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“and the tournament is over for me and sports are dead and stupid and why do we care?”

Yeah, that's a tough one. I do want to start with that one. I feel like there's a lot of sick I was in perverse that are tuning in to listen to the game. Yeah, Hank is tuning in. He bounded in the studio. He was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. I walked couldn't wait to record. So I'm upset for my good friend Dan, but on the other hand, watching high point, I actually think that high point is a very, very good team. So A cuff puts 30 on their head. That was, it was no

there were good. There was no flu. They're very good team. Absolutely not. No, Hank, there was a moment. So like hour after the game, I was pretty upset. Just mad, angry, going through all the emotions. And then I flushed you because I was like, look, there's a lot of tournament left. Got to pick myself up off the mat. So around five o'clock, I announced I was back and I'm good and Hank's like, I could, I could get you back, man. I was like, what did I? But you, you're just like

smart. Well, no, I didn't, I didn't, you're like, you're making this mile. Yeah, because I was

“shot, weren't you happy that I was back? Yeah. But then like, you're like, why are you smiling?”

I just laughed because I thought of something to say, but I did not say it. Well, yeah, we're going to say, well, no, it's not, I don't want to, I don't, I think that this is like this, I'll say. Might as well say it. I'll say it now. It was a, it was a callback. I was just going to fill Max in on the conversation in the cave about a potential guest. Oh, yeah, Chase Johnson, who, by the way, similar to my Sam Donald, uh, take, I was very, uh, pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure,

pressure, pressure, pressure. Pression. Pression, uh, two weeks ago, I said Chase Johnson is our new goalkeeper. This was well before the conference tournament week, well before brackets, little that I know that I would get, I was just predicting my own demise because that was the game. The, the badgers were up eight, missed the layout, and then Chase Johnson hit a logo three that looked like there was a magnet in the ball, not saying they cheated, but just saying it looked

that way. Yeah. And that was it. That was the swing. And I, I'm like, uh, so I, I don't really know what's say other than I'm kind of used to it because this team just just like rips my guts out every single year. And I spend so much energy and, uh, time watching them and caring about them, like I go back to watching them play against Oregon at midnight, you know, in the middle of February and having that loss, bum me out for three straight days, and like all the effort I put in, it just sucks.

You just get no, no reward out of it. But yeah, it sucked. I loved watching this team this year. They had some awesome wins, but it doesn't matter because they didn't do shit in the tournament.

again, I, they, they didn't like choke. It was high point, just outplayed them in the, in the end,

“and it just sucks. Yeah. It sucks. I, I, I don't know, it sports are so cruel that way. We're just,”

you don't get the, you don't get anything back from it. Yeah. Really don't. It's a frenzy make along the way. It's the memories you create for yourself. I honestly think that if we didn't watch sports and we didn't commit these things to memory, like the, like you said, the memories

of staying up watching Oregon, all the meaningless games that ultimately don't amount to jacks,

shit that you still remember things from our brains would just turn to mush. This is how we stay mentally fit. It's like either that or wake up in the morning and do crosswords all that. Yeah. This is way better. But it reminds me when I, you know, the Patriots lost Super Bowl and I had to do this. When was that? Which one is it lost the most of any time? Just hop in the shower and do soggy sorrows because we brought that back and then we're quite a podcast. Yeah. It made it

“that much worse. Yeah. But that's what happens. Yeah. You know, it does. One year favorite team.”

It does. You do soggy sorrows. We brought that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We brought it back. Yeah.

Yeah. We brought it back. No, you guys. No, you did. Because you did the soggy sorrows. We didn't

bring it back. I know we're going to bring that soggy sorrows. Yeah. You did that. I didn't do that. Yeah. Yeah. We all did it. Yeah. Yeah. You did the soggy sorrows. Good job. You're going to need to tell your sorrows? I mean, I can do them. Do you want me to go lead right now? No, I do. I mean, I, I, I just, we, that. I don't, I don't want pick up. I'll go do soggy sorrows right now. I want to rip this show right now. I'll go do soggy sorrows. You know what? I'm going to do soggy sorrows. Do

want me to do soggy sorrows? I'm just, it's a segment, you know, our fans that we brought it back. We're not gonna have the show ready in time for tomorrow. No, it's not gonna be out. Sorry, everyone. No show, it's going to be sorry. The show. You didn't watch it. You didn't watch it on Netflix before, uh, 8 a.m. at least because Hank made big cat leave to do. soggy sorrows threw us all way behind. Great job, Hank. I hope you're here. I just was talking about, we were just reflecting about our teams losing and I was,

yeah, I just had one through this and I was reflecting and, and I had to do that. Yeah, so I just brought that up, anecdotal evidence, anecdotal, you know, connection. You just want him to be as miserable as you were. So where's it? Soggy sorrows is just back now.

“Soggy sorrows is fully back, which is bad news for all of us, actually. You just like, I, what, you, yes, it's been back since it's Super Bowl. Well, in the Super Bowl. What does that mean?”

I actually write your right. You know what? Now it's fully back for every loss. Fuck it. I don't Hank, no, not every loss. Like that's a Super Bowl loss and that's a, yeah, that's all five of them. Yeah, right, right, right, right. It's got to be a meaningful loss. It's got to be one that that stings. It was stated. But I'm a time. Yeah, in the Super Bowl. I'm gonna go have a nice said. I said, I said,

I don't say right now when you guys made me do a Super Bowl, I was like, I will be. I've actually never gotten wet before with my clothes on in this office.

That's good. Come on, Jake. I don't know you like to get wet. You mean smoke and BCP all day? Yeah. So when Duke loses, you will be doing soggy sorrows? I guess, sure. I have, I will agree to soggy sorrows. I, I will agree to soggy sorrows for Utah State Villanova. I don't think I should have to do soggy sorrows. Don't know the loser's there. It's going up. I feel like that's that's fair. How sorry. Yeah, I saw it. It's soggy. Yeah, it's your favorite. Pretty soggy. What, it's, I, yes, the game sucked. I don't know what else to say.

I, and yes, what he was a, a looting to would. Hank was a looting to was Josh asses like, you are Chase Johnson tomorrow. I said no. I was like, I know, I was like, if he beats Arkansas, would love to have fun. I said that. I said not what any also text me this like two hours after my heart my guts were on the ground. Yeah, we saw the touches are poker about. Yeah, yeah, we saw it. Love. He does a great job. I was like, that's crazy. No, that's a big no. We saw the text come through and I, what I did think about it, but I figured that that might be too raw for

big cat, but if you want some on the weekend, like we had Golky in the cave, if Chase wants to come chill in the cave. No problem. Next week, if they get bounce, that'd be awesome. Yeah, because he went Saturday would love to have fun on Sunday. Because that's enough time where it's like, hey, dude, you fucking beat my brains in. But yeah, getting that text two hours after losing. I was like, I don't, I'd rather not talk to this guy. So with high point, like I said earlier, they're just a

good basketball team. They had size. They had speed. They had athleticism. And they're all really fucking good. And after the game, their coach said, we couldn't find any majors that wanted to play us. No power four teams want to play. And I get it. I completely understand why no power four teams would want to schedule that team. They're not a conference because they're really fucking good. And it was kind of awesome how they didn't bother like really activating Chase Johnson until

guy. And he's got that release where he likes shoots. And then he puts his arms up to the side real quick that only awesome shooters have. And just like, once it leaves their hands, they don't give a fuck. They know what's in. And he, yeah, he was making shots from all angles. He made his first two of the year. It only took him like 14 steps to get it. Yeah, to an step. Yeah, it was, it sucks. I don't know what,

“yeah, I mean, it really, really sucks. But again, I think I'm, I think the only lesson I've learned”

is like, I need to just stop believing. I need to stop believing because this is also become a thing where the better has happened in the sweet 16 and like nine years, 10 years, I think going on. And this is also why when people like Hank or other Duke fans out there like, oh, why you so obsessed like because every year that we keep going is another year that I'm just reminded

how close I was in 2015, I will never get back there. And it will just never, it will haunt me for the

rest of my life. And I will be in my dying bed and being like 2015, it just won't happen. Like every other team because in pro sports, you can any team can get good. You have, you have hope and pro sports because it's like there's salary cap, you can draft, do you all these things? And college, it's, there's windows and if you don't hit it, it's like, especially if you're not one of the blue bluds, you know you're probably never going to get it back there. And that's the, that's

a hard reality. Hank, any other troll things. I know you got a lot. You, I know you got a lot. Go ahead, I'm, if this was, if this was, I don't understand where it's like, I didn't, I didn't troll you today at all. No, I know, I'm saying right now, I'm saying go ahead. I'm, I'm, I'm saying I'm good, so like I can laugh about it now. I mean, you got pretty upset when I even suggested saggy sorrows. You did. I just went, did saggy sorrows that the show wasn't going to be out on time. That was on

the day. I brought that. So, that was PFT. I, take it back. Okay, I take it back. That was PFT said that. Do you think that losing in the first time slot? Like, if you're going to get up to the worst, if you're going, would you rather losing the, like, what's the ideal time first week in the games to lose a devastatingly, like, big upset losses. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Okay. Uh, front details are important. No, that, that, this is for, like,

general, that, this happens every year. You said, you said, you said that, and I said, it, it's not in the context. It's like, more like a general top. You nailed the context there. Uh, I would say for that type of loss, it would probably better to be like Friday after dinner,

because you, you almost feel like you were still in the tournament. Like, I was never in the

tournament. I just wasn't. The tournament started and then I was gone. So, the only plus side is by tomorrow afternoon, no one will remember it, but it still feels like I wasn't even in the tournament. So, I would say Friday after dinner, because then you turn around and it's Saturday, and everyone's talking about the second round. Um, yeah, probably that, that, the first window sucks. You just don't feel, I was never, I was never alive. For a little bit, it looked like you might get, like, a small amount

of relief after the game was over, because Duke was in big trouble. Oh, yeah. And that would have, if you had a, if you had a bad loss before that time, you were just rooting against Duke, because then the entire story of the weekend becomes Duke lost to a 16C. Right. And it would, it looked like it could happen for a little bit. Right. Um, but yeah, the, again, I don't think the bad just played poorly. No, high point was like, you ran into a buzz sauce. High point was better.

“Anything else? Would you rather lose to like, uh, I think this is where it's like,”

this is not to pretend they didn't have more questions. No, it's like, were you going to make it happen? Yeah. Go ahead, empty. No, I'm just talking like, this is more like, because like,

you're going through it right now, you're going through something that a fan, a fan basically,

every March, and it's like, you can kind of not give people the playbook of like, no, I mean, what's the name, CJ McCollum, we went through it. What's his name? What's his name? Any choice. He's not special. No, watch college basketball. What was it? Was it late, late as it was, college basketball, Max? Uh, would you rather lose to like another, you know, power five conference school or like a real true underdog? It doesn't matter. It's all socks. It really doesn't,

like, I don't think it matters. It just sucks. That's it. That's it. That's okay. I appreciate it. Thank you. Good questions. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the one good thing is I'm used to it now. So it did, I was able to bounce PFCU or in the cave with me. I was able to bounce back about an hour and a half later. I was okay. Yeah. I mean, you were, you were pretty upset and understandably. So it's just like a fucking shitty way to do it. It's thanks to go out if you're in that position and you're

“playing a team that you thought that you would be able to handle. Oh, yeah. I'm sure I think I”

did allow yourself to believe. Like, oh, yeah. It's a weird season for you because if you would ask yourself four months ago, like, do you think that this team's going to win a game in the

bubble team until we beat Michigan in an hour. Yeah. In January. And so you did, you did, you went

from at the start of the season. Hopefully, midseason, this team sucks. I have no expectations. And then they had enough wins against really good teams that you thought. Maybe. Yeah. And it's, uh, yeah. And it was also even in the game that that sequence was four and a half minutes left. Well, we're up eight. It's like, okay, we're going to win this game. And then it's just a vapor. And you knew the minute chase shots and hit that logo three is like, that's a fucking problem.

Yeah. Like, that was a problem. And it's going to go the other way now. Oh, hey, here's one last one for you. Losing when you're the biggest upset in the day. That sucks. I, I'm surprised you asked that. Would you rather lose on a day with a ton of

upsets or just be the only upset? Yeah. It's a good point. But you still have tomorrow.

I have another question. I'll have tomorrow that Hank is is thinking about asking, but he's not asking. Yes. Now I ask it. Please. I would love to. The floor is your guys. Does it make it any worse to lose to a team that gives away free ice cream to all their students? Absolutely sucks bad. There. High point isn't a real school. It's vacation. It's vacation. It's vacation. It's four years of post high school vacation. It sucks. Like, students in Madison right now still have

another like solid month and a half of winter. High point is going and eating ice cream and in their shorts and flip flops and having stakes. And they don't have class. It's so fun. It's a complete blowout in every facet of the way. High point seems like a campus that it's just like, nobody, nobody goes to class. You just lay out a towel and you just chill on the wall. I don't know who crushed. It's that voted the nicest campus in the United States. Fuck you. I'm, I'm, I would

like you to go like 20 questions because you, listen, we did this to you after the Super Bowl. We messed all these questions. That's fair. Would you rather high point beat Arkansas or get blown out by Arkansas? Mm, good question. Probably beat, but that means you could be Arkansas. No, that, no, because we lost the high point, but it would be like high, they get blown out. It's like

“we wouldn't have had a chance. No, I think beat, I think beat Arkansas probably would be the better”

outcome just because you're like, wow, high points really good. Like, what are you going to do? They're just really good. So, I, I, I mean, I, I guess I'll be rooting for Arkansas because I love a cuff. So that part, I'll probably be rooting for Arkansas in this game. But yeah, probably beat, I think, I don't know. I, it doesn't matter. Like, that's the thing. It just doesn't matter because I'm out of the tournament. Yes, BFT, the PFT Comments or Barsal Support's Pervintake

Podcast is Greg Gardem-Hazzi. I saw some of those tweets. I would say no, but hey, wait, what does that have to be a tweet? I just have the action. Oh, no, no, there's, I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm fall a lot of like badger bastards. Wait, or, and there was some discourse about it. I would say no because he actually has done a lot of things to change the program. Like, we play a modern offense. We don't play Wisconsin basketball anymore. I think they need to get tougher.

And I think they need to, like, just the rebounding was a problem. Defenses a problem.

“I, I, I trust Greg Gard. But yeah, you have to, you have to throw some criticism to him. He”

hasn't been to the sweet 16 in nine years or whatever. It's 10 years. And we've, we've lost his favorites, like, multiple times the last five years in the tournament. So he deserves a lot of criticism, but I do not think he should be fired. And I don't think making, in a ration. Like, he is in all of the Wisconsin athletics problems. He is a small one because I think he does a pretty damn good job with everything that he's given. Yeah, Hank, are there any more canypools that you could

possibly acquire? Good question. Yes, there is. There's his, his brother, his younger brother, actually went on recruiting visit. I think the game that we beat Michigan State. So maybe that was maybe we'll get a conniple. You got it. That can't let the conniple. You can't let the conniple. I would love a conniple. Conniple would help a lot. But yeah, I, back to the great, the Greg Gard has done a really good job the last few years of getting incredible talent in the

transfer portal. Like, Tanjay was awesome. Nick Boyd was awesome. I feel bad. Nick Boyd goes out this way. He played a lot of years in college basketball. Had some heart breaking. Think about it.

“He lost San Diego State buzzer beater. Yeah. I think they lost to North Western on a buzzer beater.”

And then this one. So he, yeah, I mean, he had some pretty heart breaking losses when it came down to, and he wouldn't played San Diego State. Maybe that's something lost in North Western. I can't remember when it was. But yeah, I feel bad for him. But yeah, he's, the coaching staff

has proven that they can find talent given the fact that we're never going to be the top

spender in N. I. L. Any questions from the booth? Memes, how the numbers do on the memes?

One silver lining is I know my boy memes is going to, he's fire. He's, he's firing and he's, he's, he's hitting all his quotas. Mames, did you have him ready ahead of time? No, because I did, I, I was one of those, I didn't really believe it was happening. Yeah. And then it started happening. See, I, were you happy? The layout of the, the hasn't hit a two point shot. Yeah, crazy. Since February as a golf, February, whatever. It's like no February of last year. He,

“memes, I was, I, I mean, I, I think Stanford Steve, I think I talked about how I, I feel confident.”

And then in firefest, we, I was like, I, I, I, and we take firefights at 10 AM. I was honestly, like, we don't know what the real firefest, this is the real firefest. But memes, I didn't think it was going to happen until that chase shots in global three. Then I was like, yeah, that's, this is, this is going to happen. I just, I just kept on muttering to myself. It was like, this is a problem. We're going to lose this game. And then it was constant started playing really fast, matching their

pace. Yeah, that, that hurt them also. Yeah. And I got didn't take enough threes. It took 23 threes. We're a team that, that, that shoots 30 plus threes a game, which didn't take enough threes. Memes, how excited were you to deploy the Aaron Rogers wearing a Wisconsin uniform, can you hear Mary? That's like me. That's like everything. Yeah. Right there. That, what that was, it was just a picture inside, like, it memes his brain stem. Like the lizard part

“of your un-evolved brain. That's, that's all you're, that jets, jets suck Wisconsin sucks.”

Oh, I actually had one of high point made, because it does start the game. Yes, we'd out then. What, uh, Max, did you have a question? Yeah. That was like a sultry. That was a sultry late night, like, disjockey. This is itself. It's one, like, how, how hard are you rooting against filling

over tomorrow? Not, we both knows in the first. No, because you're playing on Friday. By Sunday,

it will not matter. That's good point. If you were playing today, I would have been rooting hard against you. I'm being honest. Yeah. Yeah. Tomorrow, I actually kind of want you to win, because it doesn't matter. You know what I mean? Like, actually, I do want you to win tomorrow, so that way you could lose on Sunday before we take. Yeah. Yeah. Right? But they're 100%. I mean, if they win tomorrow, I'm, I'm looking at successful terms. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I have zero expectations

of beating Arizona. No, and that's, that's the thing, like, if we had, it's loser talk. No, but if Wisconsin had gone to the sweet 16 in Los Arizona, I would not be as upset. I'd be like, that was a great season, great run. You just got to know there's levels to everything. Losing a high point is a disaster of a season. Right. Yeah. Yeah. PFT Compton here. Is this the worst 12, 5 loss that Wisconsin said in recent memory? Yeah, I'd say so.

Okay. Yeah. Probably most talented team. I mean, we were, we were, the JMU one was not, we were not as good. We were good this year. We'd be a lot of really good teams. So, yeah, this sucked. And Nick Boyd was a monster. So, yeah. This one sucked. We also lost another one a few years ago. Who do we lose to? They was, oh, fuck. I can't even remember. See, these losses are just piling up at this point that it doesn't even, yeah. It doesn't even hurt.

So, we did lose another 12 seed. I can't remember. We can't find it for me. It's like three

years ago. Oh, thanks Andy. First time hanks ever fucking locked in on research.

They lost. That's just that's just for rude. Let's see. Also true. He lost to a BYU who was,

“no BYU is the second round. Yeah. Last year. That was that. Remember how brutal that was?”

Yeah. We came all the way back. Yeah. And lost that game. I was state was an 11 seed. Maybe that's what I was thinking of. I was state was a 11 seed. Oh, Oregon, Oregon. Yeah. Oregon, that was fun. Oregon is a 12. That was really fun. Everyone saw that one coming for like for real. Okay. I listen. You've, if, if the one, are we done with questions? Any other questions? Oh, yeah. Okay. Zach, please. I've just got more of so a piece of information of what

it's worth a genuine digging contact with me big, big hat. His fiancee graduated from high point. She said he said that she did drive the ice contract for a short period of time because they couldn't find anyone to drive it. So they're not getting maybe as much ice cream at high point. I love that people first thought. So they don't they actually don't respect ice cream. No, at high point. It's kind of like, it's a hobby for them. It's not really like,

it's not a lifestyle. Fuck off. But on the other hand, that means that there's an ice cream truck that's on campus that has nobody looking after it. And you can just volunteer and they will give you the ice cream truck for a day. Also true. That fucking, that rocks. It's, it's not a real school. And shout out our friend Kelly Kegs who went to high point. Kelly Kegs in Henry Lockwood. They're one in O on the college basketball season when watching their teams.

Yeah. Pretty incredible. Pretty incredible. So it's fucking huge. I do it. It sounds like you're

Kelly. I respect Kelly and Kelly. I was being salty to you. I'm not a salty to Kelly.

I'm terrified. I don't understand. Don't put that in the first on me that you just put on

big cat. No, I'm one of the good ones, Kelly. I had done nothing to troll you actually. I, that was a hundred percent salt to hate. Yeah, to Kelly. Which was just unnecessary. And, and says a lot. You existing. Yeah, I was rooting for Duke to lose so bad today. Yeah. So that, that was all right. So the other, we'll talk to you at the other one that at least should probably be at the front of the show is UNC blowing the biggest lead in first round history to VCU.

Including them tweeting in with like 10 minutes left up by 19. And I, here were Davis, probably needs to be fired. I would say so. I don't think they're going to fire them. I think he's under contract till 2030. And, and they don't want to. But if you, if you, if you choked that away,

that was, that was terrible. That was as bad a mismanagement of a second half as you'll ever see.

“Like, you're supposed to be North Carolina. They were, you have to have more pride than that”

with Carolina. You got to get rid of this guy. Yeah, they were just completely discombobulated towards the end of the game where they just ran. They were just turning, I think there was a stretch where they had three turnovers and five possessions couldn't do anything, couldn't run offence, couldn't rebound. They blew it. Absolutely blew it. Credit to VCU, though. VCU is one of those teams. I think just as a program where they don't care about being down in a game or they'll just keep like coming

at you no matter what and they proved it. They were just tougher than UNC down the stretch, including in overtime. There a very, very well-coached team to have. That was, yeah, as impressive of them to not quit on it, but man, that's as bad as it can get for UNC. Yeah, you do have to move on. This is, that could be like, it should be a long-term, good thing for your school that this happened because you need to move on. It shouldn't inspire you to move on. If you don't,

it will bury you. Yes. There's no coming. Like, humor is not going to be a good magically come back next year and be a good coach. No. No. And yeah, that one was shocking. The Duke Siena game was pretty crazy. Hank, were you nervous during it? There was a moment where Siena was, they started

out so hot, won the first half convincingly, and then it was just kind of a hang on, can they

“hang on? And I think there was a sequence where they missed the three and then Duke had a”

dunk as like, no, it was, it was two missed dunks. Yeah, that's right, Siena. So they fed their big man the low post, turned around, brick the dunk, and then their own guy got the offensive rebound. And then he tried to dunk over three guys. It was a pretty tough shot to pull off, but he also brick the dunk, and then they just take it the other way and score it and it felt like at that point, that was the momentum shifts. And it was also, it wasn't just momentum. It was the fact that

Siena did not play any subs. Yeah. The entire game. Yeah. So they were able to play really, really well in the first half. They hit all the threes. Then as a second half went further on and Duke was, they settled into that zone really nicely. That Siena couldn't really completely figure out how to crack and then also the legs started to go where everything started to hit off the front iron first Siena. And then by the end of the game, they just couldn't move. No, they just couldn't run it.

Like when I say they played the entire game, Siena's five starters played literally the entire game. There was one guy in with ten seconds left at the end of it when it was out of hand. But yeah, their starters were up 11 points at half time. Yeah. And yeah, I mean credit to them. They played awesome Jerry McNamara great job coaching that team. Chanchar said that he's like Jerry McNamara out coach me today. Did you see he might have been doing like a little rope adope? So Jerry

McNamara showed up for practice the other day and he had one of those knee scooters to like keep weight off of his foot. Okay. And he was like pretty cagey about it. And then today, he just walks out there on two feet. No problem. Running up and down the sideline. Yeah. We're just on two. Art of war. I need to know more about their roster. And like what part of Jerry McNamara is going to coaching job as he did? How is he not able to coach his reserves up enough to be able to come in

and play for like two minutes? All right. So it's three injuries and one guy ineligible. So that's

“four right there that you could just throw out. So I think there was a I think it was not. I don't”

think it was by design. They would ideally not want to just play five guys the entire chop. Yeah. No, of course. More circumstances. Yeah. It's just it was wild. That's kind of when I I was, there was a little uneasy. It was like this feels like it's like happening. But they ran out of gas and after the two dunks, it was like they just couldn't, they couldn't rebound and they couldn't jump. Their center was completely gas. He was just getting, you know, thrown around in the post.

Dukes huge. So that's when I was like, I think, God, they don't have any literally if they had one or two

at all about Duke? They didn't look good. They haven't looked good for that. That happens though. That there's a lot. There's a lot of times you can totally do that. Maybe where they're losing in the one versus 16 and they go on and then they've run through the time. No, no one seed has ever trailed a 16 seed by double digits in half time. But they go down. I mean, I guess not double digits half time. But it's also the way they played, I mean, they weren't convincing in the A's in the ACC

tournament. They didn't want it. I understand, but they haven't covered a spread in like, I think it was like five or six games. Not, it's not, you know, Mark. They almost, it's Mark's man, but they were, I mean, they were, they won by like one point against four to say what we're going to say, Max. March, we're gambling and March madness. It is March, it is March, it seems not for the teams, but if you've been watching Duke down the stretch, they have not

“looked the same. We have they have injuries. Right. I know. So that's why I'm asking”

are you concerned about them because they have not looked the same. And this was more of not looking the same. Yes. I mean, obviously like, concerned, but you got to just, you know, take it, go with the green salt. It's not called March. It's not called March. It's called March madness. Yeah. You can just say that about anything. He's right. Yeah. There was a very interesting interview that Trace Wolfson did a half time with Malik Brown. Did you see that, hey? I did not. So halftime, they, they

talked to him and he just goes, we thought it was going to be cakewalk going in this game. So now we know what it is. So we just have to respond back. Like John tried to not have the boys ready. No, no, really not. Yeah. But that's again, like you got to just hope. And it could not be, they could, you know, they could just be a bad team now. But you just got to hope that that was a wake-up call. They needed. Yeah. It's not March gambling. Not for them. Correct. Well, hopefully not for them.

“That would be a quite a scandal. Yeah. And I would get to the bottom of that very quickly. I was”

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I wasn't told. We were two for three, which can't want to parlay that 50 was your or your

bet. Michigan State. That was hit. Yeah. I was Houston first half. That hit.

Yeah. And what was the last. Good hit. What was the last fix? I mean, I probably lost. So what was your like a third leg? My pebble is Arkansas. Arkansas. What? Arkansas team total. Over a second half. They scored 97 points.

“Oh. No, I think it was under. It's not. If you want to blame anyone, if you want to blame anyone, it's Hank. It's not March gambling. Yeah. Max is on the phone. Yes, we have it. Okay. We have one for tomorrow. Hank gets going.”

I think matter. I think you do too big hat. No, I would rather not. No, I'm not March gambling. But you just you want. You just. Well, yeah, I won one. Well, no, I lost because the parlay lost. True. We lost. We're team. Yeah. Yeah. We don't point fingers around your losses. All right. You want to bounce back? Yeah. Let's go. Let's bounce back. All right.

You go first. No, you go first. All right. Can you fill in Nova plus one and a half. Okay. You're that's that's a deflection.

It's my fault. It's a good one. Why is anyone hate me? I want to win that I want my boys to win. That is a friendship. Why does people hate me? Oh, so. All right. See, this is what I don't understand. This is an existing situation. If I picked Utah State, I'm a troll. If I bring Villanova. I'm a troll. I'm a troll. If I can't get it. I can't get it. I can't get it. I can't get it. I can't get it. I can't get it. I can't get it. I exist. There's 60. I like Villanova. I like this team. I've heard a lot about them.

If we beat Utah State, that's a winning season. He's filling over your pick. Yes. Okay. I'll take with with my boys. Means and Zach will take UCF plus five and a half. That's a troll pick. You just want to blame.

I'm just using the logic that was just used against me. That's not even close to the logic. I'm so lost. Zach.

You see F. Means. How about how he didn't want to pick UCF? We have jumpsuits. We're in on UCF. I know, but Means, you guys have already talked about how Zach choked that pick and you guys didn't actually want to make it. Well, he picked out there. Yeah. He picked him to win. I just picked him against spreads. That's my pick. And we have Bobby pins now. Yeah. My pick is totally different than Zach's. Got it. Job to that team pick. I'm happy that you're ready to ride in. But you better. We're riding with our boys. Yeah.

I want to stray. I want to stray. It's the same situation. It is. VZO. VZO. VZO. VZO. Let's go bring me some love here. Make sure you. PFC. I'm going to take Tennessee. The Tennessee volunteers. Okay. Half. All right. So you can bet what's that spread? 11 and half on draft Kings. All right. Two more games. Congratulations to Nebraska basketball. They have won a game in the tournament. That was awesome. They kicked the shit out of Troy. Like not even close. Just an absolute

demolition to the point where Troy had coach Scott Cross said after the game. I would like to think the good Lord for the opportunity you just have your guts absolutely ripped out.

“That's how you know your life. That's a great spend zone. Yeah. So I felt something today. I felt”

real real anguish and you don't get that unless you've done something great to get yourself to that point. Yeah. That's an awesome spend zone. I got to get my cap to him because there's really nothing that

happened today. That was any good for him at all. No. There was never a moment in this game. Really

that felt like it was going to be close. Maybe the first minute. Maybe the first like, no, I think there were like 96 or something. But the brass to the crowd was electric. Yeah. The team was electric. And yeah, they get their first win in program history. That's an awesome feeling. And now the big goal is, you know, get to the sweet 60 and congrats to all the students who are going to be drinking on John Rothstein's tab. Yes. Some point. Yes. You know what?

I'll match. Okay. Do you want to match? Not right now. You cannot. I'm not feeling great. Yeah, they're not a good match. Yeah. Yeah. No. I'm just happy for them. I'm happy for Nebraska too. I did not realize maybe we'd heard it before in this show, but I didn't realize that Fred Hoyberg's grandfather was Jerry Bush and he coached Nebraska when they beat Kansas in 1958. Oh, wow. Did not know that when Will Chamberlain was on Kansas. That's pretty cool. That's a pretty cool

story. That's pretty cool. We also had to start the day Ohio State go down huge and TCU hold on Jamie Dixon has now three tournament wins since he went to TCU and pit has three winning seasons in the ten years that he's been at TCU. Also, credit to Ohio State and Jake Teebler for the worst final play of all time is really bad. They had like four and a half seconds and they ended up with the Bruce Thornton half court shot. Yeah. I don't understand how that happened. It was the

slowest bring up of all time. There was an absolutely no urgency behind it all. I don't think anybody said a screen. I might be wrong about we've watched a lot of basketball. We've watched a ton about. But I

“just remember that play took about. It felt like it took the entire four seconds to get the ball”

to half court. Yeah. Really bad last possession. It also would have been a terrible last possession for VCU. If you and C, it hit that three at the buzzer. Yes. In regulation with a steel with a steel and really fucked that one up. That would have been way worse. But yeah, tough break for Ohio State. We also had RAP Americon. I think it's officially done. McNeigh State lost a Vanderbilt, so that had a hell of a run two year run. I don't think he has eligibility left. No. So that will be

over. Vanderbilt was kind of they were they went back and forth. They went down a bunch to start. You're like, oh, McNeigh State is looking really live. Then they were up huge Vanderbilt. And then they let him back in. But McNeigh's just didn't score for the last six minutes of the game. And they continue. Michigan State easy winner. It's already to go. Very easy winner. The defense looked alive today. Yep. That was a wire to wire winner. Same with Arkansas. That was a wire wire to wire

winner. Cal was smiling after the game. He's got it. He was shaking hands laughing. He's feeling it. He's definitely feeling it. The team's feeling it, too. Yeah. They were doing like a bunch of unnecessary

“labs. That's how you know that a team's feeling in March. Yep. The game was over and they were like,”

fuck, let's just try to get like three more alley-oops before Cal gets us out of the game. Yeah.

And then we had in the night's late, we had AJ Devonsa try to basically will be why you to

victory himself with 35 points. He was awesome. Texas was just better. Texas is the team. We talked about team that wins the the first four game and could potentially go to the sweet 16. So they went, that's our second win. And they looked, they looked good. The game started out so hot.

but he felt like he did everything else. Vokie Tayatus, he was, I don't know how he pronounced the guy's name, but he looks like a big stretched out Joe Burrow. How what was his was he three

“for nine, I think, from it was crazy because he was awesome today. He was 23 and 16. Every time”

he looked up, it was the action was running through him and he was getting put back, he was getting rebounds, but if BYU had had any type of like 3 point shooting miracle in them, Vokie Tayatus did everything to let them stay in the game because he would just keep going to the line, yeah, heat missing the front end of a one of one. Hack of Vokie Tayatus. Yeah, that's the strategy that the next team is going to play. He was, yeah, even when he was taken into the hole, he was

missing a lot of his shots short and then just tipping him in because nobody was boxing mount on him. Yeah, but he had an awesome game. He was their offense for the second half. And BYU shot four for 22 from three. That's where you miss Saunders and now AJ Devon says going to the draft a little. Remember, he did say that he's considering potentially staying at school. Yeah. He was the same thing as me saying like I'm considering not having ice cream today.

He might be waiting for one or two checks to clear before he makes his final announcement. Remember when Cooper Flags said that? Yeah. And everyone's like, oh, maybe he will stay. But like he might be on some sort of installment plan where the last deposit hits like April first. Yeah. So he doesn't want to say anything until that's already in there. This is, they

spend a shitload of money on Devonza. Oh, yeah. Eight million dollars. Is that what they're

reported back? And it, it does suck because once Saunders went down their team kind of fell off a cliff. And it, it, yeah, I mean, I guess if you have the money, spend it. It was cool to watch and play, but that's potential for in seven million. But BYU definitely is in the category of disappointing season. Oh, first. Yeah. I mean, if you, if you spend that much money on a player, you, you expect it to last a little bit longer than that first weekend. Yeah. I have two teams.

If our darling Jake is actually listening, maybe he can put these in his reminder because he said he rate, he actually said that he ran out of reminders. He's all out of reminders like he's like there's too much memory used. Oh, we've reached like all reminders expired. He has no new one. Okay. Okay. That can't be true. Oh, because there's yearly reminder. Remember, okay. Yeah. So he needs to

put these in. Never been on St. Mary's again in the tournament. Never been on Georgia. Yes,

tournament. Yeah, Georgia band. St. Mary's bucket ball fucked them up so bad. Text A&M. I got trolled by text A&M because I trolled them about the fourth place in the SEC. They came back over the top. That's fine. I deserve it. They looked awesome. And then Georgia, this is second year in a row. I can't remember. You find the final score last year when they played Gonzaga because I vaguely

“remember that being an absolute ass kicking. But Georgia St. Louis just did whatever they wanted to”

Georgia. Yeah. It looked like Georgia didn't practice playing basketball for the last two weeks. Like the offense was not an offense. They were turning the ball over at mid court. They didn't play anything resembling defense either. It was it was ugly. Right. So ugly. And St. Louis runs like a very complex like unique offense and they just didn't have any plan for it. What did they lose last year? Gonzaga. Yeah. 89 to 68. So that's back to back seasons in the tournament where they lost by

30 or close to 30. And then tonight they lost by close to 30. This was 20. This one was so bad. It was it was never close. Robby I feel it was awesome. Right. They've won a tournament since 2002. They've lost five. They've lost five and are out in the first round. Damn. I want to Robby I feel he needs to see a doctor though. I'm worried about the giant bruises he has on his arms. He's just banging. Yeah. It's like Matt. It looks like he's gotten to a car accident on the

way to the arena. Yeah. I hope he's okay. He's banging down low. Houston. Easy winner. Yep. Why are to wire? They're just so much that Houston. Actually, that's another reminder. Just bet Houston

first round every year because they always go up against a team that is just no nowhere near what

Houston wants to do. It didn't look like these were two college teams playing. No. It looked like one team was like high schoolers and the other team was a group of 35 year olds that are really pissed off, but still play every weekend at an open gym together and want to scream as a local

“high school team. Yeah. And that's what Houston does. They are just they play like grown men,”

like grown adults and they play pissed off and angry and physically and I love watching it. Yeah. And then Illinois the most ethical team in the tournament. We talked about it on Wednesday. They do not foul and they do not steal the ball. That was another wired wire winner where if you're an Illinois fan, that's that's the Illinois. I know it's Penn and a lot of their team was sick, but it doesn't matter. It's still a tournament game. Anyone could beat anyone. That's the Illinois

And also if Jake's listening do not bet on any under in a Hawaii game. Yeah. That's another one we should put. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Any other? What? I agree. Yeah. I have a question for Hank. Listen, we win and loses a team, dude. Eric. Henry. When it comes to Duke basketball,

“you've watched a lot of their games. Are we sure that Cameron Booser is really that great?”

Yeah. It's a big boy. Yeah. Well, that's not the question. Yeah. I know he's a big boy.

You got to perform in the tournament. This is his first year in it. If he's going to be considered

great, I think he's got to perform well in the tournament and he did today. He did not look that great for the most of the game. Or eat 32 minutes, 23 point signary balance. That's a pretty old. Oh, yeah. If we're going to reach that. If we're going to be a Boxcore watcher, that's fine. That if you're a ball-knower and a ball-watch, if you watch and play, he did not look that great at all today. And he hasn't looked at dominant. Like,

there are parts of his game. When I watch and play, I keep waiting for him to be like explosive in some way. And I don't see that much explosiveness for more. I get Sienna. He didn't look explosive. Sienna was a good team. Well coach, they had a good, they had a good game plan. Okay. So you're not worried at all? No. Okay. Any thoughts about any other thoughts about the tournament today? The USF Louisville, that was a miraculous cover, but Louisville looks

good. They kind of controlled that game from start to finish. I don't think there was any other like big the basketballs. Like over and played it. I don't think it was that big of a deal. No, I think we went about seven. I think it was like me seven in nine over and under. So not like years past where it looked like every single game. So I like, oh, my level higher. Wednesday night, that was awesome. That was fucking awesome. Congrats to my level higher. That was another one where

they were just flat out better than SMU. They were chucking. That was not a fluke. That was not a crazy Cinderella type story. They were the better basketball team. And I'm excited to watch them play on Friday. They were out of school too. Yeah, crowd was awesome. The swimming team getting down

there to distract. I've never seen a team chuck as many threes as my and we've allowed us. It's just

all threes. All that they don't give a shit if they airball by 10 feet on a three pointer. Next one's going in. They just don't stop shooting. Yes, Hank. I've got a Henry. Henry Lockwood. Your NBA team, one of the biggest perennial losers of all times. Yeah. Basically relegated. Unfortunately, it's not a situation. Well, they don't deny NBA. They lose by 40 every single night. They have star players who don't even play. They also injured. They also injured the star. It's a joke around

“game jokes. So you should be thanking the team for knocking King coming him out. Always in the”

lottery. Never do anything with it. But you'll be in the lottery again this year. Let's say you get the number three picks. I'm getting AJ. You're not getting A-Coff. Who would you want to take third? I'll see. You have A-Coff. It's interesting. Why is that? I know it's one of the other guys you know. No, I'm assuming it would have said him. So you do want to take third. You have A-Coff over Cameron Boosin. I'm just saying I know why you I was in. Probably Darren Peterson. Darren Peterson is a winner.

I would probably take Darren Peterson. You think he's a bigger winner than Boosin. Based on

his play, the season from all the game to watch of him. I never referred to Cameron Boosin as

not being a winner. I said are we sure that he's that great of a player. Got it. Because I was questioning some of his explosiveness. So you take Darren Peterson. Yeah. I'd be very happy if Darren Peterson is not there.

“Then I take Boosar, I guess. Because you got it. You have to bank on traits.”

So his dad was a very good player. So the questions are you worried about him not being that good a player? You would take number three in the NBA draft. That's pretty good. Well, I think the thing is like when you look at his dad, his dad was a very good player. His dad was not like a dominant. He was never like one of the top five players in the league. Maybe not top ten players in league either. No. But he was just a solid player for a long time. So he was a walking

20 in 10. Yeah. You know that you're going to get a very a very good player. And I would be very happy with guaranteeing a very good player because the Washington Wizards, as you know, have gone a long way to to reshape the image of that roster. So they should be competing. Good question though, Hank. Yes. There's a really good question. Any other questions? That's it for me. Okay. That's it from the man from the college. Do you want me to name

other college basketball players? I would make you happy with who your other pick now. I was just asking you a hypothetical question. I want to take off. Yeah. He's not going to be there, but I want to

this tournament? You're in the you're in the cave all day or the other cave? I'd like to see you

“in the regular cave tomorrow for a little bit. Just pick me out. Okay. Yeah. You see F. Yeah. Absolutely.”

I think I think we suit up. Definitely a good one. I would be not. I would be good to see. I would like to see that cave. Or I don't know why. Just like my brain deleted there. I'm really trying to work on that. That's all me guys. I like to apologize to everybody. You guys airways them in as well for that. Yeah. The tournament was good. It was a lot of fun to watch. It does get a little bit overwhelming. So many screens going at the same time. We've got so many games going.

So many. The energy in the room. Big spikes. Big up, big like big ups, big downs. Look forward to tomorrow. Hmm. Great. It's going to be great time. It's going to be a lot of

fun. We're going to have a great time. And then on Sunday we will recap everything we watched.

And yeah. So if you're if you're listening right now, Stanford seems going to give us some winners. So let's kick it to Stanford. Steve. Hey, I actually had one more question. All right. Hey,

“just curious. No, you've watched a lot of basketball. How important is knowing a horse scopes and astrology?”

Where'd you put that? Not high. Not high on the list. Okay. That's just interesting. Why? Well, because Jalen Brown spends all of his time learning his teammates, the horse scopes and astrology in order to communicate with them better. Oh. I thought it was a fascinating story. He said, I learned communication styles that work best for each individual. It's sort of utilizing that when I speak to each and every guy because of their

astrology and numerology. I like that. Okay. I mean, Jalen Brown smarter gathered me. I'll put my hand up and admit that like if he's that something went up to look into, I actually I'm open to it. I think that this it actually does not do any favors for the Jalen Brown has more or other than Jason Tatum argument. Like it. This this is good for that. Mm-hmm. Sure. Yeah. All right. Let's kick it to Stanford. Steve. Okay. Before we get to our good friend,

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very, very special guest. It is Stanford Steve. Steve. We're going to go through the Friday slate. So we're going to pretend like we're taping this on Wednesday. We're obviously going to pretend this is tradition with you. You and Snookie on the show. We're going to we're going to pretend that we, you know, Thursday's already happened, but let's start with this. What did you

“think when we nominated you due to the year, which I think now has to be a taking award that will”

give you? Love it. I just am looking still for me and Snookie in the real for the book for the 10 year and Snookie and I still maybe it's on the 20 year celebration or anniversary, but we're still striving to get there. We know we know we have room to to rise and it's a hell of a list that did make the list in the real and the book. Yeah. So we're still striving. I appreciate the opportunity to come back on with you guys. Better part of my take episode pairing.

Stanford Steven Snookie or Stu Finer and John Moran. We actually put out both of those shows. Did we also, in my making this up, or did we also have Paige Spuranic and Mr. Portnoi? Baby,

those epic. He's beaten those epic many times. Wakes up every morning, looks in the mirror. Yeah.

And he's just got another bat. It's one battle after another for Stu. He's coming out of fluctuate and when he's at his thinnest, he actually looks really, really good, but when he's at his heaviest, he looks, it looks like it's a prosthetic stomach that he's wearing. Yes. He's, those, I still think back to, like, when you guys were going out to the house and the videos and then him with the mulch, like, yeah, those are all timers. Like, you'd think like what people were

“in battling COVID, the whole thing and he's out there just screaming his head off. That's what”

we, that's what we went to. Yeah, for fun. Yeah, back in those times, but he is an absolute legend for sure. Okay. Let's talk about it. I want to start with your teams that can win it all. Okay. You're list. I love your list every single year. I think you're trolling this year, but I want to hear you out because I, all right, I'll say I thought you were trolling a month ago when I saw your list. I don't know if it's changed and you've stopped trolling. But I want to see your

list. There is no trolling. As you know, I'm a Duke fan. Yes. And your spin zones, you have attempted this year, are getting to be ridiculous. Whoa. Whoa. We're both not trolling. I am not trolling.

I'm not trolling. You totally. Okay. Continue. Continue. So the first list comes out, uh,

they have to Valentine's Day every year and Duke was not on that list. And they proceeded to win every game. That included the gaming. It's Michigan for Virginia Clemson North Carolina, then the ACC tournament. Uh, so they, they, they went on the list before the ACC tournament. With the injuries, I took them off the list. They are currently off the list and will not be on the list. And I do not see Duke winning the national title. That's insane. Is that because of

“injuries? Yes. I, I really think the depth is going to, is going to really hurt them. When you look”

at this region alone on top of that, uh, I, I just don't see the path, uh, the lack of depth, Gonga, if he's back, uh, he's not going to be 100% and look at those team. I know people are saying I was just named brand the whole deal, but the, the guards that they're going to have to go to. With Caleb Foster down, who's the best on ball defender. And now, I mean, Little Booser was great in the ACC tournament. And the, and the confidence that he got from that as huge,

but to be able to go up against, I, I still think they have the toughest eight, nine game. There is of anyone, uh, TCU and Ohio State are, are really good teams and playing their best ball the year, which is another thing I look at. Uh, and then you have that four, five of, of Kansas St. John's, uh, that, that's a, that's a, that's a bear because Kansas is going to travel, um, if, if it's them and St. John's is, is a train ride away because that game's going to be in DC.

And then I, I get it. You don't have to play all the teams on the bottom. But most likely, you're looking at, uh, iso and Hurley, who I look at those teams and how they're built.

“And I think about this a lot for teams, they got to get out of their conference. Like they are just so”

beat up. You've got to take every bull's eye, uh, in the Big East. And this is the worst Big East we've ever seen in my lifetime. Uh, and I absolutely hate the committee for doing what they did and putting St. John's in UConn in the same region. There's three Big East teams in the, in the, in the whole thing. And they put the dust to, in the same region. That's just stupid the man. It seems lazy. And I don't like it. I don't, the tournament is not for rematches. Final four. Sure, lead eight. Maybe.

Okay. Not sweet 16. I love that team. I love that team. I love that team. That's a great way to put it. It's not for your matches. It's a, it's a standalone thing. Yeah, and they can't meet until the lead eight. And also Duke's going to be there. Not St. John's stop. Okay. Just stop when you're not to. Okay. Uh, but just the idea, like how many brackets, like obviously, St. John's one of the Big East tournament. They're everybody's favorite now. UConn is still a team that I have coming out of the

region. Uh, and it's, it's a likely thing that could happen. That you're going to, I'm dying to see what these points spreads are. As you saw with Duke in the, in the, in the ACC tournament. I mean, that, that Florida state line was insane. Yeah. I think it was 17 and a half. Then it goes down. They cover against Clemson who can't score. And then they don't cover against Virginia. So those lines

are coming down. I think people are catching on. So even that second round game against Ohio State or

TCU, whatever it is, it's, I see single digits. And it's only going to get smaller moving in there. So Duke is not on the list. Wait. Hold on. Hold on. Before it, let's just before, let's put a poll on Duke because you think they're, they're, they're, they're on the list. I think they're guaranteed going to win the national title. If they do win the national title, I want you to say right now that you're coming to Max's bachelor party. If Duke wins the national title, I will come to Max's bachelor.

Okay. Okay. All right. I do think it was actually very smart with the committee did with Duke because they took the one team that nobody would give a shit about if they put them in the

two through five to play against. So if you go to screw over one team, I do think that Duke is the correct one to screw over. Yeah. Yeah. I know you sit next to every day too. So I know we're that little bit. I lost to, I lost to Duke too. The tournament. All right. Yeah. I understand. They're an enemy. Yeah. All right. So that was so house money. You know, I listen, Duke's, that was our year. That was our year esteemed. Also, if Duke loses this year, like that's a, that's a really bad

back-to-back run of losing with teams that should win. You can make the argument that this team should win more so than last year's team. Yeah. Because John Shire is a year older, a year wiser, he understands landscape more. He knows how to manage the tournament. Like, oh, he's a girl dad.

“That's why he's super power. You want to see coaches getting better. Not getting worse. Yeah.”

Most shocking sports story of our lifetime. If Duke doesn't win it all this year. Stop. And then when they do win it all, we get Steve at the bachelor party. I can't. Yes. Steve, I can't. You're an ACC guy. I threw him through. Stand five. You should start your Sunday. How about that, though? Have you guys, I mean, that 10-year-in window of J-M-U-B-F-D, Signetti and B-O. That's how it's talked about right now. What a great era that we had.

And I knew that we had excellent coaches. I didn't know that Signetti was going to go on to be the best coach who ever coached college football. And I didn't know that buying team was going to be

this in Pacflow at Vandy. But yeah, I mean, it's, it's what I always say. You're going to be stepping stone,

be the best stepping stone. I think that's J-M-U. It's a good point. Dilly Madison's there now. So yeah. Good. My best. You have rest in the list. All right. The list contains Arizona. Yep. Michigan. Yep. Houston. Okay. You con. Ooh. Is that, is you con? Because I actually agree with the whole, they got to get out of the biggies because what the actions Dan Hurley runs, their offense has so much, so much complexity to it that they need to get out of there. But I still just don't know

if they have that, that gear they need offensively to what I know. What I love about Hurley and what he brings to the table is they, they play to, I don't want to say the opponent, but the environment. Like that biggies championship game was a bloodbath. Like the first, there wasn't a whistle until they called, like they, they're murdering each other underneath, uh, Zubi and, and Reed. And the first foul they call is a flop on Zubi when he's trying to defend Reed. Like, and then

it's just, it's a free for all. Right. There's so much emotion in the building. And you know how

Hurley gets you, it's just the, the anxiety builds. And I've been critical of him, but he didn't

deserve a technical. Right. I mean, I mean, the old foot slap it on the floor. That's, I mean, I get it. Coach has got better shoes nowadays, but just because it's loud doesn't mean it's bad. After we've seen some other things that Hurley has done. So, you con remains on the list. Illinois is on the list. Kansas is on the list. I was state is on the list. Sparty on the list with Wisconsin has been on the list. I know the days on the list.

Yep. Purdue because of their road. They are back on the list. They were off. And now they're

“track like, you know, we talked about Duke's road. Like Purdue, I think has the easiest path for a”

two seed. I mean, that bracket on that bottom. There's, I don't see anybody being able to challenge them. I get a play Missouri on Miami and say, Louis, people have made it. I mean, another horrible thing by the committee. But off comes back for Gonzaga, maybe, but I mean, he's not going to come in. I mean, how many times? I mean, we're still going through Bosco updates on that one. Yeah, Bosco. I mean, Bosco being dissolved by getting us all on Gonzaga. I actually got

out of it in like December. But yeah, he got the whole world on Gonzaga futures. Whole world pizza guys. Do you see, did you see this story? PFT, which wasco. Bosco, Texas, Elio early in the season to take Gonzaga. Yeah, to win the national title. Elio spent the rest of the year every week, like putting a little bit more on Gonzaga. Like, it's a 401k. Yeah. Then he pulled up. Throw it at it. And Elio doesn't watch college,

necessarily. He pulled up, really gives Dave like employee matching. Little next thing. Yeah. So he's just easily. Yeah, like a squirrel just put a couple months away. He pulls up a Bosco video,

“top 10 teams, Gonzaga's not on there. He texted me, he's like, hey, what, what happened here?”

And Bosco goes, oh, well, one of their, their best players got hurt like two months ago. He's like,

"Will you ever going to tell me?" He just never told them. But at the time, at the time, it was a good

bet. He jumps along like, like, lily pads. You just, you know, if one guy loses, one coach is out, he's got another one in the hopper. I think he's, he's represented by like half of the teams

No. Oh, yes. Well, no, it can because Dave will not be coming for that.

Oh, Dave won't come back for that. No way. He'll just beat Michigan or he'll beat Alabama from his, his palace in the keys and enjoy the hell out of it. I was fortunate enough to sit with you guys for the Alabama Yukon game in Phoenix. Yes. I mean, Alabama was down early. If they ever had a lead, late or so, I can't imagine. Yeah. Yeah, and I'll get Bosco credit. Better bet physical activity. He rides and dies with Bama. It's a, it's a, it's a notoriety rider.

Yeah, he, he does go hard. So I'm going to give him credit like he, he, he watches every game. All right. So anyone else on the list? That's it. Wisconsin is on the list. So I dropped off in Nebraska because of the trek. Yeah. I love the story and people said they can't win it, but I would throw

at, yeah, Indiana won the National Championship in football. They were, they were my Indiana this year

in Nebraska. You know, you know, they haven't won an NCAA tournament. What game we'll see how that works out against Troy. But they were on the list and now are off. Michigan State started off and now they're on Wisconsin has been there. The whole time in Purdue was on off and now back on.

“All right. So I believe that's 11. You have, you have Wisconsin on the list, but no”

Arkansas. Correct. Ah, defense. You know, it's fun. We mentioned Alabama. I'm almost at the point where Wisconsin plays a better version of Alabama ball. You know, the whole analytics with three points in lips. Wisconsin, like, I want to say the big guy. You probably would know this in two games against Michigan. They've made like 31, 3. It's crazy. I think it might be more. I know we hit. I thought it was 15. I mean, what rapid five? Yeah. Rapid six. I want to say 31. I want to say it was,

I think we might have hit 17 in Ann Arbor. I'm going to look it up right now. Okay. But yeah, no, we have the ability. I mean, obviously, I'm very bullish on this team because I also, and this could all be for not because it could be outright now as we're pit airing this. I think

that they're, so we hit 16 when we played them in the big 10 championship game. And we always have

that like in our arsenal of like, yeah, hey, we could do this at any moment. 16 and yeah, 18. I was right, 18. So 16 and 18, whatever that match is. 34. 34. The, yeah, it's fun to watch. And I also think that the losses that we've had have been, I don't want to say explainable. But I've kind of seen most of them coming. The only one that really, they really got me was the USC meltdown at home. But like, yeah, everything else was like Ohio State was the most classic one. Oregon was like,

you're going to split one and one on the West Coast, whether it be Oregon. Everyone does. Everyone does.

“Everyone does. Like all these loss. So yeah, I'm very bullish on them. I think they, I think they”

have it. I just don't want to, you know, you go cold for five minutes. And it's the, it's the worst feeling in the world. Yeah. It's, uh, but again, there are winds and people say six winds. But I've seen them, I'll put their winds against anybody. Yeah. And that, that good is about the ceiling you can get to. And you win games at the style of play and their guards, their guards I love and going back to your point, PFT about Arkansas. There's not a lot of interest in playing defense there.

Uh, the lack of wanting to bend your knees and play it and get in the stand. I love which is, which is fine. Uh, couldn't be me. But they're, because they're so athletic. Yeah. And, and what they've done with Acca, I mean, Brazil's a guy, it feels like he was there, you know, playing for no one Richardson. He's been forever. And he started, I think he started Missouri. Um, but he had a great SEC tournament. And Acca, I look at him and I watch him. He's, he's the best offensive player in the

country. And I like, I'll say, like, he's a better college player than Alan Iverson was right now. Wow. That's he. He's got the cutoff. He's got the wristband on the left arm. He's got a better build and a better frame. Uh, and Iverson was a, a really good defense player. And offensively, he's better right now than, than Iverson was as a freshman goal. I've heard multiple people say he's

“the best point guard that Cal is had. I think he's a, Iverson, Iverson wasn't a great shooter”

when he was a freshman, but he was an exceptional ball handle and he's I'm creating around the rim. Yes, I'm saying right now, that, that, that freshman year at, at Georgetown, Iverson, Acca, some more advanced offensively. He's a better shooter as you pointed out. And just athletically, his build. He doesn't get knocked around. I mean, he, he, he, helped his, his build is built for going to the hoop. Uh, you know, he was fine against Ole

Miss where they were like, all right, guys, we're, we're just going to outscore. Yeah, that's fine. And I thought it was a tough matchup against Vanderbilt and they did the same thing. They made threes, they're athletic. It's hard to get shots up at the rim. Uh, so that style of Wisconsin against them. Hopefully we get, uh, would be a fantastic game. Uh, so I, I look at Arkansas as just be more vulnerable. Yeah, it, it comes decision making too. It's just so

Yeah. You know, those interviews after SCC tournament, him and Cal are walking in the desk and cows like hurry up because I want to go to bed and, and he walks out and he's like,

“you did miss another free throw tonight. I think he missed one at the end every game and they”

got away with it. So the, the way Cal could do that with, with those young guys and mold that team is really, really cool to see. I just six games playing at style. You're going to be up against it. And you got, you got big time teams coming at you. Yeah. Uh, the other team, I think in that same region, yeah, the Arizona Wildcats. You didn't mention them, did you? Yeah, they're, they're, yeah, they're number one. They're number one. And I heard you guys with, uh, Titus talking about

thing and, uh, Titus didn't have it. And then you guys were given the info. The first thing I

write down next to every team on the list is their free throw percentage. Yep. And I was state is very, very concerning being, I think it's now 338th in the country of free throw shooting. But it's, I, I thought the percentage would be worse. Like, I thought it was going to be low sixties. It's 67%. Right. Everybody could have their jokes with that one. But you look at teams like Illinois, uh, is fantastic. Six in the country. Wisconsin is 10th, um, you know, Duke is

and that's another thing that worries me. They've gotten better and there was a point where they were in the low to 50s with UConn. They're up to 190 first. There's, I think there's 360. Uh, 65. So when you look at that, uh, Iowa State, it takes a hit. Kansas that helps them,

“uh, they're 35th in the country. So that's a big factor for me because you have to make your”

free throws. Look at Florida's run last year. Yeah. And what, the between the shots making that

Clayton had, I mean, you can't have them. Uh, you know, then they took care of Maryland and then Texas Tech, if they make front ends, I want to, just the front end. You got one. And, and that, they don't even go to the final four. Uh, so that's a, that's a concern and, and it's a, uh, a concern for Florida to, who's also 234. But Arizona's sitting at 147th at 73.4% I, I, I think that's good enough. What I love about Arizona PFT, they show up, no, no one cares who's going to lead lead them in

scoring that nobody. And I, I think that really fits, uh, Lloyd. I think when he's had, um, when he's had to, you know, your math run, like you could tell there was, there was an, there was an angst to get, make sure we get our guy touches this team. It doesn't matter. And then the other thing that kind of, I worry about is Bradley's hand. He heard his hand against Houston. And that's

second half, he was a totally different player that he had Burrie's and Delorso going crazy. Uh,

but that championship game got tight late and Bradley didn't look the same. So I'll have my eyes on that early, uh, to see what he looks like. All these one seats, I have questions, uh, whether it's health or depth. Um, so that, that's one thing, you know, everybody wants, you know, another chalk deal, uh, but that's going to be, uh, a deal Michigan, the case in injuries in normas. Yeah. Uh, they are not close to the same team, uh, without him. Uh, okay. Let's talk Friday

bets. And by the way, the free throw thing I couldn't agree. I mean, he really is one of those simple things that we forget to, to really taking a count because not even just, you know, you're up to and you got to hit one or it's like the difference between when you're up five and you hit two free throws versus you hit one and like, you know, ending a game, making it three possessions, like those type of little things where it's like not letting them have a chance to get back in it

is so huge with these free throws. And you see it time and time again in the tournament. Oh, yeah, Friday. Yeah, it's all a couple of games that I've been kind of looking at and I'm like, I might want to take, take the dog here. Akron that, that's right. I think it's come down. Yeah, I've wrote these down when they opened that same seven and a half. It's seven and a half, uh, right now, what was it when it was, oh, yeah, it was seven and a half. All right, so it

hasn't really got opened at 10 and a half. Open it, 10 and a half. Open it, 10 and a half of it. Akron Texas tech. Yeah, it was, it was seven and a half Sunday night after. Yeah, it had settled, but uh, so Akron's one of them that I'm looking at and Hofstra, not as a troll, but Aiden Holloway having seven thousand pounds of weed on the week of the tournament. Uh, feels like that might,

“my change is dynamic of the team a little bit. You should be a lot to have a pound of weed. Two”

pounds does feel like you're spiking the football a little bit. It's like we get it. You like weed. Alabama doesn't that state. It's pretty evident that they don't want that in their state. So, um, yeah, I don't, I don't understand that situation. The issue with Hofstra, uh, big cat is if Amazon from three. Yeah, like they could be anyone in the country and Hofstra just not that said like, yeah, they got good guards. They can guard, but uh, we've seen with Alabama, if they shoot

their way to a win, these, that's where these schools just get, get manhandled. Yeah, because they can't keep up the pace. I think Hofstra, it's huge for that. I mean, I think the, the, you went and I, is the same thing. Yeah, you and I kind of like as well. Yeah. You know, St. John's is going to be in your face after a made basket. They're going to be, you know, full go, manhandle pressure, full court, and can you get stops? Because then they can't set up. You saw the different, like,

last Saturday against Yukon. Yukon couldn't score. And then when St. John's did score,

it's just full go. I mean, I saw their guards do things that, that we haven't seen all year. And that's just from the, the constant pressure. So if you and I can hang around, make threes and slow that pace. I like that as an under, uh, because you can dictate to St. John's. If you could,

“limit them to one shot and then you walk the ball up. Uh, I think it's a big deal. Um,”

so I look at, uh, I would want more. Obviously, I want more points if I'm Hofstra. I think it's dangerous, but I, I, I went through 13 and a half and a tournament game. Uh, they do have guards that could get through the rim. How they get shot off at the rim against that size is big. But uh, I don't, I don't hate those underdogs. I, I like accurate. It just feels a lot public now, though. Yeah, uh, in the, in the whole thing, rest on Christian Anderson, uh, the great guard for Texas Tech.

He went out with a groin on the oil, all, uh, glass court in Kansas City. So, um, I would expect that. That, that, that's a, it'd be a shame if Texas Tech did get knocked out. How good of a season is, that's the worst luck they had. I thought Topping was player the year to not have him. They go 3 and 0 without him right out the gate in that in the best conference in America, then now they're lost three straight. So, how they maxed out. I think the castings an awesome coach. He'll have a plan

against Akron, but Akron falls in that line, just like St. John's. If they can make baskets and set up their pressure, that's where they get. Yeah, and Texas Tech is good enough defensively.

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against Kentucky. Now big cadenet are what? I was just going to ask about this game because I hate that I do this. I've already put in Santa Clara as a win in my head. Yeah, we're colonels. We believe so much in Santa Clara. As colonels, it takes a lot for us to bet against our Kentucky wife. Santa Clara. So the spread actually, it went from one and a half to three and a half. So it's going towards Kentucky. I like Santa Clara money line when the

bracket came out. It's so bad. Now I really like him at three and a half. What are you thinking in that game? I haven't it's like my ATM of the day where it's like, oh, I'm going to be getting killed Thursday. What's also, I'll just go to the ATM and bet Santa Clara. I'll be good. The fact that it's a very first game. I know on Friday. That's exactly the worst. There's

always money in the Broncos. So at least I've got that. I've got money coming in tomorrow.

I'll pay it back. Also plenty of games after that. So yeah, you know, you know, the mindset, you don't want to start on one. Yeah. And that's the game in that window. Scott and I said before

really good. They play really good defense. They got a good roster. They're deep. They can make

“threes. They got room protection. So I think they're they're set up for Kentucky just hasn't”

they haven't met the expectation. They haven't come close to meeting the expectation this year. And it's like, all right. Oh, way. He's, he's a great talent. But he hasn't been a difference maker. You know, I thought Aberdeen was a great, uh, portal. I thought he was great for Florida last year. He's another guy. Maybe he is better in the sixth man. But he got a ton of money from Kentucky. And he's a starting point guard. I don't think he's earned that money. Now, can they win this?

I mean, and go to the sweet 16 and beat the two seed. Of course they can. But I'm with you. I like Sarah and Clara. I think there's a lot of balance. There are another team. Doesn't really,

you know, they close the game with a different lineup than they start, uh, which, you know, tells

me that Sendic knows what he wants to get to team and they'll play to match up. So I'm really happy for Sendic. You guys coach forever. And it's a little little school that was close to Stanford. You go down there and have some good time. So I'm happy to see the Broncos back in there. And I'm rooting for him. So I'm with you plus the point Santa Clara. Yeah. There's not we're also losing herbs. Yeah. He, he's the last of a dying breed. Yeah. So I want to I want to see more herbs. Do you say herb? I say herb.

“Well, that's what they said Alabama. Okay. Yeah. The memes is a big Santa Clara guy. He, I actually,”

I should get Steven memes on the on the same text because memes is up late with, you know, editing and stuff. So he's watching a lot of Santa Clara. So that's all we keep hearing Santa Clara, Santa Clara.

Did you give, did he give Max a Scotting report on Utah State because they play in that window too?

No, let me see if I'd let me see if I'd let me see if Max the latest game and Hank or they really do are out of where they ain't in lunch. No, they're in a meeting. I'm going to see businessmen. PFT. What's your final four? My final four was Michigan State. I had like a Arkansas, which you don't like and that's more like me just rooting because I want to see my hearing more. I believe I had Michigan and then out of the south. I did not have Florida

took Houston. So I've got my, I took some futures like a month ago and the futures that I put in Kansas, Arkansas, Houston, Michigan State before the bracket came out. Okay. So that's what I got. I feel, I feel like I'm going to have one that's in the final four at least. If, if you get multiple teams in the final four, I don't know if you get in bracket bulls,

“you're going to win because you have to be different enough. We've talked about this.”

Yeah. Like, I can't pick Arizona the win the title. Everybody is. Yeah. Yeah. You know, are you concerned about their about how they're built in terms of not a lot of shooting? They don't really shoot three's all. No, because of the way they play defense and rebound. They dictate a lot. It's hard to get it. Get offense going against them. Like I said, the versatility of defensively. I mean, they start the year beaten Florida because of Pete. I mean,

he dominated that front line. He's whatever, 18 years old and I'm like, okay. He's going to be their best player. He's like their fourth best player. Yeah. You know, a walker that the kid from Tennessee, they got, he just comes in and bloody things. He doesn't give up shots at the rim. And Burrie's is probably my favorite player in the country. He's had some spots where he's going away offensively, but defensively, what he brings to the table. And he's probably their best

shooter. But I just love the way he plays. Not a lot of flamboyancey and just plays it all around game. So they are, they have to go to the final four guys. Yeah. I mean, we did, I did a thing on our pod the other day. Like the list of teams that have been to the final four since Arizona. You're talking about like George Mason, South Carolina, which is taught state, Georgetown. It's, it's in dicey territory and their fans know it. And I feel bad for Tommy

Locke. He's like, hey, I haven't been here for the 25 years. I've, I've recruited my ass off. We've had good teams. They need that success in this tournament. They need to make Indianapolis. And I believe they will. Yeah. Very mean, which you just did thrown George down in there. Like, like, dog shit teams have been there since Syracuse twice. Yeah, very mean. Yeah, through a while. It's a Scottson twice. There's some, there's lot of duties on that. Yeah. We're also the reason,

it was Scottson's also the reason why they haven't been to a final four twice. And that's Dutchwood scares me to, I know the team doesn't care about that. And I brought that up, big cat. The idea that there was Constance a couple games away, possibly. Yeah. And the idea that they made Arizona play Wisconsin two years a row. Yeah. And those commencement teams was a joke. Like that, it's like, it was so cruel. It was then the fans awesome. That they're in California again. It's

there's a lot there. And I get it. The team doesn't care. Tommy Locke doesn't care what the fans see that. Oh, yeah. No doubt they see it. Oh, yeah. I got a gambling question for you. Just in terms of how you absorb the tournament. And like, what lessons you would take from a Friday? So if, if we're looking at a

under's hit on Thursday. Are you, are you using that at all on Friday? Are you just like, listen, that's stuff happens. I'm going back to what I originally thought. I have a theory about

the first tournament games, and Big Cat is so scared of these basketballs. That I did this before

it even was about the balls is I look at first half under just because of their inner Reena's the crowds aren't great. The shooting backdrops are different. And I do it, you know, a lot in the, in the first round of the Big East tournament, too, where the backdrop, now you factor in the balls. So I've, it's been really good. But it's, I want to say, like, it's been above 65% which you would take all day, especially if you're honing in on the whole first round of tournament. So yeah,

I stick to my guns on that. If that trend is there, but first half under is, has been a, has been a fun deal. The block is hot, though, on the first half under's. I know. It's like the

“arch madness this year. Yeah. Everyone talk about the others. I think it went, I think Rip”

like seven and oh, and the overs after the first round. The, the, the officiating is enormous, too. Yeah. And I hate it. No one wants to talk about officiating or blame officiating. I'm not. But, you know, look at that Michigan State UCLA game in the Big 10 tournament. Like, you're right. UCLA, it doesn't make as many threes in a half as they did in that game on top of, I'm what Michigan State was in the bonus of what 13 minutes left. Like, that, you, you need certain

things to go right. And you know right away, it's over, which is all about Big Gak, because he loves

his overs. And he always has a chance. I do. I, so life's too short. Okay. Best bets Friday.

And Max and Hank are, are going to be in here in a minute. So we'll, we'll, I should have. Best bets Friday. Um, I like that under under in UNI St. John's. Okay. What, what do you got for a spread there? One thirty one and a half is the over under nine and a half is the spread. That's, that's going down. That open at eleven and a half. Yeah. Uh, St. John's is very, very public. Um, I, I look at,

“if they were to play Kansas on the weekend, that's a great matchup. I would, I think that's going to be”

super public. And I would look at Kansas in that game. But I would look at UNI plus the points. The other problem, we don't have a line yet, but I think Tennessee is going to manhandle

whoever they play. Uh-huh. Um, just because of the physicality and I still like Rick Barnes,

even though everyone hates him. And he's only been the one final force since 2003, which is more recently than Arizona. So it's throw them on the, you could put Rick Barnes on that list. Yeah. That, yeah. People upset. That might even make Tennessee people mad. That's the best one. I don't want to make Tennessee people mad. I really like it. Well, um, the last game the night is like that play St. Louis. Missouri is a home game, which is another joke by the committee. Uh,

a 10 seed playing a home game. I, I look at what they bring to the, to the table. It's physicality.

“I love their coach. And they, they were one of the last teams in. If you look at the bracket,”

a 10 seed, and they give them a home game. Uh, I look at Missouri being able to handle Miami. Now, we got to wait all the way to the, to the end. Uh, and I'm sure people will be in good shape by that. But I'm with you like earlier we talked about Santa Clara. Um, Iowa, I kind of like Clemson really struggles to score. And I know starts everything goes for him. But I like Iowa, and that eight nine game, I might, my, like, you can, we talked about, but like, who's playing for UCLA? Yeah. I mean,

Billy doing, I mean, a dent seems like he is. Need him, obviously. Why didn't they come back in against, well, Billy was actually hurt. Yeah. Dent, I don't understand. I don't know what that injury is where you're back in five days. Right. I can't finish the game. Right. I don't know. Okay, I agree. Um, Cal Baptist is getting a lot of points. They got Dominic Davis. He's, he's going to shoot 30 times. It's just a matter of how many three. He's going to make. He's a little guy at five 10 out of

Compton. Great story. He made three straight threes at the end of the game to beat you to a valley. He'll, he'll, he'll be like, as the games are going to, you're going to hear everyone talk about him. Because he's that little guard lefty. He could score from anywhere on the court. If he makes threes, uh, that's a lot of points. So I look at Cal Baptist, uh, plus double digits. And firm in against Yukon, does Yukon really want to blow like, that's up to Hurley. Yes. He wants to and they get it going.

But 20 and a half. That's a lot. I would look at firm in there. Okay. All right. Manacy, Tennessee is a lot. And I have Virginia going to the final four. Um, but that feels like a lot of points against the right state. Right state could score. They're not great defensively. It's a high over under, uh, in the 140s, uh, maybe right state plus the points. But I do like Virginia. I think

oh, Max, by the way, uh, Steve does not have Duke on his list of teams. It can win the national title.

He's trolling because he's a Duke fan. He wants to win. So we've made the deal that if Duke does win the national title, Steve has to come to your bachelor party. Which he was invited to anyway, but he, he has agreed that if Duke wins, you will 100% be there. All right. Now room for Duke. Yeah. I'm not. Yeah. That just turned me into a Duke. Yeah. Max, I didn't do this where I invited myself.

“No, I didn't. Oh, I believe that. Yeah. It gets invited every single person who's come on this show.”

You and you talked a big cat in the last month and a half. You've been invited. Yeah. Well, I mean, that's true. I want to like my friends. I like you do awesome. No, we don't know.

We're trying to, well, how dare you put that out of the university? You do. Yeah. We're meant to cut that.

Because we've got to go out into the universe. I'm very close to doing it because you said it. And that's a mean thing that you did. No. That's a mean thing you're making me do right now. I wonder what his stance is in that city. Yeah. Probably on bottom. There could be some bridges burned. Yeah. I could very easily see. I think we're selling was going to come for a night. Well, you got a text in the day before. No, I listen. He's been invited.

Okay. So what do you have for Max? Max. This is a must win for Villanova. Do you know why? Yes. I would love to know why. Because the people in Maryland keep track of postseason win.

And Maryland has won this year. Villanova does not. What? When they the first round of the big

10, when they were the worst team in the conference, they got to win. All right. You stole their coach. You stole their coach. And you don't have a win. And you lost a Georgetown. That would be in between. Yeah. Okay. I'm not. I'm not worried about Maryland right now. They had this. It should be. That would be a disaster season. Yeah. No, your team. You're a disaster. Your eyes not on the ball right now. No. Maryland is a big like

boy. They care about us way more than we care about. People of Villanova do not care about Maryland. And the people of Maryland are are obsessed with every single thing that Kevin Willard does. And I get it. I would be pissed too. I don't care about Maryland. I don't think about Maryland. They don't cross my like nothing about Maryland interests me at all. The big man's going to be upset about that one. Yeah. Things of Jay. I mean, you did care about Maryland last year. A lot.

“I can't really care about Kevin Willard. Yeah. Well, where did he coach Max?”

Listen, I'm sorry about the way things turned out. Unfortunately, Villanova just a better better. No, I'm not. I'm not. I'm not, I'm not sorry. Big cat. I just see this coming out. Yes. Getting a text from Pampels. See, oh, that the dude with the pony tail was talking shit about Maryland. Yeah. I'm not talking shit about Maryland. I'm just letting the people know my thoughts on Maryland is not I don't care about

Maryland. Yeah. I got it. Yeah. They take receipts. No did. And you better win. Because they're going to win this season. I like to have a win. Must win. Must win. Okay. Heck, you're a golf guy. A devil. I. I. I thought you were a ball-nower. No. When did, what would ever make you think that? I thought you were a fan. Like the idea that you go to, you know, Florida for golf. I'm one of the best days of the year. How many best days of the year can there be Stanford Steve? Best Friday?

That's that's top three Friday of the year. Yeah. Friday. What's what's number two? This Friday? Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. Got us there. Back to back Fridays. Look at us. I would say back to back Fridays. This Friday is end of following Friday is good Friday. Yeah. Yeah. So, but that's not to stretch your Friday. Yes, it is. We're in the world. We're in the golden age of Friday. One more. We got a month.

“Steve, here's the thing I don't get into the players. If you act, you act like there are no TVs”

outside of your living room. Like there's there's places that have televisions that you can watch sports on. Not on a golf course. In the sweets? In the sweets? No, but on Friday. He's talking about Friday. Oh, and yeah, Friday we were off the course by what? 5 p.m. So, we were watching, we were watching sports in our house. Okay. I just, yeah. Hey kids, a golf guy. Yeah. You got kids, Steve. You know understand how it is? You don't. So, what are you saying? Golf. That's the thing. So, he's been

with golf as his kids. Oh, I got you. Yeah. Sorry, sorry for the Dominican lost all. Yeah. That, no, that was tough. Yeah, that was tough. I heard that I heard that the guys might have been in 11 the night before. Are guys? The Dominican guys. Oh. So, yes, are guys. That could

Thursday Friday, Saturday Sunday. A couple of questions. I'm going to the Valero. Come out of TGL. Hey, we'll be there one day Tuesday. He might, he's, it's, it's awesome.

I was building, the building is incredible. I was watching last night. Yeah.

“Question about the streams. What's the worst Max? Is it Joe L. M. B. Sixers Max?”

Is it Eagles Max? Oh, no, Nova Max. None of these. No. No, no, not those. I think it's Philly's Max. None of these above. My love all those. It's Max after he's won a game and he just talks our fucking ears off about anything under the sun. He'll be like, oh, you're going grocery shopping. Oh, yo, that's cool. How the kids? How's everything? Yeah. He's just having the chatty, chatty is time ever if he's got a winner's pocket. Sorry. My mood changes when things go

going well for me. When things are going bad, I'm not so chatty, but sorry. Sorry, I like to talk with my boys. Well, I'm in a good mood. So that's the worst. I like Max. Winning. Max. Yes, the worst. Yeah, but no Max. But, you know, it's not winning because I actually, I enjoy Max when he's in the fight. So in the act of winning, I'm fine with it. It's, it's like, an hour to after he's got the win and he's just like, he's just like, he'll like cross his legs

and like sits, criss-cross applesauce and fully face you and not look at the TV and be like, how's it going?

“That's, that's what he tells bouncing in the way of the TV. So people can't see it.”

But I would say I would say like, Philly's, Philly's Max might be worse because there's so much, you know, there's so much dead time during a baseball game. And so he's just got, he's all nervous energy and he's just, he's on a razor's edge and he's trying to fill that dead here sometimes with anger and that's, that's a tough one to get through. They, they haven't been able to make Max happy and I think most of his other teams at some point have made him happy.

I'll also say Max doesn't get enough credit for being an extreme ballnour in the fact that he's almost

always right about his teams. Like when he is mad at the Philly's or mad at the Eagles,

he's spot on for the reasons he's mad and they end up becoming true. Like as we're watching the gate. Yeah, I, I tried to tell Max and I'd be for a Super Bowl in New Orleans too and that's just straight, Philly. I was like, can you just enjoy this? Like to enjoy the run that they're on and he was just like, fuck you, we got to win. I was like, yeah, all right. But I appreciate that. Yeah, Max. My last one on that whole scene because I love checking it out is no one is more miserable in there than Titus.

Oh, no, he's easy. It depends. This past weekend he actually had a great time. He was, he was, he was laughing his ass off because we laddered A cuff 3s. He cuff would get the ball and like half court and like shoot it and he was just like, what do you guys even doing? Like he would drive and we call it selfish fuck and like so. But yeah, there's times when Titus is like, I would like to just watch ball. His looks at Bosco are just like you could do a whole cut off of that. Just him like on his phone

and then looking at Rico and just like the head shaking. I just watched Titus when I watched those

because it's hilarious. Titus, I so came and I missed him because he never texted me back now. So

there, there is just big time. There's way too much nonsense for Titus and they cave. Yeah, like he's he can keep track of all the storylines that that people have like grudges, people have against each other that are built up over five years of watching games together. He is a college basketball purist and he does he does not entertain the nonsense very well. Yeah, and I showed Hank falling and my kids are scared to death on out of watching TV with their

feet on the table. Oh, it's very good. It's dangerous. Protect your tank. I want to be like that guy. Daddy's front Hank. They love that video. Yeah, it's got a fried glass. It's dangerous. Yeah. And you you fumbled the wings. Yes, well they were as they were. It was trash. They were like finished wings.

“Okay. Yeah. That's good. Also like maybe that's why Hank can't watch basketball for that”

long. He's afraid of having his leg fall asleep again. So it's better if he walks around on the golf course. Yep. He's not going to fall asleep on the course. I don't know. I don't want to ask you to roll back question. RHO BACK dot com promo code T20% off your first purchase. Rollback dot com RHO BACK dot com promo code Tate go right now. Best stuff out there. Most cultural stuff, especially March madness. Get some sweatpants, get some sweatshirts,

best self-sufficiency. That's great. That's uh, so talk to me about the setup on this this weekend. What's what? What are we where we watching? Are you? I mean, listen, you got you got three kids.

You're gonna find a four. You're gonna find four. Yeah. He's going to the women. Phoenix.

“Yeah. I love that. Who do you got? Give us a women's a women's tip. Oh, if you want an easy”

parlay, parlay, South Carolina and Texas to go to the final four, it's like minus one 15, but those two teams got easy tricks. You got an UCLA. It got screwed. UCLA has to play the best two seed or did they got the best two seed, the best three seed, the best five seed. I'm on it right now. Uh, yeah. So it's like they're both like minus three 30, but South Carolina and Texas put them together in parlay. You got to see if. All right.

Okay. And then what's the setup? Um, well, we were here in Do We Beach Delaware at the Starboard. As you know, Monty's taking control. We are at Raw currently. We will bounce across the tree from Starboard to Raw. Maybe mixed in in other places of Monty's claw, which is diagonal. But Do We Beach is where it's at for the games. Newly renovated. Starboard giant TVs. Uh, I don't know how much time we could spend outside because of this polar vortex that has come through and it's about 30 degrees.

But Do We Beach is a spot and that's where we would be located. Um, and we have a lot of festivities which happened earlier in the week to invest in teams. Love it. So, um, we are suited and booted and ready to go. Best time to hear me. Best second best Friday. Second best Friday. Second best Friday. Second best Friday. Right. Uh, it's Steve. You're the best. We'll talk to you later. Appreciate you guys. See, Steve.

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I'm something tells me that all of our fire fest is going to change. Yeah. Maybe update when we talk about the beginning of the show. You probably heard if things go poorly, both rooting for teams and also bets. But things will go poorly bets. I'm just hoping Wisconsin wins early. Hank, do you have a fire fest? Yes. Spiders? No spiders. Okay. I can't wait for the spiders. Hank was right about the spiders traveling over the lake.

Yeah, no, I looked it up. Crazy. Yeah. We got it up on the show. Yeah. We looked up on the show. I'm excited for the first spider day. It'd be like the first day of spring. I'm excited too because they're going to die. Right. It's like, it's, it's, but it's also like, you know what I mean? It's, it's, it's almost like a moment that we should,

like, somebody will never be a fire fest again on this show. But we should have an alert being like,

first, spider fire fest for them. First spider showing up on my balcony is a fire fest for them. You fucked up. Now you fucked up. First spider saw scene on Hank's balcony with a

“seminal day in all of our lives. And how do you feel about getting like a bunch of lizards?”

And releasing them on your balcony? It's a great idea. It's a great idea. Not a pose. I mean, lizards are kind of the little ones. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Q ones. Yeah. I don't, I think they would die. Look at it fall and die. I don't, I don't think on this. They would be a lot of the house. I don't think that lizards can reach terminal velocity. I think if you threw them off a building, they'd fly. They'd, they'd like glide down through the air.

I watch the, this is side track, but I watch the, some of the dinosaur Netflix news show. I don't watch it so bad. And it's just lizards or dinosaurs. Yeah. It's crazy. Yeah. Also 200 million years. Hard to, who decides that? Oh, yeah. Hank and I had a long convoy. Hard to wrap your head

forward to 200 million years. And I'm like 20 million years is a huge gap. Yeah. It was deciding

like that's the time of the distance between these things. Yeah. There's one guy. Yeah. There's one guy. And, and he won't let you know his name. And that's by design. But yeah, lizard's crock

“and I was crazy. There's not enough weed in the world. I think for me to smoke to really enjoy”

that dinosaur show. I really, I want to get so high. It was a good, just like fall asleep, like turns up on my pay attention fall asleep. But it also like, it, it's all AI. Obviously, the dinosaurs and the motor can be even, is narrating it. It's like, I feel like that's also AI. Oh, wait. Like I don't, there's, there's, there might just be Fc. It might be Frank Caliendo. He's the fakeest, he's the most AIable voice that exists. That's true. Yeah. And it just felt,

I don't know. But what did you expect when you're watching the dinosaurs? Spielberg. I don't know.

But I mean, like, for, no, obviously, no, I mean, I don't know. No, obviously that part. But like, I don't know, just felt didn't, I didn't love it. Yeah. I don't think you're high enough. That's, that's my, I don't think it's possible to get as high as I want to get to be able to enjoy the show.

“That's fair. I was watching it being like, I, which I was just like stoned into my board right now.”

Yeah. This is what this is made for. But now they're here nor there. No spiders. No problem. Me and PFT, I parked my car at the airport when we went to Jacksonville. We had to run to car from Grand Rapids, drive it here. There's a huge rainstorm. And then I had to drive back the airport Monday to drop off the rental and pick up my car. All my windows were closed. Uh oh. It had rained so hard that like my roof was leaking. Dude, that's crazy. You have. So every

thing is so not sick. It's insane. So then, so like I had to take it for the parking lot, just in my like center console and it had got soaking wet. So when I went to the machine, I put it in but it was literally like, there was no, there was no. It was like just a mushy paper. I put it in the machine. It doesn't register. There's four cars behind me. Worst, I had to get out, go talk to the

“ticket person. Then she's like, you have to back up and like come into my lane and I had to then”

direct the traffic to turn around or I'll be even at me. And it was so mad at you. And it was like, this guy's car sucks. Yeah. No, it, it, it's problem. I'm looking at the curse of the sick car. I ever said, you said, I don't have a sick car. Your car has socked. I'm looking up some explanations behind Hank your particular model. It says, it's common. Usually caused by clogged, cracked, or disconnected drain tubes. You got you got it, unclogged or drained tubes, bro. Was it even

me? Where's the last time you had your drain tubes unclogged? Never. I don't even know that was the thing. Yeah, your car stinks. Yeah. I don't know, man. Okay. Not sick. Not sick. Not like your car got flooded. Yeah. Okay. PFT. My, kind of a series. One, because this time of year, it's, I think I talked about this maybe in the first of the March Band to show is every year, but it was 11. No. 311, what do you mean? Was that a thing? It's a band. It's a band. 311 day. Yeah. Yeah, you got me all mixed up.

Don't know what to do. Hank, you've been a beautiful disaster recently. I love you, buddy. He's got a tightening up a little. The Wednesday show, the East, the East region. We got the West. We got, we got, we got the West done. But yeah. So this time of year, it's always a little bit tough for me.

It was my dad's birthday. Always the first week in a March Band. It was always his favorite week

into the year. Always his favorite day. I would talk to him multiple times a day. And that's really like how we bonded when I was a kid was really this, this, this time of year would be just us hanging out the entire time. So I do miss him a lot this weekend. But we'll turn into a reverse firefest. Just for my, if you talked to your dad about sports, give him a call, talk to him. Don't forget to talk to him about the tournament. He wants to hear from you. So reach out, talk to him,

have a good time. Bond. And I'm going to drink a ginger ale and a root beer from my dad today. And it's going to be tough. But it's also like gotten to be one of those things that now I look back on. And I kind of smile before I get sad, which is all you can hope for. So yeah, just reminder, hit your parents up if they like sports. They want to hear from you, talk to him, and enjoy this time of year. Yeah. All right, Zach. I'm not following that. I'll call you.

It is tough. It's not firefest. I'll be honest. Yeah. It's tough one of my firefighters this week is a good message. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it is. It really is. You call, call your loved ones, man. You know what I mean? Support and I would love you. Not everybody. Now everybody's got some might call call. Yeah. Yeah. It was a beautiful team PTA. Thank you, sir. My firefighters this week isn't as beautiful. It's just that we post things on Instagram sometimes

at home more this week. I was pretty excited about it. Feel good about it. And I just got a viscerated. Oh, yeah, the bag just being in the kitchen. Dude, people were like this. All Zach, he's going to burn his house. I don't know. Wait, what happened? Did you see this picture? He's

got a paper bag basically on the stove. But it's so much further away from the burner than you think.

But it would be this in the vicinity and like it's too, it's too much in the vicinity. Eh, it's so far away. It is far away, but still it's more that you're the type of guy that the fact that it's in the area means that it will eventually inch closer and closer. It's not going the other direction. And if I can recall correctly, the bag might have made it off the stove

“for the steak was even done. Oh, okay. Good. Maybe not, but how was the steak? I think I did”

no K. Draw. I was going to pick to my dad. He approved. Yeah, I think Zach, like the actual picture wasn't it wasn't a great your spatula. I did. Yeah, I was told. It wasn't alarming that the bag was in a fine place. It's more that you're a guy who will put a paper bag that close to your

burners, meaning you will eventually put a paper bag just on a burner by accident. Is that Kendall

Jenner, Tequila? I could see a work. They got also something like, I'm not working with them. I got like a decent amount of space, you know what I mean? But like you got to maximize space. Yeah. Like, I don't know. I just, that is, yeah, good to kill as well. You're very tasty. Then there's a lot of me from cash. Oh, yeah, see the bag is kind of on the, yeah, the bags on the stove and it is going to migrate its way over to the open plane. Right. For sure. Right. That's, that's

something that Zach will lose track of that bag. Zach, I got to say Nike back to, which is makes it even funnier than it's not, it's not like your grocery bag. That is a, oh, sweat pants. Yeah, not, it might actually actively be sweat pants in that bag. That is really get the fire going. That's a swaggy olive oil container that you have on the stove. Uh, that's a killer. Yeah, that's a killer. Oh, that's the, okay, that's a killer. That looks like an

olive oil. Are you a hype beast? No, it just, it's like, it's just good. It's just good. Yeah, you're a little, it's a little sassy, but it's good. It was a deal. Not as good as I was eight square above though. Is that how was going out, how was it going out to the club on St. Patty's day? Uh, a lot of social interaction. It's like the maximum amount. It's my favorite thing because this office has a lot of young, young people and they obviously will go out together

and then every now and then you'll see an Instagram story of one of the girls at a club and they'll just kind of be panning and then it'll just be Zach. Look at my boy. He's living his best

life and you always have the, yeah, look at that. Look at that. Look at this smile. Million dollar

smiles. There's a lot of guys just tell me, I don't, I never leave my apartment shows like I can leave one time. Yeah, you can't. You let show you the time. Yeah, once we're going back inside now,

“but it was good day. Did you happen to run into Talia? I did not. No. Okay. All right. I think she might”

been closer to the river. I didn't make it to the river. Got it. Look at shade of great time on Instagram, though. Yeah. You weren't, you weren't green. Uh, I did where green did the weekend up. I forgot green on Tuesday. It was just makes me a bad holiday celebrator. Yeah, that's all right. That's all right. Um, okay. Good firefest. My firefest is, uh, I tweeted this, but I, I'm, I'm heavy in the birthday circuit right now. When you're, when you, when you have a first grader, everyone's birthday,

everyone gets invited. So I've done three birthday parties in the last eight days. And, uh, my son's got a broken wrist. I talked about last week. So he can't do like the trampoline park and all that stuff. So we just played video game. We just been ripping, I played, I've probably spent $300 on claw machines in the last, like, week and a half. And, and all I've gotten to show for it is of like a dozen shitty rubber ducks and, and, and tootsie rolls. But the real firefest is one of the birthday parties.

They had a sponge Bob VR, um, roller coaster. And he's like, I want to do this dad. I was like, all right, I'll do it with you. And we both put on the sets. I had to take off the set because I got so dizzy. Yeah. And I legitimately started to get nauseous. My son did the VR roller coaster probably 15 times. And I couldn't handle one run of it. And I felt like such a bitch. Yeah, it takes him getting used to. Yeah. Some guys are cut out for the metaverse. Some guys aren't. I also had a

moment where there was a kid who was not in my son's class, not at the birthday party. Who just was following us around asking if I would pay for him to use claw machines. And I had to kindly tell a sexual like, a bro. I, I don't know you. I'm not your bad. I don't fucking know you. And it was like, well, it was one of these, it was one of the arcades where they didn't even have the cards that you could buy. Yeah. It was just my credit card. I had to swipe my credit card like

“15 times on every machine. And he basically was like, can I have your, can I have your card?”

Shout out to that kid's dad who was probably like, ask him. Yeah. Go, you go ask him. I'm sick of you. It's crazy. But it was, it was, it's funny to watch like the, the, we were, some of these

stuff. But still, because, because like I said, the, all the kids are playing, and I'm, I'm there with my son, because I'm basically making sure like, don't go down, do something and break your other arm or break your wrists more. So I'm playing all the video games. All the other kids are just like, as soon as they see us playing video games, I've become the Piedbumper video games. Like, they're just following me around. We're, we're playing the Jurassic Park game. We're getting free

weird shit, like balls and stuff like that. So kids still love video games. Yeah, it's still

hip. They're, they're never going to stop. No. You, you could give a kid a zip line in video game.

They'll take the video game. Is there, you know how we can play that there's no monoculture anymore? Yeah. Is there monoculture still when it comes to video games for small kids? Like, do they all play the same games? No. I don't know. I'm, I'm, I'm yet to give my son a video game console, console, because I feel like that will be the end of our relationship. Yeah. Yeah, we'll be,

“hey, so long. So you think, yeah, you think that's why our parents were like, I don't want to”

get you a super Nintendo? Oh, definitely. Like, we want to, we want to keep hanging out. I think I've told this story, but I remember my, I think I got my first console when I was maybe like 11 or 12. I got a PS a PlayStation. But before that, I love video games, wasn't able to have them. For my birthday one year, I rented from Blockbuster a second genesis

for the weekend. Yeah. And just carry it around in a suitcase. Like, I had to go somewhere. We had to

go to like a family event or something. And I just, I showed up to their house and I was like, where's your basement? Like, I have, I have work to do. Yeah. It was an awesome move for birthday. You rent the latest console. I remember my buddy rented Nintendo 64 one time. It was like, what we're just going to hang out all weekend. Didn't sleep the entire, because you have a limited, like, rent it on a Friday and you keep back on a Sunday. I'm not going to sleep. I'm just playing.

And this was, uh, you guys probably have no idea what we're talking about right now. Just the idea of renting a console is probably very foreign. But it was cool. They give you a full briefcase,

“like a metal briefcase with the whole thing in it. It's pretty cool. Yeah. You have to get up early”

sometimes to get a blockbuster, because there would be other people that would rent for the weekend. Like, Fridays were a big day to rent consoles. I miss Blockbuster a little bit. There was something about it. Well, because you had to work for it. Well, yeah. And you also just going to pick what, instead of sitting on your couch and scrolling through a bunch of stuff, you had to be like, alright, let's go. Let's pick out a movie. And then when you pick out the movie, it's like,

we're gonna watch this. Yeah. And the smell. And also, yeah, you would, you would watch it. And you would probably think that the movie was better than it actually was every time, because you had part of your ego invested in the fact that you picked that movie. Yeah. Like you walk to the store and you got that movie and you're not dumb. So you made a good choice. Therefore, the movie that we just watched actually doesn't suck that out. And you couldn't bail on it. No.

And you also have to, you have to get your money's worth and watch it again the next day. Yeah. And you guys, you guys definitely don't know about the Rewonders. Yeah. We had a special Rewinder, a VCR, a tape Rewinder. Yeah. We keep on, yeah, we keep that like on the entertainment center. So you got done watching the movie, put it in the Rewinder. We got a sick one that looked like a car. Mm-hmm. You put that in, close the hood and then send it back. Good times.

Okay. You would get a fine, right? If you set it up. Yeah. Please, please be kind to rewind. Big tops. Set it on every single VHS. Like if your blockbuster membership car was actually,

it was valid as a second form of ID. Very important. Like I had a fake ID in my fake ID also in

that wallet. Had a blockbuster car with a different person's name. I was untouchable. Yeah. It was like, oh, this guy's legit. Um, okay. Good show. Max or memes got any fireface? Nothing. Uh, whole. Slight one. Yeah. Just because it's show related. Uh, we were supposed to have accurate and bracket busters. And big cap was nice enough saying that if R key makes it to the sweet 16, made Zach at the split. I'm not taking any money. We get to split the money.

So if accurate makes it to the sweet 16, Zach has to work off. Um, $15,000 from it.

“I think that's fair. Zach picked. So if bracket busters shadow experience,”

would you bracket busters every year? The rules are everyone in the company plays. You pick a nine through 16 seed. And if the last one remaining wins the prize, the prize is 30 grand this year. Zach on Sunday show picked Akron to win it all. Then when we did the bracket busters draft, we Zach memes and I are a team. They came up. Akron was still on the board. Zach just panicked and said UCF. So hopefully UCF makes a run. Um, but Akron was right there to win. You

haven't winning the national title, which means actually, yeah, if they win the national title, I think it's an extra like 30 grand. Yeah. So we'll just do a video series of Zach working it off. Okay. I love that. So now you're rooting against Akron and four UCF's Zach. That's where we're at. Decisions were made on the mic. As a team, we three-man buster. You guys gave me the buster and I buster wrong for the team. We gave it to the buster. Yeah,

we're talking about buster as a team. Oh, it's awesome. It's a solo buster. Yeah. Yeah. We said,

situation because things were moving. Teams were getting deleted. Teams were getting added,

copy paste, uncopy paste, go Knights. Hey, Matt, who do we have? We have friends up. Who do we have? I'm not allowed to do it anymore. Yes, you are. Who said you're not allowed to do it? No, I do different. I'll visit. Who said you're not allowed to do it? Who said you're not allowed to do it? Yeah. You can't. No, Dave, Dave said he might leave. What is what do you care? He's he's boss. He's okay. He's out here right now. Yeah. If we don't do it, we're not going to win.

No, that's a fact. Yeah. In fact, he might even be madder if you won't do it. It's also possible. We're seeing it as a sponsor. Yeah. Guys, people have gotten fired for less than that, Max. Do it. Do it. Do it. We were doing it all day. Yeah. We are going to do it all day. All right, so do it right now. Let's process the answer. I might take a money. There we go. They're going to win. Me, Max and Hank, and tell you what you guys,

if we win, you guys get the money. Wow. Thanks be it. That's it. That's it. That's it. Exactly. I'll give you my share. You know what? I'll double the money. I'll get. I'll match what experience. I'll trip away. Just trip away. Just trip away. If LIE you go. If LIE you wins, gets the sweet 16. I'll trip away. Just so we have to win the whole thing. Just 360. No, they

“have to wait. You have to win the the bracket busters. But I will trip on the front. You know what?”

If we get to the sweet 16 and we don't win the bracket busters, I'll pay the money like we had. Yeah, all I have to do is put $1. LIE you to go to the sweet 16. Yeah, I think I would. Yeah. I think they're plus 32 and against Arizona. All right numbers 23. 10 UCF. I'll show you. No, 68. 16. 59. Feans up.

68. And. 86. 95. 65.

65. 65. 65. 65. 65.

65. 65. 65. 65. 65.

65. 65. 65. 65. 65.

65. 65. 78. 78. 28.

28. 28. 28. 28. 28.

28. 28. 28. 28. 28.

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28. 28. 28. 28. 28.

28. 28.

“No, we should do what we should do one more drawn. All right one more. All right, but two numbers. We've got to can't change. All right, I got 16 and 61. No, you can't do that. You got one number. She get the inverse.”

Yeah, we can't get a try. And you guess two numbers you got exactly what that would come one for one 62. Oh my god, that's so cool. That was a second one because that had became one account of you can, but I mean, that's not the primary.

I got the cut. I got the cut. Yeah, I mean, hey, hey, here's the reason I had a 99 instead of one out of 100. Here's what's important. 10 came up. You see, I've just ten seed.

That isn't officially though statement. Are you accounting this is because I forgot to change it back. It was exciting, but are you counting, I'll let you count it forever. Everyone's going to say, well, dude, you got it with less. Yeah, now. All right. I'll change it back. So it's a one number. One more. What a thrill. I'm shocked that you're not taking it. Yeah, I would have taken that so hard. You know what? You're done. You've already given it up.

I think memes is lost as fast as old memes would have taken. All memes would have taken that sure. I mean, there's no chance I wouldn't have taken that. You're so dumb. I just cut myself on the machine. That's a bad thing about that. That is a bad song. That is a bad song. He's a lot. We got blood. There is blood. There is blood.

Oh, team. Yeah, I would have taken it. I would have taken it. That's crazy. That's crazy. It's not. There's no. I did get it. I did get it. No, you didn't. No, no, no, no, no.

I got it. You gave me the opportunity. It's not a fish, but I didn't. No, no, no, no. It's not a fish. No, no, no, no.

“It's not a fish. You have to try to take it.”

I hope this doesn't end up being another thing where you don't get it for like two years.

That would be a real shame because you had the moment. Yeah, I was taking it. Everyone in this room would have taken more on move on memes part. More on move. I'm a professional now.

Oh, no. Very good. I'm so excited. You're ready tonight. Oh, no.

I would have taken it so fast. Go, Nights. Happy birthday to Jumea Gibbs and to Mr. Rogers. Okay. Inquiem with the.

No, no, no.

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