Halloween planning starts with a ghost and burnt toast
The hosts say they need to choose Halloween costumes, then propose that Allen Robinson appear either as a ghost or as burnt toast because his career is over.
Main show · October 4, 2022
Week 5 Waivers + Burnt Toast, Full Stream Ahead - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/4
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Thursday Night Football becomes a communal watchalong
The hosts announce a live Colts-Broncos broadcast built around watching, calling the game, reacting with listeners, answering fantasy questions, screaming at the television, crying together, laughing together, and watching Melvin Gordon fumbles together.
Highfalutin becomes elite flute playing
Jason is first asked to pronounce a corner-injury term. The following paragraph turns highfalutin into an imagined high-level flute player until the desk repeatedly establishes that the word has no space or hyphen.
Kenny Pittsburgh enters the live joke laboratory
Kenny Pittsburgh is graded lukewarm, colder, and tepid. The hosts put new jokes on a Bunsen burner and threaten to pause for the lab, then score a Cooper Rush line above Kenny Pittsburgh and claim five-out-of-ten credit. A later Shakir 'hips don't lie' attempt fails on delivery, prompting the admission that the show is workshopping live without writers.
Toe turf grows into fungus and returns corrected
An accidental reversal of turf toe becomes toe turf: growth on a toe, a fungus, and a large patch. When the next turf-toe injury arrives, the host explicitly says turf toe, not toe turf.
Etienne carries the work-pony label
During a Travis Etienne roster discussion, garbled ASR passes through 'work porn' and 'work pony extraordinary' before the desk clearly repeats and approves 'work pony.'
Kyle's Atlanta cap triggers the constitution of fandom
Immediately after Kyle is asked for news, the exchange turns to an Atlanta cap and a Red Sox-or-Braves allegiance test. The Atlanta-born cap wearer says he probably would not wear the Red Sox hat to an Atlanta game, calls cross-team hat limits the constitution of fandom, and says he must teach his children; another host can wear any baseball hat because he does not care. Paragraph flow likely identifies Kyle as the cap wearer, but individual voices are unlabeled.
Episode notes
The episode opens by asking the hosts to plan Halloween costumes, then supplies Allen Robinson with either a ghost sheet or burnt-toast costume. A Thursday Night Football livestream is framed as a communal watchalong where the hosts will call Colts-Broncos, answer fantasy questions, scream at the television, cry together, laugh together, and watch Melvin Gordon fumbles together. Medical wording starts two durable language tangents. Jason is directly asked to pronounce a corner injury, and the following discussion turns highfalutin into an imagined high-level flute player before the desk insists it is one word with no hyphen. Later, the accidental phrase toe turf becomes growth on a toe, a fungus, and a large patch before the show explicitly corrects a later injury to turf toe, not toe turf. The densest show-meta arc is an episode-long live joke workshop. Kenny Pickett in Pittsburgh becomes Kenny Pittsburgh and is rated lukewarm, then colder and tepid; the hosts put future jokes on a Bunsen burner, threaten to pause the show and hit the lab, rate a Cooper Rush line better, predict somebody in Pittsburgh will use Kenny Pittsburgh, and claim five-out-of-ten credit. A Shakir 'hips don't lie' attempt then draws criticism for its delivery, a claimed mid-joke switch from Tupac, and the admission that they are workshopping live because they have no writers. Near the end, garbled ASR still clearly repeats work pony while Travis Etienne is discussed, reinforcing the established Etienne work-pony label. After Kyle is directly asked for news, the exchange continues into an Atlanta-cap, Red Sox-or-Braves allegiance test. The Atlanta-born speaker says he would probably not wear the Red Sox hat to an Atlanta game, calls team-hat limits the constitution of fandom, and says having children gives him people to teach, while another host says he can wear any baseball hat because he does not care. The paragraph flow likely makes Kyle the cap-wearing speaker, but the transcript does not label individual voices. No League of Record consequence is identified in this episode.
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