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Fantasy Football - Sleeper Picks + Stacks & Snacks - Podcast for 8/20

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Sleeper Picks + Stacks & Snacks | Fantasy Football 2025 - Ep. 1786

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Episode notes & curated moments 6 records
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The Megalabowl opens the 2026 Listener League path

The newly opened Megalabowl awards its champion a 2026 Listener League place, a UDK for life, and global bragging rights. Registration stands at 6,395 after more than 20,000 prior entrants, the hosts hope to exceed 30,000, and they credit the tournament with creating friendships.

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Mike's sinking chair becomes Breaking News

Mike's studio chair keeps dropping and is declared to be giving up the fight. The show runs its actual BREAKING NEWS animation, asks Al Borland to follow Mike's head downward with the camera, demands auto-tilt, blames workout muscle weight, and briefly cuts to three laughing producers in Ducers Alley.

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Bill Croskey acquires impossible feats

The FootClan's top sleeper Jacory Croskey-Merritt becomes Bill Croskey in an explicit Bill Brasky reference. The hosts build a Chuck Norris-style dossier spanning impossible speed, size, doors, mathematics, languages, time, onions, bowling, the boogeyman, rain, a unicycle, and a drowned fish, repeatedly interrupting analysis and the mailbag to add more.

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Kyle supplies an unsigned-rookie suspension ruling

The hosts ask Kyle to verify whether the NFL can suspend Quinshon Judkins before he signs his rookie contract. An immediate off-camera answer says the personal-conduct policy still permits suspension, and the show proceeds with the corrected rule.

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Online drafts require disposable snack infrastructure

Greasy snacks are banned from a working keyboard unless a boxed replacement is ready for one final dirty run. The hosts then design a one-use milkshake beer helmet with thick tubing and consider grape-jelly party meatballs, fork-and-knife pizza, and pre-shelled pistachios as hands-clean draft food.

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Episode notes

Complete published-video review shows Andy, Jason, and Mike live at the desk in ordinary clothing throughout, with no missing host, fourth host, cardboard bear, Jay Griz image, Jay cue, or special costume. A generic black bear briefly appears inside the standard animated opening montage, but—as in accepted corpus convention—nothing identifies it as Jay Griz. The opening also displays a five-person WITH THE DUCERS portrait card: Brooks/Judge Giamatti, Josh/Papa Josh, Jeremy/Owl Borland, Matt/The Falcon, and Kyle/The Borgogon. Because the card is prerecorded, it is not used by itself to claim that all five are physically present. The Megalabowl announcement gives its winner a place in the 2026 Listener League, a UDK for life, and bragging rights; registration is at 6,395 after the prior field exceeded 20,000, the hosts hope for 30,000, and they say friendships have grown from meeting in the tournament. Mike's deep sleeper Kyle Williams is hurt, which is called true Fantasy Hitman condition, and the pick returns the show to Rookie Town. The physical production story begins when Mike's chair keeps sinking. The published video really runs the reporter-style BREAKING NEWS animation, the hosts ask Al Borland to keep tilting Mike's camera downward as his head drops in frame, and a later live DUCERS ALLEY shot catches three producers laughing; the dark booth shot does not safely identify all three seats, so it is not used to promote portrait-card credits into live attendance. The FootClan's top sleeper Jacory Croskey-Merritt then becomes Bill Croskey through Bill Braskey-inspired impossible feats: seven feet tall with 4.40 speed, able to slam revolving doors, divide by zero, hear sign language, speak braille, decide the time, make onions cry, dribble a bowling ball, sleep under the boogeyman's bed, build a snowman from rain, wheelie on a unicycle, and drown a fish. The hosts repeatedly abandon real questions for the joke, say the Ducers are dying, propose that Bill perform the mailbag drop, and carry him through the Megalabowl plug and close. Kyle is directly asked to check whether the NFL can suspend an unsigned rookie and immediately answers yes from off camera; targeted video remains on the hosts. The final online-draft snack discussion creates a disposable-keyboard policy, a one-use milkshake beer helmet, party meatballs with grape jelly, fork-and-knife pizza, and pre-shelled pistachios. Targeted review confirms that none of those foods, helmet, keyboard damage, Bill feats, or chair repair is physically shown; the verified visuals are the studio chair and set, five-person Ducers card, Megalabowl rear monitor, Breaking News package, standard Mailbag/Sleepers graphics, and brief three-human booth cut.

Inside the episode

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Because I would do it. You need a thick enough tubing. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Like when you get the milkshakes and the certain places come with the real thick straw. Yeah, you got to have, you got it. What a gift that is. I feel like cleaning that would be like you got to make. It's a one time use. Yeah, okay. All right. I'm about just throw it away. That's your, that's my motto. Yeah. Win and doubt, throw it out. Throw it out. Yeah, a milkshake and one of the. I mean, you got to have, it's got to be utensil food. Hmm. Like some of those, like the party meatballs. I actually like, where you cook them with the grape jelly? Can you eat your pizza with a fork and knife? You can't. Pizza's all right though. Like if you fold it and hold it by the crust. I'm good with shelled nuts, like like pistachios. Wait, shelled? You got a deshelled during the. No, like pre-shelled. Like pistachios without the shell. Oh, gotcha. I thought you meant. They've been shelled. You prefer the nuts with the shells on it during the draft. That's interesting.

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It's been shelled. It's been shelled. It's been shelled even though it has in fact been deshelled. Right. Hmm. I'd say it feels like it should be. When I shell and I put it back on. If you want a bunch of peanuts with shells, what do you call those? Like I want some whole peanuts? Oh. I don't know. That's what I'm okay. Peanuts in a shell. Hey, you're the nuts guy. Yeah. What a good nuts. That is it for today's episode for Mike Wright, Jason Moore, Andy Holloway, Bill Kroski. Bill Kroski. He could do a wheelie on a unicycle. Bill Kroski. This is your time. You got another one? He could drown a fish. Yes, that's a good one. Value shows, bust shows, mock draft episode, MVP episodes, bold predictions, all on the way.

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