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How we doing?

Good. How we doing?

Give it up for the Sharks!

Oh, brother!

Who may or may not be related to us.

Oh, well, I'm done, guys.

Jason's done.

That was it for me.

We are so excited to be here.

What's a— what's a dangerous—

oh, is your heart rate at an uncomfortable level?

What's— what level is dangerous?

180 is usual resting.

Is an alarm going off?

Call ambulance.

Thank you guys for being here.

Yes. Oh my goodness gracious.

The Megalosh Show. 2026.

Oh my gosh.

I'm not sure there's a better way to kick off a football season, but shout out to SiriusXM.

Yes.

For making this happen. For all of you being here. For GMC and PetSmart helping us put on this show. We got a great show for you today. Yes.

Thank you.

What do we think of the recliners?

Hey, hey, he who's first wins, my friends.

Little surprise for the promo. We tried to tell you, but we have a spectacular live show to— Jason is so sweaty.

Oh my gosh, I shouldn't have jumped off the stage.

Did you jump off the stage?

It's a tradition.

He—

it's a long ways.

Andy, he already posted in our chat, wishing I had a fan.

Those, those are private messages, Mike.

No, no, no, not today, dude. Not today.

My goodness. So we are so excited. This is going to be tomorrow's episode. You're all a part of it.

Who, who here, who's already done their, their League of Record drafts?

Oh, okay.

So we got some who's like, they're coming up. There we go.

Hold on. Hold on. How many this weekend? And how many Labor Day weekend? We've trained them well.

We have. Good work, everybody.

Try not to get injured. Try not to get players injured. We—

No, seriously.

Butterfly stretch.

Call ambulance. Yeah.

Are you doing— you can do the show.

No, no, we're good. We're good.

So we wanted to— not only are you a part of today's show, it's a bold predictions episode. So prepare yourself.

There's some things that are—

Spicy.

Spicy.

Yeah.

But we also—

I didn't say it was nasty. I just said it was spicy.

Usually bold predictions are pretty nasty.

Bro, you are sweaty.

Dude, I jumped off a stage. It's like 4 feet high.

Let me, let me just tell you, backstage we were, we were like coming out here taking a look at everything. We're like, are you gonna jump off? And he's like, I'm 44 years old. There's no way I'm jumping off of the stage.

But then I saw the people.

Yeah. Overwhelmed.

Yes.

So after the show, we're also— I mean, the people here at the Van Buren have been amazing. Is this venue awesome or what?

Seriously.

And they've given us some extra time, so we want to give you some extra time.

Yeah, show the sweaty man.

What are you talking about?

I got an extra towel if you need it, bro.

No, this one's pretty big. It's gonna be all right. Like, I've just used a quarter of it so far.

We're going to hang out after for a little AMA extra action for the people here in the building. And we got some surprises up our sleeve as well. So it's going to be awesome. We need your help a couple of times tonight.

Yes.

When the show starts, I need my people to help welcome in everybody to the podcast.

Well, I mean, yes. Number one, you know what— I mean, you know what the welcome in sounds like. Papa Josh!

Papa Josh? What?

Security?

Oh, I thought—

Security, there's an inebriated person who needs to be removed from the premises. Papa Josh? Is that a joke?

Do you understand you made that man's life just now?

Disgusting.

He was paid.

We all know the welcome in. It's not officially football time.

Whoa, but it is football time. We're—

no, but it's a lot. No, did you get booze? I'm saying it is like when, when it's live, it's football time.

Okay.

All right.

It's football time.

And then we're gonna do a spectacular live mailbag and we all want you in on that as well. A live AMA after the podcast. And if you got pictures and stuff, make sure you tag us on X and Put the hashtag Megala Show if you can spell it. But are you guys ready for a show? Hey, shout out to Al Borland in the back. He's going to get us started.

Oh yes. What's up, Foot Clan?

He is, he is riddled with illness and here today to put on the greatest show you've ever seen. Hit it, Al.

Let's do it. Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. The Megaloshow podcast with your hosts Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Let's do it!

Woo!

Oh, welcome in!

There it is, let's go! Welcome in one and all, the Megaloshow! The heart rate is up. We're here in Phoenix, Arizona. Football is less than 2 weeks away. There are games going on right this minute.

I feel like a hummingbird right now.

We have, we have alerted the team that if suddenly some bit of news happens, they're going to let us know. And then I'll tell you that Joe Burrow retired.

Is Andrew Luck back?

So we, we did this show in 2019, almost on this exact date. Andrew Luck retired. moments before we took the stage. It blew up the entire plan. And that would be the same as Burrow retiring today.

You shut your mouth.

But he didn't do it because Mike wouldn't be here.

That would cause extra problems for today's show.

So we are, we're excited. We've got a great quick question we're going to get into. We got bold predictions, which are spicy. We got mailbag here live in Phoenix at the Van Buren. All of your questions. People here in the building have sent in their questions. We're going to answer them. But let's, let's kick it off.

Oh, hold on. Matt?

Oh, no.

Matt, are you back there? Yeah.

Oh, no.

That's not actually Matt.

What are you playing?

Matt, is Matt back there?

Yeah.

Yeah, you did. The stage, like the stage, it looks sort of complete. Do you have something for me?

Oh, no.

Can you go find that for me real quick?

What is happening?

Just like, I mean, like we got the helmets on and we're live.

What is this?

I mean, as long as he remembered the bit.

Oh, you trusted Matt?

He's behind you.

Oh my God.

Oh, oh, you know, did you know about this, Jason?

Of course not. I would never have allowed this.

Did you know that a super duper champ was with you guys? I'll just hold it. Put the thing down. I'll just hold it. Because I am a super duper champ! League of Record, Ballers Dynasty. Oh my, look at that. Never been done before. Never will be done before unless—

well, I might do it again.

Well, I might do it again.

This is why we play, right?

The people love the Year of Mike.

They sure did last year.

Yeah, it's over.

It's gotta be over.

People love a sequel. To a great movie.

Sequels are almost never better, and that's the truth.

I'll jump right to Last Crusade if I have to.

Yeah, well, listen, um, now—

thank you, Matt.

Now you put me in a bad mood, Mike.

This thing—

I didn't want to remember this. Um, today's quick question. You ready, Mike?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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This is what we always do on the live show.

So we've all selected one that we feel like fits the mold for 2026. And I'm going to kick it off. I'm excited for yours. The San Francisco 49ers. We got any 49er fans here?

Yeah.

I like the boos.

Get bodied.

Thank you. Thank you for booing them. The San Francisco 49ers are Final Destination.

Yes, they are.

Every single year they think they have cheated death, and then death is like, see you at training camp. I mean, listen to this. From 2013 to 2021, they have averaged the highest games lost to injury in the NFL.

That's weird.

They were number 1 in 2024, top 5 last year. I mean, their medical tent has a medical tent, a littler one inside of it. And they've lost Pearsall. They've lost— I mean, Kittle's coming back from injury. McCaffrey had tightness for 3 weeks. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

You leave, you leave Sweet Sweet.

Well, we hope they're fine.

You could bring up Mike Evans.

Mike Evans.

and the meat—

his meat injuries. Jason is a medical expert.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I have diagnosed poor meat.

Um, so manager special, right? Um, did you know—

That's your medical analysis?

My professional medical opinion is unfortunately at this age—

It's poor?

Poor meat.

Poor meat.

Your meat is poor.

That's why they tune in.

Ooh.

Did you know Juszczyk had a broken finger too? Just like his little bonus.

Oh, did you?

How dare you?

Juice is fine.

They face the Cardinals, Seahawks, Rams, and then Pacific Gas and Electric in the division. The substation is out of control. I don't know how Christian McCaffrey escaped it, but everybody out there, say a prayer for this team, for your draft picks coming up, because the 49ers are absolutely Final Destination.

It's pretty much inevitable.

I mean, I don't know how it keeps happening.

All right, I'm gonna go next here. I'm gonna compare a situation to a movie. Matt Nagy.

Uh-oh.

Is this, is this the postman?

Is that the whole thing?

I'm done. Matt Nagy is boo. Uh, Matt Nagy is Fight Club. He's the movie—

But Mike.

Yes, voice of public opinion.

Fight Club's a really good movie.

It is a really good movie. And let me tell you, uh, the first rule of Matt Nagy's offense is you don't, you don't ask Matt Nagy about his offense. And here's what's going to happen after weeks of trying to identify the lunatic who's sabotaging the Giants offense, climaxing with Jaxson Dart being split in 2.

Oh.

Like Marty from Not Another Teen Movie. That joke is for like 6 people out in the crowd, but they love it. Matt Nagy will eventually turn to the footage and he will see the man who has made the horrible call on 3rd down. He is Tyler Darden.

No.

It is me. It is Matt Nagy. 2nd lowest motion rate of any play caller since 2021. 3rd lowest play-action dropback since 2021. This guy sucks.

I, I feel like in some ways that would be like the greatest thing to happen if he actually realized that he's the problem at the end of the story.

Yeah, but Ed started punching himself. Like, that'd be great.

Here's the problem. You haven't seen the end of Fight Club where the season just ends that he is Tyler Durden and he just watches the entire Giants franchise.

He's the scariest part of that team.

Crumble and explode.

He's the scariest part. Look at that.

Look at that guy up there. That guy sucks.

Some people shouldn't have jobs, and Matt Nagy and Matt here should not. Um, all right.

Wait, and Matt the Falcon just—

Yeah, Matt the Falcon's bringing out championship belts and he's doing a poor job. I mean, come on. Um, All right.

Thank you. Thank you.

For my comp, it's pretty simple. I mean, pretty simple. I was like, well, this is too obvious. Everyone should know this. Aaron Rodgers is Weekend at Bernie's. Okay. He's dead.

All right.

If you're not familiar with Weekend at Bernie's, it's like it's 2 guys just holding up a dead guy for the whole movie.

He's already dead.

He's already dead. You got, you got DK Metcalf and Michael Pittman doing some heavy lifting. I watched the film on Rodgers. Sorry, bud, it is over. Put the sunglasses on.

He thinks he looks super cool in that picture. Oh, he does look—

this is the best he can look. Get on their shoulders, you're dead. That's it.

Boom.

Wow.

Uh, that's gonna be an interesting— Steelers fans in the building? Hold on, hold on, hold on. Steelers fans in the building? And now hold on, different question. Rodgers fans in the building? Okay, hold on, hold on, I messed that up. Steelers fans who are also Rodgers fans?

There we go.

There was one guy.

The other ones were Packers fans. I know that for a fact.

The Venn diagram is just shrunk. It's one person. Yeah, yeah, there's 800 people.

That is his brother-in-law.

Oh no, he's not a fan of Rodgers.

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Yeah.

You guys ready for some bold predictions?

Woo!

Let's go, Jer.

Ridiculously Bold Predictions.

You do like Tyler Shuck a little too much.

Sounds like the people like him a little more than Aaron Rodgers.

And, uh, I don't check the tape, but traditionally on this show, I think we reveal a couple of bowl predictions each, and they've all pretty much been right. Other than maybe that one.

Let's go Jets.

Well, no, listen, Mike, that was maybe Andy, maybe on this show the Jets were brought up once or twice.

Yeah. Yeah.

I don't remember.

Remember when he had the American flag and he was like, we ride.

That was right before they were going to win the Super Bowl. So, and we know Geno.

Yeah.

I mean, that could have been your prediction, but Mike, why don't you reveal your first bold prediction for tonight for the people?

I'm going to start it off. This one, look, we give you our bold predictions. Sometimes they're positive. Sometimes they're negative. I'm starting with the positive.

What a guy.

And if you've been following the podcast for the offseason, there is a team I am very bullish on. And no, it's not the Saints.

I mean, it is, but not—

It's not the Cardinals, dude. What are you talking about? It's the Cincinnati Bengals because this year, How do we have Bengals fans here? That's kind of weird. But listen, listen, listen.

Strong opinions.

This year, Joe Burrow breaks the single season passing yard record. Oh, and the passing touchdowns record, baby.

Oh my.

QB1. QB1.

Listen, I'm intrigued. And I would like to see if you can make an effective argument.

Well said.

Yeah, you see, I got that word right.

Sometimes I just have PTSD when you're talking. So Peyton Manning, the 2013, he's the current record holder who threw for 5,477 passing yards and how many touchdowns?

55!

That was convenient.

I mean, he did it.

That was a good year.

And Burrow's best passing number so far, 2024, just a couple of years ago, just shy of 5,000. So 4,918 yards, 43 passing yards. What would it take for Joe Burrow to break the record? Well, in that year, in 2024, when Joe Burrow had both Ja'Marr and Tee Higgins, AKA— Me Higgins.

Thank you, Jason.

Are you guys awake?

We're recording a fantasy football podcast. Let's have some fun. In those games when he had those guys healthy, which I'm saying, you know, 50% more snaps of both of those players, his 17-game pace just under 5,100 yards and 47 passing touchdowns. It's, you're like, whoa, that's, that's still way far away from the record. Except it's not. Except it's not. We need him to get like 27 passing yards per game more than what he already did in 2024.

Just a little bit.

It's just a little tiny guy.

It's just a little tiny guy. Look, rushing touchdowns. That's not what the Cincinnati Bengals are going to be about. We don't have Joe Mixon stealing touchdowns away from our precious Joe Joe Burrow. We got Chase Brown absolutely dominating and being an absolute reception threat. There's way— there's the likelihood of Chase Brown catching a touchdown versus ruining things for us for Joe Burrow and getting the rushing touchdown. It's just so much higher. Here's what we need. Chase Higgins. Okay. This sounds pretty bold.

That also sounded like one human.

Yeah.

Like you're saying Chase and Higgins, not the guy Chase Higgins.

No, no, no. I'm just, I'm running into Chase and Higgins are healthy the entire season.

Oh, that's step one.

That's a new bold prediction.

Bold prediction. Tee Higgins plays 17 games of football this year.

Can we get, can we get one on Joe Burrow as well? Because That's pretty good.

Look, we just need them to remain up-tempo and pass-heavy. They were 2nd in seconds per play, as in they play very fast. 2nd in pass rate. Joe Burrow continues to crush inside the red zone. He was 2nd in red zone touchdown percent last year. And we need that defense. Oh, we need that defense. Lindberger, we need that stank.

They don't have a good defense.

We need them to remain bottom 10. Look, that Broncos team with Peyton Manning, they were 22nd in points per game allowed. I think that the Cincinnati Bengals can achieve that goal if they put their minds together and work to Mike's and their best effort. I think they could be 22nd in points per game allowed. I like— it's crazy, but I think that Joe's—

I have a small question here. It's just a curiosity.

All right.

You held up that amazing trophy and you said some things about yourself.

Oh, you're talking about the super duper champ?

Yeah, that one.

The never been done?

I'm just thinking through this in my head. I'm like, who is like your dynasty team quarterback and wide receiver? And like, do you have like a reason to have this prediction?

Well, it's funny you should ask. I have Jared Goff.

Uh-huh.

And Joe Burrow and Ja'Marr Chase might be on my dynasty team, but look. Oh, chili. Oh, okay. I gotcha, bro. We've had a lot of random things yelled at us, but a brand of chili. Okay.

Better than Papa Josh.

The Bengals are favored. The Cincinnati Bengals, before a snap of football has happened, are favored in 15 of their 17 games.

That's more than the Lions.

Looking ahead, their Lions have the 2nd highest average game total of anyone, just behind the Dallas Cowboys. Joe Burrow could absolutely break the passing yards record. Maybe he passed for you. Yeah, for me.

For you.

Not just for me, for everyone in this crowd.

Okay. It's bold, Mike. We accept it.

The touchdown part's pretty ridiculous.

I think we'd all be pretty happy. Well, I would, I don't think Andy and I would be happy because of your stack, but the rest—

We'll all be pretty happy.

You know, I'm going to be honest. I hope it doesn't come true. All right. But let me tell you a bold prediction that is going to come true. Because I know it.

That's good reason.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's why.

What was— Damn it.

Damn it.

You and Mary Steinberger there.

Guys, the bell cow is back.

Okay.

Bang.

Boom.

Bang.

The bell cow. Wait.

Jason.

Jason. What is this?

Number 1?

What is this? He's planting the flag on Rhamondre. Okay, this is not—

this is—

this is disgusting. I applaud you, sir. This is disgusting.

I applaud you. What a good decision.

Boo. Okay, well, for those listening at home, they have hoodwinked me and they've stolen the back wall graphic.

Oh, okay.

And it says that Rhamondre Stevenson is going to be the number 1 running back.

They fixed it.

Okay, listen, Rhamondre Stevenson is not a bell cow. He's a cow. That's it. Oh, he's a cow. Oh my fat cow.

All right.

I have a new bold prediction. A new one. My bold prediction 1.B. I'll get back to the bell cow, but here's the truth. Rhamondre Stevenson is getting injured in the 2nd quarter of week 2 and Henderson does not give the job back.

That—

how's that for a bold prediction? You heard it here. Quarter 2 of week 2.

We never really—

He's done.

Okay, Tonya Harding, take it easy.

Yeah, I will make it happen.

Calm down.

You did this to me. This is ridiculous.

Jason.

You seem maybe a little rattled.

We're a positive show.

What are you doing? Look, you're gonna, you're gonna hijack it from me. You're gonna get to business.

All right.

Here's what I'm actually saying though. The bell cow is back. It's been a long time since like the early 2000s when the NFL was all about bell cow running backs, guys getting 350 touches. It doesn't happen that much anymore. 2 years ago, there were none.

And wait, to be clear, fantasy managers miss it.

We do miss it. And I think we see what's going on in our average draft position right now with the fact that the bell cow is back. But I don't think we've caught up to what that means. Over the last decade, there averages 2 running backs a year that touch the ball 350 times. That's it. This year, there will be 5 running backs, more than double the decade average that— and I'm going to tell you which ones. You just keep listening. You just keep listening, sister.

Yeah. I want you to just be like, there's 5.

There's 5. Next, bold prediction. Andy, you're up.

As long as they're none of Mike's.

Here are the 5 that will do it. Bijan Robinson, check. Jonathan Taylor, check. Jahmyr Gibbs, of course.

Yeah.

Christian McCaffrey.

Yeah, check.

Yeah, over 400 last year. And James Cook III will do it. Okay, here's what we need.

James Cook, you went Full, the third?

They didn't want— he didn't want him to make a mistake.

Like the second or the first?

That's right.

It's not Daddy James Cook. It's, it's the current running back for the Buffalo Bills who is the third. You need talented backs in the NFL. And with the arrival of Bijan and Gibbs, with the, the health of guys like Jonathan Taylor, Christian McCaffrey, it should happen. But if you look at the average draft position in drafts right now, like those middle round running backs, it's like Well, I don't really love them. And part of the reason you don't love them is because the backups aren't that good anymore for some of these great running backs. I am not afraid of Brian Robinson Jr. for Bijan.

You're not?

How did that work for Christian McCaffrey last year? Like, he didn't see the field.

I don't know how that worked for Christian McCaffrey last year.

Yeah, pretty good.

It's like one permanent victory lap.

DJ Giddens and Seth McGowan for Jonathan Taylor, not happening. Isaiah Pacheco. Yeah. Not happening. Caleb Black and Jordan James, like this.

You're just making up names.

I know, I know.

Ty Johnson and an injured Ray Davis. Like, none of these guys are going to touch the ball on these teams compared to the running backs. So I think the takeaway advice on this piece of truth is that you really do want to grab one, or if you can grab 2 of these guys, uh, in your draft or via trade, I think you're going to be set up this year to be competitive. Because wide receivers—

They'll carry the teams.

They will carry the teams where the bell cow is going to be back. And we see this in the NFL, right? The pendulum always swings. The wide receivers get faster, get downfield more. So then it's too, it's too shell and it's, it's smaller, quicker defenders. Well, now it's like, well, how do we deal with smaller, quicker defenders? Let's get the running back to smash them in the face. That's where we're at. The bell cow is back.

The bell cow is back. And Rhamondre, Running back 1.

And guys, dude, I've stopped sweating. It took this long, but I'm done, baby. No more sweat.

Shout out to the Van Buren.

Dude, your AC is awesome.

We have done a lot of live shows and he's never stopped sweating. Best air conditioning we've had. So you ready for this? I know there are people in this building that are ready for this. Duh, Bears.

Oh no.

The Bears break out.

Okay.

Okay. What does that mean? By the way, Chicago, I know you've spent 100 years trying to discover the forward pass.

I'll take Chris! I'll take Chris!

I probably should have seen the Bears.

He's down there in the shadows.

Give it up for Jay Grizz.

He's hiding.

The Chicago Bears haven't been good since Martin Van Buren was in office.

Yes. No, the Bears, the pass has not been their forte. But I think this year they become good all at once. Everyone on the Bears. And let me tell you what that means. That means Loveland top 3. Oh, that means Caleb, my guy. Top 5 in fantasy. That means Burden. I know you like some Burden over there. Top 10. Top 10 Luther Burden. Top 10 Luther Burden. Swift, top 12.

Yeah.

Rome, top 20.

Oh, come on, man. You can go top 15.

But I'm going to make the case real quick for all those guys.

Top 15, Jason.

Top 50 for Rome. Yeah.

Yeah.

I got it. But also if he's top 15 and if all those—

No, I said no, no, no, no one, no one's saying that except for you.

And I won't stop.

But here's the case for the Bears fans who have waited their entire lives for moments like this. It is the bold prediction today. Caleb, I think he's mostly all the way there. In year 1 with Ben Johnson, he was just under 20 fantasy points a game. What I like to see was he got better as the season got on. He learned the system. He got things going. There's a reason he was the My Guy. I made all those cases on the show this week. But the fact that completion percentage was down, that's not really corollary to future fantasy success the next year predictive. He runs the football. I think he gets there. Year 1 is, hey, learn the thing. Year 2 is Ben Johnson's like, let's do some cool crap now. So I think you're going to see it.

That's, that's how he says it too.

That is the quote.

He loves cool crap.

So Caleb, I think we can get there. Loveland, top 3, probably not. the boldest of the predictions.

No, that's about the easiest thing you've ever said.

But you, I mean, you mentioned this the other day. First rookie to lead the team in receiving yards since 1983. Ditka, I think, was the last one to do it.

Mike Ditka.

So I think Loveland can get there. He's crushing camp again. Ben Johnson loves him. We're good. So let's get more bold. Burden, top 10. Do we have Luther Burden on any teams yet?

Oh man, there's a row of guys just arm crossed like, no, I don't.

No, I would never and never will.

No, probably Packers fans. Um, Ben Johnson's own, own words. I mean, we've quoted it. I'm buying Luther Burden stock right now. I'm calling that inside.

Andy, I thought these were bold predictions.

I— well, for you, they might not be.

What's gonna happen?

But, uh, that's insider trading to me. Ben Johnson knows what's going on. 25% target share on 110 targets. I think he can get there. No more DJ Moore. He's in Buffalo. And, uh, last 3 games we saw Luther Burden, 18 for 289 and 3. I think he can get there.

Swift.

I mean, even Mike is saying good things about DeAndre Swift this year.

That's crazy.

But to me, it's just math. It's like a math equation for sure.

Yeah, that's what it is.

It seems like that's what it is for you too. But it's like good offense, scoring opportunities, receiving work, enough carries. The math checks out. And then the last one, Rome in the top 20. Jason, you'll be happy to hear this. He did lead the team in first read target share.

I know that.

His entire problem was that—

Was the foot. That's it. He was hurt.

It was the foot. It was injury. It was You know, you started hot, then Jason traded for him and ruined his season, which is what he did last time.

That doesn't feel like my journey.

But, and I'll give you the Ben Johnson quote again because we like it, whether it's hyperbolic or prophetic, TBD. I want to have the highest scoring offense ever.

Yes.

And then he quoted the 2013 Denver Broncos who scored 37.9 points a game, which by the way had the Peyton Manning with the Touchdown. He wants to surpass them. By the way, that year Payton was number 1. No Sean Moreno. Shout out to the Giants here.

Oh yeah.

The RB4 that year, Demaryius Thomas was the wide receiver 1. Decker was the wide receiver 9. Welker was 20. They had 3 in the top 20 that year. And Julius Thomas, fantasy legend beast, was the tight end 3. So I'm bought in. The Bears break out in 2026.

Okay.

All right.

Wait, I think that was Jake.

Let's go Indiana.

I think that was Jake.

The Indiana Bears are breaking out. They needed to get out of Chicago.

The Hammond Bears.

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I do.

Yeah.

No. Yeah. This is not all agreed upon.

Everybody does. The promised ones. The year 2 running backs disappoints in a major way.

Boo this man.

Boo. Your boos fuel me. Makes me feel better about myself. Gente Hampton. Scataboo. Judkins and my sweet, sweet, sweet Travion Henderson. That's fine. You can hate all you want. Hate all the way to the bank where there will be no money left because the running backs are going to disappoint you at their ADP.

How's that make you feel, Jason?

Yeah, Jason, talk, talk to me about this.

I think some of these are correct. I think you are painting with a really, really big brush that makes no sense. Hampton's going to crush. It's not broad, it's big. But I, you know, Gen Z scares the tar out of me right now.

All right. Look, here's, here's why this is a bold prediction. Year 2 running backs, it's normally a great bet. But here's the—

So far I'm not convinced.

End of story.

In fantasy, these are the things we want. We want opportunity. We want someone who's at the top of the depth chart, the offensive system, the trends, the team success. But what, what do they have to do to actually pay off for their draft cost? Ashton Jentee going still as the running back 7 despite— Owie, owie, owie, owie, owie, owie. Please shut down practice. Everyone take a knee.

It's me, Ashton Gentry.

The Paul Pierce.

I might have pooped my pants. Oh, I twisted my ankle.

Get up, you baby.

I got one guy on my side. Look, injury aside, he's being drafted at his ceiling. The rough— we've been over the schedule. It's terrible. The Raiders are currently favored in 3 of 17 games. For the running back 7 in the early second. We did this last year, everybody. Didn't work out. Hampton. Yeah.

Thank you.

The hot Hampton.

The hot Hampton. The hot Hampton. Hot Hampton and cheese.

Stop into a New York deli, buy yourselves a hot Hampton. It's delicious.

It does sound like a sandwich.

It really does. And look, I'm just, I'm the lowest because it's the Chargers. It's already happening. The center, he's out.

For not one moment this offseason have we got this man to believe in.

No.

Justin Herbert and Mike McDaniel.

And I want y'all to remember that. You know what I mean?

Yes. He's going as the running back 9, just behind Gente. Like, he's being drafted at his ceiling. Meanwhile, Chase Brown, Ken Bone Walker being drafted after Hampton, guys on truly prolific offenses. That we know. I mean, you just heard Joe Burrow is going to break the record for, for everything. So why would you not want Chase Brown? Cam Skadaboo. Matt Nagy. Need I say more for this man?

That's the end of the argument.

Quinshon Judkins on the Ice and Fire episode. He was my not-fire pick because look, the offensive line, it's in shambles. You like your Cleveland starting quarterback, everybody?

You like him? Too bad. He's going to start for you.

Enjoy that one, suckers.

Mike is just attacking.

Because they're like, these, these are, these are bold. But this is the one, like I went into my rankings and I looked at players versus ADP and I went, oh, I know what I have to do. I have to, I have to crap on these guys. Henderson. The ADP is terrifying. Henderson, of these players, is actually—

he's great.

He's a really, really good player. Except Mike Vrabel, king of making really, really good decisions with his personal life.

Oh, get bodied. Oh yes.

What is like when the politics—

I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying you got to put the, you know, you're putting the dirt on. He's already in the grave.

You're telling me you can't just do like a A visit to Sedona?

Don't even—

With your best friend?

Don't even go down the road.

Interlock fingers? Nothing going on there. But anyways, look, even I understand what's going on in New England. They like Rhamondre. They're going to go to him.

You hear that, Jason?

The beat reporters, they're very clear. Rhamondre is ahead on the depth chart. Until week 2.

Oh yeah, that's right. Until week— do not technically— until week 3. No, you don't predict injury.

I can— don't.

I'm Babe Ruth in this thing. I'm calling my shot right there, baby. Week 2.

No, Jason, you have to point.

Yeah, I guess it's more like down there.

But here, here's the thing is, is, is second-year running backs It's supposed to replenish things for fantasy football and every single one of them is being drafted extremely high because they should be. I'm just super scared that all of them are going to disappoint us for fantasy football. Boo.

Yeah.

It's okay.

Hey, the thing is, we all have, we all have, you know, there's—

I hope your boos are ready.

There's positive bold predictions and there's negative bold predictions. They both are important for fantasy football. So I don't blame you in saying that. And I see some of what you're saying. My only issue really is Hampton because I love him. Also, I would like to bring up something, Mr. Wright.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We are in the middle of a chopped draft on Sleeper. And with your first round pick—

Chopped!

With your first round pick, you selected a Marion Hampton! You liar!

Yes!

Liar!

Liar!

Liar! Liar! Liar! All right. Okay. On to the next. I have a much more important prediction.

I can't hear you.

Oh, you can't? Well, then listen to this bold prediction. I predict that one of us will be enshrined in the Fantasy Footballers Hall of Fame. Tonight!

No!

What? No, no, no! This is my bit! Thank you! Ladies and gentlemen, for years, the semi-prestigious Fantasy Footballers Ring of Honor has recognized only those bold enough, those slightly above average enough, And those shameless enough to induct themselves. But tonight, the bar must be raised. After an exhaustive selection process conducted entirely by a committee of one, only one man has been deemed worthy of an honor greater than all those that came before him. His lifetime achievements are far too extensive to list here this evening, this evening and largely irrelevant to this decision. Tonight, the Fantasy Footballers Hall of Fame is proud to welcome a husband, a father, a friend, and now— Oh, come on! A Hall of Famer. Ladies and gentlemen, please join us in celebrating as Jason Moore presents Jason Moore for enshrinement as the first ever Jason Moore! Jason Moore! Congratulations, Jason.

Jason Moore, the newest inductee to the Fantasy Footballers Hall of Fame. Wait, Jason is removing the tarp. Is that—

oh, somebody grab that man a microphone. Oh, okay.

While we—

Guys, I am blown away. This is, this is a crazy honor I couldn't have seen coming. Oh, thank you.

You are a snake.

Um, so I'm, I'm, I'm not really prepared.

Andy, did you know this was happening? I had no idea.

I'm not really prepared for this. Excuse me. Uh, all right. Speech, speech, speech, speech, speech.

I hate this. I hate this.

Okay, first of all—

Oh gosh.

I— no, no, no, I'd like to thank Andy and Mike. with whom I couldn't be here. I, I really mean it, guys. Okay, you're a big part of this.

Okay.

And I hope that one day you both are able to join me in the Fantasy Footballers Hall of Fame. Hey, you have my vote.

Wait, is this better than the Ring of Honor?

It is better than the Ring of Honor.

It's better.

It's a step above Ring of Honor, which you are the only entry in.

All right, so I'm 2 times. I'm 2 times.

I'd like to thank my family, who has my heart and soul and are here to support me today.

Oh, what is happening?

I, I couldn't do this without you. I'm especially glad that my children are here for the first time so I can embarrass them by saying something like, see, I told you your dad was famous.

What is happening?

And finally, I'd like to thank the Foot Clan. The undefeated, incomparable, beautiful, funny, sexy, strong, intelligent, emotionally available, financially solvent, perfectly hydrated, high credit scored, and suspiciously fertile Buckland! Somehow, despite all of that, you're still willing and wanting to watch us 3 middle-aged dads argue about fantasy football like our lives depend on it. Foot Clan, this fake honor is for you!

There's lights and everything?

Okay, okay, where do we go from here? Okay, he's got a jacket. He has a bust that was— Okay, so unbearable.

Okay, so I've got to give a little bit more context here. Um, okay, 2 days ago—

What?

2 days ago— no, everybody on our team has been in on this like 6 months.

Not everybody.

No, not these guys. 2 days ago A really dumb NFL owner did what started this whole thing, and he decided to induct himself into his Hall of Fame.

You don't even know how close I was to giving you a heart attack.

No, no, no, you don't know because Andy had the idea and he went to Jeremy and he said, hey, I want to induct myself.

I was doing this on the Monday show, man.

And everybody was doing it. Everybody in that bullpen who knew this bit was happening was like Oh no, Jeremy's on the ball.

Is that why he wasn't quite as excited for it as I thought?

Yeah. Because he was scared out of his mind that you were gonna wreck it. But I'm the first! Woo! All right, back to the bowl predictions.

Oh my God, I hope you start sweating from that, Jeremy.

I was earlier thinking, gosh, I gotta put on a jacket later.

Oh my gosh, Andy, we have so many people to fire.

I know, I know, I'm building the list.

All right, what just happened?

Yeah, yeah, he's got— no, like, people, like, Mike is laid out.

I did not know this was happening.

All you had, you just have honor.

Yeah, you just—

yeah, you just have some honor. He has fame.

I'm a Hall of Famer. Anyways, as the—

how do you get back to the show from that?

Well, well, we go with The Hall of Famers Bowl prediction, of course.

I have nothing to hold up or wear.

Here, you can hold on to this. You're gonna love it. No, no. As the first Hall of Famer, I'd like, uh, my first bowl prediction to be one of my classics. Oftentimes at live events, I have called the fantasy trap team, the team that, um—

I hate you.

Has to— yeah.

Yes.

that has done poorly all the way back to 2016, the Carolina Panthers, the Washington Redskins the next year, both of those teams collapsed.

You predict the demise fantasy-wise for certain teams.

Yes.

The way I can predict the demise of most of our employees after this event.

Exactly. Really good. The Cleveland Browns— Profits are up. Remember when Baker and OBJ as the Browns were the hotness?

Yeah. Yeah.

That was my bust team that year.

Oh, Landry and that.

The 2022 Dallas Cowboys. always the hotness. Zeke didn't finish as a top 15 running back. Dak got injured, it was bad. Now I also did predict the 2018 Patriots and they won the Super Bowl.

Yeah, you said it was the beginning of the end.

And they won the Super Bowl. So here's what I'm saying. Either I'm right or they're gonna win the Super Bowl. Or you're wrong.

Yes.

Yes. It's pretty binary.

My fantasy trap team this year is the Jacksonville Joy Killers. You're not gonna like it. You're not gonna like it, but listen, I'm a Hall of Famer. You can't touch me now.

Where did you get that jacket?

I don't want to know the answer to any of those questions.

You're gonna like the way I got this.

Because we paid, Mike.

I guarantee it.

There's no way Men's Wearhouse did that jacket.

Mike, you know we paid for that jacket.

No, no, no, I, I did pay for this.

Oh, personally?

Oh yeah.

Okay. It's better.

Yeah. So here's the thing. The Jacksonville Jaguars are a really exciting, fun, hot offense. Liam Cohen, give me the Liam Cohen drop.

Oh yeah, I did hit it a couple of times.

Yeah, there you go.

And by the way, it worked.

They're very, very exciting. You know, Trevor Lawrence, everything goes to him. So let's start there. Trevor Lawrence, I've talked about this. He's in line for some major, major regression. He's a horse boy.

Way to take it down from joy. And excitement.

Dude, nothing could take it down for me. I don't know what you're talking about. I feel great. He had 9 rushing touchdowns last year. 4 of those were the results of red zone scrambles, the most in the NFL. For context, Lamar Jackson hasn't done that in the last 4 years. Like, that is not repeatable. So if you take his rushing touchdowns away, you look at the backs, the hotness, Breece Hall-Tuton, everybody wants him. He's being drafted as like, you know, a back-end RB2. Because a good offense. What's the, what's the conversation between Parker Washington and Brian Thomas Jr.? Which one? Which one? How about maybe neither? Do you realize that Jacoby Myers out-targeted Parker Washington 61 to 51 after the trade to Jacksonville? He's still there. Oh, and then you've got Travis Hunter, who, while he himself is not playable for fantasy, he's going to be on the field. He's going to have targets. He's going to have touchdowns. Those will come at the expense. And don't forget Brenton Strange, who was on pace for 85 targets last year. If, if Trevor Lawrence horse boy does not rush for 9 touchdowns and all of these good wide receivers are involved, there is a very good chance that pretty much everybody on this team disappoints.

And I know that, you know, Mike, you like Tuten the way that I like Hampton.

I'm not even listening to you.

But the truth is, Crawd is very, very possibly a goal line back. LaQuint Allen might be a passing downs back. And I just think that this team could actually be good, could work for the NFL offense. And I think there is a solid to really good chance at every single pick. You're just not happy to play week in and week out.

That sucks.

Yeah.

Because Jacksonville should be awesome.

Jacksonville should be awesome.

But there is a chance that there's just too many cooks in the kitchen.

But what I'm saying is I think they can be awesome. And it, and those players can be bad for fantasy at the same time.

It's been an interesting hype ride for Tootin all offseason, the up and down and all around. Mike, you were all the way in, seemed like a my guy was on the way.

Yeah.

And you softened a little bit.

Yeah. Jason, you're dumb.

He's not recovering. Uh, please address me as Hall of Famer Jason Moore. I'm— rules are rules, Mike.

People don't understand I'm not doing a bit.

Yes.

We had zero clue.

I'm so mad about this.

He's so mad.

Oh.

You want to hear one more on the positive side?

Yeah, we got one more.

I think it's positive. We're in Arizona.

Uh-oh.

Things are tough out here.

Uh-oh.

All right. Things are tough out here in the streets of Arizona. For this team. And I am here today on this beautiful evening to tell you what shouldn't be a statement that is bold at all and yet feels like the most bold take of all time.

It feels like the most bold take of this day.

Marvin Harrison Jr. is finally good. He's good. He's good at football. He's going to be good. Top, top 15 fantasy wide receiver leads Arizona in fantasy points and the entire state of Arizona collectively—

Did you say top 15?

Top 15.

Oh. The whole state of Arizona unclenches their butt cheeks because he's good. It's happening this year and I want everybody in the building to remember this moment. And if you've listened to the show the entire offseason, you know we have no interest in saying something good about this team. We, we hate this team most often.

They're not a serious organization.

We want to love, but we can't become vulnerable because we know what the outcome is going to be.

We still don't win a game.

That might be true.

It is not.

It doesn't matter.

Agreed.

You don't have to win.

That's not the game that we play.

They have the worst schedule I've ever seen in my entire life. 0-11 seems guaranteed. But Marvin Harrison Jr. this year for fantasy, finally good. Here's the story of Maserati Marv. All right. 62 for 885 and 8 as a rookie. It wasn't bad for a rookie season.

It's really not that bad.

Last year, absolutely weird. Played 12 games, went 41 for 608 and 4. These numbers through 2 years are not the worst NFL numbers you've ever seen. They are absolutely horrific for a 4th overall pick, generational prospect, son of Marvin Harrison. Those are the worst numbers that, that type of person, that his son could be putting up. But here's what was weird about last year. You had a concussion. You had appendicitis, you had a foot injury, you had a quarterback change, you had a coaching change. And at some point, that is not a season. That is a game of Oregon Trail. That is a season riddled with dysentery. Your season was ruined.

They tried to fjord.

They tried to fjord the river.

Oh, never tried to fjord.

You lost 3 oxen.

You made me say fjord.

And guess what? 7th round pick. 7th round pick for Marvin Harrison Jr. In games where he was actually healthy with Jacoby, this is where you gotta, you gotta let the burns go. You can't like carry last season into this year, into your draft. 8.8 targets per game for Marvin Harrison. 14.4 PPR points per game. And whenever he gets 7 or more targets, he's been at nearly 17 fantasy points a game. And what happened when Wilson, McBride, and Harrison were together? I know it was brief. I know it was a moment in time. He led the team in target share ahead of Trey McBride. Like, I think the thing out there is—

Disgusting.

The expectations were so unconscionably high and for good reason. You should not go number 4 and be at this point in your career without breaking records and being great for fans. You still can't handle his jacket, can you?

What about this? I love him. No, the bust. You're handsome.

Where did you even get that?

Etsy?

Marvin— You guys did pay for that. We did pay for that one.

Yeah, that one you did.

Yeah, he bought the jacket.

I bought the jacket. I wasn't doing it.

I had a feeling we paid for something. We paid in a lot of ways. Um, but to close it out, I think Marvin Harrison Jr. will actually be good. And a final point there, Mike LaFleur in Arizona, great play caller. And what he did with Davante Adams with the Rams, 14 touchdowns in 14 games. He can use a big talented goal line receiver. If you're in drafts coming up this weekend and next weekend, the price is nice for Marvin Harrison Jr. He is going to be actually mercifully, incredibly wonderfully, Finally good. Marvin Harrison Jr.

He's gonna be okay.

So those are our bold predictions, but that doesn't mean the show's over because we have 800 Foot Clan in the building. We have a mailbag drop about to happen.

And y'all gotta help us out with this.

We have your questions coming up. I want to hear the greatest mailbag we've heard for any live show we've ever done.

In honor of Hall of Famer— Hall of— Hall of Famer Jason Moore.

Are you guys ready?

Let's—

Yeah, let's go!

Let's do it! Hit it, Jeremy!

Mailbag!

Let's go!

That was a good one.

That was very good.

That was That was very good. I feel like you were on tone and everything.

We got the recliner people stood up.

Today's mailbag is sponsored by our friends who help put on this show, GMC. We've got questions from each and every one of you out there. Thank you to everybody that sent them in. We picked some out. If I say your name and you want to shout and not lie about it, that's cool. But our first question comes in from Earl Is Earl somewhere in the building?

No.

Earl.

Was that Earl?

That's not Earl Snyder. He says this. He says, can you give my friend Nick a recommendation for the 4th pick in a draft we have on Sunday? He's a big fan. We're here in Phoenix for his bachelor party.

Okay. Nice. Okay.

Congratulations, friend Earl.

That's a good bachelor party.

I think this is, So obviously you're going to go Bijan and, and Gibbs are usually gone. So now it comes down to, and I'm curious Mike's take as Mr. CMC over the last little bit.

Right, right.

I would go Ja'Marr Chase and if he's gone, I'd go JSN. But would you take—

So no Puka there for you?

Right now, right now I would take the other 2 over Puka.

McCaffrey doesn't bite people.

Well, neither does Ja'Marr Chase and JSN.

Ja'Marr's not going to be there.

No, no, no. But I mean, it's at 4. So if someone takes JSN ahead or Puka ahead, I would take Ja'Marr Chase. But assuming he's gone, it would be JSN for me.

What if you don't want to take a wide receiver? Because it seems like those are the next guys up. So is it CMC? Is it Jonathan Taylor? Is it James Cook who you said is going to get 350+ opportunities?

To be fair, I said all 3 of them would.

Yeah. Oh, that's true. They are all in that group.

No, you, you're not playing for 5th place. You're trying to win. So I would take Christian McCaffrey.

Okay. All right. We appreciate that question. Laura Oven. Laura Oven. Oven. Laura Oven.

It's spelled Oven.

It does.

It's spelled Oven.

She wants to know, do your wives play fantasy football?

No.

And would you ever play in a league with them?

We tried once.

And what would happen if they beat you?

I would— man, Laura Oven, you're funny.

I, I had one year where I was able to get my wife to do a league. About week 3.

They are in the building somewhere.

Our wives are in the building. Give it up for our wives, everybody.

Salute.

Thank you. Thank you.

They let us chase this ridiculous dream. But they do not participate in it.

Someone is now married to a Hall of Famer.

Congratulations. Congratulations. That's a pretty big deal.

Oh my goodness.

Probably the best thing that's ever happened to her.

Yeah. Yeah. We did, we did give it a go. We had a wives league that was going on for all of us season.

Yeah. They don't play. This is, if my calculations are correct, the 4th Fantasy Footballers my wife has ever heard.

Oh, like episodes?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Were they the 4 live shows?

1,960.

So I— were they all 4 live? Were all 4 of them live?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Um, thank you for that one. Tom Wintermeyer.

Tom, you sound like a girl, and that's fine, you know.

Yeah.

Um, I'm just calling it how I see it.

I've been told I laugh like a girl.

You do, and that's fine. I just You know, letting you know.

Keeper question, uh, in the building here. Am I crazy to keep Trey McBride over the aforementioned Chase Brown?

No, that's not crazy at all. That's not crazy. And I, I would, I would still take Chase Brown in that situation, but it's not crazy.

Yeah, I completely—

I feel like you of all people this year have not been one to go back to the Trey McBride. Like, you just think what happened last year with the amount of Jacoby Brissett on pace for 700 passes in a year is just— it's what made McBride great.

It's—

no, no, no, no, no. It's— that's not what made McBride great. Like, average players put in that situation can't do that. You have to be a great player when, when the situation, uh, uh, reveals itself to you. You have to be great to actually take the mantle and accept the call like Trey McBride did. I just don't think that he's going to— I don't think he'll lap the field like he did. He'll still be— he'll be a top 3 tight end.

But you think the value on Loveland's better?

Yes.

Yeah. All right.

It's Mr. Loveland.

Mr. Loveland.

Mr. Loveland.

Andy Painter sent in this question. Okay. I might believe that that's him.

That's my man.

Is it fair to have somebody else draft your team in a money league? My buddy wants me to fill in for him after I drafted for another guy in his league last year. What is this, like a pro bono? Like every year he's getting hired to do this?

Whoa. Why are people booing this? That's so weird that that's emotional for people.

It really is.

To me, I don't have a problem with it. Like honestly, really? Well, here's the thing. If you, let's say you can't be at a draft, right? I can't make it to the draft. We would usually say you need a proxy. You either submit rankings or you have someone fill in for you. So if we're okay with it, then—

I think the weird thing is that he drafted for somebody else in the same league last year. Maybe not a neutral opinion.

Well, he can't draft for both this year.

No, but—

Or can he?

Or can he? I mean—

I don't have a problem with it. Do you guys? Obviously the audience has a huge problem with it.

What do we think?

I'm, I'm a man of the people. So yeah, of course.

That's a coward.

What a terrible thing.

Team auto draft.

Andy Painter, you dog.

Savage.

People are just yelling out like league formats and auto draft. Redraft.

Yeah. Some guys like Chili.

Cameron Rodriguez. My son Cruz is 10 years old. Hey, starting to show interest in fantasy football. I'd really like it to become something we share together.

That's awesome. That's great.

What's the best way to introduce him into fantasy without overwhelming him? Would crush him, kick his butt. Would you, would you give him his own team, co-manage one together, start a small family league, something else? What do you think? Other than crush him?

Yes. Yes.

Well, maybe something more constructive.

Look, you can't give them the win. We know that. But I think the small family league is—

I like that one.

I like it.

But you have to have— I think co-manager is awesome.

Yeah. The thing with the family league is you have to have enough people to do it. So if you have other parents with other kids who are starting to get interested in football and in fantasy football, I think that's a fantastic way to go. Otherwise, The co-manage is fantastic.

Andy, you co-manage with one of your boys.

Yeah, he comes to me to our League of Record draft and he was one of the Sharks back here, by the way.

Yes, he was.

His problem was the first league he was in with a bunch of people, he won it.

Oh, so he's hooked.

Everything has been downhill since then. So set your expectations.

The only other piece of advice I would say is if he's starting to get into it, you know, there's sometimes a learning curve. If you're just starting, you don't know the players, you don't know everything. So either they play Madden or they listen to the Fantasy Footballers podcast.

Oh, that's not a bad idea.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The only podcast with one Ring of Honor member and one Hall of Fame member on it.

Uh, sir.

2-time.

Sir.

Yeah, thank you, Mike.

2-time.

You elected yourself twice?

Yes, he did.

I almost wiped my memory of that.

I didn't.

And by the way, I mean, I think both of your inductions, while ridiculous and Right. We're fair because Arthur Blank did it and then Lurie did it.

Yeah.

And now I'm going to have to wait for another owner to put themselves in their own Hall of Fame.

Jason, imagine what you're going to ring that phone and go, okay. Yeah.

Jerry Jones will hook me up. I'll be in before you know it. Zach Feltz writes in.

Zach?

Zach?

Yeah.

It feels like there's been more emphasis lately on stacking a wide receiver with the quarterback. Is stacking something we should be targeting in redraft or is it more of a tournament strategy?

So it is definitely more of a tournament strategy. When you're in big tournaments, you really need the, you know, to win in the final week. It's very valuable to have the wide receiver that caught 2 touchdowns that week. the quarterback obviously went nuclear and, and you can beat massive amounts of people. It is also a winning strategy in redraft leagues. We did a study a couple years ago, one of our disorbos, our computer nerds, um, did it to, to try to see like, does it also apply to redraft? And when he looked at basically having a stack that, that was relevant—

what is happening? Where's everybody going?

I don't know what is happening. Having a stack that is relevant versus—

Is there a party?

Versus an average.

Oh, are we laughing at the— oh, there's so many things to laugh about right now.

So handsome, bro.

Your, your, your bronze bust needs braces.

Oh yeah, a little bit. But it does, it does give a slight edge to wins versus losses because again, in order to win each week, like if you're just scoring an average slightly above league average, that doesn't actually usually give you a W. You kind of need the variance where you, yeah, you have a high weekly score and that happens more on stack.

By the way, Al Borland just informed us.

Yes.

Is, is, is Cruz, Cruz, Cruz, the 10-year-old from the last question, are they in the building? Because Al has a special Foot Clan ring for you. You could see him after the show if he's in the building.

Wait, wait, Cameron, did you make up Cruz, just to get your question in there.

Cameron, you don't have a son, do you? Shame on you.

Asking for my son.

There you go. So Turner writing in, Turner Morris.

Come on. What is happening here with Turner Morris?

Oh, there we go.

There we go.

Have you individually—

He forgot who he was.

Who am I? Have you ever individually wondered what you would be doing currently if podcasting wasn't possible? Andy and I— Best job? Different entrepreneurship? Bull riding, Mike?

Bull riding, probably not.

Probably not. You get motion sick.

Maybe.

That's my biggest problem with bull riding is motion sickness.

If you have motion sickness, how does bull riding work?

Not well. Not well. No.

I think Andy and I would still be doing real estate, which we did for about 2 weeks.

Yeah, we literally tried to become real estate agents while we started the podcast.

We would have crushed.

And that was a great 2 houses we sold.

Yeah, we did do it. Mike, would you be a musician somewhere, a rock star?

I'd probably just have a sign that's like, please help me, money please.

So yeah, I mean, I think—

It's a grift.

I think the coolest thing is that we were like— like when we were kids, we couldn't have like wanted to grow up and be podcasters.

No, because that didn't exist.

So like, I think about it with my kids, some careers exist in the future that don't exist now that they might be good at, and that stuff changes quick. So I'm glad I don't have to think about this. We've been fortunate.

No, we're—

Thanks to these people, these fine, beautiful human beings. That was today's mailbag brought to you by GMC. We are professional grade. Like I said, we're gonna Hang out. The Van Buren has been kind enough to give us some extra time. At the end—

Yes.

We're going to get pumped up here in a minute. But at the— we're going to come back out here. We're going to pass around microphones. You can ask us anything you want. We're going to do a little AMA for 15, 20 minutes to give you some bonus time here at the end.

You monsters, let's keep it clean.

Yeah, I'm a little more scared now than I was at the beginning of the show. But I want to hear it. I want to hear it for Series X, Sam. Thank you for helping us put this live show together.

We wouldn't be here if it weren't for them.

I want to hear it for GMC and PetSmart for helping us put on this live show. I want to hear it for Al Borland. Yeah, the crew, literally the best. But the entire crew, Papa Josh, Papa Josh, the whole crew is here, almost all of them. And, uh, an applause for yourself, the Foot Clan, the people. We're gonna give out some more free stuff. We're gonna take a 2-second break and we'll be back out here for the AMA. Thank you guys!

And that's the end!

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