Fantasy Five Rings

It's the penultimate episode of the FFR Football Quiz and a top of the table clash for both of this editions final match of the competition. USA's Connor Bunnell leads the table on 6 points with a 100% record while Englishman X-It sits in second on 3 points with one win and one loss. Can X-It catch Connor or will the American guarantee an overall victory? Time to find out! Hosted on Acast. See aca...

It's new guest time here on Fantasy Five Rings as we welcome to the show Australian comedian Laura Johnston. For this chat we discuss some of her more recent shows. including one where the crowd really get involved, what she previously had done in Edinburgh for the Fringe and of course, we get creating for her own Olympic Games. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're on Matchday 4 of the FFR Football Quiz already, and today we see Connor Bunnell & Jamie McBride face off. Connor and his County Roots currently sit 1st on the overall table on goal difference and can extend their lead with any sort of result, meanwhile Jamie, from the Off The Underside podcast, can draw himself level on points with the rest of the group with a win. Who will take the vict...

We have a crossover episode this week on Fantasy Five Rings as we mix it up with Geek Mythology to bring you the Zombie Apocalympics. Myself, Sheldon the Rapper & James Barber discuss which Zombies from TV, film & video games would be best in a series of Olympic events. Who is taking Gold in the events? Let's find out! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our four competitors in the FFR Football Quiz have all had their first matches of the tournament, but now we have reached those tricky second ties. This week, England's X-It and his Stunning Slades team look to follow-up their opening day victory against Australia's Ben Waterworth from the podcast Off The Podium as their team, Chairyland United, hopes to bounce back from defeat last week. Who will...

This week on the show we welcome back ripperologist John Chambers back to the show to talk wrestling as he and myself create a line-up for a fictional Olympic-style wrestling competition by selected eight wrestlers each, but they all must hail from a different country and all have featured on a WWE Wrestlemania card. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's matchday 2 in the FFR Football Quiz and we bring on the other two competitors in our tournament, Ben Waterworth representing Australia & the USA's own Connor Bunnell. And if you are listening to this on release, it also happens to be the day these two nations face off in the World Cup. So, a football quiz and a football match, time to get this rivalry going! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...

After the variety of the Opening Ceremepisode, it's time to do some proper Fantasy Five Rings'in! Joining up this week new guest, reporter & journalist David de Guzman, who will be creating his own Olympic Games, playing the End of Series game plus having a chat about how he got into his line of work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the first episode of FFR Football Quiz, a series of Fantasy Five Rings special where people face one on one in trivia battles. In this edition Scotland's Jamie McBride from the podcast Off The Underside takes on rapper X-It from England. Who will take home the first 3 points of the series? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're back and the gangs all here to bring you into Series 4 with a bang! There's brand new guests in David de Guzman, Steve Farrell & Laura Johnston to give their ideal Opening Ceremonies, all our returning guests answer the Opening Question, Sheldon The Rapper & James Barber (& me) finish off the Batman Olympics Opening Ceremony and we preview our 3 part Tales From Milan-Cortina with...

Series 4 of Fantasy Five Rings begins this week on Wednesday 10th June with 3 brand new guests and a whole bunch of other episodes featuring some of your returning favourites, plus every weekend of the World Cup, we have the FFR Football Quiz. Here's a preview of what you can expect! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The 2026 Eurovision Song Contest is in the rear view mirror but we're not finished with it just yet, as we're joined by Harry Dowdle & James Barber to review everything that happened on the night. Before that though you finally have a chance to listen to our 4 guests ideal Eurovision songs that they described during the previous 2 episodes and by the end of this one we will know who's song has...

We're back for Part 2 of the 2026 Fantasy Five SINGS Eurovision specials and it's also FFR's 50th episode! Joining us this time are last years ideal Eurovision song winner Harry Dowdle, looking to repeat the feat, and then we chat with musician Alan Horner. With Harry, we review the Eurovision alternative from last year, Intervision, and with Alan we discuss what he enjoys about the contest and hi...

Fantasy Five SINGS has returned to chat Eurovision once again! For the first part of this short series, we are joined by two co-hosts of Off The Podium in Jarrod Loobeek & Colin Hilding. With Jarrod we preview this years coming competition, while with Colin we look into what he likes about Eurovision and how Canada see's it. And of course we'll be playing the Ideal Eurovision song game for bot...

For one last time, we talk Milan-Cortina 2026 as we discuss everything that happened during the Winter Paralympics. I am joined by a man who was only over in Milan-Cortina 2 weeks ago, Patrick Riley, as we chat about how great the Curling finals were, USA's complete dominance in the Sled Hockey and how much Channel 4 annoyed Alex with their coverage of the Opening & Closing Ceremonies. Hosted...

We're back for another look at what has happened during Milan-Cortina 2026! This time round, we are again joined by the awesome Colin Hilding from the podcast Off The Podium, to discuss as much as we can from the second week of the Winter Olympics, including the Closing Ceremony, the Canada Pokegate scandal and of course, we have to talk about the dog chasing the Biathlon competitors! Hosted on Ac...

It's been basically a week of the 2026 Winter Olympics and we are ready to start talking about what's happened (although it was recorded just before Great Britain started winning all their Gold medals). I am joined by brand new guest David de Guzman to chat pretty much everything that has happened between Day -2 to half of Day 7 of Milan-Cortina 2026, covering a wide range of subjects from Lindsey...

The Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics are underway with a spectacular Opening Ceremony. Me and Sheldon the Rapper sat down the next day to discuss all the important points such as Taylor Swift recording her new video in Croydon & how a Cortina Milan sounds like a car. Important stuff like that. We do also chat a lot about the actual Opening Ceremony too of course. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...

The Winter Olympics are right around the corner and to get in the mood for it I am joined by certified Canadian & co-host of the podcast Off The Podium, Colin Hilding, to preview the upcoming games in Milan & Cortina. We both list the top 5 things we are looking forward to over the next few weeks, it ranges from the obvious (NHL) to the very specific (one particular part of the Opening Cer...

We have hit the final episode of series 3 as we continue with the End of Series Game, once again joined by the awesome Sheldon the Rapper. Who will reign supreme at the top of our medal tables? It's time to find out. Plus a couple of quizzes and other fun stuff! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We have reached that time again, the funding is all in place for the end of series game and so now it's time to play it! Join myself and Sheldon the Rapper as we enjoy some spreadsheety goodness and see who's winning all the Gold medals. Plus there's the usual finale hijinks with quizzes and random chat and stuff. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We've reached the final normal episode of Series 3 and as we hurtle towards the start of the finale episodes next week we welcome, another co-host of fellow Olympic podcast Off The Podium, Jarrod Loobeek to the show. We're obviously going to chat Olympics but not just that as we're also going to chat Eurovision, Tennis plus plenty more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Had enough video game chat yet? No? Good, because we've got a bit more for you as we continue talking to Olympic Superfan Patrick Riley about our favourite Olympic video games. What will we deem to be the best Olympic video game? Listen in to find out! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We've got a two parter on our hands for the latest episode of Fantasy Five Rings. We welcome back Olympic superfan Patrick Riley to talk everything Olympic video games, we myself and Patrick pick our top 5 games of the genre each. Enjoy the first half of this conversation now! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We reach the middle of series 3 with a great chat featuring a brand new guest in Handball commentator and fellow Olympic podcast host, Chris O'Reilly. He is a man of many talents and we talk plenty of them, including his playing career in both standard and beach handball and his other job being a theatre director in the Gothenburg Fringe. On top of all that, there's the little matter of creating h...