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Welcome to part of my take presented by Draftking sportsbook. New customers can bet $5 to get $150 in bonus bets. Only at draftking sportsbook with code take. Today is Monday, March 25, and my head is full of basketball. My eyes have been burning for four days. I feel like I've gained 15 pounds. I've had a headache nonstop. But God damn, it was that fun.

I've had two bites of vegetables since Thursday.

Yeah, two bites. A lot I have not had.

Yeah, just because of the wedding early. Course you get the asparagus. Took a couple of bites of that.

That's it. I've had candy on candy on candy, and we just watched basketball for four days straight.

And I feel great, though.

I feel great. I will say this for you people listening right now. I would throw this out there maybe Monday after Super bowl, and then Monday after the first weekend of March Madness. Two worst Mondays in the calendar year. Your body just craves day basketball. You're just sitting there like, what do I do with the rest of my life? You're basically no Brooks getting out of Shawshank. And you're like, this sucks.

Yeah.

I want to go back to just sitting on a couch with my boys watching hoop.

Yeah, if you want day ball. By the way, look at big cat's blog on the coach's picture.

Yes.

Which we can talk about a little bit. I'm going to be up till four in the morning tonight.

That's fun. That's a nice little wind down after a week in a ball. But yeah, it was a great time. The games weren't that competitive over the weekend, but it's still a lot of basketball.

Let's debate this before we go through the games and talk about all the storylines. We do this as sports fans. We have to say, well, this March Madness has been great or this one has sucked. I've seen both arguments. I'm firmly in. Yeah, I wish there was less blowouts, but what this March Madness is setting up, it's actually exactly what I want. A few upsets in the first round, some shocking moments. You get a Jack Golkie, you get a Yale beating Auburn, you get these weird things happening. But then you get the best 16 teams in the Sweet 16 and you have. I know it's chalky, but we have matchups that are so, so great and I don't want to get to the Sweet 16 and have like a 13 seed who's going to lose by 20 to Yukon, 30 to Yukon.

We got some blue bloods in there.

We got a national title rematch, Yukon and San Diego State.

And the one cinderella that's still in there is a Cinderella that we can all focus on in C State.

Also not a Cinderella anymore because they just keep winning. I think they went from Cinderella to just team of. They. There was a moment when NC State in that Oakland game, they win in overtime and I'm like, why can't they just win it all?

Yeah, they're good. They're like legit good. The two DJs and then Diara.

They got some players who's fasting for Ramadan, which is nuts.

So they're the new Yukon.

Yeah. He's not been eating during these games and they've played seven games in twelve days.

That's really impressive.

I don't think I'd be able to.

Watch basketball without eating.

No.

Much less play it.

Definitely not. I sit on that couch. It's like Pavlov's dogs. Like, what are we eating from today? Oh, we had lunch two minutes ago. Let's talk about got.

We've got solid matchups in the next round. And also shout out to the ACC. The ACC. What are they, eight and one in the tournament, the one loss being uva in the first four.

Well, the Big east also undefeated. Big east undefeated is undefeated six. And Big east probably put more teams in from the Big East.

Big east is back. Well, yeah, Yukon had northwestern and Stetson, but, yeah, we got some really good matchups coming up next weekend. I'm pumped about that. I would have liked more close games, maybe with the same results, but more close games. But all in all, yeah, it was a weekend well spent. I don't want to be second guess my weekend. And the fact that the very last game, or second to last game was a Houston a and m shocker that went to overtime.

Yeah, that was incredible.

That's a good way for me to wash a little bit of the stink of the blowouts out of my mouth.

Yeah, I don't like it. The years when we get to sweet 16 and we have multiple 13. 1415 St. Peter's. That was a great story. But then you get St. Peter's went all the way to the Elite Eight. Correct. You get Cinderella Purdue, and they lost by like 40 to un by 50. Right.

You get Cinderella unc. You get Cinderella fatigue. We can channel all of our Cinderella energy into NC state now, which is nice.

Yeah.

Usually when these double digit seeds lose, they lose in big fashion.

Right.

Like they just completely run out of gas.

Right. So I'm very excited with this tournament. I'm excited with what we've watched. Where do you want to start?

Let's start on. That's it. We usually go in chronological order.

That's sacrificial.

Yeah, we do.

On the show.

Okay.

So I didn't really watch much of the games because I was flying and then I was at dinner, but I did see one game.

Yes. James Madison, Wisconsin.

James Madison, Wisconsin.

Wisconsin. Played like fucking ass jam.

You played like fucking good ass. Like a really good ass.

No, that was torture for me. It was a torturous game they played. Just horrendous. I don't think they knew what JMU was all about. It felt like they showed up and they're like, oh, yeah, we'll just win this game.

Oh, yeah.

JMU is going to pressure us on every possession, and we'll just not be able to handle the pressure. They were not ready for the fight. The fight was brought to them. They were not ready for the fight. Why are you pulling up the box score, Max?

I was just curious. I was looking.

Yeah, but it sucked. It sucked and it was torture for me. I hated every second of it. As you get older, it's weird because you think that these games should matter less as you get older and have perspective, but I was thinking about it because I was so mad at myself, so sad. On Friday, night. And I realized that they, in a weird way, matter more, because as you get older, your teams keep your friendships alive. And all my college friends, who I'm still very good friends with, we watch it together and we talk about it, and then to have that performance and that just disgusting. I would have rather have lost on a buzzer beater than the way that Wisconsin went out, because it was so pathetic. And then it's got me questioning everything with the direction of the program and everything. So, yeah, you had fun. I had torture.

Yeah, I had a pretty good time. It was a great night. Wisconsin, I would say they weren't ready for the defensive pressure, but also Wisconsin would have been. I think they would have been better if the game had been played on, like, Monday or Tuesday.

Yeah. When they were on a roll in.

The Big Ten tournament. Well, then they had to take a couple of days off, and they kind of reverted back.

They were Jekyll and Hyde all year. And what happened in the Big Ten tournament just pulled me back in, and I knew that was going to happen, and it just pulled me right back into being like, oh, maybe this team will hit all their shots and they'll be great. And they were not. Yeah, it sucked. AJ store was bad. Wall was not good.

It was.

The last game just sucked. Everything sucked.

Yeah, we had a great game. Our big three showed up. It was an electric atmosphere inside the Barclays. It's the loudest that it's been inside the Barclays, which, when you look back at the history of teams that have played there. Yeah, you had the nets for a little bit, and then you have, what, the. A ten tournament?

Yeah.

So, yeah, the biggest night in the history of the Barclays. Terms of crowd noise, it was a blast.

What was up with the guy behind you that you told to shut the fuck up?

Well, he needed to shut the fuck up, and so I told him to.

Shut the fuck up.

I have a lot of practice to shut the fuck up because of you, Hank.

I know. It was to see that and not be on the receiving end of it.

Yeah. So basically what happened was Max, myself, my friend Brian that I went to JMU with, and then Rosillo met up with us. Rosillo put a rookie mistake. He was trying to watch Vermont Duke.

With a Cardinals hat on.

With a Cardinals hat on. And he saw that picture.

I was like, just Rosillo? That's Rosillo.

I didn't even ask.

I love him.

I didn't question. Just, I was like, okay, Ryan's here, whatever. But he made a rookie mistake. He bought tickets for the early slate.

Oh, no.

Thinking he was going to get all the games.

You don't get all the.

And then he got kicked out, and then he had to be like, hey, is there an extra ticket? Yeah, we got you, Ryan. So Ryan was watching the games with us, and the guy behind us started running his mouth a little bit right after we got out to an early start, because JMU came out pretty hot. And he was, like, telling me to sit down, called me a c word, like the australian c word. And I was just like, this guy needs to shut the fuck up. And I was about seven or eight cocktails deep at the time, so I let him have it. And then after I said that to him, we reached, like, a mutual respect thing, where the guy was like, fair enough.

Rough.

And he was like, are you even a JMU fan? I was like, yeah, I went to school there. And he didn't believe me at first, and he thought that I was wearing a suit, going there to troll all the Wisconsin people that I was sitting next to.

Okay.

And so I explained to him, I went there, I liked the team. He was, okay, okay, that's somewhat fair. And I was like, how about this? How about we both agree that whoever wins, we want the other team to beat the fuck out of Duke in the next round?

He was like, okay, that's good.

So we bonded. Also, he thought Rosillo was my security guard that was with me, so he was a little bit intimidated.

He is built.

He was ready to roll. Yeah, Ryan was ready to rock and roll. So it was a fun night. And getting to see your team win a tournament game, it's electric. And my hopes got was I was thinking that we were going to come out and at least show some fight against Duke. But, yeah, no, you great Friday night.

You guys suck, too. We just suck way more.

Yeah, it was a great Friday night.

Because that was actually. I did on Friday night. You had a great Friday night. I had a torture Friday night. Hank and I almost broke up for good.

Yeah, I heard about that.

Yeah, we almost actually ended our relationship.

But you should thank, you actually should thank me, big cat, because you would have much rather lose on Friday night to me than to beat us and then get your shit kicked in by Duke.

Yeah.

No, I agree. I don't think we would have lost by 30 to Duke, but I agree.

This is 38.

Yeah, it sucks. I mean, I bet on James Madison. I held my end of the bargain. I rooted very hard for James Madison today, and it was not good. Yeah, Hank and I had a. We had a grudge battle that almost ended our relationship for good.

Yeah.

I don't know what I was supposed to do.

I mean, I explained it to you as many times, and it was before the game.

I was just making a light.

So just to set the table here, Hank was rooting for JMU because in a sponsored ad deal.

Correct.

We drew JMU correct as our team that we had to root for. But he was not being a good employee.

No, he was saying it like he was going to root for. Like, he was like, people want to tune in to see me and you go after each other. I was like, no, they don't. You have no connection to JMU. I was like, if PFT was here, that would make, like, when Max has a big game, I've lost so much money betting on Philly Sports now, riding with Max.

But to be fair, you sometimes do that, because that way, when you lose your bet, you mad at Max, and that's fun.

I bet the Eagles because I thought they were going to win the Super Bowl. I bet the Phillies because I thought they were going to win the World Series. It wasn't because I was trolling Max. The Villanova one was trolling. But, yeah, Hank was like. He was basically like, I'm going to root for JMU. Like, I've been rooting for this team my whole life. And I was like, but that doesn't make sense.

Yeah.

Hank was a one man, house divided bumper sticker with his allegiances to JMU and also Duke.

And also Duke.

Yeah.

I actually have the idea that Hank came out the biggest loser in this whole entire squad.

He didn't even get to enjoy a win.

Right. Because I didn't lose fully because I never lost to Duke. You obviously got a didn't, and then you lost Duke, but you got a win. And Hank didn't get his sponsored deal to the point where he could win money, the team that he actually likes. Duke played his sponsored deal, and he just didn't root for Duke. So everyone's like, wait, are you a Duke fan anymore? Hank was the biggest loser.

Yeah, but now I can just hop back in.

Okay.

Yeah, you can hop back in. And it was hard.

I did think it wasn't going to matter. And then once the game started and I saw the Duke unis in action.

It made you a little teary eyed. Hank, hop back in. I want you to root for. Yeah, I like it when you root for Hank.

I want you to root really hard for Duke. In fact, I want you to go to their next game. Where are they playing? Oh, they're playing in Dallas.

Oh, nice.

Oh, that's crazy.

But Hank and I did make up. It was a twelve hour tiff.

That's on Friday as well.

I didn't mean to say Tiff.

I have a tweet here from. Oh, it's from Tiffany. She wants to know if Hank can come to Dallas to watch his beloved Duke Blue Devils.

Is that actually no? Yes.

Did she actually, somebody said at Henny's, and I was tagged in because it was a reply to a tweet.

I had the never ending are you.

Going to Dallas for the next Duke game? Eyeball emoji at Tiffany Gomez. Tiffany replied 29 minutes ago. Good question. Dot, dot, dot. At Henny's question mark.

You got to go.

Oh, my. Got to go.

God.

I give you permission to go if you want to go, Hank, you got to go.

Yeah, I'll look into it.

Okay, great. You always ride for Duke as he sits in his purple jumpsuit.

You got to go down there and fix your wall up. You got to plaster walls, Hank.

Yeah, I might have to.

Yeah.

But Hank and I did. We ended our beef just the very next day. It was a bad night for me. I had a very bad. Was sports should not change your mood as much as they do. I mean, you had a bad time today.

I had a bad time today. But again, I'm looking back at Friday. I had a great Friday night. I had a great Saturday. I had a stressful. The thing about today, though, was I was stressed out, and I was anxious before the game, and then I didn't even get a single second's worth of joy out of the game today.

Yeah.

I went immediately from being anxious to being sad to dead.

We never got to cheer.

Never got.

I loaded up on JMU. I didn't get money line, single bread. I was like, let's had. I had had the appropriate amount of time to process the debacle and torture of Friday night. I would moved on. We had a good Saturday. And then, yeah, there was no cheering.

Jamie was built to beat the big Ten. We can't hang with the acc yet. Yeah, that's the next step for us.

And now who are we losing in the portal? Don't talk if you want to be a big basketball school. What did you say? What did you say?

What did you say on Friday? Give the person a day.

Okay.

All right, I'll give you a day.

Give me a day, and then we'll.

Talk portal I'll give you a day. I'll give you a day, then we'll talk portal.

We were already talking about my coach going somewhere else earlier.

I didn't bring that up.

I know I said, yeah, it was not you. Yeah, but just give me a data process.

Portal sucks. No, I asked that because Wisconsin just started. Everyone just started hitting the portal. It's like the worst part about college sports now is like you lose a game and then the minute after you're just like, oh, cool, portal. Portal for everyone.

Team next year.

All right, let's talk about some other games. But congratulations. Pft. It really was like the game started and you guys were like, we're going to play ten times more aggressive and faster than Wisconsin. And Wisconsin just looked like they had just never seen that. And it was over from that moment.

Yeah, we played some tenacious d Friday for sure. And it was so fun to watch. I'm so glad I got to experience it. It's something that I never thought. Like JMU basketball has never been a threat to do this, ever. And now we got some that we're building on.

So it's maybe sweet 16. There's nothing like that. Second weekend.

My little Grinch heart grew three times the size that day.

Yeah.

Okay, so let's talk some other games. Where do we want to start? There's been. All the favorites have advanced, basically. Oh, we could start with North Carolina doing the narrative bowl of Tom Izzo in March. We had about ten minutes of he did it again. He's done it again. Tom Izzo, January, February, ISO. And then North Carolina happened because we all collectively forgot that all North Carolina does is beat Tom Izzo and Michigan State in March. Michigan State is owing six in the tournament against North Carolina. And it was like a 28 20 game. I read a story where essentially it was a 28 20 game. Michigan State and Hubert Davis, instead of calling a play during the media timeout, just bitched out everyone in the. I love that in the huddle. And was like, you guys don't want this. And then they finished the half 41 30 and it was or 31 40 31 and it was just over from there.

Yeah, there were like five different teams this weekend that had these types of games where it's like, okay, if they play like this, they're going to win the title. North Carolina had a half where it's.

Like they're going to win the national championship. And I'll say for the first time, maybe it is over for Izzo because North Carolina, that second half, they just ran the same play over and over, and Michigan State just never stopped it. They just kept on running the same screen down low with Bacott, and then they would just hit a three or bacott would go one on one, and that was it.

Yeah.

It's always been funny to me that it's January, February ISO April, when you would ideally like your coach to be January, February, March, ISO yes. Because that's when you really have.

Yeah, you need to win the fight. Yeah, but he is March. But he is March. Got that one win, and we got fooled for a second.

Yeah.

The first half was pretty good for Michigan State, but North Carolina looks like when they're playing at their best, they are one of the five teams that are unbeatable.

Yeah, they're very good. All right, other games from Saturday. Arizona is, I was rooting for wanted. That was the type of team that I wanted to make it. But Arizona, they're looking like a team. Like, I look at the bracket right now and I don't know, ten out of the 16, I could conceivably see winning it all.

They're also fun when they're running, when you're getting up and down the court. They're one of the funnest teams to watch and then hand up. I owe Clemson an apology. I was not familiar with their game.

Oh, yeah, that's Sunday, but, yeah, popping a Sunday.

Yeah.

Clemson.

Clemson. I'm just saying, like, they're good all of a sudden. I think when they announced the bracket, I believe we said Clemson, they stink. They shouldn't be in here.

Correct.

I would like to retract that statement. Clemson does not stink retroactively. I never said that.

We forgot that they played a mountain west team in the first game, which New Mexico looked like. I don't know if they practiced before or they didn't even sleep before, but that was one of the worst first round showings for a team that people were picking. They were favorite in that game. They got absolutely demolished by Clemson.

Yeah.

And I was high on New Mexico, too, so I completely botched that one.

Yes.

That's March, baby.

I have a team for you, Max. Did you hear about this story? I have a team for you to root for because you don't have a team in the tournament.

Okay.

That team is Illinois and their first Sweet 16 since 2005, which is a crazy stat. Illinois historically has been good, but it has been a very rough stretch for them. Brad Underwood has been knocking at that door. I think he's an awesome coach. I actually have, like, one of my only non old takes exposed. When they hired him, I was like, Brad Underwood is an awesome coach. They're going to win with him.

I know where this is going.

Illinois is in the Sweet 16 since the first time in 2005, there was a story out there that Brad Underwood was trying to. So the last couple of years, they've had a team that has not really fit the modern basketball. So they have big man, a guard. His whole goal was, we got to find more wings. We got to find more guys that are dynamic with the ball. His entire starting five is over.

Six.

Six. Terrence Shannon is insane. He's got over 30 and a half points a game in the last six games. What are you averaging? And they also have a guy, damask, who's so, so good. And the story goes, they lost a game early in the season. Jay Wright was calling the game. Brad Underwood had a meeting with Jay Wright after the game. They became friends, and Jay Wright was like, hey, this guy damask, why don't you just do booty ball with him? Classic Villanova booty ball, where you just fucking let him get the ball. ISO. And he brings the people down in the post like what Jalen Brunson used to do, like all those guys used to do. And that has basically changed the course of their season, and that's how they run their offense, and they're a lot more dynamic now. It opens up everything for Terrence Shannon. Jay Wright has helped coach Illinois to the first Sweet 16 since 2005. Max.

Yeah.

No, that's great. I wish he did more for Villanova.

I thought he'd be more excited about this.

You wish he had told that to Kyle Neptune.

Correct.

Jay Wright is such a good coach. He's helping Illinois break their 19 year streak of not getting to the sweet 16.

Yeah, no, I saw that Villanova twitter wasn't. I mean.

Is he a trader? My eyes lit up when I turned back on you.

Max, what if he goes to Kentucky?

He's not going to Kentucky.

Booty ball.

Max.

Although I do have a trade in place for the rights to JW.

Right.

For John Caliperi.

Oh, okay.

You would accept that?

Well, yeah, because he's not going to come back, so I'll give up the rights to get.

Do you have his rights? Do you want John Cow?

Yes, we have the rights.

You want John Cow?

Yeah, 100% italian.

He would be good in the big east. Yeah.

Keep the big East Italian.

Yeah. I thought you did it on a.

Red hat with giant letters. Keep the big East Italian.

I thought you'd be more excited about this revelation that booty ball has been brought to Illinois via Jay Wright.

No.

Okay. Also brought to Illinois via your other team, Penn State, because that was part of it was. Brad Underwood's son is on the coaching staff and he's like, jalen Pickett from Penn State last year. Did booty ball to us three times? Beat us three times. Booty ball can beat anyone.

No. Yeah.

Booty ball is great. I've seen a lot of guards at Villanova do the booty ball, and it's always fun to watch.

Booty ball is great.

Yeah.

Because you just see these guards. Guards just don't know how to defend it.

Right. Jalen Brunson is 100% when he goes to booty ball.

He could literally do that every possession when he was at Nova. It was awesome. And then we just had shooters everywhere. So he would just kick out and it would be open. It was booty ball. Easy bucket for Brunson. Or kick out wide open.

Did he call it booty ball when he was at Villanova?

I think booty ball was. Coach Underwood's son was calling it booty ball after they got torched by Jalen Pickett at Penn State last year.

It sounds so much better when it's called booty ball.

It's great. Just be like, what are we going to run today? Booty ball.

Yeah.

Use your ass.

And Damascus is awesome at Booty. So Illinois, like that is a very big story. The fact they broke through and they have a team that could absolutely beat anyone, especially with the way Terrence Shannon's playing. The other weird story I had from Saturday was Bill self.

Yeah.

After losing to Gonzaga, said, for the last month, I've been thinking about next season. So I was thinking about. I actually weirdly, like, people were roasting him, and my initial inclination was to roast him, too. But Bill self, the one thing that you can say about Bill Self is he's actually probably too honest in his press conferences and too honest with the assessment of his team. He essentially was like, we've been hurt and we are going to bring back a lot of starters next year. And when I bring back starters, I usually have success. And, yeah, I hated here.

Or was he saying that? Who's the guard that's not playing?

McCullers.

Yeah, that McCullers. When he was out, when he found out that he was going to be out for a long time, he was like, well, our season's over.

Yeah.

Just at that point, he's like, I knew it. And then Hunter Dickinson getting his shoulder torn off.

Yeah.

But he is a very honest coach. Remember there was a couple of years ago when they lost to USC, and he's like, I wish Drake had beaten USC. I knew that USC was going to beat us. He's very honest.

Except for the hair. Although, actually, you know what? So we've talked about Bill Self's hair a lot on the show over the course of the years. About a year ago, I started to turn on it, and I'm thinking that it might be real hair.

Yeah.

But then you see one shot. I saw one shot yesterday. I was like, no, because I can spot a rug. I don't think it's a rug. I think he's got a great astroturn.

Yeah.

So that's what I'm saying. Like a lot of people were saying he's got a wig beforehand. No, I think he got a good surgery done.

He got ravaged.

Yeah, he got ravaged.

Yeah, ravaged. They got ravaged. But, yeah, Bill Self, people were criticizing for that quote because Gonzaga absolutely torched him. And mark few deserves our credit. Nine straight sweet 16s is insane. It's hard to win a game in the tournament, and he's won at least two nine straight years. The stat is 24 straight march madnesses, 15 straight first round wins. Nine straight sweet 16s.

Yeah.

Anyone would sign up for that. Yeah, he doesn't have a title, but you're basically saying to your fans, I will make sure that you guys have that extra week of happiness every single.

That week of happiness is huge. And not only did they beat Kansas, they destroyed Kansas.

Destroyed them. Played perfect basketball in the second.

Pumping.

Yeah, that was a great game. What other things from Saturday?

I mean, Iowa, another fun stat to keep your eye on here is the Tennessee Texas game. Tennessee made that a lot closer than it had to be because they couldn't shoot worth a goddamn. And against Texas, Texas had 19 points in the first half against them. Colorado State played Texas, the game before Colorado State had. How many points in the first half was it? Twelve. 1111 points in the first half?

Eleven.

Who did Colorado State play before that?

Virginia.

Uva. Who had 14 points in the first half. So it's like we said that Colorado State caught Uva. They caught. What do we say, COVID-19? Texas also caught Uva from Colorado State.

Yes.

So now, is Tennessee going to get Uvaids against Creighton in the next round, possibly in the first half?

I actually think that if you're a Tennessee fan, that was the perfect way to win because it was the way you always lose. Like that game, they just went so cold shooting, but their defense is so much better this year and their offense is a lot better than it was last year. But their defense, they could rely on their defense when their shooting was bad. And that was a game that Tennessee always loses and Rick Barnes always loses where it's like you're up double digits in the second half and what just happened? We just lost this game. They survived the. What just happened? We just lost this game. And you have to do that to win. Like, not everyone's going to be like Yukon last year where know, beat everyone by double digits. If you win a national title, if you look at every national champion, there's a couple games mixed in there where you didn't have your best stuff and you just found a way to do it. This could be that game for Tennessee.

Yeah, their score connect. He sucked. He was so bad.

So bad, so bad.

Finally made a three down the stretch. But for most of the game, he couldn't score. They had to rely on Adu and their defense. Yeah, Adu and Viscovy on defense. They're legit. So I'm looking forward to that Creighton Tennessee game.

Yeah.

And then we had the Oregon Creighton game, which was one of the most electric, weird games because you had Creighton miss every wide open shot and Oregon try to beat a team with two guys, Cusnard and Dante, they took every single shot essentially down the stretch and double overtime just ran out of gas.

Yeah, it felt like Oregon was the better team for most of the game.

They were.

And then it just kept extending until they ran out of gas until the second.

But yeah, yeah, they tried to win with two guys. I've never seen anything like it. Like Cusnard, that three hit at the end of the. What is it, regular? No, 2nd, 1st overtime was just an insane shot to hit and they just, every single time down the floor is like, one of these two guys has to do it, otherwise we're fucked. And Creighton just outlasted him.

Pick east.

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Duke couldn't miss.

They couldn't miss.

McCain was on fire. It was a blowout. There's no team that can beat Duke if they shoot that well. Yeah, the thing is, they're probably not going to shoot that well in every other game. But yeah, it was a blowout from start to finish. There was no time. At no point during that game did I feel it.

Really. It actually is crazy to say that, but it's a fact.

The only thing I can hang my hat on is that it wasn't the worst blowout of the weekend.

Yeah.

By one point.

Who is that? Well, Houston blew out their first round opponent by a lot.

Yeah.

I mean, like in this Utah state, Purdue. Utah State was a 39 point victory.

Yeah. Purdue.

Mine was 38.

I got to give a lot of credit. Purdue.

Yeah.

People will be like, oh, they haven't played anyone. They played a 16 seed. They played Utah state team that was probably overrated because they didn't play anyone. Non con. Purdue deserves credit because Purdue has failed so tragically the last couple of years that to get to the sweet 16 and to do it the way they did it, where they absolutely shit, pumped both the teams along the way, and Zach Edie put up just insane, insane stats. Purdue is very good. I'm a Purdue hater, but I'm also a Purdue realist. They're very good at bats.

Would he have 23 or 24 today? And they took him out real early.

Yeah.

No game. And he was dominant when he was in. He was dominant when he was in the game. In their opening against Grambling.

Yeah, he had 23 and 14 against Grambling. I think he had a double double with like eight minutes left in the first half.

Yeah.

So with 30 and 21, I'll say it, Purdue's legit. Zach Edie has 53 points and 35 rebounds through two games. Also, Jake, on your wild meter, where do we have it? Purdue in the ultimate wild. Their path, if everyone wins, who's supposed to win would be they're playing Gonzaga. They played them in the playing. They would play Tennessee. They played them and beat them in the Maui. And then if Marquette. I believe it's Marquette.

Yeah, that would be crazy.

Marquette would be the final fourth game they played and beat them in the Maui. That's exactly how it went in the wild. To say there was one person, like, they haven't played anyone. It's like their next three games could be games that they have already won on the season.

Also, you can't say they haven't played anyone. A, you don't control that. B, they earn the number one seed.

Correct.

So screw those people.

Yes, screw them.

Yeah.

And they could then potentially play Illinois again. Who they beat.

Yeah, the championship.

Well, no, they did not beat them in the championship.

No, I'm saying they could meet them in the championship.

Yes.

Who they've beaten twice. So they've played some really good teams that are all sitting in front of them. Purdue's a problem.

Zach Eedy is a and, uh, yeah, he does get some calls. That's not why they won this game. They won this game because Purdue was dominant and Zach Eedy was really good. Even without the refs on his.

It is.

It's confusing to watch. The refs don't know how to officiate him.

Matt Painter had a comment after basically calling out anyone who says Zach Eedy is not good at basketball. I agree with Matt Painter. Anyone who says Zach Eed's not good at basketball is a fucking moron. The guy's good at basketball, especially college basketball. I don't want whatever happens to the NBA, happens to the NBA. He has put on a lot of muscle, gotten a lot better through his years at Purdue. I've watched it. He's put in a lot of work. He's very good at ball. I don't love how he's ref, but I would never say Zach E's not very good at basketball.

Yeah, he's really good.

Anyone who says he's not good at basketball, he's just tall is being a hater. He's also got a great scowl.

They're a very underrated look on his face when he gets into business time. You can tell. And he does the LeBron face where he dips his forehead and looks at.

You at the top of his eyes.

Yeah.

Very intimidating.

There's also probably the reason why that narrative is out there is there's probably two or three times a game where he is just too tall.

Yeah.

Where it's like he'll pick up a rebound, he'll take it literally off the block, and then just not even barely jump and put it back in. You're like, he's too tall.

Yeah.

And basketball is always great for that. So that us five eight and a half, five nine, people at home can watch and be like, if I was just as tall as that guy, I would be so good at basketball.

Yeah.

Without taking into account the fact that your body would be huge and you wouldn't be able to move as quickly as you do.

Correct.

If you got these tiny little Mickey Mouse limbs.

Correct. And he's gotten a lot better and a lot bigger and stronger. Zach Edie confirmed good at basketball. That was my full. Say something nice about Purdue. We also had Colorado Marquete, which was one of the best games of the weekend, because that was kind of similar where Colorado has been playing so many games of basketball. I don't know, they have six games in the last twelve days or something like that. But Marquete is back with kolk looking like they could absolutely win the national title. Kohlic, someone said it on Twitter, which is so perfect. Kolk's drive and layup with his left, where he kind of does a little bit of body work and then extends his arm and is able to hit it off the backboard, is the basketball equivalent of the tush push. I don't know how you defend it.

He's the smartest player in the tournament, just watching the angles that he takes and he knows the situation all the time. He makes the perfect play. Even at the end of the game when they were trying to run the clock out, take as many seconds as he could on each possession, he knew what to do. He knew when to pass the ball, where to cut in order to take time off so they couldn't foul him. They were trying to foul Kolk and Colick was just too smart for him getting around. So having that guy running point for you, it's huge. And now that's going to be a good matchup against NC State. NC State. Team of destiny. I don't know.

Team of Destiny survives Oakland and yeah, that's going to be a very fun game. And then the other two quick games I want to talk about was the Alabama Grand Canyon game was one of the most chaotic games I've ever watched of not great basketball, but I think if you're Grand Canyon, great season credit to you, you should just make all your players just walk around with the basketball for the entirety of the offseason because they just holding on to a basketball was a very hard thing for them to do.

And their players would be doing these crossovers, but they would just be standing in place but doing crossover dribbles, not actually moving side to side, just moving the ball from one side of their body to the other. And every time they bounce it, you thought they were going to bounce off their own kneecap or their shin. It was out of control.

It was just hands and arms flying everywhere for 40 minutes and the ball just randomly bouncing out of bounds.

Yeah.

And then a basket would get scored now and now and again and then.

Alabama running the basketball equivalent of the spread offense, they're doing like some football shit out there. Well, they like to go ISO, they like to run and when it works, it's nice, but they also don't play defense.

Yeah.

And I've been a critic of Alabama basketball because of our good friend Rico Bosco and his love affair with Nate Oates. They were watching them in the end of the season. They were soft. They got bullied down low. That Florida game in the SEC tournament was like. Florida just absolutely dominated them with layups and just being stronger than them. Alabama won this game because they were strong, rebounding the ball because it was Grand Canyon. Up three. Alabama comes down, and they basically had two minutes where they were on their side of the court because they went, make free throw, miss, three throw, free throw, rebound. Make free throw, miss, free throw, rebound. And just.

They.

They were able to outmuscle Grand Canyon.

Then Grand Canyon would try to run back down and have the same pace that Alabama has. They would pull up and take the worst three point shot that you've ever.

Yeah.

Hit off the front of the rim. Alabama gets the ball. They're back down at the other end.

Yeah.

So the. Alabama deserves credit there. Oh, we forgot one other thing was Iowa State looks really, really good. I want their coach so bad. He's from Wisconsin.

Is he really? Yeah, he looks like a Wisconsin guy.

He looks like a wrestling.

He looks like he's been, like, out in Russell burger. He's been out in the sun in springtime, drinking milk all day.

I can tell, too, that that's, like, starting to bother because I've been included on some. Some twitter threads where Iowa state fans are like, he already has his dream job, and everyone's like, but he wants to go back. And I'm like, I don't want to get involved in this, but, yeah, I want him. Yeah, you could get him. What could we do?

You could have him.

Does he want to be the president of Stella blue coffee?

Would you make that happen easily?

I've offered that job to way too many people, but that's fine. Whoever takes it first gets it. I think I offered it to big.

T. Is he the most jacked basketball coach?

Who?

Basketball.

Martin's still coaching?

Yeah, Buz is pretty jacked.

Buz is jacked. Yeah, Buz is absolutely jacked. Bruce Pearl. Sneaky, kind of jacked.

Barrel chested.

Yeah, Bruce Pearl went out. Sad that Auburn, everyone's bracket got busted with Auburn. The analytics darling. Did you know Auburn was top five in both these things? I love the week leading up to the brackets where it's like, it's now just TikTok. You can't go one TikTok or Instagram scroll without some dude being like, I got the perfect formula.

Yeah, everyone has a formula. Everyone does. And I believe them all, and every year they're wrong.

Yeah.

But, yeah, these games are. I'm so excited for next weekend. What other games we missed?

Houston A and M. Yeah.

That was incredible. I mean, Houston almost like that was the fact that Houston let Texas A and M get to overtime. That would have been an all time, all time, all time March madness loss.

So they had a 99% win probability. Atlanta Falcons like win probability with 44 seconds left. I think what, a and M was down. Was it twelve with, like, eleven with 148? I think eleven with 148 left. And then somehow through the magic of Wade, who just took every shot possible out there, they claw back, get to overtime, and then everyone on Houston fell out.

Yeah.

I mean, Texas A and M had a buz Williams coached a perfect game in the fact that from the very first whistle, their entire strategy was go to the hoop on every possession and make them foul you. And they did.

But shed was too good.

I mean, that hop step by shed, where he just. I think he started almost at the three point line and ended up in the lane for that bucket down the stretch. He was the only guy left. We had the guy who was sitting on the bench named Elvin.

Elvin came.

Who had to come in and hit a free throw.

Elvin.

We got a name from our DND quests.

Elvin. No, that's like Elf. Like, would be Elven.

Elvin.

You can have Elven.

Elven. Elven wizard.

Yeah, that's elf.

Your cake. The elf, like wizard. Elven.

Elven.

Yeah.

Like, that means to have qualities pertaining to an elf.

Yeah.

All right. Who's going to be mad that we didn't mention them? Yukon's the fucking best.

Yeah. Okay.

So let's just suck Yukon's dick real quick. Yukon is going to win the national championship.

I mean, they're doing the same thing again. I mean, the San Diego State will be definitely a step up from Northwestern and Stetson, but I think they'll kill him.

I want to be very clear. Yukon is going to win the national championship. Also going to win the national championship. UNC is going to win the national championship. Arizona is going to win the national championship. Gonzaga is going to win it. Purdue is going to win the national championship.

NC state's the team of destiny.

Marquete's going to win the national championship. NC state is the team of destiny. They're probably going to lose at some point.

Houston is a tough out.

I think Houston's going to win the national championship. And also Duke.

Duke's playing great ball, right? It's the way they shot, playing great ball.

Duke is going to win the national championship.

Purdue also going to win the national champion.

Oh, yeah.

When Virginia lost Sweet 16, Purdue is.

Going to win the natty.

In the script, if Creighton hits their threes, they will probably win the national championship. Tennessee and Rick Barnes actually, to go full circle on this, the only team that's not going to win the national championship is the team we disrespected going into the tournament. Clemson will not win the national championship.

Yeah. Zero chance.

And now they will. No.

If that happens, I'll get a cat.

Oh, okay.

It's exciting.

I think they will. Just because we said they won't.

They're not. Clemson's not going to win. I'm reverting back to my initial take. Clemson doesn't deserve to be here.

Yeah.

All right, Jake, what do you got? For one shining moment? Or just what announcer did a good job? What was that announcer that mother fucked on Saturday night?

Andrew Catalon.

Piece of shit. No. Piece of shit. Wrong.

Wrong. He called a technical foul.

No.

What did he call? Yeah. Did he say there was a technical foul? And then he's like, oh, there wasn't. I forget.

There's been so many things that I've gotten mad at.

Can't do that.

Adam left, goes kind of stealing your swag.

Yeah, but I know him personally.

He's a good guy.

He's a good guy, but you play the games.

Yeah, a little bit.

And there's been a few times where I'm like, I have to do a second glance because I'm like, is that big cat?

And it's like, no, listen, wait, how's he stealing his swag?

He looks kind of like my advisors.

Yeah, he's got the.

Got a turtleneck in the.

Yeah.

By the way, he kind of looks like me.

It's just lefko. I don't know if you've heard him talk. After the games on TNT are over, he says, welcome back. It's me, Lefko.

I love that. He's a good dude, but, yeah, that's all my swag.

It's like Cher. One name.

Yeah. That was just my observation over the.

Weekend was, yeah, but I like Lefka. We're like long lost brothers. So he did a good job.

Respect.

All right, so, Jake, tell us what we missed.

Yeah, so, Florida, Colorado entering the weekend, that was the game of the tournament. Walter Clayton. That was three to, tied at 100, and then Colorado hit a jumper to win at 102. 100 in regulation. You never see that in college that.

Hung on the rim, right. That one.

Yeah.

This is fun. This is a trip down memory lane, because it's like, I watched all these games, but I do remember that that one was like the kawhi shot.

Yes, exactly.

Same.

Who was that shot against?

Let's go to the next.

Sorry.

Yale stuns, Auburn. Nebraska's tomanaga getting emotional.

Yeah.

I mean, tomanaga, that was the. That was the best five minutes that Nebraska basketball has ever played. And then they got absolutely dog walk.

It's just crazy to me that Nebraska, a school that big, with such a good athletic department overall, has never won a tournament game.

Yeah, they never won a tournament. It's crazy.

Grand Canyon's win over St. Mary's was dominant. That was Friday. Dante, you mentioned aliyoup. We had a halftime buzzer beater from Clemson today. So more flowers to Clemson for a halftime buzer beater.

Yeah.

Halftime buzer beater.

Just giving out the. I'm going to say no flowers for that.

Giving out the moments left and right.

Halftime buzer beater. No.

And then a. And miracle forces ot.

And then what about your one shining moment? Oh, that was. Oh, you think Clemson halftime buzer beaters me on one shining moment?

Yeah.

Okay.

It was a deep one.

Was that their signature moment?

They had the announcer call.

What about Oregon's in the first. On Thursday. Halftime buzer beater.

Yeah, I have that. Okay.

No, on Thursday. Oh, halftime buzer beater.

I don't have that.

So not all halftime buzer beaters are built the same.

Yeah.

What moment do you have in the JMU Wisconsin game?

I don't know if I have.

Probably one of our. One of our 75 turnovers.

Yeah, I don't have any specific moment. I'm sure there's going to be something. It's probably just like you guys hitting.

Three, celebrating after the guy in the.

Stands yelling at the other guy in the tux.

Yeah.

What about that guy shutting the fuck up?

Yeah. Okay.

Yeah, that's good.

We could create our own.

How would you grade this tournament, Jake?

So I've compared this tournament a lot to the 2019 tournament, where Virginia won it all. Also good news for Purdue, where it was mostly chalk. In the first weekend, we had all ones and twos advance, which this time, I think it's like the fifth or 6th time ever we've had that to the 16. But in that second weekend, we had some crazy games. You remember that Purdue Tennessee Sweet 16 game? I think Ryan Klein was his name. He dropped like 40, went to overtime, I think. And then the Elite Eight game was the Virginia, famous Virginia Purdue game with Mamadi Diaquite.

I like how you said that. He was ready. Exactly.

And then they won it all. So I think we're lining up to have an incredible Sweet 16 and Elite eight.

Call it a shot.

It's going to be a great week to look at the logos that are playing against each other this upcoming weekend.

Because think about it, if it was Yukon, Yale, no disrespect to Yale.

It's like, all right, the battle for Connecticut.

Yeah, that would have been storyline in Boston, but they would have won by 20.

Yeah, they would have killed them and.

They might still beat San Diego State by 20, but at least like you have the storyline of the championship rematch and all of that.

How about that Yale big sweater guy? Oh, yeah.

Good for him.

He had some huge shoulders.

He's on the moment, right, Jake?

Yeah, he's got to be.

Yeah, that's a moment.

Got to be.

That's for sure. A moment.

Also, wedge account.

Four.

Four.

Underwhelming.

Oh, that part's underwhelming. Not great.

Have we figured out what to call? Because there was one of the hoops on Thursday, the net was too tight. The net was so tight that the ball was getting stuck in the net.

Loosen them up, but whatever.

What do you call those?

I think Megan said netters.

Maybe netters.

Be careful with that.

Okay.

Why? Just don't say that one again.

Okay.

You pronounce things very well, but just to be safe. Yeah, just to be safe.

That's a good list, though, Jake. It's been a fun tournament. I'm excited for.

Definitely not the most chaotic opening weekend we've.

But still, the Kentucky game. Kentucky's got to look at this sweet 16 and be like, all our old friends are there. Yeah, we're not.

Yeah. Tough day for Kentucky.

Yeah.

Seeing that Kentucky and Kansas.

Kansas won it all two years ago.

And Bill Self was worried about next year.

Yeah, put me down. Actually, I want to do a future on Kansas for next season. No, I actually, Bill Self's already looking ahead.

Someone.

Hold on.

You ready for this? Kansas might return four starters next year. Here's how Bill Self did when that happens. 21 22 national champions, 1560 number one overall seed. 910 or ten number one overall seed. Seven eight national champs. Six seven number one overall seed.

Yeah.

See, Bill Self is thinking about next year, so I'm thinking about next year. Yeah, next year.

This was the season. They're going to be a really good team next year.

This was the season before the season for Kansas, there was a person online, Pranev serieman, that asked an interesting question that I thought I'd bring up to embrace debate here. They said who's the worst NBA player that could lead the worst team in the tournament to the. Oh, like who's the worst NBA player that could take. Who's the worst team to the final.

Yeah.

Or to win the championship. Who's the worst team?

I think it was Stetson or Howard or Uva.

Yeah, Uva. Who's the worst player in the NBA that you could put on Uva and have them win the national championship? I think I know my answer because there's only like maybe like three or four guys.

Wagner was oh, I think there's way more than that.

That could take the worst team and beat every other team with that.

I don't know. NBA players are so much better than college.

I know players.

It's insane.

Sam Hauser.

Yeah.

Probably think about it.

He's the best player and they're saying like he's going to be a what? Fringe first rounder.

Yeah.

I don't know if even that.

Yeah.

And he's the best player right now.

Campaign.

You think campaign could lead UVA?

I do too. Just based off vibes.

Bobby Portis.

Bobby.

No, it would need to be like.

Virginia ultimate test because. No, I think such a weird system to play in.

I think you lean into it. You lean into the defensive pressure.

Hauser would be good.

Wait, there's got to be more than.

Wait, who could?

Tatum, LeBron, probably Anthony Davis, Jokic.

If you want to lean into the Uva ness of it all, put Pat Bev on that team.

Yeah.

I mean, imagine Embiid playing college basketball. It would be.

Yeah.

Like there's so many guys would just dominate. Wimby. Wimby.

Nobody could stop Wimby. There's not a team in college basketball right now that could do a goddamn thing about Victor Wimbanyama.

Someone did say something very mean where they were like, Zach Eedy is exactly like Victor Wimbanyama. Minus the shot making, the versatility, the handles, the speed, the skill. That was mean.

The tallness is there.

The tallness is you can't coach tall. Yeah, no, I think there's a lot. I mean, it's not. I think it's more than 15 or 20. Kawhi.

I was thinking about Kawhi earlier, but he would dominate for sure. But could you just rely on him to single handedly?

I don't know how anyone you'd have to triple team him. Steph. Steph almost did it.

Yes.

With Davidson.

But Steph doesn't count because he's one of the best players in the NBA that could do it.

Yeah.

No, I'm just saying, you said there's only four players that could do it.

I think there's, like four.

I think there's, like 520 plus easy.

I mean, the NBA is way better. I know that.

Yeah.

All these guys thinking about Yanis would be a problem. He'd be a problem.

He would dominate everyone. It would be a joke watching it.

I'd like to see.

Just think, because then what do you do? You put, like, three guys on him, and then you just have everyone else stand around and shoot. Think of it.

This Jimmer almost did it by.

Yeah.

Yeah. And he sucked.

Yeah.

But he was good. Great point, Golkie.

Be Kentucky.

Yeah. Yeah.

It's a great. You could. I think you put a lot of guys on uva, and they would fuck everyone up pretty bad, especially because Uva could actually play defense. So then you just add one more defensive stopper. No one would score on them, and then you just have that one guy score all the points.

Yeah.

I think Uva is probably the wrong example to use for that one.

Yeah, but like Longwood still, you put LeBron on Longwood, and they're in the final four for sure, and it'll be so much fun.

I don't know if LeBron can play college ball.

That's why the coolest thing LeBron could have ever done for his career is just go to Akron for one year and just be like, how deep could we?

It would have been perfect. Just so that we could know. We could know the answer to that question.

Yeah.

And it would also be great if we should just do a tournament like this. Someone should fund this tournament where every team that's in the tournament, we just replay the tournament again. But everyone gets to add an NBA player.

Yeah.

Adam Silver, you get all your ideas from the Internet. Here's a good one. Make it legal for NBA players to go and play one season in college after they've been in the league for, like, ten years.

Yeah.

It's my rule of bringing a graduate back.

No, not even that. It's a different rule, because the guy goes straight to the NBA, and then they get to choose what college they want to play for one season.

Yeah, but it would be sick.

Yeah.

Be awesome to watch.

Okay.

Anything else, Hank? You enjoy it. I feel like you have a good time.

I had a good time. My Megamax lock Purdue was a miraculous backdoor cover. So that was fun. Saturday night was fun. Sunday wasn't as fun, but I still have fun.

You see, that's the thing.

I'm excited for good. Three succeed matchups, and I hope we get a good Final four.

Maybe it's just because March Madness is something that is so ingrained in my head that I lose money no matter what, that when people are like, oh, all you care about is your bets. You decide if it's fun, if you win or lose. I lost all my bets. I had a lot of fun. Like, I enjoyed watching basketball for four days. I enjoyed the moments. None of it ended up good for me.

Also lost my job Friday night. So that wasn't as fun.

No, you didn't.

You got fired for a second, and then you kept showing up.

We were on the precipice.

You monsooned it.

He just kept on asking me the same question. I gave him the same answer over and over and over.

What was the question?

He was just like, will you be mad if I go hard? And I was like, yes, I care a lot about my.

So did Hank at any point go hard?

No, because we figured it out that it would not make sense. I was like, everyone wants to tune in to watch me die. I will die, and you will be tortured and then die. And then I died and was tortured. Everyone watched me.

Biz was know.

Yeah.

Golden retriever. He's like, what are we taking? I was like, I think a lot of people are taking JMU, and that set big cat off.

Well, Hank also touched me and was like, the draft kings, huddle up. And was like, what do we think about JMu, guys? And touched me. He is touchy. He touches me, and it's a technical foul. I wanted that on the record. Technical foul. If he touches me, he's been touching me a lot. Yeah, Hank gets non consensual touching. Should not be allowed in that setting.

He gets very feely.

Yeah.

Max, is it okay that I kissed you on Friday?

Yeah, it was good. Good game time.

Had a fucking vacation weekend. Well, no, Max on the company.

Max was working hard. Working hard. Got some great clips out there.

That was my lowest moment when I was just like, Max just fucking burns our money going to New York.

It was $300.

I said it was my lowest moment. No one was even listening to me when I said it.

I was appalled.

What were you appalled about?

I thought Max did a great job.

Did do a great job. I love Max.

Can I do.

Never be mad at Max. A quick psA.

Because I was just thinking about the love. Love seeing the fans out in public. If you're an awl, love saying hi to you. Love taking pictures, all that stuff. One small request, though. If I'm actually peeing and my penis is out and I'm at a urinal, can we wait for like 15?

I disagree. It's a Friday night march Madness game. I think that's all. Bets are on.

Yeah.

Okay. I think they get to touch it if they want.

You don't even let take that back.

We don't do that.

Dicks grabbed. Well, okay. Don't do that.

It's not for me, but it's for the other three guys that were standing next to me also taking a piss. And there's a guy just with his camera out being like, pft. Take a picture. And then the three guys are like, yeah, you're taking a picture of me while I'm pissing?

Yeah.

That's fair. That's a fair request.

I think that's a fair request.

That's a fair request.

If I'm shitting and you put your phone over the top of the stall and get a picture of one. Because that's just me. It's everybody else.

Yeah, it's a fair request. You agree?

Yes.

What's up, Hank? What's wrong? Just losing today?

No, I'm good. Hank's not good.

He's not good.

Hank, you're hiding something. I can always tell what's on your mind, Hank.

There's nothing on my mind.

What's wrong?

Come on.

You're on the psychiatrist's couch over there.

Nothing.

What's wrong now?

There's something.

There's something wrong.

Are you talking to Tiff right now?

Are you talking to Tiff?

I've been talking to Tiff.

Ben.

What is wrong, though?

There's nothing.

No, there's something on your mind, though, that you haven't said.

Nothing wrong.

Are you still scared of big cat?

I'm focused. I'm not.

We came back together yesterday. I literally saw him 1 second. I was like, I'm sorry.

I think he's scared.

No, I took my medicine earlier. That's usually what it is.

All right, never mind then. Nothing is wrong then. Nothing is wrong.

Yeah.

Focus. I'm very focused.

Something's wrong.

No, I don't think so. That explains it all.

That's the conversation.

Very focused.

Pretty much every time when I came.

That is true. Every time you take your medicine, we're like, dude, what's fucking wrong with you? And you're like, nothing. I took the medication I'm prescribed to take, and we're like, oh, okay.

Yeah.

When Hank's healthy, we're like, what the.

It really does go like that.

Well, it's usually, you know, I have ADHD and know, say things or be a little more outgoing. And then when I take my medicine, I'm just quiet.

Yeah.

And then we're like, what the fuck's wrong with you?

Yeah, actually.

And the resting anger face, that's where it gets me.

My perfect Hank is when he hasn't slept for, like, three days, and he just has no idea what's coming out of his mouth and just lets it fly.

Yeah, I like that person.

My perfect Hank is after he does comedy.

Yeah.

All the way to the world office.

Feeling like a new man.

There was a moment when I came into the office on Saturday when we were starting the stream. I came straight from the airport, and I got in the door, and it was like a morgue in the office. Because the mood from last night on Friday was apparently, well, we'd lost everything.

And then I lost everything.

Yeah, it was bad.

I don't think anyone won a single thing on Friday. Well, actually, you did.

Yeah.

J Mew Friedell. No, it was. We went Purdue.

No, Purdue. Friday. We went Purdue.

We went.

That Purdue cover was. I don't think anyone else really had it. It was, for me, miraculous. Just when it was a walk on guy that never plays, hit a three when it didn't matter.

Yeah.

We went back to back on Friday night, where we got all whooped up for Will in Nebraska.

What do you mean, whooped up?

Like, everyone was like, let's go, Nebraska. Let's do this. And then it was just so bad.

Did you bet on Nebraska?

Yes.

Just for will?

Yes.

Literally, I was like, all week, I was like, I think Texas a m. Is a better team. They're going to win this game. And I was like, you know what? I said the quote, and I'll say it again, and I actually believe this. I will never be someone who wins money gambling. I have to be rich and friends. So that was my whole plan was like, winners are never going to happen. For me, friendship is more important. So I'd fucking put on a fucking headband, and I was like, let's do it. And then it just fell flat. So fast.

Yeah, that sounds like so fast. Sounds like bad vibes there. I'm actually glad I wasn't there on Friday, because it would have been weird if everybody was losing everything, and then I'm just, like, the happiest I've ever been watching a basketball game.

Yeah, it was tough. It was tough. But that's March. And I bounced back. A day later, I was back here just doing the thing. But, yeah, it just sucks. I wish I didn't care as much as I cared. I am jealous of people who can compartmentalize and not let it bother them. I care a lot, and it just fucking sucks. Today you were down.

Yeah, I was down. But also, in the grand scheme of things, house, money.

Yeah.

Well, you got a win. Did not expect to be there.

Got a big win. Probably the biggest in program history, and got to see it. So I was feeling good.

I was feeling good.

I'll feel better tomorrow. Now, I'm a little bit down, but in the grand scheme of things, it's like, this was a good march for me.

Yeah.

When Hank loses, he doesn't ruins the. I mean, everyone deals with their losses different ways.

Hank, are you okay?

I'm good.

You also big.

Oh, here it comes.

All right, here it comes. Finally, there was a point when you.

Were lashing out, and you were like, fuck everyone that's texting me. Fuck you, Max homa.

Yeah, fuck you, Con. Well, these people never do this. Wait, you do that all the time.

No, I don't.

When have I done that? When have I texted you? Right after. We have to do a show. We have to do a show.

How many times have you texted that?

Oh, no, regular game.

That's with Max. It does happen all the time, but only to Max.

But are we talking about playoffs? Because, first of all, we're watching playoffs together.

But, like, if it's. Yeah, a Celtics game.

If the Celtics blew in the playoffs. I've done that. I've texted would. I do not think that's true. And I also don't text random people. Like, you and I are, like, our relationship. Different than fucking Spencer Hawes, who I haven't talked to in a year. Just texting me out of nowhere, talking shit. That's a weird move. Captain Khan's. I'm not going to talk to him for a year. Would you text someone that you don't talk to regularly? Okay, but wait, big I wouldn't.

I'm not sure if he also texted you individually, but he texted the group chat that we're on, where he know.

He added Frank Kaminsky, where he says.

Things about part of my take.

I understand, but he added Frank Kaminsky, and he started a new group chat. When someone's losing in the middle of a game. I do not text them in the middle of the game like a person I don't talk to. Is that not.

That's fair. Do I do that talk?

Like, I was listing people who I don't talk to regularly and they just start in.

The middle.

This was in the middle of, like.

I was like, Ryan, hang up your phone. Like, please don't FaceTime right now. He's like, he's not going to pick up.

Even the Stanford Steve's SCP thing, that's a regular season game. If someone wanted to talk shit during a regular season game, I don't care. When Scott texts me after Maryland beats Wisconsin, I don't care. A tournament game. It sucked.

Now.

It sucked. But I didn't want to respond. Also, I didn't. There is a max exception to this. I just didn't respond.

There is a max exception because those texts do happen, but strictly with Max.

Yeah, that's probably fair. But that also. You do that you do.

Sure.

But would you ever text someone who you don't talk to regularly during a bad loss talking shit? That is a crazy move to me.

If it was like a. I. Yeah. If it was a friend that.

That's a crazy.

Haven't talked to in a year, but the time was right, I might still.

I think that's a crazy move. And Twitter is totally different because you can just not look at like, I know I'm going to get shit on Twitter. Who cares about Twitter? The text feels personal when someone texts you in the middle of a torture.

I have a friend that went to Virginia Tech that we don't talk day to day.

But you would do that? I don't think I would. I would wait a day and then I would talk shit.

Did you text Matt Jones from Kentucky during the loss?

No.

Okay.

Fuck no. That would be crazy.

Circumstantially. I'm not going to say I wouldn't.

Because I don't know. I just can't think of a time where I've done that to someone I don't regularly talk to. The only exception being if my team's playing their team. If BFD texts me, that's totally fine. That makes sense if your team is involved. But, like, third party out of nowhere texted, I haven't talked to this person in months. I'm like, I'm not responding to. Didn't.

Like.

It wasn't like I responded. Fuck you. Don't ever talk to me again. I'm just not responding.

Yeah.

Would you respond to that? Would you text someone you don't talk.

Well, so Morty texted me during this game, but he's a Duke fan.

Right?

And then I was just like, that's kind of expected.

Yeah, you lashed out.

Yeah, I just said, why is he texting me? I don't want to respond to this, but if your team's playing the other person's team, I think that's totally fair. But, yeah, we should just clarify that with Max.

That's fine.

Max does not apply to these rules.

Yeah, Max, what would you do?

We get 90% of our joy on this podcast out of doing that exact thing to Max.

Would you text a random person you haven't talked to in a while? And again, it's not like I hate these people. I just not going to respond.

There's one kid in particular that I'm thinking of that I would.

So it sounds like everyone has one. Mine's Max, but it sounds like you're.

A lot of people's one person.

Well, yeah, I know it's coming. When everyone shits down my throat, I know it's coming. I can deal with it. The text just feels personal, so I'm just not going to respond.

When Homer texted us, I just wanted to respond to be polite, but I did not expect you to respond to.

Also, I will text someone during a loss being like, you're texting.

Both of you changed it as well.

Yeah, I get it. I get the joke. I got the joke. I'll text someone consoling them. Like when Titus, when Ohio State lost that game in the Big ten championship, I texted him, like, an hour later. I was like, the foul discrepancy is insane. Like, you guys got fucked.

Actually, this was a funny text from Max. Oma. This is to me and big cat at 930.

I didn't thought it was kind of vanilla.

Hey, just wanted to let you know I'm watching the game and I'm rooting for your team. I know he'll be bad, but that makes it even better. Oh, shoot. I didn't mean to send this to both of you guys. All right?

You do that all the time.

Yeah, I know.

With Rico.

Yeah.

All right, so that's what was on your else. What else are you mad at me for? It seems like you're very mad. I get it.

That was my only note. My only note. We had a long conversation before the outburst was pregame, which I thought were still within the lines of, yeah, I.

Thought that Hank did something like laws of engagement.

No, he just asked me over and over in the kitchen. Will you be mad if I go really hard, and I said yes over and over, and then he'd asked me a different way, and I'd say yes. And it was like we had the same conversation for maybe minutes where I was like, I don't know how I can answer this differently than. I care a lot. I really want to win this game.

So you got pre mad at him?

Well, because it was like I was talking to, like, he was just basically going to ask the question until I was like, you know what? I don't care. But it was never going to happen.

But the irony in this is that big cat did actually get mad at you for asking him if he would get mad at.

Because he asked me so many times.

You asked him if he would get mad too many times.

So many times that it was like, there's nothing I can do here. We're not going to ever see eye to eye.

But that was months ago at this point.

Yeah, I moved on. When I saw you, I was like, I can't be mad at you. I saw your face, shoot ass face on Saturday morning.

Oh, so you went to bed mad.

I went to bed in the worst mood ever.

You never go to bed mad.

I feel like I'm pretty good for a really bad mood for about 12 hours after a bad loss, and then I can move on. Isn't that not fair? Can we all agree that's fair? Yeah, that feels like it's a fair thing to do. 12 hours, 24 hours. I mean, Hank, you are in a bad mood when you lose. Yeah. Right. Yeah, that's natural. We just have to sometimes get on here and talk about it. I would have talked about it on Friday night if we had the show, and it would have been similar. We suck.

It would have been a bad show if we had done that. I thought about hitting you guys up and be like, time capsule, should we record something?

It would have been the same thing.

It would have just been, we suck. That sucked. It was torture.

No, but I would have been so happy.

Yeah, well, you still were happy today.

I came in happy. I woke up happy this morning.

Yeah, you were happy yesterday. I got all your happiness.

I've been happy for the last week and a half. Sports has made me happy every day for the last week and a half, and now sports has made me sad.

Not me. Everything sucks. Everything fucking sucks. I feel like Max. Max. I would have rather had Max's way out. The NIt would have been way better. No one gives a fuck. Wisconsin went to the final four of the NIT. Last year, no one gave a fuck. So much better to not have a very public. Everyone's watching your failure. And the Friday night time slot is the worst because we had to wait for then. And then it's like, all everyone thinks about after the conclusion of the first round is that. And everyone's like, man, that was bad. Yeah, I just sat there with it.

Or if you're good, you're like, man, that was.

Yeah, no, he's great.

And then you do something dumb like put a bet on JMU to win the national championship right afterwards.

Yeah, I did get one email from a guy.

Now I have to look at that future for the rest of the tournament. That's brutal, because it doesn't cash out or doesn't cancel out until.

Yeah, I got an email from one guy who was like, the badgers suck, and I hope you die and your kids die. And I was like, that felt a little far, but everyone else was totally fair to just shit on me. I deserved it. My team was an embarrassment to watch, and I'm sorry that people had to watch it. That's how bad I felt. When you have to say sorry to. We were watching in the cave. I had to move it to the little tv.

Yeah.

Because I was like, I don't want you guys to have to watch this anymore.

Yeah, we did that today with the Duke JMU game, too. It's embarrassing.

It's bad. All right, so it seems like we're good. Hank, you were holding that in for a long time. You got it out.

Yeah, I could tell that something.

Yeah, no, I could too.

That's just not true. But we're good.

Yeah.

And now we're on to bigger and better things. You got your beloved Duke.

Yeah.

Now you're Duke. Now you're Duke. Duke. I want Dukey Hank back.

Hank's just taking off a series of masks. In the first one, he just ripped off the JMU mask. I'm a Duke fan.

All I love Duke Hank is electric. Let's go to the final four. Duke Hank.

Fuck, yeah.

Just get the jumpsuit back.

I actually got rid of my duke stuff when I moved, or I had one sweatshirt left, and it didn't make the cut.

I think that if Duke loses to Houston, you should have to jump in.

That pool and put a new hole.

In her and then run to the shower.

I'm going to Dallas, but we'll see.

Yeah, you're going to Dallas, bud.

You got to jump in the pool and then run through the house to the shower Saturday and try not to fall.

You have a tea time in Dallas.

Here, it's going to be, like, 70 degrees.

No, tea time means, like, Tiffany. It's an abbreviation. She's got tea time. Yeah.

Yeah, it did snow. That was the other. It snowed on Friday here. And I was just like. I woke up and I was like, fucking Hank. Yeah, but he's right. It's been a mild winter. He has called it. All right, let's do who's back of the week, and then we'll get to our interviews. Okay, who's back of the week is brought to you by your friends at Coors Light. We have the chill calendar. Chillender for March madness.

Got it right here. We opened up the first two on Thursday's show.

Right?

On Friday.

Yes.

All right, so we got how many more now? Three more?

Yeah.

Three more, or are we doing two more? I don't know how days work.

Okay, how it works either.

Reserved. My bracket kicked off today, and I have enough on my mind without someone trying to steal my seat while I go to the bathroom.

Oh, I like that.

Seats.

You put that at a bar. Seat savers while you're having a nice, cold light. How many reopening Max?

It's more than that because the playing games were one and two. One and.

Oh.

So just tell me when to stop. Tell them when to stop.

So Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

So four.

I got a foam.

No, five, because today's Monday.

I got a foam finger right here that's the size of a normal finger. It says we're number one. Actually, Hank, this is. This is Duke colors. If you want an extra finger, go. Do you want an extra finger for this weekend?

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I'm very interested to hear whose side you're on between future, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Drake.

Say it again. Give us our options again.

Future Kendrick Lamar, Metro boomin'Metro.

Boomen.

Drake.

Drake J. Cole.

I think I'm on Drake's side.

I like Metro Boomin. Was that right? What's the beef?

Dealer's choice.

Okay, whose side are you on?

I think I'm on future and Kendrick.

Oh, so it's two v two.

Shit, I should have said future.

I think it's really two v one. So Future and Metro Boomin released an album that was basically all a response to Drake. And there was a song that Kendrick Lamar was featured on where he took direct shots at Drake. So it's a civil War situation. There's obviously interpersonal beefs in between the.

Big beef, but Drake is the big beef.

It's basically future and Metro.

I've seen the video.

Drake got it.

Apparently it's over a girl, but who knows?

Wait, so I picked future by picturing picking Metro boomin.

Okay, so you got two for one.

Yeah.

All right, whose side are you on?

You said future and Metro boom.

Metro boom.

Okay. Yeah. All right.

I'm glad we got the bottom of that.

I now feel confident knowing that I can walk around if someone asks me this question. I'm like, future Drake.

Whoa.

Is this the start, Hank?

Be careful who you root for.

Be careful, Hank.

Don't you fucking root for future in front of me.

Careful.

You don't care about future.

Be careful.

My who's back of the week is Dosacero. The US men's national team won the I think it's a three peat for us in the CONCaCaF Nations League cup final trophy.

I don't know.

It's a made up tournament that COncaCaf made up. But we beat Mexico two to nothing, which is always awesome when we beat them two to nothing. So our team's really fucking good? Our team's awesome. Tyler Adams is good. Our coach is a shithead. Gio Rain is awesome too. We got a really good still. I'm staying. My prediction that we need to make it, if we don't make it to at least the quarterfinals in the next World cup, massive disappointment.

Is there soccer in the Olympics?

Yeah, there is. I don't know.

Sure. Yeah.

No one really.

What tournament was this?

Is a nations League final cup trophy. Concacaf?

No thanks.

Yeah, no, it was put USA winning. Dosacero was always good against.

Say it. No no, I know that part.

The trophy of the CoNcacaf League of Nations final.

If it's more than like four out, I think it's.

I think the actual name for is the CONcacaf Nations League cup.

Yeah.

Anyways, it's a made up tournament that.

So made up a few years ago.

Because that's what CONcACaF does just to get more tv stuff. But we beat Mexico. I like beating Mexico and our young guys look awesome. Probably the goal of the year from Tyler Adams. He shot one from like 35 yards out. Fucking knuckleball rocket. It was great.

Goal of the year. I'm buying stock only in March.

I'm buying stock. I'm buying stock in the national team.

Okay, my who's back of the week is Caitlin Clark. We had the women's tournament start and I am so excited for Caitlin Clark in Iowa to keep advancing because it's getting nuclear. Caitlin Clark headbutted a ball.

A ball?

Yeah. People were like, what a brat.

Disgusting.

I was like, what? How is that a brat? She was frustrated.

Did she head butted out of frustration or out of, was she?

It was out of frustration. They were struggling with holy cross. They were up like 20.

Was she mad at the ball?

It's gotten to a point where I don't even know how people have found this much hate in their heart for someone again, I like it though. Yeah, no, I do too. But it's out of control.

Yeah, I love it.

Out of control actually.

Love it. I love it when you can hate a female athlete enough to have takes.

On it for, yeah, she has like Duke times ten hate. Yeah, it's crazy. Also women's tournament because Kim Molke did a press conference saying she's got a hit piece going against her, but it's not out yet.

So it was an interesting strategy on her part. No idea what the article is going.

To be about, but I want to read it now.

Now I want to read it.

Oh yeah.

I did not care about this article until I heard about it because Kim Olke did a press conference to talk about how no one should read the.

Article that's going to come. Yes, I would agree with that.

Interesting strategy, Kim.

Yeah.

Did you guys see the story from the referee in Chattanooga versus NC State women?

Yeah, that was crazy.

They pulled the ref at halftime because they realized that she went to school at Chattanooga.

Yeah.

She got her masters there, right?

Yeah.

And you're supposed to disclose it, and she didn't disclose it beforehand.

It's just crazy that they pulled her.

In the middle of the game.

Yeah.

I like, that's a win for integrity, though.

Absolutely.

I wonder who found out about that. You know what? I bet it was somebody online. I bet somebody online, like, a real freak, a real diehard fan, was like, this ref is giving us the worst calls. I'm going to look up her bio, and then they're like, oh, shit. She actually went to that school. I bet it was like, a golf thing where they called in the violation and they took action.

Yeah.

I don't know who alerted who in the middle of the game, but it happened.

Respect.

Oh, also, Donald Trump's back because he won another club championship this weekend. Yeah, I saw it. Dude's the best golfer of all time.

Deep field.

Deep field. Some of the. It was a very golfing field.

He said, I actually respect the fuck out of him just having tournaments that he wins because I would do the same thing.

Yeah.

If I had my own club, I would just be like, yeah, let's all play. And I'm going to win.

I won again.

And I want everyone to do a gala for me after where I get my trophy. Yeah, I think he won it.

He won a couple of days ago, but now he's doing a big ceremony tonight, presenting himself with the trophy.

That rocks.

Yeah. If you have a fuckload of money and you don't do stuff like that, and you either have to own a sports team or you have to constantly dominate your friends at sports, where you get to decide the rules.

I said that. I've said this before, but our old friend Jared Carabis, if I was, like, a billionaire, I'd build a baseball field in my backyard, and I would pay him a million dollars where he had to pitch to me, like, when I wanted. I just call him up, be like, you got to come pitch me. But he had to fucking let me just hit dingers off him. So every day, I could just be like, I want to hit a few dingers, call him up, and he's got to give me just the worst, and he's got to act like he's upset and like, God damn it, not again. But wait, big cat.

At the stadium that you would build, would you pay for your own fucking stadium?

I would pay for my own fucking stadium. It'd be so sick. It would probably be wiffleball if I'm being honest.

Oh, I love wiffleball fields that look like major league baseball fields.

Yeah.

If we're being honest, it would be.

A yeah, for sure.

All right, Jake, your who's back.

My who's back of the week is Michigan basketball.

Yes.

We had the coaching carousel begin, and recurring guest Dusty May is going from FaU to Ann Arbor.

People thought he was going to go to Indiana. Indiana.

Boy, wouldn't it be so confusing if Dusty May, like, he was the new Tom Izzo? So it was February.

May. April. May. Sleep in May.

Yeah, we sleep in May.

John Rostein's for sure going to do that.

Rostein was almost on the court.

Rostein was playing defense against the inbound guy.

Yeah.

I got comment from our colleague, white boy Rick, who's an Indiana fan. Because Indiana fans, I think Dusty May was on their list because he's a. Yeah, he. I think he was a manager on one of the Bobby Knight teams, maybe the last ones. Either way, I asked him for comment and he said, because I was like, oh, that sucks. You probably had Dusty May on your list if you had fired Mike Woodson. He had a great response. He said, no, this is good. He's going to prove that he can win with the big boys. Then I'll take the Indiana job, which.

Is an even bigger boy.

So Michigan's just stepping stone for Indiana.

Yeah, I love that.

I love the Indiana delusion.

He's going to go, he's going to win a couple of big ten titles, beating Indiana, and then he's going to be like, I want to join Indiana.

Well, that's what Brad Stevens is doing. He got to the NBA, learned how to coach in the NBA. Then he transitioned to front office. So he learns how to assemble a great team.

Right.

And now that he's got like, a full 360 degree view of how to actually run an operation, then he'll come back to Indiana.

Right.

With Dusty May. I was thinking about this when they announced the hiring. Is he automatically a Michigan man or.

Do you have to.

Dave tweeted, Michigan man.

Do you have to prove yourself? Do you have to do something? Michigan?

No.

He's also probably not tall enough to be a Michigan if we're not usually tall. Yeah, they're Harbaugh like, okay.

Yeah.

So football and basketball for Michigan.

Dave probably is.

Dave's not a Michigan man.

Probably not tall enough. Real Michigan man.

You have to earn your man.

Strong stock.

I'll never be.

I like the, oh, you'll never be a Michigan man.

I don't want to be Michigan.

I think they're going to be back quickly.

Okay.

Yeah.

No, he's a great coach. Great coach.

Great guy.

Is he going to bring golden with him?

Yeah.

All those guys still have eligibility, so it'd be interesting to see if he brings any of those guys from FAU, from Boca to Ann Arbor.

Yeah, I would not go. I'll just say that if I was golden and I'd be like, do I want to move to Michigan? And away from the beach?

No counterpoint. He could become a Michigan man.

He is a Michigan. He's tall enough.

He could be a Michigan man for life.

I'd rather be a Florida man. Florida men have way more fun.

Yeah.

Get to do way better drugs in Florida.

All right, let's get to our interviews. We got two great ones with Jack Golke and DJ Burns. And then the other side, we'll wrap up the show. Maybe we talk about the coach's picture real quick because I still have to do that blog.

Let's do it.

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Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest. He captured the hearts of America for about 48 hours. It is Jack Golkey from Oakland who had the huge upset on Thursday night at Kentucky, lost an overtime on Saturday night, which we apologize for. We were pulling for you very, very hard, Jack, but we still wanted to have you on because we'll start here and you can tell me if this is wrong or not, but you were built in a lab to be the perfect march madness guy. Like the look, the team, the beating Kentucky, the fact that literally every shot you take is a made three. Did you know that going in you're like, if I have a good game, I'm going to just take over the country for a day.

Well, first off, thanks for having me on, guys. This is awesome. But, yeah, I guess looking back on it, I didn't really expect that or think about it that way. But now that you kind of lay it all out and you see all the memes and all the. Just everything going around, I would have never expected all that. But it all kind of just fit together like you. Yeah, I guess the story, it was just too perfect and people saying it's an industry plant and all that stuff is just crazy.

CIA op.

Yeah, you were. You're an industry plant.

And you know what?

I enjoyed every second of the CIA op. I really did. I got caught up in Golkimania.

Yeah, they finally did something right.

Yeah.

The stat that was going viral was your breakdown of three point attempts to two point attempts this season. So you attempted eight two point shots all year long. Do you even practice mid range?

I tell my teammates this year, I'm like, hey, guys, I used to shoot twos. I used to make a couple of twos a game, but they just do not believe me. Ever since the year started, coach Campy just kind of set me up as the three point specialist and to be honest, this whole season I really haven't gone in the gym and shot many twos. It's pretty much just get in there, get a couple of form shots and then start launching threes.

So does that mess with your foul shooting at all? Because I've always thought, like, if a guy's a three point specialist at some point, he's not working on mid range games. So that could impact you from the foul line. We're actually saying that you should take your foul shots from the very, very top of the key. Like back up 5ft?

I definitely should, man. I mean, this was my worst free throw shooting year in a long time, so something was definitely up. Maybe I should have just been shooting them from half court or something.

You're too close. Yeah, you were too close. So going back to Thursday night because it was an incredible game, taking down Kentucky, the way I put it is all those Kentucky guys are going to, a lot of them are going to go on to be pros, make millions and millions of dollars, but you basically, you and your teammates can be like, yeah, we had them one night, we took them down one night. And that's one of the coolest things. That's why we love this tournament. At what point in the game, though, were you guys like wait, we can play with them. This is not going to be a game where they can just overpower us.

Yeah, I think the first couple of minutes of the game, they did a really good job of kind of imposing their will as Kentucky as like a power five school where they just kind of fed the ball inside and got a couple of quick buckets on us. But I think it was probably like the third media timeout. So, like about halfway through the first half where we might have been tied or down one, something like that, and we're just like, hey, if we've hung with them for ten minutes, we might as well just go out here and do this thing. Let's just go do it. Let's shock the nation and have some fun with it. And we kind of just ran with it from there.

Yeah. Did you feel at any point that you were in the zone? Because it felt like that, because some of the shots you were making were ridiculous, where it's like no one should be shooting this, like, falling away, hand in the face, being guys trying to run after you. Did you feel like you had reached the zone at any point?

Yeah, it was just a classic game for me. For anyone who's watched my career, they know I miss open threes and I make the hardest threes.

Yes.

And I don't know why that is, but, yeah, there was a time in the first half, I think I made like three or four in a row and a couple of them, I kind of threw up and didn't even see them go in. I kind of thought they were bricks. And then everyone was just, like, cheering and I was like, okay, I'll take it.

Bowl.

That's incredible.

Did you know you were going to be wet before the game? Like in warm ups? Were you like, yeah, tonight's the night.

I was feeling good. Yeah. A couple of the Kentucky guys were chirping me a little bit in warm ups because of some comments I made in the pregame interview. So at that point I was like, okay, I got to show out today or else I'm going to be getting clowned the entire game.

Would you say pregame?

So in the pregame interview, I guess it was the day before pre practice, people were asking me about Kentucky, and I told them they're obviously tremendous shooting. Teams shoot the best percentage in the country, but I think our team shoots it better. And they just ran with that. Their fans said, oh, this is ridiculous, blah, blah, blah. So then before the game, their players were just saying like, you better have a good night or else you can't be saying stuff like that. And then they didn't really say anything the entire game.

No. Yeah, you were dead right.

What is your range, man?

As soon as you walk in the gym, you got to start firing them anywhere. My teammates are going to pass me the ball. I'm putting it up.

Yeah, by the way, so the other part of the perfect, like, you're an industry plant for March Madness. You had an nil deal. Almost like 10 seconds after you got off the court, you go buy the shirts in our barstool store. We did an nil deal with Jack. So those are live right now. But how quickly did that all, all take place? Was it just you were in the locker room and you're like, all right, now I got to do an ad tomorrow.

No, you guys are going to love this. So my phone obviously was just blowing up. I didn't even want to look at it. A couple of my buddies are just like, dude, we'll just set up an email for you and we'll do it all. So I didn't even see any of it. It was just them going through these emails and being like, oh, let's do this one. Let's do this one. This is a good one. This is a bad one.

That's incredible.

They picked. It's just my two dumb guys just running the email, picking a turbotax, and I go in the hotel ballroom and shoot a video, and everyone's telling me it's so amazing because it's so bad.

The turbotax that contributed to the conspiracies out there because, like, wait, now he's doing an ad where he's just getting the government paid? Yeah, doing an ad right before we.

Had our taxes right now, but credit.

To your dumb friends because that's a pretty good nil deal to just have come through at the last second.

No. Yeah.

Shout out to them. They made it happen.

Yeah, that's perfect.

What's next for you? What do you have on the horizon right now?

So I just got invited to the final four to do a three point contest there. So I'm excited for that. That'll be fun.

Do you need one of us to put a hand in your face for it? Because like you said, I think I would shoot better. Yeah, I would appreciate that. Come out.

Yeah.

So maybe I'll run into you guys out there. That would be awesome.

Yeah.

And then after that, just going to try to play pro. I have no idea where I'm going to end up, but just going to kind of go through the process during the summer, and maybe I'll be overseas. Maybe I'll be g league or whatever it is, but just going to try to keep playing basketball and avoid the car salesman or insurance jobs as long as possible.

Yeah. I think I said on the stream last night, I was like, this guy is so perfect. Like, he probably already has a job at Deloitte lined up, but I want more Jack Goki on the basketball court. I also said, I was like, we have to hire him, so I think you have a standing job offer here. I kind of got creepy, though. I was like, I don't even want him do anything. I just want to have him. And whenever someone comes over, we're just like, hey, you want to see our guy shoot some threes?

No.

It's like, we got a goalkeeping.

Yeah, we would be like, okay, here's our popcorn machine right there. There's the gambling cave. There's our goalkeep. Your job is just hit threes all day long.

I'll just be a prop, and then if I miss a couple of threes, you guys just got to kick me to the curb.

I mean, we might need you if we ever have to do the free throw competition again like that. You'll be the first call.

Yeah, but take the shot from the three point.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Free throws for everybody else. I'll shoot deep threes.

Did you get a text from JJ Watt?

I did, yeah. That was pretty cool.

That was pretty cool. Of course. He's trying to get. Trying to get in the limelight here.

What do you say?

I should have. Hey, JJ dumb.

That would have been, like, flashbacks for him. He's like, what the fuck?

Did you grow up, like, watching JJ Watt play in the mean?

He, uh. So I'm trying to think of what year he graduated high school, but I saw him a little bit in high school. I saw him at Wisconsin, and obviously he was at central Michigan before that, but, yeah, he was just an absolute sensation in everyone. Everyone knows JJ Watt. Everyone knows TJ Watt. Those guys are just. They're the top standard in.

That. Did you ever try to go to Madison? Because I would have loved the goalkee in my life. For the team I root for, they.

Never really reached out. That wasn't in the cards. But they don't recruit Wisconsin very well.

I'm sure.

You know.

Know we need to get you an extra COVID year. Would you play? I just want to watch more golkie just hitting three.

I'm gonna get even more shit for how old I am. If I do one more, a, no.

One'S going to complain. Like, you could play in the next 3 March madnesses and people would be like, awesome. More goal.

Yeah, keep more goalkeep going. So a question. Obviously the NC state game didn't go your guys way. You guys fought your asses off, went to overtime. I noticed, though, obviously, it was clear that NC State was like, we cannot let this guy be open ever. Did you notice it from the jump like that? It was totally different than the Kentucky game where Kentucky, almost no shots at Cal, but it felt like they didn't really understand that you could hit anything. NC State was like, there was a guy glued to you and you still scored.

Yeah, it was definitely different from Kentucky. Kentucky was just guarding in a different way that you don't typically guard, like, really good shooters. But NC State, they just, they said, we're going to get physical. We're going to foul until the refs call it. And I mean, credit to them, they were just physical the entire game and kind of mucking things up. And I was just trying to get loose in transition because they were doing such a good job in the half court of just ruining everything, to be honest. So just try to get loose in half court. Pump fake. Have the guys fly by. And luckily it worked a couple of times, but I wish we could have made a couple more down the stretch, obviously.

Yeah.

When you did the pump fake, every pump fake. And we also had a rule in the gambling cave because we're like, we were watching games for four days and I told everyone they cannot say, know, wet or anything like that unless it's a goalkee shot because I've never been more confident that NC state game, you had one shot where it didn't even leave your hands. And I was like, good. Three. Good. And it was just like, I was like, the only person I'll do that for is like, steph curry and Golkie. That's it.

I love it. I'll take that comparison any day of the week.

Do you have, like, a favorite thing that you say right as the ball leaves your hands? Like, some people say water, some people say butter wet.

Whop.

I usually say, why did you let me get that off?

Yeah, I like that.

Why are you letting me shoot?

You know better than that. Yeah, just scold.

Yeah, exactly. Little scold.

Yeah, that's a good one. So are you still in school? You're not in school. Are you in school?

I mean, technically, but it's tough to.

Lock in guys, I would imagine. Yeah, I do want to get out of one ahead of one thing I might have said, you said on Thursday night, we're not a Cinderella. I loved that. I was like, let's, but Oakland's president had a Cinderella slipper in front of her. And in the heat of the moment, I might have said some things that know, anger induced. So I just want to apologize to that. If you ever see her walking around, just be like, hey, that guy didn't mean that. He was just rooting really hard for Golkie. What about, so your coach also was a great you. What was the process? Because you were at Hillsdale for four years, then you end up going to Oakland. What sold you on Oakland? Was it coach?

Yeah.

I mean, he's just had a tremendous history of guys like me that just shoot a bunch of threes. And, I mean, you guys have probably heard of like Max Hooper and maybe even Travis Bader, guys that just launched threes and he just called me and said, hey, I want you to watch this film with me and see what these guys have done in the past. I think it'll be a good role for you. And I just watched it and I was like, it doesn't get much better than that. I mean, you guys know how it is. If you can just go out there and launch threes, it's a good life. So it fit really well. And I was just like, I'm not going to find a better place than this and I think we could be really successful.

I had a theory that you went there because their half court logo is so big at your gym them that you were like, I'm going to hit all the logo threes.

No, you always got to walk. When you walk in a gym, you got to look for the logos and be like, which spot is the most strategic for me to hit some logo threes where I'm really only 2ft behind the line.

Yeah.

I think Oakland might have maybe the number one gym in America with that.

Oh, yeah.

We got, we got the Michigan state thing out there where you can be like one and a half feet behind the line and you're shooting a logo three.

And then if you're shooting from the.

Bear, you can be like 3ft. So you can get a bunch of them up for sure.

I love it.

That's great.

All right, well, last question. Rowback question. Rho back promo code take 20% off your first purchase. Qzips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts. Rowback.com promo code take if I told you open gym 103, let's say, hypothetically, it's like high school line and it's actually our office. 103. How many are you making?

High school line. Honestly, I'm probably making more at the college line than high school line. I just haven't shot high school line in five, six years.

Okay, so you could step back. You can shoot from wherever, but how many are you making? Empty gym.

Okay, empty gym. I'm going to set the line at, I'd say, like 78 and a half.

Okay, well, we open invite to come to Chicago and let's do that video because it's hour and 15 drive from Milwaukee. Whenever you're back, come on down. We'll do it. 78 and a half. I'm taking the over.

Yeah, probably the over on that one.

I'm taking the over.

Okay.

I'm telling you, if you want threes off the move and sprinting, I'll make 90, but.

Okay, we'll do that. Yes. I love it. All right, so we're doing it.

I actually think we could put you at one end and then put maybe like our worst player at the other end with one basketball and you would outscore him if all that other guy had to do was just hit layups over and over and over again.

Yeah, let's do that. Actually, I guarantee you I will make more threes than your worst player makes.

All right. We'll do a jerry after dark.

Oh, yeah.

Hank is our worst.

Hank's our worst player, the bad athlete. You know that.

Yeah, I've seen it all.

Well, Jack, thank you so much, man. We really enjoyed watching you play and best of luck, and we got to have you come to the office and do a challenge.

Yeah, that sounds great. Thanks for having me on, guys, and I'm excited to come in. That'll be a lot of fun.

Awesome.

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Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest. He is starting center for NC State, the Sweet 16 bound NC State Wolf pack. It is DJ Burns. DJ, congratulations, first of all. And second of all, are you tired yet? Because you guys have won now seven games in twelve days. It's an incredible run. Are you tired?

I'm not too tired yet. Not yet. Not yet.

Okay.

Yeah, it's been a wild run. Like going back to the ACC tournament, watching you guys really play your way into form, it was awesome. Like watching you run through that tournament. At some point, did you feel yourself like going into the tournament? Did you know that you had it in you to make a run? Or did it take a little momentum, maybe hit a big shot against uva to really buy in and believe that this team can be a special team?

Yeah, I definitely say we knew we could do it, but that shot definitely sent us right over the top, man. That was the point where we knew we just needed to fight a little bit more and we were going to get it done.

Yeah, the run is insane. Last night you guys play in overtime. You play 42 minutes, 24 points, eleven rebounds. It's been so much fun to watch. Do you ever find when guys go up against you, can you tell when you got them? When they're so frustrated? Because your moves are so smooth and you're touched. Like everything you throw up at the rim goes in. Do you know when you're like, all right, I got them. They can't stop me?

I wouldn't say that. But I can tell definitely when they begin to tell, when they get frustrated, because that's when they'll start to say little slick things under their breath to themselves. Like, they try to hype themselves up, but when we're having a game like that, it's hard to not keep going.

Yeah, I feel like you don't get the calls that you deserve. Sometimes they ref you a little bit different sometimes. And sometimes the other team strategy just becomes like, see if you can take a charge from DJ. But meanwhile, they're hugging you, they're grabbing your arms. Do you have to dial yourself back? Because I know you get frustrated sometimes. We don't get, like, the Zach Edie treatment on those whistles. Do you have to hold yourself back.

Sometimes, or do you talk to the.

Refs and let them know, like, hey, this guy's just tackling me every time I get the ball?

Yeah, for sure. I mean, I've been told by them that I'm hard to ref sometimes because, know, being bigger than everyone and everything like that. So I understand. You know, it is frustrating. I oftentimes have to catch myself getting frustrated and reel it back in. For sure.

Yeah.

I got to stand up for you for one moment in this run. I thought CbS did you dirty when they tried to give you ice cream after the game. They tried to set you up. That was wrong.

I'll keep my comments to myself.

Okay. All right. I'll just say it. I'll say it was wrong. But I know that you guys sometimes do ice cream after wins, I hope in the locker room. Have you guys said anything to coach being like, we've made you so much money on this run? Because I keep seeing every single win. It's like Kevin Keats gets another bonus. He gets a two year extension. Have you at least said, hey, what we're doing for you? It's pretty.

Man. That man, he's the one who put us all together, who saw the vision of what we could be. So definitely we're thankful for him as well.

It is funny, though. It's literally every single game, which. It's an incredible run. I mean, the five games in five days. And I was reading a story that you guys were like, every day coming back to the game and being like, we feel better than we did yesterday. Was that just a mentality that you were taking? Because there's no way at some point your body has to be five games in five days. You guys are just all bought in like that, dude.

That's just the vibe around this place right now. We don't plan on quitting at all, and we work real hard, and we did treated treatment the same way that we treat practice. It's very important. So I think that we're taking the necessary steps to keep going.

Yeah.

So going through the ACC tournament, backing up a little bit, you beat Duke and you beat UNC over the span of just a couple of days. Can you power rank? What's the most satisfying win? Is it beating Duke or beating UNC or maybe some other team in the ACC?

I probably say beating UNC just because we played them twice and lost twice going into that. If we played Duke twice, I feel like we probably would have split that. So definitely would say UNC because we lost to them.

Mean the three that you hit against UNC was awesome, too. Have you asked coach for more looks from the outside? Take a few threes every now and again?

No, sir. I'll play my role, and if the opportunity presents, I'll take one. But I don't try to do too much outside of what I'm good at, so I try to do what helps us win.

I got a weird question for you, DJ, and something I'm actually weirdly interested in. You sell vending machines?

Yeah, I have a few. I don't sell them. I just own a few. I have two myself.

That's incredible. So how did you get into know?

There's a guy who played at Auburn named Josh Dollard. He's from the Charlote area, and we used to train with this trainer named Gabe Blair. And he. Phenomenal, guys. And I was just talking to know about some things that went through, and we were just talking about what are ways to make money outside of basketball. So you're not like one dimensional as a person. And that was one of the things.

He showed me and I took after mean. So you have. You have two active right now and it just makes money for you?

Yeah.

And I've showed a few friends how to do it as well, and they take it a little more serious than I do.

Now, what's in your vending machines, though? That's very important because I hope it's not.

Be honest. I can't eat what's in my vending machine.

Okay. All right.

That's a good thing. Okay.

Yeah. Don't get high on your own supply.

But it sells well, for sure.

Yeah, that's smart. Do you have big texan cinnamon rolls in there?

No, not right now.

Those are a money maker.

Wait, do you switch it up? Do you do a different menu every month?

Not every month, but every now and then. I have two different vendors, so depending on which one I go to, they have different mean.

We could do a whole interview on. I love vending machines.

I'm interested in the snack game right now. So you could also, like, if you want to plug your vending machines, let people know where they can find the dj burns vending machines, and maybe people just go. Just flock to them.

They're just at some schools out in Charlote, stuff like that. But it's not anything too major. That's not my business, for sure. That's just like some little side hustle stuff.

I like that.

Yeah, it's entrepreneurial. And then the other one I had, which the Internet might just lie, but do you play four different instruments?

I did play four instruments. I'm not as active in all of them anymore just because basketball takes up most of that time now. So it's more of something that I'll do every now and then. It stayed with me from high school, but, yeah, that's not really something I do as much as anymore.

What were the four?

The upright bass, the piano, the baritone saxophone, and the output? Saxophone.

That's a good variety, too.

Upright bass is. That's an instrument that I would love to be able to play.

Yeah, I actually went into school and they were showing me the violin. And the lady, the teacher, Ms. Thompson, she was like, yo, you're going to snap that thing with your neck. Try this. And she handed me the bass and I fell in love with it.

Man, to have that wide variety of skills is insane. Like, to be a division one basketball player going to the sweet 16 and have four instruments that you can play and also a vending machine owner. Yeah, you might be the coolest dude in the world.

Hey, man, I hope to be one day, man. Not there yet.

America's big man. That's what they're calling you right now. And I was reading your Twitter profile earlier. It says that your profile says, bible books and ball. The big three for yes, sir. What's your favorite book?

Oh, man, I don't really have a favorite, to be honest. I read a lot of books based on sports and then about God and stuff like that. My walk with faith. So that's mostly, I probably say the one. I'm rereading the uncommon book by Tony Dungey right now. That's one, like a little daily devotional. So, okay, stuff like that.

I set you up, though. The answer was the bible.

Yeah, 100%, man. But that's a given. I thought you meant in general.

I got another weird question for you. I love the fact that you're a big undershirt guy. I feel like the NCAA tournament every year. You've always got a couple of dudes that rock the big undershirts, and now they're getting tighter. Most people are wearing, like, the compression sleeves almost. You still rock the old school undershirt. You can go back and look at, like, Keith Van Horn symbolar. There's just a long list of undershirt guys. Have you always been an undershirt guy? Was that a conscious decision you made.

Yeah.

I mean, honestly, when I used to play basketball, I wear a lot of long sleeve shirts, and people would always look at me crazy for wearing long sleeves while hooping, so I just kind of stuck to the undershirt. Now I kind of get the same ones that are comfortable so I can move around in them.

Yeah.

What's your favorite way to score on the court? Is it a dunk over someone, or is it like the spin move when you get someone going the wrong way and it's just an easy layup? I mean, again, it's so much fun watching you play because when you have your post moves going, you just get. People just turned around.

I wouldn't even say I have a favorite move. I just like to react. Whatever you're going to give me is what I'm going to take, whether that be a pass or something. But I'm not really looking to make spectacular plays, but I'm always trying to be smart with it, so I just like smart plays. People who play smart?

Yeah.

Do you ever catch yourself? Because every now and then when we're watching your games, they'll be like, you'll throw in like, almost a football move. Do you realize that sometimes you'll have the ball and you'll just kind of throw a little shoulder and you'll be like, wait. And then you'll kind of be like, all right, I'm still on the basketball court. Do you notice that?

Yeah.

The thing with that is I just learned that I'm going to get fouled. So sometimes I have to use a little more muscle than I would like to have to use. But, I mean, if that's what I have to do to score, then so be it.

That's smart.

Yeah.

And your passing is incredible, too. Is that a skill that you've worked on in the last few years? Because when I see you do a little behind the back or a little look away pass, there's nothing that I like more than a big man that can pass the ball.

I just say that's something that God blessed me with, man. I don't know where it came from or how it got there, but I've always been able to be a passer. I think it just has something to do with being unselfish. That's always been me, man.

Yeah.

All right, I have one last question for you. It's a row back question. Rho back promo code. Take 20% off your first purchase. Qzips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts. DJ Burns, who we're rooting for to hopefully get into the final four. We want to see this journey continue. I'm rooting for you to get at the final four because then for people who don't know, you were third in your state in high school rankings, behind Zion Williamson and John Moran, pretty good company. I would like to see you get to the final four, something those guys didn't. So we can be like, yeah, they were wrong. DJ Burns probably should have been ranked number one.

Hey, man, that's 100% the goal. That's what we're working towards every day, man. Yeah, I appreciate that.

Yeah, it's great.

Yeah.

The fact that that's a trivia question, it's cool. And you're the most fun to watch of the three, definitely right now.

Definitely the most fun to watch.

Yes, by far.

I appreciate that, man. That's awesome.

Yeah, thanks for joining us, man. We really appreciate your time and good luck. Go wolf pack. And yeah, we're going to be pulling.

Keep it rolling. Keep it rolling, wolf pack.

Yes, sir. Go pack, man.

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Check it out. Proper twelve. All right, let's wrap up the show. Hank, any other grievances? No.

Okay.

Are you mad at me for anything?

No. He picked your side. The last three months have not been great for me because Hank, when you and I went head to head, Hank went with you. And then surviving barstool before, remember when he was like, if it comes down to you and Dave, I'm going with Dave. I know where I stand. I didn't pick third.

Pft.

Third.

Me and Pft got assigned a team, and PFt forced me to take JMU.

Did I force.

That was mean of you.

PF contraction, did I force you? Now I'm mad at Hank.

Okay, yes.

Fuck you, Hank.

Because he definitely wanted to pick you.

Piece of shit.

Yeah.

You're telling.

I want to pick NC State.

You're spouting fake.

Seriously, you would have won 40k.

Did he actually. No, he wanted JMU. And he said, it's going to be so funny when big cat gets mad.

So you did pick against me. That's fine. I made that last part up to close my circle.

My kids still like how Shane was shooting, and big cow was like, what's up, Shane? Only person that did pick JMU.

I was like, Shane. I was a dark place. I was like, shane, it's good that I know I still have you, dude. And he's like, yeah, I bet. Wisconsin. I was like, oh, bad. Like, that was stupid of, uh, but, yeah, I know where I stand with Hank. He's third and might even be way lower than that.

I think he likes memes more.

I don't know.

He took memes.

I've been falling down the charts.

He took memes off the pip.

Yeah, I've been falling down the charts. It hurts.

Memes catches the most strays of anybody.

Yeah, it hurts. He and Max have been, like, getting along recently because the Sixers suck.

Yeah.

So it's like they're both lying down on this couch earlier when I walked in.

Who together?

True.

Like, snug.

What?

Sixers had a big win today.

They were lying down together on the couch.

Yeah.

It's crazy.

That's a weird move, guys.

Kind of strange.

That's not true. I was laying on the floor, and he's just laying on the couch.

Love is love, by the way. So the coach's picture. I'm going to write this blog after this. It's one in the morning. I'm fucked. I don't know why they release it on a Sunday. They always release it on a Monday.

Didn't someone say they did the day wrong by accident?

Yes, it's a news dump, which sucks.

Because, yeah, I'm fucked. But give me just maybe one that jumps out to you. Stefanski's posture is atrocious. Andy Reid is still a boss.

Andy Reid's legs stand out to me. Belichick's usually.

I feel like half the time he's in it when he's in it. He was always such an alpha that it was cool. So I was scanning it, and then when I finally saw was, I was like, oh, no. Yeah, this is bad. Gerard Mayo stands out, and probably not in a good way.

He's wearing a t shirt.

Yeah.

And he's big.

I don't like the fact that they.

Put all the barrel chested.

They put all the former Redskins coaches from that team together on purpose.

Oh, did they?

Schefter probably loves that shit. He probably set this whole photo up.

Wait.

Yeah.

You got McDaniel, you got Lafleur, you got McVeigh, you got Kyle Shanahan, then you got.

Wait, but who's in between? Someone who's.

That's.

That's a new face.

I think it might just be the fact that Lafleur and Sean McVeigh are.

Friends and Shanahan behind him and McDaniel right there.

Yeah.

I think you're seeing things because there's a guy literally sitting in between.

But who is that guy?

We got to learn someone separating them.

We got to learn the new.

I think it's a Seahawks coach. Oh, yeah.

McDonald.

Yeah.

And I don't like that. I already wrote a part of the blog. Dave Canales thinking he can go shorts next to Andy Reid. You fucking suck.

He got alpha.

Well, you just can't do be if you haven't won a game in the NFL and you went shorts. No. Kevin O'Connell needs an iron.

Dan Quinn and Brian Dable next to each other look hilarious. They look like the funniest. Either, like, buddy cop duo of all time, or we were saying they look like a team of hitmen or outlaws or, like you said, the robbers from home alone.

Yeah, they would be the home alone robbers if they're just like, let's redo it. But they're both balls.

Or, like, a 30th anniversary of, like, a wrestling. High school wrestling state championship.

Yeah, true. They do look like high school wrestling coaches.

I got a question, because I already have started looking at this one guy in between Dave Canales and what's the fucking idiot from the saints, Dennis Allen.

Yeah.

Who's that? Because he looks like a weird church preacher. Not even a church preacher. Like a church camp counselor. Yeah, he probably an adult church camp counselor.

This guy probably had the chair turned around, and he was sitting, like, facing.

You, but the chair is back.

Buddy, let me rap at you real quick about chastity.

Let's talk some football. Who is that?

Brian Callahan.

Okay. Respect. Dad's an all time football guy. Oh, yeah. Titans.

Doug Peterson looks like he's had about.

Six dackers every year.

Doug, he looks the most comfortable, and Stefanski looks the least.

I've said. I think I said it every single year, but it stands every single year. Doug Peterson is. He looks like a swinger, and I mean that in all due respect. All due respect. Because it looks like he just enjoys life to a certain level.

It kind of looks like Stefanski is an uptight husband. And then Peterson is like his drunk, embarrassing librarian wife.

Stefanski sitting like Gerard Mayo's got his fingers up his ass. I don't know what happened. And we love Stefanski, but he's going to get it. He's going to have to get it.

Dan Campbell looks like he's ready to fuck.

Always that dude. Fuck or fight that dude. He's a fuck or fight guy.

He's ready to go.

That might be the whole thing. Mr. Fuck or fight. Which one you want to do, brother? I don't care. You decide.

The Harbaugh is next to each other.

I love it.

Good luck. Yeah.

Tough for Zach Taylor to get stuck in between two former NFL players.

Yeah, but you're right, man. That's Hank. That's a tough fall from grace to see him in a t shirt. He got surprised by the whole thing. Yeah, we didn't have any classic like Matt rule. Panthers year was incredible. I look back, I've been doing this blog for eleven years now. Time flies. Mark Tressman was the first one.

Antonio Pierce looks like a magician. Sex show enthusiast. He does a little bit of both.

Where's Antonio Pierce?

Last.

Top.

Second row, top left. Second row, top left. Oh, yeah, I see him.

Okay. Yeah, he looks like a magician.

That.

Like an x rated magician.

Yeah.

This is gonna be fun. All right. I'll be up all night, but it'll be fun. Shane Gillis coming Wednesday, official. Don't worry. I feel like we've been a little transparent, but we probably fucked up the timing taping that right before March madness, but, yeah, that will be Wednesday and we'll talk some more. Sweet 16. Let's finish up the show with numbers.

40.

How many bracelets?

I hope you win this.

118.

What the fuck is wrong with you?

I hope you win this one.

Don't do that.

No, I do.

I hope you win.

All right.

23. 77. 840.

There's one up.

There's.

This doesn't count.

Yeah, this doesn't count. But I'm curious.

What that.

What that?

I'm going to wait to know what the number is.

78.

78.

78 doesn't count, though.

Doesn't count.

Pick number three. My lord.

Doesn't count. 46.

Love you guys.

So away I know what I'm today I say anyway today's another day to find you talking away I know what I'm today I say anyway today's another day to finally shine away I'll be coming for your lover for your lover I beg on let on the day I'm all done life is a day for better did you say the silence? Did you say the silence?