Welcome back to another episode of the Adam Schaefter podcast, the final episode of

2021. And what a year it's been. And what an episode we have for you today in the year-long finale. Today, we are going to be

joined by the executive producer of The Simpsons, Matt Selman, and the writer for the Simpsons,

Brian Kelly, as these men were kind enough to put me on the first Simpsons episode of 2022, which airs Sunday night,

January 3rd, me, Bart, Marge Homer, hamming it up on The Simpsons.

Check it out if you get the chance Sunday night and we'll talk to Matt Selman and Brian

Kelly about their interaction with sports figure celebrities

and their work on The Simpsons for over two decades. And then we will be joined by the man that

came up with something that I think is incredible. It's called Champion Causes. And his name is Michael

Gilkin and he's a staff writer for the Dallas Morning News and he covers the Dallas Cowboys. And his name is Michael Gelkin, and he's a staff writer for the Dallas

Morning News, and he covers the Dallas Cowboys. And he had the brilliant, and I mean brilliant

idea to come up with a charity, essentially a charity called champion causes, which essentially

shines a light on each football player's preferred charity so that the football players

that wing you, your fantasy football championships, have money donated to their charities.

And he's done an incredible job for champion causes.

It's an annual holiday campaign that connects fans, athletes,

and the communities they share.

Michael Kelkin of the Dallas Morning News, bringing it all together

and explaining what went into this idea of putting it all together.

And as we end the year, there obviously has been a huge surge

in COVID cases across the country, across the NFL. If you look at the figures in the

NFL, just alone, it's incredible to think how much COVID has infiltrated the sport,

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