In this week's P.O. Box:

With a second to come up for air, I figured it was time for a pop culture roundup and some recommendations…

⭐ Movie of the year: One Battle After Another. This movie hit every note for me. I saw it Wednesday night with Lauren and haven’t stopped thinking about it. The best movie I’ve seen in theaters since There Will Be Blood, another Paul Thomas Anderson banger with a nervy Johnny Greenwood score. Everything is gripping. It’s hilarious (Leo’s Bob character going full Dad mode before his daughter’s dance was a personal highlight). It’s heartbreaking (this really is a father/daughter movie at its core). And it never slows down (even with a nearly three-hour runtime, there’s nothing about it that drags). It’s worth making a special trip to the theaters for.

🥇 Album of the year: Dijon’s Baby. It seems impossible that the artist responsible for my favorite album of the year was also in the movie of the year, but it truly is the year of Dijon Duenas. If you need a quick reference point—Baby sounds like if Bon Iver collaborated with Frank Ocean on an album produced by mk.gee. I really don’t like the challenge of picking a favorite song, but “Baby!” and “Rewind” would be my 1-2 punch. Can’t wait to see him in Boston later this fall.

📺 TV recommendations: Task & Dept. Q. We are loving Task right now, the new HBO crime drama starring Mark Ruffalo from the same guy who did Mare of Easttown. There really is no mystery to be solved in this one (other than teasing out who the mole(s) are), but tracking the fallout from a series of violent robberies by an unsuspecting crew is wildly entertaining.

I’ll also shout out Dept. Q on Netflix, which we watched last month. It’s another British crime thriller about a sad boy detective who becomes obsessed with a cold case. If you like Slow Horses (excited to dive into the new season when we get a sec), you’ll dig this.

A quick Underdog Masterclass roundup for the week…

🤑 Another 50k winner. Absolutely insane, but we now have back-to-back first place finishers in the Battle Royale who took the Masterclass. What a cool story from JDENNIS22:

📝 Week 5 Gems. Masterclass subs get access to my full list of sleepers/scrolls for the Week 5 slate. Grab them here (and let’s add Rico Dowdle to the list while we are at it).

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🤯 BLOCK PARTY & BULLY THE SIMS: Week 5 DFS Strategy, Top Plays, & GPP Picks. JMToWin and Youdacao share how they are attacking the slate on DraftKings.

⏰ OFF & ON THE CLOCK: Week 5 Underdog DFS (Sleepers, Stacks & Strat). We got the goods for ya. Find the full set of Pick ‘Em links in the YT description or here.

🔮 FANATASY LIFE: Week 5 NFL DFS Strategy for Underdog and DraftKings. This week’s Fantasy Life DFS column hit on the condensed slate due to byes, Jets chalk, 3 RB values due to injuries, a contrarian stack, and sleeper WRs on Underdog. I also hosted the “Week 5 DFS Jam” on the FL YouTube channel where I tried to draft a good BR team with players from only two games.

🤓 FANTASY LIFE: Newsletter Roundup. This week in the newsletter we poured one out for Malik Nabers, recommended stashing Brashard Smith, and discussed fallout from the Trey Benson/Bucky Irving injuries.

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🤯 FantasyLife+ For Free!? It sounds too good to be true, but we are running a sick promo with Comet right now. Follow the instructions here (and some good FAQ here).

💪 THE SWOLECAST: Week 5 NFL DFS Picks. The one where Kitchen revealed he tweaked our show lineup on Sunday morning.

🎉 BATTLE ROYALE BASH: A Guest Promises Free Fireball If We Ship. Another great cast of characters on this week’s Bash.

☣ LOLZ: FanDuel Shenanigans & A New Betting Study. They tricked me back on to their site.

📈 STAT CHASING: WR Injury Fallout & RBs On The Verge of Breakouts. 2+ hours of usage trends and efficiency breakdowns.

☕ POURTFOLIO REVIEW: New DFS Monsters Emerged In The BR Streets (Week 4 DFS Recap). A Hurts double without Goedert was hilarious work.

After Dark is back to Saturday night (8pm ET) this week with the regular season goat Mathology getting us prepped for the Week 5 slate:

For After Dark shows, you can become a YT member for access or subscribe on Spotify for a private RSS feed (I post the video/audio there directly after the show).

Then we’ve got the Week 5 DFS Cram at 10:30 am ET on Sunday:

And then we’ll have the ShipCast at 4pm ET. Chargers/Commanders should be fun…

Sorry for the audible, but neither of the books I put holds on have freed up. An old hold did become available, so I just started Endure by Alex Hutchinson:

A fascinating and definitive exploration of the extraordinary science of human endurance and the secrets of human performance.

I heard Alex do an interview on the Brandon Adams podcast a while back and thought it would be a fun book to read so I’m going to tackle this one for now.

🤼 Book #7 for August (COMPLETED): Playworld: A Novel by Adam Ross.
🚶 Book #6 for July (COMPLETED): Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir by Craig Mod.
☁ Book #5 for June (COMPLETED): Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
🐊 Book #4 for May (COMPLETED): Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades by Rebecca Renner
🍌 Book #3 for April (COMPLETED): The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King by Rich Cohen
💉 Book #2 for March (FINISHED): Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe.
🐃 Book #1 for February (FINISHED): The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry

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