Fantasy Five Rings

We're back for another episode of Fantasy Five Rings and this week we welcome Island Games Silver Medallist, Matthew Xuereb. We discuss his career, distance running in general and of course what he'd like to do during his Olympic Games! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Series 3 of Fantasy Five Rings continues with a curiosity for you. Which live-action Batman would excel in a series of Olympic events? Joining me on this incredibly nerdy debate are FFR regulars Sheldon the Rapper & James Barber as we welcome you to the Batman Olympics! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Series 3 of Fantasy Five Rings continues with our first full new guest chat as we welcome British rapper X-It to the show. We create his Olympics, play the end of show game and discuss his recent album "The Evening Cool Down". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Let's get quizzical, quizzical! Episode 2 of Series 3 is not a normal episode, it's a bumper sized episode as we bring you The Big Olympic Quiz 2025. See Ben & Colin from Off The Podium take on Jill & Alison from Keep The Flame Alive in a battle of knowledge. It's one podcast against another podcast on a completely different podcast! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...

Fantasy Five Rings is back for Series 3 and this is the Opening Ceremepisode. It's a jam packed preview of a show featuring new guests, old guests and Batman chat. We talk Opening Ceremonies, Mascots and of course, we play the game! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bonus special episode time! It's the summer of sport, where we cover all the fun stuff that has happened over the last few months with a selection of lovely guests! We chat the World Games with Jill & Alison from Keep The Flame Alive, get the lowdown on the Island Games with Silver Medal winning athlete Matthew Xuereb & we go through the football happenings with rapper X-It. Hosted on Acas...

Ooh, whats this? A bonus episode of Fantasy Five Rings? Yep, you betcha! For this special episode, we are joined by Sheldon the Rapper once again as we look over all the crazy happenings of the 1904 Olympic Marathon in St. Louis. If you don't know the story, you are in for a treat! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guests described their ideal Eurovision song, we stuck it through the AI and sent it to our judges and they have had a week or so give their votes. And now, we find out who is going to win our competition! Not only that, but we are also joined once again by Harry Dowdle & James Barber to give our thoughts on the actual Eurovision Song Contest that took place a few days earlier. Hosted on A...

We continue to get our Eurovision hype on for part two of our specials, it's Fantasy Five SINGS! This week we are joined by friend of the show James Barber & brand new guest and third co-host of Off The Podium to come on the show, Jarrod Loobeek. Expect more talk about how they got into Eurovision, some of their favourite songs and of course they play the game! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...

For a few weeks only, we're now Fantasy Five SINGS! As we move in a musical direction to discuss what I deem to be the Olympics of song, Eurovision! This week I am joined by co-host of Off The Podium, Ben Waterworth and musician/former American Footballer, Harry Dowdle to ask what got them into the contest and various other Eurovision-y things. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...

This is it, the final episode of Series 2 of Fantasy Five Rings. I am still joined by Sheldon the Rapper as we react to more spreadsheet madness! There those, more quizzes, we create an Olympic movie and then we finally find out who wins the end of series game. Who will it be? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's time for the Fantasy Five Rings series 2 finale! Or part 1 of it at least. I am joined again by Sheldon the Rapper as we go on a spreadsheet odyssey to decide who will win the end of series game. There's formulas, quizzes, rapping, mistakes, sarcasm and chat as we try to finish series 2 in style! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the last stop on the road to the end of series game and we're on a mission this episode to collect all the entries remaining for the series. And so with that, this edition of the podcast features 3 whole guests returning from series 1 - Harry Dowdle, James Barber & John Chambers! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We continue chatting to co-host's of the award winning Olympic podcast Off The Podium this week as we welcome back Colin Hilding for his attempt at a proper Fantasy Five Rings episode to create his own Olympics. We talk podcasts, Moguls, Demonstration sports and he gives us an interesting use for a sock with a hole in it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Another week, another new episode of Fantasy Five Rings and on this edition we welcome back Ben Waterworth from the podcast Off The Podium. We chat about his time in Paris (and the UK) last summer, there's some Formula 1 talk and of course we let him play the end of show game once again. Now we know Handball is getting full funding, but what else is he putting his money on? Hosted on Acast. See ac...

Series 2 continues for Fantasy Five Rings with a bumper episode as we welcome back one of the guests from the FFR Paris 2024 specials, Olympic Superfan Patrick Riley. We discuss his trip to Paris last summer and delve into what he wants for his Olympics and everything in between! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the latest Fantasy Five Rings, we have our first returning guest back to compete in the end of show game, but we also have a little catch-up too. And so with that, this week we chat to show regular Sheldon the Rapper about music and Mongolia! We talk TV interviews, artwork and you can find out what makes the pair of us basically giggle for possibly five minutes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...

Series 2 of Fantasy Five Rings continues with our first full interview of the run, with Jill & Alison from the podcast, Keep The Flame Alive. We talk their time in Paris, how their show got started and much much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're back! It's Series 2 of Fantasy Five Rings and we begin with the traditional Opening Ceremepisode, where all our new guests for the upcoming series describe how they would like their ideal Olympic Opening Ceremoney to be. But wait, there's more! I also ask several of the folk on Series 2 (including some returning Series 1 guests) what they though of Raygun AKA one of the biggest stories comin...

This is it! After 9 episodes of analysis heavy (ish) previews & reviews of the Olympics, it's time to end the whole Paris 2024 experience with a good old fashioned quiz. Join our competitors Colin Hilding of Off The Podium: An Olympics Podcast & Olympic Superfan Patrick Riley, as we decide who is the most knowledgeable when it comes to Paris 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...

Just like that the Paralympics are over! And as soon as the Closing Ceremony finished (or the broadcast ended in some cases) I was joined by Olympic Superfan Patrick Riley to chat about some of the things we have enjoyed over the last few days of the games. We talk Closing Ceremony, Sitting Volleyball, Wheelchair Tennis and loads more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We are already half way through the Paralympics! And so we at Fantasy Five Rings wanted to chat about some of things we have enjoyed so far from the first few days. For this episode we are joined by returning guest Trent Hawkins from the Sitting On Our Rings Podcast. Find out our thoughts on the Opening Ceremony, Boccia, GB's medal haul and whether or not Trent knew about the Wheelchair Basketball...

With the Paralympics coming up in the next few days, we bring you the next of our special Paris series of episodes, it's Preview du Paralympique! I am joined once again by the co-host of the Off The Podium podcast, Colin Hilding, as we each pick the 5 things we are looking forward to during the upcoming games. Will there be a crossover of things to look forward to? Will Brazil win the team sports?...

With Breaking recently making its Olympic debut, we are joined once again by Sheldon the Rapper to take a deep dive over what happened during the competitions with our Breaking Breakdown! We talk our favourites, we talk what didn't like, we talk serious stuff and of course we talk Raygun. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Olympics are over! But there's still time to chat about it, so that's what we are going to do on Revue de Paris Part 3 as we cover the final 6 days of the Games and the Closing Ceremony. Joining us for this one is the somehow still awake after presenting Off The Podium for 17 days straight, Colin Hilding, who enjoys not being the one asking the questions for a change. Plus there's a bunch of s...