Speaker 1: Hi, Welcome to Access Podcast, the podcast about podcasts. I'm
Speaker 1: your host, Maddie Stout, and this week we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: fantasy football with one of the best, Andy Holloway. He's
Speaker 1: the host of the Fantasy Footballers podcast, which is one
Speaker 1: just about every award for best sports podcast and fantasy
Speaker 1: football podcast according to Podcast Awards dot Com and Academy
Speaker 1: of Podcasters and anybody else who puts out a boat
Speaker 1: and says, hey, what's the best fantasy football podcast? This
Speaker 1: one wins? Check it out. I'm gonna go with the
Speaker 1: guy who, look, he's he's not been a complete bust yet,
Speaker 1: but he's the twenty second range wide receiver, disappointing every
Speaker 1: owner that has him so far. That's Julio Jones. Julio
Speaker 1: Jones I believe has been terrific this year. He has
Speaker 1: he has just not had the touchdowns. I mean he's
Speaker 1: got one touchdown right now and we're over half the
Speaker 1: season in. And this is indicative of the entire Atlanta
Speaker 1: Falcons team if you look at how they've been performing
Speaker 1: and joining us from x Arizona. Andy Holloway, Andy, do
Speaker 1: you ever go one hour in the day without somebody
Speaker 1: coming up and asking you some fantasy football advice. Uh,
Speaker 1: if I'm lucky, Yeah, if I'm lucky, it'll happen occasionally.
Speaker 1: If I locked myself in a room, um, you know,
Speaker 1: fetal position, someone will leave me alone for about an hour.
Speaker 1: But after that. Yeah, the the questions they come early,
Speaker 1: they come often. I mean do you ever just just
Speaker 1: say enough enough with the questions? Uh? No, not really.
Speaker 1: I mean people love fantasy football, and I understand that
Speaker 1: that's why we do what we do. So uh, it's
Speaker 1: comedics sometimes when you know, when I'm out to dinner
Speaker 1: with my wife and and the waiter has a question,
Speaker 1: maybe that's that's not the best time to ask it.
Speaker 1: But um, but yeah, for the most part, I don't
Speaker 1: worry about it. I know these people are invested in
Speaker 1: their teams just like I am. Now they'll judge me later.
Speaker 1: I'll probably ask you one or two questions, but there
Speaker 1: you go. I do consider myself a fantasy poser. I
Speaker 1: honestly I was just I'm never admitted it out loud.
Speaker 1: I only got into fantasy football because of the show
Speaker 1: The league Am I am? I calling? Are there other
Speaker 1: ones out there like being that you've talked to? I'm sure.
Speaker 1: I I think that there are a number of people who,
Speaker 1: you know, that was their first exposure to the dynamics
Speaker 1: of fantasy football. I mean, the sport becomes more popular
Speaker 1: every year. The NFL's popularity grows because of fantasy football,
Speaker 1: and um, the league had a big part in that.
Speaker 1: I mean, that was a show that kind of brought
Speaker 1: the craziness that is fantasy football leagues to the forefront. Now,
Speaker 1: you didn't come out of the bomb saying I'm going
Speaker 1: to grow up to be a fantasy football host, which
Speaker 1: rude you too. Fantasy football and especially you know you
Speaker 1: have quite a quite quite a great tech career going.
Speaker 1: What made you say, you know, this is something I
Speaker 1: really want to vote all my time too. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I I wouldn't even when I had an interest
Speaker 1: in doing media and doing something in the fantasy football field.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I necessarily thought, you know, that
Speaker 1: was necessarily a career path more than a you know,
Speaker 1: a part time passion project and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: But um, I've always been kind of a sports guy,
Speaker 1: a sports journalism guy. I certainly in engage with and
Speaker 1: have played fantasy football for years and years and years. Uh,
Speaker 1: first time I met one of our co hosts was
Speaker 1: in high school, and you know, our first interaction as
Speaker 1: friends was playing in a fantasy basketball league together. So
Speaker 1: I've always really enjoyed the kind of uh, NonStop check
Speaker 1: your phone, check your computers, see how the stats are producing. Um,
Speaker 1: I've always just kind of enjoyed that, and I've enjoyed
Speaker 1: what it does with friendships. You know, We've had friendships
Speaker 1: across leagues that spanned many states. And when people leave
Speaker 1: you know, high school or college, you kind of stay
Speaker 1: in contact with people and you're you know, talking to
Speaker 1: them all the time, get together for drafts, and so,
Speaker 1: you know, the fantasy football universe it kind of takes
Speaker 1: as much as you can give into it. You know,
Speaker 1: if you want to spend you know, eighteen hours a
Speaker 1: day being obsessed with it, you you can do that.
Speaker 1: And you can look for nineteen hours a day. And
Speaker 1: if you only want to spend a few hours or
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes, you know, you can do that
Speaker 1: as well. So it kind of affords people of any
Speaker 1: type of interest level the ability to jump in. For me,
Speaker 1: it was early, Uh, it was something that we did
Speaker 1: very passionately, even when I was in my tech career
Speaker 1: doing Facebook games and things like that. We we always
Speaker 1: had a very passionate league and we were always knee
Speaker 1: deep in it, so it was kind of a something
Speaker 1: that came out of that. Speaking of your career in tech,
Speaker 1: I I teach at the university. I teach a couple
Speaker 1: of podcasting classes, and I always tell the students to
Speaker 1: treat their podcast as a startup. You know that it's
Speaker 1: it is a business, and you need to market it
Speaker 1: and you need to have goals. Do you feel like
Speaker 1: the background in tech helped you as far as you know,
Speaker 1: creating a podcast that has become the most popular fantasy
Speaker 1: football podcast out there. I think absolutely. I think that
Speaker 1: advice is is the same that I would give. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think one of our advantages was looking at it
Speaker 1: like a business, looking at it like what we had
Speaker 1: done before, with an entrepreneurial mindset. Um look at if
Speaker 1: there's one thing I like talking about more than football,
Speaker 1: and might be, you know, business building and entrepreneurship. And
Speaker 1: you know, that's what I really really enjoy about this
Speaker 1: is having the ability to do things that are innovative
Speaker 1: in a space that I'm passionate about. And I think
Speaker 1: for any new podcaster, your advice is spot on. If
Speaker 1: you treat it like a startup, if you treat it
Speaker 1: like you know, a business, that doesn't mean that it's
Speaker 1: not going to be your passion. It just means that
Speaker 1: you're going to find I think, opportunities and in roads
Speaker 1: that other podcasters aren't taking advantage of. I think that
Speaker 1: was one of our big kind of separators from other
Speaker 1: podcasts that we've always approached it that way. And you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think a podcaster should feel shame or embarrassment
Speaker 1: that they want to try to make money and make
Speaker 1: a living off of that. You know. Our our ambition
Speaker 1: to do that was in line with our passion for
Speaker 1: fantasy football, and we wanted to be able to uh
Speaker 1: step into that industry and do it as much as
Speaker 1: we could. And that meant we had to you know,
Speaker 1: pay our bills. We all have kids, we all have
Speaker 1: families that we need to support, and that was a
Speaker 1: piece of the puzzle. And I think that the one
Speaker 1: thing that also shines through, you know, looking at your website,
Speaker 1: listen to your show, you know, is that that everything
Speaker 1: it's it's so well put together, and your website alone
Speaker 1: is just I mean just it's it's just like anything
Speaker 1: you want there. You got podcasts, you've got video, and
Speaker 1: I think that's that the diversification I think for new
Speaker 1: podcasters that's really important is to know how to like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you can you can sit on a mic and do
Speaker 1: a podcast every week, but you need to like do
Speaker 1: other things. How haves have those things come up for you?
Speaker 1: And you know, is it step by step or you know,
Speaker 1: with with launching these different products. Yeah, it's a good question,
Speaker 1: and it definitely was a step by step thing. It
Speaker 1: wasn't you know, let's do forty five things in the
Speaker 1: very beginning. No, Let's instead, let's focus on a few
Speaker 1: things that we do well, Let's do the podcast to
Speaker 1: them to the best of our ability. Let's you know,
Speaker 1: accentuate that, let's answer some you know, we started the
Speaker 1: show and we started answering paid questions if people wanted
Speaker 1: really fast applies. You know, that was one of the
Speaker 1: first things we did. We don't even do that anymore
Speaker 1: just because it we don't have the time to do it,
Speaker 1: but that that was something we did right out of
Speaker 1: the gate that brought people to the website, that gave
Speaker 1: people the opportunity to interact with us. We poured ourselves
Speaker 1: into social media right away. We knew that um, kind
Speaker 1: of the independent feel of our show was very attractive
Speaker 1: to people because you know, they were sitting around the
Speaker 1: same table with their friends talking about fantasy football and so. UM.
Speaker 1: It's one of those things that we've We've always had
Speaker 1: the mantra, you know, the right thing at the right time,
Speaker 1: for the right reason. And if adding something to our business,
Speaker 1: to our podcast didn't meet those three we were willing
Speaker 1: to say no to it and have been and still
Speaker 1: do to this day. Is is you need to be
Speaker 1: able to say no because if you thin out everything
Speaker 1: you're offering, because you're trying to offer everything, UM, you
Speaker 1: don't really separate yourself, and you're going to burn yourself out.
Speaker 1: I do have to ask, as you mentioned, you know,
Speaker 1: you're all married, you have children, how do you stay married?
Speaker 1: You know? The truth is is we we all have
Speaker 1: the same ideology when it comes to business and the
Speaker 1: same philosophy when it comes to how we invest ourselves
Speaker 1: into it. And so you know, for for guys like us,
Speaker 1: who you know, there's a certain amount of time we
Speaker 1: have to invest on a Monday night or a Thursday
Speaker 1: night or a you know, a Sunday morning and afternoon.
Speaker 1: We make it a priority to to be home on
Speaker 1: time and to spend time with the family and to
Speaker 1: take you know, we take a half day on Fridays
Speaker 1: after we do our show on Friday, so that we
Speaker 1: can kind of give that back to our families the
Speaker 1: half day we steal from them on Sundays during the season. So, um,
Speaker 1: it's nice working with UH co host that have that
Speaker 1: kind of mindset that we want to put our our
Speaker 1: families first and UH the business second. And so with
Speaker 1: three people running in that direction, we we get lucky
Speaker 1: enough to kind of accomplish that goal more times than not.
Speaker 1: I've got a three brothers. Besides being degenerate gamblers, they
Speaker 1: are frenatic UH fantasy football players. But I'll be honest,
Speaker 1: I do not enjoy watching football with them anymore because
Speaker 1: it's it's never about the game ever. I mean, do
Speaker 1: you ever feel like at some points like you, do
Speaker 1: you ever not enjoy a game because you're more worried
Speaker 1: about your players and how they're doing than actually maybe
Speaker 1: the team you're rooting for. Yeah, definitely, And then there's
Speaker 1: a fatigue on our side that happens with that as well,
Speaker 1: because you know, I remember last year when the playoffs hit,
Speaker 1: there was something really really relieving and relaxing to sit
Speaker 1: down and watch a playoff game without the implications for
Speaker 1: fantasy and just enjoyed as the game of football. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, it goes both ways. We can really enjoy
Speaker 1: a game that would normally be a stinker on Monday
Speaker 1: Night football because we have players invested in and picks
Speaker 1: and things like that. Um, you know, but it does
Speaker 1: it takes away at times and it can be exhausting.
Speaker 1: Now you've got uh a lot of fans that follow
Speaker 1: you guys the foot Clan. Tell me about the foot
Speaker 1: Clan and and and how how fanatic are are they? Sometimes? Sure? Yeah,
Speaker 1: our foot plan is the fun moniker that we we
Speaker 1: give to our Our list ers are passionate community of
Speaker 1: listeners and um, you know, our show exists because of them.
Speaker 1: I mean they're they're great, dedicated loyal listeners that are
Speaker 1: passionate like we are about not just winning, but we
Speaker 1: take a holistic approach to the to the fantasy football world,
Speaker 1: which is you know, it's gonna be more than just
Speaker 1: the statue you're reading. It's gonna be about how do
Speaker 1: you make your league more enjoyable, how do you understand
Speaker 1: your competition and how they play and realizing the fact
Speaker 1: that you know, the Dynamics change league to league. So
Speaker 1: we have a really great group of people that um
Speaker 1: have supported this show, have followed the show since its inception,
Speaker 1: and and new foot Climb members, uh, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of coming on board every single day when they get
Speaker 1: exposed to the content, and um, you know, we're we're
Speaker 1: just very thankful to have a group of really passionate listeners.
Speaker 1: They joined leagues together, they play together. We've had the
Speaker 1: opportunity to do several live events where where those people
Speaker 1: have come out and we've got a chance to you know,
Speaker 1: talk to them and meet them. And it's just a
Speaker 1: great group of people that were truly like humbled by uh,
Speaker 1: their loyalty to the show. Like, we don't know why
Speaker 1: we have such great people listening, but we're certainly thankful
Speaker 1: that we do. I think a big part of it
Speaker 1: is is that chemistry with the three of you, and
Speaker 1: that you're you know, you're you're obviously you're obviously friends.
Speaker 1: You know, I've worked I hate those guys, I hate
Speaker 1: I know but yeah, I worked in radio a long
Speaker 1: time and I've known I mean, I've worked on some
Speaker 1: sports radio shows in New York that the host literally
Speaker 1: came in different doors because they hated each other so much,
Speaker 1: Mike and mad Dog. Um. But I think that that's
Speaker 1: one thing that really comes through is your is how
Speaker 1: well you get along. I mean how important is that,
Speaker 1: uh for you? And you think as far as like
Speaker 1: how successful this show has been and really a short
Speaker 1: amount of time, I think it's been huge. I mean
Speaker 1: they're like you said, you alluded to it. There are
Speaker 1: situations out there where hosts don't like each other. There's
Speaker 1: also a lot of situations where hosts just don't know
Speaker 1: each other. Maybe they don't maybe they don't hate each other,
Speaker 1: but maybe they're both on you know, a skype call
Speaker 1: and uh, you don't get to interact face to face.
Speaker 1: I think us being in the same room together helps.
Speaker 1: And yeah, we're we're friends. We've been friends for a
Speaker 1: really long time. I mean I go back, you know,
Speaker 1: fifteen plus years with Jason, Mike and I you know,
Speaker 1: we've known each other for gosh going on eight nine
Speaker 1: years now, So that dynamic, you know, you're really the
Speaker 1: fourth person at the table with us. We're doing what
Speaker 1: we'd be doing whether the cameras are on or not.
Speaker 1: So um, I think that that's helped a lot because
Speaker 1: we do we you know, we don't always get along,
Speaker 1: but we certainly respect one another and we certainly are
Speaker 1: you know, friendly, and and I think it translates I'm
Speaker 1: a died in the wool radio guy, and I I'm
Speaker 1: not a fan of cameras in a studio when I'm
Speaker 1: doing a podcast because I feel like it takes away
Speaker 1: You guys film and you do video. Do you ever
Speaker 1: mind it? You used to it? Is it take it away?
Speaker 1: I mean I was watching the Halloween episode, for instance,
Speaker 1: and and you did not seem to be enjoying the
Speaker 1: Batman mask. It's funny because that singular episode was probably
Speaker 1: the most trying one from you know, when you're talking
Speaker 1: about the members are doing anything for the video side.
Speaker 1: Uh No, the mask was not very comfortable. But if
Speaker 1: you take the Halloween episodes the way, I think we've
Speaker 1: definitely gotten used to it. It's something that we realized
Speaker 1: there was an opportunity to kind of extend our our
Speaker 1: content reach onto the YouTube space. It was something in
Speaker 1: the beginning that, you know, a lot of financial investment
Speaker 1: went into it, a lot of uh, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of the awkwardness of Okay, now you know, you gotta
Speaker 1: gotta make sure you're wearing the right stuff. You gotta
Speaker 1: make sure you're don't look like a slob. I mean,
Speaker 1: when we do a show that's just an audio podcast,
Speaker 1: it seems so easy anymore because you just walk in
Speaker 1: and we flip on the recorder. Um, but it's something
Speaker 1: we're definitely used to. We we appreciate the fact that,
Speaker 1: you know, there are users that are connecting in different
Speaker 1: environments and we try to put forth a really good
Speaker 1: video product so that you know, someone that wants to
Speaker 1: tune in, you know, I as fantasy football fans, we
Speaker 1: wanted something like that. So, um, you know, it's kind
Speaker 1: of a longer, longer play for us as a business,
Speaker 1: is just providing that, you know, audio is still the
Speaker 1: dominant part of our distribution. But um yeah, I think
Speaker 1: you know, outside of Halloween masks, we we deal with
Speaker 1: it all right. With video comes people knowing who you are.
Speaker 1: How what's the worst fan experience you've had so far?
Speaker 1: And I don't mean to call out a particular fan,
Speaker 1: but as somebody came up and just been overly anxious
Speaker 1: to get advice from you. You know, I I should
Speaker 1: have some terrible story, but you know, alluding to the
Speaker 1: foot plan before. Every interaction that we've had has been
Speaker 1: very positive. Um. You know, we run into people from
Speaker 1: time to time, and you know, it can be at
Speaker 1: a restaurant, it can be at an amusement park or
Speaker 1: airport or something. But everyone's been really kind and respectful.
Speaker 1: And and you know, we've always got the kids in
Speaker 1: tow if we're alone, and you know, they seem to
Speaker 1: have been very uh you know kind about that as well.
Speaker 1: There is there is the occasional person that just you know,
Speaker 1: one or two extra questions when maybe it's time to leave,
Speaker 1: but you know, not not really any bad stories. Well
Speaker 1: I'll create one now because I've got some questions for you. Great.
Speaker 1: Actually these are we we put this out earlier and
Speaker 1: ask some people to tweet in. So I this person
Speaker 1: who tweeted his names Ethan, I have this same question.
Speaker 1: Do I even deserve to win the league after not
Speaker 1: starting Deshaun Watson last week? Yeah? You deserve to win
Speaker 1: the league because I think last week you just have
Speaker 1: to go with the process sometimes and not live in
Speaker 1: the fiery regret. Last week in Seattle, nobody knew if
Speaker 1: he could go on the road become a matchup proof
Speaker 1: fantasy player. If you didn't play him, it's probably the
Speaker 1: greatest regret you've had this year. But there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people that didn't, So I would say, yes, you
Speaker 1: still deserve now. You know, though, you gotta go with
Speaker 1: what you've learned, and now you gotta start him regardless.
Speaker 1: I have Alex Smith and Deshaun Watson. I'm starting Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson this weekend, right right move? Yeah. I think you
Speaker 1: just gotta we have a saying on the show, you
Speaker 1: gotta stay in the flames. I mean he is, he's
Speaker 1: proven himself. I still love Alex Smith rest of season.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's my quarterback in our dynasty league. He's
Speaker 1: a player that's having a special year and is still,
Speaker 1: you know, the number one quarterback on the season before
Speaker 1: you know, the bye week isn't there yet for him.
Speaker 1: But his playoff schedule is good. I think both are great.
Speaker 1: I think you can, you know, pick your poison at
Speaker 1: at times, but Watson has just shown that he is
Speaker 1: matchup proof. He he offers you that baseline with his
Speaker 1: rushing yardage, and so you're in good shape at MICHAELA.
Speaker 1: S h L says. Kaepernick's lawyer says, his signing is eminent.
Speaker 1: Where do you think he'll be the best asset? Well,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. I hadn't heard that signing is imminent. Is
Speaker 1: that is that fresh today? That was a tweet we
Speaker 1: got what an hour ago? Looking at my producer's he
Speaker 1: she said, yeah, we just got that. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you look around the NFL, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that are struggling in situations and teams that are struggling. So, um,
Speaker 1: the reality with the Kaepernick situation, regardless of where you
Speaker 1: fall on all of that controversy, is that he's a
Speaker 1: better football player then probably a third of the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the league at least, And so, um, you know,
Speaker 1: where's the best fit? We already know some of these
Speaker 1: situations with injuries. He should be a better player in
Speaker 1: Arizona than Drew Stanton if they still want to make
Speaker 1: the playoffs. He'd probably be a better player in Green Bay,
Speaker 1: but they've already said they're gonna stick with Brett Hunley. Uh,
Speaker 1: He's definitely he would walk in and be the best
Speaker 1: quarterback on the roster in Cleveland without question. And he'd
Speaker 1: probably be the best quarterback in Miami right now if
Speaker 1: he walked right in the door today. So I think
Speaker 1: that there are destinations and places, um, that he'd be
Speaker 1: able to perform. I think he's a pretty special player.
Speaker 1: You know, he's he's struggled compared to his Super Bowl year,
Speaker 1: but he's still much better than some of these backups.
Speaker 1: Can can we both Can we all just agree that
Speaker 1: the NFL is gone crazy and that Las Vegas can
Speaker 1: suck it for taking my Oakland Raiders? You know what,
Speaker 1: I will just um, I'll just agree with you to uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's hilarious. I mean, I do
Speaker 1: think that there's such irony. Yeah, when the league tries
Speaker 1: to kind of distance itself perceptually from from gambling and
Speaker 1: yet leans into the fantasy football aspect and leans into
Speaker 1: the the reality that look fantasy football and sports gambling
Speaker 1: gambling in general, it adds to intrigue and interest in
Speaker 1: the NFL. And we know that that's the case. And
Speaker 1: so all of these commissioners, whether it's Roger Goodell or
Speaker 1: or you know, Adam Silver in the NBA. They know
Speaker 1: that reality, and I think it's a matter of you know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of ironic that you that you'd bring a
Speaker 1: team into Las Vegas and yet you know, stay in
Speaker 1: arm's length away from those topics. But that's the reality
Speaker 1: we live in. So if that's crazy, then yeah, it's crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm an Oakland fan, so yeah, no, I'd
Speaker 1: be heartbroken. It is the It's it's the worst. It's
Speaker 1: the worst because I don't know what to do, Like,
Speaker 1: I can't I can't imagine rooting against them, but I
Speaker 1: can't support a franchise that did this to me. It's
Speaker 1: and I can't. I can't hear for the forty nine.
Speaker 1: You're You're in a troublesome situation there. That's what the
Speaker 1: Chargers fans had to deal with. Their Chargers have no fans.
Speaker 1: I mean they go up to Los Angeles, nobody's their fans.
Speaker 1: All their San Diego people are so embittered that they're
Speaker 1: not fans. And I've always asked myself, if you know
Speaker 1: there's on a Cardinals leave, am I following them with
Speaker 1: my loyalty? When am I choosing a regionally close team?
Speaker 1: I hope I don't have to go through it. I
Speaker 1: can always tell when the team is doing bad. We
Speaker 1: have a lot of homeless people in San Francisco, and
Speaker 1: when you see them decked out in a certain gear,
Speaker 1: you know that's the gear that people are giving away.
Speaker 1: They're they're throwing it. It's they're charge of gear everywhere,
Speaker 1: Charge of gear everywhere. That's yeah, that people don't like it.
Speaker 1: I got charge of friends and they they've sworn the
Speaker 1: team off. Now, all right, Andy, I'm gonna end up
Speaker 1: a little segment I call three killer Questions. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ask you three questions and uh, let's see what the
Speaker 1: responses are. Question number one, what's the best name of
Speaker 1: a fantasy team that that you've heard? Oh? We do?
Speaker 1: You get this one a lot? My favorite of all
Speaker 1: time right now is uh the Marius Tigerian A little
Speaker 1: Game of Thrones play with the Marrius Thomas. It's still
Speaker 1: my favorite names that That one takes the cake. If
Speaker 1: there was a football player living or dead that you
Speaker 1: could listen to their podcast, who would who would it be? Oh? Man,
Speaker 1: that's an interesting one. Um. I'm a huge Kurt Warner fan.
Speaker 1: I think I put him in that category because you
Speaker 1: can hear him on NFL Network already. For whatever reason,
Speaker 1: I feel like a Brett five podcast would be entertaining
Speaker 1: to me. I think that guy played so many years.
Speaker 1: The stories you'd have that would be pretty fascinating. What's
Speaker 1: the last podcast that you binged? Oh? The last podcast
Speaker 1: probably asked Town. I think Gus Town was the last
Speaker 1: one that I binged, which I absolutely loved. Um also
Speaker 1: maybe it might have been Locked Up Abroad as well,
Speaker 1: So those two love both of those. And next time
Speaker 1: somebody asks you that, you'll be like access podcast, I
Speaker 1: just listen to there you Go and bonus question if
Speaker 1: you were saying and which personified not what's your favorite sandwich?
Speaker 1: But if you were sandwich personified, what kind of sandwich
Speaker 1: would you be? Uh something? My co host would say
Speaker 1: something very responsible and typical, So you would you would
Speaker 1: be getting whatever sandwich a dad would eat. So maybe
Speaker 1: a very plain, uh you know, turkey and cheese sandwich
Speaker 1: with mayonnaise on some white bread. That's what my co
Speaker 1: host would say. I would say, Dag would oh, there
Speaker 1: you go? Yeah, I think I although dad with they
Speaker 1: didn't have kids. I don't know what I'm thinking. I
Speaker 1: just dated myself all right, Uh, Andy Holloway at Andy
Speaker 1: Holloway on Twitter. The Fantasy Footballers dot com is the
Speaker 1: website and every week new shows. Um, anything else you
Speaker 1: want everybody to know? No, I mean just top on board. Uh,
Speaker 1: making a part of your routine if you love playing
Speaker 1: fantasy football, we love hanging out with you every day.
Speaker 1: Thanks Andy, all right, take care? All right now it's
Speaker 1: my my favorite time at the show. I say that
Speaker 1: and I mean it. Z appreciate my hard working producer.
Speaker 1: Z is in the studio and we are going to
Speaker 1: talk about three podcasts that you should be listening to. Um.
Speaker 1: By the way, I hope everybody goes and listens to, uh,
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Footballers. By the way, I hope everybody goes
Speaker 1: and listens to Fantasy Footballers. I had a good time.
Speaker 1: That was fun. Do you think you like me? Well? Really? Yeah?
Speaker 1: We had Like so we did fifteen minutes after that
Speaker 1: interview that we just we're talking about. So we'll probably
Speaker 1: do that as a bonus episode. Yeah. I think I
Speaker 1: have a man crush a little bit. You're gonna find
Speaker 1: that about working with me. Like I get all worked
Speaker 1: up about guests and then afterwards I feel really good.
Speaker 1: About it, and I'm sure they're like my new best friend,
Speaker 1: like Phoebe. I thought Phoebe was my new best friend.
Speaker 1: She's not my best friend. We're fine, yeah, but I
Speaker 1: mean she's not calling me to, you know, come to
Speaker 1: North Carolina and hang out or anything. And he's your
Speaker 1: man crush Monday. Yeah, I'm hoping to get invitation. Hey, Maddie,
Speaker 1: don't you come to Phoenix and hang out with me
Speaker 1: and the boys sometime and watch football? There you go,
Speaker 1: I don't know anyway, a little more inside of my
Speaker 1: stupid head. By the way, we have cameras on us
Speaker 1: today because we're being filmed for a school project for
Speaker 1: the Academy of our University, shout out. All right, let's
Speaker 1: talk about three podcasts that folks should be listening to
Speaker 1: right here on the I Heart Radio app What do
Speaker 1: you Got for us this week? And the sports Tip
Speaker 1: Miss sports Girl with her Stanford volleyball shirt on um
Speaker 1: I got. The first one is Laces Out with Pat
Speaker 1: McAfee McAfee. I always say it wrong with my accent
Speaker 1: McAfee McAfee. Pat McAfee. We have a connection because you're
Speaker 1: I'm a WVU mountaineer. Pat is a w VU Mountaineer.
Speaker 1: I am a die hard Colts fan and he was
Speaker 1: the puncher for the Colts for many many years from
Speaker 1: two thousand nine to so everybody that knows Pat knows
Speaker 1: how funny he is. And he's done this podcast for
Speaker 1: a long time and the Pat McAfee Show, and then
Speaker 1: when he retired from football, he started this podcast. And
Speaker 1: you know, it's so great anytime somebody for the w
Speaker 1: B family is out doing great things. And uh, I
Speaker 1: love I love Pat. He's a great guy, larious. He's
Speaker 1: actually a stand up comedian and he does shows around America. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which I never knew. He retired at twenty nine because
Speaker 1: you know, he wanted to do a podcast. A lot
Speaker 1: of folks did Kevin Smith when he when he first
Speaker 1: got into podcasting, and when I worked with him, it
Speaker 1: was he wanted to do nothing but podcastings. But that
Speaker 1: didn't last very long. He ended it back to one
Speaker 1: TV and stuff. But you know, anyway, let's check out,
Speaker 1: let's check it out true. Let me tell you a
Speaker 1: little story about these statistics. Troy Paula Malou Okay, fucking
Speaker 1: Troy Paula Malu. So we had a fake for the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers. That was a we didn't even practice a
Speaker 1: call off. We didn't even practice like a a cancel
Speaker 1: it out. We didn't a blackout or whatever whatever it is.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the fun you guys call it.
Speaker 1: Oh maha, whatever the funk they call it. I don't know.
Speaker 1: We didn't even have a cancel the goddamn play because
Speaker 1: it was a hundred percent hilarious stuff from Mountaineer Pat
Speaker 1: McAfee and Cole Mountaineer. Colet Mountaineer. All right, Our next
Speaker 1: one is the Bill Simmons podcast. Bill Simmons, for people
Speaker 1: that don't know, he used to be an ESPN analyst.
Speaker 1: He's an author, but now he has his own website
Speaker 1: called The Ringer, and this is part of The Ringer,
Speaker 1: And I like it because it's super conversational. He has
Speaker 1: celebrities there. He has his cousin on it sometimes and
Speaker 1: they just talk football, basketball, super low key and like,
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm in the recording studio with them
Speaker 1: when I listened to it. Well, and he is one
Speaker 1: of these guys that is a kind of you know,
Speaker 1: he's a cornerstone legend of the podcasting world. He did
Speaker 1: he really changed the world, I think for a lot
Speaker 1: of folks for sports podcast and I have a huge
Speaker 1: respect for him and I totally enjoy reading his stuff
Speaker 1: and listening to this podcast. Check it out. We're starting
Speaker 1: with baseball for the first time. I can't even remember
Speaker 1: the last time we started with baseball Game Endo, like
Speaker 1: forty seconds ago, so it's fresh in our minds. Do
Speaker 1: you think they should have had a rule that like
Speaker 1: they're doing, uh slow pitched off all where you only
Speaker 1: have you can only have four home runs in the game.
Speaker 1: You have to choose when you have the four you
Speaker 1: bat around. Yeah, you have to say it after you
Speaker 1: hit your fifth homer. That sound eligible? It's only a double.
Speaker 1: It was getting Look, I know everyone loved it and everything,
Speaker 1: but I thought I thought Game two was one of
Speaker 1: the best World Series games I've ever seen him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, what's final? What's What's our final? Podcast is
Speaker 1: Skip and Shannon Undisputed, and that's a TV shop, So
Speaker 1: this is a continuation of their TV show. But they
Speaker 1: even but they do say a Skip and Shannon Undisputed
Speaker 1: podcast in the beginning. Um, I like it because even
Speaker 1: though I'm not a fan of Skip Bayliss, I hate
Speaker 1: I hate him. Um. I like the back and forth
Speaker 1: him and him and Shannon have. It's really their opinions
Speaker 1: are different and they're always going at each other, and
Speaker 1: I think it makes for a really good show. You
Speaker 1: know what's funny is the promos they did for this show,
Speaker 1: We're so bad that I was like, I am not
Speaker 1: watching or listening. I don't give a crap. These are
Speaker 1: terrible promos. And that's what happens when you do bad promos.
Speaker 1: When you actually check out the show. Shannon could be.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna put him in one of the
Speaker 1: top five or ten sports analysts out there right now.
Speaker 1: Absolutely like really really good. His whole thing when the
Speaker 1: whole kneeling thing was happening, like that whole rant. You
Speaker 1: can watch it on YouTube. But he's so well articulated,
Speaker 1: and Skip is just whatever. But let's check out Shannon
Speaker 1: Sharpen whatever whatever. He was not in shape, but he
Speaker 1: said he had the best off season ever and just
Speaker 1: because of a little ankle injury in the preseason. Well,
Speaker 1: let's come on, you really miss that much too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's like the pilot gauge. It's just a little gauge
Speaker 1: they won't take off. That's his whole thing skip. His
Speaker 1: whole thing is free training, folks. And so if you
Speaker 1: got a little nick, you can't be the best player
Speaker 1: on the planet. If you don't play both ways. You
Speaker 1: gotta play some defense. And last night I'm watching closely.
Speaker 1: He just done. He does heart is off. Alright, Ze,
Speaker 1: thanks for those awesome tips. Alright, another show in the can. Hey,
Speaker 1: if you're listening and you haven't listened to past shows,
Speaker 1: please go back and listen. We've had some pretty cool
Speaker 1: guests on. But that's it for this week's show. Access
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