Week 5 Podcast Review

Another hour and twenty minute podcast?! Is Terrence Malick directing these? The length and rambling nature/lack of focus seems like his style.

Andy says I’m in a dead media while it sounds like he’s recording from a bathroom. And apparently, the written word is VERY influential because the many mentions of The Gentleman triggered Andy’s jealousy. Right before our big matchup, I’m clearly in his head!

Eli erasing me from our Fruit Stripe discussion and crediting Mark is hurtful.

Andy is absolutely right with his take about Eli’s moral conundrum. Eli could have offered something because I gave up the information of my own volition. But to embrace the conspiracy theory vibe of the podcast, perhaps there was some 4D chess at work - Did The Gentleman sense that Eli had an offer brewing and knew that telling Mark and Eli about his trade offer would trigger a moral conundrum in Eli’s head?

In terms of scumbaggery, after trivia, Eli went home to his loving family and I went on a solo mission to a strip club so I don’t think that the trade is what put me ahead in that race.

Platforming Player X?! Nobody wanted to hear his opinion before he was cancelled! My only hope is that they just invited him on so they could record enough of his voice that AI could create some Player #14 content. And then he isn’t on the podcast for a minute before he starts casting aspersions against The Gentleman.

This first minute of this Ron Funchess video is my take on conspiracy theories.

“I did another Google” - We’re old, Eli, but let’s pretend we’re not completely out of touch.

Is Tartar sauce the last remnant of the Tartarian Empire? In that case, I’m glad they’re gone. However, speaking of basement windows, the Seattle underground tour explains the Seattle “underground” was actually street level but then, after The Great Seattle fire, the city elevated the streets.

My alt-right alter ego Colby Jack is offended by Player #14 referring to our savior as “Mr. Trump”. It’s PRESIDENT TRUMP to you, buddy! At least, it’s good to hear that Player #14 is peeing after sex so he doesn’t get any UTIs.

“Superlatives” replacement? Let me think about that.

A+ bench blunder by The Veep. Andy had three choices on his bench that would have won him the week but he went with Calvin Austin.

I’m starting to think that there’s a conspiracy against me brewing; that’s the only way to explain how The Gentleman and conspiracies were the focus of this week’s pod.

“One Battle After Anohter” ranks at #6 on the Mendo 2025 film list but I agree with Andy that’s it is overhyped. It’s kind of a standard action movie set in a hot button political situation. The last act especially becomes One Cliche After Another.

RE: No moves for Johnny, him saving all of his money until the end of the draft meant that his bench was going to be loaded. The only droppable guy would be Bhayshul Tuten and his stock rose after the Tank Bigsby trade.

Pilot episodes are usually the worst of a series so we don’t want to judge Player #14’s maiden voyage too harshly but The Gentleman could do with less mud flood talk, and pegging shaming although it was intriguing to see how The Veep’s presence seemed to have Eli shifting to the right.

The people have called for an Outro song yet the pod still hasn’t delivered.