Friday Winners With Stanford Steve, Recapping Day 1 Of March Madness, Bonus Mt Rushmore Of March Madness Things + Fyre Fest Of The Week Including Possible Severance Spoilers (We Haven't Seen The Finale Yet)

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Speaker 25 On today's part of my take, we recap the first day of madness.

Speaker 27 Not a ton of madness, but some madness.

Speaker 29 McNeese Madness.

Speaker 30 McNeese Madness.

Speaker 24 Will Wade Madness.

Speaker 32 We also have our good friend Stanford Steve on to talk exclusively Friday picks.

Speaker 3 So we're breaking down the whole board.

Speaker 25 If you got your teeth kicked in on Thursday, you can listen to this.

Speaker 5 Stanford Steve's a lot smarter than us.

Speaker 17 We got some picks for Friday.

Speaker 33 We do a bonus Mount Rushmore out of Mount Rushmore season, but we did a Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 35 Great Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 30 Great Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 24 And then we are going to finish with Firefest spoilers.

Speaker 38 Also, Severance spoilers.

Speaker 17 Also, Severance Spoilers, but not really, because none of us watched the finale yet.

Speaker 29 And that's also going to be at the end of the show.

Speaker 41 End of the show. End of the show.
During the Fire Fest.

Speaker 38 So the beginning of Fire Fest.

Speaker 42 Yes.

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Speaker 43 Yes.

Speaker 24 Fast forward. But otherwise, we don't know the finale.

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Speaker 32 Today is Friday, March 21st, and we've got Madness.

Speaker 41 Big East Madness.

Speaker 29 And the SEC is dead.

Speaker 51 Yeah.

Speaker 24 The SEC.

Speaker 39 Not really, but

Speaker 29 the Big Ten, congratulations.

Speaker 16 Big Ten and Big East had a nice day.

Speaker 1 We had not the craziest first day of madness, but McNeese State, I think,

Speaker 17 leads the storyboard because what a day for Will Wade.

Speaker 34 He's announced as the new coach of NC State, then goes out and gives us a classic 12-5

Speaker 30 upset where I know it looks like a two-point game, but they were dominating Clemson for the majority of the game.

Speaker 29 Clemson couldn't make a shot in the first half. It was ugly.
Towards the end, they started to pour it in. It all came in kind of all of a sudden.
So the two points looks a lot closer than it was.

Speaker 53 But yeah, Will Wade,

Speaker 29 Clemson alum,

Speaker 29 beating his alma mater, then going to NC State. And new rival.
And new rival. Yeah.

Speaker 56 And did it the right way because we've seen it the wrong way and a million times where coaches will say, I'm not talking to them.

Speaker 46 I don't know what you're talking about. I'm focused on my team.

Speaker 24 Will Wade said two days ago, yeah, I'm having conversations with NC State.

Speaker 29 Yeah, I heard some people that were upset about it.

Speaker 29 I think Will Wade probably told his students last year,

Speaker 29 like, hey, I'm going to come back for another year. I probably had some offers.
I'm going to come back. I'm going to be talking to other schools.

Speaker 29 You guys want to transfer at the end of this year too, probably, if all goes well. If you win games in the tournament, you'll get to transfer to a better school, maybe get some NIL money.

Speaker 29 So I think Will Wade, in a stunning twist, everything that he was doing that was illegal back then is legal now. Yeah.

Speaker 29 And he's just being open and honest about it and telling the kids, like, hey, I'm not going to lie to you. I'm going to leave.
You're probably going to go look for some money too.

Speaker 29 Let's win some games.

Speaker 30 Not only that, but with the new transfer portal rules, he's going to take a bunch of these guys with him.

Speaker 24 Yeah.

Speaker 55 So it's like, hey, I'm going to be open with these guys.

Speaker 55 I'd rather Will Wade be transparent about it.

Speaker 60 Yeah, it's awkward that he took a new job before his team even played in the tournament than Darren

Speaker 24 DeVries, DeVries, who went from West Virginia to Indiana in the Bahamas in December and had his son sit out the year for a medical red shirt.

Speaker 24 The game is the game, so it's not like I'm saying, oh man, he did something so wrong.

Speaker 48 West Virginia definitely, West Virginia is having a bad week, but I'd rather have the Will Wade where you're just up front about it and saying, yeah, I'm talking to NC State.

Speaker 40 Oh, yep, I got a new job.

Speaker 63 Yeah, I'm totally cool with that.

Speaker 29 And I'm also sure that Will Wade told the administration,

Speaker 29 I am going to be listening to phone calls if they come.

Speaker 50 Right, right. All right, so.

Speaker 32 Game. So Mick Neese was the big upset, so to speak.

Speaker 34 They were seven and a half point underdogs, and they were the 12-5 matchup.

Speaker 60 The other big one was Drake.

Speaker 48 Finally, Drake has staved off the meltdown that we are all accustomed to with Drake in the tournament where they start a game, they're up big, and then they slowly melt down.

Speaker 59 They tried to do it.

Speaker 24 It was like they were up all game, and it was, I think, a two-point game with about five minutes left, but they beat Mizzou, which was kind of a stunning upset because the SEC has been the big, bad SEC, has been the talk of the college basketball this year.

Speaker 30 And it was that one and

Speaker 15 Cal and the boys, Arkansas.

Speaker 42 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Ending Hunter Dickinson's career.

Speaker 41 And they look good.

Speaker 29 Yeah. Arkansas looked real good.
They were getting boards. They were creating a lot of turnovers.
So many turnovers for Kansas. It was crazy.

Speaker 29 Like, Kansas felt like they were going to come start knocking at the door, and then they just couldn't get the ball down the court. Yeah.
It was very strange.

Speaker 29 And I think that Arkansas, the way that they're built, we can talk about St.

Speaker 29 John's, but not only are we going to get Cal Petino like America wanted in the second round, but I think that those two schools can give each other a really good game.

Speaker 21 Yes, absolutely.

Speaker 41 Yeah.

Speaker 30 And

Speaker 24 it was an interesting game because it was Cal

Speaker 48 was basically shocked by.

Speaker 34 Kansas being like, hey, we're going to zone you in the second half. And there was that stretch where Arkansas just could not score.

Speaker 36 And Kansas even took the lead with a couple minutes left.

Speaker 60 But we all wanted this game and we're going to get this game.

Speaker 29 I have a question for you, Big Cat. Yeah.
Is Bill Self on the hot seat?

Speaker 5 I don't know if he's on the hot seat.

Speaker 24 This was probably the most disappointing.

Speaker 65 I mean,

Speaker 16 I would imagine Bill Self is going to do a press conference and be like, I did a bad job coaching, but I also hated the fuck out of this team.

Speaker 47 Yeah.

Speaker 24 Because this was Kansas all year.

Speaker 40 They were up and down.

Speaker 3 They were supposed to be great.

Speaker 62 They struggled at times.

Speaker 48 They had some bad losses.

Speaker 34 And I think most Kansas fans saw this coming in the fact that they just weren't built for a long run.

Speaker 3 Again, also, it's the end of Hunter Dickinson's career.

Speaker 67 Periodis still has a COVID year, though.

Speaker 29 He can come up. He does.

Speaker 1 Here's a stat for you.

Speaker 5 Kansas had won 19 of 22 conference titles before Hunter Dickinson transferred to KU.

Speaker 24 In his two years there, the Jayhawks finished fifth and sixth, respectively.

Speaker 5 Moreover, they won one NCAA tournament game in this time there. Now,

Speaker 25 it is a little different because the Big 12 expanded.

Speaker 16 Houston got added.

Speaker 32 Arizona got added.

Speaker 26 And Houston's really fucking good. It's Kansas, though.

Speaker 34 It is Kansas.

Speaker 28 That's not the best.

Speaker 49 So, he is, yeah, I think he's done.

Speaker 70 He's, yeah, he is done.

Speaker 29 I think so. I don't think that there's any sort of exploitable rule that they can do to bring him back.
I don't know that they'd want him back.

Speaker 29 I think they're ready to move on from the Hunter Dickinson experiment.

Speaker 21 Yeah, I'd say so.

Speaker 29 Obviously, Bill Self not on the hot seat, but it's fun to have the conversation. The conversation's being had.

Speaker 1 People should have the conversation.

Speaker 29 Kansas also, they became the second AP preseason number one to lose in the first round of the NCAA tournament. You know who the other one was?

Speaker 71 Who?

Speaker 29 Also Kansas in 2005 to Bucknell.

Speaker 48 That's tough. Yeah.

Speaker 42 I remember that game.

Speaker 31 Shit pumpings.

Speaker 73 There was a bunch of them.

Speaker 48 UCLA shit pumped Utah State.

Speaker 67 That wasn't even close.

Speaker 31 It was close actually in the first half.

Speaker 57 I think it was a 25-23 game at one point.

Speaker 8 And the final score was 72-47.

Speaker 5 That was not shocking, but it was just like, I thought Utah State would be a little bit more live.

Speaker 29 it was just the the guards for ucla were so much bigger than the guards yeah from utah state it didn't look like it looked like a high school team playing against them purdue handled high point very easily i tried to tell hank to take the under he didn't listen to me uh under vibes though st.

Speaker 24 john's st. John's kicked the shit out of Omaha St.

Speaker 1 John's is so funny because St.

Speaker 56 John's they did this in the big East tournament too where they have to like go down to to wake up and and then just start bullying someone.

Speaker 29 Yeah, they were down Omaha was was up in the first half, and then St.

Speaker 1 John's was like, ah, we're St.

Speaker 24 John's and you're not.

Speaker 29 Yeah, right off the bat, when they missed three-pointers, they really missed three-pointers. And I think they ended up shooting like a respectable percentage.
I think it was probably in the mid-30s.

Speaker 29 So at the end of the day, you look at what they shot from three and you're like, okay, that's a pretty good day shooting. But when they miss, they airball three-pointers.

Speaker 5 Yeah, they ended up shooting 37.8%, which Petino would take that all day for St.

Speaker 24 John's and how they are not exactly a shooting team.

Speaker 29 The thing I love about St. John's is that on defense,

Speaker 29 if a team is working the ball around, pump-faking, getting guys to leave their feet, they pass it to the open guy. St.

Speaker 29 John's seems to have an unlimited amount of dudes on the floor running at the face. Yeah.
Like, just in their rotation is so good on defense, they just keep cycling.

Speaker 29 There's always somebody running at your face. If you think you're about to take an open shot, you're not.
And if you look at the offensive rebounds,

Speaker 29 I believe they lost the offensive rebounding battle, but they kicked the shit out of Omaha in second chance points. Yeah.

Speaker 29 And that's because Omaha, they would get an offensive rebound occasionally and then just get swatted into oblivion in the lane.

Speaker 9 Yeah, St.

Speaker 25 John's has, I mean, the way they play, they play Patino defense, where everyone's hands are always active.

Speaker 48 Every ball gets tipped.

Speaker 65 You know, nothing is easy.

Speaker 8 Just swinging the ball feels hard.

Speaker 42 And yeah, St.

Speaker 28 John's was definitely impressive in the second half.

Speaker 59 Houston squished SIU Edwardsville.

Speaker 50 Shout out to SIU Edwardsville.

Speaker 65 Remember, we learned the big show.

Speaker 70 Yep, that's right.

Speaker 29 His rights for university.

Speaker 8 Yeah, so that's huge.

Speaker 48 Alabama struggled a little bit, or Auburn, sorry, struggled a little bit with Alabama State, but ended up winning pretty easily.

Speaker 29 Ten FC

Speaker 33 Wafford in the second half.

Speaker 29 I was not super impressed with Auburn today. No,

Speaker 58 they've had weird vibes.

Speaker 76 I mean, they finished the season losing three out of four, and they were the number one overall seed.

Speaker 30 And yeah, it will be...

Speaker 45 So, like, today.

Speaker 29 Alabama State, they played so much harder than Auburn. Yeah.
They were beating them to loose balls. They were picking up every 50-50 thing.

Speaker 29 Auburn didn't look like they had a fire lit under their ass before the game. Maybe Bruce Pearl will be able to start it, and they ended up winning by a good amount.

Speaker 60 It was by 20, yeah.

Speaker 29 It wasn't close at the end, but I wasn't super impressed by him.

Speaker 24 My Badgers handle business, even though the committee tried to fuck us with the early tip time and the altitude.

Speaker 14 I mean, that was

Speaker 59 thanks for coming out, Montana.

Speaker 29 Yeah, that was not.

Speaker 23 That wasn't very competitive.

Speaker 29 Yeah, I don't think you guys even played your best game.

Speaker 34 No, Klezmit was not good, and he's got to be good against BYU on Saturday.

Speaker 5 I'm trying to think.

Speaker 3 Are they out? Yeah. Give them to us.
Give them to us.

Speaker 8 Because I was about to say, What time do you think?

Speaker 35 Like the

Speaker 5 games today, there weren't super memorable moments. This happens.

Speaker 48 You know, you'll have a Thursday or Friday that's not like, oh my God, that was the craziest day ever.

Speaker 3 But then you look at Saturday and you're like, holy shit, it's loaded.

Speaker 40 Give it to us.

Speaker 35 12:10, McNeese versus Purdue. Okay.
2:40, Arkansas versus St. John.

Speaker 79 Oh,

Speaker 35 5.15, Michigan versus Texas AM.

Speaker 35 6.10, Drake versus Texas Tech.

Speaker 35 7.10, Creighton versus Auburn.

Speaker 35 7.45.

Speaker 35 BYU versus Wisconsin.

Speaker 48 Yeah, I like that.

Speaker 65 I like having.

Speaker 48 Are these Eastern Standard Time?

Speaker 35 These are all Eastern Standard Time. Okay.
8.40, Gonzaga, Houston, 9.40, UCLA, Tennessee.

Speaker 29 Piquet, what happens if the game keeps going to overtime and going to overtime and going to overtime and it gets into Sunday? Can BYU play?

Speaker 35 645.

Speaker 34 We should try to extend it. Yeah.

Speaker 41 Pull a fire alarm. That would be

Speaker 80 a long game. Yeah.

Speaker 43 Really long game.

Speaker 30 Pull a fire alarm.

Speaker 65 I like having a night.

Speaker 11 I was worried that I didn't think they were going to do it because it's out, you know, it's mountain time,

Speaker 17 but I was worried they were going to do like the second game.

Speaker 43 Need some rest.

Speaker 10 Get some rest.

Speaker 81 It's going to be a tough game. BYU is good.

Speaker 66 They fucking fill it up from three.

Speaker 60 It's basically going to be the scariest game in terms of just any team can go on a run at any time with threes.

Speaker 29 And we missed a fun fact. We missed a fun fact about BYU.

Speaker 5 No, Max missed the fun fact.

Speaker 29 Max missed the fun fact by BYU.

Speaker 5 Maxwell missed the fun fact.

Speaker 29 Because I heard that on the radio yesterday, and I was like, that's a big mistake on our part.

Speaker 82 How much does it look up every factor?

Speaker 38 Well, this is personal.

Speaker 83 This is maybe the funnest fact.

Speaker 38 I looked up BYU fun facts.

Speaker 29 What was your BYU fun fact?

Speaker 29 Was it as fun as this one?

Speaker 41 No. No.

Speaker 42 I think it was just that.

Speaker 48 And this is the funnest fact ever.

Speaker 38 government's $7 million

Speaker 38 on a player coming in next year.

Speaker 29 That is fun.

Speaker 23 Oh, that is fun.

Speaker 67 What was the fun fact?

Speaker 38 Probably money from the Tater Tots.

Speaker 78 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 86 What is it? Is it Tater Tot Trust?

Speaker 15 No, you say what the fact is.

Speaker 40 You have BYU.

Speaker 59 You say it.

Speaker 38 Richie Saunders, his great-grandfather invented Tater Tot.

Speaker 21 That's big time.

Speaker 38 Awesome. That's a sick fact.

Speaker 29 That's quite a legacy.

Speaker 42 That's a guy who, yeah, should have like a museum after him.

Speaker 38 And do we talk about Jeff Sprouts?

Speaker 41 Did we already talk about Jeff Spring?

Speaker 28 No, but you should probably apologize to Jeff Springs.

Speaker 15 Yeah, Jeff Sprouse.

Speaker 79 What What was a fun fact?

Speaker 38 I said one play.

Speaker 32 He did best player, worst player.

Speaker 38 I did best player, worst player for like six of the teams, and then I only said one of the worst players, and it was Jeff Sprouse, who went six of 12 from three in the play-in game.

Speaker 52 Yeah.

Speaker 42 He had 18. Yeah.

Speaker 88 He was.

Speaker 29 And we think that Jeff Sprouse probably listens to the show. He probably heard that.

Speaker 43 Probably. And he's probably from the Sprouse family.

Speaker 15 Someone told it. Yeah.

Speaker 38 I got a reply from a Sprouse saying,

Speaker 38 admit that

Speaker 38 you don't know ball and only looked at the box scores. And I was like, I admitted that as a

Speaker 29 even the box score, just the season-long set score.

Speaker 38 I pulled up the ESPN

Speaker 38 stat line for every player, and I was like,

Speaker 89 these guys' numbers stink. Yeah.

Speaker 9 Yeah, all right.

Speaker 48 So apologies to Jeff Sprouse.

Speaker 24 We should also mention,

Speaker 33 the reminder today was anytime everyone in the world is talking about one team, just go the other way because I feel like that happened with two specific cases.

Speaker 50 Yale, everyone loved Yale.

Speaker 34 Texas A ⁇ M turns out still very good.

Speaker 16 Wade Taylor, very good.

Speaker 42 And then

Speaker 50 who was the other person? Oh,

Speaker 58 VCU BYU.

Speaker 40 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 9 VCU-BYU was

Speaker 22 everyone was like VCU, VCU, VCU.

Speaker 65 And UYU San Diego, too.

Speaker 67 Yeah, but Jay covers at three and a half.

Speaker 10 I don't know what.

Speaker 32 Yeah, it started at three and a half.

Speaker 2 I don't know what UC San Diego was doing with that last possession.

Speaker 24 You have 14 seconds, you're down three.

Speaker 9 I would like to try to extend the game a little and go to the rack and try to maybe get fouled there.

Speaker 52 I don't know.

Speaker 21 Or a fadeaway three.

Speaker 17 It was a decent look, but it just you

Speaker 29 have one shot. The play took so long to develop that you didn't give yourself an opportunity to get a rebound.
You didn't give yourself an opportunity for them to get a rebound and foul.

Speaker 65 Right. Yeah.

Speaker 29 It's just the game ended. Yeah, try to get that off.
You actually,

Speaker 29 it could have been even worse, I think, because you could have let Dusty May get enough time where he could then foul when you're on the floor and take away your opportunity to shoot a three. Yeah.

Speaker 32 And UC San Diego deserves credit.

Speaker 50 I mean, Michigan deserves credit for holding on and making big plays down the stretch, but UC San Diego, like, they were dead in the water in the first half, and they came out in the second half in that first five minutes and went on that run.

Speaker 65 That was a very good - that was some good tournament action that felt fun to watch.

Speaker 29 Yeah, there was a lot of foul trouble in that game. That's the only thing.

Speaker 3 It was not the best.

Speaker 59 Tate Jones fouled out with like five minutes left.

Speaker 29 that was great um all right what other do we miss anyone else georgia georgia georgia gonzaga georgia didn't know how to play basketball does georgia have a basketball team they don't know how to play basketball it continues for another year

Speaker 34 i don't think i've ever seen for the start of a game now gonzaga deserves a lot of credit gonzaga is under or over underseded as an eight seed i think they they are a lot better than an eighth seed so they're not your typical eight seed that game started and uh

Speaker 24 georgias didn't know how to dribble pass shoot anything yeah they're falling on it all over themselves georgia

Speaker 48 also out of control when they tried to drive yeah there was also another was there another uh georgia incident football two two

Speaker 35 what happened one guy drove into a house okay okay are you talking about was it his house no oh

Speaker 35 and then the second one which i think was the first one was just a uh

Speaker 35 speeding ticket but i can i can look it up it's funny because

Speaker 59 when March Madness is happening, other stories just don't happen because I also, it was like a bingo card.

Speaker 33 We had another two Georgia driving incidents in the football program, and then we had a very weird story from Michigan.

Speaker 29 Yeah, Michigan, some sort of spying. The former offensive coordinator?

Speaker 65 Matt Weiss. Yeah.

Speaker 32 So I have it right here.

Speaker 65 According to the indictment, between approximately 2015 and January 2023, Weiss gained unauthorized access to student-athlete databases of more than 100 colleges and universities that were were maintained by a third-party vendor.

Speaker 3 After gaining access to these databases, Weiss downloaded the personally identifiable information and medical data of more than 150,000 athletes.

Speaker 46 Using the information that he obtained from the student athlete databases and his own internet research, Weiss was able to obtain access to the social media, email, and/or cloud storage accounts of more than 2,000 target athletes.

Speaker 46 Weiss also illegally obtained access to the social media, email, and cloud storage accounts of more than 1,300 additional students and/or alumni from universities across the country.

Speaker 29 That's creepy. That's crazy.
He sounds like he's an anonymous, like an actual hacker.

Speaker 57 That's nuts.

Speaker 29 Can you blame Connor Stallions for this?

Speaker 48 Connor Stallions is going to try.

Speaker 14 But this guy, not so much.

Speaker 35 So

Speaker 35 I got it right here. Georgia wide receiver Nitro Tuggle, which I mean, that guy.

Speaker 29 He should be allowed to speed.

Speaker 56 I don't.

Speaker 65 You can't name him that.

Speaker 95 Yeah.

Speaker 3 He's going to speed. He got.

Speaker 35 he's gonna be he's gonna speed or he's gonna be an american gladiator one or the other arrested on charges of reckless driving and speeding in athens and then uh on monday

Speaker 29 when you recruit nitro yeah and you're at georgia hey he's a wide receiver it's like you have to have like several conversations nitro you're gonna be under a microscope because your name is nitro and also you play football for me you need to give him a golf cart that goes 20 miles an hour tops or just get him a driver yeah like we we're gonna get ahead of this problem nitro and then georgia offensive lineman marquise easley reportedly crashed a car into an apartment complex monday night leading to a suspension today all gas no brakes hmm interesting

Speaker 73 i would assume if these guys are good at football they'll be playing in september like what do you think they like what like how

Speaker 16 After the like, what, 20th time it happens?

Speaker 35 Like, do you think at any point, like, do you think they joke about it? Because that's what it seems like. They're like, all right, like, this is just our thing here.

Speaker 78 They don't office pool.

Speaker 90 I don't think Kirby jokes about it.

Speaker 48 I think some of the guys on the staff definitely joke about it, being like, you got to be fucking shitting me.

Speaker 29 I do think you can point at Kirby Smart and be like, dude, you need to do a better job of making the local police in your pocket like Urban Meyer did in Jacksonville.

Speaker 33 But these guys are crashing into apartment buildings.

Speaker 35 Yeah, I mean, there's not

Speaker 35 much you can do there.

Speaker 80 There's speeding one here.

Speaker 57 You could put that under the...

Speaker 38 The cops got to be like, all right, speeding ticket.

Speaker 24 Yeah, but Georgia. But

Speaker 35 I think they've had, yeah, and they've also had so many incidents where it's like,

Speaker 35 I think the police have to be like, we have to start reporting this.

Speaker 35 Like, we've covered up a lot, but when you're going like 140, like,

Speaker 43 we got to report it.

Speaker 15 Take their licenses. Yeah.

Speaker 29 When Nitro pulls into the first place, Nitro, he's like, Nitro

Speaker 16 should get a pass.

Speaker 86 Yeah, he should.

Speaker 29 When you're Kirby Smart and you see Nitro pull up to the facility day one, probably in like a Dodge Hellcat,

Speaker 29 you have to be like, hey, Nitro, you're not driving. I'm sorry.
You're just not.

Speaker 97 Yeah.

Speaker 34 Also, we got another story we had was T.

Speaker 24 Higgins' contract.

Speaker 67 The details?

Speaker 24 This is pretty smart by the Bengals, it seems like.

Speaker 60 So I'm reading from Florios,

Speaker 48 broke it down.

Speaker 46 Of course, he did.

Speaker 29 Florio's not watching basketball.

Speaker 57 He's breaking down contracts.

Speaker 5 Nothing in 2025 is guaranteed. However, the $20 million roster bonus is earned five days after Higgins puts pen to paper.
So I assume he's going to earn that.

Speaker 36 That's that's actually a dangerous time to earn it right during March Madness.

Speaker 27 The only true full guaranteed signing bonus or signing is the 10 million 2026 off-season roster bonus.

Speaker 3 The Bengals have, as a practical matter, a year-to-year option.

Speaker 5 They can pay him $35.9 million for 2025 if he dresses for every game and earns the $2 million in per-game roster bonuses.

Speaker 34 And they can move on before the 2026 base salary becomes fully guaranteed.

Speaker 24 It's not guaranteed for injury.

Speaker 29 So it's not even a two-year contract.

Speaker 74 It's

Speaker 29 a one-year contract for a good amount of money. A lot of money.

Speaker 65 Yeah.

Speaker 24 Because the 10 million guaranteed 2026 roster bonus has offset language, they likely owe him nothing if they cut him after one year since he'd likely make more elsewhere.

Speaker 29 Yeah, I was wondering how they were able to, because they said that they were going to keep, obviously, T. Higgins.
They're keeping Jamar Chase.

Speaker 29 They said they were going to try to keep Trey Hendrickson, too, if they can. can.
I had no idea how any of that was going to work out. This is a fake contract.

Speaker 29 Well, he's getting a lot of money this year over what would have been the franchise tag. Correct.
So he's getting a nice raise that's guaranteed for one.

Speaker 29 He got a mega franchise tag.

Speaker 36 And I guess there's structure that if they want to keep him next year,

Speaker 26 they don't have to go back and do this all year.

Speaker 29 But essentially, he got mega-tagged. Yeah.

Speaker 58 He got mega-tagged.

Speaker 67 That was interesting, though.

Speaker 42 Yeah.

Speaker 34 What else do we have?

Speaker 36 Anything else from the sports world that we might have missed?

Speaker 35 Scotty Shuffler's Master's Dinner.

Speaker 29 Oh, yeah. It's pretty much the same as it was two years ago, right?

Speaker 28 He ran it back pretty much.

Speaker 29 Except he didn't do the tortilla soup because he told us on PMT that the soup was too spicy for some of the old-timers that were there and it made their tum-tums hurt. Yeah.

Speaker 29 So out of respect for them,

Speaker 29 he's like, okay, I won't give you diarrhea this year. Yeah.

Speaker 16 And he added

Speaker 35 like a little homage to how he cut his finger.

Speaker 98 Oh,

Speaker 35 was it Portellini?

Speaker 53 Oh, yeah. The

Speaker 35 ravioli bites. So that's what he was making when he cut his finger.
Yeah, we added the ravioli bites.

Speaker 29 With meatball. Yeah.

Speaker 35 That's a nice touch. Yeah, that is.
A little joke, haha.

Speaker 29 I could see Scotty Scheffler playing some football at Georgia.

Speaker 69 Yeah.

Speaker 95 Yeah.

Speaker 70 He right up his alley.

Speaker 51 Also,

Speaker 49 I know we did.

Speaker 91 We did Mark Pope 2020.

Speaker 35 25 arrests, by the way, in two years. That's crazy.

Speaker 59 That's nuts.

Speaker 42 Got to lead the league.

Speaker 35 23 wins.

Speaker 80 Damn.

Speaker 36 Get those numbers up, Kirby.

Speaker 94 Not the arrests.

Speaker 35 And, like, there's got to be so much stuff that gets swept under the rug. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 29 All I'll say is they have so many arrests at college. They make their way to the NFL.
They play for the Eagles. They don't get in trouble because they got Big Dom.

Speaker 74 Big Dom.

Speaker 29 Making sure everyone stays high and tight.

Speaker 36 That would be very funny if Kirby Smart brought in Big Dom and be like, how do you do it?

Speaker 65 Yeah.

Speaker 19 He should. How do you do it?

Speaker 38 Zero suspensions, lease in the NFL.

Speaker 52 There you go.

Speaker 35 I got to find that graph.

Speaker 57 Yeah, that's.

Speaker 77 Are you sure that's true?

Speaker 42 100% true.

Speaker 5 Mark Pope, I know we, it was a little cringeworthy that we played his rap on Wednesday.

Speaker 32 But shout out Mark Pope.

Speaker 90 This is a pretty cool story.

Speaker 27 He's paying gas money to any Kentucky fans that drive to Milwaukee.

Speaker 29 That's pretty cool. Yeah.

Speaker 3 So our friend Matt Jones posted proof of it.

Speaker 11 Someone from Mark Pope's office basically being like, like, all you do is email and say you're coming, show that you have tickets and that you're a Kentucky fan, and then they email you back.

Speaker 27 And they're like, as long as you can prove that no one's between the 9th and 12th grade, because

Speaker 16 that would technically be like a violation of recruitment, they'll Venmo you money, a flat gas rate.

Speaker 57 Good guy.

Speaker 42 Pretty awesome.

Speaker 41 I like Mark Pope.

Speaker 67 That's a cool thing to do.

Speaker 24 So Big Blue Nation should be showing up to Milwaukee.

Speaker 101 Love that.

Speaker 97 What do you got, Max?

Speaker 38 Nothing.

Speaker 38 I just sent the graphic of Zero Suspension.

Speaker 35 Oh, you're pretty pretty happy.

Speaker 78 Did you make the graphic? No.

Speaker 38 Dove climbing.

Speaker 30 You've been suspended, though.

Speaker 42 From what?

Speaker 29 Well, you had to take the test.

Speaker 53 You had to take the test.

Speaker 21 Yeah, I had to take.

Speaker 54 You had to take the test.

Speaker 38 Big Dom wasn't happy I took that test.

Speaker 31 And the time you didn't push the button.

Speaker 38 I didn't get suspended.

Speaker 40 Well, you got...

Speaker 24 If you don't push the button again, you get soul patch.

Speaker 35 You self-suspended.

Speaker 38 Did I self-suspend?

Speaker 38 Vacation?

Speaker 38 I guess that.

Speaker 46 I'm so excited for more basketball tomorrow.

Speaker 29 Yeah, it's going to be awesome.

Speaker 28 It's the best.

Speaker 24 It's just like an entire day.

Speaker 34 I realized today that I was just sitting in the same spot for 12 hours.

Speaker 60 And

Speaker 29 it was awesome. I'm going to put on the old Apple Watch tomorrow, see how many steps I take.
There you go. I'm guessing it's

Speaker 29 maybe double figures, maybe like 70 steps.

Speaker 59 It's also,

Speaker 49 this hit me at the beginning of the day.

Speaker 24 It's crazy that when there's one game on, you find yourself being like, where the fuck are all the games?

Speaker 21 I need all the games.

Speaker 70 It's boring. Yeah.

Speaker 56 I can't watch one game.

Speaker 59 I need four games going at the same exact time.

Speaker 29 There was a moment, though, when I think the first time there were three games on at once, it just blew my mind. Yeah.
And I was like, this is so much for me to pay attention to right now.

Speaker 102 Also, maybe shout out to TBS, CBS.

Speaker 41 Turner, True TV, whoever else it is.

Speaker 1 They did kind of fix the scoreboard for a little bit.

Speaker 24 I don't understand how it's still an issue.

Speaker 59 And when I'm saying this, I mean, if you're watching four games at once, half the time you see the scoreboard on one game and it will be ahead of the actual game you're watching.

Speaker 29 Yeah, my guess is they have some sort of a live feed plugged directly into the scores table. So like when the scoreboard at the arena changes, that gets fed into the other TV channel.

Speaker 24 Just pause it.

Speaker 29 Just pause that.

Speaker 43 Just fucking hit pause.

Speaker 67 I don't want to be spoiled.

Speaker 49 Like the beginning of the day.

Speaker 19 You have a problem with it.

Speaker 29 I don't have a problem because I cannot look at the scores in the top.

Speaker 36 The problem is if you know what's happening and your team's playing, like when Wisconsin was playing,

Speaker 34 I had to look at the score to be like, like Montana would come down the court and be like, oh, shit, are they about to hit a three?

Speaker 76 And I'd look because

Speaker 17 if I know it's there, I'm going to look.

Speaker 65 So that's why I can't stop myself.

Speaker 38 You looking at me, Max? Yeah, I noticed that was a thing. I noticed that was a thing earlier today, but I think

Speaker 38 we were watching it on YouTube TV.

Speaker 49 No, I think they did. I tweeted.

Speaker 24 I was pretty mean about it.

Speaker 5 I said I'd skull fuck all of them.

Speaker 16 And then it did look like they actually, Jeff D.

Speaker 25 Lowe texted me and said, it looked like they paused it in real time.

Speaker 24 You could see it pause.

Speaker 49 But then it kind of, it was like laggy a couple places.

Speaker 25 Just figure it out.

Speaker 102 Don't let it spoil us.

Speaker 57 If I know there's a spoiler in front of my face, I'm going to look at it.

Speaker 51 That's my problem.

Speaker 74 Also, did you see what happened in Severance?

Speaker 36 No. Did you watch? Yep.

Speaker 65 You motherfucker.

Speaker 12 All right, so Fire Fest.

Speaker 33 So we're going to do our Mount Rushmore, and then we're going to do San Francisco, and then our Fire Fest.

Speaker 65 And there are Severance spoilers in the Fire Fest.

Speaker 3 When I say that,

Speaker 30 none of us in this room have watched the finale.

Speaker 60 So there's no spoilers on the finale.

Speaker 34 It's just we talked about what could happen in the finale because we have not seen it.

Speaker 48 And we were talking about the fact that it's hard to watch Severance when there's all these games going on.

Speaker 30 So, if you're a couple episodes behind, you could skip Firefest.

Speaker 33 If you are, if you haven't watched the finale, you won't be spoiled at all.

Speaker 36 Yeah, because if you're at the finale, we have not watched it, so we cannot, we literally cannot spoil it because we don't know.

Speaker 29 Yeah, and our guesses of what's going to happen probably will make you dumber and less likely to figure out what's going on.

Speaker 24 Oh, our theories are really stupid, but it's still fun talk.

Speaker 41 We don't really do a bunch of TV talk, but we're all watching it.

Speaker 35 Miss Wong, brain of an adult.

Speaker 51 Yeah, that's a spoiler.

Speaker 35 She doesn't, though.

Speaker 55 We don't think so.

Speaker 74 I don't know.

Speaker 83 We're just doing it again.

Speaker 37 All right.

Speaker 87 Mount Rushmore,

Speaker 6 Stanford Steve, Firefest.

Speaker 16 And then we'll see everyone on Monday to recap everything.

Speaker 1 Okay, before we get to Stanford Steve and our Mount Rushmore of March Madness things.

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Speaker 56 Okay,

Speaker 103 we're going to do rapid-fire Mount Rushmore March Madness things.

Speaker 12 Who wants to go first?

Speaker 29 Hank? Hank, let Hank go first. Okay, Hank.

Speaker 76 Hank.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Do it.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 77 Loser of this Mount Rushmore can't watch for the entire weekend.

Speaker 35 Let me pull up my notes. Apologies.

Speaker 69 What? We're not doing that. No, I know, obviously.

Speaker 38 Which way are we going?

Speaker 75 Don't we always go this way?

Speaker 70 Clockwise.

Speaker 95 Hank.

Speaker 35 Hitting an underdog money line.

Speaker 78 Ooh.

Speaker 52 Okay.

Speaker 84 Good one.

Speaker 38 Not working on Thursday or Friday.

Speaker 20 Yeah.

Speaker 76 Yep.

Speaker 29 Good one.

Speaker 29 I would say skipping work and or school. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 38 School is all you're working at school. You're just not doing anything Thursday, Friday.

Speaker 29 Yeah.

Speaker 29 I'm going to say

Speaker 29 saying my brackets busted.

Speaker 29 Because you fucked it too hard.

Speaker 70 Yeah, I had ripping on your brackets.

Speaker 29 Same thing. My bracket busted.

Speaker 70 Busted. Yeah.

Speaker 103 My first two picks survived.

Speaker 81 Buzzer beaters and crazy upsets.

Speaker 24 So you always remember when there's a crazy upset, when there's a 15 seed, a 16 seed, I mean 16 seed where,

Speaker 15 like, I can actually close my eyes and see the Purdue just Dave screaming FDU is too small for them.

Speaker 29 Or just Virginia.

Speaker 19 Yeah.

Speaker 42 Those are my favorite.

Speaker 29 All right. My second pick is going to be One Shining Moment.

Speaker 95 Ooh.

Speaker 42 Yep.

Speaker 15 The ball is. That's a good one.

Speaker 38 That's a good one. Where?

Speaker 18 Here you are.

Speaker 38 I'm going to go.

Speaker 19 You're a shooting star.

Speaker 20 One shining moment

Speaker 78 to the stars.

Speaker 79 One shining moment.

Speaker 19 One shining moment.

Speaker 78 We're turning into a song.

Speaker 87 I actually don't.

Speaker 8 like one shining moment because it's sad for me because it's over.

Speaker 18 It's more than a contest.

Speaker 21 Like, it's always the end where i'm like oh that was a lot of fun i wish i could do that again but if it hits you in the feel it does but i just like i i kind of got i it hits me like the feels like man i really should have enjoyed this a little more it's yeah it's kind of sad too it says

Speaker 29 you always did your best because inside you knew that one shining moment you reached deep inside one shining moment you knew you were alive

Speaker 29 implying that you don't know that that sounds like the rest of your life sticks that sounds like something ricken would write in one of his books.

Speaker 92 Yeah.

Speaker 87 That's a little preview for our Severance talk after Stanford Stevens.

Speaker 29 It's too much frolic.

Speaker 38 That was the greatest Severance preview that happened after the fact.

Speaker 78 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 25 If you're watching Severance right now and you're behind, there could potentially be spoilers.

Speaker 97 But really not.

Speaker 6 But really not because we haven't seen the finale and also

Speaker 43 we're dumb.

Speaker 72 So, okay, who's up?

Speaker 41 I'm up.

Speaker 38 Printing out your bracket on Sunday. Yeah.

Speaker 82 Feeling paper in your hands. Touching it.

Speaker 51 Yeah.

Speaker 95 Okay.

Speaker 35 My list sucks.

Speaker 35 Sideline reporters. Hey, Robbie's bonk.

Speaker 94 I had.

Speaker 105 Say it again?

Speaker 105 Sideline reporters.

Speaker 29 You love John Rostee.

Speaker 67 Sideline reporters?

Speaker 35 Yeah, the females.

Speaker 20 Females.

Speaker 35 And I guess John Rostey, good one, too.

Speaker 35 And then my other one is the camera on a dolly that they use for the final four. That's like my, I love that favorite shot in sports.

Speaker 35 They show them running down the sideline.

Speaker 78 That buzzer beater in the

Speaker 35 camera's following them. They only use it for the final four.

Speaker 21 Oh, I got you.

Speaker 108 I know what you're saying.

Speaker 29 I don't like it live, but I like the replays. I love it.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 53 I do like that.

Speaker 32 They should use that.

Speaker 52 They got to switch it, though, before a shot takes place.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Because sometimes they'll do the bad angle schmangle.

Speaker 92 Okay.

Speaker 37 Max?

Speaker 38 Riding a group bet with the boys. Yes.

Speaker 21 Had it on there.

Speaker 95 Great call.

Speaker 29 PFT. I'm going to go with

Speaker 29 Cutting Down Nuts.

Speaker 29 Good one. Cutting Down Nuts.
Iconic.

Speaker 75 Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 91 I'm going to go with Crying Fans.

Speaker 43 Love that shit.

Speaker 23 It's always awesome.

Speaker 81 Fluke Girl, Northwestern Kid.

Speaker 17 There's just always the sad ram, the Colorado State Ram. Yeah.

Speaker 64 Just iconic moments.

Speaker 110 And

Speaker 91 I'm going to go go with a gambling one.

Speaker 64 I love the rogue foul when a team shouldn't be fouling anymore. And then one tryhard is like, I'm just going to foul one last time.
Then you can cover a spreader hitting over.

Speaker 23 There's just, it's something about the kids.

Speaker 29 They don't look at the coach before they get to the end of the day.

Speaker 67 They just, you're, because you always got in the back.

Speaker 83 It's not over yet.

Speaker 78 It's not over.

Speaker 9 There's like 10 seconds left.

Speaker 49 You're like, if we could just get one guy who just is a little too eager,

Speaker 54 we get back to the free throw line.

Speaker 29 My last one, I'm going to go with.

Speaker 29 I'm choosing between two.

Speaker 29 This one no longer applies, but it was such a big part of March Madness for a while. I'm going to include it.
Impractical Jokers commercials.

Speaker 38 I had something. I had Finding True TV.

Speaker 29 Yeah, Finding True TV. That was the other one I was thinking about.

Speaker 3 Talking about, oh, I saw a Twitter thread today about, and it kind of triggered my memory, that way back in like the 90s, we only got to watch one game and they would just have a live look-in for the other games going on.

Speaker 55 It's crazy.

Speaker 12 Also, one thing that they did do back in the day that I I wish they'd bring back, there was like

Speaker 10 an hour dinner window where they wouldn't have a game.

Speaker 105 It was awesome. Yeah.

Speaker 29 On Thursday and Friday.

Speaker 106 I appreciated that.

Speaker 83 Oh, I love that.

Speaker 58 You just go outside and get a little fresh air.

Speaker 21 No, they don't.

Speaker 31 They're staggered.

Speaker 21 You'll see.

Speaker 35 I thought there was still that

Speaker 35 five.

Speaker 8 There's less games in the spot, but it's not.

Speaker 3 I don't think there'll be a moment where there's not a game on.

Speaker 12 The yeah, there's a 335 tip today and a 550 tip.

Speaker 95 Those aren't

Speaker 15 so they used to have like an actual,

Speaker 50 we can, you know, go eat dinner or go outside.

Speaker 95 Okay, Max.

Speaker 79 I'll go.

Speaker 78 What was that memes?

Speaker 42 I just thought it was going.

Speaker 50 Oh, just going outside?

Speaker 92 I'll go with Raft.

Speaker 41 Bill Raft. Yep.

Speaker 103 Good call. I was going to.
Onions. Yeah.

Speaker 18 Onions. Double order.

Speaker 51 Man-a-man.

Speaker 35 I'll just go with memorizing commercials to the point where you can guess.

Speaker 35 I feel like there's been March Madison's where I'll just sit and just guess what commercial comes in.

Speaker 38 Hank is in mid-season form right now.

Speaker 78 He's going to blame us.

Speaker 10 He's going to blame us.

Speaker 21 Yep.

Speaker 35 We weren't even, whatever. Memorizing.

Speaker 78 I don't really give a shit.

Speaker 29 No, I mean, there's usually one very annoying.

Speaker 35 I said my list sucked at the top. I prefaced it.

Speaker 29 Sideline reporters bonk.

Speaker 55 I love it. Hank, I got it.
I like it.

Speaker 39 I like it, Hank.

Speaker 29 I support that.

Speaker 87 One of my friends text me.

Speaker 64 It doesn't even mean anything. One of my friends texts me.

Speaker 87 Yes,

Speaker 64 he was just like F- from Hank on Sunday

Speaker 105 for your Hank over Day.

Speaker 87 I laughed so hard.

Speaker 70 I did my best. I should have.
I did.

Speaker 67 That was a good list, Hank.

Speaker 4 What was your picks?

Speaker 51 The camera?

Speaker 35 I mean, it's a sick camera.

Speaker 85 Hot reporters, the camera.

Speaker 29 Memorizing commercials.

Speaker 77 Memorizing commercials.

Speaker 105 That's what everyone thinks of with

Speaker 105 the budget.

Speaker 106 Underdog bunny line.

Speaker 78 That's good.

Speaker 84 Yeah.

Speaker 32 We have missed

Speaker 84 wings. Yep.

Speaker 6 Oh, sneakers squeaking.

Speaker 90 I just like sneakers squeaking.

Speaker 29 But you guys are just describing, like, is a Mount Rushmore of March moments, Hank.

Speaker 87 I said wings?

Speaker 19 That's every week for you. That was honorable mention.

Speaker 95 I thought about that.

Speaker 78 I almost said day drinking, but then I was like, like riding about with your boys, that's every fucking Sunday. No, but I don't know.
These aren't March.

Speaker 83 You don't get it. He isn't.

Speaker 86 You guys pick the most general fucking things, and then they're like, oh, Mark.

Speaker 78 He is in mid-season. I like to fucking match and watch sports.

Speaker 83 What about about instead of

Speaker 35 my favorite part of March is gambling?

Speaker 88 Like,

Speaker 78 every pick.

Speaker 29 That's what you said for your first pick.

Speaker 6 Yeah, your first punch.

Speaker 79 That was literally your

Speaker 100 money.

Speaker 105 You've made a brand off that.

Speaker 79 Let's wrap this up.

Speaker 29 Max, I think you're right with the day drinking, except you got to specify, like, I think when I think of March, I think of drinking out of these giants.

Speaker 35 March is going to the bar.

Speaker 87 Big beer tubes.

Speaker 83 The towers.

Speaker 78 The towers.

Speaker 29 Beer tower in March. Sitting at

Speaker 38 a Chili's and just getting it.

Speaker 21 Beer Tower.

Speaker 82 Ripping beer tower.

Speaker 29 Jimmy V running around the court, hugging somebody.

Speaker 35 My favorite part of March is Friday because it means it's the weekend.

Speaker 83 Oh.

Speaker 29 Vasectomies?

Speaker 79 Wait, hold on. What did you say?

Speaker 32 Friday's the weekend?

Speaker 78 Oh, no.

Speaker 105 This is fun. I'm glad we did this.

Speaker 78 I'm glad we did this.

Speaker 79 I'm glad we did this.

Speaker 83 That's the best.

Speaker 6 We've been doing this show for so long that

Speaker 6 if you try to say one thing, you just trigger a memory to get back into another argument.

Speaker 58 You can't come back from that now, Hank.

Speaker 19 We were right.

Speaker 29 Say that we were right.

Speaker 35 Yeah, whatever.

Speaker 6 There's layers to this shit, man.

Speaker 32 There's levels.

Speaker 87 Friday's not the weekend. It was one of the more preposterous things.
It's the craziest thing ever.

Speaker 84 It starts at 12.01.

Speaker 11 The only other one I had to, I love when watching a team that's never seen a press.

Speaker 50 It just always makes me laugh. When you could just, and you know you can get like, you're like, we can get eight quick points here.

Speaker 93 They've literally never played anything.

Speaker 38 Sometimes I see that and I'm like, why don't teams just do this all game?

Speaker 74 Yeah.

Speaker 21 Like, this gets higher.

Speaker 38 Seton Hall is honestly a perfect example. Seton Hall is a horrible basketball team, great at press.

Speaker 69 Yeah.

Speaker 50 Punks nodding his head.

Speaker 95 Fuck yeah.

Speaker 12 All right, Hank.

Speaker 14 So you somehow lost this Mount Rushmore and a previous argument that we had for a long time.

Speaker 21 Yeah, let's wrap it up.

Speaker 78 Pre-wonder. All right,

Speaker 91 let's get to Stanford Steve.

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Speaker 11 Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very, very special guest.

Speaker 3 He is our good friend, best friend, Stanford Steve.

Speaker 10 We're going to talk Friday's slate because this is going to come out on Friday morning when people are licking their wounds from the first day of the tournament.

Speaker 9 Chaos everywhere.

Speaker 6 Steve, let me start with this before we get into the games.

Speaker 43 What's the setup?

Speaker 21 I got a couple things.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, I want to hear your things, but what's the setup for Stanford Steve for the the tournament?

Speaker 42 Oh,

Speaker 98 well,

Speaker 42 earlier in the week,

Speaker 42 we'll have had our Calcutta pool, which is a giant auction. It's actually, I mean, if you got a group of guys and big money, it's a different way to do the tournament.

Speaker 42 And what you do is every team has a number. There's no cap or nothing.

Speaker 42 And I want to say UConn, like last year, went for 35, 40K. Like it was around there.
So

Speaker 42 there's probably 10 to 15 teams every year that get in. We do that Wednesday night, and then I'm actually hanging out in Dewey Beach, Starboard,

Speaker 42 Starboard Raw, Nalu, the whole deal. We'll be there.
Family's coming over Friday. So it's kind of scary because we go over there so many times during the summer, but I always have my wife and kids.

Speaker 42 As this drops, I'll be wondering how I'm doing because I'm going to have Thursday to myself.

Speaker 100 I love it. I love it.

Speaker 29 Is this spring break season?

Speaker 67 No, see, down here,

Speaker 42 my kids' spring break is late. Like, it's the week after the Masters.
Oh, so it's all screwed up.

Speaker 1 Wait, when you said by yourself on Thursday, do you mean your wife's not going to be around?

Speaker 76 Correct.

Speaker 78 Oh, you're fucked.

Speaker 72 Why?

Speaker 11 So, you have the kids or no?

Speaker 52 No. Oh, okay.

Speaker 78 All right, cool.

Speaker 55 I thought you meant you had the kids and no wife.

Speaker 6 I was like, what are you doing, Steve? All right. And then, so my other question about the setup:

Speaker 67 how do you navigate

Speaker 18 text messages, calls, whatever to our friend Scott if things go poorly with Maryland because we know

Speaker 24 I actually got to see Super Bowl week.

Speaker 11 I got to see the inside look of it because Steve and I were hanging out and he had to go do a hit on Sports Center, which he's on every night.

Speaker 50 And before the hit was Ohio State versus Maryland, and Maryland lost in a buzzer beater.

Speaker 10 And everyone, all the producers were watching the game being like, oh, fuck.

Speaker 43 Oh, fuck.

Speaker 50 Because they knew that it will change the mood of our good friend Scott Van Pelt.

Speaker 3 So how do you navigate that?

Speaker 42 I will wait to hear from him. Okay.

Speaker 42 I mean, Saturday was so tough

Speaker 42 knowing that the Juice is back here in the DMB for the Terps, and he was on vacation, and

Speaker 42 I didn't reach out. And this is probably, and

Speaker 42 I don't think we texted until I got to, or saw him until we did the podcast Monday.

Speaker 20 So

Speaker 42 I could see him having to deal with things differently because he was with all family members and he was with,

Speaker 42 you know, his family, his other side of the family is all Florida people. So

Speaker 42 as much as I wanted to, I've been there before and I know that I will wait to be spoken to. And that's how I handled that.

Speaker 21 Okay, that's smart.

Speaker 29 The other thing I wanted to get to real quick was kind of a revisiting of our wing date that we had last year with Mark Titus.

Speaker 29 So Mark he ate chicken wings because he's proven he's one of the boys, right?

Speaker 82 Like Mark and Bang.

Speaker 41 That's what he does.

Speaker 29 So he ate, I think, 10, maybe 12 wings, and he was out for the next, what,

Speaker 29 two days? Three days.

Speaker 55 Three days? He had to call in wings.

Speaker 83 He had to call in wings.

Speaker 42 72 hours. Yeah.

Speaker 55 He looked like death. Yeah.

Speaker 42 Yeah, like, is it that? He's that healthy where you put a little fried food and good sauce in you, and that's what it does to you?

Speaker 29 He's the Cali boy. Yeah, you can eat wings and go out for seconds.
You can have dessert. Yeah.

Speaker 42 You know, you get so much sand between your toes when you're in California too long. You know, things start happening.

Speaker 42 Your body starts getting affected outside in, whereas we're building it from the inside out. Right.

Speaker 42 Where we have that strength, you know, that inner strength.

Speaker 29 That's our version of

Speaker 70 playing in altitude. Yeah, right.

Speaker 105 Just keep adding layers from the inside out.

Speaker 84 Yeah.

Speaker 55 If you made me eat like Mark for an entire week where it's like salads, I would just be, I'd wither away.

Speaker 43 I'd probably, I'd probably, a strong wind would take me.

Speaker 42 I would tap out.

Speaker 92 We'd do it.

Speaker 78 I'm out. All right.

Speaker 109 What do you have for us?

Speaker 42 I wasn't sure. Are we going to talk about the crown? Because I saw Villanova made the crown.

Speaker 67 Crown is huge.

Speaker 102 Max, just Max, plug your headphones, put your headphones back on.

Speaker 3 Max, we got a crown question from Steve.

Speaker 85 Crown.

Speaker 42 Do you like Villanova's draw?

Speaker 69 Sure.

Speaker 38 We don't have a coach.

Speaker 38 We're focused on bringing in a coach, maybe Kevin Willard from Maryland.

Speaker 100 Oh,

Speaker 42 don't say that down here.

Speaker 72 Don't say that down here.

Speaker 100 Oh, man.

Speaker 38 I heard he hasn't signed the extension yet. That's all I'm saying.
I heard he hasn't signed the extension yet.

Speaker 98 All right.

Speaker 42 Well, you got pretty good sources, it sounds like. But also, Max, I'm going through the bracket, and there's no teams from the great state of Philadelphia or city from Philadelphia.
Like, not one.

Speaker 42 Like, this hotbed,

Speaker 42 you know, the pilestri, you always hear about it. I think it's three straight years.
No teams from Philadelphia.

Speaker 21 Is that right?

Speaker 20 Whoa.

Speaker 38 Yeah, well, that's three straight years of Villanova not being there to carry the big five. So that's everyone.

Speaker 42 That's almost half a decade.

Speaker 75 I know. It's a long time.
I know.

Speaker 83 It's close to half a decade.

Speaker 29 The SEC took all Philly's swagger.

Speaker 79 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 21 That's bad. Sure.
That's really bad.

Speaker 42 This is a combination, too, because I do want to congratulate Max. I saw him the night before the Super Bowl, and I just told him, like, you know, try and enjoy it.
Try and enjoy it.

Speaker 42 And he had nothing. He was on one.

Speaker 42 And I just want to say congratulations to Max because I know how invested he is. But I do, then I started thinking, guys, like, we've come a long way at Super Bowl week, like, hanging out.
Like,

Speaker 42 you know, the Greenlight guys are on another level. And, like, they basically hosted us all week.
And they were great. But it was great.

Speaker 42 Dan and I had a romantic dinner next to a guy who didn't say a word and wouldn't move. And no one knew who he was.

Speaker 88 But we moved on.

Speaker 41 But, like.

Speaker 42 Having like no injuries, no fatalities. And I just keep going back, guys, to that house you guys had in Houston.

Speaker 78 Do you remember the debauchery of that house?

Speaker 42 I mean, there were some big-time people there, and they didn't care what they were doing.

Speaker 97 I mean, Hank was a little pip squeak back then, too.

Speaker 42 But, like, we've matured. Like, PFT, we were out, you know, hanging out.
I never know where you're going to show up, but you always do.

Speaker 35 Yeah.

Speaker 42 And

Speaker 42 I really feel like we've grown for Super Bowl weeks.

Speaker 42 Our intake is way more established, and we know what we're doing now.

Speaker 17 Yeah, the pacing.

Speaker 9 The pacing is a lot better.

Speaker 29 I was surprised that Rosillo was kind of, he was the maniac this Super Bowl week.

Speaker 29 I feel it felt like every time I ran into you, Rosillo was coming in at like 2 a.m., closing the shop down, telling stories about getting into a fight with Warren Sapp, just like holding court in front of the entire house.

Speaker 29 Rosillo's got a second wind in life. Yeah.

Speaker 78 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 42 Because, and then, you know what? There's, there's, there's no taking the air out of that sale of second wind, too. Yeah.

Speaker 23 That thing just goes, keeps going.

Speaker 42 But yeah, I think we've come a long way. And like, I compare Dan at the Super Bowl to Duke.
Like, Duke, I'm a Duke fan. And these Duke teams, you know, whether it's Zion's team,

Speaker 42 you know, Jason Tatum's team, I love, love those teams, but I always wanted more. And like to get Dan's solo for our romantic dinner, like he had nowhere to go.
Like, it was just me.

Speaker 42 So it was like, all right, you ready for another one? Yep.

Speaker 67 And he was a trooper.

Speaker 42 I give him all the credit.

Speaker 17 Listen, I wish we could do Super Bowl week in reverse where it's like, I have all the energy in the world on Sunday and Monday, and then by the end of the week, it's just zapped.

Speaker 9 And I think about it because like it's, you know what it is, too?

Speaker 3 It's that we do these live shows after a full day of everything else where like we finish the day and it's five o'clock, and then we got to go sit in a bar and do a live show, and I love it, but then I'm just like, get me to a bed where I can just sit and watch your, your Stanford Cardinal play at like midnight.

Speaker 11 That's the thing.

Speaker 17 Rosillo tries to give me shit.

Speaker 43 He's like, oh, you're out like hobnobbing with people and like, you know star fucking it's like dude I'm I'm just losing thousands of dollars watching ACC basketball in California that's what I'm doing so it was a good week though yeah no it fantastic uh it always lives up we got our crew and uh but I have to say like we've come a long way yeah

Speaker 10 that house you guys had man oh man I mean Loud Sean almost died he almost drowned he just got in the pool he was trying to play one-on-one with Jared Goff and then he and then he got in the pool and almost died Lenny Balls passing out every night at about 11 p.m.

Speaker 29 in the chair with a beer in one hand and the biggest smile on his face.

Speaker 105 Yeah, NFL quarterbacks had a weekend there, boy.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 92 Yeah, they did. Oh, my.

Speaker 78 Do God.

Speaker 9 The best was Jared Goff called me the next morning and was like, do you know where Blake is, Blake Portals?

Speaker 78 I was like, what?

Speaker 19 Why would I know? And it's like, why are you calling me to ask where Blake Portals is?

Speaker 20 They had a flight to catch.

Speaker 29 Steve, real quick, though, before we get into the bracket, you gave Max some shit for the crown. How are you feeling about our Cardinal in the NIT? I picked you guys to win it all.

Speaker 21 Nice.

Speaker 29 Actually, no, I didn't pick George Mason over you, but you guys, I got you guys going a long way.

Speaker 42 Big win over CSUN last night. Love our coach.
Almost came close to

Speaker 42 20 wins.

Speaker 42 Had Louisville on the ropes. Bad whistle in the ACC tournament.

Speaker 42 But when you have to travel from Palo Alto to play in Charlotte in your conference tournament, you know, you're going to get those kinds of things. So, no, we're on the up.

Speaker 88 We're on the up.

Speaker 42 We actually had people at the game for the NIT. Haven't seen that in about 15 years.
So it's a process. We're moving along.
We got Andrew in charge of football.

Speaker 42 That'll shed light on everything else. So we're good on the farm.

Speaker 98 Love that. Love that.

Speaker 76 All right.

Speaker 3 Let's get into some games.

Speaker 109 So this first game on Friday is, I'm going to say it, it's the most important game for everyone listening right now because you went through Thursday.

Speaker 54 You probably got your teeth kicked in.

Speaker 91 You know, every March of Madness goes the same for me.

Speaker 67 I go in Thursday morning with a well-thought-out plan about 30 minutes into the day.

Speaker 39 The plan goes out the window.

Speaker 3 I get absolutely smoked.

Speaker 55 But then you have Friday to wake up and be like, all right, pick yourself up off the mat.

Speaker 91 Let's do this.

Speaker 3 And the first game is actually like, it's a great game in the fact that it's a one and a half point spread.

Speaker 17 It's Baylor, Mississippi State.

Speaker 55 I don't, I feel like Baylor had the type of season where I was always expecting, kind of like what you were saying, wanting more.

Speaker 10 I always wanted more from Baylor.

Speaker 3 And Mississippi State is one of those teams, like, I love Hubbard. Their defense is very bad.

Speaker 43 So give us a winner.

Speaker 110 We need a winner in this first game.

Speaker 42 First of all, when you wake up today, today, make sure you brush your teeth and look yourself in the mirror and say, I'm going to do it today. I'm going to do it today.

Speaker 42 It's the most important part of the day to be happy with yourself when you're brushing your teeth and looking yourself in the mirror. Have that confidence.
It starts right there.

Speaker 105 This is the toughest game of the day, I believe.

Speaker 87 Yeah, I know.

Speaker 42 Like,

Speaker 42 Hubbard has no conscience. Like, he leads, I think he shoots over nine threes a game.
And Baylor, to your point, Dan, I always look at that. And you look at the eights and nines in this tournament.

Speaker 42 You know, it's all the, and in a seven and ten, there's all the previous national champions, and Baylor's in that category.

Speaker 42 I love Edgecombe, but again, if you wanted more from Baylor, uh, the thing that uh Baylor does, they play zone over 20% of the time, and Hubbard will just shoot over it.

Speaker 42 So, it's all about Hubbard making shots. I do trust Stans in this spot, and Drew has been hot and cold in this kind of deal.
But then, the other part, and you love conspiracy theories,

Speaker 42 Baylor's point guard, Jeremy Roach, you You know where he played the last four years. Duke.
Yep. Against Duke.
Nova guy.

Speaker 42 Makes me think there's something in cooking in the book seeing how the bracket got set.

Speaker 42 But I'll stick with the SEC. I'm going to go Mississippi State Stanza's style of play.
I believe it frustrates Baylor.

Speaker 15 Okay. Okay.
Bad pick, but I respect you.

Speaker 10 Yeah, these guys have Baylor in the Experian Busters pool that we have, so they'll be rooting for Baylor.

Speaker 6 This is one of those games, and I know you know this, Steve, from doing it forever.

Speaker 90 I just have this chalked is no matter what, loss.

Speaker 10 Yes. I'm going to pick whatever side.

Speaker 54 It doesn't matter, whichever side.

Speaker 9 I'm not saying I have a strong lean either way. Whatever side I end up on, that's a loss.

Speaker 42 No, and the problem is, that's how I feel about all the 710s this year, too.

Speaker 20 Yeah.

Speaker 42 I think, like Scott and I talked about, he loves the 8-9 matchups because the namesake.

Speaker 42 And I just look at trying to pick games and I'm like, I hate the 710s more than the 8-9s. But,

Speaker 42 yeah,

Speaker 42 it'll kick us off.

Speaker 42 The tempo is the whole thing in that game. Baylor likes to get up and down.
Mississippi State is good playing slower. So I can't even give you a total there because it's about who dictates tempo.

Speaker 29 So the 12-5 game, Colorado State, Memphis.

Speaker 29 I feel like everybody's picking Colorado State. They are the favorite in this game.

Speaker 29 It's like this one and then the Michigan-San Diego game. People are going back and forth between those over the most likely 12-5 upset.
I feel like this one,

Speaker 29 we've talked about Memphis, that the the fact that they got a five seed is very puzzling. It's really strange.

Speaker 29 And Colorado State is probably the hottest team.

Speaker 29 So I like Colorado State, but now I'm double-guessing myself. And I'm like, oh, I've heard so many other people say Colorado State, where now they're becoming a trendy pick to make.

Speaker 29 So maybe I should go Memphis.

Speaker 42 Understood. The Hunter injury is enormous.
He's a kid that's played at Texas, Iowa State, plenty of experience.

Speaker 42 The reason Memphis got a five is because what they did in the out-of-conference, they went to Maui and I believe went all the way to the final, beat UConn, beat a bunch of teams out there.

Speaker 42 And I actually love what Penny has done.

Speaker 42 Obviously, you carry around the name Penny Hardaway in that area. There's nothing bigger.
And he basically fired his whole staff before the season.

Speaker 42 Was like, we got to change some things because this ain't working. And they've had a great season.

Speaker 42 The issue with this game is

Speaker 42 it's an automatic loss for me because Maryland's in the next round.

Speaker 42 So

Speaker 42 I would tend like how, like, San Diego State, you saw that Mountain West, like not great, but is that a one-game scenario?

Speaker 42 Mountain West teams, I'm sure you guys know this, when seeded 11 or lower going into San Diego State's game Tuesday night, were 1-29 in their last 30. Now they're 1-30.

Speaker 42 So

Speaker 42 it, you know, Vegas obviously is dictating here because the 12's favored over the 5. I still think, you know, as a player, like I said, I have Maryland advancing anyway.

Speaker 42 I would just take the 12 here so you have your 12-5.

Speaker 88 Yeah.

Speaker 76 Okay.

Speaker 3 Dumb thing I'm thinking about doing, and I want you to assess.

Speaker 11 Oklahoma and Yukon is a good game on paper here on Friday.

Speaker 10 The total sits at 147.5.

Speaker 107 I'm going to take the over in this game, and here's why.

Speaker 3 I know I always take overs, but listen, I'm just, that's, I'm not going to bet an under in this tournament.

Speaker 10 I'm sure they'll inflate the 121.

Speaker 9 Maybe a first half under because I don't want it.

Speaker 3 So that leads to my point.

Speaker 9 Maybe a first half under because I don't want to get stuck in the free throw.

Speaker 78 Start Tuesday night.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 78 The free throws.

Speaker 11 Yeah, the free throws at the end of games are crazy.

Speaker 54 UConn and Oklahoma are both elite free throw shooting teams.

Speaker 11 I think UConn's 11. I think Oklahoma's like somewhere in six or seven.

Speaker 9 Is it crazy to be like, hey, this is a game where like.

Speaker 11 Maybe the over is a little too low here, not accounting for the fact that if this is a tight game, which the spread says it should be, we're going to get a lot of trips to the line.

Speaker 9 And both these teams know how to make their free throws.

Speaker 42 Did you bet it yet?

Speaker 43 I have not.

Speaker 42 Okay, because

Speaker 42 I heard you guys and Titus talking about the ball. You know, Friday, we get a whole day of seeing the balls Thursday.
Right. So that's key,

Speaker 42 obviously,

Speaker 42 with the issues that we've seen and balls taking caroms we've never seen. But I'm more of the belief that's because of a backboard and brand new rims for every site.
I love the overhair. Okay.

Speaker 42 Love it. Both teams are going to be guns blazing.
UConn, we know the intensity is going to be there.

Speaker 42 Hurley will have those guys ready. The issue is UConn against good guards, and that's the toughest thing with UConn this year.

Speaker 42 Forever in my life growing up there, they've had a point guard that just makes plays and could get to the hoop and makes shots forever. And they don't have it this year.

Speaker 42 But on the other side, that's what even hurts them even more is they've really struggled defending good point guards. And fears for Oklahoma is tremendous.
This will be an up-tempo game.

Speaker 42 I think Oklahoma likes to play that style. And And UConn, you know, could get caught up.

Speaker 42 It feels like every game you watch them, there's a 10-0 run each way. And then it's just how are they going to respond? So Oklahoma's been really good.

Speaker 42 Unbelievable cover at the end of that SEC tournament against Kentucky. I mean, they had them on the ropes.
But yeah, I love the over in this game. The point spread is getting crazy high.

Speaker 69 Yeah.

Speaker 42 Loved. I mean, I thought I saw you.
UConn went open. I was thinking I took a minus three, and now I'm seeing like five and a half.

Speaker 41 Five and a half.

Speaker 42 So that scares me off there, but I expect you kind of win the game, but I really like your over there.

Speaker 24 All right, by the way, I just put it in because I was like, basically, like, if you said, if you said even, I kind of like it, I would have put it in, but you said you really like it.

Speaker 29 He was waiting for you to say, fuck you, you're crazy, and then he wouldn't have put it in.

Speaker 75 That's the kind of direct action he needs.

Speaker 77 If Steve had said, fuck you, you're crazy, I would have waited until right before tip to put it in.

Speaker 17 The fact that he said, I like it, I put it in now.

Speaker 10 Got it.

Speaker 43 It was going in no matter what.

Speaker 29 Steve, I had a question for you about that.

Speaker 29 So you were saying, like, we'll see one day of balls on thursday and then on friday we can adjust our bets based on what we saw thursday historically do you know how that works out like if there's a trend on thursday where uh the under is hitting at a 70 clip does that hold over through friday or do the bookmakers adjust overnight for that Well, the one year I will go back that I joined you on the Sunday before the tournament on selection Sunday, I believe, or is the day after, and then that spot got hijacked.

Speaker 42 I was just going to, I think I gave out first half unders that day, and it crushed. Like, I think it started 8-0.

Speaker 42 And I kind of tapped out after that because I was like, I'll take 8-0 because there's that little space before the night games. And I'm like, I'm good with 8-0 on the unders.
You could have this.

Speaker 42 But it feels like it comes around on Friday. It balances out.
It always does.

Speaker 42 If there was that crazy of a trend, the crazy tournament betters would have it.

Speaker 42 But I look at more of the teams, PFT, and, you know,

Speaker 42 going down this Friday, I I see a lot of teams that Dan has rode overs of.

Speaker 42 And

Speaker 42 I do expect a lot of points on Friday.

Speaker 64 Yeah, I think like Norfolk, Florida, which we don't spend a lot of time on a 116.

Speaker 10 I think Florida names their number.

Speaker 91 Like, as long as they're going.

Speaker 42 Your team total is like 91 and a half.

Speaker 55 But I don't think it matters.

Speaker 67 Norfolk's going to try to zone them, which they'll hit threes.

Speaker 9 They'll rebound.

Speaker 3 Like, that's going to be a disaster.

Speaker 42 The issue is Norfolk. Like, when does Florida call the dogs off? Because they have 12 of them.

Speaker 71 Right.

Speaker 42 And you got it. I mean, Norfolk's got to get to 60, I would think.
Yeah. For you to be good.
And I just, they're so good and swarming. Like, you get the ball underneath the hoop against Florida.

Speaker 42 You can't even get it over your shoulder. Right.
Like, and it just gets punched right back in your face. So good luck to Norfolk State.
They've had a great year.

Speaker 42 They do, they come in scoring a bunch of points. I have looked at that over.
So you're going to need like a 95, 55, right around there, I think,

Speaker 42 because it's in the 160s.

Speaker 87 I think Florida's going for 100.

Speaker 9 That's the thing with Florida.

Speaker 11 They shoot threes, and then when they miss their threes,

Speaker 54 there's three dudes who are all close to seven feet just standing there getting the rebounds.

Speaker 52 Yeah.

Speaker 42 And you have to take the ball out of bounds after it just got slammed on your head.

Speaker 20 Exactly.

Speaker 21 Exactly.

Speaker 8 Steve, how much do you put into, speaking of Florida and the SEC in general, of conference and like these matchups and what we saw in the regular season?

Speaker 11 And like, hey, is the SEC going to just keep being dominant?

Speaker 11 Is it, you know, there's a, you know, the ACC has been shit on, but maybe, you know, they only got four teams in.

Speaker 6 Maybe these teams are better than people think.

Speaker 10 How much do you play into that when you're looking at these games?

Speaker 42 Well, I'm beaten over the head every night

Speaker 42 watching games with a former ACC guy and just hearing how bad the ACC is year in and year out. And then they had like three teams.

Speaker 42 They've gotten the most wins the last five years, I think, I saw of any conference in the tournament, which is mind-blowing to me, knowing how everyone shits on it. And I get it.

Speaker 42 The bottom of the conference is terrible, but I still think the top is good. To me, it's Dano, it's still about matchups.
It really is.

Speaker 42 Now, if you're going with bracket and everybody's already filled out, like I said, you can't have Florida or Duke. You know, you got to be different

Speaker 42 and just hope because everyone, I mean, everyone has Florida Duke in the final, and that's scary to me.

Speaker 42 And if you're trying to get, you know, people go about the bracket different ways, and I just go against the trends.

Speaker 42 You know, it feels like everybody had the ones and twos playing the Elite Eight. So,

Speaker 42 you know, it's Florida, I mean, as impressive. I mean, the conference that they just stormed, they won every game by double digits.
And you hear about all the power ranking numbers and everything.

Speaker 42 I mean, they just dominated that conference. So they're as impressive.

Speaker 42 You know, UConn last year.

Speaker 42 You wondered because I think the Big East only got three teams. So it was like, all right, well, when they start playing some better teams, how are they going to respond?

Speaker 42 But Florida's played the best of the best, and I, you know, I expect them, uh, they're gonna have they're gonna have to get tripped up in a game where a team is an A plus and they're like a C right C minus.

Speaker 42 Right, that's that's the only way I see them losing.

Speaker 29 Big game for Conference Pride would be UNC old miss. I feel like that that swings a lot of emotion.

Speaker 29 Like, if you're an ACC guy, you're probably you're definitely rooting for UNC to say, like, even when in a down year, we can still beat the fuck out of you guys.

Speaker 29 Uh, UNC, do we owe Bubba Cunningham an apology? Did Bubba Cunningham get it right?

Speaker 105 no

Speaker 42 I do I will apologize Seth Davis said that he's like no matter what happens tonight it doesn't mean that this was right or wrong I was like yeah it fucking does when UNC wins then he then the committee was right and if they lose then they should be banned from basketball that that was my issue because as soon as it came out I bet Carolina goes to sweet 16 because of the matchup like I just can't do it with Mountain West teams and then you look at ole Miss who's a six played in SEC but they don't have it like Carolina you watch them.

Speaker 42 And the biggest jarring thing, they don't have any bigs that are like pros. Like forever in your life, Carolina's had pros

Speaker 42 that are bigs, but Ole Miss doesn't have any bigs really either. So like I love the matchup for Carolina here.
And yeah, it's probably a conference pride deal.

Speaker 42 And that's the other thing, PFT, is like, you know, the SEC haters.

Speaker 42 having to hear that they set a record for 14 teams and you know they are just waiting because they're going to set the record for most losses in a turn.

Speaker 78 Right.

Speaker 42 Only one team ends the season with a win. Uh, so I just know that that is starting.
It's just a matter of how fast it accumulates, but you know, that army is coming to jump on the SEO.

Speaker 42 Oh, they, you know, have, but they got the record for the most losses. Yeah, no shit.
Yeah. Um, so no, it's definitely a big conference pride deal.
Uh, where is this game? This game is in.

Speaker 77 Let's see. Oh, it's got to be close.

Speaker 3 It's got to be in Cleveland, right?

Speaker 54 Because they just played in Dayton.

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Speaker 11 Oh, that might be Milwaukee.

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Speaker 69 Milwaukee.

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Speaker 42 Terms apply.

Speaker 85 All right, two other overs I'm looking at on Friday.

Speaker 3 You can tell me if I'm crazy.

Speaker 54 Give it to me.

Speaker 42 There's one I absolutely love.

Speaker 78 Okay.

Speaker 9 New Mexico Marquette.

Speaker 77 Okay. I think both those teams are going to try to get up and down.

Speaker 17 And then the other one was Arizona Akron.

Speaker 53 That's high, very high.

Speaker 90 But they just fucking run.

Speaker 39 And I don't know.

Speaker 9 Akron's going to have trouble.

Speaker 102 Arizona's not that big, but neither is Akron.

Speaker 64 I think they're just going to shoot threes, and it's going to be one of those games that there's going to be crazy runs both ways.

Speaker 8 And I'm just expecting the pace to be so out of control that we can get to like, you know, 75 possessions each side.

Speaker 42 Yeah, this is this is one of the

Speaker 42 probably the most interesting 13-4 when I look at the matchups.

Speaker 42 I know you guys were heavily invested in the MAC tournament. It's one of my favorite tournaments.
I really think those teams are legit. They played in Cleveland.
Every team's from freaking Ohio.

Speaker 42 So the buildings pack. It's an awesome atmosphere.
And Akron, to your point, they just want to go. Like, all right, we gave up a hoop, but they make threes.
Right.

Speaker 42 That's the problem with the MAC teams when they get to this level is their three-point shooting falls off. And with that, I love the defense that Arizona guards play.

Speaker 42 But Akron's style, like it's, it's not like they prefer the three. Everybody prefers an open three, but Akron's like, all right, fine, you want to take away that?

Speaker 88 We'll go to the hoop.

Speaker 42 So their pace is incredible. And it's getting, you know, it's a pretty trendy dog.
I've heard plenty of people pick the upset.

Speaker 42 I just, I like Arizona's personnel, and I love the fact if they move on that they already played Duke and they've seen that length in athleticism. So Arizona is kind of a sneaky team for me.

Speaker 42 I knew, I knew you were going to take the highest over on the board.

Speaker 72 Like, you just never, you never look at

Speaker 42 an Ivy League over or something like that. You always want to go with the over.
But yeah, I don't see how you take the under in that game, knowing the pace that those people place.

Speaker 42 And he's probably the biggest outlier in the tournament because his good has brought a team to a national championship game and his bad

Speaker 42 has not been good. And that's Caleb Love.
He is, I mean, you talk, I mean, I thought he was really good against Houston in the final, and Arizona made it.

Speaker 42 I was really curious about them in the Big 12 tournament, but they were impressive. And

Speaker 42 this, that bracket, you know, I do my teams that can win the national title. I have five teams in that bracket that can win it.

Speaker 78 What are they?

Speaker 20 So

Speaker 42 Wisconsin hanging by a thread. Yeah.
Hanging by a thread because of the draw.

Speaker 42 We will know how we're doing there. But BYU is a team that everyone's picking against, but they were on the list.

Speaker 29 BYU can win the national title.

Speaker 51 Yes.

Speaker 21 BYU leavers. Okay, I like it.
Yeah.

Speaker 92 Yeah. That's huge.

Speaker 42 The Denver spot I like, but the

Speaker 42 BCU thing is kind of hard to do now, but our chips are in. Don't worry about it.

Speaker 42 Then the other over that I love is Kentucky Troy. Oh, yeah.
Kentucky is not interested in playing defense. Now, with Butler back, he's their only

Speaker 42 line of defense because he is a really good defensive point guard. He's got plenty of tournament experience, but

Speaker 42 the shoulder, you know, it seems like it's not to the extent of Malik Brown for Duke, but they need him to go far. But they're still going to shoot.

Speaker 42 I mean, they're like my favorite team to watch in college basketball. The way they play five-out, and Berea is an unbelievable shooter,

Speaker 42 and they could shoot it from all over. So I look at that.
And Troy's a team that beat Rico's Arkansas State team that he quickly jumped off the bandwagon of. And

Speaker 42 they gave it to him. I mean, they go with the hoop, and they're pretty fearless.
So I like that over.

Speaker 29 So, who are the other teams that you think can win it all? You've got BYU, Wisconsin by a thread.

Speaker 42 Yep. Who else?

Speaker 29 Duke? Duke, Arizona, Bama.

Speaker 21 Duke, Arizona. All in that, in that, in that.

Speaker 42 But I have said all year, Duke will not win the national championship if they don't have Malik Brown.

Speaker 78 Ooh.

Speaker 19 And he's out.

Speaker 78 I don't think he's coming back.

Speaker 42 It's dicey. Yeah.

Speaker 42 So that's,

Speaker 42 yeah.

Speaker 42 I have the list every year, BFT, and then I'm doing the, you know, that's when you get the bracket, I go through that and I'm like, oh my God, the East.

Speaker 42 So all this talk about Duke having an easy draw, I don't believe it at all. We touched on Baylor and Mississippi State.
They're a pain in the ass.

Speaker 42 And that's the least amount of talk about the 8-9 versus the 1 than any other. Like you go through the other bracket.
Everyone's talking about UConn getting a rematch or, you know, two-time.

Speaker 42 champ going against the last two-time champ in Florida. Gonzaga's getting plenty of

Speaker 42 talk. And then Louisville gets to play

Speaker 42 in Lexington,

Speaker 42 but no one's talking about Creighton in that game. So all those eight-nines against the one have gotten more steam, I feel, and Mississippi State and Baylor winner is dangerous to me to do.

Speaker 69 Yeah, all right.

Speaker 12 Other best bets on Friday, sorry?

Speaker 42 We got the Yukon over.

Speaker 85 You want to talk about

Speaker 79 that?

Speaker 29 I got one. Yeah.
Go ahead. Liberty, Oregon over.

Speaker 29 Just strictly because it's the the lowest. It's the lowest, and it's also the last game.
And I feel like crazy shit happens in those nighttime actions.

Speaker 42 Always in that game, too. Yeah.
Oh, that game they had last year was brutal.

Speaker 52 Yeah.

Speaker 42 When they had five guys.

Speaker 42 The one I'm interested in

Speaker 42 here is

Speaker 42 Michigan State. I look at their team total under

Speaker 42 because they don't care how they win. Like, does that make sense? Like, they're like, you want to shoot some threes? All right, we know we got to shoot some threes, but but you know what?

Speaker 42 You're not going to make threes, so we're going to slow it down and make it methodical. But they're not interested in

Speaker 42 scoring high numbers.

Speaker 42 And, you know, with Michigan State, and plenty of people have picked them to the final four, they've had a great season, overachieved from what they were at the beginning of the season.

Speaker 42 There's a bunch of those teams, but they come to mind at the top.

Speaker 21 But, like, it's, it's pretty high.

Speaker 42 Like, it's in the 80s, I think I had.

Speaker 50 Yeah, that you, what you're

Speaker 42 85 and a half. Like, there's no way.

Speaker 76 Yeah.

Speaker 42 I don't see that. And Brian's got some guys.
Like, Brian's got some size. They got a point guard at 6'6

Speaker 42 that could do it. So that's a really interesting game to me.
And I feel like Michigan State, they dictate a lot. And if they want to, let's

Speaker 42 make that team defend you in the paint.

Speaker 3 Yeah, Izzo is kind of like Saban in that once it's over, it's over.

Speaker 32 He's not going to push it.

Speaker 3 He's not going to

Speaker 11 Nate Oates where they're just still running and gunning up a million.

Speaker 3 He kind of respects the game.

Speaker 42 And they don't violate the three-point line. Right.

Speaker 100 Right. You know,

Speaker 42 they're pretty methodical, and it's been successful. So why are you going to get away from that? So that's one that stuck out to me.

Speaker 70 Okay. All right.

Speaker 29 So who are the other teams that you have overall across the bracket that can win it all?

Speaker 9 Be careful because one of these might have already been eliminated.

Speaker 42 I know.

Speaker 100 Well,

Speaker 105 now we know they cannot win.

Speaker 78 Yeah. Yep.
Yeah.

Speaker 42 There's only going to be one standing. Midwest, Houston, Kentucky, Tennessee.
West, Florida, St. John's, Tech, Terps, South, Auburn, Iowa State, Sparty.

Speaker 37 Okay, let's actually talk real quick about Maryland Grand Canyon in this game.

Speaker 67 I like Maryland.

Speaker 10 I think they're a phenomenal team.

Speaker 91 You got to be a little nervous if you're a Maryland fan, knowing your depth issues.

Speaker 3 Crab 5 is great, but it falls off after that.

Speaker 3 And in the tournament, you're always just one bad whistle away from being like, holy shit, how do we have, you know, we got to sit a guy with two fouls five minutes into the game.

Speaker 43 What are your thoughts on Maryland overall and making a deep tournament run?

Speaker 42 I really like it

Speaker 42 because they know what they got, Dan.

Speaker 42 I even look at Florida and it's just like, I don't even know how they do substitution patterns because you don't argue with who's on the floor.

Speaker 42 And then you look at it, you're like, oh, so-and-so only played 12 minutes. Well, it doesn't matter.
You scored 90 and you won by 20. Right.

Speaker 42 But Maryland knows what they have to get from guys. And that's, I think it's only six points they get from the bench a game.
And I thought that was even high because I watch them every night.

Speaker 42 And it's like no one scores on the bench. Geronimo is a great backup big man.
The issue is Queen.

Speaker 42 You saw him get refereed differently in the Big Ten tournament, went to the hoop a bunch against Michigan and didn't get calls. But Willard's got plenty of experience.

Speaker 42 He is a guy that if a player gets two fouls, they sit in the first half.

Speaker 42 That's a fact. So does he change his ways there? But I I just love their shot making.
Their guards are tremendous. They run great stuff.

Speaker 42 The issue with Marilyn in that starting five is their guards don't rebound.

Speaker 42 But they're such an offensive team

Speaker 42 that I don't think they worry about that. But I really like their draw.
And at some point, when you're a four, you play the one, hopefully.

Speaker 88 And

Speaker 42 you get a week to prepare and you roll the balls out. So

Speaker 42 it's been really, really cool.

Speaker 42 The Crab Five thing, what these guys have done, how Willard has constructed this roster after a team. I mean, they were abysmal shooting the ball the last couple of years.
Just couldn't do it.

Speaker 42 It was tough to watch. And now here they are, one of the best scoring teams in a power conference.
So I love the turfs.

Speaker 29 Steve, what's your plan in terms of your bet management strategy for what you're looking at? Like I'm talking about like do you have a pen and a paper?

Speaker 29 Do you have a physical piece of paper in front of you while you're watching the games? Do you have it written down on like a whiteboard? Or do you just just rely on the app?

Speaker 42 This is already written. This has been a couple day tally

Speaker 42 of things we like.

Speaker 42 With the apps now, it's kind of like, do you want to look at how bad it was?

Speaker 87 You know, like everything's in there

Speaker 42 where you look at it and it's like, oh, I still got this to play and I still got this in play.

Speaker 42 There's some pen and paper.

Speaker 42 But, you know, if you're going out to the bars with the guys, you know, kind of leave that pen and paper home because you don't want that getting out or losing it because they're,

Speaker 42 you know,

Speaker 42 you got it instilled in your head already and you got to have a mindset going in

Speaker 42 and worry of the intake of being, you know, accumulating over the course of a day. And now, I mean, what do we got? We got a 10 o'clock tip and a 10-10 tip.

Speaker 42 Safe bet is to be in bed for those ones. Yeah,

Speaker 26 you got to be.

Speaker 11 My plan every March Masters, which, again, I'm a losing better.

Speaker 50 I lose every year.

Speaker 78 Everyone does. Yeah, everyone does.

Speaker 21 Everyone does.

Speaker 3 But you can't, there's got to be a moment where you just let go of all the numbers and analysis and things you've been reading and just let it fly.

Speaker 107 Just start seeing the ball, throwing it, throwing open spots.

Speaker 10 Like that happens early on Thursday, where I'm like, all right, I've done all the research.

Speaker 32 I got all my notes.

Speaker 24 We got to just go.

Speaker 65 We got to trust the process.

Speaker 42 And PFT, to your point, a lot has changed. I mean, growing up and seeing people, relatives, friends bet with a bookie and just let the tab run.

Speaker 42 That is like, those don't happen as long because you're on the apps. It's like, all right, I'm like, you're going to put another thousand on here.

Speaker 42 Like, you really have that come-to-face moment, all right? When you're when you're looking at, you know, the deposits and the withdrawals.

Speaker 42 So, um, I think it's, you know, you got to know what you have going in because, again, Thursday and Friday are absolute marathons. And I always just say, try to stay in the fight.

Speaker 20 Yeah.

Speaker 42 Just try and stay in the fight. And if you get to Saturday, you clear down.
you got a couple more hours. I think that first game's not till 1:40.

Speaker 42 But stay in the fight. And, again, wake up Saturday positive as hell.

Speaker 29 Yeah, I like to write it down, though, in the first two games, because there's so much happening. So much basketball going on.
I feel like I'm being pulled in seven different directions.

Speaker 29 I like to have the pen and the paper in front of me. Now, you're right.

Speaker 53 If you're going out to

Speaker 78 a Nopet?

Speaker 19 Yeah, yellow.

Speaker 29 Preferably yellow Noped. That's the best one.

Speaker 29 But yeah, if you're going out to a bar with friends, I don't think anybody likes the guy that keeps pulling out a sheet of paper and crossing things off and checking all that stuff but we're going to be in a gambling rich environment on Thursday and Friday so yeah you guys streaming oh yeah streaming them all streaming them all oldie coming oldie is not coming for these ones

Speaker 42 that would be I don't know if that's a good mix yeah he's he oldie is electric he was electric on he's also on fire TFT the video of you working on the car and him helping the garbage guys I could

Speaker 71 not stop

Speaker 29 instantly and it's not for the camera either like that's only in all his videos.

Speaker 69 Yeah.

Speaker 11 And

Speaker 19 the accent,

Speaker 42 and the way he says, boys, like,

Speaker 69 I can't get enough.

Speaker 55 You should see Steve.

Speaker 53 He literally, like,

Speaker 12 the four days he was here last week, every time I turned around, he was like, he was taking out the trash.

Speaker 21 He was restocking the water bottles. Like, he's just doing everything.

Speaker 105 He can't since then. Like,

Speaker 42 I listened to how it all came about when Yans was talking about how he's friends with Nasher.

Speaker 19 And, like, can you imagine him going in the Rangers locker room before a playoff hockey? Yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 100 Hey, boys.

Speaker 84 It's incredible.

Speaker 29 They loved him, too. He showed me the video.
The guys went nuts.

Speaker 29 It's like a stripper. He's like a male

Speaker 29 stripper for dudes, for straight guys.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 29 You bring him in, and he just gets you fucking pumped up. And he also takes his clothes off sometimes, too.

Speaker 75 And he's got a vagina. Yeah.

Speaker 72 Oh. Oh, man.

Speaker 78 All right.

Speaker 42 Like that, I mean, you guys have always found these diamonds in the rough, but man,

Speaker 42 it's said about you guys forever. Like, you just keep living up to the hype.
And

Speaker 42 I'm like, who the hell is this guy?

Speaker 42 And I can't get enough of him. Love the guy.

Speaker 11 But his genuine energy is just incredible.

Speaker 42 And you, like, it's, it's awesome.

Speaker 29 Yeah, Steve, the last two times he's come down here, the only two times, he's brought additional pieces of carry-on luggage with him just so he can fill them up with Canadian snacks that we don't have down in the States.

Speaker 29 And then he gets down here and just passes them out. He brought like maple syrup.
He brought candy bars that we don't have down here. He brings it all.

Speaker 29 He brought two boxes of Tim Horton's donuts and they sat next to him on the plane. The guy's just a gem.

Speaker 109 And every morning when he wakes up in his hotel room, he packs all of his stuff back up and brings it to the office because he's like, what if I forget something?

Speaker 6 So every day he wakes up when he's here and

Speaker 109 he's going to the airport and then he brings it back.

Speaker 43 It's crazy.

Speaker 87 Those are my worst times when I'm traveling for game day.

Speaker 42 But the other thing that I heard those guys is like, yeah,

Speaker 42 if he gets the call, he just calls these garbage guys in Canada. He's like, yeah, boys, boys called.
Got to go.

Speaker 105 Got to go. Got to go.

Speaker 19 Got to go.

Speaker 105 Got to go.

Speaker 79 He says, got to go. Oh, it's great.

Speaker 102 All right, Steve, last question.

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Speaker 10 So obviously we watched Thursday, and this is coming out Friday, but you can still bet on this.

Speaker 8 Two national champions, so people could possibly put a future on.

Speaker 67 Two, give us two.

Speaker 79 Oh,

Speaker 41 I'll give you.

Speaker 42 they're on the same side.

Speaker 42 Alabama and Tennessee.

Speaker 76 Oh.

Speaker 76 Oh.

Speaker 76 Rick Barnes.

Speaker 71 Yes.

Speaker 42 I love Rick Barnes.

Speaker 42 I know everyone picks apart Final Fours, but there's plenty of Sweet 16s and Elite Eights

Speaker 42 in this resume. And this, I mean, you guys know this tournament's a crapshoot.
I think it's the craziest way to win a national championship. And, you know, stuff happened.

Speaker 42 Like last year, he loses to Kai Ziegler, his most valuable player. Connect scores, what, 37? And they lose to Purdue.

Speaker 105 Like, what are you supposed to, what are you supposed to do?

Speaker 100 Right.

Speaker 42 You know, like, there's plenty of those instances. So

Speaker 42 I do feel different about Tennessee.

Speaker 35 And they'll probably have already been eliminated by him.

Speaker 42 I mean, Wofford will shoot 33s and make 20.

Speaker 29 To your point, they might be a better team than they were last year. They don't have their best player, obviously.

Speaker 42 They're better offensively. It's not even a question.
And Ziegler, like Ziegler, like you hear, you know, Billis and those guys talk, like, maybe there's not five more valuable point guards.

Speaker 42 And what he did in the SEC championship would keep going at Florida was super impressive. He shot it better.
He goes to the line a bunch.

Speaker 42 And they got some guys in the portal that could score. So

Speaker 42 I really like that team.

Speaker 29 Yeah, both 22-1. So not taking Auburn.
Are they? Although, yeah, they're 22-1 right now.

Speaker 14 It'll be down a little because I think they both play, or at least Tennessee plays on Thursday.

Speaker 29 I might parlay them both to win the national championship. How about that?

Speaker 29 Also, I don't know if you heard this, Steve. College basketball expert Jalen Rose last night was talking about he was gassing up Auburn and what a great player Johnny Broome is.

Speaker 29 So I don't know if you want to kind of follow his advice and bet on Johnny Broome.

Speaker 42 I'm good with that.

Speaker 88 Okay.

Speaker 42 I do feel like it's a buy-low spot on Auburn.

Speaker 53 Yeah, it might be.

Speaker 21 It might be.

Speaker 42 Women's picks. Oh.
Women's picks. You want to get those out? Yes.

Speaker 67 Let's go. Give it to us.

Speaker 42 You could find it on multiple apps. UConn and South Carolina to meet in the final, I believe, is plus 400.

Speaker 42 I like Ole Miss to go to the Sweet 16.

Speaker 42 UCLA's got the toughest draw. UConn, obviously, to win their region,

Speaker 42 I believe, is around even money.

Speaker 42 But yeah,

Speaker 42 that list is way bigger than we've ever had it in the women's games, so I'm fired up for the one. I got three daughters, wife's a hoops fan, too.

Speaker 42 So, like, you guys think you're, you know, you guys are in the cave with the men's games. We, we got them all, yeah.
Uh, what do they start?

Speaker 42 Friday, oh man, yeah, we were we got iPads underneath TVs, like everywhere. I love it, they're in beds the next morning.

Speaker 42 They're all over. You got to make sure they're charged up.
Charge the iPads. I love it.

Speaker 29 I like that, though. Calling your shot on the exact matchup in the championship.
Yes, it's a good one.

Speaker 21 Yeah, I'm going to bet that.

Speaker 17 Um, all right, Steve, thank you as always.

Speaker 6 You're the best.

Speaker 2 Sorry we couldn't get Snookie to pair you with.

Speaker 21 We'll do it next year.

Speaker 53 That is tradition.

Speaker 1 So we reached out. She's sick.

Speaker 17 She's under the weather.

Speaker 42 Two things.

Speaker 42 PFT, Chief and Senko, met you down in Oxford. Big caps, guys.
Come on down, rock the red anytime you want.

Speaker 42 And

Speaker 42 I want to give good news to Mark Titus that

Speaker 42 the wing date's not on this year.

Speaker 85 Oh, you're not going to be in San Antonio.

Speaker 42 I will not be at San Antonio. So, Mark and breathe a big sigh of relief.

Speaker 3 I'm still going to go with Chenoweth, and we're going to turn on the women's game, and we'll watch some hoops.

Speaker 42 Hey, final four, big night. Yeah.

Speaker 67 Actually, you know what?

Speaker 42 You could probably watch Scott and I after the game.

Speaker 78 Perfect, perfect.

Speaker 21 What everyone loves to do. Yeah.

Speaker 19 All right. Thanks, Steve.

Speaker 72 These boys.

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Speaker 12 Okay, Firefest of the week.

Speaker 81 Do you see that thing I just think?

Speaker 35 Yeah, I mean, the people will know by now. We're taping this in the morning.

Speaker 36 Yeah.

Speaker 26 purdue's 19 and 13 to the over

Speaker 29 under vibes though per hank per hank

Speaker 29 so it was the ultimate under vibes hank if it makes you feel any better you have just as much college basketball expertise as jalen rose does like if you if you heard that tournament this is this is where casuals come to play yeah and there's that's fine

Speaker 109 and apparently not though big cats trying to gatekeep my no i'm not ball no i'm not trying to gatekeep i said you said i said you asked me what i had.

Speaker 50 I said the over, and you said, ew, Purdue, under.

Speaker 3 No, I said, oh, you said under, and I said, I have the over.

Speaker 55 Oh, no, no, I said I have the over first.

Speaker 35 So why under? You said the fives.

Speaker 19 Yeah, Purdue.

Speaker 43 Like, ew, Purdue.

Speaker 67 I mean, ew, Purdue is right, but they do play, they do score points.

Speaker 19 Yeah, like I said, their defense sucks.

Speaker 35 At this point, the people will know.

Speaker 11 At this point, I got to just double my bet on the over and just make it a personal thing between us.

Speaker 74 Ooh, Hank, Hank, breaking moves.

Speaker 29 The Boston Celtics

Speaker 29 have been sold.

Speaker 29 Bill Chisholm, the managing partner at Symphony Technology Group,

Speaker 29 Billy Chizzy has agreed to purchase the Celtics from the Grausebeck family for a valuation of $6.1 billion. What does he do?

Speaker 52 Billy?

Speaker 2 What does he do?

Speaker 35 He's the CEO of

Speaker 29 Symphony Technology.

Speaker 96 Symphony Technology Group. STG.

Speaker 82 So like clarinets and shit.

Speaker 87 All right, I don't know.

Speaker 17 Yeah, I was about to say, I feel like this guy did a really good job of naming his company where he's probably like creating drones that kill a bunch of people in foreign countries.

Speaker 9 But he calls it Symphony Technology.

Speaker 3 So you think of it and you're like, oh, that can't be that bad.

Speaker 29 The Symphony Technology Group, we leverage advanced solutions to kinetically eliminate challenges. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 87 Prime and equity.

Speaker 90 All right, Symphony Technology.

Speaker 29 Yeah, they probably are like investing in companies that are putting everyone in America out of work in the next 20 years.

Speaker 70 The Five Symphony. All right.

Speaker 31 Tell me if you can decide what these guys do.

Speaker 7 We find, build, and scale mid-market software and software-enabled tech service businesses. We have tailored our team and approach specifically to these sectors.

Speaker 7 We believe we unlock the potential of innovative companies by partnering with top management teams to build customer-centric market winners.

Speaker 29 Okay, I know exactly what they do.

Speaker 30 That's just they just give them, they just

Speaker 104 buy the team.

Speaker 83 By the Mac baby.

Speaker 49 No, they just buy the company and infuse cash into the company.

Speaker 35 And Dell.

Speaker 29 No, here's what they do. They buy companies and then they fire everyone and then they make more money.
Yeah.

Speaker 39 Well, they, well, no, they make everyone work really hard.

Speaker 78 Capitalism, PFT?

Speaker 35 Is that no, they make everyone.

Speaker 29 I'm just explaining what he does.

Speaker 32 They make everyone work really hard for a couple of years.

Speaker 17 They build it really big, then they fire everyone, then they sell it.

Speaker 29 Then they sell it. So this guy is going to be acquiring the Celtics.
So put that in basketball terms for me. He's going to make Peyton Pritchard play 500 minutes a week and then fire him in two years.

Speaker 18 Bill Chisholm.

Speaker 29 Bill Chisholm. So it's now the largest sale for a sports franchise in North America.
The Commanders were sold for $6.05 billion. The Celtics were sold for $6.1 billion.

Speaker 8 William Chisholm.

Speaker 101 Hmm.

Speaker 23 Trying to learn more about this guy.

Speaker 29 Billy Chiz.

Speaker 100 Hmm.

Speaker 78 Hank. Hank, what do you think? Hank, he's a managing partner at Symphony.

Speaker 29 Symphony. He's Billy Strings.

Speaker 79 Yeah.

Speaker 29 You love this guy.

Speaker 35 Legend, I do love this guy. I'm also trying to find out some more information on him, but he seems like a great guy.

Speaker 35 Clearly a very smart businessmind.

Speaker 35 And I'm excited to see what he's got in store. Hopefully he likes the Celtics and isn't doing this as a business.

Speaker 29 I'm sure that's what it is. I mean, I'm sure the private equity managing partner doesn't care about making money.

Speaker 29 There's a passion for him.

Speaker 35 Well, that's the problem is our current owners, like they were like, like, we don't care about the luxury tax. We'll, we'll lose $100 million a year and we just want to be a championship winning team.

Speaker 35 That's what you want.

Speaker 29 Yeah, that is what you want.

Speaker 19 Time will tell.

Speaker 35 Time will tell. Yeah.

Speaker 78 Okay.

Speaker 35 My Fire Fest of the week. Well, I mean, it's snowing today.
That wasn't ideal. Wasn't expecting that.
Driving into work today.

Speaker 35 And nothing, I mean, nothing major. It's the best week of the year.

Speaker 35 Only real Fire Fest or gripe I have this week is just that the severance season finale is tonight, Thursday night. It'll be out by now.
and

Speaker 35 I don't know when I'm going to watch it, but I'm terrified of it getting spoiled. So I'm probably going to stay up till like 3 a.m.
tonight watching it.

Speaker 50 Why would you say this out loud?

Speaker 78 You got to cut this out. I don't know.
Yeah, you got to cut this.

Speaker 83 You're going to spoil all of us.

Speaker 78 All right.

Speaker 93 What do you...

Speaker 78 But

Speaker 41 you know, people are going to

Speaker 83 try to spoil you now.

Speaker 29 It is true, but yeah, Hank's going to watch it.

Speaker 86 And then everyone else is going to watch it.

Speaker 29 So it's really our Fire Fest is that Hank.

Speaker 1 Yeah, my Fire fest is that we just talked about this and I'm gonna get it.

Speaker 41 All right, so I'll tell.

Speaker 29 So now I have to watch Severance when I get home. We're keeping it in.

Speaker 67 I'll figure it out. Okay, we'll keep it in.

Speaker 19 No, no, I'll figure something.

Speaker 78 No, you're right. You're right.

Speaker 29 Hey, fake spoilers only, please. No, we're keeping it in.

Speaker 78 No, no, no. Some people do fake ones, some people do real ones, and then you just get it.

Speaker 83 Yeah, if you mix it up, if you mix it up, it's totally fine.

Speaker 35 No, honestly, yeah, you guys don't deserve that. You guys don't deserve it.

Speaker 35 We can cut it.

Speaker 35 I don't want that to happen.

Speaker 29 Severance is coming out today. Yeah.
Sopranos came out 22 years ago. Yeah.

Speaker 96 but when i told you i was watching it enjoying it you specifically went out of your way for months to spread a counterpoint no it wasn't a we'll find

Speaker 20 we're just gonna all no no no we're not cutting it we're just i'm just gonna have to watch it after the games as well or watch it with breakfast i'm gonna be up till 2 a.m

Speaker 29 no 75 minutes i'm excited you know what this is this is like a relationship breaker this severance coming out right now because a lot of guys are gonna watch it either late night tonight or early tomorrow morning so they don't watch it on thursday night friday night saturday sunday and then their girlfriends and wives are gonna be like what the fuck you just watched the finale of severance without me well they're idiots because they just have to like i told my wife i was like just watch it without me i'll figure out when i'm gonna watch it because you can't like i got i'm i'm incapacitated for the next four days i can't be relied on no yeah so i told her i was like watch it because like come come monday you're not gonna be like you're gonna get it spoiled.

Speaker 81 So, just watch it.

Speaker 29 Do you have any predictions?

Speaker 63 I don't, I mean, we, I don't think we should do that.

Speaker 78 Okay.

Speaker 29 It's not a spoiler.

Speaker 63 We don't follow rules on this show.

Speaker 78 Okay.

Speaker 78 That's facts. No predictions.

Speaker 108 That's facts.

Speaker 11 I think it's weird that those brothers made out on the boat.

Speaker 92 Yeah.

Speaker 29 But why did that chick stay with him after after he unleashed the poisonous snakes?

Speaker 87 That was crazy.

Speaker 38 I also saw the meme of the Duke guy with the gun on him.

Speaker 20 Yeah, and I was like, fuck, it got spoiled.

Speaker 38 This guy killed himself. Didn't actually kill himself.

Speaker 78 Didn't kill himself.

Speaker 83 Yeah.

Speaker 83 And then Parker

Speaker 78 spoiler for

Speaker 38 who hasn't seen that episode yet.

Speaker 29 Everything about that guy and everything about Parker Posey's character.

Speaker 96 I love Parker Posey so much.

Speaker 61 It's so good.

Speaker 29 Tar Heal.

Speaker 86 Where's my Larazapam?

Speaker 29 Larazepam's all gal.

Speaker 18 Do you know what we're talking about now, hang? I do. White Lotus.
Yeah. Tar Heel.

Speaker 20 All right, what's your prediction?

Speaker 1 Keir wins it all?

Speaker 35 No, I think they're going to set up a flashback season.

Speaker 32 Yeah, it kind of isn't. It's not as big of a deal knowing there's another season.

Speaker 55 If this was the finale finale. I want death.

Speaker 35 I want multiple deaths. Oh.
I think Helly's going to kill her dad.

Speaker 100 Oh. Oh, wow.

Speaker 54 Shit.

Speaker 78 All right, we should put like spoiler.

Speaker 61 I guess we should.

Speaker 38 You just want the show to be Game of Thrones. Yeah, you.

Speaker 86 No, I mean, she's shown. You want a dragon to come out?

Speaker 83 No, no.

Speaker 78 I mean, that'd be cool.

Speaker 35 Like instead of goats, but she's shown that she can, you know, she wants to kill herself. She's dangerous.
She almost tried. She tried to kill Mark in the first season.
She tried to kill herself.

Speaker 35 Like, they think that she's, you know, her daughter, who's like the whatever of the company, but they don't know. They don't know Helly down there.
Okay.

Speaker 29 I think he does want it to be Game of Thrones. Yeah.

Speaker 21 Like they make Dylan.

Speaker 96 That's not a Game of Thrones.

Speaker 67 That's a realistic take.

Speaker 56 Are you betting the Purdue over or under?

Speaker 35 Under. Okay.

Speaker 21 You told me to. No, I know.

Speaker 35 I bet it for a lot.

Speaker 52 A lot? Yeah.

Speaker 20 Oh, God.

Speaker 54 How do we always end up in this spot?

Speaker 35 You scoff at me, and then I take it personally.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 71 Okay.

Speaker 31 We'll figure it out.

Speaker 10 I'm going to have to watch it at one in the morning today.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 35 Again, we can cut it because I don't. No, no, no.

Speaker 45 Because then we just. But you know you would get it.

Speaker 35 Would you not see something? in the next three days? Like, you know, you would.

Speaker 11 I'm pretty good at, like, my eyes.

Speaker 103 Like, when I don't, I didn't watch the last one until Tuesday.

Speaker 4 I'm pretty good at, like, scrolling.

Speaker 11 And if I see anything that looks like it, I just scroll as fast as I can.

Speaker 81 Like, I don't, I kind of almost walk, I kind of look at the internet, like, with the magic eye, where, like, my eyes are a little crossed when I'm, when I'm trying to avoid spoilers.

Speaker 29 I think that that young girl that had the adult's brain inside her, Miss Huang, Huang.

Speaker 35 I think. Wait, she is an adult's brain inside of her?

Speaker 21 Yeah, clearly.

Speaker 52 Huang.

Speaker 29 She was the manager. I think

Speaker 29 she might be Mark's kid.

Speaker 29 Huang. What do you think about that?

Speaker 64 I don't know if the time matches up.

Speaker 29 They were doing the fertility treatments?

Speaker 24 Yeah, she was like

Speaker 26 10, though. Yeah.

Speaker 35 Time doesn't match up.

Speaker 29 You don't think so? It was right when they graduated from college.

Speaker 78 No. What? Right? That was like a flash.

Speaker 21 They were college professors.

Speaker 29 Yeah, but I thought that it was... I thought the timeline would match up.

Speaker 3 No, they were college professors, not in.

Speaker 35 She died like two years ago.

Speaker 95 Yeah.

Speaker 35 Miss Huang is like 10.

Speaker 29 Okay, never mind. That doesn't add up.
That was actually. But I like the theory.
But you never know. You never know.

Speaker 55 I like the theory.

Speaker 83 I'm not suggesting that.

Speaker 64 They could do anything with timelines.

Speaker 14 I like the idea.

Speaker 35 This isn't my theory. This is on the internet, but it's that Gemma is an innie that they released to the real world to like make Mark fall in love.
Like she was, she was never a real person.

Speaker 21 Yeah,

Speaker 21 Twilight stuff.

Speaker 29 She got severed to leave. Yeah.

Speaker 35 The Twilight Zone. There's always an innie.

Speaker 108 Sorry.

Speaker 104 How pissed do you think I would be if they did the if I sat down with the therapy woman and she was like, your Audi went 16 to no?

Speaker 50 I'd be so mad.

Speaker 3 Like you motherfuckers, I want to feel that right now.

Speaker 29 Do you think, I don't think that it's bad that Dylan's wife kissed Dylan's any me neither.

Speaker 21 It's the same guy.

Speaker 55 I don't think I would you get mad?

Speaker 94 No, I don't think I would get mad.

Speaker 16 I'd be like, yeah, fuck it.

Speaker 45 I think the problem with it is that

Speaker 50 he's totally different. Like, she's falling in love with the innie because he's totally different than what he's become.

Speaker 75 He doesn't know that.

Speaker 70 He doesn't know that.

Speaker 29 Yeah, no, no, I agree.

Speaker 17 I'm just saying, I think that's why she's kind of broken up about it, too.

Speaker 29 I say fair play.

Speaker 67 But it's also weird because you got to support your bros.

Speaker 38 Irv and Burt, they treat their innie relationship like it's their outie relationship.

Speaker 38 But Dylan and the and the girl do look at it as completely separate things.

Speaker 17 This is the worst recap of Severance ever, but I like it.

Speaker 87 I like it.

Speaker 78 I was like talking about severance. I thought we were cutting this whole thing.

Speaker 29 What if Michael Scott just came out and he was here at the end and it was just a big episode of The Office?

Speaker 35 That would be sick.

Speaker 95 Yeah.

Speaker 54 What are you going to say, Max?

Speaker 38 The Twilight Zone thing is that they have the same episode names of a Twilight Zone episode about a mannequin going into the real world.

Speaker 38 So that's why people back up what Hank said about Gemma was just a mannequin the whole time and that she's like not even a real person.

Speaker 1 I don't like to read too many of the theories theories online.

Speaker 20 I do. I read all of them.

Speaker 78 I just get TikTok.

Speaker 35 No, because TikTok is just golf swing tips.

Speaker 45 The problem with reading them, though, is they, I think,

Speaker 24 fans of a show, I like to just enjoy the show because I think what happens with the show when it's this good, it is this good, they think that every little second of the show is like very intentional.

Speaker 10 You know what I mean? We're like, what was this?

Speaker 29 But in Severance, I think it might be. That's the difference.
Like a lot of shows, you read too much into it. I think that Severance has all that shit in there on purpose.

Speaker 35 My personal take, that's not. But it's not all of it.

Speaker 21 Probably not.

Speaker 29 Yeah, there's probably some crackpot ones.

Speaker 35 Not internet theory-based. Just my own take is that they

Speaker 35 did not expect the show to be as big of a hit as it is, and they are going to stretch it out, and they're going to do an entire backstory either season or spin-off show. Okay.

Speaker 35 And I can see it being a season.

Speaker 29 They're going to Ted Lasso it goes.

Speaker 35 No, they're just going to go back 20 years and tell, like, they're going to tell Burt's whole story. They're going to tell Milicek's whole story.

Speaker 32 Oh, yeah, you told that Cobel's like factory story.

Speaker 35 Yeah, and like, basically, and then the next season is going to be the continuation of this season.

Speaker 29 Do they live in Alaska?

Speaker 35 People say it's Michigan.

Speaker 81 It feels like the UP.

Speaker 64 It's just always snowing and dark. Yeah.

Speaker 29 There's a giant body of water.

Speaker 49 Well, no, I did read that the,

Speaker 104 like, I was reading about the filmography.

Speaker 81 Is that right?

Speaker 101 Yeah. Cinematography.

Speaker 7 Cinematography, thank you.

Speaker 23 Because I thought it's a very cool shot show, and I'm really stupid about this stuff. But they said that they intentionally,

Speaker 14 like, the fact that it's always snowy and the cars

Speaker 3 and everything they put in it makes it feel like you couldn't fully pinpoint what time it is in

Speaker 29 the universe. The cars are all shitty.
They're all from the 90s or 80s. Right.
But they have modern cell phones. Right.

Speaker 67 So you can't fully figure it out where it is.

Speaker 55 I thought they had iPhones.

Speaker 38 No, no one on the show has an iPhone. That's a big internet thing.
Oh. Because iPhone doesn't let

Speaker 67 antagonists

Speaker 38 use iPhones. So people are like, is everyone on an antagonist?

Speaker 90 I kind of have a little weird crush on Cobel.

Speaker 9 She's like, there's a couple things. Things are bad.

Speaker 32 I don't know, but I think she's a bad E.

Speaker 97 Yeah.

Speaker 41 I'd hit.

Speaker 106 Yeah.

Speaker 10 There are a couple times when I'm like, oh, what is that?

Speaker 29 I think when she was younger, huff some gas and piss.

Speaker 35 Yeah.

Speaker 82 Some ether. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right, good severance stock.

Speaker 28 What's your firefest, Hank?

Speaker 63 That was it. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 21 Good firefest. That's how we got here.

Speaker 29 Yeah, that is how we got here okay uh pft uh my fire fest is that earlier this week i was coming home late and uh my the lock on my front door uh i lost the key to it a long time ago so i've just been going in through the garage no big deal uh but i've got a lock on my back door through the garage to get into my house and it's been making it's been blinking red when i enter the code to get in for the last like two months i was like okay that's kind of weird but it was still working so i got there on i think it was sunday night after after we recorded PMT.

Speaker 29 What? And that's kind of weird.

Speaker 82 And I hit the code. What could this mean?

Speaker 105 Yeah.

Speaker 78 I just ignore this.

Speaker 86 Yeah, I just ignored it. I was like, it's a good thing.
It's like a big red button.

Speaker 29 I was like, is this good?

Speaker 29 So

Speaker 29 I enter the code in, and it blinks red, but it blinks like faster and red this time. And then it makes

Speaker 29 it makes a pathetic sound like it's trying to open the lock and it doesn't. And then I just sat there.

Speaker 28 You have batteries.

Speaker 29 And I hit it again and it still didn't work.

Speaker 29 And I was like, fuck, this sucks I think I'm locked out of my house right now and so I keep entering it keep entering it and then after about I'd say seven minutes not probably not seven minutes I'd say probably like two and a half minutes it finally opens and I get in I'm like fuck yeah this is cool so then I'm going home again later no thought to change the battery no thought no no thought to change the battery so then I go home again later this week and I'm trying to get in

Speaker 29 Doesn't open. Same thing happens.
It's like, okay, I'll just sit here for

Speaker 29 we'll give it two and a half, five minutes, and I'll just keep entering the code until it opens because that's what happened on Sunday.

Speaker 29 And I keep doing it, keep doing it, keep doing it, and the door just never opens. Yeah, you're right, yeah.
And so then I just go out and I fall asleep in my car in the garage and I just wait.

Speaker 29 And then I got up like an hour later, went back to it. Second time it finally opened up and I got inside.
At that point, I thought I'd look it up and I had to change the battery on it.

Speaker 29 So I'm able to get inside now. But I slept in my car for like an hour, I think on Tuesday night.

Speaker 29 No big deal. It was comfortable in the car.

Speaker 95 Yeah.

Speaker 29 But yeah,

Speaker 29 the fact that it was blinking.

Speaker 78 The car wasn't on, right?

Speaker 35 All right, so it was the electric?

Speaker 29 Yeah, the car wasn't on in the garage. It's all good.

Speaker 29 Good point, though, Hank. Don't run your car in the garage.

Speaker 23 Yeah.

Speaker 29 But yeah, I probably should have known that something was wrong with the garage or with the door lock the first time when it started blinking red a few weeks ago.

Speaker 2 I was just excited to see you.

Speaker 104 Yeah.

Speaker 21 Yeah. Oh, that's cool.

Speaker 29 Yeah, when you have a household appliance, it starts blinking red like it's a bomb about to go off. Maybe just that's cool.

Speaker 41 Maybe Google it.

Speaker 29 But now I feel like I'm on, like, I got a clear path in front of me because I got a brand new set of batteries in there.

Speaker 38 Would you be fine since it was electric if it was on it?

Speaker 29 It says not to run it in the garage just in case it starts a fire. Got it.
So I just.

Speaker 82 It wouldn't be the.

Speaker 35 I think it's a general rule of thumb.

Speaker 95 Yeah.

Speaker 23 That's actually like a funny bit of someone trying to kill themselves with a

Speaker 86 car by accident.

Speaker 19 Like, what are you doing, dude?

Speaker 50 He just takes like an eight-hour nap.

Speaker 43 They wake up.

Speaker 105 He's like, what the fuck?

Speaker 87 Am I in heaven?

Speaker 29 A guy who owns a Prius catches his wife cheating on him, and he just goes to the garage.

Speaker 26 He's like, I'm ending it all.

Speaker 29 He just stays in there for like a day.

Speaker 29 But yeah, my garage is good now. But that's a good point.
Even if you have a hybrid or an electric car, some of them produce some emissions, so don't do that.

Speaker 95 Yeah.

Speaker 29 But I was good.

Speaker 37 Okay.

Speaker 21 I don't really have a fire.

Speaker 102 Oh, I guess I. The only fire press I have is on Saturday, St.

Speaker 24 Patrick's Day.

Speaker 23 One, I was obviously just sad seeing everyone go out, and I was like, fuck, I wish I could go out again and still be able to hang.

Speaker 64 And then, two,

Speaker 3 I got bagels and donuts for my family, and I got a green bagel.

Speaker 14 And then my kids were convinced that it was poisonous, and they made me eat it first.

Speaker 41 So that was kind of fucked up.

Speaker 21 That's your job.

Speaker 67 You got to eat that.

Speaker 78 And then

Speaker 61 I faked dead for like three minutes. That was kind of funny.

Speaker 41 What, Max?

Speaker 24 You're just a bad guy.

Speaker 97 Why?

Speaker 42 Because

Speaker 42 the kids were probably scared.

Speaker 19 I ate it.

Speaker 38 I know, I know. It's like, you know, fake firing someone.
Oh, fake.

Speaker 67 Oh, the fake death, you mean? Yeah, fake death.

Speaker 78 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 105 Yeah.

Speaker 85 I mean, it's funny, troll.

Speaker 10 I was just laying on the ground. Yeah.

Speaker 32 My daughter was like, get up, get up.

Speaker 29 Isn't that a good precedent to set, though, that dad always eats first? Yeah. Like, you have to wait till I eat.

Speaker 54 I just thought it was kind of bullshit.

Speaker 17 Like, we should have, you know, like drawn straws to see who could eat the poison.

Speaker 21 Something like that. Yeah.

Speaker 75 Seems a little

Speaker 52 like if I go down, it's problems for everyone.

Speaker 3 So, um, all right, Max, you got a you got a Fire Fest?

Speaker 38 I normally don't do Fire Fest.

Speaker 108 I know, but I just asked.

Speaker 38 I feel like I did have one, but I can't remember.

Speaker 35 Your entire day yesterday?

Speaker 38 Oh, yeah, DMV. That's actually what it was.
DMV sucks. DMV, Illinois makes no sense.
Impossible to get an appointment because everyone's trying to get real ID. Real ID, that's a load of bullshit.

Speaker 21 Oh, they're just letting you.

Speaker 54 Are they doing it again?

Speaker 38 Yeah, in May, starting May 5th. I don't have it.

Speaker 78 You need real ID.

Speaker 38 And now it's impossible to get an appointment, and then you get an appointment, and then you go to the DMV, and then you still wait in line for like two hours and then you go from one line to the next line there's six different lines you go to at the dmv why can't there just be one line you go to one person you get everything done and you leave you go to eight different lines and you get an appointment and appointment means nothing good good i hate the dmv good job man people are nice though i will say that i people at the dmv get a bad rap for being mean the people are nice there but too many lines yeah no the the people are nice because i mean also they have a job that's not people aren't people aren't walking to the dmv being like thank you so much for your customer service.

Speaker 50 So it's a thankless job.

Speaker 103 But yeah, the line situation.

Speaker 10 You just walk around everywhere.

Speaker 38 I swear to God, I went into six different, there's a line outside to get to the line inside. Then you get to the line inside to get to the first person.

Speaker 38 And then you go, that person says you got to go take a picture. I don't know why I had to take a picture.
I just took a picture three months ago. Then I have to go to another person at another desk.

Speaker 38 Then they actually fill everything out. Then you got to go to the cashier.
They, you just, just a line to pay someone. Yeah.
And then you go to the final person and they print out your ID.

Speaker 38 There's six different lines. Too many lines.

Speaker 29 You have to take tickets at like four different places. Show a number.

Speaker 78 Yeah.

Speaker 29 And then they send you right in. I ran into the Illinois Secretary of State last time I was at the DMV because I saw his picture on the wall.

Speaker 38 They make that guy look like Kier. Yeah.

Speaker 29 And then the guy that was on the wall just walked past me in the hallway and I stopped and I go, you're that guy from the wall. And he looked at me.
He was like, yeah, what can I help you with?

Speaker 29 I was like, I'm trying to register my license plate in my El Camino and no one's helping me. He's like, okay, I can help you with that.
They told me I couldn't put bitchin' as my license plate.

Speaker 52 Bullshit. That is bullshit.

Speaker 29 But what's the guy's name? Alexi Julius? Alexey Janulias?

Speaker 93 Janulias.

Speaker 70 Yeah, good guy.

Speaker 29 He reached out later, tried to make it better. He's like, I'm sorry, I can't do bitching.
If you want his number, Max, I'll give you his number. You can complain to him.

Speaker 38 He looks like Keir. Yeah.

Speaker 38 They just have like his picture

Speaker 21 as you walk in.

Speaker 29 Yeah, there's like candles that are lit in front of it.

Speaker 78 Yeah.

Speaker 29 That's a good fire. That's a firefest.
DMD. That was a good Fire Fest.

Speaker 51 Shout out, Hank.

Speaker 38 Thanks for reminding me of what my Fire Fest was.

Speaker 35 I mean, it's all you talked about yesterday.

Speaker 78 I know.

Speaker 105 pissing.

Speaker 38 Hank just kept saying too much about the DMV.

Speaker 38 You get two complaints about going to the DMV. I said it like 15 times.

Speaker 29 I love it. I heard that they set up like a special place downtown that you can go to just for the real ID stuff.
Yeah, I heard that.

Speaker 78 Oh, I need to do that.

Speaker 38 Also, the reason I went to the DMV was because when I lost my wallet, when I broke my foot four months ago,

Speaker 92 I just got my license.

Speaker 29 That's a bad night.

Speaker 41 Wait, so you...

Speaker 20 I've just been driving around without a license for four months, but I have one now.

Speaker 21 Okay, so you're back.

Speaker 78 So try it.

Speaker 38 Pug just kept being worried for me. He was like, wait, so you really just drive around like with the possibility of getting pulled over?

Speaker 75 And I'm like, it's fine, dude.

Speaker 38 It's fine. He's like,

Speaker 38 I would be freaking out.

Speaker 21 Oh, Pug's a rule farm.

Speaker 55 Hey, by the way, memes, are you ever going to get the bumper fixed?

Speaker 5 I'll pay for it at this point.

Speaker 87 It's crazy.

Speaker 19 No, Hank gave him $2,000 to get fixed.

Speaker 100 I pocketed it.

Speaker 6 I couldn't believe it when I was watching the PM TV.

Speaker 1 So for people who don't understand, so when I got a new car in like 2018, I sold my car to Hank for $1.

Speaker 1 Hank then kind of cucked me and two years, three years later, gave the car to memes, made me look like a baggage.

Speaker 21 $2.

Speaker 95 Oh, you did?

Speaker 96 Oh, actually, negative $2,500 for me.

Speaker 86 Yeah, so

Speaker 19 Hank got in a car accident.

Speaker 21 Cars that I drove into a pole. It was like a garage.

Speaker 55 Yeah, it was like an eight-year-old.

Speaker 32 It was like seven years old, the car that I sold to Hank.

Speaker 9 So it's like still got a lot of miles left, and it's a good car.

Speaker 93 But yeah, Hank got in a, hit a poll a week before he sold it to memes, which was how long ago?

Speaker 35 Before he moved to Chicago. So through two years ago.

Speaker 20 Two years ago?

Speaker 21 Two years.

Speaker 32 And Hank gave him cash to get the bumper fixed.

Speaker 35 I went and got it, estimated. They told me like how much it was going to cost and then I just gave that to memes.

Speaker 2 And memes, memes just has duct tape on his bumper.

Speaker 84 In fairness,

Speaker 35 I would have done the same thing. The only reason I felt bad that I was giving you a damaged car, but like.

Speaker 35 But also, if you had given, if that situation had happened where where you're like oh i just gotten a little fender bender here's some money to get it fixed i probably would have done the same exact thing but it's not like a little fender bender it's a big hole on the but it doesn't does it affect driving no not at all i fucked up by not getting it done right away

Speaker 78 there's duct tape like holding it together

Speaker 78 i saw it on the pm tv with oldie and i was just like what the fuck you got to get into another small car accident and then give that car to jack yeah just pay attention well i thought i thought about getting it fixed one time and then i did the thing hank did and like backed into a poll.

Speaker 78 Oh, so that's a different one.

Speaker 115 No, no, no, it's the same one, but like I, when I thought about getting it fixed, I was like, oh, this is just going to happen again.

Speaker 29 So, what's the point?

Speaker 82 I'll just wreck it again. What's the point?

Speaker 87 It's two years, by the way. What's the point of a new car?

Speaker 83 I'm just going to get it to another accident.

Speaker 21 It's got a bad blind spot.

Speaker 50 Oh, man.

Speaker 55 Yeah, that car's got to stay in PMT forever.

Speaker 17 So, like, if we ever hire someone younger, you just give it to them, and then, but it can never get fixed now.

Speaker 87 Yeah, it's just got to have duct tape on.

Speaker 75 No, I will get it fixed.

Speaker 38 No, Hank or Muse has to give the next person $3,000.

Speaker 91 Yeah, to tent it even more.

Speaker 12 Pug, you being a little pussy about Max not having a license?

Speaker 42 Some of us are law-abiding citizens.

Speaker 11 He is the president.

Speaker 29 They don't let presidents drive normally.

Speaker 20 Yeah, true.

Speaker 50 Facts. I just love that Pug was worried for Max.

Speaker 23 That's very Pug-like.

Speaker 40 He's like, what are you doing?

Speaker 84 So nervous.

Speaker 38 He found out on the way back from our drive from Indy, and he was like, wait a minute. So you've just been driving this whole time without a license?

Speaker 78 I was like, I'm surprised he didn't find it.

Speaker 87 I don't have a license.

Speaker 38 It's just not on me.

Speaker 67 Pug, you should have taken it with me.

Speaker 21 Wait a minute.

Speaker 38 That doesn't affect the safety of you.

Speaker 25 What did he say? He was like,

Speaker 38 he said, you have two other people in the car as if, like,

Speaker 38 I was driving drunk. Yeah.

Speaker 38 You have other people with real licenses that could.

Speaker 29 Not

Speaker 78 trouble.

Speaker 29 No, I think Pug was worried about getting pulled over. Max gets found with no ID.
And then in Pug's mind, the cops raid the entire car. Yeah,

Speaker 19 and you all get deported.

Speaker 108 Italians, you guys are going back to Italy.

Speaker 36 That'd be kind of chill.

Speaker 84 Oh, man.

Speaker 84 Yeah,

Speaker 9 I just love Pug.

Speaker 1 You should have taken it a step further. You should have

Speaker 54 citizens arrested him.

Speaker 11 You should have literally put your hands on the wheel and pulled it over and been like, get out.

Speaker 50 We're taking you downtown.

Speaker 20 You shouldn't be driving.

Speaker 29 If it wasn't a work trip, I would have thought about it.

Speaker 21 Oh, God.

Speaker 23 Pug citizens arresting Max would be so great.

Speaker 21 Tackle him. All right.

Speaker 50 Good job, boys.

Speaker 81 Madness.

Speaker 3 Monday will be a recap of everything.

Speaker 13 Let's do numbers.

Speaker 76 Three. One.

Speaker 78 I mean,

Speaker 78 he gave you a beat.

Speaker 93 He gave you a beat.

Speaker 14 I'm going to do

Speaker 89 who plays the three seeds? The 14?

Speaker 89 All right.

Speaker 20 14.

Speaker 89 If the 14 hits,

Speaker 89 a three seed's gonna lose. Okay,

Speaker 15 99, Poe.

Speaker 101 21.

Speaker 50 I go 64.

Speaker 29 I go 85.

Speaker 29 Oh!

Speaker 78 81.

Speaker 29 Saw the one.

Speaker 43 81.

Speaker 29 Sorry, memes. It's okay.

Speaker 103 One day.

Speaker 92 No, no.

Speaker 29 Love you guys.