Kansas State And Gonzaga Win In Thrillers, Comedian Ari Shaffir + Fyre Fest Of The Week

Hey, Part of my Take Listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube Prime. members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music on Today's Part of My Take. We have March Madness, Great Sweet 16 Games. We also have an awesome interview with comedian Ari Shaffir. Very, very funny guy.

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We are watching the last three minutes of UCLA Gonzaga, UCLA forgot how to play basketball, and Max is losing his goddamn mind.

They haven't made a shot in ten minutes. Yeah, this is ridiculous.

They look so good in the first half.

They're not even fucking close to making a shot.

They're just passing back and forth to each other and just say, No, you shoot it, no, you shoot it. And then they just take a little fucking floater and it hits the front rim every fucking time.

Timmy is just eating your lunch right now.

Drew Timmy has become a fucking assassin. Drew Timmy is the best fucking player on the planet.

Every single time he wants to score, he scores.

They just missed that free throw.

Yeah, so for people who obviously follow the show, they know. For anyone who hasn't kept up with Max's wild world of wagers and is all spawning from the Super Bowl bet. I gave him $1,500 on my UCLA future, so he'd be standing to win like $12,000, $11,000. So he is living and dying with the Bruins who he picked, and everyone gets hurt when he picks a team. And they were looking like the best team in the world, the first half, yeah, the best team in the world.

I was already thinking about UConn, I wanted Uconn bad.

Yeah, because you hate Uconn, here's a three. And he missed it.

Another brick surprise, surprise.

The over's not going to hit either. This is brutal.

This is bad, this is really bad. I felt so good about this in the first half and then just utter shit. They played like dog shit the second half, Max.

They're also getting doubled up on rebounds.

It's like 46 to 24.

It's bad, this is a bad moment for the podcast.

Yeah, so we did watch an incredible, incredible sweet 16 game, game over, game over. Gonzaga just hit a three to go up ten. This has been an insane second half.

That's insane, it's ugly, but let's not let this overshadow the real story of the day. My guy, yes.

Incredible.

Short King holding it down for 5-8 guys everywhere, 5-7 5-8. Marquise Yeah.

He said He's 5-7 on a good day.

I heard he was 5-8.

Yeah, I was reading an article that he was saying himself, he's 5-7.

If he's 5-7, I'm 5-7.

Okay, there you go, you stand with him.

Yeah, I stand, I'll shrug my shoulders a little bit, bring my neck down, whatever, he's the fucking man. Marquise is incredible.

Mr. New York.

Mr. New York Marquise Yes. He had 20 points, 19 assists, 5 steals, 1 turned ankle, and he got America free chicken wings, too.

We were due.

We were due. Well, actually. Chicken wings asterisks because of the boneless ones, but whatever I'll take it, that still counts. I'm not going to look down my nose at free chicken.

He was so phenomenal, he had the ball on a string, it was just like everywhere he went on the court. He had perfect control of the entire game, he was making passes. Like, yeah, assists, not all assists are equal, because sometimes you can make an assist and a guy will hit an incredible shot.

He was almost throwing deflections off of his teammates hands into the basket. It was incredible to watch, it was magic. The play of the game was the fake alley-oop where he was like yelling at his coach, Yes.

Yep.

And Noel saw his teammates streaking out of the corner of his eye as he was talking to his coach. And in one fluid motion through the alley-oop.

It was perfect.

So it wasn't drawn, which is actually somehow more impressive. Because I was going to say, like the balls on Tang to run that play in that moment. That's incredible. But the fact that Noel saw that and made it happen himself even better.

It was basically perfect basketball, he was playing perfect basketball. He even threw in a couple. You know, I'm just going to say, fuck it and try to shoot from the logo, which he's allowed. Yeah, missed a couple of those, but that doesn't matter because he completely dominated that game.

Yeah, and stay woke on the logo thing because they're making the logos bigger so you get more logo threes.

But he did shoot it very far.

He did, he did a couple of heat checks on those. This is just complete vindication for many of us who have asked in the past Is Tom Izzo overrated? Yeah.

He's not, he's not. But we did get a little salty. Tom Izzo after he said that they had some lucky shots, you know, mostly talking about Noel's bank shot, when he basically lost the ball, recovered it.

Listen, I'd rather be lucky than good sometimes.

Yeah, yeah, so it was. It was an incredible game. It was a truly like one of those games that you'll remember March Madness Games, Max checking in on you.

I mean, there's never been a game that's ever been more over than this game.

Oh, really.

I knew that it was over 10 minutes ago. There's never been worse body language on a basketball team than UCLA has shown since the 10-minute mark of the second half. Max, I love your passion, but don't get too downers. I mean, you've got at least you've got Harper and Hoskins, right? mm-hmm.

What, what happened? I mean, this is a bad time to be asking me about that.

I saw him go down with an injury. Did they do an MRI? Have they checked in on him? I don't know, he's dead.

Are you injury shaming him? No, I'm not injury shaming him, but if he fielded the ground ball cleanly, he doesn't tear his ACL.

It sounds like you're saying he's a lightweight pussy. I just hate UCLA so much.

Dude, you picked this team, I know I picked them.

You could have picked Zaga. Everyone got hurt.

You could have picked Zaga.

Clark got hurt.

Adam Bona got hurt again.

I didn't even know that when I started watching this game. And maybe he could have stopped Timmy once.

It's blood money for the Eagles Super Bowl loss, but who cares, it's over.

We still have Max Homa in the Masters.

UConn might be the best looking team in the tournament so far overall. Start to finish every game well, No.

Yeah, the first half and the first half against St. Mary's, they were down and Iona, but yeah, they have in complete games, they have dominated their opponents.

Maybe Alabama, yeah, it's like Alabama, Uconn, those are the two teams that you look at. What is Stephen Chey like?

Yeah.

Yeah, Houston struggled a little at all, but I mean, I guess if you just go in complete games, yeah, those are the three. Because UConn has absolutely killed their opponents. They've come out a little slow in the first two games, but this one, it was right from the jump.

You can't have water during Ramadan.

I don't think so, maybe water.

Still, I was saying earlier, I can't podcast if I haven't eaten during the day. I don't know how you can play a basketball game.

Oh, wow, UCLA just hit a shot. Drinking water during the hours of fasting is not permitted. Oh.

We're learning more. I was talking Islam.

Also, Marquis de Waal is listed at 5'8. We'll height check him, yep, we'll height check him.

Then I'm 5'8".

But I mean, that's, yeah, that's every, every 5'7 guy says. they're 5'8".

That's not true, I'm 5'8 and I say I'm 5'9".

Yeah, that's true. So you just round every, actually no, every guy under six feet rounds up.

We get one inch. Yeah, you got to give us a little bit of time.

I think, I mean, it's your shoes, yeah, you're one inch taller in your shoes.

If I'm wearing my 270s, I don't know what kind of air bubble he had on that pocket, but yeah, he looks 5'8 to me, yeah.

And then so Uconn throttled Arkansas, and then Rick Barnes choked yet again. And that was a game where Tennessee felt like they were in control. And then Fau went on like a 20-4 run in the second half, and Fau's just good. I think they've tricked a lot of people because one they didn't have to play.

They're a very good team, they scare me. I'm going to be rooting for Kansas State, that's my team now.

I think the world is saying.

Yeah, yeah, Marquis Noel is like a trans. He's a transcendent player. To the point where I the first thing I did when the game was over, I called my dad and I was like, Dad, did you watch that?

Yeah, no, I texted my dad. I was like, Did you watch?

It's a major get in touch with your dad to make sure that they saw that. So I'm pulling a hundred percent behind Kansas State for the rest of this tournament. But I am worried about FAU because they're a damn good team and their guards are awesome.

Yes, and obviously we. We mentioned it on a Monday show, but Kansas State has the team of Destiny with Keontae Johnson. So that they got, they got everything going right. And Willie, the Wildcat, Willie the Wildcat and Bosco clapping out of out of rhythm. Everything's going for them. And the lavender, the lavender pops. Jerome Tang is awesome.

Max.

I've already considered this game dead. Okay, that was for sure a charge.

That was absolutely charged. He, uh, he said. That was the best game he's ever played in his life. Yeah, pretty good time to do that.

It was the best game I've ever watched in my life out of a single player. Like you can, you can point to other individual performances in the tournament, especially with like, hot scores that just can't be stopped. But the way that he took over the entire court was unreal. He was. It's it's. I ordered a Marquise Noel jersey, which I just realized is going to be completely, well, not really obsolete, but I've got it.

Maybe if they get to Houston, if they get to Houston.

I'll be able to wear it while he's still playing.

You know what it is, it is cross sport analogy. Yeah, we can do those. Uh, it was a little bit, I felt like a little bit like Messy, where when Messy has the ball on his foot and he controls it and it's on a string. That's what it felt like with Noel, where it's like, even like his passes across the court. Like they were trying to trap him a couple of times, but they couldn't. Because he can throw it, he can hit someone from across the court in perfect stride, in perfect motion.

You know me, I'm a bit of a N.B.A. draft, Nick, and I've been putting together my big board. I've got Marquise Noel going one overall ahead of Women. Yum.

Drew Timmy, too.

Drew Timmy's going three behind women. Okay, but then after that there's a steep drop off to the next level. I actually predict that he will. Uh, he's going to have like a 15 year career in Europe, and he's going to play for a team in every single country, basically.

Listen, I think a team will give him a shot in the N.BA. He's not going to be, you know, maybe a late round draft pick. But like, if you, if you have that. Like he short guards obviously struggle, he's very short, it sucks.

But is it perfectly average?

He could, he could absolutely be, you know, a second team guy who comes in for a few minutes and tries to get things going.

Yeah, I mean, he's all heart.

Uh, what was? uh, what was T.J. Augustine's height? See, this is the problem with NBA players. It was like, 5'10, yeah, like when you do like, 6'1".

Yeah.

Nate Robinson Yeah.

You could get still praying for him, remember that?

Is he? Where is Nate Robinson?

Shadow Realm.

Isaiah Thomas was six, Oh, the other Isaiah Thomas.

Oh yeah.

Other Isaiah Thomas.

Okay, the good one, the good one, the one. wait, which good one, the Celtics one.

Yeah, so yeah, there you go. He's just got to be Isaiah Thomas, he's got to grow one inch and be Isaiah Thomas.

I would draft him, I would honestly draft him.

Yeah.

Uh, this game. Where are we at Max? Give us an update.

Uh, we have momentum, we have momentum, okay, but it's still bad.

We have momentum.

I'd rather have a lead.

How do we get momentum with three ball out of bounds? This is this is the exact date of the Adam Morrison game The Adam Morrison Game. I rewatched the last like two minutes on YouTube, but I forgot how much of a collapse Gonzaga was. And that big guy getting the ball in the corner, Adam Morrison throwing to the big guy who just stood there with the ball over his head and got it stripped. Also the shorts, it's definitely like the biggest old thing ever, but like the I love the shorts.

What did you expect? This is actually and one.

And one?

We're back.

74-70 with 45 seconds left. Max is going to have an aneurysm.

I think, I think with, uh, with Johnny Fanta. We talked to him about Rick Barnes and and we kind of made the excuse like Rick Barnes. Since there are no expectations, we can't hold any losses against him this tournament. I've reversed on that take because that was so ugly in the second half. Yes, you got, you got your ass kicked by Fau.

It was, yeah, they absolutely killed him.

As the game went on, he kept looking more and more and more like an old, retired, like Catholic priest.

Turns out.

It's very sad.

Turns out, you need to make shots to win games.

Yeah, it helps, it helps if you have some players that don't base their entire, uh, their entire low post game off being like a jokic brother. Yeah, just throwing elbows into people's mouths.

All right, here we go. 74-71. 45 seconds left, the inbound of the ball. And they're fouling, What are they doing? They're doing the fouling.

Yes.

This will get my over to it.

I don't.

Why would you foul there? You're down one possession.

I can't believe you fouled for that, I thought you knew it.

I was going to say that I don't know.

I thought there was some good 57%.

He's got some good news for you.

Miss it? I got some good news for you. Oh oh, you missed it.

I didn't know it was 57. Yeah, this is five head.

Oh man, Max, at least the, uh, the Eagles are going to get Ezekiel Elliott. He was good like five years ago. I fucking hate Ezekiel Elliott.

Clip it.

Hank is diabolical. Hank actually plays 17 dimensional chess. Whenever there's, whenever there's like a slight possibility that something heartbreaking will happen to Philadelphia, Hank becomes a genius.

Yeah, uh, uh, by the way, the other story I had, oh and uh. He scores, so it's 75 73, 33 seconds left.

Five seconds steal it.

And they're going to not steal it, they're going to have to foul again. What are they doing?

Oh, oh, they're not fouling.

They're trapping timeout.

Okay, good d.

Uh, how about this guy who's going around saying he's Lamar's agent?

Oh yeah.

That guy rules. What's his name? Uh, fuck, I got to look it up, I swear to God.

It's not me, although I. I have done many of the things that Lamar's fake agent is being accused of doing, but I have not ever represented myself as actually working.

The NFL had to release a statement being like, Hey, everyone, don't. If this guy calls you, he's not Lamar's agent. But there was another, Uh, this guy's a wheeler in New York. Ken Francis Yep.

You think, I think in Francis is like, when, uh, when Donald Trump used to do the, uh, John Baron voice, yeah, where he'd call people and give quotes as his representative, yeah.

I like Ken Francis, I'm going to say it, I know the this is illegal and you shouldn't do this. But to go from, uh, pitching a home gym invention to calling up N.F.L. teams, being like, I'm here on behalf of Lamar Jackson, that's just great fake business going on.

It's the most Florida man thing ever. You didn't even have to read the rest of the description. He just stopped it at Florida man.

And he's got, you know, he's got the Bluetooth, and he's walking around, he's got the holder for his phone. He's just going into, like a local coffee shop, doing big time business, calling up NFL Team.

I see him sitting down in a Starbucks and putting his feet up on a table, like it's his home office, and he's not even wearing socks.

Please, please, please, I'm on the phone with the colts right now.

This is a very important call, sir.

Chris Bauer just offered me a four years for 220 million. I'm going to try to get them up.

Yeah, I'm talking to the to the Saints because they know that there's no such thing as a salary cap. Did you see that? Yes, the Saints are.

It doesn't exist.

No, it's not, it's cap.

It truly is every, every single time anyone says anything about the cap. I'm like, Well, they'll just cut a couple of players and do some weird contracts and they're good players. They'll just renegotiate and pay them more right now and not pay them more later. And they'll kick the can down the road and they'll be fine.

Do you think there's somebody in the league office who's in charge of, like, looking over every spreadsheet from every team and finding out who is actually violating the cap? It seems to me like the cap is just like an honor system thing.

Yeah, no, they call them once a year and they're like, you good? and they're like, Yeah, we're good. We're going to be under it.

It's like, Elf on a shelf. Yeah, they're like, No, we've got a guy, he's right, he's, he's watching your transactions very, very closely.

This is crazy. They missed a foul shot. It's 75 73 with 25 seconds left.

It's like the threat of getting in trouble is what keeps people from violating the cap.

What did you just whisper, Max? What did you just whisper? No, no, no, say it again. I said, Hank, you can't say, like, what'd he say?

You bitch.

Oh, okay, that's fine, yeah.

What's wrong with that?

What'd you think? he said. There it is, there it is, showing Drew Timmy's mom on the screen.

I was not talking about Drew Timmy's mom.

Wanted on the record?

What'd I say before the game started? Drew Timmy's foul shooting issue?

Yeah.

Highlight it, underline it. It's an issue, it's an issue. Come on, Max.

Come on Max, come on, come on Max. UCLA with the ball 75 73..

Oh my god.

Three pointer up.

Come on, dude, I fucking hit it, I fucking hit it. No, you didn't. There's 12 seconds left, you idiot.

There's 12 seconds left, you idiot, I know, but that was a great shot.

Excited about good shots? You got to be able to celebrate the beauty of basketball right now.

No, I'm excited about the good shot. You started screaming, I fucking did it. No, I said, I fucking love this team. Did anyone else hear him say? I fucking did it?

I don't know.

I was just too amped up, I thought, you said, I fucking did it.

I have a lot on it, yeah.

Max Everybody in this room actually has, yeah, we're all in this together, but we're all counting on you. Yes, you're the leader.

And I just want a team to get to the final four in Houston, and if UConn plays UCLA, I'll have that. I'm out of breath. He's John Wooden's son, yeah.

He's also like 85.

Titus did draw an interesting thought when we were streaming. It's like, UCLA has a very good history in basketball, and maybe because it's so long ago, but I don't hate them whatsoever.

No.

I think they're cool, not yet, not at all, because they've got the teams in. The nineties were awesome, they were fun to watch.

The Pyramids.

The pyramids, yeah, the Pyramid of success, yeah.

Kevin Love was so much fun and he was fat, he was fat.

And the outlet passes.

The outlet passes, Yeah, Russell Westbrook.

We need to make a part of my take pyramid of success.

Yeah.

Losing bets? There's every single one of them.

Tyus Hedney Coast to coast, Yeah, UCLA's fun, but it's very rare that you'd have a team that can boast that many national titles. These guys, what are they doing?

You know how we were talking about how Drew Timmy can come back and play another year if he wants to.

Hank just made a very bad face about a woman on the screen. No, I'm looking at the game.

I'm nervous, I'm nervous.

She was an L.A. woman with maybe some plastic surgery. I'm nervous. Hank just threw up again for the second time this week on a part of my Take podcast. All right, 76-75 UCLA.

They ran the play.

And he hit it, and he nailed it, and he nailed it, and he nailed it.

Oh my God, 78-76..

Tiger Campbell Coast to coast.

Oh no, he's going to miss this. Oh, he got fouled. Oh no, Max, did Max say I did it?

They ran the play max.

That was the Villanova play.

That was the Villanova play, oh my God, that was using his favorite play of all time against him. That's on you, Max. that one is definitely on you.

I need to listen back, Is there any way that we can? I wish we had our new studio, we could listen back to everything right away.

Right hank.

Yeah, yes. Can we listen back?

They ran.

How long will it take for us to upload if we go to Ari Shafir and then we come back for Firefest?

They ran the Philly special play on you, Max.

They ran the Philly special on You, Max Max.

That's on you.

Max, You need to talk, don't text.

You need to talk, I can't believe.

That's my play.

Okay, we're still alive.

We're not alive. Damn what a game. UCLA and Gonzaga just only play bangers, and that was like the end of the Morrison game.

Do you miss this if you're the Zags?

Yes, I think you do yes on purpose.

No timeouts, yeah.

No, I think you missed this on purpose, no, but they have no timeouts. You want to tie the game, you don't want to, you want to leave a shot for a heartbreaking loss.

And the worst?

The best you can do is tie right, all right, but if they miss this shot.

But hey, catching a rebound, they had to turn around immediately and shoot.

Yeah, the best they could do is like a 75 footer if they make this shot.

They can throw the ball in.

They can maybe get like a actual three, I'll take a guarantee.

They just added a mystery .3 seconds on the clock.

He made it okay, Max. There's no chance he's getting this, so I don't know why. We have our hopes up game over.

Oh my god.

He had an incredible look, he had an incredible look.

That was a great play.

He had an incredible look.

Max The Philly Special.

Max, You ruin everything, UCLA goes down, all of us have UCLA, you ruin everything, you know what?

Quick spin zone for everyone.

Uh, Max, this should make you feel better. The what?

You hit your over.

No, no, I wouldn't do that to you twice, but I'm going to do it to you. Overs are back. Uh, yeah.

I don't care about this team like this is one thing like, I definitely don't care.

You got all.

No, I really don't like, I don't. I wanted them to keep winning with the potential of winning a lot of money like that was. That was fun to me, yeah.

You have won $12,000.

I think it was, I think it was, it was 10 to one.

Oh so, you would have won 11.

Damn.

That's a lot of money, man, yeah.

I would've enjoyed that bought a car.

Well, no, he is buying a car.

I am buying a car, car max.

I sold my car to Hank for $1 two years ago, he's selling it to Max for $2..

It's a businessman.

So Max, you know, you have to now sell this car for $4. In a couple of years, we got to see if we can get a million dollar car.

Just keep going it up.

Hank real quick as a as a math anomaly person. How long would it take for the car to be worth a million dollars if you sold it every two years for a hundred percent profit?

Every two years, yeah.

90 years.

I think it'd be more than that.

I think it'd be way less than that.

90 years for a $2 no wait, a $2 profit, or a two no double, double double.

I think it would be.

Every two years, so 45 times.

My guess, off the top of my head is 20 years.

One, two, three, four. This is terrible podcasting, someone talk five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 16, 17, 18, 19..

He's just doing times two.

19.

19 years.

19, so 38 or 19 times, yeah, so 40 years.

That's what I meant, I meant 20 times, I'm bad at math.

Really bad at math. Were you ever thinking about maybe selling it to him for, like, five grand?

No.

I would've been so mad.

I would've been so mad.

It was like a midnight profit, all right, Max, you ruin everything.

Yeah.

Yeah, bad guy.

Bad guy, incredible game zone. These were like, phenomenal. that was, yeah, two incredible, sweet 16 games.

Villanova's still in the nit, though. Nope.

No damn.

Villanova shout out Wisconsin, the last Big ten team playing basketball? Yeah, that did happen.

I just want to say.

I tweeted an unreleased Super Bowl picture, too. Oh, no.

It's not the new one, is it?

New Super Bowl picture drawn.

I just look really fat.

I had to do a live look at UCLA.

Are you going to ever put the vomit picture out?

That's a bad one.

I mean, yes, eventually, yeah. How many more do you have?

There's a few.

Hey, save the puke one for the Celtics 76ers. You have some of the good ones. I've got some really good ones, yeah.

Well, yeah.

I don't think they'll make it past the summer.

And if you're looking at the picture, the shirt on his lap is full of puke. Just know that.

I still wear that shirt, by the way. Oh my God, I've washed it.

Bad guy, No bad guy.

No, I like that shirt.

But you let the puke like marinate for like five days and then washed it. No.

Oh, that's the morning after in the lobby.

Oh man, all right, let's go to our interview with Ari Shafir, a hilarious comedian, and we have a great conversation with him, so let's do that.

Thanks Bud, it's great to be here. good to finally meet you guys.

Yeah.

We were having a debate before we started whether we can fart on command.

I think you can.

You give me a five-minute window, I'll fart for you.

All right, so then just do it at some point.

I'll fart during this interview. You have to guess when it is.

It might be silent.

I assume it'll be when I hear a fart sound.

So wait, is this? So it's good to have you on? Thank you.

I'm sorry I was never in the NFL.

No, it's okay, but you are one of. We love to have comedians on, especially comedians that also like sports.

Yeah.

And you are, you check that box.

I do love sports, I was a practice player for the Maryland basketball team, really Maryland Women's basketball Team.

Okay, I was going to say, Yeah, I was like, What are you going up against Juan Dixon? So maybe you played golf in college, right?

I did play golf in college, I was, I think, the worst athlete in all of college. That year, I shot a 143 in competition, okay?

143.

Yeah, both coaches were laughing at me.

Was that the first time you'd played golf?

No, I'd played before, I was just not, I was not good and the pressure got. I'm like a 120. Okay, yeah.

You're talking to 120s in this room, so that's good.

I'm a 146, so I aspire to be where you're at. But did they have cuts, or was it just no? Because to me, that sounds like a hell of a deal. You show up and you're like, I'm a Maryland golfer and you get free Greens fees.

No, that was at Yeshiva University, my first year, I went to a different school near here. We didn't have a course, Maryland had a course, 17 bucks.

Yeah, I mean, I've said it before, but you can shoot whatever you want in golf, you just fill it out. Like, I went to Shinnecock where they played the U.S Open. And I filled out a 72 and everyone was like, Holy shit, I didn't know you were that good, and I was like, Yeah, dude shot a 72..

You figured it out?

Yeah, it's like, I don't know why everyone stresses about their golf game when you can just put whatever score you want.

Yeah, they always come down to people like you signed an incorrect scorecard, they're like, No, I didn't, yeah.

Well, yeah, I did, I made up every hole.

So yeah, I absolutely did. I stand by it, yeah.

But so the Beacon theater headlining on Friday. Is this like a career checkmark for you?

Yeah, for sure. I've wanted to do this for a while. It's a big homecoming show, I got special guests coming out, I don't know.

No, no, you can say whatever the fuck you want.

I appreciate you guys.

You can say whatever you want.

Fuck, shit, fuck cunt jizz. how's that fuck coming?

Oh, shit, I forgot about it actually. I'll start marinating right now. I read online this might be something fake that somebody just wrote about you, so you can correct me if I'm wrong. That you're the Lakers number one hater.

That is true. You hate the Lakers. fuck the Lakers, dude. fuck the Lakers. I've never liked the Lakers.

Is it personal?

Yeah, it's personal. I used to live in L..A. Every time they had fucking playoff games, no one would come out. Could be up 3-0 in the first round as a one seed. And people are like, they're such fucking bandwagon fans, fuck all of them.

And I would imagine it's gotten a little more personal after the Kobe tweet.

No, I dominated that city.

Do you get upset when people are like, Oh, wasn't there a Kobe tweet guy? and don't actually remember your name? Because I bet you there's a lot of people like that, like, Who is that Kobe tweet guy?

Who is that guy? I'm like, I know, right, disrespectful.

Yeah, how could you do that? Yeah, that was a wild one. I do appreciate that you will say a lot of shit that a lot of people won't say, yeah. And that, like, sense of humor, especially now, really plays because you're making jokes and you're making statements and you'll stand by them.

Dude, it's so funny you see everyone bow down to this, like, worry about, like, not fitting in now. Yeah, I think as comedy got popular, everybody. And then all you got to do is stay in the pocket and still just fucking light people up.

Right, like, you must feel like you have a superpower at some times.

Exactly.

Because you're just like, Yeah, I'll fucking make a joke about this.

Yeah.

And everyone's like, No, you can't do that.

Shane Gillis says it, he's my down syndrome friend, and he says it the best he goes. You get three, four comics in a row at the comedy cellar, going like, you know, injustice is terrible, you know, and then all you got to do is come on and go, injustice rules.

The videos that you would do, the amazing racist stuff was very, very funny and there was an element of that. But also I did. A lot of people like, watch those videos. And they would just like, laugh at the racist jokes and not realize that. Like, you were making fun of that stereotype as well, yeah.

For all the people who got mad at me, thinking I was like, completely serious, you'd have some people being happy because I thought I was serious, yeah.

They're like, finally, someone's saying it.

You got the balls to say it, man, thank you.

Appreciate it. I was like me and my buddies were in Vegas for the March madness. We would go for, like, opening round, scamble on everything women's included, like always. Bet on Colgate to cover the 44-point spread.

You didn't get the joke.

You didn't get the joke? Yeah, I was like, Oh my God, yeah.

I mean, we're obviously big sports fans, March, madness, what's your guys, sport, football, all of them.

Okay.

Football is mostly a football podcast, but yeah, I love March Madness. I mean, I love to gamble, so March Madness is the absolute best.

It's great, anyone can win, yeah, a pool, anyone can win, yeah.

Larry Johnson Yeah.

And they kind of threw that game, yeah, I think they threw it to make it close, and then Duke was like, close enough to like, win, yeah.

It is the best, it's also the perfect. I was thinking about it. Why, like everyone in America, like, because college basketball has probably waned a little bit in popularity regular season.

The one-and-dones make it terrible. Yeah, yeah.

And every time you start talking about it, you sound like your dad, where you're like, these fucking kids don't stay for four years anymore. Yeah, yeah, but.

Stop calling traveling.

I'm out. The bracket is the perfect tournament and the way it leads up to it, where everyone has a conference tournament. It's like, it's what every other sport should aspire to be. Where it's like, yeah, maybe it's not the best team overall, but like, chaos happens, and if you get hot for six games, yeah.

That's all you gotta do is bring it together at the end. Yeah, and also they show you four versus what 12 13??

Yeah, four versus 13, yeah.

Yeah, and they show you right there, so if you have no idea, you're like, I think the four is better.

Yeah, four probably should be better.

It's also just this, just having one of these in your hand. The printed out bracket The entire page is covered two sides of a bracket. You can get behind that, even if you don't care about sports, even if you're like a math person. Yeah, like, there's a bunch of numbers on here.

The only better thing than that is the Super Bowl box pool. Yes, yeah, that's fun, where literally there's no knowledge involved in any way.

I also for that my barber shop in Brooklyn. I've probably lost, I don't know, like, three grand in the last seven years. I just give it to him. And I never actually get like, because I'll go get my haircut like a month later, I'll get a haircut like right before the Super Bowl and I probably have won it. And he just doesn't tell me, Yeah, he's like, Yeah, I never check in on what the numbers are.

Yeah, yeah, and they're not going to come back and be like, What's my box? you gotta upload that shit, dude, it's the internet.

It's always fun to go to a sporting, like any sporting event. And you play the 50-50 raffle, but then you leave before the raffle. So you're just basically like giving them.

Zero 100.

Here's $200. And then I'm going to leave and I'm just going to trust that I didn't win, yeah.

I mean, how much different is that than Bettsi? Yeah, yeah, where you're just pretty much giving them all your money.

I mean, I'm 50, if I win the 50-50 raffle, I'll be even on my life for the 50-50 raffle. That's how bad it. I just love playing it. I'm just like, Yeah, give me more tickets, give me more. I went to a Toledo football game this year and I must have had half the tickets. Because I spent like $1,000 on tickets. And I still wasn't even like, no, I wasn't even like three.

Numbers close.

So I think that shit's ridiculous.

Someone's got to do the math on that and figure out how much would it cost to buy all the tickets. And then you at least get 50 of your money back. Yeah, right.

Great investment, great investment. Do we know how many pools you have to fill out to ensure that you will win?

Oh, like, iterations and shit.

Yeah, of the NCAA.