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Speaker 3: This is a regular up happy track.

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Speaker 1: You're saying, humans need fantasy to make life bearable. Humans

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Speaker 4: My goodness speak, n s prone, bets, relentless, refusing to

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Speaker 3: All right, hit that horn, burbless. Hello and welcome to

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Speaker 3: the Fantasy Flax Podcast, presented by Prize Picks. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Fantasy Flex Man. How was your Week four?

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Speaker 2: Historic? Historical? It's not like all the pieces finally came together.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's been a rough few weeks, but all

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Speaker 4: of a sudden everything's coming up.

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Speaker 2: Daisy, It's great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I had the complete opposite like experience.

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Speaker 3: Week four was just the absolute worst for me. So

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Speaker 3: I feel like I lost every single league, Like it

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Speaker 4: I was looking at my scores, I was driving for

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Speaker 4: the first half of the games, and I got home,

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Speaker 4: I'm like, it's you know, I was listening to the

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Speaker 4: Serious Channel and I'm like, I think I did okay.

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Speaker 4: And then it was just like I super flexed like

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Speaker 4: Sam Darnold and Daniel Jones in every league, you know,

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Speaker 4: like stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: Everything was just like, oh, this worked out well today.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, one league that I definitely should have won. I well,

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Speaker 3: first of all, this is kind of my bad, but

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Speaker 3: I was I'm in so many of these and I'm

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Speaker 3: did not realize that Robbie Gold was hurt, so I

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Speaker 3: left Robbie Gold in my lineup bad.

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Speaker 2: But also, Jake, you should put Jake on the show

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Speaker 2: and go over the no kickers thing, please.

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Speaker 1: I wish that there were no kickers in this league.

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Speaker 1: I hate kickers.

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Speaker 3: And then yeah, and then I have Matt Stafford, who

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Speaker 3: handed right now. Yeah, all the CMC people a little

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Speaker 3: bit unfortunate. I had Cuba and in my stop fish

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Speaker 3: I guess a little disappointing, but you.

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Speaker 3: Question one is what year did you start playing fantasy

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Speaker 3: and did you win your first league?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Man, it was I think it was.

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Speaker 4: It was Fantasy Basketball league and we started like our

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Speaker 4: I think the season already started anyway. I didn't win

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Speaker 4: it because we didn't finish the league, like after like

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Speaker 4: no more of this. We just ended the league and

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Speaker 4: gave them their money back. They're ten dollars back.

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Speaker 1: That is really funny.

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Speaker 3: That yeah, I mean that sounds cool, Like I don't

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Speaker 1: So ill you're young, you're young, Samantha.

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Speaker 3: No, it's more that I just like didn't get into

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Speaker 3: What are the best and worst parts about playing fantasy

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Speaker 2: No, I don't know. I think that the worst parts.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I think I'm in twelve.

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Speaker 3: burn Book, which is of course the mean Girls reference.

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Speaker 1: I know I don't have to tell you.

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Speaker 3: The first player is Ryan Tannehill. He has finished as

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Speaker 3: QB twenty four, QB twenty four, QB eight, and then

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Speaker 2: Not quite?

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Speaker 4: I mean maybe, like I'm ready to like the pencils

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I do like the fact that he's getting.

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Speaker 2: I never loved Tannehill, but I kind of like what

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Speaker 4: Oh, Sam Donald starting like everybody, but you're talking about

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Speaker 3: The next guy we were talking about is Miles Gaskin

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Speaker 2: He's going to mind? Well, look, this is the chan

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Speaker 3: It's super frustrating. I thought I got a good value

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Speaker 3: the next guy we you're going to talk about is

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Speaker 3: TikTok dancing's a fault, but he has not impressed all

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Speaker 2: Going to Jujus Smith Schuster every game.

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Speaker 4: So I actually kind of see an upside to him

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Speaker 4: Like the Giants started playing Gadarius Tony out of nowhere,

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Speaker 2: Juju Smith Schuster and let him take into the house.

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Speaker 3: Copy, but they were definitely stories like the maskless QB

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Speaker 1: They definitely like, who are Like, who's Dwayne Haskins.

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Speaker 4: Adorable Italian parents, very very adorable Italian framed it.

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Speaker 4: I think he's going to be someone who turns it

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Speaker 4: I had like a couple of running backs, a couple

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Speaker 3: I did get him in Scott Fish, which I'm telling

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but Scott Fish is like, you have weird rules

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Speaker 3: So I took Pitt's four oh one and it's tight

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Speaker 4: So I stopped tweeting stuff that are other guys right about.

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Speaker 4: I'm fine now, I'm living a happy life.

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Speaker 1: That's funny.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to identify some markets.

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Speaker 3: Three NFL Week five quarterback plays on Prize Picks.

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Speaker 1: First play that I like is.

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