Gut Health and Fantasy Football Frenzy (Hour 2)

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Hey, welcome back

to Nightlight.

Great to have you with me.

As we kick off act two here, we will be back to our guest, Sherry Soka, in just a moment.

We are talking health, nutrition, longevity, living a healthy life, and we will continue to do so.

We'll keep Sherry for just a few more minutes.

Pete Vandoren is here.

That's a cool name Conrad.

We've established Peter Von

Doran.

He sounds

very important.

And yet he's here to talk about fantasy football.

But that'll be fun at 720.

If you missed hour number one, our question of the night is in honor of the fluffernutter.

It is National Fluffernutter Day.

That is a sandwich with peanut butter and marshmallow.

It's nothing obscene.

It's supposed to be a very tasty sandwich.

I've never tried one.

But our question of the night is, what is a food you've always wanted to try but never have?

So let us know.

We also talked about, I went in to get moisturizer last night at Walmart.

It's locked up.

Yeah.

It's equate.

It's $4 a bottle.

I don't get this expensive stuff that my wife, I don't need it.

It's locked up.

You know how hard it is to find a Walmart employee at 10 o'clock at night to get my crappy moisturizer?

It's ridiculous.

Conrad, stop watching the game.

You can listen to me.

He's like trying to let me see you're not watching the game.

You know what?

I'm done.

I don't care.

We're going back to Sherry.

We have lotion talk from time to time with Dr. Kristen Leiser.

We talk about Louvin' Lotion.

She's a doctor.

All right.

My guest folks is Sherry Stoka.

She is a nutritionist and a dietitian, and she is the founder of Wayless MD.

Check it out.

They do great work there.

Sherry, we were in the middle of talking about gut health, and you said you can't get good probiotics here in the States.

So what do we do?

I mean, this woman who lived to be 117, the researcher said one of the things that kept her going was she had really good gut health.

She ate yogurt.

If we can't get that in the United States, I assume you can go to what, Whole Foods and get some good yogurt?

What do we do for gut health, especially if we're not huge dairy fans?

Yeah, well, you have to eat real food, right?

So probiotics and prebiotics come from fruits, vegetables, definitely dairy.

I mean, so we should be able to get it through our food, but we don't because our food is highly processed.

And when you process a food, you kill all of the live organisms and all the things that provide the nutrients for our gut health.

So typically, I mean, you definitely need to

try your best to eat a whole foods diet, but now there's a lot of different supplements and powders and things like that that we're constantly working with people on to feed that healthy gut bacteria.

The gut is foundational to human health.

It's foundational to your brain.

It's foundational to your hormones.

And again, the standard American diet is what is

the cause of really a lot of all these chronic diseases.

That is just, is it better?

I know people who keep the weight off, but they eat crappy food.

And then I know people who are a little overweight and eat pretty healthy.

If you had to choose, what is it better to do?

Carry extra weight and eat healthy or not carry any weight and eat not so healthy?

I mean, it all comes down to your metabolic health.

So you could have somebody who's gonna get away with eating like completely unhealthy foods, they're genetically whatever they're just thin.

And looking at the full picture, they're not gonna live very long where you can have a, you know, someone with a higher BMI and maybe, you know, they're eating healthy, they're metabolically, they're solid.

And, and so that's where you have to take it to the next level because it's not just about, it's not just about the weight, but I feel like, you know, weight loss, I'm actually starting this whole transformative mission to try to reshape the future of like weight management and help people think differently about it because I mean, we have got to stop talking about calories and we have got to stop talking about, oh, just exercise more.

So I mean, it's more complicated and we've, we've just,

Gotten a little we've gotten far removed from like the foundational things and like I thought your article was so relevant because those are the foundational things Yeah, we need to sleep at night.

Okay, that's a big huge thing if we we need because that's gonna regulate your hormones like so it is though It's those things that do go a long way.

All right, so in our email exchange earlier today you you said also

The the healthcare system is kind of broken and they they're designed to get every human on drugs.

So How do you other than I mean assuming people don't have the time that you do to educate yourself because this is what you do?

What do we do?

We trust our doctors for the most part.

I

mean, we have to take this on ourselves though, don't we?

I know that's that's that's the hard part because I always say, you know

empower yourself, don't just go into an appointment.

And if the doctor is like, oh, you have high cholesterol, let me put you on this, ask questions, you know, like be prepared before you go in.

It's, you know, and if a doctor is quick, they don't even, they didn't even ask you any questions are quick to put you on just another medication and compounding medication after medication.

Like, you know, it's time to really like turn, look in the mirror and start thinking about

how do

I do this?

You know, like lifestyle medications are lifestyle medications.

They're given to you because of your choices.

And whether you know it or not, which most people kind of do, I mean, I've been in the business long enough to know that people know what they're doing wrong.

What I will say is the problem with it is the food has hijacked our biochemistry and our neuroplasticity, like you were talking about.

It has hijacked that.

And so now we're not, we're addicted.

It's kind of like crack cocaine.

It's kind of like telling someone, okay, I know you're addicted to crack cocaine, but we're going to put you on a regimen to kind of get off of the crack cocaine.

So, I mean, I'm like, I know that sounds harsh, but it's the reality.

Oh, it doesn't.

Crack is a great way to keep the weight off.

All right.

So before we let you go, Sherry, I want to ask you, you mentioned, where's my mic?

Well, I have another question for you.

What did I do with it?

Okay, one thing.

Give us one thing we should avoid, food-wise.

If you never could eat anything again, what should we avoid if it's just one thing?

Can I say two things?

Yeah, of

course.

All right.

I'm going to say soda and pizza.

I had a feeling you were going to say soda.

Pizza, really?

Okay.

But

why?

Because of the combination of carbs

and meat.

All the terrible stuff.

All the processed terrible stuff.

Now, if you were to make it homemade and you get fresh cheese and you're eating real meat, like again, it's not about food is not supposed to be bad.

This is the whole point.

We're not supposed to be killing ourselves with food.

what has happened to our food supply in the United States of America?

Wow.

Well, this has been an education as usual.

Thank you so much.

Are you binge watching anything?

You must watch TV.

You must get nutritioned out and dietitianed out and you just veg out at night ever and watch something.

What do you binge watch?

I mean, I am a learner.

I love to learn.

I like love it more than I wish I could take like a month off and just

listen to stuff.

TV wise, I don't like, I don't, I don't watch a lot of TV.

I, because I don't watch the news.

So I will, I'm a, okay, I am a light.

I am a hallmark junkie.

I like everything positive.

I'm like, I love the love stories.

I like Grey's Anatomy.

I love the medical stuff.

Like I love, like Grey's Anatomy was like my favorite.

And my kids play soccer in college.

So now I'm like, I'm like, I have it on pause right now.

I'm going to watch my kids game from last night that I went to yesterday.

I'm like, such a sports kind of jumping.

Are you breaking down tape for your kids?

Well, I know I'm watching it because when I'm at the game, I'm so stressed and I can't even enjoy it.

So now, so now I'm like, I'm going to watch it in a relaxed state because I already know, I already know the

outcome.

That's relaxed.

And that is a habit.

If you like medical dramas, I've only seen a couple episodes.

The pit on HBO is supposed to be like, I mean, I think it won the Emmy for the best TV show.

Medical drama.

Check it out.

And it's the least I could do for all you've shared here with us tonight.

Thank you so

much

for your time.

As always, my friend.

Thank you so much.

You're very welcome.

Sherry Stokey.

This is Sherry Stokey.

Check out WaylessMD, folks.

Give it a Google and see what she can do down there.

She's very knowledgeable as you just found out.

So Conrad, score update.

This is still the same score.

Four three.

Four to three Cubs.

What are we looking at?

What ending are they in?

Top of the ninth, I believe.

Oh, wow.

All right.

Well, we got some, you know, we got some sports talk coming up with our buddy, Peter Van Doren.

It's gonna be here shortly.

It's gonna be here in studio.

I'm very excited.

And we gotta get to some of our texts.

Our question of the night is what is one food you've always wanted to try, but have just never gotten around to it, but you still wanna try.

And we'll start here at the bottom.

Oh, we got a lot of texts we gotta get to.

Okay.

So Everett from Sun Prairie and the 262, or he's in this, his phone is in the 262, says Pete.

I was a cook for many years and had the good fortune to try a lot of foods that aren't terribly common.

One thing I always thought looked oddly delicious but haven't gotten to try is a Cambodian street snack fried tarantula on a stick.

Yeah, I don't know about

that one.

Mouth watering.

And when I mean mouth watering, I mean the bile that comes up right before you puke.

Every continues, especially if the dip and sauce is good.

I know it's weird, but since when has deep frying not made something finger looking good?

Well, that's kind of the problem.

Remember the Kentucky fried chicken sandwich last night with the two chicken patties around lettuce or something?

It was terrible.

It

was two chicken patties and there was cheese in the middle of it.

I feel

like.

It's called the double, the KFC double or something

like that.

The double double or something.

Double double.

Double stack.

Yeah.

Thank you, Arith.

That's great.

Steve from Florida Conrad's dad checking in says a must to try as we talked about last night is the Culver's Curder Burger.

But the dish I also wanted to try was the Beverly Hills Billy's Granny Clampett's famous possum stew.

Yeah, that sounds gross too, Steve.

That's something you want to try, dad?

A

little possum soup on the side of your Curder Burger.

I think your dad's trying to.

leave this earth.

I hope not, Steve.

That's a great text though.

Ross from Crawford County says, a few beers after a few beers, I might try pickled pigs feet.

Oh, that's gross.

You ever see that in the supermarket?

No, it's just check it out.

You'll probably hurl.

Paula Conrad's mom says, I have never tried a fluff or nutter, but it sounds like a mellow cup with peanut butter.

Oh, that's interesting.

Yeah.

They had it was so weird at our local grocery store in Marinette.

They had this they took all the candy out and it was all mellow cups and I didn't even thought of the mellow cups since like 1982 I didn't know they still made them and they had a whole Display of them.

This is in Marinette like three four years ago.

Mm-hmm.

I think your mom needs to check it out.

Yeah Thank you Paula

Jameson did we read Jameson's text here's a Brett from the 920 says a blue banana Yes, they really exist and Kobe beef He said Colby beef, I think he meant Kobe beef.

That's a

company like Colby Jack cheese Colby beef

That's not a thing is it?

Yeah, I think he means Kobe Kobe beef is good.

I would try a blue banana

Tyler from the Wisconsin Ravis, do we read that one?

Yeah, it's the ball he wanted us to read his poem again from last night.

Let's see, we'll get to the rest of your texts, folks.

Coming up next, though, is some fantasy football talk with our pal, Peter Van Doran.

He is gonna be in studio and we will talk all things.

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M.P.

Schwabba, great to have you with me.

It's Wednesday night, folks.

The game is dwindling.

We're probably gonna get some, some, some Passover from the game, some runoff, if you will.

Yeah, the game ended.

The game ended?

Yeah, the brewers lost.

You would

have been gone.

I figured they lost, because I thought you'd be going crazy if they wouldn't.

I'm surrounded by brewer's swag and a tire here.

They had the bases loaded, just didn't come through.

Did they really?

In the ninth?

Yeah, in the eighth?

Wasn't it the eighth?

Yeah, the way the series is gone if you would have told me the Brewers had the bases loaded with no outs or two outs I would have said they're gonna get a run home because it's just the way the Cubs have been playing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's the momentum of baseball though.

It seems

you know, I'm sorry boys I'm glad the Cubs are making this series as a cub fan.

That's all I can hope for at this point because I just think the Brewers are

I think they're just bad this year.

You

don't know

what you could do.

Hey, that's the voice of Peter Van Doran.

Welcome, buddy.

Hey, thank you, Van.

You work here at Civic Media and at WGBW.

I do, yeah.

And tell us what you do here before we get into your other area of expertise.

I'm an account executive.

I'm a multimedia specialist, if you will, because now, in addition to radio promotion, we do have a variety of other ways that we can help to promote businesses.

we have a full suite of digital marketing solutions.

We're

also rolling out a new program here in Green Bay that we've had going on some of our other markets throughout the state called Big Deals.

And it is really catered to entertainment and hospitality industry type businesses.

So if you have a coffee house or if you have a restaurant or a popular nightclub, it is a way for us to help promote you with

you know, little outliner of cash.

Stop the sales pitch.

I'm in.

How much do you need?

Yeah,

yeah.

Well, that's kind

of cool.

So

yeah, so it's a lot of fun.

So it's a lot of

fun.

So I've been really busy up here lately meeting with a lot of, you know, our neighbors,

which is always cool.

That's a good area, too.

There's a lot going on downtown here, I would imagine.

Just a good starting point.

Yeah, definitely.

Green Bay is a great place to be for that kind of stuff.

Yeah, for sure.

Well, you're here tonight to talk about a fantasy baseball, a fantasy football.

We

talked about

fantasy baseball last summer.

We did, yeah.

That was fun.

Yeah.

And we thought we got to do football.

So is this here like?

Is this your side hustle?

Just a hobby?

You just love fantasy sports?

It's really kind of a passion for

me.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's a passion that keeps me very busy.

I think I'm in six leagues right now.

Counted right as two.

Yeah, two of them are cash.

I was in a third cash league that sort of merged with...

the league I run.

So now we have a bigger league with, you know, more of my friends and family.

So how much do you like, how much do you spend on fantasy?

How much I don't really spend a whole lot.

I mean, I think told this year, I have maybe $60 invested in my buy-ins for leagues.

Okay.

I mean, you can go a lot more than that, right?

Depending on what your four days, depending on what your he's

in for four grand.

I think I'm in for about 200

if 200 bucks 250 I think that's yeah, and he's in six leagues to see I did the league I had 20 bucks and you just settle up after the But it's my son and his friends and it's just fun.

Yeah.

Yeah

I would kind of feel like a jerk if I won the whole thing because I'm the only adult And I don't pay attention as much as I should so that's why I'm I'm glad you're here for some inspiration.

Yeah So in the event that there are people who haven't tried fantasy football yet

how would you convince them to give it a try?

Give me a selling, give me your sales guy, give me the pitch.

Yeah, well, so, you know, fantasy football is really an elevation of your enthusiasm and excitement with watching the NFL season,

right?

You know, you don't have to cheer against your favorite team.

You don't have to cheer against your favorite players in the Green Bay Packers or the Bears or

wherever,

you know, you may

cheer for them.

Have you ever done

that?

I have never cheered for the Bears.

No,

no, no.

I mean, like, have you ever cheered?

Like, has a fantasy outcome ever outweighed your love for your team?

No, no, because I think that you have to, at times, you kind of have to, like, really bite your lip on it.

And you just sort of hope that certain outcomes will happen, right?

Yeah.

Like, it's OK that Jordan loves, throws those four touchdowns as long as, you know, he doesn't, like,

get one in the final two minutes or something or as long as like the Bears defense can get a couple sacks in on them.

They'll be able to still get my roster there,

so it used to be for that week.

When you're doing a draft, I know they have people ranked on their points, but what is a good position to start with?

I would assume quarterback, but I know there are some other darlings

up there.

Alvin Camero for a few years was like a big point maker.

So with fantasy football, really there are certain positions that have a little bit more scarcity, right?

Yeah.

And those are good positions, especially if they're sort of like an upper echelon of players.

They're clearly above the rest of the players of the position to sort of hold priority in those.

And that doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to take them

early in your fantasy draft, but just that you kind of keep an eye out and make sure they don't slip too far before you nap one.

Right.

Um, but with fantasy football, you know, really

There's kind of a lot of debate lately as the league becomes a little bit more pass heavy about whether you should take like a receiver or a running back.

Running backs tend to be a little bit more scarce position because really the nature of running back is evolving to a lot more committees.

And with fantasy football.

Like a two guy punch.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Kind of like, you know, kind of like what the Packers have with like A.J.

Dillon and.

An

alliance have right now with David Montgomery.

And Jamir Gid.

Yeah, exactly.

So finding a workhorse running back is few and far between.

And you could do just fine with the right NFL team roster that would have two players that are highly productive at the running back position.

But with that being said, the...

volume is really king with it.

I

mean, you're going

to find a lot more success with a guy that's just getting like a lot of carries.

You're going to find a lot more.

Let's pick up there.

We'll do the news.

We'll pick up there because I got a lot of questions for you.

All right.

Pete VanDoren is here, folks.

We're talking fantasy football.

We're coming right back after the news.

It's Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Welcome back to Night Light.

Happy Wednesday, everybody.

I know it's not a happy, a totally happy Wednesday for Brewer fans, but join us for the last half hour.

Let's have a laugh, talk some fantasy football, and I'm saying this as a cup fan.

I would not be worried if I were.

I mean, I just don't see it happening.

I don't see it happening for the cup.

This year, they are a better team.

There's no question about

that.

Yeah, the Cubs had a good start.

They got after a really hot start, strong hair lineup, and then they just really went dormant until the last few weeks.

But that's kind of Cardinals' model sometimes.

Sometimes that's actually about the Cardinals of the series.

They're an organization that really ticks me off because they're always competitive, it seems like.

Maybe not this year as much, but like, I mean, they're a good organization, but they really bother me because they...

Maybe it's because they're good sometimes.

Put that like half effort into it all year and then kind of turn it on.

Yeah.

That's not where I was going, but okay, yeah.

AJ from Madison, she's in the 608 says, you should have taken the day off and watched the game Connery attempted.

Just a little bit.

If you had tickets, you might have.

Yeah.

Yeah.

AJ continues and says, would make a great sports broadcaster person or whatever.

Who me?

Are you talking to me AJ?

That's nice.

Yeah, sure.

I would take that gig.

Those guys make serious bank.

Yeah, right.

Yeah, take some Uker money Peter Van Dorn is here ladies and gentlemen he is our he works here at WGBW He's also a fantasy sports fanatic and he's very good at it.

He takes it very seriously And we're talking fantasy football with Pete here.

So I asked you what position you start with

when you draft.

Do you have a rule or do you kind of let the board fall to you?

I do kind of let the board fall to me, but I really have a preference for running backs, maybe almost to a fault at times, you know, with just how much I, you know, I'm really trying to get a running back in that first round or

two.

But, you know, I mean, sometimes I'll take a receiver.

It just really kind of depends on who's out there and how I sort of like evaluate and value these players.

That's kind of a lot of it with fantasy sports is that you're just sort of trying to like sift the sands, especially before the season starts, trying to sort of like evaluate these players for yourself.

I mean, obviously there's different websites and publications out there you can read that sort of give an overall ranking to every player in the NFL in terms of fantasy, or at least the offensive players in terms of fantasy, but with...

you know, with that being said, you know, I really just try to kind of key in on certain things that may be gone on the offseason with an organization or maybe things that are going to continue this year with an organization like the Eagles, for instance, like we, we knew the Eagles were going to be pretty good coming into this season.

So safe bet to say that a lot of players are still going to be productive as far as fantasy purposes.

And then you sometimes have a player that you just

you kind of treat differently, like maybe you wouldn't draft a running back first, but, oh, say, Juan Barclay's available, that's a different story, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, yeah.

Con, who do you, do you have a position you go for first?

I mean, it depends, I guess.

I would like a running back to start because, like he said, you know, it's more scarce.

Wide receiver rooms are more big, but.

I'd say running back probably for me, but it depends on what type of league it is as well

Yeah, the scoring definitely has something to do with that too, right?

You know in certain scoring types they're commonly

you know, commonplace in the sport, like you have a full point PPR, which is you get like a full fantasy point for every catch the player makes.

So when I

league like that, like it's very beneficial to have really good wide receivers because they're going to get more passes thrown their way.

They're going to get more catches.

They're going to, you know, lead a more fantasy production for you.

So just knowing your league settings.

Yeah.

I drafted this year, I drafted a defense and a kicker kind of high.

Not like first three rounds, but what one year I did really well.

I think I had

the Steelers or something and they had strip sacks and interceptions.

Yeah.

So maybe that was an anomaly because my son's friends all were like, what are you doing?

What do we do?

And I'm like, the kicker will kickers can put up big points.

I

mean, you know, quarterbacks actually put big points too.

It's

just

the fact that there's there's 32 of them in the league there.

pretty

much stars going in the

season.

Yeah, it's about 12 and they're good.

Yeah.

Do you guys, I'll ask you this too, Con.

Do you have something you do during fantasy, like you might do during a draft that goes against the grain, like picking a defense or a kicker, a strategy you, and I'm not asking you to divulge your secrets, but like, do you do something that's atypical, I

guess?

Yeah, I can start.

I don't draft a defense.

I just pick up every week a defense that's facing a team that's not very

good.

Streaming.

Streaming.

Streaming, yeah, but also it can work against me pretty easily too.

Huh, that's interesting.

Yeah.

What about you, Pete?

For me, yeah, I think it really depends on the league, but like I've played in leagues that are very...

a very large number of fantasy owners that are in the league.

So it creates position scarcity.

There was one year actually I passed on a wide receiver.

I just took four running backs in a row.

What?

It worked out pretty well for me.

I actually won that league because when there was an injury in one of the running backs, that has spare one to boot.

So I was

able to

kind of accommodate that You know because really with fantasy sports you're only You really only want people in your lineup that are playing that week like the team doesn't have a buy and you want to make sure if they're they're gonna be healthy players that you're in your starting line So,

huh?

How are you doing in all of your leagues?

You're in six leagues.

How are both you doing?

How are you doing?

It's been a really challenging season, I would say.

Yeah, it's just been very unexpected.

You know, like you can't really anticipate injuries.

There have been a lot of injuries in the league this season.

Yeah.

But you know, at the same time, we talk about these injuries and

At least years past, they've done studies on this.

It's like, well, there's not actually more injuries happening in a lot of these seasons.

It's just the bigger names are getting injured.

So people pay more attention to that.

See, that's what I'm gonna do next year.

I'm gonna research the trainers.

There you go.

The best trainers to get the soft tissue injuries on.

I don't know, what about you,

Con?

Like how I'm doing.

There are some leagues that, like I have a dynasty league, which is you draft once and then...

You should keep the same team every year.

Oh, and that one's going well for me.

I won the championship last year

It's going good

so far this year, but I also joined a keeper league, which is where you keep like we kept three players this year and Then we draft around them

I'm on

10 Because we have a league median also in it and if you don't reach that number that counts as a loss

Oh, wow, okay,

so I'm on 10 and the I took over for a guy that

was already, uh, the last place loser, two years in a row.

I wish I would have known that before I took his team.

That's always

tough.

I don't like, I have trouble enough keeping up with fantasy as it is when they throw in those different angles like that.

You got to reach this and like, it's fun if you're serious about fantasy.

But

for a guy like me, I'd have trouble keeping track of that too.

When I joined the Civic Media League, the first year, Rocker was running it.

And he said, you know, how is your knowledge of football?

And I said, I watch football just about every Sunday during, yeah, I know the game, you know, played a little bit in the high school one.

He's like, all right, come into the good league.

Well, like the second week I didn't,

my roster, I get this message from Rocker and he goes, Hey man, yeah, I just want to let you know, this is the elite league.

I was not pulling my weight

and they take it seriously.

Yeah, he's got one going again this year.

I

didn't get the

call.

Allegedly, the draft order is randomized, I guess, but Rocker's giving himself first pick two years in a row

now.

Oh, all right, we'll discuss that next time.

You guys answer this for me because I think like what NFL GMs do,

And this is coming from a guy who's cheered for a team who hasn't had a quarterback in 100 years.

They're wrong almost as much as they're right, maybe more.

Honestly, if you ran the Packers or the Giants or whatever, do you think you could draft?

Is it rocket science or do you just go, look at this guy's scores?

You know what I mean?

Sometimes I think GMs are addicted to big names coming

out of

college.

Like Arch Manning is going to be a top 10 pick, even

though

he hasn't performed this year.

Yeah.

So I think one team is going to draft him and kind of be not going to be impressed with them starting

out.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think some, you know, there are certain NFL franchises that do gravitate towards the Cowboys.

But, you know, otherwise, I mean, some of them are a little more robust and tribal from scratch.

Well, that's what the Bears do.

They'll

go, I'm going to get this guy from me.

Division three player that no one here they get cute and it's like okay, and he sucks a big surprise You know like sometimes I say just go get the guys from Alabama or Ohio State Yeah, yeah, you know,

you know and but if I see sports to those sometimes the output for those players is a little bit different like having that having that

you know, quarterback that a little bit more mobility gives them some versatility because you're able to kind of pick up points on the ground and in the air.

So even though they're getting blown out, they still might, you know, scramble around in the pocket and get a few more yards leading to more fantasy

points.

That is my guest, Peter Van Doren.

He works here at WGBW.

He's also a fantasy sports fanatic.

He drops by every once in a while to talk some fantasy sports with us tonight.

We're talking fantasy football and Conrad.

Conrad is in the same amount of leagues as Pete.

What do you guys, what's the best app?

Like do you use Yahoo ESPN?

Are some better than others?

Well, I mean, Yahoo and ESPN are the most popular.

For me, I actually like a little bit lesser known app called Sleeper.

Yeah, I love that

too.

That's why.

Why is it better?

I don't think there are any ads on there.

If there are, they just started putting ads.

No, I don't think there are at the moment.

So it's ad-free.

It's basically built with fantasy sports in mind.

Whereas, I think that to a degree,

ESPN and Ngahu sort of created their app, revolved their app a lot around like their news program or just their kind of like the regular search engine type software.

So it's a little bit higher tech, a little bit more streamlined and it's just, overall it's pretty good.

I mean, they're pretty accurate.

They take a little bit,

of a filtered approach, especially when it comes to maybe like projecting points for the week.

You know, they really have a good overview of the other mainstream media, you know, major news outlets as far as fantasy.

One thing

about the app too is that, I mean, I like it, but the one thing I kind of don't like is that they try to push betting on you.

Yeah, yeah, they do that.

Overlanders and yeah.

I don't like this.

Not as easy just to view.

the players Season season long statistics for the current season.

That's my biggest challenge with sleep or two is that just it's very hard to look up You know every player at once that's available

How did your fantasy baseball team do

my fantasy baseball team?

I won my keeper league for a second year in a row.

Hey,

man.

Yeah.

Yeah, it was good

Yeah, easier than fantasy football.

What do you got?

I mean like is

it's more to keep up on

I think there's

more players in the end of MLB Also, it's you know, you're checking your lineup like you're setting your lineup nearly daily Okay,

I mean, I think if you go to

fantasy football, I still think you're really probably

you know, periodically checking it once a day, but with fantasy baseball, you're definitely selling it once a day.

So

that's how it'll work.

Yeah.

Pays to be active, you

know.

Do you think you could run a team?

Yeah.

Yeah, you know, I could definitely do that, especially if we get like a civic media league going.

I think it'll be a lot of

fun for next year, you know.

All right.

We're going to do a quick break.

We'll have a few more minutes with our guest, Peter Van Doran on the stream.

Oh, Sydney was talking about the country of Georgia.

Oh, yeah.

Even though it sounded kind of Southern, Dave says, hey, Sid, long day.

Let's have a Curter Burger.

Let's have a virtual Curter Burger.

Sidney Elsa says, ha, ha, ha.

Nice.

And I hope it turns around this evening.

I hope he means the game and not the show because I thought we were doing OK with the show.

All right.

We're coming right back.

We'll wrap things up with Peter Van Doren.

And I'll tell you who's going to be on the show tomorrow night.

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It's Pete Schwabba and Nightlight.

Welcome back, folks.

Peter VanDoren is here.

We're talking fantasy football with Pete and Conrad.

We have a few more minutes here.

Tomorrow night on the show, folks, Matt Miller will be here.

Milwaukee Film Critic.

He's going to make the popcorn pick of the week.

Matt has not done that yet for us.

I was surprised.

And then Rob Momarts.

You're saying that right?

Momarts?

Momarts.

A children's illustrator.

He doesn't draw pictures of children.

He draws.

Yeah, he draws some pretty cool books.

He's like a martial artist.

I draw pictures of marshals.

So that's tomorrow night on Nightlight.

And we've got a few more minutes with our guest Peter Vandoren.

We're talking fantasy football.

And, you know, let me get these texts out of the way because I don't want to forget them.

And then we can just focus on, I've got.

Four more questions for you, Pete, and you're gonna love them.

Okay.

You ready?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Rapid fire.

Here we go.

You got it.

Anna from Madison in the 608 says, Hi, Pete and Conrad.

I would like to try Elvis Presley's favorite, a fried peanut butter sandwich.

No, a fried peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwich.

Ooh.

That sounds, you know, I would try it.

I would try that too.

I mean, banana and peanut butter, the fried is always good because it adds like a crunch element.

I like that.

Well done, Anna.

And then Bridget from the 818 says, Sushi.

I have tried rolls and Japanese food, but never sushi with actual raw fish.

Oh, it's my favorite.

Sushi?

I love sushi.

Yeah, I do too.

But do you get it with the raw fish?

I try any kind that comes out the way.

You know?

Yeah, I do too.

I've had it and I like it.

I do get nervous a little bit eating raw fish, but it's not going to stop me from putting ginger and soy sauce on there.

I'm just going to risk it.

I'm bowing it down.

Yeah, there you go.

And then we had a comment.

I wanted to read, oh, Micah Desatelle on social media, when he saw the poster of tonight's show with.

The health talk with Sherry and Fancy Football.

Mike said, does this mean I can't enjoy my buttered popcorn while listening tonight?

Mike, you can do whatever you want.

We are not telling you what to do.

All right, Pete, have you had a Curator Burger, by the way?

I

have not.

No.

Well, I don't think so.

I've probably had a variant of it, but never quite the authenticity that I think you're trying to tell me about here.

Yeah.

I don't know.

Tell me more.

Well, I just got to Google it.

Conrad and I both, just the picture was enough not to get us to eat it.

So it's like a burger with cheese curds?

A big flat patty of a cheese curd on top of the burger.

Yeah, yeah, sure.

So it's so different I'm sure than eating a burger with cheese curds on the side.

That's still pretty heavy.

I've done business

lunches that I'm a little bit conservative with like what I order because

I don't

want to just like pick up like

a

hand grenade.

Would you go to like an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet, which might be my favorite thing in the world to do I love the other you go Pete.

There's the critter burger.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, that looks Well, you know to each his own tasty.

Yeah.

All right, so Let me ask you this.

What is your favorite time of the week to watch the NFL?

Um, you know, I

Kind of like Sunday.

I like Sunday football because of the halftime and kind of catch the replays and all the games.

I mean, a Monday night is pretty cool too.

It's because that's like the feature.

I feel like Thursday more than Monday even.

Yeah.

Kind of like Thursday.

You know, it's, I mean, it's Friday.

So I could just staying

up late a little bit easier.

Exactly.

Right.

Right.

Monday is still, you know, dealing with Tuesday.

What about you?

Oh, Sunday at noon noon.

When I get to watch red zone, it's my favorite time of the week.

Yeah, isn't red zone on all that like during all the games?

Yeah, that's so you

can watch

every single game when they're close to the red zone All the updates for my fantasy football team.

Oh That's helps fantasy too.

I got so yeah, but also

just watching these great games that come.

Yes.

Yeah, it's in the action.

What about all right Super Bowl halftime thoughts bad bunny

They're not very familiar with the catalog.

It's another one of those years.

We talked about that a little bit last night.

I don't know anything about Bad Bunny, but some people are pissed off about it, because it's someone they don't like.

I don't know.

That's kind of strange.

I kind of appreciate having a singer that hasn't just been blasted on her face over the course of the past couple of years.

That's

a great way to look

at it.

I mean, it's cool.

Like, okay, now the Superbowl is kind of my introduction to new music.

So

I'll watch for a couple of minutes and if I don't like it, I'll go get a snack.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I got enough music I

can listen

to.

Yeah, come back in time for the commercials and watch those.

I think my favorite time to watch I would almost agree with you con about noon, but I do like the Thursday night game

I

do like because you as you say and I get home about 9 o'clock I can usually catch a second half, you know or something But when is the next club's brewers game by the way tomorrow is it tomorrow?

Okay, so that's Thursday.

What time?

And it's we have to wait I think for something.

I don't not fully sure yet.

Okay All right Pete last thing for you.

Are you binge watching anything not sports related or sports related?

I'm waiting

for new seasons to start on a couple of things, you know, like I

got

into, I got into Dune Prophecy, like I watched the first season.

I totally forgot about that

show.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I watched, I

watched.

Is it a prequel to the movies?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's interesting.

I totally forgot about

that show.

Yeah.

It's a little bit different because I think some of the elements of it, like even though it's still set,

like far off future from us.

But yeah, it's a prequel of that next future, which I think happens like 500 years after that or something, if I recall.

There's still a lot of like themes in the movie that are very like contemporary with our existing society.

Like, I don't know, they're molds of transportation.

Like, I think they kind of like drive some like flying cars and like they,

They go, they

go

a club and they're listening to some techno and they go in the back room and do some, you know, adult things that may be frowned upon out in public.

So I don't know what

you're talking

about.

Hey, this was fun.

Thank you.

Are you a fantasy basketball guy or a hockey or whatever?