NCAA Tournament With Mark Titus, Aaron Donald Retires, Hot Seat/Cool Throne + #MadOnline

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Woo abomination, Yeah. So we'll talk about all of that and some more tournament thoughts.

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Big news today, also the start of spring. Yeah, we made it shout out that groundhog. Wait, is it?

The calendar we're done with winter, the calendar is so stupid. The start of spring is St. Patrick's Day.

There should be sports that go along with the changing of the season.

It's St. Patrick's Day, is start of spring, start of summer is Kentucky Derby day, Start of fall is week zero college football. Start of winter is Halloween.

Christmas, oh, no, Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving should be start of spring. No, I like to pretend that winter doesn't you shorten winter. Winter's just Christmas, it's the St. Patrick's Day.

Ah, it's two months. But when you have the score bugs on TV and it's the cornucopia and all that stuff that is a little bit of both autumn and winter.

We made it to spring, spring has sprung. Good job boys, how are you guys feeling when we're 24 hours out from the best two days of the year? I'm feeling good.

Best two sports days of the year? Yes, I would agree Thursday Friday of the NCAA tournament, because it's just all you think about. The entire time you wake up, you start making your preparations.

A random day weekend in the fall where you have an insane N.FL slate and an insane college football slate. But you can't depend on that. That's year to year. If all the stars align, this is just it. I think. Underrated the second best is the.

Two weeks of the first round of NBA and NHL playoffs, where every night there's a game that matters. Okay, I agree with that, but if it's the first two rounds of the NBA playoffs, there's a lot of blowouts. You do have NHL as well, you have NHL.

It's an unspoken holiday. Shout out the Boss button Remember when they unveiled The Boss button in 2006 or something or 2007? And they're just like, Yeah, you can click on it and it has Excel pop up.

Yeah, I hit that. One time, I think it was my professor was like, Why are you looking at a spreadsheet? This is an English lit class.

Yeah, in my first job there, I remember there's like, you don't use Excel.

Yeah, what's Excel? You don't know how to use Excel? Maybe you didn't read my resume? I said I was proficient, me.

Shout out 99 of the world who has put proficient in Microsoft Excel on their resume. That's just a must have. That doesn't mean, shit. Have you ever seen the Excel? Like Olympics? Yeah, they're sick.

They're basically like musicians, no keyboard.

Yeah, they just use a mouse. no, no, no, no mouse, just keyboard.

They're like, they're like piano players with the speed that they go.

Yeah, oh, I actually saw it. Oh man, since we're down this rabbit hole, fuck, I got to try to find it. It was a Monday reading that I that I saw.

So my take is I would hire Bob in a heartbeat. To me, Bob sounds like a guy that he gets shit done, he's vengeful. I actually, I look at this as a negative on the dude that wrote this post. How, how many years?

I mean, it's crazy, it's like a, it's like an evil. If Jim Halbert was like the most evil person ever and he did all his pranks to Dwight, that ruined his life.

I was thinking the same thing, Hank. It could be like me, myself and Irene. This guy's got split personalities. Spoiler If you haven't seen the end of Me, Myself and Irene or Fight Club, but it might be this dude.

What's in the box?

He might go home, it was his wife's head, he might go home, and then and then he just fucks with himself. When he thinks that he's asleep, he might be schizophrenic.

That was crazy. I saw that and I immediately screenshotted it. So that's an extra bonus. Monday reading.

But don't you almost respect Bob? Oh yeah.

I would, what an absolute savage that guy is.

I would hire Bob just to make sure that Bob was under my control.

Yeah, he moved out of the country. He's like, I got to get the fuck out of here.

Because otherwise, every job that I go to, it's going to be like, I hope Bob's not working here.

It might be Kim.

Oh yeah, that guy, yeah.

Oh yeah, but the XL, no one knows how to use it, and everyone says they can use it.

Yeah, XL, that's a program that will one day end up replacing human brains.

Yes, all right. So other any other thoughts about the term before we continue with the show? I'm just so excited. Nit, big nit.

This is Max's Superbowl. No, I mean, half on Instagram.

Yeah, just give it to us.

If it's within 10 points in the fourth quarter, you should have to go live on Instagram.

On the part of my take Instagram fine.

The Nit did quarters at some point. I don't know if they still do.

And you can also join.

Oh, yeah, we could join, we can laugh at you. Yeah, Max is ready to go for the nit.

I just filled out my nit bracket, shout out, nit Stew. I've got Ohio State beating Villanova in the finals.

Wow, would that be incredible?

It would be so funny.

We should talk quickly about Anthony Edwards ending a life last night.

Yeah, that was, that was embrace debate. Was that a dunk?

So all those dunks always like, Yeah, when you, when you like, Zoom in, you're like, did the ball leave his hand beforehand?

Didn't touch the rim or did he follow through on the rim?

Some of those screenshots, you see, he had he. He made John Collins smell his fingers before he dunked.

He dislocated his finger. Yeah, he dislocated his finger on the dunk and then stayed in the game afterwards.

I'm counting it as a dunk just because I like cool sports. Moments like that where, like, the world, stopped to be like, Did you see what Anthony Edwards just did?

Yeah, it was pretty incredible. And and he's had like six dunks like that over the course of his career. Where people have stopped and legitimately asked the question, like, Is this the best dunk of all time? Yeah, so he's, he's fucking awesome. The only problem with that dunk was it was kind of overshadowed by Austin Reeves getting dunked on last night.

No one wants to see that. We also should mention Wait, hold on Jalen Johnson on Austin Reeves.

It was Johnson.

Fallback is the problem.

It was literally Johnson on Reeves.

I would, I would. If I were Austin Reeves, I'd try to headbutt his dick.

You'd bite it off, yeah.

There's only one move. Just I would never get dunked on like this. I just want to say that right now. No, because I would foul way before that.

Well, I also I have pride in my rim protection.

Yeah, I would just tackle him.

No easy buckets.

Tackle him before that. Oh man, yeah, it looked like he actually was hitting a hurdle. Holy fuck.

It was crazy, the left-handed flow, it was over. Jokic. It was such a cool shot that you had guys from around the league in their next practice trying to recreate that shot to see if they could make it.

They had guys on the Mavs like, I don't know who was on the baseline, like, put their hands on their heads and like, collapsed.

Yeah.

That was fucking awesome.

Yeah, it was wild.

But it is college basketball time. We, we, we respect the sports calendar. Uh, I had one thing that we also missed on Sunday, uh, which we should probably talk about.

Aaron DonALD Yeah.

Aaron Donald retired Yeah, that's our fault. Uh, maybe Aaron, Aaron Donald, you could have the case, the perfect career.

Uh, if he had won two Superbowls.

So if he had won the other one, but that that wasn't a defensive issue, that was the, you know. The Rams defense came to play in that game, they gave up 13 points to the Patriots. But Aaron Donald played 10 years in the N.FL, he was a pro bowler, all 10 years he won Rookie of the year.

He also was responsible, like highest of highs, most viral, best interview on this podcast ever, as well as one of the worst. Yeah.

Yeah, that's right.

There's probably him and John Cena in terms of, like, really good interviews, while also having really bad interviews. And then remember he got. He was on that other podcast where they asked him just football questions. And he kept being like, I'm just here to talk about Epson salts. Yeah, like, I want to talk about this Epson salt that was on this.

That was when we interviewed him at the Superbowl in Miami and it was incredible. Memes whole career was based on that interview. Uh, with me pulling him a pussy. Yeah, yeah. All time clip.

Yeah.

So he gave it all, he really was everything. But I actually think that Aaron Donald is close to a perfect career as you could possibly have, minus the Superbowl loss. But I, he literally was a pro bowler every single year, and eight out of his 10 years he was an all pro first team.

And he trained with knives. That's also an all time clip. Is watching him just work out in the off season. There's a guy trying to stab him and he also, he's just like, No.

And he also was, just like the fact that he was, quote unquote, undersized at his position, but still so goddamn dominant. Yeah, because, like, you know, a lot of defensive tackles are, you know, you think of, like the Lodi Nadas or the, uh, you know, Vince Wilfork. But he just, he had a fucking six pack and he would just dominate everyone all the time.

One thing I, uh, I don't like is the new trend of really good players retiring. And then instantly the official Hall of Fame social media accounts being like, We'll see you in four years or whatever. But it leaves at least some suspense up there. Yeah, he's one of the best football players of all time. Give it, give it some time.

Yeah, I agree.

It's final when it's final for them, I agree. But yeah, Aaron Donald, I think probably probably the best defensive player I've ever seen play, yeah.

He's the most dominant, uh, in this era. I know J.J. Watt was, I mean, J.J. Watt was his peak, was very, very dominant. But a reminder that Aaron Donald did it from the defensive tackle position.

Yeah.

Which is just, it's that's not your. Your job isn't always to get after the quarterback, and he just always did.

He also had the perfect time of year to retire. Quit your job before March madness, Yeah.

I wish he had done it on not Sunday of Conference Championship, so we would have talked about it on Sunday. That was our fuck up.

Yeah, imagine, though, imagine, imagine retiring one year and you're like, Oh shit, what am I going to do now that I'm retired? Yeah, oh, wait, yeah.

Pitch and make it, though.

Yeah, it's tough.

Uh, also, RG3 got ratioed to hell.

Yeah, RG3 loves, loves the take game.

Man, he was so off, he basically was like, Caleb Williams should not go to Chicago, and, uh, basically had no stats facts behind it. No, I agree.

I agree with him. I think he made some good points and then he should demand a trade to a successful, well run franchise. Historically, like the Washington Commanders.

And I, I quoted it and just stated simple facts. And he then quickly did the kermit, the frog, all big cat in his fields. Everyone was like, Dude, he got ratioed again. It was like thousands of quote tweets on his original tweet, Yeah.

RG3 likes to, he likes to dip his toes in the game.

I like him buddy man, he has some bad fucking takes. That was a bad take, real bad.

I think he's right.

I had time for it. On Monday, I went to war with, uh, the the fallout of the Caleb Williams. Justin Fields. There's still some people. There was, actually, I don't know if it was a troll or not, but there was one person who did tweet out a petition for the Bears to bring back Justin Fields.

No, that's what we were talking about. Remember? Like, if if Caleb Williams gets dinged up this year? Yeah, just I want to sprinkle it out there for Bears fans to just have in the back of their head, like, why not bring back Justin?

Yeah, I was, I was working out stats, I was doing everything, cause people were, you know, arguing about. There's not enough quarterbacks that have won Super Bowls on rookie contracts to actually be like, this is the way. And I went and looked it up.

Yeah, and it's also that if you have a cheap quarterback, you would rather have a cheap quarterback than an expensive quarterback, right?

It gives you your best chance. So I'm I'm pulling it up. I had, uh, I went through the whole thing, like I said, I had time for it on Monday. Uh, cause I was just waiting for college basketball to start, but starting, uh. This past year, Brock Purdy was in the Super Bowl on a cheap, cheap contract. the year before Jalen Hurts was on a cheap, cheap contract.

You'd rather have a quarterback that's not getting paid a lot of money, so you can pay a lot of money to other good players. Yeah, so if you, if you disagree with that premise, I don't think we're even speaking the same language.

The argument boils down to if you, if you want to say, uh, having a cheap quarterback will just get you a loss in the Super Bowl to Mahomes or Brady, that's fine.

Fine, Oh, I would suck, I would suck a dick.

Take it, I'd take it in a second.

It's a It's quarterback Photoshop season two, so Shane came up to me earlier today and said that he's working on Photoshop for the draft. Um, and so I was like, just give me all the quarterback Photoshop. Just just make me a Caleb Williams one, just so I can look at it Caleb Williams D.C. One.

That's mine, uh, hank. While we're talking about Brady and Mahomes, the Patriots Dynasty documentary has concluded. Yep, uh, wow, was that a hit piece on Bill Belichick?

Holy shit, I'll say this. Um, it was very clearly pointed, and it was meant to make Robert Kraft look like the Uh.

The benevolent father who kept it all together, all together, calling him Tommy constantly.

Which is very creepy every time he says it. And then it made Belichick look like he was like abusive, they made him look like he was abusive and negligent. And the only thing that that I would say to Bill would be he didn't do a very good job of acquitting himself in those interviews. Like when they asked him the tough questions, he would just be like, I don't want to talk about that right now. Which made him look worse than I think the actual situation was.

I loved those, some of those answers. When they asked him, What did you think about Tom Brady's performance in the Superbowl against the Eagles? And he's like, Well, their offense scored more than than us, so, uh, give credit to their coaches.

Yeah, so the the Malcolm Butler thing was, it still is weird to this day.

So weird, so weird.

But they also, you know, they set that season up to make it seem like all the players hated they, you know, they didn't want to be there. All those players came back. They made it to the Superbowl that year, almost won, they won a Superbowl the next year.

They did give Belichick credit for that superbowl against the Rams.

But then they also made it seem like, well, because, you know, Bill did good. I told Tommy, Tommy knew like I had to sign Belichick like. It almost made him seem like he was mad about the fact that they had won a Superbowl.

Like, we had to go with with Bill, right?

It made it seem like they were going to fire Belichick if he lost that Superbowl, which I don't think was ever going to happen. Right? My, it was. It was weird watching it.

Cause it, it almost it made me, you know, they slanted it from Kraft's POV, but they didn't have any. You know? Being a Patriots fan for those 20 years, rooting for Belichick, rooting for Brady, rooting for all the players, was the greatest time of all time.

Like, being a Patriots fan was amazing, and they didn't really. It didn't feel like that.

They made it feel like you were you shouldn't. You should be sad for being a Patriots fan.

And like, Oh, you were a fan of this guy, like, How dare you? So that that part made me sad. Where it was like, this was, you know, the greatest run of all time. And and they're not making it feel like that.

Yeah, the weird part to me is like, I've I've been consistent. When everyone's like Brady or Belichick, it's like, Well, the player is obviously the most important thing. Like when we talked to Diana Rossini and she was like, the Patriot way, it was like the Patriot way is having Tom Brady, just like the Chiefs way is having Patrick Holmes.

Being like, Oh, you know, it was crazy.

They kicked out square out when he was, you know, directly going against what the Patriots trainers were saying. Which I don't know if those are Belichick guys or Crass guys or whatever. But that that whole thing was strange, it was, it was a sad watch.

Also, from Belichick's point of view, your star player has his own personal trainer who's also working with other people on the team. That same personal trainer has also been accused of being a fraud in the past. That misdiagnosed cancer, and like, so or not misdiagnosed, said that he had like cures for cancer and diseases like that that he obviously did not have. That's probably a liability in your head.

I don't know.

I don't, I don't really want to know, I don't think.

Here's the one thing that doesn't make sense to me about the Malcolm Butler thing. Malcolm Butler has never said what he did right, right? So it has to be something that people would be like, whoa, you know what I mean?

Yeah.

I mean, obviously it was a very, very, very personal situation, right? So doesn't it feel like if Malcolm Butler said it? If Malcolm Butler probably knows deep down what happened? And if he said it, people would be like, Oh well, dude, yeah.

So now we need to ask like, is Bill Belichick the good guy in this situation?

I don't know.

For never saying what it is.

That always confused me about it because it's like Malcolm Butler, as far as I know, has never said like, I think it might be this, you know what I mean? No, he was acting oblivious in the doc, right?

And to get disciplined by the Patriots, if you're a star player, you have to do some really fucked up, right?

It's like it was Brady Kraft Belichick.

It was all three of them were were were Trump guys. But they started the episode with Like, the Reading, the letter from Belichick, and then that slanted the whole thing.

I thought it was a good documentary in the fact that they did okay, I thought it was a good documentary in the fact that. The things that people are interested outside of, like you, is the is. Those stories, but they just it was so slanted to bad stories instead of like, a couple of good stories. Like, that's what people want to watch, people don't want to watch a documentary.

It could have been, it could have been like a 15 part series, just only football porn for Hank Lockwood. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I guess the the only thing comparable would be the last dance, but the last dance was through Michael Jordan's lens. And it was anti ownership.

And also Brady like that was tough, where Brady was like, Yeah, there's things I don't want to talk about. Yeah, and then Kraft just said it, yeah.

Like Gisele said, you're not making my my husband a man, you're not treating him like a man.

They don't treat Tommy like a man. That was so weird.

Was Brady a part of, like the edit? Cause there's a part that I want to talk about. Are you and I about to talk about the same thing? Max and I are on the same page here.

This is the call by Michaels, obviously saying the word foals, cause he's the one who got the touchdown.

Trae Burton, who throws, caught foals touchdown.

Caught foals touchdown. So what does the Apple Show do?

They edited out the word foals, what see? And we've seen clips of Tom Brady like, not liking it. When people bring up Nick Foals, was it was it Mannings that, like, brought up Nick Foals his name? He fucking hates Nick Foals.

What?

And he had his name edited out of this documentary.

That's wild.

That is wild. Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to defend the filmmakers of this. So it seems like that would be a Tom Brady specific. I don't think that there's a filmmaker that's like, you know what?

A 10 part series of Comfort time, One word.

Yeah.

I like that, I respect that level level of pettiness.

It, actually, it, probably Max. Does it make you feel good, though? No, I love that. I mean, the Eagles are so far in Tom Brady's head and Nick Foals will always be there.

They also discredited the whole like that that Superbowl had nothing to do with the.

Eagles winning, it was just Malcolm Butler.

Yeah, yeah, if Malcolm Butler plays that you don't have a Superbowl ring, nah, I don't care.

I didn't watch it about the Patriots Dynasty.

They, uh, yeah, that, that, that is so funny. Just thinking like Tom Brady watched all 10 parts, it was like only one note, Yeah.

But if you broke down the 10 episodes into things that were not positive versus Dynasty, it was definitely like, 75 25. Yeah, it should be called. It wasn't about like the Dynasty.

I just feel bad for Belichick because he's the best coach of all time and he just got butchered.

Yeah.

Absolutely butchered.

I do think, though, I liked the, you know, N.F.L. films backed out when they kind of realized what was going on. And I feel like that's going to invigorate them and Belichick to come out with their own version, which will be.

That will be awesome.

Die nasty. Yeah, I like that, come back at it, I like it.

Yeah, oh, we have breaking news.

Oh, congrats, memes, we're back, shout out NYJ Matt.

Why didn't you do that? Is it because you're on the PIp?

Stop saying that. I think his name is just Pip, he's just going to be talking to me about this for the rest of it.

I love you memes.

I'm not gonna let that take away from this news. This is awesome.

Yes.

And Marvin Harrison, possible.

Marvin Harrison.

Nah, Dana Jeremiah dropped a mock draft and had the Jets draft him. Marvin Harrison at what number four trading up?

I can't wait for draft season, the Vikings are up to something. Yeah, the Ryan Windhorst meme up to something.

They're, uh, JJ, they're the favorites to draft JJ.

Would be the perfect quarterback for the Vikings. Yeah, where he, he will be discussed endlessly.

Uh, Justin Jefferson's not gonna be happy with that, yeah.

Yeah, uh, okay, let's do Hot sequel Toronto and then we'll get to Mark Titus talk brackets.

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Hank Your Hot Sequel, Toronto.

My hot seat was going to be John Collins. Uh, so I'll go with my other one, which I'm kind of, you know, scared to talk about. But Boeing, yeah.

Yeah.

Boeing is on the hot seat, Uh, allegedly, I guess I'll say, no, they're on the hot seat, they're on the hot seat. Uh, there was a whistleblower, John Barnett, who was doing a deposition he worked for Boeing.

I did used to think, when I was a little kid, that my gameboy could control the plane. Yeah, and I was like, Oh, I have to turn it off, because I could just be like, left, plane goes left.

That part's true.

Really dumb stuff from a kid.

But yeah, Boeing, not not a great week to be Boeing.

No, and I'm worried about you, hank. That was Henry Lockwood, who said that he lives on. Allegedly he does have information pertaining.

To the arrest and subsequent conviction conviction of Hillary Clinton as well, please contact him.

If you're looking at him, but don't do it at work.

Nope, if I die, it's not suicide. Uh, and then my cool throne. If I die, it's not suicide as well. If I die, it's not suicide, it's another. Unless Billy gets elected president, then I will.

Is she?

What do you mean? she's alive? How do you know?

Is she?

There was pictures of her out with her family.

Was that real her?

Oh, the the blurry picture, the big foot quality footage.

Is she? What do you guys think? I don't think so, I think she might be alive, I don't think that was her.

Any AWS out there that have had a Brazilian butt lift, let us know. Uh, first, how it turned out. Second of all, how long it took for you to be out in public again? Cause I'm pretty sure that it's not like four months.

Wasn't the wasn't the throne supposed to, uh, announce something? Didn't they have, like, an announcement coming? Yeah, King Charles might be dead.

And it seems that if you, well, yeah. I think it was like Sputnik over in Russia that reported that King Charles was dead. And then England had to be like, Psych, he's not dead, that's fake news.

But those the British people are fucking weirdos. King Charles could be dead, like he could have died on Saturday. And they'll just have him laying in that bed, giving him little kisses and being like, We love you.

Are we? Are we going to do the thing that we did during football season, where we like, delayed kickoff of week one? To all cry for the Queen? You remember that? Were we going to do that again for Charles?

Also, I'll just say, if King Charles did die. Like, Dude, what the fuck? You waited? How long your mom lived to be? Like, a hundred years old? You waited, you waited 50 years to become king? And then you just, damn dude. If he is that shit longer, if he is dead, I'm taking Alabama.

To losing the first round of Charleston, though.

Yeah.

I do you got to think of the edge in that situation.

I also, I kind of love the Royal Family because they're they're the quintessential, like you can just make fun of them because they're you can punch up to those people. Yeah, all day.

Maybe that's what they're there for, don't feel bad, they're not really there to give hope and meaning and optimism to the British people. Maybe they're just there to have, like a group of people that you can just make fun of, yeah.

We can all make fun of them, I mean, we're American, we can make fun of them all we want.

Yeah.

They got to fuck his brother's a fucking pedophile anyways, allegedly, but.

Oh, no, I think we, you know what, I'm going to say it, he's a pedophile, yeah.

Sweating problem? Yeah, doesn't sweat.

If, uh, yeah, if I lived in England, I would just that would. that would be my career. It would just be making fun of the Royal family. Yeah, it's awesome, um. But also like, if you're Kate Middleton and you've been you, you just got caught releasing a fake Photoshop.

Do a reddit ama.

Yeah, I'm okay, yeah.

With today's date okay, good hot seat thrown hank.

Uh, my hot seat is the nit. Oh, because, uh. Tom Kreen, I think he cried on TV when they announced the We love Tom, We love Tom Kreen. I like, I like his passion.

Um, you know what Dockets would say to that?

My ass.

My ass.

Fucking my ass.

My ass.

Uh, but now, to be fair to Tom Kreen, I believe that was right before he's about to be fired. It was the ads call, right?

Right when we had him on.

Yeah, it wasn't Tom Kreen's call. Yeah, um, so all the we're getting all the facts around the situation, but people are upset at Tom Kreen, I agree.

I've always, uh, assumed the nit. Like, if you're a player who's maybe not a starter or someone's going to the NBA. But if you're someone who, like, wants to get better, like, playing more basketball is good, right? Yeah, if you want to get, if you want to cement your job for next year, it's like Bowl games, everyone shits on Bowl games. That's an extra three weeks of practice for these college football teams that, like all these young guys, opt outs.

Listen, I want to watch more college basketball, I'm always in favor of just more sports on. Yeah, um, and then my my cool throne was going to be pettiness, with Tom Brady editing out the word foals. I love it.

Okay, uh, my hot seat, I have two, one is memes pointed this out. Uh, the hot seat is Houston, so this was, uh, on college basketball, read it. In every tournament since 2021, the top two seat is lost in the first round. Big sample size, by the way, in the first round to a team with a phallic, youth euphemistic name in 2021. Or Roberts defeated Ohio State in 2022, St. Peter's defeated Kentucky in 2023, fairly, Dickinson defeated Purdue.

Just, uh, looking at the bracket right here, I see two right next to each other.

What about Moorhead?

Moorhead and then Drake, Yeah, Drake's very phallic.

Yeah, Drake is also phallic, okay, so what will happen?

I don't know, interesting, I'm going, I'm going to go with Drake.

It's it's only one and two top two seats, okay, and this huge sample size.

Um, well, yeah, I don't know. I think it's just because usually big schools play against schools that you don't hear about that. Have they have to get admissions up somehow, so they have to insinuate penises into their name, exactly?

There's also St. Peter's again.

Yeah, St. Peter's again, yeah.

There we go.

Tennessee, there it is.

Peacocks.

Peacocks, Yeah, the Cox.

And Long beach.

Long Beach. It's not a euphemism.

Just the word long, it's the same as longwood.

It's long beach.

Oh, what is? yeah?

Long beach, we're going to miss, we're going to miss, okay.

Long bitch.

My other hot seat is Clemson fans, so this is from a hilarious Twitter account that everyone should follow. Board geniuses. It's message board geniuses, this Clemson fam called Tiger Bomb One.

Are we sure you didn't watch New Mexico and called them New Mexico State?

I don't know, but that's just very. I hope you wasted his time. The idea of just watching all of them being like, we got this, what is it? What did New Mexico, New Mexico State?

Well, they dealt with some off the court stuff last year.

Yes.

After Chris Jan's left and now he's doing a great job at Mississippi State.

Yes.

But I think it's been downhill.

They were 13 and nine in Conference USA. So easy dub, easy dub for Clemson. My cool throne is Jim Harbaugh, who did in the most Jim Harbaugh way ever a garage sale at his house in Ann Arbor.

Is this common when coaches get fired or they leave to go somewhere else?

For Jim Harbaugh, it is.

They just sell all their shit.

The man who has millions and millions of dollars is like, Well, we got to. He doesn't waste things, he doesn't waste a nut.

He would probably win the Excel Olympics. Yes, for sure, he's proficient in Excel.

I just love the visual of Jim Harbaugh being like, Here's all my junk, cause, you know, he's going to get good prices for it.

Yeah, he's. It's not a not a bargain hunter's dream, the Khakis would probably go for, like, 500 a piece.

Oh man, game one khakis.

He probably has, like some dips of school that have just like a little bit left in them. And he's like, fuck it, sell those two next.

When we next interview Jim Harbaugh in person, we got to ask for some game warrant khakis.

Yeah.

I bet you he'd give it to us.

I think so some of the transition lenses, too. A mock turtleneck, yeah.

The whole deal, I would like that, uh, Jake.

Uh, my hot seat is us here on part of my take, because we have some new competition in the sports podcasting world.

Uh, yeah, Lou Holtz.

LeBron James has started his own podcast with J.J. Reddick, called Mind the Game.

You'll never guess this, but their first episode, You ready for this? Are you sitting down? you sitting down?

I'm down.

They were drinking wine.

Oh, really, yeah, good for them.

That's just what average guys do when they podcast.

I would, I would actually listen to a LeBron James podcast if the topic every day was, Who's the Goat? M.J or LeBron? Yeah, and they just broke it down in a different way every single time.

Topic one Who's the goat? Topic two Remember when you gave your five-year-old daughter wine?

Yeah, topic three you remember when you showed your penis on national television? Yeah, now I would forget that people forget about LeBron, just slashing America, including youngsters.

Well, they started as asking a very simple question What makes a great basketball player?

What was the answer? I don't know.

I'm just reading the synopsis.

Being six foot eight.

Being able to shoot the ball in the hoop.

Wine?

Yeah, yeah, they had two bottles of wine on the table. Okay, yeah.

Way to stay relevant baseball.

Hey, it's not going against March madness.

Kind of is, but it's not, it's in the spirit of it. Yeah, yeah.

It's crazy move. What do you say, Max?

I need to add this, Did you see Jose Alvarado?

No.

He's a pitcher for the Phillies, he's a larger man. They asked about the power coming from his legs and if that helps him with his velocity. And he talked about how he's a big, grizzly bear. And then he said, I'm fucking fat.

Well, you're fat, too, so?

Yeah, wait, he goes.

Come on.

I just had it up, I just had it up.

Come on, man.

He's waiting so. 6 0, 5 a.m. Eastern Dodgers Padres in South Korea.

In other baseball news, did anybody see Chapman's Instagram post that he put up a couple days ago?

He likes his mom's breasts.

He likes his mom's breasts a lot, yeah.

Isn't that just nature?

Way more well, usually, you grow out of that, like, what, 37 years ago? How old is he?

He's older and he, yeah.

36 years, Yeah, usually you would grow out of that 35 years ago.

He was honking him.

He was really into his mom's boobs. Yeah, that is the source of life.

He was fondling it, was a weird dude.

It was very strange.

That weird, weird dude.

That might have been the weirdest, like self-promoted Instagram video of all time.

Yeah, maybe it's cultural.

Is that what happens in Cuba?

I don't know, I'm just trying to help him out. He did win a world series for me. Max, give us the quote.

Bro, I feel like a fat boy, you know, like, I'm fucking fat.

Can you send me that clip, please?

Yeah, it's the best. He's awesome, yeah.

Okay, good hot seat, cool thrones, guys, let's get to our interview with Mark Titus. We're going to break down the whole bracket before we do that. If you're trying to go to a March madness game, Game Time Did you know that you can get tickets to any of the basketball games coming up on Game Time?

In the door 172..

172.

Yeah, it was. I was guest number like three or four.

Three or four? It is Mark Titus.

Everybody was like, Who the fuck is this guest? Yeah, yeah, this podcast sucks now.

Our co-worker.

Just kidding, Mark.

He's been with us now at Barstool for almost over a year, over a year. First year review. You got to work better, you got to work harder.

I got to work.

I got to do more work. You suck, you're actually on a pip.

No, I said this last time I was here, I love it. It took a little while. Being a new guy here does suck, I will say that.

Yeah.

You have anything big for year two.

Face tattoo I'm getting a face tattoo. I think face tattoos. this is the golden era of face tattoos. They're everywhere.

I've noticed that there's a lot more people. Like, if you're a moderately successful punk musician now, or like a pop punk guy, you're getting teardrop tattoos on your face, we need to put something in place where we monitor if you have a teardrop tattoo. You should have killed somebody.

That's what I thought it meant, people are just doing it to look cool.

People just do it because they're depressed.

Do you remember when Mike Tyson got the face tattoo? and we all freaked out about it? Biggest thing ever? And now, I mean, if you watch the Grammys, like half the people there have face tattoos.

If you're an artist or an MMA fighter and you don't have at least neck, you're like, What have you been doing?

Yeah, so....

Yeah, but year one I thought went great.

Let me text my bosses, make sure it's okay.

Yeah, so this is good. Yeah, yeah.

I'm way more prepared, I will say, for this year's NCAA tournament. That was probably the hardest part. Is like, the second I signed on, it made a lot of sense for me to get hired right before the NCAA tournament. Because it's the, you know, it's my big time, I guess. But having, like, my first real assignment here, to be in the gambling cave with you and Dave and everybody else. When I really didn't know, I know Dave like a little bit. But like when I was in there, I had met Dave like three times in my life. And suddenly he's like screaming at me about picks.

Yeah, it was.

Like, this is weird.

Welcome to Barstool. Just sit here and be perfect.

We essentially put you into Navy seals buds training.

Yeah.

Where it's like, the first day they drown you and bring you back to life. They're like, all right now, you got to go lay in the ocean.

I mean, that is how college basketball guys recruit is. You show all the big-tittied women and all the gear and all the money. And then the second you're on campus, you're like, get on the line, we're running suicides. That's how it kind of felt for me. It was like, you're selling me on this dream in Chicago and this fantasy factory and all that. And I'm like, Yeah, dude, yeah, I'll sign right here.

Yeah, treadmill.

Yeah, go have Dave yell at you. And Big EV was yelling at me and I was like, Where the fuck am I?

We were just sending you links daily to smoke shows and guess that asses, and then you signed up here. You're like, okay, now you have to sit on a couch directly next to Mincy, yeah.

We hearted you.

Yeah, let Mincy breathe on you for a while.

I'll be better prepared this year.

Who was your final four last year?

Oh, not good. I had Bama winning it, which wasn't. Bama made the sweet 16. I can't remember who else I had, I had Bama winning it.

Who's your national champion this year?

North Carolina, So shout out to the Howard Wagner, Howard Wagner.

I actually, I mean, we could just dive into it, like, and we could start with the West.

Yeah.

I actually think that that is the most chaotic and ripe for upset.

Absolutely.

Region because I don't.