Jon Rothstein, Day 1 Of March Madness, Aaron Rodgers Is Gone And Fyre Fest Of The Week

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No place to hang out or wash in, and I can't blame all on the sun. Oh no, we're gonna rock down to Electric Avenue and then we'll take it higher. Oh, we're gonna rock down to Electric Avenue.

And then we'll take it higher. Welcome to part of my take. Today is Friday, March 17th, and Joe Biden's bracket is busted. It's tough.

It's tough, once again, our President Biden. He submitted his polls after the official locations had closed. He did, he put in his votes. I think at like, I want to say 1245, Yep.

So he missed the deadline, but he had Arizona, a lot of people had Arizona. The good news is, we don't owe Joe Biden a billion dollars. Yes, well, we do not.

I haven't seen what my tax check is going to be like this year, so maybe. But he pandered to Arizona and his bracket is busted as long as as far. Whoa, I can't speak. This is let's just let's just set the stage. Yeah, well, his bracket is malarkey. Yeah, I. the bracket is, what is it?

Dog face pony boy. Yeah, yeah, dog face, pony soldier, pony soldier.

Just fat. Remember when Joe Biden? Just his brain stopped and he saw a dude who was asking him a hard question? He's like, Listen, fat, yeah, yeah.

You know what that is? He challenged him to a pushup contest. Listen, fat, all right. What I was trying to say is, this is the show.

We do it every year, it's this show and someday show where we are struggling. We are with everyone. We're in the foxhole, with everyone who loves March madness, who bets on March Madness, who has teams in March Madness, who's grinding. Loving every second of it, hating every second of it. We don't sound great.

We don't feel great, but we're here for the people. And what I was trying to say is his brackets broken. As as I can't do it, okay, I'll, I'll take over real quick, as well as everyone else's.

That's it. Joe Biden, Joe Biden fucked America. Yeah, no, everyone's brackets broke, yeah, including Jake Marsh, who, for the second year in a row, uh, he's not here right now.

He's doing the tightest show, uh? For the second year in a row, he lost his national champion on day one. Tough break for our college basketball expert. But it actually. It works perfectly because Jake has proven this year, as well as last year, that he fits in on the show because he's. If you're going to be wrong, you might as well be hilariously wrong at everything. He actually, it was funny because when Arizona got pounced, he came up to me. He's like, I remember last year when I when the same thing happened, he was like, Cause he, I think he had Kentucky.

Uh, he was like, you told me, if you're going to be bad, just be the worst. And I was like, Yeah, and you could tell. Like, he actually took that to heart and was like, This is, this is my way forward. We molded him, he adopted it this year.

Again, um, being dumb can be a career path. We have shown that, yes, and it can be a very loose.

Yes, absolutely. Oh wait, wait, we're all, we're all super dumb. That was Hank that was saying before the show that he doesn't have anything to say, Hank is Hank. Are you doing a show from the North Pole right now?

What would you like to say? I'm ice cold, it's not cold in this room, I'm cold. What was your record today?

I won my first bet of the day on the first half West Virginia Under. I won my last bet of the day on a UCLA spread and that put me at two and 27. That's tough, it's not how you start, it's how you finish.

It's so diabolical. And this happened, I think last year as well, that that the NCAA tournament and that's usually starts the day after payday. Yeah, how dare you? how dare you, sir?

And St. Patrick's Day, we should have mentioned that Billy's not here because he's celebrating for the next three weeks, celebrating White History Month, right?

Yeah, he's got a lot of plans for St. Patrick's Day, mostly just not getting in fights. Uh, yeah, so we're here.

It was a great first day of tournament, We had an incredible upsets. I know it wasn't a great day for us. But I'm saying for people who are listening, who maybe don't gamble, they saw and they watched it and it was madness. We had the Furman buzzer beater, not buzzer beater, but close to a buzzer beater, we had Princeton crazy upset.

Third year in a row, we've had a 15 seed take down, a two seed. It's basically happens now every single year. It feels like oral Roberts. Two years ago, St.

Peter's last year and now Princeton this year. Hank, you just gave Pft a side eye. do you want to? We're going to bring up bad blood this early, we should probably get it out in the open here. I actually gave him the side eye and then I realized I just don't have it in me. Well, I attracted the side.

I do, I don't, I don't. I'm getting side eyed right now, I can't fight when I'm dead. So so I put together a hot parlay this year. Streets.

We're talking about it. I parlayed every single one seed to win money line, along with every single two seed. And then what does Hank do? Hank comes out and he bets every two seed to lose at halftime money line. Right? Just just spitting in my face.

Hank Hank is truly addicted to plus signs. So much so that he would just straight up take a bet that I have and then see that the opposite side is plus and then just go right in my face. But both of you lost, we both lost because of Hank's bad vibes, Hanks, yeah.

And it was, but when you explained to me, completely separate, when you explained to me what you're doing, PFt, I had, I had a moment where I was like, just remember. Like, there will be a moment in these next two days where there'll be a 15 seed, putting the two seed to the brink and everyone will be rooting for the 15 seed. And it will suck to have it and you're like, yeah, yeah. And then we got to that moment, it was like, This sucks.

Oh yeah, I felt like such an asshole. Rooting for Arizona. Why would I? Why was I rooting for Arizona? It made no sense. But it was worse knowing that Hank was back there, just cackling, just rubbing his fingers together, like like gargum oil from the smurfs, being like, I've got them.

I've got PFT right where I want them, in your defense there, in my defense there. I wasn't really focused on you. I was in a room with Jake, he was legitimately like squirming.

Up and down, and I was getting a little bit of satisfaction watching Arizona lose. I'm not, I'm not. I can't lie. I wasn't thinking about you really, although you did call me small, which was crazy.

But yeah, it is what it is. It was hard for your loss. Honestly. No, you're not. It was quite. it was quite something, all right.

So Princeton beats Arizona. Incredible upset. I think Arizona didn't score for like the last six minutes. Mark Few's legacy passing off just tragic losses to Tommy Lloyd to take with him to Arizona. Arizona was feeling themselves after winning the Pac-12 championship like a lot of people were picking them to win it all.

And now you have Alabama in the South region, Virginia and Arizona lose, they now have. It's officially official that if they don't make it to the final four, it's the biggest disaster in sports. Yeah, yeah, also with with the Arizona-Princeton game, Arizona was kind of lucky.

It wasn't worse because Princeton didn't shoot well. I think they ended four, was it four for 25 from three? They shot? So that's 16 from three and just 40 shooting overall on the day. So it could have been way worse.

Like, this was not a fluke. Arizona's offense stunk in the second half and the last part of the first half as well. Yeah, they're a flawed team and Princeton is this is going way back, but like, they do just feel like a tournament team. Because it's just etched in your memory. Them running the backdoor cut over and over, and over and over again.

And their coach is just so Ivy League like he, he looks like he should be a lawyer, and instead he's coaching basketball. They, I mean, there were. It was legitimately fun to watch that type of upset happen in an Ivy League. And I actually say they have sick jersey colors, they do have non-ivy.

They have non-Ivy jerseys and their and their gym, Google, their gym. Their gym is awesome. I actually think their gym is so cool that Princeton by far is the funnest Ivy League school to root for.

Think about it. I mean, I probably can't name them all. There's Penn, which technically is Ivy League, there's Cornell, I would, the only one, I would say, Yale, Harvard.

The only one I'd say is Chris Berman's Brown, cause Brown is like, Who goes to Brown? Yeah, a bunch of weirdos, Brown's pretty cool.

Brown's cool to root for in football. yeah, Princeton's cool to root for in basketball. Yeah, I agree.

Yeah, Princeton's the coolest basketball school. Look, google their gym. it's fun. It's one of those random gyms I just look at every now and then, which says a lot about me.

But it is a very, very cool gym. So yeah, Princeton Basketball won the day, I would say they won the day, I think Furman did.

Furman I mean, but the way that it ended, too, is just insane, for I guess it's not insane anymore. Furman, though. Yes, Furman's comeback.

Look at that, that's a good gym, put it up on the YouTube, you see the see how like, weird it is top fucking cool ass gyms.

That's sick, I would, I would fuck this gym. Yeah, yeah, very cool gym.

Yeah, so Furman, um. Kihei Clark, who had one of the greatest passes in NCAA tournament history in the overtime win. The year they won the championship against, or, sorry, yeah, the other one, the championship against, uh, Texas Tech, uh, they did that.

He did that against Purdue, member of the overtime game. I'm just repeating myself, he had that pass that was incredible, and then he had one of the worst passes NCAA history.

When he gets trapped in the corner, just lobs it up and Furman gets it, hits a three, wins the game. That was awesome. What's? Also I have a question, What's a paladin? a paladin?

The score is like, it's like 76 67.

Right race car radar? Yeah, it's a, I want to say, it has something to do with a horse. Probably a night.

All right, I saw a lot of horses out there. The paladins also called the 12 Peers, or 12 Legendary Knights, the foremost members of Charlemagne's court in the eighth century. That's lame.

That's kind of they they have to be canceled by now, right? Like, like the the Knights of the round table, yeah, he definitely did something fucked up.

Here's a cool thing for Furman. Now everyone knows the paladins. Like, I wouldn't have been able to tell I will forget by tomorrow morning. That's that's a promise to you.

The end of that game was so crazy, though. He gets trapped. There wasn't even really anybody who was passing to No. He threw the ball like three quarters of the way down the court hank. Cover your ears. It's giving Jacoby Myers Jacoby Myers type pass.

It was just picked off great interception at mid court and it was like, skills. You say he threw it far, he really didn't, he threw it high.

He seemed like he wanted to throw it all the way down the court. He threw it to, like half court. It would have been better if you threw it high and it went all the way down the court, right? I think that's what he thought he was doing.

It was a Zach Wilson pass, cause he threw it. And then when they zoomed out, you're like, there's gotta be a guy there, and there wasn't a guy anywhere close.

I'm going to wait until the All 22 comes out. But it looks like maybe his receiver ran the wrong route. Yeah, I feel bad for him, He's like a fifth year senior, obviously had a great career. Um, terrible way to end.

I do, I am going to the NBA, or is that it?

No, I don't think so. That's tough. My shoes are are blocking the course, like, can you grab me a water too? I'm going to lose my voice.

Um, no, he's, I don't think he's going to the N.BA. So it was a tough one, but I want to say we we got beat to a take that I'm very upset about. Pat, 40, uh, who's a college, uh basketball football writer, very good writer, uh. He had a article after the game that said Virginia's upset lost to Furman further proves 2019 national title was a fluke. Well, I mean, look it up, because the last four years of UVA. In the tournament, they lost in the round of 64, won the Natty loss in the round of 64, lost in the round of 64. Do they suck?

I don't even think their national title counts anymore. That was that was a Covid here, technically, right? No, no. 2019. Oh, that's right, yeah.

That I was, that's why I thought it was, Yeah, 2019 is pre Covid, yeah.

Uh, it was I. I'm. I'm going to find myself agreeing with Pat 40 the more I think about it. Yeah, it was a fluke.

I mean, they should fire Tony Bennett, it's what you do. Yeah, he should go coach Wisconsin, that wouldn't be bad.

No, it's it's what you do around your your championship that people remember you for, not the championship. I think Tony Bennett's one of the coaches. There's probably only like two or three that still remain that need to be wearing a suit. I know they relaxed the rules, Tony Bennett, uh, Jim Kilpari should be wearing a suit and Rick Pitino should be wearing.

Williams had a nice buzz, Williams had a three piece on that was nice. I also the Virginia basketball, cause it's it's similar to Wisconsin basketball.

It's not fun to watch people take a lot of joy when they fail. Yeah, cause they're like, I don't like watching you play basketball, get out of this tournament. see, I like watching UVA play basketball.

If all of college basketball was like that, I would hate it, but it's good to have one team that's around that's just playing that ugly. They are there, they keep things slow, they, they muck it up, they just do a bunch of curls right at the foul line.

They take, they take like 28 seconds to shoot. It's fun to have one team that does that. Yeah, yeah, but but you know what I mean?

Like, there's always, UVA gets more anger than they probably deserve, just because everyone's sick of watching them play basketball. And they are the Ivy League of the South. As they'll remind you and shout out me for being a total shit for brains loser who gave out Furman all week. And then went against myself. And then, on top of it, had to do the Ray Allen tweet Yeah.

Still, I mean, I mean, our show is big and we have a lot of listeners and we love all of our listeners. But you forget when you do the Ray Allen tweet, there's a lot of people who don't know what you're doing. I could tell by Big Cat's reaction, he was so excited to do the Ray Allen tweet. And then, right before you did it, you tweeted out a warning, and then after you did it, you. You tried to cover it up again, just to make sure.

And then, and then I tweeted at you and said, Yo big cat, you accidentally tweeted this, and then I. I could tell that you were a little bit on edge, that there were so many people that are like, Whoa is big cat being horny on main right now? No, I wasn't on edge. It was just funny because there were so many people. It was like an instant 70 quote treats and people being like, Bro, what's wrong with you?

Yeah, did you get ratioed? Someone said. This is exactly how I imagined white men sex. They're like the boys. It was. I had another one that was like the barstool.

Boys are being shitty again. Don't be degenerate. Impossible challenge.

Literally, they know we don't get late ever. Yeah, so that was, it was voice to text jokes on them, yeah.

It was just guys hanging out in a casino. But yeah, Furman, So Furman and Princeton won the day on the Vegas Bombs, for sure.

Um, what else? I mean? There was, uh, some dramatic, there was some other dramatic. Like, there's another team, there's another team that I would say won the game one day, and that would be Penn State.

Yes, Penn state. If if they play like this, nobody can beat them. Dude. Andrew Funk, What are you laughing at, Max?

Hank just looks so, so sad right now, so sad you look like every time you bring up one of his.

Audio this huge sigh. I did say Penn State, so watch it, watch it on the YouTube. But Hank, right now, it looks like Bernie Sanders at the inauguration.

You said you love tech, Sam. I said, Penn State, we got to stick together. Boys. Yeah, um, I, I went with my heart on this one, I went with A and M cause.

I liked Buzz. I wanted to see the Texas versus Texas A and M matchup. Instead, we got A and M versus Penn State. In the battle of which loser has to admit they're a cult basically, so A and M, you lost that one.

And also A and M. This is just a lesson to ourselves. Whatever team complains about being underseated usually loses. I feel like cause like that was all Texas. A and M got screwed.

I said it myself, I was like, I thought they deserved a five seat and then they come out and they laid an absolute stinker. Penn State looks incredible. Andrew Funk.

Love this kid so goddamn much. Andrew Funk was eight for 10 from three, eight for 10 from three. Just absolutely unconscious. Those are the moments that you always remember in the tournament, like some guy who just gets blazing hot and absolutely torches a team.

And yeah, Penn State, I have a few other winners. Duke pulls up from deep, and he pulls up from deep. Yeah, Duke was a winner, Duke smashed.

Yeah, Charleston was like, a was one of those. uh or sorry, it wasn't San Diego State beat Charleston, yeah, who played Duke?

Or Roberts, or Roberts was like one of those teams that everyone was talking about. Oh, look at this, six points, love it. That was a never in doubt. I mean, I don't think Oral Roberts scored for the first eight minutes of the game.

It was an ass kicking. I was hoping that they weren't going to score, I was hoping that they'd get to like two minutes in the first half. When something's bad, you just want it to get worse sometimes. And as somebody that bet on oral just so that I could make oral, Roberts jokes later. Unfortunately, they stole that from us.

Society took that from us. Uh, the loss is really on the listeners for not having to listen to me say like, oral sucks for seven hours, but it's, uh, I wanted to. I won my bet to lose way, way, way, way worse because it was so comically bad. Yes, but Duke was incredible, Duke was like.

All the credit in the world goes to what Duke's been able to do in the last 12 months since they read themselves of the plague. That was Coach K. This team probably wouldn't have made the tournament with coach No. Shire has the boy. Shire took a pile of shit and he grew a rose out of it.

And I have a little. I want to say something real quick because I think Hank was about to say it. But I'll say it, there's no way you're about to say what I was about to say.

Okay, I'll write it down and then you say, all right, all right, all right. If you're about to say this, then, like, you're David Blaine.

Okay, cause this is not about anything. All right, I'm not touching my keyboard, I'm not touching my keyboard.

Go ahead, you say what you're about to say. The Duke coaching staff sweaters look at that.

Shut up, look at that Shire sweater. I fucking wrote it down. you said. you said it like seven times on the fucking stream. You're just like, these sweaters are so cool.

These sweaters are so cool, I don't know if I have notes that you won't want to see. He's assuming the PFT can confirm I wrote Shire sweater right here, Shire sweater.

Yeah, confirmed, confirmed. I knew what you were going to say. It was a nice sweater.

Every time they showed him, we were like, those are the sickest sweaters I've ever seen. And what I was going to say is, I think John Shire's sweater is bringing Duke Hank's Duke fandom back. Yeah, well, I think a lot of Duke fans are sitting at home looking at.

Those, yeah, no, hank, Hank mentioned like four times. Every time they showed me, it's like, Oh my god, those sweaters. Well, no, cause it's like coaching.

It's like, you know, sometimes they go super casual, then there's sometimes they try and go with like shirts that are too casual. Sometimes I would try to wear polos, it's over casual. These look like really, really comfortable long sleeve athletic sweaters, but they were like sweaters.

If if Hank showed up wearing one of these sweaters, you wouldn't work out in it, it fits on a basketball court, you would.

It's a sweater Hank would wear to like his sister's graduation.

And everybody would be like, Hank definitely doesn't wear this on a regular basis. No, he would. It's a church sweater for Hank. Yeah, it's, it's, it's people, people, back me up.

Yeah, no, no, I thought they were, I thought they were very nice. He's revolutionizing the game. It's a D.

You make deals in that sweater, yeah, you show up to a client dinner and you're like, we're going to make some deals in this sweater. And everyone's going to know. I went to Duke like you did, but I'm also an athlete, but you're also an athlete, yeah.

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Okay, other games I got more winners. yeah, UCLA was a winner today.

Oh, yeah, they UCLA I was, I was talking to Titus before he walked out of here, and we came to the conclusion UCLA is America's team. Yeah.

They're they're the most fun blue blood to root for. They're kind of scrappy underdogs right now, not only with their head coach, but also they've lost a lot of players to injury. So Max, you live to fight another day, UCLA looked.

UCLA looked really good now, they're playing against UNC Asheville, but so, but you know what I'll say this about UCLA? They took care of business, they did you get credit for taking care of business in the tournament?

You?

Colgate for like, basically deceiving the public. For the third straight year in a row, I feel like Colgate gets talked about as the underdog pick for everyone. And every year they play a team and then the team's like, Wait, these guys aren't athletic.

We can beat them and it happened again. Yeah, they had us going for a while until Texas remembered, Oh, yeah.

We've got, we've got horses. It was it happened two years ago with Arkansas, having last year with Wisconsin, happened this year with Texas. I no offense to Colgate. They seem like a great college team. Whatever, but why do you say that? I don't know.

I'm just trying to be, I don't know. They keep winning their conference, so they doing something right, but then they get to the tournament and everyone's like, Colgate shoots a lot of threes, Colgate.

They can really change, change the pace of a game and and get an upset. And then Colgate gets absolutely killed and then we'll do it again next year. You remember? I think it was three years ago when we were in Chicago. Every mouth, Yeah, I think, well, no, Colgate did not win.

They got killed by Arkansas, they were the big Colgate. Stat that everyone likes to throw out is they've been leading in the second half of all of their games, okay, and then they lost to Arkansas by 17, yeah.

Colgate there. Maybe they did win that first game, I don't know, maybe they might have cause.

I think it was colgate, oral roberts, and then there was another mouth, lipscomb. Maybe it was the year of the mouth. Nope, they didn't. They lost by 17 to Arkansas in the first round.

So shout out Colgate, shout out Colgate. Great group of kids. Yeah, way to way to get everyone pumped up every year for the same result.

That was mean to Colgate, but I don't really care. Another winner, Arkansas, Arkansas. That was another, another one that I gave out the under. When I talked to stay and receive, it was a brick fest. Arkansas felt like Illinois was going to come back there. Moss is one game away from officially being Mr.

March, If he takes down Kansas, I think he's Mr. March, because that would be two straight years where he takes down a one seed and he'd go to another. Sweet 16, He's Mr. Sweet, 16, Mr.

March Yeah, and they're not going to have Bill Self. So that was another piece of big news. Bill self still recuperating. thoughts and prayers to Bill Self.

First of all, second of all, probably uses thoughts and prayers for, like, the basketball getting wedged. Yeah, so we, we should talk about that. There's a scandal of foot in March madness in Des Moines, specifically, it's Des Moines, Iowa. We need to shut that whole place down till we could figure out what the hell is going on.

There were five, six wedgies today, four of which occurred in the Des Moines, Iowa, gym. So either the balls are stickier, the rims are harder, maybe the balls are a little bit smaller. That might do it, but there's something different this year. I don't know what.

Last year, I remember the balls were oranger, you remember that? yes, this year the balls are stickier.

Something's happening, we got to figure out what's going on because this is not. We haven't seen this level of wedgie before and it was, um, it's just. It's just a different experience watching March madness with Jake when we're all gambling. And we needed a three to be hit and there was a wedgie. And he stood up and cheered like it was game seven of the World Series.

He's like, Wedgie, another wedgie. Everyone turned around and was like, Dude, what are you doing? He's like, Sorry, I just love wedgies. We got to get them to make a shirt. I love wedgies.

It would be, man, it would be so Jake if if he tore his Patella tendon celebrating a wedgie. Yes, yes, uh. Other winners Maryland.

Yeah, first they won the first game of the official tournament. Uh, came back, looked like they were dead in the first half. Shout out Scott Van Pelt. I know he probably didn't even watch the game because he was dancing, uh, for Edwin Diaz's uh injury, his head was spinning.

Yeah, his head was spinning. He was so happy that Edwin Diaz got injured that he probably didn't even see his turfs. But they get it, uh, also the Mountain West for having at least one team advanced to the second round. They got killed.

Nevada got absolutely smoked by Arizona State, Utah State lost to Mizzou, uh, Boise State lost Northwestern, but San Diego State. There's one team. They don't they? they they're off the schneid. Uh, that would have been tragic if they had been out of the tournament in 10 hours, just like last year. The Mountain West, they they got something to prove. Yeah, my Aztecs, they advance, uh, with Maryland.

I think this was a big win, it's Kevin Willard, right, their head coach. Yes, big win for him. Because a lot of the Maryland fan base did not think that he should be hired in the first place.

Yes, and the way that they won was pretty impressive. They came back, West Virginia was up, they were up double digits, uh, and and the Terps fought back. They're fun.

Terps are a fun team to root for again. Yeah, yeah, um, now they're they're running to a buzzsaw because Alabama looked really, really fucking good. Without Brandon Miller, Brandon Miller's got a a groin issue that he's dealing with.

I mean, he played, but he scored zero, zero points. That is an issue. Uh, we had Texas Corpus Christi, that dude on Texas Corpus Christi being like, I want the ball. I want to cover this spread.

That's chaos. He's a hero, somebody. So I don't know exactly what was going on on that last play. But it looked to me like he demanded the ball because he knew that they had to score and then he went over the coach.

It looked like told him, stop, we don't need to shoot. He dribbles between his legs, takes a baseline three, goes in at the buzzer. They cover a crazy spread. There's no reason he should have shot that ball.

No, I mean, I'm glad that he did, just because it's March and.

Was weird, it was weird. There's that that got the hairs on my neck standing up. That was suspect, especially because it covered like the line move from 22 and a half to 25. So, like, you know, you could have middled it somewhere.

Yeah, so yeah, very suspect. Um, Auburn gets my bad sports town of the of the day. Oh, okay.

I disagree, but go off, I just wasn't impressed with the crowd. They're playing basically a home game, I think they will be, they will show out for their game against Houston on Saturday. But I was going into that game being like, I was going to struggle because it's a home game for Auburn.

When they showed the stands, they were like half full. Yeah, I was still struggled cause Frame can't coach at March, but Auburn, like, come on guys, I disagree.

Home crowd for you? I think I think Alabama is a bad sports on Birmingham. Alabama is a bad sports town. Because if the Crimson Tide fans had their together, they would have bought tickets to show up. And then Boo Alabama, or, excuse me, Boo Auburn and Root for Iowa if the rivalry was real. You're they're playing in your home court, show up and fuck them up a little bit. That's, I mean, it's a fair point.

It's a fair point, but yeah, R.V. Updike would have been there in a second. Yeah, we w. I mean, we'll see on a Saturday when they do play. Houston. Houston struggled, Sasser got re-injured. I appreciate Kellen Sampson just at least admitting, um, how hard it is to watch Houston.

Sometimes he said, Uh, we play like shit a lot, and I was like, Yeah, you know what, that's, that's the honest truth. you guys do play like shit a lot.

So they got on the offensive rebound side of things, they got out, rebounded overall, they rebounded better, they got more total rebounds. But on the offensive side of northern Kentucky, they were playing like fucking maniacs they were.

Diving everywhere. Yeah, the Norse. They were absolutely crushing it on the offensive. Glass. Houston, I mean, they got away with it, but because, you know, they're Houston. But they definitely didn't look like they had a sense of urgency.

Yeah, and and um, I'm trying to think what other things happened today? The, uh, we had our first crying cheerleader, Utah State, her, her bottom lip was quivering, Uh, I. There's something about March madness. The crowd shots are just so great.

Like, they just make it so much better.

Virginia fans, uh, you know, Utah State fans, just the the passion, and, uh, like the exhilaration, it's just the best. I just love watching the crowd shots. In March, there was a There's another Northwestern kid that looks exactly like the old one.

They're spawning, they're just reloaded, they just restocked. So this kid, I think he's about the same age as the first Northwestern crying kid who credit to Jake. He did pick Arizona and attribute to his favorite President Biden. But Jake said that they were going to show the Northwestern crying kid and have him show up on the broadcast.

Again, be like, Look, you want to feel old? This kid's aged the appropriate amount of years, right? age, right? But then they cut to the side and that fucking, maybe that kid had a kid, maybe that's, maybe that's his child, but it's the same guy.

It's the exact same guy. They also showed, uh, they showed Doug Collins in the stands a couple of times. That was kind of cool. That's wild, isn't it? His son's the coach.

His son's the coach. Yeah, Northwestern played really well, I was. That game was kind of never in doubt. Big day for nerds.

I think nerds one day, one of March madness, huge day for Mizzou, Mizzou winning. You know, the The Journalism School isn't just Syracuse, let's put put some other schools on the map.

Uh, oh, and last one, Tennessee won the award of Thank God, we won, even though we know we're going to, Yeah, well, it's big for Rick Barnes, yeah.

RICK BARNES If he makes it to the Sweet 16, are we calling that a win for Rick Barnes this year? Yeah, there's slightly expectations right now. Yeah, they, they, they, they're dealing with injuries.

They've been on the downslide. I just there's something about when your team makes it to March Madison, you are a four or above seed. Those first round games are like a basically a no win situation because you are expected to win. And then when you win, you're like, you just breathe a sigh of relief. Like, thank God, we're not embarrassed.

Thank God, we're not Arizona, thank God, we're not Virginia. Because those are the moments that everyone, just like, laughs at you and punishes you. Losing in the second round, anyone can lose in the second round, but when you lose in the first round, if you're four, three, two, one seed. It's just the worst feeling in the world. So good job, Tennessee.

You survived. Now you get Duke in the next round, and I mean, Duke looks like they could be very, very dangerous. You've seen this, yeah?

See the sweaters. Yeah, they look, those sweaters. Are you going to run the sweaters back if you're due?

You have to, you have to hank. What was your favorite moment from today?

The West Virginia first half under. Yeah, yeah, that was big.

So this happened to us last year, I think on Thursday, I think we all got killed. He's thinking about it. No, I'm just trying to think of like other, like there was, there was, there was no other joy. I ate ice cream that was good.

I had, I had 10 Reese's Cups, I went through 10, I was. I was trying to rally multiple times. I came back here, it was like, all right. I'm going to chill out, put some bets in for later and then get back on track.

Like, when one, then the snowball goes, I came in here and then I kept coming back. Yeah, I came in the green room and there was just a bunch of Reese's in the refrigerator. I was like, I know my guy Hank, he's stocking up because it little known fact, Hank and I like at the at the core of our relationship. If everything else fails, our love for peanut butter and chocolate is like, we're just like always there.

It's true, just like, you know, like if I go buy some, I'll get some for him. If he goes buy some, he'll get something. It's just it's just we know it, we know it.

It's true at the end of the day.

PSG is wearing insult socks. I mean, I'll say, for fire Fest, I guess I am wearing insult socks right now. No, it's on my right foot. I just didn't just looking at those right now, right right, right foot. Only strictly for the strictly for buckets.

I've got Hank's face all over my socks right now. It's a bad luck sock, though it's an insane I I. I jinx myself.

I admittedly came out a little bit strong as Hank. I should not have given him the too small, but in my defense, I was furious at him. And we've all been there, we've all been mad at Hank. He takes turns, he, you're an equal opportunity.

Piss her off, not me. But you go around. Yeah, you're definitely mad at yourself. you're very mad at yourself right now. Yeah, no.

Yeah.

Yeah, you've got, you've got a rivalry with yourself. Oh, also a shout out, Dayton. We went to the first four, that was an awesome arena.

Yeah, it was, it was very cool, it was a it was intimate. yeah, it was nice, it was, it was fun to get out there.

We saw Texas, Southern, um, and they lost to Fairly Dickinson. And that's about all I have to say about that game. Yeah, it was a bad game, it was a very bad game. Um, I know that, like, I know Jake just was getting so romantic about the idea that we went to the first four and we're going to go to the final four.

Um, he just like, he's so in love with March madness. It's, it's, it's something to aspire to. Yeah, some kid came up to him on the.

Jake, If you could pick anywhere in the world to go on vacation tomorrow, where would you pick? And without even thinking, he was like, Well, I wouldn't go tomorrow because it's March madness.

Smart Jake is so pure, he's like a cartoon character. Almost, yeah, like, Yeah, I felt bad.

Like Rudy, I was, I actually, honestly, Arizona losing might've been the only other time I felt any type of like happiness to watch his, his. And that's a little bit like, kind of messed up, because Jake is a pure soul and and the nicest guy in the world. But yeah, but you want to drag it down to your level, being like, and I, you know, it's Princeton, you know, I? I didn't have any dog in the fight, so I was like, fuck it, like, who doesn't like an upset, and it's gonna, you know, would you be happy, Hank, if if you corrupted Jake and you turn Jake into like a very, very cynical, like bitter man? would that cheer you up?

Hank just talked himself around being like, Yeah, I was just trying to be a dick to Jake. I wasn't trying. It was just like it was funny. Yeah, which I guess is again, like, I don't think Jake could ever be cynical.

I think Hank's making his mission, though I don't think it wasn't. Jake didn't care. I was also in the room and I was, I was in this green room with Hank a lot.

Oh yeah, yeah, I wish you guys had called me in. I would have loved to see it, I would have made fun of him.

Yeah, no, no, it was fun, but Hank was down.

Cause he had Princeton first half money line, I was like, Are you going to be pissed at Princeton wins? and you didn't, and he took first half money line and not full game money line.

And he's just like, Yeah, but Jake really wants Arizona.

That's worth every other bet. It's also like, Yeah, I don't know. I feel weird rooting in someone to lose a bet, but like losing a bracket, it's like it is true. Like misery does love company. If you're going to be pissed off, then you're going just as upset as you are.

It's so infuriating if somebody has a better, if anyone has a better experience than you do at a certain level. You, you, you feel a jealousy towards them. You feel mad at yourself for letting yourself down, so you just want somebody else to be just as mad as you. And yeah, Evan did have almost a perfect bracket today 15 out of 16..

Pretty good, he forgot about Andrew Funk. Andrew Funk Funk funked him up. Yeah, I think if it was 16 out of 16, it would, it'd probably be a lot more.

It'd be a story, it'd be headline news. I said he might start the show. Man in Columbus goes 16 for 60, I mean, look, 16 for 16..

A lot of people have done it. But to do it on a day when you have a fifth, a 15 seed beat, a two seed, that's pretty fucking impressive. So Penn State was his only miss. Um, what else? anything else? I think every bracket is perfect.

I just, I googled probably four or five times today, just NCAA bracket just to look at it. Yeah, and we won't have to pay a billion dollars, cause there's no way there'll be a perfect bracket. No, I think it's down.

I pulled up the stats here. It's down to 0.006 of all brackets that remain perfect. Evan was in that, Yeah, shit, dude.

So close, so close. Um, all right, should we get to John Rostein? Yeah, let's get to old Johnny.

John still had all of, uh, the boyish wonder of March madness, and we were excited about everything that was going to take place. I think tomorrow is going to be a better day, I think so, too. It can't be worse.

Hank went two and 27.

That's really bad. Hank, you do a sports podcast, bro? Do you know ball? I'm not.

I actually learned early on I'm not a sports talk guy, yeah.

If you come to the show for expert analysis to get an edge on something, you are you have played yourself. Although I did give out two Stone Cold winners on Wednesday, that I just didn't bet. So maybe maybe the key is to just listen to us. In a former moment, USC was my favorite pick of Thursday and Friday.

It's the early game tomorrow. If that doesn't hit, just disregard. Okay, just pretend this never happened.

If it does, hit regard, cause you definitely wouldn't start out a day with a winning bet and then go for two for 27 afterwards.

Fair counterpoint.

Maybe that'll be the only bet I make. If Hank's wrong tomorrow, then tail Hank for the rest of his bets. Yeah, that's true, it's you'll, you'll go reverse on it. Um, all right, let's do John Rothstein before we do that PFT.

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And now this is March with Jon Rothstein.

Okay, we now welcome on our friend Jon Rothstein. We thought we'd do a little different this year. We got him on for the Friday games. You've already watched March madness the first day, you're probably bleary-eyed.

You've seen a bunch of buzzer beaters. Hopefully now it's time to regroup. Now it's time to get what Rothstein's got to say about the Friday Games. So Jon, how you doing? What's the buzz?

Like, give us what's going on in your life right now? I mean, guys, first off, great to be with you. Best time of the year. I mean, you know me, my life's an open book. What do you guys want to know?

I'm curious to know if you've heard the news about Barcoastal, your favorite wing place? Carrie's Way, that was the name of the wing sauce. Well, pft. I have heard that and I have been to Plug Uglies and they have recreated the wings that we used to have at Barcoastal. So the vibe is a little bit different. But if you're looking for your wing fix, that is definitely the place to go.

In fact, when I had a Super Bowl party, that's where we got the wings from. Wait, you watched the Super Bowl socially? I watched the Super Bowl. I wasn't really watching the game. I wanted to make sure that obviously I had people around and I was visiting with people, but I wasn't really watching the Super Bowl.

Okay, so, since your life is an open book, I have a question as well Have you retroactively gone back and given thoughts and prayers to Demar Hamlin? I have opted, moving forward to just be more cognizant of what's going on around me at all times. Despite the fact that I am a college basketball insider and I was merely reacting to Rutgers, going on the road and playing purdue. I did not know that a Monday night football game was going on, I didn't know obviously who was playing.

I was only focused on what was happening at Mackey Arena. But obviously, when something like that happens, you just send your prayers out and hope for the best. Okay, so can you say it? Thoughts and prayers for Demar Hamlin Thoughts and prayers for Demar Hamlin. Okay, thank you.

That's very nice. You do realize the thing that we love about you is that you are singularly focused on college basketball. That's all you do, that's all you care about. I don't necessarily want John Rothstein out there tweeting about things that are happening in other sports.

I go to you to get away from all that stuff. Well, and again, it all happens obviously in a Murphy's Law type of way. PFT Cam Spencer makes that unbelievable three at Mackey Arena. And it just happens to coincide with such a traumatic event. Obviously, we're just continuing to wish good prayers to Demar and obviously his family again. I had no idea what was going on.

People have asked me over the last couple of weeks like, what are you going to do after the final four? Are you going to get into baseball? The Mets just added some pitcher or something like that? or are you going to get into the NFL draft? I said, No, there is only one thing on my mind and that's the NCAA tournament. And then preparing for next season, especially in April, which is Portal Combat season. Yes, yes.

And all right, so last personal question, because then I do want to get into the Friday matchups. What's the update? You went to Europe? did you like it?

We went to Europe, it was a life altering trip. 18 days and 18 pounds later, my life was altered. But the bread in France was so life altering, and the pasta at the Amalfi coast was so life altering. I found that France, and especially Paris, is a comfort food city, meaning you don't want to overthink your meals there.

Go to, obviously, a brasserie, get croissants, get bread, get a croque monsieur, get a grilled cheese and fries, get a burger. But don't get too intricate with stuff. But the pasta and the freshness of the pasta. In Italy, we went to Portofino, Rome and the Amalfi coast, and in Rome there's a place near the Pantheon, Armando al Pantheon. It was the best Rigatoni amatriciana I've had in my life.

I can still taste the bruschetta on some days, but I will say this. We talk all about what we eventually want to do in the media, and how can we expand our career, and so on, and so forth. In preparing for this trip to Europe, I binge watched Searching for Italy with Stan Tucci. I would like to get a crack, maybe in the offseason, to do a similar show and kind of be a copilot to Stan Tucci. Because I watched that show and that restaurant in Rome, Armando al Pantheon, was taken off the show.

Oh, okay, yeah, we can. I'm a good friend of his, so I'll reach out directly and see if I can link you two up. Now. We do need the final verdict, though.

Is it more life altering to go to Europe for an extended vacation or spend one night at the Siegel Center at VCU? It depends if the A-10 is a multi-bid league, it hasn't been a multi-bid league this year. So I think we have to wait and see what happens next year. In the transfer portal if the A-10 is a multi-bid league and it's peak. Shocker, like it was in 2014, you know, when you had Briante Weber at the top of Havoc. And you want to do pushups on picket fences? When they put the press on, that was a different animal.

That was Tay Jones and Langston Galloway at St. Joe's. That was obviously in 2014, you think back to those St. Joe's teams.

You think back to the Dayton teams that Archie Miller had with Scoochie Smith and guys of that caliber. You think back to the GW teams with Kevin Larson, Patricio Garino. That was peak A-10..

Obviously a trip to Europe. Well, I love the bread, I love the pasta, the sights are beautiful. I think that might be a stretch.

Listen, that was exactly what I was thinking. I often think back to the George Washington heydays. So same wavelength, all right. So, John, let's do Friday's games real quick.

Give us a big picture which games are you most excited for? Which games are popping off? That you're like, all right, I can't wait to see this matchup. Well, I just wanted to know, guys, if we had the chance to kind of go through the names that I had for the regions. Because we didn't do that, you know, we're doing things differently.

I look at the top left, the South region, as being the region of opportunity because I look at this. And I don't see any way that Alabama, who has never been to a final four, gets to a regional final. I see that, and I see San Diego State as a 5-seed. A program that has not won an NCAA tournament game since 2015, when it beat St. John's in an 8-9 game. Under Steve Fisher, I think there's major opportunity. Remember the Mountain West won 0-4 last year in the tournament?

You go then to the bottom left part of your bracket. The East region, it's the region of misdirection. Now, why do I say that Purdue was supposed to be good, not this good?

Marquette was picked ninth in the Big East. They're the 2-seed. Kansas State was picked 10th in the Big 12. They're the 3-seed. And Duke Again is vintage.

Duke is the 5-seed, it's not vintage Duke, but they're the 5-seed. It's the region of misdirection, so then you go to the top, right, the Midwest region, it's the region of guard play.

Look at the guards in this region Houston has Sasser and Shedd, Miami Basketball more guards than Shawshank, Nigel Pack, Isaiah Wong, Indiana has Jalen Hood-Shafino.

Then Xavier has Sulay Boom, Penn State is Jalen Pickett, and, of course, Texas A&M is Wade Taylor IV and Texas has Serge Ibarri-Rice. The All-falls also have Marcus Carr and Tyrese Hunter.

That is the region of guard Play, and then, finally, the region of brands out west. These are your top 4-seeds. Kansas, UCLA, Gonzaga and UConn all have been to a final 4 in the last 10 years. John, you mentioned the region of guards.

Do any of the other regions have guards? They definitely have guards, but not of this caliber. I think you have to look at that region as being specifically specifically noted for its guard play. And even the guards on Pittsburgh, who I covered on Tuesday night in the first four, have big-time chops. I mean, Nellie Cummings came from Colgate.

He was somebody who played in multiple NCAA tournaments under Matt and also Jamarius. Burton made a big shot to beat Mississippi State, so the region of guards holds form. Yeah, okay, all right.

So we've struggled here on this show, trying to figure out what to make of Purdue. What's the vibe with Purdue? Because I don't believe in Purdue, I've never believed in Purdue. I do think Zach Eady has gotten very like, a lot better.

I just think it's going to be same old Purdue, and I don't mean that in a mean way to Purdue fans. It's just they kind of feel the same way. I think for Purdue. It's a Final four bus type scenario. Now, this is why I'm saying that.

Think back to the heartache that this program has had over the last half decade. In the NCAA Tournament 2018, you're good enough to go to a final four. You lose Isaac Haas, your starting center, to an elbow injury, you lose to Texas Tech in the Sweet.

The brutal loss to Virginia in the Elite Eight when Mamadi Diakite made that shot at the buzzer to send it to overtime. And then last year, you have a team with Eady, Travion Williams and Jaden Ivey who lose to St. Peter's. So, given all that, given the balanced landscape of college basketball, and given the fact that you have the most dominant force that we've seen in quite some time. At the center position, Zach Eady. Anything less than a Final four berth will be a disappointment for its fans, for its alumni, for everybody. Yeah, I'd agree.

Yeah, I would agree. I'm going championship-robust with Purdue. I'm putting my flag in the ground right now. You're getting bold PFT, you're getting bold.

What can possibly go wrong? Absolutely nothing. What coach in this tournament do you think has the most to lose legacy-wise? Because I feel like there are a couple guys that are dangling out there. That's an interesting question.

When you say legacy-wise, PFT, do you mean like they may never get an opportunity like this again? I guess when I say legacy, I mean for us in the media to absolutely tear them down. After a bad loss. After this, it really doesn't mean much. But who's going to be the easiest target to say this?

Guy's on the hot seat with a bad tournament loss this year. I don't know if we can go there, but I will say this. I think there are certain programs that have opportunities in front of them. That they're not going to have a line like this. For a significantly long time. One is Alabama. Alabama has never been a number one seed in the NCAA tournament until this year.

Another is Houston, because Houston has obviously the final four in its home city. The third would be Purdue. Those are all programs where if they don't make it to Houston to play in a final four, you will feel like the season's a disappointment. Yeah, okay.

Here's a question for the Friday games Vermont versus Marquette Jake Marsh's Vermont Catamounts going against Marquette, who just came off. Obviously a great Big East tournament. What do you see in this game?

Does Vermont have a chance? Do we have a chance? Vermont? I think Jake would agree. Vermont has been knocking at the door under John Becker to win an NCAA tournament game. But I just see too much of obviously an advantage in terms of.

Athleticism? I think Veretto is going to be overmatched against Omax and also Aguilera. I think it's a tough matchup for Vermont, but most of the matchups in the round of 64 are going to be tough. I will say this Vermont was really competitive last year against Arkansas and has been competitive in the NCAA tournament.

They just haven't gotten over the hump, yeah, should Kentucky fans out there be worried? PROVIDENCE You would think with Ed Cooley great coach, done some good stuff in the tournament before, he knows how to get his guys ready, but they're limping into the tournament right now.

Not only that, PFT, but Bryce Hopkins, who barely played last year at Kentucky, has become a borderline All-American and an all-Big East player this year. Averaging about 16-10, and he is playing against his old team. That is probably the individual storyline of the first round. Providence has not played well down the stretch, but Bryce Hopkins is going to get a crack at his team. That, to me, should be a concern as well. Kentucky, when you look at things, is coming off. What I believe is the biggest upset in NCAA tournament history when it lost to St.

Peter's last season, people can say, what about UMBC-Virginia? If you compare the potential, the resources for UMBC's program and St. Peter's program? It's night and day. I also think when we start thinking about the Virginia team in 2018 that lost to UMBC, sure, they won the ACC regular season title by multiple games.

Sure, they won the ACC tournament title, but if you remember, DeAndre Hunter went out before the NCAA tournament with an injury. And that allowed UMBC to have the door open for them to get that historic win. So remind me again what happened the year after for UVA, they won a national championship, so you're saying Kentucky has a chance, everybody has a chance this year.

I think this is as wide open a landscape as I've seen in nearly 20 years, covering the sport at the national level. And guys. It reminds me of the 2010-2011 season when UConn, who was a three seed and finished 9-9 in the Big East, won the national Championship. They played Kentucky in the final four. Who was a four seed? And the other side of the bracket was an eight seed in Butler and an 11 seed in VCU. It would not shock me if when we get to Houston for the final four, if there's no one and two seeds in the final four. Whoa?

Okay, that's a bold prediction.

One of my favorite games on Friday. Danny Hurley, Rick Pitino. What do you expect out of the coaches box in this game? And also what are you hearing about Rick Pitino going to St. John's or possibly Providence and Ed Cooley?

Where's Rick Pitino going to coach next year? Well, let's get to the game first, we'll get to the matchup first. You know, big cat, I'm with you. When I saw this game on the screen on Selection Sunday, this to me is immediately where my head went to as the most intriguing game of the round of 64. Because Dan Hurley, the carpenter, has done a great job building UConn's program.

They're back to obviously being a force in the Big East. But Uconn has not advanced in the first round of the NCAA tournament in each of the past two years. Lost to Maryland two years ago, lost to New Mexico State last year. So really, this staff, this program, has been building towards just getting over the hurdle that is the round of 64. And standing in its way is Rick Pitino, who is, arguably, you know, pound for pound, inch for inch, you know, one of the top coaches in the sport. Today. It's a fascinating matchup.

UConn has a significant advantage up front with Sonogo and Klingen. But the guards for Iona, who I saw live a couple of weeks ago in person when they played Manhattan, are very, very capable and high major caliber players. Walter Clayton Jr. is a very good player, Dennis Jenkins is a good player, so I think Iona's guards will be able to trade blows with Uconn's guards.

It's going to be a matter of whether or not Iona can rebound and obviously stop or contain Sonogo and Klingen. So let's get to Rick Pitino. This is what I can tell you. St. John's has no secondary candidate.

St. John's knows that in order to restore relevance, it needs Rick Pitino. St. John's has not won an NCAA tournament game since 2000. How long ago was that?

Jay Wright was the head coach at Hofstra. Still, but with that said, Rick Pitino is still, whenever Iona's season going to end. Still going to have to get the necessary assurances from St. John's that they're going to be willing to do the things that it takes to win. Better facilities, better offices, all those things before obviously a deal is finalized, so I would say that Rick Pitino is clearly the target for St.

John's They don't have a secondary candidate. I can confirm that, but I still think that there's nothing obviously done. In the sense that we're going to have a press conference 48 hours after Iona's season is over, what about from Rick Pitino's standpoint?

He's got to be thinking, in my opinion, Providence, or maybe Georgetown, would be a better fit for him right now. Ready to go? They don't have to put in all those upgrades that you mentioned. If I'm Rick, I'm not limiting myself to St. John's, I'm looking elsewhere.

No doubt PFP. But the one thing we have to remember is that Ed Cooley has danced the dance before and flirted with other jobs in the past. He took a hard look at Michigan before Michigan hired Jawan Howard. He obviously was going to have some interest in Maryland and Louisville last year.

He opted to sign a long-term deal and stay at Providence after the sweet 16 run. That job isn't open, and that domino hasn't happened yet. So I think from what I've gathered, it was very important for a school to prioritize Rick Pitino, to make him obviously aware that they wanted him to be their coach. St. John's has done that through back channels to his representatives.

So now it's just a matter of if St. John's can obviously get a deal done with Rick Pitino. And guys. I firmly believe this parallel. If St. John's was able to secure the services of Rick Pitino as its next head basketball coach. Considering everything I just said a couple of minutes ago, they have not won an NCAA tournament game since 2000..

Not since it beat Northern Arizona and with Dan McClintock in the 2000 NCAA tournament. Rick Pitino going to St. John's would be comparable to when Pat Riley became the head coach of the Knicks in 1991. Yeah, but he wants to be wanted, he wants them to tell him to come.

Correct, he wants to be prioritized, and that's, you know, and they should prioritize them. Yeah, they should, absolutely, all right.

A similar question, a coach and matchup, Michigan State USC. This is happening. This is the early game on Friday, I think it's the first game that tips on Friday. Who? What do you see in this game?

And then how many more years is Tom as they're going to coach? Cause it feels like we've lost almost the entire old guard. At this point. He's the last stalwart.

Uh, how's that going to play out? I asked myself that question every preseason when I go to East Lansing. And then I tell myself, what would Tom Izzo do, though, if he didn't coach? I don't think Tom Izzo would want to, you know, be a studio analyst or a game analyst. I don't think he would want to be, you know, an athletic director. Tom Izzo wants to coach.

Tom Izzo wants to win, he wants to win another championship. Michigan State is recruiting at a high level, so I think Tom Izzo is going to coach as long as he can coach. But I do think guys that this is a very, very sneaky U.S.C team that they're playing.

When USC was healthy this year, they were extremely, extremely capable, but they've had injuries in and out of the lineup all season long. Drew Peterson recently has been battling a back issue. Vince Iwuchukwu has had injuries. We've also seen that with Reece Dixon-Waters, but this is a team you got to remember. That will raise the 12 point deficit at the half at the Galen Center to come back and beat UCLA. I'll say this much from a personnel perspective. Forget the name on the jersey.

I see more talent on USC's roster than I do. Michigan State's USC has rim protection with Iwuchukwu and Joshua Morgan. They've got veteran guards with boogie.

Playing like an all American and nobody's talking about it. And I love the wings. Trey White, Kobe Johnson, Reece Dixon-Waters. I think USC doesn't just have a chance to push Michigan State, but could push Marquette in the round of 32..

Interesting. Wait, Drew Peterson, Are you talking about Drew Peterson, the murderer or the basketball player? The basketball player transferred from Rice got it.

Okay, you got to, you got to say, you got to say that, you got to let everyone know there's a difference. There are two. Drew Petersons I appreciate you clarifying.

Yes, do you know the story about the other Drew Peterson? I had no idea there was another Drew Peterson until Big Cat just mentioned him. That's good.

That's why we love him. Yeah, yeah, that's perfect, that's smart.

So, uh, Memphis, Memphis, I've, I've heard many people refer to as the best eight seat out there. Possibly a bad second round matchup as well. So um, Memphis, it's Fau, right? They're playing.

They're in our hotel. We should, we should. Is it illegal to pull the fire alarm to make them not get a good night's sleep? Just went off my head, dusty. We sleep in May.

Yeah, that's true, but. But Memphis? As for, uh, the actual like play on the court, Do you see Memphis as being the strongest 18 in this tournament?

MEMPHiS, Maryland The Arkansas Illinois game is capable. Obviously the same thing with Iowa.

I look at Memphis as being a potential bracket buster in the region of misdirection. Another reason why I use misdirection is because Penny Hardaway may have one of his lesser talented teams. Like, there's no pressure to chew up, there's no James Wiseman, there's no Boogie Ellis, but there are better. Basketball team is because we have seen, and Big Cat knows this.

Cause he's obviously spent so much time watching the Big 10.

We have seen Purdue's guard struggle with pressure the last month. If Memphis can get by FAU, Memphis could be a really difficult matchup for Purdue in the round of 32. This is by far Penny Hardaway's best coaching job since he took over at Memphis. Kendrick Davis, DeAndre Williams, big time, big time players.

I think Memphis is a scary matchup for Purdue in the round of 32.

If they can get by, Dusty, we sleep in May. Yeah, I mean, I think Fau is a scary matchup for Purdue as well, cause they got a badest love.

Golden right transfer from Texas Tech. Yeah, big man on big man would be like an old school, be like turning on the TV and watching a 1985 tournament game.

Exactly, yeah, from from just a purely basketball standpoint, John, do you like the direction the sport has gone? Is it? Is it better for you to watch, do you enjoy it more, or do you miss kind of banging it down low?

No, I think the big thing that's happened is, you know, finally, you know, with the Nil rules finally going in, which were long overdue. We have seen college be able to retain some of its better players if those players didn't have lucrative professional opportunities. So that has made players more identifiable for fans from the periphery, and the brand of basketball has been better, so I think it's really helped the sport. I think things will reset a little bit when the Covid year goes away and kids don't have that year of eligibility. But no, I think it's all good.

Another question about your broadcast So your colleague Jay Wright, have you talked to him? Have you discussed whether or not he has interest in maybe coaching in the NBA next season? No, I don't think he's, he wants to coach again. What?

Yeah, I don't, I don't think Jay wants to coach again. Now he can answer that, you know, better than I can. But I get the vibe that I know. He's. He's working at media, he's great at media already. Obviously, you know, he has keen insights from being somebody that's led a team to four and two national titles. So no, I can, you know, he's working at this broadcast thing, and he's already, you know, great at it.

Okay, all right, I have one last question. John, you got to? You got to scurry and call the first four games, which is awesome. We will actually be there.

So we'll see you, maybe give us a wave. Yeah, we're going to be in Dayton, we're not there yet.

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Fluent them. These are flying gear. We've had a busy week, we've had basically no time. This week. We finally got here. John, tell us your final four and who your champion is.

And let's hope that team has not already been eliminated. That would be very funny. I've got Alabama out of the region of opportunity, I've got Duke out of the region.

Texas out of the region of Guard Play, and I've got Gonzaga out of the region of brands, and I've got Alabama beating Gonzaga for the national Championship. Oh wow, Mark Few going to his first final four, that will be huge.

He's went to two already, I don't recall, he went in 17 and 21..

I disagree, it must be a few. Mark Fuse disagree. Why is that?

I don't, because Mark Few has never been to a final four. Yeah, he's never gotten over the hump, he's built a good program. But at the end of the day, you have to, you have to give me some results, yeah.

Well, this be the year that Gonzaga finally gets over the hump and gets to a final. Yeah, Gonzaga is good, but they can't win the big one. You got a tough crowd, all right?

Well, John, thank you. As always, we appreciate it. Um, enjoy the tournament. Best time of year.

We're we're all going to be just sitting there, just enjoying every moment, nothing better, and maybe we'll see in Houston. All right, guys, congratulations to you and your team on that big move to Chicago and continued success. Really happy for all you guys.

Yeah, when you're out, when you're out, uh, scouting like, Uh, the Saluki's, or you're going out to, I mean, I don't. I don't even think you go see the big 10 teams, right? I love Chicago, especially in the summer. Great restaurant scene, okay?

So you'll come by the office, John, I have one last, last question for you, just real quick. So I was talking to your good friend Rico Bosco last night. And we got into a debate about whether or not. You had ever played basketball in your life. Have you ever played basketball? I mean, when I was a kid, yeah, but you know, so, yeah.

So, yeah, proven, we're on your side. He said. That you've never taken a jump shot. And I, I called Cap John, I called cap for real.

For real, just look forward to the documentary on, you know, Rico's life in 20 years, cause that's going to be appointment TV.

Are you reporting that Rico Bosco dies in 20 years? You know, you try to be nice to the guy and he treats you obviously like he's his worst enemy. That's true, that is true, you're trying to be, you're trying to be joyful.

Yeah, I mean, I'm going to. I'll be featured heavily in that documentary. Um, all right, well, John, thank you so much. Good luck with the first four, good luck with the rest of the tournament.

Uh, great catching up with you man. All right guys have a great march.

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Probably should have talked about this somewhere in the beginning. Aaron Rogers is out of my fucking life. Not yet, he is not yet, not yet.

He's not, yes, he is. Don't do this. I root for Dan Snyder to sell the team Aaron Rogers out of my life.

He is gone, he's going to the jets, it's over. I'm so happy Wednesday was one of the best days.

Everything is up for the bears. Fuck him, he's gone. Okay, uh, don't do this.

I'm he's going to do it. No, here's what I'm going to say. He's not, he's not going to. He is gone, He's not going to play for the Packers. You're right.

He's gone to that certain extent, but we still don't have a trade in place, correct? So he, he actually fucked the Packers over. Yes, that's why Aaron Rogers finally beat the Packers.

So, yeah, his last act, he goes on the Pat McAfee show and he basically burns that bridge and says. I've decided not to play for them, they don't want me to play for them. Yep, so I told them I want to play for the New York Jets. Now the trade's not finalized.

Probably more than they were originally. Because he tipped his hand. Oh, I think it's the Packers hand, I think it might be opposite the Packers. It's clear that Aaron Rogers does not want to play for the Packers. The Packers don't want to employ Aaron Rogers.

The Packers now don't have much leverage because Aaron Rogers doesn't want. He was like, they don't want me, I don't want to be there every. All the cards are out on the table like the Packers have to. They have to trade them so they could trade them, but they don't have to pay them. Until. I think, start a training camp, so I don't know.

So they can, they can keep them around for a while, and they can start fielding other offers. He's gone, he's out of your life, which is gone. I'm very happy he's gone.

He's gone. I'm so happy he's gone. I just am so happy he's gone. Because here's the thing. Aaron Rogers is a phenomenal quarterback, Hall of Fame quarterback.

He did say that he was the best packer ever, which was okay, dude. Way to blow yourself there, Bart Starr bro, Bart starr bro, right?

Like, that guy was pretty damn good. Reggie White Yeah, you won one Superbowl, Dick Butkus.

No, no, no, no, that was a joke. That wasn't serious. No, yeah, he was serious.

That was not serious. You just thought, you just thought, old guy from cold weather. I hope, I hope John Shires sweater gives him a really bad rash. No, that was a joke, cap.

But yeah, he is a phenomenal quarterback he's probably going to play for, I don't know, three, four more years.

Even if his skills diminished, he loved beating the bears. He was going to keep beating the bears forever. It was just how it was going to go. I'm just so happy he's out of my life and all the Packers fans are like, Jordan loves next up.

Let's see, let's see. It doesn't, if it works this way, that you just go back to back to back Hall of Fame quarterbacks. I'll just put my hands up and be like, there's no reason to even watch football anymore. But I'm confident that he's not going to be Aaron Rodgers. And maybe this gets clipped and I'm an idiot in like five years, but let's cool it on Jordan.

Love is like, we're actually happy that Aaron Rogers has got Jordan Loves next up. He's going to be awesome. Chill out. Aaron. Also laid it on pretty thick with the darkness recruit stuff in the interview.

He kept saying how his perspective got changed by it, how he came out with a sense of clarity.

He came out thinking that he was going to retire, and then he got back to civilization and started reading the internet again. And the internet puts weird thoughts in Aaron Rogers brain quite frequently, and this might be the weirdest of all of them. Where he was like, Actually, you know what? I'd rather play for the Jets.

And so he decided that that's what he was going to do. But if I was a real darkness retreat guy, like an old head that had done darkness retreats for years and years and years. And then Aaron just comes in like, Aaron, Aaron.

Helen Keller was born into it. You're not a darkness guy, you just did it one time. you don't call a cap on Helen Keller cap alert.

She was her parents. Or tell some tall tales? Oh, really, you don't think she was really blind? Which one blind deaf or mute? Which one do you think she wasn't deaf?

Okay, okay, she could hear everything, she just couldn't speak or see. Still tough life.

Also, that's a tough life. If that's the case, great commitment to the bit, Yeah, that's yeah, or mom, stage, mom, stage, mom.

Yeah, but Aaron Rogers, this is actually really bad for, like, the psychedelic community. Because, uh, like, doing a bunch of ayahuasca and going into a darkness treat. And then coming out and being like, I want to play for the Jets. Not great, yeah.

Yeah, absolutely not. That's actually what they should do for Reefer Madness for ayahuasca. It's like, this is your brain and you're playing for the Packers, this is your brain on drugs.

You're playing for the New York Jets and shout out memes and Billy, Uh, they're happy. I do think I think the Jets are immediately a Super Bowl contender. It depends on the team.

It depends how many of his friends he's going to get to play with them, that's true, so he's they're still waiting. That's part of the thing, too. For the jets. It's like, now we have to basically change up our entire offense and get all new personnel.

That was also the biggest takeaway from the Pat McAfee interview is as much as Aaron wants to play the role of. Like, I don't care what people think. Guy, he listens to everything, oh yeah, and he gets mad about everything, yeah.

And he should be in jail, I hope he gets mad about that. The, uh, the text was Shepty, where he's like, I told Shepty, Uh, yeah, you can lose my number when he sent it, and then Shepty just tweeted out. The screen grab that actually made Adam Schefter look good.

It made him look really good. He's just he's a hound. I didn't tell you this big cat, but I. I texted Aaron, Um, like, a month ago you didn't give me his number, but in in the uh, in the text to Aaron. I was like, Hey, this Pft. From part of my take, big cat didn't give me your number. By the way. And I just wanted to ask him questions about DMT.

He didn't, I feel bad, because, like, he at least gave Shepty the dude lose my number with me. He just left me on red and didn't even reply to me. I would have loved for him to be like, Hey, fuck off, oh, I mean, I've been left on red. I all my text messages to him that are not, I don't think he'll ever speak to me again.

Um, maybe, maybe not. I mean, he seems, uh, let's see, uh. The thing with the Jets is he's going to a very, very tough division. Yeah, I texted him on March 7th.

If you need any New York City recommendations I got, you want to make your move as comfortable as possible. That's what friends do for each other. No, no response. And then I said, So happy for you and your new team, congrats.

I'm wishing you nothing but the best peace and love. And then I said, Hey, Aaron, if you need someone to move you into your new apartment, I'm happy to do it. Uh, I'll rent the u-haul for the charge. I kind of hope he takes you up on that. I would make sure it makes you carry it.

You can have my apartment, he could have every piece of furniture in my apartment. I bet my kids toys. I don't give a fuck. I bet Aaron's going to set up like a teepee in his apartment in Brooklyn.

Yeah, yeah, he's going to fit. He actually would be perfect in Brooklyn because he could, like, there's enough people in Brooklyn that don't watch football. That. He could definitely just have a group of friends that don't even know he plays for the Jets. He could go out to a bar and they just wouldn't recognize him.

Yeah, right, there's a bar on my corner that doesn't have a TV. What kind of bar is that? He's going to? He's going to ride his fixie bike through Williamsburg.

It's not a bar, it's just a fucking, it's just a. it's like a shitty house. If, honestly, if you go to a bar where there's not a TV, you're an alcoholic, it does. It's packed.

Every bar in Williamsburg, What? When I was in Williamsburg, I had to. I remember, like, being like, Oh, it's Monday night football. I'm going to go watch and get food at a bar down the street. And I had to walk, like, I mean, it's New York City.

So it wasn't, there was, but I probably went to five or six bars walking in, being like, there's no TV here. I bet you, if you did a poll of like every. I was like a soccer pub, which is like the most hipster shit ever. Not like Far Brooklyn.

That like has actual like sports fans, but like the like close to the river and like Manhattan, Brooklyn. I bet you. My house has more TVs than almost every other bar. I went to a bar one time in my neighborhood that has TVs and they incorporated them into the decor and they're not plugged in. Yeah, that was fucked out.

That's assault, that is honestly assault. I wanted to burn the place down, but yeah, Aaron Rogers is gone. Everything's looking up for the Bears.

It's been legitimately like, great two weeks to be a Bears fan, so I know this won't last, I know.

Probably draft Jalen Carter after he, like, doesn't want to play football anymore. But yeah, I can't, can't. Yuck my yum. Right now. Everyone was trying to no, no, no, no.

Aaron Rogers is gone out of my life. All right, should we do fire Fest? Oh, you know, it's crazy. Is that the teams that can be forced to do hard knocks next year? It's the jets, the bears, the commanders.

And then I think the Saints will 100 be the jets. Yes, and oh my God, he is going to treat the New York media so poorly. Yeah, which I kind of like.

Yeah, I want to see how that relationship unfolds. Yes, um, hey, you want to do your fire fest first? yeah.

Do you guys want to give a quick, quick Edwin Diaz thoughts? Yeah, he got injured. Yeah, uh. World Baseball classic.

That's hot takes, that's tough. Uh, it's really, really tough, considering it's a game that doesn't really mean anything or does it? Here's, here's my. I saw a lot of debate back and forth. Um, these guys are grown, grown ass men.

If they want to play for their country, they should get to play for their country. Like, I don't know why people are being like, why would my players play like they get to decide what they want to do. They know that they could get injured.

Most most people who play sports for a profession like to play sports for a profession. So if they that they maybe grew up with and rep their team, rep their country or their country, I think they'll probably take that, that, that chance. This is obviously the downside, but every fan being like, why the fuck do we even have world? But I don't know. Like these guys want to play, they don't have to play.

Also, it didn't happen in the course of the game. My big takeaway from this is that this is the most most Mets thing to ever have, so if you're a Mets fan, you probably in your darkest nightmares, think to yourself, Diaz is going to go play in the World Baseball classic. Oh shit.

He's probably going to tear his patellar tendon, celebrating after a win when he's just jumping up in the air. And then he's not going to be able to pitch for the next 12 months. That thought has probably crossed your head prior to this happening. And they get, they get rid of the grom. Who would be the guy that I would think that this would happen to?

And Diaz, too. I mean, he had one of the all-time great seasons in the history of Major League baseball as it closed with the trumpets. Which, hey?

Trumpets are playing taps. Oh, no, damn, I just don't. I'm not a World Baseball classic fan. Some people really like it.

And if the players want to play, they should get to play. I don't, I don't like. I also believe that injuries like that we're going to happen anyway. You know what I mean? Like, Well, yeah, it wasn't in the course of the game, even if it was a freak celebration. And something probably is a little off with your body that, like, there's going to have, there's going to be an injury that happens at some point in the season.

Yeah, it's called being a Mets player. Mike Trout is a big winner of the World Baseball Classic because he gets to play meaningful baseball for once, so he's having fun. He's probably, uh, I'd say, he's Captain America.

He's the Patrick Reed of the U S team and so it's fun watching him actually be able to to celebrate a game that could potentially impact future games. Yeah, so, uh, yeah, I'm not. I guess. My take on World Baseball Classic is, I still don't care, but for people who do care, cool, yeah.

I'd say, that's fair. Yeah, like, I have fun, I, that's, that's cool, like March madness is on, but if you like baseball more than college basketball, that's cool too.

So the the knock against it is it's a made up tournament that people just decided to start doing, but every tournament, every single, is a made up tournament. Until somebody.

It's a completely non-existent tournament that doesn't mean anything. And then they try to grow it so it. History, yeah, it takes time to build up history and tradition.

I think we can say, as a podcast, we're a grow the game podcast. It doesn't matter all games, it is growing every game. It is kind of funny, though, that the World Baseball Classic, like, the only major headlines that ever gets is the injuries, yeah.

It doesn't feel like there's a lot of positive headlines. No, not really. Yeah, uh. Columbia covered a seven and a half run spread that was pretty, uh, okay.

Firefest of the Week Hank.

Uh, in the midst of today, which, as we previously discussed, to not go great, uh, there is a rage room adjacent to our gambling setup. Shout out to Jack's links. uh, little, little sponsorship for for people that have bad bets or whatever they go and do, do some smashing. Jack links, Jack links.

What did I say? Jack's links? Jack, Sorry, uh, pft went in there. And in the video. I love how Hank's fire fest has just become him as an excuse to take a shit on me.

No, go ahead. well, you didn't let me finish. Yeah, go ahead. well, I wanted you to shut the fuck up for a second. I had to set set it up.

I mean, cause my mind makes no sense without explaining yours if I would, if context matters, if I was mean, right now, I'd say that. You're so addicted to plus signs that even your golf game incorporates them, but I'm not going to say that no, if I was a plus in golf, that'd be unbelievable, nope.

Plus is bad six handicap false. plus is bad in golf, you want lower scores.

False plus six handicap means you're really, really good. I didn't say plus six, you guys going to kiss.

I'll kiss him if he wants to. PFT went into the rage room. I think Hank and I. The sexual tension is off the charts right now. It's crazy. PFT walked in the rage room, uh, with a baseball bat, swung at a glass and completely missed.

Oh, no, and I again, maybe that, maybe I'm learning a lot about myself. Probably the only other part of the day where I kind of laughed watching the video being like, Ha, swing and a miss, that's embarrassing. And it's right next to the room where I was in lying down and I was like, All right, I'm going to. I biggest bet tonight. Text, say, an M walk, let's get this train rolling.

I'm going to make a video poking fun at PFT, explaining my bet, and then I'm going to smash the glass. That he missed. And then I took a swing and he went over the cup. I went under the cup, I just smashed the table, but I missed the cup.

Oh, no, it was a one take, Penn State right there, it was a one take situation.

I wasn't going to delete it and a lot of people did say, Well, obviously, now I'm going to bet Penn State, so I guess you're welcome, all right.

I'm sorry about that, Hank.

I'm just unathletic, dumb, stupid, not good at gambling. Your yawns sound very bad.

I was just I was helping you out. It seemed like you were looking for another bad thing about you. Yeah, USC, USC.

I'm a good friend, so I'm going to ride on USC tomorrow. Let's do it my fire fest of the week. I was going to say what happened in the Jack Links rage room when I took a big cut and just completely whiffed on the glass? Um, but it was a small bat and also I'm a golfer now, so it ruined my baseball swing. But I will pivot and say, my, my fire fest of the week is, Um, this is my first March madness without tums.

And the reason for that is, I think I'm a full time, like, take two antacid tablets a day. Guy, Yeah, like medicine. So I wake up and I need to have one of those. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Things that old people get that their children have to dispense for them. But I, I've made the transition to that because just straight tums isn't cutting it for me anymore.

The acid's that bad shot I earned Rogers that I have to now be able to switch over. And and it's weird because I always forget to take it until right before I need it, and then it doesn't work. Like tums, that's the thing.

If I try to take a Pepsod AC instead of a Tums, I have to wait an hour to get any relief. But now I'm a full time, just like Constant. There's always going to be antacid in my blood, is what I'm saying. And that's that to me is the worst. That's, that's the most clear sign that I'm old as fuck, yeah.

That's tough, Yeah, that's very tough. Um, I'm trying to think I don't really have a fire fest, my fire fest is.

I love the tournament so much that when Thursday ends, I'm like, Damn we. We only have one more really crazy chaotic day and it bums me out. I'm trying to think, what is, uh, no longer waking me up? But he does watch me sleep? That's kind of creepy. I guess that would be my fire. Oh yeah.

You know, you figured out he stands in your room, yeah, so I. I told him like, if you come in my room and you wake me up, like, I'm going to lock my door, and he does. He's like, don't lock the door, don't lock the door.

And I was like, So don't wake me up, and he didn't wake me up. And then I was walking him to school. And I was like, So you slept well last night? and he's like, Well, yeah. I came in your room and it was too cold in there, so then I went back to my room and I was like, What?

And then I looked at the monitor and the fucker left this room for like 10 minutes and probably just watched me sleep. Yeah, so that's weird, that's he just loves you, he's just staring at me but not waking me up.

So that's baby steps. Yeah, we're making progress. He's just, he's just he's just, you know, watching me sleep, that's fine.

Kind of miss it on the road, like, don't get anyone to watch me sleep. Maybe, Hank, you could wait. I'll give you my key card tonight, Hank, you can come in and just watch me sleep.

He's not the hat man in trading, but yeah, I do miss him. There's one more story that's kind of developing right now. As we speak the Jimmy G to the Raiders saga. Yeah, so Jimmy G has not signed a contract with the Raiders yet.

They were supposed to introduce him at a press conference this afternoon. The Bunny Ranch even did a picture. Did they hookers for Jimmy? G? Yeah, so so he. so he shows up or he doesn't show up.

The scheduled time was, I want to say, like four, 30 in the afternoon. All the reporters showed up, waited for Jimmy G. They said, we're going to delay the press conference by an hour. He just never showed up. Something they delayed, they had to delay it a full day or more.

Something is going on with Jimmy G, and I don't know if Josh McDaniels leaked news of his marriage to anybody or what's happening there. Got to Vegas and was like, This is awesome, yeah, you know what?

I I think I just realized that I wanted to move to Las Vegas and not necessarily play football. But what if, what if? He just backed out, because that would be knowing what I know about Josh McDaniels. It's not his way of doing business, to accept an offer to go somewhere and then back out of it, right shortly thereafter.

That's not how, that's not how we do things on McDaniels Las Vegas Raiders. Yeah, someone at your mercy. I went to Jimmy G's, took a shit, I was took a shit.

And he's like, I want to play for this guy. Oh, also, Mike. Florida reported that Dan Snyder is going to sell the Washington Commanders. Yeah, and so, see, I'm excited for you, I'm not going to ruin it for you.

I was trying to ruin it, I was just pointing out that he's not going to. He's. He might not play for the Jets, he's not going to pay for the backers. But uh. Florio reported that Snyder has moved all of this shit out of the commander's team facility, him and his wife, and that a sale is imminent right now. So I am, that was, that was the highlight of my day, yeah.

I had a bad day at the track today. No, you kept on, you walked around, like showed, showing the tweet to everyone in the room. Yeah, I was so happy. Look at this.

I was, I was, well, I want to jack off again. Yeah, and I mean, I've got a hotel room and I can't jack off in it. That's torture. Well, give Hank your key card.

You want to come? Jack me off? Thank you. Got a lot of work to do tonight. We do have sexual tension, yeah.

Um, all right, we, uh, did lottery ball and we'll see if hank.

Yeah, Hank, do you think you got it this time? Yeah, all right, let's kick it to ourselves back in the studio.

See everyone on Sunday night when we don't have voices. Love you guys. Okay, we're back in the studio after you listened to us. Uh, recap the first day of the tournament we're going to. We're taping this on Tuesday.

Um hank, have you ever gotten this nope lottery ball? You didn't let me finish, I false start.

Oh, no, that was the biggest false start of all time. Lottery ball No, I thought it was, no, I. I. I was asking, Hank, have you ever got the Lottery ball? I know, I know I did.

You tried to lane Johnson it, I did. I'll take numbers 600. No, no, no, you have a false start.

You go last, do you not know? Oh, hank, I was going to take 64, oh wow for the tournament.

Do you want to take PFT? One of us? Well, there's 68. Why being so salty? Oh yeah.

Oh yeah, 68. I'll take a check. Yeah, well, by the time, this episode, a bracket.

Right now there are six teams. You know what? I'll take 17, I'll, I'll, I'll let you Max, you have last chance to take 69..

Uh, yeah, I'll take six.

Billy getting a 20 genuinely upset at other people taking 69 because it's the sex number. It's not no, it's just it's like a yin yang, and just like it's a consistent number.

That's your number.

There's a lot of devastating numbers that come up.

48 Continental U.S. 48. Love you guys, damn hank, and you lost all your bets today.

At the end of today, there'll be 48 teams remaining. Oh.

There's 64 16 games, you should have done that, hank number of teams remaining at this hour. I at the end of Friday and at the end of this episode, yeah.

Oh, figure it out. No, not. Still, not even close. Wait, no, no.

He's right.

Thursday we go 64 to 48 and then Friday 48 to 32.

Oh, no, hank. yeah, learn ball hank.

That's tough, love you guys.

They proved that chickens actually came before the eggs.

Say it to me, I swear that you can say it in something.

Say it to me, say it to me, say it to me, say it to me. I'll be gone in days to come. Now you are my silhouette.

Say it to me, say it to me, say it to me.