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Golden Grizzlies.

Golden Grizzlies. I knew that take down Kentucky in the one true stunner from day one of March Madness. Jack Golkey hit ten threes from Michigan.

Oakland is.

Yes. From Detroit. Hit ten threes. He was the.

Wait, really?

Yeah.

I did not know that until just now. I was looking up Jack Golkey stats before we started the podcast and I was like, oh, I guess he played small ball in Michigan somewhere. Then he moved out to California. He's actually from home of Derek Watt.

Yes.

And JJ Watt. And TJ Watt.

Yes.

Yeah. It is in Michigan.

That guy could not miss. It was incredible. He was double teamed. He was coming off screens with no daylight, just sinking everything. It was so much fun.

He is the perfect March madness guy. He has taken a total of eight two pointers all season long. One of the coolest stats out there.

He was single one.

He was shooting shots that no one should be shooting, fully covered, just draining threes. That was perfectly March Madness. And he had a quote after where he was like, I know that they have a bunch of NBA guys. I know that I'm not going to be playing in the NBA, but on any given day I can compete with those types of guys. That's what March Madness is.

This guy is going to absolutely rock some men's league basketball.

And he's perfect because he already looks like a men's league basketball player because he's kind of got like a little bit of the male pattern baldness. Starting his bit head is huge.

Got a little Derek Carr in him.

Yeah.

And I hope it keeps going. I actually.

We'll see.

Because we're basically have a matchup of America's sweethearts in the second round now because it's Jack Golke and the Oakland Golden Grizzlies going up against the team that just cannot lose right now in NC State.

Yeah, they do very fun teams.

Yeah.

They've won six straight. Well, six straight tournament games. Because they won five straight ACC tournament games and now they've won their first tournament game. I think it was since flute girl.

Really?

Yeah, against Villanova. They showed flute.

They showed that clip.

They always find a way to show flute.

I wonder what flute girl is doing these days.

Yeah.

I hope that she was able to overcome her. She was everywhere right after that for, like, years. And I think maybe when Villanova won the championship, I feel like that was her redemption story where it's like, okay, now I'm not going to get brought up all the time. They made a girl.

No, I don't.

But they put her in that commercial, basically.

Yeah.

No, they show her every single tournament.

They have a clarinet player.

Yeah.

They have a fake. They. But that was the first time NC state won a tournament game since then. But this is what we watch for the tournament. You don't know who's going to become the hero. Out of nowhere. I did try to try to get everyone on Sanford. They were absolutely robbed at the end of the game against Kansas, where they had a perfect block, called a foul and ended up losing the game. But that's the beauty of the tournament. You don't know what team is going to pop up and have everyone talking about them. And now we have Oakland versus NC State. The winner of that game is going to be the talk of the week leading up to Sweet 16 because it'll be a great story either way.

They're two very fun teams to root for. And NC State with DJ Burns. Sexy red, that dude, he's a big dude, but he moves his feet. He's like a ballerina on his feet. He's a great passer, soft touch. You can't root against him and then you can't root against Golkie. So I don't know, just take the over.

Yeah.

The next be, there should be a rule where two of the Cinderellas that have very fun players on them, if they both get matched up with each other in the second round, you should be able to float one spot. Yeah, you float one spot. Because I don't want either of those two guys to go home. I want to get more of those dudes in the tournament. Did you see there was a very funny quote after Arizona. Arizona beat the fuck out of Long Beach State. Yes, very funny quote from the athletic.

Director at Long Beach State who fired Dan Munson.

He fired Dan Munson or their conference term. Dan Munson kept coming into work, which kept winning.

Also was very funny about it because Dan Munson had a great quote where he said the day after he got fired, he went into film study with his team and he's like, you see this close out, guys? This is what gets coaches fired.

Yeah.

And they all laughed and they're like, yeah, it's great. That hits hard.

So the athletic director said the timing of his decision to part ways with Dan Munson was done with the hope that it might trigger the exact run that led the team on unexpected trips to march Madness. Here's a direct quote from him.

Ready?

My belief in hope is that by doing what I did and the timing of it, they would play inspired. And that's what they did. I'm not trying to pat myself on the back, but it worked.

Bullshit.

What a piece of shit that guy is.

Yeah.

Long beach put a little scare into Arizona. For a minute there. We had a couple of scares, but it was really just about Oakland and Kentucky. And then the other big winner of the day, I thought was the Pac twelve Washington State beat Drake. Drake. Now, this is just their mo. They get in the tournament, they get a lead at the end of a game, and then they just stop scoring and lose that game. The exact same thing happened to him last year against Miami. So Arizona, Washington State. And then we had obviously Colorado won on Wednesday night. And then I'm going to mention it again with Matt Jones, but Dana Altman, my most underrated coach in America. I love how he coaches basketball. Dana Altman in the Oregon Ducks similar run to NC State, wouldn't have been in the tournament. Win the Pac twelve tournament. Fun fact, Dana Altman is now eight and o in first round NCAA tournament. He is such a good coach and he has them going every single, like overachieving every single year. And so we have, like Dana Altman, Izzo. Izzo. Did it again.

So did it again.

Now it's going to be Izzo against UNC, which we talk about with Stanford. Steve coming up in a little bit.

Not to pat myself on the back, but just wait for that moment.

But if Michigan State can win too, then I think all the talk around Izzo is forgotten because he has done a masterful job of just getting to a point where he doesn't have any expectations in the tournament every year. And then he surpasses those expectations.

And it's perfectly Izzo because he has two guards. Like his team has not played well pretty much all year, but he has two guards that when they do want to play well, they're a nightmare for.

Yep.

And that's what he does. And yeah, so it was a great day.

Tennessee took care of business, too.

Tennessee took care of business. Iowa State took care of business. Creighton had a little scare with Akron at the beginning of the game, but they took care of business. Yeah.

Texas took care of business.

Colorado State, they caught Virginia.

They got COVID-19 that was actually more embarrassing for Virginia.

Yeah.

The fact that they scored 14 points against Colorado State and were in the first half and were the laughingstock of America on Tuesday night. And then Colorado State beat them by 25, showed up to the tournament and scored eleven points in the first.

And it makes it doubly worse for Cavaliers fans because they were so desperate for one team to lay a giant egg so that they could be like, see, we did belong in the tournament. We're taking all this heat. Other teams can have bad days, too. The one team that you couldn't have that happen to was the team that beat you in Colorado State.

Yes.

We also had you called McNeese, too. Good call on giving out the mcneese schedule.

Yeah.

The University of Mississippi. University of Women.

Yeah.

Is that what it was?

Yeah.

They're not McNefe and biblical studies.

Biblical studies.

Yeah.

They got absolutely whomped. Turns out you got to play a couple of people. Gonzaga looked damn good. And now we get a good Kansas Gonzaga blue blood matchup in the second round. Also shout out to Kane. I hand up. I was very wrong about that. I thought that they were. The talk of the seeding was that they shouldn't have been an eleven seed. They proved everyone wrong.

All the bid Steelers carry business today. Oregon, Duquesne and NC State.

Yeah.

They were all hot. Ducane. I was hand up very wrong. They played lights out. They held on. It felt like BYU was going to maybe steal it back from them, but they are a tough, tough team.

Yeah.

So the stat is that number eleven seeds are 27 and 25 in the first round since 2010.

Yeah.

Which is pretty impressive.

Eleven s are the new twelve.

Yeah.

And then number three seeds also dominate the six seeds. Number three seeds in the later rounds are 22 and five. I guess you don't want to be a six seed. Yeah, that's the kiss.

Six seed. Well, because it kind of makes sense because the 6th seed usually is a team that had flashes of being good but probably faded at some point in their schedule. You know what that weird. It's kind of what the five seed was for a long time and.

Yeah.

I mean, six seeds had a very bad day. They went three.

Yeah.

Very bad.

Yeah.

Very bad day to be a six seed.

Yeah.

Texas tech got absolutely worked by NC State. Also, we should mention the Dayton comeback. We also have a coworker who went to Dayton, Dukes, who was literally crying after the comeback. Now, Dayton was the 7th seed. They were underdogs, but yeah, they were. They were underdogs. They were two point underdogs. Two and a half point underdogs. Oh, happy birthday to Dave Portnoy. Didn't realize that Max just pulled up his Twitter and he had the balloons. Dukes was crying though. Dayton was an incredible, incredible comeback. They basically was like a 22 run.

56 to 40 on the win probability. Nevada had 99.5% chance.

Jeez.

And Nevada scored four points the rest of the game. Seven minutes.

Crazy. I mean, it was an awesome day. I lost a lot of bets, but that's not what it's about. It's about having fun with your friends.

It's about the bets that you didn't make that would have lost.

Yeah.

And when I say having fun with your friends, that's loser talk for someone who doesn't win their bets. Because if I won my bets, I'd be like, it's about winning bets.

It was still fun. It was still a fun day for, I think the first time in four years I'm up after day one. I'll take that.

That's a huge.

You just got to make positive steps.

Yeah, that's a huge, huge win. Do we miss anyone? I think we hit pretty much all.

I think you guys hit all of it. But I think this Kansas Sanford story is going to just blow over because of the timing of it.

But it was egregious and they would have had numbers the other way to take the lead.

I think they made that call because he fell hard. That's it. Yeah, that's why they made the call.

It was shout out, by the way, to Sanford alum Devlin Hodges.

Duck.

You remember Steelers.

I love duck.

Yeah.

He's the only guy that I know that went to Sanford. That was bad. You have every right to be mad online. You have every right to go January 6 on the NCAA offices. If you're Sanford, and I know you.

Can say like, oh, there's so many other calls, he shouldn't have been down 20.

Yes.

But in that moment, that's a bad one.

Yeah. Also, Sanford was dead. They were like Capital D dead for most of the game. And then they just put together this crazy run and you look up and you're like, oh, shit, it's still alive.

Bucky ball. They just Chucky Breeze and they press and they were just given up. A million points in the paint.

Because would you say that with some of the upsets, the bracket opens up real nice for JMU or Wisconsin?

Well, we haven't played our quadrant.

Just I'm all optimism right now.

Sure.

I haven't got it beaten out of me yet.

Yeah. All right, before we do some picks for tomorrow, we got to quickly talk about Shohei Otani.

It's appropriate timing for.

Yeah, yeah.

So Shohei Otani, one of the weirdest stories that broke Wednesday night, so the story goes, he went to the media and was like my interpreter. I had to wire money to my interpreter because he was in gambling debt. Four and a half million dollars.

Yeah.

So Otani and his representative talked to the media. So it was somebody that was, I don't know if it was his manager, but somebody that was there to tell the media, like, the official story.

Right. So he was like, the official story is my interpreter. I had to send him four and a half million dollars because he was in gambling debt. And then almost immediately after that, he's like, wait, no, he actually stole the money from me. I was joking.

Yeah.

Maybe it would look bad if you were like, my interpreter is four and a half million dollars in debt and people are. Huh. That's weird. Your interpreter is four and a half million dollars in debt.

And they were seen in the dugout of the baseball game, the MLB game, like, laughing and joking. The interpreter and Otani, after this statement had been released, and it didn't look like somebody that had stolen four and a half million dollars.

It looked like someone was like, we should take Oakland moneyline.

It looks like someone that was like, we got away with this.

Yeah.

So there's a problem. There's a lot of problems. One is I'm going to take Otani at his word.

Okay. Yeah.

I'm going to say that the.

Well, we don't know his word because he doesn't have an interpreter anymore.

Okay. Well, I'm going to take him at his representative's first word.

Okay.

Before he fired the interpreter, which is.

Beautiful that he now doesn't have to answer questions because you have an interpreter.

Yeah. And correct me if I'm wrong here, but the interpreter who makes, what, $200,000 a year.

Correct.

Was $4 million in debt.

Correct.

How would that happen? Because the only way it would happen would be if they were using a bookie that was willing to give that interpreter that amount of credit.

Correct.

If he makes $200,000 a year, why would the bookie give him four and a half million dollars worth of credit.

You're asking very good questions. It would be no different than if memes. There was a story that memes was $5 million in debt to a bookie.

And everyone was like, I wonder whose money? Like what?

Yeah, makes sense.

I'm just connecting some dots here. And baseball has got a big problem because.

Problem?

Shohei Otani stands to make MLB hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more. Over the course of his career. He's playing in the biggest market, by the way. Maybe that's why he moved to Los Angeles, was because he loved betting on his team so much and he couldn't make any money off it with the Angels, so he moved to the Dodgers so they could win some games and some money.

Also, California doesn't have legalized gambling.

They do not. So, again, this was all on credit with an illegal bookmaker. And it seems to me like baseball, given how much money they stand to make from Otani, really does not want to have to treat Otani like they would anyone. Can you imagine if it was a utility player that paid off four and a half million dollars? How fast would that guy be banned from baseball for life?

And let's do a hypothetical real quick. Just a quick hypothetical, because hypothetically speaking. Well, no, this part is real. Newsflash. I like to gamble. Okay. Hypothetically speaking, though, if someone were to give me $700 million, knowing that I like to gamble, I'd probably ask for it in little pieces, not all up front, maybe a deferment, because I know that I like to gamble, and I don't want all the money right away because I like to gamble.

How pissed do you think Otani's interpreter was? If it was really him that was in debt? That's like, don't worry, I'm good for it. I got a big payday coming in soon. Yeah, we're about to sign a new contract, and then Otani is like, hey, man.

Yeah.

We're not going to get that money for ten years.

Yeah, it's like, fuck, we'll get a little bit. We'll get enough to march Madness.

Yeah, just get us through the NCAA tournament. We're fine.

What do you say, Hank?

It's going to sound crazy, but four and a half billion for what he makes is also not that much.

Oh, yeah, for Otani, right?

Yeah, but for his interpreter, yeah, no.

That'S like his unises for all, relatively speaking.

Yeah.

Isn't crazy. I mean, you hear, like, Floyd Mayweather bets a million dollars a game. That's eye popping. But then you're like, wait, but Floyd Mayweather makes like a hundred million dollars a idea.

Yeah.

For his interpreter, that's a big number.

My idea for Rob Manford is very simple. You just do the reverse Jordan on him and you tell him he has to go play minor league basketball for four years.

I like.

What was he gambling on?

Sports.

That's what I want to know.

Yeah, the best case, because if it was american sports.

Yeah.

Then it was definitely him because the interpreter was explaining it to him. American sports.

How do you want to. The best case scenario, I think for the MLB is like it was somehow casino related. But I don't think it sounds like it is.

No Bruno Mars situation. That's where there's another problem is if the only way that you could expect a bookmaker to give a guy four and a half million dollars worth of credit to bet on if he makes 200 grand a year is if that guy is doing other stuff for you. If that guy is giving you inside information that he would know because he's inside a clubhouse every single day.

Interesting situation MLB has their hands in now.

Very interesting.

Yeah.

So that's it. We'll see what happens. This also all broke when he's overseas. Right? Because they started the season in Japan. No, Korea. Korea. So, yeah, we'll see when he gets back. But again, it's very funny because he's going to walk in and they're going to ask him questions like, I don't have an interpreter. He gambled too much.

Hank, when you said like, explain american sports to him, do you think he doesn't know how to bet on basketball? His wife is a basketball player.

Facts. She's actually a bucket.

She is. With all due respect, I'd knock it out of the park.

But like football?

Yeah. Okay.

Yeah, hockey.

So we're going to find out a lot more.

God, it would rule if Shohei Otani was betting on. If. What if Shohei Otani is like goddamn bowling green. What if Shohei Otani is an ICE man? I would add up. Trust the data too much.

If they're sitting there watching NFL on a Sunday, the interpreter is probably explaining things to them.

So the interpreter is the bad gambler.

No, Shohei is the bad gambler.

Right.

But if it's american sports, then it's.

I think that probably knows how to. I think he probably watches football and knows how to bet on football. Allegedly his interpreter Showhei.

But yeah, there's going to be a lot of twists and turns in this story as it ends up coming out and baseball has painted itself into a corner as being, like, the ultimate high and mighty moral arbiter of all things good. And.

Yep.

And you got Pete Rose. Pete Rose is watching this closer than anyone. Pete Rose is like, what are you.

Going to do to and, and all the steroid guys? So, yeah, it's going to be interesting, but, yeah, we'll update as it goes along. I'm sure we'll have updates on Monday's show. All right, should we do some quick picks before we get to Matt Jones? So, Uber eats. This is the weekend for Uber Eats. I'm going to say it right now. This is the weekend for Uber eats because when tuning in to all the March madness, March mania this weekend, turn to Uber eats for all your delivery needs. Uber Eats is more than just food from your favorite restaurant. I'm talking groceries, convenience items, and alcohol. Whether you need dog treats, peanut butter, St. Patrick's Day decorations, or beer, or maybe all four, uber eats can deliver almost, almost anything. Get grocery alcohol and everyday essentials in addition to the restaurant food you love. So in other words, get almost anything with Uber Eats. Order now for alcohol, you must be legal drinking age. Please enjoy responsibly. Product availability varies by region. See app for details. Uber eats get almost anything. All right, what do we like tomorrow, boys?

I got a simple day. I got a simple one for you.

I have a mega Max super lock of the tournament.

Okay, I'll let you guys go.

I have a lock plus.

Well, no, now you have to go.

No, you guys go do your mega, mega Max super lock.

Than a mega Max lock the tournament.

No, mine's just. Mine's just.

How'd you do the main event before the undercard?

Mine's a max plus.

Yours is bigger, so you do yours first.

I like Texas a M plus one. I think they're going to bother Nebraska a lot.

I like the under in western Kentucky. Marquette. Western Kentucky loves to run the floor, but they suck.

They chuck, they are bad.

They're a bad offensive team, but they.

Take a lot of bad shots. But sometimes they go in.

Yeah, but I don't think they're going in this time.

Okay.

158 under.

I love, love, love Purdue. Oh, revenge.

Yeah, I could see that.

The Uva formula, they're not.

Yeah. Didn't Uva win the next year?

Yeah, remember the next year? They were down at half to Gardner Webb as a one seed. They ended up winning it, obviously, and winning it all. But they had a slow start again.

Yeah, it's happening again. Max nit.

It's March madness. I have six and a half.

You were all about the Nit a day ago.

Yeah.

Come on.

I'm allowed to have a little fun. UAB plus six and a half.

What happened with the NIt?

I think UAB is pretty good. The Mountain west stinks. Mountain west loses every game. UAB plus six and a half. What happened to Nova?

They lost in the NIT.

UAB is a pretty good program.

In the opening round of the NIT.

There's no jelly Walker this year.

Were you guys at home?

Pretty good squad.

Well, at least losing in the first round of the NIT means that Kyle Neptune is going to get fired.

No.

Oh, I'll take coach Kyle.

I would love coach Kyle.

Max is just dealing with coaches. He wants fired that won't get fired. It's great.

Now Neptune's got one more year on his contract to make or break year next year, but I think we're going.

To lose all our guys.

Yeah, he's going to be a lame duck coach. Okay, well, good luck to everyone. We have more picks coming with Stanford. Steve, we're going to talk about the entire Friday day slate with him. Before we do that, Matt Jones is going to join us. We forgot to mention Matt Jones has a great Netflix show out called the wrestlers. Go watch it right now. Support our friend Matt Jones. It's awesome. I watched it. If you're a wrestling fan, you got.

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What went wrong? Kentucky bows out of the tournament in disgrace yet again. Loses to 14 seed Oakland. You can just tell us what you're feeling or where you want to start because, sure, we have some follow up questions, but the floor is yours. Speak for Kentucky.

The last time you had me on your show was when Mitch McConnell got me kicked off the radio and I didn't have a job. And I think this is worse. I'll be honest with you. I think this might be terrible. You know, lowest of St. Peter's in Oakland two of the last three years, and I think probably the end of the Caliperi era. There's a really good, I mean, I don't think it's certain, but I think a lot of the fans want that and it's just sad. Listen, you guys are fans of your teams. When you really love something and it feels like the end of an era tonight, and that kind of sucks.

Yeah, that is tough. His buyout is what, $33 million?

Yeah. It's port noise kind of money, not ours. Right. But they may have to do it because this fan base, I've never seen them this upset ever.

Yeah.

So I was reading some stats earlier that Kentucky has only won one NCAA tournament game since 2019. These are actually your stats that you tweet out and that Kentucky has won one SEC tournament game since 2019. It's hard to hear that and not be like, what the hell is going on at Kentucky? How did he get to this point?

Well, you guys were the first ones to ever put him on the hot seat.

Yeah.

But we also said to give him an extension.

Yeah.

I'm looking forward to you hosting this summer. I hope you'll do it again. You'll have a lot to talk about. I think he's kind of gotten a little big for the program. I think his relationships here are pretty poor. He has no relationship with the ad, no relationship with the boosters, no relationship with the media. You guys know, I used to be pretty close with him. He does not like us now at KSR. It's just unfortunate because I think he's a good, you know, sometimes times, right. Like, sometimes you just got to say that's. I think. I don't know if we're there, but I think we're pretty close.

Yeah. So Cal has been very vocal in the last several years about how proud he is of his track record with guys that he brings into the program, develops them, gets them into the NBA and then gets them massive contracts in the NBA. His alumni. Right. So that's kind of what he's hung his hat on. And he had a quote after today's game that says, it's going to be hard for me to change that bringing in freshmen because we've helped so many young people and their families that I don't see myself saying, okay, we're not going to include freshmen. Don't. With a coach like that, I understand where he's coming from, but I can't see a fan base really having that message resonate with them if you're not also winning. Right.

They hate that. The fans here hate that. He says the draft is the important thing, changing. Everybody likes the draft. But I could sit here and go through the players he's had just in the last like eight or nine. Alexander, Devin Booker, Tyrese Maxey, right, Casey Wallace, all these guys, Oscar Shebway, all these dudes, and then they haven't won anything. And I think that fox, Monk, Adebayo, all these guys, Jamal Murray. And to have all those dudes and think about all those guys I just mentioned, not one final four in that entire group, except, I mean, Carl, Devin Booker made the final four, but the rest of them, no final fours. I think that's a lot. I think people are kind of tired of it. And then to say he's not going to change, I mean, look, I will tell you, when I saw gunkle or whatever his name was. Oakland.

Yeah.

I thought of you two because I thought you guys had to love him, right?

Real ham and egg hairline.

Played D three basketball and he goes out, he's talking trash, 30 points. But losing to dudes like that, when you've got the players, Cal has Dillingham and shepherd going to be top ten picks. I think fans are just kind of over it.

Yeah. That is the extra pain that Kentucky goes through because it's very rare that they don't have a more talented team and they keep having these disappointments. So let me ask you this, if Cal somehow stays, is there a fix? Because to me, the biggest issue with Kentucky right now is that it's a lot of recruiting and not a lot of coaching. I've watched a lot of Kentucky basketball this year. There wasn't a lot of set plays. There was a lot of guys who are really talented off the dribble. The defense never came around. He said he was going to do some tweaks. There were no tweaks. It felt like he was the last person on earth to find out that Oakland ran a zone and that golfie could shoot from. To me, I'm just watching that game and I'm like, did Kentucky, did they plan anything for this game? Or were they just going to roll the ball out and say, we're better than you? Because it feels like that's what happens time and time again. So is there if Cal says, if he says in two weeks I'm hiring the best assistant coaches I can find, we're going to get back to basics.

We have to actually run some stuff and teach these guys basketball. That's winning basketball. Would the fan base be like, okay, maybe this is different?

I mean, maybe. But first of all, he would have to admit that, which he won't, right? He believes that the way he plays is the way you should play. I mean, after the game today, he said, we had a lot of freshmen do things they've never done before. But you watch the game. I mean, they ran a zone, a little jump zone, and Kentucky couldn't get any shots open. I mean, listen, Oakland should have won by more. They missed eleven free throws. I'll even say we got the good side of the whistle, right? Like, I think we got some good calls. So it could have been worse. There's no assistant. He won't listen to them. Listen, how many, 60? However many year old? How many of those guys do you know that change?

Yeah.

The best thing, here's one of the things I like about the culture you guys have at barstool. You guys have, you two are very successful. Dave is very successful. But you all are surrounded by people that are not on your all's level in terms of success. But you give each other a hard time and you listen to each other, right? And so you will listen to people that might be lower on the food chain, but you'll consider what they say. Cal's not like that. Cal is in charge. People can say whatever he wants. He's still going to do what he wants to do. And that's a good way to lose your grip on success.

That's crazy to me because it's so nuts to be this coach who's been wildly successful and not like Saban is the perfect example. How many times did Saban change what he did when he won national titles where he was running the football and playing great defense, then linebackers got smaller and people were spreading it out. He got Tua and all those wide receivers and it was that shape shifting of like, I will get with the times, Cal, that stat, I know you probably know it in the back of your hand, but up until I think, what is the LSU game? They hadn't hit a game winner in forever because they ran the same play every time for a game winning shot. And it's like teams knew this, 32.

Shots until the Mississippi State game. They had 32 shots at the end of games to win and they had missed all of them.

Right.

Which is a crazy stat. And then they hit the one with shepherd this year. Saban is a great example because to me, Saban is an exact example of what you should do. Like, Cal would never bring in a lane Kiffin kind of guy to be an assistant. Like, he would never do that. But that's what Saban is the most successful coach of all time. But he had the humility to say, look, I need help with this, right? I need to bring this guy in for modern offense. Cal won't do that. Listen, when dudes get a certain age, they do not change. And the ones that do are special. Saban Sshewski did that, right? So he was recruiting a certain kind of way and then he goes, you know what? I got to go get the stars. I got to go get the star freshman. And he did. And they kind of took a lot of Cal's guys. Like, think about Zion. Zion would have been a Kentucky player in the day.

Cal made Kay change. That's a fact.

Exactly right.

He did.

And now Cal needs to change back because Jay Wright tonight said it the best. Because of nil, these dudes are staying in college longer, and that's about to happen. Like, you're going to see good players stay in college for three and four years. And I just don't know if you can win with freshmen anymore because these, I mean, hell, the guy, two of the starters on Oakland were 24 years old. We're starting three guys that are 18. That's a big difference.

Yeah, no, you're right.

Have you allowed your mind to wander yet? Have you thought who would look good in kentucky blue? I'm going to throw a couple names out there.

All right, let me hear them.

And if we're talking buyouts, there's a guy down in Alabama who just got a new contract with a massive buyout. But if you want to win, nate Oates is a hot name.

Yeah, but nate Oates hadn't won anything. I like his trash talking, but he doesn't win anything yet. Now, maybe he'll do it this year, but he hadn't won anything.

I like that, matt, because I was floating that out there to see if y'all were still kentucky. Yeah, and you're still kentucky.

What about, hey, Matt, what about coach k? What about get him out of, I.

Mean, well, here's what they'll do. First of all, if Cal is gone, and I don't think that's certain, but let's say once, the first thing they'll do is, I know the first two people they'll call. They'll call Jay Wright and they'll call Brad Stevens and they'll say, any chance?

Yeah.

My guess is both of them would say no, but that's the first thing they would.

Yeah.

And then I think their next thing would probably be Scott Drew at Baylor, would be who they would try to get. But I'll tell you, after Scott Drew, I would ask you guys, like, there's.

Not an obvious yeah, there on, he was on this show and he said that he never should have left Kentucky.

He said such nice things about.

How about that Rick Patino on. How did you not ask him about some of the stories I told on your show here?

Well, we were very intimidated. It was the most that PFT and I talked about an interview before doing an interview. We're like, okay, this guy was nice enough to come in. We said a lot of, yep. We have to obviously own up to some of the things without getting into too much detail, which I think we did well. But we were like, we've done some interviews that we haven't aired where we screwed up by kind of being like, it didn't go well right away. So we're like, let's have a good interview here. But, yeah, it was in our mind.

The entire, I'm kidding you. I thought you did a great job. People want you to be jerks to people when you interview them and you can't. It's hard to do that. And I thought you guys, I actually thought you made him seem very.

Was he is Matt, we're Rick Patino guys.

Wanted, I wanted at least one down my leg, though.

I did.

I wanted one down my leg.

I bit the fuck out of the inside of my cheek at one point during the interview. Just like, don't do a PFT. It went against everything in my nature and I hated it.

But, yeah, people remember, by the way, how crazy that story is. But no, I mean, like, he takes his equipment manager, asks him to take the woman to get an abortion.

I don't recall. Yeah, this sounds fake to me. We're Rick Patino guys. Now.

But they fell in love at subway over.

No, that's a beautiful place. That's a beautiful place.

Different. You got patino derangement syndrome.

$5 foot long.

Listen, I actually found myself this year, guys. And you know what my patino history is? I found myself pulling for him at st. John's. I wanted him to make the tournament.

Yeah, he does a subway commercial. It's like jared, but he's holding up the pants with a stain on.

Listen, he. Patino would be a great coach to go back to.

Yeah.

I mean, it feels like kentucky would have the pick of the litter. I don't know. I mean, I'll throw out another name who's the opposite of cal and the fact that I think he's a fantastic coach. X's and o's. What about musselman, arkansas? It's even, like, little stuff. Like, there's certain coaches, like. All right, so back to cal and how he coaches. We saw today dana altman, oregon coach I think he's one of the most underrated coaches.

I agree.

He always has teams overachieving to their talent level and playing great tournament basketball, throwing like the defense he threw at South Carolina today, had them completely befuddled in the first half or like even Shaka Smart, even as it drives me nuts that he's on the court. But going back to know game when they played against Villanova, he drew up the perfect play at the end of the game that ended up not counting. But, like those type of things where it's like you have a coach that you know will steal you at least a few possessions a game when it comes to out of time out calls, when it comes to little throwing, little wrinkles at them for a possession here and there. And that's the stuff that Cal just doesn't do. And it would drive me nuts as a Kentucky fan.

It does some. I think at this job, though, this is like, know, I don't know if people outside the state realize, but you have to be a rock star to be at this job. This is a hard job in the state of Kentucky. This is what we do. I mean, you guys know, you've hosted the show every. It's, it's what people live. Be like. Dana Altman looks like an.

Yeah.

Can't be an accountant. You have to be a rock. Know if Nate Oates had ever won. He's an example of a guy who has that personality, but he still hasn't won anything yet, so I think it makes it hard. This is tough. Normally, there's always a guy that I think, well, if Cal leaves, we'd get this dude.

Yeah.

Right now.

I mean, Scott Drew, he's won a lot. He's kind of, you get. Do you get Scott Drew? That's why I think they'll go hard if calibs. And again, I don't know if he will, but Jay Wright and Brad Stevens would be.

Wright would be very good.

Yeah, Jay Wright.

What about.

Kentucky?

That's the opposite. He's a wrestler.

Yeah.

I want to win. Just give me somebody that will win. The fact that nobody got upset tonight but us, that also makes it stink. All the favorites won except us tonight.

Yeah.

No, the eleven seeds had a nice showing, but you're right. It felt like all day. We were just watching for that big moment. It's like, oh, here comes Kentucky shitting down their pants again. All right, so last question for you, Matt. Your show, which everyone should tune in tomorrow, what are you expecting in terms of the anger and the calls? I would imagine there's probably people already on hold right now waiting to talk to you. But is it going to be one of those shows where it's just going to be people just calling in and ripping them apart?

Well, I already did a post game show a little while ago, and we had one person cry.

Okay.

We had one person very angry. We had a couple of people drunk say, cal, better get out of here. So I think it'll be more of that. I don't think we're going to be very reasonable, to be honest with you. This is amongst the spam base. As many things, they're not reasonable is not one of them. I want to say one thing, and I want to do it on your show because people, your listeners need to hear this. These two dudes, I've known these two dudes now since before they were popular. I'm telling you, the guys you hear, I get asked this all the time about you all. Like, are those really nice guys, the guys you hear on the show, this is how they are in real life. They are kind to people that they don't need to be kind to. And I know they're funny and hilarious and super successful, but they're as good a guys as you hope they would be, which I can't say about everybody. And I just want to say that on your.

Thank you, Matt. I'm glad to hear the check cleared.

Yeah. Good.

Well, let me ruin that for you real quick. Matt, would you say the last time that this fan base was truly happy with coach Cal and Kentucky basketball was March 20, eigth, 2015, when you beat Notre Dame in the elite eight to punch your ticket to the final four at 38? No. Would that be the last time?

That might be right. I think we were pretty happy up until we lost to Carolina in 2017 and I got sued by John Higgins and won the lawsuit in the 6th circuit. That's the last time maybe we were happy.

Okay.

Your Wisconsin team. I don't even want to hear it. It's still the thing I hold against you the most in life.

That's fair. It's probably, like one of my happiest moments, and it didn't end well a couple days after that.

But that's the Kentuckyness of it all, though. Like, big cat's favorite moment is beating you guys.

That's how high the standard Kentucky.

Yeah.

We didn't even win it.

Supposed to be Kentucky.

I revealed the brackets on ESPN, and when I saw James Madison versus Wisconsin, I said on the ESPN show, it's the pardon my take matchup. And then when I left, I went into the restroom and somebody goes, I'm not going to say who it was, but somebody goes, maybe be careful talking about the pardon my take matchup.

Everybody knows I didn't love it.

You know what?

Rent free.

Rent free. And ESPN said, yeah, Matt, I heard that one caller called in today and said that you guys are now the new Indiana. How did that make you feel?

Listen, we are not that pathetic. We would never wear those stupid striped pants and we would never make their stupid rap videos. Indiana hasn't been good in 25 years, so I will not be insulted and be called Indiana.

Okay, last question. Are you guys a football school now?

Yeah.

Well, I think we got to go to a playoff first, but I will say it's now become more of a debate. You guys would love mark Stoops, by the way.

Oh, we've had him on. We've had him on. Yeah, we've had him on. He's the best.

And you would like Cal, too. You're going to get Cal at some point, and you'll end up charmed by him.

I think Stoops was at Bo Polini's. What tournament was that?

It was his bocce tournament.

Bocce tournament.

Ohio.

Yeah. We had stoops in the back of the van.

I remember that you went to Youngstown. It was great.

It was great. Thanks, Matt. All right, well, Matt, thank you. Sorry again, but you are the best, and we can't wait to host Kentucky sports radio this summer.

Thank you for coming on.

Yes, I can't wait. To my fellow draft Kings guys. You all have a good night.

Love it. Love it.

Take care, Matt.

See you, Matt.

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Enough for something completely different.

Okay, we now welcome on one of our favorite guests, our good, good friend. It is Stanford Steve. You can see him on sports center with SVP. Every night the SVP decides to work. He is one of the sharpest guys we know. What was your, what was your record on game day this year?

Not great.

Oh, no.

Four and one in 2024.

Four and 124. So we're taping this on Tuesday afternoon. So we're going to run it Friday. And we're like, we need to have Steve on. And I think it's the perfect time to have you on because Thursday already happened. If you're listening to this, you got your teeth kicked in, you got absolutely destroyed. And Steve is going to help us navigate the Friday slate and hopefully win us some money. Steve, big thoughts, though, before the tournament starts. This might be bad if you recommend a team that is playing on Thursday and then loses and you say, oh, they could win the final Four. But big overarching thoughts. Your Yukon Huskies look unstoppable. What else you got?

That's the worry right there. Too much Yukon, too much Yukon, too much Yukon. And it's really scary. Also, Dan, I thought you had this in your big brain. You got to have your final four teams on just, just so you have an extra day of the.

Very good point. That's a very good point.

Hopefully North Carolina beat the winner of Howard Wagner because all my other final four teams are playing on Friday.

That's smart.

So no Tennessee? No. Who's the other one? Maybe Iowa State. Not a believer?

No.

What futures do you have? I know you probably have a bunch of futures. What do you got?

I have Yukon all the way back at the beginning I think it was 18 to one.

You got me trumped.

Yukon a couple of weeks ago to make the final four or plus 125.

Okay.

I'm still shopping around for a duke not to make the sweet 16 because that's even money.

I like that.

I was hoping that'd be a better price knowing the teams that they're in a little pod. But I'm sure we're going to talk about no I was, I was solely based on not I didn't buy any of the um. The purdue factor is obviously everybody's feel good story except yours, Dan.

Yeah.

So I do have something in myself rooting for them but yeah we're pretty stacked up on Yukon and now it's pretty scary how much first of all how good they are. But then again the belief because now they are the ultimate one seed. Last year they were a four and I thought they had I think right when Titus did it we were talking about them for the national title. So it's been a storm brewing. You guys have had early on. There's no messing around. I think he's a master motivator in what he does and I could see his motivation for every step of the way because this is the one thing about the tournament and right away it's Yukon has the toughest road. Right. Yukon's bracket's unbelievable. Same thing on the women's side. Caitlin Clark's bracket's incredible. Okay. I understand you see the teams in the bracket but on the bottom they can only play one team.

Right.

So whoever comes out of that bottom and a lot of people are know Illinois or Iowa, that's going to be over. Hopefully both those teams moved on. But they only could play one of those teams. Same thing with San Diego State and Auburn or UAV and Yale. They could only play one of those teams. So I don't look at they're not playing the whole bracket. They play whoever's on the line in front of them. And that's why I don't think it's as tough a walk for Yukon. And the biggest factor of all that no one brought up is they're playing in Brooklyn and Boston.

I know Connecticut's in the middle of know like it's home games and all.

My friends could be as bitter and evil and just flat out mean from Connecticut as possible. And that's all they're saying to themselves. They can't wait to get to the gym.

Well you have to have something to complain about. It's a very nice thing that they have built in. You can get mad about that until you start playing the games. But then the way the tournament always shakes out, you can't predict who's going to win each game. So who knows if they're going to actually have to play two of those tough teams.

I believe in bracket pools, this will be the lowest score or least amount right ever. I think you're better off of getting out of team and riding that thing with a future or betting to make the Sweet 16. I think this bracket pull, I think it's impossible.

Max's mic is on, so we just heard about that. Do you ever do that by mistake, Steve?

Yeah.

Do you ever talk during SCP's show.

When he's doing like one big thing and he's getting real sentimental about something and then you're in the six on Mississippi State.

My producers do a good job in Bristol of if something serious is coming up to get it in my ear.

When Scott's doing a monolog. Have you ever gone on a monitor and just typed in Sydney Sweeney on Twitter and started scrolling through pictures while.

They'Re trying to introduce the show?

Does that ever happen?

That's not what happened. That happened here.

We were looking for topics. She was number one trending thing on Twitter. I wanted to see what was going on. You're doing his job. Happened to be a picture of boobs.

Yeah.

Hey, it happens. Hey, sometimes.

The one thing about Yukon that makes me nervous because I also bet him in December, Rico Bosco called him the 96 bulls. So that pretty much ends Yukon's run right there.

That's a whole nother pod if we're going to bring up that guy.

Yeah. You're just putting the mush all over them.

Yeah.

I'm just wondering, pft, who's he going to get a hat from after a sweet 16 run? And that's going to be his team.

All of them. Probably Isis. Yeah.

You'll be rocking a Putin hat.

Yeah.

He does have to fix. All right, so, Steve, you want to talk about our game? You want to rip off the band aid?

You're pod. I'm including all the guys.

Yeah.

Because you are a fan. I. So I said it on not being. I'm not just doing this just to guard myself. I think this is a very bad matchup for Wisconsin. I'm very nervous about this game. They don't defend the three well. James Madison hits the three well. What's your take? Unbiased take on this matchup.

All right, I'm going to fast forward. I have Wisconsin in the final four.

Dan.

Oh, God. I like it.

Steve, good pick.

Why? Great pick. So you think that what happened in February doesn't count? They found their form again because that really was. They were two different teams.

Correct.

I think they really found their form against Maryland. That helped because what that rivalry has been for so long that they found themselves. And I'm at the ACC tournament and I'm not with anybody, and I just see the score and I'm like, oh, lord, 40 points. Like, this is. Put the phone down.

Yeah, it actually was bad because I like it when Wisconsin beats Maryland by a little bit so then I can get Scott. Really, like, he gave up in the first ten minutes. And one of my favorite things to do whenever Wisconsin, like you said, all time rivalry. Scott loves being in the Big Ten, is whenever Wisconsin plays Maryland and Wisconsin wins. Usually be like 09:00 at night. I'll FaceTime Steve knowing that he's sitting right next to Scott and just be like, talk about the game. Knowing that Scott's just getting so upset next to him.

I believe this year my reply was not happening.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I didn't call this year because the Cole center refs came through.

They were calling some Madison whistle.

Yep, the Madison whistle, but.

All right.

So you like Wisconsin the final?

Do I do. I love what I've seen from them. I think store is an absolute difference maker. Chucky. Healthy is good. I mean, to withstand what they had to do against Purdue, Dan.

Yeah.

And you watched guys. I checked in on the live stream, you guys watching that game, and I get know you had to do it, what, three times? This is. I sort of take Edie's side, though, because he is Shaq. No one knows how to defend him. He gets shit that guys just don't get. And it is so different because he's so big. It's funny, I got three little girls at home, and whenever they're on, it's like, oh, my God, there he is again. They are enamored with how big he is, and I just think he is that good. I give the kid a ton of credit for what he withstood. He got his file shooting better. He's in way better shape this year. You could just see that. But anyway, Wisconsin, the team's been through a lot, man. They got seriously humbled in February.

Yeah.

You lose to Michigan, that's as bad as it gets. There's been past instances with Wisconsin basketball teams with stuff off the court, whether the locker room likes each other, but I genuinely feel this team has the goods. They're as versatile as any of these Wisconsin teams. Maybe even more versatile because of athleticism at the guard spot than the team that lost in the national championship. Yeah, I know that team had pros, but what you want in this day and age with three point shots and inside presence. You mentioned the perimeter defense. I get it. But if James math is going to make 33s, then they're going to be anybody in the country, right? Maybe anybody in the world. But I like the offensive standpoint. Store could get a bucket at any single time. Hepburn is the same way, and that opens up a lot of stuff. Now, do I feel confident?

No.

It's a five going to the final four, but I just felt Houston is beat up, man. They are not what they were at the beginning of the year. I think they got their hands full. I have a and m winning against Nebraska as much as I love Nebraska ball. And is Jake in there?

He is in there.

Did Jake go to the Vermont game Sunday?

No.

Saturday?

No.

When's the last time he didn't go?

I was at the championship game last year.

I know. And then the year, right? No.

Oh, okay.

I thought you were more.

To.

Just to clear it up. You have Wisconsin in the final four playing against Purdue. If you're rooting for big cat sadness, that's not a bad way to go.

Oh, my God.

Yeah.

Although the happiness of beating Duke would kind of.

That's true.

You get that? Listen, Steve, I like that you think that we found something.

Yeah.

I mean, the Big Ten tournament. The thing with Wisconsin is if they can hit their threes, everything opens up. You saw it within the northwestern game. When AJ Storr hits one or two threes, no one can guard him off the dribble. And then when you have to come out and even Crowle hitting a top of the key three, that all opens up. Klesman can obviously get hot, but I'm worried about James Madison just because.

I totally get it, Dan. I get it. And that's the kickers. I went to see JMU the night before PFT and hung out at that great university, and they're as different a team because they just absolutely violate the three point line.

Right.

And your recipe for a tournament upset. Everybody loves that. And they got purple and people love that.

Do people love purple?

People love purple.

Okay, yeah, I'll buy that, but what about. So JMU hasn't really played in big gyms. Jake was talking to me about that earlier. They played at Michigan State, obviously. Does that have anything to do? Is the moment going to be too big for these Dukes playing in Brooklyn?

No, it's about big Dukes energy. That's the biggest thing here.

Okay.

And the lighting at the Barclays is always off to me. I mean that a ten tournament is as dark a backdrop as possible. So no, I do worry about the rims. These rims are brand new. They bring them in for it feels like every single pod. They're not what the Nets play on, hopefully. I was hoping you were going to get those because they're probably soft for what the Nets shoot on a nightly basis. But no, it's a real interesting. It does feel too public to me. Everybody loves the twelve five. I get it. I like looking more towards down for upsets, but I get everybody's withstand it might be the best game of the first round. My thing is just more inclined to what's the bet for all four guys involved?

You mentioned the bet, so it sounds like you've got some ideas. I don't know. We haven't sat down, talked about the stakes of the bet yet.

Here's my problem.

Sure there will be something.

Here's my problem. So when we bet, like we bet the Commanders Bears game Thursday night Football this year because both teams sucked and we're like who cares? Yeah, when we're talking about the tournament or like I won't even bet the game because it's like I'm just all fandom in it, you know what I mean? What are you going to say, Max?

What about like an NBA playoff series where.

Well, you guys bet that I'm talking about myself. I'm talking about myself personally. I care so much about the Badgers in the tournament that there's already so much at stake that humiliation of losing in the first round sucks. Humiliation of losing to Duke would suck. Humiliation of know, being like, oh, I'm kind of rooting for Wisconsin against like I hope you guys have fun. That would suck. So there's like, no, there's nothing that could be. It's just torture is just waiting for me on the other side.

Very simple for you, Dan. You're in the best position of anybody.

Oh, I think I'm in the worst.

No, because you just throw in a James Madison moneyline bet and then when it happens you just tweet it out and say life's fulfilled, I'm good.

You won money, you can win money off.

Never bet against my team. I could never do that. But what is wrong with you?

How much would you pay? How much would you pay to know that Wisconsin was going to advance?

Fifty K. Fifty K?

Yeah.

There you go. And then JMU hits, you get.

Probably another. Probably 100 to beat Duke. If I could just pay for them to win the national, then you're like a boot. I would pay a million dollars if they won the national title this year. I have no problem.

Okay.

I would be like, I could just be happy for the rest of my life. Oh, deal. You're going to make it done. We've talked about.

I will say, do you want to pay? This is what worries me about Vermont against Duke is Jake not being at the game like he went last year. He was all in, and now kind of the shine is off of Vermont. Everybody's saying this isn't as good a team as Becker has had. They're still going to be solid. They play great defense. And all the pressure is on Duke. This is when I really get worried about. This is when the Mercer happens. This is when Lehigh happens. It's when they're on the four line. And that's what scares me. They're as talented as anybody. I just haven't seen that angst. A little more emotion would be nice. And that's what worries me about the Dukes.

We've talked about doing some sort of bet where me and big cat meet in the middle in terms of our weights, if one person. So I'm not going to ask big cat. There are three things you don't ask a woman. How much she weighs, person, how much they make, and big cat, how much he weighs, too. But the loser should have to come to the other person's weight in a calendar year. Like, what if I had to put on like 50 pounds, just get fat as fuck?

It would be funny. What do you weigh now?

Honestly, it could be anything. I haven't weighed myself in like a year.

Loser has to go to 210.

Loser goes to 210.

I got way better. You got four guys and you got the four teams. Max has to pick a guy who he's going to back.

Okay.

The winner of this pod gets to pick one of the losers and shave or cut his hair in the style that he wants.

Oh, man.

But I'm going to have to get ODs like Jake and I would have to get ODs on twelve one underdogs.

We'll think of something. I was thinking, you said Max has to back one of us, and if they lose, Max has to do the punishment.

No, the person who wins could pick him.

Max is in the pool?

Yeah.

I like this ponytail.

He's got to back somebody.

Max has.

That's the first thing Max has to come to the forefront.

Yeah.

Max has to pick a perfect bracket in this quad. And if not, he gets punished. Yeah, I like that.

I should have nothing to do with any punishment.

Good idea.

That is not your style to not be part of it.

Yeah.

Ready to learn, mullet buddy?

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I totally agree. I love what I saw from A and m against Tennessee in that tournament. And just the wherewithal, I think they won six or know coming in when all the pressure was on were they were out, they were outside the bubble and really got it together. The Nebraska A and M game is going to be a fun one. Yeah. With Nebraska being back in the mix, they play a fun style. Take the over in that game. It might be the highest over on the board. Or maybe that.

No.

Alabama Charleston.

Okay.

Alabama Charleston is at like 170.

Really?

Now?

Yeah.

173 and a half.

Oh, wow. That's getting a little crazy.

It's getting a little crazy. You got to play a perfect game for 173 and a half. So what other bets on Friday have you circled?

Recency bias? I'm known to be accustomed to that. I have it probably definitely with Wisconsin. I like, like, I mean, Dent is the guard that mostly takes care of the ball. He didn't even play in the Mountain west title game and they did it with Masburn Jr. In house. They were spectacular. That's what you want. They're the perfect mix. You got a patino in there. Knowing that son probably knocked out the dad when they got an automatic bid. But I think New Mexico is playing as well as anybody. Their ability from the three point line. They got some young bigs that are good. They'll be tested against. Clemson is not going to get picked because of how bad. I mean, I was there against BC. They were pathetic and you can't expect them to come out with that effort knowing how close they've been to the tournament and now that they're in. But I do like them. I mean, they're favored. I believe they're the better team. I really would like to see New Mexico and Baylor in the second round. That's a fantastic game. Jake, would you rather have Vermont playing Duke or Auburn?

Because I'm thinking of like Yale and Vermont in the same category.

I'd rather be playing Duke right now just the way the two teams are.

Auburn could not. They can't be better than they. They just can't.

And Titus brought up a good point on Wednesday. Auburn is playing incredible, but they also didn't have to play the top three teams in the SEC.

Correct.

They didn't have to go through Tennessee or Kentucky or know. And it's no offense to the SEC, but their run. They did beat two out of three tournament teams in Florida and Mississippi State. Yeah, but still, it's a little bit different than having to go through that gauntlet.

Yep.

They beat a M too in the championship, right?

No, they beat Florida. They be Florida and Florida is a team. I absolutely loved coming in before the injury. I honestly thought they could have won a national championship. I still think they could do some damage. I thought they got a tough draw with playing the winner of the playing game and then Marquette's sitting there. Marquete's a team that scares me because of how valuable and how good colick is. It feels like Kentucky is way too public for me. Just knowing how many people have picked them to go to the final four. Grand Canyon is really interesting. Totally different style of play that they're going to play against St. Mary's and the games in Spokane. It feels like both those fan bases know Grand Canyon has done a great job of creating a great home atmosphere wherever they go, where it feels like in the southwest of the country. But I would pick Grand Canyon in that first. Mary's Jefferson injury has been huge for them. It really hurts them as far as defense, and that's what you need. Ty on the kid for Grand Canyon is a pro. If you haven't seen him, I think he's going to be a name that you're going to know for sure.

Alabama is an absolute shambless Charleston. See, here's the deal with a Charleston, even a UAB and a like those teams, I don't think they're as good as they have been in years past, but they do a good job of doing what makes them successful. And obviously if you can make threes against Bama, you're going to be in it because all they do is shoot threes and layups and try and block your shot. So that's an interesting matchup. I would side with Bama winning. I could see myself taking the points with College of Charleston in that one.

I should have mentioned by the I. Auburn did beat South Carolina as well, so they beat three tournament teams, but they didn't beat Kentucky and Tennessee and the big dogs. Yeah, the big dogs.

What about Northwestern? So I don't have the spread pulled up in front of me. We're in Illinois right now, so it's not on our sports.

Last I saw was fau minus two and a half.

Okay, so I like Northwestern. My analysis is twofold. Real in depth shit here.

Okay.

One, boo booie is fun to say and he's fun to root for. He's a good player. Boo booie, you're going to want to say that name a lot. Number two is a lot of chatter about Dusty May. A lot of chatter. A lot of chatter about Louisville, his next destination, maybe going up to Kentucky somewhere. I like Northwestern in this game. I guess they are true underdogs because a lot of these seeds we're talking about earlier, the higher seeds, are actually favored by Vegas. But I like Northwestern. Sounds like you like them, too.

I do. Just because of how much everybody has jumped on this. Yukon has all the final four teams from last year. Well, if FAU was that good, I thought they got overseed. I don't think they should be an 8th seed. Obviously, everybody knows the story of what they did last year. Nobody capitalized on the opportunity that they got last year more than them getting to play fairly Dickinson in the next round. I thought really that got themselves going towards their final four run, but FAU just feels way too public to me. I still think they're another team. I really like Northwestern when they were fully healthy and now they got two injuries. But boo boo is fantastic. I think Northwestern will make enough outside shots and I like being on the other side of the public in that one. So I do have Northwestern playing Yukon.

You guys always talk about fading the public. I know you talk about a lot in college football season. Is the public stupider in football or in basketball? In the college game, I feel like.

With the bracket it is.

Yeah.

Because it's really centrally focused. Don't you feel like, you know, everybody's underdog? The. That's the good part of the days leading up. I got it. You like James Madison too.

Got it.

Heard that they get talked teams, certain teams get talked up to a point where it feels like everyone's on this team. And I also just think in terms of fading the public, you can't just fade the public. That's impossible because the public does win. But whenever you have events that have a massive amount of. I don't want to say casuals, but casuals gambling, it definitely changes the doubt.

No doubt. Like I said, I'm caught in it with Wisconsin in the final four. The hardest thing to do, projecting and betting in sports is to forget what the team looked like their last time out. Right. And they lost. Wisconsin did. But they were fantastic in what they did. New Mexico was as good as they played all year and it's hard know that. New Mexico, Clemson, I mentioned it before, there's not a bigger difference in perception of teams with how hot New Mexico is and how not good Clemson looked in their last game. So I do feel like that. But I always have an eleven going to the Sweet 16 and New Mexico is mine this year.

Okay. Any upsets, any one or two seeds that should at least be on the Steve alert.

I think Houston, just because they're not healthy and the way they play with know, getting up under you defensively and making everything so hard and not being an up tempo team at the same time gives me a notion that teams can hang around with them and a M has guys that can score some buckets and so does that. That I think Houston has the toughest, uh, when it comes to second round games for the one seeds, North Carolina. Never mind.

No, you could say that. No, because this will be Saturday preview, too. So if North Carolina is playing Mississippi.

State or Michigan State, that's the next toughest? To me.

Yeah, because I think people will be shocked. So if Michigan State wins their first round game, I think people will be shocked when that line comes out and.

It'S like double digits.

No, I think it's be way less. I think it'd be like North Carolina favored by like five.

No, it'll be at least seven.

You think so?

Yes.

Okay.

All right.

We'll make a bet. We'll make a wing bet on that.

I like that. Betting on a bet.

Yeah, we're betting on a bet.

Betting on a bet.

So I have anything under seven?

Yeah.

Okay.

And seven's a push.

Seven is a push.

Seven max win.

I went on seven. I'm the guest.

No, well, you said double digits, so I think seven has to be a push. Seven and a half.

You were listening to me?

Yeah, no, I'm listening. I'm listening. What does the March madness setup look like for Stanford, Steve? Because you don't go to Vegas. You go to Vegas for conference championship.

Did that. Acc was here, so I did that. I will split some time here at the Great Cleveland park bar and Grill in DC, watching games there with all the TVs. And then my setup is really good at home. I got four TVs ready to go, so they will be on constantly and I will be on the couch. I do like to watch a lot of these games by myself. It's the fantasy football mentality, I think. Going out to watch NFL regular season games now, what do they call New Year's Eve, is a JV holiday now? Yeah, I feel like that's a JV way of going because all anyone is yelling about is their fantasy team. Yeah, it just drives me nuts. But I do like to get around the energy. So I'll do that Thursday. And the night sessions, I'll be at home locking in with all the TVs going.

Only four TVs.

That's all I need.

Do you have a fifth? Nit is going to be play, I guess. It doesn't play exactly. On Saturday they play some Nit games early. What do you think about Villanova's chances in the NIt?

It depends if they want to play.

Okay.

What do you think?

It'd be funny if they finished second. That would be the best.

Would you watch a Max live stream of the NiT games? I'm trying to get him to live stream.

No one wants to watch that.

I would. What about a personal feed just for me and you, Steve, would you watch it?

I'll Facetime in a couple of times.

Okay, yeah.

I think you just described FaceTime.

Just Max.

Just Facetime.

Big cat, while you're watching cameo only fans. Oh, we should put Max watches only fans. Just get only fans feed of Max watching all his sports.

Just him being sad.

We could get so much money.

Just give out a cell phone number, check in with him.

That's a good point. We're going to get back to Stanford. Steve, he's brought to you by visible. PMT's one take episode is brought to you by our friends at visible wireless. Ever wish you could call foul on your wireless carrier for their hidden fees? Then it's time to switch to visible. Switch to visible, the wireless company with nothing to hide and get one line wireless with unlimited 5G data powered by Verizon. Just $25 a month, every month, taxes and fees included. One line wireless just $25 a month. Taxes and fees included. No hidden fees. No gotchas. Don't let hidden fees stop you from being a fan of wireless. Switch to visible and save Switch now@visible.com. Rate with service on the visible plan. For additional terms and network management practices, see visible. Steve, do you have a Fitbit or like an Apple Watch?

I do, yeah.

I want to see what your steps are going to be like on Friday. Like if you're just posted up in.

Your basement, they work great Saturday, I'll tell you that.

What do you think the over under would be on Saturday?

Saturday I got more time because the games start later, so I'll make sure to get something. I've been trying to do the 5 miles a day. Pft.

Really?

Yeah.

Driving, not driving. There's majority jogging. We've been upticking on the running, but yeah, we've been trying 35 miles last week.

Wow. Steve walks.

Yeah.

As a protector of Scott Van Pelt. And you've done a very good job of that. You are his Charles Oakley. Yeah, his Charles Oakley. Was there any hesitation having him do Frank walks?

No.

Okay.

You didn't think that Frank was just going to throw him into the reflecting?

No, because Scott deserves a lot of credit. He is an everyman. When we were setting it up, I was like, scott, will you do this? He's like, no problem. I was like, all right, who should I contact to get your schedule set? And he's like, just have him text me. So Scott was texting with jenks and maybe, and like, I don't know many guys in Scott's shoes, that would be like, yeah, just throw him my number. And he was in. He was all the way in.

There's been a long lost love. I would say all.

Yeah, yeah.

I agree.

They did find some common ground.

Yeah. Yeah.

It's not, there's not better. I mean, Francesca was walking, felt like on the streets during garbage day. They had garbage trucks going around and Scott was down by the reflective pool. It was gorgeous.

Yeah.

There was a second when Frank started talking about vaccines that you could see the look on Scott's face where he's like, what have I gotten myself into? He's great at changing the subject. Did a wonderful job with that DFT.

I never got back to you after game day at like, being at game day every Saturday and then doing like we did, we left the office, Facetimed a couple friends to check in that got mentioned on the show, and then we made our way to the tailgate and the game. And I would rank JMU as the biggest amount of drunkenness I saw walking from the office to the stadium.

Yeah.

Do you remember how messed up people were?

Yeah.

They got after it. And it was also like it was.

01:00 in the afternoon.

It was a very special occasion, too. I expect that a big state school like an LSU, probably the average BAC over the course of a season's worth of Saturdays, probably higher. But since it was college game day and the stakes were so big, it was like you said, st. Patrick's Day for Central Virginia. It was wonderful.

Yeah.

The amount of grown women, we asked for directions to the tailgate that just couldn't even speak.

They had no idea was because they.

Changed the campus up so much since a lot of those people had been there. They're like, I don't know. The library used to be over here.

Okay.

All right.

Thank you, ma'am. Take care. No, it was a very fun time. I'm glad that we got to experience that together. And the FaceTimes afterwards, pretty incredible. If you follow. If you follow Texas football message boards, you can probably put together who we were talking with and her monkey. Her monkey was also there.

Was there?

Yeah.

Fantastic time.

Steve off the tournament. Question, are Hank Celtics going to win the. No. Oh, fuck. Oh, they're so.

I. I will say this sounds like a yes.

I want it to be Denver, Boston, because that's what I want in the NBA. Like, all this stuff about the teams and the drama off the court and all the stuff that whatever NBA Twitter loves to talk about, you won't have in that game. You will have the best player in the world going to one of the most storied franchise, if not the most storied franchise, trying to get back on top. That's what that sport needs to me. Because when it comes to pure basketball, I believe those are two best teams. But I don't see Boston beating Denver because he's the best player.

Your comments, Hank?

I'd like to see it happen.

I think you would.

You think they'll be in the finals?

It's a team game, Stanford.

Steve.

Understood. Understood.

Denver's got a pretty good team. Like, jokic plays pretty good team basketball.

Yeah.

It doesn't matter, like, you fork or go out.

Yeah. Yeah.

You'll get a couple wins in the playoffs.

Yeah.

He'd get us some open looks for sure.

Steve, back to the Frank walks thing again. So I don't know how involved, behind the scenes you are in the graphics department on Sports center, but maybe one time this season as a treat. As a treat, if the Mets lose, could you actually have the logo spin and have Scott's head spin as they go into sports center?

All right.

Because Frank has made up this entire fictional world in his head where Scott loves it when the Mets lose and his head starts spinning around. Just like, you don't have to talk about it, but just as sports center's intro. Just have, like, a little SVP logo with the head spinning.

Yeah.

Or maybe if you do Sunday night baseball and the Mets lose, like, maybe like a pinata of Frank and be like, mets lose, Mets lose.

Because what we're doing, it's actually sick. What we're doing is we're taking Frank's fictional world of torture that he's made for himself, and we're turning it into reality.

But I think that's actually good for Frank because he'd be like, see, I was right.

All would. That would be the end. He would win that one. Yeah. No, but we've done the optimism meter with me, and I'm a diehard born loser Mets fan, and I've seen it too many times.

That is funny that you are a diehard Mets fan and you are on that show, and still Frank is like.

They hate the like, there's not a team I love more than them, but I've come to reality to expect the worst.

Well, you're Yukon Huskies.

No, they're not my team.

Steve, what do you think about Major League Baseball strategy of having opening day overseas during the NCAA tournament?

Quite something.

When you say it out loud like that, it sounds just about as bad as you can.

Yeah, it's brutal, Steve, especially when they're trying to get back to where they know.

Yeah, that one's tough. What team in the tournament would have worked worse for your or the poorest nickname? Because you're Stanford Steve. But would Grand Canyon Steve have worked if you had gone there? St. Peter's Steve, that would have worked. I always think about that. You went to Stanford Ss. But what happens if you had decided to go to McNeese State?

Mcneese State Steve, how about Drake Steve.

Drake Drake Steve would be good.

Get a little fade going.

Your whole life would be different if you went somewhere. I mean, you could have been Steve.

Nah.

Could have.

Steve got a huge hog.

Do you regret not going to. Would have. You would have been able to get, like, a cushy job as an executive somewhere in Chicago.

Yeah. That's not fun.

I guess that's probably Florida Steve would.

Never get a job.

Florida Steve would rock.

Yeah.

You'd be a lot of fun to hang out.

Don't know. I don't know if Florida Steve would be the other.

What were the other schools that you were deciding between?

North Carolina.

North Carolina Steve would be cool.

Yep.

Duke Steve would suck.

Yeah.

Howard Steve.

Not Howard.

Grambling Steve.

Yeah.

Southern Steve.

Southern Steve would be awesome.

He'd rock.

Yeah.

Tarleton State Steve, Billy Clyde. There's a lot of Steve's.

South Carolina would be hard to say.

Yeah, South Carolina Steve would be weird.

I did get a t shirt one time from Sanford. They made shirts that said Sam, not Stan the bulldog.

That's good.

What about Steve?

No, so can Steve.

So can Steve.

All right, Steve, I got one last question for you. It's a row back question. Rho back.

Jake, you owe me some gear.

Yeah, you do. You owe him some gear. I'm on it. Promo code. Take 20% off first purchase. Rowback.com, joggers, hoodies, shorts, everything. Rank your three favorite bets on Friday. As people are listening to this and they are saying, I need a winner, and Stanford Steve is going to give us a winner. Three favorite bets on Friday.

Okay, we're going to start with New Mexico. I mentioned Donovan Dent barely played in that title game. I think he's a difference to have an extra ball handler against Clemson. Jamal Mashburn Jr. I'm biased. Jamal Mashburn is. Dad was one of my favorite people ever to work with at ESPN. We'll take New Mexico. I like a and m. Wade Taylor. The fourth, I think, is a tremendous player. And I like the matchup for a and M for a full 40 minutes against Nebraska. And I believe UAB is getting too many points against San Diego State. When you look at what UAB is, I love Andy Kennedy. Just a phenomenal dude. They got six guys that average about eight points or more a game. And we love how San Diego State loves to dial it, know, play defense, slow pace. I believe UAB has enough guys to keep that game close enough. So we're going to go New Mexico a m. And uab.

Okay.

And your final four.

My final four? Where is it is.

You're one bracket guy, right? You're one bracket.

Yeah. Yeah.

Okay, good. Thank God.

And are you a highlighter guy when it's going good?

Yeah.

Okay. Saturday, we'll make that decision, or we just throw it out if we can get to Saturday and feel good. That's always a good feeling. But again, don't go multiple brackets this year because you're never going to get the combinations right with how you separate them. I have Yukon, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.

Okay.

I fucking love this time of year so much. It's the best, best two days of the year.

What do you like? I like last Friday and Saturday.

Yeah.

I mean, I do love conversations.

That's what it's about. Of all those bids getting stolen, because now the angst, usually it's like one or two bubble teams that are, like, going in. It was Indiana State where all the big boys still had games to play, but then they lost. And then all these team being in DC for the NC state run was incredible.

Yeah.

Those guys walking in for the games like that Thursday, seeing big man walk in, I was like, man, he's got to get himself ready. Sure enough, he plays 17 minutes in that first half against North Carolina and was awesome.

He's so smooth. Okay, so who do you have in your finals?

Yukon, Tennessee, Yukon.

Tennessee, and then Yukon. Winning it.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Congrats to Wisconsin.

Correct.

I don't like this.

Final four bound.

Final four or bust.

Wisconsin.

I trust your opinion, so that makes me hurt.

Is anybody not allowed in the room during JMU? Wisconsin? Well, no.

PFD is going to be at the game. I'm going to be at that.

Oh, you're going?

I got to kill me, though.

I've had a wedding I've had to go to for. I committed to it eight months ago. A Friday wedding during March Madness?

That's worse than football season. I'm sorry.

It's in Brooklyn and it's ten minutes away from the arena. So after the wedding, I'm just going to go over, probably still wearing my wedding tux, and just go straight to the event and just sit there. It's a big dance, Steve. I'm going to be ready, dressed up for a big dance.

This is very easy. You just go Chippendale's costume to the game.

Yeah.

Go shirtless with the bow tie. No one wants to see that American.

Yeah, we do.

Wait, Hank, what did you say?

Well, me and PFT have this bracket busters team where if JMU advances the farthest, we get to split 40 grand. So I'm going to be all JMU Friday night. So I'll be catching the wrath.

I'll be going nuts at Hank as piece of shit. He is a piece of shit.

So you're in the room.

Yeah.

And I will be mad at him.

Actually, Hank, we were talking about having Ebo put on the wig and glasses. Hank should have to do that.

Yeah.

I'm going to be mad at you. I will take out the wrath on Hank. It's going to bother.

Wedding Friday, March Madness.

Crazy.

It's a tough one.

Crazy.

Did they look at the calendar? That's the major question.

I can say with confidence that they did not.

All right. I will say for the benefit. This is a week later.

Yeah.

This year is weird with masters being the middle of August or April.

Yeah.

Okay.

Be in touch and see you guys in Phoenix.

Yes.

See in Phoenix, wings on Friday. Friday.

Friday for the women's final four. Who do you got in that?

Well, I got Iowa, LSU.

No, they got LSU, Stanford, Yukon line. Help me.

South Carolina, there you.

Yeah. Yeah.

South Carolina.

They're undefeated.

Right?

There you go.

Okay.

Get it defeated.

Yes.

That's my final four. I don't know if any of them play each other early.

No, you're good.

Okay, I'm good. That's. Lock it up.

There's been more buzz about the women's game this year. It's good. Some of the teams hate each other, which I personally love.

Yeah.

They have more star power.

Oh, by far.

That's the one thing about women's sports. I think a lot of has pushed a lot of people away in the past, is it seems to be too positive and you have to hate somebody.

Right. Yeah.

So getting some hatred, some rivalries going, that's good for the sport. We want to be like, Caitlin Clark sucks, she flops. We want to have those takes.

I think the only thing that would surpass the women's final four is if Kentucky gets the final four. I feel like America will be go hard on the Reed Shepard bandwagon because the story with his parents and all that stuff.

Kentucky dad made me cry in college when they beat Stanford in the final four.

Yeah.

So I think that's awesome. That's got the March madness storylines written all over it.

Yeah.

Texas brackets up for grabs. That's what Stanford's the two. Just so you know, that's mayhem in that bracket.

Okay. All right.

I like that. All right, Steve, thank you, as always. You're the best. And let's win some bets.

Appreciate you guys having me on. Stay safe. Drink a lot of water, Dan. I know you don't have a problem with drinking all that water.

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Okay, time for fire fest of the week. Henry, you want to kick us off? Throw on those headphones.

The cans on, Hank.

Come on, Hank, throw those cans on. I mean, it's the best week of the year.

It really is.

It is a fun week. It's hard to really be mad because it's, you know, I didn't do the best gambling, but it's also like, we get to do it again.

And it's.

Today was Thursday. Tomorrow's Friday. We get to do it all weekend.

Oh, Friday's the weekend.

No, we get to do it tomorrow. And then the weekend days and two weekend. It got it. It's an absolute treat. So there's really no fire fest that comes to mind. We got a shooting machine. I guess we can talk about the Rick Patino drill now that the video is out. That was a really bad shooting performance. Now we have a shooting machine. Big cat is adamant that he's a better shooter than me.

Well, the stats showing you exactly who's.

Better, so that's kind of my fire. I said to pf, it's not true.

But a very small sample size.

I finally understand what Pft goes through when you guys play golf and pft beats you every time. You're. No, no, we're actually even. I beat you in the Rick Patino. We were on the same team for the Rick Patino shooting drill, which we got to do again, but I shot better than you. And then we got this new shooting machine, and yesterday we did. Hank and I were like, let's shoot ten three pointers, and whoever has the most wins. And the first round, I won six to five out of ten. And Hank goes, well, I didn't count. I might have hit six. Second round, I won seven to four. And he's like, all right, we'll do one more third round, I won again, like, seven to six, and then Hank shot again and hit four, and then you left, and I hit eight. And you're not like, you would have just made me stick there forever. It's okay. No, you didn't. You literally did not.

All right, so, yeah, that thing is all recorded on tape, and then the ones that aren't recorded on tape, the shooting machine has stats that you can look at, which.

That should be my fire fest. Memes. We got this new shooting machine. It's awesome. And they set me up with a profile. And then memes texted me at, like, midnight last night, and he's like, big cat, you're going to probably need a new profile. I was like, what? And he's like, me and Max just shot, like, a thousand shots. And Max said, oh, yeah, I was chucking airballs. So my stats are fucked.

So really, this entire office has become just a big game of, what's the coolest thing that we can get installed and still have people actually do work?

Yeah, we did popcorn machine. We did the shooting machine. We have a golf simulator. We're going to get a batting cages.

Next, we're going to get a flight sim.

Yes.

Wants to get a barber chair in the gym.

I do.

I want to get a barber chair. Hank. Here's Hank. We won't get a barber chair if you can prove that you're a better three point shooter than me. But you're not. I will.

And again, it's my prove it year. I got to prove it.

I, like Hank is looking at shooting like it's art, like it's subjective.

Yeah.

I'm just better than it.

Well, it depends on who you.

Might be. Every time we shoot, I shoot better than you.

We'll do an official, official contest. I beat you.

No.

What about chilies? Chili's? I beat you.

Max has early onset.

I beat you in Chili's contest, too.

Max has early.

Every time we've done it, I've beaten you.

So Max has early onset Fleming. Hank has early onset Billy football.

Yeah, he does.

This entire last 45 seconds has been verbatim a Billy football excuse.

But I'm at least.

It's just the realization, which is kind of like people have watched this grow, has watched me grow on this podcast, and it's just the realization that I'm super washed up. Not that I was ever really like.

Yeah, you're actually more washed. When I was younger, I was never.

Like, a prime athlete in my early 20s, but I was decent. But now I've just slowly realized that I'm really washed up. And the only way to unwash yourself up is to really work hard and train. And that's what I've started doing, and I just got to keep going at it.

But can you ever really be washed if you were never dirty to begin with?

Yeah, I just wasn't that dirty.

Yeah, you're never filthy.

I honestly don't like. No offense to you, but I don't think it's like a washed up thing. I think just Pft and I are better athletes than you.

Yeah, that's where it's just.

Well, it's not false. Hank, what place did you finish in the combine?

We're nine years older than you and still better athletes than you.

All right, good for you.

Yeah.

I think both me and big cat beat you in every combine event.

Of course we did. No. What?

I beat you. I don't know. I definitely beat you in something.

Yeah.

This is Billy.

I'm rooting for you. It's a big brother. Little brother.

You know what?

I'll let you win the next one. I will.

All right.

Pft.

My fire fest is twofold. One. I forgot my keys at the stream, so I don't know how I'm going to get home tonight. I think someone bring them back right now. So I think someone's bringing back to the office. It's after midnight right now.

I have early onset Billy. Max's early onset. Frank Fleming PFT has early onset.

Yes.

Correct. Correct.

Yeah.

Billy acts actually true.

Billy does act like he has Cte. I probably have Cte before Billy does. Played more organized sports at a high level. My other fire fest is that I'm traveling during March Madness tomorrow.

When's your.

It is. It is crazy. So my flight is.

No way you're packed either.

No, definitely.

Well, the only thing I'm packing, it's a one night thing for a wedding, so I'm packing a suit and that's it.

Also, it doesn't matter. You can't get into your house.

I can't get in my house. So, yeah, I can't pack anything. So I'm going to be flying during the early games tomorrow.

What time's your flight?

Which is tough.

I think it's at noon.

Oh, dude.

I think it's at noon tomorrow.

That's brutal.

It's brutal.

What airline?

Why do you ask? Tvs.

American? No, no TVs.

I think Delta is the TV place.

I can't keep track of which ones.

Have TVs as long as it's not a Boeing, guaranteed. Also, United and American can be hard.

It's really hard to watch live sports on a flight because if you look at your phone, you're like three minutes fast.

Yeah.

You can't look at Twitter.

Yeah.

You can't look at your score apps.

And every time the pilot gets on the horn and being like, oh, sorry, the flight didn't hit a switch. Now we're going to crash. Every time they interrupt you, they just cut out the stream and it's always at the most important time of game that they do that. So I'm going to be flying during the games tomorrow, which stinks. Then I'm going to be at a wedding during some of the other games, which, yeah, I love, love. I'm in favor of people getting married. Go for it. March wedings are a choice. Friday, march weding is a choice. I committed to it eight months ago and I knew that this was going to be a problem as an ultimate future. Me being like, yeah, you know what? I'm going to go to this wedding. I'm going to miss some of the games. I'm going to sneak watch some of the games. That's my plan. During the reception, during probably the ceremony, too. And because I'm only flying for one night and I'm not bringing really too many clothes and I'm going to the JMU Wisconsin game right after the wedding ends. I'm just going to have to go in a suit.

So I'm going to be wearing a tux.

That will be fun.

To the game. It's the big dance.

Yeah, that's fine.

And we're going dancing. Yeah, but the whole situation. And then I have to fly back on Saturday during the games, also during the early game. But, yeah, tomorrow is going to be a challenge for me. What's going to happen is I'm going to land, I'm going to open up my phone, and I'm going to see how much money I lost. That's how going to go.

I'm going to look at really no different than what we're going to do.

I'm going to look at a number, then I'm going to get on the plane, and then when I get off the plane, that number will be much smaller. That's how I'm spending my March madness tomorrow. So I apologize to you guys for not being at the stream tomorrow. Apologize to anyone that wanted to watch me and big cat at each other's throats.

I'm the one that suffers the most from this, by the way.

Well, yeah, you touching me is a problem.

Yeah, Hank's gotten very gropey.

Yeah, well, no, but, you know, pft picked JMU as our bracket buster team, so I have no choice but to root for JMU against Wisconsin.

Yeah, Hank really didn't want to pick JMU.

I know I wanted to pick.

You might have to watch it in a different room.

Big head just going to lash out on me when it's like I'm just trying to support the company by rooting for my Dave and Busters team.

Hank, I'm counting on you to be as annoying as possible.

I don't want to be. I just want to, like. No, naturally, people get in trouble for not promoting.

He doesn't have to try. Yeah, he could just.

Well, today it's like we had to do a huddle up thing. And what do you do when you huddle up? You grab your teammate's shoulders and you bring them together. I did that.

Give the actual. You won a bet. Big bet. And then I lost a big. Who do you think you are, thinking you can touch me immediately after you're, like, touching me and touching my neck? It's a technical foul. It should have been a technical foul. You touched above the shoulders. That's a technical foul. That's all I wanted.

He pinned the arm down.

Big cat pulled me over and then I dropped everything on my and then stole my phone. Grand theft auto.

Is that what an auto is?

Yeah.

I do think that it's the universe, though, smiling on this podcast a little bit, big cat, because of all the times that of all the things that could happen, our teams playing each other. But it's on a day when we're not going to be in the same room where we won't get into a fight with each. We might. The loser is definitely going to be mad. Looking at the social media posts from.

The winner, I'm going to be just mad if the Wisconsin losers be mad at won't. That's the thing, because it's not like if it was Wisconsin playing Duke and I had to deal with this guy over here who doesn't admit that he's a terrible athlete. I'll be very upset if Wisconsin loses, but I also will 15 minutes doing be. I'll be very happy for you because I love you as a friend. Whereas this guy over here, I want him to fail.

I'm going to be happy for you too, big cat. And I'm going to root for you very hard against Duke or Vermont. I just want to say right now, if Wisconsin wins, I'm converting my JMu fandom. I want you to absorb our powers.

Yes.

No, I will.

Those powers.

Oh, listen.

To beat Duke or Vermont.

Got to beat Duke.

Actually.

I hope Duke loses.

Yeah, whenever Duke loses.

So it's a pretty bad fire fest, all things considered. Could be worse. But in terms of the sports calendar and travel syncing up, I feel like this is like an equinox of shit for me that I deal with.

All right, my fire fest is short and been chef Donnie's been cooking for me, been losing a little weight, working out a little more. But then I decided to get a haircut and shave right before all of our streams. And I just looked at myself all day, and I just have the fattest neck, and I should just never shave before I have to sit on a couch for four days straight with just the worst angles possible. I saw every single clip today, and I was like, holy fuck, I have not lost weight.

What happens is, before we get to the streams, a little behind the scenes, Pete sits down behind the cameras, and then he has, like, a sit in for all of us sit there. And then he just lowers the cameras and gets the perfect angle to make us look as bad as possible.

Yeah.

So that was a shock today. So just reminder to not shave right before March Madness because there's really? No way to look good. March madness streams, because you're just eating and sitting and sitting back and just, like, gross. But there's definitely a way to look extra bad, and I've done it. All right, Jake, finish us off.

Yeah.

This is the best time of year, as you guys have said. And these are the best three weeks on the sports calendar. And I somehow just always feel sad when something goes wrong in my bracket. And it's just like, why am I feeling sad? I should be happy. It's March Madness.

Yeah.

Well, your number two seed or your champion. Champion, North Carolina, your champion did not lose in the first round.

But I thought I was being smart by putting Drake in the elite eight. That was a devastating loss, like we talked about earlier, but there should be no room for sadness here yet. I'm here again.

Yeah.

Damn. I mean, it's kind of nice, kind of sweet that you still care that much about your bracket.

Yeah.

Because that's all I have. My integrity.

Yeah.

And just like.

Yeah, I don't think your integrity is my reputation. I don't think your reputation is tied to it either, but sure, in my.

Own.

Like, imagine if we to put it on this side of the glass. Imagine if I was like, my reputation is based on my gambling picks. I would be criticism. People would be calling me Hitler.

But this is, like, the only time where I publicly make picks on something and hold myself to it.

Yeah, it's not fun.

What about the NFL season?

Yeah.

What about.

Oh, yeah, the bowling?

Yeah, that too.

Yeah, that's true.

Well, you don't have a punishment if your bracket gets busted. That's the difference. During football season. You get punished. Well, we're like, that's a bad Jake. Bad Jake.

If you lose your entire final four before the sweet 16, you should have to shave Max's back.

I literally have zero hairs. Like, let's go, Max. I love it.

Max.

All right.

Single chest. Well, no, because Max gets waxed.

Oh, yeah, you do get waxed. He gets waxed and naired.

A brazilian max.

Max has the.

That's what he orders.

Max has the fucking cleanest pussy in this show.

He's a smooth little italian. Who's my smooth little boy?

Yeah.

He's like a little baby boy. All right, let's wrap it up. We'll see everyone on Monday, where we'll do a full recap. Shane Gillis episode is going to come on Wednesday, so we're going to do Monday because we don't do it. A guest on Mondays. I misspoke a couple of weeks ago. So it will be coming on Wednesday, but Monday will be just pure talking about everything with the boys. Maybe if we get. I'll tell you what. If that Oakland guy hits some more threes and wins a game, we might.

Have to have Golkie.

Yeah, Golkie.

Golkie. Okay, numbers. 2043. I'll go 60. 818.

99.

Pug.

What did you say? PFD 821.

I will say Golkie is number three. So I feel good about this guy next to me.

34. Half a 68. Damn.

Love you guys.

Talking away.

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