EXTENDED BEST-OF EPISODE: Favorite show moments, guests, and Regulars

Summary

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Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry

EXTENDED BEST-OF EPISODE: Favorite Show Moments, Guests, and Regulars
Date: May 14, 2026

Episode Overview

In this extended, celebratory "best-of" episode, Matthew Berry and his co-hosts look back on four years of Fantasy Football Happy Hour, spotlighting favorite moments, inside jokes, memorable guests, and the unique camaraderie shared by the team and its community of “regulars.” Against the backdrop of uncertainty about the show's future—Berry’s contract with NBC is ending—the crew turns potential goodbyes into a raucous, heartfelt, and laughter-filled retrospective. Regular contributors, behind-the-scenes staff, and loyal chat members are given well-earned tributes, and the hosts reminisce about the show’s quirks, inside jokes, and the friendships forged on and off the air.

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Key Discussion Points & Highlights

1. The (Possible) Last Call — Uncertain Future, But High Spirits

Timestamp: 02:00–04:20

• Matthew Berry breaks the news: his contract with NBC is ending, so he doesn’t know if the show—as we know it—will return.
• Despite uncertainty, Berry remains optimistic for a reunion and affirms his appreciation for his co-hosts, NBC, and the viewers.
• “We joke a lot, but genuinely, I can tell you guys, I hope so. I truly love working with the two of you... and the regulars. I love the audience. I really love this show.” (Matthew Berry, 02:00)

2. The Show’s Personality: Humor, Friendship, and Inside Jokes

Timestamp: Throughout

• Vivid banter about fantasy football, pop culture, running gags (the “Peacockies” awards, "Brown Gobbler" nicknames, “diet Coke at 8am”, Matthew’s “chicken finger and Choco Taco” diet, etc.).
• Frequent playful jabs at one another—e.g., aging jokes, bad costumes, bad jokes, and wardrobe malfunctions (“I’ve looked like an old man for the last 25 years” – Berry, 14:26).
• Memorable moments like costumes (Scooby Doo Barry, Fred from Scooby Doo), on-set antics (flip cup, beer pong with NFL guests), and Matthew’s failed Emmy dreams:
  • “Who won the Emmy?”
    “Todd Zeal—he beat a loaded field.” (08:54)
• Regulars join in via video and text, underscoring the show's community-driven feel.

3. Fantasy Football (and Its Frequent Derailments)

Timestamps: Scattered; e.g., 24:15–25:35

• Brief, occasionally interrupted fantasy talk—e.g., David Njoku’s signing and impact (“Barry is ruining the show with the fantasy football talk,” 25:31)—that quickly pivots back to bits and personal stories.

4. Tributes to the Crew & Community

Timestamps: 47:32–48:48 and 51:24–51:47

• Connor Rogers reads heartfelt tributes from regulars like Valiant Vincent and Aloha Bricks. Vincent recounts the impact of being a Discord admin and forging friendships through the show.
• Crew members get their due—makeup, wardrobe, research staff, backup producers—with “Mount Rushmore” banter for show researchers and contributors.
• “Whether you're having the best of days, worst of days... tuning into this show is completely awesome. You guys bring the fantasy knowledge, but more specifically, you bring the laughs and the joy. So for me, that's perfection.” (Blake/Penn State Blake, 45:38)

5. Notable Regulars & Guests Check In

Timestamps: 15:33–35:19, 47:32–48:48

• Montage of favorite video bits and guests: RotoPat in the “Peacocky” suit, Penn State Blake (research legend), Big Show (reporting celebrity deaths and showing up in a car to mimic his NASCAR beat), Backup Producer Pete, and chat legends like Valiant Vincent and Aloha Bricks.
• Real-time reactions and gratitude toward these enduring personalities, and their on-air stories—like Applebee’s margaritas in Philly and the quest (failed) to get Craig Reynolds on the show.

6. Community-Building: From Discord to Group Chat

Timestamps: 47:32–51:24

• Discussion of the group chats, Discord, and viewer interactions becoming a central, beloved aspect of the show, especially in the fourth season.
• “The chat has elevated to a different level.” (Jay Croucher, 75:07)
• The show’s “regulars” are celebrated as essential to its unique personality, and the invitation is extended for more community fantasy leagues.

7. An Unscripted, Unfiltered Workplace

Timestamps: 80:00–80:21

• Berry thanks NBC for the rare creative freedom:
  • “We’ve never gotten a note. Maybe you guys have—I’ve literally never been like, ‘Hey that joke was too far…’ All we’ve gotten is, 'Hey, I think it’s funny. Be yourselves.'"
• The show’s authenticity and irreverence—“one took the show seriously, but none of us took ourselves seriously” (Matthew Berry, 78:08)—fostered its unconventional, inviting vibe.

8. Looking Back: On the Road, On Set, And Off Track

Timestamps: 52:42–66:13 and throughout

• Highlights from road trips (Super Bowl Radio Row, Applebee’s, Vegas)—including beer pong with NFL guests, wardrobe disasters, and tales of “wounded soldiers” on early-morning shows.
• The making of inside jokes (“Peacocky,” “Brown Gobbler,” “Croc 4,” wardrobe choices, etc.), and the team’s willingness to break format for fun.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On potential endings:
  “If we do come back, it would be the most Happy Hour thing ever for us to do a big series finale spectacle and then show up in the fall like nothing happens.” (Matthew Berry, 03:39)
• On community:
  “Tuning into this show is completely awesome. You guys bring the fantasy knowledge, but more specifically, you bring the laughs and the joy. So for me, that’s perfection.” (Blake/Penn State Blake, 45:37)
• On behind-the-scenes staff:
  “I just want to make sure we call out the work Stephen d’Agostino and Damian Dabrowski have done. They have really driven the show for the past four years.” (Jay Croucher, 75:09)
• On group dynamics:
  “We all was able to mesh it together... We got regulars now. For me, like, that’s crazy, man.” (Lawrence Jackson, 75:50)
• On legacy and gratitude:
  “You all earned your way here. You’re all great. You’re all great on air. You’re all superstars to me. I’ve really enjoyed it... I know I will see you guys again, one way or the other. But again, thank you so much to every single person… you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here. Peace out.” (Matthew Berry, 82:24–end)

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Fan & Crew Tributes – Not to Miss

45:01–48:48 — Video tributes and messages from Show Regulars:

• Blake (Penn State Blake): Compares show to a “Chris Jones 40”: “Our wardrobe is questionable. We’re not the fastest. We got tons of jiggling going on. About halfway through, when you least expect it, something magical might pop out. Something large, girthy, and unexpected… tuning into this show is completely awesome... So for me, that’s perfection.”
• Valiant Vincent: “It's an honor for me personally to be the admin of the Fantasy Football Happy Hour Discord... friendships here that... are going to last the rest of my life.”

63:24–64:42 — Aloha Bricks’s Mahalo:

• A touching goodbye and invitation: “If any of you are ever on the Big Island, please don't hesitate to reach out and I will always make time to show you around the island or have a meal. You are all now my ohana.”

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Hall-of-Fame Bits & In-Jokes (w/ Sample Timestamps)

• Peacocky Awards: 07:04–08:10, 17:11
• Chad Pennington, The Jersey Wall, Jets QB Debate: 01:00–02:00
• Diet Coke at 8am / Chicken Finger Diet: 04:50–05:08, 09:30–09:41
• Bad Flip Cup / Beer Pong With NFL Guests: 36:44–39:49, 56:03–56:27
• Vegas and On the Road: 58:39–59:42
• The “Brown Gobbler” Nickname: 12:13–12:43, 42:21
• Group Chat / Discord Love: 47:32–51:24
• Wardrobe/Costume Fails: 10:43–11:10, 14:55–15:07
• Backup Producer Pete and “substitute teacher” days: 42:32–44:33

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Reflections & Farewells

The final segment is a moving exchange of gratitude:

• Each host thanks the others, the regulars, the crew, and Berry.
• Berry shares the story of how each host came to join and shine on the show, emphasizing, “Everyone got the joke” and could truly “be themselves.”
• Over and over, the message is clear: This show was more than highlights, debates, or rankings—it was about friendship, laughter, and building a community united by football and joy.

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Closing Sentiments

“No other show is like this one—for the best and worst reasons.” (Connor Rogers, 73:54)

“It was scary for me leaving ESPN and, you know, coming to a new situation… You guys made it easy and you went along. Everyone got the joke… You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.” (Matthew Berry, 82:24–end)

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A toast to fantasy, friendship, and finding joy in the chaos. Cheers to the Fantasy Football Happy Hour—see you at the next Happy Hour, wherever and however it returns.

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Transcript

[Matthew Berry]

Cheers. Bottoms up. Many other drinking terms to you. My name is Matthew Berry. Welcome to the Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry. Jay Croucher is next to me. We're gonna meet him in one second. But welcome, Jay. I just want to point out before we get started with anything else. So this is a set. It's a work in progress. Can you see all the way in the back? Like you're like, oh, wow, Matthew's got his name in the title. It's so exciting. Like is everything and then. But like, look, they've got Cowboys. They've got sk. Stupid Cowboys in the back. Everyone knows I'm a Washington Commanders fan. This is awful. It's awful. We will change the set. Literally. Like if. Can we get a shot of this, like our sad Jersey wall here for a second? A couple of Washington players. Great. And Chad Pennington. Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Barry.

[Connor Rogers]

Welcome to the Fantasy Football Happy Hour.

[Matthew Berry]

Where did that go?

[Connor Rogers]

We need more of that Chad Pennington.

[Matthew Berry]

That's right.

[Connor Rogers]

On the Jersey Wal. Live from the dead. I didn't remember that.

[Jay Croucher]

Yeah, I didn't remember the wall was that bad. 2 time comeback player of the year, Chad Pennington. By the way, this is another man who could have cost me money if I was old enough to bet back then.

[Connor Rogers]

What an electric factory between you two, by the way.

[Matthew Berry]

Unbelievable.

[Connor Rogers]

Can't imagine how I ended up here.

[Matthew Berry]

Amazing that show didn't get cancelled after season one with this sad little helmet wall. And the Jersey wall as well. But you know, things survive. I survived. You survived. And Chad Pennington survived as well. Connor joined us pretty early on in the run. Chad Pennington, greatest Jets quarterback.

[Connor Rogers]

I mean, Joe Namath.

[Matthew Berry]

But.

[Connor Rogers]

But taking that away. Yeah, I'll give him.

[Matthew Berry]

In the NFL.

[Connor Rogers]

I'll give him numbers.

[Matthew Berry]

Quarterback in the NFL.

[Connor Rogers]

Right. That doesn't. That played well after the merger.

[Jay Croucher]

Who's number three, though? It's like Ryan Fitzpatrick for his one year.

[Connor Rogers]

This is where it gets like.

[Jay Croucher]

It'd be like 80s and 90s guys.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah. It would get really.

[Jay Croucher]

Ken O'.

[Matthew Berry]

Brien.

[Connor Rogers]

You're talking about Ken O'. Brien. Vinny Testaverde for a year.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Jay Croucher]

Let me tell you, Mike White, really good. Four games. I really believed in Mike White.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Connor Rogers]

Tim Boyle ends up somewhere down the list.

[Matthew Berry]

He's on this kid. He's on the list. All right, so welcome to Fantasy Bowl Happy Hour, gentlemen. I have a prepared statement. All right, so listen, here's the thing. You guys may have seen this in the press a little bit here. It is not a secret. My current contract with NBC is going to come to an end in a few months. So I can't tell you as we sit here today definitively where I'm going to be in August. Which means, of course, I don't know what the future of fantasy football Happy Hour is. I can tell you this much. I'm continuing to talk to NBC and a bunch of other places and I am confident this is me being positive, but I'm confident it will work out and that we will see Happy Hour this August. But 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. I can tell you genuinely, you know, we joke a lot, but genuinely, I can tell you guys, I hope so. I truly love working with the two of you. I truly love working with everyone on this show. I truly love the regulars. I love the audience. I really love this show. And so you guys are amazing and I'm genuinely hopeful that everything works out. But because there is a chance this is our last show, we wanted to acknowledge that. Right. And we wanted to celebrate the last four years. And our thought was, hey, if we do come back, it would be the most Happy hour thing ever for us to do a big series finale spectacle and then show up in the fall like nothing happens.

[Connor Rogers]

Right, right.

[Matthew Berry]

That was fun. All right, nevermind, ignore all that stuff. So what I will say, however, though, you know, I like to quote Jimmy Buffett, don't get me wrong, this is not a sad song. So what you're going to see over the next 90 minutes, we've got a super sized show. We've actually got after hours from the happy hour. This time is going to be a celebration. It's a celebration of you guys, of the show of the last four years. We're going to have an absolute blast. And I would say to the regulars, listen, it's the last show, there are no rules. So bring the heat and we will have an absolute blast, just like we have over the last four years. Stephen, roll the tape. Jay, you were the head of trading for PointsBet and you have been for five years. You've obviously done a lot of stuff with NBC Sports. People don't know who the hell you are. And I think people also don't know what the head of trading for PointsBet does. So talk to me about that.

[Jay Croucher]

Yeah, so I set the lines basically. So when we talk, Cowboys are three point favourites over the Eagles. That's, that's my job.

[Matthew Berry]

Okay.

[Jay Croucher]

It's not Just football. Like we do all sports. So if we want to do a happy hour on Portuguese soccer, I can do that as well.

[Matthew Berry]

You can?

[Jay Croucher]

Yeah, I can do that.

[Matthew Berry]

Good. You can do that with somebody else. I am not going to be the Portuguese soccer guy here. Yeah, when I came over to NBC, they made. They promised me no Portuguese soccer. Small print in my, in my contract. You find yourself here on the Fantasy Football Happy hour where we will drink. Listen, I'm no longer on Disney, so cheers to that.

[Connor Rogers]

Happy Tuesday. Welcome to the Fantasy Football Happy hour. Not what you were expecting, right? I'm Connor Rogers alongside rotoworlds and the co host of the Roto World Football Show, Denny Carter. Denny, great to have you in here, man. Don't adjust anything. Right now. Matthew is on the way. We're going to welcome in Matthew Berry who is in the building right now. I am looking right at him. We are excited to have him here as he walks over the grand entrance. Welcome on Matthew Barry.

[Matthew Berry]

What a disaster.

[Connor Rogers]

That's okay.

[Matthew Berry]

You made it going on. Did you know what? It's not enough to have Connor here with his good looking hair and his young boyish good looks. Let's make sure Denny Carter and his head of lettuce is on camera as well. I don't know if you heard this, but. So it's a 14 team 2 quarterback league that Jay and I are playing in with all the.

[Lawrence Jackson]

I'm in it.

[Matthew Berry]

Oh, you're in that league. It's 14 teams. I wasn't told to learn everyone's names. 14 teams. You've got the gig. You don't have to fake laugh at everything I say. You don't have to. Ed McMahon. It. You don't have to. Robin quivers. It. You can, you know, like, you can, you can legitimately, you know, laugh or ignore. Cause not all my jokes are winners.

[Connor Rogers]

No, they're not.

[Jay Croucher]

In fact, there's a lot of losers.

[Matthew Berry]

That's what I'm thankful for.

[Jay Croucher]

No, Josh Jacobs.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, whatever. I got healthy kids and a wife, blah blah, blah, blah, blah. No, no, the important stuff here is, you know, didn't play against Josh Jacobs. I'm a proud peacock, baby. Proud peacock. Is that what they do? That's what they do, right?

[Connor Rogers]

Are you on the TB12 diet?

[Matthew Berry]

No, I'm on the chicken finger diet.

[Connor Rogers]

Okay, I like that.

[Matthew Berry]

No, he's what I am. Yeah, no, exactly. I'm on the. Yeah, I'm on the. I'm on the. I'm on the chicken finger and Choco Taco diet. You know what I'm talking about? Like it's an animated. Like it's an animated. Like not animated.

[Jay Croucher]

It's like a spine of animal.

[Matthew Berry]

It's a stuffed animal. A monkey. And he's just like, he's doing this.

[Jay Croucher]

Yeah, I've seen that one.

[Matthew Berry]

It's a good name for the award. Is it the happy hours? The happiest. You know they want a happy. The happiest. The Peacockies.

[Jay Croucher]

No, that's bad.

[Blake (Penn State Blake)]

That's real bad.

[Jay Croucher]

No, don't go Peacockies. Don't go Peacockies.

[Matthew Berry]

I kind of like the Peacockies.

[Jay Croucher]

I think it's the happies. I think it's gotta be the happiest. Let's start off.

[Matthew Berry]

Peacocky goes to. Come on.

[Jay Croucher]

Peacocky goes. No, we can't do that.

[Connor Rogers]

Happy Peacocky's day.

[Matthew Berry]

Yes.

[Connor Rogers]

The annual award show is back. I have no idea where Matt the Berry is. Do you guys know we kind of need him?

[Jay Croucher]

I think I see something walking in. Oh, no.

[Matthew Berry]

There you go. Here we are. What a big ass peacocky. We're gonn to the camera.

[Big Show]

That's a rigid.

[Matthew Berry]

Look at him. Look how beautiful he is. I'm taking you home later for your next touchdown celebration. Could you do a peacock like a. Like just. It's kind of like. Right. And people might think it's an Eagle too, like. Or it's an Eagle, but just like. And we'll know it's really for a peacock and just kind of be a shout out to us and all of our friends. It's kind of like I project 275 yards and four touchdowns for Tyler Lockett against my commanders. The expectation there is that they'll put Emmanuel Forbes on him to just get burned left and right and right and right and right and right. Penn State. Blake over there, who's a die hard Eagles fan, he's all. He's all smiles because he knows. There he is.

[Lawrence Jackson]

Look at him.

[Connor Rogers]

He's actually the happiest we've seen.

[Matthew Berry]

He's all smiley because he knows, he knows they got away with one. If I was an NFL running back, I'd be much more closer to Isaiah Pacheco. Kind of just you know, like a lot slower and a lot like much easier to bring down but just, you know, kind of that, that plodding sort

[Connor Rogers]

of like Connor Rogers alongside I think Matthew Berry and Jay Croucher.

[Matthew Berry]

Hey, it's a me, a Luigi. I'm a Luigi. Get used to this. I'm a. I'm a company a man. Yes, it's A me epimario all about the Luigi. Yes, hello.

[Jay Croucher]

You didn't win the Emmy.

[Connor Rogers]

That's not Miami. Let's just make who won.

[Matthew Berry]

Who won the Emmy?

[Connor Rogers]

Todd Zeal from my colleague at Smy, Todd Mets post game does an incredible job on Mets postgame.

[Matthew Berry]

He beat a loaded field.

[Connor Rogers]

I mean a loaded field in terms of analysts. And because of that, I believe you are Todd Zeal from smy for Halloween.

[Jay Croucher]

That's correct. I'm the man who beat you.

[Connor Rogers]

You get the epic not me that I won.

[Jay Croucher]

So if anyone has any questions answered on the show by any, please.

[Matthew Berry]

Hey, you know what? The F of you with Todd Zeal. F of you.

[Jay Croucher]

Yeah.

[Matthew Berry]

F for you. You should have wanted this. You should have wanted this.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah, maybe next year.

[Matthew Berry]

Read between the lines. Don't deal.

[Jay Croucher]

On the flight back from Pittsburgh on Monday morning at about 8am Matthew Berry's ordering diet cokes like on the floor from the steward.

[Connor Rogers]

Like the flight attendant.

[Jay Croucher]

Yes.

[Matthew Berry]

You can't be ordering Diet Cokes at

[Lawrence Jackson]

8am that's how he does.

[Jay Croucher]

And then after he asked on the flight for diet coke he asked if there was a platter of chicken tenders available. There wasn't.

[Matthew Berry]

I'm sitting in first class. Jay should be in the back of the bus but somehow because there were only first class seats available on this particular fight, NBC had to put them in first class so he could observe everything I do normally. He's back.

[Connor Rogers]

You pull the curtain over.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, I agree with Jay and pull the curtain. Yeah, I see a Jay and I'm like no, no, no. Use your own back.

[Jay Croucher]

Absolutely not.

[Matthew Berry]

You're not here. Absolutely not. I wore this because Jay, I don't know if you remember this but today, today is the one year anniversary of our magical night in Buffalo.

[Jay Croucher]

Is that right?

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, today is exactly so I just one night in bu. I know you don't remember a lot of that night or you claim not to, but look, anniversary a lot to me. It meant a lot to me. Hola and welcome in to the desk of this. Come on you guys.

[Connor Rogers]

Great costume over there. Thank you very much.

[Matthew Berry]

Obviously, yeah. Fred from Scooby Doo. You know it's interesting doing my research for this role Fred saw there he is pretty good. Like, I mean I think you know, like we're doing what we can with

[Connor Rogers]

the only got so far with that.

[Matthew Berry]

I'm always follically challenged even when wearing a wig. Fred doesn't have like a lot of catchphrases. There's not like a lot he doesn't

[Connor Rogers]

really have much to say in general,

[Matthew Berry]

he's honestly not particularly interesting. He's just sort of the leader. Fred and Daphne don't bring a lot to the table, if I'm being honest with you.

[Connor Rogers]

It's a part of curiosity, which is

[Matthew Berry]

why it's perfect for me here. Honestly, Connor, you bring the knowledge and I'm just sort of here for the good looks. I'm just telling you, like when you have a chub and then a young Woody shows up, the chub goes down. It is what it is. Everyone knows that.

[Connor Rogers]

I gotta teeing something up just to keep it rolling. Our next player, Rashad White. By the way, Woody Marks, 69% available. I don't want to leave that out.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, 69%.

[Connor Rogers]

You don't love it. Unbelievable. Like, you really can't make it up at this point.

[Matthew Berry]

I'm not gay, but if I was, I would go there.

[Connor Rogers]

That's the type of outfit you're a fan of?

[Matthew Berry]

He looked awesome.

[Connor Rogers]

Oh, man.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Connor Rogers]

The chat is upset. No ankles. I feel robbed. That's from Jesus Hermosilla. Yeah. Matthew, you're. You got a different look today. The ankles will be back, what, Monday? Maybe Sunday if people are lucky.

[Matthew Berry]

You know what? You know what I'm gonna do?

[Jay Croucher]

Be careful. Don't strain anything.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Connor Rogers]

Don't pull anything.

[Jay Croucher]

You can't really see an ankle.

[Connor Rogers]

5 to 1 odds Barry is not wearing pants. Which those odds might have cashed judging by that angle.

[Jay Croucher]

A man, Johnny Dangerly from YouTube. Chase Brown should be called the Gobbler because he's gonna gobble up receptions.

[Matthew Berry]

Do you think Chase Brown would enjoy being known that somebody wants to nickname him the Gobbler? I just don't know that that's the kind of nickname that a lot of guys would neglect.

[Lawrence Jackson]

I don't think nobody look his last name. Brown too. Imagine being called the Brown Gobbler.

[Matthew Berry]

The Brown Gobbler. By the way, the Brown Gobbler sounds like a rejected Batman villain, right?

[Connor Rogers]

This one from Valiant. Vincent Connor looking like he just stepped off the set of Happy Gilmore 2. I love it.

[Matthew Berry]

That is true.

[Connor Rogers]

Or Polo.

[Matthew Berry]

Or. Or honestly. Like, honestly, you kind of look like a waiter at a. At a knockoff theme restaurant. You know what I mean?

[Connor Rogers]

Like, and I like, like, like. But I don't think that one lands.

[Matthew Berry]

I disagree. Like, hey, welcome to Islands. I'm Connor. Can 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. And, well, I did. Hey, it's Emmy award winning podcaster and analyst Todd Zeal. Just here for Matthew to give you guys the draft order for this year's fantasy football camp. We're going to start out with Roto Pat at the top, followed by Denny. And then Matthew is going to be third and I guess that would leave number 12 and absolutely dead last. That would be Cotter. Let me make sure that I got that list right. Let me grab that list.

[Jay Croucher]

Oh, yeah, here it is right here.

[Connor Rogers]

This is unbelievable. It's always your own people. Oh, man. A lot of good memories. We didn't even get all of them in. Well done by the team though, putting that together.

[Matthew Berry]

It's really good.

[Connor Rogers]

So I forgot, honestly, I'd forgotten a

[Matthew Berry]

lot of those as well. Stuntman Chuck Jay's aged a decade and four years, which is very rude from

[Jay Croucher]

Todd Seal all throughout. Todd Zeal, who by the way had a.350 OPS in the 99 playoffs in Texas. So please, Todd Zeal. Stones being thrown in the glass house here. Come on.

[Matthew Berry]

Two time Emmy winning.

[Connor Rogers]

A lot of comments about how Jay and I have aged. Rick's Connor hit puberty hard since his first appearance.

[Jay Croucher]

Well, after four years.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah. I mean, working with me every day will do that to you.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah. It's like being the president.

[Matthew Berry]

Matthew looks similar. Yeah, you do.

[Connor Rogers]

You look exactly the same.

[Matthew Berry]

I have looked like an old man for the last 25 years. That's the thing. I mean, like, I lost my hairline fairly early, you know. Right. I just. I'm an old man. I've been an old man since I was like 30.

[Jay Croucher]

Yeah, you're like Keanu Reeves except your age. Got frozen 40 years after his age.

[Matthew Berry]

That's right.

[Jay Croucher]

You know, the immortal thing with Keanu,

[Matthew Berry]

I 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.

[Connor Rogers]

I didn't even catch that.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, that was unbelievable. Yeah.

[Connor Rogers]

Shirtless Ben Johnson. Are those socks on the last show?

[Matthew Berry]

I know you know what Shirtless Ben Johnson they are. I just, you know, the wardrobe they ran out of like the small socks. Maybe I should wardrobe thrown under the bus.

[Connor Rogers]

Plus 210 to cash on the last show.

[Matthew Berry]

But good job.

[Jay Croucher]

You had it in a game seven. The pressure gets the people.

[Connor Rogers]

There's the ice, which is too bright.

[Matthew Berry]

You know what I'm gonna do? Shirtless Ben Johnson in the break between. Segment one, Segment two, I will take off the socks entirely. That's what I will do. There you go. Good for me. It'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.

[Connor Rogers]

By the way, you didn't hype it enough. We have some premium guests on this show today.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, no question.

[Connor Rogers]

Like super big names, superstars.

[Matthew Berry]

Yes. Nothing but superstars.

[RotoPat]

Yeah.

[Matthew Berry]

We've already seen Todd Zeal.

[Connor Rogers]

Todd Zeal. That's a tough fact to follow.

[Jay Croucher]

J.

[Matthew Berry]

Coming back.

[Connor Rogers]

No, A.J. brown today, although, maybe. But we welcome in a frequent guest and friend of the show in Rotopat.

[Matthew Berry]

Ah, there we go.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah, there he is.

[Matthew Berry]

There we go. Rotopat. Yeah. Defending champion of our league of assholes

[Connor Rogers]

and wins Guillotine every year.

[Matthew Berry]

Yes.

[Connor Rogers]

Every single year he wins Guillotine. Hello, Pat.

[RotoPat]

Hello. Well, Jaden Daniels canceled, so they brought me in. They thought I'd be the preferred first guest for Matthew. Matthew. Hell of a run here at Fantasy Football Happy Hour. I know. Look forward to it. Keeping going and yeah, I look forward to. I hope we get to keep doing the Guillotine League because I. My favorite yearly tradition is to get 15th place in week one and almost get eliminated and then somehow win the league going forward the rest of the year.

[Lawrence Jackson]

But.

[RotoPat]

How you doing, buddy? I gotta be honest, I did not remember Scooby Doo Barry. Yeah, that was. That was quite the variation of Barry there.

[Jay Croucher]

Can I just say, Rotter. Pat, do you think that if Matthew does leave NBC that'll be the impetus for you to get some Bluetooth to headphones? Because that really may be a good contract.

[RotoPat]

There's no budget large enough in NBC Sports that would afford me YouTube Bluetooth headphones, so that will not be happening.

[Matthew Berry]

You don't think so? Like, the money they save on my contract, you don't think they could.

[Connor Rogers]

I think it's like Aaron Rodgers. He's choosing this.

[RotoPat]

They've sent high level executives to my house and I've just refused. Like, this is philosophical reasons. It's religious reasons. It just. It can't be done. Done.

[Matthew Berry]

Denny, one of the things that. Denny, one of the things that. Just plowing through that. Denny, one of the things that. That. One of the memories of the show that didn't make the highlight real, for whatever reason, is that you were in the Peacocky outfit. The. The last time we had the most recent one. Not every. Not every that we know of, honestly, we confirm that it might have been

[Connor Rogers]

you in the outfit every year.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, exactly. We never did reveal Peacocky. So my question is, have you worn it since? Did that inspire you and Mrs. Roto. Pat, you Know, I don't think people realize this, but Roto pat has like 12 kids or something like that.

[Connor Rogers]

It's challenged to Bill Rivers.

[Matthew Berry]

He's fertile. Rotopat is fertile. Make no more sense. His boys can swim. Yeah. Just curious if you know what's going on with the peacocky outfit.

[RotoPat]

Well, to answer your question, first off, it takes three months to dry clean a very involved outfit. A lot, a lot of cleaning on that. And that was in January. We had four children at that time. Next month, February. All of a sudden we had a fifth child. So you be the judge of what the peacock costume did to our family. By the way, Matthew, you're the only person in the industry I feel like you get me to debase myself to wear a peacock costume, but it felt like an honor. And that, that part wasn't stressful. The most stressful part of the peacock costume was after one or two awards, the whole desk was kind of getting uneasy. They started murmuring, basically, the peacock is not dancing well enough.

[Matthew Berry]

Right.

[RotoPat]

Like, we need, we need better dances out of the peacock. And in my head I'm like, I'm a 39 year old dad. I haven't learned a new dance since the Soulja Boy. But I powered through. I came up with some new dance that honestly really was a highlight to

[Jay Croucher]

two quick things wrote about. Firstly, you're lying because I know you dress up as a peacock all the time for Field Yates. So you'll do it for anyone in the industry. And then secondly, no one ever get into a waymo with Pat because he sits in the front seat and he touches the wheel. Can't do. That's the one thing that he does.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, he's. He's always been a rebel. He's always been a real rule breaker that I call. Apparently I called you Denny at some point in the segment. I apologize. Roto pattern name. It's my last show, you know, whatever. So we're trying to figure it all out. But Rotopat, listen, you are a gentleman and a legend, and for my money, the best peacocky we've ever had. So cannot, you know, continue to appreciate your friendship and support and thank you to all your contributions over the show. We will absolutely do the Guillotine league next year. 100%. We will absolutely bring that back.

[RotoPat]

Matt. I'm the best, Matthew. I'm the best peacock. You're the best to ever do it in general. Thank you so much, man.

[Matthew Berry]

Thank you, my friend. Thank you, brother.

[Jay Croucher]

Stay out of the waymos.

[Matthew Berry]

Well, you.

[Connor Rogers]

You gave away the Next guest three times.

[Jay Croucher]

Did I.

[Connor Rogers]

It's Danny Carter.

[Matthew Berry]

Is it really? Yeah. Okay. Sorry. Why? Kept saying I don't know. All right, fair enough.

[Connor Rogers]

We'll have Denny on in a second.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Connor Rogers]

That quite sweaty, that outfit. The peacocky.

[Matthew Berry]

Oh, I was unbelievable.

[Jay Croucher]

I felt bad for him.

[Connor Rogers]

Me too. I don't think he really knew what he agreed to until he was about 20 minutes into it.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, it was like.

[Jay Croucher]

It was like Ryan Reynolds and Buried. Yeah, basically. It was basically the exact same thing.

[Connor Rogers]

One last film reference for the road.

[Matthew Berry]

I was just gonna say. And like, not. It's not a movie that anyone seen. We could have picked anyone seen Buried? Like, people have seen almost every Ryan Reynolds movie. Yeah. I don't know. No one's seen Buried.

[Jay Croucher]

He's trapped in a coffin. He needs to get out.

[Matthew Berry]

I figured out the premise from the movie from the name of the title, but I've never seen. I've never seen buried.

[Jay Croucher]

Let's see.

[Connor Rogers]

87% on Rotten Tomatoes. Did not have that on my bingo card. Wow. Maybe I'll. With this newfound time, I'll have. I'll watch him Buried.

[Matthew Berry]

I will tell you that we were. I was trying to think of. We had a couple of conversations about, okay, for last show, what should we do and everything like that. I did like, should it just be a three hour watch Party of Magnolia? Should it should be live from the Jaguars bar? Should it be like, we actually pitched this as well and unfortunately the FCC said no. But I wanted to legitimately. This was an idea that we talked about. That I was just going to get hammered throughout the 90 minutes and take a breathalyzer at the end of it to prove that I am impervious to beer, which I still insist that I am. Yeah, maybe we'll. Maybe we'll do that at the wrap party. We're having the wrap party June 4th at an undisclosed location. So maybe we'll have.

[Jay Croucher]

Maybe we'll do that. The FCC also, they banned the idea of us doing the show at the JAGS bar. So you can't show JAGS fans on tv. That's America.

[Matthew Berry]

It's fair enough. It's fair enough.

[Connor Rogers]

All right, let's welcome on Denny. This is not Flexual Frustrations. This is just Denny Carter, not Dr. Denny.

[Matthew Berry]

Hello, Danny.

[Denny Carter]

Hey, guys. You can call me Rotopat since you called him Denny.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah, the good switcheroo.

[Matthew Berry]

You're wearing a hat, which is so weird. You know, like normally you've. You've got your luxurious locks. You're. You're great. Head of lettuce out there for me to be jealous of.

[Denny Carter]

I'm a Bolts fan first and foremost. Everybody knows this.

[Matthew Berry]

Sure.

[Denny Carter]

Thanks. I'm just. I'm going out the way I came in. I've worn this on the show before. Come on now.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jay Croucher]

Can you explain why, Dennis, you're actually not a San Diego Chargers fan at all?

[Denny Carter]

I like the color. I don't know. I don't know what to say.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Denny Carter]

And I can hold a conversation. Here's the thing. When I'm in the grocery store and someone goes, oh, Chargers. I can hold a conversation like, I'm a Chargers fan.

[Jay Croucher]

Oh, man.

[Denny Carter]

It's been. It's been tough luck for the past 40 years, but I think Justin Herbert can get us over the hump this year.

[Jay Croucher]

I know you go deep in the Billy Volek bag.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah. But couldn't you have that conversation about any NFL team? I would think anyone that does what we do for a living, like, 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.

[Denny Carter]

I could do that.

[Matthew Berry]

I could do that.

[Denny Carter]

I like doing. I live in Maryland. Okay. No one's even heard of the Chargers here.

[Matthew Berry]

That's fair.

[Connor Rogers]

How often do you really get stopped wearing that?

[Matthew Berry]

Do 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?

[Connor Rogers]

No, he said at the grocery store.

[Matthew Berry]

At the grocery store that I believe. I believe you go grocery shopping. I do believe that.

[Denny Carter]

I do that a lot, guys.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

[Denny Carter]

But I wanted to thank you for having me on today and for letting me be part of the show over the past few years and for letting me do fun bits and, you know, joining along with those bits, the flexual frustrations. I almost said sexual frustrations, but that's not what it was. Was one of my favorite things I've done in the industry, and you all really played along, really made that happen. So I wanted to thank you all, especially Matthew.

[Matthew Berry]

Now, listen, Denny, you were. You were an awesome contributor to the show throughout. We love that you. You took some time out of your schedule to be with us, and 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. Like, I loved the year that we did that.

[Connor Rogers]

Calling Rachel Maddow. I believe she wasn't answering, but got me from the raw.

[Denny Carter]

Chris Hayes wouldn't come on the show. I don't know why. You know, he was too scared, so I came on instead.

[Matthew Berry]

Right. I keep trying to tell the mainstream media about Trey Harris, but they won't listen.

[Connor Rogers]

They're not answering the calls on Greg Dorch.

[Matthew Berry]

Right. I was trying to go with a charger because of the hat.

[Denny Carter]

Oh, yeah, there you go.

[Connor Rogers]

He's forgetting he's a Chargers fan. He's celebrating David in Joku.

[Matthew Berry]

Right, of course.

[Connor Rogers]

Very timely.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, it's very exciting. Are you excited about the Injoku signing?

[Denny Carter]

I'm so excited, guys. Listen, I'm excited for him to run 35% of the routes every week, no matter what. You know, that'll be fun for fantasy. It'll be fun to figure out. We're going to talk about it all season. Like, we can figure it out, but we won't. That's what I promise you.

[Matthew Berry]

The one thing I will say we don't. I mean, we could do 10 seconds of a fantasy analysis here if we want to, but since Joku's brought up. The one thing I will say is that I actually. And Joku's a great blocker. And just you think about, like, we're excited about this run game under Mike McDaniel. We're excited about Omarion Hampton finally being healthy, their offensive line being finally healthy. And I think you think they signed Charlie Kohler. They signed David and Joku, like, feels like Connor. They want to do a lot of 12 personnel, and then they have Gadsden

[Connor Rogers]

to maybe not have to play on the line of scrimmage, which would be nice. You'd rather him playing as a power slot or whatever it may be, especially because you don't.

[Matthew Berry]

They're probably not bringing back Keenan Allen.

[Connor Rogers]

Right.

[Matthew Berry]

Right. So, I mean, you just, you think about, like, you know, it should be another mcconculous, mcconculous year here, but I think it hurts Gadson. He's probably from a high end, tight end, too. Now. He's kind of in that 15 to 20 range. Right. You know, it hurts. Gadson's fantasy value probably helps Marian Hampton the most. Yes.

[Lawrence Jackson]

Right.

[Connor Rogers]

Able to run the ball.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Connor Rogers]

Run it back. Ride or Die part two.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah. And maybe. And ajoku will be. Will catch like six touchdowns and just be super annoying because no one will ever start on the weeks that he does.

[Connor Rogers]

Barry is ruining the show with the fantasy football talk.

[Denny Carter]

Well, I wanted to say, look, Barry is so committed that he is going to break down the Chargers tight ends in May on his. On this last show, so that's a credit to him.

[Jay Croucher]

Look, just be sure to pass on all that info to all your chargers friends in Maryland.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah. At the grocery store. Yeah. Between the produce. Yeah. You know, when you're squeezing the produce, just turn to somebody and say like, no, I think he squeezed the produce. He said, yeah, you squeeze the produce. Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. You know, Denny does, though. I would never.

[Connor Rogers]

I'm married, guys.

[Denny Carter]

Come on.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah, exactly.

[Matthew Berry]

Please. It's all. Of course.

[Denny Carter]

I haven't squeezed the produce in 10 years.

[Matthew Berry]

Stop it. He's. He's a produce squeezer if I ever saw one. Stop it for me. Thank you, Danny. You know, he's just sitting there. He's just sitting there going. I think Keaton Mitchell was an under. Underrated signing around him. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Squeezing the pro. Anyway, Appreciate you. Appreciate you.

[Connor Rogers]

Denny Carter, our next guest, Dr. Denny Carter. A deep, deep poll.

[Matthew Berry]

Is this a deep cut?

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah, I'm going to build it up. We'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. By the way, the chat. Cannot believe we snuck in. Football talk.

[Matthew Berry]

Well, why not David and why not?

[Jay Croucher]

People need to know David and Joku's part of the show.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, why not? Of course. Yeah.

[Jay Croucher]

He's a seminal character.

[Matthew Berry]

I thought one of the things that would make the montage was me walking in, as in Joku with the big. You know, we did. We did our entrances one year.

[Jay Croucher]

That was another FCC band.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jay Croucher]

They couldn't show that again.

[Connor Rogers]

Was that on?

[Matthew Berry]

That was on pregame. That was on. I think we have something that might be on maybe. Who knows? Maybe that's coming up later in the show. Who knows? Me ruining the show and not looking at the rundown before. Classic, right?

[Connor Rogers]

All the staples are cashing on Brand. All right, this next guest, it's a pretty nice surprise because he hasn't worked on our show lately, but he was here from the beginning. And that is Penn State. Blake, you saw him in the mashup. Wow. On Brand.

[Big Show]

On Brand one Brand. Good to see you guys

[Matthew Berry]

wearing the tracksuit. We all went tracksuit today. I'm sort of in a. More of a jumpsuit. You're like in some sort of like burgundy wine color mobbed up tracksuit bit

[Jay Croucher]

pod character in the town.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah, yeah, There we go. That's what I was going for.

[Matthew Berry]

That's pretty good. Pretty good. Jay wearing what he just normally does.

[Connor Rogers]

Yes. Whatever I put out there for you, the man that was earliest on Parker Washington. That's not A joke. Number one Parker Washington fan, and he was right. What's up, Blake?

[Big Show]

I didn't get enough shares in Parker Washington when we were bringing him up, but, yeah, he was. He was one of the greatest Penn State wide receivers I've ever seen, so.

[Matthew Berry]

That's right. Yeah.

[Big Show]

No, it's great to see you guys. I'm really happy to be here. First two years of the show. I mean, so many great memories. I think one of the best memories I had. I wasn't even there, but it was when you guys were in Philly for the Applebee's show, and it had to be somewhere between 30 to 50 margaritas on Barry's tab, I think, which is maybe a little bit short.

[Matthew Berry]

They were dollarities, which makes that dollaritas.

[Jay Croucher]

Yes.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jay Croucher]

I will. I'll never forget being at that Applebee's, Blake. And Matthew turning to me in an ad break after his sixth dollar reader saying, I think I'm in a bit of trouble here.

[Matthew Berry]

I need some pretzel stick stack.

[Jay Croucher]

There was also.

[Backup Producer Pete]

There was also that.

[Big Show]

Wait, there was that makeshift Eagles mascot guy that showed up, and it was kind of an Eagle. It was kind of something. I wasn't really sure what was going on, but, yeah, that guy was. That guy was awesome.

[Matthew Berry]

So, 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.

[Connor Rogers]

Not yet.

[Matthew Berry]

Not yet. Well, you got a game.

[Big Show]

Yeah, soon.

[Connor Rogers]

Congrats on the engagement.

[Matthew Berry]

Congrats on the engagement.

[Jay Croucher]

Kids.

[Big Show]

Yeah, Three kids.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Big Show]

Another on the way.

[Matthew Berry]

But I just want to know, since this is potentially the last show of fantasy football happy hour after four years, Penn State, Blake, will you finally admit that Craig Reynolds is never coming on this show at this point? I mean, I know we have an

[Connor Rogers]

hour left coming on today.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Big Show]

I mean, you know, he.

[Matthew Berry]

Your best friend, running back.

[Big Show]

One time he said if he could ever get to Stanford, Connecticut, and then he did go to the Patriots, so he was a little bit closer than when he was in Detroit. But, yeah, I'm sorry to say I don't think that's happening.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, it's good that you finally admit that.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah, it's a good try.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Connor Rogers]

Hey, if it makes you feel better, Penn State, Blake, you are on the Mount Rushmore of fantasy football happy hour researchers for sure.

[Big Show]

Let's go. I think it's a short list.

[Matthew Berry]

It is. Yeah.

[Connor Rogers]

We're still looking for the fourth person on the Mount Rushmore for sure.

[Big Show]

There we go.

[Jay Croucher]

It's been so long since we've seen you, Blake, that in the time between your last appearance and now your team, the Philadelphia Eagles, have won a Super bowl and since become an absolute mess. You've gone full circle through that experience.

[Big Show]

It is fun to see that. It's scheduled a release also today and I swear at this point, like we're on like 10 prime time games. Like I don't think I'm ever going to see another one o' clock game with the Eagles. It's honestly very depressing. Like I go got to watch something at Sunday night and then like if they lose and I go to bed at like 2:00am Just super upset.

[Jay Croucher]

It's very sad.

[Connor Rogers]

You play at 1:00 clock every Sunday against the Titans and the Dolphins sense.

[Matthew Berry]

Exactly. It's hard to feel bad.

[Big Show]

I've been hanging, I've been hanging my we beat Boston banner for the last two weeks for the Sixers even though they got swept by the Knicks. You know, we finally got over that Boston hump.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Connor Rogers]

Thank you fans.

[Jay Croucher]

Four and seven in the playoffs.

[Big Show]

That's right.

[Connor Rogers]

Well, great seeing you, man.

[Matthew Berry]

Great to see you. Thanks for all your contribution to the show. You're always a fun part of it and. And we miss you in the league of where you refuse to draft a quarterback in a two quarterback league. We.

[Connor Rogers]

I was moving, he was driving to U haul.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Big Show]

But thanks guys.

[Jay Croucher]

See you, Blake.

[Matthew Berry]

There you go.

[Connor Rogers]

Now rush more of researchers.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah. Well, the best part was for a while he was Blake and he was like, he, he pulled off something that is very Rare and Scott McClory, Tony Soprano wants his drip back. It's fair. Penn State Blake brought pulled off something that I think is very hard to do, which is he gave himself a nickname. Like you're not allowed to really give yourself a nickname. And it's usually like what are you doing?

[Connor Rogers]

Did he give himself that nickname?

[Matthew Berry]

He called himself Penn State Blake? Yes.

[Connor Rogers]

But it really.

[Matthew Berry]

It stuck.

[Connor Rogers]

It works. That's the problem.

[Jay Croucher]

I know.

[Connor Rogers]

So you really didn't want to roll with it because it's a self given nickname. But it does work because he was

[Matthew Berry]

trying for a little while. He originally was like researcher Blake and then he was like Philly Blake and whatever. And then he just. Then he just one day just started calling himself Penn State Blake and it somehow stuck and it worked.

[Jay Croucher]

Did you not do the same thing with the Mr. Roto bit? I guess people don't call you that.

[Matthew Berry]

I did, I did. But like that's why we do it. That's Right. And. And. But. And it was a column title. Like, it was the. It was the name of my column. It wasn't like anyone. I said, like, you know, hey, Connor. Hey, talented Mr. Roto. Like, no one. No one ever, ever says that.

[Jay Croucher]

I certainly hope they never said that.

[Matthew Berry]

No, no, no. I will say there are still friends of mine to this day that will be like, hey, tmr. Like, I have people that. There are people in my life that will call me tmr, but, like, not. But anyway, let's.

[Jay Croucher]

Anyway, let's continue. Speaking of the journey of Mount Rushmore, of our researchers and great nicknames. Yeah. And great nicknames. Let's bring in Big Show.

[Matthew Berry]

Wow.

[Connor Rogers]

From the car.

[Jay Croucher]

From a vehicle.

[Matthew Berry]

How's it going? Pretty.

[Connor Rogers]

Like, well, too many things going on. Got to take it from the car.

[Matthew Berry]

Well, one of the things Big show does is he does NASCAR resources, so this is.

[Connor Rogers]

Oh, very fitting.

[Matthew Berry]

This is very.

[Jay Croucher]

He's in the car.

[Matthew Berry]

He's in the. He's in the car. Are you actually in traffic right now? Big Show Now.

[Backup Producer Pete]

I'm in a parking lot right now.

[Connor Rogers]

Nice.

[Jay Croucher]

With a seat belt on.

[Backup Producer Pete]

That's right.

[Matthew Berry]

You never know.

[Connor Rogers]

Dangerous, always around the corner.

[Backup Producer Pete]

Safety first.

[Matthew Berry]

Safety first. Oh, Big Show.

[Connor Rogers]

Good to see you guys. Only you can pull off an entrance like that, I must say.

[Matthew Berry]

Unbelievable.

[Backup Producer Pete]

I do my best.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Connor Rogers]

We were nervous when Blake left the show.

[Matthew Berry]

We were.

[Connor Rogers]

But you quickly asserted yourself that you would fill in the role just fine. Big Show.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Backup Producer Pete]

And I didn't go to a Big Ten school. I'm no Penn State guy. You know, I went to Little Curry College, Division 3 school outside of Boston. You got out the warming?

[Matthew Berry]

No. Stuntman Chuck says Big show calling after being stopped for speeding. I could believe that as well. You are a Patriots fan. Big show, any thoughts about the off season for the Patriots?

[Backup Producer Pete]

Been interesting to say the least. Are we talking on the field moves or off the field moves?

[Connor Rogers]

Very PC answer from Big Show.

[Matthew Berry]

I'm leaving the question open ended. Big show, it's up to you.

[Backup Producer Pete]

Well, I'll put it this way. We still have a head coach, and I'm glad he's still there, but, well.

[Matthew Berry]

Oh, there we go.

[Backup Producer Pete]

Get my. Get myself back in the frame here.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Backup Producer Pete]

Other than that, you know, because I also work in the business, so I don't want to say anything that could get me fired, so I say let the. Let it play out and we'll be fans of the.

[Matthew Berry]

Of the story.

[Backup Producer Pete]

But, yeah, I'm still glad Coach is there and it's hopefully we can have another super bowl run this year, but that schedule is going to be a little tough for the. For the Patriots. They had quite an easy one last year. I fully admit that was a cakewalk.

[Matthew Berry]

Listen, Big Show, I just want to say, look, we loved having you on the show. You were a great sport. It was always, you know, there is legitimately a Big show fan base that would. That would ask. When I would go to parties, people would ask me about Big show, and I would ask, even if the show, you know, even as we head into the off season and I miss this, like, just when random celebrities die, will you still text me, please? That's going to be my. I miss that. I miss that from you. Will you do that?

[Backup Producer Pete]

Absolutely.

[Matthew Berry]

Thank you, my brother. Thank you, my brother. I appreciate you.

[Connor Rogers]

See you, Big Show.

[Jay Croucher]

Thank you, Big Show.

[Matthew Berry]

We love you, Big Show. We'll see you.

[Jay Croucher]

What a great demonstration of safety

[Connor Rogers]

to

[Jay Croucher]

be wearing a seatbelt while stationed in a car park. Unbelievable.

[Matthew Berry]

Great work from the show.

[Connor Rogers]

Give a story of Big show reporting deaths. The one notable one to me that comes 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, and Big show comes up to me and he's like, ah. He's like, bob Barker had a good run. And I'm like, bob Barker died? And he's like, yeah, he had a good run. I'm just like, this is one way to find out. Bob Barker's dead.

[Matthew Berry]

In fairness to Big show, he did have a good run. I mean, 99 years old. I mean, honestly, Legend Happy Madison Price is right.

[Connor Rogers]

I mean, done it all.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, yeah. Saved a lot of dogs from being neutered. Or maybe he got them neutered. What was it? Yeah, I don't know.

[Denny Carter]

The order of the dog.

[Matthew Berry]

Saved your dog. I think he was pro neutering. Right?

[Connor Rogers]

He was leading the charge.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah. So maybe he wasn't as successful as they thought.

[Connor Rogers]

Leave. But we'll be back at least for another segment.

[Matthew Berry]

In theory, I'm like, wait, what are they gonna do, cancel us now? Seriously? Which one is which? I'm the real Matthew Berry. Ladies. Just been coming up to you left and right. Just throwing their numbers at you.

[Jay Croucher]

Oh, yeah, without a doubt.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah. 100. It's a good look. It's a good look as well. There you go.

[Connor Rogers]

Can he talk through that thing?

[Jay Croucher]

That's actually A.J.

[Matthew Berry]

brown.

[Jay Croucher]

That's A.J.

[Matthew Berry]

brown.

[Lawrence Jackson]

Hey, guys.

[Matthew Berry]

Bill. Hey, Phil. What's up, Phil? Phil, Bill. Bill. Not even close. Sorry, sorry. I'm two and a half. But Dollarita's in. I'm taking the under here for Travis Kelce on the receptions again.

[Lawrence Jackson]

He built this up.

[Jay Croucher]

Why do you hate freedom, Matthew? America's part of the show.

[Matthew Berry]

America is part of the show. It's America's show. It is America's show. Even though we have an Australian show. Let me try to at least hit some rim. I got two. I'm going to the lane. I'm going to the line.

[Lawrence Jackson]

You did get fouled.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, in.1 yards per pass attempt. And oh, by the way, wow.

[Jay Croucher]

Get some water and get some.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah. And they allow 9.1 yards per pass attempt, second most in the NFL since week two. And oh, by the way, now they gotta face Jackson, Smith and Jigba.

[Jay Croucher]

Well, yeah, glug, glug.

[Matthew Berry]

What?

[Jay Croucher]

Don't you do it like me and Lawrence are doing?

[Matthew Berry]

No, you actually flip the cup. No, you flip it like so. It lands like that. Yeah. This is off to our thoughts. These guys have never played differently.

[Lawrence Jackson]

I don't know about. I don't know about this.

[Matthew Berry]

Count of three, go. Mine's down.

[Lawrence Jackson]

There we go.

[Jay Croucher]

Matthew.

[Matthew Berry]

Three.

[Jay Croucher]

I already did it. I thought we had to land it on top though, so I kept on doing it.

[Backup Producer Pete]

Four.

[Connor Rogers]

Never played four.

[Matthew Berry]

I think I actually won American champagne, J. American.

[Lawrence Jackson]

Nah, I think we had it the right way.

[Matthew Berry]

We have it the wrong way. You guys wanted the flip cup in the history. How bad was that? Man? That was brutal. That was so awesome. K Gemma. 89J is so off. There we go.

[Lawrence Jackson]

Nah, N. No. God, no.

[Matthew Berry]

I have college age kids. Jay has like, you know, five year olds.

[Jay Croucher]

Three, two, one, go.

[Matthew Berry]

Wait, no, no, no. What are you doing?

[Jay Croucher]

I will count him.

[RotoPat]

Okay.

[Matthew Berry]

Three, two, one, go. I'm keeping up. I'm keeping up.

[Denny Carter]

Yeah.

[Matthew Berry]

Thank you. Kind of been a Diamond awards.

[Jay Croucher]

It was surprising that he was so close to us.

[Matthew Berry]

I'm keeping up with you guys. That's why we had you grab the mic for the comment. Have you ever pondered what the storyline would be for Croc 4? For Croc 4? Yeah, it's. It's. Yeah. Jay goes back to Australia. Jay Gunn goes back to Australia and you know, he gets lost in the wilderness and there's an alligator about to eat him. And then, you know, the actual crocodile comes in and like does whatever it was he does that, talks to the animals and, you know, saves Jay. And then the two of them go on a swashbuckling adventure where they. They teach the Aborigines how to Gamble. I can drink. I could drink a 20 pack of beer and I feel nothing. I don't know what it is. I'm dead. Seriously, just. Beer does not. Beer does not get me drunk. But like, Pinot Grigio will mess me up. So if I'm going, that one ain't gonna do you. I'm just telling, like, it goes down easy and it, like it gets you going. And so just if you're. If you're in a mood to like. Hey, I'd like to get a little buzzed here. Just. I'm just. Beer just doesn't do anything for me.

[Jay Croucher]

Unbelievable.

[Matthew Berry]

I'm impervious to alcohol when it comes in the form of beer. Impervious.

[Jay Croucher]

It's completely insane stance to take. It was true, though.

[Matthew Berry]

I'm just telling you, it's true science. Down, up, down.

[Jay Croucher]

Oh, there's wind.

[Matthew Berry]

The wind is outrageous. Oh, that counts. No. Who did it? The man with the neck collar.

[Lawrence Jackson]

Well, we got Jay Croucher right here.

[Matthew Berry]

That's the going Jake after J Copter.

[Lawrence Jackson]

Jake, J. Cop cheated.

[Jay Croucher]

Well done, Jay. Matthew, you lost.

[Matthew Berry]

Don't keep doing it.

[Jay Croucher]

No, stop, stop now.

[Matthew Berry]

There you go. If you're wondering why Jay is staring off camera the whole time, he's looking at the tiny TV with the Colts game on. It's not that tiny tv, but you're absolutely right. You have three young children at home.

[Jay Croucher]

Sure, if that's a one. If the Colts.

[Matthew Berry]

That's my question is if the Colts lose the amount of money you have on the Colts to. If, if they lose, will you have to sell one of your children?

[Jay Croucher]

Well, I'll tell you this. If the Colts lose for the shoe, we won't have any shoes left in the house. We'll be selling the shoes

[Lawrence Jackson]

with as we see Tyler Warren keep the game alive here.

[Matthew Berry]

Thought he was gonna drop that. I'm streaming the game and it's delayed a few minutes. Please stop killing the game for me by reacting, Jay. And look, this is what he does. He's the ruiner. Just every day.

[Lawrence Jackson]

Taylor.

[Matthew Berry]

Jonathan Taylor. Jonathan Taylor, by the way. 218 yards. This scores for the.

[Connor Rogers]

He's got a turn for three Monday.

[Lawrence Jackson]

Third touchdown of the day.

[Jay Croucher]

Give him the mvp.

[Connor Rogers]

That was some of the worst flip cup I've ever witnessed in my life on multiple occasions.

[Matthew Berry]

It's so brutal, the conditions in the

[Connor Rogers]

outdoor one, I'll give you that.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah. The four of you in the studio, but yeah.

[Jay Croucher]

We ready to talk about Matthew's sunglasses in Pittsburgh looking like Junior Soprano?

[Connor Rogers]

I'm ready to discuss.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Jay Croucher]

What the hell was that?

[Connor Rogers]

Those definitely were not yours.

[Matthew Berry]

No, that's exactly. That's exactly right. Yeah. I mean, I had. I had forgotten sunglasses. And so, yes, they were given to me.

[Connor Rogers]

Someone's grandpa got out of the nursing

[Matthew Berry]

home and just showed up on the NBC Junior Soprano. Yeah, I was. I am surprised the Diet Coke clip did not make it. Make the cut.

[Connor Rogers]

Well, the. The spiller. Well, you've actually spilled on fantasy football, pregame and on fantasy.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, I've spilled many places. C.J.

[Jay Croucher]

spillo.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, C.J. spillo. That's right.

[Connor Rogers]

The ruiner was the rune lure.

[Matthew Berry]

Exactly. And the lure thing, there's so much. So much that we.

[Connor Rogers]

Well, the excuse lure was in all time.

[Matthew Berry]

Excuse lure. Unbelievable.

[Jay Croucher]

We got the brown gobbler in there.

[Matthew Berry]

The brown gobbler. I wish we could keep that going.

[Connor Rogers]

A lot of good times.

[Matthew Berry]

Yes.

[Connor Rogers]

Some of the best times as well. When the substitute teacher ran the show as well.

[Matthew Berry]

Backup producer Pete, always fun.

[Connor Rogers]

And the chat knew within three minutes if it was a backup producer pet day.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Connor Rogers]

So for one more rodeo, backup producer Pete is here.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah. Come on. There you go. Backup producer in full uniform wearing a Mets hat, of course.

[Jay Croucher]

17 and 25, baby.

[Connor Rogers]

Right. Two in a row.

[Matthew Berry]

There we go.

[Stuntman Chuck]

That's a winning streak.

[Jay Croucher]

Yes.

[Matthew Berry]

No, no, I brought.

[Stuntman Chuck]

I brought a prop. This is. This is my most thrown under the bus. Backup producer Pete. Steven pitched his show to me. He said, oh, well, we're thinking, who could we have on the show? And, oh, we gotta have Pete. I was like, oh, wow, that's really nice of you. And he's like. Because, like, no one's been ripped more

[Matthew Berry]

than you on this show.

[Stuntman Chuck]

I was like, okay, well, that's the reason.

[Matthew Berry]

This is true. But by the way, you coming with these two props is the most prepared you've ever been for this show.

[Connor Rogers]

That's a good point.

[Stuntman Chuck]

The reason they need it in the first three minutes of the Peach show is because it started three minutes late.

[Jay Croucher]

So.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, yeah, there you go. It's also fair. Yes, also fair.

[Jay Croucher]

The enduring images of the teacher wheeling in the TV and starting on vhs. Deadpool Society goes in. And then we start choose those.

[Stuntman Chuck]

Correct. Correct.

[Matthew Berry]

Correct. Exactly. Pete, I have to tell you the one thing that I will give Pete. Look, we always had so much fun on the shows that you produced. You're really great. No, no, no. But Pete is a. Despite the fact that your real job is, you know, you produce Sunday Night Football. You do sims unbutton. You do a lot of different things here. At the network. But you are a very good fantasy player. You. You are a multi time. You are a multi year champion of the league of assholes. You've won the football league, you've won the basketball league. You are, you are. You are truly a force to be reckoned with.

[Stuntman Chuck]

Which you need to remind my home league that I've been in the longest, which I have not won since the George Bush administration.

[Connor Rogers]

So.

[Stuntman Chuck]

So all my friends who think that like, oh, well, you know, you work in sports.

[Backup Producer Pete]

How do you not win this league every year?

[Stuntman Chuck]

Well, I'm too busy winning other leagues. Like the happy hour.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, and ignoring your children.

[Connor Rogers]

Exactly. But you keep the group chat vibes extremely high.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, you're good. You're good on the group chat. I got to give you credit. You're. You're a good text.

[Stuntman Chuck]

I got my priorities, you know, group chat first, kid second, and then that's

[Matthew Berry]

how it should be.

[Connor Rogers]

Hey, did you take the kids to school? No, I'm on waivers right now.

[Matthew Berry]

Waivers right now. I gotta pick up trying to get Joe Flacco.

[Connor Rogers]

All right, all right, we're back after this.

[Matthew Berry]

Stuntman Chuck here and I want to

[Big Show]

say more than the football analysis.

[Matthew Berry]

I'm gonna miss the off topic rants.

[Connor Rogers]

Drinking diet Coke, getting loopy on Robituss,

[Matthew Berry]

bad movie takes, Finding Nemo pitches, long form storytelling, all the thrills, all the spills. So to Connor, Lawrence, Jay and Matthew, so long.

[Big Show]

Until next time, the crown is yours.

[Jay Croucher]

Peace out.

[Matthew Berry]

Raise the flags here at Buka 2026 Ride or Die. I hope everybody has a great summer.

[Stuntman Chuck]

I know I've been very busy.

[Jay Croucher]

I got a little LJ on the

[Blake (Penn State Blake)]

way and asked my wife what we're doing for dinner tonight and she said likely eating out. So peace out. Have a good one. It's finals week and it's time to present my happy hour thesis. Watching the show is like watching a Chris Jones 40. Our wardrobe is questionable. We're not the fastest. We got tons of jiggling going on. About halfway through, when you least expect it, something magical might pop out. Something large, girthy, and unexpected. Meanwhile, Alex is in the back wondering if NBC is going to get fined. We collectively belly flop, bounce back to our feet and laugh together. And that's where I want to pivot. Because whether you're having the best of days, worst of days, you're in perfect health or you're undergoing life saving treatment, tuning into this show is completely awesome. You guys bring the fantasy knowledge, but more specifically, you bring the laughs and the joy. So for me, that's perfection. Whatever happens next, we'll find Ganimo. And to the entire Happy Hour crew, all the best to you and your family. This show is absolutely incredible. Thank you so much, guys.

[Valiant Vincent]

Hey everyone, it's Valiant Vincent and I'm here from the Fantasy Football Happy Hour desk. Well, not really, but this is the best I could do. I just wanted to say how much I enjoy being a part of this community, how much I've enjoyed the show in this past year and in the past couple of years, getting able to interact with the chat, be part of the community. I've made some friendships here that I think are really going to last the rest of my life. I really do appreciate all of you so much. And it's an honor for me personally to be the admin of the Fantasy Football Happy Hour Discord, where we have the additional conversations and everything. Being part of the community and feeling like I'm involved with the show has been one of the greatest things that I've ever experienced fantasy football wise in my life. I really appreciate, appreciate it so much and I'm really, really proud to call myself a regular.

[Connor Rogers]

Excellent work from the regulars. Love every bit of the videos, everything we've heard.

[Matthew Berry]

That was awesome. Thank you.

[Connor Rogers]

Excellent set backdrop.

[Matthew Berry]

Exactly. That's the best all four of us

[Connor Rogers]

have ever looked together. By the way.

[Matthew Berry]

Unbelievable.

[Lawrence Jackson]

Just blew away in the ween.

[Jay Croucher]

Yeah.

[Matthew Berry]

Raise the flag. Stuntman Chuck Medici. Jonathan Medici. Valiant Vincent and the the. I highly recommend joining the Discord. If you haven't, I will. I'm gonna try to pop in every Thursday at noon, noon Eastern on the. You know, on the. During the off season here into the. Into the Discord. I recommend you guys doing it well. It's very fun. A lot of Diet Coke memes they brought themselves.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah, there it is.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, there you go. There you go. Lawrence Jackson joining the desk. What's up, my friend, man?

[Lawrence Jackson]

Thank you for having me today. And you know, every other day I've been part of this show, man. It's been a pleasure to contribute here and get on air with you boys. This, for me it was different. Cause this was my first opportunity on air. So it was like, oh, damn, they really going. They really letting me get away with this. But then, you know, as the shows go on, we built the camaraderie. We all end up at Connor's wedding. So things like that, like the regulars were saying, it's become more than just, you know, like spitting out fantasy advice, just like the camaraderie of the guys. And then the guys and gals who are regulars. So, man, it's been an honor to get on with y' all boys, man.

[Jay Croucher]

Yeah. I also just want the record to show that the highest rated show of the highest rated episode of the show ever was NBC for some reason, rerunning. Me and Lawrence, just the two of us, after the New Year's Eve show with like Miley Cyrus or something. So me and Lawrence, the two of us,

[Matthew Berry]

that's, that's. That's on brand for the entire show as well. And you know, Lawrence here, you're saying, I can't believe they're letting me get away with this. I felt like that's the entire time for the same. All of us that they, you know, I can't believe they. They pay us to do this. So, yeah, it's been awesome. And we'll. So we're keeping the show going, actually, after the. We have to end it at the end, at the end of the hour for Peacock. But we'll do a special half hour. There's an after hours, if you will, that will live on. They'll live on YouTube and the podcast and so. And we'll do a Q and A with all the, all the questions in the chat. But yeah, it's been awesome, man. Like, I love the show and like I said, I'm. I'm very hopeful that, that we get to do this again.

[Jay Croucher]

Yep, absolutely. And for me, it's. The main thing is that it's never felt like a job remotely. It's never felt like work. It's just felt like coming in and, you know, just talking to friends about football. And also, like the feedback that we get, you know, from the regulars and just from everyone else, like people who come up to me when I'm at an airport or at my kids gymnastics lesson, like, that means a ton because, you know, we drive in here, sit at the desk, talk about football, drive home. It just kind of exists in its own world for me. And so when people actually, you know, come up and talk to me that, you know, they're actually watching the show and listening to the show, it means a ton.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah, I echo that as well. I think the most important thing you should do in life and if you can at work, it's amazing, is laugh. And what I loved about this show is I could never predict what we were gonna laugh about each day. I just knew we were gonna laugh. And then when we had the chat this year, our fourth season, I realized everybody felt like they were laughing with us.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Connor Rogers]

And that made it feel particularly special. So I've enjoyed being a small part of that every single episode.

[Matthew Berry]

It'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 and my wife will be like, what? And I'd like. It's the happy hour group chat like our group chat is. And, you know, Pete is a good contributor there as well, but everyone kind of chimes in as well. And, and I agree with you, like, the fans have just made it so great this year that all the, all the regulars as well. And so that's. I'm excited about the discord. Thank you, Valiant Vincent, for doing that. And by the way, we get to be on camera. But it's. It is a true cast of thousands. That is. That brings you this show over the last four years.

[Blake (Penn State Blake)]

Connor.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah, a long list of names here, but a thank you to everybody on this graphic. From everybody working on the show behind the scenes, producing, producing the show, to our makeup staff, to our wardrobe staff. It's a graphics a lot of people to make this show what it is. And a massive thank you to each and every one of them for helping us for every single episode.

[Matthew Berry]

I normally say it's closing time and you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. But stay here because after this, we've got another half hour. It's after hours on the happy hour. We'll be right back. It is noon on Monday on Peacock, but it is five o' clock somewhere, possibly in Phoenix, Arizona, where the super bowl is and where a party is happening at the media center in the convention center in downtown Phoenix. See? Done. This look like a party. It's very early in the morning. He's Jay Croucher. I'm Matthew Berry. We are live from the Super Bowl. It's very exciting. I've been here before. I know this is your first time, so I know it's your first time. So if I can give you some rules of advice, some helpful hints, you got to keep moving because otherwise you're going to get hit up. Like, I'm. I don't want to brag. I don't want to, you know, I'm like, whatever, but I don't want to brag. But I'm. I've already been booked on the Ithaca College sports podcast.

[Jay Croucher]

We were watching the NFL honors last night. We were kind of just marveling at the Christmas crispness of the man bun.

[Matthew Berry]

Thank you.

[Jay Croucher]

1 no, because I, I had a man bun. Briefly in my younger youth in Australia. And it just didn't work at all. It was like a half Asian, Australian kind of. It was like Val Kilmer and Heat, but, like bad. Like a really bad Val Kilmer and Heat.

[Matthew Berry]

I don't know if that could be bad.

[Jay Croucher]

Well, I made it bad. I. I did my job.

[Matthew Berry]

I know that you're wearing the big hat. Your big hat, Brian Robinson. I have my own big hat here. I was inspired. Do you have a piece of this company, by the way? Because the big hat thing happened entirely because of you wearing. In the post game, no one had seen a big hat. And then you were all over the Internet. You went viral with it. Please tell me you have a piece of this company, bro.

[Lawrence Jackson]

I haven't heard nothing from them.

[Jay Croucher]

Well, I feel very naked and silly without my own big hat, which is a strange thing, to feel silly by not wearing a big hat, but there we go. Thank you, Brian.

[Matthew Berry]

He can't wear it. He can't wear my. He can't wear my hat. Look at that. I gotta keep. And I don't know if you remember this, but you and I met once before. Before I interviewed you at the NFL rookie premiere. And you told me you were a good juggler. I asked you to juggle something. I asked you to juggle little mini helmets, which you ended up doing and which we used on Sunday Night Football. So I wanted to see. See if we can do it. Can I back up a little bit? How we doing? Yeah, back up. Yeah, do whatever you got to. Make a mess. We got down.

[Lawrence Jackson]

Come on.

[Matthew Berry]

Oh, look at that. Very impressive. No, no messes at all. We don't need to use the. We don't need to use the bounty at all. I'll show you. This is a picture from yesterday. Stephen, go ahead and show the picture from yesterday if you can. So this was great. This is Connor. This is me and you.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah.

[Matthew Berry]

Jay Croucher, and of course, Emmett Smith, the greatest running back of all time. That's the picture we took. So it was a wonderful interview, the three of us. It's really great. But if you went to Jay's Instagram, this is what was posted.

[Connor Rogers]

Oh, my goodness.

[Matthew Berry]

Oh.

[Connor Rogers]

Oh, my goodness. I actually did not see this. Cross City, baby. He said to me that, jokingly, he's like, should I post this? And I laughed. I didn't think he actually was going.

[Matthew Berry]

He did. He cut you and I both out of it. It's just him and Emmett Smith. As if he interviewed Emmett Smith.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah. By himself or like their friends. Like old friends.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah. Yeah. Me and my boy Emmett.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah, yeah, Emmett came by. Emmett looks so comfortable that it's like they're just hanging out.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, it's like. It's just outrage.

[Jay Croucher]

Like you want to know. Well, what else?

[Matthew Berry]

What else?

[Jay Croucher]

I've been doing that all week, baby. You haven't noticed a lot of photos of me and my boy Matt Ryan, just the two of us. I noticed Max Saquon.

[Matthew Berry]

You noticed today. What?

[Denny Carter]

What?

[Connor Rogers]

Well, I was having some coffee. You were talking to someone, and Jay was in that chair nine minutes before show. And I was like, jay really wants to get to the desk and get ready.

[Matthew Berry]

He.

[Connor Rogers]

He clearly takes that seat for a reason. This is all orchestrated.

[Lawrence Jackson]

I wanna fly. I like it. Ego.

[Matthew Berry]

Don't hurt yourself enough.

[Lawrence Jackson]

To the sea. Fly like an eagle.

[Matthew Berry]

Let the spirit carry me.

[Lawrence Jackson]

I want to fly.

[Matthew Berry]

Easy, easy. Fly right into the future. I'm going to feed the babies.

[Lawrence Jackson]

All right.

[Connor Rogers]

Hey, I don't.

[Lawrence Jackson]

Hey, I a seen

[Matthew Berry]

scale of 1. What are we talking about here? Don't hurt yourself.

[Lawrence Jackson]

I just hurt myself. Ask me one on football.

[Matthew Berry]

Ask me another girl. Dang seal.

[Lawrence Jackson]

Just gonna do me like that.

[Matthew Berry]

So, Trevor Trevler, we'd like you to do our celebrity pong shot here.

[Connor Rogers]

One shot.

[Matthew Berry]

You got one shot here. I'm sure you played a little beer pong at Clemson in your day.

[Connor Rogers]

No, never. First time.

[Matthew Berry]

Oh, let's go. There you go. That is why here's the. One of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. Oh, yeah. There we go. Hang on. Wait, wait, hang on.

[Connor Rogers]

Let me.

[Matthew Berry]

Let me roll on this in case you nail it. Okay. All right, Go ahead. They're rolling on it. Oh, let's go. Oh, let's go. Easy money, easy money. So I have a dad bod. I'm not a good athlete as well, but is there a UFC move that you could. Is there, like a MMA move that 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. Is there, like, one simple move that you could teach? Like. Oh, yeah, sure. All right, let's teach me. Will you teach me?

[Backup Producer Pete]

Yeah.

[Blake (Penn State Blake)]

All right.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah. Right now.

[Connor Rogers]

How do we do this? This.

[Matthew Berry]

This called a rear neck choke. So you face this rear. No, rear neck choke of this bone. Yeah. Alcohol. I'm tapping out. I'm tapping out. That's amazing.

[Jay Croucher]

Oh, unbelievable.

[Matthew Berry]

Oh, yeah.

[Jay Croucher]

Keep the blade on his neck. This is terrifying. Oh, my God.

[Matthew Berry]

Fold his hand behind his head.

[Jay Croucher]

This feels like Dustin.

[Backup Producer Pete]

Oh, my God.

[Matthew Berry]

Put behind his Head. Push his head forward and pull your elbow. Oh, yeah. Oh, all right.

[Jay Croucher]

I'm glad that was Matthew Barry, not Dustin Poirier doing that on me. Unbelievable.

[Matthew Berry]

My best friend now. Yeah.

[Jay Croucher]

Okay. That was remarkable content. Terrifying content, but remarkable content.

[Matthew Berry]

The art of the joke.

[Connor Rogers]

Oh, man. A lot of good times in radio.

[Matthew Berry]

Oh, Radio Road has always been awesome. We've gotten some great guests and played along a lot in a big way.

[Connor Rogers]

I mean, Emmett going along with our whole Leave a Man behind in Vegas.

[Matthew Berry]

Amazing.

[Connor Rogers]

Yep.

[Jay Croucher]

Ben Johnson, Jan and Man Bun is nightmare fuel. I agree. That's why.

[Matthew Berry]

I don't know. We should have gotten a picture. How did we not?

[Connor Rogers]

So you really have.

[Matthew Berry]

Very briefly.

[Jay Croucher]

Very briefly.

[Matthew Berry]

How old were you when you were doing that?

[Jay Croucher]

18.

[Connor Rogers]

Oh, okay.

[Lawrence Jackson]

You was, like, 27.

[Connor Rogers]

Ryan diamond said croucher bun looks bad. Minus 500.

[Jay Croucher]

That's true.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah. That's why we should live. Him just walking at school with kangaroos around him. You know, the man bun, the whole thing. Yeah.

[Jay Croucher]

Keeps him away.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah. Makes sense.

[Connor Rogers]

Watching the Radio Row segments back actually made me think of a time not Radio Row, but when we went to Vegas.

[Matthew Berry]

Yes.

[Connor Rogers]

That was when I was like, I don't know. This is gonna be hard to carry on the show this long. We were wounded soldiers on that set.

[Matthew Berry]

We were indeed. Like, we. It was the show. I think the show aired at. Whatever was it, 9am I feel like we were earlier than noon that year. It was the first year we went to Vegas, and we just went out the. We went out every night. We enjoyed Vegas. And then we rolled into.

[Connor Rogers]

Pretty much.

[Matthew Berry]

Right. Rolled into it. Yeah.

[Jay Croucher]

I vividly remember waiting at the exit of our hotel with Connor in the morning, about to, you know, take an Uber to our set or whatever. And then we see you coming in a little late and you trying to get down the escalator.

[Connor Rogers]

Never forget.

[Jay Croucher]

Almost didn't make it. Yeah. It was a bit of a stumble at the top.

[Matthew Berry]

That was a night where I did not have beer. I definitely had a lot of Pinot Grigios, I think.

[Connor Rogers]

Aloha Bricks. LJ would get zero Chair turns on the Voice. I'm sorry.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Connor Rogers]

But the point is, you had the confidence.

[Matthew Berry]

You had the confidence to sing in front of Seal.

[Lawrence Jackson]

Yeah, I mean, look, I was. Look, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take. I was trying to get off of this show. I'm trying to get a record deal.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Lawrence Jackson]

I got a Seal right there. I'm like, hey, like Eminem, you only get one shot. Do not miss your Chance to blow.

[Jay Croucher]

Debo Samuel didn't know what the hell was going on. No.

[Connor Rogers]

He was kind of just there, which I know that feeling sometimes.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Lawrence Jackson]

His laugh was like, damn, I'm a professional football player sitting here. I probably should laugh. So let me at least grin and then let out a little. And that's kind of what you. That's kind of what Devo was feeling in that situation.

[Matthew Berry]

I feel like that's the attitude of a lot of guests that come on our show. Just sort of like, where's this gonna go? Where's this gonna go? What am I doing? What did I sign up for? Like, man, this brand isn't paying me enough to do this.

[Connor Rogers]

Besides Rob Riggle, right?

[Matthew Berry]

He had the full on army gear. Yeah, yeah, he had the full on army gear. He's promoting a golf brand.

[Jay Croucher]

My. Our best interview ever. And that will be stored somewhere in the deep archives of YouTube. But it's Chris Johnson, CJ2K, at the Super Bowl, I think, in Vegas, coming on. And so, you know, we get handed, like, a sheet of, like, who's the sponsor that you promote?

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Jay Croucher]

So I get handed the sheet saying, Airbnb. And so I was like, hey, Chris, can you tell us about your partnership with Airbnb? And he's like, I don't have a partnership with Airbnb. I just have a house in Nashville. Everyone should join

[Matthew Berry]

my Airbnb. Okay. You could promote my Airbnb. Promoting his own Airbnb.

[Jay Croucher]

Yeah.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah. Like, I got some titan stuff in there.

[Lawrence Jackson]

Yeah.

[Connor Rogers]

I think it was pretty cool, though.

[Jay Croucher]

That's how you run for 2,000 yards in the NFL.

[Matthew Berry]

Yep. That's right. CJ2K. Yeah. I had forgotten about that as well. Everyone played along with the beer pong. That was a ton of fun. The. The Vegas trip was great. I remember just all the. All the different stops that we made, especially specifically with fantasy football pregame. Yeah, it's always fun. The fans always came out when we were able to do them, like, at the Applebee's awesome show in Houston that

[Jay Croucher]

I remember very fondly.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, Houston. Houston was great. Yeah, Philly was amazing. Pittsburgh. Yeah.

[Connor Rogers]

Security guard issue.

[Jay Croucher]

Yeah.

[Matthew Berry]

Oh, my God. I thought that would make a clip. Yeah, that security guard. These two, Lawrence and Jay were with me that night. That guy.

[Jay Croucher]

You're very upset, Ryan Oswald.

[Connor Rogers]

Escalators are new technology for Barry. That's really good, Ryan.

[Matthew Berry]

I mean, you know, when I was born, they weren't around. I was born, they weren't around.

[Connor Rogers]

The Finding Nemo pitch.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Connor Rogers]

The final Nemo pitch that happened, like, three different times. And you told the whole thing.

[Matthew Berry]

Everyone died. Damn right. Damn right I did. I know Aloha Bricks is sick, by the way, so he wasn't able to send in a video. But I do got to give a shout out to Aloha Bricks, who has been there, like, every single day, you

[Connor Rogers]

know, so our regular of the year.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, I think he was regular of the year. He beat up Medici. Yeah, for sure.

[Connor Rogers]

Valiant Vincent, when do we get the full pitch for finding Nemo 3? Barry's flooded basement. Oh, yeah.

[Matthew Berry]

Oh, speaking of Aloha Bricks, we have a statement.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah, nice statement. Aloha, everybody. A message from Aloha Bricks. First off, I would like to thank the regulars. We are all the regular of the year award winners. I raised my glass to you and it's been a great journey and year with you folks. I can't wait till our fantasy leagues next year. If anybody wants to join our leagues next year, My email is aloha brick74mail.com to the producers, staff, and camera crew. We don't see every day. You're the heart and soul of the show. We all appreciate your hard work and effort. You dedicate to this great show. So a big mahalo to everybody behind the scenes.

[Matthew Berry]

Definitely a nice hollow to everyone behind the scenes. Oh, there's more.

[Connor Rogers]

Oh, we got a part two here. Aloha Bricks. He is not done.

[Matthew Berry]

It's like my Finding Nemo pitch. It keeps going.

[Connor Rogers]

Yes, this one will get picked up finally. To Barry, Connor, Jay, L.J. and George, I want to say you folks are not only great fantasy analysts, but even greater people. Mahalo for showing everybody in the chat that Aloha and great monospirit we talk about in Hawaii every morning was worth waking up and watching this great show. It would always be the highlight of my day. This show has brought great joy to me.

[Matthew Berry]

Thank you.

[Connor Rogers]

We are not done just yet.

[Matthew Berry]

Oh, my goodness.

[Connor Rogers]

If any of you are ever on the Big island, please don't hesitate to reach out. And I will always make time to show you around the island or have a meal. You are all now my ohana Hui Ho. Is that right? Until we meet again. For now, but not forever. Aloha Josiah, aka Aloha Josiah. Wow, that's regular of the year level. What a sure statement from Aloha.

[Jay Croucher]

What a great name reveal at the end as well.

[Connor Rogers]

Yes.

[Jay Croucher]

Like Homer J. Simpson.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Kate Gemma said Aloha wrote Finding Nemo 4.

[Matthew Berry]

It didn't go on for A while.

[Connor Rogers]

It was good, though.

[Matthew Berry]

But it was on brand. On brand for the show.

[Connor Rogers]

We learned from the best.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, of course. There you go.

[Lawrence Jackson]

For Aloha Bricks, though, I gotta say it. A lot of people say, hey, if you ever in my city, you know, hit me up. If I'm there, I'm gonna do it for real.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Lawrence Jackson]

So, you know, hook me up. Free drinks, free food, free everything, you know?

[Matthew Berry]

Right. And we cut to Lawrence, living with Allah Bricks for six months. Like, kind of crash at your place, you know, Six months later, he's still there, hanging out.

[Jay Croucher]

Figured out living in Hawaii seems like a good plan.

[Connor Rogers]

Not a bad.

[Matthew Berry]

Every time I go to Hawaii, I'm just like, this is awesome.

[Jay Croucher]

But.

[Matthew Berry]

But I like that Aloha Bricks was like, hey, do you want to be in our. You know, if anyone wants to play in a league with all the regulars, shout out. And I think there's. I know there's at least mult. I know there's multiple leagues already planned for, fully filled. Yeah. And so I'm sure they'll do more. I'll also say this, like, we haven't even talked about this, but I feel like the league of. Has to continue regardless of anything. The league of assholes has to continue.

[Connor Rogers]

I'm very down.

[Matthew Berry]

Yes, we will do that.

[Lawrence Jackson]

With the team I had last year and could not win.

[Matthew Berry]

You.

[Lawrence Jackson]

You damn straight I want to be back. I got to go back for that draft. Six running backs in a row. We will be back.

[Jay Croucher]

To be fair, that worked out exactly how you would think it worked out. Where your running backs were awesome and you lost because you had Bryce Young and Michael Penix as your quarterbacks.

[Lawrence Jackson]

I had. What's his name? The hair guy with the mus. Gardner Minshew. That's who I had in the playoffs.

[Matthew Berry]

The hair guy with the hair.

[Lawrence Jackson]

A blank for. That's who I lost Roto Pat to.

[Jay Croucher]

Replaced by Chris Oladokin.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, very.

[Jay Croucher]

That's a.

[Matthew Berry]

That's a good pull. Yeah, that's a story. 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 is the name polls. The recall, The. The. The 90s, NBA references. Like, you know, the. The obscure movies. Like, again, it's buried by Ryan Reynolds. Like, unbelievable.

[Jay Croucher]

It's funny. It's watching the. The first clip that we rolled to the highlights because I think I do have a good memory. But it goes to show how much stuff that we've done on this show that I have no memory whatsoever of interviewing AJ Brown.

[Matthew Berry]

AJ Brown.

[Jay Croucher]

It's like AJ Brown is an absolute superstar, but it's just, you know, we've done so much stuff over the past four years.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah. You could probably name like the movies we debated and the random bits like your movie scripts, but.

[Matthew Berry]

Right.

[Connor Rogers]

The superstars we talk to.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, yeah. The fact you've never seen Star wars, which is still outrageous to me.

[Connor Rogers]

No, 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.

[Jay Croucher]

Oh, wow.

[Connor Rogers]

Just to kind of reinforce the point. I have the time, but I'd rather watch movies I've already seen

[Big Show]

a prize.

[Lawrence Jackson]

Star wars either. Would you rather watch Star wars for the first time or Goodfellas 3?

[Connor Rogers]

I'm sorry, the Godfather 3.

[Lawrence Jackson]

Godfather 3.

[Connor Rogers]

I would give Star Wars a chance. Godfather 3. I think I'm with you on tough watch one time. Yes, sir. Even I have a draw a line in the sand.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Jay Croucher]

To be fair, though, it's like, it's mainly bad because it's held in comparison to Godfather 1 and 2. It's a fairly standard film otherwise.

[Matthew Berry]

That's what I always say about Croc 3. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. It's just because it doesn't hold up

[Jay Croucher]

to one and Croc two.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Jay Croucher]

I will say with Star wars that, you know, there's obviously films often, but there's six principal movies and I would say that four of them are bad. Basically. There's two good ones, which is certainly Empire Strikes Back and then it depends on your temperature. Return of the Jedi and A New Hope. A New Hope, which is terrible. For the first 30 minutes, this is just robots walking around in the desert. But the. The prequels are bad. Is a bad movie.

[Matthew Berry]

The. The prequels were. The prequels were bad. Very. A lot of politics. Like, it is, like, what's going on. It's not well written. Yeah, it's just like. It's just. Yeah. And. And. And the. God, why am I blanking on the who. Who is like, supposed to start and minshew? No. Who's the.

[Jay Croucher]

Jabba the Hutt?

[Matthew Berry]

No, not Jabba the Hutt.

[Jay Croucher]

Jar Jar Binks.

[Matthew Berry]

No, Jar Jar Binks. There you go. Yeah. He was just a bad character and super annoying. What are you gonna do? Valiant Vincent.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah. Would Conor rather draft Magnolia to watch on his movie night or a Dolphins wide receiver?

[Matthew Berry]

That's a good question. Valiant Vincent. That's the tough one.

[Connor Rogers]

Chris Bell.

[Denny Carter]

Magnolia.

[Jay Croucher]

Magnolia variants. You haven't seen it before?

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah, no, I Need to watch Magnolia.

[Matthew Berry]

It's Jay's favorite movie of all time.

[Connor Rogers]

That'll make the paternity watch.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, that should be as well. Yeah, that's not bad. Drums.

[Jay Croucher]

Drumminice.

[Matthew Berry]

Drumminace.

[Jay Croucher]

Andre Drummond. Yeah. LOTR equals League of the Regulars.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Jay Croucher]

The thing is, with Lord of the Rings, they're good movies. At least it's not like Phantom Menace.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah. You'll win.

[Jay Croucher]

Yeah. I don't know if you need to rewatch it.

[Connor Rogers]

It's very long.

[Matthew Berry]

Magnolia is your favorite movie. What's your second favorite?

[Connor Rogers]

Give us about Rushmore.

[Jay Croucher]

Yeah, I don't have a funny. I really like Chinatown.

[Matthew Berry]

Maybe Chinatown. Hard to argue with that one. That one's great.

[Jay Croucher]

Yeah, I like old movies for them. Big. Casablanca.

[Connor Rogers]

Okay.

[Jay Croucher]

Yeah. Magnolia sits above.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah.

[Jay Croucher]

Casablanca.

[Connor Rogers]

That's a unique take. That's why.

[Jay Croucher]

Yeah.

[Connor Rogers]

It's like, oh, your favorite movie of all time.

[Matthew Berry]

You like old movies. That's why you and I get of a lot along so well. You're an old soul.

[Jay Croucher]

Yeah, exactly. It's a Wonderful Life.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Jay Croucher]

Which I know that you were there on opening day.

[Matthew Berry]

Yes, of course. I must spill. I. I should probably just spill something just for all time.

[Jay Croucher]

It'll happen naturally. Yeah. Long enough. And all drinks are spilled on this.

[Matthew Berry]

I'm. I'm. I'm sure it will. Connor, I have to tell you, and I think you do such a good job like it, because you're in, I think, a unique role where is. You have to host the show. So you have to sort of keep. You have to keep the regulars, you know, and me and Jay in check. Especially me, because as you know, I talk a lot, but then also off your analysis and finding your way. So I think it's a. It's a. It's a challenge. And when I think about all that you do, when you, you know, you obviously work with Chris Sims here at NBC, but also, you know, whether it's the stock exchange that you do with Trevor, the Mets podcast, Badlands, which is, as everyone knows, the second worst. Second best.

[Connor Rogers]

Second best.

[Matthew Berry]

Second best or worse. I mean, it's probably only two, so,

[Connor Rogers]

yeah,

[Lawrence Jackson]

really get that going.

[Matthew Berry]

Horse lands for me and Lawrence still

[Connor Rogers]

in the process of taking off, getting off the ground.

[Lawrence Jackson]

We making some calls.

[Connor Rogers]

The pilot making. Cause, yeah, the pilot of Worst Lands.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, exactly. We're still in the development phase of Worst Lands.

[Jay Croucher]

Scripting on Kenyans the Day segments.

[Matthew Berry]

Exactly. Well, listen, I. I might have some free time now, so we'll figure it out. No jokes aside, but I just. Connor, I think you do such a good job, and you're so versatile, and I just. I don't know that that's always appreciated.

[Connor Rogers]

Thank you, Matt.

[Matthew Berry]

You mean, like, it's. You make it look effortless. And so I really think you're the. You're the glue that has been able to let the show get to where it is.

[Jay Croucher]

There's a lot to be said, particularly when we have, you know, I think Connor really shines at the super bowl when we have, you know, these guests on and just knowing that there is a safe pair of hands where if you 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 and that everyone, everyone, everything is going to keep rolling very smoothly.

[Connor Rogers]

Well, like I said, you guys make it a lot of fun. That's the easy of it. I never walked onto the set once and was worried about the rundown or worried about if we were going to cover the analysis side of it all, because you guys always had the answers for all of it as well. And Lawrence, it's also a credit to you for how seamlessly you just jump in and out of the show, because I think that's the hardest part role is when you're not doing something every day. But like, the second season of the show for me, because the first year I was freelancing here, so 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. But it, you know, you get your feet under you and. And for this to be the first on air production that you worked on as well, it's a credit to you because I think it's. It's not hard to adjust because I think we all meld together so well, but it's not the easiest thing either.

[Lawrence Jackson]

For sure, man. Appreciate that, man. Y' all boys made it easy, man. Made it easy, man. It was. It was all. It was always fun for me. It's just like, hey, it's like, I remember when, before the first time I got on Alexa was just like, hey, you just talking to your friends at a bar, that's all you do. And it's about football. So, you know what, you know, what could come of that. So. Yeah, man.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah. Honestly. And I think that's. I think that's right. I mean, I. I didn't know Alex had ever said that to you, but that's right. And I think that's. That's what we're Going for with the show is like, I always felt like fantasy football, the way when you're betting on sports, you're playing fantasy football. Like it happens at a bar. It doesn't happen behind a desk in a suit. Like you're hanging out at a bar with your buddies, BSing, talking about sports. What do we like? Come on, get in the end zone. Like, that's how you play it. I feel like that's how it exists. And so wanting to do a show like that. And I think you guys. And credit to NBC Sports and credit to producer Steven and Pete and Damian and Adam and everyone that's helped, you know, behind the scenes in terms of. Has created that and gone along with it and created that vibe, which is great. And the regulars have chimed in as well.

[Connor Rogers]

Philo, B25, if this is the end, thank you for everything, guys. You guys are the best. I hope you guys stay together.

[Matthew Berry]

We do as well, honestly. I mean, you know, there's. There's business decisions that. That need to be made. Happy hour will come back next year. It's just what Happy Hour specifically. That's the thing that's a little unchanged.

[Connor Rogers]

Fire. I think something we could all agree with. There's no other show like this one.

[Matthew Berry]

No.

[Connor Rogers]

For the best and worst reasons.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Connor Rogers]

I would absolutely agree with that one. So thank you. Fix it, Fire. We also got a lot of comments rolling in here. This One from Lakers Sinceta 80s. Since the 80s. This was the fantasy football show to watch.

[Jay Croucher]

Yeah.

[Connor Rogers]

We really appreciate.

[Jay Croucher]

Matthew's been lakers since the 40s when

[Matthew Berry]

they were in Minneapolis.

[Connor Rogers]

Since the inception. Yeah. Wherever the Lakers come regular.

[Lawrence Jackson]

That's got to be the last one. That's got to be the last one.

[Matthew Berry]

Well done. That's very well done. Very well. Shirtless Ben Johnson here. Vibe of the show is exactly what we love. The feel of it and having it makes it special. We appreciate you guys and want to ensure it keeps going. Thank you. Shirtless Ben Johnson. That's. We agree.

[Connor Rogers]

That was the goal.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, that was the goal. And the fact that you guys got that and came along for the ride with us just made it more special. We've all collectively said this. I think we've said this on air, but I know we've all said this privately. This is our favorite year of the show. And it's because of. Because of the regulars, honestly.

[Jay Croucher]

Yeah.

[Connor Rogers]

The chat has elevated to a different level.

[Jay Croucher]

Yeah. And before we sign, I just want to make sure that we call out in particular the work that Stephen d' Agostino and Damian Dabrowski have done because they have really driven the show for the past four years.

[Matthew Berry]

No question.

[Jay Croucher]

It is, you know, six days a week during football season. You know, these guys are both recently married, and they poured their lives into this. I'm looking at a show note right now of, like, notes about Juwan Jennings, who, you know, we're not going to talk about, but just that level of work that has gone in has made all this possible. So Stephen, Damien, there's a lot of other people.

[Connor Rogers]

Cheers to them.

[Jay Croucher]

Who have done a lot of work,

[Matthew Berry]

but those two are here every single day. So cheers. Cheers. Stephen and Damien, no doubt somebody talked

[Lawrence Jackson]

about the camaraderie and I think the reason why it worked as far as a fantasy football show, a lot of shows, just sports shows in general, you got a lot of similar personalities, but I think we're all different. Like, I know I couldn't be any more different. I know I talk a certain way. I talk my, you know, I talk my talk, whatever, but I think we're all different. And we all was able to mesh it together. And then it came. It came out as this and we got. We got regulars now. I'm like, for me, like, that's crazy, man. Like, yeah, just, like, got him.

[Matthew Berry]

There you go. Look, he sings with Seal. He's acting like you're a multi force. You're. You're an egot waiting to happen.

[Connor Rogers]

SEC man quarterback. SEC man said, salute to stupid Dev.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, exactly. I was surprised. Well, I said. I literally said, can stupid Dev. Emmy award winning stupid Dev. Can Emmy award winning stupid Dev call in? And he can't because he's actually working on the show. He's actually doing our graphics. But, yes, Salute to stupid Dev. Yeah, don't we have a comment from Deb? Deb, like, posted something.

[Connor Rogers]

It was like two hours ago, but it was a good comment. I laughed in my head. I don't remember what it was. I'm not burgundy. I just read whatever's on the screen. There you go.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, that is funny.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah, there you go. That wasn't it.

[Jay Croucher]

Of course.

[Connor Rogers]

From Dev Stafford. Salute to all of you boys.

[Lawrence Jackson]

Yeah, I like his profile picture too. He's got his custom name plate.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah. Is that a custom guy?

[Jay Croucher]

So what is he, like LeBron James for the liquor brand?

[Matthew Berry]

You know what? I'll say this about. About stupid Dev. Emmy award winning stupid Dev, I should say. But, like, it gives you an example. Like, what was great, what is great about Dev and what I think is great about everyone on the show. Both behind the scenes and here in front of us is that, like, everyone just sort of got the joke and embraced it, you know, as opposed to being offended by, quote unquote, stupid Dev. Like, he loved it and he played into it and he put it on. You know, he put it on his Instagram and like, he, you know, he's. He's been a part of it. He's a part of the fabric of the show. And just, you know, I just, you know, one took. We took the show seriously, but none of us took ourselves seriously.

[Connor Rogers]

That's the most important thing.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah. And so.

[Jay Croucher]

Yeah.

[Matthew Berry]

And I think, you know, so shout out to just everyone that they got the joke and we were supposed to

[Lawrence Jackson]

be taking this show serious. This.

[Matthew Berry]

No, sir, not you. No, you're good.

[Lawrence Jackson]

All right.

[Connor Rogers]

Aloha, Brick said Dev making his nameplate look like an entrance to a gated community.

[Jay Croucher]

Yeah. That needs to be interrogated. I'm not sure about this sort of the challenge flag. Dev's avatar.

[Connor Rogers]

The Dev's Stafford neighborhood.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, exactly. No one's allowed in. Yeah, it's a little. Yeah, it's either that or it's like a Dev stack. Yeah, exactly. Like Dev Manor. You know what I mean? Like something. Yeah. Expect it to be. I want to. As long as we're giving shout outs here, I also want to say this. I want to say legitimately, like I said, I don't know exactly what my future is going to be, but I want to take a moment here. I'm going to say thank you to NBC Sports significantly. First off, just, you know, the fact that they're for the. For this show, specifically the support for this show has been phenomenal. We've never. The four of us, we've never gotten a note. I mean, maybe you guys have. I've literally never been like, hey, that joke was too far. Hey, you know, you need to talk more about sports or whatever. Like the NBC Sports. The suits. Shout out to Alexa, Shout out to Danielle, shout out to Matt Casey. We've never gotten, like, pushback or. No, all we've gotten is, hey, I think it's funny. I think you guys are ourselves. Be yourselves. And so shout out to that. And also just shout out to NBC Sports in general, Rick Cordella on down, because we're getting to do this. A lot of times, you know, you don't get a last show. You know, and the fact that we are getting. We are getting a last show and we got it live. Like, I mean, you know, like, they don't know what I'M going to say and like. But they. I appreciate the trust from them and I wouldn't have done it. I would have trusted me. But, you know, but no, legitimately. And so, you know, it's been an unbelievable run. Like I said, still talking. Rest assured, there's nothing final. But I want to take this moment here since this is the last show of the season, regardless, just to say thank you to NBC Sports.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah, they've been with you all the way on that.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, Fantastic as well. And, you know, anything else? We got, like a minute to go.

[Lawrence Jackson]

You just got. Put the Barry 29 jersey in the rafters now.

[Jay Croucher]

Well, giving us our final minute, someone who hasn't really got a thank you yet is thank you, Matthew, for, you know, allowing us to be a part of the show for, you know, I think the one thing I'll take away from working for you, working with you for these four years, is that you just bring relentless energy and that you're always up for these shows and that, you know, you really lead the way and that, you know, I think that a lot of the reason why people, you know, know who I am at all and have elevated all their profiles is because of the opportunities that you've brought to us. So thank you, my friend.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah, a huge thank you for me. I remember after I auditioned for this show, I got in the car ride home and my girlfriend at the time, now wife, who is about to have our first child, called me, you know, how was it? I was like, oh, it was terrible. I didn't get that job. Like, it was. She's like, oh, you're always hard on yourself.

[Matthew Berry]

I'm like, nah.

[Connor Rogers]

I was like, I just didn't get it. It's, you know, it's hard. And I got to freelance and then I got to sit here full time next to you. And it's been not only an honor because I watched you on TV for so long, but just that you became a friend. And like Jay said, you became a friend, a mentor, and how many laughs we had. And just it is hard talking about fantasy football six days a week on it in front of a camera with that level of energy. And I have the utmost respect for you to be able to do that.

[Matthew Berry]

Thank you.

[Lawrence Jackson]

Hey, look, man, I ain't even do no audition. I just showed up here one day and it was like, hey, one day it was a 15 minute segment. The next time it was two segments. And then I'm doing the Sunday show with you, Jay, Michael Smith, George. You know, no, one of your Caliber would have gave me a shot. They'd have been scared. But not old Matthew Barry. Tmr. He put me on there. And you know that. That was all she wrote, man. So I appreciate it. I know these guys because of you. We talked before you even worked at NBC. So. So, Fred, to come to this, man, I really appreciate it, man.

[Matthew Berry]

Well, listen, it's incredibly meaningful. Thank you, guys. Thank you so much. And look, all of you earned your way here. You're all great. You're all great on air. You're all superstars to me. I've just, you know, I really enjoyed it. And so, like, you were great from moment one. You know, Lawrence, I love your energy, like. And Jay, I remember when I came here and they said, we have this guy that works for points bet at the time, but we want to use him. Can you try him out for a segment? I said, sure, we'll do a segment. And you and I did a segment and I was just like, you and I did a segment with somebody else. Like, there's a third person that was trying out. It was. It was supposed to be like a once a week segment. And I'm like, actually, can Jay and I just do one? The two of us? And seeing, like. And then we did a segment and I literally went to the boss and I said, he's awesome. Can I have him every day, please? And you know, and they were like, so you guys all earned your way here and it's been an honor and a pleasure. And it was scary for me leaving ESPN and, you know, coming to a new situation. And like, yeah, like I said, you guys made it easy and you went along. Everyone got the joke, I guess, is what I would say there as well. Stephen, I've completely lost track of time. Where are we? Okay, he's telling me that. He's telling me that I should pitch finding Nemo 3 for one more time. So just hear me out, okay? No, listen, it has been an honor and a privilege. I will see you again. Happy Hour will see you again. I know I will see you guys again, one way or the other. Her. But again, thank you so much to every single person. To the regulars, to the cast and crew of Fantasy People, Happy Hour, to everyone, NBC Sports. And at least for season four, you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. Peace out.