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Overdue is a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. Join Andrew and Craig each week as they tackle a new title from their backlog. Classic literature, obscure plays, goofy childen’s books: they'll read it all, one overdue book at a time.
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Amateur enthusiast Jacke Wilson journeys through the history of literature, from ancient epics to contemporary classics. Episodes are not in chronological order and you don't need to start at the beginning - feel free to jump in wherever you like! Find out more at historyofliterature.com and facebook.com/historyofliterature. Support the show by visiting patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. Contact the show at [email protected].
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Welcome to the IQ Knowledge Junkie podcast, where enlightening ideas come from. #GENIUS (7th Book) is a 1 OF 1 & it'll only be available at WEIRDOPE Museum #StayTUNED.. KJ (HOST) GUINNESS WORLD RECORD HOLDER FOR LARGEST PERSONAL QUOTE COLLECTION IN THE WORLD, PENDING CERTIFICATION (37,088 & COUNTING) #JesusSAVES! -7x Author -ACTOR -CREATOR OF WEIRDOPE BOARD GAME VOL 1 -INVENTOR OF MANY IDEAS -APPEARED IN MAGAZINES -ARTICULATOR -I'D OWN A NBA TEAM & A AMUSEMENT PARK -NEVER COMPLAIN & NEVER EX ...
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Whether it’s season-long fantasy rankings, NFL draft analysis, DFS dart throws, betting implications or anything else NFL-related, the Rotoworld Football Show has you covered. Listen as RotoPat, Denny Carter, Kyle Dvorchak and others from the Rotoworld crew give their analysis and opinions on all things NFL on the Fantasy Sports Writers Association’s 2019 winner for Best Fantasy Football Podcast.
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Meet Mrs. McShoogle, ‘iconic’ actress turned landlady to the stars. Canny and courageous, tender and just a tad outrageous, this extraordinary luminary recalls her “intimate friendships” with the giants of theatre, television and film, including “more Dames than you can shake a stick at… and Olly Murs”. From first-night feuds to royal revelations and her infamous outburst at the Scottish Drama Awards, The Tartan Tammies, this is the frankly unbelievable tale of a small-town lassie with big d ...
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Anticipating and managing exponential impact - hosts David Wood and Calum Chace Calum Chace is a sought-after keynote speaker and best-selling writer on artificial intelligence. He focuses on the medium- and long-term impact of AI on all of us, our societies and our economies. He advises companies and governments on AI policy. His non-fiction books on AI are Surviving AI, about superintelligence, and The Economic Singularity, about the future of jobs. Both are now in their third editions. He ...
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Anticipating an Einstein moment in the understanding of consciousness, with Henry Shevlin
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42:20Our guest in this episode is Henry Shevlin. Henry is the Associate Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, where he also co-directs the Kinds of Intelligence program and oversees educational initiatives. He researches the potential for machines to possess consciousness, the ethical ramificati…
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Chris Olave and Rome Odunze expectations + Surprisingly good/bad run blocking OLs
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47:24(3:10) – Pat questions Denny about his current grill status as summer approaches (6:15) – Top Headlines: Kirk Cousins reportedly on Steelers’ radar, Chris Olave and Rashid Shaheed rounding back into form, Tyler Shough vs Spencer Rattler competition (20:10) – More News & Notes: Ben Johnson “extremely impressed” by Rome Odunze, positive signs for roo…
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Authors RK Ashwick (she/her) and Noah Hawthorne (they/them) discuss why so many cozy fantasy stories feature coffeeshops and bookshops, how to break out of the mold, and where the genre’s economic models may go in the future. RK Ashwick (she/her) is the author of the Lutesong trilogy beginning with The Stray Spirit, as well as the cozy fantasy seri…
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Ep 704 - Cursed Bread, by Sophie Mackintosh
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1:00:20This is another one of those historical books that could have resulted from a Wikipedia dive, this one's arguably based on a real historical event but with a non-real non-historical protagonist . Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis. Follow @overduepod on Instagram and Bluesky Advertise on Overdue See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/pr…
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Poetry, butterflies, and original music oh my! With some help from poets Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, William Wordsworth, and John Keats, along with original music by composer Gabriel Ruiz-Bernal, Jacke tackles the topic of butterflies. Yes, yes, we all know that butterflies are symbols of beauty and transformation - but can great poets get beyon…
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ADP Debates: Tyreek Hill, Kenneth Walker III, Sam LaPorta
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51:30(04:00) – Top Headlines: NFL Owners approve players to play Flag Football in 2028 Olympics, tush push remains legal in 2025 (13:10) – More News & Notes: Elevated workloads expected for De’Von Achane and Garrett Wilson, Kyle Williams impresses at Patriots OTAs (31:00) – Controversial ADPs, Pt. 1: Kenneth Walker III, Tyreek Hill, and D.J. Moore (44:3…
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Brock Purdy’s contract extension + Best Ball Stacks
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50:40(06:20) – Top Headlines: Brock Purdy agrees to 5-Year/$265M contract extension, Travis Hunter reportedly to “play a major role” in Jaguars offense (21:50) – More News & Notes: Marvin Harrison Jr. bulks up, Giants plan for Jaxson Dart in 2025 (32:30) - Titans could have a three-headed backfield this season (39:00) – Broncos Best Ball Stack (45:10) –…
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Indie authors RK Ashwick, Tess Carletta, and Noah Hawthorne discuss their immortal characters and how they use immortality in their writing—from forest spirits to fae descendants and everything between and beyond. Spoilers ahead! RK Ashwick (she/her) is the author of the Lutesong trilogy beginning with The Stray Spirit, as well as the cozy fantasy …
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Ep 703 - Play It As It Lays, by Joan Didion
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1:07:52Did you know the towering career of Joan Didion included several novels, many of which were driven by the same acerbic wit and insight that helped to anoint her as an essential voice in the New Journalism movement? Her second novel, Play It As It Lays, traffics in much of the same Hollywood/Los Angeles social destruction that powered her essays, bu…
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703 D.H. Lawrence (with David Ellis) | My Last Book with Dorian Lynskey
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1:09:35D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) is one of the most famous novelists of his era - and one of the most difficult to pin down. Was he a tasteless, avant-garde pornographer? Or the greatest imaginative novelist of his generation (as E.M. Forster once said)? What should we know about his hard-luck childhood and turbulent adult life? In this episode, Jacke tal…
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Biggest Schedule Release Takeaways + Derrick Henry’s new contract
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48:40(3:10) – Reaction to report that Caleb Williams tried to force his way out of Chicago before the 2024 Draft (7:20) – Toughest and Easiest 2025 Schedules: Giants, Browns, 49ers, (18:35) – Notable bye weeks and schedules to target in Best Ball drafts (27:10) – 2025 SNF matchups to circle on the calendar (30:00) – More News & Notes: Derrick Henry agre…
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702 Writing in the World of Jane Austen (with D.G. Rampton) | Disaster at the Book Festival!
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52:01Jacke talks to D.G. Rampton, Australia's Queen of the Regency Romance, about her love for the novels of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer - and what it's like for a twenty-first-century novelist to set her novels in the early-nineteenth-century world of intelligent heroines, dashing men, and sparkling banter. Find PLUS Jacke dives into the story of a…
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Derek Carr retires + Rotoworld Mock Draft Takeaways
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49:00(1:30) – Should we be comparing Anthony Edwards to Michael Jordan? (6:15) – Impact of Derek Carr’s retirement on the Saints (15:50) – Rookie Roundup: Jaydon Blue’s path to RB1 in Dallas, positive reports about Commanders’ Jacory Croskey-Merritt, Woody Marks to backup Joe Mixon, Savion Williams’ role with Packers (30:30) – Mock Draft RB Trends: Jahm…
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Carolina Cruz (they/them) is joined by Vesper Doom (she/they) to discuss their space horror anthology Astrophobia—including an audio love letter to the Alien films and the joy of collaborating with human authors and human artists. Vesper Doom (she/they) is the author of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror works like Broodmother, The Binding of Bloom Mounta…
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Ep 702 - Alice Adams, by Booth Tarkington
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1:11:28Booth Tarkington is one of only four authors to have won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice, and he’s the only one of those four authors who nobody has ever heard of. His aggressively old-fashioned views and his stories’ general fluffiness have helped keep him from enduring fame, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a spark of something here. This epi…
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701 Emerson's Struggle with Slavery (with Kenneth Sacks) | My Last Book with Victoria Namkung | We Had Sex Inside Moby-Dick!
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1:11:31For several decades, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was perhaps the most prominent writer and intellectual in America. As an advocate of personal freedom living in Massachusetts, surrounded by passionate abolitionists, one might expect that his positions regarding slavery would be obvious and uncomplicated. And yet, Emerson struggled with the issu…
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The case for a conditional AI safety treaty, with Otto Barten
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38:21How can a binding international treaty be agreed and put into practice, when many parties are strongly tempted to break the rules of the agreement, for commercial or military advantage, and when cheating may be hard to detect? That’s the dilemma we’ll examine in this episode, concerning possible treaties to govern the development and deployment of …
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Cowboys deal for George Pickens + Best Ball Draft debates
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57:12(2:45) – Fallout from the Cowboys trading for George Pickens (10:40) – Two “must-have” guys for Denny, Kyle, and Pat in Drafts (16:55) – Could Puka Nacua and Ashton Jeanty both be selected in the first eight picks? (19:25) – A.J. Brown or Ladd McConkey? (25:40) – RJ Harvey or Kenneth Walker III? (29:20) – Jerry Jeudy or Jakobi Meyers? (33:45) – Mar…
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Titans’ reported plan for Cam Ward + Intrigue with Rookie Texans WRs, Cowboys RBs
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52:39(2:35) – Denny explains why his wife says he “sneezes like a dad” (5:00) – Top Headlines: Potential plans for the Titans offense under Cam Ward, report of Brian Robinson on the trading block, good news for Zay Flowers’ injured knee (18:55) – Rookie Positional Outlook: Texans WRs Jayden Higgins and Jaylin Noel, Cowboys RBs Jaydon Blue and Phil Mafah…
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Cozy fantasy author RK Ashwick (she/her) chats with Sebastian Nothwell (he/him) about the rewards and challenges of wrapping up a series with her latest novel The Spirit’s Curse, the conclusion to the Lutesong trilogy. The spirits have awoken- and can never sleep again. After being roused to defend against a magical disaster, the nature spirits of …
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Ep 701 - Madeline (series), by Ludwig Bemelmans
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1:16:08Everyone get into two lines, break your bread, brush your teeth, get into bed, and listen to our episode about Ludwig Bemelmans’ original series of Madeline stories. We talk about the art’s blend of sketchy and beautiful, the rise of Pepito, and the voice acting in 90s educational CD-ROM games. This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Go to square…
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Returning to some devastating news after a trip to Paris, Jacke searches for lost time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jacke Wilson / The Podglomerate
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“Steals” of the Draft, Fantastic Rookie Fits + Kyle’s Best/Worst Draft Grades
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50:40(1:20) – The guys reflect on another early Lakers exit in the Playoffs (2:25) – Top Headlines: George Kittle becomes highest-paid TE, Tyler Shough reportedly has inside track of starting, Jack Bech vying for role with Raiders 1st string (21:50) – Denny’s “steals” of the Draft: Elic Ayomanor, Riley Leonard (30:30) – Pat’s favorite rookie fits: Tre H…
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Humanity's final four years? with James Norris
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49:45In this episode, we return to the subject of existential risks, but with a focus on what actions can be taken to eliminate or reduce these risks. Our guest is James Norris, who describes himself on his website as an existential safety advocate. The website lists four primary organizations which he leads: the International AI Governance Alliance, Up…
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Shedeur Sanders’ fit with Browns + Interesting Day 2 RB Picks
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50:46(1:50) – Pat and Denny ponder the strange results in the NHL and NBA Playoffs Monday (5:30) – Top Headlines: Where Shedeur Sanders slots among Browns QBs, Bears draft Luther Burden III early in the 2nd Round (17:00) – Day 2 RB Landing Spots: Patriots add TreVeyon Henderson, Broncos select RJ Harvey, Browns bring in Quinshon Judkins, Steelers draft …
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Sneak Peek! The Kit and Basie Audiobook with Tess Carletta
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27:10Please enjoy this exclusive preview of the audiobook for Kit and Basie by Tess Carletta, narrated by Josh Innerst. Immortality is a dangerous affair when it isn’t done right. Basie Yeats knows he’s doing immortality all wrong, spending endless days in the same place, but he doesn’t see a reason to leave the home he loves in Long Lily, Pennsylvania.…
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Ep 700 - Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined, by Stephenie Meyer
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1:35:40We have to go back. Back to FORKS! To celebrate 700 episodes of our show, we decided to celebrate the tenth anniversary of a companion novel celebrating the tenth anniversary of Twilight. Meet Beaufort and Edythe, who very much resemble Bella and Edward, and the rest of the genderswapped cast who inhabit this novel that is definitely not all differ…
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699 Gatsby's Daisy (with Rachel Feder) | My Last Book with Francesca Peacock
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1:12:12F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby might be one hundred years old, but it's still incredibly relevant: one list-of-lists site ranks it as the number-one book of all time. In this episode, Jacke talks to author Rachel Feder about this classic tale of reinvention - and the reinventing she did for her book Daisy, which retells the Gatsby sto…
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NFL Draft Round 1 Analysis: Travis Hunter, Ashton Jeanty, Tetairoa McMillan headline key selections
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52:17(1:15) – Examining the Falcons’ curious draft decisions in Round 1 (4:40) – Jaguars surprise everyone and trade up to 2nd Overall for Travis Hunter (12:45) – RB Breakdown: Ranking Ashton Jeanty, Omarion Hampton’s role in LA (25:00) – WR Analysis: Tetairoa McMillan lands with Panthers, Bucs add Emeka Egbuka, Packers draft Matthew Golden (41:00) – TE…
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698 Dante in Love (with Ellen Nerenberg and Anthony Valerio) [Ad-Free Archive Edition]
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1:05:26It's springtime! A great time to be in love - and if you're a poetic genius like Dante Alighieri, a great time to catch a glimpse of a girl named Beatrice on the streets of Florence, fall madly in love with her, and spend the rest of your life beatifying her in verse. In this episode, we present a conversation that first aired in February 2018, in …
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Human extinction: thinking the unthinkable, with Sean ÓhÉigeartaigh
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43:14Our subject in this episode may seem grim – it’s the potential extinction of the human species, either from a natural disaster, like a supervolcano or an asteroid, or from our own human activities, such as nuclear weapons, greenhouse gas emissions, engineered biopathogens, misaligned artificial intelligence, or high energy physics experiments causi…
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Browns, Giants, George Pickens Trade Rumors + Betting the Draft with Drew Dinsick
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51:07(1:25) – Denny and Pat detail their displeasure with watching the NBA and NHL Playoffs (4:45) – Top Headlines: Latest reports on potential trades in the Top-5 of the Draft, Colts GM Chris Ballard details TE desires (13:30) – More News & Notes: George Pickens and Jameson Williams trade scenarios (25:20) – Betting the Draft, Pt. 1: Proper “sourcing” …
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A roundtable of indie authors chat about why we love independent bookstores, the perfect match between indie authors and indie bookshops, and what NOT to do as an indie author who wants to work with independent bookshops. Carolina Cruz (they/them) is the author of the vampire horror romance Blood in the Water and the queer fantasy series The Creed …
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Ep 699 - Arrival (Stories of Your Life and Others), by Ted Chiang
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1:31:15This collection of short stories runs the gamut from biblical fiction to sci-fi mockumentary to "short story that inspired a very successful film named Arrival." Recurring themes include Creation, Thought, and Perception. Pretty heavy stuff! But Chiang tackles it all with creativity and flair. This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Go to squares…
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697 Race in European Fairy Tales (with Kimberly Lau) | My Last Book with Rolf Hellebust
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1:21:03Anyone digging into fairy tales soon discovers that there's more to these stories of magic and wonder than meets the eye. Often thought of as stories for children, the narratives can be shockingly violent, and they sometimes deliver messages or "morals" at odds with modern sensibilities. In this episode, Jacke talks to Kimberly Lau about her book S…
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Draft stock watch: Jaxson Dart, TreVeyon Henderson rising + Late-round RB, WR sleepers
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48:57(6:10) – Aaron Rodgers still not on a team (10:35) – All signs point to Jaxson Dart in the 1st Round (19:40) – Treveyon Henderson's chances at being a 1st Rounder (23:00) – WR Analysis: Emeka Egbuka, Luther Burden, & Matthew Golden (34:55) – Denny's underrated WRs: Nick Nash & Ricky White III (44:25) - Kyle's underrated RBs: DJ Giddens & Bhayshul T…
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696 John Ruskin (with Sara Atwood) | My Last Book with Collin Jennings
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1:00:25John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a powerhouse of a man: writer, lecturer, critic, social reformer - and much else besides. From his five-volume work Modern Painters through his late writings about literature in Fiction, Fair and Foul, he brought to his subjects an energy and integrity that few critical thinkers have matched. His wide-ranging influence r…
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NFL Draft Stock Report: Shedeur Sanders, TreVeyon Henderson, Tyler Warren
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49:331:55) – Pat and Denny reflect on the dramatic finish at The Masters (5:00) – Top Headlines: Derek Carr mulling shoulder surgery (12:55) – QB Prospects Breakdown: Shedeur Sanders, Jaxson Dart, Jalen Milroe, Tyler Shough (31:10) – WR, RB + TE Analysis: Examining wideouts with immediate fantasy relevance, TreVeyon Henderson as RB3 in this class, Tyler…
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