Heyle-cheaters. Welcome to the iOS Dream podcast. My name's Josh. I'm here with Brandon.

Brandon, how are you?

I'm doing great, Josh. Again, we are live from the Blue Wire Studios at the Win, Las Vegas. Thanks, of course, to the Blue Wire team for hosting us. They are amazing. The studio is amazing. We've got a great look of the Win Gallery out the window here.

We're going to try and shout at some people as they walk by. For sure. If you see an Arsenal kit, I wouldn't be surprised. You know, you don't see, I feel like in the wild, it's Real Madrid and Barcelona. Those are the two you always see. And then the Premier League stuff, it's like you may see a hat. You know, at least in the United States, this is the case. And I think in the U.S., the Premier League started taking off around the legendary Lester season. You'll see a few Jamie Vardy jerseys out there in the wild. Yeah. But let's focus in here, Josh, because we are days away from the Game Week 1 deadline. We woke up early here in Vegas. The Community Shield kicked off at 9 a.m.

Yep. We meandered down to the sports book to take it in with some horse racing enthusiasts, which was a joy.

And so we're going to delve into our thoughts about that match and how it may or may not have influenced our game

week one drafts. But first, Josh, we wanted to just for anybody who needs to hear this,

general pieces of wisdom that we've been talking about during this Vegas trip about how to

start the season off on the right foot. Yeah, we didn't do like the 10 tips this year. You know, I feel like that has become everybody's, it's very popular now. We have, we have given that to the community and now we can like, you've done like seven years in a row. There are, there are upwards of 18,000 tips out there now. You can go find them all over the internet. Exactly. final tips though yeah okay one this is a very

big problem that i you start to see especially this week which is that people start to put together

their team or finally ready to go and then they realize oh my god i got the same team as everybody else

or very close you know and start to panic a little bit and that's when the crazy crazy moves start happening. You know, that's when you're like, you know what? I think that whatever, you know, Luis Diaz is going to be great this weekend. Like you go full big brain on this when maybe you shouldn't be. Exactly. And I think the, you know, setting everything up ahead of the start of the Premier League season, that's almost not even the game.

Like, to me, the game really begins in Game Week 2, right? That's when you're starting to change things around. That's when you really, that's when, like, the real strategy, I think, comes in. And in the pre-planning stuff, you're just trying to get, you know, you just want to, like, I don't know. I feel like you just want to like set like the like the best foot forward.

I don't really think that you can, I don't know.

It's like that like the like the best foot forward.

I don't really think that you can, I don't know. It's like that like can you lose, you know, is the season one or lost to gimmick one? I don't think that's true.

Well, you said something interesting yesterday, Josh, about playing NFL fantasy for the first time last season in a long time.

And you didn't really have a foothold in the NFL world like you had in decades past. Right.

So what you. last season in a long time. And you didn't, you didn't really have a foothold in the NFL world like

you had in decades past. So what you did to prepare for that season was you just went to the

various big blogs and podcasts and kind of set up the team the way they told you to. Yeah,

it's exactly right. I finished, I finished second in this, like, I should have won it. You know,

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