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Coach John Calipari is the new head coach for the Arkansas Razorbacks. So we already recorded the full show we went to Topgolf, had a great time video coming out soon, Hank did great and we're sitting there at TopGolf and we see the news start to trickle in. Me and.

The chicken man, the chicken man. So I have a ton of thoughts. I mean, I don't know where we want to start. Let's start with this.

I love college sports for these type of moments because we have the domino meme. SMU goes to the ACC is able to get Andy Enfield from USC, Musk goes from Arkansas to USC, and then Cal goes from Kentucky to Arkansas. So SMU going to ACC started this entire thing. And now Kentucky is looking for a new coach.

In what? 15 years? Yeah, and it's crazy, it is wild, so the first I heard of this.

We're going to roll with him. And then apparently in his contract, he has a clause where he's allowed to negotiate with other schools. As long as he tells Kentucky about it, right? It's like it's an open marriage contract.

It's Will Smith and Jada Pinkett and he. It's crazy that he did that, he basically.

And that's where the tide kind of shifted. And then you throw in the fact that Arkansas is giving him a ton of money and basically giving them a new lease. Where, yeah, next year he would have been the Kentucky head coach. But if they go out in the first round again, he's fired, so he, he, he gets a whole new contract, he gets years to build Arkansas. It's a huge win for Arkansas.

And I think it's.

Cal are going to be all the way back in and ready to write big checks for whatever coach they want. And three, this is the part that, like, I think, most Kentucky fans know, but the outside world doesn't. And they try to roast Kentucky and be like, Oh, Kentucky's cooked. Kentucky is 1 billion times bigger than coach Cal. It's Kentucky basketball.

They've won eight national titles. Seven of them are without coach Cal. That's what I was saying earlier, like, if.

Right, but in terms of, like, the system around the coach, Kentucky's as good as it gets. So do you think that in that meeting, where he didn't get fired? Any possibility that they came to an understanding like, Hey, we don't want to pay your buyout, you want to leave? I'm going to say that I'm keeping you around as coach.

You go off, you try to find a new job. That way, we're all happy. No, I think this probably surprised the.

And then you have a specific job in Arkansas that has the money, and Cal's also close with the chicken people, right? So it's like this. This all kind of worked in a perfect sequential order, where it's like everything fell into place, that this specific job opened up. That has this amount of money that has the the boosters that back you. So, like I said, like, Cal has a new lease on life.

Like he was, he was on the hot seat, we will, we credit to us. We put him on the hot seat before anyone else, and we were correct. But he was on the hot seat in Kentucky. And he probably read the tea leaves and was like, Unless I go to the final four, I'm basically gone, no matter what.

And then I'm looking for a new job, why not just take this new job right now? That's giving me all the money. And all my friends are the boosters. And they all, like, Arkansas has got to be fucking thrilled. They're very happy.

Yeah, right, it's crazy, too. The best part is I love this when this happens in college sports. To the fact that Cal has to go back to Lexington next year.

Yeah, just makes this so, so, so great. It's like when Chris Beard had to go back to Texas Tech and you get these rivalries, and it's just it makes it. It's why I love, I love college sports more than anything.

But but at the same time, you don't want them to go to an in-conference rival where you have to play them all the time. Like that's, but it's going to create. It's a it's a weird thing that they're going to have to deal with, and the timing of it is just crazy. For it to happen. The night before the National Championship, uh, and also the night after Nate Oates and the Crimson Tide lose.

Succeed. And like this was, this marriage was always going to break up. Eventually, they just get to fast forward past a couple more painful years. That Cal probably doesn't adapt. And they probably have a bunch of lottery picks that don't win in the tournament.

And now you get to fast forward and you're like, all right, new, we're onto the new one. Who's probably going to want to be there for a very long time and build something in this new?

You got to assume they're all gone. Yeah, then I made, I made like a wishlist of just coaches that I hope they look at to hire number one for Kentucky. I think we can agree. Rick Patino.

Yes, sometimes you got to go back to move forward, send Rick home, he wants to go home. You heard him on part of my take.

I don't think he wants to coach college right now. Also Rick Patino, the one.

Um, then Danny Hurley, they're going to call Danny Hurley, they're going to ask Danny Hurley. There's no reason for Danny Hurley to take this job, except for a very big reason, which is they would probably like double his salary.

As much as I said, you know, Kentucky is bigger than Cal. I don't know how much better you can get than possibly winning two national championships in a row. And he is like, if he wins tonight like that, his pro, he gets whatever he wants, he's meant to do contract, he gets everything he's meant to. The only thing.

They'll talk to him. Yes, they'll pick up the phone. I hope they don't try to talk to him right now. No, I hope they don't.

They're going to, like, call him tomorrow, They're going to call him before the game. Yeah, I hope he stays focused, yeah.

I don't think he would, I don't think Danny would take the call, I don't either. I think he'd hang up on him. Those are the big ones. Dawn Staley.

You just have to, you just have to get the conversation going with Dawn Staley. Yeah, you forgot about Nate Oates? Nate Oates? Well, No, we talked about Nate Oates or Nate Oates.

Seems like he'd be a pretty good fit. Seems like the buyout would not really be an issue. If they're paying a shitload of money anyways, they're ready to write some.

Uh, Mark Few, I'd say, probably not. You don't think they call? I don't think so. He hasn't won anything, yeah.

He hasn't even gotten to a final forever. Uh, one call that I think they probably will make is my coach. I think they would probably try to get Billy Donovan. Yeah, I think that would. that would definitely be a call they make.

So Billy, Billy D. Back to the to, uh, to college, but that to me, I don't know. With the whole, with the with the way college basketball is now, I feel like it'd be crazy to go back to college. If you have a pro job that you feel somewhat.

You got to call.

Coach K. John Shire Yeah.

Kevin Keats Kevin Keats.

Danny sprinkle, Danny sprinkle, make him make him go from Washington to Kentucky without ever coaching a game. What about a guy with national championship experience?

Good point, great coach. Here's a crazy one that would not happen, but I would just throw it out there because college sports can always shock us. Shots must must to Kentucky.

He was just like, All right, yeah, I mean, they all.

It is shocking news like this is we all thought that, I mean, we're going to talk to John Fanta in a minute. And we. We brought up Cal to him and we're like, he, we talked about the hot seat and stuff. Now it already is outdated, it's the fastest in interviews ever been outdated in that specific topic.

But yeah, it's crazy. I really do think Kentucky fans, though, should be happy because it was going to end sooner rather than later. And now you don't have to pay him any money, and now you have a bunch of boosters that are like, good, he's gone.

Let's go get the best coach that we can find and we'll pay him all the money and we'll pay all the nil. And Kentucky will probably. Kentucky will win a national title before Arkansas. I, I'll do my, uh, well, what's the uh? Calves owners? Yeah, personally guarantee.

I would personally guarantee, and I like Arkansas as school and I, you know, they have a tremendous history. I was actually watching 40 minutes, uh, of hell, uh, the documentary the other night with Nolan, Yeah.

Like, Awesome, it's a fucking passionate great, but Walton Arena is the best when it gets rocking. But I just think Kentucky will be good, I think there'll be, there'll be fine. Immediately, I'm going to go one step further. Big cat.

I'm.

You think Jerry Jones was like, Uh, I got to get one in Arkansas too before I die?

I It's going to be fascinating how quickly you think it's going to happen fast, right?

That's true. Maybe a-rod for the Kentucky job?

Yeah, but I.

Yeah, he's got to figure it out.

Undertaker did come out. I also got Brandon Walker sent me spark notes for, Uh, wrestlemania, so that we can say we discussed it. Cody finished his story, It was no DQ and Roman had his cronies interfering. The Avengers assembled and one by one appeared to help Cody, culminating in.

Yeah, good job. Uh, I saw the rock kicked Logan Paul. That was fun. Oh, okay.

Give him a kick right to the chest. He kicked them, kicked them. Uh, yeah, wrestling, I don't I. I didn't even see any of the highlights besides Jason Kelsey.

I wish they didn't do it during final.

For Kentucky, I mean, crazy, crazy news. Like I said, we've already taped the full show, so you're going to hear us talk about Saturday night. Women's Everything and John Fanta's on. And we. We did bring up. I wish we had gotten them.

After this, here's thoughts. But, uh, yeah, Big Blue Nation, you're going to be just fine, you're going to fucking, you'll be just fine. Arkansas had got a great hire.

They're going to win games now, they're going to get big recruits, they're going to open up the coffers.

He's just reporting the news, just the facts, just the facts, just the facts from him. Jake, did you have any thoughts? Oh, no, no, he said. The coaching Carousel is undefeated.

Like, that's another domino, yeah, if they beat Oakland, he's probably sticking around, yeah.

Jack Golke was the yeah, you're right. If they, if they beat Oakland, they will get maybe to the Sweet 16. There's not as much pressure. Jack Golke was the man who did it. But eventually, three straight three out of four years, losing to North Texas, St. Peter's and Oakland.

That's the shocking part that Cal didn't, couldn't see the fan base being upset. Yeah, here in Kentucky, and you lose to those teams in the tournament, yeah.

The first round, he had to have an idea. That's Matt said that he Matt said that they were shocked by the animosity that the fan base had towards him. He thought like he had done enough and built. Purdue lost North Texas, but either way, yeah.

St. Peter's and Oakland two out of three years. Oh, and Wikipedia is already updated. Uh. Nate Oates is the head coach at university in Kentucky.

That's good enough for me. Damn, I can't wait to see what happens. All right, let's kick it to ourselves.

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We got Uconn.

The biggest game ever, the biggest game ever, I don't think we've ever.

No cans on or anything. Great job Max. What's up PFT? I'm doing pretty good, yeah.

What'd you say you want to, you want to do?

Yeah, I actually, we should start out by saying, Are we sure Caitlin Clark is actually good? Ooh, Bust can't win the, can't win the big one.

Yeah, they, they're 109 and three the only game they had lost in the.

It's, I think that's just a natural thing in sports, we're just seeing it on the woman's.

I'm sure crazy ratings for today's game. What's your number? Oh, I got 20 mil, exactly. Oh, I think it's gonna be less than that. I'm going to say 17, 17 mil, 17 mil.

But yeah, it was weird, like the hate that she was getting from all the WNBA players. New, yeah, but I guess they just don't like, you know, the young buck on the scene.

Purdue beats N.C. State. Uh, N.C. state played some of the worst basketball I've watched. Uh, but nothing to take away from Purdue, Purdue like. But I think if you told N.C. State fans before that game, Purdue only was going to score 63 points. They would have been like, Oh, we have a real shot at this. Uh, Purdue's just too good.

They, they. Their defense was great, I also think, and not making excuses. As soon as Michael O'Connell, the point guard for N.C. State, went down with that injury, their offense, basically, like, was erased. Yeah, it was tough, especially the start of the second.

He's too wide, his arms go too long. He did a couple of those spin moves, which gets you around almost anybody else in the game. And then he picks up his dribble and he's like, Oh shit, Zach Eadie's here too.

Yes, he's on both sides of me. And Zach Eadie scored 20 points.

Diehard, N.C. State fan That is one of those things that if you're a sports fan, even though it didn't end well, you'll remember that run. From the ACC Championship all the way to the final four, forever, you had a great tournament. The story?

So it was a double media timeout. Oh wow, so Eadie goes up there and he shoots. They come out of a media timeout. He shoots one foul shot. boom media timeout again, you had one foul shot in between.

Commercial break. Disgusting. It was disgusting for the sport, for the youngsters. disgusting. Uh, but yeah, purdue.

And then someone gets injured right away, and that was like a phantom floor injury. He only ended up playing 12 minutes. I think Purdue wins no matter what, but you could tell that they're off. N.C. State's offense was in a big funk after that.

You missed out on a lot of money. oh, a ton of money, actually, some, some student.

Yeah, instantly. yeah, but that's.

Yeah, I just.

Yeah, and let's enjoy this game.

The new trend is, well, he's going to suck in the N.BA, who cares? Yeah, no one. Like, there's a lot of college players that, I mean, we watch. During the halftime of the second game, they had the Olympic three-on-three game and Jim Irfurdet was playing.

And I was like, this has got to be this like. I know that he's playing in the Olympics, but still, Jim Irfurdet probably didn't think this was how he's going to get to a final four. The the, uh, this guy's.

And then we had Uconn. Bama played an almost perfect half of basketball in the first half offensively, but they, they did everything they needed to do. They were shooting 70 from three and they were down four, and that's just how good UConn is. And UConn. Like Dan Hurley said afterwards, they knew that Bama was going to make their threes.

Their entire defensive strategy was just don't let them take 40 of them, and that's what they did. They ran them off the line. They were, they were switching on every, or they were fighting through screens, switching on everything when they needed to. It was defensively Uconn like.

The stats show that Bama shot well, but they shot so many less threes and they wanted to shoot. And that was kind of the name of the game. Is like, you can make those, but you're not going to get to shoot. 43, Yeah, and then Uconn.

What was it? 56-56? It was 56-56, they had 12 minutes left and then and then it was just all Uconn.

And from that point on, it was like, this is very obvious, who's going to win this game? It did. We did get one of the saddest moments, I think, in college basketball history. The N.C. State mascot and the UConn mascot. Hugging it out, the the two dogs.

The Uconn mascots head came off, which was very weird to see, but it was, I think everyone had a.

They have now won 110 straight games, where they reached 69 before their opponent. This is from No. Escalators is a great follow. And then also, UConn has won 18 consecutive neutral site games by double digits. It's insane, it's pretty. The St.

John's They Pete St. John's the Big East Tournament by five, but that was semi-neutral because it was in New York. That's actually how it's like classified semi-neutral game. But it's pretty crazy. The run they've been on, they just have an answer to everything.

And I, I honestly think that, like Purdue, scares me. But Uconn's guards are so much bigger than every other team's, especially. I mean, they're bigger than produce. And like they play so physical and they rebound, so, like, even the guards rebound well. And they just, they're just a well-oiled machine. Like they never, they never flinch. And they're always just like, we're going to run our stuff and it's going to beat you. Maybe it will take a little bit of time.

Alabama played them tougher than probably anyone's played them in the tournament since the Iona first half in the first round last year. But that was, yeah, I mean, that's what Uconn does. They're just they're a machine.

I like that phrase, Yeah, the national devil. What do you mean by that? He would just.

I like him a lot, I hate him so.

And then, uh, coach Hurley won the Naismith Coach of the Year Award today. I think that's a trick by college basketball to be like, Okay, we're going to, we're going to gas them up so hard. So he takes his foot off the pedal tomorrow. Yeah, it's classic NCAA going against coach and now they're giving him an award for being the best coach.

The Eclipse is probably doing something against Hurley, too. We have just two awards for every cause. I think Kelvin Sampson, one coach of the year, too. Oh, yeah, yeah.

There's just two awards for everything.

From the Journos? Yeah, from the Journos who don't know ball.

UCLA has 11.

Kentucky has eight, Uconn would have six, and all six would have been in the last 25 years. It's been a pretty good run. It's insane.

And they also go, they've gone. This is their seventh final four, so there's only one time they've gone to a final four that they haven't won at all. They've also never been to.

Like, there's a it's probably, I don't know, 60, 40.

Yeah, like Western Connecticut, they're New York, they commute there.

They fly there on their.

Yeah, you definitely deserve that, but it's crazy, the run they bet on, and yeah, they they would be. I mean to think that UConn could have more national titles than Duke and Indiana, and they've only done it in the last since 99 was their first.

And I.

I was.

Like, Duke goes there and is always in the mix, like Uconn even has had that. They when they were in the AA.C. or whatever the fuck it was called, they were bad for a while, like Duke's never really bad. UNC is never really that bad.

Kansas like, that's so. I feel like the hateable nature of them isn't all the way turned up because also they beat Duke sometimes. Yeah, that's true, then everyone's 99, that's good.

Duke was The Duke was like, the best team ever.

Like, they, there's not a lot of people rooting against them, right? And I feel like people don't watch as much UConn as they would watch, like Uconn's not shoved down your throat. On a national, national scale, yeah.

I mean, they have a bias against them, they have a bias against them. So you don't get overloaded, you don't get fatigued from them. Until the tournament, and even when the tournament happens, they have such big blowouts that people don't really watch that many of their.

Jake, how was the game from Press Row? We saw you in your suit.

I'll be back tonight. Fuck the NCAA.

Yeah, you're pieces of shit. Well, me individually, I appreciate it. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, but, but do fuck the NCAA because we don't like the NCAA. But yeah, yeah. But it was really cool, I got some good interviews.

Afterwards got Hurley, he said that he'll do it all the time. Yeah, he'll come on the.

Well, I think almost everyone hates wedgies except you and Ian Eagle and Ian Eagle. Yeah, he loves it, too.

How was he? Did you listen? I saw some highlights back, but oh, you got to go back and watch the tape. He was built for it.

Yeah, yeah, because I was there, but yeah, he's the best. Tim and Raf three have great chemistry. Grand Hill.

Tracy Wolfson had to use like a mini ladder. That was funny, she didn't. For Zach Edian, it was crazy watching.

Yeah, like she was basically at his belly button. Yeah, so it was really cool and excited to run it back tonight, yeah.

So you got your picture too in mid court, yeah, of that annual tradition, yeah.

It's it was nice to see. We were literally just watching you on Press row. They did you guys dirty with the seats. Oh, I appreciate them doing, yeah.

But let's be honest, like if I were, those were shitty seats. They put you guys like behind the basket, like all the way up. Yeah, but we had some great access. Did you see Jim Nance?

I did I. It was weird seeing him in street clothes, what was he wearing? He was just wearing like a shirt and like a jacket. Fucking wild.

Yeah, like, have you ever seen him not wearing a full suit and tie? Yeah, they showed him in the Houston game, yeah.

That he didn't go to, he didn't go to the one that Tony Romo was at. Yeah, that's right.

Very interesting because Romo was there and he, you thought you would think that they'd be good friends, correct, not, huh?

They're not, yeah, I. I would be a little bit weirded out not seeing a tie in Jim Nance. I'll give you that, Jake, yeah.

Like, I assume the Jim Nance sleeps and showers in his suit. And we're not going to get the tie thing this year. Yeah, that's really sad. Uh, do you think? yeah?

You think he was commentating the game as it was going on in his head? For sure? Yeah, maybe.

Yeah, definitely, I saw Jay Wright.

It was, uh, Mexican, and then pretzels, and then a bunch of sodas. What was the bathroom situation? Like? Fine, oh, that's bad, that's saying fine is the worst thing you can say about it.

Pass fail.

Bottles discuss, so I won't let her go back every media time out and fill up my water cup. And then you had to go to the bad, the just fine bathrooms, yeah.

Damn, it's tough, hank.

How'd you like the games? I had fun. Yeah, good time I, I kind of I was.

I hope it's.

We did have a buzzer beater, we forgot about that.

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The, uh, it's very funny, though, because the the.

This is definitely fanatics blame it on.

I'm very excited we have a bunch of Masters stuff coming up this week with Max and Brooks, a bunch of other people. Any other notes from the final four? No, it's been fun, Oh sure.

What happened with Show Hayes? Uh, home run ball, the woman.

You gotta, you gotta listen to Ravel. Ravel always has a has. Like, whenever someone catches a big ball, he's like, first thing I would do is leave the stadium. You have an exit.

Yeah, I didn't watch, I didn't either.

Yeah, our guy TJ had it up on press row and I was watching for a second. I was like, Oh my God, wait, TJ was on. It was credentialed, yeah.

Because we were supposed to do the Titus show and Titus got sick, so we're going to do it tonight. Okay, wait. So he was watching wrestling instead of the final four.

No, he's multitasking. Interesting. We'll have to look into the credentials there. The rock was me in the Philly, too. What'd he say?

What'd he say? He showed up late to an event? Um, I think he showed up like two hours late and like, people are filming him. Like, motherfucking him because he showed up so late. And he was like, Sorry, I was just watching highlights of Jalen Hurts lose in the playoffs. It's just weird seeing him as a bad guy. I've never thought I'd see that day.

I got I feel like him and John Cena were like the Untouchables.

Yep, who buys that shit? Revell? Yeah, 100%.

Those people.

Only home run ball for the Dodgers. Yeah, that'd be worth a ton of money. Another one, though, uh, every this year he was. He looked pretty happy, you know, going to Wrigley with the sports book attached to it.

Yeah, interesting, Yeah, he looked pretty happy. Uh, all right, let's do Who's back of the week? and then we'll get to John Fanta.

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Hank, I was back in the week, was Tom and John? Sorry, what'd you want to say about it? You as a former pitcher? It's back, yeah.

You gotta, we gotta watch out for the sliders.

Kind of what Jeff Passan was saying, like, everyone just looking at the numbers, being like, you got to throw a hundred, you got to throw a hundred. And arms are just getting pushed to this max at an early age and everyone's destroying. Is it the sweeper? It might be the sweeper cause.

Yeah, bring back the Greg Maddux's of the world, yeah, the nerds, yeah.

92 on the Black.

Who's back? Hank Angel Hernandez? Oh yeah, had a great call today, right down the middle.

One, one of the No. No. I was talking about the strike that he called. So the pitcher stepped off the mound and then step back on, didn't even look at the batter through a pitch. It was like two inches high.

He called it a strike. Yeah, yeah, he's he's he.

That was awesome that.

Oh so, exclusive announcement here. I think we're putting this public, uh, later on in the day on Monday, but I'm excited about it, really pumped. We're doing a a summer concert mini tour this summer, it's the Pup Punk Off the Leash Pink Whitney Tour.

And first date is in Chicago, right? Chicago. May 31st, Joe's on weed, and then in August, we're going August 2nd, Columbus, Uh, at Scully's Saturday, August 3rd, Nashville at the Barstool Bar Friday, August 30th in D.C. at Union stage.

And then Saturday, August 31st, Philly at Underground Arts. And so, I know, for at least the Chicago one. We're going to get some people from the office to come out and sing some songs with us. I've asked Big Cat if he can do it. Uh, Max, I believe, is down to sing a song too, so Max, you have to figure out a song.

If you want to do shallow, I can play guitar. Can you? you have?

First of the month. Nope, I want to do tequila. Okay, yeah.

Be great, that's well, that's memes. Yeah, that is memes beer.

Worst show ever? Probably going to get him fired. Uh, Mr. Pair, I'll make memes come out on stages.

Do Acapella? Yeah, uh, all right, my who's back is, um, the world ending. So PFT and I both got a text message from our friend Jersey Jerry on Saturday night during the Games.

Uh, and it read. I suggest you take out all your money out of your bank and stop using credit cards for the next few months. Until I can give you the green light again. We will be under a cyber tax sooner rather than later. Just looking out, I'm in communication with a very important person for one of, if not the biggest, software companies in the.

This seems bad, he says. I can't say, bro, he's a multimillionaire, I think wealthier than Dave. Oh yeah.

I just can't say his name. I'm sorry, take all your money out of the bank, I'm telling you, I, I don't, I think I trust.

All of it, and he even sorts sources it that way, saying, Did you see that article on Tik Tok? Um, and he did sit next to someone on a plane that told him this information. He also has been telling me for a while now that right before the election, they're going to shut down the banks and make everyone get a chip to take their money out. Uh, so yeah, I think we're, I think we're in trouble.

Oh, so that that was his link. Okay, all right, Jake, um.

It's such a it's such a funny golfer nerd injury to just like.

That's that wasn't even that hard.

Jesus, I'm excited for the master. Yeah, it's going to be incredible, also excited for our mini golf tournament. You want to plug that real?

Uh, Wednesday, all day and night, Thursday after Masters coverage. Yeah, big field, a lot of competition. A lot of questions about how deep the holes are, so we're going to find out, Do you know the answer to how deep the hole is?

No, I was, it was a Jeff Delos. The first thing he said to me, he was like, How deep are these holes? And I was like, That's a fair question that I don't. I don't know the answer to. I think that's such a Jeff Delos. I think they're normal depth.

Apparently it makes a difference. What, what depth, the holes.

Common sense, squared.

Yeah, he's got a shaman who just gives him.

Does he have any more interviews lined up? He did, too, he did.

Actually, this is this might be what Billy was born to do. Yeah, I mean, he, he does bullshit.

I still want to see what Jim Toes hardcore common sense looks like, and then I'll fully endorse when Billy was first announcing.

That's.

Monday night Championship game, No joke. I think I might have a cane soft problem. I was raising canes the other day, getting my box combo with extra sauce on the side. Like usual, I have an order.

When I eat my canes, it goes crinkle. Cut fries, chicken fingers, the Texas toast and finish strong with the slaw. So I start eating and before I know it, I'm scraping the bottom of my sauce and I wasn't even done with my fries yet.

This habit is escalating, and I'm 100 here for it. Dip into canes. Get extra sauce for me, please. Okay, here he is, John Fanta.

Okay.

We now welcome on one of our favorite guests in the entire world it is Johnny Fanta live in person. We knew we had to get you in person at the final four. Uh, where should we start?

I mean, the theater, the drama. What was your speech? I loved it, anything you do, I just love watching. What did you say?

What'd you say in the bowels of the of the?

For the hardcore junkies who are sweating out, uh, the 38 and a half point dog in a buy game, this is what they live for now. On Monday night. And it might've lived for that, too. But we start the marathon in early November. And you hope, in this tournament of utter chaos that you get a good final. This isn't a good final, this is an all time final.

This is the first time that we have multiple seven foot starters in a national championship game since Patrick Ewing versus Hakeem Olajuwon in 1984.

This is a title game. 40 years in the making. Purdue fans have waited their entire lives for this moment. For Uconn fans, it's another year.

You obviously had back-to-backs earlier in college basketball history when guys stayed for a long time. But he will go if he can win. On Monday, he'll go back to back after losing 75 of his points from the year before and changing over pretty much the whole entire roster.

But the reason why I'm skeptical is because we thought that we would have gotten there multiple times. On this 11 game run over the last two NCAA tournaments for UConn and they have won 11 straight tournament games by at least 13 points 18 18 straight. Uh, uh, neutral site or?

Yeah, that's how scary good UConn is. And I just think. Not only would Dan Hurley complete the ultimate two-year run, but in a sport that lost some of its biggest faces, if he wins the championship tomorrow. The idea that when people throw out Bill Self or Tom Izzo or Mark Few, it's not that I'm not listening. Hurley would put himself as the coaching face.

So you can make the argument that this this team would actually put it that way, this team against last year's Uconn team.

He had a good season, he's had a great season this year, he's been so consistent. It's like last year never ended when this Uconn season started. And, as you said, they lose five of their top eight players from last year's team.

I think that when you combine that with Alex Carabin being another year older, with Stefan Castle being a one and done freshman who has now emerged, you can't just play off Castle. No, they tried, yeah, they try. Alabama tried that, and he made them pay, he took that personally.

He did, yeah, I think the other thing is. What makes me put this year's team as a favorite is that Cam Spencer is just insane. He's a mini Hurley, he's a mini Hurley.

He's wired differently. I was talking to him about tomorrow, I said, So what will you do? I go when you get 10 minutes back in the hotel room, what app will you go on on your phone? And he goes, I'm going to watch more film.

He goes, I'm going to watch more film, you're a player, this guy's in bed watching.

You should start, you should put that.

That's all I'm saying. And Donovan Clingan has been just insane, like what he does. And that's why tomorrow night's going to be, or tonight is going to be so great because it's Edy versus Cling. Now, on the Purdue side, it's just as good. A compelling story because you have a team that lost to a 16 seed last year, trying to, you know, get revenge for that.

And also Purdue as a school. They are number one in the in N.C.A.A basketball for wins in the tournament without a championship. If they win this one. It's like everything gets erased. And the Matt Painter and Zach Edy and Zach Edy goes down as one of the greatest college basketball players of all time. It's crazy how much like, how many, how many storylines are on.

But at the end of the day, you have to show it in hardware, you know? If UConn wins this championship, the Big East will have had four of the last eight national championships, the ACC has two and the Big 12 has two. That's it. So for me, this is massive for Purdue. Because you do not know. First off, you're never going to have a player like you've got inside.

They don't make, there's not a carbon copy, Purdue will figure out.

I mean, he's Zach Eady, he's been discussed a million times. He is really fucking good at basketball and been dominant this run. Yes, he's been unbelievable.

Oh God, um, I think I've got UCLA, okay, that makes sense. I like, I like Nick to bounce back.

Okay, Cronin's not having too bad, but not bounce back too much. 19 19. Miami's in the mix there to BYU. I don't think Mark Pope's getting undersold head in the next season. You know, I've got more to call on it, more to come.

Don't want to give away the whole way.

Connecticut Okay, smart, you know, I also have that. I'm not, I'm not getting fooled again.

I'm not giving Hurley a chip on the shoulder this time, I'm putting the number one because someone's going to have to take it from you. Yeah, take that title.

It's like the in the spirit of wrestlemania, it's like the belt. Yeah, at this point now, Connecticut has that belt. And and on Monday night, Purdue is coming with their briefcase. And this is their chance, this is their chance.

That's what I was going to ask, Jeffrey.

Can we turn fouls off tomorrow? Can we maybe, like, let both big guys have seven fouls? I just I'm so nervous that that's going to happen and and and ruin.

Because, look, if Eady gets hacked late in the game, or if Klingin gets hacked and it's a legit foul. And you're asking them to make two free throws, make your free throws, kids, then then look, I get it. But please, for the love of all that is holy and all that is right, can we not? Can we not be five minutes into the game and say, Well, now Donovan Klingin's got to sit for the rest of the first half? It ruins the product.

It's like loose ball, like I don't want.

If you hack them, going for a.

No, he definitely committed a foul, but at that point, every sports fan watching, that was.

Whoa, how many did you shoot again? St. Ray Fields put them in a body bag 28 points. How many shoot?

Probably shot 13 that night, okay?

We got to get you in the office. I would love I would happily come in and show off this shooting stroke. It is not a there's nothing patented about this. No, I've saw it.

It was ugly, but it went in. It doesn't. It doesn't matter, right? They don't ask you how you got there, yeah.

If the ball goes into the hoop, that's all that matters. How many, not, how? Yeah, so I could, probably I anybody could play for Dan Hurley right now.

Yeah, you could check in and give.

Pretty good defender.

Yeah, sometimes what happens is, you know, I'm going to take it from the wrestling to a little bit of superhero. Like to set the series up for future episodes. Yeah, a new man wearing a cape comes out of nowhere, and it feels like Samson Johnson could be that type of guy in this game.

You know why? He can run the floor, runs the floor like a deer, he can fly above the rim, he throws down some thunderous dunks. he leads Yukon in dunks.

Like, he's got over 60 dunks on the season. This kid's had a massive year in that column and I just think he causes a wrinkle. That's the that's the thing with Yukon. They answer every single question.

Yeah, I've been saying it from.

We'll adjust, we can play this style, we can play this style, we play up, you want to play up tempo.

We'll play up tempo, want to play slow, we'll play.

If you were going to win, you always had to. You always knew you were in for a bar fight. He goes. Now when you're facing Hurley, you've got to win a bar fight. But before that, you have to go to the library and study tirelessly. You've.

Look at that, people are watching the podcast, look at Fanta.

I don't even know if if, and I think some coaches would totally scoff at me. But you're telling me that who's to say you're going to stop a man to man? Every trip down, nobody's been able to do that. Could you throw in a one, three one? I'm not even saying you do it often, but you just make.

But in basketball, it's different. Like you could try something for possession, it could go miserably wrong, and it's okay. You gave up a two or a three. I just wonder if Painter reaches into his bag and does something totally unorthodox.

I would watch, I would watch the last two years of Uconn Craydon Games, I'd watch Greg McDermott and how Craydon played, yeah.

And how much do you think that? That's that, you know, you're sort of throwing back the clock? He goes, whoa, whoa, he goes. I could shoot the ball, he goes, watch me shoot free throws, he goes, I can shoot the three.

He goes.

Okay.

Not many, but I could see a high ball screen. And instead of he slips back, make them respect it. And makes and makes Edy pay for going all the way down there.

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That's why.

He was trying to find it, he was forcing the issue a little bit. Nothing wrong with that, but I want to see which point guard ends up having the upper hand in this, Braden Smith.

They made the logo big and everyone.

Is that cool? You're going to resign?

I mean, there's a lot of chatter. Johnny No, no.

No, no, no, no, no. Very good source. People. A lot of people I respect on Twitter have been talking about the resignation. It was a hashtag.

It was trending, it was trending.

Okay, all right, but best can you know you order a vest online? That's a can be a tough bigger guy purchase.

Yeah, that's true. The best demand that they have, they want them to wear the Kim English best, so Kim English wore a vest.

They then love the vest, yeah, and now they made the ad, put the vest online up for sale. But purchases go to Nil Providence is Nil has. Like, it's. It's gone way up because these fans are just so out of control. But in a good way, in a good way, I mean, not in a good way of. Like, putting a movement together that actually produced public pieces, like actual forms of media about it, cool.