Fantasy Five Rings

Fantasy Five Rings #48: Revisione di Paralympic

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:09:15 GMT

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.

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Fantasy Five Rings #47: Revisione di Milan-Cortina Part 2

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:13:18 GMT

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!

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Fantasy Five Rings #46: Revisione di Milan-Cortina Part 1

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:18:49 GMT

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 Vonn's horror crash to the Olympic Village running out of condoms.

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Fantasy Five Rings #45: Cerimonia di Apertura

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:21:34 GMT

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.

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Fantasy Five Rings #44: Preview la Milan-Cortina

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:34:48 GMT

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 Ceremony) and hopefully it'll get you in the mood too!

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Fantasy Five Rings #43: Series 3 Finale Part 2

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 06:23:43 GMT

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!

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Fantasy Five Rings #42: Series 3 Finale Part 1

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:32:34 GMT

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.

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Fantasy Five Rings #41: Jarrod Loobeek

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:37:54 GMT

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!

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Fantasy Five Rings #40: Olympic Video Games Part 2

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:13:25 GMT

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!

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Fantasy Five Rings #39: Olympic Video Games Part 1

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:04:20 GMT

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!

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Fantasy Five Rings #38: Chris O'Reilly

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:05:50 GMT

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 his own Olympics too. We've a lot to get through!

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Fantasy Five Rings #37: Matthew Xuereb

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:08:17 GMT

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!

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Fantasy Five Rings #36: The Batman Olympics

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:21:45 GMT

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!

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Fantasy Five Rings #35: X-It

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 23:05:17 GMT

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".

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Fantasy Five Rings #34: The Big Olympic Quiz 2025

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 23:23:22 GMT

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!

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Fantasy Five Rings #33: The Opening Ceremepisode III

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 23:02:30 GMT

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!

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Fantasy Five Rings Series 3 Preview

Sun, 05 Oct 2025 12:23:32 GMT

Series 3 is coming soon! We have 4 new guests and 3 other new episodes in the pipeline with Episode 1 coming on Wednesday 8th October.

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Fantasy Five Rings #32: 2025 Summer of Sport Special

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:44:14 GMT

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.

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Fantasy Five Rings #31: 1904 Marathon Special

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 23:18:32 GMT

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!

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Fantasy Five SINGS #30: Eurovision Special Part 3

Thu, 22 May 2025 06:21:22 GMT

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.

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Fantasy Five SINGS #29: Eurovision Special Part 2

Wed, 07 May 2025 00:28:09 GMT

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!

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Fantasy Five SINGS #28: Eurovision Special Part 1

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 23:08:21 GMT

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.

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Fantasy Five Rings #27: Series 2 Finale Part 2

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 23:10:46 GMT

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?

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Fantasy Five Rings #26: Series 2 Finale Part 1

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 23:02:08 GMT

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!

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Fantasy Five Rings #25: Dowdle, Barber & Chambers

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 23:27:44 GMT

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!

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Fantasy Five Rings #24: Colin Hilding

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 06:17:55 GMT

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.

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Fantasy Five Rings #23: Ben Waterworth II

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:34:04 GMT

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?

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Fantasy Five Rings #22: Patrick Riley

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:08:18 GMT

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!

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Fantasy Five Rings #21: Sheldon The Rapper II

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 07:12:27 GMT

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.

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Fantasy Five Rings #20: Keep The Flame Alive

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 07:18:18 GMT

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!

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Fantasy Five Rings #19: The Opening Ceremepisode II

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:05:30 GMT

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 coming out of last summers Olympic Games. There's plenty to enjoy on this first foray into the new series.

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Fantasy Five Rings #18: The Big Paris 2024 Quiz

Sun, 29 Sep 2024 22:18:05 GMT

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.

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Fantasy Five Rings #17: Revue de Paralympique Part 2

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 21:48:46 GMT

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!

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Fantasy Five Rings #16: Revue de Paralympique Part 1

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 22:21:53 GMT

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 which happened before he woke up?

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Fantasy Five Rings #15: Preview du Paralympique

Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:28:04 GMT

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? Will GB lead the medal table? Give it a listen and see what we are thinking!

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Fantasy Five Rings #14: Breaking Breakdown

Wed, 21 Aug 2024 21:26:36 GMT

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.

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Fantasy Five Rings #13: Revue de Paris Part 3

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 20:54:30 GMT

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 songs!

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Fantasy Five Rings #12: Revue de Paris Part 2

Wed, 07 Aug 2024 11:18:42 GMT

The Olympics are going by far too quick as we have hit the two thirds through mark. This though also means time for FFR to go through the games some more with Revue de Paris Part 2! I am joined by another brand new guest in American author Jamie Lyko as we talk Athletics & Mondo, Simone Biles and some of the Boxing controversy (though no more than 5 minutes).

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Fantasy Five Rings #11: Revue de Paris Part 1

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 21:38:57 GMT

We're already 6 days into the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and so it seemed like a good time to review what has happened so far. It's Fantasy Five Rings: Revue de Paris Part 1 and for this first foray we are joined by new guest, fellow podcaster G Hall. We talk about his native Canada's Football Drone issues, all the important Gold medals, what his home broadcaster has actually been showing + loads more!

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Fantasy Five Rings #10: Cérémonie d'Ouverture

Mon, 29 Jul 2024 23:25:00 GMT

It's a little late coming but it's time for the Fantasy Five Rings look back on the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony. I am joined once again the awesome Sheldon the Rapper who has..............thoughts. We run through the Ceremony from the top and give our opinions. Oh and Sheldon has another Dressage moment, this time with Minions, with a fantastic ending.

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Fantasy Five Rings #9: Preview du Paris

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 23:57:36 GMT

We're back! Already! With the Olympic Games beginning this week, we're joined by new guest, Trent Hawkins, co-host of the Sitting On Our Rings podcast, to preview Paris 2024. We each list five things that we are looking forward to about the games and why. Which smaller nations is Alex going to support? What's the surf like in the Brisbane area? Which one of them obviously picked Breaking? Find out the answers plus more!

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Fantasy Five Rings #8: Series Finale Part 2

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 23:17:57 GMT

It's the final countdoooooooown. Join me and guest Sheldon the Rapper once again as we finish the end of series game, answer more trivia and have further random chats for Part 2 of the Fantasy Five Ring season finale! Who will get the most Golds, who will top the overall medal table and what's the best ever Olympic movie? It's time to find out!

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Fantasy Five Rings #7: Series Finale Part 1

Tue, 25 Jun 2024 23:10:43 GMT

It's all come down to this! 5 guests and 1 host have been given 120 million of their chosen currency to fund the sports they want to in a fantasy Olympics and now we're going to see who comes out on top. The first half of it anyway. This is Part 1 of the Series Finale, where we are joined by returning guest Sheldon the Rapper to do trivia, freestyle rap and give live reactions to numbers appearing on a spreadsheet. I've no idea if it'll work in an audio format but by jove are we going to find out!

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Fantasy Five Rings #6: Ben Waterworth

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 23:14:59 GMT

It's time for another episode of Fantasy Five Rings and this week it's the last of the main interviews. Don't let that deter you from enjoying though as this time round we have on the wonderful Ben Waterworth, co-host of Off The Podium: An Olympics Podcast, to chat about what he would like to add to his own personal Olympic Games.

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Fantasy Five Rings #5: Harry Dowdle

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 23:25:42 GMT

We have another offering of Fantasy Five Rings for you this week! And this week our guest is musician & American Footballer Harry Dowdle who explains what he would like do with his own Olympics Games. We chat sports & Olympivision + more?

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Fantasy Five Rings #4: John Chambers

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 06:44:49 GMT

We're already at Episode 4 of Fantasy Five Rings! This week we chat to ripperologist John Chambers as he describes what he would like to happen during his ideal Olympic Games from a lovely pub beer garden in London.

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Fantasy Five Rings #3: James Barber

Tue, 28 May 2024 23:11:23 GMT

Here's another edition of Fantasy Five Rings! We're on Episode 3, which features "pod veteran" James Barber giving his thoughts on what could be in the Olympics. He definitely add some fun the Olympic programme!

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Fantasy Five Rings #2: Sheldon the Rapper

Tue, 21 May 2024 23:29:03 GMT

It's Episode 2 of Fantasy Five Rings! And this time we're sticking to just the one guest in this lengthy bumper edition. This weeks guest is musician Sheldon the Rapper who talks music, sport and the Olympics, but definitely stick around for his thoughts on Dressage!

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Fantasy Five Rings #1: The Opening Ceremony Episode

Tue, 14 May 2024 23:19:40 GMT

It's here! The first episode of Fantasy Five Rings! And while it is the first official episode, it is also a preview of the upcoming series, as we ask each guest from the series "How would your Opening Ceremony go?" There are some interesting answers!

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