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2025 Week 1 One for Orlo with Ekim
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In this episode, the hosts kick off the new season with a lively introduction and engage in a Q&A session with listeners. They discuss video games, particularly 'Breath of the Wild', and delve into fantasy football strategies and insights. The conversation also includes an analysis of recent games in the 'Owner Minute' segment and wraps up with a fun segment of five questions with guest Mike Ekim, covering topics from food preferences to hobbies. In this engaging conversation, the hosts delve into various topics ranging from their favorite seasonal movies and TV shows they've abandoned, to personal hygiene preferences and unpopular opinions about pop culture. They also touch on insights from their fantasy football league, sharing humorous anecdotes and competitive banter.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and New Season Kickoff
02:52 Q&A Session: Listener Engagement
05:54 Video Game Talk: Breath of the Wild
08:56 Fantasy Football Insights and Strategies
11:53 Owner Minute: Game Analysis
14:59 Five Questions with Mike Ekim
16:58 Movie Rituals and Seasonal Favorites
20:34 TV Shows: Bailing and Comebacks
23:25 Personal Hygiene Preferences
24:17 Unpopular Opinions in Pop Culture
27:18 Fantasy Football Insights and Awards
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Transcript
Introductions and New Season Format
00:00:01
Speaker
Hi, I'm Dave Orlowski. I'm the data and testing administrator for Shockley Public Schools. Today, it's a very exciting and important day for a... You bite that fantasy league.
00:00:12
Speaker
We're living in a fantasy world. Yeah, we're living in a fantasy world. We're living in a fantasy world.
00:00:35
Speaker
Joining you from an undisclosed location, because if anyone knew where he was born and raised, for example, they would easily crack all or most of his passwords. It's... Andy Franzen, born and raised in Texas.
00:00:54
Speaker
Next up, a man who was on a three-year Duolingo streak, just so he can translate listener metrics. It's... Jeff Megan, he knows all the numbers from Japan.
00:01:07
Speaker
Jeff, can you introduce our guest? If you need Cowbell, you need this man. If you need bass, you need this man. If you need math, you need this man. If you need your biology homework done, you should probably call the captain.
00:01:20
Speaker
To start our fourth season off, we brought in a living legend, assuming he's not still got some blood in there. Or assuming he's still got some blood in there. Next to the seats. Next to the seats.
00:01:33
Speaker
Next to the seats.
00:01:41
Speaker
Hello.
00:01:45
Speaker
Believe it or not, I did write that. Mike, how are you? I'm doing all right. Glad to be here. Thanks for kicking off the season strong.
00:01:57
Speaker
We have a new format this year, don't we, Jeff? Yep. So anyone listening in, we're only going to keep you for how long, Jeff?
Time Management and Humor
00:02:07
Speaker
30 minutes 30 minutes and we're already I don't know where the time is where does the time go there it is 2 15 so 15 in yep gotta gotta stay on stay on target we really do Jeff you're a little quiet to me I don't know why is he quiet to you stay on target stay on target stay on target that's much better that better think so or am I off target
00:02:35
Speaker
You're more on target more target. Might as well change your name to bullseye. Wow.
Fantasy Football Voicemail and Discord Channels
00:02:41
Speaker
Bullseye. Hey, it's time for questions and comments.
00:02:47
Speaker
You know, a lot of Q's and C's have been rolling in all offseason. and i do have I do have one voicemail I can play. Oh, you do? i saw a question mark. Let's go.
00:03:02
Speaker
Hey, it's Thursday night, and i just realized that season opener is, includes, Andy versus Cody, and it says it's the matchup of the week.
00:03:14
Speaker
So, to make this little more interesting, going to put this out there. Andy, Cody, winner, gets to remain my brother-in-law. Oh, my God.
00:03:28
Speaker
Wow, that would have been be good if we had recorded a show last week, wouldn't Yeah, would have been awesome. I'm sure the the deal still stands.
00:03:38
Speaker
For being a vegan, Brian sure knows how to raise the steaks.
00:03:46
Speaker
That was for the dads in the group. Hey, thanks, Brian. of you know Spoiler alert. I'm still your brother-in-law, but I think only because Kelsey took out Worthy the opening play.
00:04:04
Speaker
Isn't that right? Yep. It's like a nine-point swing or something like that.
00:04:11
Speaker
Jeff, what's the first question in Qs and Cs? Does the Discord have enough categories? Mike, since you just turned your notifications on, do we have enough channels in Discord?
00:04:24
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Or do we need more? I mean, you could always use more because that way the typeface will get smaller and smaller and pretty soon won't able to see it. It would just disappear.
00:04:39
Speaker
Was that pause for rebuttal? Yeah. I guess we did. um Question number two. Mike, tell us about a recent video game you played. A recent video game I played. I started playing Breath of the Wild.
00:04:54
Speaker
ah Zelda. The Switch 2 version, right? The Switch 2 version. Is it beautiful? It is beautiful. I have not you know moved forward in the story at all because it's like right off the bat, open world.
00:05:08
Speaker
so here why not run around, kill little demons? Yeah. Turns out they added... ah durability with weapons so you know at some point just have to grab a stick to beat up the bad guys because it'll break on you so phones cant I'm looking forward to growing in the game and don't they have like ah a smartphone integration so you can like have your map on a second screen or something like that I will have to get back to you on that dude check it out please follow follow up on this we'll we'll do it on the discord maybe the podcast channel I don't know
00:05:45
Speaker
Open up a new thread for it. nature Mike's take, breath of the wild.
00:05:53
Speaker
One question and one question only. Hey, you could you could basically live tweet it to 13 other people. 14. Kurt's still around. So yeah, you could live blog it for all of us. Wouldn't that be fun?
00:06:08
Speaker
You have time for that, right, Mike?
Fantasy Football Strategy and NFL Injuries
00:06:10
Speaker
I absolutely do. tons of time with My question number three from the offseason, I believe you lost to Jeff last week. I don't believe that.
00:06:19
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and
00:06:22
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Any thoughts there? Any thoughts on that matchup since this is a fantasy football podcast? um Jeff, ah you know, kind of you know bent the rules a little bit by putting higher scoring players in positions that should not have been higher scoring.
00:06:38
Speaker
The wide receiver, you know, Should not have broken double digits. I abide by the rules. None of mine went into double digits. But yet, all of yours did. going to have to take this up with the people in charge of that.
00:06:53
Speaker
Hey now, Jacoby Myers got 13.7. point seven So, he cleared his projection by six-tenths of a point. Credit where it's due, Michael.
00:07:06
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But hey, you got CMC, so... Everything will be fine. He won't get injured this year. I do have to give a thanks to Jeff for giving me a heads up that my kicker had perished in a fire, so I should maybe replace my kicker.
00:07:22
Speaker
Wow. That's brutal. Yep. ah And hey, Tyler Luke got 13 for you, so it just wasn't enough. ah Jeff, what's the next question?
00:07:39
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You're playing Andy next week. Any thoughts there, Mike? Any thoughts there? on Well, I saw how he played last week, so I'm going to try and watch them have my boys watch him tape and see ah the best way to take Andy down.
00:07:57
Speaker
oh you're going to grind the tape? Yep. I'm going to grind that tape. That is smart. We saw some of the the trickery his quarterback was doing. We're going try and paint him a little bit more, yeah check those wide receivers. And, you know, he's kind of weak at tight ends. We're going try and hit him there.
00:08:16
Speaker
Yeah, no, I get that. Mike, did someone have to tell you that your quarterback was out this coming week or did you figure that out yourself? I figured it out. I dragged my feet all day yesterday. knew it was Thursday night.
00:08:30
Speaker
Fortunately, that didn't come to haunt me, but I saw that Brock Purdy had somehow injured himself. so yeah he literally have audio I have audio from the injury.
00:08:44
Speaker
Grab his dick and twist it! Oh my god, this is an MMA fight, dude! You twist dick! Twist his dick! Twist his dick! Oh my god, dude.
00:08:56
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Oh, dick twist!
00:09:05
Speaker
So I'm guessing he's out for at least three weeks of that injury. That's what the report says. Hey, Mike, speaking of injuries, did you know that you have two IR slots this season?
00:09:16
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I was unaware of that, but I mean, I could have five IR slots. I'm not wasting that on the kicker. Well, you could put Brock Ferdy in IR since he's out and pick up someone else and just see how it shakes out this week and next week.
00:09:34
Speaker
is what my opponent would say to me to try and get in inside my head. So I'm just going block that out and stay in my place. And drop your whole bench. You're going to do the opposite, including Brock Purdy.
00:09:49
Speaker
Clear the bench. but i That's intimidating when you clear the bench, you know? It just means something different. and I don't need backups. no Hey, guys, we're moving right along
Vikings Game Analysis
00:10:00
Speaker
here. We just hit the 10-minute mark. Jeff, I think it's time for the...
00:10:03
Speaker
You know what? yeah'll You guys watched this game. I did not. Please take it away.
00:10:15
Speaker
Mike, do you want to go first? You want me to drop some thoughts? on then I can go first. Yeah. For a first game of the Vikings with JJ McCarthy, you know, you didn't really know what to expect. And the first quarter was kind of what you expected.
00:10:30
Speaker
Young kid on Monday night football. Joking left and right. But then things picked up in the half, and he found his stride and scored three touchdowns. So I'm more excited for the Vikings than I was before.
00:10:48
Speaker
Yeah. so So, Mike, the first the first drive of the third quarter was a pick six, right? um And then two three and outs.
00:10:59
Speaker
So he didn't really pick it up until the fourth quarter. And I think he set some records for that, too. But um he did have three touchdowns, two passing, one rushing in the fourth quarter.
00:11:12
Speaker
So... right And kind on the whole, like the whole Vikings team really kind of looked a little stiff and sloppy and then did kind of find their stride a little later.
00:11:26
Speaker
I just saw earlier today that Justin Jefferson took the blame for that interception and saying he his route poor. And he did have two drop passes in the game. so yeah And then like after after that pick six, he and JJ talked on the sidelines.
00:11:45
Speaker
And JJ asked him if he was still with him or not. And there was a big ESPN article about that today. Oh, really? Yeah. But the last the the last touchdown was him. Was JJ running it in?
00:12:00
Speaker
Kalen in motion. McCarthy keeps. He's got it. And forces his way into the end zone. Touchdown.
00:12:14
Speaker
And that's been but the Mjolnir Minute. Thank you, Jeffrey. yeah Thank you, Michael. and did watch I did watch like the last minute or two um from an old spaghetti factory.
00:12:28
Speaker
Oh, yeah. The restaurant or just... Is that where you and Bryn are squatting now? Yeah, you know. The literal spaghetti factory. Tune in next week.
00:12:40
Speaker
Mike, we're very glad you're here to kick off this season's completely new, completely fresh... Five questions.
Mike's Personal Insights
00:12:53
Speaker
Five questions.
00:12:57
Speaker
He has five questions. The weekly segment where we ask every guest the same five or six questions. And at the end of the season, maybe we'll do something with it. We didn't last year, but I guess we always could.
00:13:11
Speaker
Couldn't we, Jeff? Yes, we always can.
00:13:16
Speaker
Jeff, you want to kick us off?
00:13:19
Speaker
Yes. Mike, what is your Chipotle order?
00:13:24
Speaker
Oh, um... I used to be a chicken guy, but then I discovered barbacoa, just the shredded steak, pulled steak, whatever it is.
00:13:36
Speaker
um That's now my go-to. It's just burritos. I'm not a fan of the riggger ball so barbico or burrito burrito with the spicy salsa, sour cream and cheese, and the pinto beans, no black beans.
00:13:54
Speaker
Do you do... Do you lettuce? I don't do lettuce. I figured no amount of greens is going to make this thing eat healthier, so why even try?
00:14:07
Speaker
i but do do do you do like in-person orders or do you do like online app order? I do the online app order because most of the time when I'm having it, it's at busy times, so it's like I can either wait in line Being in line is not going to be any better.
00:14:28
Speaker
mean, it's still a checklist. I'm not one of those people like, can you add a little bit more meat to that? like Right. Me being there is not going to affect quality of the burrito in and out of that crowd.
00:14:41
Speaker
Can you request double double tortillas on the app? Yeah. that You can request tortillas on the side and you can request for it to be double wrapped.
00:14:52
Speaker
Wow, I did not know that. do you prefer I've had it double wrapped once because they made it and it split. was like, we'll just put another one on there. It's like, no, that's too much tortilla.
00:15:06
Speaker
It is too much tortilla. I'm not a fan of that. so i I find it odd that that's an option, but clearly that's my opinion. So I didn't know anyone liked the double wrap.
00:15:17
Speaker
So if you do, Andy.
00:15:20
Speaker
Yeah. ah young Members of my household enjoy the double wrap. They claim that you can then make a second burrito later. I can see that.
00:15:32
Speaker
So if it comes separate, I can see the benefit to that. Actually, my wife likes the burrito bowl because it's a great way to split it into two meals. However, if I can't finish it one,
00:15:43
Speaker
What's the point? and like
00:15:47
Speaker
Mike, speaking of your significant other, what's your favorite hobby? Andy, we've got to grade this one real quick. Correct. Correct. coman Correct.
00:16:01
Speaker
I forgot about the scoring. Thank you, Jeff. I'm so sorry. Mike, what's your favorite hobby with your significant other besides the obvious?
00:16:13
Speaker
A fun thing we do around every Christmas time and sometimes even around fall time is we go to the liquor store, get the individual bottles, and we make our own little fancy seasonal flights and watch a movie.
00:16:30
Speaker
um Individual bottles? Yeah. You can all the build-your-own six-pack type things. Oh, beers. Yeah. Oh, okay.
00:16:42
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I was wondering if you like running a still and you were just. Yeah. You just each pick out four bottles of hard liquor and they just sit there and tell our eyes bleed and watch old movies.
00:16:58
Speaker
What's the last movie you watched doing this? Do you remember one of the movies you watched in this ritual? Do you choose good movies or shitty movies?
00:17:09
Speaker
Choose seasonably apt movies. Okay. When we a Christmas flight, we watched Elf. Good.
00:17:19
Speaker
I saw the Elf musical last Christmas. Oh, really? Live. It was fine.
00:17:26
Speaker
Where did you see that? Live? Austin, yeah. Or outside of Austin. Because you're not allowed in Austin yet? That's right. Austin City Limits is ah has a picture of my face with a line through it.
TV Shows and Unpopular Opinions
00:17:43
Speaker
The literal city limit? have you ever Mike, have you ever watched ah The Christmas Thief?
00:17:52
Speaker
a No, I haven't. Put that one on your list. How about ah but A Christmas Witness? No. Okay, those are two for your seasonal...
00:18:03
Speaker
ah They sound like Law & Order episodes, the Christmas episodes. Those are those are Justin Jones' Christmas movies. Oh! oh We got to get him to do an intro for us.
00:18:16
Speaker
That's right. you did some like all it. He's a professional. Yep. Play baseball with him. Yep. I didn't see Andy's grade.
00:18:28
Speaker
He didn't give me any signal on that. Oh. oh
00:18:33
Speaker
Well, Mike, Mike, don't look. All right. Correct. Correct. Correct. I appreciate you closing your eyes, Mike.
00:18:47
Speaker
I really wanted to give you no on that one, Mike. It was funny, but... um Hey, Mike, what's your mile time today? My mile time?
00:18:58
Speaker
Yep. Gotta go run a mile. Oh. um see the last time I ran any sort of distance I did 5k in 35 minutes so what's that 2.5 miles 3.1 miles about a 10 minute mile and if you train for a month
00:19:28
Speaker
what was that and if you train it for a month And if I train for a month, I think my best mile was six minutes. So let's assume have not aged and I've just gotten unhealthy.
00:19:46
Speaker
going to get that down to eight. Holy shit. Okay. Michael. Yes. Correct. Correct.
00:19:56
Speaker
Correct.
00:20:02
Speaker
i mean, would have said eight and a half, but okay, Jeff. Okay. My legs are longer than yours You don't know how Mike knows that? cause you like it's Correct.
00:20:17
Speaker
Correct. coman Correct. He always gets picked up hitchhiking sooner than I do. So, long legs. Mike, what's a TV show you bailed on after at least one season?
00:20:34
Speaker
um i but now It continued and finished. You made it one season or more and you're out.
00:20:44
Speaker
There's two I've done that with and one finally picked back up to watch it. um Blacklist on NBC. We made it through three seasons. There was just too many twists. The story didn't seem to go anywhere. and just like I don't care anymore.
00:21:00
Speaker
All these people suck. I'm done with this. And, uh, and then I also did that with the TV show suits. Okay. Just kind of over the top dramatic at times. And at the end of, I think season three, I was like, you know what?
00:21:19
Speaker
You all are a bunch of idiots. did you i might queen Quick question on the suits one. Did you watch that on TNT or did you watch that on Netflix?
00:21:31
Speaker
I watched it on Netflix. Well, when it was initially on, I watched it on USA. USA. It was on USA. That's right. Yeah. um And actually what screwed me up with that, actually I stopped that show twice.
00:21:43
Speaker
I watched it on like on USA. It was like first run, but I was watching it on Hulu because you could watch it the next day. Sure.
00:21:55
Speaker
But then Hulu and USA had a disagreement. So instead of airing all 16 episodes of the season, they stopped at 14. So they do only 14 and 16 episodes.
00:22:06
Speaker
So I watched the first season of season four. It's like, what the hell? like There seems to be some you know yeah yeah gap here. And so I forgot. I actually stepped away from the show prior to that.
00:22:23
Speaker
years later started watching it again yeah you know back in the show not as pissed and it's like oh yeah still pissed at you guys and then we finally got through it watched the end of the show you did actually end up watching the end of the show yep but blacklist never picked up no god no god please no so so so
00:22:52
Speaker
Mike, you had it with blacklist. You were there. You had the point. And then suits. You fucked it up. That's three that's three out of four points, Mike.
00:23:03
Speaker
um If we have time, you'll get a chance. like You'll get a chance. You'll get a shot at the but the extra thanks extra question, i guess. This one's important, Mike.
00:23:13
Speaker
um You've got to set a good number to start the season. Loofah, washcloth, hands, plastic scrubby thing, or other?
00:23:24
Speaker
um Loofah.
00:23:29
Speaker
Hard soap or or body wash? Body wash. But i use hard soap on my face.
00:23:38
Speaker
Yeah, your face goes hard. I get it. Do you use the loofah on your face then? No. no No. Correct. Correct.
00:23:51
Speaker
Correct. This might be the toughest one, so we saved it for last. This is your soapbox, Chance. What's an unpopular opinion? ah but prefered Preferably about pop culture.
00:24:03
Speaker
Either something you like that no one else does, you know, generally, or or something that everyone likes except you.
00:24:17
Speaker
is there Is there something that you're the old you feel like the lone voice criticizing it or celebrating it?
00:24:26
Speaker
I feel that way every fall that I'm excited when I see a bowl of candy corn out. I love this answer. i am one of three people in the world who love candy corn. Dude, I guess I'm number two. Jeff?
00:24:44
Speaker
I don't like candy corn, but the person that does the flowers in the park across from our our house, she she's the third. And my daughter feels the need to buy candy corn in bulk to give to her every time we see her.
00:25:06
Speaker
her Her dentist loves that. Mm-hmm. Oh, she tells, she tells, she tells the Diane, the woman who does the flowers that she can't have candy corn because she has fillings.
00:25:20
Speaker
Amelia. Well, Jeff, since no one in your household likes it, I, I'm going to give that a correct, correct, correct, correct.
00:25:33
Speaker
Great job, Mike. As we predicted, you got five out of five. Congratulations.
00:25:42
Speaker
is worst
00:25:47
Speaker
Jeff, is this next note accurate? It is. Caller, you're on the air.
Fantasy Football Awards and Highlights
00:25:56
Speaker
Divorce proceedings have begun.
00:26:05
Speaker
That's the whole voicemail. Thank you. So you must have lost last week, Andy? i guess I guess that's about... Oh, right.
00:26:16
Speaker
I get it. Because in order to stop being his brother-in-law, b Brian would have to get divorced. You see? Yeah. if If I had lost, then Brian would... I don't know. Get divorced.
00:26:35
Speaker
Yeah. Which I don't understand. i don't know how he'd accomplish that. Brian and Brian. What's that, Mike?
00:26:47
Speaker
No question. No question. Hey, um... Last year, we we talked about every freaking matchup. We're not doing this here.
00:26:58
Speaker
You guys can all see the matchup results on the app. But one thing we're going to try and update you on, because we have fun with it, are the awards, the end-of-season awards.
00:27:09
Speaker
but And after week one, Jeff, we can kind of rapid-fire this, I reckon. and Sure. You know, all the ones that... All the news that's fit to print. That's right. Yeah.
00:27:21
Speaker
All right. So the worst manager ah through week one, that would be most points left on the bench. That is Ecom with 17.8 points.
00:27:32
Speaker
Mike, congratulations. Thank you.
00:27:38
Speaker
And it looks like Jeff, you had 11 the bench. 11, 11 points. Yeah.
00:27:46
Speaker
So it's a 6.65 point difference. Yeah. So if Mike had optimized, would have had six and a half more points. But I did win by 17.44 points.
00:27:58
Speaker
Yeah. I did notice before the Viking game, if I would have switched out my wide receiver, which was pretty much the only point differential. Yeah. And if Justin Jefferson had been content with his zero points that he had before the game started, um i would pulled it out.
00:28:15
Speaker
Yeah, this one right here, Mike, he sealed it. Good protection over the middle. It's caught for a touchdown. Jefferson.
00:28:27
Speaker
and And as the tape goes on, they mention the fantasy matchup between you two. No, I cut it for brevity. Yeah, for time. We're almost out of time. um Beast Mode, best single game player performance, of course, goes to Josh Allen, who's currently on Kegger's team. Congratulations, Nick.
00:28:44
Speaker
Weedies Block. 38 by the way, is the number to beat. yeah thirty eight point seven 38.76. Since I know Max, I won't want to know.
00:28:56
Speaker
Yeah. Wheaties box. Also kegger with Josh Allen. Best player overall. The most points through one week.
00:29:08
Speaker
Overpowered. Most points for that goes kegger 135.41 powered by Josh Allen. I mean, he would have been sub triple digits without Josh.
00:29:20
Speaker
Them, the breaks. Most points against that's Jared. He gave up 135.
00:29:32
Speaker
but But somehow the biggest blow blowout, aka Eat My Dust, goes to Phil. Welcome back, Phil. ah Because he won?
00:29:46
Speaker
Yeah, he won okay he won. won by the most. yeah And then, Jeff, the next one? um Close with no cigar. Tim, you had the closest loss.
00:29:57
Speaker
And Skullster, last place.