The Listener Take Purge

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**Danny Heifetz** (1:41)
Welcome to The Ringer Fantasy Football Show. My name is Danny Heifetz, and I am joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Horlbeck. And today is The Listener Take Purge. We do The Take Purge every year, twice a year, before the draft, before the season begins. But this year, we actually had so many purges from all of our listeners. We actually had to do an entire episode. Danny Kelly, can you explain for those that don't know what a purge is?

**Danny Kelly** (2:01)
A purge is a confession or some thought that you have just in the back of your mind. You're not really sure if you believe it or not. You maybe don't even think it's true, but you need to get it off your chest.

**Craig Horlbeck** (2:12)
It's intrusive. It doesn't go away.

**Danny Kelly** (2:14)
Exactly.

**Danny Heifetz** (2:15)
I guess that's what a take is. I guess the purge is the movie where crime is legal for 24 hours.

**Danny Kelly** (2:19)
Right.

**Danny Heifetz** (2:19)
And then we made a take purge where you could do takes.

**Danny Kelly** (2:21)
To be clear, there's no consequences to getting these off your chest. That is the distinction is you can say whatever you want, no consequences professionally or personally or legally.

**Craig Horlbeck** (2:31)
Yes. Like Chris Sims, but he does that 24 seven, 365 days a year, which is why he is the take on.

**Danny Kelly** (2:38)
He's living in there.

**Craig Horlbeck** (2:39)
Yeah. His whole life is the purge, which is why we dedicated two episodes a year to him. Did you guys know that there's a new rom-com coming out this summer? That is essentially the purge, but for sex where you can only have sex one night a year.
The movie is called One Night Only.

**Danny Kelly** (2:55)
What?

**Craig Horlbeck** (2:56)
It's a rom-com?

**Danny Kelly** (2:57)
Why didn't we think of this, Craig?

**Craig Horlbeck** (2:58)
It stars Callum Turner, who is Dua Lipa's partner, and Monica Barbaro, if you're familiar with her.

**Danny Kelly** (3:04)
You only had to have sex one time a year in this world?

**Craig Horlbeck** (3:08)
The trailer is actually quite odd because it kind of pitches it as like a normal, like meet cute rom-com. And they like reference that premise. And then when I looked into the movie, I was like, oh, this movie is about, you can only, only one night of the year, sex is legal. I'm like, this is the purge for sex. But they really try to sell it on like, this is just a cute rom-com. But that is the premise of the movie.

**Danny Heifetz** (3:28)
You're like a panda bear. They have sex one day a year.

**Craig Horlbeck** (3:31)
Yeah, the premise. Two New Yorkers search for love on the one night of the year when sex is legal.

**Danny Heifetz** (3:36)
Love, is that what they're calling it? They're searching for love that night.

**Craig Horlbeck** (3:38)
Well, you'll have to tune in and find out.

**Danny Heifetz** (3:41)
We'll have to find out.

**Craig Horlbeck** (3:41)
That was it. That was an organic promo, I suppose, for this Will Gluck's movie.

**Danny Heifetz** (3:46)
There you go.
OK, so we're going to go through The Listener Take Purge. And I want to shout out the discord, the fantasy football or The Ringer Fantasy Football Discord, which created a take purge channel for one week leading up to the take purge and archived it. And most of these are from that. Some e-mails are woven in, but most of these are purges from the discord that were absolutely phenomenal.