The Show: The Jaylen Waddle Trade, Rookie Running Back Comps, and More

**JJ Zachariason** (0:00)
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**David Kitchen** (0:33)
Welcome in, welcome in to Late-Round Fantasy Football Show. Sponsored by DraftKings, David Kitchen here, COO of Late-Round Media with my CEO, JJ Zachariason. JJ, I saw a post on X today, and it said something along the lines of the biggest hack in life is to find you a manager that is a middle-aged girl dad.

**JJ Zachariason** (1:01)
Oh, really?
That actually probably is a very real thing. There's more compassion. They're not too old where their life is just their job. They have to do things outside of work, but they're raising girls instead of boys. So there's a little bit more of that empathy.

**David Kitchen** (1:22)
There's some empathy there, yeah.

**JJ Zachariason** (1:23)
Yeah, not to say that boy dads can't. I'm just saying I have a boy and I have a girl, and my boy is a lot more wild than my girl is.

**David Kitchen** (1:32)
Let's say that. This is the post-launch era of Late-Round Media. As far as we just launched our prospect guide on Monday, actually Sunday night, as is the case that we usually do. So people have been diving into that.
I had our friend Stephen Krupka message me yesterday a picture. He goes to FedEx every year and gives the guide to them and has them print it out and put it in a binder.

**JJ Zachariason** (2:08)
I've seen people do that before. I've also, we've already gotten the request from someone to make it an audio book, you know, an audio file for the guide. I will say the prospect guide is a lot easier to do that than the draft guide is, because the draft guide is so image and chart heavy and stuff, that it's really, really difficult to translate that into audio. You could hypothetically do it for the prospect guide, but look, I don't want to get into that. We're already doing a lot. It's 170 pages of content, and I don't have time to record it. Could I get someone else to record it? I mean, let's talk in a couple of years when AI is like flawless.

**David Kitchen** (2:46)
I was about to say Robo JJ is coming.
I don't want to scare people, but it's just like a perfect use case for you reading your own draft guide, but not having to read all 173 pages. Also, it's not exactly the profile pages themselves are a little bit scattered where you have like the colleges and the comps, the player comps, the three player comps, and the Zap scores. So there have to be a little bit of finagling.

**JJ Zachariason** (3:21)
Well, yeah.
In my opinion, it would be really awkward because you just be like, Jeremiah Love, six foot zero, like 212 pounds, comps, Ezekiel Elliott, Bijan Robinson. It would just be entertaining.

**David Kitchen** (3:40)
But as someone who likes to mow the hop on the riding mower, I'd listen to it.

**JJ Zachariason** (3:46)
Thing is though, I've always viewed the prospect guide as a reference sheet. Yes. The draft guide, I think, is one that you consume and sit down. You can do that with the prospect guide too, don't get me wrong. But it's so player page heavy and stuff that I always view it as a year later or something, or even during your redraft drafts, or when you are looking at the waiver wire and you're like, hey, is this guy any good? You can go back to the prospect guide and see where things were at there, whenever that was published. But did you see this comment, by the way? I think Kitchen looks more handsome.

**David Kitchen** (4:22)
I wasn't going to bring it up, but this is an interactive show. So during the show, after the show.

**JJ Zachariason** (4:28)
The fact that they're bringing that up means that, is it the default that I look more handsome?

**David Kitchen** (4:33)
Maybe it's the Vandy hat. March Madness happening. I don't know. I feel like, JJ, we talked about the post-launch era. You want to fill people in on what you've been filling your week with, which I think, just let me go on the record, I think is well-deserved.

**JJ Zachariason** (4:53)
Thank you.

**David Kitchen** (4:54)
Yeah.

**JJ Zachariason** (4:55)
Look, the guide's done. I've been working, so I did the free agency episode. It was a half-hour long.