FAN FREQUENCY / ALWAYS ONZERO AFFILIATION. MAXIMUM OBSESSION.
← Back to the archive
Main show · December 27, 2022

Week 17 Waivers + Nasty Boys, Full Stream Ahead - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/27

RSSDec 27, 2022 · details onlyYOUTUBEDec 27, 2022 · transcript indexed
Original source

Week 17 Waivers + Nasty Boys, Full Stream Ahead - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/27

Play original audio ↗

RSS timestamps belong to our exact archived audio capture. The publisher’s current playback may have different ads and timing. Machine transcripts can contain errors.

Episode notes & curated moments 7 records
moment

Foot Clan titles are seized by Nasty Boys

The hosts insist that championship titles must be seized, possibly through a Trojan horse roster. They define Nasty Boys as unlikely waiver options who win titles, recall Jared Patterson, Sony Michel, Boston Scott, and Rashad Penny, and make Hassan Haskins the first emergency candidate for Jason's Derrick Henry-threatened League of Record final.

moment

Jason believes the false Frodo car-spoiler spoiler

Jason remembers shopping for a car with a friend who pointed to its spoiler and announced that Frodo dies. Jason completely believed the lie and watched the Mount Doom ending convinced he knew Frodo's fate until the character survived.

moment

The whole credited crew fills Ducers Alley

The opening card credits Brooks/Judge Giamatti, Jeremy/Owl Borland, and Kyle/The Borgogon. At the waiver transition the desk says the whole crew is present, and the program repeatedly cuts to Brooks, Kyle, and Jeremy together beneath the DUCERS ALLEY sign, including again at the close.

moment

Kyle challenges Dino Junior's back-to-back champs

Kyle says he is playing Jason and Mike in Dino Junior. Their shared team is identified as the back-to-back champion, while Kyle claims his roster becomes better if Derrick Henry sits. The champs answer with Hassan Haskins and JaMycal Hasty, then joke that a randomized lineup or an inactive Henry flex would turn Kyle into a puddle.

moment

A shrinking Week 18 poll tests the show's commitment

The annual poll reports that 95.4 percent of respondents hold championships in Week 17 and 4.6 percent in Week 18. The hosts joke about taking off or using a three-percent threshold, then admit they keep producing because the remaining Week 18 Foot Clan needs them. A funeral or parade for Jason's teams is proposed, and the closing share falls to 4.1 percent.

moment

Kyle watches one play and loses on that exact Pittman catch

After correcting a Joey Chestnut joke, Kyle's exhaustion is explained: he lost his main-league semifinal on Michael Pittman's meaningless final catch, started coffee around 3 a.m., stayed awake searching both lineups for a stat correction, and admits superstition kept him from the game until he watched only the fatal final play.

summary

Episode notes

Complete published-video review shows Mike, Jason, and Andy at the main desk throughout, dressed in ordinary studio clothes. The standard opening animation includes host cards and a WITH THE DUCERS card naming Brooks/Judge Giamatti, Jeremy/Owl Borland, and Kyle/The Borgogon. Later live cuts show those same three credited humans together beneath the DUCERS ALLEY sign; Kyle is identifiable in the center seat through the direct name, replies, glasses, and reference-photo match, with Brooks at left and Jeremy at right. The opening insists that Foot Clan titles must be seized rather than passively won, perhaps through a Trojan horse rostered with Nasty Boys. Jared Patterson, Sony Michel, Boston Scott, and Rashad Penny are prior examples, and Jason's threatened Derrick Henry absence in the League of Record final turns Hassan Haskins into the current emergency candidate. No Trojan horse, Nasty Boys art, or player vehicle is shown. During Russell Wilson discussion, Jason recalls a malicious friend pointing to a car spoiler and saying 'Frodo dies.' Jason believed the lie through the Mount Doom scene until Frodo survived; video stays on the desk with no movie image, lava, car, or spoiler graphic. The first waiver transition explicitly says the whole crew is present and cuts to the three-person booth. Kyle says he is facing Jason and Mike's back-to-back champion Dino Junior team, claims his roster is better with Henry out, and is told Haskins, a random lineup, or even starting an inactive Henry could reduce him to a puddle. The randomizer and puddle are spoken only. A yearly poll finds 95.4 percent of respondents using Week 17 championships and only 4.6 percent using Week 18. The hosts call themselves psychotic for continuing when industry friends stop, but say the remaining Foot Clan needs them; they invent a three-percent threshold and a next-week funeral or parade for Jason's teams. The poll is never displayed, and the funeral and parade are dialogue-only. Kyle then corrects a Joey Chestnut joke before the desk recounts his main-league semifinal loss: he drank coffee around 3 a.m., could not sleep, searched both lineups for a stat correction, watched none of the Chargers-Colts game until Michael Pittman's meaningless final catch, and lost on that one viewed play. The camera repeatedly cuts to the live booth while the hosts imagine a sword entering his heart and Kyle as a puddle; neither effect is shown. At the close, another real booth cut produces no additional news, and the poll falls to 4.1 percent. No fourth host, cardboard cutout, Jay Griz image, Jay-specific bear, Jay theme, or Jay sound cue appears; the generic animated bear in the standard opening montage is not identified with Jay.

Inside the episode

0 passages

The episode is cataloged. Its transcript is on the way.

You can still open the original source or start a discussion below.