Hello, everyone. Today I'll be speaking on the topic I have been dying to share with everyone since we decided to lead a project research within the CARES community. It is open source DEI, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, transitioning from intentions to impact.  However, one day during our DEI working group, we decided to ask ourselves the question, how do we know if our metrics are as effective as we want them to be? Or how do we know if this project are making the impact in a real time as we expect them to be? Well, we're in social housing about this. So we decided to lead an interview campaign specific to underrepresented groups to help us understand the effects and impact of these metrics. And that is what we are going to be discussing about today. I am Anita Ehuman. I'm a developer advocate and a technical writer. And for three years, I've been contributing to open source communities around different projects and different areas. I'm currently contributing to the CARES community where I'm a member of the DEI Badging Initiative. I am also leading the interview campaign specific to underrepresented groups. I am contributing to other interesting communities like Layer 5, Open Source Collective and the Good Ox Project. And I'm also a technical writer at Auto Cloud. So that is all about me. During this section, we're going to be looking at the distinguished during this section, we're going to look at the difference between intentions and impact. We're going to talk about the state of diversity, equity and inclusion in open source, the role of DEI metrics and the strategies that we can use to foster DEI within our respective communities. Then we're going to move further to look at best practices to recruitment, retention and support and examples of some awesome open source communities that are championing initiatives to help foster diversity, equity and inclusion. So let's get into it. Intentions versus impact. When we talk about intentions, what do we mean? We simply, intentions is simply how we feel or what we mean to do, what we have in mind to do about a particular thing or how we intend to do, execute a particular thing. Whereas impact on the other hand simply means how we make others feel and the outcome of our actions. Now, we could intend to do something really, really good to make people feel great about themselves. However, the way in which we execute those intentions determines the outcome that we are going to get, whether we are going to actually make those persons feel good at the end of the day or whether or not. And within the open source space we have seen that there have been so many open source projects that intend to drive, and I've been commencing DEI projects to help drive more engagement and participation from underrepresented groups within their projects. And however, the data and outcome of these says otherwise and this often leaves the question, leave room for the question, what is it exactly that we are doing wrong? And how can we fix it? Well, in 2021, the Linus Foundation led the biggest DEI survey to help understand the state of diversity, equity and inclusion. And after that survey, we were able to get the report that told us, that says that 82% of the participants did feel welcome within their communities or within open source communities that they are participating in. However, 18% did say otherwise and that is the number that we are most concerned about. What happened to that 18%? Well, it is often said that the state of a particular community or a community can always be considered or assumed to be friendly and welcoming but all depends on who exactly it is, what's asked the question and where or how the questions were asked. And so when the questions of do you feel welcome within open source was thrown, we saw that 38% of non-binary and third gender persons did say that they did not feel welcome within their communities. Whereas 28% of people of color specific to not America did say they do not feel welcome within their communities that they're contributing to. 26% of women came out to say they do not feel welcome. 25% of people with disability 18 and then these are the number of persons that we did receive to tell us that they do not feel welcome within their communities. And so what went wrong? This survey also further went on to tell us that 30% of persons believe that the code of conduct which exists in respective communities cannot be enforced or 36% experience a kind of stereotype did say the experience some kind of stereotype while participating in their respective communities. 19% experienced some form of language barriers while collaborating and they haven't gone back to participants then. 17% feel that they have been excluded and not feel belong, feel like they belong within the open source community. And there also have been reports that women non-binary and people of LGBTQ and also people with disability experienced two times more violent threats within open source community that they're participating in. And then there's three times more violent threats to transgender people within this community. Whereas people from underrepresented groups do not generally feel welcome at all. And this survey also tells us that cases of microaggressions through insensitive jokes, racism, sexist comments and hostility are some of the things that participants indicated that they experienced while collaborating within open source communities. And these are like so many challenges that people experience on a day to day base while participating in open source community. And some of the challenges that actually stand into hinder the DEI efforts that most communities are currently making include our conscious and unconscious biases where sometimes people are intentional about trying not to make people on others get involved or putting on barriers and putting on walls that make others not come in. Whereas our unconscious bias comes in the sense that we are not aware of it, but based on our past experiences based on assumptions that we've made we automatically develop this stereotype for specific people and then we host out towards them or put out microaggressions towards these other people. Another thing that hinders this DEI is a lack of representation amongst our leadership where we can see that a lot of times our teams are always filled up with homogeneous leaders. And so it is really, really difficult to get or even see things from a more inclusive view since every other person in the leadership or on the board is of a homogeneous group. And then the lack of multi-cultural interaction where some communities have a particular culture of not welcoming a long standing culture of not welcoming other persons and being hosted to underrepresented groups which often leads to burnouts for most persons that intend to push forward with their participation or even we experience people silence quitting in situations like this because they don't know how to come up to say, okay, this is the reason why I'm dropping out. Their situations or circumstances where this also affects onboarding experiences for some people at the end of the day and all of these tend to hinder people's participation. Now, another common challenge is the lack of sufficient technical skills and knowledge to individuals where some persons do have intentions of contributing. However, they feel like they are not skilled enough to participate and knowledgeable in certain areas and so their contributions may not be welcomed. Now, I know I experienced this the early days of my contributing where I felt like I may not be able to make as much impact as I wanted to because I do not have the technical skills that most of this open source project are expected to have or are developed on and that made me feel like I do not belong within these communities. And this also plays a huge role in so many other persons that at the end of the day intend to contribute or participate. Another huge challenge that communities seem to experience in terms of spreading or championing diversity and inclusion is the insufficient resources. Now, most open source projects in terms of diversity and inclusion they require a lot of resources including time, including money and also individuals to invest so much effort into these topics of diversity and inclusion but most open source projects are unable to actually provide all of this and at the end of the day you'll see a small project that's trying to get things in other but do not have the financial support to actually give all resources to get more underrepresented groups to benefit from this equal rights. And this often makes most organizations hesitant towards investing in diversity and inclusion because it does require a lot of time, a lot of money and a lot of manpower.  And we're often quick to say if we made efforts to have 1,000 persons participate in our program or our outreach programs and we got 500 people then we've made enough efforts. Next year we're going to try again and at the end of the day out of that 500 persons that we have got from this effort or our initiatives maybe just five or two at the end of the day are retained to actually collaborate and participate actively at the end of the day and we do not bother to go back to review this data to make efforts or make improvements towards it. And well, how do we improve this or how do we actually target some of these challenges? That is where we have metrics come into the picture. Now metrics are a way that we can use to track and also measure the progress of our DEI efforts and the CARES community has developed a bunch of metrics specific to diversity, equity and inclusion that can be used as an indicator to look at the state of diversity, equity and inclusion, inclusion efforts within these individual projects. This metrics can also help organizations to assess their DEI outcomes as well as progress. And by looking at this metrics you can possibly ask yourself as an individual or as a project lead questions like does my community or my project encourage healthy communication and collaboration? Do we have a valid code of conduct that is also impossible? Is my community inclusive? And if not, what is the problem or what is it that I'm doing wrong? Events associated to my project actively inclusive to even individuals from underrepresented groups. Do, does our project also do a great job in terms of being accessible to people or individuals with some form of disability or the other? And finally, how inclusive are our leadership practices within these communities? Now these are some of the questions that are metrics lead you asking yourself after going through them. And some of these metrics currently span across four different areas where we have the events diversity for communities and conferences that have actually gone through our DEI badging initiative for events. You'll see that some of these do come in handy for reviewing your project and helping you understand the state of your diversity, equity and inclusion at your events. We have some metrics like the code of conduct for these events diversity as a ticket which so many persons seem to be benefiting from today. The family friendliness and event accessibility and demographics inclusive experience at events for both speakers as well as attendees, time inclusion for virtual events and then public health and safety for participants within these events and then the events location inclusivity. Another focus area which our DEI metrics cover is the governance where we have the board and council diversity and code of conduct for all open source projects. Then we have another focus area specific to leadership that highlights inclusive leadership, talks about mentorship and sponsorship to projects upcoming open source projects. Then we have the project and the community metrics that highlights areas like the chat platform inclusivity, documentation accessibility, discoverability and usability and also issue labor inclusivity. Another metrics, other metrics under this project and community includes the project burnout, project demographics and also project psychological safety for members as well as maintainers to this individual projects. Now you can see that our metrics currently is tailored towards highlighting the primary areas within open source projects from the community area down to the leadership, down to how events and programs within open source have been carried out. Now all of these metrics are focused towards helping us achieve one goal which is benchmarking can be used to benchmark against industry standards. So using this metrics as an individual community or as a project, you can use it to compare how much efforts you are making in terms of diversity, equity and inclusion for your project and how effective this effort practices that you're putting out is. This metrics can also help you to identify disparities within your community's areas that you didn't even know were lacking in terms of diversity and inclusion but the community can attest to this. And so this metrics also helps draw your attention towards these areas that these disparities exist in. This metric can also help you to measure the impact of your DEI efforts and how effective it is. And then this metrics also help you to set goals and objectives for future purpose. Now over the years, since we started reviewing the communities and conferences for DEI badges, I have noticed that communities that initially and conferences that initially applied for some of our DEI badges and didn't get the gold badge, come back the year after with more improved effort towards their DEI badges with an aim to actually earn that gold badge. Now it is not just about getting the gold badge to them anymore. It is about identifying areas where they are lacking and making contributions or making efforts towards improving on those areas. We've seen communities adopt things like the family friendliness, their code of conduct and making out, make sure that this code of conduct are enforced at their respective events. We've seen communities and conferences support more inclusive practices, take on security measures to help other persons within their communities and conferences, within a specific conference feel safe as they're coming or attending within those participations. So this metrics do more than just give you a benchmark. They help you set goals towards your expectations for your individual conferences as well as communities. And I really look forward to seeing the initiatives under the all in specific to project margin and how other projects or individual open source projects can work towards also measuring the efforts of the diversity and inclusion, not just conferences, which we are currently focusing on. Now by collecting some of these metrics, you get a better picture of where your community is, especially in a larger community where you can't possibly know everyone within the community or see the efforts and actions of every single one within the community. But we want to be certain how effective these metrics are. And that is why we decided to lead the chaos interview campaign for underrepresented groups. And like I said, this was brought on based on us asking ourselves individual questions as a group. And we're able to start planning for this particular project. Sometime August last year, 2022. And then we might be wondering, why did we do this? Well, the reason is underrepresented groups have always been the most potential, the most individuals to benefit from DEI metrics within the open source community. And so what we at chaos are trying to do is to connect with these different underrepresented groups and try to understand the efficiency of our chaos metrics by meeting with these persons one-on-one, asking them their experiences and trying to get feedback based on their individual experiences from respective open source communities. Now, like I said, we began planning this project sometime August, 2022. And then we launched the survey itself in October, 2022. And since then we've had over 150 participants for this project. And during this project, we're able to carry out qualitative, which is a service and currently leading the quantitative interviews. We are trying to accumulate the data. And with this quantitative interviews, we are trying to interview individuals from open source contributors down to maintainers, down to leaders and stakeholders from different group underrepresented groups. So we try as much as possible during this process to not put the labels for people, rather want to hear which underrepresented group is that they identify under and to hear from them, the experiences specific to their underrepresented groups and how they have been holding up within the open source communities. And so we were able to ask questions like, how have your unique attributes or traits affected your participation within the open source space? If these are DEI metrics in any way aligned with their past or present experiences, whether or not our metrics have come in handy or helpful within the participation in the open source space and at what point this was, we are also trying to see if there's a way that these metrics can be improved on or implemented to better support their participation based on the underrepresented groups which they categorize themselves with. And so we have also been able to, so far with the results of the research which is still in progress, we have been able to get really great results and feedback telling us that in so many open source projects, there is an issue with enforcement in terms of code of conduct as some projects up to date are lacking the code of conduct for their particular open source projects. We've also been able to identify some areas that in terms of enforcement, some open source projects do not even have specific standards that they want to follow to help spread topics of diversity and inclusion or to actually align diversity, equity and inclusion goals with. And to date, so many individuals even have comfort to say that they're scared to own up or express themselves within open source communities based on their distinctive feature because they're worried about the outcomes of owning up to who they are or how they identify within communities. And the team behind this particular reason is that the research are awesome individuals from the Kales community like the Girl Gleek, Amstrad Fandom, Sean Goggins, and Matt German Press and myself, of course, where all the awesome persons that have been working to see that we bring this survey to an end and by the conclusion of this, we're definitely going to put out a report to get everyone updated on what we're able to discover during the research in total. We might also put this in terms of white papers and also research papers. So if you're curious about this particular research, you can also hit me up about it. But what we hope to achieve or outcome with this research is simply to hope, we hope to understand how DEI is being practices in this respective open source project based on or from the experiences or from the angle of individuals that are underrepresented. We hope to understand, based on this participants feedback, how we can capture more DEI metrics that are yet to be addressed by the Kales community and within our DEI metrics already. We also hope to adopt and identify potential metrics that have not been discovered or outlined among a list of metrics yet. And we hope that with this research, we can improve on our existing metrics and our approach towards diversity and equity and inclusion and push more on this champion more on how more open source communities can adopt the Kales DEI metrics to help improve on their DEI practices as well. And there's so many strategies that I think or we think that open source projects can work in terms of improving and fostering diversity, equity and inclusion practices within their communities. And then some of these include first practicing allyship. Now I put this at the top because it is really difficult to put yourself in someone's shoes until you decide to, it's difficult to understand how someone else is reacting to certain things until you put yourself in their shoes. That is why being an ally is first step towards actually identifying or tackling some of the challenges that we have highlighted during this section around diversity, equity and inclusion. And we can do this by showing up through actions for individual members within our open source community not just saying the word, I am an ally, putting in the efforts, doing the work. And this means standing up for people within your community when they are being talked down on, which means bringing equal opportunities, opportunities that you think these individuals will benefit from, bringing it to them, mentioning these people in situations that you feel they deserve to take on positions. This is what makes you an ally. And by being an ally, you're definitely going to see other areas where you can encourage leadership representation within projects because we still have to tackle with some of the projects of homogeneous leadership teams. And until we address that particular angle, it might be hard for us to completely educate people within communities about diversity and inclusion or equity if our teams, our leadership teams are still very homogeneous in nature. And then by being allies, we're definitely going to see other ways we can improve diversity, equity and inclusion through accessibility audits for our projects, for documentation, as well as resources. We also move forward to look at how being an ally is also going to make you or bring to light ways that you can create and enforce more code of conduct to support individuals within your communities that identify under specific underrepresented groups because it's one thing to have a code of conduct existing and then it's another thing to actually make that code of conduct effective in such a way that so many individuals benefit from it at the end of the day. And I noticed that there's a common real current, there's a real current statement from most of our participants during this survey from the chaos interview campaign where people say that, yes, the project that I'm contributing to does have a code of conduct. However, I never came across it until I decided to do critical research about this code of conduct. And if a code of conduct exists in a project, I feel like so many persons should be aware of it. Immediately they get involved in that community, right? However, this is the last thing that some persons resort to maybe because they experienced some form of discrimination or some form of unfair treatment before they decided, okay, let me go and look for the code of conduct and see if I am right or there's something going wrong within this particular community. And then we can practice allyship by being open to feedback as leaders, being open to feedback, accepting feedback without feeling like we're being attacked on a personal note, opening up our minds to actually hearing how people feel from the community down to the leaders and down to our co-mentainers and every single person that is within our communities. Every once in a while, try to get feedback. You can do this through surveys. You can do this through, you know, just try to understand the data. But every once in a while, as a leader within an open source community, be open to feedback. And this is one way you can also practice this allyship we're talking about. You can also do this by collaborating with other communities. Like the inclusive naming community, the chaos DEI community, all in communities. These are like different open source projects that have active open source initiatives that produce, help you check or review how your DEI practices are going on. Collaborating with them will help you leverage some of the practices that they've listed out and you can better implement it within your project. You can also practice allyship by fostering a welcoming environment, accepting, opening up to change and fostering a welcoming environment that actually accepts every individual regardless of their differences or their distinctive features. Welcoming them equally within that particular community. You can go on to provide support using resources and also the opening room for more opportunities for individuals to get involved, talking about mentorship, talking about sponsorships and so many other ways. These are ways that you can be an ally to members of underrepresented groups and actually stand your ground while being an ally. And also you can also look out for inclusive language scans that you can adopt and talking about how we accept communications. Sometimes so many persons come within communities and the huge barrier within their collaboration is someone made an insensitive joke or someone said a vulgar term towards them or someone just said something that threw them off and that was the terrible experience they had and they didn't feel the need to come back afterwards. So you can also consider adopting inclusive language scans and this will help to take out or eliminate some of the sexist and racist terms that people often make within discussions. Sometimes which are not intentional sometimes come out as a mistake but with taking note of these inclusive language scans you can easily help other persons to also not bring up this and there's so many boards that communities have implemented to help scan some of these vulgar terms that make other persons feel uncomfortable. If you have a chat platform that you think you can implement some of these boards to scan the languages you can also do stuffs like that and even in your project repositories you can implement some of the GitHub actions that can help to scan some of the languages that are not friendly to help other persons participate. And finally you can be an ally by letting the data inform your decision. So now go back to your community and look from the top of the funnel down to the community level. How inclusive is a top because it's from the leaders that tend to understand how much effort in terms of diversity, equity and inclusion is being made because it doesn't matter how inclusive the community is. If the leaderboard is still on inclusive the community will feel discouraged at the end of the day. I have seen so many persons come up to say that they wanted to participate in a particular community but they decided to check out the team the core team of that particular community and at the end of the day they realized that it's a homogeneous team of white male leaders and so they feel like even if they made effort to contribute their contributions might not be as valued as it would be in an all inclusive team. And so let your data inform your decisions in terms of leadership, in terms of onboarding, in terms of encouraging collaboration, in terms of outreach, try to use your data as a community to make effort towards improving some of these existing challenges as well. And best practices that we can take towards recruitment, retention and support for underrepresented groups are first we can try as a community to carry out outreach programs, outreach programs that help underrepresented groups to participate, outreach programs that bring to light areas within a community that underrepresented groups can also get involved within communities. And so provide opportunities for them to get involved within your open source project and also carry out workshops and mentorship programs that get more persons to also see reasons why they should participate within the open source space. You can also develop inclusive onboarding culture. Now I knew that the early years of my participating in open source, one of the challenges that I experienced for most communities was the onboarding process. Now I've seen so many other persons come forward to say that this was a hindrance for them as well because the onboarding process was not as welcoming as it thought it was. And so as a community leader, if you're trying to support to retain some of your contributors, particularly those for underrepresented groups, then you should work on improving the onboarding culture within that particular community or within that particular group. You should also work on providing more mentorship and training for these individuals and participants and let them know about the nature of your community in terms of diversity and inclusion, areas that your community is working towards improving and areas that needs more hands on deck. You can also provide a mentorship and training towards that as well, offer flexible times and schedules. Now so many persons have said that the reason why they were not able to speak at the conference is because the timing was not convenient for them. Now I understand that the time difference is something that we cannot avoid. However, there are ways that we can work towards developing flexible time schedules for respective contributors within open source communities. And this means if we're hosting workshops or you're doing boot camps and you know that, okay, persons from this particular area might not be able to participate due to the time difference, then that is something to consider as a leader to make sure that it is worked towards so that maybe there's a time shift for persons from this particular time zone or something that covers people from this particular time zone so that everyone in the community feels that they are welcome at the end of the day. We can also work to us providing equal opportunity for leadership. Now over the years, there have been so many reports that come back to give us feedback that give us feedback that a lot of times women and other genders within the communities are not always given the rights that they deserve in terms of leadership and in terms of participation. And we have even the feedback from the Linus 2021 DER reports also states that 82% of the participants or respondents were actually male and 18% of the respondents identified as women and non-binary or third gender members. And so this lets us know that not only is the participation from other genders and other underrepresented groups low compared to the rest, it lets us know that we have to do more in terms of bringing these persons on board in our leadership roles and also finding ways that we can get them involved. Then we should also recognize and collaborate with diverse and recognize and celebrate diverse contributions. Now, Gus from Open Collective, Gus Austin has also been leading some projects to help recognize and also appreciate contributors in open source for their contributions through giving incentives and even paying these people. I thought that was an excellent project because so many times people make contributions within the open source communities for years and for centuries without getting any form of recognitions for those efforts that they have been making over time. But then we see people, other persons just come in the first year and the second year and they're already getting high recognitions for their contributions. And it makes me wonder or ask the question what happened to the existing individuals that have been in the picture before this other person came on or before this other person came into the picture. So we should also consider recognizing and celebrating the diverse contributions from our communities in every way or in any ways that we can. We can also move as further as promoting awareness for mental health and wellness within our communities. Yes, our maintainers get burnt out, our leaders get burnt out. And so many times if not watched or if not monitored, it leads to silent quitting and you see people living in your community at the end of the day and you're asking questions like what did I do wrong or did I not treat you well enough or did you see a better offer? Sometimes they see a better offer where their mental health and wellness is actually taken as a priority compared to your community. So that is something as an individual open source community or contributor, you should also work towards improving on. And then some of the awesome open source projects that I have participated in that have been doing awesome projects. I want to give accolades to these communities because not only have they made efforts towards leading DEI initiatives, but they're looking for ways to champion it and effectively enforce it to other open source communities. I'm talking about the all in projects and I watched a few videos from Dimitri explaining how this project and the scope of this project and also went over it. And I really love how it is going or the direction which the all in project is aimed towards the inclusive naming because so many times our words do more harm than our actions. You might be surprised at how much your words, a little word or statement you utter towards someone how much damage it can make over time without even realizing it. And the inclusive naming community is another awesome one that is taking up this initiative to make sure that within our open source community is the language which we use in communicating how we're able to like communicate with people, the language and naming and basically how we write our documentations, how we approach communications in our chat platforms and so many other things are taking into action and are implemented on to make it more inclusive. And we have these software development, diversity and inclusion initiatives which is also leading other actions towards diversity, equity and inclusion. That is also another project that I really love its goal and I love the direction which this project is taking towards. And I want to also recognize the chaos community for all of the efforts that they are doing in terms of metrics, in terms of also leading more programs around other aspects or other areas to help drive more diversity, equity and inclusion within the open source space at large. And that being said, I would like to wrap up by saying that so far we have seen so much progress and so much efforts was helping to advocate and champion diversity, equity and inclusion. But in order to actually have a fast pace and a widespread of this topic and this discussion around diversity and inclusion, we have to do more than just speaking about it or having our documentation write or highlight these things. We also have to acknowledge that some of our projects are far behind in terms of diversity, equity and inclusion. We have to acknowledge that addressing the elephant in the room from the top to the bottom might just be the best way to actually tackle some of these DEI challenges. We have to also embed inclusion alongside during the project initiation phase and not as an aftermath. Because most times we get to the final stage of a project before we realize that oh, we made a mistakes in terms of getting inclusive members on board or getting inclusive leaders. And that becomes a challenge because already the project is at a large scale and it's had to tackle some of these challenges. We also have to leverage metrics and use our data all the time, every time to inform our decision and make changes towards that using this our data. And finally, we need more hands on deck. We need more hands involved to actually move the topic of diversity, equity and inclusion within our respective communities from just intentions, from just intents or meaning to do it, to actually making impact in real time. Thank you so much for your time and thank you so much for listening. If you also want to participate as an interview, as an interviewer or want to share more light for our DEI interview campaign for the represented groups, you can always reach out and I'll be happy to share more light on that. You can also join us in the Chaos DEI working group if that is a project that you'd want to get involved in or want to know more on. You can also stay tuned because I'll be coming back here to give you updates on the final reports that we're able to get at the end of this research. Thank you so much for your time and thank you for listening.


When you think about electricity, when you think about how much power is used worldwide, you sort of don't think about the fact that a lot of it is wasted getting from the power plants to the house. So I work on making more efficient wires, making wires that actually can transport electricity without losing any of it. It's called a superconductor. Superconductor carries electricity without losing any of it. I'm working on new ways of making them. The major problem is that you have to keep them quite cold, meaning liquid nitrogen temperatures, super freezing cold. I'm trying to solve another problem that there is with superconducting wires, which is that they crack quite easily. They're very brittle. They're made of a ceramic material which is a little bit like pottery. So if you think about trying to make something like clay pottery into a long wire, well, that's just going to break the minute you apply any pressure to it. So what I'm doing is creating a superconductor that's some powder mixed up with a liquid. So the liquid can be spread into any shape. We spread it along the outside of something that already is a wire. So then we have a flexible wire with a superconducting coating on it. I really like the potential of superconductors to be really far-reaching. And at the same time, there's a lot of intricate details which are sort of fun to learn.


What's up, everyone? Welcome to the front yard fantasy hour presented by fan dual. I'm your host Simon joined as always by my co-host jail and Josh. What's up, boys? What up? I'm here. It's Friday. I'm feeling good. Josh is here. Let's go. I missed you a little bit on quip last, Josh. Jay did his best. Joss impersonation, but it just stopped. It was bad. At the beginning, it was good. It was very loud. He did the hand moments, but the trading makes fantasy fun was just like, we had to end the show immediately after that. It was rough. Well, I feel like you probably miss me because I'm usually so bad at quip lash that you kind of needed that person that you're like, okay, we know Josh is going to lose. You're right, guys. Also joining us today to play some fantasy fortune on this Friday evening is our great friend Dave Kluge. You can find him on Twitter at Dave Kluge. It's right there below his handsome face. I mean, he has a staffer over at football. Guys, Dave, thank you so much for joining us today, my man. Yeah, thanks for having me. No stranger to the front yard fantasy crew. I've done a few of these shows in the past. This is my first time though playing fantasy fortune, so I'm very excited for this one. This is my favorite game. You're in for a treat. All right. I think it might be my favorite game as well. What was the last time your pull perception has a great pull perception? Pull perception was a blast. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Special perception is less stressful, I feel like. Yeah. This game is a little bit more. I feel like I'm good at that too because I feel like one of my biggest strengths is understanding how the masses feel about something because that's a tough thing to do.  So that's a good one. I like pull perception. I like that one because even if you're bad at that, it forces you to look at that context. If your 50 percentage points off, you're forced to reckon with the fact that maybe everyone doesn't love T. Higgins as much as you do, or maybe it's down on Mike Evans whenever you love that man as if you. Everyone else is wrong and I'm a genius. Exactly. We got Joe. The cool part about it real fast is that even if you are wrong, you end up being wrong, you can you just blame everyone else. I'm not wrong. I have the wrong answer here.  The number of times Twitter is insane has been said during pull perception is a little bit too high on our show. We got Joe started on Reddit. Like when we do Reddit polls. Oh, it's a whole different world out there. Joe, he says, so there I was working in my office on a Friday night. The alert comes up from Fandall. This is FYF with Dave Kluge. It was at that moment I realized no work would be done. Let's go boys. How beautifully written that comment was, Joe. You have such a way with words. J. R. in here. What's up, John? How are you doing? He said, here we go. Indeed. This should be a good game today. And Kev, welcome in. Josh, Kev joined us earlier today, even though you weren't there. We thought maybe just for you, but burn up our friend now. Yeah. Kev's my friend, Josh. I'm Simon's friend now. Get out of here. Yeah. Sorry, Josh. You've been replaced. Me and Kev are best friends now. You guys don't even know what Kev looks like. He's very handsome. He likes birds. He sees six, three beard down to here. He's three beard down to here. And that's really it. That's all he looks. And that's really it. He looks like that picture right there. I mean, that sums it up. And Kev is present. Thank you for checking in. We take roll call every day here. We got Taylor in here. This is I'm just here to harass Dave. Perfect. It's been a while. It's been a while. We need some Dave harassed. I'm only here to get harassed by Taylor, so this is just perfect. Guys, like I mentioned today, we are playing some fantasy fortune. Before we get started though, a couple reminders. 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So he's making his Fantasy Fortune debut. Josh, do you want to run us through how this works before we start playing? Yeah, I absolutely do. But Eric, I'm going to do a pre-show. Dave, you ready to lose? I'm buddy. Yeah, you're going down, Dave. You're going down, Dave. You're going down, Dave.  I'm going to win. But we're playing Fantasy Fortune today. I'm sure most people know what Wheel of Fortune is, the popular television game show. It's a lot like Wheel of Fortune except no wheel. That's why it's called Fantasy Fortune, not Wheel of Fortune. We got rid of that wheel. Instead of spinning the wheel, we will ask simple football-related questions. It could be like who had more rushing yards during the 2021 season, Saquon Barkley or Zeke Elliott. If you get the question correct, you will get to guess a consonant for the puzzle. You will be expected to answer the question quickly as well. For every constant you get on the puzzle, you will be rewarded $500. Valus costs $100. If you want to buy one, just let us know. If you guess anything wrong at all, we move on to the next contestant. If it's your turn and you think you can solve the puzzle, just go ahead and say exactly what's up there on the board. Also, we have our three-in-a-row rule. If you answer three questions a row quickly, you get three letters in a row quickly as well. You will get to bank that money for the game from that round and you get the guess at the puzzle. If you don't know, we move on to the next contestant. But that is a benefit for you. Whoever collects most money over the course of the game will be our Fantasy Fortune champion today, AKA me.  We're back on this last train today. In your fax number, Dave. And I will absolutely fax you that Coles Cash. Joey in here saying, Taylor needs to get in line if he's here to harass Dave. Joey was here first. So Joey's going to be harassing you. Taylor's next up in line, though. So if Joey drops the ball, Taylor's ready to do it. And he said, the family is tuned in. No pressure. How's that feel, Dave? You got it? You got it? You're feeling pressured. I do not want to let the Cornell kids down at all. I'm going to be bringing the heat tonight. He can't be in here saying, bear down. We got one Bears fan. So I can only assume that's aimed at you, Dave. I thought it was like, bird up, bear down. Bear up. He might have been going for that, honestly. Yeah, maybe. It could also be the Bears helmet and the Bear sign and, you know, all the Bears stuff everywhere. Yeah, it could be. So Kevin in the chat said, bird up. And he says it every time. So maybe it's a mixture of both, you know? But Dave, is Bear down? I just say it is. Is Bear down a thing that Bears fans say? Can you enlighten us? Is that like a? It's actually the emojis, the bear and then the down arrow that's kind of like the thing for Bears fans. Bear down. I had no idea. OK, today we learned. Their fight song is Bear down Chicago Bears. I had no idea. The fight song. Never heard that. We're learning something new. He's definitely not making a joke though. He or she is not making a joke. Marie Ann here said, I'm ready to solve these puzzles. And Jay loves your Lamargy behind you. Jay might have an answer behind you. Jay might have an answer behind you. Jay let me borrow it for tonight, actually. Jay has a sign of Marjorzy hanging behind him as well. That's it. That's it. Oh, same one. He also died. And Kev guessing 52 percent. We'll let you know if that's right next time we click on the exception, Kev. But that's a great guess on that one. And Taylor said, I really disliked. That's our favorite part. I'll give you this question, Taylor. I'll make sure you get that for the rest of the time. And Kev in here saying Bear up. He's taking it to the next level. Guys, are you ready to start our game? Jayle is going to be running it today. He's got the puzzles. He ran them through Jay first. So Jay's using this as an excuse for why he's going to do so poorly in the chat today. He's already seen the puzzle, so he can't play along. But we have not seen the puzzles, I hope. So we are ready to play. I have Josh helped me come up with them. Don't put that on me because I'm going to win. And then you're, then you're having an excuse. Everyone else is having an excuse once I went. And go. I was saying hello to FanDuel. Yeah, what's up FanDuel Daddy? Thanks for coming in and playing with us today. Oh, it feels so much weirder when you switch it up from Daddy FanDuel to FanDuel Daddy. It just takes on a whole new meaning. We got to mix it up a little bit. All right, guys. I like Daddy FanDuel more. Yeah, me too. All right, guys, we are doing a new thing and to start off our game today. The toss up. Josh started this last week, I believe. And so here's our first puzzle. It's going to be worth 500 contestants. What I need you to do.  Reminder before we do that. Everyone in the private chat, not in the comments. Our viewers are much smarter than we are usually and we'll guess the puzzle before we do. So anytime a puzzle's up on the board, we got to make sure we're out of those comments. Sorry, Jail. So on this first one, all we're going to do is just the first one to say their name.  Say Dave. All right. All right. We're only going to do this for the first one, this toss up. Yes, just the first one and this will determine who goes first. All right. Here is the puzzle. It's an NFL player. $500. Here's the first letter. Josh. Yes, Josh. Corey Davis. Well done, Josh. Nice job, Josh. There you go. The first thing that came to mind was Vernon Davis, actually. Vernon Davis. I had David Moore and then the V showed up and I was like, COVID? And I was like, no one's last name is COVID. They are in here with the quick Corey Davis. I like it. What did I tell you? So our chat's way smarter than we are. Josh, you're going to go first, Dave. You are going to go second, Simon. You're going to go third. Let's do it. You ready? Beautiful. Let's go. All right. I'm going to load up the first puzzle here. Get back out of the chat again. Hey, Jail. Just to let you know, I have some, yeah, yeah, perfect. All right. To this first puzzle, we're going to start off on the easy one with an NFL player, just an NFL player, nice and easy. Josh, you were going to go first. Oh, I got it. Would you like a question? You got it. I got something that fits, but I'm probably wrong. Ready, Josh? Yeah, I'm ready. I don't know what it is. All right. Here's your question, Josh. Josh, tell me, in 2021, which player had more passing yards? Which player had more passing yards in 2021? Kirk Cousins or Russell Wilson? More passing yards. Kirk Cousins or Russell Wilson? Kirk Cousins. It is Kirk Cousins. That's a nice, easy one to start you out. What letter would you like to guess here, Josh? I'll take a T. T, bonk. I'm sorry. Son of a gun. Very sorry, Dave. I'm still coughing it down there. Yeah. Dave, we're moving on to you. You can solve or would you like a question? I'd like a question. All right, Dave. Tell me, who had more passing yards? In 2021, who had more passing yards in 2021? Davis Mills or Ryan Tannehill? I'm going to go with Davis Mills. I'm sorry. It was Ryan Tannehill. He had 3,734 compared to Davis Mills, 2664. I'm sorry, Dave. Simon. Exactly why that is. It's because Ryan Tannehill played every week. I would have said Davis Mills, though. I thought it was like a double trick. I would have said Davis Mills as well. He had a couple of big, big passing yardage games this season. I would like to solve JL. I may be wrong. I have a name that fits David Johnson. No, it's not. No, it's not.  I will have a little shirt. It does fit. And there's no T in there. No confident yet. So misled. I'm so sorry, Simon. It might be wrong. And it wasn't that wrong. So misled. Get out of here, Simon. All right, Josh, we are coming back to you. Are you ready for your question? I am. All right, Josh. Tell me who had more interceptions 2021. Joe Burrow or Ben Rothesberger. That's a good one. Thank you. Thank you. Made it myself. I'll go with Joe Burrow. Joe Burrow is correct. He had 14 interceptions compared to big Ben's 10. What letter would you like here, Josh? An S. S? Yeah. Okay. Fong. Double bond. Come on. Give me a letter. All right, Dave, we're back to you. Are you ready for your question? Yeah, I'm going to take a question. All right, I'm going to ask a question about fantasy points here and just a reminder, all of my questions about fantasy points are going to be PPR scoring formats. That's points per reception, scoring format, four point, just your standard scoring on PPR here. So Dave, tell me, who had more fantasy points on the season? Who had more fantasy points? 2021, was it Najee Harris or was it Leonard Fournette? Leonard Fournette. I'm sorry, it's Najee Harris. 300. Oh, man, man. Leonard Fournette, I think it was the time that he missed the end. Yeah, yeah. That was a little tricky. I'm sorry about that, Dave. And again, just like your last one, I think it's just due to being on the field more. Yeah. Yeah, that's what it comes down to. That end of the season run. Yeah. All right, Simon, you got another guest here? No, no, I tried as hard as I could to just keep avoiding trivia, but it looks like I'm going to have to take a trivia question. All right, Simon, tell me, who had more fantasy points in 2021? Hunter Renfro or Jalen Hertz? I was like, I've been studying the wide receiver finishes this year and I was like, okay, I know we're going to Renfro finish. And then you just throw Jalen Hertz out. Come on. I got to go with the quarterback. I'll say Jalen Hertz. Jalen Hertz is correct. Well, thank God. I got 50 points. What letter would you like? Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you were double tricking me there, I'll take a J. Bunk. No, they're common in the names. So I thought all these other common letters hadn't worked. P&S. I'll take the J that's in a lot of names. Off to Rockstar. We're going to get a letter. We're going to get a letter. We're going to get a letter, yeah. I can feel it.  People in the chat have already solved it. I'm positive. Like without a letter on the board. No, they haven't. Oh, okay. Okay, give me the question. All right, Josh. Who has more fantasy points? 2021. Who got more fantasy points? 2021. Was it Debo Samuel or was it Mark Angers? Oh, that's a better question than I thought. It's Debo, though. It is Debo. Well done. What letter would you like here? An R? There's got to be one of these letters in there. Two R's. Done. That's going to give you $1,000 in the bank. And Josh, you can buy a Vow here. You can decide to buy a Vow. A Vow. I don't know why I said that weird. You can buy a Vow here. Take another question or you can solve. Yeah, I'm just going to take another question. All right, another question. All right, let's head over to the Fandals Sportsbook. Josh, take a stroll with me. I'm taking a stroll. I'll walk over to the Fandals Sportsbook. Let's go. All right. Josh, the Buffalo Bills are playing at the Kansas City Chiefs this weekend. Yes, OK. True or false? True or false? The Chiefs are favorited by three and a half points. Yeah. Oh, wait. The spread is three and a half, but I actually can't remember if you've the Chiefs are. Yeah, that's true. That's true. I'm sorry. It's not. They're favorited by one and a half points. Yeah, one and a half points. One and a half points, huh? OK. I feel like that's a solid gap. All right, Dave, we're back to you. Yeah, I'm taking a question. Taking a question? All right. All right, Dave, tell me who had more fantasy points in 2021? What more fantasy points in 2021? Mike Evans or Aaron Jones? I'm going to go with Mike Evans. Mike Evans is absolutely correct. Well done, Dave. What letter would you like to guess here? Let's go with why. Why? There is a why. Well done, Dave. Dave, you can buy a vow here. Oh, I know what it is now. Or you can solve or you can take another question. I wanted to take another question. Take another question. What? All right, Dave, tell me who has more rushing yards? Who has more rushing yards in 2021? AJ Dillon or Elijah Mitchell? Oh, that's tough.  OK, Simon got it. I'm going to go with AJ Dillon. I'm sorry, Dave. It is Elijah Mitchell. He has almost 1,000 rushing yards. Simon knew that. But he also missed three more games. He did. Yeah, he did. He's been rushing. Can you solve, Simon?  Yeah, I'm going to solve. Jale, this is a name that I screwed you with in a question. Last time we played Famous and Fortune. This is no other than Byron Pringle. Well done, Simon. You got it. Right. Byron. I started playing the alphabet game like A-Y, B-Y. And it didn't take very long to get to B. Right when that Y popped up, I was like, oh, it's Brian Edwards. I was like, wait, no, that doesn't fit. Whatsoever. The Y is not even in the right spot. And Mr. Skaepers, I think, was the first one to get it. Mr. Skaepers. Man, cats truly are the superior species, aren't they? That one would have worked. For what was on the board. That would have worked. Yeah. That was a really good guess. Yeah, I like it. Do you agree with the Byron S? I was trying so hard to make Jameson Crowder fit in my, like every time I looked at it after that R came up in the last name, I was like, no, it doesn't fit. But anytime I tried to think of a name Crowder just kept coming up and up and up. Are you guys ready to get into the next puzzle here? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Let's get into the next puzzle. Let's do it. Great. Simon, you're going to get 1,000. That was a rough round, to be honest. That was tough. That was tough. That was tough. And it's a warm-up, I guess, sort of. It's always a warm-up round. Simon, you're going to get $1,000 for that one. Here, and we're going to enter our next puzzle here. Josh, you're going to go first. Since Simon got that one correct, this is fantasy football terms. These are fantasy football terms. Good job on the crossword. Yes, and it is crossword style. Everyone's familiar with that. There are four terms here. You can say I'm in any order whenever you're ready. Josh. Very good job on this. Would you like a question? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to get on the chat. I went back to the chat. Yes, and contestants out of the chat, since the chat will get it, and play along with us if you are watching. We will praise you if you get it right before then, and we will make fun of you if you are wrong. That is how it works here. All right, Josh, tell me, who has more rushing touchdowns in 2021? Who's got more rushing touchdowns in 2021? Derek Henry or Devin Singletary? Probably Derek Henry. Derek Henry is correct. 10 to 7. Well done, Josh. What letter would you like? And give me an R. R to R's. Hmm. Can I give you $1,000 in your round bank? I don't know if that's what it's called, but I'm calling it that now. I'll buy an E. I call it the round bank, too, I think. It looks rather rectangular to me. That is not round at all. There are three E's. It's going to cost you $300. Josh, would you like to buy another val or take another question or solve? Just give me our question. Another question it is. All right, Joshua Walter. Tell me, who's got more receiving yards in 2021? It's got more receiving yards in 2021. Darnell Mooney or A.J. Brown? Oh, I hate that question. It's probably, it's got to be Darnell Mooney. It is absolutely Darnell Mooney. 1,055. Bared to A.J. Brown's 869. Josh, what letter would you like? Bear down. Bear up. Bear sideways. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. Give me a, I'm going to take my shot with this one. It's not a very popular letter in most puzzles, but I'm going to go with the C here. C. Yeah. Well, there's one C. Okay, I got that last word. All right, Josh. You know the drill. I know the drill. I'll ask the question solve. Yeah. Okay, just give me our question. Another question. Here's your second question. Josh, who has more passing attempts in 2021, Josh? Who's got more passing attempts in 2021 regular season? The Dallas Cowboys or the Carolina Panthers? I was really expecting a quarterbacks here and not teams. The Dallas Cowboys are the Carolina Panthers. So the Cowboys actually threw a lot less this season than a lot of people expected. Great defense. Carolina Panthers, they were losing most of their games. I feel like I got to go with the Panthers here. Panthers. I'm sorry, Josh. It is the Cowboys. It is the Cowboys. All right. About 50 attempts. That's kind of close. But actually, they're all kind of... Yeah, never mind. All right, Dave, we're moving on to you. Would you like to solve? Would you like to take a question? I'll take a question. Let's hope I can get this one. The Panthers never got any first down once. I kind of forgot about that. So how are you supposed to have a lot of passes? That's a good point. That's a good point. All right, Dave, who has more passing touchdowns in 2021? Who's got more passing touchdowns in 2021? The Green Bay Packers or the Pittsburgh Steelers? Oh, it's got to be the Packers. It is the Packers. Well done, Dave. What letter would you like? Wait, goodness. Give me a T. T. So we swore. Was that last one passing yards? It was passing touchdowns. Oh, passing touchdowns. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Dave, that's going to give you $1,000 in your round bank. You can buy a Val here. Take another question or you can solve. I want to take another question, please. Another question. You got it. Let's stay right here. I like this category. Dave, tell me who's got more passing touchdowns in 2021. Is it the LA Chargers or the Miami Dolphins? Chargers. It is the Chargers. Two for two, nice. Oh, right. Give me an N, please. An N. Two Ns. It's going to give you another 1,000. You got 2,000 in your round bank. This is your last opportunity to buy a Val, this go-around, because if you get the next one right, and you guess the letter correctly, Dave, you are going to get to bank this money. So if you want to buy a Val, I have an N. No Val's for me. I will go with another question. Another question. I like it. I like it. All right, Dave. Who has more rushing yards in 2021? The Cleveland Browns or the Arizona Cardinals? I am going to go with the Browns. It is the Browns. Well done. I've got 400 yards, 407 yards. Do I get a chance to solve now, or am I done? Because I think I have one more letter. Yes, one letter here, and then I'm going to give you about five seconds to solve if you can. And then we're going to move on to Simon. But you will bank the money if you get this letter correctly. All right, D, please. D. Really? When will that one do? There are two D's. Well done, Dave. All right, Dave. You got five seconds. I'm going to do a little countdown here. You can try. If you'd like to solve. You don't have to. You don't want to. All right, I'll try to solve. There's no, if I get it wrong, it doesn't count. No, there's no penalty. No penalty. All right, I'm going to go contender, veto. Good try, Simon. That puts you in a firm lead, actually. What was the D threw me off? I thought I knew what that R.E. word was and then just completely threw me off. Man. How do I, how do I, oh, I'm going to change this. Okay. All right, Simon, we are moving on to you. And Dave said the only two words I knew in this puzzle. I don't know the other two, so I'm going to need a question. All right, give me a second. You spelled container really weird down there at the bottom. I did. All right, Simon.  Yes. For a question. All right, Simon, tell me who has more, who had more rushing yards in 2021? The New Orleans Saints or the New England Patriots? The Patriots. Patriots is correct, Simon. What letter would you like to guess here? The only one I know is up there. I'll take a V. V. There's one V. I guess I have no idea what any of these other words are. Okay. Another question. All right, Simon. Let's take another stroll on over to the FanDuel Sports Book. Yeehaw. The Bengals. I love taking a stroll. The Bengals. The Cincinnati Bengals are playing at the Tennessee Titans this weekend. True. Simon, true or false? True or false? The total of this game set at 49 and a half. False. It is false. It's 47 and a half. Well, that was pretty close. That was a close one, I think. Two-point. Keeping in line with my two-point. Yeah, Peter. What letter would you like here, Simon? S. S. One S. Slowly, but surely. Okay. I need another question. All right. All right. All right, Simon. Tell me. Who had more interceptions in 2021? Who had more interceptions in 2021? The New York Giants or the Buffalo Bills? You said interceptions? Interceptions, yeah. I'll go with the Giants, even if it's a trap. It is the Giants. Well done. Okay. What letter would you like? And this is to bank the money, right? Because I guess the V and the S. I'll take... Oh, yeah. I guess so. I'll take an M. No! Big old bomb. I know three. I know three of the words. I only know three of the words. I'm still trying to figure out this other one. I mean, I gotta take a question. All right, Josh. Tell me. Who has more first downs in 2021? Who has more first downs in 2021? The Chicago Bears or... The Pittsburgh Steelers? First downs? First downs, yeah. Pittsburgh Steelers. I'm sorry. It's the Bears.  I'm so sorry, Josh. How close? Uh, is 10 away. It was a bigger gap than I thought. And then I looked at it. That was a point for a man. That one's down. I wouldn't have known that. Yeah. Sorry about that, Josh. I'll make it up to you. I'm studying first downs a lot, though, so. All right, Dave, we're moving on to you. So, if I guess all these, what do I get right now? Is it more... You get 1,000. 1,000 dollars. 1,000. But I could also guess. All right. You know what? I'm going to take a guess. I know what they are, but I want to bank some more money while I can. All right. Oh, you're going to go for a question. Oh, you want a question? Or would you want to try and solve? I want a question. I'm going to get that. If I get that right, I get another 1,000, and then I'll solve for another 1,000. So, if you have less than 1,000 in the... The minimum you can get is 1,000. It doesn't stack. You know what I mean? So, if you have anywhere from 0 to 1,000 in that bankroll, so you would need to get more than two letters for it to be worth your time answering questions. You know what I mean? Otherwise, it's just worth 1,000. Oh, all right. Then I'll just go ahead and... Yeah, it's probably worth solving. So, I got rebuild, contender, veto. Rebuild! It was last one. Rebuild! Bust. You got it, Dave. Well done. All right. Rebuild is the one I was stuck on. I thought that was redraft. And then when I guess the deal... I knew that you was there. And then it completely threw me off. Yeah. I was like, see you. Nice job, Jayven. Five minutes ago. Five minutes ago, Jayven got it. Rebuild and bust were throwing me off so hard. I was ready to solve it. And then I guessed the D, and that D went at the end instead of in the middle, and I realized that wasn't redraft, and it completely threw me off. Dave, you pulled ahead in this one. You pulled ahead. You got 4,000 now when you're in the bank. You are... This one's going out for the Cornell kids. For the Cornell kids. The ones at the school are the ones related to Taylor Cornell. Taylor Cornell's job. Okay, gotcha. Screw all your students at Cornell. It doesn't have the same ring to it, though. Everyone at Cornell University, Dave doesn't even care about you. He only cares about Cornell kids. Yeah, he just lets you know. He's a brown guy. He's a brown guy. All right. You guys ready for the next puzzle? Yeah, I'm ready. I'm pretty ready. And I get to go first, right? You do. Really, Mr. Scamber's guests here in the chat are good stud starters. So you didn't get any of them. Simon is working away over there. Yeah, it's the right-eye-close counting letters. That's my fantasy fortune face. All right, contestants, out of the chat. Simon, we're coming to you first. Is Dave got that one correct? This is an NFL player slash movie mashup. This could be something like, well, what's the example you always use, Simon? Los Vegas Raiders of the Lost Ark? Yeah. But it can also have a player. One from yesterday, Tim Patrick and Morty. That was a stretch. There was also Boston Scott Pilgrim versus The World was another one we've done. So those are some examples of what they do. Scamber needs more games. This is like right down my alley. I'm more than happy to talk about it. We are. Let's talk about that in the future. Let's talk about it. But only one of us because, uh... Yeah, there is, otherwise. Because we can't have everyone getting these. I just thought of another one. Jail, can I host real quick and do a puzzle? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, thank you. Weekend at Bernie Kosar's. I like that one coming from Joey. Oh, I like that. Tight-tailed McFools. Yeah, that's good. All right, Simon, we're coming to you first. Ready for a question? Yep, reminded everyone back in the private chat if you're in the comments. And then I will take a question because I have no idea what this is. All right, Simon, tell me. Who had more fantasy points, PPR fantasy points in Wildcard and Weekend? Who had more PPR fantasy points in Wildcard and Weekend? Elijah Mitchell or Odell Beckham? Odell Beckham. Odell Beckham is correct. What letter would you like, Simon? Um, N. N. One N. No, that is not where I thought the N was. Okay, I will take another question. I bet I knew what you thought it was. Up your butt. I bet you thought it was in the third word. I did. I did. I thought it was in or on. I thought it was one of those two words. All right, Simon, who had more rushing touchdowns in Wildcard and Weekend? Who had more rushing touchdowns in Wildcard and Weekend? During Wildcard and Weekend.  You reap what you sow. Debo Samuel or Devin Singletary? I'm trying to remember if Singletaries were rushing or receiving because I know we had two, but I'll go Singletary. Singletary is correct, Simon. Did Debo have three, Simon? Well, I didn't know if Singletaries were both rushing or if one was receiving. That's what I was like. That was the debate I was having there. Not if Debo had three. I'll take a T. T. One T. Okay, not where I thought. I'm really trying to get that third word and it keeps on avoiding me. All right, Simon, you're going into your third question here. So last chance to buy vows if you like. No, I'll just take a question. Sometimes these take a while to solve. So I'm trusting that it'll get back to me. All right, Simon, tell me who had more fantasy points during Wildcard Weekend? Who had more fantasy points during Wildcard Weekend? Gabe Davis or Ramondra Stevenson? Gabe Davis. Gabe Davis is correct. What letter would you like? I watched a lot of that Bills game. So I will take an S. Are you joshing me right now? No points for you. Look at all that work I did. I answered three trivia questions right about fantasy points in Wildcard Weekend and then just nothing. I want points. All right, get some more points. We can try. All right, we can definitely try. All right, all right, Josh. Who has more receiving yards on the season? Who has more receiving yards in 2021? True. Deontay Johnson or T. Higgins? Deontay Johnson. Deontay Johnson is correct. What letter would you like to guess here? Give me an R. R. So cool. Hey, give me those R's. Yeah. So confident in that Deontay response. Well done, Josh. That's going to give you $2,000. I will myself. Go ahead and say it. Trevor Lawrence of Arabia. God, you stinker. Well done, Josh. I figured out Trevor. I was like Trevor. Oh, Trevor Lawrence. Lawrence Lawrence Lawrence. Oh, that one's for Joey. Shout out to Joey. Nice job. And Mr. Scamper's got it before you, Josh. I believe he did. I believe he did. Josh is going to give you $2,000. The cat, yet again, showing that cats are superior to humans at solving fantasy fortune problems. It's cat movie buffs. Yeah, I'm in the chat now. I see he said, go, Josh. Go, Mr. Scamper's. Yeah, mutual respect. This would happen to me. He said Trevor. And that, like, that's exactly the process for me with GKB. I was like, Trevor. Oh, Trevor Lawrence. And, uh, John in here saying, Scamper's at the buzzer. Chat wins. The chat does win again. Almost undefeated. Is there another Trevor in the NFL? Or is Trevor Lawrence the only one? Trevor still wins. Trevor still wins. Oh, Trevor still wins. Trevor still wins. Trevor still wins in Arabia. It's the sequel that, it's the like, uh, it did not do well at the box office. It went straight to, it was like a made for TV movie. It wasn't, it didn't go to theaters. Mr. Scamper said, plot twist, I'm a dog. Well, you catfished us, I guess. You do a great job typing. Joey saying Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia has a top five men's haircut movie. Well, like, I've never seen Lawrence of Arabia. I think it means that they like play it at the barbershop while you're getting your haircut or something. Okay. I took it as like just the haircuts in it are ridiculous, but that was just, no, I don't even think I've seen Lawrence of Arabia, by the way. Fandals 100% right. The chat wins every time. We are not even gonna try to compete with our chat. We know you guys are the top dogs. So Dave, let me ask you, how do you feel about Trevor Lawrence after a rough rookie season? How are you like, what's your outlook on Trevor Lawrence going into next season? I mean, he looked pretty good at the end of the season once Urban Meyer, I mean, not great, but he did show improvement when Urban Meyer left there. So I'm not ready to completely write him off yet. I mean, we've seen a lot of historically great quarterbacks struggle their rookie season. You know, Peyton Manning is the most obvious of them. So, you know, I think that if he gets a good coach in the off season, I'm still holding on to some faith. I mean, we saw it, it was kind of weird. It's like week one, he looked really good. Week 18, he looked really good, and everything in between, he didn't look so great. So I'm hoping that he can just put it together over the course of a full season. That he's still a top 10 dynasty quarterback, just knowing the ceiling that he can possess. But yeah, definitely a disappointing rookie year. Yeah, I'm right there. I've said it a thousand times and I'll say it again. Trevor Lawrence, I know he was like exalted as like this, like generational prospect. He could do no wrong, but he had glaring flaws in his college game that I thought were because of the Clemson system. They had wide receivers that were faster than everybody on the field. He never had to move past his first read in that Clemson offense. It wasn't something he was used to doing. And we saw the same thing. You watched Trevor Lawrence play this year. He locks onto that first read. He telegraphs with his eyes what he's planning on doing, who he's going to throw the ball to. And it was a major, major issue. But that flaw is something that is so coachable. Like he just needs someone in there that can help him fix those little flaws in his game. He still has all the talent in the world that made him the unanimous number one overall pick from the time he was a freshman in college, right? He still has that talent. If you can get a good coach in there, Dave, I'm with you. I think they can fix those flaws in his game and the sky's the limit for this guy. And when he didn't have that first read available in college, he'd check down to Travis Eaton that comes back from injury next year. So he's got his safety blanket coming back next year too. I think he's a pretty good buy low option out there right now. Yeah, I'm a little bit lower than both of you guys, to be honest. He's definitely not a top 10 quarterback and dynasty for me at this point. I mean, what I saw was not great. Yeah, like he had, he showed a little bit in weeks one in the last week of the season. I do agree. But it's a bad team at Clemson, at least he had top tier talent around him the whole time he was there. So he does not have that with the Jaguars. Maybe the Jags will draft Justin Ross again and then they'll just fool around. I'm not out on Trevor Lawrence though. I want to make that clear. I am not completely, I'm not saying he's a bust yet. I'm not saying he's going to be a horrible in a full quarterback. So Dave, as the Bears fan, I'm just curious, in a dynasty, you get to pick one. Justin Fields or Trevor Lawrence, who are you taking? I'm taking Fields over Lawrence. Okay, Trey Lance. Uh, yeah, I actually, I've got Fields one spot above Trey Lance. And then I mean, I've got all three of them back to back to back actually, and it is Fields, Lance, Lawrence. It would be Lance, Fields, Lawrence for me. All right. I'm pulling up my rankings because I forgot what order I had them in. Oh, it's Lawrence, Fields, Lance for me is the order that I have. But Lawrence and Fields are back to back in my rankings. Yeah. All right, you guys ready to get into the next puzzle? Let's do it. All right, this is a new category.  We played it the last couple of times we played this, but it's safe. So these are- Three letter first names. Yes, these are three players, or sorry, four players, they're all on the same team and it's just their first names and it's crossword style. All right, so who got the last one right? It was Josh. So Dave, we're moving on to you. What, would you like a question? Please. All right, who had a higher fantasy points per game in 2021? Who had a higher fantasy points per game over 2021? Debo Samuel or Mark Angers? Oh, I'm going to go with Debo. Debo's absolutely correct. Well done, Dave. What letter would you like? Let's go with S. S, bomb. I'm so sorry, Dave. No S's in this puzzle. Simon, our one-eyed pirate down there. You ready for a question? Or can you solve? I need a question. And out of the chat contestants. I need a question. I was not out of the chat. So thank you for reminding me. Out of the chat. I've been out of the chat this whole time. I've been leaving it to you, Dave. It's tough for me to like. There's 96 comments in there right now. When I see the comments build up, I want to like check it. I need to click it, yeah. 97 now. It's just building. We're going to get a 200 before I click on it. All right, Simon. Who had a higher fantasy points per game over 2021? Who had a higher fantasy points per game over 2021? Deandre Swift or Tyree Kill? Hill. Hill is correct. I'll take it in the chat. About 16.1 for Deandre Swift and 18.2 for Tyree Kill? Well, I got the question right. You're wrong. You're wrong about one of those. I was right with Swift. You're right with Swift, yeah. Oh, well, that is not the letter I said, but I'll take it. I thought you said N. I said M, but that's okay. That is okay. I also heard N. Well, then I said N. I said N. I think you said it. Obviously, that's good. And that's why I always try to specify Nancy. N is a Nancy. N and M's are the two. Oh, Nancy. I'll need another question. All right, Simon. Who had more? Who lost more fumbles in 2021? Who lost more fumbles in 2021? Derek Carr or Austin Eckler? Derek Carr. Derek Carr is correct. What letter would you like? T. T. Derek Carr lost a buttload of them, didn't he? He lost five. Oh, okay. I thought it was actually even more. All right, Simon. You could buy a vow. You could take another question or you could solve. What? Yeah, I'm with you, Simon. What? I had so many teams with two three-letter names on them and none of the names ended in energy. No, no, no, no. I'm with you, Simon. I'm with you. I'll take a question. First of all, it ended in N. No, N. Take another question? Yeah. All right, Simon. Who had more receiving touchdowns in 2021? Stefan Diggs or Dalton Schultz? Stefan Diggs or Dalton Schultz. And the category was receiving touchdowns, you said? It was. Oh, shoot. I figured out a lot of this puzzle just now, so I need to get this right. Oh, god, I'm going to get it wrong. Schultz. Sorry, Simon. No! Stefan Diggs has 10 Schultz. I got this one figured out in the end, so I'm hoping it makes it back to me. All right, Josh. I don't know anything yet. I've got three of the names. I've got them all. I've got them all. All right, Josh. Would you like a question? All right, I'm going to start reading the question. Yeah, I want a question. All right. Yeah, I want a question. I mean, I'm still… All right, Josh. Who has more receiving touchdowns in 2021? Deandre Hopkins. Deandre Hopkins or Marquise Brown? Oh. Deandre Hopkins missed so much time, but he had like 10 touchdowns before he got hurt. It's got to be Hopkins, right? It's Hopkins. He has two more. Okay. What letter would you like, Josh? Um… Give me an R. I don't know. An R? Bonk. I'm so sorry. Dave, you seem like you know it. Would you like to start? I'm just going to guess it because I have not been doing too good on the trivia questions. I'm thinking this is Deandre, Najee, Ben, and Pat. Pat, that's the name I was messing with. Well, done, man. I thought of Pat. And I was like, so no. Patrick Mahomes, he does not go by Pat. Don't call him Pat. His mom doesn't like that. So that's not Pat, for some reason. He's also not on the Steelers. So yes. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, he is a missy. I didn't even think about using that N to try to figure out N names. I was just like, the first name ends with an N. I don't know why. Right when that first N popped up, I just saw Deandre, for some reason. Just feel that. And sometimes it's both good. Sometimes beautiful minds are Queen's Gambits where you look up at the ceiling and the puzzle just evolves for you.  And the most competitive Dave shall emerge. Leave everyone frustrated. I say this from personal experience.  Yeah, Jeopardy is my jam. I watch a lot of Jeopardy. Maybe we'll bring you and Emily on for some famous Jeopardy. And we'll have a Kalugi special. See, there's something about like mindless trivia that I'm just really, I just, I know a lot about. I know a little bit about a lot of different topics. I'm with you, Dave. Jeopardy trivia. I also follow through that category. I have approximate knowledge of many things. There's certain things I focus on, obviously. Yes. Heights and weights, for some reason, is the thing that Josh focuses on. I can tell you heights and weights have a lot of players. I don't know what. So weird. Albert in here, four minutes ago, he got most of it, and then he followed it up with the last one. Well done. Albert, are you guys ready to get into our next puzzle? I didn't get one name that entire time. The whole time. Dave, you're keeping your lead here, but these guys, they can come back. Come back. It is not out of reach. I'm going wall to wall in this puzzle. I'm getting three questions right and I'm solving it. Another NFL movie matchup. This is another NFL player movie matchup. Matchup, matchup, matchup. We got it. Man, I'm writing down all the ones that I thought of because every time you put one up, I start thinking of something that fits, and we're going to have some good puzzles next time. All right, Dave, you got the last one. Correct. So, Simon, we are on to you. Do you like a question? Yes, I would like a question. All right, Simon. Who had more receiving yards in 2021? Who had more receiving yards in 2021? Jaylin Waddle or Terry McClourn? Jaylin Waddle. I'm sorry. Terry McClourn. Oh, really? That was a tough one. That was a tough one. That was a tough one. I'm surprised. All right, Josh, coming back to you. Would you like a question? Yeah. Think you could solve it? No. Okay. All right. All right, Josh. Simon, who had more receiving yards in 2021? Rob Gronkowski. Rob Gronkowski or Jacobi Myers? Oh, so Rob Gronkowski didn't have a ton of receiving yards. See, it's Jacobi Myers. It is. It is Jacobi Myers. We're about 60 yards. Not huge, but what letter would you like? Give me that T. T, three T's, triple T's, great bar. Big money. Mediocre bar, I guess. Is that a bar? Shout out in Clemson, triple T's. It's the Clemson bar when you turn 21. My name's not Simon. Whoopsie doopsie. Yeah, duh. Are you sure it's not Simon? I'm pretty sure. I'm just going to go ahead and go for our question. Another question. All right, Josh. Who are you about to say solve? Who had more receiving yards in 2021? Who had more receiving yards in 2021? Cole Beasley or Brandon Iuk? Brandon Iuk. Brandon Iuk's correct. It's not confidently answering there. Over 100 yards. What letter would you like, Josh? I bet it's closer on receptions than it is yards if I had to. Could be. I had to take a wild guess. Give me an R. R.  It's going to put $2,000 in your bank, Josh. This is your last opportunity to buy vows before you buy an E. Buy an E. Four E's. Two, three, four. One, two, three, four. All right, Josh. Can you buy another vowel? Take your third question. Give me my third question. Third question. All right. All right, Joshua. All right, Joshua. Tell me who had more passing yards in 2021. Who had more passing yards in 2021? The Buffalo Bills or the Los Angeles Rams? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. What's going to be, Josh? The Rams. The Rams is correct. Well done. 400 yards. Josh, one letter. It's not confident at all. You get this letter right. You bank it. That's the thing. And just to make sure I get it, unless this is some crazy weird word, I'm going to take the H. H. There is one H. I'll find with that. I'm fine. I'll take that. All right, Josh. You got about five seconds to try and solve this. No, just go to Dave. We'll just go right to Dave. Give me my money. I got this one solved. Do you? What? The curious case of Eno Benjamin Button. Oh my God. Dave with the clutch. And I beat the chat. And you beat the chat. I don't see it in the chat.  Sorry, Chad. Dave. I'm flabbergasted. Dave greater than chat, greater than front. Oh, fantasy. I missed point. Oh my goodness. That was awesome.  I thought that was going to be, I sent that one to Jay and I was like, I don't know if this one's too hard. I really want to. I really want to do this puzzle. I thought about trying to rack up some points there, but I've got the leads. So I'll just solve that one. That was probably smart. Give him a thousand. Probably smart. Did you want to give it to him? No. He's got a thousand. Up to 6,000. Oh my gosh. 6,000. Well done, Dave. That is one of the best solves on this show you've ever had. Maybe that was a really good one where you pulled out one of this length. There was no letters up yet. And it was a long one. Right? Man, that is like a top two fantasy fortune solve of all time. That's unreal. That was incredible. That was incredible. Yeah, you got a huge cheering section here in the chat, and we're going to set still. Chat for the win. That was awesome. That was awesome. Do better than chat. Do better than. Oh, man. We got time for at least one more puzzle. You guys just want to get into it? Yeah, I really hope it's a long one for my sake. All right, so let me figure out which one I want to do. I can still do this, Dave. You better watch out. All right, we'll do. I'll give you Dave. I'll give you the choice here. You have two categories to choose from. It can be another same first names, same team. I'm sorry. Same team, first names category, or it can be a same first name or sorry, same last name, different first names. Let's do the same team or different names, same team. Different name. Okay, so the first names, same team. Same one, yeah. Okay, all righty. I think that is, yeah, I got it right. All right, so there's a caveat to this one. I will give you guys this hint. One of these is a kicker. One of these is a kicker name. So I want to give that caveat just so that you guys aren't spinning your wheels too much. Same rules as the last time we played this category. These players are on the same team, but it is first names. Dave, you got that one correct. So Simon, we're going to you. Are you ready? Yeah, I'm still shook that Dave just pulled that one out of nowhere. Like I was nowhere near solving. Yeah, I'm just ready to give up at this point. That was unbelievable. Yeah, give me a question. All right, Simon. Who had more rushing touchdowns in 2021? More rushing touchdowns in 2021. The New England Patriots or the Cleveland Browns. You said rushing touchdowns. Rushing touchdowns. I'll go to the Patriots. Patriots is correct. Patriots is correct. What letter would you like? I will take a T. Bonk. Are you joshing me? You've got to say it seemed like the Patriots put out like four to five rushing touchdowns every week. Right. They had the second most rushing touchdowns in the week. Second most. It's not. It was like Damien Harris would get his two in the first half and then Ramadre Stevenson would get his two in the second half. That team was unstoppable on the ground. Yeah. Emily I think is still amazed at that poll, Dave. Me too. I don't know how you did that. That's unreal. All right, Josh. We're moving on to you. Would you like a question? Yeah. All right, Josh. Which who had more rushing yards in 2021? Who had more rushing yards in 2021? Are Baltimore Ravens or Arizona Cardinals? Cardinals. I'm sorry. It's the Ravens. Third most rushing yards in the week. Yeah. Third most rushing yards. All right, Dave. We're back to you. Can you solve this? Yeah, no. A week. All right. Here is your question, Dave. Which team had more turnovers? Which teams had more turnovers lost? Turnovers lost. The Miami Dolphins or the Pittsburgh Steelers? I'm going to go with the Dolphins. Dolphins absolutely is correct. Dave, what letter would you like? Let's go with N as in Nancy. Nancy, thank you. That is. There are two Ns. That's going to give you $1,000, Dave. Dave, you know the drill. You can buy, Val. Take another question. Whoops. I will take another question. All right, give me your money there. All right, Dave. Tell me. Tell me, Dave. Who had more completions in 2021? Who had more completions in 2021? The Tampa Bay Buccaneers or the Los Angeles Rams? Bucks. The Bucks. They're number one. Well done. What letter would you like? T is in time. Simon guessed T. He bonked. So pick another letter. Let's go with. I'm like, where's the T? K. K, all right. There is three Ks. Three Ks for you, Dave. All right, Dave. That's your second question. So this is your last chance to buy Val's if you would like to before we move on to your third question where if you get it right, you get to bank it. Let's go with the question. Question. All right. All right, Dave. Who had more receiving yards in 2021? A little bit more receiving yards in 2021. Was it Brandon Cooks or was it? Amon Ross St. Brown. Cooks. Cooks is absolutely correct. Over a thousand receiving yards. What letter would you like here, Dave? I'm going to go with a C. A C. Two Cs. You're going to bank that money, Dave. You have a thousand and you get to bank it and you got about five seconds to try and solve it before I move on to Simon. I got two of them, but I have no idea what the other two are. All right, we're moving on to Simon. Give you this banked money. That's going to give you a firm lead. Simon. Oh my gosh. I think I just got them. I've got three of the four. I'm missing one, but I need a question and I got to be Josh at least. So I need to get some letters on the board. All right, Simon. Who has more fantasy points in 2021? Who has more fantasy, total fantasy points in 2021? Alvin Camara. Alvin Camara or Damien Harris. Alvin Camara. Alvin Camara is correct. What letter would you like? D. D, two Ds. Okay, I would like to solve. All right. That won't put me above Josh, but it'll at least give me a little bit of dignity here, right? Damien, Nick, Kendrick, Mack. Well done, Simon. If you're being honest, who is Nick? Nick Folk. Nick Folk. There we go. Kendrick Who? That was the kicker. Kendrick Born? Kendrick Born. You heard of him? B-O-U-R-N. Oh, Nick Folk. Oh, he just didn't. And, okay, gotcha. He wasn't actually their kicker, like most of you. Yeah, in the later half? Okay. Well done, guys. Dave, dominant victory. Dominant victory, Dave. Well done. Dave.  Oh, Fantasy Feud. Fantasy Feud. That was such a mess. That was such a good time. Let's do that again. Nice team rolled on that show. We got our butt kicked so bad. I still have nightmares about it. Oh, me too. That was so much fun. Dave, thank you so much for coming on today. And not only did you win, but you got the most amount of revenge you could have. You absolutely dominated us in this matchup. Josh, the closest, but still down by almost $5,000. I know we got dominated. This might be one of the biggest wins of Fantasy Fortune yet. Dave and the chat are the winners for today. And you know what? I'm going to give the edge to Dave for pulling that puzzle out, the Benjamin Button one, a little bit over the chat today. So we get a rare L for the chat. Dave, thank you so much for coming on today. Guys, if you are not already following our friend Dave on Twitter, go and follow him right now at DaveKluge that is K-L-U-G-E.  So make sure you guys go follow him on Twitter right now. He's one of our favorite followers in this space and a great friend of the show. Dave, thank you so much for taking the time to come on today. This was, even though I got just embarrassed, this was an absolutely great time. Yeah, as always, a ton of fun. Thanks for having me, guys. Ooh, it got a little sultry there at the end. Fando requests that we play the redemption song. Do we have a redemption song? Guys, that is going to be it for us. That is going to be it for us on this Friday evening. Reminder, we will be live this Sunday for the Sunday night recap. So if you want to come in and talk some playoff football with us, come check us out on the Fando YouTube and Twitch channel Sunday evening at 7 p.m. Eastern time. Until then though, we are out of here. Adios, everybody. Enjoy your weekend. Can we always have this music playing? Oh, that's poppy. Yeah, it's poppy. Yeah, let's go. Oh, poppy. Play the evening ride music, driving it nicely. Is it going to keep playing when I click the outro? Probably.