker had a good run. And I'm like, Bob Barker died?
36:05And he's like, yeah, he had a good run.
36:08And I'm just like, this is one way to find out if Bob Barker's dead.
36:12In fairness to Big Show, he did have a good run.
36:16I mean. 99 years old? I mean, honestly, legend.
36:18Happy Madison. Price is right. I mean, done it all.
36:21Yeah, yeah. Saved a lot of dogs from being neutered.
36:24Or maybe he got them neutered. What was it?
36:27Yeah, I don't know the order of operations. Spare Dinger, your dog.
36:30I think he was pro-neutering, right? He was leading the charge.
36:33Yeah. So maybe he wasn't as successful as I thought.
36:36But we'll be back, at least for another segment.
36:39In theory. Wait, what are they going to do?
36:41Cancel us now? Seriously, which one is which? On the real Matthew Barry.
36:45Ladies just been coming up to you left and right, just throwing their numbers at you?
36:50Yeah, without a doubt. Yeah. 100%. It's a good look.
36:53It's a good look as well. There you go.
36:55Can he talk through that thing? That's actually A.J.
36:58Brown. That's A.J. Brown. Hey, guys. Bill. Hey, Bill.
37:00What's up, Bill? Bill. Bill. Bill. Not even close.
37:03Sorry. Sorry. I'm two and a half, but Dollarita's in.
37:06I'm taking the under here for Travis. Kelsey, on the receptions again.
37:09I.J., he built this up. Why do you hate freedom, Matthew?
37:13America's part of the show. America is part of the show.
37:16It's America's show. It is America's show, even though we have an Australian.
37:19Yeah. Let me try to at least hit some rim.
37:22I get two. I'm going to the lane. I'm going to the line.
37:26You did get fouled. Yeah. 9.1 yards per pass attempt.
37:29And oh, by the way. Wow. Get some water and get some.
37:32Yeah. And they allow 9.1 yards per pass attempt.
37:35Second most of the NFL since week two. And oh, by the way, now they've got a face.
37:40Jackson, Smith, and Jigba. Oh, well. Yeah. Glug glug.
37:43What? Don't you do it like me and Lawrence are doing it?
37:46No. You actually flip the cup. No, you flip it so it lands like that.
37:51Yeah. This is off to a record start. These guys have never played.
37:54We do it differently. I don't know about this.
37:57So on the count of three. Go. All right.
38:00Mine's down. There we go. 1, 2, 3. Matthew, 3.
38:03I already did that. I thought we had to land it on top, though.
38:07No. So I kept on doing it. You could have never played flip cup.
38:11They actually won. Champagne, J. American. Nah, I think we had it the right way.
38:15We had it the wrong way. We had it the right way.
38:18The worst flip cup in the history. How bad was that, man?
38:22That was brutal. That was so awful. What are you talking about?
38:25Hey, Gemma, 89. J is so washed. J is so washed.
38:29There we go. Nah, nah, nah. I have college-age kids.
38:31The truth has been spoken. J has like, you know, five-year-olds.
38:353, 2, 1, go. Wait. No, no, no. What are you doing?
38:38I will count in. 3, 2, 1, go. I'm keeping up.
38:41I'm keeping up with you guys. Yeah, thank you.
38:44Kind of a diamond and orange. It was surprising that he was so close to us.
38:49Yeah, yeah. I like that. I'm keeping up with you guys.
38:52I was all excited. That's why we had you grab the mic for the commentary.
38:56Have you ever pondered what the storyline would be for Croc 4?
39:00For Croc 4, yeah. It's, yeah, J goes back to Australia.
39:03J-Gun goes back to Australia. And, you know, he gets lost in the wilderness.
39:07And there's an alligator about to eat him. And then, you know, the actual crocodile, he comes in and, like, does whatever it was he does.
39:14That talks to the animals and, you know, saves Jay.
39:17And then the two of them go on a swashbuckling adventure where they teach the aborigines how to gamble.
39:23I can drink. I could drink a 20-pack of beer and I feel nothing.
39:27I don't know what it is. I'm dead serious.
39:29Just beer does not get me drunk. But, like, Pinot Grigio will mess me up.
39:34So if I'm going to get it. That wine ain't going to do you.
39:38I'm just telling. Like, it goes down easy and, like, it gets you going.
39:42And so just if you're in a mood to, like, hey, I'd like to get a little buzz here.
39:47Beer just doesn't do anything for me. Unbelievable. I'm impervious to alcohol when it comes in the form of beer.
39:53Impervious. It's a completely insane stance to take. It's true, though.
39:56I'm just telling you it's true. It's science. Down, up, down.
39:59Oh, there's wind. The wind is outrageous. Oh, that counts.
40:02No, it doesn't. Who did it? The man with the neck collar.
40:06We got Jay Croucher right here. That's still going.
40:08Jay Croucher. Jay Croucher. Jay Croucher cheated. Well done, Jay.
40:11All right, man. You lost. Don't keep doing it.
40:14No, stop. Stop now. There you go. If you're wondering why Jay is staring off camera the whole time, he's looking at
40:20the tiny TV with the Colts came on. It's not that tiny a TV, but you're absolutely right.
40:25You have three young children at home. Sure. If the Colts lose.
40:29That's my question. If the Colts lose, the amount of money you have on the Colts to, if they lose, will you
40:35have to sell one of your children? I'll tell you this.
40:38If the Colts lose for the shoe, we won't have any shoes left in the house.
40:43We'll be selling the shoes. With, as we see Tyler Warren keep the game alive here.
40:48Thought he was going to drop that. I'm streaming the game and it's delayed a few minutes.
40:53Please stop killing the game for me by reacting, Jay.
40:55And look, this is what he does. He's the ruiner.
40:58Just everything. Taylor. Jonathan Taylor. Jonathan Taylor, by the way, 218 yards.
41:02He scores for the third touchdown. He's got his third touchdown.
41:05He's got his third touchdown. Is that his third touchdown?
41:08Third touchdown. Give him the MVP. Some of the worst flip cup I've ever witnessed in my life.
41:13On multiple occasions. It's so brutal. It got worse.
41:16The conditions in the outdoor one, I'll give you that.
41:19Yeah. The four of you in the studio. But, yeah.
41:22Are we ready to talk about Matthew Sunglasses in Pittsburgh looking like Junior Soprano?
41:26What was that? I mean, I'm ready to discuss.
41:28Yeah. What the hell was that? Those definitely were not yours.
41:31No. That's exactly right. Yeah. I mean, I had forgotten sunglasses.
41:35And so, yes. They were giving to me. It's like someone's grandpa got out of the nursing home and just showed up on the NBC.
41:42Junior Soprano. Yeah. I got to get that kind of thing going.
41:45Yeah. Junior Soprano. I am surprised the Diet Coke clip did not make it.
41:49Make the cut. Well, the Spilller. Well, you've actually spilled on Fantasy Bowl pregame and on Fantasy Bowl.
41:54Yeah. I've spilled many places. CJ Spillow. Yeah. I am CJ Spillow.
41:58That's right. The Runer. The Runer. The Runler. Exactly.
42:01And the Lurer thing. There's so much. Yes. So much that we.
42:04Well, the excuse Lurer was an all-timey. The excuse Lurer.
42:07Unbelievable. We got the Brown Gobbler in that. The Brown Gobbler.
42:10So I wish we could keep that going. A lot of good times.
42:14Yes. Some of the best times as well when the substitute teacher ran the show.
42:18Backup producer Pete days were always fun. And the chat knew within three minutes if it was a backup producer Pete day.
42:25So for one more rodeo, backup producer Pete is here.
42:27Yeah. Come on up. There you go. He is.
42:30Backup producer Pete in uniform. In full uniform wearing the Mets hat, of course.
42:34Well done. Mets. 17 and 25, baby. That's right.
42:37Two in a row. Don't slip on us. There we go.
42:40You got a speech here? That's a winning streak.
42:43Yeah. No, no. I brought a prop. This is my most thrown under the bus backup producer Pete.
42:48Steven pitched this show to me. He said, oh, well, we're thinking who could we have on the show?
42:53And, oh, we got to have Pete. I was like, oh, wow, that's really nice of you.
42:58And then he's like, because, like, no one's been ripped more than you on the show.
43:03I was like, okay, well, that's the reason. Yeah.
43:05This is true. But by the way, you coming with these two props is the most prepared you've ever been for this show.
43:12That's true. That's true. In four years. That's a good point.
43:15The reason they knew in the first three minutes of the Pete show is because it started three minutes late.
43:21Yeah. Yeah, there you go. It's also fair. Yes.
43:24Also fair. The enduring images of the teacher wheeling in the TV and starting on VHS, Dead Poets Society goes in and then we start Tuesdays with Pete.
43:32Correct. Correct. Correct. Exactly. Pete, I have to tell you, the one thing that I will give Pete, we always had so
43:38much fun on the shows that you produced. You were really great.
43:42No, no, no. But Pete, despite the fact that your real job is you produce Sunday Night Football, you do Simps on
43:48Button, you do a lot of different things here at the network, but you are a very good fantasy player.
43:54You are a multi-time, you are a multi-year champion of the League of Assholes.
43:58You've won the Football League, you've won the Basketball League.
44:01You are truly a force to be reckoned with.
44:03Which you need to remind my home league that I've been in the longest, which I have not won since the George Bush administration.
44:10So all my friends who think that like, oh, well, you know, you work in sports.
44:15You work in sports, yeah. How do you not win this league every year?
44:19Well, I'm too busy winning other leagues, like the happy hour leagues.
44:22Yeah, and ignoring your children. Exactly. But you keep the group chat vibes extremely high.
44:27Yeah, you're good. You're good on the group chat.
44:29I've got to give you credit. You're a good texter.
44:32I'm coming hard. I've got my priorities, you know.
44:35Group chat first, kids second. And then, yeah. That's how it should be.
44:38Hey, did you take the kids to school? No, I'm going to waivers right now.
44:43I'm going to waivers right now. I've got to pick up facial toot.
44:47That's what we're trying to get Joe Flacco. All right.
44:49All right, we're back after this. Stuntman Chuck here.
44:52And I want to say, more than the football analysis, I'm going to miss the off-topic rants, drinking Diet Coke, getting loopy
44:58on Robitussin, bad movie takes, finding Nemo pitches, long-form storytelling, all the thrills, all the spills.
45:03So to Connor, Lawrence, Jay, and Matthew, so long.
45:06Until next time, the crown is yours. Peace out.
45:08Raise the flags here at Bucca, 2026, ride or die.
45:11Hope everybody has a great summer. I know I've been very busy.
45:15I got a little LJ on the way. And I asked my wife what we're doing for dinner tonight.
45:20And she said, likely eating out. So peace out.
45:23Have a good one. It's finals week and it's time to present my happy hour thesis.
45:27Watching the show is like watching a Chris Jones 40.
45:30Our wardrobe is questionable. We're not the fastest. We've got tons of jiggling going on.
45:35We're about halfway through when you least expect it.
45:37Something magical might pop out. Something large, girthy, and unexpected.
45:40Meanwhile, Alexa's in the back wondering if NBC is going to get fined.
45:44We collectively belly flop, bounce back to our feet, and laugh together.
45:47And that's where I want to pivot. Because whether you're having the best of days, worst of days, you're in perfect health,
45:54or you're undergoing life-saving treatment, tuning into this show is completely awesome.
45:57You guys bring the fantasy knowledge, but more specifically, you bring the laughs and the joy.
46:02So for me, that's perfection. Whatever happens next, we'll find Danimo and to the entire happy hour crew, all the best to you and your family.
46:09This show is absolutely incredible. Thank you so much, guys.
46:12Hey, everyone. It's Valiant Vincent, and I'm here from the fantasy football happy hour desk.
46:17Well, not really, but this is the best I could do.
46:20I just wanted to say how much I enjoy being a part of this community, how much I've enjoyed the show in
46:26this past year and in the past couple of years, getting able to interact with the chat, be part of the community.
46:32I've made some friendships here that I think are really going to last the rest of my life.
46:38I really do appreciate all of you so much, and it's an honor for me personally to be the admin of the
46:44fantasy football happy hour discord, where we have the additional conversations and everything.
46:48Being part of the community and feeling like I'm involved with the show has been one of the greatest things that I've
46:54ever experienced fantasy football-wise in my life. I really appreciate it so much, and I'm really, really proud to call myself a regular.
47:01Excellent work from the regulars. Love every bit of the videos, everything we've heard back.
47:05That was awesome. Thank you very much. Valiant Vincent with the excellent set backdrop.
47:09That's exactly. That's the best all four of us have ever looked together, by the way.
47:14Unbelievable. Sure just blew away in the wind. Yeah, raise the flag.
47:17Stuntman Chuck, Medici, Jonathan Medici, Valiant Vincent. And I highly recommend joining the Discord if you haven't.
47:22I'm going to try to pop in every Thursday at noon, noon Eastern, during the offseason here into the Discord.
47:28I recommend you guys doing it well. It's very fun.
47:31A lot of Diet Coke memes. I'm sure. They brought themselves.
47:34Yeah, of course. There it is. Too easy. There you go.
47:37Lawrence Jackson joining the desk. What's up, my friend?
47:40Man, thank you for having me today. And, you know, every other day I've been part of this show.
47:45Man, it's been a pleasure to contribute here and get on air with you boys.
47:50This, for me, was different because this was my first opportunity on air.
47:53So it was like, oh, damn, they really going to they really letting me get away with this.
47:59But then, you know, as the shows go on, we built the camaraderie.
48:02We all end up at Connors wedding. So things like that, like the regulars were saying, it's become more than just, you know, like spitting out fantasy advice.
48:10Just like the camaraderie of the guys and then the guys and gals who are regulars.
48:15So, man, it's been an honor to get on with y'all boys, man.
48:19Yeah. I also just want the record to show that the highest rated show, the highest rated episode of the show ever was NBC.
48:26For some reason, re-running me and Lawrence, just the two of us after the New Year's Eve show with like Miley Cyrus or something.
48:33So me and Lawrence, the two of us, highest rated episode ever.
48:36There you go. Season one, I think. That's on brand for the entire show as well.
48:41And, you know, Lawrence, you're saying, I can't believe they're letting me get away with this.
48:45I felt like that's the entire time for all of us that they, you know, I can't believe they pay us to do this.
48:52So, yeah, it's been awesome. And we'll, so we're keeping the show going actually after the, we have to end it at
48:59the end of the hour for Peacock, but we'll do a special half hour.
49:03There's an after hours, if you will, that will live on YouTube and the podcast.
49:07And so, and we'll do a Q&A with all the questions in the chat.
49:11But, yeah, it's been awesome, man. Like, I love this show.
49:14And like I said, I'm very hopeful that we get to do this again.
49:18Yep, absolutely. And for me, it's the main thing is that it's never felt like a job remotely.
49:24It's never felt like work. It's just felt like coming in and, you know, just talking to friends about football.
49:29And also, like, the feedback that we get, you know, from the regulars and just from everyone else, like people who come
49:36up to me when I'm at an airport or at my kid's gymnastics lesson.
49:40Like, that means a ton. Because, you know, we drive in here, sit at the desk, talk about football, drive home.
49:46It just kind of exists in its own world for me.
49:49And so when people actually, you know, come up and talk to me, that, you know, they're actually watching the show and
49:55listening to the show, it means a ton. Yeah, I echo that as well.
50:00I think the most important thing you should do in life, and if you can at work, it's amazing, is laugh.
50:06And what I loved about this show is I could never predict what we were going to laugh about each day.
50:12I just knew we were going to laugh each day.
50:15And then when we had the chat this year, our fourth season, I realized everybody felt like they were laughing with us.
50:21Yeah, for sure. And that made it feel particularly special.
50:24So I've enjoyed being a small part of that every single episode.
50:27It's all been awesome. I can't tell you how many times I'll be at home sitting on the couch, and I'll laugh,
50:34and my wife will be like, what? And I'd like, it's the happy hour group chat.
50:38Like, our group chat is, and to, you know, Pete is a good contributor there as well, but everyone kind of chimes in as well.
50:46And I agree with you. Like, the fans have just made it so great this year, all the regulars as well.
50:52And so that's, I'm excited about the Discord. Thank you, Valiant Vincent, for doing that.
50:56And by the way, we get to be on camera, but it is a true cast of thousands that brings you this
51:02show over the last four years, Connor. Yeah, a long list of names here, but a thank you to everybody on this
51:09graphic, from everybody working on the show, behind the scenes, producing the show, to our makeup staff, to our wardrobe staff.
51:15It's a, as you see, a lot of people to make this show what it is, and a massive thank you to
51:21each and every one of them for helping us for every single episode.
51:25I normally say it's closing time and you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.
51:30But stay here, because after this, we've got another half hour.
51:33It's after hours on the happy hour. We'll be right back.
51:36It is noon on Monday on Peacock, but it is 5 o'clock somewhere, possibly in Phoenix, Arizona, where the Super Bowl is,
51:43and where a party is happening at the media center, in the convention center in downtown Phoenix.
51:48See, doesn't this look like a party? It's very early in the morning.
51:51He's Jay Croucher. I'm Matthew Berry. We are live from the Super Bowl.
51:55It's very exciting. I've been here before. I know this is your first time.
51:59It's not my first time. I don't want to brag, but I've already been booked on the Ithaca College sports podcast.
52:05We were watching the NFL Honors last night, and we were kind of just marveling at the crispness of the man bun.
52:12Thank you. I just want to know, because I had a man bun briefly in my younger youth in Australia, and it just didn't work at all.
52:20It was like a half Asian Australian kind of, it was like Val Kilmer in heat, but like bad, like a really bad Val Kilmer in heat.
52:27I don't know if that could be bad. Well, I made it bad.
52:31I did my job. I know that you're wearing the big hat, your big hat, Brian Robinson.
52:36I have my own big hat here. I was inspired.
52:39Do you have a piece of this company, by the way?
52:42Because the big hat thing happened entirely because of you wearing in the postgame.
52:46No one had seen a big hat, and then you were all over the internet.
52:50You went viral with it. Please tell me you have a piece of this company.
52:55Bro, I haven't heard nothing from them. Well, I feel very naked and silly without my own big hat, which is a
53:01strange thing to feel silly by not wearing a big hat, but there we go.
53:05Thank you, Brian. He can't wear my hat. Look at that.
53:09There you go. I got to keep doing that.
53:11Aiden, I don't know if you remember this, but you and I met once before.
53:16I interviewed you at the NFL Rookie Premier, and you told me you were a good juggler.
53:21I asked you to juggle something. I asked you to juggle little mini helmets, which you ended up doing and would be used on Sunday Night Football.
53:28So I wanted to see how we doing. Yeah, back up.
53:32Yeah, do whatever you got to do. Make a mess with our bounty.
53:35Oh, look at that. Very impressive. No messes at all.
53:38We don't need to use the bounty at all.
53:41I want to show you. This is a picture from yesterday.
53:44Steven, go ahead and show the picture from yesterday if you can.
53:47So this was great. This is me and you, Jay Croucher, and, of course, Emmett Smith.
53:52Yes, the juror. The greatest running back of all time.
53:55I can see where this is going. That's the picture we took.
53:58So it was a wonderful interview, the three of us.
54:01It's a really nice picture. It's really great. But if you went to Jay's Instagram, this is what was posted.
54:07Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. I actually did not see this.
54:11Crop City, baby. He said to me, jokingly, he's like, should I post this?
54:15And I laughed. I didn't think he actually was going to prop us.
54:18He cut you and I both out of it.
54:21It's just him and Emmett Smith as if he interviewed Emmett Smith by himself.
54:25Or like they're friends. Like old friends. Yeah. Me and my boy Emmett.
54:29Emmett came by. Emmett looks so comfortable that it's like they're just hanging out.
54:33Yeah. It's like it's just outright. You want to know what else?
54:36What else? Yeah, what else? I've been doing that all week, baby.
54:40You haven't noticed. A lot of photos of me and my boy Matt Ryan.
54:44Just the two of us. I noticed that. Me and Max.
54:47Saquon. I noticed you and Max. I noticed you and Saquon.
54:50You noticed something today? What? Well, I was having some coffee.
54:53You were talking to someone. Yeah. And Jay was in that chair nine minutes before show.
54:58And I was like, wow, Jay really wants to get to the desk and get ready.
55:03He clearly takes that seat for a reason. This is all orchestrated.
55:06I want to fly like an eagle. Don't hurt yourself now.
55:09To the sea. Fly like an eagle. Let the spirit carry me.
55:13I want to fly. Easy, easy. Fly right into the future.
55:16I want to feed the babies. All right. All right.
55:19Hey, I ain't seen it. This is it. Scale of 110.
55:22Seal, what are we talking about here? Don't hurt yourself.
55:25I hurt myself. Ask me one on football. Ask me another girl.
55:28Hey, see what you're going to do me like that?
55:31So Trevor, Traveler, we'd like you to do our celebrity pong shot here.
55:35One shot, huh? You got one shot here. I'm sure you played a little beer pong at Clemson in your day?
55:41No. Never. First time. That is why he's one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL.
55:46Oh, yeah. There we go. Hang on. Wait, wait.
55:48Hang on. Let me roll on this in case you nail it.
55:52All right. Go ahead. They're rolling on it. Oh, let's go.
55:55Come on. Easy, man. So I have a dad bod.
55:58I'm not a good athlete as well. But is there a UFC move that you could, is there like an MMA move
56:04that you could teach somebody like me? Like, is there like one, or is it just all like you have to actually be like a very good athlete?
56:12Is there like one simple move that you could teach like, oh, yeah.
56:16Like, all right, let's teach me. Will you teach me?
56:19Yeah. All right. Yeah, right now. How do we do this?
56:22This is a real neck and choke. So you face this.
56:25Rear neck and choke. Rear neck and choke. Yeah.
56:28Blade of this bone. Yeah. Yep. Go here, put my bicep.
56:31Oh, no. And now I squeeze my elbow. Oh, yeah.
56:34Oh! Oh, no, no. I'm tapping on it. That's amazing.
56:37Unbelievable. Oh, yeah. Let me do it. Let's do a step up.
56:40All right. Dustin's getting amazing. Keep the blade on his neck.
56:44This is terrifying. Oh, my God. Fold this hand behind his neck.
56:47This feels like Dustin Boreal. Oh, my God. Put it behind his head.
56:51Push his head forward and pull your elbow. Oh, yeah.
56:54Oh, that's a good one. That's awesome. Yeah, wow.
56:56All right. Fantastic. I'm glad that was Matthew Barry, not Dustin Poirier doing that on me.
57:01Unbelievable. He's my best friend now. Yeah. Okay. That was remarkable content.
57:04Terrifying content, but remarkable content. You know, out of the choke.
57:08He's a radio. Oh. Radio Rose has always been awesome.
57:10We've gotten some great guests and played along a lot in a big way.
57:15I mean, Emmett going along with our whole leave a man behind in Vegas.
57:19Amazing. Yep. Charles Ben Johnson, Jay, and a man bun is nightmare fuel.
57:22I agree. That's why I don't have a nightmare fuel.
57:25We should have gotten a picture of that. I'm about to say, what did that look like?
57:30How did we not get a picture of that?
57:33Very briefly. Oh, wow. Very briefly. Yeah. Maybe we got two nuts.
57:36How old were you when you were doing that?
57:3918. Oh, okay. You was like 27. Ryan Diamond said, Croucher bun looks bad.
57:43Minus 500. Yeah, that's true. I'd back that. Yeah, yeah.
57:46That's why we're short-lipped. Him just walking to school with kangaroos around him, you know, the man bun, the whole thing, yeah.
57:52Takes him away. Yeah, exactly. Takes him in check.
57:55Makes sense. Watching the Radio Row segments back actually made me think of a time not Radio Row, but when we went to Vegas.
58:02Yes. That was when I was like, I don't know, this is going to be hard to carry on the show this long.
58:08Yeah. We were wounded soldiers on that set. We were indeed.
58:11Like, we, it was, the show, I think, the show aired at whatever, was it 9am?
58:16I feel like we were earlier than noon that year.
58:19It was the first year. I can't remember. We went to Vegas and we just went out the, um, uh, we went out every night.
58:26We enjoyed Vegas and then we rolled into, uh, pretty much in one motion.
58:30Right. Rolled into it. Not much bed in between.
58:33Yeah. I vividly remember, uh, waiting, um, at the exit, uh, of our hotel with Connor in the morning about to, you
58:39know, take an Uber to our set or whatever.
58:42And then we see you coming in a little late and, uh, you trying to get down the escalator.
58:47Never forget it. It almost didn't make it. It was a bit of a stumble at the top and at the bottom.
58:54I had a, that was a night where I did not have beer.
58:57I definitely had a lot of Pinot Grigios, I think.
59:00Aloha, Bricks. Uh, LJ would get zero chair turns on the voice.
59:04I'm sorry. Yeah. But the point is you had the confidence.
59:07You had the confidence to sing in front of Seal.
59:10Yeah. I mean, look, I was, look, you, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
59:15I was trying to get off of this show.
59:17I'm trying to get a record deal. Yeah. I got Seal right there.
59:21I'm like, hey, here we go. Like Eminem, you only get one shot.
59:25Yeah. Not this your chance to blow. Debo Samuel didn't know what the hell was going on.
59:30No. He was kind of just there. I know that feeling sometimes.
59:33Yeah. His laugh was like, damn, I'm like, I'm a professional football player sitting here.
59:38I probably should laugh. So let me at least grin and then let out a little.
59:42And that's kind of what you, that's kind of what Debo was feeling in that situation.
59:47I feel like that's the attitude of a lot of guests that come on our show.
59:52Just sort of like. Where's this going to go?
59:54Where's this going to go? What am I doing?
59:57What did I sign up for? Like, man, this brand isn't paying me enough to do this.
60:02Besides Rob Riggle. Right. He became the show. Yeah.
60:04Yeah. He had the full on Army gear. He's promoting a golf brand.
60:08My best interview ever. And it will be stored somewhere in the deep archives of YouTube.
60:13But it's Chris Johnson, CJ2K at the Super Bowl, I think in Vegas, coming on.
60:17And so, you know, we get handed like a sheet of like, who's the sponsor that you're promoting?
60:22Yeah, yeah. And so I get handed the sheet saying Airbnb.
60:25And so I was like, hey, Chris, can you tell us about your partnership with Airbnb?
60:30And he's like, I don't have a partnership with Airbnb.
60:33I just have a house in Nashville. Everyone should join.
60:36Everyone should rent my Airbnb. I like that. Oh, okay.
60:39I like, you can promote my Airbnb. He's literally promoting his own Airbnb.
60:42Yeah. Yeah. It's unbelievable. I got some Titan stuff in there.
60:46Yeah. I think it was pretty cool, though. It was great.
60:49I'll tell you, Ron, for 2,000 yards in the NFL.
60:52Yep. That's right. CJ2K. Yeah, I had forgotten about that as well.
60:55Everyone played along with the beer pong. That was a ton of fun.
60:59And the Vegas trip was great. I remember just all the different stops that we made, especially specifically with Fantasy Football pregame.
61:05Yeah. It was always fun. The fans always came out.
61:08We were able to do them at the Applebee's.
61:11Awesome show in Houston that I remember very fondly.
61:13Yeah. Houston was fun. Houston was great. Philly was good.
61:16Yeah. Philly was amazing. Pittsburgh. Yeah. Steelers security guard issue.
61:19Yeah. Oh, my God. I thought that would make a clip.
61:22Yeah. That security guard. That and these two. Lawrence and Jay were with me that night.
61:27That guy. You're very upset. Ryan Oswald, escalators are new technology for Barry.
61:31That's really good, Ryan. I mean, you know, when I was born, they weren't around.
61:35I was born, they weren't around. The Finding Nemo pitch.
61:38Yeah. The Finding Nemo pitch. That happened like three different times.
61:41And you told the whole thing. Errol died. Damn right.
61:44Damn right I did. I know Aloha Bricks is sick, by the way.
61:48So he wasn't able to send in a video.
61:50But I do got to give a shout out to Aloha Bricks.
61:54He's been there like every single day, you know.
61:57So. Was he our regular of the year? Yeah.
61:59I think he was regular of the year. He beat up Medici.
62:03Yeah. For sure. Valiant Vincent. When do we get the full pitch for Finding Nemo 3 Barry's flooded basement?
62:08Oh. Yeah. I was thinking of Aloha Bricks. We have a statement.
62:12Yeah. Nice statement. Aloha, everybody. A message from Aloha Bricks.
62:14First off, I would like to thank the regulars.
62:17We are all the regular of the year award winners.
62:20I raised my glass to you, and it's been a great journey and year with you folks.
62:25I can't wait until our fantasy leagues next year.
62:27If anybody wants to join our leagues next year, my email is alohabricks74 at gmail.com.
62:32To the producers, staff, and camera crew, we don't see every day you're the heart and soul of the show.
62:38We all appreciate your hard work and effort you dedicate to this great show.
62:42So a big mahalo to everybody behind the scenes.
62:44Definitely a big mahalo to everyone behind the scenes.
62:47Oh, there's more. Oh, we got a part two here from Aloha Bricks.
62:51He is not done. It's like my Finding Nemo pitch.
62:53It keeps going on. Yes. This one will get picked up.
62:57Finally, to Barry, Connor, Jay, LJ, and George. I want to say you folks are not only great fantasy analysts, but even greater people.
63:04Mahalo for showing everybody in the chat that Aloha and great mana spirit we talk about in Hawaii.
63:09Every morning was worth waking up and watching this great show.
63:12It would always be the highlight of my day.
63:15This show has brought great joy to me. Thank you.
63:17We are not done just yet. Hold on now.
63:20Hold on. Oh, my goodness. If any of you are ever on the big island, please don't hesitate to reach out.
63:26And I will always make time to show you around the island or have a meal.
63:31You are all now my ohana. Hui ho. Is that right?
63:34Hui hoa. Until we meet again for now, but not forever.
63:37Aloha, Josiah, a.k.a. At Aloha Bricks. Well, we've had a good idea.
63:41Now, Lane, Josiah. Okay. Wow. That's regular at the year level.
63:44Yeah. What a great name reveal at the end.
63:46Yes. Like Homer J. Simpson. Yeah. Kate Gemma said Aloha wrote Finding Nemo 4.
63:50It did go on for a while. It was good, though.
63:54But it was on brand. On brand for the show.
63:57Well, you learn from the best. Yeah, of course.
63:59There you go. Now, Aloha Bricks, though. For Aloha Bricks, though, I got to say, a lot of people say, hey, if
64:05you ever in my city, you know, hit me up.
64:08Da-da-da-da. If I'm there, I'm going to do it for real.
64:12Yeah. So, you know, hook me up. Free drinks.
64:14Free food. Free everything. You know what I'm saying?
64:17Right. Cut to Lawrence living with Aloha Bricks for six months.
64:20Like, can I crash at your place? You know, six months later, he's still there.
64:24Just hanging out. Aloha Bricks might have to figure it out living in Hawaii.
64:28Seems like a good play. Not bad. Not bad.
64:31Every time I go to Hawaii, I'm just like, this is awesome.
64:34But I like that Aloha Bricks was like, hey, do you want to be in our, you know, if anyone wants to
64:41play in a league with all the regulars, shout out.
64:44And I think there's, I know there's at least, I know there's multiple leagues already playing for this year.
64:49Two are fully filled. Yeah. And so I'm sure they'll do more.
64:53I'll also say this. Like, we haven't even talked about this, but I feel like the League of Assholes has to continue regardless of anything.
65:00It would be a shame. The League of Assholes has to continue.
65:03I'm very doubt. I will. Yes, we will do that.
65:06With the team I had last year and could not win, you damn straight, I want to be back.
65:12I got to go back for that draft. Six running backs in a row.
65:16We will be back. To be fair, that worked out exactly how you would think it worked out.
65:21Where your running backs were awesome, and you lost because you had Bryce Young and Michael Penix as your quarterbacks.
65:27I had, what's his name? The hair guy with the musk.
65:30Gardner Minshew. That's who I had in the playoffs.
65:33The hair guy with the musk. The hair guy with the mustache.
65:36I drew a blank for a second. That's who I lost the Roto Pat to.
65:40Replaced by Chris Oludokin. Yeah. That's a good pull.
65:43Yeah. Oludokin. I will say that one of the things that's always impressed me, Jay, whenever I'm on air with you, is just your recall.
65:50The name pulls. The name pulls. The recall. The 90s NBA references.
65:54The obscure movies. The obscure movies. Again, buried by Ryan Reynolds.
65:57It's unbelievable. It's funny. It's watching the first clip that we rolled with the highlights because I think I do have a
66:03good memory, but it goes to show how much stuff that we've done on this show that I have no memory whatsoever of interviewing A.J.
66:10Brown. A.J. Brown is an absolute superstar, but we've done so much stuff over the past four years.
66:16Yeah. You could probably name the movies we debated and the random bits like your movie scripts, but the superstars we talked to, yeah.
66:23Yeah. The fact you've never seen Star Wars, which is still outrageous to me.
66:27No. I think during paternity, though, instead of watching Star Wars for the first time, I'm going to re-watch the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
66:34Oh, wow. Just to kind of reinforce the point, I have the time, but I'd rather watch movies I've already seen.
66:40What would you rather watch? Because I haven't seen Star Wars either.
66:43Would you rather watch Star Wars for the first time or Goodfellas 3?
66:47I'm sorry. The Godfather 3. Godfather 3. I would give Star Wars a chance.
66:51Godfather 3. It was a tough watch one time.
66:54Yes, sir. Even I have a draw line in the sand.
66:57Yeah. To be fair, though, it's mainly bad because it's held in comparison to Godfather 1 and 2.
67:02It's a fairly standard film. Yeah. Otherwise. That's what I always say about Croc 3.
67:07Yeah, exactly. It's just because it doesn't hold up to 1 and 2.
67:10Croc 1 and Croc 2. Yeah. I will say with Star Wars, there's obviously films often, but there's six principal movies, and
67:17I would say that four of them are bad.
67:19Basically, there's two good ones. Yeah. Which is certainly Empire Strikes Back, and then it depends on your temperature.
67:25Return of the Jedi and A New Hope, A New Hope, which is terrible for the first 30 minutes.
67:30This is just robots walking around in the desert.
67:33But the prequels are bad. Phantom Menace is a bad movie.
67:36The prequels were bad. A lot of politics. It's just no more written.
67:40Yeah. It's just like, it's just like, yeah. Who wrote this?
67:43Yeah. And the, God, why am I blanking on the, who is like supposed to be the.
67:48It's Gardner Minshew. No. The guy with the mustache and the hair.
67:51No, who's the big. Jabba the Hutt? No, not Jabba the Hutt.
67:55Jar Jar Binks? No, Jar Jar Binks. There you go.
67:58Yeah. He was just a bad character and super annoying.
68:01Yeah. What are you going to do? Valiant Vincent.
68:03Yeah. Would Connor rather draft Magnolia to watch on his movie night or a Dolphins wide receiver?
68:08That's a good question. Valiant Vincent. That is Chris Bell.
68:11Magnolia. Magnolia has variants. You haven't seen it before.
68:14Yeah. No, I need to watch Magnolia. Yeah, you should.
68:17It's Jay's favorite movie of all time. That'll make the paternity watch.
68:20Yeah. That should be as well. There you go.
68:23Yeah. That's not bad. Drums. Drumanace. Drumanace. Drumanace. Andre Drummond.
68:26Yeah. L-O-T-R equals League of the Regulars. Yeah. The thing is with Lord of the Rings, they're good movies at least.
68:32It's not like Phantom Menace. Yeah. You'll win. Yeah.
68:34I don't know if you need to rewatch it.
68:37It's very long. So if Magnolia's your favorite movie, what's your second favorite?
68:41Give us a Matt Rushmore. Yeah. I don't have a funny answer.
68:44I really like Chinatown. Okay. Maybe Chinatown. Hard to argue with that one.
68:48That one's great. It's a small standard. Yeah. It's a standard.
68:51I like old movies. I'm a big Casablanca fan.
68:54Yeah. But Magnolia sits above Casablanca for me. That's a unique take.
68:57That's why. Yeah. It's like, oh, your favorite movie of all time.
69:01Yeah. You like old movies. That's why you and I get along so well.
69:05Exactly. You're an old soul. Yeah. Exactly. It's a wonderful life.
69:08Yeah. Which I know that you were there on opening day for.
69:11Yes, of course. Yeah. Not too far. I almost spill.
69:14I should probably just spill something just for all time sakes.
69:17You're a little after naturally. Yeah. It's long enough and all the drinks are spilled on this side.
69:22Yeah. I'm sure it will. Connor, I have to tell you, and I think you do such a good job.
69:28Like, it's because you're, I think, a unique role where you have to host the show.
69:33So you have to sort of keep the regulars, you know, and me and Jay in check, especially me, because as you know, I talk a lot.
69:41But then also offer your analysis and finding your way.
69:44So I think it's a challenge. And when I think about all that you do when you, you know, you obviously work
69:50with Chris Sims here at NBC, but also, you know, whether it's the stock exchange that you do with Trevor, the Mets
69:56pod, Badlands, which is, as everyone knows, the second worst, second best.
70:00Second best. Second best. Or worse. I mean, there's probably two.
70:03It's just Badlands. You've got to really get that going.
70:06Worse lands for me and Lawrence. Still in the process of taking off.
70:10Yeah, yeah. Getting off the ground. We're making some calls.
70:13The pilot. Making calls. Yeah. It's the pilot of worse land.
70:16Exactly. We're still in the development phase of worse lands.
70:19Scripting on Kenyan Sadiq segments. Exactly. Well, listen, I might have some free time now, so we'll figure it out.
70:24No, jokes aside, but I just, Connor, I think you do such a good job and you're so versatile and I just,
70:31I don't know that that's always appreciated. Thank you, Matt.
70:34You know what I mean? Like, you make it look effortless.
70:37And so, I really think you're the glue that has been able to let the show get to where it is.
70:43There's a lot to be said, particularly when we have, you know, I think Connor really shines at the Super Bowl.
70:49Yeah. When we have, you know, these guests on and just knowing that there is a safe pair of hands where if
70:55you go off the rails and I don't have anything to say, Connor is very much going to make it so Jonathan Taylor doesn't have nothing to say.
71:03And that everyone, everyone, everything is going to keep rolling very smoothly.
71:07Well, like I said, you guys make it a lot of fun.
71:10That's the easy of it. I never walked onto the set once and was worried about the rundown or worried about if
71:17we were going to cover the analysis side of it all because you guys always had the answers for all of it as well.
71:24And Lawrence, it's also a credit to you for how seamlessly you just jump in and out of the show because I
71:30think that's the hardest role is when you're not doing something every day.
71:34But like the second season of the show for me is the first year I was freelancing here.
71:39So I'd host once a week and then a little more and then I was here all the time and then I was here every day.
71:47But, you know, you get your feet under you and for this to be the first on-air production that you worked on
71:53as well, it's a credit to you because I think it's, it's not hard to adjust because I think we all meld
71:59together so well, but it's not the easiest thing either.
72:02For sure, man. Appreciate that, man. Y'all boys made it easy, man.
72:06Made it easy, man. It was, it was all, it was always fun for me.
72:10It's just like, hey, it's like, I remember before the first time I got on, Alexa was just like, hey, you just
72:16talking, to your friends at a bar. That's how you're doing.
72:19And it's about football. So, you know, what, you know, what could come of that.
72:24So, yeah, man. Yeah, honestly. And I think that's, I think that's right.
72:28I mean, I, I didn't know Alexa had ever said that to you, but that's right.
72:32And I think that's, that's what we're going for with the show is like, I always felt like fantasy football, the way
72:39you, when you're, when you're betting on sports, you're playing fantasy football, like it happens at a bar.
72:44It doesn't happen behind a desk in a suit.
72:46Like you're hanging out at a bar with your buddies, BSing, talking about sports.
72:50What do we like? Oh, come on, get in the end zone.
72:54Like that's, that's how you play it. I feel like that's how it exists.
72:58And so wanting to do a show like that.
73:01And, and I think you guys and credit to NBC sports and credit to producer Steven and Pete and Damien and Adam
73:07and everyone that's helped, uh, you know, uh, behind the scenes in terms of has created that and gone along with it
73:13and created that vibe, uh, which is great. And the regulars have chimed in as well.
73:18Um, Philo B 25. If this is the end, thank you for everything guys.
73:22You guys are the best. I hope you guys stay together.
73:25We do as well. Honestly, I mean, you know, there's, there's businesses that, that need to be made.
73:30Um, and happy hour will come back next year.
73:33It's just what happy hour specifically looks like. It's just, that's the thing that's a little unfair.
73:38I think something we could all agree with. There's no other show like this one for the best and works reasons.
73:44Yeah, I would absolutely agree with that one. So thank you.
73:47Fix it fire. We also got a lot of comments rolling in here.
73:51This one from, uh, Lakers since Seda eighties, since the eighties, since the eighties, this was the fantasy football show to watch.
73:57Yeah. We really appreciate that. Matthew's been Lakers since the four.
74:00When they were in Minneapolis. Yeah. Yeah. Wherever the Lakers.
74:03Bed regular. That's gotta be the last one. That's gotta be the last one.
74:07That's right. Hold on bed. That's, uh, very well done.
74:10Very well. Um, shirtless Ben Johnson here. Vibe of the show is exactly what we love the feel of it and having it makes it special.
74:18We appreciate you guys and want to ensure it keeps going.
74:21I thank you shirtless Ben Johnson. That's, um, I, we agree.
74:24That was the goal. Yeah, that was, that was the goal.
74:27And the fact that you guys got that and came along for the ride with us, you know, just made it more special.
74:34We've, we've all collectively said this. I think we've said this on air, but I know we've all said this privately.
74:40This is our favorite year of the show. And it's because of, because of the regulars, honestly.
74:45Yeah. The chat has elevated to a different level.
74:48Yeah. And, uh, before we sign up, I just want to make sure that we, um, call out in particular, the work,
74:54um, that Steven D'Agostino and Damien Dabrowski have done because they have really driven the show, um, for the past four years.
75:00The fact that it is, you know, six days a week during football season, you know, these guys are, um, both recently
75:07married, um, and they poured their lives into this.
75:09I'm looking at a show night note right now of like notes about Juwan Jennings.
75:14So, you know, we're not going to talk about, but just that level of work that has gone in, uh, has made all this possible.
75:21So Steven, Damien, there's a lot of other people who have done a little work, but those two are here every single day.
75:27So cheers, cheers, Steven and Damien, no doubt. Somebody talked about the camaraderie.
75:31And I think the reason why it worked as far as a fantasy football show, a lot of shows, just sports shows
75:38in general, you've got a lot of similar personalities, but, um, I think we're all different.
75:42Like I know I couldn't be any more different.
75:45I know I talk a certain way. I talk my, you know, I talk my talk, whatever, but I think we're all
75:51different and we all was able to mesh it together.
75:54And then it came, it came out as this and we got, we got regulars now.
75:59I'm like, for me, like, that's crazy, man. Like, yeah, just like, I got him.
76:03There you go. There you go. Look at, he sings with seal.
76:07He's acting like, yeah, you're a multi-force. You're easily, you're an EGOT waiting to happen.
76:11SEC man said salute to stupid dev. Yeah, exactly.
76:13I was surprised. Well, I said, I literally said, can stupid dev Emmy award winning stupid dev, can Emmy award winning stupid dev call it?
76:21And he can't work. He's actually working on the show.
76:24He's actually doing our graphics, but yes. Salute to stupid dev.
76:27Yeah. Don't we have a comment from dev dev like posted something.
76:30It was like two hours ago, but it was a good comment.
76:34I laughed in my head. I don't remember what it was.
76:37I'm Ron Burgundy. I just read whatever is on the screen.
76:40There you go. I don't actually. Yeah, that is funny.
76:43Yeah. There you go. That wasn't it. Of course, from dev Stafford, salute to all of you boys.
76:48Yeah. It was a long time ago. I like his profile picture too.
76:52He's got his name. Custom nameplate? Yeah. Is that a custom graphics guy?
76:56What is he like LeBron James with a liquor brand?
76:59Yeah. He's got a lot of it. But you know what?
77:02I'll say this about stupid dev, Emmy award winning stupid dev, I should say.
77:06But like, give an example, like what was great, what is great about dev and what I think is great about everyone
77:12in the show, both behind the scenes and here in front of us, is that like everyone just sort of got the
77:19joke and embraced it, you know, as opposed to being offended by quote unquote stupid dev.
77:23Like he loved it and he played into it and he put it on, you know, he put it on his Instagram
77:30and like he, you know, he's, he's been a part of it.
77:33He's a part of the fabric of the show.
77:36And just, you know, I just, uh, you know, I, no one, no one took, we took the show seriously, but none of us took ourselves seriously.
77:43That's the most important thing. Yeah. And so, yeah.
77:46And I think, you know, so shout out to just everyone that they got the joke and, and, uh, and, uh, we
77:52were supposed to be taking this show serious this whole time.
77:56No, sir. Not you. No, you're good. I. Aloha Brick said dev making his nameplate look like an entrance to a gated community.
78:02Yeah. That needs to be interrogated. I'm not sure about this.
78:05Throw the challenge flag with devs, uh, as well.
78:08The devs, the saffered neighborhood. Yeah, exactly. No one's allowed in.
78:11Yeah. It's a little, yeah. It's either that or it's like a dev stack.
78:15Yeah, exactly. It's like, you know, like, um, dev manner, you know what I mean?
78:20Like something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Expect it to, um, be, I want to, um, as long as we're giving shout outs here, I also want to say this.
78:28I want to say legitimately, um, like I said, I don't know exactly what, where, uh, what my future is going to
78:34be, but, but I want to take a moment here.
78:37I'm going to say thank you to NBC sports significantly.
78:40Um, first off, just, you know, the fact that they're for the, for this show specifically, the support for this show has been phenomenal.
78:47We've never, the four of us, we've never gotten a note.
78:50I mean, maybe you guys have, I've literally never been like, Hey, that joke was too far.
78:55Hey, you know, you need to talk more about sports or whatever.
78:58Like the, the, the NBC sports, the suits shout out to Alexa, shout out to Danielle, shout out to Matt Casey.
79:04We've never gotten, um, like pushback or no, all we've gotten is support.
79:08Hey, I think it's funny. I think you guys are, you know, be yourselves and so shout out to that.
79:14And also just shout out to NBC sports in general, Rick Cordella on down because we're getting to do this.
79:20A lot of times, you know, you don't get a last show, you know, and the fact that we are getting, we're
79:26getting a last show and we got it live.
79:29Like, I mean, you know, like they don't know what I'm going to say.
79:33And like, but they, I appreciate the trust from them and saying, I wouldn't have done it.
79:38I would have, I would have trusted me, but you know, um, but no legitimately.
79:42And so, um, uh, it, you know, it's been an unbelievable run.
79:45Um, like I said, we're still talking, uh, rest assured.
79:48Um, it's, there's nothing for not final, but, um, uh, I want to take this moment here since this is the, the
79:55last show of the season, regardless, just say thank you to NBC sports.
79:58Yeah. They've been, you know, with you all the way on that.
80:02Yeah. Fantastic as well. And you know, anything else?
80:05We got, we, we, we, we got like a minute.
80:07You just got to put the Barry 29 Jersey in the wrath.
80:11There's now. Oh, well, given it's our final minute, someone who hasn't really gotten a thank you yet is thank you, Matthew
80:17for, you know, allowing us to be a part of the show.
80:21Um, for, you know, I think the, the one thing I'll take away from working for you, working with you for these
80:27four years is that you just bring relentless energy, uh, and that you're always up for these shows, uh, and that you,
80:33you know, you really lead the way. And that, you know, I think that a lot of the reason why people, you
80:40know, uh, know who I am at all and have elevated all the profiles is because the opportunities that you've brought to us.
80:46Um, so thank you, my friend. Yeah. A huge thank you for me.
80:50I remember after I auditioned for this show, I got in the car ride home and my girlfriend at the time now
80:57wife, who is about to have our first child, uh, called me, you know, how was it?
81:02I was like, I was terrible. I didn't get that job.
81:05Like it was, she's like, Oh, you're always hard on yourself.
81:08I'm like, nah, I was like, I just didn't get it.
81:11It's, you know, it's hard. And I got to freelance and then I got to sit here full-time next to you.
81:17And it's been not only an honor because I watched you on TV for so long, but just that you became a friend.
81:24And like Jay said, you became a friend, a mentor and how many laughs we had.
81:28And just, it is hard talking about fantasy football six days a week on it in front of a camera with that level of energy.
81:36And I have the utmost respect for, for you to be able to do that.
81:40Thank you. Hey, look, man, I didn't even do no audition.
81:43I just showed up here one day and it was like, Hey, one day it was a 15 minute segment.
81:49The next time it was two segments. And then I'm doing the Sunday show with you, Jay, uh, Michael Smith, George, you
81:55know, no one of your caliber would have gave me a shot.
81:59They'd have been scared, but not old Matthew Barry TMR.
82:02He put me on there and it, you know, that, that was all she wrote, man.
82:06So I appreciate it. I know these guys cause of you, uh, we talked before you even worked at NBC.
82:12So, uh, so for it to come to this, man, I really appreciate it, man.
82:16Well, listen, it's incredibly meaningful. Thank you guys. Thank you so much.
82:20And look, all of you earned your way here.
82:23You're all great. You're all great on air. You're all superstars to me.
82:26I've just, you know, uh, I really enjoyed it.
82:29And so like you were great for moment one, you know, Lawrence, I love your energy.
82:34Like, and Jay, I remember when I came here and they said, we have this guy that works for points bet at the time.
82:40Uh, but we want to use them. Can you try him out for a segment?
82:45I said, sure, we'll do a segment. And you and I did a segment.
82:49And I was just like, uh, you and I did a segment with somebody else.
82:53Like there's a third person that was trying out.
82:56It was, it was supposed to be like a once a week segment.
83:00And I'm like, um, actually, can Jay and I just do one or the two of us and seeing like, and then
83:06we did a segment and I literally went to the boss and I said, um, he's awesome.
83:11Can, can I have him every day, please? And you know, and they're like, so you guys all earned your way here.
83:17And, um, it's been an honor and a pleasure.
83:20And it was scary for me leaving ESPN and, you know, coming to a new, um, new situation.
83:25And, um, and like, yeah, like I said, you guys made it easy and, uh, you went along, uh, everyone got the
83:31joke, I guess is, uh, what I would say there as well.
83:35Steven, I've completely lost track of time. Where are we?
83:38I, we, okay. Um, he's telling me that, um, he's telling me that I should pitch Finding Nemo 3 for one more time.
83:44So just hear me out. Okay. No, um, listen, uh, it has been an honor and a privilege.
83:50I will see you again. Happy hour. We'll see you again.
83:53Uh, I know I will see you guys again.
83:55Yes. Um, uh, one way or the other. Um, but, uh, again, thank you so much to every single person, to the
84:02regulars, to the cast and crew of fantasy people, happy hour to everyone, NBC sports.
84:06Um, and, uh, you know, at least for season four, uh, you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.
84:12Peace out.
