Follow The Money | September 3, 2026 | Hour 1

**Paul Charchian** (0:13)
This is Follow The Money with Mitch Moss and Paulie Howard on VSiN.

**Mitch Moss** (0:20)
Here we go. Welcome in. It is Follow The Money on VSiN, the SportsBetting Network, Mitch Moss along with Femi Abebefe today.
In for the Aileen Paulie Howard, could not make the show today. I'll expand on that coming up in a minute. A three-hour banger lined up. Great guest on the program, Paul Charchian, Fantasy Football Hall of Famer. We'll talk fantasy and season-long player props with him beginning in 30 minutes. Brett Ciancia, Pick Six Preview Magazine in 90 minutes. College Football Week One is here. Paul Stone, same thing a little bit later on in the program. Femi, you love betting NFL awards, nfl.com there. Analysts came out with the story late last night, earlier today, predicting who they think will win. We'll get into that throughout the show. Major League Baseball as well. I text Paulie, by the way, about an hour or so ago.

**Femi Abebefe** (1:05)
Have you heard from him?

**Mitch Moss** (1:06)
I did.

**Femi Abebefe** (1:07)
OK.

**Mitch Moss** (1:07)
Did not talk to him, only via text. So he put this out last Friday. He's like, yeah, I need to have my wisdom teeth pulled in. The scheduled date was next Wednesday for the lid lifter of the football season. And he thought that he could get him pulled in the morning and then come back and do the show. I'm like, you're out of your mind.
Like, that's not going to happen. So he had no idea. And then so he bumped it up to today. And I texted him, I'm like, so how did it go? His response was, can't talk. He had to cut the lower one out. I'm broken down.
And I told him, be ready. We're gonna call you today live on the show. And he just said, tomorrow would be better. So not only is he gonna miss today, he's gonna miss tomorrow. You were put on, they reach out to you like the other day, this might be a possibility. Once you heard wisdom, he's like, I'm in.

**Femi Abebefe** (1:49)
Yeah, exactly. I was like, I'm gonna be doing the show on Friday. What are we talking about here?
I was like, hey, man, just take the day off. You're not gonna be able to do the show. He's like, oh, I might be able to. It's like, let's be for real, Paulie.

**Mitch Moss** (2:00)
I am.

**Femi Abebefe** (2:01)
I'm telling Luke, our producer, before the show, I'm just like, hey, can we at least have end of show be the cutoff? Because I'm not doing the TBD stuff once we get to tonight.
I'm not doing the, hey, should I prep for the show? Should I not prep for the show? What's going on? I need to know by the four o'clock West Coast time. And it sounds like, I mean, Luke, did Paulie ever get back to you?
Did you, because, okay, so gotcha. So he did get back to you. But I'm glad that we finally have a conclusion there. So get well, Paulie. Enjoy the college football. We'll see you. Are you guys working next Monday or Tuesday or what? Yeah, Labor Day on Monday.

**Mitch Moss** (2:35)
I would think he's going to be back on Monday, right?

**Femi Abebefe** (2:37)
Yeah, I think he should be good then.

**Mitch Moss** (2:38)
Okay. You would think. I've heard horror stories from people. I told him this on the air, like from people when they were like late teens, early twenties, they were just cooked for the entire weekend.

**Femi Abebefe** (2:46)
It's my wife had it. She says she couldn't speak for a few days. So the fact that he thought he could work tomorrow, I just was like, that's not a thing.

**Paul Charchian** (2:56)
It's not even remotely possible.

**Mitch Moss** (2:57)
Have you ever had yours pulled? No. In fact, I had a nice cleaning two weeks ago, and I asked them specifically when they did the x-rays. I'm like, I'm getting up there a little bit. I've never had my wisdom teeth pulled. Do the x-rays suggest I need to get them yanked? They look, no, you're good. I'm like, thank God. Okay.

**Femi Abebefe** (3:12)
Just grew in perfectly.
That's what my dentist says. It's like, oh, your wisdom teeth are right there. It's like, they bother you? I'm like, no. It's like, yeah, you're good to go.

**Mitch Moss** (3:19)
I heard a fun conversation by the way last-

**Femi Abebefe** (3:21)
Not how to win, of course.

**Mitch Moss** (3:21)
No, right?
What do we do here now? I don't want to jinx anything.