Opi & the Bear

FBFL chat going over dates and decisions along with bringing back the League of Trash which is the Opi & the Bear league. If you want in, let us know and we'll put you in! Bear chats about his 6th fantasy pay league he joined. Then we chat about how the FBFL is going to hand Travis Hunter. We finish with a chat about how we're going to do the regular season format and making changes to...

Hi…we are still alive!! We come back very loosie goosy and just have a good time. We talk a little MLB, golf, NFL, and our rotisserie draft. Bear goes off on gutless Jed (Hoyer) while Opi gives praises to the White Sox and their moves. We spend some time giving Grim and his Steeler fans shit about Rodgers but have a fun time with it, nothing gregarious. Then we chat about the Bears and the hope th...

The 2nd part of episode 187 and it's a little different but very light hearted and was a lot of fun. We spend most of the time talking turkey, literally, as we go into a big section speaking of the local cuisine here in the QC and what we like and don't like. It transcends into us putting the pictures of the food from the restaurants on the screen and chatting about them at length. Maybe i...

Oops dude…sorry Opi. We really open this just trashing the guy, after that, it's really just all over the place and we throw sports in there. AJ, Kipp, & Bear chat for a while. We rip open some baseball cards and go through them. Doesn't take long and we got some good cards. Then we just ramble about things. We talk about the guys jobs, Kipp's Only Fans, some baseball, NFL draft da...

We just wanted to get together to make sure you guys didn't completely forget about us! We get some preseason baseball chat in and then follow up with some fun NCAA men's basketball talk and go over the auction that we do every year including the go over the how we do the money and payouts so it gives good context to a fun way to make the tournament a little more exciting. Then we go stron...

Keep an eye on Bear during this one because he took a gummy about an hour before hand and though he doesn't feel the buzz that much, it definitely hit him as his body freezes up a few times throughout this episode. We just talk football for the most part. We brief on a couple other subjects  and Ryan starts us with some headlines which we've come to enjoy. We do get both sides of the coin...

We DID IT!! We have good sound! We have good video!! We have a friggin MIRACLE!! Hopefully, we can keep that rolling but of course, no promises. Along with the weird idea that the technology actually worked, we spend most of this one just off the cuff chatting about the FBFL Meeting, our fantasy Basketball league, putting the fantasy Baseball league together and you get to witness AJ kicking his c...

OK, we officially hate technology. From a podcast standpoint, all is good. The sound was good this week and everyone was able to be heard. From a YouTube standpoint, not so good. Our "server" for video has gone to hell in a hand basket and you get still frames throughout the whole video with a change in still frame every few minutes. Time for new hardware again. We chat about the coachin...

I swear to GOD we can't get anything to work right anymore. Bear turned on surround sound 2.1 on the software and put a delay in to synch our mouths and for some reason, that froze the video completely…<sigh>. Technology is great when it works which we're finding is very seldom. We also miss AJ & Ryan as Ryan was home with a sick child…again, and AJ slept through his alarm…again....

We get our buddy Grimbo back in action and his mic was off pretty much the whole time so there's that…BUT we have an incredible amount of banter going back and forth and have a LOT of fun with it. This one had a lot of laughs and was just flat out fun. We have some major issues until the 11:56 mark when our recording server blew a gasket and lost a wheel, but we replaced and kept on keeping on! Th...

Happy New Year to all!! And with a new year comes the excitement of a championship! We break down the championship game as both sides of the league need to make solid pickups and try to prove they are the best owners in the league. Opi goes on a little rant about the college football season as if he's an old man yelling about not liking things that change. At one time, AJ explains to the guys what...

Ho, ho, holy cow the playoffs are going HARD! Bear starts this bad boy out with a nice little joke and then the boys are off and running as we run down the how Ryan has done in the other leagues, then chat about the who-gives-a-shit bowl, and then get into the important stuff which is your FBFL playoffs including doing some GM talk about the teams remaining and giving our usual bold predictions. T...

We have our new mixer and have a different set up to make it work and it was an OK start. The sound is good, but Bear had a TON of editing to do because Opi was super loud while we were super soft, so you'll hear some fluctuation in the voices this time around. Bear did figure out the issue and will have a better sound next time. We predict the playoffs again this week along with GMing some of the...

Grimbo is BACK! And so are we…at being bad at everything LOL! We had some MORE technical issues but we were able to plow through it without issues believe it or not! The GM session this time is off the hook as we talk about the 33s, Maniacs, Troopers, Fumbduckers, and Stalkers who all need help with their teams this week despite being in the post-season already. LT (LaDainian Tomlinson) is the man...

Grimbo is still missing, rumor is he's the cabinet member for Trump as the Liaison to Height Challenged Individuals. With him missing, we bring Opi back into the house and we have a nice dinner that has been owed to Bear for about a year. We do the usual and then during the Ominous Thoughts and Blunder of Wonder we run down the playoff picture and it's a DISASTER! But we'll get it all worked out!...

This is normal except we lost Grimbo for the week as he travels to do something with someone that we really didn't care about. This is a normal podcast for the guys and about half way through we do pay a little tribute to our buddy Jerry Myers who passed away a short while ago. He's the father of FBFLer Bob Myers. Lots of talk about the RB points this week and how they've exploded and of course, i...

As it says above, we are without our buddy Opi today as he made out with Bear at poker and caught the Dominican Black Lung disease. Bear does his best Opi impersonation by sucking at introductions, but we had a lot of laughs anyway. There's a lot of just banter but it gets really silly at the end when we PREDICT THE PLAYOFF TEAMS FOR THE FBFL!! YouTube Link: Opi & the Bear Episode 174   Bear,...

Bear brought back some 3rd world disease and is on several different medications that make him tired and weird. Ryan & AJ make up for it as they have some massive amount of cross-talk going on today which makes the points hard to hear, but makes the commentary a lot more giggly. We do some chit-chat about the past couple weeks and then roll on through some Fantasy GM'ing of other teams and the...

Week 8 starts the wind up to the wind down and we spend a LOT of time just talking football itself. Of course fantasy rules the roost here but just talking NFL with a lot of liveliness. You also get the best of both worlds thanks to the spirit of Halloween as Opi spends a lot of time changing his masks so you don't have to look at that mug the whole time. Grimbo comes in HOT with a lot of GM quest...

Why did we call it "The Grim Episode" and he's not even in studio? Because it's short and stubby, that's why! It was literally Opi & the Bear so we cut out a lot of extra and just talked football and then fantasy. We keep it pretty upbeat but definitely miss the troops! YouTube Link: Opi & the Bear Episode 171   The Grim Episode 12:59 - NFL Recent Trade Talk 41:30 - Shortened section of Be...

We get Grimbo back this week so we're at full force as we continue along our merry ways of getting most predictions wrong. It's more of the same for the most part but Opi & Bear introduce and explain the leagues "Grudge Week" and they discuss the matchups and even give the games bowl names. We come up with some stupid but fun names for bowl games so the NCAA may want to have a listen in case t...

Bear is starting to get some production value on YouTube as he's learning the software and how to create scenes. Next up, trying to figure out how to get Opi's mic to be a little louder, but then again, that may work against the crew and we may lose watchers/listeners. Bear did forget the record button and we figured it out about 10 minutes in and we started over, but we got it all. We also added...

We did it! Back on video and this one is pretty fun both on video and on the audio alone. Bear did play around with transitions for the video side of things giving some more visuals as we talk showing close ups as we talk, predictions and the weekly hottie that Opi chooses. As far as content, it's the usual except we're missing AJ though he dials in from work, listens, and fires off the occasional...

<sigh> Stupid Bear!! The guy who has worked hard on getting us up and running on YouTube made a rookie mistake and forgot to hit the "Record" button for video. We also changed a setting that MICROSOFT SUGGESTED we change for better sound quality and it causes a cut out if there are multiple sounds going, thanks for that Microsoft!! We finally got good sound and in a week, back to b...

We've been doing a podcast about our fantasy football league for several years now and thought we'd try out best at getting to the next level of technology and introduce ourselves to YouTube. We spend a lot of time with FBFL talk along with our usual mix of just talking about fantasy football. We go over how we did in our predictions along with some predictions for week 3s fantasy players...