Fantasyland 14 - Chris Wesseling Tackles The Big C

Rotoviz Radio

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Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.8 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2020

⏱️ 106 minutes

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(Information correct as of May 18, 2018 - Original release date) The 14th episode of Fantasyland – The podcast that covers everything you didn’t know you wanted to know about fantasy sports. Chris Wesseling Tackles The Big C: From Cincinnati to Survivor "WHAT HE ENDURED AND THE WAY THAT HE ENDURED IT IS FROM ANOTHER PLACE AND TIME." — Marc Sessler HOST: Peter Overzet – Contributor to RotoViz and Producer of the ‘Pete Manzinelli’ YouTube Channel GUESTS: Chris Wesseling – Mailman Lakisha Jackson – Paramour Gregg Rosenthal – Old Boss Marc Sessler – Quiet Storm Dan Hanzus – Ol' Zeusser Colleen Wolf – Connie Fox John Gonzalez – Gonzo Sydney Carlson – New Money Evan Silva – Big Fish Liz Loza – Fantasy Football Girl Nick Wesseling – Brother Eric Thomas – Owner of Hucapoos Jason Buelterman – Mayor of Tybee Rosie Laney – Ex Mike Flaim – Mr. F Matt Greeber – Greebs Charlie Barker – British Superfan DONATE: If you'd like to donate to a good cause, Chris has recommended the Cancer Research Institute, which is a nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to advancing immunotherapy to treat, control, and cure all cancers.You can donate to the charity at www.cancerresearch.org/ MUSIC: Leo Kaliski – Composer, Songwriter, and Proprietor of LeoKaliski.com SPONSOR: RotoViz.com – A sports analytics website with over 1,500 groundbreaking articles per year and 20 proprietary apps. Go to RotoViz.com/podcast for 10 percent off a yearlong NFL pass. ABOUT THE SHOW: Producer: Patrick Kerrane – Writer for RotoViz Assistant Producer: Mike Kerrane – Writer for RotoViz Creator: Matthew Freedman – Editor-in-Chief of FantasyLabs (part of The Action Network) and Producer of the RotoViz podcasts Creator: Fantasy Douche – Founder of RotoViz iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/fanta…and/id1097514231 Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/rotoviz-3/fantasyland Twitter: twitter.com/fantasylandpod Email: Fantasylandpod@gmail.com Contact us if you have any good fantasy stories. We’d love to hear from you. ——— Thanks to the RotoViz Radio Channel for syndicating this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, y'all?
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0:31.3	I'm going to turn it over to Wes to share a little bit about himself, you know, why he's been missing the last couple
0:38.6	days and what's going on?
0:39.8	Yeah, I've been out the past couple of days spending the days in hospitals getting tests.
0:45.4	They found a mass on my esophagus.
0:48.0	And it turns out it is cancer where my esophagus meets my stomach before everybody freaks out listening.
0:56.8	My doctor is very encouraged that it did not spread.
1:07.6	You are listening to Fantasyland, the podcast that covers everything you didn't know you wanted to know about fantasy sports.
1:16.1	I'm your host, Peter Overzette.
1:17.8	In that clip you heard a few seconds ago, is Chris Wessling, a writer and podcaster for the NFL, openly sharing his cancer diagnosis last May on one of the most listened to
1:29.6	football podcasts in the world around the NFL.
1:33.4	Everyone at Fantasyland is a big fan of Chris Wessling, so we were stunned when we heard his
1:39.1	announcement last summer.
1:40.7	As Chris's battle with cancer unfolded publicly, we, like so many others, listened to
1:46.0	every episode and tracked his progress on Twitter and Instagram. Then in the fall, we reached out
1:51.6	to Chris to see if we could make a Fantasyland episode about everything he was going through.
1:56.7	Over the course of the past five months, we've checked in regularly with Chris, through the highs,
2:01.8	like announcing on around the NFL that his tumor had been obliterated, to the lows of an eight-day
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