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The Fantasy Court + Game Time, Brooks Goes East! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 3/28
Original sourceThe Fantasy Court + Game Time, Brooks Goes East! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 3/28
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momentBrooks's Listener League video becomes his origin story
After first reaching the show through a review, Brooks submits a funny 2015 Listener League entry that demonstrates the videography and technical skills the team needed; the hosts call it the beginning of Brooks.
momentBrooks by the numbers
Brooks's first studio words were 'Hey, everybody' in episode 355; by the farewell, he had assembled at least 1,200 main-show documents, appeared in studio for 96.4 percent of the last 1,200 shows, and run extensive live, DFS, dynasty, and UDK production work.
momentJudge Giamatti's last bench and mistimed gavel
Dressed for his final in-studio Fantasy Court, Brooks rules for defendant Andy and attempts to synchronize a one-tap physical gavel motion with a sound effect; the timing fails and is compared to an anime overdub.
momentBrooks remotely controls every set decoration
Brooks says he will keep full control of the desk decor from the Midwest. The hosts imagine an expensive robot smashing jersey cases, then explain that Brooks is famous for sprinting in before recordings to swap a player or jersey so the set matches the episode.
momentThe Footballers grieve through insults
As Brooks leaves the studio, the hosts explain that their grief is expressed mostly through insults, with a little crying that normally happens off camera; an earlier joke blames too much baldness in Deucer's Alley after Papa Josh arrived.
momentMike's perfect waiver attendance and the wrong poop title
Kyle's lore game says Mike has never missed a waiver episode during the Biden administration and Jason has missed the fewest host shows. The same round confirms a real episode title, 'Mike Poops Himself,' while the hosts remember the literal old Show After Show incident as Jason's story and Mike denies the title documented him doing it.
momentAl Borland's 49 McKissic kisses
A Footballers-lore question reveals that Al Borland played the 'Just Give Me a Kiss' drop for J.D. McKissic 49 times from its December 2020 debut, after the initial answer of 48 is immediately corrected.
summaryEpisode notes
The episode is a detailed Brooks Carmean oral history disguised as a farewell. Brooks's first show connection was a July 16, 2015 review that Jason botched, earning the retrospective identity Reviewosaurus Rex. Only a week later, his funny 2015 Listener League submission demonstrated videography and technical skill and became 'the beginning of Brooks.' His first studio words came in episode 355—'Hey, everybody'—and by this farewell he had assembled at least 1,200 main-show documents, been in studio for 96.4 percent of the last 1,200 shows, and run a long list of broadcasts and Ultimate Draft Kit shoots. He is moving to the Midwest near family but remains on the team and in the FootClan. The final studio day becomes the last bench appearance for Judge Giamatti: Brooks dresses in a robe, rules for Andy, mistimes a sound-effect gavel like an anime overdub, and later hosts game segments. The show says it processes grief mostly through insults and off-camera crying, jokes that too much baldness beside Papa Josh caused the move, preserves the funky-news drop for the farewell, and establishes that Brooks will continue deciding the episode-specific desk decor remotely—possibly through a robot that shatters jersey cases. A Liar Liar round also revives the literal Jason-pooped-himself Show After Show story, the misleading 'Mike Poops Himself' episode title, and Mike's perfect waiver-show attendance during the Biden administration.
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