Fantasy Five Rings

We're back after our week off galivanting about Scotland for more of our Tales From Milan-Cortina! This week we're joined by the always awesome Jill & Alison from the podcast Keep The Flame Alive. We discuss all the things that they got up to at this years Winter Olympics from all the ceremonies to things that happened on their own pod and everything inbetween!

5 of these Quiz episodes are gone and so we reach the final match of the competition between Jamie McBride from the Off The Underside podcast & Ben Waterworth from the Off The Podium podcast. Ben is still in the running for the title if he can get a big win, but Jamie is not going to lay down as he looks for his first win of the competition. It's going to be a big ending!

We're kind of halfway through Series 4 of Fantasy Five Rings and this seems like a great time to start a mini-series within a series! This week we kick-off Tales From Milan-Cortina, a 3-part special where we chat to some of our FFR regulars who attended the Winter Olympics this year to give a feel of what happened. First on the block in Olympic superfan Patrick Riley, come see how much of a superfan he really is!

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!

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.

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 victory this week? Which country will have the bragging rights between USA & Scotland. Let's find out!

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!

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 in this Ashes clash?

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.