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Week 6 Camon, Camon, Camon
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Summary
In this episode of the You Vike That Fantasy Football Podcast, the hosts discuss various topics related to fantasy football, including the challenges posed by bye weeks and the use of median scores in their league. They also share insights from a recent trip to London to watch the Vikings play, highlighting the enthusiasm of European fans for American football. Additionally, they touch on travel experiences in Scotland and Paris, and conclude with a light-hearted segment about guilty pleasures in music. In this engaging conversation, the hosts explore a variety of topics ranging from surprising movie omissions to vacation preferences, cultural representation in media, and the dynamics of fantasy football. They share personal anecdotes, discuss the significance of certain shows, and provide insights into their fantasy league's performance and awards. The conversation is light-hearted yet informative, with a focus on entertainment and community engagement.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to the Podcast
02:40 Fantasy Football Challenges: Bye Weeks and Median Scores
08:22 Vikings in London: A Fan's Experience
20:30 Travel Insights: Scotland and Paris
22:16 Weekly Segment: Guilty Pleasures in Music
25:25 The Pan Flute and Movie Surprises
28:16 Vacation Spots: Miami vs. Hawaii
30:13 Litmus Test: Shogun and Cultural Representation
32:21 Animal Knockout: Wild Turkeys and Fantasy Football
34:05 Fantasy Football Matchups: Rapid Fire Recap
42:20 Awards and Recognition in Fantasy Football
49:12 Playoff Picture and Team Performance
50:51 Final Thoughts and Call to Action
Takeaways
Fantasy leagues face challenges with bye weeks.
Median scores can complicate league standings.
European fans are passionate about American football.
Traveling to see the Vikings is a unique experience.
The neighborhood around the London stadium needs improvement.
Big Ben tour offers a unique perspective.
Scotland's highlands are worth exploring.
Compromising on music tastes can lead to fun nights.
Toto's 'Africa' is a guilty pleasure for many.
Traveling enhances the experience of being a sports fan. Jeff is the expert on Toto.
Cameron has never seen 'The Thing'.
Miami is preferred for its warm beaches.
Shogun offers a refreshing take on feudal Japan.
Wild turkeys are considered annoying by Cameron.
Fantasy football matchups can be unpredictable.
Awards in fantasy football highlight team performance.
The playoff picture reveals surprising standings.
Cultural representation in media is important.
Engagement in community and voting is encouraged.
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Transcript
Introduction and Hosts' Backgrounds
00:00:03
Speaker
Yeah we're living in a fantasy world We're living in a fantasy world
00:00:25
Speaker
Welcome to You Vike That fantasy football podcast. League specific fantasy football podcast for any of you trying to find ah advice on your league. Sorry. This is a show for 11 to 12 people. And if you're not in this league, thank you so much. Hopefully someday.
00:00:49
Speaker
we can get you here but without further ado joining you from an airplane hangar in central texas i am and joining me from a brain addled by cheese he knows all the numbers from japan
00:01:12
Speaker
Lastly, joining us from the desert without his buddy Davante, but still full of bangers and mash, is Kamen.
00:01:27
Speaker
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00:01:39
Speaker
Oh, nice. Classic. That's why you ask people to say my name. that Now it makes sense. Hey, hey. Jeff, that was really good. Very impressive. Same day editing, impressive. Yeah, very good. um If you would have highlighted you know the script a little better, I wouldn't have said your name as well. But it's OK. It's OK. This all came together pretty quickly.
Podcast Engagement and AI in Reviews
00:02:10
Speaker
Um, please like and subscribe and leave us a five star review. Is that a thing? Can you review podcasts? Oh yeah. Yeah. I submitted one last year. You, uh, had AI read it because I was indisposed. Yeah. Segment. Of course. Kevin, thanks for joining us. Four days removed from great Britain. Yeah. I'm, uh, just coming out of the jet lag. So ready to go.
00:02:40
Speaker
Stay tuned to learn if it was truly great and truly Britain. First, we have Q's and C's. ah Topic number one showed up on the Discord this this week, maybe even today. What is time? What is it? Yeah. But I remember Jeff, you and Kamen were talking about this, so I yield.
00:03:04
Speaker
Um, yeah, can't Kamen was wondering if we could get rid of buys.
Should Fantasy Football Eliminate Bye Weeks?
00:03:08
Speaker
Uh, he was thinking that our fantasy league should spearhead the movement with the NFL to remove buys from the schedule. It makes managing a fantasy team of real pain in the ass. Yeah, it's, it's a, it's a real minor inconvenience. And, um, I think players not resting it's, it's worth it. So.
00:03:32
Speaker
It's a real minor inconvenience. You're like leaning into the minor part. Real minor. If something's real minor, does that mean it's less than minor or it's just on the verge of becoming major? It means it's i don't know really not 18. But I had to drop my backup quarterback this week or last week somewhere in there because of buys.
00:04:00
Speaker
So I had to make a real Sophie's Choice, and I don't want to have to do that. So they should just have to play. I hope it's not a spoiler alert, but have you seen Sophie's Choice? It's been a long time.
00:04:16
Speaker
Well, my hat's off to you, sir. I have not seen it, but it's not my week for five questions. Right. Yeah. Okay. So we're going to spearhead the petition. Yeah. We have, we already have a request in for, uh, an interview with an astronaut. And so now I will reach out to the NFL communications department and see what the process to get them to stop buys would be.
00:04:45
Speaker
Great. Uh, Q and C number two, median score. Got brought it over got brought up on the discord oh by someone on the the call here. Um, maybe not in the major, the mass group. Maybe it was a different, uh, just saying someone was saying that the, uh, median score, uh, makes it harder. I don't know. I liked the median score. I think it's funny, but, um,
00:05:14
Speaker
Oh, yeah, it's harder. Yeah, there's some people that are just running away with it because of that thing. But, you know, that is not me.
Fantasy League Updates and Vikings Game Recap
00:05:24
Speaker
Yeah, as ah as part of team mediocre, I'm against it. Well, divisions are going to be gone next year, so this might be the next thing. I guess I guess we'll see when the playoffs hit, we'll see if the matchups are good.
00:05:41
Speaker
You know, are there any blots in the playoffs or do we have a playoff, uh, group truly representative of quality? Right. So we're shooting for right quality, not quantity, but we do have 14 teams. Uh, next up before you guys turn off our show, uh, counting it as a listen, uh, Jeff, can you hit him with that phone number?
00:06:06
Speaker
Yeah, it is, that's our, our vent line. Uh, or if you, you know, are just catching up on past episodes and you have questions or anything, uh, you can call in, call in text in, right? Yep. Yep. We take texts. Yeah. yeah Jeff. Uh, do we have any, we do. Yeah, yeah is it that we do.
00:06:35
Speaker
Hey, yeah, I, uh, just listened to the, uh, most recent episode and, um, there, there was a guy named, uh, Kurt, who was a triceratops. What was up with that guy?
00:06:50
Speaker
Thank you, caller. Sort of an open-ended question. Yeah. Jeff, did we have a photo of the triceratops? Um, yes, yes, we did. Um, but just quick, quick point of reference. That was not our most recent episode. That's two weeks old. Wow. It might be the most, I think you just outed yourself, Nicholas.
00:07:13
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calllar um call
00:07:17
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um I once met a guy on Saturday Night Live and I told him I and liked him on the show. And then I realized that I was like four months behind. And by the time I met him, he was no longer on the show. No. Yeah. It was bad. By his choice or by Lawrence?
00:07:39
Speaker
um It's rarely, uh, by their choice. Yeah. It was a mid season drop. So that was, yeah. Anyway. Um, yep. Catch up. Uh, caller catch up. All right. This week we would normally have the segment, you know, in love called Mjolnir minute.
00:08:03
Speaker
But with the, thank you, Jeffrey, but with the Vikings on a by, uh, we decided to revisit the week prior with someone who was there. That's right. Welcome to the Muellner. Mm. M Muellner London minute. Yeah. there any Yeah. Yeah. Muellner across the pond. Hashtag big Ben. It's a, it's got a clock on it, right?
00:08:33
Speaker
It does. It does.
NFL in Europe: Marketing and Fan Base
00:08:36
Speaker
Kevin, what inspired you to travel? Uh, so every year, um, my wife and I pick a Vikings away game and we, uh, obviously we try to pick a ah ah place that we haven't been and we make a vacation out of it. So, um, we took a crack at this a couple of years ago, but then life got in the way. So we had to cancel and then, um, it came up again.
00:09:04
Speaker
Um, so we jumped at it. We, so we started planning this as soon as it was announced back in April. Can you give us a quick run? Like last, last three years, what cities or countries did you travel? Oh, last year we did. Um, awesome yeah, we, we actually skipped the Vikings game because the Vikings came to Las Vegas. So, um, I'm a liar.
00:09:32
Speaker
ah right up the gates. But then the year before was DC. The year before that, I think was Charlotte. The year before that, I think was actually Minnesota. I can't expect me to know, remember that. But there were more ah Arizona, LA a couple times. um And then we throw on some hockey games in there, too.
00:09:57
Speaker
Um, live sports. We, we like it. Um, we like going, I was known for the Rocky. So Charlotte and DC to the UK. Correct. Tell us about it. So, uh, right off the bat, I was very surprised of, um, how many Europeans are into American football. Like, um, it's, it's whatever, whoever's in charge of NFL marketing over there, um, they, they need a promotion. Like, um, we ran into, um, so first thing you notice is, um, a vast majority Vikings jerseys. Um, we took the train. Don't drive. You're not, you're not gonna, you're not even gonna get close to the stadium. Everybody takes the train. You get off and there's just, there's,
00:10:54
Speaker
There's football for fans everywhere, but it's outside of Vikings. You see every jersey. um I think. Actually, the Jets might have been outnumbered by non player, non team. Teams that were playing that, yeah. um I saw a lot of Packers, a lot of Jaguars, but.
00:11:22
Speaker
There's a lot of, there's a lot of cheese heads ah until. a lot of Yeah. Yeah. That was annoying. I was super annoyed at first. And then I realized that they were actually just Europeans. I thought they were like, initially they were like green bay people, like just coming over to be dicks, but, um, but no. Um, so for example, we were ran into like a ah bunch of Germans, very German, they both barely spoke English, full Vikings. And I, and I was like, where did you guys come from? And they came from some,
00:11:51
Speaker
city in Germany, I didn't understand or didn't know of. um They they're super into football. It was crazy. um So the game itself, the stadium is awesome. um Very new. The the neighborhood around the stadium needs to catch up. It's it's pretty dumpy. They I guess they're maybe it's like a gentrification type of deal. I don't know. It's ah not a lobby. One hundred percent a gentrification deal.
00:12:20
Speaker
Yeah, I know there's it actually has a name. We looked it up later because we're like, what is going on? Why is it so dumpy outside of the stadium? But same is beautiful. ah Game was obviously great. We won um our our seats were were awesome. My awesome wife woke up in the middle of the night to get on a waiting list. And we we scored some we're on row four in the end zone.
00:12:46
Speaker
Um, so that, uh, Stefan Gilmore in their interception that really we won the game that happened right in front of us. Um, it was simultaneously like an anxiety attack, uh, because, you know, the jets were potentially about to fucking come back from a 20. Was it, we were up like 28 points. Like, how do you blow a 20 point lip? Um, but then to have it just end right in front of you is amazing. Um,
00:13:15
Speaker
Ah, let's see what else. Uh, so like that, that's like the white, white heart lane. Is that, is that the neighborhood? Yeah, I, you couldn't tell me. I don't know. We got off the train and oh, the one thing. Um, we showed up three hours before the game started. Normally that's, you know, super early, not for the Brits. Like the bars were packed at 11 o'clock in the morning. Um,
00:13:41
Speaker
we bar hopped quite a little bit and it was just so busy that we never got a table. We ended up like standing and eating somewhere. Yeah. I blame those Germans. Yeah. yeah um And then there's a missed opportunity on our outfits. um I'll say I don't, I'm not going to reveal what I wanted to do. It,
00:14:08
Speaker
It came up last minute in case we go back, but I will say, um, if the Vikings go to Munich, you're, it's, an it's an exclusive, you're hearing it here first. Purple later hosen. Yeah. It's happening. ah like that I like that. I liked that. So yeah.
00:14:27
Speaker
Okay. So what else what else, what else did you guys, you said you had, uh, you had like late night tickets reserved in the, in the sixth
Cultural Insights: Big Ben Tour and Historical Context
00:14:36
Speaker
row. Did you reserve anything else? Fourth row. Sorry. yeah Did you reserve anything else late night? That was pretty awesome on the trip. Are you alluding to our, uh, our pre-podcast conversation? I'm not alluding to anything. I just, it was just a question.
00:14:51
Speaker
oh Yeah, my wife's the rock star and she got up in the middle of the night to get this joined this lottery for a um Very small ah behind the scenes Big Ben tour so we actually went up into Big Ben and um She actually picked got the one that so they time it just right So they kept calling it bongs, which was ah funny in its own, right? um So the the bell there's four bells that that that do a melody every 15 minutes. And then every top of the hour, Big Ben, which is the name, not for the tower, but the actual bell itself. That bongs for every once for every ah hour it is. So we made the hour and a half ascent to the top of the tower. um And then at 11 AM, m it didn't literally take an hour and a half they they give you quite a bit of breaks for you know old old people i don't know but um we got 11 bongs and then uh just when you think it's over they take you back down a level and we were actually walked behind the faces of the clocks um and saw the uh the mechanics and the the the minute hands moving and um saw the how the
00:16:18
Speaker
in And this this thing was built in like the 1800s. And um they've modernized it a little bit. They used to actually have to manually wind this thing up once a week. And it it took like, you know, a crew of people because it takes a while, right? Yeah. Now it's a, you know, they put an electric motor in there and Um, it still gets wound up once a week, but okay. So it was a 90 minute, a 90 minute, like walk to get to the, to the top. Yeah. Um, I just, I googled that while you're talking. Do you remember how many stairs that is? Um, roughly it was between three 30 and three 50. Yeah. Three 34. That's a lot of stairs. And they gave you a break every hundred or so. And there was like a little room.
00:17:08
Speaker
And then they brought you into a little room and they educated you on the, you know, construction of it. And, you know, the engineer that designed the pendulum and whatever. So it was cool. It was very cool, actually. um And yeah, not a lot of people get to do that. No pictures, though. They actually confiscated our phones, which I was kind of bummed about because that was kind of one of the highlights of the tour of the whole trip.
00:17:38
Speaker
but So, so if you did it again, you'd get those, uh, Google glasses type of thing. Right. Right. Right. Or like, uh, maybe one of those fake necktie, uh, cameras or something. The, uh, watch camera. Right. Go all, uh, James Bond on them. They'll never expect get it. That was a, that was a British, uh, reference there. Yeah.
00:18:08
Speaker
Thanks, Kevin. Uh, we were lucky to have you there. Clearly the team needed you. Yeah, it's fun. Vikings were up, uh, 17, seven going into the half. And then it was 17, 10 after three. And then, um, I don't know what happened at the end, but and maybe I'm We didn't give up the Packers game before the week before. Yeah. Vikes didn't give up a 28 point lead two weeks in a row. That's all I'm saying. Yeah. There were a lot of points. Thank you for clarifying. Yeah. I think Aaron Aaron Jones going out was huge. Sam Darnold definitely got his bell rung in the second quarter. He didn't play the same. Did you get his bell rung or did you get his bell bonged?
00:19:02
Speaker
For sure. ah Justin Jefferson was was having an off day. um he was ble i He was visibly blaming some equipment issues and then he fixed the equipment issues and he still was off. So, you know, weren't there like four PIs on? Yeah. And a couple, they were definitely manhandling him. One of those was bullshit.
00:19:32
Speaker
for sure. It happened right in front of us and it wasn't PI, but there were some that, yeah, they were, they were all over them. And I think Aaron Jones being out, um, you know, it put way more pressure on the the passing game.
Fantasy Football Management Challenges
00:19:47
Speaker
Um, hopefully the bye came at the right time. Right. Then you did regroup. but Detroit is going to be tough for sure. Unfortunately, not as tough as they would have been a week ago.
00:20:03
Speaker
right That injury was brutal from what I hear. Yeah. Tibia. Yeah. Yeah. Well, on that note, uh, anything else to say about Vikings in London, Jeff? Before we started recording, you also said that before London, you went somewhere else and you wouldn't necessarily suggest it as much.
00:20:29
Speaker
Uh, we went to Scotland and Paris. Okay. Whoa. On the same trip? Yeah. I don't know. Scotland was cool. Scotland was cool, but, but the, the Highlands, you said you might stay in the lowlands more. It was fine. Um, we didn't get as deep into the Highlands as we had time for. So, um, it was a little underwhelming, but again, we didn't, we just sort of Edinburgh though. That was amazing. Definitely go there. That was, that was awesome.
00:21:03
Speaker
It's Harry Potter, essentially. Think of ah Hogwarts castle and that's the whole fucking city. So, nice um, Dumbledore greets you at the train station. Wow. That's cool.
00:21:17
Speaker
It's quite a gig. Well, if, if, if you don't, if you have any other thing and anything else you want to add about, uh, the UK, otherwise, uh, we do have another segment to get to. Hey, what's a good, uh, discord channel for him to share any other photos from his trip? Oh, what's the best channel for that? Dunk only I was leaning towards Dunk only is a good one. Uh,
00:21:48
Speaker
yeah, we might need a non, just a non sports channel. Yeah. You know, I know sports channel. Like what are you doing in your life channel? Yeah. Life, life beyond sports discord channel. Right. We'll, we'll think about it. Yeah, we'll, we'll have to, I guess that's so far that's kind of in general, but if you want to, I guess so. Yeah, it's true. Hey, now it's time for, you know, while we got you here, Kamen, it's time for our weekly segment.
00:22:27
Speaker
Hey, welcome back vocoder. Kevin, as you know, it's the same five or six questions every week, depending on time. We probably have to keep it to five today because yeah we are running hot. I only have which five. So have you decided which question you're going to eliminate? Yeah, for the same reason as Kurt, I'm going to throw out the social media thing. I'm on Reddit way too much, but I don't really have a specific hole.
00:22:56
Speaker
Okay. That's what she said. Um, that I go down. So I think that's what he said, Kevin. All right. Depends on your taste. I will kick this off with, uh, your, uh, guilty pleasure band or a performer. Um, yeah. Um, like previous guests, I don't have anything that I'm especially embarrassed of.
00:23:25
Speaker
But my wife and I have very different tastes in music. um She likes super 80s Euro music, like ABBA um and stuff that just like some bizarre German band that you've never heard of. um She's from that area of the country. So um I have to draw a line like when it comes to like Wine Nights where we're going down YouTube holes. um And she doesn't like my type of music, which is harder. I, you know, I listened to corn tool, um, system of it down, uh, whatever. Yeah. I like it. It's all good. So we usually, um, we usually, we, we usually, um, bottle. I'm going to listen to slipknot. It's what I like.
00:24:24
Speaker
I don't know. Don't judge. Oh, I'm not. I'm just we usually compromise on like on like real poppy 80s stuff like during and more see the cure. And we usually go in like kind of a ah a hole of ah YouTube, um the same like circuit. And it usually culminates to ah Toto Africa. And I got to admit, like,
00:24:53
Speaker
I love that song. And I sing it drunk when it, when we get to it. Oh, it's, it's amazing that in a safety dance song. I love that. What's your favorite part of Africa? Um, I guess the opening eight beats, they always, uh, they always get me going. tooneed du dumbbo What do you think of the wheezer cover? Uh, yeah, it's okay.
00:25:25
Speaker
And yeah in our household, we always wait. We can't wait until ZamFear comes in with that hot, hot pan flute.
00:25:33
Speaker
Right. Is that for the name of a person? ZamFear. He's the pan flautist. Thank you. Wow. So Jeff is clearly the expert on Toto. Um, I didn't know we had one in the house. I'm just a admirer from afar. So, uh, no guilt here. So.
00:25:52
Speaker
I bless the rains. Yep. Jeff, you want to ask another one? Yeah. david it um What is a surprising movie you've never seen? Um, so I've seen a lot of mute movies, um, everything that's been mentioned so far, um, it's October. So I pulled up a few lists of the greatest horror movies of all time. Um,
00:26:19
Speaker
And I've, I saw almost everything on the list, but, um, one thing that stuck out was, uh, John Carpenter's, the thing from 1982. Um, I have not seen it. I know pretty, I've just, it's been in the zeitgeist for so long. I kind of know that what it consists of, but, um, I have never actually sat down and watched the thing. So, um,
00:26:45
Speaker
We're in full Halloween swing, so I'm probably gonna add it to my list and and check that off the box. um ah Side note, while doing a little bit of research for my answer for this, the the previous three answers are on AFI's top 100. So Godfather, Star Wars, and Goodfellas are all, all they say Goodfellas? Goodfellas.
00:27:14
Speaker
oh yada to Good fellers the good fellers ah They're all on the top 100 so ah yeah you guys's answers have been in a good company So is the thing on the top 100? No, but it's on the it's in the top whore so But it's October. So it is Jeff. Have you seen the thing? No
00:27:39
Speaker
Okay, so is that a point for Kamen or against if one of us has not seen it? I don't know. So I have a non-horror specific answer based on the top 100. Are you trying to give another movie? No, I don't know. I just have a backup. Okay. You don't want to take someone else's potential. Yeah, right, right, right, right. I'm not greedy.
00:28:05
Speaker
Uh, thanks for sharing. That's um, I would say you're in for a treat if you like that Kurt Russell guy of course. I do. Especially classic Kurt Russell. Um, um, Kamen, what's, uh, what's your favorite or ideal USA vacation spot?
Favorite Vacation Spots in the USA
00:28:26
Speaker
Hands down, uh, Gary, Indiana.
00:28:32
Speaker
Okay. Now, um, Joking, obviously. That place is dumb. Hawaii's really fun. You guys, it's come up quite a few times. We keep going back. We've been to three of the islands. um The Big Island hasn't been mentioned. um Honorable mention on that one. Check it out. It's worth seeing. But my wife, ah she likes really warm water beaches. So I'm going to have to go with Miami.
00:29:02
Speaker
Um, for a few, so you're not going to Hawaii, you're going Miami, Miami, Miami is my answer. Um, there is warmer, way warmer. It's like bathwater. Yeah. I mean, it's coming right up out of the Caribbean. So if you've ever been to the Caribbean, you, you could, uh, yeah, turn on the tap and that's the ocean. Um, it's, it's also super affordable. Like, you know, you can get a little apartment right on the beach for like a week for less than a thousand bucks.
00:29:31
Speaker
Um, tons of beaches. We really, the Cuban food is really good. So we went to little Havana. Um, and this is all based on one trip. So, um, and then, uh, they've got the, uh, the big four sports. So that fits right into our like wheelhouse of, you know, um, hockey and football games, but they also have basketball and, uh, baseball. Um, and then the Everlades are right there too. So, um, yeah.
00:30:01
Speaker
It's got good repeatability, even though I've been to Hawaii three times. So of course, of course. What's yeah what's your litmus test TV show? ah So it's not really a test of if you've seen it because it's kind of a new show, but um I really got into Shogun earlier this year. okay Super good show ah shot in Japan. um Great story.
00:30:28
Speaker
It was really refreshing to finally get a like a feudal era Japan show slash movie that that wasn't like super whitewashed. The Last Samurai was really Tom Cruise. Are you fucking kidding me? He's the Last Samurai? It's Japanese people um and a great story on top of it. And then we were in Japan earlier this year. And I actually went to Lord Toranaga's house um while I was like mid watching the show. So it was just kind of like a really cool connection we had with the show and the man and himself.
00:31:07
Speaker
um and And so again, it's not really a litmus test of if you've seen it or not, but there's this weird criticism out there that like the pacing is too slow and there's an actual overuse of the Japanese language.
00:31:23
Speaker
Um, if you have to read the subtitles, right? Right. knock That's the knock and it's just not fast enough. Like, I don't know how it's not, I don't get how it's not fast enough, but if you fall into that camp, I'm, I'm quietly
Cultural Appreciation through 'Shogun'
00:31:37
Speaker
judging you. Um, okay. There we go. That's what I was looking for. The litmus part of this. Yeah. So if you, if you can't sit down and watch Shogun and appreciate it, that that's tough for me. There we go.
00:31:52
Speaker
I was I was getting there. It was a long journey. No, I think it's because I think it's because everybody second screens nowadays and you can't you can't watch that show subtitles and you know, scroll Twitter. You don't second screen anything that you actually want to consume. It's just not it.
00:32:12
Speaker
And it it's it's a pet peeve of mine, but. Like pizza. I don't second screen that. Right. Hey, Jeff, we got one more question for Kevin. Yeah. Kevin, what is the largest animal you could knock out with one punch? So um I think wild turkeys are kind of pricks.
Wild Turkey Antics
00:32:31
Speaker
um So I'm going to go with that one. Well, not only Ken, but wants to. Yeah. I want to knock those fuckers out.
00:32:41
Speaker
and then probably eat them afterwards. Hey, do you guys have, those do you have wild turkeys in Vegas? No, of course not. Okay. I assumed there is. There's nothing here. It's, it's fucking desert. We've got, Oh, I guess we have tortoises and coyotes. So, Oh, and a road runners. Those are kind of close, harder to knock out cause they're quick. Yeah. So, uh, thank you, Kevin. That has been,
00:33:12
Speaker
Thank you, vote quarter. Jeff, have we had any calls during the first half of our show? Uh, yeah. Yeah, we did. Um, we had one, one call here. Give me one second.
00:33:26
Speaker
chairmon
00:33:29
Speaker
is a thought tall one you want to swing la
00:33:36
Speaker
Cameron, I can play that one more time if you need it again. Is that a trade offer for CD-Lam? That is a trade offer for CD-Lam from Brian. I miss the actual... Yeah. What's the actual offer? When you want to trade CD-Lam... Oh, okay. Give them a call. They've got something for you. All right. All right. Yes, brian is Brian's team is now being co-managed.
00:34:04
Speaker
by his preschooler. Nice. That brings us to one thing.
Key Matchups and Fantasy League Awards
00:34:11
Speaker
That's right, where Jeff and I say one thing about every ah matchup. And these are going to be kind of rapid fire um due to how much, how informative I should say this show has been. Kamen, feel free to jump in wherever, whenever we're meant to be together. Pull up the website now. Please do.
00:34:33
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I worked on my one things at like one o'clock on Sunday while games were still happening. And then ah I sort of forgot about it until Andy messaged me half an hour before the show started. So I didn't rewrite mine, but I'm going to go first on most of these so they have more context there. Cousin Oates versus Platinum House. It's like a journey.
00:35:00
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yeah This one is going to be close, but it looks like Zoe is going to ruin not playing Scary Terry over Pickens when Irving Walker and Robinson go nuclear. I wish there was a record of when team names were changed. I'd love to look back and see if titanium is truly stronger than the other metals that came before this because Nicholas's squad is on a three game win streak.
00:35:31
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Do you have any idea when ti titanium took hold? Yeah, i I could look back through the podcast notes because we've said it different, you know, sweeps every time. Oh, you're right. You're right. We'll hit it up on the Discord. So pure titanium is pretty brittle. You need a titanium alloy ah to make it stronger. But we have a titanium refinery here in Las Vegas that I inspect.
00:35:58
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I think you just figured out how we can test if Funker really listens to this episode. It's true. Because we'll see a name change. Yes. It's a titanium alloy. Yeah. Hey, Kamen, it hurts when I pee. Also, it's time to recap. It hurts when I pee versus kill the wounded. So real quick, I've thought about changing my team name a few times. Kicked around a few names.
00:36:25
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But I just really enjoy making you say that every week. And it's going to stay that way. Unless ah unless Jaylen Hurts breaks his leg or something. A lot of that going around. Right. um I believe we have a caller. Jaylen, remember when you were going to call in or go on the show and talk shit about me and my team and the points that I'm putting up?
00:36:55
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hope it works I hope it hurts when you don't pee, too.
00:37:01
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Well, at least I admitted to it. I know I had this whole bit planned and yeah, it it got spoiled. It's fine. I'll come up with something else.
00:37:15
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Um, this, uh, this one had both teams coming in under the median score. Um, that's happening for Kamen because of injury and bye weeks. Um, a lava one target, one catch for five yards in the fumble for negative one point on the day. Yeah, brutal. Uh, congrats to Matt for being the lowest scoring winner. You know, um, Ray, Ray Finkel.
00:37:45
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AKA our guest today. Cam, you came this close to playing your best light up. If only you had benched to a Lave and just left the slot empty. That's a bummer. So close. A lot of perfect lineups this week, though, you guys. I'll give you one guess as to why.
00:38:09
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Good miniatures.
00:38:11
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what's my a what's my aj again versus tibetanva aka looks like uh brian made the right call on his qbv qb matchup going with love though maybe he invested too much in that offense when he spent 48 on holding out to two qb's even when he has zero options on the bench is a bit questionable.
00:38:46
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Did you know that 15 free agent ball handlers scored double digit points this fantasy week, unlike four of the guys in Mike's lineup? It's brutal. That's brutal. That was fun to research.
00:39:04
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Yeah, my quarterback situation is fine. I don't know. Yeah, right. I don't know what you're talking about. You're the one with an issue.
00:39:14
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on Next we have Ohio Mark versus Steelhouse. Yeah, this one is too close to call as of Sunday afternoon.
00:39:27
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Tom carrying two desperate defenses is an interesting call. Mixon keeping him in this one. But if Cook doesn't play, Kegger's gonna going to go in hungry. It'll be interesting to see what he does there if he played Cook or not. Right. um but I can look, but I don't know. You could. Kevin.
00:39:50
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You have it open. Did Kegge really cook? Who knows? Both managers put their best teams out there. Not that they had much choice. Nick's ah nick's bench was a litany of queues, two queues, two IRs, and one PupR. And now Tom's roster reads 10 and two.
00:40:16
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Despite him being the second lowest scoring winner of the week Yeah, yeah me ah a Our next matchup is the conference grudge match of the week the 501st taking on Barkley sack up and Ram Going into this one. It was two to three you the Lebowski's little urban achievers were up by a point um projected ninety two point ninety one point two three to a hundred and eleven point one one for Tim Survey says it is now
00:40:55
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Three and three. Tim pulled it off. You know, you control the sound effects, Jeff. You could have had a ding. Yeah, could have. i could could ah You're burning. You're burning me here. You got the soundboard and nothing. Kamen, are you disappointed like I am?
00:41:15
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Kamen, are you still there? It looks like we might have. Do we lose him? We might have lost Kamen. When I asked him to check if Cook was in the kitchen.
00:41:27
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He actually went to the kitchen. Yeah, Kamen. I'm sorry. Cook is a player.
00:41:35
Speaker
There's a couple of them, actually. They're brothers. Let's hopefully we can get Kamen back before the end of the show. Yeah, Jeff, you're right. It was super unlucky for my team.
00:41:50
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to to see Marvin Harrison Jr. get knocked out on his second target of the day, and add insult to injury. Christian Watson, you said going off from the bench, he had 14 points. Let's not get crazy here. Yeah, at that point in time, though, he was in the second quarter of his game. Yeah. Oh, right. Your notes were yeah the middle of the second game or something. Yeah.
00:42:19
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ah I'd like to point out that Tim's team has overperformed his projections five out of six weeks. And my team has done so one out of six weeks. So that's why we basically have opposite records and projections are smudge actions. Oh man. so alright did Did you message Kamen? Yeah. Oh good. um the yeah The next matchup is the walking wounded versus my mama's wipes his ass.
00:42:51
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Um, I just, quick, quick here. This is, uh, not in the one things, but, uh, uh, good job by Cody, uh, to sneak swear words into his team name by just smashing all the words together. And, uh, the Yahoo, the Yahoo, uh, filter did not catch, uh, ass that way. Yeah. You should probably leave it in until they do catch it. Yeah.
00:43:16
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help them learn. Yeah, I didn't write anything here. So yeah, you can remind just, Oh, we were just trying to figure out, you know, the best way to use Cody's team name. And yeah, I would suggest if, if walking wounded wiped his ass with my mama wipes his ass, then who wipes Cody's ass?
00:43:42
Speaker
You don't have to answer. Hit us up on the phone number. Hit us up on text message. It's 612-293-6635. Who wipes Cody's ass. Lastly, we have Yellow Jackets versus DX Fugs Inc. Jeffrey.
00:44:04
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um Yeah, so my note is from pretty early in this matchup. Three players in for each of us and Kurt has it won. I benched three guys I should have started and Kurt made the right calls on all of his starters through the noon kickoff Sunday games. Yeah, this thing's this this performance from Kurt. It's like Phil's energy is just rubbing off on him. Fully channeled? Yeah, fully. I mean, he left He left 15 points on the bench this week. He would have scored 168 points if he played his best lineup. Unfortunately, that was the last time that Alan Blizzard will be startable. So. Test, test. Yes, Kamen. Welcome back. I had to jump out and jump back in. Now it's a little staticky. A little bit. Weird. Technology.
00:45:05
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technology. Jeff, what do you got good colors? out of here What's that? You got a big screenshot on the script. Yeah, it's just, you know, to show what I said. Oh, it's right receipts. You kept receipts. Yep. So the division showdown was two to three going in. And now It's three to three, we're all knotted up. Looks like Toulouse, what is it? Expect Toulouse to us has the momentum, right? That's what we're looking for. Kevin, can you hear us okay? Yep. Okay, great. We are, we're going to check in on a couple of words here. And then we'll be able to wrap things up. First of all, fantastic. Worst manager.
00:46:00
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I've made a unilateral decision that we're no longer awarding this to the most points left on the bench. Instead, it's much more fun to award this to the team who could have been living in alternate reality. A team that could have won, should have won. Right now, that team is my my mama wipes his ass. Cody, Cody, you could be 3-0 head to head.
00:46:30
Speaker
Even if, for two of those match-ups, even if your opponent had optimized their lineup, you still would have three victories in the win column. Second place is yours truly. I could have and should have won weeks one and two, but did not. So Cody, if the things hold, if you keep being terrible at fantasy football, you'll have a tense spot coming your way.
00:47:01
Speaker
Jeff, what's our next reward? um Overpowered. Should come as no surprise that this belongs to first place Steelhouse. Tommy. ah Tim is 45 points behind him. Definitely helped by his output this week against Andy. And as a bonus, overmatched. 10th place.
00:47:26
Speaker
Um, yellow jackets, yellow jackets. Do you like that show, Jeffrey? Uh, you know, I didn't actually think about that show. It was all about, uh, Keenan Coleman. Uh, cause he wore a yellow jacket when he went inside his contract in Buffalo. Well, the show's really twisted. Bryn watches it and, um, you should just be, we saw the first season, it,
00:47:54
Speaker
I wish it would have just been a limited series, but when we knew learned it was just going to keep dragging on, we we dropped it. Yeah. that would be a That would be a fun question for next year. What show did you bail?
Why Do We Abandon TV Shows?
00:48:10
Speaker
What's a high profile show that you bailed on and when? Oh, that's a great question. When write that when or and or or why?
00:48:18
Speaker
Yeah. Right. Yes. because i'm writing a yellow yellow Yellow jackets is a. It's it's it's basically female lore of the flies. um Sure. But then it's like four seasons or something already and just wrap it up already. Like, come on. but How many seasons is yellow jackets so far?
00:48:43
Speaker
Only two, Kamen. What the fuck am I talking about? They probably, they probably did like that mid-season thing where they did like, you know, the Christmas break. Season three is coming, I think. All right. Correct. that's what she said yeah Hey guys, playoff picture for my side, the little Baski's urban achievers. We got Tom home non to number one spot. Um, thunk has,
00:49:10
Speaker
has moved up. What does this mean, Jeff? Four. I didn't, I didn't update it this week. So oh shit every every time, every time, every week, like if they moved up three spots, you know, I, I put a plus three. Yeah. There's no time for that this week. Uh, urban achievers got Tom, Nicholas, Nick, and Kill the wounded is Matt. Wow. Congrats guys. You got a bunch of sub 500 teams in your top four. Expect to lose against us.
00:49:46
Speaker
Oh my God. Your top two are the only ones that are above 500. Yeah, it's really bad.
00:49:57
Speaker
Yeah. Um, the five oh firsts, uh, our, our, our top team, uh, DX fugs eight can second, um, the walking wounded in third to net and bar in fourth. And just, just to put it out there. So everyone knows our fifth place team is six and six. Um,
00:50:19
Speaker
And if I'm doing the math right here, are are our place team, um no, they would not they would not beat anybody. Who has time for math? Nope. No one. Well,
European Adventure: Final Thoughts
00:50:37
Speaker
we've gone a little long. Sorry, everybody. But hopefully the European connection was worth it for those of you listening at home. Any final thoughts on anything, Kamen?
00:50:50
Speaker
Uh, yeah, get out and vote. Um, and unless you're voting for the other guy in that case, uh, feel free to sit this one out. jeffy final thoughts today Can't, uh, can't really, uh, beat that one.
00:51:08
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00:51:33
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00:51:46
Speaker
I did like church growing up. I went to like a fun youth group. And I'm not like super proud of this, but one of my favorite memories of all time is when I went with my youth group on a missions trip to Mexico. And yeah, it's a little silly going on a missions trip to Mexico, right? Like, they already know Jesus, They pronounce his name wrong, but other than that, like...
00:52:20
Speaker
It was the first time I drank Mexican Coke in that bottle. It was so good. I was never not drinking one the whole time. I was pumped up.
00:52:33
Speaker
A lot like now. and I remember the pastor was giving a sermon and I was drinking one and he was like quoting from the Bible or something and he was like, life is short, we are but dust. And I took a big sip and my friend right next to me, she was like, we are but dust.
00:53:28
Speaker
Butt dust. with
00:53:33
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We got back to the church and they wanted us to share with the rest of the congregation in front of all of our parents what our favorite part of the trip was. It was like a pass the mic situation and I was ready. um I got the mic. I was like, my favorite part was when I snorted a bunch of coke
00:54:34
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date two
00:54:40
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Where in the world is Kamen, Carl's vet