What's up, everyone? Welcome into the front yard fantasy hour presented by Fan Duel. I'm your host, Simon, joined as always by my very handsome co-host, Joey Wright and Jay Felicio. What's up, guys? Me? You talking about me? Yeah. Do you want me to be plus you over here? On average, you guys are very handsome, is what I'll say. Yeah. I mean, I'm carrying the average pretty heavily here. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I think there's a curve for you, Joey, but we won't. Oh, wow. Hey, okay, what's up, Fan Duel? How are you doing, clean? It was show early. Hello, everyone. Guys, raising the average of good looks across the stream all the way is our guest today. We've got a great friend of the show, incredible fantasy analyst, Eric Romoff, joining us. For those of you that do not know him, you can find him on Twitter at fantasynav. He is the co-founder of the pros with Joe's charity tournament and the co-founder over at Green Screens Media and a contributor for DrRota.com and at footballdiehards.com. Eric, thank you so much for joining us today, my friend. Yeah, thanks for fitting me in. This is going to be a fun one. Oh, it's easy to fit you in, Eric. Eric, if you just messaged us like, hey, can I come on? We probably get on here right now. We love having you on, my friend. I will say, don't ever ask Eric to get you a high noon. Don't tell him the flavor at least because you ask him to get a flavor. Anything but one flavor, he's going to get you that flavor. No, maybe it's all time troll. Just the opposite of what you ordered is what you're getting. That's like, I feel like there's a sketch. I feel like there's like a Tim Robinson sketch where he just keeps pranking people, but they're so small that the people don't even realize they're being pranked and they can't quite place it. And that's the vibe. So like him just giving you the wrong flavor of high noon is giving. Like, I agree.  I got him. Great. You won't let you pay for it. Eric, Jay and Joey here, both competed in your pros with Joe's tournament this year. I've competed in it in the past. Do you want to tell us a little bit about that event? And I know you guys are still raising money, making a final push here in the holiday season. Yeah, I'd say competed is probably being a little gracious towards Jay and Joey, but they did participate this year, which we certainly appreciate. Last year. Yeah, Jay's got. Jay can always throw the football over the mountains. If the coach just put him back in the game. That's right. But for this year, we are down to our final four. It is Gab Gowdy, big fan. Dole guy facing off against Brick Flynn from fantasy alarm. Also from fantasy alarm, John and Pemba is facing off against professional fish hider Jordan loop. So we're into our semi finals of the playoffs and we are still raising money that will go to the eventual winners charity. That's way to find out about those charities. Find out about where you can donate. Head to our website is pros with Joe's.com slash donate. We're still raising money here for like two more weeks. There we go. And I'm just going to be link in the chat guys. So head on over there. Hit that link if you want to donate and check out the charities that this money could be going to everyone. What's really cool about this tournament Eric and the way you set it up is all these people are playing for something that's like special to them, right? Like near and dear to their heart. Jay, who did you play for? Rose got their own charity. It was like 48 different charities this year. I played for a charity called Child's Play. And it is some of you may know this. I may not. I have an immune deficiency that dealt with all my life. I've worked with Children's Hospital from a very young age. And something that always got me through was the video games that were there back in. I'm old. So it was the original NES and the super NES, but they donate video games to Children's Hospitals around the country. Beautiful. Beautiful. So guys, that link is in the chat. Hit that link. We throw that in there too while we're at it. Sorry, Simon. Do what now? Yours. I was asking you who to hear. Oh, I play for the Nature Conservatory because I love animals and I love nature and Jay's charity is much better than mine. But hey, I like going out in the woods and hanging out with nature. So and I want to see a lot more of that. So yeah, I play for them. Guys, we've got some people in the chat ready to hang out with us today. Let's hang out with them. Damon here saying hello. What's up, Dave? Welcome in and Albert Anderson. Hello everyone. Glad to have you in here, Albert. Mr. Scampers. Meow. Hi, Mr. Scampers. Glad to have you in here. And DJ saying Joey can't complain about my pick today because he got a bunch from me earlier in the week. DJ is the champ of coming in with a new pick with a wrestler every single week. DJ hit me up this week with at least a dozen photos of him and some wrestlers. Thank you.  Yeah, I did. I threw him some stuff with Adam Cole in the young books that I had. So yeah, it's a really cool connecting with DJ this week. Guys, before we get into our show and I see these questions in here, we're going to answer these questions throughout the show today. A couple of reminders. First and foremost, if you're not already following our guest, Eric, go and fix that right now. He's on Twitter at fantasy nav. We've already talked about the awesome stuff that he's running over there at pros with Joe's, but he's also just an awesome analyst putting out content, not just about football. Green screens media and Eric, you guys are putting out content multi sport, right? Yeah, we're kind of trying to touch them all. So we just finished up a bunch of World Cup coverage as that incredible game put a bow on the tournament this year last weekend. We're covering and ramping up a ton of college basketball coverage as well. Just a few short months away from March Madness. So really going to be dialed in as we get into tournament time. We'll be ramping up some NASCAR, maybe a little bit of golf, really just trying to kind of cover all our bases. Nice. There we go. So guys, even though football season is coming to a close, you can head on over to Eric's profile and get the inside scoop on college basketball as it's getting hot right now. I put down a couple of his future bets that he had for the college basketball from your little, there's a little break on the better sports network and there's a little ad read basically with you and yeah, the timeouts. There we go. Sorry. And I was just going to say, Eric, I heard a rumor that you were one of the people that were jumping on the Argentinian World Cup championship bus. Is that true? Is there any truth to that rumor? Yeah. Yeah. In in in one of those timeouts, we got a we got Argentina at, I think there was still plus five fifty to win it all heading into the quarters.  That's pretty awesome right there. Guys, after you follow Eric, if you're watching this video, that means you're probably already on the Facebook, YouTube, Twitch or Facebook page. If you're on Facebook or YouTube, go and hit that like button. It's the easiest way to show your support for what we're doing over here and make sure you subscribe to FanDuel on YouTube and then check them out on Tiktok, Instagram, Twitter. They're at FanDuel across all these platforms. They have a whole team of content creators almost as handsome and cool as we are helping you guys win your leagues and win some of that cash before we get into our game today, which we're going to be playing some fantasy football jeopardy. We had some questions here in the chat. Born to Laf coming in wants to know if they should start Gardner, Minshew versus the Bears with Hertz and Lamar Jackson both out or should they roll with Taylor Heineke against the San Francisco 49ers? Eric, we'll throw this one to you first. Would you start Minshew or would you start and Minshew is not playing the Bears? No, I would love to start playing the Bears. As I said that, I saw Joey speaking and I was like, no, the Bears are playing the Bills this week. So something in there is wrong. Would you be starting Minshew versus the Cowboys or would you be starting Taylor Heineke versus the 49ers? So I'm going to kind of punt on this one. I'm I'm kind of bearish on Gardner Minshew. I think he's got a really tough match up against the Cowboys defense this this week, but it really kind of boils down to Layton Vandoresh. If you watch that game against the Jaguars last week when Vandoresh went down, that was really the point where Trevor Lawrence and the Jags offense came alive. If he misses this week, it's probably just enough for me to lean on the Minshew side. If he's going to play and that defense is at full strength, I would actually lean on the Heineke side. What about you, Joey? Where are you leaning here? Yeah, it's Minshew slam dunk for me. I'm really trying to get him as a top 12 quarterback this week. What we've seen from Minshew when he starts looks fantastic. You know, when he was Jacksonville a few years ago, looked great. And he's playing indoors, which let me tell you playing indoors is an advantage this week because there's a lot of bad weather out there. And like he said with Layton Vandoresh, he might be out. I like Minshew. I think this is going to be a competitive game. The Eagles don't necessarily need to win, but the Cowboys are going to win and win. I just like Minshew a lot. I think it's going to be a good matchup for him. And I'm not exactly excited about Heineke this week. Jay, the second half of this question that Born to Laugh asks, Noah Brown or Rashi Chahid and full PPR, which one would you be plugging into your lineup? Oh, I would probably lean on Chahid. I just see there's, I think there's more touchdown potential there and that's pretty much what you're hoping for. Man, I can't go Chahid with the weather in Cleveland, New Orleans. Joey's been bringing that one up since Monday upwards of 63 mile per hour, wind gusts. Hands off. It's just, it's not in pro Noah Brown take. It's a, I'm not starting any New Orleans Saints or Cleveland Brown players that I don't have to take. I take back what I said. I completely forgot about the weather. I, it's ruining, it's ruining all analysis this week.  I'm playing against a guy that has a Josh Allen step on dig stack. So I'm kind of glad. I hope the weather gets even worse there and they just have to run the ball the entire time. So that's hopefully what happens. I went through all my leagues and I, before the Olavi news came out, I benched Olavi and Mari Cooper and the one share of Jarvis Landry. I had, I don't want any pass catchers, even John Johnson. I benched. I just hands off the only two Saints. I would trust or Camara and taste some Hill. So they taste some Hill might get some money plays, slide him in a tight end. But that's if I had to, I have him as a top 12 tight end, but I'm not super excited about it. Eric, I'll throw this one to you and this is the hot question. So Jonathan Taylor on our out for the rest of the season. We saw Zach Moss with the majority of the carries last week, but Dion Jackson is officially listed as the starter on the cold step chart. If you have both of these colds running backs, which one are you starting this week?  Yeah, I'm not putting any stock in what Jeff Saturday says, right? Looking back to the game tape from last week is about a two to one that Zach Moss outtouched Dion Jackson. This week they get the Chargers, which are giving up like 5.5 yards per carry running back. So if he's going to get a ton of volume against the defense that's giving up that many yards per carry, like him to get over 100 yards, like him over Dion Jackson. I'm going to take Zach Moss in this one as well here. Jay, looks like you're agreeing. Yep. There we go. One more question from DJ before we get into our game, guys. DJ wants to know Chris Godwin or Deontay Johnson in full PPR. Joey, we'll come to you first on this one. Would you be rolling out Deontay Johnson or Chris Godwin in week 16? It's going to be Chris Godwin for me. Pickets back a quarterback, but you know they've got Trace McSorley playing for Arizona. You know, it's not a horrible matchup for Tom Brady. I think Tom Brady is going to try to pad that stat line, those career stats and he needs to get them up a little bit because he just might not make the Hall of Fame. We're not sure yet with Brady. So I like Godwin a lot. He seems to be Brady's favorite target. Even though Brady is really trying to connect with Mike Evans. Hopefully he says indoors as well. Yep. That's a fact. Indoors. It's going to be Godwin for me as well. What about you, Eric? Yeah, I'm going with Godwin as well. It looks like they might actually get Tristan worse back, which would be a nice upgrade for this one. And also, I think I saw a blurb like an hour ago that Deontay Johnson missed practice today. So there might be an injury concern there as well. Keep your eyes on that guys. Let's take one more from Medcine here because Medcine here said, you're deciding if I win my $6,000 lead. We get a cut if we decide and we're helping. Medcine here wants to know Zay Jones or Mike Evans in PPR help. I'm panicking. So Jay, I'm going to throw this one to you. Where are you leaning here? I know Zay Jones has looked really good. Lately and had a huge target share. But the weather, you just, you can't take that chance. I think that I would still lean just all things equal. I would still lean Mike Evans and then with the weather concerns, it's Mike Evans for me and it's not even close. Eric, what about you? Are you agreeing with Jay here? Yeah, I'm right there with him. I'll add to it that, you know, Zay Jones plays out of the slot, plays out of the slot about a quarter of his snaps. So he's going to see a lot of, of sauce Gardner. He's going to see a lot of Reed lining up on the outside. So not only does he have the horrible weather, whether he's got a really tough matchup this week as well. Yeah, it's about as tough of a matchup as it gets for him in the bad weather. I'm rolling Mike Evans. Joey, I'm really boxing these past two questions. Are you starting another buck? Yeah, I just want to say I'm really proud of Eric and Jay for hitting every point that I wanted to say about this. Congratulations guys. You're doing great on the show today. It's Evans for me and that's not even me being a Homer. I did want to also bring up. Mr. Scamper said great point. The weather outside is weather. So take that, you know, for what it's worth. It's an upgrade from frightful. So that's good. It is so weather where I am right now. Just not. It's just weather out here right now. Weather right going on. Guys, we are going to get into our game of fantasy football. Jeopardy. I see the other questions in there in between rounds in between questions. We will get to more of your questions and a reminder right after this, myself, Joey and Jay wall, another front yard fantasy fam member are going to be live for fantasy football office hours right over on our YouTube channel at front yard fantasy. So head over there, subscribe, hit that notification bell and make sure you get notified any and all famous questions we don't get to during today's show. We're going to be there for about an hour doing nothing but answering questions like 95% chance Jay wall is going to dance. So I'd say 99% chance Jay was going to dance and a 95% chance his shirt comes off is what we got going on. Yeah, it's probably like a half shirt. Guys, the game we are playing today is called fantasy football. Jeopardy. It's a lot like the popular TV show Jeopardy, but with a fantasy or NFL twist instead of buzzing in contestants are going to be going in turn order selecting the category and the value that they would like to answer get their question right. They're going to earn that money. Get that question wrong. We're not subtracting anything here though and you do not need to answer in the form of a question unless you're a Jeopardy purist who just has to or it will bother you down to your soul as a human. We will go in turn order, but there is one other twist here in normal Jeopardy whenever you get the question, right? You get to pick the next question that shows up as a slight advantage. So for here, how we're recreating that is if you get your question, right, you get to pick the category for the next contestant. So where you're going to be at first, you're going to have free reign of the board. You get your question, right? You're going to get to choose what category I have to answer a question from next. We're going to go like this until we run out of questions or run out of time at which point we will go into final Jeopardy and final Jeopardy. It is the only question of the game where you can lose money. We'll be writing down a wager from zero all the way up to all of the money you have earned at some point throughout this show. Get it right. We'll add that money to your score. Get it wrong. We'll subtract it in the contestant with the most money will be our champion and guys. I have a new prize for a champion today. Oh, finger drop. You've heard of shrewt bucks, but I've got one million Simon bucks for you right here. It is a one million dollar bill that the winner will be mailed when they win this game today. And if I win, I'm just keeping no when you give it to me. It's a hot price. These are very valuable. Simon bucks are going up in value at this time. Is that a towel? I don't know.  I'm going to be using it as a towel. All right, well, before we get started, let me go over the categories. Can I get your number? You will see the name of a player. You have to tell me what number is their jersey. Oh, I'm very good at that. So don't pick me to send to that one. Who's that Joe is in honor of you Eric with pros with Joe's. You will see a picture of a Joe and you will have to tell me who that Joe is. Grab bag could be anything. It literally could even be a boat. Odd man out there is going to be a sentence with some stipulations. You tell me the one guy that does not hit those categories. And then of course our favorite especially on Thursdays the Thursday night Vanduul sports with all props and I'm starting to think I didn't update one of the questions. So we'll we'll find out if that happens because I just remember right now. So it's okay one time. I messed the whole question up and I said I promise there will be no more mistakes and we clicked on the next question and it was blank. There was yeah and I'm pretty sure I know which one it is and I know what I was going to do and I didn't go back. So I'll go off the old noggin when we get there. I know exactly which one it is. I was a grim fan and you're saying rats no sandwiches again we'll bring that sandwich category back one of these days grand. Absolutely a fan of that. That's an S tier bowling ball buffer if I've ever seen one oh without a doubt. It's going to be never mind and we got our friend Koop in here as well saying what's this show about is this like mob lives very similar pretty that's more like Milf Manor to be honest actually beating the geek Simon is the beauty and I'm a little nerdy. Thanks Joey that was nice you didn't have to say that Eric where you want to go what what category what dollar amounts Oh God I really want to I want to pinpoint which question you messed up and call that one. I know exactly what it is so I'll say it before actually let me get Bandool Sportsbook for 300 Bandool Sportsbook for 300 put these games specials featured prop bets in order of best to worst odds most likely to happen least likely to happen a Zach Wilson have 300 plus passing yards and three or more touchdowns Trevor Lawrence and Zach Wilson to combine for 550 passing yards or combine and combine for five or more passing touchdowns see Jacksonville Jaguars to win have the most rushing yards and most receiving yards so I'm making easy just tell me you basically which is the most likely to happen which is the least likely to happen and just just give me the letters so I think C is the most likely to happen pretty tight spread if they do those things Jacksonville is in a good position to win from there it gets pretty tough I'll go C B a because I think that the odds for Wilson to go 303 are pretty short pretty long excuse me final answer CBA CBA and we are close but no cigar what that's exactly right you suck this item must be a little bit Jaguar yet you hit it right on the nail on the head that I knew that first one would be pretty easy but that's the second one was tough it's going to be interesting to say the least so nice job we got what was it 300 I believe yep 300 and here we go you get to send Simon wherever he you would like to send him exactly right but no cigar exactly Coupe knows what I'm talking about I'll send the Simon to odd man out I mean there's not a category I'm avoiding here odd man out you know what I like to trend Eric started let's go in the middle of the board 300 odd man out which of the following running backs does not currently average over 20 points per game in PPR scoring say one Barclay Josh Jacobs Christian McCaffrey Josh Jacobs definitely does I know that one this is close between the other two I'm going to go say one Barclay let's say one Barclay and you would be correct not to shake up 21.1 Christian McCaffrey just underneath him with 21 points Simon you get 300 and also get to choose Joey's next category shout out to people in the chat who got that one right Mr. Scambers with say one grim fan with say one baseball master as well with say one and then the chat chat's undefeated chat got CBA as well on the last one too nice job bargaining agreement collective bargaining agreement I'm going to send Joey to can I get your number here's just jerk I'll do it for 300 can I get your number for 300 Dalvin Cook for final answer yes sorry Joey he got it right it is for that might be a little trick because he changed his number I don't know if it was this year last year but I know he did here recently so I probably would know that he is on my main fantasy team and I always would get mad when I saw it too on the field because I knew that was Madison very smart and we did have the chat as well couple people get it right we got grim fan what was for Dame hit for Mr. Scambers so far the chat is undefeated I am I knew that was for I did I'm really good at the numbers see Simon I think you want to go to this category and that's why you keep acting trying to do the double reverse is what he's trying to do or is it the triple reverse you can step a double stamp double stamp be no way do that I'm going to send Eric to can I get your number as well before you pick your number though Eric we have some questions here in the chat I want to make sure we got to Tommy in here wanted to know burrow or fields in the semi finals Eric we'll throw this one to you are you going burrow or fields I'm probably going to lean towards fields with the with the rushing upside I mean he's getting 60 yards and or a touchdown just about every week I know it's a tough matchup he also had a very tough matchup last week against Philly and did pretty well for himself so I'll I'll go with the rushing floor in fields I'm with you fields has reached that status for me now I I don't care about the matchup I'm just starting them I'm just plugging them in I don't want them to be on my bench when I watch and break off a 70 yard touchdown run burrows a great start this week as well but I'm going to roll fields out there Joey what about you yeah this the Chicago Buffalo game was one of the games that meteorologist Kevin Roth said to kind of downgrade your past catchers and quarterbacks however Justin Fields is not really included in that because he gets so much work on the ground rushing so it can be Justin Fields for me there we go then Jay I want to throw the second half of this to you Isaiah Pacheco or Deandre Swift in a PPR league and that's tough I really think I'm going to go Pacheco with the matchup I know he got benched for you know the first half of that game after he lost a fumble but he came back in I think he had over six yards of carry and matchup against Seattle is one that you can run all over Seattle expect a lot of points scored there and Swift you know if if I knew he was going to get a normal load of carries then I would 100% go with Swift but you know they've been working Justin Jackson in we got Jamal Williams stealing goalline carries so I'm going to go Pacheco are you going Pacheco as well Eric are you rolling Swift out there yeah I'm going Pacheco like we had that one week of DeAndre Swift glory and then immediately they made it a three-way committee with Jackson in the mix now like there's just there there are too many mouths to feed and in Detroit for me to start Swift so I'll go with Pacheco when a plus matchup it was it's hateful of them to do that DeAndre Swift I'm just like live it it's been one of the most frustrating things all season let's it one more in here before we go to our next round Justin Goldsbury what's up Justin said pick two so Bench one bam night Jerick McKinnon Devin Singletary Joey you got a bench one of these three backs which one are you throwing on the bench I'm going to bench Singletary Jerick McKinnon I'm not going to I'm not going to bench I'm going to play against Seattle second worst team against running backs and McKinnon is the I believe the last three weeks number one running back in football I don't see Kansas city moving away from them which say I said shut up I'm not going to shut up I'm I'm not going to last few weeks just absurd that that's the case right the Jerick McKinnon's the number one R.B. over that spam yep and then bam night this game tonight there there is some wind there's some freezing rain coming it looks like and I think Pat the ball runners are going to have a good showing tonight between E.T.N. and bam night um and actually bam night you mentioned Singletary as well Eric or you mentioned one of these other two guys yeah I'm right there with with Joey pretty solid matchup for for bam night against Jacksonville tonight we know that the game plan for the jets is basically hide Zach Wilson so we should see another you know kind of mid teens maybe even push towards 20 touches or so for for bam so Singletary is hitting the bench for me and then we got a coop in here with Zonovan people's nightcourt yeah in there and Tommy same thank you guys I appreciate your insight thank you for coming in with the question time we love answering questions time okay Eric I forget where Joey sent you what category I sent it to can I get your number and I will go for 200 can I get your number for 200 CD let see the lamb so the CD lamb see see the lamb CD lamb wears number 88 wow that is a lot taken I had anticipated that was not supposed to happen let's see if I can it's just the slow review this reminds me of middle school I'll get on the internet and I just got a new MacBook and I am not an an Apple user so there it is there it is 88 are we sure that CD lamb can you zoom in a little bit he's got the color and his hair for where I'm not I don't that's a big football that's not a number Eric you got a correct nice job where we to send Simon to next let's go to who's that Joe who really up one of these a picture me who's that Joe I hope they're all Joey right yeah that'd be that's the win right there I want to take the lead here and then I get it wrong 500 who there's a twist I did not each of the pictures is also distorted to a certain level who's that Joe I am zooming in and it may or may not be a football related Joe so any Joe and this is um this this Joe has a microphone and a beard and is green and purple and I know who this is it's Joe on his last name does he have two burritos behind his head I think he does this is this is very clearly Joe Smith final answer I guess yep final answer it is not Joe Smith it is Joe Rogan yeah that's what the one thought with the hit with the little the microphone doing some standup try to try to make it just a little easier here's a problem I want your factory yesterday um and he looks entirely different yeah actually hair yeah less round all around we did get some people who got it right and the the chat Dame right with Joe Rogan Grimm Joe Schmo I mean yeah probably about the same uh DJ went with Joe Montana and Mr. Scampers also got it correctly with Joe Rogan in groups of this must be what Aaron Rogers sees on the weekend yeah yeah drink some drink some of his tea and head to the Joe Rogan podcast that's what Joe Rogan looks like to the eyes of Aaron Rogers that makes sense little what is it called a sequoia or some you know that's exactly what it's is that right hey I am not at all okay a sequoia you know potato potato whatever it is what it is all right Joey free rate of the board right where would you like to go that was fun and I was wishing I could have played that so I'm going to go who's that Joe for 300 who's that Joe 300 Joey that Joe that's Joe exotic the tiger yeah you got it couldn't decide if I should do it more because everybody might not know who that is so you are correct that is Joe exotic nice and cool Joey was excuse me JL went I would do an impression but it's impossible without cursing so go for it Grimm got it correct and Coop said it's pronounced IU which I'm going to go with from now IU IU Quasca yeah that's what it's called I'm pretty sure IU Nailed it I like this who's that Joe category thank you I was excited about this one yeah good stuff I'm going to be real with you guys I've been lying this entire time I don't know a single players number and I'm really bad at faces and names this is I'm really nervous about this game like as JL go through the categories I was like oh no oops and actually you know what baseball master brings up a very good point I have to go said that how would you not know who this is he ran for president so that's that's a great point well a lot of people ran for president that also was true that is true let's not go there so all right Joe we were do we want to hit some questions do we have any hit to hit their sign yeah let's throw a question I hear grim fan wanted to know should he go Titans in the survivor league or switch to the dolphins or the Bucks so the Titans are playing the Texans this weekend the dolphins have the Packers and the Bucks have the Cardinals I think I'm rolling Bucks against the Trace McSorley lead Cardinals over the Titans against the the hot Houston Texans right now what about you guys yeah Trace McSorley beats the Buccaneers I don't know what's going to happen to me it will run Christmas because it's Christmas night I might turn into the Grinch I don't know like he says you're not all right I don't know let's go but I'm with you 100% and Malik Willis is starting for the Titans like you said even though it's Houston we don't know what this seems going to be able to do with Malik Willis under center he didn't look very good it's the it's the the Bucks for me and it's not close Scott here another question for us Eric I want to throw this one to you were he most or Zach Moss or Donovan people's Jones need one in the flex which one are you rolling with I'm going with Zach Moss it looks like Jeff Wilson is on the right path to play this week so that really undercuts most earth viability and we talked about horrendous win that this that this these Browns are going to be facing you know people's Jones is more of the downfield threat as it is so basically everything that he does to contribute is kind of neutralized by the weather what about you Jerry you roll in Moss here as well yeah I want to it's people's Jones is out and earlier you guys said Zach Moss or Deon Jackson I would have actually gone Deon Jackson in PPR I just think he's a better past catcher but he's a terrible against the run and I think the over under on this game is super high the implied bulltotal so where'd the question go so yeah I'm actually going to go most are here but it's close to Zach Moss and shout out Scott and Heather because I think they share a Facebook account and you know let's all just let's all love our our spouses so I love this right here right love you guys have here you're right his middle name may not be Heather that could be Scott and Heather I should this by the way that's a nice looking hat wonderful holidays also baseball master in here wanted to know what time is the game tonight it starts at exactly 816 p.m. Eastern is the time that is set for kickoff so 816 p.m. Eastern time Monday night football and month no yeah today's not Monday today's Thursday which means which means it's on Amazon Prime I'm this year is the first year I've memorized the channel's football are on instead of Googling it every single time where I'm like Monday night football where do I go for this we got it now ESPN on Monday's Amazon on Thursday's NBC on Sunday night so I really like what Amazon is done to like they really good production you know people were complaining about the quality but I thought it's fantastic it's my favorite it's my favorite standalone game from a production standpoint not always from the team's playing standpoint though we get some pretty bad Thursday night games out there but alright let's move on Joey you got a correct Eric where we excuse me where we sending Eric I'm we're going to send Eric over to the Fandall sports book I'm I'm playing a little gamesmanship here I'm trying to turn a little strategy strategy here I am terrified of this strategy I will go for 200 bucks 200 buckaroos two players are tied as the favorite to be the first stuff down score tonight and I forget which player is not one of those two and hold on one second I and I am just ruin it up tonight oh no they changed it okay yeah so it was it's not currently but when I put this question together that was the case so which player is not tied to be a favorite for the first touchdown score tonight I'm going to say that it is Travis ETN he's in the middle of a pretty rough patch in terms of his on field performance the are the favorite so usually that slides a little bit of action or sides the line a little bit towards the the just players so I'll I'll say that ETN is the is the offman out while answer final answer Eric you guess Travis ETN and you are not correct it's actually Garrett Wilson both Travis ETN and Zahn him and night were at earlier today at 650 Travis ETN is actually jumped into the lead now at plus 600 so ETN is the current favorite which you know I'm surprised you know as well well you know you I think you're your thought process was correct he has hasn't really played that great lately and Jeff defense I did hear an interview with some of the Jags captains talking about their strategy going into the coin flip tonight and so I think like after hearing that it might have moved the lines of it in favor of ETN with the understanding the Jags are ready for this coin flip they're going to win it and they're going to take the ball first to try to get off to an early lead I'm entirely making that up by the way just in case anyone was taking me seriously it was sound I liked it it sounded pretty good so sounded pretty good it sure did Simon free reign of the board where are we heading my friend grab bag 400 grab back 400 with the confidence what European country does eggnog originate from eggnog okay I'm trying to visualize like where like what landscape would you drink eggnog and I'm thinking like eggnogs cold right I don't know which European country is the most nog which one is the most nog or the most egg I'm feeling like mountainous maybe slightly Bavarian which would bring it down to like Germany Austria Switzerland like that area this is a $400 question so I'm going to go not Germany I'm going to say Switzerland is where this originated from that's your final answer that's my final answer you know what you put some real effort into that thought and it was for absolutely not while no one knows who invented egg nog most historians and foodies generally agree eggnog originated in medieval Britain so it's coming home all right England I learn the DJ and grim I'm looking around they're keeping right after I started all the Switzerland we're on the same thought path right there they feel Swiss I had Denmark in my head for some reason I was right the first one that I went to to and actually I got this question from we took my kids to the Polar Express last Friday and they have a guy that does a show before and this was one of the questions 90 percent of the people shouted out Switzerland so for some reason everybody goes to Switzerland it's not just do you think it's because like the Swiss myths like hot chocolate so we're just programmed to think of like probably holiday drinks Switzerland I don't just love it's just got like hot drinks on lock mm- mm- is eggnog had a cold yeah I've never had I've never had a hot eggnog you drink it hot Eric so I had a drink eggnog you know maybe it's because the first time I've had it it was served to me hot Oh Oh I've had eggnogs full of so much bourbon that I think I might have been hot it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's there you go Simon got that one incorrect unfortunately so Joey free reign of the board where we headed my I like that who's that Joe category thank you yeah where we going 400 who's that Joe for 400 Joe who's that Joe that's pretty distorted I'm trying to like cross my oh man and get them back a line I think I got it okay Joe Flacco the final answer yeah final answer final answer Joe Flacco is the hair it was the hair that is totally the guava there you go and I I thought Simon would like that one as well and I thought too even though the colors were a little distorted the Jersey might give it away with the Jets little arrows oh I didn't even notice that I don't know why I keep doing this if I'm doing the Antonio Brown dancer whatever but yeah nice job Joey thank you yeah no problem I figured you like that one and it's not just to be clear it is not named for you it is named for pros with Joe's so I don't want people to think that you know what it might come in to the night that way but I'm taking all these questions right so the category is going to leave me after me so you know what I I take it back it is now named after Joey there you go thank you Grim fan getting this DJ getting this as well nice job guys I don't know if you can see it on camera but when I get these pictures I go to the side because it does kind of because they're distorted you can kind of pick up some stuff on the sides now nobody nobody picked that up so I get to send Eric somewhere yes you do Eric I want to send you to grab back grab bag let's go for 200 grab back for 200 Eric please no nog who's this character that is Pickle Rick you are correct and if somebody got that wrong I was going to be really upset because Josh Feaster would have also been a correct answer on this that is right Josh is a big Rick and Morty fan he's got that Morty that he likes to put he's probably got it just hanging out a Morty with a little Santa hat one of my favorite episodes absolutely love it I'm Pickle Rick yeah you go baseball master you know it's a class I mean have you watched have you watched it I know every last episode multiple time okay was it JL that never watched it and then finally watched it and really liked it we both had never watched it and I watched it recently and I've gone back through you know I haven't watched the new season is it the new season I haven't watched season six but season five was one of my favorite season five it got some crap but had some my favorite episodes that I'm Mr. Nimbus and then the Planetina episode is my number one favorite episode of all time of Rick and Morty it's just like the moment that I knew I was going to love the show and Simon I've told you this multiple times episode two where Snowball comes in and says while she's sleeping where my testicle summer and it just that just connected with that on a on a certain level like I've been there yeah obviously that's why it's from experience well done Eric it's a tight race you guys are doing pretty well that's pretty tight race between all three of us yeah with that said where we said Nick Simon so I don't know what sort of strategy he's deploying and saying that he's not confident this category but I'm going to take the bait I'm going to send them to can I get your number damn it I truly am terrible at this so here's what we're going to do I need to come back and it's less embarrassing to miss a high point value one and I think I'll miss it no matter what because this is really like a complete gap in my knowledge so 500 because there's a chance I know numbers I'm going to leave the comments in the private chat just in case it takes me a minute I'm so you're telling me there's a chance Simon might as well just guess a number now what is Zahneman night's jersey number no idea I don't even I see I'm so bad at this I don't even know like what general range running backs I think I know what doesn't matter anymore because yeah but sometimes they still follow like conventions I'm going to go with what's he feel like he feels like his number is remember you got to throw that BAM in there too so what numbers says BAM 11 final answer yeah you sure you don't want to BAM again not 11 is good yeah yes sorry buddy you're not even remotely Oh I was wrong that picture is and he actually in the preseason I think he was like 30 something 35 33 I thought it was 37 is what I thought it was I really wanted to zoom in football when you were I was I was wondering if that was going to be one of those giant pictures again so we will see for the other ones you might get really close you might get one you can actually see what's going on Simon unfortunately you've got that one incorrect and I am clicking the wrong screen I was really hoping my bluff wouldn't be called I like I thought like if I just went in hard with that that my bluff would not be called yeah unfortunately Eric called me so Joey you've got a prime position in this game going after me I mean Joey where we had it man I'm really really nervous to do this I'm going to go grab back for 300 and just pray it's not a Marvel question I don't remember if I did any Marvel questions which it means it's going to be a Marvel question okay great Oh no yes no yeah you see that's no but I don't know okay okay I won't say what I just messed up Adam West Kevin Conroy Michael Keaton will you accept Kevin Conroy okay he's on yes Kevin Conroy yeah he's the best actor I went off the top too right there you did that what we got Will Arnett on there too deep bowl Lego Batman yeah yeah shout out Robert Pattinson I love the new Batman movie and supposedly with the new DC universe he's the only one that they've said is going to stick around which I'm very glad it was a great movie as long as Matt Reeves directs every single one of those damn movies I will watch every one of them it's phenomenal okay quite now where am I going to send a job Joey thank you also Grimfin you're saying NFL fantasy as night as 35 well they should fix that I just saw the picture well Simon you're wrong either way so what I saw the most recent pictures was 27 because he's got Mike White in there all right so Eric I don't want him to catch up to me all right I'm going to send Eric to who's that Joe 200 it is 200 who's that Joe ah that's Joe mixing sorry Eric that is Joe mix that is Joe borough wearing a Joe mix and mask that's Joe P Ryan Joe P Ryan let's go where's the button there is the button there we go all right well done you get to choose Simon's category where are we going to send Simon we're going to send Simon right back to can I get your number can I get your number I'm going to take 400 same strategy as last time can I get your number for 400 rookie water see you treat London I think I know this I think I got 10 final answer final answer let's see what the chat has to say you guys have any guesses Eric Joey seven seven for you Eric we do but I'm not sure let's see Tim went with seven Mr. Scampers went with five Dame with five might be five he's he's definitely master I was looking it's 81 grandma with seven DJ went with seven seven crews coming in at here at the end let's see DJ said seven might be 11 well somebody is right it's not you Simon it is the chat where's number five so good job wait here's that's Devin Ritter come on you really just scared me for a second but I got the wrong picture the wrong guys here's what I did I love Drake London so I always just assume like his stats are double what they actually are every single time and that goes to his number as well like he's not a five he's a 10 he's a 10 out there so all right I love Drake London that's fair I do to I think he's in for I think he's a by low and dynasty like once they get a solid quarterback back there he's going to be a a okay he look good early in the season you know Atlanta actually through the ball and didn't run like 6,000 times not that is okay Simon I apologize you did not get that one right Albert got it correct Dame got a correct and Mr. scamper is all got a correct let's go to the next question Joey where would you like to go my friend I'm stressed out now I'm like the who's the Joe so let's so yeah but not I but I might want to put this game away who I'm going to go big talk I know but the thing is I'm going to swing and I'm going to miss and I'm going to lose this game I'm going to go grab back for 500 grab back for 500 Joey I hope you remembered that list named for actors who played Batman for the bill or for that were on that that were on that for Batman you cannot use the original for Christian Bale Robert Pattinson will are net George Clooney how could you forget the plastic nipples absolutely well done well done for God about you Joel Schumacher thank you for staying well you probably blocked that out of your memory because that you know nobody wants to think about those McDonald's toys with the plastic nipples and actually that was sneaky Jay that was a sneaky question like that no more but I did did throw yeah Oh Affleck bet Affleck's my favorite Bruce Wayne just to put that out there Kilmer I still like my I'm eating but I'm old Lewis Wilson those that's tough that's tough all right I am Betty Betty sneaky sir let's go all right let's see I am switching I should not have tried my new laptop because I don't know what I'm doing Joey where are we sending Eric to next can I have my money please now how much was it you though I just quick plus it'll go in there let's go I'm going to send Eric to grab bag 100 like sorry pick the value but I'll take Eric sing five seconds of any song I don't know any songs jingle bells jingle bells jingle all the way oh what fun it is to ride in one horse opens like hey hey well you did it Bravo I forgot every song I've ever heard when I I thought what happened like when you put on it's like I don't know any song the song that popped into my head was we all live in a yellow submarine and I haven't heard that song in maybe like 20 years I was about to say 30 but I haven't even been alive that's that I was going to sing happy birthday like yeah it's I mean these are I was Eric that's what happens when you have kids you got a Eric getting some love there what's a where we can send Simon let's send Simon to the sports book thank God and sports look giving me a chance 500 I believe this is the one that I don't have anything in I don't think I went back let's see but I know yep put these players in order of but I know what the question was and I got it ready so in order of likelihood to score and anytime touchdown and the four players I was going to choose and if you would rather me what do you think you may go ahead and do a lot and I'm going to type them in our private chat windows that I've got I'm sitting there looking at me Garrett Wilson Evan Ingram Elijah Moore and Zay Jones I need to put him in order for most likely to least likely yes we're looking at Garrett Wilson Evan Ingram Elijah we said right here is there just four names in there yes just for okay okay I'm going to go with if Wilson was up there near he was at plus nine 50 for and for the first touchdown score which is decent odds to be the first touchdown score but is Ingram above him that's especially with I'm going to go Ingram Wilson Jones Moore Evan Ingram Garrett Wilson Moore What do you think Joe you think you got it right I wasn't listening to question I was saying I'm going to wait you did not Garrett Wilson is the most likely at plus 220 Elijah Moore is next with plus 330 who was it Z Jones is after that plus 3 15 Ingram is plus 3 70 I was really surprised disrespectful and that's what made me want to do this question was I was very surprised Ingram was the last at all those guys so I don't mind that plus three 70 yeah that's that's worth taking taking shot what's that throw a bucket that don't make a deposit sure and we'll match it if it's one of your first ones and I will we'll we'll yeah and there's your answer well it's on well it's on Joey what are we looking at my friend oh man okay you want it you know you want it but I want to win um okay I want to who's that Joe for 100 who's that Joe Joe burrow Joe mama Joe Shiesty would also have been accepted Joe Burr couple others as well all right Simon do you have any questions we need to hit or you want to go I think we can fit one more round in here let's do it if we jump through it Joey where we send the air to can I get your number Eric I'm sorry it's all about trying to keep the score low here for you I got you Lamar Jackson hmm I'm sorry it's number 0 according to the picture next time I know I have to get some smaller chairs but you are correct Lamar Jackson is number 8 never you know what I think I should get a Lamar Jackson Jersey I would really like to have an autograph Lamar Jackson Jersey I think it would look nice in your bedroom thank you appreciate that where where we send in Simon let's send them to the sports book Simon you going big for 400 I got it like this is this is the last year unto hopefully I put the question in within eight what is the over under for total receiving yards for Garrett Wilson within eight and it's a rainy game they are favored with old Zach Wilson thrown the ball as well trying to find that range I'm going to say 43 and a half that's your final answer yeah Simon Simon Simon Simon oh oh no oh wow I was one outside of that range and I thought you went yeah I thought you went high on it too me too I bumped it up one last year all right sorry my friend I am so sorry Simon you probably don't want me to host this game anymore but that was brutal that was yeah that was that was tough and I I went between eight and 10 and I was like 400 maybe let's let's go eight so that's completely last question before we go to final Jeopardy odd man out for 400 there's only one way for me to like win the game right now if I go 200 I can tie Eric and that's not fun for anyone just go for the tie you're winning so Tim got down right in the chat said nice I have more points than sign that yeah well played Joey which of the following quarterbacks has not thrown 10 or more interceptions this season Matt Ryan Gino Smith Patrick Mahomes or Justin Fields which quarterback has not I know Matt Ryan has I'm going to say I'm going to say Gino Smith he's been efficient this year I could be completely wrong I'm going to go Gino final answer final answer me is a pro bowler but so is Patrick Holmes Justin feel I don't think Justin Fields made it um you did not you are correct Gino Smith only has eight Matt Ryan leads the league with 14 Patrick Mahomes has 11 and Justin Fields has 10 that will add another 400 to your total going into final Jeopardy Joey leads the way with 2300 shirt bucks Eric has 1100 Simon you know as good as anybody that does not mean you are out um I I just want to issue a formal apology to Eric um Eric I really gave an assist to Joey in this game he only didn't get to pick his category one time this entire game for the one question I got right and you still competed admirably Joey you executed in exactly the situation you were given but Eric I um I screwed you I screwed you in this game as as consolation I will happily accept that million dollar bill so now it'll be in the mail it'll be in the mail I've won Jeopardy before so if I lose not a big deal do I go and break the all time money record you should be that I can't imagine it's I think it's look it up $4400 we'll look it up something that requires you to bid all of your money is probably what it is I I want to do it Jay what is our category for final Jeopardy category is total fantasy points so far this season total fantasy point so far this season okay and I will make my wager I do not have a piece of paper today so I'm just going to for the show you should you never have one for the show but I'm the most you're prepared to be our scoring I'm not typing any answers right now okay I got mine ready JL said that trophy behind you looks absurd Simon it's because it is absurd it's four and a half feet tall and somehow I have to get this from Georgia to Texas I've got my number we'll see we'll see how that works Eric you got yours I do let's see him all in with Simon with 300 Joey what you got I always draw my picture I I bid zero this my new cat as Kevin everybody Kevin Kevin jerk yeah I I went for zero I I you know Joey I'm a wimp really Joey I think you should lose all your points for that but that is if nothing else Kevin has lost all respect for you as a father that's true there's a way to show you new cat what to do so let's see let me finish putting this in which of the following players has the most total fantasy points this season Tony Pollard from Andre Stevenson I'm on Ross a Brown not to be confused with CD lamb the CD lamb which total fantasy points this season okay and to remember this is PPR scoring I am going to type my answer and we are ready Joey I'm I'm really ashamed of you I really listen Joey I'm not you already won you do the work that you needed to do I got every question right and I can still get every question right if I don't get this wrong so that would have been nice but I'm ready you guys ready ready let's what's here Tony Pollard I'm in Ross St. Brown I'm in Ross St. Brown let's see what the chat has to say DJ went with Pollard Grim fan went with Pollard hmm I believe it's the only ones that have put something in there so the correct answer I was going to say you never know they never know so well done Joey even though you were coward you played it correctly and you I will do this just for you because I know how much you love it Joey it's my Christmas cards like every time says Joey wins I don't have many of them so Joey congrats on that W and Eric I want to thank you so much for taking the time to come stream with us today play some fantasy football Jeopardy we really appreciate it my friend it was a fun one I lived up to my expectations when we talked about it before before the show left with a doughnut I sandwiched it I got my first question right my last question right nothing in between guys if you're not already following our friend Eric go and follow him on Twitter at fantasy nav truly one of the kindest and hardest working people in this space you want to make sure that you're following him and now especially his record in football season he's got the sauce on all the other sports as well that's going to be it for us this evening though right after this though myself Joey and Jay wall are going to be live over on the front yard fantasy YouTube channel for fantasy football office hours doing nothing but answering your questions and then tomorrow morning bright and early 7am to 10am we'll be live on our channel and on the better sports that work out for the front yard fantasy morning show so come hang out with us then until three minutes from now though we are out of here a big thanks to Eric a big thanks to everyone in the chat enjoy your Thursday night football Nadia everyone see you on another time everybody


The orc has been admitted. I've had Madam Chair. Okay, so let's get started. Hall to order. And is there any public comment for items not on the agenda? Additions or changes to the agenda? So the child clerk has requested a new laptop, so that he can use it at home. And we received a quote from RB Tech and between September 17th and today, all the computers are gone. So I would like us to, yeah, that's how fast they're going. What? All the computers are gone. You mean they're not working? What they had in inventory have already been. So, and they're hard to get. Right, they're very hard to get. Oh, the crisis, chip crisis. So I would suggest that we authorize the purchase up to a specified limits. And when there's, he can let Jeremy can let, what's his name? No, Brittany, Brittany at RB Tech start searching. And I'm looking at this quote, Jeremy, and it says 2379, then it's 1989, and then it's two, yeah. And then it's, so which, what's the amount? Well, this, the total amount will be that, that's the installment and the service. So what? Is this the total? Oh, okay. This is the total. This is the total. She was just suggesting total with 2379, and who knows what? For an invoice that's no good anymore because they don't have any more stocks. So depending on. So it would be like up to 2,500? That would be more than enough. I think she would suggest a 22 or 23 max. Hopefully we can come in under. Yeah. Just depends on the user. Thank you. Do we, there's a certain, I assume there's a budget for a capital budget, right? Right. There's no money currently in the technology fund. So we have, I think you saw, I sent an email. This is a replacement for a computer that's, it's not. The computer that Judy had is on its way up and currently serving. It was completely, they had it stripped by Army time. And now it serves as a computer in the vault for researchers. It can run the costs, but I did try to like, I couldn't, I was trying to get it to zoom or just do some basic things that's very slow, but it seems to be able to handle costs in print. So we're kind of just gonna let it do its thing until it doesn't work anymore. I'm not doubting the need for a new computer. What I'm wondering is why do we, as a select board, is this part of, do we have a kind of ongoing budgetary process for purchasing capital goods? The reason we need to ask, as a reason why do we need to because there's not a line item of money available. And if we were going to use the reserve fund, that has to be authorized by the select board. That's one. No, there's no ongoing, there's no ongoing response. Sandra sent an email out. Did you see that? Yeah, right here. Say that there's adequate resources in. Right, she's saying we don't have to use technology reserve fund. That's the reason that we wouldn't have to authorize it if that was the case. She said that their general government budget lines, office equipment and ITDRA, but I don't, when I looked at the budget, I didn't see that there was enough money in those line items. So what would happen is we would go over budget and generally you don't want to make that a habit. You want to try to stay on budget, even though at the end of the year, general government all sugars up and then highway does its thing. And there is a $500 line item in the town office equipment and budget that could be utilized. Right, but that's not the reason. Right, so that's why I was thinking technology reserve fund and that's why I looked it up in a previous, in 2016, we set up this reserve for technology. So that's why it was on the agenda because Jeremy was very mindful that there wasn't money in the budget specifically. Okay, so that's why you want to, yes. I'm going to approve all of the purchase of the computer from the reserve fund up to a maximum of $2,500. Hopefully less, but up to a maximum. Yep. There's any seconded. Did you get all that Katie? Okay, everyone in favor please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? None. Okay, all right, you're good to go. Thanks. Appreciate it everybody. All right, thank you. Good luck getting one with the way things are right now. I'll see you out there, I'll be right back. Yeah. I've been okay. Great evening, I do. So you're not from the woods. You're our man, the white, right? Yeah, it wasn't worth setting up the whole big thing because most of it's going to be an executive session. That's why. What's on this? I stuffed my face where I came here. So did I. Well, you better have my confidence. I really stuffed my face. I had two sandwiches, I should have one. I don't know, no, there was no girl involved. This is garlic. But I've been having goat cheese with garlic the last few days. Goat cheese, I did. We'll video it. I should come up with a video. I sure should. I should. There you go. Okay, so we're going to go and executive session for two things in my mind. Talk to Alfred about his valuation. All right. And our next steps. Huh? And our next steps. Right. Okay. And then another issue that has come up that we need to talk about. Okay. Well, are we ready for him? Are we gonna make a motion now or are we ready to come in? We can make it now. We can make it now and just hang. So. We're going to do it in a second for personnel matters. So, Shari moved. Mark seconded. We're going to go into executive session. It's one DSA. Exactly. Okay. Would you like, would you, shall I end the recording or pause it or the Zoom call or what should we do? Actually, before we go in, we just kind of put that on hold for two seconds. This is an FYI. Most of us are on the minstern when you're watching following along quality of cares. We will have an agreed upon easement. These cows is re-signed on the 27th. Yeah, I saw that. So I'll put it on the agenda pool. Yeah. And also, Katie, just for the minutes. That's great. The select board. That is great. Yep. Just so it's there for people to see. Yep. That's it. The other thing is, I wanted to tell you guys about this amazing restaurant we went to in New Hampshire the other day. It's called Thompson House Eerie. If you are looking for an anniversary experience, cannot recommend highly enough. I was finding one of them. Okay. It's only seven hours away. Right. It's in Jackson, New Hampshire. An hour and 40 minutes. Okay. So with that, we're in executive session. So I think we can shut down. We can end the call, right? Yep. Yes, please. Yes, please. Okay. Thank you. Good night. Okay. Good night.


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Hi, I'm Jay Fidel, you may not recognize me immediately, now you can recognize me. You're on ThinkTech, this is research in Manoa, a study of the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology within SOAS, the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. Our show today is called Submarine Research Discoverers in the Marianas, so I'm going to talk about explorations in the Earth's deepest places and submarine research and how much it has yielded new discoveries in the Marianas. If you want to ask a question or participate in a discussion, you can, you can tweet us at ThinkTechHI or call us at our new number,<PHONE_NUMBER>, it's a good year. Our guest for the show is Dr. Patricia Friar of the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology at U-Edge, Manoa. Hi Dr. Friar. Hello Jay. Nice to be back. Nice to see you here. Good to see you. Okay, so she's going to tell us about the ship and going down to the bottom of the Marianas trench, is trench is the right word here? That is the correct word. We haven't been there, we have to know everything about it. That's right. Well, we actually, a couple of people have been there. Okay. Yeah. How do you get there? You get there in some sort of a submersible or you can use a robotic instrument, a robotic vehicle to go down to the deepest places on the Earth's surface. More and more it's robotics. It's not so risky and all that. Yeah, that's true. But if you remember in 2012, there was a particular individual who got a lot of press for building his own submarine and going to the Challenger Deep, which is the deepest part of the Marianas trench. And that was James Cameron, the director who's made Avatar and the Titanic and he dove right down to the bottom of the deepest part of the trench. Why would anybody want to go down? How far down are we talking about? We're talking almost 11,000 kilometers, 11,000 meters, I'm sorry. Okay. So what? 11 kilometers. Well, that's roughly 11,000. Well, it's deeper than Mount Everest is high by quite a bit. Okay. So nearly seven miles. Seven miles. Yeah. Why? Why? What you want to go there? For him, exploration is the key and he feels, as many people do, that the more we know about the oceans, the better off we're going to be because of a variety of very important reasons. Number one, of course, the oceans make up 70% of the planet's surface and the food that we have that we'd love to eat here, you know, comes from the oceans. The interaction between the atmosphere and the oceans and the land are so intimately interlinked that if we start to disturb tremendously any part of those systems, you know, we get ourselves in trouble. And so some of the things that we need to learn about are, for instance, how animals can survive at the kinds of pressures that you would experience if you were at the bottom of an American trench.  That hurts. Yes. I mean, but imagine that on every inch of your body, you know, and there are creatures down there, phenomenal creatures, in fact, that can actually survive under those kinds of pressures and nowhere else they can't survive if you try to sample them and bring them up. They explode. We kind of turned to jelly, which is, you know, pretty great. Not a good way to go. How about the temperature? How cold is it? It's just close to freezing, not quite, but even if you get down to just a few thousand meters, you begin to get into the realm of, you know, no light, very, very cold environments. So these are extreme environments for life. Some of the people that I've been working with who are in the biological community, which is not what I know about, but they're interested in the limits of life, the most extreme chemical limits, the most extreme physical limits, so cold. In fact, one of my colleagues at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has been looking at animals that live only in the cold. And some of the wonderful things that they can accomplish is their ability to survive at these huge pressures is dependent on certain chemicals that they have within the tissues in their bodies that permit them to withstand that. And you know, biologists then take a look at how these creatures can survive, these kinds of conditions, and they find out all sorts of wonderful things, such as- We can use this information. Yes, we can. We use it to fight diseases like cancer, sponges that live at these kinds of depths. They never get cancer. The fish themselves that can withstand these high pressures with these particular chemicals in their tissues, this chemical is also one that has promise for treating Alzheimer's. And we don't know who's down there. We don't know how they live. And so all of the physical conditions that we can discover, the chemical conditions we can discover, and all of the microbiologists that I recently took part in an expedition with are looking at ways that the animals that are living there, the microbes and the megafauna, the larger animals, can survive under these conditions. One of the conditions is a pH, which is, if you have a piece of litmus paper and you stick it in vinegar, and it'll turn red, and it'll give you an indication that it's acidic. If you put it in soap, it'll give you an indication that it's not acidic, it's alkylic. Well, the highest pH that we see in sort of products that we use in the home is something like about 08 or so. And we found 12 and a half in some of the cold seeps that we've been exploring on the seafloor near the Mariana Trench. So it's a, may I say a laboratory, but it was going to ask you, well, so what's the difference? Why not go 6 feet down or 12 or 50 feet down? Why do you have to go 11,000 meters down? And the answer is you want to get the greatest differential between life near the surface or around the land and life down there, because it'll teach you more, am I right? Absolutely. You know, think about Mount Everest, and think about if you had a supercharged helicopter that could take you up to the top, you just, you know, fly up to the top, land on the top of Mount Everest and look around, okay, but it's night, and you have a flashlight. Maybe you have a supercharged flashlight. So you can see 30, 50 feet, wow, that's really cool, I got to the top of Mount Everest. You know, nothing about the Himalaya Mountains at all because I flew up there in the middle of the night.  But we don't know how the animals change with depth and pressure.  You know, what's life like in these kinds of environments? So how do you get there?  Ah, yes, you need, these days what we need is an autonomous underwater vehicle so something that can fly down or a tethered vehicle like a remotely operated vehicle is basically a robot that you can design to take you to these deepest places. So, you know, you need to be able to withstand the pressure and all of the instruments that you have need to be able to withstand the pressure or you can do what we did most recently which is you can go partway down and then you can drill to get yourself a little further down through the seafloor. And that's what I did over Christmas and New Year's. You went down in a bathysphere or something? No, no, no. I was on a ship that drilled down into the seafloor. We were sitting up on the ship all very comfortable being fed nicely. Mint, julep, what not, yeah? No, no drinking, but really good food. Okay, any seafood? Oh, for sure. Yeah, some of the crew were fishing off the ship. So what kind of instrument, you said these things had instruments and that's the critical piece and I'm always interested in instruments and sensors and what have you to learn to be your eyes and ears and all your senses. Yeah, that's the most important thing and you can put almost any kind of a sensor on one of these remotely operated vehicles. Obviously we have lights and cameras, but we can take temperature, we can collect samples with mechanical arms that can go out and perform all kinds of experiments, some of the microbiology folks that I've worked with have left attractive traps, they put substrates down in different areas around a spring on the seafloor to see what animals live close to the spring or a little bit further away. I had this vision of a lobster going into the trap.  Really? Oh yeah, and the only thing that was brought up was the skeleton and a few of the critters that couldn't get out of the trap, so the scientists would get in. Would they eat a person the same way? You know, I used to think I might like to be buried at sea, I'm not so sure about it anymore. It's stuff of which you make a movie, that's why he was there. You know, I'm sure that that is going to influence the next Avatar movie, which I hope everybody will go see. It's going to be about the oceans. Ten thousand leagues under the sea, it reminds me. Yes, yes. So, but it's not only the biology, it's not only the creatures, it's the geophysics down there. Oh true, and a lot of the things that we're able to do these days, both with the remotely operated vehicles, with our robots is, you know, we can collect materials on the seafloor, but now that we're able to drill into the seafloor and insert metal pipes that are perforated so that fluids from the surrounding rocks beneath, say, these huge mud volcanoes that I've been working on, we can put instruments down those holes now and examine changes in the chemistry of the fluids. We could put seismometers in the holes to record, you know, what happens with these mud volcanoes that are active, that are erupting mud from the mantle of the earth if there's an earthquake nearby. And so we can get an idea of both the physical and the chemical conditions that might take place or change during a seismic event, an earthquake. It reminds me of, you know, the notion of the end of the world, the end of the internet, it's the bottom and it's right there near the mantle. We have, this is, I mean, it's another very interesting possibility to go down there and find, which you could not find anywhere else in the ocean bottom, proximity to the mantle. Very true. In fact, on Cameron's cruise, one of the landers, when it was being lowered through the water column, the chain that attached to the weight at the bottom of it twisted because the whole device kind of was rotating and it hit the seafloor and then as soon as it hit the seafloor, it was triggered to start taking pictures. And so the whole thing took a series of photos of the seafloor around it and it was right down close to the base of the trench. And so it was taking pictures of the inner trench slope and there were outcroppings, exposures of mantle rock all the way along. And some of those rocks had filaments on them that some of my colleagues at Scripps have looked at and they're microbiological. So even in the deepest part of the trench where you do see the mantle. It's amazing. Yeah, and these critters are growing right on the rocks. Is the mantle like hot? Is it like glowing? No, no, it's very cold. It's about the same temperature as the water around it. Because it's been exposed for quite a while down there. This is really interesting. Oh, it's fun.  For now. For now. They change the technology soon. So after this break, Patty Fryer, we're going to see a clip. Yes. And we're going to see a bunch of photos that were taken by these devices. And I'm going to put on my special glasses. Me too. Oh, you can put yours on too. Oh, yeah.  Yeah, there we go. It's Patty Fryer and me. You may not recognize this, but it's us. We'll be right back. Hello, everyone. I'm DeSoto Brown, the co-host of Human Humane Architecture, which is seen on Think Tech, Hawaii every other Tuesday at 4 PM. And with the show's host, Martin Desbang, we discuss architecture here in the Hawaiian Islands and how it not only affects the way we live, but other aspects of our life, not only here in Hawaii, but internationally as well. So join us for Human Humane Architecture every other Tuesday at 4 PM on Think Tech, Hawaii. Welcome to Sister Power. I'm your host, Sharon Thomas Yarbrough, where we motivate, educate, empower, and inspire all women. We are live here every other Thursday at 4 PM. And we welcome you to join us here at Sister Power. Aloha and thank you. OK, you've probably noticed that Patty Fryer and I have taken our glasses off. But we'll put them on later. You want to see the definition of some of these photos. But you'll also notice that we have some four rocks, all very different, which come from way down deep in the Mariana challenge. Oh, not all of them. In fact, these are just examples. This one actually is a toe of a lava flow. And it has a glassy, cooled rim on the outside and the inside is very fine-grained. Can't see very many crystals. We're going to try to get a close-up shot of that. It's too interesting not to. Oh, OK. And this one came from Luigi. So these two, this is subarial. In other words, this one erupted on the land surface. But this one erupted underneath the water. And a lot of the salt that is erupted under the water is cooled on the surface. So it forms this glassy margin.  So it gets oozed out and cooled on the surface and becomes round. And this is just a little toe. And you can still see the same glass around the margin. But now it's covered with deposits from the hydrothermal, the hot fluids that are coming out of the Luigi summit area. And these guys are two rocks that have the same composition chemically. But this one cooled more slowly. So crystals got bigger and bigger and bigger. You can see the crystals winking and blinking. Yeah, you can see them growing, sort of. And this one has got the same minerals, the black minerals of pyroxene and the white minerals are called feldspar. And these guys, you see the black and white in this one, too, same minerals. But this one cooled for a longer time. And so the crystals just grew bigger and bigger. It's got a red spot on it. Is that just a scientific market? Yes, this is how we catalog. Oh, that's the market. Yeah, we just catalog them. But when you take these kinds of rocks and let them be drawn down in a subduction zone, these minerals change. All of the constituents of the minerals sort of rearrange themselves so that they're more compact. And these guys turn into something like this. No, no, this is called an eclogite.  So this green and white sort of, I like to think of it as a Christmas rock. But you would find these way down deep. So if they blew out of a punch bowl crater, they came from way down deep. These things, these eclogite rocks are much more dense because the minerals have rearranged themselves. So this thing is basically like an anchor on that plate that dives down in the subduction zone. Subduction. Yeah, it's pulling the rest of the plate down, basically. So that's how this works. That's really exciting. It's, yeah. So it's a physical action that makes it hard that compresses the rock makes it more dense, rather than the weight of the water on top. Oh, yes. Is that two? That's correct. OK, and what functions does heat play in this process? Anything? Yes, heat is important because that permits the molecules to move faster and faster so that they can rearrange themselves. And make denser minerals. You wouldn't find any of these rocks on the Earth, I mean, over sea level? Yes, you would. Oh, you would? Yes. Ah, but they were there to begin with, and then they got turned up somehow. Yes, they did. That's right, in mountain building or places where the sea floor has ridden up over the edge of a land mass. So for instance, on Catalina Island, you can go and see lavas that have gone through an intermediate stage that turn into something we call blue schist. So you can see features like this. You can see the actual shape of the pillow lavas where the ocean has cut sea cliffs.  Or like the color of my shirt. OK. Similar, maybe? But I just wondered, I mean, can you date these? Yes. With some kind of carbon radioactive dating? There are a variety of different types of dating techniques that could be used to determine when the change took place. These, of course, you can date. These you can date as well to get when they crystallized. But once the rock has changed to something else, it resets the timing. And so you would get the date at which the transformation took place. But not the original elements of the rock. So what kind of time span are we talking? How long ago? That's a good question. And it may depend a great deal on how fast a given plate is being subducted. Really fast subduction. You could get something like this formed within somewhere between 10 and 15 million years. In slower subducting areas, it could take 30, 50 million years. Oh, wow. This goes back to the beginning of before Seinfeld. Oh, there. OK. Anyway, let's go to your clip now. We've got a few minutes left when we play your clip. OK. And so I'm going to put my glasses back on. Oh, well, not for the first one. The first one is, oh, where are we in the world? So is it driving through the material there? There's no, it's not. Yes, there's a little bit of debris from when we last pulled that pipe out of the hole that stuck to the pipe and then fell back down into the reentry cone. And the pipe has holes in it, and the holes are going to collect material there. Ah, no, what we're doing is we're going to drill down through whatever the material is below the seafloor. And inside this pipe, there's another pipe that has a plastic liner in it. And what we do is either we drill down and let that inner pipe fill up with material. So we're basically coring.  So put it right up through the pipe. Right. And this film was made on January 10th of 2017. It was only a few months ago. That's right. We were out there over Christmas, New Year's, Chinese New Year's. What a way to celebrate. And Robbie Burns' night. OK. We're going to go through other clips now. So let's have a running discussion of them. OK, this is just putting the pipe down. What is that thing? What is that, a shark? No, these are tuna. And the diameter of that pipe is about 12 inches. So these are really big tuna. And we're at 681 meters below. That's like almost 1,000 feet. Why are the tuna there? Are they serious? They're interested in the pipe. They're interested in the fact that the ship has been sitting there for a long time. So we're kind of a fish attraction device, right? Yes, so. So there are a lot of fish underneath the ship. They're kind of cute, actually. They're amazing. And the way we're seeing this is we have a camera sled that clamps around the pipe. Now, in order to find out where we are in the seafloor, we put down a beacon that emits a little acoustic sound. And so we can maneuver ourselves. But we recall them by another acoustic signal. This one didn't behave itself. So we put down this grappling hook. And we were hoping we could catch this thing.  Yeah, it didn't take us all that long. This is a different type of fishing. Everybody's up on the deck watching us. Yeah, we're going, yay! We got it! Different type of fishing. What a fun time. It was very exciting. You go down there and see those incredible stuff. And it's like there are so many possibilities, so many issues, so many surprises, so many things to learn. That's right. Yeah. Let's see some of your other photographs. OK. We got a bunch of them. I'm going to get through at least some of them. Want to get to the ones where you can put your glasses on. Well, this is the area where we were working. So this is the Western Pacific and Japan's up at the top of the map. The little red box will show you the next image, which is close to the Mariana Trench. And see all those labels there? Those are all of the mud volcanoes that I've been working on since 1997. And we've collected samples from everything that has a name. But the ones in the middle there with the red boxes were the ones that we were drilling in over Christmas and New Year's. So big blue celestial and blue moon. And what's the scale we're talking about? Like, for example, there were a lot of these little seam outs there. Right. If you look in the lower left-hand corner of the map near the island of Guam, just below that, there's a scale that says 0 to 100 kilometers. Oh, kilometers. So from the red area, which is the volcanic arc, so some of those are above sea level, to the blue Mariana Trench, that's about 200 kilometers. That's a long way. Yeah. And some of those seamounts must be a couple of miles across. The largest of them is about 50 kilometers. And in fact, if we take a look at the next one, you're going to see celestial seamount. And here we go. Put my glasses on. Come on, Jay, we need to put these on here and take a look. So folks at home, if you have any of these kind of glasses, or if you can go to the drugstore and get some cellophane in red and blue, put red over your left eye, blue over your right eye, and you will see these images in 3D. So you can see the cones are popping out of the picture at you. And the top of it kind of looks as if it has a bit of a crater, right? Well, that area, we actually dove with a remotely operated vehicle and took a look at. So we knew that that was an interesting area to try to core. We had taken samples from that. This was as big as Oahu? Oh, no, the next one. This one, you can see the scale is five kilometers. There's a scale of five kilometers in the lower right. And on the next one, there's five kilometers scale on the lower right, but it's much, much smaller. So take a look at this one with your glasses, Jay. And add about. It's like a work of art in an Italian museum. I think it's gorgeous. OK, let's take our glasses off and take a look at the next one, which is just a regular bathymetry map that shows that same seamount. And the next one shows Oahu, superimposed on red on that. OK, we're going to go to the next one, and that'll show it? Yes, the next slide. OK, whoa. That's how big that seafloor mountain is. It's about 2 and 1 half kilometers, so more than 70,000 feet high above the seafloor surrounding it. That's higher than any place on Oahu. That's correct. That's right. Yeah, it's 3,000 feet up and about the poly. And it suggests that in the dynamic of the creation of the Earth and all the changes that our mountains could have been just like that. I mean, Oahu could have been one of those seamounts. Oh, not one of these, because this one was not formed by volcanic processes of the type we have here. It's not igneous. It's not lava. What it is is just a big pile of mud. And the way it forms is when the Pacific plate dives down below the Mariana region, the area above it gets fractured up, because as the Pacific plate goes down, it also moves back toward the east toward Hawaii. So it's sort of falling backward.  So all the fluids and broken up rock around the faults that are created, when the fluids are basically distilled or squeezed out of the sediments and distilled out of the rocks and rise up along those fractures, they bring the mud up with them and form these immense mud all over. They call that subduction also? No, subduction is the process of one plate's movement down into the interior of the earth, into the mantle. And what happens above it, there's basically a wedge of material in it. So this area in here is the overriding plate. And its mantle and its crust or the whole lithosphere, the rock sphere, gets broken up by this pulling. So it's just pulling the top surface of the overriding plate eastward so it fractures, breaks all up. And then anything that's coming up from below is going to go up those fractures and get to the seafloor and just erupt. And it's been doing it for, it looks like, 50 million years based on the ages that we've got underneath and near these kinds of materials. Well, I'm gratified in a way because it's, you know, and I guess it's one of the big takeaways of the show, that not everything is subduction. And they, in Silicon Valley, the subject of so much news these days, they're probably relieved to know that not everything in Silicon Valley is subduction either, those guys. Oh. Yeah. Thank you, Betty Fryer. It's been wonderful to talk to you. It was so much fun, Jay. Thank you for bringing your rock-style photographs, great maps, and my glasses. Oh, yeah. If you put yours on, we're going to say, say bye. Looks so nice. Oh, thank you. Thank you, Betty Fryer. Oh, you're quite welcome, Jay.


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