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Week 18 THE Awards Show! WIth Draft Priority neh Pick-Picks
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Summary
In this engaging podcast episode, host Ando-yeah welcomes Blake Thomas, a prominent figure in live radio theater, to discuss his show 'Take It With You' and its recent season finale. The conversation explores the intricacies of producing live radio theater, including its broadcasting on local radio and the funding it receives from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. The hosts also delve into a brief segment on the Minnesota Vikings, followed by a fun and light-hearted 'Five Questions' segment with Blake, covering topics from guilty pleasure music to ideal vacation spots. In this episode, the hosts discuss various awards given at the end of the fantasy football season, celebrating individual performances, strategic decisions, and overall league dynamics. Each award highlights different aspects of the season, from standout player performances to the most significant blunders, creating a comprehensive recap of the season's events and outcomes.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Welcome
02:50 Take It With You: A Deep Dive
06:04 Broadcasting and Funding Insights
09:06 Vikings Talk: The Mjolnir Minute
12:07 Five Questions with Blake Thomas
23:14 Appreciation for Art and Culture
25:19 End-of-Season Awards Introduction
25:57 Beast Mode Award for Best Performance
27:22 Wheaties Box for Best Player Overall
28:22 Oracle Award for Correct Pick-ems
29:04 Hey Big Spender Award for Waiver Reach
31:43 Shrewd Dude Award for Closest Waiver Win
33:43 Hardware Collector Award for Most Trophies
35:57 Overpowered Award for Most Points For
37:07 Them's The Breaks Award for Most Points Against
39:11 Eat My Dust Award for Biggest Blower
40:17 Close But No Cigar Award for Closest Loss
43:08 Worst Manager Award for Points Left on Bench
44:39 Skullster Award for Last Place Finisher
47:22 Draft Lottery Excitement
56:36 Looking Ahead: Changes for Next Season
70:16 Reflections on the Season and Final Thoughts
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Transcript
Introduction of Hosts and Guests
00:00:03
Speaker
Yeah, we're living in a empty world We're living in a
00:00:24
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joining you from an undisclosed location because if anyone knew where he was born and raised, for example, they would easily crack most of his passwords. It's goes that idea. Next up, a man who is on a three-year Duolingo streak just so he can translate listener metrics. It's Jeff Meghan. He knows all the numbers from Japan.
00:00:55
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Lastly, you know him best from his hit jingles, Andy Francine, Jeff Megan, and Andy Francine Extended Edition. But his biggest contribution is to kick things off each week on this very show, where all of us living in a fantasy world, when BT the Spesh joins us live from Duluth. Yeah. Nobody worry, it's the BT Spesh. I forgot about that one.
00:01:33
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Yeah, that one's flat. That last one is really.
00:01:41
Speaker
They're going nuts for you, Blake. Welcome back to the show. Those seven guys. um They were all Jeff. It took him a while, okay? That's dedication, Holmes. Blake, welcome back to the show. Your first time back since I think 22 or 23. It's been a while. Yeah. Our mistake. Very glad to be back.
00:02:11
Speaker
We're glad to have you. I really think that, um, you just heard from this, that should could be turned into a actual commercial. You should shop that, you know, and just, just swap in, swap in different brands. Like it's so, you know, different brands and words, and but end with like subway or Papa John's or any brand or just make somebody change the name of their product to the special yeah like pepsi the bucket it's the special oh yeah we're gonna we're going for a clean show here guys okay a clean
00:03:02
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Oh, I need to stop talking. Uh, we'll, we'll work that out later. Um, sorry kids. Uh, you made it this far and we're going right into questions and comments. Everybody listening at
Blake's Podcast 'Take It With You'
00:03:17
Speaker
home. The season is over. Welcome to the awards show. This one's going to get really exciting, hopefully kind of funny. And we have the specialist of special guests here.
00:03:29
Speaker
Blake, we're happy to have you, especially happy that Take It With You just wrapped its eighth season. Is that correct? It is. Yes. How many episodes were in season eight? Oh, yeah. Let's hear it. Yes. Oh, man. Yeah. That's what I'm talking about. Oh, they're still going. Oh, People, people.
00:03:56
Speaker
um This man is in high demand. Blake, if someone started from the beginning, how many episodes of Take It With You are there? I think there's like 57.
00:04:10
Speaker
57 episodes. Can you give us an elevator pitch for the show? Well, it is live radio theater down in front of an audience, which makes it live and radio and theater. So that's cool. No, it's live radio theater and it is, um what do we say, the golden age of radio, but without the age.
00:04:34
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. It's a modern take on on on radio theater, the stuff that you might have you know heard on the radio as a kid that was first broadcast back in the 40s and 50s or 30s. And we do all original music. I write a lot of the scripts, and they're about 40 pages long. And we have a cast of, I don't know, 10.
00:05:01
Speaker
And we play all this stuff. It's super fun. That's excellent. Jeff, could we hear a sample? Sickly Superhero.
00:06:04
Speaker
That's from episode one of season eight the soup nami Blake is that show broadcast on the actual radio waves in Duluth? It is. It's not broadcast live, but we did. Yeah, it's super fun. We partnered with 1033 the North here in Duluth. And yeah, they are a PBS radio affiliate. And it's pretty formerly KUMD, formerly KUMD. And yeah, now it is the North.
00:06:38
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And so, yeah, we do the show and then our sound engineer, Nick Gosen, and I mix it. And there's about, it's an 11-day turnaround and then it gets aired on not the following Saturday, but the one after that. So, yeah. That's excellent. And where can we, the uvite, that faithful, find, take it with you?
00:07:01
Speaker
Most anywhere you get your podcasts, except for Spotify, because apparently that lapse didn't have to do something about it. I did switch to Amazon Music when I couldn't find it on Spotify.
00:07:19
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by Oh, dang. That works. Yeah, I got gotta do something about that. I'm glad we're doing this because ah saying it out loud will help me remember. Yeah, definitely. And don't worry, mean you like that faithful, they're going to light you up. a very yeah like one we Just take it with you.org.
00:07:42
Speaker
to listen to it on the website. Hey, that's a way to do it. Blake, I can't help but notice, as I'm almost finished with this season, I couldn't get it done in time, but at the end of each episode, you mention some of your funding, right? Uh-huh. And is one of them some sort of Minnesota Heritage something or other? Yes, the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
00:08:09
Speaker
Oh, okay. um How did you get connected with them? Was that like a a grant program? Yeah, that's that's grant funding. and So there's a lot of lot of stuff that gets funding through them in the arts world. that that's That's good to know because I'm curious, do you think ah you know a Minnesota focused podcast with seven to 11 weekly listeners would qualify for maybe, I don't know, five, 10 bucks a year.
00:08:44
Speaker
You definitely tried. Okay, cool. Yeah, I think that would cover all of our operating fees. Yeah. All right.
00:08:57
Speaker
Cool. Blake, before you get to the rest of the show, any questions? Cause this is questions and comments. Any questions or comments for us so far? Um, man. No.
00:09:12
Speaker
Perfect. Perfect. Jeff, any questions from the, from our listeners? Uh, we do have a voicemail, but I haven't listened to it. Okay. I doubt it's a question. No, it's, I think it's a comment. All right guys, it's
Humorous Sports Commentary
00:09:28
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time. I'm moving right along. Uh, like this next part of the show is called the me older minute.
00:09:37
Speaker
This is where we talk about the Vikings for 60 seconds and 60 seconds only. All right. Wow. Jeff, I think we're ready.
00:09:53
Speaker
Timer started. Blake, did you watch Vikings versus Detroit? No. Perfect. So what are your impressions of the game and what do you think the Vikings are?
00:10:04
Speaker
Well, if there's anything that I know, it's that, uh, Bomber McGee has a pretty sweet left arm, and I think if they just get that kid the right nuts, he's gonna throw them down the field and into the tree. It's very good, BT. It's very true. Um... They do need to get more nuts down the field. Jeff is sucking helium. We don't have a second guess.
00:10:32
Speaker
You guys, this game was the first meeting for Vikings in Detroit since week seven, when the Vikings won the second half, but lost the game by two. The Vikings this week never led the game or scored a touchdown in week 18. Detroit is clearly better, wouldn't you say, Jeff? Yeah, much better. much Much, much better. Was Sam Darnold exposed? We'll leave it to others to have that discussion.
00:10:59
Speaker
I just wonder how much money he lost this game, or how much he will lose if they also fall short to the Rams this coming weekend. Because everyone's talking about his next contract, right, Jeffrey? All anyone is talking about. All anyone is talking about. That's all I'm talking about. Kevin O'Connell. Someone. And the number was...
00:11:26
Speaker
It's pretty hard to believe. But easy to forget. Now this weekend, Kevin O'Connell will go against his old mentor, correct? That was with the niketri. Can you say Kevin O'Connell in like an Irish accent? Can I say it in an Irish accent? Yeah, just generally, whenever you say his name, I just feel like it should be like Kevin O'Connell. That's what we have you here for. You red headed beauty.
00:11:51
Speaker
ah This next game will be in Los Angeles unless the fires move it to Arizona. It is nice of the Cardinals to miss the playoffs three years running, so their stadium can be available for emergencies. That's crazy. They have to have that plan in place. It is. Parts and thoughts go out to them. My old home in Sylmar is in an evacuation zone right now, so it's kind of crazy.
00:12:21
Speaker
to think of it all. That's it for the Millionaire Minute. Thank you for the yaller horn. Great job, Blake. I think you were right on the money. Thank you. That was helpful. You broke it down. Next up is the part of the show that everyone looks forward to. That's five questions. Five questions.
00:12:48
Speaker
Five questions.
Five Questions Segment with Blake
00:12:53
Speaker
Hey Blake, in the do you have a guilty pleasure band or performer? Um, I think usually, uh, I say when I, when I answered this question, it was like, uh, usually it's Kesha. Nice. Where do you listen to Kesha? Where?
00:13:15
Speaker
uh windows up windows down yeah i mean i guess you know wherever i i feel the need for kesha all right so like in the car like andy was saying sure are you are you doing windows up windows down summertime oh yeah windows down all right blast and kesha I have to say though like recently there's a I've been I've been listening to a lot of you know, what what what the kids call yacht rock and God, it's just so good. Just just a lot of a lot of that can't get enough Michael on McDonald, right? Oh god, and there's yeah, I don't know just Steely Dan Rocking it. I did watch that documentary. Yeah that that gets you going then. Oh god that keeps this sounds Like such a cool scene like yeah I don't know
00:14:03
Speaker
Everybody's just playing on each other's shit. And it's pretty awesome. Right. Well, you feel like you should drive around like I'm in Tonka. All right. wait yeah So we score these questions, Blake. Um, then that's a windows down for a guilty pleasure songs. Yeah. No, God, no, No, no, no.
00:14:32
Speaker
was better like next time. Didn't sound like you were all that guilty on this one. Oh, no, that I don't have any guilty pleasure. Not guilty your honor. No one really has all year. It's a bad question. It's a bad question. And this is the last time we're asking it. So thank you, Blake. Uh, I do like the Kesha answer. Jeffrey, you wrote down Kesha, but we need to switch that S to a dollar sign. Yeah, I know. All right.
00:15:02
Speaker
Blake, next question. What's a favorite or ideal USA vacation spot for you? If you were going to drive around the country in an RV being pulled by a truck, think about it like that. Put that in there's context. Where would I go?
00:15:20
Speaker
I've never been to Alaska and I would I've always wanted I would like to go to Alaska um So, I don't know but exactly where in Alaska I haven't really Thought about it that deeply, but I would like to go to Alaska breath of co likeke You're bringing it back. Oh shit. All right one-on-one no no Sorry All right, Blake This one's tough. Could be tough. Could be tough. What is your favorite random social media wormhole?
00:15:58
Speaker
my favorite random social media wormhole you're gonna have to say that to me in a different way so if you know let's say let's say you're uh killing time in the bathroom the you know hey are you are you uh getting on i know you're not getting on tiktok um but if you're on uh you know Facebook or Threads or YouTube or reddit or anything like that. What's the thing that like you could just dive into? All of a sudden 30 minutes are gone. I think honestly recently it's like You know because so I the outside this this job where I'm doing a lot of you know creating a lot of content stuff
00:16:49
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Yeah, thank you. For social media stuff. So I guess the thing that makes me like stop is if I see something, I'm like, oh, that's like really neat visually. And it gets me really quickly. And then I i try to figure out you know as far as like video editing-wise or you know whatever it was to be able to try to replicate that. Any specific replicator or style that's been cut that's caught you recently?
00:17:15
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um I think just because like, you know, there's a lot of theater stuff. ah So like, like National Theater Live, I think does a really good job of of making captivating ah stuff for marketing and promotion for social media, for theater specifically. One of the videos that we've watched in our household a lot in the last year is this one where a gentleman is doing the dishes in his kitchen.
00:17:47
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wasn't on social media. It was just texted to me, but we watch it over and over and over again. Yeah. That's amazing. We really do. Um, it's, it's, well, it's, it's beloved. Uh,
00:18:06
Speaker
I have a sneaking suspicion that Blake shared a video of him washing dishes, but it's just a guess. And I don't want an answer here. Blake, next question.
00:18:23
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Blake, what's a surprising movie you've never seen? In order to get a correct answer, Jeff and I have to have seen it. ah I think, honestly, like it comes up a lot is that I've never seen the sound of music.
00:18:43
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yeah so honest yeah
00:18:53
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Blake, what you didn't know going into that question was if you had named a film that a previous guest this season had named, you would have been incorrect. Oh, all right. All right. So that was a really big win. Big win. Feels good. yeah Not as good as watching Sound of Music. You know, so many of the people in our, in our grade,
00:19:22
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I don't know. Maybe I'm the only person, no matter if I can watch this out of music at Brooke Larson's house. Sancer, please.
High School Classmate Becomes Mayor
00:19:29
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Oh yes.
00:19:35
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oh Oh, um, speaking of our high school class, Jeff, did you see that one of our, uh, graduating class is now the mayor of Shaska. I didn't see that, but my parents actually called me today to tell me that, um, is the mayor.
00:19:57
Speaker
Well, seriously, though, is the mayor of Chas gonna... Oh, so it's me. It's, uh... F*** you. It's been redacted. Taylor Hubbard. Yep. Huh? Uh, yeah, exactly. And I never, you know, I never connected, but Jeff, you're connected.
00:20:24
Speaker
We have 54 mutual friends. Now she's just going to think I'm trying to connect because she's the mayor, you know? So I can't do it. I can't do it. now That would be kind of the reason though, right? but but i said yeah She probably listens to this because it's Minnesota. It's a lot of Shaska, right? Yeah. yeah The the the like victory party was like her and Maggie Schultz.
00:20:52
Speaker
That's amazing. Yeah. That's amazing. Jeff, let's go. My parents went to the swearing in. Did they use the, the bleed button? Twice. Hey, oh, okay. Blake, um, this question, uh, you can take it any way you want to guess, but what is the largest animal you could knock out with one punch?
00:21:17
Speaker
Yeah, this is I think this is the one that I was like I knew this was coming and I still don't really Know here's my thing. I don't Like take ah a cat for instance, right? You can throw a cat off of like a 10-story building and it's fine. And so I think my my whole thing is that like I don't know how live like particular animals are. So like if I punched a cat, like would it just be able to move in a way where it would be okay?
00:21:51
Speaker
So I guess they fade the punch or or it's like like back absorb it or like punch. I just feel like I don't, I can't imagine like being able to actually like connect and punch an animal. And so the only one I can come up with really is just like if there was a parrot,
00:22:09
Speaker
that like wasn't moving, I think I could probably like punch a parrot. and Like a sleeping parrot? Yeah. Honestly, my brother had birds. I don't know if you guys dont remember that, but you could punch a bird pretty easy. Like a cat like ah like a parrot or a parrot key or something like that. yeah They're pretty they're pretty like used to people being around them. So I think you could could you could ah catch one of those.
00:22:38
Speaker
Thanks for answering that question. correct Okay. Blake, last question. Uh, what's, what's your litmus test television show? Oh yeah. This is the one where we try to give them an actual question for people. Like as in like,
00:23:00
Speaker
The show that and ah an appreciation of this show lets you know that someone like is on your wavelength. Sure. They get it. You know, they get your sense of humor or your perspective or. Yeah. Um, man.
00:23:20
Speaker
or just like they have they have an appreciation for a higher art form maybe uh i don't know like i mean i'm most a deadwood most of the people i don't know that i've ever really met anyone it's like super into deadwood that i'm like you're a dick i don't know but might be deadwood hey uh where's that sensor button like correct coak koak What were we censoring there? The D word. Dumbbell. Deadwood. From what I understand of the show, they didn they would have broken the bleep button if they used it, frankly. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Ian McShane. Masterclass.
00:24:19
Speaker
in that thing The English language? The English language. Yeah, I'm sure. Last question, Blake. How many questions did we ask you? I'm going to go with six. Crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap,
00:24:45
Speaker
that's been five questions thanks everyone for participating this year jeff's going to our crap, crap, We're going to put those together so that everyone has all the answers from all 16 people. That's a lot of code or thing broke. So I had a, I had to go back and take it off of an old episode. That's a lot of data for 16 people answering that question comes to those numbers.
00:25:18
Speaker
Hey Jeff, we're we're about to go into the the reason we're all here today, the end of season awards. Yep. Do you want me to say that? I think we should do it right after the end of season awards. Okay. And right before the draft lottery. Stay tuned for the draft lottery to see who will get the first six draft priority picks.
00:25:43
Speaker
But for now. Okay, so the end of season rewards. Blake, the first word that we're going to go over today is called the beast mode.
Beast Mode Award Announcement
00:25:52
Speaker
Beast mode is for the best single game player performance. I see. Okay. All right.
00:26:00
Speaker
But the caveat here is that the player has to be actually starting in someone's roster. So like if they were on on your bench or they weren't on a team, doesn't count. So like if somebody scored 60 points, but they weren't actually being played by someone in the league. No, no, no, right no. All right. So for this. walk la Jeff, you were the runner up here having seen, seen Jamar Chase score 49.9 in week 10. Zach, it turns out claimed this prize in week 14 after 51.88 from Josh Allen, who was the last pick of the second round. Congratulations, Zach. Yeah, nice work, Zach.
00:26:52
Speaker
You got $10 coming your way. Blake, that's the big thing here. Every award winner gets $10 and the entry to this league was $40. So you know, you do a couple of these and you're halfway there. So Blake, our second award is called the Wheaties box. Now the Wheaties box is for the best player overall. The player that scored the most points for the season.
00:27:22
Speaker
Okay.
00:27:26
Speaker
Josh Allen had some big games this year, but he trailed in overall fantasy points by 26 to Lamar Jackson. Blake, have you heard of either of those players? No, no I haven't. Congratulations!
00:27:49
Speaker
Congratulations Nick Thunker for drafting Lamar Jackson in the third round. Jeff.
00:27:56
Speaker
That might be a keeper alert. Yeah, that's definitely a keeper alert. So the next award, in Blake, is called the Oracle. That is the most correct pickums during the season. So each week, ah each matchup is a pick, like, you know, Blake's taking on Andy and I get to pick, is Blake gonna win or is Andy gonna win? So this, the Oracle is that. Dig it.
00:28:24
Speaker
the The funny thing here was that after locking this in for an award this season, we realized a few weeks in that Yahoo removed the ability to pick fantasy match-up winners. So instead, we will be turning this $10 award into a trophy, a physical trophy of sorts for this year's champion. Congratulations, Matt.
00:29:10
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. That's ah area big money. was Sticking with the individual player awards. Yeah.
00:29:22
Speaker
This one was almost secured in week 13 when you, Jeffrey, took Gina Smith for $45 beating Kurt's bid of $0. Uh, Blake, did you know Kurt was back in the league? I didn't. I did not.
00:29:44
Speaker
Honorable mention here goes to Tom, who spent $21 total on three Geno Smith acquisitions throughout the season, but did not bid against you here, Jeffrey. But you were, like I said, the runner up. Instead, it was Zach who snagged Patrick Taylor Jr. the following week for $51, beating out the future champion Matt's bid of $0. Congrats again, Zach.
00:30:16
Speaker
Hey Andy, and there is one problem there. We did set the stipulation this year that there had to be actual dollars bid by the second bidder. Was there not? Yep. There's zero. Oh my God. We did? Yeah. Sounds like a wrench has been thrown into this. Okay.
00:30:41
Speaker
okay Um, so then that would go to, That's a, that's a, that's a pretty self serving flag there. Jeffrey, wouldn't you say? I wasn't the biggest, the biggest. Oh, I just said, Oh, who was? Cause Kurt, cause Kurt only bid $0. So it wasn't, wouldn't have been like, you know, Oh, it wasn't you. I thought it was, I thought it was the biggest,
00:31:10
Speaker
Okay, we're going to have to dig into this. Tune in to the Discord for the thrilling conclusion of Hey Big Spectre. Thank you, Jeff. Yeah, think I think it ends up being Brian on Dontavian Wix in week four. Nope.
00:31:31
Speaker
yeah
00:31:34
Speaker
Hey, we can't, we can't let this show degrade like last week's did. My apologies for the lack of clarity on my end. Next award. Next award, hardware collector. This is the most Yahoo trophies. Hold on. Hold on. I skipped one. Sure, dude. That's the closest waiver wire win. Just like that last one, Blake, where people are spending the most money. This one is the closest margin on the waiver wire. The closest margin on the waiver wire. Yep.
00:32:03
Speaker
Blake, are you, do you know, uh, what the waiver wire is? No, I don't. It's pretty, it's a pretty cool thing. It's a wire wave back and forth. I was setting up the sounder, but that's fine too. Uh, though we had some pretty close bids this season from one to $3 margins, we saw five column, five even bids that came down to waiver priority.
00:32:32
Speaker
But none as high as in week three. I hope I'm right about this one, Jeff. I'm pretty sure you are, yeah. Zach, the Kuznug bid $21 for Carson Steele. Have you ever heard of more football slash B-movie actor name than Carson Steele, Blake? I have not.
00:32:57
Speaker
okay So Kuznug, Did 21 bucks, but so did Kamen, it hurts when I P Liddell, who had a higher waiver priority. Without this, Kam, AKA Ray Finkel, would have made $0 this fantasy season. What a shrewd move. I wish he would have rebut. We haven't heard from Kamen in a long time. But what a shrewd move from this shrewd dude.
00:33:30
Speaker
Nice work, human. Then the hardware collector, which I was already talking about there, but I you know it's just skipped an award. That's the most Yahoo trophies collected over the year. And is Yahoo the tech company, the search engine? Yahoo, that Yahoo? Yeah. How are you getting trophies from Yahoo?
00:33:56
Speaker
Yahoo has virtual trophies because Yahoo is our fantasy host. Yep. All right. Jeff, what are the, what are the Yahoo does anymore? Yeah. And you do it well. Pretty well. Well enough. Yep. So hard hardware collector, it took some effort to find the metals count, right? Yep. It turned out to be a four way tie, Blake.
00:34:25
Speaker
25 medals were earned by Jeff, Tom, Nicholas, and Matt. I put a link on the 2024 awards tracker, which is accessible as a pinned post on hashtag rules dash-talk. ah Blake, I'm sure you've turned all your notifications for the fantasy football discord channel to vibrate. Yeah. Yeah, I did that. Good, good.
00:34:57
Speaker
We've decided to vacate this award as a result of the four-way tie and instead use the $10 to start filling out the backlog of championship trophies. I'm starting with a mystery recipient from 2018.
Future Plans and Rule Changes
00:35:14
Speaker
Unless you think we should announce it, Jeff. The mystery recipient or the trophy? ah miss Oh no, just the mystery recipient. Oh yeah, we should announce the recipient. Do it.
00:35:26
Speaker
Um, yeah, well I'd have to remember it. Oh, I'm sorry. Congratulations, Tim. You're also getting recognized for your victory in 2018. Oh yeah, the 501st, the big up. That's right. What am I thinking about? Jeez. Sorry. Sorry, Tim. It's okay.
00:35:46
Speaker
Okay, then the next award, Andy, is overpowered. That's for most points four. We should probably start clipping through these a little faster, huh? That was pretty good. What's up, guys? Yeah, Blake, most points doesn't always mean the best record.
00:36:12
Speaker
our Our runner-up barely made it to into the playoffs and ended up winning the whole enchilada Matt's pure shit house scored 1559 points this season the most points however were scored by the team with the second best regular season record he comes the NBA Who finished? Morris? Keith, overall. It actually already is a word. Tenetember. Could you use it in a sentence for us? Good morning. That's a nice tenetember. Blake, you ever watch the IT crowd? I have not.
00:36:56
Speaker
If we were still scoring points, Blake, that would be an incorrect. All right, the next award is for them is the bricks. That's the most points against. It's easy to feel like the odds are stacked against you. Our runner up Lance Corporal Underground saw 1600 points scored against, but he was able to persevere due to having the fourth most points for opposing teams scored 63 more points against Kurt's DX fugs ache, but his 13th place finish by his 13th most points scored. Congratulations, Kurt. It's not all a loss.
00:37:35
Speaker
I do have a voicemail to play with that, I think. Let's do it. The North American smiley moose has the most peculiar habit of climbing up the evergreen trees, prancing his hoof along the needles. He grazes on Pringles and junior mitts.
00:38:03
Speaker
As he stands atop the canopy, he gazes out over his minion. And then, letting out one triumphant hoof, he spreads his majestic antlers and glides down the standing. Gracefully, gleefully, gaily prancing on the air, he goes down one ranking at a time.
00:38:31
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until he makes his final landfall, settling near-definite points ahead of his lowest adversary. Truly, he is a marvel of the natural species. And one more reason why. Bugs say this game is good.
00:39:11
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Thank you for fucks sake from all of us. schools
00:39:23
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Those who make it to the playoffs get extra time to make their mark on the season and snag awards like these that continue through week 17. Funker got as close as anyone since week nine, besting Zach's squad by 74 points.
00:39:38
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Only 12 points short of the award winner. Congratulations to you, Jeff, for beating Brian by 86 points at week five. I kind of jumped with that. Jamar Chase will rest easier at home knowing that he made you $10 here, even though the Bengals lost that game and fell short of the playoffs.
00:40:05
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a
00:40:08
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All right. The next award is called Close But No Cigar. That's for the closest loss of the season. Andy, this one was pretty intense. It was Jeffrey. Blake, let me walk you through this. Please.
Fantasy Football's Closest Losses
00:40:33
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you know it really stings to lose by the nervous margin. So that's why we give that person $10, but it's season long, right? It's, it's 18 weeks, no, 17 weeks long. Okay. 17 weeks. That's right. Last year, this award, are you as good with numbers as Jeff is, Blake?
00:41:03
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Um, are I don't know what you said, but I'm willing to plow forth. Like the last year, this award went to Nick Funker for losing to Tom by 62 hundredths of a point. That's 0.62. All right. In 2022, it went to Tom for losing by 66 hundredths.
00:41:30
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albeit in the championship game. Remember that year, Jeff? Yep. Great game. Great year. And in 2021, this went to Tim for losing by four tenths or 40 hundredths, uh, for, to just to help everyone keep perspective, right? So our closest, closest loss so far was four tenths. Um, this year, Tim had the 10 spot on lock. Uh, once again,
00:41:58
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since his seven hundredths of a point loss to Cody in week seven. It would have been the closest loss by 33 hundredths of a point since we started tracking the statistic, right, Jeff? Yeah, it's close. there's There was no way anyone could lose by a smaller margin. That is until Brian met Funker in the opening round of this year's playoffs.
00:42:22
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with a final score of 124.1 to 124.05. Brian etched, what's my AJ again, into the record books. If he had won that game, he would have beaten Pierce Shithouse in the semifinal and lost the championship to Tim by 2.36. So it's only a $90 swing there, Brian, if that helps.
00:43:09
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I did change this role mid season to be the most games that, uh, to go to the, the manager who, who had the most games they should have and could have won. That's right, Jeff. I'm calling shenanigans on myself.
00:43:24
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Some teams like this season's winner clearly planned their season accordingly to win back some of their dues with awards like this. Okay. Therefore, for the last time, worst manager will go to the team who left the most points on their bench. This was painstakingly calculated to determine each team's optimal lineup based on that week's roster. We had 32 perfect games out out of 220.
00:43:51
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though most were due to bye weeks and injuries and not all resulted in wins. Jeff, you want to announce this one? Congratulations to Kurt, who left 26 more points on his bench this season than Kamen. Not surprisingly, ah said you were out of practice, but you stepped up and took one for the team here, Kurt. So thank you. We'll never forget it.
00:44:21
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Well, never, never forget it. Never, never. One more award to go. Last
Last Place Award in Fantasy League
00:44:29
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one. So this one is the Skullster. Last place, regular season finisher, Andy. They get the toaster that makes the Vikings logo toast. That's Have you seen this before, Blake? I have not, no.
00:44:45
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We'll send you a picture. Actually, maybe I've seen the toaster. Maybe I have seen a picture of the toaster. I was not aware that it made Vikings logo toast. That makes more sense.
00:45:01
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Knowing that fact about that toaster. yeah it ties the It ties the room together for me. It really does. It really does. this This was a hard fought battle. I spent the last of my free agent budget to avoid the toaster, a toaster that my camper life cannot accommodate. And I know from personal experience that Kurt lacks the counter space in his home, though they do have a very cool portable dishwasher.
00:45:31
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Uh with so with three teams finishing nine with a nine and 19 record This one came down to points four and by a margin of 1600 This year's toaster holder holder will be jeffrey
00:45:51
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The newcomer the group, Cody Craig, manager of team, my mama wipes his ass. nay seaha two Congratulations, Cody. Blake, you got to listen to this really quick here. I'm really pumped for Cody. yeah
00:46:15
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And all the taste. Hi, I'm Brody. Your team's number 13. You lost to my dad. And your mama raised my ass. Welcome to You Like That. That's fantastic.
00:46:35
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cat
00:46:39
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Yes. Yeah. I talk over it every time, but it was fantastic for sure.
00:46:47
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Well, that was our star studded end of season awards announcements.
Season Wrap-Up
00:46:51
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Uh, congratulations to everyone who has money coming their way, though there has been a dispute logged, um, in the official record and we will discuss offline, uh, who gets the Hey Big Spender money. Uh, that's right.
00:47:06
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that's right Uh, ultimately we had, you know, a good amount of people, uh, making money here. Um,
00:47:15
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um Now it's time for the draft lottery. draft lottery all right
00:47:35
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far for the draft we have
00:48:05
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This is our first, this is our first draft lottery. This is the farthest out and we've ever announced a draft lottery. Yes. You can hear me before. No, you're going to start over.
Fantasy Football Draft Lottery
00:48:19
Speaker
All right. Well, Blink can play all day. Yeah, right on the keys. Um, we have,
00:48:35
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See, I brought the volume down. I fucked it up already.
00:48:41
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Sure start over.
00:48:47
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Oh man, we're good, we're good. Okay, so with the 14th draft priority nay pick pick, we have Matt Shithouse Maxa. In the 13th draft priority nay pick pick, we have Tim, the 501st Hall.
00:49:08
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And in the 12th draft priority nay pick pick, we have Nick Funker. In the 11th, we have a draft priority nay pick pick. We have Zach.
00:49:22
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um coming in so that in the constellation bracket So far, that was the the reverse of how the championship bracket finished. The championship bracket reversed. Then in the consolation bracket, where we're actually playing for better draft priority in a pick-pick, the loser of the consolation bracket, coming in with the 10th draft priority slot in a pick-pick, is Ekam and Tenetenba.
00:49:48
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In the ninth draft priority slot, we have Tom Steelhouse. um In the eighth draft priority slot, we have Brian. And in the seventh draft priority slot in APIC pick, we have Jared. Blake, are you writing all this down?
00:50:12
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thanks explain So this segment of the show, we're doing it as a video so we can post it in the Discord later. um And Andy, you are about to to draft um through the lottery for the for the the final the final six picks, right?
00:50:35
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And there's four, there's four teams that had the same record. There were nine and 19 and those teams get four cards and the others get three in the lot. So the four carders are camera Cameron, Kamen. Good Lord. Kamen, Jeff, Kegel. These teams. Oh, see, I messed it up. Jeff, I messed it up. Should've been Andy.
00:51:08
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The teams with the four cards are Andy, Cody, and Kurtfeld. Kurtfeld is correct. Oh my goodness gracious. I just read the script. I don't i know. and I don't think until after I read it. think I think I've numbered dyslexia. Do you guys want to hear the Cheers instrumental again or are you good? No we don't.
00:51:34
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Alright guys, for those of you looking at home, thank you Jeffrey. Yes, our 3, 9, and 19 teams. we're We're Cody. Cody has 4 cards in the lotto. The Ace.
00:52:01
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be So Cody is the ace. Kurt Thoreau is the deuce. Andy is the three. Kaggle is the four. Kaggle's the four. Jeff is the five. There we go. And Kamen is the six. Andy, you got to shuffle all this shit together. and you know while andy Andy is shuffling in his draft lottery tuxedo.
00:52:32
Speaker
Blake is smoking the I mean, he's, it's a four box. There's no front back or side to side. Um, Andy, how's the shuffling going? Oh, those are cool cards.
00:52:50
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hey zoy Yeah, that's a pretty, that's a pretty, pretty special deck of cards you got there. Only the specialist. All right, Andy. So, We're getting ready. i almost played I almost put a sound light that I didn't want to play yet. People, if you have questions about this, this draft priority name, pick-pick, please, please call 612-293-6635. That's 612-293-6635. That number is always easy to remember and hard to forget. Thanks, guys. All right, Jeff. I'm going to cut these cards. Okay.
00:53:28
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And the first card on top is going to be the first pick. Okay. Okay. You ready?
00:53:38
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All right, here we go. Let's see who the first
00:53:56
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Cam Finkel.
00:54:03
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Congratulations, Cam. Highs for rebuttal. Cam's never won, maybe with that first pick. Oh, first draft priority. make pick First pick, that's right. Kamen, start thinking about your theory there. Do you want number one? Do you want number 14 and 15, one and 28? What are you going to do? What are you going to do? And his name is John Cena!
00:54:33
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And for the next pick.
00:54:37
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Oh, it's Kamen again. All right. So we can't have Kamen win two draft prior priority slots in a row. That's right, folks. We didn't take all three of Kamen's cards out. We just kept reshuffling. So now who do we have? What do we have? The tension is thick.
00:54:56
Speaker
Oh, we have Nick Kegel. Nick Kegel wins the second draft priority in a pick-pick. Coming in with the third draft priority here. We have one shuffle. Do we have two shuffles? Oh, oh, oh, oh. And what are we gonna, who are we gonna see? Who are we gonna see? And it is the ace of diamonds. We have Cody. Cody with the third draft priority in a pick-pick slot.
00:55:25
Speaker
We've got three more to give out here folks, three more draft priority positions that we're handing out today. Next up on the draft priority scale or wheel or however you really want to think about it, we've got The three, which is Nick Kaggle, already came up. Nick, Nick, you can't win again. No, that's me. That's me. I'm sorry. Oh. Three's Andy. Three's Andy. Andy with the fourth draft priority nay pick pick. Andy, you're coming in on the four hole. So how many left, Jeff? Two. We got two more. Wow. This might take a while. You know why? There's a lot more cards in two.
00:56:06
Speaker
Oh, the five card. That's right, folks. Jeff, with the fifth draft priority nay pick pick. So a five for five for five. That's more than four, less than six. So you don't actually have to do the next one because els our friend Kurt Phil is coming in with the sixth draft priority nay pick pick slot. And his name is John C.
00:56:37
Speaker
Thank you for joining us for the draft lottery live, but not going to be live because we're going to probably edit this a bunch, not take, not change anything. Just have to, you know, take out the dead air. I like that there's a cash up poster behind you, Blake.
00:56:57
Speaker
There is. So looking ahead for next year, this last year, we announced some major changes that never came to fruition, such as relegation.
Future Changes and Reflections
00:57:09
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A guy can dream, of course. Here's what we're thinking about for next year. We're going to do promotion relegation this year, Blake, and we just didn't do it. um Just kind of got busy with life.
00:57:21
Speaker
So this next year, right now we have one keeper every year and next year after the draft, so not not for next season, but the season in the follow, we're gonna allow people to have two keepers. That player has to remain on a team all season. Now that could be Andy, do we decide if that could be like you could trade?
00:57:43
Speaker
Someone who's been kept on a team all season. So like if Blake was in the league and he had kept um Wilson McGill Cuddy for the entire season Mmm, they happened next to his quarterback Could he then trade him to? Kurt Phil So they just have to stay on our roster. oh I mean, you know, it seems, it seems like, you know, you could reward the person who kept them on the the roster for the whole season. And I feel like that could play into the next change. Jeff, I defer. I defer to you, sir. I think it's a good rule. All right. Uh, in the spirit of changing the rules to benefit myself from the prior season,
00:58:31
Speaker
We will probably bring back pick trades as my season was over a long time ago. You noticed that, right Blake? Yeah, I noticed. To mitigate this, we waited for the crickets to end.
00:58:50
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But in order to mitigate pick trades, we'll probably move the trade deadline up by a couple of weeks since i knew for I knew for a while that my hopes were dashed. What the f*** are pick trades? Yeah, so draft priority in a pick picks lets you decide where in the draft you're going to pick, you know, for a second, third, all that sort of thing. And then once the draft order is set,
00:59:13
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We have 15 rounds, is it Andy? Or do we have 14 rounds of draft? And then you get to trade those picks to someone if you want to. So you can trade your first round pick, your second round pick. um You have to get back the same number of picks so that, so that, so that, um You have a full roster, but you can trade your first round pick for a third round pick. Um, you know, if you wanted to get a better player than someone has, you can say, Hey, I'll give you next year's first round pick, uh, for that good player. And you give me back your last round pick still eight or whatever. We just can't have anyone to leave. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If you, if you trade picks, then you're locked in for the next year. You basically have agreed to give Andy $40 more. dollars That's right.
01:00:07
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Okay, with the possible return of Phil, our 2023 champion, thanks to Kurt for filling in. You definitely made it interesting for your inauspicious draft to your four and two start, plus your dynamite podcast appearance. We'd love to get you back on the show next year, please, Kurt. So that, I guess, is something that we are looking ahead to. Obviously, we want to have Kurt on as a guest anytime. Kurt's always welcome but from every time. Every time. Yup. Thanks for the voicemail today, Kurt.
01:00:35
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Now, Kurt, you were the only one who answered the call, as it were. Time for some final thoughts and reflections on the season with some snazzy synth from BT the Special. It was the tale of two new teams. Matt barely made the playoffs and went on to win it all, while Cody snagged the Scholster for 2025 by a mere 16 hundredths of a point.
01:01:02
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Some vindication for regular season performance, which we haven't had in a while. Five people made money on the season, so congrats to Matt, Tim, Funker, Ekam, and the Steelhouse. Five teams made some money back, so it wasn't a complete loss. loss Zach and Kurt recouped half of their dues, while Jeff, Brian, and Kamen made enough for the $9.99 Applebee's meal deal excluding tax and tip, of course, and the the discussion we need to have about the asterisk. And tippy. Tippy. We got a tip. You can't go to fucking Applebee's and... Get bottomless fries and not tip.
01:01:56
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Right. Slow sensor there. Sorry. Um, four teams did nothing and like it. Thank you, Nick, Cody, Jared, and Andy for your contributions. Time to wrap up this final show of the year. Thank you, BT the special.
01:02:21
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That's right. Blake, a recent listener survey revealed that 80% of our audience is just here for the custom Blake Thomas tracks, which are only available on this podcast. Yeah. ah Makes it feel good. Makes it feel nice.
01:02:41
Speaker
ah Please like and subscribe to take it with you on Apple Music, Amazon Music, and coming soon to Spotify, right? Yeah, we'll get it there. It used to be there. You do in Stitcher too? Stitcher? Yeah, I think it's on basically everything but Spotify. Spotify. So, yeah. Hey, also make sure you like and subscribe to our show. um We always read our five star reviews on here and we really like it when you smash that subscribe button. um You know, rate the podcast but only if you're gonna give it five stars. Those are the only ones we like. Blake will give you the second to last word if you want it. Tell these people what you think about them.
01:03:26
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I think you're all just lovely, lovely, lovely people. And I hope you're having a good time out there doing whatever you're doing. Figuring out which animals to punch in the face until they die. Hey, hey, hey. We never said that. One punch. One opportunity to punch everything you ever wanted. Would you capture it?
01:03:53
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to punch everything you've ever wanted. Oh man, you just get one punch and you can punch. It's your dream punch. Dream punch, that's right. Wow. And Blake, we hope to get you on next year. Would that change your answer, Blake? For a minute, does it still have to be an animal?
01:04:16
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There's just something that I'd like to find. How you wanted to find animal.
01:04:24
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I don't think I really want to punch anybody. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Well, Blake, thanks again. Thank you, Jeffrey. You are the unsung hero of this podcast. Playing more work than any of us.
01:04:40
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Those of you listening at home, we know you have plenty of options when selecting a league specific fantasy football podcast. And we thank you for choosing ours. We'll see you next season on You Vike That. Thank you, Blake.
01:04:56
Speaker
very welcome think thank you all