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Jason and Frankie Episode 79

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Frankie's deep in fantasy commissioner hell trying to fill out a dying sleeper league, but the real story is what Jason's built with Claude: an AI that scraped both leagues' draft histories and roasted every manager by name, dragging Jeff's historically bad season, crowning Frankie the league's sharpest manager, and stonewalling Jason with suspicious silence. From there it's catch-up on Frankie's Newport Beach trip (an unfortunate bathroom mixup with his aunt, whale watching, Kobe's old neighborhood, and a NeeDoh-squishie shipping crisis) before diving into a stacked news week: the 49ers' substation curse claims Ricky Pearsall again, Arizona's training camp looks like a blooper reel, and Jerry Jones teases a "substantive trade" that leads Jason into a wild Matthew Berry story about talking his way onto Jerry's team bus.

Then the big ones: Baker Mayfield's contract standoff with Tampa, and an extended, gleeful breakdown of Tony Romo's DUI arrest: the field sobriety stretches, the body cam footage, and the internet sleuths who discovered all four of his "grandma and grandpa" are actually deceased. LeBron's cut-rate move to Philly gets picked apart (including the fact that an ex-Iowa State kid is outearning him), the WNBA's gambling controversy gets a real dressing-down, and the show closes with its best segment in weeks: a full CSI-style investigation into the Kansas City man who spent eight hours trapped in a porta-potty tank allegedly chasing a Mountain Dew.

Topics covered: fantasy football AI league analysis, Newport Beach trip stories, 49ers substation/Ricky Pearsall injury, Arizona Cardinals training camp, Jerry Jones trade tease, Baker Mayfield/Vita Vea contract drama, Tony Romo DUI arrest, LeBron James to 76ers, WNBA gambling controversy, MLB Tarik Skubal trade to Dodgers, Kansas City porta-potty Mountain Dew story, Colombia movie theater fart evacuation.

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