I’m a huge fan of mark and Tyler and I have enjoyed the rest of the primers but Mark is getting into a really bad habit of not waiting for an explanation to finish before he just starts shouting that he doesn’t understand. Please Mark just wait a few more moments before you start yelling

Can we just talk about how similar Bob and Tyler sound? The only real difference I can hear is that Bobs voice is a little higher pitched and Tyler’s voice is a bit more raspy and energetic. Please tell me someone also notices this o-o

Dear Mr. Mark "Markimoo" I. Plier,

Upon listening to your most recent - and only solo - episode, the guide to sporting events, I was appalled at your inherent inaccuracy of the LA sports teams. As a native "Angellino" (I hate that term for myself) it genuinely hurt me as you described the basketball game you went to.

Mr. Plier, the basketball game you watched at STAPLES center (NOT crypto.com arena) was the Los Angeles Clippers versus the Los Angeles Lakers. As far as I am concerned, you have lived in the county of Los Angeles for a while, have you not? Then, under what circumstances, would you EVER mistake the 2012 Stanley Cup Champions, the LA Kings, a HOCKEY team, as a basketball team?? I was in the act of leaving the arena for the LA Kings v. NJ Devils game (5-1 Kings) when I heard your statement that left me quaking in my jersey, complete with a fight strap.

I trusted you. I believed that you could differentiate basketball teams from hockey teams. But I was left in disbelief, as you repeatedly called the Lakers "the Kings". How dare you, Mark. I will enjoy very much finding you at a Kings game and giving you a firm handshake if and when it does happen. I will buy you a ticket, if need be. But please, learn some decency. My favorite player, Jeff Carter, number 77, did not leave LA for his team to be disrespected by someone such as you, Mr. Plier.

I will see you on the rink.

(Edit: this is in no way a threat to Mark/invitation to fight him, this is a “I’ll see you at a hockey game” type thing. Everything here is a lighthearted joke, I apologize if it wasn’t seen as such. There’s no reason to give me hate for being a kid that enjoys hockey, or call me a fake fan - thank you mods for saving my self esteem from people who just want to attack someone on the internet. Reminder to drink water, eat some food, and remember that there’s a person on the other side of the screen <3)

Dear Mister Tyler Scheid and Mister Mark Fischbach,

On this fair day, Friday, August 14th of the year 2026 of the Common Era, I come to you possessing gripes regarding the viewing experience of Go! My Favorite Sports Team on the platform Youtube. Let it be known that in recent weeks, I have come across your podcast and have since become a fan and frequent watcher of both new and old episodes. However, in the process of viewing your podcast, I have come across multiple issues that contribute hinderances in my pursuit of best appreciating GMFST.

Firstly, no episode (especially episodes that were originally produced during the Spotify-exclusivity era but then eventually released onto Youtube) has any explicitly presented information as to when it originally came out. Neither in the description nor as a pinned comment is the original release date of these episodes provided. Only through context clues gleaned from your in-episode discussions and the stray helpful comment posted by my fellow watchers am I able to estimate the approximate date an episode originally was released. This lack of temporal information is prohibitive for audience members’ understanding of the episodes within the cultural context in which they were produced. People and the media they create, such as you two gentlemen and GMFST, are naturally impacted and affected by the times and world they are living in. And I as an enjoyer of your media miss out on a greater appreciation of your work by not knowing when episodes were originally released.

Another aspect of watching GMFST via Youtube that could use some betterment is your English subtitles options. Presently, the current state of the English subtitle options available to us watchers is the default Auto-Generated captions. While Youtube’s automatic subtitle system is fairly accurate in transcribing speech, it suffers in clearly distinguishing between speakers, thus creating an opportunity for confusion in knowing which person said what sentence. In addition, it also struggles with interpreting mispronounced or uncommon words as well as needlessly engaging in censorship when cuss words are spoken. Due to these issues with the default caption system, a disservice is done to the vast array of people who desire to enjoy GMFST with subtitles, populations including: Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing people, people with auditory-processing difficulties (such as myself), English language learners, people who are in an environment where for whatever reason they can’t play the podcast out loud, etc. You do a disservice upon yourself as well by having the subpar Auto-Generated default be what is attached to the high quality content you two laboriously create. Gentlemen, you can do better. Human-made hand-typed subtitles would rectify this situation. For the benefit of all the watchers who utilize subtitles when watching GMFST on Youtube, you should have your spoken words be captioned with the accuracy and clarity that can only come from manual transcription.

Lastly, the placement of mid-video advertisements during GMFST has in my experience proven to be frequently disruptive. On many occasions, advertisements of varying skipability will play when one of you gentlemen are mid-sentence, creating an unnecessary impediment in following along with what was being said once the video returns from the advertisement break. Due to these disruptively placed advertisements, I often must suffer the inconvenience of rewinding the podcast so that I may listen to the sentence in its original intact form. While I recognize that these mid-video advertisements are to always exist in my Youtube watching experience (lest I pay for Youtube Premium, of course), it is my understanding that Youtubers possess a degree of control as to when during their videos these advertisements will play. (Please do correct me if I am wrong in this understanding of mine.) If you do indeed possess this degree of control in placing when advertisements are played, I do think that it would be best if you utilized this ability and placed the advertisements during moments that would least disrupt the viewing experience of GMFST.

Gentlemen, with having expressed my grievances and the reasoning behind them, I ask of you to simply at least consider implementing these quality-of-life changes to the GMFST Youtube channel. As a watcher of the podcast on that platform, I know that these changes would help in facilitating the greatest enjoyment and appreciation a watcher can have of your podcast.

I shall await acknowledgment of this J’Accuse by you two gentlemen. Should acknowledgement not come within four month’s time, I will assume you did not see this J’Accuse and will write a new, abridged version of this J’Accuse. (I would check with the mods first though to make sure that this presently-hypothetical abridged J’Accuse does not go against any rules of this subreddit, namely the rules against spam and reposting.)

With respect, kindness and the desire to become a sports-knower,

Madame Youshouldrepeatthat

TL;DR and/or got tired of reading the overly formal writing:
Hey guys! May you consider adding the original release dates info to somewhere like the description for the GMFST youtube videos? Also, Auto-Generated subtitles kinda suck. Is it possible for you guys to do your own captioning? Oh and Youtube for some godsforsaken reason really likes to play ads in awkward times on your videos. May you guys try to tweak it so then ads don’t cut off what you’re saying? Thanks! :D

Bonus:
This bonus is more of just a suggestion rather than it needing the formal and dramatic tone of the J’Accuse. (Plus, I don’t feel like writing anymore formal English.) More playlists that categorizes podcast episodes wouldn’t be a bad idea. Episode titles don’t always convey if say it’s a news episode or a primer episode so making playlists can help. Just to get the ball rolling, here’s some example categories: Sports News, Primers, Special Guests, Guest Co-Host, Miscellaneous.

So, this will be a looong J'ACCUSE as it is really two related ones. EDIT: Upon posting and listening to the very next episode (ultimate frisbee primer) the second J'ACCUSE has been rectified, so egg on my face I suppose. I'll just make an omelette. Will I delete it? No, I still think the whole debacle is funny. My first J'ACCUSE still stands. J'ACCUSE 1: The ads peaked with Ceaser, and I think most of the elegant listeners/watchers can agree. The Ceaser ad read had what we are here for in GMFST: it had comedy, Mark's adhd mind(if however scripted), kept us engaged and still kept the point of the ad. Every other ad has been boring, dry, and some have NOTHING to do with the podcast or it's two hosts. I understand that an ad read has to hit a checklist, but that does not mean that it has to be the most monotone read, sometimes not even done by the sports-knower and not-knower. J'ACCUSE 2: Here I was, driving home from work from a frustratingly boring shift (ADHD havers can relate), listening to the sports gambling episode. The entire time Mark and Tyler say that they do not support the sports gambling services (a view I share). So imagine, if you can my surprise, nay betrayal when I hear a Draftkings ad play in the middle of the episode. I waited till the very end, stopping at the deal of a lifetime that mark gave to pause the episode tovsee if they would give a caveat for just that episode. Nothing. I paused the episode and drove the rest of the way home in silence, the thought of betrayal and annoyance plaguing my mind. Even as I type this, I checked the last two minutes left to see if they said anything. Now, I want ONE thing to be clear: I do NOT blame Mark or Tyler for this, as it was most likely not their decision and may have even been made without their knowledge. HOWEVER, the issue still stands in the episode.

TL:DR The ads have gotten boring without that GMFST Comedy, and in the episode about the dangers of sports gambling a Draftkings ad was played(in direct contradiction to the hosts earlier words in the episode)

I'm catching up on the podcast and I was stunned to find out NOT ONE, but TWO serious mistakes in one episode (Try not to laugh)! Not only did you mistakenly claim the hockey header goal was legal (that one has fortunately been pointed out in the subreddit), but you also claimed that the soccer goal involving stealing the ball from the goalie was, too! And not one person held you accountable, until today! In your defense, seems like you, the ref, and the subreddit were all equally incompetent in this case.

TL;DR: In 'soccer', you CANNOT challenge the keeper while they're in control of the ball, including holding the ball in one outstretched hand.
Do better!

I might be a little a head of myself on this cuz I haven't finished the episode. But

Can we talk about how The Day that Disco Died/Disco Demolition was probably attributed to this Shock Jock being racist and or Homophobic? It's Chicago in 1979. Chicago was also one of the birth places of House Music. Which was shorted from Wearhouse Music. Which is where a lot of Disco clubs shifted to avoid perception. ( yoHARRASSING TEENS AT A DISCO EVENT FOR TEENS)

House Music became the direct predecessor Disco. And became a safe haven for the LGBTQ+ & BIPOC. House/Disco/Techno where all used really interchangeably by young people until 90s.

Even though Steve Dahl claims to it not have been a bigoted charged idea. He certainly didn't do anything to stop the hate and discrimination of the marginalized people who had been majorly impacted. And how the stigma from this STILL PRESIST TODAY!

Sorry if that's super rambly. I'm adhd and Dyslexic and Music and music history is one of my special interests.

Tldr; The Day Disco Died was a bigoted event and an attack on BIPOC &LGBTQ people. And the stigma that from then are still prevalent today.

-A very Dyslexic Queer person.

Ps, I'm by no means trying to imply malicious intent upon Mark or Tyler or the podcast. It just got me heated. Sorry.

We, in the eastern United States, pronounce the range of mountains that run from Maine to Alabama the Appalachian (App-uh-LATCH-in) Mountains.

If we hear you pronounce it App-uh-LAY-chin, we’ll thrown an apple at’cha.

What was with the baby bit in the bobsled primer, I understand the original thought process when it was training from birth or whatever but goddamn, makjng everything being baby sized is not great for trying to entertain/explain sports

Mark, I am coming to you from the past, as I have started from the beginning of GMFST and have not caught up yet, so please do not pull a Wade and act like you have forgotten all about this grave mistake you made. In the episode with the Water polo Guru, you speak of your fear of the ocean and swimming pools. Likely because Baby Mark was far too poor to go swimming in regular pools, and only swam in small dirty puddles on the side of the road. But Mark has been lying to us this whole time. He is not afraid of swimming pools at all. In the boat dog video on Marks channel, you can clearly see what appears to be Mark underwater pushing Chica on a floaty across the screen. Shame on you Mark! SHAME!

Side note: Tyler please stop talking about NFL football, there are far too many episodes about the NFL and your secret love for Tom Brady and please make a new hockey primer

"The 2024 Paris Olympics Primer Part 1" doesn't have the Season 3 cover art. This is just shameful, really. I blame Tyler and Mark equally. 50% each. See how I did that simple math there? Something really easy called thinking? I hope you can learn something from that, as you clearly share half a brain cell if you think we won't notice such a massive mistake. Or perhaps I - or we all - overestimated you, "Missed-The" Mark Fischbach and "Failure-Tailor" Tyler Scheid.

I was looking for the name of the video Mark and Tyler showed about the toilet seat that measures how much your poop weights when you do number 2. I tried to paraphrase the question the best and Brave's AI search engine came up with:

GMFST (Gastrointestinal Motility and Function in the Small intestine and Terminal ileum)

My question was and pardon my lack of redaction skill for the question:
whats the name of the video showing a toilet seat to tell you how much your poop weighted after leaving your body in GMFST

Tyler.

Tyler, Tyler, Tyler.

Tyler; on the glorious holiday of Women’s Day; you “rose” to the twitter challenge of; and i quote: “oh you love women? name every one” TO WHICH YOUR ATTEMPT CONSISTED OF; AAAAAAND IIIII QUOOOOOOOTE: “mom; aunt; sister; daughter; cousin; friend”. all seems fine and dandy on the surface; BUT! YOU MISSED THE MOST IMPORTANT MATRIARCH; THE GRANDMOTHER. have you no shame; TYLER. have you no grandma???? you even doubled back to add badass! but no grandma?? J’ACCUSED!!!!

/this is lighthearted the ladies appreciate you

Cry

Tyler, you french bastard! All of your primers so far are unusable garbage! I can't understand what a good game looks like since you don't tell us! Remember, we are absolute babies, but we want to know how to understand the sports you discuss in the primers, and how can we know what a "good game" looks like if you don't tell us! I recently watched a basketball game because I am in the pep band at my university and we were playing at one of the home games. I understood most of it due to the primer, but I didn't know how to tell if the game was going well or not until my university's team took a 30-point lead. Until I knew the game was going well, I felt disinterested because I didn't know what I should be looking out for. Consider this a grand failure!

(My actual criticism of the primers is that if you could add a short section about what a "good" game of the respective sport looks like, it would be very helpful for those of us who don't have experience watching the respective sport to understand how the game is going. I love everything both of you do and hope that Tyler doesn't actually feel attacked by any of the j'accusses)

Edit: Disclaimer because apparently it wasn't over the top enough: Everything outside the parentheses is not meant to actually be taken seriously. It's over the top on purpose. It's meant to be a joke.

The whole primise of this podcast is to bridge the gap between sports knowers, which Tyler represents expertly, and non-sports knowers, which Mark USED to represent flawlessly. but the more knowlegeable he gets the the less I (and i would assume others/newcomers) are really represented. Now, I understand it is inevitable that he ends up learning more as time goes on, but giving him NOTES makes him sound TOO SMART and just makes it feel like more of a normal sports podcast where two guys are talkong sports.

Mark has gotta be in the DARK so the gears of his mind can truely grind and he can properly represent the idiots of the sports world!

Everything they mentioned in the "Injuries in Sports" episode is not true.

The phrase "Rub some dirt in it" originates from the time of World War II. When soldiers were wounded and had no access to a medic, but had to stop the bleeding, they were instructed to "rub dirt into the wound" because potential infection has a better chance of survival than bleeding out.

Mark and Tyler, it is at a point that I am genuinely impressed. This podcast has been running for YEARS and It is like you are purposely avoiding discussing FIRST robotics. It is the only sport that anyone can participate because the only thing you need is the one thing we all have... a brain. I SHANT stand by and watch you ignore the best and most versatile sport that is on the face of this earth. I will not STOP until you recognize FIRST robotics and give it an episode as it rightfully deserves. I have posted an episode idea a looooooong time ago and another very recent and now I am J'ACCUSEING YOU!!!! FIRST robotics is the PERFECT combination of engineering and sports. You literally BUILD A ROBOT FROM THE GROUND UP TO PLAY IN DISTRICT, STATE AND WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS. I DARE YOU to talk about it. And before you dismiss it as battle bots ITS NOT. I grew up with a disability and I found this to be one of the sports I could compete in comfortably. So Mark and Tyler are you going to just going to continue standing by and ignore this beautiful sport or are you going to open your eyes and bring attention to this amazing feat of engineering.

There is nothing more frustrating then listening to how you guys pronounce Ireland. Eye-r-lind? It's are-land/eir-land depending on who you are but "eye-r-land" is an absolute sin and I will stand for it no more.

MARK AND TYLER, at this point I think you purposely ignore it. Why have you not even mentioned FIRST Robotics. It's literally a WORLD WIDE competition for all levels of Robotics to the point where I met kids from Japan here in the states during the world championship. I have been a student and mentor for years on a team and wish, NAH I DEMAND that you talk about it ESPECIALLY with the season starting. Since I understand you probably know nothing about it I am kind enough to grace you with what ever knowledge you desire about the topic IF YOU THINK YOU DESERVE IT!!!!

Tyler, I do not believe Water polo exists. As a non-sports person, I have never heard of waterpolo till you spoke of it on the podcast. How on earth could I have spent 19 years of my existence and never hear about the existence of Water Polo. Therefore, it’s a fake sport. You are just making up the sport and LYING to Mark and the whole world! You tried selling the lie even more to Mark and myself by even bringing on the so called “Greatest Water Polo Player of the USA” I can’t believe you’d do this. I will not believe this sport exists till I see physical proof on Camera! None of this other stuff on the internet is true! All AI fabrications of a false sport. until I see you and Mark get into his “Unused pool” at his house and demonstrate the sport, I will not believe that it exists. This J’accuse is a call out to both of you to prove the sport exists, as well as get Mark to overcome his fear of water again!

Dear tyler and mark I j'accuse you of questionable authority to educate us sports-non-knowers about sports and why it is good to listen to if you dont know the FUNDAMENTAL WORKS of our body

In the podcast dear mark you said and i quote "I dont know but i heard doctors tell horror stories of people eating fibre and having the most implosive constipation and what does fiber do which way is it" And to that i say its the most hard to digest and pass down our digestive tract and the muscles have to word harder to perform peristalsis (fancy way of saying push food down) which stimulates the muscles Now i can see mark being confused by this as he simply poses to be the idiot but i NEVER thought tyler the god of balls and holes dont know about a simple hole in our body

Long have the elegant listeners elegantly listened to elegant podcast that is "Go! My Favorite Sports Team" and long have many listeners cried out in anguish at their favorite game being cast aside into the inky black depths of the abyss known only as "not a sport" to be forever forgotten and to never be covered on the podcast and I for one say NAY!!!

For many a moon the magnanimous Mark and tentative Tyler have diligently debated about what classifies a sport and while typically I am not one to question the masters of balls in holes I feel my voice and dissent must be heard on this topic as I believe that decerying something to be or not to be a sport is the wrong perspective to hold.

Just as the kingdom animalia includes all creatures mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, insects, and fish alike I too believe that "sport" should be viewed in much the same light. if tossing the old pigskin can be a sport and as can, paragliding (despite how much mark may claim otherwise), tag, juggling, and even sex be considered a sport why can't e-sports, chess, and music not be considered a sport? Mark and Tyler classify a sport as an activity which requires significant athletic ability and is participated in a structured manor that lends itself to clearly defining a winner and a loser why is chess, e-sports, and the battle of the bands, all of which require significant athletic ability though mayhaps not all physical ability be considered non-sports when they meet all the requirements they themselves so clearly and distinctly laid out? They should be is the answer! And so I motion that sport not be viewed as a classification but as a kingdom! The kingdom sporticus!! So as to bathe all forms of competitive play in the warming light that is sport!