Hey, all cheaters. Welcome to the always cheating podcast. My name is Josh. I'm here with Brandon. Brandon, how are you?

I'm all right, Josh. You know, I'm a little worried because it's, it's, you know, we had, we fell back, Brandon.

In America, this, this, you know, last night was our fallback.

So for us, we're actually recording this after 9.

I mean, it's 8 o'clock on the, you know, on the, you know, on the, and the official clock, branded. but my body clock is telling me that it's 9.08 p.m. right now. So we'll see how we, you know, what our stamina is like as the evening goes on here. I don't know if I'm feeling tired because we think it's later than it is,

or if I'm feeling tired just watching my rank remain exactly the same every week.

Yeah, I sort of, I've caught up with you.

But, well, you, I mean, okay, like, I guess we let's just get it right into it then, shall we?

You know, because I think, yeah, I think you want to, we, we fell back into our classic patterns this week for good or for ill.

I have been, I have been aggressive this season and it has backfired sometimes and it has worked out sometimes, right?

And it's sort of like, they've sort of,

they've kind of neutralized. Like, depending on like where this week ends up, I'm, I'm probably

going to be at my highest rank since game week three. And that was right when I decided to take it and make

an ultra aggressive wild card, Brandon, wild card down a lot of high performers for a lot of

low performers, right? It seemed like a good idea at the time. And so I've sort of, you know, like I'm like Jerry Seinfeld, Brendan. I've come out in the middle somehow here. So, you know, you are now like, you know, it's been seven weeks since then. How are you feeling? You feel like you're kind of stuck in place after, uh, yeah. It's not over yet. There's still one.

Right. I do feel stuck. I can certainly easily pinpoint what the problem has been.

It was really, I've lost two weeks to Phil Foden.

And remember, we did a Patreon pod before like the Game Week 9 deadline and I was contemplating Chris Wood and Guardiol in or I ended up going with Michelenko and Phil Foden.

Which you did on the pod in real time.

Like I maybe that's a dangerous game right there as the real time transfer. I don't know if you,

you know, maybe you were concerned about radiance, Brandon. And it was a, you know, it was like a season

ending cliffhanger. I will sacrifice my overall rank to get those numbers up for sure. I don't think

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