Fantasy Life
Podcast
Podcast Production: Fantasy Life
Fully-Remote Podcast Production with Cuez
Producing live and on-demand sports content every week is not easy, especially when your team is fully remote and your shows are distributed across YouTube, Roku Sports, Fubo, Unbeaten, podcasts, and LG channels. For Fantasy Life’s production crew, led by producer Matt Swing and technical director Kelsey Lukens, keeping everything organised was becoming increasingly challenging.
This is the story of how they transitioned from spreadsheets and scattered documents to a seamless, collaborative, cloud-based workflow using Cuez, and how it has transformed their entire production process.
Moving Into One Shared Space
Fantasy Life had been operating rundowns across Google Sheets, Word documents, and standalone spreadsheets, each containing different pieces of information. The result: messy workflows and unnecessary friction between production, talent, and graphics teams.
As Matt recalls:
“We were finding that some of our previous ways of doing rundowns… were a little confusing.”
Each update required multiple messages or corrections, and working remotely only made things even more complicated.
“The technical setup was relatively easy… and the team at Cuez was always eager to help us out.”
A Smoother, Smarter Way to Build Shows
When the team began looking for a central hub for timing, scripts, graphics, and director notes, Cuez stood out for its simplicity and minimal infrastructure demands. No servers. No installations. Just a browser.
With Cuez in place, Fantasy Life’s entire production process shifted into a smoother, more collaborative rhythm. Instead of scattered spreadsheets, multiple docs, and endless messages, the team now builds every show inside one clear, shared rundown.
Timings, topics, graphics requests, technical cues, and even private director notes all live together in an organised workspace that everyone can rely on. As Kelsey explains,
“I like that Cuez allows me to basically put any information I want without jumbling up rundown for others.”
The team also gained real-time timing control that actually works the way a live show needs it to: floating items, adjusting durations, and updating the episode structure on the fly without interrupting talent mid-conversation. Hosts instantly see the changes, which keeps the pacing smooth and the show on time.
Because everything is cloud-based, Fantasy Life’s remote crew now feels connected as if they’re sharing the same control room. There’s no server room, no installs, no heavy downloads—just a link. Kelsey says it best:
“We just go to a website and the information’s in front of us. It allows us to bring everybody into a control room without physically being in that space.”
Even post-production benefits. Editors no longer scrub endlessly through master outputs searching for the right clip. The rundown shows exactly where everything lives, making the entire process faster and more accurate. And across pre-production, live recording, and post-production, each team member stays aligned, even when working from different locations. As Matt puts it,
“Everybody being on the same page helps pre-, post- and during production.”
Together, these improvements have helped Fantasy Life run a tighter, clearer, and more efficient workflow, one built for the realities of modern, remote sports media production.
A Modern Rundown for a Modern Production Team
For Fantasy Life, Cuez didn’t just tidy up the workflow, it improved the entire production process.
They now collaborate faster, manage timing more confidently, and operate a remote control room without the usual overhead.
It’s the kind of upgrade that quietly reshapes how a team works: show after show, week after week.
