Packernet After Dark: Backyard BBQ Philosophy, Rossini Takes, and Packers Draft Board Breakdown
Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast
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4.7 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Pack Nation, it's another late night at the After Dark call-in line — and tonight's session goes exactly where you'd expect: straight from the grill to the draft board with every detour in between. 🎙️🔥
🥩 Meat Talk with Niko from Idaho
- Ryan and Niko go deep on the lost art of the thick-cut pork chop — buttery, reverse-seared, and criminally underpriced at your local Walmart
- The Uuni pizza oven impulse buy that almost happened, and why thin-cut ribeyes might be the root cause of American political division
- The pork loin cheat code: cut your own inch-and-a-half chops at home and never be disappointed at a grocery store again
📞 Pack Nation Calls In
- Garrett from Illinois checks in on the draft board — WR depth targets and why he's nearly 100% sold on Will Lee III in Round 1
- The Caller Roulette mock draft challenge gets revisited — Ryan's honest take on fan participation and why he's not building spreadsheets nobody fills out
- The Diana Rossini situation sparks a candid discussion on media dynamics, scandal cycles, and why going dark is always the smart play
👩 The Wife Call of the Night
- Ryan's wife crashes the show live, shouts out "Juicy Man Drama," claims credit for After Dark's entire existence, and reminds everyone about the dishes
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| 0:00.0 | You feel this nervousness on the phone there? |
| 0:04.1 | Sir, I've been trying to make an urgent phone call up there. |
| 0:08.0 | I don't think it's something I want to do on an overseas phone. |
| 0:10.8 | You got to make some phone calls. |
| 0:12.8 | Hanging up the phone. |
| 0:13.7 | Prank call her, prank call her! |
| 0:16.3 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to Packernet After Dark. |
| 0:21.8 | This is the call-in show of the Packernet Podcast Network. |
| 0:26.4 | If you'd like to call in, if you'd like to participate in the show, please feel free to do so. |
| 0:33.0 | The phone number here is 608-501-0718. New callers go directly to the front of the line. We don't |
| 0:42.4 | have any new callers, so let's get started with Nico from Idaho. |
| 0:49.2 | Ryan, how you doing? This is Nico. A lot of meat talk this morning and a pork chop meat. |
| 0:56.2 | And I had to call because you were exactly right. |
| 0:59.9 | When I was a kid, pork tops were a thing because they were cheap as crap. |
| 1:04.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.8 | And it is funny because like first is my wife's dad, he would barbecue chicken every Sunday. |
| 1:11.9 | It was like their family. |
| 1:13.3 | They'd their deal. |
| 1:13.9 | They'd barbecue chicken on Sunday. |
| 1:15.8 | I don't think my dad ever barbecued anything. |
| 1:18.3 | Like, unless we were, like, at a park, charcoal and used one of the, you know, the little charcoal grills at the park had cemented in the ground. |
| 1:28.7 | It's funny because my children, they have all the memories they have of their |
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