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school didn't make it. Now, you could say Oklahoma, or Auburn, Stanford. Like you start to look at some of these schools and you say, "Well, are we going to get in if we get in? Where are we going to be?" St. John's a five-seed. And in fact, Rick Patino said, "Yeah, kind of figured. You know, we did beat Connecticut. We blew out Connecticut, but we had these other losses. Here's something that you might not be aware of. These are the power four teams that didn't make a bull game.

Their men's or women's basketball teams did not make the NCAA tournament.

which is really hard to do. Your football team didn't make a bull game. And your men's and women's

basketball teams didn't make the tournament. Auburn, Boston College, Florida State, Mississippi State, Rutgers, and Stanford. So you're going over three. Your football team, your men's and women's basketball teams. You didn't play in a bull game and didn't make the tournament. And I guess I was a little surprised with Stanford because they're the only team with 20 or more wins overall, and five or more

wins against quad one opponents, but Stanford did not make the tournament. A lot of talk about Miami of Ohio, and they're going to have a home game. It's going to be in Dayton, the play in game.

And we'll talk to Bruce Pearl. I don't know where he is now with Miami, Ohio. He's all in on

them. They did make the tournament and his school, Auburn, his last school, where his son took over for him. Auburn did not make it. But they were like 17 and 16. And I know tough schedule, but I don't think too many people are going. They should have been making the tournament there. But let's talk to Bruce and Auburn does not make the tournament. The current longest active streaks playing in the NCAA tournament. I mean, Michigan State has been there 28 consecutive years,

Gonzaga 27, and then it dips down to Purdue at 11, Houston, Tennessee at 8, Kansas at 7.

“All right, seat in what's pole question for the first hour of the program?”

Well, should we start with Bruce Pearl? Oh, that's a hot topic. Okay. Uh, Bruce Pearl is more upset about that. I don't think he's upset about Miami, Ohio. I think he's upset that Auburn didn't get in and coached by his son. Correct. Yeah, I'm wondering if he's more upset that Auburn didn't get in or his son didn't get in. Oh, I would say that his son didn't get in. Yeah. I don't think so, right? Yeah. Yeah. Now, I don't, I think he's still paid by Auburn.

I think he's on their payroll. I saw a story. I don't know if CBS, like how often should you say that or should they have said that leading up to the tournament, just because whatever he is saying, now, Jay Billis is going to join us, and I know everybody says that he is pro-duke. He went to Duke. He probably tries his best to be objective. Bruce Pearl's not being objective. Bruce is

basically saying, Hey, I coached Auburn, my son coaches at Auburn. We play in the SEC, and if

Miami, Ohio played in the SEC, they wouldn't have, you know, 17 wins like Auburn. And okay, it's a fair point, but they don't play in the SEC. Not everybody can play in the SEC. And I can't use

“that as, you know, hey, you didn't play in the SEC. Now, if you want to do that for football, we can do it.”

Although, as the SEC become a basketball conference on a Monday? I know. I know, I know, I know. I had somebody with the NCAA bringing that up, kind of having fun with it, and I go, maybe, maybe. Yeah, see. I think everybody has a bias when they're up there. You know, everybody is a little steered towards their alma mater. You know, I mean, it is Jay Wright on still on Villanova's payroll. I'm pretty sure he is. He's not up there advocating for Villanova

every day, and he's not up there saying, oh, my son needs to be in the tournament. He's not doing any of that, but he's still getting paid by Villanova. You know, so if we're going to be upset about people having a bias, then nobody's going to be allowed to be up there, really. But just tell me

“that you're you're being paid by the school. If you're being paid by Auburn, then I think just let”

us know. I got it. I think you got to have full transparency with something like that. I mean, Jay Billis doesn't hide that he went to Duke, and I know there, you know, there are other broadcasters. Jim Jackson doesn't hide that he went to Ohio State, but yeah, I mean, it's difficult to do. I did this a long, long time ago, but I did this because I have to have new trawlyty here. I have to be unbiased or the best that I can possibly be. Therefore, I'm not rooting

for the Cincinnati Reds or Cincinnati Bengals. I'm rooting for the best story, but it's different. You know, Bruce Pearl's not rooting for the best stories rooting for his son and Auburn. I'm just rooting for, hey, if my meal, Ohio gets in and actually wins again, or Auburn had got in and played Miami, Ohio, which would have been wonderful. Yeah, Pauline. So Bruce Pearl criticized

but Miami, Ohio's loss and the first round of their conference almost bore out what he said.

“Yeah, I don't know how good Miami, Ohio is, but they're undefeated. Should they play a better”

non-conference? Well, I don't know how many schools wanted to play them, or it's a home and home, and, you know, that's tricky there, but, you know, you're playing 31 games. You got to have a couple of quad-one games there, or win a couple of those games. By the way, does everybody know what quad-one means and quad-two and quad-three and quad-four? Because this is the week that you act like you know what you're talking about filling out your brackets here. Yes, Pauline. Okay, Quadrant 1

as the old school people call it. Quad 1 is the highest quality of wins and losses used by the

selection committee to evaluate tournament resumes based on net rankings. Another thing we know

a little about, net ranking. So St. John's gets a five seed after winning the biggest over UConn. St. John's is 15th in the net rankings, and just won the biggest regular season and

“tournament title, and they won their last six. The last part there, I always think that”

you're seeding is based on what you've done in the last month. And if I incorporate that, I'm surprised St. John's ended up with a five seed. Because you land up winning the regular season and the postseason and the big East and you won six in a row. Here is St. John's head coach, Rick Petino. Well, I thought we'd be a fifth seed, a couple of guys in my set the thought is possible to be a four seed, but they don't take into account how you're playing at the end of the year. The old days

like eight, ten years ago, it counted the last 10 games in the seasons, what they really looked at. They don't do that anymore. It's all metrics from the first game to the last game. The last game doesn't mean any more than the first game you play in, because the Big East was really weak from a net standpoint. Like we lost a Providence, so I picked some damn good basketball team. They were a quad three loss for us. So we got to get the Big East stronger. Yeah, I want to know what you've

done in the last month of the season. If we want you playing your best at the best time of the year,

the most important time of the year, it should be based or at least leaning in favor of what you do

in the last five weeks of the season. And St. John's beating Connecticut, the way they did, I thought that they'd be a little bit higher. The other seed, Vandy is a five seed. They've beaten three quad one teams in the past week, Tennessee twice, and then blew out number one Florida, and they end up with a five seed. I was surprised at that as well. But for the most part, you know, you're just kind of surveying landscape here. I always look for who is playing close to home.

“That's what I want to know. Gonzaga is going to be in Portland for the first two games.”

You know, just that helps. I go back to when Syracuse was playing an Albany back when they, you know, had Carmelo and they won the national title, like those kind of things, you know, those are sneaky. There you go. Wait a minute here. A little home court advantage. Kind of, yes, Marvin. The worst thing ever, if I was Michigan State or Iowa State in 2014, out had been on fire, you count was the seven seed in the East region. The East region,

no finals were at the garden. So wait, it's just a Metro North train ride from Connecticut to New York and where the seven seed out of Ben Furious. I will get to phone calls coming up, best in worse to the weekend, what you saw that you liked. You didn't like any other poll questions. We, that's pretty specific. The Bruce Pearl poll question. It really works an hour one. I'll tell you that. Uh, this one's maybe a little more has a little more some more legs. Uh,

no major snubs in the NCAA tournament this year is a good thing or bad thing. I would say a bad thing because I kind of like when somebody's complaining a little bit, although it's hard to complain when there's 68 teams. Um, but you kind of like somebody, you know, got jobbed a little. I mean, Stanford got jobbed in my opinion. If I'm looking at resumes here, and I was, you know, somebody who used to work on the committee said, if you can do a

blind taste test, like that's the, the true example of that team should be in and that team should not instead we attach the head coach of the school itself, the history of that basketball program, and sometimes it's not fair to those schools who don't get in. But when you get to 68, it's kind of hard to complain, but I do like somebody who you want to say a pipe down over there, like Bruce Pearl and Auburn pipe down over there, Bruce. Um, yes, Todd.

I was just checking the University of Missouri, which is in Columbia. That's not too far from St. Louis.

Missouri will play Friday in St. Louis, and uh, it feels like a little bit of an advantage.

St. Louis actually has like an incredible draw for local fans. Yeah. They have like

like Iowa State Purdue, uh, Missouri, forget who else. There's a couple of teams there where it's like dang, like this is going to be awesome. It's going to be all of these places. They all travel

“really well, and they don't have to travel all that far. Uh, Kentucky, I think is in that region.”

Kentucky is in there. Yeah. Speaking of Kentucky, John Caliperi, Rick Bettino, obviously at different schools, but watching Arkansas with Caliperi, and that's a fun team. That's one of those where you kind of keep watching, and then you realize they're really good team. And they might have the second best player in this tournament. Marvin, your thoughts?

There's eight comes one of those guys where it's like, I wish I would have watched them all season

long, because now I'm looking at him like, man, maybe I should have paid attention to Arkansas basketball because he wasn't, he was up to five star recruiting now, but he wasn't Cambuser or Debansa from BYU, but Caliperi said, he's the best point that he's ever coached. I was like, man, you had dear girls. I know, and said, so that's saying a lot for this kid. Any, it was a kind of a slow burn, because we were focusing on some of these other freshmen,

and all of a sudden, he's one of those guys where you're watching a game to watch somebody else play, and then you go, oh my god, like this kid, he is great. Yes, Paul. I know there's a lot of

“great freshmen, but I think there's a lot of fifth year seniors I think. Those guys look like”

grown men. It's an all-beard team. There are certain teams where you go, how old are you? And, and it's really common play. I mean, Purdue, how how long have they been there? Just feels like, you know, you're in your seventh year, and grown men out there. But yeah, watching some of these teams when they come out on the floor, and I go, you know, and then they'll say, you know, Jimmy Lipper started here, and then he transferred

here, and then he spent a year here, and then this, so he's got four schools in the last four years. What's up to Billis about this? Also, NIL with basketball is supposed to football. NIL in football gave us Indiana football. Can we get some big surprise in college basketball anymore?

“There's only a certain amount of money that they're spending, might be $10 to 15 million dollars,”

where football they're spending $40 million, if not more, but trying to get that

feel good story or that story that you didn't expect. We get that in the beginning of the tournament, but it feels like it's going to be the usual suspects you got, let me see, trying to think, you got Michigan, you got Duke, trying to get my odds here. I thought I had it here somewhere. I need a, I need a secretary here to help me. Oh, here they're there, I got them right here, here they're there. So Duke, Michigan, Arizona, Florida, Houston, Iowa, Stadium, Illinois,

UConn, so aside from Iowa State and Illinois, these are pretty much the blue bloods. Illinois's been a good story, and Iowa State all season long, and UConn in there. But the best odds to win Duke, plus 300 followed by Michigan, then my Arizona Wildcats, Florida, the defending national champs, then it goes to Houston, Iowa State, Illinois, and Connecticut. We get to your phone calls coming up, 8773D P-Shill. When we return, CBS sports analyst former Auburn head coach,

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“No, I think it's good. Yes, great to see you. My heart breaks for my son, but you know what?”

You got to chance to win your way in or lose your way out, and Auburn probably was just one more win away from Jackson. How would you rate your week? Or the last 10 days or two weeks, let's say, as an analyst? That's a great question. Yeah, I was a basketball coach

and being in the media is brand new. So I am a rookie at that even on 66 years old now, and sometimes you don't know how you're doing. I mean, when I used to play or use the coach, it was a scoreboard. I get up and I'm like, I don't know. I don't know how I did. I imagine some people think I'm entertaining. I would imagine something people think I'm an idiot,

and but you never know with you winning a losing. But does somebody tell you? I mean, you got headlines.

I don't know if you feel like that's part of your job. No, I don't think it's part of my job.

“I think my job is to tell you what I think based on my years of experience, and I've never,”

as you know, that I've never been politically correct. So I really don't worry about that stuff. And what I did learn, though, is sometimes when you do give your opinion about something, you know, you can be, it can be taken out of context, or you can take it a task. And I really don't mind either one of them. Right now, I'm the ugly stepmother, because I asked the question, are we looking for the 37 best teams? Or the 37 most deserving

teams when it came to that large? And so that because that we had became enemy number one again. Okay, how much of the story of my amel-hile helped them get into the tournament? I'd say about 95 percent, and that's fine. There is a human element that exists in that room. And it should exist. You don't just go by the metric. He just don't go by the numbers of math. You got a little bit of a feel. And so as I said, I said this from the very beginning,

“I would put them in the field. I would put them in the field. If you want to tell me,”

do they qualify based on these metrics? The answer is absolutely not. And the

interesting thing that last night, when I was on CBS, I asked Chairman Gill, I said, okay, last two in first two out, what were the metrics that was sort of the defining factor for you? You know, that's a fair question, right? Yeah. And he said, he said quality wins. Quality wins was he said, I said, and I did not follow up out of respect. And, you know, these are things we can talk about the next day. My amel-hile doesn't have a quality win.

Oklahoma and Auburn who the last teams left out have a half a dozen quality wins each. And so it's, I think it's sort of just added to the, the drum a little bit. But look, I'm happy they're in. They deserve to be in the field. It's what the Cinderella's are all about. And so I think we need to sort of adjust the metrics. So we get more of these mid-major teams in a tournament. But the way it's set up right now, you've got to make an exception. I thought Stanford had a better argument

“than Oklahoma and Auburn coach. Tell me why? Well, would they have five quad one victories?”

They had 20 plus wins. I mean, just start there. It feels like a pretty good resume. I agree. No, it was a good resume. And one of the things that I've said all along, that I don't think anybody got screwed here. Nobody got screwed. I don't think it was anybody. Oh, my God. How did this team get in and not get in? You can make an argument for Stanford. You can make an argument for if they said to me, if these see you didn't win their tournament,

they were going to be out. And I would have made an argument for VCU. The argument for Auburn was they played 17 quad one games. 17. I don't know how played one quad two. I mean, it's very difficult when you talk about apples and oranges. Auburn beat St. John's who was the biggest shepherd. They'd be Florida, Florida was the SEC regular season champion. They'd be Arkansas by 20 who was the SEC tournament champion. So when it came to quality wins, I thought that that was

something that could have pushed them over the top. They had the number four straight to schedule. I'm not sure where Stanford's was. And a lot of that has to do with intense. Can you look at Auburn objectively? Yes. I 100% can. Like I think it's okay that Auburn and Oklahoma, for example, aren't a field. I think it's okay. They should have won one more game. And so there's nobody complaining about

it, but I pride myself on telling what I really think was I really for my son? Of course I was really for my son. People say, well, you've got your son the job. No, I didn't get my son the job. My son played for me. My son was an assistant for me for 11 years. He was the defense and coordinator. Did I help him? Absolutely. I did. As a dad, of course I did. But you look at, are you paid by Auburn? You know what? I'm in an ambassador's position

and not many Jewish guys. You walk away from $30 million, but this one did. And who does that?

My wife was like, honey, why couldn't you just stink for a couple of years? Let him fire you and pay you $10 million to do what you're doing now. But no, you go ahead and quit. Leave all that on the table.

disclose that that, hey, I'm still paid as an ambassador for Auburn. If it felt like you were kind of dinging Miami, Ohio because Auburn was going to be on the bubble. So that's the appearance.

“Okay, that's that's how a lot of people look. So the appearance of that the optics didn't look good.”

Well, that's that's fair. And it certainly has a former Auburn basketball coach. What former

coach or former athlete, Charles Barkley roots for Auburn? He does. But Charles Barkley's always going to

keep it real. And, and, but he was paid at Auburn, not after Auburn. That's going to, hey, listen, what if if if I wasn't able to be objective, I wouldn't continue to be an Auburn. It's sort of, it's sort of the best of both worlds. I would give that up in a heartbeat if, if, if, if, if optics became such an issue that I couldn't be an analyst, Jim, you know, Jay Wright works at work in Villanova for all those years. He still worked there.

And nobody questioned whether that Jay Wright would have been objective. Are you retired as a coach?

Yeah, I am. I thought about, come, I thought about it. I got a few phone calls even this year.

But then I hit coach for 30 years. And it's enough. We had a great run. And I do want to do some other things. As you know, you know, I'm a huge advocate for, for this country. I want to coach America. I am a, being a Jewish American. I work really hard to bring Jews and Christians and Muslims together. Abraham's a father of all nations. As a coach, I love to bring people together, religion, divisists, and separate us. And of course, I love my country and I also love my ancestral home and

“Israel. So those are the areas that I'm working in right now. And, and I think that, in many ways,”

I had the success I had in order to give me this platform. I am, I, I want Jewish Americans to be this country's greatest Patriots, because this country saved us from the Holocaust and gave us this opportunity. And we are hopefully making the most of it that comes with our responsibility. So I'm going to Bruce Pearl, CBS Sports College, basketball analyst, former Auburn head coach, Best Pro Prospect in the tournament is who? AJ, the better stuff. I think both on and off the

court, Dan. If you're going to invest in, in somebody that is going to be your number one pick and you want to build your franchise around that, I think the stuff both on and off the court, work ethic, all those days, this year is a great draft. It'll be the best freshman in the history of the NBA draft this year. And it's, it is town atop. It's very, very deep. I don't think you can

go wrong. I love, I love several other players in there. I love Booser. Peter Smith is an incredible

talent. Caleb Wilson is amazing. The playguards. Yeah. Any confidence is a great, great story.

“Kingston Fleming. It is absolutely, absolutely loaded. And that's why all these NBA teams are”

tanking because they want to, they want to improve their position and the drafts. When you see Patino still doing it, what do you think? Amazing. Amazing. How does he have the energy, though, Bruce? It feels like that's what leaves you first. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, everybody ages differently. I think my guess is, it's his family and basketball are his two major passion interests, a little bit of horse racing. Dan, he was the best I ever went up against.

He knew what I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it. He knew how to take it away. He's not getting older, he's getting better. Tom is those the same way. I mean, Tom is those getting better. If it's hard to believe, he has got, he has got good teams that he makes, he makes an great team. Yeah. And so I got Patino and St. John's making a little bit of run this year. In my bracket, I think there, I think Zubi Egifor is terrific. The guard really, really well.

And there's starting to shoot the basketball better. How many teams can win it? I think there's certainly everybody that's on the one line can win it. I think St. John's as a five, how does St. John's, how are they a five? I mean, that's just like they're a three seed in my house. How can you come be a two and St. John's be a five? I know it's the body of the work and St. John's wasn't playing great early in the season. I'd say there are seven or eight teams. I think

that would be a lot of shock. Well, you know, we talked to different people about this that

don't think that's the case. Now they look at your body of work. I don't care what you did in

October, November. I care what you're doing now in St. John's, you win the regular season. You win the Biggie's tournament. You won, let's six in a row. You blowout. You con. I got a factor that in. Yeah. Yeah. Let me give you one something to think about. I agree how how how you're playing late in this board. But the schedule because people are more interested in late February and early March. You notice how the best teams play against the best teams like crazy. That's because there

are more eyeballs on college basketball after college football or over. So the last 10, I don't think it's a great metrics. Just because of the toughness of the schedule for the best teams. I mean,

“if you're on the, you know, so that would be just an issue. That's that's why I would not”

lean in that direction. Good to talk to you. Keep stirring it up. Appreciate you, brother. Thank you,

always. That's Bruce Pearl former coach of the year. And now now working for CBS and Turner.

If you're waiting for him to apologize and ain't happened. This, this let, you know, it's not happening. All right. Best in worst of the weekend. Buddha leads us all. Buddha and San Francisco. What a DP happy Monday, boys. Let's go, frizzy. And what a great week in a sports. I mean, college use, peak in Bruce Pearl crying about a son, WBC baseball, staff calling himself out and his brother and the rehab brothers hilarious, man. That's the weekend, DP. It was amazing to

watch the players championship at the TPC saw grass venue. I mean, it was, it was riveting. I mean,

“the Ludwig over, Meldown was like watching a mere mortal at the local Muni and Cameron Young,”

hanging in there and just hyping the longest drive of the tournament on whole 18 under pressure was just sick. Props to him. He seems like a good ass dude. And bests are done. I'm keeping a positive team USA and the WBC last night was super fun. I mean, these games are filled with passion, talent, competitive like natchups and have been a joy to watch and watching Will Smith frame that like that last fish last night's end of the game. I definitely shandered my inner like Jim being him.

I was like, man. Thank you, Buddha. That was a bad call. That was a bad call. And for some reason, we all thought that maybe they were using the automated balls and strikes. Pauli said he was watching the game tap in his head like, hey, you got to review that. And then realize they're not reviewing that. Yeah, Paul. I just assumed it was in. I guess tournament in the world, I was pausing my celebration like, well, there's got to be replay. Yeah. Well, the DR wishes

there would have been a replay. Here is the last strike, the last call.

Yes, Rodriguez dancing at third. The three two again. Go for a game. The U.S. advances.

Programma can't believe that the pitch was below the zone, but the U.S. has defeated the Dominican Republic. They win tonight, two to one. And they are having the finals to take on the winner of Italy and Venezuela tomorrow night. Okay. Still a bad call. And certainly in that moment, although, you know, once we do the automated balls and strikes, could you imagine that's the world series? Let's say it's game seven, bottom of the night, and you got the tying run it third,

and all of a sudden, you strike out. But then you go, wait, wait, wait, wait. You tap your helmet, and then they have to review it. It might take away a little bit of the drama of that, you know, last strike. You're running on the field, you're celebrating, so I know, no, no, wait, wait, hold on. I thought, you know, Japan losing was a big surprise. That was a big surprise. And Italy is not going away. Played well. They beat Puerto Rico. There were some tears in the back,

Mario, the eyes and ears and the tears of the Dan Patrick shell. Yes, yeah. He is Mopi Dick, he was, he was all weepy. Yeah. And then Anthony Anthony is back there with Mario is, you know, he's Italian. So those two were having a hard time sitting next to each other today. Yeah, Pauli.

“The Japan manager, he resigned after the loss. Oh, man. All to the career?”

Was he forced to resign? I then here's that he chose to resign, um, air quotes. All right,

Billis will join us coming up next hour. Britsy says he stuck at an airport. So see if he can find a

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At your play of the day, brought to you by Liberty Mutual. Why pay full price when you can customize and save, switch to Liberty Mutual. They'll customize your auto and home insurance so you only pay for what you need. I didn't watch the Academy Awards. I was watching a lot of the college basketball selection shows, and the analysis that follows after it. And then I realized that the show was on, and they using hand out like a best supporting right away, usually early, and then they

make you wait till late to get the best picture, best actor. And I did mention this last week. I didn't know if there was going to be sort of a Timothy Chalamet fatigue going on. But, uh, held it. Michael Jordan, Michael B. Jordan ends up winning. I don't think anybody surprised there. I thought he was wonderful in that role. Yes, he didn't. Not only did Timothy

“Chalamet not win, but I think Marty Supreme went over eight. I don't think they were nominated”

and a lot of categories and didn't win any of them. Paul Thomas Anderson. Finally. Yeah,

PTA. Yeah. I actually met him when I was doing, uh, hubi Halloween with Sandler. And, uh, because my Rudolph was in the movie. And, uh, he was there on set. And my son was like, you know, when he found out that PTA is there on set. He's like, "Dad, could you get a picture with PTA?" I said PTA goes, "Paul Thomas Anderson." They're like, "Okay, easy, score sazy, big deal." Yeah. So I got a picture and sent it to my son to go,

"How was he? How was he?" I go, "Ah, he was okay. I don't know if he knew who I was, but I got a picture with PTA and then he ended up getting his Academy of War." Yes, Paul. Is the name Michael Jordan the most successful name on earth? The basketball player considered probably the best of all time. Worldwide. Now Michael B. Jordan, which he was saddled with that name early, is now best actor and cruising in his career.

Yeah, well, was he named after Michael Jordan? I know his dad is Michael A. Jordan, right,

which I like, awesome. So he's not the second. So if Michael Jordan, Michael B. Jordan does he have

Michael C. Jordan, if he has a son. I'm guessing Michael A. Michael B. Michael C.

“Academy of War, and good for him. Centers was nominated for 16 awards. I think, I think it won”

four, maybe. But yes, yes, Todd. Everything I'm reading, what suggests he was not named after the basketball player. It's what you said, Michael A. Jordan then became Michael B. Jordan. Okay. His dad was before Michael Jordan, I'm guessing. So maybe he's Michael A. Jordan. Did he add the A because of Michael Jordan? Checking. Yeah, I don't know. But yeah, Sean Penn, I thought when I saw the movie, I said, right away,

what even over, I said to my wife, I said, he's going to win the Academy Award. So how do you know that? I said, he just is. And he wins. Is that his third Academy Award? Yes, Todd. That's what I say. Sean Penn, that's his third. So that puts him up with Nicholson, Tom Hanks. Yeah, Sean Penn has two best actors, Mystic River and Milk, and one best supporting for last night, one battle after another. Okay. Yeah, sweeten.

How much pressure? Uh, if you're Michael B. Jordan after coming after Michael A. Jordan,

“to name your child, Michael C. Jordan. Yeah, I think I say it's significant. I mean, you have to.”

Yeah, Michael C. Yeah, I hope, right? Yeah, I hope so. If you could. Okay. Harrison Ford, Tom Cruise. Neither's one in Academy Award. I think Cruise was nominated. Was he nominated for board on the fourth of July? Okay. Was he a best supporting actor? I thought he got nominated for one other award. Tom Cruise has an honorary Academy Award. No. No. Not that ain't it. No. Sorry. Yeah, I'm not taking an honorary sports semi. Yes, Todd. Do

you factor in for whose career would you want that he supposedly brought back movies and save the industry after COVID? Well, I'm the only one who said that. I think. That's how there's I may feel now. Yeah. Okay, but you can be Harrison Ford or you can be Tom Cruise. I think I'm going to go Harrison Ford, especially because the Star Wars being such a huge deal. I know the mission of possible. And Indiana Jones. Yeah, that's attractive. That season, he's in the two of the three biggest

or two of the biggest trilogies of all time. Who are you going to be, Seaton? Harrison Ford and

Yeah. I'm happy to be really good at what I do and then be randomly anonymous. And then

“they have people like the big hubbub is like, he's got an earring. How old is he to wear an earring?”

I would rather deal with that kind of heat than Tom Cruise. But just just the filmography. Not anything else, just the films that you've been in. Not the money that you've made, just the films you've been in, Marvin. Harrison Ford was in the fugitive. Something here, so Ford. Okay. Todd, the radius of the Lost Ark movies. I think it's definitely Harrison Ford. Yeah. And it feels like both play themselves in all of their movies, right?

I mean, Harrison Ford, it didn't feel like he ventured too far from being Harrison Ford. Tom at least had, you know, tropic thunder. Where he was great in that movie. Yes, he had to put on like a big fat suit to do that. That doesn't really count. Yeah, but for him, that's his general moment. He was very good in it. He was. He was really a lot of fun.

“I think that a lot of the like air quote grade actors that we have now kind of all play themselves.”

Like this George Clooney ever really that different. No, not really. I mean, even Denzel.

I love Denzel. He's never really that different. He's either the good guy Denzel or the bad

guy Denzel, but it's basically still Denzel. I mean, all of the actors now of a certain age maybe are all kind of that same. Den hero, Pacino. They're always them. Yeah. Yeah, pulling Harrison Ford had witness blade runner is a classic. Yeah. Back in the day. Yeah. And he's more variety for Harrison Ford, I think. Witnesses is a great movie. He was great. John book. Man, I thought about that bathroom scene every time I ever went into a public bathroom. I was always like, oh, they're teeth in

there. Patriot games for Harrison. I was in that. I went to that bathroom when I got into the

Philadelphia train station just to go in there. Yeah. Oh, no. And the silo scene with Denny Glover

that silo scene is crazy. That's a crazy movie. No, no, killed by grain. Not common. Kelly McGillis was in there. She was great. Oh, I'm a shot. Oh, very, I'm a shot.

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