Grant and Danny
The Details Are Set For The G&D Fantasy Listener League!
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Plus, with their exclusive financing options, getting behind the wheel of your dream car has never been easier. Log on and shop online at the sharpestrides.com, right from the palm of your hands. Or check other massive inventory in person at the sharpest rides, located 2250 South Sea Home Street in Inglewood. Either way, you will fall into savings. Don't miss out. Head on over to the sharpestrides.com today and explore the deals that make every season better. And tell them that your girl, Tasha McKia sent you the sharpest rides, affordable, sexy, sharp. The Grant and Danny listener league for fantasy football is open and available. Go check my last tweet at Grant H. Paulson. I believe Danny's got a tweet up at funny Danny. If you go check his account as well, you could take a little quiz. The top 10 or so respondents, as far as scoring on that quiz, are going to get into our listener league. We're going to have a live draft on Tuesday night at Highline rooftop and restaurant over in the Crystal City area. Well, that spot, very excited about. So get into the league right now by testing your skills, winning your way in with your knowledge of the Grant and Danny radio program. It's one of my favorite things we do every year. Honestly, it's just a cool opportunity. We get together. We eat wings. We have some drinks. We hang out with listeners for a couple hours and we draft a fantasy football team. And I believe Daris this year has taken it upon himself. He told us he is going to be getting us the stickers to basically do the in person 1999 fantasy football draft, where you walk up and you put the name on the board so everyone can laugh at you and make fun. It's the best. So we're not sitting there drafting on a computer. So it's going to take a little longer, maybe. We'll still get through this thing in a couple hours. So a couple notes. That's way more fun to balance with you. It's like the auction is still the most fun thing possible. But that's kind of like a 1A for me. When's the last time you've done a fantasy football draft with the stickers and the big board? It's been a handful of years. I think a Scherzer showdown is the only time I can remember. That's the last time you did it. Doing it. We used to MC Max Scherzer's fantasy football event in DC every year, which by the way, don't sleep on how cool that was. It was great. It was a great event. Max crushed it and somebody, if you're listening with the nationals or the other teams that aren't football in town, should take this idea from Scherzer. But basically you bring 10 or 12 players from your team. Then people pay a bunch of money for charity to take part in the leagues. And then each league gets a player in the league. And players enjoy being in fantasy. Yeah, they like it. So like you're like Strasburg and Redone and Bryce and all these guys would be sitting there at a table, drafting with 11 people. And you and I were basically the commissioners like putting the stickers on the board. Yeah, like back in the day, someone's like, Hey, Tanner, do you like Tanner Roar? Do you want to trade? You know, like, I don't remember the quarterbacks of the era, but you know, do you want to trade me Tom Brady for, you know, the bag of donuts and Tanner Roar. No, thank you. Like that was the best. That was so much fun. But my second note is I performed at the Highline a couple times does stand up there. Really strong menu. The wings are excellent multiple flavors and it's a good burger situation. It is perfect for the old G&D fantasy listener. Like this pleases me. I don't think I'll do a burger during the fantasy draft. I'm not going to rule it out completely. I normally like small finger foods and lots of them. So I could see like a wings. I don't know if they've got a potato skin or a mozzarella stick, but I'm thinking like two or three appetizers over a couple hours, rather than the hearty meal that's going to fill me up. I find Danny that I draft my best when my hunger is still existence yet not overpowering. I don't want to be full. I want to be wanting more, but it's okay if I don't eat anything else. That's interesting. That's a happy medium for me to find the right player in the perfect ground. I need to be so stuffed. I need to not be able to move. I want to not be able to really communicate with people. And when when folks come up to me and ask me questions on them, yeah, but I have a pretzel here. So there the bites are really good. So that there's not shows that are excellent, which you won't bother with. But they have a jumbo Bavarian pretzel, which is an excellent dipping situation. That's really good. They got the wings, chicken tendies, the whole nine yards. So we can do a Sam Howlin Memorial, we're just going to chicken tenders that nobody eats or something like that, just to just like a set and empty seat for the guy, you know, somebody asked me, what's Jaden Daniel's favorite food? You guys did 10 these Tuesdays for Sam Howl last year. We did it so many times. I had to correct them. We didn't really do it. We came up with the idea to do it. The idea was yes, to throw for 275 yards in a win. That happened once. Last football seat. It was delicious. We had a lot of chicken tenders. We did. I think it was week. It was the Denver. I think it was that week two. We're like, we're going to be doing this all year. This is the best. And we never got to do it again. So the new noise in fantasy football, by the way, and I'm sure a lot of you guys have been a part of this in some way. Initially, just playing the fantasy football was the fun. You got together with your boys, you had a draft, whatever, then you got in a fantasy league, you won the league, you lost the league. Didn't really matter. The second branch of fantasy football greatness was the punishment for the loser, right? That the loser punishment became the thing that the whole league was known for for a little while. That's very yesterday, though. That is like so five years ago, Danny. You know what the new noise is? It's the fun way to determine your draft order. That's what everybody's doing now. Our buddy Mitch Tischler of Monumental does the pod with JP just tweeted me. The Phillies deciding their draft order the other day and the cage. They had a competition where they set up basically laid down some carpet to take out their, you know, brought the golf clubs, take out their irons. And I'm assuming they had to target somewhere in the outfield and closest to the pin, basically got so good to pick in that order. But I also saw, I don't remember what team it was, so I apologize for this. But there was a team that had basically targets and they were taking BP swinging like baseball players like they are trying to get as close as they could to the target to determine where they picked. Now we could do it in just a randomized, unfund way, but I actually think we should find a way to come up with some type of order. We don't need anybody pulling ham strings in the parking lot, trying to run forties or something crazy. But when we get the number of people that we're going to have 14 people in the league, we're all in the thing, the returning champion, and then everybody else that wins their way in with the quiz, we actually should, there's got to be a way when we're all together at the restaurant before we sit down to determine a draft order that's kind of entertaining. So I don't know why, but the first thing I thought of is remember, remember from the last dance, the game that Jordan and that like security guard guy would play for like hundreds of dollars, right, throw the quarters, get as close to the wall as you can. Like all of us doing that somehow, but that's too many people. It's 14 dudes, right? I don't hate that. We could, it could be something that simple though, where we're going to be in a area of the restaurant, they're going to, you know, block us off somewhere. Maybe we do our version of bocce ball, we have to roll a quarter and you get closest to, you know, a piece of straw paper, whatever we threw down on the ground, we can do it that way. I was thinking like a, a chugging contest of some type. Now it doesn't have to be alcohol, because I know you and others maybe aren't drinking might abstaining, but like, you know, each person's in a challenge, and then the winner's bracket moves on or something where it's like, well, you could do water, we could do like diet soda or something. I don't know. But it's like an old school, like beer olympics, game of flipkop or something like that. Yeah, who knows or each person has to eat a buffalo wing and you have to show the bone and then we, you know, hit stop. And in the order that you finished it is the order that we drafted. I think that could be kind of until there's got to be something there's got to just randomly assigning names on a board in order. But I think that's the new noise in fantasy sports. Really, let's be honest, it's just an excuse for grown up dudes to get together and be broke and do something stupid. That's all it is. It's the best. It is the best. It's it's one of the last. I don't even know what that had to say the right way, but it's like the sophomoric behavior is not only loud, but it's encouraged. And it's like the whole point. It's like just some steam blowing off harmless, good old-fashioned fun. I'm in. If you guys have any ideas, again, we'll all be in public at a restaurant. There might be a parking lot at our disposal, but I don't want any sprinting and pulled hamstrings, because I don't know what kind of shape are cruising. I know what kind of shape I'm in, and I'm not in shape for that. I could tell you right now. But you could send them our way at Grand H. Paulson at Funnydanny. Again, if you want to participate in the league, there's still time for you to get in. You got to go take the quiz and win your way in. The quiz is available on our Twitter accounts at Grand H. Paulson at Funnydanny or on our Facebook page as a show, facebook.com/grantindanny. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. Whether you love true crime or comedy, celebrity interviews or news, you call the shots on what's in your podcast queue. And guess what? Now you can call them on your auto insurance too, with the name of your price tool from Progressive. It works just the way it sounds. You tell Progressive how much you want to pay for car insurance, and they'll show you coverage options that fit your budget. Get your quote today at Progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Progressive casualty insurance company and affiliates price and coverage match limited by state law. Hey NFL fans, you can start the season with a big return on FanDul, America's number one sports book. So when you get a hunch in the middle of the game, you can check out the latest stats, view live play-by-play, and so much more on the same page where you place your bets. You'll get started with $200 in bonus bets guaranteed when you place your first $5 bet. That's FanDul.com/sportsfan. Never waste a hunch and make every moment more with FanDul, an official sports book partner of the NFL. Must be 21 plus and present in Colorado. First online real money weights are only $10 first deposit required. Bonus issued is now a thrallable bonus bet set expire seven days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanDul.com. Gambling problem, call 1-800-522-4700. The seasons may be changing, but the deals and the sharpest rides are unbeatable as ever. Hey, what's going on? It's your girl Tasha McKia, and I need you to join the sharpest rides for their fall into savings event, where they're offering incredible prices on their massive inventory. That's right, everything is on sale now. Shop from sleek sedans to rugged SUVs and sporty convertibles. The sharpest rides has the perfect ride to match your fall adventures. Plus, with their exclusive financing options, getting behind the wheel of your dream car has never been easier. Log on and shop online at thesharpestrides.com right from the palm of your hands. Or check other massive inventory in person at the sharpest rides, located 2250 South Sea Home Street in Inglewood. Either way, you will fall into savings. Don't miss out. Head on over to thesharpestrides.com today and explore the deals that make every season better. And tell them that your girl Tasha McKia sent you the sharpest ride, affordable, sexy, sharp.