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Starts of the Week + Week 13 Breakdown, Mike's Gripes! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/30
Original sourceStarts of the Week + Week 13 Breakdown, Mike's Gripes! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/30
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momentFootball Time nearly becomes ah, it's football time
The opening ritual barely survives when a host forgets his normal welcome while anticipating Mike's Football Time cue and almost replaces the setup with 'ah, it's football time.' The desk immediately reconstructs the missing vowels and labels the near miss a problem.
momentMike's complaints overflow into their own Slack channel
The hosts remember the Mike's Gripes hashtag and explain that Mike filled ordinary Slack channels with so many complaints that the company made him a special one. Mike calls the posts observations; the desk settles on negative observations and immediately cites open-air stadiums.
momentBannacana returns only to be retired again
Breece Hall's limited practice creates a possible Israel Abanikanda opening. Jason answers an 'Is it time, Jay?' prompt, the desk fires 'Bannacana don't want none,' and someone immediately promises the drop will never be used again.
momentKyle Pitts is available in the emptied Listener League
The hosts say Kyle Pitts has hit waivers in their 14-team, double-flex Listener League. Even though everybody is gone from that player pool, Pitts remains available because the desk calls him useless, then discusses his lingering injury and dynasty future.
momentJason rewrites Zach Moss into Zach Boss
Jason first calls Moss 'my guy,' then makes him a Start of the Week and says he has always been a known Moss supporter, a Moss truther who never wavered, and one of the best running backs ever. He adds Zach Boss before another host plainly says Jason is pretending to have liked him all year.
momentBoom Boom parachutes into a Pooh-shaped weather balloon
The serialized Boom Boom Kicker continues after a Megalodon bites the plane's rear: Jason parachutes with Brandon McManus, his windblown exposed shape resembles Winnie the Pooh, a newly released weather balloon becomes his ride, and he lands before Younghoe Koo. A host says Owl thought Jason was the balloon. The published bumper supplies a green battlefield, winged football, helmeted Jason composite, cannons, explosions, giant boot/creature image, and exact title, while live Jason receives blue lighting; none of the narrated plane, shark, parachute, Pooh body, balloon, McManus, or Koo is actually shown.
momentKyle and Owl are invoked without a producer reveal
Kyle is put 'on the line' for Atlanta beat-writer context and Owl is credited with thinking Pooh-like Jason was the balloon. Targeted one-second checks of both passages stay on the live three-host desk, and unlabeled turns do not safely establish a distinct Kyle or Jeremy voice.
summaryEpisode notes
Complete published-video review shows Andy at left in a blue hoodie and dark teal cap, Jason centered in a black cap, black-framed glasses, and black T-shirt, and Mike at right in a navy T-shirt and bright orange cap. No fourth person or live producer-booth shot appears. The opening nearly breaks its Football Time rhythm when a host forgets the normal lead-in and almost says 'ah, it's football time.' The desk remembers that Mike's complaints once filled so many company Slack channels that he received a dedicated Mike's Gripes channel; Mike insists they are observations, and the others refine that to negative observations. An Israel Abanikanda injury contingency triggers 'Bannacana don't want none,' immediately followed by a promise never to use the drop again. In the 14-team, double-flex Listener League, where the hosts say everybody is gone, Kyle Pitts is nevertheless sitting on waivers because he is useless. Kyle is put 'on the line' for Atlanta beat-writer injury talk, but targeted one-second video remains on the three hosts and the unlabeled transcript does not safely establish a distinct Kyle reply. Jason repeatedly calls Zach Moss his guy, a league winner, Zach Boss, and the best running back of all time while claiming he has always been a known Moss supporter and truther who never wavered; the exaggeration continues the accepted joke that contradicts his earlier hatred and $15 League of Record overbid. Jason's produced Boom Boom package visibly supplies a green battlefield, winged football, helmeted/knight composite, cannons, explosions, a giant boot/creature image, and the full IRONCLAD LOCKED & LOADED 100% GUARANTEED title; the rear studio monitor reads BOOM BOOM and Jason's live solo shot receives dark-blue theatrical lighting. His verse continues last week's Megalodon cliffhanger: the shark bit the plane's rear, Jason parachutes with McManus, resembles Winnie the Pooh, catches a weather balloon, and lands before Younghoe Koo. These are narration and animation, not live props, costumes, or stunts. A host reports that Owl thought Jason was the balloon, but the camera remains on the three-host desk and no distinct Jeremy voice can be proven. Two isolated 'Jay' forms occur while Jason is visibly present—'Is it time, Jay?' before the Abanikanda answer and 'Thanks, Jay' near the close—and neither supplies Jay Griz evidence.
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