What's up, everyone? Welcome into the Friart yard fantasy hour here on fan duel. I'm your host Simon joined as always by my co-host Joey, right? What's up, Joey? Not a whole lot. I'm having a great day. I got to do, I got to talk about Steven Spielberg this morning on a stream, which is like a dream of mine. Now I'm here with Brian and I'm here with Simon to play some pulp or so. Oh man, let me tell you, I'm already having a great day.  Oh my God. It's a treat. You're welcome, Joey. Guys joining us today, only on one show with me today, but I'm lucky to get to stream with him at least once is our good friend, Brian Drake. You can find him on Twitter at drake fantasy. For those of you that do not know, Mr. Brian Drake, he's a writer over at fighting chance fantasy. He is the host of the fantasy football hustle podcast and the host of PFF on serious XM Brian. Thank you so much for joining us today, my man. Thanks for having me back. This is always a super good time. I always feel weird when people like read their credentials. People are going to be like, man, this guy must know what he's talking about.  Thank you guys. It's so much fun. It's great that you're streaming with us because we set the bar low and then you get to come in and sound like the genius. As long as you go right after I go, everyone's going to sound fantastic. Maybe we could find me a tight end for this week in my home league. I think you and every team, except for the team with Travis Kelsie's having that problem this week. If you got Travis Kelsie, you're sitting there just laughing at the 11 other teams in your league as they scramble. Do I start Cole command or Noah fans or Chica Conquo? Those are all the names that we were talking about. My guy, I'm debating. We got some people in here ready for today's show. I was saying, hello, everyone. What's up, Albert? Welcome in, my friend. We got grim fan and born to laugh in here as well. Welcome in grim and welcome in born to laugh. Our friend, Danielle Harper. What's up, Danielle? Glad to have you in here. And we had some questions to kick the show off today. We're going to get into overception. But before we do that, born to laugh, wanted to know, should they start Trevor Lawrence or Derek Carr? Drake, would you be starting Lawrence or Carr this week? This is an easy decision. You have to start Derek Carr because you don't know. Derek Carr plays Thursday night. We don't know yet if Trevor Lawrence is going to play this week. He hasn't practiced all week long. He says he's going to, but we can't be 100 percent sure. Plus, pretty good matching for Derek Carr tonight. They should, he should throw a couple of touchdown passes. I'm starting Derek Carr. They're back to back in my rankings and because of the uncertainty around Trevor Lawrence, even though I have him one spot higher, I'll roll Derek Carr out there. What about you, Joey? Simon, they're back to back to my rankings and I have Lawrence one spot higher too. I'm just curious, where do you have Lawrence and Carr? I've got them at 12 and 13. Lawrence at 12, Carr at 13. All right. We're usually in sync, but, you know, it's nice to see. Things carry on. For who are you rolling? Are you rolling Carr? Are you rolling Lawrence Joe? Yeah, I'm rolling Carr. I can't, you know, man, those injury destinations. When it's this close, I'm going to, I'm just going to play the safe card when they're back to back like this. Grim fan in here wanted to know Latavius Murray or James Conner. Joey, I'll throw this one to you first. So you going with Murray or Conner this week? I'll go with Conner. I like the work that he's gotten since he's come back, I guess you could say. So it's going to be Conner for me. Brian, are you ready? But yeah, just look at the offenses here. You've got Arizona with a chance to score a lot of points. They're pretty dynamic. James Conner has this incredible roll where he gets 99% of all the running back touches in this backfield or Latavius Murray, who's 100 years old and also from my hometown here in Syracuse. So shout out to us, but I'm taking James Conner here. Shout out Syracuse, but not that big of a shout out because we don't want Tavius Murray to hear. Um, one more question from born to laugh. And Drake, I'm going to use this the segue into the question you asked us right before. Christ, here we go. You're debating between Foster Moreau and Chickasema Conquo. If I'm not mistaken, right? That was the dilemma you were facing. I am. I, and I know Foster Moreau has been a top 10 tight end in two of the last three weeks because he scored a touchdown, but he's also not going over 45 yards receiving. So if he doesn't score, he's not going to come through for you. So really, I look at Chickasema Conquo when I go, all right. Well, I doubt Traylon Burke's plays with the concussion. He hasn't practiced all week. And really his floor and Moreau's floor are kind of the same, but the upside for Chick is so much higher. And if you look at all his, his metrics and, you know, the yardage over the past few weeks and target share, like it's all in his favor.  And him and Al Michaels and they score a touchdown and I'm like, ah, why didn't I start Foster Moreau? But he could also go, you know, two for 20. That's tight ends. That's tight ends to see. You're sitting there the whole time. And if you don't, he grabs a touchdown. If you do start them, it's going to be three catches for 37 yards and you're going to be sad. I'm avoiding starting Foster Moreau, if possible. And Drake, the more I think about your question, I think I would throw a conco out there. Look like they've got similar floors, but that upside with a conco was just so much higher. And when you get outside of Travis Kelsey, top tier of tight ends, it's not very big, then you're shooting for upside. Like that's what you want from these guys. It's a must win, right? Folks, you got to play to win this week. You're almost playing this week. If you're in a must win spot, like it's DFS, everybody on the waiver wires, you know, got to be in play for you. Who cares about your bench? You can't be saving those guys for another week. You've got to win this week. Absolutely. I love the person in the chat that asked if I'm the late Gilbert Godfrey's brother. I would be honored to be Gilbert Godfrey's brother. One of the greatest Howard Stern guests of all time, Gilbert Godfrey, and the voice of the parrot in one of my favorite animated series, Aladdin. So yes, I would be, I'm not, but I would be honored to be. One of my favorite shows, it's on the dropout TV network, which is formerly college humor. There's a show called make some noise, which is basically a revamp of who's line isn't anyways.  I've got to make these noises, do impressions and stuff like that. And at the very end, it was a three person prompt of, or before the episode started, they put up a warning screen. They said, this episode was recorded before the passing of Gilbert Godfrey. But in honor of his love for all things bad taste, we've decided to leave the entire segment in unedited. And at the end, they just went in and like his, there were people like, like, there were close Gilbert Godfrey friends reaching out saying like, that was beautiful. What a great tribute. But of course it was at the very beginning, whenever they put that up there, I was like, oh, this is going to be good. This is going to be fantastic. We need to bring back more in poor taste humor. In fantasy football. Let's do it. The Gilbert Godfrey to fantasy DJ. And you're saying, what's up? What's up DJ? Welcome in my friend.  Every time he pops in comments on our show, he's got a picture with a different female pro wrestler. I always look forward to seeing who it is. All right, I am an Alexa Bliss fan through and through. My wife's not watching this right now, but Alexa Bliss could be my next ex-wife. I'm for it. Let's go. And I'm excited to see where her storyline takes her with Bray Wyatt. Yes, today we are going to play some pool perception. Before we get into that, though, I wanted to give a couple reminders to everyone. First and foremost, if you're not following our guest, Brian Drake, go and fix that right now. You can find them on Twitter at drake fantasy. I must follow in this space. Absolutely. Please do. Please do. So go and hit that follow button. It's pretty easy to do. After you do that, head on back over here. If you enjoy what you're seeing, go and hit that like button if you're on Facebook or on YouTube and subscribe to FanDuel on YouTube. Then make sure you're checking them out on TikTok, Instagram, Twitter. They're everywhere at FanDuel. Easy to find. I've got a whole team of killer content creators helping you guys win some money and win some cash. And then after you do that, if you like what we're doing here, good news, you can head on over to our channel at front yard fantasy for more fantasy content. And right after this show at 6.05 PM Eastern time, Joey and myself will be live with Andrew Cooper for fantasy football office hours doing nothing but answering your fantasy football questions for an hour. So throughout the show today, we will be getting to your questions. But if we miss them, just know there's a whole show dedicated to it right after this. You guys want to hit one more of these before we get into our game? Oh, God, yes. Let's help everyone. This is my favorite part of the show. Gabe in here wanted to know, what's up with Barkley just went to questionable. So I looked in there, he was added to their injury report today, limited participant in practice because of a neck injury. I'm not wildly concerned. He's played every game this season. He appeared on the injury report a couple weeks back, like week seven or eight and he played. Drake, do you have concerns for Barkley with this addition to the injury report on Wednesday? Well, I mean, they have to put anybody on there who gets treatment for something. So he could get a neck massage and you'd have to list him. Like we saw CMC, he got cleated in the shin. I think it was in the preseason and they had to they listed CMC with a shin and people lost their mind. Any treatment you get during practice, they have to list it. But I mean, it raises an eyebrow, I guess, make sure that you have Matt Breida rostered in a deep league if you got a spot. But no, I have no issue right now with Saquon. Start panicking tomorrow if he doesn't practice. Even today, he was a limited participant, right? So that's promising. Just yesterday it was DeAndre Swift. Everyone was freaking out. And then today he was a full practice. People just don't want to practice him. That's it in the NFL. They just don't practice. It's all players. Got to get those reps in people. You got a DJ in here wanted to know Kyler Murray or Patty Mahomes. I got to roll Mahomes. I understand the matchup. I understand that Kyler Murray is supposed to be in a shootout game this week. But I I'm not bench in Patrick Mahomes. What about you, Drake? Yeah, you always play Patrick Mahomes. Even in a terrible matchup, he could throw three touchdowns.  They're not going to run the football. You know, this is a throwing team. So, you know, I don't care. I get Denver's a good team. He'll throw against anybody. That's where I'm sitting too. What about you, Joey?  Yeah, unless you have I don't even know if there's another quarterback. I mean, unless you've got one of those top top guys in the matchups are so wildly different. But even then Mahomes, you would just feel so bad with that dude on your bench going off for three touchdowns. I'm in the one more. Jesus in here wanted to know Zeke or Travis E.T.N. So, Joey, would you be rolling out a Zeke or Elliott or Travis E.T.N. this week? I've got E.T.N. at RB 14 and Zeke at RB 15. I think I might switch those because that matchup against Houston, I know Pollard's there too, but two running backs can feast against that Houston Texans defense. They absolutely can. And I do not like the matchup against Tennessee. Tennessee is one of the best run defenses in the league. It is impossible almost to run on Tennessee. You can absolutely throw on Tennessee is what I expect to happen this week. So, I would actually start Zeke over E.T.N. Drake, where are you rolling here? I have to start E.T.N. in the league. So, you know, Joey, you're breaking my heart here, but it's true what you say about you can't really run on Tennessee. Look what Philadelphia did. They scored a bazillion points last week, but it was all through the air. I mean, again, now we've got this issue with the tennis or the Jacksonville quarterback. We don't know what his status is going to be.  But I heard an interesting stat today with E.T.N. He doesn't have a game this year with over three receptions. That's crazy to me. Like, what is going on here? Total garbage time. I can see Zeke getting 75 yards and a touchdown. Zeke's going to score on this game. I am grave concerns about E.T.N. Scoring against Tennessee. I'm going to roll Zeke as well here. Zeke and Pollard are both top full backs for me this week against the Houston defense. I'll plug them both in on the same team. I think they're both great starts. You guys ready to get into some poll perception? Oh, let's buy some poll perception. Let's do it. Dustin in here says, what's up, party people? Hashtag team, Joey. You got Dustin on your team on lock, Joey. He has decided. There was one time he wasn't. I forget why he wasn't on my team. Oh, it was Josh's last show. He was team Josh for one show only. That makes sense. That makes sense. Damon here with a holla. What's up, Damon? Welcome, Damon. Glad to have you here. Guys, today we brought our friend, Brian Drake, here to play a game we call poll perception. It is not your first time playing if I'm not mistaken, right, Brian? I think you played the first time. I think I did this before. Yes, it was good time. So how this game works is I found seven of the most delicious succulent polls on Twitter before this show started. I'm going to propose one of these polls, mostly on a fellow fantasy related to one of our contestants. Joey, I may ask you what percentage of people chose side A in this poll? You're going to set that line by giving me a percentage. Two. Such as 2%. Now, Drake, your job after Joey does that will be to guess whether the actual percentage that chose side A is over or under Joey's guess. OK. If you get that right, you're going to add two points to your score. Then Joey, the closer you are, the more points you will add up to a max of 10 if you are exactly right. One if you're 15 away and it scales up within there. We will go back and forth like this, alternating who's set in the line, who's guessing over or under for six polls. And then on that seventh and final poll, both of you guys will be guessing a number, no more over under nonsense at that point. Whoever is closest gets five points unless you get it right on the dot in which case you get 10 and our contestant with the most at the end of seven polls is our poll perception champion for today. You guys ready? Let's do it. Let's do it. Mr. Scampers, you said, hello, everybody. Welcome in, Mr. Scampers. And he said Eric Weddle has a pretty glorious beard. I'm going to have to Google it. Oh, yeah, that is a very glorious beard. Look at the shape. It's bulbous. It's just got volume. Incredible, Mr. Scampers. Brian, I'm going to ask you since you're our guest, the poll order has already been determined. Would you like to go first or second in today's game? I want the ball and I'm going to score. I'll go first. Oh, great. Go first. Very confident. Here is your first poll and a reminder to everybody in the chat. Play along with us. Throw your guesses in there. If you're exactly right, we'll shut you out. If you're close, we'll shut you out. And if you're very wrong, we'll probably knock you a bit, but that's okay. Here's your first poll. Who will score more points in week 14? Side A, Ezekiel Elliott. Side B, Tony Pollard. What percentage of people said Ezekiel Elliott in this poll? 44 percent. Man, you're good. 44 percent on the Zeke side. Joey, do you think the actual percentage of people that chose the Zeke side of this poll is over or under Brian's guess of 44 percent? In my head, I was like, Pollard 55 percent, because it's not 50-50. It's going to be a slightly leaning towards Pollard. I kind of want to queen B it right out the gate. Let's go. Come on. No, I'm going to. So you said 44 percent Zeke. Ah, man. I think people are going to take the blowout factor. They're going to think garbage time. Like we were just talking about Zeke gets them run late. I'm going to go under. I can't queen B it. I just. Joey, taking the under on this one. And Joey, you brought up a good point that I forgot to mention during the rules. There is a third option besides over and under. There is the queen B rule. If you think your opponent is exactly right, you can guess the push. It has never once successfully been hit on this show, but you do it for the glory. Statistically improbable in a game like this, but it's worth the same exact number of points as getting it exactly right. So you will get 10 points if you queen via and get it correct. One day someone will play. That's exactly. It is pure upside is what you got right there. We got some people in the chat. Geek hippie with 40 percent. Grim going 37 scampers going 26 percent. DJ with 18 Albert with 33 and Gabe. Let me know. He's on the Pollard side here, taking the Pollard side in this poll. Well, guys, the actual percentage of people that chose Ezekiel Elliott in this poll was. 22. Oh, wow. It was I knew it should have been lower percent on the Pollard side to Drake. Unfortunately, it's no points for you, my friend. Joey, you're going to get two for correctly guessing the over under. Brian, I wanted to ask you. Which one of these running backs do you prefer in week 14? Ezekiel Elliott or Tony Pollard? I will always take Tony Pollard just because he's so much more electric. You know, he's got a better chance of breaking a long run. I love Tony Pollard. I think he's just a dynamic fantasy player. He's somebody that I'd love to have my lineup because he can score so many different ways.  But I'm always going to take Tony Pollard nine times out of 10, 10 times out of 10. Screw it. It's Queen B that 10 times out 10. Forget that last dentist that's always messing things up. Joey, where are you going? I'm also going to Tony Pollard. You mentioned the kettlebell. And you should have heard the words flying out of my mouth and Zeke did not jump in the pot on Thanksgiving. It was bad branding. It's what you do, Zeke. That's your thing. That's all he does anymore. I think of some defensive linemen or whoever the defensive players were that recovered that touchdown. They all hopped in the pot. So that that was. Yeah, sort of whack them all with a tight end. Yeah. Come on. Everybody's having a good time. It's Thanksgiving. But yeah, it's going to be Pollard for me. He's got that receiving work as well. And but Zeke, for this game alone, he's still a great play. And Jerry Jones is not going to completely ever go away from him. So no, Jerry Jones insulates Zeke's value from Tony Pollard to a certain degree. He's still going to get the carries. He's still going to get the touches. But man, I think I'm with you guys. This is a this is a position I've come around on this year. I was very much on the like stop it with the Tony Pollard stuff. Just just stop it. It's Zeke's show, but it's not Tony. Pollard is the real deal down there. I'm with you guys. We had a question in here from Grim fan. He said, I just noticed I still have the Raiders to choose from for my Survivor League thoughts. So if I remember correctly, Grim, correct me if I'm wrong. You were leaning the Buccaneers against the 49ers this week. It was a tough matchup. He's also got the Titans available. So the Jaguars going against the Titans or the Raiders against the Rams tonight. Joey, which way would you be leaning? Listen, the Raiders are six. Was it six and a half point favorite in this game? That's what the line was this morning. I believe so. But we don't even know who the quarterback for the Rams is going to be at this point. Last I heard it still could be Wofford or it could be Baker Mayfield who has barely knows the playbook. So I think the Raiders is a pretty smart play here. I don't know when else you'll get to play him this season. Luckily for Baker, the Rams have a really strong run game and offensive line that can help disguise a quarterback that's only been there for two days. So it shouldn't be too bad for him to adjust if he gets the start after arriving on Tuesday night. Like absurd. Give me the Raiders. What are you doing, Drake? Yeah, I mean, I thought the Rams defense looked good last week. Maybe it's because it's a rivalry game. They didn't like some of the guys on their side in Seattle. They put up a fight, but there's no offense here. There's no chance. You could kick a field goal with Daniel Carlson and you're already out of reach for the Rams. They can't. So you like the under on the 32 and a half final, unless you think those Raiders are going to score 40 points themselves. Oh yeah, you never know there. Yeah, give me the under, but give me the Raiders. Under and the Raiders. Yeah, I think I like the Raiders right there. And Grimfan said, Walford, I heard as of yesterday, and today they're talking, his health is questionable, and it's going to come down right to the end. So we will see. Scamper's in here with another important question for us. I said, why do we believe Dentist said all when 10% of them are dissenting? Like, how do we know which dentist we're talking to Joey? How can you trust a dentist? You can't. That's that's the only there's only one dentist you can trust. Dr. Brick Baker, who works here in Orlando, she's a dental hygienist and everybody should trust her.  My dentist in high school, I went in there and I had like this old, old dentist for a long time. I like my entire, my entire childhood. I remember having like this elderly dentist. And so I'm in high school now and I'm sitting there in the chair and he comes out, he's like, Hey, like I'm retiring at the end of this month. And like, we have a new doctor taking over the practice. I wanted to introduce you to him. And like, all I know of dentists are elderly men. That's what the dentist said. And in walks, freaking male model, like we're talking like 10 out of 10, like on the cover of GQ, like Jimmy Garoppolo levels of handsome man who just walks in.  I lost my words. Like I was sitting there in the chair and I was like, you're, you're not a dentist.  Like, what are you doing in my mouth with those gloves on? This goes back to that same Seinfeld episode where you wake up from the gas and zip up the pants. What's going on? My mom and the sister became big fans of the dentist after that though. They didn't mind those appointments as much. Guys, we're going to move on to our next poll. Joey, you've got a 2-0 lead after that one. You ready for this next one? Yeah, let's go. I'm ready. Okay. Here's your question. Do the Lions have the best offense for fantasy football? Side A, yes. Side B, no. What percentage of the people said yes? So I always love these like one team questions versus all because you always have to give 3% to every fan base. That's like math. I don't think the Lions have the best offensive ball. They have one of the most fun offenses in football to watch for fantasy. I'm going to go with a low number here. I'm going to go 11% on the yes side. Just because there's so many other teams out there, it could be that I think a lot of teams will split the vote. I'm going to go. Josie, 11% on the yes side. Drake, what do you got here? Do the Lions have the best offense for fantasy football? They have the guy who scored the most rushing touchdowns in the league. They have a top 10 receiver in Amon Ross St. Brown. They had the kid who was top five running back last week in Deandre Swift. But no, people have a preconceived notion that the Lions suck. I'm going to take the under on this one. I mean, that's a low number, but I'm still going to go under. So, Joey, you said 11% correct? And Drake taking the under on that one. We had some guesses in the chat as well. Gabe in here with 50%, Geet going 18%. Scampers agreeing with you guys. 11%, Albert on 15%, DJ with 50% and Graham going 89%. So, we've got some answers all over the place for this one. Dame going with 24%. So, right in between what you guys said. We'll see the correct answer. The percentage of people that said, yes, the Lions have the best offense for fantasy football, according to 1,661 votes was 40%. Oh my God. 40% said, yes. So, I'm sorry. You know points in this poll. Did Lions not come? Yeah. It was from, it was from Fantasy Focus Live is where this came from. So, a pretty big account, got lots of votes, but maybe the Lions fans got a hold of it. Drake, you made the case for them being the best offense in football, kind of sitting right there. And I think that's probably what happened. You've got all these names, and then the bad defense to go along with it. Maybe that's what people are thinking here. Hey, I'm, I got DJ Chark plugged into a lineup in a must-win situation this week. I'm hoping that he comes through. So do I. I've got DJ Chark in a lineup this week as well. I did it this morning and I was like, oh no. Shout out to some people in the chat getting close on that one. Yeah, good job. And DJ at 50%, you guys were super close. Brian, who would you say is the best offense for fantasy football? But, I mean, there's so many really powerful offenses that, if you look at every position scores. Oh boy. You know, I hate to sound like a Homer here as an Eagles fan, but when Dallas got it, it was healthy.  You've got two very good wide receivers and you got a top five tight end. But the running back, you know, is kind of hit or miss. Miles Sanders has been killing it recently, like this year. Miles Sanders has been a good fantasy asset. I think I'm with you. The Eagles are up there. I have a team. Let's hear it. Fangals. Two top, top 10 wide receivers. You got Joe Burrow has been like a top three quarterback the last five weeks. Joe Mixon or P. Ryan. Hey, take their pick whoever gets the run. The only thing they don't have is the tight end with Hayden. I mean, but then, Hayden Hurston been terrible. Um, yeah, it's, it's, I'm looking through them. Detroit's got Hawkinson now though. That is nice. Or no, the Vikings have Hawkinson now. That's what I said. The Vikings have Hawkinson. Gotcha. Gotcha. Kansas, if you want to just talk about what offense can get fantasy points, Kansas City. I'm in a 14 team. We talked about the Kings classic off air, 14 team league, three flexes, full PPR. You can start anybody from Kansas City and feel pretty good. They're probably going to get you between eight and 12 points. You can start, you know, Justin Houston or Justin Watson, excuse me. You know, when MBS is available or Hardman, any of the guys, whatever they're healthy and they're playing line up, even Skye Moore is coming through. I mean, it doesn't seem like it, but he's not totally dead. So interesting offense. Dallas is sneaky too. That offense. Yeah. Jack Prescott, you got City lamb. Schultz is startable. Yeah. Geek hippie in here. What's up Geek? Saying I'm starting both kickers in fan dual tonight. All right. What do you guys think about that strategy, Drake? Are you all right with putting both kickers in a one slate lineup tonight or one game slate? I mean, these are two pretty good kickers. I love Daniel Carlson. I traded for Daniel Carlson in a redraft league this year. I traded Kyren Williams straight up to get Daniel Carlson. And I've looked like a genius ever since. No, I love that. He's been on a hot streak. Yeah. He had an early buy too. So you get it by week out of the way and then just stick them in that kicker slot and you don't have to worry about it the rest of the season. Exactly. Big leg can hit. You get bonus points for 40 and beyond. Now, much else you can ask for in a kicker. DJ in here wanted to know, and I assume you met Falcons in New York City. Are the Falcons doing the right thing by switching to Ritter? And does he have any value to start when they come back from their buy? Brian, what do you think here? Do you think they're doing the right thing in making this move? Oh, yeah. This offense is horrendous. They can't move the football down the field. They can't score. They can't throw the ball. It's a joke. I mean, I do a segment on my SiriusXM show called, you know, you were on the show where it's called Hate the Drake. I talk about the players who let you down the most that week. There's always a Falcon on there. It's either Drake London or Kyle Pitts when he was healthy. So yeah, you have to go this route. They can't matriculate the football down the field that they want to. So what do you have to lose?  Absolutely. Even if it's a bad decision, they have to see what they have in Ritter. You know, they're going to have a pretty high draft pick again this year. So if, you know, they give Ritter, what is this, five games left in the regular season? They give him a five game audition and he totally flops. Well, then they know maybe they need to address quarterback. I'm right there with you. That's exactly what I was going to say, Joey. They, this is a tryout, right? This is, we spent draft capital on them. We're not making the playoffs. Let's see what we got. Let's see what we got in the rookie. And I'm excited for you. The, the Mariota, when, when Mariota got, went to the Falcons, I was like, okay, whatever. And then when they drafted Ritter, I was like, that's why they wouldn't got Mariota. Just because the offense there, it's a pretty easy transition. From Mariota to Ritter. Absolutely. I'm excited to see what he can do. I'm not starting him in fantasy. He should be rostered in super flex fantasy leagues. He should, he shouldn't be on the waiver wire in any super flex fantasy leagues if he's going to be a starting quarterback. But I'm trying to avoid starting him. Yeah.  Let's see what he can do. Let's see what he can do. You guys ready for the next poll? Drake, this one's coming your way. Please. Let's do it. Here is your question. Who would you rather roster in dynasty PPR? And the poll in the answers gave their ages. So I'm giving you that information as well. Side A, Travis ETN, age 23. Side B, Josh Jacobs, age 24. Or side C, Saquon Barkley, age 25. What percentage of people said side A, Travis ETN in this poll? I play dynasty a little differently. I play dynasty in like two year increments. That's kind of how I look at it because things, yeah, because things change so much. My answer in this would be Saquon Barkley. If I was going to pick one of these three guys, who, but if you want to pick Travis ETN, people always love to, I love the youngest guy possible. I'm going to say, I'm going to say 30%. 30% on the Travis ETN side. Yeah. I'm going to, final answer. Regis. Joey, what about you? Where are you rolling? Guys in my mind are pretty even for a dynasty, for a look at, from dynasty perspective. But I think Travis ETN is going to get a slight bump over the 33% if you had them all even. So I'm going to go over, I think the 30% line is really, really good though. Come on. Let's see it. I just do, I think people care about age a lot more than they should in dynasty, especially when it's this close between these guys. But running back age, you know, it is a, it is a good factor. And I need a win here. I'm standing up. This poll made me realize just how quick running backs age in the eyes of fantasy managers. No, what I mean, Saquon Barkley, that's only two years older than Travis ETN, but people are looking at him like he's a dinosaur. Like he's an acid baby. You have to get out from underneath in dynasty. ETN also has kind of like, it's almost like he's 22 though, because he didn't play for a whole season. Now there was an injury there. So you do have that concern, but that mileage isn't there like a normal 23 year old running back with ETN. So we got some answers in the chat. Griman here saying a hundred percent on Josh Jacobs beast mode. I love it. DJ also saying Jacob's 100%. Mr. scamper is coming in with 39% on side a Travis ETN. Albert with 45% on side a Travis ETN. And guys, the actual percentage of people that chose Travis ETN in this poll was 50%. 50% Travis ETN. So that is two more points for Joey and Brian. I'm with you, man. I'm with you. This seems ridiculous to value Travis ETN so much higher than Saquon Barkley with what Saquon has done this year. And he's 25. It's not like he's 28, right? Well, yeah. If you look at this team though, the Giants are very close Giants are a playoff team right now. But the Giants for the next few years could be very competitive. Whereas, you know, the Jaguars are kind of making their way to get Ridley next year. And another year with Doug Peterson and Trevor Lawrence. But I mean, they're only two years apart. And Barkley, Barkley for the next two years could be a top five running back in fantasy. Travis ETN is not going to be a top five running back for fantasy next year. More than likely, you know, you never know. Who thought Josh Jacobs would be the number one running back in fantasy? Yeah. His own team didn't even extend him. But that's crazy. I got to get on the roll here. Man, I stink. So people are unfollowing me. Everybody who followed me to start the show are blocking me now. This is the kind of poll that you see. And if you really love Saquon Barkley and you see the Travis ETNs at 50%, go out and make those trades for Dynasty. Because if you could probably make them, if half of the public body thinks that, go make that trade. Go get your Saquon Barkley for your ETN. Yeah. And Mr. Scamber says, this is a Giants offensive perception, I think. Maybe people aren't realizing that this Giants offense isn't as bad as it has been in the past. They look a bit better out there. They're not looking so rough. And Drake, the best part about this game is none of the answers are fact-based. So you can always just blame Twitter for the results of these polls. I do. You were right. That's how I live my life. Just playing. Damn it, Twitter. We're out of milk again. You guys ready for the next poll? I am. Oh, you are up 4-0 right now. This next poll is coming your way. Let's go. He's got three straight. Is he up 6-0? No, I didn't get the other one. Because he got skunked on his poll. He got no points on that one. I shouldn't have, though.   More in this than I thought now. Let's go. Here we go. And you're just one poll and you're back in this. Joey, who would you rather start in fantasy football the rest of the season? Side A, Bam Knight or Side B, Michael Carter? What percentage of people said Bam Knight, Mr. Zanovine Knight? Simon, in the DMs today, we were so excited to be on stream together and we say nice things to each other. And then you come and give me a Jetspole. Like, what did I do to you to deserve this? Listen, I like what I've seen at Bam Knight the last two weeks. And I think Twitter seems to like what they see as well. But, you know, last year, Michael Carter did not look bad at all. And then I think when Grease Hall went down, a lot of people got excited about Michael Carter. Rest of season, though, you know, there's an injury concern with Carter now. I'll go 53% Bam Knight. It's going to be close. I'm taking 53%. We'll be over on that. Whoa. 75% Bam Knight. Drake with no hesitation on the way over. He's saying it is so over right there. Got the over from Brian. We got some answers in the chat here as well. Mr. Scamper's coming in with 69%. Albert coming in with 60% on that one. And Ray saying, need help. You just throw a number in there. That's how you play this game. But if you need it, fantasy help, you can throw your question in the chat as well. We'd be more than willing to help you out, Ray. And if you need some, like, turnips or anything, an animal crossing. Come see me. Come to my island. Come to my island. My village has probably missed me. I haven't played in months. I need to mow those lawns. Let me tell you.  Yikes. That little dog is just playing the guitar all by himself. Wonder where everybody is. DJ Inus has nothing wrong with my jets. Bam Bam is a stud. 67%. Grim going 48%. Gabe with 50%. And Mr. Scamper is with the other tip. If you're really in need of help, you can dial 911 as well, depending on the severity of the need of your help. If it's a fantasy question, though, I recommend asking here first before you go that route. They're probably not going to be as... I do know CPR. So there you go. Maybe you don't need it at all in general. Well, the actual percentage of people that chose Bam Night in this poll was 66%. So, Joey. Oh, I will get a point. You were 12 percentage points away, so you're going to get one point. And Brian, you're going to get two points. All right. Getting some ground right here for correctly picking the over, under. That's going to bring the score to Joey 5, Brian 2. And Brian, you emphatically said the over here. Does that mean you're emphatically on the Bam Night side here as well? Do you prefer him rest of the season? Yeah.  Look at what the Jets are telling us. They say, even though Michael Carter is back and fully healthy, they say, we're not going away from this kid. And he's going to get an opportunity. They brought him up to the active roster for a reason. They've obviously seen something in practice from him. And he's producing on the field, which is what you'd love to see. So more of Bam Night. Any rosters I have him on, I'm going to keep plugging him in and keep hoping for good things from the Jets. How do we feel about Bam Night this week? Against the Bills? You know what, though? He's not a zero in the past game. And I think they're going to try to limit Mike White. They don't want him dropping back and throwing 60 times every week, like we've seen. So maybe they're going to want to try to get something going here against Buffalo on the ground. Keep the ball out of Josh Allen's hand. That's a recipe for success. So it wouldn't shock me if they tried to get him going early with a lot of questions. I've got him as an RB2 this week, so low end. But still, it's a start for me. Also, I see Rain here saying, my question isn't popping up on YouTube for some reason. I see the ordebo part. I'll look into that, Ray. I'll check on. I'll see if I can figure out what's going on with that. But if there's any expletives in there, that could be a reason why it doesn't pop up. But if there's any words, I'm not accusing you of seeing an expletive. If there's words that could be used as an expletive in other contexts that are a part of your question, it may also be auto-filtering, auto-moderating. That's why mine always get blocked. Yeah. It might just be cam acres and just thought it was the poop word that we're not allowed to say. And so it just keeps censoring it. So. All good. Also, Ray saying, glad you like my pick. It's my fav game. We love some Animal Crossing here. Me and Joey are both big Animal Crossing fans. Shout out to DJ. 67% on that one. 1% is point away so close to the perfect answer on the real answer of 66%. Also, Grim coming in here with the hot tip saying, Ray, do a refresh because I had issues too. Yeah. Maybe if you refresh the page, you can get that in there. Okay, guys, let's all switch shirts. So when he comes back from the refresh, we're all wearing different outfits. I'll do this.  It's like the time. There was a time we had Scott Simpson on the show. And whenever it went down, whenever the show ends and we've got the end banner on with the music and thanks for watching, we can see everybody at the bottom if we're logged in to StreamYard. But the guest cannot. You can't see our picture if I move myself. But Scott didn't know that we could see at the bottom. And all of a sudden, I see him down there thinking he's being real funny, taking his shirt off. So he's going to be there shirtless whenever the stream ends. So I take my shirt off. And then Josh takes his shirt off. And so it cuts. And Scott's ready to shock us by his shirt being off. And Josh and I are both sitting there shirtless as well. Tremendous. Full on God. I'm right there. That is great. That's funny. Joey, you now have a 5-2 lead after that one. But Brian, you're making a comeback. You gain some ground on that one. It's like the Trio's championship here on AEW. I got to tell you. And we are moving into our last round of polls before the final round. So we are going to implement another rule here, a new rule. Brian, since I think since the last time you played poll perception, we've implemented this. There are now two more options you can use when guessing over, under, or Queen V. You may now guess the way over or the way under. If you guess way over, that means you think your opponent's guess is 15 percentage points or more off from the actual percentage. Now, this is a double or nothing mechanic. So if you guess way over and there are only 14 percentage points over, you're going to get nothing. But if you are correct, if they are 15 percentage points or more off, you're going to have four points to your score instead of two. So keep that in mind. It requires you to get your points out of that. I'm using it already. I have to. Whatever Joey says for taking the over. That last one, those were 10. You can get 10 on the last one, right? Or is it a five? Here we go. Ray found a solution first. So start acres tonight over Bam and James. I'm guessing Richie James, based on the question right there. So would you guys start Cam Acres over Bam Knight? Drake, we'll throw this to you first. No, you're starting Bam out there against the Bills. I can't get behind starting anyone on this Rams offense. There's no chance. They're not going to score points. Joey, what about you? It's Bam for me. I'm not starting Cam Acres. It's going to be Bam for me as well. There's just. I'd start Bam Bam Bigelow over. We're going to get more in there, too. More wrestling references. I'm going to giggle each time. Like I know what's going on right here. But you know in my eyes and in my heart of hearts, that I have no idea what you guys are saying. Scissor party coming here at the panel. Plus, I'm we're better than you and we know it. Yeah. You know what? I have always been jealous that I didn't get into wrestling as a child because it seems like everything I enjoy. It's a spectacle. It's fun costumes. It's athleticism. Like there's still time. It should be my thing. Yeah, it should be my thing. Damon here said LeBron for sure. So yeah, if you can start LeBron over Zonovan Knight or Richie James, I would go that route as well. Okay, guys, you ready to move on to our next poll? Oh, yeah. Let's go. There we go. And this one comes to you, Mr. Drake. You ready? Let's do it. Who would you rather have as a Fanny CQB the rest of the season? Side A, Deshaun Watson. Or side B, Mike White. What percentage of people said Deshaun Watson in this poll? This question is rude. See, you've also got to weigh the human element of people who just don't like Deshaun Watson for obvious reasons. I'm still going to say the general majority of people leaned Deshaun Watson. And I'm going to say 57% Deshaun Watson. 57% Deshaun from Drake. Now, again, I'm terrible at this game, as we've seen. Joey, do you think the actual answer is over or under Drake's guess of 57% or way over, way under? Or Queen B? It's not. I don't think it's going to be way over, way under. This is really tricky. I think some of the Watson hate died off, not that it should have, but because he had a bad game. I think people were happy to see that.  Man, it could be under. Over. Joey, take it over here. And you made a tricky decision for him. Brian, we'll see if it plays out. Gave him here with 40%. Mr. Scamper is going with 20% or under. We've got Albert with 39%. And Maria, welcome in Maria, saying hi, friends. Hi, Maria. Thanks so much for joining us this afternoon. I guess it's evening at this point. Hardly afternoon anymore. Well, you guessed 57%. Drake, Joey, you took the over on that guess. Maria, last minute guess of 35. I didn't hear the question. The actual percentage of people that chose to Sean Watson over Mike White, rest of season. Oh, we got one more in here. Dane with 44% as her answer. And right at the buzzer. The answer is 44% is the correct answer. Shout out, Dane. You know an exact one, right? And Drake, you're going to get one point. We're correctly getting within 15 percentage points. And Joey, you got nothing. Climbing your way back into this game, we got a high score and a fair of three to five in this game. There's been some brutal polls today. There's been some absolutely brutal polls. It's brutal out here. Drake, do you think DeSean Watson is going to have better games than we saw in that first game back against Houston? It can't be worse. It can't be worse. He's got really good weapons. He's a very, very talented quarterback. And, you know, I hadn't played in 700 days. So, you know, really what did we expect? I mean, he comes in, he's got like a week or two of practice with the team.  So, yes, of course, it'll get better for DeSean Watson. You know, I'm sure we're not saying I necessarily want to start him in fantasy, but it'll get better than what we saw. They also lost three offensive opportunities because Cleveland took those into the end zone. Yeah. It's a great point. So, you know, while he didn't play great, he also didn't have the opportunity to turn those turnovers into points himself. So, which we could have easily seen. What a weird game. 27 points and they didn't score a single offensive touchdown for the Browns last week. You're right. That was just a bizarre game the way it played out. And we've already talked about Mike White a bit here, but Joey, are you trusting Mike White? Let's start with just this week against the Buffalo Bills.  I mean, the Bills past defense hasn't been as great the last few weeks, but still I've got him as a low end quarter. He's QB 21 in a week that there's six teams on by. So, that's not very... I mean, I'm trying not to start him if I can. Brian, I know you told me before the show you're having to start him in Scott Fishbowl, right? What are your expectations for Mike White?  I don't know. Just please stay on the field. Mike White, just don't blow up. Give me a game where you score, you throw for 250, a touchdown or two, run around for 30 yards. Just don't embarrass yourself. I did want to say, cheap plug for your next show. Andrew Cooper, the Titan Whisperer, just sent me a DM. I asked him the question about Murrow and Chig. He's going Chig with the upside. So, on your show, right here on pole position, I'm making the move. I got it on my screen. Add Chig, drop Foster Murrow. Boom. I just did it. You heard my phone vibrate in the background. We're in for the upside, baby. It's decisions like that that remind me, like, you know what? Fantasy football is supposed to be fun, right? Like, they're supposed to be a factor that's fun and that is definitely more fun to start Chig than it is to start Foster Murrow. I'm excited to see what he does this weekend. Boom. Wait, Brian, can we do it? Can you scissor me, Daddy? Can you do it?  You got to trust me. Watch the show. I've seen him at the mall so many times, Billy Gunn, through my life. Yeah. He lives in Oviedo, Florida. Like just so many times I've seen him. Huge, especially for his age. We're speaking about Billy Gunn. But if you folks remember him from the New Age Outlaws. Maria in here saying love your background, Brian. She's a big fan of the background. It is. I got the Christmas tree down here in the man cave. I actually, people asked me about this. See this little hustle? It's a goal post, right? That I bought on eBay, this hustle neon. And I'm a liquor salesman by trade. So that goal post, actually on the bottom of it, it has like Crown Royal logos on it and stuff. And I took it from work. And I remember one of our merchandisers asked like, hey, do you have that goal post? Can I have that back? I'm like, no, no you can't. Yeah, sorry. The account wanted it. They stole it. Yeah, that's too bad.  Oh, that's not the same one. That's from Amazon 100%. Also, Gabe in here said, Joey, I'm in Tabari, Go Orlando. So right near by from Gabe right there. Gabe, I am literally in Deltona, right across the highway from you. Gabe, let's meet up and watch a football game. There we go. Making connections on the fan dual channel. Follow me on Twitter right here. You ready for your next poll, Joey? Yeah, let's do it. You're up five to three. Here is your next poll. This is the last one before we get into our final round. It is very much still anybody's game, but you could make it hard for Brian on this last one right here, Joey, if you do a good job on this poll. You're on the clock in a super flex dynasty draft. Who are you drafting? Side A, Joe Burrow or Side B, Justin Herbert. What percentage of people said Side A, Joe Burrow in this poll? Listen, I think Justin Herbert is going to have a bounce back year next year when all his weapons are healthy and I might regret the percentage I'm about to drop here, but I'm going to go pretty heavy on the Burrow side. I'm going to drop a 72% Joe Burrow. Joey going with 72% on the Burrow side here. Brian, do you think the actual percentage of people that chose Joe Burrow is over or under Joey's guess of 70? You say 72% Joey? 72, yeah. 72. Boy, I think he's, he's right. That's, that's kind of where I would have went, but I'm wondering how close over under. I want, boy, Herbert's great. He is great. You know what? Give me, all right. The answer obviously is you do want Joe Burrow here and I'm going to say you said 72. I gave you some room. Yeah. Do I want to go under here? Because it is so close. You know what? Screw it. We're playing for the upside. I'm going over. People are going to, they want over on Joe Burrow. Taking the over right here. We have some guesses in the chat as well. Scampers with 69% gave with 65. Dave coming in with 34%. Albert with 63. Grimm saying 84%. And DJ 32% on a, well the actual percentage of people that chose Joe Burrow over Justin Herbert in this poll was 66%. So Joey, you were 6%. I'm going to give you three points. Bringing you up to eight. And Brian, you're going to stay at three. Brian. I should have went under. Damn it. Yeah, that would have gotten you more points. We can tie now. Drake, which one of these players do you prefer in Superflex Dynasty? Burrow outplaying them this year, but Joey mentioned they've been having some struggles over there on the Chargers offensive side of the ball. I mean, just imagine next year if Sean Payton is the head coach of the LA Chargers, which could happen. So who knows? Herbert's awesome. Six foot seven. He's got great weapons out there.  His receivers are beat up.  He's got him throwing two yard out passes all day long. He's a great, great player. But yeah, Joey, Joey B is something else. Joey B is something else. I'm rolling Joey B here, but I love Justin Herbert. Man, that's close though. Like it is super close between those guys. I say that right now, but if you put me in a draft room and these two guys are on the clock, I would debate it up until there was one second left on the timer before I clicked Joe Burrow, I think. Joey, you're rolling Joey B here as well. Oh yeah. Everything I've seen out of Joey B has been phenomenal. He has, I drafted him in Jalen Hertz as my quarterback in Scott Fishbowl. So I was a very, very happy camper last week. But Burrow, the last five weeks, he's been, what is it? QB one, two times, QB three, and he's been phenomenal. So it's Joey B for me. I think Herbert will bounce back like I said, like I really do. He will. Scamper's in, you're saying that's two 66ers. Yeah, we did have two polls with the answer being 66 today. Also, Maria wanted to know, you think when his coach is mad at him, he calls him Joseph? When Zach Taylor's mad, does he call him Joseph Burrow? What do you think, Joey? I don't.  And I think that's probably what happens. He's got to get the middle name in there too. Joseph Lee Burrow, it's got to be the full name for it to have that kind of ring. Also, Grimm in here said, here's a poll for you. The percentage that the Jets make the AFC Championship game this year with Mike White, 0%, giving us the answer there as well. It doesn't think it's happening. Shade. I go under. Let's laugh at the Jets. Sorry, DJ. We're going into our final poll here. Brian, do you have pen and paper or a cell phone that you can write your answer on here? I do. Absolutely perfect. Then I'm going to read this poll.  Whoever's the closest is going to get five points unless you're exactly right, in which case you will get 10. Here it is. When you go out to dinner, how do you prefer the lighting? Side A, well lit or side B, dim? What percentage of people said well lit in this poll? I'm going out to dinner immediately after the show. The wife and kids are in the car as my wife texts me. When will you be done? Now, I like to be well lit when I go out to dinner, but there we go. Well lit versus dim. Who's picking well lit? All right, we're going to go over. I guess we're not trying to find out who. Just how many? What percentage of people walking around amongst us are just, I guess, not light sensitive or prefer to see every last bite of their food going in? All right. Got it. You guys got your answers? Yeah, I'm ready. Okay. Let's go ahead and reveal them. What do you guys got? As always, I put my picture, my number on a picture. That's a 41% from Joey. Is that what that says? Yeah. And that's Kenny and Kota at a match that I went to. Wow. The belt you've ever seen. Drake, does that say 28%? 28%. We got 28% and we got 41% as our two answers here. We had some answers come in the chat as well. Gabe going 30% on this one. Maria with 50%. Mr. Scampers with 17%. Dane guessing 59%. Can you pop back up there? Yeah. One year's roll through. Gabe said 30% on that one. DJ with 100% dim. So all on the other side. He said continue the romance. Ooh, DJ. Keep the romance alive, my man. Albert with 33% and Grimm agreeing with DJ here, 100% dim. You guys have been in lockstep on a couple today. I think you guys both said 100% Jacobs as well on that other poll. Well, the actual percentage of people that said side A well lit was 31%. Brian, that means you're going to get five points and this game is going to end in a tie score of eight to eight. With the comeback, Drake, congratulations on being our poll perception tire today. Awesome. I thought the tie goes to the guest. Tie goes. We'll call you guys co-champions on this Thursday. I like it. Hey, let's get some tag team belts. That'd be great. We're interim champions to be decided on a dynamite later down the road. Love it. Mr. Scampers, the only well at dinner I want would be at a sketchy gas station. 1,000%, I agree with you. I've always said some of the best food I've had, just driving through like rural Alabama and Georgia and you pull into a gas station and they've got just like, they'll have like a full ass restaurant behind a counter with one fluorescent light in there with the best food you've ever eaten. It's gas station food. Really? Yeah. KFC, the guy started KFC at like, it was a gas station and then they started selling it out of the gas station and then he, you know, people started to dig it and he moved it around to other places. But yeah, like son loves the history of fast food. That's awesome. That's a cool thing to be interested in. That's another place in Ohio that everyone goes get wings. It's like Quaker State or something. That's a little chain. We've had some of those here in Syracuse, Quaker, Steak and Lube. Yeah, that's it. Is it really a gas station or is that just the name? It looks like they make it. Oh, okay. It's like any little sports. That explains why they wouldn't pump my gas for me. Okay. Yeah. I'm going to Outback after this. That's our big, that's not a gas station. God, I love Outback. My girlfriend has a resentment for chain restaurants, so we very rarely go to them, but I love Outback and I love Chili's so much. My wife's the opposite. She loves the chain restaurants. She's all in. The area I live is like suburbia, so it's like strip malls with just tons of chain restaurants. So we have a lot of choices of chain restaurants around here. I can't imagine ever going to a Chili's, living in San Antonio though. I'm sorry, Simon, I couldn't do it. I mean, there's just infinite taco places here. So every once in a while, you just want Chili's. Let's answer one question here before we jump off, guys. A reminder for everybody else watching. We're going to hit this one right now, right after this starting at 6.05, five minutes after this stream ends over on our YouTube channel at Front Yard Fantasy. We will be live for Fantasy Football Office. I was doing nothing but answering your questions. Kate wanted to know, Got Lamar, should I stream Huntley, Goff, T-Law, Tana Hill or Carr? Brian, where are you rolling on this one?   Everybody can throw on Minnesota in a game than a dome. Why not? Yeah, I'm rolling Goff as well. Their last check, they were favored in that game as well, and it's supposed to be relatively high scoring. Give me Goff. You going Goff as well, Joey? I have him as my QB8. I love Jared Goff this week. I'm starting him in my main home league, and I'm excited to do so. I've got Justin Fields on by, and when I saw the matchup for Jared Goff, he's at home. I mean, the home road splits for Goff. Have been fantastic for him. So like, yeah, I'm all in Goff this week. Also, Joey Gaben here saying, Joey, can you hit me up on Facebook? I don't have or do Twitter. I don't have Facebook. There's too many horrible people. We'll figure something out. Yeah, you're at Cranes Roost, where I filmed the very first Start Systems Salutations, is where Gabe is in that picture. I believe he's at Cranes. We're going to figure something out. I'm going to screenshot your name, Gabe. We'll make sure we get something figured out for you, Joey, so you guys can get each other's information. That's going to be it for us today, guys, though. Before we go, a huge thanks to our guest, Brian Drake. If you're not already following him, go and check him out on Twitter, at drakefantasy. Brian, it's always a pleasure streaming with you, my man. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us. Thank you, guys. I really appreciate it. You do, you know, the Lord's work over here. Having fun talking fantasy football. And guys, we will see you all in five minutes over on our YouTube channel, our front yard fantasy with our friend, with our friend Andrew Cooper for fantasy football office hours. Until then, we are out of here. Adios, everyone. Enjoy your Thursday night football. Bye, everybody. See you.


The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INAG, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, says most attacks carried out on the commission's facilities across the country have nothing to do with the 2023 elections. Professor Yakubu disclosed this during an investigative hearing organized by the House of Representatives at a committee. According to the INAG boss, most of the attacks occur because the facilities are self-targets located in remote areas that are difficult to secure by the nation's overstretched security agencies. The chairman said from 2019 to date 50 INAG facilities have been attacked and materials destroyed. There's a need to pay more attention and deploy military and police and other forces to this area. You said that the security agencies are overstretched. I have said so. And then I also appeal to communities and traditional religious leaders and others to see INAG facilities as national assets and they should all contribute to us protecting these facilities instead of leaving this to the security agencies alone.


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So yeah even if you're I mean even if we were terrible speakers and Didn't do a good job at the retreat which those who take it love it What an amazing place to be right is the shrine of the most blessed sacrament. So Join us there that can be found where where can they sign up spiritual direction calm forward slash events? And it's a great way to spend a beautiful time with your spouse and work on your marriage So don't miss that playing ahead Gentleman direction calm forward slash events click on events. Yep. All right. You ready to roll. Yes, okay Even the father and son the Holy Spirit This is Dan and Stephanie Burke welcome to divine intimacy radio your radio haven of rest your hermitage of the heart Your monastery of the mind where we lift our hearts and minds to heaven to the wisdom of the saints To help us to draw near to God. They trod the path well near perfectly and at least in human terms as you can and In their experience, they give us wisdom to understand how to draw near to God to understand how to Grow in the faith understand how to deal with incredibly difficult times Which you know are not there's no generation really exempt from major challenges, but certainly in our time things are To us and least in the way that we look at history through the lens of our faith these are some of the most challenging times in in memory or in the last few decades the Way that we navigate these times is to draw near to Jesus and the saints show us the way and that's what we talk about on this show so we're going to talk today a little bit about spiritual warfare and The challenges of understanding how the enemy works and how he can manipulate us and draw us into Destruction ultimately wants to take us to hell. That's the number one goal And but he has specific means to use us to do that. So we have a question From a listener on that topic. What's that question Stephanie Burke? The question is Can the devil be working through someone who is a good person? But not actually possess them Yeah, so yes, absolutely can He can work through a saint even Interestingly enough the recent scripture passage in holy sacrifice to the mass was The passage where we have Jesus Peter properly identifying Jesus and Then right after that Jesus is saying he's talking about the suffering he's going to go to and Peter starts to try to dissuade Jesus and say no, we you're not going to suffer and die or whatever and What was Jesus response get behind me Satan, right? But he's you know, so he's rebuking the enemy Right who is influencing Peter right and causing Peter to say and think and speak in ways that are not of God You know, you are speaking you are thinking You know as humans do not as God Thanks, and I think that's that's so key that we understand that he wasn't calling Peter Satan But rather the thoughts and the influence that was speaking through him, which was the enemy And so how can that happen? You know Peter is a good person. He's a follow of Christ He's the first pope. He's the first pope, right? And I don't know at this point Has he been given the keys yet? And so he hasn't and so, you know, what is that about? Well, it goes back to discernment of spirits if we don't have discernment of spirits if we don't understand How the enemy influences us we can unwittingly become a Tool of the enemy in the lives of other people and not even a minor tool.  I Mean, I there's some one person in my life. I won't say who it is but Who I'm fairly certain isn't possessed and there's reasons that I I'm certain of that and I we do we do have a little bit of experience in that area and But they every person they touch they rack and Their whole life is a constant rack now Would they fall into the category of good person? I don't think so, but it is a good example of You can do huge damage But then you can have a good person. Let's see even person in a state of grace And and I don't even want to say it in a way like it's when I say even in a state of grace like it's it's it's a remote possibility Let me just try this and you kind of tell me if I'm off base But people in a state of grace are regularly used by the enemy to harm other people Yeah, and and the thing is is they don't intend to right? one of the prayers of Reparation that I make is for the sins of the world and for the popes cardinals bishops priests You know I'm making reparation probably sins and the laity and and I and I add intended or unintended, right? Right though those actions that we you know We can look at a loved one in our life or even look at our own past and be flabbergasted be horrified be Just crushed by the weight of the decisions the things that we've done That have harmed other people right and have caused damage and we think what how is that possible? I'm a good person right, you know, I consider myself a good person How is it that I could have hurt somebody so terribly, you know through my words through my Neglect through my whatever it is, right and and the thing is is it goes back to if if I am Not if my my mind my thoughts my heart my spirit if all of me is not Subject and taken captive for Christ 24-7 if I'm not filling my mind with the heart of Christ and and running after him with all that I am I can be unwittingly Used for ill, you know and and damage in somebody else's life, so I have to be very careful You know we that's why the virtue of prudence is so Necessary we all need to practice prudence. I mean that's gone out the window in our society Nobody practices prudence. They think because they're on Facebook and nobody's looking at their face They can say whatever they like and they would never do that to somebody's face if they were sitting in front of them So prudence and and discernment is so important. So in part we're talking about Things that are big, but it's also constantly working small ways you when you are saying what you're saying Even before the show we had a little back and forth and I caused you some irritation that sort of thing You know if we would let that fester like we're humans, you know, we irritate one another We're not perfect, but the enemy can work in and through that and then cause like thought of how would you say? Wallowing in a wound or holding on to an irritation instead of just letting it go or or or whatever So the enemy's always at work. I review something you said reminded me of 1st Corinthians 10 Where it says that we were not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers What is the war? the war is Regarding the enemy trying to create strongholds in our hearts and minds lies That we believe that keep us from God or keep us from the fullness of our relationship with God or the fullness and the goodness and the best Possible relationship with others, right? And so you said you have to constantly be vigilant, which is and but I will say this and folks Please hear me It's really important listen to this if you don't know discernment of spirits You will be and you're a good person.  No, no, absolutely I I truly believe it having studied it and practiced it because it's so central To who we are in our charism and our of our community and everything because we prayer, you know mental prayer and very Carmelite in its in its form and then Ignatian spirituality in through It's crucial and and it's interesting as you were talking about How you will you know hurt other people? the the image that came to my head was like a stool like a three-legged stool so you have the church and the sacraments and all That's been provided by Christ through a suffering death and resurrection in his establishment of the church Then you have this life of prayer and virtue But that third leg to me is Disseminative spirits and if that if you don't practice that if you don't study it and understand it then you will be Manipulated you are going to be wrecked, you know And and it's like cutting that leg off and trying to balance yourself and trying and saying, you know I'm trying to be a good person. Why is this not working? And and why is it that if I try to follow Christ fully? I'm still causing damage or I'm being offended right and One of the things that I think is really important and it can be something that somebody writes into a rule of life is To try very hard not to offend others And then secondarily try very hard not to be offended Right, right try not to offend others and try not to be offended yourself Offer up the short the failings of others offer them up that suffering those humiliations to the lord and say lord Thank you that you've given me a share in what you suffered and you were perfect And you suffered humiliations and being discarded or being treated harshly or horribly crucified, right? So it's just it's just part of how we need to live. I think yeah Well, very well said so and so people are listening and going well, how do I learn to sermon spirits? We're going to give you a handful of ways to do that The best book written on it in our time. There's actually two one is by a Jesuit and the other is by a By oblate of the Blessed Virgin Mary father Timothy Gallagher has written a book called discernment of spirits Father William Watson Which book do you think best treats of that is is it the 40 30 it's 40 weeks 40 weeks 40 weeks is great So it's 15 minutes of day and it's basically a merger of Or a yeah a merger of of a discernment of spirits Through Ignatian spirituality and psychology to to achieve healing right through those means So those two books are great, but one of the challenges is they're they're a bit hefty and So I wrote spiritual warfare and discernment of spirits All these books you can get at ebtn's religious catalog by the way or our shop button Yeah, our shop button on spiritualdirection.com, but I wrote spiritual warfare and discernment of spirits to in some ways Do something neither of those books do but also to provide let's say a ramp up to those books if you will And that is combine the idea of spiritual warfare with discernment of spirits, which isn't always done In fact, isn't I haven't read any place else that it's done like that Right, right. So spiritual warfare and discernment of spirits is really the place to start I think and then in that book I I reveal there's free courses. We have at the end of it. There's, you know, full courses at the avalan institute So there's an endless swell of resources if you start with spiritual warfare and discernment of spirits published by sophia institute press then You'll it'll lead you because it has all the references and it'll lead you to the free course And many other resources so that you can begin to learn how to fight and you as a good person Can really understand how to avoid being manipulated by the enemy How to avoid being trapped and and thrashed around and harm other people Yeah, all right. So we're going to head into a break. We get back. We're going to talk about Where is the enemy working most powerfully in our time in the church? And how can we be a part of the fight? To win that battle. Okay. Where is the enemy working most powerfully in our time? We'll be right back so Yes, thank you So good for those while we're taking the break here of just for a second There's a few other resources. We want to tell you about If you're in minnesota Stephanie and I will be there september sunday september 26 At the winery at sovereign estate in wakonia the winery And man, do they make amazing wine? It's so good to be cast like that The Baptist got me to stop drinking and then I'm like totally all in now as a Catholic, right, right? You do like your wine. Yeah, but it's a beautiful beautiful venue So if you're up in minnesota come join us because it'll be a lot of fun and you get to go deeper. Awesome So then uh, the rosary crusade Which is pretty amazing, uh, nashville dominicans father. Dave pavonka immaculee. They'll be gazi Ralph martin anthony lois boniface hicks father denis mcmadden. I mean just like arts bishop corleone Bishop strickland we have like like these are the heavy hitters the church So rosary crusade Is beginning october 7th, right? It is october 7th. Do not miss this. It's free Jump online register so you can get the link because all of these beautiful people these beautiful holy men and women of Christ jesus are going to be leading us through the mysteries of the rosary All in honor of our lady of the rosary on that feast day. Yeah, and we want to make this a national international event So make sure that you register We also have flyers. We have Press releases. We have all kinds of information that you can share with your parish priest with your diocese just contact us through questions at my avala or It's through spiritual direction. Com is events and events. That's there to register there Spiritual direction comm events, right? All right. We'll leave the last one for last. So just remind me after the show maggi Let's not Log off right away of live stream and then and just remind me to do this last one. Okay relevant Okay, so on your market set go welcome back. This is dan and stephanie burke You're listening to divine intimacy radio your radio haven of breaths. We're talking about spiritual warfare And how it is we understand and fight the works of the enemy. So we have another question stephanie is going to read it Okay, where is the enemy working most powerfully? In our time in the church and how can we fight? Where is the enemy working most powerfully in our time in the church? And how can we fight? So what I'm going to say is very contrary to A lot of where people are at who are faithful Catholics, especially on the traditionalist in which we are that realm Because if you listen to show after show on the traditionalist end of things, you're going to hear all about the The prelates you're going to hear about this bad bishop or that bad bishop. You're going to hear complaints About the pope all that other stuff. I'm not there at all Can I say something about that? Yeah, I think those things are distractions from what you're about to talk about So but I will say There are legitimate issues and they are serious. Yes, don't get me wrong. I mean like on a scale of one to ten The issues that that these folks are often talking about are Way up the scale huge issues. Absolutely. But Here's the challenge. This is what the enemy does and I'll answer the question You'll maybe have to keep me on track What the enemy does is if he can get you focused and upset on things you can't control and spend all your time watching Television not television anymore, but listening to youtube or instagram whatever it is about all these issues that you can't control He wins right because he gets you riled up Get you upset get you out of a realm of peace right Which can harm your relationship with god and with others And he wastes all your time that you could be focused on the on something within your control Now so we'll come back to that because there is a role we play in dealing with the broader issues in the church But in general what we should be focused on what the enemy loves to do is get us off What we can control. Please listen to that. Please hear that He gets us out of the realm that we have direct control over Which means we won't exercise our will in that realm means we will not be a part of the actual solution That the lord has given us the ability to do it to effect. Yeah. Yeah, and the the So what's the issue behind that when the enemy does that and he's got us looking at all these tragedies and crises and you know everything's on fire and You know, then everybody's looking for clicks and hits and so there's lots of drama in that area Right all that stuff, right? So when there's no controversy, they're going to create controversy And so where all that is is to get us to look at it and then he want he desires one thing The enemy wants one thing. He wants you to be afraid. Yeah He wants you to have fear and anxiety Well fear behind anxiety is fear, right because it's the sense of I can't control the world I can't control my environment Everybody's falling apart and that anxiety what it does is it how it it what it brings to mind is You know, I'm a finite creature You know, I I am mortal.  So if he can stir up that fear and anxiety in me Then I can go and I keep looking at this stuff over and over and over and over again and then He achieves his goal which is to keep us distant from God because I if I'm afraid and if I'm anxious I'm turned in on myself And I'm I'm like adam and eve in the garden. I'm hiding behind bushes Even though the one that I love The beloved he's walking through the garden. I can hear his voice. I know where my peace comes from I know where I can rest and be at peace But I hide from him because I'm too busy being anxious and afraid, right big deal. So I think folks are gonna struggle with my answer, but I'm gonna say it and I'm gonna say it in My way, you can temper me, but I'm just gonna say it So the the greatest sin happening in the church today in my opinion In terms of the number of times it happens and the The exceeding sinfulness of the particular sin I'm gonna talk about is the laity receiving the Lord in a state of mortal sin So if you think about what happens in the average church communion lines are short And everyone goes forward for for to receive I mean confession lines are short and everyone goes forward almost without exception to receive communion That doesn't work folks And what and why would you say well, how is it such a grave sin? The most grave sins we can commit are against God not others Now there are grave grave sins that can be committed against others Abortion being the preeminent in our time Pedophilia, you know right up there with just the most heinous of crimes But in terms of sin That is the most Greige egregious and I'm gonna say I'm gonna use this analogy and hopefully it's not gross So gross that it gets you focused the wrong way But when you go forward and receive communion in a state of mortal sin It's like as if the king of kings and the lord of lords was sitting there with his blessed mother And you took a bucket full of feces and just dumped it on them Is that overkill? It's not overkill in terms of How horrifying that is Well, I mean we need we need to understand that it's egregious and sorrows the lord, right? It sorrows him, right? and and It's sacrilege, you know, it's it's all of those things The lord is not damaged When we do those things We are damaged His sorrow is that we've turned our back on him His sorrow is that he has all this good All it's it's a father who has all the answers all the generosity Everything to give us to ease our pain to you know to ease what we're going through and we in essence You know Just do the most heinous hand gesture and walk off and go. I don't want it I don't want it and if you think of the sorrow and the pain of that as a parent You know, that's that's sorrow. That's pain. That's you know Yeah, so I that is The most Grevious thing and it's and it's where the enemy is working the most powerfully. Yeah, and then fortunately now you could say Well, why does that happen and you could say well the church doesn't teach us Whatever, but I you know where I'm at now and this time is every single Substantive meaningful teaching in the church is available to everyone with a computer and internet Connection. Yeah, so it's not like we're we're culpable. We can get access to all of it Yeah, we're we're culpable.  Yes, right, right But if you had talked to me at that time I was a decent human being, you know, I was I didn't kick puppies. I didn't kick puppies I was I was raising responsible children. They were cute. We had wonderful themed birthdays My house was, you know Clean and in order and you know, I looked like I had it kind of together, right?  It didn't even cross my radar My priest wasn't talking about it from the pulpit You know, I and it was just I wasn't where I am now.  Lord have mercy Draw back the veil help them to understand help them to see Break the chains that bind them heal them from the poison of the world the flesh and the devil Help them to understand how egregious this is and how they are starving to death, right when The the food of everlasting life is right there before them But when they receive it in this state, it has no effect on them but to condemn them Yeah, and I you know Right and and so we don't so we don't deliver a message of false mercy There's nothing wrong with what you just said But it's so we don't deliver a message of false mercy If you would have died Before You came to a true conversion.   Yes, and you would have gone to hell fundamentally Because you were negligent and essentially Not giving yourself to the lord as he has asked you to or called you to yes I mean there there was such a multifaceted issue going on right and the wonderful father Um cassian fulsome amazing amazing priest with the norsha priest in in italy um He said to you when you were speaking about this not too long ago that Dan it's it's the priest's fault. It's the priest's fault and I argued with him, right? You argued with him Yeah, but I can go back to where I was and I can say I didn't hear that From my priest, right? I also I have to tell you I didn't hear it from those who were closest to me, right either There was nobody speaking truth into my life to saying, you know, there was nobody promoting daily rosary There was nobody that was saying, you know, hey, let's go to confession this week, right? So if you're completely out in left field and nobody's speaking to you You don't even know that you're lost, right? So how so to me This is not false mercy But what it is is this call to action, right? We need as Once we know the truth we must speak up. We must be preaching. We must be talking We must be love not waiting for other people to do it not saying other priests aren't doing it do it yourself Right, right and live in such a way that your life is a testimony Right that everything that you do is a testimony before we go off the air I want to say one thing that's important if you have not been to confession in the last month And you're going to receive communion Most people are are not that pure The vast majority and I mean in terms of understanding of the face just by surveys the way they live the way they vote our own experience You got to be going to reconciliation every month There's no less than once a month if you're receiving the Eucharist every time you go to mass Yeah, get a great examination of conscience and go And and be washed clean amen to that All right friends. It's been great being with you again. We're grateful to ewtn for allowing us to to have this show To serve you in the interior life. We're grateful for good priests and bishops who Are pouring out their lives to help us and religious and deacons and so We close today With a prayer that we close every time right May the lord may the god of peace make you perfect in holiness May he preserve you whole and entire Spirit soul and body irreproachable at the coming of our lord jesus christ Amen, amen. So before we go off the live stream. I wanted to tell you About one more thing related to spiritual warfare. It was as the show is about Is many of you know who father chad rippager is and of course, he's one of the best Communicators on the issue of spiritual warfare He is going to be the headliner for us. I guess if you would say that out of spiritual warfare and discernment spirits summit Friday july 15th through sunday the 17th at ave marie university next year or july 20 or in 2022 so It's not just father rippager. It's also father Dennis mcmanus who works for us at the avalanche suit has personally worked on The right of extra system the actual ritual. So he knows it.  Maybe one of my friends a great speaker is listening But father mcmanus blew me away at uh, we had a spiritual warfare conference a few years ago And he was he was he was far and away the best speaker. I've ever heard and I there are a lot of good speakers out there He's really extraordinary in communicating. There's a lot of other good speakers That'll be there as well on spiritual warfare and discernment of spirits So go out to spiritualdirection.com the events Area events tab make sure you sign up for a newsletter because that'll that way we'll never you never miss any of the shows All of our shows are archived there as well Right and you always find out where we're going. Yeah, we'll be so keep up with it It's sort of the front door to everything we're doing to help you to grow spiritually. Yeah, absolutely So avalanche institute summit spiritual warfare discernment of spirits spiritualdirection.com Okay, we're out. God bless. Thanks for listening. God bless. Bye