The latest episode of Ask Smalls Anything on The Stephie Smalls Show brings another loaded batch of listener questions, sports debates, personal chaos, and one extremely aggressive anti-air fryer manifesto. Stephie Smalls and producer Ryan McKee kick things off by talking about the show’s growing question backlog, why Smallsies are mostly normal people — a rare internet miracle — and why work air fryers should probably be investigated by someone with a badge and a hazmat suit.
The listener questions start with a direct attack on Steph’s sneaker game. Smalls defends her love of ugly shoes by describing her style as “electric grandpa,” which honestly sounds like both a fashion movement and a ska band that opened for Reel Big Fish in 1998. From there, the show gets into a fantasy football draft etiquette dilemma: if almost the entire league is gathering in person, does the one missing owner need a proxy, or can he just draft online? Steph and Ryan land on a hard truth — if 11 people can make it and one person cannot, that one person may need to take the L, find a proxy, or prepare for league exile.
The episode also covers New York sports loyalty, including which rival team Steph could stomach between the Mets, Nets, and Jets. The answer is very much not the Jets. Other listener questions include choosing between 30 days in prison or 30 days in the wilderness, Steph’s dating life, what is wrong with modern men, and which three possessions the hosts would save in an emergency.
The episode wraps with a bigger sports conversation about the Knicks playoff run, the energy of New York during Linsanity and Giants Super Bowl seasons, Cleveland tailgating, college football culture, and the best sports cities in America. It is sports, dating, fantasy football, family heirlooms, and sneaker slander — the Ask Smalls Anything buffet remains undefeated.
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