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Week 14 Ekim and Ruyam playoff push(ed)
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Summary
In this episode, the hosts engage in a lively conversation with guests Ekim and Mayur, discussing various topics including their fantasy football league, the Final Whistle game, and a recap of the Vikings game. The episode features humorous banter, insights into football strategies, and personal anecdotes from the guests. In this engaging conversation, the hosts explore various themes ranging from personal experiences in New York to cultural references in television and movies. They discuss the significance of certain TV shows as litmus tests for compatibility, share surprising movie blind spots, and delve into the world of fantasy football, reflecting on strategies and insights. The light-hearted banter and shared experiences create a relatable and entertaining dialogue. In this episode, the hosts delve into the intricacies of their fantasy football league, discussing player performances, matchup strategies, and playoff predictions. They reflect on the season's ups and downs, analyze key matchups, and share insights on optimizing team lineups. The conversation culminates in final thoughts and a look ahead to the playoffs, emphasizing the excitement and unpredictability of fantasy football.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Guest Introductions
03:00 Football Talk and Fantasy League Insights
06:09 Understanding Final Whistle and Fantasy Scoring
08:59 Mjolnir Minute: Vikings Game Recap
14:59 Five Questions with Ekim and Mayur
22:07 Exploring New York: A Brief Visit
23:44 Cultural Litmus Tests: TV Shows That Define Us
31:09 Surprising Movie Blind Spots
37:09 Fantasy Football Insights and Reflections
44:20 Fantasy League Dynamics
45:55 Season Reflections and Player Performances
48:02 Matchup Analysis and Predictions
50:01 Playoff Picture and Strategies
01:01:30 Final Thoughts and Wrap-Up
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Transcript
Whimsical Introductions
00:00:03
Speaker
Yeah, we're losing in our fantasy world We're losing in our fantasy world
00:00:24
Speaker
Hello, hello, hello. Joining you from the desolate wasteland where I was born and raised. but I am... Next up, joining me from an undisclosed nation in the West, it's...
00:00:46
Speaker
Lastly, sharing all of his answers via Talkbox while powering his analog computer with a hand crank. It's the greatest cookie thief ever foretold via PowerPoint. Ekem Yor. Say hello, Ekem. Hello.
00:01:14
Speaker
And Jeffrey, I think we might even have a bonus guest today. I think we do kind guest. Do you want to, do you want to say hi or? Hey, what's up guys? What's mayor? Hey mayor. I'm Andy. Mike. Jeff. but look back but there we got We have a quick PSA for you here.
PSA and Locales
00:01:35
Speaker
Okay. This is Matt Herm with your weekly PSA this week.
00:01:41
Speaker
Kicker Aubrey of the Dallas Cowboys are is performing, is performing the second most important sort of duty you can perform next to military service, which is jury duty, jury duty as in. oh Sorry, I guess that one was a couple of weeks old. My bad. Yeah. If he's still in jury duty, then he's on the crime of the century. It is. Hey mayor, where are you calling in from today?
00:02:08
Speaker
I am calling in from El Cerrito, California, which is ah in the Bay area near near the Berkeley area. That's wonderful. I have the setup that you guys do. So, you know, ah but if I had a video here, I would definitely bring down the ah the quality of this of this podcast. So I got I got to say yeah, so i got it's audio only. So don't worry.
00:02:32
Speaker
yeah Yeah.
Fantasy Football Tales
00:02:33
Speaker
Nobody even knows. um Now, all all six of our listeners know that your camera off. Sorry, guys. and then i think i won I won't tell you guys my method. We're good. Welcome to El Cerrito Cribs.
00:02:52
Speaker
and We're just going to talk some shit about our are fantasy football league. but did I did have one quick one for you. Exactly. alright One time, we were in Ecom's old car, it might have been a tourist. I don't know. And was in he said, reach into the glove box and look for my gloves. They're bright black. But this is coming from a guy who wrote his name wrong on a wall on a church. So I don't necessarily think it's that bad of an Ecomism. So there you go.
00:03:30
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Mike, I didn't know about the church thing. Did you read your name wrong or, or did Kager write his name wrong? I have no idea what he was talking about.
00:03:43
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so Okay. Okay. Well, we're going to need to get Kager back on the show. Yeah. know Hey mayor, can you wrap your head around something being bright black?
00:03:58
Speaker
Something being bright black. um Does that even make sense? I'm trying to think of bright black. Because it's like, how much more bright can this black be? Jeff, it glove is it glow of weather for you guys? yeah We got negative four right now in Fargo.
00:04:20
Speaker
Are you asking if El Cerrito is glow of weather? Well, I assume it's not. but I mean, maybe, maybe it's cold for Mike. I know as sure as I wasn't cold in colton Texas. Oh, he has the heat on. He just said that he, he just kicked off. So it must've dropped below 75. It has. It has. You know, we, we feel better than it's a 50 year. So, um, yeah, that's a little chilling. but We we let we actually look forward to that 35 degree day in February where we can
00:04:54
Speaker
take, uh, get theia the, uh, the pop-up table out and have a picnic in the front yard.
49ers Frustrations and Scoring Methods
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We do it. We do it every year. That sounds wonderful, Jeffrey. Hey, before we jump into the, the show, um, mayor, is there anything you want to say about football, um, American or otherwise?
00:05:18
Speaker
ah otherwise Well, but i'm I'm actually a Niner stan, so I feel like football is making me a very angry person this year. So I've been, I, Jack knows it. Even though Jack and I have never spoken verbally or seen each other. I definitely hope that I'm a Niner stan. I got seven years old boy. My seven year old gets into football with me and usually we're kind of lazy and we'll watch Niner games. and I don't know the season just for sanity um over the past few weekends, we haven't been watching quite as much just because it's been a pretty disappointing season. So in the football side is how Jeff and I actually know each other. See this game called Final Whistle. I don't know if you guys have heard about that or not, but that's probably random. maxim um but yeah Explain Final Whistle in 20 words or less.
00:06:13
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And online VM management for factory game, minimal. second But no, he liked work management. Mike, the numbers wins. Did he make it under 20? Absolutely. Jeff, do we have the sound effect for a correct answer? We do. We do. Sorry, I was asleep with the wheel over here.
00:06:41
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00:07:01
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um Mayor, before the show, Mike was doing some calculations to determine just how many fights you would have to win if the entire world engaged in a one-on-one ah tournament.
00:07:15
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So you can work on that at your leisure. We'll wait for your answer at the end of the show. Welcome to You Like That. The first segment, the next segment of our show is questions and comments. You can wear your drumming.
00:07:32
Speaker
Yeah, that was tapping the pen. I'll stop it. Wow. Wow. He's drumming. I introduced you as saying all your answers through a talk box, and then you start drumming. You're going to be a full one-man band by the end of this show. I can feel it. I was unaware it was audible. Question number one was from Ekam himself.
00:07:55
Speaker
Mike, on the Discord, you said how our wins and losses calculated. Have you found an answer that is sufficient? I have found an answer that is sufficient. Can you explain it to everyone at home, especially Mayor? Well, you get one point every week. You get up to two points a week. One, if you win your head-to-head contest, you get a point.
00:08:23
Speaker
Two, if your score is above that week's median score amongst all teams, you get another point. Very good, Mike. And for for a bonus point, ah how many teams beat the median score every week? Well, that's the median, whatever half our league is. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Mike, do you know how many teams are in the league?
00:08:54
Speaker
No, God, please. No, no, no. That was a, that was a layup mayor. Do you know how many teams are in our fantasy league and a 14 team fantasy? like I know exactly. how I'm pretty sure. Wow. Mayor got it right. Like you didn't know about our league until today.
Managing Fantasy Teams with Humor
00:09:16
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It's just just good job, man.
00:09:22
Speaker
Congratulations, you're in the playoffs.
00:09:26
Speaker
Sorry, what did you say, mayor? I told you guys we're all 14 teams. I've done one 14 team leg. it's the It's interesting. Not a lot of the label art. No. No. We had to cut our bench down by two spots. So um like we also track how many teams have ah ah
00:09:50
Speaker
How many teams have perfect weeks where you leave zero points on your fantasy bench? And I'll have you know, you're in the company of the best ah manager in that regard. Ekam has left zero points on his fantasy bench seven times. That's impressive. So that means either you're an amazing manager or your depth is pretty bad.
00:10:16
Speaker
Well, it's a combination of both. I think one week my bench was all injured around by. And unfortunately, I'll tell you this you San Fran fan. ah I lost this week because I left Brock Purdy on the bench and ran with the Bears quarterback Caleb Williams. Because he was on a bit of a hot streak and I know you are aware that Brock Purdy was on a bit of a cold streak. Well, that Brock Purdy had his game of the year. They're a very good game at least against the Bears. So this week I did not win that title. Would you say it was pretty bad mayor of Michael to make that decision? That was pretty impressive. I think he might be the first one to use that. I've never heard it before, ah but I don't listen to this show. So
00:11:16
Speaker
Uh, be sure to like and subscribe mayor. Um, question number two, Jeff, will Cody go to the Vikings game on December 22nd? I have an admission to make and I'm pretty embarrassed about it. Uh, I just,
00:11:33
Speaker
I just finished setting up a family Christmas party with my wife's side in the Seattle area on December 22nd. I'll actually be there and I could have gone with him, but it's too late. We were rented a house for the party. yeah We invited everyone to the party. Did you invite Cody? No, he's not on that. He's too far removed. I guess I have to. He was in town, you know? I should. He's in town for the football game.
00:12:03
Speaker
Cody, you want to come up to Washington and hang out at your sister's, uh, in-laws, I don't understand the connections myself. Yeah. This is confusing. I don't think he goes to the game. Like I ah really don't know what Craig's going to do. Um, yeah, go isn't that Cody Craig? Yeah. Is he like Neil Patrick or?
00:12:33
Speaker
John Claude. Neil Patrick has a last name.
00:12:39
Speaker
Do you know what, Mike? I do know it, but I don't, Cody Craig's last name. So why would I, why would I throw in Harris and Van Damme? I don't know Cody Craig's last name, so. Yeah, you're right. Greg Nielsen. Rick John Claude. Sure. That's probably true.
00:12:58
Speaker
Uh, we've spent a lot of time on the Q's and C's, uh, portion of the show. It's time to move on to the meolar minute.
00:13:09
Speaker
You ready, Andy? Yeller horn.
00:13:16
Speaker
Welcome to the Mjolnir Minute, where we spend one minute discussing the Vikings game from last
Vikings Game Recap
00:13:20
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week. This week, the Vikings played the Falcons. Jeff, you took some notes. Mike and Mayer jump in wherever you see fit. The timer starts now. Okay, Max. I'll watch the game at the game. Thunker got to blow the yarler horn without a shirt.
00:13:35
Speaker
Game opened with the Vikings. Four and a half point favorites, meaning Vegas really only thought the Vikes would win by one and a half points because home teams typically get three. First quarter, 7-7 draw. Algier rushing touchdown. Addison set 49 yards, receiving touchdown. Second quarter, 7-3, Vikes. JJ, 12-year touchdown, Young.
00:13:52
Speaker
Youngho Koo, 20-yard field goal. ah Third quarter, 11-7 Atlanta, 21-21 at the end of the third. Fourth quarter, 21-0 Vikings. ah Third quarter scores were Koo with a 29-yarder, JJ with a 52-yarder, Bijon with 13-yarder and a two-point conversion. ah Fourth quarter, Addison had an 11-yard touchdown, a six-yard touchdown, and Jones ran in a 15-yarder.
00:14:16
Speaker
Will the thrill was back 0 for 1 on field goal, 6 for 6 on extra points. Sammy D was 2 for 28, 347, 5 TD, 0 picks. And Kirko Change was 2 for 37, 344, 0 touchdowns, 2 interceptions. Thank you, Jeffrey. That was a perfect minute. That was like so bad good. Right, Mike? Yeah. I was i was very impressed.
00:14:41
Speaker
Mikey numbers. He knows what a minute is, but seriously, that was 60 seconds on the dot. Did you practice that Jeffrey? Like 10 times. Thank you. Thank you for your service. Yeah. The people, the people at home don't see that I dropped six or seven bullet points there. I dropped him like a microphone. Boom. Speaking of Mike, Mike, you got any comments on the, we can extend the Mueller minute by 12 seconds. If you want to say anything.
00:15:13
Speaker
Oh, it was a good game about time. The Vikings offense popped, uh, having Justin Jefferson on my team. It's nice to see him, but points about 10, like about 20 this week. Um, yeah. How would you feel if you had benched, uh, Justin Jefferson or Jordan Addison, maybe Jordan Addison.
00:15:35
Speaker
I don't, was it our league or my wife's league? But someone did have Jordan Addison on the bench and he had like... feel free to make as many a um by it chizzy isy Hey, you know, that's it for the Mueller Minute, but but stay tuned to see if anyone happened to bench Jordan Addison in our league this week. let's look Next up, here's a section of our show that most non-leaguers tune in for, where we really get to know the members of the league and ask them different questions every season. It's time for
00:16:15
Speaker
Five questions. That's right. worst and Five questions. Thank you, Jeff. Thank you, Vo Coder. ah Michael. Yes. Welcome to the show. Glad to be here.
00:16:31
Speaker
I know you've listened diligently to every episode. Every day. I know you're screaming at your phone with what the right answers are to these five questions. We'll see if you get them right today. And, uh, and if we do it quickly enough, we can get mayor's answers as well. Are you guys ready to play five questions? I'm ready. Thanks, Mike. Mayor.
00:16:56
Speaker
um Yeah, maybe i yes, that's a definite I heard definitely maybe Alright first question. Do you have a guilty pleasure band or performer that might cause you to roll up the windows or Be embarrassed to be caught singing along to go and
Guilty Pleasures and Ideal Vacations
00:17:19
Speaker
probably because of my wife, but I Seen more Broadway musicals than I would have otherwise. um And two of the big ones I tend to sing along with in the car are the soundtrack to Hamilton and the soundtrack to Six, which is about the six wives of Henry VIII. Wow, never heard of that one. It's a good one, and it's very short.
00:17:43
Speaker
That is nice. Does it like a no intermission musical? Yeah, a no intermission. It feels answered. The premise is the six wives get together and they all sing a song in the style of modern pop artists. but's It's really good. That's like one awards.
00:18:02
Speaker
So, so and when you're, when you're listening to this, how, like, how do you do it? Like at home, uh, did you like on, uh, like a Amazon Alexa, what, you know, kids join in with you? How do you do this? Uh, if I'm singing along, it's in the car. It's in the car. Um, at least for that one, it's not bad. Like my kids have heard it, but it's a little over their head.
00:18:30
Speaker
Same with the Hamilton soundtrack. Although my daughter really likes, well, they have for it. But like if, if mayor, if, like she does, if you were driving mayor around, he flew into town, you had to take him to the mall of America. Would you listen? I would ask his permission. That'd be pretty forward to just like, you're going to listen to this loudly and my interpretations of it. Um, but okay. All right. I got my score, Andy.
00:19:01
Speaker
all yeah Yeah No, God No, God, please. No, no No Clearly not guilty. Sorry. I'm not guilty about that one. Yeah. All right Fine. He's in the corner. Is that what he wanted to hear Jeff? He said he wouldn't just play it in front of a new friend Yeah, he'd ask him and then he'd play it Didn't say what the answer had to be. I'm ashamed that it's in public. Do you feel better, Jeff? OK, Mayor, what's the most embarrassing band on your playlist?
00:19:43
Speaker
I think I have funny, but the one that will hum to mind right now, there it is, Jim, and I had the BTS song, Butter Come On, and it kind of had me dancing while I was working out.
00:19:54
Speaker
so I feel like that should be fairly embarrassing guilty pleasure in the sense that like, you know, kpop band, yeah, probably not something a 40 year old man to be listening to. But at at the gym, but do you listen to this on headphones? Or do you have a boombox? Oh, I mean, you got to make sure everybody's joining in with you.
00:20:15
Speaker
What's the fun of headphones? The gym is playing their own music, so I got my headphones, but the gym's music is so loud that it's kind of overpowering, but if I could focus and you're playing something or I got something on that. yeah Getting me getting me feeling good. Then then I can focus on that. I got my head. We're talking like, uh, ear, ear pod type of things, or are you talking like bone can, uh, conduct it, you know, like the, what are those 80, the head, the shocks bone, bone connectivity, bone conduction headphones.
00:20:48
Speaker
I get feet over the ear headphones that I'm using. and night But yeah, no like butter it pops up. We'll give you a point for that one. Oh, there's the, there's the shocks right there. Um, and um still in with the original packaging. What is your favorite or ideal USA vacation spot? Mike. Um,
00:21:18
Speaker
My ideal U S vacation spot. Mike needs time mayor. Uh, I'll go with, we get to be more beachy side spots and we are close in the Bay area. Go on, go on to Hawaii. And we like to go on like a big Allen or Maui who's kind of an art class. So I got it. Just chilling on the beat. So could pick Mike, New York city.
00:21:45
Speaker
New York City. I only spent two days there, drove through it yeah when I was out there two weeks ago. I want to go back. I could spend a week there. You went to New York for the first time two weeks ago? No. Seven years ago, but I spent two days there. Oh, two days where I had like zero time to like Just go explore. Everything was like planned out. We had to go do this. We did this, her but I hit a lot of hotspots. Saw Broadway play. Went to the empire state. Have you, have you heard of the Broadway musical six? I have. Oh, well I was today or as old. You should try out. I should. Did you get a pizza while you were there, Mike? I don't think I got like authentic New York pizza. he Went there for,
00:22:42
Speaker
to help my father-in-law work. He installs carpets at event centers for trade shows and the hey they ordered pizza. like the Somebody at the venue ordered pizza for everybody who was working there.
00:23:02
Speaker
Well, I would say it was like an authentic like New York pizzeria. I didn't get to like, you know, sit on the streets of New York, folded over grease, dribbling down my face. But I did have pizza while in New York. I did not get a bag, which I was really bummed about. Hey, Mayor, you know what they call Hawaiian pizza in Hawaii? That's right. Correct. Give them a point.
00:23:30
Speaker
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00:23:42
Speaker
i well what's ah what's your litmus test television show so a show that you know the appreciation of the show lets you know that someone's on your waveleng
00:23:57
Speaker
Yeah. I read Kurt's answer to this and Simpson's is pretty much the same. If you don't get a Simpson's reference, it's like, who are you? I haven't watched the show in 10 years. So it's upset. Who has? But it's not like, if it's like a 20, 20 teens reference, you might be, you might be deep six. It would, but honestly, I don't think anyone I really talk to has watched the show in like 10 years either.
00:24:28
Speaker
You're safe. As long as you don't make everything runs kind of dated, like, yeah, if you don't get Steinfeld, it's not like you're going to sit and watch and go. um Like Game of Thrones, like, yeah, it's cool if you get a reference. yeah I mean, I watched the show after, like, I think I started the show during the last season. So it's like. Hopefully you just started midway through the last season and that's all you've seen. Yeah, I think that's the way to do it.
00:24:57
Speaker
Yeah, I've only seen the last four episodes. The rest, I just kind of... Who needs them? You just want to know how it ends. Why even the last four? Just do the last episode. ah Mayor, what's your show by which you judge someone quietly?
00:25:16
Speaker
Yeah, that's a good question. I'm not terribly quick on my feet, but I started Googling shows that'd be like, all right, let me tell you, I think it's up in here. I actually think that this is the right answer. It's, uh, I feel like, you know, the unreal reference symptoms from then, depending on the age group here, but I've read a couple other, I guess I'm not giving one specific specific answer, but i I would probably put symptoms at the top, but I think along that vein, I think, uh, Family Guy is a pretty good one for that. I think there are a lot of references from that. Um, and then maybe, maybe like a little Rick and Morty. Um, so I'll throw those guys out there, but, but I think symptoms is the right answer.
00:25:55
Speaker
I think that's the one that you use at the baseline. Jeff, ah are three answers the right answer? No! God! No! God, please no! No! No! No! Sorry, Mayor. The score is now 2-2. You guys are... This question's hard for some people.
Hypothetical Animal Debate
00:26:21
Speaker
um the largest animal you could knock out with one punch. Now both think about your answer and, uh, you don't have to say it at the same time, but I mean, I don't want you to, you know, uh, influence the other's response. You know, if somebody picks, uh,
00:26:46
Speaker
yeah will mammo okay you know don't think you got it you know upsize your animal look graph I hear Which animal? you can be can did Did Google come back yet? Or are you still working on that one?
00:27:08
Speaker
They're going to not come back. Oh, no. Oh, do you have one needs more time? I think. No, I got the answer. Michael Gugli. No, that man is tall. I don't know. Maybe he's not. I don't know much about him. I would, I would say a mountain goat and some of that would be catch him just at the cusp of his angle. Like I could probably knock him off the mountain.
00:27:38
Speaker
if landed correctly. My favorite thing about Mike's noise canceling headphones is just how well we heard the drumming on the desk and the typing of which animal can I knock out with one punch. If you want to know what I was typing, it was like, is it a mountain goat or does it have like a weird name? Like Billy. Mounted goats and the band, the mountain goats popped up.
00:28:05
Speaker
They're good. If you haven't listened, give them a try. We'll be guilty. They, they look like the four guys who are about to commit murder. Here we go. Jeff, can you get the picture? Yeah, Mike, Mike, you can go back there. I can take a picture of that. I can't see. Is, is that good? Put it down a little, please.
00:28:30
Speaker
Okay. OK, so we can edit it. We can put Mike's photo in the corner and then yep those guys in mayor's photo. Mm hmm. Perfect. Perfect mayor. You've had a lot of we bought you a lot of time here. So you get you how a lot of time to get this answer. It's no big play. I think it's kind of big. And I feel like you could you could take a cow down with the putt. So I'm going to go.
00:29:04
Speaker
A cow. Yeah, you think I'm in like. It's a pretty healthy. That's a pretty healthy point. it
00:29:15
Speaker
yeah oh yeah jeff but i don' i mean here's the thing I'm not fucking throw up we shut out but we we we don't wet do that goodpping we won't do that that without good um'm just kind of picturing if you think if you take a good dot the cow like how like doesn't I mean where where do you aim and um a cow's mass mean i already played that but potentiallyally and i'm and okay i mean i recognize based stop response
00:29:46
Speaker
but back where i'm gone on direction but
00:29:52
Speaker
You're like, I mean, have you gone for that hat? Like, you time I know, I mean, do cows look out? Like, I think you've gone for that. I know. We'll have to ask the farmer. All from Minnesota have been to Jared's Dairy Farm, which has cows. They've been to the Minnesota State Fair, which also has cows. We have all, like, been face-to-face with a cow. Have you been face-to-face with a cow? Of course he has.
00:30:16
Speaker
I mean, you know, yeah, been out though I I haven't said it. might be gap But but but see, but see, here's the thing is, we we don't you could you could just be like ridiculously huge, you know, like, like, you know, like, yep, that's why I'm not your camera. So we don't know. Because that's very good. So totally ripped in your palatial mansion.
00:30:42
Speaker
the camera off. I mean, maybe you get a kick and thieves have not been in our, in our, in our weakling bodies, but yeah. Okay. Well, Jeff, how are you scoring this one? Correct. Correct. Correct. Correct. Correct. Correct. Was that for Mike or mayor? You decide. All right.
00:31:09
Speaker
Jeff, this might be our first two-part episode. Yeah. We're already at 31 minutes. um Gentlemen, what's your favorite? Should we keep it to only five questions, Jeff? Oh, then then we got it we got to do question three if we're keeping it to five. OK. What's a surprising movie you've never seen? And it can't be because we know you both have listened to every episode.
00:31:39
Speaker
It can't be a movie that has been said on a previous episode. And one of you guys want to call dibs on first, because we we can't let you double up on this one. I've never seen the godfather.
00:31:55
Speaker
people know That's incorrect, Michael. That is incorrect. I've not seen the they' in its entirety.
00:32:06
Speaker
mayor, the godfather, uh, the godfather went first. Yeah. I've seen the foot of godfather. I haven't seen a subsequent one and I felt like that was going to be a good enough answer until. but So he's going godfather too. Yeah. Different movie. That's great. You're, you're, you're kind of the,
00:32:28
Speaker
I started it with the Godfather. yeah um So mayor, let's give him a Godfather II. All right, we'll give him Godfather II. Like Godfather's already been said, and now Godfather II's been said. so Oh, and the way to win this, you know what, Jeff, what we were doing was if you and I had seen the movie, then they got a point.
00:32:51
Speaker
yeah But in this crazy yes for box scenario. Yeah ah Three of us haven't seen the God father and one has I'm guessing. Have you seen it Jeff? Yeah, I've seen all three of them You've never seen it Andy never I swear like the little bits of it I've seen was you watching it and it was I know we watched a lot of movies together a lot of basements but um No, man. Episode one. i You've listened to all the episodes. so It was probably hard to remember. Yeah. Easy to forget. that that was ah thats right episode September was a different world. It was. It was a much different world. There was hope. There was so much hope. Um, so Mike, would you like to go Godfather part three? Maloud's weak sauce. That's the worst one. and i only That is weak sauce.
00:33:49
Speaker
But it would be funny if you saw that one and not the other two. Avengers Civil War. That's not a movie title. Civil War. What's the full title? I've not seen it. Why would I know that? We made, we made someone say, uh, an actual Harry Potter title in order to count. but i'm fine it how It's a certain character who is the lead of the movie.
00:34:19
Speaker
Captain America Civil War. Very good. Is that what you're looking for? I think I have. I know that sounds odd. I think I've seen it. Some of the multiple movies. I feel like I've seen that, but I can't say that. Do you see where Captain America fought Iron Man?
00:34:46
Speaker
We're seeing the Karate Kid. yeah that Whoa, that's bad. I'm surprised we didn't watch together Mike. Yeah. You know, Mike, I showed, um, uh, when, when Cobra Kai was coming to Netflix from, from YouTube red, remember YouTube red. So fondly. Um, Cobra Kai was making the jump. That was like the worst hundred dollars I ever spent by your subscription.
00:35:20
Speaker
And you invested in Bitcoin once.
00:35:24
Speaker
So it, um, yeah, I, I knew the show was good. I had watched the first season. I knew my wife would like it, but I knew she missed a lot of the references. So I had her watch the trilogy with me and she's, it was a tough go for part three, but she's glad she did because those three movies and then the show, wow.
00:35:49
Speaker
put that in the script. How did this show end? Cause I haven't, I haven't finished it. Not over. It's not over. The final season still. It is. Okay. Has yet to come. like go Part one, part two. Anything on that one? Or is it just three parts? Oh, sweet. A lot of content.
00:36:10
Speaker
Um, I think Andy, I think it's interesting to talk about with the light. So I was trying to get my wife to watch cover tie with me as well. Um, she watched it in the end after that. She was like, I can't watch this. with was This is just ridiculous. And I'm like, yeah, well, you know, you don't appreciate art. So. Yeah. I think we found your litmus test television show mayor. Oh.
00:36:34
Speaker
All right. Yeah, um that's a tough ah tough one there. She doesn't really know you or appreciate the really you.
Episode Structuring Debate
00:36:45
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From this time we've had together, I can tell.
00:36:47
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so
00:36:50
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ah Jeff, this has been a great show. Wouldn't you say? Yeah. ah're We're going to skip the last question, right? or Yeah. We got to move. I have questions.
00:37:03
Speaker
western
00:37:09
Speaker
Jeff, shall we ah should we release this show in two parts or should we try to do the rest in 10 minutes or less? We can go fast. Let's see your quality. Okay. Mayor, Mike, thanks for being on the show. Thanks for playing Five Questions. You're both winners in our book. um We're about to hit that part of the show called One Thing where Jeff and I go through some Well, we each have one thing to share about each of the, uh, match-ups from the final season, final game of the regular season of the fantasy football year. I could have said that better. Um, Mike, feel free to jump in wherever you'd like. Cause you know, the league mayor. We're sorry. We're sorry. Um, so I do. I do have a voicemail I can play really quick. Andy, if you need a second. Yeah. Let's, let's put more in the show. Yeah. You know what Paul McCartney says? simply having a wonderful Christmas time way too many times in that song by Humbug. Thanks, Gregor. Mike and I have the same sentiment. Thank you so much for your Humbug.
00:38:16
Speaker
So, uh, going into this week, the divisional showdown was, um, 21 to 20 with the advantage to Jeff's division. Uh, let's see how it goes this week. The very first matchup was a divisional matchup. My mama wipes his ass versus steel house.
00:38:39
Speaker
Cody should have known Tim Patrick was going to score his first two TDs since 2021 and that Stafford would outperform Mahomes and that 14 free agent runnybacks would score more fantasy points than Jalen Wright. Easy win. The late day scratch did Cody in here and Tom gets lucky once again, since he would have lost to four teams and he would have tied Kamen. We've never seen a tie before. Wouldn't that have been great? That would have been great.
00:39:08
Speaker
Point for that divisional showdown goes to the Little Lebowski Urban Achievers. That's 21-21. Next up, no game scheduled versus what's my AJ again. Tim Patrick plus Jamis Winston, Brian, gets the win. yeah with vision With these two points, Jarrett has pulled even with Brian, who lost both to Jarrett and to the median score. This result changed the playoff picture.
00:39:39
Speaker
That was a non-divisional matchup. Wasn't it, Jeff? Yeah, it was a non-divisional matchup. We have another non-divisional matchup here, Andy. Did division matchups matter? Yeah. so We just explained that. We explained to everything, Mike. It's 21, 21. But now it's 21, 21 because Lebowski got a fucking point. Hey, Mike, it hurts when I pee. I know.
00:40:02
Speaker
Also it's time to recap. It hurts when IP versus five less points than steel house. Jeff, if you would have put Roma doomsday in Tim Patrick for Marquez, Valdez, gambling in T Higgins. Dope. That's right. Well, Patrick says, what Mike, i and this was, uh, this was the game that somebody was on the bench that was often probably shouldn't have been on the bench.
00:40:31
Speaker
Oh, who was on the bench here? Uh, this Jay Addison from Minnesota. Jadison. Never heard of him. We should see if Kamen's heard of Jadison.
00:40:46
Speaker
Hey, but say what you will. Ray Finkel beat the meaty and score along with beating off his opponent, but he fell short of the playoffs by one win or 119 fantasy points.
00:41:02
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hey either would have got him there. yeah yeah yeah yeah Next up we have yellow jacket, tip Jeff's own yellow jackets versus Kuznug. Jeff, how'd it go for you? Ah, yes. Well, if I would have had Tim Patrick for Jay Brooks plus a Hunter's Carlson for Dustin Hopkins, I'd win by 49 tenths. How did I not see this?
00:41:32
Speaker
Jeff, you had the best fantasy receiver in the league this season. Did you ever think about trading him away to get more pieces? Asking for a friend, I'll take my answer after the show. This one resulted in a point for the little Lebowski Urban Achievers. It's now 22-21.
00:41:53
Speaker
The next matchup, the best worst team, my own, versus T-N-T-T-Netimba. Michael's team. Morris, it actually already is a word. T-Netimba. Could you use it in a sentence for us? Good morning, that's a nice T-Netimba. Eddie, you probably already know this, but you had the best fantasy running back in the league. Did you ever think?
00:42:20
Speaker
about trading him away to get more pieces. Also asking for a friend. chase Thanks, Jeff. yep ah we'll We'll discuss that after the show. Mike, this was your first time on the wrong side of the closest loss for the week. And I'd like to point out here that three of your nine head to head wins were as close as it gets.
00:42:47
Speaker
This is only your second time as the highest scoring loser, so I figure it evens out.
00:42:55
Speaker
Point, Lebowski. Next up we have 5-0 first versus O'Heimark in another divisional showdown. For the first time all season, Tim won his head to head, but lost the median score.
00:43:14
Speaker
Mayor, do you have you ever used the medium score in your ah fantasy football? No, but what we do, we do all play. And so the last playoff spot in a couple leagues, I'm going to go to whomever's got the best all play record. That is not within the top.
00:43:32
Speaker
but that pa people So our play is essentially our play is every week. If you got 12 teams, uh, you're going to have 11, like take your points against everybody else. You could be 11. Oh, you can be on 11. Take that throughout the course of the full year. And whoever has the best all play record that is not in top six, they get sorry. Top five. So you get that last six spots. I think they would, uh, burn you at the stake a couple of hundred years ago, mayor.
00:44:03
Speaker
Why is this? You think that was by all points. What app do you use? My Fantasy League? yeah Wait, that's what the app's called. My Fantasy League. but yeah that My League? Hang on, hang on. we We need to probably get a new app that has more options.
00:44:28
Speaker
that too I actually personally don't love it. We, we pay for a lot of stuff with it. I'm like, I don't really see what it provides, but I have been. Do you guys, do you guys get median score? That's been a big hit this year. How about divisions? Do you guys get divisions? then We have division. um Um, but there's another league in which we got rid of division because we felt like, uh,
00:44:55
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. which In our dynasty, we don't see divisions, because actually, there was one division that was clearly a lot stronger than the other one, so we got rid of it. But yeah, we normally do division. and um I don't know. Do you think there's anything significantly better about median versus all play? All play would be like even deeper, right, than median. Median is just saying you weren't worse than half the taking into account everything.
00:45:27
Speaker
Well, thanks for stacking our Qs and Cs for next week, mayor. Tune in next time for the answers to that and more league specific fantasy football questions.
Fantasy Football Outcomes
00:45:40
Speaker
It's time for my one thing on the 501st versus Ohio mark. ah This is how the season ends. This is how the season ends. Not with a bang, but with a whimper and Nick's lowest output of the season.
00:45:55
Speaker
One harkens back to the Discord comment from pseudonym eggsandtoast, where it was said, quote, this late as heck bye week can eat it, unquote. Oh, wow. Strong words, right, Mike? Fire! Shots fired! His bench is full of people on buy. Huh. That's right. That hurt me this week too.
00:46:22
Speaker
My kicker somehow is one of my all-stars on a team who has gotten only less than 10 points three times this year. I paid him off. Probably could have picked up a Hunter's Carlson. Yeah. Do you ever think about Hunter's Carlson? No, I don't. Daniel Carlson's brother. So you know, he kicks good.
00:46:46
Speaker
Alright, this one was a point for expect to loose. Jeff, you're one ahead, I think. No. Or is it tied? You're up by one right now. Oh. Oh, no, no, no. Yeah, yeah. You're up by... Tied.
00:47:02
Speaker
up. I'm up by one. You're right. I suck at this. Hey, um, last game, we do this every week mayor. Uh, the last, last matchup is the pure shit house versus DX fugs eight. It's another divisional showdown. vote Kurt did us all a solid by leaving Sammy D on the bench for 35 points. We thank you for your sacrifice.
00:47:30
Speaker
You see, Mayor, every time Kurt benches Sammy D,
00:47:37
Speaker
um the namesake of Sambo Field, ah he does really well. He leads to lots of Vikings victories. Definitely.
00:47:51
Speaker
I'm surprised more new news outlets, sports news don't cover that Kurt's effect on the Vikings fortunes by benching him in that you like that fantasy league. Right. It seems like it's a miss. It's a straight line. ah matt Matt enjoyed the biggest blowout of the week, but is anyone surprised? Despite multiple calls, texts, and on air shout outs, Kurt neglected to fill his lineup.
00:48:19
Speaker
Oh, yeah. I was wondering if he had four zeros on his team. With only five positions registering points, it's amazing that he would have still beaten three teams this week. Because the people he put in were beasts, or at least two of them. I think he put in is giving a lot of credit there. Left in as much more likely. Left unattended.
00:48:46
Speaker
Does he even put Sam Donald on the bench? His quarterback still got 23 points. Jared got. oh But yeah. Well, Matt winning this gave another point to the Little Lebowski Urban Achievers. So the the results are 24-22 Lebowski.
00:49:04
Speaker
Not looking good for you, Jeff. Not looking good. We'll call this a super sized episode. How's that sound? Yep. We'll put that in the name. We can call it an episode, uh, like the days of yore. Sure. Let me, well, Mike, can you, can you type that out for me and just send it to me in, in our group chat? I totally can. What am I putting in the group chat? Well, I just, you know, your, your, your, your keyboard's a lot louder than mine. So God is.
00:49:35
Speaker
I see a keyboard is as loud as mine. We're going to skip awards tracking with the regular season at its end. Most of the awards have been decided. Tune into our final episode, AKA the awards show to hear how everything shakes out. Maybe we'll have mayor back to give some commentary. We'll see. We'll see. I think the people want it already. They don't even know.
00:50:01
Speaker
Jeff, you got a playoff picture for us. Sorry. I did the playoff picture. Uh, the little about skier of an achievers, Tom in first place, cause nugs moved into second place fifth overall. That's a plus one. Uh, thunker is in sixth place. That's a minus one. And the last team to clinch a playoff spot this season was the pure shit house in eighth place, which is a plus one.
00:50:28
Speaker
Uh, everybody was locked in already on the expect to lose side of things, uh, ecom and second plus one Brian in third state, even Jarrett and fourth, the plus one and Tim in seventh at even, um, on the season, Andy, uh, that does mean that, uh, everyone in the expect to lose to us. Um, was about, was, uh, was above 500 to mid the playoffs and I'm looking and I think.
00:50:58
Speaker
Uh, I think the urban achievers had a one team below 500 in the place. Um, did anyone below five? Did anyone above 500 not make the playoffs Jeffrey? Anyone not above 500. Uh, he did anyone above 500 not make the playoffs. Nope. All right. So can we give it a rest?
00:51:26
Speaker
Hey Jeff, ah you mentioned that PureShitHouse clinched. I believe they get a special... You're right, you're right, sorry. Congratulations, you're in the playoffs! Thank you, Other Onders. Or maybe the Kicker is the Other Onders. Oh yeah, maybe the Kicker is the Other Looking ahead, we have four match-ups this week, and we've never looked ahead this season. And we are in our 52nd minute, so we'll try to be brief. Let's start with Mike. Mike, what's your strategy for going up against ah Tim, the 501st?
00:52:09
Speaker
I don't think I've ever lost to Tim. So I'm just going to bank on that history. He's going with history. Um, okay. That's fine. I'll change up my teams because I'm currently a 14 point underdog. So Mike, um, interestingly enough, you lost to Tim in week one. That doesn't sound right. Are you looking at the same stats? I am. It was the same week where I came on this show and said, I never seen the Godfather.
00:52:38
Speaker
Michael, where were you week one of NFL football season 2024? Do you have an alibi? I was incarcerated. Should have gone with apple picking. Apple picking. We'll go with apple picking. Apple picking on the Appalachian trail. On the Appalachian trail. Yeah. My, my thing for this one, for this matchup Andy would be that, uh, uh, Eakim should probably optimize his lineup.
00:53:09
Speaker
Um, is that going to be your thing for everybody or equal in particular? you can particularly. Hey, Mike, that's the, that's the the podcast bump. Okay. You're the the special guest bump. You get, you get the inside track. You get the free advice here because there's a pretty good chance that I don't post this before these games start. So yeah.
00:53:36
Speaker
I'm the only one that gets the solid advice of optimizing the lineup. Yep. Next up we got what? No, no, no, no. Steel, Steelhouse versus pure shit house. Sure. Yep. Uh, Andy, do you have one thing or do you want me to go with my one thing? Um, Steelhouse is projected to win by five.
00:54:01
Speaker
But you know, they're both a house that starts with S. Yeah. Steelhouse does have the number one seed coming in and has the highest projection right now at 109.6.
00:54:17
Speaker
This is at 21 and seven. What a record. See mayor, that's what you get when you play against the median score. You get fun records like that.
00:54:28
Speaker
Yeah, mayor if you have any thoughts on these matchups, just chime in. um ah first yeah um'm I'm very excited about it. Which house do you think you're going to yeah throw in behind? What feels better, a pure shit house or a steel house? and I think Beethoven will go with steel house.
00:54:56
Speaker
Like and subscribe to Steelhouse Productions on Instagram for travel videos and vacation photos from all around the world. ah Most recently, Belize. Anthony Edwards says, Belize that. Next up, we have, what's my AJ again versus five p five less points than Steelhouse.
00:55:25
Speaker
All right. Got something for you there on that one, Andy. Yeah, i got I got not much here. I don't know how end death. Yeah, Ezra? Five points more than skill house. It's about to die.
00:55:51
Speaker
Five points to death then.
00:55:55
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what's my age end
00:55:59
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what welcome to the play hot
00:56:05
Speaker
That is some great a shit talking right there. That is some pretty top notch. Wow. I got to follow up to that though, Andy.
00:56:18
Speaker
Hey, uh, me and you come go long way back and My favorite ecomism is when he told me from each according to his abilities to each according to his needs. He came up with that. I did. And I told it to that person in strict confidence. So I feel a little betrayed. Yes. That person indeed.
00:56:53
Speaker
ah Jeff yep We're almost in an hour here. Yeah, so do we have did it did we hit all these games or not quite? Cuz night cuz night. Yeah, I have one more now. It doesn't it doesn't retain to this but I can play it. Oh Listen, I don't care if you're steel I don't care if you think you're just a little bit better than steel or maybe some tungsten bullshit or whatever. I the dust settles and all you fuckers are covered in shit, you'll know the truth. I'm coming for ya.
00:57:33
Speaker
Thank you, Matt. So glad he's in the league now. And not just a regular contributor.
00:57:44
Speaker
Uh, talk about shit talking. Yeah. You can, you can, what's the number if someone wants to call and do some shit talking? Um, they should call Jeff at 6 1 2 2 9 3 6 6 3 5. Jeff, do we, thank you, Mike. Jeff, to we have some breaking news.
00:58:08
Speaker
got some Breaking news coming out of you like that fancy.
00:58:16
Speaker
Is this confirmed? Okay. All right. Breaking news. This just came in from headquarters.
00:58:24
Speaker
Jeff, I have it on high authority that three minutes ago, according to Yahoo fantasy, the NBA, AKA Tanemba, AKA Ekamure, AKA the great cookie thief added Denver and dropped. You guessed it.
00:58:47
Speaker
Blake group. That's right. Whoa. I've been right here. right there Mike, can you explain yourself?
00:58:59
Speaker
Really didn't need two kickers and better defense. Wow. That's the real kicker there. Poor mayor has to buy new headphones now.
00:59:17
Speaker
Here. Veterans of you like that know that that sound can drop.
Upcoming Match-ups and Thought Experiments
00:59:25
Speaker
I mean, it used to be eight times a show, but we've cut back a little bit. Well, that's the do oh, we got to talk about Kuznak. Jeff, what do you got? Kuznak versus no game scheduled. Zack versus Jarrett. Yeah, I didn't think I thought it was just a buy. um but For whom?
00:59:47
Speaker
da da da Okay, okay, we can do this. ah What's okay, if Jared, if Jared Allen has like another, you know, game, that's all that matters in this one. If he has another game, I agree with you. I mean, he had 52 points last week, right? He did. Ridiculous. Here's the thing. Not bad for a retired defensive end. The most The most compelling storyline here is the most compelling storyline is that in week, these two met once this season in week 11 and it was the closest match of the week. Uh, in that week, Zach beat
01:00:35
Speaker
Uh, Jarrett, I think I'm like, yes, Zach beat Jarrett by 1.4. Okay. He's getting out a pencil. He's getting out a pencil but taking and he's taking notes. You guys, this is the, this is the rematch of the week. It's no surprise here that this is the fourth seed versus the fifth seed in an eight team league. These guys.
01:01:02
Speaker
are the closest match. This is the one to watch. ah Tune in next time to find the dramatic conclusion. That has been the looking ahead. Okay. Portion. It's time to wrap up this show. Yes. Just over an hour. Any final thoughts today from, ah let's start with Mayor.
01:01:27
Speaker
Um, okay. I'm very excited about the compelling math. I can't wait to find out what happened. Thanks mayor. Thanks for joining us yeah all the way from Cerritos and the Bay area. elsewhere in it al three yeah Thank you for having me. I do that but somewhere in the depths of my soul. Mike, any any final thoughts for today?
01:01:55
Speaker
I don't know. Just looking at, looking at these match-ups, uh, cross all eight teams. There's only a five point difference between what's expected. So, but as we saw last week, a lot of, a lot of players blew up last week. So it's a time of year that, uh, you know, what's Mike, what's the coefficient of the natural log there? The coefficient of the natural log it's, it did seven. It's seven. but seven i I saw a natural log first thing this morning, right after my coffee.
01:02:31
Speaker
but Mayor, have you worked out how many ah fights you'd have to win in a worldwide one-on-one tournament?
01:02:45
Speaker
What type of being the total world populate or when I think about this? So like every every time, every time you beat someone, then you've cut in half. You, right. So if we start with 8 billion people, 8 billion, 4 billion, 2 billion, how many fights do you have to win? again Hey mayor, when you work it out, uh, 6 1 2 2 9 3 6 6 3 5.
01:03:11
Speaker
Yeah, youre that might like cripple in time. No, it's OK. It's OK. Mike did his answer in the pre-show. So we have that in the record. um You can submit your answer to the chat line, either via text or um or voicemail. We prefer voicemail. and ah And maybe who you'd fight first. you know It's a little flavor to call somebody out.
01:03:39
Speaker
Do you hire a newborn baby or a man from Uganda? You got options. Specifically a man from Uganda. Right. ah They're going to pick the biggest, baddest man from Uganda. And you're going to be sorry, Mayor. yeah You're going to be sorry. ah Jeff, any final thoughts?
01:04:07
Speaker
Um, thanks everybody for joining. Yeah. Yeah. It's very special to have you both on the show. Um, Mike, we and so mayor, we go even further. Yeah, I can tell tune in next week when you like that musical director BT the special joins us for, uh, I guess our second, uh, head to head five questions segment.
01:04:37
Speaker
Right, Chef? Yeah. It's pretty special. I'm going to study. It's going to be the special, to be clear. And we're going to recap week one of the 2024 fantasy playoffs. Oh, it's just. What? What the week one of the It's the same for Mike. He'll be brand new content. I listened to week one.
01:05:08
Speaker
My most played podcast of 2024. but you You just kept listening to week one, which is weird. But we did say only good things about you back then. and the The needle kept skipping. right I couldn't control it. So you print our podcasts on vinyl and then listen to them. This is really my only source of media in the household. No headphones though, right?
01:05:39
Speaker
No headshots. Cause he's not ashamed. I'm not ashamed. I even opened the windows for that, which is not a good idea to do in Minnesota. That's right. Loud and proud, Michael. Um, Hey mayor, before you go, um, have you ever, have you ever thought about ah flipping your, the spelling of your name in reverse?
Humorous Farewell
01:06:04
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What am I do for you?
01:06:06
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warrior Yeah, you know, I figured that was the art for it's number one for a person that like, oh, yeah, that's what I thought about it. um Yeah, I i'd probably flip it and and flip the vowels. So it'd be like, right. You know, like, like, damn. What kind of I'm trying to work out Andy and her.
01:06:36
Speaker
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